Star.
London, England, 1824-05-29 00:00:00

PRISO.V DISCIPLINE.

The Society for promoting Prison Discipline, an .Ire-
claiming Juvenile Offenders, yesterday held its Meeting
at Freemasons' Hall. His Royal Highness the Duke of
GLOUCESTER was prevented from piesiding over the
business of the day by indisposition ; in consequence of
which Earl GROSVENOR was called to the Chair. His
Lordship was supported by several of the most distin-
guished philanthropists, who have assisted in the objects
of the Society.
The Report was read to the Meeting, and set forth
the gratifying labours of the Society for the past year,
strongly enforcing the necessity of completing its work,
and appealing to the benevolence of the Public for the
means of doing so, by an adeqn ate coin' ibution to their
funds. A series of Resolwions were carried unani-
mously, and in moving them, vat ious adislreses were
made to the feelings of the Meeting.
Lord CALTHORPE, in moving the first Resolution, de-
scribed the horrible state in which the Society found the
prisons of this country, and the immense improvement
which their exertions had effected. Much, however, re-
mained to be done; and when the great benefit which
their work was sure to confer upon the moral state of the
community should be duly taken into consideration, it
was impossible that the Public could fail to give them
the most active support and co-operation.
Mr. F. BUXTON seconded the resolution, and gave an
interesting account of the origin and early progress of
the Society. He stated the arguments which had for-
mealy been urged a•zainst them to be most extravagant
unfounded ; and expiessed his belief that there was
no: niw a man in the country who did not admit that
necessity had existed for. some kind or other of Prison
Reform. He deinecated the sanguinary character of
our criminal laws, and conte:lded that imprisonment
with labour pi operly regulated, ought to be substituted
as a secondary punishment.
Mr. EVANS, M.P. in proposing the second Resolu-
tion, enforced the necessity of attending tai the state of
the pi isons in local jurisdictions.
Mr. SYK es, M.P. and other Gentlemen, addressed the
Assembly in suitable speeches.

The Meeting was numerously and respectAly at-
:ended, and the memLers of the Society of Friends,
particularly the females of that class, predominated.—
A handsome collection was made.

Letters fr our Augsburg state, that the Prince of MET-
TERNICH, previous to his Journey to Prague, is to wait
upon the King of BAVARIA upon a mission of high ini-
pot tance. The King of WIRTEMBERG is to receive a
visit from the Ainbassador of another Great Power.
isniassrms, iNiarien 30. —lt becomes our ainful duty to
record one of the most outrageous transactions that has occurred
since the settlement of the State. We have been enabled to collect
the following particulars, Irons the information of a traveller who
had just passedthrough the neighbourhood, and in whose veracity
we place the , most confidence I—lt seems that a party of Indians,
ten in number consisting of three men, three women, two girls,
about half grown, and two small boys, were encamped on Fall
Creek, in Madison County, about eight miles above the Falls, and
thirty-five miles above this place, for the purpose of hunting. Osi
Monday, the 22d instant, a party of five white men and two boys
went to the camp, and decoyed the three men away from the
camp, for the ostensible purpose of assisting them to hunt some
cattle. After they had gone some distance trom the camp, two
of the Indians were shut dead ; the third made his escape, very
badly wounded. In the evening of the same day, the same party re-
turned to the camp, and after making some professions of friend-
ship, murdered the whole of the women and children. Their
bodies were must shockingly mangled, for the purpose of producing
an impression that it was the work of Indians, and thrown into
a hole of water occasioned by the falling of a tree. One of the
men killed one of the children by taking it by the heels and
then beating its brains out against a tree. On Tuesday, the
place was visited by a party of men, when one of the women
was found still alive, but died on the evening of the next day. At
the time the camp was first visited, after the missacre, the pro-
perty of the Indians, consisting of guns, skins, furs, &c. was still
•at the camp, and was left there unmolested; but on the next day,
when the place was visited by:a party of mess from the falls of
Fall Creek, the bodies were found stripped, and every species of
property carried away. We are further informed, that one of the
lids concerned in the murder (and who was compelled to assist,
by the threats of his father), soon after the transaction, gave infor-
mation, and five of the party concerned were immediately arrested,
Ana are now in custody at the falls of Fall Creek; one made his
(lLitpt ey, and the youth who gave thednformation is said to be at
in the neighbourhood. Since their arrest it is said that the
persons have made a full confession. All the families composing
the settlement in the neighbourhood of the scene of this horrible
transaction, have removed to the mills, at the falls on Fall Creek, to
avoid the retaliating vengeance of the Indians.—Nets PA Even-
ing ha, dpril 21.