The Express.
London, England, 1848-10-20 00:00:00

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES

Yesterday the magistrates of the county of Middle-
sex met at Hicks' Ball, Clerkenwell, for the transaction of
the usual eounty business. Mr. Pawn'll :melded the chair.
The court proceeded to receive the reports of the various
camssittees. The report of the finance eommittee recom-
mended the mart to authorise the eounty treasurer to pay
bills to the amount of 11,3711.65. lei., which was agreed Ls.
TIM PRISON REPOIMIL—From the reports of the visiting
jollities, of the vetoes prisons it seemed that the eenerat
health of all those establishments was good. In Coldbatt.
fields there were 896 seals and 265 female Klemm ; in the
Westminster Bridewell, 641 male, 293 fernale, and 14 infant,
prisoners; sod in the House of Detention there were 73
male, and 30 female, prisoners: total, 2,114. The report
stated that the abolition of the treadmill, as far ea heals
mamas were concerned, in ColdbathAields, had been at
tended with meats of a most beneiltdel kind. The mese hr.
curt y essapied by Moss machines wasaew occupied by work-
shops, in whisk the female pioneers were taught t
dreselnekiag, and miens ether metelbandiereate, b=
oa their release from prise., ea the esphetion of their
seetesom they mold be Utt to earn a subeietemmi by
honest industry. The dews of
tion were i deed
so matifythg, that the judos hopedthe alteration
sem to ma the Weed.
mith la the male 4•11111111111111116 likewise &maks& Several
boys had been se well drilled en the inedeiddp la the Pukes.
that they wars relleisat womb to be sent to NI. NM there
seemed to be we add hat that they weakl .Me sod
gad MIIIMIL The regeladose by whisk well Mimed pri-
mers. bosom periodicals:stilled to stripes indiums of
geed es Beet, similar to system is the seem had also
=liremits of a highly satishelery ekerester.—The
ma alested visiliweesemisteer, and a wormege on
the me* mum he 10,0001. ke the Itew Una* Asylum
was eansaisd.
• abieriss a some duration the. Isek gime relative to a
= isepert *pea the mode in whisk die Usart elected the
Ultimately the Coot ambled dam in future
as meg=ir druid be ea the ememittos of two primes at
sty dole. eneeptiog dm chairmen Many sentodtese, who will
be en the endless of ell the priessaa and that the clerk of
the pease slaseld peepers a Het of all these megistrates who
were willing to serve es Tithing judos*.
Tax COUNTT Rare.—On the modes of Mr. Fresifield •
oommittals was appointed to emehiee whether any and what
reeseures ere ammeery to heat* the inesemasea of the
county rata, and to provide lisr the eseadenel vadellem
the rateable valuable of pertkraler Medilim in the eraely.
Moors. Child, Reeves, Wright
and
Ilemidie wore ~Y
pointed inspectors of weights aad fer the emu*
year.
TM emit received the mutual Maras of the governors,
cheplains, sitzras of the musty pokes., and ordered
them to be
The mart treneseted other rendes baler, end mon after
adjourned.

