The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-15 00:00:00

THE PENNY-POST.

• TO THE EDITOI,I OF .THE SUN.
I am afraid, Mr. Editor,, some of the "Authorities,"
who bat* 00 oothority to meddle with the working of
this, great measure, are tampering with the operation of,
it, and trying to thwart the benefits .which are alike
beneficial to the public, end, ultimately, will be to the
revenue, if these meddlers will only follow up the wishes
of the Legislature.
But what I am going to complain of is, tbe unneces-
sarily limiting the time of posting letters, and taxing the
public double and treble the first cost after the box is
shut, and up to within,.
,balf an hour of the 'bags
being made pp in the country. I could giveyou what I
think some most wanton instances of the curtailment of
time. There is another thing, toO. If a commercial
traveller remits home,,and requests an acknowledgment
at a particular place, and be overruns it, or it be over-
looked and requi:e,to be forwarded, an additional tax of
'twopence is,put on, 'although- previously Pre-paid ; and
thus, thg
.postage, is made threepence ! These, and,
some other matters connected with the postage systern,
if you can make room,` for for them, I will endeavour to
point out at a future period. Your's, obliged,
AMANUENSIS.

FRAUDULENT DEBTORS RE
MANDED FOR, IMPRISONMENT.

It is intended to bring forward the subject of the
remand of prisoners confined in the Queen's Bench
and Fleet Prisons in, the Court Common Council
on an early day. Great and reasonable objection is
made to the practice of the Commissioners of the In-
solvent Debtors Court in remanding for imprisonment
to the prisons from which they have been brought be-
fore those debtors against whom charges 'of fraud have
been established,, In the Queen's Pench and the Fleet
Prisons debtors remanded for the grossest • frauds upon
their creditors are under "no more constraint than those
are subjected to who have never been suspected of any-
thing of the kind; so that the swindlers *ho have corn-
mined the 2 most cruel robberies.live!in excellent style in
these places, the Governor having no authority to alter
the treatment of the
,i9matea except id-carer of misbeha-
viour in the prison's. • The object of those who mean to
take up the Subject is to-induce-the Legislature to per-
mit the Commissioners to send fraudulent debtors
to some one of the County Gaols to which other prisoners
not mere criminal are committed, to undergo the sentence
of the Insolvent Court, which, it is submitted,ought to be
a; penal as that which the Recorder passes in the Central
Criminal Court. The dread of such disgrace and punish-
ment would, it is calculated, operate beneficially. .There
are several debtors remanded to each of the three pri-
sons, the Queen's Bench, the Fleet, and .Whitecrosv-
street, but they are in the two former prisons in the
habit of making merry .over the judgment, and are visited
by as many fellows of the same kidney as please to walk
in every day, and receive lessons in the art. In White-
cross-street Prison the same latitude is not given, for it
is subject to the authority of the Sheriff of Middlesex,
and regulated by certain restrictive rules, which the Go-
vernor very strictly enforces. The citizens are of opi-
nion that by the classification the fraudulent debtors
should be located within Coldbath-fields, Clerkenwell,
Horsemonger-lane, or Tothill-fields walls, and not sent
back amongst persons merely unfortunate or improvident.

The young woman said that her husband, a hose name
was Rayner, was locked up for an enormous amount of
money. He had been in a small but respectable way of
business connected with shipping, and resided near
the Docks, where he was considered a most industrious
man, and incapab!e of any underhand dealing ; but, un-
happily for himself and his family, he was induced to
sign several bonds, jointly with a person of his acquaint-
I once, to secure the transit of certain goods, liable to
1 duty, from the port of London to some other port,
where merchandise was entitled to be bonded. The party
who jobed in the bonds, instead of delivering the goods
agreeably to the .terms .of the .bonds, got thorn away,
defrauded the Revenue of the duties, and neither he nor
• the goods had been heard of since.
The Loan. naxoa—lt was upon the joint security
of your husband and that party the goods were allowed
to be taken away,. and your husband is of course re-
sponsible.
..
The young woman dccia;ed that her unfortunate hus-
band was bound. in the security, without entertaining
the slightest suspicion .that anything improper was con-
templated, having considered,,as was the case of thou-
sand* of other people, that it was mere matter of form.
He was, however, sued by the Crown for the penalties
he had incurred, and was in prison for the sum of
32,000/. his, business was completely lost, and she (ap-
plicant), and their five children, one of whom is a cripple,
were reduced to extreme poverty and wretchedness.
The Loan
.111Ayoa asked whether the Board of Cus-
toms suspected that Rayner
.received any advantage
from the heavy fraud thus practised upon the revenue ?
The, young, woman replied that she understood they
entertained no suspicion of the sort, but that they
thought it necessary that an example should be made of
persons who would inadvertently bind themselves to
accommodations, of which fraudulent advantage might
be taken.

