Star. — London, England, 1818-06-05 00:00:00

BSITISH aid FOIJEIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY: y es ter,iay one of the most interesting Meetings We !...o s een for a conside ra ble period, r Islington. Itpe riod, took place in hwn of Highbury Tavern , n..s the first commemoration e o h f ir t t le -d ß ay ritish and Foe of his MA TO•in School Society, twelve on n o'clock, crowds of Ladies , cl . o le r m a en rly of as th th e firs t consideration, fottned ground. Some foci Ladies j themselves in lines on , o re fortunate enough t e o - ge t t e f es rom the heat of the I while others west VII under the cover of ~I *ged to risk the chequered rnarrit ornament of a few free- oot lo ts, exposed to the heat on t he platform erected in the centre of the ground. At one o'clock, his Royal Highness the Duke of s usszo appeared, atten_.a_e.d andby Mr. BENNET, M.P. Ir. several other distin- Alderman W o ol), p • 1.,1 characters. They were loudly cheered as passed along the ground, and and Foreign Schoo l and the children no edu cated on the plan of the B • in number above 4000, wered rawn in up regulare re' order to receive their distinguished Patrons. As soon as the applause had ceased, the Royal Duke a scended the platform, and tcqucsted the at tention of the assembly. in opening the business of the day,il H is Royal Highness , edm call theattentionof the immense as semblage of Ladies and Gentlemen present to the examination of the children of both sexes, who were e;uc..fing on the universal plan of the British and liicign School Society. Nearly 4000 boys and girls, all neatly clad, ad vanced in classes in the most orderly manner. It was a most gratifying spectacle to see so large a number of the children of the poor so full of health aid intelligence. They went through all their se %era] exercises in the Testament, and displayed their p,ofijency in writing and arithmetic, on the excel lent plan of this School System, with a rapidity an d r ', fl eetness which astonished all present. The chit eon of the Jewish persuasion gave their answers in I. ebrew. After this interesting and satisfactory era rotation concluded— His Royal Highness the Dike of Sussax briefly addressed the Meeting, and said, that as these chil di ea mere to be regaled with a dinner on the ground, the company would, he hoped, see the necessity of contributing their mite to the expense—(hear.) Mr. BENNET then rose to call the attention of the meeting to a Resolution which had been just put into hi , hand—it was one in which he was convinced all pont would most cordially concur. The Reso foian contained an expression of gratitude to that Vosnious Fasonage, who was better known as the Feller of his People, and the early and decided Pa ton cf this most valuable system of education (Great einuuse.) It would be remembered, he said, that in the infancy of Mr. Lancaster's system it was beset with appalling difficulties; they were of a nature, that, had it not been for the virtuous energy of cha racter, and protection of our beloved So v e r ei gn , no man Could have foreseen the result. He (Mr. Bennet) would not say that without the Royal Patronage the Institution would have fallen—but without it at such moment the great foundation could never have been laid, which now established in Society such incalculable advantages--(hear, hear.) It was im possible to witness without emotion such a spec. they now witnessel—(Cries of hear, hear.) not alone the advantages of reading and writ. which they had the satisfaction of inculcating, drilling of the infant mind, the early esta of moral discipline and order, which firmly propriety of demeanour they this day wit iong so large a munber of children—(Ap- —They saw the system of education shedding waluable benefits over children of different up -4 creeds, and who worshipped the GA/AT FA , the Universe in different tongues—(Hear.) were all taught to read that sublime Work, was the fountain of all moral precept ; and as up in life they would implore blessings on of those benevolent persons who rescued trom the paths of ignorance and vice, and ena to enjoy this inestimable advantage—Op -The Meeting had this day an opportunity of the fruit of their labours, from inculcating in mind the great lesson of—" Fear GOD, tr the King. —(hear, hear.)—Let them pur glorious task, by contributing to the extension good a system, and never forget the remarkable of their Sovereign—" That he hoped to, see the day when every poor child in his do should know how to read the Bible."