school is situate in St. Anthony's Hall, Peaseholm-green; the girls' school, in Monkgate. WILSON'S CHARITY. There is a boys' school at Fossbridge, and a girls' school in the parish of St. Crux. Forty boys are clothed and educated. Wilson's girls' charity contains 20 scholars, clothed, and instructed in English and needlework. The date of the foundation is 1710. HAUGHTON'S CHARITY. This school was established in 1773, for the education of 20 boys, in the parish of St. Crux. The practice of late years, was to teach the boys simply to read: but by an active effort on the part of the parishioners and other friends of education in the city in 1838, the school was thrown open to a large number of boys, and a substantial education secured for them. There are three schools endowed by Mr. DODSWORTH, containing 60 scholars, boys and girls, instructed gratuitously. ST. MARY'S, BISHOPHILL JUNIOR. There is an endowment school here for 20 poor children of both sexes. The money by which it is supported, was left by George Abbots, in 1647, and by a member of the Driffield family. HOLDGATE SCHOOL. Ten boys are educated, gratuitously in this school, in Latin. The ROMAN CATHOLIC CHARITY SCHOOL, contains 60 boys. The Nunnery Girls' Schools, contains 50 scholars. NATIONAL SCHOOLS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. One of the boys' schools is situated in the Manor, St. Olaves, and the other in Holy Trinity, Micklegate;-the girls' school is in Aldwark. The number attending the three schools is about 700. SPINNING SCHOOL. This school was instituted A.D. 1782. It is situated in St. Andrewgate; and affords education to sixty girls, who are also clothed and fed. HOPE-STREET SCHOOL. This admirable school furnishes daily education to upwards of 200 boys; but not gratuitously. The object of the school is to furnish the elements of a useful English education, and to inculcate the duties of religion and morality, as contained in the Holy Scriptures; and it is open to persons of all religious denominations. There is, on Bishophill, a school for girls, conducted on similar principles, in which 170 scholars are instructed. ST. PETER'S SCHOOL. The dean and chapter of York are the trustees of this school; which is conducted in a handsome building within a spacious piece of ground situated in the Minster yard, where the old deanery formerly stood. On the 1st of May, in every year, there is an examination of such boys as choose to offer themselves, and who are between 13 and 15 years of age; of whom, if sufficiently qualified, a number, not exceeding eight, at any one election, are admitted to the foundation for four years: Every scholar not on the foundation, pays annually ten guineas for tuition. There is, on the 1st of September in each year, a second examination of the foundation scholars, who offer themselves; and to one or more of the best qualified boys, exhibitions of £50 a year are granted during three years, provided he or they shall be so long resident members of the universities of Oxford or Cambridge. This admirable institution was founded by Queen Mary, in 1557, by whom the lands of the hospital of St. Mary, in Bootham, were appropriated to it; and in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Roger Dallison granted an annuity to the school. In 1828 the establishment was remodelled and placed on its present basis. YORK COLLEGIATE SCHOOL. This school was founded A. D. 1838, under the patronage of the leading noblemen and gentlemen of the county; the capital being £8000, in shares of £25; vested in shareholders who can hold no more than four shares each. The institution is under the direction of a president, twelve directors, and a treaThis school is delightfully situated in Bootham, nearly opposite Burton Stone, and not far from the village surer. of Clifton. The hall of the school, is a very beautiful building; forming a conspicuous object on the northern approach to York.. Yorkshire School for the Blind. This is one of the most efficient of the institutions which now abound in England, for the purpose of affording the means of enjoyment and support to those deprived of light and sight; following the injunction : So much the rather, thou celestial light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Foreigners, who have travelled in this country for the purpose of obtaining information on the subject of the education of the blind, have recorded their admiration at the management of this school; and the rules of the Yorkshire school for the blind have been recommended for adoption to the Belgian government; being also translated and extensively circulated in France. The object of the institution, as the general rules state, is to give the pupils such instruction as may enable them to obtain a livelihood, attention being, at the same time, paid to their moral and religious education. The pupils attend at the places of religious worship which their parents desire; or which, if adults, they themselves prefer. Such mechanical arts are taught in the school as the blind can exercise to advantage: with whatever other branches of knowledge may appear conducive to the above-mentioned ends. The institution is managed by a committee chosen annually. The girls are chiefly employed in knitting, sewing, netting, &c.-Most of the boys in basket-making, weaving, &c. Some of the boys are educated as musicians; and some are organists at churches; the whole of the pupils being taught singing more or less. These occupations alternate with reading, by help of books printed in raised letters, arithmetic, tangible and mental geography, religious exercises, &c., &c. 1 2 This institution is intended as a special memorial in honour of the late William Wilberforce, the great philantropist, who represented Yorkshire in six successive parliaments. On the 3rd of October, 1833, a meeting was held in York, attended by the archbishop, the right honourable Lord Brougham, lord chancellor, and a great number of the nobility, clergy, and gentry of the county, to consider the best means of raising a Wilberforce memorial; and, with singular judgment and good taste, they resolved to erect something more noble than marble or brass, a monument worthy of one whose life was devoted to works of benevolence and utility. In 1834, application was made to government for a lease of the Manor House and grounds, attached to it; which was at once granted for 99 years, at a rent of £115 per annum. Two wings of this palace are let as private residences; but there is ample room beside for all the purposes of the institution. As it has been remarked in our notice of St. Mary's Abbey, the Manor House, or King's Manor, is situated within the walls of St. Mary's; and was, by the order of Henry VIII., constructed partly from the materials of the abbey, as a palace for the lord presidents of the north, and an occasional royal residence. James I. ordered it to be fitted up as a royal palace; and in the following reign several parliaments and councils were held in it. Wentworth, earl of Strafford, the favourite of Charles I., and an accomplice in his encroachments on the liberties of the nation, resided for some time in the Manor House, as lord president of the north; and one of the articles of his impeachment, drawn up by John Pym, was, that he had presumed to place his arms on one of the King's palaces. The arms of the beheaded nobleman still remain over one of the entrances. A royal mint was established in the Manor House, in 1696; but never since its erection has the structure been so worthily occupied as it is at present. Museum of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. Several circumstances tend to invest the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, with a more than ordinary degree of interest. Recognised by the crown, as the guardians of the ruins of St. Mary's, a main object of the society, has been to collect and preserve every relic calculated to elucidate the history of this great monastic institution. The Yorkshire Museum stands on the site of a portion of St. Mary's Abbey; and the beautiful gardens which surround it, form the greater part of the ancient close of St. Mary's Abbey, by the banks of the river Ouse, without the city wall at Lendal. Almost the first object we meet with after passing through the Doric gateway of the Museum gardens, is the celebrated Roman Multangular Tower, which is included within the gardens. "The outside of the wall, towards the river, is faced with a very small saxum quadratum of about four inches thick, and laid in levels like our modern brick-work. From the foundation, twenty courses of these small squared stones are laid, and over them five courses of Roman brick. These bricks are placed some length-ways, some end-ways in the wall, and were called lateres diatoni; after these five courses of bricks, other twenty-two courses of small square stones, as before described, are laid, which raise the wall some feet higher, and then five more courses of the same Roman bricks; beyond which, the wall is imperfect, and capped with modern building. In all this height, there is not any casement or loophole, but one entire and uniform wall: from which we may infer, that this wall was built some courses higher, after the same order. The bricks were to be as thorough, or as it were so many new foundations, to that which was to be superstructured, and to bind the two sides together firmly; for the wall itself is only faced with small square stone, and the middle thereof filled with mortar and pebble. These |