The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-01-27 00:00:00

REFUGE FOR THE DESTITUTE.

Yesterday a meeting of the Subscribers and Friends to this In-
stitution was held at the Committee Room of the Mate Eaten-
batman at HOZIOn.

THUS. FOSTER, Esq. in the Chair.

The CnataMAN commenced the business of the Ray by request-
ing their tivention to the Report of the Committee, which was af•
terwarila read, and contained an interesting statement of their pro-
ceedings during the last six months, and of which the following
are extracts .

The number of females admitted during that period were as
follows :
Convicted, and judgment respited . - 3
Recommended by the Magistrates - 9
Having suffered imprisonment - - 9
Tried and acquitted . - - 1
Persons who had forfeited their character, but were not
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prnsecut. tt
Recommended by the Pri.on Dlscipline Society
Ditto by the Kent Criminal Reform Society -
Ditto by the Surtey Aimociation
Ditto by the Committee -
Ditto by the Guildford Society
.
- - -

- 3
- 6

Total - 69
And the following were discharged within the same period, vie. :
Setts to service - 16
. sent to their parents or friends - - 13
Discharged for nosconeluv . - - 2
Discharged at their own request - - 3
Absconded - . 1

Total . - 31
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Total number admitted during the past year - - —139
The number of males admitted (luting the last six months were
as follows:
Convicted and judgment respited - - . - 3
Having suffered imnrisonment - - 14
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Recommended by the Kent Criminal Reform Society . 3
Ditto by the Surrey Association . - - 3
Ditto by the Ouiluford Society . - - 5
Ditto by the Prison Discipline Society - - - 2
Ditto by the Committee - . . lv

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Total 49

The f allowing were discharged during the same period : '
Apprenticed - . - • 14
...
Sent to their parents or friends -
Sent to employment
Absconded .

12

Total

Most of the females who were sent to service had conducted
themselves extremely well, and particularly seven, who had lived
in their situations upward. of 12 months ; and tire who had since
got tnarried to decent young mee, had sent letters to the Coin-
mittee. l,,•ratethlly thfudti:.g them for the kindness they had
experienced from the Institution, which they said had been the
means of rescuing them from misery and restoring them to so-
ciety; and many of those of whom the Committee had not a
very good opinion at the time of their discharge, hail retrained from
retort:mg to their former evil course of life. There was a much
greater difficulty in procuring employment for males than females,
but those who had obtained employment had in general conducted
themselves well. The Committee lamented that there was a deli-
ciency in the amount of the donations and subscriptions of the
' present. as compared with the past year, ►nd that the balance due
to the Treasurer was very heavy.
An account of the receipts and disbursements of the Society
during the past year was then read, when it appeared that
The latter amounted to - .1:18.7011 1191.
And the former only to . 13,011 34. rid.

£5,649 Be. 34.

AI& !Ilan RI OT. one of the auditors, said he regretted there were
Dot more t.d the Utivernors present, and he believed the reason
was, that many of them had not been summoned. He round
that 1.330/. had been expended in building a new chapel, and
enlarging and repairing the premises. Be wished it had been
done by contract, or at least that a surveyor had been appointed. Be
• iso complained that the medical officers of the establishment resided
at too great a distance. one living in the Grange-road, Berotondser,
and the other in New Bridge-street, Ilhicktriars. In case of any arc-
, cident it was too far to send fur assistance, and in a recent MSe
where a boy broke his arm, they were obliged to call in a surgeon
II immediately, and had afterwards to pay him fur his attendants.
The eapeuses of the establishment altogether appeared to him un-
necessarily . . . - .

Mr. Corm- admitted that the exprnses of the last year had been
very great; but the meeting would recollect that among the items
of expenditure there was 2,3001. for the purchroie of the freehold of
the ground on which the male establishment was erected. The
Committee had endeavoured to proceed with the most rigid eco-
nomy, and it ■ny gentleman could point any mode of lessening
their expenditure, it would meet woth his warmest approbation.
The Rev. Mr. CROSBY, the Secretary to the lnstitiitionoisid
that summonses were sent to till those gentlemen who were in the
habit of attending; but the whole e the subscribers were not sum-
moned, because the postage of the letters would amount to a con.
aiderable sum, and the Society bed no messengers by whom the
letters could be conveyed. . .

Several improvements in the internal management of the Society
,were proposed and adopted.
After which, thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting
alto appointing Thursday, the 16th of February nest, an the day
on which the anniversary dinner should take place, separated.
Our reporter was afterwards conducted over the esteblishment of
Mr. James Ross, the Superintendent, where he found a number of
boys engaged in the venous trades which are taught by the In-
stitution, viz. book-binding, shoe-making, tailoring, &c. &c. In
each room the specimens produced reflected the highest credit not
only on the boys but also on the persons under whose directions
they are taught.
Mr. Rosa informed our reporter that the late Emperor Alex-
ander, dung his visit to thin country, inspected the Establishment,
and signified his intention of fornung a similar one at St. Peters.
burgh. Mr. Roes also informed him, that during the last year,
the Pope had sent two books to the Institution to he bound for
him, and that several of our distinguished Noblemen had their
boots and shoes made there.

Dar ore'. ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday evening last, about
eight o'clock, one of those terrible calamities by the explo-
sion
of fire damp, of kite sa frequent in the collieries of the
neighbourhood of Newcastle, took place at Jarrow Colliery,
near South Shields, in the county of Durham, belonging
to Thomas and Robert Brown, Esqrs. of London, by which
at. men and boys were killed, and some others, who were
at work with diem, much burnt. Forty-five horses and
two asses were also killed in the mine. The explosion took
place in the Bensham pit, recently sunk to the lowest seam,
and the cause will probably remain for ever unknown, as
none are saved who were iu the place where the blast origi-
aated.—Li Arpool Advertiser.

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