The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-29 00:00:00

darer i see forth thoomod, 614041 h,, ,le wader, it 1.
SEWN sea vapbood through the wprjd ; it also to repent--
time fur reformation ts gnu. it we examine into the
subject, we shall see the MOO thought wratdiag the
early governments while they remained in the patri-
arelral After alluding to the almost entire sthaeuce
of the " reformation" element in the criminal legislation
of feudal timed, Mr. Elena/id proceeded to imparter/tether,
having arrived at the last treatment of the criminal after he
had become mossabLe to oar laws, we had taken the same
are to iscorkain the wawa leading up to the crime
replying to this inquiry, he said be feared but little hail
been item to control the predisposing causes to crime
amongst the mime-furnishing classes dour population ; and
that from many mos" bet chiefly bemuse we had not yes
agreed as to what were these predisposing causes. For ik
lung tuns it was held that ignonuice wise a chief source of
crisis, sad that want and idleuesa were elm, to a peat ex-
tent, its ; but while unimeltionably all of these
mass aselsied rut their certain proportiosis ti swell the
agpergete Atha crime of the country, Ito did sot think
they did pis to awls an extent s to justify him
in ending them the predisposing maws spinet which
they thould endeavour to protect those glasses that .
wow fortailbed the great majority of oar offesdeet.
In eaeweilms the gamete whirs we skald look
for theme .causes, Mr. Kienaird mid :•--Crime, in
the aspect in which we are sow considering it,
is • breech of some social conditioe and law— it is because
it is so Watt forms a department of this Association ; the
causes leading to crime ought, therefore, to be within some
motel sigadwitios or state of things having a Mildewy to
lead On Inviolate these conditions sad few. Hors
most look for them—here I uu certain we shall find them
(Appirmaj The returns of the population as. coin
with the crone of the country show the greatest mass lme if
conneittale fur all claws of offences in the most Weedy
pordi.d districts ; not in relation to the number but the
ityrit ed the gstpulthiaa. Where the people are
warded into small places there we had
crime abounding. The five meet criminal counties in
ingland—lhdillswes Lancaster. Surrey, Warwick and
11l -- atfordate the mosti densely peopled. In the streets,
courts and lanes of the towns and cities of these counties
von will find, more crowded dwellings, mule wretched
slespiag accommodation a greater went of the uniuntry
requirements of decency in the domestic arrangement.,
'than in any other parts of England. And where you find'
this disregard of the phytical agencies of civilisation and
order, this violence done to the social instincts of our
lure, there you will find crime taking root and flourishing.
Ne that have been publishes' could furnish an tale-
el the horrors of some of these loutlities, when
am • or, and upon one another, those untidy,
wretched abodes of may of our labouring'
MA population. Add to this the iutormix-
ham of uses at work during thesis. the eleePing rooms.
Iri seperstion of the sexes 'during the night, the slS-
esalibeell eery conveniency for Meaning purposes, sad' or
tee of • seiy_damriptaos, the total uaressioutmossd

race —Eltliy
convenation that Weni
—sod in the low moral condition that this state
of things argues and engender, you will see at
once the fruitful source of crime. Here we find the
nether springs to which we must descend if we would stop
the gushing streams of immorality and crime. (Applause.)
Thmerlose courts and winding alleys must be opened up—a
home Isere and there knocked down--some light, air, and
.Whine let in among the dens and corners of these festering
and icrim rookeries. (Applause.) The men and women
who live in these places, and the children who are reared
up in them, cannot be otherwise than depraved, and hence
breakers of the law. Their very existence in such a place
is he delanee of every right principle, and this opposition to
✓ight grows up with them and grow■ into them, and must
show itself by-and-by in some fruit : that fruit is crime.
You see these emaciated, dirty, slovenly, sottish beings
—and none others can grow in such regions—and from
these your gaols are filled. Let us then begin here, for
I contend that we ought, and might to a great extent,
anticipate the work of the gaoler, and deprive him of it.
The industrial training of tun young is also a measure that
deserves much more attention than it Las yet obtained. Our
national and parochial schools du not adequately supply the
wants of our labouring classes and poor. They give, it is
true, a fair amount of literary education, but they fail in
industrial training. We have seen that home influence has
much to do in checking crime, let us then prepare the boy.
and girls of our poor for home life. (Applause.) It would
be much better to train the girls to manage a house, or to
keep a room clean sod tidy, and to make the most of the
men of comfort which they, as working men's wives, are
likely to passim than to perfect them in the knowledge of
the water-shed of Europe, or ths mountain ranges of South
AMIlillll. (Applause.) I fear the Committee of Council
on Education is not altogether free front blame in
gi • • wrong direction to the studies of the youth of
our dud. The Committee of Council never meant to
unlit them for service, or for the performance of their
home duties, but they have done so practically, by giving
them such a superficial amount of instruction on advanced
subjects as brings with it the pride, not the humility, of
knowledge, and fosters tastes incompatible with their posi-
tion in life. Mr. Kinsaird referred to the remedial measures
for the juvenile outcasts, and showed the effect of these by
reading as extract from • parr read before the British
Association last year by Mr. 110111500, of Banchory, on the
Indust:tat Schools of Aberdeen. He next suggested that
the maresought to he supplied with direct religious teach-
lag—plain, attractive, and accessible ; end coacluded by
recommending to the special attention of the Association
the importance of ascertaining the causes of crime and
suggesting measures fur its prevention.