CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER: I PAPERS ON GRAMMAR SCHOOLS IN UPPER CANADA.-(1) Circular to the Chairman o the Board of Grammar SchoTrustees. (2) Abstract of Monthly Meteorological Results. (3) Barrie Gramma Shoot Scholarships. (1) The Grauna Schools in Hamiton and Ottawa. (5) Reunion at the Guelph Grammar School. (6) Greek and Latin at Senool. (7) Masters at the English Schools II. PAPERS ON EDUCATION IN CANADA. -(1) Competitive Examination of Schools. (2) The Departmental Merit Cards and Prize Books. (3) Religious Instruction in the Toronto Schools. (4) Medical Education in Upper Canada. (5) Vic Rwal Visit to the Grand Seminary, Montreal III, EDUCATION IN OTHER COUNTRIES.- (1) The Public Schools of Michigan. (-) Colare Schools in the South. (5) Education in Mexico. (4) Edueat on, Science, and Art in England (5) East In ta Universities.. IV. PAPERS RELATING TO VARIOUS COUNTRIES.-() Mr. Seward's Opmion of Canda (2) The Power of the Empire. (3) Progress of Queensland. (The Maroons of Jamaica (5) Explo. ation of Central Asia. (6) Periodicals to New It fan Capital har V. CORRESPONDENCE OF THE JOURNAL. (1) Remarks on English Gram. VI. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.--No. 28. Hon. Chief Justice Bowen. VII. MISCELLANEOUS.-(1) The Dying Gi 1. (2) Anecdotes of the Queen- VIII. EDUCATIONAL INTELLIGENCE... PAGE Papers on Grammar Schools in Upper Canada. 65 Canada. No. 5. preliminary and final entrance examinations, and are pursuing the yearly subjects of one of the two courses of studies prescribed in the Programme, be admitted or continued in any Grammar School." It seems just and desirable that ample time should be afforded for a compliance with the law, as above quoted and 68 explained, and that the trustees and municipal authorities should be informed, at the earliest possible period, of the 72 minimum amount to be raised within the year for the purpose in question. It has, therefore, been determined to make the apportionment for the current year on the basis of the work done by the Grammar Schools in 1865. 72 73 The following is the section of the Grammar School Improvement Act, which regulates the apportionment: "7. The apportionment payable half yearly to the Grammar 78 Schools, shall be made to each school conducted according to law, upon the basis of the daily average attendance at such Grammar School of pupils in the programme of studies precribed according to law for Grammar Schools; such attendance shall be certified by the head master and trustees, and verified by the Inspector of Grammar Schools." 75 77 80 1. CIRCULAR TO THE CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD "6 N. Grammar School shall be entitled to share in the Grammar School Fund, unless a sum shall be provided, from local sources, exclusive of fees, equal at least to half the sum apportioned to such school, and expended for the same purpose as the said fund." In a Circular addressed to the Boards of Grammar School Trustees, in December last, the following paragraph occurs: "Relying upon the liberal co-operation of the county, city, town, and village municipalities, and to facilitate, as far as possible, the labours of the trustees, I will make and pay the next year's apportionment of the Grammar School fund, in aid of the Grainmar Schools which are conducted according to law, without waiting for the proportionate sums required by law to be provided trom local sources; but if these sums, in any instances, are not provided in the course of the year, it will then be my duty to withhold, in all such cases, the payment of any further sums from the school fund, until the deficiency is made up." Notice was, at the same time, given of the following Regulation, adopted by the Council of Public Instruction, and approved by his Excellency the Governor-General : As the trustees have already been reminded, by the Circular above quoted, under the provisions of the new Act there is no apportionment to counties according to population, nor any distinction between senior and junior Grammar Schools. In bringing this new principle of distribution into practice for the first time, the letter of the law would require large and sudden reductions in the grants to some of the schools (especially the senior schools), as compared with those of the past year or two; but, where that has been the case, I have sought to render the operation of this provision of the law as favorable as possible to the schools and individuals concerned, for the present year. The grant to your school, for 1866, will be at the rate of per annum, for the period during which it is kept open, with the required average attendance, and conducted according to law; and the smallest sum required to be raised under the 6th section above quoted, within the year, is It is hoped and expected that, in the course of the year, the system of local municipal support will be so generally adopted and matured as to largely increase the means for the support of Grammar Schools and their Masters. It must be remembered. that, in a complete system of public education, the Grammar Schools are only second, if second at all, in importance, to the Common Schools themselves. Circulars explaining the provisions of the law were sent to the Wardens of Counties, the Mayors of Cities and Towns, and the Reeves of Villages, in November and December last, and a sufficient number of copies of the present circular are sent to you, to enable the trustees, if necessary, to bring the matter gain under the notice of the municipal bodies. