4. MILITARY EDUCATION IN ENGLAND. The fourth report of the Council of Military Education has been issued, the return thereof being brought up to March, 1866. First, that out of a complement of regiments and corps amounting to 177,430 men there are 21,700 who can neither read nor write, 28,600 who can read but not write, 116,000 who can do both, 11,000 who have received a superior education. The educational advance of our army is considered satisfactory, inasmuch as during the last six years the uneducated men have decreased by from two to eighteen per cent., the cavalry representing the least, and the Military classes of children's schools for which all soldiers' children are eligible on payment of a small fee, and 17,163 are so educated at various stations of British troops in the United Kingdom and the Colonies. A list of garrison libraries is given in the report, by which it ap pears that they contain unitedly 203,700 volumes, an increase of 7,000 over the previous year. Aldershott, Malta, and Chatham are conspicuous in the list. The report concludes with an account of measures that have been lately adopted at the suggestion of Sir William Hamilton for giving definite recreation to troops on long voyages. 5. THE HIGH SCHOOL IN BOSTON. tablishing a Society of Secular Ecclesiastics, who should live in in the Guard and the Engineers, early habituated to render their common, and who, provided with the necessaries and even comforts bodies supple, are remarkable for their agility and physical address. of life, should devote themselves exclusively to study and to the gratuitous teaching of others. "It was to the poor," says Crevier,— "That Robert wished to afford succour. Poverty was the peculiar characteristic of the House of Sorbonne. For a long time it preserved the reality of it as well as the name; and even after the liberality of Cardinal de Richelieu enriched it, it was always proud of the epithet 'poor,' and regarded it as its first title to nobility." Indeed, in its official documents it used that title; and down to the great Revolution described itself as "pauperrima Domus.” Next after the founder the greatest benefactor of the Sorbonne was Cardinal Richelieu. It was there that he began and completed his theological studies; and he filled for some time the post of proviseur—or head-master. The buildings of the college were fast fall-Train the greatest percentages of Improvement. There are three ing into ruin, when he resolved to rebuild it on a grander scale than before. The plans were submitted to the faculty in June 1626, by Jacques Le Mercier, one of the most eminent architects of the period; were approved by the Cardinal; and competent persons, members of the College were named to superintend the works. The first stone of the new building was laid in 1627, by the Archbishop of Rouen. The great Minister added to the munificence of his act by erecting also, at his own cost, the church where the ceremony to which I have alluded took place on Saturday. Richelieu died in his 58th year, after accomplishing the great things, for good or for evil, which history has recorded, and he directed that his bones should be laid in the church of the college where he had graduated. There were few buildings in Paris, sacred or otherwise, that suffered more during the frenzy of the Revolution than the church of the Sorbonne. In 1793 it was sacked by the mob, the tombs were broken open, the remains of the dead were dragged from their resting place and flung into the kennel, or the Seine. Among others so treated were the remains of the Cardinal. The head was chopped off, fixed on a pike, and paraded about the streets of Paris amid the savage yells of the multitude. A person named Armez, whose son afterwards sat in the Chamber of Deputies under Louis Philippe, at the risk of mounting the scaffold, succeeded in getting it into his possession. He concealed it carefully as long as the reign of terror fasted; and when calmer times returned bequeathed the precious relic to his family. As an additional precaution Armez had the head cut in two, of which the fore part was only preserved. Some years ago it was delivered up by the descendant of Armez to the Minister of Public Instruction, as also the heart of Voltaire; the Minister on ascertaining that the relic was undoubtedly genuine, accepted the deposit, and on Saturday it was restored with due solemnity to the same church from which the remains had been torn. The choir of the church was hung in drapery of crimson velvet, and the chapel, in the centre of which was the tomb of the Cardinal, was also richly decorated. The representatives of the great bodies of the State, high functionaries, Ministers, members of the learned corporations, deputies from the French Academy, which was founded by the great Cardinal Minister and others, and many members of the University, were present. The Minister of Instruction, the that I had to ask some explanations. The teacher sat on rather a The arrangement of the room was peculiar, and so novel to me bearer of the relic, was received at the chapel door by the Arch-high platform, not in front of his pupils, but on their flank. If bishop of Paris, and the Vice-Rector of the Academy. On present- they were writing, he could see on his right the backs of those of ing the oak box containing it, the Minister said :"Monseigneur,-I place in your hands all that remains to us of the sides of the middle ones. the first rank, on his left the faces of those in the rear, and opposite the great man whose name is here present, because he pacified and which is not introduced in all the rooms and partakes of an experiThe object of this arrangement, aggrandized France, honoured letters, and built this