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'MIA% 1 , ^1 4 '10 r • EDUCATION !flee. aotrEit ORDERS. ::JA • T TARLIAMENTARY rArEns. • . : I• FFC(Vr% D FM:T. ..ret remMilleet appoinlteller 11.1 4 1"in` 11 . 1 r of it.. Ironer e'rres, Led 10 ee reel sheer 010e'rs r. reerrest ; 10grel.rr 11 elle Ore Moe bete er t.f s'.. ,L.,. Is for. 110111. free en limn let ; ;Mai w An werr in...flirted 10 rid." de.. i. 1-geenern Ficoli.ottly—bave "greed lo reports else tslitioi..g 311- 1: reeerie, 13° die Ilurfii,lßlA. HENRY 111R(11.1:111A11, E.q. its site Muir. lewd Sratixd • Mends Tof She Howe, erantito,d. amer Ler.lahip hare she etraghsraa to inform Ih. Otte. whether you have pa , ..rhial orhoole attached 1.. parch wt fk4.ilms.l? —We bar.• parochial retools in ad iatry p1 , 1•Iwo, boi u..l in prat t .ens. Altailord pt the pariah by Lau —Yea, by estate.; /NI MO n to She refire of Charles 1., some of them after t h e ion, sad obe of them about Shoes or Diatom years are the ?worts of them 414myed ?—Tlie 1 . . are defrayed by the lamb. ewes 44' ne who have a right to cam* liaslisCott• Ito pry the /of the espeare of the soliMildhltild% salary. c Prey ohliged by law to mall brim thins tor pay one '—They are entitled to call upoa them, but tof.eit its ,oio, call arse them The tandoori* vs are obliged to 'mild act Mowers soft to give to Ow schoolmaster y floe last Act of Parliament is from ISt to tolf a aids serials other small adeaafagos ; th.• ineeohnif of .:tense of the salary is dorfenytd by the landowner., e other half by their tenants, if railed wpm by ohm half of the salary; the capers* of hail/beg flhe school , and of purchasing the statutory quantify of ground, def.& v . 4 by the landowners. is the whole sons which is received at each Moolo, ur ibi ag r e ce iv e d from it w schoolars!—Th,• landowners Ilse last Act of Parliament empowered to v Itle She ' of the lees to be paid for certain brunehroo of t olio ' the schoolmaster, by those instructed by him; but certain broaches which arc taught gratuitously, reading and writing. - more children apply to he tanzlit than ran lie one master, is there any pro. i.iuu for the perform . , . assistant ?—There is Ito perortdon fur the payment of assistant. matters in feet been able to leach all the Clod ben applied, generally speaking?—ln ntinv pariodoes odor schools besides the parish reload, either sou Sc. ity Aorta's.e from particutor irloices a Wolin the pen di, a. room, of other cirrusnolaracts. H., nom ti 4, the children who are to go to the Iwo veho,d. r-o-All Or children in the parish arc entitled to los horst any particular oommat ~,,, case one. offered to go than dor master could Ira( 10, doer your Lordship imagine would be done ?or-ntorli r. in general regulate themselves; where there are tom then other schools spring so or in the pat oh, for the of supplyiag the deficierry of afellllollllol.ll.lm. tut Ihe Sebl9./111 in question attached to the E•941/114114 ?—The schools called parochial arlic.,la are attached too Estahlorlurd (larch, asol she antler the crialrol of the Presbytery or (lamb Court no the olistrirt. in fort may children of I).socnters go to Own, ponini• children of Di...niers go to the ram , Mal s. twitters there are schools tauzlit by Distor.t. r. the children uf the school all 'obliged to attend Di. lierr•lorp in She Established Chorrh, or are such clot of !Assented' Ds may be there allowed tot go to the it places of worship?--The children at the parochial 91 hoots arc sot obliged to attend thyme Worship in any par dm, • ..f worship. ?any "labial iou by law to Snob any of the forms of :bodied Chou ch ou the parochial schools ?—"Flot re ho Ann by law to teach any particular religions 111/1"- ,Int the schoolmaster bring of the Ertablirbed of course go neially sloes on. The schoolmaster is ' by the landowners or heritooril who hare 100 f. valued rent, which may amount to from 1.11:e to bombed porno& a year. sterling money. The cahoot* as made in Scotland et: lodes ago, iu Souk's lout the ml rent is now greatly beyond the valued .ouch is a pound Scotch ?—A puttad Scotch is two niy sterling removes the schoolmaster is care of negligence or comfort !-...The Presbytery or Church Curvl in the dia. olhosreol to take cuguizroce of the tiepurtrneut alive oft, booth with mind too negligence and with re immoral or improper cusithict, and they Irate the depriving him of his situatium. Leo (Islip has said, that the loirochial schools were r Presto t-ry ; do the Presby troy regulate the mode 4' and the books to be read in the schools ? No, not ; the %cello's have the pool r uf fixing floe fees olating matters respecting the rdncafiou of sh e c h i ,- taught in the parochial reboots ; but they hare the &- She schoolmaster. poor Lordship conceive that the Presbytery ever rm ' control to produce dull a slate rot throes in the might disincline Disirditerr to 'tired it ?—The Aeries inspect the parochial sthuols and ?satanic the at certain stated periods, mid infra, re when a cum. the imclanee of the !writers CORM before them, rt. the oicgligenee or improper conduct of she whim,. , and I du not think that any stem taken by the Preshyteri.s can tend to prevent Dissenters from student Allilren to the parochial salmis, provititil they writ ir disposed to du so. Your Lorliship knows, that in many parts of Scotland Ihrve are many Sumas Catholics; do the Rieman Untholic children ever go to the parochial aciumils?