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London, England, 1850-11-05 00:00:00

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COURT CIRCULAR
INDSOI3, Nov.

THE PREVENTION OF
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the Q,:ts and 1114 is
taking their usual Early miirning's y.allt. •
The same cause prevented the Royal Family taking
their accu,totned
Her M jes!y and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert paid a visit at Claremont this morning. The
Queen sui.d Prince were attended by the Countess of
Mount E-lgveumbe, Lady in Waiting, and Colonel
Buckley and Lient.-Colonel the Hon. A Gordon,
Equerries in Waiting.
Lord Seymour is expected to arrive at the Castle
this c-veniug on a visit to her Mbjesv. His Larth.hip
will join the Royal dinner circle.

Sir,—LA me then f-x,abilie by this

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BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
• (Beforo Mr. Ccitmis,iuner HoLtt • ru.)
IN I.Vg GEORGE PRICE HILL.
This banlrupt, Rho i 3 at:orney, La:el was conre,lted
with the Parcels Post Delivery Company a 3 a director,
was made bankrupt al a cl:rier, Flret-street, but a sliest
time since his Honour granted a conditional order for
annulling the fikt, but it is as fi for e,.ntirrnation by the
Lord Cne.ncellor. _ _

diency of adopting a judicious system or trai.sporta-
tion, or of abolishing it and esublishing in its stf-ad
the best penitent7ary plan which has hem er can be

deviled; and I will do this truthfully, tdiing every
thing in fervour of the prisonrr rear asud from the
penitentiary, which its waim st ad%ocates wculd

desire.

Suppose one comiinrsnognei:aitferivom. the prison, sincerely
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brought up as a butler, and his crime was stealing
his master's plate. He applies to numerous persons
for a similar situation, the only one for which he is
qualified, truthfully states his guilt, his sincere re-
pentance, and produces his certificates.
In vain—no one will employ him; but hiving
heard that your butler has suddenly died, knowing
that as Home Secretary you can learn every thing
respecting his conduct, he ventures to ask you to
give him the vacant situation. Say that you believe
you would be setting society a good example by em-
ploying a reclaimed convict, that you proi,ois giving
him the situation, and trusting to him that Ouch
you value beyond price, your ancestral plate.
If you were to appoint him, would 3 ou have done
your duty. I say, No. The aproiatment of a re-
claimed convict, in a country thickly peopled, anxious
to obtain employment, deprives an honest man of the
just reward of his good conduct. Consider, Sir
George Grey, the position of that man, educated in
your household because he was one of the many
children of an honest and industrious couple residing

Mr. frrcti, the solicitor for the bankrupt, now pro-
duced a letter from Mr. V zwd, the secretary to the
Lord Chancellor, : t ding that his Lt.rdship did not col-
eider his confirmation necessary.
A clisewsion between Mr. Linkla:er and Mr. Fitch
took place on this point, Mr. Linklutcr contending that
the power of the Commissioner only applied to petitions
under the new Act, and ti a: as the Court of Review,
which derive d is poser from the Lord Chancellor, had
bout abolished the power rested in the Lord Chancellor.
His HCNOUR said that in the first instance he had felt
a delicacy in interfering with an order made by su.:ll a
high power as the Lord Chancellor, by wht.m the fiat
was directed to issue, but as there was now no Court of
Revieiv, and by the new Act this Court was dircc'ed to
proceed with and bring to a cnnclusion all ti.its in bank-
ruptcy, he considered he had the power to annul.
Au unconditional ofd-r was then made.
IMPORTANT DECISION AS TO COSTS.
In a case on a debtor traicr's summons a eptestion
arose as to whether a plaintiff residing abtoad was
bound to give security kr costs before the defendant
could be culled upon to answer the summons as to
whether he was indebted or not. For the defendant it
was contended that the process of the court would
be, rendered most harassing if persons abroad
could- call upon persons to answer claims upon
them, and in the event of it .being shown
they were not indebted to be deprived of costs.
After hearing arguments, his Honour said that although
the Act only gave him direct power to give costs for or
against the plaintiff or defendant, yet the principle of
equity was obvious, that the party in the right should not
be the sufferer; and as other courts acted on the princi-
ple of requiring costs, he should do so in this case.
The summons was thereLre dismissed nominally with
costs, the plaintiff's attJrney baying declined to make
himself personally responsible.

