The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-05 00:00:00

THE GAOLS.

Froth the various reports of the Governors of the
different gaols in the county, it appeared that there
were at present in Horsemonger.lane gaol 218 pri-
soners, namely, 183 males and 35 females ; in Brixton
House of Correction 223 male and 64 females, total,
287. In the House of Correction at (7uil:lford, 82
waies and 13 females, making 95 ; and in the Kiasrston
le .101, 13 males and 10 feniates.

VINANCE or THF. LiWNiy.
Mr. SIiALL.PIECE, the Treasurer of the County, re-
ported that after all payments the County was indebted
4811. Is. over and above the expenditure of the cur-
rent quarter.
Mr. HAWES, M.P., said he understood that the
sum of 32,000/. was insufficient to meet the county ex-
penses ; but it should be known that the expenditure
had not increased, but that the substantial cause of the
increase was the creation of new offences under new
laws, to the operation of which, with an improved systetn
of police, might be attributed the increase of the county
expenses. They were also paying off the principal and
interest upon the Lunatic. Asylum.
After some discussion a two-penny rate was allowed,
in answer to Mr. Smallpiece's application.

APPLICATION TO GOVERNMENT TO ESTABLISH ASY•
LUMS FOR DISCHARGED JUVENILE PRISONERS.

Upon the Reports of the Visiting Justices of the se-
veral prisons being brought up,
Mr. Hawes rose, and observed that before the
Court sanctioned the report of the House of Correction
at Brixton, perhaps he might be allowed to draw the
attention of the Court to the large number of young
offenders who tad been committed to that prison ; and
he held in his hand a return, to show bow little effect
had been produced upon them by their imprisonment.
He believed that the motion he was about to preface
would not only reduce the county rates, but would also
diminish mime. In 1840 he found that the number of.
Juvenile offenders committed to the several prisons in
this county, amounted in number to 503 males under
17 years of age, and 76 females under the same age ;
but of these no less than 284 had been previously con-
victed ; so that in point of fact, assuming that be could
suggest any plan to the Court for the reduction of
crime among this class of offenders, a dimiUutioU of the
expenditure of the county funds would follow as a
matter of necessity.—(Hear.) The object his motion
sought to attain was to arrest the progress of crime,
and prevent young offenders being re-committed.—
( Hear.) The Court was aware that a very admirable
system had been established in this county for the pur-
pose of recovering young offenders when they were dis-
charged from gaol. In order to show them the good
that the Asylum for the Destitute had done he would
refer them to the 36 youths who had been admitted
into it between the beginning of 1839 and the month of
November 1841—three of them had been placed in
the Children's Friend Society, two of them had been
heard of and were doing remarkably well, but no ac-
counts had been received from the third. He would,
however, leave those three, and allude to the other
53 that were received into the Refuge, and who were
employed during their stay in that Asylum in cutting
wood and in various other ways. After they left the
Institution twenty-five of them became shoemakers,
and thirteen followed tailoring, and all of them
were following industrious habits. Of the fifty-three
already mentioned eight had been apprenticed by the
Refuge, with a premium of ,51. each, and had turned out
good members of society. Five of them had been sent
to Canada, with proper outfits, and were doing well ;
and seven had been restored to their friends. There
were still twenty-four in the Refuge, who likewise pro-
mised to turn out well. Now, if out of the 284 juve-
nile offenders who had been recommitted to prison in
1840, anything like such a proportion had been re-
claimed, it would have been attended with a consider-
able saving to the county, and the Magistrates would
have had the gratification of rescuing many from that
wretchedness which the repetition of crime must in-
evitably bring upon them. Ho called upon the Court,
therefore, to memorialize the Secretary of State to give
Justices the power to raise rates for the maintenance of
refuges for discharged and destitute prisoners, just the
same as they now can for maintaining prisons and houses
of correction. It was calculated that fifty juvenile
offenders would cost but 231. per head per annum,
making less than 1,200/. per year, which would not re-
quire the sixth of a penny county rate. Mr. Hawes
then alluded to the opinions of several Judges upon the
necessity of discharged prisoners being provided for, and
concluded by reading a memorial to the Secretary of
State, embracing the chief points of his ,address to
the Court.
Mr. JEFFERY seconded the motion.
Mr. Baiscox regretted that notice had not been
given by the Hon. Member for Lambeth .of his inten-
tion to bring forward this motion. He should be sorry
to be supposed to be objecting to it, but he could not
consent to concur in it without giving it his most serious
and attentive consideration. He begged to urge upon
the Hon. Member for Lambeth the necessity of post:
potting so very important a subject until the attention
of the whole of the Magistracy could be drawn to it,
and when he (Mr. Briscoe) had no doubt he should be
able to lay some facts connected with the prisons be-
fore them. The worthy Magistrate concluded by
moving, as an amendment, the postponement of the
question turtd•next Session. - •
Earl Lover..tes urged the necessity of the Court at
once deciding upon JAIr. Hawes's motion, ou the ground
of the near approach of the sitting of Parliament, and
the many important questions which would press on the
Secretary of State as the Session advanced.

