The Sun. — 1856-09-18 (London, England)

CANALS IN INDIA.—The canal from Roorkee is now open, and it is impossible to describe the astonishment of the natives of Cawnpore, when on Thursday last they saw seventeen iron boats come to anchor close to the Dak Bungalow. From inquiry we find they have performed the distance in 17 days, making an average of 40 toss per day, and have brought down from Roorkee machinery for a water mill, which is to be erected at Cawnpore. The boats are about 20 feet long and 8 feet broad, built of sheet iron, and square at both ends like a punt. The natives will now learn the use of a canal, and at the same time some hundreds of old women will learn to their cost what a water mill is, as it will be the means of taking away employment from all the grain grinders in Cawnpore.—Cawnpore Paper. CARRYING COKE TO NEWCASTLE !—The wonder of one generation is the every day experience of another. To " carry coals to Newcastle, ' was a proverb derisiv of the folly of sending commodities whither they were not wanted ; just as in ancient times "Owls to Athens," and "Enchantments to Egypt" were common sayings. Bet, In the present week, chancing to look into the Elewick foundry (Mr. Clark's), we saw a pile of coke from the Auckland coal-field, one of the first fruits of the construction of the Auckland Branch Railway. The Auckland coalowners are bent upon sending their coal, in the shape of coke, even into the Newcastle market and as it is of excellent quality, it is probable that, i they can sell it at the Tyneside price, they will succeed in their enterprise. Yet who ever expected, at one time of day, that Auckland coal would be a saleable commodity in Newcastle-upon-Tyne ?-04tteeltead Observer.  advance yet made is a general conviction that the Reformatory School is the proper prison for lads, and the partial carrying out of the system according to the liberality or capacity of individuals in  different counties. The grand object, however, is to stop the grow th of crime. So far as reformatory schools are successful, they achieve this ; they send out twe thirds of their charge really steady fellows, able and willing to earn their living ; what is more, they diminish by that two-thirds the sources of temptation to others. It may be fairly assumed that almost every juvenile thief, through the facile nature of boys, is a tempter and trainer of another to thieving. If the magistrates will also be more strict in enforcing on parents the payment of a large part of the expense of their children at the schools they will do much towards diminishing youthful crime—parents of bad habits will then be much more careful of contaminating their children. Nothing will weigh more with that class than having to pay in hard cash, and weekly, for their criminal neglect, or something worse, of their own children. If, therefore, the reformatory system be worked as it might be, and we hope ere long will be, a vast amount of nascent crime will be strangled, and a good beginning made with the juvenile part of society. It is, however, fearful to think of what ie to be done with the large number of thieves of all classes committed after twenty years of age. Let them return to society how they may, with tickets of leave or after a full imprisonment, they find the utmost difficulty in again obtaining employment. It is hard upon them, but while other servants are to be had, who of us likes to employ a person in our family, shop, or warehouse, once convicted of crime ? We are slow to believe his real penitence and reformation. If we should employ such a person, we susper.t, we watch, and we exercise, as we think, in this but c)mmon prudence, but how painful the position to the watched person. By most, however, " gaol-birds" are rejected, and even when they have obtained employment, on the hints of the police, they are but but to) frecpently dismissed. Only the other day a young man was, with difficulty, prevented from committing suicide, because every effort to obtain employment had been thwarted by the police. Of course all these hopeless adult criminals, combined with the far greater number of incurables of the same age, form a standing training school, unluckily of the highest qualifications, as well as a .standing army of thieves.  A