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Second. The establishment of a sufficient number of permanent schools of different grades, according to the population, in every neighbourhood, with a suitable outfit of buildings, furniture, appendages, and apparatus.

Third. The specific preparation of teachers. as far as practicable, for the particular grade of schools for which they are destined, with opportunities for professional employment and promotion through life.

With an enthusiasm usually awarded only to the nary for this purpose was established at Göt- the duty of parents to send their children to successful soldier. In more than one hundred tingen, in 1738, and by its success led to the school, or provide for their instruction at eities and villages, in upwards of one thousand institution of a similar course of study and home-was enforced by law in Saxe-Gotha, in schools, by more than fifty thousand teachers, practice in Jana, Halle, Helmstadt, Heidel- 1643; in Saxony and Wirtemberg in 1659; init is estimated in a German school journal, was berg, Berlin, Munich, &c. Hildesheim in 1663; in Calemberg in 1681; in the anniversary marked by some public de- In 1735 the first seminary for primary school Celle in 1689; in Prussia in 1717; and in every monstration. The following notice of the ap-teachers was established in Prussia, at Stettin, state of Germany before the beginning of the propriate manner in which it was celebrated in Pomerania. In 1748 Hecker, a pupil of present century. But it is only within the last. in Leipsic, by founding a charity for the Franké, and the founder of burgher, or what thirty years that government enactments have orphans of teachers, and for poor and neg-we should call high schools, established an in- been made truly efficient, by enlisting the lected children generally, is abridged from an stitution for teachers of elementary schools in habits and good-will of the people on the side extended notice in Reden's School Gazette. Berlin, in which the king testified an interest, of duty. We must look to the generation of "At the first school hour, the elder pupils of and enjoined, by an ordinance in 1752, that men now coming into active life for the fruits the city school at Leipsic, were informed by a pub- the country schools on the crown lands in of this principle, universally recognized, and in lic address of the distinguished merits of Pestalozzi New Marck and Pomerania should be supplied most cases wisely enforced in every state, large as an eminent teacher, and a programme, with his by pupil teachers from this institution who and small, Catholic and Protestant, and havportrait,handed to them; this programme contained had learned the culture of silk and mulberries ing more or less of constitutional guarantees an address to the citizens of Leipsic, by the Rev. in Hecker's institution, with a view of carry- and forms. Dr. Naumann; the plan of a public charity, to being forward industrial instruction into that called the Pestalozzi Foundation, (Hiftung,) by section of his kingdom. In 1757 Baron von Director Vogel; and a biographical sketch, by Fürstenberg established a seminary for teachers Professor Plato. At ten o'clock, the elder pupils at Munster, in Hanover. In 1767 the Canon of the burgher school, and delegates from all the von Rochow opened a school on his estate in schools, with their teachers, and the friends of education, assembled in the great hall of one of Rekane, in Brandenburg, where, by lectures and the public schools; on the walls were portraits of practice, he prepared schoolmasters for country Pestalozzi, adorned with garlands. Addresses schools on his own and neighbouring proper were made by the Rev. Dr. Naumann, who had ties. To these schools teachers were sent visited Pestalozzi in Yverdun, and by other gentle- from all parts of Germany, to be trained in the men, while the intervals were enlivened by songs principles and practice of primary instruction. and music composed for the occasion. In the In 1770 Bishop Febinger organized a norinal Fourth. Provision on the part of the governevening a general association of all the teachers in (model) school in Vienna, with a course of lec- ment to make the schools accessible to the Leipsic was formed, for the purpose of establishing tures and practice for teachers extending poorest, not, except in comparatively a few inthe Pestalozzi Foundation,' designed for the edu- through four months; and about the same stances, and those in the most despotic governcation of poor and neglected children." time the deacon Ferdinand Kindermann, or ments, by making them free to the poor, but von Schulstein, as he was called by Marin cheap to all. Theresa, converted a school in Kaplitz, in Fifth. A system of inspection, variously orBohemia, into a normal institution. Between ganized, but constant, general, and respon1770 and 1800, as will be seen by the following sible-reaching every locality, every school, table, teachers' seminaries were introduced into every teacher, and pervading the whole state, nearly every German state, which, in all but from the central government to the remotest three instances, were supported in whole, or in district. part by the government. As the demand for The success of the school systems of Gergood teachers exceeded the supply furnished many is universally attributed by her own eduby these seminaries, private institutions have cators to the above features of her school law, The schools of most of the teachers and edu- sprung up, some of which have attained a po- especially those which relate to the teacher. cators whose names have been introduced were, pularity equal to the public institutions. But These provisions respecting teachers may be in reality, teachers' seminaries, although not in no state have such private schools been able summned up as follows:so designated by themselves or others. Their to sustain themselves, until the government 1. The recognition of the true dignity and establishments were not simply schools for seminaries and the public school system had importance of the office of teacher in a system children, but were conducted to test and exem- created a demand for well-qualified teachers. of public instruction. plify principles and methods of education, and And in no state in Europe has the experiment 2. The establishment of a sufficient number these were perpetuated and disseminated by of making seminaries for primary school tea- of Teachers' Seminaries, or Normal Schools, means of books in which they were embodied, chers an appendage to a university, or a gym- to educate, in a special course of instruction or of pupils and disciples who transplanted nasium, or any other school of an academic and practice, all persons who apply or propose them into other places. character, proved successful for any consider- to teach in any public primary school, with able period of time, or on an extensive scale. aids to self and professional improvement At the beginning of the present century there through life. were about thirty teachers' seminaries in ope- 3. A system of examination and inspection, ration. The wars growing out of the French by which incompetent persons are prevented Revolution suspended for a time the move from obtaining situations as teachers, or are ments on behalf of popular education, until the excluded and degraded from the ranks of the success of the new organization of schools in profession through unworthy or criminal conPrussia, commencing in 1809, arrested the attention of governments and individuals all over the continent, and has led, within the last quarter of a century, not only to the establishment of seminaries nearly sufficient to supply the annual demand for teachers, but to the more perfect organization of the whole system

