necessity of educating their children. Some sections have availed themselves of the provisions of the new Act, and taxed themselves, not only for the teachers' salary, but also for a supply of text-books." John Allanby, Esq., Ops: "I am of opinion that, this year, school matters will be placed upon a more satisfactory basistet chers being elevated in society will perform their duties more efficiently; and the attentive perusal of the Journal of Education, with the enlarged powers given to the trustees by the late school. Act, ought to do more to stimulate ambition and zeal, than any other means heretofore devised."

Rev. James Geggie, Edwardsburgh: "This report shows more than one-fourth of the children of school age are not on the roll. This arises, in a great measure, from the want of a due concern on the part of parents, as to the instruction of their children. The rate-bill has also its influence in keeping children from school."

George Turner, Esq., North Oxford: "As it regards the free school system, I will add, that as far as I have been able to obtain information on the subject, I think there is no doubt of its superior utility; and with respect to popular opinion, I believe eight-tenths would be in favour of it, provided it was enacted by the legislature to raise the amount necessary by a general tax : but with regard to local taxation, there is a great diversity of opinion."

Thomas Chamberlain, Esq., Richmond, &c.: “I have endeavoured to impress upon the people of this township the necsesity of having free schools, and have found a great number in favour of the measure. I believe, that if a law were passed at the commencement of a new Parliament, making free schools imperative, before the end of four years, the measure would become so popular, that members would be in no danger of being unseated for passing such a law. But they are not independent enough to try such a bold, although useful measure, near the eve of a new election."

Rev. Joshua H. Johnson, Yonge: "So far as I am capable of judging, a growing interest is felt among the rural population in common schools. The free school system is every day gaining ground. I believe that upwards of half of the schools in Yonge are to be supported on that principle during the current year,”

Benjamin S. Cory, Esq., M. D., Hillier: "As an individual, I am a most ardent advocate for the principle of free schools. I consider it one of the greatest boons any legislature can confer upon any people. It is obvious, that were it general all over the country, it would press less heavily upon some than it does now, when a school section decides upon the adoption of free schools. Even under the present law, as I view it, the wealthy and the childless are remotely far greater gainers by the carrying out of the principle of free schools than they seem willing to admit. How much better -nay how infinitely preferable-is it to submit to a trifling tax for the purposes of education, and consequently for the promotion of virtue and correct principles, than to submit to a similar and perhaps greater one to defray the expenses of the administration of criminal justice, growing out of the want of such education. I hope, in common with thousands in the country, that you will officially urge upon the legislature, to so amend the present law as to make the principle of free schools the law of the land, with as little delay as in its wisdom it can."..

W. Johnston, Esq., Brantford: "I am sorry to state that our schools, with a few exceptions, are in a backward state; but the almost general feeling evinced in favour of free schools, taught by well qualified and well paid teachers, is significant of a determination to do better."

Rev. John Armour, Sarnia, fc. Second extract, 6th May: "I have just returned from visiting several schools. I believe the present effort, if persevered in, will, in a short time, revolutionize our school system incalculably for the better. The people are becoming more generally alive to the great advantages of education. The teachers see more impressively the necessity of improvement in their profession; and the schools in this neighbourhood are advancing in discipline, in management, and in thoroughness of teaching, and progress in learning. I have prepared a long lecture on the expediency and advantages of the free school system,' and have delivered it in various sections under my charge; and the people almost universally are giving way to fair argument and plain reasoning. I purpose to make this my principal topic of discussion in lecturing this year; and I have sanguine hopes that thero will be a great increase of sectional schools in this part of the country which will adopt this principle next year,"

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Circular to the Clerks of the several Counties and Union of Counties in Upper Canada, notifying the apportionment of the Legislative School Grant for the year 1851.

SIR,

As required by the provisions of the first and second clauses of the 35th section, in connexion with the 6th clause of the same section of the Common School Act for Upper Canada, 13th and 14th Victoria, chapter 48, I have the honour to annex herewith, the certified apportionment of the legislative school grant for the current year, to the several townships in the municipality of which you are clerk.

2. The gross amount apportioned this year to the several counties, townships, cities, towns, and villages in Upper Canada (deducting the sums authorized by the 39th and 41st sections of the school Act) is greater than that apportioned to the entire province last year; but separate apportionments having been now made to several towns and incorporated villages recently erected into school municipalities, the amount apportioned to some individual counties may appear smaller in consequence.

