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London, England, 1858-10-20 00:00:00

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Residency and withdrawal of tlie
women and children, the
been removed on the night of ,
with all the wounded of the
safety reached the DR Kooshar,
the 22d, the retreat of the garrison commenced.
The guns which could not be brought away were
rendered unserviceable. Behind_ the screen cf
Campbell's outpOsts, Inglis's and Havelock's toil-
worn bands withdrew—then the latter. began also
to refire ; the pickets fell back through the sup.
ports, the supports glided away between the inter-
vals of the reserve—the reserve, when all had
passed, silently defiled into the lane—thick dark-
ness shrouded the movement from the gaze of the
enemy—and, hours after the position had been
quitted, they w f- 7 • 7 7tdoned posts.
Hope'S brigade, which had so jheaded the,
advance, had also covered the retreat. Before day-
light on the 23d inst., the last straggler had reael:ed
the camp at nil Kooshar. As soon as the main
column was far enough advanced, the left wing, -
under Hale,, evacuated the barracks and adjoin-
ing positions, and effected their retreat, by the new
road. On the afternoon of the 24th, -Sir Colin's
force set out for'Alum Bagh. Outram's division re-
mained behind to cover the rear and give protection
to the long trains of women, children, and wounded ;
it too followed on the, next day, and then. the work
was done.

MEETING OF SURREY MAGISTRATES.

KINGSTON, OCT. 19.
The general quarter sessions of the peace for the
county of Surrey was held yesterday at the Court-
house, Kingston-on-Thames. Mr. E. Penrh-yn
presided, and among the other magistrates present
were Mr. Drummond, M.P., Mr. Alcock, M.P.,
Mr. Briscoe, M.P., Colonel Challoner, Captain
Calvert, Captain Best, and Messrs. Hutton, Gas-
siotf; Penrhyn, jun., Tilson, Carter, Drew, Goose,
Gurney, &c.
The calendar contains the names of 12 prisoners

only..
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The CHAIRMAN, in charging the grand jury, sat • •
he was afraid they must not come to the conclu-
sion, from the small number of cases that would be -
brought before them upon the present occasion,
that there was a diminution of crime in the county,
as the great majority of the cases were disposed of
at the Newington sessions. He had only a short
time back gon-e_over the county prison at Wands-
worth; and he was sorry to find that it contained
700 prisoners, which was a much larger number
than it was calculated for, and it was consequently
found to be impossible to fully carry out the sys-
tern 'of Separation-among the prisoners, and-he-was--
afraidthereforethat the small number of prisoners
at this session could not be taken as any indication
of a decrease of crime in the county.
The governors of the different prisons made their
usual reports, and their respective establishments
appeared to be in a healthy condition, and the in-
mates, generally speaking, orderly and well con-
cluded. A boy, ten years old, who had been com-
mitted to the Wandsworth Prison for felony, was
fOund,•upon his reception there, to be insane, and
lie has since been removed to the county lunatic
• asylum by order of the Secretary of State.
The Rev. Mr: J-Essorr,the chaplain of the county
gaol, made his annual report, which extended, to
cpnsiderable length, and referred to severaliim-
portanf and interesting matters connected with
...crime and thcadthinistration of justice: He par- ,
4eularly called the • attention of the Court tole
manner in which the Criminal Justice Aet apPeared
to be administered, and he stated that the magis-
trates appeared to be in • the constant practice of
applying its provisions to the cases of -01d.,-and
,hardened - criminals, and • showed that in the pre-
sent year 1,024 prisoners had been committed under
this statute for short periods )of imprisonment,
•
whervis in the previous year only 1,018 hail been
committed for trial to all the different sessions, and
it appeared that instead of the Act, as was in-
tended, being made to apply to persons charged with
a first offence, or who were young in crime, in many
instances ticket-of-leave men, and prisoners who had
been several times convicted, were merely sentenced to
short periods of imprisonment, by which proceeding
they were soon again turned loose upon the public,
instead of being sent for trial, when a sentence that
would prevent them from committing further de-
predations would be passed upon them.
Col. CHALLONER, in the course of the reading of
the report, interposed and said it appeared to him
that the rev' gentiotogi in the report he. had made
to the court had Tiustepped his duty, and had re- .
ferred tojnatteie Ciflaw that were not within his
province,- and ilia' the time of the magistrates was
unneeessarilfythbod-by reading a long report upon
such subjects.. , _. •
Mr..l3lqscoE said he did not wish :at all to die-
tate to his brother magistrates, and if it was their
Opinion that the report ought not to be read, he .
should at once defer to it. He could not, however,
help observing • that it appeared to him that
the statements made by the rev. gentleman
were of the greatest importance and interest in
connection with the subjects of crime and the ad-
ministration of justice, and that they were deserv-
ing of serious consideration.
Captain BEST said it appeared to him that the
effect of the report was to dictate to the magistratc•
the manner in which they ought to perform their
duties and to administer the law. He considered
that this was no part of the duty of the chaplain of
a prison, and that the time of the Court ought not
to be occupied by reading such a report.
Mr. HUTTON said he believed that, upon a former
occasion, something of the same sort occurred, and
that a suggestion was conveyed to the rev. gentle-
man that he had better confine himself in future to
reporting to the Court the matters connected with
his own peculiar functions, and refrain from enter-
ing into any other matters, and this had had the
desired effect, and he suggested that a similar course
might be, taken on the present occasion.
Mr. TILSON said, as one of the visitinn. ma
strates, he thought it right to inform the - t
that the chaplain had never called their atteniiiiii
to the matters referred to in his report. The-Elsit7.
ing magistrates were most anxious to listen toe.ve-Fy
sid in
uggestiones
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. It
seemed to him that where such important matters
as those contained in this report were brought to
the notice of the Court by any of the gaol officials,
the report ought first to be submitted to the visit-
ing magistrates for consideration, and, if such a
step was considered advisable, the report might be
printed and a copy sent to every magistrate of the
county.
The report was then received, and, after some of
the ordinary county business had been disposed of,
the Court adjourned.

