CHURCH SCHOOLMASTERS' ASSOCIATION. PATRON: THE LORD BISHOP of London. It appears from the Fourth Annual Report which has just been published, that this Association is making good progress in every respect but one: and even in that there seems to be nothing very alarming or discouraging. In consequence of the extraordinary expenses of the last year, which have arisen chiefly from the necessity of renting and fitting up premises, containing a room capable of seating nearly two hundred persons, the funds of the Association are not in the most satisfactory state, although they have been assisted by donations from several noblemen and gentlemen who feel a lively interest in the undertaking. Very honourable mention is made of it in the last report of the London Diocesan Board; it is there stated that "this [Society of Schoolmasters] is flourishing, whatever may be the pecuniary means of the individual members.......The greatest praise is due to all parties concerned; the spirit which characterizes the Society is excellent; and its effects upon moral and intellectual character are already perceptible. This Board are most anxious to encourage the Society, and recommend it to general attention." Meanwhile the members, upon whom it is fit that the chief burden should fall, though upon some it falls too heavily, are making extraordinary exertions. New district Associations are being formed; another language class, of nearly fifty members, has been opened under the direction of the President; and a course of lectures has been commenced by the Rev. W. H. Jones. Unfortunately the committee are unable, from want of funds, to make the contemplated additions to the library, which, however, as well as the reading-room, is still in great request. As similar associations are, we understand, in course of formation in different parts of the country, particularly one at Liverpool, under the management of the earnest inspector, the Rev. H. H. Higgin, it may answer some purpose to give a wider circulation to the following amended RULES AND REGULATIONS. " 1. That this be an Association for the improvement of Schoolmasters whose Schools are in connexion with the Church of England, as certified by the Clergyman of the Parish; and that it be called "THE CHURCH SCHOOLMASTERS' ASSOCIATION.' 2. That any Parochial or National Schoolmaster, or other member of the Church of England, desirous of joining this Society, be proposed and seconded by two of the members, and his election be decided by vote at the following meeting. 3. That an admission fee of Two Shillings and Sixpence be required of each member, and a yearly subscription of Five Shillings, to be paid in advance: the year to commence on the last Saturday in October. Any member whose subscription remains unpaid for three months, is considered to have withdrawn from the Associa tion. 4. That part of the Funds of the Society be appropriated to the purchase of Books, to be circulated among the members. A sale of all duplicate copies to take place from time to time, and the proceeds to be added to the general fund. 5. That the selection of Books, and the general management of the affairs of the Society, be entrusted to a Committee, consisting of the President, Treasurer, Secre tary, and Librarian, to be elected at a Special General Meeting, and twelve other members of the Society who shall be appointed at the Annual Meeting, and be N eligible for re-election: all interim vacancies in the Committee to be filled up by the members who stood next on the Ballot at the previous Annual Meeting. The Committee to meet on the last Saturday in each month.-Five members to form a quorum. 6. That the Meetings be held at the Society's House, Exeter Street, Strand, on the first Saturday in every month, at Three o'clock in the afternoon; and that twelve members form a quorum.* 7. That the minutes of the preceding Meeting having been read and confirmed, a paper be read by a member, and the rest of the time be devoted to discussion; both the paper and the discussion to be on topics connected with School-keeping. The subject of the paper to be announced at a previous Meeting. 8. That at all Meetings of the Association, in the absence of the President, a Chairman be appointed by the members present: and that each Meeting commence and terminate with a form of prayer selected from the Book of Common Prayer. 9. That District Associations be taken into union, and their members received as members of this Society, upon their rules being submitted to and approved of by the Committee. 10. That an Annual Meeting be held on the Third Saturday in October, when a Report of the Society's proceedings, and the Treasurer's Account (the said Account having been audited by two members appointed by the Committee), shall be presented. 11. That a Special Meeting be convened at any time by the Committee, or upon a requisition being addressed to the Secretary, signed by not less than one-third of the members; and that no alteration be made in these Rules, except by a Special Meeting called for that purpose, notice of which, with the alteration proposed, is to be given a fortnight previously. Law Reports. MARLBOROUGH GRAMMAR SCHOOL. In the Court of Chancery, March 2, 1843. Mr. STUART replied for the petitioners in this case, who prayed the appointment of a visiter ad interim, and a declaration as to the propriety of continuing a more extended system of education introduced by the master. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the Crown had, at the foundation, delegated a part of its visitatorial authority to the mayor and corporation of Marlborough. His Lordship suggested that the bishop of the diocese, the Marquis of Aylesbury, and the Mayor for the time being, if a member of the Church of England, or, if otherwise, the senior alderman who was, should be appointed governors, or quasi visiters. If an order were made to change the system of education formally, and make it a commercial instead of a grammar-school, it would not only be contrary to the intention of the founders, but would deprive the school of the advantage of the exhibitions to Brasenose College. It was far better, as now done, that the additional branches of instruction should be furnished for a small annual payment by the parents of the scholars. With respect to the costs, they must be allowed to the petitioners, as far as related to the question of a visiter: and as to the remainder of the petition, time would be taken to consider. *The Reading Room is opened on Wednesdays, from 6 till 9 o'clock, P.M., and on Saturdays from 3 o'clock until 9. P.M. HIGHGATE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. NEW EXHIBITIONS FOUNDED. Mr. BETHELL appeared in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on March 17, in support of a petition to confirm a report of the Master, approving a scheme for founding exhibitions to the Universities out of the surplus funds of the Highgate Grammar School. The report of the Master showed that the surplus now amounted to an annual sum of £180, and held out a prospeet of still further increase from the prosperous condition of the school and the improvement