Lloyds Illustrated London Newspaper (Newspaper) - January 1, 1843, London, Middlesex THIS PAPER IS PUBLISHED EARLY ON CONTAINING THE LATEST INTELLIGENCE AN EDITION FOB CIRCULATION MAY BE HAD ON PRISON AND ITS And be it That after the passing of this no Prisoner in the Queens Prison shall be allowed to send for 01 to have any or OTHER or to send or use any or OTHER except such as shall be allowed to be brought by them respectively under such Kule to be made in the manner directed by this as may be reasonable and to prevent extravagance and and for enforcing due order and discipline within the 5th TO THE EDITOR LLOYDS ILLUSTRATED LONDON had intended resume the subject opened to me by the new act for i consolidating the Queens and Mar for REGULATING the Queens and to have dwelt at some length upon the restrictions contemplated by the 18th clause of that most oppressive of a most and and paternal but that there seems to be such a positive in coming on the part of the Bight Honourable Home Secretary in his new and most unenviable capacity of Head Jailor of the Queens with one trifling I hare positively no new restriction to complain Is Sir James at sus of the feelings of a gentleman does he therefore hesi tate at being made the hangman of his party old masters would scarcely have run him so hard and if they he could as have thrown aside the and sought a new I have no personal feeling against Sir James may for aught I as a as faithful to his party as Judas was to his master and as regards as in point of as wife but Sir James Graham is not exactly the man whom I should select as a guide in the path of political consistency and now that he has secured the keys of the Queens Prison in his breeches I have no great reliance upon his per sonal I may err in this but such is my present feeling and the Right Honourable Baronet if asked before will admit that I am not an unreasonable But to the I intended to have addressed your readers upon the subject of the new restrictions which were to accompany the high walls and lofty palings that are now intersecting the area of the QUEENS mind the revolutionary title her Loyal Law botchers have given to the respectable old j Kings Bench There is something in association after and anything sounds better than the Queens We think of Mary of Antoinette of and a host of other whenever the clangs upon our Pray ad vise Sir the to get the sign of his house He should not call it the for Bench Rooks without Pigeons would have nought to pluck and I find he is about to turn all the Pigeons out My memory is not the most retentive as to names so much the better for Sir but I think that in some account I have read of the Bastile at a prisoner had progressively for years familiarized himself with a which at a certain time would crawl down to imbibe nourishment from his and by its realization of active existence in its wayward and incom prehensible at length awakened the dormant remem and fed the yet lingering hopes of social I if I am that the officer in charge of the having observed a marked improvement in the mind and bearing of his and discovered the and having done rejoiced that the gloomy monotony of a dungeon could be so innocently re and left his prisoner to the Not Sir James so the Secretary of State of our present Conservative Government Sir James has discovered that some two or three of the Inmates of the Queens Prison have relieved the monotony of their dreary hours by rearing like the captive of the Bastile with his have succeeded in taming making them the means of filling up some hiatus of which might otherwise be occupied by tortured It is enough for this aristocratic that Pigeons have been domiciled within the walls of his new Territory and the Decree has issued that the Pigeons must be disposed of or I cannot give Sir James Gra the and Head the mere merit of even courage in this for he has not issued this his first pitiful regulation but has meanly ensconced himself behind the um screen of the Woods and backed by the Mar shal of the establishment to while he gave sanction to the fol lowing wretched attempt in the way of to better men than his fathers own son The Marshal has received intimation from the Board of Works that it U contrary to their for any person residing in any of the under their to keep and complaining of several persons keeping Pigeons within the The Marshal therefore desires that all persons Pigeons within the Prison will immediately dispose of THOMAS I pray you mark the studied tone of this Grahamite Marshal has been instructed by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to say so and and therefore the Marshal who is the Keeper of the Queens James the Commissioners of the Woods and or the Keeper of the three is to be held responsible for or or If the Woods and Forests have power to interfere for the expatriation of the why not of the prisoners also they can regulate live stock of one why not of another they can turn out the why not turn out the the and the have authority to inter fere the Keeper of the prison and the scanty comforts of its why dont they go the whole and get Edgington to shut out the sun by stretching a tarpaulin from wall to that the and physical darkness they would introduce may be I find that it will be upon some future to address your readers upon the subject of these restrictions in under the Clause of the Queens Prison They shall not escape my notice when the Graham has courage to divulge them in the I would respectfully suggest to that his first as to the discussion of all the maybe carried out literally and great many are domi in his new seat of who have been so well that they would scarcely have a feather to fly with but to such he could open the and they might walk As for the rooks and there are some of those birds in his they could to occupy his new and amuse the In I would observe that in this country it has hitherto been supposed that until an existing law is abrogated by sanction o the that law is and must be Our Criminal Code inflicts the punishment of