ABSTRACT of ACCOUNTS from 31st March 1850 to 31st March 1851. I. BALANCE due to School-Building Fund at 30th March 1850, II. SCHOOLS : 1. Teachers' Salaries, one year, 2. Repairs, &c. on Innerleithen School, the property of the Committee, 3. School Books, III. NORMAL SCHOOLS: 1. Edinburgh Normal Schools : £7780 19 9 9 7 11 50 0 0 (1.) Teachers' Salaries, (2.) Dr Murray for Course of Lectures, (3.) Bursaries to Students, 346 0 (4.) Janitor, 40 0 0 (5.) Books and Stationery, 20 19 9 (6.) Printing Examination Papers, &c. 24 13 0 (7.) Advertising, 2 16 0 (8.) Furnishings and Repairs, 64 0 7 (9.) Taxes, 38 9 11 (10.) Gas and Coals, 26 12 2 (11.) Cleaning, 36 18 8 5 4 7 £13,361 13 0 £1510 1 11 7840 7 8 (12.) Sundries per Rector, (13.) One year's feu-duty for ground in Spittal Street, 71 4 3 REPORT OF EDUCATION COMMITTEE. Brought forward, VII. INTEREST for one year on donation of £1100, toward building Normal School (liferented by Donor), VIII. GENERAL CHARGES : 1. Proportion of General Assembly Expenses, £12,499 16 11 48 10 10 £116 6 1 19 9 2 3. Do. of Records sent to Ministers, &c., under new ar- 23 0 3 4. Do. of Office Rent, &c., Public Accounts, and Trea- 60 0 0 218 15 6 507 3 5 58 5 9 £13,361 13 0 £15 10 0 5 4 1 8 6 6 29 0 7 ANSWER to ADDRESS* to HER MAJESTY on the ANNIVERSARY of Her BIRTHDAY. Whitehall, 3d June 1851. SIR,—I have had the honour to lay before the Queen the loyal and dutiful Address of the Ministers and Elders of the Free Church, offering their cordial congratulations on the auspicious anniversary of Her Majesty's birth; And I have the satisfaction to inform you, that Her Majesty was pleased to receive this Address very graciously. I have the honour to be, SIR, Your obedient Servant, G. GREY. The Reverend the MODERATOR of the General Assembly of the Free Church, Edinburgh. ANSWER to MEMORIAL† to LORD PALMERSTON regarding the PERSECUTION of CHRISTIANS ABROAD. Foreign Office, June 11. 1851. SIR, I am directed by Viscount Palmerston to acknowledge the receipt of the Memorial of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, dated the 3d of June, and signed by you as Moderator, praying that Her Majesty's Government would interpose its influence for securing the liberties of Christians in other lands, and specially with reference to the recent persecution at Florence of a Tuscan nobleman, on account of meetings held in his own Palace for reading the Word of God, and for other religious exercises. I am to state to you in reply, for the information of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, that Her Majesty's Government are deeply impressed with a conviction of the truth and justice of the principles laid down in their memorial; and Her Majesty's Government have not omitted, and will not omit, to avail themselves of every fair opportunity of urging those principles on other Governments, as far as may be consistent with a due respect for international independence. |