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L ~r tel aitinsties in whirl they wire plunged, but They were wholly without the Ines's:, of support, or any sits, to preireot a rels o s e into crime, as the rouse• quence of extreme distress. In this situation a mode of present relief was held out, remarkable for its singularity, though not perhaps fur its pre. Bence—it watt the eller at one of their lllMllbirtWti‘l rake the desolate beings they had saved, and'provide toy them in his nwo house.—"Applause.)—lt was !I lIMIMITIP to record that Malty, very many of these persons were restored to society, iu which they 1 coot ittered instost AMPS and honest member'.-r- Thee soon had,se antishertion of *veiling them selve. Of the InsiWane offer of that eitcelleut Sikiety , 'the It.fuge tilt the Destitute, firm whom they re.; , (wired tit, wok of Is part of their building, which was' ostreeispiedoswing, he tegi•etted to say, to The rent of Nude in the Refue, to apply it to their own rn , nt exrellentsnd useful pumas. The OM. 1;-titleman they Pointed the.attenttois of the Meet ing to the past and Indent state of the prisons . of 'tile (-artistry, and the material improvements which siisci;.line reml a hinter system had happily csta 11114ed in them. Neragate now, fOr instance, had almost become a place of fashionable resort, for the poi r w oio of dons gworl.—liipplairse.)—Since the time of Ph. H oward, the snbiect of z the .tar.e of prisms r ' been taken op by other he recolent characters; by Mr. Neild, and by several whose sole object iris the reformation of their Nye etes.—( eferpAtirse.pLThe labours of mach char.ic ten had fortnnoteluexplotled the old system of the phis and prisseipWof prison regulations, and • taught the poblic Ittid something more was ewers •ary 'to a gaol than igh walls and heavy dnne.— (I.lvii-, hear.)—The more the Committee extended I thi•ir 1.41Mur., the more they were convinced that the mereste of juvenile delinquency was caused by the c , miagion to which the miserable objects were toc;• , ##l by the want of classification within the ...all,: of the prisons of This country.—(//ear, hear.) —At rite period to which he alluded st was obvious Om A armenre of imprisonment and hard labour .wits to.!ritly to consign au individual to idleness and cloth. Tile penitentiary houses were, at the name time, in an ritually inefficient slate, and as well as the 0 toll, consisted of places little better than schools fir inculcating every species of crime. How then cool/1k be expected that individuals t!,rown from ~itc!. .. i t nat ions, and without the means of any support, .'#.#,Ojtailopt any other course than that by which 11,...% . ..erilil relapse into their former habits of de sir Icy ? The main object of the Society soon be e un- to reostder what steps should be taken forth. t •m r ,,',” of providi n g employment for those who v ..t.z. i•-•••••orfl from scenes of evil and vice. The riviawiit their sttenti 111 l was publicly known to .1- , tc liven dr.twis In this subject, the Committee r: n. io the - almost daily . habit of receiving applies. ie.• -'from the Magi:Ai-n(7 and other bodies, with impili-. for their plans, their arrangements. their rn:., ; indeed, for every information which could be 1.1-.1 - nf its the reforotetion, not only of the discipline of iiroiss, but of the plans usually adopted for tlii,e einistruetiou. These numerous inquiries led ICI 1 mound interchange of information, and the 'Committee had now given the public the lulll benefit of their whole labours. The Committee Iml never lost sight of this important axiom, that with,r4t. classoficetion end employment it were kW powl.le to do any effectual good in the way of r.forotation. lle would now take this opportunity el . 1 mdicating the Society from one charge that Jtad. among ninny others. been brought against ter, ro.", It was said that they waded to make pri -101.. p! , \Cell of comfort and indulgence. This charge he would fairly inert. They wished Is) make prisons eo fay comfortable as to make them clean— (; tear, hear)—and to make their inmate, clean in sAe,ol of filthy—to make them industrious instead cf rale—rational instead of intemperater(Hear.) '—Were these then the ways that were calculated ID cake him relapse into crime, or whether they were not rather those best calculated to promote the reci.#l order of the community ?—(//eat. kette.)— If- knew very well the old practice which they c , w had altered, the scenes of gaining, and drunkenness. and profligacy. that were wont to be , witnessed in The prisons of the country, and by goes!). of which the novice in crime, who was thrown it:to a gaol, soon cline out a ready adept in every *pp( ins of profligacy end crime. —(Bear.).