The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-06 00:00:00

The Dismissal of Mr. Morell.

The official correspondence relating to the dis-
missal of Mr. S. h. Morell from the office of her
Majesty's Roman Catuolic Inspector of Schools has
just been published. It appeared that a memorial
was forwarded early in November last to the Com-
mittee of Council on Education, complaining of the
conduct of Mr. Morell in the discharge of his offi-

vial duties, and alleging that in September, 1861,
when Mr. Morell visited St. David's School, Cardi-
ganshire, two pupils, who were candidates for the
pupil teachership, were not examined in his pre-
sence as they ought to have been, but that printed
examination papers, with thequestions marked, were
left by him, with directions that the answers should
be given to the Rev. S. Bruno. Other grounds of
complaint, relative to the mode of examinatio❑
adopted by Mr. Morell, were stated by the memo-
rialist, Mr. James Kelly, teacher of the said school,
who strongly impeached the impartiality of Mr.
Morell, both in the conduct of the examina-
tions, and in his official reports, and offered to esta-
blish the charges by evidence before the committee.
The memorial referred to led to a very lengthened
correspondence with the Committee of Council, and
in a letter, dated Nov. 26, Mr. Morrell denied the
allegations made by Mr. Kelly, stating that the lat-
ter had been suspendeci for misoonduct by Mr.
Stokes, as " a mischievous person who, with the
support of a powerful Irish party, made himself

very offensive at Cardiff." The Rev. Stephen Bruno,
in a letter to the Committee of Council on Educa•
tion, whose conduct had been complained of, also
described the charges made by Mr. Kelly as a
" tissue of lies." The charges then underwent in.
vestigation by the Committee of Council ; and the
secretary of the committee, writing by their order,
complains strongly of the " great irregularity "
disclosed in the diaries of Mr. 'Morel], showing
that out of 153 engagements in 1862 to visit
elementary schools and to hold collective examina-
tions of pupil teacher, he had kept 64 and failed to
keep 89. Much of the correspondence just put-

lished consists of letters and documentary evi-
dence given in supporeof the charges of Mr, Kelly,
and the complaints of the Committee of Coun-
cil. In one case, Mr. Wraterworth, Catholic
Chapel-house, Worcester, tells Mr. Morell that there
is one lengthened murmur against the uncertainty
of his visits, and in other places complaint is made
of the inconvenience caused by his arrangements.
Another portion of that correspondence refers to the
entry in his diary relative to the journey from
Cardiff to Plymouth on the 18th of September, 1863,
although it appeared that ho crossed the Bristol
Channel on the night of the 17th. After a careful
consideration of the correspondence, quite apart
from the testimony of Mr. Kelley, Mr. Lingen, on
behalf of the Council of Education, w,-ites that "my
lords of the committee feel themselves pLced under
the necessity of calling upon you to resigi: your
office." In reply Mr. Morell begged most reepeCt"
fully to decline the resignation. In accordance,
however, with the decision of the committee, Mr.
Lingo; the secretary, announced to Mr. Morell
that his appointment was cancelled by the Queen
in Council on the let March, 1864. Ic the last
letter, from Mr. Morell to Mr, Lingen, Mr. Moral'
states that he considers that he has been condemned
on an unfounded charge of untruth, without refe-
rence to the practice of the department on the point
imputed to him, and therefore without being heard.

LORD BROUGHAM'S AUTOBIOGRAFHY.—We hear
that Lord Brougham is engaged upon a work of the nature
of an autobiography,—The Ou'l.

DR. GLADSTONE AT IT AGAIN !—Our amusing
little serio comic sixpenny contemporary, 2he Owl,
gravely begins its "leader" by announcing—" We have
received an ' avertissement,' Pressure proceeding from
certain foreign Cabinets compelled our Government to send
Mr. Gladstone last Sunday to our office, where, having
lighted a cigar which we gave him, though ho smoked it
with evident discomfort, he informed us that the toil of
compiling the The Owl, combined with the excitement
consequent on our popularity, was clearly undermining our
health, and that he begged us for our own sake to discon-
tinue our publication,"

MRS. YELVERTON IN ANOTHER DILEMMA.—It
will probably not astonish our readers to learn,con-
eldering the trials this unfortunate lady has undergone,
and the desperate efforts made to withhold from her her
just and legal rights as the wife of Major Yelvertou, that
the £l5O ordered by the House of Lords to be paid to
her to defend her against the appeal of her husband has
been arrested by her own agents in London for expenses
already incurred. Will the Lords not insist that the
funds be appropriated to the specific object for which they
were given ? We shall see.—Caledonian Mercury.
FATAL LOCOMOTIVE BOILER EXPLOSION.—At
about 3 o'clock yesterday morning the boiler of a locomo-
tive engine, just arrived from Leer's, suddenly exploded at
the railway station at Colne, with a terrific report, scatter-
ing death and destruction around. The engine driver,
named Jonas Parker, was literally blown to pieces, and his
companion, the stoker, though still alive, was also shock-
ingly injured. Parker was about 27 years of age, had been
only a week married, and resided at Leeds.

Mr. SA➢IUEL PITMAN, the venerable father of
Isaac Pitman, the inventor of phonography, has
died, at the ripe age of 76. He was the first to move in
the establishment of schools in his own town. He learned
phonography, so as to read it easily and write it correctly,
when he was nearly 65 years of age. Of his 11 children 10
survive.