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INSTITUTION for the TROT Ogii
OF FEMALES F M D
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Yesterday a meeting of noblemen and ganit&iiiiii,
held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-s4ef;s:tti,
port measures for " the more effectual" petiviiiiiltrsee
trading in seduction and prostitution, whiclt lkete s,
introduced this evening into the House of Commons by ' (LW
Mr. Spooner. The meeting was a very numerous one.
Sir E. N. Descries, in the absence of Lord R. Gres-
venor, M.P., was voted to the chair. He said the objeei
of the Bill they were met to consider was to prevent the
crime of what he might call the English slave trade, oe
which persons induced by force or fraudful persuasion
young females to become prostitutes iu the great cities
of this country. It was not necessary to enter-largely
into so distressing a subject, but he could not avoid men-
tioning the defects in the law that punished promptly
and severely other offences, whilst it had no provisions
to check the atrocities of those men and women Who
made it the business of their lives to decoy:young females
into a course of prostitution, and so destroying their
minds, bodies, and souls.
The Ite,4 Mr. HUGHES, Of St. Pancras, moved the
first resolution:--" That this mete ine recoguisee and de-
pleres ttie baneful influence of a cyst. matic and exten-
sive trailing by procurers arid brothel keepers in the
seductitin of temale children and young women" It was
very painful to state ths.t the law was inoperative to pre-
vent this nefas ions trade, and that so twiny were allowed
to carry it on with impunity-. The law as it stood was 0
surrounded with difficulties, and therffore it was of the
greatest importance that something should be done to
make it effectual.
Mr. CLEWES seconded the resolution.
The Earl of MOUNTCASHEL said the subject had en-
gaged his attent on for many years, and he had the sa-
estaction of this king that he was the first individual
who had suggested an institution for improving the laws
tor the protection of women. In these reforming times
it was astonishing that no steps had been taken to amend
the laws on this subject since the da)s of George If.
[.'hat law was defective, and (lid not go to the root of the
evil. The law required was one that would effectually
prevent the system of trading in prostitution. Was it
nut shocking that, in this moral anti religious country,a
set of people should be tolerated, who lived by corrupt-
ing females, and selling their bodies and souls for the
vilest purposes? Yet such was the case. There did
exist a set of beings—wicked demons be would call them
—who lived by betraying their fellow• creatures into a
course of the most dreadful misery and infamy. Ought
they not to exert themselves in every possible way to
stop this system of evil—in checking which they were
interested as fathers, brothers, and Christians? He would
lot go into long details of the evils caused by this system
of seduction, but would confine himself to one melancholy
case, of which he had a positive knowledge. About two
a- three years ago, a baron t—a gentleman belonging to
an oft family, of large property and great respectability,
who-had been sheriff of his county—had two daughters,
young ladies brought up according to their rank and
age, whom he sent to Paris, to an excellent school, to
complete their education. At vacation time they were
to return by Boulogne, and embarked there in a steamer
for Loudon. At the landing-place servants were wait-
ing for them, but the steamer did not arrive until the
middle of the night, and the servants having returned
home, the passengers landed, arid the young ladies had
not been heard of by their families ever since. All that
could be learned was, that a well-dressed female had
paid them great attention during their voy age, and the
oiliclusion eventually come to was, that she had decoy ed
them to some infamous house, and that they were now
either physically or morally dead. Such a calamity
might come home to any man's family, and the parties
causing it might escape with impunity. In a country
not so much vaunted for morality as our own—he meant
Ft-twee—Lite code penal would be found to contain mere
salutary laws for the protection of young females than
he statutes of England. This was a disgrace which he
hoped to see removed, and he would aid eery measure
that tended to do so.
The resolution was then put and carried.
The Rev. ROBERT Minima, Chaplain of the Bridewell
Precinct, moved the second resolution, to this effect—
. That by an enactment of the 25th of George
11., the Legislature of this country not only
sanctioned the letinciple that prosecution against
hi othel keepers should be ermine aged, but endea-
voured to afford the requisite facilities for carrying
eut the principle. Lengthened experience had shown
that the facilities afforded by that Act are not sufficient
for the obj. ct which it contempiates, and proves that the
existing law is ins equate to the protection of female
shastity." He considered the proposed Bill would do a
great deal of good, and therefore it should meet with his
most cheerful support.
Mr. BUCKINGHAM seconded the resolution, 'and con-
sidered it disgraceful to the country that prostitution
should be carried on more openly than in any of the
,enintries he had travelled in, whether European, African,
Asiatic, or American.
Mr. W. EVANS, M.P., supported the resolution, and
eousidered that the happiness, honour, and strength of
tny society depended, in a very great degree, on the
character of its women. Whenever their character was
lowered, it must tall on the whole mass of the come
tnunity, and therefore he was most anxious that every..
thing should be done that the law could do to prevent
injury to female character.
The Rev. Mr. GLANVILLE also spoke in favour of the
resolution.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
The Rev. - Mr. CRAY moved the third resolution—
" That in order to the effectual protection of female
ihastity it is reqeisite that the law should declare the
,rocurer to be criminally responsible as well as the
brothel keeper; and that, in order to the duo execution
if the law against both parties, the cheap and speedy
:irocess of a prosecution before a magistrate should be
,atictioned before Parliament."
Tile Rev. Mr. BROWN having seconded the resolution,
c wets adopt. d.
The tellowints resolution. proposed by the Rev. Mr.
LUSIGNAN and seconded by the Rev. Mr. WOODYER,
vita next carried:—" That this meeting approves of
he Bill which is to be intr. du •ed into the House of
Commons by Mr. Spooser, M.P., and desires to ex-
press their most hearty thanks to that gentleman fur
'eking the prominent position he has iu the advocacy of
this cause."
Mr. hPUONER, M P, said that he had promises of sup-
port from many Members of Parliament who formerly
used to laugh at the notion of legislating for the prone-
: ion of female virtue.
A petition was drawn up, and signed by the chairman
on behalf of the meeting, to be presented to Parliament,
praying for the adoption of the proposed, or some equally.
efficacii.us measure.
Thanks having been passed to the chairman, the meet-
ing separated.

