Manchester, Ancoats, St. Andrew's, Girls'.-2. Not good, but the tone pleasing. 3. Indifferent, both as to information and intelligence. Manchester, Ancoats, St. Andrew's, Infants'.-In the same room with the girls' school. Under a young, but pleasing and promising, mistress from the Grauby Row school. The schools are in great difficulties as to pecuniary support. The clergyman very anxious to improve them. Manchester, St. Ann's, Boys'-1. Monitors little used; an assistant employed during last 14 years. 4. Results variable, necessarily from the low character of the population and irregularity of attendance; but in general very satisfactory, especially as to intelligence. Dictation, spelling, knowledge of meanings of words, and the intelligent acquaintance with Scripture and catechism are very good." Writing-books neat; history of England very good; geography fair; grammar indifferent. 5. Master intelligent, active, and skilful; trained two years at Chester. Manchester, St. Ann's, Girls'.-1. Only lately an assistant mistress; monitors little employed. 2. Good; tone excellent. 4. Reading with good intonation; writing-books neat; spelling moderate; catechism fairly repeated and understood. But little geography, grammar, and history; scriptural knowledge and general intelligence moderate. Mistress a pleasing, educated person. Vocal music is well taught to both boys and girls by the master. The arrangement of the desks in both schools is bad. Manchester, St. Ann's, Infants'.-The room insufficiently lighted, warmed, and ventilated, but well supplied with apparatus. 1. Only for reading, monitors used, the mistress taking a class, and the master going round. The mistress usually takes the youngest on a small gallery. 2. Order and tone particularly good. 4. Few did not know the letters; tables fairly known. Addition and multiplication are taught, and notation well understood by several. Natural history taught with sparing use of hard words. Scripture history well taught, and the proper moral lessons drawn. Throughout the instruction is active and intelligent, and free from affectations. The master and mistress were trained at the Home and Colonial Institution in 1843. In this excellent school there is found no difficulty in ensuring regularity and punctuality of attendance. Hulme Holy Trinity, Boys.-School self-supporting. Books purchased by parents. Each boy with his satchel. 1. Master assisted by youth of 19, and five pupil monitors, who are paid a trifle and receive extra instruction. In 9 classes. Circulating system, without rewards, employed to promote discipline and avoid emulation. Each boy £. s. d.£. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. 23 7 050 18 0 76 5 325 0 0 .. 70 0 0 29 6 9 7 8 522 17 1 4 10 4 12 13 5 .. 40 0 0 answerable for his left-hand neighbour, and takes his place on detection of a fault. 2. Good order and great activity. 4. Very good in most respects; suffers for want of books and apparatus. Writing and mental arithmetic particularly good. Grammar satisfactorily taught; history and geography only from catechism; vocal music from notes, and some drawing. The infants not well provided for; au infant-school wanted. Boys are mostly artizans' children. Lighting, warming, ventilation, and furniture, all defective. The master is a clever, active man, with skill. Hulme, Holy Trinity, Girls'.-2. Good. 4. Suffers from above causes. Attainments fair, and children not without intelligence. Monitors compensated by extra teaching. Manchester, All Souls', Ancoats.-A valuable set of new schools. Manchester, All Souls', Ancoats, Boys'.-I. Unpaid monitors changed weekly. 2. Everything connected with order and routine satisfactory. 4. Progress of lower classes not satisfactory; writing books neat; spelling air; catechism well repeated; knowledge of Scripture and general subjects indifferent; intelligence low, still a good deal is taught. 5. The master is young and improving; had a private school, and was afterwards for 3 months at Salford model school. The master has an evening school 3 days in the week. Manchester, All Souls', Ancoats, Infauts'.-1. For reading, careful; elder girls learn also of master. 2. Children neat, orderly, and cheerful; many not from poorest class. 4. Good. Elder girls read well, write fairly, and have an intelligent knowledge of Scripture; a few are 11 years old. 5. Mistress taken from a mill, and trained at Granby-row for 16 weeks; a pleasing efficient teacher. Manchester, St. James'.—A good set of new school-buildings, still defective in fittings and apparatus. Manchester, St. James', Boys'.-1. Unpaid monitors, each acting about every fourth week. 2. Good; tone good. 3. Spelling of the 1st class only is good; maps neatly drawn by 6 boys; catechism fairly repeated and understood; scriptural knowledge and general intelligence of only a few is satisfactory. 5. Not regularly trained, but a pleasing and apparently educated person. Manchester. St. James', Girls'.-1. Till lately no pupils thought forward enough for monitors. 2. Good. Tone very good; the girls neat, quiet, and orderly. 3. As in boys' school, the instruction and intelligence partially good only. The schools have been opened only 15 months. 5. A pleasing person, educated in model school at Cheltenham; wife of the master. Neither of them seems in strong health. Manchester, St. James', Infants'.-Children come from their homes unneat, but in the school everything was in neat order. The mistress seems very kind, and anxious about her duties; but has had little training. The children seem fond of her, but are inattentive and disorderly; an unusually large proportion of them do not know their letters, and the attainments of the elder ones are small. : Sundries. TOTAL. Manchester, St. Michael's, Boys'.-1. Monitors from the second class. 2. Moderate. Boys extremely unpunctual. 