(136)

CO 00’

Female, 4 45 0

Orphan School, I 40 0 In GeorgetoWn—

2nd class, 1 70 0

Female, 1 35 0

Total, 263

Schools supported at an annual cost to the public funds of about £16,000; add to this the expense ofthe higher institutions—the Prince of Wales College and the Normal School—together with the expense con- nected with the administration of the system, and the total yearly amount paid out ofa general revenue of £45,000, will closely approximate to £16,000. The majority of teachers receive bestdes £10m £153. year from the parents, in aid of, or as an equivalent for their board; this gives £9500 in the shape of additional salaries. It may be assumed that £500 at least are annually contributed to private schools in and about Charlottetown; and it becomes certain that a sum amounting to eighteen thousand pounds was raised last year, from all sources, forthe support of education, in a population of 80,000 in Prince Edward Island.

The Emigrant is naturally desirous as to the edu- cation ofhis children in the country of his adoption. In Prince Edward Island nearly a third ofthe whole revenue is expended upon this important branch of social progression. But although Prince Edward Island is favored in this respect, it will be important to intending settlers to get all the books together they can, to bring with them. There are few persons who cannot obtain gifts of books from private individuals at home, or grants from some ofthe many Societies that flourish so extensively in the old country. An enlightened brain is betterthan a strong pair ot‘hands, and it will be found in Prince Edward Island that there is work for both. A set of Cham- ber’s Educational Works are a complete Library in themselves, and happy would that settler be, who, having a family to bring forward, had these applian- ces of Education, and himself took a delight in their investigation.