The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-05 00:00:00

bIISTRESSES.

" At the close of each of these years, if the pupil
teachers have received a certificate of good character and
of satisfactory progress, the master or mistress by whom
they have been instructed and trained shall be paid the
sum of 51. for one, of 91. for two, of 12/. for three pupil
teachers, and 31. per annum more for every additional
apprentice; and, on the like conditions, 21.105. for one
stipendiary monitor, 4/. for two, 6L for three, and 1/. 10s.
in addition in each year, for every additional stipendiary
monitor.

" In addition to the foregoing subjects of instruction,
if the pupil teachers be skilfully trained by the master
in the culture
.of a garden or in some mechanical arts
suitable to a school of industry, or the female pupil
teachers be instructed by the mistress in cutting out
clothes, and in cooking, baking, or washing, as well as
in the more usual arts of sewing and knitting, and the
inspector certify- that the pupil teachers are thereby in a
satisfactory course of training for the management of a
school of industry, the master or mistress will receive an
additional gratuity, proportioned to the degree of skill
and care displayed.
" In consideration of the foregoing gratuity, and of
the assistance obtained from the pupil teachers and sti-
pendiary monitors in the instruction and management of
the school, the master will give them instruction in the
prescribed subjects, during one hour and a half at least,
during five days in the week, either before or after the
usual hours of school-keeping.
" The stipends will be liable to be withdrawn by their
Lordships on the report of their inspector, on proof of
the continued ill-health of the pupil, teachers, or stipen-
diary monitors, or of misconduct, want of punctuality,
diligence, or skill, or failure in their examination, or in
default pf the required certificates.
SUPPORT OF NORMAL SCHOOLS.
EDUCATION OF SCHOOLMASTERS AND MISTRESSES, AND
GRANTS IN AID OF THEIR SALARIES.
" Exhibitions on behalf of successful Pupil Teachers to
Normal Schools—Employment of certain of them in
the Public Service—Grants in aid of Expenses of Nor-
mal Schools, and of the Salaries of Masters and Mis-

tresses educated therein.
" The Committee of Council on Education had under
.their consideration their Lordship? minutes as to the
apprenticeship of pupil teachers in elementary schools.
" It appeared further expedient to their Lordships, that
the Lord President should authorise one or more of her
.Majesty's Inspectors, together with the principal of a
normal school under inspection, to submit to his Lord-
ship, from among the pupil teachers who had success-
fully terminated their apprenticeship, a certain number
of those who, upon competition in a public examination,
to be annually held by such inspectors and principal in
each inspector's district, as might be found most proficient
in their studies and skilful in the art of teaching, and
concerning whose character and zeal for the office of
teachers the inspector of the district could give the most
favourable report.
" That the Committee of Council on Education, on
comparison of the testimonials and examination papers
qf these apprentices, should award, for as many as they
likight think fit, an exhibition of 201. or 251. to one of
the normal schools under the inspection of her Majesty's
inspectors.

That the pupil teachers to whom such exhibitions
silould be awarded should be thenceforth denominated
' Queen's Scholars ',
if Zahatrllie. exhibition should be liable to be withdrawn
satisfieg with the
the training-school should be dis-
, Queen's Scholar;
•• conduct, attainments, or skill of the
•• Their Lordships sv
be useful to offer
puperie also of opinion, that it might
incentives to exertion and good
conduct among the teachers, by opening to such
of them as might not ditl the highest qualifications
for the office of schoolmaster, whose conduct and
were satisfacputobrl3:c,sengp.portunity, of obtain-
attainments
ing emrloyment in the Le, under
iations as may be
.hereaWr adopted such regu-
" Their Lordships hope that the grant. r
of 901. or 25/. to the most proficient o an exhibition
pupil teachers to
enable them to enter a normal school, may diminish
difficulty experienced by the trustees and managersthe4
such institutions, of maintaining them in efficiency, In
order still further to reduce the burden of such esta-
blishments, their Lordships will award to every normal
school subject to inspection a grant for every student
trained therein, concerning whose character and conduct
the principal shall give a favourable report, and concern-
ing whose attainments, skill in teaching, and general
aptitude for the vocation of a schoolmaster, it shall ap •
pear to the Lord President, at the close of each of three
years of training from the report of one or more of her
Majesty's Inspectors, and from the examination papers,
that a certain standard of merit has been attained.

