The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-01-29 00:00:00

TIII InaMINOiRM R WOW SCHOOL

el )N FER I.:Nt; N.

lltitstisott tn, Thin-May.
Ths Conference, which commenced here p.-st&rday
was ...moue I by adjimniment in the evening M the
Towni.all. the attend bee was very large.
The Mayor i.rtsidtsl ; an I among the more di.tin.
gui :het orrautia present were—Lid Lyttelton, the Earl
Shreashury and Talbot, Lt.rd Ing..tre, M.P. Mr.
Sclioletield, M.P., Mr. M. D. Mill, 4.4 c., Mr. e. W.
lloaltyna, Mr. T. C. S. Ky. iiiii the Rev. Dr.
tinthrie, the Ker. Cannon Millar, and Mr. Charles Rat.
cliff. the hon. secretary.
Tie Mayor, in op •iiing the proceedings, said, the
object of tile tort's iHg eras to subniit for it, ron.ideration
the ree..luiM... nigre...l to at Ow in the
morning. Ile haul attended the C oderence a th great
misgivings 51 1011 *eine of the principle* to he discussed ;
hut he lett it firmly convinced that threw principles
were imnir I, and that the re...lntim". which would be
toil before them were worthy of their cordial acqm.
_ .

The Rev. Dr. Guthrie moved the confirmation of the
resolutions which hail heen poised at the Conference in
the 'summon. Ile read the re,olutious erekr,., and
dilated upon them at great length. Thera was a mime-
rims elms in our large towns who spend their money,
which should go to educate their children, in intoxi-
cating liquors; and the grand object which raggcd
ache Is had in view wait to reeene from vitah misery,
nod crime in this world, and (ruin ruin in Ilse world to
come, those who have smelt temente, or 1101310, those
who have none at all. Society del itself a wrong ill
allowing uneducated children in grow ii,. in ita midst.
No men or woman was • lit tnember of a civilised °nin-
on 111 l ity if they were bred in all the ignorenou of a
'event. ; and the 111311 or woman who brought on a
family in a stete of paange ignorance, who trained them
to lie, to steal, to beg, sinned against the good of aocietv
and the welfare of the country. Nobody in that hall
would allow a loan to bring up savage animals and let
them run o*er Birmingham to de what they liked.
lint what wai the loon doing %lie it family in
ignoranee owl vice ; ou thAt they did led know that
there wan • Gml in Heaven, or a inorid law or anythitel
that binds him to the paths of virtue? Why, he was
breedirig the moia dangerous of all animals ill the
country ciii he would have an injunction to restrain
lout. Ilwrefore, lie held that it wee the duty of aiwiely
to nee that every child within its bounds was educated.
Dr. Guthrie then referred to the goml affects nrodu,d
by ragged schools in the city of Edinburgh, giving an
intere,ting account of their operation. and n-lateril
wane humourims anecdote* illustruting the intelligence
of till. jue,mii, hagg,ne,‘ who frequented the streets before
the establishment of anew aClillilhil. Ily setting up times
whoola iii Edinburgh, they reduced the number of juve-
nile eleliniptunte in the town to usie-liftli of their origi•
nal number, and they went to the i long innetit for smite
liasistanne. They paid to the Government " Vott try tel
make people better by liangiug them." " No, it was
for these men's good that they about., be luinged," was
said (cheerio 1111,1 laughter); hut they (the Doveniiiient)
made uthi a w,,rw: they tint them into relic to turn
cranks and treadmills, they tried to make them good by
the police, nod they swarmed as liefore, thick as bees,
11l spite of it. The Governineut hail never cleared the
streets nor reduced the number id gaol inmates, hut
regged achoida hail dove all tide ; done what void., never
have been done upon the old system. (I 'lleers.) The
Government gave much more to reformatory whoolii
than to nagged schools. They wive much more to Home
who cried out for refunnatm le. than to thioe who de-
manded prevention. That might be very agreeable to
thmr i.ghish. notions, hut in Scotland preveittion Wac
thought better than cure. The learned 41111 philenthropia
gent:sumo, after some further remarks, went on to sty—
! Will show 70U lii respeCtlble 111,11 end WOllll.ll, WIIO
have Collie iint of our ragged achools, as you will rho in
any clans of the community. Wi, have them, yon know
duo, ragged school milldam that were—cutting down
tile forests lu Ameriea; tro liar* them herding sheep in
Anatralia ; we have them in the navy ; and —what d'ye
think ? - there wee an old Oleg in tide way ; we tush a
competition aOillflf her in the navy. ~.a the ragged
selim.l boys cariicil off the highest prises. (('heers.)
Wu have them in the army, too. Jilat the other day I
had in 1117 ilraming•rotiol of my riv.npul
scholars. " What we. he 'Ming there I." you act. Well,
ho wax just standing bead° a very pretty girl (laughter)
dressed like a docile., with an enormoite crinoline, and
all that. (Loud laughter.) There lie Wee, and on his
breaat lie tinned three medal+. (A pplauw.) lie lust
fought the battles of hie cottony in the Crimea, lie
had gone up the deadly mareh to Lorkilow, awl rescued
the o omen and the children and our •ildiers thi•re
(cheerio, and I Wan Koko or my riagg,d school hey
when I saW 16111 With his ItelloWe.l chretilik)
We hear of re(ormatitriec I was at l'ai.loy, smashing
of ragged a fortuight ago, and tlio Sheriff wes
there. Mill spoke too, He nail that ragged act...la had
been the ldessaig ~f the town of 1'31404. They had, he
maid, built a reformatory to reform young criminal*,
And they email not get a t, mint for it—the ragged
school at Paisky his I caught every child before he went
ueer the precipice. and there wile a reformatory "to be
let." (I,:lieer,.) And if the week gots, on there will be
I risons to he let —the prison* will he ill the Imppy con-
lition that the 11 imu if a town ill Fife that I paaseil
t hrougli oas iii. I WA, noosing by the ',noon, when I
heard a fiddle playing, and I asked a man what Wes the
nimming of a fiddle is • prieon. (Laughter.) " Oh,"
lie said, " there'. Imhof), to put into the 11110011, so they
have male it a dancing school." (Cheere and laughter.)
iliac. hoed for the hist dusen or 14 ye ms fur this
cause, and I hare never mimed mi a Caine, as a man
awl a Christian minister, tint I believe fill my deathbed
I shall look back on with inure pleasure and gratitude to
Dud that Ho ever led me to work in than this muse of
the ragged schools. (Applaioe.) I heave
the satis n factio
when I-lay icy load iii mu my pillow of always boding
one soft part of it, awl that Dmi Ilea made me an iustru-
molt in his lintel of oariog many a poor creature froui •
life of inhary and erliie. (Banevoal appLitased Anil I
ask the people of Birmingham not oily to Collie fin•
Waril to help in this great movement, hut to go forward
aud help in the ragged sehoolemont in their town. W hat
are we to lire fur? Are we to live (or uuiiilchvea
that the 10,81,11 our hlmeaal Lord has Wight. us? We
aro not to live for ournelvee, nor are se to live a life of
selfishness, or a life of indolence, or • life of indulgence
—" Earth is for einnloyment, heaven for enjoyment ;
earth for work, heaven for the wag, ; earth is for the
cress, heaven ia for the crown." (Cheers.)
" I live for those who love,
" For those who know him true ;
" For the Heaven that smiles above
" And waits my coming Lou..
" Fur the cause that lacks assistance,
" For the wrong. that need resistance ;
" For the future in the di-dance.
" For the good that I can du."
(Loud cheers.)
Mr. ticliolidield, ?LP., seconded the motion, which
waa carried With acclamation.

