The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-03 00:00:00

ArIIFS LI INTELLIGENCE.

H CHARITY SCHOOLS

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The annual examination of the children educated at the
Welsh Charity Schools, Russell-street, took place on
Saturday, in the presence of Robert Roberts, Esq..
CAMP, SEBSSTOPOL, FEB. 16th. dent, and a numerous company of ladies and gentlemen,
The most important event in the camp has been among whom were Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lloyd, Mr. Ellis
the arrival of General Sir Colin Campbell. Nothing -
Jones, Mr. Owen and Mrs. and the Misses Williams, Mr.
of importance has been yet promulgated respecting
E. Jones, Mr. R. Griffith,Mr. W 2 Chambres, Mr- H'
divisions to form the new corps d' arrnee. It- is presi-
understood that -the light, 4th, and Highland Rev'
Briscoe, Rev. E. Williams, of st.. James' Church,
divisions will compose this force, the selections Lodge, Rev. W. Jones, Mr. W. P. Jeffreyes, Mr. J. 13 •
having been determined by the relative standing Morgan, &c., &c.
in seniority of the generals commanding. The children, both boys and girls, looked cledn, healthly.
Brigadier-General Duncan Camerbn, C. 8., Lieut.' and cheerful; and the correctness of their answers to
and
e
Colonel of the 42nd regiment, is to be permanently questions put to them in Scripture, geography,
installed in command of the Highland Division, English history, in which they were examined,
was the
which he has been holding during the absence of best proof that could be afforded of the care devoted to
Sir Colin Campbell in England. Lieutenant- their education by the master and mistress of the schools_
Colonel Mackenzie, at present on duty at Balak-
—Mr. F. Edwards, and Mrs. Cottien. The object of the •
lava, is named as the probable head of the committee, however,' who manage the schools is not.to
Quartermaster-General's department of Sir Colin give the Children a first-class
the term, Englishther to education m
to
in the
Campbell's brigade. The new arrangements are now popular sense of but ra fit the
all dependent, it is presumed, on the negotiations hlne useful, trustworthy, and intelligent servants hereafter•
the boys' school, there are upwards of 200 on the book%
for peace proving abortive. The companies and the average attendance is 180, while in the girls' school ,
of the siege train, encamped in the there are about 120 on the books, and an average attend-,
front, left to-day for Balaklava to embark ance ot 80. There is
establishments, alo an infant
not school
only enable p
safe keeping
by the bands of nearly all the neighbouring parentsvhile at t
entLghatvoethtellreirworckh children in
it
i.
also
serves as a
regiments. All the men off duty turned out in feeder to the other schools, the infants as they grow till
crowds, and Lcheered their departing comrades. being successively transferred there. After the clan
S
The work of demolition has been making examinations, an African youth, named Grand BonnYl
who has been sent to England to be educated, recited,'
progress, both in Sebastopol and the Xarabelnia
hymn, and though he has been in this country but twenty
suburb. Several of the underground banks, and
months, his progress in reading and writing has been such
bomb-proof batteries in the Redan, were blown up as to denote considerable intelligence, if not ability. Ils
yesterday. It is said that the whole of the Crimean seemed much pleased at the applause of his school-
railway material, including all the engines, car- fellows. Another boy, named Hugh Hughes then recited
riages, and stores, have been sold to a company a poem which appeared in one of the Liverpool papers
who intend to transport them to the neighbour- entitled "Her Majesty's Farewell to the British Troops
after which, Joseph Graham, another of the puPilsl
hood of Heracleia, to be used with the coal thanked the president and• committee for the care be
mine. The weather has been very variable. stowed on their education, and promised that in atter life
they would prove themselves worthy of it. '..1 .
Mr. Roberts thanked the children for their kind wishes
and expressed a fervent hope that they would be true t,
their promise. He told them there was no position in
to which they could not attain by industry, perseverance,
intelligence and Integrity, and mentioned two instances,
illustrative of this, in the persons of the chief engineer ,
ale Baltic fleet and the engineer of her Majesty
yacht. Lath were poor boys, the first-mentioned bu
rl
twenty years ago warning as wages only 6s. a-week, as
yet by the exercise of the
they had gained their present respZ!.
qualities which he mentioll_
called on the b-ys to imitate those example:,
able positions, it!
by being faithful and zealous servants. : ...
Mr. J. B. Lloyd, in moving the thanks of the subsoil'
and to begni
bers to the president, said he believed the schools were
the oldest in Liverpool, . and that though from an earlr
period they had been chiefly connected with the Prnnl:
pality, yet the children of other than Welsh parents vierN
readily received into them. (Hear, hear.) He rejoice'
at the progress of the children, and he was still reort!
rejoiced, he said, that that progress was based on a s still
liberal education. He trusted that the schools would stilt
continue to prosper, and that they would receive from the
natives of the Principality resident in Liierpool and Of
public generally that generous measure of support vitilic"d
their usefulness merited. In conclusion Mr. Lloyd allunev
to the interest which Sir William and Lady Wynne ton.--,
in the schools, and read a letter from her ladyshiP Int
which she expressed the pleasure which it afforded her a_,
hearing that the children had contributed, from the sr;.111:14
which they received from the managers of the school, io:
the relief of the widows and orphans of the 23rd regimen
or Welsh Fusiliers.
Mr. Ellis Jones seconded the motion, which was unitliii
mously adopted.
On the motion of Mr. Briscoe, seconded by Mr. IV'
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THE CRIMEA,

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TURKEY

An official despatch, dated Berlin, the 2d inst.,
brings intelligence from Constantinople, of the
28th ult., which states that the Turkish government
has authorised the exportation of corn to all parts
in the Mediterranean, including those of the
Archipelago and the Adriatic.

Jones, thanks were voted to Mr. Oliver Williams, cha.
man of the committee, fur his attention to the schools. _
Mr. W. Jones moved tv
the thanks of the subscribers
the Rev. William Jones, for his advocacy of.the interests
of the schools, in the sermon which he had preached the
that day in St. David's church. He highly eulogised t:be
rev. gentleman's ability and scholarship in his oatin
tongue, and trusted that the Welsh language would n'7,
more studied, and become more generally known, than 1'
was at
P.
P.
Jsent.
Mr. Weffreyes seconded the motion, which W 3.4
unanimously adopted.
The Rev. W. Jones acknowledged the compliment, ape
in doing so, took, the opportunity of addressing to 0.. w
boys some encouraging and instructive remarks. nd
The National Anthem was then sung by the pupils,
the proceedings closed with ,the ,distribution of '
prizes.