The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-02 00:00:00

RAGGED SCHOOL

Yesterday the fifth annual meeting of the Lamb
and Flag Rigged School was held at the Parochial School
Room, Amwell-strest, Pentonville; the Right Rev. the
Bishop of NORWICH in the shah. A number of children
belonging to these schools were seated on benches behind
the chair. The business of the meeting was opened by
prayer, which was followed by • hymn from the children.
The meeting was very largely attends d.
To. Right Rev. CHAIRMAN observed that he could not
but allude to the auspicious event of that day in the birth of •
prince, who he hoped when he grew up would become the
patron of the institution of ragged schools, and thus cement
that union which he trusted would always exist between the
Sovereign and the poorest of her subjects. He was fully
aware of the importance of thi as schwas to the class
for which they were designed, as he was convinced that
they would accomplish the great object they have in
view, which was to raise the moral character of the
children who attended these institutions. He was
happy to be informed that an infant and adult *vexing
school were also established, which he had been assured had
fully answered the expectations of the promoters of them.
HU lordship read a letter which had been received from the
mother of three children who went to the ragged school,
and in it she expressed her acknowledgment to the teachers
for the great moral and intellectual improvement that had
been effected in her children by the discipline of the scheol.
She observed that she could not punish her children more
than by keeping them away from the school. The right rev.
prelate stated that the most encouraging reports were given of
the progress of the schools, which was an answer to the
charges that had been made against these institutions. His
lordship concluded by observing that the parents were in-
debted to the teachers for the improvement of their children.
The SECRETARY then read the report, " which would
be found at least as favourable as any of its predecessors."
The report then went on to state the great benefits which
ragged schools were likely to confer on society, and to regret
that they had not received that support and sym-
pathy from the public which they so much
deemed. " That want of sympathy," Paid the report,
has been most powerfully alluded to by the Daily News,
whose columns are always open to the cause of ragged
schools. (Hear, hear.) There were on the books of the
day school, during the past year, 193 boys and 178 girls.total
371: the average daily attendance was 148. Of these 181
could read well the Old sad New Testament ; the remainder
could read a little. Forty could write well on copy books,
and 96 could write well on elates; 82 understood common
arithmetic, 35 girls could sew well, and 60 were learning to
sew. Upwards of 120 garments were made in the schools
during the past year. The average daily attendance in the
infant school was 70. The average attendance in the Sunday
school was 146, and the number on the books 296 boys and girls.
The avenge attendance in the evening school was 81 ; the
number on the books, male and female, was 152. Of these
62 could road with various degrees of proficiency, but the
success dike evening school was much unpaired for want of
teachers. During the year there was an attendants, in all
the schools of 888, giving an average attendance of 435,
being an increase of 150 upon the last return. The clothing
fund stood as follows : deposits received from 165 depositors
since the commencement, 441. 10s. lid. ; bonus of 4d. in the
shilling added by the omen tee, 121. 4.. Bd. ; total,
661. 14s. 91d. The whole of this cam was applied to the
purposes of clothing under the care of the la-
dies committee, and the working of the clothing
fund showed that It generated habits of econom.
The committee stated that they " felt indebted to the Daily
News for the (avowable notice taken of the schools, and to
the editors of the Daily News and Morning Advertiser
they are still more indebted for a gratuitous publication in
their advertising columns of nearly the whole of the report
0(1848." The committee, in contusion, stated that they
challenged the writers of certain letters in the Morning
Chronicle, who designated ragged 'shoots as " nurseries for
crime," to test the of that statement by a rigid in-
enction of the schools. The Rev. Mr. Wild moved, and the
Rev. Mr. Faulkner seconded, the adoption of the report,
which was agreed to. Mr. J. Payne mend • reeelution to
the Whet that ngged schools had man than realised the
expestadmis of their promoters, and that they would be real
=to the poor. The repolutioa was adopted, and other
were agreed to in support of the objects. Se-
nna esnleibutioas were received and thanks were voted to
by Meek*

the finaselal statement read to the meeting, it ap-
peared that the gross theme of the moiety during the year
was 104,2731.6.. 10d., of which 94,4001.10 x. Ild. WY raised
ia the United Kingdom, and 9,8721.16 e. lid. raised and ex-
p Med in India ; being an increase over the gross theme of
last year of 3,2691. 18.. sd. The expenditure was, on ao-
count of the general .x of the society at home and
abroad, exclusive of and local funds, 79,9791. 12s. Id.;
said on amount of sand
missionaries, itc. (being the
mess of disharesments over receipts), 3,7391. 10s. ld.,
makiag legether 83,7101. 9s. 2d. no report stated that
them wen in all 147 clergymen engsfted by the society, and
that there were attendants on UMftisa worship ia the
eeekstre aimless 107,000 parser, se whim 13,661 were
menammiseate; sad the number of deka. Nader Christian
of the pest m her eths amber of
tiemalistll23.oo6Thiria,the lowan fa the member of
semmsaimete 613. neeslnsisme in emblems, ewes eldest, FIALD-LANE RAGGED SCHOOL.-Last evening the
et the meads( having beempeepesed sadeenial, sad emsral eighth annual meeting of persons interested in this ragged
timeless made in Nippon of the etwiety, the easeelag Wheel amembled in the school-room, which is situate in the
separated. case melds= West-street, Field-lane. Lord Ashley, M.P.,
• presided, sad, in the course of an elaborate opening address,
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the annual meeting of the Mends and supporters of MG 17rmam''''''ima,,,, mint this thes of school, ia a coma.
