TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTIONS. lOS 



1850 ... Sisters of Mercy, Mount Vernon 500 400 



1850 ... Spitalfields 238 190 



1852 ... Eldon-street 312 250 



1852 ... St. Anne's, Edge-hill 800 400 



1853 ... Edgar-street... (1200— 300)=900 

 1853 ... Fontenoy-street(l450— 700)=750 

 1853 ... St. Francis', Everton =820 



2470 



1850 ... Blackstock-street 738 590 



The schools under general management afford accommodation for 4451. 

 We can now obtain a connected view of the entire provision that has been made 

 for the education of the poor in the town. It is the following : — 



1. Church Schools — Districts permanent 16,390 



„ ,, „ temporary 1,021 



„ „ „ Not in District Schools 3,075 



20,486 



2. Protestant Dissenters' Schools 4,869 



3. Roman Catholic Schools 8,193 



4. General Schools 4,451 



Total accommodation... 37,999 



We can also compare the supply with the demand, in the form of an ordinary 

 account : — 



Total school accommodation required, per previous calculation 66,666 



Ditto ditto provided from all sources, per actual enumeration. ..37,999 

 Balance still required to meet the deficiency 28,667 



66,666 



The general result is, that the entire community have yet discharged little more 

 than half their duty on this subject, the existing accommodation amounting to only 

 57 per cent. 



IV. Distribution of Educational Facilities. — The facts connected with this part of 

 the subject cannot but leave a painful impression on the mind ; for it is found that 

 the local accommodation in schools is in inverse ratio to the necessities of the town. 



The following facts refer to Church Schools. (1) Of fifteen ecclesiastical districts 

 in the townships, thirteen have permanent schools ; of sixteen districts wholly or 

 partially in the middle portion of the town, twelve have permanent schools ; of fif- 

 teen districts in the lowest part, embracing nearly the whole of the perishing poor, only 

 eight have permanent schools. (2) Of six districts in the lowest portion of the town, 

 forming a continuous belt from north to south of nearly two miles and a quarter,no< one 

 has a permanent set of schools connected with it. Thesecontain almost all the merchants' 

 offices in the town, and some of the principal shops ; the Town-hall, Custom-house, 

 Exchange, Post-office, railway station, and eleven or twelve of the docks. It is a 

 fact worth knowing that four of these districts are connected with churches built by 

 the corporation. (3) If the Exchange flags be taken as a centre, and a semi-circle 

 be described with a radius of 800 yards, it will contain five districts wholly and 

 seven partially, and will comprise a population of 70,000. Of these, four have no 

 schools whatever ; two have only temporary ones, and exactly the half are perma- 

 nently provided for. (4) A stranger entering the port, can walk from the landing- 

 stage on the river right up through the heart of the town, to Everton and Edge- 

 hill, without passing through a single district that contains a permanent set of 

 schools ! 



The schools of Protestant Dissenters are in general very ill-placed ; for the schools 

 follow the chapels, and these are removed from time to time, following the more 

 respectable portion of the population. Hence, of the 4869 for whom they provide 



