Out of this aggregate the Toronto jail furnished 90 boys and 40 girls, or nearly a third of the entire number in Canada West. Thus it appears that last year 130 children under sixteen were prisoners in Toronto jail, a most melancholy fact for the consideration not only of the Grand Inquest but of every Christian man in the community. This picture is further darkened if we turn to the number of prisoners over 16 and under 20; and we find 84 males and 94 females-in all 178 youths of both sexes at this most impressible and perhaps most dangerous period of life. In all, over 300 prisoners in one year, under 20 years of age. A glance at the jail statistics for the past five years gives us no reason to believe that the evil is decreasing. The total number of prisoners in each year varies slightly till 1864, when the number was lowest, thus :Children under 16. 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 Total Prisoners. 2,054 1,815 2,091 1,971 1,595 155 73 104 129 130 For the last four years we find the number of children in our jail steadily increasing, with but little change in the city population. Last year, though the total prisoners were nearly 400 less than in 1863, the children prisoners were slightly more numerous. During the last five years nearly 600 children, male and female, under 16, have been confined in the Toronto jail. We need hardly ask what may be the probable after-life of those who begin the world under such degrading conditions. We may ask, firstly-Is such a state of things without a remedy? Secondly-If there be a remedy have we sought to apply it? Toronto has not neglected to provide for her children the blessings of education. On the contrary, in no city in the world is a better education offered freely to all. We have noble school-houses, excellent teachers, and a sound English education, at a cost to the ratepayers of many thousands of pounds each year. But are our street vagrants reduced in number? Is our jail burdened with fewer boy and girl criminals? Is the dangerous class of society reached, the under darkness of vice and ignorance pierced by the light of instruction? There are few subjects on which men differ more widely than the manner in which this admitted evil can be dealt with. Many persons insist that the common school system is not designed to meet, and cannot properly be expected to meet, the case of the vagrant children who will not accept the free education offered. the 5 The school report for 1863 (the latest I have seen) states that and 467 Roman Catholic) neither attended school nor were taught 1,632 children within school age (of whom 1,165 were Protestant at home. The classes most in want of instruction, and the most dangerous ing, they are rarely to be found in the clean and orderly ranks of their character and efficiency, and it is doubtless an advantage to It is for others to decide how a remedy is to be applied, whether by legislative action or the voluntary efforts of the ratepayers and citizens generally. It is to be earnestly hoped that some attempt may be made to work downward to reach the grade of children, apparently below the influence of our present system, to gather them in their rags and squalor (if necessary), apart from those of their own age who shrink from their contact. Those who know the poor can testify how they, too, shrink in their filth and tattered clothing from church and school. It is idle to discuss the soundness of their reasoning on such a subject—it is enough that the feeling exists. I am painfully sensible that this is an unpleasing subject to many ears, but it is one constantly forcing itself on the consideration of a judge, who has before him so often the sorrowful spectacle of the young criminals left alone in their sin and misery, in the midst of a Christian community. No subject more important from its terribly close connection with the state of crime amongst us, can be suggested for your consideration. From the figures which I have quoted, it is clear that juvenile crime is not decreasing in our city. I am sure, gentlemen, that you will join me in the earnest hope that some means may be devised to lessen, what all must admit, to be a most dangerous symptom in our social state." REPLY OF THE GRAND JURY. 'Every Christian man and woman in our city must feel the deepest sorrow at the present life and probable fate of what may be termed the substratum of our juvenile population-the little outcasts who hang around the post office-the post office lane-and those who are daily applicants for charity at our doors. According to the precepts of our Christian faith, for these the Saviour diednotwithstanding their rags and poverty, of such are the kingdom of Heaven.' Your Lordship has pointed out the fact that during the last four years the number of children imprisoned under sixteen years of age has been steadily increasing. Others argue that compulsory attendance, under a truant or vagrant Act is the proper supplement to compulsory taxation. Another class contend that as the law compels them to support common schools, they ought to see at least a portion of their rates expended in a vigorous attempt to reach and educate the only class from whose ignorance and destitution they apprehend danger to peace and prosperity of society-and they argue strongly that it is a grave thing even to talk of applying portions of the rates to establishing high schools for boys and girls or to expend our energies in raising the standard of education; at least so long as vigor-gerous classes of the community that the respectable inhabitants of ous efforts are not made to reach the vagrant classes-by working downward, as it were, instead of upward-and trying to get hold of the forlorn little creatures who fill the ragged schools and shoeblack brigades of which we hear so much in the old 'country cities. I have no intention to discuss the soundness of these differing views. I only desire to invite attention to things as they are and as they ought not to be. We may feel pleasure in noticing that of late the subject seems to be attracting more attention than