The adoption of this Report was moved by Dr. BIGGS, of Devizes, seconded by Mr. ANDREWS, of Brighton, and carried unanimously.

The Scrutineers having handed in their Report to the Chairman, he declared that the following gentlemen had been elected Members of the Council:

so fully and minutely shown in the published the Council from the origin of the Institution, their feelings and views respecting it have been balance-sheet, that, by comparing that docu- until his death, had devoted no small part ascertained. ment with previous ones of the same kind, of his time and energies to advancing the Several of the motions to be brought forward every member can ascertain, not only the interests of the Corporation. Modest and un- to-day, relate to subjects of extreme importance actual condition of the College in this im- assuming in character, and invariably kind to the future condition and welfare of the Proportant respect, but also the degree of progress and conciliatory towards all his colleagues, fession, and therefore they demand the serious that has been made during the last two or even when opposing them, he was regarded and careful consideration of all now present. three years. The most cheering fact brought with feelings of attachment; and his death The Council will not presume to express any out by the present statement of accounts is, was deplored as a personal misfortune by the opinion respecting these motions; but will conthat at length all the old outstanding claims Council at large. clude this Report by assuring the Members which had accumulated for years have been Two measures of considerable importance that whatever measures they may determine discharged, so that for the future nothing will have been adopted since the last General Meet-upon with a view to promote the true and lasthave to be provided for except the actual curing: the institution of Monthly Evening Meeting interests of educators, will be earnestly and rent expenses of carrying on the affairs of the ings of the Members for the discussion of vigorously prosecuted by the Council, so far as College. It may not be amiss here to remark, professional subjects, and for friendly inter- their means and opportunities allow. This Corthat as those affairs become more extensive-course; and the adoption of the "Educational poration was the first body expressly organized as the Members increase, as the number of Times as the official organ of the College. to improve and elevate middle-class education persons examined multiplies, as the business The Council are very far from regretting the and educators: it has already, with limited of the Agency department extends so the trouble taken and the expense incurred in means and under various discouragements, attendant expenses must necessarily become connection with the meetings; as they are accomplished results of no small magnitude; greater. The success of the Institution, how- convinced that nothing but good can result with increasing support from the profession, ever, is not to be estimated merely by the from what has been done; but they must, at with extending influence, and greater expebalance to its credit in the Bank; as a symp- the same time, regret that so very small a pro-rience, we may not unreasonably hope to betom, that circumstance is, no doubt, import- portion of the Members have hitherto availed come more and more useful from year to year, ant; but inasmuch as we are here engaged not themselves of the opportunities thus afforded for and thus to justify the sanguine expectations in a commercial, but in an intellectual and becoming personally known to one another, of those who laid the foundations of the Instimoral enterprise, it would be a great, nay, and for the interchange of thought on matters tution. perhaps a fatal error to regard the pecuniary which affect the well-being and success of the resources at our disposal as anything more profession. It is earnestly hoped that Members than the means for the attainment of the im- will endeavour to attend on these occasions, portant and enduring objects for which we were and thus do what in them lies to remove the incorporated. reproach that has often, and too truly, been The Council cannot refrain from calling the cast on Schoolmasters, of being mutually respecial attention of the Members to the Be-pellent and incapable of hearty co-operation, nevolent Fund. Several of the oldest friends or even of free and friendly communion. of the College having, at the last General In reference to the "Educational Times," it Meeting, made some observations on this sub- is undeniable that owing to the fact that that ject, an effort was soon afterwards made, by Journal was established by, and has always issuing a circular to all the Members, to obtain been more or less under the control of Members subscriptions and donations to the fund-with of the College, it has from the first been how little success the balance-sheet too plainly generally regarded as officially connected with shows. It may be mentioned here as an in- the Corporation; and hence the College was dication of the need that exists for such a sometimes held responsible, by ignorant or illmeans of alleviating the misfortunes of the disposed persons, for whatever was published less successful members of the Profession, that in the editorial columns of the Journal. Conduring the last six months applications for sequently when an opportunity was presented assistance have been made to the Council by to the Council for acquiring a certain degree the widows of two deceased members of the of control over the contents of the "Educational College:-applications which the Council were Times," it was thought desirable to put an compelled reluctantly to reject, not from any end to the somewhat anomalous relations which doubt respecting the claims of the applicants, had existed between that Journal and the but from absolute want of means. The last Council, and to agree to the terms proposed by few years have undoubtedly been trying ones its proprietors. The Council trust that confor a large proportion of middle-class school- siderable benefit will accrue to the College from masters; and to this fact is probably owing this arrangement, the success of which will, the failure of the effort above referred to; but however, mainly depend on the support acthe Council, after making full allowance for corded to the "Educational Times" by the such causes, cannot but think that more Members generally. ought to have been done to promote an object that appeals so powerfully to the best sympathies of our nature. As, however, example is in this, as in most other cases, better than precept or exhortation, several members of the Council have put down their names as donors of five guineas each to the Benevolent Fund, conditionally on as many other members, as will make up the number of forty, being found willing to give the same or a greater sum each. In this way it is hoped that in a comparatively short time the fund may be so increased as to enable the Council to apply the interest arising from it to the relief of those for whose benefit it was instituted.

