TRANSACTION'S OF THE SECTIONS. 
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(1) in the Education Returns, and (2) in the Population Tables ; but while the lnttcr 
we on the whole very satisfactory, and likely to be exceedingly useful, the former 
ire grossly inaccurate, and calculated to be as injurious ns they nrc unjust. They 
'1- not correctly state either how much money is raised for the education of the 
■Island dumb, or how many schools are .supported, or how many pupils me 
minified in them. Only a laborious comparison with the Population Tables will 
i y*M the information necessary for an accurate estimate. The Education Tables 
r ;ort nine institutions in England, and two in Scotland but they omit altogether 
-'•in the account, the Asylum in London, the Institutions of Birmingham and 
•o!«r, a School at Rugby, the Institutions of Glasgow ami Aberdeen, and the Deaf 
ui Dumb department in Donaldson's Hospital, Edinburgh : yet from rvt ly one of 
Jhetj returns must have been received; for all, without exception, arc included in the 
dilation Tables. Thus, it is discovered that there were not nine, but thirteen 
. England, which contained, not 392 pupils, but 816; and that Scotland 
- institutions instead of two, which contained, not 89 inmates, but 250. The 
'' rtulmns in the United Kingdom contain at present 1-401 pupils, and from their 
‘^■raencement they have educated about 6900. Tabular statements wore read, 
. 'j-ni^ the numbers of the deaf and dumb, and their proportion to the general 
-r 11 atian, m Great Britain and Ireland, the United States, France, and Prussia, 
,,,*? in . particular districts of these countries. The numbers actually under 
| ® l0n ln 183 L being compared with all who were of the eligible age, showed 
school in Ireland, 50 per cent, in England and Wales, and "0 per 
>!*ri» i p Taking the whole deaf and dumb populations, Ireland educates 
■ r „ tin ',,, na ‘ per cent., England ami Wales nearly 8 per cent., Scotland 
Isstjtntion ^lf ccnb ' and the United States nearly 12 per cent. There arc 200 
faults nr" 5 wor *d; a conlm v 6g0 thttt W08 HOt one. All the practical 
| farmer ve2ttr4!i are the work of the centennial period 1754 to 1851. In the 
boas which h 6 <irSt / UStllUt ' on waa f°U n ded ; and it is the establishment of lostitu- 
as mac * e the work of instruction permanent and progressive. 
^ ,c Supply of Gold from Australia and from English Rocks. 
Tfy John Calvert. 
Ifcv *\'n ' CCi G° 0, l and Iiad Times on Committals to Prison. 
Uev.Zr? Had Times on Committals to Prison. Eg the 
Preston*** E.D., Chaplain to the County House of Correction, 
j la us. More tl| CCn n J 10 P ldar opinion, that committals to prison increase in bad 
^opposite Z ,i l - t y y cara * observation of committals in North Lancashire lead 
^V' n a nl committal" 0 . 5l011 " ll ? *' <nu m<ll,iar y yews ending June 1824, the average 
* Tear n f disti-re^ioni 1 ^ ’ ' n tbc t >ros porou9 1825, the committals were 177 ; in 
J7,tliey wcr 1B * 6 > they w< ve 172 ; and, in the year of reviving prosperity, 
, ■‘•fifths of whom » U l8: ! r, ~ 37 a 3tl ,k< -‘ ln Preston threw 9000 hands out of work, 
**se of y 0Untr ‘•‘re under 19 years old. The consequent* idleness caused nn 
l. 7> ^ 1840 n but . t,lc aggregate committals were less by 59 than those 
.. ,1,'intended by seditif 1 "^ J? u - Ice vvns p stabUshed. In 1842-43 great distress ex- 
out *l 1 *' j « aumt» ... . . ... in mi-• lesion 
of coimitSlTf 6 °» UIoor r,?liof - Vnun R otlendcrs increased, 
annual h 1 ' 8 to ll "> sessions 2?* " a *. 7 IIP . r ccnt * bc!ow that of tlu- preceding year. 
JurtJfr d “ ril >g the four*«rood » hr< o, liUtl y cars * 184< * to 1S48 . areragwf 332 
^nes averS iS'l P 3tK) ' Su,nroar y committal. 
*o r k - r f n y^s, endin^JulJ iarf ,^ £ urlns ,lu ‘ « ood ti,neA 1249. In the 
• u n. ma ' rhe corainitiaU to twJf' 4 ' r U f l ‘ )n * lnke threw 18,(>00 hands out 
totals Of all daises ,w 0ns ****&, of females decreased. 
Committals of all kinds in the six 
P with the six months preceding, decreased 32 per 
