Report from Select Committee of the House of Commons Appointed to Inquire Into the Education of the Lower Orders in the Metropolis; With the Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Committee ... to Which Are Subjoined an Addenda and a Digested Index (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 Excerpt: ...any estimate of the number of poor children who are destitute of the means of instruction in the parish of Mary-le-bone?--No, I cannot; Mary-le-bone is so very large a parish, that I do not know how to form an idea of that. I9 the district with which you are particularly acquainted, much inhabited by the poorer classes?--It is, much beyond any other part of the parish, arising from this circumstance, that there are a great number of houses built upon what we call sufferance, upon ground belonging to the Bishop of London, and liable to be removed at six months notice; they are permitted to live there upon paying a small annual rent for the ground, and, when notice comes for them to quit, are permitted to remove the materials, which produces a very strange scenery; they pull the house down, and carry the materials to a distance, and build it up again. In what part of Mary-le-bone parish is this?--The northwest, adjoining the Edgware-road. The adjacent part of Paddington parish, and the other side of the Edgware-road, I suppose, contains about six hundred small huts of this description. The district I particularly allude to, is called Lisson-place and the Gravel-pits. What may be the population of that district?--I hardly know; I should think there must be four or five thousand within half a mile extent of Bentinck chapel, but I speak by guess. Do you find a general disposition among the poor to have their children educated?--very much so; there were no schools at all, till I set up these schools about eighteen years ago, in that part of the parish. Of what classes do they consist chiefly?--Labourers. Irish?--A good many; the circumstance of the Paddington canal has brought a vast number of poor people into the neighbourhood. From the country?--Yes; and likewi...