ercising his own free will, but obeying as a passive agent, in binding the same yoke upon his children, the duty of refusing to co-operate with him is still clearer. The clergy may be able to do but little towards relieving their Roman Catholic countrymen from such a bondage, but they can at least keep themselves free from the guilt of becoming instruments in rivetting its chains upon them, and this, accordingly, they resolved to do; in which resolution—as in all that they have done in this matter-they had the full concurrence and support of the lay members of the Church.

The exclusive appropriation of the parliamentary grants for education having left the Church destitute of its accustomed aids for the instruction of the children of the poor, the clergy and the laity, to supply the want which had been thus created, united in forming the Church Education Society for Ireland. The immediate and chief object of this society is to afford the means of religious education to the poorer children of our own communion. But an earnest desire being felt to extend the benefits of the schools to other communions also, not only is the free access given to all, but everything is done which can be done, consistently with principle, to take away every hindrance to their availing themselves of the advantages which they afford. While the reading of the bible forms a portion of the business of the schools, in which all children, when qualified, are expected to take a part, the formularies of the Church are required to be learned by none except the children of its own members. And although the attendance of Roman Catholic children at the schools of the Church Education Society fluctuates considerably, as ecclesiastical authority is more or less actively exerted to restrain it, yet, on the whole, there appears no room to doubt that united education has been effected in a much higher degree in the schools of this society than in those of the national board.

The very limited resources of the society, however, being inadequate to the full attainment of its objects, diocesan and other petitions were presented to parliament, praying for such a revision of the question of education in this country, as might allow the Established Church to share in the funds appropriated to the education of the poor. These petitions having been unsuccessful, the operations and the wants of the Church Education Society were in the same way brought before the legislature, with a view of obtaining a separate grant for the maintenance of its schools. And afterwards an application was made to the government, soliciting that the Irish part of the united Church might be allowed to participate with the English, in the grant of money from which the latter annually draws support for a system of education in conformity with its own principles. These appeals have been hitherto unsuccessful; but we cannot bring ourselves to think it possible, that the striking inequality of the measure which has been dealt towards the Established Church of this country, in the important concern of education, and the great hardship of the position in which it has been thereby placed, can fail ultimately to attract towards it such fair consideration, as may procure for it due sympathy and redress. We, on the contrary, entertain a confident hope, that, whatever be the hindrances which have hitherto obstructed that fair consideration, they are but temporary, and that they will pass away, leaving the government free to afford the assistance, which is so greatly needed by the Church Education Society, and to which its objects and its circumstances give it so strong a claim.

To all, then, who are interested in the maintenance and extension of the schools of the Church Education Society, we recommend steady perseverance, and the employment of all suitable efforts to bring its case calmly and effectively before the public. And we cannot believe that our brethren in the faith in England will look on with apathy, while the Church in this country, faithful to its high office as a witness and keeper of Holy Writ," is struggling, unaided, to discharge its most pressing duties, first to the children more immediately committed to its care, and then to all whom God has placed within the

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sphere of its influence. But this will be as God pleases, and when he pleases. Let it be the aim of those who are engaged in this sacred cause, by his help to do his will, leaving the issue of their labours-the time and measure of their success-altogether to his wisdom. "And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."

January, 1845.

JOHN G. ARMAGH.

CHARLES KILDARE.
ROBERT P. CLOGHER.
J. KILMORE, &c.

RD. DOWN and CONNOR, and DROMORE.

S. CORK and CLOYNE.

LUDLOW, KILLALOE, and CLONFERT.

J. T. OSSORY and FERNS.

ROBERT CASHEL, &c.

MANIFESTO OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF INDIA.

THE Governor-General of India has published the following minute respecting the education of the natives, and the employment of them in the public service. Our Indian empire will now, it is hoped, reap some of the best fruits of peace; and gain strength, not only by conciliating the native population, but still more by raising them, morally as well as intellectually, in the scale of civilization. Considering the palpable difficulties of the case, and the little official encouragement hitherto afforded to the friends of education in India, this manifesto, on the part of Sir Henry Hardinge, hard and dry as it may seem to those who never use the word "education," but in a larger sense, as including much besides mere scholastic instruction and mental cultivation, must still be regarded as an important step in the right direction, especially when taken in connection with the increase of the ecclesiastical establishment within the last few years.

EDUCATION IN INDIA.-RESOLUTION.

The Governor-General, having taken into his consideration the existing state of education in Bengal, and being of opinion that it is highly desirable to afford it every reasonable encouragement, by holding out to those who have taken advantage of the opportunity of instruction afforded to them, a fair prospect of employment in the public service, and thereby not only to reward individual merit, but to enable the state to profit as largely and as early as possible by the result of the measures adopted of late years for the instruction of the people, as well by the government as by private individuals and societies, has resolved, that in every possible case a preference shall be given in the selection of candidates for public employment to those who have been educated in the institutions thus established, and especially to those who have distinguished themselves therein by a more than ordinary degree of merit and attainment.

