The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-08-28 00:00:00

District licWs.

DORCHESTER.

INS New LAW ON INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.—
5,,,A1 important alkrations in respect to Industrial
;•.:hoola have been made in an Act pawed on the
day of the prorogation. It repeals three statutes.
The schools sre to be certified and wider Outwo-
rn,' inspection, and to them counties and borough.
arc t esotribuie. Ilegarding the class of children
to lie detained at such piaci:a, it is provided that
in, is risdi nim take a 61.1 d aptarently mulct. the
s4e off.ntosfl found begging or receiving alms,
vi, thr venially M. under Ills protest of telling or
effcring for sale anything, or being in the streets
for the porpoes ; any child wandering and having a.
bOlllO or proper guardianship or visible means of
subsistanee ; any child found destitute, either being
Sp orphan or having a surviving entrant who is on.
dcrgoing penal servitude or imprisonment, Of any
child friquenting the company of reputed thieves.
A child answering any of these descriptions may be
sent to a certified indnstrial school when taken before
a magistrate. A child apparently under the age of
twelve charged with an offence, not before convicted,
wy he sent to snob an establishment, and even
pe-ents and others baying • "refractory chili"
unite!. 14 may apply to • magistrate to have that
gold sent to one of the schools. A parent is, if of
nbility. to pay a sum not exoeeding 5.. • week.
or offences at certified schools children are to be
„cot to reformatory schools, and such schools are
to be kept distinct. The Act extends to 54 sec-
t' as. and is very explicit as to the management
ef th 3 establishments, and the manner in which
are to be conducted to ens le proper treat-
meet of the children.

Pr 10.14 READING AND Segagiso.—Lecturee on
il.isiubject were delivered in the Townhall on Tuesday,
by the Rev. A. J.l). D'Oney, N.D. In the afternoon
tfie Rev. J. Fisher, rector of Holy Trir.ity, presided, and
in the evening the chair was taken by the Mayor. The
attendance was limited, which the rev, gentleman attri-
buted to indifference on the subject. His addresses
were moat interring', the illustrations were masterly
and amusinj, and his practical hints commended
• b-.nrelers to the judgment of everyone. The
nr,t part of the lecture was devoted to canoeing
some of the popular pnjudioes ',oncoming reading
• eraking,evh as that to read Or speak well is
.▪ ;ift only, and that the "art of elkoution entourages
stb.ctstion and pomposity; and to shew that the de-
fective methods id teaching adopted are the =in eause
of the bed I, ditto; which obtains in churches, schools,
and femilice. We had no good reading, and had no
riAl.t to capert it. because proper instruction and
treining was not given. The common faults were in.
embielity, nionotony, and mannerism. In the atteond
pert he proceeded to consider what good reading is, and
Low it is to be taught. Good reading he defined as
employing your hen', and heart, aid voice to dig out
id is book the head and heart of the author, and
I.oer it all into the mind and heart of the listeners,
eel the height if exciellenoe was attained when
author end reader disappeared, and the subs
stenon id the reading alone occupied the audiences
How could tlost he taught ? Not in the way it was now
renerellv tried to be taught. The tutor must read before
ihe pupil, in order to stiow him how he ought to read,
p efacing it by explanations of difficult words, and the
4eneral acopeid the passage. He divided his mode of
teaching good reading into three parts the bodily
teaming connect,' with it, and essential to it; 2, the
mental t rain g the underetending of what is read; and
3, the moral or emotional training—feeling what you
read, and making others feel it. lime precluded him
hum speaking on any except the first division, but eon-
. i ruing that his observations were thoroughly practical.
Severs' rules were laid down which we will endeavour
to epitomise briefly. When reading stani upright, or
at in an upright pinitiou—let there be no bending over
the hook, learn to breathe well; when about to read
both body and mind should be tranquil, it is important
to keep your throat in good order, and • principal rule
is to breathe as much as possible through the nostrils,
and as little as may be through the mouth.
Trein the voice, and when reading or speaking open
your lips, and let all your consonants be distinctly
sounded. In conclusion he spoke of the value of good
peeling in public life, and as ac accomplishment in the
domestic circle. The lecture was completed on Wed-
nesday afternoon. and during the day various classes
were formed to take advantage of an offer made by the
rev. gentlemen to give them practical illustrations of his
nisth id.