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ANDREW FRANCIS, tsecretary. 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. • NEW SYSTEM OF LIFE ASSURAYCE THE DIRECTORS of the NATIONAL ASSURANCE awl INVESTMENT ASSOC:IA TlON'inv;to attention to the New System of Life Assurance exclusively adopted by this Association. viz., that of allowing Interest of Pretutiims paid, instead of the remote and uncertain system of Bil'h uses atilledly Adopted. By this plan the Policyhaider will secure to himself a constantly Increasing annual income during lie, as well as the payment of the sum assured to his representatives at his death. Tables of Rates specially adapted to this system o f Assurance may be obtained at the Office of the Company, 3, Pa 1-n - tall East, or for Warded free on application. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. T ~. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE SO LONDON. Policies effected with this Society now will PAnTICIPATE TN YOUR-FIFTFIS, or 80 per cent., of the Net Pros of the Society, accordingio the conditions contained in the Society 'a Prospectus. The . 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From Landon and back.. •••.• . £3 10 .... £2 10 „ Leamtngto•i and do • • •••• • .. 2 15 2 0 „ Oxford and • • 210 .... 115 Tourists• Tickets are available by any train, but are not trans ferable, and they do not entitle the holder to travel twice in the same direction over any portion of the lines of railway. LONDON and NORTZWESTER N RAILWAY. TOURISTS' TICKETS, ISSUED IMITIL THE 15TH OCTOBER. NORTH WALES. Tickets, available for THREE WERKM, enabling* the holder to Stop at Rhyl, Conway, Bangor. Caerna.Tvon, and Holyhead, either going or returning, ire issued at the following fares by the through trains. The First-class Tickets are available by any train, and the Second by each trains as have second-class carrityses attached. Ist Class. 2d Class. Londox to Holyhead and back..... 43 10 0 .... 42 10 0 Oxford to ditto and back.... 210 0 .... 115 0 Peterborough} Birmingham to ditto and back. 2 0 0 .... 110 0 Wolverhampton to ditto and back.... 115 0 .... 1 7 0 To Tim LAKES OF WESTMORELAND ANT) CUMBERLAND Tickets, available for THREE WEEKS, to the above Lakes, arc Issued at the following Rims by the thxough Trains. The First class Tickets are available by any train, aud the Second by such trains as have second-class carriages attached :• Ist Class. 2d Class. London to Windermere and back.. •• £3 11 0 .... £2 10 0 Oxford Peterborosghl to ditto and back.... 215 0 .... 2 0 0 Birmingham to ditto and back .. •• .. 2 5 0 .... 115 0 Wolverhampton ........ ••• • . ..... 2 0 0 .... 112 0 To THE FAVOURITE LANCASHIRE WATERING PLACES, LYTHAM, BLACKPOOL, FLEETWOOD, OR souTavoar. Tickets, available for THREE; WEEKS, are issued by the ordinary trains of the Company. The First-Class are available by any train, and the Second by such as have second-class carriages attaehed. Ist Class. 2d Class. From London •• • £3 0 0 ..•• £2 5 0 „ Oxford 1 - - - 2 5 0 .... I 15 0 „ Peterborough 5 ~ Birmingham 7 115 0 .... 1 8 0 „ Wolverhampton j _ _ From Fleetwood Royal all Steamer sails every evening (Snndav excepted) for Belfas , , and Weekly Excursion Tickets are issued at the Steam Packet Office for Belfast, Armagh, the Giant's Causeway, and back. EXCURSIONS TO THE SEA SIDE. Tickets, available for TWENTY-EIGHT DAY 4, are issued by the Ordinary trains of the Company. The First-Class are available by any train, and the Second by such trains as have second-cIE.Ss car riages attached, to Harrowgate, Scarborough, Whitby, Filey, or Bridlington. 11AR RO WGATE and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 435. ; Second Class, 32 5. 60 . SCARBOROUGH and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; Second Class, 355. 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The proceedings of the conference of the friends and advo cates of this important national movement were brought to a close last evening by a public meeting, which was held in the Victoria-rooms, Clifton; Lord Stanley presiding. There were assembled on the occasion many hundreds of the supporters of the reformatory system, the necessity of establishing which on a broad legislative basis appears at length-to be very generally felt throughout the country. Among those present were Lord R. Cecil, M.P., Sir J. Pakington, M.P., Sir S. Northcote, M.P., Mr. Adderley, M.P., the Mayor of Bristol, the High Sheriff .of Somerset shire, Mr. Barwick Baker, Mr. S. Cana, Mr. W. Miles, M.P.., the Rev. Sydney Tallier, the Rev. Canon Girdle • stone, Mr. C. Ratcliffe, Mr. W. Gillen, Dr. English, &c: Lord STANLEY, having taken the chair, said —Ladies and Gentlemen,—We are met here for the purpose of discussing the object, and, in so far as may lie within our power, of promoting the cause of juvenile reformatories. There are others present on this platform who may claim far more than I can claim to have taken an early, an active, a prac tical, and a leading part in. this movement. They will in turn address you, and tell you what has been done; and as it was my fortune yesterday, addressing a meeting, not in deed as numerous as that to which I have the honour to address myself here, to dwell at some length and in full detail on the past and present history of this cause, I shall content myself now with only so brief a summary as it is absolutely needful in order to lay before you the present position of this movement. In England and Wales there were, by the last returns, yearly coming under the hands of the law about 99,000 prisoners. Of those the number set down as juvenile offenders —that is to say, as being under 17 years of age—was about 11,400. You will not be far wrong, taking it in round numbers, if you say that our yearly return of criminals in England and Wales is 100,000, and upon that number the juvenile offenders are 114 per cent. Now, of that number it is shown in the same return that about 4,000 are recommittals e —that is to say, they are known to have been in prison before. But, besides the number so set down, it is a matter of every-day experience that a very large number, changing their residence, as va grants and criminals doe from place to place, are officially returned as being committed for the first time, whereas, in point of fact, they have been before under the hands ,of justice. Probably a large percentage, therefore, must be added to the list of official recommittals. The number of first offenders is therefore, in all probability, not more than one-half of that yearly 11,500. I will not trouble you with the data on which these calculations are founded, or go through the arguments by which they are preyed. It is enough to say that those whose accuracy may be relied upon, and who have paid the greatest attention to the subject, tell you that the number of juvenile offenders, exclusive of trivial cases, where a reformatory is not necessary-- the number that you have yearly to deal with falls between 2,000 and 3,000. Now, under the law as it stands, the ut most period for which juvenile offenders may be committed is five years; the majority, however, are not intended to remain, and will not remain, in a reformatory school for more than one-half to two-thirds of that period. You may take three years as an average, and the calculation is, if you intend this reformatory movement to be effectually and properly carried out, that you will have sooner or later to provide accommodation in these schools for about 10,000 children at one time. The great difficulty which wo have always met with in advocating this cause of re formation is the doubt which many persons entertain as to the possibility of reclaiming ono who is framed and trained to criminal habits. I think our course has in some respects suffered by the mixing up of two questions essentially and in their natures distinct. There are persons, many of them able men, all of them benevolent men—there are many, both of the present and of the last generation, in this and in other counties—who have devoted their energies to the reformation of adult criminals sentenced to periods of imprisonment. God forbid that I should lead such benevolent persons to despond in their endeavours; that is not my purpose ; but at the same time we say—and none are more ready to admit it than those who themselves have taken part in such efforts—that the difficulty of that task is far greater than when you Beal with the young; the proportion of success is much smaller, the proportion of failures is much greater. The difference between the two cases is riot merely one of degree-Obey differ altogether in their natures. The adult criminal—one who, after arriving