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

EMPLOYMENT.

13. As a general rule, the woman will perform every
description of work fur 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
goal conduct, and who are 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. 411 women who cannot read and write with

tolerable ease and accuracy, will attend the schools:;
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-
,truction.

20. The women will go to bed at nin•.o'clock in sum-
mer, and eight o'clock in winter, getting up throughout
the 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
%rid 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 an t unceasing care. In
the performance of their dnties 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 carried 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
should avoid being absent together during the day. In
the event, however, of necessity requiring them to be so
by day, their absence must not exceed three hours.
24. The superintendent will prevent any communica-
tion with the women by unauthorised persons. He will
also irevent letters or parcels being sent or received by
the women through any other medium than himself or
the matron.

25. In any unavoidable absence of the resident reli-
Oous 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. . _

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28. All orders given by the superintendent on points
of discipline and management are to be entered in his
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 be 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 punisbniests illegally. These books will be
laid before ga;mxistrtafteromwhtehneemv.eranhtei visits
from
the establikihmttv,ibat
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, where the treatment
or discipline in any case is found officersbythbeesemodfied, are
to be,
attended with injurious effects, it may
port being immediately made to the comptroller-general
and principal 'medical officer.
30. The superintendent or matron will visit once at
lent every twenty-four hours, every ward, division,
separate apartment, and cell in the establishment, an.l
enter such visit in their respective journals. The super- ,
intendant 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 superitrendent and matron will also fre
quently visit the women whilst at their med., and see
the provisions are of the full allowance, wholesome, aril
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,
i and the keys deposited with him; and these are to remain
in his possessii.n till sunrise the following m,,,riti!.g.
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 notifi,d 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 illness or death of any woman, the superinten-
dent will make an immediate report to the principal me-
dicalefficer and comptroller-general, and if the death be
sudden, to th, coroner of the district.
35. The superintendent will read and explain weekly
to the women under his charge, those parts of the rugu-
latiuns which immediately affect their condition. He
will also have the orders stuper.ded, printed in legible
characters, in each of the divisions and words of the
stablishment. Lists of passholders, and their respec-
tive classes, will also be suspended for the information
of the public.
36. All articles of provisions, stores, be:bling, 84e., 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-
plin .. They are not to be absent witlicut leave from the
superintendent, and then only during the day, and never
for more than four hours.
39. The general and special duties& each assi.tant 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.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY,'9, 1846.

who opened the closet, when the piece of tissue paper w*
found, the two note,, and an (Tv_ kpe.
W Peat, the other const..ble, saw the prisoner drop a
pk-c, of paper iiaore trom his left hand, and with his
right hand put something is his left waistcoat-pocket.
The plumber was called, who corroborated the evidence
already given, which closed the case.
Mr. BALLANTINE addressed the jury in defence.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON summed up the evidence, and, in the
course of his remarks to the jury, expressed his surprise that
any person, when they could obtain a Post-office order,
should put people in the way of temptation. Much, very
much the cruse committed in the world, would be pre-
vented by exereidng ordinary care not to throw temptation
in the way, which all were surely bound to do by every
Christian consideration of the interests of their fellow-men.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, who was sentenced to
ten Years' transportation.
Robelt Burke, aged 16, was convicted of uttering two
counterfeit shillin4s, and it was proved that he had been
before convicted of a similar offence, and that he had also
been charged a number of times at the police offices with
uttering bae. e in.
Mr. Justice Wit.u,ols said that after what had been stated,
he considered it was hopeless to expect that the prisoner
could come to any good in this country, and the sentence
therefore nec.s. a rilv was, that he he transported for ten years.
Henry Hailey, 34, chairmaker, was indicted for feloniously
cutting and wounding Lucy Harley, with intent to murder
her. _ -

It appeared that the parties were man and wife, but they
had separated, and on the day mentioned in the indictment,
the prisoner went to the house where the prosecutrix Was
staring, and, apparently without any provocation he seized
a carving knife and stabbed her in the lower part of her
per Lon, afflict ing a dreadful wound three inches deep.
For tl•e defence slme witnesses were called to make out a
case of insanity. The evidence, however, merely went to
show that the prisoner, in one of his versions, had made use
of some absurd and incoherent expressions.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS baying left the case to the jury,
they deliberated a short time, and then returned a verdict
of Guilty. _ . .

The Learned JUDGE inquired of the jury whether they
were of opinion that at the time the prisoner committed the
act imhut.«•d to him, he was pertectly aware of its quality and
the consequences likely to result from it.
The jury replied that they believed he was quite sane when
he committed the offence.
The Learned JUDGE then ordered the sentence of Death to
be recorded.

POLIC' INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.

