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London, England, 1844-11-21 00:00:00

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COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
MUNN v. DENTON.
This was an appeal from the borough of Bury .;t.
Edmund's. The claim to vote was made for a house,
which was in reality but a cow-house, with one roan
occupied by the person in care of the cows.
The COURT held that where there was a habitat le
room actually occupied as a dwelling, that constituted a
house, and the claim was good.

MOSS V. THE OVERSEERS OF ST. MICHAEL'S, LICHFIELD.
The appellant occupied a house jointly with his fath( r,
who alone was rated, although the son paid the rcr.t.
The barrister refused the claim, and the Court now c e-
cided against the appeal on the ground that the payment
by the son was a voluntary act, and could not entitle him
to vote, as he Was cot rated.

MARSHALL V. BROWNE.
This appeal was also trom Lichfield. It appeared that
the appellant, with five others, took a house jointly, or
the purpose of procuring votes for the city of Lichfield.
The barrister disallowed the claim on the ground that
it came within the meaning of the Act the 7th and Bth
Win. 111., for the prevention of splitting votes.
The COURT took time to consider their judgment.
There being now but nine cases decided out of thirty-
three, and this being the last day set down for hearing
registration appeals,
Mr. COCKBURN begged to ask their Lordships whether
they would name a day for resuming the hearing ?
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said they must appoint a
day out of term, as Monday would be the last day of
term, and it was impossible to take any of the remaining
appeals in the meantime.
The Court then rose.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAL
GLOBE—As the Court of Aldermen has shown a
disposition to listen to the remonstrances and recom-
mendations of Sir James Graham in the matter of the
evening sittings of the Central Criminal Court, we
venture to suggest to the Right Hon. Baronet that he
offer a hint to their worships as to the expediency of
taking the state of the City prisons into their serious
consideration. An intimation from him, that the
Government may find it necessary to interfere, if the
civic authorities do not undertake the obvious duty
of rendering their prisons sufficiently capacious
for the peeposes of health, and to admit of
somethieJg like classification of the prisoners,
might act as a spur upon the proverbial indifference
of the Court of Aldermen to such matters. Really,
it is too bad that, while every other city and toe n
of the empire has provided suitable buildings for the
purpose of introducing the plans which are requite d
for rendering prisons not merely places of confine-
ment, but of discipline, the criminal prisons of the City
of London, provided and controlled by the Corpora-
tion authorities, should be,
,as they are, miserably de-
fective in everything that is required for the attain-
ment of this important object. Were it not notorious,
and thus placed beyond all controversy, it would
scarcely be credited that, in the very centre of the
metropolis, stand ill-constructed buildings for the re-
ception of prisoners, placed therein for the punishment
of offences against society—buildings which ought t•
be so constructed as to conduce to the reclaiming of
those of the inmates who have not yet become har-
dened in crime. When surprise is expressed at the
manifestly defective state of these City prisons, tl e
answer which the inquirer in the cause receives is—
" The Government has no control here : the Copora-
tion has absolute management of these prisons ; is
extremely jealous of its privileges ; and, though the
funds at its command and disposal are immensely
large, it has not found either time or money for such
purposes." Newgate—the principal criminal prison,
situated in the heart of the metropolis, is notoriously
in competent in point of size, and inconvenient in its
construction, for the required purposes. We admit
that there have been attempts to improve the system
of management in this prison ; and that a marked
change for the better has been effected. But the de-
fects of the building cannot be cured. These would
prevent the best intentions of the most efficient prison
disciplinarians from being carried into execution. The
site of the prison is too contracted, and the formation
of the wards and yards too confined, for the purposes
of preserving the health of the prisoners ; classification,
on which their reformation so much depends ; and
stringent discipline, without which mere deprivation
of personal liberty is no punishment to a London
thief. But if Newgate be objectionable, as a pri-
son, for the reasons we have assigned, what shall
be said of Giltspur-street Compter ? That prison
was constructed according to the crude and im-
perfect notions of the prison architects of
nearly a century ago ; when to thrust the largest
number of prisoners within the narrowest pos-
sible space, and to surround them with immensely
thick walls was regarded as the perfection of
prison building. With these now-exploded notion;
Giltspur-street Compter was constructed to accom-
modate about 1.50 prisoners. It is now by no means
an unusual occurrence for 200 to be incarcerated
therein :-210, and even 220, have been huddled to-
gether within its walls, exposed to the malaria arising
from almost living putrescence ! We are not now
describing things that were, and have passed away.
Within the last few days, as we have reason to know,
this was the case in Giltspur-street Compter ! What
