views of the various systems of Public Instruction in Europe. It is hoped, however, that the greatly augmented sources of information which will be obtained in consequence of the delay, will only render those reviews and notices the more interesting and accurate. It would add much to the satisfaction and pleasure of the Conductors should a greatly increased circulation of the Journal of Education in 1851 enable them to increase the amount of matter which it contains, to add additional engravings or illustrations in the different branches of Natural History, as well as of Science and the Arts, and to secure eminent literary correspondents both in the United States and in Europe-thus obtaining brief periodical accounts of the progress of Educational systems and general knowledge in all educating countries. But of course to effect all this, a very extensive subscription list would be absolutely necessary. As intimated in previous notices, the Conductors of the Journal beg to state that the entire amount of the subscriptions received will be expended in defraying the expenses connected with the Mechanical and Literary departments of the publication, and in enriching its pages with contributions of permanent interest. The Conductors beg to intimate that HIS EXCELLENCy the GovERNOR-GENERAL in Council has been pleased to constitute the Journal of Education the official medium of communication from the Educational Department of Upper Canada on all matters relating to the Department-thus adding greatly to the interest and value of the publication, and furnishing an additional inducement to all parties interested to provide themselves with a copy. To remark upon the great importance and advantage of an Edu. cational Periodical to all parties interested in the education of the country, as also to those concerned in the administration of the School law, would be superfluous. That fact must be sufficiently impressed upon the mind of every one. The 15th clause of the 12th Section of the new Act makes it the duty of each Corporation of Trustees to procure annually, for the benefit of the School Section, some periodical devoted to education. As a convenience and inducement to Trustees and Teachers subscribing for the Journal of Education, we propose that each Teacher subscribing for it shall have the privilege of advertising in its columns for a School, and each Trustee Corporation subscribing for it shall have the like privilege of advertising for a Teacher. In every such notice, the salary offered to the Teacher, should be stated. This will afford peculiar facilities for Trustees to procure good Teachers, and for Teachers to procure good Schools. No such notice will be inserted from non-subscribers for less than two shillings and six pence for each notice, In order to place the Journal within the reach of each School Section, and of every School Officer and other person in Upper Canada who wishes to obtain it, the following low rate of subscription is submitted to the various County and Township Municipal Councils, Local Superintendents, Boards of School Trustees, Teachers, and all other persons interested in the progress of Education in Canada. For a Single Copy, 5s. per annum For not less than Eight copies, 4s. 41d. each, or $7 for the Eight. For not less than Twelve Copies, 4s. 2d. each, or $10 for the Twelve. For Twenty Copies, or upwards, 3s. 9d. cach. All Subscriptions must commence with the January Number, and payment in advance must in all cases accompany the order. We entreat the continued co-operation of all friends of general education and knowledge to extend the circulation of the Journal of Education. All communications to be addressed to Mr HODGINS, Education Office, Toronto. EDUCATION OFFICE, Toronto, December, 1850. Editors are respectfully requested to notice this Prospectus. P. S. Parties wishing to have the Fourth Volume continued to their address will require to renew their subscriptions at the commencement of the year. Educational Intelligence. CANADA. Items.-The Montreal press discusses with a good deal of warmth the question of the Legislative appropriations for the promotion of Educa tion in Upper and Lower Canada-The Chancellor of the University of Toronto, in his speech at the recent convocation, referred with much satis. faction tothe great improvement which has of late years taken place in Common School Education in Upper Canada. The success (he remarked) of any University system must in a great measure depend upon the efficiency of our Elementary and Grammar Schools.