The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-19 00:00:00

SPORTING-THTS DAY.

SHREWSBURY RACES.-THIS DAY.
EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
SHREWSBURY CUP.

Earl of Surrey ,
.
Flirtation
Watelifire ..
Sixteen ran.
SHORTS HANDICAP.

Disdain
Sheerness
Eight ran.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.

Hesper
Fravola
Miss Julia

Seven ran.
ANGLESEY NURSERY.

Mountain Maid
Quicksan d . .

Ten ran.

EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDING'S IN

AND O.UT OF FORFAR _PRISON.

A week ago the somewhat singular announcement was
made that the Governor of the County Prison at Forfar
had been taken into custody on a charge of reset of theft,in
connection with a robbery of some £294 from the person of
a farmer near Kirrietnuir. The Governor—Mackay—had
been seen to drive a prisoner in a gig or dog-cart on the even-
ing of Wednesday week from the prison through the New-
town of Kurriemuir to dplace on the Glamis road, where
they halted some time, and then rgturned to the gaol. On
the following Saturday the pocketbook which had been stolen
from the farmer was found empty, not where the Governor
and the prisoner had halted, but amongst some rubbish,
and putting these two circumstances together, the Procu-
rator-fiscal for the county caused Mackay to be placed
under arrest. After being kept in custody over Sunday and
part of Monday, Mackay was liberated on bail, and, we
believe, we are warranted in saying that the facts which
have since come to light are such as to render no doubt of
his perfect innocence of the offence with which be was first
charged. Mackay's own statement, which we belive has
been confirmed in every particular, is, that being aware of
the fruitless efforts made by the police to recover the stolen
money, and of the failure of repeated attempts to obtain
information from the prisoners themselves where the
money was to be found, and sympathising greatly with
the person from whom it had been stolen, he spoke to one
of the prisoners, urging him to point out where
the money was to bo found ; that the man, after some
time, said he would show the place if he was taken
without handcuffs, which Mackay, suspecting ho in-
tended to make his escape, would not hear of; that he at
last consented to go handcuffed ; that Mackay then, on the
Wednesday night, ordered the dog-cart, and, so far from
seeking concealment, told the warder to bring the man out
to him, and drove through the town on a clear moonlight
night, and up to the spot where the man alleged the money
was to be found ; but that on coming there and alighting,
the man said he would not point out the place unless the
cuffs were taken off his hands, and that Mackay declaring
he would never agree to that, and the man still refusing to
give the promised information, he ordered him back into the
dog-cart, and drove back to the prison. Such, asfar as we can
near, are the material facts which have led to the dismissal of
Mackay, They sho w estrange misapprehension of duty on the
part of a man who had been so longentrusted with the gover-
norship of a prison, but they leave his moral character un-
touched, and those who know him best most spmpathise
with him in the very painful, but, in the circumstances,
enevitable, result of his indiscretion. From the resolutions
adopted by the Prison Board, it is apparent that the eccen-
tric proceedings which has cost Macey his appointment is
far from being the only irregular in connection with the
County Prison. The terms of the Board's resolutions point
"to examinations, questionings of,prisoners, or overhear
of the conversation of prisoners at the instance of the
Crown or officers of police," as being practised in the Forfar
gaol without legal warrant; to the taking of prisoners from
prison, and generally to a disregard of the prison regulations,
such as cannot be too promptly dealt with. Since the
suspension of Mackay, numerous statements have been cur-
rent as to proceedings within the prison, which we should be
sorry to vouch for, but it is alleged—and the resolutions of
the Prison Board give some countenance to the reports
—that on many occasions, prisoners have been taken out of
the Forfar prison by the procurator-fiscal, or by police
officers to him, and sent back again without warrant; that
endeavours have been made to induce the Governor to allow
police officers to be placed in the corridor where they might
hesr the conversations of the prisoners, with the view of
obtaining information to conviot them ; and that bribes
amounting to considerable sums have been offered by police
offi.;ers to prisoners to induce them to tell what would lead
to the conviction of other offenders, Now, if the half of
these statements are true, they exhibit a mode of conducting
criminal prosecutions in Forfar which should be at once and
for ever abolished. The Prison Board, therefore, have done
well in taking prompt and vigorous action to prevent the
prison of Forfar being made a great trap for unconvicted
persons. Neither the Home Secretary nor the County
Police Committee are likely to leave matters as they stand,
and we may rest assured that henceforth prisoners at Forfar
will receive the same proper consideration and just treat
ment which is secured for them elsewhere,— Dundee
Advertiser,

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST _EVENING.

