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Hall's Lecture on Mettray. Cash, 5, Bishopsgate-street. Price ls. Prize Essays on Juvenile Delinquency. Smith, Elder, and Co. Price 5s.

Mary Carpenter on Reformatory Schools; ditto, on Juvenile De linquents. Cash. Price 6s. each.

Reformatory Schools in France and England, by P. J. Murray. Cash. Price 1s.

Practical Suggestions to the Founders of Reformatory Schools, in a Letter from the Recorder of Birmingham to Lord Brougham, with his Lordship's Answer. Cash. Price 6d.

Juvenile Delinquency and Its Reformation. By W. S. Hackett. Clonmel Hackett. Price 6d.

Juvenile Delinquency the Fruit of Parental Intemperance. By Mary Carpenter. No. 12, "Edinburgh Series of Temperance Tracts." Price lad.

Temperance as Affecting the Interests of Employers and Employed. By Archibald Prentice, Esq.,Manchester. No 11 of the "Edinburgh Series of Temperance Tracts." Price ld.

Mettray. A Letter, from the Recorder of Birmingham, to Charles Bowyer Adderley, Esq., M. P. Cash. Price 3d.

Eighth Annual Report of the Bristol Ragged School, on St. James's Back, for the year 1854. Bristol: 1855.

The Philanthropist, A Record of Social Amelioration, and Journal of the Charitable Institutions. Published twice every month. Published at 4 Wine-Office Court, Fleet-st., London-6d. per No. Report on the Discipline and Management of Convict Prisons, and Disposal of Convicts-1853. By Lieut.-Col. Jebb, C. B. Her Majesty's Stationary Office-1854.

Observations on the Discipline and Management of Convicts, and on Tickets of Leave. With Remarks, in an Appendix, on the more speedy Trial and Punishment of Larceny in certain cases. By John Field, M. A., Chaplain of the Berkshire Gaol. Longman and Co. 1855,Price 1s.

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The Journal of the Albert National Agricultural Training Institution, and Record of Industrial Progress-Nos. II, VII. Ďublin. 1854,

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Rules for Prisons in Scotland. Constable. Edinburgh, 1854.
Edinburgh Review, November, 1854, No. CCIV.

On Reformatory Schools. By T. B. L. Baker, Esq.

CONTENTS OF THE FOREGOING QUARTERLY RECORD-
TO MARCH, 1855.

Letter of Mr. Recorder Hill to Lord Brougham. Report on Saltley School. Letter from C. B. Adderley, Esq. M.P. and Speech of Mr. Recorder Hill. Miss Mary Carpenter's Report on Red Lodge, Girls' School, Bristol. Report on Glasgow House of Refuge for Boys. Report on The Original Ragged Schools of Edinburgh. Letter of the Lord Advocate. Speech of Lord Panmure. Report on Establishing Reformatories in Devonshire.

Charges in favour of Reformatory Schools of the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, at Lancaster, of Mr. Warren at Hull, of Baron Alderson. Speeches of Mr. T. D. Anderson and of Mr. Bramly Moore in Liverpool Corporation. Resolutions of the Justices at Leicestershire January Sessions. Report of Lieut.-Col. Jebb, on Convict Prisons and disposal of Convicts, for 1853. Circular of Industrial Home for Out cast Boys, Lambeth. Rev. Mr. Field's pamphlet on the discipline and management of Convicts, and on tickets of leave, &c. Reports of Chaplain and Governor of Parkhurst. Observations on Rev. Mr. Field's pamphlet. State of opinion in Ireland on Reformatory subjects; Essays read before the Clonmel Literary Society. Lecture of W. L. Hackett, Esq. Letter of Mr. Recorder Hill, on Mettray, to Mr. Adderly, M.P. to “The Philanthropist.' Tracts by Miss Carpenter and Mr. Archibald Prentice. Letter from Mr. Prentice. Report of Ragged School, St. James's Back, Bristol.

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NOTE ON THE RECORD.

As we were putting the foregoing to Press, we received, through the attention of the Editor of The Exeter Gazette, a copy of that Journal for February 10th, containing the following particulars of the further most important proceedings of the Committee whose Report, read at the Exeter meeting, we have inserted in the Record :

"DEVONSHIRE REFORMATORY FARM SCHOOL.

