a maximum of £3, who has been entirely instructed by such teacher in drawing, and who satisfies the department of science and art with his (or her) annual progress in exercises graduated according to the scale in Schedule No. 1. "No student in training, and no acting teacher in those cases where they are respectively required to pass the General Examination before Her Majesty's Inspector as for the end of the first year, may obtain a memorandum of competency in more than two of the branches enumerated in Schedule No. 1 at the same time. "I. Candidates (whether students or teachers) of the second year are not subject to the last preceding limitation. "II. Candidates (whether apprentices, students, or teachers) will not be required to pass again any of the exercises for which they may already have obtained prizes; but each exercise as it is passed successfully, at whatever stage of their scholastic career, will be duly registered as so much gained towards the memorandum of full competency mentioned in paragraph 8, and in the meantime will bear the corresponding value as soon as the candidate has become a certificated or registered teacher. "SCHEDULE No. 1. "First Year-Drawing free-hand from flat examples. Second Year-Linear geometry, by means of instruments. Third Year-Linear perspective, by means of instruments applied to geometrical figures, plane and solid. Fourth Year-Free-hand drawing and shading, from solid models. Fifth Tear-Freehand drawing and shading of natural forms and objects, from memory. "SCHEDULE No. 2. "The prizes will consist of books, materials, and instruments calculated to be of use to the successful candidates in their further progress. A certain liberty of choice will be accorded to the candidates themselves, who, with the exercises, will be furnished with a list of the prizes, from among which they mark upon their own exercise the particular prize they would prefer to obtain for it if successful." BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY. LEGACY, DONATIONS, AND NEW ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS, LEGACY. Wedgwood, Mrs. S., per J. Wedgwood, Esq., Dorking A. B., per Messrs. Hanburys and Co.... Bousfield, T., Esq., St. Mary Axe Brown, Janson, and Co., Messrs., Abchurch Lane Coath, S, Esq., 7, Bread Street Foster, James, Esq, Stamford Hill. Gurney, S., Esq., 65, Lombard Street, additional London and Westminster Bank, Southwark Piper, W., Esq., Palace Road, Lambeth... Rendel, Messrs. M. and G., Great George Street, Westminster Stuart, Lord James, 10, Whitehall Place Watson, Rev. J. W., B.A., Trinity Church, Tulse Hill 110 Zetland, Earl of, 19, Arlington Street 25 0 0 Remittances from Auxiliary Societies and Corresponding Committees, &c., from December 1st, 1856, Subscriptions and Donations will be thankfully received by Messrs. HANBURYS and Co., Bankers to the Society, 60, Lombard-street; and at the Society's House, Borough-road. Printed by JACOB UNWIN, of No. 8, Grove Place, in the Parish of St John, Hackney, in the County of Middlesex, at his Printing Office, 31, Bucklersbury, in the Parish of St. Stephen, Walbrook, in the City of London; and Published by THE SOCIETY, at the Depository, Borough Road.-WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1857. THE EDUCATIONAL RECORD. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY. FIFTY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY. The Fifty-second Annual General Meeting of the Society was held on Friday, May 15th, in the large School Room of the Institution, at the Borough-road. Previously to the Public Meeting, the Annual Examination of the Boys in the Practising School took place, in the presence of a large number of ladies and gentlemen. The examination included the usual branches of Education, and was chiefly conducted by the Pupil-teachers. The questions on the Holy Scriptures were given by the Head Master. The mode of teaching experimental science in the schools was illustrated by a lesson on chemistry; and a very large number of drawings was exhibited, which had been executed by the boys. The Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P., and Vice-President of the Society, who presided at the examination, addressed the children at its conclusion, and expressed his satisfaction with the state of the schools. The company then adjourned to the Girls' School-room, which was immediately crowded. On this latter occasion, the noble Lord was supported by Lord Charles Russell; the Right Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., vice-president of the Committee of Council on Education; Sir John Boileau, Bart.; Charles Hindley, Esq., M.P.; Samuel Gurney, Esq., M.P.; Sir Walter Stirling, Bart.; J. Cheetham, Esq., M.P.; E. Ball, Esq., M.P.; W. P. Price, Esq., M.P.; Rev. William Cadman, M.A., Rector of St. George's, Southwark; Rev. James Hill, of Clapham ; Rev. John Hirons, of Brixton; Mark Phillips, Esq.; Gurney Hoare, Esq.; James Yates, Esq., F.R.S.; Rev. H. Solly; the Rev. J. Kirk; many Members of the Committee of the Society, and other gentlemen. The body of the room was also crowded with ladies and gentlemen. Mr. E. D. J. WILKS, the Secretary, said letters had been received from Lord Stanley; Earl Ducie; the Dean of Hereford; A. S. Ayrton, Esq., M.P.; the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, M.P.; W. Tooke, Esq., F.R.S.; Hastings Russell, Esq., M.P.; Lord Robert Grosvenor; W. Roupell, Esq., M.P.; the Hon. A. Kinnaird, and others, regretting that other engagements prevented their attendance. Mr. Wilks then proceeded to read an abstract of