110 REPORT— 1839. 



Parisian individuals who had claimed the honour, as it was contained 

 in an English work, published some time ago, under the title of 

 " Useful Arts and Inventions." 



STATISTICS. 



Report on the Educational condition of the County of Rutland. By 

 iHfr. Wm. Langton, on the part of the Manchester Statistical Society. 



It was stated that the Society, having previously examined the ma- 

 nufacturing districts where the population was dense, and the rate of 

 increase rapid, had resolved to investigate an agricultural district where 

 the population is scattered and nearly stationary. In comparing the 

 counties of Rutland and Lancaster, the smallness of the parishes in the 

 former appears striking, there being a parish church for every 400 in- 

 habitants ; the Roman catholic population is very small ; there is no 

 place of worship connected with that sect in the county : 2-7 ths of the 

 population belong to various sects of Protestant dissenters, the Wesley- 

 an methodists preponderating, — ^the remaining 5-7th belong to the Es- 

 tablished Church. The population of Rutlandshire was, in 1811, 

 16,383 ; in the decennial period between 1811 and 1821, it increased 

 13 per cent., but in the next decennial period the increase was only 

 5 per cent. In 1831 the population was — 



Males 9,721 



Females 9,664 



Total 19,385 



Taking the scholars of all ages, 



1,1 17, or about 5'6 per cent, of the population, attend day and even- 

 ing schools only. 



1,922, or about 9*6 per cent, of the population, attend both day and 

 Sunday schools. 



1,274, or about 6'4 per cent, of the population, attend Sunday 

 schools only. 



4,313 



Comparing these numbers with those derived from former investiga- 

 tions, the following are the results : — 



