The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1861-04-16 00:00:00

Varliamentarl Vapero.

Woggitnemit ClubnittN.—The report or the Edam
thin Coniiiiiision draws a very melancholy picture of
the condition of the children in workhouses. Work-
house influences have • very marked tendency to pro-
duce lielpleseness and prevents the growth of indepen-
dence of character. An Assistant-Counnissioner re-
marks that it is difficult to convey a definite idea of a
child brought up from its infancy in the workhouse.
DooinNl never to have known the meaning of "borne,"
cut off from the exercise of the ordinary affections, in
many instances diseased in body and feeble in mind,
these poor children exhibit little of tte vigour and
joyousness of youth. Listless and subservient in
manner, they seem to be broken down by misfortune
before they have entered upon life. Such a child is
content to spend its days in a workhouse. The Com-
missioner says :—" Sonic of the tradesmen who had
taken union boys as apprentices told use that it took
several years before they acquired the desire for inde-
pendence —the II WI to earn their own bread." This is
especially the case when there is little or no industrial
training; boys who have never been accustomed to
handle • spade, and girls who have never had to scrub
the theirs, rebel when they are put to such work. On
the other band, association with older paupers for in-
dustrial training tends the more to corrupt them. "It
seems impossible to essggerate the ipirit 1 lying low,
cunning, laziness, insubordination, and profligacy which
characterises the pauper class in workhouses, an
this spirit naturally infects the mass of poor
children who are bred up in so pestilential and
atmosphere." The case is even more hopeless with the
girls than with the boys: The adult single women in
the house have often children whom they are allowed to
Kee, and the girls cannot learn any domestic duty
without coining occasionally in contact with that
class who are employed in household work. Girls
jut going out into the liberty of the world arc brought
in contact with as they sit by • good fire nurs-
ing their babies awl gossiping. The girls mix also with
the children "( tramps and of paupers coming in for a
very short time, end who bring in evil enough to undo
any good the teicher may do ; and all the children who
Lave partsits iii the house are liable to be taken out
with them when they chume to leave for • few dais,
perhaps to attend a fair. A good schoolmistress said,
" film felt she was training up girls for a life of vice
and infamy." " One girl," says another mistress,
and not • bail specimen of • pauper girl, said to ins the
other day, ' My cousin Sally left the house some time
ago, and now she has come hack with a liaby,and I hors
',shall soon go out and come back too with • baby. "
how, there is • known remedy for this sad state of
things, the establishment of district or separate
schools at a &stance from the workhouse, withdrawing
the children entirely from the adults, and from bad
pormatial inAoeuao for such we know it is.

HotLetTAT'S OINTIIM AID PILLS.—Wound., Imes, and
a 1... are purillid and healed with abeolute certainty by them external and intern.' rmuedisi, which co-operate towards
cure with • rapidity that looks like &article. Their double
Action It irreatailc. Unhappy creature..
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charm.. The Ointment •hould he rubbed twice • day Into the
parta aileeted. and the PIM fltitnAld be taken according to the
printed directions accompanying every box. 'The cure will be
ompask and permanent.

imprrial parliammt.
OF untim.—TIALSDAY.

•
ilmue reeniesublett tuilay fur the lira& time after
the Eater recem.

Lord It odelionse, offer a few words from Lord Ellen-
borongli, took the opportunity to correct a misappre-
hension which had arisen in Denmark and Holstein in
regard to certain remark* he lin.l made on the affairs at
lloldein. What he had said was, not that the whole
Boilgst of the Hanish Monatchy W. to he seihmittest
to the Holstein States, but that Ilolstsin should have
the power of giving its vote as to the quota which it
should pay towards the ex' ewes of the amisla Govern-
ment fur the year 1862.
The subject then dropped.
The Bankruptcy and Insolvency Bill was real a first
tinie,and the second reading appointed fur Tuesday nest.
Their Lonlships adjourned at half-past 5 o'clock.

FRIDAY.
Lord Carnarvon, in asking Iler Majesty's Government
whether the Druse Chief, :kid Ruy, W4S to be restored
to liberty, and have his property given back to him,
censured in very strong tunas the conduct of the
judges who had tried him, the treatment to which he
and his family had been subjected, and the scandalous
purchase of his property by the very judges who had
conclemne.d him. •

Lord Irontuovmr sea,' he was altogether unable to
state what the decision of the Porte might I,e ; but that
Her Majesty', Bovernment had urged in the etroinrest
manner that ticid Bey should not be put to death. Thu
French, ittlx4 01,1 ml Prusion C onimissioneri. however,
had urged the carrying out of the capital sentence.
Their Lordships adjourned at a quarter before 6
o'clock.