It appeared from further conversation which the Lord
Mayor had with the applicant, that the Governor of
\Vhitecross-street Prison, who had interested himself in
this case, waited some time ago upon the Solicitor of
Customs relative to the long imprisonment of Rayner,
and was recommended by that gentleman to cause a pe-
tition to be transmitted An the Lords of the Treasury,
stating the circumstances of the case, and that several
petitions had been accordingly sent in to their Lordships,
to all of whichainfavourable answers had been returned.
LORD MAYOR (to the applicant)—Whet can I
do in such a case ? 1 have no doubt of the ruin that
has been brought on your family, and that your husband
became a bondsman witnout supposing for a moment
that a claim would ever be made upon him, especially as
Mr. Barrett, the Governor, has taken up the matter so
siarmly ; but here is security given and violated.
• The young woman said that she should pray for his
Lordship morning, noon, an.l night, if he would, for the
sake of her helpless children, forward another petition,
which she brought with her, to the Lords of the Tree-
,
urY.

The LORD MAYOR—I shall do so with great pleasure.
Your husband has already undergone severe imprison-
ment, and I hope their Lordships may consider his suf-
ferings and your's, and your children's, an adequate atone-
ment for the dangerous error into which he has fallen.
The young woman in tears acknowledged her deep
sense of his Lordship's humanity.

• BOW-STREET.
Samuel Ciweve, a carman and coal-dealer, residing is
Drury-lane, was brought up 'before Mr. Twyford, for
wantonly and cruelly ill-treating his horse.
Mr. J imrs Grant, author of " The Great Metro-
polis," " Random Recollections," &c., "stated that he
was passing through Brydgts-street, Covent-garden, on
Tuesday morning, when his attention was attracted by
a man (not the defendant), dragging a horse with a
dislocated shoulder towards the Strand, and seeing a
crowd collect, and the animal not able to move a step
further, he questioned him if the horse belonged to him,
but he said that it clld "not,' and he was expecting his
master to assist him. The defendant came up at the
moment, and, faking the whip, he commenced flogging
the horde in Such'a brutal manner that he winced un-
der the blows ; and.as he showed an entire disregard to
the remonstrances of the bystanders, witness took hold
of him by the collar, and compelled him to desist. Se-
veral other persons then interfered, and witness went to
the office of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals at Exeter Hall, where he gave information
of the circumstance to Mr. Thomas, the Secretary.
The defendant said that the horse moved after be
'was struck, and it was impossible to get him on un•
less by using the whip.
The witness said he did not wait to see if the horse
proceeded further, but from the severe treatment he
had received, he appeared to be suffering the greatest
torture.
' John Godfrey, a carpenter, proved that he was the
period who drew the attention of the last witness to
the circumstance, and he could only repeat the evi-
dence he had-given.
In answer •to the charge the defendant said that
the.. horse belonged to his mother, and having met with
an accident which dislocated his shoulder, he was ad.
vised by the farrier to swim him in the river, and was
proceeding to the Adelphi for that purpose, when be
was, obliged to use the Whip to get him on.
'Mr. Coombes, a shoeing smith and farrier, said that
similarvt occasions,the
he had been applied to about eight o'clock in the
swain
ly t
h oen r
i ere
replace
morning respecting the horse's shoulder, and he recom•
mended,,that it shasou lcl be w
he
had frequently
shoulder.

Mr. Thomas observed that the complaint against
the defendant wasr for
a
between
Drury-lane usenin agnd r atreon cruelty to the
horse AtieP.T‘IFORD considered that the defendant was
perfectly right in ea:ling such a witness, as l s
it showed
heal leltr.
ad_ not been ori,linallY guilty of cruelty.
i‘,
Thomas was'of opinion that another mode might
,h been adopted with''an animal labouring under
Thl
.1 eich torture, than by dragiing him along the streets.
1 ittaus apparent td ,evcry'person, that, even with
t e flogging of a whip, lit! could not move a step:
' The tatrier said thfielthe shoulder had been re-set by
the dperaiion in' the river, and—on his return to the
stable, being wrapped in warm clothing, he had since
nearly recovered. :
Mr. TWYFORD—Don't you think it an act
tohfeacnoraupeetlriltaye.
to drag a horse in such a condition through the streets?
Witness—Not, for so' short a -*ay ;-for if the motion
tinionthiensttirieeertivicr was
ailedtogruerpelateoelt)li.lie6rituldrearu,a,
horse could not' be conveyed in any other vim)? without
considerable ineonvenidnce.
Mr.: TWYFORD saidithat the Tarriees evidenee went
a great' way to :deaf, the defendarrt from•the imputatiep
of wanton and unnecessary criieltY, bitt as anothe;
course should be taken than 'beating such an an'mal.
the --
that could not possibly 'move in consequence of 1,,,"
Pay a fine
&dem irohartmetawith,the defendant should
.ss.,..with costs: . • , _ .