4. Fair on the whole, though not extensive. 5. Intelligent. Has to work on the offspring of a very low population, as appears in their countenances. The school is deficient in books and apparatus. Manchester, St. Michael's, Girls'.-1. Classes well graduated. 2. Fair; but the want of punctuality in attendance is very great. 4. Fair on the whole, though limited. The school suffers from the same causes which affect the other. 5. Very pleasing; the school-room presents a pattern of neatuess and order. Manchester, St. Michael's, Infants'.-In dark room, under a pleasing mistress and assistant. The room is not neat; the children are not animated, but seemed getting on. These schools have no yard, and the privies are very bad. Manchester, Collegiate District, Girls'.-1. An assistant mistress and two fixed unpaid monitors are employed. 2. An appearance of great neatness and order, and, in many respects, a good tone; but the children are very inattentive. 4. Spelling good. Writing-books blotted, but otherwise clean. A little grammar, and very little secular geography. Catechism moderately repeated. A moderate knowledge of Scripture facts, and a little of its geography. The Scriptures and catechism known with little intelligence. 5. The mistress was trained three months at Westminster, and was four years at the Dunchurch school. 6. The district is low, and the school attendance very fluctuating. Manchester, Granby Row.—The school-buildings are excellent, and their furniture and apparatus have been made as complete as possible at the expense of the Manchester Church Education Society, under whose management the schools are placed. The school district is a low one, with a large proportion of Roman Catholic inhabitants. There is a Roman Catholic school close by. Manchester, Granby Row, Boys'.-1. Monitors only used for such things as dictation and hearing tables. 2. Seems good, but the children not very attentive. Tone good. 4. Attainments partial, but show good teaching. Spelling good. Writing only moderate. Que boy fairly, and others a little, acquainted with geography and History of England. The catechism is fairly repeated, but not well understood. A few know Scripture history, and understand what they read fairly. 5. The master is a well-educated man, anxious about his duties, aud came 12 months since from Strathfieldsay, with an excellent character. Manchester, Granby Row, Girls'.-1. Unpaid monitors from the first class; one always; the rest by turns. 2. Good; and tone good. 4. Writing indifferent; reading and spelling fair; dictation and arithmetic moderate; catechism well repeated and understood. Scriptural knowledge of all but one indifferent. 5. Mistress has been here 9 months; was trained 8 years ago at Westminster. Manchester, Granby Row, Infants'.-The younger children are in a separate room. 1. Monitors are taken for the reading from the upper schools. 2. Good; and tone good. 4. Too large a number do not know the alphabet perfectly. Tables, numbers, and Scripture history very fair. The gallery lessons seem weil given. Marching and singing orderly and lively. The girls sew, and little ones string beads, &c. 5. The mistress was trained in 1839 at the Gray's-inn-lane Institution, and held an office there; she has been here 24 years. The young assistant mistress was from the Salford Model School, and is said to do well. Manchester, St. Silas's.-A large building, with one large room on upper floor, divided by curtains into boys' and : : Uncer tain. £. s. d. £. s. d £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. £. s. d. 90 6 245 0 0 .. 70 0 0 6 9 10 1 13 113 11 8 9 15 721 4 0 About 40 0 0 40 0 0 About 130 0 0 Chief 150 0 0 100 0 0 17 0 0 .. 14 0 0 9 13 034 0 0 21 2 2 14 12 1 REMARKS. girls' schools; but echo great, and sound scarcely broken. A floor below the infants' school; and here, and on groundfloor, rooms for master and for an apparitor; and a damp room for covered playground, but not liked. The building is very damp where exposed most, and rain comes through the walls. Sufficient playground. Manchester, St. Silas's, Boys'.-In 5 classes; unpaid monitors from 1st class, changed (about) monthly; attendance unpunctual; fair order but moderate attention; children tidy. Reading good; spelling air; arithmetic poor; geography a little known fairly; grammar little; history fairly answered, but children taught by collective lessons only. Catechism not well repeated, but moderately well explained; Liturgy fairly understood by a few; scriptural knowledge of a few fair, of rest indifferent. Instruction even throughout the classes. The master worked at a trade 6 years ago; went to a National school at Cambridge for 7 months; had, for 13 months, a friends' school in a village, thence came hither 14 years ago. Manchester, St. Silas's, Girls'.-In 6 classes: unpaid monitors; after 1st class have read, &c., they are sent to hear others read and spell. Order fair, but girls inattentive; attendance very unpunctual, and with trifling reasons; tidy. Reading very good; writing good and very neat; spelling good; dictation and abstracts fair; little geography; scarcely any grammar; questions in English history fairly answered, but that taught only by collective lessons, Catechism fairly repeated, and the language well explained; Liturgy moderately well explained; one girl answered very well in almost every part of the religious subjects, and a few others fairly in Scripture history. The girls generally answer too much by rote: their work seems good; the elder ones were working worsted patterns. The mistress is wife to the master; kept a private school; had a training at St. Saviour's, Manchester. Manchester, St. Silas's, Infants'.