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Ecdesiasticul Promotions. 



[March 1, 



called vipon to attend the funeral of Sir 

 George Paul, who lias departed this life in 

 the 75th year of his age, within a few miles 

 of me, at bis house at Rodborough, in Glou- 

 cestershire. It is a triljute justly due to the 

 memory of this very active and useful magis- 

 trate, and which ought uot to ba withlield 

 by one wlio is commenting upon the efl'ects 

 of his labours, to say, that to him this 

 Country owes more, in regard to the im- 

 provemencs of its prisons, than to au)' other 

 man, except Mr. Howard, with whom he was 

 personally acquainted, and whose plans it 

 was the object of his life to carry into efl'ecl. 

 Under the instructions of Sir George Paul, 

 were prepared the designs of the several 

 prisons of this count}', (the county of Glou- 

 cester:) and the buildings ihemselves were 

 erected under his personal inspection and 

 superintendence, with great attention to 

 economy, though necessarily at an expense, 

 which for a time brought his popularity in 

 the county into h;izard ; for he made himself 

 responsible for the propriety of every direc- 

 tion given, an:l every charge incurred. He 

 settled every contract, and Icept, with great 

 labour, all the books and accounts cuiniee'.ed 

 with every branch of the expenditure; of 

 which, when the works were completed, he 

 laid a detailed statement before the public. 

 He also drew up rules and regulations for the 

 management of these several prisons, and 

 nttended wiih unremitting perseverance to 

 the execution of them, until he saw his sys- 

 tem in full operation. His prisons and his 

 rules, like all first attempts, must be suscep- 

 tible of improvement ; but we have no gre.it 

 reason to boast of our progress in prison dis- 

 cipline during a period of near thirty years, 

 which has elapsed since the prison at Glou- 

 cester was opened for the reception of 

 offenders ; nor has the legislature passed an 

 Act of much importance, with reference to 

 the regulation of prisons, since the 31 Geo. 3. 

 cap. 46, in which the principal provisions of 

 the Gloucestershire Act were framed into 

 a public law, for the benefit of the kingdom 

 at large, at the instance of Sir George Paul. 

 He entertained the soundest views of prison 

 policy, and was particularly anxious to pre- 

 serve the distinction between the different 

 kinds of places of confinement. It was in 

 compliance with his recommendation, that 

 the justices of this county desisted fiom the 

 jiractice, which still prevails elsewhere, of 

 sending persons charged with felony to 

 Houses of Correction. His opinion upon 



all points, connected with prisons, would 

 probably have been more generally rea'ived, 

 if his xealhnd been less ardent, and he bad 

 condescended to a greater degree of con- 

 ciliation ; but he was loo impatient of oppo- 

 sition from those, who were less c-onversant 

 with the matter under deliberation tljan him- 

 self.''^ We give place to the above, though 

 we enter our own protest against systems 

 of Prison Discipline, better adapted to ma- 

 chines than men, and calcul.ited to hardeu 

 instead of reproving by kindness. It is a 

 system better adapted to a despotic than a 

 constitutional goverumci't. 



ECCLE.SIASTICAL PROMOTION.S. 



Rev. A. Crigan, to the valuable rectory 

 of Marston, Yorkshire. 



Rev. J. Willis, to the perpetual curacy of 

 Wilberfoss, Yorkshire. 



Key. C.Goddard, archdeacon of Lincoln, 

 to the rectory of St. James, Garlick-Hithc, 

 London. 



Rev. H.Glossop, to the valuable vicar- 

 age of Isleworth. 



Rev. H. S. J. Bullcn, to hold by dispen- 

 sation the living of Wrestlingworth, Bed. 

 fordshire, with that of Duuton,Bucking-- 

 hamshire. 



Rev. S. Parkins, to the vicarage of Pres- 

 ton Deanery, Northamptonshire. 



Rev, Charles Ashfield, to the rectory of 

 Dodingtou by Bridgewater. 



Rev. G. G. Beadon, to the curacy of 

 Heaton Norris, near Stockport. 



Rev. John Watts, M.A. appointed domes- 

 tic chaplain to the Earl of Besborough. 



Rev. A. Wheeler, B.D. to the rectory of 

 Broadway, Worcester. 



Rev. Mr. Heath, to the rectories of West 

 Dean and East Grinstead, near Salisbury.^, 



Rev. B. Bridge, {'ambridgc, is re-ap- 

 pointed one of the preachers at Whitehall. 



Rev. Edward Colmau Tyson, B.A. has 

 been elected second master of the Koyal 

 Mathematical School at Christ Hospital. ' 



The Rev. E. Fane, rector of Fulbeck, to 

 the prebend of Clifton. 



Rev. K. R. Butcher, to the v-carage of 

 St. Sepulchre, Northampton. 



Rev. T. L. Shapcott, to the perpetual 

 curacy of East Kennet, Hants. 



Rev. (J. Simpson, to be domestic chap- 

 lain to the Duke of Clarence. 



Rev. T. Clarke, M.A. to the vicarage of 

 Overbury, Worcestershire. 



PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, 



inth all the Marriages and Deaths. 



XORTHUMBERIiAND AND DCRHAM. 



THE farmers of Northumberland lately 

 forwarded a petition to the House of 

 Commons, praying for relief, representing 

 themselves to be in a distres.ied condition. 



Married.'] G. A. Lambert, esq. to Miss 

 Raisbeck, of Westgnte-street : A. W. Riiiii- 

 ble, esq. to Miss E. Wilson : Mr. J. Wood, 

 to Miss E. Forsyth: Mr. J. Brockbank, to 

 Miss M. A. Robertson, of Pilgrim-street: 



Mr- 



