nál success. He had, at the time when he wrote his last Letter, not only re-organized several Schools both for Catholics and Protestants, whereby the number of the scholars had been much increased, but had also assisted in the formation of New Schools. He communicates the gratifying intelligence, that, in New York and its immediate vicinity, there were above 3600 children of both sexes taught upon the British System; and that there are Schools, on that System, in every State, and in some a great number: but he also laments, that, by injudicious alterations and supposed improvements, it had in many instances degenerated, and lost one of its great advantages, SIMPLICITY. To these spurious examples of the plan, he ascribes much of the prejudice which still, in America as in other places, operates against its universal adoption; and your Committee can, from their experience in this country, confirm the justness of the observation. As it is one of his principal duties to train proper Masters, it may be expected that his exertions will do much to enlarge the sphere of operation of the existing Schools, and greatly facilitate the establishment of new ones. has also taken the charge of a newly-established School for 300 Girls. Mrs. Pickton The accounts from Philadelphia are equally gratifying. A new Model School, for 1000 Children, was opened on the 21st of December last. The British System has been established by an Act of the Legislature; and is the means of bestowing the benefit of suitable instruction on nearly 3000 Children in the city and its suburbs alone, exclusive of several Schools in its vicinity; and your Committee are informed, that Joseph Lancaster has been engaged as Superintendent of these Schools. The Comptrollers of the Public Schools have, in their First Report, published at the commencement of this year, furnished a comparative statement of the expenses of Education under the Old and New Systems: from which it appears, that, while under the former the Public Treasury of Pennsylvania paid at the rate of eleven dollars for each child, the introduction of the latter has reduced the expense to 31 dollars; yet this advantage, valuable as it is, is much surpassed by its salutary influence upon the intellectual and moral habits of the pupils, of which the active and zealous Directors of the Schools at Philadelphia speak in the highest terms. NOVA SCOTIA. The School at Halifax has, under the persevering labours of Mr. Bromley, con tinued to prosper. His Excellency the Earl of Dalhousie, the Governor, has granted a plot of ground, with the buildings thereon, to the Royal Acadian School Society for ever, to be used for a School' on the British System. It is in the centre of the town, and invaluable in situation. The Hon. Chief Justice Blowers is a warm friend to the Institution; and measures are in agitation for extending instruction to the villages, by a plan for Itinerant Teachers to visit such villages as have thirty or forty Children to instruct. HAYTI. In Hayti, the same zeal appears still to prevail, which gave rise to the first establishment of Schools, on the British' System, in that interesting country. Both Mr. Daniel and Mr. Gulliver express themselves much gratified by beholding the increasing fruits of their labours, in the rapid progress of their pupils. Mr. Daniel still unites, with the superintendence of a School, the daily instruction of the Princes. He has already furnished many pupils to the College; to be there prepared for public offices, and other situations of respectability. The instructions are principally given in English; for the pupils before neither read nor spoke` a written language, the Creole being very different from the French; yet their progress is so great, as to excite the astonishment of the Masters themselves, who, too modest to ascribe it to their own talents, highly extol the natural abilities of their pupils: "You may," says Mr. Daniel, in Europe, use your greatest efforts: you will in vain attempt to equal our progress.' From Port-au- Prince, on the opposite side of St. Domingo, your Committee have received information, that the School established by Mr. Bosworth is still carried on under the sanction and encouragement of the President, General Boyer, and under the direction of Mr. André, a Native of the Island. The President has ordered the Scholars to be clothed at the expense of the State. The high estimation in which Mr. Bosworth was held, and the value of the benefit which he was intended to bestcw, and in part at least really bestowed on the population of that part of the Island, are handsomely acknowledged in a Letter, which your Committee have lately received from the President, and by the readiness and liberality with which he has defrayed every part of the expense of Mr. Bos worth's mission. EAST INDIES. The Committee enter into some details respecting the School Society formed at Calcutta, particulars of which were given in our Number for May, pp. 223-225. The following additional information appears in the Report: The early establishment of Twelve Bengalee Schools was anticipated-six in the very centre of the Native Town, and six on its skirts-all under efficient superintendence. The Managers of the Hindoo College, most of whom are subscribers to the Society, and one a member of the Committee, have agreed to admit twenty select Hindoo Boys in their School, at half the usual expense; and they have requested the Committee of the School Society, for the time being, to act as Visitors and Examiners of their Institution. The number of Children taught in the Native Schools is stated; but our Readers have had the whole subject laid before them, from authentic documents, in the Reports on Native Education in India, printed in the Number for March. CEYLON. Sir Alexander Johnston having directed the attention of the Committee to Ceylon, it is stated, thatTheir attention has naturally been turned to the important advantages which might result