The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-21 00:00:00

sad that of them between Woad 90 per matr ham turned
eet well. Red-hill School, as you k sow, dates ham 1849;
g4Bboys have entered it, of whom 218 rumen, 720 Meng
pawed throat,. Of thou about 70 per tent are known
to be doing w.IL Those who wish for deteib on the
foreign reformatories will lied them in a payer read
by Mr. Mueslis' before the British Aasociation at Glas-
gow, sad sines repented as • pamphlet. You are aware
of the man provisions of the net of 1864; sad bow
far it raisin the settles up of reformatory schools.
Power le Mem to detain boys at such schools daring five
yews, to naive them at any age not above 16—govern-
meat pp Is. weekly for the support of sub, but doss not,
etherwise interfue. Of this aet meet of the
MOM alladiat en availing themselves already; nearly.%
we MB tit se. I say "missrly all " bee inse In some
haltsess, mime the amber of law is small, it may be better
he Yes ion ese selsesjelaßends, sad net op • 6.11001
between them The of the National Reformatory
Mika masmies neveseat is to form, as it
were, a metre el mesa foe the.. various local ants, to
enable to dillerent mantles to compare their sys-
tems more nnislly,Mpeomot. she astalskithauot of reforma-
tories where MSS yet exist, to enable Mese who wish to give
missal sishosses to the ems es heamer ohne their kelp
is meet reielsel, as sestet ia oat these who leave
roftsmaftehe am, a dlsslasieg the •
general sublet% .4 immeeemems In the ma.
tads adoptedimages ia the law of reforma-
tories be require_d, N pees la parliament the propriety of
sub Masses. Mere hIS esisteers, founded nearly at the
seine time, another die body to this—" The Reformatory
sad Reap telea," headed on a more materna beefs, but
shortly I bops to be mete' within its owe sobers. I cams
that body only is order to motion that, though they work
by 'early the same ROOM fee amity the same objects, there
is eat—these asset be, say apathies WINN the two. So
fez, geogemen, we have hod to demi Melly with quietists
et fasts, sad but lithe whit qualm et ahruenot. We
have NOW the state of Mae tWO hem skated at the diets
made her and eleswisee Y the mime of reformation. I
anima to mama legalhas, withh we are bound to an-
Mal, sad to mom milefeetorily, ender mashy of being
=ll to Send hare the sapiens. of aimpracticable
Theme gelithee an Mem :—ls the aadertaking
aftwasayt le It Weft Moly to sucesed ? Ilse it sae-
medal when tiled St ether mantries ? Now, es to the Ant
pent, Iles meassaity of setting abut tido besiege, I 'pett-
iest theft as be bat little diversity of opiates. The ell-
emulesteseftlw time see reallar. Whatnots/. the ante
ef trampertation as • makihmeat apse Animals, then as
be me dealt bat that the ef tire itrelem ea shit country
win insellelel. I. that, Imaguleties, soma Balkh insq-
ISOM dates farther bait tams the diseemey of the Austra-
lia Matineet. We leamerted mum to dairies ;we tram-
= maintilo. the West Wise ; we bad, after the Murices
ea le the African coot; fcr half a
shade win Menetmeted ertthe antipodean settlemena. It is
only aids the het half•denen years that we (mad cartelves
eat of them am reel sad effectual, though not ecomenieel,
mode of pedal di of ear criminal population—cat off, if
may mass es Individual opisiou, without mach prospect
ef being able es mastablish a practice which we have 'bo-
lt/lied, on of befog allowed to lad • new outlet for moviete
whisk all met lashes with some young community. Be
Sad melt meg _we kom for sone time past had to eontempt•
the pseibb of being sompelled to keep • oar
threes gel pelsemee at hems. It wee a natant malt of
that pselffea rmR pais should begin to say, " Bare you
ain't iN di of yea erhanals,_yo west refers them."
Bat refone elms / r Adults? That WM felt to be, I don't
rariaaparse, bet ea arduous sad improving task. That
the inquiry, " Whea do these men become cr:minah;
le peak es is titer life ?" The answer Is suffeiretly gives
in am Waded tables, and la the evidence taken before
perilement is the yeah 186163. It is attertalned that
hem sae-third to one-half of the convicts to oar prisms
ham billseed to the this of immune offenders. It is
Wby a mseureenes of Ma as testimony each one rarely
es mg social a
isquestion shaithei of dispute, that
arklizaNyebonsto (the averw el an impriseament
h6O days), are m Wammellery tit this elect;
Om onset OWIII deuselogAbstuoully they 'omit leek
the elhedse men leached them he met In. The
rdiltry.t• Bid slimes= on the Ist, bet to Mem en
them le set • smarms of a Gael, net a alsagiale, not
* judge, set • elairessa Of stmleme. vibe it not
hem et one Wed, "Tod_yang 611111m1m. sigh shen
soma ora=rioll.. solo fforea-Aldesees le • must
elhemos,, omegas alemmars yeeeseMog;"•net
ke guiles • table of Brume, premed SO Mars beekla the
Oemeaer of Gleam Brideeretl, wide* is to maelutve that
I simnel retrain from Jannis' it line. Or prisoner.
NWWWWI lee the Ant time to 14 days' imprisonensat, there
✓eversed to gaol, for new of 76 per an ; of those
sememest to 30 dam, BC per ear t. ; 40 days, 60; 60 days,
40; 3 maths, 26. 6 mostin, 10 ; 9 months, 71 ; 12 months.