house, which ment, is to give the teacher a more complete supervision of his has become the sanctuary of the highest studies. The University scholars and of their movements. Each has a desk by himself, supand the Academy fulfil a filial duty in offering together their hom-ported on an iron frame, and a separate round-shaped seat, with a age at the foot of this tomb, which will never again be profaned." The Archbishop thanked the Minister for the restitution to the thus see through the whole class, and observe, under desks and good deal of vacant space all around. The eye of the teacher can Sorbonne of these precious remains. Mass was then celebrated by seats, the hands and even the feet of the boys. There can be no the Bishop of Sura, after which the relic was deposited in the tomb. secret screened from him by the backs of other boys, or by the obThe Abbé Perraud, Professor of Theology at the Sorbonne, pro-struction of desks and benches. nounced a discourse, in which he reviewed the different phases of the ecclesiastical and political life of the Cardinal. A good deal of mischief is thus prevented. No contraband books The last blessing was pronounced by the Archbishop, and the ceremony was con-turb the studious one; no tricks or practical jokes can be secretly or objects can be brought into the class; no listless boy can discluded.-London Times. The the best in the world. Obliged to limit myself to visiting one school, performed; and no two boys can amuse themselves with their hands while their faces falsely profess to listen with attention. When not writing, they can all, by an easy turn on their seats, face the teachlatter is in front or on the flank. I know many a school-room in er, and when they are writing it is immaterial to them whether the our city where such a system of supervision would be of decided advantage, since much that is wrong takes place under the eyes of the teacher, without his being in the least aware of it.—Corres 3. GYMNASTIC EDUCATION IN FRANCE. A paris letter in the Nord says it is contemplated to give greater importance to gymnastic exercises in all the colleges in France, Each of these establishments is provided with a gymnasium, and the pupils are furnished with special dress, but the exercises, which at present only take place once a week for an hour or more are to be renewed more frequently. This modification, which cannot fail pondence, Montreal Witness. to be advantageous to the health of the children, will also prepare them for marching and military manoeuvres, and render more easy 6. MODE OF TEACHING IN THE LATIN SCHOOL, the training as soldiers and the management of arms, which henceforth they will have to learn when they have reached the age for BOSTON. Having inquired for the Latin class, I was told that there were the conscription. The enfant de troupe in the line, and especially none of them in the "High School," which is devoted to general and commercial education, but that I must go to the "Latin now enjoy. May his memory ever be revered and his example folSchool," which is in the same building, but with a different entrance, lowed by the people of Canada.-Hamilton Spectator. on the opposite side, and entirely separate from the first. I met there with the same polite reception, and found the rooms of similar style, with the commendable addition of a great many engravings, plans, models, and objects of art, mostly illustrative of antiquity, and which adorned the walls. Many valuable facts, and dates thus become familiar to the classical pupil without any effort. I should like to see the very naked walls of our High School thus usefully and gracefully adorned by donations from parents and friends. STUDYING LESSONS IN SCHOOL AND NOT AT HOME. -NEW PLAN. 66 I saw three large classes of the Latin School occupied at the very same time in a very different manner. One had just been let out, with a recess of twenty minutes, to play together in the bricked yard; another class was translating a Latin text book, while I found a third in their room absorbed, as well as the teacher, in immobility and perfect silence. Indeed, the boys were so deeply engaged with their books as not to notice my presence while conversing with their teacher. He informed me that they were engaged studying their Latin grammars. "What!" said I, "do they study their lessons at school?" Certainly, and under my supervision. "But does not this trench very much upon their lessons?" "On the contrary, we accomplish a great deal more, and proceed faster than under the old system by which they were left to study their lessons at home by themselves. Most of them then studied these imperfectly, and some not at all; thus keeping back all the class. Now we have changed all this; they learn their lessons under our eyes, and we see that the work is well done. The parents at home can never attend well to this duty unless they are themselves classical scholars, and even then they can but seldom afford the time." "But surely this system must compel you to keep the school open many more hours in the day than under the old system ?""Not in the least. Our hours are only from nine till two, then the boys go home for dinner and do not come back. There are some easy branches or lessons which we let them study at home, but all the difficult lessons, and in fact most of their private studying is done here." "The time allowed to study lessons being limited by the hours of the class, it seems to me that there must be some slow minds or lazy boys to whom it is insufficient." "Yes, it is so, but "How can you prevent it ?" "The boy who has not been able to keep pace with the rest, and does not know his lesson has to come back from home after dinner at 3 o'clock, on purpose to study it here until he knows it. This is both a privation and a disgrace, which they are anxious to avoid, and hence the eagerness with which you see each absorbed in his book." "But again, if the boy is hopelessly lazy and careless, and fails to return in the afternoon to study his lesson ?" "Then we whip him." "And if the parent objects ?" "We expel him from school; and this is felt to be such a disgrace that we are scarcely ever driven to that extremity""-Ibid. not often." VII. Biographical Sketches. No. 8.