The Express. — London, England, 1858-12-08 00:00:00

, 6. 7 • 7' sg4-aG';4l ( . 4 t4 ,V ' s C :;1-0 eir 71: NEWSPAPER % El ' 371 I : 7 c i P / Xi P c % . - - . N, A - : Ori3 ri t q, gi, • _ I ift 1,842.) (Stamped ld. Additional.) ETWOPENC% THE QUEEN'S PRISON. mai MOORES AUSTIALIAN LINE p Ver ea ' S l 4l a o aied TILI: . 11.00 .0. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1858. lAl ir M of DEPOSIT, Established A.D. 1844 thasrisa i rti kr" ts st Dayea. by mbleb ag= 8 2 1 16 11.1 Vo nt — Zi..°V" = i.___ was aloarila lin .....1 lie mine rionsta NM lbws m . MUBIO. Ito produce a better state of things. The inspector notices thus approvingly , the persevering efforts of the Rev. Mr. Buck :—" The chaplain, be sides performing the duties prescribed by the rules, in which he is very assiduous, has established by the aid of donations from his friends, and gifts of books for the prisoners, a library for prison use, which at the commencement of the year amounted to 260 volumes, exclusive of tracts. In this laudable object he has been very much assisted by the Christian Knowledge and the Tract Societies. In the Srst two years and a half of the existence of the library, 2,934 volumes were issued." .CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY. BT. JAIUI6I3-HALL. The first ars series of throe "Portia: Concerts" wee gives at ft Jamete-kall in sight. The woad takes pleas this maim awl the thisd to-morrow ; three ammo tire evade. Wog eboon, we i, resume, for the sake of pro fiting hy the Wax from the °wintry at amount of the oetarebew. The Queen's Prison presents but a blank and dreary wall to Bt. George's-road, and yet it is not many yesrs since it contained within its gates as busy, as may, as motley, and as immoral a comma- I nity as could probably be found within a similar circuit in any quarter of the world. Lords and ladies of tashion have been incarcerated there until forgot ten by the outward world, and have at last, slipshod and miserable, dropped into nnhoneured graves, leaving their sad histories to " point a moral and adorn a tale." Women of virtue and refinement have suddenly found themselves in it, the com panions of the most profligate of their sex—have first repelled, then passively resisted, and at last surren dered at discretion, after gradually imbibing the moral contamination of the surrounding atmosphere. Here have adventurous carers been summarily ar rested, bold spirits been broken down, high and honourable principle been sapped and destroyed, and bright intellects been reduced to sottish idiocy. Here have idleness, and dishonesty, and vice held high carnival, and foreigners from far lands have visited the place as a show, and books have been written about it, and London people have had it in their very midst for a century or more, a plague ipot • and it is only within living memory that Ake inghteat abets hies boss made to mitigate its evils or reform its abuses. The following is an abstract of the half-yearly report of the &morsel thh compsay to be ettbed to the seventh orithiery goosed martin at proprietors, on the 16th December indent : V i t mil MOORE'S AUSTRALIAN LINZ p War 01171/..0110 Dra i rliMi .ray .§.=.4 r i z a k t; I . 401 time ' ; nue ft Os Lena% -ter leased II PONS•88 11" 76 8 = AN mg OrlatrablNMEllea. ART UNION of OLABGOW.—Lasdaa Branch, MORI . Up s : . nannon et My Inntos. ironodynas an ensinin 0. elan ons ~ K J (MAY 911,01111111111 D. inintry tar Inns. The ixamert was not ons of those which call for critical arias. u was—what it poofemsd to be—entirely popsdar, sad wade tap of Imam thiap, sang and played by will harms porkoarra Mace disappointment was ousel by the abwars of Mr. Elms Rooms, for whom an apology was orb oa the grand of indisposition. We as. semi esamesal Is bra that his . Enna has hem very maw, bet Y Is bred that he will be able to ap pear bin the labile lido orals& He was to have snag Bosibora's obrabg " with Arabella Goddard as his serupsair. This would indeed have ben a art, the less of whit& w• rigor exceedingly. Miss God ard played Willis.'. balsa* " Robin Adair," vhieh was oalarbsdo•Uy sgpis•All. Abeyant' abs played Thal berg's ihabra, Barn mod bar ;" sad, Wag woribi, sY sorrasi, sad gays Kullask's Palos dr Roomy" • llab% gowned Rah pleas, thank somewhat trite in its sob jest. Kiss Dolby rag several ef Ms ballads she has made as maim, partioehirly Hilt's "Daybreak' and TM, Rag id Dahlia," odd& won arslowd with oaf _ _ wEsad NOORWS AUSTRALIAN LIN' if is mainsajt or .-44: 4.4 krwmpm 61. gar, i rjUs s er ma::17..21• L1 : *Min JULLIENE CONCERTS. LYINION TNNATIL fltil a T IVY 1100T.-71)410BT. et 11.—Pol AMMIP telettattd YIoOMIL inotistrtkL—Yeamit, Maims Fle 71. 7 • AJINVAL IAL MANQUIA ...MONDAY rat. Dot I& Here then is a prison containing only 160 inmates, in which we find a process of demoralisation con deafly going on and men and women, by a lengthened sojourn i n n it, rendered totally unfit for the resumption of their duties in the great world. When once a man enters here, vice and temptation shoot at him as if he were a target ; he has no means of resistance, not any of redress, but to make terms with the enemy, and in time to become one of his devoted followers. This prison of 160 inmates, of which 100 support themselves, costs the country 6,0001. a year, of which the governor gets about 1,0001. ; the deputy-governor, 4001. ; the head turn key, 1801 .; and the chaplain, 1601. To the last named sum 1001. has recently been added for house rent, but this is in lieu of an official residence within the gaol, which has been otherwise disposed of. If this 6,0001. were applied to the release of prisoners, we question if a dozen would remain to occupy the time of its numerous staff of officials. T. MARTEN'S HALL—MIUMELIIBOHN'B zroDA noir. wiihmer bowie as 4 . Ihrialre WM MILT Do& 11. mod mews= :--Ms 9 =a. IMM IlMineg, Zama. Kr. Wda M.: MIMI% ; VIM lIMID-8104 IL, Ommimi at TAO. MITT sad manure AUSTRALIAN I LINE A'aclE.l l .l4 -- 'lloZratliV"Dbre..Tria et the F. di m eeth. the l i e iiel s; irrt. . M.I. O L D : w t . 