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, 2. After the first day of January, 1866, no Grammar School shall be entitled to receive any thing from the Grammar School Fund, unless suitable accommodations shall be provided for it, and unless it shall have a daily average attendance (times of epidemic excepted) of at least ten pupils learning Greek or Latin; nor shall any other than pupils who have passed the EDUCATION OFFICE, Toronto, May, 1866, E. RYERSON. streamers, corona, and waves. The distinct formation of the corona is the most important characteristic of this class; yet, were the corona distinctly formed, without auroral arches or waves, or crimson vapor, it could not be considered as an aurora of the first class. second but the Trustees of each section will be dissatisfied with any Teacher whose idleness or incapacity places his pupils at a disadvantage. To secure this end still more, certainly we would suggest to the head master of our Grammar School, taking the hint from his own CLASS II. The combination of two or more of the leading characteris-letter, that the names of the candidates in each Township should be tics of the first class but wanting in others w uld serve to mark the published in order of merit with the name of the Teacher, and the Thus the exhibition of arches and streamers, both of superior number of the sectious attached. It would also, we think, be well brilliancy, with a corona, while the waves and crimson columns were wanting, or of streamers with a corona, or of arches with a corona with- to ask the local Councils to contribute something, say one-half toout treamers or columns (if such a case ever occurs), we should desig-wards the cost of maintaining the successful Candidate in Barrie. expense to each Township would be the merest trifle, while the competition between the schools would be rendered much more keen and beneficial. nate as an aurora of the second class. CLASS III. The presence of only one of the more rare characteristics, either streamers or an arch, or irregular corruscations, but without the formation of a corona, and with but a moderate degree of intensity, would denote an aurora of the third class. CLASS IV In this class we place the most ordinary form of the aurora, as a mere northern twilight, or a few streamers, with none of the characteristics that mark the grauder exhibitions of the phenomenon." 3. BARRIE GRAMMAR SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS. We are glad to have an opportunity of saying a few words on the subject of a letter which appears in our columns to day, from the Rev. W. F. Checkley, B. A. as follows: The We observed that at the County School Conventions recently held by the chief Superintendent, the public without one dissentient voice, pronounced strongly in favor of doing away with the present cumbrous and expensive Board of Public Instruction, and of intrusting the examination of Common School Teachers to a smaller, differently selected, and better qualified Board. If the proposed alteration should become law, as we have no doubt it shortly will, employed in our County Schools, and as a necessary consequence, an we may expect to see a great improvement in the class of teachers increased desire for education, and more eager competition for such prizes as are now offered. Hitherto, the high rate of fees and other causes have prevented our Grammar School from being as locally useful as it might and ought to be, but this state of things has passed away, and with the new law, new responsibilities and duties have arisen; and we are glad to see that by the competitive examinations already spoken of, and by other means the Trustees of that Institution are seeking to increase its usefulness. In the endeavor to accomplish this laudable object it must be admitted that the Trustees of our School are ably and energetically seconded by Mr. Checkley, the head master, whose zeal in the performance of his very onerous and difficult duties can "I send you the names of the successful candidates from the Common Schools in this town for scholarships in the Grammar School. The examination took place to-day, and was conducted by myself in the presence of the Reeve, the Chairman and several members of the Board of Trustees, and other gentlemen. I consider the answering to be remarkably good, the