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whether it is not rather the result of factitions means which have 
been employed to create a false appearance, we shall now proceed 
to consider, first from the printed statistics of the department, and 
secondly from those sources that have been laid open to us by the 
managers of the various institutions which have been affected by 
the system. 
The following schools were in existence in 1865 with the 
number of students placed opposite their names; those schools are 
now entirely closed, at least their names do not appear in the 
‘ Directory’ of 1867 :— 
Name of Town. Tnstitution. Number of Pupils. 
1x64, 1865. 
Ancoats .... +. Educational Institute viel eee oe — 82 
Brentford ne ee) New Britishtsehool oa. ssh ice —_ 40 
Christchurch .. .. Working Men’s Institute... .. .. — 25 
Dudley V. ..  «-  Mlechanics! Ineiitute’..5=-. 5. 2. 52 30 
Dueckenfield |. ... | Millage Wiibrary =) 3. Whe) ce — 16 
Idpdigow hog. “sal set qLeehysiistloolles 65 ag. foe —_ 11 
Glossop... .. .. Working Men’sInstitute.. .. .. — 16 
Gulworthy .... Duke of Bedford’sSchool.. .. .. 20 12 
Kidderminster .. Mechanics’ Institute .. 20. oe 14 10 
Loughborough .. Town Hall sowbinae Waar ean M88 24 23 
. London .. .. .. Farringdon Street British School .. 200 50 
ss eee pbadwelliSailors:mstiiitemes. ieee 32 19 
Macclesfield .. .. Mechanics’ Institute .. ao Be 44 26 
VICE SULCTO ect tices tae 5 cise (role pnees avete 15 14 
Netherton bab as 36 walbroiniet) Wate se 24 21 
Neweastle-on-Tyne .. - Meal ten bkeehy ute 42 31 
- Tron and Alkali Works School sie — 15 
Rawienstalli vei -nn  eeLollyMiounin css) teels cet e calen ae 17 20 
Redditch...) i. Miterarymstituter 90 <s 2.) ee 38 40 
Slaithwaite .. .. Mechanics’ Institute p 12 14 
Bs .. . Meek and Walkers .. : — 18 
Staleybridge .. .. Mechanics’ Institute .. ve — 30 
Dea D scree | a7) weGUTISe Schools Gen gece Mase ie. 18 12 
Stourbridge ..  .. Grammar School sayiinems Bice 9 25 
Tint wistlome ss elas) Nationallschoolien a) nil sellbeamimes 14 11 
Upton .... .. St. Leonard’s Schoolhouse co Mee 30 40 
Wells .. .. «Mutual Improvement Society .. .. — 9 
Bandon) y.uee- bee ee LOM ErelLl ey ile do ag — 20 
Dublin .. .. «. Atheneum ie tok oie re — 28 
- «. . « Christian School eee ac — 190 
a .. .» «+ Christian Brothers’ School — 29 
Thirty schools, therefore, including those at such important 
centres of industry as Dudley, Glossop, Macclesfield, Marsden, 
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Staleybridge, and Stourbridge, have already 
disappeared ; and if it had not been for the devotion manifested by 
teachers, or the repeated appeals of committees to raise the ne- 
cessary funds for paying those teachers even a small pittance to 
retain their services, the number of important schools which have 
been closed would have been largely augmented. 
And now turning from the ‘Directory’ of 1865 to that of 
1867, let us supplement the inquiry concerning the schools that 
