Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1881-07-16 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE SPEAKER ON SERVANT GIRLS. On Saturday a meeting in support of the Metro. colitan Association for Befriending Young Ser. rants was held at the Mansion House. The Lord Mayor presided. There were present the Lady Mayoress, the Duchess of Leeds, the Bishop of :Thichester, Mr. Sand. Morley, Mr.; Mr. Cropper, SiP.; Mr. A. AVArthur, ; the Rev. Brooke '..ambert, and many others. The Speaker moved That this meeting approves of the principles of he Metropolitan Association for Befriending Coung Servants, and commends it to the support if the public," and in doing so apologised for the tbsence of the hon. treasurer of the society, the 'Jon. Mrs. Brand, in consequence of a slight sc. ident on Friday, and also for the absence of the American Minister. For the last two days he (the Speaker) had laid aside the consideration of the Land Bill (laughter) and had attentively looked over the reports. Comparatively speaking he had found the labour of the association a very interesting one. The association was composed en. ;dimly of women working as volunteers for women. Ind the only men connected with the society were the few with long heads and warm hearts who were members of the council. As to those elio were the objects of the association's care, they were destitute and friendless girls struggling to WTI their livelihood by domestic service. These girls were divided into two classes—girls who had peen in pauper schools and who, when they were lischarged, were handed over to the society, and girls of the mine type who had not been in suoh Ichools. Of the first class there were about .200 roung girls consigned to the care of the associaion every year, and as they took care of thesis until they were twenty years of age they had now 917 of these girls under their charge. For the most part they are fatherless and motherless, friendless and homeless, unless they could look upon the pauper school as a home. So long as these poor girls were under the supervision of the authorities he had no reason to doubt that they were carefully trained and educated, but when that mpervision ceased their condition was critical infeed. It was at this juncture that the association came in and took charge of the girls. Moat of the 32 unions of the metropolis were in correspondence with the society, and he trusted that the day was not distant when the whole of them would be. The association had found situations for 1,600 girls, who had not been in the schools, and very many more were assisted in various ways. They had found that the registry office attached to each crunch for both classes of girls had been of great value in securing situations. With regard to the •esult of the operations of the society, they had ample evidence of the good that was being done in the reports of the managers of the different schools. Roughly speaking, the association spent about £3,000 per annum in their work, but the central office and home, the placing of girls in homes, and the eleven branches involved a cost of f 2,070. In conclusion, the Speaker appealed not only for money, but for personal assistance, and to those having the leisure and the means in other carts of the metropolis to give a helping hand to he East end. (Cheers.)—The Bishop of Chiches. .er seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously—A vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor closed the proceedings.  THE sentence of death passed upon Midhat Fasha and the other persons charged with the M. aassination of the Sultan Abdul Aziz has been coninned by the Court of Appeal. Lord Dufferin has verbally intimated that a very favourable impression would be produced by the exercise of the imperial clemency. DURING a quarrel on Saturday night a lithographic printer, named James Garrett, at Manchester, beat his wife with a poker. She ran out of the house, and was conveyed to the infirmary, and noon afterwards ho was diawvered dead, with his throat terribly cut.  SEVERAL battalions of Turkish troops have been routed in an engagement with an insurgent force near Mecca. Two hundred and fifty Turkish soldiers are stated to have been killed.  A FARMER, on the property of Mr. Hackett, dub-Sheriff for County Roscommon, has been naliciously stabbed. Mr. Hackett has rendered himself unpopular lately by carrying out everal evictions.  AT an inquest on the body of Jane Moore, at Stafford on Saturday, a verdict of wilful murder was returned. Deceased had been strangled by leer husband, a tanner's labourer, while in bed.  FREQUENT conferences, we learn by telegram. ore held between Lord Dafferin and the Russian eliarg.. Affairs at Oonstantinonle. 11110 '