COMMERCE. 
The classification, above alluded to as now obsolete, was as follows:— 
Males. 
1st. Class.— Master debtors, i. e. those who maintained themselves. 
2nd. do.—Pauper, do. i. e. those maintained by the public. 
3rd. do.—Prisoners for trial at assizes. 
4th. do.—Do. tried at do. 
5th. do.—Do. for trial at sessions. 
6th. do.—Do. tried at do. 
7th. do.—Do. for fine or imprisonment. 
8tb. do.—Do. for king’s evidence. 
9th. do.—Soldiers tried by court-martial. 
I Oth. do.—Prisoners condemned to death. 
II th. do.—Convicts under sentence of transportation. 
Females. 
1st. Class.—Debtors, who maintained themselves. 
2nd. do.—Do. maintained by the public. 
The only classification observed with the female crown prisoners was that prostitutes were 
kept by themselves. 
Prisoners, confined here before, are kept in strict seclusion. 
From a report of committals for eight years—from 1827 to 1834, both inclusive—it ap¬ 
pears, that the greates number in gaol at one time, including- debtors, ranged between 89 (in 
1829,) and 153 (in 1833). 
The Officers and their Salaries are as follows 
Governor, 
4 Protestant, 
Chaplains, j- Presbyterian, 
j Catholic, 
Local inspector. 
Surgeon, 
Matron, 
Clerk, 
Under gaoler, 
£ 
100 
s. d. 
0 0 
46 3 
46 3 
46 3 
90 0 
92 6 
40 0 
25 0 
45 0 
1st Turnkey, 
2nd Do. 
3rd Do. 
4th Do. 
Hospital do. 
Female do. 
Hospital nurse, 
Barber, 
£ s. d. 
35 0 0 
30 0 0 
20 0 0 
20 0 0 
25 0 0 
15 0 0 
12 0 0 
10 0 0 
In conclusion—it is gratifying to state that no execution has taken place in Derry since that 
of Acheson, for murder, in 1820, several years before the present gaol was built; and it may be 
reasonably hoped that the modern improvements in both branches of justice will for a long period 
avert the occurrence of another. Upon the whole—when the strict order, the unvarying cleanliness, 
and the mild yet firm government, which characterize every department of this gaol, are considered, 
it will be seen that the system adopted rests on sound principles, and is steadily advancing towards 
that perfection of prison discipline, equally remote from the unwholesome lenity, which offers a 
premium to crime, by pampering the indigent felon with physical comforts, unknown to him before 
he became such,—and from the overstrained severity, which, by the application of debilitating 
and degrading punishments, endanger the extinction of that dim ray of moral light, which may 
still linger within the bosom of the darkest criminal. 
Section 5 .— Commerce. 
General Description of the Port .—Derry has now been viewed in all those varied lights, 
which the beauty of its natural position, the animated story of its early history, and the importance 
of its institutions, are peculiarly calculated to throw over a city, at once memorable for past 
scenes and impressive in its present aspect and condition. As the commercial emporium of an 
extensive and fertile district it has yet to be noticed, and its fitness to fulfil the relations which 
are connected with a sea-port will require little elucidation or proof. 
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