The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-25 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—Nov. 24,

The November Sessions for the transaction of the county
business were held to-day at Clerkenwell.
The minutes of the last Courts having been read,
The CHAIRMAN informed the Court that since their last
meeting, Mr Wright,, who had been for many years crier of
the Court, had died, and that in the interim he had directed
Mr Rumbellew and Mr Sawyer, already officers of the
Ccutt, to perform the duties. Ho moved that the election
of a successor be referred to the General Purposes Committee
in the usual manner,

Mr LAURIE bore his testimony to the efficiency with
which Mr Wright had discharged his duties during many
years. He had formerly been confidential clerk to the late
Sir T. Baker, the late county treasurer, who in his will had
recommended him to the special care of his family.
Mr H. M. KEMSREAD expressed a hope that among their
present efficient officials some one would be found who
would deserve the preference of the Court in the appoint-
ment of a new crier.

The question was referred to the General Purposes
Committee.

The report of the visiting justices of Coldbath• fields
Prison, which contained some important suggestions on the
question of dietary was brought up and ordered to be printed
and circulated and taken into consideration next court day,
The report of the visiting justices of the Westminster
House of Correction, which proposed the adoption of the
dietary recommended by the Home Secretary, was also
ordered to be printed and taken into consideration the next
county day.

Reports were also received from the visiting justices of
the House of Detention and the Committee of Visitors of
Hanwell Lunatic At ylum.

Mr KEMSHEAD moved a resolution sanctioning the ex-
penditure of £1,500 for the erection of machinery, &c., to
carry into effect a plan for the utilisation of the sewage of
Hanwell Asylum, it having become necessary to relieve the
river Brent of it.

Mr Mizciiisox hoped that the lianwell visitors would
take some means of deodorising the sewage. At a former
period when the farm at Feltham had been irrigated with
sewage at least 75 per cent, of the boys were attlicted with
ophthalmia.
Mr AN'rHROBUS said the attack of ophthalmia had no-
thing to do with the sewage.

/dr LAURIE pointed out that the visitors were not about
to try experiments merely for the fertilisation of the land.
They were compelled to relieve the Brent of the sewage, and
they believed that this was the most effectual and economi-
cal mode of disposing of it. Of course the visitors would
be glad of any suggestions.
Mr WYATT said the plan had already been tried at Col-
ney-hatch with a considerable part of the sewage without
any ill effects coming from it.
Mr TRWAITES cordially supported the motion. He be-
lieved that a careful application of the sewage might to
made without any of the ill effects apprehended by Mr
Mitchinson, and uo doubt wi!h profit. The pollution of the
running streams of the country was a subject to which the
attention of Parliament would probably be called next
session, even if legislation did not take place. Unless sonic•
thing were done to stop this growing evil, he feared that an
epidemic might take place, awl then Parliament would be
called on to legislate in a panic.
The motion was then agreed to.

Mr Cox asked the Chairman for an explanation of a
statement which he had seen in the public journals, signed
by a magistrate then present, to the effect that an anony.
mous pamphlet, in reference to a late discussion on the
question of appointing a Roman Catholic chaplain to their
gaols, had been printed and circulated at the expense of the
county. He hoped to hear a denial of that statement.

The CHAIRMAN said he must plead guilty to the charge,
although it originated in a mistake. When he circulated
the bill on the subject among the county magistrates, he
had thought it right to append to it some observations
of his own, and by some mistake those observations, in-
stead of being sent to his own printer, were sent to the
county printer and charged for in the county accounts. The
expense was just 41 1863 d, which, of course, he should hand