The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-21 00:00:00

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Meeting of Middlesex Magistrates.

The usual meeting of the magistrates of Middlesex
was held yesterday at the Sessions House, on
Clerkenwell-green (Mr. Pownall, chairman of the
bench, presiding), to consider business relating to
the county. There were about 40 magistrates pre-
sent. The agenda-paper did not contain any mat-
ter of more than ordinary interest.
Mr. BALDWIN, the deputy-clerk of the peace, read
the minutes of the preceding Court.
The report of the Committee for Accounts and
General Purposes was then brought up, and amongst
other metters it recommended that a sum of £582
should be voted for repairs at the militia store-
houses in the county.

Mr. KEMSHEAD the chairman of the committee,
proposed, and Mr. TURNER seconded the motion
that the report be adopted, which was carried, but.
Mr. Turner said he hoped they would not be called
upon for this vote annually, though store-houses
must be kept in repair, and it was resolved that
that part of the report which related to the annual
visitation of inspection by the committee be de-
ferred until the next Court, when it was understood
it will be proposed that a committee of six should
be appointed to make the inspection, instead of the
general Committee of Accounts and General Pur-
poses. The report referred to the vacant office of
Inspector of Weights and Measures, consequent
upon the death of Mr. Thomas Reynolds, of the
No. 1 Tower Hamlets division. Some discussion
took place upon the recommendation of the com-
mittee that the situation should be offered seriatim
to the three remaining inspectors, viz., Mr. John
Wright of No. 2 division, Finsbury and Clerken-
well Mr. Morrison, of No. 3 division, Bloomsbury,
Sr Giles's, &c. ; and Mr. James Gregg, of No. 4, or
the Brantford division. It was resolved that the
vacant cffice should be offered for the acceptance of
Mr. John Wright, the senior inspector, which he
accepted, and was accordingly appointed to that
district, one of the local justices remarking that,
upon ithe death of Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Wright; took
charge of the duties of the situation, and discharged
them not only to the satisfaction of the magistrates,
but for the benefit of the poor, who only were the
real sufferers by such nefarious practices, as was
exemplified by the great increase of cases in which
the magistrates had to inflict fines, which had been
exceedingly large since Mr. Reynolds's death, and
he was sure they could not have a better officer for
the situation.

Mr. Morrison, on being asked if he would accept
of No. 2 dis rict, very respectfully declined, so he
still retains No. 3 district ; and the inspector of the
4th district, Mr. J. Gregg, not :being present to
make his choice, the matter concluded by the dis
trict No. 2 being left vacant for the present.
Mr. TURNER approved of what had been done in
the matter, but he thought that the election, being
one by the Court, they ought not to cdopt the prin-
ciple of seniority when these vacancies occurred,
but to see that the office would be filled by an able
and competent person.

THE PRISON REPORTS.

The usual reports from the three county prisons
were brought up and read. It appeared that them
were in Coldbath-fields in all 1,583 prisoners, of
whom 69 were sick, but the general state of health
and the discipline of the prison were good; and the
Court, on the recommendation of the committee,
granted several pensions to retiring officers. In
the Westminster Bridewell there were in all 681
prisoners, all females, and the surgeon reported
that, notwithstanding the prevalence of diarrhoea,
dysentery, and other diseases, outside the prison,
there had been no illness inside of anything like a
serious nature. A notice of motion was given for
improving the ventilation of some of the cells, gas
repairs, and some minor alterations, which had been
recommended, and the specifications prepared by
Mr. F. H. Pownall, the county surveyor. In the
House of Detention there were 235 prisoners, six of
whom were under medical treatment.

A report was brought up from the Reformatory
School Committee, appointed at the last Court-day,
"as to the propriety of entering into any agree-
ment with the directors or managers of any refor-
matory school or schools for the reception and
keeping in any such school or schools, juvenile
offenders from this county sentenced to be detained
in a reformatory school."

The committee recommended the adoption of the
proposition, which was supported by Mr. W. H.
Bodkin, the learned Assistant-Judge, who said
that as they could not send boys over fourteen to
their own school at Feltham, it was desirable and
very important that they should be enabled to send
boys from 14 to 16 to some reformatory—an age at
which the discipline of the reformatory would have
most effect.
After some discussion the proposition was adopted.
The Deputy-Clerk of the Peace, lir. G. D. Bald-
win, laid before the Court a ietter from the Home-
office, enclosing a letter from Mr. Perry, inspector
of
prisons of the southern district, recommending
the further enlargement of Coldbath-fields Prison
by two additional winv.—Referred.
After some minor matters had been disposed of,-
the Court adjourned.

SUMMARY PUNISHMENT FOR A DRUNKEN WIFE.
—" Manhattan" says :—" Dennis Haggerty ob-
tained a divorce from his wife this morning by the new
mode. She had been in the habit of getting drunk for
seven years. Mr. Haggerty went out early and warned his
wife that if she got drunk before he returned he would kill
her. She was drunk when he went home to dinner. Be
drew a pistol and shot her dead. He will be locked up for
some time."

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