-Mistress has no assistant, and yet has several babies to attend to. The discipline and order are poor; but the classes for reading are fairly arranged, and there seems some progress amongst the younger children: the elder ones are a hindrance, especially as the scholars are not well in hand. The attendance is unpunetual, and the children not tidy. Mistress was at the St. Saviour's Infant school for 3 months; before that, for 24 years, kept a mixed school in the country. She seems to teach fairly. Manchester, St. Saviour's.--Buildings good, convenient, and well fitted up. Ventilation good, but the upper rooms, for the boys and girls, too low. A legal difficulty prevents a master-house being built, and a playground enclosed upon ground purchased. No half-day scholars, and the parents are generally mechanics. Infants pay 2d., others 4d. Manchester, St. Saviour's, Boys'.-1. In 6 classes. Unpaid monitors, each once a-week for the day. 2. Good order and great attention. Children very neat. 4. Reading excellent; writing particularly good and neat; spelling pretty good; arithmetic much and good; a few work interest and begin fractions; mental arithmetic very fair; several fairly, Others indifferently acquainted with geography, including some notions of the sphere. Several fairly acquainted with history; several indifferently with the parts of speech. Catechism not well repeated, owing to too much simultaneous answering. Its language and that of the services fairly understood. A fair acquaintance with all but the middle portion of Scripture history; Several knew the customs, &c., fairly, and very few the geography. Drawing is practised with some success, but a good series of subjects is needed. Some lessons are learned at home. The master educated at private school; was clerk in an office; taught three months at St. John's school, Manchester, and has been here seven years. : : Candles and Fuel. Sundries. TOTAL. Manchester, St. Saviour's, Girls'.-Two of the 1st class are 15, two 14, one 13, six 12. Some attended only alternate weeks; 3 or 4 are babies. 1. In 5 classes; unpaid monitors, each day for half an hour. The order and attention very good, and the girls very neat and cheerful. Spelling and working very good; a few moderately acquainted with geography; two knew the parts of speech well, and a few others fairly; Catechism indifferently repeated, from same cause as in the boys' school, but it is fairly understood; a few are fairly acquainted with Scripture history and moderately with the corresponding geography. The mistress has had a superior education, and has kept a school of her own; she has been here two years. Manchester, St. Saviour's, Infants'.-Children healthy though not robust. 1. A few stay beyond seven years old on account of the additional 2d. There is an assistant mistress. 2. Good order under a firm but kind discipline; children cheerful and tidy. The instruction in reading is active, and the classes for that purpose well arranged. Spelling and knowledge of numbers and tables good; only a few repeated the Catechism well, but they understood its meaning fairly, and answered satisfactorily in Scripture. Most of the usual methods of instruction are pursued, but no collec tion of objects. The mistress, a middle-aged person, taught in Chorlton-upon- Medlock infant school, and has been here seven years. Manchester, Bennett-street.-Building of 4 stories, with a large room, and an adjoining class-room on each floor. On Sundays filled with above 3000 scholars; en week days 3 are occupied (or about a third part of each) for boys', girls' and infants' schools. Parallel double desks across the room, leaving a passage in the middle, fill the floor very inconveniently. Manchester, Bennett-street, Boys'-Two pupil teachers, candidates for apprenticeship, were not examined with the rest. In the 1st class the 3 oldest 12, and the 4 next 11. The neighbourbood is the poorest and lowest; but no factory | children are admitted. 1. In 7 classes; some in the lowest class infants; monitors not used. The classification seemed uneven. 2. Order not good; the boys talkative, and little restrained; discipline not strict enough, and perhaps sufficient activity not maintained. No register of daily individual attendance; about a fifth come late; attendance very fluctuating. Considering the neighbourhood, the boys were not untidy. 4. Character of the reading good; writing of poor character; dictation good; abstracts moderate; spelling fair; not able to do correctly in arithmetic what they had learned; a few moderately acquainted with geography, and with part of the History of England; one knew the parts of speech indifferently. A few fairly acquainted with the Pentateuch, and moderately with other parts of Scripture; they had not yet acquired much knowledge of geography, customs, &c. Most repeated Catechism indifferently, but they explained its language fairly. 5. Master aged 23; trained 12 months at Battersea; this is his first school; has been here 6 months. Manchester, Bennett-street, Girls'.-In 1st class the three oldest 13, two next 12, four next 11 years old. 1. Monitors only for reading; two pupil teachers assist. The mistress teaches upper classes together. 2. Tidy, in good order, and fairly attentive. Discipline maintained well. Above one-fifth are late in daily attendance; attendance fluctuates much. The reading very good; neat and creditable writing; dictation and abstracts moderate; spelling fair; many fairly acquainted with the geography of Britain, and moderately with that of Europe; several very fairly with the parts of speech; one very fairly, and others moderately, with a portion of the History of England. Catechism moderately repeated, but its language, and that of the Liturgy, fairly understood; acquaintance with the early part of Scripture history very fair; only a few elder children knew much of rest. One very intelligently acquainted with the customs, geography, &c., and a few others fairly. No lessons learned at home. 5. The mistress has suffered much from bad |