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the Royal AEA Society. 
of these i it is hardly 
if and became 
fo: 
ive: oe ool meeting of 
holes and creas 
and there, but ERAS inverting nor stirring in a work- | 
or ke manner, 
ong my friend’s collection of mo! 
was one of a de ia 
their cl ome disadvan 
ane oe hab before the day 
when such local schools 
8 which their pre- | 
of Government — 
as existed were, for t 
the 
e most | loo 
—— 
r three years in succession, those who are yet 
yi 
r ye 
ften cited letter to Mr. Chester 
me to require from the can- 
Thi is is is for drawing ploughs or other implements by | 
r to the description it these Sage 
= fas cheap motive- power of the w 
one or two details of the tackle or paara appa- 
hrak ee ded in the vee claims), deserve 
little attentio 
Two eari are employed, one erected in one corner 
res 5, S! didates certificates of competent scriptural knowledge 
chi iefly. look for information on this subject. In this | as a necessary part of an Englishman's acquirements, on 
investigation none can more interested grounds not religi only, with reference to a future 
s. And I would put it to all able and t| world, but also purely secular, with reference to the 
masters of middle class schools whether they have not) world that now is, to society as at present constituted 
th ome ì | England, lish laws and English institutions. 
in their too often unequal competit ion with| 4. Wit Pe S the subjects of ination, they 
panaur saa stom to the honourable office and | have thi purposely limited to three, viz. the 
itle of preceptors. ask them to cae English Tating, ‘the History and Seog ie the 
| Whether the institution SE om e public test of thei British Empire, oa Practical Mathema tics—some ac- 
ul 
01 
lja resent would not, while repre g 
r stay at school, 
pu yrs to increased exertions and longer 
“lis same time supply to their cabo an 
|a evidence of s ue e qualification or certificate of Sirie nie 
the xamination ns fo or Univ versity deg 
every Englishman of er: middle class who can be a 
sidered educated u up to the standard of his S ponpon. 
5. With regard to the points chiefly to be aimed at 
of a field, nat tk E oppo- | 
site. A i s rope is extended a one 
and 
led endles 
headland and one side of the field ; by m 
guide pulleys shifted on eac h hend land d, it can thus ne 
have so kindly STE the 
d Iam 
will venture to say, w 
1 h 
h 
but more especial] 
i re meh ne em ail; ly to 
of them simply grammar- | 
furrow in turn, wii nan eter. om w ngth ot the 
rope. Instead of digging a fresh anchor- ene ree 
which, tho ch some 
e | 8 schools by their ene have, thanks very much t to 
rk 
a. The oe: of the English language I seek to 
| hl; } 
furrow, each pulley is hooked to a wooden b A 
shifted along it as togtined, he beam or rack being 
7 
course traverses betwe ra two an- 
pu alleys 8; and it is fastened pony rope by a 
Fia veen clip, which releases its hold when var 
contact with any excessiy. 
or N comes in sudden 
resis 
e method of bakams the 
P England. 
| rs risa of special examinations to test 
vie 
ammar, 
though that of c as to s Pagans 
tance with the force and v T pE the power 
of ipata uy y representing | "houghi and ee 
of e 
opao is impliet 
kais lifeations with a view to the selection of the right in om 
| men for the ght places, i is becoming one of the ques- | guage ; ing ata is io so 
it ions of i ian Witness the examinations recently | convey a iy a iaka compas er Akt 
fei - n foot for the Indian service by the Indian Govern- | less than the sense intended to nef pager, Mere 
3 for the engineers and artillery service by t egim, t ry bones, so to speak, of the 
department ~ lawyers by the inns of court ; and | c: t of itself perform this higher, and, as it were, 
Int, not least, t t r our civil service by | vital option. Indeed if there must be a deficiency in 
ut it is to be observed, that e other, it had far better be 
po ie has been sete ve ali ight 
some very recent inventors. Z. A. Ç. 
