Dalintober (Miss Campbell's).-Inspected 28th February, 1849. 1 and 2. Good.
3. Monitorial, simultaneous, individual. 5. He is a very competent teacher of a school
like this. 6. The great body of the scholars are children of the lowest classes-fisher-
men, &c., in Campbletown, whom the benevolent founder intended to benefit by this
school; but children also of the better classes are admitted at a moderate fee, the
mixture of these with the others being thought likely to have a good effect upon the
latter. Desks and furniture sufficient; books and apparatus-an abundant supply of both.
Gartsherrie.-Inspected 19th March, 1849.-1. Classification and other parts of organ-
ization good. 2. Good. 3. Simultaneous and individual. 5. Both master and appren-
tice very deserving of encouragement; both appearing to have been attentive to their
respective duties and studies during the last year. Books and apparatus sufficient;
desks and furniture very good.

Dorward's, Montrose.-Inspected 15th June, 1849. Candidates for apprenticeship un-
prepared. Examination postponed.

Dalry, Parochial.-Inspected 19th June, 1849. 1. Good. 2. Good. 3. Simultaneous,
monitorial, individual. 5. Master has retired in bad health, and the school is now under
charge of a substitute, who receives from the heritors a salary of 151., and occupies the
dwelling-house. A sufficient quantity of books, maps, &c.; desks and furniture suffi-

cient.

Blair Mains-Inspected 20th June, 1849. 1. Good. 2. Good. 3. Simultaneous,
monitorial, individual. 5. The teacher qualified to educate apprentices, and the school
a suitable place for the purpose. Sufficient books; only four maps, but more expected;
desks and furniture pretty good.

Dalry, Female Industry-Inspected 21st June, 1849. 1 and 2. Good. 3. Simul-
taneous to a great extent, also monitorial and individual. 5. The mistress fitted to be
a guide to apprentices, and the school a suitable place of training. Books abundant;
only five maps, but more are to be got; desks and furniture good.

Dalry, Kirsland Barony.-Inspected 21st June, 1849. 1 and 2. Good. 3. Simulta-
neous, monitorial, individual. 5. Teacher well qualified to educate apprentices, and
his school suitable for the purpose. Books sufficient; at present only three maps, but
more are expected; desks and furniture very good.

Beith, Parochial, Boys'-Inspected 22nd June, 1849. 1 and 2. Excellent. 3. Simultaneous, monitorial, individual, 5. Highly approved of. Books and apparatus sufficient; desks and furniture good.

Beith, Parochial, Girls'.-1 and 2. Fair. and several drawn by the mistress herself;

There is only one map, that of Scotland, desks and furniture excellent.

Edinburgh, Normal.-Inspected 25th June, 1949. No Report.

Kirkaldy, Burgh.-Inspected 5th July, 1849. 1 and 2. Excellent. 3. Simultaneous,
monitorial, individual. 5. Mr. Lockhart is an admirable teacher. An abundant supply
of books and apparatus; desks parallel and good.

Cupar, Madras School, Boys'-Inspected 6th July, 1849. 1 and 2. Good. 3. Simul-
taneous, monitorial, individual. 5. There are three masters in this academy, besides
assistants-one for classics, one for writing, arithmetic, and mathematics, one for
English history; the latter has two assistants, one of whom receives the poorer class of
children, and teaches them reading, writing, and arithmetic. They are all very compe
tent teachers, and well fitted to conduct the education of apprentices. It is proposed
that the apprentices should act, as occasion may require, in one or other of the
departments for English reading, or for writing, arithmetic, and mathematics.
Cupar, Madras School, Girls'.-It will be observed that the mistress teaches only knit-
ting and sewing, but I have reason to think she is well qualified to give the necessary
literary instruction to female apprentices.

Newton-on-Ayr.-Inspected 10th July, 1849.-1, 2, and 3. Good. 5. He is a very com-
petent teacher. An abundant supply of books and apparatus; desks and furniture
good.

Dreghorn Crossroads.-Inspected 11th July, 1849. leand 2. Excellent. 3. Simulta-
neously, individually. 5. School well taught. 6. The accommodations are certainly
insufficient, the school-room being too small, low in the ceiling, ill ventilated, and
damp; an addition should be made to it, and ground can be had for the purpose. The
dwelling-house above is to be rent free, but consists altogether of only two small rooms
and closet, altogether of no larger dimensions than the school-room below. Books and
apparatus; no want of school books: those used are the books of the School Book Asso-
ciation, M'Culloch's and Veitch's; no globes; only four maps, viz., the hemispheres,
Palestine, Europe; desks and furniture; desks along wall; seating not good.

Fullarton.- Inspected 11th July, 1849. 1 and 2. Excellent. 3. Good. 5. Master
able and most assiduous. 6. Latin and Greek are well taught here. Books and appa-
ratus, abundant supply; desks and furniture excellent.

Brisbane, Endowed.-Inspected 13th July, 1849. 1. Good. 2. Very good. 3. Simul-
taneous, individual. 5. Master qualified to guide apprentices. Books, &c., abundant
supply of; desks, &c., good.

Currie, Endowed.-Inspected 17th July, 1849.
taneous, individual. 5. Favourably reported of.
plete set of good maps; desks, &c., good.

1. Satisfactory. 2. Fair. 3. SimulTolerably supply of books; a com

Tabulated Reports on Sessional Schools in Scotland inspected by John Gordon, Esq.-continued.

Number of Children learning

Number of Children learning Number of Children No. of Children

Arithmetic as far as

Writing on

Paper. Slates.

Easy Narratives.

Monosyllables.

Letters and

SCHOOL.

.

330

25

25

25

82 25

30

133

127 115 67

16

14 08

17

10

30

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Glasgow (Gorbal's).

Schools in Scotland. not in connexion with the Established Church -General Report for 1848-49, by JOHN GIBSON, Esq., one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools.

MY LORDS,

Edinburgh, December 1849.

SINCE my appointment in 1848, a comparatively small portion of my time has been devoted to the work of inspection. The arrangements made by your Lordships, and detailed in the letter addressed to my colleague and me by your Lordships' Secretary, rendered it necessary to spend several months in the examination of candidates for Certificates of Merit, and in work directly connected with these examinations, including the preparation of the examination papers, the review of the written answers of the candidates, and the reporting on them to your Lordships. The interest excited by your Lordships' Minutes, and the ignorance prevalent, especially in the remoter parts of Scotland, in regard to their precise nature and objects, entailed upon me a vast amount of correspondence, attention to which occupied no small share of my time, so that I have been enabled to give not more than a few months to inspection. This inspection, too, has been conducted in circumstances and for objects singularly interesting and important indeed, but ill fitted for enabling me to report upon the schools with such minuteness of statistical detail as is desirable and necessary, and as I shall be able in future very easily to give.

I propose, in the following brief Report, to submit to your Lordships a statement describing the objects, nature, and chief results of the work of inspection in which I have been occupied; the general views and principles by which I was regulated in drawing the Examination Papers; the spirit and manner in which the written answers were reviewed by me, and then reported upon to your Lordships; and the impressions made upon my own mind by the novel and animating spectacle of so many of the teachers of our country assembled, under the auspices of your Lordships, for the purpose of proving their qualifications for the high work to which they have devoted themselves.

1. Inspection.-I have examined, with more or less minuteness, more than 100 schools. These schools were visited, specially, for the selection and examination of candidates for apprenticeship as pupil teachers. The specific object of my visit regulated to a great extent the nature of the examination. That object was three-fold: First, to discover among the children in attendance those who by attainment, talent, disposition, and general charac

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