BENEVOLENCE. 
Penitentiary.—'The Penitentiary, which was instituted on the 1st of May, 1829, is 
supported from subscriptions and donations. Its object is to afford tempoiary shelter to unfor¬ 
tunate females, with a view to their reformation, and the period of residence is limited to three 
years. The patrons, committee, and secretary, are ladies, and the present number of inmates is 
seven. 
In the rules the inmates are reminded of their voluntary seclusion, and enjoined under 
certain penalties to conduct themselves discreetly, and, in particular, to avoid any allusion to 
the past irregularities of each other. No conversation is permitted after they have retired to 
rest and no message can he conveyed but through the matron. 
’ ] n ]g 34 , the funds failed, owing to a decrease in the subscriptions. In the treasurer’s ac¬ 
count of that year, a small balance appears to its credit, which, however, scarcely exceeds half 
a year’s rent, then due on the premises. Two of the inmates have since left the institution, with 
the approbation of the managers. Early in 1835 sewing was abandoned as an employment, 
and washing substituted, which it was hoped, would prove more beneficial, and produce £40 or 
£50 a-year. This plan, however, proved abortive, as appears from the Sixth Annual Report, 
published within the present year (1835), in which the cause of the failure is chiefly attributed to the 
inconvenient construction of the house. This Report also dwells at some length on the conduct of 
several inmates discharged from the Penitentiary, in terms which, notwithstanding a few dis- 
heartenin 0 ’ exceptions, evince great general satisfaction. This Report, like one on the Ladies Penny 
Society before alluded to, contains a tribute to the memory of a benefactress, whose persevering- 
bounty towards the institution, after she ceased to be locally connected with it, appears not to 
have terminated at her grave,—for in the list of subscriptions, annexed to the Report, there is one 
of £10 from the “ executors of the late Hon. Mrs. Knox.” 
Dr. The Londonderry Penitentiary in Account with William Haslett Treasurer. Cr. 
1834. 
Salaries, 
Coals, . 
Clothing, 
Rent, . 
Printing, 
Repairs, 
Miscellaneous, 
Balance to credit, 
£ 
s. 
d. 
1833. 
£ 
s. 
d. 
54 
3 
8 
April 30. By Cash in hands, 
40 
10 
7 
33 
15 
0 
By subscriptions and dona- 
8 
13 
0 
1834. tions, viz. 
12 
18 
2 
June 4. Eerryquay-street ward, 
14 
19 
6 
27 
0 
0 
Shipquay-street ward, . 
24 
17 
0 
2 
3 
6 
Bishop-street ward, 
10 
16 
6 
0 
12 
10 
Butcher-street ward, 
7 
15 
6 
2 
18 
4 
Subscribers not resident ^ 
56 
14 
0 
13 
8 
7 
in Derry, . . J 
£155 13 1 
£155 13 1 
1834. 
June 4. By balance in treasurer’s^ g ^ 
hands, . } 
At the Gaol the prisoners receive one-third of their earnings. Several bequests have been 
also made, at different periods, for the relief of the poor and other purposes.—[See-TaMe.] 
