The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-02 00:00:00

JULY 2, 1845.

lIA.NWELL LUNATIC ASYLUM.

For some time back considerable discussion has taken
place am& ingst the Magistrates of the county of Middle-
sex, asset abled in Quarter Sessions, upon the subject of
the addititonal Lunatic Asylum proposed to be erected at
Hanwell. The Court having determined upon erecting
the new edifice in the vicinage of the present asylum, and
actually purchased a piece of ground for that purpose,
plans and elevations of the proposed asylum were pre-
pared and transmitted to the Metropolitan Commis-
sioners in Lunacy, who had subsequently taken these
propositions into their consideration, and made their re-
port thereon, signed by Lord Ashley, to Secretary Sir
Jam( s Graham, in which they totally disapprove of the
proposed plan, with reference to the building of the new
asylum at Hanwell, and express it as their opinion that
the new edifice should be built as near as may be to the
centre or mass of the population of the county of Mid-
dlesex. The whole of the correspondence, together with
dr.) special report of the Committee of Visitors of the
County Lunatic Asylum, were laid before the Court on
the last county day, when they were ordered to be
printed and circulated ; and as they contain some valua-
ble information respecting the increasing wants of the
county, we subjoin the following extracts from the re-
port from the Commissioners in Lunacy to Sir James
Graham, upon proposal, &c., for erection of an addi-
tional Lunatic Asylum for the County of Middlesex, at
Hanwell

" It appears from the documents transmitted to us,
that the Committee of Visitors propose to erect a new
(or second) asylum at Haswell, at the distance of 100
feet only from the present asylum for the reception of
1,010 pauper lunatics, and to male various alterations
in the existing offices, with the view of rendering them
applicable both to the present asylum and to the asylum
proposed to be erected. And it is estimated that the
cost of the new asylum will not exceed 85,0001.
" Suppasing Hanwell to be the most convenient place
for a lunatic asylum as regards the western division of
the county (a fact, however, not established), it is ob-
viously exceedingly inconvenient as regards the eastern
division. Thera can be no doubt, we apprehend, but
that an asylum built tit so distant "ia,place as rlanwell
(Instead of being near the metropolis, more especially
the eastern part thereof,) must greatly increase the ex-
pense and difficulty of transferring pauper lunatics to
and from the eastern parishes and unions; that it must
add to the inconvenience, and lessen the frequency of
the visits of parishes officers ; and must, in effect,
almost wholly preclude the poorer friends of the patients
froth visiting them at any time during their confine-
ment.

" We are satisfied that the asylum atlia.nwell at
present contains more patients than it is capable of ac-
commodating properly, and more than should be en-
trusted to one superintending or controlling power. It
is the opinion of every medical man of eminence, conver-
sant with the subject, and, amongst others, of Dr.
Con Ally himself (the visiting physician, and, until
lately, the superintendent of the Hanwell Asylum),lthat
not more than 400 patients should be assembled in any
one curative establishment for lunatics; and the Hanwell
Asylum already contains nearly 1,000 patients.
" It is desirrble, we think, on this account, that there
should be no further congregation of lunatic patients at,
or near, Hamwell.
"In regard to the question of expense, adverted to by
the justices in their published address, we, consider:the
sum of 85,0001. as far too large for the objects proposed
to be accomplished by the outlay. And we are disposed
to think that several of the items specified in the address
as savings, are peculiar, or unnecessary instances of ex-
pense ; and that any saving reckoned upon by the jus-
tices, will be more than counterbalanced by the erection
of a new asylum, at a moderate and reasonable cost.
"A reason for placing a new asylum in the eastern
division of the county, lies in the facility with which
the patients might in such case be visited by their
friends. It is a great source of comfort to a large pro-
portion of persons afflicted by mental disorders to receive
occasional visits from their relations and friends. These
friends and relations belong for the most part to the
poorer classes of society, and are so little able to spare
either time or money, that to erect an asylum on a site
so remote as Hanwell is from a great portion of the
county of Middlesex, would in effect deprive a great pro-
portion of the patients altogether from the comforts they
are fairly entitled to receive."

