The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-26 00:00:00

husband. A letter from Dr. H. 11. Fox to a person
making an order states, " If there be any inconve-
nience in getting a second certificate it can be dis-
pensed with until after admission." And to another,
" The second (certificate) can be procured at my
house if more convenient."

We have not space sufficient to go into the details
of all the facts recorded in this most valuable docu-
ment, to which we would fain direct the attention of
all those who during the course of the ensuing
session may be called on to legislate on the matter ;
but we do most earnestly invite the attention of the
LORD CHANCELLOR to the manner in which the Com-
missioners of Lunacy have performed their duty of
inspection as regards the Northwood Lunatic Asy-
lum. During the whole period the visitors' book of
the asylum shows regular entries of all the Commis-
sioners of Lunacy, those entries are of a laudatory
character, and the Commissioners either failed to dis-
cover, or neglected to report the existence of (to use
the words of the Gloucestershire magistrates) " a
system in which all the barriers created by the law
against illegal and improper orders and certificates,
and against the illegal reception and detention of
patients, have been broken through and utterly disre-
garded." %Ve trust that ere this the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR has called upon the Commissioners to state
how it comes to pass that they failed to discover the
facts which the inquiries of the Gloucestershire ma-
gistrates so soon brought to light.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The responsible editors of the Avenernent du Peuple
and the Presse, MM. VACQUERIE and hour, were
tried on Wednesday before the Court of Assizes of
the Seine for publishing the letter of M. VICTOR
HuGo, with comments said to be seditious. M.
Rout made default. M. DESMAREST, for the de-
fendant, M. VACQUERIE, addres ed the Court at
great length. M. VAcQusxli also made some ob-
servations, and the President summed up. The jury
brought in a verdict of guilty without extenuating
circumstances. The Court condemned M. VAQUERIE
to six months' imprisonment and I,ooof. fine. The
Advocate-General then, demanded judgment by
default on the responsible editor of the Presse, M.
lour, and the Court condemned him likewise to six
months' imprisonment and 1,0001. fine.
The Government has issued a decree dissolving
the Municipal Council of Melun, and suspending
the mayor of that town for three months from his
functions.
The National Guards of Pontevy have been dis-
armed.
On Wednesday the PRESIDENT of the Republic
passed a portion of the garrison of Paris in review
in the Champ de Mars. Some other reviews are to
follow.

Mme. GRISI and M. sIARzo have arrived in Paris,
en route to the Russian capital ; TAMBURINI is also
on his way thither, and Al. ALARY will follow shortly
after.

We read in the Patrie—" The calm and stagnation
which now reign permit the PRESIDENT of the Re-
public to go and reside at the palace of St. Cloud,
where he will pass some time. The Council of Mi-
nisters will be held alternately at Paris and St. Cloud.
This fact is a sufficient answer to the rumours which
still agitate, though feebly, the political circles."
JOBARD, the young man who assassinated a re-
spectable young married female at the theatre at
Lyons a few days ago, though she was a perfect
stranger to him, has been subjected to several inter-
rogatories by the examining magistrate, and a
minute investigation is being made into all the cir-
cumstances of his past life. In compliance with his
request the Abbe CCGNET went to him three days
ago. The moment the venerable priest entered the
cell the prisoner flung himself on his knees, and
attempted to speak, but sobs and tears choked his
utterance. After a while he became calm enough to
refer to his crime; and he demanded, with the most
affecting earnestness, if he would be allowed to live
long enough to expiate it, by repentance. He spoke
of his father, who is a gamekeeper near Dijon, and of
his mother and sister, and expressed profound grief
at the agony he had caused them to endure. He
expressed the wish to attend divine service; but, as
he is in secret confinement, that could not be allowed.
On being told so he cried, " Alas ! not many days
ago 1 attended mass at Dijon—and who would then
have said that to-day I should be here ?"
The Debats, examining the late Customs returns,
says:—
" The importations for the last eight months give
Customs duties to the amount of 70,406.000 f. In 1850
the amount for the same period was 81,229,0001.; and in
1849, 84,277,000 f. Here, then, is a continuous falling
off, and it is idle to put it on the sugar duties—the latter
show, it is true, a decline of 4,000,000 F., but this deli
ciency has been largely compensated for by other pro-
ducts, especially by that of coffee."
On the other hand the Debats notices a steady in-
crease in exportations of wines and spirits, and of
corn, as well as of machines, millinery, porcelains,
glass, and crystal, with cotton, woollen, and other
goods. This paper complains of low state of the
merchant marine. The amount of tonnage of vessels
in and out for the eight months of this year is
2,741,000 tons, or 276,000 tons more than for the
corresponding period of 1850 ; while of the increase
only 62,000 belong to French vessels. There is
something wrong here, adds the Debats, either in our
tariffs or our navigation system, and calls for inquiry
into the subject.
The Bourse was feeble, with little business doing.
The Five per Cents. opened at 921., rose to 92f. 40c.,
and cloyed at 921. 15c. for the end of the mouth; the
Three per Cents. opened at 561. 55c.; Rouen, 5651.;
Havre, 2311. 25c.; Great Northern, 458 t. 75c.; Avignon,
208 x. 75c ; Vierzon, 427 f. 50c.; Basle, 1481. 75c.; Bor-
deaux, 385 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 3551.; Tours and
Nantes, 263 E 75c.; Amiens to Boulogne, 2581. 75c.
BUSINESS Dk.).'s r. IN truittEloN &AIL vi A al' THlt
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, SEE-r. 23.
Boulogne and Amiens, lOta —Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 17 - Dutch Rhenish, 3—East Indian, 21
Great Indian Peninsula, 4—Luxembourg, 1 —Namur and
Liege, 6—Northern of France, 143—Paris and Rouen,
—Paris and Strasbourg, 11- Rouen and Havre, 9s—Sana.
bra and Meuse, 314.