The society continues to receive duly qualified youths into this school as paid monitors or pupil teachers, and Mr. Wilson still devotes himself to giving them instruction out of school hours as well as in school. Since the last report, fourteen of these youths have been trained and placed as assistants in schools at Bradford, Wolverhampton, Kensington, Weybridge, and elsewhere; and there is every prospect of their eventually becoming valuable schoolmasters.* The girls' school is carried on as usual, and is always full of children. The society is much indebted to the ladies who kindly visit and superintend this department. In the infant school your committee are about to alter the existing arrangements, and to endeavour to increase its efficiency as a school of practice for teachers in training. Not that your committee are desirous of imparting any great amount of instruction to the children of the infant school; a practice which too often excites the mind to the detriment of the body, and produces a premature exhaustion of the intellect itself. But they are chiefly anxious to introduce into the school a more systematic method of inuring the children to habits of cleanliness, order, and obedience, and to obtain for the females in training superior instruction in the best modes of conducting infant schools. As applications are sometimes made to the society for infant schoolmasters, your committee take this opportunity of stating, that they only train females to take charge of these schools. In this matter your committee are desirous of following, as far as possible, what appears to be the natural provision made by Infinite Wisdom for placing infants universally in the hands of women. Women seem peculiarly fitted to observe, and to dwell with interest and patience upon those seeming trifles, on which perhaps the whole future welfare of a child depends. Infant schools, indeed, are at best but a poor substitute for the home nurture of children under good maternal care, but are in too many cases rendered necessary by the sad condition of the homes of the poor, as well as by the unavoidable absence or inattention of the mothers, caused by their daily labours and occupations. In January last an account of the society's training institution, St. Mark's College, Stanley Grove, Chelsea, was published as an appendix to the society's report for the year 1844. This account was written by the principal of the institution, the Rev. D. Coleridge, in whom your committee continue to place full confidence. The document is the work of such laborious industry, so comprehensive in its views yet so minute in its detail, as to leave nothing unsaid which could be desired. Since April 1844, 12 youths have left the training school, and have been placed as masters, or assistants, in various schools throughout the country. The whole number of students thus sent out since the establishment of the institution is 16. There are now 66 pupils in training. For further information respecting the present proceedings and future * In Mr. Leonard Horner's translation of M. Cousin's work upon Education in Holland, the following passage occurs, page 160:—“For a considerable period the only method followed in Holland for training schoolmasters was that which Cuvier found in practice; there were certain classes, called normal classes, in all the well organized schools, and particularly in the schools for the poor, in which those children who showed a particular turn for the calling of a schoolmaster remained, and were employed first as assistants, and afterwards as ushers. The schoolmasters were trained in that very simple and cheap way up to the year 1816, and, as I have already said, it greatly excited Cuvier's admiration." In Mrs. Austin's translation of M. Cousin's work on Prussian Schools, at page 67, the following passage is quoted out of the Prussian law of 1819:-" Preparation for teaching need not be confined to the primary normal schools. The great primary schools also present means of training boys to the business of a schoolmaster." prospects of this important institution for the education of teachers of the poor your committee have pleasure in again referring persons to the able paper above mentioned. The state of the institution for training females at Whitelands, Chelsea, gives increased satisfaction to your committee. The number of pupils in the establishment at this time last year was 33; there are now 56 young persons in training, which is the full number of pupils for whom there is accommodation at present. The applications for admission have exceeded those made in any preceding years. Since the last report, 13 of the young women have received appointments as schoolmistresses and assistant teachers, and all of these, with one exception, retain their situations. Five more are about to leave the establishment to enter upon the charge of schools, and their places will be immediately supplied with eligible pupils, who are now waiting for vacancies. In the three practising schools of this institution, the Middle, the National, and the Infant Schools, there are upwards of 180 children in regular attendance. Your committee are about to take steps for extending and improving these schools, as they feel it to be of the utmost consequence to place on the most efficient footing this department, in which the pupils learn by practice the art of teaching and governing. A descriptive history of this institution will be found in the appendix to the society's report for last year. It was written by Mrs. Field, the present superintendent of Whitelands, and by her daughter, Mrs. Johns,* lately the head governess of the institution. Your committee have sincere pleasure in recommending this document to the perusal of all persons who are for any reason