The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-20 00:00:00

CLERKENWELL SESSIONS.

Mr. Sergeant ADAMS addressed the grand jury at
great length, applying his remarks chiefly to the Bill
passed in the late session of Parliament for the better
administration of justice in the county of Middlesex.
He alluded to the necessity for a new prison, in which
the prisoners should be confined before trial. The P-4,-
sent state of Newgate was disgraceful. He had recently
paid a visit to it, and found it crowded with prisoners.
In many cases there were fourteen confined in the
same cell, and there being but one yard, little boys and
persons who might be now imprisoned only for the first
time were obliged to herd with the hardened profligate.
There such a thing as classification was quite out of the
question. The state of what was called the New Prison
(which had been built in the reign of James I.) was like-
wise disgraceful. Some of the public prints bad inveighed
against this Bill, on the ground of the excessive expense
its provisions would entail on the county. But those
who stated that must be either ignorant of the subject
on which they treated, or wilfully misrepresented ii.
The recent regulations would be, on the whole, beneficial
to the ratepayers. The expense of building the new
prison would be only 27,000/ ; money could be had at
4 per cent., and the payment of the debt could be ex-
tended over a period of thirty years ; in fact, a rate of
one penny in the pound would suffice. It had been like-
wise insinuated by some of these journalists, that a com-
pact had been entered into with the magistrates for the
purpose of extending the sy3tem of solitary confinement.
That was altogether false, and it was only proper to set
the public mind right on the subject. The C.oldbatli-
fields prison was at present also crowded, whilst West-
minster prison, which bad cost the county of Middlesex
160,000/, was almost empty ; and a Middlesex magis-
trate—such had been the absurdity up to the present
time—had not the power to commit to it. The Bill would
do away with this absurdity. He thought it would be
rather to the advantage of Westminster if no sessions
were holden there. The Sessions Court there cost the
county of Middlesex 700/. a year ; if all the business
of the city of Westminster were transferred to Middle-
sex, there would be no need for this Court, and thus the
expenditure would be saved to the county. The Learned
Chairman next alluded to the practice of many police
magistrates in committing the most trivial cases to the
Central Criminal Court, instead of to these sessions,
which were expressly designed for the trial of such cases.
Many of the police magistrates committed, in the course
of a short time, nearly 200 cases, the larcenies not being
greater in amount than from Id. to Is. After some
further observations, the Learned Gentleman concluded
by explaining to the grand jury the nature of their duties
and congratulating them on the new measure.

EMIGRATION ON A GRAND SCALE.—It is rumoured
that a large section of Calvinistic Methodists, 1,000 at
least, from Carnarvon and Anglesey, are preparing to
emigrate to the United States, with a view to forming a
community on the banks of the Mississippi.—Liverpool
Journal.

SUICIDE FROM CONJUGAL DIFFERENCES.—An in-
quest was held at Guy's Hospital on Saturday, before'
Mr. J. Payne, on the body of George Revell, aged 45.
Richard Hill, a police-constable, said that on the 2d
inst. he was on duty in Rotherhithe•street, when he
heard that a man had committed suicide at No. 202 in
that street. He went there and found the deceased in bed
with his throat cut, and upon looking about the room he
found the razor with which the wound had been inflicted.
He asked deceased what was the matter, and deceased
answered, " I have murdered myself ; I did it because
my wife ran away from me." Witness sent for
a surgeon to dress the wound, and then took him to
the hospital. 'William Revell, aged fourteen, said that
his mother ran away about a week before his father at-
tempted his life. Deceased was much affected at the loss
of his wife, but when she heard what had happened she
returned and saw him in the hospital. He was then
dying. Mr. Seeley, the house surgeon, said that de-
ceased died from the effects of the wound in the throat
on Saturday morning. Verdict, " Temporary insanity."
GROUSE SitooTING.--On Saturday evening the
General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Leith
left the Company's wharf, Poplar, for Leith, with a more
than usually large number of passengers, most of them
for the Highlands, to commit havoc among the part-
CROWN SIDE. ridges,
&c., abounding on the moors at this sporting sea-
son. Among the voyagers were the Duke de Melfort, Richard Woodhouse, a youth of about 17 years of
Lord Gray, Captain Littlejohn, Captain James, Lord age, was indicted for throwing a corrosive fluid over
Be • rridale, Colonel Elphinstone and family, Joseph Hume,
admission nzcitiPrTosrJane Liffey, with intent to injure her.
Esq., M.P., &c. Mr. Green conducted the prosecution, and Mr. J.
Av
visitors
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the Sll 0.. —T 101 en tickets of Pollock the defence.
of Glasgow last week—the ticketscattle-showthe Green It appealed from the evidence, that on the 16th of
of 2s. sd. and Is. each
1,5231. Us. Gd.— e . being sold at the rate May last some children, among whom was the child
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_as—realised the enormous amount of who was injured, and
molknlthAsTa
thueeroenbvasrnziotlsbteesujecnoNeli""L who was little mote than two
DISCOUNT.—Dtiring the last two years old, were playing in. Penny-street, •Manchester,.
parish church of Bridlington. marriage Sec solemnised
in
the
near her mother's house. The prisoner, who had
among. a population of more than
h suspension has been sent by his master to a shop for some aqua-
very rarely occurred
on
. fortis, was returning in that direction, when he met
5,000 inhabitants.—Hull Packet. the poor little child, and without any provocation
staves, from Oc-
THE DUTY ON STAVEs.--,13-
it appears that the: duty on
.y a returnprinted poured some-of the liquid on the back of her neck,
in conseque
Saturday
colonial. The return further., nee of which she was severely injured.
tober, 1842 to July last,-was 53,1291., Of which 43,5534 1 She was taken to the infirmary, where she remained
six or seven weeks before she was sufficiently was foreign and 7,5764
re-
shows the staves exported and imported over a number covered to be discharged.
of years, Mr. J, kom.ocK, in 'addressing the jury for the
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NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 18.
The Learned Judges of Assize arrived here last
evening from Lancaster, and opened the Commission
of Assize for the southern division of this county.
This morning their Lordships attended DivinOki.-
vice, and about noon proceeded to business; /flie
Lord Chief" Baron presides in the Crown ciolitt, and
Air. Justice Creswell on the Civil Side.

The cause list contains an entry of 37 causes for
the first list, which includes the hundred= of Salford,
and 95 for the second list, for the West Derby hun-
dred. It is rumoured that the Solicitor-Gineral, Sir
F. Thesiger, comes down on a special retainer in two
cases—" Ferrer v. Deflinne" and " Milne v. the Cor-
poration of Manchester," in which latter also Mr. F.
Kelly comes down for the plaintiff

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The calendar contains the names of 86 prisoners.
There is 'one case of murder, 5 of attempts to mur-
der, 7 of manslaughter, 4 of rape, 10 of burglary, 5
of cutting and wounding, and 2 of throwing Vitriol.

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