The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-21 00:00:00

BAGGED AND INDUSTMAL SCHOOLS 17
11111 NONTH.

The anniversary meetiag of the Newcastle Rigged
and Industrial Schools was held at Newcastle on Wane.
day. The Hon. H. G. LIDDELL., M.P., took the chair; and
amongst those present were Mr. Ridley, M.P., Captain
O'Brien, Dr. Oreenhow, Dr. Challoner, and Mr. Pollard.
The CHAIRMAN, Is opening the proceeding., related the
following anecdote to show how closely the clam of children
which these schools wire Intended to reach stood upon the
verge of crime. The other day, a boy applied for admission
Into this school. Of course, conaletently with the rules of
the school, and in order to support that admirable rale, that
no child shall be admitted whose parents can afford even a
penny a week for his education, it is absolutely necessary to
make very stringent and careful inquiries into the dream.
stances of the child and its parents, or Its family, whoever
It belongs to. In the twenty-four hone that lapsed in order
to give tha muter time to make these inquiries, the boy.
premed by necessity, or urged, perhaps, by hunger, com-
mitted an offence : be was taken before the magistrates, and
sentenced to several pen' confinement at the Reformatory
School.

Rh.)WAN, the secretary, reed the reports.
The boys' report ailed that at the beginning of the year
thin wars Mid Soya at the yawl 74 had been admitted sad
66 had aft, them wen now remaisieg 124, the largest number
yet knows. Of the 66 who had lett, 16 hod gone to other
whoa' ; 211 to work; 8 left the town; 3 left without stating
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minima meson ; 1 was in the Union workhouse ; and 2
had been dismissed on account of Mamas. Many who had
=work were doing well—,credit to themselves and en
to the institution. Of the 124 boys at school, 48 were
fatherless; 6 motherless; 4 were orphans 6 had stepmothers;
2 fathers transported; 6 deserted by their fathers; 2 deserted
by both parents ; and 42 bad both parents living. There
was • falling off in tin amount of work performed by the
boys, but the committee hoped to have in future more ex-
tended support from the manufacturere. During the year
there bed been 3,799 sacks made; 931 mac hair, and 6 cwhi.
• qrs. oakum teamed; and 3,000 treenail wedges end 6,000
peaches made. The committee regretted that there had bean
• serious falling off in donations of ctabim, which was malt
required. With regard to the Savings Bask, 2L IL. 161 d.
had been paid by 67 depositors, a oonedereble increase. bly
the Lamar held in the Assembly Rooms the committee were
in • position to proceed with the proposed improvements in
the industrial department. The treasurer's ablaut showed
• balance of 1241. 3e. 6d. due to Masers. Lembtaa on the
year's account, the subariptans, Ice., 4341. is. 24., being
totally inadequate for the support of the institution. The re-
port concluded by en appeal for extended support.
The report of the girls' school committee stated that them
were 108 girls at the school, of whom 48 were fatherlese,
10 motherless, 8 orphans, 6 darted by their fathers, 1 father
transported, and the parents of 43 were both destitute.
Admitted daring the jeer, 44; loft, 20.
After the report had been unanimowly adopted, and a
resolution proposed by Mr. Ridley, M.P., urging the inha-
bitants to give increasedaid to the schools, had been carried,
the meeting was addressed by some other gentlemen.
Mr. °LYNN addressed the meeting. fie said that while
the eboebleck brigade in London was en offshoot of the
ragged school system, in Mercado the shoeblaok movement
bed bad its origin independent of the ragged school move-
ment ; end be had always cherished the hope that at roma
future time, when it had become sufficiently important to
entitle it to their favourable considerati n, then probably, in
some manner to be determined by them, the rhoeblack bri-
Mi.would affiliate itself upon the ragged school system.
eny gentlemen mire net aware of what the promoters of
the aMeblack help& had, with their limited means, acorn-
=lSine, their movement began, on the 2nd Sept, 1856,
d had through their bands 46 bons., be might my that
prsotkally they had-cleared the streets of Newcatie of joys-
alle alms. He believed almost the only boys who were to
be found in the streets se juvenile Mien., were those who
, were too bed for them to take, or who bed been discharged
from their ranks for misconduct. He had seam it
down to diner that day eighteen boys picked off the
streets, end two boys who filled 'Mistime of hosesty—
cat • sake sad the other a pilot. They had rent nine boys
I into the asereheat navy, end had obteined reepectable
Nor for nine wee, end eighteen remained with them. These
boys bad boss maintained in a trivet IlleSPllre by their own
labour, sad in originating the movement the promoters bad
not trenched on the province of the ragged school, because
they hid provided for • elms of boys who were too bed for
the ragged /school, end not bad enough for the reformatory.
The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the
chairmen.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, lAN. 21.

