The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-29 00:00:00

LIST OF THE MINORITY

Who voted for Mr. Maxwell's Motion for leave to bring in a Bi]

for the Rel
Alsager, Richard
.Arbuthnot, flo:i. H.
Archdale, General
Attwood,
Attwood, T.
Bolden), Henry G.
Boling, W.
Brocklehurst, J.
Brltherton, J.
Campbell, Sir IL
Cavley, E S.
Cole, Lord
Dykes, F. L. B.
Euston, Earl of
Fiehien, J.
Finch, G.

ief of the Hand-loom Weavers.
Fleetwood, H. Scholefleld, J.
Forbes, W. Spiers, Alexander
Hallyburton, D. G. Steuart, R.
Hardy, J. Stuart, Lord Dudley
Hayes, Sir E. Tennent, J. E.
Jackson, J. D. Wallace, R.
Lewis, 1). Williams, W.
Lowther, H. C. Wood, Alderman
Lucas, E. Young G. F.
M`Catice, John TELLERS.
Mackinnon, NV. A. Maxwell, J.
Pigot, R. Gillon, W. D.
Plunkett, Hon. R.
Robinson, G. R.
Ruthven, E.
Ruthven, E. S.

PAIRED OPE.
Wakley, Thomas
Bowring, Dr.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

Yesterday a Court was held. The Court was not opened
until a question relative to the Cab and Omnibus Bill now in
Parliament was disposed of.
INSANE PRISONERS.

From the Newgate list of insane persons confined in that
prison it appeared that seven men and one woman were now
within the walls of Newgate. A long conversation took place
on the subject. The impression made upon the public was,
that if the Government persevered in calling upon the City of
London to maintain and keep at its expense all persons sent
to Newgate from the Central Criminal Court, upon the ground
of insanity, the Magistrates would pass such persons to their
several parishes or counties. It was stated by some gentlemen
of experience below the bar, that the annoyance occasioned by
'he insane to the other wretched prisoners was dreadful.
VIOLATION OF THE PRIVILEGES OF THE MAGISTRACY.

Sir P. LAURIE rose to address the Court upon a subject,
in his view, of very high importance. He meant the inter-
ference of a Bill in Parliament with the privileges of the
Magistracy. At the last Court it had been determined that
he, the Recorder, and Remembrancer, and such of the Mem-
bers of that Court as were Members of Parliament, should be
requested to wait upon the Secretary of State to remonstrate
with him upon the unconstitutional nature of the clauses,
which, as far as regarded Newgate, transferred the power of
regulating prisons from the Magistracy to the Secretary of
State, through the very suspicious medium of inspectors. Ac-
companied by the Recorder and Remembrancer, but not by
any of the Parliamentary Members of the Court, he had on
Friday waited upon Lord John Russell, and stated to his
Lordship the grounds upon which it would be expedient to
exclude Newgate from the general regulation. His Lordship
however, had given them no reason to suppose that the excep-
tion would be made, although he stated that Bridewell was
exempted from the operetion of the Bill. He, however,
promised that any suggestion which those whose who waited
upon him might make should be attended to, but he could not
see why Newgate, which was maintained by the City, and
which was always intended as a prison for persons before
trial, and not for punishment, could be at at all excused from
the general sentence which his Bill passed upon all the
prisons of the country. He trusted that a resolute opposition
would be made to a measure of so obnoxious a nature, and he
hoped that the Recorder, who who was so well qualified to
state the grounds of opposition, would propose a clause
likely to effect the object of those who wished to preserve the
privileges of the Magistracy of the City.--( Hear.)
The RECORDER stated that he had drawn up a clause to
the effect proposed, and should propose it when the Bill was
under discussion. The Bill provided that the rules of the
prison should be submitted to the Secretary of State, and dis-
tinctly invested that Minister with the absolute power of re-
gulating all the gaols in England. The Recorder then read
a clause, which he had drawn up, exempting Newgate from
the operation of the new Bill.
After a few more observations upon the subject, the mem-
bers of the Court who are Members of Parliament came to a
determination to endeavour to prevail upon the House to agree
to the Recorder's clause.—Adjourned.