-COLONEL GOURLAY. It is with extreme regret that we announce the death of Colonel Gourlay, a gentleman well known in Hamilton, and honorably connected with the events of the last thirty years in this vicinity. No. 9. MRS. JOHN, THE DAUGHTER OF BRANT. The announcement in our paper last week of the death of this estimable Indian lady, Mrs. Catherine John, is deserving of some further notice, for she was the only remaining child of the celebrated Brant, the Mohawk chieftain, who, with his Indian bands, continued true, and fought to the last for the Crown; and rather than remain with these rebels, abandoned the houses of their fathers in the valley of the Mohawk, and retired with other loyalists to the forests of Canada. In consideration of their services and sacrifices the Crown granted to Brant and his Six Nations Indians nearly 700,000 acres of land on both sides of the Grand River; besides a tract of land on the Bay of Quinte which they and their descendants have long enjoyed. Brant established his residence at Wellington Square, at the head of Lake Ontario, where he lived as a chief in somewhat regal style; there he died, and his remains lie entombed with those of his gallant son, Capt. John Brant, in the now ancient churchyard of the Mohawks, near Brantford. Brant had several sons and daughters, but all had long since departed to meet the Great Spirit, and leaving the immediate subject of this notice as the sole representative of a family whose generations are now gone. Mrs. John was tall, handsome-even in her old age and of queenly bearing, a fine specimen of the pure and proud Aborigines of North America, of whom so much has been said and written; and no one could look at the aged lady without being impressed with feelings of respect and admiration. Latterly she lived in the house of her childhood, at Wellington Square-now the residence of her niece, Mrs. Osborne-and after a brief illness, quietly, and without a struggle, died of heart disease. Her remains were brought to the Mohawk Institute, and from there conveyed on Sunday last to the old Mohawk chapel, and thence to their last resting place, close to the tombs of her valiant father and other relatives; the beautiful service of the Church of England being impressively read by the Rev. Mr. Nelles. At the funeral were her nephews, Chiefs Simcoe Kerr, and Jacob Lewis, Mr. Osborne, her grandson, and other connections; also the venerable Chief, Smoke Johnson; the interpreter and many others of the Six Nations, old and young, all of whom appeared deeply impressed. Among the pall-bearers and friends of the deceased, were Mr. Gilkison, visiting superintendent of Indian affairs, Mr. Cleghorn, honorary chief, Dr. Dee, medical attendant to the Six Nations, Mr. Matthews, and other gentlemen of Brantford and Neighborhood.— Brantford Courier. No. 10.-COL. JACOB POTTS. In the death of Col. Jacob Potts which took place at Vittoria on the 15th ult., another of the early and invaluable settlers of this Townsnip has passed away; and thus one more of the few links that remain has been broken, which connects the present time, with the early settlement of the country. The deceased came to this Pro vince with his father very shortly after the close of the Revolutionary War; having left their home in the State of Maryland for the then unbroken Wilderness of Canada, from attachment to the British Throne and Institutions. The same unswerving loyalty, The deceased gentleman entered the British army in the year which prompted his father to relinquish comfort and comparative 1815, just too late to take part in the great battle of Waterloo, but affluence, for the hardships of a life in the primæval forest, far with his regiment, the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusileers, he formed remote from modern civilization and its advantages; was the dispart of the garrison which occupied Paris after the downfall of the tinguishing characteristic through a very long life of the deceased. Napoleonic Empire, and previous to the complete restoration of In 1812 he held a commission in the Militia, and was present at, the Bourbons, and the ultimate pacification of Europe. The 23rd and took part in the Battle of Lundy's Lane; and was ever after afterwards went to the Mediterranean, doing duty at Malta and ready at his country's call, to go forward in her defence. Nearly other British stations in that quarter. After many years of active sixty years ago he came into the Township of Charlotteville from the service Colonel Gourlay retired from the army and settled in Can-adjoining one of Woodhouse, where he settled and continued to ada at a time when the presence of such a man was of the utmost reside for nearly fifty years. He carried on farming for many years consequence to the Province. on an extensive scale, and the skill that he evinced, and the untiring industry that he employed in his pursuits were followed by an unusual amount of success and acquired for him the reputation of being one of the best farmers in this section of the country. He was widely known and esteemed for his moderation, forbearance, kindness of heart, urbanity of manner, and sterling excellence of character. His long continued labor and