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Literary and Philosophical Inlelligeiiee. 



We ha%'e inserted beneath, a sum- Norfolk 

 niaiv of the returns of Education by Northamptons 

 endmvment or subscription, in tlie se- Northumbcrlmid 

 vera! counties of England. Tliesere^ 

 turns have been made under an act of 



Noltiughauish. 

 Oxfordshire 



„ ,. i 1 1 <-., c ,,1 Rutlandshire 



Parliament, by the Clergy of several ^^^ 



parishes, and, therefore, it might have Somersetshire 

 been lioped, wouhl have been correct ; Southampton 

 hut it appears, that in too many cases Staffordshire 

 the Dissenting and Methodist establisli- suftolk 

 ments have been overlooked, and hence Surrey - 

 the returns are considered as exceed- Sussex 

 ingly imperfect. Thus it appears by Warwickshire 

 Sutton\i Xotthtghnm Review, that the Westmorland 

 returns in that" town gave Init 4131, Wiltshire 

 whereas by an accurate investigation, Worcestersh. 

 made by some public spirited individu- 'Vorksh., E.R. 



als, the actual numbers thus educated wr 



are no loss tlian 90SS, or more than W.R. 



double (lie number returned to Parlia- 

 ment ! We may presume, therefore,, 

 that these returns greatly underrate the 

 number of the children receiving gra- 

 tuitous education, and perhaps instead 

 of 976,321 it may be tiiken in round 



Total for 

 Eng'land 



451 



8457 



11107 

 3325 

 9425 

 5253 

 848 

 6222 



16262 

 8706 



16318 



13949 

 8600 

 5594 



11591 

 1178 



12998 

 8732 

 6283 

 2261 



42851 



Hence it appears, that oi.t of public 

 or charitable funds, by tliese numbers, 

 no less than 976,321 children of both 

 sexes receive education, being one- 

 iiumbers more nearly at 1,500,000. — tenth of the population ; and the im- 

 The picture is a fine one, and we sliall perfect and omitted returns probably 

 return to its analysis from time to time, amount to half as many more, or one- 

 remembering for the present, tliat the seventh of the whole population — an 

 nation is under the deepest obligations extraordinary social phenomenon. In 

 to the public and intelligent spirit of the endowed schools, the cost is about 

 Mr. Brougham, for instituting the en- 30s. per annum per pupil, and the 

 quiry, and for the pains he has taken, others probably do not cost 10s. each, 

 and will, we trust, continue to take, till forming a total cost of little more than 

 the desirable object is effected, that half a million for a million and a half 

 every sulyect of this realm shall be able of children. 



to read the laws of God and man, to There is preparing for publicaiiou, in 

 which he is held accountable. one volume, 4to, the History of An- 



cient and Modern Wines, by Alex. 

 Henderson, M.D. This work will 

 embrace the substance of Sir Edward 

 Barry's observations on tlie AViues of 

 the Ancients, and will contain, in ad- 

 dition, a topographical description of 

 all the principal modern wines, and a 

 chronological history of those used in 

 England, from the earliest period to 

 the present time. 



Some Posthumous Sermons of the 

 Rev. Thos. Harmer, author of Ob- 

 servations on Scripture, left by him 

 for publication, are in the press ; to- 

 getiicr witli the smaller pieces publish- 

 ed by him during his lifetime, and 

 some introductory remarks on his life 

 and writings, by Mr. W. Youngman, 

 of Norwich. 



A Journal of jin Expedition 1400 

 miles up (he Orinoco, and .SOO up the 

 Arauca; with an account of the coun- 

 try, &c. is in the press, and will be il- 

 lustrated. i>v views. 



The 