society was held at the Hanover-wears Rooms. Mr. J. P. in immatimam -Irs'ommado, that not ass rue had been
Planar, M.e.L. la the chair. The report stated that, sehodwerkeed against them, but that they had been tried by
ii.itheld illiweetrtiowathwithe tliorialiewootattifsaa".2.",„ltla • sisioass othadard of perfection. Their antagonists had
- Din- -2..--yea- - ---onkii.a— —;-i..1,....A..------ -,.--.!..7:,6„"'"'"""'" ciaiwnd Ise them, in fact, • thomand times more than their
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- " miliz...."- --who'ishe,,,wd sessw„,.l7."-"'"'"'"",,,,.1.. orldisiefore had ever pretended. They had claimed patte-
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lesefthesitaan twelve &kith -missies. tela that it they saved 10' out of a 100, they ought to oice
—2,o=l;tl tion. • faultless lane whereas he had always contended
the Ludo-British papillae., emulating of the elimpriag of that they ha, bees awed to such a work. (Chews.) When
hiterelelelegeseiii thehilleemseeetww,bee care. Is aillli
„1..,,,,nia115a were they .odd red the wild and lawless race with whom
the
"este 4 - and --- Mad.. ""'"'" """" they had to eontead, sad the social and moral evils that
numbered 16,000, see miseloaary sad ISO eatealtiet beset their path, contrasted with the means at their dis-
were employed swag them. At the Gamut soUsi- boom to °ammo with those glgeatle evils, they ought to
talks of the Raw of Welled% a ealeshia had review.- the past, sad, instead of being downcast, to thank
both mat oat OS NNW et Hoeg Zang be the pawn of find, sad tithe enrage. (Chem.) Mr. Ware, the secretary,
visiting the British mikes tregmatig the Camas river. Mai; nag the report, which was generally of a cheering
spiritual object fleflies_mk4j "I =lda Lll•_„___laalal at. cheesener. lime the Ist of May last year 320 children had
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-8 ''''-'"'" '"' ""' """ °"`""""""'""_. OaMelie 'shoo* 24 fir superior 'Protestant schools, 10 for
weeld ellesewise have been amebas& le ementiemeeet denams, 32 for dormitories or other places of refuge, 8
the diSsebed seals of the senelasat la INS. Tin welly bed eadawded, sod 9 had died. In oweoexios with the
ales employed a sateshist fa Paris ler the basset of the rigaigThrsiiii. whim woe termed a 0 wane salmi... had
riglig 06••• of Blida latOele liai_V_
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bum of OD •••1•47 4•0•111 11•11 rot °me" " the soloales. he remainder of the report was made up of
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the ammeal eabserlptimm is erlehlt dare had bees ea la- their ..., nete___. , ____,_,_...._,__ ~._
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imam The MOW, was oddineesd by the Hos. Arthur amou'aZl7o mg. 134'.'"nrwartd"717:•croca• liru'rel:
EimekA, the Bev. J. 0. Ryle, end other elernyinen sad 4171. 18e. W. learleg • russet Lessee of 351. iii,-. 61d. On
Plaelima, and alealadaaa in ho6"°o of aka °in" the motion lei.
