The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-10-24 00:00:00

GRAND BAZAAR

IN AID OF THE
LIVERPOOL INDUSTRIAL RAGGED

SCHOOLS.

Ye Gentlemen of Liverpool, whose wealth is England's boast,
Whose trade to every clime extends, whose fame's on every

coast,—
To you, oh merchant princes, we make our suppliant cry,
Ohl save us now, ere crime on crime fulfil our destiny.
We ask not aid in idleness, we ask it not for show,
We crave but shelter, food and work, ere lost in crime and woe.
Till Ragged Schools in pity rose, to help us in our need,
We Ragged Children had no home, no God, no hope, no creed ;
Like Ishmael's eons, our hands were raised 'kainst all of human
birth,
Whilst men combined on every hand to chase us from the earth.
Oh! happy free-born Briton, the day now draws apace,
When those who once were lost to thee shall rise to honour's
place ;
When men of every rank in life,—prince, merchant, artizan,—
Shall echo the cry, "Educate the child, t' avoid punishing the
man."

We, inmates of the Ragged. School, behalf of which we plead,
Are thankful for past kindness shown to us in hour of need ;
But we are few, our number small, whilst hundreds wildly
roam,
Oh! lend us help to save them all, to bring the honseless home

Such is the appeal of the ragged school boys. Tha
history of our vagrant and industrial population is full
of interest. Ten years have worked wonders in the
amelioration of their condition. Those who, some ten
or fifteen years ago, formed a juvenile army of unfed,
unclothed, uneducated, and felonieusly-inclined urchins,
' without home save the edge of the limekiln, or the
workhouse sheds, or the stable, or the hayloft, or—and
far too frequently—the cells in our police-stations—
without protectors or Mena's, save the ruthless guardians
of the civil law—have grown up hardy, intemperate,
careless, houseless children of the most harrassing cir-
cumstances, and form at the present moment the bulk of
our criminal population. Poor outcasts of society, they
are miserable in the extreme ; and without hope in re-
spect to the Future. Their penitence we call hypocrisy—
we always suspect them of dishonesty, and there are few
in the kingdom who would, for one instant, allow a con-
victed felon to remain in his employ. Without employ-
ment, they must be penniless—penniless, they cannot
obtain the means of subsistence, and oh ! it is a hard
matter to die of starvation in the land of plenty. The
timid outcast obtains food by stealth ; detected in the
act of committing the crime (?), he is dragged to the
cell, confined for a night, and next morning he is
visited by justice. Would that justice were indeed
afforded! Condemned and branded he is again con-
victed, and again released, more careless of his own
well-being, more desperate in his conduct, and utterly
irreclaimable. There are thousands of such characters
in England at this moment. Are they not more sinned
' against than sinning ? Had they been cared for in
their youth another story would be told to-day. Their
only guardian in their younger days was the law ; our
statutes turned the shoeless and the ragged off the high-
way ; imprisoned the houseless and the weary wanderer
who sought rest amongst the straw and the darkness in
our outhouses ; condemned the famishing beggar to
days of bard labour for asking alms ; and visited with
penal consequences the unlucky being who, to satisfy
his craving and hunger, dared to set hands upon the bread
and cheese of his happier fellow-men. What wonder if
they became uncivilised amid such unkindness, savage
under such barbarous treatment, vicious and criminal
when thus forced onward into the paths of vice and of
crime ? These laws are still on our statutes, but we are
happy to say that they have been superseded in a great
measure by the nobler law of love and brotherly affection.
There was a time when the peasants were serfs ; at a
later period they became nominally, and only
nominally,
free ; but now they are, or may be, free indeed,—re"
cognised as men and as brothers. Be they distressed,
we relieve their misery ; be they criminal, they are
"men for a' that." Instead of punishing misfortune,
we have established reformatories and ragged or inch's'
trial schools for the reformation, the elevation, and the
amelioration of our youthful and ragged mendicants.
We have found out the truth of the often repeated
assertion, that punishment does not at all times effect
reform, and that, in many cases, it is au unmitigated
evil. To reform the advanced criminal is almost a
hopeless task ; you might as well endeavour to straighter'
a crooked oak. What should be done then ? Trim the
oakling; for as the sapling is bent, so will the oak
grow. Educate and feed the ragged urchin, and you
will be amply rewarded in the nobleness of the may.
The result of the ragged schools in Liverpool is suffi-
cient testimony to the truth of our statement. Hundreds,
thousands of poor children have been fed and educated
in our town ; and some—many of them—hold proud
positions in their own sphere in society. There are
hundreds undergoing instruction at this moment ; and
thousands unreclaimed. No efforts are spared to spread
the usefulness of the ragged sehools. This week has
witnessed another great struggle; and every class 01
our townspeople, with open purses, have answered to the
call of the promoters of the Liverpool Industrial
Schools. They are sq.fficiently compensated in the
.
feeling of having done their duty; and the thanks cf.
children saved from want and misery, and redeemed
from the haunts of vice and crime. These children can
well echo the lines :

