The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-06 00:00:00

(Stamped ld. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

WIIII7IOROBB-BTBRET PllBOl4-711X
00PARN0 r 8 REPORT.

In the early part of the preprint year a great many
oomplarate wen made with regard to the discipline end gene-
ral Mats of the debtors' prison in Whiteoroes-Mreet, and
various steps wen taken by tLe Gaol Committee of the Court
of Aldine. with a view to He improvement. About the
same Op Yr. Busier who had bees governor for many
yeses,relived from his titration, and Caprain G. M. Hicks
was appointed pvernor in his steed. This gentleman, daring
the few meths that have since deposed, has devoted himself
with great MONS to the &charge of the duties M his aloe,
and among other pante in otenrakm with which he
has endeavoured to ameliorate the erudition M the prisoners
tinder We oars, be has turned his attention to the
improper practises of soliellors, and has allibenesi
to the Court of Abbesses a meet important
upon the subject. In this report, whisk will be bans of
great public interest, Captain Melte nye

" As governor of this Minn I *mit it my duty to bring'
tinder your consideration all manse affeeting dm wellbeing,
whether se regards abuses that may bees crept in, with& ma
he corrected, without danger of recurrence, by bold and weirs
nesaures ; or to rehrence to Weary ammo of ether
desoripeksa, dee au be effected without dffAssfaromises
male kw reformation be suffered to aconsulate. I slued as
of peramernet haporesmee the subject whist I ham mow the
humour to embroil to yea.
" Several of the debtors coshed in this prises lays eons-
plained, and complain of needless deiaye, greet
or of exorbitant demand. on dr pate[ seals, 1M
fromrod' recomng My Iry gentlemen to
yen, however urgent may be lie mossaity, or Outb-
id the plea ; that they nM whom to trust,
tad are &barred hors • out of doors
same me fn imedde, She no* Mg,
'systole eg edges*, al its* lbobadig=
fdosrmitg takes threw* the met Omit ; • the
at alb am *mime wises ono, me am mkt*
121. tar ebstirsther la dear KYR ; bet Ye
taw sat 'lda to Init. istipies art moisolloss mode,
sad saallions hakes; and thus are Instances of even more
emir Mir pill by a phew Mot he bad agreed for with
his ; yet be has bee Mee* neglected and hae had
to sues mew with some me elm. It therefore appeess
to me that 'rimers anxiously seeking their emancipation
skull, se fir as possible, be protected from rxtortios and
un delay, as the fonuor tends to plunge their fami-
lies lute sr distress, perhaps throwing them into the
workhorse, end the latter unfairly presses upon the prison
expenditure.
" Prisoners who are relieved by the charitable funds re-
quire particular attention. as thee are often obliged to gin
warrants c 4 attorney and 1 0 U's' to their legal advisors,
in order to maks up the difference between the ad libitais
sum demanded by the solicitor and the amount of relief re-
ceived; so that, tasted of being made free by the Indust
Court, they am sent out on the world, not only penniless but
in the power of the solicitor, to be at any time re-stemmed
sad list back to this prison. A great chugs is these
mate.,, issue desirable, and miler that onviotket I offer
cartels the adoption of which will inevitably be
stteeded T-I.he expeditious discharge of prisoners.
2. Economy of charitable funds. 8. Increase in the num-
ber of oars relieved. 4. The absolute freedom of the pri-
mer on his discharge. 6. The prevention of extortion on
the part of the solicitor. These objects attained a &Mb-
blow to most pernicious practices would be struck.
"To effect them a' prison solicitor' should be appointed
to conduct all charitable owes, at the rate sum for each,
calculated on the average of both the great and small ones;
many solicitors of respectability would accept the trait
contented with moderate emoluments ; it being of a very con-
Mends/ native, the business condemns, and oases numerous,
81. per lead should be the IIIaXiMUM ; but it is possible that
the coshed would be taken at a lees rate, and, by reducing
the legal eberges per case, by means of en arrangement of
pert of the find at the disponi of the commies's:mereof the
Insolvent Court, a further saving would be offeeted.
" Among tostances of misconduct on the part of stride
Ispl preseittooars, the tollowieg are submitted
A prisoner arranged with a solicitor to be taken though
the Ineolvent Court for 8!., 61. to be paid during the Progress
et his cue and Si. after his discharge ; yet, although be paid
71. out of the 81., the fleet payment having been made on the
3rd May last, neither the petition nor schedule was filed up to
July 14th.
" There is now a prisoner hers who employed a solkitor,
and agreed with him for 101. to be taken through the court,
and conmers fee 21. 11s. extra, all which he paid, and wben
brought before Commissioner Law it was discovered that the
solicitor neglected to die the necessary papers, though be had
them in his bag, and the commissioner said the solicitor did
not know his business, and rebuked him as the cause of the
prisoner's remand. The solicitor pleaded ignorance of the
forms of that court; yet this came lanceor afterwards sou
to the prisoner a document, of which the following is • copy,
»quirk, rhim to sign it asthe condition of further smokes :
—‘ I undertake that all costs, charges, and expanses which
have been or may be Incurred by you in relation to my peti-
tion and discharge, to which the 10!. already paid to you do
not extend, shall be paid either by me or some person cm my
behalf within a reasonable time after delivery of your bill.'
" A prisoner now here states that in December last he was
Introduced to a person who represented himself to be a soli-
citor, to whom he stated his cow, and salted if he would
take hint through the court for 8!. The answer was "Yes."
He was then asked if that would Mande fee to counsel, mid
was told it would not, when he *greed to give that fee extra.
This so-called solicitor drew from him, from time to time,
11. 169., in sums of from 3s. to 10s. Then there was as
interval of some weeks ; during the whole time the supposed
solicitor, and an associate of his, said that the business was
programing ; afterwards a meeting took place at • public.-
home, when the supposed solicitor fetrodeoed mother (a
solicitor practising in the prison) but neither of then said be
was a solicitor, and be did not give the prisoner the best hint
that he intended to act for him. He casually asked primmer
if all that was in a schedule which the supposed solicitor
had brought was true, and prisoner said it was, and this per-
son then pointed out the piece for prisoner to sign. He ant
him afterwards once outside the court, law he said, ' I bear
yea have an opposing credits; and primmer said, It met
be leaped.' his was sll that pared, and prisoner had Dot
the remotest idea that this person assumed to act fbrhim until
he got a bill from the Insolvent Court, sets taxed assoneting
to 191., in which this person appeared as prisoner's solicitor;
prisoner took no notice of the bill, not baring employed any
person of the name. goon after primmer ressived a notice
to attend before ths taxing router. to haves further bill lead,
making a total of 331., on • writ for which the prisoner is
now confined. Primmer also dated that the person who
Int led himself as • solicitor, wad whom the soli-
citor w has imprisoned him now states to be his clerk, bee
been In the House of Correction two years, for perjury end
false bail. _ .