The Governor-General is accordingly pleased to direct that it be an instruction to the council of education, and to the several local committees and other authorities charged with the duty of superintending public instruction throughout the provinces subject to the government of Bengal, to submit to that government at an early date, and subsequently on the 1st of January in each year, returns (prepared according to the form appended to this resolution) of students who may be fitted, according to their several degrees of merit and capacity, for such of the various public offices as, with reference to their age, abilities, and other circumstances, they may be deemed qualified to fill.

The Governor-General is further pleased to direct that the council of edu

cation be requested to receive from the governors or managers of all scholastic establishments other than those supported out of the public funds similar returns of meritorious students, and to incorporate them, after due and sufficient inquiry, with those of the government institutions; and also that the managers of such establishments be publicly invited to furnish returns of that description, periodically, to the council of education.

The returns when received, will be printed and circulated to the heads of all government offices, both in and out of Calcutta, with instructions to omit no opportunity of providing for and advancing the candidates thus presented to their notice, and in filling up every situation, of whatever grade, in their gift, to show them an invariable preference over others not possessed of superior qualifications.

The appointment of all such candidates to situations under the government will be immediately communicated by the appointing officer to the council of education, and will by them be brought to the notice of government and the public in their annual reports. It will be the duty of controlling officers, with whom rests the confirmation of appointments made by their subordinates, to see that a sufficient explanation is afforded in every case in which the selection may not have fallen upon an uneducated candidate whose name is borne on the printed returns.

With a view still further to promote and encourage the diffusion of knowledge among the humbler classes of the people, the Governor-General is also pleased to direct, that even in the selection of persons to fill the lowest offices under the government, respect be had to the relative acquirements of the candidates, and that in every instance a man who can read and write be preferred to one who cannot.

Ordered, that the necessary instructions be issued for giving effect to the above resolution, and that it be published in the official gazettes, for general information.

CHURCH SCHOOLMASTERS' ASSOCIATION,

Meetings in 1845.

General Meeting.-Paper by Mr. Boulden" On Public Examinations."
Language classes.

SAT., Feb.

1.

Tu., SAT.,

11.

15.

22.

Bible class.-General meeting.-Paper by Mr. Nunn, "What connexion is there between the National Society and the National Schoolmaster ?" 8. Language classes.

SAT., April

5.

Tu.,
SAT.,

8.

Lecture by Mr. Macleod "On the Geography of Palestine."

Bible class.-Lecture by the Rev. M. Mitchell, M.A., "On the History of
Painting."

Language classes.-Committee meeting.

Bible class-General meeting.-Paper by Mr. Watkins "On Spelling and
Spelling Lessons."

Language classes.

Lecture by Mr. Macleod "On Entomology."

Bible class.-Lecture by the Rev. M. Mitchell, M.A., "On the History of
Painting."

Committee meeting.

Bible class.-General meeting.-Paper by Mr. Dunn "On the art of Catechising."

Lecture by Mr. Macleod "On the Manners and Customs of the East." 12. Language classes.

19. Bible class.- Lecture by the Rev. T. Jackson, M.A., "On Church Archi

26.

SAT., May

3.

tecture.

Language classes.-Committee meeting.

Bible class.-General meeting.-Paper by Mr. Marshall "On the importance and necessity of making instruction systematic and progressive.” 10. Language classes.

Tu., May 13.
SAT.,

Lecture by Mr. Myers "On Teaching English History."

17.

Language classes.

SAT., Aug.

2.

Bible class.-Lecture by Rev. T. Jackson, M.A., " On Church Architecture."
Language classes.

Committee meeting.

Bible class.-General meeting.-Paper by Mr. Greenfield "On the method of Teaching Geography."

Lecture by Rev. R. Burgess, B.D., "On the Monuments of Rome connected with Sacred and Ecclesiastical History."

Rome connected with Sacred and Ecclesiastical History."

Committee meeting.

Bible class.-General meeting.-Paper by Mr. Tomalin, " Catechising the best method of Instructing Children.”

Language classes.

Bible class.-Lecture.

Language classes.-Committee meeting.

Bible class.-General meeting.-Paper by Mr. Gooding, "On Schoolmas ters' Associations-the advantages resulting from their establishment.” 9. Language classes.

"On the Monuments of

Committee meeting.

Bible class.-General meeting.-Paper by Mr. Hartwright "On the Importance and best Method of Keeping up a connexion with Children after leaving School."

