The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1885-07-25 00:00:00

TIIE MARKETS.

MARK LANE.
Quietness lute prevailed. There is no new feature In the
trade. Millers are operating very sparingly, but at the
mune timo. sales are not pressed. The New York market
keeps firm. Transactions in English wheat were limited,
but the trade was steady. There was a moderate inquiry
for foreign wheat at steady prices. Flour was in slow re-
quest, at about late rates. Not much was passing in
barley, but the tone was fairly steady. Black Feu afloat
about 165 9d to 17s. Notwithstanding the large arrivals
oats were steady, and about 3cl dearer on the week. Maisel
was quiet, but fairly firm. Beans, peas, and lentils were
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METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
The total imports of foreign stock into London last week -
amounted to 15,116 head. In the corresponding period 11114
year we received 14,477; in 1:•:3, 28,018' in 1882. 20.321;
in 1831, 14,481; in 1880, .18,036 ; in 1879, 15,680; in 1878.
15,465 ; and in 1877, 17,431 head. At Liverpool were re-
ceived 703 beasts from Baltimore, 1059 beasts from Boston,
E2l beasts and 528 sheep from Montreal, and 100 beasts from -
Opolto ; and at Southampton, 7 beasts from Jersey and •
Guernsey. There has beea a dull trade for cattle. Supplies,
whilst not large, have been sufficient for the demand, which
has lacked activity. As regards beasts, the receipts from
our own grazing districts were short, a.nd there was not
much inquiry for them, hence business progressed slowly.,
and with a weak tendency in values. The best Scots and
crosses made is 2d to is 4d per 81b. Foreign beasts were not
plentiful, and with a quiet demand they barely realised pre-
vious currencies. With reference to sheep, pens were fairly ,
well filled. Transactions were throughout restricted,
and prices favoured buyers. The best Downs and -
breds made bs 6d to is Ed per Sib; lambs were yery
currencies. Coarse and inferior beasts, 4s to.
flat at 5s 6d to 6s per Sib; calves and
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large oxen, 5s o s.d ;
ditto, 5s 6d to is 8d;
quality ditto, 48 6d to 55 ; prime and inferior sheep.
of cattle on sale:
ditto Scots, acc., 5s 2d to 58 4d ;
18
4tl to Is; second quality ditto,
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"cl. rime Southdown
soarse-woollcd ditto, is 2d to 5s 555566 d to 6s; large coarse
hcalpgyse,s,34ss to4d4ths 6(13 prime eanslarmailTnoalil.
supply
coarse
topisg4sss
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and lambs, 9990 , calves, 210 ; pigs,
30 Foreign .
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s3sl:leBde'plargto 4,
ro ! From the midland and home
limbs, 330; calves, '3 beasts from Norfolk,Suit ome
counties we received 163 olk, and
Scotland 25 beasts.
Essex 200, and from
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*ddling ditto, 38 to 3s 8(1; prime large ditto, 48 to 48 44;
prime small ditto, 4s 44 to 4s Bcl • veal, 3s 6d to Is;
ierior mutton, 38 to 3s Ed • middling ditto, 38 &I to
48 4d ; prime ditto, 4s 4d to s's 8d ; large pork, 2S 6d to
Black soles, is 6d to 2s Cd per pair ; ditto slips,.
se ; small ditto, 3s 4d to 4s ; lambs, 58 to 58 lad pet.l3lb. by
the carcase.
FISH..
8(1 to 0d pei lb ; bloaters, is per lb ; mackerel, is 3d. to 2s ad per dozen • whitang.to' 88 t°
128 Cd per box; cod, £5 to £6 per score; cAniPed ,6°
to 88 6d each;
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cart ills
salmc n rdld to lid per -lb. ;-Plaic: ti2oslo:
15s per pad; mullets, 10's to 20s per score • lobsters, 88 6d
to 30s Per do7on ; crabs, 15s to 21s Per hamper;' grilse and
trout,
turbots, 59 6d to Es 64 each. .
POTATO. .
3d to 2.8. per dozen; and
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roses, 90s to 100 s Jersey kidney% 15.0 s to 1008 1 Plarbourg
;. .
round. 11N V.-120s
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YEAR'S TEACHING.
WE have-just been, placed in possession of
the statistics of twelve months teaching in
the elementary schools of the country by the
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issue of the re-port of the Committee "of Prlvy
Council on Edacation for the yoar 1834.
The record is, on the whole, satisfactory and
3nconrwing, showing, as it does, that st( aiy
progress has been made in the schooling of
the childre.l of the nation daring the last