In Dresden a similar charity was commenced for the benefit of all orphans of teachers from any part of Saxony. The same thing was done in nearly all the large cities of Germany. In Berlin a Pestalozzi foundation was com menced for an orphan-house, to which contributions had been made from all provinces of Prussia, and from other states of Germany. To the direction of this institution Dr. Diesterweg has been appointed.

As has been already stated, on the authority of Franke's biographer, and of Schwartz, Raumer, and other writers on the history of education in Germany, the first regularly-organized teachers' seminary, or normal school (not normal in the sense in which the word was originally used, as a school of children so conducted as to be a model or pattern for teachers to imitate, but a school of young men who had already passed through an elementary, or even a superior school, and who were preparing to be teachers, by making additional attainments and acquiring a knowledge of the human mind, and the principles of education as a science, and of its methods as an art), was established of public instruction. in Halle, in a part of Hanover, prior to 1704. The cardinal principles of the system of priAbout the same period Steinmitz opened a mary public instruction as now organized in class for teachers in the Abbey of Kloster- the German states, areberge, near Magdeburg, which was continued

duct.

4. A system of promotion, by which faithful teachers can rise in a scale of lucrative and desirable situations.

5. Permanent employment through the year, and for life, with a social position and a compensation which compare favourably with the

remuneration for educated labour in other departments of business.

6. Preparatory schools, in which those who wish eventually to become teachers, may test First. The recognition on the part of the their natural capacity and adaptation for by Resewitz, by whom the spirit and method government of the right, duty, and interest of school teaching before applying for admission of Franké and the pietists were transplanted every community, not only to co-operate with to a Normal School. into the north of Germany. In 1780 lectures parents in the education of children, but 7. Frequent conferences and associations for on philology and the best methods of teaching to provide, as far as practicable, by efficient mutual improvement, by an interchange of the Latin, Greek, and German languages were inducements and penalties, against the opinion and sharing the benefit of each others' common in the principal universities and higher neglect of this first of parental obligations experience.

schools. The first regularly-organized semi-in a single instance. The school obligation- 8. Exemption from military service in time

of peace, and recognition, in social and civil life, as public functionaries.

9. A pecuniary allowance when sick, and provision for years of infirmity and old age, and for their families in case of death.

10. Books and periodicals, by which the obscure teacher is made partaker in all the improvements of the most experienced and distinguished members of the profession in his

own and other countries.

IV. The candidates are allowed to answer as THE NEW REGULATIONS FOR ADMISSION many questions as the time allotted to the subject INTO THE ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY, will permit.

WOOLWICH.

THE following are the revised regulations for the admission of Gentlemen Cadets to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich:I. All candidates for commissions in the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers are required to go through a course of instruction at the Royal Miliin London twice a year, in January and July. Competitive examinations for admission are held They are conducted by examiners appointed for the purpose, in the presence and under the superintendence of the Council of Military Education. The following Table has been compiled from The candidates, until the examination in July, recent official documents and school journals, 1861, must be between 16 and 20 years of age; and without being complete, is accurate as far after that date, between 16 and 19 years of age. as it goes. Calinich, in an article in Reden's II. The admissions will be determined by the Magazine, estimates the whole number of pub-result of the examination, the subjects of which lic and private seminaries in Germany at one will be as follows, viz. :— hundred and fifty-six, and the preparatory 1. Mathematics-Pure (including 500 for the) schools at two hundred and six:

With this brief and rapid survey of the his-tary Academy. tory and condition of Popular Education in Germany, we will now pass to the number and location of Normal Seminaries in the different States of Germany.

PRUSSIA

differential and integral calculus,)*......2500
Mixed, (staties, dynamics, hydrostatics) 1000,
45 2. English-Language and Composition,
History and Geography of England
and its dependencies

3. Classics-Latin-Language

....

Geography and History of
Ancient Rome......

