Education. Return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 8 August 1850;--for, a return, "in the form of an annual balance sheet, showing on the one side sums received on account of the parliamentary education grant from year to year by the Committee of Council, and on the other side the appropriation of such sums, distinguishing grants made in furtherance of education, and expenses of administration; under the former head entering in each year only such grants as had actually been paid within that year, and distinguishing grants for building, enlarging, repairing, or furnishing schools; grants for apparatus; grants for books and maps; grants in augmentation of schoolmasters' salaries; grants made to pupil teachers (including gratuities to schoolmasters and schoolmistresses for instructing them); the number of schools to which such grants have been made respectively to be given in each year under the following heads:--schools connected with the Church of England; schools connected with the British and Foreign School Society; Wesleyan schools; Roman Catholic schools; schools connected with the Established Church in Scotland; schools connected with the Free Church in Scotland; schools connected with the Episcopal Church in Scotland; workhouse schools; other schools not included under any of the preceding titles in Great Britain; the amount of accommodation provided; the average number of scholars in attendance; and the total expense incurred, to be given on the whole, or an ascertained number of instances in each case:" "account of grants made to training schools, distinguishing them under the preceding heads, and showing whether the grants were made for building such training schools, or in aid of their annual maintenance; the number of pupils for whom accommodation is provided; the actual number of pupils in training; the total expense incurred; the number of model schools:" "list of all applications made to the Committee of Council for aid to erect schools, from the 28th day of June 1847 to the present time, whereon no money has been actually paid by the Committee of Council, setting forth in separate tables for the different denominations, as in the preceding return; the grounds of refusal, if no grant was made, or the reason of the grant not being paid, in the event of a grant having been made; the accommodation proposed to be provided, the estimated expense, and the local funds raised, to be given in each instance where possible:" "returns of the office expenses of the Committee of Council on Education, specifying the expenses of administration chargeable upon the grant, and particularly, the number and designation of the officers employed, and their salaries:" "of all the inspectors employed by the Committee of Council from the year 1839 to the present time, specifying their names, the date of their appointment, the amount of salary paid to them, with a summary of the total expense, under this head, from year to year; the district assigned to them, and the number of schools contained in it liable to inspection:" "list of all school books, for the purchase of which grants are made by the Committee of Council to the managers of schools, with the names of the authors and publishers, and the year of publication; also, statement of the regulations under which, and the terms on which, grants of books are made, specifying the ordinary selling price and the reduced price at which they are supplied by the publishers [electronic resource].