The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-15 00:00:00

" Such a conception of the intentions of the Committee of
Council would justify the appeal of the Committee of Privi-
leges to the congregations of the Wesleyan Association, and
such a representation is likely to rouse the Superintendent
Minister, the local preachers, and their congregations to the
utmost activity, to petition the House of Commons to with-
hold the Parliamentary grant for the promotion of so perni-
cious a scheme.'
"Accordingly, as your letter suggests that ' it is important
that the petitions should be numerously signed," it is pro-
bable that on the ensuing Sunday, March 14 (as your letter
is dated March 4), the form of petition appended to your
letter will be signed by great numbers of persons belonging
to the congregations and Sunday-schools of the Wesleyan
Association. All will feel that a plan of education, which
thus imposes the interference of an ecclesiastical authority
as a condition of grants from the Committee of Council to
dissenting schools, is an intolerable injustice.
" You will rejoice to learn that the danger which you ap-
prehend to be impending over, the schools connected with
the congregation of the lfesleyan Association is a delusion.
" The Committee of Council never made any grant to a
dissenting school on such a condition as you have supposed.
They have never acquired, either as a consequence of their
grants or otherwise, power to authorise any inspector ap-
pointed with the concurrence of an archbishop, to enter any
British or dissenting school. The order in Council
of the 10th of August, 1840, makes the approval of
an archbishop an incident in the appointment of. in-
spectors of Church of England schools alone. Six other
Inspectors have been appointed, in whose nomination the
Archbishop has in no respect interfered, and three more of
this class are about to be appointed.
"Their Lordships have agreed (vide Minutes 1842-3, page
537) that they will not proceed to recommend any candidate
to her Majesty as an inspector of schools connected with the
British and Foreign School Society until they have con-
sulted the committee of that society, and found that the can-
didate has their approval.
"In like manner their Lordships have agreed to consult the
Education Committee of the General Assembly of the Church
of Scotland as to the appointment ofany inspectors of schools
which are by law, or by their constitution, connected with
that church. (Vide Minutes, 1839.40, pages 19 and 20.)
" The Committee of Council have been of opinion that
unless each inspector possessed the confidence of the religious
communion with which the schools visited by him were
connected, he would not usefully co-operate with the school
managers. Their Lordships have, therefore, in proceeding to
I nominate inspectors, been ready to consult the Central Board,
watching over the interests of any distinct class of schools, in
order to avoid the appointment of any person who especially
on religious grounds did not enjoy their confidence. No in-
spector is employed in the visitation of other schools than
those for the examination of which he is appointed, except
on the direct and formal invitation of their managers, which
rarely occurs.
"Schools connected with the Wesleyan Association would
not therefore ever be entered by any Church of England
inspector, nor by any inspector who did not enjoy the
confidence of the Committee of Privileges. If the managers
of such schools desired the aid of Government to enable
them to apprentice pupil teachers—to procure for these
school assistants exhibitions to Normal schools at the close
of their apprenticeship—or an, augmentation of the salaries
of their masters, the principle on which the instectors of
schools are appointed would oppose no obstacle to their appli-
cation for such aid, for no person would be so employed who
did not enjoy the confidence of the Committee of Privileges.
The opposite conception is a delusion which the proceedines of
the Committee of Council as recorded in their minutes from the
year 1839 to this date disprove. Those minutes contain abun-
dant proof that the Committee of Council have with un-
wavering impartiality endeavoured, on all occasions, to pro-
tect the interests of the minority from civil injustice, while
they have paid due respect both to the rights of conscience
and to the religious institutions and convictions of all classes
of her Majesty's subjects.
" I am, Rev. Sir, your obedient humble servant,
"JAMES PHILLIPS KAY SHUTTLEWORTH
"Rev. Robert Eckett, 6, Argyle-square."