2 1 . 1 .. Firzieerelth bee heirloom wish nt nip thetherthethe the t'r e x* le Dll97Zaad moos'. AOLAN HALL, Red 110 Li OPEN OPEN 1•1111 111 V 11111 *0 0 TOOLL and - ANIMA mums?. tc . w. arasri, J. Ikeda Mrs. Mimi OK" a a Qum. mai N.— be Ng A Mil dr boa li dr STEAM[ to MELBOURNE—The Aso sow stem 01010 • I M a rt* lorlisiar• Mr. ISO Mew on mAckitzit Earisol,lN so us .=l " bet nmsline bs aupteaul• Or Ss •••Italle• imla. and IN isibe sok wafts • = aspi, 9. L ONDON CRYSTAL PALACI, Rageat-eine. . 6.0. 1=441i5et, sal IWO 010/111.—Ail- DR. MANN'S ANATOMICAL MUSH UMC sma.s inr=wrovielant or w z D i All. as NM zimpertastorlaismilms Weis amme= hd :Vitg : Losli a t i rrilis "6. 4 •= m r ' r=s2 . l ,.. a. int Mg Su i rdares the Mare is Ibb usidp. et mrial spyisms. Sevall Invoke pie= were wag by Mr. end Mrs. Weiss, M Mabbash, Ms. and Mrs. Tement, aid Miss Poole. Mime Plaid tickled th• ars of the aredisme with the MOM soma& of his vialonosilo in • Ma/i& osi Mawr from the Sorresseshila ; and the Swedish siges we wag et tisk national ditties. Oa the whole, the eanssra was a vary good cos of it. kind, and answersd its wary hr there woe • large anthems, who sesomd greatly _ _ Piambd ebb fib lebtatabauxat. The nowt, vs snit gal was ably endssild by Mr. Bostadiat. g ii WISH and NORTH AbIRRICAN ROYAL NAIL IMAM 1111/11,a5~61 Ls •delnk• 1.0 DAIL LI V ISPOOL ma NOW YORK NM biomass LIVID.. L..d DUOTON, %be lloase ey. bt DALLAS to =De = amt Mr mop. TM INIMMos et we 1. sit trio TOIL liblisresy. Dia U. • RICA. S SW =. 11 •71110•., fo , . Dial& "map =sic arras roma% see 2 4 pwrirom bas willsol Z. z •VeDlo. wi rjeVia Alaliw i nt z = IWld i t•3 yost WA, sal I me ems. Amp. SEMI is. larerMmeMs. moo ilimmildge Ilive .., . mabor of spneri deli wow or •rnat le C. IL 11••• • •• Dmil4l•l4o..lariza liamN rV Z. O. awl J. OJT ? . ma OW. Law L ln' th g c . •s, Buiremmeinot. d'a4low. Or AL LlardriVirer. Uml•6l. to NBW TORE DIRECT, mad the er d ara.."..ratariran - Ativrazum L TIAN 4.7.... u u ry 5 tr ...r., I All GI Atero ... - - Mira . • This day. Dia S. CITY OW 11l LTIIIOI4 • ****** ii .• ,___,.... IV dimply. Dee. IL es. own same% 'eV. =ll disee4 . . - see=the I fe the eseetsed . = P re= rall=retelthl Woes% ea Tor llV Errre . ol. SIMI' Offla:Nalai===. mee, TOM hen Leak" Ds. resita rm. ' Er &yr& 11111[1K —Tbe Nee* Gonna mw 0y,...,,,„,,,„. = rab.:s7 pOTTIRDAY av 7 Sunday and Thursday Mastsa, by duo BAWL= se4 IF 1r INOOIIO. Pink lb. N.—PH*II.IPN. eiiibal. froll MILLI PM Apab be )(Marimba. Swab bait Chiabry. u, Is bac W AllarTlD,l 4 l/E111 4 11.5 of SOUTH el Frja l li m t l ear i ti;4=2 i ammosie wsw ei r iaa = 4" riiiialQ` al a Ws sod • Mir gs sb• Swim it Or OW Waye• and Owe 2.4. 0 13 Wq2 . 4 1 =2:21Ci1u d j ord= l. klamm. ONDON LI of NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. soirr 111111TAn y vx" t a r wan t . mil t= uszgz . gamic 1: 0 =8% refts elkepas=7B7Ww qiir • 2WWW. awl • was4Ausei.nmpsle; av • COMO. wbeff, 'Miro Arum— erW. W. CaWIWILL. 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Min a. s‘ a.i.l : .. s_o iss oodos Lk • 41= kik zoot is v stai l ' Uf Irk Willi: G. %oak g=4:a. 111 . 1 11. 1 a= dole; M. liS. Looks : Ikker dow nflil* ONO. lkarlowort ;re tree& . IRB GRAND B a AL KABQUB of th• SEASON. Inseittabiz 21.1' LOOKS Itto= r oadoolis Vosiesi. X alak 'l li oret plmmi rteips asverr ibw • ewe C most ow orsomll6..l= bra t lbws Vh fa .1 maim to _soymoois Puilma kr= so On orms woo. =is =no NOM= so Osiwo. Ansa rsibordss mow Iss ear sod GS I b 2 oessososs so IS. gum% ks.; MM. lb : wpm Si. SL _ owl.— .1. *z. maw. b OpooloSoi osslonlie. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, formerly OAHE: TIM M, MOB HOLIIOIIIII.— VW Is the 4 1 . 2 4 LI =Ow, are t04406/115 beinsed Ihal are OM IT IMY IMMO, sad see So goomilia slim Miss Ledo Demi arm from MINN* S IM n. Ailidea Owe ;MITHFIELD PRIZE CATTLE 8110 W.—The to ' om. .I.llg AMTAVILLIn. .—DUI SIN al Sib @web litaisaft li Wisirj 4PC:r.tir: WV ' ', fr. till 1410.• Ile = elsillog sip summus druid Iwo Lind= ellaisest dimariZegalWit=l THL( .. )LD RAINBOW TAVERN, FLEET BUSLi3IIII4 Ur Om li, wallikrin TIM* eiIIBM73OI 41111 MAY. ealiums Ilederearesmoblem lasighassa ffsigme. Wars ism nu AMIN waft ben le ai .I.IOIOIIT. CHRISTMAS BOXES at HAMPER& 81LAC1114106.. Mr sad Itadisle ye::ter Odossale lad t ino* . weft up a Pro f Umagen TY, Dottie _Wm& OOrr .. lor err = at r MO W . . old Jamors Or or Mar OIL Or Or - Or id Or . Mom Dared bee rift 84 ow of Ortrlklallamea Orrin err to be rourpord be s rawarria. UNSOPHIBTICATED GENEVA, of the tree d Aego Mir. pares rlt rue all I MYNA lb- el mgr. et sag lospolleas rammer 10.18 a, " gal tr. nil. Mari. Ballion. VaWILL PAT Ills CHINESE IN .. r i g_6 ll / 4 .EM= I• as 10 min on fit Tea at Is. Mt. gA gsm. War MEV at 11.11=1 IR Rabat IMPS% 0000 L.-12111, HaaweepathisCheakt, .14 pilionikakedeissaf. M.0w014 kr as grial us of boneepaais misalli a rrima bon &NOW bl las S AUSA GB B.—GENUINE HOME.MADE.