Star.
London, England, 1815-11-27 00:00:00

REPORT.

The Report of your Committee on the present' occasion is
more particularly direr:et; to the Transactions of those 'mite-
tiuns at home and abroad,_ which having been furnished with
Teachers trained in the practice of the British System, or other-
wise assisted, may be regarded as emanations worn the Parent
Institution.

The t ransactionc of the qociety itself during the current year,
are reserved tor the next General Meeting.
Your Committee have found it staCUlt to compressinto a mo•
Berate conti a.s, that maw of useful and pleasing information,
which is cont.iined in the numerous Reports which have been
transmitted to them.

It has ufr.rded the most lively satisfaction to find that these
School+, containing several thousand ChoWien, are in a state of
progressive improvetnent. *I he difficulties of which all have
e• or I. complained, arising mom the expenses attending the
trecoun of school-rooms, are gradually diminishing, and many
are now free nom debt. opp.oition has considerably abated;
and it appears od all ::and,, ilia the public attention is more
untveteally directed to the edue..•ion of the labouring classes of
the penile. "1 t.at this is the ca,.?, has been maelested by the
tstablishnient of several new schools during the present year, fur
which your Committees have supplied both Masters and Mis.
tres►es. And although this is but the season fur particularising
these uccutrencifi, it must not be °inlaid, that Schools fur both
sties have been Mit:tired, under the patronage of the Marquis
of BUTIL, for the e•deeat on of Children of every rtligious per.
su.ohOn, at Cardiff, in South Wales, where the Corporation
have aet a must Spesidid example to sin.iiar bailie:, in +uhscribing
4100 towards the lauld.no, and ..to per alumni for general
purposes.

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A Report has be',ll received from tiv. society for Promot:ng
the Ettlicanun ot the pour i,f Ireland, of which Society, dining
the vast year, his Royal Iligline-1 the Duke ut KEN t has gra.
cimisly accepitil the office ut Patton.
'I he concurring testion.i.y ut t!.e Reports which have been re-
ceived, Icads to a conviction, that the establishment of Schools,
through the,s4littai y dt.ciyliuc to which the Children are sub-
jected, cuirrctuir their hahits and itilormuic tin it minds, is the
must sure means ut at-living at the cure of those evils which at
once disgrace society and C:epr.ve k of nutty who might form its
must active and useful members.

To a vow 4.• of ..letneutary instruction, in which Scriptures
form ,t) rot:gismo a pArr, must be .tdclud, t' initialler of that
clue observance of the babbatb, seLicti is sirtctly cojoutel.--

But the most gratityit.g intel!itence on thispaiticular subject
is contained hi the Report of the female School at Farnham, viz.
That " dining the bit twelve months a Bible :14sociation has
been formed among the poor Children at that ochool: this event
took place on the 11.4 of May, abeut two month, before the for-
maticiaast the iarnhata &We Asio Asti ; and there have been
remiitt 41 to the Branch Society, front the collection of tt ese r..oe
_'.,hlreny during t. c unit six months, aiatan p5:04.4 sit,k;
/ins and trim-tenet, together with an order tut
A tact which, while it ,Utt,.r.itts the plovers of that
mighty engine, the !kW ao.i ty, ~yoralls must loudly the en-
entairg attachment of the children to ti..:tr