WILSON IN PARIS.
(From Galignani's Messenger.)
Mr. Wilson, who has long been distinguished among
his vocal brethren of the other side of the Channel, for
the admirable manner in which he gives expression to
Scottish song, whether serious, pathetic, or comic, •has
commenced in Paris a series of musical soi ees, intended
to illustrate the beauties and peculiarities of the musical
compositions of his native country. The first of these
entertainments was given on Monday evening, in Sax's
Rooms, Rue Neuve St. Georges, when the vocalist fu ly
supported the high reputation he has long enjoyed in
Great Britain. Mr. Wilson is an accomplished musician,
possessing a tenor voice of the finest quality and great
range; his style, which is the simplest and least ornate
perhaps of any public singer of the day, is evidently
fashioned on the simple ballads of Scotland, and confers
on these beauteous gems of song a pathos and sweetness
which would in vain be sought in the more elaborate
kinds of vocalisation now generally indulged in. But
what more particularly distinguishes Mr. Wilson from
his brothers in Apollo is, that he is equally at home in
the serious and the comic, the sad and the gay, the
grand and the ridiculous ; so that on Monday evening,
after melting his audience to tears by the touchingly
pathetic " Land o' the Leal" and "The Flowers of the
Forest," he exhibited such a fund of native humour in his
" Mime cam our Gudeman at E'en" and " Get up and
bar the Door," as absolutely to keep his brethren of the
North, of whom we noticed a tolerable sprinkling present,
in a roar from beginning to end. It was something new
in this classic land of song to witness an individual do
the honours of an entire soiree unaided and alone ; and
what was not the least novelty on the occasion was his
prefacing the various specimens of his " native wood-
notes wild" by a variety of anecdotes and explanatory
observations, which largely aided in rendering the
antique specimens of Scottish song intelligible to
modern English ears. The impression created by ..Mr.
Wilson's debiil before a mixed Parisian and liritish
audience was highly flattering for that gentleman ; and
it is scarcely to be doubted that he will gain in public
estimation the more generally his taste and talent as a
vocalist become known.

ENMy
LIND.—The director of the theatre Ander-
Wien, at Vienna, has had a medal struck in honour gf " The
Swedish Nightingale." It contains on the one side her por-
trait, and on the other a star, with the motto "Nescit occa-
sum." (It knows no setting.) The medal is to be presented
to 11Idlle. Lind with an address, signed by the elite of the
society of Vienna.
ROYAL -MATERNITY CHARITY.—Her Majesty has
been pleased to intimate that she will become the patron of
this charity, which, since its foundation in 1757, has afforded
essential relief to 346,357 necessitous married women, by
assisting them in their accouchement at their own homes,
and supplying them with medicines, &c.

TREASURERS AppoiNTßl)
UNDER I'HE SMALL DEBTS ACT' Coe°
The following appointments of Treasurers of Local
in the various districts under the Small Debts Act bs'
been finally settled :
NORTHERN DISTRICTS. !sod.
Anthony Lambert, Esq., Alnwick, Northumber'
Robert Bendle, Esq., of Carlisle.
Johnson Atkinson Busfield, Esq., of Bradford.
John Peele Clapham, Esq., of Burley, near Oder.
George Croft, Esq., of Richmond.
George Park, Esq., of Liverpool.
John Trever, Esq., of Chester.
EASTERN AND MIDLAND DISTRICTS
William Edmund Ferrers, Esq.
Jonathan Townley, Esq., of Norwich.
Thomas Sharp, Esq., of Northampton.
George Ebenezer Foster, Esq., of Cambridge
Thomas Heath, Esq., of Warwick.
William Blow Collis, Esq., F of stourbridge.
Jonathan Elliott Gough, of Hereford.
WALES.
Richard Harrison, Esq., of Holyivell, Flintshire.
Robert Kingscote, Esq.
SOUTHERN AND METROPOLITAN DISTRICTS.
Thomas Gripper, Esq., of Hertford.
Frederick Mangles, Esq., of Guildford.
William Frederick Augustus Delane, Esq.
James Hoskins, Esq., of Portsmouth.
WESTERN DISTRICTS.
Edwin Nicholetts, Esq., of Bridport.
Harman Visger, Esq., of Bristol.
James Terrell, Esq., of Exeter.
We believe the salaries of the respective treasurers are flat
yet finally settled; and whatsoever amount may be prorTt
it will be on the understanding that the whole arrang foe
of the districts, and the duties and emoluments igeient
treasurers shall be subject to revision, after eg. 'of the
period has elapsed to afford the means of ilitdranrtoneut
working of the Act passed in the last session 01

