4. It can not, unless in the "opinion of the board, justice and equity require it;" and "justice and equity" do not so require it, if the inhabitants of said district No. 1 "have heretofore borne a reasonable share of the burden of taxation for such purpose in comparison with other sub-districts in the township;" but the said $250 should be certified by the township board to the county auditor, for assessment on all the taxable property of the township, according to the provisions contained in section 22.

5. Each township board of education must be the judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of its own members; but should they improperly refuse to allow the clerk of a board of local directors to take his seat in the township board, the person rejected might test the question by applying to the court for a writ of mandamus.

The local directors of the sub-district elected, should fill the vacancy by legally appointing one of their number clerk of said sub-district, and such legal appointment would entitle him to a seat in the township board.

H. H. BARNEY, Commissioner of Common Schools.

A Hundred Years Hence.-A writer in an English publication, in speculating upon the condition of the world a hundred years hence, says:

"There are in the world this year not less than sixty millions of Anglo Saxons. Now, as they are doubled in number in half a century, in 1952 they will have swelled to the enormous amount of two hundred and forty millions! Two hundred and forty millions of human beings, all speaking one language, borrowing inspiration from one literature, contributing equally to the storehouse of science, animated by kindred sentiments, worshipping at the same shrine, and all and each of them indefatigably contributing to the fulfilment of the mission especially given to the race, to renovate, consolidate, enlighten, strengthen, and christianize the sons and daughters of Adam, so that in the appointed time they would be indeed the sons and daughters of the bright and heavenly morning! What a prodigious family! The mind staggers under the bare conception of its magnificence, and we pause to glance at some of its coming incidents in their sober entirety. Upon a moderate computation one hundred and fifty millions of this population will be located on the continent of America. A vast proportion of it will be a maritime population, situated on the shores of the Pacific, where Liverpools and New Yorks will send out their ships to trade with the islands of the Pacific Ocean, with Australia and New Zealand, and, further westward, with Japan, China, Burmah, India, and even Persia, although it may then be a Russian province. From the promises of a future, which have already peered over the horizon, it is quite manifest that the British and Anglo-Saxons in America and our present Australian group of colonies will be the lords of the seas in the Southern world. In the physical regions created and controlled by man there will undoubtedly be many stupendous revelations. In traveling, whether on land or water, the people of that day will call us slow, as we called those who lived a century ago slow. The voyage to New York will probably be effected in two days; to India or Australia in eleven; which would be just at the rate of about sixty miles an hour-the present speed attainable on a railway."

CIRCULATION OF THE JOURNAL.

The first and second columns in the following Table, exhibit the circulation of the Journal, in the several counties in Ohio, at the close of those volumes, and the third, the present circulation of the current volume. In addition to these, we have about 200 subscribers in other States, making the whole number 2,350.

Teachers' Institutes and Normal Classes.

The following are the arrangements for the summer and fall, so far as known

at present:

Greene county, at Cedarville, July 10th, two weeks.
Butler county, at Hamilton, July 17th, one week.
Scientific Institute, Marlboro, July 18th, three weeks.
Montgomery county, at Dayton, July 31st, two weeks.
Highland county, at Hillsboro, August 7th, one week.
Adams county, at West Union, August 14th, one week.
Pickaway county, at Circleville, August 21st, one week.
Hancock county, at Findlay, August 28th, one week.
Clinton county, at Wilmington, September 4th, one week.
Coshocton county, at Keene, September 4th, one week.

Morgan county, at McConnelsville, September 11th, one week.

Portage county, at Ravenna, September 25th, one week.

Richland county, at Mansfield, October 9th, one week.

Knox county, at Fredericktown, October 16th, one week.

Guernsey county, at

October 16th, one week.

Jefferson and Harrison counties, at Cadiz, October 16th, two weeks.
Columbiana county, at New Lisbon, October 30th, one week.

Association of the Friends of Female Education.

The second semi-annual meeting of this Association was attended in the chapel of the Putnam Female Seminary, on the 4th of July, 1854.

The President, Rev. J. McD. Matthews of Hillsboro, presided, and the session was opened with prayer by Rev. J. M. Trimble. None of those appointed for that purpose, being prepared to read reports, some remarks on the culture of Taste and the Imagination as connected with Esthetics, were made by A. D. Lord.

The proper compensation of female teachers, was subsequently discussed, the subject having been introduced by a resolution presented by Prof. W. Smith of Delaware.

The evening address was delivered by the President. Rev. O. Faville of Delaware, was appointed by the President to deliver the next annual address, and the Association adjourned to meet in Cincinnati on the 26th of Dec. next.

Ohio State Phonetic Association.

This youthful but vigorous Association held its second semi-annual meeting in Zanesville on the 7th ult. The opening address was delivered by W. F. Coggeshall, Esq., of the Cincinnati Columbian. Subject: "The nature and availability of phonetic reform." It was an able and most deeply interesting address, and we hope that it may yet be delivered elsewhere before assemblies of teachers and citizens. Mr. W. Dunton also delivered an interesting address on the spelling reform.

Written reports upon the topics announced in the notices of the meeting were presented by the several committees; and oral or written reports upon the condition and prospects of phonetics were made from quite a number of counties.

The thanks of the Association were returned to the State Teachers' Association for the interest manifested by its members; and to the citizens of Zanesville for their liberality and kindness.

After a pleasant and highly interesting session, the Association adjourned to meet in Cincinnati, on the 29th of December next.

