Joseph Gales, jr. Esq., Rev. Reuben Post, Andrew Way, jr. Esq., Jeremiah Elkins, Esq.

Resolved, That the directors elect be requested to meet on Monday evening next, at five o'clock.

Resolved, That the several ward committees be requested to make such collections as may be in their power, for the aid of the association, as soon as practicable, and make a return thereof to the board of directors.

Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting, embracing the constitution of the association, be signed by the chairman and secretary, and published in the several papers of this city.

J. ELKINS, Secretary.

REUBEN POST, Chairman.

National Journal, April 29.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

At our annual meeting, last spring, the following sums were appropriated to the purposes of public instruction, namely;—

Of this sum, 3,500 dollars are paid out to schoolmasters and schoolmistresses Journal.

SUNDAY SCHOOL PUBLICATIONS.

The number of these is increasing in all parts of the country, and among various denominations. In addition to those memtioned in former numbers, we have lately received copies of the Sabbath School Treasury, No. I.a periodical published by the Massachusetts Sabbath School Union-of the Christian Teacher's Manual, also a monthly periodical, and published in Boston, but supported by private individuals-and of the Genesee Sabbath School Herald, published in Rochester, N. Y.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTIONS.

At the close of 1823, the first Mechanics' Institution was established in England there are now more than one hundred similar ones in Great Britain and Ireland. In France they are established in ninety-four towns, and recently they have been introduced into Germany, and an effort has been made to originate one in Madrid, and others in Hayti.-Mass. Jour.

EDUCATION IN EUROPE.

Highlands of Scotland.-We make the following extracts from a letter, written by the Edinburgh Association of Theological Students, to the Princeton Society of Inquiry on Missions. It was dated August 4, 1827, and lately published in the Philadelphian.-Bost. Record.

The cause of education continues to flourish in Scotland; and schools continue to increase in many districts of the country. Since we last addressed you, forty new schools have been erected in the Highlands. These are placed under the direction of the General Assembly; and are supported by congregational collections, and subscriptions, which are raised under its patronage. The committee, who have the more immediate management of them, have selected no fewer than eighty-six other stations, to which they have agreed to appoint teachers, as soon as the requisite accommodations can be provided for them. We view these facts with great pleasure; and, from the respectability of the attainments of the teachers who have been provided for them, the excellent control under which they are placed, and the suitable books which will be used, we anticipate great good to our northern countrymen. The yenerable society for propagating christian knowledge continues to diffuse the blessings, which it has been so long engaged in communicating to the destitute parts of our land. It employs ten missionaries and eighteen catechists. Its schools are attended by upwards of fifteen thousand children. The Gaelic School Society pursues its useful labours with its accustomed zeal. Its circulating schools were, during the past year, attended by four thousand five hundred and fortysix scholars; whose progress has been reported to be generally satisfactory. It has distributed, since its commencement, about one hundred and twenty-six thousand three hundred publications, including copies of the scriptures, scripture extracts, and psalm books. The committee state that they are anxious to raise the scale of spiritual attainment requisite in those persons whom they employ as teachers; and that they have agreed to allow them a higher salary than that which they have hitherto received. Respecting the Inverness Education Society, our late information is very limited. From the last account of its operations which we have seen, it appeared to be engaged in communicating the blessings of a religious instruction to three thousand poor Highlanders. We are sorry to state, however, that it does not meet with that support which, from its economy, and the local knowledge possessed by its directors, it is entitled to receive. Last summer it published a very able statistical pamphlet, which casts great light upon the religious state of the north of Scotland. Of the Glasgow Society for the support of Gaelic schools we have received no intelligence since last year. Sabbath School instruction meets with efficient support in Scotland. In connexion with our Sabbath School Union, there are at present one thousand five hundred and seventy-two schools attended by seventy-eight thousand three hundred and ninety-one children, and it is worthy of notice that there are many other schools in different parts of the country, between which and this society no relation exists. Religious instruction is the object of our Sabbath Schools.