the Report for the past year, from which it appeared that 280 young persons had attended the classes of the normal college; that 114 had been appointed to schools; nineteen had, from want of health and other causes, withdrawn; the number at present in course of training being 136. Out of 116 students who were presented for examination at Christmas last, ninety succeeded in obtaining certificates of merit; twenty-two were placed in the schedule, and only four failed; while to forty-four students drawing prizes were awarded. In the model schools, on the premises of the Society, the average daily attendance was stated to be 974, under the care and instruction of a head master and mistress, two assistants, and twenty-nine pupil-teachers. The inspection of schools had been continued under circumstances of much encouragement, and over the greatest part of England and Wales, which has been divided among six inspectors. 109 grants of money and school-materials have been made during the year; of these, thirteen were to Ragged Schools. In the absence of the Treasurer, H. E. GURNEY, Esq., the financial statement was read by Mr. JOHN CORDEROY. The total receipts for the year amounted to £15,021 18s. 1d.; and the expenditure to £15,396 15s. 7d. The Right Hon. W. F. CowPER, M.P., moved the first resolution :→→→ "That the Report be received, and printed and circulated under the direction of the committee, and that certain gentlemen (whose names were read) should be members of the committee for the ensuing year." He said As a subscriber for many years to that Society, he had great satisfaction in finding that now, in the fifty-second year of its existence, it showed no sign of decrepitude, but that, on the contrary, it was still full of youthful vigour, while reaching a sound maturity. The proof that they had had in the examination of the quality of the teaching was most satisfactory to all who witnessed it. They had to regret the loss of many friends by death, and more particularly of that honoured individual, Mr. Samuel Gurney, who was for so many years a mainstay and a zealous leader in the management of the school; but he trusted that the places of those they had lost would be filled up by new, earnest, and zealous friends. At least, they knew that they would always find among those who were willing to give assistance and support to the Society, the distinguished nobleman who on the present and on former occasions had been good enough to give them his attendance, and who, by hereditary connexion, as well as by his own individual feelings, had ever been a patron and a champion of the principles of that Society. He was glad to see that the teaching in their school was becoming daily more and more practical; that it was not confined to what was contained in books, but that it extended more and more to what children could look at, could see, and could learn. He was glad to perceive that morning that they had a very proficient class, who were taught the chemistry of common things. The people of England had openly declared that the teaching of primary schools must be a religious teaching, and the only difficulty was to say what that teaching should be. In this matter the British and Foreign School Society set an example to all others, giving to the children of the labouring classes a general fundamental Christian knowledge, sufficient to make them discharge their duties actively and properly in life, without entering into any disputed points of doctrine. They only taught the simple, broad, and open ground of religious truths, upon which nearly all denominations agreed, and the words of the Scriptures were only explained according to their most obvious, practical, and generally received meaning. To others was left the task of teaching the doctrines and formularies of the denomination to which hereafter their parents might wish them to belong. He hoped the Society would always continue true and steadfast to those great principles, and that it would, in consequence, receive the same widely-extended respect which up to that time it had met with. The present conjuncture was one which called for renewed efforts and greater sacrifices from all the friends of the Society, to support a system by means of which education would be placed at once on a broader and more permanent footing. The present voluntary system was now on its trial, and its friends must exert themselves to show that it was the best calculated to meet the wants and necessities of the country, and to improve the inadequate and helpless elementary schools which they saw in all directions, and which hardly deserved the name of schools at all. Now was the time for the friends of the principles of the Society to make fresh efforts to provide good schools for the children of those who could not pay for education, that they might give them that instruction which would enable them to fulfil their tasks in life, and not only fit them to pass successfully through the parts they had to play in this world, but prepare them also for the life which was to come. Sir JOHN BOILEAU, Bart., in seconding the motion, said He conceived that the efficient support of this Society was a matter of the deepest interest to the British nation and to the world, not only because of the admirable system of education which it imparted, but also on account of the liberal principles on which the Society was based. He desired to express the pious and affectionate regret which he felt at the death of that old and attached friend of the Society, Mr. Samuel Gurney, who took a deep and unwavering