The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-21 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—A royal iiispc-ction of the
fleet at Spithead, ender the command of Rear-Admiral
Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8.. will take place to mot row,
on which occasion both royal yachts will be put in re-
quisition, and all the other available craft for the variots
naval and military authorities. Her Majesty, Prince
Albert, Prin e Waldemar of Prussia and his distin-
guished fritnis, and the I.eirds of the Admiralty, will
be present on the occasion, weather permitting.
The crews of the Howe, 120, Uaptain Sir James
Stirling ; the Avenger steam-frigate, Captain Dacres,
and the newly entered men of the St. Vincent, were paid
advance wages to-day. The Caledonia, 120, Captain
M. D. Dixon, is ordered into dock to have her copper
examined.

WooLwrcif, JULY 19.—The Dragon steam-frigate
left Woolwich for Greenhithe on Saturday- afternoon, to
have her compasses adjusted by Captain Johnson, and
will leave the river to-morrow fbr Portsmouth, to join
the experimental squadron.
The Vixen steam-vess, 1. Commander Ry der, will
kayo to-morrow for Greenhithe, to have her compasses
adjusted, and then proceed to Portsmouth to join the
squadron.artarus steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander
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Portsmouth, where she will embark supernumeraries and
new boilers.
The Atholl troop • ship, Master Commander Pearn,
embarked Captain Bingham and Captain Fitzmayer's
companies of the Royal Artillery to-day at Woolwich
Dockyard for a passage to Ceylon; and, in addition to
the detachments of the 7th Dragoon Guards and 73d
Regiment of Foot, embarked a large detachment of the
Royal Artillery to fill up and augtunt the companies at
the Cape of Good Hope.
The Cary dock, a new iron steam vessel, was taken out
of the East India Docks at Blackwell, and up the river
to Seaward and Co.'s, to be fitted with her engines. She
is intended for a packet steam( r o i the Holyhead sta-
tion; and, if the views of her constructors are realised,
will make a speed of 18 knots per hour.

which was pub-
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HE SUPPLEMENTARY MINUTE
OF THE COUNCIL OF EDUCATION.
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SUPPLEMENTARY MINUTE.

July 10, 1847.
" Read— The resolution of the Committee of Council
on Education of the 19th of August, 1839, as follows:
"' Th© committee will require, as an indispensable
condition, that an inspector, acting under their -
rite, shall be enabled to visit every
school to which autho
any
grant shall in future be made. Such inspector will not
be authorised to examine into the religious instruction
given in the sckool, but he will be directed to ask for
such information EIS to the secular instruction and general
regulation of the shoot, as may enable the committee to
make a report to her Majesty in Council, to be laid
be-
fore both Houses of Parliament.'
there are schools to which it is desirable " &solved—That it appears to the committee
on religious
should be made, though the managers object
the religious state
grounds to make a report, concerningthe iatttegrae that
nts
minutes of August
of such schools, as required by
• in the reso-
lution* les embodied
be applied to such
19th ef
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the
of the
monitors be required from the
pupil, teachers, or „
of
school'.
managers of such printeicB39,
cases, and that no certificate of the religious knowledge

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meeting and fortieth
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a list of 28 a
At the conclusion of tl.e election several of the children
who had been educated in the asylum attended, with
testimonials of goud character from their employers.
and received pecuniary rewards, varying in amount ac-
cording to the number of years they bad remained in
the situations iu cti ilich they had been placed. There
are now (irrespective of yesterday's election) 47 boys
and 37 guts in the establishment at Clapham-rise, where
they are boarded, clothed, and educated until they are
qualified by education to fill useful stations in life.
During the past year a leg..cy of 9001. had been be-
queathed by the late George-Bangley, Esq., of St. John's-
wood.