The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-10 00:00:00

GLASGOW CORN MARKET'.—Oct. 5.
A moderate business doing in Grain ; little alteration in prices.
Wheat, i.er 2401 b. s. d. s. d Oats, per 2041 b. s. d. S. ti.
British, old 25 oto2B 6 Irish l9 ote22 0
new . ic01) 00 0 British 2O 0 23 0
Canada, free.. 25 0 28 0 Beans, per XOll3.
Irish
Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish
English 0 0 Pease, Scottish ..... 19 6 21 0
Scottish 25 0 28 0 Oatmeal, per 14011,.... 16 0 18 0
Irish

Truro
Helstone
St. Austell
Bodmin
Liskeard
Launceston
Camel ford
Penzance

)RNWALL MARKETS.
:ulated at 24 gallons to the bushel.)

Wheat.

at. d. to s. d.
0 20
0 20 0
0 20 6
0 19
0 17 0
0 19 6
16 0 10 0
19 0 21 0

MINING INTEL
Quantity of Capper Ore sold
Quantity of fine Copper
Average Produce
Amount of Sale, 17,1,gi61. Is. 6d.—A,

Barley.

s. d. to s. d.
0 12 0
—0 9 2
—0 9 6
—0 9 6
—0 9 6
—0 9 0
0 10 0
0 11 0

Oats,

L d. to s.
0 10 0
—0 8 6
—0 s 6
—0 s 6
—0 7 6
—0 0 0
70 8 0
—0 9 6

,LIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. Qrs
2,687 21 0
191.19 0

7%
,verage Standard. 127/. Os. Od.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS TO-MORROW.
J. W. Coster, colourman, Holloway 2 at 1l
J. Wilke, Irish-linen-warehouseman, Watling-street 2 1
R. Rogers, linen-draper, Hinton 2 12
J. 13. Hedges, grocer, Croydon 2 II
J. Smith, warehouseman, Wood-street 2 1
C. C. Pearce, metal-broker, 'Change alley 1 2
J. Appleton, hop-,eerchant, Southwark
T. Wells, sugar-broker, Mincing-lane I 2
C. E. Dibsdale, grocer, Marylebone-lane 1 I

On Thursday morning a respectable widow in Black-
friars-road was horror-struck on entering her bed-room upon
discovering an only daughter (a fine girl, scarcely 13) hanging
from the bedstead; she cut the cord with a penknife, and me-
dical aid being instantly in attendance, the wretched girl is
likely to do well. For a long time past the mother has been
robbed by her daughter of valuable articles, which she either
pledged or sold, and spent the proceeds in visiting the penny
theatres in the New-cut (where nightly the most disgusting
scenes take place), returning home at all hours of the night.
Her conduct at length became so bad that her mother told
her the day before at breakfast her determination to give her
in charge of the police, and prosecute her at the sessions ;
and upon going up stairs shortly after she found her in the way
described.

" KEAN."—The translation of this extraordinary
drama, as commenced in the Court Journal of Saturday last,
has been pronounced to be an exquisite " curiosity of litera-
ture." The third act will appear in the number for Saturday
next. In addition to this, we are to have an authentic sketch
of the youthful days of Malibran, referring to her musical
tuition. A paper on the " Personal" events of the season, in
which middle life, as well as high life, is interested, and other
articles by distinguished writers. The Court Journal is now
published at eightpence.
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—The transactions of
to-day's Farmers' Market are too limited to make any altera-
tion in the prices of Wheat, which remain the same as last
Saturday.

