The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-24 00:00:00

CONVICT DISCIPLINE.

The following memorial has been forwarded to
Sir George Grey by the Bristol Association for obtaining an
Alteration in Movie* Discipline :
"To the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Bart., her
Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home
Department.
" The respectful memorial of the association formed in
Bristol for promoting an improved administration of convict
discipline in England.
" We have observed with the greeted concern the con-
dition of discharged convicts in this country, very many of
whom are found to return to crime, without the slightest
good effect to themselves from their punishment.
We believe that means, much better than those at
present employed, might be used to prepare for freedom the
1,600 or 2,000 convicts annually discharged, and to afford
such a test of the preparation as might be satisfactory to
the employers of labour, sod not leave the discharged cri-
minals to crime sa their only means of living.
" We find that as to those who are discharged on coodi-
tiond license or ticket of leave, the conditions endorsed on
the license are not enforced, nor are any sufficient means
taken to ascertain their fulfilment.
" Experience shows that it is impossible to provide a sys-
tem of treatment during imprisonment, an immediate pre-
paration for discharge, sod a wholesome supervision during
the remainder of the sentence, which might prevent the
present frightful condition and practices of the convicts,
qualify them, in a considerable proportion of the eases, to
be taken again into society, and furnish to the employers of
labour the necessary teat of fitness.
" We think that Ireland (under the operation of the same
statutes u England) and other countries have furnished
inch er.perience. Discharged convicts are shown to be not
oseessarily a nuisance and terror to their neighbourhood,
but they may gain a position as honest and industrious work-
.men. . .

W"
We most earnestly entreat that means may be taken
for greatly altering and improving the present discipline
of convicts in England by • very different and abetter ad-
ministration of the law ' • and that every imaviet now on
ticket of leave, who an be ascertained to have infringed the
terms of his license, may be returned to prison ; and that
as to those who may for the future be at liberty on license
(which, according to the regulations, will now embrace
every convict reported to be well conducted), the condi-
tions of the license may be enforced with proper supervi-
sion.

"Signed by the President, Chairman, Vies-Chairman,
sad Committee, on behalf of the Association."
President. Right Hon. Berl Dude, Lord-Lieutenant of
Gloucestershire and Bristol.