BOROUGH OF TOTNES.

The Gazette of this evening contains a notice, signed by
the Speaker, that he will, at the end of 14 cl.ys, issue a
writ for the election of a member for the borough of Totnes,
in the room of Thomas Mills, Esq., deceased.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 1, 1862;
The Queen has been graciously p'eased to appoint the
following gentlemen, now paid attaches at the places under-
mentioned, to be second secretaries in her Majtsty's diplo-
matic service :
William John Dickson, Esq., Tehran.
Lionel Moore, Esq., Constantinople.
Odo William Leopold Russell, Esq., Rome,
Hon. Francis John Pakenham, Copenhagen.
Henry Philip Fenton, Esq., Turin.
Lord Hubert de Burgh Canning, Turin,
Edward Robert Lytton, Esq., Vienna.
Hon. George James Welbore Agar Ellis, Paris.
George Strachey, Esq., The Hague.
Robert Thomas Charles Middleton, Esq., Madrid.
William Brodie, Esq., Rio de Janeiro,
Henry Lockwood, Esq., Stockholm.
Francis Clare Ford, Esq., Stuttgardt.
Gwalter Borranskill Congreve Lonedale, Esq., Munich.
Robert Burnett David Morie, Esq., Berlin.
Sidney Looock, Esq., St. Petersburgh.
Robert Percy Ffrench, Esq., Brussels.
Lord Schomberg Henry Kerr, Frankfort.
Hon. William Nassau Jocelyn, Berlin.
Gerard Francis Gould, Esq., Constantinople.
Francis Ottiwell Adams, Esq., Paris.
Ernest Clay, Esq., Paris.
Hugh Guion Macdonell, Esq., Constantinople,
Alexander Bower St. Clair, Esq., Vienna.
Thomas Clement Cobbold, Esq., Lisbon.
Robert Grant Watson, Esq., Tehran.
Frederick Robert St. John, Esq , Pekin.
Hon. Henry Wodehouse Constantinople.
Eric Robert To% nsend iarquhar, Esq., Buenos Ayres.
Hon. Luke Gerald Dillon, Vienna.
Hon. Francis Richard Plunkett, St. Petersburgh.
John Walsham, Esq., Mexico.
Edward Baldwin Malet, Esq., Washington.
Horace James Johnston, Esq., Mexico.
Hugh Fraser, Esq., Guatemala.

,
DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 16.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry Astbury
Leveson, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary for her Majesty's
Settlement of Lagos, and Charles Piers Esq., to be Supe-
rintendent of Convicts for the Colony of the of Good
Hope. (Ape

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTEEDAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam • 11 161 11 ltif
Antwerp ....7 25 374 25 45
Brussels
Hamburgh l3 61 13 61
Paris
.. Short.
Ditto
3 Months. 25 35
25 371 25 421
Marseilles
l'rankfort on Maine —
Vienna
Trieste
341 35
Petersburgh _
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn

49t 491
49 49t
25 55 25 60

MARKETS---TIIIS DAY.

MA RK-L ANE.
The trade
in all articles was rather dull, at fully Mon.
day's deolino in prices.
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat Barley. Malt.
.oats.
English...... 1,760 1,180 1,390
170 310
Irish.. ........
2,900
Foreign.... —82,720 2,740
36,710

Flour.
670 sacks

1,760 sacks

BOROUGH Hop.
Our market continues firm as regards all good and fin
hops ; but inferior produce is dull, and prices have a down-
ward tendency,

IVIIITECHAPEL.
Moderate supplies of wheat are on offer, yet the trade
rules firm as follows :
Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2d ;
lamb, Os Od to Os Od; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; and pork, 3s 8d
to 4s 8d per Sibs by the carcase.

THE ACCIDENT ON THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.
—We are glad to be able to announce that all the sufferers
by the melancholy accident which occurred on the Caledo-
nian lino, near Beattock, on Saturday night, are in a fair
way of recovering. Yesterday, Mrs. Briedie and her in-
fant of four and a half months, returned home to Greenock
With the remains of her husband. Mr. Percival and Mr.
Morrison still remain at the Beattock Hotel, but a day or
two at most will enable them to proceed on their journey.
The engineer and fireman are both recovering in the Car-
lisle Infirmary,--Northßritishlifail,