Mr. Macdonald (from Canada) had an interview
with Earl Grey 3 eAterday at the. Colonial-otlier.
Tne Right am. Ii Labouehero arlivid in town
yesterday from Stoke Pat k.

on your property, or in its immediate neighbourhood.
His parents had struggled hard for many years to
obtain homely food and coarse clothing for themselves
and their family. Toiling early and late,.and eating
the bread of carefulness, they succeeded in rearing
their family without begging from their neighbours
or from their parish, and their children have repaid
them in the only way parents deserve to be repaid, for
they are respected in their several situations, and the
eldest, the hope and the flower of the flock, has done
his duty to you, and expects modestly, yet justly ex-
pects, to be appointed to the vacant situation.
I again ask you, Sir George Grey, would you have
done your duty by disappointing such expectation,
and giving the situation to the reclaimed convict ?
I believe that your reply would be, that such a step
would never have entered into your mind, and such
will be the answer of society. Every employer will
have the same feeling fur his goods as you have for
your plate, and will prefer trusting them to one who
has not been convicted of crime.
Yes, and such ought to be the feeling of society in
this country, teeming with population anxious to be
employed, every one surrounded by distressed, and
struggling, and deserving objects. Here there is no
room for the reclaimed convict, however sincere may
be his repentance. What then is he to do ? He will
not commit crime ; employment he cannot obtain.
There are only two resources between him and star-
vation, crime or parish relief. He chooses the latter;
end such is the end of your reclaimed convict under
your vaunted penitentiary system.
But that man in a colony, under a judicious sys-
tem of transportation, would have become a valuable
, member of society ; his reformation would be known
to his future employers, who would eagerly de.ire his
services at much higher wags than if he had been sent
from a penitentiary at home, with hundreds besides, all
duly supplied with proper certificates ; f,r in a colony
the respective position of the employer and the em-

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
The November General Sessions for the county of
Middlesex commenced this morning before Mr. WITHAM.
The calendar contains the names of 53 plibouers.
John Bryant was indict.d for stealing, on the 23d of
Octuber, 36 bobbins and 35 skeins of silk, the property
of Mrs. Ann Arthur.
Mr. O'BRIEN, who appeared for the dcf:nce, raised
an objection to the case proceeding. In the indictment
the prosecutrix's name was put dean as " Antha," not
Arthur.
The Learned JUDGE told the jury to acquit the pri-
soner, the name in the indictment being wrung.
THE APPEALS —The Clerk of the Peace read a note
this morning, stating that owing to the continued illness
of Mr. Sergeant Adams the appeals which were set down
for heating cn Thursday next must be further adjourned
for a fortnight, when it was thought that he would be
able to resume his duties in court.

GUILDHALL -(THIS DAY.)
.701,t Collins was brought up, ohaiged with cutting
and wounding James Clift with a knife.
It appeared that the prisoner applied to the Esat Lon-
don Union Workhouse yes;erday evening and demanded
relief, and be at last became so troub!esome that Cliff,
who is the porter of the establishment, was obliged to
remove him, when the prisoner drew a clasp knife from
his pocket and inflicted on him two severe wounds on
the chest, and one on the fl-Aly part of the hand.
Mr. flgrry William Lcf:, surgeon, of Aldersgate-
:duet, who (bossed the wounds, attended to-day, and
stated that it was impossible for the present to say what
might be the result of the wuuuds, which were very
severe.
The prisoner was therefore remanded till Tuesday
next.

ployed is exactly the reverse of what it is at home.
Here it is the party who desires employment wh.) is
compelled to seek it, often with wearied footsteps,
often unsuccessfully; there it is the employer who

has to make an aniceus and careful search niter, not
the most eligible, but the least unworthy of those
who desire to be employed.
It now, Sir George Grey, will remain with your-
self and the public to judge whether the facts to
which I have drawn your attention, and the observa-
tions I have male, do not prove beyond a cavil the
truth of the following propositions :-
1. That it would be an act of kindness to a crimi-
nal to transport him for life upon the commission of
his second off,:nce.
2. That such punishment would be a great preven-

