The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-19 00:00:00

wise provision mad* of his sasstal and moral health, the boy
leas the opportunity_ of baring the genius and virtue which
an in him made edeetusl to his own good and the world's
insprovrnsoat—may grew up foto a Coleridge or • Chafes
Louth, and have a nation for his 'fifties and posterity for
his thsc4l!.a hat should his evil torture cast biza on the
side of the church of the Sepulchre there Is no hope—the di*
decides hi. tato; he is compelled into a moor eclat, di so-
lateness, and criminality : ovary honest man is his enemy,
and the termination of his caner is at the hulks or the
gallows.
It thl deportment of the prison rolled the house of coma.
Lion minor offenders within the City of Londta are
soar. No tranaporte aro met hither; nor any prim
whose raters is above throe years in length. Is speaking
of Newgele, we wafers: the want of sir and light, the over-
wooded stets of the roosts, the shame of proper cellular
renamodationt and the vice intetceurse carried on
amen's: the rare% All these trite are mud hilted many
fold in Oiltspitr-str. et Conopttr. The emir* gaol only m-
ains 3.3 separate Bleeping-room.; and, according to the high-
est pr•san colculati-n---aad the, be It sespeeklly noted, pro-
ce.l m the asiusaptiow that tiros
.persows eon sleep in
iniervable, unventilated cells which was built for caw,
and are tee conlityd for that, being only about half the saes
Of the Nuxiel eta at Pentnneill•—ft iv only garble of
affordin r -tarmodetion for 7.03: yet wo Tunica by the re.
taros that at Mehaelmas it cootAined 246 ! What is the
maseque ? This—tt.at those small and horrid cells,
which ses will undertake to say will not hold sullicleat air
tag a si,gle iniiiitidual's nightly wars, had flee human
Weirs linked up in them fur twelve er fourteen hours out of
'yeti, twenty-roof I This is monstrous. And these crimi-
nals, thus es ardod into opines unnaturally cordned and
hinted, are lot ent nly alone. There is very little super-
vision ; su Vitt they at fins • riot they are pretty free
from any inter'. rent°. No restriction Is placed upon net or
wad. Conversation and tetitvoination aro perpetually
going on ua.l.ir the eyes and within hearing of the officers of
tits prison—yet no attempt is made to ch ek it. And, if it
werr, wilt the present building, it would he ursturessful.
No alteration so! discipline could relieve this prison tram the
bad reputation which it kr acquired of being a disgrace to
the anerFation nt L miaow. It mug come down.
The limes of Carrion knd the Ceropter portion of the
ostahlishaser.t are kept guile distinet ; belt it would be diffi-
cult to award the palm of empire in their Teapot-tics feeililiee
for drunlisati:a. We thick the Comets r rather worse of '
Ito two. You aro shown into • mat, oboist the size of an
epeotmeot is an ordinary dwelUng.hosse, whisk will be
found crowded with thirty 12 forty persons, rang and oil,
in their ordinary v.,' umee—th• low thief in his 6th a•id
tags, and theascallser of the swill mob with his
bright buttons, flesh awry, and false jewels. Hero
you notice the bey oho has just committed hie first
citleiir:, and is commit's 1 for trial, :earning with a
greedy mind • thereat! criminal at% and listening
with the pr. carious instinct of guilty prior to storks 4,4
sciaaitasuons the most depraved and diaguel•yr. Yon look
at hint with a mailmen of loathing and pity, for he Immo
that the eye. of A,:a refs are open him, and ho staffs at you
with a facillt.r impudence and exhibits a devil•may-aro air
wit:cb an only to b- en.t within the juvenile offender. Ti ere,
too. may be err the 'rag du*f tear up on overdue,
pr::. bps innocrat, who avoids you with a sits look drill ad
unafoner ; if inn« nt, neat a hell newt his passes mid
ens "anions be to him I It la dightfal to thick of • prove
roan?) untaitted with cease, comeelled to herd for ten or
twenty a with than abandoned wrendra. Society rota
reef wad, to lis for swat a wtor.d. The aegaaintanco then
made could in wee be *batten ea', sod the eon, tionv
sad( frac could nem be ',Micro:et frau the mind. 1 here
may also Do seen the forger, the coiner, hca.-breaker,
tit.: pickpocket, the burglar, all turns and spriattn of the
aim sill population leftcriert i i one common masa. Three
rinser arc left is this room—than are still others of the
UM' ettar.k:ter—without work, withcat surfrider, with
not: log in the world to do but to kill time, and notiso
wherewith to kill the time except itl:eit gsra'sling end Celia p
inch 0.i.0r the Oisgastiag details of their lives. In the manse
of riser, what can ha expired to result from such a spot sui
of prison if:arra ? Oa the other—the House of Correa-
lion side of the gail--similar rooms will be flood full of
prisoners commaal tying stilt etch ether. laughing cod
akoolint: without hindrance. All this is so litt e m actord-
oar with exiitiog n tions of prison discipline that cue is
eatittu2.l37 fancying that tittle diatasedni teens, car net be
in the. inral of deem', and r the first manic
p 1 entai-
ler:l in th, land, and in the ytar of grace 1849. Very few.
of toe reran, attend settool or receive any instractios ;
naithsr is any kind of enopiyment afforded them, niers
oakum pieki-g and the gull more disitintini !abase if the
iris. I When at work en Cdbeet be in attendants to
prevent distrderly condor ; bat kis preterit is of no avail
✓ a plummiest to the Isis depraved. Conversation e'ltl gar.
es ; and ray facility is steeled for aching aggasialtanoes,
and fa aural goataminados. _ _

