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gratitude to the Venerable the Archdeacon. They were also much indebted, on the same occasion, to Mr. Jonathan Revel, on whom devolved the kind and active management of the affair, as also for former deeds of kindness and labour in the School.

In October the children were invited to a gratuitous exhibition of his Panorama of American Scenery, by Mr. Friend. Only the children and teachers were present, but Mr. Friend most kindly and patiently explained the whole, to the great delight of his auditors, young and mature. He was pleased also, at the close of the entertainment, to express his great satisfaction with the behaviour of the children. It will be seen, in the Treasurer's Report, that a considerable sum was obtained for the funds of the School, by a Dramatic Reading, given most readily and generously by George Wightwick, Esq., and at which Charles Knight, Esq., kindly consented to preside. It would be superfluous to say that, independently of the pecuniary advantage to the School, the reading gave very great delight to those who had the happiness to be present, or that the most cordial thanks of the Committee were offered to Mr. Wightwick, for his, in every sense, successful exertions. Their gratitude to both gentlemen is recorded here, with much interest and a pleasing sense of duty.

The Treasurer's Report also records an enlarged grant to the School from the Committee of Council on Education. For this they feel that thanks are due not only to My Lords, and the Lord President of the Council, but also to Joseph Bowstead, Esq., Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools, by whose encouragement the Committee were emboldened to ask for Pupil Teachers, and who kindly presented the Industrial Department of the School in its true and important light. This department has been enlarged during the past year, especially by the training in domestic occupations now given to some of the girls, so that there seems every reason to hope that it will, in the current year, at least, maintain its hold upon their Lordship's approbation.

The dinner on Christmas Day was enjoyed as usual by the children of the Day School, 224 partaking of it; the Evening School of 170 children had a supper of beef and plum pudding on the next night. The daily supply of soup for the winter months is also continued; this and the Christmas treat being provided by Miss Carpenter from donations specially given by friends."

The following table will show the income and expenditure of this most excellent institution which, although nominally only a Ragged School, is as fully and perfectly a Reformatory as many cases inserted in the Report prove. We particularly recommend this table to the notice, and careful attention of our Irish friends who are contemplating the establishment of Ragged Industrial Feeding Schools:

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Treasurer's Account for 1853-M. D. Hill, Treasurer.

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By Balance of last year's account 7 11 6
Salary of Master
80 0 0

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Gratuity from Committee of

Council on Education to ditto 5 0 0
Salary of Mistress, Industrial and

Evening Schools, 9 months
Gratuity, Com. of Council on

Educ. to ditto

Salary, Miss Belford, Infant
School Mistress

Ditto, Miss Oxburgh, Sewing

Mistress

18 15 0

500

80 0 0

13 0 0

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£335 6 5

Rent

£835 6 5

At page xlix of this Record, we referred to the enlightened and well-informed opinions held by our Irish Commissioners of Convict Prisons, Captains Crofton, Knight, and Mr. Lentaigne, upon the Reformatory Question. We feel very great pleasure in stating, that they have just appointed Mr. Edward M'Gauran, Master of the Andrean Free National School, Cumberland-street, South, to the Mastership of the Mountjoy or Philipstown Depots.

We are gratified to find that the Commissioners have elected an Irishman, trained by the Irish Education Commissioners, for this, their first, and most important appointment. It reflects credit on the Board who appointed and on the Board who trained and those who have read the Reports on the Andrean School, drawn up by Mr. M'Gauran, and printed at length, in THE IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, in the paper on "Reformatory and Ragged Schools," Vol. IV., No. 14, p. 424, and in "The Record," Vol. IV., No. 16, will fully understand that the appointment is one most worthy and creditable, the appointee being quite up to the mark of him whom Mr. Prentice* described, when he wrote of the teacher in Lady Carnegie's School-" He was able to teach, but what was more, he was apt to teach. It was his mission-such teachers are not made but born. No system can produce *See ante p. lvii.

