The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-12-15 00:00:00

. ~r PRACTICAL SOCIETY. 7 4 .0. • • 1; , ~~ . P- SDINOURON, NOV. 26, 1521. The following are copies of the adnsission ticket to a society lately established in this city, and of the first re port of its Education Committee : THE PRACTICAL. SOCIETY. • skramempsy The object of this Society is, by Union and Mutual co-operation .Ist. To obtain the greatest possible amount of com fort for alt its members. 2elly. '!b associate together the children of the weat hers on an eqaal footing, and endeavour to secure for them a pupil education. 3dly. To improve all the members and increase their swell of useful knowledge, by an intimate and friendly intercourse with one another. . • The opinions of this Society, strictly called "- The opi- Pions of the Practical Societe, ' are those only which directly and necessarily spring from -its practices; its proceedings as a Society being entirely confined to prat- titled arrangements; but as it does not debar the free dom of conversation, all its members are at liberty to expresi their opinioau to sae another as in general or common dociety. • The only ptetietilar laws of this Society are its prac tices; pad the only rules ofthis society are such as serve to Taeilltate diode practices. The motto of the society is, o' By our Works we shall be Judged. ltoTe.—This ticket is to be given at any meeting of the Society, by the President, time is the senior member , present, to any individual of whatever nation, rank, or age, who is introduced by a member, and 'rho declares, upon readiog its contents, that he is ready to adopt and promote the practices of the Society. The society seal tete anointed to each ticket, and the member's name written by the Secretary on the back cif it. FIRST REPORT OF Thp EDUCATION COMMITTEE OF THE PRACTICAL COMMITTEE. • EDINBURGH, NOV. 2S. Your Committee were directed to consider,- Ist, ir hat practical arrangements could be made for assembling together the children of the members of the society, for the purpose of giving them a good educa tion, and introducing a general affection among them. What school regulations should be made, and what 'kind of instruction given to the children. 3dly. Whether a more convenient place of meeting could not be fixed upon. 4tbly. Whether the Society should take the name of " The Practical Society." With respect to the first point your Committee are of opinion, that every member who is disposed to send any of his children to the Society school, should, without loss of time, give in a statement of the number, ages, and sexes of the children he wishes w send there, and of the amount, in round numbers, that be can afford to pdv for their management and instruction. The Com miuee are further of opinion, that they (the Commit tee) should be empowered to provide, as soon as a sellicient sum is subscribed, a convenient building and play-ground for the children, anti masters and attend. ants for their training and tuition. With respect to the second question, your Committee venture to offer a few remarks, and to propose the fol lowing system of treatment and instruction, as applica ble to the present state of Society. In the first place, it is well known that the best, pre paration for a good life is early training and instruc tion, and that the absolute requisites for worldly com fort are, the capability of moderately and soberly sup plyieg our natural wants, and the disposition to live Ili filen* inteThoirie with owe linothert Bsperience, kawever, has proved, that the early training and in structive hitherto given have rather tended to smother the amiable sympathies of our nature, raising in their stead feelings of ill-will, rivalry, and contention, and that in general.yanng persons at the termination, as it is called, of their education, enter the world totally unacquainted with the most useful and necessitry em ployments of life. It is also known that, without real knowledge and a considerable expansion of the mind, human beings never become rational or well behaved ; but when we observe bow much our race is improved in different stages of civilisation, it may he fairly ex pected that the increase of knowledge, and the conse quodretpansion of the mind will hereafter render mankind as superior to the present civilized Christians, as timecard to tile naked inhabitants of America or the South ken islands. This being premised, your Com mittee are of opinion, that all parents who carefully consider the subject must be anxious to place their children as early as possible under the guidance of those who are distinguished among them as possessing more knowledge of the real nature and powers of ail . dren. and more intelligence in their management, who are able to instruct them how to supply their wants, and who can teach them to be kind to one another. Your Committee are also of opinion that, as the sexes are designed to live together and serve as the comfort and delight of each other, all parents, who b ive dimly considered that important subject, will agree, that the males and females should be associated together as much as possible in early life, in order th t their minds may be assimilated, and that the t. .; t•iqt- , .tis