last year have been 4381. 138. 23d., which includes every detail of outlay. Out of the 65 youths who have been within the walls of the building during the past year, 3 have been sent to Canada as emigrants. 2 apprenticed to traders. 5 apprenticed to H.M. Navy. 1 apprenticed in the Merchant Service. 1 entered as a seaman H.M.S. 7 sent to situations. 5 returned to their parents. 11 absconded or left without leave. 2 sent to the workhouse. 37 28 now in the school. 65 There is much in the success of this industrial school to encourage us to hope that the reformatory principle, now beginning to work in this country, may be made available both for teaching the neglected and for bringing back from the brink of ruin many of the depraved and abandoned of our juvenile population. In this district the study of drawing has lately received much encouragement and attention. Schools of Art have been established in the cities of Bath and Exeter, and at Truro. The following details respecting the school in Bath, in which I am personally deeply interested, may be of service to those who watch with pleasure the progress of these schools. We opened our school in Bath in May last, when various classes were immediately formed; and although, from unexpected circumstances, our school was closed for fourteen weeks after midsummer, yet the number of students who have entered the school is most encouraging. The following analysis of one of these classes, made in June last, when the class consisted of 81 students, is most instructive. It shows how widely the system which is taught in these schools is sought for, and how extensively its benefits are applicable We have every reason to believe that when the school is once freed from the expense which appears essential for the procuring casts, examples, desks, &c. it will be entirely selfsupporting. I append the provisional rules. PROVISIONAL RULES FOR THE CENTRAL SCHOOL. THE entire management of the school is under the direction of the Committee. Students may enter the School of Art without any qualification in drawing. Mechanics and artizans, and others of a like class, must pay the sum of 23. entrance fee; which fee, if they attend the school regularly for forty-four weeks, shall be received as payment for instruction for the last four weeks of that time. Mechanics and artizans, and others of a like class, must pay in advance 6d. a-week for instruction, consisting of three lessons a-week of two hours each. All entrances and payments by the mechanics' class can be received only at the Monday meetings. Ladies and gentlemen forming classes for instruction must pay in advance one guinea a quarter, consisting of eleven consecutive weeks. Pupils under sixteen years of age will be admitted for 10s. 6d. the quarter. Two lessons a-week of two hours each. The parents of young ladies shall have the option of placing their children in the ladies' or the children's class; boys above fourteen must enter to the gentlemen's class. Every student must provide himself or herself with a drawing board, paper, and pencil; all of which may be obtained at the school, at the cost price. Any student absenting himself from the school for a month, without producing a satisfactory reason for such absence, must pay a second entrance fee on re-commencing his attendance at the school. The master is directed to report immediately any case of misconduct to the Executive Committee, who shall direct the entrance fee to be forfeited, or the student to be removed from the school, as the circumstances of the case may require. Any public school for the education of the children of the poor will, with the consent of the Executive Committee, be attended by the master, once a-week for one hour, on the payment of five pounds annually, in advance. The terms for the attendance of the master on private schools are arranged by the Committee according to circumstances. E. DOUGLAS TINLING, Chairman. (Signed) R. WILGRAHAM FALCONER, M.D., Hon. Sec. The following is from the report of the Drawing Master, upon the two National Schools under inspection, and the Blue Coat School: "The children at the public schools take great interest in their drawing lessons, many of them have improved very much, particularly those of the Blue Coat School. (Signed) A. STANNUS, Master." Mem.-The boys of the Blue Coat School remain longer at school, and are older boys than the boys at the other schools. If equal encouragement could be given for the formation of singing classes, I believe that much good might be done, and that it would be greatly appreciated by the poorer classes. To the Right Honorable I have the honor to be, &c. E. DOUGLAS TINLING The Lords of the Committee of Council on Education. G G SUMMARIES OF TABULATED REPORTS ON SCHOOLS INSPECTED BY REV. E. DOUGLAS TINLING AND REV. R. F. MEREDITH. Sewing. Algebra. Mensuration. Geometry. On Slates. 35.55 Catechism. Per-centage of Children on School Registers. Between seven and eight. and nine. Between nine and ten. 33 26 14 31 11 43 13.81 10 49 7.19 5.07 The amount of accommodation in square feet, divided by 8, will give the number of children who can be properly accommodated. Calculations of area in school-rooms, as compared with the average attendance of scholars, should be made upon this basis. † At the date of closing this return. These per-centages are confined to boys' and girls' schools, and do not include infants. Holy Scriptures. |