—l am rely little airrpsaisised with them country pasiidics (sat lo call iu !Scotland, where three are many Roman ; and I do nut know precisely what takes place in that reap. et ; but I be lieve, in Ilishlnad polishes, where there are massy Catholics, that their children co to the parochial schools. Your landau!, has said, that there is nothing In prevent illimouters Gum sending their children to the schools, if they are so 1111121rt1 1 dere poor Lordship conceive that the schools are so conducted, that hisseutria are wily generally inclined to mid their children t.i the ni iw places whe r e they r 201 Startrielilly numerous to have a school of OWII ? pleareirre are 1101 ru 11111 l rims as 111 hare P achotst of sin it ON.I, 'lir, are in the randier of s•tidiog their I hll. 441,1 to the psrbollial schools; but in general they prrkr h.ii i• 1 a school of their owe, whet. it ems he established. - - Iktx the paiochint scbooliciaatic like imy charge of I►e /101(11 , 0 00 • Sturdily ? -The par.•rlrial rehmilsimAcr liana eo 115 Iry of the children on Scinday ; InN they are I, ft to Out, parents, or to those •ho Last the charge ut them, to clo will, lb. m what they plc:• e. cold c.m (min any opinion of the proportion of the t:•••iii ch Oren of the loot r oriti rs, SLu ore l rukLl in Ilie paiothi..l could 1101 give any .111111 ttttt wllll l• `pre( to the proration, as it vane►s*r, much au dili•rtut p., i►hes. An• the parochial selw..l• in fret Om rn al foondalima of the SeAch f 1 111(11.11111P011114; the !oat 0,,,c (11111 , 1.41 Cie paruchial school• as btiog the .eat Mon cat edu cation in the lowers ut Scutt old , whethe► can i. it on atom or producing other reboots in the pariah ; I mimic in parb.bee which are 1101 in great towns, but iu the 'moony. In far 1, are them parochial school, iu great towns?-111 gnat tow us the education is coined on by means of either pubic achouls, establialied by corporation- or public budhs, r.r by subscription, or by private schools set up by indivi duals, with a vita to (hi it ono einulnineut. Does your I.oid.leip conceive, that their are any eircus• 'Nutt s in the h gal establishuscat in llo• see oettinitil rectal' with rcspert to parochial selools, that lot olastat hw to lit. •fiirJing the coutstry still 'Marl bestfi thou they r!o'-1 do rot Lwow of soy such blediac.ra uisiog howl the nature or the iwsl.lsttwi.. . DO ell) 101rIal• Pi 11.11116 I.f slum . so Louis longest Iltemea his low I.o6dAi.is•', i• • udesituu tl.at •uuid .1 , gusty *mow time to 1111111Srt bud al pr. mut 1 au. d.•euisKtl t !h..% the) au ors • u• ful fouling A. o:s tt az- cltddreu bcgiu to go lu thus% 61.11knols me cl ill,cn ge a. earipoe sails itry are six or severe r... of Ave.. H..* ' , wt. of. 'hey generally eiwitinwe Shove ',- Main 6.'10 they are (woken sw firtPrei of sr; but story rutin do ono 491119111 fur all that period, a. 1W4`9•144.1911, the sit 'Wows of their parrots only enables tho of to mud them there a part of Ow year. and chirtly go • inter. saw ettesoolaute of the rliihtrisi depend ,amity on their sown inch nst bon and the comoreutesore et their pso s. nr op. Oh. t placed tinder restriction. los • itlwr tho Prerhytro • OW 5 1 r be l ittles 1 he attendance of tlw ehildet it 010 prof. upom the uscionstmos of their parr g, or of those totoliwidoonis who have the charge of them. 1.394. Of ha I Cl/14•14114 OH she pie* .r 11w children, who takes the r. tor :site mem:ores 7—The sehoolonaster keeps no fluotipline in los achorol by each mean% as toppetor to loon most for Ow pis. pow.; *Mr.. LP In 011.. h.) r. mean.. cooroploot sit • ortlol he made, and he would be coiled 11l arruntof for his condor,. . . . • Has your lordship heard of nay inconvenient coodsing loctorown 51w L.,ilors and Presbyteries, troth respect to Show, ochwols?—.Swelo inroonvetti.llll7 lucre oecurred, boot very owl shun, for on grist col the twenties nod Presbyteries have site same wish In *et for the public god. Your Loodeloip loots said, that you conceived that the pararloal Dal/ 0 111 0 94,11. the great faussolat ttttt or ro:urAtion fon the lower ovicra. in Scotland, partly by what thine no them, and partly by other schools whirls they lead private persons to .00tolott-le in other parts of the parish ; doses your Lordship coareire, that they have nomad in Rosebud that spirit of ?davit..... *Lich loss greatly rl. . 11/11ted to the establish ment of reload% by itioltrighials fur the 111Wer orders?-1 Ibiuk th • f .'tat •oli schools, by gnikong education general and pl/slllll.ll. have lo ol to tbr ratalolishmetot of po irate oCkibuts by Individuals, and to the augmreitation of educe:Ma. 14 it sorcesaary by law that the achoulmastoe should loe man of the Establishi J Chards ?-I'. to, a parociso4l s. hoist. aster moist be ou ; sod he must aim lake certain oaths eu GIIVITIII9I. got. Has the constitution of the psvochial set Is onilervine 9413 gasohol' •Iterst with respect 10 it. tuna. noon wish Ihr Established Church, since th.,r find estsioltsloonvat ? Parochial schools have always bees conuected w.th the Esta blished Clllll4'lB Was ante over a aim! when it was tireesearit to teach Own, any of the ("maim ies of the Established (1.4.'11 ? The rune rules 15..,. always existed with logo et to their connection wish, or with reepeet to 111(4 leeching of, the dockitirs of the Established Church. —.....