The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-20 00:00:00

ENING EDITION.

EDUCATION.

RETuaN to an Address of the Hon. the House of
Commons, dated July 15, 1840, for Extracts
from Minutes of Committee of Council on Educa-
tion of January 4, 1840, and July 15, 1840.
(Extract from Minutes of January 4, 1840.)
Read, the following letter from the Secretary to the
Education Committee of the General Assembly of the
4urch of Scotland :

" Edinburgh, Dec. 19, 1839.
" Sir—The Education Committee of the General
Assembly of the Church of Scotland respectfully re-
quest of the Education Board of the Privy Council
Pm° further information than the published regula-
tions afford on that part of their plan which relates to
the inspection of schools aided by the funds at their
disposal.
" They beg to learn whether the proposed inspection
is meant to be in connection and in co-operation with
the Church of Scotland, to which the superintendence
of schools is by law committed ; if so, in what manner
such connection and co-operation are to be effected ;
and they would feel obliged by receiving such informa-
tion generally, in regard to the nomination and purposes
of the inspectors, as may enable them to judge whether
there may be no hazard of any interference taking place
with the established system of inspection by the Chut ch.
.‘ The Committee take leave, with deference, to sug-
gest whether it might not be advantageous that the pro-
posed inspection were incorporated with the existing
system, by the Board consulting the Church on the ap-
pointment of the inspectors.
" I have, &c., " JOHN GORDON.
" Secretary to the General Assemlily's
Education Committee.
" To the secretary of the Education Board
of the Privy Council, &c."

Ordered, that the following reply be made
" Committee of the Council on Education,
Council-Office, Whitehall, Jan. 4.
_. _

" Sir, I am directed by the Committee of Council on
Education to acknowledge the receipt of yolk letter,
dated Dec. 19.
" I am also to acknowledge the receipt of the report
made by the Education Committee of the General
Assembly on the return from Presbyteries regarding
the examination of schools in the year 1839,' which my
Lords have perused with great interest and satisfaction.
" The Committee of Council direct me to inform
you, in reply to your inquiries, that the inspectors of
schools, aided by public grants, are appointed by her
Majesty in Council, on the recommendation of the Com-
mittee of Council on Education ; and in order to afford
you the fullest information respecting the duties of the
inspectors, my Lords direct me to transmit the enclosed
copy of instructions addressed to the inspectors for Eng-
iand and WJes. Instructions framed on the same prin-
ciples, but modified so as to render them applicable to
any peculiar circumstances in Scotland, will be issued to
the inspectors for that country. With respect to such
modifications, my Lords will be glad to receive any ob-
servations from the Committee of the General Assembly.
" In these documents you will perceive that the
inspection of schools is intended to be a means of
co-operation between the Government and the Mi-
nisters, local committees and trustees of schools, for
the improvement and extension of elementary educa-
tion ; and my Lords embrace the opportunity of
expressing their intention to co-operate with the Church
of Scotland for the attainment of these results, as re-
gards the schools which are placed by law, or by the
condition of their endowments or constitution, under
the superintendence of the Church of Scotland.

In further reply to your inquiry, my Lords direct
tree to assure you, that with respect to these schools,
!my Lords will at ail times feel it their duty to com-
rr.onicate and co-operate with the Education Committee
G. the General Assembly, and will direct copies of their
i„sp,--tters' reports to be transmitted to the Committee
from titie to time.
my Lcras conceive this co-operation may best be
promoted by s;:lecting for the inspection of such schools
gentlemen who possess the confidence of the Church of
Scotland, while their acquaintance with all the technical
details of elementary instruction, and their zeal for the
education of the poorer classes, will afford a guarantee
that they are fit agents for promoting the improvement
and extension oF such elementary education as may
se-wore the religious and moral improvement of the chil-
dren of the poor.
The Committee of Council consider that much ad-
vantage will arise from their Lordships having the op-
portunity of consulting the Education Committee of
the General Assembly with respect to the selection of
the Inspectors of such schools ; before, therefore, a
recommendation of any gentleman for this office is
made to her Majesty in Council, my Lords will com-
municate the name to the Committee of the General
Assembly for their observations.
" I have, &c., " J. P. KAY."
Sohn Gordon, Esq., Secretary to the Education
Co.annittce of the General Assembly of the Church
of Kotland."

EIZTRAcT .FROM THE MINUTES OF THE COMMITTEE
OF COtiNCIL ON EDUCATION, JULY 15, 1340.
The Lord President having called the attention of
the Committee to their previous minutes relating to the
appointment of Inspector of Schools in connexion with
the Church of England, their Lordships deliberated
thereon, and resolved that a Report be presented to her
TAlnjesty in Council embodying the following recom-
rhendations :-
1. That before any person is recommended to the
Queen in Council to be appointed to inspect schools re-
oe:eving aid from the public, the promoters of which state
themselves to be in connection with the National Society
or the Church of England, the Archbishops of Canter-
bury and York be consulted by the Committee of Privy
Council, each with regard to his own province ; and that
alley be at liberty to suggest any person or persons for
the office of inspector, and that no person be appointed
without their concurrence.

