The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-20 00:00:00

MARK-LANE.

The country markets held on Saturday were firm for
wheat, and selected parcels changed hands at an advance
in price of is per quarter. For spring corn there was a
moderate demand at fully late rates. The flour trade was
steady on former terms.
At New York a moderate business was done in prime
red spring wheat for export to Great BriLin, at further en-
hanced rates. On the continent the trade generally is
steady.

The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week
were small. The imports from abroad amounted to 6,596
quarters of wheat, 4,660 barley, 25,811 oats, 280 beans,
1,605 peas, 257 tares, 6,510 linseed, 6,650 oil-seeds, 10
sundry seeds, and 175 sacks and 9,218 barrels of flow.

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104 31
61 60}

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE,
VTheat —Essex and Kent, red, 1863, per qr 33s to 418
Ditto, old .--3 —s
Ditto, white, 1863 4ls 464
Ditto, old —s -8
Norfolk and Lincoln, red, old —s —8
Ditto, 1883
Talavera,
_ _ _

Rye—
Barley—Grinding 228 25s
Malting* —B --s
Malt—Suffolk and Norfolk 6OB 66s
Brown
Kingstown and Ware 6os 66s
Chevalier.. ..« 668 688
Oats —Yorkshire anr Lincolnsh., Feeding lBs 238
Potato
Youghal and Cork, black l5B 23s
Cork, white
Scotch, Feeding l9s 23s
Beans—Tick
Pigeons,
Peas—Grey
Maple
White 33s 368
Boilers 338 36s
Flour—Town-made, per 2801 b
Suffolk 2Bs 308
Stockton and Norfolk.. ---- 278 298
American, per barrel l9s 25s

METROPOLITAN CATTLE.

There was a full average supply of foreign stock on
sale in our market to-day ; but its general quality was only
middling. Sales progressed slowly at barely late rates.
Fresh up from our own grazing districts the receipts of
beasts were seasonably extensive, and the general quality
was prime. The arrivals from Scotland were large, via,,
129 from Aberdeen, and 622 from Forfarshire, Fifeshire,
and East Lothian. For the most part they were unusually
firmer. Although the attendance of buyers was numerous,
the beef trade was in a sluggish state at about last week's
currency. A few very superior Scots and crosses realised
4s 10d; but the general top figure for beef was 4s 8d
35i per Blbs.

Business don

28i 9
1051 41 5i

From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we
received 2,203 Scots, short horns and crosses; from other
parts of England, 700 various breeds; from Scotland, 751
Scots and crosses; and from Ireland, 80 oxen and heifers.
We wero seasonably well supplied with beasts, both as
to number and quality, Prime Downs and half-breds
changed hands at full currencies; otherwise, the mutton
trade was heavy; and in some instances the quotations had
a drooping tendency. The top figure was 5s 2d per 81bs.
Good and prime lambs moved off freely at full prices
Inferior lambs were dull, but Rot cheaper.
Calves were in moderate supply, and sluggish request
at late rates,

In pigs, next to nothing was doing, on former terms.
Per 81bs. to sink the offal.
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d
Crse. &inf. beasts 3 '2 3 6 Prinaecrs-wool d 0.4 6 4 10
Second quality do. 3 8 4 0 Pm e. S' thdown d 0.5 0 5 2
Prime large oxen 4 2 4 4 Largo orse. calves 4 0 4 8
Prime Scots, itc. 4 6 4 8 Prime small do 4 10 5 0
Urse. & inf. sheep 3 6 3 10 Large hogs 3 6 4 0
Second quality do. 4 0 4 4 Small porkers ... , 4 2 4 6
Lambs....6s Od to 7s Od.
Suckling calves, 16s to 20s ; and quarter-old store pigs,
20s to 265 each.

TOTAL SUPPLY.

Beasts ...

FOREIGN SUPPLY.