-- Tin re vices were now banished, an far as classifica. lion had been practicable. This was (nions on a comparison between the gaols conducted on the old and new plau. On the former, thirty4forty, sod ev-t, sixty. out of every hundred, were found to .rrt tiro to the gaol from which They came, while on lisp pew plan the returns were not found to exceed Inv per cent. The object of the Society was l ost to rep,ke a prism) e place of comfort, but one of disci -1.11 tie—(lleor)—liot one of rigour or harslinits. but .of r ',tonal restraint. The old plan was court as w. II as I ix. it roused not quelled passion—the stew sevi moderate and effective, The sorest way to u•ske men savages was to treat them like savages.— ///ear)--The noisiest example of the practical etr,ct of n change of system in the Mansgeinent of prisoners had been formed by the Ladies' Commit tee its Newgate.—(!/ear. hear.)-11 was made too upon wills which trever,.kirew contiol, and who in dulged in every is:maim. and in a hold defiance alike of the kw, of God and MM. These brings . were trued to yield to a rational slivcipline, which they were soon made sensible was calculated for Weir own .griod. Hr *mild. while on this topic, sissy • word respecting a Isle distgibance among the ferrules in Newrate, a loch was proiJaimed to Ilii•artold. not atom tlitosi. t h the orili!#aiy duettists of public information, but also by placards posted up on the walls of the metropolis. On inquiry the accounts pote'idted were found to be erroneou s . There had beeti certainly a disturbance ist the toil stnt, and though lie did slot mean to vindicate ii, be must also say there was some Valise for that ills tmlunee.. 14 was the Intniane p ra ctice of the 1 Covernor of Newgsse to allow the female coo li e: r e I the opportouity if seeing their friends the 'tight before they were sent away for irStiepOtialloll--iitis I privilege on the ocessinon alluded to, owing to Ow time when the arningemein for articling the women off was Pride, could out be seceded to. Iso the uproar therehy ostteerl eighteen joiurJ, and up wards of eighty Romeo, though reeked by the others, dill 01 • j oin,—/ Hear, hear.)—The forbearance of the one ought therefore to 'pave beets inentioesed as well ■s the act of the other.—(l/ear, hear.)—lt altuuld oleo be recollected what war the mite of tlwee women before the Ladies pee their attention to the 'prisen. •It rlN:haell a scene of hofideettifeolligley. This change was it conduits" ;front of the benefit &tired from an alteration oldie old system. With rtterct to the foreign operatioiss of the Society, whet had been Abided to by their illustrious Chairmen, their minable 'fiend, Mr.'tVtn. Alien, had modes foreign tour. Russia was now 'actively em. pined iu adopting for bet- population the plans of the Society. At St. retereburgli and Moscow public meetings hail nlreviv b-en had, and large POMP subscribed to carry into effect the reformatory 'Diem; the Emperor of Resta* hal declared Ishn self Patron, anti nominated his Punt, Minioter, Prince nallitsen, to be President. The Hoe. Gen deem then adverted to the prospective arrange- Meats to which the Meeting ought to look for the Porpoise of extending, as well as preserving the greet benefits which the Society Visel, in view. 13y the evidence given before the Parliamentary Com mittees, it amid he seen that 8,001) jnvenile delin quents subtitled in and • about the metropolis by schemes of profitmic7 and ploooder.—( Hear.) — There wretched beings were at once the burden and the disgrace of their country.—( llear,hear.)— It Wits in vain then in so extensive n state of vice to hope to dap the evil by any system of prison dis. cinline, unless it were followed by an asylnrn for the employmeut of the objects their hontattity had saved.--(Neat.)--The wretched object. I,ver. *helmet! by distress, mud almost. in the 'mature of things, revert to• las former Whits, unless some means were placed within hie repels of procoareig an honest livelihood. The plan in view Mil to establish en asylum for such a porpese. Ile men tioned this great object to the Meeting, it wait for them to say, how far it could be carried into effect by public benevolenre. He cooclorded by earnestly entreating the assistance of the Meeting to promote so laudable and comprehensive an ob- , jeer.—( Load applause.) The Marquis of LANSDOWN then rose and said, that the object and view of the Society had been PO clearly and ably developed by the Gentleman who had just spoken, that little remained for him to say in support of the great and substantial improvement which this Sleeting had to promote. He should, therefore, only aibl, that he felt real satisfaction in assisting on so useful and benevolent an occasion. (Am:dense. J—Considernille light had-been thrown upon the practicability of the object, by the suc cess which had attended the steps alteady taken to promote it, and indeed nothing remained hut to follow the path already trod, which pest lead to the accomplishoneut of all, their wishes. The see. timent convened in the Itesoloithan which he held in his hand, was one not only of sound law, but of humanity and common senor. It was nn un deniable truth, that willsoialclataireation no good could be effected rot the inmates of a prison, and without employment no benefit could be !lord for thews oben'out of confinement. It wits to be la mented dint as yet the general plans of this Sw...iety were not carried into effect more generally is the prisons of the country; but in those where they had bean fully adopted, it wecimportatit to see sow ex teutive were the beneficial results.