It aliteds to the Committee the nee,. agreeable sensations,
that In the ne;gleioureouni o' the Nletropolie 1%, a Schools have
been established, in sititatiolo which were edm'rably eeleuhred
to exhibit the moral .11 .cis 01 suc:e insteutious. The firo. Le be
noticed is the Bow yetehote School, scar Cemberevelle a ...Istria
inhabited by persons of the worst deecription, amongst wham
the Police Officers have been aceostonted to look out for the va-
rious kinds of offenders which have ideated the Borough of
Southwark. We are informed by the Commit tee of that Scheel,
that " in the district embraced by their Society, the coaec-
quences of ignorance were evident to the most superficial üb.
sneer. Patents and children appeared alike regerillese of more-
lity and virtue; the former ng in pi 02 eecy, and the let-
ter exhibiting its lamentable effects. It was roily a wrs:e of
weetle and brambles: and if here and there a flew .r sprang up,
it only served to render regret more pungent, by efforeing a
profit that the soil was susceptible of improvement, and that an
abundant harvest would repay the toil of cultivation. Did the
friends of univeraal &location require a fresh illestration of those
immutable principles which constitute deer spring of actien, they
would find it in the scene we are now contemplatieg ; and t..ty
would confidently invite these who still entertain a do .Lt an the
subject, to a more c'ose and rigid examination of that scene, sa-
tished with the effect upon every candid and unprejudiced tithed:
For assuredly Men do not gather grapes off thorns, our figs off
thistles and when morality, decency, and order, are gradaally
occupying the abodes of licentitsmares, misery, and guilt, the
chance must be attributed to some operating cause, and Met
cause must be derived from the source of all good. The prin-
ciples of decorum, of propriety, and of virtue, are instilled into
dee louthtul mind; and by a powerful re-action they reacii the
heat t of the parent: the moral emu:et:here even:le—its betiefits
are felt and appreciated—the Bible tellies its proper place in the
habitations of poverty ; and thus in its simple, nature!, and cer-
tain course. the germ of i.uirmaists yields the happy treat of #.•:,ral
nformatiem."
'The second example of a School in the ueighbourhood of the
Metropolis, is that situated at tilt eshuid. Not matey years ago
it used to be said, that Kiegsland was famous only for hmll-iaitieg.
It was a focus where the most abandoned characters constantly
ooembled for every species of brutal and licentious disorder, to
which the uninttructed have been used to apply the idea of sport
and recreation. About twelve yeara since, a few persons hued-
toted there a Sunday School, and with very great difficulty they
were able to procure the attendance of twenty Childrco. It hap-
pened in this place fleet the igmees .- of the S was so
and their depravity so remarkable, that they could not appreciate
the value of the education which was tAtereJ to their use ortoteoe
ch Wren. The canine cleaved from pilfering, were est...cited
as of more immediete elder than their learning: and the seeding
the children to school was frequently considered as a :avow- con-
ferred upon the teachers. ILli,Tll3yCd by these difficulties, ti.use
beneeeeeto persons who founded the 5c.,001 continued to per-e-
-erre. About four years ago they tstabli,laed a Day Scheel, urea
the British System, winch hoeing been attended wee. much
benAit, they resolved to make an tifort to exteud their means ef
doing good. We are Wormed by the lehigslend Content re,
that .vhile they rejoiced its the a trots produesel upon the el:l-
-iken under trailing, and contemplated thebee. hes w hich would
result to lutute generations, they saw with regret that the oar •
row limits of their School-Tema excluded a great number of e'hil•
dren, wl.o, from the impossibility of gaining adintssio: , were
growing up in irnoravt.e, add pecullely exposed so toe aeure-
mesas of vice. They at lent th deterni•aed to appeal to toe Iv re •
volerne of the inhabitiere of this neighbourhood for the means
of erecting a larger huilelitig, upon poen, already in their pos.
etesion ; and they are heopy to state, the% a ?new/ apee•cation
to the inhabitants, by greeted Menther, of teor Committee, hes
beets completely oiccessful, and th it a School-room, capable of
accummodatiog between two and three hundred Boys, is now
recce), and, they truer, was 'long remain a MOIIIIIIICUt of the
liberality and pleteehropy ut this Ihetnct "
The Kingsland Committee have also appropriated the original
iluildiug to a Girls School, upon the British system, and eaten-
late that it will accommodate about one Wedge:4. It should be
observed, that the Ladies who conduct this Girls' School, have
established a Measly Peias Sotiel3r, from the amount of which,
independent of the bellow.' eoious for the support of the echoed,
they have beeu able to pr.:yids. the Gals with bonnets, hocks,
tippets, aprons, gloves, shoes, and stockings; and this they expect
to be able to do every year.
In many places where acbools batflteso established ou the pis&