The Express.
London, England, 1860-10-08 00:00:00

THE GAOL OP NEWOATI.

The moat extensive alterations are at present
going on *the poi of Newgate, with a view to fully carry
out the aspirate system of coulinement, and prevent the
contamination that prevailed, owing to the indiecrimioate
mixing of young and old offeudan together. These altera-
tions are now confined to the female side of the `col, the
whole of the male aide having been remodelled within the
lad few yore, and the male primeness being now confined In
operate Alamos and cells, and having no means el
entaminetieg each other before trial, ur at any
period dog their sojourn in the prison. For •
long time no alteration was made in the female side
of the prison, which was merely. divided into separate
mods. The authorities of the prison, of count., took
all the mesas in their power to classify chop
sad to prevent young women who were possibly
with a first Wean, and who had previously borne a god
eherseter, from being assodatod with proetitu.es and old
offenders ; but atill, under certain circumstances, it was
impossible to carry this out to the fell azten%id the
evil cenesquenoce of such aimocietion were ueetly
*might under the hence of the authorities of e sot,
poratian of London, aid the Rev. Mr. Davis, the ordiseu,
repeatedly erged the neessaity of an alteration being ma&,
and at heath these efforts were eucoeseful, and the cor-
poration wan to the resoluticw of expending • sum of
90001. os improving the women's side of the gaol, and
also making additions/ accommodation for the °Homo/
the corporation and Ike public in the Seaman Have. The
whole of the female prisoners were removed to the CRT
*iron at Holloway, and the pork* of the gaol that had
been once pid by that class of prisoners was entirely pulled
down, and its stead there will be erected fresh ranges al
sells to accommodate fifty primeness, the whole of whom
will have operate cells, as on the male side, and they will
have no opportunity of communicating or conversing with
reek other. The smear number of female prisoners con-
firmed in the gaol, it appears, is 37 ; but in order that no
dillioulty might at say time arise from the prison being
ovatoravreod, it was resolved to made aosesoneedatiew
fir my mins thelamest weaber that ell trona.
pitymaid eve be walla the gaol at say parka amnion
an arise and nether. While the &bandies an gang
! ea the Innis Wears, ae shove dated, see goateed Y
Molloway meek and whew the mean a the Onkel CA-
Orewt takes pins they are haeught beakwards sad
ham& even day wail their caw as anesed a. It is
set expand int the whale af the 'heathens will he sap.
Sia much less thee a twelesesean Ina the anima
sad it is them lisped that are psi* Reeoplw—
w wee forms* ease a asay M-
arne quite a modapais.