uetti.l*te lawny a steel@ rede 'm-
ing !..tare Is Gaups:street Comp:sr. The bui:d-
ia4 is too small ; tte iaterral anessement le but,
duzlvhas sill were. It it .:ark, close. unhealthy. Al-
though frequently whittreashr4 it is sever free from foul
sus: vv:r.feeeling saute. Tha inmates are in the highest
este of preparation for the cholera. Taco, all the mass and
illelesidt.rd for peso, rerpceee 1?..4r4 low, aarraw,
r .s. !nitro's:L.li with ;lotus tot wetn;hiee. ThiT ere 5.4
• ..1 Cho! With any of tit. tecetsasy utensils est a sl-kp-
ehatubse : there is wither wathetwel nor eater-closet is
the.... Y. t lane ambers of persons are locked up in each
tyr twelve home together, to breathe the eoneastin,t,4l It-
d:viers, and be the witreseee apt/mai lets whi. h rm.
MCLI, &sweep woala preside private astssearaedatims for.
Ara all tee parted {bey are left to theft eva control! The
•-•,;:tr of this deplorable system saust be ea deleterious to the
Itaalth as to the aerate of peke:mem t..:ritasilog live wets
into ea. of these astewshle etas is .10w murder. No human
awstita ion amid Mug bear up saalast such treatarnt.
0:IA3"r-street Cosayer is candemwel. By intelligent Is.
ape awn it has lest bees branded its a ellerrees to the metro-
pale& The City taagiwrates b tee, at WO, undertakes to
ba'.ll a sow prism (honed tun hoes °Wait for the per.
peso at Holloway, and the foss-latiose are apesumeneet. W.
eall upon every hews naglotnio sethe bench be se-
siol4ra:e these verbs. Ti.. present City Neese of Cee-ettou
is lee... Fable of impious mew. so beg as it eoutinuls to be
crowded as it is now, au t the only hope et the bsuevoleut
pab:ie lies is tbs speedy elespletios ot the new owe.

SCOTLAND.

Epsurnau, OCT. 17.

Three government functionaries are L'ow in Scot-
land. Capt. Washington, Manske inquiries regarding
the recent wrecks of fishing-boats on the north-east
coast; Mr. Leone, to obtain information regarding
the annuity tax levied for the support of the clergy in
Edinburgh and Montrose ; and Mr. Kay Suuttleworth,
charged with tome commission regarding the cdum-
tion scheme, the precise character of which has not
transpired. On the subject of the parochial schools
Mr. Anderson, the !lumber for Orkney, has
written to his constituents that the want
of unanimity moot; the
.parties interested is
so great as to forbid any Immediate legislation.
Moro h ,pefol Lora Melgand hat published a
pamphlet in which he considers that if the subs',
dieing of religions bodies were abandoted, and the
parish echools liberalised, national education would be
placed on a sure footing in Scotland. His lordship
will soon come to the couelusion of Mr. And:rson, as,
notwithstanding the opposition that has been r xcited,
the method now in practice by government is, afttr
all, the one least likely to excite disturtvince. Lord
Melgued's plan would involve the weakening, if not
the severance, of the tie between the schools and the
established church, and the clergy will resist that to
the last. It is quite true that at present, teem the
activity of the free church, the schools connected with
that body are receiving larger grants than those con-
nected with the establudanient, but to stand still is the
tendency of all corporations, and so long as the 'welsh
schools do not grow lees, there will not be a strong
feeling developed at the increase of dissenting schools.
Let Lord Alelgund apply the pruning knife to the
parochial system, and he will find the truth of oar
remark.

An instance of the danger of depending on claims
for com7nsation for railway encroacl:ment occurred
last week in Glasgow. Mr. Dmon cla med 10,4661. 10s.
for a crossing made by the Pollo4 at(' Govan Com-
pany. The i.criff's jury fond that the complainant
wan entitled to nothing.
Toe new vacancy in the Hebrew chair of the Uni-
versity of H.inbergh is about to be up. The
candidates era Dr. Liddell, Mr. Linton, Mr. Esdaile,
&c. The applicants, in co.iformity with the late dc-
ciaion in the Court of Seasion, must bclo.g to the
established church.

Mr. Bleriff Alison having trdered interim relief to
an able-bodied unemployed labourer, eight parties
came forward to tho parochial boo.rd and applied for
similar assistance. Tho hoard instituted a laboar test
by offerinj the applicaids employment as scavengers
and lamp-lighters, which vocations were declined by
-gore, or thaw me!: Oho of course iTerz rtfund
al; 2ther methyl/ of relive.

Tut EDDrallitall CSAWRIST Tat...Lg.—Mire trials have
bus appointed tetake pion befog, the High C.,ar•. of Judi-
sissy mixt wads. Ows of the sensed, John Gr,,at, o►o
geacrally_aolsit as paddies% et the medal's, has been
minds. tit lima days rest, aad WAN/ got thin ° else te
fiethee. tisey Pt elf yesterday is puma oaths (Kith*.