at man's estate, has habitually and successfully practised a life of crime—can hardly do so in entire ignorance of the moral character of his pursuits, or of the opinion which society has formed of him. Of course ignorance and bad training are some excuse for him, but he must be to a cer tain extent criminal in intention as well as in act. But our case is that among juvenile offenders there are many-- in all probability a large majority of the number—who though criminal, deeply criminal in act, can hardly be said to bo so in intention. (Cheers.) Various tables la we been prepared with reference to this aubj Jet, differing a little from one another, bat showing nearly similar results. In one case it was shown that, of DO eriariuels, 75 per cent., three-fourths of the whole, half been either directly led into crime, or so neglected as that others had an opportu nity of leading them into crime, by their parents. Au other similar calculation, made in 'Manchester some years ago, gave nine in ten of the criminals whose cases were in vestigated as the children of dishonest, criminal, or profli gate parents, and only 10 per cent., or one in ten of the number, as the children of honest parents. All these figures and many more computations of the same character agree in this—that in crime, as in the analogous case of pauper. ism, there is a very strong tendency to become hereditary ; and the inference we draw from that is, that there is a large proportion of the whole number of juvenile crimi nals who are so from circumstances and not from choice, whose organisation, whose character does not more incline them to dishonesty than does that of others who have never come under the sentence of the law, but who, from the accident of their social position, have never Lad the chance given them, from the time of their birth, of obtain ing their livelihood by honest means. They are known, they are marked in the places where they reside; honest children will not associate with them, respectable em ployers will nothave anything to say to them, for another boy to be seen with them is a stigma—a mark of not being respectable. That is their position ; they grow up thieves, not because they want to be thieves, but because they have literally no option offered to them. Now, you see at once, if we can make out that case—and we believe there is a mass of evidence to substantiate it there is no reason to despair of the reformation of those who are brought within our reach under those circumstances. We do not want to over state our case; it is not fair, and it never answers to do so. We quite agree that among the entire number there may be some who are wholly, or very nearly so, incorrigible. Wo quite admit the existence of such cases. All we say is, that they are the minority, and the curable cases are the majority; and even as regards those who are themselves incorrigible, we conceive that a certain advantage is gained in placing them where they have not an opportunity of cor rupting others. I may repeat, in passing, an instance, to which I alluded yesterday, of a lad, an inmate of a refor matory, who had trained, formed, educated to thieving eight other lads, all of whom were expert thieves ; so that oven in the case of the incorrigible there is something gained when you can isolate them so that less criminal youths cannot come within their influence. Criminality does not, as we believe, follow the ordinary law of supply and demand ; it does not at all follow that, because you have a certain amount of property, and only a certain num ber of police to guard it, you will always have a certain and fixed amount of crime. We believe—and the experience of at least one town where a reformatory has been for some time in active operation confirms our opinion —that when you have once succeeded in clearing the streets, as it were, of these regular, trained, educated criminals, you willjiind that the cases of crime with which you will have to deal in future will be fewer in number and less difficult to deal with in point of quality. Now what has been the actual success obtained in reformatory institutions in our own and other countries? Mettray, the great reformatory of France, has recovered 89 per cent., and of the 11 per cent. who relapsed a certain proportion were again in the way of recovery. There are many cases av here relapses are only temporary, and the percentage they bear upon the whole number of boys should not therefore be a subject of alarm or discouragement to the promoters of the movement. You aro probably aware of the extent to which the Legislature has taken up this movement. Tho law gives power to the magistrates to send boys, not exceeding 16 years of age, to reformatories for a period not exceeding five years. The State grants ss. weekly-131. 10e. a-year for their sup port. It endeavours to recover that from the parents, and by the minute of last June large and liberal assistance is afforded in other shapes to those who desire to set up and carry on reformatory schools. The object of the Na tional Reformatory Society is to ren ler the law practically available. We want to put its provisions in force, we want to assist in the establishment of new reformatory schools where they are needed ; we want to give facilities for corn paring the various methods iu use at the different schools ; we want to furnish opportunities for the discussion of the general subject; we want, if changes in the law should ,be required, to discuss those changes; and, which is most im portant of all, we wish to furnish to those inmates of re formatory schools who in course of time will leave them a fair opportunity of getting a start in life and of obtaining respectable employment. (Loud cheers.) W e h ave some times been asked to include within the scope of our ope rations the other subject of adult reform. That, I confess, I should be unwilling to do. I attach great importance to keeping the two distinct. I think, if we were to go be yond that line of operations which we have immediately traced antler ourselves we should• run some risk of di minishing our own utility by attempting too much, anti by combining the more hopeful with the less hope- ful cases, might, I will not say incur the prejudice, but to some extent might be held accountable for failures, which in the other enterprise are inevitable. (Cheers.) There may be a future field of operations open to us in connection with that wide question of industrial schools for vagrant children. It is a question at present rather for the Legislature than for society ; therefore we would gladly receive information and accept discussion upon it ; we at present, so far as practical action is concerned, confine our selves rather to cases of schools, reformatory iu their ch. , - rector, provided for criminal children. In discussing this subject there are three general heads under which the whole inquiry falls. First, on what conditions and in what manner are children to be admitted to reformatory schools ? Secondly, on what principles aro those schools to be conducted ? Thirdly, when the boys come to leave the schools, what is to become of them ? As to the first ques tion, we have had here and elsewhere very animated and important debates upon the question of previous impri sonment. By the law as it stands it is necessary that a boy should have been convicted before he enters a refor matory school—should have gone through a short term of imprisonment. There are some of our friends who think that should not be made compulsory upon magistrates, but that it should be left optional with them. There are others who think that in every case a boy should be sent at once to a reformatory. On the one hand, it is contended that there is danger, in sending a boy to gaol, of affecting his mind withlhe idea that he has - received his allotted punishment for his offence, and is therefore entitled to his liberty; that the superadded detention in a reformatory is looked upon as so great a hardship that it materially in terferes with the success of the system. On the other hand it is urged that a short period of separate confinement gives the boy time for reflection, and that he comes again into the society of other boys, even though that society be accompanied with hard fare and hard labour, with a feeling of pleasure rather than of pain. If I were to ex press any opinion of my own upon the subject, which I would do with great deference, I should ha inclined to steer a middle course,—to apply the previous imprison ment in some cases, but 10 leave it as an optional matter with the magistrates, instead of, as at present, making it compulsory on them to commit to prison. The next branch of the