Educational Intelligence. CANADA. MONTHLY SUMMARY. 3rd. Moved by John Might, Esq., seconded by Mr. William Mitchell, and Resolved, That all attempts, from whatever cause proceeding, to erect or endow sectarian Schools at the public expense, have for their object the destruction of general education, and should be met with the most firm and determined resistance from the population of Canada West. PROMOTION OF EDUCATION IN LOWER CANADA.-The following resolutions have lately passed the House of Assembly on motion of the Hon. Mr. Morin: "That it is expedient to define by law the amount which ought to be ap The Western Planet of the 31st ult., in speaking of the new central Schoolhouse, thus remarks:—“ This building was opened for the reception of pupils last February, and is really an ornament to the town. It is capable of acco-propriated out of the Jesuit's Estates Fund, for the years 1852 and 1853, modating 500 pupils, and attached to it are four teachers, two for the male, and two for the female department. It is built of brick, with cut stone corners, and at a cost of £1100."--The Schools in the township of Sandwich are supported on the Free School principle the current year.- -The inhabitants of the township of Grantham have availed themselves of the provisions of the 20th sect. of the School Act, and have organized their schools and a township board of School Trustees, the same as in cities and towns.In reference to this change the St. Catherine's Constitutional remarks that: "It is the intention of this Board to establish eight schools and to appoint to them only first-class teachers, to whom just salaries will be given. This course, if pursued, will argue much in favor of the Trustees individually, and will tend greatly to the improvement and stability of the schools.—At the recent examination of teachers by the Board of Public Instruction for the county of Simcoe, the chairman, (Judge Gowan,) through the Rev. S. B. Ardagh, presented to the best teachers who had obtained second and third class certificates, a valuable book each. No first class certificate was granted by the Board.The Bathurst Courier, of a recent date, speaks in high terms of the new stone School-house, designed for the Perth Public School. -The Roman Catholic Seminary of Quebec has been constituted a University, by a Charter of Queen Victoria, dated the 8th December-the anniversary of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin. The same had been decided upon on the 19th March last, the Feast day of St. Joseph. The degrees conferred by the University of Quebec will be valid in Great Britain. The Seminary have decided, out of thankfulness, to procure a portrait of the Queen, and to have it hung in the principal room of the establishment, along side with those of its benefactors.The North American remarks, in reference to the very gratifying examination of the pupils attending the Adelaide Academy:-We rejoice that we have in this city an establishment so eminently fitted to bestow a sound practical knowledge on our young ladies." "A friend to Free Schools" thus concludes his communication to the Niagara Mail ;-"I hope the time is not far distant when all the Common Schools in Upper Canada will be made Free Schools by Legislative enactment. I have two reasons for this: first, I believe it would be a great blessing to the country at large, and secondly, that we may no longer be insulted by hearing our children called paupers, and our schools mean and contemtible schools, they would then be designated, our National or rather Provincial Free Schools."- -The Hon. Dr. Widmer has been inaugurated Chancellor of the University of Toronto.--The Hon. Mr. Hincks has introduced a measure into the Legislature to repeal the Toronto University Act, and to' reorganize the institution on the model of the London University.--A public meeting has been held in the city of Hamilton to adopt measures for establishing a College in that city. Isaac Buchanan, Esq., has offered to contribute £100 towards the object.At a meeting of the Council of the University of Trinity College, held on Thursday, the Hon. Chief Justice of Upper Canada was unanimously elected Chancellor, under the Royal Charter. The Rev. the Provost is Vice-Chancellor by statute. The Rev. Professor Perry was elected Public Orator; and the Rev. Professor Irving. Registrar.—We learn that the Royal Charter, conferring on Bishops' College, Lennoxville, the power of granting Degrees, has been received by the authorities of that Institution. SCHOOLS IN PORT HOPE.