formerly, and it seems an evidence of a more healthy public opinion that the expression of a doubt as to the perfect working of our present system, no longer calls down ungenerous charges against the doubter of being an enemy to the cause of free education. With the jail statistics of the last few years before us, it is not easy to suggest a more fitting topic for the consideration of a city grand jury than the possibility of extending the healthy influence of education to the class of children by whom our streets are infested and our jails burdened. As already remarked, no place offers greater educational advantages than Toronto-a most excellent English education is obtained for a mere trifle The school assessment is two cents in the dollar-say five pence in the pound. An annual value of £25 or £30 will comprehend the dwellings of perhaps a majority of the ratepayers and of respectable and comfortable citizens, and on such the school rate would be ten or twelve shillings annually, and for this any number of boys and girls can receive an excellent education. It was mainly with the view of reaching the depraved and danthis city consented to be taxed so largely. It was thought that the common schools being made free, these Arabs of the streets would be induced to attend; but judging by the result of an extended experiment of fifteen years, it would appear that making the schools absolutely free has not been entirely successful in the main object, for not only has juvenile crime increased, but we learn from the report of the Local Superintendent for 1864 that the attendance under the free system has been less in proportion to population than it was under the rate-bill system; for it appears that under the rate-bill system the attendance was as 1 in every 20, while under the free system, it has been only 1 in 23. The attendance is also stated to have been more irregular and unreliable under the free system than it was under the rate-bill. The Superintendent's report for 1865 states the daily absences as 722, or about one-fourth of all on the roll, besides, 150 half day absences. By the same report the grand jury learn that 5,550 children received some amount of instruction during the year, yet so irregular and desultory has the attendance been that no less than 756 attending less than twenty days, 1,296 from fifty to one hundred days; in other words, out of the 5,550 children, no less than 3,157 attended less than one hundred days, a period much too little to be of any real utility, either for their own good or the good of the public. The free system has been very costly to the rate-payers as compared with the rate-bill system, for it appears from the annual School Report for 1864, that the annual average taxation for school purposes under the rate-bill system, including rent, was only $7,400, to educate about 1,200 children, while under the free system, during many years, it has not been less than $20,000 In your lordship's charge, you state that 1,632 children of school age attend no school and receive no instruction at home; and that 143 juvenile delinquents-taken mainly, we believe, from this number-were confined in the jail during the year. The result of these prison statistics and of our school system cannot be separated. With proper cultivation of the mind and attention to the body, we believe the dawning life of these 143 boys and girls might have been the commencement of a career of usefulness to the community and of honour to themselves. Where, then, is the remedy? How are we to extend the hand of Christian sympathy to these little ones, and rescue them from the inevitable fate awaiting them? We are strongly of opinion, that to feed and clothe their bodies must accompany any attempt at educating their minds. It is obviously impossibie to extend to them the benefits of our present school system without attending at the same time to their personal wants. We should respectfully suggest the establish.nent of one or two schools, in which the children of the lowest and degraded could not only be taught free, but where some small amount of decent clothing and food could be provided when necessary, together with the appointment of one or more outside officers, whose business it should be to visit the houses of absentees, ascertain the causes of absence, and endeavor to influence the parents to the performance of their duty. It appears to the grand jury, that in order to accomplish this without additional expense to the city, and in view of the partial failure of the free school system to reach the classes whose good was principally contemplated, it would be expedient to place a very small rate per week, or say three cents per pupil, upon the junior divisions of the city school-a somewhat larger rate, say five cents, on the intermediate divisions, and say ten cents on the senior divisions. This very small rate would produce a sum of about $5,500 per annum, quite sufficient to carry these proposed schools for the very poor into successful operation. With the formation of the schools, and of high schools for the more advanced pupils, our school system would, we believe, be as nearly perfect as it is possible to make it. Canadian Churchman. III. Papers on Practical Education. where the only thing that strikes him as being amiss is dirty windows, he should go back and look at his own. This illustration is given because all are more prone to observe faults than excellencies. Many will say, "We can't attend to every little matter of detail ourselves; if we do we fail in something." Certainly you will not succeed in everything you undertake or attempt, neither can you, as a reasonable being, expect to do so. The poet has said: I hold it true whate'er betide, I feel it most when sorrows fall; Yes, disappointment and failure teach wholesome and salutary lessons. It is good to have met with rebuffs; it is healthy to have experienced a disarrangement of our plans in life. He who has failed in what he has attempted, will be better enabled to make allowances for the shortcomings and faults of others. His sympaties and better