us the most important institution of the brewery-the savings bank. We are informed that the labouring men have already deposited 12,000l. in it; and this sum is exclusive of the subscriptions to the benefit club, and of the sum laid by in the same institution by the clerks, which reaches a much larger amount. The school-a very large one-built for the use of the children of the workmen some years ago, is not in the immediate vicinity of the brewery, as the firm could not obtain a convenient site. It contains a thousand children. It is not exclusively nor even chiefly used by them, but by the children of the neighbourhood in which it is situated. The firm is, how ever, about to establish a school for the elder boys of the men, which is to be of a first-rate character. This mental trainingground is to be made subsidiary to the interests of the firm as well as of the children themselves; that is, the lads who show most talent and industry are to have the first offer of employment in the concern. By this means merit will find its due reward, and the brewery will be fed with that invaluable commodity-intelligent and assiduous labour. |