3. The money apportioned to your county will, as provided by the 42nd section of the school Act, be payable to the county treasurer, or his attorney, at the office of the Honourable the Receiver General, Toronto, on the 1st day of July next.

4. As required by the 1st clause of the 31st section of the school Act, you will please notify the local superintendents of this apportionment, so far as it relates to the townships under their charge respectively.

5. It not having been considered advisable this year to adopt arbitrarily the basis, in the distribution of the school fund among the several school sections, authorized by the first clause of the 31st section of the Act, I am directed by the Chief Superintendent to submit for the consideration of the county council the propriety of adopting this year the new system for the distribution of the school fund according to the average attendance of pupils. Some county councils have already expressed a wish that the former method of distributing the school fund-according to the school population returns of the previous year-should be continued this year also. In all such cases, the Chief Superintendent has expressed his concurrence in the wishes of the council.

6. If you have not already done so, you will please notify this department of the decision of the county council upon this subject, at your earliest convenience, so as to enable the Chief Superintendent to issue his instructions to the local superintendents, as contemplated in the first clause of the 31st section of the school Act. I have the honour to be,

Circular to the Clerks of the Municipal Councils of the several Cities, Towns, and Incorporated Villages in Upper Canada, notifying the apportionment of the Legislative School Grant for the year 1851.

SIR,-In accordance with the first and second clauses of the 35th section, in connexion with the 6th clause of the same section of the common school Act for Upper Canada, 13th and 14th Victoria, chapter 48, I have the honour to intimate to you for the information of the council of which you are clerk, and of your board of common school trustees, that the sum placed opposite the name of your municipality has been apportioned to it for the current year out of the legislative school grant.

2. By the 42nd section of the school Act, the amount of school money apportioned to each city, town, and incorporated village is payable to the chamberlain or treasurer of such municipality on the 1st day of July next, at the office of the Honourable the Receiver General, Toronto.

3. Should you not have already notified this department of the the name of the treasurer of your municipality, you will please do so at your earliest convenience, in order that the warrant may issue to the proper party authorised by law to receive the apportionment. I would, at the same time, direct your attention to the 21st section, in connexion with the second proviso of the third clause of the 27th section, and the fifth clause of the same section of the school Act, and I will thank you to favour the Chief Superintendent from time to time with a copy of the proceedings of your council on school matters. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, J. GEORGE HODGINS, Deputy Superintendent.

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EDUCATION OFFICE, Toronto, 1st of May, 1851. APPORTIONMENT OF THE LEGISLATIVE SCHOOL GRANT TO THE SEVERAL CITIES, TOWNS, AND INCORPORATED VILLAGES IN UPPER CANADA, FOR THE YEAR 1851.

Educational Intelligence.

CANADA.