-The following Resolutions were submitted to the meeting recently held in Port Hope, and unanimously carried: 1st. Moved by Dr. Perks, seconded by D. McLeod, Esq., and Resolved, That this meeting, deeply interested in the education of the children of Port Hope, request that the Board of Trustees for Common Schools, to have the two new School-houses finished as soon as possible for two free elementary Schools, in accordance with the Resolution passed by the Board a year ago. 2nd. Moved by R. Maxwell, Esq., seconded by J. Might, Esq., and Resolved, That as the two new School-houses are not sufficient for the accomodation of the school going-children of Port Hope, a central School-house be built, at a cost not exceeding £500, containing three class rooms for the Master of the Grammar School, and two first class Common School Teachers, and also to procure a suitable site for the same. towards making provision for the remuneration of the School Inspectors for Lower Canada, and for the establishment and maintenance of a Normal School; the balance necessary for such services being taken out of the unexpended or unclaimed balance of the Common School Fund for Lower Canada, as provided by the Act of the 14th and 15 Vic., cap. 97. "That the said amount out of the Jesuits' Estates Fund be fixed at the sum of two thousand pounds currency for each of the said years. "That it is expedient to appropriate out of the said Jesuits' Estates Fund as an investment at the rate of five per cent. per annum, from the 1st day of January, 1853, a sum not exceeding £4,500 currency, for the purpose of a site and building for a Normal School in Montreal, and a further sum not exceeding five hundred pounds currency, for the necessary repairs thereto; the interest as aforesaid to be paid in half-yearly payments into the said Fund, out of the said unexpended or unclaimed balance of the Common School Fund for Lower Canada, as the first charge thereon, and out of any moneys which may be hereafter otherwise appropriated by law towards the said Normal School." SEPARATE SCHOOL LAW-MR. HAGARTY'S OPINION THEREON. 1843. By the statute 7th Vic. ch. 29, sec. 55, it was enacted that in all cases where the Teacher of a School was a Roman Catholic, the Protestant iuhabitants might have a School with Protestant teacher, on application of 10 resident freeholders, &c., "of any School district, or within the limits assigned to any Town or City School," with like privilege to Roman Catholics where the teacher was Protestant. 1849. The statute 12 Vic. ch. 83, repealing former School Acts from 1st January, 1850, makes no apparent provision for Separate Schools, except in the case of Colored People (see sec. 69) in whose favor the Municipal Council of Town or City may establish any number of Schools that they may judge expedient, for children of Colored people. 1850. The present School Bill, 13 & 14 Vic., ch. 48, expressly repeals the two preceding Acts, and by the 19th sec., authorizes the Board of School Trustees, on application of 12 resident heads of families, to establish one or more separate schools for Protestants, Roman Catholics or Colored people, and to prescribe the limits of the divisions or sections of such schools, with various provisions in the same section, as to voters for election of Trustees of separate schools-as to share in school fund, and especially that no Protestant separate school should be allowed in any school division, except when the Common School Teacher was a Roman Catholic-nor any Roman Catholic School, except where Common School Teacher was Protestant. 1851. The School Act 14 & 15 Vic., ch. 111, declares that doubts have arisen in regard to certain provisions in 19th sec., of preceding Act, and that it was "inexpedient to deprive any of the parties concerned, of rights which they have enjoyed under preceding School Acts for Upper Canada, and then enacts that each of the parties applying, according to the provisions of said Act, shall be entitled to have a Separate School in each Ward, or in two or more Wards united, as said party or parties shall judge expedient in each City or Town in Upper Canada. Provided always that each such School in its establishment and operations, shall be subject to all the conditions and obligations, and entitled to all the advantages imposed and conferred upon Separate Schools, by the said 19th section of the said Act." In my opinion, the only effect of the last Act is to enable the parties applying, to obtain a Separate School in each Ward, or in two or more Wards united, if they so desire it--instead of leaving it to the Board of Trustees to prescribe the limits of the divisions or sections of such Separate Schools, and I consider that all the provisions of the 19th section in other respects remain in force, and that no Roman Catholic Separate School shall be allowed in any Ward, unless the Common School Teacher be a Protestant, and vice versa. The Act of 1843 gave a similar privilege to parties desiring a Separate School in each Ward, but subject to the last named restriction, dependant on the religion of the Teacher. The Act of 1850 did deprive them of this right as to each Ward-and the Act of 1851 expressly passed to prevent parties from being deprived of rights enjoyed under preceding School Acts of Upper 2s. 6d. per quarter is authorized. Five Trustees are to be chosen in each school district (section), three of whom form a quorum. Two classes of teachers are authorized-1st and 2nd class. Salary of the first class, £45, of the second £50. Those who teach Latin will be allowed 10s. per scholar, until their salary amounts to £60. No teacher is entitled to any salary, unless he has taught 30 scholars at least six months of the year. All agreements must be in writing. A Justice of the Peace or Commissioner (not interested) to fix the site of the school-house. The school-houses must be at least three miles, in every direction, distant from each other, except in The following extracts from the Report of the Local Superintendent of certain cases. A Visitor (or Chief Superintendent) may be appointed. The Common Schools in Toronto, will be found