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Graham, and the Attorney-Genaral for Ireland in support of, and from Colonel Rawdon, and ,Mr. Morgan J. O'Connell, in opposition to the Bill, it was eventually postponed. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the louse adjourned at Two o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 10. Their Lordships assembled at five o'co .k. ARRESTMENT OF WAGES (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, this Bill was read a third time and passed. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from 3,130 of the inhabitants of a place in the county of Sussex, praying for the repeal of the malt-tax. He also presented a petition from the farmers of Burt, county Donegal, against the Irish Tenants' Bill. Lord LYTTLETON presented a petition from the Rev. Charles Miller, incumbent of Marlborough, praying for a dissolution of the Tithe Commission, and an alter ation in the tithe commutation. Several Bills were brought up from the House of Commons, principally connected with railways, and were severally read a first time. Lord CLIVE presented a petition in favour of the Oxford and Rugby Railway Bill. Lord BROUGH.I.II presented a petition from a gen tleman of the bar, complaining that he had been seriously injured by the late accident on the Great Western Railway, and praying their Lordships to in stitute an inquiry into the cause of it. PRIVILEGE. The Duke of RICHMOND begged to call their Lord ships' attention to a matter of privilege. He held in his hand the petition of Mr. Thomas Baker, who had been superintendeet of the C division of the metropolitan po lice force from the year 1829 down to August in the last year. The petitioner stated that on the 26th day of April, he attended before the Committee of that House, appointed to inquire into the law respecting gaming, when he was examined by such Committee, and gave evidence before them ; that Mr: John Harlow, a person named in that evidence commenced an action on the cese, in tee Court of Queen's Bench against him, wherein he sought to recover damages from the petitioner for in jury alleged to have been done to him in consequence of such evidence ; that petitioner had not pleaded to such action, and, therefore, he prayed the House to take the premises into their consideration, and to grant him pro tection against the action. He (the Duke of Richmond) begged to remind their Lordships that this individual did not voluntarily give his evidence before the Select Committee, but that the Committee called upon him to appear before them in consequence of his being the in spector of that division of the metropolitan police, whose duty it was to watch and know about gambling houses. The man was examined upon oath, and he be lieved he spoke the truth to the best of his belief. He had known him a great many years, having known him when he was in the army, in the Peninsula and Water loo, and he believed a more honourable man did not exist. He wished, therefore, to ask the Noble Lord the course that ought to be pursued in the case? The LORD CHANCELLOR said, if a witness who gave sworn evidence before their Lordships committed perjury, an indictment might be preferred against hire, but he did net know that a witness could be indicted for what he had spoken in a court of justice ; but the ques tion was, whether they should, under the circumstances detailed in the petition, protect the defendant. He under stood that the declaration alleged that the evidence was given before a Committee of that House. Lord BROUGHAM—In the presence and hearing of your Lordships. • The LORD CHANCELLOR—It was possible that he might have repeated the words not in his capacity as a witness. He should recommend the appointment of a Committee to search for precedents on the subject—a course which would be rendered necessary, as the case, in she ordinary course of justice, might come before their Lordships as the last court of resort. The Noble 'dad Learned Lord concluded by proposing the motion. Lad CAMPBELL moved, as an amendment, that the plaintiff and his attorney be summoned to appear at the bar of that House. He considered that there was no necessity for a Committee. He agreed with his Noble Friend on the Woolsack that no action could be main tained against a witness for evidence which he had given before their Lordships. He called on their Lordships to protect their privileges, and referred to the case in which an action was brought against one of the officers of their Lordships' House for taking an umbrella which had been left by a witness in his possession. In that case their Lordships threatened to commit the plaintiff to prison if he proceeded with the action. Lord BROUGHAM considered that the question was a new one, and that the one before the House did not involve a breach of privilege. They had only a quarter of an hour to decide what course they should adopt, and he thought the best course was to adopt the proposition of the Noble and Learned Lord to search for precedents. Their Lordships were not like the House of Commons. They were a court of justice, and to de clare that to be a breach of privilege which, perhaps, they would have in future to decide upon in their judicial capacity was so extraordinary a proceeding, that he was sure they would not attempt it. To call upon the plaintiff to disclose his case— such a proceeding would be an extraordinary, if not an extreme case. To call upon the plaintiff to come before them and tell them his case at the mere request of the defendant, was a course which he was sure they would not sanction. He believed that the Houses of Parlia ment had their privileges best secured by trusting their privileges to the courts of justice. Lord COTTENHAM said that the petitioner alleged that the action was brought for words which were spoken before a Committee of that House. He then said that he did not speak the words in the declaration. And also that what he did say was not spoken in malice. There might not be a word of truth in the petition,but if it was true there could be no doubt that the action which was instituted for that evidence was a breach of the privileges of the House. If they did not proceed imme diately, but stayed proceedings till Monday, mischief might de done in the interim ; and they had the ex ample of the other House before them to warn them of the consequences of procrastination in a question of that kind. Lord DENMAN hoped that they would not prevent the plaintiff in this case Irom proceeding with his action in a court of justice. He thought that the matter would perhaps have to come before them in their judicial ca pacity, and he did not consider that they would be up h gilding their high dignity, by resorting to the summary proceeding proposed. It would not be in his power to speak on the case at a future time, and he was therefore desirous to record his sentiments on the subject, before his judicial duties came on. The Noble Lord said that the precedents were all on one side. There was only one case in point— the umbrellacase, which was so called, from a party who attended the House on one occasion, 'when it sat as a judicial tribunal, and while there lost his umbrella. He accused one of the officers of the Rouse of having taken it, and summoned him to the Court of Requests for the offence. The House asserted its privileges, and quashed the proceedings. He thought it a most pernicious thing for them to interfere, and pre vent the law from taking its course. Ho thought if they proceeded in that high-handed way they would not raise their Lordships' character in the estimation of the country. It could not be supposed for a single moment that any court of justice iii England would give coun tenance to the plaintiff, if the evidence which was de posed to respecting him was based on truth. There had been nothing in the conduct of any court of justice which would entitle any party to say they had not discouraged an action of this nature, but on the other hand it was not to be said that a party could take advantage with impunity of his being in a Committee of either House of Parliament, to slander or libel another. The judges had always to perform their duty without fear and with out favour, and it was necessary they should do so, for the protection, not of one class of individuals, but for the protection of all, and to do equal justice to those who were found to have been injured, and to assist those in seeking the truth who complained of injury. Upon these general grounds he ventured to ask the House to pause before they adopted the amendment of his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Campbell). After a fe at words from Lord Ca emcee and Lord BROUGHAM, the House divided, when there appeared — For the motion For the amendment Majority On one' admission to the gallery, we found The Marquis of CLANRICARDE blaming the House for carrying the motion. Lord STANLEY considered that, by adopting the ratifier, they would not sacrifice on,. jot or one tittle of their power or authority. They had adopted the proper course in taking a short time to deliberate as to the course they should pursue. By inquiring into the steps which were taken on former occasions, that they might be guided in the course which they should pursue in re • gard to the case before the House, would not in the smallest degree detract from their dignity. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH considered witnesses ought to have the protection of the House extended to them; if by giving evidence they were liable to have ac tions brought against them, truth would with difficulty he elicited. Lord COTTEN-HA NI considered that they ought to know whether it was a breach of privilege or not with out searching fur precedents. The Duke of RICHMOND produced the printed evi dence of the Committee, of which he was Chairman. The petitioner was examined as witnesses usually were. When it was considered that they had blackguards to deal with—(A laugh)—they would perceive that it was very difficult to obtain information from any persons ex ceps the police. The Committee was then appointed, and eleven o'clock (this day) fixed for its first meeting. FRAUDS BY A RAILWAYr COMPANY. The Duke of RICHMOND then called the attention of the House to two petitions which he had placed on the table 6f that House. One of the petitions made a direct charge against the Directors of a railway company — that they had committed ten or fifteen cases of forgery. Ile thought it would not be right that such an allegation should be made, and that no inquiry should be instituted into it. If forgery had taken place, it ought to be in quired into, and he should, therefore, move that a Select 'Committee should be appointed to report on the peti 'one to which lie had referred. It was true that there was great difficulty in obtaining the attendance of Peers, but it would have a bad ' effect on the public, if, when it was stated in a petition that forgery had been committed by a Railway Company, that no attention should be paid to it. He considered that the report of the Committee on the Bill, which had passed the Commons, ought not to be received until the Committee he had proposed should have made their report. The party stated in the peti tion that he could bring forward fifteen people, whose names were put to the contract without their consent or knowledge. He himself knave nothing at all of the mat ter, from beginning to end, except what he had stated. Parties stated to the Standing Ord. rs Committee that they had seen the persons sign the deed of contract. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said it was a very serious forgery, and was punishable in a court of law. But he saw no reason vs.,y the Bill should be deferred in consequence, as it appeared that there would rem ain a 1 large surplus, which, without the sums set down to the parties in the d eed of contract, would be eno. gh to carry the Bill. The mames might be scratched out. Lord ASHB URTO:\.: considered the Committee was the proper tribunal to investigate the matt..r. The Duke of RICHMOND was not of that opinion ; he considered the Committee had no power to do so. It was the dutyof the Standing Orders Committee todecide on the matter when the Bill was before them. Lord ASHBURTON considered that they might throw out a Bill which contained names which had been forged to the deed of contract. The LORD CHANCELLOR said they could not then determine whether forgery had been committed or not. It was a very serious fraud. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY was understood to say that the subject had been mentioned in the Standing Orders Committee, but that the party who made the allegation could not point out the fraudulent names amongst those subscribed to the deed. The Duke of RICHMOND did not wish to delay the Bill. All he wanted was that it should not be read a third time until the subject had been cleared np. A 100,000/. clause was struck out of the Bill in Committee. If an existing railway required fresh powers, they were obliged to advertise their intention in the newspapers and the London Gazette, that every shareholder might know what was going on. This was under the " Wharn cliffe" clause. Lord STANLEY—It is a standing order. The Earl of DEVON moved, as an amendment, that the Committee should report specially whether the cir cumstances detailed to the House ought nut to delay the passing of the Bill. The Duke of RICHMOND said that was in direct opposition to the standing orders. Lord MONTEAGLE thought that a searching inquiry should be instituted. In the other House of Parliament a Member had been made liable for a sum of 30,0001. by a forgery of that kind. He thought that the public were entitled to have some protection with regard to these schemes, and he should therefore support the ap pointment of a Committee. After a few words from Lord CEIARLEVILLE, The Duke of RICHMOND moved that a Committee be appointed to investigate the allegations.—Agreed to, GAMES AND WAGERS BILL. On the motion of Lord WHAIINCLIFFE, the Wagers and Gaming Bill was read a third time, with amendments,-;and passed. DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE BILL. _ _ _ Lord BROUGHAM moved that this Bill should be printed as amended, and recommitted. He thought that there should be a provision to enable the journals of either House of Parliament to be given In evidence. The LORD CHANCELLOR approved of the gene ral provisions of the Bill, but had doubts as to the pro priety of that clause relating to the journals of the House. Lord CAMPBELL approved of the Bill. He though it would save a great deal of expense. IRISH JURORS BILL. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, this Bill was read a third time and passed. Lord BROUGHAM postponed the resolution of which he had given notice regarding the standing orders till to-morrow. FREE CHURCHES. - The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented a peti tion from the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, complaining of the refusal of proprietors of land in Scotland to grant sites for the erection of churches. The principle involved in this petition the Noble Marquis said, was most important. He always thought that it was one of the rights and privileges of the Constitution that those who might think fit to agree with the tenets of the Established Church could exer cise their religious belief according to their consciences, without persecution and with perfect freedom. If, how ever, Parliament suffered the proprietors of land to exer ercise the rights of property in direct violation of the principles of the Constitution, he was quite certain it would be considered that the Constitution existed only in theory and not in practice. He therefore trusted their Lordships would see the necessity for giving a formal opinion on the subject, and put an end to the system of persecution which had lately been allowed to pervade the Free Church of Scotland. The Earl of CAMDEN, as one of the parties re ferred to by the petition, wished to say a few words in justification of the course he had thought it his duty to pursue. Many unjustifiable attacks had been made upon him by the body from whom the petition emanated, and it was rather unfair that they should still follow them up. He admitted having refused to grant sites in some instances, but circumstances justified his doing so, and, therefore, many of the statements which had been made against him were in some respects unfair, and others untrue. He hoped that he had shown that he was not so much to blame as had been stated. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH complained of those who had gone from place to plane exciting the people by de nouncing the Established Church, and who forgot that toleration which was due to those who differed with them. He had been denounced as a godless man, as wishing to trample down the consciences of those who were dependent upon him. He found that in those districts in which there were no Free Church, that the inhabitants made no objection to walk several miles to the Established Church of the district. He was perfectly satisfied in his own conscience that he had acted right, and with deliberation ; that he had not been actuated by any feelings of ill -will ; and, to show that he had so acted, he had in his employment persons who had be come members of the Free Church, and in whom he placed entire confidence. Lord CAMPBELL considered that those who had seceded from the Church and had become members of the Free Church had acted from conscientious motives—had eschewed worldly advantages for what they believed the true form of worship ; and such being the opinion of the people, he thought it was to be regretted that those who differed with them should prevent them from erecting churches of their own ; such conduct could not but be condemned. By landowners granting sites of land, at a moderate rate, they would promote a better feeling be tween themselves and their tenants. The Marquis of BREADALBANE defended the members of the free church from the aspersions which had been cast upon them ; they were in favour of tole rating all religions—of seeking no more for themselves than they would willingly concede to others. When the Noble Duke talked of there being no objection to walk a distance to church, he forgot the aged and the ailing. In this country, when the principle of toleration existed to such an extent in theory, he thought they ought to be carried out a little better in practice. THE POOR-LAW UNIONS (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill went through Committee. _ _ _ The Earl of CHIC RESTER presented a petition from a Church Missionary Society, praying their Lordships to obtain a speedy adjustment of the affairs of New Zealand, and sanction no proceedings unless such as were based on the treaty of Waitangi. The natives of that country should not—though migratory in their habits—have their lands wrested from them. To take advantage of their ignorance would, be con sidered, be attended with the most disastrous conse quences. He trusted that such arrangements would be made, with the consent and the concurrence of the New Zealand Company, as would fix the peace and prosperity of the colony upon a permanent basis. Having made those remarks, he would just state that the object he had in view was to have an assurance from her Majesty's Go vernment, that the alarms alluded to by the petitioners were unfounded, and that they would put the same construction upon the treaty with the natives as had been put upon it by a Committee of the House of Commons. He sincerely hoped that her Majesty's Government would recollect that the maintenance of the prosperity of the country would entirely rest upon their dealing with the natives upon the principles of justice. Lord STANLEY thought it would be inexpedient for him to enter into all the questions connected with the colonisation of New Zealand, and, therefore, he should confine himself only to one or two points con nected with the subject. The whole differences of the Government with respect t• New Zealand, from the anxious desire of the Government to deal fairly with all parties between two co:ifFctingagree ments which had been entered into by a former Govern ment with the New Zealand Company and the natives of that colony. In point of fact, their difficulties had arisen mainly from a feeling that however important it might be to promote colonizition, it was not to be en couraged at the expense of the national honour of the country. In almost every instruction they had issued, they had insisted throughout, on the part of the Govern ment, that it was a solemn obligation binding upon them to observe, and secure the fulfilment of the treaty of Waitangi. These instructions were given to Governor Fitzroy, and the instructions which had lately been is sued to Captain Grey reiterated the determination of Government, that while they were doing all in their power to bring about an amicable settlement of the affairs of New Zealand, they considered it was a paramount duty imposed upon them to faithfully and scrupulously fulfil the engagements which had been entered into with the natives. . Lord MONTEAGLE said they were bound to inter pret the treaty strictly, but it would be as well if it were definitely settled whether it was competent for the settlers to enter upon unoccupied land without the con sent of the natives, or whether the natives had a right of property over all the lands of New Zealand. In his opinioil, the evils of the island had arisen from the un authorised attempt of parties to colonise it ; and he thought it was the duty of Government to discounte nance all such attempts. He did not agree with the Noble Earl that there had been any want of good faith on the part of the Noble Lord the Secretary of the Colo• nies, with either the natives or the New Zealand Com pany ; but he thought it would be conferring a benefit upon the country, if that Noble Lord would state clearly anddistinetly the construction which he and the Govern ' merit put upon the treaty of Waitangi. Tito Earl of CHICHESTER wished to correct the Noble Load in one of his statements. Neither he nlr the petitioners had imputed a want of faith to the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies. Lord STANLEY was quite willing to answer the de mand which had been made upon him to state precisely and distinctly the construction which he placed upon the treaty of Waitangi. If an opportunity were allowed him in that House, he could prove to demonstration that not only by the present Government, bat, by all former Go vernments, the same construction which was now placed upon it, without any interruption from the time it was made down to 1842. The discrepancy between the de. claration of Lord John Russell and the treaty of Waitangi was apparent but not real. He would tell their Lordships how this happened. Lord John Russell issued the declaration upon a false representation made to him by the New Zealand Com pany, namely, that they had purchased the land from the naives, and hence had arisen all the difficulties. his own inte;pretation of the treaty was this--except by the consent of the natives, the Crown had no right to convey land to anybody, and haying no right, he would be the ja4 man to Elvis, the crows to 1344T0,5e the power of making over to a third party that which it did not pos- sess itself.