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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 27, 1830.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Yesterday an inquest was held at the Jolly Gar-
deners, Lambeth-walk, on the body of Anne
Hogan, aged about 50.
The deceased had been in possession of some
property, but latterly becoming very much reduced
in circumstances, was taken into the house of Mrs.
M` Way, widow of Colonel M‘Way, residing at
No. 22, Walcot-terrace, Lambeth, and on Wed-
nesday complained of illness. Mr. Bryant, sur-
geon, was called in, who ordered her some medi-
cine, but she gradually grew worse until Friday,
*hen Mr. Bryant was consulted about the possibi-
lity of having her removed to the workhouse. Mr.
Bryant pronounced a decided negative against re-
moving her ; but to his utter astonishment, when
he called in the evening, he found that the deceased
had been taken to the workhouse in a chair, where
she arrived in a state of insensibility about eight
o'clock in the evening, and never spoke until she
expired, at a quarter-past ten the same night.
Several of the jurors expressed themselves in
terms of reprehension at the inhumanity of removing
the poor woman in a dying state, contrary to the di-
rections of the surgeon.
One juror said, that the anxiety on the part of
Mrs. M` Way, that the death should not take place
in her house, ought not to appear so extraordinary,
when they recollected that the lady was a native of
Calcutta, and that in India a strong feeling exists
against permitting of the nearest of kin to die in the
house. The juror spoke of his own knowledge of
the country, and knew instances where even the
child was taken from the mother's breast, and re-
moved from the house, such was their horror of
suffering the decease cf any human being to take
place there.

The CORONER asked Mr. Bryant if he thought
the death of the deceased was accelerated by the
removal ?

Mr. Bryant replied that he was satisfied that the
deceased would have died under any circumstances,
and although he considered it highly improper to
remove her, yet he did not think her death was ma-
terially accelerated thereby.
The Jury expressed themselves satisfied, and Mr.
Bryant being of opinion that the deceased died from
fever, they returned a verdict of " Natural. Death."

EDUCATION IN IRELAND.

ANNUAL REPORT FROM THE COMMISSIONERS
OF EDUCATION IN IRELAND,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING THE 25TH MARCH, 1830.

TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST NOBLE HUGH PERCY DUKE

OF NORTHUMBERLAND, LORD LIEUTENANT-GENERAL

AND GENERAL GOVERNOR OF IRELAND, KNIGHT OF
THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER, &C. &C.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY,

We, the Commissioners of Education in Ireland,
constituted by an Act of Parliament, made in
the fifty-third year of the reign of his late Ma-
jesty King George the Third, in obedience
thereto, respectfully submit to your Excellency
a general Report of our proceedings, from the
25th day of March, 1829, to the 25th day of
March, 1830; and first, with respect to the schools
of Royal foundation, we have to state that the annual
allowance for exhibitions to students from the Royal
School at Armagh, admitted into the University of
Dublin, has been since our last Report distributed by
us to young 'gentlemen of merit, educated at that
school, according to the regulations specified in our
Report for the year 1828, and we are about to hold
out similar encouragement to a greater number of
students of such other of the Royal Schools as
as have sufficient incomes to enable us to do so.
A portion of the surplus funds of the school of Ar-
magh has also been lately appropriated to defray the
expence of inclosing the school grounds from the
public road, much annoyance having been experienced
from the intrusion of strangers within the boundaries
of the establishment.

We have caused substantial and necessary repairs
to be made to the house arid offices belonging to
the Royal School of Banagher, in the King's County,
the expellee whereof does not exceed 3401., on ac-
count of which repairs we have already paid the
sum of 3001. out of the funds of Enniskillen school,
as we were empowered to do by Act of Parliament,
the income of Banagher school being at present in-
sufficient for the purpose.

Having been disappointed, from various causes,
in obtaining a grant of the site alluded to in the last
Report made by this Board to your Excellency,
whereon to build a school-house f>r the Royal
School of Carysfort in the county of Wicklow, and
it ,being desirable that no time shall be lost in MM.
me:icing the building, this Board has been under the
necessity of fixing on a situation not quite so conve-
nient, but within the town corporate of Carysfort;
and we have the satisfaction to state that the terms
of a contract have been arranged for the building of
a sufficient school-house, with apartments for the
master, according to a plan furnished by our archi-
tect, and approved by the Board, for the sum of
502/. ss. sid. This English school, at present kept
in a small house, we consider as likely to be more
eminently useful when the establisetnent shall have
been completed under new regulations about to be
adopted by this Board ; Carysfort being situate in a
populous and mountainous district, remote from
other seminaries for education,

