The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-14 00:00:00

THE COST OF SCOUNDRELS.

Some persons have, reasonably enough, expressed
doubt as to the cost of the bad people detained in
Newgate awaiting theiy trial. The sum, enormous
as it is, of £lOO a-y, is quite within the truth.
In the report of that city expenditure for 1857, p.
24, will be found most of the items, the grand total
of which is £11,036 16s. 10d., from which in the
first instance must be deducted £5,547 195.,f0r the
ono year as part of an enormous expense paid in
reconstruction of the prison, leaving
£5,488 17s. 10d., the ordinary yearly cost
a ; to Su
which
i cohf
add, as a very moderate estimateforthe rent of
the building, £4,500, or a total of £9,981
and then, charging. only £6OO a l7s. 10d.;
-year for the im-
provements, which, when finished,b
will amount to
£25,000 or £30,000, there will
bers, a yearly cost of £lO e, in round num-
,6oo, which, divided by
106, the average numberas of persons detained,
makes a sum of £lOO, the cost of each, paid for
out of the pockets of the industrious ratepayers.
For this choice little parish,
ari i
nearly
of a few thousand
square yards, the chapl
ain is
aaid,
h soul
formerly
stated, £5OO a year, n
doctor, £l9O, or £1 15s. 101. for eachec bsoodyl ;
and the
the governor, Mr. Weatherhead, £4OO, or nearly
£4 each, for taking care of them, assisted by a staff
of persons, whose united salaries amount to £1,900.
Nice thing to be a thief in England ! On these 106
rogues is expended a sum of money equal to the
whole income of 352 country labourers, at £3o—a
large estimate, if the statements be correct, of the
poor persons who, living in Wiltshire and Suffolk.
tell their own tale in the Times. Now, if we
reckon the families of these as of four persons only,
it will be found that the 106 persons in Newgate
consume an amount of treasure yearly equal to that
of 1,408 honest people. Thus, one thief costs a,..
much nearly as five good men, women, and children.
This corruption is enough to destroy the wealth
and vigorous virtue of the greatest nation on the
earth,— ail/ Press.

,i.„,:wiNt. ;7!
BEREHAVEN, BAN ' -,T,gIZ;BST,. .W .:
The Channel fleet arrive_ }n tkieliarbon'tq 1
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and will remain, it is said, f ft%_9l;#iv-ft-,re ott- ;t, 1 ii, _ r ,
Queenstown on Saturday lasf: he weitevent
generally caused by its arrival it &Ad in this
case by an unfortunate event which precedeel it.
Last night, a little before 12 o'clock, her Majesty's
brig Wizard, in attempting to enter this harbour,
_ went on shore on the small " Rhone Corrid," or
' Seal-rock, outside the east entrance. The night
was exceedingly dark and hazy, and the weather
very stormy. After she struck her guns were fired,
[ when the Coastguard and some of the inhabitants
of the neighbouring shore went to her assistance in
two boats, and after considerable difficulty suc-
ceeded in taking off the crew. Some of the men
engaged on this occasion were the same who, in
the year 1853, took off, at the risk of their lives,
the crew of the Lady of the Lake, a merchant ship
that was wrecked on the same rock, and were re-
warded with £5 by the Shipwrecked Mariners
Society, and by subscriptions collected in Cork and
Dublin, and even in London. The firing from the
'Wizard was also heard on board her Majesty's
gunboat Skipjack, which . was anchored in Bere-
haven Harbour, about four miles from the cata-
strophe. Steam was got up on board her, and she
proceeded to the spot and took the officers and crew
of the Wizard on board. The latter has become a
total wreck, and the officers did not even save their
clothes. She was stationed at Queenstown for
training boys, and was notorious for her bad sail-
ing, as she frequently missed stays and committed
other mistakes in sailing, of which none of her
Majesty's ships of the present day ought to be
guilty.

Now ready, in Crown Bvo, 10s. 6d., with Portrait of Fox in
hia youth,
LIFE OF CHARLES JAMES FOX.
Volume I.
By the Right lion. LORD JOHN to her RUSSELL, M.P.
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