interested in this establishment, or other training schools for females. Its unaffected simplicity, remote from all attempt at display, its practical, concise statements, and its judicious remarks, will commend it to all readers. (To be Continued.) PROPOSAL TO FILL THE WINDOWS OF ST. MARK'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CHELSEA, WITH PAINTED GLASS. *** We beg to call the attention of our wealthier readers to the following papers : Ir is proposed to fill the windows of this chapel with painted glass in the style of the Norman period, corresponding to the architecture. Some of these windows have already been executed by Mr. Wailes, of Newcastle, and have afforded general satisfaction. The same artist will probably be employed for the remainder, and a similar mode of treatment observed, with such modifications and improvements as further experience, and the opinions of competent judges, may suggest. The subjects will also be arranged in series, according to a general plan. The object of these provisions is to secure uniformity of effect. The expense will be defrayed by public subscription, which the friends of the institution are respectfully invited to promote. A person presenting an entire window, or uniting with others for the same purpose, may select any particular window (the subjects and cost of which are given below) for his donation. A general subscription has also been opened for sums of less amount. The effect of a church or chapel entirely lighted with painted glass is believed to be peculiarly solemn and impressive, the light itself mainly contri Wife of the Rev. C. A. Johns, head-master of the grammar school, Helston, Cornwall. buting to this result, independently of, and in addition to, the merit of the windows as sacred compositions, and specimens of christian art. It is earnestly hoped, therefore, that the entire scheme may at no distant period be carried out. Different portions of the chapel will, however, be taken in succession. The chancel is already complete, and the west end has been commenced, the cost having been guaranteed by the kindness of a friend; and as soon as a sufficient sum shall have been collected to meet this outlay, it is intended to proceed with the nave, and then with the transepts, unless there should occur some particular inducement to vary from this course. A List of the Windows, with the Subjects and Cost of each. N.B. The windows are numbered from the left hand. Persons who wish to present a window, or part of a window, will be pleased to communicate their names, with the description and number selected, to the principal of the college. CHANCEL. Lower Windows.-General subject, the life of Christ; three compartments in each window. Cost of each, £25. No. 1. Annunciation-Birth-Adoration of the Magi. 2. Disputation with the Doctors-Baptism-Transfiguration. 5. Commission to the Apostles-Ascension-Session in glory. Upper Windows.-Single figures, our Saviour, with the eight writers of the books of the New Testament. Cost of each, £7. 10s. 1. St. Peter. 2. St. Paul. 3. St. Matthew. 4. St. Mark. 5. OUR SAVIOUR. 6. St. Luke. All with appropriate symbols-all in place. WEST END. 7. St. John. 8. St. Jude. 9. St. James. The Rose Window.-Life of St. Mark, in eight compartments. Cost of each, £5. 10s. 1. Baptism of St. Mark. 1 Pet. v. 13. 2. Disciples praying in the house of Mary the mother of St. Mark. Acts, xii. 12. 3. St. Mark leaves Jerusalem with St. Barnabas and St. Paul. Acts, xii.25. 4. St. Mark sails to Cyrus with St. Barnabas. 5. St. Mark visits St. Paul in prison at Rome with Timothy. 1 Tim.iv.11. 6. St. Mark preaches the gospel at Alexandria. 7. The burial of St. Mark. 8. St. Mark writes his Gospel. Centre Window.-Full-length figure of St. Mark, with symbols. Cost £28, contributed by the members of the College. Side Windows.-Fall of Man; and the giving of the Law. Cost of each, £38. 1. Four compartments :-State of Innocence-Temptation-Judgment--Expulsion. 2. Four compartments:-Burning Bush-Elevation of the SerpentReturn of Moses from Mount Sinai-Investiture of Aaron. NAVE. Lower Windows.-Six subjects from the Old Testament, each conveying a lesson appropriate to youth. Cost of each, £20. 1. Ishmael with Hagar and the Angel. Scroll-Exaudivit Deus vocem pueri. Gen. xxi. 17. 2. Joseph surrounded by his father and brethren in the house of Pharaoh. Scroll-Et alebat eos et omnem domum patris. Gen. xlvii.12. 3. Moses instructed by the Egyptians. Scroll-Et eruditus est Moyses omni sapientia Egyptiorum. Acts, vii. 22. 4. Samuel with Eli in the Temple. Scroll-Samuel autem ministrabat ante faciem Domini pueraccinctus ephod lineo. (Given by a friend.) 5. David, when a youth, playing before Saul. Scroll-David tollebat citharam et refocillabatur Saul. (Given by a friend.) 6. Solomon's vision. Scroll-Dabis servo tuo cor docile. 3 Reg. iii. 9. Upper Windows.-Single figures of the Apostles, continued from the upper windows of the clerestory. Cost of each, £10. One already given. TRANSEPTS. Intelligence. The prizes have been awarded as follows: The Chancellor's English Medal.Edward Henry Bickersteth, Trinity College, for the best English poem in heroic verse; subject "Cabul." The Camden Medal.