School Normal and Model formerly, are not, I think he, nor are they properly of the lower branches bei though now more closely united than , so perfectly amalgamated as they should graded--some children learning the rudiment; g found in one of the higher rooms. In the school kept in the Temperance Hall the classroom formed by means of a curtain is a mere sham, and the labor of the teachers there is almost^thrown away for nothing' from want of proper accommodation. passage which is used is shocking and too, that children of both The exposed corner of a back disgraceful. It should be remembered, sexes attend this school. The school in DesBrisay's Lane is kept in a room up two of stairs, the steps of which are apparently not very safe. no outhouse for the use of the children, so they are obliged to those of private parties, or wherever they can find flights There i ; to go access. The school in Scott's Hall is unfurnished with maps outhouse is in a shocking state. and the At the Kensington School yet numbers of children were of coming to the school which outhouse here, which pestilential state the attendance is very small indeed, be seen all around at play, instead was only a few yards distant. The to serves for all the families around and utterly beyond description. , is in a a.* zns upring Park School the size of the room is not at all sufficient for the number attending. On the day of my visit, I found the children closely packed in double rows. The outhouse is in a bad state. Generally speaking, there is not a Government Schoolroom in city fit, in all regards, for the purposes of teaching, with the exception perhaps of the Normal and Model schoolrooms, and even these are now found to be too contracted for the numbers in attendance steadily increasing attendance at the two last named schools gratifying, and is certainly to be attributed to the the The tions , as well on the contrarv a is superior accommoda- .s to the superior teaching to be found there; whereas decreasing, the , one attend? and the reasons nee at many of the other city schools i ; are quite/evident.~vlzr want •"respectable the and commodious school buildings, with decent surrounding generally low standard of teaching power exhibited, and the culpable indifference of those who send their children to school, as to whether- they attend regularly or not. When all these things are duly considered, it should not be surprising that there are so many private schools in Charlottetown . *et I own I was- surprised to find so many children attending schools not receiving Government pay, and which I was at considerable pains to ascertain, as follows:-