The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-15 00:00:00

COIN EXCHANGE

There have bean small supplies of both English and Trish Corn
this week, but good of Barley and Foreign Wheat. There was
snore firmness in the Wheat trade, and Monday's prices rather
exceeded. Barley, Beans, and Pease remained as last reported.
Oats obtained rather higher prices, as the demand was fair, and the
supply had fallen off. Flour continued to meet a heavy demand.

ARRIVALS,
1
Wheat. I barley.. I Oats. f.' eui
2, !40 /rs 6,b`..0 qrs. LOCO Irs 3,e30 acks
3,0-0
1,220

English

Ir;s
137 Forei6ii

I 1,550
SMITHFIELD.

- brls

Supply short, and sale very dull, although prices were lower
except for Veal. Beef, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d. ; Mutton, 4s. 2d. to ss.
Veal, 4s. 6d. to ss. 4d ; Pork, 4s. 4d. to ss. 2d. Beasts, 441 ;
Sheep, 1,810 ; Pigs, 343 ; Calves, 82.

Societies,

Some of these defects appear to admit of an immediate remedy,
and I am directed by her Majesty to desire, in the first place, that
your Lordship, with four other of the Queen's servants, should form
a Board or Committee, for the consideration of all matters affecting
the Education of the People.
For the present it is thought advisable that this Board should con-
WEE is.. I fist of:

The Lord President of the Council.
The Lord Privy Seal.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The Secretary of State for the Home Department, and
The Master of the Mint.

It is proposed that the Board should be entrusted with the ap.
plication of any sums which may be voted by Parliament for the
parposes of Education in England and Wales.
Among the first objects to which any grant may be applied, will
be the establishment of a Normal School.

In such a schaol a body of schoolmasters may be formed, compe-
-
tnit to assume the management of similar institutions in all parts
of the country. In such a school likewise the best modes .of teach.
ing may be introduced, and those who wish to improve the schools
of their neighbourhood may have an opportunity of observing their
results.

The Board will consider whether it may not be advisable, for some
years, to apply a sum of money annually in aid of the Normal
Schools of the National, and of the British and Foriegn School

They will likewise determine whether their mea,ures will allow
them to afford gratuities to deserving schoolmasters; there is no
class of men whose rewards are so disproportionate to their useful.
ntss to the community.

In any Normal or Model School to be established by the Board
(our principal objects should be kept in view, viz.,—

1. Religious Instruction,
2. General Instruction.
3. Moral Training.
4. Habits of Industry.

Of these four I need only allude to the first; with respect to Re.
ligious Instruction there is, ..s your Lordship Is aware, a wide or
apparently wide difference of opinion among these who have been
must forward in Promoting education.
The National Society, supported by the Established Church, con.
tend that the sthoolmaster should be invariably a Churchman; that
the Church Catechism should be taught in the school to all the
scholars; that all should be required to attend church on Sundays,
and that the schools should be in every case under the superintend-
ence of the clergyman of the parish.
The British and Foreign School Society, on the other hand, admit
Churchmen and Dissenters equally as schoolmasters, require that
the Bible should be taught in their schools, but insist that no Cate-
chiztn should be admitted.
Others again contend that secular instruction should be the busi_
nest of the school, and that the ministers of different persuasions
should each instruct separately the children of their own followers.
In the midst of these conflicting opinions there is not practically
that exclusiveness among the Church Societies, nor that indifference
to religion among those who exclude dogmatic instruction from the
school, which their mutual accusations would lead bystanders to
suppose.

Much therefore may be effected by a temperate attention to the
fair dishes of the Established Church, and the religious freedom
sanctioned by law.
On this subject I need only say that it is her Majesty's wish that
the youth of this kingdom should be religiously brought up, and that
the right of conscience should be respected.
Moreover, there is a large class of children who may be fitted to
be good members of society without injury or offence to any party
I mean pauper orphans, children deserted by their parents, and the
offspring of criminals and their associates.
It is from this class that the thieves and housebreakers of society are
continually recruited. It is this class likewise which has filled the
workhouses with ignorant and idle inmates.

The Poor Law Commissioners have very properly undertaken to
amend the vicious system which has hitherto prevailed, and in the
neighbourhood of the metropolis much has been already done under
their auspices.
It is in this direction likewise that certain good can be accom-
plished. It sometimes happens that the training which a child
of poor but virtuous parents receives at home, is but ill exchanged
for the imperfect or faulty instruction which he receives at school,
debased by vicious association; but for those whose parents are
dead, or who have no home but one of habitual vice, there can be
no such danger.

In all such instances, by combining moral training with general
instruction, the young may be saved from the temptations to crime,
and the whole community receive indisputable benefit.
These and other considerations will, I am persuaded, receive from
your Lordship the most careful attention. I need not enter, at
present, into any further plans in contemplation for the extension of
the blessings of sound and religious education.
I have, &c.