V. No candidate will be admitted unless he obtain an aggregate of at least 2500 marks.

VI. The successful candidates will remain under instruction for about two years and a half, or until ledge to pass a satisfactory examination, and they they are sufficiently advanced in scientific knowwill then receive commissions in the Royal Artillery or Royal Engineers. If, however, they should be sufficient proficiency in military exercises, they will found unable to qualify themselves within three years in their professional studies, or to acquire a Ibe subject to removal.

VII. Each cadet on joining will be required to books, &c., and to produce the following articles, pay a sum of 257. to cover the expense of uniform, which must afterwards be kept up at his own expense, viz. :-Nine white shirts, four flannel waist coats, nine pair of socks, six pair of drawers, nine pockethandkerchiefs, six towels, one clothesbrush; two combs and brush, one Bible and Prayer-book, one looking-glass, one portmanteau. He will also be required to pay a contribution of 627. 10s., payable in advance, for each half-year of the time during which he remains under instruction. The annual contributions, however, for sons and orphans 1000 of naval and military officers, will be regulated at 500 the following rates, as heretofore :

3500

1000

1000

1000

Greek-Language

Geography and History of
Ancient Greece.........

500

Superior Seminaries:-Stettin, founded 1735; Potsdam, f. 1748; Breslau, f. 1765; Halberstadt, f. 1778; Madgeburg, f. 1790; Weissenfels, f. 1794; Karalene, f. 1811; Braunsberg, f. 1810; Marienberg, f. 1814; Graudenz, f. 1816; Neuzelle, f. 1817; Berlin, f. 1830; Cöslin. f. 1806; Bunzlau, f. 1816, Bromberg, f. 1819; Paradies, f. 1838; Erfurt, 4. French Language.... f. 1820; Büren, f. 1825; Meurs, f. 1820; Neu- 5. German Language wied, f. 1816: Brühl, f. 1823; Kempen, f. 1840. 6. Hindustani-Language Königsberg, reorganized, 1809; Ober-Glogau, reor., 1815; Posen, f. 1804; Soest, f. 1818; Löwen, f.

1849.

Small, or Secondary Seminaries:-Angerberg, f. 1829; Mülhansen, Griefswald, f. 1791; Kammin, f. 1840; Pyritz, f. 1827; Trzemesseo, f. 1829; Gardelegen, f. 1821; Eisleben, f. 1836; Petershagen, f. 1831; Langenhorst, f. 1830; Heiligenstadt, Eylau Alt-Döbern, Stralsund.

For Female Teachers:-Münster; Paderborn; private seminaries in Berlin (Bormann); Marienwerder (Alberti); Kaiserswerth (Fleidner). AUSTRIA

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Vienna, f. 1771; Prague, Trieste, Salzburg, Inspruck, Graz, Görz, Klagnefurt, Laibach, Linz,

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Dresden, f. 1785; Fletcher's seminary, f. 1825;
Freidberg, f. 1797; Zittau. Budissin, Plauen,
Grimma, Annaberg, Pirna, Waldenburg.
BAVARIA

Bamberg, f. 1777; Eichstadt, Speyer, Kaisürslau
tern, Lauingen, Altdorf, Schwabach.
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Esslingen, Oehringen, Gmünd, Nürtingen, Stuttgart, Weingarten, Tübingen.

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Geography and History of India...
The examination in French, German, and
dustani will include writing from dictation.
7. Experimental Science, i. e. Chymistry, Heat,
8. Natural Sciences, i. e. Mineralogy and Geology
Electricity, including Magnetism, ....
9. Drawing-Elementary geometrical drawing,
including the use of drawing instruments...
Free-hand drawing of machinery, architec-"
tural, topographical, landscape, or figure
subjects

1000
1000

For sons of Admirals and of Generals having regiments, 801.

For sons of Generals without regiments, 701. For sons of Captains and Commanders of the 1000 Navy, and of Colonels and Regimental Field 1000 Officers of the Army, 60l. Hin

1000
1000
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500

III. No candidate will be allowed to be examined in more than five subjects, of which one must be mathematics, and no one who does not obtain at least 1000 marks in mathematics, of which 700 at least must be in pure mathematics, will be eligible for an appointment.†

From the other subjects of examination each candidate may select any, not exceeding four in number, in which he desires to be examined. The rules for counting marks are as follows:

In French, German, Experimental and Natural Sciences, one-sixth of the marks allotted to each subject must be gained before it can be allowed to

count.

In English, Hindustani, and drawing, the subject is divided into two sections as above, either or both of which the candidate may take up as one subject; but he will not be allowed to count the marks gained in either section unless they amount to one-sixth of the number allotted to it.

In classics, also divided into two sections (Latin and Greek), the marks appropriated to the geo3graphy and history of ancient Rome or Greece will not be allowed to count unless one-sixth of the marks allotted to the corresponding language has been gained, in which case, however, any number of marks gained in geography and history will

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In either French, German, or Hindustani every candidate will be required to obtain 100 marks for qualification; and in geometrical drawing 50 marks; whether he takes them up as subjects in which he desires to compete or not.

