Petition from the Rev. Edw. Rice, D.D., president of a numerous meeting assembled at the City of London Literary and Scientific Institution on the 22nd, 23d, and 29th day of January, and the 5th and 6th days of February 1849 : to consider a self-supporting system of prison discipline proposed by Mr. Charles Pearson, M.P. to combine productive occupation and industrious habits with mental instruction and moral reform.