—(Ap -The Hon. Gentleman concluded by reading Resolution, which, as well as the following, :tied unanimously. That the present Meeting is deeply sensible of, and sin. teful fur, the patronage of our revered and highly be tereir, who, in the infancy of the Institution expres v.:action in its liber a l p r i nc i p l es, and desire th at itsob t he universal 'hat the Thanks of this Meeting be most sincerely and iy presented to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sus : the condestendirr and able manner in which he has pleased to attend and preside at this Meeting." Alderman Woon, M.P. in seconding the first ition, congratulated the Meeting on the grata spectacle they had this day witnessed. It was of the greatest pleasure for them to see how accomplished was the benevolent wish of their Sovereign, whose sentiment had been just so .lately alluded to by his Honourable Friend ipplause).—lt was consolatory to know, that his ty lived to see his wish so nearly accomplished ; •-o happy would it be if they could think he ow participate in their gratification !—(Great , e).—This day was, at the suggestion of their President, appropriated to the present corn ntion, and in honour of his Majesty's birth fhildren were to be regaled with good old fare —roast beet and plum-pudding—(Ap ad a handsome contribution to defray this vas expected from the Meeting. Several and Gentlemen were to be stationed at the eho would take charge of these contributions. tar. J. Towosinsn, in moving the second Re ',.telarged on the advantages of education, 'eel to the peculiar gratitude he olled to those volently contr:buted ;t, from the circum having beer. himself reared in the noble of Christ's I lospital.--(Applatove,) Ilnitanots (a Roman Catholic Cler kare Lie teniroeny to the di:l:iterated bent volence which marked the superintendenee of one of these school s.—( Applause.) Mr:Josapit Cowes to Jewish Merchant) also stated the disinterested manlier in which the children of the Jews were treated at the school alluded to. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, hi re thrning thanks, congratulated the Meeting bn the glorious spectacle they had now before them on this most interesting occasion. The first speech put into the mouth of the King by the celebrated Earl of Chatham, stated that his Majesty ‘, gloried id being an Englishmia born "-A-(Applause.) Why had he so gloried? because he was the King of a free nation; free, because it could boast of that unfettered educa tion which enabled the people to exercise the liberty and faculty of their reasoning powers. While that remained the people were free, and whoever attempted to put it down or circumscribe it, was an enemy to the liberty of his country—(hear.) H The greatlesson to inculcate among youth, as his on. Friend had said, was—. , Fear GOD, and honour the King," and to leave every man to settle his own form of religion ac cording to his own consciencis, and responsible for it only to his Car-Avolt—( Great applause.)--If the good King, whosepatronage to this system had so justlybeen praised, could this day see the spectacle with which fiIIOVIDINCE indulged them, he would feel it to be the most glorious in his long and happy reign— (Great applause.) The boys and girls now sat down to a substantial English dinner, and it was pleasing to see the appe tites and humour thus displayed on the occasion. At five o'clock his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex and the friends of the institution sat down to an excellent dinner, provided for them in the Tavern. His Royal Highness was supported on the rie.t by Sir JOHN JACKSON, Bart. and on the left by Mr. Alderman WOOD, M. P. When dinner was ended, a number of loyal toasts, suited to the day and to the occasion of the meeting, were drank with great enthusiasm, and the interval was well occupied by the details communicated by the Royal Chairman respecting the benefits that had already accrued, not to London only, but to every part of the Empire—not to this Country only, but to every part of the world, from the system patronized by the Members of the tistitution, and especially by his illustrious and revered Father, his representative' , the illustrious Prince Regent, and the other mem- ' bers of the Royal Family. The blessings of the system were seen and felt in the improved discipline and morals of the children of the lower orders, but no one could calculate the extent of the blessings which were yet in reserve for future generations, when the work which had been so beneficially commenced should be