-Rev. Mr. Livingstone, Principal of the Carradoc Academy, has had five medals manufactured in London, U. C., for distribution to successful competitors for prizes in his school. The Middlesex School Teachers' Association, at a recent meeting in St. Thomas, decided to meet four times in 1851, as follows:-London twice. Delaware once, and St. Thomas once. The April meeting is fixed for London. Books were distributed among the Teachers present for circulation among Teachers living in remote parts of the county. Mr. Crane was appointed Vice-President, vice Mr. Hoyt. University of Toronto. At the first annual Convocation of the University of Toronto, the following gentlemen were admitted to the degrees annexed to their names :-H. Croft, Vice-Chancellor of the University, was admitted to the degree of D.C.L. J. H. Richardson, M. B., to the degree of M.D. Jesse B. Hurlburt, A.M., to the degree of B.C.L., J. D. Armour, G. M. Evans, A. J. Grant, G. A. Barber, J. L. Gage, Henry Hurlburt, and R. N. Light, to the degree of B. A. Premiums at Public Examinations.--The Board of Trustees in Port Hope, anxious to invest the public School Examination in their town with as much interest as possible, and to encourage the zealous efforts of the teachers and their pupils, have recently passed the following resolutions, which we copy from the Port Hope Watchman :—Resolved, That the Common Schools be convened in one place, on the 23rd instant, and be examined in the presence of this Board, and that premiums-books to the amount of two pounds, ten shillings-be awarded to the most deserving pupils.Resolved, That the Revd's. J. Cassie, J. Short, and G. Goodson, be respectfully requested to attend and award the premiums on that occasion. In addition to the foregoing pleasing indications of the general interest which is beginning to be felt in the success of pupils and school examinations, we insert the following cominunication, which we have received from John Holmes, Esq., Townreeve of Goderich. Mr. Holmes remarks: "I take the liberty to intimate that our Township Council has recently expended £5 in the purchase of books, which were awarded to the most meritorious children of this township, at a public examination held lately. The teachers of six schools were in attendance, with the children under their charge. I am fully persuaded that annual examinations of this kind would cause greater exertion on the part of teachers, pupils, trustees, and parents, than any other particular mode yet introduced into our school system. In some of our school sections, steps have been already taken to procure maps and other apparatus, in anticipation of a similar examination next year. Another advantage to be derived from these examinations would be uniformity of school books. If the approved series were made the text books, there is no doubt but every teacher, trustee, and parent, would join in discarding all other books. I am of opinion that annual county exami nations, where small premiums would be given, would be very beneficial. I think the County Council has the power to carry this into effect, if they think proper. A word of advice from you, if you approve of these remarks, would further this object." NOVA SCOTIA. 1641 We perceive with the highest satisfaction that our Sister Province of Nova Scotia is putting forth active and noble efforts in the cause of popular education. From a local paper we learn that J. W. Dawson, Esq., the newly appointed Provincial Superintendent, has been lecturing with great success in several towns of the Province, preparatory to a general and systematic organization of a popular school system. BRITISH AND FOREIGN, 1040 Items. The royal commission of inquiry into the revenue and expenditure of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge is prosecuting its inquiries. The authorities of Brazenose College have refused to give the Commission any information whatever. A writer in the North British James Review for November, and a warm friend to the governmental inquiry, expresses great doubts of the ultimate advantage to be gained by the inquiry. He thinks the tendency of collegiate education in the present age is to merely professional training, to be carried on at distinct and separate institutions, and that the day for symmetrical university education is gone by. The age is too practical. The general question is discussed at length by the writer.- -Arrangements for the new Roman Catholic University in Dublin are still in progress, and funds are coming in. Martin, Esq., D. L., County Galway, has lately written an admirable defence of the Queen's University Colleges in Ireland. The attendance of students of all religious persuasions at the recent re-opening of these Institutions is very satisfactory.The students of the University of Glasgow have elected A. Alison, Esq., the Historian, their Lord Rector for the ensuing year. Lord Palmerston was also a candidate.