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Johnson relieves the Imant Pour as usital, at her house, every Tuesday and Saturday morning, Irmo nine to ten o'clock, by bringing a letter from a respectable housekeeper, to testify that they are reel objects of cimitY WARREN'S ORIGINAL JAPAN LIQUID BLACKING, produces a brilliant Jet Black, equal to the highest Japan Varnish, preserves the Leather sob, and 'mots its cracking, does not soil the linen, is perfectly free Pratt any unpleasant and will retain its virtues is any Ornate. Sold Wholesale by Robert Warren, 14, St. Mards's.lane, Landon; an Retail by Caldwell, Dublin; White, Waterford; hoestuti; Belfast; Raeburo, hdinlattrgh; Osborne, Glasgow; !..iuts I overarms ; Coukwurtliy„ Plymouth ; Witherklea,Margate; Pale, Ramsgate; Lawler, lirtzhton ; Rudd, Southampton ; ? dams Chester; Bacchtui, Portsea; Clark, Lancaster; Wood, Ainningham ; Pierson. Sheffield ;Greenslade, Guernsey ;Slaeldon, %schemer; Roaathwaue ' Liv e rpool ; Edmunds, Swansea; tidney, Bristol; Bound, Carlisle ; Frewer, Norwich; Wat- Ityisea, Scarborough; and by his Agents in every Town In the kindutla, is Stow ltottloa, la. 6d. a pint, 101 half a pint, and bd. tads. CaoTton.—Obstrve, none are: genuine sass, aellid it air ) A fn e ligledoa the Label and 14, St. Pitattia's4aott, stamped id Via Book ' as to super i or r qualit y o f this s w ung bass Induced mat base impostors to aril grulous altrositioss liada dig ` uU ll MUG TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1816. THE ARMY. last published, 3 Vols. Bvo. F. ifl. les, ed. TENDTHE ROYAL MILITARY CA- L AR; containing the Services of the GaNsawcs, COLONEL., and LteuranneT-COLONRLS, from their entrance lam the Armyobc. Sold by Mr. Egerton, Mffitivy Library, Whitehall ; through whom communications for the N.ditor are to be sent, tree of postage. • •• • The Purchas e r s o f t h e twe first Vols. may have VoL lit separately, price les. ed. chi's' circumstanced, rather to encourage than to sup press illegal modes of destioying it. The expediency of the present restraints upon the possessors of land appeari further to your Committee extremely problematical. The game is maintained by the produce of the land ; and your Committee is not aware of any valid grounds for continuing to withhold from the possessors of land the enjoyment of that property, which has appeared by the Common Law to belong to theta. The present system of Game Laws produces the effect of encouraging its illegal and irregular destruction by poachers, in whom an interest is tilereby created to obtain a live lihood by systematic and habitual infractions of the law. It can hardly be necessary for your Committee to point out the mischievous infinence of such a :taw upon the moral conduct isf those- who addict them selves to such practices; . :to them may be readily traced many of the irregularities, and most of the crimes, which are prevalent among the lower orders in sitricultural districti. Your Committee hesitate to recommend, at this late period of the Session, the introduction of an im• mediate measure, upon a subject which affects a variety of interests ; but they cannot abstain from ex pressing a sanguine expectation; that by the future adoption of some measure, founded upon the prin ciple recognised, as your Committee conceive, by the Common Law; much of the evils originating in the present system of the Game Laws may be ulti mately removed. Upon mature consideration of the premises, your Committee have come to the following resolution : Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that all Gantt should be the properly of the person upon whose lands such Game should be found. EDUCATION OF THE LOWER ORDERS OF THE METROPOLIi. MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE A COM MI ITEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. (Con:inaed front yesterday's Paper.) Mr. R. B. POLLARD, Master of St. Margaret's Hos pital, Westminster, of the Royal Foundation of King Charles I. commonly called the Green Coat School, stated, that this establishment lodged, clothed, and educated 24 boys—at the commencement of the French Revolution there had been 20. The income was about €7 00 a-year, partly from Government Stock and partly from estates. The expenses were to the full amount of the income. The building was very exten sive and much money expended in repairs. .There was also a fund arising from a bequest of Sir J. CUT• Lea, granting to c.tch boy £5 as an apprentice fee. The Master's salary was 450, with house and coals and candles; he was allowed to take some boarders , and day scholars. There was a matron, who had R2O salary, and £:8 for board, kc. The witness stated, that by the Chartzr the Governors were confined to board and educate as many boys as the funds Will admit of. The children were presented by the Gover nors (who were 20 in number) in ;oration, and were chosen from the children of poor and decayed house keepers, and others 11 tying a legal settlement. A copy of the Charter is given, dated Nov. 15, the ninth