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—HeY Royal I Lad,'
the Duchess of Kent, attended by the Baroness de SpethO
,mari,
Fanny Howard, Lady Mary Howard, Lady Auelicouper,
Dawson, Lord James Murray, and Sir GeorTgehea tree:
honoured the performances at her Majesty's
Saturday evening with her presence, and occupied her
oi and
jesty's box. In the Queen Adelaide's box were the Barney,
Countess of Sheffield, Lady Mary Lindsay and party.
were also present the Duke and Ductless of Moritrelss.d
Marquis of Aylesbury. the Maiquis and Marchit,e,,Ao
Douro, the Marquis of Sligo, his Excellency the 0,l de
Minister, the Baroness Brunow, and Mademoiselle uit'teri
Lechner ; his Excellency the French Ambassador, then the
of Falmouth, the Earl of Munster, the Earl of Cardig,lor
Earl of Abayne, Viscount Maidstone, Lord and Lea4roo'
donald, the Viscount Cantilupe, his Excellency the l'fity
verian vinister, the Count Kensinffsky, Lord 2i'estel:
clarence, Lady Augusta Wentworth, Lady Charles !yellh sea
Lord NVarde, Lady Woodford, Hon. G. Bvng, Sir
Lady Carroll, Sir P. Brooke, Sir H. Webb, Sir T. 11a29jot
W. and Lady Freemantle, Sir G. Wombwell, Bart., Lee
Baring, Colonel Wildman, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Br"'
Trelawney, Mr. Herbert De Burgh, &c.
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DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—We ,
are happy
to
0,,
that every prospect presents itself of this theatre being the
pletely crammed to-night, in compliment to Mr. Bunn~Q®'
IS
lessee, for whose benefit the entertainments are give"' ton
addition to all former exertions, it must never be forgeafol
that Mr. Bunn is the author of three highly ailece7hia
operas, produced within the short space of five months,
season.
bl 9.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel's dinner party was to " the
Excellency the American Minister and Mrs. Bancref%oo
Marquis of Chandos, Lord Hcwden, the Speaker, the.„v
of Westminster and Mrs. Buckland, Mr. Harcourt, Mr' l'aift
Mimes, Mr. Wm. Hamilton, Mr. Pickersgill, Mr Bit
Mr. Edwin Landseer, Mr. Panizzi, Mr. E. Smirke, &C. •
fait
BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, MARCH 12.-- ibis
amount of business has been done in our sugar-market
Mamie
week, ,;nil prices are rather dearer, particularly for Woe
ties, of which the assortment offering has been good.
refined market is very quiet.—Bristol Mercury.
There is a lady residing not a thousand miles fry
Brighton. well connected and in independent circumat•—en'S
who purchases at a time four or five pounds' worth of °As
shirts, collars, and other articles of the kind, which
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gives to a poor woman to sell, and, in order to assist the Me,
she gives the woman a letter signed with her own trier
which she is instructed to take to various persons. The on
begins thus :—" In the name cf Jesus," and it then goes_,
to state that the bearer is a person in humble life in distill;
and that any person purchasing the collars which she ( on
lady) " has made herself," they will confer a favour aP
her (the said lady.) Thus armed and instructed, the
,P7O,
woman commences her trading and charitable operet.l°lo.
The collars, &c., which the lady bought at 6d., Bd, e' ore
each, she marks a price on herself. The sixpenny onaes
00,
to be sold for 25., the eightpenny ones at 2s. 6d., and so
7,1
If the woman sell above 30s. worth in a day, she is P'"o2.
12.
by ber patroness for her day's work; if she sell a less 0
tot
ber she is paid only sixpence a day, and she complains
she is not sufficiently remunerated ; and this is how
facts became 'known. In this lady's character there !B_oo
mystery which ought to be cleared up. Are the profitag"
to some charitable institution?—Brighton Herald The
PROVISIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES.."`"'"—d
Henry Clay from New York, Richmond from Charleston, an
John Garrow from New Orleans, which were reported at L1.9a,..
verpool or the 10th and 11th instant, bring 2,105 bane
flour, 7,254 bags and 2,290 quarters Indian corn, 1,277 'l—
rak Indian corn meal, and 23,294 bushels rice.
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.---.1...e
ar-
rivals this week are very limited. An advance of Is. to
tr;
per quarter is demanded on wheat, but buyers are cautious,
and only a small extent of business is done. Oats and shell'
ing in fair request at rather more money. Barley is more
readily sold than of late, and makes full prices. In beans 11,

alteration.
THE LACE TRADE.—The weekly amount of sales
does not increase; things remaining here much in the seree
state as at our last report. A good number of buyers have
been to market, but their purchases, though tolerably' ge-
neral, havenot been large. The home and foreign business are
alike conducted with much caution. Insertions, both single
and double warp, if of good patterns, meet with fair sale,
at reasonable prices. Fine plain nets are offering at lower
rates, by a house which has put its machinery of this class
to work longer hours. Other things remain at about the
same prices as for some weeks past. Yarns are, if anything,
heavier. Several manufacturers, holding in the aggregate a
large body of machinery, are shortening the time of work-
ing their mills very materially.—Nottingham Review.
ACCIDENT AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—A man named
Rosamon, employed by Mr. Bates, carpenter to her Meirty,
in executing some works in the " red drawing-room, ' a°
Windsor Castle, was yesterday morning found lying on the
terrace, beneath the window of the apartment, with his skull
fractured and other serious injuries, from which his recovery
is doubtful. He must, it is supposed, have fallen from S
plank while entering through the window, at a height of
nearly 30 feet from the ground.