The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-28 00:00:00

fIE BRITISH WATCH AND. CLOCK-
A- MAKING COMPANY.
-„Ey, Royal Letters Patent. Capital, 250,6001., in 10,0(10
.'Sires of 251. each. Deposits, 21. 10s. per Share. To be it-
-, dor;orated, and the responsibility of each
.Shareholder to to
limited to the amount cf his Shares.
TRUSTEES.
His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, Brandon, and ChatelEerault,
Frederick Mildred, Esq., and John Howell, Esq.
DIRECTORS.
Der. Addison, of Delahay-street, Civil Engineer.
Mr. Barviise, St. Martin's-lane, Charing-cross, Chronometer,
Watch, and Clock-maker.
Mr. Earnshaw, of Holborn, Chronometer, Watch, and Clot:I:-
maker.
Mr. Hewett, of King-street, Tower-hill, Chronometer-maker.
Vieyres, of Pall-mall, Watch-maker.
With power to add to their number.
MANAGING DIRECTORS—Messrs. Barwise and Earnsbaw.
SUPERINTENDENT-Mr. Ingold.

BANIZERS—Messrs. Blasterman, Peters, Mildred, and Co.

Nicholas-larie, Lombard-street.

AGENTS.—Messrs. Frodsham and Son, of Gracechurcla-
d
street, for the City of London; Messrs. Howell, James, an
?Regent-street,Co., ?Regent-street, Pall-mall, for the West-end of London ;
Messrs. Durand, !VP-Kenzie, and Co., Milk-street, Cheaoside,
fnr the United States of America; Augustus Hudley, Esq., 15,
Thrcgmorton-street, for Portugal, Spain, and Italy ; William
Prinsep, Esq., G, Great Cumberland-place, Hyde-park; for
India, China, and Australia ; Seward Large, Esq., of Cork,
merchant, for the West Indies ; Messrs. Braggiotti, Navone,
and Co., of Pinners-hall, Broad-street, London, for Turkey.
With about 100 Watchmakers as Agents for the various Coon-.
ties of the United Kingdom.
SEC ZT). RY—Richard Paddison, Esq., No. 1, Great James-

street, Bedford-row.
SOLICITORM—ne?srs. Muffins and Paddison.

The objects of are threefold: First--To carry
into practice certain valsable inventions, whereby the manu-
facture of watches will be greatly improved, and whereby, at
the same time, large pecuniary advantages will accrue.—Se-
c3rdly : To supply the Trade and the Public at home -with
b?tter and cheaper watches than can now be obtained from
abroad ; and Thirdly, to gain the foreign as well as the home
market.
An examination of the different machines would satisfy any
one acquainted with the watchmaking-business, that there is a
positive certainty of obtaining a profit of not less than 30 pew
cent. upon the capital to he employed by the Company, and a
strong probability of a much larger profit ; and, at the same
tirne,, the watchmakers will be enabled to retail watches at a
greater profit to themselves, and at a less price to the public
than is now practicable.
For the opinions of the public Press on this subject, see the
limes; 'Morning Chronicle, and Evening Sun of the 24th, the
Observer of the 3d, and the Standard of the 22d instant.
Applications for prospectuses, containing further particulars,
or for §hares, may be made to any of the Directors ; to the
Net, o'politan or Provincial agents ;or to the Secretary. .

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Mr. LEDBURY'S ADVENTURES AT HOME AND

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Chapter in. Of the manner in which Mr. Ledbury was exa-
mined by the Municipal Guard, and of his interview with the
Prefect of Polic'.
Chapter IV. Of the Quartier Latin, and of Mr. Ledbury's
lodgings therein.
Chapter.- V. Of the evening party given by Mr. Ledbury and
Jack Johnson to certain students and grisettes, at their rooms in
the Rue St. Jacques.
The Haunted Mine, by R. D. Peale.
The Life and Songs of Anacreon, by Barney Brallagan
Her First Visit Afloat, by the Author of '.The Naval Sketch-

