Star.
London, England, 1816-06-26 00:00:00

THE NEW PENITENTIARY HOUSE.

The quadrangle of the Penitentiary House on Mill-
bank is completed. The Governor, with the Task-
masters and Mistresses, etc. have taken possession of
their apartments ; and this week the prisoners from
the different gaols will be removed thither, The
rooms in which the convicts will reside are very com-
fortable for individuals who have forfeited their claim
to remain at large; they are about twelve feet by six,
lofty, with an arch, and glazed window, iron bed-
stead, table, and stool. The whole. of them are
warmed by means of flues placed in the passages,
and proper measures are adopted to ensure regular
ventilation. The rooms all look towards the centre
of a circle (which is divided by brick-walls into
court-yards, for exercise), where the principal Task.
master resides, and commands a complete view of all
that is doing. A Chapel is also erecting, which,
when the whole is completed, will form the centre of
'the building. Women are to act as turnkeys to the
female prisoners, and all communication with the
male convicts will be entirely prevented.

It is not, we believe, generally known, that M. &ix
JAUIN Di CONSTANT, who is at once the Author and
the Hero of the charming Tale entitled " Adelaide,"
is the same person who some time since made so con-
spicuous a figure in the political world as the intimate
friend of the celebrated Madame Da STASI. This

circumstance has given rise to much discussion in cer-
tain circles relative to the character of " Elinore."

Box MOT.—Two gentlemen, whose Waterloo me.
dals sheaved them to be military, having been intro.
`dined to each other at a party, a few nights ago, one
of them said to the other—g 4 I ihink, Sg, I had the
pleasure of meeting you last summer at the Duke of
Richmond's ball, at Brossels."--,, No, Sir," said he,
I had not the honour of being at his Grace's ball;
but we probably met about that time, at Napoleon's
rasa row, as I see we were loth there I"
By the last accounts from the Brazils, we leans
that a very serious commotion had taken place among
the Negro Slaves at Bahia, where, collecting in con-
siderable numbers, they burnt four estates. The
Duke Dos Ancos, Governor of the Province, at
length quelled the tumult by calling out the military,
but several lives were lost. These commotions in the
Brazils are by no means unfrequent ; another not
long age occurred in Pernambuco. when the Slaves
debated 500 regulars. Still the Slave Trade is there
carrying on with greater vigour than ever, though
such an accumnlauon of dangerous elements must
eventually produce serious consequences. It is to the
general state of disaffection prevailing among the '
Portuguese Slaves that the large importation of troops
from Lisbon is now attributed.
Yesterday morning, as Mr. Wurrcuuatn, a Clerk
to Mr. CALVILIAT, an Oporto merchant, was going
down one of the gateways leading to the quays, he
was jammed against the wall by a cart which was
coming up at the time, and bad both his arms broke,
and was otherwise very much bruised.
This is the age of real and useful discovery.—ln no
'branch is it more displayed than in the treatment of
that destructive disease which is the bane of youth
and sensual enjoyment. To such success is the prac-
tice (in the worst forms of it,) now brought at that
respectable institution, the Lock and Surgical Dis.

, peisary, under the direction of Mr. Klanglx, of the
) Loyal College of Surgeons, Loudon, Lower Char.
r lotte-street. Bedtord4qoare, that upwarcitof one Imm—
o dyed cases of Stricter% besides Debility sad other
. Affections of the Generative Organs were radically
it .01M by ebo laic report of the 'inanition. An impor,.
aboaro . :sat mechanical • venient has been grade by the
. 'experienced Sir of. the Institution. whir& rendere 1
F the cure of • .861ottre pardtthfir ecigesfali
sod speedy.
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