The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-22 00:00:00

rIHE COMMISSIONERS of tho METROPO-
LIS TURNPIKE ROADS North of the Thames will hold a
SPECIAL MKETING at their Office, No. 22, Whitehall-place, in
thv parish of Stint Martin-in-the-fields, in the city of Westminster,
FRIDAY, the 26th day of September next, at the hour of one
in the -Afternoon, for the purpose of consultins whether
ill, or any, and which of- the several Toil-Gates and Side-
r ari now placed on and by the sides of the Ninth. Fifteenth, and
:toenth Districts of the said Metropolis Turnpike Roads north of the
'I a aeries, shall be removed and placed elsewhere, or discontinued, and
whether any Toll-Gates and ,ide-Bars shall be erected on or by the
s'• les of any of the several Roads in the said District, or of either
of them, and in what situations the same shall be placed.
By order of the Commissioners,
GEORGE LABALMONDIE RE, Chief Clerk and Secretary.
Metropolis Roads' Office, Whitehall-place, Aug. 1, 1856.

TuF,ATRE ROYAL, HAYMA.RKET.
under the Management of Mr. Buck3tOne.

THIS EVENING,
A COMICAL COUNTESS.
After which,
The Spanish Dancers.

Followed by
GRIMSIIAW, BAGSHAW, AND BRADSILIW.

To conclude with
THE snuipsm SERJEANT.

ROYAL THEATRE AD2LPaI.
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

Directress, Madame Celeste.

THIS r. Ws; I .
IRELAND AS IT IS.

Follows l by
DOMES NC ECONOMY.

After which
THE IRISH TUTOR.
To conclude with
OUR GAL.

ZOYAL riu-NotArs THEATRE, OXFOrID-STREET.
Undor the Management of Mr. CHARLES KEAN.
TIIIS EVENING,

MUSIC II CHARMS.

After which,
TEE WINTER'S TALE.

STRUCD THEATRE.

ManaTer, Mr, T. Payne.
THIS EV2INUTG,
TUE MISTRESS OF THE MILL.
Followed by
TII 4.1 HOUSE IN lIIGII STREET."
ressrs. StGart, Cooke, WWI Potter, awl Kinloch; Mrs. Woollidge,
and Miss Isabel Adara 3.
After which,
THE FLOWER GIRL OF GHENT.

To conclude with
THE STATUE LOTER.
Commence at halt-past 7.

ROYAL OLYMPIC TtlakTUTI.

I.4sace and Manager, Mr. Alfreet Wigan.

Tan; EVENr.4I

THE (17.7,7:N-EYED MONSTER,

' A fter
MEDEA.

To conclude with
.SHOCKI2;G EVENTS.

AiTLEY6 I:OYAL ANIPIIITaZATRE.

Lusee Marla :ter, Air. Wm. Cooke.
EVENIIIG ,
-KING RICH lUD TIIT THIRD, compressed into 3 acts. Eques-
t-i in affects —Death of White Surrey —" ;tattle of Bosworth Fide
Fltroduction of Mr. W.Cooke's stud of trained horses —llippodramatic
tnblcan never yet attemptet
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After which,
The. attractive AC rA of HORSEMANSHIP in the ARENA.
To cone 1 with a popular aril Ri3ible Farce.
Poi-of-ilea °len fr)m 7.7,!cyrn till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
E:lneAtrian Director, Mr. A'. Cooke, Jun.

.kitd WATT?. AT LONDON BRA D G.- g.
DAT—Morn. 0 min. aft. 6 —Evening 20 6
noßwiw-7,10rn.45 rain. aft. 6 —Lvoning 10 raiz, aft.

Tdl.7. .W'BA.THEa—SuN OFFICE, AUGUST 22.
TAERIIOTTETEN, II TUN SHADE.
(13 --114Thest since noon yastenlay.
--iovresf this morning and (luring the rir:l4.
63 -this day at noon.

'OA P. °Mr.:TB - 2)'75.
WrNr,—Variable from N. to N.E., with fine weather
h. the morning; but rain at noon, with heavy clouds.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1356.

Reformation of young criminals is becoming 1
the practical topic of educationists, and they have
a just claim to all the support which the Press,
t to puNic, and the Government can afford there.
Eien the l'oltantaries will not, and do not, deny
teat all the aid Government can render to Refer-
raatory Schools, by giving the requisite legsl
powers, and by contributing as much as is safe
from the National Exchequer, is quite within the
province of the State. The account which ap-
peared in The Sum yesterday, of the Conference
o'7 the National Reformatory Union, will, we
trust, be read by all intelligent and public-spirited
persons. The Chairman's (Lord STANLEY'S)
speech will give to those who are yet unfamiliar
with the subject a fair idea of its state and pro-
gress ; and, as it is likely to be a practical one in
most localities, and the object will make some
pecuniary claims upon the benevolent around, all
ought to give it seine attention. We feel, indeed,
an interest so much the deeper in Reformatory
Schools, because the Government at present sees
the danger of centralisation, and getting them
tinder its own control. It acknowledges that their
success must so entirely depend upon the exclu-
sion of jobbery, and the eliciting of individual ap-
titude, both moral and intellectual, in the teachers
or managers, that it is fain to throw the support
partially, and the management entirely, upon
those who originate the sohools. So far as they
Lave yet succeeded, to a great extent even in
France, and altogether in this country, they are
so many attestations of the superiority of individual
contrivance and energy to that of the State.
For years some philanthropic individuals have
been labouring in the cause in this country ; but
310 W the cessation of transportation, and the ne-
cessity of retaining our criminal population at
lome, has pressed on us the questions both of a
'substitute for transportation and the diminution
Hof the number of our criminals. The most obvious
.course is to turn criminals, if possible, into honest
and industrious men, and it is equally obvious
that the young aro by far the most hopeful sub-
jects for reformation. Changes of habit after
2niddle life, and even after the period of mature
manhood—say from five-and-twenty and upwards
.---are comparatively rare ; but we all know what
to steady man many a wild lad may eventually
!become,. What general observation or theory
-would lead us to expect, experience, so far as we
ihave records of it, fully corroborates. We wet e
hardly prepared, however, for the fact of the very
large proportion of criminals who are or have
been juvenile offenders. Out of 98,654 criminal:
in 1853, not less than eleven and a-half per
cent., or 11,453, were under the age of seven-
teen,
while the little reformatory effect of convic-
:don and imprisonment upon them is evident
enough from the fact that of eleven thousand con-
victed annually four thousand are recommitted.
It is a still more startling fact that the number
committed between the ages of seventeen and
twenty-one is the largest of all, being not less than
twenty-five per cent., or one-fourth of the total
convictions. Now the population between fifteen
and twenty-one years of age being but 1-10th part
o thewhole population of the country; the startling