— r i jt.zr . , 74per IS DOr o ros rid SON, Raab" 8, TO OPEN AN OYSTER witheat treablo, eat ut et tie M acts. spber epsusi eft —WIMIN OM nom Mw perlikoser = $ kw *kb loye okk kaullme, Nor k K Herb mane. W ofina • will be at m = . pktfis we alm 111~, re=- a visa die Is reamilifills rear—, =SomaPakatik 14, Lei AltT' 8 PATENT OAS ECONOMISDICI !, fa. 42 2 Lhle g a allailAVAte r rt4 •=saa triar7E Ig 1• 1.6 16- .66 s• mi; air irl:401•0== ;111 3.116.111" MODERATOR LAMPS of elks best emastrusdsk . ILL at Or 1~6 silss. arm Yap NW beim bolos ma M. 1 8= 1" afirrd._ &IT= maz.v..ti C. vol 11111..n.1111..........., Wielle alelliesst. W.O. OSSONNA/LlollllBa OF TKO lIBLCOWI OVICT. MIRE WEDDINO-RINGS anIIKINPLNOTON .I. SOFOR.IIAIII. rah am§ dodo Omit Orom trio tiro Ow bake gag kw "dm 640 ►PoOOtoi Not Int. us. 141645ea11. =ITS% DURUM, ALMANACS, iCI llitlWN a VIA =Top. Main% ff ?Ws. AW•4I-111111.64 I.3C:= W ON., S. boa loirei. Jot Jul Ike mid r eer.ma Sobs/ Miss, gels• b 4 or iv pie. for G i ZB DEBILITY=ONVIITUTIONAL wsaassiv . , ria ..... opsmasimm, oil Porilai la Ilie Unftri% at Ow wet. l a s s=anitor if Ile mist= dm. I" SIT o res vie eil a s i melons dlosidin I. ""=.Btif==. - "" ""'"'"•••• vas elknarg_4l: Wait= h.; FtWV:L..l.7=Zolarniir= ads svilir Om" lie leftism obauwarim • LAT4 II / 4 Waril Paisessielftw; Tkarss. IL 2 , . Mae. 01111611;Lalsear•slow• ;mg BM 111121IAM1N. (Ppm hag) DWI yes slam as vaiger sear Oa Ur ttiipd kwaisg toady t 0 Ism . . my ?wily, Nuts bun, Th•fraidas ii min • pier of Dos& I 0 Hs ve . • !aien aszt dr Ps& sass triad of mi;gron or pbroic . ian ; How true your ladyship'. remark, • The country's in a sad condition! ' " Brat ,eery year fright is premature, Ti. amelent, Mad-devouring virgin, Tbs Power will be still hp. pure Pram anateot with a dila surgeon. It. act to b.; hat if It were, While rasa are born, men live, and rand* Bone magnifica might he lair Of those who as. Mao ors aemimedi. Lords from hereditary trees (My Where w lady'a re s gam { : we gthe'ves sadly shocked her), yoar _ieg If vats the •' Per spin, ttrr If ttis good sword may claim it. Ise Is titles, as our °odes datersithe, 'Tema no nasseraly thiag to see The scalpel laid away in ermiair. Ton, Peer, for having itaderetood All the dark labynaths that oar laws hare, What Baring Claus has dorm the good That Brodie'. forays' saris( clays here ? To out bsd throats, sad wretch bad socks, Ars claims co Fortuities purblind goddess, Bat olearoyed Ha mar gladly decks The rasa who heals good people's bodies. Bat, wise and hied old mu, you know, A bauble's, what the Wag will fetch, worth; And Parieh still how to you, although He vista Sir 8., sad sot Lord Betchworth„ Lam' as.—The editions of time well: Yaws mil very rend diaries he the 7«r ISO haw nags disk appeennee. They womb lir and bat- MN be mires°, 'bleb bars opriel Or pods= beese use brow. TES NNW WASTMIXSTER BRIDGB. Bina we noticed the state of the works at the New Walanteler-hridge, a hw months age, 00 anderable progress lm ban mode ha Am ender the engineering sepia. handentre of Mr. Theme Pege. The new bridge will be a my Minna kind sl Mutant to tat redeemer. It will he Man, longer, mad lighter, and yet will pewees greatly It entagth. It will be higher up the river, for the half width it at present in come of conamatica is on the mob= aide of the old bridge, and will run very many et the Ore el the Clock Tower of the sew Home of Perin mat. Its heal lesilii will be 1,150 het hem the missing el the ehelmeler mad dee wthk 86 hot, or about Sit het wider Ana dr remit LadatleMp. These ere two mein brick aritothe die both en the Orratey and Middlesex side of the river. The imervealeg space between the sods of these—about 900 het --throe* whisk the deepest end most rapid pardon of the elms rune, wit be egeeteed by 7 arches constructed of a eembilmatlem d wee& end oast tree, in plea of the LI nutty ono miss of white the present bridge is can pm& The mot ben fa the glebes will constitute that pot- eke el them which, wiping from the stone pieta and beemaing upwards, supports the roadway, and will only ham le withstand downward pressure ; the central portion of seek mei, Whig will be of course subjected to the heavy trammels skein of the traffic, together with the vibratkm, will be entirely composed of wrought iron. The two first arches will be of 96 het span each, the two mooed arches 104 feet, those at molt side of the centre crab 116 bet, and the centre etch Itself 120 het. The seven maim will be supported, in addition to the two shore abutments, by elz stone plan, extending rather beyond the total width of the bridge, and are ten feet broad. These of coarse are oonatructed upon a firm and solidly made foundation. Ice the first plan, the whole surface upon which they stand wa s closely driven with lee end wooden pies, over whlekaureivo biotin of grad* interspersed with concrete, were pieced, mad upon these the granite piers were erected, so that, with such a foundation, there is little fear of the new bridge making • settlement, unless the present bed of the river should be washed away altogether. As Mutt/sting the com parative strength and weight of the old and new bddges, it may be mentioned that, though the old *tractors wow sup ported upon 14 piers, the estimated weight which seek superficial foot of these piers had to support wee about ix tome The new bridge has only six piers, and yet the weight upon them is only about two tons and a half per sapsrfloiel foot. There is one greet defect In most of the bridges span ning the Thames which will be remedied in this instance, via, the very steep incline which extends upward. from each of the shores towards the central arch. The rise from the shore to the central mob is upwards of 15 feet be the present Wastaninster-bridge—la the new bridge it will be little over 