Kr. J. A. Smith, M.
the report was agreed
the nasty were adopted. , to. Mr. Cowan, ll P., Mr. Cu
sal other gentlemen,
Mall! CHURCH.—The vim:, the Rev. W. Miakell; subsequeatl addressed the meeting iii support of a aeries of
has left the pariah for three months, having obtained leave meantime nom the report, whisk were speed to ;
of abeam from the bishop. In the tetanal, the Bev. Mr. and, alter • vote of thanks to the Mangan, the meeting
Doseille, bit mete, odielatee.- We Luminary. mparand.

KANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.
MANCHSTER, Nov 1.
The town council of this borough were engaged,
at their gauntly meeting today, in discussion upon two
questions which have an Interest bee ond the teen limits of
the borough—police efliedeney, sad employment of prisoners
—and a few facts which came out in the course of the ro-
ceedisp may be worthy of a place is your columns. The
lice fora of this borough has been established and brought
into a high state of eMeiency under the vigilant and wove
superintenienos of the watch commit!'" of the town
°pencil, but during the riots and threatened dis-
turbances by the chartists 11 1848, an increase
of numbers having taken place, an effort has
been making by the banner of several wards in the
borough, through memorials and other representations of
the council, to get the number of the police reduced. As in
the augmentations which have been made from time to thus
of oar naval and military fortes when foreign aggressions
have seemed imminent, it is no easy matter, however, to
bring about reduction when the cause for increase has pawed
away. The question has drawn from the watch committee,
and from Capt. Willie (the chief constable) two elaborate end
rather interesting reports to the council, which were pre-
sented this morning. The report dwells upon the neeessity for
a proper security for person and property, and the committee
say they " cannot but believe that cousiderable surprise will
be experienced by many who have not previously inquired
into the subject, when they find that for this vast
' end important borough embracing en area of 8 2.3
mile", and • population of upwards of 300,000 inha-
bitants, there are really on duty during the day, seldom
more, and often much fewer, than 40 men." The report
goes on to say that " there is en important table in the report
of the chief constable, from which it appears that nearly
double the number of person, are apprehended for offences
committed during the day than are committed during the
night ;" and that " this tact suggests the inquiry whether
the increase of crime—which appears to be in the
same proportion as the diminution in the number
of constables on duty—does not arise from the compara-
tive want of inspection and protection during the
day as compared with the night ?" The whole police
force of the borough, it appear', consists of 446 parsons,
which are divided into • night and day police;
and to show the necessity which exists for a large
force rather than a smaller, the committee say " If any evi-
dence were en; i.ired to satisfy the most sceptical, it will be
found in the miming fact that during the past month there
have bees in the A Division alone Let fewer than 201 sepa-
rate applications for the special service of the police, requir-
ing the attendance of 360 men; and that daring the same
period there have been at the several stations throughout the
borough not fewer than 469 such applications, which would
require the assistance of not fewer than 741 c notables."
The chief constable's return shows a considerable deposes,
both in offences and offenders, during the past year. In
prisoners there is • diminution of 1,690 person', equal to 26.3
per cent.; and in the number committed for trial there is a
diminution of 175, or 21.2 per cent. The number of persons
apprehended in the last ear was 4,687 ; discharged, 1,726
summarily convic'ed, 234; committed for trial, 660; tried
and convicted, 627.
The coat of the police during the last year, including 22
supernumeraries, amounted to 26,9271., or 671. Bs. 3d per
head, which is • very low go rate of expenditure.
The presentation of a report on the completion of the new
borough gaol, drew forth • remonstrance from Mr. Coun-
cillor Heywood that a description of crank wheel had been
introduced, at which the prisoners were set to work without
producing anything useful, and without their being enabled
to earn anything towards the expense of their keep. It
appeared, however, from the statement of Mr. Adahead,
that though the working of this wheel (which by an icge-
Diong contrivance may be adapted to the personal strength
of the prisoners, and to record, the number of revolutions
made upon it), does not prove directly remunerative, it is
indirectly so, for it induces a great number of profligate cha-
racters who prefer the gaol to the workhouse to keep
clear of the prisons in which the wheels are need.
Alderman Neild stated that it was found scores of men left
the workhouse in this union and committed offenct 1 to get
into prison, because they preferred the treatment and food
they got in the gaol; and Mr. Councillor Ashmore told a
story of a man now in the Manchester new gaol who said
the work at this wheel had reduced his weight 14 lbs., and
who threatened that so soon as he bad served his time,
he would remove himself and family from such an inhuman
neighbourhood!