subject relates to the actual management of these schools. Boys are detained for periods varying from two to five years. They are taught habits of hard work and indus trial occupation; in some cases being made to learn a trade; in other cases, as in the Ship Reformatory at Liverpool, they are prepared for service et sea. It is held—l think rightly—as an essential point that he is to be lodged and treated generally in the simplest and plainest manner, so that no honest parent need have any cause to envy, on be half of his owu children's condition, the condition of the convicted child. That is a point on which we lay great stress. (Cheers.) Another fundamental rule is, that where you have a large number of boys the " family system' should be adopted, the.system of associating together not more than 40—probably not so many -=boys in one house under one teacher, so that the personal character and personal influence of the superintendent may have their effect, and his personal supervision exercised over all. Another important rule is the obtaining from parent; wherever it is possible, either the whole or part of thesnm which Government pays for the maintenance of the child. This system puts a check on parents who, anxi ous to get rid of the responsibility of maintaining their children, put them in the way of being committed and sent to these schools. Another question, on which to some extent there is a difference of opinion, relates to the cha racter of the instruction to be given. I, for the most part, hold most strongly, and shall always express my opinion most openly, that the training ought to be of the plainest and simplest character. The objectyou have in vie w is not au intellectual object—it is a moral object. Ido not hesi tate to say that, on the whole, it would be a disadvantage rather than a benefit if any large number of those who had been trained in reformatories were to rise far above their class and become eminent members of society. One would nut regret it on account of the boys themselves, but for the danger of exciting in the minds of honest parents a degree of envy as to the fate of their own offspring. (Cheers.) The last point on which I would touch is the very important question—What is to become of the children on their dis missal ? There are various methods in which their services may be made available. There is the field of ordinary agri cultural occupation at home ; there are the colonies ; there is the chance of admission into the army and navy ; and there is the merchant service at sea. Now, what I say of one of those outlets applies equally to all—that you must take great care not to introduce to them these criminal elements in such proportions that the influx shall be noticed and made a subject of comment. The great rule you must adopt is to scatter these children abroad as much as possible. But if it were made a practice —in the army or navy, for instance—that such a percentage should be composed of these criminals, there would be a feeling that the profession was lowered in the public estimation, and would seriously affect the chance of enlistment from among other classes. We all know what has been the feeling in several Of the colonies on the subject of transportation to their shores; is has been overdone, and there is now so strong a feeling against it that to a groat extent we are debarred from availing ourselves of the sys tem of outlet. A. valuable suggestion was made to-day that in every leading colony, where friends to this cause may be found, agencies should be established. I think the plan is practicable, but I repeat that great caution must be exer cised. (Cheers.) Whet has boen accomplished as yet with regard to this reformatory movement ? lam sorry to say, if you look to actual results, not much as yet. I am afraid there is a little misapprehension on this point. I believe the actual state of the case to be this—that the number of boys in the reformatory does not exceed 600 or 700; the number of girls lee; 'but though the results ac tually accomplished are small, there is a great deal doing; all the counties, or nearly all, are exerting themselves, well-informed teachers are called for in all directions, and it is with a view to increasing the progress of the movement that these meetings are held an I Viet this society exists. (Cheers.) I must just add a word with reference to another institntion similar in kind to ours, which calls itself the Reformatory and Refuge Union. The difference between that society and ours is as to its mode of operation. It is established on a basis somewhat more sectarian than outs. Our principle is unsectarian. We exclude no one on account of diversity of theological opinion ; but, feeling as I do that our real danger in this causes arises from apathy, frosts indifference, and from neglect, I for one shall quarrel with no display of sectarian zeal out of this society, which may have the effect of ad vancing the cause. (Cheers.) The two societies work in friendship, differing only in their methods of doing the work. I will just mention before I sit down a trivial acci dent which occurred yesterday, and which I regret. An official document was read at the meeting yeaterday, con taining some remarks with reference to the difference of opi nion between the two societies. That document was printed by mistake from a rough_ draught, and not from the copy which was ultimately approved and adopted. It contains some expressions relating to that institution which do not at all convey our feelings on the subject. The two societies work distinctly, because they think by so doing they can do more, and I should very much regret that it should be in ferred that there is any hostility between us. As to the assistance you can give to thi s movement, of course pecu niary aid is i m p or t a nt ; b u t there is another support you can afford, namely, in the provision for those boys who will shortly be leaving the R eformatory. The difficulty of disposing of them does not press upon us, but we ought to take early precaution to provide for the necessity when it arises, and I would suggest that the best and most practical service which any one can render us is to express a wil lingness—which they can do by addressin g the secretary— to provide employment for at least one of the boys who will be leaving our schools. i have laid before you an out line of the subject we have at heart, and I shall now listen with pleasure to those who have to bring before you the results of a much earlier and much mare practical experi ence in connection with the movement than mine has been. (The noble lord resumed his seat amid loud cheers.) Lord R. CNCIL rose to move the first resolution, and observed that he had neither an -earlier, a more active, nor a more practical connection with this movement than their noble chairman ; but he felt earnestly upon it, and was anxious to do what he could to forward it. (Cheers.) It was not until last year that any rchem e was formed for uniting the efforts of all in one common cause and kluging them into one common centre. Ue could not, in justice to the history of their cause, pass by a fact t o w hi c h th e noble lord had alluded, and which might at first sight ap pear painful, but which was a matter f or congratulation and encouragement. At the time of the formation of this society there was another society in London having a simi lar object, and it was, in the first instance, considered a more waste of force that two societies could exist. It w as , therefore, eedeavoured to form a uniarbet between them, but, that was soon found to be impracticable, ill consequence of the society in London having resolved to confine their efforts to a single class of the Christian community. Highly respecting their motives, and wishing well to the cause they had undertaken, st ill it was felt that this so cicty would be abandoning the object it had in view if it were to adopt the principle of exclusion which had been sanctioned bytthe London society. He was very anxious not to be misunderstood on this point, or th a t it s h ou ld be thought that this society was, insensible to the all-im portant necessity of religion. Religion mu s t h a the teacher'e motive for hie self-denying life ; religion must be the in spiring genius and spirit of his teaching ; religion must in reality bo the sole cause of the pupil's cure. Without it the best machinery and the best organised staff woul t in evitably fail ; with it, an ill-organised staff and an leeriest intellect might often succeed ; neither was he willing to tic cept the imputation that they regarded with less earnest ness than those who took another course in this matter— the