308 TIMEHRI. 
Colony was still in so backward a condition, and warmly 
advocated, not only a more thorough system of public 
elementary instru€tion, but the propriety of establishing __ 
a normal school for the training of teachers, an industrial — ‘ ? 
school, and a model farm. With, as we think, statesman- 
like prudence, Lord GREY pointed out in his despatch 
that the welfare of the country must for the future depend 
upon the manner in which the rising generation were 
trained to take their places and to discharge their duties 
as free and intelligent citizens. In another despatch upon 
the same subjeét he declared that preference in the way 
of Immigration would be given to such Colonies as 
attended to the instru€tion of the negroes, and that if 
this duty were not properly attended to, the colony 
guilty of the negleét would probably be left out of 
the reckoning in the distribution of imported labour. 
About the same time, the Rev. R. DuFF, Minister of St. 
Mark’s, wrote a strong letter upon the subje&t. He 
argued that the system of education was utterly defe€tive, 
that the schoolmasters were for the most part incapable, 
and that from want of proper supervision the returns 
enabling the teachers to draw the fer capita allowance 
were in many cases unreliable. 
The work of the new Commission was quickened if 
not occasioned by these and other communications upon 
the subject; and a new scheme of public education was 
presented to the Governor early in 1851. The Com- 
missioners’ Report being the first of its kind in the 
history of the Colony will doubtless be interesting to all 
who are engaged in the work of education. That is our 
excuse for reprinting the following extraéts :— 
As a preliminary step of the greatest importance your Commissioners 
