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cases of individual success in all, forbid me, my reverend brethren, more especially in observing the universal attention to sunday schools, to found the slightest charge of supineness on our part upon the mere fact of deficiencies, however lamentable, in other cases. I feel a persuasion on the contrary, produced by numerous and very pleasing inspections, that there is resting on our minds the most earnest desire to avail ourselves of all means within our reach; and to vie with the foremost rank in doing justice to the new and responsible post we now occupy. I have already hinted at one obstacle in the way of accomplishing our desires, and that is, the want of room for our sunday scholars, both at school and at church. Allow me, however, to speak more plainly, and somewhat at large, on our express hindrances, under two heads-a want of system, and a want of pecuniary means.-From a charge by the Rev. C. J Hoare, A.M., Archdeacon of Winchester.

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REPORT OF THE CHESTER DIOCESAN BOARD.

"In compliance with the universal voice of the diocese in the year 1839, the diocesan board undertook what it has accomplished." Such is the ground on which the lord bishop of the diocese has (by a circular) entreated the secretaries of the deanery boards, the rural deans, and the clergy of the principal parishes in the diocese, to solicit donations in their respective localities to meet a serious embarrassment, viz, a deficiency in the funds of the society up to the close of 1843, of £1,166. 14s. 6d.

Connecting two such facts as these together-the accomplishment of the board's undertaking and its pecuniary embarrassment, at a time when it has proved its faithfulness to the trust reposed in it by the diocese at large; a question will, of necessity, arise-whether its funds have been mismanaged, or whether they have been inadequately supplied.

That confidence may be felt in the board's future plans of operation it will appear to be both just and expedient at the present juncture that public attention should be re-called to the work which was originally undertaken.

The formation of diocesan boards of education originated in the wish expressed and repeated by the National Society, that such an organization might take place, as should ensure facility of communication and unity of operation throughout the kingdom.

The Chester board was formed on the 3rd of January, 1839, and at the first public meeting of its members and supporters the following resolutions were unanimously adopted :

I. "That it is desirable to extend the means, and improve the system of education throughout the country on the principles of the established church." II. "That a diocesan board having been formed, local boards be established in the several deaneries for the purpose of bringing into connection all church of England schools now existing in the diocese, and to render assistance in the establishment of new schools where they may be required."

III. "That the diocesan board establish at Chester a training school for the education of masters; and that the deanery boards establish schools for the commercial and working classes, with one of each in a convenient situation, as model schools for the neighbourhood.”

IV. "That a paid secretary be appointed; and an inspector to visit schools in union, under the direction of the diocesan board."

From these resolutions it appears, that the duty devolved on the diocesan board, of establishing a school for the training of teachers, and collecting

of inspection; and that the duty of the deanery boards <ches into union, and to promote the establishment of ~ wanted, with one for the commercial and working tuses se mit, as = del sin is for the neighbourhood.

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S LALU POSUary to say, that the arrangement of the machinery for this mised rizzout great difficulty and considerable labour; Nasional Society had been so distinctly expressed, and the anrue wire se evilent and so great, that the individuals, el the band, felt it to be their duty to persevere; and Tfections to be overcome, and many advantages to e ti se encerned were satisfied as to the expediency the plan a scheme is now organized and established which rking rendered easy in order to secure a more -se-peration of the diocese.

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Suits Kalve recently occurred, seem to show that this scheme of 2 25 f greater moment than was at first anticipated. At de constläden of the Chester board was first arranged, the

on the subject of education was very different from that Less as thought to be requisite, and that which was of being accomplished with less difficulty. The 100 the mufacturing districts, and the character of educat attracted the attention of the legislature as it has De amount of brace which was to be removed, had not been had the anfount of prejudice been foreseen, by which riis remo al were to be hindered. The strength of rivalry on ters had not then been imagined or understood. The decep

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ezarments were frequently evaded had not been dispublic were hardly aware of the vastness of the work that ben a general effort was to be made for extending the benefit every in mutual in the kingdom.

dt versteling as that work appears to be at present, both from de at sutile all the stricate and complex nature of its details, no reason to doubt that it has proceeded hitherto in the right disproportion between the object aimed at, and the means of Rave been infinitely greater, if there had been no agency ich implicit ecunience could be placed, and which should be estined to reach the remotest and most secret parts of the mass to be I: no authentic sources of information had been opened, if no ans had been provided for checking contradictory statements, and of elktale mich by emmanson of reports, but general credence had been given i pati saleelis nfuenced by personal feelings or local in erests; and

menat as of in lividuals had been taken as a guide, instead of that came with the sazeti, n of collected knowledge and matured judgment; 2422). Bocossary to say, that the st ps of every remedial process would have been doubt al and uncertain, and that many opportunities of doing good 24 have been host, that much labour would have been thrown away, and that the general result would have been unsatisfactory and disappointing.

its present state of or arization, the diocesan board feels that it bas d e much towards the completion of the work, which all are engaged in pedig, and that the prospects of education in the diocese are vastly ameligally the measures introuced under its sanction.

