The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-10-12 00:00:00

PRICE SEVEN PENCE.

being as false as it is malignant, something more is ne-
cessary. Unless those without should be is•
&aced to entertain the same conviction, thus:
within the city will have cheerless prospects. Let
us act openly and manfully. Let us not de-
ceive ourselves—let us not foolishly extinguish our
lights when danger is advancing on us ; let us not
disguise it from ourselves or from the world, that
country dealers, without just cause certainly, but
I worked upon by such reports as The Evening Post
has sent travelling, have declined coming to Balti-
more to buy goods, and unless a remedy be applied in
time, it is pretty evident that such trade at this season
of the year. will be likely to run into other channels.
Now, gentlemen, in Me first place, I consider it the
bounden duty of the Board of Health to come boldly
forward on this occasion—this is no time for &limn y
or reserve--tbis is no time to palter or to shuele-4f
tbersiexists any reason even to suspect that foreign
disease has been imported, let the fact be candidly
acknowledged and a remedy applied. if no such sus-
picion exists in- the minds of the board of health,
and the opposite position can be established, then
let the Board give to the malignant assertion of T.ir
Evening Post a conclusive reply, and adopt such
other measures, by an address or otherwise, as may
seem best calculated to allay apprehension in the
minds of those, in this and the neighbouring states
whose business would lead them to visit 11.titimore.
—Secondly, should the Board of Health decline to
do its duty, which I would not willingly believe, then
let a meeting of the citizens be called to take into their
consideration the whole of the conduct of the Board of
Health, and what course reason and calm deliberation
may point out as the wisest to be pursued under the
awful pressure of existing circumstances. It is not,
I repeat it, by any useans sufficient, that we on the
spot are fully satisfied that the disease, now con Cued
to a section of• Fell's Point, is not either imported
or contagious,hut, from the pains and the industry tak,•l
to misrepresent the actual state of Baltimore, it becunws
most material, that the country at large should be in-
duced, by reason and facts, to think and feel as we do.
Fulcxn TM: CITY.

BRITISH :IND PiEtEIG.V SCHOOL SOCIEfI'.

EXTRACT FROM TIIE SIXTEENTH REPORT or TILE Iti:t•
AND FOREIGN SEIIOOI, 2zOCILTY, 1•0 THE CI.NER
MEETINO, MAY 17, 1!"21.
• • • The British and Foreign School Societe II s
never been unmindful, that both its teat and
gin pointed to the British 4 1111 l ini ens, ai toe fir ,t an
principal object of its aftrietieta.
Hence the support and mansgetnent of the Central
Schools in the Borough-road. and of the establishment
for the ins diction of masters and mistresses connected
with th.m, have -always formed the main object of
its attention. The flourishing state of these schools,
and the good conduct of the children, Is ere been A
• source of high gratification to your Committee ; and
the more so, as the numerous vista from Strangers
foreigners, render the Central Schools in themselves a
very powerful instrument for disseminating a proper
knowledge of the British system in all parts of the
world.

These schools, of which that f itboys admits aid n 0.7
contains 5011, and that for girls 3011 pupils, have since
their establishment given education, the former t.)
13,661, the latter to 7,026 children, making:a tut iI .cf
20,669 ; of those who at present attend, 51 arc th't
children of Insolvent debtors. Since the last Ann:-
versary, not fewer than 34 persons have receirvd
instruction necessary to qualify them for nias:crs.
eluding 13 who are now attending the school fur th it
purpose, some of Moms: are fit to take charge of schools.
Several missionaries have been instructed, acid
schools have been organised, as well as temporary
masters supplied. Had the Society- done little or ev..3
nothing more than support these institutions, it c0n.,1
never consider the charge as applicable, that it bit
effected but little tonsil's the accomplishment of
the Society's views at home. But the Commi!tee array
confidently appeal to the whole of its proceedings, tu
refute any such insinuation. Endeavours to excite
such measures as [night eventually lead to the establi- lc-
ments of schools, sufficient for the population of the
metropolis, and its vicinity, have been unretnittio. :
and the number of these establishments has every v...cr
increased. In the metropolis, forty-three schools "7d
at present k: .own to the Committee us being co:t-
ductid upon the British system, in which nut fov-r
tbsn 5,633 b and 2,165 girls receive instsuc.6 ra
upon priciples, and by methods bet calculated to
impress their minds with religious knowledge. ;.yd
pious and moral habits. Of these schools, twenty-
two have been formed within the last five years, and
furnish a convincing proof of the increasing activity of
the friends of the British system during that perioai,

• • • •
The excellent Se/to•ds of Southwark, in whir's
nearly 2010 children are instructed, and those of the
North Bast district, which furnish education to 1500,
give strikin4 evidence of the usefulness of the plan
Auxiliary Sucities and School Associations. In the
mentioned uistrict, the pressure of the times presents a
very powerful impediment to the wider extension of in-
struction, which, in few places, seems more ardently to
he desired. Your Cons nittee, however, trust, th•tt
even these will yield, under, the blessings of 11'01, to
the zeal and perseverance of the excellent men, tt h
have shown so ardent a desire to benefit their neirtt-
hours. In Southwark, two excellent sclioAs t,r vie
chi.dreu of Irish extraction, instituted in the com-
mencement of the last year by the Benevolent So-
ciety of St. Patrick, hare beets supplied by a master and
mistress from the Central Schools of this Society.
Cad. r the auspices of the City Auxiliary, two
schools have been built f .1. 31111 boys, and 250 Kids,
and are already in a flourishing condition.—
Within the 'necklets of the Bloomsbury and Pancras.
Auxiliary, a school has been erected fur 300 girls, tu
which it is in contemplation to add another for 411 u
boys, on ground already provided, as subn as the IleCt.b%
eery funds can be raised. • • •
The Jews' School had fora considerable time been'
fall, and ntans chiWrea desirous of educa lust 440-