The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-16 00:00:00

THE DISTBSERIIS

ICABHIJUI.

The 115.nsion-honee Committee held their :ak:Z
meeting-yeeterday. •cmurr, Esq.. M.P.,
and the.. Lord Mayor and Miens. Cotton, Armittge.
Morley, and Lycett, errs present. The total amoont re-
ceived up to Thursday evening was 491t,14r2i. 4s. Sd. ' The
total amount of tke subscriptions which came to bind
during the poet week was 7401. Be. 7d., of which 181 f. 4a. ltd.
was from home, and 5691. 3e. 10d. from colonial imam.
The sum abseil, remitted for distribution in the•dbitsmoid
districts, iucluding amount for emigration, is 403,3,981.45. 7d.
Yesterday the committee made seventeen grants emanating
to 4,4301., which wore apportioned as follows :--Staly
1,0001. ; Ashtop.under.Lyee, 2,0001. ; litockpokt, 12,1
Motwistle, 200 t • Chorley, 1504 ; Stockport overlooking:
120 t. ; Oldham oVerlookers. 100/. ; Mottrani, 761. ; Bomber-
Midge; Wt.; Littleboyfield. 46/. • Borg, 40i. ; Togeoun-
Allnegtoq, ; Bin* 251. ; Rai:abodes:, 251. ; Barmaids.
w 26f. •, Walmsl , 101. Th ommihtetteseseitarttto.
'um oeswymesi douinotioe of digitate, lam resolved to
meet only ones s fortnight iestead of weekly.

The twelfth annual conference of the repre-
sentatives of lastitatioes is Union with the Society of
Arts, and of the Local Educational Boards, with the
Council, will be held oci Friday, June 12, at 12 o'clock noon.
Sir Thome Phillips, chairman of the council will preside.
Ponuo &Hoots Commtamox. The Public
Scheele Cm:minim bold meetings at No. 2, Victoria-
street, on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday this week. Pre-
sent—The Earls of Clareedon and Devoe, the Lord Lyttel.
toe, Sir & H. Noithoote, Bart., ILP., H. Helloed
Vaughan, Em., and ion Friday) the Rev. W. H. Thompson.
OPERATIVE JEWISH CON VERSE' CTION.
The thirlyascoed annual meeting of this society was held
last emus' at the Freemasons Hall ; the Hon. Mr. Ashley
in the chair. The report stated that there were at present
20 young men io the institution. 19 having left during the
year, and El admitted. There were 51 Jews ender iestruc.
tine. • WOOS the formation of the institution there had
been 492 inmates, many of whom were now acting as mis-
sionaries at home and abroad, and some were ordained
ministers of the church. The principal reported satiefec.
torily of the present inmates, as well an those who bad
recently left. The income of the society by subscriptions
for the peat year had been 7371. 12i. rid., which was 511. in
excess of the previous year. The whole of these subs nip.
lions wen applied to the maiotenance and education of the
inmates, the expeems of management being defrayed from
the profits on the work done io the tense by the inmates.
The amount received for work done in the bookbinding de-
partment during the past year had been 3,501/., and the pay
moots made to the inmates for wages had been 8161. 'The
other branches of industry, such as printing, lie., were
going on equally as satiafactorv.
COLN E VALLEY AND NA STEAD RAILWAY. —A
special wadi.' of shareholders in this tempany was held
yesterday, at the came, 0, Victoria-street, IWestminster ;
Mayor Veriker in the chair ; for the purpose of considering
• bill sow before parliament having for its obiect the
enabling the Coles Valley Company to make certain branch
lime near Haverhill ; and for other purpose& A resolu-
tion approving of the bill was, after a brief discussion,
adopted.
ilitglieer TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY. —The will
of James Tulloch, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., of Montague-
plum Bedford-square, has been proved in London by the
surviving executors sad trustees—namely. the relict, and
Charles Itivingtoe, Esq., of Fenchurch-buildings. The per-
sonalty was sworn alder 90,0001. His collection of pic-
tures on the decease of hts relict, in the event of neither of
his boos being alive at the time of bet decease, is bequeathed
to the trustees of the National Oallery, and which are to
bear this inscription:—" Presented by the late John Tel-
loch and his brother, James Tallocti, F.A.S."
. .

TH s PEABODY FUND.—The trustees of this fund,
with their moltitect, Mr. H. A. Derbyshire, have been en-
gaged since their appoiotment in eodeavours to procure sites
on which to erect dwellings for the industrial claims, but find
it • difficult matter to obtain ground suitable for such a pur-
pose which meets their requirements es to price frontage,
' depth, freehold, he. They have, however now nearly com-
pleted so arrangement for the purchase of • portion of the
so long mount ground is Victoria-street, Holborn-lull, for
the purpose of erecting dwellings as contemplated by the
munificent donor of the f mad. —Cil v Press. _