We have much pleasure in announcing that the arrangements in connexion with this philanthropic Institution, have so nearly approached completion, that the executive Committee look forward with confidence to an early commencement of operations. It was at first proposed to commence a trial of the experiment at HoDGE's Farm, on Stoke Hill, but as an unexpected difficulty arose in this quarter, Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE Very kindly and promptly placed at the disposal of the Committee, two Cottages most conveniently situated on his own estate; and with a degree of public spirit-which none but those in similar circumstances can properly understand or estimate he has undertaken to give up such portions of his home-farm immediately adjoining as may be from time to time required for the purposes of the Institution. One of the great anxieties of the Committee has been the selection of a competent master, and their choice has fallen on a person named HARRIS, at present having the superintendence of a National School, at Frome, and considered by those who are best acquainted with his character, to possess that moral and religious influence so essential to the success of the Reformatory system. His engagement, we understand, commences at Lady-Day, by which time it is not improbable that the School itself will commence operations. As everything depends on a good beginning, Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE has invited and obtained the co-operation of Mr. Bengough, whose name is so honourably associated with the Hardwicke School; and that Gentleman has kindly undertaken to assist the Executive Committee at the commencement of their work. With reference to the limited scale on which the Institution is proposed to be started, it may be desir able to state, that this view is recommended not less by practical experience than the necessity of economy. Until the reformatory process has actually commenced its beneficial influence, any large company or colony

of boys would rather tend to defeat than accelerate the intentions of the founders. It is essential to the well working of the system, that a preponderance of good be at all times maintained; for as soon as vicious principles or habits are encouraged by the outward manifestation of similar propensities in others, there is great danger that the experiment may fail. So also at the commencement of the undertaking it appears desirable that the Committee should abstain from taking in boys who belong to Exeter itself, or the immediate neighbourhood; and if they would pardon the suggestion, we would venture to recommend that as one great means of avoiding the demoralising influence of escapes, they should rather direct their efforts in the first instance to the reclamation of youthful criminals in the more distant parts of the county. With this view we would also venture to intimate that the Magistrates in petty sessions, and the Borough Magistrates at Plymouth and elsewhere, might not merely confer advantages on the locality with which they are connected, by sending their young criminals to the Farm School, but they would also be affording the Executive Committee the best opportunity of commencing their labours with a fair prospect of success. With reference to the financial prospects of the Institution, we regret to say, that small though the proposed establishment may be at its commencement, yet in order to keep it up the Executive Committee will require their hands to be strengthened by additional subscriptions to the extent of £50 at the very least. Many of the leading Magistrates and Clergy, in addition to their princely donations towards the General Reformatory Fund, have given in their names as annual subscribers of sums varying from one to twenty pounds. In a matter of this importance we trust the County of Devon will assume a position worthy of her wealth, extent, and influence; and in order to promote so desirable a result, we beg to intimate that subscriptions are received by JOHN MILFORD, Esq., treasurer; at any of the Exeter Banks; or by Mr. E. OSMOND, the honorary secretary, at Woodrow, Brampford Speke."

MEMOIR OF THOMAS MOORE.

The Publisher of THE IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW begs to inform those readers who are only acquainted with the recently issued numbers, that in the number for June, 1853, Vol II. No. 6, a MEMOIR OF THOMAS MOORE appeared. It is the only complete Memoir as yet published, and has been quoted with approbation by LORD JOHN RUSSELL in the introduction to the first volume of The Memoir, Journals, and Correspondence of the Poet.

QUARTERLY RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF REFORMATORY AND RAGGED SCHOOLS, AND OF THE IMPROVEMENT OF PRISON DISCIPLINE.

One of the most important movements during the quarter, amongst the friends of Reformatories, was the Meeting of the Managers and friends of those Institutions held in the month. of March last, at the house of Mr. R. Hanbury. Of this Meeting we find the following Report in that excellent and useful Journal The Philanthropist for April 14th, 1855.

