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    154 THE MEETINGS AT LIVERPOOL

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    Ragged schools formed the only instrument by which this class could be reached . The educational parliamentary grant was made

    for the general education of the people , and administered to stimulate voluntary efforts . In what direction thencould help be

    , better bestowed than to aid in educating those who without such help must remain ignorant ? In no direction was there a greater

    voluntary devotion of time and money than in the ragged school movement . A strong claim , therefore , existed on the part of ragged

    schools to a large proportion of the parliamentary grant . In June , 1856 a minute of Council was passed offering aid to reformatory

    , and ragged schools , placing the latter upon a . satisfactory footing ; but a subsequent addition confined the application of the grant to

    schools for convicted and vagrant children , thus excluding the ragged schools . In last December a deputation waited upon the

    President of the Council , headed by Lord Shaftesbury and Sir John Paldngton , with a memorial from managers of ragged schools upon

    this subject . A minute of December , 1857 , accordingly cancelled that of June 1856 and appeared to be expressly intended for

    ragged schools , and industri , al schools . Against the incompleteness of this minute Miss Carpenter directed her observations . Only

    half the rent of rooms was promised , and that only of such rooms as would not be wanted but for industrial work . No help being

    given for a common school room or playground , nothing was given for a master or mistress unless certificated , which was seldom the

    case in ragged schools . No aid was given for any assistants . Ag * ainst these and other deficiencies Miss Carpenter warmly

    protested , and concluded with an eloquent appeal for extended and sufficient aid to the ragged school movement . "

    The Department of Punishment and Reformation was under the presidency of the Earl of Carlisle ; among the papers read

    was one by Miss Carpenter , " On the Disposal of Girls from Reformatory Schools . " Miss Carpenter strongly recommended the

    " intermediate system , " as in the case of Captain _Crofton's prisons , and the prevention of crime by the commitment to reformatories of

    vagrant and neglected children . Papers were also read by Dr . A . Welton" On Criminal Statistics , " and Miss Isa Craig" On

    , , Emigration as a Preventive Agency . " The reports of this section are more scanty than of any other ;

    while those of the Section of Public Health are very full and interesting . Lord Shaftesbury made a most remarkable speech ;

    remarkable in itself , as to matter and eloquence , and doubly so as shewing the conclusions arrived at by the man who has invariably

    connected all his efforts for social reform with the teaching of a reliious creed . Hear the conclusion of our indefatigable evangelical

    missionary g , as to the connection between the welfare of soul and body . Speaking of dirtdiseaseintoxication , and of those whose days are

    , , passod in their midst , he says , _" I will not dare to speak of many things

    that cannot be mentioned in any mixed assembly ; but you may picture

    154 The Meetings At Liverpool

    154 THE MEETINGS AT _LIVERPOOL

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 154, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/10/