The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-17 00:00:00

OORONATION OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA.

MIRE Etill SPECIAL oomiaromarr.)
KONIGSBERG, SATURDAY EVENING.

I hardly think it a wise system, that of the Kings
of Europe seeking to give the stamp of antiquity
to their titles by selecting the oldest town in their
dominions for the ceremonial of their coronation.
The only object which a gorgeous ceremonial can
serve is to render royal rule agreeable to the people,
by giving it, on great occasions, all that pride,
pomp, and circumstance which are so popu-
lar with the masses ; and surely, then,
the wisest thing would be to have the
pageant come off where there were at
once the greatest conveniences for display and the
best facilities for the greatest number of people to
see it. Now, Berlin is pre-eminently adapted for
an affair of state like the present. In fact, being a
city rather made at the dictum of A king than
having gradually grown up out of the necessities
and expansion of • people, it looks like one of the
great open-air theatres of old Athens, with some-
times • reminiscence of those grand civic fancies
which Martin was so fond of perpetuating on can-
vas. The streets, that is the main streets, are
long and wide, and noble, flanked by classic
porticoes of unexceptionable taste and large dimen-
sions, and studded with such buildings as most fitly
would form the background of a grand, living,
moving pageant. I, of course, passed through the
city almost at railway pace—and here I would
suggest that if the Sultan Solyman were now alive
and hard up for a new sensation, let him by all
means try a journey of two days and two nights on
a continental railway ; but passing through, as I
have said, at a railway pace I yet found time to
look in at the Museum, and enjoy ten minutes
pleasurable gazing at the magnificent fresooes
of Kaulbach, and while doing so I could not
help thinking that if the eminent insular
artists to whom is entrusted the task of deco-
rating the walls of the Queen's Palace at West-
minster were to come over here and do likewise,
they might be able to make the British public more
in love with the ancient art of fresco painting than
they are at present. I am not going to gild re-
fined gold, or to criticise what I suppose has
been already criticised to death ; but it would—
and I certainly can't resist the temptation of tell-
ing them so— lo our artists a deal of good if they
were to run over to Berlin and look at what Kaul-
bach has done on the walls of the Museum before
they put any more of their very peculiar colouring
in the parliamentary panels. There, too,
at the entrance, are the original Amazon and
Tiger of Kiss, and another magnificent
I bronze, for the name of which I could not wait ; and
there is the bridge with its beautiful statues ; and
the eternal " (inter der Linden," which all strangers
are bound to admire, and which at all events would
form a magnificent avenue for a coronation proses-
siuu. Besides, there might be such flies in the
Tiers Garten, now revelling like the belle of the
past hese= in the fading tints of autumn ; and there
IS the superb monument of Frederick the Great—all
calculated to form such magnificent accessories. The
beautiful Opera House, to which I looked in in the
evening whilst waiting for the Konigsberg " Ex-
press,' m*ht also play ita part in the rejoiciugs,and
could give in its new ballet of Eleanore " a maguifi-
cent treat to the Prussian public. Then we have
charming scenery, perfect ensemble, and the genuine
Taglioni school of dancing by a young descendant
of the great Terpsichore whose wonderful poses
are now setting the heads of the young Decliners
wild, and fairly dividing their interest with the
great political topic of a German navy. All this
would particularly recommend Berlin for the coro-
nation, besides avoiding the necessity of a night and
day journey to Kiinigsberg, which is certainly by
no means one of the most refreshing incidents of
special correspondence. But it's no use reasoning
after the frets—Konigsberg is the place, and to
Konigsberg we all must get, how and when we can.
The special train started at 11 o'clock on Friday
night ; and never, I suppose, did such aquantity of
special luggage go by any similar conveyance. I
reckoned myself 400 of those peculiarly shaped tin
cases which indicate that cocked hats repose inside,
and I calculated what must be the number of
court suits and diamond buckles'ancl patent leather
shoes that must be hid in the vast cases that, like
sections of the Great Eastern, covered the whole
platform. There were scores of furred pelisses
flitting about, with diplomatic and bureaucratic
noses peeping out of the oollars, and thlie were
ladies and lap-dogs and femmes de chantbre, all busy
watching over the fortunes of innumerable fragile
bandboxes, with which the obtuse and taatele s
railway porters were playing nine-pins in the most
reckless and unfeeling manner. We were all turned
into • pen—every one on the Continent submits na-
turally to military discipline—and turned out again
to the carriages punctually at the moment of start-
ing, and every one found ;eats for a long but by
no means comfortless journey. This must be said
of the continental railways, that their quiet, steady
rate of going banishes all feats of collision, and as
there is no train to meet you, nor any to run in
from behind, the nerves remain quiet, and there is
no complaint, except it be of the unnecessary de-
lays of the journey. But, somehow, the Germans
do everything at their leieure, enjoy their smoke
all the while, and they live as long, look as well,
and seem even more cheerful and happy than we
do, with all our pushing and driving. Neither do
we ever hear of a smash on their lines, so that
Lord Campbell's invaluable Act would 130 quite
a dead letter amongst them. One thing, however,
I must decidedly object to, and that is the
selfishness with which passengers at all interme-
diate stations push into whatever seats they find
vacant, heedless of the coats, or newspapers, or
Bnidshaws, which indicate that such seats are
engaged. Such experience have I had of this
practice even during my present short visit, that
from Berlin: to Konigsberg I never ventured out of
the carriage but once, to get one of those prepara-
tions of raw salt herrings spread upon bread which
they are pleased to call sandwiches, and even then,
when I returned with my fellow-traveller, we found
our seats taken possession of by a Jewish lady and
her daughter, who had carefully removed all our
evidences of possession ; and when we hinted that
the seats were ours they appealed with much
fluency to the station-master, but the latter merely
shrugged his shoulders and walked away, leaving
us to get on how we could. We managed somehow,
but, the train being a crowded one, might
Lave lost our journey. However, I thought of
Captain Macdonald, and as every German I meet
tells me that the " Affaire Macdonald " has com-
pletely estranged Prussia, I did not feel justified
in further complicating so very serious a complica-
tion. I wonder the more at this rudeness, be-
cause in all other matters the North Germans seem
to be a very polite people, and the men take off
their hats with an emphasis that shows clearly
they deem themselves to be perfonniug a solemn moral
duty.

