The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-22 00:00:00

STEEPLE CHASES TO COME.
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le.-areet Seellna (Illoressek) (1)-The Orval daseeeba sea
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THE JOCKEY CLUB MEETING.

Name kesb7e;giviiiiMi.et ea the MO
it AWL our the iodise mu p.p. Midap. It will be tamed :
I. That rule 44 awl seeletico at the leekey Club weal ea
Wadarel la the Newshiew lisatias UM to rareleded.
L Thant be a twammembllm et the turkey Mb that no sem.
Mr et the alah. sr seeeseted with the Turf. obeli worst
giseuri gwirif Ply IWO, where tbe Newmarket
rale sto diode, time Is ad altoted. ar (It the Mawr be sold
Wbyalla suedes tee the et the mein toad) It le sot applied to the
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BOMB STRUCK OUT OP THEIR
RIOAOEMENT&
IMO= at at ffill bhp Man& IL at • ma.
Balm odd Se UM sad ealmtma. tol Graat
Ifas=lllmai
sod Mira id Mak mompamata M
Laall"=1:111 114M111 mat. Cr. segagsmants it Cattail& amt
il=tot tallateaM at Malt tegammamta at Nor*.
am=Um* 116 at ILO pm.
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pm.

Mr. C. Daylay, forawrly WU to the Duke of Rubs gad,
sad for say yin Clerk of the tones sad Starter at
Goodwood Roses. dtod st Seagrove, near Cblehoster, sa
Waissoday es'aaigbt, egad 66.
A abort tine Ohba The Bishop of Romfordb Cob
neeived a List from a more which books kis Wig, sad it
was fogad socessary to destroy bum
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Mistrna.—Ey soomenniesi.
ties Gee the assail of 'sties we lava that siabliair
already bass reeved by the followiag trainers :—W. Goon
for aye bons,. Lerigetsff fee six, Busby for three, Witham
Bathe for frer, Waders far fire. T. Pm for fm, Desboray
fat ea, Drewitt for three, Dead' for ma. Pobert for asw,
wad Male* for awl. ♦ law neettag is expiated. The
eearse Is telartsil tele i■ beautiful order.—Brila

Her limasy, Man Mad 'Mast; triby. Panama
Ocisace—ot 11.
INA (Ni. Tomlay, X•ll4Assa. SWIM. iss4
Wrier% t U.
. MeV% as NNW noshed.

tats
Athiniese. MasiMy, Hamml.. ; Wiremsdlay. Drifts Park
Ow; PAW, Pankow; Ilatiorday. Onley—at 11.
Illeiworth.Seriay, Street Some Bari Saturday. 11161hea—st 11.
Did lisiket* Mesas,. brow W.ok; Ws‘l•4l7. Avielatl
bidaii= Ildardsy. Vellavlagbes—aklalt.patt
Ikeraire). mss. alaspi; Treley.

