of the Senate in the Arts School, on Wednesday the 13th instant, at two o'clock, for the discussion of the report lately issued with regard to new regulations for the professorship of the above-mentioned science.

THE KAYE PRIZE. The first award of this prize took place to-day, the successful candidate being Mr. John Mee Fuller, M.A, of St. John's. The prize was established by subscription, in memory of the late Dr. Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln. It is to be awarded every four years to such graduate, not being of more than ten years' standing from his first degree, who shall compose the best dissertation on some subject or question relating to ancient ecclesiastical history, or to the canon of Scripture, or on important points in Biblical criticism.

Miscellaneous.

CONGREGATIONAL BOARD OF EDUCATION.-The annual meeting in connexion with this board was held on the evening of the 13th ult., in the Congregational Library, Bloomfield Street, Finsbury. Mr. Samuel Morley presided, and among his supporters were-Mr. E. Baines, M.P., Mr. H. Rutt, Rev. T. Blandford, Rev. J. H. Wilson, Rev. J. Dalgliesh, Rev. J. Viney, Rev. C. Dukes, Rev. J. Wardlaw, Rev. J. Parsons, Mr. C. Reed, Mr. W. Green, Mr. J. W. Williams, &c. The report stated that the circumstances of the last year had been of an encouraging character. The income had been £1,694 18s. 7d., and the expenditure £1,390 3s. 6d. The chairman said there was much in their present position which ought to be matter of deep thankfulness. They believed that education ought to be religious, and that it was the duty of the parent to provide it for the child. Except in special exceptional cases, he thought the best thing the State could do for education was to let it alone. Mr. Charles Reed moved the adoption of the report, which was seconded by the Rev. J. Viney. Mr. Baines, M.P., in supporting the resolution, said he felt grateful to the gentlemen who had perseveringly maintained sound principles on the question of education. He also felt the deepest sympathy with those persons who were training themselves for the important work of teaching. The resolution was unanimously adopted, and addresses were afterwards delivered by several other gentlemen.

COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.-At a meeting of the council of this corporation, held on Saturday, March 28th, the diploma of Associate was conferred upon Mr. Richard Knowles, of Tottenham; Mr. James Royds, of Rusholme, Manchester; and Mr. James Stewart, of Hastings. The following were elected members of the college: -Dr. Thomas Burnes, Copeland House, Brighton; Mr. John Conder, St. Ann's Hill, Wandsworth; Miss Lucy Delf, Darwen Cottage, Woodford; Mr. Charles Habbershaw, Belvedere Academy, Bishop Auckland; Mr. Charles Hole, Loughborough School, Brixton; Mr. W. F. Ives, St. John's School, Limehouse; Mr. D. M. Moss, Rutland House, Hammersmith; Signor V. de Tivoli, Taylor Institution, Oxford; Mr. Henry Walker, Harmer Street, Gravesend; Mr. William Watson, Brunswick House, Leeds; Mr. C. F. H. White, College House, Edmonton; Mr. C.J. J. Worthington, Southbank, Tunbridge Wells. At a meeting of the council of this corporation, on Saturday, the 2nd ult., the Rev. G. A. Jacob, D.D., of Worcester College, Oxford, and of Christ's Hospital, London, was re-elected dean of the College; and Dr. W. Smith, the Rev. C. Pritchard, M.A., and Dr. L. Playfair, C.B., were re-elected moderators in classics, mathematics, and the natural sciences respectively. The diploma of licentiate was conferred upon W. Nicolle, Esq., B.A., Lond.; and that of associate on Mr. John Conder, of Halbrake House, Wandsworth, and on Mr. J. B. Gee, of Halstead, Essex. The Rev. J. R. Major, D.D., of King's Collage, London, was re-elected a member of the council; and the following were elected members of the college: Mr. J. B. Gee, Halstead; Mr. J. B. Harvey, Castle Academy, Halesworth; Mr. W. T. Jones, B.A., Sydenham; Mr. A. E. Lamborn, Cowley Diocesan College; Mr. H. W. Millett, Pavilion Terrace, Exeter; Mr. J. G. Millward, Burnham, Somerset; Miss E. C. Wolstenholme, Boothstown, near Manchester; Mr. J. Woodard, Arnold House, Barking.

LORD PALMERSTON, as Rector of Glasgow University, has presented a donation of one hundred guineas, to be given in three prizes, to be competed for by the students enrolled during his lordship's rectorate; one prize of £36 each year.

