inclinations, it not only loses all its utility, but becomes incalculably injurious.  I heard a boy who had been confined in Newgate say, that he did not care any thing about it; that his companions supplied him with plenty of victuals, that there was some good fun to be seen there, and that most likely he should soon be there again; which proved too true, for he was shortly after taken up again for stealing two pieces of printed calico, and transported.  This, with a multitude of similar facts, will shew that there are few who do not become more depraved, and leave such places worse than when they entered them.  A gentleman who visited Newgate informed me that he had been very much surprised at finding so many children there; some of whom were ironed; and on his inquiring the cause of such severity towards children so young, he was told by one of the turnkeys, that he had snuck more trouble with them than he had with old offenders.  This fact has been verified by the chief officers of the Wakefield Model Prison,—­the boys give most trouble.  In the matter of treating juveniles as delinquents, I am sure we are wrong.  I have seen both the magistrates and the judges insulted on the bench by juveniles brought before them, and taunted with the following:  “You can do no more, you with the big wig!  I wish you may sit there until I come out!” And in the month of May, 1852, the magistrates of Wakefield were insulted by a boy 15 years old, who had been taken up as an impostor, with his arm doubled in a sling, and shamming to be deaf and dumb,—­a healthy strong youth, able and fit for work—­and when asked why he did not work, answered, because he could get more by his own method!  Hear! this ye indiscriminate alms-givers!  And, further, when expostulated with by the magistrates for the sin and wickedness of pretending to be lame, &c., he laughed at them outright for being so silly as to suppose that he should not live well if he could? When told he should be committed for three months, he had the impudence to tell the court that he would do the same again, when he came out, clapped his hat on in open defiance, and shouted, “That’s all you can do!” The chairman expressed sorrow that he could not order a whipping, but the prisoner laughed at him, and said, “I am too old for that.”  Such things were not known in my younger days.  I am afraid we have erred in this matter.  A little wholesome correction did wonders.  In such matters, it, at least, made the parties civil, and, I think, deterred from crime.  I am fearful that in this age mankind aim in some things to be more perfect than the Great Ruler of the Universe!