—(Hear, hear.) The subject then dropped. FOREIGN LOTTERIES BILL. On the motion of Lord STANLEY the Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday next. TIMBER SHIPS BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. ASSESSED TAXES COMPOSITION BILL. This Bill was also read a third time. Their Lordships then adjourned. THE' SUN, LONDON, PRI DAY EVENING JULY 11, 1845. ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES OF SOCIETY. A public meeting took place yesterday at the Freemasons' Hall, Great Queea-street, for the purpose of considering of the establishruunt of an institution for the insane of the middle classes. Among those present we noticed—Lord Monteagle, Lord Ashley, M.P., Lord Ebrington, M.P., Saml. Gurney, Esq., Thomas Bevan, M.D., B. B. Cabbell, Esq., F.R.S., John Wilks, Esq., Dr. Chardrie, Frederick Cobb, M.D., W. Dimes, Esq., Dr. Conolly, Dr. Hamilton, T. Southwood Smith, M.D., Arthur Stilwell, Esq., Alderman, Wm. Tite, Esq., F.R.S., Joseph Toynbee, Esq., F.W.S., Forbes Winslow, Esq., M.p., Wm. Thornborrow, Esq., John Forbes, M.D., F.R.S., Or. Phillip, M.D., &c. &c. Lord Ashley was to have taken the chair at one o'clock, but, in consequence of being detained at the House of Com mons, his Lordship was not present at that hour. Shortly after one o'clock Lord MONTEAGLE, accompanied by Lord Ebrington, Mr. Samuel Gurney, Mr. Tite, and several other gentlemen, entered the room, when Mr. SAMUEL GURNEY, addressing the meeting, said that he greatly regretted that Lord Ashley had not yet arrived ; he was sure, however, that every one present must at once be convinced, that a nobleman who was ever doing good for his fellow-men, must have been prevented from being there at that time by being engaged in some good work.— (Loud cheers.) He was happy, however, to inform the meeting, that they had a most favourable alternative in his Noble Friend Lord Monteagle—(Loud cheers) — who would take the chair till Lord Ashley arrived, who, he had just been informed, was o'eliged to attend to particular business in the House of Commons. Lord MONTEAGLE, on being called to the chair, was re ceived with great cheering. He said that en every account he regretted the absence of his Noble Friend, Lord Ashley, who he was sure was prevented from being with them at the hour appointed by the performance of some act of benevo lence and good.—(Cheers.) He regretted that his Noble Friend was not present, because he would have been much more competent than himself to explain anything that was necessary. He begged it, therefore, to be under stood that he only took the chair until his Noble Friend arrived, and h• trusted that every excuse would be made for any errors he might commit in opening the meeting.— ( Cheers.) The object of the present meeting was a truly laudable and benevolent one—(Cheers)—it was for the be nefit and the comfort of their fellow-men, and whatever might have been done in former times for so valuable an ob ject, he was sure that of late years the current of public bene volence had more and more directed itself, not only to the poor, but to the superior classes of society—(Cheers)—who might require the interposition and guidance of knowledge to assist them in the performance of their duties.—(Cheers ) The affliction of insanity, he should say, in that class which it was the object of the society to relieve was pecu liarly distressing : they might imagine themselves above receiving gratuitous or eleemosynary relief, and such being the case there was no asylum or place of refuge to which they could send any of their friends or relations who were afflicted with temporary insanity. From some institutions they were excluded by not having property, and from others from a feeling for their friends.—(Cheers.) What, then, was the result?—why, delay took place—delay, which was, of all things, the most fatal in insanity. It was well known that skill and benevolence, when applied in time, produced a result totally different from the same skill, or even greater, from the same benvolence, or even greater, if the period of the application of either one or the other was delayed. The mischief of delay in the ca'e of temporary in sanity might be traced to weeks, as well as to months and years, and it often happened that from that delay the being, who was only afflicted temporarily with insanity, be came a confirmed lunatic. It was to prevent these things that the establishment of the asylum was proposed, which would at once give, not only effectual, but immediate assist ance to the unfortunate objects it was intended to comfort, and, if possible, restore them to society and to happiness. With these few observations he would leave the different matters connected with the Society in the hands of those who were more competent to explain them, and he would now conclude by requesting the Honorary Secretary (Mr. E. Conolly) to read the prospectus, which stated fully the object of the meeting. PROSPECTUS. The attention recently paid to the management of the in sane, whilst it has led to a great and general amelioration of their condition, has also made it evident that the injudicious treatment, and most of the evils to which they have hitherto been and still are in many cases exposed, have arisen from the poverty of many so afflicted, and from the predominant regard to economy in the proprietors of establishments adapted for lunatics in better circumstances. By the establishment of county asylums, the pauper lunatic has been to a great extent provided for, and the publicity given to the details and results of management in those in stitutions has tended to modify and improve the system pursued in asylums for the rich. But there is still a large class of persons in this country, neither wealthy enough to resort to a good private asylum, nor so destitute as to claim the privilege of paupers; and to patients of this class the benefits of efficient superintendence, and of enlightened and philanthropic treatment, have not yet been extended. It is for such persons that the advantages of the proposed Institu tion are especially and exclusively designed. Those who are practically acquainted with insanity know the great amount of complicated distress and anxiety that falls upon such unhappy persons, when any member of their families is attacked with mental derangement. Industrious and regular habits are often interrupted some time before the nature of the cause is suspected ; propriety of conduct is disregarded ; the character is injured ; employment is lost ; every comfort is gradually sacrificed ; and complete destitu tion is sometimes incurred in a vain attempt to overcome or conceal so serious a calamity. Innumerable instances of this kind might be adduced from families whose resources, in the beginning of the attack, would have been sufficient to affi)rd the patients a chance of cure in an asylum admitting patients on very moderate terms, and presenting advantages which would have over come the repugnance of relatives to sending them to such an institution. In such cases, at present, the patients seldom receive early or efficient attention ; and when at length they have fallen into the class of paupers, and are sent to the county asylum, they go there in a state of confirmed malady, and with very diminished chances of recovery. Even when a cure happily follows, the associations into which the patients have been forced often leave a disastrous impression ; they regain their former station and feelings with difficulty, and ars exposed to such anxieties and distress as not unfre quently produce a relapse. The afflictions which follow in the train of insanity in families of a class above that just spoken of, and not yet wealthy, are perhaps still more poignant.. Persons of good family and of small income, officers on half-pay without for tune, clerks in the public service, or in offices of various de scriptions, with salaries dependent on their continued exer tions, tradesmen of small property, or retired with a scanty independence, clergymen with small incomes, men of the other learned professions who have no other means of sup port, tutors, governesses, and many others whose position does not require to be specified, but who in ordinary circum• stances enjoy all the comforts of respectable life, are at once involved in pecuniary embarrassment, and often eventually reduced to absolute poverty and want, by the occurrence of insanity in themselves, or in the person of a child, a wife, a parent, or some dependent relative. For such cases, no ex isting establishments hold out the exclusive and immediate relief which could alone save them from the fast accumu lating miseries consequent on a visitation to which the finest and most active minds are liable in common with the hum blest. In some asylums a limited number of patients are received on moderate terms, but richer patients and also pauper pa tients are received into the same institution—an arrangement which has many inconveniences. In others, those whose mental disorder is complicated with epilepsy, or with para lysis, or in whom the disorder is considered incurable, are altogether excluded; although the burden of these cases on the relatives of the patients is always the heaviest. Those who are most conversant with the wants of society are, it is believed , unanimously of opinion that some asylum is urgently needed in the neighbourhood of the metropolis of persons et' the middle c lasses only ; offer ing, all th e com f or t s su i ta bl e to per @ ther s of their habits of life, and com bi n i ng a ll th e a d van t ages f s o i nfoom reception ode rate payments, and resources enjoyed in the best institutions for the classes