- 114 ll... Committee to tottlerstasol. that !hooch not oblicrol to teach the formularies of the F..,tahli.hed Chore!). they do, in a tter3l way, inculeste their oloetri..e. ?.—The parochial schoolmast. es certainly tin, in a general way. otteoleale the oloctriturs if* tile U.st ddiehed Church ; and they leach Ilse cidl chosen of the E. 4 thlothed Chinch. Do the Ditscuters iu Scotland daft r moult r um Ilse no, hli,tted Cloud, its doctrines, or Is the chief difference its the point of chorrh di•cipline ?—There are malty el of Div twitters its So-Maud; kill the createat props toot of I)ittaNs. tent do not differ fruits the Chtorch of Setsolantl materially in their doctrines., but in the anode of appuitstong ur nominating elerp,m• lAA Clef, a well as boys, attend the parish schools ?—. Th..y .11, 111 mans perishes.; tont its I.IIIIIP parishes there are female hitchers tie girl', not cunuectcd sigh the pareachial school. Ife. lames Millar, rolled is, nod ernmined. Are !ou vvvvv erten' iriiL the Mills!' and Funtign School Sociel) ?—1 am S.cietary. Mos any rememikable change takes place in the school, of that Society, since you gar,: evidence to the Committee on Edelen • in the veer 1810, in the ntimber of school, a n d scleishos—lVe have made exertions to form Atixil:ary School Societies, d view to extend our 0.19 throughout the me. tropei:k; we have commenced in Soot',walk ; in that ou •'ter !Ili le me lea schut.la built, one for ZIJO, the other for 400 nod a third is abo ut to be built ; from the Sefo u nis SSllidl we hire h.la able to obtain of that didriet, it np. pearl thnt about four or five schools annul he reqiusite C o . that its p. rot only; this I speak of without providing for female edneation. North Lundou and Islington Ms. frith, we latve lolly as yet formed one setioni for girls cif 300, toil exertions ape making to continue the plot llitre also; I nut nut aisle to speak so correctly to the waist of instritel ion there; but if I were to speak generally, Com .1141 informa tion we have olotaisted, Isl Id say, I:llwiist half the children of 111 t IMSUT are improrided for in any *cloud, and 3.4t10i at least, as it midi, sto day &clouds. Al Islington I iiiiMrstand there is a national school for about 400 boys, aid a girls' school for, I think, about 200; but the proportion is such, that two new schools appear to be wanting in that paitien. ler district. lu the North-east district of London we have only vet y lately commenced ; a Society was forniecl about Iwo month. ago, null the ntuncer of schools riquircci in th a t quarter I lone oat yir been able to morn 'lain, hut I should seepploc is ruusideiable number of schools would be requdwil there; I hi here that is n;1 the progress we biker made. What ior yuis comprise ostler the Nurth.east quarter?— The who! , of the East end of London, from Ilishicpsgate. street, taking the North aide of Whitrelispel and White. char I SllOll, as far as the houses extend ; the city of Inn. Orin pcohahly front another diviaiuts ; but tbe want of Pained, there is not luny great. Do 14111 Mill any clinically is getlintr, scholars for the schools you establish''—Oar Srralral dill•tolty is in getting rooms; wherever we ran get room*, we eau get schulars. Do you had ally dilllculty is raisin` funds to pay for the teaching of the scholars, after you have built rinime!-11 have not ohscrred any difficulty as to funds; we rather wish to refer the plan of ■ small payment Atm the children, because we it will make the call upon the public less, and perhaps arise to the pea uncut support of the erbools altimait ly. tV e apprehend, if we could excite that feeling in the wields, which would insince them to pay something for thi ii chtldtens cilitrati ))))) we should bearfit their condi tion also. And hy the joint memia of psyments from Ilse children, and the 00000 P of cloirilsble persons, you think the wink nif eihicati .... would gu on, in case school+ could be funned ? —I think The Per. WOham Gurney, A.V. raPcd he, and exareind. Haa itti e;iniiiilernllle alteration taken place in Clip schools will, whack 'nu are connected melee ynte gave evidence before the Conninike in 1816?—Yes, very etnividerable impauve -1111 MS. Slate the reriienlare.---1 had at that lime, lwaides the school so Wel.i , ireri (in which ihere are 409 rhildreo, who ronolooily &Whiled extremely regular), a Solidity 'thou', whi‘h I had idablishril in St. Clenunt Deur., intending, by ilegrelii, if pipailile, to make a day school of it, when I had ei•lki ird n eaffitent nomber of children to commence with; mid I not happy to gay, that on the first of Jai.usary but yrbr, conitinnerd asl hoot upon the Madras *latent ; when the 14 , 1 report *ail ttiat:e, we hail 2119 plate of rdarwt ,of whom Mount sine Iliistl are girls, in di.tiort rrliiiiil lullp,p, r)n► glen! (141 n-silty %US ill obtaining reboot OW 111-, w 1111 h, 1 beilere bar been felt 'Very *byre; ours is a airy croaticd neiztihonrhnoil, and there are no laver flown* in the parith, our nuked do I know much gen•uud ill which • school 'night be cat deal, if thaiiialdc prirsuna were in. lined to subscribe to it, ashlar thiok is a, my likely they world. *1 lie room we have r.t at pi, broil was sown lime back used NM di private ileatir, *hick we think wr have •ppriipriateil to a marls rrlt.4 i Ise pose. ; it bas cost ansoilwr wdividunl :sod myself nearly Inn/, 1.. ht it ; it is ■ very old building ; bow, Laws a•s, *e have crest satisfaelion in nailing, that the ratio's'. iss.sa air highly delighted will, the number of clid. in.sel. Mat lief toll. fled so 11000, and they are etounig (~,,sa,a l t o support it very liberally. 