The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-27 00:00:00

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of him bed Wu held at Mr. JACIEsOn'a
Ledireried the penis= hetniget. in the
0 6.110.11 nm. Brune and Amu. ?Ml=
sestina was attended by 97, the mooed by 169, the
third try 138. Mr. 'SCUMS said :
I with Is inert rar Isedeltip with the *meter of oar
bot . • el them weer left ibis mat to go to
tisivVes wesidisimr r salad rapers or soarers,
100 bard Mir him. Of roe 69 vagrants to
wad= d asssilmal their went slats of rum to
Wag Its slam ia ths mad woe of the work-
Mow ; sad if, ay lewd, At shoal sek why they arils,
tar print nits to this
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sea meter ae, they trill
Nom "It we Ited sot o allo to sleep is the
war we timid bare been at home with our parade, et
st work, er with or masters.,
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Of 372 of these licentiates of crime 278 represented
that they had received no education; the remaining
M stated that they had been at schools, and nine of
them had even been Sunday school teachers. Exclu-
sive of labourers only 93 appear to have been brought
tqt to trade*. Being asked how much they got for
Rpound's worth of stolen goods, they replied,
s de- in the pound if we aro not known, but if we
are known lea in the pound?:
Thee are the representatavee of the crime clan
the remnants and heirs of those irregular
semenaities who, in ruder times, supplied England
with its fort* outlaws and `Scotland with its border
ravers They are an organised sorety, haying laws
end tun a code of hot.onr of their own. They form
ealy a portion of the culprits who render themselves
saleable to our penal laws. They s quire to be
:f by other rules and dealt with by other
than the victims of chance temptation and
saddle bunts of passion. They are a disciplined
lone, hostile to the industrious and regulated society.
amid which they are encamped and which they peer
apt s. Their haunts are a city of refuge for all who
Iscideatally deviate from the right path. To reduce
the 'lumbers of this crime class within the narrowest
possible limits is one of the !non important problems
to be solved by modern socney ; for their existent.
adds immeasurably to the difficulty of effectively corn.
hieing reformatory discipline with penal infliction.
They have their education and traditional pre-
cepts, contrasting counterparts of those which prevail
honest society. The devices, the very lan-
page, of the professional thieves of our day differ
little from those pourtrared in the autobiography of
Enwooo the Quaker (Mthroe's secretary) and the
dramatists of the age of ELIZABETH. They cling to
the ewe haunts. Mr. teli.,“N found his outcasts
in the eery locality to which DE Fon attributed the
youthful adventures of his Cdontl lark. They are,
d course, 1. gamete objects of our penal laws when
detected; bat they are also the natural and proper
objects of missionary endeavours —for the Christians
of this country possessing higher claims than their
counterparts in the remote and savage islands of ocean.
Every individual who ern be reclaimed from this
organisation against the taw, and confirmed in habits
of honest, eeltsupporting industry, by narrowing
the countenance and assistance which young trans-
gressors find—by weakening the society upon whose
support they drift dawn it disinclined to the effort of
reformation—renders more easy the efficient adminis-
tration of the penal law.
How to reclaim them is no easy problem, but one
thing seems obvious from Mr. Jtcesores experience,
that it must be effected more by individual ean asso-
ciated effort. So lour as he laboured alone his har-
vest was comparatively scanty ; b his effort to
ssu-
eiate others with him in the teak appears to have
given him a checkmate for the present. 'the sine qua
son of permanently reforming a professional crimi-
nal is assisting him to find or regain a standing in
honest society. One such may find admission within
the role at a time, but it is not easy to see how society
can brought to tolerate the public entrance of a
number together, or hew the authorities ran wink
at the known existence of celpri s while the
work of reformation is in progrer. 'rho fitness of
any convert to be admitted into honest society muse
be preceded by a severe probation- such as shall
warrant the sincerity and permanence of his conver-
siaa and this thqui-es the oirreillanee of an inte-
rested individual, not the necessarily superficial obser-
vation of a society. Emigration, employment by
some benevolent individual, all are good in their way,
but they pre-suppose for their success that the object
d the experiment shall be alone—isolated from
former associates, not marked out by the honest with
whom be is mixed as one who has lost his standing.