already provided for, including many improvements in the method of treatment yet but very partially adopted in pri vate asylums, and quite unknown, perhaps impracticable, in the domestic management of single cases in private resi dences. The situation, the construction, the organization of such an asylum, the opportunities for its systematic inspection, the occupations and amusements provided, and the means of moral and intellectual improvement afforded by it, should be such as to comprehend and insure every advantage auxiliary to recovery in curable cases, promotive of solace, comfort, and amendment in cases incapable of perfect cure, and con - ducive to the welfare and health of all the patients received into it. The varied advantages can only be combined in an asylum of a certain magnitude; and experience shows that the ma nanagement of insane persons is in many respects facilitated, rather than obstructed, by the size of an asylum being such as to supply a variety of objects capable of attracting atten tion, exciting interest, and stimulating to exertion and imita tion ; the want of which not only renders small establish ment oppressive by their dulness and monotony, but posi• tively retards the cure. By good arrangements, tranquillity may be secured in any establishment for those to whom it is indispensable ; but variety and cheerfulness can only be commanded where the inmates are numerous and the pre mises are extensive. Beyond certain limits, however, the increased size of an asylum does but add to the difficulties and anxieties of super intendence, and counteracts the uniformity of system which ought always to prevail. The most convenient extent is probably that of an asylum containing between 200 and 400 beds. With the views and objects thus briefly stated, it is pro posed to establish, in the immediate neighbourhood of Lon don, an asylum adapted to the middle classes, capable of re ceiving 300 patients, but admitting of some extension. The cost of about twenty-five acres of freehold land, with suffi cient buildings, and every possible provision for contingen cies, is calculated at 30,000/. This estimate of 30,0001. is based upon the most careful calculations ; but it is proposed to purchase land and com mence the building as soon as 10,000/. are raised, and to en large the design afterwards according to the amount received. It is believed that in a house containing 250 or 300 patients, payments not exceeding 255. or 30s. per head per week will cover all the current expenses. This is less than is at pre sent usually paid in any private asylum, in which a profit is expected after the expenses are paid. Every donation of 501., or annual subscription of Si. 55., will constitute the dolor or subscriber a governor, eligible to the Committee of Management, which it is proposed to limit to 25 persons ; every donation of 51. 55., or annual subscrip tion of 1/. ls., will constitute the donor or subscriber a mem ber, having a vote in the election of the Committee of Management, but ineligible as one of that body ; provided that no governor or member shall have more than five votes, and that a subscriber must have been so for six months before the privilege of voting in respect of his subscription is exercised. Governors will have the exclusive privilege of recom mending patients for admission, subject to the decision of the Committee of Management. It is further proposed, as an integral part of the plan, that there shall be established in connexion with the asylum a Charitable Fund, raised by means of donations, subscriptions, and bequests, for the exclusive benefit of the more distressed among those for whose relief the institution is destined. It is intended that all sums received under this head shall be im mediately funded in the names of trustees specially ap pointed, and that the interest alone be available for the pur poses of the charity. The interest of this fund is to be applied to the relief of a certain number of persons of the classes already described, to be elected or nominated, from time to time, from those pa-. tients who have been one year or snore in the asylum, and placed on the list of patients received for a lower payment, say for fifteen or ten shillings per week ; or even without any payment whatever. By this means, in addition to the general relief afforded by the nature of the asylum, the supporters of it will be enabled to extend a most charitable and timely assistance :- 1. To families in limited circumstances, who have made great exertions to furnish the annual payments for a time, but are enabled to continue them. 2. To cases in which the occurrence of insanity has sud denly and wholly &rived Ur sufferers or their families of all - means of support ; and where the assistance of friends can only be relied on for a limited period. Mr. SAMUEL GURNEY moved the first resolution. He said that in rising to address his Hon. Friend Lord Monteagle, and the respectable body present, lie was afraid that it would not be in his power to acid anything to the case that had been brought before them. Ile had lately read with satisfaction the report of the Commissioners on Lunacy, and Lord Ash ley's splendid speech lately delivered in the House of Com mons—(Hear, hear)—and, in consequence, he felt that he was truly well impressed with the importance of the esta blishment of such an institution as it was proposed to found. There was no class of human misery which it was more appalling to look upon than insanity. There was no doubt that the investigation made on the subject proved that there was no class of disease more liable to abuse than insanity. He had witnessed such abuse, and alluded to the treat• ment which poor lunatics received in Amsterdam, where he had known them to be put in places of confinement not better than those devoted to pigs. There had been great variety in the mode of treatment in These cases ; much had been done on the one hand, and much was wanted to be done on the other. There was one point to which he wished particularly to refer. There was one class of society to which the proposed institution was meant to be applied. That class was not of the lowest order, but of a certain degree of respectability ; they were unable to protect themselves when this evil fell upon them. And there was no class to which the charity and sympathy of their fellowmen were more due.—(Hear, hear.) It was a very excellent thing to give a loaf of bread to a man who was starving in his cottage, but he was used to such deprivation, and such a state of misery would not be so poignant to him as to one who had been hurled down from a respectable position to the depths of poverty. He believed that the true pangs of distress were felt more in the latter instance than in any other. With regard to the prospects of the Institution, he thought them to be most excellent. He was of opinion that if 30,0001. could be raised, and a building erected according to the most approved principle, it would be a most desirable end ; and such was the charity and kindly feeling that pervaded the community, that it was by no means to be despaired of that such a sum could be raised. He hoped that the gentlemen would take this as an encouragement to the foundation of the Insti tution. If, however, they failed in going to the full extent, they ought not to be discouraged on that ground. He took the plan laid down in the prospectus to be the most advan tageous that could be pointed out. If they did not raise the full amount they could easily hire a house at a low rent, not in a fashionable vicinity, and fit it up for as many as it was capable of admitting. Forty or fifty in such a case could be accommodated without any outlay of capital, and it could be carried on at a very limited cost. He made these remarks in order to prevent them from being too soon discouraged, if they were not able to arrive at the full extent of their wishes at once. He had no doubt that such an establish ment would be conducted very well in the hands of Dr. Connolly—(Hear, hear)—and it would awaken the eyes of the community to the necessity of founding a larger institution. Another feature to which he would allude was the payment for the parties who were to derive benefit from the Institution. It would be found, in many cases, ithat when individuals were so afflicted in this class, that payment to the full ex tent would be very difficult. The gentlemen would at once see, that if they changed the intentiap of baying payment to the full amount, there would be no difficulty whatever in establishing it. It would be of great advantage to have the establishment under the best regulations, that it should be no cost to the public, but that it should maintain itself on the income derived from the patients. He made these re marks to encourage them to do something soon. It would be an easy step to admit 50 or 60 patients, and exonerate them 25 per cent. from the cost. Some system should be adopted immediately. The merits of the case itself needed no comments from him, as it applied to a class of disease hitherto, in very many instances, most awfully abused. He trusted that the present meeting would feel as much satisfaction as he entertained at what had passed before them. He hoped-that this Institution would be at once carried out in a great measure if not to the full extent. He then concluded by reading the resolution, which he would propose :—" That it is highly desirable to establish an asylum in the neighbourhood of London for the reception and cure of insane persons belonging to the middle classes of society, whose circumstances are too limited to meet the unavoidable expense of private asylums." Mr. TITE said that the gentleman who proposed the reso lution had so fully established his case that it would be only necessary that some explanation should be offered by the lay part of the Committee, as to the origin of this Institution, which was so strongly recommended to their notice. A medical gentleman, whose acquaintance he had the honour of possessing, suggested its origin and the whole scheme. He (Mr. Tite) was quite sure that any one who had the honour of his acquaintance, or who visited Hanwell asylum, would feel the sentiment that he had often heard expressed, and which he himself entertained, namely, that if he or any of his family were to be afflicted by such a calamity as insanity, he should be thankful that there was in existence such a place as Hanwell to afford protection.