Star.
London, England, 1829-08-15 00:00:00

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AUGUST' 15.
AT T3/4'lo O'CLOCK.
India Beads 58 57
South ►►ea Stock
Old Annuities
New ditto
3 per Cent. 1751,
.11000 Slaw". 1111., 73 74
.1500 Ditto 73 74
.1100 and Mix) Ditto 75 75
Consols for Ant. 881 * 71 1 1
. TWO K
Pettis. &b. 5 per Ct. 43
Do. Acct. 431
Raw. Bds. 1842, 5 p C. 1001 99j
Do. Amt. 1001
Span. Bds. 1845.5 p. C. 8j

SATURDAY,
?MICR OF STOCKS
Bulb seek
3 per Cent. Red. 89 8/
3 pee Ct. Cain. Pe 1 71 •
31 per Cent. 1818,
31 per Cent. Red. 981 8
• per Ct. New, 104$ I
4 pet Cent. 1822, 1051 6
Long Ann. 20 1-18 19 15-16
India Stock, 2241
FORKIGN FUNIIS
Brazilian Bib. a p SS 7611
Do. Acct. Sti 711
Do. 8da.1829, 571
Cam. Bds. 1824, IS
Danish lids. 3 p Ct. 88.71
Do. Amt. 881 8
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARKS, TWO O'CLOCK.

SWAM PAID.
!Indian 35 20 --
Ditto National 25 Ti 101
Previa:lel Bank of Ireland 100 •25 20j

It appears that a plan was some time since submitted to
Ministers, for converting the extensive war-prisons on
Dartmoor forest into gaols for domestic offenders. Ex-
periment is aboUt to be made of the plan upon a small
scale, and we think sonic advantages may be derived
from it : much, however, must depend upon the system
of management and regulation which may be adopted in
such an establishment. Proofs of the alarming increase
of juvenile delinquency were laid before' the Gaol CURS-
mitten of the Corporation of London, by Sir THOMAS
TERRWHITT, as also the conviction at which Parlia-
ment had arrived, that some receptacle at a distance from
the Metropolis was peculiarly desirable for the reclama-
tion of this description of criminals. Metropolitan com-
mittals, it has been found, inspire comparatively but
little terror, and hardly interrupt the connexion be-
tween the imprisoned culprit, ' and his accomplices
who remain at liberty. So systematic has become
the confederacy, and so complete the !organisation of
the depraved classes in the Calfital, that nothing
short of their removal to most, 'distant prisons can
sever the links of their close communion, and frustrate
the new plans of perpetration against society, which are
often hatched in the very gaols. The Governors of New-
gate and the Compter bore striking testimony to this
secret intelligence, and the little interruption which im-
prisonment in London offers to it. Distant deportation,
they had no doubt, would diminish the evil, but under
the existing system, it was impossible—they said—to
prevent communication between the depredators its con-
finement, and the depredators at large. The appropr►-
ation, therefore, of the vast buildings on Dartmoor to this
important object, would be in every way desirable. During
the war, they have been tenanted sometimes by as many
as 11,000 persons, and the prisoners of each nation were
lodged in compartments distinct from each other. They
offer, therefore, all that facility for classification which
the construction of our metropolitan prisons denies ;
and their extreme remoteness from the scenes of
their early depravity, and vicious connexions, renders
them in every view fitter for the incarceration of un-
hardened criminals, and the experiments of corrective
justice.
On the tremendous increase of crime since 1806—
the first year of regularly recorded committals in
Great Britain—we will at an early opportunity ex-
press our sentiments. The evil is, indeed, deplorable ;
but it is the CAUSE—not the effect—to which it will be
our anxiety to direct attention. The crisis is arrived,

when this country must choose between regeneration and
ruin : there are some noble spirits yet left, to do the
work of her redemption—but they must seize the axe
with courage, and lay it directly to the root.
It will be seen, by the extract of a letter from Madrid
in another column, that Spain is actively at work,
to establish the Inquisition and the Jesuits in
Portugal. There is no doubt whatever of the
authenticity and accuracy of the statement : indeed,
we grieve to say that the influence of Spain is not now
confined to the Peninsula, but operates in a wider circle,
to the obstruction—if not extirpation—of all constitu-
tional freedom. That there is a horrible understanding to
this effect between the Spanish Minister at lisbon
and the Noble Earl in Downing-street, we do now for-
mally and sorrowfully announce ; and we feel it our
dtity to prepare the public mind for some painful—and
almost imaiediate--revealings.

we are just informed that it half-past one this day, all
was bustle and confusion on 'Change, and in the market.
There war a sudden panic. and a fall in the Consols.—
Great anxiety wernismifested to discover the cause ; when
it length it was attnlauntol to the fact that the Gloucester
ship of the line has been putinto commission for foreign

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