Ragged, Orphan, Blind, Deaf and Dumb, Factory, Colliery, and Mechanics'
Institution Schools, Agricultural Schools, and other Public Schools

Total of Public Day Schools, as above

Total of Private Day Schools

Total Day Schools

Evening Schools, from which returns were obtained in 1851, 1,545; Scholars, 39,783, of whom 70 per cent. were males.

Literary, Scientific, and Mechanics' Institutions:-Returns obtained in 1851 from 1,057 Institutions, with 163,395 Members.

SIGNATURES OF PERSONS MARRYING.-In 1860 43,401 men and 61,677 women signed the marriage register with marks. The ability to practise the art of penmanship to the extent of writing one's own name, and probably sufficient skill to carry the art beyond that limit. is more common now than it was in 1853, when about 50,000 men and 72,000 women signed with marks. In 1841 and some subsequent years, the proportion of men who signed with marks was 33 to a hundred married. In 1847-52 it was 31; since 1852 it has fallen to 26. Within twenty years the proportion among women has fallen from 49 to 36. The number signing with marks in 1860 would indicate, approximately, the number of those whose education towards the close of the half century did not give them the power of writing their own names.

EXPORTS.

REAL OR DECLARED VALUE OF BRITISH AND IRISH PRODUCE AND
MANUFACTURES EXPORTED, 1815 TO 1850.

THE framers of the law of 1829 intended it to prevent fluctuations in the price of English grain, but in seven years, notwithstanding the provision, the price varied from 758. 3d. in 1829 to 368. 8d. in 1835, descending regularly every year; while in the three years, 1829, 1830, and 1831, there were imported 4,557,736 quarters. The total quantity imported, during the next ten years kept increasing, with occasional exceptions; but in 1845, waiting the repeal of the duty, the importation was only 1,142,700 quarters, of which only 315,615 were taken for home consumption. In 1846, after the repeal, there were imported 1,437,944 quarters, and 1,995,852 were taken for home consumption. In 1847 there were imported 2,650,058 quarters; besides 6,329,646 cwts. of wheat-meal, 3,614,637 quarters of Indian corn, and 1,451,020 cwts. of Indian corn-meal. In 1848 there were imported 2,594,013 quarters of wheat, 1,765,475 cwts. of flour, and 1,586,781 quarters of Indian corn. In 1849 the imports were 3,872,134 quarters of wheat, 3,371,301 cwts. of flour, 2,247,424 quarters of Indian corn, and 102,173 cwts. of Indian corn-meal. In 1850 were imported 3,754,593 quarters of wheat, 3,855,050 cwts. of flour, 1,286,264 quarters of Indian corn, and 11,401 cwts. of meal.

AVERAGE GAZETTE PRICES OF BRITISH WHEAT, BARLEY, AND OATS,
PER IMPERIAL QUARTER.

QUANTITIES OF BRITISH WHEAT, BARLEY, AND OATS, SOLD IN THE
PRINCIPAL MARKET TOWNS OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Frederick stall,-read Frederickshall.
1720,-read 1719.

11th,-read 7th.

,, 449, chapter headings, for

,, 465, opposite 1774, Louis

3rd,

read 4th.

21st,

read 20th.

1751,-read 1753.

Broune, -read Brown.

Severn,read Seven.

Severn, -read Seven.

Loudoun,-read Laudohn.

the 30th of January,-read the fast of 30th January.
Lord Hood,-read Lord Howe.

XVI. is inserted under the heading of Germany instead of
France.

VOL. VII.

Page 88, footnote, for Windsor and Public Library,-read Windsor and Eton Public Library. 328, line 13 from top, for Quasdanowich,-read Quosnadowich.

4th, read 14th.

was,-read were.

March, read February.

6th,-read 26th.

reference to the name of Colin Campbell, see Appendix, Annals 1858; p. 593.

on,-read or.

22nd,

read 21st.

19th,-read 18th.

Dumourier,read Dumouriez.

VOL. VIII.

Page 116, line 32 from top, for of one who, -read of him who.

138, 3rd column, line 24, for 1813-1857,-read 1802-1856.

,, 308, line 26 from top, for Hull, -read Bradford; for forty-nine,-read forty-three;