"The meeting was attended by the following representatives from the institutions named :—Mr. C. B. Adderley, M.P., The Reformatory, Saltley; Mr. W. D. Atwood, Secretary of the Hill-street Female Refuge; Mr. T. B. H. Baker, Hardwick Court Refuge, Gloucester; Mr. Henry Bowker, Metropolitan Industrial Reformatory, Brixton; Mr G. J. Bowyer, Reformatory Institution, 19, New-road, St. Pancras; Rev. Thomas Carter, Liverpool Reformatory; Mr. E. W. Challoner, Newcastle, Northumberland, and Durham Reformatory; Lord H. Cholmondeley, M.P., Hampshire Reformatory; Mr. J. Crane, The Home in the East; Mr. J. G. Gent, Secretary of the Ragged School Union; Dr. Thomas Guthrie, Original Ragged School, Edinburgh; Mr. Robert Hanbury, jun., Treasurer of the Boys' Refuge, Whitechapel; Mr. W. H. Houldsworth, Ragged and Reformatory School, Manchester: Mr. J. Leyland, Boys' Home, Wandsworth; Mr. J. Macgregor, Field-lane Ragged School and Night Refuge; Mr. W. J. Maxwell, Lissonstreet Refuge; Mr. I. A. Merrington, Albert-street School and Refuge; Mr. Charles Nash, London Reformatory, Westminster; Mr. G. H. H. Oliphant, Carlisle Reformatory; Mr. J. Playfair, House of Refuge, Glasgow; Mr. Charles Ratcliffe, Birmingham Reformatory for Girls; Mr. Russell Scott, Kingswood Reformatory School; Mr. J. Thompson, jun., Aberdeen House of Refuge and School; Rev. Sydney Turner, Philanthropic Farm School, Red Hill; Rev. H. Whitehead, Belvidere-crescent Reformatory, Lambeth; Mr. W. Williams, St. George's and St. Giles's Refuge, Bloomsbury; Mr. Samuel Wise Colchester-street, Whitechapel ; Mr. J. Wright, Buxton Industrial Training School. Captain Williams was present during the afternoon meeting.

Twenty-eight reformatory institutions sent representatives to the conference; nine besides had been invited; nine were omitted; and nine are in course of formation, making a total of fifty-five centres of reformation in the United Kingdom.*

Before the Conference assembled, some statistical information had been furnished in answer to inquiries, addressed to the institutions from which representatives were invited to attend.

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The conference being assembled, the Earl of Shaftesbury took the chair, and the Rev. Dr. Guthrie opened the proceedings with

prayer.

Mr. R. Hanbury stated the object of the conference, and invited free discussion, on the understanding that all communications made to the meeting were to be considered private.

It is consequently not advisable to set forth with particularity much of the most interesting part of the proceedings, but the following general outline, while omitting the names of persons and places, may sufficiently indicate the nature of the topics considered, and which were carefully discussed for about six hours, with the most satisfactory and practical results.

I. Government aid and inspection.-Several gentlemen gave their experience of the working of Government aid and inspection in particular instances. The Privy Council aid was for industrial instruction ; that under Lord Palmerston's Act was for board, lodging and mere support. Fears had been entertained on both sides as to the connexion of private reformatories with the Government. On the one hand, the Government did not wish to be made responsible for the buildings of the institutions; and on the other, the managers of the institutions were jealous of interference, especially in the matter of religious teaching, &c. It was not, however, Government inspection, but Government interference, which created apprehension.

A. had applied to the Privy Counsel, who sent an inspector, and on his report made a liberal grant; there was no interference of any kind. B. received visits from the Government inspector for four years, and considered inspection beneficial. No interference with religious instruction had taken place, though the Government had sent gentlemen of different religious views to inspect. C. had received some excellent practical suggestions from the inspector sent to his institution, and another inspector from the Privy Council had advised him to increase the time allotted to instruction, which he agreed to do, but there was no interference. D. had been twice

The printed questions so forwarded were intended only as preliminary, and were found to be susceptible of better arrangement when more complete information may be sought by the committee, at a future time. The following are some of the particulars gathered from the above returns. They relate to scarcely one-half only of the institutions in existence, and are consequently imperfect as a record of the statistics of the whole.

Number of institutions furnishing returns, 22. Of these, one was founded in each of the years, 1788, 1838, 1841, 1843, 1846, 1847, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1854; two were founded in 1848, five in 1852, and five in 1853 (in 1854 there were probably ten founded). The age of admission varies from four to twenty years. There were in February, as inmates, 1,196 boys, and 349 girls. The average number of hours employed in education was as follows: in religious education, one hour; in secular instruction, three hours; in industrial occupation, six and a half hours. The number absconding each year, from all the institutions, 117; number discharged, 43; obtained situations, 244; emigrated, 171.

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