Star.
London, England, 1825-03-10 00:00:00

SPORTDIG INTELLIGENCE,
PEDESTRIANISM.

Mr. P. Parker, of New Cross, failed yesterday, near Brom er
in his undertaking, for 100 sovereigns, to go. on foot 70 mike per
day, for six days. Yesterday was tbetfth day, when be only per.
formed 40 miles.

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PRISON DISCIPLINE.

The Sixth Report of the Committee of the Society
for the Improvement of Prison. Discipline has just been
published, it contains a great body of information on
the state of Prisons in Great Britain, the Continent,
and North and South America. At 'resent we haw
only room for the following extract
le Before the Committee proceed to give anemone
of the progress of Prison Discipline, during the pay:-
year, they beg to advert to an erroneous notion which rr
prevalent, that notwithstanding the efforts making for
the moral'and religious welfare of society, crime con•
tinues to increase. The Committee are happy to state,
that this opinion ,is not founded on fact. An official
Return has been laid before Parliament,* from which it
appeals that the number of offenders, committed for
trial, was considerably augmented from the year 1816
to the year 1819; but this increase was c.nly propor-
tionate to what might have been anticipated from the
numbers who were thrown out of employment, in con-
sequence of the termination of-the late war. In 1819,
however, the progress of crime attained its height;
and it is gratifying to find that since that period, the
number of persons committed for trial has been gra:
dually declining; in some districts, indeed, in a much
greater proportion than was its previous increase 4
In London and Middlesex only, the number convicted
in the year 1823, is not only less than that in any of
the preceding six years, but is nearly on a par with the
return of 1816—the year previous to that in which the
increase commenced.—lt is also worthy of remark that,.
generally speaking, the offences have been:of ales: guilty
character than those of the former period. Besides, the
I number of commitments has been of late considerably
augmented by other causes, viz. the increased vigilance
of the police—the operation of certain statutes tur the
more ready apprehension of offenders, and the im-
proved discipline of prisons, by which many are the
more readily disposed to prosecute, convinced of the
efficacy of salutary punishment.—From alive causes,
many crimes now appear before the public, wltich were
formerly concealed, and suffered to pass unnoticed.
Notwithstanding, therefore, that the number of com-
mitments in the year 1823 is nearly the same as that in
1816, it is not unreasonable to infer that crime is di-
minishing; a fact which cannot be too generally made
known, as affording encouragement and animation to
the friends of human improvement.*

• Vide Appendix, page SOIL

fi England and Wales. 1819. 1 1820.

1821.1 1322.

11125.

Number of Committals .
• . . . Convictions.
▪ . . . Acquittals .
No Bills found and I
not prosecuted 5
Sentenced to Death .
Skimmed

14,254 13,710
9510 9318
2635 2511
2109 1881
1314 1236
186 107

13,115 12,441
8788 8209
2501 2348
1826 1684
1134 10161
1141. 931

19.165
84
1579
969
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The Bill for the further tepeal of certainatties of the
Assessed Taxes, and for granting relief in the cases
therein mentioned, as amended by the Committee, is
printed. The repeal on Assessments is to take place
from and after the sth Aptil next. The clauses parti-
cularly describe the relief to be afforded in taking the
assessments for the time during which houses ate actu-
ally occupied, and not for the Collectors' year, though
the houses may have been occupied only a quarter.

' The Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Sloomsbury
and South Panieras Atailiary Bible Society was held on
Tuesday,_ at. the Freemasons' Tavern In the Report
which was read to the Meeting, the total amount of
subscriptions last year was stated to be 5101.195. 11d,
and the distribution of Biblei and Testaments 584, viz.
189$ Bibles,..and 191 Testaments. The sum that had
been paid *pao the Parent Society was 4051. making in
all, during the, twelve years' existence of this Auxiliary
11,2011. lii. I Id. The number of free subscribers 598
and thatsof book subscribers 575, making in all 1,173,
being 219.1e5s than last year. The Report then alluded
to the,proceedings that had taken place at the Vatican,
and in Constantinople, and concluded by expressing a
arm conviction that, in spite of these attempts, the
'cause on the Bible Societies would continue to triumph.
The first stone of a new, church was ,laid at Little
Hampton, on Monday, by R. WATKINS, Esq. as proxy
for the Duke of NORFOLK. Mr. WATKINS made a neat
address on the occasion, and a prayer was offered by the
Rev. A. P. KELLY, Vicar of the Parish.

BIRTH&

March 7, at Blackheath, the Lady of Capt. S. Beadle, of a son.
Monday, at his house in Hill-street, the Lady of Wm. Stout,
Esq. M.P. of a son and heir.

MARRIED.
Monday, at St. George's Church. Hanover-square, the Rev.
Moss King, to Elizabeth Margaret, daughter of she Rev. Lathuna
Coddingtoa, of Tinian Glebe, county of Kildare.

DIED.

On the sth of March, at Trilby, after a lingering illness, in the
42d year of his age, Francis Manners Sutton, Esq. late Lieutenant-
Colonel in the Guards.

On the 7th inst. at hi• honse in

Fitzroy.square,.

Joan Young, Esq. Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty. and
Keeper of the British Institution.
At her house, in Dean-street, Soho, Lady Bell, relict of Sir Tho.
mu Bell, Knt.
March 4, at Haresfield, the Rev. Thomas Budge, B.D. Arch-
deacon of 'Gloucester and Chancellor of Hereford.
' Jan. 3, in Jamaica, Major Roderick Mackenzie, of his Majesty's
77th Regiment, aged 41.
Saturday, aged a 7; Mr. William Pettigrew, many years surgeon
in Fleet-street.

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