interesting : "Some of the evil forebodings respecting the bad effects of the introduction of the free system, on the morals and respectability of our Schools, were very freely expressed during the year 1851 and beginning of 1852; but the experiment so far has shown that these fears were groundless and illusoryfor whilst great numbers of children of the poorer classes, who had not attended school regularly prior to the throwing them open to all, have been admitted, yet ia no instance that has come under my observation, have the more advanced and respectable pupils left the school on this account; on the contrary, the character of these institutions will compare very favourably now, with that which they presented at any former period of their history, free or otherwise, so far as respects the clean and respectable appearance of the children, the numbers in the advanced classes, the comprehensiveness of the curriculem adopted in the various Schools, and the general good conduct of the pupils attending them. Indeed, there are no Schools of a similar class, that I have seen, over which a more strict, unceasing supervision is maintained by the teachers in regard to the morals of the children and their personal cleanliness, than is now over the Public Schools of this City. The report of 1852 shows an increase over 1850, in the number registered, of 1355-55 per cent: it also shows an increase in the average attendance of 497-47 per cent., so that the iucrease on the average bears a pretty fair ratio to the aggregate increase of 1852 as compared with 1850. Again the ratio of the average to the aggregate attendance in 1850 is 1: 2,42, and the ratio between these figures for 1852 is 1: 5,45, a very small difference indeed in favour of the free system over the present, in relation to regularity of attendance. Therefore an increase of 55 per cent. on the aggregate, and 47 percent. on the average attendance of 1852 and 1850; whilst the literary character of the schools as shown in the above table, has not been deteriorated but rather improved-forms a very strong argument in favour of free schools. Indeed the beneficial effects of the system, so far as the experiment has been tried, are sufficient to demonstrate its superiority over the old system of collecting fees from the children. The Report concludes thus: "If, therefore, the pricciple be sound, that a good education should be provided for the nation at the national expense, there appears no other than the "Free School System," by which this principle can be successfully carried into practice. And, if the Legislature pursue inviolate the integrity of the present system, we may confidently anticipate, as its legitimate result, that in the course of a few years, a thorough English education, commensurate with the wants and wishes of a rapidly advancing people, will be brought within the reach of the humblest citizen-diffused throughout the length and breadth of the land, and made as free as the air we breathe, or the light of Heaven." PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. FREE SCHOOLS.-Great efforts are being made to establish a system of Free Schools in the Province of Prince Edward Island. Hazard's Gazette, of the 11th January, contains the synopsis of an Act passed by the Legislature of that Island to promote the establishment of free schools, and of which we make the following synopsis. Many of the provisions of the Act are identical with those in the School law of Upper Canada, from which they are taken. The following are the taxes authorized by the Act: d. per acre on all lands whether wilderness or cultivated. Also, 5s. on all buildings occupied as dwelling-houses, stores, mills, taverns, distilleries, &c. &c., surrounded with not more than ten acres of land; 2s. 6d. on all workshops, so surrounded; also 3d. in the £ on the annual value of all lands, tenements, &c, in Charlottetown and Common, and Georgetown and Common. No fees to teachers are authorized to be charged in the rural sections, but the Act authorizes assessments and quarterly collections from or on account of the scholars, to be applied to the purchase of books, rent and repairs of school-houses, &c. In Charlottetown and Georgetown, however, a fee of Lieut: Governor may authorize £500 to be appropriated to the purchase of maps, books, apparatus, &c., for a general depository; to be sold and the proceeds to be invested in like manner. Holidays and Visitors same as in U. C. School Act. In his recent Speech at the opening of the Legislature of the Island, His Excellency, Sir Alexander Bannerman, remarked:-" You will be happy to learn that the Education Bill was specially confirmed by Her Majesty a measure of great importance, and the commencement, I trust, of a better system. Irrespective of party or political feelings, it was supported by you, in order to diffuse the blessings of education to all classes, and, with the Divine favour, to extend to Her Majesty's subjects in this Island the means of obtaining religious and secular instruction. The Bill will provide those means, if its details are revised, as experience may suggest, by a well constituted Board of Education, entitled to the confidence of the community, which will enable such a body, with an efficient Inspector, to follow out a system similar to that which has been attended with happy