The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-10-10
OUR EUROPEAN LETTER.

4 Lesson for Uncle Som.-.I'adust1o, I
Schools. 7tcenty-seten thousand
Toys and Girls sdred from Rum
1he W,cch ora Cuma,d Steamer en-
route for dmerjca. : Thirty Millions
Sterling lost.
LONDON, Eng, Sept. 23, 1879.
Half million sterling was expended
last year in carrying on the rcformatory
and industrial schools of Great Britain.
The expenditure of the former class of
institutions is little more than one-third
that of the latter, but, taking the two
collectively, it will be seen that the en-
terprise IL, in financial sense, one of
some magnitude. Imperial taxation
bears nearly half the cost. County and
borough rates contribute nearly tenth.
I'm respect to Industrial Schools, the
payment from School Boards assist the
receipts to the extent of nearly ninety
six thousand pounds, in addition TO
which six thousand pounds are received |
from private sources in payment for
voluntary inmates. Philanthropy con-
tributes forty-six thousand pounds to !
/ the two classes of institutions in the |
} shape of subscriptions and iegacies, |
T while sclf-hclp furnishes forty thousand
pounds by means of profits in the in
dustral departments. The work which
is thus sanctioned and supported by the
public is intended both as benevolent
and protective agency. Juvenile va
grancy is TO be arrested before it leads
10 something worse, and the young Of
t fender who has been actually guilty of
. theft is TO be dealt with after fashion
i.,n hin,
from growing up into hard and prac-
, liscd criminal. SO far has this policy
t, Succeeded, that Major Inglis, the Gov
Lcrnmcnt Inspector of these schools,
stated in his report for the past year
4 that while "Ihere are and always must
I be juvenile criminals" it is no longer a
, profitable pursuit "to educate for crime
as a profession The police records OF
= quarter of n century ago tell of n pro-
'. iessional class ofjuvcnile criminals who
have in a great measure ceased 10 exist,
!, and the change is attributed principally
u 10 the workings of these institutions.
More than thrcc-lourths of the children
Y passing through the Rclormatores are
. afterwards found TO be "doing we'll
II and the proportion Of successful cases
II in the Industrial Schools is still higher.
Rather more than twenty-scven thou
sand boys and girls have now passed
through the Rciorinatory Schools of
=, Great Britain. or this number upwards
>, OF ten thousand have been placed in
u situations, two thousand have cmigrat-
ed, and more than three thousand have
II zone 10 sea. The number of those who
r, passed through the Industrial Schools
u is somewhat less, but looking down the
&c list of the thousands who have taken
their place among honest toiers, or are
fairly graduating to do SO, an enormous
i. amount Of mischief is thus prevented.
i; An entire army of criminals is, so 10
81 speak. intercepted, and Transformed into
industrial and useful citizens.
The passenger steamer BTesf, belong
', ing to Cunard Il Co., whilst on its
Il Journey from IIavre - Liverpool, en-
vt roNie for America, struck on the rock
5. of the Lizard during dense fog OH
~ Saturday night. Although only short
distance from shore the land could not
-, be seen. and the widest confusion pre-
q. vailed amongst the passengers, who arc
nj stated TO have been OF the lowest class
p who rushed about the ship in terror
~ With the exception of four, who are
reported as missing, they were all res
cucd by the cxertions of the crews q
Z. Two lilcboats, aided by the fisherman Of
y the district. The fact that their terror
as was so great MS to make them refuse the
D; easy transit TO Falmouth by steamer
sc and 10 prefer tedious and toilsom(
journey by land, is CHARACTERISED,
q. enough. 1t is TO be feared that these
al poor people must have lost nearly al
nt their small property on our inhospita
o. bic coast, and that they will start fol
OO America in Il destitute condition. The
~ accident is all the more astonishing il
that the summer fogs in the Channc
- are perfectly well known to marinerl
~ for their extraordinary delusivc charac
nc ter. They descend suddenly, lift u
IL suddenly, and once more come down j
as such fashion that without careful am
he constant use of the lead the most prae
teal Channel-gropcrs may be deceived
hc as 10 their whereabouts; and, as mai
Inc ter of fact, the regular Channel steam
in ers rarely attempt TO make any way il
nj them. The log of the B3'ca will he
II. subject of some interest when the in
H. quiry comes III.
The disastrous weather Of the pas
week has wrought yet further havo,
T. amongst the growing crops. The al
y, ready late and deficient harvest will bt
"a still further delayed, whilst unless some
IN speedy improvement occur not onl,
nc will the yield be small but the qualit,
~ and condition correspondingly indillcr
'c cnl. II is very difficult to form any cs
innate of what will bo the actual out
w throw of wheat, barley and oats; bu
he competent authorities place ii at abou
We one lmlf less than the average. Beans
nv and peas arc equally bad, and the rapid
ill spread OF the disease amongst the poia
~. toes shows that further losses are il
IN store for tho agricnllurist. Hops alsc
H. are in many eases threatening to he Z
total loss. This is certainly black
letter year for the British farmer, and
10 falling on pre-cXisting distress, vii
cs render his position yet more uncnvia
III bic. Some competent authorities place
p the loss on the entire crop as cquivalcn
III TO about 80 millions sterling. A chang,
:, in the weather may even now do SOM,
II good but il is much too late for any
SC lhing but small portion OF lost groun,
iN TO be recovered. AIPnA.