The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-03 00:00:00

E V N LNG EDITION

LICENSED VICTUALLERS'

SCHOOL.

The very interesting ceremony attendant upon the ad-
mission of the 40 children who had been last month elected
to be inmates of this admirable Institution, took place
on Tuesday, at the School-house, Kennington-lane.
At three o'clock, a large number of the friends of the
suesreaful candidates and of the Society, all of whom
took a very lively interest in the proceedings, assem-
bled in the boys' school-room, and immediately after-
wards the children in the establishment were assem-
bled there—the twenty boys and twenty girls who
had been recently elected being placed in the front.
The Governor, Mr. Reader, accompanied by the
Trustees and Committee, then entered the apartment,
and

The GOVERNOR, addressing the assembly, said—La-
dies and Gentlemen, I beg sincerely to congratulate the
friends of the children who, at the last election, were
chosen to become the inmates of this establishment ;
and, in stating this, I feel assured that in seeing these
children to-day before us, the circumstances which have
placed them there are as much a subject of gratification
to the Committee as they can be to yourselves.—( Hear.)
The objects of this charity are so well known to you all,
that little has been left to me to say upon this subject.
You are all aware that the children fostered by this es-
tablishment are with the most zealous care protected and
educated, and it must be a matter of the highest gratifi-
cation to all who are interested in the happiness of those
children who tosday have been fortunate enough to
be admitted as inmates of this school, that they have
been She successful candidates.—( Hear, hear.) It
would have been most satieactory to me if all who pre-
sented themselves could have been admitted. This,
'however, was impossible, and I can only hope that those
who have been lately unsuccessful may be admitted
neat year.—(Hear, hear.) Ladies and Gentlemen, you
now see around you all the children protected by this
Institution. It is gratifying to reflect that many of
them are about to leave the establishment after having
derived from it all the benefits that could be bestowed
by it upon them during the period for which they have
been protected here, and I heartily hope that, when they
do leave the school, from the education they bavereceived,
and the principles which have been inculcated upon their
minds, they may all become good and prosperous members
of society.—(Hear.) I have known many instances in
which children who were educated in this school have oc-
cupied afterwards most respectable situations, and become
tradesmen well off in the world. I have known many
such, and have still the pleasure of the acquaintance
of many such—and I feel it always a source of great
pleasure to be in the company of those who, having
been children educated in this school, are now pros-
perous and respected members of society; and I sin-
cerely trust that every child educated here may live
to fill a similar position.—(Hear, hear.) Many of
those to whom I have alluded arc now life subscribers
to this Institution.—( Hear, hear.) And it cannot
fail to be satisfactory to all who are connected with it
to learn that this is the fact—(Hear, hear)—and to
think that those individuals have so appreciated the
benefits and advantages of the Institution in which
they have been educated, that they willingly and
anxiously " put their hands in the pockets" to aid the
means by which it is maintained. I hope, then, Ladies
and Gentlemen, that the children who are now about
to leave the school—and they are many—may endea-
vour to preserve the character which the education
they have received has tended to promote, in whatever
situations they may be placed, and I trust also that
when they have left their present home, to occupy
those situations, they may reflect credit upon and look
with gratitude to this Institution ; and that they may
never regret that they have been brought up in it.—
( Hear.) I hope also, Ladies and Gentlemen, that
the children woo are now before you, as well those
who have been for sonic time here, as those who to
day have been admitted, may pay such regard to their
master and mistress as will tend to the happiness that
must result to them, if they attend to their advice and
instruction.—( Hear, hear.) Let me hope also (address-
ing the children) that none of you will ever be guilty of
telling an untruth—always tell the truth, be the con-
sequences what they may, and you will never re-
gret it. Never take from another that which does
not belong to you, for this will inevitably lead to that
system of misconduct which has produced the worst
members of society.—(Hear, hear.) To you, children,
who have been admitted to-day, I feel pride and plea-
sure in addressing myself. I trust that you will pay
strict attention to the instructions of those to whose
superiatendence you are entrusted ; and I feel satisfied
at the same time, that the gentlemen who compose the
Committee will do all that is possible to contribute to
your present comfort and to the prosperity of your
future lives.—( Hear.) lam happy to announce that in
the present year as in the last, we have been enabled to
admit 40 children to the school, who make the entire
number now in the establishment 170 children.—(Hear
and cheers.) This is a larger number than could be
enumerated at any former period—( Hear)—and I trust,
therefore, that all who are here present will endeavour,
by every means within their power, to persuade such of
their friends as have not yet subscribed to it, to support
this institution—(Hear,hear)--tor if all of you knew,as
I do, the good it has done and the benefits it daily con-
fers, I am satisfied there is no one who would hesitate a
moment in coining forward cheeeully and handsomely to
support an institution so useful as this must be acknow-
ledged to be.—(Hear, hear.) By such means 1 hape—
as I have before stated—that we any be enabled next
year to admit all the children ,who may present them-
selves, without an election.—(Hear, hear.) lam sorry
I have detained you so long.—( No, no.) I shall, how-
ever, conclude with this remark, I am eatisfi d that when
the friends of the children te-day admitted return
home, they will do so with the conviction that they
leave them possessed of all the comfort and happiness
they could wish for, and with every reason to thank
their benefactors for their kindness and attention from
the moment they have entered the school to that in
which they may leave it.—( Hear.) I have also to hope
that the friends of the children will pay strict attention
to the rules and regulations under which they have
been admitted, and that they will not ask for their ab-
sence from the school unless in cases of the sickness or
death of their relatives. Upon the regularity with
which the school is conducted depends its
success, and I trust, therefore, that no person will
attempt to infringe upon the rules which have
le-cn estaidished for its direction.—CHear, hear, bear.)
I now beg to bid fart:we] to the parents of the children
who have teen to-day admitted, wishing to them every
happiness, end assuring them that whenever they may
visit the school they will find their children in such a
state as cannot fail to afford them the greatest pleasure.
—('Hear, hear.) The Governor concluded by stating,
that as so delightful an occasion as the present could ne•
rr again occur to him, he would present ail the children
in the school with a fourpenny-piece each.—(Hear, and
cheers.)