Ye generous friends; whose presence adds
Grace to this charming scene,
O think upon what we now are,
And what we might have been.
In what we are, inspiring Hope,
A future bright will see,
Forgetting what we might have been,
In what we yet may be.
Of what we might have been, kind friends,
we'll speak of that no more—
Who would retrace a darksome path,
When brighter lie before
What are we now ? Young soldiers, 00.
The battle-field of life,
Willing to take appointed shares
In the struggle and the strife.
May we from duty never swerve,
But hold one constant rule :
The honour of the cause we serve,
And of the Ragged School.
Thanks, therefore, to our generous friends,
Who buy our simple laye;
May heavenly blessings cheer their lives
And crown their closing days!


We are led to make the foregoing remarks in oonse;
quence of the demonstration which it has been our go-
fortune to witness at St. George's Hall during the last,
two days. We mean the grand bazaar in support 01
the Soho-street Industrial and Ragged Schools. As vice
informed our readers yesterday the bazaar 'was opened
on Monday. We, however, underestimated the anion°
of money received by £9OO, the whole being o° le s 6
than £1,900. This is certainly a noble response to th.o
children's cry for aid. In the history of Liverpool
unequalled. Yesterday the elements were more favour;
able to visitors, and we are happy to say the'number
buyers was still very great. They comprised as 00
day before all the beauty, aFiskracy, and middle G1355°-

of the town. Ofiee within .the hall farewell to all quiet-
ness. Here one of the fair vender's impressed upon an
old bachelor the importance of 'cigars, slippers,- and—
dolls ; there another most charming nymph danced along
teasing everybody else to buy , her pincushions,
whips, and tops ; and the prettiest lady visitors Were
assailed by your " lithping baebel ah philantbropitht,'' who
"impwethed upon their minth the nethethity of buying
thomthing foh the benefit of the pooh wagged boyth."
Then again might another fair lady be obserVed
tendering love-notes to old maidens and young
Male friends—" Only sixpence, miss, IMportant
letter from the Lord Mayor of London," whilst the
maiden lady, thinking it reality for a moment, paid her
sixpence, and stealthily retired to some 4uiet nook in
the building to find the amorous communication eom-
hientitig Mr.erefity Snooks ~ preientS his COM
timehis to Miss . "
Only a shilling, letter from
the ciatighter of the Queen;" and the young fellow takes '
the billet-doux, follows the example of Miss —, and
finds his letter written "by a good-looking lady, with

the loss of front teeth," who would be glad to
meet Mr. - at St. George's Hall, in order to
bring about that most desired consummation--"a sell."
So 'Mrs. Thomas went 'on all day delivering her
letters like an accomplished postman-mistress, realising
immense profits and commensurate fun. There were
rosy little fairies, of four and five years, who went about
asking every visitor to dip his hand into her ltteity bag
for a sixpence. The neighbOttrbood dP the i'ost-ollice
was literally besieged •diiritig tie ,ciao. .Telegrams
arrivedi as tistig, Ordry Half.ltoiir, iltim the seats of
*at, df beauty, and of love. The Princess
1465tetiet. of Prussia was stated to have proceeded to
America, in order to attend the marriage of her brother,
the Prince of Wales, the " Pet of the (Yankee) Petti-
fogs." A second announced the freight of the Pope
from Rome to Madrid, and the evacuation of Italy. by
the French soldiery ! A third stated. that .the toast-
master at the recent banquet, Mr. Toole, had succeeded
Lord Palmerston as Premier. The latter, we think, is
quite a good hit, and deserves to be chronicled in the
Porcupine.
There were several bands in attendance, and Mr.
Best kindly performed on the organ in the afternoon,
The result of yesterday's proceedings amounted to
£1,500.

