The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-30 00:00:00

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-MONDAY.

There was very little done on either the Goodwood Stakes
or Cup. For the former, 3to 1 was taken against Elcho,
10 to 3 was taken about Starke, and a small investment or
two were made on Canary at 10 to 1. For the Goode ood
Cup, The Wizard was in great demand, but we saw no less
than 3to 1 booked. 4 to 1 was offered against Optimist,
and 6to 1 agst Thormanby. Mon Etoile, Doefoot, and
Diophantus had each a little support at their respective
prices. For the Stewards' Cup (as the quotations will in-
dicate), there was rather mare speculation, and a few ani-
mals were supported. Far the Nursery Stakes, Victrix,
Birdhill, and Olive Branch are placed in the front rank,
there being evidently most money for the two former.
The following is the list of closing prices
'lt GOODWOOD STAKES.
3to 1 agst Elcho (taken)
10 to 3 agst Starke (taken)
10 to 1 agst Canary (taken and offered)
10 to 1 agst Schism (offered)
10 to 1 agst Brownie (offered)
10 to 1 agst Balham (offered)
000DWOOD CUP.
3to 1 agst The Wizard (taken)
4to 1 agst Optimist (offered)
6to 1 agst Thormanby (offered)
6to 1 agst Mons Etoile (taken)
10 to 1 agst Doefoot (taken)
12 to 1 agst Diophantus (taken)
THE NURSERY STAKES.
10 to 1 agst Victrix (taken)
10 to 1 agst Birdhill (taken)
10 to 1 agst Olive Branch (taken and offered)
16 to 1 agst Tarragona (taken)
16 to 1 agst Cantiniere (taken)

RACING FIXTU
AUGI

[RES FOR 1861.
UST.

Lewes
Brighton
Brighton Club
Wolverhampton l2
Reading 14

Radcliffe l9
Egham 20
Oxford
York 2B
Plymouth 29
;AMER.

SEPT

Devon and Exeter
Stockton
Derby
Warwick
Lichfield ... . lO
Doncaster l7

OCT,

Newmarket F 0 1
Newmarket S 0 l4

NOVE:

Worcester Autumn 5
Liverpool Autumn .. 13

Richmond 24
Leicester 25
Walsall
Monmouth ............26
Manchester Autumn.... 27

IBER:
I Newmarket H ...... 2P

EBER.
Shrewsbury Autumn . . .. 19

IRELAND.
AUGUST.

Neath of Maryborough .. 8 I Roscommon 22

SEPTEMBER.
Curragh..
Tramoro ll I Cashel

Londonderry
Curragh

iBER.
1 Down Royal Corporation.. 24

THE COURT IN THE HIGHLANDS.—The Aberdeen
Herald says :—Our friends on Upper Deeside will be glad
to learn that they are to have the Court at Balmoral earlier
this year than in former seasons. The present arrange..
ments, we have reason to know, are that several of the
younger members of the Royal family will arrive at the
Highland Palace on Wednesday, Aug. 21 ; to be followed
by the Queen, about a week later, on the completion of her
Majesty's tour in Ireland.
THE MOORS.—On the moors around Stirling the
birds are represented as very numerous and in good condi-
tion. On the Touchadem estate, and the ranges of hills in
that direction, they are very plentiful. The broods of phea-
sants are also plentiful, and with favourable weather first-
class sport may be anticipated in Stirlingshire on the 12th.
ADDITIONAL MAILS FOR BERMUDA VIA NEW
Youx.—With the view of affording to the public more fre-
quent opportunities than at present exist of forwarding
letters to Bermuda, it is intended in future to despatch a
mail for Bermuda by each of the Cunard packets proceeding
to New York. These extra mails will be conveyed from
New York to Bermuda by means of private ships, as oppor:
tunities offer. The postage upon letters forwarded by this
route will be 9d. for a letter not exceeding half an ounce in
weight, ls. 6d. for a letter above half an ounc
ounce and
e and not
exceeding one ounce, 3s. for a letter above one
not exceeding two ounces, and so on for heavier letters.
This postage must be paid in advance, or the letters will be
liable to an extra charge on delivery. Upon newspapers a
postage of one penny each must be prepaid. A like sum of
one penny will be collected on their delivery, to cover the
United States transit rate of postage.—By command of the
postmaster-General,—RowLANß HILL, Secretary.

THE EDUCATION OF DESTITUTE
CHILDREN.