JAMES'S NAVAL HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN.
Of all the numerous literary speculations of the day,"
observes the Scotsman, " there is not one that ought to be
more successful than this, nor one that will be so if any por-
tion of that pride in our navy and its achievements which once
animated, and we hope still animates every British bosom, yet
remains amongst us. This splendid chronicle of Britain's
naval glory could not have fallen into better hands than those
of Captain Chamier. We should have said this without
having seen the work, from previous knowledge of his com-
petency; but we have the result of his labours before us to
speak for itself—in almost every page we discover the traces
of editorial care, a circumstance which we need not say greatly
enhances the value of a work, which is truly and most em-
phatically a national one, and which should have a place in
every library both public and private as the text book of the
British Navy."
NALICIOUS BURNING.—We regret to have to
state an act of wanton atrocity in that hitherto quiet and peace-
ful barony, Gaultier. On Sunday morning last, about the
hour of one or two o'clock, a fire was observed in the haggard
of a respectable farmer, named Michael Flinn, who lives on
the lands of Ballyvoreen, situate on the road to Dunmore.
The blaze was first seen by a farmer who resides there, and
who immediately alarmed the neighbourhood and proceeded
to the place, and by their active exertions they prevented a
total destruction, not only to the entire corn in the haggard,
but most probably of Flinn's residence, which was near it.
There were, however, four stacks of wheat and oats entirely
consumed, and also one stack of corn which war in a field at
some distance. Fire had been applied to some other stacks of
corn also, but, owing to the damp state of it, it did not ignite.
Flinn had been put lately in possession of the ground, and is
well liked by his neighbours.— Waterford Mail.
A letter of the 27th ult., from Milan, says_" The
cholera has entirely disappeared from Lombardy, and the whole
of Upper Italy. The towns which have suffered most, in
proportion to their population, are—first, Brescia, and then in
succession, Venice, Vicenza, and Milan,"

On Saturday the new Sheriffs, Duke and Johnson, pre-
sented a Report to the Committee at Guildhall, over which
Alderman Winchester presided, proposing several important
alterations in the building, so as to answer, to a certain
extent, the classification of the prisoners, an object which,
now that the gaol delivery is very frequently made, appears
to be practicable.
The Sheriffs of this city and for the county of Middle-
sex, anxious to discharge, as far as they possibly can, the
high and important duties of their office, have entered upon
them with a determination to effect such salutary regulations
in the discipline and needful alterations in the construction
of the different prisons committed to their care as circum-
stances and the increasing intelligence of the public require.
They have, therefore, first directed their attention to a
careful examination of Newgate, and, without entering into
the controversy which exists between the Court of Alder-
men and the Inspectors of Prisons, they have found many
things which, in the judgment of the Sheriffs, imperatively
require to be altered, and the interior construction of the
prison so arranged, as to enable the Governor better to
classify the various prisoners committed to his custody.
" The Sheriffs are aware that prisons ought not to be
made places of comfort, but of terror ; that, instead of afford-
ing an asylum too little feared by the criminal, they ought
to be places of punishment ; and they therefore regret that,
from the interior construction of Newgate ; from the con-
stant influx of prisoners from other prisons ; from the short
time most of the prisoners remain in Newgate ; and from
its, being a prison of transit only, that many of the ad-
mirable regulations which exist, and have beed enforced
with so much success in other prisons, cannot be carried into
effect in this. But at the same time the Sheriffs are con-
fidently of opinion that it is possible, even now, to effect
many wise alterations ; and they feel satisfied that the
Court of Aldermen will cheerfully co-operate with them in
giving effect to the following suggestions :--
" Ist. A complete separation, on both the men's and
women's side, between the tried and untried prisoners.
" 2d. A better classification of the tried and untried, se-
parating the hardened and frequent offender from the novice
in crime and the lepentant
" 3d. A more complete separation between the prisoners
confined, so as to diminish the number associating together,
allowing the men of each ward only to associate with each
other, and not, as now, for the men of two or three wards
to have access to each other, and constant communication.
" 4th. A better regulated system of admission to vi-
sitors, and a complete understonding amongst the magis-
trates as to who only shall, in turn, give orders to the
friends of prisoners.
" sth. The establishment of a bath on both sides of the
prison, and a fumigatory for the clothes of the prisoners.
" 6th. The pulling down of some of the walls which se-
parate the different yards from each other, and re-erecting
them with York landing stones similar to those in the
chapel yard by which means a freer circulation of air, and
a greater space for exercise, may be obtained.
" 7th. The erection of hoppers round all the windows of
the prisoners, so as more completely to cut off all means of
sight or intercourse between the prisoners of one ward with
those of another.
" Bth. The taking down and repainting all the boards
respecting the prison regulations, which are now illegible
and useless.
" 9th. The carrying out into full effect the order of the
Court of Aldermen, to erect in every ward iron bedsteads
for each prisoner, so as to prevent the contamination likely
to arise from a large number of prisoners sleeping on the
floor together.
" The sheriffs have also inspected the prison, with a
view to ascertain whether any and what additional room
could be obtained, and underneath they point out where
and how additional wards may be made, and, as they con-
ceive, at an expense comparatively small, compared with
the important object likely to be obtained by a better classi-
fication of prisoners.

