The Express.
London, England, 1853-07-04 00:00:00

every citizen, for the good of the common
1 w ell as for that of the immediate victims.

The Ragged Schools are very poor: and the edu-
cation given in them is therefore of a very low order.
It must, from the nature of the school, be of a wholly
different kind from that offered in ordinary day-
schools, where it is understood that progressive train-
ing is to be given to children whose life by
for a course of years, school life, on the
whole, uninterrupted. The wild creatures who are
caught and enticed into a Ragged School may or may
not be induced to remain. Some do,—many do not.
Many do not belong to a fixed population at all, but
are a sort of town gipsies. It is evident that the
training to be given to such pupils must be peculiar;
and that the knowledge to be imparted must be of a
kind to interest their minds at once, rather than that
sort which requires a long drudging preparation. It
follows that the teachers must also be peculiar. The
well trained, accurately informed, systematic teacher,
who would be a treasure in an ordinary day school,
might find all his best accomplishments useless in a

Ragged School, and that be was failing where a man,
far ieferior in point of education, was succeeding ad-
mirably. In fact, it is not only the pupils of
Ragged Schools that have to be caught, but
the teachers. They must be brought to the work
from any odd places where they may turn up.
The qualities that are most indispensable are those
that are not likely to abcund in Training Schools
more than any other place. They are mainly con-
stitutional qualities, which may be found and im-
proved, but cannot be imparted. One man, of insig-
nificant appearance, and no visible attraction of
countenance and conversation, may be seen to have
wonderful power over the gipsy assemblage he has
to rule, while a first-rate schoolmaster would be

nearly helpless among them; and the smallest
amount of knowledge offered by the first will inform
his pupils more than all the excellently arranged
stores of the other. The whole affair is, in fact, an
anomaly. The existence of the " perishing" class is
anomalous; their schools are an anomaly. What we
have to do is to match our anomalies, and provide
such strange scholars with peculiar teachers. Bat
they require a larger staff of instructors than
other scholars. Their condition precludes the
plan which works so excellently in the or-
dinary day schools under government inspection—of
selecting the most promising pupils to be monitors,
and then pupil teachers, in preparation for future
complete training. Under this plan (which is wholly
different from the monitorial system of BELL and
LANCASTER), great assistance is given to the principal
teachers by their subalterns. But this resource does
not exist in the case of Ragged Schools. Nobody
dreams of training teachers there,—of selecting in-
structors from such a class as comes there to be dis-
ciplined for the first time. While they require more
looking after, and cause infinitely more toil and trou-
ble than any other order of scholar,, they afford no
resources out of their own body. Again, there must
be so large a proportion of industrial training in those
schools, that in that way there must be an unusual
proportion of teachers, while the fluctuating charac-
ter of the school population precludes much hope of
profit from the work done. Of all schools, these are
the least likely to become self-supporting. And then,
the location and character of the school premises are
as opposite as can be to the usual conditions of
such places. They might seem to be set up in oppo-
sition to the Government description of school build-
ings to which aid shall be given. Ragged Schools
must usually be in low neighbourhoods, if they are
to be of the best use. Whether or not they should
be of a superior order of erection and arrangement,
is a question which need not be discussed at present,
as Ragged Schools have as yet no option as to where
they shall shelter themselves. Thy are, in their
poverty, glad of any roof to crowd under.

Such are the colditions of these schools which
preclude them from obtaining Government aid under
the rules of the Council on Education. After the
Birmingham Conference of the advocates of Preven-
tive and Reformatory Schools, a memorial was sent
up to the Committee, last summer, petitioning for
such modification of the rules as would enable the
Committee to great aid to Ragged Schools—
to those of all the children in the nation
who most want aid, and have the strongest
claim on society for it. The memorialists set forth
five considerations in behalf of their request

The peculiar qualifications of the teachers, which are
of a different kind than those required by the Govern- ;
Ment examination for certificates ; 2nd, The utter
nessitableness to Ragged Schools of the Govern-
ment plan of training teachers, aad the inability of
suit monitors as there might be to go through the
enemeination which procures a monitorial stipend;
3rd, The small amount of industrial production,which
cannot come up to Government conditions of aid ;
4th, The character and quality of the school-houses
er roans, which are not such as could obtain grants;
red Sth, The rade state of book.learaing in Ragged
I*IIL, whisk keeps them out of the reach of
snob of books, apparatus, &c. Thus, under all heads,
are Ragged Schools excluded from Government aid.
while needing it more than any others.
The late Mr. FLITCHII4 the teach-honoured
Inepeotor of Schools, strongly urged the making of
all express conditions u would include ragged and
lOW needy and much needed schools; but he did
set peva% nor has any petition or remonstrance yet
availed. The Committee was petitioned simply to
inetitate an examination into the peculiar requisites
hi School teaching, under which aid might be
I that pupil teachers who might be articled
to Ina masters, and practised in these schools, should
have payment for their services, as in other schools;
and that their lordship.' conditions as to school-
beildings, apparatus, and industrial training, should
Wu modified as to meet the case of Ragged Schools.
Mae reply to the memorial is this " The Committee
et °Mei' is not prepared to adopt any further
nodes for the special appropriation of a part of
the prient vote for education to schools of this
due

