appears

to deserve it.-Let this information be entered in separate columns, and sent to Samuel Street, Esq. at the Fall Mills, secretary to the Niagara Bible Society.

This inquiry is preparatory to the formation of associations in this district, for the high purpose of spreading the knowledge of divine truth, and it is evident that the act of periodically contributing to a religious object by any set of men, and especially to procure Bibles for themselves and children where they are wanted, or to aid their distribution among their poorer neighbours, and their fellow-creatures in general, leads to the formation of economical and pious habits, and tends to generate and cherish those feelings in the mass of the community, which conduce in a great degree to private virtue and public happiness.

Resolutions recommended for adoption at meetings assembled for the formation of Bible Associations, will be published in some future Spectator, as soon as the Niagara Bible Society receives information of Bibles being sent out to be disposed of by their Committee.

R. CLENCH,

A Member, and Secretary to the
Board of Education.]

[Niagara, June 1, 1817.

The following forms of report and certificate will be attended to, by the trustees and teachers of the district common schools, within the district of Niagara. And the Board of Education beg leave to recommend that the following rules be adopted in the different schools. The books mentioned in the rules will be provided by the Board of Education, with as little delay as possible.

Report of a District Common School established in the township of day of

on the

in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun

2. School to commence each day at nine o'clock of the forenoon, and five hours at least to be taught during the day, except on Saturday.

3. Diligence and emulation to be cherished and encouraged by rewards judiciously distributed, to consist of little pictures and books according to the age of the scholar.

4. Cleanliness and good order to be indispensable, and corporeal punishment seldom necessary, except for bad habits learned at home, lying, disobedience, obstinacy, and perverseness, these sometimes require chastisement; but gentleness even in these cases would do better with most children.

5. All other offences in children, arising chiefly from liveliness and inattention, are better corrected by shame, such as gaudy caps, placing the culprits by themselves, not admitting any to play with them for a day or days, detaining them after school hours, or during a play afternoon, and by ridicule.

6. The master must keep a regular catalogue of his scholars, and mark every day they are absent.

7. The forenoon of Wednesday and of Saturday, to be set apart for religious instruction; to render it agreeable, the school should be furnished with at least ten copies of Barrow's Questions on the New Testament, and the teacher to have one copy of the Key to these questions for his own use; the teacher should likewise have a copy of Murray's Power of Religion on the Mind, Watkins' Scripture Biography, and Blair's Class Book, the Saturday Lessons of which are well calculated to impress religious feeling. {

These books are confined to no religious denomination, and do not prevent the master from teaching such Catechism as the parents of the children may adopt.

8. Every day to close with reading publicly a few verses from the New Testament, proceeding regularly through the gospels.

9. The afternoon of Wednesday and of Saturday, to be allowed for play.

10. A copy of the rules to be affixed up in a conspicuous place in the school room, and to be read publicly to the scholars every Monday morning by the teacher.

Niagara, Aug. 5, 1817.]

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25th, 1817.

At a meeting of the Magistrates and other inhabitants of the District of London, held at Vittoria, the 2d of December, 1817, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of calling general meetings on the subject of an Address which appeared in the Upper Canada Gazette of the 30th October last, containing proposals for publishing a Statistical Account of the Province, Joseph Ryerson, Esq. in the chair, the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to.

1st. Resolved-That it is the unanimous opinion of this meeting, that every facility ought to be afforded to the author of that Address, to enable him to complete the proposed work, which, in the opinion of this meeting, will tend greatly to the improvement of this province in general.

2d. Resolved-That as individuals, we will give all the support in our power, to promote so desirable an object; and as a first step, we strongly recommend to the inhabitants of the different townships within this district, to call meetings with as little delay as possible, fixing a particular day for the purpose of furnishing replies to the several queries in that Address.

3d. Resolved-That as dispatch is very desirable, these meetings should be held as speedily as is consistent with correct information.

4th. Resolved-That these resolutions be signed by the hairman and Magistrates present, and be published in

the Upper Canada Gazette, the Niagara Spectator, and

the Kingston Gazette.

(Signed)

Jos. RYERSON, Chairman.

J. BACKHOUSE, J. P.
GEORGE C. SALMON, J. P.
J. MITCHELL, J. P.
THOMAS BOWLBY, J. P.

[A petition will be presented to the present Congress, to add another new state to the union-Missouri. The number will then be twenty-one.]

[EXTRACT

From the President's Message to Congress.

I have the satisfaction to inform you, that an arrangement which had been commenced by my predecessor with the British government, for the reduction of the naval force by Great Britain and the United States, on the lakes, has been concluded; by which it is provided, that neither party shall keep in service on Lake Champlain, more than one vessel; on Lake Ontario more than one; and on Lake Erie and the Upper Lakes, more than two; to be armed each with one cannon only; and that all the other armed vessels, of both parties, of which an exact list is interchanged, shall be dismantled. It is also agreed that the force retained, shall be restricted in its duty, to the internal purposes of each party; and that the arrangement shall remain in force until six months shall have expired, after notice given by one of the parties to the other, of its desire that it should terminate. By this arrangement, useless expense, on both sides, and what is of still greater importance, the danger of collision between armed vessels, in those inland waters, which was great, is prevented.