The surrounding country, when once daylight
broke and enabled us to see it, was calculated
to give the traveller a very favourable idea of the
resources and progress of Prussia. Tho land was
all under cultivation, the peasants looked comfort-
able and contented, there were no beggars, and
the towns, in every one of which new building
was going on, occurred at very short. intervals.
There was a little military colour in every station
tableau but nothing predominant or offensive.
The soldiers, who are large, good-looking, and well
dressed, appeared to be on the best possible terms
with the civilians, and the officers were polite, gen-
tlemanly men, willing to assist the stranger as far
as their total ignorance of either English or French
would permit them. I mention this, as I am told
that the cadets at the military schools are examined
under thirty-five heads of special and general know-
ledge, and my observation may be the means
of having a thirty-sixth added, being the

acquirement of one of the two great vocal cir-
culating media of Europe. I could not help no-
ticing how well their plain uniforms looked, and I was
glad to learn that government does not, as in certain
other countries, allow their pay to be absorbed by
military and "mufti" tailors. The ontponring.at
the Kouigsberg station wasa tremendous display of
Prussian notability. So many far phalli*, such a
variety of snuffy bureaucratic faces, such kissing
and embracing, and such desperate onslaughts by
porters, legal and illegal, to get possession of the
" baggage." When I arrived in Berlin lat once
put myself into relation with my esteemed friends,
everywhere, the police, and they pointed out to me
the dread "Gaye lee Voleurs " painted on the sta-
tion walls, at the same time cautioning me never
to relinquish my baggage to any man without a
badge. At Konigsberg about half a dozen badge-
less free-lances made an attempt at seizure, when I
had a regular fight over it, in which I am happy
to add the enemy came off second best, and which
was terminated by a policeman, a perfect gal
of war in appearance, and before whom the modest
K 69 would be at once extinguished, coming up,
and putting his hand on his sword in a significant
manner set them flying in all directions. There
were also touters for hotels offering accommodation
st a minimum of thirty thalers a night, but I made
my way at once to Mr. Heratlet, our active, intel-
ligent, and valuable British Consul, and through
his means I obtained house room on much more rea-
sonable terms. The pressure, however, on the
house accommodation ii, really something enormous.
1 can recollect very well how the Queen's visit to
Paris strained the sleeping room in even that great
city, and what, then, must the case be in an old
half feudal, half burgher town of 80,000 inhabi-
tants, when all the fashionable world of Berlin, all
the ' Landmanner " of Brandenburg, and all th 6
diplomatic suites from foreign parts, pour in and
insist ou having whole houses to themselves, no mat-
ter what may be the terms.
I am quartered in an old house of the
great Hanseatic period, which might have
belonged to the Master of the Packers himself
bad Freitag laid the scene of his fine story in
Konigsberg. It is in the Kniephof district, noted
in the Teutonic times as the only place within the
walls in which the knights were permitted to get
drunk, a privilege which, tradition relates, they
did not allow to remain a dead letter. My house
is a mountain of a house, a regular old German
accumulation of walls and windows, and chimneys,
that look as if they had dropt down from the sky,
and then piled themselves up into their present
incomprehensible form. There are balconies, and
old carved windows, and great double doors to the
rooms, like coach-house gates, and a tremendous
brass lever to each, which you must turn by
main force when you want to go in or out,
and there is an old elm tree peering up respectfully
beneath the window, and below that again creeps
along the sluggish river Preget, bearing down in
picturesque barges the produce of the interior en
route to Pillau, whence it will be re-shipped to
foreign parts. By the way, I hear that great things
are expected from the extension of the Konigsberg
Railway to Pillau, which it is said will revive all
the aucient commercial glory of the former plat*.
The Pregel, however, takes its time, as everybtrignelf,
and everybody does in Germany, and the
that float along it take their time also, and the
people, men, women, and children, who inhabit
these barges are perfect living monuments of lei-
sure. I Lave mentioned the Teutonic privilege
which is one of the advantages of the Kinephof •
but there is another which is of great importance
to an English foreigner entrusted with duties
like mine and that is that at the corner
of my street—l shall not venture to write
the name—is. the Hotel de Rued@ in which

