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year, was £57,013, 10s. 8d. The system of paid 

 monitors has been tried with much success : the amount 

 paid under this head, for 1848, was £924. The teachers 

 are divided into three classes, with different scales of 

 salaries ; each teacher being assigned to the class to 

 which he is found qualified on an annual examination by 

 the head inspectors. 



The national school-books used are so much valued, 

 that a large demand for them has arisen in England, 

 Scotland, and the colonies. 



The daily average attendance in the model schools of 

 Dublin for the year, has at various times considerably 

 exceeded 1000. During the year, 267 teachers were 

 trained and supported at the public expense, of whom 

 177 were males, and 90 were females : 11 were of the 

 Established Church, 37 Presbyterians, and 219 Roman 

 Catholics. The total number of male and female 

 teachers trained from the commencement has been 231 1. 



The greater number of the workhouse schools have 

 been placed under the superintendence of the Commis- 

 sioners of Education, who remark, in their report, " that 

 the Boards of guardians of the different Unions com- 

 prise Protestants and Roman Catholics, and have 

 amongst them men of the highest rank and station ; 

 that the schools are attended by Protestants and Roman 

 Catholics indiscriminately ; and that the duty of giving 

 religious instruction to those of each creed belongs to a 

 chaplain of their own communion. That here, there- 

 fore, we see the national system carried into complete 

 effect ; that here we see how peculiarly adapted it is to 

 the circumstances of Ireland ; and that here, too, we 