• 1
Cows — i
Sheep and lambs.... 28,730
Calves ..
Pigs _ . 5201

Beasts
Sheep and lambs 6,620
Calves •• .• •. 280
Pigs

The total imports of foreign stocK into London, last week,
amounted to 11,092 head. In the corresponding week in
1863, we received 8,323—in 1862, 8,212—in 1861, 10,075
—in 1860, B,oB2—in 1859, 6,936—in 1858, 3,964 head.

THE MANAGEMENT OF PRISONERS,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

5, Child's-place, Temple Bar, June 16, 1864.
SlR,—Will you permit me to address you a few
lines on your leader of yesterday's date upon the
system of the management of prisoners and their
supervision ticket-of-leave men.

In your article it is assumed, and, ibdeed, it is
generally understood, that Sir Walter Crofton is the
originator of a system of supervision with which his
name is associated.

Now, sir, give this gentleman all the honour he
deserves, but you will admit that it is quite fair
that every person should have his due, and that it is
natural, after so many years of labour, I should try,
at any rate, for what I conceive belongs to me, viz.,
the credit of being the originator of a system and
a principle now recognised as most important to the
community, and, therefore, I submit that when you
are in possession of the facts,
you will concede the
credit to me of many years' priority of clearly lay.
ing before the public and ministers a practical
system upon the question.

- In proof of having done so, I beg to state that I
drew up, for the Secretary of State, a system of con-
vict discipline, which was published in 1833 in Tas-
mania, where I was High Sheriff—that this work
was June, 1849, in the
Eclectic ecr t3icvie e
Review,din aErtnicglleantdheiathird, by some writer
who thought my principles might work well here--
that, failing to move the Government or any party,
I gave up the question as useless labour, though I
saw acted upon. But
in Drny ece mobpeinr,iolnBB6f2r,olmhtaimd abrought under my notice
on the occasion of
'him to a meeting in
the
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Brigßristol
a li tnetrr
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it
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that city with the view of his addressing it upon the
punishment of criminals, and I addressed to the
Dean of Bristol, Dr. Elliot, the letter I take leave
herewith to enclose you a copy.

Leaving the affair for your consideration, and
fearing that I have trespassed too much upon your
space, I am, sir, your obedient servant,
THOMAS BANISTER.

