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fully considered, as her.

Stonnessy, thinks that it stand: in the way of auch needed improvements in education, these imperiramento being chiefly, the en tension of the accumber of school in which English is laught, and the reclamation of the thousands of uneducated children in the is

pays that the

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school has been perimsly defective in both the departments which it Gero- fesses to teach, namely. English and

Chinese

Chinese. The defect in the former

Excellency considers manifest, and

that in the latter has been represent.

ed to him by the principal Chinese It Biter, the a bet.

Merchants and

Head ing

ment.

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by

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ing of long lish

as

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ragands the

teach.

only

one test, as bar aware, has been applied to

it by the Governor, that, namain, of

ability

on the front of the scholars to "speak" Englis".

Now. The epeal-

do

ing of a foreign language is by means of casy acquisition, especially of it has to be acquired

ined ob ochook,

and