No. III. RETURN of Articles, and Cost of Dietary. 1 lbs. meat, cooked, 2 lbs. in carcase, at 5d. per lb 1 lbs. flour, at 14d. per lb. ; 2 ozs. suet, at 5d. per lb. 6 ozs. cheese, at 5d. per lb. (2d.); 7 ozs. butter, at 10d. per lb. (44d.) 104 pints skim milk, at 6d. per gallon Total 0 10 098241 0 6 0 11 3 6 (Signed) SYDNEY TURNER. N.B.--The oldest boys are allowed 4 ozs. more bread daily, and 4 ozs. more meat weekly, which makes the cost of their food, per head, 3s. 9d., giving an average of 3s. 64d. for the whole school, No. IV. RETURN of Names, Duties, and Emoluments of Officers and Servants engaged in domestic and general superintendence and No. Name. Office and duties. Education of the Boys. 120 In addition to the above, occasional female assistance is hired in case of illness or other extra duties. At the Society's London Office, No. 3 Crown-court, Threadneedle-street. No. V.-MEMORANDUM of ADMISSIONS, DISCHARGES, &c. to The school was opened, by the use of the Farm-house for the accommodation of a small number of boys, in April 1849. At the same time (30 April 1849) the new buildings now in use were commenced. The number of boys admitted since that date has been The number of boys discharged since that date has been Apprenticed or assisted to employment in England Discharged at their own request without assistance, or deserted and not recovered, or discharged as unimproveable Total 90 49 18-157 1 70 61 289 Of the 157 emigrants, unfavourable accounts have been received of 14. Of the 70 apprenticed or helped out in England, about a third appear to have left their places or gone wrong. Several of the 61 deserted or discharged as unhopeful have since turned out well. D 50 General Report, by Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, E. CARLETON TUFNELL, Esq., on the Schools of Parochial Unions in the Counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, and in parts of Essex, Hertfordshire, and Buckinghamshire; for the Year 1852. MY LORDS, 1853. THE general condition of the pauper schools in the Metropolitan District has remained without material difference during the past year. It certainly has not improved; nor do I think it is likely to improve so long as the children are scattered about in the different workhouses, in numbers too small for efficient classification or schooling. There is one cause which has been more than ordinarily prejudicial to the improvement of the schools, and that is, the frequent changes of teachers. Two or three changes of masters in a single school, in the course of a year, have been of not infrequent occurrence; and it may be safely predicted that no school subject to such fluctuations in the teaching part can be in a flourishing state. A master takes two or three months to know his children, who take as long to fall into his ways and methods of teaching, and thus. if, when both parties begin to understand each other, and work well together, they are to separate for some new arrangement, it is quite clear that the business of the school cannot progress. The establishment of district schools, to include the children of several unions, would remedy the evil; as, in that case, the children would be in sufficiently large aggregate numbers to justify the expense of the accommodation and appliances necessary to a good school; and the teachers, having a fair field for their labours, and of course higher salaries, would be more permanent. But in these small workhouse schools, usually containing thirty or forty very young children, there is little or no field for exertion or display of teaching talent; and, as the salaries, depending as they do on numbers, are low, masters of ability stay in such schools no longer than they can help; and hence the frequent changes of which the baneful effects on the children are so apparent. The above, however, is only one of the evils attending the present system of pauper education. Many more have been so frequently detailed, by myself and others, that I forbear reiterating them from my own experience. But it is not often that we can penetrate into what I may call the |