—(//car.) —lt was also gratifying to see the alacrity with which that moat important end useful body, the Magi strates of the country„ were disposed to diffuse the 'Meaning's of this Society.—(hear, hear.) Tht• meeting had berme them all the facts, which skewed. under Provide n ce, the great benefits the Society had dispensed among trot condellteile ; and it 1111111 . 0 P thew to be instrumental in enlarging the circle of their henevolessee, and giving the country at large the advantages of so excellent i system.— The Resolution which he held in his Italia ,hewed the oneetino , the necessity that related of consider ing generally the stated the mimeos throughout the country. Their nett. 519 gaols in the (hotted Kingdom, which contuined, in the year IRIS, 107,000 prionoters. Only 9.3 of these role had or were enabled completely to adopt the plan and pripciples of the Society ; he, therefore, barmier, oil tiw meeting the imperative 'weedily of making still- farther everrinnte so as to give the utmost pos sible effirecy to plans at once PO wise, hnntatw, and judicious. The Noble Margolis cencluded, amid loud altniehse. by proposing the first Resolution, which was declaratory of the state of the prisons throughout the country. and of the necessity of clareifying prisoners—lfor which Me Advertise ment./ Lord AUCKLAND. in rising to second this mo tion. said. that alter the thereon address of the lion. Gentleman she Gist spoke, and the Noble Marquis who followed him, he could not think of intruding his own less perfect sentiments upon the Meeting. Ile should therefore content himself with stating, that both in public and private, the Society slormicl have his most cordial support.— . 11,med . applause. J —There was no bead that ever Irlt for she Mowry of others, tore nsind that ever enjoyed the charm of benevolence. which must not on tine resent occasion derive the moat plesaing reessolon from the progress ntid site. ceps of t so admirably calculated to elevate the character of the cou n try, and ameliorate its best interest a. pplaase. ucli good had at. ready been dot e by their cleansing primatns of their filth—much sell remained to be done to purity the wretched inmates, and bee them from the opera limo of that moral contagion to which they were now so liable. The Noble Lord concluded by seconding the first Resolution, which was unani mously adopted. The linveeC/1 A I rtm A N begged leave to withdraw in the present stage of their proceedings, Ile re gretted bring !prevented by illness from remaining any longer in the room. He assured the meeting of the warm Parted which he felt in the promo tion of their object ; indeed it was that desire to be present on au occasion someone-toes to their humane and benevolent views which induced him in his pre sent state of health to :attend the meeting. —(Load opplunse.) The Marquis of LANSDOWN said, that the meet• ing could owl suffer his Royal Highness to depart without expressing to hen their gratitude for his cotidescension in presiding in their Chair, as well ue the satisfaction they telt rat haviog Royal High. item's efficient support end - co-operation to promot. nig the objects of the Society. —(eipplotise.) The thanks of the lfociety carte then given by acclamation to Isis Royal lloghtiess, who acknow. hedged the grateful brow be entertained of slits tri bute of respect from so eidightened andommerous a meeting. 'rime 114‘1,444e tl, q witbdrew amid the cheers ""~.it~r and good wishes of The meeting fur the restoration of his health. a TAM AUCKLAND then took the Chair—.and Mr. Wutscorouce proposed the second Itero. lution. (Earl Grosvenor rose at the some instant, but resumed his seat.) He observed, that lie should net have p►essed himself then upon the attention of the meeting. filled as it was by personages of the first distinctionovere it wit that the second was the Resolution pot into his bawl, a n d Gentlemen like. himself were on occasions of this kind but the pow Mg instruments, as it wete. to the bands of the par- , ties more immediately combusting the meeting, to give effect to their views, and f d 1 into the places .aligned them. It was impes•ible to read the Re. solution he haul to submit without being shocked at the dreadful fact of 8.000 boys subsisting by the pinutler of the community. Ssich an increase of juvenile depravity could not be viewed without sensations of the deepest re ;•et.—(//i or, heae.)