The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-10 00:00:00

IN CREASE.

Bills discounted not yet due. •.. 944 millions
Bank notes
Current accounts ...... . ~..... 24 1-5
BOURSE, July
9.—The market continues dill, and
prices have slightly receded, Threes, for the Ac-
count, being now at 68f. 55e. Little doing in
Railway Shares,
but up to the present time the
prices of yesterday have been pretty well main-
ained. The market closed as follows:
Italian Loan 7l 90
Do. end month 72 95
New ditto
Do. end month 72 45
Russian .. 93
Austrian
Spanieh Threes.„ 53 50
florae Debt

It per Cents .. 97
Do. end month.... --
3 per Cents
Do. end month..., 68 60
Credit Mobilier...,ll9l 25
Do. end month 1192 50
Bank Shares 3400
Credit k oncier 1325

RA IL

'AYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans .............. 1015 „. 1016 50
Northern
New ditto ............ • • --
Lyons and 14dediterranean 1028 75 .. 1030
Geneva ................ 472 50 472 50
Southern .............. 662 50 662 50
Western .............. 572 50 .. 527 50
Eastern ......... •.. 500
Sardinian ..........
Austrian
Lorphard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona .• •

A Tribute to the late Sir Joshua Jebb and
his System of Convict Discipline.

Referring to thesuresci into the System of Convict Treat-
ment—an ccoomrkplßeteepdorßtee,p. oorbtsoefrythese, Rinoyiatsl
Ccoolmummnsissioonf offhlenquiry
abstract of which has already appeared in the
of so importance issue of of Monday, that " the Report" sets at rest at once and
completely the controversy as to the Rev. Charles Gibson's
statistics in his popular book on Convict Discipline. Our
Irish contemporary goes on to remark—" It shows that
gentleman to have understated not overstated his case.
And, except on
a single point,
tainly, it goes to confirm his views as me
to the discipline of
our convict prisons, and our treatment, generally, of the

convict class. ; ie which the Commissioners agree
One important princ,p.
should be left untouched, in
.our existing system, is that of
remitting portions of the punishment to which the convict
Iv e
are incarceration by hie own
is liable, in case he deserving of the remission by
ionvserayngdlardealtoissfiinondsthoet
his good conduct, while undergoing his sentence.
They
think the length of the sentence should not be "unalter-
ably fixed," and they
declare that no other advantages
transportation to Western
produce an equally
this goodelov effectpe isn.n hison,
ai
nst hwde
et
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society,
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Englishot hpee
bpoCferonoTdmpehi punishment,: Commissioners
propriety
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be retenoetasgilurtrTuhsmiuhesag ttretocihiy:lttoiulennitnhkv;esi:tocl
o,att relaxations
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greatere
Irish t sentences,
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--,
discharge.tbheetfahrgiee
friends
modification
an a
admirerso f it
consider has been very useful.
by Sir Walter
for penal servitude.
they
question, there r •
have claimed
i whose
deserved,
vr recent lamented
would
sh ow dheiamt ht
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prisoners,BC
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have
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" improve-
So far, as regards remain to
be considered the much. controverted differences between
the English and Irish systems—the former established by
deprived the country of a mast able and zealous
public
the late Sir Joshua Jebb,
atnn functionary—the
amount
Crofton,i oonu anfrtoyro—fwethrhei eedhli at
histtt
he latter t ,
ments" of Sir Walter may be described as " inter-
mediate prisons"—to gradually accustom the
one of our highest social benefactors. The two
convict
to self-control—and " police surveillance,'—after his
discharge, on ~ ticket eef.leave." Mr. Gibson—adopt-
ing Sir Joshua Jebb's views—was opposed to
both. And, in our notice of his work, we stated that, in
our opinion, he quite established the worthlessness of the
"intermediate" stage of the Irish discipline. Lusk-farm,
as Mr. Gibson described it, could only be regarded as a'
y
thorough delusion, and the Commissioners report abso-
lutely against this part of the Crofton system,
And here, the Cork Reporter goes on to remark, let us do
justice to the reverend author of " Life Among Convicts,"a,l3
by showing how much within the truth
was, in the
figures which he was charged with exaggerating. Mr.
Gibson alleged that the per centage of relapses in the inter-
mediate prisons was far greater than in the ordinary work-
ing convict prisons, being in the former 13 per cent., in
the latter only 8f per cent. From the Commissioners' Re-
port it appears that the ordinary prisons from 1857 to 1863
give 7•1 per cent. of relapses, while Smithfield and Lusk,
the " intermediates," give 18 3 per cent, Nor is this all.
In 1862 these establishments showed over 21 per cent.
of relapses, while the English prisons, on Sir Joshua Jebb's
system, gave only 6.5 per cent. After this, the less said
about the intermediate system the better,
As to the question of police surveillance, the one
part
of the Irish plan approved of, only time perhaps can decide
as to its real utility. The per centage of relapses as above
recorded, is not calculated to show its great advantage, And
the general decrease in Irish crime, as the Commissioners
show, has had no connexion with it or with the Croftonian
arrangements, in any way. That decrease began before
Sir Walter had at all appeared on the scene. Still we are
not ready absolutely to contend that the surveillance
should not be tried in England, as well as here,
and its results considered. We cannot conclude
without observing that the report seems fully to justify
the high encomiums passed on Sir Joshua Jebb, and 11
should somewhat confound those who have sought to de-
tract from his merits, in the hope of thereby adding to Sir
Walter Crofton's fame. The former is now no mora, and
praise or blame can affect him nothicg. Bat those who
merest his memory will, in the report of the Commissioners
find the system which he introduced and ably administered
vindicated satisfactorily from tho rsproaches hastily or rock-
bogy cast on it.