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"4th. At the expiration of six months all the public schools shall be shut, which are not conducted according to the System of Mutual Instruction.

"5th. All the masters of the public schools shall attend the Central School, with two of their most advanced pupils, in order to be instructed in the new system: and in studying it, they shall attend to the method prescribed by the director of the establishment.

"6th. As soon as the director of the Central School shall have instructed a sufficient number of teachers, these shall be employed, with competent salaries, in establishing Public Schools on the same principles in the capital city of each province, that the system may thus be extended from these to the other cities and towns in each province of the State.

"7th. At the first public examination which shall take place in the Central School, those masters who have been most attentive in learning the system, and shall have made such progress as to be able to conduct schools according to it, shall receive the reward of a Gold Medal, to be ordered for that purpose by the Minister of State.

"8th. For the preservation and extension of the new system the Patriotic Society of Lima is particularly commissioned, and requested to take such measures as may be considered necessary for these purposes, and they are desired to make known to the Government those things in which its co-operation may be required, in order more effectually to carry forward this important object.

"9th. In order that the advantages of this system of education may be extended to the female sex, which the Spanish Government has always treated with culpable neglect, it is particularly recommended by the Patriotic Society to take into consideration the most likely means for establishing a Central School for the instruction of Girls.

"10th. The salary of the Director, and the other expenses necessary for this establishment, shall be arranged by a decree to that effect, and shall be defrayed by the Government. The Minister of State is authorized to issue all the orders necessary for the punctual fulfilment of this decree. "Given in the Government Palace in Lima, 6th July, 1822. " (Signed) TRUJILLO.

"By order of His Excellency,
"(Countersigned)

B. MONTEAGUDO."

SANTIAGO DE CHILI-There are three schools in this city on the British System. One is attended by one hundred and twenty boys, part of whom pay a dollar per month, and others pay for a slate on admission. Another school has about sixty boys, fifty of whom pay a dollar per month. The remaining school is gratuitous, and the master's salary is paid by the magistracy. The schools are now going on well, and the boys improve pretty fast. A native of this country, who first acted as master of the first school at Santiago, has been appointed to establish schools at a distance from the city, and is already pretty forward with one at Valparaiso.

CALCUTTA, and Visit to a Female School. When schools for the education of the rising male population were first projected at Calcutta, the state of society

society seemed to preclude females from the immediate benefits of such exertions: yet, in the progress of the experiment, it has been found that the female mind also can be roused to seek after the blessings resulting from education; and the success of the Female Branch of the Calcutta Baptist Society, in establishing Native Female Schools, justifies the friends of religion in endeavouring to extend the means of instruction, as far as possible, to the females of India, as well as to the other sex.

While the way for the education of native females was thus preparing here, the friends of education in England were also devising plans for accomplishing the same end. The British and Foreign School Society, in concert with some members of the Calcutta School Society, now in England, had solicited and obtained from the public, funds for the sending out a suitable female teacher from England, who might devote herself exclusively to the education of native females in India. Such a person was soon found ; who, to a sincere love of her sex, and fervent piety, united long acquaintance with the work of education. This lady (Miss Cooke) accordingly sailed from England in the ship Abberton, recommended more especially to the Calcutta School Society, by whom she has been resigned to the Corresponding Committee of the Church Missionary Society, who have published an interesting appeal on this important subject.

We subjoin an extract from a Report drawn up by the lady who accom panied Miss Cooke to the Female Schools :

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We accompanied Miss Cooke at nine o'clock this morning to the Native Girls' School, and found thirteen were assembled. As soon as the first salutations were over, I conversed familiarly with the children in Bengalee: on which they all appeared delighted. I asked them if they would attend regularly for instruction, from that lady (looking toward Miss Cooke), who is taking so much trouble as to learn the language for the purpose of instructing them. They said that they would most gladly; and their little countenances were lightened up with joy. Two of them, whose names are Monachee and Ponchee, said that they wished I also would come with Miss Cooke and talk to them.

"While speaking to the children, many of their female relatives stood without the lattice-work, looking in.

"The children then repeated their Bengalee Alphabet to Miss Cooke; and, after they had gone over a few of the first letters several times, we moved to come away: little Ponchee took hold of my clothes, and said, "Stop, my mother is coming;" by which I found that some intelligence had been conveyed to the nearest neighbours of our being there. While Miss Cooke was speaking to Mr. Jetter, who had a boys' school in the place, two or three of the mothers approached close to the lattice work; and the children, particularly Monachee and Ponchee, pointed out theirs, and Ponchee her grandmother also, begging I would speak to them.

