The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-16 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR I,F THE SUN.

SIR,-After the statement given lately by you of the
expenses of the M aryl all Penitentiary and thou of the
English Penitentiaries, I think it may be satisfactory to
your readers to know wherein the rules and regulations of
the Mar}land Penitentiary differ from those of this country,
that they may judge of their efficiency for the purpose
intended (Reformation) :
" Toe keeper shall not suffer more than one of the con-
victs at a time to approach the Directors or other persons
pet mined to" co into the prison, nor any of the convicts
to listen to anything such persons are saying, except when
spoken to, and desired to pay attention; nor shall any,
convict he permitted to accept a garnish, or beg or receive.
anything from any person on any account wh ttsoeser.
" No person visiting the Penitentiary Shall speak toany
of the convicts except with the permission of the ;keeper,
nor give them money nor any other article; nor shall
either
.of the convicts be permitted to speak to any person
whatso'e'ver, unless w beiffirst spoken to. Any of the con.
victsyiolating this rule shall he immediately confined in a
splitTrY cell. •
." The prisonert(WhO distinguish themselves by their
attention to cleSnliti. ss, sobriety, industry, and orderly
conduct, shall tie reportedto the Directors, and meet with
such 'reward as in theiropekier to grant or procure for them.
" An indulgence to a person to visit a friend or relation
within the interior of the Penitentiary can only be the
result of good conduct in both'Parties, and when such in-
dulgence is, granted; the keeper, or one of I,js nssistants,
shall be alwiys present. Nit Orson shall, withmit consent
of the keeper, carry anythlng in or out ofthe Penitentiary
for any of the prisoners. •
" The diet of the prisoners shall he as follows :'—For
breakfast, three-foot:the Ofa pound of -Meal made into
bread. , and one-half of a of molasses. mixed with
water; for dinner,- half' a' pound of rixellgrodde into
bread (a sufficient quantity being. reserved to thicken soup),
half a pound of coarse meat made into imip; "lad a pint r.
of liish po.atoes ; but when potatoes or coarse fresh Meat'
cannot be had, the keeper may. in-kieu thereof, procure
any other provisions in season, of equal value,: though of a
different quantities. Provided, however, thit for extra-
ordinary services performed by any p'ilsorierr the keeper
allay increase floe said allowance, and may'iliniinish it for
any neglect of duty or other offence. The sat provisions
shall be sound and wholesome, and SerVeti'af the ringing
of a bell, at the sound of which all, ihe prisoners shall as-
semble and eat together, except the sick; who shall be
fUrnished agreeably to'the directions of the attending phy-
sician.
" That the deputy-keepers shall not hold ankascanverita- •
tiim or communication with any of the prisonel4'ea4pil.
as to the immediate performance of their duties,-intrthen'
as briefly as possihle, which shall be immediately repiiiied
to the' principal keeper, unless' relating tniUbjects torYtti
which the deputy-keepers have, an expressly delegited
. . .
power to act. '
" That the prisoners preserve' silence
except in a low tone of voice, to ask'fiir whateVei'ith'sil bg••
needed by them ; and that always within t!tae(llo4ini,94.
shall be uncovered, except expreisifliernadiiff. to
their caps, and, of course,-on theonggro ion of -A/Thy,
That when a prisoner is received, or as soon there-
a-ter as the keeper shall deem it 'ririnii convenient and Pro-
•per, he shall he examined 'as Vi the plamt of his birth
his former life aid habits, attelt se leading cause'
which brought him into his gresOil iffate; and. which; •
with a description of his petaiin;" shall be briefly' L.'
reco d..-d by the clerk in a book provided fair that purpose, .
o which there shall be an alphabet. Add after such an
examination it shall be the duty of the keeper to speak se-
riously to the prisoner of the offences by which he has for-
feited his liberty; and give him- to understand that mode- •
ration and obedience is required, and will be obtained of
him ; and that if he connives at the violation of any of •
the rules or laws of the prison, he will be punished as tt-
principal therein.
• " That visiters shall •be • admitted as heretofore—but
with the express instruction that any personal communi- •
cation air conversation with a prisoner within the yard is
abodurely forbidden, unless after liberty specially obtained,
and then only in the. nice of the keeper and in his pre-
sence, or that of the person authorised to act for him ;
and which liberty shall not be granted unless for special
reasons made known to the proper authority for granting
the same.

" That individuals shall be permitted to see and converse
with the prisoners through the grated doors, as at present
arranged, with the understanding, however, that such per-
mission shall not be oftentimes gaited to, or on behalf of
the same person or persons, unless under peculiar circum-
stances." J. H.

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16 1832.

