The National Register.
London, England, 1822-12-30 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

J. Bennett, Worcester, glower. Solicitors, Messrs. Collettand
Co. Chancery Line.
J. S. Radford, Kings.= upon Hull, merebest Csea. Ms.
Knowles. New Inn.
T. tireenwell„ Sunderland, merchant. Sol. Mr. Hewitt,
Tokenhouse Yard.
-C. Allen, Tsvistock Street, Covent Garden, woollen draper.
Sol. Mr. Mercer, ',rimiest's Inn.
W. Batley, Deptford, mercluutt. Sol. Mr. Radford, Horsely-
down Lane.
J. Barnes. Pendleton. Lancashire. brewer. Sole. Mesas.
Hurd and C. Temple.
M., F. S., and W. S. Agard, Borrowaah, Derbyshire, millers.
Sol. Mr. Harbor, Fetter Lane.
H. Manland, ftmdforth cum Baden, Cheshire, cotton menu.
factures. Sul. Mr. Tyler, Temple.
T. Mills, hlilverton, Somerscubire, baker. Sols. Messrs.
Norton and Co. Gray's Inn Square
S. H. liooluetter, Sheffield, merchant. Sol. Mt. Blakelock,
sw.4t's Inn.
r. Hestia. Cushion Court, Broad Street, merchant Sols.
Messrs. Hurd and Co. Temple.
DIVIDENDS.

Dec. 24, W. Law. Copulall Court, 1 hrogrnorton Street, mer..
elianc—Jan. 18, D. G. Stevens. Harlow, Essex, linen draper—
ti, J. Pitatow, junior, Witham, Essex, miller-7, T. Halliday,
South Sea House, Broad Street, merchant—lS, J. Pettit and S.
R. Birch, Southwark, hop factors-14, G. Phillips, Old Brent-
ford, cabinet maker-71, W. Immott. Leicester Square, tailor-
-14, J. Kendall, Mile End, cow keeper-IS, E. Penfold, Maid-
stone. banker-14. E. New, Bristol, banker—lS, D. Buchanan,
S. M. Smith, and P. Ashley, Liverpool, merchants—lS. J. Gray,
Liverpool, merchant-14, K Pratt, Archer Street, Westminster,
ironmonger-Is, S. Youden, Dover, carpenter-21, It. Ketland
and J. Adams. Birmingham, merchants.
CEII'fIFICATES to be granted Jan. 14
H. Goter, Billingsgate, fish salesman—l. Horrocks, Manches-
ter. hawker—P. Marshall, Scarborough, grocer—T. Moore.
Paddington, salt merchant—E. Bolton, Birmingham, victualler
—T. Smith. Hamptonwick, timber merchant.

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SCIIOUL OF INDUS-
TRY AT HOMED, IN RUSS' el.

The ostabliabnient of this institution, for the ignorant and
destitute children of the peasantry of Hume!, in the government
of 31logiloff, was one of those experiments which are considered
as merely visionary schemes, until experience has placed their
practicability beyond a doubt.
On the first iotroduction of the British system of education
into Russia, Mr. Heard, an intelligent schoolmaster, was sent
oat from Eoglaad ; but arriving at Home', the estate of Count
Romanauff, where tl•e first school was to be established, an un-
foreseen obstacle presented itself; not more than 30 or 40
boys could be collected in one village, and the villages were so
distant from each other, as entirely to preclude the possibility
of the children of one village attending the school of another.—
Couet Romansoir being informed that the advantages of the
new system would not be conspicuous in a school of 40 boys,
and that 200 would be necessary to display it to advantage,
was quite at a loss how they were to be collected ; and this
eircenistance ►eemeot for a while to becloud Mr. Heard'. pros
pests of success. Having, in his jimmies through the different
villa;ea of the Count's estate, observed a number of children
'miserably ragged end dirty, begging from door to door, ■ad
biting informed that they were orp'inns who had uo means of
support but by soliciting charity, lie concei►ed the benevolent
plan of rescuing these poor little creatures from misery, igno-
rance, and vice, by the establishment of • school of industry, in
which they might, by their own labour, contribute something
towards their support. This plan was objected to by many, as
beieg impracticable : the chief ohjection urged was, that the
children, being accustomed to a life of vagrant idleness, could
serer be brought to contribute, in any materiel degree,
toward their own support. Bat, fortunately, the two principal
persona of the i lace were of a different opinion, and upon a
proper statement being made to Count Romanzoff and General
Derahine, it was resolved to erect a large building for the se-
commodation of the boys ; and to enclose • considerable piece
of land for • kitchen garden, in they were to labour
during the summer session. The ete.•tintt of the building ne-
cessarily occupied a considerable time, but the Count granted
Mr. Heard the use or the right wing of his owls house, and he
soon collected 50 boy.. from the vilhoges ; the barbarous rude-
ness of their manners corresponded with their miserable ap-
pearance; the generality of them had long fithy hair, swarming
with vermin ; dirty faces, and tattered garments which scarcely
covered their nakedness; no shoes, no stockings ; their looks
marl expressive of hunger and misery. Such were they, and
sue. would they have continued to be: accustomed to • wan-
d, iing, idle, viciuus life, and quite unfit wild! any useful situa-
abon, they would have turned out pests to society, had they
not thus been rearmed from the abyss of misery by the benevo-
lence of their noble master, who raised these miserable orphans
to habits of industry, virtue, and happiness. About a fortnight
afterwards they were all neatly clothed, stud on the 9th of Dec.
ISIS, the school was pehlicly opened and consecrated accord-

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img to the rites of the (.:reek church. The ragged little beggars
were now metamorphosed in.o clean orderly scholars, who
iseetned to pride themselves not a little on their improved ap-
pearance. They bad all by this time learned the alphabet, and
some to write upon slates, and they performed the evolutions
(lithe system to the admiration of the spectators, who began to
be convinced that peasants, though slaves. are human beings.
?dr. Heard's chief object is taking these SO boys under instruc-

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Lion before the school-room was built, was to prepare them to
Ist as monitors, and the rapidity with which they learned wit
truly astonishing. Their escessive natural stupidity had been
urged as a reason fur not attempting to instruct them ; but it
now appeared that human nature is the same iu every country
and in all classes, and that do difference which we observe be•
tween the polished inhabitants of France, England, and
other parts of Europe, and the barbarian, arises principally from
education, habit, and ezainple. Order was soon introduced
into the new institution, and the children arranged into different
el f labour, accoiding to their age and strength ; the
eldest ni the boys were appointed to ha rarpenters, shoemakers,
or smiths, aceordin, to their ow■ choice. while sonic of go