For sons of all Officers of the Army and Navy under the above ranks, 407.

For sons of Officers of the Army and Navy who have died in the service, and whose families are proved to be left in pecuniary distress, 201.

The sons of General Officers who are paid only on their commissions as Field Officers will pay the same contribution as the sons of Field Officers. The sons of officers on full or half pay will pay alike; but the sons of officers who have voluntarily retired on half-pay, or received the difference, will only be admitted on the terms prescribed for the sons of private gentlemen-viz., 1257. per annum.

The sons of officers of the civil departments of the army and navy, of officers of the permanent Militia staff, and of adjutants of the Volunteer force, are admissible to the Academy upon the same officers. terms as those prescribed for naval and military

The sons of Indian naval and military officers will be admitted on the same terms as the sons of officers of the Queen's service.

The sons of professors at the Staff and Royal Military Colleges, at the Royal Military Academy, and at the Royal Military College, Addiscombe,607.

The sons of masters at the above institutions, 40/. VIII. Any gentleman who wishes to present himself at one of the half-yearly examinations must send in his name to the Military Secretary at the Horse Guards one month before the time of examination, fowarding with his application to be noted the following papers :

1. An extract from the register of his baptism,* or, in default of that, a declaration before a magistrate, taken by one of his parents, giving his exact

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1 It should be understood that, though only a small
qualifying test has been imposed in respect to
modern languages and geometrical drawing, a
knowledge of them on admisson will contribute 3. A statement of the subjects of examination in
greatly to a candidate's future success at the Royal which (in addition to mathematics) he may desire
Military Academy.

*See Syllabus annexed.

N.B-The examination in arithmetic, algebra, 1 plane geometry, logarithms, and plane trigonometry 1 will be close and searching.

to be examined.

* When the register of baptism does not contain the date of birth, it should be accompanied by a memorandum, signed by one of his parents or guardians, stating the day on which the candidate was born.

A candidate who has been examined before, when he applies for leave to present himself again, will only be required to forward the list of subjects he selects, and a certificate from his tutor or the head of his school, &c., for the interval between the two examinations.

IX. The candidates will be inspected by military surgeons on the first day of the examination, in order that it may be ascertained that they are free from any bodily defects or ailments calculated to interfere with the performance of military duties. Extreme short sight, or any serious defect of vision, is regarded as a disqualification.

W. F. FORSTER, Military Secretary.
SYLLABUS OF EXAMINATION IN THE DIFFEREN-

TIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS.
Differential Calculus.

The meaning of Differentiation.
The Differentiation of Elementary Functions of
one Independent Variable.

The theorems of Taylor and Maclaurin, with their applications.

The theory of Maxima and Minima, with its applications.

The equations to the Tangents, Normals, and Asymptotes of Plane Curves.

The curvature of Plane Curves and their radii of

curvature and evolutes.

Three Scholarships of 801. a-year each will be filled up at Lincoln College on Tuesday, May 21. Candidates are to leave their names with the Rector on Thursday, May 16, between the hours of 2 and 3.

in Easter Term, 1858, and a second-class in the final examination in Easter Term, 1860.

There will be elections of one Fellow and three Scholars in Trinity College on Trinity Monday, May 27. The Fellowship is open to such as have The Vice-Chancellor has addressed the following passed all the examinations required by the Univerreply to a memorial on the subject of Essays and sity for the degree of B.A., and do not possess any Reviews" from the Clerical and Lay Association for benefice or property which would disqualify if the Maintenance of Evangelical Principles :- acquired after election; but candidates must either "Rev. and dear Sir,-I have laid before the be already in Holy Orders, or absolutely engage to Hebdomadal Council of this University the memo- be ordained within two years. The value of the rial which you presented to me, requesting me to Scholarships is about 751. per annum; they are take measures to procure or pronounce an authori-tenable for five years, and open to candidates betative declaration or decision, setting forth the tween 16 and 20 years of age. Candidates for the judgment of the University of Oxford as to the Fellowship will be required to exhibit the usual truths contravened or the errors promulgated in a but if not, an attested copy of their register of testimonials, and, if ordained, their letters of orders, book entitled Essays and Reviews. "The Council has taken the memorial into its baptism, and in the case of those who have not grave consideration, and I am instructed to state yet graduated, the Testamur of the public examito you that in order to comply with the prayer of hers in the final schools; for the Scholarship an the memorialists it would be necessary that the attested copy of their register of baptism, and Council and myself should bring the subject before testimonial of character from their College or the Convocation of the University-a body com- be transmitted or personally delivered to the Preinstructors. These papers must, in all cases, either prehending between 3,000 and 4,000 members of different ranks and professions, and we think that sident, on or before Saturday, May 18, between All candidates will anything of a judicial sentence on matters of doc- the hours of 10 and 12 a.m. trine would be more satisfactory if it proceeded May 22. The examination will begin the same call upon the President at 9 a.m., on Wednesday, day,

from a tribunal very differently constituted.

