The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-25 00:00:00

MARCH -25 1847.

some time been, very severe, with heavy falls of snow
and with 18 to 16 degrees of frost.
From Konigsberg we have Leiter* of the 12th I,)stv t
Wheat was then in brisk request, at 665. to 675. p• r
quarter for mixed.
Fran Stettin our letters are of the 15th of an ;
lar4e pti elva,es wh,:at had been made thee-e t,rs-hp-
rnent to Franco and Belgium, at an athance of i.. 1!- 25.,
675. to 68:,. pot- quArttr having been p,,id r 59. h.
Po:nera!dan and Silesian. In barley nothing of iwc..e,it

Lad transpire d.
At Hamburgh, t,',n Tuesday, wheat as quot-d
higher than on that day %cal:, and the supp) Lad
(qt.•:.l to tl:e demand ; for god heavy p.Lteels of
Led, to arrive, equal to 745. per quarter, free on board,
had be, ,n paid. In barley there had not been much
doing, but the article, being ttace, had coalman-Jed fult
trr:n3. Oats had been freoly taktu at from 255. Gd. to
275. 61. per quvrttr,

'ENSIONS TO SCAOOLMASTERS.

The Nlinchester British Teachers' Association hare
written to Dr. Kay Shuttleorth, the secretary of the
Committee of Education, soliciting an answer to the fol-
lowing query :—" Will the gratuities in aid of school-
masters' salaries be exclusively confined to those per-
sons who shall hereafter be trained according to the
regulations of the committee of council in normal schools
subject to government inspection, or will those teachers
who may be reported efficient and deserving by the au-
thorised inspector, and who are now engaged, be also
eligible to receive those gratuities?" To this the doe-
tor has given tha annexed answer :
Committee of Council on Education,
Privy Council Office, Downing-street,
March 11, 1847.
SIR—I had yesterday to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the Bth inst., in which you inquired whether mas-
ters of the elementary schools, who have not been trained in
a normal school under the inspection of the committee of
council, are admissible to the advantages offered by their
Lordships' minutes of August and December last, provided
that, upon the report of her Majesty's inspectors of schools,
my Lords find such masters to be efficient and deserving..

It was very satisfactory to me to have been then enabled
to state, that all such masters may enjoy the gratuities
offered in their Lordships' minutes, for the training of pupil.
teachers and stipendiary monitors apprenticed under the re-
gulations of their Lordships, as well as the gratuities offered
for the successful management of schools of industry, and
for general merit.
I inform you also, that my L'rds being desirous to offer
the strongest inducements to schoolmasters and schoolmis-
tresses to render long and efficient services to the public,
had opened the prospect of a retiring pension to this class of
teachers, and that the sole point of distinction which, in
their Lordships' recent minutes, had been left between this
class of teachers and those who may obtain certificates of
merit by a course of training in a normal school under their
Lordship's inspection, was the augmentation of salary to
which the latter class will become entitled when prowled
with a house rent free, and with a salary eug to twice
the amount of the stipend granted from the Parliamentary
fund.

I was able at once to assure you, that my Lords did not
intend that any injustice should be done to teachers whose
merits and attainments equal those of masters and mistresses
regularly trained in a normal school under inspection, and
provided with the required certificates of merit; as well as
to intimate that their Lordships had under their considera-
tion the important question, whether teachers who had not
obtained such certificates at the close of a course of training
in a normal school under inspection, should be admitted to
an examination for certificates of merit,
The attention of their Lordships had been directed to this
subject by numerous letters received from the trustees and
managers, and from the masters of schools. My Lords had
also before them the resolution of a meeting in Leeds, of the
friends of the measures recently adopted. by Government for
the promotion of public education.
That resolution declares, " That, as the benefits of Go-
vernment ald are proposed to be confined to those masters
and mistresses who have been trained in normal schools
already under inspection, this meeting would beg leave re-
spectfully to suggest that these benefits might for the pre-
sent be extended to teachers who have not had that advan-
tage, and who shall be reported to be duly qualified by
competent examination."
These communications having been carefully considered,
I have now th tisfaction to say, that lam authorised to
inform you, t the Committee of Council on Education
will cause regu
ions
to be framed, for the purpose of de-
fining the cbnditions upon which masters or mistresses of
schools under their Lordships' inspection, who have not

passed through a course of training in a normal school. may
be admitted to an examination for three classes of certifi-
cates, to correspond with those which are to be granted in
normal schools.

Masters and mistresses who have not received such train-
ing, but who may, upon this examination, obtain certificates,
will thus enjoy the auiy men&tion of salary proposed to be
granted, according to it Lordships' minutes of August
and December last, to eachers who shall have procured cer-
...

tificates of merit. I am, sir, yoln obedient servant,
(Signed) I. P. K. Snurruzwoanr.
Mr. E. Salter, 68, Park-street, Ilulme, Manchester.

IRELAND.
STATE OF THE PROVINCES.

DUBLIN, MARCH 22.—From the counties of Galway,
Roscommon, Sligo, and Waterford there are again
affEcting account.; of the continuing effects of famine;
and in Cork and Sligo particularly typhus fever is raging
to a really alarming extent. I should remark, that taking
the country generally, there appears to be a decided de-
crease in the number of deaths from starvation; and the
vast importations of Indian corn appears to have pro-
duced a seasonable relief.