In our yesterday's notice of the opening of the bazaar,
in the list of stall owners, we omitted Mrs. Eggers' name,
who shared the stall Isto. 14 with Mrs. &Mite;

The bazaar will be contimied to-dayi

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

ITALY.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
MILAN, Oct. 19.
If the last telegram front Naples, which arrived
here late on Wednesday evening, announcing the
'second resignation. of the Marquis Pallavicino
within the brief space of two days, should turn
out to be true, it more 'than ever strengthens my
assertions respecting Garibaldi's incapacity for
State affairs, and clearly proves that hoWeVer
great he may be amid the roar of cannon and
strife of the battle-field, he is Weak, undecided,
and vacillating ns a statesman, and consequently
totally unfit either for directing or arrangine, the
civil organisation of'a nation, and void of all tact
and ability in the selection of men to whom he
ought to entrust the same. As I stated in my
letter of the 15th instant, Pallavicino was going
a-head rather too much, and, as I anticipated,
would lead tb ilia fall: My pritrate communica-
tion from Naples enables me to gi've you a correct
abeothit of the ministerial crisis of the 11th inst.
It appears that after PallaVidirlos appointment, he
entirety Upset eVery act of the Crispi party, and
as 20611-lily prepared the ground for the triumph
Eot the policy* of Cavour and the Piedmontese
party as Crispi, Cattaneo, Saffi, and others
strenuously advocated the election of a Neapolitan
Assembly similar to that of Tuscany, Modena,
and the other provinces, before throwing the
kingdom over to Piedmont by the absurd sanction
of a vote by universal suffrage, especially in 'the
present temper of the people. Pallavicino not
only persisted in the immediate annexation for
the 21st instant, but used his utmost influence
with Garibaldi to dismiss and send from Naples
Mazzini, Crispi, Cattaneo, Saffi, and others, but
Garibaldi hesitated before investing Pallavicino
with this arbitary authority ; nevertheless, the
pro-Dictator wrote to Mazzini informing him that
his room would be better than his. company ; but
Mazzini not only refused to leave, but wrote
Pallavicino a very bitter letter for his temerity in
writing to him. The consequence of the acts of
Pallavicino gave rise to a strong party against
the new pro-Dictator, The day following the
publication of the decree for fixing the election
by universal suffrage, Crispi, Cattaneo, Saffi,
Zuppetta, De Boni, &c., &c., held a meeting, at
which an address was adopted, praying the
Dictator to summon an Assembly before the
annexation, which was numerously signed, and
presented to Garibaldi at Caserta. On the fol-
lowing day (the 11th inst.) Garibaldi 'summoned
Pallavicino to Caserta, where a long discussion
took place, in the presence of the Dictator,
between Cattaneo, Crispi, Pallavicino, and his
secretary. At the termination of this warm
engagement, Garibaldi sided with Crispi and
Cattaneo, and Pallavicino and his secretary ten-
dered their resignation, the effect of which, ac-
cording to the Cavourian mouth pieces, created
una profonda sensazione (a profound sensation)
among the people at Naples, but which in reality
means that it created no sensation at all. I shall
explain in a subsequent letter, this Italian habit
of putting every circumstance in this superlative
degree before the public. Two days after—that
is, on the 13th—Garibaldi went to Naples, and,
after aipther interview with Pallavicino, made a
recantation of his support to Crispi and Cattaneo
for the convocation of an Assembly, thereby rein-
stating Pallavicino in his office of pro-Dictator,
which news drove all the ministerial journals and
Piedmontese party wild with joy. But, lo ! like
an unexpected thunder-bolt, two days after the
above telegram jumped in among us, announcing
that the Dictator had again changed his mind,
and at once brought the merriment of the
Cavourian party to a stand still.' What kind of
policy is this which is subject to so many changes
in the brief space of a week? Do the men by
.whom- Garibaldi is surrounded, knowing his con-
fiding and easy character, like lago say among
themselves— -
Garibaldi is of a free and open nature,
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so ;
And will as tenderly be led by the nose,
.As asses are.

