The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

!Mt Court.

WINDSOR, MONDAY.—Prinoe Albert enjoyed the
apart of shooting this ationieg. The royal diarer party at
the Castle this swain/ will include the Beckon of Ken,
the Prioress of HokeolohoLaagenbourit Lady Anna lima
Dawson, &mine de Bpeth, Lord sad Lady Rutheeo, sad
Mr. O. B. sad the His. Mrs. Ansa.

The Earl of Claremdon had an interview with Lord
3. Rama yesterday at his official 'widens* in Downing.
street. The noble earl had also an interview yesterday with
Sir G. Orey.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town
yesterday OV•13/111 from hie meat, Hickleton.hall, Yorkshire
Mr. Viryld, M.P., had an interview with Sir 0.
Ge
re yesterday erd at the Hemetalce.
tau* were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial office foe the Governor of Bt. -Helena.

TUE Otrearstot or Jausica.—We understand that
lettere have been reenived from Jamaica, from Sir Citable
Greys family, stating that his tall from the mule was by no
MIMS es seism as woe reported, end that there is no truth
in the story of hie having bad the yellow fever.

DEATH OT But ROBERT D. HOES &THIN-
@TONI, BAILT.—We hart to record the demise of the
above venerable honest, who expired • ifsw days ethos, at
Logic Elphinstons, Aberdeenshire. The late Deanna was
second son of General Robert Dahymple, who married
the heiress of the late Sir imam Elphinstese, of Logic, and
who on the death of her kthsr assumed the eases of Horn
Ziphinstone. Hs was ben 27th ,•b. 17014 and had eon.
seqaenlv nearly attained ths advanced age of 83 yeses. In
May, 1800, he married Him Grams, ditagbtar of Coionsl
David Hepburn, by wham hts leaves a anmarons family.
The deceased was created a barons! in Dia, 1827. by the
same designation as his mat rest graadither and has been
for many years a depetrileatensat of Aberdeenshire. The
late baronet to sureseded la the baronetcy and large estates
by his second son Janes:born 20th Nov., 1805, and married
27th April, 1838. Mary, fourth daughter of the late Limit..
O. for John Hama Maxwell, Bart. The deceased was
Cat:n of Lord Dunmore, and a collateral member of
le boors of Stair, and was nearly related to the
Dasher de Coigny, the Countess of Csaapardown, Sir Henry
Hamilton Dalrymple, Lady Barnett. &a

MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION. 'The lists mimed
yesterday wen those at Edgware, Finchley, Ornt and Lit-
tle Btaamores. Barrow, Hendon. Kingsbury, and Pinner.
In the Harrow new claim list a Mr. Whiteliend claimed as
the of an estate, without describing whether it was
old, eopyhold, or leasehold. The barrister said such a
description w E. clearly bad in law, and intimated that had there
teen any person present to object (the agents on neither side
were in attendance), he should certainly not allow the claim ;
bat as there was no objection raised, he should consider that
his attention bad not been called to it, and allow the name
ft stand.—The court sits to-day at t►e King's Head, Enfield.

- REAL DM. MONIS 111241..10 ASSOCII7IOI4.—A west-
lag of :he directors and proprietors of Shia company was
held yesterday at their ellen iss Duke-street, Adelphi, foe
the of confirming or dissenting frost a resolution
adopted on the 25th nit, whereby the comp. ay was 'greed
W be eleioased.-8w R. Prise hook the chair, sad after thu
notice Convening the meeting had bees reed, Sited that it
had been hoped by the dew the preset meeting would as-
male the reket from Means would have wrived, but en
fist wee not the ass, is sad hie brother directors w re of
/risks the enostiag, which was far the purpose of agreeing
M a Anal dismantion of dm sempasy, ought to be adjournedhe ewe week la order to Word time for the packet to arrive.
—3le. Borne Twigs, Q.C., accordingly wined that the
wamist* be adjourned nada Woodsy, Oet. 30, et three
rds, whisk wee anaidasously erred to.
WESTERN 'man alma' FREE BcflooL—'lts
mewl sauna' nualaaties of the pupils of the above charit-
able Jesting:l-a took plea, rends, at the new school room,
30, Deaa-street, Soho, the Dake of Cambridge presiding.
• report was road by the secretary, from which it appeared
that the progress of the school since its commencement had
he.. most satisfectory. The number of pet hod increased
boa 13 to 6.3. and 11 of the children who bees -
Used oat had girls the utmost satisfaction to their as.
The committer had bow obliged to draw 601. of the reserve
And from the sailer beak, but trusted that future sub•
soriptions would enable them to replace it, and to *Mead
then spier, of usefulness. TM report having hew adopted,
the chiLren were emairml by the chief rabbi is aripturs

