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REPORT 1861. 



Return showing the number of Schools in the Borough of Salford, and the number 

 of Scholars attending them, in 1861. 



No. of 



Schools. 



1 



18 

 2 



4 

 5 



48 



78 



If under GoTernment Inspection, and if 

 Church of England, Roman CathoUc, or 

 Dissenting. 



Church of England 



Ditto, under Inspection 



Roman Catholic 



Dissenting 



Ditto, under Inspection 



Private Schools, Academies, and EstabUsh- 

 ments not directly connected with any 

 Place of Worship 



In a return prepared by the Rev. Dr. Turner and the Rev. Canon Toole, it was 

 stated that accommodation was provided, in Roman Catholic Day-schools, in Man- 

 chester and Salford, for 6310 scholars, and in Simday-schools for 8600 scholars. 



Manchester Newspapers. — The average number" printed weekly in 1840 was 

 22,000 ; in 1860, 438,700. The average weekly number of advertisements in 1840 

 was 970 ; in 1860, 8060. 



In summarizing, Mr. Chadwick asked, Have our municipal regidations for pre- 

 serving order, our sanitary regidations for preserving health, our social regulations 

 for providing healthful means of physical and intellectual enjoyment, our educa- 

 tional regulations for providing instruction and the means of piu-suing scientific in- 

 quiiy, been such as coidd reasonably have been expected from a people so earnestly 

 engaged in trade as the inhabitants of Manchester, and the manufacturing districts 

 of Lancashire generally ? And he concluded by expressing an opinion that, whether 

 viewed in regard to material comforts, the means for obtaining education and 

 intellectual advancement, the making provision against the occurrence of sickness, 

 accident, or distress, — or in any way in which the general welfare of the great 

 mass of the people can be estimated, — there has been a large and gratifying increase 

 in the means placed at their disposal for improving their physical!! moral, and 

 intellectual well-being. 



On a Revision of National Taxation. By Dr. "W. Clabke. 

 Taking the income of the country, from all sources, at 642 mUlions sterling, 

 which he divided into two schedules, in one of which he classed incomes from 

 realized property, and in another profits from trades, professions, pensions, sala- 

 ries, &c., he advocated a gi-aduated scale of per-centage on these incomes, and the 

 retention of the duties on articles of luxury. 



On the Groivth of the Human Body in Height and Weight in Males from 17 

 to 30 Years of Age. By J. T. Danson. 



The author having observed that, at the Walton Jail, near Liverpool, a record 

 was kept of the height and weight of the persons entering and leaving, and that 

 Avithin two years nearly five thousand persons (males) had been thus measured and 



