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London, England, 1826-10-18 00:00:00

KINGSTON SESSIONS, Oct. 17.

'The Rev. Mr. MANN, the Chaplain of the County
Prison in Horsemoager-lane, reported the state of the
prisoners under his spiritual charge. It described, that
prior to July last, he had every hope that the exertions
that had be-w made to improve their minds by education
would have been attended with very beneficial advan-
tages; but that since that time, the observations he had,
made, induced an opinion, that the favourable results he
had anticipated would not be realized.
Mr. BRISCOZ said, he was altogether incapable of
accounting for the change which had taken place in the
mind of the Rev. Mr. Mann, as it was totally at variance
with his former Reports. He was himself firmly per-
suaded, that to give instruction to the prisoner, was the
way most calculated to retrieve him from the paths of
'viciousness. The worthy Chaplain had said, that before
July last the attempts that had been made to improve,
the moral characters of those in confinement, had been'
attended with happy consequences ; and why, therefore,
he would ask, if the same system had been followed,
was not the same result to be expected ? Without mean-
ing to convey the slightest censure on the Rev. Mr.'
Mann, he should move that the Report be referred back
to the visiting Magistrates, to see if any obstacle existed
in the adoption of the course of instruction cyclered to
be used in the Prison, and if any, to see if the same,
Could be removed.

Sir TIioNIAS TURTON could not see that the Report
'was at vat ',ince with those formeily made. He always
held the opinion that a gaol was not the place to give
tducation to a felon. To give the prisoners moral and
'religious instruction would be rendering them a service,
but to force education upon them by constraint, was
more likely to be mischievous than good. He would
oppose the motion.
Ur. RANDAb JACKSON seconded the motion.

The Rev. Mr. COURTNEY was decidedly inclined to
think that no good would result by an attempt to edu-
cate prisoners, from the short time they were in con-
finement. He other wise wished that every man in the
kingdom could read and write.
HENRY DRUMMOND, Esq. the High Sheriff of the
County, was not an advocate for education in prisons,
except as to► their moral and religious in,truction, and
irny education that had not these points in view was a
detriment to the State, and to the man who possessed it.
Mr. Suratiatt could nut avoid conceiving that the
proposed motion was conveying an indirect censure on
the Chaplain, which he was fully convinced he (the
Rev. Mr. Mann) did riot deserve, as the course of in-
struction ordered to be adopted in the Prison had, to
his knowledge, never been varied. His own belief was,
that no good would ever be derived by teaching pri-
toners to read and write. Moral and religious instruc-
tion aas all they required, and was the belt education
they could receive.

Mr. PALLMICR thought the motion was totally useless,
insomuch as the Act of Parliament which related to
the instruction of pi isoners gave the visiting Magistrates
the same authority to inquire into every point relerred
to in the Re, rt, as fully as if a special motion had been
made on the subject.

The motion, after sume further discussion between Mr. Denimn,
Mr. Briscoe, and others, was put and negatived by a majority of
about seven.

A mc mot ;al was presented on behalf of many of the
iallabitants cf Kennington and Vauxhall, complaining
that for many years past they had been inconvenienced
by Vauxhall Gardens being kept open at unreasonably
late hours; that the most indecent behaviour was in•
Bulged in, in the public roads, and thrit the language
and conduct of many who frequented the Gardens was
of the worst description. Indeed, so great had the evil
grown, th,t it was beyond the power of the police and
magis:racy to subdue it, and outrages of the most vio
lent nature mere committed, without there being any
means of detecting them; and these again were in-
creased by the crowds that collected to see the fire-
wor ks go off after the hour of midnight. Another evil
was, that it kept all the public houses in that neigh-
bourhood open during the greater part of the night, and
tl e most d rring violations of tl:e peace were committed.
The housekeepers were also greatly annoyed by the
excessive noise of the fire-works, and they not untie—
Trendy endangered the safety of buildings in the neigh.
br;urhood by the body of fire which often fell upon',
them. The memorialists were not desirous of imposing I
11 vexatious or unnecessary restraint on public amuse-
talents, but merely desired the preservation of the peace,
and t!:e protection of property. It was proper to ob-
serve, that a man could be seen from the high road,,
dancing on a Tr pe amid the fireoworks; and this, added
to the show of a balloon ascending from the Gardens
on several nccarions, brought crowds of people in the
neighbourlvod, mho remained there, making a tumult
and disorder for the remainder of the night.
Mr. JACKSON said, that he believed the Magistrates
had nothing to do st ith a part of the memorial ; he
knew not that tl:ey had any jurisdiction over the fire-
work,; and it would be unseemly for them to know
that such things were. There was, however, an Act of
Parliament under which the patties who complained
Might probably obtain relief ; and as to any noise, if it
existed to the extent of being a nuisance, they might
apply to a (limner from which they might assuredly
obtain redress. He did not know that they (the Ma.
gistrates) had authority to grant all that was required,
but he thoughtit right that the Bench should let the
complainants know that they had a remedy.