completely Matured and spread to every corner of the habitable Globe. His Royal Highness, alluding to the opposition', which the Society had met with from bigotted indi viduals, dwelt particularly on the insidious and open calumnies of which its enemies had been the authors. They had even had the shameless audacity to charge the Institution with irreligious—nay, even with atheistical principles! What! inculcate immorality, irreligion, atheism, by putting the Bible into the hand{ ?f the children ! Was this the book of all others which men would dare to charge with producing such a re sult. So much for the book in which the children were taught. As to the care that was taken of the children, that he said would be best illustrated by asking a few questions at the schoolmasters, none of whom, he observed, had been apprised of his inten tion or of the questions he meant to put to them.— His Royal Highness then questioned several of the Masters—What school do you teach ? Have you children belonging to persons of various creeds and denominations ? Do they regularly attend . - some place of Divine Worship ? &c. &c. The answers established the following facts : that the, Schools are attended by the children of every perms.' sion ; that they attend some place of worship with their parents every Lord's Day ; that on the Monday morning every child is examined where ne was? who, preached ? what was the text ? &c. a regular regis ter being kept at every School of the places attended by the children. It has but seldom happened that the children had not been at public worship : on every occasion of the kind, inquiry was made into the cause, and the parents examined; and it was ge- 1 nerally ascertained, that their absence was occasioned by indisposition or by want of clothes—a want which every exertion was employed ,-to supply, and gene., rally with success. Our limits do not permit us to stat_ all that passed on this interesting occasion ; but we cannot pass over without notice the observations of Mr. SCHWABIE on the benefits which he could testify from his own knowledge had been conferred on foreign nations by the British and Foreign School Society. He hoped, therefore, that the title " Foreign" would ever be a part of the designation by which the Institution should be known. " Your system," said he, " has conferred incalculable blessings on all nations : not only on the more barbarous and uncivilised, but on countries which had schools before—schools that were comparatively inefficient, and very limited in their effects, from their want of the British system !" The whole evening was spent with the utmost har mony, and a considerable subscription was entered into to promote the objects of this valuable system. Saturday, an aged woman and her son, travelling to Dundee, were overtaken on the road by a carriage and four. The Nobleman to whom the carriage be longed was sitting with his Lady, on the outside-box, seemingly much delighted with the beauties which the Carse of Gowrie exhibits to the eye of a stranger. Observing the poor woman apparently much fatigued, he asked her, .‘ How far she had to travel?" She re plied, , 4 that she had to go within a few miles of Dundee." He instantly ordered his servant to alight and set both the mother and son into the carriage. A very distressing accident occurred in the neigh bourhood of Kelso last week. As -.-- Gray, farm servant to Mr. Park, at Wooden, near Eckford, son of James Gray, steward to Mr. Riddell, at Grahams law, was watering his master's horses at the moss, he unwarily pished that on which he rode into a deep pool, which had formerly been a mule pit. The horse slipt and sunk, btu immediately rose and regained the shallow water ; the unfortunate rider, after a few in effectual struggles, sunk to rise no more. The poor young man was.but 22 years old, and was on the eve of mar:Loge with a young woman (the banns having been proclaimed), who has ever since been in a state bordering on distraction. LOYA4 bII3E"P . OF LONDON; The LOyal of Unclad dined together yesterday . at the London Tavern: 11b; R. WILLIAMS took the Chair, and the company was at Once one of the. most numerous and fespectable we have ever seen assembled tb defend the trne principles Of the Ctinsti tution Frani those who, pretending to extend them, have Only laboured to accomplish their destruction. After dinner Non nobis Dontine wis dung by Messrs; TASTE, Pirks, BROADHURST, and EVANS, who in the cotirse of the evening entertained the company with l a variety of songs and glees, which were