" The ward No. 14, being one of the largest in the pri-
son, we find has not been occupied for fifteen years or
longer, for the asserted reason that it is damp. We are of
opinion that at a trifling expense this may be remedied, so
as to make a most excellent dining or day room for priso-
ners, and capable of dining from 80 to 100 persons.
That the condemned yard ought to be separated by a
wall ; and the lower cells appropriated for persons commit-
ted for unnatural crimes, and that part of the yard used for
air and exercise by those persons, and that the windows of
those cells be levelled off, and a water-closet be made.

" That the Press Room being only used upon the cere-
mony of the Governor delivering the prisoners ordered for
execution to the Sheriffs on the morning of their execution,
we think this ceremony might be performed in any other
place, and the room appropriated for cells instead of those
taken away ; and it is necessary that the damaged stone in
the angle of the Press-yard, where Williams escaped, be
worked off.

" That the cistern in the condemned yard is useless.
" That the bath in the yard not having been used for fif-
teen years or more, ought to be done away with and filled
up, and the yard might then be appropriated for air and
exercise of certain prisoners whose crimes call for separation.
" That we consider warm baths absolutely necessary for
cleanliness and health ; and also an oven for fumigating the
clothes of such prisoners on their entry as the governor
might consider necessary. The bath for the men, and the
stove, may be conveniently constructed in a large lumber-
room in the passage leading to the press-room at a very mo-
derate expense, there being a fireplace in this room ; and
the adjoining room in the same passage, which is also a
lumber-room, might be appropriated as a store-room for fu•
migated clothes of the prisoners.
" We find that the room called the men's visiting-room
might be given up, and another place adapted for visitors,
as shown in the ground plan ; by this means another room
would be gained.

" There is another very good room opposite to the room
appropriated for persons committed by the Court of King's
Bench, &c., and Commissioners of Bankrupts, now used as a
carpenter's shop, which might also be appropriated for use-
ful purposes, as we do not consider a carpenter's shop at all
necessary ; and, by so doing, the expense of the carpenter
would be saved.

" In our opinion, the women's side of the prison is very
much confined ; that the visiting room for women might
be dispensed with, and another place made for that pur-
pose ; and by taking down the partition between the rooms
and the passage leading to the water-closet those rooms
would be considerably enlarged.
" That the bath for the women be put up in the yard
adjoining to the passage leading to the women's side, which
is well adapted for that purpose. That the yard used for air
and exercise and dryinc, of clothes, on the women's side, is
only about ten feet wide ; very often 60 or 70 women are
there, which is not a sufficient space for them. We there-
fore recommend the wall now standing to be taken down,
and removed further into the Transport-yard, so that these
two yards be equalized.
" We recommend all the dust bins to be taken away,
and that the dust be removed in boxes, every morning, to
prevent dustmen from constantly entering the prison.
" We also find that the boards, which are by law directed
to be placed in prisons, should be inspected, as some are
falling down and others are in a dilipidated state.
" We find that on the commitment of prisoners they are
immediately put into a ward to be examined by the sur-
geon ; a description is then taken of their persons, and the
governor then classifies them, according to their crimes and
his knowledge of theni, which we consider most proper and
judicious ; but we are of opinion that this inspection and
classification ought to take place twice in every year.
" We also find that there are some wards in which there
are no prisoners, and this arises from the circumstance,
that in the summer months, after the conclusion of each
Sessions, when the sentenced prisoners are disposed of;
certain wards are thoroughly cleansed, whitewashed, and
occasionally 'hinted ; and, after this, as prisoners are com-
mitted, these wards are again occupied as soon as they are
in a state to receive prisoners. We beg to say that we
highly approve of this system, as a necessary preservation
of health.