2. That the inspectors of such schools shall be ap-
pa:nted during pleasure, and that it shall be in the power
of each Archbishop, at all times, with regard to his own
province, to withdraw his concurrence in such appoint-
ment, whereupon the authority of the inspector shall
cc Ise, and a fresh appointment take
3. That the instructions to the inspectors with regard
to religious instruction shall be framed by the Arch-
bishops, and form part of the general instructions to the
Inspectors of such schools, and that the general in-
structions shall be communicated to the Archbishops
before they are finally sanctioned.
That each Inspector, at the same time that lie pre-
sents any report relating to the said schools to the Com-
mittee of the Privy Council, shall transmit a duplicate
thereof to the Archbishop, and shall also send a copy
to the Bishop of the diocese in which the school is
sit trAci, for his information.

4. That the grants of money be in proportion to the
number of children educated, and the amount of money
raised by private contribution, with the power of making
exceptions in certain cases, the grounds of which will be
stated in the annual returns to Parliament.

CORN-LAWS AND THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.—There can be ao question that the derangement
of our currency consequent on the Corn-laws, has greatly ag-
gravated the difficulties of America, and has for a time so pros-
trated her trade, that she will be unable to purchase her usual
supplies of our manufactures ; but though she has no money to
buy goods, she has abundance of corn. Proyidenoe blessed her
last year with the most abundant harvest ever known, and the
prospects of the coming harvest are said to be greater than the
last. She can immediately send us two millions barrels of the
nest flour in the world, and in a short time she could send us
two million barrels more. The industrious workpeople of
Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Nottingham, and Manchester,
are starving for want of employment. America wants the pro-
ducts of their industry, but has nothing to give for them but
flour. What shall we say of the law which forbids this natural
exchange, which consigns the most honest hard-workin,-, race
of men to wretchedness and misery—and for what ?—Anti-
Corn-law Circular.

SI!NGUL sIR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A short time
ago, Mrs. Flower, wife of Mr. George Flower, shopkeeper, of
Nunnery-lane, in the suburbs of York, was delivered of twins,
bstl} boys, and singular enough, they had a couple of teeth
each in the upper jaw. Hull Advertiser.
/MVP: AND FOLLY.—on Thursday morning,
about half-past six o'clock, a young man, named Zacharia
Thompson, living with his parents at No. 91, Great Peter-
street, Westminster, attempted to cut his throat. It appears
that the young man got np, dressed and washed himself, and
then inflicted a deep gash in his throat. Alter having done
this, he walked up-stairs into the bed-room of his mother, and,
addressing her said, "Mother I've come to wish you good bye
before I quit this world. My :reason for doing what I have
done is, I could not live without her." The poor woman's
shrieks soon alarmed the neighbourhood, and the young man
'was conveyed to the Westminster Hospital, the house-surgeon
of which institution gave but little hopes of his recovery. It
is supposed that the only motive the young man had to cause
him to attempt self-destruction was, that he had recently
bleu slighted by a young woman to whom he had been paying
his aillresses.

DUNDEE TRADE.—We are glad to say that
there has boon rather more tieing in our linen market this week
than for a considerable time past, although there has been no
improvertlent in prices. The supply is shortening in conse-
quence orthe lowness of price ; and as it is understood that the
foreign markets are getting bare of our productions, it is to be
hoped we wiil in a short time experience an advance in the
rates. In the mean time things are in an unnatural state, as
in the Baltic the prices of flax are not likely to give way._
Edinburgh Courant.
The Queen has approved of Don Nicholas
Achaval, as Consul at Gibraltar for the Republic of Chili
A(.4 some of the excavators upon the Great
Western Railway were digging this week at Broketibrow, near
the Kennet's month, they discovered, not fur from the surface,
a sword, several skulls, and some horse- shoes ; this spot was pro-
bably a scene of engagement daring the wars of Charles I.
id paper.
COMPETITION.--..The swift boats on the Lan-
-ottster canal, from Preston to Lancaster, in consequence of the
greatly reduced fares of that conveyance since the opening of
the railway, have filled better than they did previous to that I
event. The lowest fare is only is. for a distance of 33 miles.
The speed of the boats is 10 miles per hour. The Canal
company purpose to increase the present speed by the applica-
tion of the Archimedean screw.—llancheste r Chronicle.
NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY. The traffic
on this railway has increased no less than 7201. during the last
week. This clearly' proves the truth of the observations.. we
made la4t week as to the ultimate prospects of this lure.—Rail-
way Magazine.