It is gratifying to all true friends of Reform
:o see the perplexities, and contradictions, and
inconsistencies into which the factious oppo-
nents of that measure are perpetually plunging
themselves. It is scarcely a week since one of
the most elaborately abusive and absurd of the
Anti-Reform Journals took occasion to praise,
in no very measured terms, the remarks of Earl
GREY on the subject of the tithe question ; to
talk of his sincerity, good intentions, and so
forth ; the same Journal now turns round
" the same Earl GREY, denies, or, at
least, endeavours to deny, all that it had
before said in his praise, and has the still
further assurance to declare, that it " had no
very firm faith in the declaration so emphatically
made eight days ago by Earl GREY in the House
of Lords, that it was the determination of his
MAJESTY'S Goverment to protect the rights of
the Church in Ireland, and to vindicate the au-
thority of the existing law." And yet this
Journal, thus notoriously inconsistent, takes credit
to itself for the aound, unswerving, unhesitating
character of its opposition to Whig Ministers
and Whig measures ! Luckily, irs opposition is
without the power to do harm, or its arguments
to produce conviction ; for it is impossible
that even its own party can place confidence in
an advocate which blows hot and cold at the
same time, and has so little regard for truth and
decency as to deny this week what it has roundly
asserted the week before.

We direct attention to an article headed
" Warwickshire Anti-Reformers," which will be
found in another column. As our contempo-
rary, the Chronicle, has so well exposed the
trickery of the Warwickshire Ultras, in getting
up their mock petition, it is almost un-
necessary for us to enlarge upon the matter.
We may, however, remark that we have re-
ceived several communications from Birming-
ham, Coventry, and other places, all of which
are highly, and very justly indignant at the bare-
faced attempts of a few individuals to mis-
represent public feeling in the county. One
of our correspondents says that out of
776, the whole number signing a petition to
the KING from the populous county of War-
wick, Birmingham and its neighbourhood
only furnishes 90 ! The city of Coventry
58 ! and for the rest no fewer than eighty
(Jerome?: figure in the list ! ! This is surely
enough in all conscience. But the Earl of
WARWICK, Earl HowE, and the remainder of!
the Noble petitioners, Clergy and all, are a day too
late in crying up a re-action. The time is gone
by the Reform Bill will pass—and the country
be saved.

The French Papers of Tuesday contain no
tiews of any interest. The Funds were 661.35 e.
FRRNciI FUNDS, PARIS, FEB. 13.-Five per Cents., 96f, 75c.
6er- 70c. 65c. 70c. 75c. 70c. 65c. 70c. 96f. 60c. 50c. 55c. 60c. 65c.
;!1",65c. 55c. 65c. 96E Mc. ; Four per Cents., 89f. ; Three per
66L 25c. 20c. 25c. 15c. 66f. 66f. sc. 66f. 66f. sc. 66f. 10c. 15c.
; Bank Stock, 1,620 f. 1,615 E ; Rente de Naples, 77E 60c.
Ve; Route d'Espagne, 10 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 76 7.5!' ;
yerpetuelle d'Espage, IA 53; tiaytian Loan,
r.Exchange on London, one month, paper, '2sf. 40c. ; money,
e; three months, paper, 25f. 20c.; money, 25f. 20c.-
out s Authentique. "

--
Brussels and German Papers, received this
morning, contain little news. The Austrians
seem to be well satisfied with their adroit ma-
nagement of the Italian insurrection :
423RUSSELS, FEB. 13.—A Tournay Journal of the 11th an_
the 2
"'flees that his Majesty is expected in that city on Saturday,
sth inst.
Shth It ssems certain that M. Coghen is resolved to retire from
e "flee of Minister of Finance, but not till after the discus-
-4
°f the budget, which he will support, with his colleagues.
A letter f
Fot,tan rorn Luxembourg of the 11th says—." M. Stifft, of
tett, -.le, has been set at liberty. It is affirmed that he has
n, k
~
13RiTs"otne•
grant, 'ELS, Fes. 14.—We learn that the King has just
amAt. "on--. 4°,000 francs
families.
Gana. Steven
ceased yesterday to be editor of the Messagcr dc
tribut,,, The cause will come on before the Supreme Military
A ; tu-da)'•
tiro i
13elgi3nto ,a. announces that all the English officers now '
Glik,:k'.„°e received in
us to
111"0-1, FEB: la—The
orders to return to England.
first regiment of Infantry leaves
1 villages, -rr", to go into cantonments in the neighbouring
ties
of Aro The 12th will come here in its room. Large quanti. M. p:o4llnition continue to be carried to thecitadel.
•opohi I' cotter has published a long letter, addressed to
t' th, nT}(ing of the Belgians, the tendency of which is to
i aje,,tyertainty and instability of the situation in which
fis " Placed c--" " I wish to prove to you," he says• in