—(Hear, hear.) Every one who visited that asylum would feel, he was sure, the same sentiment. How were their intentions to be carried out? Here Lord blonteagle vacated the chair, in consequence of Lord Ashle y' s arrival. Lord ASALEY took the chair amidst loud cheering, and apologised to the meeting for his absence, by stating that he had been unavoidably engaged in business of importance in the House of Commons. Mr. TITE proceeded to say that a very considerable extent of accommodation was required in an asylum of this sort to saake it available. It required a considerable number of in mates, who should be properly classified. If there were only 40 or 50 patients, there would be an extent of establishment which would afford accommodation to 200. At first it was proposed to form a joint-stock company to raise a sum of money at a small rate of interest, but there seemed such diffi culty in carrying it out that it was thought wise to abandon that part of the scheme, and simply to apply to the public for money enough to build the establish ment. In the hands of Dr. Connolly and the Committee all the arrangements would be carried out for the relief of the patients he had no doubt satisfactorily. 30,0001. was a large sum, but he had no doubt whatever that they would be enabled to raise it, or as much as would carry the thing into efficient practice. From inquiries made with respect to this Institution, he found it had been stated that they were interfering with the hospitals of this metropolis. They were of a different character altogether. They took patients with payment for the purpose of ren dering this asylum of a different character altogether, and Lord Ashley's speech would show that if there were half-a dozen such institutions, there would not be too many for this metropolis. He concluded by seconding the resolution proposed by the gentleman who preceded him Dr. COSTELLO said that he advoc a t e d th e principleon which* this proposed institution was to be founded, as one sound, necessary, and proper, but he thought that any statement that went forth to the world in connexion with so laudable a purpose should be above all cavil on the part of thepersons who may come forward as interested parties. It was stated, however, in the prospectus that payments not exceeding twenty-five or thirty shillings per head per week would be required to cover all the current expenses. This was a misstatement not wilfully made. He himself was the owner of a house at which the rate of payment was lower than 255., providing all the comforts at which this society aimed. His purpose was to enable them to come to an immediate decision in this matter, and to place that Institution entirely at their service in such a manner as the Committee thought proper. A GENTLEMAN, whose name we did not discover, rose to say that this was matter entirely for future consideration. But he would express his high gratification at hearing that it was possible to maintain respectable persons at such a small expense. Lord ASHLEY said that they were not there for the purpose of debating, but of carrying certain resolutions. Mr. MaNNE said that the prospectus would intimate that this institution was to be devoted alone to the advantages of the middle-classes. He wished to know why all might not have the advantages that would result from the asylum ? He would bring under their consideration the propriety of con structing it on a larger scale, for all persons who may want protection. Mr. WILKES thought that by attempting too much they might lose everything. It was not their intention to erect a national establishment for persons of opulence and fortune, who could secure to their relatives all that would be necessary for their health. The prospectus had already announced that this establishment was intended to meet the wants of that peculiar class of society designated in it, otherwise the objects which they had in view would be frustrated. Mr. PERCEVAL did not wish to enter into a controversy, but he desired that those who had experience on these matters should be heard for the purpose of directing the judgment of the Committee. It might be said that he, above all others, should feel a delicacy in com i ng f orwar d i n such a matter, but, circumstanced as he had been, he felt it neces sary to do so, because he believed that the world was not sufficiently aware of the abominable cruelties exercised in some lunatic asylums. He did not know why enlightened men seemed to close their ears against the voice of entreaty of persons who were witnesses to this cruelty, who would give opinions on which wiser men could form their judgment as to what was be- t to be done Lord Monteagle, in the commencement of his address, said that if ever there was an age of benevolence it was this age in which they lived. He did not deny that it was a benevolent age, but their benevolence seemed, however, to have run mad. He would not oppose the formation of this Society—it was an advance in the right way. Lunatic asylums should not be regarded merely as hospitals but as places of confinement. The public entertained a very just horror of throwing sane persons into these establishments and treating them as if they were insane, but did not seem sufficiently to appreciate the necessity f discharging and freeing from restraint those who had been detained the mo ment their intellects were restored.—(Hear, hear.) He was willing to give any assistance in his power to the for mation and maintenance of this Society, but hoped the members of it would, on the other hand, be willing to co-operate with . him in obtaining from Parliament a full and complete investigation into the whole system of treating lunatics. He did not mean to say that under the present system one-twentieth of the numbers placed in these asylums were sane ; but supposing even one in a hundred to be so placed, was it not a dreadful contempla tion for any feeling mind ? The speaker was a'' out to allude to other subjects, but was called to order by Doctor CONNOLLY, who said all these things had been fully considered by the Committee. Mr. PERCEVAL again rose, but Lord MONTEAGLE . interpoed, and said that if he had any suggestions to make, they had better be sent in to the Com mittee in writing, and he could assure the Hon. Gentleman they would meet with every attention. Mr. PERCEVAL axpressed himself satisfied with what had fallen from Lord Monteagle, and would not detain the meeting any longer. Dr. SouTmvoon Swim, in moving the second resolution, said—Among the varied forms of human suffering which need the interposition of humanity and science, that of in sanity is peculiar in this, that if the evil be grappled with at once, it is in most instances mastered in a short time, but if it be neglected, it becomes difficult, and often impossible to control it, the calamity remaining in its full intensity to the end of life. Those who have paid most attention to mental disease are satisfied that it obeys the same Jaws as other maladies which have their seat in the physical structures of the body. The physical changes, indeed, which the brain undergoes—that mysterious organ, by common consent re garded as the material agent by which the manifestation of the mind takes place—are at present not known; but that some physical change does take place in some part of the brain, in every case of insanity, few persons of competent knowledge, who have thought at all upon the sub ject, doubt. Why those subtle changes should have so peculiar a tendency to become permanent, if the mental disease, their index and sequent be neglected, is wholly un known ; but there is something analogous to it in other diseases. We know that changes, inappreciable by our gross senses, go on in organs for a long time, the result being early declared to us by the disordered function of the organ in question, and if this disordered function be neglected, the physical changes continue, and sometimes become appreci able, but whether appreciable or rot, the disease has now commonly past beyond control. Something like this seems to happen with regard to the brain. The anatomist and physiologist can sometimes connect a certain visible disordered condition of the brain with a certain state of insanity ; at 4204 g 014194 this iouilexieu =let be wade out i but whether it can be made out or not the ultimate fact is enough for us, enough for all practical purposes, the melancholy fact taught us by large and painful experience, that if the first indications of insanity are neglected, they are extremely apt to increase, to pass beyond control, and to lapse into confirmed mania, or incurable imbecility. But why is this fatal delay in the treatment of these distressing cases so common? Because for large classes of the community there is no fitting asylum to which the patient can go, and in which the treat ment appropriate to his peculiar ffection can be adopted. For the pauper proper asylums are in some instances pro vided ; and there is ground for hope, mainly through the in defatigable exertions of your Noble Chairman, whose life is a strenuous, and we may now begin to say, a successful struggle, to bring help to those who cannot help themselves (Cheers)—for pauper maniacs, until lately a neglected and most wretched class, provision seems about to be made in some degree adequate to the occasion. But for those who are above destitution, but without wealth—who are able when in health to earn a comfortable and independent subsistence, but whose power of self-support is necessarily lost with the loss of health—for such sufferers there is; no provision ; yet ordinary sickness, lasting only a few months, nay, only a few weeks, throws persons of this class into a state of embarrass ment from which they do not recover for several years—they cannot pass through an attack of common fever, for example, without being thrown by the expense of it from a state of comparative ease to that of distressing poverty, per haps for two or three years. What then must be their condition when attacked by such a disease as insanity? It is most truly stated in the prospectus in your hands, that the effect often is completely to pauperise not only the individual sufferer himself but the whole of his family. Against this calamity it appears to me that the application of the principle of combination is one of the appropriate re medies. Large numbers brought together in the same es tablishment, conducted on a well-devised plan, in which a due regard is paid to economy, can be supported at a cheaper rate than is practicable in a small establishment—l trust at so cheap a rate as to bring it within the reach of the clerk, the teacher, and the humbler members of the learned pro fessions. In the prospectus it is estimated that the cost will be for each individual from 255. to 30s. per week. I hope experience will show that it will be practicable to bring the cost within 20s. per week. Let it be borne in mind that 20s. per week is 501. a year. It is easy to see how greatly the long continued payment even of such a sum must impoverish the classes in question. To many of them the annual pay ment of such a sum for any length of time must be wholly impracticable, and therefore it is that I regard with entire satisfaction the Charitable Fund, which it is a part of the proposed plan to found, for the assistance of those who are too poor to continue the payment they had commenced, and who, if unassisted, must submit to the removal of their relative or friend from the asylum. If there ever was a case in which assistance is needed, and would be useful, it is this. I will add one word relative to the improved treatment likely to result from the establishment now proposed. It is notorious, that since the establishment of county asylums, with the inspection and publicity attached to them, a re markable improvement has taken place in the treatment of the insane. A week or two ago I spent upwards of four hours in the wards of the asylum at Hanwell. In this esta blishment it has been found practicable to abolish every kind and degree of personal restraint. There was no instance of it in any patient that I saw. The impression left upon my mind by my visit was the apparent absence of suffering, and the comparative cheerfulness of the place. Absence of suffering! Cheerfulness! What words to be associated with , such a place! For such an impression to be possible, what a contrast must there now be to the horrors which a short time ago were characteristic of these places. I envy the satisfied consciousness of the man who, enlightened by science, has taken a true view of the infirmities of our nature in their most deplorable shape, and who, sus tained in his belief by the benevolence of his own nature and by a Howard-like devotion, has been able to work this great change.