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valuable result, he showed that this function was far less in England 

 during seasMis of commercial depression than of agricultural distress. 



[This extract is taken from Dr. Cleland's Statistical Documents re- 

 lating to Glasgow.] 



Mr. Porter presented the following statement of data drawn up by 

 himself, for the determining of this function in England : 



Baron Dupin explained two maps of Britain, shaded so as to repre- 

 sent, 1, the density of population ; 2, the degree of criminality. He 

 presented tables showing the relative amount of male and female offend- 

 ers, and the relation of criminality to education. 



Report on the State of Education in the Borough of Liverpool, 

 in 1835—1836*. 



This report was communicated to the Section by the Manchester Sta- 

 tistical Society, having been drawn up by a Committee of that Society, 

 under whose direction the inquiry was conducted. The report has been 

 published by the Society since the meeting of the Association. 



In collecting the materials for this report, each school of every class 

 had been visited, and the facts thus obtained by personal inspection and 

 the testimony of the teachers were classified in numerous tables. The 

 result proved that the returns made to Government in 1833 were ex- 

 ceedingly defective ; in the parish of Liverpool alone the deficiency 

 amounting to no less than 13,500 scholars, the returns from the out- 

 townships being also grossly inaccurate. 



The whole number of chUdren attending the schools in the borough 

 of Liverpool was found by the Committee to be 33,183, viz. 

 17,815, or 7J per cent, of the population, attending day or evening 



schools only. 

 11,649, or 5 per cent, of the population, attending Jo^A day and Sunday 

 schools. 

 3,719, or 1§ per cent, of the population, attending Sundayschools only, 



33,183, or I4'j per cent, of the population. 



• See in relation to this subject, vol. iv. p. 119. 