enterprise having resulted in the acquisition of wealth, he proved himself an unostentatious, but liberal steward of the good things of the world he had been blessed with. He was for many years a most upright and zealous magistrate, and for a long time an associate Judge at the Court of Assize. He was a most consistent, exemplary member, and very liberal supporter of the Church of England, and an estimable husband, father, and friend. The uniform practice of high and honorable principles in the discharge of all the duties of life, won him the esteem and At the outbreak of the rebellion Colonel Gourlay at once offered his services to the Government, which were readily accepted and he was placed in command of one of the incorporated battalions of the county of Wentworth, which did good service in front of Navy Island. At the close of the rebellion he received the thanks of the Government for the energy and patriotism displayed by him. Since that time Colonel Gourlay has not taken a prominent part in public affairs.-The deceased gentleman has left behind him a noble record of patriotism, as well as of private worth, and his loss will be universally regretted. To him and to those who, like him, upheld the cause of constitutional Government in this country in dark and dubious times, who kept alive the fires of loyalty and truth when evil minded men sought to work our ruin, we are indebted in a great measure for those priceless blessings which we as a people regard of his friends and acquaintances; and so long as truth, jus- to get out of the Queen's presence, and, amidst cheers and demontice, loyalty, patriotism, and religion are held in veneration by men,strations of loyalty, Her Majesty returns home. She is followed by so long will the memory of the late Col. Potts be entitled to admiration and respect; and his character and conduct be deemed a fit model for emulation and imitation.-Communicated. RECENT CANADIAN DEATHS. WILLIAM SPINK, ESQ.-We regret to have to record the sudden demise of Mr. Wm. Spink, for the last twenty years Clerk of Routine and Records in the Legislative Assembly. He had been in feeble health since last summer, yet had crossed over from his residence at Levis to visit a few Quebec friends as late as a few days back. The intelligence of his death will take most of his friends by surprise. He was an able, intelligent, and active chief in his own particular department; and was greatly esteemed by the members of the House, as well as by the large circle of friends he had gathered around him in the principal cities of Canada. — Montreal News. MR. J. L. SPENCE.-We regret to notice the decease of Mr. John I. Spence, editor and proprietor of the Brampton Monarch, which took place suddenly and unexpectedly in Brampton, on Thursday last. Mr. Spence was the only son of the Hon. Robert Spence, Collector of Customs in Toronto. He succeeded his father as editor of the Dundas Banner, some fourteen years since, and was subsequently connected with the Hamilton Spectator and Toronto Leader. Possessed of no small amount of literary ability, and much geniality of disposition, he has left many friends to regret his early death. LIEUT.-COL. CAMERON.-Died, at his residence, in Cornwall, C. W., on the 29th January, 1867, Lieut.-Col. John Cameron, aged 88 years, deeply and deservedly regretted by a large circle of friends and relatives. Deceased was born at Mayfield, near Albany, N. Y., on the 3rd May, 1779, and came to Canada during the revolutionary war, with his father's family and many others, who left the United States on account of their attachment to the Crown of Great Britain.-Ottawa Times. -Woodstock Times. VIII. Miscellaneous.* the Prince of Wales, who is also very loudly cheered, and who cer tainly looks all the better for his various trips since the termination of the London season, the many dissipations of which assureely did make his Royal Highness look a little flabby, and paler than, as Tennyson says, 'should be in one so young.' The Duke of Edinburgh comes next, and he also meets with a fair share of popular applause." 2. "QUEENS SHALL BE THY NURSING MOTHERS."QUEEN VICTORIA. At the anniversary of the London Missionary Society, the venerable Rev. Mr. Ellis, in giving an account of his visit to Madagascar, said that in the draft sent out from England of a proposed treaty of amity and commerce between England and Madagascar, there occurred those remarkable words :-"Queen Victoria asks, as a personal favor to herself, that the Queen of Madagascar will allow no persecution of the christians." In a treaty that was signed a month before he came over, there occurred these words :"In accordance with the wish of Queen Victoria, the Queen of Madagascar engages there shall be no persecution of the christians in Madagascar." 3. COUNT MONTALEMBERT ON ENGLAND. The third volume, just published, of Count Montalembert's "History of the Monks of the West," opens with a sketch of the English nation, of which the following is a translation : known. Inac "There exists in modern Europe, at seven leagues distance from France, within sight of our Northern coasts, a people whose empire is more vast than was that of Alexander or the Caesars, who are at once the freest and the mightiest, the richest and most manful, the most undaunted and the most orderly that the world has people; none present so original an aspect or stranger contrasts. No study is more instructive than the character of this Liberal and intolerant, pious and inhuman, loving order and secuThe deceased was uncle to Col. R. Cameron, of East Nissouri, respect for the letter of the law, and practise the most unbounded rity as much as movement and renown, they feel a superstitious and was the last survivor