—(Cheers.) I cannot say that I think even at Han well the perfection of treatment has been attained. In such an institution there are difficulties in carrying out the higher and more refined parts of the system attempted there—parts which may be found in practice to be the most efficient of all, that will not attach to the institution now contemplated. I believe, therefore, that by the establishment of the proposed institution, you will not only at once relieve a mass of dread ful suffering, but that you will show the means of lessening that suffering more and more effectually, in all other places, and to, perhaps, distant ages.—(Cheers.) The resolution is as follows : " That patients in every stage, form, and complication of the disorder should be admissible to such an asylum, when recommended by a Governor, subject to the decision of the Committee of Management." Mr. GRANGER seconded the resolution. He thought the opinion too prevalent that insanity was not a disease of the body. Therefore, when insanity attacked anin dividual, he was considered as removed beyond the ordinary means of art. This opinion ought to be alto gether eradicated, for the report of the Parliamentary Commis sion had shown that where the cases were taken in time, a com plete cure was inmost instances effected. It was for this reason that he hailed with pleasure the formation of a Society like this. He hoped the means to be adopted by the Institution would not only ensure relief to a vast amount of suffering, but effect a general improvement in the treatment of cerebral disease ; and with these strong hopes and confident conviction of the results of the Institution, he felt great pleasure in seconding the resolution.—(Hear, hear.) The resolution was then put from the chair, and carried unanimously. Lord EBRINGTON, in proposing the third resolution, ob served that when he entered that room it was for the pur pose of obtaining rather than imparting information, being himself wholly unacquainted with the peculiar features of the subjects under consideration. He had, however. con sented formally to move a resolution, because such a task required nothing more than a bare knowledge of the parties introduced into it. A short time since, having had occasion to visit the Devon County Asylum, he was struck with the comfort and humanity evinced in its various appliances ; and he could not help comparing its appearance with that so gra phically, so thrillingly presented in the prints of llogarth. How dreadful, how heartrending were the miseries depicted there; what a contrast with the system adopted at Geneva, and that now pursued at the institutions lately formed for the relief of pauper lunatics. Though he admitted that much remained to be effected for that inferior class, yet the object now in view was to apply a remedy to even a greater amount of misery: it was for those not needing charity, but such assistance as they could re ceive consistently with that independence so peculiarly the characteristic of the middling-class. He would not trespass any longer on the time of the meeting, but forthwith move the following resolution : " That a Provisional Committee, consisting of the follow ing persons, with power to add to their number, be ap pointed to carry this object into effect, 'and that an appeal be made to the nobility, clergy, and public in general, for donations and subscriptions :—Lord Ashley, M.P. ; Dr. Bevan; Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq. ; Dr. Cobb; Dr. Connolly ; William Dimes, Esq. ; Henry Duesbury, Esq. ; Dr. Hamilton ; Dr. Hitch ; Sir George Larpent, Bart. ; Dr. Pritchard ; Dr. Scott ; Dr. Southwood Smith ; Samuel Solly, Esq. ; Arthur Stilwell, Esq. ; William Thornborrow, Esq. ; William Tite, Esq. ; Joseph Toynbee, Esq. ; Dr. Robert Willis ; Dr. Winslow. Mr. J. H. HALL, Metropolitan Commissioner of Lunacy, stated that in seconding the resolution just proposed, any remarks which he might offer must be attributed solely to his private feelings, and not to his public capacity. For some years he had been in close connexion with the insane, but he could never forget —no, nor scarcely express— the feelings he first entertained on coming in contact with those so lamentably afflicted. Familiarity, it was said, blunted feelings, but he trusted his would never be seared by even his frequent association with misery.—(Cheers.) Many a time had he returned from scenes of anguish, worn out and dispirited—for endeavours to mitigate the suffer ings of others left behind feelings of acute pain. He had not been long connected with these institutions when he stated publicly that their establishment would effect a great amelioration in every class of the insane. The intellect of man might be compared to the rain—now gently descending on the earth, now swelling the stream, now the rivulet, and now becoming stagnant, muddy, and foetid. So the intellect, if imparted to a healthy body, and given to a robust constitution,weuld be vigorous and strong ; but if to a weak and sickly frame, it was usually found impaired. There fore it was that the health of the patient should be sedulously observed in such institutions ; when disease affected the body only, and not the mind, the man might dispose of his person and his property. He concurred in the opinion expressed by other speakers who had pre ceded him, that early admission ought to be a fundamental principle of the establishment. He knew several instances where, on his recommendation, servants had been sent to an asylum at the first symptom of dementia, and in six weeks had returned to their situations perfectly recovered. The diseases were merely sympathetic, caused by a temporary derangement of the functions of the stomach or lungs, but, if neglected, they would have become per manent and chronic in the brain. He hoped, there fore, a portion of the Institution would be set apart expressly to cure disease. (Hear, hear.) It was impossible to cure diseases by masses. The greatest care and vigilance was necessary even to insure the prospect of success ; a minute examination into the state of the afflicted would be required ; positive limits should be fixed to the association, of the curable from the incurable, and a complete separation effected.—(Hear.) It Is not air that from a thousand lungs wreaths back to thine, Sated with exhalations rank and fell, The stench of dunghills and the putrid thaw of nature. It is not air I —(Cheers.) He should advise also greater liberty and freedom to be allowed the patients than was or dinarily acceded in their association with friends or relatives; and he urged this, because he felt that the per mission of free intercourse with their fellow -creatures was one of the most likely means of restoring sanity, and enabling the afflicted to return to their friends. Economy, he was glad to observe, had been regarded in the arrangements al ready proposed—an economy which would enable its founders to relieve five instead of one. He knew of a county asylum where 350 patients were relieved at a cost of 350,0001., while the establishment now proposed would not require more than 30,0001. Another county asylum provided for 235 lunatics, erected at a cost of 64,0001., and its entire expenses were not less than 90,000/., or 400/. a head, a sum which might give relief to five instead of one. But their institution, acting on principles of economy as well as benevolence, would afford those essentials to comfort, at present denied the suf ferer—would give them cheerful scenes instead of a lingering and dreary life, and relieve the mind while it healed the body. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by seconding the resolution, which was put and carried unanimously. Mr. Joim WILKES, in proposing the fourth resolution, said that as the last speaker had referred to his connexion with the insane, he also, as visiting magistrate of Hanwell, could testify to the noble exertions which in that institution had been made to relieve pauper lunatics. But while he rejoiced at these endeavours to ameliorate the condition of the poor, he felt deeply the want of an . establish ment which would provide for the middling classes. Often had his retirement been intruded on by widowed mo thers whose sons, the hope of their old age, intellectual, promising, aspiring, had, by the very exercise of those talents too assiduously, become lunatics, sweeping away the hopes of the mother, and leaving her to despair. Many had implored him to obtain admission for their afflicted relatives into Hanwell and other pauper institutions, and many actu ally were received by application being made for them in the capacity of paupers. But now, through Dr. Connolly's laud able endeavours, a prospect was held out of an opportunity for relief being at length afforded the middling classes. A curative course would, he trusted, be adopted in the conduct would of the asylum, and, if so, he considered its applian ces be then complete. With these few observations ht conclude, merely moving. " That Lord ,A. 31, 1;y, Benjamin Btrustee s ond Cabbof the ell, Esq asylu., an , Samuel Gurney, t sch be appointed trustees of the asylum Dr. WINSLOW, in seconding the resolution, mentioned, as a proof of the necessity of such an institution, that the widow of a gentleman, once in affiu‘uit circumstances, but having only 100/. a year to aupport herself and seven or eight chil dren, came to him for advice respecting a daughter who had lately become insane. Not being able to put the sufferer under proper treatment, a younger child was entrusted with her charge 1 and she, from constant attendance on her sister, shortly after became also a lunatic. Insanity demanded the symplth of all it was different fro m ever y o th er di sease ; the mina lecame a wreck, and Nita maid say what was the fever of the mitd? TL consequences of there not being at ?r 05 , 1 4 