Besides the works alluded to in our last year's
Report to be carried on in the school-house of
the Royal School of Cavan, certain others have
been executed by our orders, the expence whereof
have been discharged partly out of the funds
to the credit of this school, and partly out of the
funds of Enniskillen school, amounting in all to
2301. 10s. 7d.;- and we have also caused to be
executed at the Royal School of Dungannon, cer-
tain improvements connected with the public part of
the building, the expence of which, amounting to
134/. 7s. 10d., has been discharged out of the funds
of Dungannon school.
In respect of the Royal School of Enniskillen we
have to state, that the plot of ground in the town of
Enniskillen which was the subject of law proceed-
ings, as mentioned in the Report of this Board to his
Excellency the Marquis of Anglesea in the year
1828, has been let by the Board to a responsible
tenant, who has covenanted in his lease to expend
on the premises, on or before the Ist of November
next, 4001. in permanent buildings; that having last
year found the surplus funds to the credit of this
school fully sufficient to meet the expellee of cer-
tain alterations and improvements to the out-offices
and entrance to the establishment, the execution
whereof had been postponed until after the discharge
of the expenditure on the repairs and improvements
of the dwelling-house and school, we entered into a
contract for several works in the offices and entrance
to the establishment in the month of June last, all
which have since been executed in a satisfactory
and permanent manner for the sum of 380/. 12s. 2d.
which has been paid to the contractor out of the
school funds; and we have advertized for and re-
ceived proposals for additional improvements in this
establishment ; we have also to state that a further
dividend has been made of the property of the late
agent of this School Estate, whose bankruptcy was
alluded to in our report. of lest year, making, with
the former payments, a dividend of 17s. 4d. in the
pound on the debt proved against us by the bank-
rupt. The surplus funds of this School being con-
siderable, we are occupied with a plan, which we
hope will be very shortly matured, for placing a cer-
tain number of the Students of this School on the
foundation thereof; with annual allowances and ex-
hibitions, whilst they remain at the University of
Dublin deer their admission to College.
The funds of the Royal School of Raphoe, which
had been deranged, in consequence of the insubordi-
nation of the tenants on the school lands, who dis-
puted the title of the Commissioners of Education,
as detailed in former reports, having been found
insuffieient to meet the expense of certain additions
and repairs necessary to be made in the school build-
ings, we petitioned your Excellency in the month of
June last, praying that your Excellency would be
pleased to order an advance of 1,283/. 16s. by way
of loan, for such purpose, to be made from the con-
solidated fund, pursuant to the provisions of the said
Act of the .53d Geo. 111., and having received, by
order of your Excellency, an assurance that the said
sum should be advanced as required in our petition,
to be repaid by instalments, we were enabled in the
month of July last to enter into a contract for the
due execution of the several works by which the
school-house and offices are already materially im-
proved; and we have further to state that having
in the month of December last received the report
of our architect, by which the contractors were en-
titled to receive an instalment of 600/. on the foot
of their contract for the works, we obtained
from the Treasury, under your Excellency's
order, through the hands of the Reverend James
Irwin, the Master, who entered into the ne-
cessary security by recognizance for the faithful
expenditure of the money, that snrn of 600/., which
we accordingly caused to be paid to the contractors,
the Commissioners of Education having previously
assigned the school lands of Raphoe, and the t -wants
thereof, to William Kemmis, Esq., Crown Solicitor,
under one of the provisions of the said Act, as se-
curity for the re-payment of the loan, as Ire was the
person appointed by Government to receive annually
such portion of the rents of the school estate as
shall amount to 771. Os. 7d., being at the rate of
61. per cent. yearly on the full sum to be advanced
by way of loan.
And next, with respect to the schools of private
foundation, we beg leave to state to your Excellency,
that the proceedings instituted by the Board in tltc
Court of Chancery in Ireland, in the name of the
Attorney-General, against the tenants of the school

