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' ¦ * ' Liverpool , Sir , March 17 , 1821 ; GOOT > deal of misconception A appears to have gone forth relative to the state of Public Education ; and , whatever may be the ultimate fate of Mr . Brougham ' s attempt to force instruction , it will at least have led to a greater knowledge of the actual means afforded by our present charitable institutions for diffusing knowledge among the poor .
I apprehend tlrat Scarcely any one hasiiben more deceived on this subject thiaS # Mr . Brougham himself , judging from the glaring fnacciiracies observable in . his ** Digest of Parochial Returns /* Indeed * little else was to
be expected ; for his information appears principall y to have been derived from partial ana imperfect statements . It is pretty evident , I Relieve , every where , that the great bulk of the children who receive education , in our large towns at least , obtain it by means of the IMfcse&teriS . Now if Mr .
Brougham was-aware of this , he ought to have consulted intelligent persons in every distrfeti ^ Who could have fur- * nishedhim with important information , which the Olergy wefre either unable or unwilling to produce . To this cause
it is I attribute the erroneous statement put forth byMr . Brougham in the House of Commons relative to the extreme deficiency- in * the means of education in the county of Lancaster . So far from ii 4 » < be | ng the case , tfee probability is , th ^ t the fociUties f # r this important Qbtect are eq ^ i , if not
superior , Jo those in any other fijgrt of the country ^ and certainly 4 o n # t y $ r quire the aid of any such legislative ena € tnaen ^ ap (; ^ . Brougham ' s Bill contemplates . * 4 t W % *** % ^ oxx ^ panso ^ af | ip ^ a 0 u ^| numbers ^ a-2 S 5 i 9 " Mnw ^^ k ^ . ^ m PareCL With whftt ia anAPinon in thA
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*• ViM ? " as ^ m ^ s thefd' We Wb&k thus feAickted , ivji ^ eas ; , TBf d ^ ' Mi ^; ju ^ t men tioned , 522 § children recede instruction tffi ^^ lfll cn ^^ added to the nurtiBfers liefofe % t ^ . ^ L make up a total of 11 , 982 cWMffei gratuitoxtsly edticated , ( or nearly so , ) out of a population coinputed at
1 30 ^ 000 . It is proper to observe , this calculation takes in the villages adjoining Liverpool , which the rectors do not include ; but the extreme inaccuracy of their report is so apparent , that it seems strange Mr . Brougham himself should not have suspected it . The total sum annually expended in
support of the chanty-schools m IAverpool is about j € 674 O , a very great proportion of which is raised by volun-i tary contributions , although the practice has recently _ been successfully introduced , in several instances ^ of claiming a small weekly sum from each child . This , whilst it contributes
to obviate na $ ny of the objections to which institutions entirely gratuitous are liable ^ will remove the objections which many pator parents of independent minds have , to placing their children in merely charity-schools , and at the same time will assist in
increasing the means ' of farther usefulnessw It may be important to state , that the number ^ of children educated by Catholics and Dissenters in Liverpool , amount very nearly to three-fotucths of the whole . On looking over the returns made from Manchester , and some other of
our large towns * in the cc Digest , " a similar extraordinary inaccuracy appears to prevail . Hfow far it wanders from the truth will beat be shewn when correct reborts iinglce their appearance from the above places , and which are in progress . d uced thus to obtrude
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page 217, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/25/
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