The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-21 00:00:00

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THE EXyltEBB.

Piny be added laths 89 In the Rowse on the last day of
1864, we have tie number of 1,765, Iselosive of 287 re-
adeskilcue, es a total who hare bees more or lees wildest+
of the beadle of this charity deer his &sedative, In 1657.
But even more enetous than the above etatiadas
lan some of the anecdotes told. Onegirl, first spoken
to by Mr. Thomas, in 1861, and seen by him at in-
tunas about twenty times in every year, did not
yield to his cumulated persuaaious until 1869,
when it may be supposed she was surfeited with
her way of life. After ten years' probation, partly
in one of the Homes, partly in domestic service, she
was sent out to Australia in 1861, and has ammo
married and is doing well, It has been remarked
that such women as lapse after their presumed re-
catenation, almost invariably resume their calling
in the old locality, and on its being found that any
girl has been lost sight of by her employers, an agent
of the society promptly looks for her in her accus-
tomed haunts, and this frequently results in her
again coining to the Home. Many of the women
who have been reclaiminA visit the house we
were In periodically, to' show themselves to
their rescuers, and the %Lieber of these callers
is said, at • low estimate, to average GOO
in a year. But perhaps the most surprising fact of
all is the alacrity shown by ladies to employ women
recommended from these HOWL The old sneer as
to the bitterness displayed bythe virtuous to sisters'
who have once erred, loses some of its force when
we find that there are from three to four hundred
more applications for servants who have been prosti-
tutes than the committee can supply. It should I
be mentioned that the house in the Euston-road is
to preserve friendless young women who have not
fallen, from temptation. Servants out of place, and
young women who bevel come to London to seek
situations, are the class for which it provides.
Pulioemen, railway porters even street-walkers
themselves, are constantly bringing such as these to
its door. If they are destitute no charge is made
if they have money .a fixed sum ranging from le. a
to ss. a week is charged for their boardj
and lodging ; and it frequently happens'
that servants who have been once in the
Hume choose it for their residence whenever they
are out of a situation. Thirteen women were
living here on the day of our visit. The Oentral
Home of Hope is situate at 5 and 8, Regent-square,
is governed by • different committee, ands in all
respects • dlidinct institution from the ones just
alluded to, save that it is in a like way oonuected
with the midnight meeting movement, admitting,
as it does, all women recommended by its secretary.
Its speciality is that it professes to appeal to a
better class of women ; but, like the other houses,
" it is, as its name implies, not a! penitentiary, but
• Home ' • the object of its promoters being, sot to
punish, but to reclaim." It provides for three
classes—young women who have not fallen, young
women who have had an infant, and prostitutes.
Mr. W. Hornibrook, the secretary, informs us that
at the beginning of the past year the house held 17
inmates, and that in the course of the twelvemonths
95 others have been admitted. Of this 112, eight bad
not fallen, 27 had infants, and 77 were prostitutes.
Ou asking their ages we found that 11 of them
were 15 and under ; 15 were between 15 and 18 ;1
33 were between 18 and 21 ; 39 were between 21
and 23 ; and only 12 were more than 26 years of
age. The previous occupations of the 112 reclaimed
were se follows :-80 bad been domestic servants:l
16 milliners and dressmaker ; 14 had lived with'
parents or friends ; 8 bad been assistants in shops ;
5 were formerly straw-plaiters ; 4, silk factory
workers ; S laundresses ; and 2 governesses. no I
question as to wether they had ever j
attended Sunday school is seareely germane to the
inquiry, but to prevent any theory being formed
for or against the supposition, we may mention that i
in this case numbers are almost equally divided, for
58 had bad the advantage of such schooling, and 64
were without it. On the day of our visit there were
33 inmates in the Home; and of these one-ball were
prostitutes, and one-half young women whom
children were at nurse.
The bed-rooms are simple and clean, with &curtain
round each cuuch, and a awl( for bible and light, so
that any one wishing to pray or read may have com-
plots privacy while doing so. The two houses,
andel, Regent-square, communicate on one of their
floors, and we went over each from attic to base-
ment. The women were sitting round • long table
in the front first-floor room in the first house, and
in the second were working and singing hymns
by the time we arrived. The standard of beauty
was not high, all the faces wesaw looked coarse and
common, and it is not improbable that every woman
present was better housed and better cared for than
she had ever been at any period of her life. And
this is the lurking doubt which will assert itself
when we try to gauge the good wrought by the
earnest and praiseworthy band to whom mid-
night meetings and their results are due. They
relieve much distress,they substitute honest healthy
work, for shameless skulking misery, and the sum
total of their labours is a distinct public good. But
the women they withdraw from the streets seem to
be of the very clans which may, alas, recruit them
again to-morrow ; and we cannot wonder if Bun's
Let we whisper in yer hax
Wee 'Mies nes temptation,

