5 1 2 1 1 0 15 Collections forwarded for the Society's General Fund are not included in this list, but have been acknowledged in the monthly list of contributions to the Society. MONMOUTH. (Parochial Collections, continued from December Number.) Briningham .£0 11 4 Alwinton and Llanthewy Vach £0 4 8 Happisburgh. 0 13 Trostrey and Bet Baconsthorpe. 1 tws Newydd 0 13 Caldicott Woodford, C. Membris. Matlask 1 17 10 Plumstead next Sutton Maddock£1 15 3 7 Holy Stone £2 12 7 Church Stoke. 1 16 0 Sambrook 1 8 10 1 0 0 1 1 6 by Oswestry 2 11 1 1 5 Leighton Wrekin 2 17 9 3 Blanchland 2 Beadnell 1 7 6 Ryton 3 Woodcote 1 2 1 Ford. Brancaster Llanvihangelystern-Lle wern North Walsham 20 Blyth St. Woolos 3 5 0 8 Elkesley 0 15 0 0 Shrewsbury Cole- Holy Trinity 5 5 0 NOTTINGHAM. Swainswick 1 3 0 0 7 6 Llangibby 3 13 0 St John and 0 Burnham Overy 1 10 0 0 15 0 Weston. Collegiate Ch. S 0 11 1 0 St. Mellon, w. Fledborough 1 0 0 Buckland Din 0 .. 1 12 Llanedarne 1 4 1 Thurne 0 17 6 North Clifton. 1 8 Harley Chapel 0 14 7 Nempnett 0 17 1 4 8 Langar 2 7 0 Cheddar 2 10 0 12 1 Nuthall 0 Uphill 2 2 1 NORTHAMPTON. Ratcliffe-on-Soar0 13 2 Cricket St. Peter St. Edmund Tunstead 1 09 King's Cliffe 1 4 2 2 3 Kettering 6 2 13 Southwick. 7 0 4 0 Wotton. Gt. Houghton Easton Maudit 2 16 4 Walkeringham 2 1 0 Preston Deanery ] Watford Halam 5 16 6 Halloughton 0 18 0 Kirkleighton 0 0 Barton-in-Fabis 2 9 0 3 2 0 Haydon. 0 10 0 Perlethorpe Barton Seagrave4 5 2 1 16 0 Hethe 1 50 Garsington. 4 St. Mawr & 9 10 Holton 213 0 0 14 Closworth 0 1 0 1 Thorpe Nynehead 202 Burlescombe West Pennard 27 12 SOUTH HANTS. 0 14 6 0 The following is a list of Grants voted by the National Society during the past month in aid of building Schools: On Wednesday, December 10, Miss Coutts awarded ten prizes for Common Things to pupils at Whitelands; and not being able to be present on the occasion, deputed the Chaplain at Whitelands to act in her behalf, and to read to the assembled pupils the following letter: Torquay, November 28, 1856. DEAR SIR, AS I cannot come up to London previous to the departure from Whitelands of the competitors for my prizes, I must ask you to be so good as to present the prize-books for me to those to whom they have been awarded. I have given them to those pupils who had written the best essays and best general answers to the whole of the questions. Few answered all, or even nearly all, the questions; and where this plan was, therefore, not practicable, I have given the preference to the essay, or to some particular answer to the three first questions; the answers to the five remaining questions presenting so much sameness. I would ask you to thank the competitors for me for their attention to a wish I expressed as to the handwriting, which was generally much improved; it was rounder, and more legible, and could be read more easily. I much hope this style of hand is being introduced into schools; for I found the same improvement at the National School for Girls at Henley-on-Thames, which I lately visited. The arithmetic, both as regards the formation of the figures and the accuracy of the results, was still generally very defective. The papers of the competitors, with notes upon each, will be returned to them, as at the last distribution of prizes; and as all the observations on the results of the present competition will be found in the preface to the forthcoming edition of the Summary, of which a copy will be sent to all the competitors, I will make here no further remarks upon the papers, except that the principal features which appeared to me to characterise them were an absence of any pretence to more knowledge than was apparently really possessed, with an evident desire to learn, and a great interest in the subject of industrial teaching, and a lively apprehension of its close connection with the duties of a Christian life. These points involve a principle of truth and an earnestness of mind which lead me to believe firmly that those who have incurred voluntarily the responsibility of becoming teachers feel the importance of the trust they undertake, and will endeavour to discharge it with sincerity and humility. A very few weeks hence will see fifty of the teachers now in Whitelands entering upon the field of their labours; and much as they may now appreciate the motherly care of Mrs. Harries, and her untiring discharge of duties, they will not fully understand the weight of anxiety which attaches to the Superintendents of the great Training Institutions of the country until they themselves are somewhat similarly situated. Young themselves, they must stand in some degree in the place of mothers to many of the children of their schools; but more especially so to the pupils who hereafter will be apprenticed to them; with very much before them to learn themselves, they will necessarily be teachers, not only in their schools, but in their houses. Their example must largely influence those immediately under their care, and may produce a great effect upon many of whom they know but little. The instruction which they have received, and the advantages they have enjoyed, must qualify them to be of essential use in many situations, and on many occasions unconnected with the special calling of a schoolmistress. It may be said that they have received a talent for the use of which they are responsible; and it will be their privilege that to them is given an opportunity of showing that a sound Christian training, though given specially in this institution, for a particular object, enables persons to fulfil their duties more perfectly and more devotedly, in any situations to which they may be called; and of teaching others that wherever their lot is cast, and however varied their employments, there will be found their duty and their encouragement. That they should preserve and cultivate, in all times and circumstances, a teachable heart and mind (without which no one can be a good teacher of others), is, I am sure, your heartfelt prayer; and from you they will best be told by what means to perserve this humble and diligent spirit, which will be their sure guide and safeguard. I must beg you to express my regret that circumstances have prevented me from giving them personally the assurance of the deep and abiding sympathy I feel in their labours, and my earnest wishes for their welfare.-Believe me to remain, &c. Rev. Harry Baber, Chaplain of the Whitelands Training Institution. New Subscriptions. A. G. B. COUTTS. The following Donations and new Annual Subscriptions have been contributed to the Society since the last announcement, and are hereby thankfully acknowledged. The List is made up to the 20th December. |