EDUCATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1607, 21 October 1882, Page 4

EDUCATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES.

The repent for ISSI of the Committee of Council on Education (England and Wcilei) lia^ l)een issued. It status th.it in tlio year ended Aug. 31, ISSI, the inspcctois \isitcd 18,002 day-schools in England and Wales, to w Inch annual giants weie made, tliesc fuinisliing accommodsition for 3,380,033 scliolnih, or latlicrmoie than ono-,si\th of the population. Theic vcie on tlie regUteis tlio names of 4,0i.j,3 ( >2 children, of whom ! ,'2(»S,*2.')o wci c under seven years of age, •2,573,05 l between seven or thirteen, 1.">7)054 between thiitcon and fourteen, and 4.1,727 abo\e fourteen. These (iguies show some impiovcmenfc upon the letums quoted in the List repoit, the accommodation having incicased by 3-IB,SBO school places '.or 3 52 pel cent.) and the, scholais on the icgisteis by ] W.MS (3,81 per cent.) The average attendance also h.is incrocised by ]12,fi1!) (4 - o'.) per cent.) and the number of children indi\ idu.illy c\iunined by ( )1,4()j (I S pei cent ) The annual Government giant to elemental y day schooK rose in tlic t \eai horn fi.UJO.OOH to V2,'2M r>o7, oi fiom I.ls. .I,'d. to 15s. S'd. per scholar in avenge attendance ; %\lnle the grant for the em rent Imam ial )c.u l^s estimated at Kjo ]iei lictd. The number of voluntary .schools i.s now 14,370, -with accommodation for 3,1!>.1,3(i(i, and dn lueiaye attendance ot 3,007, 15 t ;a\ hilc the number of Jjo.ihl scliools is 3,(j('2, Mitli accommodation for I,lo t,'2(iS, and and avciage aUend.incc 0f5,1(i,331. The e\pcndittuc per scholai in aveiagc attendance was tor the w hole of Kngland and 5 Cl Ih IP.d m voluntaij^, and L"'2 Is (id in Bo.ud scliools. Ot the lattei tlie lii<,lie«,t Mas London (€2 ],ls \Q\i\) andtlic low w>t Hull (Cl. ih. lid. —Is !M,d lower than the llomnu Catholic, which aie tlie lowest ot tlio voluntary schools) ; wlnlsfc JJradfotd was £2 (is od, Liverpool C' 2 3^ 3,' d, Manchester "Cl Uh Ojd, Eiuniiiglum -Cl 1S& ) ,d. aud Leed^ and Shclhold both ill 17b .I'd.

Mi:. Sullivan, I.ite M.P., visits the United states foi the purpose uf leituiiny on the condition of Ii eland. Mi Alcxandei, ot LouisMlle, Xy., h.is disfli.nyoil .ill his Netpo f.m» h.uuls, ami employed Chinese in their stead. Other Kentucky iainiei-s intend following hus k.ul. Si \rr the remain* of Thomas C-xilylc weic some 18 montlis ago interred in the ancient (mi ying ground at Kcclefedian, the gi.ucyaul ha-, by theeffoifrs of a few gentlemen pove^ing the light of sepultuio, been considerably nnpiovcd and .idorned. ilrj.uncs Cail^le, lirothcv of Thorn.is, h.ts just hud a l.uge tombstone fiected to the memoiyoi lus two literary lnotheis. The stone boa is near the top, the motto " Ihnuililuh ," with the Carlyle aims underneath. On the body of the stone the uncuptum runs—" Here lL^fcs, Thomas Carlyle, who was born at Eeelefeehan, 4th December, 170."), and died at 24, Ghoyne-iow, Chelsea, London on Saturday, Fcbruaiy 4, 1881. Here also rests John Aitken Carlyle, M.D., L.L.I., vlio was bom at Kcelefeehan, 7th July, 1801, and died at The Hill, Dumfries on Monday, loth September, ISO!)." At the foot of each of the graves there is a small stone bearing respectively the initials "T. C." and "J. A. C."' In the house where Thomas Carlyle was born there i& now kept a visitors' book, which already contains autographs of many wellknown pel sons.