year of Charles I. It begins, " Charles, kc. Whereas divers of our loving subjects dwelling in our City of West. tr.inster have resolved to settle a certain house, in which poor boy. and girls of tender years may not only carefully be maintained with meat, drink, and appa rel, but also instructed ice Atreedaro," &c. " We will and ordain that that house hereafter be an hospital,"&c. E. WAKEFIELD, Esq. who had surveyed part of the Covent-garden district, for the purposes of the West London Lancasterian Society, delivered to the Com mittee two ReFrts which he had made to the Chair man of the Association, in which he confirmed the tes timony which had been given by Mr. Biggs, as to the general filth and wretchedness in the district visited by them, and the general willingnesi to assist the objects of the Association among the lower classes. The second Report related to the section N 0.4, comprising the courts to the south of Long-acre, and other ad joining streets. Several of.the courts anal alleys in that quarter were filled with people in a state of pecu. liar wretchedness, though the outside of the houses would have led a passing stranger to imagine that they were respectably tenanted. ' On the whole, the ' examiners were received with great civility, particu larly by the class of persons likely to be benefited by the Association. They no where held out the expec tation of forming charity schools, but stated that the Association wished to afford instruction at the cheapest possible rate, and this principle, if acted upon, would nut reduce them to a state of obligation on any one. Mr. W. stated to the Committee, that he found amongst the persons who he had thought might have become contributors to general schooling; an objet-. tion to further that purpose. in consequence of their subscribing to Sectarian Schools of their own belief many of the common people, who were Irish Catho-. lies, said their children went to the school of their no ligion. There was also a Methodist School, to which some of the housekeepers stated that they subscribed already. His own opinion decidedly was in favour of mixing the children of all sects, and bringing them up in intimacy and affection in a common school room. If in. a small district, a school should be planted ; from which sectaries were excluded, a large *amber must remain uneducated, if there were not sufficient funds in the hands of the'Dissenters to erect another. Even in a large district in which there were great numbers, both of churchmen and sectaries, the tendency of dis tinct schools would be to perpetuate parties and reli-' gious enmity. He was apprehensive, however, that churchmen might not send their children to a school established on a general principle. From his private intercourse and his experience in - the West London Association, he thought there. was no probability of increasing the amount of the present yearly sum raised for the purpose of educating the poor, as the West London Society bad fallen to the round for want of funds, notwithstanding all the pains taken to raise I I them ; sobscsietioas were mach more easily obtained, GAME LAWS. REPORT FROM THE CoMMITIEE OP 1,111 HOUSE OF COMMON& , Your Committee, in investigating this important subject, proceeded to the consideration of the present existing laws for the preservation of Game ; their adequacy to their professed object, their policy and justice, and their effects upon the habits and tnorals of the lower orders of the community. In consider ing the existing state of the law upon this subject, their attention was naturally directed, in the first place to its state in_ the early periods of the common law, and in that your Committee finds concurrent and un. disturbed authorities for contemplating Game as the exclusive right of the proprietor of the land ration: so/t. In a law of Cannte's he thus expresses himsell: Praterea autem concedo ut in propriis ipsius prsdiis quisque tam in agris quam in sylvis exciter agitetque feral ;" and in Blackstone, IL p. 415, " Sit quil:bet homo dignus venatiune sua in sylva et in agris situ propriis et in domino sun." In the preamble of the Statutes, 11th Henry VIL c. 17. a Parliamentary recognition of the 'Common Law is most distinctly made, and in unequivocal language. In the 4th Institutes, p. 304, it is laid down, that seeing the wild beasts do belong to the purlieu men, with raticne soli, so long as they remain iu his grounds he may kill them, for the property ration: soli is in him. 11 Coke's Reports, p. 876, it is laid down, that for hawking, hunting, &c. there needest not any licence, but every one may, in his own land, use them at his pleasure, ,without any restraint to be made, if mit by Parliament, as appears by the Statutes . 