The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-09 00:00:00

No. 16,787. LON DON, TH URSDAY EV N N G S N 7

BRIG II T'S TESTIMONIAL.
At a MEETING of GENTLEMEN of ROCHDALE, and
the neighbourhood, held at the Public Hall, Baillie-street, on Mon-
day, July 6th, 1846,
GEORGE ASHWORTH, Esq., in the chair ;

Resolved—
That this meeting, deeply impress.' d with the value of the inde-
fatigable 'and persevering exertions of john Bright, Esq., M.P., in
the arduous strtu gle for commercial 'freedom, hereby resolves
with
to
commence a subscription for the purpo:w of presenting
listing testimonial of the admiration and gratitude of his court-

nat the following gentlernen form the' Committee, to carry the
above resolution into effect, with power to add to their number:—
George Ashworth, Rochdale
Robert Schofield, Rochdale
Henry Kelsall, Rochdale
Joseph Schofield, Littleborough
Samuel Taylor, Rochdale
John Hoyle, Rochdale
James Tweedale, Rochdale
William Heaton. Rochdale
John Holdsuorth; Rochdale
George Prockter, Rochdale
Edward Briggs, Rochdale
John Petrie, Rochdale
Samuel Stott, Rochdale .
William Hastings, Rochdale
Samuel Heape, Rochdale
James Gibson, Rochdale
James Petrie, Rochdale
Uzbert Leach Tweedale, London
Hobert Tweedale, Broalley
Charles Walker, Rochdale
Oliver Ormerod. Rochdale
James Hoyle, Rochdale
William! Petrie, Rochdale
Robert Kelsall, Rochdale
James Littlewood, Rochdale
Thomas Booth, Rochdale
Jones King, Rochdale
John jloward, Rochdale
Robert Fagan, Rochdale
Edward Greenwood Kay, Rochdale
Joseph Fenton, Crimble Hall
Joseph H. Moore, ROehdale
Robert W. Barker, RoOhdale
John Yeveers, Todmorden.
That John Petrie, Esq., be the Chairman of the Committee; Ro-
bert Schofield, Esq., Vice-Chairman ; George Ashworth, Es., ree-
surer ; and Mr. Charles Walker, Reeretary. All communications
addressed to the Secretary, Yorkshire-street, Rochdale.
GEORGE ASHWORTH, Chairman.

a
trytne

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION,
A New and Interesting LECTURE, by Dr ..Ryan, on the
PHENOMENA and EEFECTS of HEAT and COLD, at
sdays andHalf-ast
Three daily, and on the Evenings of Mondays, Wedne,
Fridays, at Nine o'c'ock. l'rofessor BachhofTner's LECTURES on
NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, with brilliant experiments, dail
MACIN TOSH'S REVOLVING ENGINE, COLEMA N'S PATENTy.
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE for ascending and descending Inclined
Planes, FARRELL'S ARCHIMEDIAN RAILWAY, the ATMOS-
PHERIC RAILWAY, all in action. PORTRAITS
of LAHORE,
of Distill
guished Men in the GOVERXMENT and ARMY
magnified by the OPAQUE micuoscon. The OXY-HOD
MICROSCOPE' exhibiting a line Collection of Living Objects.
beautiful Picture of the CHAPEL in the CONVENe
of the T of St. CA-
711ERINE'S. Jerusalem, by Mr. Charles Smith, is on Series
of DISSOLVING VlEWSjust introduced.
On Monday gad Fridays, at Four o'clock, a Solo on the Violin,
with Brooks's Patent c Attachment.
Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.

PORTRAITS BY THE AGENCY OF LIGHT.
MR. BEARD, Patentee of the Daguerreotype,
has recently Introduced a new process of COLOURING
PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS, which, with other improvements,
impart a more life-like and beautiful effect than has hitherto been
attained. Hours of attendance from nine to sig.—At
;Sands, King
Wilihim..street, City ; 34, Parliament-street, Westminster
ifloiwtyobnic Institution, Regent-street.
Royce."
A great p 1144. gillgit has been effectel by the patentee."—The
hd
Times, April 22.
RE E S O
URAN S' AND GENERAL LIFE
ASSNCE COMPA
• • . DIVIDENDS.
Notice is hereby given, that from and after the 9th instant, the
Half-yearly Dividend to the ihtli Pit. will be in coarse of payment
to the respective Shareholders.