manner of the boy may be re fin. 1 anti :or :, t v the mild and gentle behaviour of the girl. Yi.or Conitnittee, therefore, propose that the children should he received into the school as soon as they can walk, and that female attendants, dis tinguished for cleanliness, good temper, and a strong understanding, should be placed over them. As cleanliness seriously affects the health, strength, disposition, and general characters of children, it is proposed that all the children should be washed every morning amid dressed in a plain and simple garment ; and as e xercise and employment are their , strongest desires, it is proposed that they should be placed to gether, (in fine weather in the play ground, in wet weather in one or more large rooms) in order that they may enjoy the exercise of ranking about, con versing. and becoming acquainted with one another. Children are generally given dolls of wood or wax to amuse them, your Committee propose to substitute in the place of such foolish toys, children like themselves ; and they conceive tbat, having been taught and ac customed while young to agree and be friends, reason will, when they are grown up, further serve to strengthen this good habit. About the age of four years, or according to the growth of the minds of the children, Our Committee propose to commence their particular instructions. This will be best done by teaching the children to ar range themselves in line, and when they remove from one class to another. to follow is order. The advan tages of this method is that, having to keep in their places, to hold their bodies straight, and their beads allow nature free play, learn to let graceful movements, regular In their actions, attentive they are about, and they acquire a funky of together on all occasions quickly and with and a 'method of exercising and divert- I, 1 1 1 op. they in their to what asoembli oat coal ing,theilleol.ll fka perfogaing quick sound to( muffieoi 1; . 4 • Rot having come to the point ing particniat.--braithes of knowledge. your Committee think it necessary tecall your attention to a new feature of the'proptised plan, namely, the total' absence of the system of -rewarding and punishing each individual child on account of his leaping his lesson better or worse than his • companions. Such a system not only gives rise to a kind of jealousy or opposition among children, bet, springing from a mb taken opinion . of human powers, it invariably tends ael beitow its ; benefits where they are least required, gitr. ing to the child of talent and energy fur his rapid pro- 1 grass, what is more necessary to support the weaker understanding in the unequal contest. But no con testis 'required, fur without the introduction of any . artificial distinctions or marks of merit, among a est of children taught, as we propose, to be intimate friends, the stronger mind is naturally as much io dised to assist the weaker one, as the healthier body help and support the weak and sickly one. Thus a steady' system of impartiality, kindness, and regularity, on commenced, breathes the very breath of union and at tachment,. and raises a charm which instinctively caw pelt all within . its range, to submit to its captivating influence ; obstinacy disappears fiom or never enteri its precincts. and the toils of the schoolmaster are 411 terally changed into the interesting amusement of elk serving with what delight amiable and rational wainill receive useful knowledge: But in order to snake sehool a pleasant plaCe to aril-, drew, and the art of teaching them a source of agree. able interest and instruction to the teachers, amuse ment mast be blended with instruction. and children accustomed to understand and feel that comfort always accompanies whatever is really for their good. This ob ject ivay be in pert effectetrby teaching them to dance and sing together ; the one exercise stretching and strengthening the limbs, and airing graceful movements and attitudes to the whole body ; the other improves the .voice and ear, and enlivening and giving grace to the imagination, and both tending, while the children ar e all treated kindly .Ind without the slightest distinction, very greatly to harmonise their meetings, and bind them altogether with a strength of attachment which we, as we have been brought up are incapable of feeling, and perhaps of even understanding. Your Committee now proceed to detail the more imme diate arrangements, and specify, as far as their actual information extends, the precise subjects which, in the present state of the public mind, and the confined cir cumstanees of this society, may be taught the children. All the children should attend the school in summer at 7 o'clock ; at winter at 8 o'clock in the morning; and all those who have been finally removed from the infant school-room, that is to say, all who have learnt to take their proper places, and walk regularly together, should be assembled to hear a morning prayer. and hymn, and to be inspected, to see that they have been well washed, and cleanly and tidily dressed; after which, being di vided into classes, composed of ahnnt the same number of boys and girls, one class should be taught reading, another writing, a third accounts, a fourth