The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-04 00:00:00

REPORT OP THE COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON
EDUCATION.

This morning the report of the above committee
for the year MN, with the report" of her Majesty's in-
spectors of school., was issued.

During the year 1859, as compared with 1858, the
number of schools, or of departments of schools under
separate teaches% which were actually inspected, was in.
creased by 171, and the number of childrea by 58,387 ; the
number of pupil teachers by 1,210; of certified teaches, by
990 ; of students in training to become schoolmasters and
schoolmistresses. by 85 ; capitation grants were paid on
52,199 more children; 247 new school-houses were hats
comprising (beside class rooms) 393 principal school-reams
and 178 dwellings for teachers ; 230 other schools were
enlarged, improved, or furnished afresh ; accommodation
was created for 58,070 children, exclusive of the schools
improved or newly furnished, but not enlarged. During
1859, fifty-seven inspectors, including twenty-two assistant.
inspectors, were aesployed in visiting schools and in hold.
ing examinations. They visited 9,555 daily schools or
departmental of such schools under separate teachers. They
found present in them 880,131 children • 6,222 certificated
teachers; and 14,176 apprentices. Of the schools or depart-
ments 2,105 were for boys only ; 2,134 for girls only ; in
4,978 boys and girl were instructed together ; 1,338 were
confined to infante (children under seven years of age). Of
I the children, 487,304 we,. males, and 3112,827 were females.
The preponderance in number of the schools for children of
both sexes over separate schools arises from the fact that
this in animation is almost universal among the Prosbyterian
schools in Scotland, and prevails largely among the schools
of protestant dissenter, in England and Wales ; not to men.
tion that it is necessarily adopteslin many parts of the coon.
try when the means to maintain two teachers are wanting.
The inspector also visited 38 separate training collwsh
°occupied by 2,794 students in preparation for the office of
schoolmaster or schoolmistress. Iu December last these
students and 2,768 other candidates were simultaneously
examined for the end of the first, second, or third years of
their training, or for admission, or for certificates as acting
teachers. The inspectors also visited 469 schools for pauper
children, containing 34,911 inmates, an 1 102 reformatory,
ragged, or industrial schools, containing 7,305 inmates.

IRISH MERCENARIES AT ROME.

Letters from the crusaders who have already
arrived in Rome have reached Dublin, and are published in
the ultramontane papers. One of them, bearing the sigmas
tuns of Edward Patrick Nanghteu, appears in the Catholic
Telegraph, the weekly organ of Archbishop Cullen. The
writer says :
I arrived in Rome on Wednesday, after • delay of
three days through being detained twenty-four hours in
the Themes. Monaignor Talbot presented us to his
Holiness on Thursday. We kissed his foot, and received
his blessing. He presented us with a medal, with his
likeness on one side ; on the other is the following in-
scription :
' The Roman citizens dedicate thin medal to
The Irishmen

Who came to Rome for tiepUrposeoi defending the Rights of
The Roman Pontiff,
The Common Father of *IL
"And there was only one heart and one soul of all the
multitudes of the believers."
Plus ri.'

We three are the first of the Irish Brigade, or Pope's Own,
as our regiment is to be called, that have bad the distin.
&shed honour of being presented to his Holinessa. The
sign upon our hats ia to be the Papal arms, with the
harp of Erin underneath. The uniform is to be green.
We are to be a national regiment, and commanded by Irish
officers only, of whom several in Ireland have volunteered
to join us. We had an interview with the Minister of
War this morning. He showed us a telegraphic despatch,
'eying that 1,000 Irishmen would be in Ancona, in two
vessels, on Tuesday next. Monsignor Talbot told us that
his Holiness would rather have one regiment of Irishmen
than five of any other nation, because they would give their
lives and their hearts freely in defence of the rights of the
Vicar of Christ and successor of St. Peter. We went next
to the English College, and had a very warm reception from
his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman. The students of both the
Lash sad this college are as enthusiastic in this holy cause as
we are ; some saying they would like to be chaplain to our
regiment, and others even private soldiers. The Italians
are overjoyed at finding our nation coining forward to stand
by the Pope, and the revolutionists dread one regiment of
Irish more than twenty others ; they think we are irre.
' sietible. A great many of the Sardinian officers are against
the annexation of the Pope's dominions to the Bing of
Sardinia, and declare that if they are brought into the
Romagna they will not fight against his Hohneas. Since
oar arrival in Rome we have been well treated by the
ties we had business with, and our hotel expenses • by
the Minister of War. We could stay another week Rome
if we wished, but we preferred not putting the government
to any more expense. The three of ns lenve for Almon*
by diligence in the morning, six days' journey, to join our
regiment. As soon as our regiment is organised we are to
remain in Rome. I think that our regiment is should be
named the 'Knights of St. Patrick; or ` The Pope's
Own'