The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-17 00:00:00

NESTING OF MIDDLESB:

MAGISTRATES.

A meeting of the magistraey of Middlesex was
bald yesterday, at the Sessions-bousir, on Clerkenwell-
prom fee the transaction of the Easiness of the county
Sr.POWNALL presided, and there wet a fall attendance of

°Volt report of the committee for mounds end patrol
purposes, an order was made on the county treasurer for
the psymeot of bills, salaries, and demands to the amount
of 12,2641. 1136. 9d.; and on the motion of Mr. Kenishead,
an ordinary county rate of id. in the pound, and a lunatic
asyhice rate of Id. in the pound, were, °Mend. In the
report there was an Incidental allusion to the opportunity
whisk the opening of Victoria-street afforded for the ap-
proashes to the Sessions hones being greatly improved.
The Castaway said the irepr.vement could be easily
made by pulling dews aim or seven old houses by Hatton-
wall. and stiggested that the committee should communicate
with the Metropolitan Board of Works.
Mr. Corns's, preannied the chairman" was mainly
opposed to the improvesseat proposed, from the fact of his
suggesting the Metropolitan Board of Works as the quarter
to appeal tc —for ones then, the matter would rest for the
remainder of their liver and nottiog be done, judging
from whet hitherto had been the proceedings of that body.
Mr. P. N. LAVRIN said, to refer such a matter to whet
we. faostiousty called the Board of Wtrke—Ca laugh)—
would be to hang it up for an indefinite period, for they
had dons nothing, and titers appeared no Prospect of their
dolma anything in the dupe of works.
The CHAIRMAN said if the proposition were made to the
beard, it would be Pm them to deeds upon it. That body
woe the only constituted authority to deal with the subject.
The suggestion was then adopted.
A ape ,64 report of some importance wet brought up from
the Committee of Coluey Hatch Asylum, with reference to
the opinions of eminent srohitects as to the g• Ting
way of the fabric and its premature decay. The
committee to some extent adopted those opinion_ ,s
sad it was proposed that the matter should be
deferred until the Jimmy Quarter Sessions, when an esti-
mate would be prepared of the earns. of the works re-
quired to put the building in a proper condition. A I
Woes Mr Mikes, the architect of the asylum, was read
That 'endemism objected to the data ou which the opicions
in quadrat were formed. Atter some discussion the report,
together with Mr. Dank's' letter, was ordered to be
printed, and tab' taken into consideration on a future day.
The usual reports from the prisons were presented.
Mr. WOODWARD gave rodeo that at the neat court he
should tali emotion to au alteration which had been made
as to the atteadamee of prosecutors and witosoes at the
sessions
Mr. PAYNN mowed the following resolution:" That in
the present state of society, with an icennieed. aad in many

in/timers as unemployed, population—when numrrous con--
victad tffesden are at large es tickets of leave, without the
mean of procuring ocoapatioe—when araokraness is a pre-
vailing vim, and violence and demoralising language the
emell• of intemperaeoe—whea /elision and morality are too
Oen disregarded, and poises is invidiously weeking distrac-
tion to its innocent and easuspecting victims—when bus-
buds use asaviated of brutality towards their wives and
dabs% and are subject to seven though' itspreventive
smehillnesee•whet mothers are charged with the destruc-
tion eight& own effsprieg, sometimes by the most cruel
negisak, and sometimes by more open and barbarous ill-
treelfteet—aed when the °smuts of society are annually
iseressed_by nuadreds of the poorer cisme% asp, daily young
Weems, being peassested for the most hiding larcenies, end
their future preepeete in life rendered utterly hopeless by
their becoming convicted floes—it is highly desir-
able that the magistrates throughout the kingdom
should be aroused to a acne, of their important peal-
tioa in connection with the well.htieg of the community.
That whilst, ow the one hand, so the instruments of punish-
ment for grave offences, they ere • terror to evil-doers • IN
Oa the other head, they may, by their wise and benevolent
inertia= eseduce to the prevention of crime, the preserva-
tion of el, erecter, sod the protection and oreouragement of
the hosed and deserving, end may thus be the tonoured
mesas of promoting the safety of the crown, the welter. of
the dote, sad the lesseesed happier,. sod prosperity of ell
clams of the pimple. That with this view a cvmesittert of
magistrates be appointed for ibis county, whoa* duty it shall
be to take notice of ell matters in relation to criminal juris-
prudence within the emery, and to suggest, from time to
time, any misrule that they may deem desirable to con-
neliOn with so important a subject." The lens. magistrate
entered into so elaborate ststemeet la support of his sec-
tion, which was loaded by Mr. Faltll.
LAIIIIII said there could be no objection to the ap-
pointment of a esmseittee, if it could be shown that it
would be of any use; but such a committee would be a
Dort of fools, eattaliNkta for the impr.v.ment of human
nature in g I. After doing ample pasties to the
motives of the mover, he suggested thee the motion should
be withdrawn.
After some considerable diseureion the motion was agreed
to, slightly ssodifled, sad the committee was spriinted.
The CHLINIMAN callvd attention to a special report of the
committee of the Weetniaster Noose of Correction, relating
to persona committee,' to prison for offences in workhouse..
Bose of those persona, unfortunate and (needier'', were
01 jests foe pity and sympathy rather then punishment.
The other day • poor old woman, 84 years of t go, wee seat
a Scharged
h ad
to prison for asking alms is the street, when she had been
refused relief. Now, if the parish would not give her
w;vilietlau,iiwyhwaaatilawtaiaasarraragr
atoed
hywfuoamr.u.ladanlidialltde.h
Last week
a youth
10 years of age was sent to prison as a felon for escaping
from the workhouse of St.Ororge, Hanover-squire, in the
workhouse clothing sad a child sta. years of age was sent
to prima for en assault, seek an aissalt being kicking and
struultag to get away from a woman, who .aid it had
broken a window while playing at shuttlecock. He hoped
the members of the beach would direst their earnest %tees-
don to the state of the law relating to the poor, particularly
what wee termed the vagrant law, sad be thought per-
sons were too frineently seat to the felons' jrtol who ought
to be placed and kept is the weekhouses. The magistrates
messed to summit seek pawns with too mush roadie'se to
the gaol, and it was mast desirable that tie law should In
altered.

TM seastderedeo of die report woe postponed.
A 'moldiest& mesas of for !minas woo foss
thsissb, sad dm court soljeussed.