11)u you fillies live, Irvin your et.pe•rieTM on the sullied of @chunk in the sucnup..h►, that $f Civilities were g.a•w fur lbt buildinc of swheosl4swithe, ►ehu.ds would lw far nose gem:salty astabluhed 11,411 al prose ?--Crrlatoly, I fall sr. sh Gum tie) u•ii apteicurir in my 011111 you it once iv your 5 ap. acute, that, generally si then• *unlit he decal ibilieulties in procin int such suns►, heel ►ubseryUulls awl the pa, . f Whelan*, de inn,- lair: such stbouls, if Its.; were established ?-INot list h e st ei,fhrulty. Do tale know whether any 'flints have born ensile i.. the Wea1..1.• et and rtl I I. iswor Dam a, l.'r a consult-sable. h rre •sea f (ducal ill the urighhoorl I sit those plater. ?—I have out Laid of any; the arightour- Lad tif 11a.t.tatal na au tayllli.. W IY lac natieua: ►tLaola I 111:1% of Rt. .!If t h at a I: l 3: N r k A w r y. .7 l :l;.sl , : t lr h a e oal pentane . 100 LINO made offertes eXert 4 11 " orSonts ; there are many arm to male to pick op Children...l' give shim ((location in Sunday oehthils, by a rarely of Mill -1111.5. HOST Sunday orbitals incrmaied c(lna!drehloly in tlf :se neighbourhood% wince 1816?—Very great ifforts have Matt Maid; by leachers or Rliuday stiwohi to bnu; elnitheit For. ward, to which I ascribe the fact, that Omagh mit of our Sunday ,chokers WC 101 SC taksn at least 140 children Mee the iv mined, th, y did nut colourist of more than 200 at 'first. IVe toek 140 at falai, and have edited, since our acteml eme limincerl. thirty new scholar* to the Sunday whim! ; but I its, Plashed of this she nativism' system, at least the improved ardent of education, ispiin that Nip scale of collecting great watolicto ender few teachers, will iu lime render unnereasery lie Smalley eiliteation to the younger children ; but that the ltnmlty cdneariiin will never be navies, to those who are a hltfe more arlimiced, who are walet all the week to their parents, and who have perhaps hero neglected when they were younger, and therefore they are laming their younger relations learning to read heifer than themselves) stimulated To learn to read themselves, and 'who hare nu other lime MOW on the Sunday; the tat hhich has jest ilprung rip ▪ the childreu baa stirred up a corresponding desire naming • dolts. , D.. you find any difficulty in accommodating the school children in the parish chnielt of St Clement Danes?-1 4141; 1 find it a little difficult already, and 1 anticipate a very great perantre inured, and &moat an itesormunntiffile difficulty; ftteat the present moment the children exchale • great many poor permits wt.° were in she habit of siding in she stab s. We must have the children together; we CWWWIIi suffer them to be scattered; and if our number increases, we *hall err tardy he oldigril to drive all the poor out, or detach some of the children to come ether place of warship ; and we antici pate a very great increase. We do not mean to atop till every child in the pir;sh .a in a mate of talec•stion. Do any means occur to you of rentedyiee the difficulty you have slated respecting church room !--Yrs ; I think shut if proper school ,stoma, of a suffietent size I mean, ate peptide'', they will always be very proper places, with the current of the Clergyman and Bioko* of the Diocese, fur 'th e a mi a bly of the voyir Mumma, with some of the children, ibit cannot he accommodated in the church on the Sabbath day 1 should prefer the mass of the children guisig to church; it would and to attach the cluld:en to the church, snit earl halms are gcncially of the longest continuance. 1 Mid a great test anionic the twople of St. Clement Danny to send their children, and 1 .1111 that zeal rapidly increas ing ;. mid as an evArnce of which, they all willingly contd. bete 9.1 per month fur cat I, child. You have spoken of a great increase of zeal in the poor of St. Clement Danis ; have you perceived any change in this respect in the n• irhhourhood of West-street?—Yes; there bas, since I was here hi fore, here a very large extensive Sunday school established in the neighbourhood of the Seven Dials, ,else I have been told there are five or six bemired children in n state of education, which were not so hermit its establiohment ; that is doge in the neighbourhood of my school, where 1 have four hundred Maly ; and 1 find that tie it great difficulty is in finding accommodation fur the childreu at places of worship. They cannot find any nes cominoilation, it bring a genes al Si,ilay school, open to all parishes and all denominations. They applied to me for ace tttttt nudat . in my free chapel, West-street, which 1 CIIIIIII not possibly grant them, because of the number of our own childire, who amend there; indeed, the want of church room is ne.et severely felt by all the scholars. in parochial schools, wise., they have left their schools, they are nut received into the church as scholars, and there sel. door is room for them in any other character, and they du nut know where to go. .11r. William Freeman Lloyd sras tailed in, and erianined. Yon are comercied with the Sunday School Union So ciety ?