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COURT OF ALDERMEN..

On Tuesday a Court was held for the dis pa tch of
business.

The Rev. Mr. Marshall, chaplain to the: Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor, was appointed chaplain to the
Borough Compter.
A report was presented on the further con sidera-
tion of the report respecting the maintenance of
criminal prisoners and expenses of proseculions.—
Agreed to.

--Upon a motion of Alderman CHALLIS, a deputa-
tion was appointed to wait upon the Secretary of
State respecting the return of expenses of maintaining
convicted prisoners, and for public prosecutions.

fect idleness, makes them spend. their leisure in
awfully corrupting one another. I will not mock your
feelings by attempting to describe the language, acts,
and habits of those utterly depraved men. Their fil-
thiness, falsehood, and pernicious abominations are
too bad to be described. I blame no one that
things are so. The m +gistrates wish these men
removed to their proper places rf confinement.
The Government are unable to comply 'with these
reasonable desires, because every place is full.
Would it not be better, then, t) fit up 'n :Leis as
workshops after the manner of Milbank Prison,
and keep these offenders constantly at labour, compel
them to wear the prison dress, and subject them to the
prof or discipline, when occupied prisoners are more
consented, and cannot reitemploy their time in cor-
rupting and disgusting language? I press this matter
the snore earnestly because it has teen the cause of
all the calumnies that have f.Jund their way into
many public documents as to the corruption inside of
Newgate. Such depravity is chiefly limited to the trans-
port wards, and those in which known offenders are as-
asociated. The public arogetting much better to under-
stand not merely what can be done, but what cannot be
done with incorrigible offenders.
-The limits begin to
be discerned where reformation is hopeful,- and where it
is visionary. The character of the inveterate thief gets
better understood, and he will be treated as his conduct
requires he should be treated. •
a THE SEPARATE CELLS.
" There is another part of the prison that still more
urgently calls for the attention of the worshipful Court. I
mean the state of the cells where prisoners are confined
under sentence, or when the nature of the charge requires
they should be kept separate. These cells are so intensely
cold when the weather is inclement that the degree of
pain which the prisoners feel is almost as great as
human nature can endure. The pain of extreme cold is
one of the most severe that the human frame can ex-
perience. It is often necessary either to expose prisoners
to this !grievous suffering or to- remove them to other
parts of the prison far lest desirable. The Court
has frequently had this subject under their notice, and
has gone so far as to-prepare plans for the warming and
ventilating of these cells; but nothing has hitherto bean
done to remove from the prison an evil which, in very
cold weather, amounts almost to torture.

" INCORRIGIBLE CONVICT,.
"During the la, tyear we have had three prisoners tried
for acts of violence towards turnkeys—one from Wool-
wich hulks, one from Millbank prison, and one from the
New Model Prison, Pentonville, They were each mur-
derous attempts, from vindictive motives, at personal
violence, and are strong indications of the depravity of
incorrigible convicts. It is apparent that the sentence
of transportation, carried out by separate confinement,
is not sufficient to deter these violent and rash
offenders. The only remedy for such men is firm,
gentle, but rigorous imprisonment, with plenty of
occupation, with moderate opportunities for self-
reformation; not so such with a hope that they may be
really made available, as with a proper deterinination to
leave thorn without excuse. Amongst this class of
offenders were the extreme penalty against murder re-
laxed, the frequency of this heinous crime would be
frightfully multiplied.
" JOHN DAVIS, Ordinary."
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Gentlemen,imena:in:errant,
Ordered, together with the report of the Rev. Mr.
Cohen, the chaplain of the Giltipur-street Compter,
upon the state of that prison, to be printed.
Adjourned.