Tu, SAT.,

Bible class.-General meeting.-Paper by Mr. Racine "On the Sunday
Duties of a National Schoolmaster."

Language classes.

14. Lecture by Mr. J. Martin, "On Oxygen."

18. Annual General meeting.

Committee meeting.

Bible class.-General meeting-Paper by Mr. Troughton.

"

Bible class.-Lecture by Rev. F. D. Maurice, M.A.

22. Language classes.

9.

Committee meeting.

Bible class.-General meeting-Paper by Mr. Lister.
Lecture.

13. Language classes.

20.

Bible class.-Lecture by Rev. F. D. Maurice, M.A. 27. Committee meeting.

The Bible and Language classes commence at half-past One, p.m. The General meetings at Three, p.m. The Lectures on Saturdays at Three; on Tuesdays at half-past Seven, p.m. The Committee Meetings at Four, p.m.

For admission to the Classes application must be made to the Rev. President. To the Lectures every Member of the Association is at liberty to introduce a Friend. To the Monthly General Meetings Non-members can be introduced only by Members of the Committee. January 1, 1845. JAMES DAVIS, Hon. Sec.

Law Reports.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Jan. 14, 1845.

IN RE THE KING'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL IN WARWICK.

Mr. ROLT, on the part of the trustees of this school, appeared to support a petition for certain alterations in the scheme approved of by Master Lynch for the future regulation of the school. The estates for the maintenance of this establishment were granted by Henry VIII, and in the time of Charles I a

new scheme was approved of, which, after the payment of certain sums to the master, gave the corporation of Warwick the residue, to be appropriated to pious, charitable, and useful purposes, for the advantage of the borough of Warwick. The corporation had from time to time made an increase to the salary of the master, but on the recent appointment of a new master (Mr. Hill) they had, with the consent of all parties in the borough, agreed to act with great liberality, and to appropriate a considerable portion of the surplus funds of the estate to the improvement of the school. They had engaged to pay a sum of £200 a-year to the head master, and of £100 to a second master, and to expend a considerable sum in the improvement of the buildings. Certain regulations had, however, been laid down for the government of the charity; upon some of which all parties, in a most amicable spirit, desired to take the opinion of the court. The first related to the number of boarders which the head master could be authorised to receive. By the scheme the number was fixed at thirty; but it was the opinion of the trustees, and also of the master, that he might be allowed to take a larger number, the trustees thinking that the increase of the numbers of boarders would tend to raise the character of the school. It was to be observed that the school was open to the children of the inhabitants of the borough of Warwick, and that the boarders were to be the children of persons resident within the county of Warwick, and of other counties, but giving a preference to Warwick, except in cases where such a preference would exclude a boy already established as a boarder. The seventh regulation required that the master should devote at least one hour in every day to the religious instruction of the pupils. Mr. Rolt wished this regulation to be struck out. It was quite new in application to grammar schools, and had been founded on a direction introduced by Vice-chancellor Knight Bruce in the "Attorney General v. Callum." The school, it ought to be recollected, was open to the children of persons of all denominations, Church of England, Roman Catholics, and Dissenters; and it was most desirable that nothing should be introduced into these regulations which would disturb the harmony that now prevailed on this subject, in a borough where political discussion had run very high.-Mr. Wray denied that the regulation with respect to religious instruction was a new one. It had been introduced in many cases.-. -Mr. Hethrington, on the part of the master, suggested the regulations might be altered so as to prescribe one daily lesson in religious instruction, without saying anything about its duration.

His lordship thought that the limitation of one hour might be constructed to mean one hour and no more. He perceived that the religious instruction was to be the reading and explanation of the Holy Scriptures, and he doubted much whether the dissenting portion of the parents would consent to receive such explanation. The interest of the Established Church was sufficiently guarded by the regulation that the master was to be a graduate of the University of Oxford or Cambridge, and it would be better, under the circumstances, to leave the question of religious instruction to his discretion, without prescribing any time or manner in which it was to be afforded. The regulation was, therefore, struck out, together with the following one, which directed that the boys should be taken to church on every sabbath day, his lordship observing that he had no doubt Mr. Hill would conscientiously discharge his duty. The 14th regulation required that the boys should be taught French, and also German, with other modern languages, if the parents required it. A suggestion was made to alter this, but his lordship retained it in that form, in compliance with the wish of the schoolmaster. On the question of the expulsion of a boy, it was directed that the appeal should be to the lord chancellor, as visitor, or to such persons as he should appoint. One examiner was named instead of two. He is to be a graduate of Oxford or Cambridge, and to have the sum of ten guineas for each examination. His lordship in conclusion, expressed a hope that the school was going on well after so much discussion.