LORD BROUGHAMpresented 115 petitions from places in England, praying that a greater efficiency in Middle Class School Teachers may be obtained by a system of Government inspection, with certificates of merit. The noble and learned Lord said, that the upper classes took security for themselves as to the efficiency of their teachers, and for the lower classes the same advantages were procured by the system of Government inspection, of which he was old enough to remember the commencement, and which had been attended with such beneficial results. The official returns showed that during the last year no less than 850,000 children had been educated in schools which were placed beneath the supervision of Inspectors, and that in these there were 5,000 teachers, 13,000 apprenticed teachers. The petitioners complained that in the schools for the middle classes no provision having for its object to secure good and efficient instructors was made. They did not ask that the Government should compel private schools to submit to inspection, or that Government regulations should he enforced upon them; but they were anxious that some means should be adopted whereby the attention of teachers in ordinary schools might be invited to the immense advantage which was derivable from an efficient system of inspection.