Galley House; Friday, Colwell Wood; Saturday, Hadley Park-ut
1111.tost 10.
South Barkeire (Mr. Whebles), Tuesday, Engledeld Muss; 111.
derdomAldwirtee-at 11.
Tale. Monday, Half way Hours. Nether Compton; Fri.
daklileakbiaManeed Maturday, Charlton Hoethorne-at 11.
lbw. Mods& 11M; Wednesday, Paper Mlll Bar;
det.naillakerleu lee; Infardar. Bishop Wood-at ball-put le.
Mutt (teed Ileory Ilestlawes), Monday, &molecule Meus
Wsisselay, Linwood by leer; Thursday, Brandon Booths; War.
da/arhernldaelllage-st 11.
Wedewday and Thursday, Lan boldy -at to.
licoday,Mlasluall; Wedassday, Dunham Massey ; Tbure.
1iat=4,141.11 ; daindoy, Aolie-at 10..
(Sir J. ay, Monday, Keeper's Lodge, Grim.
SSW; Tuesday, Loads A ; Thursday, Manthorpe ; Saturday.
ANSIII-et IL
Mendead, Mann, Goidsteough-at I. Thursday, Hutton Lowe
10
Goma (Mr. H. P. Best'.), Monday, White Hill; Wednesday.
quarter to 11.
sad Heins, Monday, Duke's Head, Copthorn; wedges.
Miknioner Friday, talkie Cress-at a quarter to 11.
Du (Mr. R. Gleam's), no aooount received.
Nut Hem (Mr.Marelottli), Tooday, Steers Brimpsteed ; flute.
atasszilladae= taZdardat =ll,(ltißetr-41,"Pelday,
Mal Gate-at IL
Own Tuesday. Bare Huth; Watanday, Whits Hart.
Ta,y Nate 11""SeliVillage;Pri4, WU:Cott-at Oa*
past
MotW.W. Mond.. Moder Tlibee e Thossins
Dews-a a quarter to 11.
Lilo, Prestos Ordoilb; Tuesday, Wee TOW ; Throe.
Saturday, Ilinstead Church-at 11.
HenMiYn (Mr. Stubbs's), Tueeday, England's Gate; Friday.
Ilsrmsnia lad-st half-cost 10.
Addlestrop can ; Wednesday, Tooted ; M.
day, 10.
Humor*. TCrolt Bridge- at hslf.peat IS.
Mr. Mari Monday, Charlie/ Park; Thursday, Han.
buy Villege-et a quarter to 11,
Mat last-Tasty, Tyler bill; Friday, New Inn Greea-at heL
pea ie.
Lodkozy, Monday. the Masa& ; Friday, Buckley-at half-put 10.
Ledkaw (dlr. &Moira), *Woodsy, Oldbury ; Saturday, Bucher
Commas-et lia/Speet 10.
Mr. Lumley's, Iday. Math Wheatley; Wednesday, Splay Mod;
Friday, Stews, Sar-sa balked 10.
Paeliteolteedre (Mr. Len lineday, Williamatoe;
Thursday. =Y 10.
Mot el Fonnemsdes, May, West Shertwerne •; Widened's.
cezeu="w Waco Pin: Tasty, Crir!<; Friday.
g ,linybresin-et a quarter to
Mg N.= of OhnoMnatra), lyda7, Matatield; Saturday, Wm.
earateal.ll/.
Leaks Villep; ThunO.ay, Satoh
eTiakellarliklbadead ran: Tuards. Brie.
Len ; Thmeky, 804.111 y; y, Lenten Village -at halt.=
darodukru, lanky, kakeime; Friday, Lahotwocd-at
10.
limmilaseak Kansa; Friday, Renalsr-at 10.
▪ dniaris searns iseened.
Sinsmost daborkelsa, Turin, Lampidge Wood; Warden
Osirosenne Pere Cnie-st 11,
antlideina (Mr. A. Donovan'.), Monday, Hassoch's Gate-at a
ganef te 11.
North Ilemeordeldre, Monday, Despot ; Wednesday, Bony Wood:
Friday Milatioy- at halfoest 10.
et danarda, Tuesday, Hilt=; Thursday, Emilie Hall:
Si=Buse Class-at 11.
Maim Bann An ; Thursday, Lidesto-at a quartet
to 11.
Burn Mika, Moshq, Kennel-at M
aralsapaat 10; Thursday.
Prink, Mem -TatUirrivasetay, Newland Caner-at half-past 10.
lea Swesua. Inflow lac, ; Friday. M.
Lamed% 611111111-111
• kehen Mseratrae si.
Mr. Fawn DatlaK Tanks WHiMby Stale Pits; Friday.
lodge ea the Wdidet
Mr. Aisne/Oar lbsnanalt, Maly, Onstertai ; Thursday.
Merton Mama 1 Mandy, Yew-st 11.
mChaDaeh MMWllia,lkieelat=dena Warren; Thursday, Hallwap
Mu
' sdnaiilo. ; Thursday, Rackentord
10.

