The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-21 00:00:00

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.

TEM COMM X1P13101117/11.
Yesterday, portant to adjournment frost the 30th
, • @penal general ranting of the eneglirotor the
anew of Middlesex was held at es ikeelos• •••••,Clisker-
wen, to take into consideration such portions of the report
of the committee appointed to investigate the expeadinare of
the Gamer as were not considered on that day. There
were se,,st tarty neenietistee present, end Kr. rowsiat
preetacd.

TER Pll/1011 1101601101111.
The first notion to order area_ the papa was cos foe the
igpitsseat of. midget Etodiwl diett at the Cold Bath
Fist& Bouts of Cometices

Mr. ARMSTRONG, the chairman of the Rapes/item
Committee, is movies this resolution, astern into the ma-
sons whisk bad iodated the sommittes to recommend the
scant to adept the nano Medved is Me repolutios.
Mr. J. WILSON mended We Inns.
Captais COTTRELL, Chairman of the Visiting Justices
of Cold Bath Fields Priaon, opposed the motion. lie said
there wee sot an establishment throughout the whale kiss,
don, of the Menace of that is quesdien, whisk was more
favourable as regarded general health, 111 MOM free from
'sicken, and no rabbi establishment is the smutty wield
boast • surgeon who mere efileiestly or mere somionly dis-
charged hie duties thee did Mr. Wakefield. There was an
avenge of 1,100 primuen at OeM Bath PWds, sad that day
there was not one patient in the Islresery ; sad he (Captain
Cottrell) challitaged say ass to pilot t. say Cagle Into
fa which Mr. Wakefield bad been guilty oft negleM of duty.
Hs thought they would MLA agrees hardship os their sur-
geon to debar him of peva, prudes sad immure bits ham
yesesend to yemensd widths tb• pekes wails (Hear.)
Mr. LAURIE esselemsed the peepenties. sad thought
Mr. Wakellelea salary by no mass Ise high.
Mr. 11B10# NU isms)/ mem* herchmilelisnly
the able and 116(delit manes is wbieh Mr. Wakefield per-
formed his duties, sad with a Mselaimsbie degree of Warlitit
protested egainstMe shotios,_ swertiag that the onus was
bias asked t• pasties a "oliessepariee " economy. He
was a member of this expenditure semaittee. and his same
appeared es the report. He was, however, heartily ashamed
of it, he repadinted it estisely.
Mr. ROTCH uiS that the praise that bed bees given to
Mr. Wok. field rag sot merited to is full extent—he was
positive that the merest tyro is the prefesion could perform
the disci., of surgeon to the prises as well and as efficiently
es Mr. Wok. tisld—the youngest student in • boopitil could
de all that wag required of • surgeon in that capacity, and
would be glad to do it foe • very small sultry.
After some discsages, the meths was put and segatived
by 19 votes to 7.

MAIMS= LI7XATIC ASYLUM.

The report of the- ootamittee- ---,le-treetirsgOf this establish-
meet, reesomeadett the toseestlotteare of the sersiote of

Dr. t..oatolly as son-resident visiting physician, whereby •
eiviag of 300 gniseso a year would he effected.
In introducing this in a general motion, Mr. ARMSTRONG
adverted to the highly important services that had been ren-
dered to ti.e county by Dr. Connolly. and paned some warm
eulogiums upon the eminent encores that had attended the
introduction, by bin, into the county of Middlesex of the
" non-restraiet " system of treatment of lunatics. When
this committee adopted the 11001/UReadatios to dissoatinue
his scrvice,, they considi red this staff of resident medical
018 cm sufficient to meet the requirements of the asylum ;
but, as there was a prospect of the county losing the services
of the chief of tha: staff, he (Mr. Areastrung)shoald ask the
wart to p Tait him to withdraw his motion.
Mr. LAURIE objected to this, and moved as a substantive
motion, an amendment of which he had given notice. The
amendment was, "That so moth of the report as relates to
the number and salaries of the officers and servants employed
at the Henwell Asylum be relerrod to the committee of
visitors to consider and report to the court as to the praci.
ability and expediency of diminishing the number and
stinting a present or prospective reduction in the salaries of
such officers and servants." The hoc. magistrate asserted
that there was • degree of extravagance in the management
of the e-tatilithsaeut at Haswell—there Nine a vest ac -wasp
lotion of nesdlses yet overpaid offices and situations—which
'squired reform.
As animated discussion followed in -which Mr. Serjeant
Adams, Mr. Wilke, Mr. Botch, Mr. Williams, and other
magistrates took part. Atter which Mr. Laurie's motion
was put and h e by 20 votes is 8.
The consideration of the remainder of the recommenda-
tions was peitponed fyr three weeks, and tho court, alter
sitting nearly bee hoary acjourn. d.