sumptive proof that great prejudices still prevail against vaccination, and that the benevolent designs of the Government are still far froin being accomplished.

"This Board has laboured incessantly to set forth the comparative ease and safety of the indisposition of vaccina tion, and the difficulty and danger of the small-pox, whether occurring naturally, or occasioned by inoculation; and it has been assisted most import antly, and in the true spirit of disinter ested benevolence, by the Master, Governors, and Members of the Court of Assistants of the Royal College of Surgeons, who have bound themselves individually to each other, by a solemn engagement, not to yield to any solici. tation to inoculate for the small-pox. This good example has been followed by the most respectable practitioners in the country; though some of them, we are sorry to say, have lent themselves improvidently to this injurious practice. And we find that the multitude in many places has been so infatuated, as to accept the proffered services even of itinerant inoculators, in spite of their gross ignorance of all disease, and of the rudeness and inaptitude of the instruments which they employ to insert the poison. Hence a perpetual source of contagion is supplied and kept up, to the constant danger of all such as have not yet been vaccinated, or who may have undergone an imperfect process, or whose peculiarity of constitution makes them still susceptible of the variolous disease; a peculiarity similar to that which renders some persons capable of taking the small-pox twice; of which, within the period of three years only, we have received evidence of not less than 52 in

stances.

"It is true, indeed, my lord, that we bave received accounts from different parts of the country, of numerous cases of small-pox having occurred after vaccination; and we cannot doubt, that the · prejudices of the people against this preventive expedient, are assignable (and not altogether unreasonably perhaps) to this cause.

"These cases the Board has been industriously employed in investigating; and though it appears that many of them rest only on hearsay evidence, and that others seem to have undergone the vaccine process imperfectly, some years - since, when it was less well understood, and practised less skilfully than it ought

to be; yet, after every reasonable deduction, we are compelled to allow that too many still remain on undeniable proof, to leave any doubt that the pretensions of vaccination to the merit of a perfect and exclusive security in all cases against small-pox, were admitted at first rather too unreservedly. Yet the value of this important resource is not disparaged in our judgment; for, after all, these cases bear a very small proportion to the number of those who are effectually protected by it. The reports of the vaccinators at the several stations of the metropolis, give only eight cases of small-pox, out of nearly 67,000 vaccinated by them, since the first establishment of this Board; and as the small-pox has prevailed extensively in London, these persons so vaecinated must have been frequently exposed to contagion, and consequently the protecting effect of vaccination must have been submitted to as severe a test as can well he imagined. Moreover, we have the most undoubted proofs, from experience, that where vaccination has been performed perfectly, small-pox occurring after it is almost universally a safe disease; and though ushered in by severe symptoms, has hardly ever failed to be cut short, before it had reached that period at which it becomes dangerous to life.

"This controlling power of vaccination must be admitted as next in-importance to its preventive influence; and surely justifies our high estimation of the value of this great discovery.

"The Board has taken care to promulgate to all its correspondents, by repeated admonitions, those modes of conducting the process of vaccination which ample experience within its own immediate sphere of observation has ascertained to be the most successful.

"It cannot be denied, my lord, that the continuance of the practice of inoculation for the small-pox is the main source of whatever disappointment we have met with; for in those countries where the legislature has interfered to prohibit it, and to enforce vaccination, the small-pox has become almost unknown, and the full benefit of this valuable discovery is enjoyed. But similar results, we know, cannot be looked for in the United Kingdom until the whole community shall concur voluntarily in this salutary practice.

"We have only to add, that 6933 persons were vaccinated last year at the

Subjoined is an official declaration of the Royal College of Surgeons, signed by the Governor, &c. stating their deep impression that the many fatal instances of small-pox are in a great degree owing to the continuance of the practice of propagating that disease by inoculation, aud adding, that unshaken in our confidence of the efficacy of vaccination in exterminating small-pox, from a sense of daty to the community, we hereby renew the engagement entered into by us in the year 1813, not to inoculate smallpox, but to pursue, and to the utmost of

our power promote, the practice of vaccination. And we earnestly recommend to all Members of the College similar engagements."

Greece. The College at Chios is stated to have greatly increased: the number of students amounts to 476, a considerble portion of whom are natives of the Peloponnesus, Cephalonia, and the islands of the Archipelago, Two youths from the interior of North America bave resorted to Chios, to study the language of Homer. Mr. Varvoti, a rich Greek merchant, has presented 30,000 francs to the College, with a number of books purchased at Paris. A fund for the support of indigent students has been established at Constantinople, under the immediate direction of three Greek archbishops, and several merchants. The Patriarch Gregory constantly shews himself a zealous friend and protector of public instruction.

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NATIONAL SOCIETY. THE average number of boys in the central school is 502, and that of girls 205.

