4. Physical, Political, and Commercial Geography.

A fair knowledge of one of these four classes of subjects will enable a Candidate to pass in this Section.

SECTION B.-Languages.

1. Latin.

2. Greek.

3. French.

4. German.

A fair knowledge of one of these languages will enable a Candidate to pass in this Section.

SECTION C.-Mathematics.

1. Pure Mathematics.

2. Practical Mechanics (including Mechanism) and Hydrostatics mathematically treated, Surveying, and Navigation. Algebra to the end of Quadratic Equations and Four Books of Euclid will enable a Candidate to pass in this Section.

SECTION D.-Physics.

1. Natural Philosophy.

Great importance will be attached to good Mechanical drawing.

2. Chemistry.

Questions will be set on the facts and general principles of Chemical Science.

There will be a practical examination in the elements of Analysis.

3. Vegetable and Animal Physiology.

Questions will be set on Vegetable Physiology in general, and on the functions of Vertebrata in Animal Physiology.

Parts of plants and bones of Vertebrata will be given for description.

Great importance will be attached to good Botanical and Anatomical Drawing.

A fair knowledge of one of these classes of subjects will enable a Candidate to pass in this Section; but in all cases a practical acquaintance with the subject-matter will be indispensable.

SECTION E.-Drawing and Architecture.

1. Drawing from the Flat, from Models, from Memory and in Perspective; and Drawing of Plans, Sections, and Elevations.

2. Design in pen-and-ink, and in colour.

3. The History and Principles of the Arts of Design.

A fair degree of skill in free-hand drawing will be required in order that a Candidate may pass in this Section.

SECTION F.-Music.

1. The Grammar of Music.

2. The History and Principles of Musical Composition.

The Elements of Thorough Bass will be required in order that a Candidate may pass in this Section.

Separate lists of those who distinguish themselves will be published for each of the Sections A, B, C, D, E, F, arranged in two Divisions.

The names in each First Division will be arranged in order of merit; those in each Second Division alphabetically.

The names of the other successful Candidates will be printed in a general alphabetical List.

After each successful Candidate's name will be inserted his Age, the place of his Residence, and the School (if any) from which he comes to attend the Examination.

Every Candidate who passes will receive the Vice-Chancellor's Certificate conferring the title of Associate in Arts, and specifying the subjects in which he has satisfied the Examiners.

The fact that a Candidate has passed the Examination in the Rudiments of Faith and Religion will be entered on his Certificate, although it will not affect his place on the List.

Place of Examination.

The Examination will be held in Oxford, and simultaneously in other places, if it be requested, and found expedient.

Local Committees wishing to have an Examination held in their several districts may obtain all necessary information from the Rev. J. E. SEWELL, New College, Oxford.

Time of applying.

Candidates desirous of being examined at Oxford must apply on or before the Tenth of April, 1858.

Local Committees desirous of having Examinations held in their several districts must apply on or before the 1st of March, 1858, specifying the probable number of their Candidates.

The names of these Candidates must be transmitted to the Rev. J. E. SEWELL on or before the 10th of April, 1858.

Fees.

Every Candidate at the Junior Examination will be required to pay a Fee of 10s.

Every Candidate at the Senior Examination will be required to pay a Fee of 30s.

These Fees must be paid on or before the 10th of April, 1858.

J. E. SEWELL, Honorary Secretary.

Oxford, November 12, 1857.

APPENDIX.

I.-CORRESPONDENCE

PREVIOUS TO THE PASSING OF THE NEW OXFORD STATUTE.

Two Letters from the Rev. F. TEMPLE, late Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, H.M. Inspector, to the Rev. Dr. JEUNE, Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, formerly Head Master of King Edward's School, Birmingham.

MY DEAR MASTer,

8, Royal Crescent, Notting Hill, London, April, 1857.

I promised to put on paper the substance of the conversation which I had with you in Oxford a little while ago on the subject of middle-class education.

The education of the middle classes suffers at present from the want of any definite aim to guide the work of the schoolinasters, and from the want of any trustworthy test to distinguish between good and bad schools.

That the result is unsatisfactory all who know anything of the matter agree in proclaiming. It is constantly said, and said with truth, that many national schools now give a better education than can be obtained at schools of much higher pretensions. The masters in the national schools know precisely what they are expected to do, and know that the Government Inspection will almost invariably in the end bring into clear light, whether or not they have done it. The masters who now teach the middle classes have no means of knowing either the one or the other. They are, speaking generally, expected to prepare boys for what is called business. Now this is so vague an aim that they may well be forgiven if they miss the proper means to reach it. But even if they so thoroughly understand their duties as to give precisely what is wanted, they have no means of convincing the parents of their pupils that they are doing so. In not a few instances the parents are misled into preferring what makes a show to what is really useful, and I have known a case where a very efficient master was driven away by the competition of one in every way his inferior, simply because the latter

taught a showy but quite useless kind of penmanship. In all cases the plausible puffer has a most unfair advantage over the thorough teacher; an advantage which would instantly disappear if the work of the two were brought to any real test.

This neglected condition of the education of the middle class becomes more striking when contrasted with the great efforts made to improve the education, both of those above and those below that class. The Universities, which have been to a great extent occupied by the upper class, are actively engaged in improving their system. The Government has spent two millions and a half upon the lower class, and is still spending at the rate of half a million a year. But nothing whatever is done for those who lie between.

And this neglected class has a very wide range, including many who are socially on a level with some of those who enter the Universities, and a few of the more active minded among those who are taught in our national schools. Here are to be found, without doubt, the great body of our Voters, of our Taxpayers, of our Ratepayers. It is obviously wrong to leave them out of sight when speaking of the education of the country.

The remedy, I believe, is in the hands of the Universities. If Oxford and Cambridge were to undertake the task of guiding and testing the instruction given in the schools of which I am speaking, I am confident that their guidance would be gladly accepted, would speedily remedy the evils that I have described, would confer a great benefit on the country, and would react most beneficially on the Universities themselves by increasing their popularity and the general sense of their value.

I do not think any complicated scheme is needful for this purpose. What I should propose would be this:

That the University should confer some such title as Associate in Arts on every person who passed an examination before Examiners appointed either by the Hebdomadal Council, or by a Delegacy, as might be thought best.

This examination should pretty nearly follow the precedent set by the present Final Schools. An examination of a somewhat similar kind to what I am proposing is to be tried in Devonshire this summer, at the suggestion of Mr. Acland; .... and the way in which it has been welcomed by the classes for which it is intended proves that it suits their case. There is, moreover, an obvious advantage in the University's following a University precedent.

I should propose then a scheme of examination somewhat of this kind