lands of Middleton, the particulars whereof were
mentioned in our Report for the year 1828, are in
progress, and that it is expected, as reported to us
by our solicitors, that one of the two information
causes will be ready for hearing in the next term,
the examination of witnesses therein being now
nearly closed. We have also to state, that the se-
veral repairs and improvdments of the school-house
at Middleton have been for some time completed,
and that the contractor for the works, and his admi-
nistrator, have received the sum of 1,4001. on account
of his contract, and his administrator is to receive
the balance, amounting to 2001. at the expiration of
one year from the date'of the Ariel report of our
architect, if it should not then be deemed necessary
to make any deduction therefrom on account of the
possible insufficiency of any part of the work. We
have to observe, that owing to the death of the late
master, the Rev. Dr. Grier, this school has not
been opened since the house was rendered fit for that
purpose, and that consequently some expense has
been created, the Board being under the necessity
of paying a person to take care of the buildings ;
but we expect shortly to hear of the appointment of
another master, the governors of the school, in
whom such appointment is vested, (this Board not
having any voice in the appointment of the masters
or ushers of any school under its superintendence),
having been called on some time since by the Board
to elect a person qualified for the situation. We have
further to observe, that considerable embarrassment
has arisen to the funds of Middleton school, by reason
that the rent reserved on one of the leases of the
school lands impeached by the informations is ssith-
held from this Board, although we offered to enter
into a consent that the payment thereof should be
without prejudice to the rights of any of the parties
in the suits so depending.
Of the school of Clonmel we beg leave to report,
that in the month of April last a contract was en-
tered into between this Board and an eminent builder
for the building of a new school-house at Clonmel,
for the sum of 4,0001., and that the works thereof
are rapidly proceeding under the superintendence of
a local architect, whose reports lead us to expect
that the house may be habitable by the master and
scholars in the early part of the next year.
Having alluded in our report of last year to a ease
then before his Majesty's Attorney-General for his
opinion relative to 'the patronage of the schools of
Navan and Ballyroan, we have only to observe that
his opinion on the subject renders unnecessary any
further proceedings in the suit instituted in the Court
of Chancery on the subject of the schools so far as
respects the patronage thereof, but we have been
obliged to call for the opinion of counsel on the
conduct of the Rev. Joseph Preston, one of the pa-
trons of these schools, in whom the legal estate of
the site of one of the schools is vested, in not hav-
ing complied with certain orders of this Board,
which we thought necessary to make, in order to
complete the establishment of the school of Navan.
Having mentioned in our report of last year that our
architect had been required to furnish a plan for a
school-house to be erected at Navan, the estimate
whereof was not then intended to exceed 1,5001.,
we have to state to your Excellency, that on finding
from subsequent consideration of the funds to the
credit of Navan and Ballyroan schools, that they
would admit of greater expenditure on account of
Navan school-house, a plan on a more extensive
scale for the building of Navan school-house was
adopted by this Board, for the execution of which,
at an expense of 2,3621., a contract was entered
into in the month of July last, and we have now the
satisfaction to report that the buildings are proceed-
ing in a most expeditious and satisfactory manner,
and have been so far executed as to entitle the con-
tractor to call on us for the payment of three instal-
ments of 5001. each, which we have accordingly
discharged out of these schools on the certificates of
our architect. Of the school of Ballyroan we have
to state, that it having appeared to us by the report
of our architect on the present state of the school-
house of Ballyroan, that it would require the ex-
penditure of a large sum of money to put it into per-
manent repair, and the Board's interest in the
school-house being by a determinable lease only, the
title to which is somewhat questioned, we thought
it advisable to postpone doing any thing further re-
specting the school-house until it can be ascertained
whether a better nterest can be obtained in the
house, or a title can be had even to the determinable
lease, or whether a new site for the school-house
cats be procured; arid we expect a considerable in-
crease of the funds of ;here schools, by reason that
a report has been lately made in the cause in Chan-
cery respecting them, of a large balance being in
the hands of the Receiver, the settlements of whose
accounts was delayed by a serious question in the
Master's office, respecting abatements to be made to
the tenants.

Lastly, with respect to the Diocesan and District
schools, we beg leave to report to your Excellency
thrt the terms of a contract to the amount of 1)001.
have been agreed upon for the building of a school-
house at Ballymena, in the county of Antrim, for
the district composed of the dioceses of Armagh
and Connor, on the faith of a presentment of 10001.
late currency, made by the Grand Jury of that
county, a portion of which, arnolviting to 4151. 7s. 9d.
has been lodged in the Bank of Ireland to the credit
of the school; and we have to observe that the
master of the school, the Rev. Robert Mathews,
who has lately been appointed by his Grace the
Lord Primate, is about to proceed without delay to
Ballymena, to open the school in a temporary re-
sidence provided by him at his own expence, until
the new school-house shall be finished; and it is ex-
pected that the school will accordingly be opeued in
the month of April instant, with a fair prospect of a
good attendance of scholars.