Two suggestions have been made respecting the Examinations held by the College, which the Council deem of sufficient importance to lay before the Members, although no decision has yet been come to respecting them. One is, that Teachers should be examined in the country, at certain local centres to be hereafter fixed upon, in order to obviate the great expense occasioned by travelling to and residing in London: it is believed that could this plan be adopted, a very large increase would at once take place in the number of those examined for the College Diplomas, and thus one of the great objects of the Institution would be promoted. The other suggestion is, that a similar In connection with this subject, the Council plan should be adopted for the examination of have the painful duty of referring to the loss those pupils who are at present examined on which the Corporation has lately sustained in the Proctorial plan. The Council cannot but the death of one of the Trustees of the Fund, see that many and obvious advantages would Mr. J. P. Hall, a gentleman who was one of attend the adoption of these suggestions; but the original supporters of the College, one of as this must necessarily depend on the hearty the earliest promoters of the plan for the Exa- support of the country Members, it is impossible mination of pupils, and who, as a Member of that any steps can be taken in the matter until

Dr. E. Adams.

Rev. L. J. Bernays, M.A.
Mr. J. P. Bidlake, B.A.
Rev. E. H. Gifford, M.A.
Rev. W. Hodgson, M.A.
Mr. G. Long.

Rev. J. R. Major, D.D.
Mr. R. Palmer, M.A.
Dr. Pearce.

Dr. Pinches.

Rev. J. S. Watson, M.A.
Dr. White.

And that the following gentlemen had been elected Auditors :

Mr. W. Arnum.

Mr. J. Reynolds, jun.
Mr. S. N. Stow.

The various motions, of which notice had been given, were then made seriatim.

Mr. BARROW RULE, moved :

"That this Meeting recommend to the Council to prosecute the agitation for a Scholastic Registration Act, analogous in its provisions to the Medical Registration Act, either through a Committee consisting of Members of the Council and others not Members of the College, or in whatever other way the Council may consider most judicious; and that the Council be requested to report upon the progress of the movement at each General Meeting of the College."

This motion was seconded by Mr. KIMBER, supported by Mr. PALMER, and carried unanimously.

Mr. COLEMAN, for Mr. WHARTON, moved :—

"That in order to encourage able and efficient Teachers, this Meeting desires to make a general recommendation to Principals of Schools to promote by every means in their power the amelioration of the condition of School Assistants, as regards both social position and hours of labour."

The motion having been seconded by Mr. PALMER, some discussion took place as to the expediency of, or necessity for, the adoption of an abstract resolution of this kind; but eventually it was carried.

The following alterations in the By-Laws

were then moved by Dr. PINCHES, seconded by Dr. JACOB, and carried nem. con. :—

"That for Clause 4, Section VI., of the ByLaws, the following be substituted: The Council shall have a President and three Vice-Presidents, who shall be chosen annually from among the Members of the Council.'"

Grammar School, Kingston, Jamaica;
Mr. J. Robinson, Sampford Peverell;
Mr. B. Southall, Oswestry;

Mr. J. C. Weykopf, Enniskillen.

At the same meeting the diploma of Associate "That for Clause 15, Section VI., of the Bywas granted to Miss A. A. Bingham, of the Royal Laws, the following be substituted: All officers Asylum, Brixton-hill, and to Miss S. A. Rogers, except the Auditors shall be appointed by the Coun-of King's-road, Chelsea, who had passed the required cil. They, with the exception of the Trustees examination for that degree. It was announced that the General Medical and the Secretary, shall hold their offices subject Council has placed the College of Preceptors on been appointed in their stead by a majority of the the list of Institutions whose First Class CertifiMembers of the Council assembled at a Special cates are to be recognized as guarantees of good Meeting convened for that purpose; or until they general education. The cordial thanks of the Council were unani

to an annual election, and until others shall have

shall resign or cease to be Members of the College. mously voted to Mr. Clennell, for his long and answer from the pen of the accomplished

The President, the Vice-Presidents, and the Treasurer shall be elected at the first Meeting of the Council after the General Meeting at Midsummer; and the Dean, the Moderators, and the Examiners, at the first Meeting of the Council after Easter."

Mr. B. RULE then moved the following resolution:

"That, in the opinion of this Meeting, it is desirable that a deputation from the College should apply for an interview with the Lord President of the Council for the purpose of supporting the following recommendation of the Royal Commissioners on Education: That no person shall be appointed to the Mastership of an endowed School

valuable services to the College in the office of

Treasurer.

