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TIM ENGLISH- LAKES. The HOLLINS f : and LOWTHER HOTEL, GRASMERE. — This beautiful and -00 tIritg resort of Tourists and Visitors to the Lake District is now °Pen for the accommodation of the public. T . , 140 above house and Establishment will be found worthy of Ilee. being condu c t e d on economical principles, and in the centre the Lake District ; the views from which cannot be equalled. The Mountains behind the house may be ascended through the Limitations belonging to the Proprietor, in about twenty minutes fr om Whence may also be seen Nine different Lakes and Tarns, as sly Most of the notable Mountains in the locality, with Morecombe a 7 in latation. the distance, which moat of the guide books have omitted to • I It. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC, noLLAND, theHINE, and PARIS, is NOW OPEN „'''' 4l. EVENING (excepts turday), at 8 o'clock. Stalls (which be taken from a plan at the box office, every day between i rell and four, without any extra charge), es. ; area, 2s. ; gallery, The Mo rn ing 40 Representations take place every Tuesday, Thurs .,: and Saturday, at Three o ' cloek.—Egyptian Hal, Piccadilly. LLANO will Close for the season on Saturday evening, Aug. 30%. bit RAHN'S • ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, Clip , 4, Coventry-street, Leicester-square.—Open (for Gentlemen the in 10 till 10, containing upwards of one thousand models I :eParations, illustrabing every part of the human frame in and disease, the race of men, &c. Lectures delivered at 12,' 6igt l 2 l ,alf - Pasit 7, by Dr. G. SEXTON, ; and a new and by b'_Leresting series •of Lectures is now in course of delivery " 4 1111, at 4 p.m. precisely. Admission, One Shilling. LAST WEBS IN LONDON. MIL W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of ODDITIES. tne ,, TO-ITIGIIT and every evening, at B.—The includingerta' nag received novel additions, Vocal and Visual, a New D y 40 ko-Motive Lyric, entitled OFF coTHE TRAIN, illustrated 3 irs• changes, facial, lingual, and corporeal. Mr. W. S. Wood n ao 4 vrs• Florence, in the " Yankee Girl," with the soegs of " Bobbing k2 l d," and " Pelly, won't you try me, oh !"—Polygraphic-hall, -'4"-C William -street, Charing-cross. IftOYAL SURREY GARDENS. —ln came rae quence of the necessary preparations for the Grand Dinner to on Monday, August 25, there will be NO PERFORM ea E ° ll SA.TURDAT next. The Morning Concert will commence at urdaY, at 2 o'clock. Admission Is. as usual. 11 7 0 YAL SURREY GARDENS.-JULLIEN'S te „ CONCERTS THIS EVENING (Frlday).—lmmense sue -413,!.f the Zonavo Quadrille, in which are introduced the Zono.ve r e — „,_,_'° ,l s of the Ist and 2d Regiment of the Imperial Guard, whose 467w510n from the French authorities positively expires on Sept. 5. 051 0 l Rndarsdorff every evening, vocal and instrumental soloist 111.°881 Pictures of Constantinople and the Alps—Turkish Kiosk and hauti'tainated Terrace—Enormous Glacier and Fairy Caverns—Bril- Te. ra trEcelimic Display awl Emblematical Tableau. Admission Is. Ctiti*"'"ONT (SA.TURDAY), Augtist 23, a GRAND MORNING CON comm.encing at 2 o'clock. Admission Is. Seats in the Music Hall evrort Balcony (including admission to Gars. 6d., may s , nrcd at the Gardens, and at jullien and CoCo.'s, 214, Regent ,reet. irttOYAL SURREY GARDENS.—JULLIEN'S CONCERTS EVERY EVENING—GRAND MORNING lb e :' , jEßT TO-MORROW (SATURDAY), August 23.—1 t having ,„I„TeDresented to the Directors that a large number of influential selves resident within railway distance are unable to avail them "eB of the attractions of the Gardens, on account of the early de- Zture of the trains, rt is respectfully announced that a GRAND k u ,_ I LNING CONCERT will take place on SATURDAY, August 23, I te ",„''ell all the most successful pieces performed since the com -2 ( i'e, eruent of M. Jullien's Concerts will be introduced. Concert at 1 clo dmission, Is. Private Boxes, to admit six persons, 1/. .'had at the Gardens, and at JuMen and Co.'s, 214, Regent- *ROYAL SURREY GARDENS.-JI7LLIEN'S C ONCERTS. The MOZART Co NI MEMORAT lON.—A 1,, f ~,1 4.1) SELECTION of the works of this illustrious composer wi l l hi ven early in September, to commemorate the 100th Am 2 iversar7 5 mirth. CANTERBURY HAIL, Westminster-roar;. OPEN EVERY EVENING.—The celebrated IMITGA eveI" BAND. under the direction of Herr KALOZDY, will perform r Evening at 9 and 11 o'c lock, in addition to the usual Vo cal ln rt ainent. The following company of tented ocalists are r aatiently tn engaged for the performance of Selections V front all tha cl i T l ar Operas, Madrigals, Choruses, Beets, &c., viz.:—airs. J. :aid, Miss Brunel, Miss Sommers, and Miss Pearse ; Sam Cowell, 4, 1 . • Caulfield, Herr F. jonghmaits. S. Jones, T. Farrant, W. 4 1.1 u ; k. Barker, Russell Grover, and P. Corrie ; Masters E. Con j.. .4 4 kltatin, and Bennett Mr. T. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. e ,'Arroway, H.A. , harmonium, J. Caulfield, inn.; director, Mr. b,.,,„'"aullield. Commence at seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, &c., twelve o'clock. 1111EXICAN and SOUTH AMERICAN No Tin „, • COMPANY. Cap, PoundEßY GIVEN, That the Directors have male a of une per share on the shares in this Company, and that t ?ne is to be paid to Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., for account " Dir ectors on the twenty-eighth day of August next, or at latest within three months from that date , subject in that rase to a laylne nt of interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, from and after the 28th of August. (Signed) HYDE CLARKE, Secretary. th e Th e e o banhers' receipt, with certificate of shares, is to be b r ou g ht to there:P an y's Office one clear day, to have the payment endorsed 17, Q racechureh-street, 28th July, 1856. It ONDON and NORTH-WESTERN • RAILWAY. TOURISTS' TICKETS, ISSUED 'UNTIL THE 15111 OCTOBER. sjipekets NORTH WALES. gOI, available fo THREE WEEKS, enabl th to at IthYl, Conway, r Bangor, Caernapron, and ing Holyhe e ad, holder either Roan trai t ' ° r returning, are issued at the following fares by the through E seco !. The First-class Tickets are available by any train, and the b 7 such trains as have second-class carriages attached. -...... — - ------ --- lona Ist Class. 2d Clasi. n -Al to liolyhaad and back £3 10 0 .... £ 2 10 0 Oxford t l'e t.... ..terb oronghl to ditto and back.... 2 10 0 .... 115 0 I..“"lnghana to ditto and back 2 0 0 .... 110 0 Tv olverhampton to ditto and back ll5 0 .... 1 7 0 , r • ' IIH LAKES OF WESTMORELAND AND CUMBERLAND. ckts, available for THREE WEEKS, to the above Lakes, are ~°.ed at the followlna Fares by the through Trains. The First- Ticket 2 are available by any train, and the Second by such as have second-class carriages attached : Ist Class. 9cl Class. London to Windermere and back £3 10 0 .... £2 10 o o xford l to ditto and back 2 2 1 5 5 0 0 . . . . 2 1 1 0 5 0 l'eterboroaah 0 U jrrainghaln to ditto and back Wolverhampton ............ To THE FAVOURITE LANCASHIRE WATERING PLACES, BLA.OKPOOL, F a GEET WOOD, OR SOUTHPORT. h. ll ckets,availuble for THREE WEEKS, are issued by the ordinary as of the Company. The First-Class are available by any train, —a4 the Second by such as have second-class carriages attached. Ist Class. 2d Class. Prorn London •• • ..... £3 00..•. £2 5 0 Oxford .•• 2 5 0 .... 115 0 ~ Peterborough 1 ~ Birmingham / . 115 0 .... 18 0 , n 2, Wolverhampton 3 e jr o ni Fleetwood Royal Mall Steamer sails every evening (Sunday iCcea-p, ted ) for B e lf as t, an d W ee kly Excursion Tickets are issued at e ..... Ist eara Packet Office for Belfast, Armagh, the Giant's Causeway, back. TO TIM SEA ,E. Zekets avaiIabIe EXCURSIONS for TWENTY-EIGIIT DAY SID ., are issued by the 4 „narY trains of the Company. The FIrPI-Class are available by ri a ' s . wain, and the Second by such trains as have second-class car u, les attached to Harrowgate, Scarhorough, Whitby, Filey, or .idlingto n . 