The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-11-08 00:00:00

THE CONSUMPTION OF PAPER IN
DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.

If it may be assumed that the consumption of paper
affords a rough criterion of the intellectual statue of a
c,untry, statistics recently elaborated by Dr. Attfinno
Rndal, of Vienna, are particularly interesting. On an
average, he says, every Redden nee., lib of paper an.
nu%lly. Spain Alb per individual; Mexico. with
Central America, 2th. In Italy and kip Aria the annual
contumption is 3illo ; in British Americas, silb. France
nee + 7ilt, ; Germany Hi; the United States 10lb,
while timid Britain consumes 1111 b. Through, ut the
world Dr. Rudal estimates the yearly productions
of paper of all kinds—made of hemp, wool, cot-
ton, flax, straw, jute, and the fibres of esparto,
rice, &c..—at about 1,800 million lbs. Of thio
one half is for printing, one-sixth for writing
I purposes, and the emaining third includes every other
deem iptim. The whole amount may be roughly di,
ibutel thus :—Governmeat ffices, 200 million lbs. ;
schoole, 180 million lbs; commerce, 240 million; in
duttrial manufactures, 180 million; private corre•
epondence, 100 million; tainting, 900 million lbs. Fo..
the production of the totall,Boo millions there are 3,90
factories, affording employment to 90,000 male and
1-0,0,10 femsle operatives, besides which there are
100,000 working people occupied in collecting and
sorting rags. At present the United States import
only three million the., their own manufactories turn-
ing out about 374 millions.

In the financial year 1872-73 the number of stamps
honed for bills of exchange end promtesory notes yes
9,746,163, being 801,907 more than In he preceding peer
and the number of penny stamp (for reedy* draughts, &c.)
wee 171,767,439, ce 11,05,117 more then in the pemedhig
yeet.

ARCHBISHOP MANNING on EDUCATION.
In London, on Sunday evening. Archbishop Nan-
ning delivered • discourse at St. John's, Duncan.ter-
race, Islington, in aid of the Schools Food. In the
course of his observations he said he was compelled by
duty to speak on a matter which was of vital import.
mos to 41—viz., the Christian education of children.
It was the custom at the present day to talk about
children,. if they were Chattels. Legislator+, de-
claimer., and theorists laid down doctrines of educe-
Lion, and talked of children as if they belonged to
the State, and could be driven hither and thither
Into this school and into that by some supreme
power. That was once the doctrine of the world.
It was preached to old Pagan Rome. But the In-
carnation had changed all that A little child was
not now • thing or a chattel. He was& heir of the king.
dom of heaven. He had right& of his own, and those
rights no man could take away. If there was one thing
In England which was written in the laws as well as in
the hearts of the people, it was this—that fathers and
mothers have a right to control the education of their
children, under the guidance and direction of the
I Church of God, to which parents sr d chil lien, pastors
and people, were alike subject. They heard every day
of their livea about State education. What was
Stets education? If parents neglected their children
the Church (mg tto correct them If the children I
grew up wild and broke the laws the State had
the power to punish, but no authority of men can
say to parents, "Your children shall be taught in
this way or in that without religion.' herefore,
they were at this moment in danger of unconsciously
accepting as true doctrines that were perniciously false.
No Catholic child should be in • secular school if he
had the power to prevent it. This month the election.
for the School Board would take place. He would ask
them to take care to vote only for the candidate who
would pledge himself to maintain by all means in his
power the religious and Christian education of the
people of England, and no maintain it that noon. shall
meddle or interfere with the freedom of the redgion of
his neighbour.