EXTENSIVZ ROBBEZY Illff R 4. ACKIRMA NN'S.—RObei t
Crawford Bartlett, a si,opman in the service of Messrs
Ackermann, was brouLtht up for re-examination, charged
with staling a quantity of prints, &c., of great value.

Mr. Warr—en appealed ter the prisoner.
Mr. George Ackermann stated that on the 29th June he
was waited on be Mr. Williams, a bookseller, in the Strand,
who informed him that an illustrated work, containing
sketches of considerable value, bearing his initials and also
bis foreign mark, had been offered to him for sale; and hav-
ing coinnup.icated his suspicions upon the subject, he went
into a back parlour, and brought out the prisoner, who was
convened to his house, and locked up in the drawing-room,
w;,ile he ordered a constable to be sent for. On his return
with his brother, he found that the prisoner had made his es-
cape by the window to the adjoining house, in consi,quence
of which be was followed by the officer to his lodgings, in
Antwell-tevia..e. Islington. *The nine books produced were
the seine hich had been shown to him by Mr. Williams,
and were his property.
.Mr...A4.4!pbus Ackermann said that when the pris'aier was
conveyed to 'his house he fell on his knees t.o beg fir mercy,
as it was his first offence. On going to his lodging with the
officer he found 116 grin value 691. 14s. 6,1., bearing his
private mark, together with ,Irawings, colours, brushes, &c.,
and also an album upon his person.
r. Williams said that he had known the prisoner as
being in the habit of interpreting fir a Russian gentleman.
About a month back he mentioned that he had some books
beltingiLg to an arti-t fir sale, and about a week of er
porter in the service of the prosecutors brought them to his
shop. lie also brought another parcel, which aroused the
suspicion of his partner; and the prisoner having called for
20/. as payment for them, information was given to the pro-
secutors. who identified their property.
Mr. Edward Gregory, a frame-maker, 28, Fleet-street,
proved that on the 2ad March the prisoner called upon him,
offering a quantity of engravings for sale, for which he agreed
to give credit for a week. Witness subsequently went to his
lodgings, and purchased some prints for 91., some of which
were soiled, and which the prisoner said he had been col-
lecting fir years. He also sold him prints, the price of
which amounted to 111., which were afterwards framed and
disposed et by auction, and witness consequently could not
say in whose ; ossession they were.
'Mr. JARDINE ordered the prisoner to be further remanded.

WORKING STOCK OF R
Retain were, on Sturtitcy, i,su:til t) k-,-;-,7,r th
IL.,use of Loris, relative to the v+4;rling r,t,ck
istihg railways. The following at%, extraeis th;:rk-:‘roni,
describing the stock of some of the railways; but the
return is not yet completed:—
LETTER FROM D, O'BRIEN, ESQ., TO B.
CURRY, ESQ.
Railway Derartment, Board of Trade,
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Whitehall, June 27. 1846.

Sir,—With reference to the order of the House i,f
Lords, outed the 6th of May, tOr a return of the
" Wcrekir.g stock (engine-s, carriages. and waggon,) be-
lonjng to railway companies at present in operation,"
I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade to transmit to you the accompanying
returns, which have been received by their Lordships
from various railway companies in compliance with a
r(quest contained in a circular letter fr .m this depart-
ment.

Shoup the remaining companies make returns they
will be tr,insruitted to you without delay.
I have, &c.
D. O'BRIEN.

B. Curry, E-q.
GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.

Iteturn of Working Stock-128 locomotive engines,
1,854 waggons, 3 post-offices, 5 post-office vans, 16 mail
carriages, 123 first class carriages, 92 second-class car-
riages, 105 third-class carriages, 7 composite carriages,
14 luvgage vans, 2 parcel vans, 49 carriage trucks, 51
horse boxes.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
RETURN uF LOCOMOTIVE AND CARRYING STOCK.
Engines : No.
Passenger engines
Goods engines ..

Total 66
Carriages, Waggons, &c.:—
First-class carriages
Mixed ditto
Second-class ditto
Third-class ditto 34
Luggage vans
Hors,, boxes 36
Ctrrisge trucks
Coke waggons 49
C, ad ditto l7O
Goods ditto 5ll
Cattle ditto
Sheep ditto
Brake ditto
Timber ditto

Total 1,346
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY_

A return of the working stock (engines, carriages,
and wagg,ns) belonging: to this ciar.phy, at present in
operation —127 engines and tenders, 107 fiat.-class car-
riages, 103 second-class carriages, 18 third-class car-
riages, 161 carriage t ucks, 96 horse boxes, 4 inaii
carriages, 25 luggage vans, 637 wa,smol s.
(1-IAI4I.ES SAUNDERS, Secretary.
London T,rininu=, Paddington, Juno. 1846.