138 SEVENTH REPORT—1837. 
On the Wages of Labourers in Manufacturing Districts. 
By Mr. Suaney. 
On the State of Education in the Borough of Bolton in 1837. 
By Mr. Asuwortn. 
The return made to government in 1833 on the state of education 
has been found very defective. In Bolton there have been no means 
of testing its correctness; but, if accurate, there has been a very re- 
markable increase in the number of scholars, being 25 per cent. more 
of day scholars and 40 per cent. more of Sunday scholars. 
There are now 2] Sunday schools, with 9867 scholars, or 193 per 
cent. of the population, of whom about 2000 may be estimated as being 
in attendance both at daily schools and Sunday schools, leaving the 
number of 7867, or 15% per cent. of the population, receiving instruc- 
tion at Sunday schools only. 
There are 66 day and evening schools, containing 3227 scholars, or 
§° per cent. ; 
Total number of scholars 11,094, or about 22+ per cent. of the pre- 
sent population, estimated at about 50,000. 
Children equal in number to 20 per cent. of the population are not 
in attendance at any school whatever. 
In the Sunday schools were found— 
2014 scholars in 4 schools connected with the Church Establish- 
ment. 
1085 scholars in 1 Roman Catholic school. 
6768 scholars in 16 schools belonging to various classes of Dis- 
senters. 
In Bolton there are 5 charity schools, with 692 scholars, including 
the two infant schools. There is also a grammar school, whose scholars 
have been entered at 120, being the number reported to government, 
the master having declined to give the agent any information orf the 
subject. The income was stated to the committee to be £450. 
Of superior schools for the children of persons in good circum- 
stances there appear to be 17, with 721 scholars. 
Of common boys’ schools there are 15, with 851 scholars. 
Of common girls’ schools........ 5, 209 
Of Dame schools)... «e660 65 6 eu 23, 634 
—944 being boys and 750 girls, all the boys’ schools containing some 
girls, and vice versa. 
Remarks on the Report of the State of Education in Liverpool, pre- 
sented to the British Association in 1836. By Mr. Merritt. 
The author dissenting from the numerical results stated in the re~ 
port alluded to (of which an abstract is given in the preceding volume, 
p- 133.), assigned his reasons for this difference of opinion. 
Mr. Tate also presented remarks on the same subject. 