..... Stith aprenred from the information of the Society to be the melancholy fact. A 4 men and as Chris tians, they Iseult be shocked at the recital of so touch misery, and they were bound to attend to the claims of the poor notsl unfortunate youth that were devotee, to such prospects.— (I/earl—He, as a memleirof the I..egidature, took shame to himself for tint sooner hay* assisted m c.ithiug the atten tion of Pertiatnent to the germ national object of the education of the people of the country.— (Heue.)—lf flint education bad been hitherto more widely diffusive!, it might have preventrd many of these unfortunate boys from falling into that Mips of crime which now overwhelmed them. To release them, if possible, front such a stite, was not only n Christian duty—it was not alone no act of justice and a Moral obligation—but, strictly speaking. it was sit act of retribution which society owed three unfortunate and miserable The corruption mainly cense(' by the neglect of moiety, the eommonity were bound to root out. Dreadful . indeed had been the 'State of prisons when these boys were heretofore made their iomates. The novice in crime soon became the hardened assistant of the old and depraved villain. and became iu his turn the incorrieible adept. at corrupting other.—(dear, hear.j—To such an extent had juvenile depravity been found it violation of the law., that out of 55 convicts whom lie had himself seen under sentence of death in Neevgate. 13 were mete huyr.—(Hear, /tear.) —What was the remedy for such an evil ?—obviously that so efficiently ap plied by this humane and benevolent Society; it at once flashed conviction not alone upon the judg ment hat the heart.—(Hear.)—lt only remained then for that enlightened meeting to give tffict to u plan, not speculative in its nature, but oue sauce tioned by the strung test of ciii , c:7vlicc.—(Hear.) —The Hon. Gentleman then limbed :be caution, prudence, and iseratseurantie of the Committee, the Members of which pri.ceedt.id, step by step. until at length they load compiled such a mass of facts, and deduced from them such cogent and practice! conclusions, that it was impossible to retie; either their force or their application. They spoke at length in a voice of thunder, when at first but the still small voice of conscience" skewed the clearness us %%edits justness of their views.—(app/arse.)—lt was delightful to find that the Magistrates of the country so cordially co-ope rated in promoting the views of the Society. It was the glorious institution of the Magistracy of this country which so largely contributed to sus. lain its high repotetion, and distinguish it from other 'tattoos of the world ; it wits the enlightened station anol active efforts of the 113gistracy. bind ing as they did the great mass of the community to them with the strong ties which the assurance of support and protection were so well calculi:ter, to cement ; it was their wirendaney and influence, rind the confidence they inspired, which gave this country so decided an advantage over ethers Celt had not the advantage of the same frame of society.— (opplente.)—lt was most gratifying, he repeated, to see the Magistrates so ready to give effect to the views of the Society.—(Hear.)—lle rejoiced that this great Christian plan of doing good had been reared, and thus it had pleased Providence lie should have lived to have taken a part in its erection.— It emanated, he knew, from among that respectable class of persons (we believe of the Society of Friends) who lore to do good in private (np. planse)—but whose work had at length grown so large, that it became 114 it were the property of the public. It was at such a moment that his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester did honour to himself, while he did honour to them in stepping forth to become their Pat roit.—( Loud applause.)— They must know aid feel the value of such support. Many, ninny years had now elapsed suttee the be nevolent Mr. Howard published his work, and called the attention of the country to the state of its prison.. Much feeling was excited at the time, but owing to the want of its being tsikeit up in a public-spirited manner, attention died away, and the subject was forgotten. At a distrust interval came another man, who followed the stages of Mr. Howard, he alluded to his late excellent frisiol, Mr. Neild, whose hotnane and benevolent labours, though ineffeetuel in their time, were now most fortunately followed up hr other intlividunls. In this manner and by those exertions the abuses of the existing system became publicly known, and the remedy equally apparent. It was, indeed, chi merical to suppose that pity human efforts would totally banish vice and crime, but it was obvious that the evils which arose from depravity may be materially mitigated, mud that many of the wretched objects who were corrupted may be reclaimed . for the common good of society.