of some of the charity property. Under these circumstances, the trustees proposed the establishment of one or more exhibitions of £50 a year to either university, to be held for three years that any person should be a candidate who had received his entire education at the school, and had been approved of at a public examination-that in case of equality of merit in general scholarship the selection should be made by the trustees, and that the payments should be made half-yearly upon certificates of good conduct from the head of the college. The trustees also proposed that they should have the power to reduce the value or the number of the exhibitions, without prejudice to the rights of the present possessors, and that the first election should take place in 1844. These proposals were framed upon the plan adopted at Rugby and other public schools with regard to exhibitions to the Universities, and also had the sanction of the Bishop of London. The master of the school had also most honourably foregone any claim to an increase of salary out of the surplus funds, and thus no obstacle was offered to the scheme of the trustees, which only now required the sanction of the Attorney-General and the Court. Mr. WRAY, on behalf of the Attorney-General, expressed his unqualified approbation of the scheme, which he would bring under the AttorneyGeneral's notice. The VICE CHANCELLOR thought the scheme a very proper one, and directed the report to be confirmed, subject to the Attorney-General's approbation. Statistics. DISPOSAL OF PARLIAMENTARY GRANT. AVERAGE OF NAT. SCH. COMPARED WITH BRIT. and FOR. AVERAGE OF ENGLISH N.S. and B. & F., COMPARED WITH SCOTCH. Education, Science, and Art.- By a statement just laid upon the table of the House of Commons of the estimates for 1843-4, for the purposes of education, science, and art, it appears that there will be required for public education in Great Britain, £50,000; ditto in Ireland, £50,000; schools of design, £4,411; Professors at Oxford and Cambridge, £2,006; University of London, £5,148; Universities, &c., in Scotland, £7,380; Roman Catholic College in Scotland, £8,928; Royal Irish Academy, £300; Royal Hibernian Academy, £300; Royal Dublin Society, £5,600; Belfast Academical Society, £1,950; British Museum Establishment, &c., £32,576; ditto buildings, £37,485; ditto, purchases, £5,275; National Gallery, purchase of pictures and expense of the Gallery, £1,600; Museum of Economic Geology, £2,008; and Scientific Works and Experiments, £4,000-the total for the year 1843-4 is £218,967. The total for 1841-2 was £212,524; and for 1842-3, £,210,889. In the expense, therefore, of 1843, as compared with 1841, there will be an increase of £6,443, and as compared with 1842, of £8,078. Vacant Scholarship at Oxford.-There will be an election at Pembroke College on the 4th of May next to a scholarship founded by Sir Thomas Phillips for natives of the county of Pembroke, between 14 and 20 years of age. Candidates are required to produce a certificate of their baptism, signed by the parson, churchwardens, and overseers of the parish. Persons who intend to offer themselves are desired to notify the same to the Master ten days previously to the day of election. University in Canada.- Within the last few months King's College has been formed into a University, of which the Governor-General is Chancellor, the Lord Bishop of Toronto, President, and the Rev. Dr. John M'Caul, Vice-President. The following extracts from The Church (Toronto Paper) will be read with interest:-"On the Rev. Dr. John M'Caul, as acting head of the University, devolves the general management of the whole system, in addition to the discharge of the duties of Professor of Classical Literature and Belles Lettres. That Dr. M'Caul will most competently discharge the honourable and arduous duties with which he is entrusted, the province is perfectly satisfied, both from the well-earned reputation which he brought to this country, and from the very efficient and successful manner in which he has presided over Upper Canada College. In the maturing of the plans for the organization of the University he has borne a principal and laborious part; and his recent appointment is but a tribute due to his merits and exertions. Independently of his high scholastic attainments, and acknowledged experience in practical education, he is well acquainted with the habits and feelings of the people of this Colony." Church Education Society for Ireland. -The refusal of the Government to recognize the claim of this society upon the coffers of the state, has had the effect of arousing the energies and increasing the liberality of the friends of Scriptural Education in the city of Armagh. There, nearly £400, including, of course, a munificent contribution from the Lord Primate, have been raised within the last week or two in aid of the society's schools. The deputation appointed to collect subscriptions were, we understand, signally successful. In the majo. rity of cases the contributions of former years were more than doubled; and in only three or four instances was there a positive refusal. We mention these facts, not merely to inform our readers of what is doing, and has been done, but to stimulate Protestants in other localities to prove by increased exertion and greater liberality, that not in Armagh alone does a desire exist for the maintenance of the schools established by the Church Education Society.-Newry Telegraph. Rugby School. At the annual election to the two scholarships founded by the Masters of Rugby School, Cox major, at the Rev. Mr. Highton's, and Baumgartner, at Mr. Stanley's, were declared by the Examiners to be the successful candidates. Appointment of Local Inspectors.-At a meeting just held at Brigg, in Lincolnshire, it was resolved, "That two Examiners be appointed by the Local Board, in conformity with the suggestions sent by the Parent Society for promoting the education of the poor, at the first formation of the Local Boards, and in submission to the approbation of the Bishop of the diocese, and to the laws and arrangements of diocesan Board. The duties of such Examiners being "1. To visit and examine every school in union with the Local Board, occasionally at their own convenience, and statedly to assist at the anniversary public examination of such schools. "2. To visit every church school in the district, according to their ability and convenience; the convenience and concurrence of the Managers being always first obtained. "3. To assist at the examinations of any schools within the district, when particularly requested to do so. "4. To furnish the Rural Dean with annual reports of the schools in union, for the use of the Local Board. "It was also agreed, that the expenses of the journeys of the Examiners for these objects, shall be defrayed out of the funds of the Local Board. Also, that the Rev. the Rural Dean, and the Rev. the Head-master of Brigg School, should be requested to undertake these offices. "Also, that books on the subject of education be sent from time to time to the clergyman of each parish in union, for the use of the master or mistress in his |