-Rev. Dr. Oakes, late lower master of Eton College, has been elected Provost of King's College, Cambridge, vice Rev. Dr. Thackeray, deceased. The Wesley. ans have lately held enthusiastic meetings in Manchester for the promotion of secular education in connection with their own body.—The National Public School Associations have also lately held large influential meetings in Manchester for the promotion of general secular education. The impression on the public mind has, in consequence, been much deepened in favour of the principles of this Association. Mr. Cobden has placed himself at the head of the movement. -The endowments of the University ol Oxford are about £129,000 per annum, and of Cambridge, £110,000. There are 463 livings in the gift of Oxford University, valued at £138,900; those in the gift of Cambridge are 318, valued at £93,900 per annum.In the new Commercial College lately opened at Glasgow, ladies' classes are to be formed under professors and lecturers in the various branches of polite literature.--The opening of the new Free Church College at Edinburgh took place with great eclul. The cost of the Institution is estimated at upwards of £43,000.--The free Grammar School at Rich mond, erected as a testimonial to the memory of the late Canon Tate, who was one of the most successful teachers in England, was lately opened with much ceremony. Schools of the Wesleyan-Methodists.-There are under the supervision of the committee of the British Conference 413 day schools, at which 38.117 children are taught, at an annual cost of £22,347. The num ber of Sabbath schools is 4,444, in which 465,502 children are instructedbeing an increase in the year of 3,905; teachers, 84,650; expense, £28,053. Building grants have been made by Her Majesty's Government to the amount of £3,023; for books and apparatus. £293; for pupil teachers, £2,360 and for salaries, £614. Thus it appears that the British Government has made grants to the Wesleyan schools, amounting to something like $40,000. A fine suite of buildings, now nearly completed, in London, are to form a new Normal Institution for the training of day-school teachers. National Education in Ireland.-The sixteenth report of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland (being for the year 1849) is now printed. From the sheet of receipts and disbursements, the following appears to be the state of the accounts for the period in question: Balance on the 1st of April, 1849, £11,589 17s. Id.; treasury issues, £120,000; cash receipts for books, &c., sold to national schools, &c., £12,196 15s. 4d.; receipts from pupils, &c., a'tending model schools, and other items, £1,870 11s. 11d.; total receipts, £145,663 4s. 4d. On the credit side there appears expended for normal schools and training departments, £7,005 6s. 9d.; model farm, £2,706 15s. 11d.; Glasnevin, &c., schools £2,305 6s. 10d.; ordinary national schools, £4,588 178. 7d.; agricultural, industrial, and other schools, £1,079 10s.: salaries and gratuities to teachers and monitors, £62,777 14s. 2d.; seven district model schools, £16,002 19s.; inspection, £10,817 11s 11d.; book department, paper, printing, &c., £18,995 3s. 1d.; Marlborough-street establishment, £6,955 2s. 9d.: repairs and works, £2,969 38. 3d.; miscellaneous charges, £1,933 5s 4d.: balance on 31st March, 1850, £7,416 78. 9d.: total, £145,663 4s. 4d. The following list shows the progress in the number of schools and scholars since the establishment of the system : UNITED STATES. Items.--The New-York State Superintendent of Common Schools announces that the official returns of the Department for 1850 will exhibit an increase in the attendance of pupils of upwards of 100,000.--Hon. James Woodsworth has lately given $1,000 to the Methodist Episcopal College at Genesee. New-York- -An Educational Institution of the Jesuits has been founded at New-York, at a cost of $30,000. It is designed to accommodate 50 students and their instructors.--Girard College for Orphans, at Philadelphia, has now 211 pupils; 100 more are about being admitted. Philadelphia Schools.-The number of public schools in the city and county of Philadelphia is 258, scholars 45,383, of whom 23,706 are boys and 21,677 girls. There are 81 male and 646 female teachers. The expenditure during the last school year was $332,433 21; of which the salaries of teachers absorbed $178,326 84: books and stationery $36,213 7: superintendence, cleaning, &c., $22,650 97: and new school-houses $36.248 58. Boston Schools.