The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-19 00:00:00

Upoi the ninth charge, which is so indefinite, and the con-
cluding query, so completely a matter for the solemn expres-
ion of your opinions, I shall say but few words. •
You know the governor's habits and manners; you have
had before you, in committee, so many instances of his jea-
lousy concerning the chaplain's office ; so many proofs, in
evidence, of his family's interfering with matters with which
they had no right to intermeddle, that really it would be
miraculous, even if ruling the prison in the usual open man-
ner of fair dealing between man and man, I could have avoid-
ed collision with him. But if you take into consideration
his office, as proved in evidence, to have been conducted on
that, to my mind, most objectionable principle of espionage,
you will acknowledge, that were I an angel from heaven,
perfect tranquility could not be preserved for any length of
time. I forbear, from motives you will appreciate, to refer
to proceedings going on hand in hand with those now holding

on ray case.
On several occasions I have been in collision with the go-
vernor, and so would any other man of feeling and of educa-
tiO► have been. I will endeavour, from memory, to recapi •

de a complaint, soon after the inspector's last visit

f cruelty, connected,

not think- my cpmplairt at that tim

Spect -thedungt-niis,-welf fiiiiriiied; —and tliereforg repri=
mancled me. The latter part of the inquiry, so, far as I have
heard, was never inquired into. This was in November,
1838. Soon after you returned me your thanks for bringing
to light an instance of oppression against a prisoner. The
following is the copy of a letter addressed by me to the visit-
ing magistrates, 31st August, 1838:—" The chaplain has_ to
report to the *magistrates that he has this morning been re-
fused permission to visit a boy, confined in a dark cell. He
will feel obliged by the magistrates deciding whether, under
any circumstances, the chaplain can be kept from visiting any
prisoner."—This matter was inquired into, and set upon a
proper basis, it being fully explained that no such power was
vested in the governor. Then 'followed the case of a turnkey,
whom you discharged, on my complaint, for strikifig a boy.
Then followed a dispute about the psalmody,'of which you
must be aware I ought always to have had the direction.
Afterwards, on the occasion of the governor reprimanding
me, and that most uncourteously, in presence of his clerk,
you obliged him to apologise to me. The resolution entered
thus reads on ythir minutes : .

" The committee is of opinion that, upon the governor's
own admission, he made use of expressions towards the
chaplain which were improper, and such as ought to be ex-
plained ; and that the conduct of the chaplain in the affair
was correct." This minute is dated August 6th. 1839.
On a subsequent occasion, on the governor refusing' me the
use of the incident book, you reprimanded him ; and lastly,
for keeping the transports from chapel, and treating me con-
temptuously, through his turnkey, you- entered a reproof
against him in your journal, beating date August 4, 1840,
thus expressed :

" The chaplain having stated on his journal, that he came
to the prison on the afternoon of Sunday last, intending to
address the convicts under sentence of transportation; who
were to be taken to the hulks on Tuesday next, and prepared
to do so ; he found they were not in chapel, the exact tint
'of service being thought by the governor most suitable for
them to write letters to their friends ; and the chaplain and
the governor having been heard by the committee, and the
governor having admitted that, when Thomas Spurr, the
turnkey, delivered to him the message from the chaplain
'respecting the convicts, he had threatened to dismiss him if
he at all interfered with any orders relating to the convicts.
" Resolved,—That it is the opinion of the committee that
such want of courtesy to the chaplain is calculated to weaken
the respect which all the officers of the gaol ought to have
for the chaplain."
: Now, gentlemen, so far as I can remember, these are all
the collisions which have occurred between the governor and
me since February, 1838, in most of which you coincided
with me. Is it then fair to condemn me because the gover-
nor has not known how to conduct himself towards the chap-
lain of your prison ?
As to the turnkeys, with one or two exceptions, I do in
my conscience believe you could not more severely distress
them (though their feelings being aroused on one point by
the presence of the inspector, I can get no support from them
at this moment) than by your dishonouring me by an adverse
verdict. They know me to he their friend ; they know well
that, far from having disputes with me, when they have been
at variance with the governor, (from his fickle disposition a
common concurrence,) I have always been applied to as the
peacemaker.

I will repeat what I have already said, that during the last
eighteen months there has been comparative peace in the
prison, as much peace as circumstances could have warranted
any reasonable man in expecting, from the close contact of
such materials as the officers of your prison, and I now speak
of them from the highest to the lowest, of course including
.myself.