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is quoted by the flippant, if the ill-favoured dam-
gala we saw are put forward as specimens of the 11
reclaimed. This neither impugns the motives of I ;
the people who are giving their best energies to
this sad subject, nor casts doubt upon the substan-
tial
services they render. But when we bear of
lung years being spent in prostitution, and that a I
pleased welcome and honourable marriage were its
ultimate reward ; when we see women who com-
mence life in sordid helpless misery finding prosti-
tution a stepping stone to sympathy, honest em-
ployment, and repute ; when we fail to see or bear
of cases in which physical comforts have been given
up or luxuries renounced for conscience sake ; and
when for penitents we are shown those who, despite
their youth, do not even possess the base &nuns!
attractions essential to this calling, the great social
problem bow is seduction and its attendant evils to
be rendered lees common seems as far off solution
as ever. The Midnight Meeting Movement Society
have made, and are making, many wretched cal-
lous lives useful, honourable, and happy, as would,
we will hope, any association which energetically
devoted time and money to elevating the miserable
and degraded of either sex. The comforts given,
and the sympathy shown to reclaimed harlots,
would gladden many a bowed-down poverty-
strioken man or girl, and though our investigation
has inspired us with sincere respect for all that has
been dune, the satisfaction arising from it is mate-
rially alloyed by a full comprehension of the mag-
nitude of the work yet to do, and by a conviction
at once melancholy and overpowering, of the vital
fecundity of all evils having their origin in the de-
pravity of the human heart.

HRALTH OF CARDINAL Wuntsay.—Tbe Weekly
Ikgister has the following :—"Tbe amonot of the health
of the Cardinal Archbishop gives by the Weekly Register
of the 14th inst., sad some days afterwards copied by the
Times, was correct up to that date. But with the deepest
concern we learn that on Sunday a mimic involving grave peril
suddenly occurred, during which the surmise% of extreme
unction was administered to his eminence by hie view.
general, the Fey Bev. Cason Hum By fusedey the
cardinal wee out of immediate danger, sod hes Bind pro-
gramed favourably, but we are sorry to say that the
sumer to inquiries on Thursday was that, not having
pared a good night, hie eminence was not ea well. Tbe
answer to Inquiries on FridaOman* was that the cardinal
bad pamsd a good night, and e
Tait CRDIIB ng THZ Timers TRAWL—The crisis
ia the timber %reds, which wits Silt felt is Birmiegbani,
and which bag affected various parts of the country, has
touched Liverpool with a heavy Lead. the failures during
the last month having amounted to nearly ball a minim d
motley. The dividends vary in amount from Bs. Bd. to 15a,
in the pouted. Among the Imams mass of this udertmeate
Mats of things may be mentioned the long system el credit
which Non been the prsotioe of the trade, end the high rate
which bas been charged for discounting bills doting lb. pact
year. The high rate of discount 6u also so movingly
affected many builders that they have bees prevented,
either wholly or partially, from metier their reisesemets,
and this has, of (COM, remilied strongly upon the wholmal•
boast, The timber brokers are also, in runny cases, heavy
sufferers. In the grocery, prevision, and other kindred
trades, the system d credit, so far as Liverpool Is aoseened,
her lately bees shadowed : sad a similar restringing in the
timber trade wield no &alit teed, if sot I. prevent, at
all events to mitigate, 'Wier ensile far the Wars.
CONTEMN Pon Roll nos THR NAVY. —The go-
, yarning:it have areeptied the leader of Mews. Hoary White
1 sad Co. far M,OOO gollasia