feelings will oftener prevail and soften the asperities of his character, and enable him to make greater allowance for the failings of others. We must persevere in trying to do good in conveying lessons of order or cleanliness; but we must also know where to stop. The following anecdote will elucidate what is meant: Bob is a sullen, big, and, perhaps, an evil-disposed boy. He habitually came to school with dirty shoes. At first, gentle persuasion was used, and his attention called to those of his classmates. He still came with them dirty. He was next sent home to clean them: occasionally he came back with his shoes a trifle cleaner than when sent home; but more frequently his mother sent him on an errand and back again to school in the afternoon with them still dirty. Next, threatening was resorted to; that failed. He was kept in and a task set; he was equally callous. Next he received corporal punishment. The very next day his master was sitting at his window, watching the boys in the playground, as it wanted a few minutes to nine. Bob was amongst them, leaning with his back against the school wall, and his feet pushed a little out. Every now and then a slight movement of his head was made forward, caused by endeavouring to spit upon his shoes. Out of a dozen expectorations, perhaps one would hit the mark, then the spot was as lazily burnished on his trousers. Thus he performed the finishing touch to his toilet with ten times more time and trouble, in his laziness, than he would have taken had he properly polished them at home. The master gave up Bob's clean boots from that hour, believing that he was incorrigible, and not worth the necessary expenditure of time and labour, whatever effect his untidy ways might have on the others, which it was believed would be the less, as he was unpopular with the school. In such cases as this, teachers must learn when they have failed, and not unnecessarily provoke wrath and render themselves unpopular at their own expense. Much may be done in minor matters in school by personal neatness. Always remembering that immaculate boots, untouchable broad-cloth, and a loud style of dress, bespeak a foolish man, and one who does by his "elegant manners" a vast sight more injury by example than he can ever do good by precept. That a teacher should be in his place ready to commence work always a few minutes before time, is not a minor point, but one of essential importance. Children knowing well that their teacher is invariably punctual, cannot have the opportunity of ever saying, "Oh, don't be in a hurry, master may be behind this morning. To be ever at the proper post in time, whilst constantly reminding children of their duty, is the most effectual way of teaching punctuality and amending (if it can be mended at all) irregularity. 1. MINOR POINTS IN SCHOOLS. Careful consideration given to minor points and matters of detail frequently constitutes a good school. For be sure that the teacher, who is painstaking in small things, will not be careless in those of greater import. To have a cleanly-swept floor, a tidy room, windows bright and whole, everything in its place handy for use at any moment, bespeak a thoughtful teacher, and give sure indication of a good school. It is attention to such things that impresses upon children their first lessons in habits of thoughtfulness and cleanliness. These minor points do not entail upon teachers any extra amount of labour; they entail nothing but a little forethought. In fact, by seeing after little things, much not only of time but temper is saved. A bad school, subject to many derangements and useless expenditure of time, is that where there is not "A place for everything, and everything for its place." Many precious minutes are lost, and many evil habits implanted, in those schools where, as soon as a lesson begins, one lad runs to the proper place (say) for the reading books. He brings a part: “Oh, I saw them so-and-so," says one; "Fetch them," replies the teacher. They are brought; the number is still insufficient. Then a child or two is sent to look for the rest under the desks and in various cupboards. Thus the lesson commences after a needless expenditure of half the time and much irritation to the teacher, of which the children soon, perhaps, feel the effects. This is not a picture of every school, but how many are there where such a proceeding is a daily occurrence? Be sure that things like this, while they ruffle the teacher's temper, sow the seeds of future indolence and negligence 1. EXPENDITURE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO. in those to whom the schoolmaster has undertaken to give lessons in carefulness and diligence. A sensible person, pondering on the failings of others, will learn a lesson, and go to his own school and immediately note what he himself can mend. If he visit a school How much better it is for a teacher to continually shew the children, by his own example, and by his constant reverence in all things, how to behave themselves during their religious exercises, and the proper posture in which they should place themselves, than by everlasting precept. By making children kneel and assume a reverential posture during the devotional part of school work, whilst the master himself stands, is but to ensure that they will do as he does, when freed from their teacher's control. This seems but a thing of trifling moment, but its influence is vast, and, perhaps, never ceasing. A really more useful lesson will have been taught by that teacher who endeavors to make his children copy his devout manners, than by him who compels and persuades.