results elsewhere, and obtained the sanction and support of Her Majesty and the Lords of Her Privy Council, during several successive _Administra tions." NOVA SCOTIA. At the opening of the recent session of the legislature of Nova Scotia, his Excellency remarked:-" Circumstances prevented the legislature from revising the Common School Act during the last session. I confidently anticipate that in maturing the measures relating thereto, which I shall direct to be laid before you, I shall have your unlimited co-operation." BRITISH AND FOREIGN. MONTHLY SUMMARY. In the Oxford Convocation held on the 27th ult., it was agreed to grant out of the University chest the sum of £500 as a contribution to the great educational institution proposed to be founded in memory of Field Marshal his Grace the Duke of Wellington, K. G., the late Chancellor of that University, -of the £100,000 required to establish the Wellington College, £70,000 has been subscribed.—The Meniteur publishes a decree of the Emperor, giving the title of Imperial to the Hotel des Invalides, the Polytecnic School, the Special Military School, the Military Prytanee, School of Cavalry, School of Application of the Staff, School of Application of Artillery and Engineers, and the Military Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy.—The Rev. Dr. Hawtry succeeds Dr. F. Hodgson, as Provost of Eton College. The appointment is worth £2000 per annum.-—————— -A circular has been issued by the Privy Coun cil Committee on Education in England, to promote the introduction of drawing into schools as one of the ordinary branches of instruction.--A new Educational Institution has recently been established in London for preparing pupils for those professions and offices specially requiring mathematical and statistical training.—Mr. Gladstone has been re-elected M. P. for Oxford University after twelve days polling. At a recent banquet given to him at Baliol College University, made a speech of which after rapidly glancing at its history of English University in connection with its general progress and state of national intelligence and education, he intimated that reform was in reality intended in regard to the Universities.£500 in three per cents. has been offered to Cambridge University to promote the study of the Greek Testament.--From the recent address of the Ladies of America to the Ladies of England, we take the following passages giving an Ameriican view of the state of popular education in England : richer and more powerful than that of any other country in the world, the poor are more oppressed, more pauperized, more numerous in comparison to other classes, more irreligious, and very much worse educated than the poor of any other European nation, solely excepting uncivilized Russia and Turkey, enslaved Italy, misgoverned Portugal, and revolutionized Spain." The first and greatest of all popular needs in every free Christian country is the need of instruction; and yet your country has no system of public education that is worthy of the name. The entire amount of your annual Parliamentary appropriation for the education of your people is less by thousands of pounds than the annual public expenditures made for this purpose by the city of New York alone. One person out of every eight in your population is a pauper, and the average poor rates in England for the last ten years have been £6,000,000; and yet to provide public education, and thus in a great measure remedy the very neglect which has cursed you with this grievous and yearly increasing burden, your national Legislature has expended in six years only £600,000. One-third of the population of the State of New York according to our census tables just published, are regularly receiving education in our public schools, according to your Parliamentary returns, only oneeleventh of your population are enjoying a similar advantage. Sisters, is that a Christian state of society which, for some millions of your people, render the development and cultivation of all those faculties which distinguish man from the brute little better than a physical impossibility." EDUCATION IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND.-From a recent speech of Lord John Russell, we gather the following information regarding the intentions of the imperial government in respect to education:-" The next subject upon which I propose to make certain propositions to the House, is the important subject of education. (Hear, hear) I am not prepared to say that I am about to introduce, on the part of Her Majesty's Government, a very large plan on that subject; but I am about to make a proposal which will tend to great improvements, and promote the cause of educatioh throughout the country. (Hear, hear.) Education is now a subject which presses itself more and more upon the minds of all who consider the future destiny of this country, and which, in every respect, whatever opinion we may entertain, or whatever plan we may think best, is a subject that must be considered of the very highest importance. (Great cheering.) After we shall have stated what are the views which Her Majesty's Government entertain on the subject of an educational measure for the poorer classes, either then, or shortly afterwards, we propose to state what is the course which Her Majesty's Government intend to pursue, and what is the proposition which they think should be made, with respect to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the commissions of enquiry into the state, discipline, studies, and revenues of those universities. Another subject which has engaged the attention of government is the state of education in Scotland. I am enabled to state, after conferring with the Lord Advocate of Scotland, that my learned friend will bring in a measure in the course of the present session upon that subject." UNIVERSITY IN SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES.