The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-08 00:00:00

2. WORKSHOPS FOR TRADES.

In schools situate in the denser parts of great cities,
and intended to attract from the streets vagrant youths
who are there trained in criminal pursuits, or accustomed
to begging and vagrancy, if their Lordships are satis-
fied—

With the site, plan, and specifications ;
And with the regulations for the management of the
workshops, especially as respects the character of the
persons selected as master workmen ; the share the
scholars have in the produce of their labour ; and the
disposal of their work ;
They will, in the case of each application, consider
the propriety of making grants for the erection of work-
shops.
They will also be disposed to contribute towards the
purchase of tools in the first year.
In cases in which it may be desirable, in the first
instance, to avoid the outlay required for the erection of
workshops, their Lordships will entertain applications
for assistance towards the hiring of a suitable building
on the foregoing conditions, so long as the inspector
shall report that the handicrafts are successfully taught
therein.

They will also consider the propriety of granting a
gratuity to the master, for every boy who, in conse-
quence of the skill acquired in the workshop, shall have
become a workman or assistant in any trade or craft,
whereby he is earning his livelihood.
3. SCHOOL• KITCHENS AND 'WASH-HOMES.
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If their Lordships are satisfied
With the site, plan, and specifications ;
With the competency of the schoolmistress to give the
requisite instruction ;
And with the regulations for the management of the
school of industry ;
They will be disposed to make a grant towards the
erection of these buildings.
They will also consider the propriety of granting a
gratuity to the mistress, in every year in which the in-
spectors may report that the girls are successfully in-
structed in domestic economy.
In all cases of applications for grants to establish
schools of industry, it will be required that the schools
shall be subject to inspection, and that the general sys-
tem of instruction shall be found to be in conformity
with the minutes by which the distribution of the Par-
liamentary grant towards the erection of school build-
ings has hitherto been regulated.

NORMAL SCHOOLS FOR TRAINING MASTRRS FOR WORK-
HOUSE SCHOOLS AND FOR PENAL SCHOOLS.
Their Lordships had further under their consideration
the measures required to carry into execution the sug-
gestions of the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment, for the establishment of normal and model
schools to be conducted under his direction, for the
training of masters of schools for pauper and for crimi-
nal children.
Resolved,—That a building be erected for the normal
school, providing accommodation for a principal, vice-
principal, two masters, and for one hundred candidate
teachers.
That it be referred to the Lord President and Secre•
tary of State for the Home Department to cause plans
to be prepared for this purpose.
That, as two years must elapse before this building
can be ready fur occupation, premises be in the mean-
time procured, in which the normal school may be tem-
porarily conducted; and that these premises be situated,
if possible, near some workhouse or other school, which
may serve as a practising school during the interval.
That, in connexion with the normal school, a model
school of industry be erected for the pauper children of
some of the London unions, who may be received into
this school, either on contract by a steward with the
unions, or by letting the building to a district of unions
for the reception of children, under tho direction of a
board of management, according to the provisions of 7
and 8 Victoria, c. 101.
That in connexion with this normal school, but dis-
tinct and separate from the school for pauper children,
a school be erected for criminal children; and that plans
of building for the school of industry for pauper chil-
dren, and for this separate penal school, be prepared and
submitted to the Secretary of State for the Home De
partment.
That it be referred to the Lord President and Sale
tary of State for the Home Department to cause regula-

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