_.
s'ununon§es were forwarded on Tuesday to al
ibe Ministers, by direction of Lord PFlmerston, to attead
a Cabinet Council at the Foreign Office this day at three
.o clock. . ••

EVENING 141311'10141

THE ARMY.

WARRANT REGULATING THE GRANTS OF
UNATTACHED PAY, RETIRED FULL PAY,
AND HALF-PAY. DATED OCT. 1, 18.10.
VICTORIA R.—Whereas we have judged it expedient
to reviae, amend, ai::1 consolidate the Rules, Orders, and
Regulations which have from time to time been esta-
blished for granting unattached pay and other rates of
pay to General Officers, and retired full-pay and half-
pay to officers of our Army : Our will and pleasure is,
that from and after the date hereof, this Our Warrant
shall be considered the sole author.ty upon this subject.
UNATTACHED PAY AND OTHER RATES OF PAY TO

GENERAL OFFICERS.
1. The number of General Officers upon unattached
pay of I/. ss. c-day, not being in command of regiments,
is limited to an establishment of 120 General Officers.
2. The vacancies which may from time to time occur
in this limited establishment, will be filled up by General
Officers recommended to Us by the General-Command-
ing-in-Chief.
3. General Officers, being Colonels of regiments, in
the event of their regiments being reduced, mayplaced, in the first instance, as Supernumeraries in the
slid establishment, but arc to fall into the vacancies that
may occur thereupon.
4. All officers promoted to be General Officers shall,
whether on full pay or hail-pay at the time of promo-
tion, receive unattached pay at the rate of 4001. per
annum, or, if Lieutenant-Colonels of Cavalry, the net
full pay of that rank, until elected to the establishment
of unattached pay, at 1/. ss. a day, or appointed to be
Colonels of regiments ; provided such officers shall
have served upwards of six years, with the rank of Re-
gimental Major or Lieutenant-Colonel, either with a
regiment or in some other military capacity in the public
service ; or having obtained the rank of Regimental
Field Officer, had been obliged to go upon half-pay on
account of reduction, or in consequence of ill health
contracted in the service, as established by the Rer.ort
of a Beard of Medical Offieers, or in consequence of
wounds received in action, before he had served the six
years above prescribed.
5. The benefit of this pay shall not be extended to
any General Officer who, when he last went upon
half-pay, had received the difference ; nor to any officer
who went upon-half pay. at his own request in time of
war, aftey having obtained the Brevet rank of Lieute-
nant-Colonel ; nor to any officer who went upon half-
piy at hiS own request in time of peace, before he had
served sit years with the rank of Regimental Field

Officer.
Officers thus situated shall continue to receive the
half pay only of which they were in the receipt at the
time of their promotion to be General Officers.
6. Officers removed from their Commissions as Field
011i;:ers, in regiments of Foot Guards, in consequence
of being promoted to be General Officers, shall receive
unattached pay according to the following scale, viz.
Lieut.. Colonel 6OOl. per annum.
Major 5501.

TLLTIRED FULL PAY.
7. A limited establishment of retired full pay shall be
formed and kept up according to the following scale :-
20 Lieutenant-Colonels at 17s. a day each.
20 Maj-Jrs
113 Captains, whereof a number, not exceeding 45,
may be Bravet Field Officers, at 13s. 7d. a day each,
arid the remainder Captains at 11s. 7d. a day each.
Captains oa the Retired List, at a lower rate of pay,
are not to be transferred to the new scale, except on the
special recommendation of the General Commanding-in-
Chief.

8. The officers to he selected for this retired este-
Vishment shall be recommended to Us by the General
Uomminding.n-Chiel, and they shall be appointed
thereto according to their Regimental, and not accord-
ing- to their Brevet rank ; but they shall not thereby ob-
to.ia any additional rank, nor can they be further pro-