of a large family, that, under the pecu-personal independence. Conversant, as none others are, with all liarly trying circumstances of that time, counted no sacrifice too the arts of peace, and yet unconquerable in war, of which they dear for the blessings of British protection and British liberty. sometimes are passionately fond, too often strangers to enthusiasm, but incapable of faint heartedness, they know not what is to be discouraged, or enervated. At one time they count all by the measure of their gains or caprices; at another they get heated for a disinterested idea or a passion. As fickle as any other race in their affections and their judgments, they always know where to stop, 1. THE POPULARITY OF THE ROYAL FAMILY. and they are gifted at once with a power of initiative which nothing "Of all conceivable spectacles of a ceremonial character. I think turns aside. Eager for conquests and discoveries, they wander or the sight of the Queen opening Parliament is one of the finest this rush to the utmost boundaries of the earth, and they return more country has to show. I am, of course, referring to what takes attached than ever to their home, and more resolute in upholding place inside, and not outside, the Royal Palace at Westminster. In its dignity and perpetuating its ancient stability. Implacable haters spite of the fact that Her Majesty has long since passed the time of coustraint, they are yet voluntary slaves to tradition and to diswhen her girlish beauty touched the hearts and aroused the admir- cipline freely accepted, or to prejudices handed down to them ation of her spectators; in spite of the fact that she has ceased to through generations. No people have been oftener conquered, but wear the Royal robes, and to read, with her characteristic clearness none have so absorbed and transformed their conquerors. and precision, the Royal Speech, the ceremony may be truly de- cessible to modern convulsions, that island has been an inviolate scribed as grand. It is a sight that transports you from the present asylum for our exiled fathers, and our Princes, not less than for our most violent enemies. Neither the selfishness of these islandto the past. Seated on the throne so carefully guarded on all occasions is the Queen. Around her, with all the insignia of office, ers, nor their indifference, too often cynical, towards the sufferings and servitude of others, should make us forget that in their country, are her leading ministers and members of the household. This one bears the Royal crown, that the sword of State, and others other It is there that the nobleness of our nature developes itself in all its more than any other, man belongs to himself and governs himself. signs of office. On her right are the reverend bishops, and the ambassadors glittering with the orders and crosses of every the noble passion of independence, combining with the genius of splendor, and there attains its highest perfection. It is there that country under heaven. Of course there is one exception, and that is the Minister of the United States, none the less powerful that association, and the constant practice of self-control, have given on his person there is a lack of barbaric pearls and gold. The birth to those prodigies of energy, of indomitable vigor, of stubborn members of the Royal family one by one have taken their seats.heroism, which have triumphed over seas and climates, over time The House is getting very full; the galleries are crammed with the and distance, over nature and tyranny, and have excited the envy loveliest of England's daughters in full evening costume, with coroof all peoples, and the haughty enthusiasm of the English. Loving nets of pearls and diamonds that dazzle and bewilder. In the body liberty for her own sake, and loving nothing without her, they owe of the chamber are the peers, with their red cloaks and ermine tip them. On them rests the formidable responsibility of their history. little to their kings, who were nothing but through them and by pets, and coronets, all of the olden time. With the strains of music coming nearer and nearer, Her Majesty has entered and reAfter undergoing as much, and more than any other nation of Euceived the homage of the House. rope, the horrors of political and religious despotism of the 16th and few minutes the ceremony is over. Mr. Disraeli is one of the first 17th centuries, they were the first and the only people who threw it off once and forever. Reinstated in their ancient rights, their proud *NOTE TO TEACHERS.-FRIDAY READINGS FROM THE JOURNAL.-Our Chief and brave nature has ever since kept them from delivering over to motive in maintaining the "Miscellaneous" department of the Journal is anyone their rights, their destiny, their interests, or their free to furnish teachers with choice articles selected from the current literature will. They themselves know what to resolve and what to do; govof the day, to he read in the schools on Fridays, when the week's school- erning, raising up, inspiring their great men, instead of being_sework is finished, as a means of agreeable recreation to both pupil and duced, led astray, or made the matter of traffic by them. teacher. Several teachers have followed this plan for several years with English race has inherited the pride, as it has inherited the granmost gratifying success. deur of the people whose rivals and whose heirs they are, of the * * * * * * * * In a The Roman people-not the vile Romans enslaved by Augustus but the tion of the age in which they lived. He could not but feel that every sterling Romans of the Republic. But that the race like the Ro-teacher owed a debt to Methodism, apart from his father, apart from the mans to their tributaries has