The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-06 00:00:00

No. 16,680. LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING SUN 9

ACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER-
HALL.
„THIS EVENING, MARCH 6, will be performed, ENGEDI
(an adaptation of Beethoyen's MOUNT OF OLIVES) and Men-
delssohn's LOBGESANG.

Principal Vocal Performers, Miss Birch, Miss Dolby, Mr. Hobbs,
and Mr. H. Phillips.

The Band and Chorus will consist of above Five Hundred Performers.

Tickets 3s. each, Reserved Seats 55., may be obtained of the prin-
cipal Musicsellers ; or of Mr. Howley, 53, Charing-cross ; Mr. Ries,
IQ2, Strand ; or Mr. Mitchell, 39, Charing-cross.
THOS. BREWER, Hon. Sec.

THE CAMPAIGN on the SUTLEJ creating
immense interest at the present moment, there is exhibiting
at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION Portraits of the
most Distinguished Men both in the SIKH ARMY and GOVERN-
MENT of LAHORE, taken by a lady of rank, distinguished in the
Fine Arts, during her residence in India. • By means of the OPAQUE
MICROSCOPE these interesting Portraits are on a magnific, nt
scale. Mornings, at Half-past Four o'ciock ; Evenings at a Quarter
to Ten. The LECTURES include those on ASTRONOMY, during
Lent on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, COLEMAN'S WORK-
ING MODEL ascending and descending Inclined Planes, &c.
• Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.

rrliE HUMAN TRIPOD, or the THREE-
_I_ LEGGED CHILD andFIRST BIPENIS EVER SEEN or
HEARD OF.

The nobility and gentry, and the lovers of natural sciences, are re-
spectfully invited to view the following unprecedented phenomenon
of a Male Child, Six Menths old, by name JOHN BAP FIST DOS
SANTO, a native of Portugal, having THREE LEGS and
TWENTY TOES, and being Qtherwise a very fine, well-made,
healthy, and lively boy. He is a bipenis as well as a trisceles, and
the causes of this extraordinary gemination of limbs and organs, and
the probabilities of their future growth and development, may well
afford ample field for the speculations of the learned,
Exhibited every day (Sunday excepted) from Eleven to Five,
and from Seven to Nine o'clock, at No. 56, QUADRANT, REGENT-
STREET. • _ _ _

Admission, Half-a-Crown,

The Child will be shown privately at the residences of the nobility
and gentry, by applying to Antonio Dos Santos, at the same address.

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Just published, price Gs.,
MITE MEMORABILIA of XENOPHON :
Books I. and IL from the Text of Dr. IL Kilmer ; adapted to
the HAMILTONIAN SYSTEM, by an interlinear and analytical
Translation, accompanied by Copious Notes, partly Original, and
partly Selected from Kiihmer, Bornemann, and other German Com-
mentators. By JOHN W .UNDERWOOD, Son-in-law and several
years partner of Mr. Hamilton.

Souter and Law, 131, Fleet-street ; where may be had (gratis) the
History, Principles, Practice, and Results of the Hamiltonian System,
with a List of all the Books on the true Plan of Mr. James
Hamilton.

SHELFORD ON THE LAW OF RAILWAYS.—SECOND
EDITION.
Just published, in 1 thick vol. 12m0., price 215., boards.
THE LAW OF. RAILWAYS; including the
THREE GENERAL CONSOLIDATION ACTS, 1845, and the
other General Acts for Regulating Railways in England and Ireland,
with Copious Notes of Decided Cases ; also the PROCEEDINGS IN
PARLIAMENT RESPECTING RAILWAY BILLS, with Forms,
&c. Second Edition, considerably enlarged. By LEONARD SHEL-
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Henry Butterworth, Law Bookseller and Publisher, 7, Fleet-street.

J UVENILE OFFEN DE RS.

At a meeting of noblemen and gentlemen, held at the
Mansion house, on the 14th day 'of February, 1846, the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair, the following
Suggestions were submitted to their consideration by
the City Solicitor, as a Plan for Checking the Growth of
Juvenile Crime, and providing for Cite mental, moral,
religious, and industrial training of tle,..tittite Youth in
the Metropolis and other large Cities and Towns.
1. It appears, from Parliamentary returns and other
authentic documents, that during the 'present century
the number of commitments and convictions for crime
has increased in this country greatly beyond the in-
crease of population. Thus, in the five years preceding
1810 the average annual number of commitments in
England and Wales was 4,792, and the convictions 2,840,
while the population of the age of ten years and up-
wards amounted to 7,302,600 ; whereas in the five
years, preceding 1845 the average annual number of
commitments was 28,477, and the convictions 20,590,
.and the population ten years old and upwards hid in.
creased to 12,093,000 ; so that in a period of forty
years population ten years old and upwards has increased
65 per cent., while the proportionate commitments for
crime have been augmented 494 per cent., and the con-
victions 625 per cent.

2. Until within the last ten years the returns do not
specify the ages of the prisoners ; but, as appears by
these later documents, the number of juvenile criminals
annually convicted in England and Wales, has increased
in a greater degree than even the mass of criminals at
large. Thus the number of criminals, under twenty
years of age, committed to prison in the year 1835 was
6 803, or one in 449 of the population, between ten and
twenty years of age ; while in 1844 they amounted to
11,348, or 1 in 304 upon the population of the same