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20 her own system. The Bishops invited the clergy and laity of their dioceses to meet and publicly undertake the duty of educating the people. Boards of education, with local boards acting under them, were formed in twenty-one dioceses. Twenty-four institutions or colleges, for training schoolmasters and schoolmistresses, have been formed: 221 teachers have been received and instructed in them; 134 have been appointed to situations; 200 teachers, already employed, have been received by the National Society to improve themselves in their ofice. In the four last years the National Society by its own funds, and the proceeds of the Queen's Letter, has expended 83,000l. The diocesan funds since 1838 have amounted to 94,000l. The committee of subscription and correspondence, acting under the National Society, raised about 50,000l.; so that no less a sum than between two and three hundred thousand pounds (exclusive of the outlay made privately in forming and maintaining schools, which cannot be ascertained) has been expended by the Church on education since the year 1838. The number of schools in the communion of the Church may be taken at about 18,000; and of scholars, at 1,193,947.

If we look, therefore, to the extent of this organized system of education, its diocesan machinery,