information I have been enabled to procure, a very different result is brought out. Number of Scholars in Church Schools in the following Parishes.

In the course of one year, ending March 31, 1846, the Dissenters' daily schools in London and within ten miles, were visited and inspected by the agent of the British and Foreign School Society; the number of schools found by that inspector within the limits of the above-named seven parishes were twenty-one, and the number of scholars 3709. A few Wesleyan schools, and all those of every other denomination of Dissenters, are included in this return; some addition must be made for an increase of scholars since March last past, and for some schools that are, in fact, though not in name, British schools. There are, also, many Wesleyan congregational and privately sustained schools, of which the British and Foreign School Committee have no record; but the Wesleyans themselves only claim for the whole of London 5069 daily scholars, as reported at their last Conference: so that if one-fourth of that number be taken for the seven parishes, which form about a quarter of the population of the whole of London (some deduction being made for Wesleyan schools included in the twenty-one above stated, as a set-off against any under calculation), we shall have 1267 to add to the former number 3709, and thus gain an additional total of 4976 scholars, to annex to the 17,877 in the Church schools. No private schools where the children pay from 3d. to 6d. per week are included in these returns, nor any of those commonly called dames' schools; there are also causes operating in the metropolis, which will make the destitution appear greater than it really is; but if to the number of daily scholars thus ascertained to be 22,853, we add ever so many thousands to represent those numbers that are not ascertained, we are forced upon the conclusion that there are still between 20,000 and 30,000 poor children to be provided with the means of instruction in seven parishes only of the metropolis. Taken upon the most favourable calculation, therefore, the destitution in this most important branch of our social economy cannot be denied; and the humiliating fact must be acknowledged, that in this wealthy metropolis, the centre of mercantile enterprize, the depository of wealth, and the seat of luxury, many thousand children are growing up without any instruction, secular, moral, or religious; juvenile delinquency continues in consequence to increase; and it would be superfluous to cite from official reports of prisons, and the public records of crime, how much ignorance contributes to, and is the great cause of, all this juvenile depravity.-Letter to the Bishop of London by the Rev. R. Burgess.

Law Report.

ENGRAFTING NATIONAL SCHOOLS ON OLD ENDOWMENTS.

THERE is not a more difficult question connected with national education than that of endowments-their use and abuse. On the one hand, they appear to be in many places almost essential; and yet there are hundreds of instances (witness the reports of the Government Inspectors, especially

Mr. Allen's) in which they are positively injurious, often serving merely as an excuse for nothing being done. The following decision and order of Vice-Chancellor Sir J. K. Bruce, we respectfully commend to the notice of trustees and all other parties connected with, or interested in, similar charities. Let no time be lost in drawing up a liberal and well devised scheme, with suitable rules and regulations. The report hereto annexed will afford some useful hints as to what steps should be taken to obtain the sanction of the Court of Chancery.

IN THE THE MATTER OF OZLER'S CHARITY.

(Before Sir J. K. Bruce.—Dec. 12.)

This was a petition presented in the matter of the above charity, and of the acts of Parliament 52 George III, providing a summary remedy for abuses of charity trusts, and 3 and 4 Victoria, for extending the benefit of grammar schools, and of 1 William IV, respecting conveyances by trustees and mortgagees. After stating the will of Robert Ozler, by his will dated in 1697, by which he founded a school at Low Leyton, in Essex, with a stipend of £12 a year for the master, and that, by an order of the Court of Chancery, dated in 1709, in an information respecting the charity, a reference was made to the Master to make certain inquiries, upon which he made his report, whereupon the trustees prepared rules for the regulation of the school, which were afterwards approved by the court, among which it was provided, that the number of scholars should be 14, seven of whom were to be of each of the parishes of Leyton and Walthamstow; that neither Latin nor Greek had been taught for 60 years in the school, but only reading, writing, and arithmetic, and that the master had received the £12 a year, and certain profits of a house and land, making altogether £32 a year, a sum entirely inadequate for a competent master in Latin and Greek, which branches of education, however, were not needed; that the school-house was in a state of great dilapidation, and its rebuilding would be most desirable, but that there was no fund for such a purpose; that there are at Leyton national schools for boys and girls, which schools are sustained, and the salaries of the masters and mistresses paid, by annual and other subscriptions by the inhabitants of Leyton; that £800 had been lately subscribed for the erection of buildings for the national schools, and residences for the masters and mistresses of the same; that in April last the mastership of the Ozler's Charity Schools became and is still vacant, and on the 2nd of June, at a meeting of the trustees, it was resolved that it would be beneficial to rebuild the school, so as to accommodate the children of the parish generally, girls as well as boys; and that on the 8th of the same month, at a meeting of the trustees and of the subscribers of the £800, a resolution was come to adopt the recommendation of the meeting of the 2nd, and that steps should be taken to obtain the sanction of the Court of Chancery to make new rules and regulations for the government of the school: the petition then set forth a set of new rules which had been drawn up, and it prayed the approval of the resolutions and of the new rules, and, if necessary, a reference to the Master to approve of a scheme for the administration of the charity, and for the appointment, as new trustees, of Mr. J. Pardoe, Jun., Mr. R. B. Allen, and Mr. F. R. Bedwell. The petitioners are the Rev. C. H. Laprimaudaye, J. A. Doxat, R. Barclay, J. Pardoe, and W. T. Copeland, Esqrs., all of Leyton; and the Rev. W. Wilson, and J. Masterman, Esq., both of Walthamstow.