more so as the notice given was so very short. As some of those who would have competed were in a Volunteer corps on the frontier, it seemed hard that they should be deprived of their chances of success, and as those who failed were but a short distance behind the others, it was deter mined, at the close of the meeting to offer three additional scholar-not be too highly estimated. ships for competition in June next. Due notice will of course be given in the several schools of the day, and of the subjects for examination. Arrangements are, I am happy to say being made for holding competitive examinations for the scholarships lately offered to the schools in the Townships of this County. The first of these will take place very shortly, and I will take care to let you know the result." Subsequently Mr. Checkley wrote as follows:According to promise, I send you the result of an examination for scholarships in our Grammar School, which took place in the Parochial School House on Wednesday last. The competition was limited to pupils from the Common Schools of the Township of Vespra, and strictly speaking, there was but one scholarship to be competed for. The Reeve, however, (J. Sissons, Esq.,) wisely, I think, announced his intention of presenting the boy who stood second on the list to the scholarship which the Grammar School Trustees had placed in his hands. The subjects required in future examinations of this kind will be in Arithmetic, proportion, with Vulgar and Decimal fractions; in Geography, an accurate knowledge of the Geography of the British Provinces in North America, and the outlines of general Geography. In English Grammar the analysis and parsing of ordinary sentences. The question of education is of the very highest importance and the liberal spirit in which the authorities of our Grammar School have acted, deserves to be fully acknowledged. We have the best grounds for stating that short as was the time given for preparation, the effect produced upon our Common School by this competition for scholarships in the higher Institution has already been very beneficial, and as its pupils will not only have a longer time to train and prepare themselves for the next struggle, but will also feel sure of being treated with the most absolute impartiality in the lists we may fairly expect a largely increased amount of good to result. It will be seen from a notice in our present issue that the Grammar School Trustees offer annually a scholarship or free tuition for the space of two years to one boy from the Common Schools of each Township in the County, and that the head master will attend at any place named in the township, for the purpose of holding the necessary examinations. We gather from the letter above referred to, that the offer has been appreciated and that the townships are beginning to act in the matter. Now independently of the boon thus afforded to boys of ability and industry, whose circumstances might otherwise keep them through life in the back ground, and prevent their talents from being useful to society, there can be no question as to the influence of such competition on our County Schools. Not only will the teachers generally be anxious that their pupils should do well and feel that their own credit is more or less involved in their success, No surer or better means for extending the influence of our Grammar School to every other school in the County could be devised, than that of which we have spoken, and we feel perfectly convinced that its efforts to do good will benefit itself, and raise it in public estimation. The boys selected will represent the best intellect and industry of the Town and County, and it can hardly be, that the head master should fail to sustain and increase the emulation thus created, and to make our Grammar School more useful than it has ever been as an educational centre.-Northern Advance. 4. THE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS IN HAMILTON AND OTTAWA. The board of School Trustees met last evening and decided on accepting the design of Mr. Rastrick for the new Grammar School building. The design appears to be in all respects a most excellent one, and it reflects credit upon the architect's skill and good taste. The building is to be of red brick faced with white stone of the French Gothic" order of architecture. The frontage will be 67 feet with a depth of 65 feet. There will be two stories containing several class rooms, as well as rooms for the accommodation of masters and teachers. An advertisement calling for tenders for a suitable piece of land of not less than half an acre in extent, on which to erect the new building, will be found in our advertisement columns. We congratulate our fellow citizens on the prospect of our having a really good public school in Hamilton, which shall obviate the necessity which now compels many parents who desire that their children shall receive a sound classical education, to send them away from home.