41vitutiozi of the Lad proposed wen t theft 4047, • amities were obliged to keep their afflicted relatiii.9traetaFc: who thus became wholly incurable, though, time, they might have been recovered and restored ; to obviate these evils that the present asylum Was P o d and, in an bumble hope to further its objects, he sented to second the resolution before the chair. via i ca The resolution having been put from the cha ir ' ried unanimously. the l%l r e e S ti I S g o L h L a r d , 'ol a i l n rea m dTh in ad g o f thlsri er o impressed upon them in such forcible and elecl n6/3 that bt by the speakers who had preceded "the 1 `; should content himself with simply mern i t s solution, which was " that there should be e'' a d rosy, the he i n m e p x or t r t,.n 0602:600 , in connexion with the aslum, a charitable fun w hiP by means of donations, subscriptions,and beanes t . s io , shall be funded in the names of trustees speel pointed, and the interest applied to the relief , to tarn number of persons to be elected from the tients who have been one year or more elired asylum, and placed on the list of patients rei st ee . P i a lower payment or even without any payment w' s ro ,dr, He could corroborate all that had been said by his Bate friends as to the necessity of such an institution for t,,,, e f e e!' the insane and not merely for their reception. wish no no period at which insanity might not be cured, anthf, lishment of this charitable fund would enable parties L y in the asylum a sufficient length of time to ha" it. tl),' effected. Were it not for this fund, it might h a llo persons whose resources were exhausted, might b e from the asylum just as reason was about to dawn. o re Dr. BEVAN seconded the resolution, which Wa g unanimously. Dr. CONNOLLY, who came forward to propose the Denttofta solution, was received with loud cheering from all Pfi s tlie o room. He had to move "that th e g ra teful and coralbe of the meeting be gi ven t o E ar l Sp encer a nd Lord B°,ooll (Cheers)—for their kind patronage of the proposed4ol,,, and to Lord Ashley for having given his olow assistance en the present occasion, and for his Ac til benevolent and efficient exertions on all occasiollafiti• the protection and welfare of those afflicted with 11 1 - 0 There was a debt of gratitude due from all of theT be cO r two Noble Lords who were named in the resolution• so ot mittee had not courted noble p a t rona g e , bad they d°„cobill doubted not but that they might have had half the foal of the kingdom as patrons, but they had thoug„n a ' he cbr i would be impossible to have a greater guarantee or ratter of the institution for humanity, and kincle7o efficiency than the names of the two Noble I " 0 whom the resolution referred.—(Cheers.) Th °se the r 0 Lords had been consulted, and approved of rangements which the Committee had prope7,l Lord Spencer would have been present but that I ,l tot iorj present occupied in arranging the affairs of an in stl hood; a somewhat similar character in the neighbou'i for' Northampton. They had great reason to b e gratefe re del prompt and valuable assistance which had been rend e ie ee m by Lord Ashley.—(Cheers.) From hi s own e 2 cP er "fst,,,,v lianwell he was aware how great was the necessil t , establishment of some such institution as the prese fo 4 want was one which was acknowledged by all, an, cl . manner in which the subject was now taken up "" entertain a doubt of their success. 901 Dr. WEBsTellt, in seconding the resolution, pas s os, eulogium on the character of Lord Ashley, w ho je scended from a stock that had always been forward porting the great cause of humanity.—(Cheers.) The resolution was carried by acclamation. alcl elf Lord ASHLEY, in returning thanks, said he vi° detain them any great length of time at that V,e'l,o,„' hour. Indeed, it would be impossible for him to nt! ir iF he should be obliged to be in attendanee d . deal House of Commons in a very short time. attendance t;_,e estimated the thanks of his fellow-citize ns er e were offered to him in that resolution ; but t ' to i tr c , no expression of their thanks that was half so grat ei b it til 4 mind as their assembling together as they had done t it / to promote the success of this institution.—(Cheer'' ) fot most gratifying to him to see such an as semblag e '„ p ot; knew the necessity of such an institution to the 0 ` the classes for whom it was destined. There were irlint s at to whom the establishment of such an institution as tP" o be the greatest blessing that could be conferred und It would secure to them a comfortable retreat, vnt e ro tel cure might be effected, and where they would be 11 4 0„, against cruelty, if their affliction was beyond the ',To v, human care. He denied that they were trenching " 1. 1 , 1, province of the large hospitals, but even if thei ro he would not admit that as a valid reason against too, blishment of the institution. Ho believed great sc l o , i ! would be derived from the multiplication of asYlu i ll„ 9 o 3 r ot character, inasmuch as a multiplication of asylinn'.oo s l tended by a multiplication of students of the 10 , 0 insanity, and he thought it a thing most desirable t feo educated medical men, whose standing in the relly was a guarantee for their knowledge Ltti to 1 should be induced to devote their attention, Vol investigation and study of mental disease.—(Het ail' Those persons for whom this institution was could live in comparative comfort under ordinaq re cita, e i stances, but were unable to meet the outlay vo o when any of th e mem b ers o f th e f am il y became 3 by insanity—they were not prepared for such - y There were many small tradespeople, most wtt b sons, who, if one of th e mem b ers o f th e i r fare"= e st4 afflicted with mental disease, shrunk from the applying proper methods of cure —th ey c ould n"hoe, i i it they treated the patient themselves , that nature would do her work, and re s ,doll,o" patient. They reso r t e d t o expe di ents, and the 01 7,10 0 `1. came incurable. He k new th e wor ki ng o f t h e prigs' doci A ,r asylums. There were some few of them admirably i 0,015 but in by far the greater portion p a ti en t s pay i n g tWil e ' c evd or four, or even five guineas a we e k, did not renpeor a care and attention which was besto we d upon tterlii lunatics at Hanwell by his friend Dr. Connolly—w? and upon those at Wandsworth by Mr. Hill_( Cbe e :aw he would repeat, what he had already said tivln' to tv .o House of Commons, that if it should please Provideue 6 ,ol him with insanity, and he should, under such circui;" g O t i have any power of choice left, he would prefer e r of. r pauper to Hanwell, or to the Lunatic Asylum of I . J oe ss 1 being placed in a private asyli.m at five g"'00) week, for he was convinced that nine-t e- og the patients in private asylums were not , cli ev -- - 1 attended to as the paupers we re a t H a nwell. set: l On this account he ardently desired th e establisl tee such an institution as the present, whi c h w ell srj e s to promote a more accurate knowledge of the t op of insanity. For sixteen years lie had pald i . o ll a to this subject, and for twelve years be 1 ' Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Lun aci ;libli progress of improvement was very slow--thl o s was a difficult one—but though the progress '0 it was certain, and comparing asylums n , 4 ,8 5 4 what they were sixteen years ago, it , ti , „ o many instances almost impossible to recogtu se bepJ as the same places. A vast deal yet remained to ro but still these asylums were much improved when c,„°er tr with what they had been, and they no ionb exhibited those scenes of horror which . e uellA i i of hourly occurrence. The establishment o '. „iptl o ,e institution as the present would be the means of ni",4 c h,ty, improvements into their private asylums. For the, - 0 1P r e vate asylums would always exist, where they s i st so s ,l tarn every comfort and attention that their a 0 10 quired, from medical gentlemen o f t a l e nt Oa petent acquirements. But these cases a t prese" et", Ar rather the exception. He should wish to se e nnii. gentlemen, distinguished for sc i en tifi c attainment"; e f h o d more largely into this career, an d th e esta bli s hmen" ° 11 0 ,; ; d tutions like the present would induce them to do se' o re - , 0 1 wd r eeeclraeeyi approvalvaetldhl ea a mgo l fr e e t bet t ydh e r.edferitoHnal believednAt Institute.—(Loud . et.o7 a Samuel hLuetoehrnul that d T t a u enth k hye e ee , f ar o sc f . t exhibition". o i r al k i York, o ld 1. 5 0 e ( pathy and kindness towards those whom -" - rif had afflicted was always followed by the bles s l ,l At , the Almighty. That was a truth that ~,e cj f proved from experience and from the words of Ples r ii? He, therefore, bade them God speed. Let them go 0 0 or , with this undertaking, and they would receive the r e a more than ordinary sympathy.—(Cheers.) The meeting then broke up. 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Address, Ross an d S ons , 119 an d 120, J.' 00 gate-street. °P it i ) 4 l ° °l CAuTioN.--Royal patronage a n d g eners, 0 , has well rewarded the efforts m a d e t o i n t ro d uc e 1- ' 4 l o ll° o o into this country, th e so l e manu f actur i ng of the s ame,, -- to isej , in the Regi s t ere d Paletot, being restricted to the eV', Itr ee t of Messrs. Nicoll, who ar e p ro t ecte d un d er t h e ne w I ..A c 'to mirable qualities are enhanced by its being welladaP l %t er,A the sudden changes of the c li mate o f t hi s country 26 t'otirtot" tial article of dress, a coat—light in weight, dark in C O by' ibs yet equally applicable o ver anot h er is bad weather, ° did 10 in the fair or sunny days. The great success attO 0 0 0 ,0 sale of the Registered P a l e t o t, h as i n d uce d many pelf attempt to foist upon the public a bad imitation, whic h ' iir tiel time corrected, would inj ure th e Ll ama W oo l as be 4 •o' commerce, its reputation n ow b e i ng stea dil y es tabli' or oi caution to the public is pe r h a p s unnecessary t h at callY age s 4 the first respectability have been appointed count i r l p otY But unprincipled persons unlawfully attempting t° ,:, -- ofi e Y hereby warned that they are subject to a heavy pent . " t" offence, which, after this date, will be enforced accords provisions of 6 and 7 Vic., cap. 65. —Signed July 1 " and D. Nicoll, 116, Regent-street, London. .—_,--------- ) i', BIRTHS. org' On the 4th inst., at St., Martin's-lane, the wife a E. Luxmoore, of a son. t he On the 7th inst., at Landport• terrace, Soutbse a ' -• 1, 4 of Captain Scott, Royal Marines, of a son. foe On the Bth inst., at Victoria-villaa,Avenue-road , et e park, Mrs. William Palmer, of a daughter. of i ' l On the Bth inst., at Lingfield, Surrey, the lady °f tenat-Clonl Leslie, C. 8., of edaugter. 