-On the 10th of October last, the University of Sydney was publicly opened and organized. All the civil and military officers of the country in and about Sydney, including the Governor General, were present. The occasion was one of great interest and satisfaction, significant of the state of public feeling in that country in favour of University education. 23 students were matriculated. The University has been founded on a most liberal basis. UNITED STATES. MONTHLY SUMMARY. The Regents of the University of the State of New York, report that 78 academies have instructed 1,511 students, and have become entitled according to law, to the aggregate sum of $14,370.- -The National Magazine says the free schools of New York City cost, annually, the sum of $569,000, which is an average of about eight dollars a year to each pupil in attendance. -Free Schools, in New York State, the first year, added 60,000 scholars to the number taught previously.--In Albany, N. Y., a young lady has started a "ragged school" in which she now has forty or fifty children, picked up in the streets.— -The Trustees of Geneva College recently met, and unanimously accepted the noble and liberal offer of Trinity Church, New York, to grant the College an annuity of $3,000 in perpetuity, on condition of making the College a free College, with no charges for tuition or room-rent, and changing its name, with the sanction of the Legislature, to that of the "Hobart Free College at Geneva;" thus riveting upon Trinity Church the honour of establishing the first FREE CHRISTIAN PROTESTANT COLLEGE in the United States. REMOVAL OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE-HISTORICAL MEMORANDUM.-It has been understood for some time past that several of the trustees of Columbia College were disposed to favor the sale of the ground and buildings in Park place, Murray street, &c., and the purchase of other property on the upper part of Lexington avenue, whereon to erect a larger and more splendid college edifice than that at present occupied. The project has, however, been stoutly opposed, and there seems little probability of its being effectual, but a morning contemporary intimates that "a majority is obtained at last for the removal; and that we may expect in a short time to see the Columbia College grounds all built over." There can be no doubt that the college will be pecuniarily benefitted by the transaction, if effected. The grounds now occupied are extremely valuable, and may probably be sold for a much larger sum than will suffice to purchase a tract of equal extent above Twenty-third street, and construct thereon a building that will be more suitable to the wants of the students and faculty, and a more magnificent architectural ornament to the city. But the demolition of the old edifice cannot be contemplated without regret. Columbia College was chartered during the colonial government in 1754, under the name of King's College (changed to Columbia in 1784), and with the exception of Harvard, Yale and Princeton, is the oldest seat of learning in the United States. The present college edifice was erected in 1756, on ground given for that purpose by the Trinity church corporation.-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. Literary and Scientific Intelligence. MONTHLY SUMMARY. A petition has been presented to the House of Assembly by J. H. Lefroy, F.R.S., President of the Canadian Institute, representing that the scientific observations at the Observatory at Toronto are in danger of being discontinued, by reason of the contemplated withdrawal of the Royal Artillery at present stationed there, and praying that the said Observatory may be continued by Provincial authority, by placing it in connection with the Provincial University, or otherwise. This petition was ordered to be printed, and Mr. Morin said it should receive the attention of the Government.-———. A correspondent of the London (U. C.) Prototype, writing from Connecticut thus speaks of Mrs. Sigourney :—“Hartford, as you are perhaps aware, is the residence of our distinguished poetess Mrs. Sigourney, sometimes styled the American Merudus. Somewhat past the meridian of life, her mind is still active and brilliant. She is at present occupied in the production of a new work. This lady is in figure, about the medium height, and might be described as the same with regard to "en bon point." Her face beams with intelligence, and that peculiar warmth of heart and delicacy of sentiment which so pervades her works. In the course of her conversation she spoke of many of her English friends with much kindness-having been myself abroad at the period of her visit to Europe, I well remember how very kindly she was received by many of the leading literati of England. Mrs. Sigourney inquired after various matters in Canada, and expressed her intention to visit your Province at no very remote period. Her residence does not partake of that striking characteristic in which, I am honest to confess, my countrymen are likely to indulge, viz., show; but everything within doors breathed that spirit of refined taste and elevated association, inseparable from genius of so high a character. Here was to be seen none of the glittering display which characterises but too many residences of the would-be-great, on both sides of the Atlantic.His Prussian Majesty has been pleased to confer the Order pour le mérite for Arts and Sciences on the Right Hon. Thomas Babington Macaulay and Col. Rawlinson.