—I am Secretary of the &today School Union Scocicty. Nam any ronsiderahle alteration taken place in the school pita-fudged by your Society since you gave evidence before the Education Committee, in the year 113111?—There has berm a consider-dile increase of scholars ill the Sunday sclionin, 1 should suppose to the amount of five or six thou sand. Nave new selinols been established in fresh places?—New schools opened. and old ones increased. What may be the whole number of scholar, now in the selowils, in counection with you ?—I should suppose about 50,000 in the Sunday schools. . _ What is the nature c your connection with the Sunday schools, of which vou speak ?—Oar rioeiety is an association of gratuitous teachers, fur the general promutiou of Suuday schools. . Has the mrrrase you have spoken of proceeded from your assistance being extended to nig schools In existence in 1816, or has it heel, owing to the establishment of new Kbools, and the enlargement of those in existence in 1818, which you have attended ?—Chiefly from the increase of the active exertions ache trAchers is connection with our society, in establishing schools where the want of education was ascer tained. it h what proportion of the Sunday schools of the metro polis do you imagine your society is connected, in the way you describe'—The chief part of them. Are von connected with a greater proportion of thos e schoolstban you were in IMB?—Yes. Have you the means of knowing, whether Sunday schools hare increased which were nut connected with your society —I think they have in general enlarged their numbers. What are the chid difficulties you hate In encounter in the establishment of Sunday schools'-1 think we 'night establish timidity schools for the whole of the destitute po. pulation of London, if we could find school...omits. Du you thick you should Boil iusurnsountable difficulties in raising adequate funds for keeping •p such schools, in case sellout-rooms ecnil.l he found ?—I thiak there woul.l be but a small degree of difficulty upon that head. Are yon acquainted with day schools ?—A general ac quaintance. l)u you conceive they have increased materially since 1816?—Yes, I think so. Generally, er in specific districts ?-1 think generally, all over the metropolis. And the desire of iustrnelion has very rapidly iucreased ! Yes. _ Have they incres•ed in any particular lines of instruction, or in all the modes in which education I. afforded . ..—Chtelly in Ilw national and British and foreign system of education. Does the larger proportion of the Sunday scholars attend day sebools?..—A considerable number of thews do. Half, should yon imagine?-1 should think a fourth, pro- I•ahly ; but that depends upon the situation of the parents. Have you altered your plan of inatructiou iu Sunday schools, since you gave evidence in Itel6?-1u many schools parts of the new system are adopted. Du you conceive that the use of the new system of MOM lion is extending considerably in Suuday schools !—Parts of the system. Which parts do you find most appropriate to Sunday submits Sunday whim's, where there is a deficiency of teachers, the plan of collective teaching has been usually adopted; bait where gratnitons teachers, that ore suitable, can be fuss mud in sufliiii nt numbers, I conceive that the old plan of instruction has superior advantages. By col:celiac teaching you mean according to the new system ?—les. What is the advantage in the old plan of instruction ? That of the personal 111141 mural superialendence of a coin. paratively small numher of scholsaa, who arc immediately t1;11:1r the inspection of their teachers. Do you find distinct and marked good effects from the cause you have mentioned in the old manner of teaching ? Pecidistly good effects in the moral influence the teachers have over the children, their parents and families. Do wu find any considerable difference in the intellectual improvemi at of the eltildit-ta, in their advances in school learning ?—A vast Jiff:crime. Which s bildreu du you conceive learn tialest, under the toiumslaures you bass mentioned, 111.4 e taught by the new system nod those taiieht by the old ?-Itl mere mechn. Meal improvement I should think there was comparatively little Mlles-ewe; but with stripers to moral advantages, the cmietaut Metter lion and example and advice of resiwtctable tmehess i• exceedingly astutely. ( le be ebi,lirtved.) Ai I 1 /DUCA * :•1 7 .' bo *el 1.• • -'- •n, .1.0 , Tie !Wert eat on of Coro On drare 1.1 ; a to Scot las lowle*:— ; The Lord SYill tool Vormri.tr•, rvcry push country pyrl A ttm.b...l of ilout iki Revolution, • avi 11.0. are expesor* a. pari%b, who tone-h su.,r t Arr Ilwy Kali '—They not rail up. se Moore oh:rls I y 11 yr.ir„ with 41 for 1'4 . 