Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-09-15 00:00:00

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our schools in LiverpoOl would be embarassed. The
question of household training and evening schools had

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wson sliniulCZ, ..The result
of the whole as follows : That the present Privy Council
system was a good one, and had been of inestimable
benefit to the country ; but it was desirable so to
modify it as to offer to a rather higher range of
schools the benefits of organisation and inspection,
without offering them money, for they did not
want it ; and it was especially desirable to bring
it down it some more stringent manner to the very edge
of the criminal population. Then, he confessed that all
the papers which had come to-him led to the conclusion
that a system of free schools, resting on local rates
and administered by local boards elected by
payers, would be a very great evil—
the tendency to take the management out of the hands
of those who really care for education, and put it in the
hands of those who would be always :squabbling. But
then, on the other hand, the conclusion seemed equally
clear that, unless there was some provision for
keeping up local information, and pressing local
needs upon the government, and seeing that
local wants were supplied, and the money properly ad-
ministered,—we should never find our poor children
much more educated than they now are. An associa-
tion like the present seemed to him to be the right in-
strument for the purpose. (Applause.)
Mr. GEORGE WELLY was called upon to make a
statement on the subject of a Discharged Prisoners'
Aid Society. A society of the kind in London con-
tinued its labours, and was working more satisfac-
torily than before. The same had happened in Bir-
mingham, but there was a difficulty as to funds.
Wakefield was a new institution, but .doing extremely
well; and one or two other' institutions ha been also
doing well. • Had it not been for the dissolution of
parliament, the whole committee of the London Society,
part of the Birmingham committee, and other friends,
would have been down to have had a conference with
them upon the subject. These societies, so far, were
based upon the gratuitous system. Sometimes a pri-
soner sent for a long period was allowed by extra work
to save money, and if his conduct had been good 1
there might be payable to him a sum of from £3
to £29, -for he had known an instance of
the latter. This was generally made payable
by instalments reaching over six weeks or two months;
but if it were required for the purposes of emigration,
the whole amount was paid at once. For the year end-
ing the last of May, the Discharged Prisoners' Aid So-
cieties had emigrated 300 men or women, and the money
cost to them, owing to the source he had stated, did not
exceed £1 per head. Here, there was no
gratuity, an
it was a complete question of charity; and so long would
it be difficult to raise £lO or £l5 to send a man to
Canada whose only claim was that he had been a thief
in Liverpool, and while in gaol had been an attentive
listener of Mr. Carter. (A laugh.) He had no doubt that
if they held a meeting, funds sufficient might be raised to
send from thirty to fifty prisoners to Canada, and the
letters showed that all sent there had been doing well ;
but at the present time, with the number of claims
which they hal upon them, and so many honest people
to be helped he thought it would be wrong to carry
out the movement. Mr. Melly, with the remark that
their own association was gradually becoming t.t_thpower,
referred to the subject of education, and said at
ragged schools at the present moment should be without
one penny of aid was, he thought, manifestly unjust.
(Applause.) He spoke of the great success achieved by
ragged schools in the town. •

e rate-
that- it would have

-ICir. JEVONS the—n- rose to propose that they should
resolve themselves into an independent society for carry-
ing, out the same objects as the National Association
had i,, ..: - ..

__ argued that the object in view of
g ulfoinlation &c could be best performed, not

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that a reform meeting be held in the Free-trade Hall
about the middle of October ; and that one of the most
efficient lecturers in the country be engaged to deliver
lectures en parliamentary reform in all the towns of Lan-
cashire. It was also decided that information should
be diffused amongst the population of Lancashire
by means of nnhlinnt;,,n. A

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with decided an-

Jval, that a great reform banquet should be held
in the Free-trade Hall, in January next, prior to the
meeting of parliament, and that all the liberal mem-
- I bers of the House of Commons should be invited to
r remunera; it. I; is stated that the reformers intend that this

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tew (lays ago? a man giving himself out to be the hetla
iloai:dman or groom to Sir C. 13. Phipps, was at Inver
Inn, trying to buy a pony for Sir Charles, when a cattle
and horse dealer from Kintore, of Abergeldie, happened
to be passing on his way home from Castletown of
Braemar. On seeing the man find fault with the pony
he was in the act of buying, he informed the groom to
Sir Charles Phipps that he bad got threeponies to dispose
of, and he was sure they would suit, only he would have
to go to the grass park and see them. The dealer,
thinking he had now a chance to dispose of his steeds to
advantage, treated the supposed groom to plenty of
"heilan whiskey," and off both parties set for the grass
field. As it happened, the groom got fearfully drunk on the
way, but got on the dealer's horse and rode to the grass
park, and, of course, the ponies suited to a nicety. Tell-
ing the dealer how to behave in selling, they reached
the house of the latter, when, instead of, the groom get-
tin" sober he was still getting, drunker, and, of course,
cord not appear before Sir Charles in such a state. lie
would not like to trouble the mistress, but would take a
bed for a few hours, which was granted. He and his

new friend went both to the same bed ; but upon the
dealer falling asleep, the groom
.get very soon " fresh"
enough to rise unheard by any in the house, and carry
off the other's watch from the top of his bed, also his
coat and vest and a pair of shoes, leaving the horse-
dealer to get up in the morning to find that he was not
only " done," but had kilt his assistance to the decamped
groom to carry out his intentiona.—Aberdeen Herald.
ELOPEMENT FROM THE SULTAN'S HAREM.—It has
been stated that the master of the Sultan's band, an
Italian, has arrived at Geneva with his wife, a beautiful
Circassian. According to a letter from Constantinople,
this female, whose name is Sersafras Hanum, was for
some time in the harem of the Sultan, and was one of