The Express.
London, England, 1857-01-20 00:00:00

(Stamped Id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

CRIMINAL ZENON&

A meeting was held yestaeda yerentwg at tlaeClack-
ouss,Cnebies, tohenr statements from eevera/erverDd gentle-

men who take an interest in the cause of criminal reforestiac,
end to raise subscriptions in aid of the reformatory on
Brizton-hill. The chair was taken by the Re►. C. J.
GOODRAST, and the following CiagylDell wens slop on the
platform .—Rev. Wm. Cadman, rector of St. George's, South-
wark; Rev. W. W. Robinson, C.C., Chelsea ; Rev. James
Cohen, A.M., chaplain of the City Prison, Holloway; and
ono or two other gentlemen interested in the cause. Tho
meeting wee very fully attended.

The Rev. J. Conan mid be believed he should beat con-
sult the wishes of the meeting by merely stating Gets, to
show what had eheady been the result of their Moues in elate
came. Bat find be would endeavour to meet an objection
that had been made to their efforts. It was mid is same
quarters that by taking ouch care of criminals they wore as-
cowering crime. Now, his opinion was that the best way
to encourage crime would he to leave the scold elem.
(Ham, hear.) Ile compared the criminal to the mirk modem
of • family. The robust members might be *logs of the
greeter care taken of their relatim brit was Movitable, r
the healthy required no care. (tiar, bear.) He did not
eget? with the person who bed ropproprialely Agar bird!
the London Scoundrel," as to do are piety of swim a
gams in every came of ths cowry, betdase
ever be had been a prima elmokia, be bid bees
do advocate of the sleeted pridireat Sr Maimed
crime. At the ems lima, however be would give tbe
criminal errs dome whom, in mew tort bls semeisese
debt be rear g at lest obliged to Witt the par dmer.
trek was the ethic kslitaMa Mors ems IMF ad-
votileillbst Ilie vim was On 'IWO
movie In Its SW felled at, isleeleseelessei
sae Moe meld Mike hie ream sued Me remit woe
the et mast sliglide mondmi hiMes. Mate ties
the hod stregleil a Orme*
to the Waldo, sad Iddo of Os paill=bill
latter hod bra mobil Ilisk onenelemmes of Me meMels
of their asinkuiltlas essimmilka ofthemteeeßLpoopm
they saw odor legedier st the omen of every Meet.
Their object hod has. es 'bead their system of reline swirly
on the scriptures. They saw them that if a we Ad sot
work neither should be sat, and accordingly hod week was
the key of their woods system. When • mem Sot
promoted himself at disk gas, he was Mid Or
the gate by which be sort mite was • amew
and a straight nee. He was told that for forts= days be
most submit to solitude sad a diet et bowl sad wilier. (A
voice :" A man could ma Ike an that.") Very via •
that *hewed how sincere wad have bra dome who egg
mitted to such a test. (Cheers.) dine years sad a
halt there had been 616 'applications lir sad 11l
of whom 4.5 now TELOAMEII in the
They could accommodate 100, but owing to the deficiency of
funds—perhaps from the pressure of the war taxation—
they had never been able to receive mon than 60. The
committee hall gone thoroughly through the accounts and
through the working of the volmia, sad the result of their
investigation woo • resolution that seek ma balitution
ehould not be let drop. In 11110, that sweated did not as-
pirate until amongst themselves they subscribed 6501. to
maintain the Institution until better times. Subsequently
one of their moot active eapjroers, Mr. George Moore, de-
clared that be would pesyfde far the admission of five in-
mates, and the other members of the committee provided for
five more. (Hear, hem) There would thus he some erten-
RIM of their efficiency, sad It should be remembered that all
criminals who applied st the informatory were not of the
lowest clam. They bad room* had within their walls •
young min who am the pram of an admiral, one who
wae a surgeon, and one who was the son al ea eminent bar-
rister. (Hear.) He remembered once to have been parti-
cularly burnoosed by a semeapesached at Cambridge during
hie ethoolboy dap. He bed sham Need tea the son of the
clergyman who had preached that MUM HU applicant at the
reformatory. There was another ere still mom affecting to
show that the edvantages of those inalitetions were not um
nopolieed by the lowed clam. A labsionary having gone to
India to preach the "morel, fella outerifice to the climate, and
his wife followed hint um after, leaving an only child to be
brought up by stronger.. That child returned to England,
and having no father's care, no mother's love, soon fell
into the ways of evil. After • short career, he applied to
the reformatory, anal he (Mr. Cohen) had bad the happiness
of being instrumental in restoring him to society. TIME
were other num of a different CIE.. Gut showed bow gladly
these reformatories would be entered by many • tepentent
thief, did the atao of the ouberriptiono permit of their ex-
tension. He remembered hearing of • professed thief fall-
ing into conversation with a young man who we. going to
the bank for the purpose of rehiring him of thernoney be cur-
ried. He naked -him the direction of a certain sheet, when
the young man fearing nothing, raid he was "Meg that way
sad would show him. As they walked, they comer
when the young urn ItoppenA to mention, •• • da-
pder thiag, the thine' meeting of the night be-
fore, convened by Lord Ashley, and the reformatory
in Weemineter. The moment the thief heard there was a
reformatory in Westminster he forgot his intended theft, and
immediately went and presentod himself for diatomite.
(Cheers.) tio respectable was his that he we
taken foe a gentleman coming to pay e dbemiption, but he
remained and woe reformed, went to America, and returned,
not likiag the place, and before emigrating again to Australia
gave five guinea. as his subscription to the institution.
(Chien.) The err. gentleman minted several similar mem,
eel read two Ware front person, who had been in the insti-
tution, which showed conclusively how completely their re-
twinetion had been effected. In conclusion, he warmly en-
forced the necemity of subscriptions.