The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-11 00:00:00

CABINET COUNCIL.—(THIS DAT).—A Cabinet
Council was held at the Foreign-office this af-ernoon
at one o'clock. The Ministers present were Lord
John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Grey,
Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Carlisle, Sir George
Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis
T. Baring, the Earl of Minto, Sir John C. Hobhouse,
the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, and the Right Hon.
Fox Maule. The Lord Chancellor and the Marquis
of Clanricarde were absent through indisposition.
CONVALESCENCE OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—We
are happy to state that the Noble Premier is sufficiently
recovered from his recent indisposition to be enabled to
attend to his Parliamentary duties. The Noble Lord
was in his place in the House of Commons last evening,
for the first time since his illness. His Lordship ap-
pears to bo still very weak, and his answers to the
various questions that were addressed to him Were made
in so weak a tone of voice as to be scarcely audible.
REVIEW OP TUE 11TH LIGHT DRAGOONS BY PRINCE
ALBERT.—Yesterday being appointed by Prince Albert for
the review of the 11th Hussars, on Wimbledon-common,
preparatory to the removal of the regiment to Norwich, from
an early hour in the morning the ground was crowded with
thousands of persons of all ranks, and several carriages con-
taining the elite of society. Shortly after nine o'clock the
whole strength of the regiment (with the exception of the
barrack guards and the orderlies on duty at the Horse
Guards), consisting of about 350 mounted men, arrived
from Hounslow and Kensington Barracks; The ,ustial ca-
valry exercising ground having been marked out by the
brigade major and staff, the regiment took up the position
assigned them. The ground was kept by videttes, told
off from the several troops, assisted by a strong force
of the metropolitan police. At half-past ten o'clock the
Earl of Cardigan, Colonel of the regiment, arrived and
took the command, and soon after his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, attended by the Hon. Lieut.-Colonel A. Gordon,
Colonel Wemyss, &c., came on the ground, and was re-
ceived with the usual honours, the band playing the National
Anthem. His Royal Highness and staff (the regiment hav-
ing taken open order) inspected minutely the men, arms
and accoutrements, after which, having marched past in
slow time at a trot, they went through the whole of the ca-
valry evolutions; and notwithstanding that the ground was
not in a state fit for cavalry movements, nevertheless the
evolutions were performed with rapidity and precision. The
regiment having been again formed into line, a royal salute
was given, and the troops marched back to their quarters
(Hounslow and Kensington). The right division of this
corps will march to Norwich on Monday next, and will be
relieved by the 16th Lancers.
APOTHECARIES' IIALL.—The following gentleen
passed their examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thurs-
day:—Daniel Henry George Wildbore, Old-street; Harry
Speakman Webb, Oxford; William lisyldon, Royston ; Wil-
liam Swift, Wade, Leeds; Michael Sweetman, St. John-
street ; Joseph Williams, Portlooe, Cornwall ; Henry Searle
Gay, Minehead, Somerset; Robert Thomas Elsam Cooke;
Thomas Moyles, Queen's County ; William Gordon
W Wotton,
King's Langley; Harward Kean, Marlborough, Wilts;il-
liam Skinner, Stockton-on-Tees; Edward Doyle, Irishtown,
Dublin; James Henry Crisp, Bath; and Henry Parfitt, Bru.
ton, Somerset.

THE SOCIETY 01 APOTHECARIES.--The Master,
Wardens, and Society of Apothecaries of the city of London
have presented a memorial to Sir George Grey, to the effect
"That the society have during the agitation, and unhappily
the dissensions to which the discussion of the question of me-
dical reform has given rise,
Legislature,
steadily
b y
improving
the in carrying
curricu-
lum
of study, and raising
out the objects of the
the standard of qulification of those
they
of the Legislature; and
long as they retain the confidence
the evidence
utmost satisfaction to
the society refer with
.the .
of the House of Com-
monswho seek their certificate, andwill continue to do so as
he concurrent testimony of
on medical affairs, and to t
as to the result
members of all branches of the profession,
of the Apo-
which has attendee the society's administration.
given before successive Committees
of its defects,
of the actual working of the law, fully sensible
that they are, as they ever have been, anxiousthecaries' Act. That the society are, from their experience
those detects, and are prepared to lay before the Secretary of
State such suggestions for the
amendment of the Act as would,
in their opinion, go far to remove the objections which exist
to its provisions, and would, at least, remove many of the
impediments in the way of a satisfactory settlement of the
complicated question of medical reform, not only as regards
England and Wales, but the kingdom at large."
COMMUNICATION BETWEEN GALWAY AND AMIRICA.
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Caonrnkoun Steamce announced tpo abe
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vessel monthly on the Galway, Halifax, and
Nevr York sta-
tion. This would fix the point of departure between Great
sbeelte‘re'teeedn
to the
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p Therimental Viceroy,
trip,Britain and America, "and make Ireland the great highway
heril‘s.htoichconhvaesybe been
Majesty's mails, and the Post-office authorities have been
prompt in affording all the requisite facilities towards carry-
ing out the object in view.
EGYPTIAN GRAiri.—A vessel arrived from Alex-
andria has brought the large quantity of 57000 quarters of
grain, compromising the entire cargo, and consigned to order.
The vessel in which this importation took place belonged to
Austria, but the cargo was now admissible under the re-
pealed laws of navigation and importation for home use.