Libraries. The population of Scotland has long been noted as a reading population, and we are happy to state that circulating, subscription, and congregational libraries are greatly on the increase. In the county of Mid-Lothian a society for supporting circulating libraries is supported with vigour; and a society has been lately formed in Edinburgh for extending the same means of improvement to this city and the neighbouring parishes. The committee of the General Assembly for increasing the means of education and religious instruction in Scotland, propose to attach useful libraries to their schools, which will be regulated on the circulating system. This system, which was invented by a pious merchant in Haddington, we take the liberty of bringing under your particular notice. You will find it developed in several publications which have been handed to us with the view of being sent to you.

Ireland. From an able and interesting paper published in the Scotsman, we learn that the progress which education has made in Ireland, within the last sixteen years is perfectly astonishing. From the returns made by the clergy in 1808, the number of scholars attending all the schools, was estimated at 200,000. It was found to be 395,813 when the general census was taken in 1821; and in 1824 it had risen to 560,549, according to the returns made by the established clergy, and to 565,964, according to those made by the Catholic priests. The amount of education has thus been almost tripled in sixteen years. If we estimate the population of Ireland, in 1824, at 7,500,000, the children at school will amount to nearly 1-13th part of the inhabitants.-New York paper.

Holland.-There are few countries in which greater exertions appear to be made for the general diffusion of knowledge, than in the kingdom of the Netherlands, under the present government. By a report of the minister of public instruction, it appears that, in the 3718 communes into which the kingdom is divided, there exist 3889 public schools, with 383,970 scholars. The number of scholars in private schools is stated at 173,741, and the number of persons receiving no instruction at 241,292.

Brunswick.-Among numerous ameliorations introduced into the Duchy of Brunswick, that of schools is worthy of observation. The government has recently granted to the schools a building, and the sum of 20,000 thalers. The primary schools are to be enlarged, the scientific schools are to be divided into ten classes; and a special school, which has been opened under the most favorable auspices, is to be kept up at the public expense.-Vermt. Chron.

Sweden. The king of Sweden has given orders to establish Schools of Navigation in the ports of Stockholm, Gifle, Calmar, Malmoe and Gothenburg, where instructions are to be given in the theory and practice of all branches necessary to form good captains of merchantmen. After the beginning of the next year, no captain of a merchantman will be able to obtain the rights of a citizen unless previously examined in the art of navigation, and recommended by the head of one of the marine`schools.-Am. Trav.

EDUCATION IN HINDOSTAN.

The education of native youth, of both sexes, appears to engross much attention. Extracts are published in the newspapers from English essays, written by the Hindoo students of the Anglo Indian College, in which the juvenile authors bring their acquirements in European learning to bear upon questions of moral, literary, political, and social importance, in a very ingenious and remarkable manner.

Great benefits are expected to result from this diffusion of the literature of the West. One of the first effects,' says the editor of the India Gazette, will be the eradication from the minds of the native youth, of much of the superstitution which constantly left their fathers in "a false position" in the social compact. The film will fall from their mental orbs, and they will view matters with very different sentiments from those now too prevalent.'

Will they continue in the strict sense of the term, Gentoos? Will the child of the lowest caste continue-after becoming intimate with the history, the literature and institutions of the West-to consider with perfect content, complacency, and conviction, a system that holds up the de gradation of his tribe to the end of the world as just and necessary? Will he not-as affects his con

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science at least-long to throw off the bonds of this, to him and his race, oppressive law? Is it likely that one of the youths educated at the Anglo Indian College-one, in short, of those young men, whose recitations, or essays have been recently publicly displayed-is it likely that such a person would consider it a proper act, religiously or morally, to be instrumental to the sacrifice of a sister, mother, or daughter-or to be the first to light the pile that was to consign her to a shocking death.

It is no less satisfactory to find that the blessings of knowledge are becoming more appreciated, and likely to spread among the native female population in different parts of the country. It appears by a report recently published by the Missionaries of Serampore, that upwards of two hundred female children are in attendance at the schools established in and near that station and Ishera. The Mofussul Schools, too, appear to be going on very satisfactorily. The number attending the Beerbhoom Schools is upwards of forty. At Dacca there are about one hundred and forty female scholars. The Chittagong There is also a school at Jessore, schools are attended by seventy seven. Akyab Allahabad, and Benares; and the total number in attendance at the Serampore and other schools amounts to no less than five hundred and fiftyand there is every probability of their increasing as the fame of these schools becomes spread. Indeed, the cause of education appears to be getting every day more and more popular among the people. In one part of the report it is observed-In most of the schools the parents attended, and testified their joy at the proficiency made by their children. All suspicion and prejudice seemed to have vanished away.'

