The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-13 00:00:00

PRISON DISCIPLINE.

The following report, upon the subject of pri,,,„
discipline and the treatment of criminals. by the Rev. me.
Davis, the ordinary of Newpte, was yesterday published.
After alluding to the advantages that have been oUsiiimit by
the recent alterations that have been made at this prism,
and the system of separate confinement of prisoners before
trial, Kr. Davis says:
" But this is not the conclusion I come to with resi.o:t
habitual, hardened criminal'. It is well known to al of us
who see much of these men that they leave prison with tht
intention of returning, as soon as they can, to their odd
habits and pernicious mode of living. We are now receivie;
at every monthly session old returned penal servitude teen,
who have been twice or thrice tiansportod. The imedueter
many of these men is not lad in prison. They discharge the
duties assigned them with diligence and assiduity, sot
frequently leave gaol with a good ' prison' character, but
they have not reformed and do not mean to amend then
ways. They have weighed the results of imprhouneut,
sod are content to bear the inconvenience of renewed pew
servitude if again detected. Attempts have been made it,
Ireland to apply • remedy to this state of things sea u f,
as we can hear cocsiderablesucceas has attended this worthy
endeavour. Four of the visiting magistrates of the Wed
Riding of Yorkshire, well acquainted with the intendis h.
nagement and general effect of the Wakefield County !louse
of Correction, part of which is a government convict eau.
blishment, went over to Ireland last autumn to inspect awl
judge of the results of the diwipline exercised in that kingdom
upon convicts. They published/ statement upon the Rubj«ct,
in which they compared the two methods of treat:teat
adopted towards convicts; in England and Ireland, awl, if
those statistics are correct, there is • highly import:set sad
new feature in the discipline in Ireland that ought to
have the profound consideration of all to whom them
subjects are a care and a duty. It appears that the !rah
system makes gradations in the different prieoos suited to
the 'taste at which the convicts have arrived. The first
is probationary, separate confinement, and low diet; to
work is allowed, and this is found a severe punishment.
The mooed stage gives employmeut, and ' mares' ere
assigned in accordance with the conduct of the prisoner. la
the third gradation farther privileges are conceded, sod the
ticket-of.leave is made to depend on the Mt,'
shown by the convict for liberty. The rule is that the sea.
tence passed must be carried out, and will be shortened by
nothing but the confidence created by the offender's own
conduct. These gentlemen state that the result of such
treatment is that few convicts are re-committed to prison ;
gametal of the Irish convict establishments have been closet . .

for want of prisoner, and that since 1&54 no Irish c;;;:t
has been sent abroad as a transport. In the treatment
of English prisoners, under the present system, there is
no attention paid to the fitness of a convict to be
anti listed with his liberty—many • one leaves the
prison with • full determination to return to his old
ways, companions, and habits ; they become a much
wane class of offenders, and almost ell the garotte
robberies and crimes committed with violence pro-
' coed either from them, or from others under their Untrue.
Lions. When twie.e or thrice subjected to penal servitude
with the same result, it seems necessary to have a sentence
of imprisonment for life, to be relieved only by the hope
of improvement in the criminal himself. The Icrishire
magistrates I have referred to express an opinion that the
Irian system of treating convicts would have the same suc-
cessful issue if adopted in England, and my owe impression
is that it is well worth trying, but st the same time I believe
it is a hopeless task to expect such advantageous results
from the English incorrigible convicts. These men are de-
voted to crime—the adventure, excitement, and plunder
are attractive to them. They amoebae with men and women
to whom these great and intolerable crimes are no degrade.
tion, and, being nursed in hardship, imprisonment dues tot
oppress them. They dread long sentences of penal soli-
tude, but we seldom see any moral improvement in them.
Their conduct in prison is often exemplary ; the work.thi
do is well performed ; arid they show that, with '
firm discipline, modetate occupation, and a little hope
lessening their term of imprisonment, they no conduct
themselves with propriety. But they have not abandoned
their evil White, nor given up a life of crime. There is so
opportunity to steel or plonder, and nothingto be gained by
it ; the stuiender of it for a time is only a matter of pm.
deuoe— it serves their purpose better. As soon as
ever they get their liberty they return to their
old ways, and become much more pernicious and
dangerous offenders. No system, except • determination to
show them that they will never recover their liberty d
again convicted, will keep them from crime. There are also
serious detach; in the English treatment of convicts which
the Irish system would obviate. The men are permitted to
associate without much discrimination as to character io
the public works. The result is that manageable convicts,
well-conducted men in prison, gain information from other
thieves, and are told where end how to go and introduce
themselves, and many come to London from the different
convict establishments whose previous life has been spent
in other parts, and they are consequently not
known to the London police. Many penal men,
however, are not habitual thieves. More than is generally
believed do well on their liberation. With regard to them
the system of penal servitude and imprisonment answer all
the expectations of the public. It is not with these men
the difficulty lies, but with the hardened, incorrigible
criminal, whose conduct is irreproachable in prison aced
execrable when at liberty."
In reference to the crime of infanticide, the Rey. Mr. Ding
makes the following observations :—" I greatly fear thstthit
crime is very much on the increase in the metropolis. Hardly
sufficient protection seems to be given to young women who
fall into immorality to enable them to support their infants.
No person, for half-crown a week, will undertake to
keep • child, and the wages of a female servant are not
sufficient to provide for the child what nature and necessity
require, and this lamb to the result to which I have
alluded."