them." Literary teaching is not the chief object here-the best teacher and the most perfect master of all those trained by the Irish National Board, (and this implies the best trained in these Kingdoms,) could not take the place now held by this young man such teachers should be encouraged, not as literary teachers, but as Reformatory trainers. We would impress upon those in authority that such men cannot be obtained, as Lieut.-Col. Jebb has stated, for niggard pay; and certainly, unless chaplains of a class superior to those attached to our ordinary Irish gaols, arc appointed to the prisons for Criminal Juvenile Convicts, half the efforts of the master must fail, even though he possessed, amalgamated, the devotion and energy of M. Demetz and of Mr. Nash. We are perfectly well aware that heretofore it has been the common rule to appoint as gaol chaplains, those clergymen considered most ill-adapted for other offices-we sincerely hope that in future, directly the opposite system will be adopted; and that as great discrimination, at least in the case of Juvenile Prisons, will be exercised in the selection of the Chaplain, as in the appointment of the Schoolmaster. Would that the Viceroy had imitated this selection, in appointing an Inspector-General of Prisons to succeed Mr. James Galway. Ilad he done so, his English Equerry, ignorant of his new duties, would never have been nominated to hold this, now, most important office, the requirements of which even the energy and experience of Mr. Corry Connellan cannot fully meet, unless ably seconded by his fellow Inspector.

QUARTERLY LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

The following Books and Pamphlets will give much information on the principles and working of Reformatory Institutions, and of Prison Discipline, and they will be found to contain references to all other works of any great value on the same subject.

Reports of Two Conferences held at Birmingham on Juvenile Delinquency, 1851-1853. Longman and Co. Price 1s. each. House of Commons Blue Books on Criminal Juveniles, 1852, Price 6s.; 1853, Price 5s. 6d.

Hamilton's Translation of Cochin's Account of Mettray. Whittaker and Co. Price 1s.

Hall's Lecture on Mettray. Cash, 5, Bishopsgate-street. Price 1s. Prize Essays on Juvenile Delinquency. Smith, Elder, and Co. Price 5s.

Mary Carpenter on Reformatory Schools; ditto, on Juvenile De linquents. Cash. Price 6s. each.

Reformatory Schools in France and England, by P. J. Murray.
Cash. Price 1s.

Practical Suggestions to the Founders of Reformatory Schools, in a
Letter from the Recorder of Birmingham to Lord Brougham,
with his Lordship's Answer. Cash. Price 6d.
Juvenile Delinquency and Its Reformation. By W. S. Hackett.
Clonmel Hackett. Price 6d.

Juvenile Delinquency the Fruit of Parental Intemperance. By Mary
Carpenter. No. 12, "Edinburgh Series of Temperance Tracts."
Price 1d.

Temperance as Affecting the Interests of Employers and Employed. By Archibald Prentice, Esq.,Manchester. No 11 of the “Edinburgh Series of Temperance Tracts." Price Id.

Mettray. A Letter, from the Recorder of Birmingham, to Charles Bowyer Adderley, Esq., M. P. Cash. Price 3d.

Eighth Annual Report of the Bristol Ragged School, on St. James's Back, for the year 1854. Bristol: 1855.

The Philanthropist, A Record of Social Amelioration, and Journal of the Charitable Institutions. Published twice every month. Published at 4 Wine-Office Court, Fleet-st., London-6d. per No. Report on the Discipline and Management of Convict Prisons, and Disposal of Convicts-1853. By Lieut.-Col. Jebb, C. B. Her Majesty's Stationary Office-1854.

Observations on the Discipline and Management of Convicts, and on Tickets of Leave. With Remarks, in an Appendix, on the more speedy Trial and Punishment of Larceny in certain cases. By John Field, M. A., Chaplain of the Berkshire Gaol. Longman and Co. 1855, Price 1s.

The Law Review, for February, 1855.

