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remained there but two weeks ; so that 

 it may fairly be excluded from the 

 account. It also appears, that but 

 three had been in the habit of attend- 

 inj;^ at Sunday-schools.* 



The Committee have continued to 

 extend relief to distressed boys, and 

 otliers who were destitute, on their 

 discharge from the prisons of the 

 metropolis, and were desirous of aban- 

 doniuii: their vicious habits. During 



New Music and the Drama, 



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promises so much to the interests of 

 humanity. 



"To diffuse principles, and cherish 

 feelings, which are directly calculated 

 to insure respect and obedience to 

 the laws, ameliorate the state of so- 

 ciety, and promote the present and 

 eternal well-being of man, is the aim 

 of the Society for the Improvement of 

 Prison Discipline ; and surely an ob- 

 ject of greater importance cannot 



the past year, a considerable number ejigage the attention or impress the 



Iiave been received into the Temporary heart." 



Refuge, who on their liberation were We agree with them in these ob- 



without money, character, or friends, jects, and heartily wish them success ; 



and who possessed no means of pro- but still we differ from them essential- 



cnring employment. Without the as- 

 sistance thus afforded by the Society, 

 it is scarcely possible but that these 

 guilty, yet unfortunate, objects, must 

 have again resorted to crime for 

 support. 



At their last anniversary, the Com- 

 mittee had the pleasure to announce 

 some highly interesting particulars 

 relative to tiie proceedings of the Pri- 

 son Society of Russia, formed under 

 the immediate patronage of the Empe- 

 ror Alexander, and the formation of a 



ly. Our discipline should apply only 

 to second convictions, or to crimes 

 which display rooted depravity. Two- 

 fifths of the inmates of gaols are those 

 from ignorance of penal law; two- 

 fifths have been goaded by some over- 

 powering necessity ; and not more 

 than one-fifth are proper objects for 

 that coercive and reforming system 

 for which the Committee are contend- 

 ing. The true way to empty prisons 

 would bo to reduce the penal code to 

 a brief and intelligible sheet, which 



Royal Society for the amelioration of should be posted every year in every 

 the Prisons in France. The kingdoms house ; to publish, in like manner, 

 of Spain and Portugal may iilso be sessional lists of crimes and punish- 



ranked among the foremost of those 

 European states, whose earnest desire 

 to ameliorate the state of prisons, 



* Yet there are those who contend that 

 the increase of cnminals, from want of em- 

 ployment, is owing to the increase of edu- 

 cation ! 



ments ; to provide for the temporary 

 wants of discharged criminals ; and, 

 in line, to discourage and prevent 

 those monopolies of land, and other 

 productions of labour, which cause 

 want, distress, and the chief part of 

 the crimes that are committed. 



NEW MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. 



Numbers I. and II. of the Flutist's 

 Journal ; hjj J. C. Nielson. 3s. each. 



THIS work, consisting of national 

 melodies of various countries, 

 presents all its articles, not only under 

 an arrangement suitable to the instru- 

 ment for which they are inten<led, but 

 very ingeniously and tastefully embel- 

 lished. As most of the airs here as- 

 sembled are of the simplest descrip- 

 tion, the giving them just such orna- 

 ment as they woiilrl properly bear, 

 that is, sucii decorative additions as 

 woidd not invade or deteriorate tiieir 

 original beauty, was a task of some 

 delicacy. Dedicated to the first flute- 

 performer in the country, this publica- 

 tion declares, by its style, that it ema- 



nates from the abilities of a real mas- 

 ter, and that it is worthy the implied 

 recommendation of him to whom it is 

 inscribed. Among the selected melo- 

 dies, we find those of Rossini's " Zitli! 

 Zitti!" and his " Dipiacer mi halza it 

 cor," the late Mr. Charles Dibdin's 

 well-known air of " The Waterman," 

 Mozart's " Batti hatti," Jackson's 

 " Time has not thinn' d my flowing hair," 

 Cobham's " Violet Girl," and Byrd's 

 " JSon nobis." Many of the tunes are 

 arranged as duetts, others with varia- 

 tions ; and, the last here named, is ad- 

 justed as a trio. It is given in the key 

 of C, and derives from its pitch, and 

 the junction of three flutes, both a 

 sweet and a novel effect. 



" ComCf 



