Fort Street School.

Number of pupils, 69; boys, 64; girls, 5.

I cannot report as satisfactory a state of affairs at this school as I could wish. With a view to bring up the standard of the school to the requirements of the English-speaking portion of the population, and make it a school at which their children might acquire a useful education, the Board of Education, in September of last year, authorized the Inspector General to prepare a curriculum of studies for the school, which should embrace an elective high school course. Such a course was prepared, approved by the Board, and published; and will be enforced.

This school is much more expensive to the Board than was anticipated, and more so than it ought to be, considering the means of many of those who patronize it. It is to be hoped that payment for tuition will be made more promptly; and that the school will increase in merit and popularity.