The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-29 00:00:00

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday in the
Aldermen's Chamber, Guildhall. The Right Hon.
the Lord Mayor presided.
The Sheriffs' report on the condition of prisons
stated the number of prisoners in Newgate to be
137, in the debtors' prison 94, and the City Prison
at Holloway 437.

Sir J. MU SGRAvE said, in reference to the number
of prisoners set forth in the report as being at pre
sent confined in Holloway Prison, he should be sorry
if any misconstruction should arise, and the public
should imagine that the accommodation was not
such as was desirable. The prison, it was well
known, was constructed to hold 400 prisoners,
whereas there was now 437 confined there, and some
were obliged to be confined with the others. He
thought the cause of so large a number should be
made known, and he thought a return might be
made, and laid before the Court at their next meet.,
ing, of the number of prisoners last year in compa-
rison with the present, and their sentences, and the
offences for which they were imprisoned. He thought
the increase was in a great measure caused by the
difference in the severity of the punishment of the
prisoners, as, where formerly they used to be sen-
tenced to six and nine months' imprisonment, they
are now sentenced to 12, 18 months, and two years
for the same offence. Then, again, acts of Parlia-
ment were continually passing which enable magis-
trates to send parties to prison in default of penalties
for various offences for the term of one, two, three
months, as the case might be ; and he thought the
public should see by what means the number of pri-
soners was augmented, and before any large sum
was expended in increasing the accommodation it

should he ascertained whether these severe penalties
were likely to be continued. He concluded by
moving that a return be made, and laid before the
Court, of the number of prisoners confined in Hollo-
way Prison in the corresponding part of last and the
preceding year, in comparison with the present,
with the terms of seutence and the character of
their offences.

The motion was seconded by Mr. Alderman
CARTER.

Some brokers were allowed, and, after some
routine business had been gone througb, the Court
adjourned. ,

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stop to the ill-treatment of animals, which took place under
the plea of requirements of science—namely, by dissection
while the animal was alive. " Vivisection" is, therefore,
to be excluded from all colleges for the future.
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CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS,

Yesterday, at the weekly meeting of this body,
held at Guildhall, Mr. De Jersey in the chair, a
deputation attended with a memorial signed by 97

of the merchants, bankers, common councilmen,

and others in Cornhill and its neighbourhcod, the
name of the Lord Mayor being the first on the list,
complaining that a public urinal was now being
erected by the Commissioners of Sewers in the
centre of the open space in front of the Mansion-
house and the Royal Exchange, and urging the

commission to abandon the work. The memo-

rialists dwelt upon tha unsightly appearance of

such a place, its inconvenience to the public traffic,
which was so extraordinarily great in that part of

he city, and to the owners and occupiers of the

adjacent property, and upon its being immediately
in front of the We.llington statue. Deputy Harrison
in presenting the memorial, observed that the pro-

posed place of accommodation was not only in front

of the Mansion-house, but in close proximity to the
Bank of England, the Globe Insurance office, and
the bank of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co. In the
course of a discussion which followed, the public
necessity for such places was strongly urged upon
the commission by 1)r. Abraham, Deputy Obbard.
and other members, and reference was made by the
deputation to the way in which such accommoda-
tion was afforded in Paris and other continental

towns without being unnecessarily obtruded on the
public notice. Dr. Abraham reminded the com-
mission that the obligation was imposed on them by
Act of Parliament to provide such places for the
convenience of the citizens, and urged them to pro-
ceed with the work. On the other hand it was con-
demned by Alderman Carter and Deputy Farrar as
wholly otjectionable in such a public locality. Oa

the motion of Deputy Harrison, the memorial was
referred to the General Purposes Committee to
consider and report whether any and, if any,
what other place, could be found for the erection of
a urinal in that neighbourhood. A petition was
next presented by freeholders, leaseholders, and in-
habitants of Ludgate-hill and its neighbourhood,
stating that they were painfully alive to the fact
that, unless immediate steps were take to avert it, e
viaduct would be placed by the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway Company across Ludgate-hill,
under the powers obtained by their act of 1860;
that accidents in that now over-crowded thorough..
fare were of frequent occurrence, and that it re-
quired the utmost vigilance of the police to keep the
traffic in proper order; that the headway of the pro•
posed bridge was to be only 18ft, and they were con-
fident such a bridge would be the cause of still more
frequent accidents from the fact of trains passing
so near the beads of horses in the roadway beneath.
They also stated that at the present time Ludgate-
hill required to be improved, but that a viaduct as
proposed would seriously interfere with any such
improvement; that it would shut out from Fleet..
street the existing view of the cathedral of St.
Paul's, and that they were informed by eminent
engineers that the railway might be conveyed un-
der Ludgate-hill, by means of a tunnel. Bills, the,
said, were now before Parliament on behalf of the

London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company,
to extend their time and to transfer the powers ob-
tained by them in 1860 to a new company, to be
called the Ludgate Station and Junction Railway
Company; and that an opportunity was thus
afforded of making arrangements with the cons'
pang to carry out the proposed railway without
constructing the obnoxious viaduct. The memorial
was referred to the Improvement Company. Dr.
Letheby, the medical officer of health for the city,
reported on the state of 191 houses that had bees
inspected during the week, and he submitted a list
of 79 places for sanitary improvement. He sub'
witted a certificate of the indecent and unwholed
some overcrowding of the house, No. 5, Catherine-
wheel-alley, Bishopsgate-street, and he also cer•
tified that the two houses, Nos. 11 and 12, in Fire'
ball-court, Houndsditch, were permanently un-
fit for human habitation. The mortality re'
turns for the week are above the average
for the season, Last week there were 64 deaths
in the city, the average number for the correspond'
ing period of the last seven years being 59; 22 Of
the deaths were among infants, and 13 among per"
eons of 60 and upwards. The chief causes of death
were as follows :—Phthisis, 8 ; tubercular diseases,
4; pneumonil, 2; bronchitis, 8; whooping-cougbf
1 ; diphtheria, 1 ; measles, 5; smallpox, 5; scarlet
fever, 5 ; diarrhoea, 2 ; and continued fever, 1
making together 12 deaths from tubercular diseases,
10 from inflammatory affections of the lungs, end
'2O from diseases of a zymotic character. Fifty'
seven births were registered in the week.