renders this state of things the more blameworthy
is, that there is literally no excuse for their existence.
So valueahle is the site occupied by this ill-constructed
and inefficient prison—especially to the Governors
of Christ's Hospital, whose edifices it adjoins—
that the latter have offered to build the Corporation
of London a new prison, constructed after the best
model, and on a convenient spot, in exchange for
Giltspur-street Compter, and the site it occupies..
Yet the prison stands—a monument of reproach to
the City of London, and to the age and nation in
which a Corporation is permitted to perpetuate a
building which lacks every requisite, as a prison,
suited to reclaim as well as punish its wretched in-
mates.
STANDARD.—We insert to-day a great number
of communications and letters upon the subject of
some late proceedings in the diocese of Exeter, and of
some further proceedings in the same diocese, which
are expected with anxious alarm. These communi-
cations are not one-twentieth part of the communi-
cations and letters upon the same subject received at
our office within the last two days ; and we can state
with perfect truth, that, in selecting them from the
voluminous mass, we have been actuated chief b a HINTS NEWLY MARRIED.—In commencing
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desire to publish those only which appeared the most yourno matrimonial o Tnordinary cilEl
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moderate in their views and the most temperate in more than two-thirds of your availanbleu
style. Let us not, however, be understood as con- resolved upon this, most rigidly adhere thereto' tou .
This.nig
damning the spirit of those correspondents whose fa- the first element of success, if accompanied with industry
yours we suppress. We hope that the channel of pub- and perseverance. Pay all your household expenses, at
lication which they have preferred is warrant that any rate, at the time they arise. Take no credit upon
they are good Protestants and zealous Churchmen; but such items of expenditure; if you can adopt the same
Van in your business, you are on the high road to fortune.
the best men, when they are dissatisfied and in earnest,
will, as was well remarked by the late excellent Michael Ftno foolish pride,. no ridiculous example, no superficial
make you incur expenses
in furnishing your house
Sedley, say bitter things ; and the case is one from
advice,
the consideration of which we would, if possible, ex- which your present means will not warrant. Your atten,
tion must also be specially directed to the propriety of
elude all bitterness. Every Protestant must feel n I limiting your circle of friends to such a compass and to
deep debt of gratitude to the Bishop of Exeter—all such a class as will not interrupt your business, or tempt
acknowledge his stupendous talents, so long and , you into expenses : these are rocks upon which the hap-
so indefatigably devoted to the service of our piness of hundreds have been wrecked. Are you to have
Protestant Church ; and they who are acquainted I a servant or servants ? is another question of no mean
with the kindness, the purity, and the sincerity I importance. Each servant, upon an average, will cost
of his private life, must unite love of the man from thirty to forty pounds per annum; besides the waste,
with their veneration of his public character. I the breakage, and the destruction through unnecessary
The errors of such a man are, it is true, roughness. Spend your evenings at home.
the least to be overlooked, because they are by their A specimen of Irish linen, denominated " the golden
example, the most dangerous ; but, surely they are flax," has recently come before us, as a manufacture in
to be treated with gentleness in the exposure of them,
this neighbourhood ; algid we cannot withhold our testi-
mony to the beauty of its bleach and fabric, uniting the
The feeling that the serious errors, into which we
greatest softness and brightness with the strongest fibre.
conscientiously believe the Bishop to have fallen in This bids fair to put further off than ever all foreign
the recent proceedincommandsuch
, - competition with Ireland in the linen fabric, and to ex,
ment, might have
of the articles relatingb
caused us to modify even those tend our home consumption for this beautiful manufae-
tion, which will foundto the proceedings in ques- ture ; affording at the same time an additional encou-
we dislike to meddle .in our columns, but that ragement for the production of the finest qualities of flax
friends when we can .th the writing of our at home, for which our soil and climate are found in
and also consider
it necessary that the Bishoppanitci, every way suitable. We cannot help indulging the hope
disposed to imitate him, shall hoethierfs who may be that ere long Belfast may be to the linen trade what
trehmeoefdthe best
impression made upon the minds of same the Manchester is to the cotton, with this further advantage
thue sidep
tof the former—that her looms may be work-
Protestants and best Churchmen of
biy his Lordship's treatment of the Helstocnounetarsye, ug
tendino• itejairfouctof a
throughout our
industry—gradually ex-
} ully apprised of that impression, the Bishop of scooumtlfa-2-yielding food ando tutriut
gagriculturalanadpipartecriciattionnthoof
Exeter would, we are convinced, be among the issuingtinw means
n
ford its gratification—and, above all,
very first to labour in effacing it by the manly discerni
-rig,a and darin topenudeuce of mind, capable of
gchoos©, the truth,—Belf
Abandonment of a course which, though re- , paper.use