PROTEST AGAINST THE THIRD READING OF A
BILL «TO AMEND THE LAWS RELATING TO
THE IMPORTATION OF CORN.'
DISSENTIENT,
Because the Bill for repealing the corn-laws is not ac-
companied, as in justice it ought to have been, by the follow-
measures, viz. :

1. The entire and immediate repeal of all the taxes which
fall directly upon land—the land tax, the malt tax, and the
hop duty.
2. The equalisation of all the rates of which the occupiers
of land bear at present an unfair and' undue proportion—the
poor rates, the highway rates, and the county rates.
3. An alteration of the Tithe Commutation Act, which
can no longer be just or applicable.
4. A legislative enactment authorising all persons who
hold leases of land for unexpired terms of years to surrender
them on giving six months' notice before, any of the usual
days of payment.
5. A legislative enactment directing the payment stipu-
lated in every contract to be reduced according to the pro-
portion which the average price of wheat, at the time of
making such payment, bears to its average price at the time
that such contract was formed, so that such payment may be
of the same value as w'as originally intended and agreed to
by the parties.

6. A legislative enactment authorising the cultivation of
tobacco, and the preparation of sugar from beetroot or other
vegetables, and exempting the said tobacco and sugar from
the payment of any duty.
7. The entire and immediate repeal of those taxes which
aro imposed upon articles of general consumption, of the
Excise duty on soap, and of the Customs' duties on sugar
and coffee, the produce of British colonies, and on those sorts
of tea and tobacco which are used by the labouring classes.
STAN HOPE.
HASTIN GS.
MALMESBURY.
RICHMOND, for the first six reasons.
PEN SHURST, for the third reason.
BEAUFORT, for the first three reasons.
MANSFIELD, for the first three reasons.
SELKIRK, for the second reason.
• GRANTLEY, for the second reason.
BRODERICK, for the first three reasons.
CROFTON, for the first twpand
FRESNE, for the first two and sixth.
CLANCARTY, fot the first two and sixth.
TANKERVILLE.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, Jrxx 30.
STOcx EXCRANGE.—The sales are—Caledonlan, 9%—Midland,
New, 37% —York and North Midland, East and West Riding
Extension, 1136 .

MANCHESTER, JusE 30

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales areLßirkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction, 15-16 c. p.—Blackburn Chorley, and Liverpool,
1% dis.—Chester and Manchester Direct, dis.— Clitheroe Junc-
tion, 1 dis.—Derby and Crewe, 414 p.—Eastern Counties, 24 3.16 p.
—Ditto, York Extension, 1 p.—East Lancashire, 3% p.—Glasgow
and Dumfries, 13-16 dis.—Grand Union, 15s. 6d. dis.—Great Grimsby
and Sheffield Junction, Quarter Shares, c. dis.— Huddersfield,
. .

Halifax, and Bradford, It, p.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 21s.
dis.— Leicester and Bedford, 3s. 6d. dis.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and
Preston, 74 p.—Manchester, Buxton, Mattock, and Midland,
Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (B), 9% p.—Manchester and
Leeds Extension, IN p.—Northumberland and Lancashire, % dis.—
North Staffordshire, 3 13-16 p.—North Western, % p.—Sheffield and
Lincolnshire Junction,s-16 dis.—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters,
No. 3, par—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 2,3% p.—Ditto, Halves,
No. 4, 1.16 p.—West Lancashire Coast, 18s.—West Riding Union, %
p.—York and Carlisle, 1% dis.—Tean and Dove Valley, 13s. 3d.

LEEDS, JUNE 30.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, 20s.p.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Quarter Shares, 9s.
dis.—Huddersfield and Sheffield, 5 cash p.—Leeds and Bradford,
37% p.—Leeds and Dewsbury, 2 cash p.—Midland, New, 13% p.-
North British, Carlisle Branch, Bs. Gd. p.—Clitheroe Junction, 19s.
dis.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 30s. dis.—Leeds and York,
28s. dis.—Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, 13s. dis.—Leicester and
Bedford, ss. 6d. dis.--Londoa and York, 18s. 6d. dis.—London and
Portsmouth, 17s. 6d. p.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Mid-
land, 11s. p.—Midland and Thirsk Junction, 228. dis. —Northumber
land and Lancashire Junction, % dis.—North Staffordshire, 3% p.—
North Western, ss. p.—Welsh Midlands, 28s. dts.—West Riding
Union, 3/. 16s. dis.