The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-05-23 00:00:00

CLERGY ORPHAN SOCIETY.

A public examination of the poor Orp!•ans who are clothed, roil.
teit.ed, and talucated. by the lrcorporated Clergy Orphan Sods's,
tock place yeverday at the School-house, St. John's4ravt.
Alarylebone, before his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Bishops of London, Bath and Wells, Chichester. Leadoff,
A•atill, Chester, l.inooln, and Gloucester; Lord Kenyon, V.P.:
the Dean of Peterborough, and several other Dignitaries s-1
Clermen of the Church of England. There were also -mem
the Viscountess Crernotne, Lady Elizabeth Robinson, and [CV
other ladies of high rnnk.
The girls were first examined at considerable length as to the:
proficiency in the knowledge of the Scriptures, and oho of tie
ptinc.ples of English grammar, arithmetic, geography, vi
history ; and it was most gratifying to listen to the ready and a•.
rect answers given to all the questions that were proposed Water,
the full purport of which, it was obvious by their explanatioas,ten
perfectly comprehended.
Two boys were next examined, and they in general displard is
intimate knowledge of those subjects which usually corstime is
English education. They likewise showed that great attee'in
had been paid to their classical studies by the corrertnm sty
whith they read and construed parts of Virgil's /E.icid, and lOU
of the Odes or Horace.

His Grace the Atclibishop of CANTERBURY expresoed his&
tire salmi-action at the manner in which the children had acquitod
themselves. and addressed the Rev. Thos. Warton, 3laster,
Miss Jones, Mistress. in terms of high approbation of them
care and attention which it was evident they had bestowed on thot
rests( naive pupils, whose acmiisitions, his Grace was pleased tout,
retie ted the highest eredit on them both.

A Society was established, under •royal charter, in thereir of
King Charl. a the Setainti, hearing the title of " The Corpora ins
for the Relief of Poor Widows and Children of Clergymen." Its
revenues are applied to the support of widows and maiden daughttn
abr ve forty.tive years of age, and also towards apprenticirg the
children of clergymen. But the funds of this Corporatien beixx
restricted to the relief of the particular objects of its bounty, di
not furnish the means of rescuing the younger orphans of dm
CI 'rgy from the evils of poverty and a neglected education.
On this account, in 1710, tome benevolent individuals formed
themselves into a Society for this specific purpose ; and in thyme
18119 it was incorporated by the title of •• The Governors of the
Society for clething, maintaining, and educating Poor Orphans of
Clergymen cf the Est thlished Church, in that part of the rnited
Kingdom called England. until of age to be put apprentice."
To show the necessity of such an establishment, it will be sull.
cient to state that the Clergy of England and Riles amount to
more than 10.000. The income of a large proportion of this aura.
ber, probably of one-half, is such, that, though managed with the
greatest prudence, it cannot afford the means of making a provision
for the contingency of an orphan family. It happens also, not ea.
frevettly, that the father, after having been placed in I siturion
which might have enabled him to acme plish this most desirable
object, is snatched away from his children by a premature death.
1) wrens must therefore often unavoidably result frion these causes;
and that will surely be deemed a most useful and laudable charity,
which provides for the maintenance and education of orphans, de.
prived of the parent, whose professional income was their chief, and
perhaps their sole support and stay.
The schools instituted for this purpose subsisted for several years
at Acton, and Lisson-green upon a smaller scale. In theme
1812, a spacious building, calculated for the reception of Oda
dren, was erected by subscription, in a healthy situation nest the
11-gent's Park, filar ylebone.
'1 he schools for the male and female orphans are thus brought
together for the purpose of being mare effectually superintended by
the Committee ; but they are still, as they were originally, eats.
I Itslimrrts in all respects distinct and separate. The education is
conducted upon the National System.
No institution can prefer a stronger claim to general support iron
the I dm& of the Established Church in every part of h:ngised.
For it Is not of a local but of a general nature ; it does not select
its objects (rum the metropolis, or its vicinity ; but, as far as !It
means extend, it takes under its protection the orphans of the Clergy
wherever they may be found.

• To this Corporation, the " Clergy Orphan Society" is edit
the most important obligations, for the aid uniformly extended to
its children, towards putting them apprentice on leasing thfrwitooli
of the Society with a good character.

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Yesterday the despatches were clued at the East India
Heuse, and delivered to the pursers of the following whim
viz., Lady Raffles and Abherton, for Madras and Bengal.
Willia:n Jones, who hatl been ordered for execution on
Tuesday last, but was respited for a week, has been further
respited until the last dav of June.
S•JUREY SESSlONS.—Yesterday these Sessions com-
menced by adjournment, at liorseriongcr-lane. before Itnarrr
HEDGER, Esq. Chairman, and a tull land) of Magistrates. N.O
thing of avy importance occurred.
The venerable Dr. Duncan, of Edinburgh, we theme
from a Scottish newspaner, continue, his annual custom of climbing
to eae top of Arthur Seat on the morning of the Ist of May. 11
gives an interering account of this pious romance of old age, en
the preceding Monday, when the worthy doctor performed his riL
grimage in his Ll2l year—recited wow lines of Lis own comPeNllo
to a juvenile auditory, including several of his own grand children
—and caused them to sing a hymn of thanksgiving to the grest
Creator, who had graciously orolunril his life and faculties to this
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uncommon
On Monday last, a man named Stns, a carpenter, Tw
biding in the Forest. at Killerton, the seat of Sir T. Miami. BS"'
was engaged with others in g a tree, after sawing it through,
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and when in the act of falling, the hrar cher' caught a lso*"'.
and held fast ; Sims, contrary to the advice of those Present! Ith.
cendtd to clear it, in which he succeeded, but st as struck so trio•
lently on the head during the descent, by a limb that was above
him, as to occasion his dumb in about an hour from the time tithe
treident. Verdict_" Accidental Death." The deceased was a
steady man. had been several years in the service ul sir Thomas,
and has left a widow and three children.
The inhabitants of Bishop's Waltham were put into a
state of some alarm on Tuesday aftermwm lam, by the violent con-
duct of part of a detachment of the hist regiment, on route to Ports'
mouth, for embarkation to Halifax. It appears Olt overact( the
soldiers (chiefly lriahmen and Roman Catholics) were quartered at
the Wheat Sheaf Inn, where a party was assembled, cocrtY4nak'
ing, some of whom had orange and blue tibbone in their hats,
which they wore as members of a benefit society, that bad walked
in procession the preceding day ; the orange ribbons gave OFCCeet
it seems, to the Irishmen, who from ill language proceeded to
blows, by which a considerable riot and disturbance was created,
and two or three persons and one soldier were in consequence ['ouch
irjured by the blows they received. The disturbance had now as-
sumed a most serious aspect, as the soldiers, who were become quite
Infuriated, and had been joined by others of their comrades., vallit'd
into the street, and proceeded to clear it by
throw ing stones in ctrldirection, when luckily Capt. Pratt, and the other officers in charge
of the detachment, urn red on the spot, and by their meritorious en-
ennuis, though not without considerable difficulty, succeeded in
quelling the disturbance and restoring tranquillity. Four of the
soldiers, we understand, are confined in Gosport barracks, to smut
the punishment which their conduct deserves.

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