PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 373a opened by His Excellency with banqueting and speech-making. Enrollment for the sec¬ ond term took place the following day. The Female School at was re¬ moved to the Normal School on October 20th and was placed under the control of the Master of that school, becoming part of the equipment for the training of teachers. Unfortunately a speech made by Inspect¬ or Stark at the formal opening provoked such an agitation throughout the province that the Government was compelled to ask for his resignation. In his last report he urged upon the Government the appointment of a second master in the Normal School to give academical education to the students whilst they were receiving their teacher- training. With an expression of thanks to the people of the province for all their hos¬ pitality extended to him hi his visits to the schools, he concluded his official duties on March 9, 1857. Mr. John McNeill again became in¬ spector. In his report of February, 1858, we find the following statement: Normal School, salary £200; assistant in Normal School (female) 1, salary £45; country districts, highest or second class n, salary £55; lowest or first class 187, salary £50; French Acadian 20, salary £40; Female 23, salary £30. In Charlottetown and : Highest or second class 2. salary £85; assistants, salary £60; lowest or first class 3, salary £70; female 4, salary £45; Orphan 1, salary £40. In Georgetown : Highest or second class 1, salary £70; Fe¬ male 1, salary £35. Total free schools in operation, 254. He set forth that the schools were sup¬ ported at an annual cost to the public funds of £14,000 out of a total revenue of £41,- 000. Inasmuch as the teacher was receiving from the district as equivalent for board a sum varying between £10 and £15, it might be calculated, he thought, that the people of this province, numbering 72,000 in all, con¬ tributed during that year for education a total of about £17,000. The reports of the school visitors of these years indicate the many difficulties amid which the teacher labored. The school buildings were generally small, miserably constructed and difficult to heat. The light¬ ing of the fire was the duty of the scholar who first arrived in the morning. Lack of fuel often necessitated the discontinuance of school work for the day; in fact so far did this become an evil that the visitor recom¬ mended the Board of Education to suspend the registration of the school districts in which it occurred more than once in any winter. The attendance at school was most irregular, and the interest of the district in the work very slight. To relieve the teacher and at the same time to stimulate the people, the visitor urged that no longer should a teacher lose his salary if the average attend¬ ance fell below the legal requirement of fifty per cent, but that the responsibility of main¬ taining the standard should be placed upon the trustees; and if the more just term of six months instead of three months were made the basis in the calculation, of attendance, this responsibility would be but a proper in¬ centive to the trustees to interest themselves in the school work, or to compel them to close the schools where paucity of numbers or the indifference of the people made schools unnecessary. The great loss of time between engagements was a great tax upon the teach¬ er, and was to be obviated only by a law set¬ ting a fixed time for the beginning of the