The Educational, Examination, Finance,
Editorial Committees were appointed.

and

The following Resolutions were adopted :-
"That in all future examinations of Pupils, Can-
didates on the Proctorial Plan be known to the
Examiners by numbers only; such numbers to be
assigned to them by the Secretary."

That there be added to the balloting papers the date of each Candidate's election as a Member of the College, and his place of residence."

BENEVOLENT FUND.

The following is a list of the Gentlemen who who shall not have either taken an academical have promised a donation of Five Guineas each, on degree or obtained a certificate of competency condition that at least 40 Members in all subscribe from some authorized body;' and of suggesting the same or a greater sum each :the expediency of applying the same principle to Schoolmasters in general."

This motion having been seconded by Mr. PALMER, and remarks bearing upon it having been made by Mr. Andrews, Mr. Coleman, Dr. Altschul, and others, it was carried unanimously, with the understanding that as to the exact mode of carrying out the Resolution, the Council was to have full freedom to adopt such steps as might seem most expedient.

Mr. ANDREWS then proposed, and Mr. ATKINSON, of Warrington, seconded, a vote of thanks to the Chairman for his services in presiding over the meeting. This having been carried nem. con., Mr. JONES expressed his thanks for the compliment, and his gratification at the success of the meeting; which then broke up.

AT an adjourned Meeting of the Council, on the 29th of June, present, the Rev. W. T. Jones, M.A., in the Chair, Mr. Atkinson, Dr. Biggs, Mr. Kimber, Mr. Knightley, the Rev. T. F. Lee, Mr. Long, Dr. Pinches, and Dr. Schaible, the Draft Report of the Council to the General Meeting was settled and adopted.

The following Gentlemen were elected Members of the College:

Mr. J. E. B. Eldridge,

Mr. H. H. Godwin,

Royal Military
Asylum, Chelsea.

A Meeting of the Council was held on the 20th of July; present, the Rev. Dr. Jacob, in the Chair, Dr. Adams, Dr. Aldom, Mr. Clennell, Rev. W. Hodgson, Mr. Isbister, Rev. W. T. Jones, Mr. Kimber, Dr. C. Palmer, Mr. R. Palmer, Dr. Pearce, Dr. Pinches, Dr. Schaible, Dr. Skerry, Dr. White, Dr. E. T. Wilson.

The Rev. B. H. Kennedy, D.D., Head Master of Shrewsbury Grammar School, was re-elected President for the current year; and A. Hill, Esq., F.C.P., of Bruce Castle, the Rev. J. S. Howson, M.A., of the Collegiate Institution, Liverpool, and the Rev. J. R. Major, D.D., Head Master of King's College School, London, were re-elected Vice-presidents. Dr. E. T. Wilson, F.C.P., was elected Treasurer; and the fol

lowing gentlemen were elected Members :

Mr. W. H. Carter, B.A., Jersey;
Miss Hubbard, Margate

Mr. J. Atkinson.
Mr. J. P. Bidlake.
Mr. A. Hill.
Mr. Isbister.
Rev. W. T. Jones.
Mr. W. P. Knightley.
Mr. J. Ogle.

Dr. Pearce.
Dr. Pinches.
Dr. White.