To the Rev. the Dean of Bristol (Dr. Elliot), on the occa-
eion of his introducing Sir Walter Crofton to a meeting
a memorandum on
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5, Child's-place, Temple Bar,
Dec. 26, 1862.
REV. Stn,—ln the Times of yesterday are reported the
proceedings of a meeting on the punishment of criminals.
At this meeting you are reported as taking the chair, and
introducing Sir Walter Crofton to the meeting.
* Whether Sir Walter Crofton was the founder of the
system of convict discipline with which his name is con-
nected, I cannot say, as 1 do not know the date when he
suggested it ; but I can say that I drew up a system which
was published in Tasmania in 1833, of which colony I was
High Sheriff several years.
My work was reviewed in June, 1849, in the 25th num-
ber of the Eclectic Review, article 111. The article was
entitled, " Ticke•s of Leave in England : A Letter on
Labour, addressed to the Secretary of Stale for the
Colonies. By Thomas Banister, High Sheriff ot Tasmania,
1833."
In this review you I.t ill see, and I am sure you will be
candid and just enough to admit, that a system origina-ed
with me so many years ago as 1532 and 1833 in principle
and details so like Sir Walter Crofton's that his looks very
like a copy of it.
My system aimed at, not the [unishment of prisoners, for
that the law decided, but their reformation under its sen-
tence carrying out the sentence strialy, though
humanely.
I submit, sir, that you will admit that not anything is
more difficult than to originate a system, and that not any-
thing is more easy than to throw off a theory, as the latter
a lively imagination and confidence will produce, whereas
the former requires varied experience of men with power
and originality of mind. It is not for me to say that I
possess the latter. Whether Sir Walter Crofton possesses
power or originality, or whether he has had varied experi-
ence, I know not; or whether he ever sew my
work, or the
review of it in the Eclectic, I cannot say; but certainly the
system he has credit for and claims is very similar to that
suggested by me,
I may add that I have from time to time pressed upon
the Government the errors of their schemes in vain for
many years ; but as it was inaccessible to reason, I have
given the matter as labour in vain—satisfied that their
failure was only a question of time.—l have the honour to
be, Rev. Sir, your very obedient servant,
Telolia.s BANISTER.
Memorandum, 6th January, 1863.
If Sir Walter Crofton had seen my work, and did not
say so, and that he had adopted what he comprehended of
it, it is probable he would be too complete a diplomatist not
to keep it to himself.
It has been said that men who pirate a patent or an idea
or system generally break down in working them. The
reason is in complicated matters they are ignorant of the
principle or the patent or system, nor do they fully take in
the idea—hence their failures and blunders. Will this
apply in the matter under consideration?
In my letter to Dr Elliot it would appear that I gave him
credit too hastily, He had not the courtesy to even acknow-
ledge it. I have a right to presume that he received my
letter, as it was not returned to rae through the Post-office,
and I suppose he considered it was not fitting for him to
say anything about the subject of my letter after his advo-
g upon, and also upon the whereabouts of
the convicts
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cSanirseWbaf Crofton'slftneirlurein
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England may, I think, be traced
to
known after they obtain their tickets
of leave, and the difficulty
consequently of knowing with
certainty their proceedings, SO that an opinion might be
formed whether they continued deserving of the indulgence
of a ticket or leave, Thus there can be no check upon
them, or very little. Now, they should be under the eye
the
system
not acted
being
of the police until their sentences were expired, and always
fable upon proof of a breach of the conditions on which
they had the privilege of a ticket of leave to be brought
back by the magistrates' order.
It is simply folly, or weakness, to make a fuss about
their being under surveillance_ they teeeY have forfeited their
free agency by their sentence, and they pay the penalty of
their freedom or free action.
Sir Walter Crofton's system May have worked better in
Ireland from the fact of the great emigration from thence
to America—where the emigrant is received as an Irish-
man, without any questions being asked ; and, doubtless,
numbers of men from prisons left the country. Thus the
system of Sir Walter Crofton cannot fairly y be considered
free from doubt.
Jan. 6, 1863.

TIIOINIA.S BANISTER.

e I see by Sir Walter Crofton'B late publication that
tickets of leave were issued in Ireland in
1856.

Recruiting for the Army.

the Everyrigh device
6ovr]ii:.e for
Some
• TO THE EDITOR OF TiE SUN.
SlR,—There is a great clamour just now about the diffi-
getting men
time ago
ed
I pointed out through
ctouletnylei
enlist
riescrstu=teeaZiy);
your columns the real cause of the
mischief. Let the Government do away at once and for
ever with the cat-e'-nine tails and the branding iron, and
there will be no dearth of recruits. The lash and the brand
may be necessary for the worst class of convicts, men who
are murderers at heart but too great cowards to strike the
blow, and too debased to heed any other punishment. But
tor the soldier, whom we style a hero, and who it the
guardian and defender of the nation's highest henour and
most important
interests, the cat and the brand are not
suitable. Abolish both and You will get plenty of recruits;
retain them, and no inducements will tempt men to enlist.
Such are the plain dictates of
COMMON SENSE,

the Emperor to make a choice amon __
g the works at the
The Prince Imperial baring been
Exhibition of Living Artists, has made his first purchase. "
It is the Wounded Drummer," by M. Armand Dumaretcq,
that has been fixed on by the young Prince.permitted by
QUICKSILVER.—In the four Months ended April
30 last the quantity of quicksilver imported into the United
Kingdom was 1,195,4131 b. In the same period of last year
the supply did not exceed 358,0981 h., while in 1862 it was
not more than 82,7811 b.