finely exe cuted, and which received the undivided applause Of the room. " The King," was given in silence ; but, at the close of " GOD save Me King," loud and long conti- 1 nued acclamations were heard on every side, which were renewed when the " Prince Regent" and " The Queen and the other branches of the Royal Family," were proposed with three times three. " The British Constitution, and may it last for ever"—" Thi Navy and Army," And " The two Houses of Parliament, and may the next Representa tives of the people discharge their duty as faithfully as the present have done, were successively drank, with great applause. The Glee of " The King and the Church," with the additional verses written for the Pitt Club was sung, and repeatedly interrupted by the enthusiastic plau dits of the room. When these had subsided, I I The Ottumwa seized this moment, after thankiog the Gentlemen who had sung the last glee for their exertions, to propose, as a toast, " Peace and pros perity to all the world, founded on religion and law." Mr. BROADHURST sung the beautiful Scottish song of Auld long sync, with much effect. " The British Fair," and " The health of the Lord Mayor," were the toasts which succeeded. When these had been honoured, The CHAIRMAN begged to propose as the toast, the health of three as honourable and independent men as the City cf London could produce, Sir Win. Curtis, Sir James Shaw, and Mr. Alderman Atkins. The toast was drank with great applause. Sir WILLIAM CURTIS, in rising to express his gra• titude for the honour he had just received, laboured under considerable difficulty while addressing so nu merous, so respectable, and so loyal an assembly. When he said this, he did not mean to insinuate that it was at all uncommon to meet with loyalty in the City of London. During 28 years that he had had the honour to represent the City in Parliament, be had ever found the great body of the Citizens loyal, and such he was satisfied they would ever remain. Jo day could be more properly selected than that on which they were met for the purpose which had called them together. ,He was most proud to meet such an assembly, and to have had his health pro posed in it, and received as it had been. He lamented the absence of his respected colleague; -Sir James Shaw, and had felt much pain, as he was sure every one who heard him had done, from perusing his ad vertisement of yesterday. The Meeting had been pleased to drink to the two Houses of Parliament, and doing this had expressed a hope that all future representatives of the people might serve them as faithfully as the present had done. He had been is the last six Parliaments, and could truly say, that every House of Commons he had known had been true to itself--true to the Constitution, and true to the interest of the people. Perfection was not to be looked for in any human institution, but he thought as little imperfection was to be found in that assem bly as in any other that could be named. He had been anxious to defend the liberty of the subject, but at the same time careful to guard against that liberty degenerating into licentiousness, and he had ever la boured to maintain that noble equipoise which dis tinguished our Constitution, and in which King, Lords, and Commons, should equally share. In con clusion, he stated it to be his determination to adhere to those principles which had first recommended him to their notice. He should be proud of being again chosen their Representative; and he hoped at the en suing election their choice of Representatives would at once do honour to themselves and to those who were favoured with their countenance. Mr. Alderman ATKINS expressed his gratitude for the honour he had received. He had ever been anxi ous to attend to the interests of his constituents; and now the time came when he must again resign the charge into their hands ; he could conscientiously de clare to them, and to his MAKER, that on every oc casion he had endeavoured honestly to discharge his duty. His conduct was before them, and to the principles on which he had hitherto acted he should steadily adhere. These, he was convinced, were essential to the best interests of the country, and he thought it probable, that ultimately their brethren who had been opposed to them, would take the same view of them, and say, " To your firmness—to your standing up against the paltry delusions which de signing men had sent abroad, we owe the salvation of the Constitution and of the Country." He then more minutely described the course which he had taken