conclusion," that the above is enough, and more than enough,
for you to rid yourself, as saon a; possible, of a burden, the
weight of which will daily became more insupportable to you."
VIENNA, Fi.a. 3.—A courier from. Paris brought the news
yesterday, that the question of the demolition of Op, Belgian
fortresses was amicably settled. ThiS with the satisfaCtory
news from Italy, caused 'it small improvement in our funds.
'lle Just thin Obskniet icontains a remarkalile artfcte on the
late events in Italy, from which it appears that on the obstinate
resistance: of the insurgents at Forli, our troops were indeed
called in to support the Papal troops, and that when order was
restored part of them remained to protect the peaceable inha-
bitants, but that the column sent from Modena to the Legations,
immediately quitted the Papal territory. This repeated proof
of the disinterested and pacific intentions of the Austrian Cabinet
will be received with satisfaction at Paris; and as it refutes all
the malicious insinuations respecting the system followed by our
Cabinet towards Italy, it may be expected that M. Perier will
not meet with any well founded reproaches on his conduct in
the affairs of Italy ; for Austria does not aim, as has been sup_
posed, and as the party of the mourenzent would perhaps he glad
to see, to obtain possession of the Legations, in order to seize a
favourable opportunity of throwing a great body of troops into
them, but as soon as order was restored it left only a small num-
ber in Bologna to preserve tranquillity.

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VIESNA, Feb. 3. 4.
Five per Cents. ti;),-',
Four per Cents 76
Bank Shares llls

The very plain and satisfactory declarations 0:

Lord ALTHORP and Mr. STANLEY have left
,no room for doubt that the tithe system in
Ireland is, at length, doomed to extinction. The
view of the Comlnittee appears to be, to substi-
tute a land-tax for the tithes to be extin-
guished, to the end that the payment may not,
in any case, find its way from the pocket of the
parson to that of the landlord. This plan
seems to satisfy Mr. SHELL, Mr. O'CONNELL,
and other especial enemies of tithes, who, at
the same time, state broadly, that no measure
having for its object merely to secure the incomes
of the Law-Clergy, can ever content the people
of Ireland. The Irish nation has been suffi-
ciently impressed with the force of Dr. DoYLE's
sentiment, " May their hatred to tithes be as
lasting as their love of justice."
It is quite a misrepresentation to assert that
the opposition to tithes arises wholly from the
Catholics, The payment has been resisted for
years by every sect in Ireland, and the probability
is, that if it were not for the holding together,
for party purposes, of the Orangeists, it would
not now he sought to be upheld by any indivi-
dual in that country. The feeling in England
among orthodox Churchmen upon this sub-
ject, may serve to illustrate the real state of
opinion in Ireland ; nothing being more noto-
rious, than that the landed interest in Eng-
land is decidedly hostile to the payment, how-
ever friendly the landed gentlemen may be sup-
posed to be to the ascendancy of Protestant
Orthodoxy, and to the perpetuation of a system
which provides so largely, and so well, for the
cadets of aristocratic families. The No-Popery
Squirearchy of Britain are in their hearts as
desirous of a change in the tithe system, as the
Catholic peasantry of Ireland, nor can there be
any wonder at the universal dislike of a system,
full and running over, of vexation and oppression
to all parties concerned in it, not excluding the
recipients.

The information and opinions given by the
Archbishop of Dublin (Dr. WHATELY), who
was summoned to London in reference to this
question, have, it is said, somewhat startled
Ministers. The Archbishop, whose attachment
to his own Church is undoubted, is reported not
to have minced his sentiments on the anomalous
footing of the two religions in Ireland. Happy
would it, indeed, be, for any Bishop-ridden
country, if all her Bishops were as enlightened
philosophers as Dr. WHATELY, whose conduct
in regard to education has been such as to acquire
for him, already, an unusual share of public confi-
dence in the sincerity of his purposes Let Govern-
ment infuse into the English Episcopal Bench
some of the spirit which animates Dr. WHATELY,
and they will do the utmost they can to preserve
the Parliamentary existence of the Lords Spiri-
tual. We do hope and trust that the Bishops
will have tact enough, when the Tithe Bill comes
before them, to avoid the public scandal of any
indecent exhibition of hostility to its objects. If
they do not avoid such an indiscretion, it may be
out of the power of Ministers to preserve their
Parliamentary rights to the Episcopal Bench,
even though opportunity should have enabled
Ministers, in the meantime, to support Dr.
MALTBY by the elevation of other Divines of
their own way of thinking to the spiritual
Peerage.
Lord GREY'S speech having been fully ex-
plained in the sense in which we, at the time,
remarked it ought properly to he taken, there
will be an end of any misconception upon that
subject. The incident may, however, be useful,
as affording a proof of the necessity of public
men expressing themselves with the utmost clear-
ness and precision in their public declaratiwis.

e regret to state that Lord TENTER DEN is
in a very delicate state of health. His Lordship presided
at Guildhall on Tuesday last, but was evidently labouring
under much exhaustion and debility ; and yebteiday he was
unable to attend.