-H. E., in Papers for the Schoolmaster. IV. Zapers on Education in Cauada. Just before Mr. Brown's resignation, an order in Council was passed. introducing a very important reform into the management of Toronto University. Our readers are aware that for some time the expenditure of this institution has exceeded its income. The managing body of the University frequently protested against the several colleges and bodies named shall, when required by the Councontinuance of this error, and have earnestly desired Government action for the purpose of acquiring a reform. Long delays took place, however, and it was now a cause of congratulation that the question has been brought to an issue. The Bursar's office has hitherto been conducted at an expense entirely disproportioned to the amount of labour done, and the money which passes through it. The Bursar has now been entrusted with the entire control and apointment of the clerks under him, and a fixed sum has been given him to defray expenses. The amount is $4,000 a year-a sum quite sufficient for the purpose; but as the expenditure has hitherto been about nine thousand dollars, the saving will be a very important one for the interests of the College. The Agricultural chair of the institution has not been sustained by the farming community with the zeal which was anticipated when it was created. Sometimes only one or two students have been in attendance at the lectures; and the amount of $1,400 per annum, which has been hitherto appropriated for the support of the chair, is disproportioned to the amount of benefit derived from it. The Government were not desirous, however, of abolishing the lectureship altogether; and have contented themselves with ordering a reduction of the salary to $400 per annum. The Order of Council also fixes the annual expenditure of the institution at $45,000. When the amount is exceeded, a deduction will be made from the salaries of the Professors. If within five years the expenditure falls below the amount fixed, the Professors will then be repaid what has been deducted.—Toronto Globe. cil, furnish such information as they may require as to the course of study and examination to be gone through in order to obtain the certificate of qualification which they are entitled to grant; and "any member or members of the Council, or any person or persons deputed for this purpose by such Council, may attend and be present to see that such curriculum is duly pursued, and the examination duly held." Any attempt of a college or school to evade these provisions will be severely dealt with, a clause in the bill providing stringent measures for dealing with obstreperous bodies. Every year the Registrar of the Council shall publish a current register of medical practitioners, which shall be prima facie evidence in all courts that the persons therein specified are registered according to the provisions of the act. Any registered medical practitioner who shall have been convicted of felony in any court, will forfeit his right to registration. The act also provides that registered practitioners may sue in open court for "reasonable charges for professional aid," and the cost of medicine and surgical appliances rendered to their patients; those not registered shall have no such powers. Stringent clauses are inserted for persons pretending to be registered when they are not. There are several other clauses of a less important character.-Leader. The Professor of Meteorology, Mr Kingston, has also the charge of the Observatory in the Queen's Park. His lectures secure the attendance of but a very few students; and, indeed, the chair was 3. TESTIMONIAL TO MR. LOCAL SUPT. SCARLETT. created more with the idea of providing a salary for the head of the A large number of influential friends of education, met in the Observatory than of making the students weather-wise, This in- Town Hall at Castleton, on Saturday November 25th. for the purjustice to the University the Government have remedied by referr-pose of presenting Edward Scarlett, Esq., Local Superintendent of ing the support of Mr. Kingston to the fund devoted to the Obser- Education for the County, with an address for his valuable services vatory-thereby effecting a saving to the College of $680 per annum. in raising the standard of education there. The address was as folIt has been for some time felt that the teaching of modern lan- lows:-We, the Teachers and friends of Education in this County, guages in the University might be managed more efficiently and at have great pleasure in presenting to you this purse, containing One less expense than has been the case. This chair, filled by Professor Hundred Dollars, as a slight token of our personal esteem, and also Forneri, has been abolished, in consequence, and the Senate has of our appreciation of your labors in the useful calling in which you been empowered to appoint lecturers in French and German, whose have for so many years been engaged. When ten or twelve years support will be afterwards provided for. Professor Forneri receives ago you were appointed to the office which you now hold, the schools two years' salary on his retirement. of this County were in a very backward state. Indeed the Schools were very far below the position in which they are to-day; and while educational progress throughout this Province has been extraordinarily rapid, no County, we are confident, has advanced with a steadier pace than that over which you have the honor to preside. In comparing our County with others, we are more than ever satisfied with the bold, novel and judicious proceedings of our Counties Council, in abolishing the office of Township Superintendent of 2. THE MEDICAL COUNCIL OF UPPER CANADA. schools, at a time when the success of any other system was highly A bill of considerable importance to the present members of the problematical, and in making an appointment, in the person of medical profession passed the Legislature during the last session of yourself, at once so useful to the cause of education and so satisfacParliament. It makes some radical changes. The old Medical tory to all parties who have in view the welfare of our County. Board is entirely swept out of existence. The several schools now While other Counties are following our example, one by one they empowered to grant degrees are not interfered with so far as their are proving the inadequacy of the Township system and the superpowers in this respect are concerned, but the act materially affects iority of the system that appoints one well qualified man to take their