No. 4910-APRIL 2, 1879]
THE CHINA MAIL.
out. If this is done, there will then be no reason to reduce the value of passes which otherwise would seem far too high for the requirements of schools giving vernacular teaching only.
Canton.
Slat March.
Manila.
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when that was placed in their hands too,
(Translated from our Manila Exchanges.) none could translate the passage correctly, and every one showed that even the Chi-
On Friday evening lost the Concordia We remember, says the Comercio, that nese Commentary was unintelligible to them. It is my conviction that if Chinese
Hall Amateure amused a considerable when the establishment of a line of stea There have been many complaints in the is to be taught properly in the Contral School it must be taught according to course of the year on the part of managers audience by a laboriously prepared spot-mers to run between Hongkong and Aug, Chinese and not according to forsign of higher schools, giving not merely varna- tacle founded on the story of the forty traits do, calling at Manila, was first pro-
cular teaching, but a European Education As to religious teaching-In the Central with or without Chinese teaching in addithleves entitled "Ali Baba," a Burlesque posed--a project which foll through from School, I noticed myself, and the Chinese tion, as to the comparatively small value ascribed to H. J. Byren, Esq.; but in fear of high exactlone on the part of the masters acknowledged in conference, that of passes in such expensive schools whare respect to the scenery, dress, songs and administration which, though logal, noither the teaching given in the Central School English is taught in houses the rental of converted pieces and portlong of the dia- the company nor the passengers could le really not secular toaching, pure and which is very high, and where the teaching simple. In English reading lessons, books power has to be procured from England at logo, we shall not err in attributing the afford, a contemporary remarked that the se sad which contain religious lessons, but great cost. There is certainly a great dis- presentation to local nonroes, and the ene trade between Mantia and Australia was these are invariably skipped. The fact that proportion in the value of passes allotted the moment a chapter is reached contain to ordinary vernacular and to high clade cose actieved to the masterful rannagement not worth mentloping. We said at the ing any Bible story or where the coucluding English schools which might well be re of the resources of the Committee and their time that the trade was not a large one, but If the text of the libretto that with proper means of communication it sentence of the chapter supplies a moral medied. The whole Grant-la-aid scheme, coadjutor. with the slightest reference to anything introduced but as a tentative measure, and the accordant action, suggest burlesque might become one of some consideration, specifically Christian, that chapter or that requires revision also with a view to enable concluding paragraph is at once tabooed those Protestant and Roman Catholic run mad, the actors did not fall to extract especially in tobacco, and that for several and the not following chapter taken, is schools of the Colony which at present find the moral from the adversa tendencies in other reasons the company would have our most unfortunate, as it impresses the boys themselves prevented partaking of the
the satisfaction of reading the following. notion that Christianity itself is discount. excellent scheme. One great objection le zest by the enbtlo safice in the matrimonial lines in our contemporary the Oceania:--- in the strongest possible manner, with the benefits of this, in its leading principles, modern life, nor to contribute a piquant sympathy. To-day (March 22nd) we have "The opening of the Universal Exhibition onanced in the Central School. On the the requirement of 200 daily attendances between Morgiting and Gariem. other band, Chineas reading books used in of 4 hours each at secular instruction.