JOSEPH BERRIDGE, Secretary.
11, Wate..l,3n.place, Pall-mall, July 1, 1846.

clay OF LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE
SOC lET ,
oyatad by Act of Parliament, 7 and 8 Vio,, clip. 110), for Ac-
(lncorp gumulative and General Assurances.
Aro. g, Royal Exchange-buildings.
Capital, f4uarter of a Million.
This °nice, though strictly proprietary, with a subscribed capital
fully adequate to its requirements, offers the advantages of the mu-
tual system, without involvingdetphaertasmseunrte,doninpirtsinrieispklus oorflitniabellieticoes.,
sold affords facilities in everY
'Wray, limited only by strict yof and to security.
The rates of premiums are fOuriiigA not upon local, imperfect, or
theoretic data, but upon the ectuei f Otillee of the most important
offices in existence.
The AAcuroulative, or Deposit Assurance, is a new and valuable
extension of life assurance, introduced by this office, enabling the
assured not only to discontinue the premiums, without forfeiture
the
of
the policy, but also witigkaw tbe whole, or any portioni of
amount deposited.
Together with the advantage of being able at any time to vary, or
altogether omit, the annual premium.
All further information may be obtained, on application to
EDWARD FREDERICK LEEKS, Secretary.

LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
NA' 10NAL Awcx SOCIETY,
26, COHNIIII,I, 140111.1)027.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament. '
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to Ufe Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured
has, on all occasions, power to borrow, without expense or for-
feiture of the Policy, two-tblids of the nrernims u paid (see Table)-
;
also We option of selecting benefits, cuti pm conversion of his in
-
also
to meat other conveniences or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible
rates.

DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The remarkable success 44d Merftesing prosperity of the Society
ass enabled the Directors, et the lust aroma], investigation, to declare
a fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 95 per Gent. GU the premiums paid
on eaeh policy effected on the Profit scale.
KX,A3IPLES.

.. 4
= -
. 'Assured
s. al .1 Bonus Bonus i4l.
g may
64 = Premium, , .14-: ! -
added.. ' Cash. , 1 •
Borrow.
• • --414
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.
-------- ---- 7=777 n, nn n 1 lsl6 • 0 4X445 0

1837!Z211 16 14100 0 111X16 0 4',X445 0 0
1838 192 3 0 87 1 4 13 10 2 395 11 1
x s. d.
60 1000 74 3 4 1839 1
165 11 10 74 0 11 3 1 346 2 3
16 76: 54 010 18 10 296 13 4
• 1842
1841 111. 6 3, 49 10 0 710 4 247 4 5

The division of profits is ituaakl., and the next will be made in
December of the present year.
F. FERGUSON O.4IfROUX, Secretary.

HE CATHOLIC, LAW, AND GENIIAL
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
8, New Coyeutry-street, Leicester-square.

TRUSTEES.
The Right Hon. the g 4.11, of Shrewsbury, Alton Towers,
Cheadle, Staffordshire.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Traquair, Trepan' House, Peeble-
shire, North Britain.
The Right Hon. tho Lord Stafford, Cossey Hall, Norfolk.
A. 11. Lynch, Esq., Master in Chancery, 33, Queen-square.
Thomas Barnewall, sq., 15, York-terrace, Regent's Park.
Thomas Eyre, Esq., 63, Palteney-street, Bath.
DlUEcroks.
The Right Rev. Win. Morris, D.D., Acton, Middlesex,
The Hon. Edward Petre, 25, Wilton-crescent,
Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Director of the Mon. East India
Company, raid of the London Joint-Stock Bank.
terrace,
The Very Rev. Mons. A. Magee, D.D., 9, omney-
Westminster.
Rev. Thomas Doyle, D.D., London-road, Southwark.
Henry Clark Donna, Esq., Quarry House, Boughton.
Francis APDonnell, Esq., Usk, Monmouthshire.
James Iteade, Esq., 13, Lower Berkeley-street, Director of th
National Bank of Ireland.
William Seymour, Esq., Montague-place, Russell-square.
AUDivORS.
E. Jerningham, Esq. I James Marshall. Esq.
CONSULTING PursictaN--James Copland, M.D., F.R.S., 5, Old
Burlington-street.
CoNsUlaista SURGEON—WIIItam Teevan, Esq., 23, Bryanstone
square:

BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL.
The CIALLER Y, with a seleetion of PORTRAITS of EMINENT
PERSONS, is OPEN. every Day from Ten till Six.
Admission, Is. ; Catalogue Is.
WILLIAM BARNARD, Keeper.

