The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-27 00:00:00

PRISON DISCIPLINE.

A letter from Stockholm states that the six cellular (soli-
tary confinement) prisons, built by order of the Government
in different parts of the kingdom, have just been terminated.
These prisons can contain from four to eight hundred pri-
soners. They will be occupied during the course of next
month. The following are the prominent features of the re-
gulations of these prisons. The prisoners are not to be al-
lowed to speak to each other. Even while taking
their only exercise, in an enclosure, strict silence is to be
observed. This exercise is to be allowed them daily, and is
to last half an hour; a longer time may be conceded to sick
prisoners, on the demand of the doctor, and with the sanc-
tion of the governor of the prison. If a prisoner wishes to
make a complaint, he can only do so during the time of
exercise. lie must then step forward and raise his
hand; upon this one of the guardians will listen ti
what he has to say. The prisoners are to receive the
daily visit either of the clergyman, the doctor, or some
special person appointed for the purpose. These visits an.
never to exceed twenty minutes. The prisoner in his con-
versations with the functionaries of the prison, who are tlo,
only persoris he is allowed to converse with, must always
speak in an undertone. Each cell is to be provided with a
book on religion, and is fernished with a bell, so as to
enable the prisoner to call for help in case of illness, Di-
vine service is to be performed in the corridors. During
the service the door of each cell is to be opened two or
three inches, so as to enable the prisoners to see and hear
the clergyman without seeing each other. The cells are
not to be lighted; nevertheless, prisoners worthy of leni-
ence may in exceptional cases, and at their own expanse
receive permission from the governor to have a light in their
cell. (In Sweden during the short days it is scarcely day-
light before 91 in the morning.) Those prisoners who are
not sentenced to bard labour er to complete idleness (punish-
ments which must be expressly denoted in the sentence)
may obtain the permission to work on their own account.
In this case the prison authorities will endeavour to procure
them work. The punishments to which the prisoners aro
subject, are-1. Privation of their walk in the enclosure. 2.
Diminution of their rations of food, the diminution not to
exceed one-third. 3. Locking up in the black-hole for a
period not exceeding eight days. The latter punishment is
only applicable to prisoners who have made use of violence.

THE GREAT LEAGUE PlCTURE.—NOtWithStanding
the shortness and the darkness of the days, and the difficulty
of obtaining a regular succession of sitters, Mr. Herbert has
made great progress with his painting of the Council of the
League,—a picture which will sustain the high reputation he
has so deservedly acquired. The likenesses are admirable,
and the grouping is entirely free from the stiffness which cha-
racterises so many of the attempts to pourtray the corona-
tions, and baptisms, and Duke's dinners, where the person-
ages seem to sit or stand without any other object than to
have their portraits taken. Mr. Cobden, standing and ad-
dressing the chairman, is the centre figure of Mr. Herbert's
pieture, and it is a living and speaking likeness. On his left
hand, sitting at the side of the table nearest to the eye of the
spectator, are Mr. Rawson, the treasurer of the League, Mr.
Bright, M.P., Mr. R. H. reg, late M.P. for Nianchester, and
a space is left for Mr. Villiers, M.P., and another for Mr. Gib-
son, M.P. On the right of Mr. Cobden, between him and Mr.
Prentice, spaces are left for Lord Radnor and Col. Thompson.
At the right hand corner of the picture are Mr. 11. Ash-
worth and Mr. Bazloy, standing, and Mr. Hamer Stansfeld,
of Leeds, sitting. At the left hand corner are Mr. J. B.
Smith and Mr. John Brooks, sitting. At the opposite side
of the table, and sitting at it, are Mr. Hickin, the secretary,
Mr. William Evans, Mr. Lees, Mr. H. Rawson, and Mr.
NV. Bickham. The only portraits behind them, as yet, are
Mr. Lumsden, the late Lord Provost of Glasgow, and Mr.
Dixon, the late Mayor of Carlisle. Mr. George Wilson oc-
cupies the chair, and on the raised dais behind him are Lord
Kinnaird, Mr. John Whitaker, of Hurst, and Mr. Duncan
Maclaren, of Edinburgh, Mr. W. Biggs, late Mayor of
Leicester, and Mr. James Marshall, of Leeds. The picture
is intended, we believe, to contain about fifty portraits. The
place of meeting represented is the League council-room in
Newall's-buildings, from whence the proceedings of the
powerful association were directed; and the view from the
window will embrace a front of Market-street. The whole
will form a great national picture, illustrative of on a those
deliberative meetings at which magnificent de7;,gns were
originated and matured for the emanci
Pat ;:,,n of the com-
merce, not only of England, but of the;vnolewoild.—Man-
chester Times.

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