There are other objections to the Grant- We were glad to hear Abdalla's" velco of Sydney has been announced to take place on the first week in September this the Central School are replete with argu- mente and exhortations in favour of an in-aid system. The greatest in my own again; and to welcome also our local amateur fear. Australia is a market for the pro- cestral worship, contain a good deal of mind, and which I have never heard any of Musle returned from the North. But ducis of the Philippines, and sometime they send to us their producte. Hemp, Buddhist and Tauist teaching, are evon, as ono mention yet, is this, that hitherts the in the case of Mencius, esleulated to foster Grant-in-aid system has entirely failed to pros dosa not permit us to particularizo. rope, augar, olgars, coffee, and other artl a decidedly anti-foreign spirit, yet these gain for itsoff the appreciation of the native Suffice it, that as a whole the presentation eles from theas Islands find buyers in Aus barley. passages are not skipped. Un the contrary, community. I know of 58 schools kept
flour, the finest that reaches this country, the Chloess masters told me that they, in and paid by Chinese residents, and if we was very effective and as a spectacle worthy tralla; from thence they send to oral explanation, endeavour to bring home add the night schools for English teaching, of the larger audiences of Europe and though dearer than that of California, and nome preserved meats of extraordinary this kind of teaching to the hearts and the number of schools, all secular school, America. It was gratifying to again soo
cheapness. We believe that it would be a minds of their pupils, Nor can the masters kept by the Chinese community will be blamed for doing so, as they conscien- scarcely be found to fall short of a hundred, some visitors from Hongkong. Canton has, boon, to this country if 3500 (very little) tlously believe in such doctrines themselves. Nevertheless there is not one such school, indeed, been favored with a succession of were expanded in organizing a collection of To counteract the manifest unfairness of managed by Chinese, under the Grant-in-
Australian Exhibition, We commend this this state of things, there were somo years aid scheme. The reason is not that the auch the past six weeks, incitiding Governor samples of these falanda produda for the Chinese object to take the money on the Hennessy and family, General Donovan and subject to the careful consideration of the ago Obines school.bocks prepared by Government School-book Committee, sup basis of a strict examination by competent lady, Lady Wado and her sister, Admiral Economical Society and the Board of Agri- plying the rudiments of secular knowledge, examiners at the end of the year. What
also draw the attention of the Mustrious of which these Chinese class books above they object to is the amount of official Coote, Colonel Hall and family, Judge oulture, Industry and Commere." We ourporations to this subject, Pasibly-the mentioned are devoid, and giving also the interference the scheme implies and the French and others.
project of the Dutch steamers of Hongkong.. elements of Christian religious teaching complicated aet of conditions by which it is
Australia line, calling at Manil, will be Bat thess Government.school-books are not hedged in. A gohome like the Intermediate taught by the Chiness masters in the Con- Education Act (Ireland) for 1878, which is also based on the principle of payment
revived; and the obstacles, which in two previous occasions prevented its realisation, tral School
for results in secular touching, but has
remoted, none of the officious meddlesomeness of the Hongkong sobeme, would be far more likely, in my opinion, to gain the sympathy of all classes of the community and stimu lato education with true impartiality and genuine liberality by enlisting under ite banner in barmonious emulation the now cationists of the Colony, the native as well divided camps of soular and religious edu as the foreign schools on the whole island. I have the honour to be,
cated the promotion of a knowledge of the | whose studies is thus arbitrarily interrupt- English language and of English speaking ed. But the matter has's far more serious among the native population of Hongkong, aspect when it is considered that anyhow naturally bore its fruit. The Government the classes are too large for effective leach Central School altared its time table, de- ing and especially that the boys sit so voting to the study of Engilsh the early crowded, in every class, that not only have part of each day, formerly allotted to Chi. they no elbow room in writing, but copy. nose studies, and gave to questioning in lng and prompting by whispers it is absolute
