The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-30 00:00:00

nl.l system of trainitr, to teach them the great
?s of morality in the first place, and in the next,
them a trade by which they could get a living.
_ direct return was out of the question in the pre-
seat instance. At the same time, ho felt the most sanguine

,t great p

)le cargo, wou1(

more piofitable venture, that that ship which
now moored in the river. (Hear, hear.) It
ited that a criminal in his
mate deportation or death

from boyhood to n

ere now

mmencement o

.
were saved from that felon's life and from the infinite
mischief and expense to which they would put society,
then there would be saved many hundreds, and he
trusted many thousands to the country. (Hear, hear.)
This then would be the project of the voyage to the
Akbar, althou zh that voynv were limited to swirmin2 in
the Mersey. (Cries of hear, hear, and applause.) It was
not absolutely necessary, althotuth it would be very,

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rable if they could do it, to have a land reformatory
leir own. It was of the greatest importance that the
her of boys who herded tozether for the purpose of

other to crime, should be broken up, b dis

,
persing them to different reformatories. This had been
felt very much at Bristol and at Birmingham, as well as
at. Liverpool. It would, therefore, be a very desirable
thing• that. occasionally, some boys should be sent to

those places from Liverpoil, and that Liverpool should re-
ceive others from those places in return—those from
Liverpool going to agricultural establishments, and
the others coming to the marine reformatory
thus accomplishing the object in view. He,
thought that unless they obtained
for

therefore

facilities the establishment of an
agricultural reformatory which he, nevertheless, ad-
mitted would he in itself a highly desirable thing—and
until they had funds to do it, they must let it remain in
abeyance for some time. (Hear, hear.) There was
another subject which he thought was still-more press-
ing, and one which had not: been as vet adverted to,
that was a reformatory for girls. (Hear. hear.) Girls
were just as much neglected by their parents as boys—
they were just as much incited to' theft and depredations

—and, owing to their sex, they were peculiarfy difficult
to manage. The reformation of the girls was, he thought,
at the root of everything. Everything in the morality of
a family depended upon the mother. It was one of the
most painful things he had to experience or to witness,
when, as a magistrate, he observed, day after day, women
in the humbler classes, even very young married women,
brought up before him for having been drunk and disor-
derly, committing acts ;of outrage. obviously incapable
of performing properly the duties of a mother. He
was afraid that that class of persons was exceedingly
difficult to manage. On some occasions he inquired
where these women had been brought up, mnd he
found that several, too many, of -them had come for-
ward from the industrial schools. so that where every
attention was paid still the difficulties were very
great. (Hear, hear.) The moment, therefore, they
had sufficient funds to accomplish the first object he
hoped they would then endeavour to instil into the young
female population some principles of morality and self-
respect, and self-restraint, and to teach them the proper
functions of a wife and mother. (Hear. hear.) He differed
very much from those persons who were for giving what
be might call too high an education to young girls. To be
taught questions of chemistry, asked whether the rays of
the sun are opaque or not—these things he thought were
such as could be of no sort of service to the wife of a
ibouring man. The real lessons which women of that
ass should be taught were that the modesty of their sex
"ot be over-stepped in word or action, that therp
-*Taint from drinkint; ardent spirits—for he
married women,
_...eteen years of age, had been brought up
fore him for disgraceful drunkenness—and, further,
lot seemed to bo unfortunately neglected, or at all
rather difficult to teach at schools, the
.-iary work and duties of a woman in her home—
sr, hear)—to keep their houses clean, to beep
it own, and their husband's clothes clean, to wash, to
to nurse their children, and all which a young
man ought to be taught to know. Without this know-
:4- was a mere falsification of temis, to call a woman
(Hear, hear.) The husband came
nne as the type of all—

y to say that many

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