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

LONDON, THURSDAY
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No. 16,787.

BRIGH T.'S TESTIMONIAL.
At a MEETING of GENTLEMEN of ROCHDALE, sad
the neighbourhood, held at the Public Hall, 13aiWe-street, on Mon-
day, July 6th, 1846,
GEORGE ASHWORTH, Esq., in the chair;
Resolved—
That this meeting, deeply impressed with the value of the inde-
fatigable and persevering exertions of John Bright, Esq., M.P., in
the arduous strm.gle for commercial freedom, hereby resolves to
commence a subscription for the purpose of presenting him with
a lasting testimonial of the admiration and gratitude of his coun-
trymen.
That the following gentlemen 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 Holdsworth, Rochdale
George Prockter, Rochdale
Ldward Briggs, Rochdale
John Petrie, Rochdale
• Samuel Stott, Rochdale
William Hastings, Rochdale
Samuel Heape, Rochdale '
James Gibson, Rochdale
James Petrie, Rochdale
Robert Leach Tweedale, London
Robert Tweedale, Broalley
Charles Walker, Rochdale
Oliver Onnerod, Rochdale
James Hoyle, Rochdale
William Petrie, Rochdale
Robert Kelsall, Rochdale
James Littlewood, Rochdale
Thomas Booth, Rochdale
James King, Rochdale
John Howard, Rochdale
Robert Pagan, Rochdale
Edward Greenwood Kay, Rochdale
Joseph Fenton, Crimble Hall
Joseph H. Moore, Rochdale
Robert W. Barker, Rochdale
John Veveers, Todmorden.

That John Petrie, Esq., be the Chairman of the Committee; Ro-
bert Schofield, Esq., Vice-Chairman ; George Ashworth, Esq., Trea-
surer ; and Mr. Charles Walker, Secretary. All communications
addressed to the Secretary. Yorkshire-street, Rochdale.
GEORGE ASIIWORIII,, Chairman.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIO JiIsTSTITUTION,
A New and Interesting LECTURE, by Dr. Ryan, on the
PHENOMENA and EEFECTS of HEAT and COLD, at Half-past
Three daily, and on the Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays, at Nine o'clock. Professor Bachhoffner's LECTURES on
NATURAL ,PHILOSOPHY, with brilliant experiments, daily.
MACINTOSH'S REVOLVING ENGINE, COLEMAN'S PATENT
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE for, ascending and descending Inclined
Planes, FARRELL'S ARCHIMEDIAN RAILWAY, the ATMOS-
PHERIC RAILWAY, all in action. PORTRAITS of Distill
guished. Men in the GOVERNMENT and ARMY of LAHORE,
mred by the OPAQUE MICROSCOPE. The OXY-HYDROGEN
MI ROSCOPEI exhibiting a fine Collection of Living Objects. A
bea tiful Picture of the CHAPEL in the CONVENT of St. CA-
THERINE'S, Jerusalem, by Mr. Charles Smith, is one of the Series
of DISSOLVING VIEWS just introduced.

On Mondays and Fridays, at Four o'clock, a Solo on the Violin,
with Brooks's Patent Clavie Attachment.

Admistioil, le. ; 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 six.—At 85, King
William-street, City; 34, Parliament-street, Westminster; and the
Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street.
"A great improvement has been effectel by the patentee."—The
Times, April 22.

FREEMASONS' AND GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY.

DIVIDENDS.

Notice is hereby given, that from and after the 9th instant, the
Half-yearly Dividend to the 30th ult. will be in course of payment
to the respective Shareholders.

_
JOSEPH BERRIDGE, Secretary.
11, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, July 1, 1846.

CITY OF LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE
iJ SOCIETY.
(Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 7 and 8 Vic., cap. 110), for Ac-
cumulative and General Assurances. •
No. 2, Royal Eackange-buildings.
Capital, Quarter of a Million.
This office, though strictly proprietary, with a subscribed capital
fully adequate to its requirements, offers the advantages of the mu-
tual system, without involving the assured in its risks or liabilities,
and affords facilities in every department, on principles of true eco-
nomy, limited only by strict regardto security.

The rates of premiums are founded not upon local, imperfect, or
theoretic data, but upon the actual experience of the most important
offices in existence.

The Accumulative, 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 of

the policy, but also to withdraw the whole, or any portion, of the
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.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASS Ult •
ANTE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital .£500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured
has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ;
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
terests to meet other conveniences or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible
rates.

lIITISH
" INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL.
.11_11) The GAfLER Y, with a selection of PORTRAITS of EMINENT
PERSONS, is OPEN every Day from Ten till Six.
Admission, 15..; Catalogue is.
WILLIAM BARNARD, Keeper.

I: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 "Ranelagh Revived ; or, One Hundred Years Ago."
Prospectuses may be obtained of every respectable tnusicseller and
confectioner in the metropolls.

PLEASURE EXCURSION to ROTTERDAM
via YARMOUTH.
A Special Train will leave the Shoreditch Station of the EASTERN
COUNTIES RAILWAY, on THURSDAY MORNING, the 16th instant,
at Five 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.M. 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-building's), 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, Shoreditch Station, July 8,1846.

CONNOISSEURS OF CIGARS.
BICKNELL and Co. 388, Strand, corner 'of
"
Southampton-street, have in Stock, a parcel of very splendid
Cabanas Emperors," at 325. -per pound. A sample forwarded on
receipt of twelve penny stamps. A two-pound box free to any part
of the kingdom. •

CONVICT DISCIPLINE.

REGULATIONS OF THE PROBATIONARY ESTABLISHMENT
FOR FEMALE CONVICTS IN VAN DIEMEN'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.
111..FO&TER.,Comptroller-General.
I. All female convicts arriving, igliVan Diemen's Land
will be placed under probational' 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
hoped, 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 be permitted to emerge from this stage of
probation into that of passholders, in which they will
have an 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. Reproaehfak or harsh language
can- never be-ItY6iided with advantage, and must be
carefully avoided. Kind treatment and mild language
are perfectly compatible with strict 44. systematic
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 daily 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, tobactlo,
&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.

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14. The women employed in the daily duties of the
establishment, such as cleaning, washing, scrubbing, &c.,
which can be performed by the womefi vatiAx.ll,7 will
store assistants and servants will be selected from such
women as have been classed as passbolders. 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 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. 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 ignorant 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 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
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 an f 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 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 prevent 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-
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
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 punishments illegally. These books will be
laid before the visiting magistrate whenever ho visits
the establishment, and an extract 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, msntal or bodily,
requires particular attention ; and, where 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 the comptroller-general
and principal medical officer.
30. The superintendent or matron will visit once at