The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Statos, showing that in Massachusetts the cost por pupil wasforty--six cents, in New York fil 47, in Qhio $2 65, and in Pennsylvania $2 74. (MHear, hear.) In New York State the nominal cost was only eleven and a haif cents, but there was a largo sum which was unprovided for under every other head, and must be taken as representing the cost of inspection. In Ohio and Fennsylvania the case was much the same. In lKngland, where the greatest economy was practised in this as well as in every other department, the cost for inspection was about twenty--two cents per pupil, The noxt item was the increase of $6,010 in the grants to poor schools. That grant was in general only made on condition that tho municipality con-- tributed a certuin sum, but in some casos where it was found impossible to raiss the amount _ the grant was made uncondition-- ally, The increaso in the exponditure on HMigh Schools had been $5,713. The Legislative grant to lligh Schools in 1871 was $65,536, and in 1877 $75,158, The excess of legislative grant over tho municipal rates in 1871 was about $15,000, in 1872 about $7,000, while in 1877 it fell short of the local contributions by about $75,000, having actually decreased as compared with 1872. Ho came then to the matter of High School inspection, and the in-- arease of $8,332 would bo recognized as justifiable because the numver of pupils had boen increasing, having rison from :7,490 in 1871 and 7,958 in 1872 to 9,229 in 1877. Me detailed the circumstances under which the High School Inspectors were appointod, | two in 1871 and three in 1873, and pointed out the strong necossity there was for muking the radical change in the educational eystem of the country when it was placed,. in the hands of & _ Minister dircotly responsible to the peo-- plo. 'The Inspectors were at first appointed at & salary of $2,000 a year, which included travelling oxpenses, but in 1877 an alieration was made by which their actual travelling expensos woere al-- lowed the Inspectors. This again was a matter which, if the author of the pamphlet hcd consulted Dr. Rycrson upor, he would have found hiim in ac-- cord with thecourse that had beon pursued by the present Administration. Dr, Ryerson had boen strongly in favour of the appointment of Iuspectors an_d the establishmont of a thorough system of High School inspection, The nextitom of increate was. one of $5,977 in connection with the Central Board of Examiners. 'The author of the pamphlet . displayed so much ignorance on the subject that it . was necesaary for him to give an explanation of the circumstances under which the Committeo was ap-- pointed. The Act of 1871 provided for the uniforra ex-- amination and classification of teachers by a Central Committee of Examiners, and made it the duty of the Council of Public Instruction to carry out this provision, From 1872 till July 1st, 1873, the Com-- milteo consisted of three members ouly, P'rof. Young, the chairman, and the two High School Inspectors. (n the appointment of the third High School In« spector in 1873 he was also made a member of §the % Commuttee. In 1875 the Council of Public Instruction proposed to add two Public School Inspectors to the Commitice, and also to appoint an Inspector of County Teachers' Institutes. 'The esti-- mates of 1876 accordingly provided for an expendi-- ture of $1,000 on the Contral Board of lxaminers, $400 for two additional Kxaminers, $300 for six sub-- Examiners of Intermediate Examination Papers, and $2,800 for County Teachers' Institutos. This exponditure was . recommended by the late Council of Public Instruction, and he mentioned it to the Committee so _ that they might contrast it with the amount expended in 1871--$600, In 1875 the Government provided by the regulations of the Council of Public Instruction that for the first time High Schools should be sulb-- ject to two oxaminations in the year, called Inter-- mediate Examinations, and part of the rocommenda-- tion was that a portion of the funds granted by the Legislaturo for High School purposes should be distributed upon the busis"}-f the result'of the 1n: teachors $182; in 1877 males wore recoiving on an avereage $379, and fomales $280. In cition in 1871 the figures wore $620 and $236, and in 1877 ©735 and 807, while in towns they stood at $488 aud $225, and in 1877 $583 and $269,. Thoa school populstion in 1871 was 489,005, with a registered number ofi 446,826, and in 1877 494,£04 and 490,8 0. _ He then dealt with the increasc of tlb',S?G in Publc School inspection, dwelling unon the necossity of thorough irspection. «* As your inspection is, so are your schools,"' In 1871 the chango was mado from local superinten-- dents to county inspectors, who were appoiqyr'd avd could be (dismissed by County Counsiis, though their qualifications had to be of a standard fixed by :the Education Departmont. In 1877 the total amount paid for Public School inspection was $78,783, while in 1871 it was $42,323, The Aot of 1871 had only boon in force six mouths in that year, so that the legislative grant for tho inspection of Public Schools was only $11,527, while the local 6x-- penditure was $81,006--a total of 42,823, _ In 1872 the legialative grant was $25.490, and the local @x-- penditure $41,8364--a total of $66,854; whilo in 1877 the same fignres had inoreasod respectively to $27,1830 and $51,608, -- The cost of inspection per ro-- gistored pupil in 1972 was ten and a balf cents, which rose to fourteen and three--quarters in 1877. He contrastod those figures with those paid on the same account in some of tho American Eo Ne eemet OmE C e ts C termediate examinations; Tho system of paymont by results was one which obtained to a high degree both in Gormany and in England, On the 18th March, 1876, the two Public School Inspoctors whom the Council of Public Instruction proposed to ap-- point were actually appointed by him (Mr. Crooks), aud in _ November, 1876, two other _ Public School Inspectors were also added. By the School Act .of 1877 the Education _ Dopart-- ment was authorized to allow the intermediate ¢x-- aminations in the Migh Schools some equivalent for the examinations for second and third--class teachers' cortificates, and the whoh; exami'nat'ion for 7 UE L EC use whNccse Ruaen alre Pincunmde | allowances to membors. That amount :\::, f:rcludod the expenses of the Committee of Engquiry, amounting to $1,398 50, _ He had a tabular statement of tho Dopartmental examinations in 1877 and 1878, and a reference to it was necessary to justity the app: intment of such a large number of sub--examiners. The object of having so many was to close up the examinations . as ;ap\dly as -- possible, and that _ there . sa4on d be no delay between the -- timeo _of _ holcing the examinations and the time of making knowu ud TC-- sults. In 1877 there wero examined no ic8@ than 1,383 applicants for entrance to High Seaucols, and of that number 3,828 weore successtul,. In the same year there passed in what wore called the literary subjocts 1,438 candsistes for third--class certificates, .n(f 1,215 wore pussod post--ssionally. No legs than 2,-- 958 candidates app ied 10--=econd--class cortificates, of whom 802 were successful. The total number of successfual candidates in 1877 was 7,559 as against 9,303 in 1878, a differencefin favour of the lattor year of 1,747. 'The payments to examiners in 1878 wore $7,050, and in 1379 they wore pro>-- posed to be limited to $4,500. 'This latter saving aroso from the fact that he proposed to allow ouly one intermcdiate examination a year in the High Schools where tormerly there were two. He had been surprised to learn from some of the mem-- bers that there had vot been that diminution in the expense of the county teachers' examinations that he thought there should have been, If the county councils and the county inspectors had followed out the course laid down for them in the re-- gulations there would hbave been that reduction, The whole county board of exuminers were not re-- | quired to be present at the examinations, as one | examiner was quite sufficient, The whole conduct ! of those examinations rested upon the inspectors, | and it was one of his dutics to see that the proper ! answors were handed in to the questions, and that | they were properiy transmitted to the Department. li being six o'clock, the Commiitce rose and re« ported, and the Speaker loft the chair. Mr. Harcourt--UOn Monday next--Order of the House for a roturn showing :--1. The amounts paid to the several High School Inspectors in this Pro-- vince since date of their appoin{tment over and above their stated salaries, and {or what gervices theso payments were made. 3. The number of Intermedi-- ato Examinations which have been held, the dates of holding them, aud all czponses connected with them, _ (The remainde C 1 huslg inder of the report is unavoidably lef; Mr. Curric--On Monday noext--Resolation--That all the petitions presented to the House this scession respecting market fees on farm produce be reforred to the Select Committee to which was referred the several Bills to amend tho Municipal Act. Mr. Ross--On Monday next--Ordoer of the House for a return of the number of lunatics who were confined in the several common gacls of this Pro-- vince in the years 1871, 1874, 1878, and the aggregate nurmber of days duriag which lunaties were so con-- fined in these years. Mr. Ross--On Monday next--Bill to amend the Munigipal Act. Mr. Creigh:on--On Monday next--Bill to amend the Assessim¢ut Act. Mr. Gibson--On Monday next--Return showing the applications for the fixing and regulating of the rates demanded and recoived for passengers and goods carried upon railways subject to the control of this Legislature, as provided for by section 10, sub-- section 23, cap. 165, of KReyised Statutes, s Mr, Coutts--On Monday next--Bill to amend thé Municipal Drainagse Act, Mr. Creighton--On Monday next--Bill to amend the Yoters' Lists Act. NOTICES OF MOTION,