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A Campa•gn tviih the Christinos in 1833 and 1839, by Charles
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The Dying Child.
1:e Persian Spy, by J. B. Fraser, Esq.
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Vengeance, by H. F. Addison,.
Youth's Death, by Mrs. Howitt.
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'MBA:ME ROYAL. COVENT-GA:WEN.
THIS EVENING, OCT. ‘2B,
Will be presented 'Shakspeare's Tragedy. of ALACBETH.
.Ticbetli, tic. Vandenhoff ; Macduff, Mr. Charles Pitt ;
11.11:one, Mr. Cooper ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Salabe7a ; Hecate
3.1 r. Leffler; First -Nitch, Mr. Bartley ; Second Witch, Mr:
Meadows; Third Witch, Mr. Harley.
Atter which, the New Farce, called COUSIN LAMBKIN.
'Stplico Mulberry, Mr. Bartley; Captain Bantam, Mr. Walter
Laoy; Doctor Lionel Lambkin, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Bantam,
Cooper ; Rose Maynard, Miss Lee ;12ainty, Mrs.Humbr.
TJ conclude with the Ballet Divertissement of THE
WOODEN LEG. Characters by Mr. Gilbert, Miss Eallin,
Master and Miss Marshall, Messrs. J. and T. Ridgway, and
Bliss Jackson.
L'uors open at Half-past Six, and the Performances coin-
menoe at Seven.—Dress Boxes 75., Second Price :Js. ;
First and Second Circles 55., Second Price 2s. 6d. ; Pit 3s;
Second Price 2s. ; Gallery Is.
'Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Whit-
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Ticliets may be had.
Pnirate Boxes to be ha,/ at the Box-office ; of MesTrs. An-
drews, 167, New Bond-strcet ; Mr. Mitchell, Old 13ond-street ;
and of Mr. Sams, Pall Mall.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, OCT. 28,
Will be presented THE MISER'S DAUGHTER, which
has been for some time in preparation. and will be produced
Kith New Scenery, Dresses, and Novel Effects, combining all
The resources of the Theatre. The Piece dramatised from the
P3Pular Work of the same name, by Mr. Edward Stirling, byper-
mission of the Author, W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq., who, in
conjunction with George Cruikshank, Eaq., will personally
superintend the numerous Tableaux, &c., as illustra'ed in
After ‘• Ainsworth's Magazi"
which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE.
Tt3ii,„ .19'. Mr. Wieland ; Fleur-des-Champs, Mdme. Proche
N. " The Frightful, Spiteful, Old Bachelor," Mrs.
P. Grattan.
To conclude with NORAIA. Pollio Mrs. N. P. Grattan ;
Ncrma,Boxe, 45.1
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;Pit,Paul Bedford;
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Adalgisa,' Mr. Wright.
six, commence at seven 'jallery, Is. Doors open at half-past
o'clock.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 9
'VI ill be acted a New Drama, entitled ESTELLE DUMAS,
supported by the entire Company.
After which, the Nautical Drama of POOR JACK ; or,
THE WIFE OF A SAILOR. Poor Jack, Mr. T. P. Cooke,
whose performance attracts nightly overflows. Eleanor Mrs.
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To conclude with Mr. Albert Smith's new Drama, called
BLANCHE HERIOT, which has met with most decided
luccess. Neville Audely, Mr. H. Hughes ; Hugh Laneret,
4.1r.N. T. Hicks;
_Herrick Evenden, Mr. J. Webster; Blanche
eerier, Mrs. R. Honner.
Places and private Boxes to be bad of Mr. J. Kerschner, at
the Box-office, from eleven to four.

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LONDON
FRIDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 28, 1842.

To judge from the Seventh Report of the In.
spectors of Prisons, which we yesterday men-
tioned, the treatment of prisoners in Nortitleach
House of Correction is of unexampled severity,
Though we must infer from the verdict of the