been fierce and rapacious in Ireland, State, and apart from his neighbours; and that his heart would entwine and has inflicted, even down to recent times, the servitude and de-around the system, and that he would endeavour to show it forth wherever gradion which it repudiates with horror for itself. Like ancient Rome often hated, and too often deserving of hatred, it will always he might be called to labour. A few years ago, in the course of his visits, excite even among its most favorable judges, more of admiration he was at Rome, and bad an introduction to some ecclesiastic authorities than of love. But more fortunate than Rome, that race is, there, who wished to know who he was, and he told them he was a Wesleyan after a thousand years and more, still full of youth and youthful Methodist. "John Wesley," said one, "I think I have heard of that man.” vigor. Progress, gradual, imperceptible, but never interrupted, has (Laughter.) That day he had been in eonversation, by request, with the created for it an inexhaustible store of force life. Its sap over-Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. Adderley, who was anxious flowed yesterday, and will overflow to-morrow. More fortunate to learn the Canadian System of education. He told them the constitution than Rome, and despite a thousand inconsistencies, a thousand excesses, a thousand foul blots, the English race is of all modern of their Council of Public Instruction, and that it consisted of clergymen of races and of all Christian communities the one which has best pre- the Church of England, and Presbyterians, whilst he himself was a Wesserved the three fundamental bases of every society worthy of man-leyan. He felt it not only a duty, but the expression of an appropriate tha spirit of liberty, the spirit of family, and the spirit of religion." IX. Educational Intelligence. REV. DR. RYERSON IN ENGLAND.-At the close of the last term of the Wesleyan Normal School, in London, Rev. Dr. Ryerson being present, spoke as follows:-" He must disclaim what had been said, (alluding to a remark of the Principal's in calling up Dr. Ryerson,) that he was a great power, and something more, in the matter of education, in the country of his birth. It had, indeed, been his duty, during nearly twentytwo years, by the unanimous consent of the Conference of which he was a member, to occupy the position in which he then stood, of chief superintendent of education for the province of Upper Canada. It had already been his duty to make several visits to other countries for the purpose of enlarging his own views, refreshing his mind, and preparing for the more efficient discharge of his duties; and for the laying a deep and broad foundation for the future advancement of education, and contributing, as far as might be, in connection with a system of public instruction, to the diffusion of useful knowledge. He was now on his fourth official visit to Europe, and was about making what at his age he must consider his last visit of the kind to the principal countries of Europe, in order that he might compare the results in these countries with those in his native country, and that he might be enabled the more effectually to supply any defect in their own system, while at the same time he might inspire them with higher views and more fervent zeal for the advancement of that which must ever be the foundation of all good government and all real and solid civiliza. tion. He had come there, like the friend who had just addressed them, for the purpose of listening to the address, and of getting his own mind more deeply impressed with those views which he was sure would be enunciated by a gentleman so pre-eminent both for learning and piety and of almost unrivalled ability. He need hardly say that he had not been disappointed, but felt that however familiar he might be with these subjects in addressing students of a normal school under his own immediate oversight, and he had the administration of the law of his country over upwards of four thousand schools, yet at the same time he was not fully acquainted with those wants of society, those errors, and with those dangers to which young persons were exposed in society, which he had here heard described, and which knowledge was so essential to the delivering of a practical and instructive address such as that with which they had just been favoured. He thanked the Rev. President with all his heart for the address, and he congratulated the Students upon the opportunity of listening to such a one, which he was sure would instil feelings and establish principles for their future guidance, which would be to them a tower of strength in the future, and at the same time give them an impulse to zeal, activity, and success in their respective vacations, He might perhaps be pardoned for mentioning that when the President had referred to the three sources of influence, and three grounds for gratitude in the education of young people in connection with that College, he had thought of a fourth source of influence, and a fourth ground for gratitude, and that was due to their venerable Principal. He could not but think of the power and the influence which led to the establishment of that Normal College, and of that moral influence, and of that moral and religious system, which gave birth to the man who had laid the foundation of that Institution. (Hear, hear.) He could not but think of that glorious, and he was going to say, that divine Methodism, which had also produced the man who had delivered the address on that occasion, and had led to the raising up of a succession of men, of whom he might say that there were nowhere their superiors, and scarcely anywhere their equals, in the moral