Mr. ItEMBLE, M.P., supported Mr. Briscoe's amend.
raent.

In reply, the amendment was put and negatived, and
the original motion for memorialising the Secretary of
State was carried.
Then Court then adjourned.

ANOTHER CONVERT TO ROME.—It is with
great concern that we record another example of the
influence and tendency of Puseyism. Since the publica-
tion of our last paper, a respectable tradesman of this
city, and his family, have left the Establishment, and
joined the Church of Rome ; the party we refer to at-
tended " the Sacrifice of the Mass" at the Roman Catho-
lic Chapel in St. Clement's on Christmas Day, and was then
received into communion, and on Sunday last attended the
same place with his wife and family. W hen we state that
the person we refer to has been a diligent reader of the
" Tracts for the Times," and a constant attendant upon
the ministry of Mr. Newman at St. Mary's, the circum-
tances will excite little surprise; but indignation will
mingle with the regret which the fact calls forth ; and
it will be demanded—how long will Mr. Newman be
permitted from the pulpit of St. Mary's to point the way
toward Rome. We have not a word of reproach for
the man whose faith has been thus perverted :—" Church
Principles" have been inculcated upon him ; he has re-
ceived them, and, no doubt, after severe mental strug-
gles, he has followed these "principles" to their natural
consequences.—Oxford Chronicle, Jan. 1.
We have just received the following account of
a barbarous murder which took place near Grange, in
the county of Sligo, on Christmas Eve :—Two neigh-
bouring men went into an unlicensed whisky-shop
to drink. They were shown into a room, and a
noggin of whisky was brought to them. After sit-
ting some time chatting, one of them pulled a dinner-
knife from his breast, and stabbed his companion
to the heart. He then deliberately walked out as if in-
tending to return in a few moments ; but not doing so,
the landlord went into the room to see what the other
man was about, when, to his surprise and horror, he
found him bleeding profusely, the knife still fastened in
the wound, and he rolling about the floor speechless and
insensible. The murderer has not yet been apprehended.
—Ballyshannon Herald.

EVENING SUN

WOOLWICH. TUESDAY.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Firebrand steamer is ordered to form part of the
squadron to attend upon the convey of the King of
Prussia from Ostend
.to this country, and it is expected
his Majesty and tuite will land at Woolwich about the
21st of this month.