"Touters from the courts frequent this prison, as do also
the agents and clerks of obscure solicitors • they sometimes
Mettept to peas off as pristipels, to get bnalness for them-
selves. I have seen rros of the touting arrests with a person
in a state of beastly drunkennws, who ha said was a solieltor
sad his principal, sod whom I ordered oat of the prison, and
threatened to give In charge of the police foe masking a
disturbance.
_

"1 limy an instance of a policitor cautioning a prison
sothcelly not to pay his representative agent any money on
his amount; yet the cams of poor poisoners sad their mosey
also were at the mercy of this very person, the principal
seldom attessliag.
" • primmer discharged within this year, was kept foe bad
health fa this gaol for nearly six months, from his solicitor
having slMeamisted the cbeim handed to him by a clerk in
boors set House to pay the detainer ; end that primmer was
at lest released by charity money, and left the prison is a
dying state, while Ids solicitor kept the cash, without on,
pretext whatsoever, or a claim for Oats.
" In the following or similar phrases the prisoners are ad-
dressed by the illmitimate cowmen* for bminess
caner who at rated you recommended me to you. lam en
old practitioner. I bare the ear of the court. If you have
no money, we will talk of that afterwards. Sign this paper
(a retainer). After this la done, he Moine the pi-
llow to make application for charitable aseihnos, •
certain sum is granted, and 2/. or 31. ere drawn Ikea the
. There is elm possibly, a second demand beforeriltr the petition, which is at last done, sad the schedule
then night be filed in four days, but se many
weeks, and frequently months, pan without its being
done, became more money Is not forthcoming ; at last
it Is obtained, or ea I 0 U given for it ; the prisoner gets his
discharge, and shortly ate I O U comas under the coo/Mere-
tion of a county court judge."
After dwelling epee the lamentable atemersemes hat toe
often alien from the detention of debtors in prison, sad
Foil* into details connected with the suggested appointment
" prison solicitor," the report concludes thus :
" I should be unworthy of the reeposeible and asaltioallal
situation I have been appointed to, and be totally unfit to
preside over a prison is which are confined between 1100 and
and POO poisons, not ericaiaally, and devilry class °lmpiety,
if I hesitated to sabnalt plans by which impositions= them in
their defincelem position court be prevented,sad their own
opmetneittee sad temptations to MI tato peepter omen
diminished.
" I am prevent M easetseter soy ahem that isteneted
parties may cast on me. The plop I bare proposed may be
disarmed even by the rem itself, bat esaecteas of the reed.
tads cloy actives sad the eamises of my plea,wtti=
lam waft that say none should be cool red
aoomptease or rejeedoa.—l have, he.,
" O. MONTAGU Niels, Govetsor."

