B E R 



295 



B E R 



Offences against the person . . . . 5-0 

 Offences against property, committed with violence 8 

 Offences against property, committed without violence 78 '4 

 Malicious offences against property . 0'8 



Forgery and offences against the currency . . 2'4( 

 Other offences, not included in the foregoing classes 4'8( 



100 



There are ten savings-banks within the county, at Abing 

 don, Faringdon, Hungerford, Maidenhead, Newbury 

 Reading, Twyford, Wantage, Windsor, and Wokingham 

 The number of depositors and amount of deposits on thi 

 20th November, 1832, 1833, and 1834 were respectively as 

 follows : 



1832. 1833. 1834. 



Number of depositors 7,128 7,586 7,937 



Amount of deposits 238,659 250,181 260,425 



The accounts of these savings-banks, with reference to 



the number and magnitude of the deposits on the 20th 



November, 1834, stood as follows : 



Depositors. Deposits. 



Not exceeding 20 4,152 29,869 



50 2,149 65,437 



100 1,007 69,408 



150 38-2 45,861 



200 170 29,621 



Above 200 77 20,229 



Total 



7,937 260,425 



Education. The following abstract of the various esta- 

 blishments for education in Berkshire is taken from the 

 returns made to the House of Commons in the session of 

 1835, in consequence of an address moved by the Earl of 

 Kerry in May, 1833, and which returns have been put in 

 order by Mr. Rickman : 



Schools. Scholan. Toul. 



Infant Schools 23 



Number of infants at such schools, ages 



from 2 to 7 years Mules 238 



Females .... 211 



Sex not specified . 244 



693 



Daily Schools 511 



Number of Children from 4 to 14 years 



old Males 6737 



Females 5S62 



Sex not specified 3282 



- 15,881 



Schools .... 534 



Total of Children under daily instruction .... 16,574 



Sunday Schools 225 



N umber of Children from 4 to 15 years 



old Males 5800 



Females 5873 



Sex not specified 2440 



14,113 



If we take as the groundwork of the calculation the sum- 

 mary of ages obtained at the census of 1821, which summary 

 was made to include not more than 94 per cent, of the then 

 population of the county, we shall find that, making allow- 

 ance for the increase that has since occurred, the inhabitants 

 between the ages of 2 and 1 5, at present living in Berkshire, 

 must amount to rather move than 50,000; and consequently 

 that very few more than 3 in 5 of those children are receiving 

 instruction in schools of all descriptions, even supposing, 

 what is not the fact, that none of the scholars attending at 

 Sunday schools receive daily instruction ; but as many attend 

 both the Sunday and day schools, it follows that they are 

 enumerated twice in the abstract, and accordingly make the 

 sum total greater than it really is. 



Maintenance of Schools. 



$ehoo!s etUbliihtd ( Infant School o 



by DifwuUn iu- } Daily Scl,uol> . . , . t 

 eluded in the abore. ( Sunday School! , . 48 



120 

 33C4 



Seventy-three Boarding Schools arc included amon" the 

 511 daily schools. 



The schools established since the year 1818 are a? 

 follows : 



Infant and other daily schools 157 containing 6694 scholars. 

 Sunday-schools 136 9252 



293 15946 



Lending libraries of books are attached to 21 schools in 

 Berkshire. 



BERLICHINGEN, GOETZ VON, a German knight, 

 or petty feudal lord of Suabia, notorious in the history of 

 the'middle ages for his bravery and his lawless turbulence. 

 He lived under the reign of the emperor Maximilian I., the 

 predecessor of Charles V. Goetz was called iron-handed, 

 because having lost his right hand in battle, he had a steel 

 one made with springs, by means of which, it is said, he 

 could still handle his lance. He was often at war with his 

 neighbours, and at times he took the part of the peasantry 

 against the nobles. In 1513 he declared war against the 

 free imperial town of Niirnberg. With 170 men he way- 

 laid the merchants returning from Leipzig, plundered them 

 of all they had, and consigned many to his dungeons, in 

 order to exact a ransom for them. Upon this the emperor 

 put him under the ban of the empire, and sentenced him 

 to pay 14,000 florins. The money was collected after some 

 difficulty, and the offender was restored to his civil rights. 

 (Dunham's History of the Germanic Empire in Lardner's 

 Cabinet Cyclopedia.) Having again offended the emperor, 

 he was at last besieged in a castle by4he imperial troops, 

 where he defended himself desperately, but was wounded, 

 and died. Goethe has taken him for the subject of one 

 of his dramas, Goetz von Berlichingen, which was and still 

 is very popular in Germany, as being a picture of the man- 

 ners and social state of the latter part of the middle ages, 

 before the imperial authority was thoroughly enforced 

 through the country by means of standing armies, well 

 disciplined, and provided with artillery. (See Goethe's 

 drama already mentioned, which has been translated by Sir 

 W. Scott, and Madame de Stael's Allemagne.) 



BERLIN, a minor circle in the administrative circle of 

 Potsdam, which, with that of Frankfort, forms the province 

 )f Brandenburg in the kingdom of Prussia. The circle of 

 Berlin, containing simply the city of Berlin and its imme- 

 diate environs, is the smallest subdivision of that description 

 n the Prussian dominions, but the most populous. Its area 

 does not exceed twenty-six square miles : but it comprises two 

 ':owns, and twenty-two villages and hamlets ; and the number 

 if its inhabitants in 1826 was 216, 237, and in 1831,229,843, 

 resides the military, who were about 16,600. 



The city of Berlin, which derives its name from ' Berle,' 



word implying 'uncultivated land' in the language of 

 he Sclavonian Vends, who were the earliest settlers in this 

 marter, is situated in a s"andy plain on both banks of the 

 spree, which is 200 feet broad in this part of its course. 

 The Spree winds through Berlin from south-east to north- 

 vest, and divides it into two nearly equal portions. 



Berlin is the capital of the province of Brandenburg, the 

 metropolis of the Prussian monarchy, the largest and the 

 inesttownin Germany, Vienna only excepted, and the ninth 

 n Europe in point of population. It occupies a surface o( 

 upwards of 6700 acres, at an elevation of about 125 feet 

 above the level of the sea, and is above ten miles in circuit, 

 t is the seat of government, and of the supreme courts of 

 udicature. The various quarters of the town, which are 

 anited under one system of municipal administration, and 

 nave, since the year 1724, borne the name of royal resi- 

 lenccs (' kb'nigliche Residenz-Siadte'), are six in number. 

 The quarters are, Berlin, the old town, between the right 

 jank of the Spree and the King's Fosse, which place it on a 

 iomplete island ; Cologne, O1H and New, on the left bank of 

 he Spree, on an island formed by a canal which issues from 

 ind flows again into the Spree ; the Friedricbswerder, which 

 ies to the south-cast of New Cologne; Dorotheen-stadt, cr 

 he New Town, likewise on the lei't bank of the Spree, be- 

 ween this river and the celebrated Brandenburg Gate, on 

 hat part of the Spree which separates the pleasure-garden 

 ' Lust-garten') from the square next the arsenal; and 

 Yeilerick's Town (' Friedrichs-stadt '), the most sotith- 

 vcslcrn and the handsomest part of Berlin. Connected 

 lith these six quarters there are four Vorutadte, or rahvrite, 

 within the walls, and one beyond them: those within the 

 vails are the suburbs of Spandau, the King's, Stralau, an i 