WE very briefly noticed in a former Number the trenchant letters of " Paterfamilias" to the Cornhill Magazine" on Public School Education. These letters have been followed by two essays on Middle-Class Education, which are evidently the production of a writer of very different calibre to the well-informed censor who adopts the nom de plume of "Paterfamilias." To the first of these two essays, viz., that on "Schoolmasters," there appears elsewhere in our columns a lengthy, and, we think we may venture to say, a complete, Head-Master of Shrewsbury School. Having already given up so much space to a refutation of the article in the June number of the "Cornhill," we certainly should not have cared to concern ourselves with its July diatribe on Schoolmasters in general, had the writer not made a direct attack upon ourselves. As, however, the circulation of the Magazine in question is very large, we have thought it right to take some notice of the sneer directed against ourselves, although the ludicrous ignorance of the writer on the whole subject which he discusses would fully entitle us to treat him with silent contempt. He calls his essay, or sketch, "Middle-Class and Primary Education in England: Past and Present." Of Primary Education, past or present, his whole knowledge is evidently derived from Mr. Herbert Skeet's lately published summary of the Commissioners' Report, to which he does not acknowledge his obligation, and from which he has simply borrowed a few bare facts which, months ago, with many others, were given to the public in the "Educational Times," and their source duly acknowledged when so given. On Middle-Class Education, however, the "Cornhill" sciolist is still more abroad. Indeed confessedly, his experience is derived from two neighbouring schools as they were forty years ago. We are told, "one teacher, whom I once knew very well, joined with the art of training ingenuous youth, that of killing pigs; and it was a common thing for him to be summoned would put off his black coat, don a blue apron, to the village several times in a week, when he and march off to the pig.' Then, the writer was acquainted, also forty years ago, with "another schoolmaster about two miles away," sembled Dean Colet and Busby, that he used who knew little and taught less, and so far rehis ferule very freely. The fact, then, of his having known two village schoolmasters who lived close to each other some two score years ago, entitles apparently an elderly gentleman"ESTIMATES FOR EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND who, for aught that he has shown to the conART. In the Civil Service Estimates for 1861-2, trary, may have spent the rest of his life in rewe find the following educational items-For tailing "pigs"-to come forward, in our most Public Education in Great Britain, 803,7947.; popular Magazine, and enlighten the world in Science and Art Department, 111,484.; Public general on Middle-Class Education. Does the Education, Ireland, 285,3777.; University of Lon-writer pretend that his don, 4995l.; University of St. Andrews, 14537. normal specimen of schoolmasters forty years pig-killer" was a University of Aberdeen, 76937.; University of Glasgow, 19807.; University of Edinburgh Botanic ago; or that, even if he were, he can be held Gardens, etc., 47571.; Queen's University in Ire-out in terrorem to the present generation of land, 23367.; Queen's Colleges in Ireland, 48007.; schoolmasters? Forty years have made innuthe British Museum, 100,4147.; the Royal Society merable changes in education as in nearly of London, 1000l., of Edinburgh, 300l." everything else in this country. We regret to "OPEN COMPETITION.-The Council of Military be obliged to add, that their flight, apparently, Education, in their last programme for regulating has not infused some common sense into the the examinations for admission to the Royal brains of the Cornhill" prater. Military Academy at Woolwich, have omitted the literatures of the French, German, Latin, and As we hinted above, we should not have noGreek languages from the list of subjects. Future ticed these absurd caricatures had it not been competition will turn upon proficiency in wielding for one sentence which affects ourselves: I the languages; and large fields will be excluded in think I should, for the present, put little faith which hitherto the mere 'cramming' of certain in a Member of the College of Preceptors, books and authors has carried the day." (price, perhaps, one guinea a-year) or in any

Dr. E. T. Wilson.

CLASS LIST OF PUPILS.
MIDSUMMER, 1861.

ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA.

For Faskin, W. A. D., first in Music, of the Pupils exa-
Chesshyre, J. C...............Rev. W. T. Jones, Sydenham.

mined on the Proctorial Plan, read

In the list of London Candidates, First Class Certificates,
for Brophy, read Brophey.

In the list of First and Second Candidates examined at
the College Rooms, insert:

bridge examination for any reasonable amount be required to pass an Examination in Arts, estaof money. The cause is this, that the Univer-blished by any of the bodies named in Schedule (A) sity law holds that the Classical Examiner of the Medical Act, and approved by the General must necessarily be incompetent to examine in Council, provided that such an Examination be Mathematics, and the German Examiner in in every case conducted by a Special Board of French, and vice versá; and thus it would re- That without professing to lay down any comquire about a fourth of the fee simple of an or-plete scheme of General Education for persons dinary grammar school to pay fees for some intending to become Members of the Medical half dozen examinations to the length train of Profession, the Committee recommend that the examiners which such a system necessitates. scheme of Examination in Arts of the Licensing The onus of having thus spoken at some length Bodies be, as nearly as practicable, similar to that of ourselves we must beg to throw upon the of any of the National Educational Bodies above shoulders of the "Cornhill" critic, whose sneers specified. are only formidable from the prestige of the publication in which they appear.

THE General Council of Medical Education and Registration has terminated its Session for the present year, and agreed on the following recommendations to the Licensing Bodies in Schedule A of the Medical Act, which, as they relate to general education and examination, will be read with interest by Principals of schools, more especially those who have pupils destined for the Medical Profession. Recommendations of the General Medical Council, in reference to General Education and Examination, adopted July 6th, 1861.

The Medical Council are of opinion that it is desirable

1. That all Students pass an Examination in General Education before they commence their Professional Studies.

2. That the time of commencing Professional Studies shall be understood to be the time of commencing Studies at a Medical School, and that no Qualifying Body be held to have complied with the recommendation of the Council, which shall allow the Examination in General Education to be passed after the commencement of Professional Study.

3. That, as far as may be practicable, Testimonials of proficiency granted by the National Educational Bodies, according to the following List, be accepted, with such modifications as the Medical Council may from time to time think proper to make.

A Degree in Arts of any University of the United
Kingdom or of the Colonies, or of such other
Universities as may be specially recognized from
time to time by the Medical Council.

Oxford Responsions or Moderations.
Cambridge Previous Examinations.
Matriculation Examination of the University of

Most persons regard these examinations as being chiefly useful in pointing out how certain branches of education should be taught. Surely art cannot be taught in this way! Mr. Ruskin probably is an excellent art critic, but evidently by no means the right Examiner for these Examinations.