5 feet. The bamenhe breadth will allow of a nab diviehm of the roadway b< the bat sad slow traffic. Taking it altogether, the bridge, when completed, will be one of the prettiest crossing the Themes. It will be finished entirely in the Gothio style. The openwork of the balustrade will be oceopmed entirely of cast-ken trefoil ornaments, while the spandril semi-eiroaler arches of iron, which support the roadway, will be enriched with mat-iron quatrefoil demur tbs. Running down the bee of each pier will be a massive oetagend column of slid itimite, 22 feet high and *bout 7 fest die:eater at the hese, sad 0 feet at the upper portion. These ere —posed el sly three blocks of granite of Ape * eise, erelghlng reepeetinty 23, 17. and 13 tons. They, in einem= with aD the penile to be used in the bridge, were quarried at the Cherearing Quarry, in Cornwall. Before it le completed titre will be some 8,000 or 4,000 toes of met, and between 703 and SOU tons of wrought iron used in its construction. 8o sac► for what the new bridge will be: of whet it la at prism* meth need not be said. To the un initiated °berme little sews In have been effected Dare the purposeless emotion of a vest quantity of timber scaffolding, bat la reality the most &Seek and tedious put of the week —via., the laying of the entire found/Ake, of the pier, or halt the bridge, the building of the Mona Owe thereon, sad the mmerrnotion of the two merelve abutments et bah sides of the river—in short, all the under-water wart—hie been oemplebed. Thus little remains now to be dune but to get the masks iron girders Into their plates (a work of comparative sere, which ma be performed with rapid ity ) before the formation of the roadway ma be proceeded with. At lent three of the arches at the Barmy side will Map end finished in shoat a math or six weeks, and probably the others will be pieced end the bridge be ready for opening by the commencement of the summer. The second hell of the new bridge, which will crimpy the position of the pmeent one, cannot of course be commenced sell it la cleared sway. Some of the piers of the sew bridge which ,:tend ender the amine of the old one will, however, be proceeded with at once. It will probably be two or three years before the whole width of the structure will be thrown open for public trate. CITE COMMISSION OP SEWEEB.—Yesterday • hewhist' Mr. Deputy Christie presided, was kid kw the despatch of public badmen. The tollow iag is as rxtroct from the report of the medical allicr, Dr. Lethaby, on the sanitary date of the City :—.• The mortality Mures tar the week have fallen from the very high proportion of 102 in the preceding week to 72, bat this swam is Milt *host 16 per coot, above the average for the 1111010116 26 of the teethes were amour children of leas than 6 years of era mad 21 among old perIODS of 60 and up yards. Kest of the deaths were Ara dtmesees of a chronic form, bat there wore 13 hatal oases of Ireimehltio, all swag adults, mid 6of yeomen* 4 of which we among intents. Of the symetim deem of midedies them were 3 deaths from diptberia, 3 from whooping email% 3 ban fever, 2 from measles., 2 from scarlet fever and 1 ban mnallpoz. Diptheria, therefore, is again provident in a seven or malignant form. In the mores M the week lbws wore 62 chiliren born ie the City, 3.5 of whkii were maim red 97 females. The deaths, therefor, want greatly la Mile of the births." A good deal of you ties blame woo disposed 4 after which the court ad journed. THE LIVERPOOL 0111121M6 OF COMMERCE AND Baas wan.—The special eamedstme ef tbe Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, appointed to emmiler the oommosication from the Zest India and Cbinallimmeladmi respecting the territory at drawa, have kora a roper in which they state that they have teased task lasidelas to the question, what ego doe aummooliml adwantoppms which would atone to this memmtry ben err paroder ei Ilmouralt f They reoomnieed dri • gadder dwell le Ihroked ft the Home of Commons. = l fm aMS WNW We tie whole oubjeot, and that • Mehl' be Wronowl la the Hari of Derby, preying W vet k Wrap rep tionuoitting the country to liaa 4 err protectorate to ihrawsk wOhissfripellminr. The blank walls of the bankrupt citj still remain, but within it is only the shadow of its former self. Its " whistling shops," consuming their hogshead of gin and thirty butts of porter a week, its i hundreds of nmates, crowded three and four in a room, or camping out on the stair cases and in the doorways, are all gone. Its =freckled parsons, its , resed attorneys, its elabo rate system of .• Garnish,' have disappeared, and much beside has been done to render the ways of the place more consistent with modern notions ; and yet, admitting all this, the Queen's, and similar prisons, still remain so ea t an evil as to justify the journalist in attention to their details. How many years vs elapsed since Howard astonished the world by his revelations respecting criminal prisons, and set the legislators of the day in a fright to attempt their reform P And yet we find that prison discipline is still full of faults ; that cruelties can still be practised within their massive walls; that epidemics caused by bad management, tan break out ; and th at faulty officials can still find sympathising magistrates to screen and support them, and to oppose, on frivolous grounds, every attempt at investigation or reform. In the same way, the management of our debtors' prisons at tracted the attention of philanthropists half a century ago, when Mr. Neild established his society, and, ' long since that