The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-16 00:00:00

TATTERSALL'S.

Another dull day-plenty of beta offered, but nine
made ; a few • changes, however, are observable in the
Derhy'odds, which are' likely to untieran further altera-
tions before the week is out. The St. Leger field. bas at
length assumed a definite shape; and several horses of op•
proved breed are now in the market. Nothing was done
its the Oaks. We give the•closing pt ices :

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. COMMUNICATION FROM MR. PEEL TO
THE LORD MAYOR RELATIVE TO NEWGATE.

(From a Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.)
Mr. Peol has addressed a letter to the Lord
Mayor, which is to undergo consideration in the
Court of Aldermen this Clay. no Circular to the
Members of the Court contains tlr, tollowing N. 8.:
" To consider a Letter addressed to • the Lord
Mayor from the Secretary of State for the Home
• Department, relative to the Gaol of Newgat,,, It
is. very seldom that we hear of the interference of a
Secretary of State with the Magistrates of the
City. of London. The latter have conducted them-
selves, with respect to the City Prisons, as if there
wete no control!' over those places, except that
which they exercise ; - a.- strange neglect has been
sown by their Worships whenever any application
has been made to them as to the necessity for classi-
fying the unfortunate prisoner's in the princiral felons'
prison in Eitgland, although the necessity has been in 1
every Gaol Report strongly urged, and it has been
the endeavour of all the County Magistrates to
establish a • elaasificatiou to the -extent suggested.
Ia several prisons this indispensable object has
been attained in such a manner as to draw down
the approbation of Committees of the Houses of
Parliament. Newgate, however, remains without
the slightest improvement in this respect, and a
" •leath-like silence" prevails within the walls of
that prison, as to the condition of the inmates. This
is a bad omen. The only ground upon which those
who are in daily intercourse with the prisoners can
act, in " sealing their lips," must be the order of
the Alderman or the Secretary of State. That Mr.
Peel should give such a direction is extremely im-
probable, as lie is aware of the great benefits derived
from a public exposure of the prison abuses; but
that an order of the kind should issue from the Court
of Aldermen, we should not be at all surprised, as-
it would appear .that that dignified body has al-
most uniformly disregarded hints to do any thing
calculated to proveet the contatninktion of morals
amongst youthful delinquents in their gaol. In the
returos-made to the Court of Aldermen, it is usually
stated that classificatiou has taken place, as far ris'was
consistent with the confined. state of the prison.—
This, we believe, is.true.; but any. one who looks
through Newgree, every solicitor who.. visits New-
gate for the purpose of getting up the case of a
client, and k not under erdera to observe silence—
will declare that the want of classification is the
greatiault of that prison; that. the extent of accom-
modation is so limited that the .mcgt experienced
and abandoned robbers are hourly associated with
children who have bees just imprisoned for a first
offence. Mr. Peel has been • dissatisfied at leng.lr
at the returns made by the Court of Aldermen, and
has notified to theliord Mayor, in the letter which
is to be discussed this day, that if proper classiEca-
- tion cannot be made in the present state of Newgate,
the Court of Aldermen must enlarge it in. such u
manner as to admit of such. classification.

Notwithstanding the difficulty of obtaining any
information. direct from Newgate, axcept that:re-
specting executions, it has been ascertained by Mr.
Peel that the greatest insubordination has for some
tirne existed in the prison= insubordination eve►►
amounting to, preparations for escape, by intended acts
of the most desperate violence. When the 49 convicts
under .sentence of death were associated together
every day, because it was impossible, in so limited
a prison, to stow 510 prisoners without crowding
all the daily rooms, the greatest danger was to be
apprehended. Some of the most desperate had ac-
tually laid.a plan of escape, by falling upon the turn-
keys at the.hour of locking up. They had been
heard concerting the mode of attack, and the neces-
sary measures of prevention were of course imme-
diately adopted. If resolute conduct had not been
resorted to, no doubt the prison would have been a
scene of bloodsheli. There was scarcely a man
amongst this number of capital convicts, who did
not expect to be hanged, and still there was no pos-
sibility of separating the conspirators—conspirators
to save their own lives, anti of course wholly regard-
less of the consequence of the attempt on the lives
of others.

The Court of Aldermen knew that this attempt
was meditated; they knew, too, that all the pri-
soners were huddled together in Newgate—they
regularly receive a return from the Governor, who,
we suppose, regularly represents the necessity of re-
moving the immense population of the gaol to the
places assigned by law fur undergoing its penalties,
and still the complaint has remained without the
application of a corrective. Newgate remains what
it has been long acknowledged to be—the place in
which a novice in crime becomes an adept in a mo-
ment', notwithstanding the frtquent visits of those
benevolent persons, who, in the fervour of doing
good, "dive into ie lowest recesses of misery, de.
pression, and contempt."
We believe that the Lord Mayor does not et all
regret this startling communieation from Mr. Peel.
His Lordship has, if we may judge from the course
he has pursued since he reached the Mayoralty,
anxiously wished for art immediate reforin of the
prissn of Newgate, which has done more in bringing
young iniquity to a mature state than the contami-
nation without the walls has been able "to effect.

We rejoice that this important sultieet has been
taken up by Mr. Peel, and as the Court of Alder-
men deserves from him in other respects, we
think it necessary to suggest, that the Right Hon.
Gentleman will likewise do a great service to the
community by talking to their Worships about the
debtors' prison in Whitecross-street, to which a new
Governor has been appointed without being sup-
plied with the means of improving its condition
one atom.

The public have often heard of the insubordina-
tion existing in that prison, and of the various pro-
jects for improving it, suggested and discussed
amongst the City Magistrates, and yet not u tittle
has been done to render the difficulties of " con-
ducting the affairs" of the prison a more easy task
than it has been always known to be.

Last week a faithful couple, not a very great e
dit fl'ulllKcaysijin moor, were mai rigid at Dean
Church. About ten utes after the marriage the bride
e
was delivered of a chopping child ;. and in -about two hours
the ceremonies of marriage, birth, anrVbaptism, were pei,_
formed. —Bolton Chronicle.

A knight of the shuttle and a bachelor, not
one hundred miles front Edgworth, hit upon the following
expedient to obtain possession of a fair dame, whose charms,
added to a pretty large stock of gold, had excited his love
and longing. He obtained access to the lady, and, is
gentle whispers and sighs, told her that he had had a dream,
wherein it was revealed to hilt' that, if she did not liewme
his partner, she would lose her character and reputation,
dearer to her than riches ; and, to eootino the prediction,
he
,declared that he had a similar dream before hi* former
marriage, and all hail been fulfilled. The lady, however,
was awake, and, with the assistance of a set yaw, tbinst
the doponding suitor nut of the house to dream again.
Bolton Chronicle.,

CHESTER, DEC. 13.—A
melancholy case of
pauperism came under the notice of the Mayor arid sitting
Magistrates a day or two ago. An elderly :wit, with long
gray hair, and the scanty tesnaius of a coat that had ot!e,
been black, with a carrwrau countenance and a palsied
hand, approathed the Bench, and, making a very respectful
obeisance, intimated that be was forced by bard necessity
to come to swear his settlement. He stated that his name
was Hackett; and was 69 years of age. Ile entered the
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