The evil of this methods. English and to English colloquial conversa ly impossible to prevent. tion an amount of attention it had never overcrowding in most conspicuous during before received in the Central School. As Chinese lessons, whure from 83 to 93 boys to the Government schools, outside the ara crowded futo one class under one Central School, among which Aberdeen had teacher. Thus the moral lesson of self previously been the only Anglo-Chinese reliance, which the school otherwise might school, English teaching was introduced in teach, is lost, habits of dishonesty and the course of the year in three different deception are fostered, and moreover, in a places, viz, Wong-nal-ch'ung, Wan-taal hot climate like this, aptong a people among and Sat-ying-p'ún, and finally the establish whom ekin diseases are naturally prevalent ment of a Method Class with a view to such overcrowding, of the classes becomes train Chinens to chers of English for em-positively dangerous to health as well as to ployment in the Village Saboola was begun, morals. Three out of the fivo school-rooms in connection with the Central School. are very lofty and provide sufficient cubic That the inhabitants of a small hamlet like space. But the rule observed in England, Wong-nal-ch'ung should volunteer te con- of admitting one boy only for every 8 square tribute $0 per month towards the expenses feet, is persistently disregarded in the the Government, and that they should gain this system can show is a seemingly of the school, hitherto entirely defmyed by Government Central School. The only stipulate that English as well as Chinese he high rate of average attendance and a pro- taught in the school, is a most remarkable portionate diminution of the apparent cost fact, especially if it be considered that of the school when calculated for each boy for years past the standing complaint in average attandance. in all the annual roporte of the Education Department was the utter indifference of the villagers with regard to education, The people of Wong-nal oh ang paid their quota regularly, throughout the year, and the school, which at the beginning of the year, when Chinesa only was taught, numbered 3 scholars, of whom 2 were the Bons of the master, counted an average attendanes of 26 boys over since English was introduced. Outside the Government schools also, the special appreciation in which English tencbing was held by the Head of the Government made itself felt, and was warmly responed to by a sudden Increase of private schools, both day schools and evening-schools, conducted by Chiness or Eurasian tesohero, among whom I may especially mention Mr George Chape. Mr Chape conducted last year a private day school, unsupported by private or other means, except the fees of $2 per mensem paid by each acbolar. He had an average attendance of 80 scholars, each finding his own school materials. The Importance of this fact will be understood If it be considered that the Central School, with an average attendance of 459 scholars, obarges $0.60 per mensem la the lower classes and $1.00 per mensom in the higher with school-materials (even Diottonaries classes, but supplies each scholar liberally included) and costs the Government, apart from the value of the house rent, 827.54 per annum for each, scholar. At the examination, lately held, of candidates for admission into the Central Sobuol, it was found that out of 114 candidates found qualified for admission, all but 39 had been studying English in 1878, bolng able to read English fairly well. Among the bohools from which these came I may eape- cially mention, besides St. Paula College and the school held by Mr Chape, the private schools conducted by the following mestere, Mr Lo Yam-ting, Ho Tsing-ngam, Oh'an Ta'au-ip, Lak Tit-fo, Kwang xua fat, Ta' Kun-Nam, Chi-Luk, Fong Seung-
As regards the Chinese department of the nam, Chi Kam-t'ong and Ch'an 'Ngai-p'o These facts are sufficient to show that Central School,, there is a division, made English teaching is beginning to be appre-necessary by the presence of non-Chinese ciated in the Colony,
boys in the school, between the so called 5. With reference to the Government Anglo Chinese and Chinese classes, the Central School, I confine myself to former being intended for boys whose na supplement the Report of the Acting Headtive language is other than Chiness. The presence of foreign boys in the Central Master, which I append, by a few criticisms, based on what I saw of the school on the School is, on the whole, more an impedi- ment than an advantage, as those foreign ccasion of periodical inspections, and on what I learned from the masters by boys who speak English idiomatically are conversation and by a special conference 1 too few, and, in the absence of a recreation hold with them to test the correctness of ground, have too iltile opportunity to on- my views. I must premise that as a locum ablo the other boys to learn much English tenens, i did not feel justified to examine from them conversationally; whilst on the the whole school myself at the end of the other head foreign boys are as a rule not year, because I was informed that the amenable to discipline whet under the practice had been all along for the Headtuition of native masters and necessitate Master and the masters in committee to special arrangements to teach them the conduct the annual examinations of the Chinese written language, as they cannot keep pace with the Chinese boys, and re- quire the presence of an English master during theae Chinese lessons so as to main taln discipline.
school themselves.
The Central School may be divided into two departments, one for English and one for Chinese teaching, an equal amount of time being devoted every day to both languages.