PUBLIC BREAKFAST and MORNING
CONCERT in CREMORNE GARDENS, Chelsea, in pre-
paration for WEDNESDAY, July 15, 1846.. No pen can describe the
Grandeur of Scale on which this Entertainment is being got up. Its
title is " Itanelagh Revived or, One Hundred Years Ago."
Prospectuses may be obtained of every respectable musicseller and
confectioner In the metropolis.

PLEASURE EXCURSION to ROTTERDAM
vlit YARMOUTH.
A Special Train will leave the Shoreditch Station of the EASTERN
COUNTIES RAILWAY, on THURSDAY MORNING, the 16th instant,
at Fire o'clock precisely, and will call at Cambridge. As soon as it
reaches Yarmouth, the new and rapid steamer Norfolk will start for
ROTTERDAM, reaching that port about Five p.st. She will return on
FRIDAY EVENING, the 17th instant, and upon her arrival at Yar-
mouth the passengers will be immediately forwarded to London.
Tickets (which may be had at Shoreditch Station, or at the Offices
of the Norfolk Railway Company, 19, Guildhall-buildings), for the
journey and back, from either London or Cambridge, including First
Class by Railway, 38s. As the number will be very limited, early
application must be made.
Offices, Shorediteh Station, July 8,1846.

CONVICT DISCIPLINE.

REGULATIONS OF THE PROBATIONARY ESTABLISHMENT

FOR FEIRALE CONVICTS IN VAN DIEDIEN'S LAND.
The following regulations of the Probationary Es-
tablishment for Female Convicts in Van Diemen's Land
have been approved by his Excellency the Lieutenant-
Governor, and are to be strictly carried out by all per-
sons employed in this branch of the convict department.
M. FOSTER, Comptroller-General.
I. All female convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land
will be placed under probationary restriction and dis-
cipline for at least six months previously to becoming
passholders.
2. In this stage of propation the attainment of two ob-
jects is contemplated, "punishment and reformation."
The first will be secured by the due application of coer-
cive labour and restrictive discipline ; the second, it is
hepet will be attained by means of religious and moral
influences, and by the careful inculcation of industry and

regularity.
-3. The systematic employment of such means as in-
struments of reformation, it is expected, will prepare
the women for a gradual restoration to freedom, with
benefit to themselves and advantage to society • but
they must understand that, until they have afforded
satisfactory evidence of amendment and improvement,
'they will not bespermitted to emerge from this stage of
probation into that of passholders, in which they will
have au opportunity of obtaining wages in private

service.
4. The entire management of the establishment will
be guided in accordance with these principles, and it
will be impressed upon the women that the coercive and
restrictive discipline, they are undergoing is the conse-
quence of their misconduct ; but that, at the same time,
their lasting benefit is the object in view.
5. Discipline will be most effectually enforced by
calmness and firmness on the part of the various officers
of the establishment. Reproachful or harsh language
can never be attended with advantage, and must be
carefully avoided. Kind treatmenlib and mild language
are ' perfectly compatible -with. • strict and system*
discipline.
6. One uniform system of discipline and system must
prevail. Women of humble attainments and capacity
are not on that account to be more rigorously dealt with
than those of superior acquirements; but women of a
restless disposition will be placed at such description of
work as requires the closest and most unvarying atten-
tion, and be kept under the separate system, whenever
such can be enforced.

7. No female convict, whilst under probationary re-
striction, will be entrusted with power or authority over
the others, nor be employed in any permanent situation
of ease or trust, on account of her ability or usefulness,
or from motives of expediency.
8. This regulation will not prevent the employment
of women, as hereafter pointed out, in the performance
of the &lily duties of the establishment, or as ser-
vants to such officers of the establishment as are allowed
attendance. _ _

9. All articles of indulgence, such as tea, tobacco,
&c., are strictly prohibited. Nothing in addition to the
rations and clothing supplied by the Government, which
are ample, will be allowed.

