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Mr. CROOK® gave stetiation for 1875, abowing that mucb the largest proportloa of the money appropriated for this vnTon . was di:tributed among the Pablic Schools =s distinguished from the High Sohoole. In the year} ho mentioned thare was 30 por cent of the ent're sobool popuilattion in the firat or lowest reading #30k;, 19 ger cent, in the gecord beok;29 per cont, in the third; 15 per oent. in the fourtb; and only two par cent. in the fitth or bigbest, Reforring \to the dtems _ for _ laspection _ of . Publtc and Reparate Sohbools, and Oolloglate | Iortitutes an4 IHigh Schools, ho said that , this inspeotion was the on'y chook they had tpon the expenditure of public money upoa the echools, In reference to the itam of $60,000 for maps, apparatus, and Mbra'y tooke.be seld <th«t this amount was in rea'llty only abtout $30,003, as mhout oxze-- hall was returned to toe Depertmest, amount vuoder this item was Jnoreasiog. Mr. CROOK S sald thereason of the Inorease war the establishment of a'polloemun ;! Kort CC CA CA Hewste awmirth OO war 1e 44 0o e ns T l o ol use Erie, The returas of fess had been over$1,000, The effsct of the e:tablishment of the forse he4 been excellent, and had beon to aboilsh what bad been a diegrace to Canada io the lawleesness which prevailed on the Niagara froutier, Mr, PATTERSON thought there wat at | much reason for appo'inting Proviucial polca | on the Dercit frontier as on the Nisgara | frontier, _ | L. L cmt c e s j _ Mr, CROOKS pointed out that the nesss. sities of the Niagars frontisr were entirely different in the want of police protectlion trom tbat at Essex. The item was then pauscd. On the item (ander the head of eJucatlor) of Publ'c and Separaite Schools, $240,000, Mr., MERRICK sald that ke would like to know whast advanteg» the countr, de :ve | trom the pablicstion of the Journat o Adu, cation, which oons $2,360. good per se, and were applisable to clty echools, were not appropriats in dit: ferect rural sections. He had no dorire to centralize the system, aud proposed to in: $roduce certain amendments to the Scho»l Lew at a later stage of the session in the direction he had isdiloatc1, (Herr, hear ) Mr, DEROCHI said he balleved the p:o-- ple in the rurat distrlots were opposed t> township Boards ot Trustses, The Inspectors seemed to think the whole burden of ed4u oation rested upon the'r shoulders, Hoe was glad to bheir that the tendency ia fature would be to decentralizs the system He believed more gerd wou'ld be done in the intererts of education by giving more ald to High Sohools than by building more Normal Bohools. Hethould not be rorry to see the Jourrat of Education wiped out of the esti. mates, Mr. DEROCHAE said he balleved the pso-- Mr, CROOKS sald it was very saticfactory Robinson, M _ . e % C to know that the Normal School at Ostawa had been a most complete su00088, not only in the teaching staff --which had lost a most valuable officer in the person of Mr. Gibson-- but in baving appreciably stimulated the In: tereat of the prople of the ea=~tern porkion of the Provincs in regerd to education. (Hear, wey» Mr CLARKE approved of tha remarks of the Mini:tsr of Eduoation regarding the la-- | sended cecontraliz:tlon of power io our eda-- | catlonal system. _ Hs believed the preson t currlcu!um of our «uchools embracei ton mapy subjsote, _ He thouihi that in mary wmses one boacher would ba sufficient for _ the _ smaller H'lgh Bohools _ it the curloulum was reduced, _ Though he -- hed formoriy bsen opposed . to the Journal cf Education, he was ow convinesd that it served a usafal purpore, slzoe it had been greatly improved. Mr. CURRIE also aupported the contisu-- snoe of the Journai. _ With regard to the Westsrn -- Normal Sohoo!, it hbad been found by American educationists that the lerge clties were not so ellgible looations for auch institutions av the towrs, Ha con-- tended that the present system of disiri butlng morey among the High Schools was unfair, inasmuch as counties 0@ amail popu'ailon frequently rec:ived fer larger gravte thin thoss which were moit populons _ He boped the Minister of Edus» tlon wou'!d see bis way to making the dissrl butlon on a more _ equltable basis, Many of the countics had altogether too ' mapy High Schools, In someof the coustiles ho covoald not see why High Sshool moneys | should be appropr!ateA on a diffsrent princ!. | ple from the inblo Sobsols, bhear. ) Mr. PATTERSON (Es#ex) highly congra« tulated the Miulater of Eiucation on the manmner in which he bad disoharged his da« tics. Ho detended the county inspsctors from the aspersions which bad been made on them, and contended that the Journal 0f Education served a most usoful pur-- pose _ He did not believe that _High Sobools went the length of efficiently Srainiong teachers, but he was opposed to buildiog more Normal Sonsole, _ Hs be lieved in alding the Teachers' Iostlsutes and encoursglog the education o1 teashers in that Mr, EOULTER expressed the op!inion that many of the High Schools might be very | «fficiently taught by one temcher, Mr. DEROUSE romarked that mary of the promin--nt men to be found in every cali: Ing of sifs have recelvad their odnonl;{on 1a the Grammar Schoo}s under the old system. He feared the tendency now was In _ tke direction of a kink o' fanof ed4uostion, Tho rumber _ of | pupils who could psss the intermedlate ex-- | aminstions was very smail, The general | feeling of the community was that thera stould be as many High Sohools as posslble, even if they wsare nok qaits up to the required etandard, The pressent tendency was, ho bolioved, in the direction of centrallzation , Mr CROOK3 sald the objant of our High | Schools wan -- entirely different from ' that of iha Pablic Sohoo!s, inas: much as the former were intended bo : furnish bighor education to a very Hmited number of our population. Whille the basts of population was a parfecé'y falr one in _ distributing the granms to the Public Sohools, it was obviously ! lospplicable to the higher fnstiturlons, ; loaswuch as their great multipkHcation war q not so dealrable s their efficlency in the way of bigzghes: educastion. Hsa might remark also, that while his bou, friead the menbsr for Wo'lanod based kbis remarks regsrAing the disp: oportion of the High Sshool grant » to the popolation of the varlous countiss upon tke Publta Aocounts for 1875, the Couancil of Publitc Ioutruction had sivcce madse csr-- trin regulations with a view of meking the grante isore equitable, Theso reguimtlions ' bad only besu in forse a short timsa, but they | were working moat aatle{actoriiy, Mr, BINOLAIR sa'd that the tan:-- dency ol the presrent regalations was to encourage higher eduocmation in the older counties, and to dissourage 1t to a osrtain extent in the nower seotlions. The priasipel abject. of the Normal Schoole war the trainirg of temohers, but tho education of tbhat class was equally necessary, and t> thn: end the multyiication of High Sebools ia the newer di«trio's should be enoourage4. Mr, CROOKS remarked that above a certain amoust of spyproprlation to High Sohools, the graat depended upon looa! effork The followivg {toms then passed :