Let one single case be taken before a Judge of
Assize, and all this contumacy of the law will soon
be put a stop to.—l am, Sir, yours, &c. &c.
Nov. 19, 1844. NOT : CANT., U., R.

TERMINATION of the TURN-OUT.
STOC )(Form—At the beginning of this week the mills
in full work were those of Messrs. Orrell,Gee, Fernley,
Wilkinson (Heaton-lane), Axon, Littlewood, Pen -
dlebury, Little, Hollins, Andrew Stuart, and Henry
Hunt. Partially—Messrs. W. and C. Howard, John
Lee, Robinson, Jessie Howard, Marshal, Mayer.
Spinners all out—Messrs. Wilkinson (Portwood), T.
Leigh, Whitelegg, Barlow, Holt, Lingard and Crut-
tenden, Reid, Eskrigge, T. Hunt, and Ogden. In
consequence of the turn-out of the spinners, great
numbers of hands employed in the other departments
were reduced to a state of compulsory idleness.
the effect, however, was evident at the end of last
week ; their resources were becoming exhausted, and
in order to attain their object they were necessitated to
resort to practices of an unlawful character. On Friday
and Saturday, " picketting" the mills became very
general, and some inconvenience was experienced in
consequence. Mr. Howard's, Mr. Robinson's, and
Messrs. Marshall's hands were, in some instances, ob-
structed. The police had information of the circum-
stance, and, by four o'clock on Monday morning,
were on the watch, going round to the mills at work,
to afford protection to the hands as soon as the mills
started. Nothing material, however, occurred.
Several private meetings of the spinners were held,
and, on Monday afternoon, a public meeting
of the power-loom weavers was held on Waterloo-
road, at which speeches were made and re-
solutions passed, expressive of sympathy with
the spinners under present circumstances, and of
a determination on their own part to persevere in their
demand for a second rise of five per cent. Com-
mittees of each party were also recommended, as
efficient means to attain that object. Yesterday, how-
ever, it was notified to the masters that the hands were
disposed to return to their employment at the old
rate, and that the whole of them were prepared to re-
sume work this (Wednesday) morning. Messrs.
Eskrigge's hands returned to work yesterday morn-
ing, and Messrs. Hole, Lingard, and Cruttenden's
hands signified their willingness to do the same. The
turn-out may therefore be considered at an end.—
Manchester Guardian.