The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-29 00:00:00

EDUCATION GRANTS.

As it is important to many of our readers to be in-
formed of the regulations to be observed by parties de-
sirous of obtaining any portion of the Parliamentary
grant for the promotion of public education, we have
compiled the following particulars from the published
minutes of the Committee of Council :

Every application for aid must be made in the form
of a memorial to " The Lords of the Committee of
Council on Education," and must be forwarded to the
Secretary, at the Council-office, Whitehall.
The memorial is to state, in the first place, whether

the school for which application is made is-
1. A Church School—by which is meant a school
founded on the principles of the Established Church,
and giving instruction in the Church catechism and
doctrines under the direction of the Minister of the
parish. Or-
2. A National School—by which is meant, a school
in connection with the National Society. Or
3. A British School—by which is meant a school in
connection with the British and Foreign School So-
ciety. Or
4. A School not comprehended under any one of
these three heads, in which case the nature and charac-
ter of the school is to be specially defined.
The memorial is to state further, what is the nature
and amount of the aid sought.

What is the number of children for whom accommo-
dation, at the rate of six square feet superficial for eaoh
child, will be provided.
What is the amount raised by the applicants.
What are the grounds for representing the case as
one needing and deserving assistance.
Upon receiving a memorial, with these particulars,
the Committee of Council forward to the applicants a
printed form of queries, which is to be filled up so as to
communicate to the Privy Council the most minute and
accurate information upon all points which reqnire at-
tention, and with which arc to be transmitted to the
Council-office plans of the school-house carefully drawn
according to scale.
The preliminary correspondence being concluded, if
the Committee consider that a grant ought to be made
to the school, they report their opinion to that effect to
her Majesty in Council, and when the Queen's approval
has been obtained, the Committee of Council acquaint
the applicants that the sum awarded is set apart for the
school in question, and will be remitted when the school
shall be finished, and the necessary conditions be corn-
pletedo—Chronicle.

Sir D. Wilkie, the Royal Academician, will
shortly take his departure on a professional tour to the East, u
far as Jerusalem.

DEAFNESS.—At length this dreadful malady is
completely obviated, without torture and serious risk by medical
treatment. The Messrs. S. and B. Solemons, 39, Albemarle
street, Piccadilly, and 76, King William-street, Bank of Eng-
land, have constructed a Voice-Conductor, the size of a seven-
shilling piece, which, when fixed into the cavity of the ear, is
soft, easy, and not more uncomfortable nor perceptible than
having a piece of wool in its place ; and that which is deserving
the public attention and approbation is, that an individual in
company may place it in the ear and remove it unobserved. It
pours into the ear the general conversation to such an extent,
that in severe cases deafness is not the least perceptible, and
sufferers are enabled to hear the slightest whisper at a public
assembly. Their newly. invented Spectacle Lenses, immediately
they are placed before imperfect vision, bring it at once back to
its original and natural state, and the most minute particleiis
seen, either by day or candle light, with exact distinctness.
These valuable improvements in the materials are secret to
themselves, and are solely confined to their establishments, 39,
Albemarle-street, and 76, King William.street, City.
ARMY AND NAVY.—The August Number
of the United Service Journal, and Naval and :Military
Magazine, contains, amongst other interesting papers, Corres-
pondence between Sir Hussey Vivian, Colonel Napier, Colonel
Brotherton, Colonel Hughes and other officers, on some state-
ments respecting the British Cavalry, in the sixth volume of
the Peninsular War."—Reminiscences of a Light Dragoon,
No. I.—England's Wooden Walls--The Bellerophon. No.
2.—Recollections of an Old Soldier, by his daughter.—Con-
fessions of a Spy, collected by an Officer of the Navy.—Memoirs
of Edward Costello, K.S.F. &c.—Anecdotes in the Pyrecnees,
during the campaign of lBl3.—\otice of some experiments
made with the view of increasing the brilliancy of lighthouses,
by Captain Basil Hall, R.N.—Western Africa, and its effects
on the health of troops.—Memoirs of the late Lieut.- General
the Hon. Sir henry King,',K.C.B., and Lieut.-General the
Hon. Sir Robert William O'Callaghan, G. C. B.—Notices of
Steam Navigation.—Colonel Napier, id reply to Colonel
Wade, on the Battle of Albuera.—Mr. Theodore Hook, in
answer to some remarks on his biography of Sir David Baird,
in the life of Lord Harris.—The Cavalry Barracks at Knights-
bridge.—The United Service Institution.—Supplementary
Estimates consequent on the Report of the Commission.—
With all the Naval and Military Intelligence of the Month, &c.

