The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-06-19 00:00:00

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TER REMOVAL Or WESTMINSTER ISCROOLI The
adjourned meeting of Old Westminsters to consider this
. subject, vii held on Wednesday at the Jerusahim
Chamber, Westminster Abbey. The attendance wsi.
loweeer, so numerous that the meeting was at ewe
adjourned to the schoolroom, where the chair was taken
by the Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster. Ames(
those present were the Archbishop of York, the Marquis
cd Landsdowne. the Marquis of Westminster, Earl
Amherst, the Karl of Mayo, the Earl of Albemarle, the
Earl of Stredbruke, Lord Llanover, Lord Broughtna,,
Lord Ebury, Lord John Russell, Lord Charles Russell,
the Rev. Lord John Thynne (Sub-Dean), the Dims efl
Christ Church, the Master of Trinity, Sir David Duo-
du, Sir Walter Stirling, Dr. Cureton, the Bishop d
Moray and Ross, and many other personages of dietiee-
tion. After a long and very animated dimension, is
which the Archbishop designate of York. Sir George
Rose, Dr. Willson, the Marquis of Landsdowne, the
Marquis of Westminster, Lords John Russell, Strad.
broke, Llanover, and Charles Russell, Sir David Dundee,
and other gentlemen took part, the result was the fee-
ma,ion of an influential committee of Old Westrainsters
to consider on the best means of improving the school
on its present site, and, if that should be found imprac-
ticable, to report on the feasibility of its removal. The
meeting, which lasted nearly four hours, was concluded
by a hearty vote of thanks to the Dean of Wesamisake
for his ability and courtesy in the chair.
THE NATIONAL SOCIITT.—The annual general meet-
ing of the members of the National Society for pro-
moting the education of the poor in the principles of
the Established Church was held on Wednesday last is
the Central School, Westminster. His Grace the Arab.
bishop of Canterbury presided, and among them ;comet
were the Right Rev. Bishops of London, Oxford, Chi-
eb.ester. Lichfield, Carlisle, St. David's, Bath and Welk,
Llandeff, &dor and Man, Lincoln, and Bangor; Lord
Redesdale, Sir Thomas Phillips, Mr. A. J. Beredord
Hope, the Hon. Arthur Gordnn, Sir W. Page Wood,
the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, M.P., Mr. Paler,
M.P., the Van. Archdeacon Bickersteth, the Rev. Sir
Henry Thompson. die. The Secretary reed the report
of the society, from which it appeared that " The summit
paid by the society during the last 12 months towards
school-rooms and teachers' houses, duly eompleted and
secured, had been C 2,979. By this outlay the @minty
had helped to provide accommodation for 18,741 children,
and to build 79 teachers' residences. The sandier of
schools united to the society during the last year,
either by the terms of the trust deed or by application
from the managers, had been 167, making the total
number of schools in union 11,539. There bad been a
considerable increase during the past year in the pro-
ceeds of collections in churches, but the amount thus
raised failed far short of the income which the loved,'
was accustomed to receive from collections under royal
letters." Speeches is favour of the institution were de-
livered by Sir J. Kay Shuttleworth, the Rev. Or.
Burgess, Canon Tesivor, His Grace the President, and
others, and after, vote of thanks to the Chairman, I.lks
meeting separated.