0212%.11ROWCIATE and Back, for eAtei Passenger—First Class, 435. ; .•. 11 (1 Class, 325. 6d. Se A t 3 Bo ROUGH and Bac:c, for each. Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; ecoud Class, 355. WHITBY and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 51e. ; Se cond Class, 3.55. 3 and'Back for each Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; Second 58 , Biti • • DLINGTON wad Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 515.; ..,Kcond Class, 355. These Tickets 'are not transferable, nor will they be available for '22 Return Jou,..ney unless they have been endorsed at the Booking 'altre of the Station on the day of returning.. Passengers to all the by ° Z.,?aen except Harrowgate, are at liberty to break the journey ' - `ualliir.g one night at York, either going or returning. IRISH TOURIST TICKETS, kr 3 i• -43.b1e for ONE MONTH, will be issued at the following prices : Ist Class. 2d Class. ................ £6 10 0 .... £5 5 0 515 0 .... 415 0 prom London _ Oxford.-- • • Birmingham, Leamington, and Coventry.. ....••.. And from the other principal stations at proportionate fares. These tickets (which in no case are transferable) will be available , ▪ or One Month from the date of issue. They will enable the Holders :,• 0 Proceed t o Ch ester, th ence t o B an gor, Holyhead, and Dublin, from Dublin to Cork. situate on the picturesque River Lee, an I thin ten miles of the celebrated Harbour, Dockyard, and Naval tStation of Queenstown (Cove) ; from Cork back to Mallow, and by the Killarney Junction Railway to the far-famed LAKES OF KILLARNEY. The Tourist can remain as long as convenient to himself at Chester, u angor (for the inspection of the Britannia Tubular Bridge), Holy "l ead, Dublin, Cork, and Killarney ; the only condition being, that his return to the Station at which he took his ticket must be not later than One Month from the date of his departure therefrom. goPOlemental Tickets for CONNEMARA, GLENGARIFFE, the GIANT'S CAUSEWAY, and other places of interest, are issued at Reduced Fares to Visitors holdhig " Trish Tourist Tickets." General Manager's Office, Enston Station, June, 1856: IF you are Bald, or your Hair is Thin, pray use ALEX. ROSS'S C ANTHARIDES OIL, which causes the Hair to grow on bald places, produces luxuriant Whiskers and Moss tachios; it has been approved of by the highest authority, and is most beneficial in all cases of thin hair. Sold from 3s. 6d. ; forwarded for stamps, sent free, twelve extra. ALEX. ROSS'S CHARGES for bYelog the Hair permanently a light brown, dark brown, or black— 'whiskers from Is., gentlemen's hair from 55., ladles' from 7s. 6d. The d9e being a clear liquid it is simply necessary to damp the hair with a comb or brush, when a perfect colour is produced without injury to 'the skin. Sold from as. 6d. ; sent free for 54 stamps. HAIR uESTROYER, a depilatory for remov ng effectually Superfluous flair from the Face, Neck, Arms, and Hands, without injuring the skin• A. R. will warrant it not to injure the skin in the smallest degree, and the hair to be entirely destroyed.—Sold from 3s. 6d. ; forwarded for stamps, free by post, eight extra. Alex. Ross, No. 1, Little Queen-street, High Holborn. 2120 MILNERS' HOLDFAST and FIRE RESISTING SAFES (non -conducting and vapourising) with all the improvements, under their Quadruple Patents of 184 0-51-54 and H 55, including their Gunpowder Proof Solid Lock and Door (without which no Safe is secure. 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If s". make a note to call at (when in the Capital of the beautiful North) MACDOUGALL'S WAREHOUSE, High-street, Inverness. There only can the varied products of the Highlands, natural and industrial, be seen. In his extensive rooms MACDOUGALL has gatheredtogether all the best productions of the Highland looms, in TWEEDS, TAR TANS, LINSEYS, PLAIDS, SHAWLS, DRESSES, the favourite HIGHLAND E CLOAK, FLORA IVIACDONALD ditto , &c., gm, .T w: th the best Native WELLERY, CAIRNGORMS, PEARLS, &c.; the pretty products of the Skye, Lewes, and Gairloch Looms and Knitting Needles ; the home-made. Undyed PLAIDS of Ord, Suther land, and Aroch ; the SNUFF-BOXES, COUPS, BICKERS of the Culloden Carvers, &c. Side by side with all this he has placed all the necessary clothing of every description for Deer Stalking, Grouse Shooting, stud for Tourists, &c. Visitors to his rooms can at once compare the varied products of the Three Kingdoms, _ D. 31ACDOiTGALL, Inverness. (TOURISTS and TRAVELLERS exposed to it the scorching rays of the sun, will find and heated particles of dust ROWLANDS' KALYDOR a most refreshing preparation for the Complexion, dispelling the cloud of languor and 'relaxation, allaying all heat and irritability, and immediately affording the pleasing sensation attending restored elasticity and healthful state of the akin. Freckles, Tan, Spots, Pimples. Flushes, and Discoloration fly tefore its application, and give place to delicate clearness with the :low of beauty and of bloom. In cases of sunburn or stings of insects its virtues have long been acknowledged. Price 4s. 6d. and Bs. 6d. per bottle. ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL. A delightfully fragrant and transparent preparation, and, as an Invigorator and purifier, beyond all precedent. The Prices are 3s. 6d., 75., family bottles (equal to four small), 10s. 6d., and doable that size, 21s. ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice, compounded of the rarest and most fragrant exotics. It bestows on the Teeth a pearl-like whiteness, frees them and imparts to the gums a healthy firmness, and to the Price 28. 9d. per box. tiom rea rta th ta a r, grateful sweetness and purity. • Sold by A. Rowland and Sons, 20, ilattoulgartlen, LondOn, and 14 Choliata and Perfumers, Irk proving the reformatory system . The business of the sections commenced at 11 . o'clock yesterday morning. Section A met in the billiard-room of the Queen's Hotel, Mr. Commissioner Hill presiding, and Mr. Bengough officiating as secretary. . Mr. WHEATeLY, chairman of the West Riding ses sions, read a paper on punishments in • reformatory f,ehools. There were, perhaps, he said, differences of opinion among them as to the right principles of penal legislation, and still more as to the administration of punishment for crime. Some might view it merely as a deterrent ; others might regard the reformation Of the individual as the sole end to be sought in the adminis tration of punishment. Others again, though regarding such reformation as a chief end, might still believe that the satisfaction due to the public sense of justice is an' eleMent not to be ignored or forgotten. There might be differencei of opinion, more especially with regardto the young criminal, as to whether ho should be made the sub ject of penal treatment in a prison previously to his ad mission to a reformatory school or not ; but, whatever dif ferences there might be on these points, he trusted they would all agree in this, that the treatment of the Refor matory School itself should not be penal, by which he meant that the school was not to be a place,for the ad ministration of the punishment assigned by law to crime. This principle was most distinctly embodied in the first Ro'ormatory School Act, the 17 and 18 Vic., C. 86, by which the magistrates were empowered to direct the de tention of On-young offender inetheachoeletacenernence at the expiration of the Sentence passed upon him as a punishment for his offence. ut punishments, even to , severity, would be needed in a reformatory, because they had to do with 'children whom neglected or vicious edu cation had more or less made deaf to the voice of con science. He was of opinion that if the young criminal \ were to undergo penal treatment it should be in a cellu lar prison, away from the reformatory, rather than, as had been proposed, in a penal ward within its precincts. The prison was the fitting termination ofa course of crime —the reformatory the commencement of a new life. Let them net be