The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-03 00:00:00

CORNER of TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD
and EUSTON-ROAD.

BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE.

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LONDON.
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NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK o
ENGLAND.
11 ? BISHOPSGATE-STREBT,
London, May 31, 1870.

Notice is hereby given, That an Extraordinary General Meeting
of the Proprietors of the National Provincial Bank of England
will be held on the 30th day of June next, at 112, Bishopsgate-
street, in the City of London, at 12 o'clock precisely (and not 12
for 1 o'clock), for the purpose of electing a Director in the place
of William James Maxwell, Esq., deceased; and also for the pur-
pose of considering the Resolution unanimously passed at the last
Annual General Meeting of the Proprietors, recommending, on
account of the great increase which has taken place in the busi-
ness of the Bank and in the profits of the shareholders, that an
addition of £2,200 per annum should be made to the annual re-
muneration of the Directors, and passing such Resolutions as to
altering the present remuneration of the Directors as such Extra-
ordinary General Meeting may determine upon.

E. ATSI-NSONI Joint General Managers.
W. HOLT,

JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder;
gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay,
and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d.—
Bed Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames street, London.

Lord MACAULAY'S terrible words descriptive of
the pauperism of England—" Heathens in the midst
of Christianity, and Savages in the midst of
Civili-
zation"—have unconsciously furnished the text of
the impressive discourse just now addressed to the
whole community by Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN. The
force of logic brought to bear upon his argument i 8
simply irresistible. Reading it, as of course he will
read it, or rather has already read it, Mr. GOSCHEN
might with reason exclaim in the saddest of all the
melancholy words uttered by Hamlet—
sss. I
" The time is out of joint ; 0 cursed spite !

• That ever I was born to set it right."
• In London, upon an average, 150,000 paupers—as
many as would make the population of a whole city
-in other countries. In London, not far short of
2,000 vagrants—about as many as there have been
years since the fonnding upon earth of Christianity.
In London from £4,000,000 to £7,000,000 spent an-
nually in public and private charities. In London
150,000 children living in the midst of destitution
—lOO,OOO of them littered about the streets, gra-
duating for the goals and the gallows. A world of
misery, of squalor, of utter and altogether hopeless
wretchedness, under all the roaring life and dazzling
wealth of this vast capital of ours " the metropolis,"
as Sir CHARLES describes it, " not only of the United
Kingdom, but also of an empire upon which the sun
never sets, including the vassal continent of India,
itself an empire." The magnitude of this stupendous
gathering together of human beings upon one spot 'a
province of houses," as it has, before now, been well
called—Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN realises to us all
anew very strikingly where he observes—" The popu-
lation of London is as large as the.aggregate popula-
tion of the three next largest European cities—Paris,
Vienna, and Berlin, and it closely approximates to
that of Scotland, is nearly equal to the population of
Holland, and is not quite three times greater than
that of Wales." It is with the Pauperism of this
unparalleled capital that our system of Poor-Law
Relief is still most confusedly and most ineffectually
dealing : as it has been ever since the days of Queen
ELIZABETH, when, for the first time in English His-
tory, a Poor Law was ever heard of—the buttery
hatch of the monastic establishments, scattered
up and down the country, relieving, until then,
the wants and miseries of the population. Having to
take heed, now, here, in London alone, of from 1,000
to 2,000 vagrants, and of from 140,000 to 170,000
paupers, habitually, the executive or administrative
departments have hitherto failed, most deplorably
to deal effectively with an evil devolving upon them
officers an apparently overwhelming and, at this
moment, an almost paralysing weight of responsibi-
lities. Is it really hopeless, then, to dream of this
monster evil being at last grappled with effectually ? •
Much was looked for from Mr. GOSCIIEN, when he
was first placed at the head of the Poor Law Board
as its President. How far have those hopes been, se
yet, in any w ay justified ?

If ever there was an establishment which might
write " Nil Desperandum " over its portals it is
certainly the asylum at Redhill. Idiocy is at once
the most deplorable and the most seemingly hope-
less of human calamities, and it is 110 great wonder
that in earlier and less enterprising generations men
despaired of mitigating its intensity. So painful is
the spectacle of the uncouth idiot or imbecile, so
ja, ring the discordant cry Jr senseless chatter, so

distressing the association with a being often far
below tha animal creation in intelligence and appre-
hension, that men of sensitive feelings and refined
sympathies naturally shrunk from them. They were
left to the charge of the rough, the unfeeling, the

indifferent, those who were least conscious of their
deficiencies, and, therefore, least able to supply them.
Much as we boast of the progress of modern civilisa-
tion, it is only very recently that the treatment of

