The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-28 00:00:00

DISCHARGED PRISOII333' AID SOCIETY.

The second annual meeting of this society was
held on Saturday last, at St. Janinee-hall, Piccadilly, under
the presiden•.7 delta Berl of Callao. Amongst the gentle-
men percent were Mr. Whitbread, M.P. ; Hr. Byag, M.P. ;
the Has. A. Itinnand, M.P.; Mr. C. Omskll, M.P.; Mr.
M. MOWN, M.P. ; Hr. Werra,M.P. • Sir J. 'ebbs ; the
Rev. B. G. Osborne• the Hon. H. CokiLMr. W. B. Ran-
kle ; the Rev. Mr. Memo; the Rev. J. T. flirt, ite.
The repot stated that 113 persons had been assithd to emi-
grate at as aggregate wet d 1,178. i. Os. ld., or 101.8 e. Bd. per '
head, of which Si. 13e. 3d. was furnished by the prisoners or
I their friend., end U. 15s. 3d. by the society : this included out-
I lit, he., and a sure varying from I!. to Si. paid to the emigrant
oa bin lauding, to enable bias to make his way into the interim
of the country, and to rubella until he could Sad work.
Thom calculations did not hada& the expense of the society's
agent., aloe, printing, Ace, they related, in fact, ably to the
amounts which had been expended on individual diseharpd
prisoners. Of the whole number aseimeed, 386 have bees
convicts undergoiog rentencen of four year.' penal servi-
tude and upwards in the government prisons • 39 have
been adults under shorter sentence. in other prisons; and
the sums of money stated to have been furniehed by the
prisoner or his friends was paid for the most part out
of the gratuities credited to them for industry whilst In
ism.
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Mr. BYNO, M.P., after stating several instances within
his own knowledge, as a visiting justice, in which a vast
amount of good had been dine in reclaiming discharged
criminals, and putting them In the way of obtaining an
honest livelihood, moved the following rudution, "That pri-
soners. on their discharge, who evince an 'moiety to return
to an honest course of reform. ere fit subjects for ambiance
and it is the bounden duty of all to lend them a halpisi
hand."
Mr. G. MILL; of Liverpool, Is seconding the resolution,
said the position of discharged prisoners after ineerceratioa
was one which would hardly bear contemplation. They
were ',wooed to temptations which few could resist. They
bad no honest home, no friend or relation who would receive
them, but they had plenty of friends in the back slums a
vice end iniquity who were at all times ready to entrap them
again into their former stare of life. He believed that ninety
out of every hundred prisoners who were discharged were
anxious to have an opportunity to recover their lost position,
end by the help end essistaace of such a society as this
they would at ones fled friende to pat them in a safe and
hottest course.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
The Rev. B. G. Osnoarro moved the nest mention—
'. That the great suers of the Discharged Prisoners Aid
Society proves both the existence of such a want and the
means of supplying it."
Mr. Y. 'Crassest, M.P., seconded the resolution, which
was carried unanimously.
The proceedings terminated with the usual vote of thanks
to the chairman, which was proposed by tho Rev. Mr.
Month, of Harrow Weald. and seconded by the Rev. Mr.
Bid, the chaplain of the borough gaol of Birmingham.

eTample4 lifiTlFursto;:, thepre;iienTOrtho society, and
chosen es entirely new elms of subject, and liberality the
ealthily hem extended to amr•ceeners. NorritrotisM.—An influential meeting of liberals
'W
MUSEUM OF ART, SOUTH KENSINGTON.—Among was held on Friday evening in one of the Mantling* rooms,
here have been lately for the gamma of making choice of a representative in the
other additions to this collection, t
The second of a aeries of meeting! took Platte piece of Mr. Walter, who it is understood will not again
acquired several interesting apothems from the Mamma
of the Col'egio Romano. Among these are three on Wednesday evening, at the town residence of Sir Culling contest the borough. Amon* the gentlemen named were
Bardley Rardley, 39, U Grosvenor-street, when the state gir. Hamad Wiley, of Lonrho, Mr. Moore, of the firm of
curiously engraves bamboo tones noticed in "Mir-
(religion is Germany and German-apeakteg countries was Chorea, Copestake, and Moore, end Mr. Layard. Nothing
rey's Roman Handbook," the ' elaborate ornament °
idued, with epeeist reference to the proposed operations has yet transpired amongst the conservatives.
cstitioryna. of
fTliae haidsubjectadatesou sill"Mhaysehertforelooe" atotreripileilure BERKSHIRE. —Captain Leicester Vernon, of
which has adorn out of the committee for corre- Ardiagton-honar near Wattage, the unsureadal candidate
history.
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a !walk
of
6 colossal head of Sr. deem with German chrietiane, eatablished since the great kw the eee,eeeeeothot
of
the
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Peter, an Interesting Illustration of en art little knows in ricount in 1857, who Dame for-
esthetics] Conference at Berlin. Another meeting is to area alr.Ertara cenwnitiva,r, visited the wsguti
this country. Some moll noughts braless of good work-
-0.... be held at Sir Culling ler iley's on the lab of April. when Cora Richaage last week, end afterwards aimd et the George
malhiPt 11•41 =Date CI" ivode., are lacladid aim" the subject will be religion and relittlena lit•rt7 in Filia°l* lan with the formers. The captain was well received, end
number of optimism Theo. acquisitions for the Museum
won trade by Mr. Cole daring a recent visit to Italy, and he Ti ._
also ohlaiald from mother collection at Roane a very floe
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