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INTELLIGENCE.
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from the funds of the Trustees connected with their places of worship . Tbe New and Old Meeting Societies have the undisputed merit of having originated and brought to a high degree of perfection the system of rearing a succession of voluntary teachers from the ranks * The present number of such in the Union is upwards of seventy , and they have the
management of the schools in their own hands , evincing more zeal and perseverance than could have been anticipated . The benefit club * originally intended f or the children only , but since extended to the teachers , has realized a fund ol £ 813 . The system of gratuitous instruction being now pretty general amongst the Dissenters , and the Wesleians in par *
ticular being close economists in their management , it may be considered as a fair presumption , that the same estimate will approximate sufficiently near to serve as an average supposition for the whole . There is no need , however , to underrate it to make out a plausible case ; if we say 2 s . 6 d . instead of 2 s . 2 < i . per head on the total number 14 , 000 , it will
amount to JC 1750 j and if for the sake of a round sum we take it at . £ 2000 , it will make but 2 s . pei * house throughout the town , or not one halfpenny per week for each . This must be understood a * for instruction solely , several of the institutions in the list providing subsistence : in addition . Sucb is the extraordinary power of well-directed combination .
It would thus appear that there are 14 , 000 instructed in the public intUutiona towards the total estimate of the ameuot of youthful population * which good authority states to us at about 20 , 00 ( 1 ; and of the remaining 6000 we may fairly reckon 4000 for those who , belonging to a higher degree in the scale , have their education paid for by their parents ; and there will then remain 2000 , the victims
of ignorance and neglect . Thifl , considered in itself , U a serious nutnber , but in comparison with the total is conwtotorv , being but a tenth pa ^ of tins whole ; ana even a considerable portion of \\\ vm may fall in the way occasionally for » ome little help hi the cultivation of th ^ ir nntntored minds . What , then , are we ta think of the alarming evil so clearly demonstrated by Sir fiardley Wihuot of the increase of crime , aud wox $ particularly
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Public Education in Birmingham . Names of Schools and number of Children . Blue Coat School . «• 194 Infant ditto , Ann Street . 150 Ditto , ditto , Islington 105 Asylum ( from the parish rates ) ,. 265 National Schools 442 Schools of Industry 154 St . Philip ' s , St . George ' s , St . Mary ' s , St . Martin ' s , St . Paul ' s , Christ Church , St . Bartholomew ' s , St . John ' s , St . James ' s , Trinity 2130 Park-Street School 48 New Meeting ditto 740 Old Meeting ditto 550
Baptist and Independent Sunday-School Union , comprising Cannon Street , Carr ' s Lane , Ebeue * zer , Fisher Street , Livery Street , Bond Street , New Hall Street , King Street , Lombard Street , Oxford Street .. 6000 Cherry Street and Belmont Row ,
( Wesleyan Old Schools ) 1600 Wenleyan New Schools ..,, 801 Bradford Street ditto 360 Mount Zion Hill ditto 50 Islington ditto 100 Thorpe Street ditto 80 Inge Street ditto 80 Roman Catholic ditto .......... 250
14 , 099 The proportion of boys to girls is pro * bably about 2 or 2 J to 3 . The total number belonging to the Establishment at the most may be 2500 , and those un * der the Dissenters 11 , 500 . A small
allowance may also reasonably be made for a few probable omissions . It would seem that the Society of Friend * have hardly borne a proportionate share with other societies in the great work of public instruction ; . it must , however , be conceded that they took the lead in establishing and patronising the
Lancastrian institution , and the infant echooU are perhaps more indebted to them as a body than to auy other denomination . Many of the schools have very ample and commodious buildings erected for tlie purpose , at an expense from j # 500 to irlOOO and upwards , gome of them entirely from donations , and others in pait
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1828, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2558/page/55/
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