(1.) Half of what is allotted to teachers. (2.) Amount varying according to circumstances and plans: Id. and upwards weekly. (3.) Sometimes fund book entirely confined to teachers and assistants. (4.) The money in the fund book, or a portion of it, liable to be forfeited by misconduct. (5.) On leaving school, the money in the fund book is (1) either given to the children, or (2) laid out in clothes, or (3) in such articles as may be useful in their new employment. 7. Workboxes, baskets, &c. in the girls' schools :-(1) They who can shew the best specimens of sewing are rewarded out of the earnings, with baskets, thimbles, &c. &c., to the amount of 10s. &e.; (2) sometimes the articles are purchased by the ladies, from their own resources, and distributed monthly. 8. Copy and cyphering books are given as rewards; and paper is found by most schools. 9. Use of the library, and books lent out to read, as a reward for good behaviour. (1.) Sometimes for a given length of time, as for one week. (2.) To 1st and 2nd classes only. (3.) To parents and others paying the usual weekly subscription. 10. Individuals of the committees pay for poorest children, and find part of their clothing, &c. 11. (1) If a girl, at the end of one year after leaving school and entering upon service, can bring a good character, she receives a Bible; or (2) if she have a Bible, she receives 10s.; or (3) the balance in clothing after paying for a Bible; or (4) if she be not in want either of a Bible or clothing, the 10s. is put in the Savings Bank for her. OBS. Though the plan of giving rewards to the teachers and other children in national schools is much improved, and the amount, owing probably to a want of funds, much diminished, yet there is still, it must be confessed, a very large sum of money unprofitably expended every year. No school which depends on rewards for popularity or success can be grounded on right principles, or can permanently flourish. All stated payments, as rewards, are liable to strong objections. It is to be hoped that the custom of thus paying children, instead of receiving pay from them, for communicating to them important benefits, will, as soon as possible, be discontinued. The sum wasted is almost incredible. By the qualified plan of rewarding by contributing a portion of the price of clothing much good has been effected. In 51 schools, 15 give rewards in money; 29, in clothing, &c.; and 37 give books, &c. (To be continued. ) ST. DAVID'S COLLEGE. (From the St. David's Calendar.) As the college is not entitled to confer degrees, the main consideration by which it must be recommended is the smallness of the expense incurred by its members, compared with that which is entailed by a residence at the Universities. To those who know the value attached to a degree, especially in the principality, it will be almost unnecessary to say how great a diminution of expense from the cost of an university education must be made on the part of the college, in order to counterbalance the disadvantage under which it labours from the want of this privilege. Unfortunately, however, though every thing has been done by the college, which its circumstances admitted, for the accomplishment of this object, the limited means at its disposal have proved a material obstruction to its progress in this respect also. While the English universities are richly endowed, it is the misfortune of St. David's college, that it has at present no certain funds under its control to encourage generous competition, nor to enable its tutors to diminish, so much as they could wish, the expenses of deserving young men, whom they would gladly serve were it in their power. Even the licensed grammar schools, which it was intended to supersede, and in which the expense of education was so much less than it can possibly be in a college, where residence is required, were in this respect possessed of greater advantages than it has ever enjoyed.* Two hundred pounds of the interest arising from money which was vested in the public funds, being appropriated by the church union society, during the accumulation of the college building fund, for the purpose of giving twenty exhibitions of ten pounds per annum to poor scholars of these institutions. The money from which that interest arose having long since been expended in the prosecution of the object for which it was subscribed; while the necessity for pecuniary assistance for the purpose of exhibitions has become more urgent, the sources from which it was formerly supplied have been entirely dried up, nor, as yet, have any fresh ones been opened in their stead. The practical effect of this state of things is already sufficient to prove, that unless some remedy is speedily discovered, the advantages that were expected to result from the institution of the college will be materially diminished. The number of its members during the present term has not been more than thirty-six, while its accommodations are sufficient for sixty-five. And it is obvious that as a certain domestic establishment must of necessity be maintained, the smaller the number of individuals between whom the expense of that establishment has to be divided, the greater must be the proportion borne by each one, so that the original intention of furnishing a cheap education to the Welsh clergy has an additional hindrance thrown in its way from this circumstance. The exceeding smallness of the sum which would be requisite to give complete efficiency to the college, encourages its friends to hope that their object will soon be accomplished. Had they but the command of two or three thousand pounds, for the foundation of a few scholarships and exhibitions to be awarded to the most worthy of their members, or an annual sum of the same amount, as the licensed grammar schools formerly enjoyed, a stimulus would be imparted to their system, the effects of which would be almost immediately felt: the expenses of the college