11 Henry VII. cap. 17, 23 Ella. cap. 10, and 3 James 1. c. 13. In limitation, and to a certain degree in deroga: lion of the common law, a variety of statutes has; subjected to penalties persons, who not having certain qualifications, shall even up sn their oan lands kill' any of those wild animals which come under the de nomination of game. [Various authorities for this are cited.] It appears to your Committee, that the Statute 22 and 23 C. 11. is the first instance, either in our Sta. ', totes, Reports, or Law Treatises, in which Lords; of Manors are distinguished from other Land 0 *ners in regard to Game. The same Statute, section 3, confines the qualiS-i cation to kill game to persons having lands nt inheri • Glace of 4100 per annum, or leases ot £l5O (to which are added other descriptions of personal quell. fications) ; and persons not having such qualification are declared to be persons net allowed to have or keep game dogs, &c. The 22t1 and 23d C. 11. c. 25, was followed by 4 and 5 W. and M. c. 23, and the 28 Geo. 11. c. 12, which enacted penalties against unqualified, and, finally, against qualified persons, who shall buy, sell, or (der to stll, any hare, pheasant, partridge, &rod penahies are therein enacted againr• oa - pla;;fieJ i,ersrins having game in their possession. Sod' appears to your Committee to he the state oi the laws respectin g ; game, as they at present stand. The varhus and notaheiless Statutes which have been 'enacted opera the subject, and to which your Com. mittee have not ihought it requisite to alude, hate not been unobserved lay them ; but, seeing that they are merely supplementary to those to which your Committee has made reference, they have not felt it important to enter into a detail of their enactments. Your Committee cannot but conclude, that by the Common Law.every possessor of land has an exclusive right ratigne soli to all the animals feria naturs, found upon ins land, and that he rn.ty pursue and kill them hitn;elf, or authorize any other person to pursue ot kill them ; and that he may now by the Common Law, which in so far continues unestrained by any Isubsectuent Statute, support an action against any person who shall take, kill, or chase them. The Statute.s to which your Committee have re. (erred, have in limitation of the common law, sub. jected to penalties petsons, who, not having certain qualifications; snail exercise their common law right ; but they have not divested the possessor of his right, nor have they given power to any other persons to exercise that tight, without the consent ot the pos. bC19%01. .It appears to your Committee, that the 22 and 23 C. 11. tilts merely the egect'of exempting from those liabilities which were previously enacted against un qualified persons, such gamekeepers as shall receive exemption from them by the Lords of Manors (and which exemption the said Lords of Manors are thereby empowered to give) but that the restraints upon the sale of game equally affect the entire community. ..Your Committee conceive that, in the present state of society, there is little probability that the laws above referred to can continue adequate to the object ' for which they were originally enacted. The com mercial prosperity of the country, the immense ac cumulation of personal property, and the consequent habits of luxury and indulgence, operate as a con stant excitement to their infraction, which no legisla tive interference that your Como;ittee could recom mend appears likely to counteract. It appears that, under the present system, those possessors of land who fall within the statotable disqualifications, feel little or no interest in the preservation of the game, and that they are less active in repressing the baneful practice of ,poaching than if they, remained entitled to kill and enjoy the game found upon their own lands. Nor is it unnatural to suppose that the injury done to the crops in those situations where game is toperaboadaat, may induce the possessors of la4d PAIGE SEVEN7PSNCR. when the plan was borel.. than at present. He con ceived that if the Government were to provide school. rooms, the current expenses might he defined ber. penny a week from each child. Such a grant would be so great an encotragement to the system, that the subscriptions would increase as well as the general zeal for superintendence which he consi , !ered very important. Mr. J. Meows, master of the Foundation School in Whitechaps.l Road, gave an account of the fund's and nature of that establishment. It vas founded and endowed in I (PO, by the Rev. Ralph Davenanr, for 60 boys and 4 , ogirls • it was supported •by funded pro. perty and subscriptions. The children are clothed and taught. The master's salary is £100 ; the matron's, ; the expense of books, itso ; of clothes, £3lO. About seven years ago the school was increased Irani 100 to 200 boys. The witness stated, that the school could not educate a greater number, unless it were rebuilt. He did not know of any thing to compel the plan of clothing the children. The mahagers of 'the Charity were the Rcctor, the Treasurer, and 13 others, who chose their successors. Since the esta blishment, of a large school (Mr. Siinkin's) in the neighbourhood, there had not been so many unedus cared children as there were formerly. Mr. J. G. WiLsoo, master of the Parish Schein) St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, in