time, imprisonment for debt was popularly supposed to be abolished by act of parliament. But nevertheless, down to the present day we find two or three debtors' prisons still lingering in the very heart of London, destroying, morally and physically, a few valuable members of society every year, and annually sheltering a few rogues from their creditors but serving no other earthly purpose save to justify as annual vote in the estimates, and to preserve a certain number of sinecure appointments for those who may have interest enough to obtain them. Previous to the alteration in the law of arrest the average population of the Queen's Prison was from five to six hundred, while sometimes as many ss eleven hundred prisoner, have been known to be confined within its walls. Then, it had its open ambling, its perpetual riot, its drinking bouts, and tk hns its immorali 'so gross as to be incredible if it were not attested scores of still living witnesses. Now, the open gam • is sapprered, while the compa rative fewness of the inmates renders riot unlikely ; but there is too much reason to believe that immo rality still prevails, and that women of loose charac ter too easily and too frequently find means of visit ing the prisoner,. With respect to intemperance also strong repressive rules are in force, but notwith standing this, the existence of a rather extensive " whistling shop" was brought under the notice of the governor very recently, and the proprietor imprisoned in the strong-room for breach of the regulations. During the present year the inspector of prisons reported " that the discipline maintained in this prison is more lax than that which prevails in any other of a similar description, and the indul gences and privileges accorded by the rules are greater than those enjoyed by debtors con fined in the other metropolitan prisons. It would be satisfactory to be able to add that these privileges are not abused ; but there is much reason to fear that the sale of spirits is carried on by prisoners to a considerable extent, contrary to law and to the regulations of the prison, and that the drunkenness thus engendered is not the only form of debauchery that prevails." Now let it be remembered that this severe condem nation applies to a community not exceeding 160 persona, about 100 of whom support themselves, and fifty receive the prison allowance. Amongst the inmates are members of all classes of society, and of all it may be remarked that a rapid deterioration, morel and physical, is observed to commence from the moment that the hope of immediate discharge is disappointed. There are now persons in the Queen's Prison who formerly moved in the first ranks of fashion and respectability, the gradations of whose " break down" can be daily remarked by the other inmates and officers of the prison. It may be eked—why, in so small a community, cannot order and morality be easily preserved P It is true there is a governor with an income of nearly one thousand a year, bat the rules of the prison, it appears, require from him a visit of inspection only once a month. It is needless to observe how easy it would be to have things in order for the most searching eye on the occasion of these periodical visits, although every irregularity might have been perpetrated in the meantime. But the fact is that, although the remunera tion of the governor is so handsome, the rules which he is obliged to follow make his office almost a sinecure. For instance, the first thing necessary to preserve the inmates of such a place from sickness, is cleanliness; but here the large majority of prisoners who support themselves, also provide their own furniture, and have complete control over their rooms. The governor has not the power to compel them to cleanliness, and a recent trial in one of our law courts, in which he was de fendant, shows the difficulties with which he is beset, even when he attempts reform in the most Angean eases. Neither can he or his subordinates act with safety is controlling the admission of loose women. They may be morally certain that these unfortunates come in in veep—that married men may be visited at one period of the day by their wives, and at another by their mistresses; they may know that prisoners whose creditors are waiting impatiently for their money are spending sixteen to twenty pounds a week in entertaining such company ; and yet, if they refuse them admission at the hatch, they may make one mistake in a month as to the character of the applicant, and in such case may be at once pounced upon with an action for defamation of character. The chaplain, as in duty bound, does everything is his power to stem the moral plague. Munificently endowed with a salary of 1601. a year (just 30& less than the head turnkey), he devotes his whole time, Sunday and weekday, to the spiritual and tempora l welfare of his erratic flock. He preaches, he visits, he exhorts, he ap pe als to the governor, but finds that, according to the rules, the latter discharges his duty by a monthly inspec tion of the prison, and that by these rules he his no power to enforce cleanliness, to discourage immo rality, or to preserve decorum. Beyond the Bete custody of the prisoners it would ONO that the governor bee no oestrol, and that, so as they do not attempt to escape, they may live as their means or inclinations direct them. The chaplain, es a Chris tian clergyman, feels all this acutely, and strenuously, c although unhappily with slight effect, ha attempts And then we ought also to consider the amount of human degradation and misery which the mainte nance