NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE EDUCATION OF THE POOR— The meetings of this Society have been attended during the past month by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Earl of Powis, Viscount Emlyn, M.P., the Bishops of London, Winchester, Bangor, Chichester, St. David’s, Lichfield, Salisbury, Worcester, St. Asaph, and Hereford; Hon. G. Rice Trevor, M.P., Sir Thomas Phillips, Saunders Davies, Esq., M.P., the Venerable Archdeacons Sinclair and Harrison, the Reverends H. H. Norris, John Jennings, and William Short; William Davis, William Cotton, G. F. Mathison, and C. A. Wood, Esquires. The following new school-buildings have been reported during the last month as completed, and in some instances they are already opened for the reception of children. The Treasurer has been authorised to pay the grants voted bv the Society to these schools, amounting to £1,094 :—Salcombe, Kingsbhdge; Compton c. Up. Marden, Petersfield; Timsbury, Bath; Bockhampton, Dorchester; Gloucester, St. Michael’s; Alburgh, Harleston; Cardiff, St. Mary; Biddenham, Bedford; Llanhileth, Monmouth; Tickton, Beverley; Monkwearmouth, Sunderland; Headington, Oxford; Leonard, St., on-the-Sea; Curry, North, Taunton; Stepney, St. Thomas; Ashton, West, Trowbridge. Though many applications for aid have been received, the Committee, from a pressure of other business, have not been able to give their consideration to the awarding of grants during the past month. It is earnestly hoped that encouragement will ere long be given to some decided step for relieving the Society from its present embarrassed position as regards the state of its finances. The grants which the Committee have been enabled to make during the last two or three months have greatly disappointed the expectations of the applicants, who had looked for a larger amount of assistance. From communications made to the Society on this subject it would appear that, for want of the amount of assistance generally granted by the Society, many most necessary and desirable school undertakings must be deferred, or perhaps entirely abandoned.— Journal of Monthly Proceedings.