EDUCATION. 
Persons residing at a greater distance than two miles from Derry are admissible for one 
month, on the recommendation of a proprietor. 
3rd. A Library connected with the Tract Society, supported by the clergy, various respec¬ 
table tradesmen, and others, at a subscription of 10s. a year. 
4th. A Poor Library at the Fountain-street school—each subscriber of 2s. 8d. having 
power to recommend readers, and bearing the responsibility of the books—consists of about 200 or 
300 volumes, embracing voyages, travels, history, and religious subjects. 
The Londonderry Literary Society must also be mentioned in connexion with this head. 
It was established on the 29th of August, 1834, from which time to the termination of their first 
session, there were 9 regular debates, and 10 lectures delivered. The present number of regular 
members is 30, together with 3 honorary members. The society is increasing very rapidly. 
The subjects on which the questions are chosen are principally history. The recess is of 3 
months, and the meetings will be resumed on the 1st September, 1835. 
In 1823 the North West Society established a monthly magazine in Derry, called after their 
name, which was given up in 1825. A newspaper was then substituted, called the “ North West 
Farmer,” which was, however, discontinued on the 1st July, 1826. A second series of the “ North 
West Society’s Magazine” was then undertaken, but on the 1st of July, 1829, the publication 
ceased altogether. 
The city possesses two weekly newspapers of respectable character. The Londonderry 
Journal, established upwards of 60 years, appears on Tuesdays : in the year ending on the 5th April, 
1834, it published 31,375 copies, which gives a weekly average of above 603. The Londonderry 
Sentinel, established on the 19th September, 1829, appears on Saturdays : in the same year it 
published 65,700 copies, which give a weekly average of above 1263. 
There is no account kept at the Post Office of the number of the newspapers transmitted 
through it, but it is supposed to be on the increase. 
The following is a list of the periodical publications now circulating in the city, the reading 
rooms included :— 
Orthodox Presbyterian, 
Copies. 
500 
Quarterly Review, 
Copies. 
8 
Christian Freeman, 
300 
United Service Journal, 
8 
Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal, 
83 
Dublin Medical ditto, 
7 
Penny Journal, [monthly parts], . 
80 
Lancet, 
7 
Ditto Magazine, [ditto], 
80 
New Monthly Magazine, 
6 
Saturday’s Magazine, 
36 
New Sporting ditto, . 
6 
Irish Farmer’s ditto, 
31 
Old Sporting ditto, 
Tait’s Edinburgh Magagine, 
6 
British Cyclopaedia, [monthly parts], 
30 
6 
Blackwood’s Magazine, 
21 
Metropolitan, 
5 
Fashionable ditto, 
20 
Christian Ladies’ Magazine, 
4 
Christian Gleaner, 
18 
Edinburgh Medical ditto,. 
4 
Dublin University Magazine, 
18 
Edinburgh Review, . 
Quarterly Journal of Education, 
3 
Dublin Christian Examiner, 
17 
3 
Penny Cyclopaedia, 
14 
Westminster Review', 
3 
Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, . 
Johnson’s Medical, 
11 
Asiatic Journal, 
2 
9 
Foreign Quarterly Review, . 
1 
Paxton’s Botanical Magazine, 
8 
North American ditto, [London], 
1 
The following periodicals were sold at one o 
In 1832. In 1835. 
’ the bookselling establishments:— 
In 1832. 
In 1835. 
(Up to 1st 
March.) 
Fashionable Magazine, . 10 20 
New Monthly,. 
5 
(Up to 1st 
March.) 
4 
Blackwood’s do., . .11 
13 
Quarterly Review, 
Tait’s Magazine, 
1 
4 
Dublin University do. . .6 
8 
3 
4 
Lardner’s Cyclopaedia, . . 4 
6 
Edinburgh Review, 
3 
3 
New Sporting Magazine, . 3 
6 
Metropolitan, . 
4 
3 
Old do. do., . . 2 
6 
Westminster, 
2 
3 
Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, 7 
6 
Asiatic, 
Edinburgh Medical Journal, 
2 
2 
Dublin Christian Examiner, . 5 
5 
1 
2 
Johnson’s Medical, . . 7 
5 
Foreign Quarterly Review, 
2 
1 
United Service, . . 5 
5 
North American do. 
1 
1 
Practical Instruction. —Passing from the consideration of the branches of instruction 
now described, which may be classed under the head scholastic education (as even the apartment 
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