The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-26 00:00:00

UN REFORMATORIES AND
REFUGES.

An ioduestial public meeting wu held yesterday,
at the Mansioeohr us, to consider the means of I r,vening
crime amen penes r topic, and also of recovering piling
offenders to *inns Sootily after 2 p.m. the Loan Month
took the chair, supported by the Earl of Soaftesbury, L rd
Ebriegtoe. 21. P , Mr. Cowan, M.P., Mr. Barrow, M.P.,
and other gefiatlemith
The LORD MAYOR, in stating the beeline's of the day,
said he hod witeiroied a Fettle which had so urinary d him
the' he had scarcely power tt address the meeting. About
tied an 1100 r ego a lad, of 14, toe only son of a respectable
farmer at Barter, was charged broth him with stealing •
smell ilea of alpaci, of I the value. The father hat come
up to town in great anguish, hiving appr, 'Weed the lad
some five weeks ago to a respectable trademark 'n the town,
paying a premiss of 401. No sooner was the boy brought
to the bar than the father fell down, In a fit, and
the boy shrieked aloud in agony. Ti. scene was a moat
distress op one. Nevertheless, toe law itoull mike no dis-
tinctions, and this boy was neeeosarily plac-d among cri.
atioals and branded as a felon fi r life. To pr. vent such
miseroble results this largo community was tow appealed
to in heeler of dome reformat. ry institutions which opened
a door to too convict to return to the piths of h meaty.
The Ham Canon Bleileltatzda noel a resolution, de-
elariog the n.cisaity ant te'ormatory institutions for the
young, and appealing to pardon.% to aid them libetell,
and esteerally the institutnims estsblished in the miTropubs
for the "rev ration of juvenile mimeo.
The Earl of Surairriseune, in riecoeding the rethlutior,
said he heartily shacked the Lord M. y it for his p teatimee
of the cense. This was the first pubic meeting that had
been held on behalf t f the reformatories generel.y. While
other. had beta oeliberatiog on the best turin:of such infoi-
I tattoos, their supporters in London bed !wen huif!y at work,
and had effected much g wed. (Hear, h•ar.) They now in-
vited the aid of the purlic. It was not in malt t have iv-
stitutions where young children might be revived; along
w:th thins there st.oold be a system of Rev. olive mos-
sores for taking etre of those who had posed through the
reformatories. Could we now institute a avian equal to
deal with future ee iee facies, we bad still a vast aged'
SO make up, for which institutions I,ke theft were
gesentiaqy.se weary. It was national' 1.1 look at the
sowae of jay..nite delinquency, in order, if possib.e, to dry
it up. (Hoar, hear.) He Ireti aced not to orly—end he said
it from a vast experience of the stets of the 1110,11.0 in our
groat hives of anuoitt y —that the physical cone ion of the
people must be inspro.ed, especially in their donstdliary ar-
rangements. (Hear, hoar ) Ihe c alit,. noft, a chifiren
In our workhouse getout' oug' t ails to be brought under
review, end imp:covet. 1 here we e ao less than 40,000 of
fresh goildrea, and an enormous f rthortion of th-en had r e-
rived no todidit ; bat, on the other hand, mi.chief, from
the traiaiag they bad received. (Hear, hear.) Mesa
eeeee moat also be adopted to p-ovide fir th
children discharged from the reformatories, so as to secure
them emplor meat ; without this they would be &kunst sure
to relapse into their old counts. those who wire thee
taken by the baud had done credit to the cure bestowed
upon hem, and the installers of relapse it t crime were
extremely rare. Tte resolution very properly urged or,
the legislators the duty of supporting th• so retormatories
He thought they would be beat conducted by a c mbination
of the sate and the vJlentary principle (Hear, hear )
The advantage. of both bus sof men. g -tarot would thus
be secured. If the state tootribated money, it would
have an and .anted right t ezermse inspection ; and to this
many would ..tject. Bet wither .t e ihtributing dir etl• to
the inothr ions, the stet) might 4..44 industrial em-
ployment and carpal, a, and might there pace...silts right
of inspection lunette eacitieg tt.e oisjections of th se who
wen opposed to state interference io the matter of else,
tioe. (Ho r, hear.) It was aln.o.t incr. dible how much
society suffered from th, depredations of cried/ a's; but, as
though to prove that a C4r a rested on such path", upon an
ITIPTIIIII th.y did not retain for them•elves shone oni -toorth
of their pleader, and that only for a few days. (Hear,
hear.) Transportation having been abolished, we were to
a fearful plight, from bring compelled to fettle all,ur core
'lets within our nwn she res; they amen, tc I to between
3,000 sad 4,000 a-vest ; and it was impossible to say
whether the ticket of leave system, still in its intancy,
would be an advantoge or otherwise. Under :hiss orcurs-
stance., it was most essential that ref rotatory institutions
should be .Icount/id, in order to dintinan Tie festering
mass of crime around us. L-t no one listen to those who
c attended that there was no hops 'or the reformation of
adult mastoids, Ishateeerthey might do for ehf dreo (Hear )
Mr. E Coxogitox moved a resolatioa citing noun the
public t t give general set pin and ltbistal contributions to
the fund 110 W commenced for asatitmg the inventive sod
!dormitory instOutions in London.
The Rev. G. Yogi, of Birmingham, seconded the ro•
solution.

Viscount EBRINOTON, M P., raid it g ye bins great plea
lure to snip rt toe r ninution. Hs couid boar his testi= By
to this great gat reformanries bad Wight shoat AL
Ratner to r• ea thsre had b•en a reformatory eatablisheo
f r ions time evils provided I,r women, and gays them
this mean. of arising an honest livelihood. Wien in Bel-
gium be arse struek by the low c tat at which retorniatorn
wets wawa reed; this enabled a greater number to reeeiv
the benefits of them. The noes lord urieludet by empress-
log toe fullest confidence in no management of our refor-
mat Mee.

tbereeolutione were uosnianously carried.
Mr. R. HANBVILT, jan , stated that the followirg Int-
scrirtions ha i a.rredy bee. rt c geed towards ilia (tweet or
the wealth gt—The Lot Mayor, 211.; South, Peps', and
C,., 100/ ; Botchy, Bevan, and Cr., 1001.; Trunittn, Han-
bury, and Co., 1001 ; Messrs. Overend and Co., 1001. ; 11 tr.
el.', Perkins, and Co., 1001 ; Jones Loyd and C t., 1001.;
Rsrosit, and Co , 60L; Robarts and Co., MY. ; Coer-
Talton and Co., 601.; Glyn, Mils, sad Co., 601 ; Laws
Braithwettr, 61 ; Mrs. General Illarrhal, 51. ; Hanka, and
Co., 251. 6s. ; J. Crane, Esq., 2.51.; Mann, Crussman, and
Co., 601 ; Rev. J. Tyler, 61. ; Copestake, Moor, and Co.,
261.; J.hn Davis, E.g., 101.; Vicount Eorionton, 101.
The t,.tal •n.oont ahead, receive 1 it abut 1.1001.
04 tie unction of Mr. G. Moshe, wooded by Mr.
0.11L',1111/f, the thank. of tbe nesting wets TJted to tto Lurd
Mejor fur prcsiding.