The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-13 00:00:00

CITY OF LONDON INFANT SCHOOLS.

The City of London Infant School Society hare opened their
first School in Liverpool-Street, Bishopsgate-street. The build-
ing consist& of a large airy School-room in a aemi-sircular form, a
class romn,and a couple of rooms fur the, Mistress and her Assistant.
A play ground with a shed for the use of the children iifiret wea-
ther is attached to the Wilding. The School receives 200 did-
dren, who pay each a penny a week ; it is conducted by a'ntis-
tresa and one female assistant. The, applications for ielmissiou
.have been much more numerous than the means of accinnmoda-
than, This Institution is under the patronage of the Lord Mayor,
the Earl of Liverpool, the Bishop of London, .and Peel ; and
under the more immediate care of the Bishop of Chester, the Pre-
sidoet, in whose parish the first school has been opened. Consider- -.
able objection has been .urged against the system of Infant Schoole.
on the ground that they are calculated to relieve parents prematurely
from the care of their children, and to effect an unnaturel separation
between them ; but it isnpprehended that this objection will vanish
on a very slight examination of the real state of the case. These
Schools only take charge of the children during those hours, wheel
by the necessary avocations of the parents, their children are un-
avoidably separated from them ; and the only difference is, that,
instead of the children being either hudilled•together in great
numbers in the small unhealthy rooms, used as Daine'a Schools,
or left at home under the care of an elder child,: who is by that.
very occupation deprived (NM her parochial school, or suffered
to wander about the street; in filth and wretchedness; they are
placed in au airy and coinfortable apartment, taught habits of
obedience, order, and cleanliness, end put under that moral au-
perintendenee, which, rather than ally specific instruction, is the
great object to be accomplished by these schools. A public din-
ner, to celebrate the opening of this school, is to take place at
the Albion Tavern, on the 18th inst., at which the Bishop of
London, Mr. Peel, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Chief 7us.,
Lice Best, and other distinguised individuals, have signified then,
intention to be present.

Which is thre deepest, the longest, the broadest,
and the smallest grave in Esher ChurCh-yard ?---That in which
Miles Button lies buried; for it contains Miles below the sod,
Miles in length, and Miles in breadth; and yet it is only a Dut-
ton Hole.

A Gentleman being out shooting dropt a partridge,
which was flying at au unusual height over head. "A shrewd
son of St. Patrick who was carrying the game bug, upon seeing
the bird strike the
.ground with great violence, exclaimed,
" Arrah, Master dear, what made you fire at that bird? Surethe
fall would have kilt him."

GOLD MINES IN CAROLINA.—A new gold minek
has been discovered in the western. part of Carolina, three milt*
above the place where the channel, in which the river Gatkia Orrws,
becomes extremely narrow.. ' The metallic deposit appears to ba
very abundant; and a company, under the direction of European
miners, is already established for working it on a larger scale.
An experienced and able engineer ,has reported, that the Mines of
Carolina are the richest as yet known in either hemisphere.—
.Rtv. Zncyc. . , . . ... ,

IRON SUSPENSION BRIDGE AT. ST. PETERS-
aunnu.—ln consequence of the difficulty, if not impossibility,
of erecting a bridge of wood or stone across the Neva,st.
Petit burgh, we understand it is in contemplation to build a sus-
pension bridge, with an arch of above 1,000 feet span. It is to
he composed of three distinct parts, consisting of a centre and
two sideways. The sideways are to he each nine feet wide, for
carts, &c. ; the centre way 81 feet wide, with a road-way of 21
feet in the middle, for carriages, and the rest fur foot-Laths. The.
suspension chains are to have a total Section of 400 square Melte*.
This is certainly too little for the bridge to remain safe for say
considerable length of time, if not. absolutely so for the first eras*

tion. The bottom of the river is about 42 feet below the ordi-
nary water-line, and in floods the waters rise shoot 18 or 20 feet
above the ordinary waterrlitte.---News of Literature oust
Fashion.

The journeymen spring-knife cutlers of Sheffield,
as appears front an advertisement in the Iris, have for some et
the past years, when trade was good, been accumulating funds to
be used in providing for those of their own profession upon whom
the want of employment might hear hardest in depressed times
like the present. This is au example which cannot enough
be pressed upon other numufacturera for imitation. tly
the payment of 'weekly subscriptions their committee ' maw to
be in possession of a considerable ram ; and, from October. 1104
'when commercial embarrassments first began to he felt, till the
beginning of the present month, upwards of 1,0001. has been paid
for the relief of members out of work. At first tis. a week teas
allowed for a roan, Ls. for a woman, and le. fid. for each child;
hut, since the pressure has been so heavy, Os. .only has been 14...
lowed for a man, and the scale of the women and children as he-
fore. If we take the alloWanee at Gs., which 'is much above the
average, we shall find that more than.B,ooo parsons have been, by
means of these funds, kept from being a burden to the parildtfos
a space of seven months. " . .