As to the method of teaching adopted in the Central School, I am of opinion that the school is, on the whole, taught too much like an English school for English boys, in comparative disregard of the fact that the majority of the boys noither speak English nor hear English spoken outside the school, and that, as Mr Stewart stated, out of 453 boys at the beginning of last year as many as 388 did not speak English at all and only could speak it idiomatically. The school books also, which were made for boys in Ireland, who bring to school a fair know ledge of English colloquial, are ill adapted for use in teaching Chinese boys, who come to learn English colloquial in the rat instance. These school-books are far too difficult to begin with, contain too little colloquial and have too little of regular gradation, to make it easy for masters, some of whom are unable to speak Chinese and thereby prevented explaining pecalla:ities of idiom in an intelligible manner, to teach much Eglish speaking. There is farther tos little attention given, in my opinion, to the practice of English composition and to written translations from Chinese into English, which valuable means of teaching English to foreignors is at present entirely relegated to home exercises. English com Chinese into English might be used in the position and written translations from school as a means of teaching grammar practically, by requiring the boye, under the eyes of the master, to make and form simple and eventually complex sentences, a to make them ia various ways, ao thoroughly understand the practical appli cation of the rules of grammar to the art of speaking and writing currectly, Finally, the teaching of such subjects as Geometry, Algebra and Chemistry seems to me of doubtful utility as long as the majority of the boys leave the Contral School, after six years of schooling, without being able to speak English, and as long as History re mains entirely excluded from the range of subjects taught la the school.
The cost of the Central School will be found detailed in Table IV. It will be seen from that table that the total of expenditure for the Central School was $11,860,58, as agaius: $0,045.87 in 1877, showing an increase of $1,019.71, in ex planetion of this apparent exsces I have to state that on account of the Head Master's vote was necessary for half of the salary of absence on leave, un half salary, an extra the present Acting Second Master ($360), and that the Acting Third Master, being incapacitated for duty through an affection, of the eyes, was on furlough on full salary for 6 months, during which time his place was filled by special assistance obtained at. a cost of $90). There were some further extra expenses incurred in connection with The the training school for three young men attuchod to the staff of the Central School
during the second half of the year, two of whom are now employed as teachers of English in outside schools,
The Government schools outside the Central School do not give much occasion for remark. The Aberdeen school had to
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
E. J. ELFEL
Acting Inspector of Schools. Honourable W. H. MARSH,
Colonial Secretary,
c., do, dc.,
The change in the atmosphere from 54* on the 20th and 21st instant to 74 on the 26th and 84 to-day, with the S.E, South winds loaded with vapor, Indiesto rainy or cold stormy weather soon.
The much-esteomed Dr. John Burke lot by the Salvadora -to-day (March 2nd), for Singapore, and from thence goes to Dublin to recruit his health. Although he is now Wa-cho-fuh, Kwang-al, -
March 24, 1879. quite reo vered from his recent attack of By this you will perosive that I am in a fever, he requires that strengthening which little-known province called Kwang-al, of is only to be got by breathing his native is the air. Dr. Burke is woll knows at Manila frontier, and the most important one, by both rich and poor, and he has the re which this city, Wu cho-iub, from a commercial point of view. Native putation of being a most able man in his steamers come hers occasionally and calling; he is called by the Spaniard buen Foreign ones might come also, I believe, angel, and it is impossible for any one to dirrect from Hongkong without going to know him and not esteem and respect Canton at all. This place may yet become him. During his voyage home ha intends good Treaty Port, for the supply of to study all the recent discoveries in his art, Foreign goods to Kwang.si, Kwel-cho, and and that study he will turn into good use some parts of Ea-naa and Yun-an, as when he comes back to Manila. light-draught steamers towing lighters or flats, as is done on the Irrawaddy, in Barma, might come up here with cargo all the year roued.
Mr James Alison, second engineer of the steamer Mactan, has been highly praised in at the time of the foundering of that ven- the Gaceta for his humanitarian conduct, sol, on the night of the 17th January last, by handing over his life-bolt to a lady pan- enger, thus putting his own life in immin- ent peril.
Tho works at the San Nicolas Light house in the Bay are so far advanced that it is expected that in May the light will be S. W. monsoon-and the foggy sesson. exhibited; this will be in good time for the
There are some stores here for the sale of Police Intelligence.
Foreign goods, most of which filter up The business at the Police Court to-day between the chinks of the Octroi, and was not very voluminous. The remanded Lekin Barriere, so numerous between this Upium case, in which two compradores at and Canton, and which bring but little the Central Market were charged with being revenue to the Government, but cripple found in possession of a quantity of pre- trade in a surprising manner, little under come on for hearing to-day, but was re- the traders, and making them pay duty on Pared opium without a permit, did not stood at home, by detaining and harassing almost everything; even if a man has a pair
We are told that great obstruction is manded sine die.
