The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-11 00:00:00

TRANSPORTATION BILL.

A bill under this title has been laid before the House
of Lords by the Lord Chancellor, "to substitute in cer-
tain cases other punishments in lieu of transportation."
The bill, which will take effect as an act from the Ist of
September next, contains 13 clauses. The principal prc.
visions are as follows :—Sentences of transportation will
be discontinued, except for life or for fourteen years
or upwards—that is to say, in all cases excepting those
in which, under the present law, a sentence of trans-
portation for life or for fourteen years or upwards,
would have been passed. In all other cases, which are
not punished by transportation for shorter periods, sen-
tences of "penal servitude" will be passed instead. Per-
sons who may still be sentenced to transportation for 14
years or upwards, or for life, may, instead thereof, be
sentenced to penal servitude. The following are the
terms of penal servitude which are to be awarded :
Instead of transportation for 7 years or for a term
not exceeding 7 years, penal servitude for the term of
four years.

Instead of any term of transportation exceeding seven
years and not exceeding ten years, penal servitude for
any term not less than four and not exceeding six years.
Instead of any term of transportation exceeding ten
years, and not exceeding fifteen years, penal servitude
for any term not less than six and not exceeding eight

years.
Instead of any term of transportation exceeding fif-
teen years, penal servitude for any term not less than
six and not exceeding ten years.
Instead of trasportation for the term of life, penal
servitude for the term of life.
Every person sentenced to a term of penal servitude
may be confined in any prison, port, or harbour of the
United Kingdom in which convicts are by law confined,
or in any part of her Majesty's dominions beyond the
seas, under the order of a Secretary of State, and other-
wise dealt with as persons sentenced to transportation.
In Ireland the Lord Lieutenant has the powers of a
Secretary of State.
Persons convicted of larceny after a previous convic-
tion for felony, are to be sentenced to penal servitude
for not less than four, or more than ten years, instead of
transportation.