-which one would naturally interpret to mean, it "as the only means for the clergy to regain in 1844; to the Farnham (Gipsies) School, 100l., a simple, single line outline, such as beginners their ascendancy over the middle classes." Much repaid by Mr. Sawtell (firm of Futvoye, Sawtell, have to draw from in the School of Art at the of the talk at that meeting consisted of unmerited and Lightfoot), on account of trustees, in 1855; to South Kensington Museum; and for Model, a abuse of the Middle-class Schoolmaster, and the Finsbury Wilson-street Wesleyan School, 201., cube, cone, a prism, or some polygonal model at equally undeserved eulogies of the Public and repaid by D. Brown, Esq. (treasurer to managers), the most. But what is the case? The Juniors were National Schools. Gentlemen who come forward on account of trustees, in 1860. placed before-not an outline, but a woodcut, to make public speeches ought really to make Mr. James Skinner, late Fellow of University of what no one has yet been able to make out. themselves acquainted with the real merits of the College, Durham, has petitioned the Government Opinions are divided between its being part of a subject, and not to deal out, in support of their for the suppression of the Northern University, side of a human-headed winged Assryian bull, or a cause, misrepresentations and falsehoods instead and its incorporation into Oxford, to which the much mutilated torso of some primeval angel, for of real facts and logical arguments. What credi-petitioner urges its endowments properly belong. which Mr. Ruskin probably has an intense admirable evidence again was there given that these Mr. Skinner urges that Durham, as a University, tion. And this was to be copied, "in pen and ink," Schools were really deserving of public support? has proved a complete failure (it was stated lately respecting the use of which materials not a single Did not all the speakers cautiously avoid giving in the House of Commons that the whole number hint had previously been given !! any intimation of the peculiar religious views of its students did not exceed forty), and that it is The last part of the body which an artist will of the promoters? We must grant that Lord as expensive as Oxford or Cambridge, each of learn to draw well is the human hand, yet that Brougham is in some measure to be excused for which great Institutions offers a thousand-fold was selected for the Juniors and Seniors as the his part, because he was evidently made a cat's- more advantages to their respective Students. Mr. "Cast" to be drawn. Not a muscular hand, grasp- paw of; but the few other leading men who were Church, the vicar of Hunstanton, Lynn, on the ing a roll of paper, or one whereon the knuckles, present, were all tarred with the same brush as other hand, says, in a recently-published Letter to veins, and muscles are prominently displayed; but the promoters. Hoping you will admit this as a the Guardians, "that a Commoner's expenses at a small delicate insipid hand, neither open nor caution to the public and as some sort of an anti- University College, Durham, including all Colshut, with nothing literally to fix upon as a "point dote to the extending evil, I remain, &c., lege expenses and moderate subscriptions to the d'appui." VINDEX. boats, cricket club, and other matters of amuseBrighton, 20th July, 1861. ment, ought not, and need not, exceed £95. per annum." At the Halls at Durham the expense is still less. We learn from a Report of the Council EDUCATIONAL AND LITERARY SUM. of Queen's College, Birmingham, that Mr. Sands MARY OF THE MONTH. Cox, the Dean of the Faculty, has presented the THE exertions of the Cornhill "Paterfamilias," munificent donation of 300l. towards liquidating and other school-reformers have been successful. A tho temporary difficulties of the College. Liberal The Local Examinations for next year will in Royal Commission has been appointed to inquire donations have also been received from the Lordall probability commence at the beginning of into the state of Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester, Lieutenant of the county, Lord Leigh; from the June. The results of this year's examination Westminster, Charterhouse, St. Paul, Merchant Duke of Devonshire, the Earls of Dartmouth, will unhappily not be published until August: it Taylors, and Shrewsbury Schools. The Com- Clarendon, Harrowby, and several other noblewould be very much better if this period of sus-missioners are the Earls of Clarendon and Devon, men and gentlemen. pense could in any way be abridged.—I am, &c., Lord Lyttelton, Hon. E. Twiselton, Sir Stafford In the distributions of medals by of the Science SCHOLASTICUS. Northcote, the Cambridge Regius Professor of and Art Department of the Committee of the Coun. July 28th, 1861. Greek, and H. Halford Vaughan, Esq. These cil of Education, three pupils of the City of London gentlemen have a lengthy and onerous task before School have carried off prizes-Lambert, the gold them. A return respecting Inspectors of Schools medal, for practical and applied mechanics; Brown, THE SHOREHAM SCHOOLS. has been prepared, ordered by the House of Com-the gold medals of chemistry and electricity; and To the Editor of the Educational Times. mons on the motion of Mr. Duncombe. From it Scrymgeour, one of the bronze medals. we learn that, on the 31st March last there were The following announcement will interest others SIR,-In your last Number you gave great pro- employed under the Committee of the Privy Coun- beside Old Etonians :-"OLD ETONIANS, It is minence to a scheme of education which was pro-cil on Education thirty-six Inspectors and twenty-proposed to reprint, by subscription, Lists of Eton pounded, and presided over by Lord Brougham, four Assistant-inspectors of Schools, at a total cost School, every third year between 1790 and 1850, at a public meeting held at St. James's Hall, of 43,565l. 98. 1d. Of the Inspectors seventeen, adding such short notices as can be obtained, to for the purpose of improving Middle-class Edu- and of the Assistant-inspectors nineteen, were show the subsequent career of Eton's sons. With cation. It is to be deeply regretted that Lord clergymen of the Established Church. The salary, a view to ascertain, with as much accuracy as Brougham should have been induced to give his personal allowance, and travelling expenses of possible, what became of the hundreds of Etonians sanction to a scheme which in this locality by no each Inspector range from 7651. to 1,017., and of means meets with public support. It is true that the Assistant-inspectors from 586. to 6781. yearly. these Schools were established at Shoreham about In 1840 there were but three Inspectors, and the fifteen years ago, and the immediate result was charge was 1,2347; in 1845 there were eight, and that the inhabitants of Shoreham established an the charge 5,979.; in 1850, twenty-three, and opposition school, to which they gave the name of the charge 18,6781.; in 1855, forty-two, and the The Protestant College," Mr. Woodard's charge 30,5267. school, termed "St. John's College," being avowA return has been published of all the building edly established for the promotion of Puseyite grants granted by the National School Society doctrines. Mr. Woodard is said to have raised since the year 1811, and all the building grants and expended 20,000l. and upwards on the various granted by the Committee of Privy Council on extensions of St. John's College, at Hurstpierpoint Education since the year 1840, which have been and Lancing. About two years ago, he and his repaid previous to the year 1861, with the name friends got up a public meeting at the Town Hall of each school to which each grant has been at Brighton, and induced the Bishop of Chichester made, the amount of each grant, and the name to preside, for the purpose of obtaining public or names of the person or persons by whom each contributions for the extension of the Scheme; grant has been repaid. The return also shows to but the influential inhabitants rallied together whom or to what office the grants have been and gave a decided negative to the movement. repaid, and the dates of each grant and each The Bishop and the whole conclave were obliged repayment. The grants of the National Society to beat a retreat, without a chance of gaining a hearing amongst an audience who were well acquainted with their proceedings, and the mode of instruction carried on at the so-called Colleges