- Mr. Churchwarden Qualm Can occupied the chair,
sad the report recommending the panting the site of the
oval at the northern end of the Portland-road to the Metro-
wlitan (Underground) Railway for a station, on the condi-
none above referred to, having been read by Mr. Oreenwell,
the vestry clad
Mr. Htenuee moved the era:lotion of the report, which
learbele vend unaaimmudy in very large commune.. He
blitigredthat as* band had fa power to make this grant,
although there .was semi doubt as to the actual ownership
alibi Lad which had bees enclosed byy that parish. As an
equivalent for giving up this Its the daeoton had agreed to
ouraderoartain poraiemiefeheread which they purchased
Statfordarest and Chapelotreet, so as to .enable
to be widened us well se straightened
• gnli ealgeent thin wed.l knew, there PM at preteat
a,aeoet sradkeramil tea.. The engineer and solicitor of the
-fad list the To
in an exceedingly good
-ad fair epin ; end Mr. learchal, as solicitor, had stated
that he had no doubt of the .dhittotono assenting to this
arrangwent, provided the vesCty should agree to it. The
e losheittee looked upon it as being most advantageous to
mei therefore they remenemided the plan for
. C. Farm seconded this readutkei.
Mr. GanawnL, the vestry .said—By the 3rd of
Oeo. IV., cep. 84, sec. sb—the May Local Act---the
piece of rand at the top of theiliseekadroad being than a
nuisance, was placed under the oidethol .eif the 'vestry upon
condition that they ribald put I tenet round it sod pt
a shrubbery therein. They did so,
.and there was a subse-
quent agreement that they should mama it of the Woods
and Forests for the sum of 4(8., whisk WA never carried
out. The railway company, under their act of parliament,
would have a right to purchase thin land if they thought
pr. AU that the vestry was required to do wee to give
up the grand and the iron railing.
The resolution was put and carried unanimously.
Oa the report with reference to the tramway projecindby
Mr. Train, to run from John's-wood, through Baker-
area Portmesoquere, ho., into Oricedareet, ands yearn
line up Oxfordareet from Regent-street, and through
Gioncester-place to the New.roed, and so on to St. John a-
wood, being brought up for consideration,
A letter was read from Mr. Curtis, of Crown-court, Old
Brost-area, claiming a far superior levitation as to street
railways, in the shape of a carnage astable of carrying sixty
pavan, with the wheels so constructed that in the event of
any abstractions the flanges would shut up in such a way
that the ,optraisge would at ono, run on the crazily road
Isle any can conveyance. The letter urged the vestry to
give his pha the advantage of consideration before deciding
th►quesllea A cm:ammonia was also read from the
ing di-
psthe London and General Omnibus Compeny, stat-
through the reports in the public journa they had
thattheta committee of the Vestry of Si. Marylebone
hid been appointed, and that they lad reported itvoar•bly,
and ad adopted, or were about to adopt, a proposal made
by Mr. Train, for laying down a sheet tramway, and that a
full dismission was to be held upon the 'subject. The
directors of the London General Omnibus Company state
that in 1837-8 an application was made to parliament and
to the Marylebone vestry by that to sanction a
scheme similar, but which they oatsitMr superior to that
of Mr. Train's, but which wee opposed in parliament by
the Mazy lebone Vatry, through the then hon. member
for the borough, Mr Benjamin HalL On that occasion
the directors alleged that Mr. Hodges, as chairman of the
committee upon the subject, expressed a very strong
opinion against the scheme before the Chief Commissioner
of Public Works, on moottat of danger to the public, and
obstruction of traMc. The directors state that they have,
therefore, seen with surprise the favourable reception given
to the project of Mr. Train to lay down an experimental
line I. Oxford-street, of much greater extent than that
formerly proposed by the London General Omnibus Com-
pany in the New-road. They, therefore, relied upon the
justice of the vestry not so injure their commercial enter-
prise by granting to another party the privilege which had
been refused to them, especially after the expense they had
been put to. The directors were in a position to cuter upon
the work as soon es the required sanction should he granted
to them. They therefore requested the board to defer
their decision on the plan of Mr. Train until the directors
et the London Goa& Omnibus Company bad an oppor-
tunity of submitting their plans, and ironed that sons con-
sideration would be extended to them as the tint promoters
of street railways.

A letter was also read from the West Middlesex Water
Conmeny, iugiurieg it the vestry had considered what
damage wee Likely to worm, or how the company were to
get at water mains requiring repaint in the line of route
of the proposed street railways.
The CHAIR/La stated that a deputation from the Loudon
General Omnibus Companyp, consisting of Mesa. Law,
Armani, and Wife:ears, directors;i Mr. Wilkinson, soli-
citor, and Mr. Church, secretary, were in attendance.

The deputation were admitted, and having made a state-
ment u to their claims, embodying those contained in their
letter, and answered a number of questions,
Mr. HODOL moved the adoption of the report.
114. Glaunrrnis seconded the adoption of the report.
Mr. I►Datat moved an amendment to the effect "That
this beard does not consider it expedient at present to give
pr ea for a line of street railway to be laid down on
the proposed route, and that the further consideration of
the matter be postponed until after the opening of the
molested railway in Vietorla-street, Vi-estminater."
HUTCHONK seconded the amendment.

