The New York herald., 1851-07-15

for bringing up children in proper schools multiply
parents H0ck to the cities to enjoy them.
Gently passed. New York city win be called on t,
raise about 100000. more than ,her quota O
money receivable from the State School funds. BY
another law, almost simultaneously enacted, the
for the pur poses of tax ation has been greatly i'm
proved, so that hereafter a very much larger sun
will be raised by tax in the rural district than ever
before.
This apparently unjust contribution BY this city
and county to the support Of the common schools
Of some other counties, will be but temporary and
partial City and country have one common inte-
rest in the intelligence of the inhabitants Of BOTH
and have come from less than six per cent on tn Q
amount apportioned in lsis to thirty-two per cent
on the apportionment of 1851, as follows-
Fm The year There pas ap- The eusra appro-
Feb Is.s slssiiS i sss' slssss i s'' @ 80
The per capita allowance is a constantly dimin.
ishing sum it was in 1874, over ST. but is now but
little over IS per scholar.
The Free Academy continues to prosper, and bids
fair to surpass the hopes of those friends of popular
education who urged its establishment, and have
promoted its advancement.
The evening schools continue to afford invalua-
BILE instruction to those who unable to avail
themselves of the day schools, and although eve
ming schools have been abandoned in Boston as
conflicting with the inte rests of the other schools
no such objection exists here. There are now in
this city twenty such schools, with average
attendance of 2,945 The report of the Committee
on Evening Schools is appended.
Ihe spread OF free schools has ever been the har-
binger of material prosperity. So will it be with
US. Shall we not get back an hundred fold of all
we may be called on to pay, in the incre ased mo-
raty, good order and intelligence Of the population
The thousands of foreigners landed on our shores,
bring troops Of children, who must either occupy
the school house or the refuge for juvenile delin-
quents. Which is the cheapest, the kindest, the
wisest, in view of our QYn interests, merely-with
out taking account Of those higher motives duty
and charity to the wretched!
Let us, then, continue to improve our system of
free common school education, and let US endeavor
to win for our great city the praise of having the
best, the cheapest, and the most useful schools in
the world.
By Schedule No. /, it appears that the whole num-
Der taught in the several schools, for the year
ending 3lst January, 1851, was, including the
cOlored pupils 5O,559 and the average attendances
49, TIC 356 In the schools of the Public School So.
the primary schools, the number taught was ID $780,
and in the corporate schools, 1865.
The total amount of public money appropriated
to the support Of schools and societies. during the
year ending the 30th of April, lS5l $27i 794 So
And the amount of money appropriated by the
Board for all purposes other than current expenses
of common schools, for the same period, was
SrATEErSr SHOWING THE WHOLE MONEYS Afro
PRIATEp FOR ALL ScHooL PURPOSES, YEAR
ENDING THE BOTH APRIL. 1851.
Amount paid on account Of the Annual Ap-
portionment ........................... s2oesn SO
Amount paid to meet deficiencies, to meet the
necessary legal expenses Of the Ward
Schools 80. .......................... 921j5 g.
Amount paid to meet deficiencies, to meet the
expenses Of the Schools of the Publ
School Society. the annual appor-
tionment. ......... .................. 35,IIo 10
Amount paid to meet deficiencies, to meet
expenses of the Society for the promo-
tion Of feducation among colored children 653 Oh
Appropriated for the support Of Evening
schools $1,000 90
emy .. ...:............... 5000 90
Appropriated and paid for other purposes than
the current expenses of Commou schools, 1850 90
Appropriated for incide ntal expenses of the
Board of Education, including clerk hire. $500 90
appropriated Tor Rents Of school Houses. 27O3 %