history, Hebrew, and the use' trismeagen branches of an
English education, attar whish ea esserkeel ode was recited
aWs meth preggien of mobs& by Bawds* Phillips, one
eteentrampile, sad the pairs bentai hem distributed and a
ade, the preessdiege tonalsated.
Tee Cdeadde.—Oue fatal yea wee repotted to
the tisane' Bend of Health se having occurred
la the Lanka lisepbaL Peon the rebus loose
sew nee end Owe lade at patinae blare reported. Two
huh arse at Newhaven mad bee dodo. roar at Leith
rad sae death. A use has oureesodi at Ilwomes, and cue at
kioitaseeetruth. Oer Weald& assoupeadeat mites that
the two woe relined te yeeloodei, those of the convict on
baud the Bahl hosphol 044 Wedwiek, sad Maly, the
rime, beiseake telteetwish Deskyord, leave both brad..
sued fatally; Foressately there have bees ao aew coals
the tows, sad it has bees awertalsed. ia additica to the
facts stated yesterday, that Mealy h bees oa various
occasion previously attached with dysentery. Then
have bees se freak doubt is board the fauvist
belts, but emend sow cues, three or bur of
which are stated to be very desseroas. The system
of hulking, eves in the hospital ship, is so bed as hardly to
admit of proper natilatioa, sat on board the Julitla there
were many of the berths into which the analit sever could
enter, whilst is others the only aperture for the admisaion of
air was a few square lashes in area. The mortality is not
nearly so great now as It was in April, 1841, when brow.
chide sad pneumonia prevailed in the hulks, and when at
cm* time nine ingrate were held on convicts in one week.
At that time thelocal papers pointed out the propriety of
abolishing the system of hulking. a suggestion which unfor-
tunately was not attended to. The first fatal case of cholera
on board the hulks occurred just three weeks since, and
since that time thirteen deaths have occurred out of between
forty and fifty persons attacked. The town is declared by
, all the medical men to be man healthy than it has been for
years past.
THE MILITARY AND NAVAL EXPENDITURE OF
ENGLAND:IOV few people ever realise in their own
minds what is the meaning of a sum of mosey such as
18,600,0001. a year, spent for the support of a warlike
establishment It was well observed by Mr. Henry Drum-
mond that such sums convey no more idea ordinarily of
what is meant than astronomersdo whet they speak of
the distance of this planet from the sue. The beet way of
impressing it on people's miods is by coesperier it with
something that they come in contact wills in ordinary lite.
A Manchester man will understand us when we my that
the above sum would pay for all the buildings in this
borough—that two years of such expenditure would devour
• stun equal to the whole of the capital employed in the
cotton trade. A fanner would comprehead what we meant
if we spoke of • fund which, if employed is egeinelture,
would pay 10s. • week to more them 700.000 labourers
throughout the year—as mach as is paid to ell the peasantry
in England and Wales—or u much as would drain every
year upwards of four million acres of land. Now, it this
uge outlay townsessary to preserve our shorn from being
invaded, our destroyed, and our fertile fields ravaged,
then it cahoot be called unproductive; t n the contrary, it
would enter into all production, since ti/1 capital and labour
would depend upon the seeuri,y afforded by our armaments
for their safe employment. But every soldier not
for defence, and every ship of war more than Is require
for our security, are a pure waste and destruction of capital,
yielding no return whatever; and the real and only ques-
tion before us is—whet is the amount of danger, and to
what extent is it nenerary to provide against it ? Every
/kashmir has a right to • voice in the solution of the
guestioa. For our parte, we should be willing to risk the
gradual reduction of our armaments until they were
breacht down to a out not exceeding 10,000,000 i. a year,
ad to trust to Providence fur our safety, whilst offering
the first example of a partial disarmament. This would
with savings in other benches of the exec ad'inte, anon pre;
about ten millions of revenue at the disposal of government
for the reduction of taxation ; and we are of opinion that
mere real strength and consequent security would accrue to
the nation from the prosperity and contentment that would
to
spring out of the remh eim of excise and customs duties
that amount than In any expenditure, however great, upon
soldiers and sailors. It is of course understood that each a
project involves the necessity of remodelling our colonial
system, and of reverting to the old constitutional mode of
government at home by the civil and not the military power.
—llanclirster Tuna.