in Parliament, and finished by repeating his determination to persevere in the same line of con duct, and by expressing his gratitude for the honour he had received, in return for which he begged to drink to the health of all present, and to that of their families and friends. The health of the Chairman having been drank with three times three, Mr.Witunsts returned thanks; explessed a strong sense of his unfitness to preside over such an assembly, and wished those he had the honour to address, ' health, long life, and all imaginable prosperity. " The Magistrates of the City," was the neat toast. Mr. C. S. HUNTER returned thanks in the name of the Magistrates. Mr. SIMPSON then proposed that the health of Sir James Shaw should be drank separately, in honour to that individual ; and in doing so, he observed, that that Honourable Representative of the City of London had manfully come (Inward, and had de clared his determination to resign his seat in Parlia ment. Sir James Shaw had always been attached to the King and the Constitution, and had always discharged his duty molt conscientiously in Parlia ment, and he (Mr. Simpson) recommended that Sir James Shaw should, without expense, be again elected, in the ensuing Parliament, a Representative for the City. He was fully convinced, that if Sir Tames were to offer himself he would have ample iuppcirt from the I.ivery of London; Mr. S. Dtcog seconded the motion; iie had known Si: Janata Shaw frorri the tittle of his first be.: corning a pubilic „Min; and kneW his conduct to be Siich as entitled hint to the praise he had received; and he was sure it would be gratifying to the Ha.: nourable Baronet to find that - his past services had not been forgotten. He would venture to say, that If one Member had been more easy of access than another, it was Sir James Shaw; . W hen waited upon by any individual on business, he had been ac.: customed to listen to the party with a degree of pa tience to which but few Men were equal. If there. was °tie Member that bad bleed more tonsmntly found at his post in the House of Commons than another, it was Sir James Shaw: He thought it im possible for any man of common feeling te , deny that the Honourable Baronet had cond u ct e d hi mse lf pro perly. For himself, he thought that good man had done all that he ought to do. On the Suspension of the HaUess Corpus Act, he had differed troni the multitude, and be had differed from him ; bat he (Mr. Dixon) could not but allow that he had done so on motives which were not to be ai:. signed. In the retirement which imperious necessity now im posed, he hoped he Would enjoy that happineis which he deserved, and Which those who knew what Lis conduct had been in three Parliaments would noire to wish might fall to his lot. The toast was then drank with loud applause; The " Health of the Stewards" isas the next toast: Mr. ArcHasoN returned thanks, and expressed a hope that the time of election was not so near as to make it likely that they would go to the poll in the situation in which they found themselves at present; He trusted some Candidate would start whose abili ties, whose integrity, and whose commanding in fluence in the City would entitle him to their support, that the loyal Livery might still have three &pre: sentatives in the House of Commons. Mr. S. DIXON exhorted the Livery not to be midated the noise and clamour of a Common Hall, and induced to forego their own importahce. Shou'.d a good and respectable character offer him self to their notice, he was confident, if they put their shoulders fairly to the wheel, it child be id their power to bring him into the Houle of Commons. The CitAtamaN now retired, accompanied by Mr. Alderman ATKINS, Sir W. CURTIS, and several other Gentlemen, amidst the plaudits of the assembly.— Mr. Alderman BIRCH *as then tailed to the Chair, and the hilarity of the day was kept tip for some time longer with Unabated spirit: The company broke up at about eleven. Yesterday afternoon the ery began Draiving, when litsn's Offices were again distinguished by their usual preeminent success, having shaied and sold the following Capitals, viz.