The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-27 00:00:00

TEM SCOTTISH rioarntaz CORPORATION.

A special annual court of the governors of this
corporation was held yesterday, at the hospital., in Crams.
court, Flestretzeet—Lord Kunio in the chair—to rewire •
moot from the committee of inquiry into the dotaleatione
efts, late eecretery, and the prose@ Ade of the eorpe
mike.
The noble CHATRMAII said the committee appointed at
the last court had met, and Mr George Clerk had acted as
chairman. A most complete sad marehiegaV bad been
prepared, which would be laid beton the ns
Sir G. CLIME then read the repeat of the committee,
which was one of great lesgth, sad entered saleuteliiiiiio
. randi by whisk the Me esaretsry,,
the
Adair, bad Nadu
for ope
ao many years base seabird to carry oe
defalcations uodeadled by WI sormittse el maaegemeet.
The defalcations had eceemessed le 114 bat the balk el
them bad taken plate sines NHL Amen. ether emus which
the report stated the womenuy bed aggeepristsi tolds own we
was 5751. returned booms tax. medi-dessiben of 4001. hem
the late Duke of Sutherland to endow a pewits of W. per
NM= The total amount of the missy' helm,* to the
&Midi Hospital sad the Maki Fund which bed base
made um of by the kte serestag aid to 'hid& he had
acksiewledpd, was ULU. b. id. The =mut thee adored
apse @nerd ream fee able' ices in the bye-
laws ad duties of Aloes r preseeil time peediseein
Mere, and baring expreamii regret at Ilan that the ex-
c=itte of the =ea bed he mionalyeass memesits
efforts forultretriaghe lek=ecribies.
Ur. Bantu read peeped siMestkme fa the byelaw'.
Lord Km= felt limb obliged to dir (3
Clerk and the
eromerittee far their valeable mar and the psias they had
takes. He mewed that the eft
te adopted sod printed.
Kr. Loon emeeded the mdse, which was oneeisnouely
agreed Os after a keg diessolka
Professes DOXALD6OI mind, sad the Rev. Mr. Kamm
sesanded—" Twit the alteratices is the bye-laws !)II printed
and taken into consideratice at an adjaareed meeting."
Tbs intsluilwa was agreed to, and the meeting adjounaed
, to the 7lit of May.