Lows BLANC'S FATHEIL—M. Louis Blanc has
addressed the following letter to a morning paper, respecting a
paragraph which also appeared in the Express :—Sir,—
A libel, published at Paris, and copied into your paper of
'yesterday, asserts that my father died last week in extreme
destitution. This, sir, is an infamous falsehood, and under it
is toweled a most odious insinuation. fin years have
pared sines my father dii d, and all who were acquainted
with him are perfectly well aware of the deep affection, of
the tender areL and of the devotion with which his children
always attended him. Then are some talacenite so vile that
an honest man is apt to hesitate in lowering himself to the
level of his calumniators in order to confound them. In this
instance, however, I find myself obliged to overcome the
disgust that mash villanies inspire, to demonstrate the low
degree of basemen to which political hatred can descend.—
I have the honesty to be, sir, your obedient servant, Lords
BLANC. Londou, 128, Piemdilly, Oct. 22, 1848.
FREEHOLDS AND Votes FOB WORKING MEN:
—Sir.—" The 40.. freehold " u, after all, the only laver upon
which we can rely to overthrow all opposition te legitimate
reform. The "Birmingham Freehold Lind Society" is
paving the way for an extensive and vigorous attack upon
the monopolists of the counties, and which I am sure will
speedily be followed by other influential towns and cities.
We have been in existence 13 months, number 987 members
holdiag 1,438 shares, and had not trade so long been lan-
(tithing, I verily believe we should now have numbered
nearly 5 000. We have given 195 allotments to our mem-
bers at • con of a sam averaging 191. each, each alot
meat containing 7 yards front and 60 yard. deep
of eligible building land. Each of the allotting is
qualified as county voter; the annual value of
their plots of land being placed beyond all doubt,
some having already let off on a building lease of 99
years, for 50s. per annum. Here, sir, is a mode of extend-
ing the suffrage that admits of no question, and has enabled
us to give the franchise to more men in nine months than all
the agitation has given them in aim years. Ths power of
union is also manifest. The leading features of this misty
being to buy building land at the wholesale prim, and Man
it to the members at the same price. The difference *slat-
ing between wholesale and retail prices of land is alarm
latredible, and requires some facts to convince parties
unaccuainted with them to believe it. Land which
was asked and worth 3s. 4d. per yard retail, his
bees purchased wholesale et Is. Id'. per yard, This has
been done by our society. Had our ellottees individually
made their own parakeets, each allotment, lasted of
averaging 19f., would have been about 571. Who, then, I
ask, will not have a piece of freehold, and • vote for the
county into the bargain ? I conjure all professing reformers
to immediately turn their attention to this subject. West
Yorkshire and South Lancashire were easily subdued by
individual tanks brought to beer on those important dile&
none; and I am as fally onvinced as evident. can make me,
that the whole of the 62 counties may be before the next
magnesia' electior, by the means of " frnhold land socie-
ties," placed in the heads of the friends of civil, religious,
and commercial freedom. To this nun, then, I implore the
aid of the influential and affluent. Let "county qualifies.
tics" societies be everywhere formed. Working men, who
really value their " charter," will join them. We, in Biming.
ham, with our allies, have meteor " evil intentions"upen three
county divisions, via , North Warwick, East Worcester, and
South Stafford, and " win" them we certainly shall ! Hur-
rah for the day whim my fellow working men shall exercise
their maiden vote, and defeat those who have had posse alen
taitgiutr of these counties! North Warwick will be the first
weaned st
from tory thraldom. I long to see the day come
(and acme it Infallibly will) when we shall meth to the
polling-booths with our banner floating gently In the breeze,
with the Inscription in gilded characters "Qualified free-
holds!' and totem through the instrumentality of the Free-
hold Land Society," the band plavint in triumphant metes
" See, the conquering heroes come." That every county di-
vision may enjoy the pleasures of such a day, and such a
soma* Mr. Editor, the ardent hope and firm belief of yours
faithfully, Elscarraxv.—Birmingham, Oct 23.
FRENCH NATIONAL GUARDS IN THE METRO-'
erotic— Last night upwards of 400 of the Parisian National
Guard, attired in their mileage sad wearing ithearms,
arrived is the metropolis, aid the Beath Linea Seaway.
From Lotdon.bridge a awaked* of assthusse sad Wei eon.
veyed them to the foreign hotels fa the vialskF of Limner.
square : • great number marching in data red gages at•
traded eonsiderable curiosity as they peeled thrash the
thoroughfares. The hotels in the ninthly at the Hey-
market, Leicester-square, and Regent-ferest, were maned
to overdriving by the =expected influx, and essay of them
were compelled to put up with very indifferent assimmoda-
tion. 600 more are expected to-day. A Illajodillas of
officers will, before their departure, wan on the Lewd Mayor
and aldermen of the City of Leaden, to invite them to a
grand banquet in the city of Park. One pan, mode
dais way on to the Seven Dials. nets appetraaso
on this spot soon created a great crowd, ameassl
whom were two of the Coldstream Guards, who limit
hands with the Pensions, who in their tors ex-
claimed " Vive TAngleterre !" at which the crowd seemed
highly delighted. About 9 o'clock a disgraceful act
was committed by two other grenadier guardsmen. Two'
of the French national guards were passing up Fleet
street, when they were accosted by the two grenadiers',
in a friendly manner. They invited the grenadiers into the
wine-vaults, to cement the friendship by a glen at
the bar. A sovereign was tendered by sue of the aatioual
guards in payment, and upon the change having been plated
upon the counter one of the greasdien to up • por-
tion of the money and placed it in his pocket This did
sot escape the notice of several weans at the bar, who
immediately interfered, and demanded that the money
should be returned, but the de:inquests refuges, the polite
were called in, and the fellows conveyed to the station-
house in Fleet-street—not, however, before the police
had been very roughly handled by the prirmen. The
national guardsmen, through their interpreter, begged in
the strongest terms to have the men sent to barracks, and
no more notice taken of the matter, but this the inspector on
duty most positively refused to accede to. the amount pin.
loiaed, 125., having been found upon them. They were
locked up, and will be brought u" to Guildhall this dn.
Some of the omnibus conductors also behaved very ill to the
'tauten by overcharging them In some instances the dis-
pute. which arose la consequence had to be settled by the
P olice.
SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—The queen,
in her late journey from Scotland t: &veiled over .500
by railway, and when it is known that over this distance her
majesty was conveyed, without any previous notice, at the
rate of 35 miles an hour including stoppages—at a rate
amounting to but sot exesieding at any time, 50 miles au
hour, over a country rising twice to an el-cation of 1,000
feet above the level of the sea, and descending, at interme-
diate stations, nearly to the level of the sex, and so coiveyed,