principles of their own faith. They were as deeply attached to all the points of their belief as those why. Adopted a different principle for their guidance. But the desire of the society was that the sad rending of Christen dom should not add this to all its other evil deeds—that it should not prevent theta rescuing from a life of misery here, and a life of woe hereafter, the heathen whom they were rearing up in the streets. Ho did- not think, there fore, that in adopting the course the society hat done they were showing any Lick of regard for religion, or that they were traitors to the cause they served. (Cheers.) Their noble chairman had observed that the two societies were not rivals, but rather colleagues in the same cause. The two societies moved in different paths and had diffe rent spheres of action. The Refuge Union had been mainly supported by private charity without any aid from Government to succour the outcast boys in the streets ; it had less connection with reformatory institutions than this society, and its sphere of action max mainly in London, where those whom it sought to succour wore exposed to many dangers from which the more rural retreats wera free. It had so happened that most of those friends of the reformatory system who wore members of Parliament be longed to their society, and consequently one great task— and one which would form the main part of their efforts— would be to press upon the Legislature, at all needful con junctures, those changes and improvements that were ne cessary. rt must never be thought that they had got all from the Legislature which they required. There were many questions of vital importance which the society would be called upon t o di scuss and which the Legislature would have to entertain, and in the debates on which they would be glad to receive information from those qualified to give it. There was the question of preliminary punish meht, the question of apprenticeship, the question of edu cation, and the question connected with the furnishing an outfit for those who had passed their time in reformatory schools ; and, aboie all, the question of admitting to re formatory schools those who had not been convicted of crime, but who were (mind vag,ranta in the streets These were questions whicinnimt ibefore long attract the atten tion of, and seek solution from, the Legislature. The last question was one of an importence which could not be overrated. At pre s e n t th e meg i • t ra t es h a d no power to seize children who had not committed any crime. But it should be remembered that. many of those children who had not yet been convicted of crime were almost cer'tain of being led to the commission of it, in the case of those parents who had by their neglect nearly sacrificed all their parental right over them; and he thought the society would be doing much towards diminishing juvenile crime if tkey were to clear the streets of the groat towns of those who were its main feeders. There was another subject men tioned in the sections, in which, as far as that union was especially concerned, they might well be proud. They might well be proud to have among their number a lady whom he might call the Female Reforiner in this matter— Miss Carpenter. He thought it would become the duty of that society to aid in the solution of the greatest, problem in the reformatory cause. They had been very anxious about the reformation of boys; but they ought to bo ten fold as anxious about the reformation of girls. Little at tention had been given to it, but it was important, because it went directly to theroot of the whole of their educational system. Many saw in it the key to the great educational problem itself. Enormous sums of money had been spent to support the system, but what they imparted was not edu cation —it was only instruction. What else could they give by teaching in schools ? They never could give that constant, that never-sensing, that never-resting influence which nothing but a virtuous home could furnish. The mother made the home. A virtuous mother reared the vir tuous citizen or the virtuous housewife ; • while a vicious mother made the profligate boy 'or the abandoned girl. , Therefore it was that in the reformatory tichOols lay the main secret of the future reformation of the criminal popu lation of this country. As much more important as was the reformation of boys than the reformation of adults, so much more important was the reformation of girls than the reformation of boys. ••There was an agency as active and Ls constant in its operation in this country as theirs, but directed to an entirely contrary object. While there were reformatory institutions throughout the country, so there wero also regularly organised systems and institutions on the part of thieves to train up eladiren in their cause. Lie could not believe that this matter could for any lengthened period escape the attention of Parliament. (Cheers.) He had dwelt thus long on what he deemed to be the duties and objects incumbent on the Reformatory Union, because he was anxious to speak emphatically on one object which he thought the union ought not to under take. Many efforts had been made to induce them to join in tho cause of adult reformation. If they did it would be the ruin of their own cause, and for this reason—the whole question of secondary punishment must soon be opened. There were those who considered that crime was little more than a disease—not deserving of punishment, but that the p erson requ i re d t o b e cured ; so that the re formatory schools in their view were but so many moral hospitals. There wore two strong instincts in man's na ture against this reasoning. Punishment was considered to be retributive, and was felt to be sanctioned by a higher Power, who Himself punished evil and awarded good ; and, whether by reasoning or unreasoning, he believed there was scarcely a feeling more deeply rooted than this in the hearts of the English people. (Cheers.) But among the more educated and more practical and active portion of the people, and especially among the governing classes of this country, there was another strong feeling which the prison philosophers were opposing. It had hitherto been the opinion of the world that you kept men from ern.o by. doterring them. That feetiag Quin it was a hopeless circumstance to see efforts made, and to a great extent successfully made, not only to mitigate the effect of punishment, but to cause a strong reaction upon crime. But when this question of secondary punishment should be reopened, there would, he hoped, be a strong opposition against this, philosophical is might be, but cer tainly mistaken, opinion of certain able and no doubt amiable people. (Cheers.) The society had difficulties of their own to overcome, and prejudices of their own to work against; and they would commit a great mistake, and perhaps ruin that which they felt they could effect, if they were to attempt to do that which it was impossible for them to accompli (Cheers.) The noble lord then moved the following resolution That this meeting strongly appsoves the object of the National Reformatory Union." Sir J. PAKINGTON seconded the resolution. He congra tulated the society on the rapid progress which their cause had made. He thought this question of endeavouring to reclaim the youthful criminals of England might be spoken of as a novel question.• It dated mainly from two confer ences which were held at Birmingham in the years 1851 and 1851. It was his good fortune to take part in those conferences, and by the exertions made on the me eccis:ons public opinion had been aroused, and the subject had at length attained its present favourable aspect and position in the country. Their noble chairman had reminded them of the Philanthropic Society, the society in Warwickshire, and also the institution of Government at Parkhurst. Those were isolated attempts. Crime was accumulating. The youth of the country were swelling the amount of that crime; and he might safely say that, until these•conferonces at Birmingham, neither the opitnon of the public had ever been heard, nor the attention of the Legislature had ever been excited to the magnitude of the question. But they now stood in a very different position. The time had come when public opinion was decided upon the point, and when there was something like a national feeling aroused upon the subject. They ought, therefore, at once to strike at the root of crime by cutting of its supply. Miss Carpenter had told them of an instance of a child 8 years of age who was tried for housebreaking. He could mention an instance that came under his own observation in 1834, immediately after the first act of