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It is gratifyinp: to notice that in a recent revision of Bristol charities under the 

 Endowed Schools' Commissiou, French has a place among educational requirements. 

 Thus, in Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, now a boarding-school for 150 boys, after the 

 entrance examination, which comprises reading, easy narrative, vn-iting text-hand, 

 and the first two niles of arithmetic, a scheme of school instruction is given, con- 

 taining history and geography, as well as English gi-ammar, composition, and lite- 

 rature, tlie elements of mathematics and natural science, the elements of French or 

 Latin, or both, dravdng and class-singing. 



A similar entrance examination is arranged for admission into the Red Maids' 

 Boarding-school for eighty girls, in Bristol, the income of which amounts to £4378 

 a year. In this School, instruction is given to girls in history and geography, 

 English grammar, composition, and literature, the elements of mathematics and 

 natural science, and of French or Latin, or both, drawing and class-singing, do- 

 mestic economy, and the laws of health, needlework, and (if the Governors think 

 fit) telegraphy, or some other branch of science having a bearing on skilled industry 

 suitable for women. 



The examination for admission to the Grammar School is to be graduated accord- 

 ing to the age of the Candidate, and is never to fall below the following standard — 

 that is to say, reading, writing from dictation, the first two rules of arithmetic, and 

 the outlines of the geography of England. 



The subjects of secidar instruction in the Grammar School are to be as follows : — 

 the Latin and Greek languages and literatures ; the English language and litera- 

 ture ; arithmetic and mathematics ; history and geography ; natural science and, in 

 particular, applied mechanics, chemistry, and experimental physics ; French and 

 German ; drawing ; class singing. 



An annual income of £1793 belongs to the Bristol Grammar School ; and to this 

 institution, as well as to Queen Elizabeth's Hospital and the Red Maids' School 

 (all three being iiuder the Bristol Municipal Charity Trustees), an augmentation 

 has been ananged from various non-educational charities converted into educational 

 endowments, of a capital sum of £14,.50O. 



New buildings for 400 scholars are to be erected for the Grammar School, inclu- 

 ding a day- and boarding-school. 



Colston's Hospital is a boarding-school for 100 boys, into which no boy is to be 

 admitted under the age of ten years ; and the scholars are not to remain after they 

 are fifteen years of age. The examination for the admission of paying scholars 

 comprises reading easy narrative, wi-iting text-hand, and easy sums in the first two 

 rules of .arithmetic, and the multiplication-table. The Governors may raise the 

 minimum standard from time to time if they deem it advantageous for "the School 

 to do 80. 



The subjects of secular instruction in Colston's boarding-school are arranged as 

 follows: — reading and spelling, writing, arithmetic, and elementary mathematics; 

 English grammar, composition, and literature ; French or Latin, or both ; the out- 

 lines of history ; geogi-aphy, political and physical ; natm'al science ; drawing and 

 vocal music. 



There will be two classes of scholars, foundationers and pajing scholars. The 

 foundationers in the boarding-school must have attended an elementary school 

 regularly for a year preceding their application. They will be elected in order of 

 merit, as tested in competitive examination for boys between ten and eleven years 

 of age in the subjects of Standard IV. (Code 1875), as follows: — 



" To read with intelligence a few lines of poetry selected by the Inspector, and 



to recite from memory fifty lines of poetry. 

 " To write eight lines slowly dictated once from a reading-book, and to show 



copy-boolvs in improved small hand. 

 " Compoimd rules of arithmetic (common weights and measures)." 



A note is appended to the table of standards of examination in the new code of 

 regulations, according to the ' Minute of the Committee of Council on Education,' 

 5th April, 1875, respecting the 4th Standard, that the " weights and measures " 

 taught in public elementary schools should be Avoirdupois weight, long measure, 



