The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-24 00:00:00

LBRITISH PRESS.]

Two Reports of the Commissioners upon the
Education of the Poor are very voluminous, but
the articles of which they are composed are all

distinct, and of limited and local importance::
They of course hold out but little inducemen,
for publication in a London Daily Morning News.
paper, which necessarily looks to articles of ge
neral interest. This objection, however, does no
apply in its full force and extent to the case o
the Charity School of the extensive and popu
lous parish of St. Clement Danes, which will be
found in the Second Report of the Commis-
sioners. From the minutes of the evidence taken
before the Commissioners, it appears that this
School was founded 120 years ago, for the edu-
cation 'of 50 boys and 30 girls ; and that by sub-
sequent endowments it has been enabled, not only
to educate, but to clothe 60 boys and 22 girls,
of whom the girls are also lodged and main-
tained in the school-house ; that its funds, how-
ever, are more than adequate to this purpose,
and fully sufficient to educate all the poor
children of the parish, but that the Treasurer
and other. Trustees, who have the manage-
ment of the funds, prefer that the surplus, in-
stead of being so expended, should accumulate
in their hands, in which its amount is now about
50001., vested in the 3 per cent. Consols. The
reason assigned by the Trustees for their adoption
of this particular course is their anxiety to secure
an adequate sum for the Girls' School, in the
event of the failure of the present means ; but
no explanation is given of the foundation for these
fears, and we should imagine that the justifica-
tion should be a well grounded fear of failure,
and not a remote and uncertain contingency. The
portion of the funds for the support of the
School derived from subscriptions and collec-
tions at charity sermons, amounts to not less than
4001. a year ; bat as actual want forms the
strongest ground for a call upon the liberality of
the public, it cannot be expected that this call,
however ably enforced by the eloquence and
energy of the pulpit, can have its due effect if
the trustees of the charity be hoarding itipney;
and already possess more means than they think
fit to make use of for the benefit of the exist-
ing poor. The system pursued by the Trus-
tees, we have no doubt, has originated in the
best intentions, but it is not a liberal, a ge-
nerous, or a• prudent system. It has been can-
didly and forcibly condemned by the diligent
and resident Rector of the parish, who must be
presumed well acquainted with its wants, and
whose eloquence has so greatly contributed to
furnish the means of relief. We hope, there-
fore, to see a system more congenial with his
liberal views speedily adopted in the manage-
ment of the funds provided for the support of
his interesting establishment.

It was formerly the custom to execute criminals
convicted in London, iu or near Smithfield. As
the city increased in magnitude, it was thought
right to remove these scenes to some distance.
Tyburn was fixed upon ; but the original Tyburn
was not the place which is now so called. Ac-
cording to some authors, it was in Queen-street,
Lincoln's Inn-fields, but the maps of the time of
F.LizABETti place it at this end of the present
Oxford-street. Here the highly distinguished
Lord ConttAm suffered, being suspended in chains
placed so as to hold his person in a horizontal po-
sition over the fire which was kindled to burn
him. London continuing to increase, these dis-
mal spectacles were carried still further off, to
the modern Tyburn ; and thence it has been
thought wise to bring them back again into the
heart of the city.
bna sentencediel to four
negro man has been hung in Georgia for
shooting a white man; and one DnDanelolyr,
for shooting a negro, hasee
years' imprisonment.--(Columbian Sentinel.)