of this last rag of an absurd and cruel law in volves. The annals of the Queen's Prison contain chapters far surpassing in interest thoee of the most exciting romance, and at this moment sorrows are being suffered which,but that the publication of their details is for obvious reasons prohibited, would astonish, while they would most assuredly grieve, the public. Two cases, however, we think we may give without unduly intruding on the privacy of distress, and as showing the way in which imprison ment for debt still works in the creation of human misery and mischief. Some years since two maiden ladies, then young and beautiftil, and who had just become heirs to a considerable property, were thrown into the Queen's Prison by a legal process which of course they did not understand. While there, and helpless, they employed, one after another, such lawyers as were to be obtained under their circumstances, but the latter merely fur nished them with heavy bills of outs, and took no further trouble about their affairs. The Masters in Chancery, whose special is to redress such cases, duly paid their mon visits—monthly visits seem to be sufficient for all highly paid duties connected with the Queen's Prison—inquired affec tionately s to the poor ladit a' health, sod thought no more of them until the next month came round. This went on for several years, the blooming girls fading gradually into old maidenhood, their friends forgetting them or dying off, and their means wast ing away, until Providence at last brought their case under the notice of a member of parliament, who, having known their father in his youth, flew, the moment he heard the case, with all the zeal of friendship to their relief. Being a lawyer himself, he of course knew how to sweep away all the legal cobwebs in which they had been so long emeehed, and in two months he procured their en largement and restoration to their property, which it is to be hoped they are enjoying at the present moment. The name and residence of these ladies can interest no one, but to conceal that of the author of a benevolent action would be to deprive the world of a high moral stimulus. The gentleman who thus restored theft two helpless women to liberty and fortune was Mr. Hadfield, the honourable and learned member for Sheffield. The second cue is still more striking, although the end is not yet; nor is it likely, unhappily, to have so favourable a termination. Just forty-four years since a young joiner lived with an only sister in a village in the south of England. The girl was seduced by a rich tradesman, a butcher, in the neighbourhood, and the latter, fearing the vengeance of the brother, who was then an active, powerful young man, had him arrested on • forged obligation, and thrown into Winchester gaol. The prisoner was poor, and within stone walls, and had no redress but to file a schedule and become insolvent; but this he lately refused to do, alleging, and with truth, that he owed no money, and that to swear he did would be perjury. Time went on, his persecutors both died miserably, but he was still a prisoner. There was a legal form to be complied with, and without that he must remain a pri soner all his life. The prison authorities naturally got wearied with his obstinacy, and used every mesas of annoyance to subdue his indomitable deter mination. At one time he was four years in soli tary confinement, and at another, when the priso ners were removed from the old to the new gaol, he was taken from his bed, carried in his shirt to his new quarters, and placed in a room so damp as to make him a rheumatic cripple for the rest of his life, although it could not induce him to sign his name to a debt which he did not owe. During this long incarceration he became a complete lawyer oorrespooded with every Lord Chancellor, from Lord Eldon downwards, and having suffered the pains, at last began rather to eny the dignity of martyrdom. At last he got a "Ha beas," as he calls it, and was removed to the Queen's Prison after thirty-nine years in Winchester gaol, and there he has remained for the last five years, being forty-four years' impri sonment in all, and is likely to remain for the rest of his life, as his determination against acknowledging the false claim is as obstinate u ever. The on ginal demand was 1,0001., and in resisting it he soon exhausted all his means. We may presume, there fore, that during the forty-four years his mainten ance must have cost the country 2,00 W., besides his proportion of the 6,0001. a year which the Queen's Prison authorities get for keeping him and others in safe custody. But if we add to all this, the forty-four years of skilled labour of a strong industrious artisan, we shall than come nearer to a practical estimate of the public profit arising from imprisonment for debt. The points which we wish to illustrate by the foregoing statements ere, first, that many of the evils of imprisonment for debt still flourish in rank luxu riant*, notwithstanding all the late reforms in the law ; secondly, that the debtors' prisons, especially the Queen's Prison, are conducted according to rules which let in the most scandalous irregularity ; and, thirdly, that it would be cheaper for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to pay off the obligations of the few who remain still amenable to the law, than to keep up such enormous establishments solely in order that governors who are only obliged to inspect their dominions once a month may enjoy comfortable incomes of from 8001. to 1,0001. a year. EVA/106LICAL AllialiCh.-.