-There are in Boston 178 Primary Schools, with 11,736 scholars, and 19 Grammar Schools, with 8,115 scholars; besides a Latin and High School; and, without the chartered limits, Harvard University, a Baptist College, and many excellent Schools and Academies. The various public libraries, including those in Harvard University, contain more than 150,000 volumes. Education among the Cherokees.From the report of the Superintendent of Public Schools, recently submitted to the National Council, it appears that in 22 schools established in the several districts, there are upwards of 1,000 male and female scholars under instruction, of whom 120 are orphans, who are clothed and boarded at the expense of the Orphan School. Of the several classes in the schools, there are 35 pupils in the alphabetical class: 168 in the spelling class; 553 in the reading class; 50. in the class of history; 314 in the writing class; 210 in the grammar class; 478 in the arithmetic, and 204 in the class of geography. The most advanced of these scholars are to be received into the High Schools, which will soon go into operation. Items. Literary and Scientific Entelligence. A very able and laborious compilation on Commercial Law has lately been issued in London by Mr. Leone Levi. It extends to upwards of fifty countries, remarkable more or less for distinct and separate commercial usages-A life of Wordsworth by Rev. C. Wordsworth is announced M. Mazzini has just published his letters, orations, and other tracts on Italy, with an elegant, earnest and eloquent appeal to the English people, in a small volume, intituled, Royalty and Republican— ism in Italy-A project is on foot to reclaim from the sea at Norfolk, England, 32,000 acres of land, said to be of great agricultural value, at an expense of £640,000-Miss Martineau has caused a good deal of mirth in England, by publishing an account of having mesmerized a cow!-A fragment of the frieze of the Parthenon has been found among a collection, of marble in Cheshire, brought from Italy in 1749. It fits the parent stone in the British Museum- The people of Sheffield are about erecting a monument to Ebenezer Elliott, the Anti-Corn Law Rhymer-Lord John Russell has entrusted the execution of the National Peel monument to Gibson, the sculptor, at Rome-A Belgium engineer proposes to connect the Seine and the Rhine by means of a eanal, by construeting which, navigation would be open from London to the Black Sea and Constantinople, through the heart of the Continent. The estimated cost is £1.600000-An article on Madame de Genlis and the system of Education she adopted with the late King Louis Philippe, written by the eminent critic and academician, M. de Saint-Beuve has excited some attention in Paris-The members of the Academie des Sciences are quite puzzled to know what forms the centre of the earth, whether it is a globe of fire, a huge furnace, a perfect void, a solid substance, or a mass of water. Each theory has its partizans-A supplement to the celebrated ConversationsLexicon is being published in Leipzig. It is entitled, The Present: an Encyclopedic Representation of Contemporary History-A bronze statue has just been erected at Leipzig, of Albert Thaer, the celebrated Agricul turist. The costume is that of a German farmer slightly idealized. The inscription is: "The German Cultivators to the honoured Teacher, Albert Thaer-Three statues are being cast at the Royal foundry, Munich, viz: Gustavus Adolphus, the Swedish Poet Bishop Tegner, and Waller of Plettenberg, a celebrated Livonian General, surnamed "the Conqueror of the Russians"The Coliseum at Rome is in process of restorationThe director of the observatory at St. Petersburg has applied to the French Government to establish a number of stations in different parts of France taking meteorological observations with a view of aiding him in the vast studies he has been for some time past making respecting the climates of different countries. The project has been referred to the Academy. In England, Germany, the British Colonies, and the State of New York, &c., such stations are te a limited extent founded with great success. Neander's library of 4,000 vols. is to be sold. They will probably be purchased for the University in which Neander lectured-An immense layer of sulphur has been discovered near Alexandria-An iron light-house of vast dimensions is about to be erected on the Fastnett, a solitary rock several miles out in the Atlantic, off the coast of Cork and Kerry Ptolem, 's "Mountains of the Moon" have at length been discovered in AfricaThe cashmere shawls prepared by Maharajah Gholab Singh, of Jamnoe, for the World's Industrial Exhibition, are valued at £10,000, and are bestowed in free gift on the trustees. The surrounding hill chiefs are alse forwarding costly contributions-one sends a suit of steel armour, inlaid with gold--M. Gustave Schwan, a popular poet of Germany, died en the 4th ult., at Stuttgart, aged 58--Great sensation has been caused in the city of