Mr. H. Cotton, for the petition, observed that, as the education given at the national school was nearly, or rather precisely, similar to that prescribed by the testator, it was desirable that one master should be appointed to superintend the education of the children in a new school, to consist of the 14 pupils as under the the old plan, and the other pupils admitted by the trustees.

His Honour felt no difficulty in dispensing with the teaching of Greek and Latin to the scholars of Ozler's Charity, or, as they were called, the free scholars. As, however, to amalgamating the private charity with a national school, he felt some hesitation. The charity in such circumstances would no longer be in the entire control of the trustees, but in the control of the government authorities. Such a course would be nothing more nor less than a confiscation of private property.

Mr. H. Cotton. The result, at any rate, will be, that more efficient instruction will be given to the pupils.

His Honour. It is my wish to do whatever I can to promote the wishes of the testator. The resolutions may be handed up to me by the counsel, with a note in margin, containing the terms on which it is wished that the order for a scheme shall be drawn up. With regard to the confirmation of the trustees, and the appointment of the parties proposed as new trustees, I assent to that part of the petition, knowing that the petitioners are gentlemen of the highest character, and that they would not propose to act with any others who are of different character. The remainder of the petition may stand over until Tuesday next.

On that day (the 15th), Mr. H. Cotton again mentioned this petition, stating that he had an affidavit showing that it was unknown who was the last surviving trustee of the will of the testator. He stated, that the matter had also been ordered to stand over to consider the propriety of sanctioning certain resolutions for the future management of the charity in connection with national school at Walthamstow. The trustees were willing that the master should teach Greek and Latin to such scholars whose parents wished them to be so taught, the number of such scholars to be regulated by the trustees.

His Honour. In reference to the proposal of having this charity united with the national school, it is important to know, under whose inspection or superintendence the mode of tuition will be. Will it be under the government inspectors ?

Mr. H. Cotton. The inspectors have no authority to interfere with the school against the wish of the trustees. If a school requires the aid of those funds placed by Parliament at Her Majesty's disposal, the acceptance of the aid is accompanied by a willingness to submit to government inspection.

His Honour.-My inquiries upon this point do not proceed from any doubt of the propriety, utility, or wisdom of having a scheme of instruction sanctioned by government inspectors, but from the circumstance that the charity is a private one, administered by trustees, who alone are responsible for its due management, in conformity with the wishes of the founder, under the sanction of this court. I have no objection to give the trustees power to select an additional number of boys, and to take from them certain small payments at their discretion. This has geuerally been found an advantage, not the least of which is, that it does not enable any person or persons, or body, except the trustees, to interfere. What is the principle on which the free scholars have been selected?

Mr. H. Cotton. They have been selected hitherto from one parish, and it is now proposed to take them from two.

His Honour. I have no objection to that. It does not go into a third parish. It will add to the number of the free boys, giving to the trustees power, in the exercise of their discretion, to receive certain weekly payments for the additional boys, whenever they may think reasonable. The change will not introduce any new power or control into the institution. The school-house may, as is asked, be built on the property of the testator, and also a residence for the schoolmistress of the girls, to be let by the trustees, at a nominal rent, from year to year; the school to be under the direction of the incumbent of the parish, for reading, writing, and arithmetic, and religious instruction.

OXFORD CLASS LISTS,
MICHAELMAS TERM, 1846.
In Literis Humanioribus.
CLASS I.

Bastard, Edmund R., Balliol coll.
Bright, William, University coll.
Canington, John, University coll.

Intelligence.

Cookson, Christopher, St. John's coll.
Espin, Thomas E., Lincoln coll.
French, Thomas V., University coll.
Ince, William, Lincoln coll.
Palgrave, William G., Trinity coll.
Read, George S., St. Mary hall.
Walton, Henry B., Pembroke coll.