without the fthtest cause for alas:—we may be per-
mitted to say that the railways of &Bale, under their
present systems of management, have reached an meant of
perfection. Mularity, and security, unanzpassable end
Qum aaMmid for.famoir Oaserier.
THE HUNGARIAN QUORTION.--liiir.—ld dime"
tuna of the manifold tepreeenqUess boned forth by the
Times, I beg that yea will Mum the following. In cite
of their yteadea ce pertiel Owes end fed.. infermees,
maistado IBM the Reaprien Dist wsad ham been always
reisgairlir as few& the Iseparti. I say skywards the
, _he Ide art *ilk Mu they (struggling for Men
own aerdersalltylmight um to have melded la the Italian
war. They, ea the misery, ought rather to have at aloe
withdrawn Male teeMingem (some 20,000 men), and that
dime, Smionade walk all big 'opener generakship, scald never
have meimmemed lb. Nidsmese. That wee a political crime
whisk summta yam unavenged and their punishment has
bum, that while their eatinel troops In Italy were aiding to
direst bask Medea Albert into Pledstrat, the Ban J 41.-
chiefs, by the geomytlags of treacherous eamariNa—Oce the
idiot emperor h may a tog in the lamb of knaves and Beds)
—with a figarealan faros of Creak fisevien, and birder
troops, withdrawn ham the Todd& trestier, ammenesil a
AM-diarist lidamsden imaneellea ovine the opmendes of
Use Hanarimis l New es the political engine of s Gawp
moms been so mash and as is thin asp for,
Ice feet, no epyromlos =bed whatever. Let am Malt
a little to show low Hungary Mead io reseed M
freedom, even Were the ravolatimos
The p dthe kingdom of Buggery ( •
larger proportion et Mears Mon maally mg=
oso
of some 12,000000 moan. Of these
Magyars ; and then also am Lull 1,000,0173 Cierames who
sympathise with them. Next come about_ memo et Wel-
Mauna, who are of Italian origin; 300,000 Jews; sad the
raid,. composed of Sclavonians vie., .em 2,00,000
tiLowacks to the such, 600,000 &mitotic' la the Notre and
about 1,600,000 Croatians and Serviette in the smith. 'The
old constitution was decidedly aristocratic, the only sneers
being 260,000 nobles of the tree cities. Yet they of them-
selves abrogated the law, which did not impose any tax on
the nobles, end likewise, in 1840, placed all religions upon
an equality—Romaniet,Oreek, and Calvinist, of which creed
nearly 2,600,000 of the Magyars are, and the same also for
the Jews. Such being the case when the nvolution of March
took place at Vienna, they wrongfully, as before stated,
agreeing to support the Emperor against hely, obtained from
him, when a fugitive at lanspruck, his assent to their having
a ministry separate from Vienna, in width ministry Kossuth
has since taken so prominent a part. The List then (Alban
chised all males of 21 years within the realm, and a most
.tended tenant right we. given to all the farmers of that
fertile soil. Thus end all the fictions of oppression practised
by the Magyar on the Bcl-woolen race. They have offered
them p.rfect equality with themselves; and, bat for the in.
trim'a of the court party, perfect contentment would have
followed. Such is the people and such the present constitu•
tioo, which the camarilla seek again to reduce to the bu-
reaucratic domination of Vienna, by means of Jellachich and
the Croat borderers from the military frontier.—Poiro-
MAOYAa.—Oct. 21, 1348.
MARBLE VENEERING, OR SLATY PAINT.—Ice Ohio,
according to a New York paper, a Mr. Blake, of Akron, has
discovered a minims mineral, soft at first, and like indigo,
but hardening in a few days lot., a airy stone. On analysis