death for certain and hard and transportation for others one while those laws remain no authority recognized by the Constitution is warranted in passing a sentence contrary to their in the case of civil certain enactments have commanded the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and Mar to commit defaulters to their respective Have those Acts of Parliament been repealed Certainly How then is ii that the power of those functionaries has been wrested from their and the gates of their own prisons shut against their lawful judgments The only answer that I can must be grounded upon inference the 22d of the 5 has passed a drowsy and therefore everything else relating to the subject must be I beg to observe that as we donl hang people upon neither should the liberty of the subject be made a childs to be restricted or as the caprice of a Secretary of State may be pleased to If I am correct in the Constitutional view I have the 5 is a or rather because it is an active mischief j and if the promised of my Lord Cottenham does nol early in the next session erase it from the statute some second fumble of legal technicalities and centralizing monstrosity must be licked into to hide its deformity and its December FOREIGN The principal subject for comment in the Paris papers is still tUe recent for the reappointment of a Privy a measure of the journals disapprove of though many are raised as to its and to the manner in which it has carried into by instead of in the first instance through the The Courrier expresses its approbation of the measure in but objects to its keen first formed by royal observing that this very will probably lend to its In his point of view the Courrier regards the ordonnance of the December as a for it resembles a usurpation of that usurpation committed ou the eve of the meeting of the The National continues its objection to the which it styles immoral and and blames the tion which has been given to the measure by many of the liberal The states that the first creation of privy councillors will be limited to It The plan to be adopted by the Government at the opening of the legislative session of the Chambers does not appear to be yet decided Many reports are in circulation on the but the most general opinion appears to be that there will be no speech from the Count de the Prefect of the presented on Sa turday to the Chamber of Commerce of Paris an his administration during the year After enumerating the and that were either opened or improved in the course of the he described the immense works undertaken for ameliorating the navigation of the and for supplying Paris with were ex pended since in constructing and placing the fountains that now distribute the water of the canal and of throughout alt the quarters of the Independently of the Artesian well of ever since Its furnished litres of perfectly limpid water in 24 Tbe religious edifices had likewise been an object of special solicitude with tba and large sums had been applied to the construction of new and to the repairing of the The Municipal Council hud granted two addi tional temples to the the one in Roe C and the other at and a new synagogue was to be for the The primary schools of which in were only 67 in are now and the pupils exceed The publishes a return of the imports of France during the month of November from which it will be seen notwithstanding the recent in the tariff the in of foreign threads into was still very The quantity imported in that month amounted to kilogrammes that of to to We have been aays the that negotiations are nor between France and the German Customs Union for the purpose of obtaining mutual reductions in the We were the first to encourage tue French Government to adopt that conciliatory course and we should be happy to see a dose union of interest formed between France anil the principal states of The Havre ou the authority of Parisian that the Cabinet had at last come to an rela tive to the Sugar which is to be presented to the Chambers at the opening of the They it agreed to tUe plan of allow ing a compensation to the manufacturers of domestic and ing altogether that branch of The measure was said to have been carried in the Council by a Martin du and Villemain having been the only two The Petersburg Gazelle specifically contradicted all the reports disse in France as to French prisoners been detained in and only lately made their way back into own This has been brought forth by the accounts given in the French journals of the return of a man named Simon Mayer to the department of the The intelligence from brought by the Marseilles is of the 90th The and the Duke dAumale were ope on the on the Lower and were to remain out the subscription opened for erecting a bronze statue of the Duke of on the of on the Tlie Paris papers with much that the King of Sardi nia had conferred nn de the Consul of France at and Commander of the French naval the cross of Mau as a testimony of His satisfaction with their conduct towards Sardinian and the services which limy rendered to them during the bombardment of that TUe Gazette states notwithstanding the reports to the con the negotiations for a commercial union between France and Bel were and the French in order to obvi ate the objections made by the European had proposed that the existing French tariff should be maintained or years to that the same tariff should be adopted by and that the protection of ther should be confided to Belgian Customhouse The following telegraphic dispatch was received by the French Govern ment on Saturday General the new arrived at Barcelona ou the General Van Halen was to leave on the 2Snd with the A delay of eight days has granted for the payment of the The foreign in the one of Great have offered a banquet to the consul of and to the commandant and staff of the French municipal elections were proceeding and the authorities were following up the disarmament of the inhabitants with the utmost It was reported in order to prevent any connivance be tween Barcelona and