The New York herald., 1851-07-15

the current expenses of Common Schools 1860 90
Appropriated for inciden ntal expenses of the
Board of Education, including clerk hire $500 90
Appropriated for Rents Of School Houses 27O3 25
sas6,S76 81
EVENING SCHOOLS.
he committee evening schools congratulate
the Board on the which continues to reward
their efforts. The experiment of organizing eve-
ming schsos for the education Of those whose ages
or avocations prevent their attending the day
schools, was first made in the winter Of l8i7-S,
with six schools, which were attended by ,24 pu-
pills, average for the term. The second year there
were fifteen schools, with an ave .age attendance of
2,l90; the third year, there eighteen schools
with an attendance Of 2,i90; and the present sea-
son, with twenty schools, there has been average
attendance Of 2,9i5, being an increase Of noarly
twenty per cent over that Of last year.
An equally gratifying improvement has been
ticeable in the good order attention to studies and
obedience to the rules and regulations governing
the schools. With attendance iuctuating be-
tween two and six thousand, composed of indivd-
uals Of all ages, from twelve to more than sixty
years, natives not only of our own, but of almost
every country Of Eqrope-many Of them utterly
unable to speak our language, or to understand it
when spoken-it might well enough be supposed
that the teachers would experience great difficulty
in maintaining order and discipline Such, how
fact. desire to learn, is the feeling with which
the great mass attend our evening schools aud
finding themselves personally interested in having
good order and quiet in the class room, the teacher
uds uttie ulHculty, blter Tue uTst lew evenings:
good order becomes q matter Of course and he is
enabled, in consequence, to devote all his time to
instruction.
During the present season, above nine thousand
persons were registered in the schools, large por-
tion of whom eccived more or less instruction ia
the various branches there tau yht. Four thousand
nine hundred and twelve were entirely luainted
with arithmetic, and thirteen hundred and twenty
one were unable to read. Some there were, adults
too, who were obliged to commence with the alpha
bet. The mass Of those who could not read at all
when they entered school, were able to road very
well in Cobb's Third, and Bentey's Pictorial
Reader, ut the close Of the term, while those who
were entirely ignorant Of arithmetic, could cipher
with ordinary facility in all the fundamental rules
In many individual cases, much greater progress
than this was made
TIE SYSTEM OF POPULAR EDUCATION.
Mr.. Bradish, Chairman OF the Special Commit
tee, presented a report on the system OF popular
education, from which we take the following ex-
tracts;-
Whatever regards the subject of popular educa-
tion is, in any community, and especially in such
one as that of the city of New York, matter ofthe
deepest fsblc interest. IL was, therefore, natural
and fitting that the Chief Magistrate of the city, in
entering on the discharge Of the important duties
of his office, should, in his inaugural message, in
presenting to the consideration Of the Common
Council the great interests Of the city, as proper
subjects for their delibcration and action, have
called their attention to the department of Com
mon Schools. The terms in which his Honor the
Mayor has been pleased to do this, are Of the
grayest import, and well calculated to lead to the
most serious reflections lie says" find, In
looking over the estimates OF appropriations to be
provioed foI the current year, that OF the total
amount to be raised by tax, (s2,S57 ,59O no less
than IN sum OF si,iii,goo rs Tor the support OF
tnree departments, VIZ Police, school, and Aims
iouse; and over the two latter the corporation OF
.ne Guy 1i Sew i9rk mas no eontrsi whatever; but
Is compened by the laws OF the S,ate, to raise, by
.,,, .axsnon, whatever sums the organizations con.
uo'ng .nem may see NJ 10 require trust tnat
n ,ne amount uemahaeu LOT schooi purposes (Se5i,-
V) VIII nave tne enect OF directing 10 TINS subject
tne attention OF tnose VINO contribute TINS sum,
ano, unless nc.eh haa WIN reference 10 placing
IN tne municlPsi auhoiities some control over the
o. ns a m mo .ns br viii rom