relations with the student-class, as will be seen from the fol- charge of the schools of a whole county. It must be gratifying to lowing summary of its contents :-The act is to take effect on the us all to know that the Provincial Association of Teachers, strongly first January next. The new council is to be styled "The General urges from year to year, the necessity of appointing thoroughly edCouncil of Medical Education and Registration in Upper Canada." ucated practical men to act as County Superintendents. It is to consist of one person from each of the following bodies, years more, no doubt, every County in Canada West will have its chosen from time to time in such manner as the several bodies shall Superintendents to aid in making our schools worthy of the position provide:-The University of Toronto, the University of Queen's we hold as a free and enlightened people, thoroughly alive to all the College, the University of Victoria College, the University of Trin- great interests involved in the dissemination of sound learning ity College, the Toronto School of Medicine, and "by every other amongst the masses of our people. The ability to think clearly is a college or body in Upper Canada, by law authorized or hereafter to rare and invaluable attainment; and it has ever been your high and be authorized to grant medical or surgical degrees or certificates of noble aim to inspire our teachers to rise completely above the Textqualification to practise medicine, surgery, or midwifery, or either," book to the full comprehension of the subject in all its principles and of twelve persons to be elected from among the registered prac- and bearings. In part at least through this very means, we are at titioners of Upper Canada. For the purpose of election, the Upper this day enabled to look with justifiable pleasure and pride on the Province is divided into twelve electoral divisions, each consisting position of many of our schools, in which the power of the young, of two of the electoral divisions established for the election of mem- instead of being dwarfed as is often the case are developed in harbers of the Legislative Council. Every medical practitioner regis-mony with the laws of their being. It must be a source of sincere tered under the provisions of the act will be entitled to a vote at the gratification to know that between our Grammar Schools and the election (registration, of course, not being required at the first election), which is to take place by open public meeting in the electoral division in which he resides. The members of the Council are to be chosen for a period of three years. The first election is to take place at such time as the Attorney-General West may appoint. The officers of the society will be a President, Registrar, and Treasurer. Any person entitled to be registered under the act, but who shall neglect or omit to be registered, will not be entitled to any of the rights or privileges conferred by its provisions. So much as to the formation of the Council. Now as to its powers. It is empowered to establish a uniform standard of matriculation for the admission of students to all the schools, and to make by-laws and regulations for determining the admission and enrolling the students. It shall also have power to determine from time to time a curriculum of studies to be pursued by the students. The In a few Common Schools under your charge the greatest harmony prevails, and that while the former send out many qualified teachers, the latter repay them by sending them in return well disciplined and thoroughly prepared pupils. To your friendly aid, and the deep interest manifested towards both ourselves and our pupils, we owe in a great measure the marked success of our Teachers' Association, as well as the smaller ones in the different townships as the larger one for the whole County. We are well aware that you have at tended them, and aided in their formation often at great inconvenience and personal sacrifice; and we trust they are doing a good work for all who engage in them, and that they will be instrumental in making us more thorough in the great work of education and inspiring us with zeal in the discharge of our duties. Nor are teachers alone benefitted by these Associations. Their influence extends to the smallest School Section in the County, and often benefits them to a degree which it would be difficult to estimate. To the the Chief Superintendent to the Boards of Public Instruction, if enlightened friends of education the action taken by one of the acted upon, would be attended with excellent results. It would "Boards of Public Instruction" in this County in refusing to grant not only be a safeguard to the interests of our youth, but would Third Class Certificates, except in special cases, must be a source of promote the welfare of qualified teachers. I regard our grammar extreme pleasure. First to move in this direction, that Board has schools as a great link in the chain of our excellent educational given to the Province an example worthy of imitation, and one system. They are really miniature training institutions for our which we hope, before long to see acted upon by many others. But common school teachers. I cannot refrain from alluding to the while we have much to rejoice at we regret exceedingly that the Grammar School in Colborne; it is an excellent and efficient instiCounties Council has not as yet made the emoluments of your office tution. Its influence over the adjacent townships is unquestionsufficient. A suitable addition to your salary would be no more ac-able, our best teachers in this County having passed through this ceptable to you than pleasing to us. The amount of labor perfomed seminary of learning. by you, as well as the dignity, importance and respectability of your In conclusion, let me thank you for the very deep interest you office, should procure for you an addition to the amount hitherto have taken in my welfare. I trust that my future course in the granted, and we are confident that there is liberality and enlighten- discharge of the duties of my office