EASZA RD’8 GAZETTE. Wednesday, March 14th,‘ 18bg~.#

MR. STAIlK,S LECTURE ON EDUC.\TIO.V'.

\Vhcn we heard that the Visiior ol'.\,'eliools of Ywhosc talents and abilities so lll|ll,'lI hail been .‘ said. ivas about to lecture on l'Idu<-ation, we

had made up our mind to go and ln.-ar what was to be said on a topic, to us, so peculiarly interesting: various Cil'clIIll.~‘t'.|llt'4.‘S lioivcver, prevented our attendance, and we were highly gratified. to lind that the Lecture was ordered to be printed_; a copy is now helorc us, and we purpose to take a short review of it. an essay on education in ;:t'IlL‘l':|l with View of culogising in ptl.l‘lltfl|l:ll‘ the moral training system of Mr. Stow as taught in the Schools and Normal Colleges of Illasgow. it ma pass muster, butsliould any one take it up, an or the expectation of receiving any iiiforina- tion relative to the system of instruction that ahould be adopted in Prince l-Idward Island, he will he miserably deceived. All that relates to the Island, is contained in the following pas- Iugos, just one-ﬁftieth part of the whole ora half age out of twenty-six.

*‘ .v ii Educational macliint-r_v has been set in motion. admirable in many of its cxteriial pro- visions. There are upwards ol' 260 schools. in which from eleven to twelve thousand children are in attendance. .\ii excellent series of school books has also been provided, hut one thing is yet lacking. The great increase in the number of schools; the large proportion of the Revenue voted for Education. will never im- prove and elevate the education of the people, unless the standard of qualilication lor t e Teacher be raised. and a provision made for his -I ecial training, in the art of coniiiiunicating. I at I would indulge the hope that ere long, there will not only be a Normal School establislied, but that every school will he provided with a Play-ground or unrovcml school room for the children, and a house and garden lor the 'I‘each- er. When this isacconi lislicd, l‘riiice Edward Island will be a mode and cxaiiiple to the North .\inerican Colonies."

We fully agree with Mr. Stark. that the utandard ofqualilicatioii for the teaclier should he raised; and we venture to add. Wllilt b0 ought to have stated, that the azuount of re- rnuiicration to the teacher. must he also «,:i'ea.tly raised before we hccoiiie ":Llll0tl(‘l and ex- ample to the North American l‘oloiiic.~'.“ \ 0 should be glad to see a " .\'orm:il School" after I time. establislied, but not one upon .\lr. Stow's systeiii. for the l‘i':l:4.)l).\' we .~'ll:lll give lierca ftl .-r . er, we have long siiice ll01'l:|I'('(l to be t'S.\'('lllllll. As to tho‘ “}'/“.7 .§.'I‘oi1n/l or mi ‘(‘l"')‘ .’ .»'r/mo/rmnn" we think, that for a little while it in.-iy be dispensed with. or at all events. until we have procured better and more iaillllllvitllijllal mm-rd school rooms than we can at pi-i:.~sciit boast of. It is evident that Mr. Stark knows nothing of" the present state of l‘ldllCilil1llI in the North American Colonies, or he would hot have ven- tured upon the remark that t-lost-s the Lecture, and which we have above quoted. lie is igno- rant of all that has been done, :uid is doing in Canada, Nova Scotia and Ni-iv lil'lll|N\\'lCl( for some years past; still less does lie seein to know anything of what has taken place in the Northern States of Amei-it-ii, the people of which, are as ii. whole the best educated in the world, and ﬁnally he has either inadvcrtciitly. or otherwise, overlooked the impossibility o bringing Mr. Stow's systeiii into siiv-cessful action, in a country so spai-sely peopled as this now is, and must reinain, in all human proba- bility, for the next quarter of a ccntiiry at least. Our inforiiiatioii is derived l'i-om Mr. Stow's book, upon the siiliject of his own sys- tem, and we can hardly liolicve that .\Ii-. Stark can have read it, or he must have seen that Mr. Stow especially exempts Rural and .\;;i-icultural Districts froiu the operation ol that .-_\-steui o training, ol' which he claims to he the iuvr-iitor, and for which, he is justly entitled to the high- est praise. _ _ I Mr. Stow, one of those true plnlaiitliropliists,' that are such an honor to our nature, moved by the sight of so much moral depi-.i\ it_v ainongl the lower classes of the people in l-'las;,:ow, sat liimself seriously to work. and cnipliye-l the? full power of faculties which had lwull slItll‘p~ cm.-d hy a long course of tczieliing, in en-h-avour-‘ ing to establish some method h_\' which childrcn,l who were being trained in the street, to everyl species of vice, by the sympathy of nmu’»r-rs and,’ example, might, by iue.i.ns of the sainu svinpatliy, be trained to the practice ol’ virtue and niorali-l t . In section I, chap. 7. p. Til, he divides the‘ dyillerent grades of society into four classes ; and thus illustrates the city of U|:i~;_;-m’ witi population ol'360,000 souls, the siieeossfiil scene of his operations. “-our lLt'1[!iillnt:tIICe with Glasgow would induce us to divide the grades of ,,.,ciei;y into six parts of c'm,0oo eilvll--IlN',l9 six parts we shall t4irm—-l"i'rxl, the .\‘i'.\'iuis class as one sixth; Second, the Siivxisui class as two sixtlis; Third the Ui-nisisu class as two sixths, and Fourth the Wni.-rur class as one sixth. The consideration of this last division may he set aside for the present; they have the means and on lit to have tho intelligence to provide for thoinse vol ;—pIgo 81-What is then to be done‘