Jury that it was more severe than is warranted
by the law, yet in scantiness of diet, hardness of
labour, and wretchedness of lodging, it seems
not amore severe than falls to the lot of a large
portion of the labourers of England. We have
it on testimony which has never been disputed,
that great numbers of them have been subsisting
with their families on 65., and even 4s. a week.
Those who could find no employment, were re-
duced to dig up carrion or feed on nettles; and
many lay down and kept themselves still to avoid
the pains of hunger. Thousands who could get
work did not make sixpence a day by fourteen
hours' continuous labour. As to their dwellings,
it is only necessary to remind the reader of the
Sanitary Report lately published, numerous ex-
tracts front which have been inserted in our own
and other journals, to satisfy him that the cells
in Northleach are not worse than the dwellings
of the poor.
We have only to open the Report, and at
every page we find phrases like these—" The ha-
bitations of the poor are distinguished by a dis-
agreeable smell." " The houses are surrounded
with wide open drains, full of animal and veget-
able refuse." "In most of the houses are fever
and other diseases." " Eleven persons sleep in
one room." " Fifty persons dwell on a ground
floor, which is neither boarded nor paved."
" The springs burst through the mud floors of
the cottages." " The cottages of the poor are of
a mud wall, situated close to dykes, where water
is in a state of stagnation." " One room is for a
whole family, and several large families, occupy-
ing one room each, dwell under the same roof."
" The windows are kept air-tight by stuffing
old garments in them." " Amongst the inha-
bitants prevail diseases of an epidemic character."
" Small-pox, scarlatina, or the typhus, is seldom
absent from the dwellings." " Most of the resi-
dences of the labourers are thickly inhabited,
and many of them are damp, low, cold, smoky,
and comfortless." " Whole families, comprising
adult and infant children, sleep in one room."
But it is needless to quote testimony to the fact
that the labourers of England are most wretch-
edly lodged, and the examples we have given
are all from different places and from rural dis-
tricts. To know that the dietary labour and
lodging of Northleach, which are so deservedly
branded by a Jury, and by the Press, are not
worse than the dietary labour and lodging of a
great portion of the labouring classes, can only
excite the most painful reflection.
But Northleach seems singular in severity,
and we will now show, from the Seventh Report
of the Inspectors of Prisons, what makes
the prisons of Scotland so attractive that more
persons would willingly take up their abode in
them than can be admitted. The first thing ex-
traordinary mentioned in the Report is as to
LIBRARIES. " Many of the prisons," says the
Report, "are now provided with libraries ;"
and the mode in which they are used is thus
described :

0: Aberdeen it is said most of the prisoners are
anxious to have library books : " few of the prisoners
had been in the habit of reading before coming to
prison." At Hamilton " the library is found to be
a very useful instrument to elevate the prisoners'
minds. Many persons are sent to this prison for
offences committed under the excitement of drinking
(people engaged about the collieries) ; they have
no rational means of employing their evenings
(out of gaol), and a man of this description has
lately been reading " Robinson Crusoe " in prison
with much advantage. It is .probably the first bock
of entertainment he ever read." •At Glasgow, "read-
ing books of an entertaining kind does not diminish
the zeal of the prisoners for reading of a serious cha-
racter." At Edinburgh, Miss Frazer says, " I liked
reading aloud to the prisoners. They all enjoyed it un-
commonly. Many a time have I kept perfect order amongst
the class, consisting of about sixty, by the promise of
reading to them in the afternoon. They were so fond
of really interesting matter, that I have frequently
read a book twice through at their request."rhe
Governor gives it as his opinion that a prison library
should "contain many entertaining works."

While the industrious labourers have no
amusement of an evening, while the Magistrates
have shut up public walks, and almost put an
end to sports, felons have books of entertain-
ment and amusement provided for ilium at the
public expense, and lady governesses and teachers
read to them. instruction is " given to all the
pri:soners in the simplest and most direct form."
In several instances " a good .:seful handwriting
has been acguired in a period from two to six
months." " The instruction is carried. beyond
• reading and writing." Persons who are sent to
prison are thus placed in a better situation for
learning than many thousands of those who are
,not sent within the walls. One little girl says,
" I was once in the House of Refuge. I learnt
my letters there. My father Came and took me
away. I have learnt to hem and sew here. I
like working, and I like to learn to read'."
" They learn weaving, sewing, and other useful
kinds of labour." All that is most commend-
able; but the condition of the industrious classes
in receipt e 45., Gs., or 7s. a-week wages does
not enable them to provide that education for
their children which is properly given in gaols.
Let it not be said that there are great and good
gentlemen and ladies who establish schools for
the children of the poor; to accept that compels
them to come under an obligation to those whom
they probably dislike. They ought to be able
by the fruits of their own honest industry to
command a good education for their offspring.
Connected with this subject the Report con-
tains a striking evidence of the falling off in the
rewards of labour. "The amount," it says, "of clear
earnings last year was little more than 2/. per
head, whereas four years ago the clear earnings
were nearly 61. per head, and seven years ago
when trade was very good, the earnings were
nearly 8/. per head, though the prisoners are
inure industrious at the present time than ever."
Such was the falling off in the value of prison
labour, and such, or soniething like it, must
have been the falling off in the reward of labour
exercisea out of prisons. Need we wonder at
the existence of distress.