It is not very long ago since we read in an English
pamphlet, addressed to intending emigrants to South
Australia, and professing to give them much good ad-
vice and all requisite information of the country to
which they were about to proceed, a definition of what
is understood by " the Bush.' " When you retire to
the Bush," says the author, " by which is meant the
more thickly wooded part of the country ! " you are to
do so and so ; and then followed some excellent direc-
tions for hewing and grubbing, abstinence from grog,
and the genera! management of a menage
befitting such a location. The author of the
pamphlet with " good intentions," no doubt, has pro-
bably done harm, for, to judge by the language and pro-
ceedings of some of the not very lately arrived, it is to
be presumed that their ideas of " the Bush" are
founded on his description of it, or at all events arc
fully as wide of the mark. What " the Bush" really is
may, we think, be most truly described as the very re-
verse of the " more thickly wooded part of the country:'
The splendid tracts to the south-cast and eastward of
Adelaide are occasionally heavily, and sometimes but
slightly wooded. In the deepest valleys on the
margins of the streamlets, the magnificent gum-
tree is found, and on the higher ranges the stringy-
bark is abundant, while the country generally
is altogether free from underwood, and pre-
sents gentle rises covered with thick grass, and resem-
bles upon the whole what we might conceive the fine
" Chases " of Yorkshire to have been, or what the
modern park scenery of England actually is. There is
extent of territory known at present sufficient, at a mo-
derate calculation, for two or three millions of sheep, and
half a million of horses and cattle. Every day ris in-
creasing our knowledge of the back country and adding
to our flocks and herds. These additions, be it noted,
are not made exclusively by our own colonists.
The settlers of the adjoining colonies are gradu-
ally drawing towards us, and in many instances
are taking the lead in the exploration and stocking of
our territory. They know and can appreciate its ad-
vantages, and they are undoubtedly entitled to avail
themselves of their skill and enterprise to the fullest ex-
tent. What may be the requisites for the successful
settler in the bush will form the subject of dis-
cussion at an early opportunity, although there must
be here, as well as in all other professions, different
degrees of progress. We may here observe that we
have never yet known the most unpractised eventually
to fail, or to fall short of his expectations, while he
went to work with determined sobriety and perse.
verance. These are the true secrets of rural success—
there is no witchcraft in the bush, and very little that
is not easily attainable.

We have just read in a Scotch paper a sweeping
denunciation of this " horrid place," founded on a fort-
night's residence at the harbour on shipboard in the
heat of last summer, enlivened by a trip from the Bay
to Adelaide, and a careful examination of the shrubs on
both sides of the road. It is about as correct a de-
scription of South Australia as an account of the cli-
mate and aspect of the South of England would be by a
person who had only travelled across Dartmoor and
taken that tract as a fair specimen of the fertile valleys
of Devonshire. The gnat who proposed to lecture on
the structure of the interior of the elephant from what
he had seen of its skin, was not more likely to commu-
nicate a just notion of the anatomy of the huge animal
than the pamphleteer has done of " The Bush," or
the letter-writer of South Australia. In simple ho-
nest truth, there is nothing in the shape of land or
country around Adelaide or the port which can con-
vey a correct impression of the splendour and
magnificence of the interior. To have the faintest
idea of what the resources and capabilities of South
Australia really are, the ranges must be crossed—" the
Bush" itself must be visited. Let any man of common
judgment ride to the Mount Barker district, or to the
Flaxman district, or to Vallies, or to the Three
Brothers, or to the Meadows, or to Strath-Albyn, or to
the Finniss, or to Encounter Bay, or to the Murray, or
to the Lake, and we gage our existence on the favour-
able nature of his report. But let the practical farmer,
or wool-grower, or stock-breeder, traverse the country
we have mentioned—whether he be the new-arrived
emigrant from the old country, or the experienced settler
of the neighbouring colonies—and his account of the
interior will not only be ten times more cheering, but
he will give a more substantial proof of his favourable
opinion by purchasing and settling forthwith. This is
no imaginary result; its Fey_ is daily before the eyes
of the whole colony.

