Glasgow Courier. — 1853-04-19 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART.  The following important minute has just been issued by the Board of Trade— • • • •  'My Lords take into consideration the estimates about to be submitted to Parliament for affording aid to the local schools of art during the year ending the 31st of March, 1854. 'My Lords desire to relieve the localities altogether from the obligation to raise a sum equivalent to the Parliamentary vote, and instead to leave the whole general management, and the control of the cost of it,entirely to the local committees. In future, the local committees will not require to return to this board any account of their local expenditure, or of any receipts from subscriptions or donations; each local committee will, therefore, determine for itself what premises shall be used—subject, of course, to their being considered by my Lords as suitable for the purposes of instruction—what rent shall be paid, furniture provided, what managing officers, seryenta, &c., shall be engaged, and what shall be the cost of general management. 'My Lords, on their part, propose to confine the Parliamentary grants wholly to the promotion of instruction, and even in this point to exercise control only so long as the local committee elects to receive the parliamentary aid. Their Lordships would view it as the highest mark of the progress and success of art education, in any locality, to find that the committee preferred independence of the Government grant altogether. 'My Lords will require that the parliamentary grant for the year ending the 31st of March, 1854, should be paid to the following objects i—the present masters' salaries; an increase of masters where necessary,especially for affording instruction to public schools; pupil teachers ; and to deserving students in holding scholarships both in local and metropolitan schools; and to stisdents in training to become masters.; lectures and examples for teaching. After communication with the local cornmittees, my Lords will apportion the grant to these respective items, • 'An the fees paid by the students may be considered as the product, partly of the grants furnished by Parliament, and partly of the funds raised in the locality, my Lords will require as a condition of receiving any parliamentary aid that an equitable portion of the fees shall be appliea towards instruction; and, in accordance with their minute of the 28th of January, 1853, and for the I reasons given in the letter of the 30th of June, 1852, which has been sanctioned by the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, they propose that such portion of the fees shall be paid to the master or masters of I the school as part of their income. 'MEKIIT COLE, Secretary.'  THE CONDEMNED CONVICTS AT LIVERPOOL, Since receiving their sentences, Terrell and Williams have been confined in Kirlidale jail, under the usual surveillance, a turnkey remaining with each night and day. Both the convicts seem to be fully sensible of their deplorable position. Terrell is under the spiritual direction of a Catholic priest; and Williams is ministered to by the chaplain of the jail. Terrell, who is only eighteen years of age, has for sometime past led an irregular life, having within the last five or six years been several times in prison. He declares, we understand, that he did not intend to murder his victim when he inflicted the stab; and his friends, some of whom have been to see him, are about to send • memorial in his favour to the secretary of state. Williams is 20 liars of age, and is a Welshman by birth. He has sailed Mahout ten years in the American merchant service, and would appear to have no friends in this part of the .country„ Be is supposed to belong to the neighbourhood of Carnarvon. It is a curious fact in his case that he appears to have mistaken the man he murdered for another, the deceased not being the person who had given the provocation. Should no respite or reprieve be granted, the convicts will, in the usual course, sager the extreme penalty of the law on Saturday week.—Liverpool Mercury.