The Sun.
London, England, 1853-08-30 00:00:00

AUSTRALIAN DIRECT STEAM NAVIGA-
TION C0311`2% NY (via Panama). Incorporated r•y Royal
Vnarter. The Directors hareby announce their intention to pro-
ceed with the Allotment of Shares on the aist August instant.
(Signed) JOHN CAMPBELL, Chairman.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean.
LAST NIGHT Bur THREE OF TEE SEASON.
THIS EVENING, AUGUST 30,
Will be performed THE DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Sup.
parcel by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy.
After which, SARDANAPALU3. Principal characters by Mr.
and Mrs. C. Kean.
To be followed by CHESTERFIELD THINSKIN. Characters
by Messrs. Harley, Meadows, Addison, and Miss Vivash.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
MS EVENING, Ave. 39,
in be presented LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Miss
Rebecca /saws; Edgardo, Mr. A. Braham ; Douglas Ashton, Mr.
H. Cord.
To conclude with THE SWISS COTTAGE.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII.
Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster —Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING, AUGUST 30,
Will be performed GENE VIEVE. Characters by Messrs. Parselle,
Cullenibrd, Woolgar, Leigh Murray, Hastings, A. Wigan, Paul
Bedford, Keeley, 0. Smith, and C. J. Smith, Miss Woolgar and
Mrs. Keeley.
♦fter which, will be presented BAR DANAPALUS.
To be followed by THE CAMP AT CHOBHAM.
To conclude with WHAT! NO CAB ?

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farrell.
THIS EVENING, AUGUST 30,
Will be performed THE TIMES. Characters by Messrs. T. Farren,
J. Johnstone, William Farren, H. Marston, G. Cooke, and Sheldon ;
Mesdames Auderton, H. Gordon, E. Turner, and Bartlett.
With BHYLOCK, or, THE MERCLIANT OF "VENICE PRE-
SERVED." Shylock. Mr. F. Robson.
To conclude with THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Jem Bags,
Mr. F. Robson.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL kMPIIITHEATRE.

Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.

The Best Ventilated Theatre in London. NOTlCE.—Further Post-
ponement cf the New Classical Burlesque, in consequence of the
hitherto unprecedented attractions of the memorable Battle of
Waterloo. the admired Scenes in the Circle, and the never .tiring
Fox Chase. Rank and Fashion nightly crowd the Boxes, while
the Pit and Galleries are filled to overflowing, giving to the
Management a decided proof of the Public wish. No spectacle
evalicreated 30 great a sensation as the revival of the Battle of
Waterloo. To add to the effect, a Military I;rass !land ha 4 been
expressly engaged. leturn of Miss EMILY COOKE from her
Continental Engagements, which have been attended with the
most brilliant success. Due Notice will be given of Miss KATE
COOK'S First Appearance in London.
95TH NIGHT OF TkIE CHASE.
THIS EVENING, Accitisx 30,

And daring the week, will be presented (68th night) the renowned
ITTLE OF WATERLOO.

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To be followed by an entire change in Mr. W. Cooke's Scenes in
the CIRCLE, Introducing bliss Emily Cooke, the World's Wonder.
Concluding with (95th time) THE CHASE; or, LIFE ON THE
TURF—with real F,a Chan,.

Box-office o en from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.
THIS EVENING, AUGUST 30,

Brilliant Routine of Entertainments—Panorama of CHUSAN,
Splendid MENAGERIE, and Promenading Elephants.
EXHIBITION of the MARINE AQUARIUM, a Collection of
Sea and Fresh Water Fish alive, in five late Gifts 3 Tanks. The
Mollusca, Zoophytes, and Crnstacea malted expressly by P. 11.
Gosse, Esq., the eminent Naturalist.

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Vocal and Instrumental CONcEII.T.
Miss Poole, the p .polar English Voca%t

Two IttvopriLt songs by

The whole concLitlinq with the wmilerf t Taloeaux of THE
FEAST OF LANTERNS, brillitt fit Yfiti :!; WORKS, anti EXPLO-
SION of CHINESE JUN I. Adin!,isien, Is.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDO,

Tiita Dar —Morning 36 min. after 10 I Evening 16 min.:tn. 11
To-Me:know—Morning 0 min. after 0 Evening 52 min.at. 11

TILE WEATHER.—Sus OPFICS, AUGUST 30.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
67—highest since noon yesterday.
52—lowest this morning and during the night.
67—this day at noon.
BAROMETER, 30.05—rising steadily.
WIND, W.SW. to W.—Fine breeze, and sunshiny,
summer weather.