The Differential Co-efficients of the Arcs and "We observe that the Archbishops and Bishops, Areas of Plane Curves to rectangular and polar Co-whose especial province it is to watch over the ordinates, and of the surfaces and volumes of solids faith and to reprove error, have pronounced their opinion on the book in question, and are understood to have the matter still under their con

of revolution.

Integral Calculus.

The meaning of Integration.

The Integration of Elementary Functions.
The Integration of Rational Fractions.
The determination of the lengths and areas of
Plane Curves and of the surfaces and volumes of
solids of revolution.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, APRIL 8.

There will be an election at Brasenose College to (at least) three Open Scholarships in the ensuing Act Term-viz., one of the value of 807., and two of the value of 731. per annum, of which last one will be awarded with especial regard to mathematical attainments. Candidates, who must produce evidence of their being under 20 years of age, together with the usual testimonials of good conduct from their college or school, are required to call on the Principal before 10 a.m. on Tuesday, May 28.

Four Scholarships at Pembroke College, one of the value of 701. a-year, tenable for five years, three of the value of 801. a-year, tenable for four years, to be awarded for proficiency in classics or mathematics, or both, will be filled up in the ensuing Act Term. The examination will begin on Tuesday, June 4, at 9 o'clock, in the College hall. Candidates must be under 20 years of age. They are to call with evidence of age and testimonials as to character on the Master or Vice-Gerent on or before Monday.

APRIL 12.

sideration.

There will be an election at Worcester College of an Exhibitioner on the foundation of Lady Holford on the 27th of April. Candidates must present to the Provost in person on the 26th of April testimonials of moral and religious character. value of the Exhibition is 20l. per annum. entirely open.

CAMBRIDGE, APRIL 8.

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"We regret that the 'liberty of opinion' in the Church of England which you highly value should ever be carried so far as to give pain to pious minds, but we believe that the general and warm expression of veneration for the authority of Holy Scripture and of faith in the great truths of the The Vice-Chancellor has informed the members Gospel which the publication of the book to which of the Senate that he has received the commands your memorial refers has called forth tends to of his Royal Highness the Chancellor of the Uniprove that the confidence which our Church re-versity to ascertain whether there are any gentleposes in her ministers is rarely abused.

"We believe, too, as you do, that discussions
such as that which has now arisen, however dis-
tressing, and however injurious in the first instance,
must ultimately serve under God's providence
to deepen and strengthen the foundation of the
faith.

"I am, rev. and dear Sir, your obedient humble
servant,
FRANCIS. JEUNE, Vice-Chancellor.
"The Rev. Allan G. Cornwall."

APRIL 13.

men at Cambridge who would desire to compete for the appointments mentioned in the subjoined communication which has been addressed to his Royal Highness by the Right Hon. Lord John Russell:

"Foreign Office, March 30. "Sir, I have the honour to acquaint your Royal Highness that I propose to nominate a certain number of candidates to compete before the Civil Service Commissioners for the appointment of Student Interpreter in China or Japan, and I shall have great pleasure in including in the list of candidates the names of any three gentlemen of the and Bible Clerkship at this College took place Chancellor may recommend for that purpose, and The election to the Postmastership, Scholarship, sides, whom your Royal Highness or the ViceUniversity over which your Royal Highness prethis morning, and resulted in favour of the fol-whose age may be within the prescribed limits of nett, of Rugby School. Classical Postmaster-Mr. John Holland Sten-between 16 years complete and 20 years com

lowing:

MERTON COLLEGE.

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The Vice-Chancellor has received from the Right
Hon, the Earl of Derby, Chancellor of the Univer-
sity, addressed to his Lordship by the Right Hon.
Lord John Russell, Her Majesty's principal Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, a letter stating The Vice-Chancellor has published a second
that he will have pleasure in nominating, as candi- letter from Lord John Russell to Lord Derby on
dates for the office of Student Interpreter in China the subject of Student Interpreters in China and
or Japan, any three gentlemen of the University of Japan. The object of the letter is to state that the
Oxford whom Lord Derby or the Vice-Chancellor age of candidates is extended, for this time only, to
may recommend. The advantages of the offices 25 years.
are set forth in the letter. They are the same
as those published in our intelligence from Cam-
bridge.

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"The object for which such appointments are made is that the persons on whom they are conferred should, in the first place, devote themselves to the study of the Chinese or Japanese language, as the case may be, and in the next place should qualify themselves generally for the public service vernment may always have at their disposal persons in China or Japan, so that Her Majesty's Gocompetent to discharge the duties intrusted to Her Majesty's consular officers in those oountries.

"The salary which is assigned to the office of Student Interpreter in either country is at the rate of 2007. a-year, to commence from the date of departure from this country, the passage from England to the place of destination being, moreover, provided at the public expense.

"I enclose a statement of the subjects in regard to which the relative capacity of the candidates will be tested by the examination; and I would add that, as the climates of China and Japan are considered to be more or less trying to English constitutions, the probability that the health of candidates will be such as to bear a residence in those climates will be taken into consideration by the Civil Service Commissioners.