—(Hear, hear.) — The remedy was the diffusion of moral and reli gious education among those who had mifortu nate.y commenced their career without the enjoy ment of such blessings; that experience had shewn was the first step to he taken to fecal the erring mind from the evil courses to which it was limn tunately led by vice, and the contagion of bad example. The reform of the female offenders in Neergair, was a memorable instance of the efficacy with which the plait of this Society worked. It was know', by experience that the corruption of the' best things became the worst ; so in the female cha racter,their vices because, whims abandoued to bed habits, the most deplorable, and yet yielded to the great corrective of this Society, in the admirable and most praiseworthy fitatitirr Sir which it had been applied. The Hun. Gentlemen concluded amid great applauie, by proposing the id Resolution. Mr. Sruasit IBesi xt, in seconding this too. •• • •-. Lion, livid, that if hi. lion. Friend, whose !Urgent wu so long known an d a pp er etited, felt esoltaremie ed at the valuation in which be mood, hose iiih more so must not lie feel, who had none of the 'drool. ingest which so eminently distinguished his Hon. Foetid. fie fully and most cordially agreed in all that had fallen from the pereensages Who had pre. ceded him respecting the great importance of the object of the Society, and the practical applicabi iit*.of:the means which they spotted to carry, their views two effect. He spoke tint without some ex ► - perieur.e. for 1w had peen the success of their plan when storoduced by his lion. Ftireirl (Sir Thomas Boone) in the county gaol near the vtace where he resided in the country. lie was therefore perfectly satisfied that such a pion, when generally adopted, could not fail to produce the most important ad- , vantages to society at large.—(Hear. hear./ The second Resolution was then carried unatti meusle. Earl GROST6NoIt then rose to propose the third Resolution. and explained that whet, lie hail lately risen, it was under a mistake into which he had been led by the numerical order of the Resolu tion pot into his bawl. He was gratified that his lion. Friend (sir. Wilberforce) hail preceded Mina for hula reinviued for lion to trouble the meeting with, Idler the able expositions they hail heard of the humane and benevolent objects of the Society. lie was sere they felt the obligation they owed their late Itluitrious Chairman. who manifested, notaitithe standing the severity of his indisposition. so deep ass interest in their booties', as to have attended that day.—(!:real applense.)—lt was another matinee of the active benevolence of the Royal House-to which lie belonged—(blear. hear)—and who were on all occasions the active patrons of every great anti benevoletit.object.—(Applause.)—The walls of that Hall were decorated with- the portraits of those illustrious persons who so often took an active part 1 1 in the promotion of public projects. The Noble ' Earl cowhide/I, amid great applause, by stating, that though be was not much in the habit of per. tonally, atteuding public .meetings, yet he was always glad to be a contributor for the promotion of the object they had in-view. He warmly en forced upon the meeting the necessity of sopped hag the funds of the Society. Dr. LUSHINGTON said, that in seconding the Re solution which hat been proposed by the Noble Lord, he trusted lee should be allowed to offer a few words, which perhaps were peculiarly called fur from him—because, having been a member of the Committee originally aretenised, lie had perhaps a more than ordinary opportunity of observing the necessity that existed for an institution of this na. tare. Tiiey had board frost his Hon. Friend (Sir. Buxton), that thtlabouro of the Committee had been at first direcTed to an inquiry into the causes and progress of juvenile delinquency ; and the re stilt of their investigation chewed nut only its ex istence, but that it was continuing and increa.ing every day and hour. To check the progress of an evil in its consequences the most alarming, as striking at the very root of national morality, secs. rity, and happiness, was the earliest object of the Committee, particularly till the Legislature had applied itself to stop it as far so human totems could. They soon discovered that one of the causes of the evil they so much deplored was, that when juvenile offenders, who had bees, committed for trifling offences. or light mistlemeatiote, were discharged from Newgate, or similar places in the metropolis, they were alwolotely left without any honest means of subsistence or maintenance. It was not unkimwit to the persons then assembled. that for tonne years past an utiostial difficulty had existed to the worming of employment ; how much then lens that diftidtitty enhanced to persous thrown on the world without friends, without character. and, from their tender age, devoid of the prutleisce, experience, or even power to avail tbetneelves of she }nited rowers of industry which dad exist (/fear.) —What had been the consequence of turn. ing Imp of that age loose on society without aiso guidance or assistance ? Was if not plein that they of necessity returned to their former habits.