Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-08-17 00:00:00

registered. The births were in excess 1

which' is somewhat below ti

tuber expressing the

natural increase of the population, as, owing to a defect in
the English Registration Act, all the births are not regis-
tered. The recorded natural increase of the population of
England and Wales exceeded 666 daily. The births
exceeded by 5,618 the births in 1856, and the deaths
also exceeded the deaths in that year by a much larger

United Kingdom became more active after the Russian
war, and in year 1857 the emigrants amounted to

taking a proportional part of the number of mmscer-
tained birthplaces. the English emigrants will be raised

America, 39,375 to ti
Zeala•'

[than Colonies and New

37,333 to the United States

236 natives of Er

le bratec

REPORT OF THE POOR-LAW 130ARD.

A thick blue-book of 300 pages contains the 11th
Annual Report of the Poor-Law Beard. The report
proper, of twenty pages in length, is soon disposed of.
In the year ended Lady-thy, 1858, the stun of
£5,878,386 was expended for the relief of the poor,
being a decrease of £20,370, as compared with the ex-
penditure of the preceding year, or. 0.3 per cent. The
rate per head on the pe -

r,..ation was Cs. Old., and
s compared with 1856-7) li.d. In the

districts, there was a decrease of 2-0 and-0.5 per cent.
respectively ; but in the Surrey (metropolitan) district,
there was an increase of 1.2 per cent. In 1833-4, with
a population of 14,372,000, the sum of £6,317,255,
or Bs. 91d. per head, was expended in relief of
the poor ; whereas in 1857, with a population (England
20,000,000, the. expenditure was
6s. Old. per head. The average of
the years, from 1834 to 1858, was 6s. 2d. per head.
On the Ist of July, 1858, (in 629 unions) there were
793,606 paupers of all classes (including insane and
vagrants) in receipt of relief, against 789,640 in July,
1857. T'

and Wales'

i) of nearly

Ins is tantamount to an increase of 0.5 per
cent. There were 123,538 (out-door) widows and able-
bodied persons in receipt of relief on the Ist of July,
1858. On the Ist of January, 1859, on the other hand,
there were, in 642 -unions, 862,078 paupers in receipt of
relief, against 948,222 in January, 1858 ; this shows a de-
crease of 86,144, or 9.1 per cent. The able adult paupers
also at this time (January 1, 1859) exhibited a decrease
of 19.8 per cent. The decrease in the average number

0
of paupers of all classes in receipt of relief at one time
in 1858, as compared with 1849, is 16-5 per cent. ; and
as regards able-bodied paupers, the decrease in 1858,

as compared with 1849, is 32-8. The metropolis has
fully participated in the improved condition of the

year. The returns of pauperism show that a decrease
n the" numbers relieved has, with three exceptions,
aken place in each week of the last year as compared
with the corresponding week of the previous one.
37,868 1-4-1, sexes attended workhouse and
liqt• a a T.adV-daY,

jet set

10J0, anu Llle amount of tin
guardians in respect of the

was paR
achers of t

The board are doing all in their power to improve the
education of pauper children, and " the management of
the schools is on • a most satisfactory footing." In the
metropolitan district the education consists of moral,
mental, and industrial training; the branches of industry
taught include carpentering, tailoring, the use of the
steam-engine, shoemaking, spade husbandry, music (to
fit the boys for the public bands), cooking, baking, sew-
ing, dairy-work, laundry, and house-work. 231
were assisted to emigrate by the board last year,

persons