SCHAMYL, THE CIRCASSIAN
CHIEF.
We extract the following account of Schamyl, the chief of
the Circassians, from a letter dated Constantinople, 17th ult.,
in the Univers:—
"It is said that the power of Schamyl Bey is on the in,
crease. Circassia, in place of ceasing the unequal struggle in
which she has been engaged for so many years, appears, on
the contrary, to find new resources in the courage and the
alliance of the surrounding tribes. The Caucasus has be-
come the refuge and the rampart of all the mountaineers who

defend their ancient liberties.; and such is the general coot':
dence in the future, that this military leader is already con-
sidered as the founder of a monarchy around which the popuo
iations of Georgia, Armenia. and Daghestan are to be grouped_
Russia has no longer to put down a partial revolt. The
point for her is now to hold firmly against a rising and_
creating power, . which opposes numerous and strong
nationalities to her own. The vague reports collected
relative to Schamyl represent him as an able and fortunate
warrior, surrounded with a court, and possessing 'a 'Warlike
army, disciplined by Polish refugees in the European
manner. On Fridays, public prayers are offered up for hii
afety—a Mussulman ceremony in honour'. of Royalty,
Money is struck with his mark. We do not say his
effigy, for the poverty of the country clod not permit
the use of metal for money, but only of leather, which;
however, is received in all places where his authority extends,
and is even preferred to Russian money. Schamyl is of middle
height,.well-made, and of a robust constitution which enables
him to support with ease all kinds of fatigue; continually on
horseback, at the head of a chosen band of determined troops;
composed of Polish lancers and Cossack hulans, be never ap-
pears but with the ornaments of his rank anti in Lull uniform ;
liberal to profusion, he distributes all the booty with those who
share his dangers ; fond of literature, he has around his person
poets who celebrate his triumphs in popular songs; prompt to
conceive plans of strategy and still more so to execute them, be
flies from one extremity of his territory to the other, and falls
r
raenod aarbt e
on the Russian outposts
.with
loss,therapidit
occasioning them serious yreturnso ft
ol ighhitsc
each of artillery
l piece
huissia tasmr"suyrrwhich
ounds
I has cost the enemy dear. .
' him with a religious respect; he,
'i•ub"ut nanwith an elevated and
•
tolerant spirit,leaves to all his soldiers as well as to the popula-
tions under his authority, the free and full exercise of their
worship. Liberty in this respect contrasts so advantageously
for him with the religious despotism of the Russiam Go-
vernment, that it has gained him the sympathies of all the
Christians persecuted by the official church of the Emperor."

GERMAN RAILWAYS.—RaiIway communication is
proceeding rapidly in Germany. Next year the line will be
complete between Cologne and the extreme frontier of th.
East, North, and South of the Germanic Confederation.
Vienna, Breslow, Berlin, and Elamburgh are now connected
together by a continuous railway. The Augsburg Gazette.
inf.rms us that a meeting has just taken place between the

directors of the different railway companies possessing this
vast range of lines. Between Vienna and Stettin there is is
distance of 225 French leagues, and between Vienna
And Hamburgh 250 leagues. This is the greatest
extent that a railway line has yet run. The various
directors have agreed on an arrangement of de-
partures in correspondence with each other, so that the d. 3"
tance between Vienna and Hamburg may be cleared in forty-
eight hours, comprising stoppages, and between Vienna and
Stettin forty hours. The train leaves Vienna at seven in
the evening, and arrives at Breslaw the next day about
noon, and leaves Breslaw at four o'clock, and arrives at
Berlin at five in the morning • it leaves
Hamburg and Stettin. The back trainlea again at seven for
leaves Hamburg at
hate
night,after leavesnoon,andagaSitnettaitn
aotneniinne t
eleven,a at
four
; rritivreseacahtesßrßeseiraliwn
next day at eleven, and at Vienna the second day at seven
in the morning. The works on the southern line—from
Vienna to Trieste—.are proceeding rapidly. When this line
is finished ,travellers may book themselves from Hamburg to
Trieste.
COUNTY OP ROSS FAIRS PRICES.—CROP, 1846.—
Wheat, first quality, per quarter, 31.45. 81/td. ; Wheat, second
quality, per quarter, 31.55. ; Barley, 11.18 s. lid. ,• Bear,or Bigg,
21. Os. filAd. ;. Oats, first quality, 11.135. sd. ; Oats, common,
or second quality, 1/. lls. 7id. • Oatmeal, per 1401bs,
1L 3s. 91d.; Barleymeal, 18s. 444.; Pease, 21. 15s. 24d.;
Beans—no evidence. It is somewhat. remarkable that the
second quality of wheat was fixed rt a higher rate than the
first, and can only be accounted fin' on the supposition that
the greater part of the first was sold before the rise in the
price, and that the greater part of the second was sold after..
—lnverness Journal.
The German journals announce that the canal
which will unite Bavaria with the Danube and the Rhine,
and which, in honour of the King, is called the Ludgwiga
Canal, is to be opened throughout its whole length On the
15th inst., if the state of the weather shall permit.

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