-Hamilton Spectator. How different the spirit in Hamilton to the spirit manifested in school matters in Ottawa. Hamilton already boasts of a School building-the Centre School-which, while being an ornament to the city and a credit to the energy and public-spiritedness of its people, is also well arranged and in every respect adapted for a large school. The classes of the Grammar School are taught in the "Central,' " but it has been shown that if the Common and Grammar Schools were separated both would prove more efficient. The citizens therefore propose to erect a Grammar School building, at a cost of $5000; and, as will be seen from the above paragraph, the work will be shortly proceeded with. How is Ottawa-the capital of Canada in reality, and prospectively of British North America-a city nearly as large as Hamilton, as favourably situated for trade, and not more heavily burdened with debt-situated with regard to school buildings. We very much doubt whether parents, teachers, or trustees experience any satis faction in looking at the unsightly building known as the Ottawa Senior Grammar School; and we are certain that they have no reason to feel flattered in its possession. Both Mr. Inspector On the Young and the Chief Superintendent of Education have condemned languages, was taught by original writing on certain themes. Such the building as totally unfit and inadequate for the purpose of a a system has produced very admirable and elegant scholars; but it Grammar School; and we believe that one of these gentlemen may be questioned whether it was ever universally successful. The mooted the question whether, while such a building was used, we great objection to giving boys, whose knowledge of these languages are entitled to the Grammar School allowance. Perhaps a stoppage is very limited, exercises in original composition, either in Latin or of the supplies would be the best thing which could happen to bring Greek, is, that such a system presents innumerable opportunities those who should move in the matter of providing better accom- for shirking conscientious work. It is a comparatively easy task to modation for the Grammar School pupils, to a proper understand collect together a number of trite phrases and hackneyed epithets, ing. The example of Hamilton is worthy of imitation. -Ottawa and by a little ingenuity to make them applicable to any subject, Citizen. from Alexander the Great to a game at foot-ball, on which the writer may be required to exereise his imagination and scholarship. Thus, if a boy had very slight knowledge, and no desire to amass more, he might write theme after theme, might compose one copy of verses after another, and receive no real benefit beyond that of acquiring a certain familiarity with meaningless sounds. other hand, if he works with a will, he will be enabled to practically apply the words and expressions, with which he has met in the course of the authors, whom he has perused, far better than if he simply does the exercises out of composition manuals. He will gain an ease and elegance of diction, a readiness and correctness in his choice of equivalents for English idioms, which these handbooks all alike the necessity of increasing their vocabulary, and testing, could not impart. Their principal merit is, that they impose upon more than in all probability would otherwise be the case, a knowLatin and Greek is not more practised, and at an earlier age. No ledge of grammatical rules. We regret that original composition in harm could possibly be done, even in the case of the younger boys, by subjects being occasionally given in all schools-in some they are now-instead of preserving the round of book exercises unbroken.-The London Reader. 7. MASTERS AT THE ENGLISH SCHOOLS. At Eton 32 masters teach 806 boys; at Winchester 12 teach 200; at Wesminister 9 teach 136; at Harrow 22 teach 481; at Rngby 19 teach 403. II Papers on Education in Canada. 5. REUNION AT THE GUELPH GRAMMAR SCHOOL The Guelph Grammar School Reunion was held in the Town Hall, on Thursday, when a programme of judiciously selected pieces were admirably recited by pupils of the Grammar School. The Chairman of the Board of School Trustees, H. W. Peterson, Esq, presided, and opened the proceedings with a few appropriate remarks on the advantages of a reference library for the use of the High schools-to aid in the purchase of which the proceeds of the Reunion were to be devoted-the expensiveness, and consequent rarity of such appendages to our Grammar Schools. A vote of thanks to the Grammar School Masters was moved by the Rev. Mr. Clarke, seconded by the Rev. Mr. Ball. Mr. Duun, in responding, adverted to the flourishing condition of the School, stating that when he was first appointed to take charge of it, there were only some half dozen studying Latin, while now there were fifty, besides twenty in French and Greek. He spoke well of the pupils, and