The report Of the select committee appointed by
the House ofCopunons to" inquire Amy, the edu-
cation of destitute and neglected children may be
most efficiently and/economically assisted by any
public funds," was published-yesterday. The docu-
ment is as follows :--

_.„ , •
"Your committee were appointed at an advanced
period of the session ; hilt they have prosecuted
the inquiry with diligence, andlhave examined wit-
nesses most competent to elucidate the entire sul
ject, and sufficient, in the opinion of your corn-
Mittee, 'te support the conclusions, which they
submit without further' delay to the judgment of
the house. No child should be encouraged to go to
a raged school, for whose education provision can,
be made elsewhere.! For children who have acqUired
criminal or vagrant habits, provision is made by
the Industrial Schools Bill. Until that measure has
been tried, no' other provision at the expense of the
state shonld'be made for this class, The children
of out-door paupers, destitute orphans, and deserted
ehildrett, receiving out-door relief, ought to be pro-
vided for under Mr. Denison's act by the guar-
dians of the, poor ; but it appears to be the
opinion of those who have paid attention to the
subject, that they are not likely to be so generally,
unless the act be so altered as to make it com-
pulsory upon the guardians to enforce the child's
being 'sent to school as a condition of relief.
The difficulties which would have to be encoun-
tered in the introduction of a system of compul-
sory educatiqn such as this are great. Some
questions of detail which are touched ;upon in
the evidence are worthy of attention with refer-
ence to this subject. It has been suggested to your
committee that the Committee of Council on Educe -
tion might provide for the admission of children of
out-door paupers into schools receiving Government
aid ; but your committee have received no evidence
on the subject of this suggestion, and therefore re-
frain from expressing an opinion upon it. Children
receiving in-door relief are provided for in the union
district or workhouse schools. Provision, however,
ought to be made for compelling boards of guardians
to maintain workhouse schools in a more efficient
state than they' are generally in at present, or else
to erect district schools.' After all these reduc-
tions there still remains a' residue to be dealt
with, though of its numbers the committee' have
no evidence. Aid to ragged schools and other insti-
tutions where children are fed, or fed and lodged.
is really aid in relief of the poor rate, and this is
true even when the aid is given as salary to a master
for such a payment sets at liberty an equal sum
to be employed in feeding or lodging. The
only ragged schools, therefore, to which relief
can be given, are those which neither feed nor
clothe, and' the only children requiring 'their aid
are the residue which remain after all the above
deductions. The evidence of Mr. Rogers shows
' that where strenuous local exertions are made,'
the poorest and lowest districts in towns are
capable of supporting schools under the Privy
Council; and that the poorest parents may be in-
duced to pay small fees towards their children's
education. Still a residue exists which has not yet
been reached by any other machinery' than a rag-
ged school ; and the question remains whether
ragged schools, which have undoubtedly been of
considerable benefit, ought' to receive further as-
sistance from the 'State than .at present. The
London Ragged School Union, with Lord Shaftes-
bury at their head, are opposed to any Government
grants being made to ragged schools, believing
that such grants would interfere with their reli-
gious and missionary character, and relax the
interest now taken in them. Much difference of
opinion, however, prevails upon this subject among
the managers of the schools themselves; and the
managers of refuges, which are likewise institutions
of a religious and missionary character, take a
wholly different view of the question. The with-
drawal of the Government grant to schools capable
of being certified under the industrial acts, touches
refuges, but not ordinary ragged schools. These
ordinary ragged schools if they give industrial train-
ing, may have certain allowances from the Privy
Council for rent and raw materials, and are permitted,
even without giving industrial training, to earn any
grant from the council, on compliance with the con-
ditions prescribed to other schools, No rules have yet
been suggested o:: which further grants of public
money could safely be madq ; and the present grant
for raw materials has been grosiy abused and should
be discontinued. Ragged schools closely resemble
Sunday schools. They are strongly impressed with
' a missionary and religious character. Their primary
object is to reclaim and civilise a child, and then to
place it in some honest calling. To these objects
instruction is secondary and subordinate. Yet
Government inspection must be chiefly. based on
instruction. The grants made on that inspection
would tend to divert the school from its main
object. Infant schools, which take the child
before it has been contaminated, appear to strike
at the root of the evil which ragged schools only
attack in its more advanced stage. They are comps,•
ratively cheap, because they require only female
teachers; are very acceptable to parents, whom they
relieve of the care of ehildren at a helpless age, and
not only keep them from evil, but lay the founda-
tion of order, industry, and attention. Your com-
mittee, therefore, recommend that one or other of
' the measures to which reference has been made in

the third paragraph of this report [the paragraph
here referred to is near the commer,cement, com•
mencing with The children of out-door paupers,'
and ending with 'refrain from expressing an
opinion upon it.'] be adopted, whereby admission
into Government schools might be secured to desti-
tute orphans, deserted children, and the children of
out door paupers ; and that whatever children are
not reached by the Industrial Schools Bill now
passing through Parliament, or by the proposed
measures, be left to the missionary exertions of the
ragged school managers, without any further
interference by the Government than exists at
present."
Several ineffectual attempts were made to amend

the report. It was ultimately adopted in the above
form by six votes to four, the mojority consisting
o' Mr. Lowe, Sir J. Graham, Sir B. Leighton, Mr.
Liddell, Mr. Adderley, and Mr. Bruce; and the
minority of Sir J. Pakington, Mr. Hanbury, Mr.
Black, and Mr. Cave. Sir Stafford Northcote, being
in the chair, did not vote. The report is dated The
23d of July.