P REF A СЕ. THE COMMISSIONERS OF NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND have deemed it expedient to reprint, from the Copies printed by order of Parliament, the Reports of their Proceedings for the last sixteen years; for the purpose of diffusing more widely information respecting the Principles of the System of Education administered by them, and the measure of success which it has already obtained.. They have not deemed it necessary to reprint all the Statistical Tables that vary from year to year, which accompanied their Reports when originally presented to His Excellency the LORD LIEUTENANT; because such Documents are now easily accessible to all who wish to examine them, in consequence of the arrangements made for the Sale, at a cheap rate, of all Documents printed for the use of Parliament. But they have annexed those Documents of a more permanent character, which explain the mode in which they seek to carry into effect the objects of their Commission. They have also prefixed to the Reports the terms of the Commission itself, as detailed in a Letter addressed by the Right Honorable E. G. STANLEY (now Lord STANLEY), when Chief Secretary 2 |