Such was the reply last year. Everybody knows,
and we hope everybody regrets, that the proposed
Education Bill this year takes no notice whatever
of the " perishing" class of children. It would give
to those who are already provided, and send the
helpless away empty. It would litter the folds of the
gathered lambs, but pay no shepherd for looking after
those that are scattered abroad. In this state of things,
Parliament is to be appealed to,by Lord SILAPILSBURY

in the one house, and Mr. ADDERLZT in the other.
Society will thus have an opportunity of speaking its
opinion and its pleasure, as to what should be done
with the tens of thousands of young vagrants, who,
infesting our towns, arc yet susceptible of rescue,
but who, when grown up uncared for, infest our
national heart, and help to eat out the vigour of its
life.

ROYAL COLLEOE OF StIIGZONEL—The following
gentlemen having undergone the neceemry examinations
for the diploma were admitted members of the college at
the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the let inst. :
—Moon. Samuel Argent, Hinckley, Leicestershire;
Hall Rvat., Think, Yorkshire ; Ephraim Matthews
Cridge, Stoke, Devonport ; John Hallilay, Wakefield, York-
shire; John Henry Gould, Broad-street, Golden•square ;
Arthur Henry Sankey, Dover; William Turner, Linen-
ter; Northeote William Spicer, Chard, Somerset; Peter
Clark, Kirkeonnell, Dumfries; Thomas Chaplin, Lewes,
Suaaer, and Richards Burford Searle, Bridport, Dorset.
The. Filu: is HATTON-GAM/EX.—The unfortunate
young woman, Ann Due, who precipitated herself from
one of the upper floors of the premises in Hatton-garden
during the raging of the fire ma Saturday week, expired on
Saturday last in St. Bartke:osnew's hospital.

FRANCE.
RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

(ay erimmultE

PARIS, MONDAY Moamute.
The Plonaleur announces that a despatch has been
received from St. Petersburg, dated June 27, non-
firming the statement that the order to occupy the
principalities has been given by the Russian govern-
ment. Admiral Hamelin left Toulon yesterday, to
take his post.

PARIS, SUNDAY Ersxmo.
By intelligence from St. Petersburg we are in-
formed that the regiments of artillery of the guards
were reviewed by the Emperor on the 21st ult. Such
displays have been of frequent occurrence lately, and
i a grand review of cavalry regiments was appointed
to take place on the 25th.
The squadron under the command of the
Emperor's brother, had arrived at Ourlac.
The Moniteur is not yet prepared to relieve the
public mind from the perplexities occasioned by the
statements of unofficial journals. It says:
The government has already, several times, repudiated
all responsibility for newspaper articles except those of the
official journal. The importance which seem to have been
attached to recent publications renders a repetition of
this declaration necessary. It may also be useful
to contradict and explain certain statements calcu-
lated to give a false direction to public opinion.
Thus a journal has announced that the government
had sold GO or GO thousand muskets ti the Ottoman
Porte. There has been, in fart, a sale of 40,000
muskets, but in effecting this transaction the government
has not departed from the usages invariably observed with li
regard to powers on terms of friendship with France. It
has also been said that French officers had received per-
mission from the Minister-at-War to serve in the Turkish
army. This statement is an entire fabrication. Whea the
government has any communication to make to the public,
it makes use of the Monde'sr exclusively far that purpose.

The minister of Marine has announced his isten-

tion to patronize the regattas at the principal mari-
time parts, and to found prizes, consisting of gold or
silver medals, or sums of money, to be called "The
Minister of Marine's prize." Since 1846, petitions
have frequently been sent from the localities inter-
ssted,requesting some encouragement of this kind for
the regattas, but hitherto without success.
A decree is the Moniteur convokes the councils
general for the 22nd of August. The sessions will
close on the 7th of September. Another decree orders
that the vacatioa of the Council of State shall core- I

meace on August let, and last till October let. A
long list of Councillors of State, mailers des requetes,
and auditori are appointed to attend to urgent bu-
siness during the vacation.
The Marshal Santa Cruz yesterday presented to
the Emperor at a private audience a letter from the
President of the Republic of Guatemala.
The weekly commercial review speaks of business
as being exceedingly dull, on account of the uncer-
tainty concerning the Eastern question. Exportation
diminishes, manufacturers reduce their production,