Mr. Summit said, it would be better to reserve discussion till to-
morrow (this day), when the licence was applied for.
Mr. Scants+ hoped the memorial would make a due impression
on the Court, and that every member would attend and deliver his
opinion when the licence was asked for. He was the last to at-
tempt to put down this kind of amusement, but he thought It might
be much qualified.—The memorial was then received.

When a person takes up his freedom in the town of
Abiwick, he is obliged by the charter of that place to
jump into an adjacent bog, and sink.up to his chin.—
This custom was imposed by King John, who, travelling
that laity, and his horse sinking fast in the hole, took
this method to punish the people of the town for not
keeping the road in better order.
Among the projects which the trench Ministers have
in contemplation for the ensuing Session, is one upon
the Game Laws. It is said, that the duty upon a licence
to carry arms will be raised to 1(1l)fr. it is now but 30.
The right of sporting will be confines' to estate owners
possessing a certain numbbr of acres; Sporting will be
entirely interdicted in the vicinity of forests, plantations,
and enclosures, where the Royal Hunt takes place.
A married woman, named Mary Mann, the wife of a
labourer at Itochford, was committed to Essex gaol on
Friday, charged on the Coroner's Inquest with the wil-
ful murder of her own child, which, shortly after her
delivery.

LAW REPORT.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Om 17.
THE SOLICITOR (ANIMAL.

A Few minutes after the Lord C•iief Justice took his
seat, Mr. Tindal, accompanied by Mr. Scarlett, entered
the Court. when the Lord Chief Justice, addressing him,
said :—" Mr. Tindal, his Majesty having been pleased
to appoint you his Snlicitor.General, yon will take your
place within the Bar."
Mr. Tindal took his seat accordingly-.
OLITHWA4TE V. WILSON.

This was an action in-trover brought by the assignees
of a bankrupt, named Payne, lately carrying op busi-
ness at Stdmouth in Devon, to recover from the defend-
ant, the proprietor of Carpenter Smith's Wharf, a quan-
tity of gozds, formerly the property of the bankrupt,
and detained under the following circumstances:
The bankrupt carried on the business of a linen-
draper at Sidmouth, and held a similar establishment at
Lyme. In 1824, the bankrupt being in embarrassed
circumstances, was under the necessity of quitting Sid-
mouth. Previous to his departure he transferred his
stock to a brother, who was a minor. He some time
after engaged with a tradesman at Lyme, named Leo-
nard, to purchase his stock for 3001. Payne then went
to London, but finding Leonard's acceptances not ne-
gociable, returned to Lyme, and took possession again
of his stock. He transmitted the same to the defendant's
what f, to await his order. Leonard becoming a bank-
rupt, his assignees considered themselves entitled to the
stock which Payne had transferred, and they instructed
Payne to hold the same for them. Payne was then made
a bankrupt, and his assignees brought an action against
the defendant to recover the goods.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintif.
TH A VIES IN N.—MA RODEN 9. WA ITHM AN AND ANOTHER.

This was an action of trespass to try whether Thavies
Inq is extra parochial. The declaration set forth, that
on the Sin of January, 1825, the defendants entered a
dwelling-house in Thavies Inn, and there took and dis-
trained certain articles of furniture of the value of 71.
and wrongfully detained the same until the plaintiff
consented to pay cettain rates.
The defendants pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. GURNEY stated, that the action was brought by
a tespectable inhabitant of Thavies Inn, Holborn, for
the purpose of trying the validity of certain rates made
on the above Inn. The plaintiff would prove that it had
been many years occupied by persons following the law,
and at all times considered extra parochial. An at-
tempt had been made on the part of the pas ish to rate
the inhabitant% and the defendants having, as Magis-
trates of the City of London, signed the warrant. under
which a distress was levied, the plaintiff had brought
his action.