brought together ; let them not bridge over, but rather widen, the gulf between them. The punish. ment of the reformatory differed from the punishment of the prison in that, while the latter had reference to past crimes, the former had reference only to moral faults committed there, and for these faults it would bo often needed. It was with the profoundest deference that he ventured to express the opinion that the discipline of Mettray was too severe. In an establishment so large he fully believed that such severity was necessary, but for that very reason, among others, it did seem to him that it was not desirable to form these estithlishmeutr upon so large a scale, especially in this country, where, from the difference of national character, such severity would probably operate more prej ndicially than in France. He was bound to say that, so far as his experience went, it entirely confirmed the opinion of thecondnetors of Met tray as to the beneficial effects of the cell as a means of re formatory discipline. Our prison rec?rds showed that in them, though constructed with all the best appliances for separate confinement, the same beneficial results had net been obtained. Having briefly explained what be con ceived to be the cause of this , difference, Mr. Wheate'y offered a few remarks upon corporal punishment. He was one of those inclined to the old-fashioned idea that in cast s of abate moral disease, the outbreaks of uncontrolled passion and wilful disobedience, to which ordinary chil dren were so liable, a counter-irritation, judiciously ap pliel, might often be useful to draw down, as the cold herbalist would Say, the bad humours from the nobler parts. But he believed its usefulneis was limited to cases in which the general tone of the moral constitution was healthy. He had little faith in its efficacy in the chronic diseases with which they had for the most part to deal in their reformatories. From being rather an advocate of corporal punishment for young criminals, he was first led to the opposite view by observations de rived from their vast prison in the West Riding of York shire and froin e the black books at quarter sessions, in which it was remarkable how often in those long lists cf previous convictions which 'appeared against young criminals a whipping had been one of the early punish ments, and as far as his inquiries into the primary cause of youthful crime had gone, be found none more com mon than over severity of parents, step-parents,—cr others. Considered merely as a deterrent, he believed corporal punishment to be less effective than the cell, which was more really formidable, because, though less severe, its mild discipline could be continued almost in definitely. Considered as a correction, the cell could be adjusted with a nicety, which corporal punishment did not admit of, to the requirements of the, case, and under proper arrangements prolonged from simple temporary rreventive detention to long-continued isolation, as the moral symptoms of the patients developed from time to time might seem to require. In both points of view, both as a corrective and as a deterrent, the plan adopted at Mettray was most important—viz., that the period of detention in the cell should never be fixed beforehand, but should be regulated according to the effect apparent during its continuance, He would not have corporal punishments absolutely excluded from the reformatory, because in the infinite variety of cases and characters it might occasionally be useful and even necessary, yet he strongly believed that it should be used rarely and with the utmost caution. In the school let no fault be unpun ished, but never let them use one morsel more of punish meat than was absolutely necessary for its correction. Ti do so was, independently of any consideration of justice or benevolence, bad economy—a waste of motive power Considering punishment as a deterront, it was rathem certainty than severity that was wanted. Considering i as a reformatory agent, they needed not that which would produce a sudden and violent impressiou, but tha which would operate surely, continuously, and so perma neatly—not the rush of the torrent, but the drop that wore the stone. At'the conclusion of the papers a lengthened discus. sion arose upon the question of punishments and rewards, in which part was taken by Lord Stanley, Lord R Cecil, M.P., the Rev. S. Turner, Dr. Wallis, Mr.Bsker, Mr. Adderley, M.P., and the chairman, who proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Wheately for his valuable paper. Mr. G. W. HASTINGS next read a paper by Mr. F. Hill, late Inspector of Prisons in Scotland, " On a visit o Mettray," which has already appeared in The Sum. The section then adjourned. SECTION B. This section met at the Victoria-rooms; Sir J. Paking ton, M.P., in the chair. Papers were communicated by Capt. Crofton, Chairman of the Directors of Convict Prisons in Ireland, "On the advantage of giving tn couragenoent to prisoners, and of allowing t'nem some freedom of action ;" by Mr. Alfred Hill, on " Danlop's Act, and on the working of industrial schools in Scot land ;" and by Mr. H. Cossham, "On the connection be tween drunkenness and juvenile crime." ENCOURAGIEWENT TO PRISONERS. Captain Crofton, in his paper, remarked the success which had attended the application of the reformatory system in Ireland previous to the discharge of Govern :cent prisoners. The plan had been, some months before the release of a well-conducted prisoner on licence or otherwise, to train and . prepare him for the world in which he was about to mix, by removing him from the prison to a Government establishment. Here lectures on useful subjects were delivered, moral, social, and indus. trial training imparted, and the priitoner was placed in a situation of trust. By these mean!' self-respect was en gendered. Every proper safeguard was of course taken. There 'was abundant evidence of the well-doing of prison ers who bad been released after thi s probation, and the demand for their labour was quite equal to the supply. A loan fand'had been instituted, a nd afforded a good test of ,the permanency of resolutiix es farmed in the in stitution. A record was kept' at t he Smithfield depot and facts proved that the majority I A' prisoners might be returned as useful members to sec ety. As to the eco• nomical question a much greater qt malty of work com paratively was done in the institute ons than in prison, and with far less supervision, and cost. lie was con vinced that able-bodied prisoners a a situated could be made self-supporting. Lord Carlis le bad taken an jute rest in the subject, and had aver ted many difficultie, that might otherwise have arisen, .nd had acted as a favourable stimulus both to officer s and to prisoners. They were training officers at Smithfield, so that when they commenced public works, the first of which would be a juvenile penal reformatory, a well-qualified stsfi would be ready. Captain Crofton ti len proceeded to con sitter the reformatory question inec mnection with West ern Australia, and the difficulties' w hich surrounded tht. question of secandary punishments, It was represented that Western Australia was only able to absorb 800 convicts annually ; but if a reflrm ed class of prisoners alone was sent this number might 1 es so increased as t, make the deportation of great vale to to the united king clom s A. public MeetiDgmently b old_ in this colony kwi. DUNLOP'S Acr. • • u -- 7:12, . r ' 4, Chi MAir , ' ',4;; . 40 0 - • ' .