THE Rev. GEORGE OTTER, M.A., of the University of Cambridge, begs to apprise parents and guardians in Geelong and the surrounding neighbourhood, that he has taken a lease of the house and grounds of Mr. G. F. Read, on the banks of the Bay, with the intention of receiving a limited number of pupils into his family.

The subjects of study under his tuition will be the following: - Viz., Writing and Drawing, Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry; also, the French and Latin languages.

His object will be to impart such practical knowledge as is found serviceable and valuable at an early period of life in a young and rising country; should, however, the pupil be intended for a profession, the course of instruction will proceed to such an extent, as will enable him to enter one of the English Universities and to pursue with advantage the studies of the place.

Pupils will be received on and after the 1st of September next; the charge from that time to the Christmas Vacation will be for one third of the year. The above terms include every expense.

Geelong, August 12, 1850.

THE REV GEORGE OTTER, M.A. - We observe by the Port Phillip papers that this gentleman, who resided for a long time at the Cross Marsh, and subsequently at Bruné Island, has opened a school at Geelong, for the purpose of instructing the youth of the colony in practical knowledge, such as is likely to prove most valuable at an early period of life in a young and rising community.

The subjects of study under his tuition will be the following: - viz., writing and drawing, arithmetic and algebra, geometry and trigonometry; also the French and Latin languages.

From the terms of the advertisement, we perceive that the school is confined to boarders alone.

From what we know of the rev. gentleman's various attainments in scientific as well as classical knowledge, we feel much pleasure in recommending him to the notice of all those parents residing in the sister colony who would wish to see their children educated, so as to enable them to commence the great struggle of life with some tolerable chance of success.

It has been too much the fashion, both in this colony and New South Wales, for the public schoolmasters to instruct children in the dead languages alone, to the almost entire exclusion of arithmetic, history and mathematics - the three most useful sciences. We have not unfrequently seen a boy in the middle of Virgil who had not commenced the Rule of Three. The consequence is, that when they leave school and mix a little with the world they find themselves thoroughly deficient in any useful acquirements; and if they are sensible persons and wish to know something of the laws under which they live, they find it absolutely necessary to recommence their education. To this may be attributed the fact of many of the young men of these colonies remaining so long out of employment.

In the early days of Port Phillip, when the pioneers of civilization - the Squatters - opened up the vast tracts of that magnificent country, with its park-like forest land and immense plains clothed with verdure, they almost all cheated themselves into the belief that they were on the highway to riches and independence. But fatal experience has proved quite the contrary; their previous education, for the most part, entirely incapacitated them for the occupations they had chosen. They knew little of sheep farming, and less of accounts; the consequence was, they trusted to Providence more than their own exertions, and the result has been disastrous. Many set out with the fond hopes of making a fortune, and returned with the firm conviction of having spent one.

We hope to see the day when the system of public education will be entirely altered - when the living languages will be taught, instead of the dead - when those sciences, which are applied daily to works of public utility shall take the place of the politer accomplishments, which have grown out of a highly artificial state of society. This is more desirous in the colonies, perhaps, than anywhere else; and we only throw out these few observations to induce people to think on the subject. - "Colonial Times".