Ply this. An in stitution was open to him to which
he-might fly for aid and succour; but it was at the
same time said to him, that in return he must give
proof of repentance. No inducement to further crime
was held out to him. The utmost that was offered
to him was shelter of the poorest kind, food of the
meanest sort, a short course of religious instruction,
and teaching in some trade, whereby, after giving an
earnest of good character and intention, he might
obtain something like a testimonial with which
to go forth again into the world. That was all
that was held out by this dormitory to
those poor creatures who were the outcasts
of the world. Let all consider what the pro-
position really was before they condemned it."
And having so considered it, it is difficult to conceive
any possible grounds for condemnation whatsoever.
Let any, we need not say any philanthropist, but any
individual endued with the most ordinary common
sense, picture to himself the forlorn condition and
the almost irresistible temptations of the once-con-
victed on their release from prison. In their case
daily is the saying verified which commemo-
rates the "facile " descent to "Avernus." But, in
proportion as unhappy circumstances make the re-
turn to virtue difficult, so the more zealous and the

more prompt should be the efforts of the powerful
and the charitable to make smooth that almost im-
practicable path which leads back from vice to honesty.
The good effects of the Westminster establishment in
assisting in the reformation of the really repentant,
and at the same time the little attraction which its
severe training presents to those pretenders who
feign honesty for the sake of gaining thereby, is well
shown forth in the two following examples cited by
the Noble Chairman at the meeting :—" He (Lord
ASHLEY) could give instances of the success of the
principle from his own knowledge. The Noble
Lord here read a letter he had received about a year
ago from a young man,:the purport of which was that
the writer applied to him in great agony of mind.
He had embezzled some money entrusted to him,
and had been justly committed to prison ; that he
was then liberated, and was thrown upon the world
' without a character, and utterly penniless.
In such a position, unless his Lordship assisted
him, he was a lost man. He (Lord ASHLEY) had
sent that letter to Mr. NASH, who saw the writer
and,.finding he was most anxious to reform, admitted
him into the dormitory. He passed through the
probation for a whole year, conducting himself with
the greatest propriety, expressing the strongest re-
gret for his past life; and at the present moment he
was beyond the seas, a free and independent citizen,
and had written to him (Lord ASHLEY) in terms' of
the deepest gratitude. That case showed the value
of the probation, and the manner in which it ope-
rated when accepted. But he would give an in-
stance of an opposite kind, to show that it operated
equally well the other way. A few nights ago a
man of decent appearance addressed him in the
street as he was walking home, and told him that he
was a convicted criminal just discharged from prison,
and asked if he (Lord ASHLEY) could interpose to
save him from ruin. He sent the applicant to Mr.
NASH to decide what could be done, and Mr. Yuri
afterwards informed him that the man did go, but
that when the probation he was to undergo was ex-
plained to him, he said he was not fitted. to pass
through such a trial, and he went away. These
cases showed the value of the probation—how,
by GOD'S blessing, and through perseverance, it
operated equally well upon those who were sin-
cere in their repentance and in repelling those
wh• only came to take whatever they could get."
After such convincing proofs of its practical efficacy
it appears hardly necessary to commend the institu-
tion to the cordial encouragement of the public. If,
however, it fails in obtaining support on philanthro-
pic grounds, how indisputable are its claims on
the score of economy. 'When we bear in
mind, as was mentioned at the meeting of
Thursday, that our criminal law expenses amount
to 2,000,0001. a year, while for the prison and con-
vict service the country has been paying and is paying
at the enormous rate of 2,0001. a day, the great im-
portance (merely in a financial point of view) of
such preventives of crime as the institution aboVe
alluded to is most apparent. It has been proved
again and again, beyond the possibility of contra-
diction, that it is cheaper—far cheaper to
enable a man to be tamest than to punish him for
being a thief, and yet, rather than:pay voluntarily the
one comparati►ely trivial amount, we prefer to be
compelled to contribute continually to the greater
and the enormous cost of our present crimina
establishments.