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The attention and demeanour of the operatives were 

 throughout in the highest degree satisfactory. 



These evenings included musical, scientific, geo- 

 graphical and other subjects, and the cost of them 

 amounted only to ^"55 for the winter. I find in the 

 Manchester Examiner and Times for March 3ist, 

 1863, ^is report of the last of the lectures which I 

 gave to the unemployed : 



Mr. Hewitt, the master of the school (the Guardian schools 

 Gaythorn, where the lecture was given), having addressed a 

 few words to the men, and a vote of thanks to Professor 

 Roscoe having been moved and seconded, Mr. H. J. Leppoc 

 (vice-chairman of the Board of Guardians) said : " I have 

 attended this interesting lecture as one of the guardians of 

 the poor, and rise to support the resolution just proposed not 

 only to Professor Roscoe, but to all the gentlemen who have 

 joined him, and who, during the last four months, have so 

 kindly come forward, at a great sacrifice of time and expense, 

 to deliver lectures on various subjects interesting to the working 

 classes. It is, indeed, a pleasure and gratification to see that 

 every class in this vast community has striven to lighten the 

 burden so patiently borne by their poorer brethren ; and I 

 beg to assure the gentlemen that we, the guardians, are as 

 much indebted to them as you can be, for it has always been 

 our aim to provide for you in these painful times every little 

 recreation and that instruction for which in better times you 

 have been able to pay yourselves." 



The Manchester Guardian for December 27th, 

 1862, contains an announcement signed by the Rev. 

 William Gaskell, Dr. Arthur Ransome, and myself, 

 giving a list of the arrangements. Among these 

 I see that Mr. Charles Halle and some members 

 of the Manchester Liedertafel gave an instrumental 

 and vocal concert to the unemployed attending the 

 schools. I myself lectured on the " Chemistry of a 

 Candle," with numerous experiments ; my friend 

 F. C. Calvert, on " A Few Words on Chemistry " ; 

 Arthur Ransome, on "Air and Water, the Great 



