The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-28 00:00:00

SECTION A.
JU It ISPRUDISNOR DEPARTMENT.
President—Alm Iced Advocate.
nsecinflin amtnerrcr.
Mr. (A W. HAMM commenced the 'age of this
deparleamit byVite. import et the Committee
ca Marmatila which Mended ever 18 pages ti
Fted paper.
2=ll4fter ratan* to the with-
weird the Fih Hilliest mion, proceeded
Mato the prensipha* as down at former timeline
M the 1100Cilltinn oti which aay seavadment of the bantedaut
law, tole pernimest sad satiodeotory, ought to be fau
The.. principles were i 1. To oonsolidate the whole
ealtat• 'hot mating to bankruptcy and insolvency i• a
M. 2. To abolish the distinction between beak.
Miasrmad Insolvency, and between trader and
A To extend the bankrupt law to
MN inaMinistrarks of the estates of deceased
inoolventa 4. To facilitate, as far ell payable.
consistently with the due prevention of fraud, voluntary
t
dissibaios.
settlements betwons a a 'Mtn of insolvency and
their creators. 5. aaMa by placing the
niermatile part et ale administration of
N the 'ue in Qui limb Se A Tolima* en
far as peanble.thinedminisinathin ni Mee bankrupt law. 7.
To ndmes the eiganss In lisalinaitcy proceedings, by trans-
ferring to the iNdated Fund the payment of
nun of
salaries mad and by thniiniabing the number of
aai W ammo& el ellaial fees. at.. To enact more
IMAM Mitime of fraud ulent debtors.
Mad ii nommeM wlth the bankruptcy laws
by Olamiled Ball, and G. A. Fawn, Esq., Account.
ant in Hmkraptey for Scotland.

SECTION B.
(President., Loud Naives.)
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS.
The dismission of en international tam of general
average was resumed, and several ma were passed.

ED (ICATION DEPARTMENT.
Sir James Kay Shuttieworth. the president in this depart-
ment, took the chair at twenty minutes to cue.

TEL EDUCATION! OP TEE IMBECILE.
Dr. Beams rend • paper on the Education of the Imbecile.
He considered that many of the castaways at present em-
berms our social system. In &alined it in believed them
an 2,400 uneducable and 000 educable, while them is provi-
dea only for thirty-six. In Ireland there are 4,900 imbe-
ciles—for the educable portion of which to provision has
been made. Even where intelligence is wanting, imbeciles
may be made to predominate over the animal pant at their
nature. Christian philanthropy could not cousistently have
even the more helpless cores unaided. Increased experience
would no doubt suggest much that might be done for
cues at present considered hopeless ; and many were
at present in lunatic asylums who might have a new
existence opened up to them, as Dr. Brigham had
proved by his practice at New York. Idiom, might
generally be traced to violation of the Divine law, intermar-
riage of relatives, the use of intoxicating drinks and
tobacco, immoral habits, neglect of sanitary requirements,
and of the rules ou which the mural and physical well-
being of society depends.
Dr. B•zattiouts, • French gentleman, mid his experi-
ewe went to disprove the assumption that insanity was
contagious. Mucosa, in its treatment depended on the
espetty with which the peculiarities of each case were
observed sad judged of. Ile approved of mix* the insane
among mane pupils. (Applause.)
Kr. Getman AEDLESON read • paper "On the
Mesas of Extending Working Class Edlleal1011."
Nome dismission followed, in curse of which it Appeared
that the half-time system for children employed in factories
had not wrought well in Glasgow, because there were so
=ay other trades in which &en might earn full wages
that parents only sent them to factories when they could
not make better of it.

The diacuesion was not concluded at a quarter to five,
when the section adjourned.

PUNISHMENT AND ENJORMATION DEPART-
MENT.
_ _

The Ron. A. T. Kinnaird presided in this department.
DAts rend a paper on " Houses of Shelter for
Women."

in the absence of Mr. Kyeineraley, the police
rangistrate of Birruinghaui, read • paper uu "Juvenile
(feeders."