Mr. M. I). Hill ao,I he held in his hand a res.dution
frailosl to return thanks tn those who hal taken part in
the proves...lingo of the day. First and form ~,, st. they
gave honour to stranger's who Came f , a distance to
aid them in their great work ; and if they hail felt any
debt of gratitude to them beim° the a'p-och of the.
Guthrie, they would have been iogrates indeed not to
feel a great debt of obligation to them alter hearing that
speech. (Hear, hear.)
The 'tee. Canon Miller seconded the resolution, and
after some remarka, aid, be wan oersuailed, as it was
urged that morning that for every sixpence navel by
Government, by withdrawing or contracting their
grants, mixpence more, and malty others to that, wield
have to be expended sloop gods and reformatories.
(Loud erica of " Hear.") Ile conceived, to use a homely
but admirable remark of Mr. Utithre. it was hetter to
prevent these children from breaking their legs than to
provide thein with wooden leg,' when the unsettle( was
dose. (Laughter.) They proposed, simply he the pe,,,
sure of public opinion, to to to Iler Majesty's Govern-
ment, or wasps to the liousea of Parliament, awl mak
for • committee of isquiry, and say to theta that the
promoter, uf the-e schools could bit it down quietly
under what be del not hesitate to dem, ~, ~ ase a great
grievance. This was the pmetieal °Nett of their
Whoring. (Cheers.) After eimaking in the most eulo-
gistic tenor of the paper read at the Conference by Mies
Carpenter, lie said lie hoped that when this subject
was brought before the House of Cuiumosis it would be
moved that *very member of the House should be com-
pelled to read that paper. and be ohliged to lay hit
hand upon his breast and say so before he voted.
(Laiighter and clivers.)
Mr. C. Wren IlmAyna, moved a vote of thavika to
the Mayor, which was put by lxml Lytteltim, who said
that the important proceedings of that morning's Cou-
ference. ratified as they were by tie onsthimoun assent
of that large meeting, would produce a powerful effect
on the Government of the country, (Cheers.)

86, guilts WNW, Lnurton, 23rd August, 1860.
Nemec R. Worthempoon and Co., 48, Dunl,m-street,
Wasguw.—Dem Sirs,-1 have, as reaineeted, to-day
visited the Soya 10.0"Jty, with reference to the vulvae.
tiammt of the Nettieghatu fine, why state that their
Starch has been used for many years in the Royal
Laundry, and have been assured by Mr. Thomann, the
Superintendent, that none butyoumelvos have any right
to state that they *lmply starch to her Majesty's
Laundry, m no other starch is there used, nor haa been
used for some years, but the Candela ratent Starch.—l
have been further assured that your starch continue* to
give complete Asti-faction, and that though trial lies
been matte of samples of various starches, none of then)
huve beednuf or .
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1101.LoWAT'n OvITNEXT •xD PILLO.—In all ...v., wound.
and .pr.iun, Hollo•ay's Ohatuent Is the mort efilrit.,t applica-
tion. it sa nneeliiar eme by allaying hillanimetion. and
Innderntintr the gon of blood n, the part. Wheneser the
malady has been of long standlne the Ointment should be
slniod by Hoiloway• purifyinl Piuli. which act 'noun the
and li,cr. goordosif digestion from falling into that
dieordered rtate which the pain. rtstiessisee. , and fever att..llll-
log them ailmentsis opt to Produce and which much Warts
recovery. and ,oinetinca even makes oorrious the slightest
cam. No mother or nurse Should emit these no. it remedies,
equally all'llcabk t" all area and enntitutions. They purify
lb. blow, revises He elrealation, now dimmed serueturmi„
non Indiana* the syateni.