The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-10 00:00:00

ORPHAN WORKING SCHOOL

The commemorative festival to celebrate the 91st
anniversati of this charity was held yesterday at the Lou-
don Tavern, Bishougate street, Samuel Morton Pato, HR.,
M.P., one of the Vice-Presidenta of the charity, in the chair.
The musical arrangements were under the direction of Mr.
G. F. Taylor, 'misted by Mr. Holmes, Mr. Bland, Mr. C.
Kenny, Mr. Fortesene, and Mr. F. Smith. After the usual
COWS had been giveo
The Csatawate, inpropoaing " Prosperity to the Orphan
Working School, and may it continue to flourish for ever,"
acquainted the company that they had not the advantage of
the presence of the children in consequence of its being ad-
mission day, and the duties of those who accompanied them
rendered their absence unavoidable. The institution was
formed is 1758, 91 years since, for 20 boys. It had now
under its ears 200 children, vii 129 boys and 71 girls. The
average anneal admission to 1835 was 16 ; from 1835 to
1840, 19 ; from 1810 to 1815, 39 ; and during the last two
years 100 children had been admitted. The annual subscrip.
lions were :
Funded property. Children.
In 1820 „Sal 0 0 523,000 0 0 91
1830 542 11 0 31,000 0 0 100
1840 ..... . fill 0 0 29,000 0 0 100
1819 1,807 0 0 39,399 7 9 200
The objects 'ought to be benefited by this clarity, wen
poor orphan and other necessitous children, who were ad-
mitted between seven and eleven years of age, from any part
of the kingdom, provided they were in good health and had
never been the inmate, of a prison or a workhouse. They
remained in the school until they were fourteen years of age,
when the boys were placed out as apprentice., with a pre-
mium of 51., or clothing to that amount : the girls wire
trained for domestic service, and were provided with sites-
' does, each girl having a suitable outfit of the value of three
guinea,. During the seven following years, to encourage
them to persevere in grad conduct, they were annually re-
warded with Runs Teepee from five shillings to one guinea,
on producing satisfactory testimonials from their employers. I
Altogether, 1373 poor children had been admitted into the
scholia, most of whom, after reoeiving • religious, useful,
and suitable education, had been placed in situations, in
which they had, by industry and good conduct, obtained a
comfortable livelihood, and some of them had risen to influ-
ential stations in moiety, and become governors of the charity.
The first thing to which be would call their attention was the
perfect catholicity of the foundation of the charity itself. No
denominations or distinctions were known. The only thing
required was that the children should be orphan and ne-
cessitous ; they obtained a sound religious education with
out sectarian hiss, and that industrious habit which was ne-
, massy for the development of the system of every &dd.
This placed the society in a position to claim, at the hands of
all, universe! rapport. He had the pleasure of presiding at
the last examination of the children, and any interest he
might have felt in the institution waiver, mace enhanced by
what he there saw, and he would earnestly noommend every
(deka of the charity present to pay the festitation a visit et
the earliest period, and he was sue they would be amply
gratified. The examination was saddastsey and perfectly
sound. The children exhibited an amount of information on
all useful subjects, which surprised him and every one who
had been there on previous oceadors. All the friends of the
institution would feel, en going over the new building, that
the arrangements were sminsmtly calculated for the objects in
view. He was much interested to find amongst the chil-
dren the orphans of ministers of various denominations and
the orphans of many missionaries. As to the whole
buildirg and the arrargements at Haverstock-hlil they
could not desire to have an institution placed on a
better buds ; he never saw a building more eminently cal-
misted for its purrs:, or money more judiciously expended.
He hoped the society would receive substantial tokens of
their good will, and that to-night they would show that the
cause of the orphan in 1849 was u deer to an assembly of
British gentlemen as it bad been on any previous occasion.
The tout was neeived end drunk with great enthusiasm.
Mr. Kaaanaw, M.P. proposed the health of the Chair-
man, S. hi. Pete, who returned thanks. He observed that
they had now in the institution two children, the offspring of
an excellent minister in Weiss; who had both been brought
to be partakers of the benefits of the institution by a daugh-
ter of a clergyman of the church of England.
Varifa other tents were given; sad, after the announcer
mat of sabouiptions to the amount of 40W., the company
esparated.

PROTECTIONIST PETITION-MARINO.—A correspon-
dent of the Brighton Guardian states that in the neighbour.
hod of Piecombe several signatores—or rather, cross: e—
wers obtained last week by representing the prayer of a pe-
tition tithe be in favour of a repeal of the malt duty, whereas
the pn also prayed for the restoration of a yrotectire
duty OR do m.
The FREE TRADERS at SWINDON met on Monday
evening to take steps for defeating the protectionists, who, it
appeses, have been actively engiged there carrying about
petitions against free trade, and obtaining signatures in
senoras obleotionable ways.
NEW IRISH CATHOLIC BISHOPfL—DE. Murphy,
P.P. of Permoy, has been appcdnted Bisholl of Coyne and
BIN; and Dr. Kelly, of the diocese of Derry, has boon
gradated enecessor to the lamented Dr. Maglr.n.—Beenirsy
Fort