Ho Asa and another, boatmen, were of new shoes he is obliged to pay duty on being caused to the commerce of this coun- try by the formalities adopted by the Ous- charged by P. C. Smith (No. 79) with them. obstructing the approach to the landing 1 arrived here on the 17th March, but, toms regarding the despatch of merchandize at Peddar's wharf, a auisance that has been not having brought Saint Patrick's blessing, which arrives in large quantities, especially frequently complained of, and one which I was detained and am now a prisoner, on rice, which is free from import duty. Is it wo are glad to see is attracting the attention board of a junk, because I had neglected to because fraud in suspected? We know not, of the police.
The defendants on this procure a passport, lunocently supposing but up to this time, the projudices and that the fact of my being an officer in the delay caused by the Custom searching occasion were fined £1 osch.
Speaking of Imperial Army, entitled roe to the privilege bave been without result. of travelling through the Empire, as cloe fu particular, it ought not to be burth- formerly, without a passport; but the ened with charges which cannot be entered powers that be," here have decided other in the calculation of the merchants; consl- further, pending instructions from the and that the scarcity of it is felt in the wise, and I am thus prevented going dering it to be an article of first necessity, Viceroy. I am in want of nothing so country through the bad harvest, every and you know what that means, in a We wish to comply with the wishes of some persons who have requested us to draw much, as money and the liberty to use it, facility should be given for its importation.
attention to this important fact. W. M. 11am.Ther. 64 deg., fair. strange country!
unom-
scaman Thomas Thompson, a Ng Alat, a butcher, was obarged with ployed, was fined 50 cents for drunkenness.
Streat gambling at Yow-mah-tl, P, C. No. Baving beon guilty of a novel method of 17 (W. Fisher) noticed a group of men gambling, and on going nearer found that they were striving for the possession of a piece of pork and the method they employed was guessing the weight of a small piece of meat cut at random from the coveted prize. The defendant was fined $1.
25th March, I hear that a great commotion has taken place in the city, and the Che Shion, bas been hustled a little in his Yah-mun.
be closed in the middle of the year owing to the incompetency and neglect of the master, in consequence of which the villa- gers preferred to send their children to the three other schools in the village, or to Stanley, or to Canton to school and to pay there for their education rather than hav ing them gratuitously under the charge of a master who did not attend to his duties properly. But although thus the only outside-school in which in former years English had been taught was alosed, there were, as I remarked above, three other schools provided with English
A wretched-looking lad, 15 years of age, teaching, viz. :-Wong-nal ob'ung, á tsai and Sai-ping-p'ua As none of these
was charged with being a leper and a schools however was carried on since the mendicant; he was found on the hill-side The poor beginning of the year, it is impossible at present to say much about them. But I preparing to cook some rice.