Clothing is of the cheapest and most desirable
kind. It is either of homespun or moleskin. But
at Stranraer " they are to have additional winter
clothing." In Linlithgow " Guernsey frocks and
flannel drawers arc to be provided for the pri-
soners in winter," and " additional clothing is to
be obtained for the female prisoners." To show
how well they are to be attended to, we may re-
mark that it is said of Edinburgh, " there has
been much irregularity in supplying clean stock-
ings to the female prisoners." All that indicates
only due and proper care of the prisoners ; but
how many thousand suffering, hardworking la-
bourers in England will have no additional cloth-
ing for the winter, and neither Guernsey frocks
for themselves, nor flannels for their wives and
little ones?

All the prisons, instead of being built in
low, flat, swampy places,surrounded with ditches
filled with putrid matter, are placed in general
on high and commanding, and certainly healthy,
sites, The floors are carefully laid, not made of
trodden earth, through which the springs force
their way up. The buildings are carefully venti-
late?. and warmed, and we find one gaol of which
it is said that an ARNOTT'S stove was put up in
every corridor, because there was no other
convenient means of heating it. The poor will
shiver in their dwellings with little or no firing.
The prisoners have exercise and airing yards.
Compared to the cottages and hovels of the in-
dustrious poor the gao]s are as much superior in
cleanliness, comfort, and warmth, as they are su-
perior in external appearance, and they arc fre-
quently so grand that they lock more like
palaces than gaols.
Now we turn to the moral condition of the pri-
soners, many of whom, we are told, are so well
" aware of the moral advantages of their present
position, that they often state voluntarily that
their imprisonment has been a fortunate thing
for them." r,
" They leave the prison," it is said,
"in a better state of mind and feelinr, than when
they entered it." " Great care is taken to provide
suitable situations for prisoners on their libera-
tion." The Governor of Glasgow
prison
EBNER, a man who does honour tohtinla' Mr.
nitl-,
Bu
lu i
the last three years advanced small
sus s duringofmoney to assist persons on their libera-
tion from prison to establish themselves; and out
of fifty cases there were oul two instances in

which he lost a single penny." It seems that
persons in power and authority look on the pri-
soners as having a claim on them, and they do
that for them which is not done for independent
and honest labourers. Mr. BREBNER has fifty
voluntary prisoners in his gaol, not forty, as
the Report incorrectly states—and " the num-
ber of applications has been much greater
since trade became so bad." A married
woman, who committed a trifling crime, that
she might be sent to gaol, because she did not
know how otherwise to get in, says, " this is a
blessed place ; I never knew there was such a
place for a poor wretched woman, and if the Go-
vernor will let me, I will stay after my sentence
is over." " The Governor is a blessed man,"
says another : " he is more like a father than a
maister. lam determined to stay here after my
sentence is over, if the maister will allow me."
" I intend," says another, " to stay a voluntary
prisoner, if Mr. BREBNER will let me, till times
are better." "Itis a fact," says the Report of
the Edinburgh Prison, " that the scant fare and
poor accommodation of a prison is luxury itself
compared to the wretchedness endured by many
of them (juvenile offenders) when out of it. A
poor child, not quite eight years old, had been
committed to prison, accused of child stripping. I
was hearing her repeat her lesson, and asked her
if she wished for any thing? when she eagerly
said, I wish my little brother was here ;
and on being asked why, she replied, because
he would get some porridge!" Can we need any
further evidence that, morally and physically, a
gaol is a better place than the homes of many
of the industrious and honest poor?