-slat they were d.iven to renew their depredations to tap. port life—and that they terry day sunk deeper and deeper into crime and vice, and became more th e destruction of themselves sod the bane of society? . It was in order to provide a receptacle for youthful offenders in such circumstances that an I mplication hod been made to the Society for the Relief of the ' Destitute. It was. as they had been informed, sue cessful—a honer was obtained. That Institution had been osilytwo years in action. It was to be under.tood, however, that it wall no otherwise con nected with the Society for the Relief of the I3esto we than being on the same premise.. In that short epaCe of time spot less thin 410 individtials had been received within it ; out of thieve airy. eight had been restored to their friends or their parishes; several others had been disposed of in various suitable ways ; eighteen 'only aheceuded ; and there were remaining in the estehlishment thirteen. Almost every cane of these were persons who had violated the laws of society. and of the whole but twenty might be said to have Miami ducted themselves,—(hirer., hear,- hosr.y...Batt even vupposibg that the great majority of the people ill yotestinut had tclepsell kites the Ara of I vice and misery. I:teh they held been before immersed, would it not lie worth while to make an effort to rescue the remainder ? IViss it not equally their duty and their mit-outage to - do so? Was there a more noble or more beneficial employment in the world than the suppression of clime, and the reclaiming of the criminal ? What a glorious ob ject, considered either with referent , - to the unfor tunate criminal himself, the persons who availed themselves of such a godlike opportunity of doing good, or to society at large ! Even on the sparrow principle of peblic economy, hushing was snore de- serving of encouragement than that which would add to the stock of general labour and productive industry, and diminish the depredation mod destruc tion of property by the indoleet.—(Heare hea r .) — Dal he was carry to say that the Nude of the Com mittee were so contracted, , that many individuals who most earnestly applied fur admission, were ne reasenly -refined it, and the most !minim' task the Committee Watts perform was, to keep their doors closed against numerous applicants truly dens. titnte. Therefme he said, thpt no' better pr higher object could be proposed to. a benevolent public than to enable them to multiply the beater fits of the Institution, to enlarge their tillotte si • reeeiviug the . peniient Mid isidigutt, and snatching from the gulf of poverty, guilt, snd contsniinit. Lion, many a fellow-cresture.—(Hear, rhould nest beg leave to Fey a few words on the propriety and duty of reclaiming those ill-Curd early delinquent.. There were many persons wh o had never iii the course of their lives an opportu. nity of seeing or doincv.J.S.-they might to d 0.... who were kit from infant, without good exampi., education, advice, or any one motive or incentive to good conduct—who.-tinteset of beiu trained ht. their parents to the practice of virtue and mora!vi , were inst meted in the exercise of &sedan(' iquitt. To mention floe instance in il'austretlen : A boy . 0' eight years of age had lately come under the now. , of the Society, whose enothor was still living, at did worse than completely neglect him, that had abrade been at no lees than eighteen police Ac e , on different charges.—( 1 fear.) -11* said the a child so circumstanced was au outcast from so. Lett, vud ht saute further, that society should pot do its duty if it abandoned the care of such a heipi (Hear. to.-ae.)—Who was there of all those thAt enjoyed the blessings of careful nurture, and early religious and moral education, tint had never strait. ed ? Wes it surprising then that thitse who had never heard religion or good morals mentioned but for purposes of ridicule, who had never heard one good advice, or Cecil one good example. should mire the tight path ? Throe things ought to be known and rrffected on. It lease-serious subject for the consideration of the Legislature, whether the expense of building a permanent plice of reformation of youthful offenders would not be re. paisl in the results with great interest. Such :in institution was most called for in London. 1)r. Lashington then indulged its an anticipation of happy results of the diffusion of thee, Immune sod liheral otnittnarnts over every (porter of the amid, the held of which, he owned, would never he ex tiorguislwd—inid cosicbaded by expressing hie hearty concurrence in the Revolution, which was put and carried unanimously. T. 11:A RING then rose to propose the beet He.