COUNTY OF GALWAY.—The Rev. T. Newell, C.C., in
a letter to the Galway Mercury, dated " Oranmore, 17th
March," says—" About a fortnight ago, I furnishe.l you
with the total deaths, amounting to 54, that occurred in
this parish since December last, from the effects of
starvation. That dismal catalogue has been since aug-
mented by 33 additional deaths! On this day, the Feast
of the Apostle of Ireland, no less than eight individuals
are stretched in the cold arms of death from famine, in
this parish."
RoscommoN, MARCH 20.—The Roscommon Journal
says :—" We are in an awful state here—few resident
landlords—and the few, however well inclined, unable to
meet the afflicting cry of hunger. Our soup establish
ment here must be closed in a few days unless aided by
Government."

COUNTY OF WATERFORD.—DUNGARVON, MARCH 18.
—On this day over two thousand of the poor labourers
who have been dismissed from the public works, with
their starving families, from the surrounding rural
districts, came into the poorhouse, with a view
of being admitted, or to get out-door reliet.
The guardians met, deliberated, and then went
home, after announcing to the famishing multitude,
who were waiting the " live long day " to get -ome
relief, the cheerless intelligence, that they must re-
turn home again, as they were unable to give them
either "in or out-door relief." The Scots Greys
were ordered out to the poorhouse to keep the
people from the gates, and to make way for the guar-
dians in their ingress and egress. As soon as the
military arrived the unfortunate people spoke to them,
and said it would be an act of humanity for them to
" commence and shoot them all." Some of the brave
Scots actually shed tears at the awful and soul-harrow
ing scenes of human misery and suffering they beheld.
After the guardians left the board-room, the people saw
there was no hope of getting relief at the poor-house,
and they then came into town, and stopped opposite Mr.
Fisher's bakery. The poor creatures said they had no
intention of attacking Mr. Fisher's or any other person's
house or property ; they should do nothing but merely
go round to the bakers' shops and appeal to their charity
for any relief they would be kind enough to give them.
The Waterford Freeman, from which this account is
taken, then proceeds to describe the scenes which fol-
lowed at the several bakers' shops, from the windows
of which large quantities of bread were thrown to the
starving multitude.
ASSIZE INITELLIGENCE,

NORTH TIPPERARY.—NENAGH, MARCH 21.—Several
persons have received sentence of transportation for
various periods. The four men engaged in the brutal
attack on Mr. Molloy, the pay clerk of the Board of
Works, were convicted yesterday, and sentenced to
transportation for life.
TENANT-RIGHT.—MEETING IN COLERAINE.
On Saturday, a meeting was held in the Town-hall of
Coleraine, for the purpose of taking into consideration
the subject of the state of the tenure of land in Ireland.
The following were amongst those present :—Sir H. H.
Bruce, Bart., D.L., J.P. ; John Boyd, M.P. ; Henry
Richardson, D.L., J.P.; John Crornie, D.L., J.P.; John
Montgomery, D.L.. J.P. ; Hugh Lecky, J.P. ; Samuel
Lawrence, J.P.; Charles J. Knox, J.P. ; Samuel Orr ;
S. M. Green. Barrister; Henry Kyle, Esq., &c. Samuel
Lawrence, J.P., presided. Several resolutions were
passed with reference to the unsettled state of the tenure
of land.
IRISH GRAIN MARKETS.
LOUGHREA.—On Thursday last there was a pretty
good supply of grain at this market, and a considerable
fall as to price. The best seed oa s, which might be
sold at former markets at 30s. to 355., was sold at 255.
to 265. 6d., Inferior from 19s. to 245. A corresponding
fall was felt with regard to whole and oat meal ; a few
loads of potatoes were sold at from lOid. to Is. per
stone.—Galway Mercury.
WATERFORD, MARCH 20.—Wheats receded fully Is
per barrel since Wednesday. In barley and oats very
little alteration to note. The arrivals of Indian corn
are still large ; several fresh cargoes to port since last
advice. This circumstance, coupled with the ab,ence of
country purchasers, has caused a very material abate-
ment in prices.
MR. O'CONNELL'S HEALTH.

The following extract from a private letter, received
from Hastings on Sunday, will be read with unmixed
pleasure :—" Every preparation is being made for the
Liberator's departure from this on Saturday next, for
Folkstone, with a view of crossing over to France on
Monday. He said to me to-day, that he was now, for
the first time, anxious to recover. Be assured that his
recovery is fully at his command, if he will but eonviuce
himself—what is evident to all others—dtat his affection
is almost altogether nervous. I look upon it that he is
as likely to live as any man of his years with %hum I am
acquainted. As to his Italian journey, however, it will
depend entirely on the amount of conquest he may
atchieve over his own misgivings. When he brightens
up amongst us, the wonted power and playfulness is as
marked and as felicitous as ever. Some of his remarks
shall not easily pass away from my recollection. I per-
severe in believing that he will return to Ireland a giant
refreshed."—Froonan's Journal,