Value per Annum.

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"I have further to observe that candidates must *One Foundation Scholarship clearly understand that if they succeed in obtaining +One Johnson Exhibition one of the vacant appointments, of which, as regards One Taylor Exhibition China, there are six, and, as regards Japan, two, to Four ditto be filled up on the present occasion, their retention in the public service, and their future advancement Subjects-Arithmetic, Algebra, Euclid, Plane in it, will depend entirely on the ability which they Trigonometry, Conic Sections. The classical submay show after their arrival at their desti-jects are not restricted to any particular authors. nation, and on their general steadiness and good Prose and verse composition will be set. conduct.

"I propose to leave the successful candidates, in rotation, to elect whether they will take one of the appointments in China or one of those in Japan.

"I have only to add that, if your Royal Highness should be disposed to avail yourself of my present offer, I should be glad to be made acquainted, as soon as possible, with the names of your candidates, as I should wish that the examination should take place as soon after the 1st of June as may suit the

Civil Service Commissioners.

"I have the honour to be, Sir,
"Your Royal Highness's
"Most obedient humble servant,
"J. RUSSELL."

The Vice-Chancellor requests that the names of those gentlemen who may wish to become candidates may be forwarded to him by the tutors of their respective Colleges at their earliest convenience.

Heads of Examination.-General Intelligence. Précis, Orthography, Handwriting, First Four Rules of Arithmetic, First Four Books of Euclid, Translation from Latin into English, Translation from French into English, General Knowledge of Modern Geography. Limit of age for candidates, 16 to 20, both years inclusive.

Professor Willis will deliver Sir Robert Rede's Lecture in the Senate-house, on Tuesday, May 14, at 2 o'clock. The subject of the lecture will be, "The Social and Architectural History of Trinity College from the Foundation of King's-hall and Michael-house to the present time."

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Every candidate must send in his name to the Tutor (the Rev. J. C. W. Ellis), on or before the 14th of September, and (if not already admitted, a member of Sidney College) the date and place of his birth, the names and residence of his parents, the place of his education, and a certificate of good conduct from a graduate inember of the University or a beneficed clergyman.

On the motion of Dr. Pinches, it was unanimously resolved, That the Secretary be instructed to convey to Mrs. J. P Hall the expression of the Council's deep regret at the loss of her much respected husband, who was for upwards of fourteen years a member of the Council.

The following were then elected members of the College

:

Mrs. M. Barrett, Brompton.

Mr. G. De Chastelain, Merton.
Mr. E. J. Gibbs, Brighton.
Mr. C. H. Gorbell, Braintree.
Rev. S. Lodge, M.A., Horncastle.
Mr. W. Martin, Hatfield.

The following gentlemen, who had vacated their seats in the Council by non-attendance, were una

Candidates must present themselves in the Col-nimously re-elected members thereof:lege hall, on Wednesday morning, October 9, 1861, at 9 o'clock.

*Will be given for proficiency in Classics, and limited to candidates under 20 years of age.

Preference to Oakham and Uppingham schools. will be tenable for one year, but any exhibitioner will Will be given for proficiency in Mathematics, and be eligible for re-election.

APRIL 19.

John Andrews, Esq., F.C.P.
John Atkinson, Esq., F.C.P.
Rev. J. D. Collis, D.D.
Rev. E. H. Gifford, M.A.

W. B. Hodgson, Esq., LL.D., F.C.P.
Rev. H. A. Holden, M.A.
Rev. T. F. Lee, M.A.
Rev. W. A. Osborne, M.A.
Rev. P. Smith, B.A.

Rev. F. Temple, D.D.

James Templeton, Esq., M.A.

The Rev. E. J. Selwyn, M.A., was also elected member of the Council in the place of Dr. Sayer.

The following Gentlemen were then elected Honorary Members :

H. W. Acland, M.D., Regius Professor of Medicine, University of Oxford.

James Apjohn, M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the University of Dublin.

H. J. H. Bond, M.D, Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge

QUEEN'S COLLEGE OFEN SCHOLARSHIPS. There will be an examination at Queen's College on Wednesday, October 9, and Thursday, October 10, for two scholarships, open to all persons, under a 20 years of age, who shall not have commenced residence in the University. The Scholarships will be of the value of 401. per annum each, and will be tenable till the scholarship examination in the College next following. One of them will be awarded for proficiency in classics, and the other for proficiency in mathematics. The classical part of the examination will comprise the translation of passages from the best Greek and Latin authors, and composition in those languages. The mathe- Robert Christison, M.D., Professor of Materia matical part will be limited to papers in Euclid, Medica and Pharmacy in the University of Edinarithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, and conic sec-burgh. tions, treated both analytically and geometrically D. J. Corrigan, M.D., President of the College with problems arising out of those subjects. Each of Physicians, Ireland. candidate must forward to the President of the College, on or before October the 1st, a certificate of baptism, and a certificate of good conduct from a graduate of Cambridge, Oxford, or Dublin. The successful candidates will be required to enter their names on the Boards of the College, and to commence residence on October the 12th. Further particulars will be furnished by the Rev. W. M. Campion, Tutor of the College.

