TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTIONS. 
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volume, and so well arranged and classified, that each person de¬ 
siring to put his theoretical views to the test of experience, or to 
generalize from the fertile field of instances here collected, may 
most readily separate the facts which he desires to make use of. 
Professor Babbage concluded with some observations on the man¬ 
ner in which, in future periods, this monument of industry and in¬ 
telligence will contribute to the amelioration of the moral and phy¬ 
sical condition of the people. 
Inquiries carried on by the Statistical Society of Manchester . 
Mr.W. R.Greg and Mr. W. Langton presented on behalf of the 
Statistical Society of Manchester the heads of inquiry and the forms 
used in conducting their inquiries into the state of education, into 
the condition of the working classes, and into the means existing for 
the religious instruction of the working classes. 
These inquiries have been institute in Manchester and in some 
of the neighbouring towns. 
Mr.W. Langton read to the Section an abstract of the Report of 
a Committee of the Manchester Statistical Society on the State of 
Education in the Borough of Manchester in 1834. 
The Report showed the following results. 
The numbers then attending the different schools in Manchester 
were 43,304 ; of whom 
10,108 attended day and evening schools only , 
10,011 attended both day and Sunday schools, 
23,185 attended Sunday schools only. 
43,304 
The population of the borough of Manchester being then about 
200,000, the number of persons receiving instruction was 21-f- per 
cent, of the population. Of those attending day and evening schools 
the numbers gave a proportion of about 10 per cent, of the popu¬ 
lation. * 
From the number of about 43,000 scholars 10,000 were deducted 
as being under 5 and above 15 years of age, which left about 33,000 
as the number of children between the ages of 5 and 15 under course 
of instruction. The whole number of children between the ages of 
5 and 15 in the borough of Manchester being estimated at 50,000 
(or Mh of the whole population), it would thus appear that about 
-f-rds of this number are educated, and that -i-rd are receiving no in¬ 
struction whatever. 
The returns made by the overseers to Government under Lord 
Kerry’s motion, had been examined by the committee in three town¬ 
ships out of nine which constitute the borough of Manchester, and 
considerable errors had been discovered in each return. 
In the township of Manchester alone, which contained a papula- 