A Charge Delivered By The Recorder, at the Quarter Sessions for Birmingham, January 5th, 1855, To the Grand Jury of that Borough. Published at their Request. Cash. Price 6d.

The Journal of the Albert National Agricultural Training Institution, and Record of Industrial Progress-Nos. II, VII. Dublin. 1854, 1855.

Rules for Prisons in Scotland. Constable. Edinburgh, 1854.
Edinburgh Review, November, 1854, No. CCIV.

On Reformatory Schools. By T. B. L. Baker, Esq.

CONTENTS OF THE FOREGOING QUARTERLY RECORD-
TO MARCH, 1855.

Letter of Mr. Recorder Hill to Lord Brougham. Report on
Saltley School. Letter from C. B. Adderley, Esq. M.P. and
Speech of Mr. Recorder Hill. Miss Mary Carpenter's Report on
Red Lodge, Girls' School, Bristol.
Refuge for Boys. Report on The
Edinburgh. Letter of the Lord
Panmure. Report on Establishing

Report on Glasgow House of Original Ragged Schools of Advocate. Speech of Lord Reformatories in Devonshire.

Charges in favour of Reformatory Schools of the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, at Lancaster, of Mr. Warren at Hull, of Baron Alderson. Speeches of Mr. T. D. Anderson and of Mr. Bramly Moore in Liverpool Corporation. Resolutions of the Justices at Leicestershire January Sessions. Report of Lieut.-Col. Jebb, on Convict Prisons and disposal of Convicts, for 1853. Circular of Industrial Home for Out cast Boys, Lambeth. Rev. Mr. Field's pamphlet on the discipline and management of Convicts, and on tickets of leave, &c. Reports of Chaplain and Governor of Parkhurst. Observations on Rev. Mr. Field's pamphlet. State of opinion in Ireland on Reformatory subjects; Essays read before the Clonmel Literary Society. Lecture of W. L. Hackett, Esq. Letter of Mr. Recorder Hill, on Mettray, to Mr. Adderly, M.P. to "The Philanthropist." Tracts by Miss Carpenter and Mr. Archibald Prentice. Letter from Mr. Prentice. Report of Ragged School, St. James's Back, Bristol.

NOTE ON THE RECORD.

As we were putting the foregoing to Press, we received, through the attention of the Editor of The Exeter Gazette, a copy of that Journal for February 10th, containing the following particulars of the further most important proceedings of the Committee whose Report, read at the Exeter meeting, we have inserted in the Record :

"DEVONSHIRE REFORMATORY FARM SCHOOL.

We have much pleasure in announcing that the arrangements in connexion with this philanthropic Institution, have so nearly approached completion, that the executive Committee look forward with confidence to an early commencement of operations. It was at first proposed to commence a trial of the experiment at HODGE's Farm, on Stoke Hill, but as an unexpected difficulty arose in this quarter, Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE Very kindly and promptly placed at the disposal of the Committee, two Cottages most conveniently situated on his own estate; and with a degree of public spirit-which none but those in similar circumstances can properly understand or estimate he has undertaken to give up such portions of his home-farm immediately adjoining as may be from time to time required for the purposes of the Institution. One of the great anxieties of the Committee has been the selection of a competent master, and their choice has fallen on a person named HARRIS, at present having the superintendence of a National School, at Frome, and considered by those who are best acquainted with his character, to possess that moral and religious influence so essential to the success of the Reformatory system. His engagement, we understand, commences at Lady-Day, by which time it is not improbable that the School itself will commence operations. As everything depends on a good beginning, Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE has invited and obtained the co-operation of Mr. BENGOUGH, whose name is so honourably associated with the Hardwicke School; and that Gentleman has kindly undertaken to assist the Executive Committee at the commencement of their work. With reference to the limited scale on which the Institution is proposed to be started, it may be desirable to state, that this view is recommended not less by practical experience than the necessity of economy. Until the reformatory process has actually commenced its beneficial influence, any large company or colony

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