The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-11 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION.

Mr. FOX MAULS brought up a clause enacting
that children found riding behind carriages should be
taken into custody, and after a time delivered into the
hands of their parents or guardians.
Mr. WAKLEY was very glad to see this clause in-
troduced. Children were constantly coming to the
hospitals afflicted with severe injuries in consequence of
falling from carriages which they had mounted in this
manner.

The clause was agreed to.
Mr. FOX MAU LE brought up a new clause for the
prevention of dogs being harnessed to carts.
Mr. WARBURTON said that positively dogs were
better treated than any other class of four-footed ani-
mrls. No dogs went mad from over-working.
Mr. WA KLE Y said the direct contrary was the
fact. Hydrophobia had increased very much within
the last ten years, as the yoking of dogs to carriages
had increased. The dog carts very much frightened
horses in the streets.

The clause was agreed to.
Mr. S. O'BRIEN moved a clause providing for an-
nual returns of the police force.—Agreed to.
The remaining clauses of the Ell were agreed to,
and the report was ordered to be brought up on Friday.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at a Quarter-past Two
o'Clock.

THE MIDDLESEX COUNTY RATE

AND LUNATIC ASYLUM.

All our readers have heard of the vast increase
which, within a few years, has taken place in the
Middlesex County Rate, and they have also heard that
a prodigious sum has been expsnded on the Lu-
natic Asyjum at Hanwell. We refreshed their
memory on these topics a short time back by copying
some articles from the Examiner, and more iight has now
been thrown on the subject by a pamphlet just pub-
lished, by J. G. Millingen, M.D., A.M., late Superin-
tendent of the Asylum. It has the form of" A letter to
the Rate payers," though we are afraid that they are not
generally likely to learn any thing of its contents un-
less we blow them abroad. Dr. Millingen begins by ac-
knowledging that he has been obliged to resign the situ-
ation of Superintendent, but be shows very clearly that
the necessity arose from a series of petty vexations
and annoyances such as no gentleman placed in,a re-
sponsible situation would endure. He was thwarted by sub-
ordinates, both male and female, who were encouraged
in their misconduct by others. He reminds the rate-
pas ers that Sir W. Ellis and his Lady, whose reputation
was very great,had to resign from similar treatment ; he
publishes the excellent testimonials which prove that
he did not receive the appointment without being in
every way worthy of it. We shall occupy ourselves
less with the individual griefs than with the public mis-
management—though wherever injustice is to be
redressed, the Press does great public service by mak-
ing cases of individual hardship known. Iu this case,
however, the case of the individual and the public in-
terest are so blended, that in quoting chiefly those pas-
sages which refer to the mismanagement, we shall sup-
ply the reader with a clue to the circumstances which
caused Dr. Millingen to resign. He says :
" Upon joining the establishment, I endeavoured to dis-
cover what were the:circumstances that had induced my '
predecessor to resign, and I soon found that the Com-
mittee had allowed him, during the space of seven years,
to assume the sole controul of the institution ; that during
this period no accounts appeared to have been kept, by
which the visiting justices, the bench of magis-
trates, or the rate-payers, could. check the consump-
tion of the enormous sums of money expended on
the Asylum ; no document being in'existence, excep-
ting books of general receipt and expenditure, with-
out any inventory, stock-book, or accounts, by which the
specific application of these sums appeared; that during
this long period, the first eighteen reports to the county
had never been published, while the twentieth, twenty-
first, twenty-second, twenty-fourth, and twenty-fifth re-
ports were merely statements for the satisfaction of the
magistrates, without any account of the items of con-
sumption.
" It was then that the Committee resolved to place the
financial and economical arrangements of the Institution in
the hands of a steward experienced in the management of
public institutions, well versed in accounts, with acknow-
ledged practical skill in farming, repairing buildings, &e.
&c. For this purpose they named Mr. Hunt, the Lieu-
tenant-Colonel of the regiment of militia commanded by
Colonel Clitherow, the Chairman. of the Committee.
Again, placing implicit reliance in this officer's experience
in similar institutions, he received no instructions as to the
nature and form of the various books which he was
to keep, and returns he was to make from time to time ;
and to render the duties of this officer more distinct and
unconnected with those of the Superintendent,be was placed
under his immediate controul ! thus falling again in their
former egregious error, by seeking to make a physician,
who was to have the medical charge of 900 patients, re-
sponsible for the manner in which the farm, the cow-house.
the piggery, were conducted, and for the expenditure of
bricks, mortar, forage, garden seeds, tools, and agricultural
implements, &e.
" Under the management of this Steward, confusion be-
came more confused, and he was ultimately dismissed."