Parliament was passed. At the Wor cester quarter sessions, of which he was chairman, a little urchin was placed at the bar, which lie could scarcely look ever, and pleaded " guilty" to horse stealing. Tho little fellow hardly knew whether to laugh or cry. He (Sir "J. Pakington) availed himself of the act of Parliament and sent him for one year to prison, anti then sentenced him to 5 years' detention at the reformatory at Redhill, in Surrey. But what was his dismay when he found that, under the cumbrous machinery of that act, he could not send the child to an uncertified reformatory ; and the reformatory at Reilhill not happening to be certified, his punishment ended with the 12 months' imprisonment. Since then the boy had been in Worcester gaol again, and it might there fore be fairly said that the child's ruin might be traced to a blot in the act of Parliament which had since been cor rected by the exertions of Sir S. Northcote. Such facts had ha I their effect upon the public mind. What were the Feints urged at the conferences? First, the establish ment of reformatory s c h oo l s ; nex t, legislative assistance ; and lastly, that the Committee of Council on Ed ncation should aid with grants those schools. Every one of those objects were now accomplished ; the first, no doubt, very imperfectly, but there were reformatory schools to a great extent, and he trusted before long they would be spread all over the land. Parliament had enabled them to deal in a more rational manner with these unfortunate objects rather of compassion than of censure, and lately a minute had been passed by the Committee of Council by which a most liberal assistance had been allortled to the voluntary efforts to advance this great cause. (Cheers.) Although it was said that the reformatory system was on its trial, he thought he might say that it had manifestly succeeded. They had been told that both in this country and on the continent the system had been successful, and that they had redeemed from vicious courses and converted into use ful members of so c i e ty tW o -thi r di o f th e w h o l e o f the juve nile criminals confided to them. But this great achieve ment was not confined to Europe, for in the United States the success of the system had been most signal. (Cheers ) In 1849 4,397 boys and girls were received into tho New York Refuge, two-thirds of whom have been saved from ruin and reformed. At Philadelphia 2,250 were received in the same year into the House of Refuge, of whom the same favourable report was given. Thus they had demon strated that both in Europe and America the result of this groat movement was successful, and it only now remained for that union to push it further and to effect a still greater amount of good. He had heard something about alarm at the rnaguitude of the task. He could not help thineing that the British people and the Legislature, instead of being alarmed by its magnitude, would be rather stimulated to greater exertions. Miss Carpenter had suggested that it should be made compulsory to send to a reformatory all those who were committed on a second conviction—a most excellent suggestion, provided it was practicable. Although accommodation would bo required for 8, 0 00 children, yet they must not shrink from the task. If the work was to be carried out at all it must be douo with energy and per severance, and by all the appliances which a liberal empire ' and Legislature could bring to bear upon it. (Cheers.) The future relations between these reformatory institutions and the State was a subject that could not be evaded. He had heard some express a wish to repudiate the State altogether. The question would arise, were th ese institu tions to bo private schools or public institutions? He would not shut out voluntary exertion or voluntary ma nagement; but while he corieidered that the management of the gaols, the administration of the laws, and the sys tem of public education, as far as it w on t, was mancge d by local efforts, guided and aided by State counsel and State assistance, it was his opinion that in the future iperations of these reformatory schools they must act upon the same principle. He believed their object was one too ;Teat to be attained by voluntary - effol is only, and, since the State already made public grants to these schools, the State had not only the right, but it was its bounden duty tersonally to interfere with their management. (Cheers.) En conclusion, he hoped that th e groat assem bl y i n th at important town on this subject might bo productive of all he benefits they Tight possibly anticipate, and that in the result they might find this great cause as triumphant is its beat friends could desire. (Loud cheers.) The resolution was carried by acclamation. inst. siding Sir. S. NORTIICOTE moved the second resolution, and said that, in spite of all they had done during the last few lays, and notwithstanding the exhaustive and elaborate ;peaches of their noble chairman, ho felt that this was a subject so enormous and so growing-upon them that it could be said only to have been half Moused. Re begged In order to afford explanations on the accounts now pub lished to such proprietors as may desire them, the direc- tors and auditors will attend at the offices at London- bridge, from 12 to 2 p.m., on Wednesday next, the 27th NORTH-EASTERN. The half•yearly meeting of this company was hold at York yesterday ; Mr. U. S. Thompson, the Chairman, pre ... The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun. The motion for the adoption of the report was carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN next moved a dividend resolution of 4 per cent. on the Berwick stock, and 2A per cent. on the York stock, in accordance with the recommendation con tained in the report.—Carried nein. die. The next resolution was :—" That the agreement of the 15th of July last, for abandoning the proposed appeal re specting the Leeds preference shares, and for settling the lights Of the preference and other shareholders in the Leeds capital of this company, be confirmed ; and that the direc tors be authorised to apply the balance in hand, after pay ing the Leeds preference dividends for the past half-year, in the manner suggested in their report."—Carried. The directors were also authorised to apply to Parlia ment at the first convenient opportunity for powers to subscribe 15,0004 to the Dearness Valley Railway under taking, as voted by the general meeting in August, 1855. The meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman. LAST WEEK IN LONDON. VER. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES. TO-NIGHT and every evening, at 9.—The , :bove entertain ment has received novel additions, Vocal and Visual, including a New Loco-Joko- Xotive Lyric, entitled OFF BY THE PRAIA, illustrated by numerous changes, facial, lingual, and cor - oreal. Mr. W. S. Woo lin is Mrs. Florence, in the " Yankee Girl," with the soegs of " Bobbing around," and " Polly, won't you try me, oh !"—Polygraphic-hall, King William-street, Charing-cross. IRELAND. DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING. THE 18TH ROYAL IRISH. There is every rea , on to believe that the report is correct as regards the abandonment of the inten tion to deposit, =with certain ceremonials, the old colours of the Royal Irish in the Cathedral of St. Patrick. All the preparations for the affair were brought to a stop yesterday, and the temporary state entrance, platform, & - c., for the accommoda tion of the Vice-regal party taken away. Thus, by some mismanagement or other, what was meant by the authorities as a high mark of respect to the services of a national corps has been tortured into an Irish grievance, and the Dublin journals seem determined that it shall be no fault of theirs if a thoroughly sectarian complexion be not imparted to the whole transaction. There is no doubt what ever that nearly a fortiight back, when the an nouncement was first made of the honours about to be paid to the 18th, rumours of discontent were rife with respect to the Cathedral portion of the pageant ; and it was, perhaps, unfortunate that advantage was not then taken to make such a change in the programme as would effectually get rid of the difficulty. What more fitting depository for the reception of military trophies than the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham? That, at least, is neutral ground. The Freeman's Journal of this morning of serves " When Chelsea Hospital, on various occasions, rep mired the standards of the English regiments, and Greenwich the captured flags sent home by St. Vincent, Howe, and Nelson after their great naval victories no religious ceremonial