"The mothers of the children were neatly dressed in clean white clothes; but drew their upper coverings so much over their faces, that I should not know them again. I drew close to them, and said, "I hope you will be pleased that your children should be instructed by us that lady, Miss Cooke, is come to this country solely for the purpose of instructing 2 B 2

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the children of the natives of this country." Monachee's mother inquired, if she could speak their language. I told them, that she had begun to learn it on her way hither, and could read and write a little; and, in a short time, I hoped she would be able to converse with them familiarly. She then asked why I could not come also with Miss Cooke: I told them that I had my own to instruct at home; but that I would often accompany Miss Cooke. They inquired whether Miss Cooke was married? Į answered "No." Had she been, or was she going to be? I said, "No : she is married or devoted to your children: she heard, in England, that the women of this country were kept in total ignorance, that they were not taught even to read or write, and that the men alone were allowed to attain to any degree of knowledge: it was also generally understood, that the chief objection arose from your having no female who would undertake to teach she therefore felt much sorrow and compassion for your state; and determined to leave her country, her parents, her friends, and every other advantage, and come here for the sole purpose of educating your female children." They, with one voice, cried out, smiting their bosoms with their right hands, "Oh! what a pearl of a woman is this!" I added, "She has given up greater expectations to come here; and seeks not the riches of this world, but that she may promote your best interests." "Our children are yours-we give them to you''-replied two or three of the mothers at once. They then asked, “ And where have you learnt our language? Did you learn it in your own country; or have you been long here?" and many such questions; to which I replied. They went on, Are you married?" I said "I have been." Where is your husband?" On my saying " He is not," and seeing that the question affected me, they whispered to each other, "She has lost her husband: do not question her on that head ;" and were perfectly silent a few moments with sad and sympathizing looks. They then respectfully inquired whether I had children: I told them that I had a daughter, and grandchildren, whom I would bring to see them: and they entreated I would soon return, and bring some of them with me. We came away with the shouts and "salaams" of both children and parents.

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Two days afterwards, on the 28th, a second visit was paid :

We found only seven pupils this morning: among whom were two new faces. I had taken my grand-daughter Anna (who is between five and six years of age) with us; at sight of whom all the children appeared delighted.

After repeating their letters, they again conversed with us, and made many inquiries about Anna: when I told them she could read our Scriptures, they appeared surprised.

The children requested leave to feel Anna's hand: she readily held it out to them, and one after another took hold of it, saying, " How white it is!"-"how pretty!"-" how soft! it is like cotton!"-"We never touched an European child's hand before: ours are hard, but we do much work about the house." I told them that they did right; and, were it Anna's duty to clean pots and pans, she would do it, and then her hands would not be so soft. I then inquired whether they came regularly in

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the afternoon they said that they did, except on the preceding day, when it was a holiday.

All the children were then dismissed : but some of them returned very soon again, and when I asked them why they had not stayed to eat, they said that they had taken their food hastily, and came back, that they might see and read to us again before we went away.

II. SLAVERY.

London Society for mitigating and gradually abolishing the State of Slavery throughout the British Dominions.-The objects of this Society cannot be more clearly and comprehensively defined than in the following resolutions which were unanimously adopted at its first meeting:That the individuals composing the present meeting are deeply impressed with the magnitude and number of the evils attached to the system of Slavery which prevails in many of the Colonies of Great Britain; a system which appears to them to be opposed to the spirit and precepts of Christianity, as well as repugnant to every dictate of natural humanity and justice.

That they long indulged a hope, that the great measure of the Abolition of the slave-trade, for which an Act of the Legislature was passed in 1807 after a struggle of twenty years, would have tended rapidly to the mitigation and gradual extinction of Negro bondage in the British Colonies; but that in this hope they have been painfully disappointed; and after a lapse of sixteen years, they have still to deplore the almost undiminished prevalence of the very evils which it was one great object of the abolition to remedy.

That under these circumstances they feel themselves called upon by the most binding considerations of their duty as Christians, by their best sympathies as men, and by their solicitude to maintain unimpaired the high reputation and the solid prosperity of their country, to exert themselves, in their separate and collective capacities, in furthering this most important object, and in endeavouring by all prudent and lawful means to mitigate, and eventually to abolish, the slavery existing in our Colonial possessions.

That an Association be now formed, to be called "The London Society for mitigating and gradually abolishing the State of Slavery throughout the British Dominions ;" and that a subscription be entered into for that purpose.

With respect to the means of carrying these objects into effect, they must, in some measure, depend on circumstances. For such as are more obvious, particularly the obtaining and diffusing of information, considerable funds will be required; and it will therefore be necessary to promote subscriptions not only in the metropolis, but in all parts of the kingdom.

III. BIBLE SOCIETY.

Table of One Hundred and Forty Languages or Dialects, in which the Distribution, Printing, or Translation of the Scriptures, in whole or in part, has been promoted by the British and Foreign Bible Society, either directly or indirectlly.

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