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llspecting Mr. Gordon's conduct in regard to t he case which
he had brought under the attention of the house.
Lord PALMERSTON said his noble friend, the Secre-
tary for Foreign Affairs, would adopt steps suitable to the
circumstances of the case.
The motion for adj urnment was then agreed to.
EDUCATION.
Mr. T. DU EDUCATION.
moved an address for returns of
the number of inspectors and assistant inspectors of
schools under the committee of Privy Council on
Education, with the total paymexts received by them
in each year from 1840 to 1861 together with the names
of all clergymen of the Established Church who were in-
spectors or assistant-inspectors of schools under the said
committee in 1859 and 1860, with the total amount received
by each under the separate heads of salary, travelling and
personal expenses.—Ordered.
NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND.
On the motion for going into committee of supply,
Mr. WHITESIDE moved the following r 'solutions :
That the advantages afforded by Parliamentary grant for
the purpose of education in Ireland ought not
to be denied to any school upon the ground
that the Holy Scriptures are daily read therein.
2. That a discretion should be vested in those who are en-
trusted with the administration of the Grant,for Educational
Purposes in Ireland, to assist, with books and other school
requisites, all persons and societies engaged In carrying
c-a the work of moral and religious education in schools
he Ireland who may conscientiously decline to subscribe to
the rules of the National Board, subject, s 9 far as relates to
secular education, to the inspection and control of the
officers of the board. That the recent reconstruction of
the national board is not calculated to insure a satisfactory
administration of the Parliamentary grant for education in
Ireland.

[LEFT SPEAKING.]

LONDON GAZETTE-(TRIS EVENING)

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MAY 16.
This day had audience of her Majesty :—His Excellency
Mirza Djaafer Khan, Ambassador Extraordinary from his
Majesty the Shah of Persia, to take leave of her Majesty on
the expiration of his embassy; George Mifflin Dallas, Esq.,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the
United States of America, to present his letter of recal ;
And Charles Francis Adams, Esq., Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of
America, to deliver his credentials ; to which audiences they
were respectively introduced by the Viscount Palmerston,
K.G. and G.C.8., acting for her Majesty's Principal Secre-
tary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Lieut.-
General the Hon. Sir Edward Oust, K. C.H., her Majesty's
Master of the Ceremonies.
INDIA OFFICE, MAY 16.
The Queen has been pleo..d to direct letters patent to
Pass the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of tireat Britain
sarirl FrodPriCk Got7,D.D.,
the Bishopric of Madras, void by the death of the Right
Reverend Thomas Dealtry, D.D.

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FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 14.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint George
Fagan, Esq., now her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and
Consul-General to the Republics of Guatemala, Nicaragua,
Costa Rica, Honduras, and Salvador, to be her Majesty's
Charge d'Affaires and Consul-General to the Republic of
the Equator.