Vagrant Children of New York, 98-99 Street Begging in New York, 99 New York Prison Association, 100 New York State Prisons, 100 Be beforehand with the Tempter, 101 New Penitentiary in Massachusetts, 101 State Prison at Charlestown (Mass.,) 101 Illinois Penitentiary, 102 New State Reform School, 102 Juvenile Offenders, 102 Singular Avocation and Mode of Life in London, 103 Death from Separation, 103 Murders in Philadelphia, 104 Missouri Insane Asylum, 104 Missouri Penitentiary, 104 Items of general Information, 105-107 Acknowledgments, 107 Premium for an Essay on Juvenile Delinquency, 108 NOTICE OF THIS JOURNAL. "It embodies more information on the subject of prisons, arranged and expressed in the spirit of literature and science, than any other publication of our country and will compare with any Journal devoted to this department of knowledge in Europe."--_Hon. Charles Sumner's Speech, in debate on prison question in Boston, May, 1847._ RECENT NOTICES. _From the North American and United States' Gazette._ We have received from Messrs. E. C. & J. Biddle the last number of the Pennsylvania Journal of Prison Discipline, which is published quarterly, under the direction of the Philadelphia Society for alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons. A glance through its pages shows what is well understood--that it is a highly valuable periodical, communicating much and various important information upon the subject of which it treats. It is the only publication of the kind in the country, is certainly a very much needed one, and ought, therefore, to be well sustained by the public. (See 3d page of Cover.) THE PENNSYLVANIA JOURNAL OF PRISON DISCIPLINE. VOL. VIII.--APRIL, 1853--No. 2. ART. I.--MORAL AND RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF CONVICTS.