of St. John.

as they passed into the world, triennial lists of the years 1800 to 1832 have been printed on foolscap sheets roughly, and will be forwarded gratis to any Old Etonians who will furnish reliable information of their contemporaries, by addressing a line to the publisher, Mr. E. P. Williams, Eton College, Windsor. The work will be edited by an Old Etonian, who has long been engaged in collecting materials for it, and for whom communications, with reference to any period, may be forwarded through the publisher. A list for subscribers' names is opened, and the volume, when published, will, it is hoped, not exceed 10s." Should this scheme prove successful, it may give a hint to some former pupil of Winchester, Westminster, Charter House, &c., to go and do likewise for his old school.

The labours of the Philological Society are not, as Rumour insisted, likely to be interrupted by the death of its late indefatigable secretary, Mr. which have been repaid previous to the year 1861 Herbert Coleridge. The Society, however, needs are as follows:-To the Wandsworth National assistants in the task of reading books, and the School, 100l., repaid by Rev. P. Alwood in 1817; choice is still very wide for volunteer offerings, as to the Winchester Society's Central School, 100., they include almost innumerable works from those repaid by Secretary of the Society in 1818; to the of Wynkyn de Worde to those of Mr. Chas. Dickens. It was, therefore, a most consummate piece of Longdon (Worcester) National School, 201., repaid-We learn that the seventh volume of Docuassurance of the party to attempt to impose upon by the incumbent in 1831; to the Henham (Essex) ments and Correspondence written or dictated by the public credulity in London, by pretending National School, 201., repaid by Rev. G. H. Glyn Napoleon I. has been issued from the Imperial that their Scheme was for the promotion of in 1834; to the Hessle (York) National School, Middle-class Education, when it is well known, 201., repaid by Rev. Cooper in 1835. The that their whole aim is to extend their peculiarly repayments were made in every case to the treaultramontane views of religion, vulgarly known as "Puseyism.”