regenera. feeling of gratitude, wherever, or in whatever society he was, to raise his colours and avow his religious profession (Cheers.) He could not be considered yet what was called an aged man, yet he was the oldest member of the Canadian Conference, which numbered when he commenced labour in connection with it but 24 members, whereas now there were upwards of 500; he felt therefore that they were all under increasing obligations to the blessed agency of Methodism for the promulgation of truth, for the instilling of sound principles, and for the maintenance of that order in society which had done more to maintain the glorious institutions of England than the swords ond bayonets of all her soldiers. He felt thankful to the venerable Principal for the allusions he had pleased to make, and he prayed God that the influences of that night might long abide with and bless all who had been present. (Applause.)- Watchman. OPENING OF THE HAMILTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL.-The formal opening of the Grammar School took place yesterday afternoon, the large room of the new building being filled with a most respectable audience. The chair was occupied by the Chairman of the Board of School Trustees, Mr. Jas. Cummings. The proceedings were opened by prayer by the Rev. Mr. Robson, and very interesting addresses were delivered by Revds. Messrs. Harper, Inglis and Dr. Ormiston, and by the Sheriff and the Mayor, all of whom spoke strongly of the importance of the Grammar School now being instituted and of our school system generally, impressing upon the audience the duty of sustaining the school liberally. The benediction having been pronounced by the Rev. Mr. Simpson, the meeting separated with three hearty cheers for the Queen. A letter was read from the Right Reverend Bishop Farrel, expressing his regret at being unable to be present, and his earnest wish for the success of the school.-Spectalor. BROCKVILLE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.-It is gratifying to be able to record the continued progress of the school. The attendance has risen from ten in August last to thirty-five at the present time, and the people of the surrounding townships are beginning to avail themselves of the advantage of the school to a greater extent than heretofore. There is also a good prospect of continued increase. The education of pupils attending this school having been made free to them, we are satisfied that with energy and perseverance on the part of Trustees and Teachers there is no reason why Erockville should not possess the best Grammar School in Upper Canada. To make it so, however, the people whom the school is intended to benefit should become fully alive to their interest in it, and not rest content with what has been already achieved. The people of this town are justly proud of their Common School, but strange to say, do not seem to take that interest in higher education which characterizes the inhabitants of many smaller places. In some minds there seems to be an impression that the Common and Grammar Schools are in some way rivals, and that one can only be built up at the expense of the other. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The two schools occupy entirely different ground, and the school system is not complete without both. The Common School is intended to furnish the pupil with the education and training necessary for a successful course in the higher field opened to him in the Grammar School, just as the Grammar School is intended to fit him for the University. Any comparison of the two schools, in this respect therefore, can only proceed from misapprehension or ignorance. It is but just to say, however, that an increased interest in the success of the Grammar School is awakening, and now that the school under the new regime is no longer an experiment but a success, it is to be hoped that it will obtain that support and patronage which it deserves. We in Brockville need not be behind any place in matters of this kind, We may, if we wish, be equal with any.-Recorder, STATE OF EDUCATION OF TORONTO POLICE PRISONERS, 1866.-Neither any sum or sums, not less than five dollars, transmitted to the read nor write, 158 males, 274 females. Read only, 47 males, 184 Department by Municipal and School Corporations, on behalf females. Read and write imperfectly, 470 males, 231 females. Read and of Grammar and Common Schools; and forward Public Library write well, 44 males. Superior education, 2 males. Books, Prize Books, Maps, Apparatus, Charts, and Diagrams, to the value of the amount thus augmented, upon receiving a list of the articles required. In all cases it will be necesssary for any person acting on behalf of the Municipal or Trustee Corporation, to enclose or present a written authority to do so, verified by the corporate seal of the Corporation. Å selection of Maps, Apparatus, Library and Prize Books, &c., to be sent, can always be made by the Department, when so desired. Catalogues and Forms of Application furnished to School Church of England GIRLS' SCHOOL.-A meeting was lately held in Toronto for the purpose of advocating the establishment of a church school for girls, in connection with the Church of England. The Rt. Rev. Dr. Bethune, Bishop of Niagara, presided. He advocated the necessity there existed for a school of a distinctive character, having for its object the religious as well as the secular training of the daughters of members of the Church of England. The Rev. Mr. Langtry, the originator of the movement, and who acted as secretary to the meeting, spoke at some length in reference to the progress that had been made towards the estab-authorities on their application. lishment of the school, and the apparent readiness that animated most of those with whom he had spoken to aid him in the good work in which he was engaged. Rev. Ven. Arch. Palmer, of Guelph, strongly urged the necessity there existed for distinctive teaching now-a-days. Rev. Provost Whittaker made a forcible speech in favor of instituting such a school as that under discussion; as did also Rev. Mr. McCallum and the Rev. Mr. Darling. The proceedings were brought to a close by Mr. M. R. Van koughnet moving a resolution pledging the meeting to further and carry out a ladies' school in connection with the Church of England, which was carried unanimously.