The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-29 00:00:00

MEETING OP MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.

The ordinary meeting of the magiatrates of the
county of Middlesex was held yesterday at the 5e1310116-
bows, to consider and determine the business relating to the
county. Henry Pownall, Esq., chairman of the beech, pre-
sided, and there was a full attendance of justices.
The report of the committee for accounta and general
purposes was as follows :—" Your committee have examined
the accounts sent in at the present session by the two
coroners for the county and by the coroner for the city and
liberty of Westminster. With the exception of one item
of 30e., charged in Mr. MUlllolllny'll account as having been
paid by him fur the emptying of two cesspools and for
carpenter's work, a payment not authorised or sanctioned
by the scale of fees and allowances settled by the court,
under the act 1 Vic., cap. 68, your committee recom-
mend that such accounts be paid, viz.: Thomas Wakley,
Req.. on holding 118 inquests from the let Oct. to Nov.
9, 2771. lEti. 6d. ; John Humphreys, Esq., on 112 inquests,
held from the lit August to the Bth Nov. 213/. Is. 6d.
(disallowed, 11. 10s.) ; Charles St. O. Bedford, Esq., for 34
inquests from the Ist to the 31st of Oct., 761.15 a."
The usual prisoe reporte were hrouglit up and read. It
appeared that there were in the House of Correction, Cold-
bath-tields. 914 felons, misdemeanants 606, vagrants 132,
military offenders 15, of which number 100 were bopunder
17 years of age. The visiting justices reported that, al-
though 33 convicts, sentenced to penal servitude, had been
reivoved, the prime was still iuconveniently crowded, and
that the matter would be brought especially under the con-
sideration of the court on the next county day. The
prison, the report said, was adapted for 1,448 prisoners
only ; there were now there 1,566. The conduct of the
prisoners generally had been good, but in one instance
the justices had ordered a prisoner to be flogged with a cat-
o'-nine-tails—three dozen lashes, for a violent auault upon
en officer. Several officers were recommended for increase
of pay for length of service upon the regulated scale. The
report was received, adopted, and the recommendations
agreed to.
It appeared from the report of the visiting justices of
Westminster Bridewell, that the prison contained 581 pri-
soners, all females, and from that of the House of Detention
that there were t here 21 prisoners committed for trial on
remand, Ill; for want of hail, 28 ; under summary orders,
9; deserters, 6; and I witness in custody. The report referred
to the ems of the deserter, John Healey, who was tried
and sentenced to two yams' hard labour for assaulting one
of the officers • and also to the memorial of Mr. Le Bra-
meat, presented at the lest court, praying for a pension,
and alleging against the governor acts of undue severity and
threats, under which, being afflicted with a chronic complaint
of a serious character, be resigned his situation of warder,
which he had held for about fifteen years. The committee
reported against the memorial, but it was elated that the
petitioner would memorialise the full court next county
day, only to obtain his suprounnuation allowance, on
account of being unable to continue to perform his duty
through affliction, and the sevens conduct of the
governor. Mr. Watt, the chairman of the committee,
said that they would present a report to the court ou the
January county day on the case of the man Ryan, who was
forcibly held is a bath, his heed held under water by the
governor's order, by one of his officers.
The report stated that the justices bad been in communi-
cation with the Waroffice relating to the very long deten-
tion, in many instances, of men committed on suspicion of
desertion, and they hoped that some amelioration of the
evil would be the result.
The reports were received, and the recommendations they
contained adopted.
The other bushier was of a merely formal character, sad
the court adjourned.

THZ ACCIDINT ON THI RAMPOTZAD JUNCTION
RALLWAT.—At the Sheriff's Oenrt, Red Lion-square, yes-
terday two actions were brought spinet the North London
Railway Company, to recover damage., for injuries received
in the fearful accident which took place as the Hampstead
Junction Railway is September last. The first was theta,
Mrs. Drake, a widow residing at Stepney, • shirtmaker,
earning at the time of the accident ffe. a week. She was one
of the sufferers taken to the University College Hospital,
but was afterwards removed to bee own home. She com-
plained of internal Wariest, and that bet eyesight had been
affected, and she was unable to work at her business. No
evidence was railed by the defendants, who simply wished
that justice should be done in the case, requesting the jury
to bear in mind that the plaintiff's health would probably
be teetered in • few mouths. The jury found a verdict for
2001. damages. The other action was brought by Jane
Drake, daughter of the plaintiff is the other action, but the
proceedings were withdraw* on a sem of 101. being paid
by the company. It is indented list these two awe are
the oily ones arising oat of the nocident that an likely to
come into court.

