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schools for the people is chiefly defrayed by voluntary sub- 

 scriptionSj foundations, &c. &c. The children of the middle 

 classes pay for nine months' instruction, three Spanish dollars. 

 Many teachers have more than a hundred scholars, and thus 

 earn about 1000 dollars per annum. These, it is true, are ex- 

 ceptions, but teaching as a profession seems on the whole to 

 be fully better remunerated in China than in European 

 countries. There it is in much higher estimation, and re- 

 ceives better recompense. The wealthy Chinese usually 

 engage private tutors for their children, who, as among 

 ourselves, usually form part of the family. Elementary 

 education is almost universal throughout China. There are 

 but few Chinese who are not at least able to read and write. 

 One very gratifying instance of the prevailing religious 

 toleration, well worthy of example in the Christian states of 

 Europe, is the presence of Protestant and Catholic places of 

 worship in the midst of Buddhist temples, and other edifices 

 dedicated to heathen worship. The American Episcopal 

 church, erected in 1850, at the expense of a wealthy merchant 

 and ship-owner of Boston named Appleton, at a cost of 6000 

 dollars, already numbers eighty converts. It is an extremely 

 simple yet neat-looking place of worship, quite in the style 

 of the chapels in the Western portion of the American Union, 

 and has in connection with it a school numbering about forty 

 native scholars. Every Sunday morning at ten, a sermon is 

 preached, which is attended by most of the foreign com- 

 munity. Far grander and more imposing in plan and fit- 