The government inspector has seriously called•you to con-
sider whether the conduct of the chaplain has tended to
union amongst the officers of the prison, thence leading you
to the conclusion that his remaining in office is not for the
good of the public service. Now, let me ask you, if there
has been a want of union, whether that ought not rather to
be ascribed to that under plot, that undermining conduct.
which has characterised the government of the borough
prison, ratter than to any thing the chaplain has done, or
could have avoided. Papers, deeply affecting the character
of a minister of Christ, were, at the governor's order, pre-
pared by turnkeys, from memory, from impressions after
hearing a particular discourse, and this at a time when the
governor was at variance with the chaplain. He did not
dare to produce them at the time when they could have been
fully replied to. The governor shews the chaplain an entry
in his journal of dubious wording—l should rather say, that
might media anything or nothing,—tells him it means one
thing—tells the justices at the time that it had no meaning—
and sustains their reprimand without wincing. And now,
many months having elapsed, he tells you on oah it had two
Meanings. On the one hand he meant to call upon you for
a declaration of your intentions as to prison discipline, your
privateiustructions to him as to visitors being at variance with
your public orders; and on the other hand he meant to-con-
vey an imputation against me, although my name does not
occur in the entry in his journal, nor any one word.from
which it might be inferred that I was pointed at.
During the intervals two or three instances of discourteous
conduct towards the chaplain are reproved by you. Your
chaplain, not knowing the under plot, receives the daughter
of his enemy into the bosom of his own family—at Mr.
Batcheldor's request, agrees to take charge of his prison as
his deputy. This person, who tells the justices that the
chaplain was the only officer of the prison in whom he could
place confidence, and against whom he was retaining secret
written charges, a week afterwards produces papers deeply
affecting the character of the man he had all along under the
guise of friendship been evidently intending to represent as
having fomented rebellion in the prison.
Yqu will learn, I am persuaded with pain and indignation,
that the most underhand proceedings have been resorted to,
for the purpose of bringing evidence against me. Even cha-
rity' has been made the medium for inducing accusations.
An individual meeting with two prisoners just discharged,
after one had made known his poverty, gave a shilling, to
relieve present necessity ; and then, the moment after this
gift, coolly inquired, " What kind of a man is the chaplain ?
Can you give any information as to irregularities on the part
of the chaplain ?"
Oehd,ignegns.tlemen! my soul sickens at the
thought of such proce
I have answered the charges preferred against me, in a
way which will, I trust, have met your approbation. That
I am innocent—that I have been defamed—that my feelings
have been greatly outraged, I believe the Inspector of Pri-
sons will now think ; and, unless 1 be greatly deceived, he
will be of the first to confess, though some of my remarks
may have been painful to him, that he had taken an errone-
ous view of my character.

* After this evidence, who can justly accuse Dr. Buck of
sectarianism ?
•
t These were all 'school girls.

Those institutions are ostensibly for the benefit of mutes,
let them be so in deed, and in truth, let them be homes for
mutes, where the industry of those received, will bring a rich
revenue into the institution, where the mute girls that are
destitute may be able to find a secure refuge from 'an evil
world, and the mute boys remain if they please, at their re-
spective trades taught them there, being paid for their work
after they have served an apprenticeship, trades being taught
in the institution, it would be easy to ascertain what one, a
boy would be most likely to excel in. Embroidery on muslin
cannot be well taught to the blind, the mute girls could easily
learn it, and it would be most profitable. Constituted as
those institutions are 'at present, they merely commence a
good work, without carrying out on a large scale any prac-
tical temporal good result to the poor mutes afterwards.
• The children of the poor sent to the different institutions
and paid for by charitable persons, are charged at one insti-
tution, thirteen pounds per annum, and at the end of three
years they must be removed, some, if dull, little the better
for the sum expended; now it is well known where the facul-
ties are even perfect, that dull men are often found to make

most excellent tradesmen—good shoe Makers—good joiners—
good tailors, if trades were taught as well as letters, why the
dull mute might come out a good tradesman, letting the in-
stitution reap the full benefit of his work during his appren-
ticeship, and after, if he chose to remain there, to be paid

what remuneration the institution might think fit to give.
Much interest lately has been drawn to Deaf and Dumb

table institutions in an enlarged sense at present, they give
comfortable and affluent homes to the masters and their
fafailies, and those-eonnectenvith the institutions, but they
give not a permanent home to one destitute mute, all are paid
for who enter them, they arc merely schools, the teachers,
&c. reaping all the pecuniary benefit. Let the Liverpool In-
stitution be the first to set the example of receiving mutes,
for the purpose of giving them trades, and a permanent
home, as well as education, and it will reap a large reward.
• If the plan faintly sketched in the foregoing is carried out,
there is not the slightest question but the institution would
become equally as prosperous as that for the Blind •, parents
would be delighted to secure a safe home for their poor
children, as well as employment.
It may be said that the blind are far more numerous than
mutes, comparatively I grant; still, however, mutes are very
numerous, and it would not be long before the institution
would be filled; any expense that would be incurred would
only be in the first instance, in paying persons to instruct in.
trades, and the funds of the institution would in a very short
time be increased much by the labour of the mutes, and
with that increase its capability of more extensive usefulness.
I earnestly beg those clergymen who have preached in aid
of the Liverpool Institution lately, to gi,ie their attention to
what has been most humbly suggested here, and improve on
the faint outline drawn out.

As yet those institutions are but in their infancy.
On the continent a benevolent individual has lately esta-
blished printing works, the labour of which is entirely done
by mutes.