MISSUISIS RZOISTRATION.—The lists noised yes-
terday we. those for the perishes of Marylsboas, Pding-
ton, St. Poems, Bs. Andrew Baba*, at. George the
Martyr. St. %21Withost, George, Bloomsbury, St.
Ginsia-the- St- Zanies's, Clerkesirell, St. Luke, St.
Mary, biases I Ma, Stoke Newington ; St. ee
Ides end tie ibis*, or Ombra of the B.oils, Gray's-lan,
SalhaseMS, Naterairgseirm and Ely Beata. Ia the it.
Labe My a new deka. mmiebVait. G. Browsing, err
deeded tor, the 'M as ed a rent
Marge of 191. 911.1riraidek Mr. Payne mateaded
vas lenablent. The dolma was in semisoft,
smi pewee that he was in bet the freeholder
meivai 19s. a par as proved-bat, and Mr,
Jam, whir empleted the claim, urMithat it ins mut.
Cilbe the barrister, under the to sena
iimehalan by adding the weed fesehobli,ti insert the
wan Mr. Madero% however, ruled that welt as alteration
weehl amennt to a change a the palLisation, which he
had sr pew to make. The dam mast be disallowed, sad
the pay meet skim ebb nazi year. The mama of G. C.
Grabs, disimiag as fora " Isms be yens," and the Bev.
H. H. Howard, who eleinied is for the " perpetual mem
of St. Matthew, City Lead," were also managed bem be
sew claim list ore the same ground of insullshat descrip-
tion of the qualliestioa. The court will mday take the
lists of the City whim at the Sasses Hotel, Seaverientreet.
TSB lire& priall-PACKET COmrafte.—The an-
nual general court of proprieton of the Star Steam.pechet
Ca.psn err bald
realer ttteXualirVcre7ibe°lB
by el the empsery, deer I dir auditor, Set
the pm emesing, M Maw aechMerramor Harmer,
Ilsq., K lapses Abbey. peesided. Prom the manna eta*
meet tor the year miles the 30th September, it apposed
that the *wasp ef the piss seemmed p 18.8141.65.
to whiter wen to be wiled missellanseue42m making
together • total of 18,4191. h. N. The are for the
zeried seemserd to 13,11:0L 6e. a behest of
4 b. id., from which tiers hid hem wet 10 NOM
, /SWAN& sad Co., be fell midee for the mew
Star, 3,4004 sod br the parehme aSO ahem en mesa* a
the bombing prepoistere 11118. is.. isseleg In* other sem
111111 to all oempsal OP available alb Valeme el MIL b. 74.
fa tbie etateseent le tee premistors the suborn
then see the impommeat of bar prepay
pe7riste.serd aftmemel *sir abehalles et the embeet
el the dieselles, uplift a their Miami esmage-
mud la the sakalbellem efilteseir puha fer the Osmat,
for whhit SAIL had bees aimed. Ia ernesquense al this
favoaraNie seas a the aka's Sisal the amen felt
'renamed Yt a dividend of 3 per Nat.
be pin, whisk was speed to. After a discussion
Math, to the snowmen to be auditors, a vote of tkanka
eras pissed to be M ,abs directon, auditors, transom,
sad oselehry. The ~Obi proceeded to wend the
wham elf Os Messes, wad auditors for the year easaing,
when the swim segmeatsd.
TER DIOSZASIID DIMAND POE ADDITIONAL POLICE
TlMOL—Tosiwany a mat* of Ow nyvessesesive vestry
4/11 k Jameek, Weateauber, tick piece at the vestry-room,
the Bn. J. fasions. the rater, in be char.—Mr. Bassani,
the weep dirk, road a hear from Mr. Bay, be receiver of
be melmpalma paha, intimating that the aomalisionen
did neeeline le an entemien of time for the paemat of the
Inemmesi amid ea Mb mash till the 81st of December
eat. Cammeabellems woe also road, ono from the vestry
• Marphilisme, weirs that they kik= till Aurae, next
year, te imp the hmeamil demand for on this., and tha
ether, item the vestay dusk al St. aneras, declaring that
they ha Meted Into aa fteent whatever for the pay-
mat K the additional dir—Mr. Churchwarden GINS'S
elmereed bat the whites oi Mkldleeez had been placed ins
preltp ba 1P ths Mush of faith on be part ot the Howse Se-
aelary eta repells this Drafter. The Mabel demand of be
pollee is the parish a St. James% for the
year wee 8,7901.115. M.. ani, in seendaare with bp:
*ism et * iota air sat, the made *sir poor,
imileseam rata tar the year, the demand or th;
palm thelme/a if their estimate. Sir G. Grey, in the letter
hem Me Ileamoboo,2 date the 3lst of Detostba,
desired that he was to give, by a Bill. the taus
ppm the bereft of • union, if esmiioued by parliament,
imi peellemmt showed that the. bill had their sanction, by
off
wftriatet • second reading. Sir lamp, however,
hisbill without be radios of parinumat,
sad now the mash was called on for an additional sum of
1,7641. 9s. Id. He would more " That the ecuantunicstioa
from therms's*: efpolior be acknowledged, andbm the vestry