it Is found to consist of shout one-half silica, one-fourth
alumina, with magnesia, oxide and sulphate of Iron, lime,
and carboa. By reducing it to fine powder, mixing with
linseed oil into thick paint, and applying it with a brush to ,
wood, iron, tin, Cm, or brick, it become., after a few months'
exposure, perteetly hard and indestructible. As a protection ,
against fire, it is said to be invaluable. In the west it
is in large demand for covering roofs of buildings, for
bridges, and fences, &c., all of which it protects from
weather m well as from fire. School slates are manu-
factured by applying it to thin wood or paste-
board. On wooden mantel fronts and tables its appeal-mos,
when polished, is held to be not inferior to the finest Egyp-
tian marble. Mr. Blake has procured a patent for his die-
covery. Would not Portland cement, in fine powder, and
thus applied, a ith linen d oil, produce a slaty veneer over
similar surfaces We maks a present of the suggestion to
foe Portland cement manufacturer,. Parien cement mixes
web oil, and might thus, we think, be usid as paint, or for
!Amy veneering ; and certain'. the surface of blocks of Port-
landsmen' reminds one a good deal of slate; the hardening,
too, Gema soft or moist state very much adds to the mem
blame which it hears to this new worla's wonder. By the
wsy, sibs, with lime, has been found, if we mistake not, to
forte a bon of glaze well adapted to give a story veneering,
like this, to plaster.—The Builder.
A MEDY:O-LEGAL QUESTIOIL—A rather puzzling
use of allegel re . suicide is ported in the Alumna d'flygirae.
A woman is tosno asphyxiated by the fumes of charred, end
her husband sties that he and deceased had agreed to com-
mit suicide, but fiat he had survived the of ma of the car-
bonic acid gas. Now the question was to ascertain whether,
in the eireanistatices qi which he woe placed, he could have
resisted aephyzia, as he maintained ? Wm it not likely that
he destroyed his wife by she coal fumes, and placed himself
In such a way as to simulate a double attempt at 'snide ?
The medical men consulted on this matter resolved to place
everything in the nom in the manner pointed out by the
I prisoner; to produce the same evolutioo she gas, cud t„ sae
the effect it would produce on the identical lamp which swig
continued to burn whilst the supposed attempt at asphyxia
was going on. They expected, moreover, thus to discover
to what extent the air breams deteriorated In a ghee
time, and thereby to judge of the yoke of the prisoner's es.
motions. Now it bapoeoed that the lamp went out is a
much shorter time than the alleged attempt at suicide—es.
cording to the prisoner's own matements—lasted, and Oat
'the air became so soon deadly that it would have been in-
possible for the husband to do certain acts which he snood
having performed, a much longer time after the charnel
was lighted—namely, the descending into his shop Ow vas
a grocer), the reaching down of a Jar of alcohol, and she
getting up again into. the room with the jarin one hand sod
the lamp in the ether. The prisoasr stated besides, that le
had swallowed three large glares of alcohol, but nothing,
when he was found, pointed to the ingestion of so enonneu
an amount of spirits. The medical witnesses therefore es-
slimed the following question in the negative—Can the pel.
saner have been placed in the same asphyxiating circus.
stances as his wife, and not fall a victim to the fames d
charcoal as wells herself Lama.