Among the various means suggested for improving the general education of De diocèse, and for giving to it a steady and considerate religious character, the establishraent at Chester of a training school for the education of masters ranks (renost, as the most important of the board's engagements. In the report of the National Society for 1840, the following allusion was made to

this undertaking, and the prediction was then recorded which experience has proved to have been well founded. "The primary object of the Chester diocesan board is to improve popular education, both in principal and in system, as the first step towards extending its beneficial influence. This is an experiment which it was desirable that some one active and influential board should make, and the result will in course of time appear in the advanced or backward state of that diocese as compared with others in the extension of church education. The chief difficulty to be surmounted by this board will be the impatience of the public to see great results suddenly produced. The erection of school buildings is soon accomplished, and may be forthwith appealed to as a practical consequence of pecuniary grants, but the education of a body of teachers is the work of years. The advancement of pupils in scholastic knowledge, and the moral and spiritual training, is not calculable by the cubic foot: and subscribers are too apt to think that money is wasted, if nothing tangible for some time appears."

Something tangible, however, the board now has the power of appealing to in the training school, as erected and in full operation in the diocesan city of Chester.

The original estimated cost of this undertaking was £10,000; being £6,800, the sum contracted for with the builders, and the residue for the internal fittings and furniture. A fabric is thus provided which will accommodate 50 training masters, 70 commercial scholars, together with all the officers of the establishment; and also 110 daily scholars in the model school. It has already sent out between 30 and 40 masters, of every one of whom the reports are most satisfactory. The commercial scholars are at present 10 in number, but the commencement of this school promises eventual success, and great consequent diminution of expense to the board. Admission to the model school for daily scholars is an object of eager competition, thougà Chester was before well supplied with schools; and to this may be added, that several schools have been improved through the aid of temporary or organizing masters sent from the training school in answer to applications from the parochial clergy. Judicious arrangement has given to this structure the appearance of a handsome building though there is no ornament except a stone moulding and pinnacles: not a hundred pounds have been expended that could have been saved, as, indeed, will be sufficiently evident, if we compare the cost with the accommodation; and if there exist in any mind a doubt of the value of what is doing, or of its probable effect, a visit to to the training school in Chester, is earnestly and confidently invited.

With the record of facts such as these which the board is now in condition to appeal to, it is depressing and discouraging to be compelled to notice pecuniary embarrassment in connection with the training school, and especially so at the present time when a noble effort has been made in answer to an appeal urged by the National Society with extraordinary success, to raise money for the further increase of the school accommodation throughout the manufacturing and mining districts of the country. It is surprising that in a diocese of such vast extent and wealth there should have been so much difficulty in gathering for a purpose of such manifest and admitted utility the small amount of £10,000; when sums larger far have been raised locally since the board commenced its operations, for public purposes of far less general importance. It is painful to the friends of education, engaged in urging forward a work which seems so essential to the welfare and prosperity of the church, that in the hour of success, when it is desirable to extend rather than to curtail their operations, the most serious difficulty which besets them is the inadequacy of pecuniary support. The funds originally appropriated to building purposes amounted to £5,000. To this H. M. committee of council were pleased to add a grant of 2,500, on the condition that a corresponding sum should be raised within the

Čuense to meet 1, and that a school for the children of the poor shall be conbectet va the estustment. This sum was raised, principally through the cuero a and Steral sacritices of a few individuals, aided by a grant of £200 51 de Manual Society; and thus the fabric of the training school was com

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The expenses, àwever, of the furniture and internal fittings exceeded the executies at the board. The commercial school also, which had been looked to Bastera which some print might be derived, did not fill so rapidly as was ant in January the secretary was obliged to announce a deficit, both ¤ de bu da band and in that for current expenses amounting altogether to Of these two decits, the one on the building account, from de more dust be inal, and the other deficiency may with reason be atshused on the fat that while the number of commercial pupils has been very much less Dan was expected, the establishment has stood nearly at the same SADULA WHOL t have been thought necessary had the whole been fully accooned. The appeal, however, which the board has been constrained to make 1 te ket bag if the to wese, requesting him to "state the case to the secreuns i de bestery baris, to the rural deans, and to the clergy of the princiJa parses in the Locese, and entreat them to solicit donations in their respecZE POLIZES 22 Meet this serious embarrassment has not been without effect;* LM IS DE TITDET a cantiates for admission into the institution encreases as 28**İRİ is a beboel that the training school committee will be proVIDOL WITH DIE TOELTs of completing the furnishing thereof, and of giving it every BEVATTEZE W10) can be desiral from internal accommodation.

On this best the board is bound to say, that some additional expense must de im mečuriy overtrand. The model school, on which so much depends, s hand to be very insufficient in space and to be in other respects unsuitable; a fact which has arisen eat of the apparent necessity of economy, more close thu vise. The several efiets made to remedy this very serious evil have not been success 2, and it will be necessary to add to the present building an entire per Shaitan on a diferent level from the last, and with more advantages dze bijat ant ventladia

De baci de kes the arcessity for fresh expense in fitting up the story of the boas vich was intended to be the dormitory for the middle school, and hd is now partially occupied by the schoolmasters sent in, under the grant fear the Narina. Society, for limited periods, and whose expenses are defrayed by the sakin*

These zeissary objects having been once accomplished, the ordinary expenam vid mille requisite to maintain the establishment can be very matecurand, and is years roll on, this institution will be found to provide calculable beneitt the diocese at large-by the masters it will continu

orth; and to Cheshire in particular, by the school which it will offer vamental avi arricultural inhabitants. Such an establishment may Sady be termed terminance, it an average of 20 masters and 20 scholars issue For a poly, imbued with the principles which will be there inculcated, A epallod. by the education they have received, to enter upon the duties of their several saless with intelligence, directed by the influence of religion. To be conti tued.)

The result of his lon'ship's at peal is given in the appendix.

A grant from the pay counca for these works is applied for, and also for aid in providing schoow furniture, with every prospect of success.

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