TRANSACTIONS OF THB SECTIONS. 



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ignorant and selfish man, who has perhaps added rudeness to his negative in the case 

 of some strong appeal, is rewarded for the coarseness of his moral sense by a per- 

 petual exemption from claims. It has been estimated that so many as 15,000 persons 

 ought to subscribe in Liverpool for the promotion of education, and that not more 

 than 2500 actually do so. In eighteen Church District Schools there are 8180 chil- 

 dren educated, and the entire subscribers are only 810. Probably not more than 

 1200 churchmen in all subscribe to any school whatever. For the education of 7000 

 Roman Catholic children, there are not fifty principal subscribers ; the remaining 

 expenses are met by the children's pence, congregational collections, and very small 

 contributions. The writer of the paper, therefore, is anxious to see the system of 

 Local Rates introduced, the working of which may be inferred from the following 

 analysis of persons rated to the relief of the poor in the borough : — 



A brief comparison of Liverpool with New York showed that the educational facts 

 are much more satisfactory in the latter ; and it appeared that, in Massachussetts, 

 90 per cent, of all those who ought to be at school attended in the summer, and 

 75 per cent, in the winter. 



Electoral Statistics of the British Empire. By James Edwards. 



Ireland's Recovery ; or. Excessive Emigration, and its Reparative Ayencies. 

 By John Locke. 



The panic caused by the potato-blight and famine of 1846 gave the first impulse to 

 the exodus. Within six years, ending 31st Dec. 1852, 1,313,226 persons have emi- 

 grated from Ireland. 1851 was the culminating year of the exodus, which, since that 

 period, has been decreasing in geometrical ratio ; although the remittances from 

 emigrants have increased from ^990,000 in 1851 to J?l,404,000 in 1852. 



The three principal reparative agencies : — 1. Decrease of pauperism concurrent 

 with general diffusion of employment. 2. Establishment of civii and social order> 

 evidenced by decrease of crime. 3. Increasing solvency of the landed proprietary, 

 concurrent with improvement of agriculture. 



1st. Total Poor-law expenditure of 1852 one-fourth less than that of 1851. 

 Successful results of the workhouse industrial system, and general improvement of 

 the labour market. 



2nd. Decrease of crime, 28^ per cent, in 1852 less than in 1851. Exemplified 

 in the moral improvemciit of the peasantry of Tipperary and Limerick. Economic 

 results anticipated.. 



3rd. Ruined condition of the landed interest previously to the famine. Beneficial 

 eflFects of the Incumbered Estates' Commission, by establishing a middle class, by 

 encouraging investment of British capital, and immigration of British farmers into 

 the south and west of Ireland. Improvement of agriculture, and increasing number 

 and solvency of the landed proprietary. Conclusion. Providential design of 

 emigration. 



On Progressive, Practical, and Scientific Education. 

 By the Rev. F. O. Morris, B.A. 

 The author commenced by mentioning various proofs which had come under his 

 own observation of the instability and insuflSciency which at present characterized 