Pesth, by the families of several persons, who were executed by order of revolutionary court-martials, having commenced actions against the judges of the courts to recover damages--The oldest Archbishop in Great Britain is the Archbishop of Armagh, aged 77; the youngest, the Archbishop of York, aged 62. The oldest Duke, the Duke of Hamilton, aged 33: the youngest, the Duke of St. Albans, aged 10. The oldest Marquis, the Marquis of Huntly, aged 89; the youngest, the Marquis of Bute, aged 3. The oldest Earl, the Earl of Bantry, aged 23; the youngest, the Earl of Dunmore, aged 9. The oldest Viscount, the Viscount St. Vincent, aged 84: the youngest, Viscount Hood, aged 12. The oldest Bishop, the Bishop of Durham, aged 80; the youngest, the Bishop of Down, aged 42. The oldest Baron, Baron Berners, aged 88; the youngest, Baron South, aged 18. The oldest Barone, Sir Charles Villavinca Hudson, aged 95: the youngest, Sir Reginald Louis Oakes, aged 3 -On Saturday, October 25, at five minutes before 1, P. M., two shocks of earthquake were felt in Malta, which though they lasted but a few seconds, damaged the walls of several old buildings- -Mr. Faraday, at the Jast monthly meeting of the Royal Institution, announced to the members present that oxygen is magnetic; that this property of the gas is effected by heat, and that he believes the diurnal variation of the magnetic needle to be due to the action of solar heat on this newly discovered characteristic of oxygen-the important, constituent of the atmosphere. M. Bequerel, also, has recently directed attention to a somewhat similar conclusion in a communication addressed to the Academy of Sciences at Paris --The two German travellers, Overbeck and Batth who accompanied the expedition of Richardson to the interior of Africa, have been heard from. They were three hundred miles south-east of Tripoli. where they were preparing canoes which could be carried by camels. The travellers are assisted by contributions from the King and the Geographical Society of BerlinOne of the most eager and impassioned bibliopolists ever known, M. Chas. Motteley, whose death occurred last September, has left a will in which he bequeaths his library to the French nation, under the auspices of the President of the Republic. M. Motteley possessed the richest and most numerous collection of Elzevirs, the most magnificent specimens of French and other bindings, and the most curious cabinet of rare works, illustrated manuscripts, &c. He had hoped that his collection would be placed in the Louvre, the Tuilleries, or the Luxembourg. This collection had been almost purchased by Louis Philippe, and recently by the British Museum, which would have paid 300,000f. for it (£12,000), but it will not go out of France, and it will, no doubt, shortly become visible in one of the public establishments of Paris--The catalogue of the book fair of St. Michael at Leipzig, consists of 384 pages, and contains the titles of 5,033 works which have been published in Germany since the Easter fair-The question whether or not snails are possessed of a mutual galvanic and magnetic influence is now being discussed in Paris. It is asserted that they have, and that they will ultimately supersede electric-telegraphs!--An English bibliopolist has formed a list of a hundred and fifty pamphlets on Baptismal Regeneration, appertaining to the Gorham controversy- -Alfred Tenny son has been appointed Poet Laureate of England--Mr. Eastake has been elected President of the Royal Academy, in the room of Sir M. A. Shee --Rev. S. Spaulding, of Cherry Valley, New England, is the author of the most of what is known as the Mormon Bible. He composed it during a period of ill health, adopting a scriptural phraseology, and designed to publish it as a romance,, The MS. was lent to friends, and it appears was copied and interpolated to suit the peculiar designs of the Mormon impostor, Smith--Gen. Lee of the American Army is stated to be the author of Junius' Letters. The similarity of style is so striking--Another part of the Horse Shoe Fall on the Canada side, has fallen, carrying away about ten rods of the rock in length, by four in width. The Canal boat, which was lodged on the brink of the rock was carried over with the rock. It is now in the Whirlpool, two miles down the river, dancing attendance to the freaks of that great maelstrom. The loss of this portion of the rock has not in the least diminished in appearance the view of the Niagara Falls, it looks grander and more sublime, if possible, than ever. The Monster Globe. We stated some time since that a monster globe was in course of construction by Mr. Wyld, M.P., for the Exbibition. The mountains will be in relief, the regions of ice will be shown in their dazzling rainbow tints, and the eternal snow line marked upon the giant mountain ranges. The courses of great rivers will be seen like threads of silver, the known volcanoes will be marked by bright red-lights; the proportions of land to water, and population to territory, and the great trade districts and lines of commerce, the latter marked by moving ships, will be observable at a glance. The globe will be 56 feet in diameter, made on ribs of zinc, each circle in four compartments, socketed together with copper. The expense of this globe, independent of its staircase and gallaries, will not be less than from £4000 to £5000., The Great Exhibition of 1851.