11., • Oli4 the trio to pay half . I•ona., and 4, is derray. ri 14 thia the is any thing are by the la amount of I cation to thi their art. ei• 'lnch as read. In iroe aT taught by o. of an asnieta aasistitott Darr inn. who have al there are Oh roout of at Or WI al rum Who nom clii•l arlou•le v .. ...1.., fit row n • hat due. y, Matter. in 21 away, then I rrpore of s Arr not IN (loft h ?—TI to she Estate rie/ibylei y o Do sa f.,r mime pots& schools, Sn'oi Are isse c tine illsr•liip dolt of Lim own plat-es IN hoots are cc tit 'slat ptici s I• there au• the Ou oSlig I; in. I : hot Church, of r Popuiloril h scotch or vs three bombe of land aas 111 e lify. hut relit. Now mud pei.er streini Who p.m , Illif tart' MUM twit... liwittrt •;wrt to 11111 Lower of del Your [...id thr I. % rilurof they 11.• out ; •iitl remiss ii siren taught i tails to the ur Dora !over ploy' its coo ',Hum' as m Preshyteries children al ei itlatut at the •pectiug the master ; anti I Preshyteri.s their chtlilrei ttherwise dis Your lair there are ml chilJren eves arcrsaiorti Scotland, al owl know pre . brae, in Ilia that their rip Your lA, Dios titers fr are so inch t schools are a m... extru.).9i :2:7:-‘lrll-_" • --- ''''' Ric R TS. d .1"1 111 r . Front the" f.eitiiis 111444iiinle Priee rorretet,"of TresderLi, /spits . , ttl. ir r.ST !NITTA AND !TANIS!! MAIN PRODUCE. The sale* of B. P. SIM AM h.. ve Is etl inconsides able lisi• week, lb. wiretv beanie Is. per rwt. below the prices de manded by the Imbirm, who are moenl;onc to give way. The vinyl( of R. P. is now 5,300 en.ks lesa than last year's at thi. fain., the pre ent peters rale Ic per rwl. lower. For, Stgara uvula stenJy, the low .ialities are moat in reline's. Ert.i India Stizarit hive nilvanrcd 1 2.. prr cwt. COFFEE has again become a lively article, a n d prices are flow as high as they were previnua it.. late iier!ine. Only .me public sale has been hronght Coward since our but, which went off very brisk, the ',mini...ix done since by pri- Vale enutottct has beets extensive chiefly in Jamaica and 111. Domingo. The stork of West India Coffee is now h,7no tons, being 3,800 610 l.:1111 at this lime last year. Piesent priers 70s. per cwt. Weller. Rums hive been in gond requests, leiewarils support the advance stated in our last, and the tow qualities of Jamaica have also advanced about M. per ga tons The Government contract far 100,000 galloon was taken um Friday last at from 3s. lid. a 34.211. per gallon. Nothing has been dine in COCOA since nor Last. LOGNEOOO has been in better demand; fresh Jamaica is saleable at Pl. 111. per tun: . _ . Pimarro lona been sold by public sulc at 11.1. per Ili. which is the highest price that coo now he obtained. NORTH AMERICAN PRODUCE. Rice has been in very I respeco, and extensive sale. have been made. The FA. India sale pat( rtlav went off very brisk at 41. a G.. advance on the sale of the :30th TONACCO has not been its as brisk &mawd thus as it was last wick, hut the advanced priers are fully sup p orted. Ice continues in very limited de mend, though the drawers require an advance fur Spirits; Min iu puncheons have been sold at 745. • SOUTH AMERICAN PRODUCE. The demand for COTTON piece nor last ha. been steady; chirpy for export ; the last quotations are fulls supported, middling qualities of Prrringin bringing 2s 1 d. and 2s. I t td. which before could only be obtained for the hest, other kiwis remain without alteration. The sales of the writ arc, ditty pnid, 180 Upland fair 2114. fine '2llll. ; 1.300 Pernambnrcop middling 2s. lil. fair to good 2s. 1 Id,' a 2s lid.; 20 Babas middling 2:1.1. ; 700 Wm:whams good 21.; 70 Carriacou and Grenada emu' 22 1 ; 11. fine 231 d. ; in howl. 20 Smat• good 141i1. fine 18!.I ; 1,200 Bengils ordinary to middling 0 . 1.1. a 10J. good 11d fine 12.1: total sales 3,490 bags. The im port* are, 888 ll:Miss, 804 Maraohams, 271 Carriacou and Grenada, 1,059 Bengali: total 2,792 bags. LIVERPOOL REPORT, AUGUST 15. In the Corrou market we have experienced another in active week ; holders are however firm, Brazils and the finer qualities of Dem rrrrrr are lower: low American descrip tions have been the principal object of inquiry. At public sale yesterday., 120 Bahamas, ordinary to floe, sold at 204. a 2. 21d.; and 3SO Demeraras, very middling to good fair at sty. • 2s. a few 2s 1.1. a 26.1141.; 150 good and fine were withdrawn. The transactions by private treaty consist of 1,950 Bowed., 191.1. a 2141. a feiv 210. a 22d.; 180 Ten nessee ; 600 Orleans 20.1. a 220. a few 2s. ;SO SSA Islands 3s. 3d. a 3s. Ild.; 330 Pernam, 2s. ld. a 2s. lad.; 500 Bahia', 2s. 3141. a 24.; 15 1 51aratilisnis,23 1 1. a 24. a few 2a. 01d ; 40 13e ,2311.; PO BarhadoM 2114 221.; 60 Stout, 1641. a 191 d ; and 09 Bengal, 1014. a 141 d. per lb.; making the total sales 4,500 bags. Owing to the flat state of the Sugai market last week, f..vr of the importers have offered any for sale this week, the quantity sold is 350 hogsheads, which have brought nn ad. trance of Is. on brown and middling descriptions. Foreign sorts remain without alteration, 40 casks of Nt. Domin: o Masco, have been disposed of at 455. In East India no thing has been done. The Coffee market woo extremely flat