19 MARCH 1864, Page 3

Mr. Lowe has modified the minute diminishing the Council of

Education's grant to schools " by the amount of any endow- ment," so as to apply only to the schools that are not "rural" schools. Rural schools are those which do not contain more than 1,200 square feet of superficial area in the whole of the school- rooms and class-rooms, or must be certified as not needing or likely to be attended by more than 100 scholars. But even in rural schools the grant and the endowment together must not exceed the amount of 15s. per scholar, according to the average number of scholars in attendance throughout the year.