TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTIONS. 
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List of Inquiries adopted by the Statistical Society of Manchester 
concerning the Means existing for the Religious Instruction of the 
Working Classes in Manchester. 
1. How many sittings are there of all descriptions in your church 
or chapel, distinguishing those which are free from those which are 
not free ? 
2. How many services have you on each Sunday, and what is the 
average attendance at each, in the free sittings and in the appropriated 
sittings ? 
3. Of the sittings which are not free, how many are at the rate of 
Si. per annum each and under, and how many of them are let ? 
4. What accommodation have you for your Sunday scholars in 
your church or chapel? What is their number and average at¬ 
tendance at each service? 
5. Is any district of the town assigned to or adopted by you as the 
sphere of your personal labours among the poor, and what is that 
district? 
6. Have you connected with your church or chapel any society 
for the purpose of assisting your labours among the poor ? and if so, 
what is the nature and extent of that society ? 
The Rev. E. Stanley presented the results of a Statistical Inquiry 
into the education and religious state of the parish of Alderley in 
Cheshire, which had been drawn up for the Statistical Society of 
Manchester in 1835. 
On the Glasgow Bridewell or House of Correction. By Dr. Clel and. 
The following subjects are discussed :— 
' The construction of the building ; the number of prisoners on the 
23rd July 1835 ; their religious persuasion, age, and sex ; abstracts 
of accounts ; details of salaries and wages, and diet; proportions of 
re-committals (males, females, and terms of first sentence distin¬ 
guished). The following is a General Abstract for ten years. 
Year. 
Total 
Committals. 
Daily 
Average. 
Cost to the Public of 
maintaining each 
Individual. 
Cost of the Establish¬ 
ment to the Public. 
£ 
s. 
d. 
£ 
s. 
d. 
1825. 
1540 
200 
2 
8 
9 
593 
0 
0 
1826. 
1398 
250 
3 
14 
9 
934 
13 
8 
1827. 
1696 
257 
3 
3 
3 
813 
8 
11 
1828. 
1770 
287 
2 
1 
8 
598 
13 
6 
1829. 
1721 
274 
3 
2 
7i 
858 
2 
6 
1830. 
1961 
293 
3 
4 
945 
17 
4 
1831. 
1905 
291 
3 
3 
3~ 
920 
10 
2 
1832. 
1953 
302 
2 
12 
9 
796 
3 
5 
1833. 
2075 
327 
2 
4 
3 
725 
18 
7 
1834. 
1967 
320 
1 
16 
ii 
590 
10 
0 