06 toil? On the o Bth e inst., at Nelson-terrace,h Stoke NeWl o re, wife of Mr. J. Lowe, of a da ug ht er . -A On the 9th inst., at South ampton-stree t , Fitzt_ . Mrs. John Kennell, of a daughter. ., A f ! I ili h M ARRIED i P , ~ On the Ist of February, at Melbourne, Port 2 otl'e' tralia, James Simpson, Esq., to Caroline Sarah , I pt. 0 0 3: daughter of the late Henry Bowler, Esq., of Cuckfie l Wil i o' On the Bth inst., at Donhead, the Rev Thoolel Vic,',o7 l , Marshall, Perpetual Curate of Swallowcliffe t _iT ii - ,0 '', 4 0 Anstey, to Harriet, third daughter of the Rev. w",, e ' r odEPi Bey, Rector of Donhead, St. Andrew's, and Prf .. Salisbury. •-. oor D/Pij, On the sth inst., at Grout Tower -street, Rober t , 0011 (4A - viving son of the 1? -ye Charles Peake. vtOrsl l ' 00 I On the st,t, inst., in Regent-street, Jane Susan ri Tabu , ‘ 4 . a . uiltter IV Orcestershire. Of the Rev. Thomas Clowes, of d oe' On the 7th inst., in Fleet-street, Mrs. Es t ber P d ge , ~.„o . scl" widow of the late R. Laurie, Esq., aged 93. On the 7th inst., Mary Emma Lee, of Mydde lw o clri s ,:fif , widow of P. Lee, Esq., late British Consul at Alex% Oil On the 7th inst., at South-street, Finsbury'-stf u3r ' cl' de the wife of J. Nathan, Esq. et, gocA On the Bth inst., Mr. Kidd, sen., of Oxford-str e k ._a. , o r On the 9th inst., at Hampstead, Richard Cr° ° ..f, o On the Bth inst., at Highnara Court, Glouceste r' or° . 5 I, Hervey Parry. On the 9th inst. at Kingscote, Gloucestersh ire, r P relict of Thom as Ki fi g . ngscote Esq. f On the 9th in s t. , at East Ham House, Essex , To Eaq., aged 70. i 0 1 Lytham:. . 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Dt „ .414 1 , ekive, C,, h, j ,,, tht t a, tr,ti TI 4 4331 arid & cau se e~ erg 1 6 w: A e kl b ! rara, and Wat, PARLIAMEN TAR Y DIV IKONS. (From the Toted and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) THURSDAY, JULT 10. COLLEGES (IRELAND) BILL. Order for Third Reading read ; Motion made, and Question pro posed, " That the Bill be now read the third time :"—Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " an humble Address be pre sented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to direct an inquiry to be made Into the amount of the Revenues of Trinity College, Dublin, from rents of College lands, endowments and bequests, fees on matriculation, on taking degrees, and from every other source ; also, into the manner in which that income is ex pended, the number of Senior and Junior Fellows, of Professors, Scholars, and all other Officers of the College, - with the amount of salary and allowances to each of them ; with a view to ascertain whether the income or funds at present applied solely to the benefit of Protestants in Trinity College, Dublin, might not be beneficially extended, so as to make Roman Catholic and Protestant Dissenters eligible, if otherwise qualified, to all Scholarships, and to all such Fellowships, Professorships, and other Offices in Trinity College, Dublin, as are not intended for ecclesiastical purposes, or imme diately connected with ecclesiastical endowment," instead thereof:— Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question." The House divided : MINORITY-AYES, 168. Acland, Sir T. D. Duncombe, 0. Mackenzie, W. F. A'Conrt, Captain East, J. B. )11`Nei11, Duncan Acton, Colonel Eastnor, Viscount Manners, Lord C. Adderley, C. B. Emlyn, Viscount Martin, C. W. Antrobus, Edmund Entwisle, William Masterman, John Archdall, Captain Escott, Bickham Maxwell, J. P. Arkwright, George Estcourt, T. G. B. Meynell, Captain Astell, William Fitzmaurice, W. Mildmay, A. St. John Bathe, Colonel Fitzroy, Henry Mundy, E. M. Baird, W. Flower, Sir J. Nieholl, John Balfour, J. 3f. Forman, T. S. Norreys, Lord Barkly, Henry Fremantle, Sir T. Packe, C. W. Baring, Thomas Fuller, A. E. Palmer, Robert Baring, W. B. Gaskell, J. M. Palmer, George Barrington, Viscoant Gladstone, W. E. Patten, J. W. Bateson, Thomas Gladstone, Captain Peel, Sir Robert Benbow, John Gordon, Captain Peel, Jonathan Bentinck, Lord G. Gore, Montague Pennant, Colonel Beresford, Major Goulburn, H. Pringle, Alexander Bernard, Viscount Graham, Sir J. Pusey, Philip Blackburne, J. I. Granby, Marquis Rashleigh, William Bolden), H. G. Greene, Thomas Repton, G. W. J. Borthwick, Peter Grimston, Viscount Richards, Richard Bottleld, Beriah Hale, R. B. Rolleston, Colonel Bowles, Admiral Raiford, Sir H. Rous, Captain Bramston, T. W. Hamilton, C. J. B. Rumbeld, C. E. Brisco, M. Hamilton, George A. ganderson, Richard Broadley, Henry Hamilton, W. J. Scott, Francis Bruce, Lord E. Hamilton, Lord C. Seymour, Sir H. Bruges, W. H. L. Harris, Captain Shaw, Frederick Buck, W. L. Henley, J. W. Sibthorp, Colonel Buller, Sir J. Y. Herbert, Sidney Smith, T. Z. C. Burrell, Sir C. Hope, Sir John Smollett, Alexander Burroughs, H. N. Hope, Charles Somerset, Lord G. Campbell, Sir Hugh Hope, Alexander Somerton, Viscount Cardwell, Edward Hope, G. W. Spooner, Richard Carew, W. 11. P. Honiby, John Stewart, John Chelsea, Viscount Hotham, Lord Stuart, Henry Clayton, R. R. Houldsworth, T. Sutton, H. 31. Clerk, Sir G. Hughes, W. B. Taylor, Edward Clive, Viscount Hussey, Ambrose Tennant, J. E. Clive, R. H. Hussey, Thomas Thesiger, Sir F. Cockburn, Sir G. Ingestre, Viscount Thornhill, George Cole, H. A. Inglis, Sir It 11. Trench, Sir F. W. Coote, Sir C. Jocelyn, Viscount Trevor, G. R. Corry, Henry Jones, Captain Trollope, Sir J. Cowper, W. F. Kemble, Henry Tyrrell, Sir J. T. Cripps, William Tier, D. S. Vernon, G. H. Darner, Colonel Lefroy, Anthony Vivian, J. Ennis Darby, George Lennox, Lord ♦. Waddington, IL S. Denison, E. B. Liddell, H. T. Wellesley, Lord;C. Dick, Quintin Lincoln, Earl Wood, Colonel T. Dickinson, F. 11. Lockhart, William Wortley, James S. Dodd, George Lowther, Sir J. 11. Wortley, John 6. Douglas, Sir H. Loather, Colonel TELLERS. Douglas, Sir C. Lygon, General Young, John Duncombe, A. Mackenzie, T. Baring, Henry MAJORITY-NOES, 91. Archbold; Robert Etwall, Ralph Paget, Colonel Baine, Walter Ewart, William Palmerston, Viscount Bannerman, A. Forster, Matthew Pattlaon, James Barnard, E. G. Gibson, T. M. Philips, Mark Berkeley, Captain Gill, Thomas Plumridge, Captain Blake, M. J. Gore, Robert Ponsonby, C. F. A. Blake, Sir V. Hallyburton, Lord Rawdon, Col. Flouverie, E. P. Hestia, Archibald Redington, T. N. Bowes, John Hawes, B. Ross, D. R. Bright, John Heathcoat, John Russell, Lord J. Brotherton, Joseph Hill, Lord M. Scott, Robert Butler, P. S. Ilindley, Charles Seymour, Lord Byng, George Howard, P. H. Shell, R. L. Byng, G. S. Hutt, W. Smith, J. A. Carew, R. S. Jervis, John Smith, Vernon Chapman, B. Lambton, H. Somerville, Sir W. Christie, W. D. Langston, J. H. Stansfield, W. R. C. Colborne, W. R. Lemon, Sir C. Stanton, W. IL Collett, John Leveson, Lord Stewart, P. 31. Craig, W. G. Listowel, Earl Stuart, Lord J. Crawford, W. S. ArTaggart, Sir J. Towneley, John Curteis, H. I. Mangles, R. D. Tufnell, Henry Denison, John E. Martin, John Wakley, T. Dennistoun, J. Mitcalfe, Henry Warburton, H. D' Eyncourt, C. T. Mitchell, T. A. Wawn, J. T. Duncan, Viscount Moffatt, George Williams, William Duncan, George Morris, David Yorke, Henry R. Duncannon, Lord O'Brien, J. Dundas, Frederick O'Brien, W. S. TELLERS. Ebrington, Viscount O'Connell, M. J. Osborne, Ralph Ellice, Edward Ord, William Bellew, R. 31. Eamonde, Sir Thos. Oswald, James PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. THURSDAY, JULY 10. The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were agreed to : Ulster Extension Railway. London and Brighton Railway (Horsham Branch). Standing Orders Committee,—Resolutions reported ; 1. " That, in the case of the Duddeston and Nechells Im provement (No. 2)Bill, amendments on consideration of the report, the amendments are of such a nature as not to be adopted by the 11011511 without th• re-commitment of the Bill." 2. " That, in the case of the London and York Railway petition for additional provision, the Steading Orders ought not to be dispensed with." Report to lie on the table. The Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct Railway Bill, —Read a third time ; amendments proposed, and referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. South Eastern Railway (Ashford to Hastings) Bill, and Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway (Hastings, Rye, and Ashford Extensions) Bill,—Petition of South Eastern Rail way Company (presented July 9) for additional provision read ; motion made, and question proposed,—" That it be an instruction to the Committee to whom the railway Bills and projects comprised in Group A. stand referred, that they have power to introduce clauses in the Bill for making a railway from Bulverhithe to Ashford, promoted by the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway Company, authorising that Company to transfer the powers which may be conferred on them by such Bill to the South Eastern Railway Company, and making the last mentioned Company to exercise such powers, or some of them, in terms of the prayer of the peti tion :"—Amendment proposed, at the end of the question, to add the words, " but the Committee are not to avail them selves of the power given to them by this instruction, until they are satisfied that the sums subscribed for the formation of the line from Ashford to Hastings by the South Eastern Company are sufficient to defray the cost of the additional line sought to be allotted to the South Eastern Company :" —Question, "That those words be there added," put, and agreed to :—Main question, as amended, put, and agreed to. Ordered, that it be an instruction to the Committee to whom the railway Bills and projects comprised in Group A. stand referred, that they have power to introduce clauses in the Bill for making a railway from Bulvervithe to Ashford, promoted by the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway Company, authorising that Company to transfer the powers which may be conferred on them by such Bill to the South Eastern Railway Company, and making the last-mentioned Company to exercise such powers, or some of them, in terms of the prayer of the petition ; but the Committee are not to avail themselves of the power given to them by this instruc tion, until they are satisfied that the sums subscribed for the formation of the line from Ashford to Hastings by the South Eastern Company are sufficient to defray the cost of the ad ditional line sought to be allotted to the South Eastern Company. Message from the Lords,—That they have agreed to Shep ley Lane End and Barnsley Road Bill; and to the amend ment to the Sheffield and Rotherham Railway Bill, without amendment : Liverpool and Manchester Railway Bill ; Great North of England (Clarence and Hartlepool Junction) Rail way Bill; Keyingham Drainage Bill; orth and Clyde Na vigation and Union Canal Junction Bill, with amendments. That they have passed a Bill, intituled, An Act to amend an Act, intituled, ' An Act to carry into execution a conven tion between his Majesty and the Emperor of Brazil, for the regulation and final abolition of the African slave trade.' " [ADVERTISEMENT.] SIGHT AND HEARING. No. 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Newly-invented Spectacles, Telescopes, Opera Glasses, Microscopes, &c. 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