referred to the advantages that our educational institutions conferred upon all classes-that thereby the poorest man's child had an equal chance with the rich, in rising to positions of eminence and power. He hoped that our youth would be well educated, as no country could be really free without its people being enlightened. He spoke of the loyalty of Canadians at the present crisis, and expressed the hope that the bonds which united us to the mother-land would continue to strengthen with the roll of ages. He hoped and prayed that Canada would continue to flourish, and that our beloved Sovereign should ever reign over a people among whom arts, manufactures, and commerce prospered-among whom the institutions of religion and learning were ever fostered-where the altars of freedom and the temples of the living God were planted side by side; that we might all be characterized by that sublime 1. COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION OF SCHOOLS. feeling of patriotism, which, catching its inspiration from Him, and leaving in the distance all grovelling pursuits and desires, will ever pleased to learn that a praiseworthy movement has been commenced, The friends of education throughout the County of Oxford will be prompt to deeds of valor, to very death itself—if the imperilment and will be inaugurated next week, in the township, to get up a of our country's liberties-the sanctity of our firesides—should ever invoke our aid. Mr. C. Walker also responded very briefly, and comparative examination of the common schools within the limits of the proceedings closed with singing the National Anthem. It was thrown out by Dr. Ryerson in his Annual Report, as to the great Blenheim. The movement owes its origin primarily to a suggestion estimated over 500 persons were present, and nearly $70 realised advantages of Township and county examinations, in stimulating toward the purchase of the reference library. The proceeds of the the intellectual energies of the rising generation, and also of the Reunion were applied in accordance with the following report: teachers; but it is to the untiring zeal and activity of the lately apThe School Management Committes beg to report - That believing a Reference Library a very desirable acquisition for the higher pointed local superintendent of Blenheim-the Rev. J. E. Dockery schools, they have pleasure in stating, that the pupils of the Gram--that we are now enabled to say that the preparations have been mar School, under the direction of the Teachers, recently gave a completed, and that there is every appearance of the competition "Reunion" in the Town Hall, with the view of acquiring funds to the amount of prize-money collected. About two months ago Mr. being a great success, both as regards the attendance of pupils and procure the necessary work; on which occasion nearly $70 were realized. As the requisite books may be obtained from the Educa-Dockery took the opportunity of convening the teachers of Drumbo, tion Office on very favourable terms, if ordered by the Board, the and of placing the proposition of the Chief Superintendent before Committee, at the request of the Head Master, recommend that them, backing it up at the same time by many forcible arguments the Chairman be authorized to sign and affix the seal of the corpor- large proportion present) at once entered into the proposal of their of his own. The result was that the teachers (of whom there was a ation to the prescribed form of application for the purchase of books, to the amount of the funds required, that so the laudable object of superintendent with an alacrity and good-will that augured well for the Grammar School boys may be more fully realized. its being carried out in the spirit and manner suggested at headat present no accommodation for the orderly keeping of the pros-meetings since, and now they have the satisfaction of seeing their quarters. The teachers and superintendents have held various pective library at the Grammar School, the Committee recom: labors nearly brought to a close, and their best hopes realized. mended that the Board cause one or more book-cases to be erected During the time that has elapsed since the question of the public in one of the school rooms, under the direction of the Head Master, examination was first mooted, Mr. Dockery has been indefatigable that so the books may be convenient for use, and the library be a in his exertions to raise the funds calculated as necessary for propermanent advantage to the school. All which, &c. viding prizes for the pupils of the 23 schools within the bounds of GEO. PIRIE, Chairman S. M. Com. his jurisdiction. He has lectured on education, or some cognate The Report was adopted. and the books have been obtained. subject, in nearly all of the schools, taking up special collections for the object in view, and the result is that nearly $50 has already been subscribed in the different sections, without