Lancastrian, National, and Infant Schools were scarcely known when we in 1805 passed through the tract of country which has engaged our attention during the last three months. There are now some of each of the three classes in most of the large towns; and Lancasterian or National schools in a number of villages. Infant schools, which are the most valuable of all, are not yet fully understood, and we have seen but comparatively few of them. However, the good that must already have been done by the Lancasterian schools is unquestionably immense; and it gives some foretaste of what will be the consequence of an efficient system of national education when it shall once be established.