The Bishop of Worcester has given notice that on
Sunday, the 21st of December, he intends to hold an ordi-
nation in the church of St. Phillip, in this town, at half-part
10 o'clock in the forenoon. The sermon will be preached by
the Hoy. and Rev. G. H. Yorke, Prebendary of Lichfield,
Rural Dean of Birmingham, and rector of the church. This
is the that ordination that has taken place in Birmingham
since the annexation of the archdeacoury of Coventry to the
see of Worcester.—Birminghani Gazette.
HER MAJESTY AND DR. NORMAN M`LHOD.—
Her Majeaty, on reading in the newspapers of the death of
the late Dr. Norman M'Leod, of Glasgow, expressed bon
deep sympathy and 'grief that be bad been cut off in the
full career of a life of wide-spread usefulness—a sympathy
intensified by his connexion with memories of her visit& to
Balmoral. One of the ladies in attendance expressing her
Majesty's feeling. on the event, the wools fell on the ears of
a Scotch lassie, a servant to Lady Augusta Bruce, who rep
tared to remark that it must be the father of Dr. Norman
M'Leod, of the Baroay, and not the Dr. M'Leod who
matched before her Majesty at Balmoral. The Queer
being informed of this, desired the girl to be bent into bet
presence, and the lassie explained the points that she
thought inconsistent in the short and inancerste paragraph
her Majesty bad been reading. In consequence, a telegraph
was despatched to Sir Ambilald Alison, of Glasgow, who
confirmed the girl's story ; and soon after a feeling letter of
sympathy_wee sent to Dr. Norman M'Lecd by the Merchio•
ooze of Elyy by her Majesty's commands—Nortt British
Daily Moil.
VISIT Or MR. CAIRO, M.P., TO THE NORTHERN
SrAvset.—We (Stirling Odierrer) understand that Mr.
Caird, M.P. is &boat to leave Scotland for a short tour
through the, Northern States, with the view of satisfying
himself as to the effects of the unhappy civil war on the
trade end institutions of America.
MEETING!! or SCIENTIFIC SOCIRTIESL—Monday•-•
Asiatic, 3. Royal Academy, 8, " Anatomy." Prof. Par.
fridge. Architects, 8, "Efuegerford Market." Mr. Fowler;
" Monastic or Coaventnal Arrangement& of Can
Rev. IL Walcott. Tuesday—Ethnological, 8, " Australian
Aborigines " Mr. Preis.; " Molliallies inhabiting the Ctrs.
vary 'dills:" Dr. Short" ; "Cniniometrical Seggestioes,..,
Mr. Blake. Statistical, 8, "Statistics, British Goloaies,
Mr. Hammick. Engineers, 8, Annual General. Kedoewlet
—Society of Arts. 8, " Mines and Minerals of the United
Kingdom," Mr. Hunt. Geological, 8, "Skiddsw Slate
Series," Prof. Berliner ; " Fond Estherim," Prot Jams ;
"Flora, Devonian Period, N.E. America," Dr. Damon.
Thursday—Numismatic, 7. Linnean, 8, • Yamada Foci.
mai, British Fere'," Mr. Church ; " Welwitechis," Dr.
Hooker. Chemical, 8. Philological, 8. Rural, gi• Apti.
queries, 81.
DEATH Or Mats. W. H. Swastioxoucar.—We
regret to announce the sodden decease of this lady, while ca
a visit to her mother at Rochester. Before her marriage
to Mr. W. H. Swanborough, of the Strand Theatre. the
was well known in the profession as Miss Kate Kirby, and
was for some years principal deflector at the Olympic,
Strand, Sadler's Wells, and other metropolitan theatres.
She was a most amiable lady, greatly respected by auch
ll who
knew her, and her very sudden death has caused m
sorrow to her husband, as well as relatives, and numerous
friends —Sea.
Tan PANTOIMIti! A ETlSTal.—Tlin following will
show the distribution of the various pantomimic artistes
at each establishment as yet arranged :—DrolT...
Harlequins, Connect and St. Maim!, ; Columbia*, tweeo"_
Boleyn and the Misses Gunn Clowns, Harry note.
end E. Lauri ; Pantaloons, G. 'Tanner and debuts'
Coveut-Gerden—Harlequin, F. Payee ; Glows, H. Par!
Columbine, S. Adams ; Notelet's, W. A. Boom Poo
esele—flarleqeht, Milano ; Clown, Power ; C,olombia•
