The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-30 00:00:00

As all boys are not adapted for a seafaring life, i

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been suggested that until our reformatory on shore 0,
been established, some arrangement might, be made
exchange boys with some of the reformatories in Ott'
parts of the country, and it is probable this arranger:oex
will be carried out.

The committee regret that, owing to the te„,, rOO,
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ditheutty or obtaining a suitable plot of land at a re.‘s`'j
able price, and also, latterly, their time and attentl4
havitn been so much required in establishing the ref°
matory ship, they have been unable to make any Pr,
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gress with the other two branches contemplated in the
prospectus.
The funds requisite for the efficient carrying, _
important an institution must necessarily be very c`:
siderable, and, although very liberal donations have
received. they will all, and much more also, be expen`
in the fitting up and establishment of the three insti
tions ; and the committee earnestly hope that they
be supplied with liberal annual subscriptions, wit
which it is impossible that the institution can be ca:
on, as the amount at present allowed by gevernmet,
such boys as may be sent by a magistrate is inadet
to pay for their efficient superintendence and mainten
besides which others may be received for whos
ance no provision is made

The Rev. Rector Campbell moved the adoption of t
report. He said : I have great pleasure in rising to W°

that the report road be adopted, printed, and eiretll3

under the direction of the, committee, and in app

the meeting for their approbation of the resolution

not think it will be necessary to trespa

great length on your time, nor to plead my want of s'

at the present moment

s z re:l,Am of the brevity

appeal, because I think the subject which has bro,l4''t
together is one on which we shall most coraially a!;ZI

(Hear, hear.) The report expresses our opinion stror4:l
and it has one great recommendation in its favour io
mind—that it is very brief; and I shall imitate its WO'

in the observations 1 shall lay before you. And in

my chief oh.,ect in rising is to express what I very (IPI

feel—my commiseration—my heartfelt commiseratioo

the beings whose reformation we are met to promote, °I
I should not think that my heart was in its right place
I did not feel that commiseration. Engaged as
this parish, to a great extent, with the vast burtheet
responsibility it involves, my duty is, so far as my inir:°_,„
ability permits me, to labour earnestly for the 'TPA,
tion of the people, and to promote the spiritual and tel
poral good of those who, to a certain extent, ara e°,
mated to my charge. All those who are willing to ar?t
of the administrations of the Established Church, 1
our bounden duty to do everything we possibly c 3 hi
them ; but then, unhappily, the clas3 of society to
I am now alluding do not accept our administratiolls'
any administration whatever. (Hear, hear.) They 9t
as it were, lost—the children of perdition, but that 15
reason why we should leave them in that lost and per
all'
Christians, condition. (Hear, hear.) It is the duty of us al" t
Christians, and as men, not only as ministers of t,
Gospel, but as Christians and as men, to do, everYtPi
that we possibly can to redeem those lost and perighi,
souls from destruction, temporal and eternal. Ole
hear.) It is my anxious wish to do all I caeehl
promote this sacred obj =.ct, and I Must confess
I look with greater hope, perhaps, than to
other means of help, to the establishment of this i'l,°'lll,
v'
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and ragged schools, to lay hold of a population '',lo
seems intangible, and which the Recorder of Birmierol
compares to the owuerless dogs of the city of -0011,5 t'
nople. He says our countrymen in Constantinopm'fog
us how that city is infested by troops of ownerlesg 0,11
which gain their livelihood by the exercise of their e
and a slight effort of the imagination will bring beft:lto'
the annoyance which must be produced by thisi
oa
of four-footed outlaws. Now, if we substitute in OT
pt
wi_idsyoung human beings for those dogs, we shall„s

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pare oursdies for undeiStanding the characterlsV ate
that portica of our juvenile population which is 410
around us, and whose reformation we are endeavour'
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secure. The ownerless dogs are types of them, owl
them, they have received but little kindness; tlll
they live more or less by their wits ; like they' ro
are active without occupation—restless, capable title
sheer necessity of bearing hunger and cold, their ins
great, their affections uprooted, their religion none.'iy,
are poor creatures, whom it is our object, if possi
objects
They
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reclaim and save from destruction, and I say tilleo
for Christian commiseration. They have nevelt-elle
ovletleyc ts deepest
of
taught their duty to God, to themselves, and their 1,13;
creatures ; they have every temptation to sin ; they at
every temptation to continue their evil courst,'°;c
mainsceircaotniotneinp(t,llZ,..bepeil
such, lam sorry to say, is in great measure the sse
large majority of the lower part of no working elae ,
large towns. They have not been brought up in tli Alit
of God and man ; they have no domestic comforts
we can hardly wonder, though we must deePlY., i •,,ei,'
that thtfgo to the beer-shop and the gin-palace, '1,10.0
the consequence is a state of demoralisation, *yd.
fearful to every reflecting and every Christian rni"
are told that the people of this country expend of 11
52,000.0001 a year, a sum equal to the reveni/el
country before the war ; and it is sl'
they expend in snuff and tobacco twice the relte
the Established Church. (Rear, hear, and ,
Now, perhaps, that does not apply to this
though thet e is no wrong in ,o;eationing it, attoi
matter which we are considering is juvenile crime or ,r
source of their demoralisation. Ido not know►jooti
it is, but I quote from the repirt of Major Gre','"),t
state that the number of disorderly persous bre"eNjoe„.
the police-otlice on Monday was 120, but that the.vlot,'„
before last it amounted to 190. Ido not know 10r t,t),
caused this evil in the population, but let us
i;cti
sake do something, if we possibly can, 10 relne-neti
deadly sin which almost seems to call down the pe
lof God upon a corrupted nation. (Hear, hear.