MI teh Dars AE A 
aY 
{Lord Ebrington has be 
on tis subject, read 
o ely epreciated by the lucrative prizes 
- ‘ae ore general character of University ome | 
does set: appear by oa results to have at all unfitted 
racine men for ing themselves 
ore technical and ot 
kalun of academical 
zes held out at or 
y-instituted contests. It has yet to be proved 
than in expression, 
of a vi ffi 
or 
1 
=i means of s0 xamina- 
ns ances to ‘aioe f our Universities, Sroule not 
as to thee ex tent 
ns of 
education for the mi 
| Pre pare the way for, instead of o 
“sited, insten of obscured by, a 
‘of m penfeatioual: "qualifications 
aidesidtratam auch ted. Wh ether er 
question again. Nor eed Tv repeat 
anxions I feel ‘that farmers and farming should kee 
er classes and other arts. 
however, that if things go on as they do 
Ps will observe, | 
now, 
the professional than the social prospects of the 
farmers. And for this Ee Though, on the one 
hand, I am convinced, fro. om bi dezided advance which 
agricult has latterly been making, 
that a combination of science with practice, and a 
acquaintance with the experience of a 
agric cultura bo se only by the 
become gradually mor 
Profitable farming ; 3 yet, o 
wide cirele of 
well- ei 
e and more indispensable 
the 
the other hand, ore T 
of the very great amount a Da ble practica 
le edge fo peee ae part, have of their 
usiness. And though highly-edueated ge 
the strength of the really fuller knowledge 
derived on certain agricultural poat 
ge of reading, „reflection, 
Aat 
lessons in their trade ; 
fth, 4. 
eco. 
Sya ibaa 
pe 
ntlem 
e; ida, sometimes 
3 yet the more I am able na Jenast 
‘it ea 
nae cedar] 
fae 
iS ons at least equally k ipae x mpura 
ge ices heard and read much that was 
Tess incorrect in g rammar, and yet perfectly intelligib 
AH 
‘letter 
eloquent. This c 
ors, 7 sain 
of the classes here 
| work. e shal 
aminations whei 
nation at large to 
has. Tfi as not upon Pig 
in them I, 
est, 
its ; und rte 
trial of t the Society of 
| plan d 
Jor o Mr. Che: ster. As this obviously, h 
ounty degrees mene 
iene + ther. What I should especialy seek here i in 
tance with the 
candidates itt be a fair 
the Hi of 
ht +, 
hada 
22° Se 
more n than I y rig 
to ta 
influe 
ree for ali? i pedek: HE mine, I determined 
ithe step which the chee were so kin as to ined 
app. when I mentioned i ha to them at 
th ch to 
ee empire in thie and of view seems 
calculated fe kindle sentiments of Lave 
freer communication of their nl 
e public in 
capacities ; em should be ia prevented mra 
yorim, more justice to themselves in the eyes of t 
re those | 
ai regard to the candidates for prize, my | 
is that in Te 
d to 
om mi midéiinbepttin,: mL: will pro- | 
heme, a 
an equal exten 
nd li: Engaged i in Ct a RN E 
ease re for their incomes u 
culture. If occasion s 
definition in this ca r 
community. 
My object in offering ya ‘present: pri ly 
to vi f: but also 
certa 
D oni So 
to sadconner oo witha 
7 
if necessa ns of este at present p 
only x ayailadie t fort that class i in Dey onshire, I mean of 
ing. T 
tained ices m ong be slowed to contin 
country withou 
on 
e standard of the class I seek to benefit as 
on in y past 
first-rate school or college education, so far above the | 
n of the classes both above and below the 
. p genera- | 
farmer find, with regard to the education of | 
o Mr. Chester, of June 28, 1854, in the Journal 
ree my speeches at the Conference of the 
uly, 1854; at the Tiverton dinner last 2 aot | 
North Molton and Castle Hill dinners last 
2, The HG Ae = — the age candidates to 
to be an unfair | 
© | offer 
c. With, reg regard to the third subject, viz. — 
Math net aot a> required would seem 
ar ae mion I will only add how anxious I am that 
should be relieved from all trouble 
matter not inhest i in the nature of their 
of 
18 and 23 in diaspo (hake havi a) 
fairl pursuit 
those just arrived at 
seer te oleae the business of life. But as 
miraia aeoea as ariaa of offering the same 
ete ortheot 
artin 
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