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PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



[Sept. 1896. 



disease prevails to a considerable extent in Ireland. Muzzling 

 regulations are now in force in about 80 poor law unions. 



Scotland. — Report of the Committee of Council on Education 

 for the year 1895-6. [C.— 8070.] Price 3d. 



This report states that there were 692,202 children on the 

 registers of the inspected schools. Examinations were held in 

 the principles of agriculture under Art. 21 of the Code of the 

 Scotch Education Department. Of 2,488 pupils who were 

 examined in the first stage of this subject 2,128 passed, in the 

 second stage there were 1,686 passes out of 1,909, and 729 out 

 of 834 in the third stage, the total number of passes being 

 4,543 out of 5,231 presentations ; this is a slight decrease on 

 the previous year, when out of a total of 5,696 candidates 4,966 

 were successful. Instruction was also given in the Evening 

 Continuation Schools to men and boys in agriculture and 

 horticulture. 



Report of the Committee of Council on Education {England 

 and Wales), 1895-96. [C— 8248.] Price 3±d. 



The number of scholars on the registers in 1895 was 5,299,469, 

 and the average attendance was 4,325,030. The amount expended 

 in 1895 in annual grants out of the Parliamentary vote amounted 

 in the case of day schools to 4,081,281£., while the grant to 

 evening continuation schools amounted to 112,084Z. 



The teaching of dairy work had been taken up by only one 

 evening continuation school. No grant for dairy work under 

 Article 101 (i) of the Code was paid during the past year. 



Reports from Her Majesty's Consular Officers in certain 

 European States respecting the Prices of Cereals and of 

 Bread. [C— 8107.] Price 7±d. 

 This publication of the Foreign Office is a Return to an 

 Address of the House of Lords, moved for by Lord Stanley of 

 Alderley, giving the prices of cereals, flour, and bread in 36 

 towns of Austria-Hungary, Belgium, France, Germany, and 

 Holland during the month of July 1895. The prices for which 

 particulars are given are those of wheat, rye, barley, oats, and 

 maize, wheat flour and rye flour, and also of wheateu bread and 

 rye bread. From the data furnished by each consul, summary 

 tables, in which the prices have all been reduced to English 

 measures and currency, have been prepared by the Board of 

 Agriculture and prefixed to the section of the return giving the 

 reports of individual consuls. To further facilitate comparison 

 the customs duties levied on the commodities referred to in each 

 country have also been added. 