Of these scholars it is stated in the last Report, that the children have been twice publicly examined and have exhibited most striking proofs of their proficiency, and of the general excellence of the system. In numerous instances, on leaving school, they have attended, with their parents, to return thanks for the instruction which they had received; and have, in conséquence, been presented with a Bible and Prayer book.

An assistant mistress has been appointed, with the best effect, to pay exclusive attention to the working department of the female school.

Of the training department it is said

The schools which have been sup. plied with permanent masters and mistresses, during the year, are 42; and

those assisted by temporary instructors and monitors, 32; the masters and mistresses received into the school for instruction from different parts of the kingdom, amount to 82. Thus the whole number of schools which have derived assistance from the Central Establishment during the year, amounts to 156.

The new schools received into union during the year are 147; making the total of schools in union, 1614. The Committee estimate the increase of scholars in the ninth year, at 20,000, carrying the total number to 220,000; or to 270,000, if the 50,000 be added who are educated in schools conducted on the principles of the system, though not in union with the Society.

The system had been before generally introduced, under the patronage of the Commander-in-chief, into the army; and an opening has been recently made for its introduction, with a fair promise of success, into the navy.

In Nova Scotia, the schools are producing extensive benefits. From the other foreign dependencies, no information of importance has been received. A native of New Zealand, and another of the Gold Coast in Africa, have been instructed in the Central School; and this advantage has also been granted to teachers proceeding to Sierra Leone, New South Wales, New Zealand, and Bermuda.

The grants during the year have been as follow:-To the parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green, with a population of 40,000, and about 4000 children requiring gratuitous education, 4001. to the parish of St. Pancras, population 50,000, the sum of 2501.-to the parish of St. Mary, Newington, 30.000 inhabitants, 2001.-to the parish of St. Nicholas, Deptford, 7000 people, 1501. -to the parish of Woolwich, with upward of 16,000 inhabitants, 1001.-to Aldburg in Suffolk, Chatteris in Cambridgeshire, Bridgenorth in Shropshire, Hurstperpoint in Sussex, Whitwick in Leicestershire, Mold in Flintshire, Farnham in Surrey, and Cumberworth in Yorkshire, 1001. each. Besides these larger grants, others have been made, which varied from 901. to 201. The whole number made, in the course of the year, amounted to 44; and the sum thus expended, to 32021.

The income of the year, applicable to the purposes of the Society, was 25891. 12s. 3d., and its expenditure 51931. 28. 2d.; the deficiency having been supplied by the sale of stock. The net sum now remaining in the hands of the Committee amounts to but about 25001. The Committee however remark—“ Sensible as they are that this sum must soon be exhausted, they will continue to dispeuse it, as long as any portion remains, in the way which may appear most conducive to their important purposes."We sincerely trust that the liberality of the public will not suffer this national and highly useful institution to languish for want of adequate pecuniary

resources.

EDINBURGH "LOCAL SABBATH

EVENING SCHOOLS."

The following statement, drawn up by "the Committee for the Establishment of Local Schools in Edinburgh," is so important in its principle, that we shall give the document almost entire. We earnestly recommend the plan to the clergy and other principal inhabitants

of large parishes, who will find in it a powerful instrument for ameliorating the character of their respective neighbourhoods, and conferring the most important blessings on the ignorant and destitute part of the population. · ́A project at once so cheap, so feasible, and so efficacious, surely needs only to be duly considered to entitle it to extensive adoption.

"In the autumn of last year, a few individuals, whose attention had been directed to the lamentable and increas ing degree of ignorance and neglect of religious privileges, in many of the poorer and more crowded parts of Edinburgh, met for the purpose of considering whether any means could be adopted to supply the evident inadequacy of the measures for Christian instruction already in existence. In the system of locality, developed in Dr. Chalmers's work on the Christian and Civic Economy of large Towns, they conceived they were presented with an engine, which would not only bring under its influence the children whose profligate habits led them to escape from the reach of more general measures; but which, at the same time, would bear upon the ignorance and prejudices of the parents, and, by a kindly and affectionate operation, lead them also to know and to value their own and their children's best interests.

"The individuals who compose the General Committee, commenced their operations in the full acknowledgment of the principle laid down by Dr. Chalmers, that the efficiency of the local system in a large town will be much more securely promoted by the formation of several societies, each taking charge of a limited number of schools, than by an endeavour to bring the whole city under the unwieldy jurisdiction' of one general society. Aware, however, that such an impulse as that which arises from an association of persons deeply interested in one common object, was requisite for the commencement of the plan in the different quarters of the town, they consented for a time to associate themselves for the purpose of giving that impulse; but they venture already to look forward to a period at no great distance, when the whole plan being completely organized, and brought into a state of efficient activity, under the guidance and patronage of the minister, or of a committee of benevolent individuals in each parish