Thertse._ Ilsaa,
Saturday. Wartk—st kalf.paat
Uatted Ptak. Thursday, Past. 44:1-2 9.
V. W. IL (Laid Citteard'4, , Southerop—st 11 ; Mora.
iviths lismado—ot lhalLpast IS; y, Charlton Park—at 11.
WwWlltilhva 3/tudan 0001013 twos, Tuesday, MiUotd
Bridge ; tummy, Lower Shaidoessll num Swaslitre—at a
Toner le U.
AerlL Winlokshlre, Tarim Zallwarlb Castle ; Wsdiesdah
Uvalde, Mlll—st I ; Mktg , Dmisrdi—st mortar to 11.
Wkisilmi (Mr. Uoyd'a), Wally Park--at half-pad 10.
Kr. IMissearrs, limas , ; WodsoMm, Visplmeca
Moor. Potash lloystos—at 111.
Wmilok 'Maids/ Copia ; Woftowlsy, gems 81clio
Fru*. Our Parrywasd—st Italt.past 10.
Mr W. W. Wpm's, ltaaday, Badlarya ; Walmsday, CM&
Coda ; Friday, DOtalltsoll Park; Saturday, Maley Park—at ball.
past 116
Tack aad Abate', Tuesday, Urbandale; Saduaday, Thltklsby Park
—at balfialt 10.
mamma
Bridge—at 13. • Theaday, Inabrldge Ptak Codas ; Saturday, Wappowdat

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WON WATII AT LONDON DRIDON.
boo Dar—Versiagi. II
21615.
36. ...„-Ahlremts. Pis.

LONDON, SATURDAY, MARDI' 22.

PRACTICAL reformers ought ever to bear in mind
the parable of the grain of mustard seed. All great
and enduring improvements have had almost imper-
ceptible beginnings. The investigations which led
a Newsox to discover the law of gravitation were
saggeeted by the fall of an apple. The indignation
awakened in the bosom of a monk by a mountebank
preacher of indulgences was the germ of the Reforma-
tion. It is for this reason that we often feel disposed
to dwell with more interest upon noiseless and unos-
tentatious efforts of philanthropy than upon grand,
schemes of social amelioration, eloquently developed
amid the plaudits of numerous assemblies.

The inauguration of the improvements in TyndaU's-
building., Gray's-inn-lane, of which an account wu
published in our impression of yesterday, is onset the
grains of mustard seed that are being sown here and
there by the Society for the Improvement of the
Working Cisme.. The picture drawn by our re-
porter of the actual condition of these tenements is
repulsive in the extreme. Our experience of what
has been accomplished by the Society in other part,
of the metropolis warrants a confident belief that they
will wear a very different aspect before Good Friday
again comes round. The Society wisely repudiate the
idea of giving alms. They offer to the poor of London
more healthy and comfortable dwellings; but they
respect the spirit of independent self-exertion, and ask
money for money's worth. They undertake to de-
monstrate experimentally that habitations for the
poor can be erected and maintained in decent order
and comfort on the ordinary principles of commerce.
Nothing has impressed us more profoundly, in the
narrative of the visit paid to Tyndall's-buildings on
Thursday last by Lord SHAFTESBURY and his friends
than the effect it produced on the inmates of the
dwellings. " Outside, in the Bagged court, were a
number of • young barbarians all at play,' shoeing,
tattered, dirty, and extremely merry. Some of riper
age—bold men and bolder women—stood at the
doors or at the window., dubious and suspicious.
They felt that they were the artificial Huron' of
civilisation ; and if they did not openly express, at
least indicated by their looks, that they had rather
remain undisturbed in their modern wigwams. That
this feeling exists to no slight extent is evident from
the fact that, since the property came into the pos-
session of the Society, several families have left."
Not the least benefit to be derived from such labours
as those in which Lord SHAFTESBURY takes delight
is the bringing of all classes into personal contact. So
long Lathe poor and the rich remain unacquainted they
mutually wrong each other in their secret thoughts.
This defiant spirit is the obstacle to the progress of
knowledge and enlightened morality the most diffi-
cult to surmount. Its eradication must be a work of
time, and can only be effected by high and low ao•
quiring the habit of co-operating. At this moment
we may witness the sowing of zany grains of mar
tard seed in this wide and fertile field. The labours
of the Society for Improving the Condition of the
Working Classes are one. The efforts of those who
mask to aid the industrious poor in the introduction
of improved systems of amassment into their benefit
clubs sad societies are another. The Working Men's
Colleges present an analogous spectacle. Perseverance
In such good works will in time teach " the artificial
Herons of civilisation " not to shrink from those
who mean them well. More will thus be done
to ensure that the inevitable mutations in oar social
and civil arrangements shall take plum in tranquil
lity and a kindly spirit than any legislation can
effect. The poor outcasts of society are more maci-
listed by sympathy than by gifts; they shrink, with
all the sensitiveness of a Comma, from the charity
of him who appears to be " their benefactor, not their
brother-man."