Such grants shall be 201. at the close of the first year,
251. at the close of the second, and 301. at the close of
the third year's course of instruction. This standard of
acquirement shall not be so ordered as to interfere with
the studies pursued in any normal school, but shall :be
adapted to those studies, so, however, as to apply im •
carti.illy to al such normal schools an equal incentive
to exertion, by requirine•b efficiency in a sufficient num-
ber of the studies pursued in them.
" Their Lordships will further grant, in aid of the
salary of every schoolmaster appointed to a school under
their inspection, and who has had one year's training in
a normal school under their inspection, 151. or 20/. per
annum; and in aid of the salary, of every such school-
master who has had two years of such training, 201 or
251. per annum; and of every such schoolmaster who has
had three years of such training, 251. or 30/. per annum;
provided he has upon examination, obtained the proper
certificate of merit in each year, on the following con-
ditions :
_ _ .

" 1. That the trustees and managers of the school
provide the master with a house rent free, and a fur-
ther salary, equal at least to twice the amount of this
grant.
" 2. That the trustees annually certify that his cha-
racter, conduct, and attention to his duties are satis•
factory. _ .

" 3. That the inspector report that his school is effi-
cient in its organisation, discipline, and instruction.
" On the same conditions their Lordships will grant,
in aid of the salaries of schoolmistresses appointed to
schools under their inspection, who obtain similar certi-
ficates in a normal school, two-thirds of the sums to
be awarded to schoolmasters for each year's certificate
of merit.
RETIRING PENSIONS TO SCHOOLMASTERS AND MISTRESSES
FOR LONG AND EFFICIENT SERVICES.

" That a Miring pension may be granted by the Com-
mittee of Council to any schoolmaster or schoolmistress
who shall be rendered incapable by age or infirmity of
continuing to teach a school efficiently.
" Provided that no such pension shall be granted to
any schoolmaster or schoolmistress who shall not have
conducted a normal or elementary school for fifteen years,
during seven at least of which such school shall have
been under inspection.
" That in all cases of application for pensions a report
shall be required from the inspector, and from the
trustees and managers of the schools, as to the character
and conduct of the applicants, and the manner in which
the education of the pupils under their charge has been
carried on.

" The amount of the pension shall be determined ac-
cording to such report, but shall in no case exceed two-
thirds of the average amount of the salary and emolu-
ments annually received by the applicant during the
period that the school had been under inspection.
" A minute of the grant of every such pension, and
of the grounds on which it has been awarded, shall be
published in their Lordships' minutes."

RE-APPEARANCE of the POTATO

DISEASE.

The following communication from his Grace the
Duke of Portland. relative to the re appearance of the
potato disease, will be found worthy of consideration:—
" Sir,—lt is certain that the potato disc me has again
appeared in the same manner as it appeared last year at
this season. No man, therefore, in common prudence,
can depend upon a crop of that root this summer. I ven-
ture, with great confidence, to provide a substitute—viz.,
the Swedish turnip. Till within these six weeks I was
not aware that Swedish turnips were good human food,
much superior to the common turnip. I have since
eaten them, and I think them much more substantial
food than potatoes. Having had much experience in
the use of potatoes as food for cattle, I am sure that
Swedish turnips are the better food of the two. In point
of quantity they yield larger crops. I have grown here
twenty-two tons per acre. I have no doubt that in
milder climates larger crops may be obtained. The cul-
tivation of the turnip is less expensive; comparatively,
the seed costs almost nothing. As they need not be
sown very early in the spring, they do not suffer from
early frosts; and in the autumn and winter no frost will
hurt them. Ido not know that on the same land they
will bear repetition continually, as potatoes will; they
are also liable in sand lands to be hurt by the grub.
These two last are the only disadvantages to which they
are liable. When well cultivated, on the whole I con-
sider them a superior crop, and to be preferred, even if
there was no such thing as a potato disease.
" Welbeck, Feb. 26." " SCOTT PORTLAND.