may continue to be such as to ment enough amongst our Councillors and the people, to procure merit the approval of men whose esteem cannot be measured by for you this desirable object, especially as prosperity has again visited gold. our country. May Providence spare you for many years to preside over the educational destinies of this County, grant you the privilege of seeing realized your highest ideal, and enable you to persevere in assisting the honest laborious seeker after knowledge, make you instrumental in despelling ignorance and therefore in lessening crime, and in enlargeing the sphere of human perceptions, and give you the power of moulding wisely the rising intelligence of this young and rapidly developing country. And at last, when reviewing the past career, and when about to enter on a higher and holier life, may you enjoy the consciousness of having faithfully fulfilled your important mission, and a pleasare of looking back over a life spent in the honest and successful attempt to make mankind purer, nobler and more intelligent. 4. ENGLISH SCHOOL, COMMISSIONER IN CANADA. On the 5th ultimo last we had the pleasure of hearing the Rev. Mr. Fraser, Assistant Commissioner nnder the Royal "Middle Schools Inquiry Commission." For convenient reference, schools In the first class are inin England are arranged in three classes. cluded the great public schools, such as Eton and Westminster, Harrow and Rugby, which, in form as well as degree, are next to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. In the lowest class are comprehended all the elementary schools in which children are instructed in the rudiments of knowledge, from the A, B, C, to the Rule of Three. Between these are the Middle Schools-a class embracing seminaries of every degree of excellence, from those which, both in efficiency and in status, are really little colleges, down to the establishments of which Dickens presented a caricature in his well known "Do-the-Boys' Hall." The systems of education and internal government pursued in the great first-class schools were recently subjected to a thorough investigation by a Royal Commission. A similar commission has been appointed to inquire into the general working of the Middle Class Schools. To the members of said Commission it appeared that additional light might be thrown upon the subject of middle class education by inquiries, instituted on the Continent of Europe and in the United States, if the services of competent commissioners could be secured for such a work. After due deliberation, Mr. Matthew Arnold, well known in literary circles by his poems and Essays on Criticism, was deputed to the Continent to prosecute the necessary inquiries. The Rev. Mr. Fraser, an accomplished scholar, and a high authority in educational matters, was appointed to dis This gentleman, having finished his work in the Republic, is now engaged in visiting some of the grammar schools of this Province, previous to his return to England. He will thus be enabled to present a more full and accurate report of the general state of education in North America. Mr. Fraser expresses himself as having been surprised at the school buildings provided by the municipal authorities in American cities. Of some of these the terms "neat" and "commodious" do not suffice to convey any accurate idea; they require to be described as "magnificent." "No such school-buildings and furniture are even yet to be found in any part of England.Ottawa Citizen. In reply, Mr. Scarlett said, I thank you for this substantial token of your approbation. Altho' I feel great pleasure in receiving from you so valuable a gift, 1 experience a still higher pleasure from the knowledge that you appreciate my services, and the pleasing consciousness of your approbation of the course pursued by me, as expressed through your very flattering address. Public men, in the faithful discharge of their duty, require the sympathy of their fellow men; and iu no office, I presume, is it more needed than in the one which I have the honor to fill. For years I have stood between two opposing parties, the intelligent and the unintelligent, -the one clamoring for cheap teachers without regard to their standing, the other requiring qualified men at any reasonable salary. Without yielding to the one I have endeavoured to meet the demands of the other, on all occasions struggling against the downward current of popular prejudice. In the diffusing of knowledge much has been accomplished through the agency of conventions, school lectures. and teachers' improving classes; but I know of no means attended with such excellent results as our township meetings for the receiv-charge the same duty in the United States. ing of School reports. I have invariably observ. d, in those municipalities whose leading men have taken a lively interest in these meetings, that our schools are in a very prosperous and rising condition; nor is this to be wondered at when we consider that here, teachers, trustees, and others of influence and experience, untrammelled by formalities and unfettered by preconceived designs, meet in friendly conference, and discuss school matters of most grave and vital importance. To attain a high intellectual and moral standing should be the ambition of a people, the development of whose wealth and resources may yet give them a prominent position among the nations of the earth. Is it too much to hope that the Canadas, with the Maritime Provinces, may yet attain such a position? If otherwise, let us trust that it may not be the fault of Canada, so far as her institutions of learning can contribute to such a desideratum. It rests with ourselves to give effect to the excellent educational system of Canada. If we do our duty in this respect, who can reckon the amount of good resulting to the rising youth of our country, and to posterity? Let us then have a class of teachers Mr. Morris was born at Paisley, Scotland, in the year 1798. worthy of themselves, worthy of our children, worthy of our fine died on Friday evening last, the 29th September, thus having nearly country, and