To those seminaries, however, which are connected with the Universities, England is under particular obligations. In them have been trained the professors of every liberal science that can serve, dignify, or adorn mankind; and to them will an enlightened people never cease to look up with affection and gratitude, as to the sources of every sterling principle that enters into the composition of the British character. If we inquire from what quarters the commonwealth has been furnished with men of abilities to fill the great offices of state, he must have been an inattentive observer who should refer us anywhere but to those foundations, on which enlarged sentiments and notion are acquired from a system of education intimately conversant with ancient learning; and if, in like manner, we ask whence our established church has been supplied with a regular and sufficient succession of qualified teachers for the ordinary work of the ministry, and of able champions of the truth at every conjuncture of controversy and discussion, we can be sent only to those schools, at which a plan of instruction is pursued at once classical and christian, a discipline calculated to produce learning free from scepticism, and belief untinctured with enthusiasm. Merchant Taylors' School does not indeed affect to enroll among her scholars many of the mighty or the noble. Her worthies have not been distinguished for hereditary rank, though, in many instances, the foundations of greatness have been laid within her walls. Nor has it often fallen to the lot of her youth to fight the battles of her country, though, when occasion has offered, they have shown themselves not deficient in patriotism and valor. But wherever the higher walks of commerce invite the British merchant to honorable enterprise, her sons are to be seen the foremost in pursuits to which the British empire is indebted for its opulence and grandeur. The healing art recognizes some of them among her ablest and most successful practitioners. Law, the guardian of the constitution, and the preserver of eyery man's reasonable rights and liberties, welcomes in them the most upright and assiduous of her administrators. But, above all, does the church rely on the fidelity of such of them as have devoted themselves to the service of her altars; no inconsiderable portion of the officiating clergy of the metropolis having been educated under the modest dome of Merchant Taylors'."* 329 MISCELLANEOUS LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. PROSPECTIVE EDUCATION IN ENGLAND. We copy from an English paper the plan of the Committee of the Privy Council appointed to superintend the application of the money voted by Parliament for the purpose of promoting education. First, it is resolved to found a School, in which candidates for the office of Teacher in Schools for the poorer classes may acquire the knowledge necessary to the exercise of their future profession, and may be practised in the most approved methods of religious and moral training and instruction. This School is to include a Model School, in which children of all ages, from three to fourteen, may be taught and trained in sufficient numbers to form an Infant School, as well as Schools for children above seven. Religious instruction is to be considered as general and special. It is to be combined with the whole matter of instruction, and to regulate the entire system of discipline: but periods are to be set apart for such peculiar doctrinal instruction as may be required for the religious training of the children. A Chaplain is to be appointed to conduct the religious instruction of children whose parents or guardians belong to the Established Church, but the parent or natural guardian of any other child is to be permitted to secure the attendance of the licensed Minister of his own persuasion, at the period appointed for special religious instruction, in order to give such instruction apart; and a licensed Minister is to be appointed to give such special religious instruction, wherever the number of children in attendance on the Model School belonging to any religious body dissenting from the Established Church, is such as to appear to the Committee to require such special provision. A portion of every day is to be devoted to the reading of the Scriptures in the School, under the general direction of the Committee, and superintendence of the Rector. Roman Catholics, if their parents or guardians require it, to read their own version of the Scriptures, either at the time fixed for reading the Scriptures, or at the hours of special instruction. Instruction in industry is to be included as a special department of the moral training of the children, and such a character given to the matter of instruction in the School as to keep it in close relation Besides the physical with the condition of workmen and servants. training of the children in various employments, such exercises are to be introduced during the hours of recreation as will develop their strength and activity, and the moral training of the children is at all times to be attended to as an object of special solicitude. In the Normal School, apartinents are to be provided for the residence of the candidate Teachers, and the class-rooms so constructed as to afford the candidate teachers an opportunity of attending each class in the Model School without distracting the attention of the children or of the teacher. It is also resolved to provide means for the instruction of the candidate teachers in the theory of their art, and for furnishing them with whatever knowledge is necessary for success in it. To appoint a Rector to give lectures on the method and matter of instruction, and on the whole art of training children of the poor; to examine the candidate teachers, &c. subject to the rules of the Committee. The religious instruction of the candidate teachers is to form an essential and prominent element of their studies, and no certificate to be granted unless the authorized religious teacher have previously attested his confidence in the character, religious knowledge and zeal of the candidate whose religious instruction he has superintended. The religious instruction of all candidate teachers connected with the Established Church to be committed to the Chaplain, and the special religious instruction to be committed (in any case in which a wish to that effect