No man who has carefully watched the different
stages of this revolution, , can say that he has
been edified by the late proceedings of the
political parties either in Sicily or Naples, and
the violent recriminations that have been hurled

by the respective journals of these parties against
each other. This morning the Peinione and, the
Perseverariza are almost suffocating themselves
with the effects of their fury against Crispi and
his party, hinting as much as they dare against
the weakneis of. Garibaldi. There must be some-
. thing rotten in- this indecent haste on the part of
the ministerial press, which cry out—" For God
sake don't let us lose any more time—let us push
on the annexation as rapidly as possible—there is
no time to be lost. The people are now in the
humour ; woe to us should the present excitement
cool down." The last phrase exple.insiall ; this is
- the grand secret,—the fear of the Cavourian party.
Why should there be all this indecent haste ?
Are the' Piedraontese party afraid to give the
• Neapolitans time for reflection, or the advantages
of an assembly, before they vote for annexation,
as was granted to the central provinces ? Is not
, the approaching presence of the Sing a precon-
certed arrangement to influence the elections, as
arranged by Pallavicino ? As I stated in my last
letter, the good natured and sympathising public
are sitting before the curtain not behind the
,scenes of the stage on It hich this drama is now
acting.
The Lombardia of yesterday has a long and
bitter article against the Paris correspondent of
' the Times, from which the following is an ex-
tract :—" It is generally admitted that the Times
is the most diffused and, perhaps, the most im-
portant journal in Europe. Among its numerous
writers it is but natural that one of its principal
correspondents should be at Paris, because that
city has always been, and now more than ever,
the centre of the political solar system of Eur Ope.
It is said that the salary of that writer is £l,OOO,
or 25,000 francs, a year, neither more nor less
than the annual grant which Count Cavour re-
ceives for his services as Minister of Foreign
Affairs ; consequently, one would have a right to
expect something better than we are in the habit
of reading. It is but too evident that the blind
and violent passions of this writer is the effect of
a canine madness, which is shared in by a large
number of his countrymen at the other side of
the Channel, as it is also an insatiable and base
thirst of interest in order to catch fresh sub-
• scribers to this journal. The lies and purchased
calumny which every day comes from the pen of
that correspondent against the Emperor Napoleon
and the Government of Turin, because it is the
ally and friend of the Emperor of France, are
beyond all conception. The same correspondent
• has the stupidity and the hardihood to state that
the invasion of the Marches and Umbria was the
consequence of an understanding between the
Emperor Napoleon and the Government of Victor
Emnianuel." The reason of my introducing this

subject is that the very same observation niay be
used against your humble correspondent (except
the £1,000), especially as many numbers of your
papers are now to be found in Italy, and, as

appears, that that writer's ideas of the Emperor
Napoleon and the Government of Turin, without
having ever read, a line of the same, are in per-
fect This extract is only
unison with my °l*ll.
anoth, ar of the many proofs of the readiness of
the Italians to abuse the English, and forget the
gratitude and many obligations they owe to the
genrarosity and disinterested assistance of the
Emglish. It would be a waste of your space to
en-ter into the merits of the moral or political
diameter of the majority of the journalists of
Oil* city—men who I know are capable of every
illeanness—almost basenersa--men who Write to-