It is said that an agent of the English post-
office has been in Paris, endeavouring to induce the French
Government to put a stop to all conveyance of newspapers
by private expresses, so that there may be a complete mo-
nopoly of the two post-offices. The French Government
is said to have refused the application. What will the
Duke of IlicumoNn say, if this should prove true?—
Courier.

Of the 5,000 shares which are to be sub-
scribed for the Bristol Joint Stock Banking Company,
previous to the commencement of business, 4,117 have
been taken.

A good deal of anxiety is manifested in the
city to ascertain the nature of the mission of Count O.
LOFF, deputed by the Emperor NICHOLAS to proceed to
the King of HOLLAND. The feeling is on the increase
that NICHOLAS is disposed to ratify the treaty ; but should
the King of HoLLA NI) remain inflexible in his determina-
tion to reject the proposals of the London Conference, it is
said that the Emperor of Russia, will endeavour, if pos-
sible, to renew the negotiations, with the view of obtain.
ing terms more congenial to the wishes of the King of
HOLLAND.

HEARTBREAKING AF F A IR.—A short time
since Lord Viscount 'MAYNARD presented to the Essex
hunting establishment two stags, which, from the diffi.
culty in catching them in Elston Lodge Park, it was
expected would produce some excellent sport. Yesterday
se'nnight one of those fleet animals was turned down at
Canfield. The chase had lasted two hours and twenty
minutes and the spirit of the animal did not appear to
have failed ; but whilst running, apparently with re-
doubled speed, the game dropped suddenly before the
hounds and was found lifeless. A post mortem examina-
tion of the dear deceased took- pile:, when it was dis-
covered that death had been occasioned by the hurting 01
the heart.—Brighlon Guardian.

• en L
• Places and Date. *E F. 7 J v a Uc;
Newcastle, Feb. 14 6 1 I 1 1 5 937 293
North Shiekls &c. Feb. 14 63 10 i 4 10 61 280 73
Hetton, &T., Feb. 14,
Haddington, Feb. 13, 9 1 0 0 10 122 57
Tranent, Feb.l3, Bl 9 1 18 71 261 63
Preston Pans, Feb. 13, 2l 2 0 0 24 98 18
North Berwick, Feb. 12 3 0 0 0 3 16 , 7
Musselburgh, Feb. 13
Ilawick, Feb. In to 13 2 0 0 1 1 17 :4
Edinburgh, Feb. 13 1 01 1 0 0 12 7
Kirkintilloch, Feb. 13
Glasgow, &c., Feb. 13 1 5 3 0 3 8 5
1—
Total 17 39 13 43 268 2649 825
Total from places where the disease has ceased,
1
or from which no returns hwc been this day
received 1842 521
Grand Total 4491 X 1346
LONDON—THIS MORNING, FEB. 16.
Rotherhithe
Limehouse 1 0 0I 0 1 1 4 3
.Afloat in the River..., 12 0I 0 0 2 2 0
Ratcliff Highway 1 0 1 0 0 1 1
Lambeth 1 1 1 0 1 f 2 1
Southwark -- 11 2 --- 16 4
Total 1 6 112 5 411 112
(Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary.

COUNCIL-OFFICE, WHITEHALL, FEB. 13, 1932.
The Lords of the Council have just received intimation that
the Bishop of London has directed the Clergy in his Diocese, in
no cases to permit the bodies of persons dying of cholera to be
carried into the church previous to interment.

SURREY DISPENSARY, UNTION.STREET, SOUTH.

WARK.

This day a special meeting of the Committee was held, to
take further precautionary measures in relation to the cholera,
when it was determined that the rules of the Institution, re-
quiring letters of recommendation, be, as to cases of cholera,
for the present suspended, and that the Medical Officers be re.
quested to attend all cases applying at the Dispensary without
such letters. Every step seems to be taken by the Committee
that the emergency requires.
Feb. 15, 1832.
Authenticated by George Whiting, London-bridge, South-
wark, Secretary to the Dispensary.