The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-18 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIONS.

KINGSTON, Tutsu4Y, Oar. 11.
The Michaelmas Quarter Sessions commenced here this
morning, before the Chairman (B. BARNARD, Eeq.) and a
Bench of Magistrates.

LAND-TAX ASSUSSAIENTS.

The returns of these assessments from several districts
were presented, and it was stated that some of them were
very,imperfect. On this a discussion arose as to the course
that should be pursued by the Court. It was at length
determined, that the returns should be referred to a Com-
mittee, who were to report on the adjournment day whether
they were incorrect, and what steps ought to be taken in
consequence.

JURY RETURN'S.

The returns under the new Jury Act of the persons
qualified to serve as jurors were handed in.
The Borough of Guildford made no return, claiming
to he exempt by their charter from serving on any Juries
out of that borouh. They certified their charter.
The parish of 'I hursley, in the hundred of Godulming,
also claimed to be exempt from serving on Juries, in con-
sequence of being tenants " on ancient demesne."
The Court gave no decision on the claims, but received
the names of the claimants.

RVIJOIOUS INSTRUCTION IN PR1102.18.

The animal report of the Chaplain to the county gaol
(the Reverend Mr. Mann) was brought up and read. It
expressed regret that there had not been as much im-
provement in the condition of the prisoners in Horsemon-
ger-lane gaol, as far as respected their education, as he
had reason to expect from the experience tried in the last
year.
Mr. TIRIS.COR regretted to hear such an account of the
state of the county gaol, which was somewhat inconsistent
with that sent by the same Reverend Gentleman last
year. He would now move, that Mr. Mann's report be
referred to the 'visiting Magistrates, that they might re-
port as to the cause of the decline noticed in the chap-
lain's reporL—Mr. IL JACKSON seconded the motion.
Sir T. TURTON repeated, that the motion could have
no good result.
Mr. 13RiscoF, was willing to withdraw the motion, if
the seconder consented.

Mr. R. JACKSON said, that as the visiting Magistrates
could be said to be necessarily acquainted with this report
he would take the sense of the court on the motion for re-
ferring it to them.:
Mr. H. SUMNER, thought the motion, as it was now
preferred, implied a censure on the chaplain ; and he would
therefore oppose it; because he was convinced no man de-
served better of his country than did that Rev. Gentleman.
Mr. PAILMEE thought that it would save time to refer to
the act of Parliament, in which it would appear, that the
visiting magistrates had the power to make the necessary
inquiries► without any special reference such as the motion
proposed.
Mr. DENISON said he could not give a silent vote on
this occasion, lest his silence should be construed into an

intention of casting any imputation on the Rev. Chaplain,
than Whom he would maintain, no man was more active or
zealous in the discharge of his important functions.
The question was then put to the vote, and the motion
was lost by 10 to 17.
Reports from the other prisons in the county were then
read.

That from Brixton stated, that considerable improve-
ment had taken place in, consequence of the system of in-
strpeting the prisoners in reading and writing.
The report from Guildford also spoke favourably of the
*fleet of education among the prisoners, as did also that
from Kingston.

COUNTY RATE.
Mr. Sust.moßeE (the County Treasurer) having given
in his account of the county expenses of the last, and his
esiiessie of , those of the current quartos, stated, that in
consequence of the heavy payment of 5,000 t which was
to be made on account of the 'Muses of Correction, and
the other expenses of the Epiphany quarter, it. would be
nerlessury that the county ruto should be raised from a
thi+epsinny to a fourpenuy ruto.
The fourpenny rate was then ordered.
NNW ASSESSMENT OF THE COUNTY KATE.
Mr. DENISON presented a memorial from the inhabitants
of the parish of Christchurch, lilackfriars-road, complain-
ing. that they were assessed more than their fair proportion
of the county rate.—The motion was then put and carried.
xxessites OF WITNESSES ON.' CRIMINAL reosecussows.
Mr. LAwsosi (the Clerk of the Peace) read this report
of a committee, to which was referred an Act of last Sess
rion;authorising magistrates in Quarter Sessions to fix the
compensation to be paid to witnesses summoned under re-
cagnizances to give evidence in criminal prosecutions. The
committee recommended that.where witnesses came before
magistrates to give depositions respecting felonies, the
magistrates should have the power to give as compensation
for lose of time, a sum not exceeding 2s. Gd. per day, and
in eases where the parties had to come a distance of more
than four miles, a further sum of 3d. per mile, going and
returning. In cases where witnesses had to attend trials
at Assizes, the sum not exceeding 4s. Gd. per day, and
2s. Gd. additional for every night they were detained out,
with the additional :4. per mile going and returning,
where the parties had to tourney more than four miles;
and where they had to attend Sessions at Newington, a
sum not exceeding 3s. W. per day and 2s. Gd. per night,
and the same allowance per mile for distances exceeding
four miles. They also recommend that witnesses bound
to attend on more than one trial in the same day and place.
should be allowed expences only for one trial ; and they
further recommended that magistrates should bind over to
attend only such witnesses as were absolutely necessary to
further the ends of justice.
Mr. PAIXIIEIt (on the part of Sir T. Turton) who hid
left the Court, postponed the motion, of which notice had
been given by Mr. postponed
for the appolotanent !of a Com-
mittee to consider the best mode of expediting the business
of the county by more frequent sessions under the Act
(59 Geo. 111. tap. 28.) The cause of the postponement
to next sessions was Mr. Edgell's illness, of which a me-
dial certificate was produced.
VAUZHALL GARDENS.
The Clerk of the Peace read a memorial, very nume-
rously signed, from the inhabitants of Kennington and its
vicinity. -At the head of the list.stood Yr. Cannon; but,
he observed, it would occupy too much time to read all
the names. The memorial set forth, that of late years,
great inconvenience had arisen to the inhabitants of that
neighbourhood from the cronrds of disorderly persons
who assembled outside on the nights the gardens were
Ipepett These persons were guilty of the greatest dis-
usterti, and often of gross indecencies, and they assembled
n such crowds as to be beyond the controul of the police.
The memorial went on to state, that the fire-works,
which might be seen from the open road, were the great
cause of attraction to those crowds, which, in addition to
other evils, mused the public-houses to be kept open in
the neighbourhood at tin hours of the night; that there
MS great danger from the manlier in which rockets and
other fire-works were scattered about, and that many fami-
li" were awoke at unseasonable hours by the hied and
disagreeable noises produced by the explosions of the fire-
works • that the ascent on the rope and the ascent in bal-
loons (Which last had been introduced last season) bed
greatly rontributed to increase the crowds, and to keep
them assembled to a late hour.
few s
4 ft" a few I from Mr. SenivENt, who Insisteu on
the necessity of some restriction to the practices mentioned
Oona
in the the question was ordered to stand over to
this day.
euutensivier or TEIALES SY THE snuatn-witret.
Mr. Binsems. aye that notwithstanding
mer defeats, tel it itnZtsct)
at the treadstmll.—(flear, hear l)
motion, for the purp64o
of duty to give notice of his for-
preyenting the punishment of
remake by work
The Rev. Mr. Comes:Nei—
have -precedence. lost two or
Remembe; Mr. Lawson,
my motions arc to
three motions before on account of that confounded treads
that
mill. (laughter).
After the discussion of some business of no l •
genera in-
terest, the Cana Me At What fix Q'elcitki