- -The Bishop of Manchester presided over a meeting held in the Manchester Town Council-room, when it was resolved that a monument should be erected to the memory of the late Dr. Dalton, the well-known chemist; and that, as a subsidiary memorial, Dalton scholarships of chemistry and mathematics should be founded in Owen's College.--Lord Denman has dedicated to Mrs. Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a collection of occasional papers, bearing upon the question of slavery, which he contributed to the Standard.--The latest Uncle Tom-ism we notice, is a specimen of paper-hangings exhibited in Liverpool. The pattern represents in compartments most striking scenes from Mrs. Stowe's work. Eliza dresses in the latest Parisian fashion, and the male slaves are portrayed in the costume usually worn by Don Man's luckless man Leporello.--The National Intelligencer announces that George Peabody, of London, has donated $10,000 to the Grinnel expedition to the Arctic regions.- -Stephenson, the celebrated engineer of the Menai Bridge, is said to be on his way to Canada, to build the Bridge across the St. Lawrence at Montreal. TO SCHOOL TEACHERS AND OTHERS. LL COMMON SCHOOL TEACHERS within the bounds of the United A Counties of Middlesex and Elgin, holding certificates from the County Board of Public Instruction either for a limited time, or during the pleasure of the Board, are hereby required to present themselves for re-examination at the Quarterly meeting of the Board, to be held in April next. In order to meet the convenience of Teachers residing in different parts of the United Counties, the Board will meet at the following places and dates, at 10 oclock, A. M. At Mr. Livingston's Academy, Carradoc, on Thursday, April 7th, 1853. At the School House, Vienna, on Thursday, April 14th, 1853. At the Union School, London, on Thursday, April 21st, 1853. That no time may be lost on the days of examination, Teachers are requested to forward their testimonials of moral character to their respective Superintendents by the 12th of March, and also to notify them of the place where they intend to present themselves for examination. Superintendents receiving such testimonials are requested, after subjecting them to any necessary scrutiny, to forward them (if satisfactory) to the Secretary of the Board, intimating to him where the parties named in them intend appearing for examination. The certificates formerly granted by the Board are to be delivered up at the examination of which notice is now given. All certificates heretofore granted for a limited time, or during the pleasure of the Board, are hereby declared to be null and void after the 21st day of April next. Local Superintendents and other members of the Board, are particularly requested to make a point of attending such of the above examinations as may be most contiguous to their respective places of abode. By order of the Board of Public Instruction for the United Counties of Middlesex, Elgin and London. WM. F. CLARKE, Secretary. Feb. 12th, 1853. Ditto £ s. D. CHART 2.-Embraces Elementary Principles for Capitals Com No. 1. Designed for Young Beginners. No. 2. 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The 64 Questions" on the Copies have been framed with a view to enable the Master or Mistress of a School, or the Teacher, to find out whether the children understand what they write, and whether they are making any progress in the knowledge of their Bible. FULTON & EASTMAN'S PRINCIPLES OF PENMANSHIP, il lustrated, and expeditiously taught by the use of a set of School Writing Books, appropriately ruled, and a Key: I.-Fulton's Chirographic Charts. In two numbers. 3 feet 6 inches wide, by 4 feet 4 inches long, each, per pair, mounted on canvas and rollers, and varnished CHART No. 1.-Embraces Primary Exercises, and Elementary Principles in Writing, with illustrations of the correct and incorrect positions of the Scholar, &c. &c. ADVERTISEMENTS inserted in the Journal of Education for one halfpenny per word, which may be remitted in postage stamps, or otherwise. TERMS: For a single copy of the Journal of Education, 5s. per annum ; back vols. neatly stitched supplied on the same terms. All subscriptions to commence with the January number, and payment in advance must in all cases accompany the order. Single numbers, 74d. each. TORONTO: Printed by LOVELL & GIBSON, King Street. CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. I. A Mechanics' Institute-the Mechanics' College,. III. Evils of Thoughtless School Legislation in the State of New York, IV. County School Conventions-Proceedings and Suggestions (Continued),.. V. MISCELLANEOUS-1. Steam and the Steam Engine (Poetry). 