was observed. Why should the colours of the Royal Irish be an exception ? No sooner, however, was the attention of Lord Carlisle directed to the subject than he at once discovered the impropriety of yielding to a suggestion which would have given a sectarian colour to the whole proceeding, and deprived it of that éclat which must otherwise have accompanied it. We may state that the regiment and depot of the Royal Irish number about 1,300 men, of whom 1,200 are Catholics, the remainder having been recruited in England." The Freeman denies positively that any Roman Catholic ecclesiastic interfered in the matter, or waited upon or influenced *Lord Carlisle, as more than hinted at by ono of the Protestant Dublin journals. COMMUNICATION WITH SCOTLAND. A Treasury minute just issued notifies that the Lords of the Admiralty have reported that the ports of Donaghadee and Portpatrick are the best that could be selected for establishing a short sea passage between the north of Ireland and Scotla n d ; and that, upon certain conditions being complied with by the promoters of this line of communica tion, the Government will be prepared to make the necessary improvements on the two ports named, and use the packets plying between them for th e mail service, at a fair rate. The conditions are two —first, that a steam-boat service, suited both for passengers and mails, shall be established by a pri vate company without any aid from the Govern ment, except a reasonable charge for carrying the mails ; and, secondly, that the railways on each side of the Channel shall be completed, so as to connect Donaghadee with Belfast on the one side, and Portpatrick with Glasgow and Dumfries on the other. As soon as the Government are satisfied that these works will be carried out they will pro ceed to execute the improvements. THE HARVEST. The following rather discouraging agricultural report appears in the Packet of last night. Since that was written the weather, happily, has under gone a favourable change, the whole of last night and this morning being fair; and, as the wind is blowing due north, it is to be hoped that we have done with the rain for the present : " We are sorry to say that our advices of to-day give a discouraging account of the state of the weather in the Irish provinces. Harvest operations have been in many parts of the country totally su-pended in consequence of heavy rains, and our accounts all agree in stating that the cereal crops are, to some extent, damaged. We have personally seen fields very much injured ; but, as these were in peculiarly exposed situations, we may express a hope that their case is not so general as the fears of some persons lead them to anticipate. In Dublin yesterday a very constant and heavy rain descended, and to-day, also, though the atmosphere is lees heavy, the weather is singularly unpropitious for all manner of field work. We hop© we shall not have to record more considerable iejuries to the wheat and oat crops than we as yet hear of. This condition of the weather has led to a rise in the corn markets." In the country about Dublin, at the north side, the blight in the potato crop has made extraordi nary progress during the last two or three days. Yesterday a field was dug up n - ,:ar Malahide, and the produce was so seriously affected that the owner was glad to dispose of the crop upon any terms, in order to rid the ground of it. This morn ing's accounts from Cork say "The rain has, of course, retarded harvesting opera tions, but the crops themselve s do not appear to Lave sustained injury. A continuance of wet weather could, however, hardly fail to be highly prejudicial to the cereals, a'though it may be serviceable to the green et ops. Ct s .ving to the abundance of the harvest and the great scarcity of labourers, wages have advanced in this district to the unusual rate of 3s. a-day, with diet, and even at this remuneration there is great difficulty in getting good reapers. Women are gettin g from ls. 6d. to 2s. a-day with diet. Labourers competent to do farm ,work are very scarce, and farmers are t h ankful that the di sem bodiment of the militia has taken place, otherwise a great portion of the harvest must have been lost." GREAT SOUTHERN AND. WESTERN. The report of the director; to be submitted to the meet ing of proprietors on Saturday, the 30th inst., states that the total traffic receipts for the six months ending the 30th of June, were 170,9001., and for the same porio I lu 1855 1.M,482/., showing. en increr.se of 1.1,418!. The net surplus revenue for the half year is 81,431., out of which the di rectors recommend that a dividend be plid to the pro prietors of original stock at tho.rate of G per cent. p3r lenum. This sill leave a balance of 0,143'. b 3 carriel to tho next half-year's account. OXFORD, VirORCESTE It, AND WOLVERHAMPTON. The report of the directors of this company states that the gross traffic receipts for the half-year ending June 3 . ), 1855, wore 82,6331., and in the half-year ending th e 30 t h of June last, 91,572/. ; the aver a g e receipts per week being .1,1791. in 1855, and 3,5221. in 1856 ; and the weekly re . Jcipts per mile in the half-year ending June 30, 1855 331. 1.65. 5d., and in 1856, 37/. N. 4d. The directors have settled amicably all matters in dispute between this com pany and the London and North-Western and Midland companiee. With regard to the deferred dividend ou the ' 3 t. A all 4,, ,g,,a'5.,,4.,-,7-4 , , ~ V 6 %, ; v k , , , rk-1 , QM.) ,:::o!, k '''''' ----e c,--gi- , ,,r , .? ,, -0,-, 4 .- -:s4 , '„A 1 , c ---- ; 4 ;*`_ -- 4 '',- e N.scPC'lFo4.\q--&i444..44 :-.,...12,--.-*'°,.- * k''' iiiiii. , P . € 9 % k- 1 - : - -Ar c 9 b - ' -t -4---...jt2L,J;k2,.. 7 iik,. 4 y, •,,wr;‘ , LON &LPN, SAT URDAY EVENIN G 5 AUGUST 23, 1856. .G c 6 '~-~~~ l~ *441 ; )/ r , -- '''''',, , ' , i ' '',,, \ `----'- ' ,. .“4,1, , ._.. -----.------- -,'.'.4.7r:"..,!if :4, ,,VV, , k., ' \ ..... :F, i • _ _ -, .._,A.t... , ,tet t 4. \ 7---------- -t , 1 r- 1 r:". , I - :- .e + ~ [PRICE 4D. STAMPED 5 D to suggest that there should b 3 established in thistol I schools for boys, that they might be suitably trained for the sea service. There was au establishment of that de scription at Liverpool, where, on board the Akbir, boys most suitable for that mode of discipline were trained for the sea. He also smested the formation of a branch Ito• formatory Union for the west of England. He moved " that it is desirable to establish reformatory and preven tive schools in all parts of the United Kingdom, to provide for the many thousands of youthful offenders who are an nually added to the criminal classes in this country." The Rev. Canon GIRDLESTONE seconded the resolution, and said that, while he would yield to no man in his admira tion of the principles and practice of the Church of England, yet he saw no reason why he might not co-operate on the utmost possible scale with those who differed from him on points of doctrine, but who agreed with him in making one common effort to overcome the common enemy. (Cheers.) The resolution was unanimously agreed to. A vote of thanks, moved by the MAYOR and seconded by Mr. W. MILES, to Lord Stanley for having presided over the proceedings of the conferences and public meetings of the Great National Union was then carried by acclama tion. Lord STANLEY, in acknowledging the compliment, said ho was amply rewarded for whatever service he had been able to render to the association by the reflection that their sole efforts were directed to the attainment of a great pub lic benefit. The meeting then separated. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. • SCCUTH-EA.ST_EIIa.- The report of the directors of this company state's - that receipts and expenditure for the half-year ending the 31st of July last show a considerable increase. The gross re ceipts have amounted to 503,1771. (including 27,071., the receipts from steam-boat traffic), being an increase of 35,039/. over the corresponding period of 1355. After pay ing and providing for all working charges, rents, interests on loans, annuities and dividends on preference shales and stock, there remains available for dividend on the ordi nary consolidated stock of the company the balance - of 123,191 1 . A dividend of 9s. 63. per 301. stock, or at the rate of 31. 3s. 41. per cent. per annum, will absorb a sum of 117,7001., leaving a balance to be carried forward of . 