taking into account the amount of funds that may be taken for admission on the days of examination. This added to the 100 per cent. given by Government on prize-books, will make up a sum of $100 or upwards to be given in prizes. Subsequently the examinations were held or reported in the Woodstock Times as follows: As there is 6. GREEK AND LATIN AT SCHOOL. The method of teaching Latin and Greek composition has undergone a revolution. A very short time since, hand-books of these studies were seldom seen. The art of writing with ease in the metres of Horace or Virgil was acquired by showing up, in the first place, a certain quantity of "nonsense" verses, and then, when sufficient prosodial proficiency had been gained, by proceeding to manufacture "copies" of verses on given subjects, passages from the English poets being occasionally set. In the same way, acquaintance was scraped with Greek iambics and anapests. Phrase in both The competitive examination of Blenheim schools, noticed by us in a former number, came off on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday last week, the proceedings being protracted a day longer than was anticipated in the programme owing to the great number of pupils brought forward to contest the honors. The weather on the first Please make 3. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION IN THE TORONTO SCHOOLS. two days was cold and disagreeable, thongh fortunately the roads. In regard to the influence of prize books in the schools, the truswere good. There was an extraordinary gathering of pupils, teach- tees of a Common school write as follows:ers, parents and friends from all sections, and during the whole of "We got a package of Prize Books, last year, from your Departthe protracted examination, the town hall of Drumbo, where the ment, which made a great change in the improvement of our school exhibition was held, was crowded to overflowing. The result has it was the best investment we ever made in our school. If you been such as to satisfy the most sanguine expectations of the pro-have different books from what you sent us last year, send them, as moters; and if we may judge from the congratulatory tone of the last year's books are all read by most of the scholars. remarks of the examiners, the people of Blenheim have every reason the best selection that you can." to be proud of their superintendent, their teachers and their children. In every department there was displayed a proficiency that would have done credit to any town seminary; and what gave satisfaction to every friend of education, the equality of the pupils in almost every branch, was such as to render the task of the judges by no means an easy work, showing that the now almost uniform system of teaching in our common schools is producing the most gratifying fruits. In some of the more tasteful and intellectual branches, such as declamation, penmanship and drawing, the appearances made were highly creditable, and enough to show that the teachers in this part of the country are keeping pace with the growing refinement and mental culture which are the certain marks of a country that is rising to its true position as one of the most important belonging to the mother land. We have not space to go into details, but content ourselves, in the meantime, with giving an abstract of the proceedings which have given such wide-spread satisfaction throughout the township. The following list shows the number of each section and name of teacher of the papils competing, with the number of prizes carried off by each, including extra prizes given by the award of the chairman for general proficiency: Number of prizes, 32. Prizes, 40. Prizes, 3. Prizes, 3. Prizes, 9. Section No. 1.-William Smith teacher. Section No. 6.-George Perry. Prizes, 8. Section No. 7.-John Irving. Prizes, 9. Section No. 8.-Robert McLeish. Prizes, 11. Section No. 9.-John McKay Anderson. Prizes, 4 Section No. 11.-John W. McLean. Prizes, 22. Section No. 12.-Alexander Fisher. Prizes, 13. Section No. 13.-Thos. Allan. Prizes, 44. Section No. 14.-M. F. Ainslie. Section No. 15.-C. Cochrane. Section No. 16.-R. B. Harris. Section No. 17.-Robert Parsons. Section No. 21 (Union).—A. C. Orr. Section No. 25.-John Robinson. Prizes, 20. Section No. 25.