would be lessened, the number of its members increased, and its own resources materially improved. Should a sufficient sum be raised to allow of the execution of this plan, it would not be desirable that any one exhibition or scholarship should be of large amount. The whole charge of college bills being about 55l. per annum to each student, a deduction of 101. or 201. from those of any of its members would be a most important help. By those who are unacquainted with the circumstances of the country, for the benefit of which the college was mainly designed, it may perhaps be deemed matter of surprise that with so small an annual expense as is above stated, any additional assistance should be required. But this sum, small as it is, is great in proportion to what was spent under the whole system of education in the grammar schools, and great in proportion to the means of the class from which the great body of the clergy has hitherto been and still must be supplied. The inevitable consequence of the present state of things, if pursued, will be, that this class, however well affected to the church, will Vide Appendix to Bishop Burgess's Sermon, preached at the Anniversary of the Society, 1813. look upon its ministry as an object placed at a distance far beyond their reach, and give it up in despair; while those of a higher class, lured by the prospect of an academical degree, will prefer the universities, at which alone that advantage is to be obtained. The number however of those who have it in their power, even with the greatest exertion and self-denial, to compass this object is so small, that there is no reasonable prospect of the wants of the church being permanently supplied from their body. It becomes therefore a momentous question to what quarter are we to look for a regular succession of Welsh clergy, in those parts at least which formerly had recourse to the licensed schools. Those schools are now at an end. The college, if supported and enabled to adapt itself to the circumstances of the country, will answer every purpose that can be required, and needs only a very small measure of assistance in order to make it an effective instrument of advancing the interests of the establishment, and of true religion through her means, both in Wales and in other parts of the kingdom. But if not, in the opinion of many who are best able to judge, the want of candidates for orders will ere long be sensibly felt. The fact of the college having now overcome so many difficulties, and having been in actual operation for nearly seven years, is surely an additional reason for lending it a helping hand. The experiment has now been tried, and the college been found to answer the purposes of its institution, with, it is believed, the only exception resulting from the difficulty above alluded to. CLERGY RESIDENCE. FROM the following document it appears that there are— Ditto Resident near and discharging their own duty Total Number of Parishes supplied by the Incumbent or a Besides this statement we find that there are the following cases- Vacancies Defective or no Returns Recent institutions 27 115 595 81 820 9,790 The whole number of parishes noticed in the return is 10,560. There are consequently only 770 parishes where it can safely be said that the duty is not done either by the incumbent or a resident curate; and even making a considerable allowance on the unfavourable side out of the 820-for instance, 400-we shall have only 1170 of such parishes. And on the contrary, it appears that, in addition to the resident curates noticed, there are 1836 others. So that there is an ample supply for these parishes, in a large portion of which there is no resident curate, because there is no residence, and a large number left who assist in parishes having other ministers. Another fact most worthy of remark is, that whereas there are only 1139 curates employed in livings above 300l. a year, there are 2548 (i. e. far more than double the number) in livings below that sum. A plain proof that pluralities and non-performance of duty by the incumbent himself are caused by the poverty, and not the riches, of the church. 1.) —A Copy of the Twenty-eighth Abstract, of the Number and Classes Vales, 3 Н HEADS AND ARRANGEMENT OF ABSTRACT, BY ORDER OF COUNCIL. Doing Duty. Chaplains to privileged Individuals Exemptions: Residence on other Benefices Royal Dispensation Officers in the Royal Chapels of St. James's and Whitehall, and Reader in Hist Majesty's Private Chapel at Windsor Official Chaplains Public Officers and Tutors in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge Resident Fellows in Oxford and Cambridge Ecclesiastical, Collegiate, and Cathedral Officers Warden, Provost, or Fellow of Eton or Winchester College Master of the Charter-house Principal or Professor of the East India College Preachers in the Inns of Court, or at the Rolls Schoolmasters and Ushers of Eton or Winchester College, or Westminster School Exempt not notified N. B. — In the above classes there are who perform the Duties of their respective Parishes) Totals of Exemptions Want or Unfitness of the Parsonage House Incumbents possessing small Livings and being licensed to Curacies Licences: Infirmity of Incumbent or Family Resident in a Mansion within the Parish belonging to Incumbent or Relative Schoolmasters and Ushers of Endowed Schools Librarians of the British Museum, Sion College, and Trustees of Crewe's Charity Unenumerated cases confirmed by the Archbishops Unenumerated cases within the Archbishops' Dioceses N.B.-- In the above Classes there are who perform the Duties of their respective Parishe Totals of Licences Cases which could not be included among Licences or Exemptions: Absence without Licence or Exemption N. B. In the above Class there are who perform the Duties of their respective Parish calme evige verbas hackerer G assured by a friend of mine, an excellent scholar and divine, VOL. IV.-Nov. 1833. The |