Items.-A correspondent of the London, U. C. Times thus remarks, in regard to the progress of education in Vienna, C. W. A grammar school has lately been established under the superintendence of Simon Newcomb, Esq., one of the best scholars and most successful teachers in the Province. The town council, at a late session, authorized the erection of a new house for the grammar school, at an expense of twenty-three hundred dollars. This, when completed, and Mr. Newcomb established at the head of the school, will furnish means of education unsurpassed, if indeed equalled, in any part of the Province. Mr. N. was formerly a very efficient local superintendent of common schools in Bayham.-Ed. J. of Ed. J-Hamilton Hunter, Esq., late superintendent of common schools in the county of York, has been appointed by the Board of Trustees, Principal of the Union School London, U. C.....The Picton Sun, of the 13th inst. contains a very gratifying account of the recent examinations in the Picton Academy, conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Yeomans. The Rev. D. McMullen has retired from its management..... The corner stone of Trinity College, Church University,' was laid on the 30th ult., by Bishop Strachan. The ceremony was highly imposing.....In regard to the Rev. W. Ormiston's classical and mathematical school in Clarke, a correspondent of the P. H. Watchman remarks: "The second session of this interesting school closed on Wednesday, the 23rd ult., in presence of a large and respectable assemblage of spectators, by a public examination, which gave the highest satisfaction, both as to the amount of varied and useful knowledge imparted, and the intellectual and thorough method of imparting it. Mr. Ormiston's mode of instruction is entirely new, yet in perfect accordance with known laws of mind. Students are taught to determine the meaning of things, instead of names, words or phrases; the origin, foundation, and principles of science, as well as the facts deduced from them"....The sixth session of Knox's College closed on the 16th ult. The examinations were highly interesting and satisfactory....The public examinations of the University of Queen's College, Kingston, took place on the 23rd and 24th ult. The Argus remarks: "The result was highly creditable to the Students, and reflected honour on the College and its Professors. The Prizes having been distributed to the most deserving students, the Rev. Principal, Machar, closed the session with an eloquent and impressive address." The Board of School Trustees in the town of Dundas have memorialized the Town Council to provide a sufficient sum of money to erect new school buildings. The Council expressed its cordial concurrence in the wishes of the trustees. The Reeve in supporting the motion of concurrence, eulogized the able manner and efficient management of the school in the hands of the present Trustees, and referring to the public appreciation of the improvement already made, in the large attendance of 319 scholars. A committee was then appointed to confer with the Trustees, and report to the Council.....In accordance with the intimation in the Speech from the Throne at the opening of the Legislature, a bill to regulate Common Schools in Lower Canada has been introduced into the Legislative Council by the Hon. James Leslie.... Sir Allan McNab will introduce a bill into the Assembly to incorporate Trinity College, Toronto.... The Hon. P. B. De Blaquiere, Chancellor of the University has signified his intention to give a gold medal for the encouragement of the study of the evidences of natural and revealed religion; the competition to be open to all under graduates. The University Commission have passed Statutes establishing several new chairs in the faculty of arts. Mr. D. Buchan, of Paris, U. C., has been appointed Chairman of the University Endowment Board at a salary of £400 per annum. The Hon. F. Hincks formerly held the appointment, but received no salary. The Senate of the University has authorized the sale of £20,000 worth of lands-the proceeds to be devoted to the erection of suitable buildings for the University. The plans heretofore adopted will not be adhered to....In announcing the principles upon which the Montreal Pilot shall hereafter be conducted (since the recent retirement of the Rev. Dr. Cramp) the proprietor intimates that free schools will be prominently advocated in its columns.... The people of Chatham are about reorganizing the Common Schools of that town, and propose erecting school premises at an expense of £1,200.

Religious Instruction in the University of Toronto.-Arrangements, providing for the religious instruction of the students of the Univesity of Toronto, similar to those in existence in the Normal School, have been made by the visitation commission of the University. The statute on the subject is as follows:

1st. Be it enacted that candidates for matriculation, who at the time of their applications may be students of any affiliated College, must be furnished with testimonials from their respective institutions, and upon admission shall be described as belonging thereto.

2nd. That it be enacted, that the students upon matriculation shall either be designated as of the particular denominations to which they belong; or without any such designations, in accordance with the direction of their respective parents or guardians.

3rd. And be it enacted, that candidates for any degree, who, at the time of such application, may be students of any such affiliated College, shall be required, before admission to such degree, to produce testimonials from their respective Colleges,

4th. And be it enacted, that it shall be competent for the constituted authorities of any Church or religious denomination from time to time to appoint a clergyman or minister to the office of superintendent of religious instruction, to be called the Professor of Divinity of such denomination, or by such other title as any such denomination may select; who, upon such appointment, shall have the spiritual charge and care of all students designated upon matriculation, as belonging to such denomination other than the students of such affiliated College as herein before provided.

5th. And be it enacted, that each Professor of Divinity so appointed shall have power, with the occurrence of the authority making such appointment to prescribe regulations for the religious instruction of the students under his care, and for securing their regular attendance upon Divine worship; such regulations before coming into force to be laid before the Caput of the University, and certified by them as not interfering with the general discipline of the University, but in case the Caput shall find that the said regulations do interfere with such discipline, in such case they shall have power to send back the same to such Professor of Divinity for reconsideration and amendment in that respect.

6th. And be it enacted, that the President shall cause a list of the names of all the students under the spiritual charge of each Professor to be furnished to such Professor after each matriculation.

7th. And be it enacted, that each Professor of Divinity shall, at the termination of each collegiate session, report to the Caput on the general conduct of the students under his spiritual charge, and on the manner in which the regulations regarding such students have been observed.