WELSH CHARITY SCHOOL.-At a special general meeting of the Society of Ancient Britons, held March 31st, Sir Watkin W. Wynn, M.P., in the chair, addresses of congratulation to Her Majesty the Queen, and the Prince of Wales, on the marriage of his Royal Highness, were unanimously adopted The address to the Prince of Wales contains the following passage :-"Tracing as we do the origin— nearly 150 years ago-of this society, and its most useful charity, the Welsh Schoo', to the domestic virtues of a former Princess of Wales, and gratefully acknowledging the many blessings which our country has derived from the marriage of our Most Gracious Sovereign, we venture further to contemplate your Royal Highness's marriage as a social blessing to this nation; and we are deeply thankful to feel assured that, founded on well-placed mutual affection and pure principles, it will, by God's grace, give to the country, among other benefits, an example to be emulated in domestic life, and our bright pattern of a truly happy home."

WESTMINSTER JEWS' FREE SCHOOL.-The friends of this institution met together at dinner on the evening of the 5th ult., at Willis's Rooms; Alderman Salomons, M.P, in the chair, supported by Mr. P. Lawrence, Mr. T. F. Goldsmidt, Chief Rabbi Dr. Alder, and Revs. M. B. Levy and Dr. Marks. In giving the toast of "The Queen," the President expressed a hope that the bitterness of her Majesty's grief might soon be past. He afterwards proposed the toast of the evening, "Prosperity to the Jews' Schools in Greek-street, Soho," and said, though only in operation a few years, these schools already bore good fruit. The freehold of the schools had been purchased, and an expenditure of £600 a year was devoted thereto. But the regular subscriptions realised only £200, and he looked to the friends present to subscribe the remainder. Besides, a sum of £1,200 was required to make the necessary repairs. This was one school of a number which were scattered over the metropolis for the education of Hebrew children. The scholars, boys and girls, were brought into the room, and, by their clean, comfortable appearance, made a marked impression. One of the children, a lad seven years old, recited a Hebrew ode; and a girl of the same age a free translation in English, expressive of the gratitude of the children towards their benefactors. About £650, including a donation of 60 guineas from the firm of Rothschild, was subscribed in the room. In connexion with this school is a society for apprenticing Jewish children to trades and handicrafts.

RAGGED SCHOOL UNION.-The nineteenth annual meeting of the friends and supporters of this society, at which the Earl of Shaftesbury presided, was held at Exeter Hall, on Monday evening, the 11th ult. The report gave in detail the statistics of attendance at the different schools, which amounted in the aggregate to about 26,000. The industrial scholars numbered 2,850; voluntary teachers, 2,700; paid teachers, 360; paid monitors, 460. The number attending parents' meetings was on the increase. There were now 26 Bands of Hope, with 4,200 members, and the number of school libraries had increased to 66, with above 10,000 volumes. The number sent to situations during the year was still large. The shoeblack societies continued to prosper; they were eight in number, and comprised 372 lads, whose united earnings for the year lately ended amounted to no less than £6,222. The receipts during the past year, including a balance of £1,239 1s. 8d., amounted to £5,908 9s. 5d.; and after providing for the necessary expenditure, the balance in hand was £561 7s. 4d. The meeting was addressed by the noble chairman, who dwelt at some length on the benefits attendant on ragged schools, whose operations he desired not only to maintain but to extend, as much good still remained to be done; and concluded by making a strong appeal for additional aid in support of the institution. The report was adopted, and addresses having been delivered by the Bishop of Goulburn and several other gentlemen in advocacy of the union, a resolution was proposed and carried that more funds were required to continue the good work now in operation.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY.-The fifty-eighth annual meeting of this society was held on Monday, the 11th ult., in the school-room, Boroughroad, the Right Hon. Earl Russell in the chair. Previous to the meeting an examination of the pupils in the school took place in another part of the building; at the con

