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London, England, 1847-07-19 00:00:00

MEN T BILL.

The House went into Committee on this Bill.
The clauses were read over and agreed to, and the re-
port was ordered to be brought up on Monday next.
The House then resumed.
JOINT STOCK COMPANIES (No. 2) BILL.

The Committee on this Bill was deferred till Monday,

BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY BILL.

O❑ the motion that this Bill be read a third time,
Lord G. BENTINCK moved that it be postponed
till Honourable and Learned Members who were not,
present should be in the House to take part in the dis-
cussion. _ _

Sir G. GREY acceded to the suggestion or the Noble
Lord, and postponed the Bill till Monday.

MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.

A message from the Lords brought up several Bills.
The House, at a Quarter past Three o'clock, adjourned
till Monday at Three o'clock.

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inquire into the cause of the death of James Burden, a
lunatic, whose decease was alleged to have been caused
by violence received whilst an inmate of that institution.
The chairman, Mr. Kemble, M.P., stated that no one
was charged with any specific offence.
Mr. Bridgeland, the steward, said that on Monday.
June the 14th, Mr. Holland, the medical officer, reported
to him that the deceased had had a pain in his side for
five days past. He visited the patient, who said that he
was very unwell during the night, and about ten or
eleven o'clock he knocked hard at his door to be let out,
and on the door being opened he received a severe blow
in his side from some man with a long pole. The force
of the blow drove him back against the wall with great
violence Since that time, which was three days before,
he had suffered much pain+ and had great difficulty in
breathing. During this interview deceased appeared
quite rational.
Mr. Joseph Holland, resident surgeon of the institu-
tion, stated that on Sunday, the 10th, he found deceased
suffering from diarrhea, and in a state of great exhaus-
tion. Ile treated him accordingly, but at eight o'clock
in the evening he found him breathing with great diffi-
culty; his pulse was quick, and skin hot. Witness
was about to ask the deceased some questions, when
the attendant, John Steel, remarked that he had made
a strange complaint to Sir Alexander Morrison, to the
effect that he had been ill-used by him, Steel. He
examined the deceased, and discovered that he had a
broken rib on the right side; there were two contusions
on the right side of the body. Deceased gradually sank,
and died ou the 23d ult. The post mortem examination
showed that the leghth rib was fractured, and that that
injury was the cause of death. Ile found deceased, on
one occasion, locked up in his room till between ten and
eleven o'clock, and he was then in a most filthy state.
John Logan Steel said deceased had complained of a
pain in his side from the time he was admitted. De-
ceased had told him that he had quarrelled with Robarts,
another patient, who .had kicked him in the side. He
told Sir Alexander Morrison that he was kicked. He
had also told witness he had been violently assaulted in
Brixton gaol.
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tion on two or three occasions when deceased was about
to speak.
The committee consulted for a few minutes, and ex-
pressed their opinion on the case in a resolution that
" the committee are not enabled to decide whether the
injury from which the deceased died was occasioned by
a blow received on or about the Ist of June, in a scuffle
which took place between him and a lunatic of the name
of Roberts; whether it was from the injury received to
a fall which he got in attempting to get through the
ventilator over the door of his ward; or trom the blow
stated by hlin to have been inflicted by some of the at-
tendants. They regret the unsatisfactory manner of
this conclusion, but they feel that it would be unjust
to the attendants to throw upon them, or any one of
them, a stigma which is net borne out by the evidence."

Rear-Admiral Prescott is to be the new Lord of
the iiduit, city, and will take his place as the junior
Lord. Admiral Dean. Dundas, now a member of the
board, will take the place of Sir Charles Adams as the
senior naval Lord, the lion. Capnun Berkeley coming
next in rotation—the other members being Lord John
Hay and the Hon. William Cowper.— Observer.