The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-20 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S.

The War Trail, orTIUII7 hit; Horse of Me Prairie,
is the title of as equestrian spectacle which was hat night
he the hew time, to the patrons of that favourite
wirepala ama wimp tbe vosdertoldoilily ttid ammo&

EMILE REFORMATORIES.
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The following paper was read on Friday, in the
' Punishment eta Reformation Department" of the Nationi
kameistion for the Advancement elf Social Science, by Mee

Carpenter, the subject being " Female Reforiaatiries."
After remarking that the subject had only lately attracted
public attention, since few supposed that little creatures at
the softer sex could require the strong arm of the law, she
remarked that so ter from this feeling being well founded, •
much greater amount of wickedness and depravity Wse to be
found amongst the clam of girls sent to reformatories than hi
the correepending clam of the sterner sex, the reason being
that girls were seldom brought under magisterial and refer"
matory jurisdiction till all other means of reclamation had
been triad in vain. The 1t... T. Carta, chaplain of Liver-
pool Gaol, stated that out of 26feenalee in that establishment,
26 had been Warhead seven times, while the last had boss
not Is than 67 them, the period of imprleonment to the
whole 26 averaging five years ; white the experience of
a magistrate who had been a oommlasioner of homy
um, that female culprits were. se • rule, bliisly
mem onangeons this Mg* and were a
the manhal comilika of the insane. A rodent* to
the ilesmstion of the and Refuge Union, and
to the now Ineasnres at Sir sep Grey uck.tte
inbjetic she Winded to her own experience as to the
eitarsonw et Masi* crlinhiality, which she aserlbod Is mese
arse to ties sea Mammon of the home associations of the

female imam of role mad rekereeseles. In sedirretica
of her opinion ohs spin rimed to the =Waal statiries at
the town of Liverpool, quoting as extract from a report on
that town, which stated al • eases el the peat aroma of
here arm the seer regiment ghee to ibis to hoar
thieve. by the sermen st Melia gook end Mateened one
old wawa mar N Hunt es the per of darns, who
brought ap both bee ehildra and grandchildren to pursue
plunder se their entree, avocation. The report also com-
mented upon the newer la noun for juvenile thieves as
another groat aeon, of crinthonlity. Mir Car-
penter then went on to near the period condition of girls
of the elms Whaled to, dean theta liege proportion of them
whoa @dratted ire refiarmerethe were labouring under dram
wrath either from the hardship of preview imprisonment
or the Irregularities of their former career. In regard to
that morel encliden, they wets el peculiarly and morbidly
soiree is, having etreng wee and a dimmed seribility
Is harehasse. At the rem they war not pricielarly
seriattho, their digiodare berg lather hatheed Its mak-
Ire parceity ; and she had handl often LA reticules con-
truing money amongst than wither any fear of
them. There were different chouneleame In the eted/
boys and girls which necessarily rendered • direr erre.
and kind of training fitted for them. Boys live to be taught
a trade, while the occupation of girls must be chiefly in
domestic servitude. Emigration, also, which act believed
to be necessary for boys, was undesirable ter Ogle, r
calculated to remove them from those sante* and ota-
tmlling Maurer which might otherwise be brought to
bear upon their conduct when discharged. She alao ob-
jected to factory labour pragrs, takes factories were con-
ducted on the plan propoad by Mr. Wood, M.P. for Poste-
fret, combining the factory and the home. Reformatories
must, in the abeenoe of such modes of ereploynsent, be so
conducted as to make Christian women not hesitate to seek
for threads from their inmates, The children must also be
brought to look upon their teachers with feelings of affection,
and to feel that the discipline and restraint. to which they
see subjected see for their own good. After some further
remark' to as similar effect, Mir Carpenter referred to the
conduct of parents, noticing, for 'trance, where a girl
under her own control had been withdrawn by her mother,
previously to the present enactment, and that the same
woman had a boy on board the Acbar convict ship, and
had been continually tering the magistrates for his libera-
tion, threatening to write to their friends in London if her
wish was not complied with. She then dared to the
fact of boys running away from reformatories ea proving
that those institutions wen not so operable aa had been
represented, and did not offer a premium to crime, while
she had abundant proof. that honeet parents did not
so regard it. Mies Carpenter then proceeded to detail
her view of the principal requisites in female re-
formatory institution. She recommended that the pupils
should tas clothed in a dress neognimble by the polka, but
not otherwise distinguishable from that of other children of
the working closes; that the situation of the school should
be healthy, end such aa to afford facilities for country air and
exerelee without their being subjected to unhealthy excite-
ment; that they should be taken to • place of worship
beyond the walls of the institution; that they should be
sometimes taken walks through the streets as well se the
country, for the pure se of teaching propriety of demeanour;
that the school should not have the empect of a per but
that of a home, which they might cell "our hoar;" the
retool to have, however, secure cells for um if nermery, as
em-h children were liable to paroxysm' of anger and often
had • morbid love of notoriety, which would Lake them
reek to be brought before the magistrate. and hence
must be made to feel that there was =M=ien power
to control them within the establishment; she would

