The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-08 00:00:00

EDUCATION.

A copy of the ORDER in COUNCIL, appointing a
COMMITTEE of COUNCIL to superintend the
application of any sums voted by Parliament for the
purpose of promoting PUBLIC EDUCATION.
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 10th day
of April, 1839, present, the Queen's Most Excellent
Majesty in Council.
It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council,
that the Most Noble Henry Marquis of Lansdowne,
Lord President of the Council : the Right Honourable
John William Viscount Duncannon, Lord Privy Seal ;
the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, one of her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State ; and the Right
Honourable Thomas Spring Rice, Chancellor of her
Majesty's Exchequer, be, and they are hereby appointed
a Committee to superinte d the application of any sums
voted by Parliament for the purpose of promoting
public education.
(Signed) C. C. GREVILLE.

A COPY of the REPORT of the COMMITTEE,
of COUNCIL appointed to superintend the appli-
cation of any sums voted by Parliament for the pur-
pose of promoting PUBLIC EDUCATION, of

the 3d day of this instant June.
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, 3d of June, 1839.

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas there was this day read at the Board a Re-
port from the Committee of Council appointed to
superintend the application of any sums voted by Par-
liament for the purpose of promoting public education ;
which report doted the Ist of June, was in the words
following ; viz.
" Your Majesty having been. pleased, by your Order
in Council of the 10th April, 1839, to appoint -us a
Committee of Council to superinted the application of
any sums voted by Parliament for the purpose of pro 7
meting public education, we, the Lords of the said
Committee, have this day met, and agreed humbly to
present to your Majesty the following Report :
".The Lords of the Committee recommend that the
sum of Ten Thousand Pounds, granted by Parliament
in 1835 towards the erection of normal or model
schools, be given in equal proportions to the National
Society and the British and Foreign School Society.
That the remainder of the subsequent grants of the
years 1837 and 1838, yet unappropriated, and any
grant that may be voted in the present year, be chiefly
applied in aid of subscriptions for building, and, in par-
ticular cases, for the support of schools connected with
those Societies ; but. that the rule hitherto adopted of
making a grant to those places where the largest pro-
portion is subscribed be not invariably adhered to,
should application he made from very poor and populous
districts, where subscriptions to a sufficient amount
cannot be obtained.
" The Committee do not feel themselves precluded
from snaking grants in particular cases, which shall
appear to them to call for the aid of Government,
although the applications may not come from either of
the two mentioned Societies.
" The Committee are of opinion, that the most useful
application ofany sums voted by Parliament would consist
in the employment of those monies in the establishment
of a normal school, under the direction of the State,
and not placed under the management of a voluntary
Society. The Committee, however, experience so much
difficulty in reconciling conflicting views respecting the
provisions which they are desirous to make in further-
ance of your Majesty's wish, that the children and
teachers instructed in this school should be duly trained
in the principles of the Christian religion, while the
rights of conscience should he respected, that it is not
in the power of the Committee to mature a plan for
the accomplishment of this design without further con-
sideration ; and they therefore postpone taking any
steps for this purpose until greater concurrence of
opinion is found to prevail.
" The Committee recommend that no further grant
be. made, now or hereafter, for the establishment or
support of normal schools, or of any other schools,
unless tlie•right of inspection be retained, in order to
secure a conformity to the regulations and discipline
established in the several schools, with such improve-
ments as may from time to time be suggested by the
Committee.

" A part of any grant voted in the present year may
be usefully applied to the purposes of inspection, and
to the means of acquiring a complete knowledge of the
present state of education in England and Wales."
Her Majesty, having taken the said Report into con-
sideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of her
Privy Council, to approve thereof.
(Signed) C. C. GREVILLE.