The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-05 00:00:00

DIET TABLE.

Breakfast and supper are the same throughout the week,
namely, one quart of oatmeal pottage, half a pound of bread.

For Dinner.

Sunday—One quart of stew of heads and shins, &C. ;
with half a pound of potatoes, and half a pound of bread.
Monday—One quart of oatmeal pottage, and half a
pound of bread ; or occasionally half a pound of boiled rice
in a solid state, made from four ounces in a raw state sea-
soned with a small quantity of allspice, and half a pound of
bread.
Tuesday—Same as Sunday.
Wednesday—Same as Monday.
Thursday—Five ounces of beef without bone, after boil-
ing, one pound of potatoes, and half a pound of bread.
Friday—One quart of broth from the beef of yesterday,
&c. ; half a pound of bread, with leeks or onions, and a
quarter of an ounce of oatmeal, for each prisoner.
Saturday—Same as Monday.
N. B.—One ounce of salt per week for each prisoner.
But this is better fare than the prisoners in
Chester Gaol are allowed, an account of which has
also been published by the House of Commons.
The "quart of stew of heads and shins" on Sun-
days and Tuesdays, with the " five ounces of beef
without bone" on Wednesday, and the quart of
broth previously boiled out of it, on Thursday, are
luxuries, positive superfluities, according to the
Chester allowance of bread, skilly, and potatoes.
It is as follows :

DIET.—The following allowance of plain wholesome
food is granted to this class of prisoners ; viz. one pound
of good wholesome bread daily, which shall be, at the
least, one day old, a quart of guod oatmeal gruel each
morning and cycling, and one pound and a ball of potatoes
daily, to be boiled for them, and also two ounces of salt
per week. But such of them as are employed receive an
extra allowance per wet:, of one pound of beef or mutton,
without the bone, together with two quarts of broth.
Prisoners confined for . sedition at Chester, are
allowed, we believe, but we will not be sure, to pur-
chase provisions, and they are allowed in Chester
to wear their own clothes. They are also allowed
to receive visits from their friends once a-week,
and may write every week, but no books or
papers are admitted but such as are ap-
proved of by the Chaplain and Visiting Ma-
gistrates. In Yotk prisoners are allowed to see
their near relations once a fortnight only,
and there is no provision for any other indulgence
as to writing or books. None but debtors are
allowed the luxuries of snuff and cigars. As all
their money is to be taken from their), they seem to
have no means of purchasing anything at York be-
yond the prison allowance. Such is the sort of
treatment the Gentlemen of the Press, as the real
instructors of society are now called, those who
unite the functions of schoolmaster and parson,
who point out to men their social duties, and cwt.
tinually excite them to perform them—such is
the sort of treatment, Which certain jolterheads,
whose single social function seems to be to
plunder the honest and industrious people by a
Corn-law, have prepared, for the instructors, not
of the children, but of the grown and mature part
of the community, including jolterheads themselves.
And what is the offence,. jolterheads so punish?
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makes men's blood boil to think that jolterheads
should have been so long suffered to manacle the
intellect, the industry, and the enterprize of the
human race. That is a libel, and that may be
punished as felons are punished in Chester and
York gaols.

The fall of Alorella, announced in our Second
Edition of last night, must convince the most san-
guine of the Spanish PRETENDER'S supporters
that his cause is utterly-hopeless. He has not now
a stronghold capable of resisting the attack of 300
men and a single piece of heavy artillery.in all Spain.
In the mountainous regions of Catalonia, the Carlists
may still carry on a Guerilla system of warfare, !
plundering defenceless villages, and robbing and
41tilikrulg trimilerp ; but thoy ag444 bc'