The Express. — 1861-10-18 (London, England)

TWOPENCE  MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.  After our report left yesterday the report from the House of Detention was agreed to. The grant of 20/. to Mrs. Morley was agreed to. 101. was granted to a wardress of the House of Detention, Miss WLarhlia, who bad resigned her situation, towards enabling her to proceed to New Zealand. Mr. Fran, Mr. Harwood, and Mr. Habwell, were appointed to the Coldbath•fields Committee ; Mr. liturslem, Mr. Stilwell, and Colonel Dickson, to the Westminider Committee ; and Sir James Tyler, Mr. Summers, and Mr. Simpson, to the House of Detention. There were no parishes or places in the county in smear to the rate.  The salary of Mr. Adams, chief clerk of the Home Correction, Coldbath-fields, was increased from 2001. to 22.51. per year ; and that of Mr. Tillery, the engineer, from 208/. to 2601. a year. A number of formal reports were brought up. Mr. Le Brument applied for the grant of a pension or superannuation allowance, to be computed according to his length of service, at l'AOthe per year, be having been an officer in the service' of the county since 1817. Mr. Le Brument resigned his situation as warder at the same time as Mr. Morley, who committed suicide in Hornsey.fields in August last. The latter was recomnieuded for a pension, Mr. Le Brumeut was not. The memorial set forth the period of the applicant's service since the opening of the House of Detention, and that his wife had been chief female warder at the Westminster prison, and was now in the receipt of • small pension from the county. It stated that on the alteration in the arrangements in the prison, in IMO, he was temporarily removed, but in six months afterwards be was again placed upon the staff, and continued to discharge his duties to the best of his ability, and, as he believed, to the satisfaction of the visiting justices, until June last. During that period he had been fined only four times, and on each occasion for very trivial offences against discipline. In 18,11 he was a candidate for the office of inspector of weights and measures. ' one of which was then vacant, and front about :30 candidates be was selected with four others to stand the election. and oely lost the eppointment by a majority against bun of four. In June last a change took place in the governorship of the prison, Mr. Hill having resigned and the present governor appointed. The memoriahst stated that—" He endeavoured, by respectful obedience to the orders of the new governor and attention to the duties of his office, still to merit that confidence which he believes be had hitherto enjoyed ; but your memorialist had the misfortune to incur the displeasure of the new governor and to be suspended, but the visiting justices, after hearing the facts, reinstated hint in his former position. That after such restoration to office, the governor treated your memorialist with much severity. That in support of his assertion your memorialist begs to lay before your honourable court the following facts :—When your mentorialist's wife left the House of Correction, she was and is still suffering from disease of the heart, ;tad that in consequence your memorialist was advised that country air was absolutely necessary to preserve bur life • whereupon your memorialist took a house about four mile; from the prison ; that the goveroor ordered your memorialist to come immediately and live near the prison. Your memorialist, however, requested permission to present a letter to the visiting justices, asking to be allowed under the peculiar circumstances to live where he was ; the governor astiented and received the letter, but he did not present it to the committee, and subsequently, upon your memorialist raking him about the matter, he said, ' I didn't ;rive it to the committee ; it's no matter, however, you'll not he here long.' "That on the Saturday before your memorialist resigned the governor said to him, ' I've fined you twice, and 111 tine tau every time I can ; and when I get six fines against you I'll take you before the committee and get rid of you. That the governor would frequently make the following and similar remarks to your memorialist :—' I wonder who made you a warder. I wonder what the magistrates were about when they made you a warder.' That your memorialist is prepared to verify upon oath or by affidavit the statements he has herein made. _ _  "That at the present time, and for • considerable period previously, your memorialist suffers, and has suffered, front • chronic complaint which frequently rendered hint almost unfit for the discharge of his duties, and this, coupled witk the treatment of the governor, and a conviction that the latter intended to carry out his threat and to get rid of him,' and by so doing reducing your memorialist to degradation and beggary, so prostrated his mental and physical powers as to almost make him unconscious of what he did, and in this state he resigned his situation. Your memorialist, therefore, humbly and earnestly prays that your woishipful court will extend to him that justice which it never fails to show under similar circumstances, and that in consideration of the time he has been in the service of the county he may be granted a pension." To this memorial were appended copies of certificates from Dr. Levies, of the House of Correction, Westminster, who hail operated upon Mr. Le Brument for a serious chronic disease ; and from Mr. T. H. Mitchell, of Lowthercottages, Holloway, who had attended him, and also his wife. From physical disability he was not able to continue his duties as a warder.  Mr. Wrarr paid this petition contained certain specific charges which had cot been brought before thw committee, and he therefore moved that it be referred to the committee to inquire into ita allegations, and report to the court.—Agreed to.