not mecum's& that they have any luxuries vin the shape
of mechanical aide te Moor, hot and cold water pipes, and
the like, u they me& not to have luxuries not within their !
reach at their ems Imes With regard to management, she
recommended that It Ibeuld be vested in • kdnt contsittse of
ladies and gelehmees, the first to attend to the Intend
economy of the wheel, the bet to aid when meemy in the
treneectioa daub Mime am females might be unwilling to
undertake. After am" farther interesting details, Kim
Carpenter castbedell by wady appealing to sympathy on
behalf of in. ushemstory movenamat, escalading her hearers
of the words et the leeriesse, " As ye have done to thole
tittle mum, so btu ye she der ®to me." At the close of
the paper a RIM et theme te its author was pawed unani-
monal on the radon al Lard Briagisol, sloomdid by Sir
J. r

THE VACANT CANONRY AT ROCHESTER Ctrnz-
ORAL.—A statement has best going the toned of the prem,
that the canonry in Rochester Cathedral, moldered recant by
the death of the Rev. Dr. Irving, is to be reamed upon the
Rev. Robert Whiston, MA., heed maser of the Rochester
Grammar School. However gratiEed the 1111104,01111 friends
of the raittentlemaa would be to led that the government
had at Me claim% yet ea the present we-
Mos they willTelarpointed, es three in se truth whatever
in the the vacua csnoery et Rochester being ova
of those and aerobe will not be fined up.—
alma Seeders Oawtt4

LONDON, TIIIi,NDAX EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1857.