dancing, and a fifth singing. In the reading class they should be taught a clear and distinct utterance of their native lan guage, and made to read moral books, voyages, travels, geography, natural history. &c., and the Bible on Sun days. In the writing class they should be taught cor rect spelling, and a plain and ire* way of writing copies, containing either moral precepts.or the explanations of useful sciences, arts, trades, or other subjects. In the class for accounts, they should be instructed in tire most approved method of conducting arithmetical calculations, and book-keeping. In the dancing class they should be taught the proper way of standing and facing together, walking, running, and leaping step; a few figures and positions, and a simple method of dancing. In the sing ing class they should be taught the notes of music. and a few simple airs. All ether branches of study to be introduced, and the above Mentioned ones conducted on that scale which shall be found convenient and agreeable to the parents of the children. The girls should have a separate class for learning to sew, and perform other female duties; and at a more advanced and improved state of the Society's school, studies peculiarly fitted for boys may be introduced, and both sexes taught some of the most useful arts and employments in agriculture and inannfactures. However, at the outset, it will be wise to• confine the arrangements of the school nearly within the ordinary limits; but your Committee are well convinced, that union anal mutual co-operation will finally procure for this Society all the above advan tages, and many more, which can hardly be said to be long at present to any class of persons, so prevalent every where, is either poverty, discontent, or contention. In summer it will be necessary to allow a breakfast hour, but, in winter, as the children assemble much later, they may breakfast before they first meet toge ther. Every day (Sunday excepted), at 12 o'clock, they should be collected and formed in a double rank, boys and girls alternately, exercised, and practised in one or two dances and songs. A few from among them, who show a turn for music, may be instructed to play upon some agreeable and easy instrument, in order to accompany the recreations of their comrades, and thus regulate their movements. At half.past twelve they should go to prepare themselves for ilia ner, dine, and remain at liberty till three in summer and two in winter, when they should again assemble to be instructed in their several classes till half-past six in summer and four o'clock in winter, at which hours they should be collected to hear .au evening . prayer and hymn, and to be regularly sent home for the night. The very young children will of course r •quire particular care, and must not be so long away from their parents ; therefore, those hours which shall be found most beneficial for their health and spiri s will he fixed upon ; and indeed it must be understood, that all the hours here specified will be subject to change, to suit the convenience of the parents. But hereafter, when good accommodation can be found,it is proposed to board at the school-house the children of such mem bers as reside at a distance, and who approve of the arrangement. Sunday will of course require a particular consi. deration. On that day, as on every other, the parents will be at liberty to send their children to the Society school, or to take them to their own place of worship; but, it is conceived, that no place can be better or perhaps so good fur the younger children, even on that day, as the infant school. The older class of children, should remain during the hours of church service, reading the Bible and rehearsing short hymns to the teachers, who should deliver morning and even ing prayers and lectures. While your Committee lay down rules for Christian instruction in the school, they think it necessary to observe that, provided the conduct of the members be regulated by the practical arrnagements of the Soceity, a complete toleration of religious and other opinions, may safely and should be allowed. Ist be a variety of minor points tiled in this report, but they will , aced, when the Committee shal bare procureci proper teachers, *commodious building, and * sufficient number of children. Experience also will direct, and powerfully influence all their opera doss. Year Committee now come to the third point, epon which they have to remark that it appears to them that, the meetings of the Society sh ould hereafter be held in the building appropriated as a school, and they venture to recommend that the school room should be lighted every evening at seven o'clock, and kept open till nine at night, fur the benefit of the uiembe rs who choose to spend their evenings there, either in conversation, reading to one another. or learning such useful and agreeable acquirements as the establish ' ment may afford. These meetings may be conve niently and advantageously thrown open to the female , branches of the members' families. Tire evening on which the weekly meeting is held, "say be reserved as at present for arranging the affairs ,of the Society. With regard to the last point, and before concluding their report, your Committee beg to observe that, anxiously desiring to see practically demonstrated to the public at large the very striking advantages of union and mutual co-operatinn, they have framed the `flpregoing regulations with every consideration fur 'public opinion s and as it appears to them that no in laity should be made by this Society into the opinions -of any of its members, provided their conduct and practices be found suitable to the nature and character of the Society 'which they consider essentially practi cal, they beg to reconttnend that the proposed name id ticket be forthwith adopted by the Society. PRICE C*F STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 237 1 3 per Cent. Red.... .. 