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with the sinking class, consisting of 120,000 souls? And can nothing more be done for the sunken class, composing 00,000 souls‘ .83. Now here is the rem:-dy“—ever 900 inhabit- ants will yield ajurcnile school ofl50, with a ﬁrst master and an assistant. We would re so. says Mr. Stow, a provision for one hallo the whole population. that is the sunken and sink- ing as the remaining half, including the wealthy and many of the u risin rclass, may and actual- ly do provide for tliemse ves to a certain extent. although such provision is seldom conducted on the natural or training rinciple," p. 86. Now, we would ask Mr. Stark), whether he com- pares the po ulation of this Island to that of Glasgow? ‘ pfposing the population to be 90,000, one-ha of that of the number of the sunken and sinking of that city. how many are in the some predicament? What is the num- ber ofthe sunken? What that of the sinkin 1 Is it not well known and thankfully acknow c d that we are, as a community, comparatively roe from crime. Is not the greater portion of the _eople to be reckoned as either wealthy or up- rising? Is the population of the Island so dense that the children are to met with in masses? Let Mr. Stsrk’s own words furnish the answer. “There are u wardsof 260 schoolsin whioh,from

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11,000 to 1 ,000 children are in attendance; take 11,500 and that gives 40 pupils to each school, divide those into initiary and juvenile, and you have 20 to a class. take from theses fourth who attend irregularly. and you reduce each class to 15,- take from the juvenile class those who attend school for the purpose of being instructed in writing, book-kee ing, the higher branches of arithmetic &c., an you will have 10 in one class and 15 in the other ; what now becomes of the sympathy of number: the fundamental princi sl of Mr. Stow’s system of Moral Training! ow our readers must not uppose that thou h we denounce the Stow sytem as unﬁt for rince Edward Island, that by any means despise, or undervalue it, on the contrary, in such cities as Manchester,

lasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool, do., we think it ms be productive of a great amount of good, an it may be successfully introduced into ponitentaries and prisons, but Mr. Stark should have shown how it was applicable or practicable, in a country whose population is so scattered, that it is impossible, out of Char- lottetown to procure 100 pupils in daily atten- dance, the whole year round, a contingency absolutely essential to the well working of the system. Neither 0 we wis to impute any blame to Mr. Stark, he has. we are convinced, been as much deceived by those under whose

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auspices he has been llnlled to the colony, as

the people will be if they ex ect any beneﬁt 'rom his labours as principa of 8 Normal

training College, with this exception however, that as Mr. Stark has been suiliciently long on this Island to be fully convinced that the Stow system is not applicable to it, he should have boldly, openly and honestly hers avowed such conviction. A little re/lo-lion will teach ‘in and any one else, that no other result can beeapeaed from, the establishment of a Normal School or

College than that of prqmrlng a certain number ;_

of young men to emigrahz lo the United Sales of .-tmerira, Canada or (he! mljoining colonies, in order to find that employment for their newly acquired attainment: in it-h they are unable to pro- cure in their native land. -———-—o+-«--——

Ilouss or Assnini.ir.—'l‘Iiero has been very little doing since last week, some Members are absent and the remainder seem occupied in preparing their Road Scales.

Mr. M‘Ausland‘s Lecture on Distillation, will be noticed in our next.

No MAIL.-We have had no Mail, sinos Mon- day the 5th instant. The weather until to day has been unpropitious.

PATRIOTIC FUND.