MR. J. H. LallourON M.P.—lt is reported that
in consequence of failing health this gentleman will shortly
retire from the representation of Oxford, and that Mr.
Se cant Gamin and the Hoo. Edward Chandos Leigh, eon l
of Lied Leigh, of Stoueleigh Abbey, will solicit the votes of ACCIDENT TO MR. HUDDLESTON, Q.C.—We
the elector& regret to learn that this eminent member of the bar met
WELLINGTON COLLEGE.—The breaking up at this with a severe accident on Monday by jumping from • cab.
school was celebrated on Monday evening with a emeert, the horse of which hail run away, in Mr. Hod.
given by the boys to the neighbouring gentry, in the spa. ellseton dislocated his shoulder and reneired an ieinri on
dons and handsome dining. hall. The second part opened the head. He was removed at once to the Carlton Club ;
with a duet on the Vane by two little boys, one of them and Mr. Cutler, the surgeon, advising that the learned gen-
Demetrius Ghiks, a Walachian prince, whom his father Oman should not be removed until yesterday, a bed was
brought to England with the single object of obtaining ad- made up for him at the club. We ace happy to state that,
minion to this school—by a mere chance, with stemma. The although suffering severe pain, Mr. Haddleston was going
little fellow is said to be as good a linguist as a pianist on well yesterday, and had been removed to hie house in
The principal honours of the evening were carried off by Park.pecepect, St. James's-park. He was to have left for
Mr. Heron-Maxwell, the very youthful son of Sir John Paris this day for the Christmas holidays.
Heron-Maxwell, Bart. The chapel, from the designs of STRANDING OF • CITIZEN STEAMBOAT.—Teeter-
Mr. Gilbert Scott, is to be ready for use by the reassembling day morning a singular accident happened to the Citizen
of the school on the last week of January next. The col- steamer H. On leaving the Waterloo-bridge pier with about
lege has this year been very free from illness, and the ad. 80 passengers on board, a meneatiou was felt of the steamer
mission Het is full for several years. The extensive grounds striking something very heavily, and immediately the pas-
of the college have now been thoroughly drained. and their singers in the after-cabin rushed on deck, crying out that
open aspect relieved not only with thriving plantations, the vessel was sinking. The water was rushing is with
but with numerous edifices, including houses for the great force. The boat being abreast of the police-ship the
steward, gardeners, and other servants of the college. The captain instantly turned her head in to shore, and ancomided
foundations of a library have bees laid. in grounding her within a boat's length of the Temple-bar
CRUNCH EXTENSION AT ISLINOTON.—The annual pier. The passengers were landed, and immediately steps
meeting of the Islington Church Extension Society taken to discover the damage, which proved to be a large
was held last night in Bishop Wilson's Memorial HalL fracture in the " garboard streak." Two steamers were
The Right Rev, the Lord Bishop of London presided, placed alongside to tow ber es far into ahem as the lift of
The report congratulated the society on the fact that, "since the tide would permit, so that the damage might be repaired
1856 four new churches, all largely masted by this society, at low water,
have been opened, viz., St. Philip's, St. Luke's, St. Thomas's, WAYLAYING, AND RESCUE ET • BISHOP.—The
and St. Mary's, Hornaey-rise. Towards the erection of system of waylaying obnoxious petiole, and administering
three others considerable progress has been made, viz., St. a severe beating to them was never more general than now
Bartholomew's, St. Clements, and St. Michael's. Plans are in Ireland. Every other day some person is treated in this
also being formed to promote the building of three more, way in the provincee, the police having rendered the old
viz., St. Banishes. St. John the Baptist, and one in the form of retaliation in faction fights nearly impossible. The
neighbourhood of Tufnell.park, Holloway." The committee other day as Dr. Gillooly, the Roman catholic bishop, was
called for increased asinatsoce from the public in forwarding driving home near Ballisodare, he passed several carters,
their work, basing their claim on the fact that every year who soon after were assailed by a number of men lying in
added nearly 10,000 to the existing population. wait for them and severely beaten. Immediately on hearing
Hou DIN AT COLCHESTER. —ln his memoirs the cries of the men, his lordship alighted from his carriage.
(written by himself, this clever conjuror writes :—" On and was quickly in the midst of the party. To the immioent
leaving Hertford I went to Cambridge, thanes to Bury Bt risk of his own life, it being then completely dark, he
Edmund's, Ipswich, and Colchester, always taking receipt. rushed from one group to another, rescuing the unfortunate
proportionate to the importance of the towns. I have only , fellows who lay at the feet of the attacking party. As soon
threesh,ornirsof those fivetowee—thefailure atHertford,the as it was discovered that it was a bishop who had come to
enthusiastic reception from the Cambridge student., and the the rescue, the sasailante fled. One of the carters was so
nuts at Colchester. But, it will be asked, what conaexioo m severelybruised and cut that the bishop had to take him in
there be between flute and • magical performance. A word will hie earria6 to the infirmary.
explain the fact to the reader,andiell the tribolations this fruit THE ALES IN FRANCE—Heavy gales still pre-
caused me. It is a custom at Colchester that when a body mil cie the Channel coast, causing loss both of life and pro.
goes to the theatre he fills his pockets with note ; these are party. The day before yesterday the Spanish schooner
cracked soil eaten during the performance as a species of Isabelina, bound frees Seville to Havre. with a cargo of
refreshment Men and women both suffer from this cracking oranges, was totally lost at the mouth of the Ewe. The
nano, so that a rolling fire is kept up through the house, crew were brought on shore by means of lines thrown to
often powerful enough to drown the voice. Nothing of-' the vessel from the cliffs, but two of the men died
fated my nerves so much as this incemant cracking ;siy first in about two hours after from cold and fatigue. A
Performance suffered from it, and, despite my efforta to part of the cargo will, it is expected, be saved. The
mister myself, I went through the whole performance in a Alliance steamer attempted to leave Havre for
state of irritation. I consented, however, to perform • second Cherbourg, but was compelled to put back. The French
time, bet the manager could not induce me to promise a third, merchant vessel Charles Duple, which had left Havre for
Although he assured me that his actors had grown quite Rio Janeiro on the 18th, was also obliged to return, end in
accustomed to this strange music, and that even a minor getting into the port of Havre was driven with violence
actor might often be seen on the stage calmly cracking against the jetty, and stove in part of her bulwarks. Daring
a out while awaiting a reply, I could not mend it any , the gale a m all house belonging to M. Toutain, near the
looccr. and left the town." The translator of the work battery at Havre, was blown down, and another near it
V" the French, Mr. Lascelles Wrakall, adds the follow- damaged considerably. At Fe,ramp the pie blew with tr.-
footi,o :—" It would not have been surising in mendous violence, and the sea ran so high that the jetty
rm nvsterous. boisterous town (as Hoot christened It) and the stockade which defended the port on the western
to find Mr. Houdin astonishing the natives, but the side were washed away, mime fears being felt for the fate
'calm''', it appears, took place; the natives decidedly of the southern jetty and of the breakwater which runs
astonished him." from it.

Q.C., Recorder of Riming-

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