The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-07 00:00:00

BETTING AT MANCHESTER-YESTERDAY.

This morning the Leamington Stakes engrossed the
attention of those speculators who are not gone to War-
wick, Transactions on the Leger, Great Yorkshire
Handicap, Cesarewitch, and Cambridgeshire were limited.
The following shows the latest betting :

ST. LEGER.
210 to 200 agst West Australian.
4to 1 agst Sittingbourne.
7to 1 agst Rataplan (taken).
9to 1 agst The Reiver (taken).
GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP.
10 to 1 agst Heapy (taken).
ta:
10 to 1 agst Boarding School Mies f ( ken).
12 to 1 agst Haco (taken).
CESAREWPTCH STAKES.
3300
ttoo
asst TWoirliteernt (taken).(taken.
33 to 1 agst Nancy (taken).
40 to 1 agst Nervous (taken).
50 to 1 agst Muscovite (taken).
50 to 1 agst Rosalba (taken).
50 to 1 agst Placid (taken).
1000 to 15 agst Knight of the Shire (taken).
CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.
1000 to 30 agst Pelion (taken).
DERBY.
7to 1 agst Autocrat (off.)
22 to 1 agst Hesse Cassel (taken).
25 to 1 agst Marley Hill (taken).
1000 to 30 agst Scythian.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1853.
The figures within parenthesis denote the number of

day's racing.
SEPTEMBER.
Cheadle (Staff.) (2)
Warwick (2) 6 Dover 15
Totnes & Bridgetown (2) 7 Pontefract (2)
Weymouth
I
Morpeth (2)
Western Meeting 8 Lanark (2) .. —• . 22
Rochester &Chatham (2) 8 Manchester Autumn (2).22
i Western Zoyland and Canterbury (2) 22
Bridgwater (1) l2 i Newmarket F. 0. (3)...27
Folkestone, Hythe, and Walsall (2) 28
I
Sandgate l3 Northallertou (2) 29

OCTOBER.
Chester Autumn (2) 4 i Warwick Autumn (2) ...18
Monmouth
YorkshireUnionHunt(l) 6 Kelso 18
Wrexham (2)
Newmarket S. 0. (5) _lO Newmarket (H.) (6) 24
NOV-EMBER.
Worcester (2) ............1 Shrewsbury (2) 15
Epsom Autumn (2) ...... 3 Newton Autumn (1) 24
Cowbridge Hunt (2) ..... 9 Abegstwith (3) Last week
Li•zerpool Autumn (2)... 9
The prisoner was then
Murray, the deputy gaoler.

'removed from the dock by

IMPROVEMENTS AT THE LONDON HOSPITAL.—A large
number of mechanics and labourers have been engaged
for several weeks past in erecting a new wing at the
western end of the ground attached to the London Hos-
pital, which is intended for a new and commodious ana-
tomical theatre, lecture rooms, &c., for the medical stu-
dents. Various parts of the old building are also under-
going extensive improvements, and lofty towers or shafts
are being constructed for the purpose of ventilating the
wards.

REMOVAL OF THE WHITECHAPEL-ROAD TURNPIKE.—
Yesterday morning a number of men were engaged in
pulling down the old turnpike situated in the High-
street, St. Mary, Whitechapel, near the parish church.
The removal of this obstruction, which has existed for
half a century, has been much required, and will greatly
improve the High-street, through which thousands of
vehicles pass daily. The repair of the roads will, in
consequence, be paid for by a rate on the householders.

DISCIPLINE AND MANAGEMENT (►F

Co-NilCl'

( Continued from The Sun of September 5.)
CONSTRUCTION OF PRISONS.

No improvements in the construction of prisons have
suggested themselves during the past year ; but I con-
tinue to be of opinion that, excepting in houses of cor-
rection, to which the prisoners of populous cities and
towns are committed, there is no advantage to compen-
sate for the expense of constructing separate airing yards,
or dividing the chapel into separate stalls.
As regards exercising yards, there is no question what-
ever that the health of prisoners is better promoted by
active exercise carried on under close supervision than
when they wander listlessly about a small yard.
As regards the division of the chapel into separate
stalls, or bringing the prisoners together for divine wor-
ship, Mr. Reynolds, the chaplain at Wakefield, who is
a warm advocate of the separate system and has had
experience of both plans, thus expresses his opinion :
" The new chapel has now been in daily use for five
months, and we have therefore had full opportunity of
judging of its mode of construction, and of comparing it
with the arrangements acted upon before it was finished,
namely, for the prisoners to be assembled for divine
worship without any attempt at individual separation.
I am of opinion that the plan of the new chapel is very
objectionable. I object to it in the first place, because
I think it is calculated to produce disagreeable associa-
tions in the minds of the prisoners regarding a place of
public worship. I object to it in the second place, be-
cause I believe it to produce a chilling feeling of isola-
tion opposed to the proper social character of public
worship. I object to it in the third place, because, in-
stead of preventing communication between different
prisoners, it affords increased facilities for communica-
tion ; in the fourth, because it affords an opportunity to
the ill-disposed to employ their time in chapel in writing
on the woodwork of the stalls instead of attending to the
service, and opportunities, also, of disturbing the wor-
ship of other prisoners by making noises, which is
very difficult to trace to any particular prisoner. These
evils we have found to exist in fact, notwithstanding a
great number of officers are employed in watching the
prisoners in chapel, itself an injurious arrangement, but
in fact, no number of officers in a chapel thus constructed
can prevent communication from going on among the
prisoners.
" I would add, that although the central hall was not
erected with a view to its being used for public worship,
and that a better form of building for public worship
might easily be devised, 200 prisoners assembled daily
in it for worship for eight months, with not more than
half the number of officers to superintend them as are
required for the same number of prisoners in the new
chapel ; and that, nevertheless, such was the excellence
of the order observed, that duringthe whole of that time
there was only one single report for misconduct."
Mr. Shepherd, governor of Wakefield prison, also re-
marks on the same point :
" I have heard the evidence given by Mr. Reynolds
and Mr. Alderson, respecting the evils arising from the
plan of construction adopted in the new chapel, and I
entirely concur in all that these gentlemen have stated. I
have myself frequently occupied one of the stalls in the
back part of the chapel during the time of service, and I
have found that it requires a strained and painful atten-
tion to connect together the different parts of the dis-
course, notwithstanding the preacher was speaking in a
high tone of voice ; in truth, it demanded a degree of
attention which no prisoner, who was not very earnest
in his desire to hear and understand the sermon, would
be likely to give. Although in some parts of the chapel
it is thus difficult to hear the preacher, the faintest
whisper is heard from stall to stall ; and I find by the
statements and admission of prisoners themselves, that
it is no uncommon thing for a prisoner to carry on a
running commentary on the prayers, and for indecent
and profane conversation to go forward."
Much of the inconvenience pointed out by the gover-
nor and chaplain at Wakefield has been experienced at
Pentonville. Writing of the most objectionable cha-
racter appears on the wood-work in reany places, and
punishments for attempts to communicate have been
frequent. These cannot fail to have a prejudicial effect,
as being associated in the mind of a prisoner with his
attendance on religious worship.
If in county prisons, from which prisoners on dis-
charge are dispersed, and usually return to their parishes,
the discipline has been conducted on the separate system,
as recommended by the committee of the House of Com-
mons of 1830, it will have been impossible for prisoners
to form intimacies, or devise any plans which would be
likely to increase their power of mischief on liberation.