The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-21 00:00:00

80U771 LONDON BHOEDLACK BRIGID&

The third anniversary of the South London or the
Yellow /Moablack Brigade was held yesterday eveuing at St.
George's School-room, Borough-road, Southwark ; the
R*ht Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbury in the chair. Mr.
Cullinson, churchwarden of St George's, Southwark, stated
to the meeting that the South London Society had now been
established thew years. It commenced operations with
twelve destitute Lop, sad it now provided employment and
shelter to forty poor boys. The earnings of those boys during
the pest twelve months amounted to 676 L 16e. Of this sum
SKIL had been paid towards maintaining the boys ; 1061. had
been paid into the savings banks, and the b
107 L, was all that win left for the support :i
the society. The subscriptions received during the past year
amounted to 61. only, and the consequence was that there
wee a debt of 701. or SOL, for which the rector, the Rev. Mr.
Csdman, was personally reeponeible. It was impossible to
estimate the good which these ehoeblack societies did without
knowing the. condition of the boys before they were received
into the institution. When they applied for admission they
were hungry and denitute, but always ragged and miserable.
In a few weeks a great change came over the boys ; they
wars put into a decent uniform they had a comfortable
dormitory provided for them if they had no home to go to,
and they, had • school in which they obtained instruction in
the meting. The noble Chairman meat addressed the meet-
ing, and impressed upon them the al:notate necessity of
making an effort to support those institutions which en-
deavoured to rescue poor childree from the workhouse, the
prison, or the gibbet. The shoeblack societies were indis-
pensably necenary to find employment for the juvenile
population of the metropolis. schools, shocblack
brigades, mothers' meetings, and societies, were a great
feature of the time in which we lived, end there was no per-
son in the community, high or low, rich or poor who could
not lend them some effective rapport. Lord Itedstock, Mr.
M'Oregor, Mr. Paine, the Rev. Mr. Cadman, and other
gentlemen, having addreesed the meeting, the boys were pre-
sented with medals, and, after • vote of thanks to the chair-
man, the proceedinp terminated.

SIR JAMES Baoonn.—Letters received in Norfolk
Mate that Sir Imams Brooke of thuswak is about to visit this
oountry. Borneo ems tranquil.
TIIE SIAMESE ENBASllT.—Nesterday their Excel-
hark. the Siamese Arabaseadors and seta Manned the
adopted sea of the Arse King of
=gm nspfLfilw of osra.ge ehsecoad, Captain Claming, RPI
sad Mr. Fowls, of the Fortign-office, visited the Method
of Mr. Mayan, in Rgentatreet, for the PIIIPOMO of having
a mutes of pictures taken for their Majesties of Siam. The
ambareadors were in thecourt dresses worn on the occasion of
the presentstion to her Majesty at Windeor Cootie. The
of photography Ulnae, to their excellencies, they
= much interested, end went through the operation
with much apparent gusto. Although the weather washy
no manes favourable, Mr. Maysil succeeded in producing a
Ens smite of pictures—both photographic and stereoscopic,

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