(Signed) J. RUSSELL.
The Lord President of the Conncil, &c.

Bet keley.square, Feb. 6, 1839

My Lord—l have had the honour to receive your Lordship's
letter, canveying to me her Majesty's desire that I, as President of
the Council, together with certain other of her Majesty's servants,
should compose a Board, or Committee, to consider the state of edu-
cation, and direct the application of any sums which may be ap-
propriated by Parliament for promoting its improvement.
I hasten to express my readiness, whilst I continue to fill that
situation, to discharge my share of such a duty, convinced as I am
of the importance of the objects proposed, and the improbability of
their being satisfactorily accomplished without the countenance and
superintendence other Majesty's Government.

I at the same time beg leave, at the outset, to state my opinion,
that the establishment of a Normal School, for training masters in
the most perfect methods of communicating literary and industrial,
as well as moral and religious instruction, is the most pressing and
important of these objects, both in itself and as being a necessary
step to the attainment of the rest; and also the strong conviction which
I entertain that it should be a positive condition of such an establish-
ment, that it should beso regulated and provid,d with sufficient meats
to enable the teachers, who iffe trained there, to acquire and to give
such religious instruction as may be required at all ordinary schools,
in the principles of the Church of England, without any exclusion of
those who may be connected with such other religious persuasions
as are known to prevail amongst a considerable portion of the po-
pulation of the country, who may be desirous of and should be
enabled to receive similar instruction from their own Ministers,
subject to the control and superintendence of the authority under
which the school will be placed.
That such a regulation should be distinctly promulgated and un-
derstood, appears to me indispensable for its success, in diffusing
widely those benefits which all are alike entitled to receive, and
combining with the most approved methods of education the most
solid foundation on which it can be placed.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) LANSDOWNE.
The Lord John Russell, &c.
Whitehall, Feb. 9, 1838.

My Lord,—l have had the honour to lay before the Queen your
Lordship's letter to me of the Gth instant, and I am commanded to
inform you that her Majesty is pleased to approve of the course your
Lordship proposes to pursue.—l have. &c.,
(Signed) J. RUSSELL.
The President of the Council.

IRELAND.

(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
DUBLIN, FEBRUARY 13.
LORD NORMANDY'S DEPARTURE.

A very numerous and highly respectable meeting of the friends of
good Government in Ireland, was held this day in the Commercial_
buildings, to determine upon the most complimentary and satisfac-
tory manner of expressing their sentiments towards Lord Normariby
previous to his departure. Amongst those present were Mr. Thos.
Esmonde, Sir David Roche, M.P., Sir Thomas Finlay, Sir James
Murray, C. M. St. George, High Sheriff' of Leitrim, Daniel Farrell,
High S:-.eriff of Sligo, Thomas Dickson, Q. C., Richard Moore, Q.C.,
Carew O'Dwyer, Leland Crosthwaite, O'Gorman Mahon, Colonel
Morris William Murphy, John Power, &c.
Sir THOMAS ESMONDE, Bart. was called to the chair. Mr. A.
l'en,di was appointed Secretary. A discussion of considerable
length Cnstied as to the most effectual time and place for an aggre-
gate meeting of the citizens to adopt an address to be pre-
sented to his Excellency. It was finally determined to hold a
meetiiig to-Morrow, at the Arena, Lower Abbe:, -street, and a Com-
mittee was appointed to prepare the address and resolutions, and
make arrinigeme.:ts for the meeting. His Excellency will posi-
tively leave on Saturday at twelve o'clock, and as it is determined
tlig a Public demonstration will be made on the occasion, he will
be a:eoiiiiii!4lled to Kingstt wn by a number of the citizens. The
usual undress fereivell levee will he held on Saturday morning,
from ten to twelve o'clock.
NATIONAL BANK.—A run has been made on this Bank in Cork.,
some other quarters in the South for several days past. It is
Sala td h'itc been occasioned by some change in the local manage.
went. As prO;iipt Vrtynierit was forthcoming the establishment has
weathered the storm, and tk panic is new completely terminated.
LAW APPOINTMENTS.—It is confidently rumoured that the Chief
Justice is about to retire, and it is said that Mr. Brady, who has
been Attorney-General but a few days, will be his successor. It is
much Wife likely; however, that Mr. Justice Perrin or Baron
Richards will bC ptbinoted to the office, or Sir Michael O'Loghlen,
if he could be induced tc leave the Rolls, and that Mr. Brady will be
the successor of the Learned Judge promoted.
Several parish meetings in Dublin or the vicinity are announced
to addresirLord Normanby before his departure.

COURT CI tiCULA.R.