as the Library Books,) has largely increased. The amount provided for Libraries during the year, (one-half from local sources, the other by the Department), was $1,920.94,—— decrease, $923.23 and the number of Volumes sent out, was 3,361. The whole number of Libraries established is 897. The total value of Library Books sent out is $112,873.57, increase during the year, $1,930.94. The whole number of Volumes sent out is 208,483, --increase during the year, 3,361. They are on the following subjects: History, 36,316; Zoology and Physiology, 14,121; Botany, 2,597; Phenomena, 5,593; Physical Science, 4,367; Geology, 1,867; Natural Philosophy and Manufactures, 12,001; Chemistry, 1,446; Agricultural Chemistry, 756; Practical Agriculture, 8,620; Literature, 20,348; Travels and Voyages, 16,406; Biography, 23,762; Tales and Sketches of Practical Life, 57,767; Teachers' Library, 2,516. To these may be added the Prize Books, 165,847 Volumes.making a total of 374,330 Volumes. Volumes sent to Mechanics' Institutes, not included in the above, 7,677,-making a grand total of Books sent out from the Department to December 31st, 1864, of 382,007 Volumes.

3. The number of Sunday School Libraries reported is 2,068,-increase, 48; the number of Volumes in these Libraries reported is 317,417,-increase, 3,233; the number of other Public Libraries reported, is 379,-increase, 2; containing 172,605 Volumes. Total of Free School and other Public Libraries in Upper Canada, 3,344,-increase, 396; containing 698,505 Volumes,-increase, 6,702.

XIV. Table O.-Expenditure for Maps and Apparatus, and Prize Books..

The amount expended in the purchase of Maps, Apparatus and Prize Books for Schools, the one-half provided from local sources was $17,260,-increase, $1,370. All the applications are voluntarily made by local parties, in transmitting one-half of the amount required for the purchase of articles. The number of Maps of the World supplied, in 1864 was 157,-increase, 48; of Europe, 224,―increase, 52; of Asia, 187,-increase, 63; of Africa, 181,-increase, 64; of America, 193 increase, 53; of British North. America and Canada, 234,-increase, 57; of Great Britain and Ireland, 183,-iucrease, 45; of Single Hemispheres, 134,-increase ; Classical and Scripture Maps, 239,increase, 106; other Maps and Charts, 366,-increase, 160; Globes, 103; sets of Apparatus, 46; other School Apparatus, (pieces,) 323; Historical and other Lessons in Sheets, 10,206; Volumes of Prize Books, 33,381.

Operations of this Branch of the Department during Ten Years.-I will here give a summary tabular view of the nature of the business which has been done in this branch of the Department during the last ten years.

FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS OF THE EDUCATIONAL DEPOSITORY DURING THE YEARS 1855-1864.

Grand total for ten

I think it proper, at the same time, to repeat the following explanatory observations:

"The Maps, Globes, and various articles of School Apparatus sent out by the Department, apportioning one hundred per cent. upon whatever sum, or sums, are provided from local sources, are nearly all manufactured in Canada, and are better executed, and at lower prices, than imported articles of the same kind. The Globes and Maps manufactured, (even the Material,) in Canada, contain the latest discoveries of Voyagers and Travellers, and are executed in the best manner, as are Tellurians, Mechanical Powers, Numeral Frames, Geometrical Forms, etcetera. All this has been done by employing competitive private skill and enterprise. The Department has furnished the Manufacturers with the copies and models, purchasing certain quantities of the articles when manufactured, at stipulated prices, then permitting and encouraging them to manufacture and dispose of those articles themselves to any private parties desiring them, as the Department supplies them only to Municipal and School Authorities. In this way new domestic manufactures are introduced, and mechanical and artistical skill and enterprise are encouraged, and many aids to Schools and domestic instruction, heretofore unknown among us, or only attainable in particular cases with difficulty, and at great expense, are now easily and cheaply accessible to private families as well as to Municipal and School authorities all over the Country. It is also worthy of remark that this important branch of the Education Department is self-supporting. All the expenses of it are reckoned in the cost of the articles and Books procured, so that it does not cost either the Public Revenue, or School Fund, a penny beyond what is apportioned to the Municipalities and School Sections providing a like sum, or sums, for the purchase of Books, Maps, Globes, and various articles of School Apparatus. I know of no other instance, in either the United States or in Europe, of a branch of a Public Department of this kind, conferring so great a benefit upon the public, and without adding to further expense."

