UNIVERSITY OF COLLEGE. Mr. is requested to favour Her Majesty's Commissioners by entering in chronological order the several places at which he was educated during any part, exceeding three months, of the four years immediately preceding the commencement of his residence at the University, with the other particulars named. Place of Instruction, and Name of Head Master, or, if Private, of Tutor. Whether Public or Private. Number of of attendance Description of additional Instruction, if any, beyond what was given at the Schools, &c., named, received at the same time. Term and year in which the undersigned commenced residence at Univerversity Name and value of any Scholarship or Exhibition at the College or University obtained by the undersigned by open competition Name (if any) and value of any Scholarship or exhibition awarded to the undersigned at School, or held by him under preferential restrictions as to School, place of birth, kindred, or otherwise I hereby certify the foregoing statements to be correct. (Signed) The above application was favourably received by almost all the Heads (or Tutors) of the several Colleges and answers from most of the Undergraduates of the several Colleges were returned. No answer of any kind was received from the Heads of Magdalen Hall and New Inn Hall d} Oxford. The Provost of King's College and Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, sent the following answers. SIR, (3.) From the PROVOST of KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. King's College, Cambridge. I HAVE received your letter of the 25th ultimo, sent under the instruction of the Schools Inquiry Commission, and requesting my co-operation in communicating to the Undergraduates of this College a form, in accordance with which they will be asked to supply information to Her Majesty's Commissioners. I entertain the greatest possible respect for the name of Her Majesty, and I believe that the Commissioners appointed in Her name for "Schools Inquiry" have the best possible intentions in the object which they propose to themselves in this part of their inquiry. Nevertheless, for various reasons of objection, I decline most respectfully to be the medium of communication with the Undergraduates of this College in such a matter as the scheme proposed by the Commissioners for obtaining the information which they desire. Of course I am aware that my assistance is not essential, and that, if the Commissioners still think their proposed measure unobjectionable, it will be easy for them, notwithstanding my objection to countenance the plan by my co-operation, to find some other means of acquainting themselves with the names of the few Undergraduates belonging to the College over which I have the honour to preside. H. J. Roby, Esq., Secretary. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, Provost. (4.) From the MASTER of JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. SIR, As, also, you directed my attention to the Returns which those Commissioners requested myself and others to obtain from our Undergraduates, I must be excused for expressing the opinion that the usual good sense and judgment of the Commissioners must have been in abeyance when they made that request. For independently of the little weight that the Commissioners are likely to attach to facts related by the memory of youth and inexperience at a distance of "four years" from the time when those facts are said to have occurred; the idea suggested by the Returns requested and the letter that accompanied them, -viz., that Her Majesty's Commissioners are prepared to subject all the Schoolmasters of England to the action of a system of secret inquisition will, I am certain, not commend itself to the English feelings of the Commissioners on further consideration. J have the honour to be, Sir, H. J. Roby. Esq. G. E. CORRIE, Master of Jesus College. (5.) REPLY to the LETTER of the MASTER of JESUS COLLEGE. Schools Inquiry Commission, 2, Victoria Street, S.W., 29th May 1867. REV. SIR, I AM instructed by Her Majesty's Commissioners to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 24th May, and to state in reply that they believe it to have been written in some misapprehension of the inquiry to which it relates. The Commissioners requested that each Undergraduate would inform them of 1. The place or places where he received his instruction during four years preceding his commencing residence at the University: 2. Whether the school, &c. was public or private: 3. The time during which such instruction was received: 4. The description of additional instruction received at the same time (by which the subject, and its nature as public or private was intended) : 5. The term and year in which the Undergraduate commenced residence: 6,7. The name and value of any open or restricted Exhibition which the Undergraduate has gained. These being the facts which each Undergraduate was requested to state, the Commissioners are unable to see why the "youth and inexperience" of the respondents should diminish the value to be attached to their statement. Nor can the Commissioners see any objection to the omission to publish the Undergraduate's name, such omission being usual in the publication of statistics. I am instructed to thank you for the answers given by you to the Commissioners' questions respecting restricted Scholarships and Exhibitions tenable at your College. The Rev. the Master of Jesus College Cambridge. I have, &c. H. J. ROBY. (6.) The following was sent, with the sanction and assistance of the Registrar of the University of London, to all persons who matriculated at that University in the years 1864, 1865, 1866. SCHOOLS INQUIRY COMMISSION. THE Registrar of the University of London having been informed by Her Majesty's Schools Inquiry Commissioners that they are desirous of obtaining trustworthy information as to the degree in which different schools and different classes of schools prepare or contribute to prepare boys for the universities, requests Mr. to have the goodness to fill up the annexed form, and return it to Her Majesty's Commissioners addressed as follows: Her Majesty's Commissioners state that the information requested will not be published with the subscriber's name. Mr. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. is requested to favour Her Majesty's Commissioners by entering in chronological order the several places at which he was educated during any part, exceeding three months, of the four years immediately preceding his matriculation at the University, with the other particulars named. Year and month in which the undersigned matriculated at the University Name and value of any Scholarship or Exhibition or Prixe (in money) at the University obtained by the undersigned Naine (if any) and value of any Scholarship or Exhibition, to be held at the University or other place of superior instruction, awarded to the undersigned at School, or ueld by him under preferential restrictions as to School, place of birth, kindred, or otherwise } I hereby certify the foregoing statements to be correct. (Signed) No. 12a. Schools Inquiry Commission, SIR, HER Majesty's Commissioners being desirous to complete and correct some statistics which are being prepared respecting the number of Undergraduates sent from each School to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and resident there in May 1867, request the favour of your filling up, and returning within a week in the accompanying envelope (which requires no postage stamp), the paper sent herewith. GRAMMAR SCHOOL. I.-Number of Undergraduates resident at the University of Oxford or Cambridge in May 1867 who were educated for two years at the abovenamed School, and went to the University within one year from leaving the same School; those who were day scholars at the School being distinguished from those who were boarders II.-Number included in I. who held at the University any Exhibition or Scholarship restricted to the School or County, &c., whether assigned at the School or at the University III.-Number included in I. who held at the University any unrestricted Exhibition or Scholarship I am, Sir, Day Boarders Day Boarders Day Boarders If the total number of Undergraduates is less than six please to add the names (not for publication). CORRESPONDENCE. No. 13. MEMORIAL RESPECTING EDUCATION OF GIRLS, AND REPLY THEREto. (1.) To the Royal Commissioners of 1864 on Education. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, WE desire to bring under your consideration the great interest which the Middle Classes have in the Education of Girls. Hitherto the endowments available for the education of the Middle Classes have been applied almost exclusively to the Education of Boys. Inasmuch, however, as the object of your Commission appears to be not so much an investigation into the management of funds as the ascertaining the actual state of Middle Class Education in England, and the suggestion of measures for its improvement, we are led to believe that the Education of Girls and the means of improving it are within the scope of your inquiry. As being connected with, or interested in, various institutions, public and private, established for the Education of Girls of the Upper and Middle Classes, we desire to express our readiness to place at your disposal whatever information we may be able to afford in answer to your inquiries. We are, MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, Your obedient Servants, A. P. STANLEY, D.D., Dean of Westminster, Principal of Queen's College, E. H. PLUMPTRE, M.A., Professor and Dean, ditto. THOMAS A. Cock, M.A., Professor of Mathematical and Physical Science, ditto. MAURICE MEYRICK, Professor of Latin, ditto. HENRY ALFORD, Dean of Canterbury, Member of Council, ditto. ALETHEA L. ADEANE H. BLANCHE AIRLIE A. H. HOUGHTON AUGUSTA STANLEY Lady Visitors, ditto. ERASMUS A. DARWIN, Chairman of the Council, Bedford College, London. JANE MARTINEAU, Hon Sec., ditto. F. S. CARY, Chairman of the Board of Professors, ditto. RICHARD CULL, F.S.A., Hon. Sec., ditto. CATHERINE AIKIN, Hon Sec. to the Lady Visitors, ditto. FRANCES MARTIN, Superintendent of School, ditto. J. SLANEY PAKINGTON, President of the Worcestershire Union of Educational HENRY J. BARTON, M.A., Joint Secretary of the Northamptonshire Education EMILY TAYLOR, Hon. Sec. of the West Central Collegiate School for Young EMMA LINGEN, 19, Gloucester Terrace, London. RUSSELL GURNEY, Recorder of London. JESSIE BOUCHERETT, Hon. Sec. of the Middle Class School for Girls, Howland ANNE JEMIMA CLOUGH, late Manager of the Middle Class School, Ambleside. WILHELMINA TAYLOR, Superintendent of the York Quarterly Meeting's School LYDIA COOPER, Principal of Wanstead House School, Cambridge. M. A. and J. S. WATSON, Principals of Ladies' Boarding School, Uxbridge. E. L. and C. L. TOOTAL, Principals of Boarding and Day School for Ladies, H. T. and M. F. SHREWSBURY, Principals of Ladies' School, Sheffield. E. CHARNOCK, Head Mistress of New Girls' School, Burton's Foundation, Lough- MARY TRETWELL, Kinder Garten and Ladies' School, Whalley Range, Manchester. MARY V. JEFFERY, Principal of Ladies' School, Bath. MARGARET C. WHYTE, Principal of North-east London Collegiate School for |