— No. 401 - £lOO5 I No, 8,816 - Xtecl 1,489 1010 11,e51 - 11./10 4,660 4,707 - St`U 4,469 1010 11,192 - 300 The fortunate Holders of any of the above n. iy receive their money on demand at 4, Curnhill, or Charing-Cross—where Tickets and Shares war - ranted undrawn for the 2d Day, 16th ii.st. are now on sa'e. Thursday se'nnight Messr'. Davidson and ()Telly, Officers of Excise, assisted by a party of the 97th, commanded by Lieut. Irlncrui, succeeded is detec ting a very extensive distillery in the mountains of Coolosarobght, 5 miles from Castleisland. When the party conducting the seizure were passing through the town of Castleisland, they were attacked by a mob, and were obliged to fire, in consequence of which there was a person killed, and another woun ded. dons WEEKS, Esq. Coronet, held an inqunt on the body of the person killed—Verdict, We find the said•Wm, Moor was malicious and wantonly killed by on: of a party of the 97th Regiment, who were not obedient to their own Officer commanding or the Magistrates present."—Ennis Chronicle. A person at Paris having advertised an experiment with a gigantic balloon to take place on Sat ird.ty last, at the Jardin de Luxemburg, a great crowd of people assembled, but after waiting till five o'clock in the afternoon, it was found that the balloon w:ts only a tenth part filled, and that to inflate it sufti , o ciently would requite till next Su:.clay. The people, not being disposed to wait eight days without any dinner, began to spew symptoms of violence ; and the Police, to prevent disturbance, arrested the rat naut, a Sieur MANICLER, and abandoned the balloon to the mercy of the disappointed payers of admission money, who soon demolished it. The 'panel was taken possession of by the Police, and appropriated to the benefit of the distre.sed performers of the late Theatre de l'Odeon, to whose advantage it was, ac cording to the original advertisement, to be applied. FATAL ACCIDENTS TO ROOK-Tmmts.—Saturday evening, the 23d ult. Wm. Frearson, of Draycott, Notts, labourer, whilst passing from the top of one high tree to the top of another, to avoid the usual pains of descending and ascending, at Messrs. Sores by and Flack's Rookery, at Cavendish-bridge, unfor. tunately trusted himself to a small branch, wjaich broke and precipitated him to the ground. He lin .gered about six hours in extreme agony and then died, leaving a wife and six children. And on Mon day forenoon a young man, of the name of Dufty, of Long Wharton, who was on the point of marriage, fell from a high tree near Whatton Hall, and was thereby so much injured, that lie died on Wednes day. He had been a soldier, and fought at the memorable battle of Waterloo. ExxxErt.—The appearance of the country is ex tremely fine, and we have the cheering prospect of abundant crops. The wheat fields and pasture lands present a most luxuriant aspect. C7IC; Ull5 mos a mussel It i the infancy ot' with appalling that, had it no raced, and prc man ould hay would not say Institution wot moment the been laid, wl incalculable a possible to w tacle as they It was not al( ing which th but the drill blishment of fixed that pro nosed among piouse.)—The: its invaluable • tions and creel ruts of the 1 , They were al which was the t!ley grew up tie heads of si them from du a bled them to ( plaute.)—The tasting the fru the young mi tad honour the stt this glorioi L ci so gcod a s. expression of live to see the minions shoul be rlause.)-- The the first Resol ar were carried 1 s "1. That the ate atcb r.teful f, so,„eign se his eatidaett, red a mien be et able " 2. That th n io spectiuny pp for the c, es& • pleased u ft • Mr. Alder .olution, spectac source of t e • *Ally accon stts *loved Sov( . pn 1 4 1 0Priatei) Ile • "iAppiau se), bo 14. 1esty live h Ar o 04 ow ha to ':.71.d now p. p. :=S4e).--1 un al Presid ore kenoration kt!6.e child 111 • 4 ai:`:Z fare ntt —and Latit iL ve.-4 was and I c, rho • yi otl t . to K ey. vrl, tn 7 cal J•ad 1 ice , s' t be ' •••• C: CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, JUNE S. The Wheat trade was not so brisk to-day as on Wednesday, having but few buyers at market, but there is no alteration in price. Barley continues very scarce, and higher prices were at ked for the little tl at appeared this morning. Oats are 1 s. per quarter dearer, and Beans and Peas fully support Monday's prices. American Flour, from New Orleans, sweet and sound, lately sold at Plymouth for 48s. SMITHFIELD MARKET, 31 the offal—p,:r stone of Dec( ........4s od to St 0.11 Vaal Mutton ....4s tAf to 6t. od I Lamb -t,. od. to Beasts MO—Calves 260—Sheep and I Anil DAY AND STRAW PER hay........ .C 3 to e• 101 Sti.tw ...... Cloves 6 to 1 lei 14 - M rn . 48s. per barrel. JUNE 5. lob.. .. 5r od to es osl ud to es od 6d. it , , ...000—Plis 520 les to XS 15s • . tJ3 COs to 08 '.. L , , ,' tti i• a ,110 , t 1 , Pt 1 / t i l' t 11 ' •,' 1 • 1 . ' • 11 ; 1 1(1 I I 1 , t' . k 'I A I , I ' '). t/ 1 1 i . • 11 (. i 1 1 4 q