VIII.—QUARTERLY RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF RE-
FORMATORY SCHOOLS AND OF PRISON DIS-
CIPLINE :-Containing Memoranda of Visits to
Industrial and other Schools in Scotland, March
1856, by a Member of the National Reforma-
tory Union; Third Report of the Hardwicke
School, by Mr. Baker; Charge of the Recorder
at the Birmingham April Sessions; Extracts
from the Second Annual Report of the Direc-
tors of Convict Prisons in Ireland, for the year
ending December 31st, 1855; Evidence of
Colonel Jebb, Captain Walter Crofton, and the
Recorder of Birmingham, on Tickets-of-Leave.

THE

IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW.

No. XXIII.-SEPTEMBER, 1856.

VOL. VI.

CONTENTS.

ARTICLE.

I.-ODD PHASES IN LITERATURE.

FIRST PAPER:-

1. Catalogue of the Library of the late Samuel

Rogers, Esq.; which will be sold by Auction,

by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their

Great Room, 8, King-street, St. James's

square, on Monday, May 12th, 1856, and

Six following Days, at One o'clock Precisely.

2. Historiette de la Marquise de Rambouillet.

Par Tallemant des Réaux. Paris, 1884.

II. PAUL HIFFERNAN :-A CHARACTER OF THE LAST

CENTURY.

III. THE Post OFFICE:-

1. First Report of the Postmaster General, on

the Post Office. Presented to both Houses

of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty.

1855.

2. Second Ditto. 1856.

PAGE,

439

487

499

IV. THE POOR RELATION :-AN OUTLINE OF SOCIAL

HISTORY. BY AN IRISH WORKMAN:-

The Census of Ireland for the Year, 1851.

Parts I. to V. Dublin: Alexander Thom,
1852-56.

V.-CONVICTS :-TRANSPORTATION AND REFORMA-

TION:-

First Report from the Select Committee on

Transportation, together with Minutes of

Evidence-Ordered to be Printed, May,

1856.

VI. STEAM AND TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION :-

General Remarks on Steam and Telegraphic

Communication at the present day, with

reference to the United Kingdoms as the

centre. By Thomas Knox Fortescue. New

Edition. Dublin: J. Robertson, 3 Grafton

street, 1852.6 ft 1.

VII. IRISH CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT :

The Irish Church. Speech of Edward Miall,

Esq., one of the Members for Rochdale, in

favour of the Impartial Disendowment of all

Sects in Ireland. Delivered in the House of

Commons, May, 27th, 1856. London :

Effingham Wilson. Dublin: McGlashan

and Gill.

Leader from "The Times" of September 8th.

AGITATION:-

Memoirs by the Right Honorable Sir Robert

Peel, Bart., M.P., &c.-Published by the

Trustees of his Papers, Lord Mahon, now

Earl Stanhope, and the Right Honorable

Edward Cardwell, M.P.-Part I. Roman

Catholie Question. London: John Murray.

1856.

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559

586

600

647

IX. THE SMITHFIELD (Dublin) REFUGE:-

Captain Crofton's Letter to the Recorder of

Birmingham.

X-ART IN THE CLOISTER :—

Lives of the most eminent Painters, Sculptors,

and Architects of the order of S. Dominic.

Translated from the Italian of Father Marchese

of the same Institute, with Notes, &c. By

the Rev. C. P. Meehan. 2 Vols.

James Duffy. 1852.

PRISON

Dublin:

XI.-QUARTERLY RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF RE-

FORMATORY AND RAGGED SCHOOLS, AND OF

DISCIPLINE:-Containing-Expe-

rience in Reformatory Schools, by Mr. G. H.

Bengough; Letter, shewing the position of

Roman Catholic Reformatory Schools in

England; Account of the Exhibition of In-

dustrial products of Reformatory Schools of

the United Kingdom; Passages from the

Report of a Conversazione at Willis's Rooms,

on the first evening of Exhibition; Minute

of Committee of Council on Education ;

Letter from M. Verdier as to the services

rendered to the inhabitants of Tours, during

the recent inundations, by a detachment of

boys from Mettray; Letter from the Recorder

of Birmingham on Punishment and Reforma-

tion-French and English systems; Mr. Hill's

Charge to the Grand Jury of Birmingham;

Lecture of Rev. Sydney Turner on the

Training of Reformatory School Teachers;

Letter to the Editor of the "Law Amendment

Journal;" Article from the "Midland Counties

Herald," on the the Minute of the Committee

of Eucation; Analysis of Col. Jebb's Evidence

on the Ticket-of-Leave System; First Pro-

vincial Conference of the National Reforma-

tory
Union;
Lord Stanley's Speech,

&c., &c., &c.

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