The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-19 00:00:00

E KEN IN E TI 0 N

MIMING OF :iIdDDLESEX
GISTnATES.

Y(- y r. very numerous. pleeting of thr :NlagiAtrates
of thiiiiZocnty of Middlesex was held at the SeMions
Hon, ' Clerk enwell, for the despatch of cc.unty husitieso,
Alr. - pant ADAMS in the Chair.
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..i. Ti - Aus of the last Court were read and confirmed.
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~ -.,..; . irOUSE OF CORRECTION.
4 q3/1!: 1.0..11 of the Visiting Justive3 of the House of
COrkotti .as read. It stated that there were at present
conftile, iellin its walls (162 malts, 2`21 Ernale:,,, and 13
childien ;‘tiota 1' 913.

NEW PRISON.
The Report of the Visiting Justices of this prison stated
that it at present contained 74 male and 28 female pri-
soners, total 102 : and the gratifying fact that there was
only one prisoner in the infirmary.
On the motion that the report be received,
Mr. A RaisTßoNt; rose to call the attention of the Court
to a statement contained in a former report of the Visiting
Justices. He alluded to the treatment of Elizabeth
Showles, a prisoner, who, it appeared, was delivered of a
child at eight o'clock in the evening of the 31st of Decem-
ber, without any medical aid ; and that, on the 14th of
January, she was, by the order cf the surgeon of the pri-
son, forwarded to a police-office to undergo an examina
tion on the charge for which she was sent to prim. It
appeared thLt the surgeon c f the prison, when informed
that the prisoner had been delivered of a child, and re-
quested to attend her, said that he should not visit the
prison again th.t night, and that be did not see the pri-
soner ut one o'clock in the afternoon of the following
day. He hoped that some explanation of this un.t'er would
be given by some of the Visiting Justices portent.
Mr. DYER, as one of the Visiting Justices, said he was
anxious to state what had come to their knowledge. He
believed that the surgeon, on the occasion in question, had
done no more than had frequently been done before; as a
proof of whist be would state that it appeared, from an of-
ficial document win he then had in his hand, that within
the last five year cvanty women had been removed
from that priion been delivered of children within
an average of fift from-their confinement.
The Rev.:T. .'ms slid It was notorious that many
poor women resu -ficir household duties within fifteen
days after they 10.-_,iiiven birth to a child.
Mr. DYER said that neither mother nor child had so,-
tained anOric*venience from the rew,-nal in question,
and, therefore:so far the surgeon of the prison was not to
blame, although he certainly acted wrong in not going to
the prison when sent far to attend the woman, a fact which
he himself admitted, and for which he was.extremely
sorry, end had promised that it should never occur &tr'ain.
Mr. TULE thought that the surgeon ought not to be al-
lowed to shelter himself under the plea that nothing unto-
ward had occurred in the present case.
Mr. PowNm.t. thought that the past services of the sur-
geon entitled him to the indulgent consideration of the
Court, notigh he would admit that Le had acted extremely
wrong in not atleading tic woman when he was sent for ;
because nothing could excuse a medical man in not attend-
ing a woman under such circumstances.

Here the matter Cropped.
COCONERS AND PARISH OFFICERS.

Mr. ARMi,TRONG brougitt forward t:te following- motion,
of which he 11 td given notice :—" Tllitt it be referred to a
Commi•tae to cammunimte with the Secretary of State
for the Home Department and the Commissiomrs of Me-
tropoli as Police on the expedie :cy of the force under
the control of the Commissioners being in future em-
ployed in attneing the C, romrs' Courts, summoning the
Juries, and diieLrging all other duties rola ive to the hold-
ing of inquests, heretofore pet farmed by the parochial constr -
bles, with a 1,-ever to the efficient and uniform discharge of
those duties, and the saving a great and unnecessary ex-
pense to Vie county consequent on the ►'resent system, and
to report thereon to the Court as speedily as possible."
After a brief discussion, tie motion of Mr. Armstrong
was carrie

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