Commander John Neale Nott, from the Excellent
gunnery ship, at Portsmouth, and Lieutenant James
Alexander Gordon (v), from the Warspite, have boen-
appointed to the Wiliam and Mary yacht, at Wool-
wich, for service in the Firebrand, on the occasion
of the King of Prussia's visit to his Royal relative?,
and to be present at the christening of the Prince of
Wales. His Majesty will, it is expected, embark in
the Warspite, C tptain the Right Hon. Lord John
Hay, C. 8., and Grand Cross of Charles 111., and in
the event of the weather being calm or the wind con-
trary, this fine 50 gun frigate will be towed by the
Firebrand to ensure the arrival of the King of prasiis
in this country as ntarly as possible to the time con-
templated. It is anticipated that his 11..)yul Highness
Prince Albert will come to Woolwich to ne'corne the
King of Prussia oa his arrival.
The Alban steam vessel, Master John King (acting),
arrived at Woolwich on Saturday from Plymouth, and
afterwards went to ll,:ptford. She is under orders to
proceed immediately to Pembroke.
The Mtgacra st, am vessel, commanded bYWin. N.
mate, her I tte commander, Lieut. Hugh C.
Goldsmith, having died in the West Indies, arrived at
Plymouth On Wednesday last from Barbadoes, and is
ordered round to Woolwich to be. paid off. She has
brought home a.number of invalids from that unhealthy
climate.

The Goodwill atrivei at Wbolwich on Saturday.
The Falmouth is on her wil), round Irony Portsmouth
to Woolwich.

Mr. Patrick O'Connor is nPpoin'ted purser of the
Growler steam vctsel, vice Milner, whose warrant has
•
been cancelled.

Mr. Edward F.,Cavell-is appointed acting•maslet of
the Shearwatcr steam velscl, vice Brehaut, appointed to
the Carysfort. •: - • - •
Yesterday the master shipwrights, Mr. Oliver Lang,
of Woolwich Dockyard l Mr. John Mitcham, • of
Chatham Dockyard ; Mr. Jaides Atkins, of Sheerness
Dockyard ; Mr.afelta-rit-Btake, of Portsmouth Dock-
yard ; and Alivi.Risktits, late of Detonport Dockyard,
assembled at the-Woolwich Dockyard to decide upon
the plans which :it would be mast desirable •to adhere to
in future as.a fixed principle for building vessels for her
Majesty's nariy. This .iesolation on the part of the
Admiralty-will pin vnt -all chances of difference of opi-
nion on such,stuatthrs,.and--prevent the possihd ty. of the
work of one, masher-shipwright being• altered or con-
demne'd when the' vessel is sent to-• any other tlockard
than the one wherer;she . was • constructed, for repair,
which has .soinctimes teen:the case on former occasions.
One fixed•prineipkvacif: siiipbuildiag at all her Mnje3ty's
dockyari4i•iwillitie attaudi-d, with very tenelieial results
to thz selviee,vismilit,avould Le advantageous were the
master sltipwrights,tomectiutoitally,- Of oftener, to
it.to consitleratimrsiuelvdisovt-aies atilitight tria.,le, ow-
ing to the present advanced i.tate•of seivntitio.ittioA 1,1 z(;.

CQ,IION.LAI. 13ANK,—Y#sterday a half-yearly
general,Ciou*,,g L'.roprieturs in this .corporation was
held: at t*Loniloit TUN erp; for. the purpose of receiviia
a Report.: Ac?aohe L',AArt.,of Directors relative to the
,theßani., to declare a dividend, and to Aect
live DireciorS and gn Auditor in the &Om or those w,ho,
under the provision of the charter, go out of office by
rotation. The chair was taken by Mr. J. Irvine, M.P.,
and the advertisement convening the meeting having
been read, the Secretary, Mr. Calvert, read the Report
of the Directors, which stated that the total debts of