Lt the Redistribution of Parliamentary Bea*
Kr. 8111012 proposes to add eighteen to the
counties of Zeeland, and eight to those of In-
land ; or twiraty•six in all. In mast eases, though
not in all, the means of conferring this addi-
tional representation are 'applied by the sup-
pension of decayed, or nomination boroughs,
situate within the confines of the counties teepee-
tively which are to be enfranchised. Thus the,
Meth Riding f Yorkshire is to be enriched at the
'=pen's of Think, and each new division of the'
West Aiding is to be clothed in feture with the
political drapery which now inappropriately bangs
en such mere pegs as Knarteborongis and
Ripon. East and West Bomerestshire an to have an
audible voice in the selection of those who have
hitherto been whispered into Parliament In the
Cathedral Close of Wells; sad the high farmers of
West Norfolk are to be allowed to choose an addi-
tional Representative, inessaaeb as the rabbit. and,
partridges are to be diefratielsies4 in the neighbour-1
hood of Thetford. Men imerailese than the mid.
night visitant of PHALON, the destroying angel foe
Birmingham amass both the eldest-born of RAO-
aItSW and his father se be swoops over Harwich
bet he proves at the same time hie wish thereby
to make new freedom on Essex, as he
gives an additional member to each of its pre-
sent divisions. The same purpose Is evident
in Mr. 81L1G1111.4 method of dealing with Ireland.
The salmon of Coleraine are to cease to be represented
in Parliament; bat the farmers and weavers of
Antrim county are to have another delegate there.
Kinsale and Bandon will no longer confer nominal
tithe on two Imperial legislators; but instead
thereof two more members will be sent to St.
Stephen's by the great musty of Cork. Deviations
there are, of course, se was inevitable, from the
observance of this role of making our populous
counties consume; their own boroughs; but Sake
will hardly wecp for the loss of an Eye, and Fee-
msaagh, we trust, will be as peaceable and orderly
es beim, after its Enniskillen trumpeter shall have
been silenced.

We desire to note, however, with particular ap-
proval that feat are of Mr. Balcur's plan which
characterises his mode of dealing with most of the
counties, as well am with three-and-twenty of the
most considerable towns. We ►llude to his adoption
and expansion of the principle first introduced in
1`3,32, of Rising three members to a constituency
rather than either two or four. Without affecting
any belief in the mysticism of numbers, we are
strongly inclined to think that there is something
essentially better in triple membership, than in either
double or quadruple. We would here be understood
as speaking only of such communities as are entitled
by their wealth and population to an extra force,
to more emphatic weight, in the councils of the
realm. Generally speaking, however, these contaio, by
noon of their very extant, a large and reputable
dissident element, which it can serve no sound
national purpose to leave without a chance of being
represented. Sometimes the minority is a sectarian
one ; sometimes it is political; and again it is some-
times definable rather by locality or peculiarity of
avocations. It is not desirable that such an element
should be over-ridden by the majority or driven to
the wall ; yet such we know is too frequently the
case where a majority of two-thirds, or three-fifths,
or it may be of only fooraireeths, feel that they
have the power In their hands. In vain the minority
plead that half the magistracy are taken from their
ranks, that half the taxes are paid by them, or
that one of their number is coofirmedly the ablest
man in the county or the town. There are no means
of doing justice to them without doing injustice to •
plater number.

Where there are but two members to be chosen, it
always seems too much to ask of the majority that
they should suffer the minority to name one. It is
not merely because on some party question a com-
promise of the kind amounts to political neutralism-
tioo, bet because the thing wears the aspect of con-
fessing on the part of the majority a relative degree
of weakness or fear which cannot with impunity he
incurred in political life. Practically, we know that
in cases where three members are to be chosen, the
majority, unless it feels itself overwhelmingly
strong. is often content with two members, leaving
to the minority the nomination of one. Is this
an evil ? the contrary, we think it • groat
good. It tends to prevent close and deep,
-
rate contests which Sr. too frequently fought
to try the strength of rival families or individna6,l
and which when so fought bear little other fruit than'
thorns. While a just predominance is asserted by
the more powerful portion of the constituency, the
caw of iejustice and the secret hope of revenge is,
plucked from the heart of the weaker section. Above;
all, the tendency is to induce both the majority and I
the minority to make choice respectively of their'
best men, and to induce the men, when chosen, to'
cultivate reciprocal forbearance and esteem. It was
professedly with theme views that the memorable
clause was inserted in the proposed Bill of 1111/4
respecting the representation of minorities. %thy
that clause it wee provided that I.
tummies harieg three representatives easis
elector should be entitled to vote only OW tWil.
Thie compulsory method of rtfecting the **et
drew forth at the time numerous expressions;
of dissatiafaction, and it may be doubted whether in
committee it would have been carried. It wee felt
that the (lectors' right ought to extend to the entire
repreeeniaiion. Mr. BILIGUT himself, if we re-
member rightly, was one of the foremost amongst