other a similar measure was to be enforced at The Constitutional contains the fol lowing OP OF THB DAT OP THE 17TH The generals and officers comprised in the following bulletin follows a recital of 17 names are amenable to Article 1 of the of the 5th consequently the orders the publication of their names la the general orders of the in order that all and every one may well know that if they ba cognizant of the place of refuge of any of those generals and and do not give notice thereof to the authori if they conceal such place of refuge or they will incur ther penalty of decreed by Article 4 of the said A letter from of the adds relative to affairs in that city Two which were to precede the Regent on his return to and another which was to be quartered along the were to set out next Tbe Regent himself was to leave on the asd or confirms the ariest of Gilbert for having held an electoral The disarming is far from being notwithstanding the threats of the It Is supposed that stand of arms were in possession of the and not more than 13400 or have been given notwithstanding the strength of the the generate are still and strong bodies of men patrol by day and by and other towns are to be disarmed like Barce The fallowing account Seville is given by the Itie dated III the of yesterday an extraordinary courier for he of the battalions 1 and 3 of the national guard of This measure took place immediately in the greatest commenced and will be terminated this It is generally thought here that the remaining talions will be measure would give great satisfaction to the at the national Seville are in a state of tion and disorder which cannot any Innger be The judicial in into the circumstance or the late disturbance is proceeding and it is asserted that warrants have been issued for the arrest of several There Is nt this moment the greatest nothing a probability that it will be again Three companies of regular troops arrived here and others are report of an intended dissolution uf the Cortes is The Espectador informs that supreme tribunal of which had beers Accounts from Alexandria of the states that the mortality among the cattle itill and that it was calculated that upwards of oxen hatf already The Pasha and his son experienced the greatest difficulty in plough ing and towing the and were obliged to employ for that their owa of the cavalry and and a number of Mehemet AH on that earned a named Sheh to be decapitated for neg lect of and treated with similar rigour several of his who had not attended to his OB the ah belong mg to the garrison of was removed to the Lazaretto of where he soon died of Three other soldiers of the regiment having like wise been taken were placed in and were sent to to inquire into nature of their The sanatory were enforced with extreme The officers of the Lazaretto and being ordered to remain constantly at their and not communicate the the latter hud all their The Russian Sanatory Commission tent from under the direction of still at They intended to try the experiment of purifying goods and due by means of Pestiferous articles were to be exposed in rooms or to different degrees of after remaining there a certain they were to be placed ou individuals in order to if this had beec effective in destroying the The it intended to ask Mehemet on his to allow the commissioners to mate the expe riment on some capital A rich coalmine had been discovered nea UNITED THE PRESIDENTS The Captain arrived at Liverpool on Sun day in 15 days from New York she experienced very rough weather on the and brings 17 cabin with the Presi dents which was delivered to Congress on the 8th and was carried by express to New York in nine hours and seventeen The commencement of the document is highly gratulatory in a and forms a bright contrast to what such an exposition must have conveyed had it been delivered on this side of the TO THB SENATE AND HOUSE OP OF THB UNITED We have continued reason to express our profound gratitude to the Dreat Creator of all things for numberless benefits conferred upon us as a Blessed with genial the husbandman has his garners filled with and the necessaries of not to speak of its luxuries abound in every While in some other nations steady and in labourers can hardly find the means of the greatest evil which we have to encounter is a of production beyond the home which and with difficulty a partial market in other The health of the with partial has for the past year been well preserved under their free and wise insti the United States are rapidly advancing towards the consum mation of the high destiny which an overruling Providence seems to have marked out for Exempt from domestic and at peace with the we are lett free to consult as to the best means of and advancing the happiness of the Such are the circumstances under which you DOW assemble in your respective and which should lead us to unite in praise and thanksgiving to that great wno made and who preserves us as a I congratulate on the happy change in the aspect Of our foreign affairs since my last annual Causes of at that time existed between the United States and Great which attended by irritating threatened seriously the The difficulty of adjusting amicably the questions at issue between the two countries was in no small degree augmented by the lapte of time since they had their The opinions entertained by the executive on several of the leading topics in dispute were frankly set forth in the mes sage at the opening of your late The question of pesce the United Slates and Great Britain is a question of not only to but io the civilized possible that a war could exist between them without ng the peace of The immediate effect of treaty ourselves will be felt in the security afforded to mercantile v tu no longer apprehensive of adventures its speculations the most distant sea and freighted with the diversified of every returns to bless our There is nothing la the treaty in the slightest compromises the honour or dignity of either Neat to the settlement ef toe boundary always