the British ambassador the Earl of Claren-
don, is to take up his quarters. His lord-
ship is not expected until Tuesday, but the shadow
of his name and influence has come before him.

By the time I had, with the assistance of the god
of war, defeated the mimes, and seen the Kursal,
and made myself free of the Kniephof and its inva-
luable privileges, the shades of evening had begun
to prevail • but 1 was told that evening was the
best time for seeing Konigsberg. I have no doubt
there is truth in the remark. Beginning at a
suburb called the Voratadt, the Jewish inhabitants
of which are making immense investments in sprigs
of fir for decorative purposes, I proceeded, piloted
by the energetic Jahnsen—Jahnsen is my landlord,
and he deserves to be mentioned—and passed over
the Green-bridge, upon which I must stop for a
moment to note a dreadful embarrassment which
has oome over the harbour master of Konigsberg.
The King is, it is understood, to arrive on Monday
next, and leaving the railway at about eight English
miles from the town, to enter in state, escorted by
a thousand of the oyal Guard, passing over this
said Green-bridge. The harbour master was of
course put on his mettle to provide a nautical de-
moustration, but when he came to look np the
vessels that were moored near the bridge, be found
they were all Danish and Sardinian, and the good
man is, I believe, at this moment in the agony of
perplexityastowhat he shalldo with flags which the
owners are only too willing to hoist, but which he
fears will not, particularly the Danish, be a bit too
popukr with the Prussian royal party. Through
the Green-bridge we advanced to the Green-gate,
not green, but grey with age, a relic of the time of
the knights, and surmounted by a church steeple
of extraordinary altitude, of which not even
the oldest inhabitant can tell the meaning.
From this we advanced to a street of which
I shall for once write the name, promising never
to refer to it again, except in the most periphrastic
manner, "the Kniephoefache Langgasse," of which
principal characteristic may be inferred from the
fact that iu it flourishes the most successful dike-
pidiet in Europe. Oh, such a pavement ! Did the
knights wear corns, or did their successors, the
burgomasters and guilds, go on all-fours 1 It is
rugged, and sharp, and , and treacherous,
and full of holes, and and in every way de-
testable. Moonlight may hide its horrors from the
eye, but it only enables them the more treacherously
to attack the feet ; and without further circum-
locution, I may say that my first gallant attempt at
eacalade gave me a greater veneration for the genius
of Macadam than ever I felt before. But German
towns are like German saunages, every one knows
all about them, and their " Dome." with their bat-
Demented gates, and their venerable town fulls,
and their magnificent coivage, of which the un-
initiated can never tell the difference between a
growhen and a thaler, but neither of which we find
half so productive as we think it ought to be ; and
their serious dandies, with their peculiar hats and
perpetual spectacles ; and the ladies, whom wo re-
cognise gladly, as old acquaintances, as the Sabina;
and Crescenzes of those charming German novels
which Messrs. Hurst and Blackett publish at five
shillings apiece ; and the sausages themselves, which
are the great national staple ; and the perpetual
smoking of cigars, which would be a little more
agreeable if the tobacco did not happen to be a
domestic product ; and the odours which Mr. Cole-
ridge has enumerated in the case of Cologne, but
which flourish quite as odoriferously in Konigs-
berg ; and the other details, which are all duly
set down in Mr. Murray's excellent handbook.
There was life and light, and buzz and ex-
citement in the old town, as I mounted its
crags this evening, muttering " Excelsior " to my-
Reif at every step, and watching the groups that
hurried to and fro, talking of the coming corona-
tion, and dodging with wondrous agility the
labourers who rushed about everywhere with scaf-
folding poles, and heavily laden wheelbarrows, and
armsful of greenery, and who looked and felt as
important as Mr. Shandy tells us the female mem-
bers of a family look and feel on certain interesting
occasions. The shops blazed with gas and new
goods, and there was every symptom of that de-
lightful event to an urban population—the vend-
ing of an ; unlimited amount of stranger money.
There were bridges everywhere—there are seven of
them, with this peculiarity, that whenever you
want to go anywhere you have to cross over
each several times ; and at last we came to the
old town, upon the very crest of which
stands the castle in which the King is to take
up his quarters, wheelie arrives on Monday next
It is as lofty as the Tower of Babel, and in (lie
darkness of the night, and with every eludes;