7 7 11 1 3 per Cent. Con. .. .311 per Cent 87 4 per Cents. O4l 5 per Cents. Navy.......... • 3 per Cent. I Long Ann l9i 7-16 Imp. 3 per Cent Irish 5 cer Ceut.. • ? • 7.• RION WATER AT LONDON-BRUME TO-MORROW. Meninx 7 in. after 7. —Evening 3(1 min. after 7. Etta/atm—lx the early part of our impress low Nester day. a mistake occurred in the King's Reach Report, King v. Dolby. The mistake, howerer, was rectified before many aseinbers'ircre printed. It originated in the harry of businesit, by tmling the account from an ignorant Reporter instead of oar own, and sending it to be com posed without reading it. A full and correct Report ap pears to-day. e ttatrginan. TER IR Tlso STATESMAN " IS INCORPORATED WITI Tni STATESMAN." eh, THE STATES AP • tick evolutions to thr Of course dwelt um irhicWcasoot of teaching the chil- be all speedily airan A ...... DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India 5t0ck...... • • Ditto Bonds 705 71s 5. pm. South Sea 5t0ck........... . South Sea Old Ann. Ex. Bill 2d. lOJOI. 25. pm. par -5001. par. Is. 2s. pm. Small 25. 1 3 pm. India fur ditto.. Con. for Acct. Lott. Tickets.......2W. ; 0 4VD 0 N: SATURDAY RYENING, DECK) BZR 15, 1821. The Bridge-street Society have received a check in a way that they were quite unprepared for. They affect to treat it with indifference, bat we apprehend thee the effect of it will soon be visible to the public. Tbeir patrons and supporters will not have quite so much confidence in their legal abilities, and will begin to think that the funds are not appropriated quite to such profitable uses as they anticipated. The task of persecution ought at least to have been consigned to persons who knew something of the legal institu tions of their country, and not to those wbo adopt, through ignorance, proceedings that militate with the law and who are then put to the necessity of complain ing that they were taken by surprise. The present stock of money, we are told, in the treasury of Bridge Street, is not very great, and another call Is expected soon to be made on the loyalty of the Noble Dukes, Noble Lords, and Gentry of the Country, who so liberally contributed their hun dreds, their fifties, their tens, and their fives, in gui- ntas, to s tem the overwhelming torrent of disloyalty and sedition. There is great efficacy in faith, and we therefore recommend the storekeepers of the gang to call fur fresh supplies on the strength of the proverb, their ways and means of ultimate suc cess may. perhaps, be shewn to exist as clearly as those of NICOLAS VAN, in another place ; but to do this, they must get some assistance, for neither their own law nor their own logic will convince the world that their combination is legal, or, that Mr. Sheriff GARRATT is not one of the conspirators. All com binations, it is well known, are illegal, unless spe cially protected by an Act of the legislature, and a Jury will soon inform the public that the Bridge street Association is not exempt. And as to Mr. GAMUT I' and his five guinea subscription, it must have been obvious to any common blockhead what his actual condition was, so long as his money remained in time general fund. The New Times, to he sure, trying to make light of their discomfiture, calls the objection taken by Mr. SCARLETT, " shadowy and trivial.** Our ancestors, who placed this obstacle in their way, were dull enough to apprehend it might one day or other, prove a defence against influence and corruption. Till the sapient Doctor SLOP decried it, it had always been respected by men learned in the law. We happened some years ago to witness a case in point. In a cause at the Sussex Assizes relative to a surety of the County Treasurer being called, Mr. (now Lord) Erskine, challenged the array, on the score of the Sheriff being interested in the decision.— The whole amount of interest which any Freeholder could have had in the result of the case, very probably did not exceed a shilling a-head ; yet the Judge did not hesitate a moment in sustaining the objection ; tad the cause, by his direction, was removed for trial to another county. This we, then, were weak enough to think was noble, and bespoke a people justly jealous of their rights. ! A 4 ) t j .Wherever the spirit of liberty rears its h I ead, i t k the policy of our leaders to take all the meals within their ready to put it down ; wh e th er at bower g lees : . 