We have further to state to your Excellency, that
the school-house at Downpatrick for the district
composed of the dioceses of Down and Dromore, has
been lately completed and delivered up to the mas-
ter, and that the contractor has received from us
4731. Is. sd. on account of his contract, and is to be
paid the balance thereof, amounting to 4501. Os. I Id.
by the treasurer of the county of Down, as the same
shall be levied pursuant to the presentment, passed
by the Grand Jury of that county, for the purpose
of building the school-house.

That with the view of creating a fund to build a
school-house at Mu!linger, for the district composed
of the dioceses of Meath and Ardagh, we caused to
be sold the old school-houses of those dioceses, fcr
the stun of 3801., the balance of which, after de-
ducting 11. 15Q., the expenre of an advertisement for
sale of the diocesan school-,house of Meath, we have
invested in Government Stock to the credit of the
said district school; but we regret to state that we
have not been enabled to procure any aid towards
this building by presentment from the. Grand Jury
of the county of Westmeath, to ‘vhorn repeated ap-
plications on the subject have been made without
effect, and more particularly in a memorial from the
Board which was presented to them at the Asszes
last past : on the contrary, they not long since caused
to be represented for other purposes, as under the
o sN-p p sed provisions of the 59th Geo. 111., c. 84, s.
21, the sum of 201. late currency, formerly presented
by the Gk-and Jury, towards purchasing ground for
the site of a diocesan school, to be built in the town
of Mullingar.

We have further to state to your Excellency, that
the Grand Jury of the county of Kerry, having also
in like manner and as under the same authority, at
the lest Summer Assizes, represented :'or other pu:-
poses a sum of 7001. late currency, wlich had been

raised off the county of Kerry by instalments (being
on account of a fund) for building a school-house at
as wiolo. enable the Boa presentmem v.
Tralee, for the district composed of the dioceses of
..hrd to purchase a site and to
Ardfert and Aghadoe, we, after having made appli-
cation
t(hbeerefoorne
asichhooriepresentment took place) ,it
different periods, to the trey urer of that county, to
Ks of Down and Antrim,
to in the iia4l; of Ireland to the
Board's credit, ,caused a metnorial to be submitted
to the Grand Jury at tke 44 $l,,TiNg sizes,A for
`the purpose Qt. obtainigu. • .. ^E ranch sutn,
answer. we hope to receive a favourable'

With respect to the scheol for the district com-
posed of the dioceses of Limerick, Killaloe, and Kil-
fenora, we beg leave to report to your Excellency
that a site has been selected for the school-house,
the title whereto has been approved by the Coun-
sel of the Board ; also that a plan for the building
of the district school-house has been adopted, but
that it is not in our power to contract for the exe-
cution thereof in consequence of the Grand Jury of
the county of Limerick having declined to direct
their Treasurer to lodge in the Bank of Ireland the
sum of 1,292/. Os. 2d., which was levied off the
county towards creating a fund for "purchasing a
site and building a school-house thereon," although
it has been represented to them that, to enable the
Board to guarantee to a contractor the punctual
payment of his instalments, it is absolutely necessary
that the money should be secured in the manner
proposed, or so disposed of as to be certainly pay-
able to the contractor; and with the view of effect-
ing that object, this oard, after repeated applica-
tions at different periods to the Treasurer of the
County, and to the gentlemen to whom it was pre-
sewed to be paid for the purposes above-mentioned,
Memorialised the Grand Jury at the last Assizes to
direct the Treasurer to lodge the money in the Batik
of Ireland, either in the name of-the Commissioners
of Education, or in their name conjointly with his
own or with that of some one or more of the said
gentlemen ; we regret, however, to be obliged to
state to your Excellency, that the prayer of our me-
morial has not been complied with, and that the
Treasurer of that County has been long permitted .
to hold in his hands now the only fund for the
building of the school-house, the Board having been
under the necessity of setting apart the entire of the
money at its disposal on account of this school to-
wards the purchase of the site, which fund is eon'-
posed of a sum of 100/. produced by the sale of a
plot of ground, formerly the site of the diocesan
school, in the old town of Limerick, and a sum of
2621. 16s. produced by the sale of Government
Stock purchased by the Board in the month of
March, 1828, with a sum of 2411.25. 3d., lodged by
the present Treasurer of the city of Limerick, on
account of a presentment made by the Grand Jury
of the city for the purposes above-mentioned. And
we beg leave to observe, that had the money iii the
hands of the County Treasurer been similarly
vested when first applied for by the Board, we
should, in consequence of the rise of the funds and
the accumulation of the dividends, have 11(-en
bled to have adopted a more enlarged plan fir the
school-house. We have been informed that the
county Grand Jury appointed a Committee to re-
port at next Assizes on certain questions rai,eil
amongst the Grand Jury, which necessarily pes pones
the building of the school-house until the next year,
if the Grand Jury shall then think fit to permit the
sum raised to be applied pursuant to the former
presentment.