WINCHESTER COLLEGE.

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COLLEGE OF PRECEPTORS.

of March: A meeting of the Council was held on the 30th

Chair, Dr. Aldom, Mr. Bidlake, Mr. Clennell, PRESENT.-The Rev. Dr. Jacob, Dean, in the Mr. Herbert, Mr. Isbister, the Rev. W. T. Jones, Mr. Knightley, Mr. Long, Mr. J. Reynolds, Dr. Sharpe, and Dr. White.

Mr. Law, one of the late Trustees, attended the meeting, for the purpose of handing over to the Chairman the amount of the Benevolent Fund, lately invested in the Chelsea Savings Bank, for re-investment in the names of the new Trustees. The Treasurer read the Quarterly Report of the Finance Committee, which was adopted.

D. Embleton, M.D., University of Durham. Charles Henry Leet, M.D., Stephen's Green, Dublin.

James Syme, Esq., Professor of Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh.

Allen Thomson, M.D., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in the University of Glasgow. Älexander Wood, M.D., President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Andrew Wood, M.D., President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

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Dr. Biggs, of Devizes, has forwarded to the Secretary a second subscription of 198. to the Teachers' Prize Fund, to which we beg again to call our readers' attention.

Mr. Wm. Martin, of Hatfield, has given a dona. tion of one guinea to the Benevolent Fund.

METROPOLITAN EVENING CLASSES, SUSSEX HALL-A deputation of the committee and friends of the Metropolitan Evening Classes met the Bishop of London on Monday afternoon, at London House, and on the motion of Earl Granville it was resolved, "That considering the great good which the Metropolitan Evening Classes have done, and the benefits which they might still render to the young men of London, an effort be made for reestablishing them on a new and broader basis; and and R. Whittington, Henry Cole, Esq., Harry that with that view the Revs. Charles Mackenzie Chester, Esq., H. S. Thornton, Esq., Henry Hoare, Esq., Thomas Whittington, Esq., and Mr. Marshall Carpenter, be appointed a committee to ascertain what subscriptions are likely to be contributed for their re-establishment, and to prepare a scheme whereby the institution may be made self supporting for the future." It was proposed to convert the classes into a Metropolitan College, and it was understood that 6004, had been already subscribed towards this object.

