Appointment of inspectors of prisons--Their names and antecedents--Mr. Crawford and Mr. Whitworth Russell at once visit Newgate, and make a searching inquiry--Find old evils still present--Overcrowding no longer excusable--Want of classification--The governor, Mr. Cope, blamed for this--Prisoners' treatment--No beds, uncleanly, and in rags--Baleful despotism of prisoner wardsmen, who have more power than the officers--Again proofs of Mr. Cope's neglect--Scenes of horror in Newgate--Gambling, drinking, debauchery--Flash books allowed--Libel of Stockdale v. Hansard grows out of this--Serious affrays in the wards--Prisoners badly wounded by one another--Extra and luxurious food admitted--Also visitors of both sexes indiscriminately--Same evils to a lesser degree on female side--Ladies' Association--No real separation of the sexes--Mr. Cope an offender in this respect--The press-yard or condemned convicts' yard the worst of all--Culpable and indiscriminate association--Brutal behaviour of many of those sentenced to death--The ordinary checked in his zeal--Criminal lunatics allowed to remain in Newgate--House of Commons' prisoners monopolize hospital and best accommodation in the gaol--Abuses of State Side revived in their case--Evils rampant briefly recapitulated by inspectors--Their report raises a storm in the city--Protest of the Corporation--Some attempt at reform--Many of the charges reiterated in later reports--No radical reform possible without complete reconstruction.