The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-20 00:00:00

of the Magazines
:4-med.—lt was re-

were given to issue

iresh supply uf 3,000 gallons.—The
harbour-masters committee reported that they could not
vcommend that the application _of the dock gatemen for
n increase of wages be complied was agreed
keepers of weights and :ales be put upon the
me footing as to wages With thedock gatemen—name'

ivertisements for

hat the

offers to lend money to the trust
ce committee.—An application
a shiplmilding yard on the
,ck, to'be allowed to erect

from John

west side of the

Brunswiel

steam engine, was

referred to the committee of wo

Mr. Holnie supposed the applicant wolid do so at his own
risk. Mr. Evans asked whether it might not afterwards
give rise to a question of vested interest. The chairman
.replied that the committeee would deal with it.—A letter
.was read from Richard Smith, resigning his situation as
one of the officers employed at th,e landing stage, and
thanking the committee for their kindness during the
many years he had been in their employ. The resigna-
tion was accepted, and it was referred to-the committee of
works to fill up the vacancy.
EDIJOAITION OF TUE POOR TIC LIVHAPOOL.—Yester-
aa, ;paper on this subject was read at Hull, by the
Rev. Dr. Hume. It was introduced in the statistical sec-
- - P”itigh Association, and illustrated by a

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coloured niap;of the borough, exhibiting the constituent
portions of it, And also the ecclesiastical districts in the
whole. The water commenced by stating that his atten-
tion had been directed to the subject by a benevolent mer-
chant in the town, who thought that sufficient provision
was not made -for ;the education of the poor, nor -was that
provision :in the places most requiring it. By making
suitable additions Ito the population return of 1851, he
estimated it to be 398,410 ; at present, in round umbers,
400,000. If two-thirds of these require, or, at least, accept
aid in the education of their children, there are 266,666,
varying from utter destitution up to the rank of a twell-
paid mechanic and small shopkeeper, who come under the
designation" r," as used here. Of these, it has been found,
from a special inquiry in the town, that 25 per cent. are
of the educational age, or from 31 to 12. The demand 'in
the whole town, therefore, is 66,666. To supply this,
there is accommodation in church schools of a general
kind, for about 3075 ; and for 16,390 more in district
schools, which possess school buildings. These, with 1021
in temporary district schools, make the total accommoda-
tion in church schools 20,386. In the schools of protes-
tant dissenters it is found to be 4869 ; in Romanist
schools, 6450 ; and in schools of a non-sectarian character,
3042. Thus the entire supply amounts only to 34,837, or
little more than the half of the demand. He next referred
to the position of the schools, showing that in the lowest
portion of the parish, •containing the poorest and most
degraded of the populatiOn, schools are few and far be-
tween, while in Everton, and others of the more fashiona-
ble outskirts, they are so common as almost to destroy the
self-reliance of the lower portion in the middle classes.
Of the accommodation in the district schools of the church,
nearly a half is in the townships ; in the schools of pro-
testant dissenters there is accommodation for only 350 in
the lower portion of the parish, with a perishing popula-
tion of 180,000; the Romanists are repeating the admitted
errors of protestants by providing accommodation for 1000
pupils in Everton, the only part of the-town in which- the
supply exceeds. the demand ; but happily those-of a gene-
ral character, including the corporation schools, accommo-
date 2070 in the lowest part of the town. Comparing the
entire school accommodation in the great divisions of the
town with the number of poor
i contained in them respec-
tively, the ratio is one to five n the townships and upper
portion of the parish, and one to fourteen in the town.
Some interesting suggestions were made respecting a
remedy for these evils, and a greatly improved plan was
pointed out for the support of education from year to year.
The paper concluded with a comparison of Liverpool and
New York, from which it appeared that Liverpool ab-
sorbed the destitute population of Ireland and other coun-
tries, While ISrff Yoa abs9rbs, educates, and crane.