In eight of these Schools writing is taught, and in five arithmetic; in thirty religion and morals; in one morals without religion! Nineteen of the Schools have visitors. In eighteen the children are questioned on what they read. Nine of the Sunday Schools (two Church Establishment, four Wesleyan, and four Independent) have evening schools attached to them; twelve of the schools have Lending Libraries; one a Benefit Society; nine Lending Libraries Benefit Societies; and one Savings' Bank also.

The members of Christ Church, Salford, have opened a school for adults, who are taught to read their Bible. They assemble every Friday evening.

In the year 1833 inquiries were instituted, by order of the House of Commons, to ascertain the extent and nature of the schools for the education of the young in this country. The returns then made from Manchester (as from other places) were, however, so insufficient as to afford no correct data for forming a calculation. Since that time the Statistical Society of Manchester have at considerable labour and expense made a more close and rigid inves tigation, the results of which have been liberally communicated to the public in two pamphlets having reference, the one to the borough of Manchester, the other to the neighbour borough of Salford. The details are very complete, but without descending to their minute particulars, the tables which follow comprise in a small compass all the essential results of the inquiry:

EDUCATION IN THE BOROUGH OF MANCHESTER, 1834.

In this calculation it will of course be seen that the 9,000 Wesleyan Methodists are

GENERAL SUMMARY OF SCHOOLS AND SCHOLARS IN THE BOROUGH OF

The Roman Catholics have a Day School, in which upwards of four hundred boys and girls are taught reading, writing, arithmetic, needle-work, and the rudiments of Catholicism. They are erecting a new school calculated for the accommodation of a much larger number. Two" brothers" of the Christian Schools, a lay fraternity in Dublin, engaged exclusively in educating the young, are the masters. About 1827, the New Jerusalem Connexion, their conference having a fund in trust to promote education, established a School, in which about two hundred boys are taught, a charge of 2d. per week for reading, and 3d. for reading, writing and arithmetic, being made to them: the proceeds are expended in books and writing materials. In connexion with the Cross-street and Mosley-street Unitarian Chapels, there is a School supported by donations and subscriptions, in which forty-three girls are taught reading, writing, arithmetic, needle-work, &c. &c. They undergo a monthly exemination. A lending library and a clothing society are attached to the School. The girls subscribe a penny per week to a prize fund.

The Statistical Society complain of the exceeding incompetency of those self styled instructors who preside over the "Dame" Schools, and who furnish such an exceedingly minute modicum of education, that the only possible object in sending children to them seems to be to relieve their parents of the care of them. In this respect, however, Manchester does not appear to present any contrast to other places. Every person who feels or fancies an incompetency to earn a livelihood otherwise, conceives him or herself capacitated (and indeed bound in self-defence) to open a seminary. If, however, children acquire such a power of reading as enables them hereafter to make some advance in the rudiments of knowledge, a great good is effected, even by "Dame" Schools.

It has been already stated that the returns furnished to the House of Commons in 1833, do not afford abstractedly a correct view of the state of education in Manchester or Salford. Probably, however, they may furnish sufficiently accurate data for a comparison of the extent of education in this and other counties. It appears that in Lancashire there are, according to the analysis of these returns, 198,777 persons attending Sunday schools, and 97,534 attending Day schools.* It has been calculated that in Manchester one-half of the persous attending the latter

*The returns state that in Lancashire there are 133 Infant schools, supporting 6360 scholars; 2087 Day schools, having 61,174 scholars; that in these schools 12,451 children are instructed in Endowed schools, 11,873: in schools supported by subscription, 60,657 pay for their own education, 12,550 are taught in Schools maintained by the joint contributions of scholars and subscribers of 479 Sunday schools in the county, having 37,523 scholars, 26, with 1731 scholars are maintained by endowment, 410 with 32,011 scholars, by subscription, 1, with 30 scholars, by payments from the children, and 42 with 3751 scholars, by subscriptions joined with payments from the scholars of these schools 12 of the Infant and Day schools with 844 scholars, and 148 of the Sunday schools, with 15,456 scholars, were established by Dissenters. Since 1818, there has been an increase of 986 Infant and Day schools; with 31,410 scholars, and of 349 Sunday schools, with 29,333 scholars. There are 53 schools, to which lending libraries are attached. At the time this inquiry was made, the calculation was that the children under education In Day and Infant Schools in England and Wales, (1,275,947,) were nearly nine per cent., and those who attended Sunday schools, (1,548,890 in number,) nearly cleven per cent., of the population.

attend the former also; so that the number of children under education in Lancashire would be on this supposition about 247,544, or 18.51 per cent. of the population. In Cheshire, according to the same standard, the proportion is 21.85. per cent.; in Derbyshire, 21.68. per cent. In Kent, it is only 18.51.; in Berks, another agricultural county, 15.4.; whilst in some other rural districts the average is a little higher. We must bear in mind, however, that as to Manchester and Salford this return is really no In regard to the former town an error of 10,611 is committed, and as to the latter there is an omission of 3,600. The proportion of the population in the borough of Manchester actually receiving education is, as the tables shew, 21.65. per cent., and in Salford 23.4. per cent.,- no trifling proportion, though less than could be desired.*

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* An Educational Institution of a description new to this part of the country has recently been originated in Manchester, and a structure is about to be raised in the neighbouring village of Didsbury in which its principles will be carried out. It has been named "the Manchester Proprietary School," and its design is "to provide a course of education for youth, comprising classical learning, mathematical and commercial instruction, and such modern languages and other branches of science and general literature as it may from time to time be practicable and advantageous to introduce, combined with religious and moral instruction, in conformity with the principles of the Church of England." To the maintenance of this distinctive feature each Proprietor is bound, on pain of forfeiture, by signing a "declaration;" the whole property is vested in twelve Trustees, who, as well as the Proprietors, are "members of the Church of England;" the Head Master must be a Clergyman of the Church, and, as well as the second, a graduate of Oxford or Cambridge; the daily school duties are to be opened and closed "by a short devotional service, conformable to the Liturgy of the Church of England;" and at a Midsummer examination of the pupils, "inquiry shall be made into the knowledge which each pupil may have acquired of the evidences of natural and revealed religion, and of the doctrines and duties of Christianity, as taught by the Church of England; and every pupil will be expected to exhibit a certain degree of proficiency in these subjects." To render these bases permanent, it is provided, in the 17th. rule, "that no proposition affecting the fundamental principles of the Institution, as defined in the Trust Deed, be ever entertained by any meeting whatsoever." The Proprietary consists of 500 shares of £50 each, bearing interest at not more than four per cent., the principal money going to the purchase of land and erection of a school, and any surplus being applicable to the general purposes of the Institution. The Trustees are eligible by a ballot of the Proprietors, each of whom has only one vote, except in matters of finance, when every share gives a votes, but no individual can hold more than four shares, which may be transferred, or bequeathed, under limitations. Each share gives a Proprietor the right to nominate one pupil, but the Committee must first assent to his admission; unless he be a son, stepson, grandson, brother, nephew, or ward. An entrance fee of £5 is required in addition to the yearly payment, which is expected not to exceed £50 for washing, lodging, board, and education, in English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, Italian and German, writing,