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of thousands of pounds per annum for the and managers of the principal public schools, as it education of the children of the working classes. would very much assist the inquiry if it could At all events, let not Christ's Hospital-which be carried on in an amicable manner with the has done so much good in its generation, and heads of these institutions. He would put it to the has been, even according to its bitterest ene- hon. member whether it would not be better to mies, so very partially diverted from the ori-postpone his motion for that night, until the Goginal purpose for which it was intended, that vernment had communicated with the heads of the public schools." the only charge brought against it is, that it Sir Cornwell Lewis's answer tallies, partly has in some few" cases admitted the children of fathers who had 4001. or 500l. per annum,at least, with the newly-published recommendaletnot Christ's Hospital alone, we say, be singled tions of the Royal Commissioners. Every one out for animadversion. There are endowments who has thought anything about the matter left to both our Universities, on condition that must hope earnestly that nothing will happen they should only be filled by sons of the poorest to prevent the action of the Government in this classes: these conditions are now ignored, case. A man may not plead for another on the and such exhibitions are held, not by paupers' most trivial point in a court of justice, or even sons, but by those who have shown themselves feel his pulse, without having been previously possessed of certain educational qualifications. licensed as a fit and competent person to do so Founders' intentions are always worthy of nay, he may not even sell beer to his neighconsideration; but it may be doubted whether bours without having his antecedents carefully THE EDUCATIONAL TIMES. these same founders would sometimes approve inquired into, and without having satisfied a of what is now-a-days often proposed in their bench of magistrates that he is duly capable of undertaking the onerous responsibilities of ELSEWHERE in these columns will be found The Commissioners, after uselessly insisting, a public-house proprietor. If, however, the a short summary of the Report of the Royal we think, upon the poverty of the aborigines of would-be beer-seller be not allowed to gain a Commissioners on Education. "Christ's Hos- Christ's Hospital, suggest some changes which livelihood by retailing malt liquors, he need pital-its abuses and defects," forms the will probably in due time be carried out. The not at all despair. He has a very profitable heading of one short section, which we will income of Christ's Hospital in 1859 was, it career before him, if he only have some wit briefly notice. That Christ's Hopital has both appears, 60,9301., and of this, some 60007. was and plenty of impudence. Though he be not "abuses and defects" is very possible. If it contributed by donation governors. This good enough to dole out half-pints of vilbe weighed, however, against our other great system of donation governors is disapproved lanously-adulterated malt, he is quite fit to schools, we do not think it will be found of by the Commissioners; and probably with teach boys and girls. That he knows nothing wanting. The Commissioners waste some good reason. Governors, it is urged, should whatever himself, is of no consequence, as learning in proving that the Hospital was be appointed on the grounds of personal quali- there is no one to find this fact out. originally intended for poor children; and the fications only; and the Hospital should be -res nulla minoris heaviest charge they can bring against it placed under the inspection of the Privy CounConstabit patri quàm filius," now is, that boys are occasionally admitted cil. Furthermore, it is recommended "that says Juvenal; but, in the present case, the whose parents have incomes exceeding 4007. the presentations and exhihitions should be broken-down beer seller who has turned schooland 5001. a year. These cases, even according bestowed by merit," that is, by a competi- master has a vigorous ally in the sham gentility to the Commissioners, are not very numerous; tive examination-a suggestion of which we which is now-a-days so rife. The small farmer and we confess we should be exceedingly sorry thoroughly approve-and that the expediency or the tradesman who will scorn to send his to see this noble foundation closed to all but of keeping up the boarding-school at Hertford son to the national school, will patronize the pauper children. Poverty is, in many cases, should be considered, and that a composition quack who teaches all the ologies for £20 per deserving of sympathy and aid; but we think be made with parishes and companies pos- annum. Protests have been long made against even poverty can be too much encouraged. sessing presentations." The Commissioners this abominable state of things; but the plea Government now provides amply for the edu-add, that if such improvements as these should against centralization has hitherto been too cational needs of the mechanic's children, who be adopted, "Christ's Hospital might not only strong for those persons who proposed to reare taught and examined by thoroughly capa- be made an admirable place of education itself, ble persons. For 28s. per annum, the son of but it might act indirectly as a great encouthe small farmer or artisan can obtain a prac- ragement and stimulus to education among all tical education, such as no money could have classes of the people." These words lead us procured for the great grandfather of an Eng- to hope that Christ's Hospital will be dealt lish Duke. We make no complaint that this with fairly and considerately; and to this treatis so. Far otherwise, indeed; but we ask ment its past and present merits fully entitle our rulers to extend their sympathies beyond it. the range of bricklayers and costermongers. We make no appeal ad misericordiam for the poorer portion of our professional classes; but we say at once that Christ's Hospital has conferred enormous benefits upon them: ; and that to divert its revenues from their present use to the sole aid of pauper children, would be a fatal piece of reform. The clergyman, the physician, and the lawyer, do not find it "Sir G. C. LEWIS said Parliament had recogso easy to educate a large family, that they nized a difference between schools which enjoyed can afford to see our greatest metropolitan endowments and private schools which did not school turned into a huge national workhouse, possess any such endowments. The former had which is, apparently, what some of our contem- been subjected to the supervision of Parliament in poraries, if not the Commissioners themselves, past years; and a Royal commission had been issued actually suggest as right and proper. The to inquire into the Universities of Oxford and "Daily News," for instance, has had in Cambridge, and there had been subsequent legislaits columns an angry leader, insisting upon tion with respect to these universities, and the minor the glaring perversion of the endowments of class of endowed schools were brought under the Christ's Hospital, and adding that they ought Commissioners, whose powers were created by Act jurisdiction of Parliament, especially of the Charity to revert to those for whom they were originally of Parliament. intended; in other words, that nobody above Government could not but recognize the public by your correspondent "T. M." in the last imthe rank of a weekly labourer should have a schools of England as a fit subject for public in- pression of the "Educational Times," I send son in that school. To this we can only reply, quiry, and they were not unfavourable to the mode the subjoined extract from the "Hull News." that circumstances have utterly changed since of inquiry indicated in the question of the hon. "COUNTY COURT, HULL. the foundation of Christ's Hospital, inasmuch member. The Government were desirous, in the "Ridsdale v. Gough.-Plaintiff is a schoolas the nation now contributes some hundreds first instance, of communicating with the heads master, and sued the defendant for 21. 12s. 6d.,

medy it. Government at last seems about to take the matter into its own hands; and we trust the days are gone by for ever, when the broken-down artisan or mechanic can, without any one qualification for teaching, flourish as the Archididascalus of some unhappy neighbourhood which he has succeeded in bewildering by his hand-bills and vocal impudence.

The Royal Commissioners recommend that WE beg to call the attention of our readers of an endowed school who shall not have either no person shall be appointed to the mastership to the reply of the Home Secretary to Mr. taken an academical degree, or obtained a cerDuff's question on Tuesday last :tificate of competency from some authorized the Government intended to inquire into the state certified to, and if duly made, confirmed by the Mr. G. DUFF asked the Home Secretary whether body; and that every appointment shall be of discipline, studies, and revenues of public schools, Privy Council.

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as well as those of endowed schools.

Under these circumstances, the

This recommendation is a

good one, so far as it goes; but the day must surely be close at hand, when it will be no longer possible for any man who has proved himself unfit for every other appointment to turn schoolmaster, simply because he can find nothing else to do.

CORRESPOndence.

To the Editor of the Educational Times. SIR,-In reference to the subject of inquiry

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