Statistics. 4 Hi 



his statistical returns having been placed in the hands of Pro- 

 fessor Jones, to facilitate the progress of a statistical work, he 

 did not think their withdrawal advantageous to the ends of 

 science, and therefore suspended his digest for the British Asso- 

 ciation until the completion of Professor Jones^ work, after 

 which, should there be matter untouched suitable to the views 

 of the Association, Colonel Sykes proposes to fulfil the recom- 

 mendation of the section of Statistics. 



Tuesday, 11th August. — 2. Mr Langton, at the request of the 

 Committee, read an abstract of the report of the Manchester 

 Statistical Society, on the state of education in Manchester. The 

 printed report was then presented to the meeting. It contained 

 tables expressing the numbers of schools of different classes, and 

 also the numbers of scholars attending them, the extent of the 

 education afforded them, the mode in which the schools are sup- 

 ported, and the particulars connected with them. A table was 

 also presented, shewing a general summary of the schools and 

 scholars in the burgh of Bury, Lancashire, made in July 1835. 

 — Mr Langton at the same time presented the forms in which 

 the Statistical Society of Manchester had pursued their enquiries 

 into the state of education, into the condition of the labouring 

 classes, and into the means existing for religious instruction. 

 Some observations were then made by I)r Dickinson, who gave 

 the meeting an account of the Normal School in Dublin, esta- 

 blished by the Commissioners of Education. — Mr Greg, at the 

 request of the committee, read a paper on the social statistics of 

 the Netherlands, shewing the proportion of crimes of different 

 kinds committed, and the state of education in different districts, 

 and the relation between education and crime, and also the pro- 

 portion of those accused who are convicted in England, France, 

 and Belgium.-— Mr Halsewell made some observations on the 

 causes which affect the proportion between the numbers of those 

 convicted and accused in the metropolitan districts, and on the 

 effects which well-managed houses of correction have in repress- 

 ing crime. Some additional observations were made by Mr 

 Davenport and several other gentlemen. — Mr Stanley read a 

 report on the Glasgow bridewell, drawn up for the British As- 

 sociation by Dr Cleland of Glasgow. Mr Halsewell and Mr 



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