VII.--TABLE showing the Number of Teachers trained during the year 1848, for National Schools, and for Schools not National, distinguishing the Religious Denominations of each.

VIII. TABLES showing the Amount and Nature of Grants paid and Grants awarded to National Schools,

during the year 1848.

This number does not include the District Model Schools with their several apartments for males, females, and infants.

X.-RULES and REGULATIONS of the COMMISSIONERS OF NATIONAL EDUCATION, and DIRECTIONS for making APPLICATION for AID towards the BUILDING OF SCHOOL-HOUSES, or for the SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS.

1. The Commissioners grant aid towards the Building and Support of Schools of two Classes, Elementary Schools and Schools of Industry; but they can grant aid only to a limited number of the latter, and these must be at certain distances from each other. It is an indispensable condition for aid towards a School of Industry, that a Work-room shall be annexed to it, if it be situated in a City or Town; and if it be a Country or Rural School, that a certain quantity of land shall be provided for Garden culture.

It is, however, for the Patrons of each National School to deter mine whether they will make Agricultural or other industrial instruction part of the Education which it affords. It is for the Commissioners to do what they can in aid of their efforts, by having the Teachers taught the principles and practice of improved Agriculture during their Training Course, and by receiving Agricultural Pupils at the Model Farm, Glasnevin. The Commissioners consider Schools for Females as of the class of Elementary Schools; but they require that instruction be there given in Sewing, Knitting, and other works suited to Females.

II.-As to Government of Schools with respect to Attendance and Religious Instruction.

1. The ordinary School business, during which all children, of whatever denomination they may be, are required to attend, is to embrace a specified number of hours each day.

2. Opportunities are to be afforded to the Children of each School for receiving such religious instruction as their parents or guardians approve of.

3. The Patrons of the several Schools have the right of appointing such religious instruction as they may think proper to be given therein, provided that each School be open to Children of all communions; that due regard be had to parental right and authority; that, accordingly, no child be compelled to receive, or to be present at, any religious instruction to which his parents or guardians object; and that the time for giving it be so fixed, that no child shall be thereby, in effect, excluded, directly or indirectly, from the other advantages which the School affords. Subject to this, religious instruction may be given either during the fixed School hours or otherwise.

4. In Schools, towards the building of which the Commissioners have contributed, and which are, therefore, VESTED in Trustees for the purposes of National Education, or, which are vested in the Commissioners in their Corporate capacity, such pastors or other persons as shall be approved of by the parents or guardians of the Children respectively, shall have access to them in the School-room, for the purpose of giving them religious instruction there, at convenient times to be appointed for that purpose, whether those pastors or persons shall have signed the original application or otherwise.

5. In Schools NOT VESTED, but which receive aid only by way of Salary and Books, it is for the Patrons to determine whether religious instruction shall be given in the School-room or not; but if they do not allow it in the School-room, the Children whose parents or guardians so desire, must be allowed to absent themselves from the School, at reasonable times, for the purpose of receiving such instruction ELSEWHERE,

6. The reading of the Scriptures, either in the Protestant Authorized, or Douay Version, as well as the teaching of Catechisms, comes within the rule as to religious instruction.

7. The rule as to religious instruction applies to Public Prayer and to all other religious exercises.

8. The Commissioners do not insist on the Scripture Lessons being read in any of the National Schools, nor do they allow them to be read during the time of secular or literary instruction, in any School attended by Children whose parents or guardians object to their being so read. In such case the Commissioners prohibit the use of them, except at the times of religious instruction, when the persons giving it may use these Lessons, or not, as they think proper.

9. Whatever arrangement is made in any School for giving religious instruction, must be publicly notified in the School-room, in order that those Children, and those only, may be present whose parents or guardians allow them.

10. If any other books than the Holy Scriptures, or the standard books of the Church to which the Children using them belong, are employed in communicating religious instruction, the title of each is to be made known to the Commissioners.

11. The use of the books published by the Commissioners is not compulsory; but the titles of all other books which the Conductors of Schools intend for the ordinary School business, are to be reported to the Commissioners; and none are to be used to which they object; but they prohibit such only as may appear to them to contain matter objectionable in itself, or objectionable for common instruction, as peculiarly belonging to some particular religious denomination.

12. A Registry is to be kept in each School of the daily attendance of the Scholars and the average attendance, according to the Form furnished by the Commissioners.

III.-Miscellaneous.

1. It is the earnest wish of Her Majesty's Government, and of the Commissioners, that the Clergy and Laity of the different religious denominations in the country should co-operate with one another in conducting National Schools.

2. When any School is received by the Commissioners into connexion with them, the inscription, " NATIONAL SCHOOL," and no other, shall be put up conspicuously on the school-house; and when a School-house is built partly by aid from them, a stone is to be introduced into the wall having that inscription cut upon it.

3. The Commissioners require that no use shall be made of the School-rooms for any purpose tending to contention, such as the HOLDING OF POLITICAL MEETINGS IN THEM, or bringing into them political petitions or documents of any kind for signature.