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    148 THE MEETINGS AT LIVERPOOL.

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    sistent with reason or humanity . It is ascertained that tnree fourths of the criminals under seventeen years of ageare the children of

    , bad parents . It may be that the disposition of these children is , in a majority of cases , quite as good as that of those who are untainted

    with crime , and have never been brought before the court of justice . Yet 6 Within it is three of such years as these a little that boy Miss of ei Carpenter ght years says old was , in solemnl 1856 , — y

    sentenced in open court to six years' penal servitude for housebreaking ! A diminutive girl of ten , and her brother , a couple of

    years older , were placed at the bar of their country to answer for the once capital crime of horse-stealing ! ' "

    Lord John proceeds to observe : — " I will not waste your time iu examining and refuting the objections which have been made to

    the general education of the people . It may suffice for me to say that it is education which enables the Scotch laborer ' s son to

    compete with the most favored of his contemporaries , to rise to the highest posts of dignity and power , and to scale the loftiest

    eminences of science . It is education which enables the United States of America to proceed in their wonderful careerupheld by

    , the most popular institutions , without serious disturbance of law and order . It is education which in England has mainly prevented

    such tumults as forty years ago broke the peace and alarmed the minds of the peox of this _^ le to country the Throne ; it b is y education the links of which an enli has ghtened bound the loyalty mass . ''

    From the same address we take the following most interesting quotation from the report of the Registrar-General , for the quarter

    ending the 30 th of last June \ It is upon the health of towns . "' Upon dividing the population into two portionsthe

    , 8 , 247 , 11 7 people living in rather close proximity to each other , and the 9680592 living much further apartthe result is that the

    ,, , mortality in the dense districts was at the rate of 24-73 , nearly 25 in 1 , 000 ; while in the other districts , over which small towns and

    villages are distributed , the mortality was at the rate of 19 * 68 , nearl 66 y 20 in 1 , 000 of the population . '

    Thus it appears that five persons more die every year in every 1 , 000 of the 8 , 000 , 000 people living in large towns than of the 9500000 people living in the country . In other words the excess

    ,, of deaths in the large towns is 40 , 000 a year . When we add to this result the fact that temptations to intoxication and to vice of

    every kind are far more common in towns than in the country , that the means of education are likewise in large towns either less

    complete or less used , it is alarming to find by another statement of the Registrar-General that in England and Wales the town population

    is increasing much more rapidly than the population of the rest of the country . I suppose every . one will agree that the tide of

    population cannot be checked or diverted from its channel . Yet we cannot deny the importance or the urgency of the following

    questions : —Now in England and , Wales the town population is

    148 The Meetings At Liverpool.

    148 THE MEETINGS AT LIVERPOOL .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 148, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/4/