We earnestly wish that those who have the
management of our affairs would study this Re-
port, and in studying it, ask themselves " what
have we done for behoof of the toiling millions?"
It may be gratifying to them perhaps to observe
that a wonderful improvement has been made in
prisons in Scotland, which, from having been
some of the worst, are now some of the best or-
dered of the empire; but can it be equally gra-
tifying to be convinced that as the condition of
felons has improved, the condition of the work-
ing classes has grown worse ? Under their aus-
pices gaols have become comfortable, and homes
desolate places. Vice is rewarded and honesty
suffers. The felon is well taken care of; the toil-
ing labourer starves. So pleasant is the account
which Mr. HILL gives of the order in gaols—of
the honesty which there grows up—of the at-
tachment which arises between a kindly
Governor and those who never befbre knew
what kindness, was—that a feeling of regret
stole through our mind as we read it
that the whole society could not be placed
in gaols and under prison discipline. Such a feel-
ing convinced us, however, that there must be
something fundamentally wrong in society,when
gaol life appears better than freedom, and when
men, women, and children, must commit crimes
to improve their condition. It can be no satis-
faction, at least it ought not to be, to those who
have bad the management of our affairs, to see
this terrible result of legislation,. which since
ISIS, has been exclusively and assiduously di-
rected to our internal economy.

We rejoice to see that the farmers and land-
lords are recovering their spirits. At the dinner
of the East Sussex Agricultural Association at
Lewes on Friday last, Mr. DAR ;Y consoled his
suffering and desponding constituents by such
language as the following:—
The fact was that an attempt was made to get up a
panic in the country ; and the attempt had succeeded.
If they looked at the newspaper reports, they should
take care not to be cheated by them. Let them look at
the actual quantity of meat that was imported, and see
how long it would last for London consumption. Let
them also look to the differences in the prices, and then
look to•the consumption of the country. Look to the
sales at Smithfield per week, and compare them with
the true quantity of meat imported,, and ask them-
selves what effect the importation could have. "Don't,"
said Mr. Darby, " be cheated out of your beasts."
The chances, he thought, were that the importation
of cattle would not increase. The panic was got up
to enable dealers to buy cheap ; and he (Mr. D.)
wrote down from London that if the farmers sold
their beasts for a less price than what they were
worth independently of the tariff, they were doing
wrong. The number of beasts imported was 4;800
in the kvhole ; and this could not affect the prices to
the extent of the fill. With respect to the salt beef,
suppose it came in, it was quite as likely to affect the
price of Dutch butter and cheese as beef.—(Hear,
hear.) Till . the cattle were imported in sufficient
quantities to affect the prices, what he said was—
" Don't, by your own acts, knock down the price fbr
your own stock." Ile did not want meat up so high
as last year ; because, whenever this took place, a re-
action was certain to follow. if the price did get up
to ss. a stone, and foreign meat came in, and brought
the price down to 4s. 6d., be did not object to the com-
petition.

At the same meeting Mr. ELLMAN said—
" His own feeling was, that if they could retain
the present Corn-laws and Tariff, there was no-
thing to prevent them from going on well, pro-
vided they were fairly treated by their land-
lords, and were not frightened out of their
senses." It is only necessary for them to re-
cover their wits, and inspire the landlords with a
little virtue, to be a most successful race. They
declare they are no longer afraid. Nay, some of
them begin to invite competition ; and at one
meeting it was declared that England would yet
become an exporting country of agricultural, as
of manufacturing produce.
Wonderful, indeed, are the effects of the com-
petition to which the Tariff has exposed the
landed interest. The fall of prices has made
them think of what is likely to be their lot.
They must struggle to live, and they are encou-
raging one another to renewed exertions. They
arc promising us improved breeds of cattle, great
systems of under-draining, a better mode of let-
ting land, new crops, better tillage, and to culti-
vate all England like the Lothians. If alittle
competition have already had such a beneficial
influence, what would be the effect of extending
it? For our parts, we have long been of opinion,
and have more than once said, that were trade
free, England would export considerable quan-
tities of agricultural produce; but to dream of
becoming an exporting country while a law is
maintained to keep prices here higher than
abroad—to enhance the cost of agricultural pro-
duce—to raise rent and lower profit—is a most
absurd dream. Abolish the Corn-law, grow
corn cheap in England, and the skill of English
farmers will, we have no doubt, defy the world.

HEAL'Fir OF LORD lIELBOURNE.—Last night, on
an inquiry at the house of the Noble Lord, in South-
street, Grosvenor-square, the following bulletin was
obtained of the improved state of health of his Lordship :
" His Lordship has passed a very favourable night,
and is doing z.s well as can be expected under the
late severe attack." Several carriages belonging to
noble individuals were in the neighbourhood, and for
several hours previous a great many families had left
their cards at the town residence of the Noble Viscount.