=lnie.. opine nom • • bathed thereto, INDIAN MUTINY IOW! FUND.
tro • dm i bus Captain Mayn°
Raid's mina& tale, bead the spa. some, at• e '77 °Pan STOCETON-0/f-TISS.—A Meeting of the
..ewhich ythemips.ewlig'iViwihr isam•
ansiiiihwwww„ thabits.ti oi this town wee Is Se Town-hall, on Fri-
Wm: Ile do
.ether toemtetti.tlihmla. Riircherd°n sobehain,,E•qat.)thinethindmn Bid e
Thrad'Rev.theF. Major (War.
Veen
Froposed—t That this meeting &ekes to apron, its home
riutiewiewth)...6.o4.
utelsommookelre Vag
adhwhewhichr:qtaiiheefit"onatt2 ,etdthe..fear..l atrocities psrpet reed by. the rebels in ladle,
....mom so v. °fey., at, uorp sympathy with the wirings of our fe110w-
.... of countrymen there; and that It heartily cosmos in the
em t
hen boa staledstehes needsema the
a= arr.anc!"44 WM** thrwwFiwwi Zwelad ftw wh
ir
lad es a the end serome Make d realer. Thlr was nianizeously carried, coeurkies
Hy ;I, kw...ay., formed, and upwards of 501. subscribed at the close of the
end by f&lr " sibs end gime to sat the Melia steer; oWing.
ysswy~idy}}mmididy hag semy woo. Conti.—At a numerous and highly influential
▪ Om tan lbsensils=amar by their amens of the citizens of Cork, convemed by requisition ad.
Ili
to thee:lW 41•1001 M the Ri ht Worshipfalike Mayor, and held in the
efilimulle—dsugtltat7esse assess a, mere keermatly, Casssdal-wttamgy Oa odour 16; the Maya in the
sore gigik-Mori boom woo play the hooey chair the following meantime wen snanbasously eared
brims end " Os Inga, the Sir Odes Ovarremohet, to :—l'rocetstl lan N. M HIFh Shied, and
wed the Remit Si imply ad ; ell moulded Wm Lucke Paeei MR. • net we pap-
those sod likeir Mai mob gm. roundly sympathise with thermion...from the atrocities lady
fa Sheer fiegeoffe• ammirrnis We. e-f
tL Pertested in India." Propmed by Lieut.-Colonel s.tha,
Pairie" Vida linn1inn
22 sill mod a Mad mob it res- Med INlCOnded by Edmond Burke, llsq. : " Thee • sabeceip-
woo. ad bhp *MOW atiathood iisrs ego. Bon list be opened, and anbecriptiona received he the relief of
bats, ackiseed • seems. The 11111 de= OW fellow-subjects and their familia." Proposed by the
Americas septa& el ranger% who haying O'Donovan, and seconded by T. H. Hewitt, RA.: " That
to a Mahan helms, whim he at find oldie fir a IBM a eweleitthe he appointed fee culling out the objeetu ef this
by Am.( . boo bohoog mow Log m.o.r bee se the esating, consisting of the t 4, and the proposers sad se-
Gory *moose media of resolittions."—W Flingthlicm, Mayor • Joke
by a Speak resegode, elm mesh the; Lady, Mob tor Franklin, Secretary. It was moved 17 Link-
aelerl
e. e the yule wooer wpm' ob. ram mpire Beemish, and seconded by acclamation : That the Mayor
▪ bee News me pOOO demon, de lam the chair, and that the High Sheriff be called thsreto,
he boo dbroonso pooemool tisk. gad boo end that the warmer thanks of the be given to the
epos boo hoods mug the paintsd Is Mow Mayor for his honourable and dlgelied condor in the their,
pabskig roes, spelt he boom ha agah tfX 121 N JOiIiCiOUS murex in referee' to the paver* of
hem* in in boo lure. boor mat tom all the boobs.
.reeellne."--John F MerY, High Shrift, Chetewee•
Rut the eagoorg, rinds ha emph d lsNg., h ooa epos Inbierlo3o9ll Vel• hasnied in arm the dose QI the cretinsthe track a hi while Mud 1 old tieLoenoorl. Am- snow/mum to 200 f.
alines, sad so end el be -bosh ample hen el Made of
enemies, and all site of dessem the big is essead, and
all ends happily mil as it &odd ilea Me. lams Hollowey,
and Miss Darker, se the Yee sod Ittoolso, played effectively.
Mr. Henry Reeves sa the resegade—the war wolf, se he is
styled by the Comanche. Indian., with whom, to carry out
his parp0•011 of revenge, he allies himself—wee as black a
villain in voice, in gesture, and in action, as could be &sired ;
and their respective merle, upon whom, in oarrying out the
action and the development of the plot, if possible, a Mill
more difficult and more onerous duty wee cast, sided them
cleverly—though, by an unpardonable =jerkin on the
part of the meager, the nams by which In their respective
Malls they are knowa were not given in the programme.
In the endrenatiesd equestrisairo. which, after all, forms
the chief attraction at Ashy., Mr. Jams Robinson, en
American celebrity, and who coma to us with the high-
sounding title of " the Great Star Rider of America," exe-
cuted moms daring sad empreadented feats. From the bare
bath de beefs going at fall sped, and without tha flat buff
Isabel, addle which smelly forms the platform for the
rider's feet, ha tear so end of author somersaults, always
&sandier with safety, sad aver "miring his cue." Mies
Emily Cooke performed some graceful par, and Mr. Wm.
Cooke, with three beautiful three and a !Minutia pay
which in the rag bears the sera of Flying Childers—odd-
Mad some ittonotiog proofs • (the high helping of this new
addition is the w Meshy's" Mud. Ht odes all this, there
was the asienordisery 1/111Ciall of the renowned Filth
Family, emd of the Preach troupe of Premier V
with the am weatherise of the temblieicemiZia
talking thaw, Ifseers. Casale, Doughty, and

SPERMS." ON TEN INDIAN MUTINY.