What will the Rate-payers think of such manage-
ment? the Steward being the protegee of the Magis-
trate who assumed to himself the chief controul of the
establishment ? Some of the results are thus men-

tioned :
" I therefore did not sign the order fur the daily supply
of bread, meat, forage, Spo., but clearly sigt.ified to the ,
Steward that no purchaie of stores, stock, &c. should be '
made without any authorization. This the Steward neg-
lected, making purchases totally unknown to me, not being
entered in the order hook ; and it was only accidentally
that I discovered that he had made considerable purchases
of clothing from the house of Messrs. Boyd, Barnett, and
Co.—a circumstance which I not only immediately reported
to the Committee, but took several of its members to the
store-rooms, showed them the articles thus purchased,
and placed in their hands samples of a cloth, which I did
not consider proper for the clothing of the patients.
" I have further to observe, on this subject, that not only
did the Steward make purchases of stock unkno An to me
and to the Committee, but considerable purchases of bed-
ding were made, in a similar manner, by the Chairman,
who thus confused the accounts as much, if not more, than
the in-iplitated Steward."
From the following passage the reader will learn who
is the magistrate chiefly responsible for the misdeeds
done at Hanwell
"Upon my appointment to the Asylum, I found it virtually
under the controul of the Chairman, Colonel Clitherow.
He issued his orders, verbally and in writing, without the
concurrence of the Committee, and took upon him the
responsibiliy of investigating all matters concerning the
Asylum ; and although his decisions did not always meet
with the ultimate approbation of the Committee,he seemed
to consider the institution as under his immediate and sole
controul. His Lieutenant-Colonel, the Steward, instead of
winking his rep,rts to ate, reported to him, as his com-
manding officer, at his 'private dwelling, every occurrence
in the establishment; and when, in one instance, differ-
ences had arisen between officers, the circumstance was
referred, not to me or to the Committee, but to Colonel
Clitherow, who immediately repaired to the Asylum, to
issue his orders on the subject."
Colonel Clitherow tore the orders of the Superin-
tendent out of the book, and brooking no rivalry in the
management, made it quite impossible for a gentleman
to remain exposed to the intrigues of the Colonel and
his creatures. It must be very inconvenient for a
Magistrate who makes his Lieut.-Colonel a steward, and
purchases bedding himself, to have any independent per-
son on the establishment, and hence, according to Dr.
Millingen, the quarrels, the insults, the resignation.
But though the rate-payers know the source of
the evil, they have no means of redress. The
Magistrates are completely irresponsible, and the
Hanwell Asylum, after all the exposures which have
been made, will continue as at present a drain on the
pockets of the rate-payers. They base nothing to do
with the laws of the Middlesex Justices but to obey
them, and to find their masters amply in funds for_ al
the delightful species of jobbing in which they may
engage.

A VlcTim OF THE NORTH "IND.—Not I
many years back, a man named Garcia was ex( cuted for
murder, Ile was a person of some education, esteemed by
those who knew him, and, in general, rather remarkable
than otherwise for the civility and amenity or his man-
mrs; his countenance was open and handsome, and
his disposition frank and generous; but when the north
wind set in, he appeared to lose all command of him-
self, and such was his extreme irritability, that during
its continuance he could hardly spe,:k to any. one in
his execution,
with
meh)e,
isutfroerert :nitthaou tfelsu a rbroeullrisn gb.
rolrne
ah
admitted that it s thewa'e third murder he had been
guilty of, besides having been engaged in more than
twenty fights with knives, in 'which he bad both given and
received many serious wounds; but, lie observed, it was
the north wind, not he, that shed ail t
said blood; When
he arose from his bed in the morning,
once aware of its accursed influence heh.
upon
liiibne;
at was
everya sdualtl
headache first, and then a feeling of impatience
thing about him, would cause him to take umbrage even
at the members of his own family on the most trivial oe-
urrence. If he went abroad, his headache generally
became worse; a heavy weight•seemed to hang over his
temples ; he saw objects, as it were, through a
cloud, and was hardly conscious where he went. He
was fund of play, and if in such a mood a
gambling house was in his way, he seldom resisted the
temptation ; once there, any turn of ill luck would so
irritate him, that the chances word he would, insult some
e
of the bystanders. Those who knew him, perhaps, u
bear with his ill humours; but if unhappily be chanced to
meet with a stranger disposed to resent his abuse, they
seldom parted without bloodshed. Such was the account
the wretched man gave of himself, and it was corroborated
afterwards by his relations and friends ; who added, that
no sooner had the cause of his excitement passed away,
than he would deplore his weakness, and never rested till
he had sought out and n ado his peace with those whom
he had hurt or offended.—Sir TV. Parish's Buenos
Ares.
DESCENT OF THE NASSAU BALLOON.—
After maentdr,oaptolhisal
half
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Rdeffiscfern(ciLed in a field adjacent to the
After passing over the eastern part pcahrto
of sopplesfield, in Es9ex, near Castle H edlingham
borepr,st
coivgehrt lolleoirode,k
villarfe
the distance of fifty-three miles from Vauxhall Gardens
which was effected in the short space of two hours. The
voyage was exceedingly interesting and pleasant. The
cation that the balloon attained throughout the
voyage was about 1,500 feet.
greatest elevation

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