is expressed,) to the licensed Minister of the religious persuasion of the candidate teacher, who is to attend the School at stated periods, to assist and examine the candidate teachers in their reading on religious subjects, and to afford them spiritual advice. The candidate teachers in all other respects to conform to such regulations of the entire internal economy of the household as may be issued by the Rector, with the approval of this Coinmittee. It is further resolved, that accommodation shall be provided in the Model School for at least 450 children, who are to be lodged in the house, viz. 120 infants, 200 boys and girls receiving ordinary instruction, and 50 boys and 50 girls receiving superior instruction, and 30 children probably absent from sickness or other causes; and to establish a Day School of 150 or 200 children of all ages and both sexes, in which the candidate teachers may realize the application of the best methods of instruction, under the limitations and obstructions which must arise in a small village or town Day School. Respecting the grants heretofore made to different societies, it is decided, that a grant not exceeding 2,500l. shall be made to the National Society, and the British and Foreign School Society, for the establishment of their Normal Schools, but no further grant to be made. That the Committee will not adhere invariably to the rule which confines grants to the National Society, and the British and Foreign School Society, and will not give the preference in all cases whatever to the school to which the largest proportion is subscribed. That in no case shall more than one-half of the expense of building a school be advanced, nor will the Committee expend in grants for the building of schools more in any one year than 10,000l. That Inspectors be appointed, not exceeding at first two in number, to carry on an inspection of schools which have been or may be hereafter aided by grants of public money, and to convey to conductors and teachers of private schools in different parts of the country a knowledge of all improvements in the art of teaching, and likewise to report to this Committee the progress made in education from year to year; and that gratuities be granted to such teachers as may appear to deserve encouragement. THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. This society was instituted May, 1831, under the patronage of King William IV. Among its objects are-to collect and print such new and useful facts and discoveries as the society may from time to time acquire,-to prepare maps illustrative of particular branches of geographical knowledge, more especially those relating to orology, hydrology, and geology,-to establish new divisions of the earth's surface, formed upon philosophical principles, and adapted to different departments of science,-to prepare and improve road books, gazetteers, geographical and statistical tables, &c.-to furnish hints to travellers for the guidance of their inquiries and observations in foreign countries, &c. &c. The society is now quite large. It has absorbed several minor associations. In 1831 the African, and in 1854 the Palestine Associations were merged in it. It has published every year one or more volumes of very valuable and interesting memoirs. The following is an accourt of the proceedings at one of the regular meetings. April 22.-W. R. Hamilton, Esq., President, in the chair. 1. A letter from Lieut. Saumarez Brock, R. N., dated Malta 20th March, addressed to Captain Beaufort, R. N. "I have at length the satisfaction of forwarding the chart of the Gulf of Kos, on the south-western coast of Anatolia, with the sur veys of the various harbors contained in it, together with some sketches of the land from the points most useful to distinguish the approaches to them. The gulf occupies an extent of nearly 60 miles from east to west, and is very deep, no bottom in the middle of it with 300 fathoms of lime, and even in the vicinity of the shore seldom less than from 50 to 70 fathoms. No chart extant gives an idea of its shape or extent, and the isthmus has been, hitherto, laid down apparently by guess. In the summer months the upper part of the gulf is unhealthy, and is abandoned by the inhabitants in order to escape the malaria; this, combined with the absence of fresh water on the coast, rendered our survey a work of some difficulty. I have completed the town and harbor of Budrun on the scale of nine inches to a mile: I have traced the ancient walls, and fancy I have discovered the site of the Mausoleum, which has been so often sought for unsuccessfully, and have got sketches of the bas reliefs in the walls of the castle, and have little doubt but that they were brought from that celebrated monument. The shores of the gulf are almost uninhabited, but the numerous remains of both modern and ancient edifices prove that in former times it must have been densely peopled. The description of the isthmus given by Herodotus is true to this day; it is about half a mile broad, a natural ravine, which extends from the gulf of Symi, might, with a little exertion and by digging through a hill of inconsiderable height, convert the Triopium promontory into an island. The structure of the isthmus appears to be volcanic; it is composed of small varified rocks resembling lava, and would, doubtless, much annoy workmen in excavating through it; although moderns who might undertake the task would find no great difficulty in connecting the two gulfs of Kos and Symi by a canal. I send a drawing of a gate standing amongst the ruins of ancient Keramus, interesting both from its antiquity, its solidity, its complete state of preservation, and the elaborate manner in which it is ornamented. The city has been of moderate size, but contains the remains of temples and porticoes, which seem to have been overthrown by an earthquake, leaving, however, enough to show the wealth and good taste of its former inhabitants after much search I found some imperfect inscriptions. The door-way and gate at Keramus approaches in form to the Egyptian style of architecture, which frequently occurs in this place, but no others are thus ornamented. The number of sarcophagi found along the shores of the gulf is considerable, more especially at Keramus, where a double line seems to have formed the principal entrance to the city; they are very massive, but have all been |