The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-18 00:00:00

iiitralaced into Na Upper House:

sure= the same subject u Sir

the debate on which stands

of Lord Baorcnnx. In their

measures may be shortly thuathittod. SlNfor
Grier proposes to empower tlec Jus f'Couoties
and the Councils of Boroughs to grant money in aid of
Reformatory Schools already established or about to
be established by volantary contribution, provided
!hit Have been deity certified alideethe existing Law.
This grant in aid is to be subject to, each conditions
as to management %I/diallers, Sal munition of juve-
nile offenders ea the Quartos ow the Council may
think fit to ttaix'se- ,That flit (boast GMT'S
Bill, in its ameaded,form, It .is simply pireassivel•
as Mike matey %trent; eonditionel as to the powers
of'"monagensent and' visitation. The Judea may
grant;. if they grant, they may impose what, condi-
tions ' to' management mid visitation thigt.lats-
Lord Ceasiaavos, in addition to . the pa-
!nave power of • asking Faso •• is aid
eonkrrod- by eir Idzoitos Garr, proposes
to eatend the period of 'life now fixed as
the limlt'Of Retbrtneory 'treatment tom sateen to
byway. providing,hOnerq• :14 the case of youthful
'sanders between tliesis too ages. that they shall
set be Mug to any Refosesatory institution until they
have posed bailable term of their original @engem
in pima.
Sock 6 se outline of the projected legislation
en the nailed. There is aluuylauee ,of erns-.
axial seal 44' Piilinpeatary letiviti "IL"'
ytBimaw.' Meenseltilia beyond do walls at Podia,

:lank das tries& and eappeitere of these very win&
;Rile Instltstieee nee set altogether agreed in the
MOW Morioka of tb4 milldam• or expedient.) Of
AIWA visions ogee in Orsir Delmar. A ;very numeracy,
nettie,sndinfluentialportianat themoccupy a position
the wry reveres of, the waggoner in the fable. In+
gad et praying for brpk they ene praying le hetet
'Awe. Hitherto, they say, voiwihary eflhethon ateW
wore than we Gadd • havo hoped—all WO at pretest
iols. Our Iteforsontory Schools
sem aimed,. morn

wonseroas than oar HitermaterY School Titsame.
We mud net go to. bet. This Rettawatory Spinal
is net a lowletpieno of diseirenwit, that noes ttagj
ageing will le of itself; 'lt • requires vigilant
active and Wiled arperintendenoe. At POWC/110.1
eta not in a' imatirm Adequately ie provide fill*
superintendence tar the. ,Sehoolo already
Mahal. \abeam, fart, though it may ban
failed to meet the vastness of the national watet,lai"
; (MM. the ince= of efficient Iteformatory-
eabameht, We *lit to Vasa', and perfect, gyik,
anikkarg,,, 'before •, we apply it to barer&
alum at the raw watecial et I.lllOnnee nal wino.
Thin is magma ameitignaion.. The eabantary
hileto white at present espelhor meat r eittratme
ire alb Set to a position ellsothely to work, will
hilt' eery oceisiderably &biked 'arid by a permissive
net empowering Justices aad Town eassoils to grant
rata in aid. Thais noonere epecniaica. Pacts peeve
it.. A permissive local act has for soma years
'Waal for Middle /re, gad to this day there is no
llekt of England so ill supplied with certified
ories in proportion to its population
ma fly 'Metropolitan County. No grant in aid
kw been made •in, .the Justices, and private
ity has been keptianleyenee by the anticipa-
nt a pantie fait Vieffi is still indefinitely
Enl4.This Mairealatal enough. All charity
4.l"in thipinjoitin Ratepiyer; no one gives
Name 04 Nagy ire hog be called for as mama-
Me* "DM in another very important point, and
oat iefbotissrosout. Tb • existing system, with
witrntary contributions as the main source of supply,
with aid from the Treasury to the extent of 7a. a
week (relieved by the forced contribution of parents
where of ability to pay), mad accompanied by govern-
ment visitation and inspection, has, it is alleged,
wetted well. Any plan which would suintitees ros-
amoment and visitation by Justices or Town Councils,
fir management by voluntary subscribers and inspec-
tion by Privy Council officials, is felt by some of the
asetnealoas and intelligent friends of the Reformatory
/balm, by Min CIAPLaTia, by Mr. M. 1). HILL,
sod by Mr. ADIMILLILY, to be decidedly ohjee-
thimble. On the other hand, if appropriation is
lola made out of the funds of Counties or Boroughs,
by Justices and Town Councils, in aid of Reformatory
Bebe* it is difficult to see how the pi inciple is to
be departed from of vesting iu those by whom public
mosey is to be employed, the power and the respon-
sibility of controlling the mode of its expenditure.
On the whole, it must be admitted that there
is considerable force in these objections. When a
Man declares he doesn't want your help, and can't
he better off than he is, it seems officious, to say the
least of it, to encumber him with offers of assistance.
The Reformatory System, es at present constituted,
lea hardly yet passed beyond its initiatory stages.
It is a great and successful experiment—bat an
experiment still. Let it have free and full devedeps
mat after its own fmhion, and upon its exiling
lima When the time comes for wonting Parma.
seistance, none can doubt it will bombed**.
ettfteSis Usury's Bill in its present hum mud=
iMag a very rsinimrun of change, bat who* we
Mew is wanted a little is worse than none std.
Mr. AD*Loceo`o Industrial Schools Bill, Ada
was discussed in Committee yesterday, semi r ei
dieing footing: in its revised form it mpg= se
novelty of maintenance or management; r 11/111
reed it, it simply seeks to extend to children
convicted of mendicancy or vagrancy the same
Reformatory advantages as aro now conceded I.
children convicted of pilfering and petty crime.
On the plain principle that prevention is better
than cure, and without at all committing our-
selves to any approval of the details of Mr. Annex-
LEv's Bill, wo regard this extension of the Reforma-
tory System as one that ought to be carried, and
some day or other will have to bo carried. Mean-
while the House of Commons is only acting in the
strict discharge of its highest duties, by vigilantly
criticising all the machinery of a measure which,
unless very carefully adapted to the objects it
seeks to accomplish, may indirectly tend to confer
on the disreputable poverty which neglects its
duties those educational means which are not
afforded to the honest poverty which fulfils them.

GRAND CHORAL FEATITAL AT WI

Aasay.--Tbia allosocat a mod choral fratival lank plate
at Wannelastar Abbey, for the bun& at Miami sad orphans
of ergaaiata sad lay dirks at cathedrals. The abbey yam
clod with a hit sat imatablaw.

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A grand caraway alive ball and mama will be
Riven by air Alenewiler Chant, M.A., ea the erasing of
Friday, Ohs Mb, vials*, vas of Odd Coahe% Oahe&
Oa the ewe ewwing IDs issargeseasiss wal pram She-
ndates easel, ef The Rival ; w' • Trip ts Bath, which orM
be followed by Misr entritidaseets.
On Tuesday evening, Mr. W. 11. Russell deli-
vered, at the fleshy Uoyal, Dublin, the drat p,rtion of his
prong emotive tithe leading errata of the Crimea rem-
The astlilese was ezereeingly numerous.
Lady Serowe (wits of the gallant naval Caw
crier-in-Ch`the East Indies and China am) and
SOMA are about le return haa this neighbourhood to
ark his of Wight. " Their &wenn," eye the Per
Asereat, "will be math segrilied by all claws, sad
liege. bodily to able:halm bass brag resided will
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