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LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1853.

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The masterly Report recently compiled by
Colonel JEBB, and presented by command of
her MAJESTY to both Houses of Parliament,
is calculated, we conceive, to elucidate most
of the difficulties, if it do not actually er.,d
entirely solve the problem, iuvolved in the exceed-
ingly complicated question of penal discipline ap-
plicable to convicts under sentence of transporta-
tion. It would be difficult to exaggerate the
merits of a document which goes farther than any
other official statement yet published, towards pre-
paring the way for a comprehensive series of re-
forms in the whole framework of our criminal
jurisprudence. Within little more than a hundred
pages, are compressed an array of indisputable facts,
important evidence, and invaluable statistics, all
bearing directly upon the subject of so many
anxieties to the Government, and affording the
light of experience for the guidance of the judg-
ment of the Legislature. We have carefully
scrutinised the materials now collected together
by the Surveyor-General of Prisons, and we can-
not but acknowledge the existence of the merits
apparent on almost every page of the Blue-book,
the merits of indefatigable industry, of puncti-
lious exactitude, and of a really admirable lucidity
of arrangement.

A minute description is successively given
by Colonel JEBB, of the discipline and ma-
nagement of the several convict prisons under
Government. In this manner we are con-
ducted by him, step by step, as it were,
through seven or eight of the principal among
these establishments. We traverse the whole
range of their respective systems, and examine
cautiously into the result of their operation—at
Millbank, at Pentonville, at Portland, at Dart-
moor, at Portsmouth, at Parkhurst, and at the
Convict Hulk Establishment. Prior to any in-
quiry into the existing scheme of convict disci-
pline, we are made acquainted by the Surveyor-
General with the extent of the different prisons,
and the amount of accommodation at the dis-
posal .of the Government. An aggregate
of 16,126 (exclusive of 200 females at Millbank,
irrespective even of all the numerous prisoners in
Van Diemen's Land) shows the extent of that
accOnarnodation. Of these 16,126-2,850 are
abroad, 5,046 in Ireland, and 8,030 in England
and Scotland : those 8,030 being thus distri-
buted-1,096 •
par,
.nii the Invalid Depots, 625 (juve-
niles) at
Hulks for
pub-kit'i';'-',,t, 3,72) in the Prisons and
prisons aside f:i."' and 5,659 iti the eleven
the
stations
Purpose of separate con-
finement.
•, L.
to Gibraltar, ,11er,,,,:°,1,15'
ietourse, refer
d Depots telnt
The Invali Australia.
Stirling.- CaStiO fclk „I. er, I." D.:A.llll°or and the
, ' -L-ortst ii
SODS and hulks for Public
wurk,
Buuti,„l. . The pri-
Portsineuth, the able-bodied de include Portland,
moor, and the Defence and ta-arrtrnent at, Dart-
Woolwich. While Millbank, Peniorni" at
at
_ville, Av
field, Preston, Leeds, Leteeee • ake-
„ 1., Nortlyt. it,
Bath, Reading, Eedford, and Perth constitute
the localities selected for the eleven prisons for
separate confinement. Such are the establishments
for male convicts, such is the manner of their
distribution, such is the extent of the aCCOMITIO-
dation, up to this time, at the disposal of her
Majesty's Government. Having explained all
these particulars, having shown that the total
convict population, during the year 1852,
amounted to 9,525 2,953 having been re-
ceived during and 6 572
those twelve months, zi ,
being the number which remained in the convict
i
prisons on the Ist of January at the pert edf of
that year's commencement—loving explained,
moreover, that 2,658 (out of the before men-
tioned aggregate of 9,525) having been disposed
of during 1852, there consequently remained in
the different convict prisons no less than 6,867
on the 31st of last December—Colonel JEBB
enters minutely and dispassionately upon t:e
examination of the complicated and difficult
question of penal discipline •1.
applicable to convicts
under :sentence of tr:n
While ,portation.
enCeavourhlg so to balance evidence and
contrast statistics, that btl ' y
the most effectual mliner to facilita ) 1 11"-
tend
in
mate solutiOn of the ate the ulti-
pr„ 1,1.,m
under
considera-
tion, the Surveyor-General of Pr
we 61 oiifess it, scarcely tens
to Prisons contrives,
.” ,"( .du4ration to )r our amazement
„„
_..,,. - ~ es:4,, ? . preserve his ON
vn judg
f 1, --VP:4y, ps::tequilibrium• Colonel el P. •
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