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two there may be above fifty in attendance in winter, but 

 the average will not exceed forty. The students at the 

 Collegiate School have been as many as twenty-four, but 

 as the standard of education rises in the parochial schools, 

 the Collegiate School, as such, will be comparatively un- 

 necessary, and it will ultimately be hmited to those who 

 may be under preparation for holy orders. For such, 

 and for the clergy generally, there is a library, possessing 

 now one thousand books of standard divinity, as well as 

 other useful subjects. 



" The sources of income vary much ; ten out of the 

 thirteen schools are connected with the Church Missionary 

 Society. The masters of such schools have all a salary 

 from the Society. The model training master is entirely 

 paid by them, and also the masters of the pure Indian 

 schools. In the other schools about one half may be paid 

 by the Society, sometimes less, and the rest made up by 

 the parents of the children. In the three parochial 

 schools unconnected with the Church Missionary Society : 

 in St. John's parochial school, a portion of the salary is 

 paid by my own college, Exeter College, Oxford ; in St. 

 James's, by some christian friends in Edinburgh; and 

 at Headingly, by the congregation of the Eev. T. M. 

 McDonald, Trinity Church, Nottingham. 



"The sum paid by parents is lbs. a year ; where Latin 

 is taught, 11. In some parishes they prefer to pay the 

 pound, or thirty shillings a family, and to send as many as 

 they choose for that sum. 



" We want much, school apparatus, books, and maps. 

 A very large quantity of books have been imported, and 

 the Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge 

 has given many valuable sets of maps to several parishes ; 

 but scattered over thirteen schools, they are still insuffi- 

 cient. * - * * 



