The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-09 00:00:00

BANKING DEPAITBIBN T.

Proprietors capital.. 14,553,000
Rest ••••• • • • • • 3,855,368
Public deposits (in-
aladi ng Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-
.

Government securi-
1 ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) .. 14,074,183
'Other securities .. • • 10,795,769
Notes . • . • • • • • • • • • • • 9,942,4 :5
Gold and silver coin.. 662 299

vidend accounts).. 6,140,572
Other deposits • •• 9,197,754
Seven day and other
bl lie •• •• 1,128,002

X 35,674,696

£35,674,696
M. MARSIIA.LL, Chief Cashier.
49.

Dated the Bth day of March. 18,

COURSE OF EXcii.
Amster ........ 12 2
i Ditty, at sight ...... 12 0
Botterdain •• .. 12 2'
25 65
liamburgh .... • •31.1.8. 13 1214
A1t0na.......... ••
earls, 3 days' sigh t ...• 25 25
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 52S
larseilles • . ........ •• 25 52s
Bourdcaux.... . 25 55
Frankfort on Maine... 19.1%
Petersburgh, Sil. Rble.. 31,S
Berlin... • ..... .. •• ••
Vienna, effec. f 10...... 11 29
Trieste, ditto.... •• .... 11 30
Madrid •• •• ........ 4914
Cadiz .• •••••••• . •• •• 491 i
iilliao.. ••.••• •• •. • ,
Barcelona
Seville•• •• •• ••• • • •

A N (•E.-( THIS DAY.)
Gibra1tar..............
Leghorn ........ 32 80
Genoa ...• • • ...... • • .. 27
liilan .......• ........
Venice .... .. • • ....
Naples .............. 39%
l'alerzno, .. 1:8
Messina 11814
62%
Oporto . • • • • • •
Itio Janeiro ....... • •
Buenos Ayres --
New York, 21 days'aight
ehiladelphia .... • • ....
PIIICYB OF BULLION, PER 02
Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9
l'ortagal Gold Coin 1 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 6
New Dollars 6 4 10%
(Silver in bars ...... • • 0 b 0

LIE LATE REY. FATHER MAGUIRE.—The trial
`34 of Mary Reynolds and Hugh Quin, for murder, by
poison, of the celefrated Father Thomas Maguire, came
off at the Leitrim Assizes on Tuesday last, and ended in
the acquittal of both prisoners.
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDG
—The 16Cth anziverssry jubilee of this society was cele-
brated yesterday in the c ,thedral church of St. Paul's,
when an excellent selmon was preached by his Grace the
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, on behalf of the insti-
tution. There was an exceedingly large attendance of
the nobility and clergy; amongst whom were observed
the Duke of Cambridge, the Archbishop of York, the
Bishop of London, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop
of S,. Asapb, Dr. Buckland, the Dean of Westtnin.ter,
the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Villiers, the Rev. Dr. Dale, vicar
of St. Pancras, Archdeacon ilale, and several others of
the canons. The choir Lumbers 68 voices, alai was re-
-34 enforced by the choristers from Windsor, Wt stmin>ter,
and the Chapel Royal. A liberal collection was made in
aid of the society's general designs.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Mare,: 9.
TRANSPORTATION AND DISCIPLINE OF .
CONVICTS.
(Continued from our Third Edition of last night.)
slr. H. HERBERT said that, in rising to second this
motion, it would be disgraceful if an Irish Member did
not rise at the very first opportunity to speak upon the
subject. He called attention to the crowded condition
tee' of many of the gaols in Ireland at the present lime, and
..... referred to some dectiments to show that within the last
three years the number of convictions and committals
t had doubled. The mortality, too, had increased to a
to very great extent for the three years commencing 1845.
s In that year the number of deaths in the gaols of Ire
):Ti land wes 81; in 1846 it had amounted to 132; while, in
78 1847, it had reuched the enormous number of 1,315. It
ili could not be said that any neglect attached to those
i}e whose duty it was to provide good accommodation in
- Ireland. In the report of the inspectors
of prisons in
3% •
7,3. that country, they had stated that up to 1846 the con-
.lid dition of all the gaols was such as to show that they
3 had been carefully attended to and to lead to a
) hope that their functions would be comparatively light.
He held in his hand a report which he had received on
6d the preceding day, of the state of the gaol of Tralee, the
isad principal town in the county which he re; ,resented. That
i gaol had been originally constructed to hold 86 persons;
lea but there were at present in it the astounding number of
r% 528; being six times the number which it was meant
6d.
6d that it should contain. He found that among those per.
)5, sons there were 16 male and 16 female lunatics, and 37
r prisoners under sentence of transportation, 15 of whom
6
Da had been sentenced upwards of six months. He had to,add
as to that statement that it would be idle to expect that the
4 people of the county in which that gaol was situated
could subscribe the necessary funds, in their present itn.
od poverisbed condition, for meeting the exigency of the
2a case, and he earnestly hoped, therefore., that the atten-
b, tion of her Majesty's Government would be directed to
the subject, with a view to alleviate as fur as possible so
frightful an evil.
Sir G. GREY (who was frequently inaudible in the
Ice. gallery) thanked the Noble Wel for having brought
... forward the motion, because, though in this matter the
Executive must always be intrusted with large discre-
tionary powers, and act according to the varying exi-
gencies which might arise, still it was desirable that
Parliament should have a full knowledge of the mode in
which the Government conducted this department. Be-
fore however proceeding to that part of his statement,
' he would just say a few words as to the charge of in-
consistency which had been made by the Noble Lord
ite against the policy of his Noble Friend at the head of
the Colonial office. He quite concurred in the opinion
that the great object they should have in view was to
deter from the commission of crime and to improve
!34 the offender ; but in carrying this object out, the Ge-
vernment ought not to aim at more than they were
able to accomplish. In doing this, consistency would
be a fault instead of a virtue. In defending his
Noble Friend, he begged to say that he participated
in the blame that might be thrown upon his Noble
Friend, and he did not wish to shrink from it, because
' all the Noble Lord had done had been with his fullest
concurrence and consent. But he did not mean to say
that there were no defects in the system now in opera-
tion. Two years ago, when he fully entered into; the
whole subject, and stated in detail the course which the
Government meant to take, and their reasons fer taking
it, he had stated that the system was a tentative one, and
that it would be improved, not only in accordance with
the increased experience of the Government, but alaio
with such sugge scions as persons of experience might
, ffer. But he must call the attention of the Noble
Lord to one part of his statement, in which he
thought the Noble Lord had not done juatice to
the present Government. It would be remembered
that when they came into office in 1846, the veils
arising from the system of transportation had risen to
such a height, that the Honourable Member for Oxford
University (Mr. Gladstone) then at the head of the
Colonial-office, had, in a dispatch fully exposed the na-
ture and extent of these evils, thedreadful crime and im-
morality of which prevailed especially among the proba-
tion classes, and the late Government was exerting itself
to put a stop to them. When the present Gov, rnment
came into office, they felt themselves imperatively called
upon to interfere it once, and to devise mane diets. means
of dealing with those criminals against whose transport-
tation the colonies were exerting themselves in the
strongest possible manner. The state of the colonies at
that time was fully stated in the dispatch of the Right
Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Gladstone). Under those circum-
stances his attention had been direct. d to the subject of
transportation. aid hr found that the system then pur-
sued was productive of errieus evils, anilezglc,! nuootthlaiinl
to create the largest amount of oisadear
a social and mural point of view. In his opinion
the system of transportation now carried on, subject of
course to certain modifications, was not calculated to