from sending out a suitable person to establish Schools in this populous Island; but even if the means which your Committee could command had been sufficient for that purpose, the sphere of usefulness of such an individual must have been much less extensive than that of a Ci galese, who, being sent to this country to study our plan, should carry back to his native shores a perfect knowledge of the British System of Education. Two persons have been invited from Ceylon,for this purpose; and, in the mean time, facilities for learning the System, are gladly afforded to Missionaries proceeding to the East. HOME PROCEEDINGS. The demand for Teachers, from the Establishment in the Borough Road, has been greater than at any former period; and this circumstance, united with the many express assurances contained in the Reports from various parts of the country, leaves no doubt of the gratify ing fact, that the advantages of the Bri-. tish System are increasingly felt and ackuowledged. The Establishment for preparing Masters has, therefore, much occupied the attention of the Committee and they have endeavoured to extend, as far as circumstances would permit, the instruction afforded to its pupils; fully persuaded of the necessity of still further extending their studies during their leisure hours, and preserving a system of regular and constant employment for those young persons who are destined to fill the responsible situation of Schoolmasters. Masters have been supplied for various Schools in this kingdom; and have been trained for the purpose of establishing Schools at Ceylon, Bombay, New South Wales, New York, Malta, and Caen in Normandy. The Schools are improving in almost every place, both in the number of the Scholars and in their state of discipline. The desire of sending their Children is undeniably on the increase among the labouring classes; and those Schools have been most eagerly sought, in which a small weekly sum is paid, by the parents or friends for each child. An Auxiliary Society for Bloomsbury and South Pancras has been formed. The Southwark Auxiliary has now Schools for 1200 Children: the applications, nevertheless, for. admittance to the Central Schools increase. In other parts of London and its neighbourhood, New Schools are opening. The want, indeed, of education in the Metropolis calls loudly for the continued exertion of benevolent persons. On this subject the Report states An actual survey of various Districts in London leaves no doubt of the fact, that 40,000 Children are yet unprovided, even with Sunday-School Instruction. In one small division of a parish, where there are Schools for upward of 1000 Children, there are, in 1012 Families, comprising 3889 Children, 1565 without instruction of any kind. In another, containing 446 Families and 1268 Chil 1819.] BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY. dren, there are 737 without any instruction. Your Committee cannot pass over this melancholy state of the Poor in the Metropolis, without most earnestly entreating the attention and consideration of the public to a case, which calls for the immediate exertion of every friend to mankind: Of Ireland, it is said— trained for various Country Schools since At the same time, your Committee The benefits of Education are spread mankind, with the education of Boys. with undiminished success. Under the auspices of the Society in Dublin, liberally supported by Parliamentary Grants for promoting the Education of the Poor in Ireland on the British System, a Model School for 500 Children of each sex will speedily be opened. In this Institution it is intended to provide Masters and Mistresses for Schools, for other parts of Ireland. The exertions of the Hibernian and Irish Sunday-School Societies, in the work of Education, are alThose, ready before our Readers. also, of the Society for the support of Gaelic Schools are continued with success. The Report of the Female De-partment conveys encouraging information. Under the patronage of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Committee of this Department are proceeding with renewed vigour. The School in the Borough Road is always full, and numbers are waiting for admission., The Reports of such Local Schools as have been supplied with Mistresses from the Central School, attest their good conduct. On the increase and advantages of Female Education, it is stated In their last Report, your Committee considered it their duty to solicit the attention of the public to the necessity of increased exertions for Female Instruction. They are happy to observe, that their ardent desire, in this behalf, has been in some measure acted upon. The applications for Mistresses are becoming more frequent. New Schools have been lately opened for Girls, in the Hackney Road and Christchurch; to which Teachers from this Institution have been ap pointed. Mistresses have likewise been The Reports from various Female: Schools have afforded your Committee great encouragement, in regard to the moral and religious effects produced by the exertions made to form a well-instructed race of Females, and to ac→ which are able to make them wise unto quaint them with the Holy Scriptures, Instances of the good effects of instruction on Females are given from the Reports of the Schools at Farnham, at Reading, at Sheffield, and at Belper near Derby. We will quote the Sheffield Report: The Committee of the Sheffield GirlsTM School report the case of a Girl of ten years of age, who appeared as if she had never heard or seen any thing but Her temper was violent wickedness. in the extreme. She was addicted to fighting, swearing, and almost every Other - We have already stated, at p. 220, the Income and Expenditure of the Year. In conclusion, the General Committee press earnestly for increased support to the Funds. They are convinced (they say) that a. Grant, even of Fifty Pounds, would animate the Friends of Education, in many instances, to establish Local Schools, which