The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-10 00:00:00

4 MX,' L 4880C14nox FOR TYR PRoloFloir

Ut JUCIAL ..SCIESCR.

A on .7 of the third or forroa! ion and
' derision* of this astieietiln was held on
Tnschiv. •• the stneee of the Law Aise,..lruni Solely, 1,
Wet( 0.., place, for the rooms of Atctotiog the following
emblem vie, —.Hew Iv con a teems for aiding rimier
on their diachrge be connected with every risen in the
merry P.
Mr. 'BARWICK Burin, • Gloacestoshise trogistratti,
the atone of the Earl of Shaftesbury, occupied the chair.
The Rev. H. T. Hares read • paper on the subject of the
meeting, in wtich he' that there were in the country no
fare then 157 frm •ht,h prisoners were con-
tinually d. t any care being extended to
them until their names agile appeared upon the records of
crime. As the chaplets of • moot Ito taut prison, and as the
eeervtary to the Barmy Disc Priioneof Aid Society,
aelablobed to 1824, he felt himself qualified to speak on the
subj., t. and urge the seceenty of aiding prismare, after their
discharge from prison, to adopt ea honest (nurse of lila, and
return to the path. of honesty, sobriety, sad virtue. Every
year upwards of 1112,000 men, women, and children, were
discharged from prison ; and with regard to the vest MS.
Ofil• Anne. they might be considc:vd as having nener
Meads, home, money, nor character, and had nothMg l to
them but to starve, to beg, or to steal • so that it woe no
wonder that. being met with open arms iy their aid sow-
perms, they should rush bark to their o!ti haunts and Hair
old vier, demise any better imperious which Eden been
been made spun them donut their imprisonment. snit
saistiag Decries, few se they were, in their eaperfinto ad
rtaalta were sulficient to prove that • Prisoners Aid Soddy
ought to be attached to every in the ommerg.
The tipper of committals durprison ing the year 115
,mounted to nearly 200.0001, ani the cost of pri-
soner. to 415,0001. , whirr s total of 715,0004 ; •
very lose of which might be raid to the
pebtie it prisoners could be reclaimed, and so prettier(
from being recommitted. la hie own prison he bow of SS
boys who had been in prises 144 theses, and mina 00 tinsel
la me year; and assay of these reconimittab night have
bees prevented by a well-organised Prisoners' Aid Society.
At persist owl primeen became guile reformed dorfmg
their term of imprisonment, but, untie* they err wad
booth@ reformatory after their diacharge they coaM sheik se
employmmt, and in fact, it was difficult for them to de so
emu when they prod through reformatory. depend, /Ory
matorfes attached to each prism would, perhaps, net anittnr ;
sod Inal• piss should be devised for maintaining then hide-
Mdefly by public eine* sided by groom front the Oita.
th: 10 seek societies which already exieted, Mae were
reel, and ow—that Is !.nudes—was general. Thor were
mite lasufficient for the wants of the country, sad it was
strongly to be recommended that all titre who had raw
Mee Amid brim the subject prominently bare the autho-
rities in 'nob ow"

Thee. 7.-,.;,;;;. remarked that the habits of prisoners is
dffilereat comities ware so diseimiler that tho rules dose moiety
could eta be applied to others, ird great audio' ought to be
exercised in arguing born to. county to asetbar.
Sir B. LRIOITON, Chairmen of Quieter &Wow be the
oousty of Shropshire, mid that a year ago be issued (*calms
to the police to MIMI returns to show wbat had become of
the men having settled residences who bed been discharged
from prima is that county dories the previous year. The
result showed that dvssiattis were again at work,
sad had bees eo ever Ince their diecbrge, the gest&
answer is the terns of those who were not in work
being "too idle to work," or " too drank to wore,"
as the case might hw la hie aunty they had a Primers'
Aid Society, and whisk bed given nue of base 6& to 101.,
whereat it wee deemed siessiery; hot the err were so
few that their fade, ebbe were raised by private seletrip-
boa, hod sever been samosted. podia wham. UN
wiry had met to Hatoges were priscipelly females, sod ao
far se hie ova county wee consiesed, esperlease •ins a-
lertly at vartinc• wile the views of H kr k preyed
that there wag so diffimalty in promos t Him
roes gear out of prises. Issue cam the society pive miry
for end* eat to Australis a bank clerk lobe bed ees-
twre.led 3,0001 • het upon impairing about two meths ober,
he (etc B. linghton) found that be had set gem,
but that he get tato soother bask as clerk. Ups. that he
mid the ones employees ought to know it, mad uskaii ten;
but wag told Is reoy, to hie surprise, that slur low It
already._ (Hear, b.ar) He thought there was not gull-
cleat difficulty tnAtog employment after being discharged
from prima is °minty, es he held that although as
might be employed at once out of doers, they ought sot to be
takes Into the house.

Mr. Herta remarked that probably the memo giVID to
the princess of obtaining a shelter and the mean, of living
upon their dischaep had something to do with the readiness
with which they obteMed etoploymmt.
Sir B. Latenron thought that had nothing to do with It.
The fact was the,. was too little shame in the seighbour-
hood to provost discharged prisoners from immediately
obtaining work.
The CHAIRMAN said hi. own county— Gionoestarshine—
Ince midway betimes fittropihire and Surrey in that respect.
The Rev. Mr. Bun; chaplain to the Birmingham New
Prison, detailed the results of the Dschargd Prisoners' Aid
&dray there dor* the two years it hd existed, from
which be laferred that greet good would molt from a
rraladoption the mien. Small grants of money for '
of
purchass of clothe' or tools, or payment of lodgiogs, had
been found most effinsolom ; but where it hid been fogad. M
possible to get discharged primmer. est to Welk they had, bmi
remitted to the ordinary operations of the poorilaw. He be-
lieved there was plenty of mosey to be got from the public,
but the difliculty was Ia finding mon to get it. There wee
OD much difficulty on this head that other means should be
nought of carrying oat their *mg, and he recommended, ea
the beet mesas he could devise, that the power of visitiag
irtetices should be extended, so as to allow of their refusding
to local societies the money spent in such efforts, end that
the salaries of the agents of such societies should be paid ham
the Moil rates

Hi;;;eald hisobjeet had been to get the money mimed
without pointing out soy plan by which it might be does ;
but be thought the plan now proposed one tout was well
worthy of consideration.

After erne farther diecuorton, to the course of whir ft
wan urged that as attempt ought to be made to pt fevers-
meat grab r well as contributions from the public, thinks
were voted le Mr Hatch for hie paper, aad also to the chair-
man. siestlag than separated.

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