XV. Table P.-The Superannuated, or Worn-out, Teachers.

Table P. gives the age and services of each Pensioner, and the amount of the pittance which he receives. 217 Teachers have been admitted to receive aid from this Fund. Of these, 48 have died before, or during, 1864; 7 were not heard from, 3 resumed teaching, and 1 withdrew from the Fund.

2. The system, according to which aid is given to worn-out Common School Teachers, is as follows:-The Legislature has appropriated $4,000 per annum in aid of superannuated, or worn-out, Common School Teachers. The allowance cannot exceed $6 for each year that the Recipient has taught a Common School in Upper Canada. Each Recipient must pay a subscription to the Fund of $4 for the current year, and $5 for each year since 1854, if he has not paid his $4 from year to year; nor can any Teacher share in the Fund unless he pays annually at that rate, commencing from the time of his, or her, beginning to teach, or with 1854, (when the Pension System was established,) if he began to teach before that time. If a Teacher has not paid his subscription annually, he must pay at the rate of $5 per annum for past time, in order to be entitled to share in the Fund when worn-out.

3. The average age of each pensioner, in 1864, was 68 years; the average length of service was 21 years. No time is allowed any Applicant except that which he has employed in teaching a Common School in Upper Canada; although his having taught School many years in England, Ireland, Scotland, or other British Provinces, has induced the Council to admit him to the list of worn-out Common School Teachers after teaching only a few years in Upper Canada-which would not be done had the Candidate taught, altogether, only a short period of his life. Previous Reports contain the names of the parties on whose testimony the application has, in each instance, been granted, together with the County of his residence. That part of the Table is omitted.

XVI. Table Q.-Distribution of the Legislative Grant, together with the Sums raised as an equivalent, and other Moneys provided by Municipalities and Trustees.

This Table presents a complete view of all the Moneys which have been received and expended, (and from what source derived,) in connection with the Normal, Model, Grammar and Common Schools in Upper Canada. It may be here seen at a glance that this Money has not been expended in any favoured localities, but has been expended in Counties, Cities, Towns, and Villages, according to population, and upon the principles of co-operation, in all cases, and according to the extent of it in providing Libraries and all School requisites. The people of Upper Canada provided and expended for Grammar and Common School purposes in 1861, $1,598,106. For details see the

Table.

XVII. Table R.-Educational Summary for the Year 1864.

This Table exhibits, in a single page, the number of Educational Institutions of every kind, (as far as we have been able to obtain returns,) the number of Students and Pupils attending them, and the amount expended in their support. The whole number of Educational Institutions of every kind was 4,595. The whole number of Students and Pupils attending them was 358,722. The total amount expended in their support was $1,636,979. Balances, but not expended, at the end of the year, $203,898. Total amount available for Educational Purposes in 1864, was $1,840,878.

XVIII. Table S.-General Statistical Abstract of the Progress of Education in Upper Canada, from 1842 to 1864, inclusive.

By reference to this brief, but important Table, the progress of Education in Upper Canada can be ascertained, in any year, or series of years, since 1841, as far as I have been able to obtain returns. Take the last ten years as an illustration, and a few items out of these contained in the Table. In 1854, the population of Upper Canada, between the ages of 5 and 16 years, was 217,912; in 1864, it was 424,565. In 1854, the number of Grammar Schools was 64; in 1864, it was 95. In 1854 the number of Pupils attending the Grammar Schools was 4,287; in 1864, it was 5,589. In 1854, the number of Common Schools was 3,200; in 1864, it was 4,077. In 1854, the number of Free Schools reported was 1,117; in 1864, it was 3,459. In 1854, the number of Pupils attending the Common Schools was 204,168; in 1864, it was 354,330. In 1854, the amount provided and expended for Common School purposes, was $754,340; in 1864, it was $1,285,318. I refer to the Table for various other details.

