The manufactories of Paisley and Kilmarnock have greatly increased, and villas are consequently building round both towns. The manufacturing establishment at Catrine, in Ayrshire, is one of the most perfect of the kind which we have ever seen, not only with reference to its machinery and buildings, but to the comforts, cleanliness, and morals of the workmen. Almost all of these live in houses and cultivate gardens which are their own property; and they not only support a respectable extraparochial school, but one or more places of worship. In the parish schools throughout the west of Scotland the routine of education has been slightly improved by the introduction of miscellaneous reading, but the great defects of these establishments remain the same.
