The Boys School.

find that none had left but who hail done credit to their important society-Thoy received a most superior education , and it had given him exceeding great pleasure to see some of them receive their prizes for proficiency in learning . Ifc had witnessed one hoy ' s success in obtaining three or four prizes for his improvement in muthemalirs , Greet :, latin , and particularly French and penmanship ; this was one boy alone—but others were also

conspicuous for their progress , though not to the same extent . These boys , u-hen put out , made respectable and honourable members of society . He was sorry to say lie could not speak with tho same satisfaction in regard to the frirls School . For himself , he saw no reason why the girls should be left in a state of ignorance , while the boys received such a superior education . Ifc diclnot mean to go so far as to say the girls should learn mathematics anil the dead languages , hutiic thought the girls should he trained

according to their capacity , so that they might go out in the world and rise as their merit deserved . No doubt many of the girls might possess : i talent for music , . singing , and drawing . Where these talents were round let them be cultivated , so that such girls may go out as teachers and governesses . At present the girls in their school received no better training than was given to many national charity school children—they were principally taught to scrubmake bedsand wash pots ancl kettleslie did not menu

, , , to say that the domestic training of any girls should be neglected ; such instruction was very needful , especially that they should he taught the useful forms of needlework . He thought that no disgrace to the hi ghest lady in the land ; and , 1 ' urthci " , no lady could properly conduct her household without domestic abilities , lie had referred to these things because he thought , the girls of their school had not been brought up as they ought , to have been . "

AVe know not whence our Eight Worshipful brother has obtained his information , as we can find no record of prizes being given cither for Latin or Greek , or their ever having been made part of the educational course of tho Boys School . Tf they ever were so , then must the institution havo lamentably deteriorated ; and the boy epioted by Sir Lucius must be a specimen of the past not the present—of the out

door education not that at Lordship Lodge . As Sir Lucius Curtis , however , overrates the education which is given to the Boys—so doerhe underrate that ofthe Girls . It is perfectly true that for too many years the education of the Girls School stood at the point which it had attained fifty years previously , and the hand of improvement was stayed , owing to Mrs . Crook , the matron ancl schoolmistress , never

having been aided by tho introduction of now blood—her assistants having been selected from her own imperfectly educated pupils ; On the death of that highly respected lady , however , this state of thiiK's was changed—the offices of matron ancl schoolmistress were separated , the former being confided to Miss Jarwood who had had

considerable experience under Mrs . Crook , and the latter to Miss Souter , a young lady who came recommended b y a high certificate from the government commissioners of her educational attainments ; ancl latterly French and music have been added to the course of 2 s 2