We have further to state to your Excellency, that
it having been repeatedly represented to us by his
Grace the Archbishop of Tuam, and the master of
the diocesan school of Tuam, that the school-house
which had been some years ago much injured by
having been used by the military, and also by the
police (as formerly repotted by this' Board), was in
a most dilapidated and nearly uninhabitable state,
and that the sum requisite for its repairs if added to
what it would probably produce by sale would be
sufficient to build a better house on a more eligible
site, which has been promised by his Grace, we
caused advertisements to be inserted in the public
newspapers for proposals for the purchase of the old
school-house, which was besides most conveniently
situated, and having received an offer of 4101., being
1101. above the estimated value of the premises,
and which sum has been since lodged in the Bank
of Ireland to the credit of this school, we thought it
more advisable to declare the purchaser accordingly,
making it a condition of the sale, that the house
shall remain in the possession of the master of the
school until March next, than to suffer it to fall into
total decay, which it must have done, there being
no fund for its repairs, and the Grand Jury of the
county of Galway being unwilling to present any
money for that purpose; a►►d we have to state, that
it is the intention of the Board to apply immediately
to the Archbishop of Team to grant the site pro-
mised by his Grace to renew the application to the
Grand Jury of the county of Galway for a present-
ment, at the ensuing Assizes, of a sufficient sum i❑
aid of the fund in Bank to enable the Board to pro-
ceed with the building of a new school-house before
the old one shall be delivered up to the purchaser.
And we have further to state to your Excellency,
that it has been resolved by the Board, that a me-
morial be presented to your Excellency, suggesting
the Board's expectation of pecuniary aid from the
Government towards building the new school-
house, in consideration of the damage which the old
school-house sustained whilst occupied by the mili-
tary and police successively, as noticed above and in
former reports; and we beg leave to observe, that
it appears to us by the certificates to which we can
refer your Excellency, that it would have required a
sum of 350/. to have repaired the damages above
alluded to.

We have, since the date of our last Report, used
our best endeavours to establish on a proper footing
the Diocesan and District schools, but have in a
great measure failed, by reason of the indisposition
of the Grand Juries of most of the counties to co-
operate with Commissioners of Education towards
the attainment of that most useful object, an iudi•-
position caused in some instances by a misapprehen-
sion of the nature and constitution of these schools,
which are erroneously supposed by many not to be
open to free scholars of whatever religious persua-
sion, and in others, from an impression that money
should not be levied for the building or support of
schools to which masters have not been appointed.
We beg leave to suggest to your Excellency, (his
Majesty the King, being the Patron of all the Dioce-
san and District schools now unprovided with
masters), the propriety of appointing masters to the
vacant schools, under this condition, that the persons
to be appointed shall, until school-houses can be pro-
vided for them by this Board, teach school in the
towns selected by the Lord Lieutenant and Council
in private houses, to be hired by themselves.
WAI. C. QUIN, Secretary.
Board of Education, April 8, 1830,

By advices from Gibraltar, we learn that the
King of SPAIN hsd. replied to the memorial of the mer-
chants respecting tobacco having been prohibited in the free
port of Cadiz, in etaitravention of the promise made when
the franchise was given, that a year's notice should be
given prior to any proidbitory order. The Kiwe has in-
formed the memorialists that the prohibition is removed,
and that the franchise of the port of Cadiz is, in every
respect, to be oa..Tved agreeably to the decree by which
it was first enfranchised. It was the determination of the
merchants, had this not been done, to quit the place, as
the port would have been only nominally free, and they
would have been subject to other prohibitions at the
caprice of the Government.

A young country girl attended at Worship.;
street Office, yesterday, and charged two girls with robbing
her of her shawl. The poor girl stated that she was per-
suaded by a female, about a fortnight ago, to leave bet
father's house in Yorkshire, and come to London, where
the female said she would live like a lady, and make her
!Orton?. She wag, however, miserably nisappcittred ; the
female took her to a low brothel, and where she had since
resided. The Magistrate ordered her to be taken care of
in St. Luke's workhouv, and promised to write to her
father on the subject.