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AT Tr4EW9 t1411A.1.4E'21,. 1865.
•
that the only Haag Het was likely to stand
is th, tejtj ,Of • tem &Maim cans the
paellhiSty' jury% more or ism carried
aloes the strong MIMS ed fee width hm eves high as
both sides. But, tworews deekshis they might think it that
Mm Obetwysd stioKd set to forted by their verdict to
speed the Met K her life with thong: admit, he trained
that they would cast that seetimeut to the winds, hareems
it was one that might interpoes between them smiths junco
they ought to rieet to Mr. Chetwynd. If he be/established
his coaster charges, H was a matter of high sousideratton,
both Ice the administration of juges and for the credit
which belosgad to the is/thanes el trial by jury, that he
should have the bandit of the proof he bed gives, and they
ought sot to be deterred from giving the fullest 'fiat to
that proof by airy thosght of what might be the future of
Moe. auliwynd. So, on the other hard, it we. not because
l Kr.
ti Clietwynd might hell vindictive against his
oro;nerikt desire to retain hie wife on acoonot
ed say y that she might poem—it was Dot
hamses ror any other reason he might have jumped to •
mew*
_oesoludoe, that they ought to ride in the same boat
with him, or have his opinions formed upon them. Na was
it bemuse proof bad bees gives that the petitioner had
estertabsedi meet guilty friehap—guilty Ina wife surely—
Wrath Ift. Matthews, that they ought to nab to
the oessivios that be had committed adultery with
Ilmor. They most strive to do Junes, veeoUseting
how deeply the intimate of Mr. Niabols end Kr. Matthews
were ill/01Ted in the hum Mr. Nichols we. a young was
about to be ordained • clergyman, mod a scandal of this
sort bresght home to him would he a rasher of most peri-
-1 sus import to his proofed.. The jury meet ask them-
selves this questies—Had Mrs. Cheiwysd made out to
their entire satisfaction that her husband had bees guilty
la cruelty and adultery! If so, Wei moat with equal firm.
am ask themselves whether Mr. Merged had node out
coaster chugs what his wife, samely,
_that else had
..omitted adultery with Mr. Nichols or Mr. Matthews.
The loused judge's address occupied about three hoses
aid a half.
Sir J. Wilde then observed that if Mr. amides was
dissatisfied with his summing up, he (the harped cosceel)
had better object to It before the jury retired.
Mr. Hawkins accordingly handed in • bill of uesptions
lead Sir James having read It said he had settling to add.
The jury thee retired at • quarter before three ; sad at
half-past they returned with the following verdict, namely :
—That Mr. Chetwynd bad bow guilty of cruelty, and
that he had committed adultery with Mary Jane Smith ;
that he was not galley of adultery with the other persons
charged ; that Mrs. Chotwysd had sot emidosed his dhows.
that she bad not by her wilful neglect sad miscooduct cop-
duaid to his adultery, and that oho had not herself oom-
untied adultery either with Mr. Nichols or with Mr.
Matthews. (This result was received with some cheering.)
The Queen's /dumb, thes prayed the court to prosonnee
• dames aid.
Sir J. Wildo—Cortainly.
Decree nisi accordingly.
The case has suited an almost unprecodeuted isterest—
especially smooch sumben of the tar, with whom the
court was almost exclusively filled during the examinant"
of Mr. Matthews.

THE POLICE COURTS.

übridye,WORSHIP-STREET.
Bober! Sa camas. iu the Old Pord-resffi Bow-
was charged by Mr. W. Love, chief °Moor of the Royal
Society for the Promotion of Cruelty to Animals, with the
following passive cruelty to a posy :
Some few days erre, Goddard, 222 H division of police,
observed defendant driving the &Waal while it was at-
tempting to draw a oat containing male. He took him is
custody for working it In a disabled cooditlosi. and whoa
the car was brought before the noties of the magistrate it
appeared to be soglariegly bad that directloaa were given
for it to be brought under the noire of the society. Mr.
Love having remarked upon the frequency of this clan of
offence despite every exertion to decrease it, assured Mr.
Ellison that the parent was ooa of the worst, and asked for
• heavy penalty if co the evidence it should be so proved.
He then called
Rutherford, one of the society's constables, who stated—
On the 15th inst. I sthasthed • poor at the grosnyard. On
the NW shoulder there wee • raw wooed, large as a crown
piece, sad from which corruption was forcing its way,
although the clotted hair and blood partidly covered it ;
another nor wound 'larded from me tide al the back to
the other side ; • third raw wooed oo the off shoulder, the
sue of a florin ; end two others of • like chancier on the
off aide of the beak. The poor thing was little else thee
skin and boos, very aged, and totally unit for work of the
lightest kind. On Tuily last I maw the owner, who Bald
that he had sot bad the pony any length of time.
Mr. Enloe having seen the animal at the door of the
court, returned and irked—Now, sir, what have yen to may
lo answer to this charge of cruelty
Defeadent—W•ll, my worthy magistrate.
I had shares
that died of innueoza. I bought this cos, arid pre full 31.
for it. I used padding to keep the harness from the sores.
took every care of it, and it'a is • far wore ocioditios
sow than when taken from me. Pot a poor MSS. I've
• wife and throe children, and Eta very ill myself.
Mr. Elliem—What has all this to do with the matter
You are charged with cruelty—inch cruelty. Why every
aim of this kind that is brought before me is worse than
the foregoing one. I sever saw sash a sight ; the most
meroltsl thing to will be to kill the wretched thing. I
flueyou 405., or twenty-one Jaye' imprionsiset in defeat.
Mr. Lovii—nre is, air. permit me to remark, a clause
is the Act of Parliameet for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, the 19th section, which empowers the demotion
of any horse or cart until the expires ineurred at the
greenyard ars defrayed. It is so in this retiree, and—
Mr. Ellison—l will alter the fine, then, to 205., sad allow
20s. for meta.
Subsequently the poor beast was killed where it lay.

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