The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-29 00:00:00

all ranks are trained, till they either complete
their course of preparatory studies for the
university, or exchange the acquisition of the
dead languages for the active pursuits of
life. The High School of Edinburgh, which
is entirely a day school, has subsisted for two
centuries, and has till lately been attended by
the sons of all the more wealthy classes of the
town itself, and by the children of the aristo-
cracy. Nor is it necessary that an establisment
of this kind should be more promiscuous in its
admissions, or less select in the quality of its
scholars, than other great classical establishments
founded on the principle of monastic residence.
In such a metropolis as London for instance,
there might be several schools of this kind esta-
blished for the benefit of different quarters of the
town and of different classes of society. On
thii point we may again appeal to what has
lately taken place in the northern part of the
island. Complaints having been made by some
of the upper classes in Edinburgh, either that
the situation of the High School was incon-
venient, that its management had deteriorated,
or that its admissions had become too hete-
rogeneous ; and the establishment having thus
falle❑ (whether justly or not we shall not
stop to inquire) into a kind of disrepute
with the aristocracy, a new classical aca-
demy was formed about six years ago, on
the same principle of day tuition, which, being
freed from the objections made to the former in-
stitution, has now become the rival of its early
success. Sir Walter Scott, and many of the men
most distinguished for rank or acquirements in
that capital, zealously promoted the erection of
the new school, and its success has been such as
leaves nothing to desire. It last year, we are in-
formed, had attracted 520 boys of the best fami-
lies in Scotland, with a considerable number
from the north of England. We have received
a plan or outline of the system pursued, and of
the expenses incurred, at this establishment,
which, like every thing else connected with im•
provements in the efficiency or economy of pub.
lie instruction,cannot fail to interest a great class
of our readers. It is intended for boys from
between eight or nine to fifteen or sixteen years
of age, who are taught the English, Latin,
Creek, and French languages, geography,
arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and writing. It
is placed under a body of directors, a rector,
four classical and four other masters. The
classes into which the pupils are divided are
seven, beginning from the youngest ; the
hours of attendance are from nine in the morn-
ing to three in the afternoon. The vacation lasts
for two months in the year. The whole expellee
of the school, for all the branches of instruction
above numerated, is as follows : there are no
other payments for any purpose whatever, nor
are any presents or gratuities by the pupils per-

mitt .
First class £7 0 0 for the Academical Session.
Second ditto 9 0 0 ditto.

Third ditto
Fourth ditto ll 10 0
Fifth ditto .
Sixth ditto

ditto.
ditto.
ditto.
ditto.

Seventh ditto ... 11_ 10 0

ditto.

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The number of pupils in each class are limited
to 110, and as the establishment has been formed
by a capital subscribed by shareholders of 501.
shares, the children and grandchildren of Pro-
prietors have a preference, provided their names
be given in to the Secretary three months before
the opening of the school after autumn. There
are no boarding houses attached to the aca-
demy, but the masters are not prohibited from
taking boarders. We can only find further room
for the programme of what is taught in the two
tipper classes :

SIXTH CLASS.

,L ATI x. —Virgil Horace Livy Compositions in
Prose and Verse—Recitations—Antiquities.
Gagric.—Xenophon's Anabasis—Homer and &phocles
—Compoiition in Prose.
ENGLISII.--Milton or Shakspeare, and Composition.
ARITHMETIC, as far as the Extraction of the Square and
Cube Roots—Algebra, as far as Quadratic Equations.
GEOMETN.Y.—The Firbt Three Books of Euclid.
Gxoo:tartm—Anci,nt and Modern.
Faxmc fr.—Elementary instruction in Grammar, and
wading au easy author.

SEVENTH CLASS.

LATlX.—Virgil—Horace—Tacitus—Cicero, and selec-
tions from Juvenal—Composition in Prose and Verse—
Recitations—Antiquities.
GRSX K. —Herod lotua—Homer—CE4chylus---and Com-
positions in Prose and Verse—Recitations—Antiquities.
FRENClL—Rending Prose and Verse, and Recitations.
31 ATH EMA TICS.The First Six Books of Euslid—
Plane and Spherical Trigonometry—Conic Sections—
Algebra, as far as contained in our most approved Treatises.
Hitherto the course of instruction carried on
in this establishment has succeeded to the entire
satisfaction of its patrons and of the public who
are admitted to witness its examinationz. After
devoting so considerable a space to the descrip-
tion of this example of a day-school institution,
it would be needless to add, that we think the
subject of no small importance, and that, in our
opinion, a similar establishment would have at
least as good a chance of succeeding in this me-
tropolis as either the King's College or the Lon-
don University.—lbid.
The Standard of last night has the following
passage :
" The new police is not similar to, but worse than
the gent d'armerie. It is professedly a corps of
spies, which the gent d'armerie is not. In a little
time it must be, not a national body, but an Irish
Brigade, while the gens d'armerie is a body of
Frenchmen, homogeneous to, and naturally sympa.
thising with, the people among whom it acts; we
eay that the police must soon become an Irish bri-
gade ; and to prove that it must, we have only to
eke the fact, that every decent Englishman, even
to the degree of a day labourer, enrolled in the
body, is already retiring from it. Its ranks mast,
therefore, of
.necessity, be filled by those who take
the lowest wages, and perform the drudgery of the
metropolis, viz. the Popish labourers imported from
Ireland. Now, though it may be highly important
as in the eyes of the John Bull it would seem to be
(not being of the silver fork school, we lea incom-
petent judges) to mortify would-be fashionables,'
and the rejected of clubs,' we apprehend that it
would be paying too much even for that high object
to pm-chase it at the expence of placing the metro-
polis, and all which it contains, in the hands of a
body of Popish Irish spies, subject to no civil con-
rout, and at the command of his Grace the Duke
of Wellington! What would the Parisians say of
gem; d'armerie recruited in England, or Prussia, or
Switzerland ? What would our ancestors have
thought of such a project, had it been broached by
one of the Popish advisers of Jarae;; the Second ?"
In the above remarks two objections are tak.en
td the New Police ; one having reference to the 1
prine;pr• itself, aceoraing to which crime should
be preventet.:, and the other to the particular
mode of carrying :./'e principle into execution.
To prevent the comtnijon of crime supposes
the observing criminals. But, _tl order to kekow
.who are criminals and who are hones: men, it is
.necessary that an eye should be kept on all meri.
The persons to whom this office of observation
is entrusted may be called spies if you please.
No men like their actions to be observed by those
who are opposed to them ; and as most Govern-
ments hitherto have been opposed to the people,
and consequently distrustful, they have
usually
raiployed pet sons to watch suspected individuali