The New York herald., 1845-10-16

condition OF convcts and the poor of England and
argues that the latter driven to crime by the Sc
we're operation OF the poor law and he might have
added, by the combined influence of the Corn and
Game Laws. With regard to the pauper and the con-
vict, we showed about fortnight ago that the latter
Is much better fed than the former, even in tins
country but in Australia the convict actually fares
sumptuousy, while his work is by no means labo-
rious The Hobart Io,on advertiser thus places the
| matter In Juxta-positlon-
pAuPEK CONVICT.
A man guilty OF poverty, man convicted of bur-
the most objectionable Of glary highway robbery,
ience to the British Senate, any other crime trans
is incarcerated in modern portable offence is sent to
Baste subject to the great Van Diemans Land fed and
est hardshps and receives kept in dleness period
for seven days the follow Of probation, ard then
ing food, viz = found master who treats
I pints otmeal porrdge. him kindly pays him wages
do pea soup at the rate of 3s. Cd. per
do broth. week and gives him in ad.
Alb Ia OF bread. dition for food for that Pc
OF bacon and OF boil rod the following articles,
ed Dect WIZ
Id potatoes. lbs meat
lb suet pudding lOJ lbs bread
This ration is reduced when OF sugar
not AT hard work. or roasted wheat.
81 OF salt.
Look at this picture and on is."-The amount
of dietary addition, be il remembered TO "a 6d
a week, with occasional scraps of food, and an all
lowance OF beer from his master or mistress and
frequently from good natured servant The very
announcement OF the fact is sufficient to induce a
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS laborer, with half bellyfu
OF food, to commence sheep steaer or turn poacher
with the view OF getting sent abroad. We are told
OF the horrors OF transportation in the penal set
Elements, but even there, the convict is by far better
fed than the peasant, who scarcely knows the taste
OF animal food, and the pauper in the workhouse is
III the same plight For own parts we have
long since ceased to wonder at the increase of crime
IN this country; Tor when reflect upon the fact
that SO rchi man as theDDuke of buckingham
thinks Us week sufficient allowance for a man
with wife and family to subsist upon; and that
many inferior landlords pay even less wages than 9s
week, the cause OF lncendlarism, poaching rob-
berry, and infanticlde, is at traced to its only
true source. Then, again, the treatment OF the
poor IN other respects, Is sufficient to induce the
utmost contempt Tor our legislators, and those who
administer the laws Take the following as a sam
pie AT the Buckingham Petty Sessions on Satur-
day, before two parsons, the Revs. A. Baynes and
W Andrews, Thomas Stokes, laborer, Of Barton
m hs Gna nos appear 70 MS summons to
mere, a game keeper to the Duke of Buckingham
charging him with having, the 7th instant, been
with gun IN pursuit OF game. in the parish Of Bar
ton Hartshorn. Joseph Neale and John Savin, two
lockers out for the Duke OF Buckingham, were call
ed to prove the offence, and the charge was gone
into In Stokes absence From the statements of
the witnesses, it appeared that at about the middle
OF the day in question they were on the lock out,
and saw Stokes, In company with another man
against whom proceedings have been commenced
cross a stubble field and meadow, with gun
between them. They had not dog or stick, or any
thing else besides the gun, which carried across
one field and the other across the other field. They
did not fire, nor did they start any game but one of
the persons said to the other any had flew up we
snouid nave mad cut at them" The witness said,
after the above two persons had left some tme they
heard gun fired four tlmesat distance, which gun
they supposed was fired by Stokes and his compa-
mon: but they did not see them fire, nor did they
know that 1t was they The Magistrates consider
ed the offence proved. They inquired if Stokes had
been previously convicted, and was informed that
he had not. In consequence of this, the Magis-
trates said the fine would be mitgated. They order
ndS fnGa fny r. - O. a
teen days, and in default months Imprisonment
IN Aylesbury Jail Ii may be urged that the fact of
Stokes's non-attendance proof of his guilt =
(He was seen carrying gum But surely it would
Reverend Magistrates had waited little and issued
second summons. Without imputing falsehood
TO the lnforiners, we maintain that they ought, if
possible, to have been confronted with Stokes with
the view OF ellcltng whether his accusers acted
from malice. Altogether, agricultural population
are most cruelty treated; and when driven to despe-
ration by bad laws, they become reckless and des-
Perate ana seek an asylum IN foreign land, though
It be at the expense OF transportation The excellent
treatment OF convicts sent to Van Dieman's Land,
actually offers a premium to our bone -gnawng and
oifal.eatlng peasantry to csmmit crime, and must
disaouse all pre.conceived notions othe "horrors Of
II we except our very penal settle
ments at Port Arthur and Macquarrie Harbor, where
none but the vilest of the vle the feculents and the
scum OF society, are sent.-London Despatch, Sept
81.
COtton Opln1On OF n War with America.
From the Liverpool Chronicle
But after all 1t would be the very wantonness of
folly and pugnaciy for two such countries as Eng
land and the United States to waste their strength
and energies and means in fighting about distant,
bleak, and barren country, which an amicable ar
could so divide between them as to find
ample room and to spare for all the settlers whom
they can send INTO 1t tor generations to come But
we will not anticipate that the troubled spirits of the
Polkites Will be able to drive their more sober mind
ed countrymen into any such extreme madness A
war between England and the United States would
be the greatest calamity which could afilic the civil
zed world Although under different forms of 90.
vernment, they are the two guardians of freedoms
yet IN store Tor all mankind and it would be feast
10 the despots OF the earth 10 see Them weakening
ana tearing each other to pieces in mad and sense
less hostIlities IL must not be- We are only not |
because we English, but next to the |
prosperity and welfare Of eur own country our as
plratlons and wishes are for the happiness OF our |
oretnren IN tne United States. They are OF the |
same race, the same blood, and the same language. |
1t savors OF ratrcde for two countries so related to
each other 10 talk OF drawing the sword under al |
most any provocation
Foreign ThcatricaIs.
III. LEOPOLD De MEYER.-M Leopold dc
Meyer was born at Vienna on The 10th
,t december, lSi6. He is OF noble descent,
md hls family Of high rank, and was, at time,
possessed OF power and aflluence. His father was
state counsellor and knight at the Austrian court
Ills brother Johan de Meyer, formerly held the rank
,i court physician at Constantnople TO Abdul Med
'chid, late sultan OF Turkey, and is now court ply
'cian to the rcignlng prince of Waachia and also
me OF the most celebrated geologisls Of his day
AZ an early age he was sent to the University of
Vienna, where he prosecuted his studies until his
eveneenth year, being educated for the legal pro-
essoh, ana lelt tne University at the close OF that
'ear having completed his studies. Bred up with
ugh expectations, and educated in the lap of luxury
md ease, he was ilprepared to meet the sudden