The first promoter of this class of schools, eighteen years ago, was Archdeacon Murray, who shortly afterwards became a pervert to Rome, and in his advocacy of the movement he described

surer of the National Society. The building
grants granted by Committee of Privy Council on
Education, under the conditions of the return, are
as follows:-To the Tidenham National School,
607., repaid by Mr. W. H. Cook (Temple, London)
on account of Rev. J. H. S. Burr and co-trustees,

Printing Press, and embraces the period of time from February 1801, to August 1802. It is estimated that the collection when completed will not amount to less than thirty volumes. Mr. Blanchard Jerrold's "Book Union" proposition, which was patronized by Mr. Layard and others, has been rejected by the House of Lords. Had the Bill passed, we doubt much whether it would have done very much to increase the circulation

of good standard works, although it might have given a short-lived spasmodic energy to the sale of such books, bad or good, as were written by the authors who were to have formed the Committee of the "Book Union" Society. The Israelite Alliance has put up for competition the following prizes: 1st. A gold medal of the value of 1000f. for the author of the best paper on the question as to what are the elements which the Jewish religion has bequeathed to those which have succeeded it as regards religious dogmas, as well as those of morality, and to prove that the morality which results from the religious documents of Judaism has nothing to fear from comparison with that of any other people or any other religion. 2nd. A gold medal of 1500f. value for the best paper tracing out the present statistics of the Jewish people on all points of the globe; examining their moral and material condition, their professions and means of livelihood; and particularly the influence which has been exercised on their condition by the greater or less amount of Liberty which they enjoy in different countries. The competitors have liberty of choice as to whether they may write in Hebrew, Latin, French, German, or English; and the Essays must be delivered to the Secretary of the "Alliance"-for the former subject, by the 1st March, 1862; and for the latter, by 1st March, 1863.

the Council, embodying their proceedings during of coniferous trees, hitherto a waste substance.
the past year. The General Committee will meet It was long ago known that pine-leaves consisted.
afterwards by adjournment.
of a bundle of tough fibrous material, agglutinated

At two evening meetings, which will take place at 8 P.M., discourses on certain branches of science will be delivered. There will also be other evening meetings, at which opportunity will be afforded for general conversation among the members.

The First General Meeting will be held on together, and bound into long rigid leaves by Wednesday, the 4th of September, at 8 P.M., when means of a resinous integument; but the practical the President will deliver an address; the con- development of this knowledge is but of recent cluding meeting on Wednesday, the 11th of Sep-date. Near Breslau, in Silesia, there are two tember, at 3 P.M., when the Association will be establishments, both of which are worthy of adjourned to its next place of meeting. notice. One of these is a factory where pineleaves are converted into a kind of cotton or wool; and the other, an establishment for invalids, in which the waters used in the manufacture of the pine-wool are employed as curative agents. These establishments have both been erected, as we are. informed, by M. Pannewitz, the discoverer of the process employed for obtaining the fibrous material from pine-leaves. This material he calls "woody wool." It can be curled, felted, or woven. It is stated that by the mode of preparation employed The sections will meet daily, from Thursday by M. Pannewitz, the woolly substance acquires a the 5th of September to Tuesday the 10th of Sep-quality more or less fine, or remains in its coarse tember, inclusive, at 11 A.M. state. In the former case it is employed as

The committees of sections will meet daily, from Thursday the 5th of September to Wednesday the 11th of September, inclusive, at 10 A.M. precisely.

tresses. The leaves may be stripped from the trees when quite young without injury, and a man may gather 200lbs. per day.

The first application of this fibrous material consisted in its substitution for cotton with woolin the manufacture of blankets. Five hundred of

D. Zoology and botany, including Phy- these were sold to an hospital at Vienna, and after

siology. Sub-section D.

E. Geography and Ethnology.

F. Economic science and statistics.
G. Mechanical science.
Notices of communications intended to be read
to the association, accompanied by a statement
whether the author will be present or not at the
meeting, may be addressed to Professor Phillips,
M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., Assistant General Secre-
tary, University Museum, Oxford; or to R. D.
Darbishire, Esq., B.A., F.G.S., Alfred Neild,
Esq., Arthur Ransome, Esq., M.A., and Professor
Roscoe, B.A., Local Secretaries, Manchester.

We learn that the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge will not, as was purposed, start their penny weekly magazine, "Our Daily Life." Rumours of lamentable and costly mismanagement on the part of the Committee of the Society in question have reached us, which we refrain from noticing at present.-President Lincoln has been presented by Columbia College with the honorary degree of LL.D. The Head of the College announced that the degree was conferred for "devotion to those principles of freedom, law, order, and union which should always find their representative in the chief magistrate of the land." That the President of the Northern Republic has been appointed a Doctor of Laws is Gentlemen desirous of attending the meeting not really such a startling announcement as that will find in the reception-room (the Portico, in the Right Rev. Leonidas Polk, Bishop of Lou- Mosley-street) blank forms of proposal, and may isiana, now holds the rank of Brigadier-General make their choice of being proposed as life memin the Confederate army. Bishop Polk is said to bers, paying £10 as a composition, or as annual be the owner of some 800 slaves. We may add, subscribers, paying fl annually and an admission that the command of this Americo-mediaval fee of £1 (making together £2 on admission); or Bishop is to be on the Lower Mississippi.-We as associates for the meeting, paying £1. Ladies learn that the total number of newspapers existing last year in the United States was 5233. Of these about 300 are daily papers; of which these having the largest circulation are the New York Times, Tribune, and Herald, each of which circulates over We learn from the report of the Astronomer €0,000 copies per diem. Of these five thousand and Royal to the Board of Visitors, that a plan has odd journals, 324 are devoted to religious topics; been formed for a series of observations of Mars, 253 are printed in German, 16 in French, 5 in with a view to the accurate determination of his Weisb, 4 in Spanish, 3 in Italian, and 2 in Swedish. parallax, but the weather was unusually bad in -The total of the civil list pensions granted for 1860, and the observations could not be made. the year ending June 20th, 1861, amounts to £1150; With the other planets there has been more suc"Poet Close's" cancelled pension accounting for cess; "the quasi-permanent existence of a belt the remaining £50. The recipients are eighteen, inclined to the ordinary belts," was noted on twelve of whom are ladies.—Mr. Duffus Hardy Jupiter, and Saturn presented at times "the has been appointed Assistant Keeper of the square-shouldered figure which Sir W. Herschel Public Records in the room of Sir Francis Pal- long ago attributed to him."