CLASSIFICATION.
10. The discipline of' the establishment—the efficacy
of the system--and the present as well as the future
comfort of the women, depend much upon proper classi-
fication. To this object, therefore, the utmost attention
must be given by the superintendent and matron, who in
their arrangement into classes of the women when first
received into the establishment, will be greatly guided
by the reports made by the surgeon-superintendent, as
to the general character and conduct of each woman
whilst under his charge.
11. There will be three classes—the first will be
composed of the best conducted women who have been
ongest in the establishment, and who are, therefore,
nearest to emergence ; the second of those who, al-
though generally well conducted, are not so regular as
the women of the first class, and have not been so long
in the establishment ; and the third will consist of the
disobedient and intractable. The superintendent is
hereby ordered to follow this plan, and not on any ac-
count to classify by ships' companies.
12. Each class will be divided into messes of ten. The
women of the Ist and 2nd classes will be allowed to se-
lect their own mess associates. One woman of each of
the messes will have charge of its details, and will be
responsible for them to the warden in charge of the class.
EMPLOYMENT.
13. As a general rule, the women will perform every
description of work for themselves and for the advantage
of the establishment, which they can accomplish. They
are to be kept in constant employment, and at such work
as may be from time to time provided. In its perform-
ance, the officers under whose superintendence the
women immediately are, will see that they are indus •
trious and pains-taking, and that no intermission of
work is allowed during the hours allotted for that pur-
pose.
14. The women employed in the daily duties of the
establishment, such as cleaning, washing, scrubbing, &c.,
which can be performed by the women generally, will
be changed weekly. Bakers, cooks, hospital attendants,
store assistants and servants will be selected from such
women as have been classed as passholders. In the
event of passholders not being found for such employ-
ment, women who have finished two-thirds of their term
of probation in the establishment, with uninterrupted
good conduct, and who aro in the Ist class, may be em-
ployed.
15. Servants will not be allowed gratuitously to the
superintendent, matron, religious instructor, or medical
officer. A charge of 6d. a day will be made for such of
the women as they employ as servants. The other
officers will be allowed attendance, selected as already
directed, in the proportion of one female servant for
two officers.
16. The officers, however, will respectively be allowed
washing according to the scale appended ; the same
being performed by the women employed in that duty.
They will also be allowed to employ women at the
rate of Is. a day for each woman so employed.
17. Beyond this, the women are not to be employed in
any manner whatever for the profit or advantage of any
officer of the establishment, or of any other individual.'
The entire proceeds of their labour will be for the ad-
vantage of the convict service alone ; and all money
received for work done for private indivividuals, accord-
ing to the scale annexed, will he paid monthly by the
superintendent to the assistant. comptroller.
18. The afternoon of Saturday will be devoted to a
careful inspection of the clothing of the women, and of
the messing utensils, and other articles of bedding and
furniture. The women will, besides, repair their clothing
and otherwise prepare for Sunday, so that it may be
kept holy and as a day of rest.
19. All women who cannot read and write with
tolerable ease and accuracy, will attend the schools, as
will such others as may desire to do so. A cheerful
obedience to the school regulations will be required, and
great care will be taken that the iguorant are never so
employed as to prevent their receiving daily school in-
struction.
20. The women will go to bed at nine o'clock in sum-
mer, and eight o'clock in winter, getting up throughow
,he year at sunrise.
SUPERINTENDENT AND MATRON.

21. The position of the superintendent and of the
matron of the probationary establishment for females is
one of very great responsibility and trust. The bene-
ficial effects of probation depend chiefly on their judicious
and careful management. Their whole time and atten-
tion, therefore, should be devoted to the duties of their
respective situations. The introduction and maintenance
among the women, and generally throughout the estab-
lishment, of habits of industry, cleanliness, order, and
obedience, require their zealous ant unceasing care. In
the performance of their duties they have the aid of
able assistants, who must cheerfully obey and zealously
co-operate with them.
22. The superintendent will receive his instructions
through the Comptroller-General. These are to be
fully and fairly earned into effect. and no departure
from them will be allowed.
23. The superintendent and matron must not be
absent from the establishment during the night, and
sliould avoid being absent together during the day. In
the event, however, of necessity requiring them to be so
.h.yAay, their absence must not exceed three hours.
; The superintendent will pre.vent any communica-
tidtrivith the women by unauthorised persons. He will
also prevent letters or parcels being sent or received by
the women through any other medium Om himelf el
the matron.
25. In any unavoidable absence of the resident rel