AMENDMENT OF THE FACTORY ACTS.—On Saturday
was printed a bill to limit the hours of work of women,
young persons, and children in factories. No protected
person, from the Ist of January, is to be employed in
any factory between half-past five o'clock in the after-
noon and six in the morning, or between two in the
afternoon of Saturday and six on the Monday following.
ENLISTMENT OF A YOUNG NOBLEMAN.—The Marquis
and Marchioness of Londonderry have been greatly an-
noyed by a very foolish act on the part of their youngest
son, Lord Ernest Vane, who after having had a serious
quarrel with a clergyman with whom he has been re-
siding for some months past as a private pupil, in the
neighbourhood of the Andover-road station, came to
London on Thursday last, and, fearing to encounter
parental indignation, adopted the absurd alternative of
enlisting in a dragoon regiment (the 4th Royal Irish).
The noble marquis first became acquainted with the fact
by a note from his erratic son, It appears the gentle-
man with whom Lord Ernest has been residing bade his
servant accompany his lordship to town. The young
lord left with the servant, but would not accompany
him further than the railway station. The servant
came on to London with a letter to the noble marquis,
but nothing was heard of Lord Ernest until a note was
received by Lord Londonderry acquainting him with
the fact that his son had been formally attested as a re-
cruit at the Westminster Police Court on Thursday last.
This Lord Ernest was the pupil of Mr. Law, who clan-
destinely married the daughter of Lord and Lady Lon-
donderry last year. It is a curious fact that, although
now only a private soldier, Lord Ernest is godson to
the late King of Hanover, son of a distinguished general
officer, and nephew to the general commanding-in-chief.
MILITARY NEWS.—The several regiments now en-
camped at Chobham Common will move on Thursday.
next ; and the regiments ordered to form the new en-
campment will arrive and occupy the ground on the
same day. The 6th Dragoon Guards will move to Dor-
chester, the 13th Light Dragoons to Birmingham, the
17th Lancers to Hounslow the 50th and 93d Regiments
to
Plymouth, the 42d Highlanders and 2d Battalion
Rifle
Brigade
to Portsmouth, the 38th Regiment to
Chatham, and the 95th Regiment to the northern dis-
trict. We are glad to find that General Sir Charles
Napier is recovering from his late severe indisposition.
We have much pleasure in announcing the safe return
to England of Major General Banbury from the com-
mand of the troops stationed at Jamaica. Lieutenant
Usher, of the 91st Regiment, from the Athlone recruit-
ing subdivision, is to replace Lieutenant Wells, of the
Royal Regiment at Leeds, from the Ist of July, and the
latter officer, upon being relieved, is to proceed to Lon-
don, for the charge of the second infantry subdivision.—
United Service Gazette.
SWEARING IN THE. ARMY.—The camp at Chobham,
in addition to other advantages, will give a good lesson
to officers in command, and teach them how unneces-
sary is all swearing, bullying, and violence—one moment
using the most violent language, and the next under-
going the humiliation of apologising for it. No man in
the British army has set his face against this degrading
system than the gallant Lord Seaton, the hero of a
hundred fights. At Chobham you see this distinguished
old warrior and most perfect gentleman carrying out his
orders in that quiet but firm and decided manner which
is the admiration of all spectators, and endears him to
those he commands. We shall not indulge in persona-
lities, as we do not wish to wound the feelings of any
one, but let the young soldiers, however high they may
be in command, take a lesson from their distinguished
chief, and recollect that the low and vulgar system of
swearing is now out of date, and that the discipline of
regiments or movements of brigades can be carried on
without swearing or blustering.--United Service Gazette.
THE CHARGE OF THREATENING THE EARL OF ABER-
DEEN.—Thomas Whithead, an artist, who was examined
on Wednesday last at Bow-street police-court before
Mr. Henry, charged with having sent a threatening let-
ter to the Earl of Aberdeen, and was removed, by direc-
tion of the magistrate, to St. Giles's Workhouse, has,
since his admission, been examined by Mr. Bennett, the
resident medical officer of the establishment, who consi-
ders him to be decidedly of insane mind. He has also
been examined by Dr. Ede, who, although he will not
fortunate man labours under a very powerful delusion
certify as to decided madness, is of opinion that the un-

that a system of espionage was being pursued with re-
spect to his movements. These opinions coincided with
those expressed by Dr. Brooks, of Bedford-street, Co-
vent-garden, and Mr. Henry. The parochial authorities
have decided upon keeping Whitehead in the infirmary
until his relatives, who, it is believed, are respectable,
and reside at Bristol, can be communicated with relative
to his disposal.

MALDON BRIBERY COMMISSION.—The inquiry into the
practices at the elections for this borough concluded on
Friday last, when several witnesses deposed to the re-
ceipt of various sums for their votes at the election of
1847, and additional confirmation was given of the free
distribution of money by the agents or friends of all the
candidates. Reference was also made to the reckless
expenditure which took place in the long-contested elec-
tion of 1826, in which year, immediately before the elec-
tion and during its progress, nearly 2,000 persons were
admitted as freemen at a cost of from 10,0001. to 15,0001.,
and the expenses of the contest were estimated at about
18,0001. fpr Mr. Dick, the Conservative candidate, and
an almost equal sum for his opponents. Much conflict-
ing testimony has been adduced as to the sums distri-
buted by some of the agents, and it is generally thought
that if the amounts charged to the candidates much was
arrested in its course, and never reached the pockets of
those alleged to have received it.
TODD, THE FUGITIVE DISTILLER.—A warrant for the
apprehension of Todd, the bankrupt distiller, who re-
cently absconded from Ne woastle-on-Tyne, under most
disreputable circumstances, has been placed in the hands
of a detective police-officer of considerable experience,
counter-signed by the American consul at Newcastle,
with the expectation of tracking him in the United
States. The officer, accompanied by a resident of New-
castle, embarked a few days ago for New York. The
creditors of Todd fully expect, from certain particulars
they have elicited, to find him, and bring him back to
this country to be dealt with according to law.