The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-06 00:00:00

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press, that we would not be the means of dissemi-
nating scandal concerning his brother and his doings.
We have no desire to intrude ourselves into the
disputes which have vegetated so luxuriantly under the sun
of Bombay. If we think that Sinde is not worth keeping, it
is simply from an unbiassed balance of its produce and its
costs, and our conclusion is unattended with any wish to
depreciate the merits of the conquest or disparage the gene-
ralship of the conqueror. Sir Charles Napier's enemies have
overshot their mark. The legend of Nusseer Khan's Brazen
Whip, if it be a legend, is nature itself, compared with those
circumstantial tales of the piety, meekness, and temperance
of the Ameers, which would represent the terrace of Windsor
Castle in 1790 as but a faint image of the virtuous sim-
plicity presiding in the gardens of Hyderabad. That
these Princes were hardly dealt by in our relations
with them it is impossible to deny, but they suffered least,
we think, at the hands of that officer whose conduct has
furnished the most abundant grounds of complaint.
Strangers, uninvited and unwelcome, obtruded them-
selves into their territories, and forced them to treaties which
were again superseded by others successively more and inure
stringent and unfavourable, under pretext that the former
had been infringed. But, taking them from September 1812
we believe they fairly forfeited their kingdom by the rules
ofwar ; nor is it very easy to condemn Sir Charles for having
learnt from the events of the previous year to strke the first
blow. It is preposterous to talk about the " patriarchal
rule "
of these quarrelsome and sensual despots—themselves
usurping invaders of so recent a date that a representative of
the family they expelled is still alive. Sir Charles's own
title to the Turban would have been as good as Roostum's if
he had lived there a score of years longer. Their most
famous places—the very subjects of our negotiations—Kur-
rachee, Sukkur, and Shikarpoor, were -stolen from their
neighbours but a few years back. We have won the
country with as strong an arm as they did and in a much
better cause; and the only question is,
it worth our keep-
ing? If it gave us a stronger frontier—if, in the command
Aofsitah ewlhoiwc-herolnnedeusdot.egdaNt'he
ruosugthhesrheisktoarrpe do
ort—if
f citof
enriched Central
by its produce the treasury of Calcutta, and supplied us with
what alone we profess to need for the improvement of the
Peninsula, we might then close our hands upon our prize,
and leave the Ameers with as little room for complaint as the
Subandar of Bengal. But we doubt it answers none of these
conditions, and we should be loath to make the battle
_of
Meanee even more costly than that of Sobraon. Our .
Bence, just published, shows that the troops were called
.tou
l
again at the precise moment when they were
tobew
n of
drawn, and we very much fear that the costs ad chargesj
the province are not less certain than its revenue and advan-
tages are unsubstantial.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THE
AMENDMENT OF THE LAW.
The usual general meeting of this institution was held on
Wednesday, at the Rooms of the Society, 21, Regent-street,
Lord Brougham in the chair.
The minutes of the last meeting having been read, the fol-
lowing new members were ballotted for, and admitted :
, Messrs. Philip Twells, Leonard H. Hartley, Martin Tucker
Smith, and Frederick Peel.
A very intere•ting report was read on the various plans
which had been tried or proposed for the improvement of the
treatment of criminals and young persons likely to become
criminals, and on the principles on which punishments ought
to be awarded and conducted. The report, which was read
by Mr. Pitt Taylor, described, at very great length, the in-
conveniences and evils attending the present system of se-
secondary punishments, and concluded by recommending—
I. That all gaols, where unrestricted intercourse is allowed,
should be abolished. 2. That neither convicted nor uncon-
victed prisoners should be allowed to remain in a state of idle-
ness. 3. That tread-wheel labour should be abolished. 4.
That the building of district prisons within a limited period
should be rendered compulsory. 5. That such prisons should
be so built as to afford separate accommodations to each pri- ,
soner. 6. That useful labour. ex gr. mat, rug, basket, or net-
making, tailoring, washing, shoemaking, sempstressing,
knitting, &c., should be uniformly introduced in all prisoons.
potent persons attached to each prison.