the insane and the imbecile has ceased to be
a disgrace to us. That it has so ceased,
that the invincible power of gentleness and
kindness, the unerring instinct of that sympathy
which outstrips all acquired knowledge, have received
so remarkable an illustration, is mainly due to the
exertions and the self-devotion of one man, the late
Dr. ANDREW REED. It is a lesson for selfish sensi-
bility and shrinking fastidiousness to learn that Dr.
REED bega❑ his life with a strong aversion to idiots.
Those who have studied the records of Earlswood,
and have explored its recesses, who have seen the
gradual development of intelligence, the varying de-
grees of mental consciousness and physical aptitude
evoked from what seemed hopeless chaos, can answer
to what purpose this natural aversion was overcome.
The annals of the institution record some most sin-
gular cases. There was one boy who did not know a
dog's head from his tail when admitted, who, after
some years of treatment, painted a picture which ,
attracted the attention of no less an art critic than
the late Prince CONSORT, who would not at first be-

lieve that the painter had not, and never would have,
his full senses. Often it is 3iscove:ed that the children
have one particular turn or talent, which, when culti-
vated, raises their whole tone. Sometimes no
mental aptitude at all is discoverable, but the
boy or girl can be trained to happy ac-
tivity in cooking or gardening, or some other.
manual work. It is the first step in the task of
education when the idiot can be induced to employ
his fingers in any regular and useful occupation, and
straw-plaiting, mat-making, &c., are invaluable edu-
cational agents. One of the most hopless cases re-
mined for weeks insensible or indifferent to all efforts
to arouse him from his sullen kthargy ; but a careful

watch was kept, and one day, while he was lying in
the sunshine in the garden, the helpless, hopeless
fingers were seen to twirl a straw. This was enough
to encourage the kindly guardians, and their perse-
vering efforts were subsequmtly crowned with the
most signal success.

The report for the current year, which is just
issued, supplies gratifying evidence that the good
work is going on steadily and prosperously. The
number of inmates is at present 483, of whoth
314 are males, and 169 females. The number of
males employed has increased from 147, in the year
1867 to 268 in the year 1869. There are sixteen
different kinds of employment fur i he males and six
for the females, While the educational reports are
equally encouraging. Three hundred and sixty-six
letters have been written by the patients to their
friends during the year, in most cases entirely without

assistance. Amusement is plentifully provided, and 3
cricket matches, in which some 40 boys took part,
were played during the summer. Weekly entertain-
ments, with a band formed from among the patients,
have been highly successful, and the books, pictures,
&c., provided by kindly friends are greatly valued
by the more advanced. lt is gratifying to know that
soexcellent an institutio❑ does not suffer for want of
friends. One or two casE,s are mentioned in the Re-
port which do honour to our humanity, and serve
to remind us that after all English charity is some-
thing more than indolent yielding to extortion or
L self-complacent ostentation. A lady, name un-
L known, left £l,OOO at the aflle© for the asylum,
while another anonymous donor; has twice during
the year forwardad the same suxn. Naturally the
history eri the Institution has its dark side. its
labours ace not always successful. The most it€l3l-
- patienee, the most devoted kindness, some-
times fail in piercing through the cloud which
wraps the subtle
.essence of mind. The average
progress of the inmates is, however, most striking,
and so well are the advantages of an Earlswood
training known, that wealthy families who have
a child so afflicted, pky large sums to obtain
their admission to the institution so boarders.
Sometimes the effects produced in.the hopeful cases
are really marvellous. An excursion was made last
year to the Crystal Palace, and the pupils when
there were joined by two former companions, who
had been discharged cured. While at Earlswood
they had learned shoemaking, and by this trade one
was earning his own living ; the other supporting .
himself and his widowed mother l Even should the

mental instruction and the industrial teaching totally
fail, however, a residence at Earlswood is never with-
out some softening and controlling effect on the poor
uncouth, undisciplined creatures, wbo are admitted
within its doors. Hero in this twilight world the
influence of the great healing and refining agent is
not wanting, and simple religious teaching, Bible
lessons, easy prayers, and hymns are taught the
the stammering tongues and penetrate the
feeble intelligence. No need for conscience
clauses and time tables here ! No denomi-
national difficulties and theological problems. The
teaohing begins and ends with the great doctrines of
the FATHER in Heaven, and the SAvioun on earth,
whom the children must not displease by sin, and
the dull, helpless imbecile can dimly grasp it. "An
undevout astronomer is mad," exclaimed the poet,
contemplating the innumerable worlds perceptible
from his little corner of the universe, but the undy-
ing vitality of that faith, " broad as our humanity,"
which can control and cheer the helpless idiot at Earls-
wood, is surely no less a testimony to the divinity of
that which soars where imagination cannot follow,
and stoops where utilibirianism fails.