POIL SysAuno EIGHT 000811-

swan.—At the Rochdale petty medeas yestaKesyOwas
Glance y, an Irish boy, aged 12 yew; wie charr4 Id* rob-
bing the garden of James Cheatham, of !a-:isles Limy
Tuesday. The boy's permits live la RAP, bat Mlr MN
living with as undo is High-serest. lift. Obsidian ele
him in garden, sad as eserebleg Ids Isaac sigma
Met'. gooseberries. It wee stated that Um yekemir Ire deme
• similar thin beers, and the Beath slat big M pikes ix
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EDUCATION AT THE BAST-END.
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The public ear has been often pained of late with
daidiss4 davit"' and misery, the poverty and destitution,which
unsay prevail at the mat sod of London. There is every
Nem ds Mak that the tide of vice is now turning, and
that the spud at a mad religious education is making rapid
progress la ausioreolisg fie evil Influence. As an instance
of the bolt of Me 'apparition, we would widow the large
amen. shame *oats tithe esteem part of the metropolis,
wliat rash" arield as ante bout the government grant
alasoliee, rd in particular these connected with the
&Mill et Chrhot Church, St. George's, Best. It was to this
diarlstahmt the TiewProsident of the Committee of Council
lid, when, in moving for the education vote
11" lima et Ominous, he sail that :—" Although the
peldrit at. George la the East was caw of tits poorest in
Me raelispolk, it hod had w good foamy to attars the
orryler ef an active clergyman, who hd, by appealing
torilts isaasweare and others, &Me SO anatt for education,

tint the part& wee better }warbled with wheels than any
other in the sairepole."

Yesterday meaning the attildren 1000iVieff the education
in those echo*, their teach,'" and friends, to the number of
upward, of 1,4114 accompanied by the iumenbent of the
Markt, Ws Roy. 6. H. WOW, the Rey. Winkel Holmes,
the Her. WillisanAynes, lir. It 8. Williams, Wr. Hama,
sad others of the managers, went by SPOSilli train to
Loughtca, in liesta; end than spent the day in rustic sports,
&o. The large party Ind dinner at l o'closh, eed the-children
.11k mad oaks et 6 o'clock. The globs ef amid:west nag again
vele Iba Wen" robes of die Aetna, :iiitln de, will long
be reemiabend as a delightful one by aff pneent.
• hint may be gathered from the emcees of these schools,
"tick bars newly doubled their numbers in the bat four
years, that may be of service to other nemagersof similar in-
stitutions. It has bean the policy of the memegare, ander
the advice althea. incumbent, to give to each of the maters
and mistresses a direct interest in securing the attendance of
the Allan,' and increasing their numbers.

Instead of rein to each of them a find saber, they have
guaranteed a week amount, payable Gem the whoa sub-
meirloss, in addition to the children's pesos, giving any
incremela theist/me item to the mauler or mistress or a re-
muneration for the extra trouble in Math* a larger number
than they otherwise would have had. The teachers by this
plea bad a direct Interest in the amount of pence resolved,
and eenesquently in the large attendance of scholars. If by
his &heave teaching, or by neglecting to hook after the ab-
matees, the pence diminish in amount, Jib his own loss ; if
by his energy and abilities the penis increases, it is his own
gala. The plan has answered admirably in the preasnt case,
the number of *choler; being now twice as many as it was
four years ago, when the old system of a fixed salary was in
oprstien—a system which, in feet, puts a premium upon a
small school ; for if a master receives 1001. a yew for his
service' whether the school be small or lasi* he will of
coarse pester a small one, for the trouble of *whim a thrall
number is lees than that of teaching a large one.
The annual cost of these schools is about 1,0001., one-third
of which is supplied by government grants, rather more than
a third by the children's pence, and the rest by voluntary
oentribidketa The last report of her Majesty's Inspector of
Sehteht speaks highly of the program of the scholars, which
is etheedingly ratifying to the• managers and ell who take
an interest in their welihre.