XIX. The Provincial Educational Museum in connection with the Department.

Nothing is more important than that an establishment designed especially to be the Institution of the people at large, to provide for them Teachers, Apparafus, Libraries, and every possible agency of instruction,—should, in all its parts and appendages, be such as the people can contemplate with respect and satisfaction, and visit with pleasure and profit. While the Schools have been established, and are so conducted as to leave nothing to be desired in regard to their character and efficiency, the accompanying agencies for the agreeable and 'substantial improvement of all classes of Students and Pupils, and for the useful entertainment of numerous Visitors from various parts of the Country, as well as many from abroad, have been rendered as attractive and complete as the limited means furnished would permit. Such are the objects of the Educational Museum.

The Educational Museum is founded after the example of what has been done by the Imperial Government as part of the System of Popular Education,-regarding the

indirect, as scarcely secondary to the direct, means of forming the taste and character of the people.

It consists of a collection of School Apparatus for Common and Grammar Schools, of Models of Agricultural and other Implements, of Specimens of Natural History of the Country, Casts of antique and modern Statues and Busts, etcetera, selected from the principal Museums in Europe including Busts of some of the most celebrated characters in English and French History; also, copies of some of the works of the Great Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, and especially of the Italian Schools of Painting. These Objects of Art are labelled for the information of those who are not familiar with the originals, but a descriptive historical Catalogue of them is in course of preparation. In the evidence given before the Select Committee of the British House of Commons, it is justly stated "that the object of a National Gallery is to improve the public taste, and afford a more refined description of enjoyment to the mass of the people;" and the opinion is, at the same time, strongly expressed that as "people 'of taste going to Italy constantly bring home beautiful modern copies of beautiful originals," it is desired, even in England, that those who have not the opportunity, or means, of travelling abroad, should be enabled to see, in the form of an accurate copy, some of the celebrated works of Raffaelle and other Great Masters; an object no less desirable in Canada than in England. What has been thus far done in this branch of Public Instruction, is in part the result of a small annual sum which, by the liberality of the Legislature has been placed at the disposal of the Chief Superintendent of Education, out of the Upper Canada share of the School Grants, for the purpose of improving School Architecture and appliances, and to promote Art, Science and Literature by means of Models, Objects and Publications, collected in a Museum connected with the Department.

The more extensive Educational Museum at South Kensington, London, established at great expense by the Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council of Education, appears, from successive Reports, to be exerting a very salutary influence, while the School of Art connected with it is imparting instruction to hundreds, in Drawing, Painting, Modelling, etcetera.

A large portion of the contents of our Museum has been procured with a view to the School of Art, which has not yet been established, although the preparations for it are completed. But the Museum has been found a valuable auxiliary to the Schools; the number of Visitors from all parts of the Country as well as from abroad, has greatly increased during the year, although considerable before; many have repeated their visits again and again; and, I believe, the influence of the Museum quite. corresponds with what is said of that of the Educational Museum of London.

XX. Reports of the Local Superintendents of Common Schools, and of the Inspector of Grammar Schools.-Practical Remarks.

1. Value of these Extracts.-I refer to the Appendix to this Report for extracts from the Reports of Local School Superintendents of Townships, Cities, Towns and incorporated Villages,-a most important and essential part of my Report,-as containing a practical exposition of the actual working of the School System in nearly five hundred Municipalities in Upper Canada. The Local Superintendents, in many Townships, and in several Villages, Towns, Cities, and even Counties, have made no remarks in transmitting their Statistical Reports. It may, however, be fairly assumed that what is stated in the extracts given, is applicable, in a general way, to all the Municpalities. The value attached to the Local Reports, in the oldest and most advanced of the neighbouring States, may be inferred from the fact that more than one-half of the Annual School Reports of the States of Massachusetts and New York consist of extracts from local Reports.

2. These Extracts show the inner life and practical working of the School System. The Extracts from local Reports which I have given impartially, (as is clear from the