A SHERIFF'S WIFE ROBBED. Oa Sunday last
the lady of Mr. Oaodhart, one of the sheriffs, was robbed of
a pans containing several sovereigns and some silver. The
lord mayor and the sheriffs and their ladies attended the
charity sermon at the church of St. Catherine Cr.., is
Leadsnhall-street, and on going to their carriages alter the
service a wall-dreoesd boy, who stood behind Mrs. Goodbodt,
whipped the passe oat so cleverly as to get out of t before
it was mimed. Of late the depredations committed by well.
dread boys and females who look like respectable mothers
of families have been innumerable. The cleverness with
which the robberies have been committed is stated by the
police to be very remarkable.
ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
—Yesterday evening, on the approach of the half.pest 6, P.n.,
train, towards the Shoreditch termini, of the above railway,
Richard Ellie, a man employed in the telegraphic depart-
ment of the line, inoantiondy attempted to stsp oat of tho I
caoriags on to the platform, whilst the train was in motion,
cm doing which his km slipped and he fen under the wheal.
The result was instantaneous death, hisbody being mutilated
in a most horrible manner, and his head nearly severed from
It. No blame can be attached to any person but himself, him
oompaaions in the carriage having ineffectually rinnonatrated
with him on the folly of tits attempt.

THE GREAT PRISONS OF LONDON.-
WHITACRqBB:STRERT.