day the most fulsome articles in favour of Napo-
leon, Victor Emmanuel, and Cavour, and who,
to-morrow, if a change of government should
occur, would stigmatise the Emperor of France
and the King of Piedmont as the thilawful
UsUrpers of the legitimate crowns of the Orleans
and Bourbons:
-What than in his senses Can iiersiidde himself
but that the occupation of the arches; Umbria,
and in fact the whole policy _Marches;
of the davourian
Ministry) is riot more or less guided by the poli-
tical influence of the Emperor Napoleon ? What
man, knowing the Character of the Emperor
Napoleon, having before his eyes the wanton
sacrifice f Savoy and Nice, and the low deception
praCtised by CavoUr on England in ~ the same
affiiiri.can dotibt that the arineYatiCii of the Nea-
tO Piedinod is only the stepping
stone to another war with Austria, and another
:interference of France in the same, as usual,
finishing with the further cession of other pro--
vinces for the philanthropic aid of their "gene-
rous ally." If the Times' correspondent wanted a
proof that the policy of Cavour is entirely guided
by the magic wave of the wand of the great
wizard of the Tuileries; the following extract
from the speech of the hon. deputy Ferrari,
ought to be a sufficient confirmation : —"The
present minister does not merit our confidence,
because he represents the influence of Prance,
which has ever been pernicious to us, as contiiiii.
ally draGging Italy at the heels and power of
trOnce."
. _ _

thb d•
In mos
,accre e political circles of thiS
city; it is presumed that the present conference
at Warsaw will end in a conference of the princi-
pal powers of Europe, for the adjustment of the
Italian question ; but lam rather doubtful of this
view, it being my firm impression that Russia
and Austria will induce Prussia to subscribe to
their view of their Italian policy, which if they
succeed, must at once lead to immediate hostilities
between Austria and Piedmont, without waiting
till the next spring, which would leave.Ganbaldi
too much time to organise an army and fleet for
his attack against Yenite. Let us suppose that
the forces Garibaldi *ill drive the Atistrians
frorn Venice, Will the general then dissolve his
revolutionary army is Will he not be implored
to become the champion of every state which' con-
siders itself under the dominion of another. The
litirig6l6 of to-day tells us, that the example of
Italy has already begun to spread itself to Ireland,
and that numerous addresSes haVe been forwarded
to the iqueen,demanding a separate Parliament, and
the re-establishment of Irish nationality, but under
the sovereignity of the British crown. I cannot
say whether this report of the Pungolo be right or
wrong, but I confess that I do not remember to
have seen a similar report in any of our English
journals. This little circumstance will show that
the success of the revolution iu Italy is calculated
to extend itself to other countries, and that it
would hot be convenient either to Russia. or to
Austria to permit so formidable a giant td grow
up to such strength _as to threaten their own
safety. It is also said that the EMperor Napo-
leon has Written to "the Czar, saying that he is
disposed to consent to the revision of the Treaty
of Paris of 1856, if the Russian Cabinet would
consent to a general Congress, which seems the
great egg which the Emperor wishes to hatch for
the pacific adjustment of Europe: In the mean-
time preparations are continually going on in
France, in order to be ready, for every event, It
is reported that the conscripts belonging to the
class of 1859, are to be called out to the number
of 60,000, and a reserve is to be formed of not
less than 150,000. Austria is continuing as usual
the most gigantic preparations ; the erecting of
every' description of forts, outworks, batteries
along the coast of the Adriatic, and immense con-
centration of troops in the Venetian provinces:
Piedmont is doing the same. We are continually
having a movement of fresh troops, which arrive
and depart almost every day. Every morning on
the Piazza d' Armi we have the exercise of the
infantry, cavalry, and artillery in the order of
battle. Several fresh regiments have been sent
to Piacenza, others to join Lamarmora's corps on
this side of the Mind:), which induces almost
eVeryone to believe that the meeting at Warsaw
is decidedly opposed to the policy of France and
Piedmont. The King is gradually drawing
towards Naples, arid it is supposed that he will
enter that city either to-morrow or Sunday,
which will he the day of the elections as appointed
by Pallavicino. The royalists have made two
sorties within the last week, but according to the
Italian journals, were on both occasions defeated
with great loss. It is supposed that a decided
attack will be made against Capua and Gaeta
towards the 20th of this month. In my next I
will send you a few particulars of Peri's Opera,
Vittore