-The Great Exhibition has already had one good effect-it has stimulated the ingenuity of the mechanics of this country. From all quarters accounts are received of the co-operation of the artisan classes. There is a wonderful variety observable in the articles upon which individuals in various parts of the country are employed While a lady is fabricating an article from silk, grown under her own superintendence, an ingenious mechanic is fashioning a pair of bellows by which lovers of music will be enabled to revive their fire to the air of "God save the Queen." In India, Gholab Singh is collecting specimens of every kind of Cashmerean product; and, from Wales an eccentric fellow is travelling with a glass tube full of insects, which he calls "A Happy Family." The Queen, it is rumoured, has designed a carpet, which is now being manufactured at Axminster for exhibition, and the glasshouse will, it is reported, contain specimens of Prince Albert's talent as a sculptor. Mr. Wyld, M.P., is contentedly strolling about inside his monster globe; while a Yarmouth mechanic is filing at a beamer machine of Lilliputian proportions; and Messrs. T. E. Smith & Co., of Lawrencelane, Cheapside, are preparing a shirt of marvellous workmanship, with the rose, shamrock, and thistle, severally encompassing each button of the front-thus the patriotic will be enabled to press the national emblems to their bosom. From the city we hear of an engine constructed on a new system of propulsion, which has attracted particular attention. What with the activity of the executive committee, and the labours of the local committees, popular excitement is fast rising to an extraordinary pitch.-[Eng. Paper. Analytical View of the Newspaper Press.-London, Conservative, 19; Liberal 36; Neutral, 59-Total, 113. England-Conservative, ́ 88; Liberal, 99; Neutral 36; Total, 223. Wales-Conservative, 5; Liberal, 5; Neutral, 1; Total, 11. Scotland--Conservative, 20; Liberal, 34; Neutral, 31-Total, 85. Ireland--Conservative, 37; Liberal 37, Neutral, 27--Total, 101. British Islands-Conservative, 5; Liberals, 8; Neutral, 1--Total, 14. General summary of the United Kingdom--Conservative, 174; Liberal, 218; Neutral, 155; total 547.--[From Hammond's Newspaper List for 1850. The Purpose of the Pyramids of Egypt.The Pyramids of Gizeh are about five miles distant from the bank of the Nile. As the traveller approaches them first across the plain, and then the sandy valley to which the inundation does not extend, he is usually disappointed by their appearance, which falls short of the conception which their fame had raised. Their height and breadth are lessened by the hills of sand and heaps of rub-. bish which have accumulated around them. The simplicity and geometrical regularity of their outline is unfavourable to their apparent magnitude: there is nothing near them by which they can be measured; and it is not till, standing at their base, he looks up to their summit, and compares their proportions with his own or those of the human figures around him, that this first error of the judgment is corrected. And when he begins to inquire into their history, and finds that 2,300 years ago their first describer was even more ignorant than ourselves of the time and purpose of their erection, he feels how remote must be their origin, which even then was an insoluble problem. * No reasonable doubt can any longer exist respecting the destination of these groups of Pyramids. Not only is it evident that they have been places of interment, the only rational purpose that was ever assigned to them, but where any inscriptions have been found, they concur with tradition in showing them to have been the sepulchres of kings. Further, these inscriptions belong to the earliest dynasties of Egypt, to the kings whom Manetho places before the invasion of the Shepherds, and of whom, besides the founders of Memphis, five dynasties are expressly called Memphite. Around the larger structures which received the bodies of the kings are grouped smaller pyramids, in which queens were deposited; and the chief