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 398 SPAIN.

6G3,711 pupils, and on January 1, 1861, 1,046,558 pupils, of both sexes, divided between the piiblic and private schools as follows : —

Description of schools

Schools

Scholars

Boys

Girls

Total

Public schools — Superior

Elementary Mixed

Total Infant .... Adults.

Total Private schools — Superior. Elementary Mixed

Total Infant .... Adult ....

Total

Total of public and private schools ....

219

10,261

7,399

14,559 398,176

222,000

524

216,953

42,904

15,083 615,129 264,904

17,879 109

272

634,735

1,392 50,317 23,116

260,381

25 39,284 15,632

895,116

10,159

6,900

18,260

35

1,902

1,707

912,175

1,417

89,601

38,748

3,644 90 66

74,825

54,941

129,766 3,244 1,393

3,800

134,383 1,046,558

22,060

It was found at the last general census, of 1860, that of the total population of the kingdom there were 2,414,015 men, and 715,906 women able to read and write; 316.557 men, and 389,211 women, able to read but not to write, and that all the rest, upwards of 5,000,000 men, and 6,800,000 women, could neither read nor write. At the preceding census, of 1846, the total number of persons, of both sexes, able to write, was found to be no more than 1,221,001, while the total number able to read was only 1,898,288, or considerably less than one-fifth of the population.

According to the latest official returns, published in 1868, there were 1,251,653 pupils attending the private and public schools, being at the rate of one pupil to every thirteen of the population of Spain.

Middle-class education is given in fifty-eight public colleges by 757 professors to 13,881 pupils. In first-class education, the most remarkable feature is the large number of law-students, namely, 3,755 in 1859-60, divided among ten faculties. There were, at that date, ten faculties of literature and philosophy, with 224 students ; seven faculties of sciences, with 141 students; four faculties of pharmacy, with 544; seven faculties of medicine, with 1,178; and six faculties of theology, with 339 students — in all 6,181 students. The expenditure for public education by the government amounted, on the average of the last years, to rather less than 250,000/.