One of the missionaries states that several respectable Moosoolmans' have 'Every girl,' lately called upon him and offered to take charge of schools. he adds, that leaves the schools, spreads the fame of them, and the knowledge of our exertions inspires the people with a desire that their villages might profit by them.'-Salem Gaz.

AMERICAN MISSIONARY SCHOOLS IN CEYLON.

The Seminary is doing as well as could be expected. The students make good progress in mathematics, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, &c., and have made some attainments in geography and astronomy. The first class are to leave next September. The number now in the Seminary is 67. In the Preparatory School there are 100, and. in the Female Central School, 27. Our Common Schools are 93 in number, containing 3,311 boys and 982 girls. The expense of all these [Common Schools] the last year was about $2,500; and of our Boarding Establishments, more than $3000, aside from buildings, &c. But the good done is abundantly proportioned to the expense.

Comparing the statement with the last accounts contained in the Missionary Herald, dated four months previous, it appears that during this interval, six new Schools had been formed, and that 568 pupils had been added to the Common Schools, besides several to the Seminary and Preparatory School. The whole number now under instruction, is 4,487.-N. Y. Obs.

EDUCATION IN COLOMBIA.

The government of Colombia which has never for an instant lost sight of the national glory, and which is well aware that all glory, however brilliant, dis

appears under the shadows of ignorance and barbarism-has exerted itself from the beginning, and even in the midst of the tumult of arms, to diffuse the light of knowledge throughout the whole extent of the teritory of the Republic. Evidence of this, are the goodly number of schools for mutual instruction, the colleges and other seminaries of education founded by its munificence; its decrees, also, whereby it has bestowed a thousand facilities, and extended a parental protection to studious youth;-and finally, the provisional plan for instruction, submitted on the 3d October, 1826, formed in pursuance of the law and of the decree of Congress of the 10th March, of the same year, conferring the requisite authority.

It should not be matter of wonder, that these efforts of the government, praiseworthy as they are, have encountered some opposition in the outset. This was a natural consequence of the prejudice with which men regard what they have not been able duly to examine, or of that which rejects every project that does not immediately promote their own interest. Ever will Colombia remember with gratitude and affectionate interest, the glorious epoch which has given to academic studies the steady and majestic course which they now pursue. She has thus laid the foundation for an establishment of the greatest value and dignity in the republic, and the improvements of which it may be susceptible, will make its worth more and more conspicuous.-Redact. Espan. trans. Mass. Jour.

NOTICE.

A Dictionary of the Proper Names in the New Testament, with other helps for Teachers in Sabbath Schools. By W. G. O. Dwight. Utica Western Sunday School Union. 1828. 18mo. pp. 66.

This is one of the most useful little manuals for biblical instruction, that we have yet seen. It is compiled from the best sources, and embraces a great quantity of miscellaneous information, in addition to what its title would lead us to expect. The dictionary contains a succinct but satisfactory account of persons and places, which extends occasionally to interesting and instructive particulars drawn from the writers of profane history.

The vocabulary of words peculiar chiefly to the New Testament, is, we think, one of the most useful parts of the volume; and ought, perhaps, to be enlarged in subsequent editions. The other contents of the work are principally explanatory tables, all of great importance to a clear understanding of scripture. But of these we have not room to make particular mention. The chronological tables, however, we cannot omit to recommend to the particular attention of teachers, whether of Sunday or of common schools, as furnishing a very desirable means of imparting distinct and exact ideas of the New Testament history.

To recommend this volume in general terms, after mentioning its contents, would be unnecessary. Its small size, and low price, though, in themselves, a great convenience in relation to the wants of elementary schools, would be undeserving of notice; were it not for the minute accuracy of the work itself, and its correct and neat execution.

The Review of Mrs. Willard's History of the United States, will be inserted in our next number.