Mr. WINGFIELD supported the amendment, bemuse he
thought improvements upon Mr. Train's plan might In
brought forward.
r a long discussion, the question was put, and the
amendment negatived. On which
Mr. HERRING moved, and Mr. Waroneur seconded, a
farther ameudasent—" That the report be referred back to
the committee, and that such committee consider the other
plans of street railways that may be brought before it, and
report thereon.*
This amendment was corded by a large majority, and the
meeting adjourned after a long sitting.

IFIXISTAITSAIT AND TUE STRAND FITS HIIMMIRD
TRAM Ago.—The bridge we are just crossing is built over
the Neer Fleet, a tributary to the Thames, Ude which it
Bowe not far from the Bieck Friars' house. It rime in the
heath of Hampetede, certain toils north of the Citt..2.'h4e
Irollllolll near the bridge are laden with sea-coal, c
sus lime, which they carry to and from the whereas on
the Fleet tanks. The street into which we have entered
is also known as rho Fleet-street. Though without the
walla, it is yet a Liberty of the
irltiand within its
juriedietioe, which extends in this d' to yonder poste,
linked together with chains, known as " Bars." This
street is chiefly inhabited by brewers of ale, who, in this
ltu , are mostly women—and maskers of felt hats, yet
ahatriew notable buildiess. First on the left is the royal
palace of St. Bridget's, or Bride's, near the well dedicated
Is that mint. It is an ancient residence, and little used.
Nest cameo the Bishop of Salisbury's Inn. The monastery
beyond it is that of the Carmelites or White Friars, and
has of lime been rebuilt for them by the munificent heed of
the Earl of Devoe. That large building with the round
church, still further on near the Bars, is the New Temple.
You know, doubtless, that it derives its name from the
Knights Templar', who removed hither hum the Old
Temple ht the rarest of Ouldburne. On the recent ante
mieunffeeaspitillemthat ordera
ditheoZynigiltsmof.Sitat. John of Jerusalem,
wt
hav-
leg a larger establishrmint in Clerkenwell, they not since
laserd the New Temple to the students of common law, who
have converted it into an Inn of Court. Opposite thereto,
you me another lan of Court, sidled " Clifford's " from the
Wier sbierit. Daps 40* Clifoed. Beyond the Ban is
the river-side moth, called " Bizandeareet." It wail sorely
M need of paving until lately, when a tax for its repair wed
levied ea all goods ranted along it to the Staple at West-
minster. Here many lords, spii:tual and temporal, have
goodly bane, of which you can see but two or three ; the
Bishop of Exster's close on the left ; the Bishop of Bath's
beyond it ; and the Bishop of Chester's, with the old stone
cross before it. At that cross the judged have sometimes sat
to try pleas. The palace which you can just see to the left
is the Savoy, so called from Peter, Count of Savoy, who
built it iu the reign of our Henry the Third, whose queen
wee the count's niece. Now the Duke of Lancaster Is the
miser thereof, and John, the captive Sing of France,
lodged there not long sins. The bridge over the lane in
the centre of the road is called " Strand-bridge." On the
right of At. Clement's Dams Church you see the wells of
St. Clement's sad Holy Well ; and beyond them the vine-
yard and convent garden of the abbey of Wesimiuster,
skirted by the woods of Long Acre. The church among the
fields in the distaa e is St. Martin's.—Dirkerts's " All the
Year hound.'i
ANOTHSR LANAI STEEL-PLATED SHIP.—Tile Ad-
miralty have decided upon commencing the building of
mother steelideted ship, of very large proportions, and
fitted with *gum of power calculated to give her a very
high' rate of speed. The new ship is intended to be of 400
feet in Muth, which is nearly double that of many of our
lineol-bittle ships, and eensiderably greeter Asa any other
ship at present existing in the navy. Every device to
render her as nearly shot-proof as possible will be adopted,
slides she is to be armed exclusively with heavy Armstrong
gum el great range, she will be the most formuLible ship
drat.