The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-03 00:00:00

S iv, DECEMBER 31 1847.

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LIVERPOOL, DEC. 22.—The New York packet-
ship Ydaeyast,oanr,riarfetder
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noon. She has thirteen cabin passengers, including
Colonel Sherbourrfe, bearer of dispatches ; and
60,0001. in gold on freight. Her news, which is only
one day later than that ,brought by the steamer, is
not important, and adds nothing to the details noted
in our report of the Caledonia's news.
The following appears in a New York paper of the
16th ult. :
"By the arrival of the steamer Galveston at New Or-
leans we have via Vera Cruz, four days' later intelli-
gence from the city of Mexico.
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" Santa Anna was at Tehuacan. Ile had only a few
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hundred soldiers with him; this force mutinied for pay,
and left him with only forty men. He then moved on
towards Orixaba to meet his wife.
" Colonel Childs had joined General Scott.
" General Lane and his command were still at Puebla,
where everything was quiet.
" Nothing said about the movements of the Mexican
Congress, or probabilities of peace.
" Santa was prosperous, and in a thriving condi-
tion. Merchants were doing a good business. The
Americans were building new houses, and laying off
plans for the improvement of the town. Hotels were
opened, a paper printed, and lots, &c., advertised for
sale. Large commissary trains were arriving almost
daily."
The commercial accounts from New York do not dif-
fer from those received per the Caledonia. The follow-
ing are the reports of the country markets :
" CINCINNATI, Nov. 15, P.M. Flour—The market
showed some increased degree of firmness, and sales of
all kinds footed up about 7,000 barrels, at 4 dolls, to
4 dolls. 25c. to 4 dolls, 50c.
" PITTSBURG, Nov. 15.—Flour—There was no change
in the market, and prices stood the same as at the close
on Saturday, 4 dolls. 81,fc. to 4 dolls. 9.3ic. Wheat was
firm at 93c. for good Pennsylvania, and Ohio with an
upward tendency.
" ALBANY, Nov. 15,—Flour—The market continued
dull at 5 dolls. 87fc. to 6 dolls, for western brands, in-
cluding Oswego and Genessee. Sales were very limited.
Receipts by the canal during the previous forty-eight
hours were as follows :—Flour, 20,000 barrels ; corn,
15,300 bushels; barley, 43,600 bushels."

IRELAND.
MURDER OF MR. LLOYD.
DUBLIN, DEC. I.—The following is an extract
from a letter written by a magistrate of Roscommon :
" I was at Ballyglass yesterday, and, on my return
found that the Rev. John Lloyd had been shot dead
on his return from church about three o'clock, at the
lands of Lisanella, between this house and Elphin.
His carriage and family had passed on a little before
him ;he was in a gig, with a small boy. Two men
came up to him, one having laid hold of the bridle, he
asked did;they know him, or what they wanted. They
answered they did know him well, and wanted to
I shoot him, and desired the boy to get out of the gig,
which he refused. Poor Mr. Lloyd then desired him
to do so, and one of the men pulled hial out. Mr.
Lloyd then said, Boys, if you want to shoot me,
I'm here ; fire away ;' when they instantly shot him
through the right side, and killed him on the spot. No
one can form the least idea of what motive they could
have had, as he was always a kind, harmless man,
and not in any way brought into hostile collusion with
the people, to whom he has always been kind."
DISSOLUTION OF ANOTHER BOARD OF GUARDIANS.
The board of guardians of the Cavan Union was
yesterday dissolved by the Poor-law Commissioners.
A paid board will, of course, be forthwith appointed.
DREADFUL MORTALITY ♦MONG SMALL FARMERS.
In the Court of Chancery this day, Master Murphy
called upon the receiver in the cause of O'Sullivan
v. O'Sullivan to account, when that gentleman stated
the appalling fact that during the last year " three
hundred of the tenants had died and were interred in
one trench." The receiver added that the holdings of
those persons are now all unoceupied. The estate
lies in the county of Cork.

