The Express.
London, England, 1856-02-23 00:00:00

REFORMATORY SCHOOLS.

FEB. 20.—At the Town Hall, this day,
the Mayor (Major French), Col. Lloyd, and E. Wardle,
Esq., in petty sessions, were attended t 7 G. W. Latham,
Esq., of Bradman Hall, accompanied by Mr. W. Morgan, of
Birmingham, the solicitor appointed by Eir George Grey to
conduct proceedings under the Youthful Offenders Ade.

Mr. Morgan stated that be evpe•red by direction of the
Secretary of State to presents • complaint spinet the
parents of • boy who was now detained is the Reformatory
at Bradwall, which had bees lately opened under the
auspices of the excellent magistrate then in court, and which
bad received the sanction of government. The boy bed ab-
sconded from • workhouse in • distant pert of the
comity, where be was maintained at the public
expense, and bed taken with him some peeper
chtbing. He bad been neglected by his parent.,
who were living in comparatively prosperous circumstances
la Chester. It wee no doubt an act of great charity to pro-
vide an asylum where this boy might be trained for five
years to some, end it would be a protection to honest boys
to remove Iran contact with them, or.. who might temp
them to crime. But jut, on the other band, reformatories
ebould prove unattractive, the begin a had wisely deter-
mined to lay a pecuniary burden upon parents, by whose
negFgenes or connivance children might fall into crime.
The inmetary of Slate was anxious it should be understood
that this law would be enforced. In the present ease he
should entent himself by asking that in order be made foe
such weekly payment for the coining five years, se the
magistrates might determine. He would not at peened call
say evidence, as he understood a very creditable c ;tars.
would be taken by the parents, which would render it un-
necessary to ester into the fens.

Mr. Bridgman, for the defendants, consented to al order
for the pimento( four shillings pm week and come.

Mr. Morgan said that, if the aseg,a'retts from their know-
ledge of the eirottotatanees of the par aes were satisfied, Ite

would accept tlw proposed no, and an order was made
aoeordingly.

It was stated ta court that this wu the first application
wader the sew set is the Midland and Northern counties.

Sir Hoary Ellis resigned his responsible post u
yrineipal Mullen to tat Brit eh Museum oa Srtardey last.
The stanza hes served the public f a more thee fifty years.
It Is generally supposed (Gaya toe Athounan) that toe go-
vernment will take advantvge of thin resigeat•on to carry
Into saecat ow the reforms eaggotted by the Royal Commis-
sioners of 1860.

Ws (Gardeners' chronicle) learn with mach tad&
factn that the late ease of poisining with monkshood
has aniseed the attention of Sir Wm. Hooker i and
that there has been mostly placed in a conspicuo es situa-
tion I. the Hew Museum a specimen of the root of the
'monkshood by the lids of one of horseradish, together with
a short description of the points in which they differ. This
is rosily using a great public institution for grail roods!
advancer.
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The following are the meetings of the Literary and
Scientific Societies for the missing week :—Monday—lnsti-
tete of Actuaries, 7, " Oa the Origin end Progress of the
Calculus of Probabilities," by Mr. Brown ; Royal Academy.
8, "Oa Sculpture," by Sir R. Weetaitcott ; British Archi-
tects, 6; Geographied, Si, "Oa the Formatio of Cy-
sad et the Tracks they Porscre," by Captain
Perish ; "Notes ea the Coadition of the Gypsy Popu-
lation of Moldavia," by Mr. Gardner; "listratte of a
Despatch from Goveraor O'Connor, Bathurst, Gambia, May
22, 1866, crateluing a Report of his Visit to the Wand of
Balms, en the West Cent of Africa." Tuesday—Horti-
cultural, 2, "Oa Grefting;" Meteorrlogicel, 7, Council;
lustitution of Civil ,Engineers, 8, "Oa Marta Cele
gelation," by Mr. Bidder; Z 9, Seientifie ;
Royal Isstitutioa, 3, "On Ployai dew and Compiratire
Anatomy," by Professor Hazley. Wednesday—Society of
Ares, 8, " Om some of the Animal and Vegetable Products
eosotitating the Foreign Commerce of Lie rpool," by Mr.
Archer; Royal Society of literature, 41 ; British Ara:co-
llie's:al, " Oa Palsitings, and other Antiquities, from
Ewell," by Mr. Pettigrew; Microecopicel, 7, Anniver-
sary. Thareday—Nnwismat;e, 7 ; Royal Academy, 8, " 05
Paintiss," by Nehru Hort; Society of Antignaries, 8;
Royal, Bi. the Bakeries% Lecture, " Iterearcbse on the
Eleetee-dyeamie Qualities of Metals," by Professor Thom-
son ; Royal Isettution, 3, " On Light," by Profe.sor Tyn-
, doll. Friday. Royal lastitatiou, B}, "On the Origin and
Treasformetioes of Motive P.wer," by Proferser Thornton.
Saturdey, Asiatie, 2; Royal Institution, 3, "On Organic
Chemistry," by Pretence. Oiling.
In the lut sitting of the Society of Acclimatation
at Paris, the Minister of War communicated !coons which
he bat received, setting forth that some Angora goat', pre-
sented by the society sad sent t) Algeria, bad perfectly
prospered and had produced yowl,; also that their fleeces
ere exceedingly fine, end are destined to be rent to Frances
in the spring to be employed in the manufacture o• peen.
liar species of velvet. la the same sitting, the Marquis
de Solve peeeensted specimens of silk obteined in Frame,
from a specie, of weal whreh the witty by procured
from Asia Miser; end M. Convenor) made known that to
has perfectly secceeded in breedin at Lairesnne the silk-
worms (bomb,: bylitt ) which the society had obtained

from India.
The 1 meeting of the Paris Academy of
ilisienees has again paned of without mljodic sting the rest
prise in the department 'of mathrtnatou. This hes only
been awarded three times sine, 1836.
The Viennese papers tell us that tho Archbishop
of Vienna has refuted to allow a monument tot e meted to
Mcsart in one of hie cht.rolum, on the ground that the
worship of palm is • sort of idolatry !