MARLBRO'-STREET-(Til IS DAY.)
ROBBING FURNISHED LODGINGS.—Henry Hart, alias
Lee, and Sarah Cooper, were brought up in custody of
Stringer, an active etlicer of the 0 division, charged
with robbing their ready-furnished lodgings.
Mrs. Holt, 18, Whitcomb-street, deposed that the pri-
soners took furnished apartments in her house, in the
early part of September last, stating to her at the time
that they had been recently marrird. On the 25,,h of
the same month they both suddenly disappeared, and
on her entering the rooms a short time afterwards, she
found the walls stripped of the pictures, tl.e bedstead of
bed and bedding, and the rooms completely cleared of
every portable article they could carry away. Witness
gave information to the police, and a few days ago she
received from the female prisoner about thirty duplicates
relating to the property stolen, enclosed in au envelopc.
Prosecutrix added that the articles missed were word)
about 101.
Stringer staled, that from information he had pre-
viously received, he went into Orange-street, Leicester-
square, and saw the female prisoner near the baths and
washhoutes. Ho told her the nature of the charge. and
took her into custody. He subsequently went to Fleet-
street and apprehended the prisoner Hart.
The prisoners, who did not deny the charge, were re-
manded till Thursday next, for the attendance of the
pawnbrokers.

.ve cg4iF,st crime.

CA NZONET.
(From the New Monthly Magazine.)
BY WILLIAM CHARLES KENT,
Author of " Aletheia."

Blue eyes are the eyes for gladness,
Where the laughing soul looks thro':
Lights that melt the gloom of sadness

Beam all gentle eyes of blue.
Sparkling with their smiles of pleasure,
Tender as the turtle dove:
Yet, while such sweet eyes I treasure,
Brown eyes are the eyes for love.

Black eyes are the eyes for passion,
Lightening to their depths with scorn
Of all dastard laws that fashion
Minds that grieve and hearts that mann.
Lambent with a grand devotion,
Valiant deeds and fair might prove:
Yet, while such reveal emotion,
Brown eyes are the eyes for love.

Gray eyes are the eyes for rapture,
Radiant as the lamp of ea) :
Glances that uff<•ctions capture
Gleam frau lustrous eyes of gray.
GlittAring homes of thoughts that raider
Glory like the stars above:
Yet, while such dear eyes have splendour,
Brown eyes are the eyes for love!

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SHIP LETTER BAGS FOR THE BRITIS.
COLONIES.
Notice was issued yep t,rday at the General Post-
office that ship letter. bags (under the regulations of the
Acts of Parliament) will be made up for the following
British colonial possessions at the undermentioned dates.
Newspapers to the colonies by private vessels will be
liable to a postage of Id. each, which must be prepaid.
The postage on letters optional :—Algoa Ray—The
Ada, from the London Decks, on the 10th instant; the
Falcon, and the Blue Bell. Cape of Good Hope—The
Isabella Leith,. St. Katharine Docks, Bth; the Earl of
Ripon, London Docks, 10th; the Diadem, Plymouth,,
13th. Port Natal—The Dreadnought, St. Katharine
Decks, Bth; the Ceres, London Docks, 13th, Cape and
Bombay —The Emperor, Sr. Katharine Dsaikß, 10th. Ditto
and Ceylon—The Euphrates, West India Docks, 15th.
Mauritius—TheThonias Jones, SaKatharine Docks, 6:h;
the John Bagshaw, ditto; the Eieanor,West India Docks,
20th. Sydney (New South Wales)—The Oriental, Lon•
don Decks, 10th; the Regina, ditto. 20th; the Thomas
Arbuthnot, Portsmouth, 20th. Port Philip and S) dney
—The Gratitude, Liverpool. 10J3 ; the Lady Evelina,
ditto, 30:b. Port Philip—The Str Harry Smith, St.
Katharine Docks, 10th; the Barry Lorrequer, Ply-
mouth, 18th. Hobart Too n The Derwent, Loudon
Decks, 10th; the Loudon, Kingston, 24th; the Black
Friar, ditto, 30th. Adelaide, Port Philip, and Sydney—
The Anglia, Plymouth, 7th; the. Elnhinatone, ditto,
25th; the Wellington, London Docks, 20th; the Anna,
30th; the Thomas Chadwick, London Docks, 30th; the
Florentia, St. Katharine Docks, 15th; the Garland, Ply-
mouth, 13th; the New Ztaland, Sr. Katharine Docks,
1 lth ; the Cornelia, ditto. Port Littleton (New Zea-
land—The Travaecere. East India Docks, 20th. Western
Australia—The Anna It deertson,Wea India Docks, 15th
the John Porter, London Dock?, 15th. Vanconver's.lsland
—The Fury, London Docks. 6th. River Gambia—The
Champion and the Clyde. London Decks, 7th. Cape
Coast Castle—Governor Maclean, London Docks, 15tin
Mails will be made up on the evening of the 6th instant
for Madeira, San Nicitolas, St. Viucent (Cape Verdi),
Sierra Leone, and Ascension, to be forwarded by leer
ISLjesty's steatn-veesel Wasp, from Davenport, on the
7th instant. _