-Leader. **If Library and Prize Books be ordered, in addition to Maps and Apparatus, it will BE NECESSARY FOR THE TRUSTEES TO SEND NOT LESS THAN five dollars additional for each class of books, &c., with the proper forms of application for each class. The one hundred per cent. will not be allowed on any the terms mentioned above: they must be paid for at the sum less than five dollars. Text books cannot be furnished on net catalogue prices. THE THE "AUTHORISED TEXT BOOK" SERIES. I. AN INTRODUCTORY LATIN Boox, by Albert Harkness, Ph. D. 60c. II. A LATIN READER, intended as a Companion to the Author's Latin III. A LATIN GRAMMAR for Schools and Colleges, by Albert Harkness, IV. A FIRST GREEK BOOK, comprising an edition of Grammar and an V. A SMALLER GRAMMAR OF THE LATIN LANGUAGE, by William Smith, VI. A SMALLER GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE, abriged from the VIII. FIRST STEPS IN CLASSICAL GEOGRAPHY, by Professor J. Pilans Shortly. The following, which are on the Revised List, but of which we shall not issue Canadian Editions, we shall keep in stock and supply at the prices affixed : EAST NORTHUMBERLAND TEACHERS' CONVENTION.-Mr. K. Mark, Teacher, writes from Castleton as follows:-I have read advertisements concerning Teachers' Conventions, and heard of such institutions; but never attended one prior to the 9th inst., when I had the pleasure of being present at the quarterly convention of teachers, East Northumberland. Having been engaged in teaching for some years, and looked with a certain amount of indifference on such meetings, I would wish, for the information of those who are not members of such institutions, and careless of the benefit to be derived from them, to state what I saw and took part in. The first, and perhaps the most practical part of the programme, was to have a class of children in attendance. A teacher was then called upon to give a lesson on some subject to these children, in the same manner that he adopts in his, or her, own school; his plan is then criticised and remarks made thereupon. By these means each teacher gains the experience of others, the younger members of the profession gain confidence, and feel that they belong to a class of the community which has the noble object of guiding and improving the intellectual and moral principles of the rising generation in our glorious country. The superintendent of the county is president, and he also takes an active part in the proceedings; having been a teacher for a number of years, and superintendent of schools for twelve years; he can give a history of each school, and its teachers, during that long period of office; besides he can corroborate a teacher's criticism or show him the defects of his theory when put into practice. The teacher is placed, more or less, in an insolated position; he comes in contact with those who do not share his zeal for intellectual growth, and cannot but feel they do not enjoy each others company. By means of these conventions, teachers meet in concord and harmony, sympathise with, and encourage each other in their various duties. All parents and others are invited to attend these discussions, and we had quite a number to attend our proceedings. They see we have the welfare of their children A at heart as well as their dollars, and if they entertained any prejudice towards teachers as a class "who have easy times," &c., they must then A acknowledge that our mental labors, and our anxieties for the improvement, intellectual, and moral of the children committed to our charge, is more or less taken notice of by them, and they must then exclaim that they did not think we worked so hard or thought so much for their children, and must give us their sympathy and the right hand of fellow. ship; teachers and parents are united together in one common object, the moral, intellectual, and right training of the children belonging to the rising generation, who are destined to become the legislators and rulers of an important country in this part of America. I would like to see our first or second class Normal School teachers give a short account of the Conventions held in their several localities as it must be beneficial to our younger brethren, if not to those more advanced in years, to hear the experiences of those who have had the benefit of such excellent training, as is bestowed by the Normal School Toronto.—Communicated, X. Departmental Notice. SCHOOL PRIZES, MAPS AND APPARATUS. ARNOLD'S FIRST AND SECOND LATIN BOOK AND PRACTICAL GRAMMAR, revised and corrected, by J. A. Spencer, D.D. $1 25. A THE LATIN-ENGLISH AND ENGLISH-LATIN DICTIONARY, by Charles Anthon, Joseph Esmond Riddle, M.A. $3 00. LIDDELL & SCOTT'S GREEk-English LexicON. School Ed. $2 25. DICTIONARY OF GREEK AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, by William Smith, A CLASSICAL DICTIONARY, by Charles Anthon, LL.D. $5 00. મ 17 & 19 King Street East, Toronto. SHORT ADVERTISEMENTS inserted in the Journal of Education for 20 cents per line, which may be remitted in postage stamps or otherwise. 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