SUDDEN DEATH OP A FRIENDLNIS GENTLEMAN Or
Forrusa.—Mr. Brent, the deputy coroner for West Mid-
dlesex, held an inquest on Wednesday night at the Portman
Arms, Great Quebec-street, touchier( the sudden demise of
a gentleman of fortune named John Montague U pereft, 60
Norton,
of age, residing at 101, Marylebooe-road. Mr.
Norton, the deceased gentleman's medical adviser, deposed
that he was found dead in his bedroom on Saturday morn-
ing last. It was a natural death from extensive disease of
the lungs arid heart. Deceased was worth et least
120,0001., sad a large amount of mosey was found in his
house. As no relations had corns forward to claim the
property he (witness) bed deemed it his duty to employ a
solicitor to seal up and take charge of it, and take such
other proceeding. as the law directed.
.
THE ALDERSHOT MIIRDER.—OD Wednesday after-
noon the remains of the lamented Sergeant Dixon were
interred with more than usual solemnity. A great crowd
assembled at Hospital-hill and along the Use of route by
which the melancholy prooession was expected to pass,
and the number of sergeasta of the various corps
statirmed in the camp, as well as corporals and privates,
showed how great was their reprobation of the deed which
had called for their presence, and marked also that deepp
sympathy universally felt for the unfortunate
Shortly fore two o'clock the troop* intending to take part
in the procession formed up in the West Block, and about
two o'clock marched to Hospital hill, where they remained
in line until the arrival of a militar/ train cart far the con-
veyaoce of the body. A more solemn and imposing 'pee-
rede than that which presented itself could not well be
conceived. Colonel Ewart, Colonel Hamilton, and all the
officers of the 78th Regiment at present in Aldershot, were
io attendance, as was Colonel North, 60th Rifles, and Beyond
other officers of different regiments. On the procession
arriving at the South Camp Church the body was conveyed
to the farther end of the edifice, near the pulpit, and the
customary service of the church of England having been
read, the Rev. H. Huleatt addreised the assembled troops
is feeling terms.
THE CATASTROPHE IN EDINBURGH.—TIM work
of excavating and searching the ruins was continued with-
out niterruutiou during Tuesday night without coming upon
any more dead bodies but about nine o'clock on Wednesday
morning, on raising part of the broke, flooring near the
ewitero gable, the feet of a body were discovered sticking
not from the dibris. It turned out to be that of a woman
about 45 years of age, identified as Miss Agnes Gardener,
who occupied a small house on the third flat. Toter in the
day the bodies of two boys, John and William M'Donakl,
were found. The excavatious were continued during the
night, but up to an early boar yesterday morning no addi-
tional bodies had been discovered. It is, however, con-
sidered certain that owns than one will be found among the
rubbish towards the hack part of the building. The total
number of dead 1. now 32, including the two persona who
died in the infirmary.

THE Pal/ETON CO/TON SPINNERS AND THE PRO-
POSED STEIMIL—A meeting of the Preston operatives was
held on Tuesday evening. Mr. llawdaley, the general se-
cretor', from Manchester, was iu attendance to report the
replies he had received from the various districts, as to
whet her the reserved funds should be used to assist the men
of Preston in resioting the proposed reduction of 7i per cent.
After hearing his report, the following resolution was
adopted by the meeting : ' That this meeting of the opera.
tire cotton spinners of Preston is of opinion that, under the
existing circumstances of the cotton trade, it is not desirable
to resist the reduction of wages at present proposed by the
employers ; not because they are unable to do so, neither do
they acknowledge its justice or necessity, but because they
are actuated by far higher considerations of humanity to
the other branches of factory workers, who would be in that
case thrown out of employment, and from • regard to the
wellbeing generally of the town of Preston." This resolu-
tion was far from being unaulmously adopted ; a large
number did not vote, and there were upwards of a score of
heath held up splint its adoption.—Preston Guartfion.
THE CHILIAN NAVIGATION LAWS. —Les Attnales
dr Comment° E.cterieur makes an announcement which
may be of interest to our commercial teatime, to the effect
that the Chilton government on the 22nd of August last
published a decree of the President, again postponing for •
period of two years the decree of May 5, 1555, by virtue of
which two-thirds of the crews navigating Chilian vessels
maybe foreigners.

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or the blood. They remove by a peculiar purifying preens
every thing that popes pernicious to vigour and health, and so
prevent innumerable maladies which might creep on us stealthily
without exciting suspicion.