We have also to state that nearly all the prisoners ap-
pear in a healthy state, which must be attributed to the
cleanliness of the prison and the attention of the Governor.
We are also of opinion that, if it should appear, after
the alterations we have suggested in the prison, that more
separate wards are required, this may be had by dividing
several of the larger wards.
4, In conclusion, the Sheriffs beg to say they have been
much gratified by the cleanly state in which the prison now
appears ; the attention of the Governor to his duties, and
his anxious desire to suggest and carry into effect any im-
provement either in the construction or discipline of the
prison ; and they hope that ere the period shall arrive when
they quit office, the prison of Newgatc will be a pattern
for others in the cleanliness, healthiness, order, and discip-
line which prevail. The sheriffs know that in effecting
every alteration useful to the public, beneficial to the pri-
soner, and likely to effect his reformation, or necessary for
restraint or coersion, they will meet with the support of
the Court of Aldermen ; and they beg therefore to claim

EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON.—The Russell, 74, Captain
r Sir W. H. Dillon, the Pique, 36, Hon. Captain Rous, and
F Inconstant, 36, Captain J. Hayes, C. 8., are ordered to join
the Hon. Sir Charles Paget, without loss of time. The
Hercules, 74, Captain Berkeley, left Plymouth on Wednes-
day, and is gone to Lisbon. The Bellerophon, Vanguard,
Partridge, and Emerald, returned to Plymouth Sound on
Wednesday, and the Pembroke the following day, but they
were all to put to sea yesterday. These latter vessels left
Cork on Tuesday, the 27th ult, and have experienced some
very severe weather, in which the Vanguard lost her fore-
yard, and sprung one of her main-yard arms ; in fact, for
some heurs it blew a heavy gale of wind, with a considerable
cross sea, from the shifting of the wind occasionally. The
Pembroke in sailing is much improved, and is equal to any
of the ships on all points. The Vanguard was found to be
very laboursome and uneasy, and at the termination of the
gale was almost out of sight to leeward of the whole squa-
dron ; she is now sailed nearly on an even keel, and a foot
less draft of water than on her first cruise. On another fair
day's trial, it was found she could not get away from the
guns of the Bellerophon. In the height of the gale the Pan-
taloon shipped a sea over her quarter, which had nearly sent
her to the bottom, and she was compelled to bear up ; the
officers of the Beagle, a surveying ship, which has been five
years afloat, assert that they think they had the advantage
in saying with the Vanguard. With regard to the Pique, she
returned to St. Helen's Roads on Saturday evening last,
after a cruize of -48 hours in the Channel, in which she
found a sufficiency of wind and sea to put her qualities as
a sea boat to the test, and in which qualities, most mate-
rial for a man-of-war, she was found miserably deficient ;
she pitches her forecastle under, lays over without top-gal-
sails eleven degrees, and labours exceedingly. On Saturday
night, while at anchor at St. Helen's, she proved herself a
bad roadster, as she pitched and rolled heavy, quick, and
deep, and appeared to the people on board as if she had
another ship as large as herself riding on to her stern and
pulling both at the same anchor ; her constructor has ne-
vertheless ordered her to be sailed more by the head, but
those who have had experience in her contend, and very
rationally, that she ought to be brought more by the stern,
and that the ballast which has been taken out of her should
be restored. The Pique is furnished with a self-regulating
index, to tell the degree of inclination she takes--it is the
invention of a friend of Sir William Symonds, and in the
late cruize it proves she once took an inclination of more
than 30 degrees. The Pique and Inconstant are each to
have 25 additional men, making up their complement to