Mr. I. P. WILLOUGHBY, M.P. for Leerier=
rut::name ham recently bra helm the exinatry in ve-
to the affair of the Ear India Compeay, of which
be is • director), is addrerhic a • mean et lawabsater on
Yeklay night, said he could not agree with those who con-
sidered the movies= in India es a =roar cos It wee not
a rising of • people infer neingerreemest and
for the peesuft were quiet, and eves IS the vidnity°9l=
no witb ow. It wan not a royal or sristooraticr
rooms= Ow the friths sad chiefs were with no =wet to
• rasa. Both priers and people showed by their °pedant
that they rarer war character and =lee our re= All last
was roved was Wet the revolt le • eatery ose, cantined es
• peer= of our
.abject
I think the rid) it behoves =
to =pm& the with reserve and caulk=
ririnquiry will instituted by the anthoritir when
preent emergency his pared away. There Is OM
Other cane argued to which I word allude, tbet the Bag
India Company have neglected their duty of wrea-
ths natives. This is • liege end wide question ; het
rittf that while it is our duty to abstain from direct
Interference with the conversion of natives to Christianity—
that while on the one had we are bound by treaties end
acts of parliament to tolerate their forma of worship so
loam aa they ore not opposed to public morale,ca the other
hand I think ft is medley openly to avow or lean faith,
and by precept and example to show that we sr • Christi=
eaee, soli= err Christian principles. (Cheers.) Whet we
bar now to look for is the punishment of those who have
lo greedy betrayed their trust ; the literal reward of those
who hate relied no, particularly those who have be•
headed we remOrymen and coontrywoose is their dis-
trees= We shall have to reorgenhe oar military free,
which ne doubt must in the main be dependent upon
arms, malted by nail.% troops, for it will be be-
pad to perform all the duties by Europeans. By a Indi-
ctees mixture of the two such a force may be maintained
r will prevent for the Inter the dears fret which I
ripe we have now almost reaped. la the art sleeks of
ppararliament the eubjeet will doubtless be =ply sad tally
and I hope the great conservative party will ap-
proach the eabjert—than which none can be of 00111 in-
terest both to England end ledia—in a ea= and direr
lion= spirit, determined to do only what is best tor India
and to avenge without destroying. That is the principle
we have meted upon and will act upon. lam not pre-
pared to defend the system by which India it at resent
governed. The But India Company may be guilty of
Om of omisoion and commission, but, taken as • whole,
their eels has been beater= tad hes roe rest good to
India. Whether way other eyries of gerreiner rosy be
=reed which would be more britheiaL I oars& say; bet
eirtally would not answer to piece the =Tele of that
rest empire under • weeMery of state, arise= by rai-
der racers

