The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-25 00:00:00

DEPARTMENT OF PRACTICAL ART.

A department under this title, to have the raper-
intendeneu over the various schools of design, and to he
connected with other self-supporting institutions which
aim to advance education in art, has recently been organised
at the Bossed of Trade. The nature and objects of this
department are shown by the following circular which has
recently been addressed to the secretaries of the local coos-
mittees which manage the schools of design :
" Oflim of Committee of Privy Council forTesle,
Whitehall, Feb., 1832.
" Sir,—l am directed by the Lords of the Committee d
Privy l'ouncil for Trade to state to you, for the infertile.
[emu( tile committee of the -- School of Dadju,
that their lordship., having rec..ntly had under their emir
eideration the subject of tie gus eminent schools of dodge.
have Wilde the following arrangements, with • view toddle
more efficient management, the Lords Commissioners oleo
Treasury haring sanctioned the regaisite increase of sap*.
'hurry for carrying them into elf -ct :
" A department of the Board of Trade lies been created,
alined " The Department of Practical Art." This degMells
moot cuusists of two officers, Superintsodeole Of
Behoole of Practical Art," and a secretary.
Ouc of the pups rintendents is revered to devote hie
whole time and services to the duties of the department,
and le sairsated with the atonal business of seanamrenent,
noise the dimities a( ay Dude. .
.• It le lfde duty to plass hasseit in ellmmerdentien Via
the Maselhostareva, both r Lisallis Viust=siMire
w hose operations are esevAmr& wish art
mak: himeelf acquainted, with their special wants, with a
tow of enabling the schools, as far as praericable, to supply
them. Ile is to communicate with the different local coat-
mimes, managers of institutes, tic., &c., in order to 11101. T.
ten their wants, to recommend course best adapted for
resid..ring those institutions practically usefal to the Ill.inn-
Ariuro. of rho district in which they are placed, font to
stimulate local exertions and soluntary associations tier the
establishment and salmon of echoed' of art, sod rendering
them, as far as practicable, self-supporting. Ile is to visit
and respect the head school and female school in London,
and the branch schools and other institutions to which go-
vsmuieut stints are made, and to report to ray lords on
their condition, management, and progress ; ou the attend-
ance of the masters, and the mode in which their duties are
discharged ; arid on the pr.servation and arrangem, at of
the collections of works of art in the puree's/on of the
schools. Ile is to sisit thisu• places where it is proposed to
establish new schools, and to aeeert gill the necessity which
exists fur their creation, and the amount of local on ppor t which
may be expected, in order that my lords may he enabled
to decide upon the expediency of establishing such schools.
the Is to regulate the admission of etudents into the head
school, under the sanction of my lords; and ;is specially to
attend to all matters relating to the general management of
the wheels, including the correspondence, reports, cir-
eis. which arise out of such business. On all these
points no Secision is to be made, or step to be taken, with-
out the previous approval of my lords.
"The other superintendent ts to advise my lords upon all
points is the muoicement requiring artietic knowledge,
and to inspect, from time to time, the heed school, the
female school, and all the branch reticule, for the purpose
of examiniug the production, of the students, and of re-
porting to my hoed* upon the system sod method of inetruc-
lion pursued in these reboots, and upon their artistic state
awl progress.
"1 his officer is to Ir ready to render such assistance to
my lords as they may require., in the artistic management
of the schools, sod, for this purpose, he is to give occa-
sional attendance at the Board of Trade.
" Sly lords have been pleased to appoint Mr. Henry Cole
to the host mentioned of these ettices—namely, that of
superistendent of the business of general management, end
Mr. ktialtazdltedgrave to that of art sum intendent,
" The secretary is to conduct, in the mane of the Board of
Trade, the correspondence the department ;hois to have
therms of the mmensats ; to receive the fees of students at
tie head school, and at the female school, and all other
incone7s ; he le is mike all payments, and conduct the finan-
cial bewieses, seder the direction of the Board of Trade ;
be is to lave **custody of all ',facial papery, to keep the
rased' of attendance and classifications of the students ;
to arrange and prepare for printing all reports, returns, cis.-
ciliate. and asealognes; and to have charge of the property
of the bead salmi ; to manage the library of the head
school, sad to superintend the sending of supplies of works
of art, examples, end books to the branch schools.
" My have boon pleased to appoint Mr. Nemeth
the present secretary to the Schools of Design, to be the
secretary to the new department.
" The head masters of the central school are entrusted,
ender the mamba of my lords, with the direction of the
instruction in the central school, which is to be rendered as
useful ma possible to the branch schools ; end they are to be
responsible fur the progress of the students in the course of
instruction to adopted.
"They are to cuutrel and direct the other mashes of the
central school, and when vacancies occur, they are to re-
commend to the Board of Trade masters or the schools to
fill the vacant places, and also to recommend exhibitioners
from among the students in the schools fur the nomination
of my lords.
" When required, they an to rzport to my lords upon the
state and progress of the central school, IU3II of any of the
branch schools ; and in concert with the art superintendent,
they are to select and recommend for purchase, the anew
pie. of art, books, &c., for the use of the wheals.
"1 am to request that you will have the goodness to ac-
knowledge the receipt of this communication, and to bring
it under the notice of the committee and masters of the
—School of Design as early as possible.
" I have Use honour to be, sir, your obedient servant,
(Signed) " O. IL. l'onras,
" Secretary to the Breed of Trade.
"The Secretary of the Government School of Design."

