The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-08 00:00:00

BOARDING OUT.

The system of boarding out pauper children,
which offers a practical solution of some of
our poor-law perplexities, is now being
tried m earnest. The guardians of the
Carlisle union, are determined to put the
experiment on a definite footing, and have, with the
sanction of the Poor-law Board, framed a code of
regulations, under which the boarding-out plan
is to be tried in their parishes. The
children are to be boarded out, when possible,
with families of their own religious persuasion, and
are to be brought up as members of the family in indus-
trious, frugal, and religious habits. Special atten-
tion is to be given to the formation of habits of truth-
fulness, obedience, cleanliness, and industry, and, if a
girl, the boarded-out child must be trained in
needlework and household work. The children are
to attend 'school until thirteen, and must attend
church or chapel on Sunday. The guardians are to
pay the school fees, provide outfit, pay three
shillings weekly for maintenance, and six and six-
pence quarterly for clothing. Not more than
two children are to be boarded in the
same house. These rules, it will be seen, are not unduly
burdensome, but are necessary for the welfare of
the children, and it may be hoped that the success of
the experiment will serve to diminish the race of our
workhouse-reared paupers.

ANGLING IN THE THAMES.

There are vast numbers of London residents who
really enjoy fishing in the Thames as a sport, and

although many Waltonians (who go down in parties)
sometimes become very noisy and misbehaved, in
consequence of too lavish potations of beer, the, per-
sons who resort to the banks of the river in, the
neighbourhood of Hampton or Chertsey- are generally
intent on their object, and have a successful and
satitifyirig return for the trouble they incur in
journeying there. The prospects of sport on the
Thames are this season, thanks to the Thames
Angling Preservation Society, brighter than ever.
The trout have been allowed to increase, owing to
the manner in which the water has been watched,
and the Thames itself is made to look clearer by the
withdrawal of poisonous emanations from certain
factories. The wanton destruction of fish by gre-
garious fishermen has been well provided against,
and last, not least, the keepers of the angling inns by
the river are determined this year to merit a
character for themselves by keeping the classes of
their clients select and respectable,
TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH IRELAND. ,

The most used of the Irish channel cables, that
between Haverfordwest and Wexford, has again
parted, and although every effort will be made to
repair the line at once, communication with Ireland
will be considerably delayed. Two months since the
cable met with a similar fatality, and the public were
requested to telegraph only subjects of the most
vital import. Such an order causes much disarrange-
ment, especially in commercial matters, and it is to
be hoped that Mr. Scudatnore, having now had two
warnings, will have sufficient cables laid down between
the two countries to prevent a recurrence of these
unpleasant stoppages. The public ought never to be
inconvenienced if possible, or allowed to know that a
slight injury to one • cable, a few miles long, so
staggers the authorities as to necessitate the discon-
tinuance of the usual telegraphic communication be-
tween Great Britain and Ireland.