Saturday 26 Sep 1818 (p. 2, col. 6 - p. 3, col. 1+3) Prison Discipline.-Milham HARTLEY, Esq. the High Sheriff, on the application of Dr. HEYSHAM, has not only given the Ladies' Society leave to visit the gaol whenever they shall think fit, for the purpose of affording instruction to the female prisoners, &c. but Mrs. HARTLEY has tendered pecuniary assistance in the most handsome manner. A great number of Ladies of the first respectability are ready to join in this work of doing good. It is proposed that the annual Subscription of each member shall be 5s. The following have been chosen a Committee for the ensuing year, to report their proceedings quarterly, to a general Meeting of the Association:- Mrs. BOWES, | Mrs. HEAD, Mrs. H. HALL, | Mrs. SCOTT, Mrs. FAWCETT, | Miss MOUNSEY, Mrs. STORDY, | Miss FERGUSON, Fisher-st. Mrs. HARTLEY, | Miss FERGUSON, English-st. Miss GILPIN, | Miss ROBINSON, Miss GALE, Secretary. The Committee will commence their enquiries without loss of time, and much good may be looked for from their exertions. They cannot be more laudably employed than in reclaiming the vicious "from the evil of their ways." We this week saw a quantity of very fine onions which grew in the garden of Mr. Joseph PEASCOD, of this City; their average size was four inches and a half diameter, thirteen inches circumference; and weight, sixteen ounces. Timothy GLAISTER, of Hesket-New-Market, was killed a few days ago in the parish of Greystoke, by the upsetting of a cart laden with wood, one of the pieces of which penetrated his breast. Saturday se'ennight, a child about five years of age, belonging to Mr. John NICHOLSON, of Scaregreen, near Calderbridge, was unfortunately killed by a stone falling upon it from a well. It survived only a few minutes after receiving the injury. Mr. John PERKINS is elected one of the Common Council of the ancient Borough of Appleby. A Chapel, in the Independent Connexion, has been opened at Burton-in-Kendal. A respectable farmer, within five miles of Hexham, has a daughter, who has just completed her 12th year, of such amazing bulk, that she is supposed to weigh 16 stone! THOMAS GASKIN.-The following is a copy of a letter, written in a beautiful hand, by this wonderful boy, about three months ago, to his uncle, a poor weaver residing in Dalston: "DEAR UNCLE.-Agreeable to your request, I address you for the first time. Should any thing be found in my letter that is not correct, or any thing omitted, I hope you will be candid enough to consider my years and how short a time it is since I could neither make a figure nor a letter. When my Grandmother was at our house, which is only two years since this Summer, I had not then begun to write, nor for some time afterwards; but since that time, by close application and the blessing of God, my understanding has been greatly enlarged, especially in Mathematical knowledge; but you will be astonished when I tell you that I am not without enemies, for a schoolmaster of ---, had the presumption to say that I was not acquainted even with the first rules of Arithmetic, although he had never been in my company: but this monster (under the appearance of a gentleman) met with such a reply as he did not expect; for a friend of mine informed him, that I should try him for any sum he had a mind to propose; but he modestly refused, saying, a child was not worth his notice. I have also my friends, for I have been examined by some of the most respectable men in the town, and particularly by the learned Dr. --, who had the goodness to present me with a very handsome present, and at the same time expressed a desire to send my copies on Algebra to Edinbro' to be examined by Professor PLAYFAIR, which was accordingly done. "Your affectionate Nephew, "THOMAS GASKIN." The letter likewise contains specimens of his attainments in Algebra, Mensuration, Trigonometry, and Fluxions. He was nine years of age on the 12th of May last.