„. • - 7: - forwarded to our Government reeOlUti bighij AP • Mr. HILL sail the manageinent and diminution of the criminal and vagrant class in this country v' one of U'e moot pretaing diffiCultfes of the arc ; ai,d the be divided into those wh) were 0• is s.ess i, those wtie were in prison, those who were in refereetterhfs; and these who were in industrial schoile. There ceilidh °no cl.o.f;t that Owe who were at larguyere by far the most costly to the ,public. Some 30 years ago witness:s examined upon the question of the estab:iehinent of the leistropoliten police estimated the amount of property anisnally stolen in Len don at 1,500,0001. Criminals in prison, tno, were very costly, and the evsenses of pre - fishing and prosecuting prisoners in Enslsnd and, Scotland was estimated at 355,000/. Matters were mach better in refortriateries and industrial eiChools ; t he especially urged en extensive establishment of the latter. M ,re industrial :schools had been established in Scotland than -- elsewhere; and' waif better effects. It was at first hoped that the schools might be made self-supporting, bpt this sv,a'st not the case either at Aberdeen or elsewhere. Of the children who were induced toeenter the school, some were re moved by parents who preferred to have what they could obtain by hegsing,' some deserted because they could not endure the discipline of the sehool, but the majorits remained and attended regelarly. In all the schools the number of children who had lost one or both .pa rents was very large,. and of the others in most cases the parents had forsaken thechildrap, were aban- Char-setters -frequently in pristC7.7lt was proved by experience in every town where an industrial school had been established that the number of children in the school and the number in the gaol were like the two ends of a beam, and, as the one rose the other fell. In Edinburgh, Glasgow, Paisley, Greenock, Perth, and Arbrsath these schools had been established, and had produced most important results. They d.ffered from each other only in the mode of imparting religious in etruction. From the commencement of the Edinburgh schools in 1847 the number of children under 14 years of Age committed to the Edinburgh gaol had diminished rom 260 to 81. At Perth an interesting experiment was ;lied by employing the boys to cultivate four acres of and. This succeeded so well that it was determined to sake a much larger piece of ground, but, neighbouring Andowneri objecting to this plan, it was not carried into effect. An important feature was the habit which lad sprung up for parishes, on whom children had a ,lain, to send thena to industrial schools, paying a sti t)end for their beard ; and it was difficult to conceive of a nore advantageous mode of supporting pauper children. Another circumstance was, that when children left the ichool they were put out to employment where they were cot boarded, but that was frequently found for them at the school, their wages being drawn and'placed against he cost. There was a difference of opinion in Scotland en the policy of Dunlop's Act, but, as far as he could earn, the weight of testimony was greatly in its favour, tnd an indirect benefit was probably derived from the 6ct, in that the fear of its being enforced induced pa. eats and parishes to board children at the school by ar angement, or otherwise ptovide for them, so that they lid not continue to be vagrants. Mr. H. COSSUAAr, in his paper, which was not long, nicest juvenile crime, in a great degree, to the drinking iabits of a great mat's of the people, and said that two ;birds of the children now in reformatories had bees )rotfet to their present state by the drunken habits of :heir parents. SECTION C. This section met in the Octagon of the Victoriai-ooms, under the presidency of Mr. W. the secretary )eing Mr. W. Gillow. The first paper read was that by Mr. PEULPOTT, on " Ship Reformatories." The author offered suggestions oy which juvenile offenders might be reclaimOd and a re gular supply of seamen obtained for her Majesty's ser vice. He stated that upwards of 10,000 young men .ruder 18 years of age were annually committed for theft a Great Britain, and he suggested that, as there were inany ships lying up in ordinary in the various ports, the -3xperiment might be tried of fitting up a number of them at Portsmouth, Plymouth, Sheernesf, and Pealbroke, for ;he reception of 1,000 1 oys each, the vessels to be eigad ,ustruction ships. In his opinion,' the Le4islature shsuld )e applied to to pass an act, authorising the ina;is ;rates in petty sessions to examine all youths under 18 :harped with felony or serious misdemeanour, and i ;uilty, instead of committing thorn to gaol, to apprentice them to her Majesty until they were 21 years of age. In .hone vessels the boys should be taught everything ne iessary to make them good sailors. The colt of this ixperimeut would he much less than the cost of prosecut ' itig and convicting young delinquents and supporting them in gaol. They would, he said, be free from all contamination, their characters would be preserved, and ,vben they left the instruction-ships either to serve her Niajesty or to go into the me rchant service they would lay.) the advantage of ntver having been convicted of ime. A.nother paper was also read frau Mr. J. R. Brough " Oa the Liverpool Akbar Hulk Reformatory." ham, - - . was a highly interesting Papers descriptive of that Re. ormatery. At the conclusion of these papers, The CLtAz3MaN said he was of opinion that many ob jections might lie urged to the plan proposed, the princi pal, however, of which "ff PA, that it would interfere with free labour. He thought that the utmost that coald be lone' would be to give) the young persons good moral training and inure thein to the diecipiMe of the Refer eatery, and then lot them seek their own livelihood. Sir S. Nortelioolos agreed with the chairman, that it would be very unwise to interfere with free labour, and called attention to the fact, that in the reign of George IV. it was lawful to gelid persons who had transgresses the Customs' laws to the navy, but the practice was found so objectionable that it had been discontinued in the following reign. He thought, however, that ship re formatories might be rendered very valneble as recep tacle tor those boys who, having been convicted, pun ished, and placed in reformatories, had no trade or ocete pation whatever. In such a case they could be taught the occupaiion add duties of a sailor, and then discharged to seek their living. After some further remarks from other gentlemen, Mr. F: N. WATKINS suggested that very Much benefit would be effected by the establishment of ship schools in Bristol, for which he p ic t ure contende locality was well adapted. He drew an affecting pt of the poor desti tute boys of Bristol, who, he said, were sometimes seen actually scraping the sugar-casks for food. Mr. BLIVIIGILIat obj acted entirely to the principles of the pap The Government by itself could not reform the criminal population, and every attempt on their part to do so would infallibly put an end to the movement. A paper was then read by Miss•CAEPEISTEn, "On the present position of reformatories to the Slate and the principles on Which they 'should be cond acted, especially asregards girls reformatories." After ale e iutreeuetory remarks, Miss Carpenter obeerved that the one great principle which bad been lost sight ef is the treatment of juvenile criminals was the treatment of a child as a child, and all the machinery of judge, jury, and officers was brought to bear against youths wuose teuder years and ignorance Lardly enabled them to distinguish right from wrong, Sue then gave a lengthened description of the various improvements in criminal jurisprudence, s trongly advocatiog a sYst" which shoued give to the' Govereinent,plenary powers Over the inmates of refer met:lies, Without interferiug with the fes • edem of Action on, the part of the managers. Hitherto the progress of legislation, however slow, had been in the right direction; but, instead of magistrates having merely a permissive power to send the children convicted to reformatories, further legislation was necessary, making it compulsory en them to send all children twice convicted, and thoee who bad been convicted once could not gat security for their future good behaviour. There was no fear of the re formatories being too lull as yet, for many were not half filled while others were