The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-06-29 00:00:00

aigeted 1411th as the proporti n %Illicit all within the
aelt of eight and f.:lttterit ferioril tip the %%hole rim-
Wien of a ,imittry. 'letter he is 4.11141 assume that
wh, re !hare were' not means of ethicath.it fair 1-111118 ear
I 9th oft:,e Forti:/imi, there ttitt•t be a e"eticiettry:
tied n..torelingly, it lee found that in England there
of educating the I-I Itle of the popit7_
slonlel cowhide that there was a deficiency
to the autoturl brilireNt 1-14th and 1-110th. It would
he found by a reference to the columns of the digest,
that s,:ltiorhilelren weer educated at what were called
dew. schools. Every stnr who knew any thing of a
dame school, knew that they were not places of ethics-
tieet ..t ail—that was to say, that neither writing, nor
re ..ling, nor cyphering, were learned there. But,
at trillerless, sueh places were of the utmost r0u5e-
.1"11...., because they kept the children out of harm's
way, and prepared them few applieat. afterwards to
rat loos branches of education. However, he only
Imaele these obseevations ia order to show to the Douse
lay the eltiolrett that were phi. eel in those s:•huols
shmilil not be inelueleel nithin the number of those
lu whom educatiem was actually Artireled. Dedueiug
therefore, these schools from tier meaus of education,
the average would he teemed as capable of giving edu-
cation only to letti-siveentli of the population of
England. Hut it was worth while for the Meuse!

to consider how long the country was in the enjoy-
, went, even of this extent of means. A reference
tilts colossus of the digest would show, that
snug the year 11403 means had 'wen furnished for
the idocation of 130,000 children, on the Bell and
Laneaater plats. He did not mean to say that this was
the number to which the children educated in these
ash olio, established in 1 tii, should be 1* led; but it
sta. tabrious that, as many of the Bell anti Lancaster
eatahlishments were superstrueted upon old schools,
there must be a deduction from the number of scholars
belonging to the estalslishment at present, to the
amouti: of what the old schools were eapahle of edit-
rating. Before It'll;; there were means of education
i Eis laud for no more than 45.1,cnil children, or l-
tlth part of the population. Loohing to Scotland, and
the aserage of twelve counties, he had COW-
rte.', that at present there were means of education
f.r .-ninth of the st hole popula•ion of that king-
al. in. being inure than the French Aeademiciatis
'bought to be eafficient ; and as much as his t3lr.
11.'0 computation, even contemplated to be necessary.
1 Le means of education in the principality of Wales
11,-7e much lower tLau in tithes of the kingdoms he
b..a.! :stem:Lined, twilit capable of educating only ',ne-
ts...Toledo of its population. Before Inft3 there were
rm mos 0: education only fur one-twentieth. It would
be. pethap.. not unacceptable to the House to have
sone information on thi• :oust intere•ting subject with
r ••:aea t to f reign ...motel, 5, and in doing so, it was
I ill'lTS•ary far him tat mention the naneas of the
at Rarities from nitwit he derived his inforreatioo—
I: a %tit tic Stael I otter, Laborde, Un Hamel, names
rs it to lever, in order to obtain at once the conli-
elem.- if the House to i.is oatement. The proportion
of the number to whom ethic:viol% was extruded in
Frances was one twerty-a ig lit to the st hole population.
Low, h orever, as this proportion was, it %Tumid lie
lowa to have been •n rxtraordit, ire *trifle in the
cott.m. of three years. In I nln, when the last repots
ivas made, there were means of educating 1,1171i,1►00,
or one twenty-right of the wk..): population, being no
I ,• than 200,nitn children I.llUre than the 111r4111, of
et•. •ation in 1.617 embraced. At the latter pitied
t -:e were schools fur educating no more than
litu:.0110 chi! ken, or one tlsirty•lieth of the population,
'lea:jag France quite as bad, in point of the means of
stOkstotson, as the county of 311%1(1k-sex itself—a county
the Iseld a pre-eminent station user all the Uhristian
warlal--ir: the scantiness of its means of education.
uteaos in Fraoce were not to he attriH
Itut,td to its .alert, loranAe, to do them justice, as
soon a. the deficiency was exposaal before them they
s•alously ail:died themselves to remedy it. Anal here ,
begged to impress on the House the almost mire-
co: opt effects which the exertions of private individuals
ender theloonetion, and by the assistance of Govern-
men , may work in propa.:.ating the means of educa-
tion. Its two years, not 1-as than 7,134 schools were
p wed in France, or means of education fur tan
„Lon, of the population.—(Hearl)—lf France went
at. in the saute proportion in future, in ten years there
wield not be an uneducated person in that country.
.01 ith respect to Switzerland, he had received his
in-
leen:a:iou from the tilos: tespeetable authorities, par-
t ct lardy from his honoured and valued friend JI. De-
ment, known to several 3lettobers in that House. In
tbe Pay. de Vaud, the hest educated part of Switzer-
land. not one in lividual iu tilt, even comprising the
old men, was not found without a knowledge of read-
ing. territiog, and cyphering. Holland had 4,154
• oots, or the means of educating one-tenth of its
pl-ulatiou. Having stated thus much without respect I
'to the average means of education, he should next
take a review of the number and particulars of the !
meals of education in 'England. Takiag, then.
441,000 as the number of persons whom the means of
eto .ation embraces, and adding thereto 50,1100 as the
nu
.!her baring t .e tue.ns of private tuition, anal
r ..:eatiting 100,000 is the number sent to Sunday
Sc.! : ais, there would he, in all, 750,000 claildren who
bat the means of education. With respect to Sunday
tick oils, he thought it right to ObSen'e, that, from
th-.r nature. they were Greatly deficient in the means!
• -ducatiug children; abuse al!, they were deficient
in that most important particular, that of putting the •
children in that state of discipline which, by being
kept constantly u der, the eye of the master, they
would experience. Besides, before the House took
the :mother a :dell Ise bad just stated for the Sunday
Schools as‘conclusive, it should, be remembered that
mane of the scholars who went to these schools, might
aleo belong to day
,schools, and might therefore he
included in the Lumber which was embraced in ano-
ther part of the caleulation. However,. assuming the
total which he had just stated to be forme, there
mld renuaiu 2,0410,000 of the population, pr
every fifth person, unprovided with the means of edu-
cation. It followed, then, that Switzerland was twelve
times better educated than we, the good people of
Eagland. were; and stiil better educated than the
10900 of France. '1 his latter deticieucy, he was
linppy to say. would be remedied in ten y ears. 'the
last view which he should take of this subject was
founded on the &umber of districts and divisions is

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