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JUNE 2, 1870.

labour to be reformatory in • its tendency.
This statement was controverted by Mr.
Kennaway, a Devonshire magistrate, just returned
from a visit to the United States, and by Mr. Frede-
rick Hill. The latter said he had been eighteen
years inspector of prisons, and, in frequent
communications from America, had received
most satisfactory evidence of reformation. Mr.
Tallock read an extract from the last
report of one of the largest American prisons,
which mentioned that teaching the prisoners
a trade had more influence than all other
agencies united in reforming them. it
prevented them from again committing crime.
He argued that, as in England and Wales the: e
were only 18,000 prisoners, on a daily averago, to
20 million people, most of the former being sen-
tenced for repeated short terms, which precluded
them being taught useful industrial habits, the
utmost competition with free labour must be very
small indeed.
Human Cattle at Sea.

An engineer who has gone out to Lima, in Peru,
with the object of making for himself a home and a
competent living abroad, has on the voyage disco-
vered the heartless and negligent conduct of ships'
officers towards the human cattle who are so lavishly
promised comfortable passages prior to their departure
from England. The complaint of the gentleman, which
appears in the _ Times,
_only refers to his luggage,
which he, however, asserts contained every article
that could have enabled him to start in life, and without
which he would never have thought of entering Peru.
There are, however, more grievances than the loss of
one's baggage to tantalise people on shipboard,
especially in long voyages ; and as the passengers
never have it in their power to scuttle the ship, or
put anyone in irons, it would be highly
advantageous if a committee such as
that recently nominated to inquire into the
comfort of cows and sheep en voyage were chosen
to investigate the case of human beings also. Plenty
of witnesses who have been across Channel,
as well as transatlantic voyageurs, would be certain to
come forward and testify to their misfortunes.
The engineer who went to Peru, sailed from
Southampton as a cabin ticket holder, in the Royal
mail steamship Atrato. When the vessel was in the
Southampton Roads, he stood on deck in a pelting
shower of rain to see a huge chest of his,
within which were all his engineering in-
struments, his outfit and his books, kicked
and buffeted from the tender to the Atrato. Never
afterwards did he see it. On arrival at Kingston,
Jamaica, he left the steamer to await the next
vessel, and the officials on board there told him that
the chest was too deep in the hold to remove ; but
they promised to leave it secure at Colon, on
the Isthmus. When the traveller reached Colon,
he found that his property had not been left for him,
and though letters after letters have been addressed
to the agents of the company on the subject, he has
never yet received even a satisfactory reply, let alone
information of his lost luggage.
The Stepney Murder.

Amongst the many and ever increasing horrors
which are now served up to us, the murder at Stepney
is most noticeable. The deliberate shooting
of a stepmother by a lad of eighteen, of tolerably
good character, is an unusual event, and a
melancholy illustration of the evils frequently atten-
dant upon a second marriage in cases where a grown-
up family remain from the first. The experiment is
always very dangerous ; and in many cases, as in this,
it proves very disastrous. Young Redhead was
a volunteer, and shot his relative with one of the
cartridges served out to him at drill. It
is not usual to allow cartridges to be removed from
the ground, but Redhead must have concealed this
one. Seldom, indeed, has a similar case happened.
The misuse by volunteers of the weapons put into
their hands is an extremely rare occurrence—so rare
as to fully justify the confidence with which some
200,000 deadly arms have been distributed in
various parts of the country.