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We thought not when the bridal wreath
Of faithful love was bound,
How soon its Sowers relentless death
Would scatter on the ground I
• Wts thought not when the hopes of Life
Around her fairest anad.
And with fond arms the happy Wife
Embraced her new-born Mad !
And all a :Mother's first sweet joy
Suffused her eyes with tears,
As she beheld her lovely Sop,
And thought of future years!
That even then, with ruthless power,
&ern Death his dart had &Med ;
And. 'midst the raptures of that boor,
This gentle victim claint'd!
Alas! that all the ties which Love
Could wind around the heart,
The dearest best that earth e'er wove
Shoeld thus be rent apart!
list thus Ott fairest hopes we form
On earth's frail joys alone
Are crusted by every pude; slmph
And wither'd and o'erthentaisi
And thus, amidst our degas* girlie.''
To each the thought mess esdis—os
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" This world was not her Meer
Reydoo ileum, Suffolk, Sept. 1•27. ,

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.
The Seventh Report of the Corinsihee of the Society for the Im-
provement of Prison Discipline, and for the Reformation of
Juvenile armlets.

DITTONSHIRIL.....ZZATIMA COUNTY GAOL—MAT 1826.
It is highly satisfactory to state that this prison is now
undergoing very considerable alterations, and several
additional buildings are in progress. By these im•
provements the former limited means of classification
will be materially extended, so as to embrace the several
divisions required by the gaol act.. About ten addi-
tional day rooms will be provided in the new erections,
With a separate court to each. Work rooms are to be
attached to several of the divisions A distinct building,
Containing the wash house, laundry, kitchen, matron.
room, and work rooms for the females, will be placed
In the rear. A commodious infirmary is also to be
erected, to contain separate wards and courts for males
end females. In the old part several additional cells are
to be formed ; and a central passage of comsndnication

fs ibteuded to be made round the governor's house,
which will afford the officers considerable facility of
access to the various departments, and will also admit
of inspection offer the four principal courts next the
Centre : but the other courts, which are placed round
the external parts of the prison, can only be ii 'peered
from a surrounding passage, through an iron railed
enclosure, except by • passing through the respective

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buildings.
It is apprehended that the new buildings in the rear
will encroach too much on the open space which should
be allotted to the courts, and so as to interfere with the,
general health of the prison, by excluding a proper cir-i
•culation of air through the interior.
A matron has been appointed with a salary of £6Ol
per annum.
At Michaelmas 1825 there were 104 prisoners in the

gaol : the greatest number at one time in the year was
'164; and 414 persons had been in confinement during
period.
The number of prisoners comniired to the gaol and
ihonte of correction fur the last two yews was as follows
In 1824. In 1825.
. . . 285 • . 328
588 . . 488
540 . . 538

.mms is.

• 1211 1152
---The gaol, with the house of correction adjoining, (the
latter being a separate prison) has been placed underthe
cmanagemeht of one keeper, an arrangement which must
occasion very arduous and responsible duties, to be
'properly firlfilled by.est, individual ; some years since,
when the prisnnerystatit not so numerous as at present,
there were two keepers.
At Michaelmas 1825 three insane persons were in
leoa6netnent ; one committed in March 1815, one corn.
.lekted in Ncvembcr 1822, and one committed in June
1824.

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!TY HOUSE OF CORRECTION, MAT 1826.

'This prison consists of three distinct radiating wings,
with a central house for the Governor, from which
there is inspection into the six intermediate airing-
courts. In four of these courts tread-wheels have been
erected, at which the prisoners wink under inspection.
'lt is intended to provide two addition yards, by a divi,
'aims of the courts in front. The present wing buildingi
extend to within 12 or 14 &et of the boundary wall, soll
that it does not appear praCticable to add to the. length
these buildings. This circumstance is to 6e regretted, l,
' on account of the great want of additional accommo.
.dation in separate cells as stated in former Reports.--r
There are now only 72 sleeping•cells ; but the number
•of prisoners often exceeds 200. In 1824 the grates
'slumber at one time was 238; and is 182.5, it emanated
t 0.2415. Dining the year 1824, 945 prisoners were coru-
witted ; and in the year 1825 the committals were 868
• • A plot olgtound in the rear, which ie used by pii-,
toners workiag at stone-cutting, polishing, &c. might'
-probably be appropriated to theextension of the buildings.
The prisoners in the House of Correction receive the
• same allowance of food as those in gaol. The ration
for each prisoner costs about fourpence per day. Those
.•iiiho are employed in the stone-yard receive one-fourth
of their earning, and those who work at the tread-
- wheel receive a halfpenny per day each. The women
are employed in Mashing and mending the linen, &c.
for which they each receive threepence a week ; a fe-
male turnkey is appointed to this department.
At Michaelmas 1825 there were four insane persons
in confinement; one committed in January 1809, tao
committed In 1819, and one committed in 1820.
CITIODADL AND BRIDENVELL, JANUARY 1826. _

The tiaitification of the prisoners has bt en recently
extended, and there are now four classes for males, and
four classes for female prisoners, and two classes for
debtors. The seclusion of the male diri,inns is yet,
however, but very itgartsp!ete 'in consequence of the
11_1u:even surface of the Around on which the prison it

namik, the prisoners being able with the greatest ease to
'•lttifiverse with and see each other horn their day-room
L
#eps. To present this evil, which deprive: the prison
of advantage of classification, it is hoped that the
'Magistrates will direct the radiating wells of the airing-
yard s so be raised ; this can be done with no known,-
nience as to airiness or security;—it being requisite to
raise that part only of the walls which abuts on the
buildings. to aciroinplith the object.
The aught-alls are well constructed, with the excep-
tion that a small aperture is requited at the ceiling