of that "present state," which the school was in at no time, may, and with signal economy in the articles of mental and manual labour, serve for any number of successive years: in a word, so long as the Excellent Church, with its Excellent Schools, and their Excellent Managers, shall endure.

Note, that in this perpetual calendar may be seen that list of "Religious exercises," by which, as shewn in Part II. of the present Introduction, so much light has been thrown, upon the excellent plan, for substituting to the less Excellent religion. of Jesus, the more Excellent religion of that Excellent Church, by which all these Excellencies are displayed.

-no-not

Congenial to the tenor of the evidence itself, is, on this occasion, the mode, in whichthe mode in which it is authenticated-but the mode in which the task of giving to it the marks of authenticity is either forgotten or avoided. With perfect consistency, of the picture of the state of the school, as it stood at no time, the verity is certified in no place, by no person, at no time: by no person, not so much as by the person, by whose evidence so very little seems throughout to be added to any ground of credence :-no, not so much as by T. T. Walmsley, Sec.

III. Report II. page 197, No. IX.-Form of Certificate for Masters.

This is the instrument, which, in Part II. has

been held up to view in its character of the second of the instruments of the exclusionary system.

Time and Place are as completely absent, as every object that comes under the denomination of person.-No:-nobody knows any thing about the matter: not even T. T. Walmsley, Sec.

Number of persons of whom God is composed— that God, whom, if St. John is to be believed, (John, i. 18-I. John, iv. 12) no one ever sawthis number is no less correctly known to the Reverend Secretary, than to the Most Reverend President. Number of the persons, over whom, on this occasion, the Most Reverend President presided-and under whom, on this same occasion, the Reverend Secretary officiated-this article remains, and for ever will remain, in the clouds.

All the while it is by this non-entity, in conjunction with so many other non-entities, that the Society with all its schools is governed.

In Report III. this paper is likewise reprinted. Reprinted, and, word for word, without omission, alteration, or addition, under the head of No. VII.

IV. Report II. pages 197, 198, No. X. Title, in the Table of Contents, Regulations for training Masters. Title on the paper itself, Rules and Regulations for training Masters.

In this case, in the same form, or rather no form, as in the one last mentioned, the same

draught may be seen drawn upon the public, by the Reverend Secretary, for the requisite compe, tent stock of ungrounded faith. Established by nobody, on no day, at no place, signed by nobody, not even by T. T. Walmsley, Sec.,-not so much as garnished by the words NATIONAL SoCIETY-Central School-stationed at the head of the preceding paper, instead of a date, they stand, in other respects-these "Rules"-or these "Rules and Regulations"-upon exactly the same imaginary ground as the Form of Certificate for Masters.

In Report III. pages 176, 177, under No. X. (by inadvertence put instead of No. VIII.) this paper stands reprinted, word for word.

Of these Rules, the main body is foreign to the present purpose. Not altogether so either the Introductory passage, or the first of the Rules.

"The conduct and improvement:" it begins with saying "The conduct and improvement of "the Masters being objects to which the very par"ticular attention of the Committee" (viz. the imaginary Committee) "is directed, it is ordered

"That a book shall be kept, to be called The Report of the Masters, which shall be a faithful "register of their conduct, and be laid weekly be"fore the Committee, during whose sitting every "master is required to be in waiting."

The case being (as, long before this, must, it is believed, have been clear enough to every body)-

the case being, that no real Committee is ever sitting, how is it that, in this way, an intercourse is thus constantly kept up between two assemblages of persons-the one visible, composed of the Schoolmasters-the other invisible, composed of the illustrious, but never-assembled masters of those same Schoolmasters.

Another look, and you will see how it is:-i. e. how it cannot but be.-Somewhere or other in the building, conceive a room, called the CommitteeRoom-in that same building conceive another room, called the Waiting-Room: conceive, moreover, a third room, called the Secretary's Room. The Committee-Room is the supposed seat of the many-headed Idol.-T. T. Walmsley, Sec. is the High Priest.

When a Schoolmaster comes, he is ordered to the High Priest, by whom he is sent to the WaitingRoom, where he sits kicking his heels with his fellows. If at that time so it happens that a special order is to be given to him,-in goes the High Priest, shuts himself up with his invisible God,-takes his Godship's pleasure, and delivers to the bowing Master,or, if his Lordship of London is understood to form one person of the godhead, the "prostrate" master, the result of it.

Do what I preach, and not as I do, is an old adage, put into the mouths of such Reverend Gentlemen as do preach.-According to the above rule, the book kept by the Masters is to be

"a faithful Register of their conduct:-of the con"duct of these same Masters."—Faithful ?—In what sense and manner faithful?-In the same manner as these Reports, which are so regularly published by the Secretary, and for which, when published, he is at the motion of the Most Reverend President so regularly thanked?-Alas! no: but in the opposite manner. In the way of contrast, however, should it ever happen to a copy of this work to meet the eyes of any one of these Masters, in the way of contrast the conduct of the real conductors of the institution might be of use to him. To the National Society's Schoolmasters, the peep here given behind the curtain may afford a lesson of "faithfulness,"-as the deportment of the Helots when in a certain state, was made to afford a lesson of sobriety to the children of their masters.

§ VIII. Securities against Spuriousness-Cause of the Omission of them, Necessity and Design-not Inadvertence.

So many tokens of authenticity, so many instruments of authentication, so many securities against spuriousness. Of the use or value of these securities, is it that the authors of these Reports were unapprized or insensible ?-Not they indeed.

If in any case they have omitted to exhibit them, it is because, with a few inconsiderable ex