worthy of the high position which we trust she is des- reached the promised "three score years and ten." In 1801, his tined to occupy. The aphorism Shew me the company you keep father emigrated to Canada, having been sixty-three days on the and I will tell your character," may fitly be applied to school teach-passage from Greenock to Quebec. For a time he settled in MonShew me the men who have charge of the youth of a countrytreal, but afterwards came to Elizabethtown, and settled near Brockand I will tell you the national characteristics of that people. ville, where he and other members of the family for many years There is an imperceptible influence, independent of book knowledge, carried on business as general merchants. Mr. Morris, after retir exercised by our teachers over the expanding intellects of children ing from mercantile life, fulfilled the duties of cashier to the branch -bright bulbs of promise that may be blasted in the spring-time, or of the Commercial Bank established in Brockville. In Morgan's by a skilful hand matured to beauty, fragrance, and delicious fruit- "Celebrated Canadians," we find that Mr. Morris received the latage. Children are imitators-living wax; how true then should ter part of his education at the academy of the late Mr. Nelson, of be their model, how accurate the seal by which they are impressed. Sorel, the father of Dr. Wolfred Nelson of Montreal. On leaving Teachers, you stamp imperishably the impress of your living selves school, Mr. Morris devoted his attention to mercantile pursuits in on our youth. How carefully, then, should you enquire, "What Brockville, in connection with his brothers the late Alexander Mormanner of spirit are we of?" In the words of one who has done ris, of Brockville, Esquire, and the late Honorable William Morris, much to elevate your position, "Respect yourselves if you would of Perth, and latterly of Montreal. He early devoted a portion of have others to respect you." Act as men who have a great work his attention to public matters. In July, 1837, he was returned to to perform. Be strong, morally and intellectually, and your me- the Upper Canadian House of Assembly-as one of the members for mory will live in the great heart of your country. The advice of the county of Leeds, and has ever since continued to be a member ers. V. Biographical Sketches. No. 1.-HON. JAMES MORRIS. He After of one or other of the branches of the legislature. In 1838, he was the pastorate of a church in the metropolis. He soon united with appointed a commissioner for the improvement of the navigation of the church at the Tabernacle, Moorfields, (built by Rev. G. Whitethe river St. Lawrence, and served as such until the completion of field,) of which Matthew Wilks was then the minister. the St. Lawrence canals. In 1841, he was again returned for the receiving a course of private instruction from his pastor, Mr. Haycounty of Leeds to the Parliament of United Canada, the govern-den entered the academy at Hackney, where the Rev. George Colment being then administered by Lord Sydenham. In 1844, he was lison filled at the time the office of theological tutor. In 1835, Mr. called to the Legislative Council, under the administration of Lord Hayden came to Canada by the advice of Drs. Reed and Matheson, Metcalfe. In 1851, Mr. Morris was called to a seat in the Executive and on his arrival, established himself at Cobourg, where the present Council, under the administration of Lord Elgin, and was also ap-chapel was soon built. The townships of Manvers, Clarke, Darpointed postmaster-general, being the first incumbent of that office lington, Keene, Asphodel and Otonabee, and the villages of Brightafter the transfer of the department from imperial control to that on and Pleasant Bay, were travelled over almost every month. of Canada. Immediately upon his appointment he proceeded to Throughout this extensive district the name of "Father Hayden" Washington, and there negociated with the American government became a household word in many a log cabin of the early pioneers. a postal treaty with the United States. He also introduced a After about ten years' residence in Cobourg, he resigned the pastouniform postal letter-rate of five cents, the average rate previously rate of the church in that town and removed to Cold Springs. having been sixteen cents or thereabouts. In 1853, Mr. Morris During the last twenty years of his life, therefore, he did not travel vacated the post-office department, and was appointed speaker of the much, but as long as he was able, and even beyond his power, he Legislative Council, which office he held until the retirement of the delighted to preach the gospel in the little chapel adjoining his own Hincks-Morin administration, in the autumn of 1854. In 1858, he residence. When he could no longer stand to preach the gospel, he was appointed a member of the Executive Council and speaker of spoke from his chair. But finally it became evident even to himself the Legislative Council, on the advent to office of the Brown- that his work was done, and he resigned his pastoral charge on the Dorion administration, and retired with that administration on the 5th of June, 1864. From that time, step by step, he went downgovernor general (Sir Edmund Head) refusing to dissolve the house. wards to the grave. For the last fifteen months he was confined to When Sandfield McDonald formed his government, Mr. Morris was his bed, growing helpless, lamenting much that he could preach no again called on, and filled the office of Receiver General till his more, and towards the end, suffering from the decay of his senses failing health, in 1863, compelled him to resign, and leave public and mental powers. He fell asleep in Jesus, September 6, 1865, in life altogether, very much to the regret of his political friends, and the 77th year of his age, and the 49th of his ministry.