would be permanent blessings to the country: and your Committee cannot express the painful sensations which they are compelled to undergo, for want of the necessary funds to assist in such valuable undertakings. From the Reports received from parts of the country, there is reason to believe, that, in England and Wales, there are Fully convinced that, under the guidance of Religion, Knowledge becomes a real blessing to mankind, your Committee have constantly made it the corner-stone of the fabric, in the preservation and enlargement of which they are called to labour. They are confident that, thus supported, IT MUST STAND, and become instrumental, in the hand of the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, in the accomplishing of His gracious purpose, to gather all the. nations of the world under the influence of the Gospel of Christ. Home Proceedings. BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE DOMESTIC BENEFITS OF THE SOCIETY. 2d., and thirty-one at 1d.; making a total, weekly, of 18s. 5d. The First Report of this Association was printed in an early Volume of our Work: but some passages are so honourable to the worthy men who support this Association, and apply so forcibly to the circumstances of our day, that we shall repeat them, in the hope that sensible and pious men in other Manufactories will listen to the voice of enlightened Patriots and true Christians in their own station of life, and will follow their honourable example : There are many advantages to be found in a Manufactory, which do not exist elsewhere: for instance, we can instantly circulate intelligence. Men, in conjunction with their fellow-workit is well known, will do that cheerfully men, which they will not do at all in other connexions. The labour of collecting is reduced to almost nothing, for we have our subscribers all before us and, which is no small advantage, we. stand at little if any expense: indeed we have never yet incurred any. nitude of the Funds of the Bible Society: We hear great things said of the magand it is to be feared that this style of talking induces many to suppose, that those Funds are rich enough without any assistance from them. We are far from thinking that what has been done is an adequate expression of gratitude to God, from a nation so deeply indebted for its prosperity, and from so numerous a population. One farthing a month, or three-pence a year, from every individual in the United Kingdom, would produce a much larger revenue than the Funds of the Bible Society and all the different Missionary Societies together. It is evident, therefore, that, while a small portion of the community has taken a hecoming interest in this truly honourable and glorious cause, the great mass has hitherto been unmoved. A considerable portion, we know, of that mass is employed in Manufactories; and we have proved, (not by logical deductions, but by the fact) that a Manufactory, possessed of no peculiar local facilities above others, can furnish a Bible Association. What more likely to draw down the blessing of God upon our manufactories and commerce, than to have Bible Associations established in them? In every institution where business unites and associates a number of men, the subject might be introduced with advantage. The Bible, we know, is the germ from which our greatness, and that rank of pre-eminence which we hold among the natious, have arisen. God has communicated it to us as a precious talent, of which He will require an account. It is by communicating, that we shall enjoy; by scattering, that we shall increase our store. There is now an open door set before us: we have the the Morning of Sunday the 19th of September, was preached by the Rev. R. H. Nixon, Secretary of the Hibernian Auxiliary Society; and not by the Rev. William Bushe, as we stated after an earlier Sligo Journal Mr. Bushe preaching, that Morning, for the Society, at Boyle Church. The Collection at Sligo amounted to 531. 7s. 3d.; and that at Boyle to 231. 16s. 5d. On Monday, Sept. 20th, a numerous Meeting was held in the County Court-House, at Sligo, for the formation of an Association in aid of the Hibernian Auxiliary Church Missionary Society; Owen Wynne, Esq. in the Chair. The Rev. Robert H. Nixon stated, at large, the object and proceedings of the Parent Society; and was followed by P. Æ. Singer, Esq. of Dublin, the Venerable the Archdeacon of Elphin, the Rev. Messrs. Bushe, Hacket, Symons, Yeates, and Armstrong, and by Captain Rochfort and Lieutenant Clifford of the Royal Navy; both these Officers corroborating, from personal observation, the melancholy statements given by the other speakers of the degraded condition of the Heathen. The Chairman, with Charles O'Hara, Esq. Edward Synge Cooper, Esq. and Lieutenant Colonel Perceval, were appointed Vice-Presidents; Abraham Martin, means of enlightening the nations: it Esq. Treasurer; and the Rev. W.C. is no small honour that God has conferred upon us. If we use our means, it is well; but if we callously and from narrow selfishness refuse, God will raise up deliverance for the nations from some other quarter: for His time seems to be approaching, and we shall lose the reward. CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. PROCEEDINGS IN IRELAND. By Sligo Journals, received since our last Number, we are enabled to give some further account of the exertions of the Society's Friends in Ireland. The Sermon at Sligo Church, on Octa 1819. Armstrong and William Hume, Esq. On Thursday, the 23d, a Ladies' Association was formed at Boyle, auxiliary to the Boyle and Rockingham Church Missionary Association. The Large Room in the Court-House was filled with Ladies. Mr. Singer, who had kindly accompanied the Secretary, the Rev. R. H. Nixon, as a Deputation from the Hibernian Auxiliary, opened the subject to the Meeting, and was followed by the Rev. G. Brittaine and the Rev. C. Seymour. It is proposed to hold the Meetings of the Missionary and Bible SM |
