The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-09 00:00:00

WAGES OF PRISON OFFICERS.

Mr. GRAHAM, pursuant to notice given, moved the
following resolution, founded on a printed report of the
visiting justices of the three prisons in which they re-
commended an increase of wages to the officers :
" That in consequence of the increased price of all articles
of consumption since the year 1850 when the wages of
the officers of the prisons were regulated, an addition of
2s. per week be made for six months, commencing on
the 29th of September last, to the wages of the male
and female officers who have been engaged at the re•
duced scale of 20s. and 16s. respectively."
Mr. C. ARMSTRONG seconded this.

Some discussion took place upon thz subject, in which
Mr. Kemshead, Mr. Thompson, Mr, Williams, M.P.,
Mr. J. Wilson, Mr. Woodward, Mr. Elliott, Mr.
Payne, Mr. Baylis, and Captain Bague took part, and
the motion was ultimately carried by a majority of 12,
23 voting for and 11 against it.

The remaining business having been transacted, the
Court was adjourned.

SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.

The public interest in the exhibition continues un-
abated, as is manifest in the immense numbers that
crowd day after day to the Bazaar in Baker-street,
where it is held. The numbers attending yesterday
were quite as great—it was impossible they could be
greater—as on the former day ; and we should think the
directors must feel it their duty to consider what further
accommodation they can afford to the public. At pre-
sent the attendance in the Baker-street Bazaar—so far
as the sight of the cattle goes—is little better than a
farce. In the centre area of the exhibition, where the
short-horn oxen—the principal features of the show—
are placed, the passage between is so crowded that
locomotion is attended with great difficulty, while it is
out of the question for weakly and timid people to get
near enough to see the animals at all. The back of
Sir Harry Verney's gigantic ox, to be sure, may be
seen over the heads of the crowd ; but it is
only at the cost of pushing and of being
pushed for minutes together, that one can get near
enough to see his complete proportions. So it is with
most of the other cattle—so in a slightly less degree
with the sheep—so in a still greater degree with the
pigs. In the galleries the crowding is the same. All
the agricultural implements are surrounded by eager
admirers. The specimens of Irish green crops, sent by
the Royal Dublin Society, are also fenced round with a
living hedge, while many of the vendors of washes for
sheep, patent medicines for horses, &c., are reduced to
the necessity of attracting the attention of those beyond
the stationary crowd in front of them bawling out their
wares, as if they were as many itinerant hawkers. The
outer yard, where the steam-engines are at work, is as
crowded as any other place, and it is only in out-of-the-
way corners that any relief from the incessant pressing
of the crowd can be obtained.

The butchers appear to have taken the hint thrown
out to them last night, at the dinner, by Lord Portman,
and have come forward more freely to purchase, as a
considerable proportion of the animals now have tickets
with the word " sold" affixed to their stalls. Still some
of the finest animals in the show—some of the prize
animals themselves—remain without purchasers.

ANOTHER COLLISION ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—
On Wednesday morning a collision occurred on this line
of railway, near Masbrough, to the 7.40 passenger train,
srpuhnening between
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shrouded in
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density, and as it was known that a coal train from
Kilnhurst to Sheffield would have to pass from the
Kilnhurst siding on to the main line, within a few
minutes of the time that the Midland passenger train
was due, the guard made the inquiry from the station.
master at Kilnhurst whether the train had gone forward.
He was answered in the affirmative, and assured
that it was ten minutes in advance of the passen-
ger train, which had only been going at a slow
pace, but now gathered more speed. When it arrived
within about half a mile of the Masbrough station it ran
into the coal train, which was on the same line of rails,
it having met with an accident from the breaking of a
coupling chain, which detached some of the waggons
from the rest. The passengers were thrown violently
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had sufficient time to proceed down the line and use the
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goods break van and a coal waggon were smashed, and
The permanent way not having been damaged, less de-
the circumstances.
SCHOOL FOR THE INDIGENT BLlND.—Yesterday a quar-
terly court of the governors of this corporation was held....
at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, the Rev- in-
Evans in the chair. The minutes of the several sittings
of the committee, among other matters, make reference
to a bequest of the late Miss Dent, and to a 1,11.°1),,
from his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to:e:
con-
-315/. to the funds of the institution, These
his
of a
firmed. Anew byelaw was then enacted,
in con t
Highness the Prince of Wales, the charity,
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donation of 315/, to be by him presented „, pupi
to the privilege of having at all timesan_
d discipline as the
school, under the same trealnen_t
d her were in the
other pupils. The report
etate73 males and 67 female,
web', them during the
institution 140 pupils, na
factured by
and that the articles manu
1,274/. 12s. Scl. After the
year amounted in value itlin„s, a vote of thanhkescowuarst
disposal of some routineand 0
th proceedings of t
chairman,
passed to the
Fr OF A RESPECTABLE FEMALE.—
terminated.
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test —ce of the body of a respect-
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ham, with marksFulham, kept by Mr. C. Hart. An in-
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Tavern,
The following is the description of
Swan el be held.
twat Bv 50of age, 5 feet 6 inches, lone.
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and vicinitY' ; been found in Eel Brook, Ful-
the decease— black marks on the'
and bruises ; dressed in black-white straw
right sid?
withred silk, and trimmed with red rib-
bonnet, lined
black veil ; red worsted shawl ; patent leather
bon ;
boots.
grey hair, dark brown false front,