The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-25 00:00:00

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Eiumeromer or Lux .rice.--The ninth annual repe
of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum, just published, ”1.8—" N
hate been able this year, faun the retention of the lands, an I
the addition of the fano and buildings, to carry nut the et -
ployment of the patients to a much greater exte.it than w t
hale ever done heron% We bare found is thvo a source
nutiriug occupation to several who'were almost unemplsiyeas.
The cows which were purchased in May last ::re vcry ear. -
fully tended by three patients, whose only ambition steins t .
be, to prove th.st their healthy condition and cleanly appeal -
ance is their exclusive work. The cowherd, whose ir..erest •
seem t I be chiefly identilied with them, was formerly one of:
our most dangerous nun. Re used to walk ab..nt gal-
leries in a sullen manner, with discomfort to himself,
and haranl, from quarrelling, to those about hie.. Ile
is now °fey in the morning, end late in the es ening.
with thaw objects of his solicitude, and though 8611
an ineurthle patient, is most decidedly a happy man.
The employment of the year with the patients generally,
was commenced by painting; they finished very !steely all •
the bestea 's in the new building, and as the weather was
open and fine, they were constantly engaged bath in inside
and outside wink the month of March, when they began
spade husbandry. Thee.• is now about am acres of affable or
more properly spade I,nd ; the rest is pasturage, of shout
eighteen acres, whicii they alsocultieate in all its uteessary
requirements. The 4usintity of land dug and cropped at
this season, was sitarist four acres, which joined to the heavy
work of levelling and planting the pit in the front of the
house, fully occupied their time till the hay season, when
they eat down about eighteen acres of gram, and stvekc A ten
ton. of hay. It was a eight of no ordinary or common inte-
rest, to see thirty:six insane men at work with the must
orderly regularity in the hay field. In this labour there was
profit, and our farming accounts not only present a re-
spect Ode balance sheet, but thou that we arc in possession of
(what is of no small moment in these thcer:sing day.) the
energies and exertions of practical men,"
E.:4SEN.

Tue CLAVERING POIAONINU:4.—The farmer, T. New-
port, was again examined before the magistrates on Friday.
when be made a %cry lenethencal defence. Ile admitted
having told the mother of Lydia Taylor that she must get
rid of the child, but be firmly denied being implicated in the
poisonings mentioned by the woman C11t411171. Sho had
only trumped them up ag..inst him with a view of extorting
moues.. Lord Braybrooke cbecrsed, that during the many
years).* Lail had the home* to act as magistrate in that dis-
trict, lie hal not bad No p a pie brought under his
notice ra, the one now beture them. He felt that ho would
not be doing his duty to the Fuld* did I e not commit the
prisoner for trial at the ensuing mime. The sees itel, ss his
ace used much *fretted he the drei,ion of the bench, applicil
to be liberate( on bail. The magistrates refused to comply
with the application. It was stated that Lydia Tas had
born discharged from liir situation, owing to her having
appeared as witness against Newport. Cowell, another
important Mines', had hem treated in a similar manner
by &brother of the prisoner.
Graveseteneter Itoavine AT COLCHESTI:II.—On Thursday,
N. Wetherell, En., barrister, and C. Fowler, Esq., archi-
teet, attended at the town-hall on behalf of the colurni,sion-
ere of Woods aid Forests, to open an inquiry into tee pro-
posed Imrroyement Bill, under the net pawed in the last
cession `• for making preliminary inquiries in certain cases of
applications for local arts." Evidence was heard as to the
preeent drainage of the town and the streets in which it was
still required ; with medical testimony as to the prevah nee
of fever, in the last mentioned parts, arising from the defi-
ciency of sew: rage. Another principal Rohm in the pro-
ceedings c, as the examination of Mr. Broil' at to the capacity
nf the bridge by which the new nut would 'maunder the Stour
Vallee Railway embankment for carrying off floods. After
considerable discussion, in which Mr. Marriage took an
active part, an understanding was come to for the introduc-
tion of a clause into the Commissioners' Act for a bridge of
sufficient capacity for the requirements of the eve, in the
alternative of the commissionen being empowered to con-
struct in ease the company (bylined to do so.