....

LAW INTELLIGENCL

(TkiDit DAY.)

THZ POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAT.)

MARYLEBONL
iniainto A COM/ER TAI:DACIOCA

haul
a moat impoaing effort. At one
r t • .to eutwitioualy high tower, which the
eti•eattott party papers have kindly suggested is
ta. It t.. tetuble in un e.t.a's:diem day, and within
,• A -pArvwt• .luiwirangle to which I obtained ad-
by propitiating the doubt./ of the god of
war, who bad asvi.l Inc at the railway station.
txrpeut,nt were at work by torchlight preptir-
-1114 14 itrillMlly 'limpet! dight / 4 steps and covered way
*alms to Ii " Schloss Airebe," where I am in-
lonerel Ilse actual cremating is to take place, anal
trillium all runnel in which are to be accommodated
the 1114. ft, pried...v.l spectator'. Neither the
dowel' nor tLe yeadrangk will accouomalate
u. Il.y ms that I fever the MEMO°
itthalstauts /4 Kotainaberg and their MOAN/
will have to wait fur the details
et the ',would' until the /Pod!, Nems mid other
morning papers conic hack fnan London. There
I. a statue / 4 the Britt King Frederick, standing in
an alcove inineediakly oppositu the portcullis, as
,eu coma, out trims the cloak, and I was aurpritwal
t. • Ave the crowd,. of people that aterrolualed it,
nivi the interest with which they examined it and
read the inscription. The alcove is a new *Mit'
and a boas. ono--another 111:111/11iXtrati011 14 the
net% ly-sprung-up spirit of nationality which now
very:plea every part of Prussia. People, iu fact,
talk of nothing but bitteettr king of lioltemia, and
Ilse Teutonic knights, and the Margrave Albert, and
the two Fredericka, the Potsdam
" Tabagie" and the eieveu Years' War. Coming
down to proamt Canes, it is whispere.l in your me
that Friday neat ist tiled for the coromition, out
merely because it is the birthday of the Crown
l`riace, but tveauvr it is the anniversary of the
battle of Leigatia, which I believe does not hold a
very proutineut platy in the French calendar of
victory.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
Wan Mr. COlllll/miCINI. Fenn.)
I:I 111 W. W. WHYI.PLEY.
The bankrupt won &A-10*A to an iron, timbsr, add ene-
ninaima merchant, "of the city of London, !ideal*. Jobter,
New Ilriasserek." This wee the examinatioa meeting.
),..L.n.v•shert, preiiirctl by Messrs. Ifanling and
kim cuations the following items :- -To unsecured creditors,
OWN. ; secured ditto, .1,329 f. ; lialrlitiee, 2,71 W. ; profits
en sham in V ictoru. Coal Mining Company, given to bank-
rupt fur advances arid oaf rafts AS director. %widen,
Piny. 1. 10.11, 1,2:11 By good debtors, 1.14110/.; property
bold its aceurity, 4..:3g.; shares iii tbn Victnna real Wm
)dud), mtimit,l at 7, ; Unar,er coutllluA, estimated at
.41.. a.; h., ou vneril trading, 1.070/.
Mr. Idokliter, for the petitioning creditor. statol that nu
W.1.-Ore had been chosen, but there was no objevtiou to the
bankrupt ;styling.
Mr. Whitmore, the official assignee, stated that all the
creditors were resideut in Nova Scotia, as were all the
debtors to the estate. No creditor bad moved, and the
petitioalud creditor WWI • friend of the bankrupt. 'flir
songs returned as aaoets could not be dealt with in this
country.
Mr. Bischoff, who represented the British Beak of North
America. and Mr. Harwood. on behalf of creditors, premed
fur an adpurnmeat of the examination meeting.
l•ltioiately the examination wasadrournedfor two months.