7. That these occupations should be taught • by
bcetnteir-
class of schoolmasters should be appointed,
ries, and that it should be compulsory on every criminal to
attend school for a fixed time each day. 9. That to each
gaol a chaplain should be attached, with a salary sufficiently
large to ensure competency, and that it should be incumbent
wELitThhlaartgaer sala-
upon him to reside in the prison, and to give his undivided
attention to the spiritual wants of its inmates. 10. That
assuming the alterations to be carried into
sen-
tences—that is, under one month—should
11. That a coarse, plain, and should
uniform diet be en-
forced.sort
of
frtmhes
, there was
be established
desti-
tute children one or two large asylums should
proposed by Mr. Pear-
son,on a somewhat similar plan to that .
__ .
line be sufficiently
abffeecd
its,
csohnotritnued.
12. That for juvenile offenders and other
only taking care that the discip
proper severe.
Mr. Afters l . r somei : i
n i discussion,cl .c
~
ti
monAioenisffikg r:caveithgepibana
rcrethdta fM.
o rr 1
reformation
Et h‘bil'hAsatt rtternf.
01
h3s,lllt.ahPtei.,o,
pre-
ventionaa
nnoddf
Ica eto the punish-
isea t mindormyinp
Lad BROUGHAM expressed . his opinion
the proper
itiocess during a
veryT
nco rfiemnti nspoahfrloissr , imprisonment
11
n ah
minoriomv re
imprisonment.
seeowrnntecmhre
leeeyn
was, he was
object of the
Namely, the
sTatefor chance
the
ef
operationbrin gig ot .
reformation
inion
' former days, the idea w
offender ; whereagy In
the noble as usually
effect of this latter
considered He told-fashionedas an
frequency of executions,
was the former which were
opinion
or the purp9se of deterring b
hatred crime
of was
vice b y
aofpreventing y example.
The most successful mode and diminishing
evidently Prevalent
n of
intended
taetn crimedt
ehde.
bf object jec t
example.of pi n is
people,h Them eanntdw
tea g
clung them a
e lord adverted
to the great advantage of. .
1 pti
tnl
ii
fneannat.
schools
a means of dimi-
nishing the number of crimin
which, perhaps, might be. .
in
which perhaps was not participated by any One else in the
room ; he
would not give uP the punishment of death in
certain deterring from •
certain cases, as a means
lie would most willingly give it up in all cases'
o educating,
al all de scr
ought not to be inflicted.
The further discussion of the subject matter of the
vms adjorirned to the 17th of this month. report
punishmentg l glad to say,
o f becomec rim i
naawi 5
,tal ifkeetnhcTeerdhi rmeet fiono publicratnlb'

E BY PRUSSIC ACID.--011 Thurs-
day,paying his addresses
• the Deputy Coroner, was holding
he received
an inquest in Marylebone,,information of the
DENSvPhEiIsittAIsTiEr.SINULCIIIsD,
g past been
to
gen-
tleman,
named H. B. Fisher, assistant Mr. Farmer,
chemist., of Duke-street, Manchester-square. It appears that
following determined act of. self-destruction by a young
to a young lady residing in Robert-street, Paddington, On
Mr. Fisher has for some time
Tuesday morning, at eight o'clock, he went out, and was seen
walking with the young lady in question, in the neighbour-
hood, and engaged with her in earnest conversation. He
returned home shortly after nine o'clock, and in a few
minutes went up stairs to his bedroom. About ten o'clock,
the youth left in charge of the shop ran up to the deceased's
bedroom, and having called Mr. Fisher several times without
receiving any answer, ho • opened the door, and there dis-
covered the deceased lying on the floor struggling, and ap-
parently in the agonies of death. He raised an alarm, and
two or three medical gentlemen were sent for and promptly
iarrived. Antidotes were administered, but Mr. Fisher died
in two or three minutes after. A cup was on the table which
was found to have contained a strong dose of prussic acid
mixed with brandy. Two letters were also found, one ad-,
dressed by the deceased to his relatives, and the other to the
young lady in question, iu both of which he declared his in-
tention
to commit the act. The Coroner has ordered a
post mortem examination of the body.