NOTES ON THE MAIL STEAM PACKET

LINES.

The present Government mail subsidy received
by the Peninsular and Oriental Company is
£244,200 a year. It is expected that the sum
which the company will receive for carrying the
Australian mails will augment their subsidy to
something like £430,000 a year. Hitherto the
Royal Mail Company have had the honour of being
the largest receivers of mail subsidy, they having
for some years been getting £270,000. a year.
the
distances, following is a comparative statement of the
distances, stoppages, , time allowed, and
eiaverage
speed, including stoppages, at which the.iiiai are
convc7ed on some of the longest ocean mail lines.
which
allowedthe
mail is 37
is days,
The distance of the mail route between Southampton
and Buenos Ayres is 6,411 miles. There are six
stoppages
:toe r
an
igc e that:s
an hour.
speedlineloat
r. The e
,mh e
distance between
con-
veyedand
the a
is
7 ,
miles
Tampico and Southampton is 5,668 miles, the stop-
pages arc three, the time allowed 27 days, and the
average speed 81 miles an hour. The distance be-
tween Hong Kong and Southampton is 9,624 miles,
the a
the stoppagesierspeed 7
eight,he time allowed 51 days, and
miles an hour. The distance
between. New York and Liverpool is 3,000 miles,
there are no stoppages, the time allowed is 14 days,
and the average speed 14 miles an hour. Accord-
ing,to the new Australian contract the distance
between Southampton and Sydney is 12,673 miles,
the stoppages are nine, the time allowed 55 days,
and the average speed 911 miles an hour. Accord-
ing to the late Australian contract the distance
was 12,573 miles, the stoppages seven, the time
allowed 58 days, and the average speed nine miles
un hour. When the Australian mails went via
Singapore the distance was 12,887 miles, the stop-
pages 12, the time allowed 66 days, and the aver-
age speed 8} miles an hour:

PUNISHMENT OF A RUSSIAN MILITARY DESER-
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regiment of dragoons, has just been sentenced by a court-
martial at St. Petersburg to penal servitude for life in the
mines of Siberia, for the crime of having deserted to the
Turkish army; and become a Mohammedan, during the
Crimean war.
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