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may be avoided, and these energies find vent
in useful employment. Whilst the topic of education
has formed the principal part of parliamentary labours of
the past session, two very important measures have passed,
which I rejoice to see, as fulfilling on the one hand the
object of promoting the peaceful intercourse of nations,
and on the other that of restraining and curtailing the
facilities hitherto existing for making this country an
entrepot for the warlike material of beligerent nations—
the former to allow of a change of nationality not hitherto
permitted by the laws of England—and the other an act
forbidding the sale of ships of war to belligerent nations,
and the recruiting of men in this country for service in
their armies. To Tess on to other subjects which
will c mie under discussion, the improuement in
the administration of the law, the creation of
new tribunals, and the improving and perfecting
the modes of operation of those already in existence,
are matters upon which I do not consider myself
ustified in detaminefou by any observations of mine.
I have alluded to the possibility of advantageous altera-
tions with regard to the Summary JurisdictiOn, and I
wish my remarks to apply especially in its connec-
tion with the Police, whose efficiency would be un-
doubtedly improved by. the enlargement of the areas to
which its action is now in many cases confined, and being
thus freed from the possibility of the exercise of local or
private influence, not to mention other most important
functions which this body would then discharge with
greater facility and efficiency—in no instance is this com-
plete independence more required than in their connection
with the sanitary regulations affecting great towns, where
the penalties imposed by the law bear heavily on the
offenders, and its execution is entrusted to parties having
often a decided, though perhaps, not a direct, interest
in the matters on which they have judicially to decide.
lam happy to see that amongst the subjects to be sub-
mitted to your attention, a systematic plan of emigration
is likely to be fully canvassed, and that there are those
amongst us who will bring to bear on it the experience of
many. years of foreign service in a great variety of our
colonies. Hitherto Government emigration may be said
to have been confined almost entirely to the labouring
class, and to the protection of that class its attention
has been solely directed. No one thinks that
it ought to have been less. But it may be
a question whether it might not go further
and that by some admixture of emigrants of a higher
class great benefit might not be conferred on both.
It is very gratifying, whilst considering the advantages
to be derived from an extending scheme of emigration,
to remark the favourable results exemplified in its effects
on a class which has nothing to look to but its own exer-
tions, that of children brought up in reformatories
under industrial instruction. On examining the returns
of the character and conduct of those discharged from
these asylums, the superior positions acquired by the
youths who have emigrated is very remarkable. Out of
every hundred discharged at home from the Philanthropic
Society at Red Hill, twenty-nine have turned out unsatis-
factorily ; whilst of those who have emigrated, but seven are
entered in the category of failures. The experience gained
from the management of the reformatory of which I have
already spoken, and the mode by which the above men-
tioned results have been obtained, lead me to comment
upon another but not less important theme, namely, that
of the propriety of adopting a different course from
that hitherto pursued in the treatment of those
whom poverty, msanity, or sickness, compel to seek
maintenance in establishments supported by public
funds. Hitherto it has been thought best, and probably
mnsiderations of mere expense would justify the conclu-
sion, that the pauper, the orphan, the lunatic, and the
sick, should be massed in vast and ever increasing estab-
lishments, large schools for the children, vast asylums for
the insane, great hospitals for the sick. The success
attending a contrary system as regards the orphans—
namely, that of separating them altogether from all
association with pauperism, and committing them to the
quasi parental care of private families, seems to indicate that
in the kindly protection and education of feeling to be ob-
tained in the family lie the best hope for the future welfare
of those whom misfortune has deprived of parental love.
I will bring these remarks to a conclusion with the
expression of the hope that in the discussions on these
and other subjects, in the several sections, during the
ensuing week, the animating spirit which will prevail,
will be the single - hearted and sincere desire to
'ameliorate the existing—" rather than," in the words
of the great Dr. Chalmers, "to take to pieces the actual
framework of society for the purpose of reconstructing it
in a new way, and on new principles which is altogether
fruitless of good, and often fruitful of sorest evil, both to
the happiness and virtue of the commonwealth."
My creed is that though nothing is easier and nothing
more sure to find favour with popular ignorance and this
love of innovation than to ascribe all the sufferings of
society to the laws by which it is governed, or the form of
the Government entrusted with the administration of
those laws, there is a higher and a truer view to be taken.
The task undertaken by this association, namely, that of
investigating and elucidating the- original sources of the
principal evils complained of, will, if it be properly dis-
charged, make palpable the humbling fact that it is to our
own individual misconduct, to our continual abuse of the
powers conferred on us in our several ranks and situations,
if not against the letter, yet too often against the spirit
of these laws—to our own inherent self-will prompting us
to follow the dictates of our own desires and appetities,
without reference to the consequences either to ourselves or
others, that most of them are to be attributed. The cure
is frequently within our own grasp, but it requires a
power of self-control and self-restraint which no human
law can enforce, no human institution do more than en-
courage. If in the studious and careful inquiry into the
sources of the wrongs, the wants, and the sufferings of
those around us, and of the feelings to which these give
rise, it is granted to it in any degree to assist those who
under the constitution of this country are virtually
its rulers, in redressing those wrongs, satisfying those
wants, and relieving those sufferings thereby diffusing as
much of content and goodwill as mere human laws are
capable of fostering, it will have, done a good work of
which it may well be proud, and I hope my presence here
may be accepted by it as a testimony of my sincere wish
that its success in this high enterprise may be such as may
fulfil the aspirations of its most ardent ambition.
At the conclusion of the President's address, Sir Staf-
ford Northcote moved and Mr. Headlam, M.P., seconded
a vote of thanks, and a vote of thanks was also passed to
Sir Stafford Northcote, who was president last year.
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

HAMPTON RA C ES. -WEDNE SD AY.

CARDINAL'S HURDLE.

The Piper ..
Montrachet
Chilham

1

2
3

Nine ran.
PALACE HURDLE.

Arigill
Aversion
Kicksey Wicksey
Five ran.
WELTER CUP.

• 2
3

Tit-Bit
Rosalie e ••• •
Jersey

Six ran.
CLAIMING PLATE.

Billy Pedder
Chimborazo

ALEXANDRA HANDICAP,
Lady Greenaleeves
Sophte

1
Ten ran.
NURSERY STAKES.

Maid...
Echo ...
Bordeaux ..,

2
3

Ten ran.

SUTTON PARK RACES—WEDNEsDAY.

SUTTON PARK CUP.
Princess beat Filou.
SELLING HURDLE.

Marriage ---
Gordian Knot.
Dean of York fell. Three ran.
WELTER PLATE.

David
Extra Number f
Ajax

HANDICAP PLATE.

5a11ie......
Catamaran
Truth ••

Eugenie colt,
Rose Young.