Turn is a very general conviction in the public
naiad that the TICK= or•Lates System has failed.
We hardly brow whether we share in this aerie.
tics or not. On the one hand, we have the eom.
plaints of the audios, ad oamewlsat Unified re.
portable clangs at the number of tisket-of-lgave sea
wow at large; the indignation of Mr. Jaunts
that his phaseout is surrounded by some forty of
than gaga ; and the stresepozproseed *plain of the
Cam ANTICS sad ether high legal Indices:lm
that transportation must be resumed. On the other
head, Oelsnel Jaen assures as that " 80 or 90 pm
mat. does restored to society through ticksb of leave
are getting their living by their own basest
exertions." Morgovse, we have the statement of the
Loan Cut/wawa that "of the 1,600 or 1,800
=evicts at large at the date of the loot
return, 1,2137 were persons who had been seo-
kneed only to MANI years' transportation; and, as
Gordis, to the old oysters, would have bogs let loose
on moiety with this differs's* from the repeat sys-
tems—that they would not have had a ticket of leave,
but would have been absolutely diesherged." It ap-
poses. also, by a report from one prima whore some
palm sesta to have bees takes to Meta augustly,
that oat of 284 ma discharged, satisfactory replies
had ham received with regard to 189, ansatideetory
replies with regard to 17, sad no replies at all in the
same( about 60. Bad we ussigkith thorefereln these
dainties, we shield be impelled to believe that the
tielget.ot-logive system at present is practice had met
with Niguel moms. But. inasmuch as the mast.
mem of the statistics mews very doubtful, the
mouse of the system is in the same degree uncertain.,
Thweeore we say that we do not know whether the
present prestige with regard to tickets of leave has
or he. set felled. Bet this we do know, that the system
Intended to have been emoted by the Legislature was
sot emoted by the 16th and 17th Vie. a. 99,
through the !gleaming in comaittse ; that the system
as guested is set fully carried into practical offset;
and that the eperstiga of the system intended by
the Legislator*, eves if that system had boon mooted,
would not have afforded a oosclagive test of the
advantages of all systems of granting tickets of leave
in Ragland.

Lard Gaturviux stated in the Hones of Lords ea
the blith of February that the Goverment does mot
based to oaks any alteration in the law; we there-
lota propose to show why the working of the present
law should sot be taken as a test of the merits of the
system of allowing convicts to earn by good be-
haviour in gaol a license to bo out of prima daring
the remainder of their terms of imprisonment,
which license shall be re•oable if they relapse into
bad habits. The Bill of 1863, as it originally stood,
had so notsronos to the granting of tickets of loam
It simply proposed that penal servitude, or birdmen-
sent wit► bard labour, should be sabetitntsd for
transportation ; and that the term of penal servitude