building. After detailing many striking instances of the benefits derived in this neigh beurhood front reformatories, she conclued by express ing her ()Pinion that, veuila she thoughtsong imprison ments injurious M the highest degree, a short period of seclusion with the advantage of those moral agencies At O s s pos. ecl might be attended with the they now happily ereateet benefit. At the same time she thought that previous puniShment ought not to be absolutely re quired before admittance into reformatories. The reeding of this paper elicited the warm applause of the meeting. The Very Rev. t h e Dean of Binseole after a short in terval devoted to refreshment, read a paper by Lord Brougham, "On thninefficiency of our alinply penal legis lation," of which the following is an abstract. His lord ship observed that the education and moral training of the people, and the making punishment subservient to the reformation of offenders, offered the best means of sav ing society from the pellution it is exposed to from the ignorance, the immoral habits, and the neglect of those who have fallen into criminal .courses. "nue could be no doubt that while the very existence of society was threatened by the frightful progress , of crime, the in efficiency of the laws for its restraint became every day ,nore deplorably nianifeet. The opinion of every h per d son ef• experience wa s that punishment by itselfa no crithinals. The dread of pu s teady effect in dete rrin g nishtnent always depended upon the certainty of its fol lo wing the commission of crime, and nothing like cer . teinty was attained by the connection which tile law at present established between guilt and punishment . Sleuth had been dune of late years to diminish the cbances of escape, but gratuitous prosecutors weve etill requ i re d t o pu t the um 331 . 9ti91 3 , and Ragland alone; r • r • '" *,z, s ~...;: _ ~,:,‘....:,, ' t 4 , ,,, •, , . ..,;• : -.: ; 1 ;,..., • - -.''',,r, > ....... , `" Y / 1 • , * of all the netiots of Europe, was without a public pre secuter. The consequence wat frequent failures of tice, it being often poseible, for a trifling sum, to buy off a prosecutitm. Many things, however, had cootrileuted to improve our criminal jirispruderree. Toe amend- relents in the rules of pleading, the greater frequency trials, the improvement of the police in gieat towns, ;it) better selection of rhegietratee—all had a share in ; en:teeing tide desired result, and public prosecutor and etieendiary jueticem were alone wanted to make our cri -eine! cede as efficacious as human law . eould be ex acted to be. (Hear.) But we had committed one serious error. We had always considered crimes insu lated—that they orgineted in occasional gusts of pas eion. Nothing, however, could be more certain than that the great msjority of offences committed in every civilised cemumeity were the results of immeral charac ier or gross ignorance, the offences themselves being -only a question ef degree. The deterring effect of pu oishment wee very much lessened to a perverted mind, end the olject shops t he to induce so radical a change in the course of thinking of the criminal that he would not only be deterred from'one but from all wr on g nctiens. The f, equency of escape from penal visitation engendered bad habits, with which the moral perception of the criminal maintained a.vain and fruitless conflict, :yea, however wisely penal nodes might be framed, they became feeble and irefficacious in action. The criminals aeho infested society must be regarded as a class who had turned crime into, a trade ; and when it was consi deted how many offences a . thief must commit to earn: his daily bread, it was evident t:hai impunity was the rule,, and detection the exception. But e ven certainty - of itself would not be enough. Celerity' mostbdadd(d to' certainty in the punishment of crime; and 'the worn plistitneetlof both those objects was almost`irnposible. If the sight or s hearing of punishment could produce :ffeet, actual experience must prodoee still . more. But !neat etood the facile-;:By the returns of Convictions for Manchester for 19 years ending in 1827, it was shown. that between a third and a fourth of -the whole number convicted were recommitted to the same gaol for other lalonies. In the same period between 12,000 and 13,000 were committed to the gaols of Salford and Leeds, of whom 4,000 relapsed, and the magistrates of Liverpool had found that out of 14 bays taken at random one had in:en recommitted no less than 19 times, and another (a child of 7 years old) in two years had been condemned three times to imprisonment, and a fourth to transpor tation. Now, what has been the means adopted for the prevention of this recurrence to crime ? Nothing was more certain than the first offence might by proper treat ment be made the last, but almost all magistrates admi nistered the law as if each offender was of the self-same character sod belonged to the same class. (Hear.) It was clear that the State should provide the means of punishing the youthful and unhardened culprit without exposing him to the contamination of older criminals, and, more, ,should enable him to resume his place in so ciety without either the disgrace of exposure or the des peration of leaving a prison for a state of destitution. Tee Code Napoleon enabled the judge to give up the young convict to his relative, master, cr guardian; on the undertaking of careful superintendence, with the power of police watchfulness ; and Mr. Hill, the learned, able, and humane Recorder of Birmingham, bad adopted a similar course with a success which was extremely encouraging. (Mean) It was, however, the duty of the Government to provide more ample means for reforming criminals. The geol must be con sidered as a moral hospital and its inmates treated rather as patients than as criminals. After referring to what had been done with this object at Stratton-on-llunsmore , Horn, near Hamburg, Lyons, Bordeaux, Rouen, Or leans, and at Mettray, and giving statistical results of the success which had attended the establishmetits at, these places, the noble ler,' proceeded to remark that, in contrast with these pleasing details, they could only reflect w to pair and statne upon the rude and barbar ous method hitherto pursued with our convicts. He used hardly ash, was this wicked system to be con tinued ; or were they to amend it only with respect to the young ? Nothing could be more unreasonable than drawing a line of demarcation between youthful and other offenders ; for they had no more right to imprison a man and then turn him loose on society, as bad or worse than before, than they had to perpetrate the same offence with a boy or child. (Hear.) In truth, we were guilty of a 'e s offence by liberating a boel than discharg log an accomplished malefactor. After quoting the opi nions of Bentham, Macoonochie, and other writers ti pen the subject of punishment, the noble lord observed that how grievously lawyers, magistrates, and specula tive reasouers had erred in bestowing so little attention upon a reformatory process must be plain to every mind. Every convict leaving the gaol uereclaimed became the teacher by precept and example of others ; the patient discharged from the moral hospital uncured carried with him a eel tagious disease which threatened the existence of society, and from which, unhappily, society could not escape. flow should thus mischief be prevented By taking care that the patient should not be sent forth decured. But what was the fact? ~Not one, but thousands of uncured patients were every year vetnited from the moral pesthouses of the country, and the very rules of those establishments requited that they should be cast out uncured. Undoubt edly the moot important portion of a reformatory system was the general establishment of infant train leg. And how long, continued the noble lord, are we to wait before the most scandalous disgrace resting on our character as a people shall be removed?