until Wednesday and Thursday, when we had a renewed demand, particularly on the latter day, fur St. Domingo which advanced to 1525. and considerable purchases were made in this description at 141 s. a 152..; good to fine mid dling Jamaica 1635. a 165.. good ordinary to middliug 148.. a 156..; and ordinary Dutch 151, ; the demand has since continued, and yesterday 1555. a 156 a. was paid fur Do go of good quality. For 800 poc ket:4 of East India Ginger 35s Od. a 35.. thi. was realized at public sale, and a few bags Barbadoes have sold at Ms. a 900. duty paid. We have had nothing done in Cocoa, with the exception of 40 tons Brazil to arris e, fur whit!' 78s. have been given. Pi mento is steady, • sui..ll lot has brought 1141. per lb. Rums have been much inquired after, and common Leewards have advanced to 2s. 1141. and 3 ; Jamaica, of good and fine flavours have brought 3s. 9d a 4s. per gallon 16 4). P. Good Jamaica and St. Domingo Logwsud has sold at 81. 10s. and 300 tons of Campearby at the ship's side 91.25. 6d. Cuba Fuatic 131. 17s. 64. and Domingo 101. ss. a 101. 7s. Rd. per tun. Pot Ashes have coutinued in good demand through the week, and have advanced to 51s for New York, and 48s. fur Muntml Pearls are wituout alter ation. 300 barrels of good Turpentine have brought 14.911.; and 1.300 barrels of Stockholm Tar 17s. Oil.; for Carolina Tar 15s. Gd. is offered. 600 bags of Saltpetre, of ordinary quality have sold at 37a. a 365. 29 boxes Shell Lae offered at public sale Were witbdrswu fur want of buyers. There has been a steady demand fur Tobacco from the manufacturers, chiefly fur Slew, and piic. n have advanced again from id. to per lb.; there lias been mine little inquiry fur Kentucky, fur export, and • pored of 25 hhils. of fair quality, rather soft, half been sold at 64d. per lb. Very extensive business has been done in Catotins Rice, for shipment, chiefly in Ike beginning of the week; ordi nary at 3Ps. 6d. to 395. 6d., good new a 141., and fine at 42.. to 426.64. per cwt.; the holders imuutliately advanced their pric► to 455. far fine quality, which was yesterday paid Inv 23011 . There is now scarcely any left in first hands. Some considerable busintms has also been done to Pattie Rice for exportation, ordinary at 245. to 2,5. and good at 295. to 30s. per cwt. A sale of I,Boobags Patna Rice. which was of good quality, went uIT steadily at 21a. to 20s %I. per cwt. The demand for Wheat has bees very limited, and as the supply has been rather large, prices have declined 3d. per bushel ; some parcels of Danzig have been forced on the mciket at 11.. Ad. 4.1 12s. per bushel. There is also hut little demand the barrel Misr, and some parcels of Phila. delphia have been mild at 455. per barrel, but at this price there is not ls offering, although nu sales to Jay exterat could be made at a hiKher price. Munn 55 long Sicily 11-Irina have been disposed of at 32/. per 100. A cargo of 1.1110 heirs 31alags Shunise was Judd by auciiiin on %Yearn sdas ; alit) bags iideriur went at Ific and SW bags, of fair qualal, at an ge of 21s. 3d. per cat. on Ppectilatirtn, sod I. won 1041 here fur re-sale at 235. per eirt.—Valoida heat ) at :WE to 911 per tun; some further extensive purchases of Olive Oil were made early in the week at its/. to $5l. 10. per tun, fur Candi*, chiefly on Lon. don account ; since which small sales have 1),o' making at 21. to 31. per tam advance. COURSE OF EXCHANGE, TvescisY, Annual IS. Amsterdam .... 37 23.0 U. Venice, I tal,Liv. 25 D I Ditto at eight .. 36 8 Malta A ineterdani.... 11 S C.F. Naples Ditto at eight .. 11 5 Palermo l29,‘l.per on. Rotterdam ..... II 92 U. Lisboa cat ; Antwerp ex. Mo. 11 12 Oporto Hamburgh.. .. 34 6 tiU. Rio Janeiro fit Altona .. 34 7 2, 1 ill:. Dublin. ..... .. 101 per Ct. Paris 3 day'ii date 24 35 C0rk.......... 10's Ditto . ..... .... 24 55 2 U. Agioof the Bank on Holland Rourdeaux .... 24 55 2 per Cent. Frankfort uu the BULLION. Main 143 ra.Mo h Portugal Gold is E a. d• Madrid ... On e ff ect. Coin, per tiz ....0 0 0 _ .. __ _ Cadiz ..... .... 30 effect Foreign Gold in Bilboa 304 effect. Ban ..0 0 0 Barcelona...... 301 i New Doubloon' _4 0 0 Seville ..... .. 3ill New Dollars .....0 5 5; Gibraltar 34 - Silver in Bars ....0 5 5 Leghorn Genoa . . 47 PRITIsIi STAPLE Aniiculs. ..... REFINED SUGAR. remain with but hole variation, the !lemma a►e muse generally at work, yet the market is not abisnolantly supplied, past sees lady with Single and Powder Loaves, which air much emoted, Moth for shipping and ex. post. Large Lumps dull, and a shade lower. Gushed steady. The demand for NI (massy" has been ennsiderable, arising principally from the scarcity and high price sit butter. (lil. —Galipois Oil has considerably advanced in cons,. simmer of its scarceness; a high price i■ now demanded for the Duly parcel here. Greenland Oil is also higher, in the absence sof accounts from Davies Straits. Southern Oil being in kw hauls maint.siii. its advanced price, though at prestos' there are few Sales ni.Long. Cod Oil is steady. eV Pi'chstel, none iu the 'nowise', what was here Ins ios; be sl , 'skin sip b) the late •p Seal Oil .cot hely LONDON: Printed and Published at the Office. No. 147, Strand; where Adreriiseeneuts are received, and Letieis (pust-paid) must be addreased.