patient, ded for; apparatus moderate. Orion principles. This important school is now

Tabulated Reports on Roman Catholic Schools inspected by T. W. M. Marshall, Esq.-continued.

Attendance.

In ordinary

27 80 Buildings good, thirty feet by twenty-five, one room. Desks, seven desks and a gallery; furniture fair in quan-
tity and quality; playground good. Books, good supply well chosen; apparatus fair. Organization good.
Methods, model school, Dublin, carried out with remarkable vigour. Discipline good; instruction animated,
well connected, and illustrated. The school is in a satisfactory state, and the instruction of a high order,
and remarkably well illustrated; much progress has been made since last year.
100 Buildings good, thirty feet by twenty-five. Desks, four, two on each side of the school, one eight inches
higher than the other; furniture very good; playground, ample space, and supplied with swings, &c. Books
good supply, well selected; apparatus adequate. Organization, on an excellent plan, but space rather
limited. Methods, system of the Sisters of Mercy admirably applied. Discipline excellent; instruction
intelligent, and very careful and minute. An excellent school, in which all the most important fruits of
Christian education are being developed with great success. The instruction is judicious, careful, and
patient, and the spirit of the scholars admirable; nothing can be more satisfactory than the general con-
dition of the school. Both these schools are in a state of active progress; in the boys school the general
character of the instruction is unusually good, and history and geography have been especially well
taught; the girls school is in all respects in a most satisfactory condition, and a far higher work than mere
instruction is being accomplished by the skilful and devoted teachers. With a larger space for the formn-
tion of classes this would speedily become a model school, and its present state must afford deep satisfaction
to all who are interested in its welfare.

A pleasing and well conducted school. No candidates at the present moment.

48 165 Buildings recently erected, fifty feet by thirty, three class-rooms, one of which is thirty feet by nine, the other
ground a lustration.
two seventers turton, Desks, twenty-two desks, fair, but not of the best form; furniture fair; play-
air supply, and more about to be obtained; apparatus very fair. Organization
satisfactore the instruction is samicircles, and large gallery. Methods, model school, Dublin. Discipline not
yet fully ewhat cheerless aspect. ise; instruction intelligent and energetic. The school is in a state of
active held in a noble room, offer mproved by the admission of pupil-teachers. Held in an excellent
buildstruction has certainly been fes of the resident clergyman, and by whom it is most carefully and
zenlo community, under whose skilful allowed for the development of all the objects aimed at, but the

100

founder. Buildings By

on laid.

94. Burscough, Mixed
95. Blackburn, St.
Anne's

22 Oct. 78

25 Oct. 128

to be applied for; apparatus moderate. Organization, classes

school, Dublin, not applied with remarkable skill. Discipline fair, but capable of improvement; instruction good in some subjects, but defective in others. Held in two rooms of adequate size, but capable of much more effective arrangement. Suggestions were made which the managers appear inclined to adopt at a future period. Much progress has been made in certain subjects, but the graduated system of fees seem to work bodily, and to impede the further improvement of the school; it seems likely to be re-organized, when more complete results may be expected.

27 Oct. 116 60 180 100 Buildings, one room forty-two feet by thirty-eight, fairly lighted, well ventilated, in pretty good repair. Desks,
sixteen desks, each holding seven, of suitable form, in moderate condition; furniture very moderate; play-
ground none. Books, defective supply, about to be enlarged; apparatus indifferent, maps too small.
Organization good, eight classes in semicircles. Methods mainly those of the Christian Brothers; black-
board not sufficiently used, nor enough writing from dictation. Discipline very satisfactory; instruction
fair in most subjects, but not sufficiently illustrated. A good deal has been accomplished in this school in
the face of great difficulties, but a very assiduous and well disposed teacher, aided by the counsels and
encouragement of the clergyman. The assistance of pupil-teachers has become indispensable, and will
importantly promote the efficiency of the school.

St.
Boys

28 Oct. 52

Girls

56

50 Buildings, boys, one room thirty-seven feet by twenty-eight, height eighteen feet; girls do. Desks, boys, ten
desks of good form and in fair condition; girls, eight desks of suitable form, in fair condition; furniture,
boys fair, not much of it, girls very fair and sufficient in quantity; playground, boys, neighbouring lanes;
girls, large court. Books, fair supply, well chosen: apparatus fair; maps very good. Organization, boys satis-
factory, four classes formed with method; girls, good of its kind, and producing good results. Methods,
boys, model school, Dublin, black-board used in geography; girls mixed, for the most part judicious
and animated. Discipline, boys apparently well established, girls very satisfactory; instruction, boys
careful and sensible, girls clear, well connected and illustrated. Boys, an interesting school, very carefully
superintended by the resident clergyman, and recently committed to the charge of a trained and apparently
zealous and capable teacher. The reading is very fair; spelling good; grammar moderate; geography
fair; arithmetic very fair. It is evidently changing its character, and rapidly improving in efficiency.
Girls, discipline and organization thoroughly established; instruction careful and animated; children
apparently interested in their work, and the general state of the school one of active progress. In both
these schools the zealous efforts of the clergyman appear to have been attended with marked success, and
their future efficiency is fully secured.

52 Buildings very good, forty-five feet by seventeen, height thirty feet, open roof. Desks, six desks of good form,
and well arranged; furniture good; playground, neighbouring lanes. Books, apparently an ample supply;
apparatus very fair, good maps. Organization, three classes, one on the gallery. Methods mixed, not
skilful; black-board little used. Discipline apparently good; instruction not remarkable for skill, but
patient. A school conducted with great care, but in which the children of the first class are only nine or
ten years of age. It would be unreasonable to look for a wide range of instruction; particular attention,
however, has been paid to English history, in which they seem to have made fair progress. The school
is very diligently superintended by the clergyman, to whose unceasing labours its satisfactory progress
appears to be mainly due.

General Report, for the Year 1852, by Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, E. WOODFORD, Esq., LL.D., on the Schools in connexion with the Established Church of Scotland, and other Schools inspected by him in Scotland.

MY LORDS,

Report.

8 January 1853.

I HAVE now the honor of presenting my third General

My official occupation, in the amount of duty, which I have occupation been able to discharge, from the end of October 1851 to the during the end of October 1852, may be stated under the following

heads:

:

1. Preparing General Report for 1851-2, and correcting the
proofs.
2. Inspecting 137 schools, or, separating the boys' from the
girls' of the same name, 148, and reporting on them
individually. The children present, and who, in most
instances, were heard individually, more or less,
amounted to 12,945*,-the time spent in a school ex-
tending from three to four, five, or six hours, or even
more, according to the extent of field to be gone over.
3. Travelling to effect these inspections 3,219 miles.
4. Examining 194 pupil-teachers in writing, orally, and in
the prescribed specimens of teaching at the several
stages, and 101 candidates, in all 295 connected with
the above schools, and reporting on them individually
These examinations have been held in most instances,
and, as far as possible, apart from the inspection of the
school, except their specimens of teaching, by which, in
the advanced years, the time necessary for the inspec-
tion merely is much extended.

5. Preparing six papers for general examinations for certi-
ficate of merit.

6. Holding three general examinations for certificate of merit, viz., two in Edinburgh, and one in Aberdeen, each occupying a week, and 85 candidates of every kind being present.

7. Reporting on the teaching and personal qualifications of seventy-four of the above number, and examining 446 worked papers, the rest having been sent, as directed, to be examined at the Council Office.

8. Reporting specially, and at length, in five particular cases of school inspection or investigation, involving questions of some difficulty.

* Exclusively of several schools of which the numbers were not ascertained.

year.