TO THB BSITOB OT THB PBBBB. Sib, —The remark has been made that as the teacher's hours are very short—only five hours a day for five days a week—ha nvuet have much spare time, daring which he can employ himself in obtaining means to supple pent Ms income from the school. That this idea is fallacious is easy of proof. Though his time in school may be only five hours, his work extends muoh longer. Hβ prepares his school work for the morning, he has care and anxiety daring his dinner hour, he has to finish up after school hours. Often he gives extra lessons, be examines exercises, sets copies, arranges his work, &o. So that, when all is told, I think often the fire hours extend to eight. These hours are during the time that business men are employed. The teacher works at certain set limes, and should he not work in strict accordance with these fixed hours an outcry is at oace raised. When he would wish to employ himself in earning mora money he finds all business is c1036d, and business men otherwise employed. My ex perience is, that as long as honorary offices are to be held, a teacher is looked on as the proper man to do the work, bat as c.on as payment ie to be made, then the two offices he holds are incompatible, and another takes the emoluments. On Saturday the teacher has to go to town (at his own expense) to find what new books and new ideas may be afloat; to mix with others in his own walk of life ; and to gain some of those ideas which it is his duty to disseminate to his scholars. And here we have the peculiar point in a teacher's career which should have the sym pathy of aIL Each school is isolated from others. The teacher lives an isolated life, the one man of intellectual culture among those whose sole thought is the produce of the lacd. Does he meet a neighbor, " school" ie the topic of conversation. 