—how long before the bitterness of sectarian controversy shall so far be allayed by the Christian feeling of mutual forbear nice, and the heats of polemical conflict be so far tem pered by brotherly love as to allow us to feel that " the greatest of all these things is charity," and that the tri umphs of sect over sect are as absolutely nothing com pared with the mighty and the holy conquests of sound knowledge over ignorance How long most it be before we see the adversaries in such miserable contests prefer that victory which is far greater than his who conquers a great city—the victory over their own temper—leading to the sapping or the storming of the strong but not im pregnable fortresses of ignorance, immorality, and irre ligion? It is our highest duty to rescue the people trotn ignorance and vice by giving them the inestimable bless ing of a sound moral and religious education, to prevent the growth of crime, while we provide for reclaiming from ` their vicious courses those who have been led astray—a cure only to be effected by making the punish ment of criminals the instrument of their reformation. That duty we have not discharged. - But if we have planted no schools where habits of virtue may bo in duced, stretched forth no hand to extirpate the germs of vise, we have kept open other schools where vice is taught with never-failing success, and both hands inces santly to stifle the seeds of virtue ere yet they had time to sprout, and laid down many a hotbed where the growth of crime in all its rank luxuriousness is assidu ously forced. The infant school languishes which a pa ternal Government would have cherished ; but Newgate flourishesNewgate with her thousand cells to corrupt their youthful inmates, seducing the guiltless, confirming the depraved. (Cheers.) The infant school is closed which a paternal Government would have o pened - wide to all its children ; but the p enitentiar y , - pentance and penance should rather be performed by the real authors of their fall, yawns day and night to engulf the victims of .our stepmother system. The infant school receives no innocents whom it might train or hold fast to natural virtue, but the utterly execrable, the altogether abominable hulk lies moored in the face of ' the day which it darkens, within sight of the Lend which it insults, riding on the waters which it stains with every unnatural exc ess of infernal pollution, triumphant over all morals! Shall civilised, s hall free, shall Christian rulers any longer pause in the discharge of the first of their duties? or shall it be said that be tween the claims of contending factions in Church or in State, the Legislature stands paralysed, and cannot put f rth its hand to save , lest offence should be given to some of the knots of theologians who bewilder its ears with their 'wise, as they have bewildered their own brains with their controversiee I Be well assured, that if you suffer the patent ef all evi l, all falsehood, all hypo crisy, all unc haritableness, all self -seeking—him who co v e rs over with pretexts f conscience the pitfalls that he digs for the souls ou which he preys—to raalk about the fold and lay waste its inmates—if we stand still and make no head against him; upon th e vain pretext the far that o ur action is obstr u cted b by religious cabals, or can mo re guilty one, that by p l ay in g a party game we turn the hatred of conflicting professors to our selfish purposes, wo shall be greeted with a shoat send up of un ivereal scorn, which all mankind in all ages will us. (Cheers.) he The reading of this pap er concluded the business of t me eting. against SECONDARY ITNISEMENTS. At 3 o'clock the several sections re-assembled Teat the Victoria-rooms, when S ir S. Northcote, 111P.,a paper ou previous imprisonment of Turner`chidren sentenoed to r eformatories, and the itev. S. on the best means of providing for the inmates of reformatory schools upon their discharge. These two papers were taken out of the sections. , Sir S. NOBTFICOTE condemned punishment which was of a merely retributive character; an attempt should be made at reformation. They s hould not be discharged without any provision being made to prevent their re lapsing into crime. There were two great questions which be wished them to consider. The first was whetherhe youthful offenders oug ht to be punis at all ; and t second was, whether reformatory schools ought to be made places of punishment. It was cruel and unjust to punish youthful offenders for an infraction of the law of which they had clearly been convicted, and then, when they had endured the pain which, " for the sake of so ciety," was inflicted upon them, to turn them adrift upon the world without making any effurt to avert the ruin which was staring them in the face on their return tk , society. Society, like property, had its duties as well ;.;,s its rights. (Hear.) The establishment of reformato ries had materially altered the aspect of this question, and het ought that they were now likely to see their way clear to the gra,dual introduction uf a system by ineans of which penal and reformatory measures would go hand in hand together. When this could be done ivery youthful offender who was clearly conscious of the act which he was committing, and who was aware of its criminality, o ught to bo. appropriately punished. 11, r,otally tliQapproved the French system of acquitting al most every child under the age of 16, because long wrong, be fore that age 99 bo y s out of every 100 were Perfectly Able to discern between right and opg 3 and to olea- late the consequences of their own acts. No doubt the moral perceptions were 'often blunted by the ,want of education and by debasing associations. He next came to the question as to whethernitive measures should be resorted to reformateries. pu He thought decidedly not. .4e objeCted. to' the confusion of - edneatioa and punishment, because to the criminal himself it" would have the aspect cif itiflictieg an educatien . upon hien as punishment for his crime, and to the 'general publid it would present the beCtecle - of guilt rewarded by a•good education. The boys themselves appreciated the differ ence between the prison to which they were sent to be punished for their critneC and the reformatory to which they were sent to be iinproved. - ft was of. great import ance that this distinction shouldibe clearly l:ept Unit they wished to secure the co-operation of the ooys in the work which they undertOok for their benefit, and which ca -1 operation , would be a very great advantage.: 'Diem need not be any insup erable difficulty in ineruciog a bey to take part iu his own improvenient, but it was out easy to see how they were to bring him to Os° a willing p irt in his ovn punishment. At Parkhurst, for instance, where field labour was male compulsory ae a punishment, the boys shrank from it, and evaded it as far as pcssihe, whereas at Polhill, where it constituted a portion of the training which was to fit them for after life, they took to it , heartily and well. Everything depended upon whether the boys looked upon themselves as Scholars •or as pri soners—(hear)—an4 whether they regarded the period of penal discipline should be resorted to, and followed by a system of industrial and edUcatinnal ran the n reforms g punishment whatever sho uld take place in tmise, because they were intended as establishmente to win buy's hack from a life of vagrancy, misery, andime, cr and to give them a taste for honest industry wa n to for the e . comforts of home.. No onet.however, wouldh ma their position in any respect mil as that it should excite the jealous .feelings of the lonest poor. Paitishruent for. -past offences ehould be administered hefted- a ssociated T e e - imprisonment. He would, therefore., adviie short terms of imprisonment upon the separate system so Icing ae refor matory schools were confined to children who had been guilty of a breach of the law ; euch children ought clearly to undergo some sort of punishineet. A