300. The following, from an officer of the squadron,
reached us too late for insertion last week :
" The statement which lately appeared in the Times
with respect to the late trials of sailing of this squa-
dron, is evidently furnished by a prejudicial person on
board the Vanguard. It is useless to eater into a contro-
versy upon the various misrepresentations which are made
in that report. I will, therefore, for the sake of undeceiving
the public, content myself with noticing two or three cir-
cumstances which are insidiously alluded to by the Corres-
pondent of the Times. Whenever that individual wants
an excuse for the Vanguard, not quite supporting the cha-
racter her admirers claim for her, has recourse to misstate-
ment, which is wholly unworthy any person professing to
give a fair account of facts. Accordingly, in this report of
the trial of sailing on the 17th of August, he lays great
stress upon the disadvantage the Vanguard sustained by
tacking oftener than the other ships. hen it is notorious,
that by a seasonable shift of wind in her favour, upon one
of those tacks, she was enabled to fetch much farther to
windward than she otherwise could possibly have done.
Again, on the following day, it is made to appear that the
great advantage obtained by the Vanguard was by her supe-
rioriority of sailing alone ; whereas, she was favoured by a
shift of wind full three points, which is unfairly represented
as having been only one point. It is further attempted to
mislead the public by asserting that the power of the Van-
guard would have always enabled her to carry with ease a
reef more out of her topsails than the other ships. Now it is
a known fact, that our Gallant Admiral has added a signal
to the code, for the express and sole purpose of leaving
every Captain, upon the occasions of trials of sailing, to
carry all the canvass his ship will bear, with safety to her
masts and yards. It may, therefore, be fairly inferred, that
when the Vanguard has not taken advantage of this signal,
and has not carried more sail than the others of the squa-
dron, that she has found she has had enough under the cir-
cumstances at the time. The Vanguard is, no doubt, a fine
man-of-war, though as yet, considering all the peculiar ad-
vantages she possesses, of being the pet of the constructor
of her, and fitted in all respects in so favoured a manner, as
hardly to make any competition with her a fair one, she has
not, according to the genernl opinion of the most compe-
tent judges, on the occasions of the late trials, manifested
that superiority over *e ships composing the squadron which
might fairly be expected of her:
The Skipjack, schooner, arrived at Jamaica on the 10th
August ; the Nimrod, 20: on the 18th ; the Dee steamer
on the 17th from St. Thomas ; on her
passage down to
that island,
she experienced very bad weather, when the
boatswain was washed overboard ;the life buoy was cast
adrift and the poor fellow as picked up ; but in such a state
that he soon died after. The Meteor steamer, Lieutenant
Smith, left Jamaica for Barbadoes, on the 24th August.
The Vestal, 28, had been spoken of as likely to bring Lord
Sligo to England ; but his Lordship had expressed a wish
to go to the United States ; and it was thought that the
Forte,
frigate, Commodore Pell, would convey him to New
York, on her way to England.
The Athol, troop-ship, arrived yesterday, with the depot
companies of the sth or Northumberland Fusileers, on
board, from Dover ; they landed to-day and marched to
Porton Barracks.
The Buffalo, Captain Hindmarsh, was spoken with on
the 25th of August, in lat. 13. N. long. 25. W.
The Anson and Duncan,_ 74, are fitting for lazarettes for
the quarantine service ar Stangate Creek.
The ship Nautilus, for Demerara, and Flora, for Ja-
maica, sailed on Tuesday ; the Grotius, for New Orleans,
sailed on Wednesday ; and yesterday the Ontario packet,
Captain Huttlestone, sailed for New York.

Lieut.-Col. Macleod, A.G., at Jamaica, is appointed Go-
vernor of St. Kitts.

At Spitheal—Pique, Athol,