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Arrangements have been completed for the purpose of immediately carrying out the provisions of the new Police Courts Act, and several new courts will be speedily established. In about a fortnight, the Petty Sessions of Greenwich will be done away with ; and it is said that Mr. Jeremy is to be appointed the Stipendiary Magistrate for that district. Mr. Vine, the second clerk at Bow Street Police-court, has received the appointment of chief clerk at Greenwich Police-court ; and he will proceed to enter upon that duty forthwith. As the Magistrate appointed to this court will be precluded from holding his sitting at any inn or place of public entertainment, it is understood that in the first instance a portion of the residence of Mr. Malileau, the Superintendent of the district, will be set apart for that purpose. It is expected that the Greenwich Police-court will be put in operation in about ten days or a fortnight.
The number of persons confined for debt at the present time in the Queen's Bench prison is about 120; and there is nearly the same num- ber in the Fleet prison, besides a few prisoners residing in the rules of both. In Whitecross Street prison about 330, and nearly 100 on bail under the direction of the Insolvent Debtors' Court. In Horsemonger Lane 12e, and the 3larshalsea 44. There are a few prisoners in the Borough Compter, a prison where persons are taken in execution from the Burr ugh Court of Record and the Southwark Court of Requests, when they reside in certain parishes of the Borough. There were in times past about SOO in each of the two first-named prisons. In White- cross Street prison there are more than in all the others, and for a very obvious reason ; it is the Sheriffs' prison for London and Middlesex, where all persons residing in the two jurisdictions are conveyed when taken in execution ; and as nearly the whole intend to take the benefit of the act, they do not srocure their removal by a writ of habeas corpus.
Biethslsrnew Fair, curtailed of many of its glories, was brought to a close on Saturday night, ).% ithout any disturbance. The owners of the booths wed so notch diligence in removing, that not a vestige of the fair remained in Smithfield on Sunday morning. Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, the Commissioner of the City Police, in a letter to the Lord Mayor, describing the result of the recent reforms in Bartholomew Fair, says, that notwith-tandirig the disappointment occasioned to the fre- quenters of such scenes from the curtailment of its duration, there was no disturbance- " Throughout the three days only six cases were brought to the Station- house of tbs sedthtield division, four of which were discharged upon littering before the Ma,:iste:ite, oi:e other, for attempting to pick a pocket, wits sen- tenced to irnpri,onment ; and the sixth, a charge fur uttering a bad shilling, remains for further hearing."
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