Nellie. Marie; Pantaloon, Belford. Adelphi—ilarie9aO4
J. Lauri ; Clown, Bildyard ; Columbia', C. Adams: Fslo
taloon, Paulo. Aitley s Harlequin, Dupree : Clen.
Online ; Columbine, Annie Cashew ; Panteloon, Sylvedri.
Surrey—Harlequin, Rowena ; Columbine, Morgan
Hildebrant ; Pantaloon Genial Victoria--Cloen, "•
Tanner ; Pantaloon, Parker. Sadler's Wells—Clowo. Hen'
demon • uin, Ash ,
_• Columbine. Nathan. Hen'
demon
• Harlequin D'Autan ; Columbia,
D'Auban. StandardlClown, G. Harlequin,
; Pae
E. talooo,
G. BolenBolen; Harlequin, A. Roby ; Columbine, Home.'
Ire.
Consumes Moiety TROY A SINOULAR Sore".
—At a meeting el the Improvement C7onunissioners
last
Wednesday, s Tunbridge Wells, the following commuoia.
; ties was tad. It was written is " text band." ere.
sheets( set* paper :—" A little boy. who has had the mu'
lisrisnete break Gm of the street lamps by thoughtlessly
threering a deew encloses eighteen-pence in postage situps
to repair the injury done." The commissioner. were Ma*
riallenbly amused with the letter, and Mr. Colebran he
bed leo dlbt tke writer was a good little boy.-11".'
geavaide,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
win V. wlrr AND KLIWDWORTH.
This part-heard case, which was the petition of a music I
publisher carrying on business in Regent-street, under the
same of 1. I. Ewer and Co., was resumed this morning.
The pleas in defence were a denial and recriminatory charges
of cruelty and adultery.
Mr. Hawkins, qc., and Mr. Keane were for the petitioner;
Mr. Kanlake, end Dr. Tristram, for the respondent ;
the Queen's Advocate sod Mr. Roll for the co-respondent.
Harriet Hazel (the servant called " Ann " in the family)
was examined at some length, sod gave similar evidence
to that of Sarah Brown, with regard to the
close and clandestine terms of intimacy on which
the respondents stood to each other. When Mr. Klind-
worth was iu the house and Mr. Witt came home, witness
used to take him (Klindworth) up to her own bedroom.
Went with her mistress to Tuobridge Wells. They lodged
et StellenberrHouse, which was kept by a Mrs. Cox. Mr.
Witt used to come down from Saturday till Monday.
Mr. Klindworth also came two or three times &-
week, but never while Mr. Witt was there.
He used to spend the evemog with the respondent in the
drawing-room, which had a bedroom adjoining, and sepa-
rated from it by folding doors. When he stayed all nightie
the house he generally slept in the room over that bedroom ;
but he sometimes occupied another. Three times witness
slept in the room above the back bedroom. On the first
occasion the respondent 'mid, "Ann, as I am not very well,
Mr. Klindworth is going to sit up with me to-night." She
afterwards told witness to wait up till all the lights were
out, and then to go to bed in Mr. Klindworth's room.
Went to bed at eleven and left the respondents at that time
together in the dining-room. Found Mr. Klindworth
in Mrs. Witt's bedroom when witness came down
the next morning. It was be who let witness
in. The following week the respondent told witness
again to sleep in Mr. Klindwortla's bed that night, alleging
that he was reading some pretty books to her, and they
were so interesting that they wished to sit up and finish
them. Found Mr. Kliodworth the nut morning again in
her mistress's bedroom. The next week the same thing
took place, the respondent on this occasion saying that
Mr. Kliodworth was going to pass the night on the sofa
lest he should oversleep himself, and be too late for the
eight o'clock train the next day. Saw him in the
morning washing his bands in her mistress's bedroom.
Had twice seen Mr. Klindworth kiss her ' • and her mistress
bad once told her that if it bad not been for the persuasion
of her friends she should have married him, for she liked
him better than she did her busbaod.