gious instructor, the superintendent or matron—Will read
morning and evening prayers ; but no minister or lay-
man, excepting the authorised religious instructors, will
be permitted to officiate, or to afford instruction without
special authority..
26. The superintendent and matron will visit the
school daily, and afford every assistance to the religious
instructors in conducting them. They will also, con-
jointly, make minute monthly reports of the conduct and
disposition of each of the women according to the form
annexed. To this point great attention is required to
be paid.
27. Any misconduct on the part of the officers of the
establishment, which the superintendent cannot him-
self properly settle, will be reported by him to the comp-
troller-general, for the Lieutenant-Governor's infor-

mation.
28. All orders given by the superintendent on points
management are to be entered in his
of discipline and
daily order book ; and
all matters of importance con-
nected with the health, discipline, and employment of the
women, in his journal. In the journal of misconduct
also are to he entered daily all instances of minor mis-
conduct which he or the matron may themselves deal
with ; but the superintendent will be careful not to in-
flict any punishments illegally, These books will be
laid before the visiting magistrate whenever he visits
the establishment! and an pxtr4et from them, and from
the magistrate's visiting book, will be forwarded by the
superintendent to the comptroller-general on the last
day of each month.
29. The superintendent will specially request the at-
tention of the religious instructors and medical officer to
the case of any woman whose condition, mental or bodily,
requires particular attention ; and, whore the treatment
or discipline in any case is found by these officers to be
attended with injurious effects, it may be modified, a re
port being immediately made to tho comptroller-general
and principal medical officer.
30. The superintendent or Riatron will visit gace at

least every twenty-four hours, every ward, division,
separate apartment, and cell in the establishment, and
enter such visit in their respective journals. The super-
intendent will also satisfy himself daily that the provi-
sions furnished for the use of the women are good in
quality and correct in quantity, immediately reporting
any deficiency in either to the commissariat.
31. The superintendent and matron will also fre
quently visit the women whilst at their meals, and see
the provisions are of the full allowance, wholesome, and
well cooked.
32. The superintendent will ascertain that the several
branches of the establishment are securely locked up at
nine o'clock at night in summer, and at eight in winter,
and the keys deposited with him; and these are to remain
in his possession till sunrise the following morning.
33. During the night, in cases of emergency, ingress
to the women's wards is to be allowed to the medical
officer or religious instructors ; but on such occasions,
the matron, or one of her assistants, is to be present.
These visits, and the circumstances rendering them ne-
cessary, will be recorded in the superintendent's journal
book.
34. The illness of any of the women is to be imme-
diately notified by the superintendent to the medical
officer, by whom daily lists of the sick will be furnished.
The superintendent's daily lists of women under separate
treatment, or in solitary confinement, will be furnished
by the superintendent to the medical officer, as well as
to the religious instructors.. In the event of the dan-
gerous illnesi or death of any woman, the superinten-
dent will make an immediate report to the principal me-
dical officer and comptroller-gendral, and if the death be
sudden, to the coroner of the district.
35. The superintendent will read and explain weekly
to the women under his charge, those parts of the regu-
lations which immediately affect their condition. He
will also have the orders stispended, printed in legible
characters, in each of the divisions and wards of the
establishment. Lists of passholders, and their respec-
tive classes, will also be suspended for the information
of the public.
36. All articles of provisions, stores, bedding, &c., are
under the general charge of the superintendent, and he
is responsible for the same. The immediate care of the
stores will rest, however, with one of the officers, to be
named by the superintendent.
37. The superintendent will afford every facility to
the officers of the Commissariat and Ordnance Depart-
ments when their duties lead them to visit the esta-
blishment.
ASSISTANTS, TEACHERS, WARDERS, AND OTHER OFFICERS,

38. The assistants, teachers, warders and other officers
will strictly conform to the rules of the establishment,
obey the directions of the superintendent and matron,
and zealously assist them in maintaining order and disci-
pline. They are not to be absent without leave from the
superintendent, and then only during the day, and never
for more than four hours.

39. The general and special duties of each assistant and
other officer will be determined by the superintendent,
and will be entered in a book to be kept by each officer
for that purpose.
40. Written reports will be made by the assistants
and warders daily in a report book, with which they are
all provided, on such subjects as may be necessary to be
brought under the notice of the superintendent, more,
particularly as regards the conduct of the women imme-
diately under their charge. In cases of emergency,
verbal reports will be made, but these must be afterwards
recorded.