officers of state and religion were buried in excavations, near the remains of their masters. The animals whom the Egyptians most reverenced had also a place assigned them near the highest personages of the land, as we find that at the Labyrinth the bodies of the kings and the sacred crocodiles rested together in the subterraneous chambers. [Kenrick's Egypt under the Pharaohs, Editorial Notices, &c. NOTICE TO LOCAL SUPERINTENDENTS AND SCHOOL TRUSTEES.Copies of all the Blank Reports necessary for Trustees, and all other School Officers, having been despatched from the Education Department, as intimated on the 176th page of our last number, we would earnestly solicit of local Superintendents and Boards of School Trustees for Cities and Towns, the prompt transmission to the Education Office of the Reports, accurately filled up, as early in January as possible, so as to afford sufficient time for preparing the Annual Abstract of these Reports, to be laid before the GovernorGeneral, and the Legislature at its next Session-which will probably be early in February. Extra copies of Trustees' Blank Reports have been furnished to each County Clerk, so as to enable him to supply, upon application, any deficiencies which may occur. Local Superintendents will pay especial attention to the 5th remark at the bottom of the Trustees' Reports, which states that the Superintendents are required not to give a cheque upon the Treasurer for the last instalment of the School Fund in favour of the Teacher of any School Section from which the Report for 1850 has not been received at the time of giving the cheque. No School Section is "entitled" to this last instalment, in terms of the 1st clause of the 26th section of the School Act, until the report has been received and approved by the Local Superintendent. To meet this regulation, Trustees can send in their Annual Report any time in December. SCHOOL REGISTERS..-As intimated on the 168th page of our last number, we hope to have copies of School Registers, printed ruled, and stitched, so as to be ready for delivery early in January. Orders sent to the Education Office can be supplied almost immediately. Price, per doz., 12s.; per single copy, 1s. 3d. We direct special attention to the Prospectus of the Journal of Education for Upper Canada for 1851-to be found on page 184. CHAMBERS' EDUCATIONAL COURSE. The Scientific Section. Seven Volumes. Published by A. S. BARNES & Co., New-York. The Scientific Section of Chambers' Educational Course has long been distinguished for its uniform excellence. The edition under notice, as will be seen in the advertisement which has appeared in late numbers of the Journal, has been revised and adapted to the system of teaching in gen ral use on this continent, by D. M. Reese, M.D., LL.D., late Superintendent of the Public Schools in the city and county of New-York, and an eminent educationist and scientific gentleman. The engravings, illustrative of "Popular Science," which appear in our present and last number, are taken from these admirable works, and have been kindly furnished by the enterprising publishers, Messrs. A. S. Barnes & Co., New-York. From the excellence of these engravings, our readers I will be able to form an estimate of the valuable character and mechanical style of the works themselves. SCOBIE'S CANADIAN ALMANAC FOR 1851. CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. I. The Gifts of Science to Art...... II. Free Public Education in Canada III. The Bible and Education IV. 1. Making Excuses. 2. The Basis of Progress. 3. The Dying Child (Poetry) 4. Compression in Oratory. 5. Study of Logic..... V. Popular Science (illustrated) continued..... VII. EDUCATIONAL INTELLIGENCE. 1. Canada. 2. Nova-Scotia. PAGES. 177 178 179 179, 180 180 182-185 185,186 186,187 APPARAT 188 i, ii ADMIRABLY ADAPTED FOR GRAMMAR AND COMMON SCHOOLS, &c., MAY be obtained from Mr. HODGINS, Education Office, Toronto, at the following remarkably low prices: 1 0 0 050 Superior Brass Mounted Orrery, (3 feet in diameter)...... £2 10 0 Beautiful 24 inch Hemisphere Globe, hinged ............. : Box, varnished, with lock and key to contain the above.... Morse's Geography, with Maps and Wood Cuts, 06 050 0.5 0 050 01 3 050 526 050 026 013 050 Reading Tablet Lessons 18. 4d-Arithmetic, do. 2s. 4d-Natural History and other Object Lessons at various prices-National Maps 188. each, (except Map of the World, 248.J-National Books-Johnston's Agricultural Chemistry 1s. 3d-Hind's Lectures on ditto 1s. 3d--School Registers, ruled 18. 3d-School Act, Forms, Circulars, &c. 1s. 3d-Barnard's School Architecture 7s. 6d., &c. &c. &c. This comprehensive and valuable Statistical Manual has now reached WANTED & TEACHER for School Section No. 2, Township of |