] 10 Statistics of Van JJiemens Land. 



Tables 19 to 22 are a series of returns from the Inspector 

 of Schools relating to education in this Colony in 1848. 

 Of private establishments there are 100 ; 15 of which 

 decline to give any information as to the number of their 

 pupils. The other 85 schools contained 1285 boys, and 

 1011 girls; and if to these be added the numbers probably 

 under instruction at the 15 referred to, taking the average 

 of the whole of the others as a guide for the calculation, 

 the total number may be estimated at 26G8 children of both 

 sexes, the boys exceeding the girls by about 25 per cent. 

 There were 33 schools upon the Penny- a- day System in 

 connection with the Church of England, and 4 of the same 

 belonging to the Church of Rome, comprehending in all 

 1812 scholars, in the proportion of 82|- per cent, of the 

 former denomination to \1\ per cent, of the latter; the 

 ratio of expense being also 79 and 21 per cent, respectively. — 

 The next table is devoted to particulars of the Board of 

 Education Schools ; the total number of children on the 

 books at the same date being 1080. The annual cost of 

 each scholar, according to the average daily attendance, was 

 ^3 11.9. \\\cL — The last return of the group relates to 

 Infant Schools, two of which exist in Hobart Town, having 

 an attendance of 138 children, and one at Launceston 

 attended by 56. 



Table 23 details the working of the Queen's Orphan 

 Schools, from which it appears that the orphan children of 

 Convicts are supported entirely at the expense of the British 

 Government, while those of " free persons" are borne upon 

 Colonial funds under the head of Pauperism. The total 

 number in school at the end of 1848 was 400 ; of whom 

 396 were the offspring of Convicts, and 64 the children of 

 free parents. Of these, again, 3 boys and 4 girls were 

 children of the Aborigines. The following is a_summary 