WESLEY and his first agents did much good among
this clue ; and a number of Mr. JACKAMIS, working
each on his own hand, might effect much. We
believe that the agency of religion is the best—the
only one for commencing the work. It is the
grand feature of Christianity that it was
"sent to call, not the righteous, but sinners to fount-
ain." Where the religion, sentiment can be awakened
er kept alive there is always hope. The danger of
nth an agency is the simplicity and over-rash confi-
dence which is apt to characterise the amiable en-
thusiasts who alone perhaps, can be expected to devote
themselves to such labours. Among other weighty and
thee observations made by Captain MACONOCIIII none,
perhaps, is more important, than the extent to which
men, in whom the moral win to act right is paralysed,
can find pleasure in the excitement of religious senti-
peat, and the unction with which they can express
it, without once attempting to nerve themselves to
conticaous virtuous exertion.
In those remarks we have sought rather to draw
attention to the importance of the problem, than to
Mtthe means of solving it. Our present end
fully attained if, on the one hand, we can
guard the benevolent and pious who devote themselves
to thelaiming professional criminals against over-
hasty confidence u to their success; and record a pro-
test on the other, against the too prevalent feeling
amongst those whom a favourable politico, the ab-
sence of temptation, and a tranquil temperament, more
than any higher qualities, have kept free from crime,
that to admit the reclaimed prodii.ml to participation
is the full privileges of the family of the good is in-
intim to those who have never fallen.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SATVRUAY, 630 P.M.
We have received from our Paris aorrespordm

a reportof M. B. St. Hilaire's accusatMe of General
(assign.. in the National Assembly, on Saturday,
together with the Genera's reply. We do not attach
mach importance to these incriminations, kept back so
hog, and brought out evidently for electioneering
Imposes M. St. Hilaire's accuestions are simply
them of the Prase, andthe other Bonapar ist journals.
They allege that General Cavaign se purposely refrained
from ctllecting troops in Paris previous to the days of
June, and purposely delayed making used them nror-
dering them, until the insurrection was at its height.
And that this was done for the purpose of General
Caveignac acquiring the more honourin patting down
the insurrection, and therewith a greater claim to the
presidency of the republic.
To such a tissue of calumny and absurdity General
Gavalgnac found no difficulty in replying. The won-
der is how the friends of M. Lamartine, him-
self the object of similar calumnies, and
bow men of such high character as Barthelemy
St. Hilaire could allow themselves to be
_the dopes and instruments of their common enemy.
The mlderates first calumniated end destroyed lA.
aarliss- They are now calumniating and destroying
Caysignac, and they are the better enabled to do as,
by thew two republican parties lending their aid to
calumniate and tear each other. The whole business
is very unworthy, very disgusting, and moat al-
creditable to France, and to all its political men.
Symptoms appeared on Saturday of military m-
entions taken by the government against disturban,s.
The guards at several posts were doubled, and ra-
mose were afloat of arrests of men engaged in the
selflag of bullets and procuring of ammunition. A
chateau, where M. Barret resides, near St. Germain,
was attacked in his absence, and a shot fired at his
tame. The tumid crowds were observable in the
Place Vendome. near Prince Louis's resid:nce.
The Pripie, M. Proudhon's journal, which esp.
Pmts the candidateship for the pre- idcncy of M. Rao-
* as the representative of the socialists, says:
Matual friends hall communicated to as re dubs and
the lope that a reconciliation should be droned between the
hecialista and the Montazne. We had accepted with ealisle
are them °emotes. In abandoning their candidate the
limttere tmer proeril the' it did not want to save
• a Selena! to Ledru-Rollin, sad that Mealy thought of
Iraft,' against the preei,ftateltip rams aams or other.
vie, on onr part a proof of a it, whisk we
are hasp, to bare given. Ws an wow thetas Men-
tilav lefts to accede to this sameinak U sesli be the
car oa *sir head let all the maim hi et Mr sal= ismodi
Ulm, sad to which they maw In pat nel MIL
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we have reosived the Madrid mails of the 20th
lost. The decree for the I:mayor:ad= of the Cotten