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 LUC 387 sons of taluqdars. There were at the close of March, 1871, 18 Hindus and 8 Muhammadans, in all 26 boarders, of whom 14 were wards. The total cost was Rs. 10,550 and the average for each boarder was Rs. 402. This institution is under the direction of the Commissioner of the Division and is managed by a Governor. Aided schools under the Anglican Church Mission.—The Church Mis- sion maintains five schools in the city with an aggregate of 641 boys and an average attendance of 498. The fees amount to Rs. 265, and the Government grant to Rs. 3,470. The total cost Rs. 6,940. The largest of these institutions, the main school, has 300 boys, and the smallest, in Hazratganj, 41. The American Episonpalian Methodist Mission Anglo-Vernacular Schools.—There are seven of these ; the attendance averages 483; Rs. 392 are collected as fees, and the Government grant is 3,605. The total cost amounts to Rs. 7,479. Girls' schools.--The eight American Mission'girls' schools and seven Church Mission schools have an aggregate average attendance of 223 and 173 girls respectively, and the ten girls' schools supported from provincial funds have an attendance of 182 girls out of a total of 245 borne on the rolls. Manufactures, trades, arts.--The different castes or trades-unions who follow each occupation in Lueknow have been already detailed. It remains to give some account of the nature of their industries, progress, and skill. The principal arts and manufactures of Lucknow are cotton cloth, gold and silver wire, gold and silver lace, enamelling, stoue setting, and jewel- ler's work of all kinds, glass vessels, dyes, clay figures, shawl weaving, cotton printing, lithography, Cotton.---The muslins of Lucknow are sold at from six to fourteen annas per yard. Others of finer texture are manufactured, costing Rs. 50 to Rs. 100 per piece of eight yards. The very best English muslins are sold at eight annas per yard; the native fabric of course cannot compete in the general market with the imported one. Native muslins are not suitable for ladies' dresses as they do not stand washing properly, but for some purposes, as handkerchiefs, their greater softness qualifies them. A native weaver will make 11 yard of muslin in a day, and earn 21 annas or 31d.; in coarser work, such as gárha, he will get through three yards per day, earning 14 anna. Cotton printing.–Cotton printing is a successful business at Lucknow. There are now some 30 small establishments, and their annual outturn is valued at Rs. 25,000 ; their chintz and printed nankin, if the colours are fast, cannot be sold under 10 annas per yard, when a similar English fabric can be sold at six annas. The patterns of the Lucknow article are more appreciated, and the snowy whiteness of the material upon which they are worked cannot, it is said, be equalled in England. The Kukráel