The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-16 00:00:00

THE LONDON RAGUED BOYS.

The Earl of Shaftesbury presided last night at
the annul meeting of the Britanois•ceurt Industrial In-
stitution, the object of which is to cultivate habits of
Industry bosom; the yoseg regret boys in the neighbour.
heed of King's-erose ; and in the coons of his address his
lordship said ise desired to impress upon the pubis the value
of suck both:otiose. Had the g ion before the meant
laboured as strenuously is the same taunt, the state of
satiety now would have been very different ; end had not
the resent generation so laboured, he believed the state of
the population would have been such so to defy all govern-
ment however supported by police or a standing army. A
refer and dormitory for destitute boys having bens estab-
lished in Westminster, one of the principal thieves of the
vicinity asked leave of a city missionary to visit it, and.
after inspecting the rooms and the asholars, he begged his
name might be pot down as an annual subscriber of ens
guises. The missionary said, tt We know well enough who
yon are ; what age induces you to talk like that?" The thief
replied,. It is wily explained ; for it there had been iasti.
lotions like this when I was a boy I should never have been
brought to my present disgraceful position." In his opinloa it
was impossible for any one to go through sny of the
crowded districts of the metropolis without being convinced
of the absolute necessity of doing something for the owry
young children who, either being without fathers and
mothers, or haviag fathers and mothers whom it would be
better for them to be without, were sent to pick up their
living in the to. It was an evil which Ind grown to
suds 111150113101111 magnitude that it was beyond the control
and reach of the parochial system, and all the various plena
of scripture readers, district visitor, city =insignia's*, ete.
Nothing was left applicable to it but ragged aehoole
and their anzilinies, industrial institutions. But all efforts
would still be in vain until the dwellings of the labour-
ing classes were improved, because with the present
wretched state of those dwellings and the tone of feeling
they Induced, that which was learnt at school would be un-
learnt at home, and sin weeks' labour on the part of the
Washer would he destroyed by sin hours' et ample of parents
or their friends. In conclusion, the noble earl referred to a
former finnan of the Institution, who had gone to the Bal-
tic end Black Seas is the Sphinx, had received two medals
aad two clasps, sad expected to he paid ofi with 60f. on the
return of the ship, and expressed a hope that the firtunata
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ness calling him to Pasts. The report was adopted. Con-
current revolutions were carried ; sod at the close of the
proceedings a collection was made in lid of the funded the
moiety.

LORD ELCIIO ham intimated to his constituents in
East Lothian that he has been ordered ►y his medical
adviser to abstain from all business for the neat twelve
minas, and that he is about to proceed to the Continent in
order to the re-establishment or his health. He regrets
therefore the prospect of being absent during the neat par-
liameatary mention.
The screw steamer Clyde, Captain David Hender-
son, bas now bees releesed from *government envie., and
again placed as the station between Glasgow ant New
York, sad le assessed to sail on the 7th proximo.
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