ARRIVALS Or EAST INDIA. COTTON IN LIVERPOOL.
—Within the last few days the mirth of East Indh, °Atom
into the port of Liverpool have berm very terms, and yes-
terday (Friday) another batch of East ladiamea arrived
is the Mersey with fell cargoes of cotton frees Bechar,
TM, the Indian Queen, Humane, and Helen Douglas. The
Helen Douglas brings 3,144 bales of cotton, the Kurrachm
van bales, and the Indian Queen 3,340 bales. During to-
day (Saturday) and to-morrow (Sunday) there are expected
in the Mersey thirteen more ships, all lads. with cotton
from Bombay. From the Ist of February to the 9th of
April there left Bombs y for Liverpool 31 vessels, all cotton
laden. These vessels do not include the 13 sow expected.
THE CoTTON TRADIL—G rust 00ml:dahlia have
recently been mad* by the oottoe trade at Manchester and
neighbourhood that Surat cotton, whoa the bales come to be
opened, is loured to be greatly adulterated. A large quas-
tity of rand, seed, and other worthiess matter is often found
to be mixed up with bales of cotton, which now that the
prke is kind. per lb. is a very serious bon to the purchaser.
Sometimes the lose from this canoe ranges from 15 to 40
Der oent. The brokers at Liverpool, coumicias of this fact,
have tried to themselves by affixing to the last
bale a label with the words, " No allowance after poising
the soaks." As it is impossible for the buyers to know what
is is tM bale till it acmes to be opened at the mill, they are
proposing to held • meeting ori the question next Tuesday,
at the llarence Hotel, Mancheater, to consider if some
seep gamed be taken to protect themeelves from such
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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 16.

THE Security from Violence Bill, better known
to the general public as the Flogging Bill, is
steadily making its way through Parliament by
overwhelming majorities. Brought in by a private
member, it was at once adopted by the House of
Commons with more enthusiasm than that
assembly has shown for any measure since it
passed the Poaching Bill of last session. The
House, so blast and incredulous on most subjects,
warms up at the mention of the cat, and shows
that on at least one point its faith is fall and
strong. Honourable members, who on ordinary
occasions are not given to much speaking, are jolt
now proud and eager to show that in their
studies of civilization they have not overlooked
this important instrument, and that they can speak
withnice exactness on ita various kinds, anddemoribe
their respective properties and effects. One is an
amateur of the army cat ; another extols the supe-
rior mordacity of that used in the navy ; but all
agree that the lash is the palladium of our social
state. Sir Geotras Geri discourses wisely as
often as the Bill comes before the House, and
signifies disapproval of its provisions on the part of
the Government ; but he discourses in vain. The
House meets his arguments with a dogged fanati-
cism, and should the Lords accept the measure in
a similar temper it will soon become law.
A spectacle so remarkable as the representative
assembly of a highly civilized nation reverting to
a barbarous punishment, and doing so Ma spirit of
exultation, of course attracts the notice of neigh-
bouring communities; accordingly the Security from
Violence Bill has been discussed in France, Ger-
many, and other countries, with results very little
to our advantage. For the last hundred years
men have been in the habit of judging the character
and development of nations very much according to
the nature of the punishments to which they resort
for the repression of crime. Thus no reproach has
been more frequently brought against the Russians
than their use of the knout. And now the principal
Russian journal, being anti-English, is delighted
to point to the fact that England, so proud of her
social superiority, has taken up that implement
which Russia has for ever cast away as a sign of
a lower civilization, and is brandishing it with
something like complacency. The promoters and
advocates of this Bill have so exclusively set their
immediate object before them, that they will
probably not think the effect of their measure
upon the estimation in which we are held abroad
deserving of their regard. Still this is a con-
sideration that more sober Englishmen will not
consent to lose sight of. Foreigners are, on the
whole, impartial judges of our criminal legislation,
and their opinion is not to be summarily devoted
to contempt At all event' we ought to be very
sure that, in the superior advantages of flogging
as a mode of punishment, we gain something
that can compensate for a decided loss
of reputation. It is argued that we shall
get this in the exemplary and deterrent effect
of the nee of the lash. But without looking be-
yond the range of the criminal classes to consider
the natural influence of the punishment on
the community generally, we take leave to doubt
whether society will not lose, even on the compu-
tation of crimes of violence prevented and crimes of
violence increased. It is to be remembered that
when you have flogged a man you have done your
worst, short of hanging ; you have cut him off
more completely than you could have done by
any other means from innocent society, and
knowingly devoted him to a life of hatred and
despair. No other punishment takes the last re-
mains of humanity out of an offender so thoroughly
as this, and if it were probable that flogging would
come into general use the safety of society would
imperatively require that provision should be
made for the permanent safe keeping of convicts
who had suffered that penalty. If with our costly
police we are not safe now, it is pretty certain we
should not be safe with flogged desperadoes
roaming about, determined not to be flogged a
second time. In all probability we should see
a revival of more terrible forms of violence.
The wisest among us have been accustomed to

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think and to teach that the value of laws,-usages,
and institutions is not to be measured simply
and exclusively by the completeness with which
they attain their primary object, bat that they
exercise a secondary, reflex, and edncational in-
fluence upon society at large, which, must always
be taken into the account, and for the sake of
which it may even become prudent to be satisfied
with a lowerdegree of direct efficiency. Dr. AssoLD,
in stating this consideration, has observed bywayof
illustration, that a judicial constitution may secure
a pure administration of justice and yet fail as an
engine of national cultivation when it is reeled in
the hands of a small body of professional men,