The Press.
London, England, 1857-07-04 00:00:00

Sir Charles Napier, M.P., Mr. Greer, M.P., Mr.
Milner Gibson, Mr. Sergeant Parry, Mr. Nicholay,
Mr. Sharman Crawford. Mr. Philips, M.P. for Bury,
presided. Mr. Milner Gibson was the principal
speaker of the evening, and he said :
It appeared to him that if Mr. Berkeley has for his sup•
porters a large majority of the Liberal party, the Liberal
party were entitled to go in a body to Lord Palmerston,
and tell him that he could not expect to be supported as
the Minister of the country by the Liberal party, and that
he and his friends cmnot be permitted to be at the head of
public affairs with the support of the Liberal party, unless
they are prepared to carry out the principles of that parts,
and of which the vote by ballot was one of the most im•
portant. If Lord Palmerston believed those gentlemen to
be in earnest when they made the communication, he (Mr.
Milner Gibson) said it was his firm belief that the
Ministers would gird up their loins and submit a proposal
for vote by ballot to Parliament. But if they thought they
could get the support of the Whigs and Liberals without
conceding this measure, they certainly would not
make the concession. They wanted the support of the
Liberals ; the Liberals wanted the bill. If they could get
the support of the Liberals without granting them what
they required, why should they make the concession ? He
was not one of those who would not have vote by ballot
without an extension of the suffrage—or, on the other
hand, an extension of the suffrage without the ballot.
Several resolutions and a petition in accordance
with these objects were framed and passed. The
adjourned meeting on Wednesday was held to
consider the steps advisable to be taken in conse-
quence of the de'e3t of Mr. Berkeley's motion on
Tuesday night. Mr. ‘Vhitellurst, vice-president of
the Ballot Society, occupied the chair. The meeting
was not very numerously attended. The chairman,
in opening the business of the meeting, said he
thought the agitation bad not been without effect
since the formation of the society in 1853. The
greatest number that ever voted for the motion was
216, and on Tuesday 181) members voted for the
motion, while 24 paired in its favour, making with
the two tellers 215, or within one of the greatest
number e'er attained. A resolution in favour of the
ballot was adopted.

- Bitiropolitan.

THE HATLEYBURY STUDENTS passed their usual
half-yearly examination On Monday. The first class
Bengal prize of those leaving college was won by
Mr. Colvin, the son of the lieutenant-governor of the
north-wes!, provinces, while of those remaining in
college Messrs. Hutchins, Bernard, Temple, Garrett,
and Burney were highly distinguished. Tile chair-
man of the East India Company was present, and
addressed the students. After luncheon the chair-
man again spoke, and, referring to recent events in
India, observed that her Majesty's Government and
the East India Company were most cordially co-
operating in devising measures that would effectually
put down all distu bance and disaffection in India,
and would, he firmly believed, place that vast emfire
on a more settled, satisfactory, and lasting basis than
ever.

THE FOLLOWING SYSTEM, devised to test the
sincerity of a te, enta-it criminal, is carried out at
the London Reformatory, the annual meeting of
which society was held at Willis's rooms this week.
The probationary system was detailed as follows :
The governor having ascertained that he had committed
crime, and that his health was good, admitted him, subject
to the approval of the committee, to probation. He
remained in a small room, aloe, on bread and water diet,
for ten days, occasionally visited by the governor. He
might leave at any time. It he stood the ten days' tea*,
he was admitted to the institution, and sent into one of
the workshops. The age fur admission was between
twenty and thirty five, that men and bona might not be
mixed together. The sincerity of the criminal having
been tested by the probation, he entered into his course of
reformation. Emigration was the ultimate ol.ject. He
was to be fitted for this by undergoing the discipline of a
well-ordered institution, and by learning a trade. Religious
and secular instruction were imparted. There was a
system of rewards by prizes, and punishmenis by fines.
The diligent workman, with good conduct, might gain fid.
a week, of which three-fourths were paid him, and the
remainder accumulated for his benefit when he left. The
I-a I workman, whose conduct was bad, might be fined to
the same extent. It was a fundamental rule that an inmate
ha ing the institution was never readmitted. Having
shown by his good conduct during a twelvemonth that he
might be trusted, he was sent out as an emigrant. But
the rule of emigration, like all other general rules, was not
always adhered to—an inmate who preferred a situation in
th s country, and could find one, was assisted to obtain and
t i, a it.

THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES AT UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE toot place on Wednesday. Sir J. G. I.
Letevre, K.C.8., presided on the occasion, and was
supported by Lord Brougham, Lord Monteagle,
Lord Furtescue, and a brilliant assembly. A re-
markable feature in the dax's proceedings was the
number of prizes carried off by gentlemen of the
Jewish persuasion, the most distinguished of all the
prizeholders being %young Hebrew, Master Solomon.
:Abi chairman, in the course of his address to the
Wdents, said "he rejoiced the more in the success
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