At a meeting held at Stan hope District School- house, on Thursday evening, the 4th January, inst., in compliance with the resolutions for- wsrded by the Seeretar of the “ Control Com- mittee for collecting an ).~tl‘l‘lptI0lII in aid of the I’atriotie Fund."-

On motion, Mr. Henry Green was unanimously re nested to take the Chair, and W. . Ric - ar son to not as Sc,-oretary.—'I'hs Chairman stated the object of the meeting ; after which it was urisnimousl Resolved, That W. Ii. Rich- ardson do aot as cretary and Treasurer.

Resolved. That this meeting do deeply sym-

-tthiso with the Widows and Orphans of those

ravs soldiers, sailors and marines, who have been killed in action or died from other on- sualtiss while engaged in the present war in the But of Europe; and that a uiinittso appointed to solicit subscriptions in aid of the Patriotic Fund.-

Rssolvod, That the following tlonon do compose the said Ooinmittoo, cars new Gross, Francis Alexander, David Don , . H. Il.iolinrdson,oad David wsou, ., Mr. David Don was than and to In Ohoir when the ks of the isooting woroswordod the Ohcirnon, for the oﬂciont issuer in which

SIJIISCRIPTION Lisr. David Lawson, J. P. \Villiaiii Lawson, sen., ' David l.awon,jun.,

George I-‘oster,

Thomas Foster,

Ilenry Foster,

Isaac l"ostei',

Robert Ilodgson, William llodgson, llenry Green,

Pctcr Iliggins. Alexander i\Ic.\Iillan, Alexander McLaughlin, William D. Lawson, James C. Lawson, Neil Shaw,

Alexander Shaw, Duncan Shaw,

John Shaw,

Angus .\lcI\lillun, William Scman,jun., William Seaman, scn., James Alexander and son, Alexander Oxley,

Neil Lcitch,

John Leitch,

Duncan Shaw,

Neil Darrach,

William La\vson,jun., George Bradio,

Albert Bovyer,

David Douglas,

\Vni. II. Richardson, Wm. Higgins, Sen., Stephen B. Higgins, John Campbell, George Lawson, William Higgins, John Lawson, Tracsdie,

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£9 17 11 Received from Mr. W. II. Richardson, the above sum ofnine Pounds seventeen Shillings and Eleven Pence, being the Subscri tions as above ofinhahitan ts ofstanhope Schoo District. '1'nr:oriiii.i's I )i.snius.u', Sec’y and Treasurer.

Ata Meeting of the inhabitants of Savage Ilarhoiir and French Village, holden at the School House on Thursday the lltli day of Jan. 1855, called in compliance, with it requisition from the Central Coiiiiiiittec, Charlottetown, addressed to Mr. Jaincs Ross, Teaclicr, Mr. Benjamin A. Collin in the Chair, Mr. J. Ross, Secretary.

The Chuirinaii brielly stated the purpose of the Meeting and a series of Resolutions expres- sive of the willingness oftlio .\lei,-ting to join with their fellow subjects in eontrihiitiiig to the relief of tho Widows and Urpliaiis ol' their gallant men who have fallen in the Crimea in the service ol' their (.‘ouiitry,liaviiig been passed unaniniously.

The following gentlemen were appointeda Committee to receive contribiitions,viz : Messrs. Elisha Collin. Joseph Collin, Neil Mclnnis Edmund Collin and Daniel Pigot, who have re ortcd that tlioy have collected the sum of

s. 'll.‘lie following is a list of the Subscribers and the sums pai .

Filisliit Collin, sen., -C0 5 0 Edmund Collin, 0 5 Janie.-4 (follin, ll 5 Beiijninin B. Collin, 3 lg

Benjaiiiin A. Collin, Widow S. Collin, Joseph Collin, Charles Collin, Benjamin Collin, Esq., James Ross,

Elisha (.‘ollin,jun., James (foliin, Artemas Coﬂin, Cornelius lllclntyre, John i\lc:\skill, Duncan .\lt-Innis, Miss Ellen Mcliines, Neal Mcliiiies, l‘ltlW:lI‘il Iluylt‘, Anglia Mt-lniics, Duncan Mclnnos, David Pigot, Jainos Pigot,

John Pigot,

llugli .\lcl\'innon, Angus Mcliiniion, .‘\Iar_v Doyle,

Angus Mcttorinaek, John Morrisoii, Patrick Mnlniies, Angus Morrison, Donald Morrison, Patrick Foch.-r, Dilliiel Ii‘:-«her, Joni-pl) M‘CoI'mlc,

' James Vincent M‘UormIo,

Agnes M‘Coriiiio, John Mclnnis,

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£6 7 7; Received from Mr. James Ross, Teacher of Suva Harbour District School Treasurer of

COLONIAL LEGISLATURE. llousi-: or Assizusnv. Mo.vn.iv. March 12.

