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increase. Many of the children have been prevented from attending, since the schools opened for the present term, by sickness; while others of the larger class of boys and girls have been kept at home at work. Some of the schools opened for the present term on the 30th of September last; others about the 15th of October, and others still as late as the first of this month.

[ The number of day schools now in operation must exceed one hundred and sixty; while the number of scholars attending the schools must exceed eight thousand. ] Other schools are yet to be opened, according to arrangements already made, so that the number must soon exceed two hundred, with an attendance of over fifteen thousand. The attendance upon the schools is [ as a general thing with a  regular and prompt attendance. ] Very little tardiness is reported; and many of the teachers are laboring to prevent it altogether. Their efforts, in this direction, thus far, have produced very satisfactory results.

All things considered the scholars of [ the schools of this State, are not [[strikethrough]] that [[strikethrough]] far advanced ] in their studies as one might reasonably expect. [ In none of the schools do you find [[strikethrough]] boys and [[strikethrough]] girls, and those the most advanced, studying [ any other than the rudiments of the simplest English Branches [[strikethrough]] x [[/strikethrough]]  ]