A stand was placed in the middle of the apartment, and a boy of about twelve or thirteen took his station by the side of it, with the “wand of office” in his hand. It was now announced by the master—“Those boys who wish to ask questions, please hold up their hands,” when immediately about eight or ten, of the same age as the one stationed in the middle of the room, replied by the motion required, while an air of animation sprang to their eyes, and lightened the dusky hue of their complexions. The first question was proposed by a boy, black as the late member of parliament’s celebrated blacking, but whose scanty habiliments bore many a mark from the finger of time, and many a stain upon their once fair colour. “Who was Hannibal?” Answer, from the boy near the stand—“A Carthaginian general, who defeated the Romans in two engagements.” It was now his turn to propound—“How is the true situation of any place upon the globe shewn?” Answer, from an intelligent-looking little mongrel boy, who was in such haste to reply, that it called for the aid of the master to render his rapid utterance understood—“By the intersection of that imaginary circle, which we call a parallel of latitude, with the meridian of the place in question.” Having replied to this query, he asked the boy at the stand—“Who was the first Roman emperor that visited England, then called Britain, and in what year?” This was a puzzler. He could not answer to it; so he lost his conspicuous station, which was occupied by the more fortunate querist. Various other questions were then proposed in history and chronology; after which, an examination in the Old and New Testaments commenced—the interrogatories being still propounded by the boy: “Who was the man that climbed up into the tree, to see Jesus pass?” “Zaccheus.”—“Where did Moses die?” inquired a pretty little girl. “On Mount Pisgah,” was the answer. A tall, rather grim-looking boy, started up, and, in a sepulchral-toned voice, asked—“What is the difference between Pisgah and Nebo?”— “Nebo appears to have been a point, or pinnacle, of Mount Pisgah,” replied a shrimpish boy by his side. An excellent map of the world was then brought, and attached to the stand in the middle of the apartment, so that the eyes of the whole school could rest upon it. The greater and lesser circles were then pointed out, the meaning of longitude and latitude defined, the form and divisions of the earth mentioned and descanted upon, and the sun’s path through the ecliptic described.