EDUCATION. 
schools within it at least once a week. The Presbyterian and Catholic clergymen visit also, but 
not in the same systematic manner. 
At Gwyn’s Charitable Institution the business begins and ends with prayer. The pupils 
attend their several places of worship on Sunday, and also receive instruction during the week 
from their respective pastors. It is indeed provided in the founder’s will that boys of all per¬ 
suasions should be admissible, but that the teachers should be Protestants, or Protestant Dis¬ 
senters; that Roman Catholics should be^permitted to attend chapel on Sundays ; and that, althouo-h 
no clergyman whatever should be allowed ingress without the permission of the trustees’, unremit¬ 
ted attention should be paid to Christian instruction. At the gaol there are three chaplains. The 
Catholic worship is conducted from 9 to 10 o’clock the Protestant, from 11 to 12, and the Pres¬ 
byterian, from 3 to 4. 
Bishop Barnard contributed to the moral instruction of the parish, by bequeathing £50 a year, 
charged on lands, for the support of a curate to the Chapel of Ease. 
Bishop Knox also contributed very largely to the moral instruction of the parish, in founding 
or promoting various establishments which have been noticed elsewhere. In these laudable exertions 
he was warmly seconded by the influential part of the community, and he was equally ready to 
co-operate in such exertions as originated with others. 
Auxiliaries. 
The following institutions are instrumental in the circulation of moral and religious 
literature. 
1st. The Religious Tract Depository, established about 1822, by the ladies of the Penny 
Society. It is assisted by the Protestant clergy, but it is nearly independent, owing to the dis¬ 
count allowed by the bookseller that supplies it. 
2nd. A Religious, Moral, and Historical Society, instituted on the 1st of August, 1819, 
at the tract depository, A library, mentioned before, is attached to it, which consists of about 500 
works, and one-half at least of the funds must be expended in publications purely religious. The 
affairs are managed by a committee, consisting of a treasurer, secretary, librarian, and 4 ordinary 
members of this committee : four constitute a quorum. The terms of admission are 10s. entrance 
money, and 10s. annual subscription ; but any subscriber, who, after having paid for five 1 years, may 
have become unable to pay any longer, is allow’ed to read gratuitously, should his claim be ap¬ 
proved by the committee. 
Sunday School Union. —The Sunday School Union was formed on the 2'8th of December, 
1832. The objects are to establish and revive Sunday schools in the city and liberties, to promote 
zeal and good feeling among the members, to encourage well qualified teachers, to prevent a useless 
interchange of pupils, and to induce parents to send their children for instruction. 
The 11th rule provides against retaining in the society any person, “who is of exception¬ 
able moral character, or who is professedly of Arian. or Socinian principles.” The meetings are 
opened and closed with prayer. The union have divided the liberties into six districts, each of 
which is placed under the control of one or two members. 
The committee consists of a treasurer, a secretary, and 12 other members. At their 
meetings, which are quarterly, moral and religious questions are discussed. 
The number of schools in Templemore, at present in connexion with the union, is 16, at¬ 
tended by 162 teachers. The number of pupils on the books is 1726, and the average attendance 
1100. The number of schools was until lately 25, from which, however, 9 were withdrawn at a 
meeting held by the clergy and others, on the 13th of April last [1835], and annexed to the Glen- 
dermot [Clondermot] School Union formed in 1819, and lately revived. 
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