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING.

I regret to say that the venerable Archbishop
Murray has been seised with sudden illness, and at
this moment lies at the point of death. Yesterday, he
presided at the obsequies of the late Richard Lalur
Shell, and in the evening appeared in his usual
health ; but in the course of the night he was
attacked with paralysis, and his great age gave
his friends cause to apprehend, as soon
aa the disease appeared, that it would bo fatal.
It is probable that he may not survive until to-
morrow. Dr. Murray has lung been the head and
chief support of the moderate party in the Roman
catholic church in this country.
The -estates of the Earl of Carrick, situated in the
counties of Tipperary ant{ Kilkenny, were sold this
i day in ten lots, n the Encumbered Estates Court.
The sum realised by the sale was 70,0001.
Lord 'Castlereagh has addressed the electors of
Down in explanation of his intention to retire from
the representation of their county. lie says:

Many reasons badges me to adopt this course • but by far
the Newt ispseemat wee Is the esolieties I ewteWleis that
we lower eider the essidesse el the leading lamest 01 the
empty. My raked to wear with them whit aftecall
corn laws bad bees bepeeled, were desirous of a return to
protective duties; the conduct I purstvel with reference to
the question of papal aggression; my support of the
grant to Maynooth ; and, filially, my approval of the
principle of the various landlord and tenant bills which
hove been introduced into parliament, appear to have al-
tered the political relations which existed between many of
my supporters and myself. I opposed the repeal of the
own laws until parliament pronounced itself in favour of
free trade. After that decision, I believed, and still believe,
that the return to protection would nut be accomplished
without hazarding the safety of our institutions. I therefore
declined to take any part with those who desire the re-impo-
' 'Atone( importdunes on foreign corn. I have always sup-
' ported the I
ust claims of my Roman Catholic fellow coun-
trymen. have therefore acquiesced in the grant to May-
nouth. While on the subject of papal NWT eh
lion, resenting equally with others the course
adopted by the Pope I entirely dissented from
the proceedings and subsequent measures of Lord John Rus-
sell and her Majesty's government. Utterly repudiating
the wild and dangerous doctrines of the Tenant League, I
have looked anxiously to the hands of the legislature for. a
solution of the compensation question ; I have wished to see
a measure by which the tenant might be encouraged
to improve, by acquiring • remedy against the toss
of capital bona fide expended on his holding, and
I have been convinced that it was unjust to ex-
pect the occupier to employ his money upon the
land of another without a fair consideration, under proper
arrangements, at the expiration of his 'ea.,. I have there •
fore voted fee the introduction of vurous measures upon
this subject, always reserving to myself the right of ques-
tioning, and, if necessary, dissenting from their details.
The spring circuits commenced yesterday with the
assizes of the town of Drogheda. Neither in the
judge's charge to the grand jury nor in tho cases
tried was there anything of the slightest general in-
terest. With the exception of this agrarian outrages
in a few of tho counties, the calendars to be disposed
of at the present assizes throughout Ireland exhibit
few C 1134.11 that will excite public interest.

CLERICAL.

Rev. John Fentimaii—Engbant,----t; St. John's Vicarage, dal
Margate, Kent; ~due, MU. and residence ; patron, Arch- it!.
bishop of Canterbury.
Rev. William Steele, to a mestenhip in the College
School, Londonderry.

Ir•CANCIES. 21
VlCARAols.—Duzford, St. John, Cambridgeshire, dio-
cese Ely; value. 1601. • patrons, Clare Cambridge ; Se
Rev. J. Clark, deceased. es.
Gargrave, Yorkshire, diocese Ripon ; value 75W., and eo
residence; patrons, the representatives ot the late vicar; the tu
Rev. A. Marsden, deceased. IS
Noss Ahearn,. Kcal, archdiocese Canterbury ; value 2801, !,1
and residence : patron, Archbishop of Canterbury ; Rev. J. io
F. Lingham, promoted. ,"st:
Masveassars.—Barnet Grammar Schcol, liens • Head is
Mastership ; salary 201., and residence ; testimonial before 15
Feb. 28.
Felted Grammar School, Essex ; Head Mastership ;
an'oary 200/., with residence and capitation fees ; teatime- joi
nick' before Mach 72.