Heilmings's.row, state d that thii school was established in 1699 by the Vicar, at the instigation of the inhabitants. It was supported by annual subscriptions, benefactions, collections frond charity sermons, and funded property. The whole in. come last year was little more than 011200,0 f Whlcl) the inccinie Freon funded property was between 70 and i6BO. The school educated 80 boys and 40 girls. The boys were also clothed: they were taught reading, wining, and arithmetic: the girls plain work. The expenses were nearly equal to the receipts. The master had 100 guineas a-year ; the matron 30 guineas. The boys were taken from distressed people in the parish, and the girls were daughters of those who had paid parish rates : they were recommended by subscribers, and obliged to conform to the discipline of the Church. The witness conceived horn the manner in which the school was established (there being no charter), that there was nothing which obliged the Governors to clothe and board the,children. The old mode ef teaching was practised : the boys were kept front 8 till 1 14, the girls from 8 till 15, When the boys were ap prenticed out, and the girls sent to household service. J. FLETCHER, Esq stated that helad lived in Shad. well 20 years, and was engaged in the foundation of a society for the purpose of promoting the education 'of the poor in that neighbourhood, called the British Union School. The plan extended to the parishes of Wapping, St.Geerge's, Middlesex, Limeh..use, Shad well, and to the hamlet of Ratcliffe, which contained, he supposed, at least 100,000 people. In that popu., lesion only 18,000 children were educated ; what pro. portion they bore to the population lie did not knote. There were ISO boys and 180 gills clothed and edu cated in the parochial class cohnected with the Church of England. There were two National Schools, in Which were 609 children ; six Charity Schools of the Dissenters maintained 467 children, who were all clothed. In the Catholics' Sihoel were lOS children, of whom 84. were clothed. The East London Or phan Asylum boarded, clothed, and educated 5 boys and 21 girls. There were likewise 2549 children. educated in Sunday Schools in she .Efferent parishes. Among the lower orders, there were a great many Irish. The Roman Catholic Clergyman had informed him, that there were 14.00 persons bdongi , o; to the Chapel : almost the whole of them %vete cif cuinstances. The children were very badly off in re spect of education only the 108 he had mentioned were educated; though it was possible there might be some in the National and Dissenting Schools ; but there could not be many. Under certain restrictions the Irish would not have any objection to have their children educated, but they would not allow them to go into any of the schools at present established. The charity schools which he had spoken of were not full: the reason he conceived to be want of funds, there being no indisposition in the poor to send their chil. drew ; en the contrary, in 'the Shad well Walk School, there were 50 children, and 71 were on the nomina tion list, waiting for admission. The old method of teaching was used in all the schools, except the Na tional Schools, in Ratcliffe add Limehouse. In some cases he imagined the wantof clothing would prevent parents frons *Arlin their children, even if free schools were established. The habits of the lower orders, in tbittodistrict were -very dissolute : the chit. .reawere-in a Most depraved state. The poorest classes had generally-families. The Irish, partial larly.,inolotne roiMir, had two or three families living in a condition, which it was impossible to describe. They earned much money when they were at work, but their employment was casual, depending on the arrival of- ships. They worked by task, and could get-any. sum they pleased by exertion. —A. good workman might make from los. to 20s. a day : .the Average might be taken at Ss. or 10s. but This was perhaps for only one or two days in the week, when the coal ships were in. When they were not occupied, they walked abedt- and drank—they found is necessary to dila muck when they were at , work; the quantity they drank was very great, they frequently drank almost all they carped. They were • not provident, but. there was a %ming bank about to be established, front which, when coupled with edu. cation, he anticipated great. improvement in the ma rah of the people. If schools were established in the district, he did hot think there was any risk, that the children would be taken from them to send them beggihg there was but little begging in that district. The new establishment, which witness was employed in instituting, *as intended to accommodate 1000. In the district he had spoken of, was a foundation called Rhine's hospital,•Which clothed, educated, and gave - a marriage portion of £lOO with 30 girls. The funds were low at present, having consisted of kale. hold property. The discipline of' the Church was used in it ; the girls were taken from the parish; .