The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-20 00:00:00

INDUSTRIAL HOME 102 roux(' WOMEN.

On Tuesday the first anniversary of the Industrial
Home for Young Women was held at 22, New Ormond-
street. This institution wu begun last year by the Work-
house Visiting Society, with the object of rescuing girls
above the age of fifteen from the evils of the adult wards
of workhouses, and giving them a training for service. Dur-
ing the past year 66 girls have been received, some of whom
have been sent to service and some to the colonies. The
home can contain 30 girls. Eighteen boards of guardians
have sent inmates, and it is hoped that during the present
year the full number may be admitted. The girls are
Wight house work, washim, cooking, needlework, &c In
the home a large mom has lately been opened as an infirm
ward, for the reception of aged persons who are able to pay
a small sum towards their maintenance, and who, but for
this refuge, would be compelled to enter the workhouse.
The numerous applications for admission prove this to be a
much needed plan, and it is hoped shortly to carry it out
on a more extended scale. In the course of the various
speeches delivered at the meeting opinions were expressed
is favour of legalising and encouraging such home, as these,
the ewer of which, during the first year of its establish-
mat, bad been fully proved. However workhouses might
be improved, they could never have the same advantages
for girls and young women as separate homes, where in-
dustrial training and moral and religious influence can be
telly carried out. Thirty girls were present on this occa-
sion, eleven of whom were invited to return for the day,
having good characters from their mistresses, and six re-
°dyed rewards for having remained above three and nine
.oaths in their plasm.

HANDEL Frartenu—Tbe meeting al the sixteen
hundred members d the Handal Festival Loudon Choir
will be held at Estee-beLl tomorrow evening. The
chonurse from Readers oratafio Solo-mem will be rehearsed
--a selection of the most favourite of which it Is understood
will form a feature ea the mooed day at the forthcoming
liandel Festival.

The London season may almost be said to have
commenced with the Early Spring Flower Show ei meter-
day, which heads the programme of the Royal Horticultural
Society's arrangements for the year 1862. Hitherto the
fashionable drives and promenades of Hyde-park and the
aristocratic localities of Belgravia and South Kensington
have, owing to the long continuance of the cold and wet
which have marked the opening months of the present year,
limn comparatively deserted. Yesterday they wore alive
with gay equipoise, and the immediate neighbourhood of
the Horticultural Gardens and the International Exhibition
was all but impassable from the influx of visitors, attracted
not so much, perhaps, by the expectation of a brilliant
horticultural display, which is hardly possible in the third
week of each a March as this has been, as by the bright
sunbeam which, almost for the first time since their retain
to tows, 41101 b• out with sufficient promise of permansees to
draw them berm the warmth and shelter of their firesides.
But, considering all things, the show itself was meet
creditable. The hyacinths, whop beautifully formed petals,
pure colours, luxuriousnme of flower, and exquisite but
powerful aroma could scarcely be surpaseed,were in great pro-
I fusion, and well deserved the commendations they obtained
from the cognoscenti. Thecamelliaa, white, red, and varie-
gated, were unexceptionable, and, as regards those which .
obtained prizes especially, told of the care which had been
bestowed upon their culture. There was not so large a dis-
play of tulips ea a more genial season would doubtless have
produced, but the few Shat-were there were extremely
good. Early open air grown spring flowers were, as might
be anticipated, scarce, except lilies of the valley, which
were plentiful enough, and amongst them some bunches
drooping with the weight of their white bead-like Moslems.
The primula, epic's., and other open air spring flowering
plants, and the stove amaryllis, did credit to their
remedies powers as well as to the exhibition of which
they fanned a part. Besides the competing plants, there
was a magailicent display, as far se quality is ooncersed, of
rhodedesdrine, and a few beautifully developed ram, both
mi and white. There was but cue drawback to the thew,
and that was that the confined area in which it wee held,
and the immense number of visitors, nimiered it all but im-
possible to sea one half of the many very interesting sped- ,
mess ol the floricultural art it embeaced. From a little
after one o'clock, when the doors opened, until dusk, there
was a continuous stream of visitors passing through the
council chamber, which on this occasion was the somewhat
inesevenissa route of the exhibition, and the necemary
Worts Si the attendant policemen to keep the stream flow-
ing primate:l that attention being given to the "points" of the
Bowen which an area of more extended limits would
have allowed. This is a defect whichlwill be no doubt re-
medied by the next flower show, and may well be excused
is the prement instance, remembering that the very us-
promaing weather which prevailed yesterday would have
made the substitution of a marquee in the gardena a dan-
gerous experiment.
The band of the let Life Guards attended in the grounds
during the eiternoon, and enlivened the out-door portion of
the entertainment with • selection from some of the most
popular composers. Taken as a whole, this, the opening
day Si the season, was most successful, and promises well
for the numerous other fltes which are set down in the pub-
limbed pregramme of the year, and which are to follow each
other in rapid succession.
The Duchess -of Oambridge and the Princess Mary of
Cambridge visited the show in the early part of the morn.
lug, attended by the Duke of Buckingham. Her Royal
Highs's, was received by Sir Wentworth Dilke, Mr. Fair.
bairn, and other members of the Council.