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 prospect 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. 3+ L. 8. d. 112 4 0 148 60 172 7 6 18 17 524 10 2* 013 170 7 + 1 made up deficiency. 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, aз 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. "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. parish, provided that he approved of such books." This plan, and the acceptance of the offices by the persons requested to undertake them, have met with the entire approbation of the Bishop. King's College, London.—Mr. C. Frere and Mr. E. B. Slater, whose names appear in the first class of the Classical Tripos at the last Cambridge examination, were formerly students of this college. Testimonial to the Rev. Hugh M'Neile. —At a meeting of gentlemen who have long watched with interest the varied and indefatigable exertions of the Rev. Hugh M'Neile in promoting the cause of true religion, especially in connection with scriptural education. It was resolved, That some public Testimonial be given, expressive of the high esteem in which he is held, and of the value attached to his eminent services. A committee, appointed to consider the best mode of carrying the object into effect, suggested the foundation of Scholarships bearing the name of the individual whom it was intended to honour; and having found that it would be most agreeable to Mr. M'Neile's feelings that the Testimonial should be made to confer a benefit on the Liverpool Collegiate Institution, it has been proposed to apply the funds in the following order : 1. To the Endowment of an Exhibition, tenable at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin, to be competed for by the boys of the Upper School. 2. To the Endowment of Two Prizes, equal in value to the free admission of two scholars in the Middle School, to be competed for every year by the boys of that school. 3. To the Endowment of Five Prizes, equal in value to the free admission of five scholars in the Lower School, to be competed for every year by the boys of that school. The surplus to be applied to the purchase of presentations, not exceeding three, in the Upper School, to be placed at the disposal of the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, and any further surplus to be applied at the discretion of the Committee. Teachers' Scientific Association.-The object of this Association is, to promote the general introduction of the elements of Science in Schools and Academies, more particularly a knowledge of those facts and principles which explain the resources that science has brought to bear on the comfort and economy of daily life, and which form the foundation of all measures for the improvement of health. Amongst the measures contemplated are the following:+ 1. The union of Teachers in an Association, whose exertions may be enabled to advance the objects they have in view, in a manner that no individual labour can ever be expected to realize. 2. The institution of periodical meetings for promoting the objects of the Association. 3. The institution of a Normal School for instructing Members in the various branches of Practical Science, and in the method of performing the necessary experimental illustrations. 4. The formation of a National Museum and Hall of Art and Science, which shall be accessible to the Teachers and their pupils, and present specimens of all the more important productions of Nature and of Art, and of those machines and instruments respecting which all individuals generally desire information, as the steam-engine, the telescope, the microscope, the air-pump, &c. 5. The formation of a collection of Apparatus and Models on a small scale, such as may pass in rotation from school to school. 6. The formation of Branch Associations at home and abroad, for the exchange of duplicate specimens. Were collections of the ordinary mineral and other productions of different parts of the island made and exchanged, these alone would form a very interesting series for commencing individual museums. 7. The formation of an experimental Laboratory, for the use of the Members. 8. The preparation of a series of Models, capable of illustrating the princiciples and practice of Ventilation, by the movement of aërial currents, rendered visible by admixture with different vapours or other substances. By studying these Models, Teachers would be enabled not only to regulate the warming and ventilating of their own schools, but also to give occasional lectures and demonstrations on those laws of health with which every one should be acquainted. The services of the schoolmaster may, in this manner, be rendered invaluable to |