MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—The Magistrates of Middlesex sat at Clerkensvell, on Thursday,
for the despatch of county business. A motion was carried to compel Dlr. Stirling to give in his accounts, and to give up the papers be.
longing to the county. The report on the House of Correction having been given in, a conversation arose on the escape of two prisoners on the day before Christmas. It appeared that they made their escape by obtaining pos- session of two ladders, which were kept within the prison, and passed with them through the gate, at which place they were supposed to be two of the prisoners employed for the purpose of assisting the bricklayers in the outer yard. The escape of the prisoners was held to arise from employing them as workmen; and a Committee was appointed to inquire into the matter. From a conversation upon the projected Lunatic Asylum for the county, it appeared that the difficulties in the way of commencing the building are in a train of adjustment.
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