-James Leigh Jones, of King's College, for the best Latin poem in hexameter verse; subject, domus Albuneæ resonantis "Et præceps Anio, et Tiburni lucus, et be a native of the said county of Merioneth." They must not exceed 19 years of age, and, if members of the university, they must be of less than four full terms, standing. Candidates are requested to transmit to Messrs. Walsh and Dayman, solicitors to the trustees, 14 days at least before the day of examination, a declaation in writing of the nature of their qualification, with certificate of baptism, and a testimonial of good conduct from the senior master of their respective schools, or last private tutor; or, if members of the university, from the head or tutor of their respective colleges or halls. Candidates must present themselves for examination at the rooms of the examiner, the Rev. Richard Mitchell, B.D., Lincoln College, before noon on Monday, the 19th of October next. London Diocesan Board of Education. -The fifth annual meeting of the members of the board was held on Wednesday, June 4, at the office of the Society in Pall Mall. In the absence of the Bishop of London, who was prevented from attending through indisposition, the chair was occupied by the Bishop of Sodor and Man. There were also present, Lord Radstock, Lord Teignmouth, Mr. Acland, M. P., Mr. Round, M.P., the Dean of Chichester, the Archdeacons of London and Middlesex, and a large body of the metropolitan clergy. The Rev. R. Burgess read the report. It stated, that the object for which the board was primarily established, was to inquire into the statistics of education in the metropolis, to aid in the erection of new schools by making small grants, and to raise up pupil teachers who might afterwards become conductors of national schools. The Rev. F. C. Cook, the government inspector, had visited 37 diocesan schools in the archdeaconries of London and Middlesex, and had reported favourably of all of them. With regard to pupil teachers, 29 young persons were now receiving the emoluments which were offered by the board. The report proceeded to give a melancholy account of the state of education amongst persons unconnected with the Church, and stated, that of 3,022 boys examined by the government inspector, 1,244 could only read easy monosyllables. The central commercial school, originally established by the board, kept up its number of scholars; its numbers were on the increase, and things generally wore a favourable aspect. The receipts during the past year, including a former balance, amounted to £586 16s. 2d., and the expenditure to £384 11s. 6d. The liabilities, however, that still existed would absorb any balance that might remain. The several resolutions were moved and seconded by Lord Radstock, the Dean of Chichester, Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, Rev. A. M. Campbell, Lord Teignmouth, and Archdeacon Hale. The secretary intimated that an individual present had announced his readiness, if he could find a colleague, to found an additional exhibition for a scholar in one of the national society's colleges. Bedminster National Schools.. The string of flags that fluttered gaily from Bedminster national school on the 13th ult., would have been sufficient to indi-* cate some great occasion, even without the crowds of children, all of them cleanly, and many of them neatly dressed, that flocked towards it. Nobody can walk or drive on a summer's evening through this extensive parish, without being perfectly well aware and convinced of the immense juvenile population which it contains; and seeing how multitudinous they are, the vital necessity of education, to prevent the seeds of vice growing up rankly in so young and yet so susceptible a soil, must be more than ordinarily manifest. We believe we are correct in saying, that the national schools of Bedminster, from the vastness of the locality and the density of the population, hold a pre-eminent position amongst educational charities of this city; nor is the interest of the phi lanthropist in their success at all lessened by the knowledge, that the residents who are capable of assisting are greatly disproportioned to the number who require assistance. It is gratifying to know, however, that those who have the means liberally and faithfully, and in some instances nobly, recognize their responsibilities, and do their duty in a manner worthy the imitation of more aristocratic localities. On crushing our way to the schoolroom, which we did with some difficulty through a crowd of little curly heads and round faces, we were glad to see, as not the least satisfactory circumstance connected with the day's proceedings, the number of respectable parishioners who by their attendance testified the interest which they took in the education of the humbler classes; for it is encouraging to the poor, and makes a gracious act still more gracious, when they see that the assistance given arises from a more lively motive than mere indifferent formality. The neatness of the children, too, (of which there were, we believe, nearly 500 present,) evidenced a` laubable pride and emulation on the part of their parents; for however plain or cheap the material might be, one could see a manifest effort to turn all to the most creditable account. The room was gaily decorated, and there was about scholars and spectators an animation which plainly proved there was no indifference anywhere, and that the yearly examination was quite a red-letter day in the "annals of the parish." The chair was taken by the vicar, and the examinations conducted by the Rev. H. G. Eland, Incumbent of St. Paul's, under whose superintendence the schools have been and still are; the other clergymen present who took part in the proceedings were the Rev. Canon Barrow, the Rev. Ommanney, the Revds. Burney, Marriott, M. Whish, jun., Woodford. There were also present Mr. and Mrs. Phippen, the churchwardens, and most of the principal inhabitants. The proceedings opened with prayer, the children chaunting with very pleasing effect the Venite and Laudamus, one of the lads accompanying them on a piano-forte. The examinations then commenced in classes; and we were amused and pleased to see the almost military precision with which each successively took its place with its monitor at its head, the children opening their Bibles or assuming their slates, as the |