nioted.
9. Officers hereafter appointed to veteran battalions
shall not, on their retirement thcro.frem, acquire any
claim to lull retired p iy, but upon reduction shall be
liable to be placed upon half-pay under the same regll-
Lit iiiLS as officers reduced from regiments of the Line.
lIALF PAY.
10. Tfic half-pay of the Army is a remuneration for
past military services, and also an obligation en the part
of the officer to return to his military duties whenever
cal.:A upon, and any officer not obeying the call is
liable to forfeit his half-pay.
11. No officer shall be entitled to be placed on the
half-pay es'alshshment on reduction from full-pay, un-
less he shall have actual:y done duty in some regiment or
corp, or in sonic other military capacity in the public
service, for a period of at least six years, excepting he
sha.l have been compelled to retire upon half-pay, by
wounds received in action ; or by ill-health contracted
on duty in our Colonies after three years' service.
12. An officer having served more than three and
leas than six years, will however, if reduced, be placed
upon half-pay until recalled to active service.
18. An officer having served less than three years,
will, if reduced, receive only a temporary, allowance of
half-pay, according to the following scale :
Services on full pay. Temporary allowance.
Vader 1 year
'1 and ender 2 years
2 ~ 3 ~
1-I. The temporary allowance shall cease at the ter-
thioatieu of the above-recited periods, or previously, it
the offieer shall have been previously replaced on full-pay.
15..13at• an officer on temporary halt-pay shall be
tel be appointed to a fuli-pay commission either
by exibiange or otherwise, provided his appointment
shall take place within five years after he has ceased to
reeeivii'ternporary half-pay, in which case his former
servi,:6•xhall be allowed to reckon.
IG." Tire exchange to full-pay under the preceding
article'mly be made with a full-pay officer entitled to
half ply. •
17:if an officer receiving the temporary allowance
shall have purchased his commission, he may receive the
regulated price thereof from the public through the Se-
cretary ut War, and the sum thus advanced shall be
refunded to the public by the sale of a first full-pay
cetona'ssima, provided that not more than one first com-
mission out of two be thus sold for refunding to the
pub is the regulated price of the commission so advanced.
18. It a Subaltern Officer havittrg a claim to half-pay
is desirous of selling or commuting his half-pay, the
folloaing rule shall be observed :—lf he purchased his
commission, the regulated price may be given (whether
receiving half-pay or tclitporary allowance) with the
usual precaution of a medical certificate as to his being
in a good state of health.
If he did not purchase his commission, he may re-
ceive,the new price of that commission it a Lieutenant
with seven years' full-pay service in the Army, or with
six years' if a Cornet or Ensign ; and the old price of
the commission if under those periods, and above four
years' lull-pay service.
If he did not purchase his commission, and should
retire after less thaa four years, and more than three
years' service, at his own request, and not on account
of id health or wounds, he shall only receive half the
price of the commission at the new rate.
19 But in the cases included in the two preceding
Articles, no officer on half-pay shall, of right, have
churn to sell or commute his half-pay :—the permission
shall-be governed by such a consideration of the indi.
vidwit case as the General Conumthding-in Chief and
Secretary at War may think proper to recommend to us.
20'. No Garrison Commission or Appointment shalt
give an officer any delta to half-pay on retirement.
21- An officer who -applies to retire upon half-pay
on the ground of ill health, must, if stationed in or near
Londen or Dublin, be examined by the principal offi-
cers of the Army Medical Departments in those cities ;
and if stationed elsewhere, by a board of Medical offi•
cers, agreeably to the provisions of the Articles of War ;
the result of such examination to be forwarded to the
General Commanding-in-Chief and Secretary at War.
If such examination shall not take place, the officer will
be considered to have retired upon half-pay for his own
convenience.
22. Every Quarter the residence of the half-pay
officer is to be stated in his declaration, whether his
half-pay be received by an agent or by himself.
23. If an officer of any of the undermentioned ranks
Stall have entered the service since the termination of
the War ha 1815, and shall, after the date of this war-
rant, he permitted to exchange to half-pay, not on ac-
count of ill health, but for his private convenience, be-
fore be has served seven years on fut-pay, he shall be
allowed only the oldraeof
ifhalf-pay specified in the fol-
lowing schedule ; the retirement should be for the
reduction public convenience by
or otherwise, or in con-
sequence of ill health as certified by a Medical Board,
new he officer will be allmVed the rate of half-pay.

M Cavalry.
Infantry.
New
Rate.
New Old
Hate. Rate.
111)7 dayd:lw [,esr. day. r (lay:
C010ne1...... 15 6
13 ,`":1)
14
41.
132.
gd,
Lieutenant-Colonel l2 6 10 0 11 Q 6
Major ..................... 10 0 8 0 9 6 7
7 6 5 6 7 5 "°)
Captain •••••••
Lieutenant
Ditto of Infantry, it com-
missioned seven years as
a Lieutenant in the Re-
gular Army, at the date
of being pLie--(t
4 6 ---
half-pay
Ditto of Cavalry of five
years' standing, if en-
titled to reckon two
years for the battle of
Waterloo b 2
Cornet.... 3 b
2 6
Lieutenant and
Ensign 3 0 110
not commis-
Adsjiuotan.-nit%s if
.
4040 4 0 4 0

24. In addition to the sate stated in the schedule
annexed to the preceding article, Captains of Infantry
having superior Brevet rank will, on retirement on bait-
pay-,,4e allowed One half of the extra pay they receive
for .Brevet rank, viz- one shilling a day, provided they
shall have served two years at least upon full•pay as
Captains immediately before such retirement to half-pay.