-We are rrqueeted to state that, at a meeting of the, owntrittee of council, held Deo. 3, the lies. Wm. Cordell, M.A., late view of Bud biooks, Warwickshire, sad the Rev. Jones Davis, late lade. pendent minister of Radiants, wire eppelated flat odic:Sal seemtariss of the Jirsagelleel Allfsway in the twos of the Be,. J. P. Dobson, who bap reigned the secretaryship, sad have entered upon their duties. SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.—The receipts for the rose pungens', pods, sad melt tattle, atter dietenng ex pandits's*, foe fibs font weeks ending the Nth of Novambor, amount to 76.9391.85. bd. • expeediture to 98,9821. 17s. Id. • maklag a totals( t e r the 16 globs of 386, 0031 . 13 s. 7 d.; and of expenditure, 162,3631. M. M. [Advertisement.)—HOLLOWAT'S £II.I.I3.—COLD, CATiall. lanosau.-yep dean Noma:EY bar awl atiorbb Os aliUsebore Ms bus Witeribpigy Si sm ais . =ri.....razsitgadalriglimaire sloe by tae hmadatbs nob arms Orem. At Sob orwasaysawiM 'web wt`m mire as adrift lobs awl silky Ibt• .bitabor retarls...AerraLbt gi lla ft r i" n i a sei tga, t &sa n s e r m or ki le=s the austaaw It Ispropoied for the future to make out the anionnie annually to the 30th October. By declaring the dividend at the December meeting the shareholders will participate in the receipts of the company six menthe earlier than they would do by delaying the division till the meet ing in June, and the adoption of this course will render it unnecemary to submit any statement of socwants at the June meetings, as hu he etc been the preadoe. The revenue account *owe en income WA, in summer months of 86,7791. 3s. 104., and a balance to the credit of revenue during the half-year of NAIL lib. 3d. To this is to be added the sum of 13,7991. 1i5.151. carried over from bat half year, and after adulbg therefrom the preferable interest charges to October 31, there tenmins 37,e98. lth. Bd. to the credit of the general rumens amount. Out of this sum the &rotors reoesamend that a dividend be declared of 2a. 61. per stare on the maser, shares in the company. lids dividend will nquirs the sum of 25,0731. 16.., sad • balance will be NU of 12,6261. Os. 3d. to be earned over. Th e condo It essential to the management of ea of this nature that a suffi cient working bellasewthoidel easereed annually. The do tailed aaxmate thew tien n very considerable ex has been charged am** _ormans account for this =e l : in various permanent otte to the property at the em ploy, particularly In the otheihment department; sad in improvement, in the moms to theren dered to by wn* the op=sf W 7The 0:47F , are the sums lea the inoreased value of refreshment plant, when glom over by Mesas. Staples, and the cost of two additional substantial brick buildings white have been added permanemtly to th redrashment department. In to the first item, I t is the improved value arising= additions made to the plant by the former tonna.- ton, and which plant the present contractors an bound* mantel:tend hand over to the company at its full math An increased revenue bas arisen from the refreshment depart ment, under the enerretio management of Nam Sawyer and Strange ; and the directors have no doubt that should the contract be renewed after the present peer, letereereed ex perience will suggest farther impeovesente end national means of aocommodrAe The Wrath= have anew coned in further c ordinary expenditure to all the various breaches of noleirtthing, end this bee been done without impaieng the efficient waft of the sub, blishment. Notwithstanding the reduced expetteltnre, the stability and condition of the building hes been improved, ell repairs having been executed in the most sultiteallei and t manner, and brick and iron substituted for timber wherever practicable. In addition to the above, the entire garden front of the palace, together with the flat roofs an that side, has been thoroughly repaired and painted. It la intended to proceed with the painting of the road front and roofs early next year. The six per cent. debenture stook, which was created for the pupas of disclurglno thehaknee due on land P and rep • with a permanent stoat the fioatingt= debentures, bas now been allotted to the extent of 165,0001., upon which • sum of 121,6221. 10e. has been received to the 81st October leat. As loon as the whole 260,0001. hes been taken up, the land will bellied from all claims, the debenture debt will be extinguished, and the debenture Oink, as for merly stated, will form the first charge on all the land and other property of the company. With the de re to meet a wish frequently expired for lectors, explanatory of the contents of the palace, as well as on general branches al science, arrangements have been made with Mr. Pepr e , no LC.B., the well-known lecturer, for the daily of leonine illustrated by photographic diesel views et Pine Art Courts, &a, _and by chemi cal ex Thies attractions, combined with the en tertainments preesslag !maintains, the Saturday Concerts, the Winter Poultry Show, the Burns Centenary Festival, will, the directors trust, be accepted as indications that they era delarenned to do all in their power to mike the Ogee a plan of mart during the winter months. Diner the eneesata of the lease of Dulwich-wood, as attended by the eel el parliament of 1856, the company is bound to west et ems the erection of buildings of the value all s o7 es 1. is the peen yaw. The land having been od ve abe let Inedni lessee, but no satisfactory offers ha been retelnd, the titmouse thought It necessary to lempormily, this expenditure on the part of the =. Looking to the success which has attended