• Trusting sincerely that this letter may have the effect of
calling forth active exertion on the part of those whose wish
it is to promote, as far aA human means can do, the happi-
ness here and hereafter, of the poor mute.—l am, sir, most
faithfully yours, W. I.

THE COURT,

WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and
the Duchess of Kent, were prevented, by the inclemency of
the weather, from taking their accustomed airing.
His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge and the
Earl of Erroll took their departure from the castle this
morning.

Col. Cowper, equerry to her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, arrived at the castle this afternoon.
The following personages will be included in the royal din-
ner party this evening :—Her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Kent, the Duchess of Bedford, Prince Esterhazy, Viscount
and Viscountess Palmerston, Viscount Duncannon, Viscount
Melbourne, Lord Alfred Paget, Lady Fanny Cowper, Lady
Fanny Howard, the Hon. Misses Pitt and Paget, Earl Tin-
gal, Hon. C. A. Murray, Colonel Bouverie, Admiral Sir R.
Otway, Capt. Seymour, Earl of Uxbridge, and the Ladies
Eleanora and Constance Paget, and Baroness Lebzen.
FRIDAY.—This afternoon his Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert drove her Majesty out in a pony phaeton, and passed
through the town of Windsor. Lord Alfred Paget and
Colonel Bouverie attended her Majesty and the prince on
horseback.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent has not taken
her usual airing to-day.

His Highness Prince Esterhazy took his departure from
the castle this morning, as did also Viscount and Viscountess
Palmerston, Lady Fanny Cowper, Viscount Duncannon, and
Colonel Cowper.

The following personages will be included in the royal din-
ner party this evening :—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, the Duchess of Bedford, Earl 'Fingal, Lord Alfred
Paget, Lady Fanny Howard, Hon. Misses. Pitt and Paget,
Admiral Sir R. Otway, Hon. C. A. Murray, Col. Bouvcrie,
Captain Seymour, Mr. and the Hon. G. E. Anson, and
Baroness Lehzen. •

JOURNAL OF THE MONEY MARKET,

THURSDAY EVENING.—The funds show ratherbetter to-
day, which may be attributed to the existence of a demand
for stock, and the expectation of a continued demand to-
morrow, which is the settlement and opening day fur Con-
sols. The Bank broker was the seller of stock to the amount
of 30 or £40,000 ; but it must not be taken from this that
the sates were for account for the Bank, as might be generally
supposed ; for the Bank broker, like others of the craft, does
business, of course, for all respectable clients and connec-
tions. The brokers were mainly occupied to-day in the ad-
justment of " puts and calls," and preparations for the set-
tlement to-morrow. Consols left off 893 to for this ac-
count and money, and for the February account 894. Bank
Stock advanced to 165 to 7. India Stock 249 to 25L Ex-
chequer Bills 9s. to lls. premium'
FRIDAY EVENING.—The settlement of the account in the
Home Market has been a fortunate day for the speculators
for the rise, as the demand for stock raised the prices of Con-
sols to 891 to for money, and 90 to -A. for account. The
fluctuations during the account now ended have ranged be-
tween something like about 874 and 894, which, of course,
involves a considerable proportion of differences to be liqui-
dated. These differences have not, however, been of any
serious aggregate amount to individual jobbers, as, of course,
in the regular way of business, they are in the habit of " stop-
ping a loss," or changing their accounts, on any decisive ma-
nifestation of a change in prices. Exchequer Bills were Bs.
to 10s. prernimn. Bank Stock advanced to 167 to 8.
The Foreign Market remains without any particular Varia-
tion. Spanish Active with the Coupons were 21 to /. Por-
tuguese Five per Cents 31/ to 24 ; the Three per Cents 19/
to 20,1, Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 50i1 to I ; the
Five per Cents 98A to 9. Belgian 971 to 83. Brazilian 70
to Pi. Mexican 28,1 to /. Colombian 233 to I.

London and Birmingham Shares Were 82- to 4 ;
.Great
Western 29 to 31; the Half Shares 14 to 15 ; Gosport 7 to
8 premium. South Western 58 to 9 per share. North Mid-
kind 21 to 19 ; Brighton 64- to 6; Blackwall 4 to 3?i discount
New North Midland Shares 1 discount to par.

A ridiculous story is going the round of the papers, stating
that his Royal Highness Prince Albert took a fancy to tht
fifty guinea horse of a gentleman in Hyde Park, and ulti-
mately purchased it for 1,000 guineas!—London paper.

APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—We under-
stand the marriage of the Hon. Miss Spring Rice, daughter
of Lord Monteagle, and maid of honour to her Majesty the
Queen, and Mr. J. G. Marshall, will be solemnised in the
course of the ensuing month.

We feet much pleasure in laying before our readers some
particulars of an experiment recently made by Mr. Badcock,
chemist, of St. James's-street. Mr. B. has inoculated E
fine young cow of bis own with small-pox ; with the lymph
from the animal.he has vaccinated his own child ; and from
that child he is now supplying the medical men of Brighton
with pure fresh lymph, such as was used formerly by the
justly celebrated Dr.•Jenner.—Brighton Gazette.