Whitecroos. strwe prism. II
has been built at different time., but always with the some
purpose. It has never been a place of confinement for cried.
nab, and consequently it presents a totally different aspect
to the eye of the visitor from any of the gaols which we have
hitherto inspected. This is observable in the character of
the building as well as in the characters of its inmates
Then ion° work of any kind going forward. No attempt to
offer or afford the unfortunates any sort of instruction is
visible. Many of them, of course, do not need it—and
others, who do, would not avail themselves of the privilege if
it were held out to them. But probably numbers would.
There is, however, a religious service once a day,
and twice on a Sunday. A majority of the
&terms —it would sound harshly were the term prisoner ap-
plied to a debtor—attend upon these occasions; bat no one
is fouled to do so, and many exercise the Englishman's right
of pleasing themselves in the matter. In point of fact, the
governor and officers of this gaol have little or no power over
their charges beyond what is absolutely nsorneary to their
safe custody.
Whitecrossetreet prison is divided into six distinct di-
visions, or wards, respectively called:-1, the Middlesex
ward; 2, the Poultry and Gilr-street ward; 3, the Lud-
gate ward ; 4, the dietary 6, the remand wad; 6,
the female ward. These wards are quite *operate, and no
eamanniestion is permitted between the inmate, of one and
amettage. Before commencing our rounds we gain from
osassostion with the intelligent and civil governor an item or
teas elussfal preliminary information. The establishment is
engable se holding five hundred pstus• It is, however,
very idiom that half that number is confined within its
walls at tee time. At this period last year it had 147 inmates;
the pressure of the times has sines considerably increased the
total. There are now 205, of which number 8 are females.
The population of this prison is, however, very migratory.
Last year there were 113 lets than 1,143 commitments. This
shows an advance upon previous yeah, the result of the
operation of the Small Debts Act, • part of the building
having been set apart for persons committed under that act.
Many debtors we now sent hither fora fixed term, mead
ten days, at the expiration of which they are
This punishment is principally inflicted for contempt of
court. A woman was recen.ly locked up here fa ten days,
for contempt, because u' able or unwilling—it was difficult to
say which—to &rasese a debt of Deserver).* ! In all such
cases a more penal discipline is enforced. The person incar-
cerated is not allowed to maintain him or herself, but is
compelled to accept the oounty allowance. However, as the
pion dist is very good, this is so very great hardship; and
as their terms are always shoet,these are not the most unfor-
tunate of the inmates utWhiteero!svtreet. _ _

Now te us enter the first or kliddirsez ward. It is appro-
priated to the use of debtoe from the county—whence its
name—bat not from the City ; and this being a very largo
ereimdfaency, it has a very ecomidsrable sad diversified
number of representitives here. We come suddenly Into a
spacious yard, nagged, kan, and airy considering the dense
part of the City in which the prison stands. Its now visit-
ing boor (10 to 1, sod 2 to 4), and the yard is con-
sequently crowded. We may as well state, for the in'orms
lion of such as have no knowledge of the police of
a debtors' prison, that within Ve visiting boon auy person
can enter the gaol to see his friends and acquaintance with-
out restriction. The scene, though not wit►out great inte-
rest, Ind even EOM touches of the picturesque, is suggestive