HOUSE OF CORRECTION, COLD...
The Times, 1824-05-29T00:00:00

XlOUSE OF CORRECTION, COLD-BATHI-FIELDS.-The hardships attendant on the present regulations for .the admission of visiters to persons confined In this prison are so great, aHd of such frequent occurrence, that some alteration in the systen t i manrue.t ly required. The admissioa of visiters is not only restritdtonc in a month, but the order for such admission cannot be granted by any magistrate indiscriminately, as formerly, but exclusively by the visiting magistrate, or the magistrate who committed the risoner The consequences ofthis8system are bestsebyi thein ioneortwo instances, oat of a number which are of daily occurrenPeo A few days ago a poor woman walked up to town from Uxbridge, for the purpose of seeing her sister, who was committed to this prison; she was a perfect stranger in London, and with difficulty found out the House of Correction. There some sulky, Cerberus sent ber to a policenfflice, where, after making fruit. less application for an order, she was referred back to the county magistrate who had committed the prisoner. An aged woman made her appearance at a police-office last week, requesting an order of admission: she stated that she bad come from four miles beyond Barnet; she was, howevere, eually unsuccessfal in her application. Independently of the difticulty of getting the, order of admission, great injustice is often done to rnany prisoners, by restrictimg the admissions to once a month. i'hany persons are committed in defauit of payment of some penaltv, which they would probably be able to arrange if their friends w`ere permitted access to them; for it is evident that arrangements of that descriptions cannot be so readily made by w,riting as by a personal interview. Accordingly, if a man is now committed in default of payment of' any penalty, he must remain in prison a month before he can see any friend to assist him. This is, undoubtedly, a severe case. We do not mttean, in making these observations, to insist upon a privilege of indiscriminate admission to all persons imprisoned for misde. meanours, but that some line of distinction should be drawn. Until, however, there be a general revision of the regulations, this object. cannot he attamned. FiItE&-Au alarming fire broke out last night, about 1U o'clock, in I{olywell street, Strand, in the bouse of hIr. Harris, clothes.salesman. By the timely arrival of the engines, and the prompt exertions of those connected with them, tbe fire was sub. dued without doing injury to any other art of the bouse but thatin which it wvas discovered. 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