By Mr. Karslske—Wu dismissed at Tunbridge Wells,
because witness had been talking to Mrs. Cox about Mr.
Klindworth, and Mrs. Cox had gone up to her mistress
and spoken to her about it. The reason the reepoodest
alleged for discharging her was that Mrs. Cox had said
that she had been beating her baby. That charge, however,
was not true. Was confined in Sudbury Workhouse of au
illegitimate child on the 9th ult. Had previously been in
Westminster Workhouse, and was pasted on from there to
Sudbury. At Tunbridge Wells witness generally slept with
Mrs. Witt. Never had to sit up with her on account of her
Meese. Mr. Witt always slept upstairs when he came
down. Could not say whether he did that by Mr. Cloves's
advice.

Mrs. Cox said that Mr. Klindworth came six or eight
times to sleep at her house, and on one other occasion. lo
consequence of something said to witness, she one morning
placed herself opposite Mrs. Witt's door. Heard Mr.
Klindworth unlock Mrs. Witt's bedroom door, and go up-
stairs. He was dressed but bad his slippers on. When he
was halfway upstairs, he turned round and saw witness in
the ball. Went into Mrs. Witt's room, and told her that
she had beard • great deal from the last witness. The
respondent denied everything. Said it was very unpleasant
for anything of the kind to take place in the house.
Respondent said Mr. Klindworth had only been sitting
up to copy some music. The respondent was very
angry and said that in consequence of what the servant
had said about Mr. Klindworth she should leave immedi-
ately. She then called the last witness up. She (the ser-
vant) seemed frightened, and said nothing. Mrs. Witt
stated that Mr. Klindworth had given her (the ser-
vant) half • sovereign to say nothing about
his being there. Respondent afterwards told witness
that she had telegraphed to Mr. Klindworth to come back
the same day ; but be did not return till the next day. The
servant was soot away before Mr. Klindworth came down.
The respondent said that Mr. Witt's friends were not going
to leave her alone, day or night, in order that the girl
might not have an opportunity of telling him about Mr.
Klindworth. For the first fortnight witness thought that
Mr. Klindworth was Mrs. Witt's brother, for the child
called him uncle.

By Mr. Karslake—Mrs. Witt stayed at witneses for
about ten days after the girl was sent away, and witness
allowed her daughter—who was 20 years of age—to go with
her to town, and to stay with her for six weeks. Mrs.
Witt was always unwell when her husband visited her;
but she generally appeared better when Mr. Klindworth
came. (Laughter.) Mr. Sopwith attended her twice or
three times.

George Lee, the petitioner's servant lad, gave corrobora-
tive evidence. Used to take letters to the co-respondent at
his house, in Manchester-street, two or three times a-week.
Was once sent to the Hare and Houuda, at Hampstead, to
fetch a comb, which the respondent had left there, and
she said she h►d borrowed from Mr. Xlindworth. She told
witaese to say that they had dined in a private room, and
had had steaks.

tin Cox confirmed her mother's evidence and also that of
the servants already examined.
patitiamwes seas was not concluded when we went to
press.]

