three such schools for only 800,000 of population."

Such being the education of the young, we may now look to see how Mr.
Kay describes that provided for people of a more advanced period of
life:--

"The crowd of low pot-houses in our manufacturing districts is a sad
and singular spectacle. They are to be found in every street and
alley of the towns, and in almost every lane and turning of the more
rural villages of those districts, if any of those villages can be
called rural.

"The habit of drunkenness pervades the masses of the operatives to an
extent never before known in our country.

"In a great number of these taverns and pot-houses of the
manufacturing districts, prostitutes are kept for the express purpose
of enticing the operatives to frequent them, thus rendering them
doubly immoral and pernicious. I have been assured in Lancashire, on
the best authority, that in one of the manufacturing towns, and that,
too, about third rate in point of size and population, there are
_sixty_ taverns, where prostitutes are kept by the tavern landlords,
in order to entice customers into them. Their demoralizing influence
upon the population _cannot be exaggerated_; and yet these are almost
the only resorts which the operatives have, when seeking amusement or
relaxation.

"In those taverns where prostitutes are not actually kept for the
purpose of enticing customers, they are always to be found in the
evenings, at the time the workmen go there to drink. In London and in