The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER

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polls. o u e glad to see that Pro-
les' or 11 st::. 4 has brought the subject
before the idatylebone vestry, for it is one of ur-
gent importance. During the last toe pews, he
said, " every species of crime had bean on the
" increase, and such deeds were from day to day
" committed in the public) thoroughfares, often
" with crowds of people standing by, that it they
" 1(4 ked for a parallel they would have to go back
" a century or two, when the streets were given
" over to the effete and senile watchmen."
We do not, however, agree with Professor
that this state of things is owing to the fact that
the efficiency of the police has " rapidly, progree-
" Seely, and regularly diminished ;" but think
that it is partly owing to a vast Increase In the
wont class of criminals, and partly to the uncer-
tain sad insufficient punishment of crime.
It has been said that of the 100,000 criminal'
discharged annually from our gaols, at least three-
fourths have no basest occupation, but are ac-
customed to live by mime. Society hes no
control over these ratans, and their only chaaos
of a livelihood is by preying on society. To lame
each men free is to sours a certainty of mime.
It is not enough that the police know their
haunts; they should also possess the power of
controlling their actions, of so hennaing theca
round by stringent regulations as to render their
vicious course of life intolerable and earmaa-
nerative. Then again, it is imperative that
robbery of the person, when accompanied
with violence, should be visited by condign
punishment, and no maudlin sentiment ought
to interfere with the full vindication of the law.
The punishment should be oertaia, prompt, and
stringent. "It is not severity," says the Sp/s-
-eater, " for which the public asks, and not
4. cruelty, but the re-establishment of that sense
" of control in the criminal mind which arises
" from proof that the laws, however mild, are as
" inevitable, as swift, and as irresistible as the
" laws of nature."

IMODNTEMPORARIKEL
AMS DAY.)
Yr. Bright's eireothee at Edinburgh are dis-
eased in the kiting elloteas of an eta etateopeearies.
Accesdies te the Moto the reed estimable elearaitseistie
these abeam ie so impatience of imperfeelisa which
has its root go distrait of pommel developmeat. Kr.
Bright devoted Mann to the mesideratiora of the preblem
whether "the govenasseet," or, in ether words, the seam
will of %slain& people, could not be applied to drag the
sone and daughters of misery, the undlitudewb• are ready
to :pariah, from the moral depths in which they are
sank. Our contemporary does net altogether dray the
efficoey of the remedies suggested, but protests aphid
the suppositee that the state could ustlertake or ought
to %nautilus the Ma Mr. Bright proposes.
The Daily Neon Make that the pried* of submitting
the claims of Morel candidates to eetsitralies whoa the
number at condidetes enemas the member of slate to be
disposed of is a woad one, but to Mere a mosendul
mak it is swum, that the parties to the agne-
wrest should when to the &ebbe ad those by whom
they declare their willies= he be loseaL A laudable
ansagessat el this bird was task at Wares/ter to pore
vest s dividou of the liberal pasty, but Ms Yana Lycett
Meese to be bead by the docitiam, ablissegh be had pe-
eks* esemated to be es loud, and the Deily Now
Ware he is not esesible et the very donuts penis. in
which he Asada and that he owes ea sapasaatisa to the
ilbseel party. . . .
The Pest expresses a hope that with the pain sway
of the old state of thiap la lipla is lasholsel that fiat-
bulks to the claims of the astiosel sterlibsse whisk has
non than compromised the credit, sot to say the boom;
of the kingdom.
The Sic sap that the work of the Preadmea's Aid
Societies I. this country is now virtually at as end, bat
those who lave bad charge of the movement I. Great
Britain will not cease to areal themselves of every oppor-
tunity to resew their emotion. should occasion demand
these continued proofs of interest in the liberated pops-
lance.

The Teleynrph hopes that the present street robbery
peak is the metropolitan mind will sot mid is the usual
reaction of "red sad be thankful." While a change is
the law is seminary to arm the polioe with proper powers,
a cheap is the management of the form is eiesatial to
give effect to any amendment of the law.

The Herald bewails the existence of conservative dis-
sension in Ireland. If there ever was an ammo on which
the Malt conservatives should act with union in the sup-
ped of a government pledged to maintain the principles
which they profem most to value, it surely is, lays the
lirreid, the present one ; and yet, strange to say, is two
of the most important constituencies of Ireland—the Uni-
vanity of Dublin and the borough of Belfast—it is by no
means unlikely that the conservative cause may be se-
riowly damaged by the rivalry of candidates who seem
disirosed to gratify personal ambition at the rink of doing
irreparable injury to the interests of their party.