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

CLERKENWELL.
no LOVI OP FINTHY.

Panne Turner, • respectable-looking young girl, who
seemed to feel her position very acutely, described as a
domestic servant, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt with
stealing 14 pieces of ribbon and one pair of gloves from her
employer, Mis. Frances Stanley, milliner and dressmaker,
of 43, Great Comm-street, Russell-square.
According to the statement of the complainant the pri-
soner had ally been in her employ • few weeks, having,
se she suspected, entered her service by means of a false
character. Whilst the prisoner was out on Sunday last,
from what came to her knowledge, she went to her bed.
room, and between the bed and mattress she found
the property produced, which had been stolen from
the drawers or from the workroom tables, both being
places to which the prisoner had no right to go. When the
prisoner returned, she asked her how she became possessed
of these goods, but she at first declined to my. On telling
her that she would send for • policeman, the prisoner mid
that she bad taken them, and that she was very sorry. As
a lodger in the house had had her drawers broken open and
some money taken, Mrs. Stanley asked her about that, and
as she declined to my, gave her one hour to consider about
it, before sending for a police-constable. To prevent her
leaving the house, she locked her in the kitchen, but
during her temporary gismos the prisoner managed to force
the locks, and thus gain access to the front area. She then
clambered up the walls and over the area railings, and made
her escape. Information was ;PM to the police, and the
prisoner was last night found in company with some very
low characters. Her parents, who are poor but respectable
people, were in a sad way about her, as she hail not been
home since she had left her situation.

The prisoner Tald-Z;;;;We;pli;or Ty for what she had
done, and hoped that the magistrate would take a merciful
view of her case. It was her first offence, and she would
take rare that it was her last. It was her love of wishing
to be dressed " nice " that had caused her to forget herself.-
Mr. D'Eyneonrt said he was afraid that the present was
not her first offence. It was a serious thing for senants
in trust to rob their employers. He then sentenced the
prisoner to be imprisoned and kept to bard labour in the
House of Correction for four calendar months.
The prisoner, who sobbed bitterly, was then removed.
WORSHIP-STREET.
COWNITTAL OF PRISONERS ON SERIOUS CHARGES.
_ _

Gemoe Vincent, a powerful roan, having the appearance
of an excavator, was charged with being concerned in vio-
lently assaulting and stealing from the person of a gentle-
man named Sparks.
Mr. Graves, from the office of Mr. Vann, prosecuted ; and
at a former examination it was shown that the prosecutor
had been stopped near his residence in Mile End on a Sunday
night by two men ; that he was rendered partially insensible
by violence, and had Is. tid. stolen from him while lying on
the ground, his watch and other monies being in a different
part of his dress ; also that the outrage was witnessed
bye person named West, who with the prosecutor identified
the prisoner as one of the perpetrators, when in custody
at the station house several days afterwards oo another
charge. The prisoner now produced • woman wbo swore
that he was is bed at the time of the robbery, and Mr.
West, despite his previous declaration, laid that he believed
Prisoner not to be one of the men. This hesitation, it was
voloopiently understood, reeolted from fear of threats
held out to him. The depositions, however, were com-
pieted. and the mewed fully committed to Newgate for
trial, and while in one of the cells awaiting the arrival of
the prison van, • young man, who was locked up in an
opposite cell upon some slight charge which simply required
teal, overheard a conversation in the former, during which
one of the occupants minutely related the manner in which
he had accomplished either the robbery in question, or
sores other, by pressure of the knuckles under the gullet of
the threat.

Mark Archer and William Haycock were finally examined
upon a charge of violently sailing with intent to rob
Edward Mosley sod George Bell.
This was another outrage late at night and in the same
aelbbourhood as the former. Hr. Mosley was severely in-
iFeil by blow with a knobbed stick upon the head, and
Xr• Ball less so.
Fully aotaroittad for trial to Margate.
SOUTHWARK.
THE TICKILT•O7-LIATZ ETETEM.
In the coarse of the morning, a strong-huilkyowerfulArd
harty•loooking young mew ippiiod to Hr. iftmbo to mica