5,4 01., and this rate of dividend the directors recommend to be payable on or after the 4th of September next. An analysis of the receipts shows an increase in the passenger traffic 0132,1471., 4,6011. in goods, minerals, and cattle, and 571/. in rents, but from which there is _deducted a de crease of 2,235/. in the steam-boats. The expenditure shows an increase of 20,4711, and a decrease of 6,402/. The total number of passengers conveyed upon the South- Eastern lines during the half-year has been 4,646,218, or an increase of 465,263 passengers ever • the corresponding period of 1855. There has been a decrease in the number of passengers conveyed to and from Dover and Folkestone, autrin the receipts from through continental traffic by rail and boat, the last half year comparing unfavourably with the corresponding period of 1855, which included three months of the Paris Exhibition traffic; but this com parative falling off in the receipts for through passenger traffic has been more than made up by the increase de rived from other sources, amounting iu all to 32,1171. un der this head. In this increase is included a sum cf 4,2011. derived from mails on the North Kent line. The directors state that, while the receipts derived from all sources have been increased by the sum of 35,0391., this amount of increase laa - s been earned by an addition of not I more than 8,2351. to the actual working expenses, exclu elusive of compensation, Government duty, rates and taxes. The company's boats have been maintained iu an efficient state, and extensive repairs and renewals have been effected in them during the half-ye sr, which explains the increase in the expenditure under this head. The total cost of these repairs has amounted to 6,8431. The steamers have con tinued to poiform their voyages between Folkestone and Boulogne and Dover and Calais with their accustomed re gularity. The number of passages made between the op posite shores during the half-year has been 891, and the average time occupied by each has been 1 hour 56 minutes. Sums amounting to 11,8121. Os. 43. have been paid as com pensation to persons injured by accidents which occurred upon the railway in the course of last year. In consequence of the rise in the value of money during the late war there has been an increased charge of 2,7141. Hs. 9d. for interest, &c. The sum of 5,1681. has been charged against the half year's revenue for dividends on the preference capital created and raised for the construction of the Strood and Maidstone branch. This line was opened for passenger traffic on the 18th of June last ; and therefore the capital so expended has now become reductive, and will probably become a source of profit to the pooprietors. The capital expended during the half year has aunotr,ted to 51,2371., the principal portion of which (23,492/4 has Loqu on ac count of the construction of the Strood and Maidstone branch. There has also been expended on the works at the Folkestone Harbour Station, now nearly completed (the baggage examination room being in use), the sum of 6,7191., and on additional working stock required for the Strood and Maidstone branch 8,6151. The capital required for the above purposes has been raised partly by the exercise of the company's additional borrowing powers under the act of 1555, and partly by the issue of tho new fixed 4 per cent. shares under the provisions of the same act. The sum of 113,3101. had been received from the latter source up to the 31st ult., and the capital thus supplied being sufficient for the company's present purposes the furthcr allotment of the shares has been closed. Tho direc tors accordingly propose to make additions to the work- ing plant from time to time, as the necessities of the traffic require, under the authority granted by the proprie tors on the 7th of SepteMber, 1854. The directors request the sanction of the proprietors to the following expenditure on new works :-3,5001. towards the formation of a joint station at Lewisham, at the junction with the North and Mid-Kent Railway; and 5,7001. for the purchase of laud and the construction of the embankment and works neces sary to form a proper junction with the Tunbridge-Wells and Hastings branch at Tunbridge. It is also recommended that the sum of 2,775/. should be charged to capital, being the cost of the additional materials used during the half year in the ash jointing of the rails, the cost of relaying, including new rails, sleepers, ckadrs, and labour being charged to revenue. The directors also request p ;wer to expend a sum not exceeding 10,0001. in extending the horn at the end of the pier at Folkestone, with the view of af- furdieg atitlitional facilities for the s - team-b)at traffic and the security of the company's buildings at that place. The capital account shows that 11,438,014/. had been expended to the 31st of July last, leaving a balance against the account of 16,6781. The debenture account shows that 2,709,468/. was raised on debentures, of which 1,3761,0071. was borrowed at 5 per cent., 394,3701. at 4.1 per cent., 376,0001. at 4j per cont., 59,1001. at 4i per cent., 485,9111. at 4 per cent., 13,5001. at 3i per cont., and 3,03'J/. at 3 per cent. The revenue account shows that 503,1771. ha.cl been re ceived during the half-year ending the 31st July, including 27,071/. from the steana-boats, and 235,2 i6l. expended, in eluding 20,692/. for working the steam-boats, 12,3171. Go vernment duty, and 18,7821. rates and taxes, leaving a ba lance of 217,9301. ./171t 4 , vi ! k..=VSPAPEIt 04 144 1- V4' "c o first preference shares for the half-ye,*_itlit December, 1815, for whi c h deferred (t(4 1 :7:44 - 4"," were issued at the time, the directors now pro.pose tQI eel -- them without further d e l a y, t oge th er w i th i d p tl.est -4at the' 2 ' rata of 5 per cent., up to the date of payment. The di. rectors propose at the forthcoming meeting to issue under their act of this session the new 350,0001. stock, which they hope to do at a rate not exceeding 4i per cent. per annum. GREAT WESTERN AND BRENTFORD. The capital account of this company shows that 28,2841. had been called up to the 30th of June; that 13,5551. Ind been received; and that 14,7281. was in course of receipt. The construction account showed that 14,1761. had been received and 6,6071. expended, leaving a balance of 7,5161. VALE OF NEATH. The accounts of this company to the 30th of June last shows the total receipts on capital account to have been 793,0311. was paid in the last half year. Tho revenue ac count for the half-year shows that 32,1521. had bean re ceived, acid 16,8881. expended, leaving a balance of 15,20!. applicable to dividend, besides a balance from last I year of 5611, making a total sum applicable to divide:, of 15,8281. LANCASTER AND CARLISLE. The capital account of this company shows that 1,594, 5 had been received and 1,590,6001. expended, leavi , , a balance of 6,0631. againstthe company. The renews' , d shows a balance in favour of it amounting to . The revenue account for the half-year ending 30 showed that 119,5741. had been received, and ~,191, ox . prided, including 4,5001. for rates and taxes and Gove meat duty, leaving, with 6527. from last account, a bat lea of 81,30/. Oat of this is deductei 1,317/., being p t of the over estimate for conveyance of mails, 53,700/ or di vidend at the rate of 71 per cent. per anni. n .11 the ordi nary stock for the past half-year 2,0941. .or !. debt. 26,0371. Lancaster and Preston Railway proportio of net traffic, leaving a balance 6 - 14 go/. for the next ac count. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK. Miles opened, 1856. NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipt,. 1856. 1855. 88.111811. Aberdeen ••••••••• • • • • • • • •• • . • •• • • Belfast and Ballymena . • • • • • .. • • .... Belfast and County Down .• • ..• • • • • .. Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, and West York .... Bristol and Exeter • • .......... • • • ... Chester and Holyhead.•••••••••••••• Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ...... Cork and Bandon .. ............ „ Dublin and Bel fast j unction ........ Dublin and Dregheda...... ......... Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • • • •• • . •• Dundee and Arbroath .... •....... Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction Dundalk an Enni5ki11en............ East Anglian.... • • • . • • • . • • • • • • • • • • ~ East Lancashire • • .......... • • •• . . Eastern Coun ties and Norfolk .. .• .. -‘, Eastern Union . • .............. Edinburgh and Glasper ....... :..... Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee...... Exeter and Credit0n...........,, .... Furness Railway ... ........ ...... Glasgow, and South-Western.. • • .... Great Northern .. Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Great Western .... Irish South Eastern ................ Lancaster and Carlisle .... ........ Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............ Leeds Northern .... .. •............. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.. . , London and North Western .... . London and Blackv s.ll .......... .... London, Brighton, and South Coast.. Louden and South We5tern . ......... Londonderry and Enniskillen ........ Manchester, Buxton, and Sfatlock, ha. Mauchester, Sheffield , and Lincolnshire Manchester and South Junction .. Msryport and Carlisle ...• • • •....... Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... Monkiands - ........ Newcastle and Carlisle.. • .. ..... . North British .• .. .. •• ............ North Staffordshire ............... North-Western .................. „. Scottish Central .... „ ...... Scottish Midland .. • ... .... ... .. Shrewsbury and Birming;ham ...... Shrewsbury and Chester ............ Shropshire Union ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • South Devon '....................... South Eastern • • • • •• • • .• • • • • • • • • • • .. South Wales ...... ................ South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. Taff Vale •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •••• •• •• 26% [l7 [91% 94% 20 6711 93 417 183% 283 203% 388 25% 9.) 286% 161 637 5% 183% 267 173% 93. 28 498% 12614 78 149 233 47 67% 32 29% 57% 289 27% 12 682 67,136 1,652 18,306 20,232 • 705 10,030 981 31,615 4,510 1,348 3,533 6,233 8,685 1,405 2,112 .8(0 IP& ,u 6 30,03 24,942 7,450 2,655 4,390 1,408 1,167 681 191 66.100 1,877 18,570 18,297 561 Waterford P. nd Limerick West Cornwall ...... . .... ....... Whitehaven Junction ............... York and Newcastle, and Berwick & York and North Midland & Leeds.. 9,574 880 30,508 3,071 1,231 3,290 Ii 174 5,157 1,210 1,640 3,035 733 2,571 25,814 6,080 2,001 3,942 1,333 1,035 6,2 341 • FOILEION. Dutch Rhenish .................... Lyons and Mediterranean •....... • Montereau And Troyes Namur and Liege .. •............... Northern of France ................ Orleans and Central .. Paris and Lyons ................. Paris and Rouen. •............. Paris and Strasburgh .............. Rotten and ll3vre •• ....•• •• . Western of France •••• 3,530 27,753 2,917 19,752 40,100 41,816 THE WELLINGTON STATUE AT MA.NOLIESTER. The ceremony of inauguration Will be simple, and some what like that which inaugurated the Peel statue at the other end of the esplanade. The veil of drapery which, till a proper moment, will enshroud the statue,--though it can. nut conceal the outline of the principal %ture, which every Passer by must see to be that of Wellington,--will at a given signal he withdrawn, and the noble metricrial to our great captain will be revealed to the admiring gaze, and _welcomed by the unanimous cheers of the assembled thou• sands. The granite for the new grade in the base of the. Peel statue bas already arrived, and we uederetand that it!hes been determined that the Peel statue shall he taken down, its pedestal raised, and replaced at the higher ele vation, before the inauguration of the Wellington memo rial. The total height of the Peel statue and pedestal will then be 25ft. 9:n., arid that of the Wellington me morial 32ft, Tnere appear at last to be some Cigna of pro gress in the completion of the levelling and flagging o the new public esplanade. For some time past, doubt. kip, most of those who pass that way frequently have looked with a sort of despair on this waste place in the very heart of the city. And even no a', though doub:. less every Edna will he made to expedite the proceed inge, it s _erns not unlikely.that the only prtion of the' esplanade which will appel.r in some degree incomplete on the day of inauguration evil be the flagging or pav ing of the promenade it elf. The bror z cast inn which when duly placed upon the pedestal will form that wbicb, as a whole, we have no better name for than the Wel lington Memorial, arrived in Menchester on Saturday, and the sculptor, Mr. Noble, arrived on Mond ty eveu ing. We shall not minutely describe the s'atuery at' present. Suffice it to say that upon a pedestal of gran ite -tends the statue of the Duke ; that at each angle of the pedestal is a small projecting foot or pedestal for the reception of a subordinate figure; that the two figures at : the front angles are (to the spec`a,' or's lefe) Mere tr Valour, and (to the right) Minerva or Wisdom. Behind Mars is the reward of Valour—Victory ; behind Minerva is the reward of wisdom —Peaces. In four panels or plinths in the square of the pedestal will be placed as many bas-rdlick but not in time f,r the inauguration. That at the rear is to portray the battle of Aseaye, Wel lington's greatest victory in Reba ; that in front, the battle of Waterloo, his crowning victory in Europe. B t ween the kares of Mars n d Victory is to be a bts relief of the Congress of Vienna ; and between Mi nerva aed Peace another representing the Duke re ceiving the thanks of the House of Commons. The statue and the four subordinate figures are all of brorz. Sir co Saturday the workmen have been busily engaged in raising the statue and figures to their piacer. The figures were cast by Mews. Robinson and Cit'ain at th e i r Pi m li co works, and the aggregate weight of metal in them is about 10 tone. The statue of the Duke alone weighs five tons, and stands 13 feet , high ; the granite pede.tal is about 19 feet in height, and weighs about 100 tons.—Manchester Guardian of yes terday. FLOODS IN DERBYSHIRE.—DANAGE TO THE CROPS.- 0 wing to t re heavy rains of the past few days, the rivets Derwent and Trent, in D, rbyshire, have overflowed their banks and done entr•iiderab!e damage to the cirn crips, many fields of wheat being under water. At to day's (Friday) Darby corn market wheat obtained an advance of 5,i. over last week's rates. lAC viiRTISENIarr.] s t ens A in II ;.: AR /NG SPECTACLES, POWERFUL TELESCOPES, OPERA, R ACM, AN D PERSPECTIVE GLASSES. —Mesfrti. S, and U. Solomons, opticians, 39, Alba marle-stroet, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel, By her Majesty's Ro3 al Letters Patent for valuable and extraordinary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and Per. spective Glasses, to know the distances. These telescopes possess such extraordinary powers that some three and a-half inches, with an extra ep -piece, v,ill show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars. With the same telescope can be seen a person's countorsnce thr ee m il es an d a half distant, and an object from le to 20 miles. They are of larger awl all sizes, with increasing powers accordinglyrh e Royal Exhibition, 1851. Valuable, newly-invented, very mud!. powerful waistcoat -pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known li miles distant ; they answer every purpme on the race-course, and at the opera hens ' country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 8 to 10 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, vachtin m f: e t s, sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, ' power. Newly-constructed Spectacle Lenses of race-course, camp, Red Perspectiveglasses, and touris . te. Opera, o with wonderful the great est transparent power. The valuable a abl dvar.tage derived from this inv e nti on i s, that vision becoming impaired is preserved and strengthened, and very aired persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most' minute °cos . P atl ' )la • ca n se'.with th ese lenses of a much lees magnify. tag povscr—aul they do not rogniro the frequent elstit;e 4 to the da -, i 7,erems effects of further nowcrful A S sistal , r9. Persons can be suited at the most remoio part of the world, by sending one of the glasses out of their spectacles in 6 letter, and stating the distance from the eyes they can read small newspaper print with it; end those who have not made USe of spectacles by stating their age.—Deaf. lieSS. New Discovery. The Organic Vibrator, an . ex traordinary powerful, small, newly-invented instrument fez. deafness, entirely different from all others, to atipptirs any . .. thing of the kind that has been ;or probably ever :an be produced. Being of-the came colour as-the skin, is not poi . - cept:hle ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public es.emblics; the unpleasant sensation of sing i a anises in the ears is entirely removed ; and itl'affords all th assistance that possibly could be desireel.-49, Albemarle greet, Piccadil4. 01)4uTe—opposite the York now. 4,419 1,019 318 2,7;5 7,405 14,179 6,913 :316 1,235 1,720 2,177 715, 1,035 953 7,477 23 708 5,850 7,260 212 1,211 7,022 23,891 7,619 31,822 374 7,405 25,878 4,07 G 906 302 2,540 8,128 12,965 6,613 257 1,186 1,647 1,800 653 1,0'6 914 6a87 24,016 5,581 6,469 202 876 6,483 22,790 7,104 29,977 2SG 7 022 23,017 ~~