operations In the immediate neighbourhood, they have every oonddence that the rents obtainable from these bowie will produce • good return on the expenditure; and that the house and nreend-rants may ulti mately be gold at a proth be the company. They .lea believe *at, by eh eameeneneent, other moms WW be Wand to ease Ihrwerd and take the remeiming et the be* Ind that by this mean. , not only wilt the Cru i re m recnimments of the lease be fulfilled, but the entire expenditure =the this had, not already provided for, be made good le the mespany. The dimaless congratulate the proprietors on the prospect of Inereand non to the Pane, erbioh is held out by the proposed kranks d • line from the West London Railway to the West BEd sad Crystal Panes Railway, crowing the Thames above Batbresett. This line, if carried out, will put the palace into immediate connexion with the whole system of railways north of theAtver, including the North Western, North Lon don, Gran Placebos, and Great Western • and will open up the importest Wahine to the north end north- east tif London. The propel** we no doubt generally aware that the re mind= sagoromdag the directors to admit shanholdere to the peleme s e u E on Sunday afternoons, which emanated dr tram at the general meeting of 30th June lest, owl apes a poll was demanded, was carded by a large melon, el the rotas of the proprietors. At the ad journed green masting, held on the 2 let of July, those intim woo deabled as 43,480 for the Sunday opmng end 19,405 ends* R. This resolution has been carried o ut by the issue e(porsonal tickets to those sharebolden who have applied for era. Up to the present time 786 Sunday *bete have bees applied for and timed. The numbered pains who have beeme holden of five shares and under, lea the paste. of the neilallee, Is 417. The number of additional &wedeln manse reraked on the Sunday is two, the wages of when de set eaterd E few shillings. The raieber of Ashen daring the six months embraced In the eteessis hoe ben 1,068,206, being an increase of 21,641 ea the etneependlep sir meths of 1867, and of 0,604 an the isms period in 1866. It to satisfactory thee to S find, that the nine NM Continue" to exercise so steady an It ballseeir e 16. "the. pemesture at present to make any statement with thgeni ee Ithe Groat Handel-Conamonormion-Feselval whin Ow* the leading event of the coming ,Wen. PoPleters any rest assured that while no exertion wadi be eperd i ditter by the directors, the general ee the Said 1110110ede 8 nevi , (who are again assodatad will the enneny in the affair), to render the festival *less erainidel he a musical polo: of view than Wank the peel et Wawa will be ex:robed in controlling the wow r a r i t=p, and In midday All expenditure which *not eunuch for mess. In anehtileM, the dielletalel look forward hopefully to the Adore. The y has every enadence that the improvement Ice a i,.......effefrkenneffient an the fen of themoonnta, bun te sine tenethe yawed= for the bads. Thle yeeneent Men petty keen an brraee•i Ike NW& nee. but daddy hen • geennieetios at anyerklete tpd s elnehmeninnee d eft eery in all the is et Me reiinieleldeg. It le the Ise belief of the dbeeterek perweilis thb emu* inornetee where peeelble andleee et te i = hi pt i ze g l ue gardese, the politica ma= will* Min bulbs" leek lbented uije th trieddiemillleg =Wide * reet a d L E dein a tl r• Deli Os oaken shine ai the eirsagesq • 7111 CRYSTAL PALACE AND 211.8 SOND.dY LIAGOA Last night a public meeting wu held at St. Marlin's 11111, in commotion with the National Sunday ito promote the opening of Me Crystal Priem to the pi=on Sundays, the provocation for tide step being the Got that certain dignitaries of the church bad denounced the opening of the Palace to the shareholders themselves ai,amo ral and irreligious. The chair wag °coupled by Sir JOSHUA WALIPALIT, Bert, wbo, In the 0011rei of his opening speech, congratu lated the meeting upon the growth of the League manatees, ability, and importance. Mr. STACK Men moved the first resolution, to the effect " that with a view to promote the social end moral pewees of the people, It is dateable that the Cryetal Palace should beamed to than on Sunday afternoon, arid that stepe should be taken to remove any uga difficulties to this end ;" and argued that the sentries of the Continent where Sunday wee sot regiuded in a fiabbatarian view were more moral than England, where it was PO regarded, and far more than drunken Soothed, 'rime it was moet rigidly observed. Mr. Laura( seconded the resolaion ; which wag sup ported for = c s a g fram Pra iboie of the w ig hois i C iniA ry they stal . a P w ate mam eli t t d aM m i e f p h e r ci m ed deu the i nixda t firebread was tim iatioa s for b e te they might a ff ord to despise it, but tender as it d id the oonsideration of the meeting. They walk however. Sad as lting to support their views in the New Teelefftwir sad could rely ea ea ether authority than the Mamie Mum mtloe whidithWowa religiou had superseded. The BST Kr WC defended the clergymen from Me them of)hetag the members of superstition, mid argued that tati ef the Learns Undue sameedul it would add ft the mama! of Sunday Muer, sad belly give the an TTOKIPS t ri=sing their kb= en the al day into their own Mr. Hosiara, • writing men, supported the latter view of the cum, sad held that going to the Cryetal Pease as Sundays for instruction wee all 0 genision.' MT. BAKTIIII LASOLIT dm/ended the primitivist; of the League, lbw which the readation was agreed te by a large majority, and the prcuadhrge imagist/4 in the usual acres.