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Charitable Institutions, &C.
JEWS FREE SCHOOL . Upwards of 100 gentlemen , principally of the Jewish religion , dined together on Friday , 12 th February , to celebrate the 18 th anniversary of the institution . Sheriff Salomons in the chair . The usual toasts , " The King , " " The Queen , and "The Princess Victoria , " were drunk with the customary honours ; and " The health of the Duke of Sussex , as the patron of the various Jewish charities , and the staunch advocate of their rights" was received with the warmest
, enthusiasm . The chairman gave " Prosperity to the Jews' Free School , " which he said had been instituted for the purpose of extending the blessings of education to the poorer members of their community . The establishment , since its institution , had fostered aud instructed upwards of 3 , 000 children , and there were at present under their care 300 boys and 125 irlswho received elementary education in the English and Hebrew
g , languages , were taught the five first rules in arithmetic , while the girls were also taught plain and ornamental needlework , and the children of both sexes were trained up in the habits of industry , while it was the constant aim of the master and mistress , as well as of the governors and the ladies ' committee , to inculcate in their youthful charge those principles of morality and virtue ivhich were calculated to make them good members of the community . ( Cheers . ) The good effects of this
establishment must be obvious to every attentive observer . But a few years since the Royal Exchange and other places of public resort might be said to be infested by foreign and other young Jews , whom poverty and want of employment drove to the commission of crime , and who , under the character of orange-dealers and other dealers , were passers of
counterfeit money , or " smashers , " as it was termed . This class of persons had now happily disappeared , and the children of the poor were in the Jews' Free School shielded from the temptations to vice ivith which the metropolis abounded , and many of them were early initiated in handicraft employments and other means of obtaining a comfortable maintenance by the efforts of honest industry . ( Hear , hear ) . The children were then introduced , and a Hebrew and an English
ode ( the latter written by Mrs . Barry Cornwall Wilson ) were delivered with great pathos , by a boy and a girl of the school . Doctor Van Oven proposed the health of the chairman , to whom he said tlie Jews could never be too grateful for the exertions he made in their cause . Plis public-spirited conduct had elevated him to the distinguished situation which he held in his native city- —{ Hear , hear )—the first Jew in England who had enjoyed such a mark of distinction ;
and it redounded to his honour , that by remaining with the community of which he had been born a member , he endeavoured to raise them to his own level , instead of seeking to get elevated to higher distinctions by ungenerously professing a conformity with principles at variance with his own opinions—{ Cheers ) . Sheriff Salomons was much pleased at presiding over so numerous and respectable a company upon so interesting an occasion . The
inquiries he had been enabled to make in the office which he filled , empowered him to bear testimony to the increased and increasing respectability of conduct of the humbler classes of his Jewish brethren . He had just witnessed a . very solemn and afflicting scene—the passing of sentence upon the convicts at the Old Bailey . It was , hoivever , one of the duties which attached to his office , and he should endeavour so to discharge all its functions as to bring no discredit upon those who had
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Charitable Institutions, &C.
JEWS FREE SCHOOL . Upwards of 100 gentlemen , principally of the Jewish religion , dined together on Friday , 12 th February , to celebrate the 18 th anniversary of the institution . Sheriff Salomons in the chair . The usual toasts , " The King , " " The Queen , and "The Princess Victoria , " were drunk with the customary honours ; and " The health of the Duke of Sussex , as the patron of the various Jewish charities , and the staunch advocate of their rights" was received with the warmest
, enthusiasm . The chairman gave " Prosperity to the Jews' Free School , " which he said had been instituted for the purpose of extending the blessings of education to the poorer members of their community . The establishment , since its institution , had fostered aud instructed upwards of 3 , 000 children , and there were at present under their care 300 boys and 125 irlswho received elementary education in the English and Hebrew
g , languages , were taught the five first rules in arithmetic , while the girls were also taught plain and ornamental needlework , and the children of both sexes were trained up in the habits of industry , while it was the constant aim of the master and mistress , as well as of the governors and the ladies ' committee , to inculcate in their youthful charge those principles of morality and virtue ivhich were calculated to make them good members of the community . ( Cheers . ) The good effects of this
establishment must be obvious to every attentive observer . But a few years since the Royal Exchange and other places of public resort might be said to be infested by foreign and other young Jews , whom poverty and want of employment drove to the commission of crime , and who , under the character of orange-dealers and other dealers , were passers of
counterfeit money , or " smashers , " as it was termed . This class of persons had now happily disappeared , and the children of the poor were in the Jews' Free School shielded from the temptations to vice ivith which the metropolis abounded , and many of them were early initiated in handicraft employments and other means of obtaining a comfortable maintenance by the efforts of honest industry . ( Hear , hear ) . The children were then introduced , and a Hebrew and an English
ode ( the latter written by Mrs . Barry Cornwall Wilson ) were delivered with great pathos , by a boy and a girl of the school . Doctor Van Oven proposed the health of the chairman , to whom he said tlie Jews could never be too grateful for the exertions he made in their cause . Plis public-spirited conduct had elevated him to the distinguished situation which he held in his native city- —{ Hear , hear )—the first Jew in England who had enjoyed such a mark of distinction ;
and it redounded to his honour , that by remaining with the community of which he had been born a member , he endeavoured to raise them to his own level , instead of seeking to get elevated to higher distinctions by ungenerously professing a conformity with principles at variance with his own opinions—{ Cheers ) . Sheriff Salomons was much pleased at presiding over so numerous and respectable a company upon so interesting an occasion . The
inquiries he had been enabled to make in the office which he filled , empowered him to bear testimony to the increased and increasing respectability of conduct of the humbler classes of his Jewish brethren . He had just witnessed a . very solemn and afflicting scene—the passing of sentence upon the convicts at the Old Bailey . It was , hoivever , one of the duties which attached to his office , and he should endeavour so to discharge all its functions as to bring no discredit upon those who had