The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-18 00:00:00

[TWOPENCE

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.

After our report left yesterday the report from
the House of Detention was agreed to.
The grant of 20/. to Mrs. Morley was agreed to.
101. was granted to a wardress of the House of Detention,
Miss WLarhlia, who bad resigned her situation, towards
enabling her to proceed to New Zealand.
Mr. Fran, Mr. Harwood, and Mr. Habwell, were ap-
pointed to the Coldbath•fields Committee ; Mr. liturslem,
Mr. Stilwell, and Colonel Dickson, to the Westminider
Committee ; and Sir James Tyler, Mr. Summers, and Mr.
Simpson, to the House of Detention.
There were no parishes or places in the county in smear
to the rate.

The salary of Mr. Adams, chief clerk of the Home
Correction, Coldbath-fields, was increased from 2001. to
22.51. per year ; and that of Mr. Tillery, the engineer, from
208/. to 2601. a year.
A number of formal reports were brought up.
Mr. Le Brument applied for the grant of a pension or
superannuation allowance, to be computed according to
his length of service, at l'AOthe per year, be having been
an officer in the service'
of the county since 1817. Mr.
Le Brument resigned his situation as warder at the
same time as Mr. Morley, who committed suicide in
Hornsey.fields in August last. The latter was re-
comnieuded for a pension, Mr. Le Brumeut was not. The
memorial set forth the period of the applicant's service
since the opening of the House of Detention, and that his
wife had been chief female warder at the West-
minster prison, and was now in the receipt of •
small pension from the county. It stated that
on the alteration in the arrangements in the
prison, in IMO, he was temporarily removed, but in
six months afterwards be was again placed upon the staff,
and continued to discharge his duties to the best of his
ability, and, as he believed, to the satisfaction of the visit-
ing justices, until June last. During that period he had
been fined only four times, and on each occasion for very
trivial offences against discipline. In 18,11 he was a candi-
date for the office of inspector of weights and measures.
' one of which was then vacant, and front about :30 candi-
dates be was selected with four others to stand the election.
and oely lost the eppointment by a majority against bun of
four. In June last a change took place in the go-
vernorship of the prison, Mr. Hill having resigned and
the present governor appointed. The memoriahst stated
that—" He endeavoured, by respectful obedience to the
orders of the new governor and attention to the
duties of his office, still to merit that confidence which he
believes be had hitherto enjoyed ; but your memorialist had
the misfortune to incur the displeasure of the new governor
and to be suspended, but the visiting justices, after hearing
the facts, reinstated hint in his former position. That after
such restoration to office, the governor treated your me-
morialist with much severity. That in support of his
assertion your memorialist begs to lay before your honourable
court the following facts :—When your mentorialist's wife
left the House of Correction, she was and is still suffering
from disease of the heart, ;tad that in consequence your
memorialist was advised that country air was absolutely
necessary to preserve bur life • whereupon your memorialist
took a house about four mile; from the prison ; that the go-
veroor ordered your memorialist to come immediately
and live near the prison. Your memorialist, how-
ever, requested permission to present a letter to
the visiting justices, asking to be allowed under
the peculiar circumstances to live where he was ; the
governor astiented and received the letter, but he did not
present it to the committee, and subsequently, upon your
memorialist raking him about the matter, he said, ' I didn't
;rive it to the committee ; it's no matter, however, you'll
not he here long.'
"That on the Saturday before your memorialist resigned
the governor said to him, ' I've fined you twice, and 111
tine tau every time I can ; and when I get six fines against
you I'll take you before the committee and get rid of you.
That the governor would frequently make the following
and similar remarks to your memorialist :—' I wonder who
made you a warder. I wonder what the magistrates were
about when they made you a warder.' That your memo-
rialist is prepared to verify upon oath or by affidavit the
statements he has herein made. _ _

"That at the present time, and for • considerable period
previously, your memorialist suffers, and has suffered, front
• chronic complaint which frequently rendered hint almost
unfit for the discharge of his duties, and this, coupled witk
the treatment of the governor, and a conviction that the
latter intended to carry out his threat and to get rid of
him,' and by so doing reducing your memorialist to degra-
dation and beggary, so prostrated his mental and physical
powers as to almost make him unconscious of what he did,
and in this state he resigned his situation. Your memo-
rialist, therefore, humbly and earnestly prays that your
woishipful court will extend to him that justice which it
never fails to show under similar circumstances, and that in
consideration of the time he has been in the service of the
county he may be granted a pension."
To this memorial were appended copies of certificates
from Dr. Levies, of the House of Correction, Westminster,
who hail operated upon Mr. Le Brument for a serious
chronic disease ; and from Mr. T. H. Mitchell, of Lowther-
cottages, Holloway, who had attended him, and also his wife.
From physical disability he was not able to continue his
duties as a warder.

Mr. Wrarr paid this petition contained certain spe-
cific charges which had cot been brought before thw
committee, and he therefore moved that it be referred to
the committee to inquire into ita allegations, and report to
the court.—Agreed to.