may obtain tickets, through the application of a
member, in the reception-room, price £1 each
ticket. These tickets are transferable to other
ladies only.

grave. The post is worth £1000. per annum.- The astronomical world was gratified on the
The Chair of Civil Law in the University of
Edinburgh has been rendered vacant by the death
of Professor Shank More, who had held the office
bince 1843. Several candidates for the post have
seen mentioned, but it has been resolved to post-
pone the election until November.

MONTHLY RECORD OF SCIENCE
AND ART.

THE Thirty-first Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science will commence in Manchester on Wednesday, the 4th of September, 1861, under the presidency of William Fairbairn, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S.

The General Committee will meet on Wednesday, the 4th of September, at 1 P.M., for the election of Sectional Officers and the despatch of business usually brought before that body. On this occasion there will be presented the report of

a trial of several years they are now exclusively used. Amongst the enumerated advantages, it has been stated that no kind of insect will lodge in the beds, and that the odour has been found agreeable and beneficial. Since this period, the same kind of blankets have been adopted at the Penitentiary and some other institutions in Vienna, as well as in the barracks at Breslau. Its application for stuffing purposes has been no less suc cessful; the cost being one-third that of horsehair, and its resemblance so great, that it has been affirmed that when employed in furniture, the most experienced upholsterer could not tell the difference. When spun and woven, the thread resembles that of hemp, is very strong, and may be advantageously employed for many of the purposes for which hemp is used. From this "Forestwool yarn" are now manufactured jackets, spencers, drawers, and stockings of every description; flannel and twill for shirts, coverlids, body and chest warmers, and knitting yarn. These manufactures are recommended for keeping the body warm without heating, and are very durable.

In the preparation of the wool, an ethereal oil is produced, which burns in lamps like olive oil, and completely dissolves caoutchouc. The membranous substance and refuse are compressed into blocks and used as fuel; from the resinous matter they contain, they produce sufficient gas for the lighting of the factory in which the production of these useful articles is carried on.

The Forest-wool ware manufactory at Remda in the Thuringer-wald advertises forest-wool, oil, spirits, wadding, and the other articles already enumerated.

The Annual General Meeting of the Society of Arts was held on Wednesday, the 26th June. His Royal Highness Prince Albert was re-elected 30th of June with the unexpected appearance of President of the Society,-the new Vice-Presi a comet, which is generally allowed to be larger dents being the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of than the Donati of 1858, and which has the Buccleuch, and Sir John P. Boileau, Bart. further interest of being, according to Leverrier The Society's medals have this year been and other competent authorities, hitherto unknown awarded to A. K. Isbister, Esq., M.A., for his to science. This bright stranger was observed by paper on "The Hudson's Bay Territories, their Mr. Burder, of Clifton, on the morning of Sun-Trade, Productions, and Resources, with suggesday, June 30, in the constellation of Auriga, from tions for the Establishment and Economical Adwhich it passed, or rather rushed, with inconceiv-ministration of a Crown Colony on the Red River able rapidity, through Lynx and Ursa Major in and Saskatchewan;" to Dr. Edward Smith, F.R.S., the course of only two days. On the 28th of for his Researches and Experiments on "the Nature June it had approached within 13,000,000 miles of the earth, sufficiently near to have enveloped us, as Mr. Hind believes it really did, in the luminosity of its tail, which at one time extended over seventy-six degrees of the northern sky.

A new manufacture has recently sprung into existence on the continent of Europe which promises to become one of importance. It consists in the utilization of the acicular leaves or "needles"

and Action of Alcohols in Food" and on "the Uses of Tea in the Healthy system;" to Mr. C. Ledger, for the Introduction of the Alpacca into Austra lia; and to M. F. Joubert, for the ". Application of Photography to the Production of Images on Glass which can be burnt in."

A considerable collection of Greek Sculptures, from ancient Cyrene, on the north coast of Africa, have just been added to the stores of the British