the bank during the half-year ending the 30th of June
last, .were 1,578,653/., comprising 183,181'1. as its
circulation, 84; ,00C1. deposits and other liabilities,
500,0001. paid up capital, 24,000/. reserved fund,
and 24,0001. profit. Its assets were—specie, 266,4371 ;
other assets, 1,299,710/. ; and balance of prel►m►nary
expenses, 12,50 e/. The BAnk had sustained losses
by the money eri,is in the' West Indies, but the Direc-
tors were nevertheless in a situation to declare with con-
fidence a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum.
The Report was, after some discussion relative to the
affairs of the hank, adopted. In proposing a vote of
thanks to the Court of Directors, Mr. Gurney paid the
executive body a compliment for the zeal and ability with
which they had managed the affairs of the Institution,
the details of which required double attention in the past
year, especially as there had been commercial embarrass-
ments in the West Indies of no ordinary character. As
an auditor of the accounts of the Corporation it would,
he fully believed, be found that though the Bank had
suffered losses, alike with nearly all other establishments
in the past year, still that the surplus profits of the half-
year, after providing for the dividend, would be sufficient
.to meet those losses.—(llear, hear.) The vote of thanks
to the Directors was seconded by Sir George Carroll, and
carried. The Chairman returned thanks. The Direc-
tors and the Auditors, who had gone out of office by rota-
tion, were re-elected, and the meeting adjourned.

FRAUD ON LORD STANLEY.—In the early
part of last week a middle-aged man, of respectable ap-
pearance and platisible manners, called at the Colonial-
office, in Downing•street, and inquired for the Colonial
Secretary. lie was informed by the messengers in at-
tendance that Lord and Lady Stanley were at the time
on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle, and were
not expected in town until the following Thursday. The
stranger was then asked to leave his name, when he said
that lie was commissioned by the principal officers of the
Custom-house to deliver to Lord Stanley the box which
he had with him, and which contained a most costly and
magnificent chandelier, intended as a Christmas present
to Lady Stanley from some of the foreign Courts, and
that he was also instruc:el to say that thirty-five cases of
wine had been received as a present for his Lordship,
which would be delivered on the following morning.
Some further conversation followed, in the course of
which the stranger gave particular directions that the
package he had with him should be carefully attended to.
He then pulled out of his pocket some papers, which ap-
peared to be regular Custom-house certificates, signed
" George Lamb," and stated that ho was to 'receive
3/. ss. •Id., the amount of the regular dues. The office-
keeper 'desired him to write a receipt for the money,
which he did in the presence of that gentleman's daugh-
ter. The amount was paid over to him, and he left the
office. The costly present Was removed with all due care
to the mansion of Lord Stanley, in St. James's-square,
and, on the arrival of the Noble Lord and his lady from
Windsor, on Thyrsday last, opened with the greatest
caution, when its valuable contents were found to consist
of a few brick bats, packed in a manner to prevent them
rolling in the case. Immediately on the fraud being dis-
covered, by directions of the Noble Secretary, intbrma-
don was given at the police-station in Scotland-yard, and
also to the City police, and every exertion in consequence
used to discover the delinquent. The exertions have
beets successful, and the suspected party has been appre-
hended in the neighbourhood of the Custom-house,• and
will undergo an examination at Bow-street Police Court
to-morrow (this day). It is, perhaps, needless to add
that the thirty-live eases of wine have not been heard of.
DISTRESSED PRINTERS.—We take great plea-
sure in stating that Mr. G. Smith, the lessee of the Barn-
well Theatre, has granted the gratuitous use of the same
for the two performances in aid of the distressed letter-
press printers, in the following generous terms:—" I
consider the printers of this country generally a very
valuable body of men; and no person kels more for their
privations than myself, and more particularly from its
being so patiently endured. The Barnwell Theatre is at
the service of the Committee, free of any expense what-
ever, on my part." The good feeling with which the
favour was conferred greatly enhances its value, and we
hope that it will be heartily seconded by the liberal
support of the public. We understand that the perform-
ances will take place about the middle of the present
month.— Cambridge Advertiser.
ROTA OF THE JUDGES APPOINTED TO
PRESIDE IN THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT FOR THE
YEAR 18.14.—January Session, Mr. Baron Gurney, Mr.
Justice Mande, Mr. Justice Wightman ; February Ses-
sion, Lord Chief Baron Abinger, Mr. Justice Bosan-
plot, Mr. Justice Williams ; March Session, the Judges
who go the Norfolk and North \Vales Circuits ; April
Session, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Justice Erskine,
Mr. Baron Rolfe ; May Session, Lord Chief Justice
Denman, Mr. Baron Alderson, Mt. Justice Coltman ;

