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THE MEETINGS AT LIVERPOOL. 153
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public system works of drafting out of off doors tlie make best available behaved for and tlie most men promising ; but the iest results
female The government prisoners into have refuges been fortunate has been tried enoug with h undertaken to the find happ establishments both in the .
where Protestant this and pious Roman office has Catholic been communities voluntary of Dublin . Of the Protestant establishmentbeyond rendering a just tribute to the
conscientious care with which , it appears to be managed , I need say but littlefor a reason which certainly ought not to give any umbrage
, to that community—I mean the very small number of prisoners who have hitherto belonged to that persuasion . The care of the Roman
Catholic prisoners of this class has heen undertaken by the ladies of the Sisterhood of Mercy at Galder-bridge . Feeble and wholly
inadequate unremitting , indeed self-devotion , would be and any cheerful words of alacrity mine to with do justice which to the the
manager of to the confine refuge myself , herself to her well- assumed born and name refined of , Sister ( I oug Mary ht , I
Mag suppose dalen , , ) with her coadjutors , discharges this labor of great love . To that I am not using the language of mere compliment and
idle have prove sentiment never yet , been I may present iven in the so comp following lete a results format , which least , I from believe the ,
g , first opening of the St . Vincent ' s Reformatory , in April , 1856 , down to the present month : —one hundred and fifty two have been received ;
you and sixty will steeped seven remember are in crime at present that and these there from were ; general eig women hty irve experience , for have the been , most if di discharged sposed part reared of— in
ordinary course , would , have , given no hope of reformation ; twenty one have been sent to situations in Ireland , and are all ascertained
to be doing well ; twenty six are in the colonies ; twenty four have returned to their homessixteen were married , and are now living
respectably ; eight were ; received by ; their parents ; & ve have been received into an lum ; three have been married in Ireland , and
are well reported asy of ; six have been sent back to prison . So that out of the whole eighty five there are only six to whom subsequent
misconduct can be traced . We will add to this extract , another , summing up a paper read on
_xuomen Friday , can also be in thus Mr . reclaimed Cowper's in dep so artment large a ; proportion only remarking , what may that be if
hoped'from children subjected to a corresponding discipline , before they " The are allowed probabl to join the which ranks excited of the the criminal greatest force interest ? in this
paper y department was that which was read by Miss Mary Carpenter , on " The Relation of Ragged and Industrial Schools to the
Parliamenfact tary Education that bfar al Grant the larger . " She proportion commenced of children by remarking in the upon poorest the
classes apprehended left school y in onl before y nine the months age of , of eleven whom . 19 but , 336 three children per were cent _,
could read and write , and one half of whom had no education at all .
The Meetings At Liverpool. 153
THE _MEETINGS AT LIVERPOOL . 153
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1858, page 153, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111858/page/9/
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