The' children accordingly clme up in succession to
the Governor's chair, and each was presented by him
with the promised gratuity.
The children next sang their last anniversary hymn
in a very affecting and impressive manner, after which
the boys gave three times three hearty cheers and one
cheer more, and the assembly then separated.

DEAFNESS AND DEFECTIVE VISION.—At
length these dreadful maladies arc completely obviated,
without torture end serious risk by medical treatment.
The Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Opticians and Aurists
to their Majesties the King alai Queen of Hanover, and
their Royal Highnesses the Prinusses Augusta and Sophia,
&c. &c., have constructed a Voice-Conductor, and newly-
invented Spectacle Lenses, which will be found in most ex-
treme cases to effect instant relief. It is seldom or ever
That an invention of striking merit is laid before the
public that ignorant pretenders do not start forth ;
in RO ea.e is this more observable than in Leland as well as
England, by persons who not only assume the name of So-
lomons, but actually as having a connection with thtir
house. Numerous ladies and gentlemen are daily
calling who have been misled by these pretenders, and
who have made purchases of their spurious imitations,
which they term Voice t !,,nductera and Spectacle a,
suilposing them to be the Messrs. Solomons' inventio
not only proved to be useless but productive of very
ill efficts. The Messrs. Solomons do not employ any agents
or travellers—their improvements in the materials are secrets
to themselves, and are solely co,fincd to their e,tablish-
scent, Albemarle-strett and 96, Cheapsidfa.
THE v! D
, ikONIANCE OF PRIVATE LIFE. BY
hes Buituirr.—The absolute truth and singular force
stud spirit
novel which characterise the details of this admira-
bleskill which theare rendered doubly effective by the happy
writer has evinced in the construction and
management of her plot. We have nothing in our wildest
&Orions more exciting the curiosity ; while the minute
truth of details by
the story is worked out gives
an air and effect of reality tuld
o the whole, for the absence
of which no ether quality could
compensate. fallen Miss Bur-
ney has, in fact, scarcely
short her celebrated
relative in the troth of her
ite nse consecutive
sustained by
delineations of actual life,
while site has surpassed her in
that
s
interest which is only to he excelledn and
the skilful development of a carefully digested aplot.
ANECDOTE OF DANIEL WEBSTER.—.A few
years since Mr. Webster was near his grounds and close
to the bank of a small stream. The showers had been
old
man and this river was full to the brim.
Webster
man came along on foot, and meeting N
without knowing him, inquired the way to a certain
house in tote vicinity. Mr. Webster told him that he
must brake a path which led across the stream. The old
man remarked that the river apperred to be deep, and
asked if theca was no other way of reaching the place
of his destination. Being informed that there was no
other, he seemed to be in some anxiety, when Mr. Web-
ster offered to carry him over. After some parley this
offer was accepted, and, mounting a pair of broad
slsoulders, the old man rode safely across the stream on
Daniel Webster's back. But there was nothing in the
circumstance which seemed to strike him as peculiar,
save the good nature of the act ; and in this way he
mentioned it at the place he was going to. The story
led to some inquiries, and the old -mansoon learnt who
it was that, ai a friend in need, had been a friend in-
deed.--Vein York Evangelist,