196 TRINIDAD. 



The second seminary, called " The Convent," and which is 

 established for the education of young ladies, was founded by 

 the ladies of " St. Joseph," a religious sisterhood originating in 

 France, a few years ago, for the special purpose of diffusing 

 instruction throughout the colonies. The seminary of St. Joseph 

 has a complete appointment of nuns for the different branches 

 in the education of youth. The English and French languages 

 are taught therein, together with sacred and profane history, 

 geography, and arithmetic ; needle and fancy work also form an 

 essential part of the training; music and drawing constitute 

 separate branches as accomplishments. Eighty pupils are 

 boarded, and forty more received as out-door or day scholars. 

 The boarded pupils are divided into two classes those who 

 are found in all necessaries by the establishment, and those 

 who are dieted by their parents. The average charges for the 

 former may be estimated at 200 dollars, and for the latter at 120 

 dollars a year. Day scholars pay from three dollars to four dollars 

 per month. There is a chaplain attached to the convent. 



The seminary of St. Joseph may be regarded as a blessing 

 to the colony, and certainly is an institution unique in the West 

 Indies. Unaided externally as it is, it supplies gratuitous 

 instruction consisting of reading, writing, scripture, history, 

 the four elementary rules of arithmetic, needlework, and the 

 church catechism to more than 300 poor girls, and a higher 

 education to 120 more. 



Irrespective of these two seminaries, there are in the colony 

 several respectable elementary schools for both sexes ; and, in 

 connection with the Church of England, the grammar-school 

 established in the year 1856 : it is placed under the direction 

 of a clergyman, and subject to the management of the Ecclesias- 

 tical Board. In it are taught English, Latin, and Greek, history, 

 geography, and the mathematical sciences. The charges are 

 either 15 or 10, payable in advance and at three different 

 terms ; 15 without presentation, and 10 with presentation by 

 one of the founders. There are, at present, 34 pupils under 

 tuition at this academy. If to the ascertained number of children 

 attending public schools, viz., 2,200, we add 250 more as re- 

 presenting the number of those received at the different 

 elementary schools, we have a grand total of 2,450 children 

 receiving instruction at the primary and other educational 