-Canadian greatly to the loss of the country generally. Since then M. Morris Independent. has lived in retirement, his gradually failing health giving evident token that soon the place which knew him now, would know him no more. At last, in the bosom of his family, and surrounded by his friends, he has "passed the bourne from whence no traveller returns," followed by the love, respect, and esteem of the whole community.-Brockville Recorder. No. 2.-WILLIAM NOTMAN, ESQ. No. 5.-GENERAL LAMORICIERE. Foreign files announce the death of General Lamoriciere, well known by his campaigns in Algeria, and later, as Commander-inChief of the Papal army. Christophe Leon Louis Juchalt de Lamoriciere was born at Nantes, February 6, 1806, and was descended from an old legitimist family. After receiving a military education, he joined the corps of Zouaves in Algeria, at the time of its formation (November, 1830.) He took an active part in most of the celebrity of the Zouaves for superior organization was chiefly his merit. On the departure of Bugeand, in 1845, he became Provisional Governor General of Algeria; but, hoping to exercise a greater influence upon the destiny of Algeria in the French Parliament, he went, in 1846, and became a member of the Chamber of Deputies, which position he retained until 1848. During the revolution of 1848, he unsuccessfully exerted himself, first, in favor of forming a new administration under Louis Phillipe, and next in favor of a regency of the Duchess of Orleans. He was a prominent member of the Constituent and Legislative Assemblies; was con-. spicuous in June, 1848, in the fight against the insurgents in Paris, and officiated as Gen. Cavignac's Minister of War until December, 1848. He was a strenuous and unwavering opponent of Louis Napoleon, and, after the coup d'etat of December 2, 1851, was arrested, and detained until January 9, 1852. In April, 1860, he was appointed, by Pope Pius IX., Commander-in-Chief of the Papal troops. He hoped to make a head against the army of the King of Italy, and prevent the unification of that country, but he was defeated by the Italians at Castlefidardo, and his troops of volunteers dispersed. Since then he has lived retired, and not taken a prominent part in any political movement. Mr. Notman, the member for North Wentworth, died on the 19th, at Dundas, after a long and lingering illness. Mr. Notman the brilliant exploits of the French army against the Arabs, and was a prominent member of the Reform party. He has been in Parliament for a great many years, having represented the United Counties of Halton and Wentworth during the reign of the BaldwinLafontaine government. In 1857, he again entered Parliament, having defeated the Hon. Robert Spence, then Postmaster General, and has ever since represented North Wentworth in Parliament. Although a man of good abilities, an earnest energetic speaker, and a great favorite with his party, he was doomed to witness from time to time greatly inferior men elevated to positions of ministerial responsibility. He was frequently mentioned in connection with office, especially during the existence of Mr. Sandfield Macdonald's government; and at the opening of the present Parliament, was said to be a candidate for the speakership. But in every case other men were preferred before him, and he died without having received at the hands of his party those political appointments which usually fall to the lot of party men of ability. Personally, Mr. Notman was very generally esteemed, and his death will be truly felt by a large circle of sympathising friends of both political parties.-Spectator. No. 3. JOSEPH CARY, ESQ. No. 6.-A. M. J. J. DUPIN. Mr. Joseph Cary, late Deputy Inspector General of Canada, died recently, at his residence, near Paris, aged 80. He first entered the civil service in 1804, as a clerk in the office of the Surveyor General of Lower Canada. He was appointed Deputy Inspector General in The China brings news of the death of Andre Marie Jean Jac1841, and held the office till 1855, when, in consideration of his long services, he was permitted to retire, with the understanding that he ques Dupin, a well-known politician of France, and ex-President of should be allowed to enjoy his full pay. In 1863, however, he was the National Assembly. He was born February 1, 1783, bred to dismissed from the service, and deprived of his salary by the Holton- the bar, defended Marshal Ney in 1815, and has filled a great numDorion government, without the slightest recognition of his services. ber of public trusts. After the revolution of 1830 he was chosen Though he had served his country long and faithfully, he was made President and Speaker of the Assembly, and won considerable fame At the great exhibition in London, in 1851, one of those victims of that so-called "Retrenchment policy," which as a presiding officer. deprives the old and useful public servant of a pension in order to he was President of the French Commission of the International reward the political supporter of the hour. Mr. Cary died in retire-Jury. Although not an active participant in the coup d'etat of ment, at an advanced age, but as long as there is a record of the Louis Napoleon, he has ever since been a supporter of the governpublic accounts of Canada, his name will live in connection with the ment of the Emperor, and latterly held important offices under it. establishment of system and order in the important department of In 1857 he was made Procureur-General of the Court of Cassation, which he was so long the working head.-Quebec Mercury No. 4.-REV. WILLIAM HAYDEN. The late Rev. William Hayden was born at Marten, in Kent, England, on the 2nd of May, 1789. When about eighteen years of age, he was led to attend an ordination among the dissenters, it being the occasion on which Rev. Arthur Tidman, D.D., now Foreign Secretary of the London Missionary Society, was set apart to and at the time of his death was Senator. No. 7.-MARTIN BOSSANGE. The London Reader says that the oldest book-seller in Europe, Martin Bossange, died in Paris on the 27th of October, aged ninetynine years. He began business in Paris on the eve of the revolution of 1789, and was the first exporter who established efficient trade intercourse with continental and American houses shipping |