The Select Committee of the Common Council on the Prisons
of the City, have reported,
"That it is expedient to provide means for the separate confinement of prisoners committed for trial before the Central Criminal Court. That for this purpose it is advisable, either to reconstruct Newgate, or build a new prison adjoining the place of trial."
It is said that Government prefer the plan of reconstructing New- gate ; which will cost 60,000/, one half of which sum is to be contri- buted by the City.
The Lord Chancellor, on Wednesday, dissolved the injunction ob- tained by Messrs. Ransom and Co. against the erection of the statue of George the Third in the open space at the head of Cockspur Street. His Lordship said, that, in his opinion, the statue would be a great ornament to that part of the Metropolis.
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