The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-19 00:00:00

OUR RELATIONS WITH BRAZIL

Mr. OSBORNE drew attention to the state of our poli-
tical relations with Brazil, and condensed the operations of
the A.berdmiti Act of 1815, which he argued ought to be
repealed ; for Lord Truro had prommmed it opposed te
the principles of international law, and its attics, combined
with the overbearing language of the Premier in ;bat house,
was irritating to the Brazilians in the extreme. Let that
treaty be expunged from the statute book, and Bradt would
be too happy to enter into a commercial treaty sad a postal
onneution with us ; but so long as it remained in force so
long would it be a source of annoyance equally unfortunate
I to Brazil and injurious to the trade of Bights&
Lord PALMERSTON deprecated discuasion at that
moment, seeing that moisten were now engaged, through
11 the Portuguese government, in a negotiation the object of
which was to reestablish diplomatic relations between
Great Britain and Brazil. lie did not believe that the
Aberdeen Act bad had any serious effect epee the commerce
of England ; sod although he admitted that the Brasilian
slave trade had ceased since the regulations adopted in 1852,
it should not be forgotten that out of a population of
7,500,000 is Brazil upwards of 3,000,000 were slaves.
Mi. S. FITZGERALD congratulated the Premier on the
moderate tote of his language that night as contrasted with
hi bearing only last week, when he spoke of the conduct of
the Brazilian government as flagitious and disgraceful. He
believed that that government was using every effort in its
power to carry into effect the treaty stipolatioos for the
liberation of the emancipadoa.
Sir H. CA IEtNS said that the impreesion on the part of
English capitalists and merchante having an interest in
Brazil was almost, universally opposed to the policy of her
Majtety'a government, With regard to the Aberdeen Act,
as a question of iuternational law, he bad never looked upon
it with any other feeling than that of amazement.
Mr. NEWDEGATE complained that the Brazilian go-
vernmeet was endeavouring to coerce the house into the
repeal of the Aberdeen Act by persecuting English residents
in Brasil, sod he instanced in particular the came of Mr.
Christie, our late minister at Rio, and of • Mr. Reeves.
He also denounced the corruption of the legal tribunals of
the country. and described the internal slave trade as of a
mod iniquitous and inhuman diameter.
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Mr. T;BABING having immured the Brazilian policy of
her Majesty's goveromeot u taunting, irritating, 11,111 oufor.
torte, the subject dropped.

ST. BERNARD'S REFORMATORY.

Mr. PACKE called attention to the report of the levee.
for of Reformatories on the state of the St. Bernard's. Refor-
matory at Whithrick, in Leicestershire. He observed that at
thelcommencement of last year there was a serious affair
in the establishment, the boys being on the point of I
murdering the officers. At that tine the reformatory was i
under the management of the monks of St. Bernard, who
were considered tit to deal with the authors of the outbreak.
On the 19th ofJuoe, 11153, it was plated in the hands of a
number of Roman catholic gentlemen, who made certain
new regulations, which received the approval of the
inspector of reformatories, the Rev. Sydney Turner,
One of these regulations was that the number of inmates
was to be limited to 100. Notwithstanding. that number
was afterwards increased to 14:1 ; and it oppeared that
within four or five months, :10 or 40 of the boys having got
looms were committed to gaol for various offemee, includ-
ing [our cases of burglary. Here, then, were 150 young
scamp", who wers able at night to amps and perpetrate
depredations. When he (Mr. Pack.) was at Etna, the win.
down were all barred, and the boys had no means of getting
out at night, and be should like to know why a similar pre-
caution was not taken in this reformatory. The polio'
were several time, obliged to keep guard, and
Mr. Tuner having been sent down, said that
a a.mre effective daft ought to be employed.
He was informed that is this reformatory, in which it had
been found impossible to manage 100 boys, the number had
been increased to 150 last year. The point of which the
magistrates complained was that a reformatory should be
allowed to remain in the county which could not be man-
aged without the aid of the county police. The fact was
that the clergymen In charge was quite iseapable of
managing the pupils. who were principally frith boys frem
Liverpool, and bed no cameo ion with the musty of Leicester.
What be 'embed to Impress upon the Secretary of
State was, that the county should not be compelled to tar-
nish polios to control this s•lconnakey, the boys of whisk