Very little business was done, owing to the absence of Members. Some Committees sat At the morning sitting the Bill for naturalizing James Searlo Mann, was read a second time, Mr. llaviland introduced a Bill to extend the Elective privclt-go to members of the Legig. lative Council

The Bill is put down for a second reading on Tuesday next the 20th inst. On the question being put that the special lioad Grants be divided equally among the three Lounties the House divided and it was carried in the allirinative, the Members for King's and Prince Counties out voting Quecn’s.

'I‘L'ii:smiv, March 13.

The Bill frnm the Council to incorporate the Charlottetown Mechanic’s Institute. went through Committee and was read a third time and passed.

The Bill to naturalize James Searlc Mann was read a third time and passed.

To run Eniron or 1I.iszAiu>‘s GAZEITI. 3if.—-Among the many improvements in the ﬂourishing state of the ﬁnances of the Country that might be carried out, I would feign hope, that the Legislature would not forget the long talked ofim. provement in the counnunicntion between the Seat of Government and this side of the Iiillsboroiigh. I believe it is now admitted, that it is quite possible to erect a bridge which could be constructed with A suitable Draw Bridge in the centre, to allow vessels to pass up or down at a certain hour daily, and if it should be considered that this improvement should riithsr be carried out by private capital, than as I Government undertaking, I sin convinced ihnj; i. only necessary to pass an Act authorizing the Go- vermnent to guarantee io a company or a private individual the exclusive right for twenty years gt 5 ﬁxed toll, not greater than is at present taken by the vessel oftlic Ferry. whem private Capital would is‘ once he found to carry out this great public uccomo- dﬂllmlv Yours, &c., A I"AR.'\lER. Township 49, March 8th, 1855. °

AN .\G1lA.\I.

This .fInugruIIi._/'«Ii'i' mics, nuiypu! you infdlers, But ‘(is simply co/n]ro.~;c:l of a word ufjive letters.

\Vln.-n all bewildered on the Sm, \ViIh I‘--:irl'u| hrculu-i.~. on our Lea, All liuiids worn pip‘d luelow to Tea.

The waves run lii__;li. the waters Sail, The music of the naive was 11!,

The gale blew strongly froiii the East, We could not steer our ship the Least.

All hands were cnli'd, all nails were Sol, 'I'u beat us otfthe rocks, and Let

Us run before the wave ii moment Lat The next might swamp us, and so prove our Lint.

Below us through llle surge, lhs wary Seal, \Vi- saw from out our course so swiftly Steal, While o'er our llt'i|llH Ilow tiocks on ﬂocks of Tool,

The storm was iuvful. imnbliiig there we Sam, But it abated, ere 'iw;i-4 vi-ry Lula. And we vveie chee-r‘d, and then both drunk and Jlle;

Soiiis stood around, olnle others found ii Scat, But every man and boy coinrived to lful.

And thus refrci-lived, we now resume our Tale, We quiill‘d our |ulIil)lI‘hl full ofiiiiglily Jlle,

Some vow-‘d ‘twin good, whili- others said ‘two: Stale. And wondered that out Ii ruhhisli found a Sale,

At lsngtli the Captain came to where we Sal. And asked us, wliui llie tlovil we w...e .’II. A. 8.

An answer from .\l.-moo. from Widow or Maid, May be sent to our -vltin-. hut niind ‘tin pout plia-

Married,

lly the Rev. Ii-Hm‘. .“lltI’lIy, on the l3ih Jan., Mr. \Villiuin McKay, sell!‘ , lo Eliza. felicl ‘ll ""3 kl" James Clark, ol l‘:iviiplu-lion, New lAIml0n-

By the iuiim.-, on the ‘.'|ih .lan., \Ir. John McKiIyv Cl|\'PI|dlﬂll, to Mary Joliinuoiis, Long llivef. N0"

omlon. _

By the sauna, on the 22d ult , .Vlr. William Nyshcfo New Glasgow, to June, eldest daughter of Ilsnyamm llenry. Cavendish

At St Elennors, on the 8th inst.. hy the R0]- M. Mclmod. Mr. llohett Milllgan. to H-- Sarsh Ilrovvn, both of l.ot I9.

Died,

Loen (foinniittee the sum of Six Pounds seven Sliillia heing the above subscriptions in aid of the triotic Fund. Turornincs Drsiiiiiuv. Treasurer and Secretary.

ho presided over the meeting.-

:\I South Part, on \Vediu.«ln_v the ldlh March; .i;ii.-.., wire of I-2-Iwnrd Clmndlor. no-J 53 imm- Fiiuo-rzil vvnl take place on l"rid.iv next at II o'clock» when the friend: of i'n J‘. ..i'y are requested I0 , attend.

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