place. feel confident that in Wan-tsai and Sai-retol was ordered to be sent to his mative ying-p'in it will sooner or later be found necessary to enlarge the teaching staff in order to meet the demand for Eng ish teaching in those localities. All the other Now as to the method of teaching the Government schools, outside the Central Chinese language, adopted in the Central School, give only vernacular teaching, and To begin with the English department of School, the defect I noticed in the Eng the amount and quality of instruction they the Central School; there was in 1878, lish department, viz., of following too provide is no batter than that of an ordinary with an average monthly eurolaout of 450 much the methods of teaching in vogue village shool in the interior of China. cholars, an effective stafi of 4 European in England and in English schools, is Some of these schools are called Aided
It appears that a man named Liu, Chi- masters, 6 native assistant masters and 3 here oven more glaring. The experience of tchools, because the original arrangement
hao, was famishing with hunger, and so paid monitora. Apart from the monitors, centuries has taught the Chinese a method was that for each of these schools the
Another Afat, described as a travelling ventured on one of the rafts in the River, therefore, and including among the masters of teaching based on the peculiarities of respective village community should provide both Europeans and Chinese, we had about the Chinese language. As it is a language one half of the teacher's salary is kind and trader, was fined $10, in default one month's and atole some meal therefrom, to eat, and 48 scholars to each master. Considering, with tones, it is considered an imperative the Government provide the other half in imprisonment with hard labour, for attempt was caught by the raftsmen who beat him
In reality however the teacher
so unmercifully, that he died shortly however, that none of the assistant masters necessity, all over the Empire, that boys money,
Lai Asing, a cook, and Lai Asam, a stone afterwards, He managed to enter the Yah- and to speak it idiomatically, it is well to This is prohibited in the Central School has generally great difficulty in obtaining matter, were charged with assaulting and mun to lodge his complaint, but died can be said to pronounce English perfectly should read and repeat their lessons alond, levies a rate on each boy in attendance and ing to smuggle opium into the geol note that thers were in reality about As the Chiness written language is devoid even that. In some of these schools wounding a man named Cheong Kam Fe, before evidence could be taken, and as dend 115 saholars to back European master. of an alphabet and consists of 44,000 discovered soon after beginning the work of The wounded man being in Hospital, the men tell no tales, the Shien pretended that it was not possible to make out a case Moreover the native mastere being permit-different characters, $,000 to 8,000 of which inspection, that systematic falsification of
The larcenies comprised: Leung Ayan, against anybody. He was however obliged ted to accept outside employment when are ludisponsable for the requirements of the daily attendance roll had been practised was remanded till to-morrow. off duty matter which during the an educated man, and as there are no com in these schools for months. These Aided a lad 17 years of age, who was charged on to hold a post mortem examination on the la Schools require sharp supervision and are his own confession with stealing some corpae, but the raftsmen having much present scarcity of English speaking plicated inflections taxing the intellect,
knives and other articles, the property of money to spend got the case made out in native masters cannot be helped-used an indisputable patent fact that an ac after all comparatively of little use,
and quaintance with the written language of would be better, in my opinion, if the his employer, the case being remanded in their favour. On dit, during this time, the gire every day, moming evening, a great portion of their time to China depends almost exclusively on the Government would take over these schools order that the shop at which the defendant murdered men's brother Liu, Chi-tob, had mercantilc engagements or private tuition, cultivation of a good memory. For this altogether and place better teachers in aid he had sold the articles should be managed to gather a crowd of his country- natives of Ba-nan, apparently and did not therefore come as fresh to reason it has been found necessary in every them.
7. The Grant-in-aid schools number now
Cheung Achui, a coolie, who was charged determined to have justice done, and also their work in school as might be desired. school in China to give to technical meme
en suspicion with being concerned, in the to come in, if possible, for a share of the Through the alteration in the time table riter exercises an unusual amount of time, 17, as against 14 iu 1877, and 12 in 1878, which was introduced by order of His Exc:1. and as boys differ far more widely in elasti The total number of children presented for robbery of a quantity of clothing from a raftmen's dollars. The Bhion, who probably bency the Governor in May last year, when city of memory than in range of mental examination in these schools at the end of brothel whilst the owner of the property thinks that it is impossible to obtain more the early morning of every day, formerly comprehension, collective teaching in read the year amounted to 667, as against 459 (one of the inmates) was intoxicated 'this dollars than he can take care of, did not see things in this fight, and refused to do occupied, by Chinese teaching, was appro- ing lessons is considered impractical in in 1877, and 890 in 1876. Accordingly the case was also remanded,
Loung Tai, a seaman unemployed, and something that the Humanites considered priated for English teaching, there is little China, and boys are taught to read Chinese amount total earned by the Grant-in-aid individually, going on, each bis own way, schools amounted to $4811.33, as against objection now to be raised on that pore.
