1. St. Patrick's College, Carlow.-This College was founded in 1793, and is altogether self-supporting. It consists of two establishments: one for lay and one for ecclesiastical students. The average number of pupils during the last seven years has been, 64 of the former and 67 of the latter class.

2. The College of All-Hallows, Drumcondra. This institution is for the education of Priests for Foreign Missions. During the year 1851, the average number of students was 80. The number at present is 85.

3. St. Kyran's College, Kilkenny.-There are, in all, seven professors belonging to this College; two in the Divinity department.

4. St. John's College, Waterford.-There are six professors in this College,-two Ecclesiastical.

5. St. Patrick's College, Thurles.-There are five professors; two for Theology and Scripture.

Besides these ecclesiastical Colleges, I find the following list of Catholic Institutions for the education of the youth of the better classes spread throughout Ireland :'—

1. College of St. Dominick, at Esker, county of Galway.

2. St. Vincent's Ecclesiastical Seminary, Castleknock. This is intended as a preparatory College for candidates for the priesthood who intend entering the higher classes of Maynooth and the other Catholic Colleges. It contains, at present, 69 pupils, all resident.

'Battersby's Catholic Registry, 1853.

3. Kilmore Diocesan College, Cavan.-This institution is partly on the same plan as the last, but also professes to complete the education of lay youths intended for commerce or the learned professions. It contains, at present, about 50 pupils.

4. St. Jarlath's College, Tuam.

5. St. Peter's College, Wexford. sical and commercial establishment. students, 90.

This is a clas

Number of

6. Colleges of the Society of Jesus, three in number. 7. St. Colman's Ecclesiastical Seminary, Newry. 8. Diocesan Seminary, Navan. Established in 1802, partly for the education of candidates for the priesthood, and partly for the lay education of the middle classes. It has, at present, about 80 resident pupils, and 45 day scholars.

9. St. Columb's College, Londonderry.

10. St. Malachy's Diocesan Seminary, Belfast. 11. Academy of St. Lawrence, Dublin.

12. Carmelite Seminary of St. Mary, Knocktopher. Only opened last year. It has now about 50 pupils, about 20 of whom are studying for the priesthood.

13. Connexional Seminary of Saint Lawrence O'Toole, Dublin.

14. The Dominican College of St. Thomas, Newbridge. This college was only established in 1852. It contains, at present, 24 resident pupils, and 32 day scholars.

15. St. Mary's College, Air Hill, Kingstown.

CHAPTER XIV.

EDUCATION IN IRELAND.

THE visit to the Model Schools in Marlborough Street, was brief, but sufficed to show the completeness of the arrangements there adopted for carrying into effect all the objects of this admirable establishment. I was fortunate to find all the schools in active operation; and had the honour of having the various proceedings explained to me, after the pupils had retired, by the Resident Commissioner himself. To give a detailed account of these would occupy more space and time than I have now at my disposal; and this is the less necessary, as all the essential details may be found in the excellent Reports annually published by the Commissioners. Beside the ordinary branches of instruction, music and drawing are especially cultivated in this institution; and in the upper school, I heard and saw specimens of both, which would have done credit to the pupils in any academy.

Perhaps the most important department in the institution is that devoted to the instruction of teachers for the National Schools; and it is conducted in the same efficient manner as the other departments. The only defect seems to be the

insufficient length of time the teachers are retained
under training; and this defect the Commissioners
are endeavouring to remedy by every means in
their power.
The number of teachers trained in
these schools in the year 1851, was 257, viz. 169
males and 88 females. In the school for training
the female teachers, I was gratified to see that the
important art of cookery was taught among other
accomplishments; a species of knowledge which,
beside its advantage to the individual, may prove
beneficial to the whole country, as these young
women are likely to be spread through every part
of it.

The number of pupils on the rolls of these schools on the 30th September, 1851, was-males, 697; females, 473; infants, 364; making a total of 1534; the daily average attendance during the year being about 1200.

The following Table shows the number on the rolls in each school, for the week ending the 30th October, 1851, with the religious denominations of the children:

This Table shows, as decidedly as any of our former Tables, how predominant the Catholic element is, even in the schools of the Capital; evidencing there, as elsewhere, what is the characteristic religion of the land, and how the Church of the minority holds her children aloof from the fountains of instruction opened to them by a paternal government.

It is gratifying to the friends of Ireland to be able to state that, in that most important of all the departments of social economy-EDUCATION, the country is, comparatively speaking, greatly advanced. The numerous statistical notices, under this head, given in almost every one of the preceding Chapters, must have made this sufficiently evident to my readers. The subject is, however, of such very great importance, in relation to the actual condition and future progress of the Irish people, that it claims some more special notice than I have hitherto been able to bestow on it. I wish it were in my power to do full justice to it; but I must be contented with merely giving, in this place, a few additional details of a somewhat more general character than would have been proper when taking my Memorandums on the spot.

The great characteristic feature in the system of Education in Ireland, is that presented by the admirable Institution, called the BOARD OF NATIONAL EDUCATION; and the remarks I am about to