, 1866-06-29

strengthened the hands and encouraged the
hearts OF those more Immediately and earnestly
employed in the cause. But above all, and
what is perhaps the most important and desir-
able end to be accomplished, the youth of
Jamaica cannot fail to imbibe a higher and
truer estimate of the work of mental improve
ment in which they are engaged, when they
see 1t attract the notice and obtain the encour-
agement OF those high in position and diStin-
gulshed for scholarly attachments, zone touch
Of nature makes the whole world kim and none
are reader than the yonng to appreciate the
natural and spontaneous Indications of kindly
Intentions, and the consequent efforts made to
promote their weIl-being. Rank and Station
by occasionally condescending to mix and iden-
tify themselves with the more humble scenes
and concerns of life, shine in their brightest
and most honorable colours and for what he
has thus done-as we'll as for other valuable
seryices-Sir Henry Storks deserves we'll of
the country.
The Collegiate School was the first inspect
ed, and when the Visitors entered, they found
the boys seated at their writing lesson, Sir
Henry, carefully examined the specimens with
which he was very much pleased and with good
reason-for if there is one branch of study in
which Creole boys excel, it is writing. We
would confidently back q Jamaica School
against half a dozen English ones for good
Penmanship. Mr.. Morrison was then request
ed to bring forward a Latin. Glass, and they
read a passage from Virgil's Eniad with accu-
racy and tluency. AS each boy finished trans
lating, His Excellency, with the tact and apti-
tude of a professional t eacher, proposed ques-
tons of analysis and construction, which were
very correctly answered. He did not stop
here, however, butjustly considering gramma-
teal knowledge only as the means to an end,
he appeared glad to rise from what belongs
more to the tedious though necessary drudgery
of the elementary part of the work, and enter
with the boys into an examination of the flowing
numbers and brilliant conceptions of the Poet.
lie put several questions on the history and
mythology of the passage, evidently impressed
with the conviction, that unless the author is
fully comptehehded in his allhsions and image
ny, the exercise is a dry, barren, distateful task,
and the student can never be brought under
the spell of the burning words and glowing
thoughts of the great Magicians of the past,
which, through the long centuries, have come
down to us like streams of golden light, en-
Tightening and delighting the generations that
have passed away, and still exerting by their
excellence and immortal beauty an ever-abid-
ing influence on human taste and intellect.
Sir Henry having expressed himself pleased
with the performance of this class, proceeded
to examine tue 2ud GLASS iu Biography aud
by this method of examining, made it evident,
that something more than a mere glib rOte
knowledge of Names and Places is to be ex-
pected from a class we'll grounded in this dse-
full branch of study and certainly, the boys,
by their answers, showed themselves quite
equal to the high expectations expressed by
the nature of the questions put to them. They
evinced a thorough acquaintance with geogra-
phical terms-the leading physical features of
the country on which they were examined, the
position Of it's principal mountain ranges-the
directions of its rivers, with the towns on their
banks, and for what these were remarkable
showing to the examiner, what he clearly de-
sired to discover. that they depended for their
replies not so much on the map, or a painful
effort of remembering the precise words of a
text book, as on the inner map and conception
that had been, so to speak, delineated and
formed in their own minds. The Governor, we
believe was extremely delighted with this class,
as also: General O'Connor, who is a distinguish
ed azum5nas of Trinity College, Dublin, and
who, as was seen from his eloquent and practi-
cal address to the pupils Of the Collegiate in
December, possesses a refined literary taste,
and is gifted with high intellectual abilities.
His Excellency, next visited Wolmer's
School, where he expressed himself highly
pleased-particularly so with the appearance of
the girls, and to the Mico Institution under the