THE CORPORATION.
A meeting of this body was held to-day, for the
discharge of some routine business. After its dis-
posal Mr. Gustavus Hamilton, a Conservative mem-
ber of the House, gave notice of motion that an humble
address be presented to her Majesty to convene a
meeting of the Imperial Parliament in the city of
Dublin, once in every three years, and that her Ma-
jesty should be requested to direct her Ministers, if
such a step should be necessary, to bring in a Bill for
that purpose : and the Learned Gentleman further
moved that, in case his motion received the affirmation
of the corporation, he would submit that the Lord
Mayor should proceed to London in state, accom-
panied by the civic officers and such members of the
town council as wished to accompany him, to present
the address to her Majesty in person.
ARREST Or SEVEN BOCILITES. Sub-Inspector
Morgan, with constable Connors, of the Lisduff sta-
tion, and a large police force, traversed the Glankit
and Blakefield mountains, and succeeded in arresting
seven notorious characters. Among these was Pat
Ryan, a most sanguinary desperado. Leinster
Express.

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NATIONAL EDUCATION.

GENERAL EXAMINATION OF SCHOOLMASTERS WHO ARE
CANDIDATES FOR CERTIFICATES AT EASTER. Committee of Council on Education, Council-
office, Whitehall, Nov. 25, 1847.
Sir,---The Committee of Council have before them
applications under the minutes of August and Decem-
ber, 11246, from the trustees and managers of elemen-
tary schools in every county in England, on behalf of
their teachers, requesting that they may be admitted to
an examination for the certificates of merit which are
necessary to the enjoyment of augmentations of salary
under those minutes.
Their Lordships have reason to know that many
other candidates only await the announcement of the pe-
riod when the examination will occur, and of its chief
conditions, ere they request of the trustees or managers
of their schools to present their claims to be examined.
Many of these candidates have for some time past been
engaged in preparatory studies, and in some towns have
been assisted by courses of instruction, established by
the friends of education. It has therefore been deemed
expedient not to precipitate the period of the general
examination of teachers who have not been educated to
training schools under inspection, but rather to allow
such time for their preparatory studies and courses of
instruction as to increase the number of candidates who
will present themselves with confidence for examination.
School managers have also suggested, that a period
of school holidays should be selected for a general exa-
mination, in order that the candidates, who must be as- 1
sembled for ten days at some central place in the in-
spector's district, may attend without serious inconve-
nience to their schools.
For these reasons, the Lord-President directs me to
inform you that the first general examination of the
schoolmasters who are candidates for certificates will be
held in Easter week, commencing on Monday, the 24th
April, 1848, and extending to the middle of the follow-
ing week. You are requested, in the interval, to
ascertain at what town or place candidates in your
district can be most conveniently assembled. The
chief considerations to be borne in mind in
selecting this place, are the comparative facilities of
access from all parts of your district ; the arrangements
which, with the aid of persons desirous to promote the
comfort of the schoolmasters, can be made for their
lodging during the period of the examination, the ac-
commodation which you can procure for the daily
assembling of the candidates, and the existence of an
elementary school, the organization, discipline, and in-
struction of which render it a fit place for the trial of the
skill of the candidate in conducting a class.
When these arrangements have been reported for
their Lordships' approval, you will be authorised to
announce in the county papers of your district the
time and place appointed for the examination, together
with such other information as may be useful to the
candidate.

Meanwhile it may be desirable that you should ex-
plain to all persons interested in this general examina-
tion, that it is a necessary preliminary to the admission
of any candidate to it, that the trustees or managers of
his school should apply to the committee of council on
his behalf, and should fill up certain forms of inquiry,
which will be transmitted to them from this office in
reply to their application.
The examination of the candidates will extend to the
subjects contained in the first of the two following
schedules. The second schedule contains other subjects,
to which, on the application of a candidate for the
middle or highest class certificate, the examination may
be extended. This latter schedule is intended to afford
candidates an opportunity to prove the range of their
acquirements, on subjects on which they will not be
required to be examined for the third or lowest class
certificate.

MST SCHEDULE.
Religious knowledge (in Church of England schools).
Arithmetic.
English grammar.
Paraphrase of some passage from an English author.
English history.
Geography :—Descriptive.
Physical.
Historical (of the British Empire).
Popular astronomy.
Book-keeping.
Geometry.
Elements of Mechanics.
Mensuration.
Land Surveying.
Levelling.
Algebra.
Composition of the Notes of a Lessen.
Original Essay on a subject connected with the Art of
Teaching.
Note—ln the subjects of this first schedule the
standard of acquirements should correspond to that of
students who have completed one year s: course of in-
struction in the training schools under inspection, as
reported in their Lordship's minutes. The most useful
text books may also be ascertained by observing
what books are reported to be in use in the training
schools.

