The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-23 00:00:00

(Stamped; id. Additional.)

110rAL

' Yesterdsy the astoivinetry festival of this excel-
lent society was held at the Loodon Tavern, the Earl of
DARTMOUTH in the chair ; supported b 7 Mr. Alderman
and Sheriff Alibias, Mr. Sheriff ask, some 160 gentle.
men and • goodly company of ladies. This charity dates
so far hack as the year 1702, the first of the reign of Queen
Ann, when • few benevolent persons commenced on a very
small sale the geod work which the society has been
enabled's° successfully to carry on. At that time the
society was formed for clothing and educating twelve boys,
the sons of parents racketed to • nicasitoois audition. For
this purpose a school.huuse was provided in tie parish of
St. Ann and St. Agnes, Ahlersgate, Louden. In 1709
the society established its girls' school in con.
maim with the town establishment. In the year
1796, en asylum was established at Lavenharn,
in Suffolk, for the education and entire maintenance
of 20 boys %elected from the town school. This
' asylum, after a Mw years, was removed to Peckham, in
Mangy, where it ',outlaws!' till 1825, when, the society
baring recommended itself so favourably to the confidence
and sympathy of the public, the committee were ambled to
I erect • handsome building on freehold ground at Streatham
for the accommodation of 100 boys sod 50 girls. This .
building; was coosidsiably 'enleanted a 1666, mod • now oust-
tains 161 bee and IkA girls, YR addition to the town school.
This charity atandapre-eminent among the many benevolent
institutions of this country, as aloha afforgling to tbstiene.
eitous offspring, boys and girls Xdrphans or riot)., ad ones
prosperous parents of any nation, a home, clothing. educa-
tion, and entire inaluteuance. As • proof of itii easno.
rim amni
ch on, dor
hans ~ it m
woreaaznittaitted that r 1848 gix.
Igauntly provided line the IPAGelliseer r. I;iii
society upwardk SI 1,000 ammo lave beta placed tat
apprentieed, sal them am now AO children under its era.
Ot thole sow in the &syllabi many see the children of
parents ones in affluent independence, of officers in the navy
aad army, clergymen, physicians, surgeons, and solicitors.
Others are the children of once prosperous merchants,
I farmers, or tradesmen. Of the former 'emotes, many of
the boys are now appreMioed ; others are doing well in
rnts' other Uflices, and soma occupy high poring=
tchela or
different learned professions. Of the girls, assay are
married and well settled in Me ' several are coxopytej
good situations of trust and impOrtasoe, aad others me
engaged as governance in private families, ores natives or
reistresses in public or parochial imbeds. It may be met.
Aimed as a prod of the utility rit this inetitatioe,
that many individuals who seesawed their oducatiels•
In the schools, being now in prosperous circunistseres,
have become its zealous and liberal supporters, while at Hie
same time it has been enabled to afford a comfortable
=to the offspring of snob el its fawner housem id a
vs hiss esapelled by adversity to solicit thine h.
s4te for their own children which they had &awfully user
tributa, to bestow on others. Nor can there be •
'Meow of the great want of such • society that tie=
that of those candidates annually • approved by the com-
mittee as fit objects for the charity, only onnsuth can be
admitted into the asylum. To the boys a mud comma.
dal Wagon= is given. with such a rudimental instruction
in the daisies, mathematics, and French as may form the
loam of a higher education. The girls MORITA a sound
Zagilsh education, with instruction in Preach and drawiag
*vim also taught the several duties of domestic life, and
Wed es far all passible for the very different circumainosse
in which they will probably be planed, The society has the
privilege of periodical presentations for girls at Whitelauds
and Hockerell Training Schools for Governesses. With this
miasma& of the objects aad operations of the society pre-
ssing:l, It is only oremeary to slate that the claims of the
charity on the sympathy of the public were very forcibly
pressed on Hoes who amemblad at the annual festival by
Ilionedile areas, wile toiseeses a beriditary oonottuon
with the inatitullser ieelmosh as an Earl of Dartmouth,
fiersetory el Sate to Queen Ann, was a patron of the
ne t2trall,heseasest touching and effective ids*
preseut was the introduction of
As Min of Ilishels•appeam admea country schools, whose healthy
awl ware the best guarestess
al tslie = rbalt the lootilatios. One of the boys rooted a
poetical appeal to the good feelings of the army with an
elocutionary power which spoke well for the careful training
to which the children must be subjected ; while a band,
esmammi of boys of the =hoot, played a 'alma& of
assume v creditably, ender the direstion of Mr. Field,
their . There was also a vocal corps ostler the
dirndl& ell Mr. Gangs, comprising the services of Miss
Wm M...nt, Mr. Pewee, Mr. Burgess, Master Lee,
allattel4r. H. los, who coutributed musk to the trajormeet -of
the meal% A Shirai subscriptioa was the result of what
may be tralY elated to have her • very emceed al festival
in every =vow.