-.••••••
IN St IA V.+. —APPL ICATIOIII rOI DI*CHAZOL
The bankrupt was gelatine meaufacturer. of &widow-
guest, Walworth. He wee adjudicated ban us Teas-
day. aad applieatioo wee sow made fur his dWiargie from
Horsenumger.Lioe God, where Le ia is e at the
suit .4 • creditor. l'uder the old act it Me lees the
alm invariable practice not to discharge a baskraph from
prima until after the choice of anaignem but ma the sew
act coming intoomeatiou the improweiew appeared lemma
that a trader was entitled to his discharge immeditaly as
adjudiothoo. A similar applicatam ads to Mr. as.
cuwaimer I ioulburn has hem refused.
Mr. Mrsugh (instructed lay Mr. Wells. of MommiateMrest)
=i the apple-sties ; Xt. Tea opposed oat behalf of •

Hieldeasar said be should adept the emus preerribed
ta the am eel. sad as interfere la velars the baakropt
SE hi Ind setaphol stab the providers ai the est by nag
wadi ea aesoaat r was roluired.
a 11l USW sionn.—"IIAPOLEOS 111."—THIC cuastrica-

T,oy qUIDITION.
The bencrupt ww • buLklar and sankeeper, of Guildford.
Re bed deliegnithed the hone ha kepi by the tire (ratter
send le lin country) of Hennes 111. Thu wu the
earillede neene. He 01111111 I, eirearred creditor;
DTI;; M nen IvAbag tosaft. MON. ; musts, about
prenny eat wewilly. HAW.
la fee the indisein meentid to the bad •
nee bang e. vended.. The trainee wee
dreheme led h our illsonellesid be the Int den ; but
it well new bed the lEtth wenn ef She new ad that
eleselliden wee enerady abelsand. abseil the einnin
1h lb.new deiteinne enervire, the engem reendiendal
leelendi ebeeid ben • Gni lire ditilleila
61. finwee add be rre regreited the Adkins el
4611161111101111111,VM/61 that bad Inpond peeler dune as
ibe en& Mend eiselleane be deeded to le applies.
dad
lb. ss 116 elen ef seesi builent would nye •
edilliste.

IX - 11111.111111.
The brans, • t Wr, of U 0••••11-stren, applied
far W certificate. Aialost tgi nu Wm were mete
of Aims lUOt.

Mr. beef* far the heriouph. maid lar a big dial
SITMAISSIL

lIL Humour osid le 'meld pant K subjoet to the NUM
nesblaso. If be ores wren. Wee me we toes dams sad
avoid be • Isotinuonsl Ie W beaboeprs conduct.

IN it LAS&
noli= VP a exitiii et Me& This wee
the glailllintase Uweesond dates,
; meta reeersed 3,39 M.
Mr. Lansaw opposed. is the pawed that the serum&
Wyly ••••••imi Is AS MOGI et several itemised peas&
Mr Lava. Si, the welpete, sad Mr. IVldtw the
sisigawNecerurred te WA* that the crept,
weld eel reser better sesessis.
The Imam' posed.
ILN et Dims.
This wee the Ina outs. wader the_lesimplky of T. M.
rice{, el the Moteettonl Brewiteni. The pre-
!
merry slateraset aunt. lq Meter& thews Reel Dello*
Awes easeneved debee er.l lie Uhtioa of 9,79 W. ; &Me held-
* security, 19,1191. ; mew, unlatiegithe property held as
security, .91,0111 M.

