PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

Education in 1830 three grammar school masters, seventy-one district teachers, and six Acadian French teachers had been li- censed. This committee made many sug- gestions looking to the elevation of educa- tional standards for license. An act of this year embodied many of their suggestions. It provided that the Board of Education should thereafter consist of seven persons and should at its quarterly meetings examine and license candidates as teachers ;that teach- ers should be of three classes: First or lowest class, teachers to be competent to teach Eng- lish, Reading, Writing, Practical Arithmetic. and to receive £5 from the public Treasury; second class teachers, to be competent in the subjects already mentioned and in addition to be able to teach Geometry, Trigonometry, Mensuration, Land Surveying, Navigation, together with English Grammar, and to re- ceive £10 from' the public Treasury; third or highest class teachers to be competent to teach the subjects already named and to have competent knowledge of classics, the higher branches of mathematics, together with geography and the use of the globe, and to receive from the public treasury £20. To ob- tain the government grant for the teacher a district should raise at least £20 for a first class teacher and have an attendance through- out the year of twenty scholars, with a suffi- cient school house; for a third class ' teacher raise at least £30 and have an attendance of at least twenty-five scholars. five of whom should be doing Latin or Greek or the higher branches of Mathe- matics. There should be not more than five third class or higher schools in any county, and these should be at least six miles apart. The trustee board of five members should examine the schools quarterly, and should have power to sue for subscriptions made

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in support of the school. Expenditure under the act should not exceed £700 per annum. Teachers of the first class under this act should receive from Treasury £1 additional for every five scholars over twenty in attend- ance throughout the year. The Committee on Public Accounts for the year 1835 recom- mended. inter alia. £700 for the encourage- ment of schools. £50 as an annual grant to the college at St. Andrew's. which had been founded about 1830 and £300 as salaries to the two masters of the Central Academy.

This latter institution, for‘ which the acts of 1829-30 had made provision, was not ready until the latter part of the yar 1835. Difliculty had been found in raising the nec— essary loan. The building, however, erected at a cost of £1,345 105. 7d. was now ready for occupancy, and on January 19, 1836, class work was begun under the direction of the Rev. Charles Lloyd, as principal, and of Mr. Alexander Brown. formerly teacher of the Grammar School, as assistant. Mr. Lloyd by reason of ill health remained only until September, and resumed work in the Anglican church; he was suceeded by the Rev. James Waddell, of Truro, Nova Sco- tia, who began his work on August 28th of this year and continued until September 30, 1843. '

The Academy did not in its early years fulfill the public expectations. A committee of the House, appointed. April 2, 1839, re- ported that the yearly attendance had been fifty-four. that the tuition fees were about £163 105.,perannum ;that,although the trus- tees had offered to educate four pupils from each county annually free of tuition fees, not one had presented himself, which surely indicated lack of public appreciation, proba- bly owing to the great expense connected with attendance, for the living expenses for