The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-03-12 00:00:00

1911
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COMMON aIUNCIL.

Teafarday a Court of Common tooled' w•• holrt
at G•ildh•ll.=Mere not bang • ••lScieot notaber
of Alde►men •t ono o'clock, to coostitote a Court.

Mr. Gutrrtyte said, he thought the Lord Mayor
ought tamed out the Moot, to telt@ sine of them
into costal', and bring them
The LOAD M A Ton said, he vivid listen 16 so oh-
Wrentiono, se there lees no Court.
Mr. GRlYArnis said, he knew no nireerradoos of
his weeld here any fleet on hi. Lordship. . . . .

The Lono !Warm" said, bevy is e mail who intelta
roe, by saying that no observation of his would have
any *feet on me. U he warts to Insult me as e Mail,
will leave the Crier% and atijnern it. Uhe means
to 46.11 me perionally, he Say lid a liter oppor-
tunity for it.

Mr. OriMths ores silent.
Mr. S. Thum milked to knee if they Might not
indulge hi private cuatersaden, to which he under-
stood his Lordship to sssent.
Al a goofier past one o'clock. Aldermau Cos en-
tered the Court. who, with Alderman Beebe/11.
constituted a Coast, sod the hosigess of tha day was
gone into.
Mr. JA1431 lamented the delay and inconsesienre
from she nno.atteodance of the Aldermen, and in or.
dot, if possible, I. prevent a recurreero Of it. he
snored that the Lord Mayor be regoestert respectfully
to reprevent the same is, the Court of Aldhrssen.
The Loan Mayon said. he should feel it his defy
es In do sitboat any motion.
Mr. JAN', said. be bad every reliance on his Lord-
ship's promise. but be was of opinion that the Coon
should mark its sense of Ibis lacenvanionce. _ _

Mr. DAVITS seconded the motion, sod remarked,
that the absence of the Alderaen was not an on-
Ulllll4l OTCSTlrener.

Altlorenan Scitotat thowebt sone allowance ought
be made for the Aldereaen, who had may import-
It defies to attowd to.

Mr. OLDHAM said, die feet was, Gentlemen who
had passed she Chair timid Neither end leisure aor con-
salience to attend the defies of that Court, or indeed
to keep op a doe adonieist ration ofjestice in the City.
Ile thought a Committee ohoeld be eppointed to en.
Haire into the reason of this neglect.
' The LORD MAYOR admitted the existent* of this
delay ; bet it did not apply to all the Members of the
Court of Aldermen, which, he hoped, would insist
°Dewy one Ohs Members dein bitchily. Ile had
himself sent out an officer to takeend bring in tho
first Alderman he amid end, and he bad told his
Worthy Friend (Aldan's, Coo) on his entering the
Court, that he was sorry the lot had not fallen upon
him, more especially as t►ey were very geed friends.
lawgis.)—He hoped the Court wield mark its
sense of this mint.
The motion was then carried, Alderman Cot beieg
the only one who held up his band against it.
The Committee of Jell &peaces delivered in a
Report, recommending the Court to petition Parlia-
-1 went relative to Ike twopence i ed by the City In
the maintenance of Middlesex Palliser, and Convicts
' in the Jail of Newgate, and the evident impossibility
of under present circumstance,.
Mr. FAVILLL then called 'Aestivation of the Court
to the escvitive charges the City had been pet to i•
the erection and improvement of Jails. As a Com-
mittee of the House of Common. bad been eppeinted
to ►uillire into the elate of Jails, he thought they
I might to resent a Petition in Ilse Il.eas, preying ro
be allowed to go before the Jail Committee, to show
, that the County of Mideleses did not pa► its fair
proportion fur theinvintroossce of their pri.noers.

Mr. WILLIAM, believed shut, for went of room, It
was Impoisible for them to classify the pri s in
\Nagai', and whitlow that Ito good could I* affect•
ed. limo hod been 100 women in idesrgoie for 12
months after they had been sentenced to transport-
ation. lie complained of the committal of persona
to Newiate from County Pnlice.ciffiers, end repro.
hated the sending sixteen wretches into a place whore
it was Impoosible to prevent them from a recurrence
of the abominable offence far • hkb they had been
committed. In Clerkeuwell Prison he foond at pre.
sent but five in the cell*, and the Magistrates there-
fore ought so have committed them to that jail.
Mr. S. Dixon said, the Petition set out with say.
hog, ibat Neogste was the common jail of the City
and Calmly. flow then could they complain teat
the county prisoner, were committed to that place?
110 undoestood that the County Police-offices made
the number of their commitments a merit with the
Governnient. There were many persons who, from
the best motives, visited the !seisms., proctorial' this
prisoners better food, clothing, &c. and by an
doing making the uninformed prisoners think that
their guilt was not half so bad as it really is, or they
would sot have had so much care bestowed on them.
Mr. FATILLL said, that the gooduess of the per.
sons visiting prisons might have been abused ; hot
what most be the state of sitclety when nee con.
templated the inside of a prison with more Satisfac-
don than the outside?
The Report of tho Jail Committee was then agreed
to, and a Petition foooded sin it, soldered to be pre.
seated to she House of Commons. •
The Members of the Court, who are is Perlis.
moat, were ordered to be requested to support the
Petition.

The Improvement Committee presented • Report,

recommending no (isrtb►r proceedings to be hid at
persont by tl a COW!, in !heir •pplicrtlnn to Portia.
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Mtllt, Mpthttill IL. New Debtors' Prison, which
woo opted to.
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SALE OF MY OFFICE'S AND FP.FS.

The Report of the Coutunittse was brveght up en
MO Petition of Mr. J. Melia, Clerk of the Papers of
the Gilispor-street Croquet, pta)iou lot remunera-
tion, kc. It stated, th.t the ri!ootiort *at bought
by public tertian in 1805, for 1731., and far some
leers pse.dervel an animas, ar 801. cif VOL Sloe. the
abolitiou of tl a jail fees, bowevrt, it *4l tethered to
a mere !gale, !whops twist mote tb'n 301. per unooth.
Mr. T. N. WILLIAMS .*tented, that the Peleew
who held the sitostion should be not only a mane[
character, bat of professional ability. With mend
to fees, be remembered when an Act of radiomen'
passed with respect to the Court of Conacitmar, gm.
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