* onlution.'seid addressed the Meeting, but weregret to ray Hist molly of his remarks escaped to, in con sequence of the low tone of voice ill winch they were delivered. The elision and trlrj-ets o he sans. of the institution. bad liras urged by the Gentle. man wilo had spoken heforehim with a power and eloquence which t was Ware carried conviction to every mind—.(f/ear l ..hear)--and he .trusted thrt throe who had heard them, would on their parts afford that protection and support which was neces sary to enable the Society to proceed in their hu mane course, and effect their excellent view,. [Here the floss. Baronet paused a little limo, n o . patently from the iliflitence of stroi D ns fethite./ lie kit himself so th e situation of being guile overpowered by the presence of so !loge and re spectable au assemblage met to promote so noble a purpose, and the force of these feeling. was in creased by the terms in which his Hon. Friend (11r. Buxton) had spoken of his own humble serriett. The legitimate end of ell punishment ors to Ene cent crime, but he could not help sayiog `lint prisons of this COMA ry had been hitherto, tiMorronlic be might say, to the utter-perversion of their true uses, so flimsy schools of crime, so many semina ries of iniquity, where the young delinquent woo confirmed ill Iris former vicious propensities, taught new criminal habits. and from thence sent adrift on I society, in most instances worse than when he hot been apprehended. The prison its which his ow n humble exertions had been made was our of those examined by his Hots. Friend (Mr. Batumi), a n d an outline of the system there pursued was contains. ell in the valuable work winch be had Rivets the. I public—a work which ably poi n ted nut the error. and evils of the old, and the juiproreme n t, rind • irefits of the new course of discipline. The nu tetioe trainees at that gaol were now completely chi retro! from what they had been some time before. The very hest effectihod Rowed I the new classo. &Mims of Vie pritiotiers. is Hoo..Frieritl 11411,43 Fri; thAt a charge had been ins& against the Society re lative Is the species of treatises! sad discipline re_ commended by them, which,* bad expreEteil his opinion was without foundation. Ile was sore. however, that such a charge email not have been made with the intimation of obstructing .the At tainment of their eitiosete ohjeet, and v.!!1!e they were anxious to introduce of reform into their prisons, •ilney should lir ware of falling into so opposite extreme. lExtrerino were natural to man. The exteriors of our o tot now bad the appearance of stately edifices, Mill he thought it possible t ha t in the interior matigionee; of their prisons they might commit tire same error a in their outward construotioiss. fitful sod lulicrat treatment might be carried to such a latch tliat the loss of liberty alone would not be sutfictent to deter all persons from stoking n refuge to a gnol. • They could not go toil for in hist monist sod rota-. cation. but they might excued in iiitiolo,unce. The consequences of improved discipline no the it..l4.ttlet roamed in dor goal of the enmity «here In. no 'lest. and to which he had It-fore were more *to- Me on males than females. The meson wis clr Winne—it wag •beconse they had been utile to bemt , v , much more attention and vigilaoce no the milt than the women.—(Herre n hear, hear.)--fle !riot ed that it would unit hr !nog adore a s ociety of Lashes solidi! he eidislitisficrl there for di-• solwriotendeoce of the feta Alec —(1 hoe, hour.} —Front the experiment garde in the I ___e.ropo..s, .ii• lied no doubt t h at the ben fir ial von.etriences ars.- ing from it would be similar. • The Hon. Dermot then stud an extract from a reoort of the stale of the gaol to which he list! berere elludril, draft it tip tor himself, sir winch snoi...uggeoion was st t and enforced. After 1..... remarks sin rise Route- , tiro' he ruse 10 latl:c!I was of tono nder.ible length, he expresscd lots ilishility to read it. rind rro quested that that task w o uld b e undertaken ty tie Gentlemen* who wits to 'tetrad it. Accordingly, Mr. It o n.I.IAN A r.r.oe, .of the Sort ty ~1 Friends, was then called On by the Ch u n mon. OtAf after reading the Rego:whin, otos., .rel, that alter the very able manner in which the sorhject hid heels bronght forward _sod urged on th. Meeting by' die Geeslin:mesa wino had prsooolori loin, he was ready 'n shrink from the task.-(titeers.)—But on lookl'or around . hint he saw tine faces of those whom be hart the happioo., to all his friend,. awl who were al ways preatent and foremost where any object was propelled fur the semi of usaiikind—fiker)— , therefore lie was eseooraged to proceed. sad tray .to . the inilidgeote of his motham..—( Hero .).I.IY as 6 it now, Weed, in tali f> teceth centory, fed Edge I I pp _~v ~.~ '. _i_.--. -.•._ ____ ,s - • 1 _7l _. -r.#.