'ft makes no difference. In France they *a people in the regeneration of their Country, a complete revolution, and occasioned the • of their King. In Naples, Italy, Spain, and P • they have supported the abettors of the 1 • they twice attempted to put down liberty 1e4 41 America, and while abusing the noble spirit gs piew i patriotism and Portuguese regeneration, they* * witnessed the slaughter of the Greeks by the r id ... In England every thing is done to excite th e eitar feelings of the people, and Ireland is ab ase d ent hp, in a state of domestic warfare ; no measure it Me e pacify or conciliate, or ameliorate the coediti ee g the 'country. Ministers may, as Meal, when Padwest meets, try to bolster up their cause and in got* ways and means; but they cannot get tin I ngsoie Aristocrats cannot get their rents, nor the mongers their price. Bat they will not ient io , they can do no more mischief. The time is at hen .; the thing most go on, and rapidly too. The Lin. holders and the Fundholden bate started for them of destruction ; it is of little consequence wharf them arrives first; public affairs will then regale, themselves, and the taxes be removed Isom the shed. ders of an impoverished population. A sketch itr ear proceeding ohms of a Pad a ' Society established at Edinburgh to promote' the pa l . poses of General Education, will be found wade. serving the attention of oar readers, and especiall y gi those connected with institutions of a similar Idid, it is pregnant with most valuable hints, asd passed by no attempt we have ever seen se fogs the Winds and manners of the rising , generation. blies are comprehensive, though of a humble kisi, o u t its schemes replete with good sense and utility, We augur well of its success in the hands of lit js. dicloas projectors, and hope the example they Invent in this important business will be generally emniiini and adopted. The Dublin , papers received this morning pewita . more favourable aspect of affairs inl rel.sad diatribe** been able to exhibit for many weeks past. We rejoice* find that conciliation is employed as well es rigor. In embodying the Yeomanry, the Chief Secretary, to discountenance those feuds which have tended ma much to distract Ireland, has addressed a letter t. Sr ftOHERT SHAW, conceived in the same spirit LI duit I Sir WILLIAM STAMM. A Me of New York papers was reeeired this wry ing, but not of a later date than the last. Niw Yowls, Nov. 19.—The three new Bob plo• I posed to be established here, are the Waillsgtur Rank, the Agricultural Bank, and the Tradesatea's' Bank, each with a capital of half a inillioaof The application for the first is headed by Thom Franklin ; the second by Benjamin Romaine,ssi the third by James Hall. KINGSTON, UPPER CANADA, OCT. 19.—We lnm that it is contemplated to call together oar Legida• tare on the 31st of November It is rumoured tint the early period of the meeting is reodettl necessary by the unpropitions result of the ow ferences held at Montreal in the coarse of the mar by the Commissioners of the Provinces. Se far fret making any arrangement, or seeming to desire it, hit said that the Commissioners of the Lower Proviso. in a spirit which most assuredly cannot be called emi. cable, refused even to pay over the arrearages via are nneeniably date to Upper Canada. It would qpic they think that as they hold the purse arise, Ibif can starve our Government into acquiescence with Of terms they may see fit to dictate. It is however to solatory to know, that there is a tribunal to vbicit to can appeal, and to whose award the Legislahne 11 Lower Canada must submit—that this Tribessi vii protect our rights and decide on the cootlictingpr t tensions of the Provinces with unerring justice sal impartiality. Extract of a letter from Quebec, dated Nov. lilt -e It is not easy to account for the clamour which los been kept np in Upper Canada, on the subject of de. ties levied in Lower Canada on goods which it is sir posed afterwards go into Upper Canaels for casino!). Lion. It has always been understood, tbat the Legir lature of Lower Commis early disclaimed say inteatioa of profiting by duties ultimately paid by Upper Casa' consumers (although it might assuredly have raiP 1 tamed a contrary doctrine respecting all gosh* ported for sale in this province) and that the ree• tinning to levy and pay over these duties, whichielb. first instance at least, in great part, certainly case oft of the pocket of the subject here, was a boon sets l " Upper Canada at its particular request, exist assuredly under its sanction. The legislature of Lower Cooaderr pears to be sufficiently jealous of its right of letyW and appropriating to the public uses the monies white come out of the pocket of the subject in this preelo . " and it ought not to be supp o s ed that it is so lost to sll stnse of justice as to wish to deprive others of a rigbl which it so highly estees. When t h e matter eer. m to be sifted to the bottom it will probably be fee" that the clamour had been without justifiable feet dation. 11/1 EXTRAI is ic T noorwAn itiziratTsthueer:towmers:theavreeousLapveniss.booelieo ll natives of Louisiana, in the British fleet, which brodb 4 .:s i e iss a i r s in sip y p d i in tie t o h e e ral ye as h' itie6nlll4a.m A to w t i li w e e b ramam anks di:, the tb4 - usi 4o to nii ari 1 ei LI 1 P • • • ri .11 f o a I a d v II 1 I .I('‘ I t ~ \ • 0 to • • • 40