"without doing violence to conscience, those, of whatever "religious creed, who may wish for education."

59. This is the true meaning of our united education plan. It is not a necessary part of it, that there should be, in every school, an actual mixture of persons of different religious persuasions; but that every school, supported by the common funds of the nation, should be open to all, by keeping the secular part of education distinct from the religious.

XIV. 60. In conformity with our usual practice, the financial account of the year's receipts and expenditure is made up to the 31st of March of this year, and the statistics of schools to the 31st of December, 1846.

61. We submit this as our Report for the last year to your Excellency; and, in testimony thereof, have caused our Corporate Seal to be hereunto affixed, this fifth day of June, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-seven.

(Signed,)

MAURICE CROSS, Secretaries.
JAMES KELLY,

SEAL.

Education Office, Marlborough-street.

APPENDIX.

I.--An Account of the RECEIPTS and DISBURSEMENTS of the COMMISSIONERS OF NATIONAL EDUCATION, from the 1st April, 1846, to 31st March, 1847.

II. TABLE showing the progressive Increase in the NATIONAL SCHOOLS and the NUMBER OF CHILDREN in attendance upon them, from the date of the First Report of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland, to the 31st December, 1846.

III.--TABLE showing the Increase in the NATIONAL SCHOOLS and the NUMBER OF CHILDREN in attendance upon them, during the year 1846, as compared with the preceding year.

Expected attendance in the
Actual attendance upon the
Actual attendance upon the

Total Number of Schools,

No. of Children on the Rolls,
as returned by the Managers,
for half-year ending Septem-
ber 30, 1846,

Additional attendance upon
Schools to which Salaries have
been granted since Septem-
ber 30, 1846,

451,776

4,634 456,410

Deduct the returned attendance
of Sept., 1845, and the addi-
tional attendance of that year, 432,844
Increase during the year 1846, 23,566

335 Building cases,
3,637 Schools in operation,

14 Suspended Schools,

31,461

456,410

Nil.

487,871

353

85

268

MAURICE CROSS, Secretaries.
JAMES KELLY,

3,986 Total attendance, actual and expected, *Total Number of Schools taken into connexion during the year 1846, Deduct Schools struck off during the year 1846, Net increase during the year, as above

IV-TABLE showing in what Provinces the 353 New Schools, taken into connexion during the Year 1846, are situated, and the nature of the Grants awarded to them.

V. TABLE showing the number of National Schools in each Province, whether in Operation, in progress of Building, or Suspended, with their actual and expected Attendances.

* There is, in addition to this number, an attendance of 4,634 Children upon Schools to which Salaries have been granted since September, 1846, making the total attendance of 456,410.-See Table No. III.

VI. TABLE showing the number of WORKHOUSE SCHOOLS in connexion with the Board, on the 31st December, 1846, and the Provinces in which they are situated (included in Table V. of Schools in Operation).

VII. TABLE showing the number of TEACHERS trained during the year 1846, for National Schools, and for Schools not National, distinguishing the Religious Denominations of each.

VIII. TABLE showing the Amount and Nature of GRANTS paid and GRANTS awarded to National Schools during the year 1846.