-Wm. Laughland. Prizes, 4 Total number of prizes distributed 226, not including the prizes for composition given by the Superintendent. Total number of school sections competing, 15. Average number of prizes to each, 15. The proceedings began at 9 each day, and were carried on to a late hour. On the evening of the last day a grand re-union of pupils, teachers and friends took place, when some excellent recitations and dialogues were spoken, prizes distributed, and speeches suitable for the occasion delivered by Messrs. D. McLean, Izard R. McLean, Secretary, the Superintendent, Messrs. A. Fisher, Ainslie, Smith, &c., teachers, and Mr. R. S. Mann, F. Burgess, and others interested in the meeting. At this meeting also a prize of $1 each was given by the people of Drumbo to the best grammarians in the township, which was carried off by Hugh Mann, Drumbo, 1st; Emma Brown, Drumbo, 2nd; and Andrew Patullo, Sec. 13, 3, out of 18 competitors. Votes of thanks were awarded by acclamation to the examiners, Superintendent, Secretary, Miss Blackmar, musicians and others taking a prominent part in the competition. At this and other meetings a strong opinion was put forward by the Hon. Mr. Alexander and other speakers as to the desirability of getting up county competitive examinations, which, judging from the great success of this township exhibition, may be expected to be speedily inaugurated.-Woodstock Times. As an example of the way in which the clergy avail themselves of the facilities provided by the general regulations for giving religious instruction in the schools, we give the following extract from a letter recently published by C. R. Brooke, Esq., one of the Toronto In Hamilton the Rev. Mr. Geddes School Trustees for 1865. attends and gives religious instruction under the same regulations in the schools of that city. As the law anthorizes the trustees to shorten the school hours of any one day as much as they please, arrangements can always be made for giving religious instruction at any hour of the day which may be most convenient in the schools. Of the Toronto Schools Mr. Brooke says, "It may not be known to every one that for the last fourteen years the schools have been opened and closed by the reading of the Scriptures and prayer, and it is exceedingly pleasing to note the respectful attention of the pupils during these exercises. It may not be generally known that during all this time the ministers of every denomination have had the privilege of going into any of the schools, at stated times, and collecting the children of their particular church into one room for the purpose of imparting such religious instruction as they may see fit without let or hindrance. Not one, I believe, of all the Protestant ministers has ever availed himself of the privilege except Rev. Dr. Burns, [Rev. S. J. Boddy], and lately Rev, H. J. Grasset and Rev. E. Baldwin. Their ministrations have been attended not merely by the children of their own denomination, but, I believe, by the whole school. When Mr. Baldwin went to the Victoria Street school, the pupils were distinctly told that all who did not belong to the Church of England could retire; and what did they do? I am told that every one, without an exception, petitioned to be allowed to remain, and not for once merely out of curiosity, but constantly,-delighted to listen to his exposition of some of our Lord's parables, or of some ancient scripture story. This does not look like sectarian prejudice. "There are two ways of imparting religious instruction; the one, the dry and unpalatable form of catechisms and written creeds, which is purely sectarian; the other, the pleasant and fascinating form of wrapping up religious doctrine in parable and story, adopted by our Saviour himself. The question has often occurred to my mind: Why do not ministers avail themselves of this great privilege! not certainly because they do not appreciate it; not because they shrink from an anknowledged duty; but because their attention is not pointedly drawn to the subject; because there does not exist any positive and well understood plan." 4. MEDICAL EDUCATION IN UPPER CANADA. eral education, except as hereinafter provided. distinct parts; that the first be undergone after two years' study, 4. That the professional examination be conducted partly in writing and partly viva voce; and that such parts as admit of it be made as practical and demonstrative as posible. 5. That the second examination be conducted partly in writing and partly viva voce, and practically so far as may be convenient and attainable. 6. That professional examinations by the various professional and licensing bodies be given due notice of to the Registrar, so that one or more members of the Medical Council may be present, 7. That returns from the various medical school and licensing bodies be made annually, on the first of May, to the General Medical Council, stating the number of candidates who have passed their first, as well as their second examinations; and the number of those who may have been rejected at first and second examinations The 100 per cent. is allowed on these merit cards in cases where they are ordered with prize books, and a remittance of not less than 85 sent with the form of appli-respectively. cation When ordered in small quantities, the net pice must be paid for them: 8. No candidate shall be entitled to registration who shall rot ad additional postage stamps should be enclosed, so as to prepay the postage on them, as required by the Post Offics Departmental regulations. have attended lectures, for at least three sessions of six months |