“All can read from easy narrative, to the third book and History of England. Eighty read with ease in the third book. Good secular reading books in all classes. Writing on paper, ninety in books, and from memory, neat and accurate. Ciphering to compound rules, with practical questioning. The first class learn geography and grammar very well; the religious instruction in all classes is remarkably good. Needlework is very well taught; thirty can fix a shirt.” “Infants, one hundred and eighty. Conducted by a mistress; assistant employed in managing, not in instructing the children. A handsome, well-arranged school, with abundant apparatus. All infants between two and six years. The infants are cheerful, orderly, clean, and fond of their mistress. It is peculiar to the school that the mistress teaches all the children to read, &c., without monitors. The result is that they are more advanced than in good infant schools conducted on the usual system; seventy read in books; twenty very well; and twenty write sentences on slates, twenty, words; and thirty, letters; all elementary subjects are well-taught. Children are well acquainted with scriptural history, and give more intelligent answers on meaning of words and sentences than is usual in good schools. The mistress is an able teacher, and devoted to her duties.” Mr. Cook adds, “I have recommended many clergymen to visit these schools, as among the best and most complete in London.” And he concludes this part of his report by saying, that “in addition to these nine schools, it is intended to erect others in the neighbourhood of the new church, which will make altogether provision for the instruction of 2000 children, in a population of 25,000. The present schools cost nearly £1,300 per annum.” The expenditure of these schools varies, as a matter of course; and this sum must not be taken as the present expenditure. The new schools will cost £400 per annum, in addition to this sum; and I find that in 1847–48, the total expenditure of St. John’s schools for the year, amounted to £591; the income being made up of £336, subscriptions, donations, and collections; £140 paid by scholars in the form of “school pence;” and £115 from other sources. By another report I find that the sum paid by the children at Paddington Green, amounted in the year to £130.