general meeting will be held this evening at the Vic toria rooms, when Lord Stanley. will give a resume of the proceedings of the sections. ASCENT OF MOUNT ISH AN.ARAT BY FIVE ENGLALEN. In this age of ripe ewerience, when universal enterprise and searching investigation have brought almost everything beneath their touch, it is some thing to be able to announce to the public the ac complishment of an undertaking which has hitherto been deemed impossible, while by many the very attempt would have been considered as bordering on the impious. . To most men the name of Ararat suggests thoughts of a solemn nature ; and among the people who inhabit the countries round its base, its snow capped summit is regarded With mingled awe and veneration, being guarded from all approach, ac cording to their belief hitherto, not only by physi cal obstructions of an insuperable nature, but also by Divine prohibition. This belief no longer exists, and the practicability of ascending Mount Ararat is now an established fact. On the 11th inst. a party, consisting of Major Alick J. Fraser, the Rev. Walter Thursby, Mr. James Theobold, jun., of Winchester, Mr. John Evans, of Darley Abbey, Derbyshire, and myself, started from Bayazid on this new expedition. We were accompanied by two servants and a zaptieh, or native policeman, and by the kindness of the Kaimakan, Hadjee Mustapha Effendi, we were consigned to the special charge of Issak Bey, a chief of the Ararat Kurds, under whose safeguard we had nothing to fear from the plundering habits of his followers. At Bayazid we had provided our selves each with a stout pole between five and six feet long, furnished with a spike at one end and a hook at the other. Crossing the plain of Ararat we commenced the ascent through a wide ravine, enclosel between vast ridges of volcanic rock. For three hours we wound our way through rugged defiles, occasionally traversing fertile plateaus, verdant with growing crops of wheat and barley. Our sure footed little horses, accustomed to this sort of work, picked their way through the most break neck places, and brought us in safe t y to the black goats'-lair touts of our host, which were pitched on some pasture lam's on the southern slope of Greater Ararat, about 8,000 feet above the level of the sea. Hither the Kurds resort in summer with their flocks and herds, returning to the villages cf the plain at the approach of winter. A portion of the chief's tents were set apart for our use ; the floor was covered with gay-coloured carpets, a fat sheep was killed, and everything was supplied that Kurdish hospitality could suggest. At 3 o'clock next morning we were on the move, all except Mr. Thursby, who, to our regret, was obliged by indisposition to remain in the tent. Three hours of continued ascent on foot brought us to th© base of the cone. Here Major Fraser bore off to the south-cast, and took a line of his own, while Mr. Theobold, Mr. Evans, and I com menced the ascent on the southern side, keeping I to snow, which presented an unbroken surface to the very summit. To my two friend s, who are experienced Alpine climbers, this was easy work, but it soon began to tell unfavourably on my unaccustomed limbs. For a time we kept pretty well together ; by degrees, h owe ver, Mr. Theobold began to forgo ahead, fol lowed by Mr. Evans, while .1 brought up the rear as well as I could. But my strength was fast giving way, and when about half-way up the cone I found myself unable to proceed any further. Accord ingly, there being no altefnative but to descend, I sat ou the snow and shot down with the velocity of an arrow, undoing in a few minutes the labori ous toil of nearly three hours. This was a keen disappointment, amply repaid to me, however, as will appear by and by. At the foot of the cone I found Issak Bey, who with a couple of his people had come out to watch our progress. He looked on my failure as a mat ter of course, and. seemed to think the others, too, must soon give in ; but no, up kepiwent higher and higher, his interest and surpriseg pace with their ascent. For some hours we watched their upward course, the sharpsnaked eye of the Kurd plainly discern ing what I was able to see only with the aid of a i telescope. At length, at 1.45, Mr. Theobold crowned the summit. Great was the astonishment of the Chief. " Mashallah !" he exclaimed, " God is great !"—" What wonderful people these Eng lish are ; a few of them come here, and without iany difficulty walk to the top of that holy moun tain, a thing that never was done by man before. Wonderful, wonderful 1' At 2.50 Mr. Evans reached the summit. He and Mr. Theobold made the descent together, by the same track that they ascended, and returned to the tents about sunset. We must now follow the movements of Major Fraser, who, as already stated, took a line of his own. Not being accustomed like the others to snow work, he chose a ridge of stone, which led up about two-thirds of the ascent.. Over this he made his way without much difficulty, and then, taking to the snow, he patiently toiled u p wards till within a few hundred feet of the summit. Here, in at tempting to cross over to what appeared a more practicable line, he slipped on some thinly-covered ice, and, losing all control over himself, he shot down with fearful velocity, now head, now toot foremost, over a space of about a thousand feet. By wonderful efforts and presence of mind. he suc ceeded in arresting his perilous descent, and, scrambling with difficulty to a rocky ridge that protrudelabove the snow, he climbed over it with immense labour ; and thus recovering his lost way, he won the height about 3.30, having been thrown back fully three hours by his mishap. He descended lon the traces of Messrs. Theobold and Evans, and regained the tents at midnight, havin g been about 20 hours on foot. On the 13th, about 2 p.m., Mr. Thursby and I started from the tents accompanied by two Kurds, carrying rugs, greatcoats, and a small supply of provisions. We proceeded slowly and leisurely until we reached about one-third the ascent of the cone. There we were obliged to dismiss the Kurds, who, from religious fear, refused either to proceed further or to spend the night on the mountain ; but, to insure their return in the morning for the rugs, &a., we thought it expedient to detain their arms, the dearest her of these nomad e p eo p le. As we had. neither of us much fancy to try the ascent by the snow, we chose a new line of or own over a rocky surface, facing nearly due south, which the wind and sun h a d bared near l y to the summit. the night, piled up stones to windward as a . s shelter having dined heartily, we against the cold, and, .. _ Left now to ourselves, we selected a spot to h pass made ourselves as comfortable as possible. W e saw the sun set in indescribable glory, throwing th e an d even darkening the distant shadow of the vast mountain far away over Georgia gad A haze Wrapp i ng o urselves in our rugsa we passed the ofdtehre b ij Eastern ans, h o rizon. tern THE FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION NEAR BURY. The deplorable occurrence at the bleach and dye works of Messrs. Warburton and Holker, Hemp son Mills, near Bury, briefly described by us yes terday, turns out, on further inquiry, to have been attend:ea with more lamentable results than was at first stated. Upwards of 20 persons have been scalded and injured in various ways, in addition to the immediate loss of nine lives. The works are situate on the right bank of the riveriloach; and consisted of two parallel lines of workshops, only a few yards apart, and connected at one end by the boilerhouse, with dyehouse immediately behind it.. The boilerhouse was thus seated in the midst of a block of buildings in which nearly 200 persons were employed, but, fortunately, owing to the early hour at which the explosion took place, some of the workpeople had not arrived. There were three long tubular boilers in the boilerhouse, one of which was new, and had not yet been put into working order, but was to have started on Monday next in place of the one that was burst. The other two boilers were old ones, and generated steam for three engines, of 30, 25, and 10 horses' power respectively. The boiler that has burst was a high pressure and not a low pressure one, as stat ed in our former account. It had been in work 10 or 11 years, and had been repaired and fitted with new fireboxes. The following is a list of the sufferers .I. Kdled.