These observations are drawn from us by the know-
ledge of the fact, that there are at present several per-
sons in the situation of the young man mentioned by
the Dundee letter writer, with seven-and-sixpence in his
pocket, who are very much inclined to attribute their
want of success to the unsuitableness of the colony to
them rather than to the true cause, their unsuitableness
to the colony, or indeed to any place where prosperity
must depend on steadiness, perseverance, and good con-
duct. We have heard that during the present week, a
scampish broken down attorney's clerk, the most unfit,
surely, of the many unfit persons either to succeed here
or to give an opinion as to the capabilities of the colony,
intruded himself on board a ship in the buy, and so
" flabbergasted " the emigrants with his account of the
state of things on shore, that some of them
made up their minds at once to go elsewhere,
while others, who saw better into the character
of their informant, determined to confirm their

prejudices by a hot walk, in the middle of the day,
from Glenelg to the town. If these parties would take
the advice of time who have never puffed up the colony
on the one hand or decried it on the other, but who
have merely stated facts as they found them, they will
look around them, examine the country in the first
pla'c, visit and converse with the actual settlers in the
sec ;rid, and then judge for themselves, and act as they
may deem expedient.

The letter we have alluded to as published in the
Dundee papers, would occupy too much of our columns
this week ; but should we find sufficient room in our
next we may take it up, and give a fern words of corn-
mentary on it.

[We have not seen the letter in the Dundee

Paper, or Papers, to which the South Australian
Register, in the above article, refers ; but we have
seen and read accounts the most appalling of the
misery endured by emigrants to that part of the
world. We have heard South Australia described
by persons whose evidence we should nut be dis-

posed lightly to question, as a barren wilderness,
vlierc water, that first of life's necessaries, is a
luxury ; and where to send Englishmen is to doom
hem to evils a thousand times more difficult of en-

durance than any ever experienced by the blacks
in Jamaica, before the passing of the Emanzi-
pation Bill. As it is of the utmost importance
to such of our poor fellow-countrymen as the
want of employment and the high price of bread
compel to seek a livelihood in another land, that
the real truth should be known, we subjoin from
the City article of the Times of yesterday a very
different account of South Australia frorn that

given above, with a view to promote a discussion
upon the subject, which may lead to a full and en-
tire knowledge of the truth. By the way, the
Australian Register invites emigrants "to see
and judge for themselves !" Is it, then, not true,
as asserted in the work of a medical gentleman
who visited the colony on his route to India, that
emigrants, after landing, find insurmountable ob-
stacles thrown in the way of their re-embarking ?

We should be glad to learn from some well-in-
formed and disinterested quarter, that ships arriv-
ing with emigrants are not prevented from taking
them away, should a view of the country disincline
them to settle in it.—ED. Sun.]

A letter received from a resident in South Australia
containing in some detail a description of that country,
is worth adverting to at this period, now the emigra.
tion to that locality is so much on the increase. He
begins with the important assertion that the climate is
not so healthy as it has been reported, bearing out this
general statement with the fasts that he has seen four or
five funerals go to the cemetery every day, and that aperson
i rarely seen more than fifty years old. A place where
emigrants, before they can obtain employment, are
allowed to stay, which is called " Emigration-square,"
s remarkable for mortality. It is no uncommon oc-
currence for seven or eight to die in the course of
a week. The weather recently had been unpleasantly
hot, the thermometer being 108 or 11', degrees in the
shade, and 135 to 140 in the sun. The wind is ex-
ceedingly high, and the dust, which is raised by it, to
a great extent, penetrates into every crevice. The
river Torrens is described as having become so small
that a four-inch pipe would convey more water. From
the pools which it leaves in some places, and which are
very deep, the inhabitants get their water, but this is
so full of animalculw, tilat in hot weather it requires
to be used ittant2diately, The writer of the letter pro-
cures water from a well 150 yards off, for which a price
is paid. Fleas arc found to be a grievous nuisance ;
they arc supposed to breed in the dust, and to be

carried into .the houses in swarms whenever there is a
gale of wind. At all events. it is after a storm that
they arc most abundant. Another nuisance is a
small fly resemblinc, our bluebottles, which de-
posit their young alive, and render it neeesEaty

A few candid confessions like the above from residents
on the spot would have a wholesome effect in counte-
racting the false hopes held out to unfortunate persons
in their own country, which cause them to be still
more unfortunate by the adoption of so miserable an
exchange, and which arc too often encouraged by parties
who, residing in the place of emigration, conceal their
own hardships, and artfully induce their more ignorant
friends to add to the common stock and share the hard-
ships of the situation.