June Session, Lord Chief Justice Tindal, ➢lr. Justice

Pattison, Mr. Baron Gurney ; July Session, the Judges
who go to the Norfolk and North Wales Circuit; August
Session, Lord Chief Baron Abinger, Mr. Justice Wil-
liams, Mr. Justice Erskine ; September Session, Mr.
Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Bosanquet, Mr. Justice Wight-
man ; October Session, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Jus-
tice Maule, Mr. Baron 'toile. The appointments only
extend to the termination of the Mayoralty in each year.
COLONEL THOMPSON AND THE °TON-
NonrrEs.—We do not know that we should have npticed
the O'Connorites, or their doings, but for their recent
conduct towards a man who, we should have thought, of
all the public characters of the age, would have been
safe from the attacks of a party professing to adyocate
the cause of the non-electors. Colonel Thompson, has,
it seems, been honoured with the abuse of the Styr!
Why, if there be one man who, more than another, has
made sacrifices of every kind in . his consistent , devo-
tion at the altar of popular freedom—that man -is
Colonel Thompson. Yet he is denounced as. a traitor and
renegade by this tool of the Aristocracy, fur having
lectured against the Corn4aw s—a queStion with which
• his name was gloriously identified fifteen years before
the Charter was framed or thought of. We are half-
inclined to regret that the author of the Catechism of the
Corn laws should have condescended to notice and ex-
pose the falsehoods of the Northein Star. We thittle he
might safely have left his well-earned reputation for ho-
nesty to have shiilled him from the assaults of such de-
tractors. We are right glad, however, that they have
over-shot their mark, in aiming their poisoned darts at
such a man, believing that it will do more than anything
to open the eyes of the -Working-class to the true cha-
racter and designs of the fellows who are doing the bid-
ding of O'Connor and his .brother landlords•—Slielield

Yesterday a deplorable accident befel a respect-
able married woman, named Deborah Raymond, who
resides in Grey--streqi, Waterloo-road. She had
using
ptir-
chasedl an old turpentine barrel, for the purpose of
it us a, water-butt, but _being desirous of cleansing, it,
she pit a handful of straw and set light to. its and
placed it in the barrel to endeavour to cleanse 'it,
No sooner was the light put into the barrel than it blazed
forth almost as high as the first-floor windows. The
poor woman, being anxious to save the glass in the win-
dows, endeavoured to turn the tub over, and, in so doing,
it set fire.te her dreis, and before any assistance eoula be
obtained, she WAS almost burnt to death.

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SECOND EDITION

TUE FUNDS-(.CLOSING PRICES)

BRITISH FUND-S.
Bulk Stock
.. 167* . India Stec); ..... ..... ....
3 per Cent Red. B9l Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons — Ditto Old Annuities ...
3i per Cent Red 99-- Ditte New Annuities...
New 4 per Cent
Ex. Bills, 1,0001....2*(1 18 pm
New 5 per Cent
Long Annuities toexpire ; Ditto Small. 20 pin
Jan j 1860 .. 12.1-16 'Bank Stock for Acct... 168
Oct 1859 — 'lndia Stock for Acct.... `246'
Jan. 1860.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. 54*
Belgian, 5 per cent
,Ditto, New Ditto 32i
Brazilian Bonds...
Buenos Ayres, 6 per eel !Russian, 5 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent._ „. Ditto, Metallic —
Colombian, 6 per cent.. ISpanish, 5 per cent 2s*
Ditto, 1824. ...... .. ,Ditto, Deferred —
Danish, 3 per cent.:... ...
IFreneh, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 18;15, 5 per cent. I Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 284 i French, 3 percent —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1837 - \Dutch, 2* per cent...—. 51*
l'eruvian.lB-76, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. ... .. 1004
SHARES.
Lon,!on and South Western
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l2i
South Eastern and Dover (43 paid )...
York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 92
Great Western Railway( 65 paid) B7i
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) '.. 61
Yitto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)..
London and Birmingham (90) ......... ...
Ditto Thirds (32 paid).‘ .., s7i
Paris and Rouen (12 paid) lO

