nual subscriptions. Agreeably to the intention of Mr. J. Hull, the interest of £600 is, by his widow, settled partly on this school and partly on that for girls. Mr. W. J. Burgiss, who had been master of the old school from the year 1807, was chosen master of this school at its formation, and still continues in that situation. Strangers have access at all times.

SECTION 3.

SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY FOR GIRLS.

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THE girls' school which we have said existed early in the last century, and at which about twenty girls only were instructed, was supported by the lords of the manor and borough. In 1808 another small school was instituted by the Ladies of the town for thirty girls. school was situated at Hillingdon-end. 1809 the design was formed of uniting the two schools, and of conducting them together upon the improved system of Education. The plan met with general approbation, and the two schools became one under the denomination of "The School of Industry for Uxbridge and its vicinity."

When the two schools were united they included fifty girls.

The Committee in their report, state that the children

"are taught to spell and read, and are instructed in various kinds of plain-work and marking; the elder girls are also taught writing and the first rules of arithmetic. The work is taken in at moderate prices; and great attention paid to its being neatly done."

"The work fund is applied to purchase articles of clothing for the children; and this has proved a seasonable relief to many of them, who were much in want of it, as well as encouraged them to regular attendance at school."

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"Several who have left the school vided with respectable places in service, and are likely to continue in them; an object of no small importance to those who have the welfare of the children at heart, and affords a hope that their labors have not been altogether in vain; but that through the medium of this Institution, an additional number of Females may be so trained, as to fill up the station of servants, with reputation to. themselves, and advantage to their employers."

In the report for 1814, the Committee modestly state that they

"have nothing new to offer: they conceive their movements resemble a regulated machine, affording little or no variation, but proceeding in a steady un

interrupted course; and they trust they will thus continue to proceed for many years; deserving the patronage with which they have been favoured; and affording numerous benefits to the industrious poor of this neighbourhood."

The lords of the manor and borough are annual subscribers of twenty guineas. They also granted for several years, the use of a room fitted up in the market-house for the transaction of the public business of the town, called the Committee-room. This room was occupied as a school-room till Michaelmas, 1816.

The new school-room situated up the George Yard, and near the Friends' meetinghouse, was built by subscription, in the year 1816, on a piece of ground given for the purpose by Thomas Harris, Esq. of Bellemonte, but which has not yet been regularly conveyed to the trustees and managers of the school. The room measures forty-two feet by twentyfour feet, and cost two hundred and seventy pounds.

There are at present in the school ninety girls. The funds are in a respectable state, and the institution very flourishing, which, we presume, may in a great measure be attributed to the active exertions of those ladies, who, in

rotation, give their attendance as daily visitors. This plan, they observe, "has had the effect of promoting order in the school, and exciting closer application in the children."

The report read to the subscribers on the 24th. of September, 1817, states that the expenditure of the last year was eighty-three pounds thirteen shillings, and the income eightytwo pounds three shillings and sixpence. It is the wish of the conductors to enlarge the number of scholars to one hundred, which may be well accommodated in the new room, but the funds are not yet adequate to this object. Strangers have access to this school at all times.

SECTION 4.

UNITARIAN SCHOOL.

A School was instituted at Hillingdon-end in the year 1812; called, "The Hillingdon School for Scriptural, or strictly Protestant Christians;" where from twenty to thirty girls are clothed and educated at the sole expense of the founder, who is generally supposed to be T. T. Clarke, Esq. of Swakleys

SECTION 5.

THE AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY.

THE remarks we have indulged in on the subject of Education will render it less necessary that we should say any thing here upon the benefits which result to individuals and to the nation at large, from the unrestricted and universal use of the Holy Scriptures. As the culture of the mind and the repression of base and ignoble desires are the principal ends of education, the direct and specific means of coming to these ends, must succeed the mere acquirement of the art of reading, which is not so much the end, as the means; not so much education, as a step to education.

The great instrumentality by which the human character is to be improved, and the authority whence those moral principles are to be derived, which are at once the basis and bond of civilized society, are to be found in Revealed Religion.

It is surely an indication of the improvements making in the art of governing, that rulers are increasingly attentive to the advancement of education. They have learned