-1. James Barlow, the engineer, who was found on the fireplace, where he had probably been feeding the fire at the moment of the explo sion. He was one of the first of the sufferers res cued, but he had sustained a fractere of the head, extending from one of his temples backward, above the ear. The head, in fact, appeared to be almost split in two, but when fint taken from the ruins he was conscious and was able to speak. He told Mr. Warburton that he bad no idea of the cause of the explosion, for he had started every thing work ing all right, and he believed the valves were all right too. He died within an hour of his extrication. He was 50 years old, and has left a; widow and three children. 2. JohnComstive, blue dyer, aged 60, who leaves two children. 3. Francis Chadwick, blu e - dyer, aged 14. 4. John Maude, blue dyer, aged 15. 5. Thomas Knowles, fancy dyer , aged 19. 6. Daniel Worsley, foreinan of the blue dyers, aged 60, leaving , a widow. 7. James Wakes, a dryer of cloth in the stoveroom, aged 19. 8. Thos. Eutwisle, labourer, aged 60, leaving a widow and' daughter. 9. John Whittaker, aged 23, who bad. been only recently married. Whittaker worked at the adjoining mill of Messrs. Chambers and Livsey, and was passing the premises of Messrs Warburton and Co. at the time of the explosion, when part of the ruins fell upon him and killed him. Most of these unfortunate persona were killed by the fall of the buildings; but some were badly scalded. The last of the bodies was not got out until past noon. Injured...-As we have already stated, more than 20 persons were injured, besides those who were killed. Among the list are the following :—Otho Bridge, aged 18, head cut and legs scalded ; Henry Heywood, head cat ;Peter Appleby, badly scalded Edward •Hepkinson, hurt in the back ; William Chadwick, leg badly cut ; Richard Naylor, severely bruised ; Robert Whiteside, John Ashworth, John Knowles, William Bury, James Brooks, John Kay, David Mayor, two daughters of Oliver Hayes, Thomas Smethers, and John Ramsbottom, more or less injured. John Brooks and Edmund Walker, seriously hurt, and doubtful of re.. covery. Walker was taken out of the ruins three hours after the explosion, from under 6 feet of brick. work and wreck that had fallen upon him, and his life was apparently saved by two heavy ,cast-iro n as pipes falling across the place wh ere he w awor over his back, so as to keep off him part of t he superincumbent materials. The surviving sufferers ha ve been a ttended by Mr. Bolt and Mr. Fletcher, surgcous at Bur y , and Mr. John Lancashire , surgsoo, of Pilldugton. They were all doing as well as could be expected, considering the serious n ature o some e of their in juries, yesterday yesterday morning, and, soas could ascertained on the spot, serious fears were only • entertained for the lives of four out of the whole number. •Of the cause of the explosion—as it will form very serious matter for inquiry at the inquest —which is to be opened this day at 10 o'clock—it is desirable that very little should be said, lest prejudice should be created before all the facts are known. 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I From an elevation of about 14,000 fact above the level of the ,sea .we saw th ,sUn .rige in unclouded majesty, 14,hting nla simultaueol,zsly to our view' vast tracts of the Russian, Persian, and Turkish empires; that was a glorious sight, never to be for- but was, uevert: gotten. About 1,200 feet from the summit we came upon. an oak cross that had been fixed there in the rock by Professor Abich in the year 1845 ; it was in perfect preservation, and -the inscription, in Itus sian characters, was still legible.' . . ~ . This was the most difficult part of 'our ascent,' the obstructions were freqsient, and the climbing at time; Perilous ;- but caution and perseverance en abled us io overcome everything, and at 9 a.m. we hod the satisfaction of standing.pn the highest point of the mountain. Here I stuck to the hilt in the snow a lama, or short double-edged sword, which we found at the foot of Abich 3 cress. Here also, an loyal Britons, we tliank theabealth, cif our beloved Queen in brandy. Her Mejeaty will per haps deign to acoept this expression of allegiance on considering that hers is probably the first name that has been pronounced on that solemn height since it was quitted by the groat patri,reli of the harnan race ; fsr no record or tradition exists of the ascent having ever been made before, although repeatedly tried by men of different countries, both Enropean and Asiatic. •Professor A ich made seve ral attempts. but failed ia all, as is,t roved by the position of the cr oss, by the testimeny of the natives, and even by the confession of -his own •• countrymen. We descended on the tracks of the others, and got back to the tents about 4 par. . The whole surface of Mount Ararat bears evi dence of having been subjected to violent volcanic action, being seanied and scored with deep ravines. The rocky ridges that protrude from the snow are either basalt or tufa ; and near the summit we found some bits . of pumis on a spot which still omits a strong sulphurous smell. • . The summit itself is nearly level, .of a triangular Shape, the\base being about 200 yards in length, the perpendicular about 300. Tile highest point is at the apex of the triangle, 'which points ' : itearly duo_ west ; separated from it by a hollcw is another point of nearly equa l altitude, 5 - ..- • . and the base of the triangle is an elevated ridge, forming a third eminence. These three points standout in distinct relief onettplear day. The - snow on the top is almost as dry as powder, and in walking over it we did not sink more than half-Way to the knee. The impression loft on the mind is, that the summit is an extinct crater filled with snow. We experienced no difficulty of respi ration, except being sooner blown by exertion than we should have been at a lower level. The cold. was intense ; and though a perfect calm prevailed. at the time at the foot of the cone, as we after wards learnt, a keen wind was blowing from the west, which raised a blinding mist of fine snow that prevented us taking any distant views. As may be supposed our success has created no • Small sensation throughout the country ; the fame of it preceded us wherever we went. It was an nounced as a sort of wonder to the . caravans tra velling eastward ; and tho Kaimakan of Bayazid has made it the subject of a special report to Con stantinople. From the sacred character of the mountains, and the - traditions associated with -it throughout the East, identical as they are with Sdriptural records, I am inclined to think that a degree of importance willattach to this performance, in popular estima tion, beyond what is due to a mere exhibition of nerve or muscle, and this, no doubt, will tell in favour - of our national prestige. 0;1 the 15th we ascended Lesser Ararat, but this tieing an ordinary affair does not call for a de tailed account. I would only observe that, per haps, from no other. spot in t he world can a finer or more extensive view be obtained. This view wo had the goud feitune to enjoy to perfection, with a cloudless sky and clear atmosphere. I may state that the summit of Greater Ararat is 17,323 foot above sea level, and 14,300 above the plain : from base of cone to summit may be about 6,000 feet. Lesser Ararat is 13 , 093 fe et above sea level. # ROBERT STUART, Msjor, Special Service, Asia Minor. 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