should be shorter than the corresponding terms of
transportation, because the discipline of the farmer
was considered more mere. Lord Oily, however,
stated, that allowing men confined in England to
earn tickets of leave in the colonies had been found
to work well in Barbados., and elsewhere. He there-
fore recommended that sash tickets should for the
fawn be granted in England in thous cases where
transportation was to be no longer used. He
recommended also that as the temptations to
relapse were greater in this country than in the
colonies, such ticket-of-leave men ought not ben to
be allowed equal freedom, but that remunerative
employment on government works should be sup
plied them, and that they should be prohibited from
resorting to large towns. His recommendation us to
granting tickets of leave in England was adopted;
his advice as to the employment and partial sur-
veillance of the men was only so far attended to
that the Government declared their intention of
followiog it in practice—but no referee°, was made
to it in the Act. Thus it was no longer simple penal
servitude or imprisonment with bard labour which
was substituted for transportation, but penal servi-
tude and a license to be at large if fairly earned by
good conduct. But as the severity of the substitute
for transportation was lessened, the duration of the
punishment no longer required shortening. The
clauses, therefore, fixing the length of the terms of
penal servitude should have been altered. This,
however, was forgotten ; according to the present Act,
therefore, the duration of the punishment is shortened
because it was intended to be more severe, while in
reality the punishment is made leas severe. Thus far,
then, we see that the intentions of the Legislature were
not embodied in the Act. Neither are they practically
carried into effect ; for no pains have been taken to
find employment for convicts in order to prevent them
from falling into destitution and consequent crime
nor have they been prevented from returning to
large towns and to their old haunts; in fact, in this
last respect no restriction whatever has been placed
upon them. But, further, the system enacted is
not practically carried into effect ; for we find
that the Home-stfios has lately decided that the
" terms of penal servitude are now to be carried out
in their integrity"—that is to say, the full term is to
be passed in prison, and no ticket of leave is to be
granted except in very rare cues and on veryspeeial
grounds. On this principle the Home-office pro-
poses to shorten sentences hitherto pronounced on
the supposition that the law was still in force by
which tickets of leave might be earned—a suppo-
sition, we presume, which every judge entertained.
Bo that, practically, the system is at an end :
or if not quite at an end, yet this determination of
the Home-office, and the fact that no ticket of leave
has been yet recalled without a new offence on the
part of its holder, pretty clearly show that the eye-
tem, even as embodied in the present Act, has never
been carried into effect. Nor, lastly, is the system
contemplated by its original promoters one by which
either they or the advocates of reformatory punish-
ment would consent to be finally bound. For in-
stance, the amount of surveillance to which ticket-of-
leave men may be subjected, in order to protect
the public without tyranny to the individual ; what
should be the destination of the money earned by
the convicts while in gaol; whether, in order to per-
fect the scheme of reformatory punishment, it should
be coupled with a reparation of the civil injury—a
principle unknown to our law; what amount of proof
should be required of the ticket-of-leave man's bad con-
duct, end before whom that proof should be made—
for the withdrawal of the Benue withmit some farm
of trial is repugnant to all our notions of Justine : these,
and many other question, must be settled, and chiefly
by experience, before the system of reformatory
punishment through tickets of leave ought to be given
up
as a failure.

Having now hinted at the imperfections of the
present Act, u not even enacting what its framers
intended, and as still less fulfilling the wishes
of those who desire to see reformatory punishment
fairly tried, we do strongly protest against the decision
of the Government not to alter the present law.
People are very anxious and dissatisfied with the
present system, and for that reason aloes, and in
order to give some feeling of security to the quiet
citizen, we do bops that the Government may change
their mind. The larger question of the comparative
merits of deterrent and reformstery paniehments has
lately been discussed by the Recorder of Birming-
ham and Mr. ADDIULLIY. The pamphlets in which
these gentlemen pat forward thee views are sugges-
tive and interesting. They Inuit the earnest altos-
don of the public.