month's hard labour each for larceny, proper footing At this the crowd yelled, The European mastos are compotent as fast er as slow as his memory will carry 83,752.90 in 1877, and $1,707.00 in 1876, in Akwal, a cocite, were sent to one he ought to do, to place the matter on a Oban ayam, a coolie, got six weeks for and filled the Yah-raun, and lasised on
having justice done, for revenge, mon, and all the masters without exception him. Whilst therefore in all the schools The difference in the amonate annually I found attending to their duties within China class teaching is reserved for ex earned is caused, in the first instance, by stealing wood; and Chung Che Yan, exemplary punctuality and fidelity. Altoge-planation of the classics, for teaching copy the increase of the value of passes intro ceolle, was sent to four months' hard labour troops now turned out and dispersed the ther the general organisation of the school writing and composition, it is applied induced in 1877, and in the second instanes for committing a most determined theft crowd, taking a few prisoners, who, I am And the masterly discipline maintained in the Central School even to the teaching of by a steady increase from year to year in from a money changer's stall last evening, told, were released very shortly afterwards, almost every department of it, seems to me reading, in a modified form. The cou- the number of schools placed under the This comprised really the whole catalogue through fear of more riots, wall-nigh perfection. But as regarde ono sequence is, that the results of Ublueze Grant-in-aid system, in the number of of evil-doers before the magistrates to-day, er two details and the method of teaching teaching in the Central School are ex- scholars presonted for examination and the but there were, of course, a number of poor Che Bhlen has his hands full. What Adopted in the school, there is considerable tremely meagre and the teachers them- percentage of scholars who passed Bucoase nuisance cases, consisting principally of with six executions few days ago, and a
solves, two of whom are graduates, are fully.
offenders whose dwellings were hardly cane of Kidnapping, and a lot of Officials room for improvements,
waiting here for their travelling expenses, thoroughly dissatisfied with the system But this high percentage of press, al-adapted for the habitation of pigs. adopted. An English boy, a smart lad who though it certainly indicates a steady increase
to proceed on their several duties, and now had been 7 to 8 years in the Central School of efficieses, must be taken cum grano salis.
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lish pronunciation are taught, the teaching and who came to me the other day with a The examinations from which theho passes
sertificate from the Afting Head Master resulted were conducted in the most minute A RAGGED, shivering, middle-aged manan Imbecile superior, the Fuh, who it Basistants, whose own pronunciation la by stating his attainments in translation, from and painstaking manner, but I had to follow called at a house and asked for food, but appears only knows how to make money, (Taken at Messrs Falconer & Premists, no tbeans perfect. Next, there is a system Chiness. into English, to be excellent," certain pilated rules of my predecessor the lady of the house called out: Why the poor old fellow says he must resign, in vogue in the Central School of filling UP be having received 60 marks out of 60 at ring the number of mistakes allowed in don't you work for your bread 1" " and so he ought. All through the side classes of the school, the last annual examination in this branch each subject, These rules are far too liberal would if I knew where I could find work," story neat that happens to fall Taceat for of study, could not read such simple as, in some sabjects, they make a fallure he promptly replied. "There's a place more than two days, in consequence of Which the Preparatory School receives a characters as which Chinese almost impossible in an ordinarily well down town where you can saw wood and
Three Siamese noblemen, accompanied how contingent and sends on boys to the girls, after three years teaching, wrote taught sehool My predebestur had very earn your dinner," she continued. That higher classet every mouth, so that by the from dictation under the eyes of Ha good reston for this excesalve Uberality, seemed to stick bite for half a minute, but and of the year soargely two thirds of any Excellency the Governor. And the beat because the teachers had at first many pre she finally aid, with great solemnity by a numerous site, will brrive here in One class in the whole school have had the Chiuess boys in the school, when I gave ja teos agatast and were very reluctant to Madam, lot, me state a parallel case. the darly part of April on their way to bathe talform teaching all through the them a passage from one of the Chinese submit to the Grant-in-al examinations. There is a place in heaven for you, but England on a mission to offer for acceptance year 1 regard this system as unfair to the reading books, which had been read and But now that the examinations under the don't want to die till you are driven right to Her Majesty the Queen, the highest thastors, on whom the consequent disparity explained in class, to translate into Eng Graut-in-aid sehens are well understood to to it, do you!" Bbe pondered over his Stamens order, in acknowledgment, doubt bl attainments among their pupils throws Lish, allowing them to use Chinees English be conducted strictly but fairly and on philosophy for a few seconds, and thon Jew, of the late Investiture of the King of
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