The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-12 00:00:00

REGARDS IRELAND.

A correspondence has taken place between the Arch,
bishop of Dublin and Lord John Russell as to the
education grant for Ireland.
The Archbishop, addressing his Lordship, on the
14th of May, says—" Before the annual grant of money
for the education of the poor of Ireland is proposed in
the House of Commons, I am anxious to bring under
your Lordship's consideration the claims of a large
number of most useful schools which have not as yet
obtained any assistance from the State. Your Lordship
and other members of her Majesty's Government having
announced your earnest desire that assistance out of the
public purse should be extended to schools connected
with every denomination of Christians in England, so
that none should have reason to complain of being
excluded from a participation of the grants for diffusing
education on the ground of their holding peculiar
religious opinions, I cannot bring myself to suppose that
her Majesty's advisers will continue to shut out from all
assistance nearly 2,000 schools for the poor, which are
under the superintendence of the clergy of the Estab-
lished Church in Ireland. The schools to which I reft-r
are those which are conducted on the system of the
Church Education Society for Ireland—a system which
is the same as that which was organized nearly fifty years
ago by the Incorporated Association for Promoting the
Knowledge of the Christian Ri:ligion, and which has
had the approval of every prclatc of the Irish branch of
the United Church without exception. I do not know
whether it is requisite for me to explain to your Lord-
ship that the schools which are founded on this system
are open to children of every creed, that all the scholars
who have attained a suitable proficiency are required to
read the authorised version of the Holy Scriptures, and
that those children only who are members of the Estab-
lished Church are obliged to learn its formularies. The
rule respecting the use of the sacred Scriptures, wherein
this system resembles that of the National Society of
England, and that of the British and Foreign School
Society, to both of which aid is given in England by the
State, forms the sole ground on which these schools in
Ireland are debarred from receiving assistance."
Lord John Russell, in reply, dated May 26, says—
" After giving the most attentive consideration to your
Grace's views respecting the education grant for Ireland,
I am sorry to say that I am unable to concur with your
Grace, or to propose that any part of the vote should
be applied to schools connected with the Established
Church. The great majority of the people of Ireland
being Roman Catholics, I should not think it advisable
to make a provision for education from which their
children were excluded, either by law or by regulation.
The revenue of the Established Church in Ireland
appears to me sufficient, not only for the support of the
beneficed clergy, but also for the encouragement and
maintenance of a Scriptural system of education."

LODGING-HousEs IN GLASGOW FOR THE WORKING
CLASSES.—" The Glasgow Association for establishing
lodging-houses for the working classes" has just opened
its first or experimental establishment. This is situated
on the west side of Mitchellestreet, a few doors from
Argyle-street. The house—which has been fitted up
for this purpose under the direction of Mr. James
Wylson, architect--comprises four storeys, thus afford-
ing facilities for accommodating separately the three
classes of inmates who in such places must be provided
for—namely, single males, single females, and married
couples, leaving the ground storey to be appropriated
to the dieting department. It has accordingly been
thus arranged :—the three upper floors as dormitories
according to this classification, and the ground floor as
a day-room, divided by low partitions into correspond-
ing compartments for the use of the ledgers during the
day, and in which they may take their meals. For
economy of space, the dormitories have been fitted up
with two tiers of berths, after the manner of passengers
cabins on ship-board, excepting that the upper and'
lower berths are entered from opposite sides; thus,
though rendering more standing room necessary, accom-
plishing the complete separation which is essential in
houses of this description. Each berth is furnished
with a seat, and is enclosed by a door, in order to secure
the clothes end other property of the occupants; arid
each dormitory is provided with a water-closet; also a
lavatory, containing several wash-hand boxes so that a
small number may wash at one time. The kitchen and
bar are combined, and are situated at one end of the
ground storey, separated only by a counter from the
seated portion forming the day-room. Here are pro-
vided the means of furnishing plain wholesome meals;
and advantage is taken of the draught in the furnace,
which heats the coppers, for ventilating the dormitories
above: this is effected by means of an upright shaft of
tin tubing which communicates with each floor, and
leads into this furnace, so as to become mainly the
source of its supply of air. while it is the medium by
which the vitiated atmosphere of the several floors is
drawn off downwards. Arrangements are being made
for fitting up, in the rear of the premises, one bath for
male and another for female lodgers..—Glasgow Citizen.
SNOW IN JUNE.—Last week there was a pretty
heavy fall of snow in the parish and district of Betty,
so much so that the inhabitants gathered it in handsful.
It did not lie long, however.—Dundee paper.
THE CHINESE JUNK-KEYING, NOW ON HER WAY
TO ENGLAND.—Captain C. A. Kellet has kindly favoured
ius with the following account of the Chinese junk Key-
ng:—The junk Keying left China, Dec. 6, 1846, ar-
rived at St. Helena, April 17, 1847; has had very light
winds nearly the whole voyage, having been at anchor
six weeks in the Java Sea and Sunda Straits, with light
southerly and south-west winds. Off the Mauritius ex-
perienced some very heavy weather on the 22d and 23d
of March, but found her to be a most beautiful seaboat,
and easy, never having shipped a drop of water since
leaving China, or leaking. Her masts and rudder are of
immense size and weight, being made of iron wood.
Her rudder is hung to three laroaropes, and drawn into
her stern by two others, going underneath her bottom,
and coming over the bows, and when the rudder is down,
draws 23 feet, but when hoisted only 13 feet. It some-
times takes 20 men to steer her, but in fine weather,
running before the wind, she goes so steadily that the
tiller rarely requires to be touched, and then two
men can steer her. She is built in compartments, hav-
ing fifteen, several of which are water-tight ; she has a
maindeck, raised quarterdeck, two poops, and a raised
forltcastle, with a high verandah above that again. Her
maindeck is arched. Her anchors are made of wood,
and the shanks about 30 feet long ; the cables are made
of bamboo, the ropes of bamboo, rattan, and India grass;
she has three watertanks built on her decks ; her sails
reef themselves by lowering the halyards, so that one
man to each mast at the halyards can either reef the
sail or take it in in a minute ; her stern and her bows
are open, but she is so very buoyant that she never takes
in any water at either end. Her main cabin, or saloon
is 30 feet long, 12 feet wide, and 12 feet high, paint/
with various beasts, birds, &c. S. e has also six stile
cabins on the first poop, with the joss home in
It he
centre, in which a light is constantly kept burin H
stern is 32 feet high out of the water.
Gazette. t.fri I elena
COMMISSION or LUNACY.—Saturday a commission,
was held at the Horns Tavern, Kennington,
mbeaforee,Ms6r.,
Commissioner Winslow, on Miss Ann Harem, a
ton-road.
a maiden lady, of No. 2, York-row, K
Newton. The property was stated toe onsistGover of houses,
u of nmeet
which were in a dilapidated state, a
stock, to the amount of 10,0001.; three of the houses
had not been tenanted for
e
w ight years. Her delusions
ere that her hands were notcr tongue that
that spoke
human, but the claws of
eagles; that it was not
h
magic; and that her heart was being turn to pi but
eces.
She
raa6
said she could not see, and that she was stoop
blind. She was constantly grinding her teeth., The
servant who attended her for many years had become
impaired in mind by waiting on her, and died in Beth-
al, m Hospital. The jury had an interview with the
lunatic lady in her houe, when they were quite satisfied
of her insanity. They found her on the bed, to which
she had been confined for years. She was sec-sawing
on ti e bed, and gave full proof of her dein-Leis by her
answers to the questions put to her. The jury re-
turned a verdict, dating her unsoundness of mind from
Mara), 1847.