The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-28 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, Feb. 28.—Wind this day at noon S.W. ;
light, with very fine weather.—The Greek Slave, off and
from West Hartlepool, while anchored in Barking Reach
on Feb. 25, was run into and sunk in 24 feet water by the
James, barge.
PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 27.—Wind N.W., blowing hard.—
Arrived—Harriette, Bremen, for La Guayra ; Trinidad,
from Hartlepool, for Cuba; Cuba Packet, Amsterdam, for
Havana.

C27.—Wind W., N.N.W., strong.—
Arived
—r
London, for New Zealand; Fortunata,
Feb. from
Feb. 27.—Wind N.-W.—Ariived— Annie
PepsaAgiut:3tl;ol7 3,lrant,ilda, Puerto Cabello.
:Moulmein. Off—Aiuifera, London, for Cape of Good
Hope.

inIDLINGTON, Feb. 28.—The Don, of and from Seaha
for London, foundered off this place this morning, having
sprung a leak ; crew saved.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAIII)
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning.

Wind calm.
Arrived, Feb. U.—General Havelock, from Cardiff; Port
Madoc, Harriet, Lively, Clementina, Florida, and Anne,
from Newport ; Union, from Sunderland ; L'Etoile, from
Carentan ; La Poule, from Cherbourg ; Lady Eglinton,
from Dublin.

(By SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
AVESEND, onday ornin g.
Wind N W; tide last hGR
ours' flood ;M weatherM light and
hazy

Arrived, Feb. 27.—Alphonso Jeane, from Nantes;
Spright, from Guernsey ; Lord of the Isles, from Shanghai.
Arrived
Feb. 28.—Flora, from Oporto.
DEAL, Monday Morning.

Wind N.W., moderate.
Passed.—Aria, from Calcutta ; Joseph Fletcher, from
China ; Queen of the South, schooner, from St. Mitchael's
and Kingston, schooner from Westward—all for London ;
City of Brussels, from Rouen, fur Shields; Johanna and
Olussa, from Shields, for Caldera.
Sailod.—Maria Hay, Susan, Sultana, and Tyburn—for
London.

The Pera will take out the first overland Austra-
lian mail under the now contract, on the 12th proximo.
TREATMENT OF LUNATICS.—Two Government
bills have been brought in upon the care and treatment of
lunatics —a subject on which the public mind has recently
received a most painful impression in consequence of recent
disclosures of the practices pursued in private asylums.
The first bill prohibits the granting of licences (by justices)
to houses for the reception of lunatics without a previous
inspection, inquiry, and report on the part of
Tt hheesieLt (Lunacy)
gentle a v.
Commissioners. The commissioners will annually ap iit
after their
"medical examiners" of licensed houses within their inni -
mediate jurisdiction, and the justices at Midi , —'
aelmas
Sessions will also appoint similar examiners.
which mut. t
men will visit all lunatic patients immediately
days male
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girecveepdtiuoen
ninottoicelicoefntsielde liitiocuts)esan(tdhewikteheirrsissesvoefn
commissioners
months,
of
fatt They
NavifnulNlisreitpotth•te
within
and again report on their state, &e
by clause 15, to disqualify cert • - .•
Care is taken,
from signing certificates for th am interested perions
Detective certificates for the re e reception of patients.
be-
come void if not amended withinption of patients will
will then be discharged l4 days, and the patient
be permitted to be from durance. Patients may
and licensed houses. absent on trial from hospitals
patients or more In every house licensed for 50
must •
there
medical practitioner reside a legally qualified
as superintendent or medical attend-
ant, and every licensed house-
licensed for more than 30
p ttients and less that 50 must (unless one be resident), be
visited daily, and if licensed for less than 30 thrice
by a regular medical practitioner. Every licensed a-week,
house
must be visited at least once
si a-year by a single come is-
oner in addit'cn to the visits already required by law
The keepers of these private madhouses, as well as persons
having
arge of single patients, must furnish information
as to payment for patients. The second bill amends the
law on lunatic
maintenance of pauper lunatics.