leaving all other religious instructors admissible upon special demand.

However this point be settled, I cannot, for my own part, entertain a doubt that the difficulty will, ere long, be removed from our path. We have no want so great or so urgent as this of a truly National Education. Many noble-minded men, and women too,-for in this work they must take no unimportant a part-are devoting their best energies to its realization; and believing, as I devoutly do, that 'man's aspirations are God's promises,' I cannot doubt of their full and enduring

success.

And that success will be the heritage, not only of Britain but of the world. .........

Change wide and deep, and silently performed,

This land shall witness, and as days roll on,

Earth's universal frame shall feel the effect,
Even till the smallest habitable rock,
Beaten by lonely billows, hears the songs
Of humanized society, and blooms

With civil arts, that send their fragrance forth
A grateful tribute to all-ruling Heaven.
From culture, unexclusively bestowed
On England's noble race, in freedom born,
Expect these mighty issues; from the pains
And faithful care of unambitious schools,
Instructing simple childhood's ready ear;
Thence look for these magnificent results!"

Additional Note.-School Inspection, (p. 284.)

Since the observations in the text were written, this point has been settled, as respects the objections of the clergy, by an arrangement that the inspectors of schools in connexion with the established church shall be appointed by the Committee of Council, subject to the approval of the Archbishops of York and Canterbury, each for his own province. The following is an extract from the minutes of the committee on the subject, dated July 15, 1840:

"Resolved, 1. That before any person is recommended to the Queen in Council to be appointed to inspect schools receiving aid from the public, the proprietors of which state themselves to be in connexion with the National Society, or the Church of England, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York be consulted by the Committee of Privy Council, each with regard to his own province; and that they be at liberty to suggest any person or persons for the office of inspector, and that no person be appointed without their concurrence.

"2. That the inspectors of such schools shall be appointed during pleasure, and that it shall be in the power of each archbishop at all times, with regard to his own province, to withdraw his concurrence in such appointment, whereupon the authority of the inspector shall cease, and a fresh appointment take place.

"3. That the instructions to the inspectors with regard to religious instruction shall be framed by the archbishops, and form part of the general instructions to the inspectors of such schools, and that the general instructions shall be communicated to the archbishops before they are finally sanctioned.

"That each inspector at the same time that he presents any report relating to the said schools to the Committee of the Privy Council, shall transmit a duplicate thereof to the archbishop, and shall also send a copy to the bishop of the diocese in which the school is situate for his information.

"4. That the grants of money be in proportion to the number of children educated, and the amount of money raised by private contribution, with the power of making exceptions in certain cases, the grounds of which will be stated in the annual returns to parliament."-Commons' Papers,

No. 490.

CHAPTER XII.

GENERAL REVIEW, IN CONCLUSION, OF THE ADMINISTRA

TIVE ECONOMY OF THE ARTS OF DESIGN IN ENGLAND,
ITS STATE AND PROSPECTS.

"Progress is

The law of life-Man is not man as yet,

While only here and there a star dispels

The darkness-here and there a towering mind
O'erlooks its crawling fellows.

When all the race is perfected alike

(As man, that is,) then in completed man
Begins anew a tendency to God."

Paracelsus.

"Truths, of universal interest, are too often considered as so true that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors."

S. T. COLERidge.

CHAPTER XII.

GENERAL REVIEW, IN CONCLUSION, OF THE ADMINISTRA TIVE ECONOMY OF THE ARTS OF DESIGN IN ENGLAND, ITS STATE AND PROSPECTS.

1. Ir has been the object of the preceding pages to bring under review, as succinctly as the extent of the subject and the limit of the writer's ability would permit, the several relations in which the arts of painting, sculpture, and architecture have been, or may become, the subject-matter, either of legislative enactment, or of the administrative care of government.

2. As most of the topics included within this limit had been recently the subjects of investigation before a select committee of the House of Commons, appointed "to enquire into the best means of extending a knowledge of the arts, and of the principles of design among the people (especially the manufacturing population) of the country; and also to enquire into the constitution, management, and effects of institutions connected with the arts," the present survey was commenced with an analysis of the report of that committee, arranged under three principal heads: first, the means of elementary instruction in the principles of design, more especially with regard to the manufacturing population; secondly, the means of extending the love of art in its highest departments, and consequently, of cultivating and refining the public taste; and thirdly, the legal protection