clusion of which the noble chairman said that he had never been more satisfied with the result of the examination than on the present occasion, and he was particularly pleased with their knowledge of the Scriptures. He trusted that the lessons they had learned at that school would not be forgotten in after life. A lengthened report was read by the Secretary, which, after a feeling tribute to the memory of the late Marquis of Lansdowne, stated that the average attendance at the model-school in the Borough-road was 607; the number in the girls' school was 285. The agencies of the society have continued in active and successful operation during the year. In the training department, provision is now made for the instruction and residence of 200 students; at the Christmas examination for certificates all were presented and all passed, the proportion in the first class being very large. The inspection of schools is systematically pursued, to the advantage of both teachers and committee. The total income of the year had been £16,205 14s. 7d.; and the expenditure £11,585 8s. 8d.; leaving, with the sum debited for school materials and other expenses, a balance of £114 15s. 2d. The adoption of the report was moved by Lord Lyveden, and seconded by Mr. Hanbury, M.P. The Rev. Mr. Arthur moved a resolution declaring that the present state and prospects of elementary education were highly encouraging, and a strong inducement to increased efforts. Other resolutions were proposed and carried, including a vote of thanks to her Majesty for her continued patronage and support. Earl Russell said, as there was only one more resolution to be proposed, and that concerned himself, he hoped the meeting would excuse him for not waiting for it, as he had a shop in Whitehall to attend to(laughter) and there was another society which met in Palace-yard, whose meeting he was expected to attend that evening. (Renewed laughter.) He thanked the society for what it had done in promoting instruction. He should doubt the stability of that teaching, if he did not feel that the institution gave a scriptural and not a mere secular education. Experience had proved that they had selected the true principles to work upon, and, in order to make it a national benefit, it must comprehend the whole country. The noble earl then contrasted the conduct of the people of Lancashire in their distress at the present time with that of the people during the distressed periods of 1801 and 1819, and contended that the difference was entirely attributable to the improved mental condition of the people through education.

GRESHAM PROFESSORSHIP OF RHETORIC.-The election to the Professorship of Rhetoric in Gresham College took place on the 23rd of April, at Mercers' Hall, the electors being the Mercers' Company. The candidates were the Rev. A. J. D'Orsey, of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; the Rev. W. W. Cazalet, of Trinity College, Cambridge, Professor of Elocution; the Rev. Charlton Lane, incumbent of St. Mark's, Kennington; the Rev. W. H. Smith, the Rev. T. A. Ball, the Rev. E. Owen; Mr. J. M. Hare, the Rev. Dr. Booth, of Trinity College, Cambridge, Vicar of Stone; Mr. A. J. Bell, Mr. C. J. Plumptre, Mr. J. L. Pulling, Mr. C. K. Watson, Mr. F. Webster, and Mr. W. Worseldine. The choice of the electors fell upon the Rev. Charlton Lane, of St. Mark's, Kennington. The Rev. Mr. Lane graduated at Jesus College, Cambridge, in 1819. He was presented to St. Mark's in 1832 by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and has been rural Dean of Southwark since 1854. The name of J. G. Fitch, Esq., the Principal of the British and Foreign School Society's Training College, Borough Road, was inserted by mistake in the published list of candidates.

GOVERNESSES' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.-The Earl of Shrewsbury presided on the 1st ult. at the annual meeting of this institution, which was held in Hanover-square Rooms. From the report, which was read by the secretary, it appeared that there had been an increase in the annual subscriptions, but a decrease in the donations. On the 31st December, 1862, there were 108 anuuitants on the fund, 22 inmates of the asylum, and provident annuitants 455, making the whole number permanently benefitted 585. The number of applications for relief has now reached the large number of 2,141. The applications in 1862 were 916, and the grants 546. The aid rendered in various ways during 1862 was £1,434 10s., making the whole sum expended in the branch £19,633 3s. 1d. For the elective annuities, 10 ladies were elected during the past year. The provident fund continues its steady work of usefulness, there being received for this fund during 1862, £11,758 17s. 6d. The Home, under the management of the ladies' committee, has proved of great utility during the past year; 226 governesses have resided there, besides 114 who found engagements while waiting a vacancy. The registration continues its steady course, and out of the 1,661 registered in 1862, 916 have found situations. The asylum for the aged, only 5

of the 22 inmates being under 60 years of age, and 3 being over 80, is in a healthy state The legacies during the year have been, from Mrs. Cutto, £1,000; Mrs. Welton, £100; and Dr. Roberts, £100. The total receipts for the year ending December 31, 1862, were £11,894 1s.; and the expenditure, £11,449 14s. 10d., leaving a balance of £446 6s. 2d. The receipts of the provideut fund during 1862 were £22,211 7s. 4d., and the payments on annuities, moneys invested, &c., amounted to £21,299 8s. 3d., leaving a balance of £911 19s. 1d. The invested funds of the institution now amount to £78,300 14s. 2d. The report was adopted, and votes of thanks having been given to the officers of the society, the meeting proceeded to the election of 5 annuitants of £20 from a list of 137 candidates. The anniversary festival in aid of the funds of this truly charitable institu. tion took place on the 19th ult., under the presidency of the Earl of Harrowby.