Educated vs. Uneducated Crininals.-A recent correspondent of the Toronto Globe, in discussing the general question of Free Schools, adduces the following striking statistics relating to the comparative education of criminals. He observes:--The following interesting statistics, showing the moral power of instruction, are extracted from the journal of the Statistical Society, published in London, and though they are somewhat startling, their accuracy may be relied on,--for whenever the correctness of the returns admitted a doubt, they were referred back to the prisons, for the signature of the Chaplain. Taking all the counties of England and Wales, from 1836 to 1847, a period of 11 years, more than half those counties fail to furnish a single accusation against any person educated beyond reading and writing :-

The returns for 1846 give the same results, and in 15 English counties no person educated beyond reading and writing was convicted in either 1845 or 1846. It would be difficult to believe, upon less reliable testimony, that in the County of Middlesex, including London, there should have been no more than 3 educated persons convicted of crime in 1845, and only 1 in 1846; and these offences were slight, for one of the three convicted in 1845 was discharged, and another was fined only one shilling for assault. During 1845 and 1846, the number of charges against boys under 15 years of age was 3,189, and not one of these appears to have been educated beyond reading and writing. Now if we take into consideration the expenses entailed ou the community in the prosecution and safe keeping of these criminals, together with the amount of property stolen or destroyed, the sum would be enormous. One instance will show this: Mr. Serjeant Adams stated at the Middlesex Sessions of 1847, that during 1846 there were,

besides the hundreds of cases not known. Increasing, as these Provinces are, in population and wealth--in anticipation of possible agitations, political and social, let us lay the foundations of order deep in the affections of a free, instructed and virtuous people--reason, justice, policy and Christian philanthropy alike urge us to promote, by every means, the moral and religious education of the masses.

NEW BRUNSWICK.

Items.-The House of Assembly has by a resolution recently suspended £1,100, or the half of the annual grant to King's College.— Mr. Amasa Smith, a native of Fredericton, has been recently appointed Assistant Professor of Logic and Rhetoric, at the National Law School in the State of New York.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Ilems. Large numbers of the working classes now attend the lectures in Trinity College University, Dublin, a circumstance altogether novel. The non-resident Assistants of Dulwich College have succeeded against the resident Master and Fellows of the College in the election of the new Warden. Fortune favoured their nominee, Mr. Richard William Allen, in the casting of lots. There is now a prospect that a considerable extension of the education advantages of the College may be effected.....Lord Melgund is preparing a bill to be introduced into parliament for providing a system of national education for Scotland...... Professors of stenography have been appointed in the Universities of Berlin, and of Christiana, in Norway.

UNITED STATES.

The President and Fellows of Harvard University have addressed a memorial to the Massachusetts legislature protesting against the new organization of the college. The memorial strongly questions the legal or constitutional right of the legislature to make the changes contemplated. As an evidence of the prosperity of the institution, the memorial states that, "Within the last forty years large and expensive buildings have been erected for the accommodation of the college, and four for the accommodation of the divinity, law, scientific, and medical schools. The college library has accumulated from fifteen to fifty-seven thousand volumes, not including the law library of fourteen thousand. The philosophical apparatus has greatly increased: the Rumford cabinet has been procured, and large, additions have been made to the mineralogical cabinet. The whole number of professors is twenty-five, nineteen of whom reside in Cambridge, and give constant instruction. The institution is three times as large as it was half a century ago, containing nearly three times the number of students, more than three times the number of instructors, and giving an appropriate education in the most important professions, as well as conducting the preparatory studies of the more youthful class of pupils. Mention is also made of the astronomical observatory as a valuable adjunct to the university. Education in New England-From the Earl of Carlisle's Lecture at Leeds.-The public institutions of Boston are admirably conducted. The public or common schools there, as, I believe, in New England generally, are supported by a general rate, to which all contribute, and all may profit by. I am no naturally now disposed to discuss the question how far this system would bear being transplanted and engrafted on our policy; it would be uncanád if I did not state that the universality of the instruction, and the excelence of what fell unper my own observation, presented to my mind som mortifying points of contrast to what we have hitherto effected at home . . . I have already mentioned with just praise the universal difusion and excellent quality of popular education as established in New Yox, and, I may add, the prosperous State of Ohio.

Literary and Scientific Entelligence.

Items. Mr. Martin Farquhar Tupper, the English "AngloSaxon" poet, and authorof Proverbial Philosophy, has recently been in the principal cities of Canada, while on his Anerican tour. He seems to have received very little atention...-M. Guizet is on the point of publishing a series of biographical sketches of men who figured in the English revolution of 1640. The life of Ludlow appears in the first of the series. ..... The Lord Mayor his announced a series of receptions at the Mansion House, of "the literati and scientific nem of this country and the continent:" also of the foreign commissioners, and "those contributors who may receive marks of distinction."....At the meeting of the Acade