TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTIONS. 



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scholars came, and the building fell into ruins. Masters of endowed grammar 

 schools were commonly not prepared to teach anything beyond the classics and 

 mathematics. , Persons intimately connected with general educational pursuits 

 shoidd be enrolled amongst the Charity Commissioners. In the Leeds Grammar 

 School, the Rev. Dr. Hook had the influence to obtain an enlargement of the 

 plan so as to modify the erroneous legal decisions with respect to the limitation of 

 grammar school instruction to Latin and Greek. The Hoyal Commissioners had re- 

 commended that the Charity Commissioners should merge into the Committee of 

 Council on Education. At present the Charity Commissioners had not sufficient 

 independent power to act. It had been foimd that a proposed change for the better 

 in Coventry had provoked an opposition ; and it was relinquished because it indi- 

 rectly influenced the return of members of parliament. The general principle laid 

 down by Mr. Cumin was, to do the best they could for their own day, instead of 

 strictly following the will of the founders. The Charity Commissioners resided in 

 London, and had accounts presented before them comprising fidly two millions of 

 money. They received an enormous amount of documents, which required arrange- 

 ment and classification. 



On the Condition of National Schools in Liverpool as compared with the 



Population, 1861. By the Eev. A. Hume, LL.D. 

 In 1853 a paper was read at Hull, before this Section of the Association, on the 

 same general subject, and by the same writer. The present one brings down the 

 facts and principles to the present time. The records which have been preserved at 

 the Blue-Coat Hospital enable us to compare the progress of schools and of educa- 

 tion with that of the population. The following are all Church schools : — 



The order and rapidity of their foundation may be seen from the following table, 

 which includes the Blue-Coat Hospital and the Industrial and Workhouse schools : — 



1821, in existence 9 schools, 



1831, „ 15 „ 



1841, „ 30 „ 



1861, „ 43 „ 



1861, „ 50 „ 



In the earlier years of this period, schools were erected for the use of an entire 

 neighbourhood or section of the town ; aftei-wards national feelings, as distinguished 

 from imperial ones, preponderated ; so that separate schools were erected for the 

 Scotch, Irish, and Welsh. In our own days, however, the population is so large 

 that it is classified not only by religious denominations, but Dy congi-egations ; so 

 that every chm'ch and many chapels are regarded as incomplete without the pos- 

 session of means of education. 



Dm-ing the summer and autumn of 1861, the state of 45 Church schools within 

 the borough was as follows : — • 



22,923. 



21,421. 



16,883. 



