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London, England, 1845-07-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY It, 1845.

The L',rds met at Five o'clock.
The Arrestwent of Wages (Scotland) Bill was read a
third time and passed.
The Duke of RICHMOND then drew their Lordships'
attention to a case of privilege. He presented a petition
from Mr. T. BARER, superintendent of the C division of
metropolttar, police, complainit g that an action for libel
had been brought agsinst him by Mr. J. HARLOW, in
consequence of the evidence which he had given before
the Committee of their Lordships' House appointed to
consider the lax s relating to gaming.
The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the appointment of a
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Committee to search for precedents.

Lord CAMPBELL moved, as an amendment, that the
plaintiff and his attorney be celled to the bar of the
House.

Lord BROUGHAM believed that the Houses of Parlia-
ment had their privileges best secured by trusting to
courts of justice.
Lord COTTENHAM said there could not he a doult
but :hat an action instituted against a party for evidence
given before the House was a breach of privilege.
Lord DENMAN hoped their Lordships would not pre-
vent the plaintiff from proceeding with his action.
On a division, the original motion was carried by a
majority of 11, the numbers being, for the motion 33,
fur the amendment, 22.

The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition, com-
plaining that the Directors of a certain Railway Com-
pany had been guilty of Iraud upon the House, in attach-
ing certain names of Fades as subscribers to the
undertaking, without their consent.

Atter some diAtate, a Committee has appointed w
inquire into the allegations.
The Games and Wagers Bill, and the Irish Jurors
Bill, were read a third time and passed.
A discussion on the sulaket of New Zealand arose in
conaequence of the pre,,entation of a petition by the Earl
of CHICHESTER. It, however, led to no result.

The Bills on the table being forwarded a stage, the
House adjourreil.

The Commons met at Twelve.
The Commons Inclosure Bill passed through Com-
mittee. The report was brought up at five o'clock.

The ATrOBNEY•GENERAL tuck the oaths and his seat
for Abingdon.
Lord PALmEnsToN gave notice for Tuesday next of a
motion on the subject of the corrQsporidence which had
recently taken place with Spain as to the treaties sub-
sisting between the two countries.

On the order of the day for the third reading of the
Irish Colleges Bill,
Mr. OSBORNE moved that an humble address be pre-
sented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graci-
ously pleased to direct an inquiry to be made into the
amount of the revenues of Trinity College, Dublin.
Mr. BELLEW seconded the motion.

Sir T. FREMANTLE, on the part of the Government,
felt compelled to resist the motion, as the re had been no
attempt made to show that there had been any malversa-
tiou of the funds of the College.
The House was subsequently addressed by Mr. HA-
MILTON, Mr. WARBURTON, Sir R. H. INGLIS, Mr.
HUME, Mr. J. M. O'CONNELL, Mr. SHAW, Mr. SHELL,
and other Hon. Members.

The House then divided, when the Amendment was
negatived by a majority of 77.
After a short discussion, the Bill was read a third
time and passed.

The other business of the day was then disposed of
and the House adjourned at Two o'clock.

We are glad to learn that the plan for establishing an
asylum for the insane of the middle classes has met
with great support, and is likely to be attended with
complete success. Its objects have been already well
and succinctly stated in an ably-drawn prospectus, de-
voted to their exposition. After adverting to the gene-
ral ameliorations which have been of late years intro-
duced into the treatment, both physical and moral, of
that suffering class of our fellow-creatures, who are the
victims of the most distressing ina:ady that can Afflict
sentient beings, this paper very c!esrly shows that—
looking, on the one hanil, to the attentions and
comforts which the means of rich patients can
always command at the hands of the most
gent and experienced practitioners ; and, on the other,
at the professtenal skill end the superior internal ar-
rangements that are 1 rovided for the absolutely pour
and destitute lunatic or in,ane in large and well regu-
lated public establishments, supported by contributiobs
from the public and from individuals ; it is, perhaps, the
intermediate close of moderate competencies, or rather
of incomes appreaehing te moderate competencies, who
suffer most from the want of ,asylums, the treatment and
accommodation of which could he brought within the
reach of their menus. " Those who are most conversaet
with the wants of society," it is remarked, in the docu-
ment before us, " are, it is btleved, unanimously of
opinion that some asylum is urgently needed in the
neighbourhood of the metropolis for the reception of re r-
sons of the mildie classes only, offering for moderate
payments all the comforts Suitable to p: r-
sons of their habits of the - and combining all
the advantages and resources enjoyed in the
best institutions for the classes already provided for, in-
cluding many improvements in the method of treatment,
yet but very partially adopted in private asylums, and
quite unknown, perhaps impracticable, in the domestic
management of single cases in private residences." We
perceive that the provisional committee of management
are of opinion, that while the extensive scale on which
such an asylum is organised is. per se, a great good (in-
asmuch as it supplies for the patients a variety of objects
capable of attracting attention, exciting interest, and
stimulating to exertion and imitation) the principle,
carried beyond certain limits, becomes a practical evil.
They consider that such an asylum as they now propose
to establish should be confined within a capacity for
containing from 200 to 400 beds. " The cost of about
twenty-five acres of freehold land, with sufficient
buildings and every possible provision for contin-
gencies, is ca;culated at 30,000/." The subscrip-
tions and donations proposed for qualifications of
governors, members of the Committee of Management,
&c., appear to be proposed on a well-considered and
easy scale. We have no doubt, now that the Institution
has been so impressively ushered into public notice, that
the benevolent objects of its promoters will be rapidly
and fully accomplished. 'the public, itself, must feel
that they have every guarantee for the bond fide charac-
ter of an undertaking, for which such a man as Earl
SPENCER has given, with his own honoured name, a cer-
tificate of genuineness and honesty that will pass cur-
rent among all classes of his countrymen throughout ties
length and breadth of the land ; to which Lord ASHLEY
records the sanction of his own active and sagecieus
benevolence, honoured aid respected as that is tar be-
yond the stormy circles of political and party warfare ;
and among whose "Provisional Committee of Manage-
ment " we find that illustrious physician (for no
humbler designation will represent his merits),
whose persevering, high-principled, disinterested zeal,
and enlightened energy in developing and acting upon
the results or his profound itudy of mental disease, base
led to the introductien of a reformed and curative treat-
ment of insanity in all its plieses, which have earned fur
him an Europ-an reputation in the first ranks of con-
temporary science, and will secure for his memory the