—C.Fill, Nu. elenteui's tun, Priuter.-1, WNITF, Nu. li7. Ft. ' l,l l Klstlelter. ,ts a irrnli the iiittpuOs bcro ittiti in TA sioliv Irl-`'i :t,trrie ..4llt 3!!1. Sperm Oil a WIWI, 701 p. itni V VIM COndillies to WOW. 61111 551 p4id for br ; Mr V. o:crtley lat 471. iwr last. Liuseed Oil ratio r •Owt r, and tidal at the &duke. l'orlipo, T 4 ..dap. Auroral 18, 1818, Four o'rfork. wr - . , . . .. .. . R SEGOL.—The silks to-Jsy amount to about 1,000 bills at V. • y ,1.11 MI. 010111. • rovvEr. in Cuill%t /111.1 ce of th e late rapid ad.. in prices, is not iia sorb eager demand, but snlis to a tautly rate extent were made by private contract to-day at f•all prier*. 118 LOGWOOD considerable sales have been made, chiefly In Jamaica. Rums and DRAM DT were in good demand in day, and the latter article has advanced about 11. per gallon. OD..—Very favourable accuuuts have been received 1,1. day fount Davis'a Strait■ by a ship arrived at Newcastle g 10 fish, and accounts of four oilier vcs►cla with 7,8, 9, and 10 fish in each. POSrift7E 01' LETTERS. The following letter, addressed to Robert Gar. den, E.g. Sessior MALti%ir.tie of A herders', Isav beets received limn Mr. Ilume , M.P. fur that district of burghs:— London, 241 k July, pllB. Si*—! think it proper to communicate to you, for the info, motion of the inhabitants of Aberdeen, if you stionl4 think praiser, that strict orders have been Intely given by the Postmasters-General, for every Inter sent coastwise, or by coach, to London, by any passenger, or in any box or car riage, to be seize'', t'ail the penalty of 51. to be kvird nit the writer 'dear!, letter. A few Amyl ago, a Inix, containing linen fur a young man proceeding to ludic, was shipped at Montrose file Loudon, and contained a letter of inlistibict . from a gentleman in Sloistrose to his son in India, awl a list of the contents of the box, a note was also confided to the Captain of the vessel, to be pat into the twopenny post, out his arrival in London, to intimate the arrival of the box at the wharf. These three letters were seitetl by the Cusionadiouse officers, and the Solicitor to the General Pust Office has refs ived orders to levy the penalty of M. for each letter so seized. I have had an Intervic w with Mr. Erecting, the Secretary of the Putt Office, to explain that the err... was committed through ignorauce, and to solicit the Nam, isters•Gtoicral to pardon the offence. As the Acts of Parliament are explicit, anal the Officers of the Geitesal Post (Kee are determined to enforce a very elauu, I hop.: *him jilt host may be the mums of preveutitig trouble to some of the town's-people. 1 am, Ste, your obedient Servant, JOSEPH HUME. To the Senior Magistrate of Aberdeen. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ToRT.MoUTIT, AUGUST 19. Arrived the Titter frigate from Guerusey and Jersey, with the Bishop of Winchester and plaits. Sailed the Atalanta, Stanley. fur Jamaica. Came Tutu harbour the Veugeur. FALMOUTH. AUGUST IS. Arrived the Albion pilot boat, hum the Rakcca, Pritch ard, from Jamaica in 45 (lam fur Loudon. &slat. the Heron guu-brig un a cruise. DEAL, AUGUST 17. Came down from the River last evening acid aailal , She Pilot, Wallace, for Newfoundland. . . - - Arrived and . aailed fur the River, the Helm, Carden, Gum Waterford ; Henry, Fox, from Palermo; Whim, Barchard, from Hull, for ditto. covrts, ♦vourr 17. Arrived the schooner Venns, Dorey, front Cork, with four ofhcers sod about 100 soldiers of the 68th regiowut, fur Al bany barracks. NORTR SRIELDS, AUGUST 1%. Arrived the Elias, linswahl, from Davis's Straits, with ten 6111, about 160 tuns of oil. The Darlington, Ruul ton, in going to sea, struck frequently on the bar, but got over and proceeded on bee voyage to London. ORAVF.SEND, AUGUST 17. Arrived the Anna Christina, —, from Norway ; Agne s Barclay, fiwm Danzig; Liberality, Joway, from Peters burgh ; Ranger, Murray, from Hambitrich ; I arsintore. Rosier, from Greenland ; William, Dawson, (ruin Riga; and Concordia, from Norway. Sailed the Limerick Trader, Griffiths, fur Tilled.; William and Mary, fur Cadiz; Maria, Brown, for Waterford ; Ellie, Arnold, fur Bremen ; Three friend., Witty, fur Diann-lir, &c. ; Friends, Liddle, for ditto Haabet, —, fur ditto ; Hoop, Guyt, for Atustrrdam ; sod Priam Vau Orange, Best, for Rotterdam. The Eliza, BOSWALD, arrived at Shields front the Greenland fit.liely, Irrings the following accou.st of the success of the under-mentioned ship 4, viz.— Lady Jame, of Newcastle, 10 li.11; Greneilk /Any, of ditto, S Resolution, of London, 9 ; Duel etfield Hall, of Hull, 7 fish. A YESTERDAY. PRICE OP STOC Bunk Stock... 4731 473 3 per Ct. Bed.. 7611di 3 per Ct. Co nt .... 76it 75i 7G 31pe; i;ent. (new). 96 4 per Cents 94 5 per Ct. N. An. tosih Bank L.Anu. 20 7.16 .4 Indio Bonds... 85 87 pr. Et. Bilk. 4... 18 19 pr. Ditto. t ....... 18 pr. Lottery iekets g 9/. to.. ()mount' C 0,:.. for Are ..715a, 751 ;GI 75/ BIRTH. On the lith instant, at Sir How's cottage, Madefind, the Right Hun. Lady Stourtun, sit a son. 1)1:ATI!. On Nlon,lBy. the 171 h tostnut, at I Itevie is Charter Huu•e_rivan. Soloman Houghant, aced 71. HIGH WATER THIS DAY AT 1.014 T IN BRIDGE. Alumina II after 4. I Evenitua 21 after 4.