SUPERSTITION.-Amongst the crowd at the execution of the murderer Carter at Warwick, was an old woman who had brought her daughter over from Tachbrook, and was most persistent in her application at the porter's lodge to see the governor of the gaol, to obtain his permission for the dead man's hand to be passed across the throat of the girl, who is suffering from a large and unsightly wen. It is an old superstition that the touch of a murderer's hand will cure this disfigurement; but it is almost needless to state that the governor declined to grant the unseemly request.

THE SCHOOLS. If we were not afraid of "waking up the wrong passenger," and bring upon ourselves a deluge of tedious, humdrum communications, or laudations for the furtherance of private interests, we would say to our correspondents-send us some fine articles on the schools. We wish to keep them fully in view. The school operation is a vast one, and it has never commanded a hundredth-part of the attention it merits. Who talks of the schools? The courts, the auctions, the manufactories, the concerts, the hotels, the churches, are talked of abundantly; but who inquires about the schools? Who visits the schools? Does the stranger, when he enumerates the institutions which he must visit, count the school? Does the gentleman of leisure visit the school? Does the fashionable lady visit the school? There is a more serious question does the parent visit the place where the destiny of his child is, in an important sense, determined? We have known many a mother to keep her daughter out of school, and go with her to the dressmaker, paying most solicitous attention to every fold and every ribbon, who never thought of going to the school to see how the formation of intellect was advancing. Parents do not speak of school with interest at home. Some witty uncle, or aunt, or visitor, will say to the child at tea, perhaps, "Well, do they make you study pretty hard there?" or "Is your master pretty savage?" And such is the most respectful, and probably the only notice the child hears, while a faithful instructor is labouring to create enthusiasm for study, and a high estimate of the school opportunities.-New York Ledger.

Answers to Correspondents.

Dulce Domum-(S. D.)-Yes; feminine. Cf. confer, compare.

Assistant Master.-(J. W.)-It is usual, and we consider that it is just.

X+ Y.-Too late for this month.

Arithmetic. (John Bull).—A great improvement. It must stand over for want of space.

A Churchman.-The inquiry is a senseless one; a school-girl might be pardoned for making it from mere inquisitiveness.

INSPECTORS' ASSISTANTS.

THE vanity of human wishes has always been a favourite theme of the moralist. The various objects which men strive to obtain in their search after happiness seldom yield the satisfaction expected from their possession. Sometimes the power of the sought-for object to produce happiness has been overestimated; at other times a change overtakes the character or circumstances of men during their pursuit of it, and when they come up with it, the time has gone by for its enjoyment: or it may be that the manner in which it is obtained is such as to detract very materially from the advantages which it was calculated to confer. From one or other of these causes men are daily experiencing, in all the multifarious concerns of human existence, the truth so emphatically enforced by the wise son of David-" Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." We surmise that certificated schoolmasters will not find such satisfaction as they have doubtless anticipated from the fulfilment of one of their long-cherished hopes. The minute of May 19 concedes a point for which they have long contended-the appointment of elementary teachers to the office of Inspectors' Assistants; but the boon has been conferred in a shape not at all likely to produce much pleasure or gratitude.

In advocating the appointment of members of their body to the post of Examiner, schoolmasters urged that it was anomalous to appoint men educated for the law or the Church as overseers and appraisers of the work performed by persons of quite a different profession. They pointed to the absence of prizes in their calling for the possession of which the energetic and deserving might strive; and murmured that the only situations connected with teaching which could be looked upon as such were filled by men who had never taught in a school for a single day. They were naturally anxious to raise their profession in the eyes of their countrymen. Many indiscreet and hasty words were spoken on this topic by inexperienced and too zealous teachers; but we believe that the great bulk of the certificated teachers entertained none of the exaggerated notions of the importance of their function which have been popularly ascribed to them. Nor was the extravagance of the young teachers entirely without excuse. The office of elementary teacher had in former days too frequently been filled by men whose only qualification for their duties was the negative one of being qualified for nothing else. When such was the case, the teacher's office could not fail to be considered degrading, and one which dire necessity alone could compel a man to undertake. When, by the minutes of 1846, a new race of common school teachers was called into existence, the old traditional estimate of the schoolmaster ceased to be applicable. However, the superiority of the new race was neither universally nor readily admitted; and young teachers who felt keenly the misprision which they suffered-their merits ignored and their faults exaggerated-very naturally cried up their office as much as the public cried it down. The more thoughtful members of the body adopted the wiser course of doing well and faithfully the work that was before themneither indifferent to the opinion of the outside world, nor greatly anxious about it. They knew that the ultimate judgment which would be formed concerning them would depend upon what they really were and did, and not upon what they described themselves to be. Performing their duties well in school, and filling to the best of their ability all their social relations,