interest in the Society from its very earliest history. He would also desire to offer a tribute of high respect to that old and valued officer of the Society, Mr. Henry Dunn, who had recently retired from the duties of the secretaryship, which he had so long and so efficiently discharged. He was greatly rejoiced, as all present must have been, to hear from the Report that the normal schools are full of pupils, and that the schools throughout the country confess the advantage which they derive from the advice and assistance they receive from the parent Society. He likewise heard with unspeakable satisfaction that the schools generally have increased in numbers and efficiency. Such, then, being the case, this Society must be well deserving of the support of the friends of education, and he trusted they would not be satisfied with what had been done in former years, but largely augment their contributions until the prin ciples of this Society should prevail all over the land, and schools conducted on the same system be everywhere established. Mr. MARK PHILLIPS then rose, and after a brief reference to the examination of the boys, which had just concluded, expressed a wish to draw the attention of the meeting to one of the fundamental rules of the Society, which, in his opinion, had not been strictly adhered to in the Borough Road Schools. He asked the permission of the Chairman to have the fourth rule read to the meeting. Lord JOHN RUSSELL had no objection to that course, and called upon the Secretary to read the rule referred to. The Secretary immediately read as follows: "That all schools which shall be supplied with teachers at the expense of this institution, shall be open to the children of parents of all religious denominations. Reading, writing, arithmetic, and needlework, shall be taught. The lessons for reading shall consist of extracts from the Holy Scripture. No catechism or peculiar religious tenets shall be taught in the schools; but every child shall be enjoined to attend regularly the place of worship to which its parents belong.' Mr. PHILLIPS proceeded at some length to comment on this rule, and in connexion with it referred to a pamphlet recently published by Mr. Dunn, the late Secretary of the Society, in which were contained some statements, which, in his opinion, were at variance with the Society's principles, and with the spirit of the rule just read. He asked the Chairman, therefore, whether the opinions expressed in the last pamphlet of Mr. Dunn were, or were not, the opinions of the committee? Lord JOHN RUSSELL said : He entertained a very great regard for the late Secretary of their Society, Mr. Dunn, but with regard to his opinions in the pamphlet alluded to, whether right or wrong, they must be taken only as they were printed and published, namely, as his opinions and views, and not as showing forth either the intentions or objects of the Society. An institution of this kind must be judged and tested by what it had done, and not by any individual expressions or opinions. He should be glad if some member of the committee would express the views of that body on the subject. Mr. ROBERT FORSTER responded to the call, and said :— The statement of the Chairman is in accordance with the feelings of the committee. At the same time, individual members of the committee of course hold their own private opinions as to the statements contained in the pamphlet in question, but its publication was not their official act. He hoped it would be understood that he did not bring forward this question with a view to injure the institution, far from it. He hoped the institution would flourish far beyond what it had hitherto done. But he was most anxious to have the original desire of the founder carried out. He moved as an amendment :— "That the teaching what are usually denominated orthodox doctrines in the schools of the British and Foreign School Society, as stated by the late Secretary in his pamphlet entitled the Unitarian Attack, is in derogation of the fundamental rules of the Society, and that the same be discontinued." Mr. W. PRICE, M.P. for Gloucester, supported the motion. Lord JOHN RUSSELL suggested that it would be inconvenient to put this resolution as an amendment, particularly as Mr. Phillips said he had no objection to the Report. Mr. PHILLIPS said, that part of the resolution which referred to the Report might be put separately, but he should move an amendment as to two of the committee. Lord JOHN RUSSELL. then put the first part of the original resolution, relative to the adoption and printing of the Report, which was agreed to. In reference to Mr. Phillips's resolution, he was very ready to hear any member of the committee as to the actual practice of the Society. That, he thought, was the real question. Mr. JOHN CORDEROY explained, That some time ago a pamphlet was circulated, written by Mr. Leyson Lewis, charging the Society with having violated its principles by teaching sectarian doctrines; in consequence of this, the committee had passed the following resolution :-"That the committee having been informed that a pamphlet published by Mr. L. Lewis, having a tendency to create dissatisfaction with the management of the British and Foreign School Society, has been widely and gratuitously circulated, are desirous of assuring their friends that no deviation from the original principles and practice of the Society nas been either permitted or attempted." It should be distinctly understood that the committee are responsible only for what is taught in the model schools, and |