Yesterhey the annual ineeeleg of the Wait lent Agri-
cattail Boar sty wee bald at Ermaby, under We prendeney
of Colonel Cater, supported by Mr. George Norman, Mr.
Wed, M.P., Mr. Wilkinson, fats M.P. for Lambeth, red
the leading gentry of the neighbourhood. After the *al
in the field the members and their *oda dined
CATO. in the chair.
a priperner "The House of Cironsona" the CHAIRMAN
Vdwith it the name of Kr. Cairdi Y.Y.
CAIRD, 11. P., in aebrowledgbeg the toast, bore
**way to the earnestness and seal with which the House
of Commons laboured for the welfare of the people. On
one subject, however, they had shown themselves lament-
ably deft, for he remembered going down one evening
early in the last *ion, and finding the house almost empty
he asked • friend at the door what wee going ea P ,Oh I
nothing ; some question about the tenure of land In India"
was the answer ; and ao little interest did the genet* then
mite that the bona was within an ace of being oonnted
out. We had bested India as en outlying fan, which,
if It left no great profit to ourselves, yet gem profit-
able employment end wealth to some lonia manners
of the family who were sent out to manage it. But
the welter. of 180,000,000 of people wee not so to be
treated, (Hsu bear.) For the talent we had re
ceivedwe were now ;tiled to render en account, end if we bed
hid it in the ground, actuated by no higher motives
than half-yearly dividends, the time setened to have come
when it mast be Oaken from the head that had failed to
um it with advantage, and be entrusted to better keeping.
(Cheers.) For sae beached years we had bone sway over
the richest territory in the world, and had been *ten* not !
only to witness but to encourage the gamma Idolatry and
raperstltion, without in ell that time impreming upon the
native population a particle of the spirit of our religion or
our prociples of truth, justice, end Imeninity. (Heer,
hear.) It was but a year ago that the government he India
admitted the truth of the statementa in a memorfel mem*
to them, which amid that the rural population of Bengal,
many millions of people, were suffering from • native magi.-
tray who were corrupt, oppressive, and incompetent, who
encouraged the concealment and commission of crime, while
the people were reduced to beggary and pitiable servitude.
(Ther.) The time bed not come, nor was this the place, for
diauning our future Indian paltry; but the light was now
bursting in, and the people of England would not permit its
fair &met° be tarniehed by the continuance of the policy which
bore no better fruits than them. (Hear.) We must have
due precedence given in our Indian empire to English ideer,
language, and religion, not intolerant of the religion of others
so long ea it was not offensive to morale, but giving no pub-
lic countenance or *pungens* to idolatry, and selecting
for special reward in the *vice of the state thee, whether
natives or English, who best approved themselves our friends
by ennilarity of religion, and spirit. (Loud cheers.)
He begged to offer one w in *,claim on the vengeance
to be taken on the ruthless murderer. of English women and
children. There wee eurely no need to encourage such a spirit.
It might be safely left in the bends of those who were on the
sport who could beat appreciate the crime and mete out its
paoi Halted no fear but that the generous and mer-
ciful character tithe English moldier would, at the proper time,
temper jacket with mercy. (Much eheativer.)

A rich ledge of gold-bearing quartz has just been
dimovered at San Raphael, in Marin comity, across the hay
opposite to San Francisco, which has exd nodes from the
rarity of the diammery in the comet chain of hills. It has
hitherto been suppmed that the gold deponte were coefined
to the hills whit spar off from the Sierra Nevedamountelne.
It found in the meet nage to any extent, the discovery will
be moat important, aa the situalion—eo near the sea—will
justify the shipment of quartz to England for reduction.
TIM. WEATHER AND AGRICULTHRE.—The weather
during last week was most splendid, combining with its
autumnal character an unusually mild, not to my high tem-
perature. Nothing could be more propitious for agricultural
operations. sad throughout the country the farmers have
Wren advantage of the opportunity afforded them, and made
rapid progress with field-work. Nor could there be a more
favourable reed time. The laud is in capital order, and all
the better for the moisture tamed by the previous rains and
frequent dews, affording a capital wed bed. Feed I. plen-
tiful, indeed it is rarely that there Mso good or so frealz •
"bite" as may be found on almost every deeeription of gates
• land at the present time. There are numerous and heavy
complaints of the wide prevalenoe of the potato
diocese, and of the large proporUca of tubers
rendered unfit by it for human food. The mangold
worked is a good crop, and promises to bold out well.
The grain markets have been dull and drooping ; end,
Irrespective of more permanent canoes, the Mate of the money
market has naturally limited speculation, and coallned bud-
nem within the strict region of ordinary ammuseptles do-
med and supply. Farmers ars, however, wall 114 and do
not force sales, and this keeps the market la a eamparelimay
steady position. Nevertheless, the abandon or our own
and the continental harvests meet wear se Wit tall arm
prices, although, perhaps, serious mosso as. at work to
prevent any sudden or rapid depreciation. Prudent sad
over epecnlative agriculturists are gradually threshing eat
and realioing at what they rightly welder rosimaereekve
rates. They are in feet following the Batumi festlsote at a
natural trade, and in so doing will, we trust, reap eatla•
factors leselts.--ttswea Adrotior et this day.