lassige I=lM time ler aortal With the
awbehies
nouns 214. of the Ira ik Dales red 13•11. soctiteem,
Wollisobwireek Ca that ea the
3411 alt. he pro the priv=rl64•l4= en the aw
tahliebineet an • porter, • thews, for 61. Be., it the sone
Wee dweeitag his to slew mane (pude boa • home is
Chnoyse-wslk. Cholaiia. He asesimid to room whim
Ilkw withal, awe of hies instil after he wee ft sharp yew
lards, evening.
Prior, t 1 Lsid that the primmer wee glean into custody
it aim o'clock in Pririces•rood, lownbeekind on tell* hies
what he wee claw.' with be regal{ " Very well"
Mr. Moastiolil eakal Mr. Bell sea had bees einsined
for the cheque. awl ha Meted that i 4 had en the rase day
the prisoner was 'strutted with it.
Mr. Mearfteki -How loon has he hue in year service

Mr. Bald—About throe n;ostha.
Mr. Mamas (So the prammar)—Wlisi have you to my
to this chars*?
Prisons—l have .thins to say, year wcnbip.
Pr.
Maaolialil -Do you pled guilty, or sot guilty
mmer -Do
Mr. Maaeliald committed him to hard labour far throe
mouths is the Houma of Conectios.

WE4TM METER.
usual t wash
Jena Cierafe was pieced at the bar before Mr. Poynter,
eheteed with s great gesatity of Fort wine.
Stated
Mr. Dom. likekshieret. 30, Ho. George &place, Knighte-
beidge, Met the primmer had been In his enmloy
as porter, and had during thot time robbed him of a great
"neatly 01 wine, which Ind been deposited at his private
rssideees, Muse-place. Prneecotor bad occasion, • short
time ogn, to go to Ireland, sod left kis keys with hie bro-
ther ; la* latter having also ommion to leers England, the
keys were turnot over to the rare of • respectable female.
Primmer contrived to obtain the keys from her, and, enter-
ing the warehouse, helped himself to the wine.
Mr. Payster--What quantity has he taken!
Mr. Lear-1 have missed from II) to 15 gallons.
Mr. Nyeter—lt im not is bottles, then!
Mr. Dear - No. is a cask.
Mr. Psynter —How did he take it sway
Mr. Dear -He drank it there.
Mr. Poynter—Drank from 10 to 11 piloted wise!
Mr. Lear—That I the quantity mooing.
31r. hunter - flow do you know he drank it there?
Mr. Desr—He was sees doing it. He removed the bum
sod putting something into the pips of wise meshed
•Ise tp
Mr. Poynter—When did yon know what wee the
task

Duar—Tvro Of WOO months ago, whom it was assely
full. and
Uln 1 sow ssesidsr duo quantity I love lay
has

Mr. Papier—Such oar are very (Idiot& to praised&
11r. Denie—lla was wen to do it.
Mr. Ater—That may be, but voy expensesse ham
shows we that it in difficult to °Mali acovielioss is
nick mu; his mouth aught halm been mess at the

•- •
tube, but he might not have been mesa to Wm MN
Irma. asal the quabtoy atel value are obffieuit, of mot
Mr. law -The value of the wise missed is MY. The pri-
mmer has himself made as admission of his guilt.
Poberecorsatable .tla It—Aa I brought Lon to the station
he said he did out drink all the wiar, but he knew all
else' it.
Prisoner, who said bathing ia defame, was remanded
till lateminy.

JUMPING 01 MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.
(THIS DAT.)

ALLEGED VIOLENCE OF THE GOVERNOR OF
THE HOUSE OF DLTENTION TO A PRISON i.R.
Thin day a general meeting of the magistrate's of
the enmity of Middlesex wan held at the Bessioas House,
Clerkenwelt green. Mr. litxar POWNALL, chairman of
the bend'. preseksL There was a very full attendance of
inagistrates, in conseuuence of its being known that •
charge of violence on the part of Captain Codd. the
Uovertior of the Howe 01 Iktenti"D, towards a prisoner
wax the day to be investigated by the magistrates.
The report of the committee of magistrates of the Hones
of Detentlea, pretested this morning, briedy stated that
the attentioa of the committee had been drawn at the last
court to a charge made by • primer against the governor,
alleging that ho had been put late) a bath with his clothes
on. They had accordiegly investigated all the fact, at
their next meeting, but as the governor had been threatened
with legal proceeding., they Lad abstained from more fully
npartmg upon the W.
Mr. WTArr said the committee were quite satisfied with
the ,zoveruor. snit they were determined to support him.
He was an intelligent and • just man, and they knew him
to he a gentleman.
The subject was still under discussion when this report
Ins despatchal