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come. Eye Hospital : in 1840, 1510 patients, and £408 income ; in 1860, 2417 

 patients, £641 income. Clinical Hospital : total patients. 1856 to 1860, 4328 ; 

 total income, 1858-60, £662. Manchester Institution for Diseases of the Ear : in 

 1855, 254 patients, and £"93 income ; in 1860, 1195 patients, and income £83 ; or 

 £10 less income and 941 more patients. Dispensaiy for Sick Children : in 1860, 

 4872 patients, and £2190 income. SaLford Koyal Dispensary : in 1840, 5149 pa- 

 tients, and £534 income ; in 1860, 5762 patients, and £1011 income. 



Of the Salford County Court a tabulated return was presented showing the num- 

 ber of plaints entered to have been as follows :— 1847, 1754 plaints ; 1853, 5019 

 1860, 10,163 ; amount sued for in 1860, £16,358. The com-t sat 17 days in 1847, 

 and 47 days in 1860. 



The statistics of sendees rendered by the Manchester Fire-Brigade, in the thiiv 

 teen years 1848-60, were also noticed, sho\ving property saved to the extent of 

 £5,900,364, and destroyed, £854,373. There had been no augmentation of the 

 strength of the brigade, which nimibered 51 men. 



Passing to the consideration of the figures appertaining to the Manchester and 

 Salford Savings' Bank, it was remarked that habits of forethought and pru- 

 dence had taken a deep hold on the Lancashire mind, in Manchester especially. 

 The number of depositors in 1840 was 13,453 ; in 1860, 49,227. Total amount 

 deposited : from 1818 to 1840, £1,376,460 ; from 1840 to 1860, £4,493,065 ; in 

 1860 alone, £379,403. Average amount of deposits per annum : 1818-40, £59,846 ; 

 1840-60, £224,653. The classification of depositors (as shown in the Association's 

 last report) revealed some highly interesting facts. 



The educational was the last branch alluded to by Mr. Chadwick. Manchester 

 (he said) was decidedly great in its Sabbath-school organization. The gathering in 

 Peel Park, on the occasion of Her Majesty's visit, of nearly 80,000 teachers and 

 children, would not soon be forgotten. The eighteenth annual report of the Salford 

 Simday-School Union (March 1860) gives the number of teachers as 674, and 

 scholars 7766 ; number of Simday Schools (exclusive of Roman Catholics, of which 

 no complete record had been received) in Manchester and Salford, 201, comprising 

 about 90,000 scholare — the afternoon attendance averaging about two-thu'ds, or 

 60,000. There were in the Sunday-Ragged-School Union 17 schools, with 402 teachers, 

 and 3678 scholars ; 35 night-schools, with 1483 scholars ; 15 ragged schools had 

 penny savings' banks, in which 1316 children had deposited £278 ; one of these 

 ragged-schools had also been made a night-asylum for destitute children, besides 

 which there was one school not in the union, with about 300 scholars. 



The present average attendance at day-schools in Manchester was stated as 

 81,923 ; in Salford, 9925 ; total, 41,848. And in Simday-schools, in Manchester, 

 42,687 ; in Salford, 16,354 : total, 59,041, as particularized in the following tables, 

 prepared for this paper by Captain Palin and Mr. Taylor : — 



Return showing the number of Schools of aU Denominations within the City of 

 Manchester, and the number of Scholars attending them, in 1861. 