• --
REPD,EgENTATION OF PONTEFRACT.—The Hon. B
Beilby Lawley, the eldest son of Lord Wenlock, is a candi-
date for the representation of Pontefract.
TABLE AT A BIRTH.—The other an honest
labourer's wife in Cupar gave him a present of two daughters
and a son, and last Friday the wife of an industrious baker
in Kirkaldy gave birth to three daughters. The three little
ones of Kirkaldy did not live long.—Edinburgh Witness.
list evening,
NAnsioNalousE.—The Lord Mayor entertained
Court of Assistants, and the Livery of the Worshipful Com-
panyin the Egyinian Hall, the Master, Warders,
of Tallow ChEndlers (being his Lordship's company.)
A special meeting of the committee of the Stock-
Exchange took place yesterday to consider the best means of
affording facilities to the public for the negotiation of busi-
ness in mihing shares. The conclusion arrived fa was that
in order to place transactions in these securities on a footing
of integrity, it would be desirable to Let apart some portion
of the building for the convenience of brokers having bar-
gains to execute in them, and we believe that steps for this
purpose arc likely to be adopted forthwith.
Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, Batt , and lady, were,
by last accounts, at Albany, cn route ior Niagara Falls and
Canada.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1850.

3. That the evils hitherto attendant upon transpor-
tation have arisen from the badness of the plan pur-
sued, and are not inherent in the system.
4.. That a judicious system of transportation would
be of the greatest benefit to an infant colony.
5. That a judicious system of transportation would
produce more beneficial effects on the convict, the
mother country, and the colony than any penitentiary
plan which has been devised.
The judicious system of transportation which I
propose would be to send out criminals before the
great majority of them were hardened in crime; and
let the. penitentiary be in:the colony, where the con-
vict who is desirous of pursuing an honest course will
effect his reformation tinier the cogniz ince of his
future employers ; where the convict is incorrigible
he will be confined longer than the period to which
he was condemned, and kept to hard labour, without
any fear that such labour or the proceeds thereof will
enter into competition with that of the honest and
industrious man.

" Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate" should
never be inscribed over the doors of any prison, even
for the most wicked, for among these there are de-

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Almighty.
of an amelioration of circumstances to the most ob-
durate, provided they change their course.
The most severe discipline, without the least mix-
ture of cruelty, may be so administered that the most
depraved criminal shall feel that the law administers
punishment, not for vengeance's sake, but for refor-
mation, and that his continued good conduct will be
rewarded, not by a relaxation of discipline, which
would probably occasion a relapse, hut by indal-
gencies inexpensive to society, grateful to himself,
and tending to his reformation.
The only weighty objection to a system of trans.

portation, That it lays a pernicious foiloda'ion for
future communities," is undoubtedly true when ap-
plied
to the system we have adop'ed, but will be
found totally inapplicable to that which I recommend;
for I keep constantly in view the broad and indis-
putable fact, that a proper convict system is incom-
patible with a numerous free population; and that
neglect, or ignorance, of the importance of this fact
has been one of the principal causes of the disastrous
circumstances by which the question is surrounded.
While, therefore, the colony remained a convict one
the free settlers should be agricultural only. No
town, no village, no shop—every article ri quired by
the settlers, either imported or 'produced by the con-
vict, should be sold at a Government store, at a profit,
but a small one; thus would he retrieved from the re-
formed convict the numerous temptations at present
thrown in his way.
I have the honour to remain, Sir,
Your very obedient and faithful servant,
RIG B Y WASON.
Corwar, Oct. 26. 1850.