4; 18 meMits, 1; 24 mashes, nose. Although in the 10
years, our whirl this ealcantioa extends, the number of
those usemel kr 24 mambo was 99. It is added that
priesseso, litemeet bask two or three times went, 011
re-
tsruNg, st heleemie fee yams sad that many of this. com-
mitted he died paha on their diet offence, were alter-
words I. ~..14 or hangs& I select one other piss of
oatmeal out of the bbee-hoek of 1853, not as the strongest
bates the lest as which my eyes abseiled to fall whtle rs-
tessmiatt IS ha this mating. Is Reedier; Out. October
ma. Rime &mad that sat of 219 primates meonualtted to
elgeweleesedesseist, 119 was seder 17 years of age when
ihet eameellted, sot those 89 had been In prison altegethee
lw Imes is MOM 6 times thus 4 time a-piece Even
111061411 pains emrcoly mama to saki out this ease
tme =Met Dose it stand to reason that • fort-
Mes a um& la priron as improve the moral cheractor
om, amen • Mild ? If allowed to min with others be
le eseraptell to aisertenty. If kept aspirate, as he ought to
ImstiU the limelen mashie • hat is he to do when be
mite out DlOssihatecter is goats; his friends prthably
&Mem his ; be It forted Into the society of those whose
am is like his ewe, sad be is exposed to those &basic(
kismet, with little prospect of getting work, sod without
time having be.. allowed for my really reformatory ago..,
to take effect upon him. If qweetioted, this, m to tile
necessity of this rtformatory inevermat, I asswnthas thud
nationally important es it Is at all times, eircumataaoes have
made it Mealy impoetent sow ; vs cannot dispose of our
erhaleab—we mat melees them. We have comparatively
little hops of reclaiming adults; we deal, therefore, pm-
ferutially with the young, and at regards the young we
have It established that the ealating systems of attempted
refametien ham broken down. I ea whether on that
ewe AndiesUen can be mere eampletely scud. est
Bat Isilews the objection ofttuopealy Gemmed, Caa
you malty sauna • depraved shareeter ? Cs. you *radian*
early Mkt, se that they will not return ? Cu yes
be sue dint the good yes do will last, that the apparent
shams he the batter is anything more than a meek worn
fee • tearve zwassaamilletersdesmna =perpre ?"
441,7„:11l, rat is a
r4lbey peledleg spa Is that eltatemeat of Mr. Clay's
the ems. aflame& orime—a statement °burn,
dam met Meal alone, whisk is la the mit: corrobc-
ISOM by meet puma who hays had say thir g to do with
lieleimees end plum Mr. Clay tolls you that three-
=bat the gems °feeders who come under his beads
iles made mesh by pinata mkeenduct in one hum
es mother. Sass, ass Way suppose, have bets
used by paresta Into the semusbeies of crime ; some,
ems thrtir habitually by d 4 honest mesas, shildma
rbeellims no respectable prottetor, and scarcely •
doss el empleymest in say badness. Others, wham
puts may sot be themselves dishonest, have grows
as In men brutal igeerame, and are enticed tato mile-
WS by older lads, knowing Betting, literally setting, of
hall or morality, of area or dame, of whet society ap-
proves or what it 'oedemas. A few as. drives Into vim by
actual ill-treatment, by bugger. by esikby the feu of stet-
mhos, byte feu el Mews. Nor of ell whe emu imam
these four beado—those whose parade tomb them to stmt,
these whom parte* set tins the mug& of shoeing, thaw
who have been taught 'talkie, et hems and those tube have
hem hit or tamed adrift to 'hilt her reteei.ms one say
say without usegeratioa that their gait is the mesh of
eismatoteasse, as not of ethane. Clearly, the:ohm they
On not to be given up se hopelem Ilia an sem than
ethers, au bermes their lealinedses we worse, bet bemuse
the opties greed or evil has suer bees pissed fairly before
them ; and these 1 believe farm the great balk of outdate-
elle effeedere. There remiss • slam, I admit, with regard
to mita we wilioNpoik with se mesh eseadems—l atm
• dim mat emcee adults sad yeast; peruse In
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ty with unstirred arab& dimse. I ans mutest
le Mer=e the feet that la wain iestanses the pro.
=Oahu appals to be du to oeyaeisat on, an/ me
mehleats. All I matted for is, first, that this clue
Nuns s endnerity, and probably small ass ; neat, that ewes
here a sue may sometimes be effected. When the Intellect is
weak geed iefluesas will work spat It, at lest meating
whit Mae seem moisten*. ; when it I. amt., the diagram,
the eniserry, the misery of a life of aim, may am-
Me* be made latelligfbh ; and thus I. either ease is
rue mama for absolats despair? There is still • third
dam with whom WORagen of refermaterles will
ham oesasienally to dust,thoegiCperhaps it would
be better that they should not I man the
.Ire of anal offeeideve—of yea', win keys hem
led inte whet the law4l2Bols me arise ea some eight
swam, bat vises Issio•AN sad baits are geed,
sad ads sped to lbs Nome of refseleatiee is cos-
' eerstively seey. I nese *tee only, imams the meatieta of
thesiatame tee se NoNdooky Ninmilig tor_ IN INN
M law leiammm its laNiNi dasendon of