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daily attendance of pupils ; the present salary and 

 emoluments of the teachers, and from what source 

 derived. 



The colony owes much to the benevolence and 

 kindness of Bishop Spencer, in promoting education 

 among the poorer classes and coloured inhabitants. 

 He established and maintained not only many others, 

 but promoted the few schools which he found, by his 

 influence. 



Facts are stubborn and sturdy things to deal with, 

 and it will be sufficiently seen and proved by the 

 annexed tables. The extent of the grievous calamity 

 the poor of Bermuda suffer in this respect may be 

 gathered at a glance from the most cursory view of 

 these two returns of free schools for the education 

 of the poor in operation in Bermuda, between 

 30th June, 1854, and 30th June, 1855; also 31st 

 March, 1857, and 30th June, 1868. The latter 

 return, with the report of the committee, is parti- 

 cularly interesting. Let us now compare the average 

 daily attendance with the census of the population 

 in 1851 ; wherein it will be seen that these poor 

 people have few chances of enlightening their minds. 

 Additional light may be thrown on the subject by 

 the following report by W. H. Mayor, Esq., Inspector 

 of Public Schools, dated June 7, 1859 : — 



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