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.

COWES, Feb. 27.—Wind W., N.N.W., strong.—Arrived
—Traveller, from London, for New Zealand; Fortunata,
Pesaquat ; Matilda, Puerto Cabello.

DARTMOUTH, Fob. 27.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Annie,
Moulmein. Off—Amifera, London, for Cape of Good
Hope.

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

(EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning.
Wind calm.

Arrived, Feb. 26.—General Havelock, from Cardiff; Port
Madoc, Harriet, Lively, Clementina, Florida, and Anne,
from Newport; Union, from Sunderland; L'Etoile, from
Carentan ; La Poulo, from Cherbourg; Lady Eglinton,
from Dublin.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Wind N W; tide last hours' flood ; weather 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; Quoen of tho South, schooner, from St. Mitchaers ;
and Kingston, schooner, from Westward—all for London ;
City of Brussels, from Rouen, for Shields; Johanna and
Olussa, from Shields, for Caldera.
Sailed.—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 grantinc, of licences (by justices)
to houses for the reception of lunatics without a previous
inspection, inquiry, and report on the part of the (Lunacy)
Commissioners. The commissioners will annually appoint
"medical examiners" of licensed houses within their im-
mediate jurisdiction, and the justices at Michaelmas
Sessions will also appoint similar examiners. These gentle-
men will visit all lunatic patients immediately after their
reception into licensed houses (the keepers of which must
give due notice of the fact) and within seven days make
a full report of the result to the commissioners. They
will visit the patients a second time within three months,
and again report on their state, &c. Caro is taken,
by clause 15, to disqualify certain interested persons
from signing certificates for the reception of patients.
Defective certificates for the reception of patients will be-
come void if not amended within 14 days, and the patient
will then be discharged from durance. Patients may
be permitted to be absent on trial from hospitals
and licensed houses. In every house licensed for 50
patients or more there must reside a legally qualified
medical practitioner as superintendent or medical attend-
ant, and every licensed house licensed for more than 30
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visited daily, and if licensed for less than 30 thrice a-week,
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as to payment for patients. The second bill amends the
law on lunatic asylums in counties, and provides for he
maintenauce of pauper lunatics,