SECOND SCHEDULE.
Subjects to which examination may be extended, on the
request of a candidate for the highest class of certifi.
cates :
Vocal music.
Drawing from models.
History and etymology of the English language.
Modern history.
Modern languages.
Roman history.
Greek history.
Physical science.
Higher branches of mathematics.
Latin.
Greek.
I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant,
J. P. KAY SHLITTLEWORTH.

PA ISH OF LAMBETH AND THE
SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
Yesterday morning a vestry meeting was held at
the Vestry-hall, Church-street, Lambeth, for the pur-
pose of taking into consideration measures which
should put a stop to the present proceedings of the
South-Western Railway Company in erecting a
bridge over Church-street, the pier of which would
stand right in the centre of the carriage way, dividing
the road into two parts.

Mr. NIXON, the Chairman, regretted that the
parochial authorities had not paid attention to the
proceedings of the company before, but it was now
quite time to stop them.
Mr. Hicks, in proposing the first resolution,
adverted to the fact of the road being one of the
finest in the parish, and of its being included
in the Government scheme of metropolitan improve-
ments as the approach to the contemplated bridge
over the Thames. The carriage way was originally
38 feet wide, but it was now divided by a pier, on
one side of which the carriage way was 16 feet, and
on the other 18 feet 5 inches. By the Act of the
company they were compelled to cross the road with
an arch of 60 feet span ; and by the Railway Clauses
Consolidation Act every turnpike road crossed was to
be crossed at a span of not less than 35 feet. This
was a turnpike road at the time of the passing of the
Act. It would be very easy to cross the road by a
single arch span, supported on pillars, leaving smaller
arches for the footways, as at Bermondsey-street.
He moved, " That the churchwardens be instructed to
apply to the Court of Chancery for an injunction to
restrain the company from any further proceedings in
the present bridge.' He He would wish to know what
the board of surveyors of highways had been about to
permit such a thing to be commenced at all. Several
gentlemen on the part of the board of surveyors
stated, that they had given no definite consent to the
plan, which, however, sppeared to them to be the best
proposed. When they spoke of crossing the road at
a single span, Mr. Locke, the engineer to the com-
pany, said that he would not answer for the
safety of passengers travelling over such an arch,
especially after the experience they had lately had
in reference to iron bridges. The Archbishop of
Canterbury, to whose palace the road was the only
approach for carriages, had seen the plan, and
had not objected to it. The company had also built
the piers of the bridge, and had all the cast-iron
frames ready. Some discussion then arose as to the
fact of the bridge being laid down on the plan, as
crossing the road at right angles, giving a way of 46.
feet—when it crossed it obliquely and gave
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only 33 feet. It was at length determined
the effect of pacific measures at first, and committeesurveyors
was appointed to act with the board of in
representing the case to the company,
railway Py, and inducing
he
them to construct a new bridgepend all further operations
com-
pany to be requested to
until the result of the negotiationsus became known. It
was then agreed that the vestry should meet that day
week, to decide upon the other steps to be taken in
case the company should not accede to their request.

On the night of the 22d ult. a most ferocious
and unprovoked attack was made by nine poachers upon
two of the keepers of Philip Bennet, Esq., at Rougham,
who were most severely beaten, and a cowardly ruffian presented his gun at ono of the men as he was lying in
nearly a senseless state, and threatened to shoot him ;
but was dissuaded by another of the gang. Unfortu-
nately none of them are known ; but a large reward is
offered for their discovery.—Bury Post.
DEATH of DR. THOMSON.—We have the painful
duty of again recording the name of another victim to
the dreadful pestilence whieh is now raging in this city.
Dr. Thomson, the highly-respected physician of the
New Fever Hospital, in Great Clyde-street, died of fever
on Friday morning last.—Glasgow paper.
We understand that there is no truth in the report
that a petition will be presented to the House by Mr.,
Hutchins or his friends against the return of our repre-
sentative, Sir G. R. Philips. It is quite true that the
d grounds
for a petition against the return of our goo_taherrepre-
sentative, Mr. Robinson.—Salisbury Journal.