The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-25 00:00:00

EDITION.
plied ; nor will its resources be sufficient until the
whole of the Highlands and Islands shall be provided with
those permanent means of improvement with which the
Society is so sedulously endeavouring to furnish them.
For upwards of a century and a quarter this Institution
has enjoyed the warmest patronage of the British pub.
lie ; and the good that it has already achieved, the dili-
gence with which it is conducted, and its adaptation to
the diffusion of Christian knowledge over the whole of
those Northern parts of the island, will, it is confidently
hoped, ensure to it a continuance of public liberality.
The Highlands and Islands have ever been, and still
arc, the fruitful nursery of Britain's Navy and Army ;
since the number of Scotland's soldiers and sailors bears
a distinguished proportion to those of all England, even
with Ireland added. From her heath-covered mountains
have descended a multitude of the most gallant defend-
ers of their liberty and land ; who on every field, and in
every climate, have sustained the national glory with
their valour and their blood, and ever in the battle's van
stood foremost to defend the dearest rights of Britons
and of Christians. To the generous feelings of this
brave and intelligent people what, then, can be more
grateful than to send them the Set iptures in the language
which they understand, and teachers to instruct their
children to read them ?

The schools of this Society have undeniably produced
the happiest effects upon the inhabitants at large ; since,
to be fully sensible of their real importance, it is only ne-
cessary to contrast the former condition of the High-
landers with the present state of the same people, edu-
cated and enlightened. The well-merited reputation for su-
perior intelligence and purity of morals, unshaken loyalty
and ardent patriotism, which is now so indissoluby con-
nected with the character of the Scottish peasantry, is
owing, in no small degree, to the establishment of these
schools ; since there is not now living a people more
peaceable, more honest, or more truly attached to the
Sovereign and Constitution of their country, than these
northern natives of Caledonia.

The directors confidently appeal, therefore, to a
generous public, whether a well-directed charity, thus
contributing to the best interests of the whole king-
dom, be not in every respect deserving of liberal encou-
ragement ? A Society which has, under its daily care
upwards of 20,000 children ; and from whose tuition
so many hundred thousand souls have gone forth into
public life, with all the advantages of a moral and reli-
gious education, prepared for the active exertion of
their faculties here, and trained for a life of immortality
hereafter. For this national charity, then, they most
earnestly implore that aid, of which it is so peculiarly
deserving ; and most anxiously entreat for it that as-
sistance, which can alone preserve to the rising genera-
tion its inestimable blessings, and transmit unimpaired
to posterity the invaluable legacy of their ancestor's
beneficence.

ABSTRACT OF THE SOCIETY'S FRESENT ESTABLISHMENT.
The last return of Scholars on the first and second
patents, in addition to those taught by superannuated
teachers. was about 16,000; but from the extreme diffi-
culty of obtaining frequent official accounts of the more
distant schools, this enumeration is known to be consider-
ably underrated; and, including the children taught by
the various Missionaries and catechists, &c., the present
number very far exceeds twenty thousand.
153 Schools on the First Patent, giving instruc-
tion only, amount to
32 Superannuated Teachers on ditto 378
4$ Missionaries and Catechists
108 Schools on the Second Patent, including
both instruction and manual occupations
18 Superannuated Teachers on ditto Bl

£4,234
The sum total of annual expenditure, including tho
charges for School Books, Gaelic Printing, &c, &c., is
usually above five thousand pounds.
JAMES THOMSON, Esq., the Secretary, then read the
Report, which, as will be seen from the following list,
was highly creditable to the subscribers, the total amount
announced on the occasion being not less than 1,0001.
Her Majesty gave 501. annually ; Duke of Buccleuch,
50/. annually ; Duke of Buckingham, 10 guineas ; the
Earl of Stair, 20 guineas ; the Earl of Eldon, 30
guineas; Bond Cabell, Esq., 10 guineas; Sir Augustus
D'Este, 10 guineas ; and 3501. by the trustees of a
legacy, whose names we did not hear.
The Earl of Eldon, Sir Augustus D'Este, and a few
others, left aboutiten, when The Chisholm was called to
the chair by acclamation, and filled it as became a High-
land Chieftain. More speeches were made, more songs
sung, some of them encored, and a little before twelve
the different guests left in great good humour with each
other, and highly gratified with the successful result of
the meeting.