NAVAL.
tIMIBALTY FEB 24. -AP

W. 8. Ralph, to Rodney. Aasistant-engineers J. Husbands,
J. Bell, and W. H. Dunkin. to Torch. Masters-assistants,
J. f. Hart, to l'isgerd, and J . R. Richards, to Victory.
THE ARCTIC EEPEDITION.—Captain Sir Edward
Belcher, C. 8., commander-in-chief of the Arctic expedition
of 1852, hes been engaged at the Admiralty during the last
four days, where reams have been allotted to him for the
rvceptiun of officers and transacting business connected with
the expedition. The vends commissioned will be well sup-
plied with Mike's fully competent to take the charge of
marching parties when they arrive in the Arctic regions.
The Assistance (the Bag-ship) will have Captain Sir Edward
Ilekber, Commander Richards, two lieutenant., one mas-
ter, and one clerk in charge. The Bowline, Captain Kel-
let, C. 8., will hay, this. lieutenants, one muter, and
one clerk in charge. The North Star, Commander
Pullen, one lieutenant, one master, and one clerk in charge.
The Intrepid, serew-steamer, Commander M'Clintock, ten-
der to the Assistance, one master and two assistant-en-
gincers. The Pioneer, screw steamer, Lieut.-Commander
Sherurd Osborn, tender to the Resolute, one muter and two
sraistant-cnginsers. The Assistance and Resolute hay*
taken on board a large supply of coals, instead of ballast,
and the hands an cow busily employed in taking as based
the iron water tanks. The bows of both vessels have been
sharpened, by attaching strong pieces of timber, which will
be covered with iron, and they will ha much easier to tow
during their neat than they were during their last voyage
to the Arctic regions.
THE NEW FIRST LORD OP TIIE ADMIRALTY.—
O'llyrne'r " Naval Biography" gives the following epitome
of the Duke of Northumberland's services in the navy
Thie officer (then Lord Algernon Percy, hut who was
raised to the peerage us Lord Prudhoe in 1816) entered the
navy in March, 1805, as first-class volunteer, on board the
Tribune fri.:ate,
_Captain R. Henry Alexander Bennet,
whom ho followed so midshipman In the ensuing Septem-
ber into the Fame, 74. In those ships he served off Shetland,
Rochefort, and Cadiz. and in various parts of the Mediter-
ranean, until 1810. He then joined the Hydra, 39, Captain
G. Mundy, and after having commanded a gunboat in co-
nperation with the patriots on the coast of Andalusia. he
became attached, in January, 1811, to the Christian VII.,
80, bearing the Beg, off the Scheldt, of Sir Edward Pellow,
under whom, when sgain serving in the Mediterrani an, on
board the Caledonia 120, he was confirmed in the rank of
lieutenant, by a commission bearing date the 10th Decem-
ber, 1811. Prior to the receipt of the intelligence of his
official advancement to the rank of enrumander, which took
place the Bth of Much, 1814, his lordship occasionally acted
as captain of the Scout and Pelorue sloops, and also of the
Caledonia herself, in which ship he fought in a partial
actin. with the French fleet off Toulon, and witnessed the
fall of Genoa. lie subsequently- officiated for some months
ns acting captain of the Conack, 22, on the coast of North
Atm•rica, and at the petiod of his elevation to poet rank,
the 10.. h of August, 1815, was serving at rurtsmouth, on
board the Driftr sloop."

111LITAitY.
(IFTnmlabt Getufk.)
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TILE. DEFUNCT REFORM BILL —A public meiding
of dm inhabitants of Birmingham was held in the Town-
hall rstertlay, for the purpose of expressing Cr opinion
upon the New Reform Hill in•rodoecd into the Home of
Commons by Lord J. Russell. The mayor resided,
and Mr. George Edmonds (tho clerk of ihe peace for the
borough) moved "That this meeting having before it the
hid iutuodured into the 11,ms, of Commons by J.
for amending the laws relating to the reprecoitstinn
of the people in pule:mint, is of opini m that while it foils
short of a full and efficient wra.ure of reform, it is entitled
to the support of the coun•ry, in an far as it extends OK
franchi e, small vonstitueneii s, dispenatw with the
property gunli6cation Pa members of parlii.nent, and :dr,-
&inactive oithii; and that no ministry that dors not
ar..ept these provisions as the sniminsum of parliamentary
reform which it is prepared to give to the purple is r ntithol
to the confidence and su;•port of the counter." Mr. Oroigo
DI*WIIS seconded the motion. Afu r Percent ',leeches, Mr.
Aldo:am Ilahlwin moved an mminil:nent in favour of on'.
•i Taal Aorta:ft., shortening the &natio o ( f narii intent, and
Vie ballot. f his ameolinent was eventually carried, and a
parties founded upon it was adopted.