SHIP SCHOOL "YRS CONWAY.*

A distinguished party of the supporters of this
antitution, which, following the example of the Akhbar at
Liverpool, partakes of the double character of • reform at:Ey
and a Usining ',loot for sailors, available for recruiting
mercantile marine, assembled last engin at • public
dinner, held at the London Tavern, to promote by their
influence) and contributions the philanthropic objects con-
templated by the founders of the charity.
The School Ship Society it may be remembered, was
established in the year 1859, under the auspices of Lord
Shaftesbury and others who're 'imaged in the praiseworthy
and Christian duty of endeavouring to reclaim to honest
industrious column those of our juvenile population
whom early example, want, or temptation, has made
familiar with crime, and have rendered themselves
amenable to the criminal law. A fund sufficient
for starting having been raise& the government evinced
their sympathy with the effort by the gift of an old fri-
gate, the Conway, which has ever shift been moored off I
Purfieet, and which has since formed the home sod the
moral and industrial training school of 176 youths, who
might, but for such an asylum, have added to our criminal '
populates, and have become a permanent curse and ex-
pense to the country, instead of, as there is every reason to
believe most of them will, adding to its strength and its
wealth. Beyond the gift of the frigate the society obtains
no assistance from the government, all the current expenses
being maintained by voluntary subscriptions.
At the festivity of last evening Sir J. Pram-
SOS peeeided, and was supported by Captain Sir
John Dalrymple, M.P. Captain Alexander Boyle,
ItN., Captain Stoptord, R.N., Captain Benton,
superintendent of the ship, Mr. S. Cave, M.P., Sir Stafford
Northcote, ILP., Alderman &locums, M.P., and Mr. E.
Johnson, chairman of the Surrey beach of magistrates.
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing " Slinelee to the School Ship
Conway," said that the institution was one of the results
of that great movement which took place a few years ago
for the purpose of endeavouring to cut off the sources of
crime at their root, and by the establishment of reformato-
ries to save from utter rum now and hereafter those poor
creature who in their earliest days, from various i
had been drawn into dishonest pursuits. He clolsa
back with great pleasure to the fact that he had been ena-
bled to bear a very humble part in that movement.
(Hear.) That movement had taken various directions ; it
had been supported with great seal, and, upon the whole,
had met with very great success, although it had had to
contend with many difficulties'. One of those difficulties
was the satisfactory disposal of the young persons to whose
welfare their attention was directed, after they had spent
the allotted time in the reformatory, and after their 'im-
am' in Industrial habits and moral instrection made
it reasonable to suppose that they wore likely, if the
opportunity were afforded them, to pursue an honest and
industrious course of life in after years. There were diffi-
culties in the way of finding . employment for
them either in agriculture or m manufactures—
either in the rural tfistricta or in the towns, owing to
the natural prejudices of society ; and with regard to the
M. de St. Georges relates the following anecdote other alternative, emigration, to carry it out on any exten-
d the late M. }lorry I called on hi, one morn- sive scale the heavy expense was a fatal barrier. Under
these circumstances, it was suggested that the merchant
lug, when he said, 'I am quite delighted ;my porter has sea service offered a fitting opening. That auggeation was
just stopped me at the door and offered me his congratu- a good one, and in its operation et bed been most successful.
tato= on our Mourquetairer de la Brine.' That vet/ even- The first experiment., the Akhbar, in the Mersey, had been
ing the piece was played before the court at the Tuileries, so successful that the City of London became very desirous
and King Louis Philippe addressed the most flattering corn- thatexperiment should be repeated in the Thames ;
plirneota to the musician on his delightful compositioo.
read when ehe (the chairman) wa Feet Lord of the Mini-
rally he was applied to to grant • ship for the purpose.
He complied with the request with the greatest plenure,
When we were alone in the carriage which conveyed us
home, he said to me, with emotion, TU you really think aid be knew of no purpose more praiseworthy in
that it has been • nutmegs?" My dear friend,' I replied, its nature, or moos prsctically useful in its probable
we must think so, since every one assures yon of it, consequence ; nor did he. know of any inure useful object to
which the old obsolete ships of war which were lying rotting
from your pot isr to the King of the French.' " in our dockyards could be applied, than in aiding in the en-
M. Verdi, the oomposer,who is now in Paris, is the desvour to rescue these poor youths from that course of vice
object of great attention by the eat of musical society in to which their antecedents appeared to have condemned
them, and making them available for the service of their
the capital. It is said ho proposes • brief visit to London
country. (Cheers.) There was only one doubt, and that
before his return to Turin. Overteres have beep made to was whether the merchant service would shrink from en-
him for a new opera, from M. Calzedo, of the Delius,
and gaging persons who in their childish days had been
from the Grand Opera ; and also, it is understood, by betrayed into crime, and, in a certain degree, might
Mr. Gye. be thought still to beer its stigma. He re-
Mdlle. Trebolli, of the ltaliens, Paris, is under- to find that all fears upon that heed hid
ten dissipated by the results. The success of the Akhbar
stood to be engaged by Mr. Mapleton, the lessee of her was well known—that of the Conway had not been less.
Majesty's. Many of those young men who had been discharged from
The Opera at Madrid closes early next month. , that ship had, after paining through various grades of the
I merchant service, passed into the royal navy. The society,
Mine. Lagrange, Fllippi, and other of the best "winter , it would be remembered, bad been hi operation but a very
are expected in Paris and London. I short time, bat of those who had been discharged from the
A letter from Venice says :—" The Duke of 'hip the favourable returns were 25, while the unfavourable
were only six. He begged to couple the tout with the
Modem has sold his handsome property at Catsjo, near health of Mr. Cave, M.P., who had been largely instru.
Padua, to Price Giovenelli. In the vine was a remarkable mental in founding the institution.
museum of arms, coins, antiquities, and other curiosities I Me CAVE. M.P., acknowledged the toast, sad in the comes
valued at 12 million lines. The duke has removed all his of his observations remarked that this project was one of
, the beneficial results of the Social Sciatc? Association,
furniture to Vienna, and intends pe..cheeing minus which had visited the Akhbardnring their visit to Liverpool
Bohemia." ' in 1859, and becoming convinced of the practical advantages
The Prussian coronation medal, founded by the of such an institution, determined to promote a similar one
in the ueighbourhood of London. He acknowledged the
ordonnance of March 22, represents, on the obverse, the
valuable assistance in money and in influence which the
King end Queen in their coronation robes, with the legend, society bad received from the bankers and traders of
" William, King ; Augusta, Queen, of Prussia. For the London.
coronation of the 18th October, 1861." On the reverse are Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE and other gentlemen addressed
the Prussian eagle, the arms of Prussia, the crown, sceptre; the meeting in support of the objects of the meeting, Sir
sword, and globe, all encircled by the chain of the Black Stafford taking occasion to ware philanthropistaagainst that
maudlin sentiment which was evidenced by the "petting
Eagle, with escutcheons of the eight Prussian provinces, of crime.
and the motto, " Suum calque." The metal is alight-tinted The subscriptions of the evening amounted to upwards
bronze. of 1001.
Gaft.pictiti says:—" We understand that the Duke _
I
of Northumberland is endeavouring to introduce on the A poor young collier, 18 years of age, met with
northern ooaata of Ragland the system of marine piecked- his death on Tuesday morning in a pit near the notorious
with his father and brothers, when by some strange mishap,
ture which M. Coate is carrying out with so much memo Gethin one at Merthyr Tydvil. He was descending to work
,
on the northern and western shores of France. All the
not yet explained, the carriage stopped midway. The de-
publications and drawings published on the subject by the Maned, without a moment's consideration, and thinking they
gnat French saient have been by special direction for- I had arrived at the bottom, jumped out, and, after falling a
warded to his grace." great depth, was dashed to pieces.