Mr. SCARLE/T, on the fart of the Parish Officers, admitted the
trespass, and undertook to prove the lan was liable to pay the
rates in dispute.
The Learned Counsel addressed the Jury. The only
questiOn he said wa•, whether it was extra parochial?
and tie should she* it bad been rated from the earliest
period. A former trial of the same question had taken
place, but another inquiry being deemed nt cessary, this
cause came again before the Court, with additional evi-
dence. It would appear that a great part of the property
of the kingdom had been released from the payment of
some of the rates, enumerated in the statute of Elizabeth,
but no one had ever contended that the sAme was extra
parochial. The It gal documents to prove a place extra
parochial, wet e first, proof that the place in question pad
tithes to the King. In the next place, by tke st.itrite of
King William, in all places extra parochial, there must
be two assessors appointed. His Loatned Friend would
hive to prove, in answer to the defendants' case, that
tithes were paid, and that two assessors had been ap-
pointed. The Inn had been rated to the paiish from
the time of the statute of Queen Elizabeth, down to
1786. It had been considered in the parish as early as
the reign of Edward the Third. In the will of a re-
spectable citizen of L -ndon, named Thaive, to w!iom
the Inn originally belonged, it was described as being
on the south side of Holborn, a:id in the parish of Sr.
Andrew's. In succeeding conveyances, it had always
been described as a part of the said parish. Having got
into the hands of the Bencliers of Lincoln's Inn, it was
sold by them again, and conveyed by Lord Mansfield,
their trustee, as being in the palish of St. Andrew. It
had, in shot t, been so long liable to tams, that nothing
hut an Act of Parliament could make it extra parochial.
The Learned Counsel t'is-at produced a deal of docu•
mentary evidence, as well as living testimony, to prove
the Inn had been rated ; but it was admitted, that since
1776, no parochial rate of any kind had been paid by
the inhabitants of the Inn.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE left the Jury to say, whe-
ther it was made out to their satisfaction that naives
Inn, not oaly stood in the parish of St. Andrew, Hal-
horn, hut that it had been made liable to rates. His
Lordship observed, that the circumstance of theie
having been no rate paid since 1776, notwithstanding
so many new houses had been erected, was proot they
had no right to rate.
• Ths Jury found a verdict fur the plaintiff—Damages £4 Ios. 6d.
The Inn, by the declaim'. is not liable to be rated.

Among the first acts of the SPEA KER of the House of
Commons, will be his issuing new Writs for Members,
to s.tve in Parliatnent, for those places where seats have
become vacant since the General Election.
• MANCHESTER, OCT• 14.--There has not been so
much animation in the market this seek, either for
goods or yarns, as for two or three weeks past; partly,
perhaps, owing to the little softening of the cotton mar-
ket; partly owing to the circumstance that the fall
shipments to Russia are neatly over; and partly to the
advance, in particular species of goods, having induced
buyers to suspend operations. We do not hear, how-
ever, of atty actual reduction in prices having been sub-
mitted to ; nor is our opinion of the healthful condition
of trade shaken.

The husband and family of the itinerant show-woman
whose death was occasioned by eating lino holesome
salmon at Wallingford fair, have all been seriously ill.
A woman named Nichols, of Benson, has died from the
same cause; and a man named Wheeler, of that place,
has not yet been able to resume his labour. Beer is sup-
posed to have been the medium in which the doctoring
substance was added to the salmon.—Reading► Mercury
Should we be favoured with a short period of dry
weather, the present will prove as fine a wheat seed-
time as this country ever had. The heavy rains came
just is time, and suitable to all lands, by compressing
the soil, and making it in a firm state to receive the
seed, instead of a hollow one, (unfavourable to wheat),
in which it was left by the hot summer.
In Sweden it is no uncommon thing to see the men
employed in knitting stockings, while the women may
be seen spinning wool, weaving, heating the oven, and
teaching the children to read, all at the same time.