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
THE REVENUE.
STANDARD.—The accounts of the Quarter's
Revenue, ending to-day, cannot be finally made up
until a late hour this evening. We are enabled, how-
ever, to state that there is a considerable increase in the
Revenue derived from the Customs for the present
quarter, as compared with the corresponding quarter of
last year; On the Excise there is a failing off as
cempared with the corresponding quarter of last
year. The decrease is chiefly on the items of
malt and hops. The deficiency in the Excise, however,
we are lappy to state, is fully compensated by the in-
crease on the Customs and..other branches of the Re-
venne. There will be no great difference in the pro-
duce of the year ending tl.c sth ofJanuary, 1842, with
the year ending sth of January, 1841. The total
revenue for the two years will prove nearly equal. It
there is any ,difference, it is expected that there will be
a small inert ate on the financial year ending to-day, but
until the accounts are finally closed it is irnpossib!e to
state with colt iinty.what the, amount will be.
GLOBE.—The one sentence which was open to
, criticism in Lord •Kinnaird's recent Liter was of course
„seized on by the-honest Times; and the views of a cer-
tain factory. Deputation were seized on in like manner.
- The object was to throw the blame of the concentration
of masses' of people in the factory districts—and of their
present distress—on the mill-owners,' and of the
land-owners' shoulders. This is just another
specimen of the trick we 'have often denounced,
pf taking advantage of !lair own wrong , and
charging upon others its consequences. We are
quite free to say thit we think Lord Kionaird made a
weak point, and 'missed a strong one, by expressing
himself in the manner which has been thus criticised.
It was unnecessary either for him or for any one else
'to /won/mend emigration from the agricultural into
the manufacturing cl;stricts. That sort of emigra-
tion wants no encouragement, and ought to receive
Ilene, while it sin ply operates, as at present, to re-
lieve landlords from those effects of their Bread-tax
which show themselves iapauperis»z, the sere attendant
of Corn-law prices. They throw on the towns those
whom they do not find it profitable to feed on the
kuds ; and, thus the reverse process has been in fact
going on to that wb:ch the land advocates pretend to
have taken .place. It is not the pauperism of the
'towns that is thrown on the- land, but that of the
.land on the loions. And then the landlords (fit
rleseendanti of the robber and pirate caste of old
Cans) cut uff supplies from those very towns to which
• they have eir:vci their " surplus" villains. And then
Alley point the finger of scorn at the misery which pre-
wails in 111(81 towns ! net last is a refinement beyond
, tYgii tires of Plantoeenct days. Robbery and piracy
the latter were up to ; the mean aggravation of lOrdly
wrongs by clerkly sophisms they were nut guilty of.
We do believe they would have blushed through the
bars of their vizor! at such fulsome eulogies of their
frank violenccs, as Mr. E. S. Cayley's Cressy and Poi-
xiers speeches. Cressy and Poiters invoked forsooth to
ennoble the sliding scale! But, as we have said there is
not the least occasion for Lord Kinuaird, or for any
one else, to say a word in favour of immigration into
the tol,vns from the count-y. Our Lords have taken
xare that there shall be enough of it. It attains its
/Itaximuin under the resent system. It could not go
on more activ ly tit in;gl,t go en less actively) after a
change in the Corn-L.:vs than it does at present. The
itownv are the last refuge of misery cauged by the Corn-
laws. Leave the roiling of then!, and the starving of
their pcop:e; upon It e right shoulders