2. A Beautiful Sentiment. 3. Four Good Habits (p. 60),.. VI. Examinations of the Normal and Model Schools,VII. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS-1. Western Planet. 2. Quebec Gazette, VIII. EDITORIAL-1. Next Session of the Normal School. 2. Recent Appointments in the Normal and Model Schools for Upper Canada. 3. Resolutions passed at the recent County School Conventions in Upper Canada (Concluded),.. IX. Presentation of Plate to the Rev. Dr. Ryerson, by the Officers of the Educational Department, Upper Canada,.. ... X. EDUCATIONAL INTELLIGENCE-1. Canada Monthly Summary. 2. Death of Professor Murray (p. 60). 3. School Lecture at Perth. 4. Testimonial to F. M'Callum, Trafalgar. 5. Education at Fingal. 6. The Public Schools of Preston. 7. Educain Michigan. 8. Massachusetts Schools. 9. Dartmouth College, XI. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE-1. Monthly Summary. 2. Double Current of the Ocean. 3. New Grinnell Arctic Expedition. 4. Caloric Ship Ericsson. 5. Shakspeare's House. 6. The Paris Press,. XII. Advertisements,... PAGE A MECHANICS' INSTITUTE-THE MECHANICS' COLLEGE. 49 50 50 51 52 53 54 56 59 61 63 64 A number of gentlemen in Bytown have just issued an address, preliminary to the establishment of a Mechanics' Institute in that place. In deploring the absence of so effective an agency in diffusing general intelligence, they remark:-"The want of some association of an intellectual character deprives the adult members of the community of all those pure mental enjoyments that flow from the cultivation of the mind, either by reading or listening to discourses upon literature, science, or art, is, when viewed with reference to its influence upon the youth of the town, productive of consequences of a much more painful and disastrous nature. The young and thoughtless, instead of being furnished by their parents, guardians, employers, and others interested in their temporal welfare, with every opportunity of storing their minds with useful information, have no other means of spending their leisure hours than in frivolous and uninstructive amusements, or in pursuits of a character that generally end in the contracting of bad habits that never can be entirely eradicated. The valuable time in the beginning of life, when the intellect is yet unclouded and best adapted to receive and retain impressions, must be thus worse than thrown away, Canada. No. 4. and many a father whose hope it is to see his son grow up a wellinformed man and a respectable member of society, will perhaps live to see him an illiterate, profligate and despised character, a burden to himself and a disgrace to his friends. Where there is no public library from which well selected books, upon the different branches of science can be procured, and where there is no provision whatever made for the delivery of instructive lectures, it is difficult to perceive how a young man can obtain knowledge, either by reading it for himself, or by having it imparted to him by others. Having no other resource for the employment of the spare hours of our long winter evenings, he must continue to patronize those haunts of frivolity and vice where the sensual appetites are alone ministered to, and where the growth of all that is pure and good in the nature of man is prevented. If our youth should thus be permitted to grow up in ignorance, vice, and depravity, and be inferior in their intellectual acquirements to those of the other towns of the Province, their excuse must be that their superiors, whose duty it is to supply them lavishly with the means of mental cultivation, have chosen rather to leave them to the tender mercies of the ball-alley, gambling-room, and places of a still worse character. Between the time of leaving the common school and that period of life when the full age of discretion is arrived at, there are from five to ten years, during which the character of the future man is formed, and during which the greater part of the knowledge that is to serve through life must be acquired. If a store of general information is not laid up in this period, the individual must pass through existence without it. When the cares of business and the struggle for subsistence commence, the time for education is past, and he who has not obtained it before, will most likely never possess it. The wealthy can afford to send their sons, immediately after they leave the common schools, to higher institutions of learning, but the great expense places the system of filling up the blank between fifteen and twenty-five beyond the reach of the great mass of the people. Some other means must, therefore, be provided, that will be readily within the limits to which the funds of men, in ordinary circumstances, can be extended. Much that is taught at colleges may be imparted by other institutions, open to all at a trifling cost. Whatever may be the nature of the educational establishment that is to succeed the common school, and stand as a substitute for the academy, college, or university-where these cannot be had access to, it must be permanently founded-its object must be the diffusion of sound knowledge, and it must be cheap. It should not be looked upon as a place of amusement only, but an institution of learning, of vast utility, |