Mr. J. It BMX read a paper uu "Glasgow Females'
Moose of Refer."
R. HANBI RT, Esq., lI.P. for Middlesex, and who himaall
had been the founder of a boys' reformatory, read a paper
on "The Reformatory and Refuge Union."

PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
The plows and ihsoussious in this department were re-
sumed yesterday under the prnsidenoy of Mr. Monteith of
Carstairs.

NARTTkRY LIMMLATION.

Dr. L•ristMTlCB described his experience in connexion
with the results of recent sanitary legislation iu the metro.
pollat_in the coune of which he paid • high compliment to
Mr. Edwin Chadwick for his labours in that department.
He was glad to lay that in London there was the strongent
desire among the people to aid the ninlical officers. One
of the good recline of the appointment of medical otllcere of
health was a frequent reunion among itiedi%.l men them-
selves, at which reunions various matters affecting the moni-
tory well-being of the community were discussed.
Mr. OMADIVICK impressed upon the association the
necessity of getting returns of the dimes* anti (kash-
mir of the commuoity, by which means they
could at elm see upon what portion of • town there was
the V ester acosseity for operating sasitanly.
Two or three lispen on somewhat local subjects having
been red, the department adjourned.

FIFTH DEPARTMENT-13001AL ECONOMY.
SECTION A.
President—A. Thomson. Foy., of Bancbury.
Hr. H. ROSIRTII read papers "On the program and pre-
emit aspect of the movement for improving the dwellhige of
the working chases," sad ea "Me mammies of diode
Ilieetisad to provide improved dwellings for the working
amass."

W. KIDDIE also read a paper upon "Dwellings for
the
_poor and working classes.'
sar. JANES tim.mon read a paper upon "Workman'.
Louses."

The Rey. Dr. Rica, Edinburgh, read a piper on
" Objections to the Abolition of the Bothy System
Answered."

SECTION B.
TII4D/te UNIONS.

Mr. WILLIAM CAW, piper, to which
—E7117-tbst-4c,;;Sd
he defended trades' tinkles, giving it as his opinion that the
middle classes would mismanage a strike aa well as their
humbler brethren. Though be considered turnouts offset
unavoidable, be yet considered them a greet social evil, and
thought that cootie of arbitration, us proposed by Mr. Mac-
kinnon, M.P., would obviate the necessity of such a course
of action.

Mr. A. FRAZER Mid a paper "Ou Trades Unions," in
the course of which he uoutemled that they were not
injurious to the welfare of society. These unions ware
sometimes mismanaged, but the whole system should not
therefore be condemned. - _

FAWCIITT /Lid that many unfounded arcuastines had
been hurled against the authors of strikes. (Hear, hest.) He
thought trader' unions had * tendency to make workingmen
voluntary partners with the masters. It had been said that
Preston, at the time of the great strike throe, wan • SNP
of misery and crime. It was of misery, but not of crime—
(bear, heari---and it was a bright page in British history
wheu ti3OUO men passed an entire winter of privation with-
out a single crime or offence. (Loud cheers)
Mr. DUNCAN M'Ltnzis, Edinburgh, said that near Edin-
burgh miners were serfs in 12(10, and were libeisted, not by
• oombination, bet sa act of parliament. (Cheers.) There
was no snakuy between trades' unions sad Linde motor-
tins isiciaties. The Liter did not interfere with labour in
any way. Mr. kl•Leren then explained that the Manchester
manufacturers did nothing in any way analogous to trades'
unions. He approved of the principles ou which tingles'
unions were founded, but did not approve of the intimida-
tion they practised. (Applause.)
Mr. Aistiwurrii was disappointed at the discussion. He
expected to hear something of the benefits of trades'
unions, bat instead of this lie beard peat abuse of that
vile substance—capital. (Laughter.) They had the poor
always with them, and any union which prevented
Wan from procuring work was hurtful to the labouring
alerea (Applause.)
The section then edjournsid.