completed year. Eighteen thousand seven
hundred and sixty-one day schools in
England and Wales hr.ve been visited by the
Governmental. Inspectors during the official
year. • These schools furnished accomoda-
iion, we find, for four million three hundred
odd thousand scholars, nearly one-fourth of
whom were under seven years old; and over
one-half between that age and the compul-
sory limit of thirteen. The remainder were
over thirteen. There was a very good
average attendance of three million and a
quarter, to speak roundly. It is not out of
place here to note, however, that some seven
hundred thousand scholars in advance of the
mean attendance were present on inspection
day, so that the inquisition for statistical
purposes was conducted under circum-
stances considerably more favourable than
actually obtains day by day. It would,
perhaps, be well if we could have at least
occasional impromptu inspections, so as to
be able to arrive at calculations as to edu-
cational progress grounded upon examiaation
of thingsas they are every day in our schools.
Two million three hundred thousand elder
scholars presented themselves for examina-
tion in the first seven standards, and con-
siderably above one-half of these passed the
test triumphantly in all the set subjects.
Arithmetic produced the greatest number
of failures, writing was the next most diffi-
cult elementary subject, and reading the
easiest of all. The increased accomodation
at schools during the year is almost three
times as large as the increased population;
the new scholars have increased more than
the corresponding expansion of the inhabi-
tants; And the average attendance shows an
increase even greater than.the enlarged ac-
comodation. These gratifying results arise
chiefly from the fact that the Board School
maintenance rates have yielded some thirty-
five thousand pounds more than the preced-
ing year, while the school pence have risen
some seventy-five thousand pounds; and
this notwithstanding a continued support of
seven hundred and thirty odd thousand.
pounds secur, d from voluntary contribu-
tions oy local efforts. The annual Govern-
ment grants to elementary schools have
swelled on the year by over twenty thousand
pounds, or brought down to so much per
scholar, by sixpence-farthing a head, on the
average attendance. The inspectors examined
eight hundred and forty-seven night schools,
at which twenty-one thousand four hundred
and forty-four boys and girls over twelve
presented themselves for inspection. Ninety-
three per cent. of these passed in reading,
seventy-three per cent. in writing, and
forty-five per cent. in arithmetic. To pass
to more ambitious and yet foundation edu-
cational work, additional subjects were taken
in ore hundred and ninety-eight schools by
four thousand six hundred and nineteen
scholars • and slightly over one-half of these
successfully answered the questions of the
examiners, five hundred and fifty-four of
them in more than one subject. The in-
spectors found close upon thirty-nine
thousand teachers at work in the state-aided
schools which they visited ; while the forty-
one training colleges from which the tutors
are chiefly recruited, were attended by t 7
thousand two hundred students. These
students, together with three thousand one
hundred and odd acting teachers, would be
examined for certificates in December last,

but the report does not reach clown to the
timo when the result was arrived at. At
Midsummer of last year four thousand eight
hundred candidates for seventeen hundred

vacancies at the various training colleges,

passed with credit. To turn again to finsn-
, cia,l considerations, the School Boards have
freely availed themselves of the powers of
raising funds by obtaining loans on the
security of the rates—powers given to them
by the Acts of 1870 and 1873. Up to the
Ist of April last, six thousand one hundred
and sixty loans had been sanctioned to one
thousand seven hundred and forty different
Schrol Boards. The gross amount of these
loans reaches the large sum of seventeen
mihion three hundred and fifty-five
th ei.-,and pounds, and this total is calculated
to be sufficient for the provision of new ac-
e In-lodation for nearly a million and a-half
scholars. Figured out closely the estimated
cost per child 13 about twelve pounds five
shillings. The grand result of all this
*ducat, onal provision is that while for every
hundred children of school age in England
and Wales to-day there is school accomoda-
tion for eighty-nine, there are eighty only
on the registers, and an average attendance
of exactly three-fourths that number. We
have thus arrived at the point of providing
a seat at school for well above the present
Lobel AN-crag° of aeholars. and something
still more vigorous remains to be done to
secure a thoroughly satisfactory attendance.
Nine per cent. of the seats are never occu-
pied, and twenty per cent. more are daily
vacant by reason of absenteeism. School
Board officers should show sufficient vigilance
to reduce this discrepancy pretty consider-
ably. A critical comparison of the
published tables, as the supporters of the
old- voluntary system will be glad to see,
ho' S that the unaided schools more than
hold their own in the race with their sub-
sidised rival establishments. Taken
altogether, this important publication of the
Educational Department is handsome
evidence .of intellectual progress, and even
the most grudging of tax-payers will be
.compelled to admit that the nation is getting
1004 value in exchange for the large sums
it is called upon to pay for the schooling of
its children—one- of the most important
departments in every way, it may now
iifily besdoid, of public expenditure. The
yliPid-and really enormoup rate of educat:onal
rplifrole since the passing of the Elementary
i4ucation Acts, and the effect of subsequent
alterstione and amendments in the code, are
Awl,' shown in the tables of the statistics
inchaded in the report. Thereby we see
how education in England and Wales has
advanoe,d literally by leaps and bounds,
both as regards its machinery and its organ-
isation, and eiso with respect tc the number
411 Qua bearttedl 1,..7 its action. Perfection
12,1!e, net,
salter4i6A. 3±a7 ailijg 6:Liza to have reeis-
terad v •
istuaer4; progress-

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