The following are the more important of the resolutions discussed and adopted:

Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to report upon the correct philosophical use, as it respects number and case, of the personal pronoun, when used in addressing an individual.

Resolved, That a committee be appointed to report upon the influence which the practical study of phonetics will have, in improving the elocution of public speakers, and performers of vocal music.

Resolved, That Mr. Coggeshall be requested to furnish us with a copy of his excellent lecture, on the need and availability of phonetic reform, for publication. Resolved, That the members of the Corresponding Committee in each of the counties be urgently requested to collect all information within their power upon the subject of the language reform, and present the same either in person or by a written report, to the Chairman of the Executive Committee at its next annual meeting.

Curran. The career of Curran, the celebrated Irish orator, furnishes an apt illustration of the results of energy and perseverance in overcoming physical and mental defects. Curran did not possess those natural gifts which are supposed to be necessary to success as a debater. In preparing himself for the position to which his ambition had aspired, he was obliged to grapple with difficulties which would have discouraged any would-be orator of less sanguine temperament. Poverty, one of the most depressing evils with which genius has to contend, was by no means the least of those difficulties. "His voice," says one of his biographers, "was bad, and his articulation so hasty and confused, that he went among his fellows by the name of, stuttering Jack Curran.' His manner was awkward, his gestures constrained and meaningless, and his whole appearance calculated only to produce laughter, notwithstanding the evidence he gave of superior abilities. All these faults he overcame by severe and patient labor. Constantly on the watch against bad habits, he practised daily before a glass, reciting passages from Shakespeare, Junius, and the best English authors." He succeeded completely in conquering his bad habits and innate defects; and, in the words of one of his friends, "he turned his shrill and stumbling brogue into a flexible, sustained and finely modulated voice; his action became free and forcible; he acquired perfect readiness in thinking on his legs." We need not particularize his course of study, but will merely quote the remark of one of his biographers, that "his oratorical training was as severe as any Greek ever underwent."

Coal in the United States.-"The great Apalachian coal field extending from New York to Alabama, 720 miles, covers nearly 100,000 square miles; the Indiana coal field, 350 miles long, 55,000 square miles. The Michigan field, 150 miles long, 12,000 square miles; the Missouri and Iowa coal field, 50,000 square miles and the small fields in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Virginia, cover perhaps 1,000 square miles; total, 218,000. This is more than 27 times as large as Massachusetts; and if we add, say 12,000 square miles for the coal fields in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, we shall have a surface equal to nearly 29 such States. If we suppose the average thickness of all the beds over this surface to be only 25 feet, (some single beds have twice that thickness, and the number of beds above one another is often great,) the whole amount of coal in solid measure in this country, would not be far from 1,100 cubic miles. One cubic mile contains 7,174,537,216 tons of coal, each cubic yard weighing about 1,316 tons. Supposing the yearly consumption of coal in this country to be 7,000,000 tons, one cubic mile would last 1,000 years, and 1,100 cubic miles would last 1,100,000 years." Hitchcock's El. Geology.

Editors' Portfolio.

The late meeting of our State Teachers' Association was a deeply interesting and profitable one. Owing to the extreme heat, the attendance was not quite as large as it would have been; but, in such weather, to see some 400 persons assembled from every part of the State, to strengthen the hands and encourage the hearts of their fellows engaged in the promotion of education, argues no small degree of interest in the cause.

Too much credit can hardly be given to the Teachers and Citizens of Zanesville and Putnam for their efforts to render the session agreeable: a steamboat excursion on the Muskingum, and an entertainment such as their liberality provided, are things which will be long and gratefully remembered; and it was not strange that, with these in prospect, Teachers, (as is the case with pupils who are anticipating a holiday,) could execute their business with promptness and despatch.

The Resident Editor has already commenced attending the Fall series of Institutes, but he will generally visit Columbus each week, and will attend to correspondence as promptly as possible. All communications should be directed to Columbus.

Correspondence.

MARLBORO UNION SCHOOL.-Report of Examining Committee, June, 1854.But one of the committee was present at the examination of the Primary and Secondary Departments, which took place on Tuesday, June 13th.

In the Primary, under the charge of Miss Julia A. Breckenridge, the most striking characteristic is the extreme neatness and order which is observed. This portion of the report is based upon repeated visits to the school, during its ordinary exercises, as well as upon the public examination. It is believed in the particulars mentioned, that no improvement is possible; and this may be said too of the apparent ease and absence of effort with which this control is maintained. It is manifestly the consequence of her having obtained completely the confidence and affection of her pupils.

The same may be said of the Secondary Department, under the care of Mr. H. C. Warner.

The exercises in both Departments, were highly creditable to the skill of the teachers, and the intellectual development of the scholars.

The mode of examination in the High School-except in Reading, Algebra, and Geometry-was as follows: a topic was assigned to each member of the class, and was discussed for 10, 20, or 30 minutes, with illustrations by diagrams, apparatus and experiments, according to the nature of the subject.

This method seems better adapted to exhibit the amount of discipline which each scholar has attained, than the common method by question and answer. Reading.-Questions on the different topics connected with the subject of Reading, according to Mandeville's system, were answered generally with readiness, evincing a thorough knowledge of the theory of Elocution. Class taught by Mr. A. Holbrook, Principal of the school.

Book-Keeping.-Each member of the class defined terms, and described the various operations connected with the management of a set of books by double