The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-21 00:00:00

MILITARY OP EITAT I TOR TIM HOYE
.I.MPARTIIIIIT.

Sir,—We beg to lay before you the following statement
of circumstances under which we consider that we and our
servants have been subjected to unnemenorily harsh sad
cruel treatment.
Arising out of the sequence of a very destructive fire
which occurred on these premises on the night of the 25th
November last, our maaaging clerk, Mr. Charles Thome,
and our foremen, J. G. Arnett and William Sedg wick.
were arrested by warming signed by the Lord Mayor cu
the evening of the 25th January lest, and on the Dent day
were charged at the Marion-house, upon the prosecution of
various insurance companies, with misdemeanour, and bull
being refused were sent to Newgate gaol. The respective
personal complaints of these three poisons drawn up in their
own language, we beg respectfully to submit for your cos-
sideratim herewith. We may add that the Lord Mayor, by
whom these men were sent to prime, is himself a director
of one of the insurance companies connected with the pro-
secution) vide the depositions).
Our servants having been subeequestly several times taken
to the Mattoon-house and remanded, without any material
fresh evidence beim brought forward against them, on the
14th February, and three weeks after the arrest of our
mrvanta, we, the undersigned, being the proprietors of
Meritcu's Wharf, were Woo arrested upon warrants signed
by the Lord Mayor, and being charged at the Maestro-
house with misdemeanour sod felony upon the prosecution
of the same insurance companies, were remanded, sod hail
being refused, although tendered to the amount of even
50,0004, were likewise sent to the gaol of Newgate.
We beg now to submit for your consideration that [(out
the time of our leaving the court of the Mansion-house, we
were placed upon precisely the same footing se committed
and sentenced prisoners, and upon being removed in the
prison van to the gaol, of Newgate, where we were at once
placed to solitary celli of 12 feet by 7 feet in size, we could
observe no difference between our own position and that of
convicted ;idealism, excepting as regards clothing, food, and
labour, that with regard to food even, no difference is
made, excepting with those prisoners who choose to pay for
their own ; and we desire to remind you that in the printed
copy of the prison rules and regulations, which is placed in
each of the priseeer's cells, and are certified to by the Se-
cretary of State so recently as 1860, writing from memory,
we think that you will find that untried and convicted
prison= ere plated upon precisely en equal footing.
We deem it unnecessary to detail to you the cruel indig-
nities and mental torture to which we were subjected
during our iocameratios of 17 days' duration, when at last
we were remanded for the fifth time, and our release was
granted upon our giving bail for 5,5001. each. It will
suffice if we repeat that, as untried, uncoevionted, and
therefore theoretically, according to English law, as well se
absolutely in fact • innoeert" men, we were subjected
during the whole of that lengthened period to all the
misery, humiliation, and irreparable degradatioe of being
confined in the notorious pol of Newpte as prisoners, and
were subject to the same rules sad regulations as those
which apply to convicted criminals. Our three servants
were imprisoned under similar circumstances for • period
needing five weeks before they were released upon bail.
Bazar Bacrrezaa,
Marlton's Wharf, Loudon, BM., March 21, 16615.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.—A court of aldermen was
holden yesterday at Guildhall. the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor presiding. but the business generally wee merely of
a formal character. The sheriff's rotor's am to the state of
the prisons showed that in Newest. there were 54, is
Whitecroewstreet 114, and in Holloway 349 prisoners. The
returns were accompanied by the eertiflmtes of the surgeons
am to the fit sista of each prison. Several gentlemen
were sworn am brokers, and others were allowed. There
was • oomplaiut against one of the broken of the City, the
discussion as to which took place with closed doors. It was
afterwards understood, however, that the complaint was
dismissed. Mr. Alderman sod Sheriff Bewley. in peonage(
the returns as to the prisoners, informed the court that clue
prisoner had been received at Newpte from the House of
Commons.
THE WIATHRR AND TIM CROPB.—The continued
absence of sea. though highly favourable for haymaking,
has set been ovation desirable for other crops. Amami'
from some qua! ten bring complainte of the want of moisture,
and oats are said to be suffers g from that cause. The
wheats are everywhere in full ear, and are already "in
bloom" in numerous instances. Jost sow, therefore, rain.
though wanted for the pastures, and far the roots, b
peas and oats, would be prejudicial to the wheat and, bas,
aostionous, to the hay harvest. A few smart showers.
succeeded by bright weather, would be univereallY
acceptable. Upon all sides the opinion prevails that
the harvest will be unusually early. The prospects oa the
whole ere extremely promising, but it seems to be goosed!,
admitted that the wheat crop will oertainly not be equal by
a long way to that of last year. The reports from the hop
districts are on the whole extremely satisfactory. The
change is the temperature during the last few days, mad
the north-net winds have checked the rapidity of growth
stimulated by the previous warmth. The vine is Aron
aced vigorous, and the " enemies " of the hop plant have up
to the present time been unwontedly merciful in their at-
, tacks. At present matters look well for a good crop.—
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