The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-26 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF CO3I3IONS.—(THIS DAY.)
NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
1. Mr. Sykes—bill to declare the right of Freeholders in imp'.
rate Districts, or Counties Corporate, to vote at the'Elec..
don of Knights of the Shire of the several Counties trona
which the said Districts have been separated.
2. Lord John Russell.—Petition of the Inhabitant Householders
of Rye, for the extension of the Elective Franchise in that
Borough.
3. Mr. Estcourt—To continue the Alehouse Licensing: Act,
3 Geo. 4, c. 77.
4. Mr. Herries—.To move Appropriation Clause, in Committee
on Consolidated 1' and

ORDERS OF TUE DAY.
1. Destruction of Houses (Ireland) Bill—Second reading.
2. Silk Duties Bill—Further consideration of Report. •
3. Shire Halls Bill—Further consideration of Report.
4. Ways and Aleans_Committee. •
5. Supply—Committee.
Ilirminghton and Liverpool Canal re-coramittodltilL..ittr.
ther consideration of Report. .rai
7. Charing-cross Improvement Bill—*Cognailtee. . s)si tvpvai
O. Criminal Justice Bill—Third reading. i..,11! •
9. Excise Laws Amendment 11111—Conimittee.
10. Middlesex Turnpike Trusts Bill-Report.
11. Petty Sessions (Ireland) Bill—Second reading...
12. Bank Charter Amendment Dill—Third reading:
13. Church Rates (Ireland) Bill—Report.
14. Fisheries Bill—Third reading.
15. Spring Guns Bill--Report.
16. Greenwich Hospital Estate Bill—Repot L.
17. Exchequer Bills Funding Bill—Third reading.
18. Westminster Improvement Transfer Bill—Committee.
19. silk Duties Acts—Report thereupon.
20. Exchequer Bills (13,200,000 i.) Bill—COmmittee,
21. Consolidated Fund Islll—Committe( Appropriation Clause).
22. Holyhead Road Bill—Second reading.
23. Customs Bounties Act-7 Committee thereupon.

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH.—(Tuts DAY.)
The Naval OfHoer, who had been committed to prison on the
charge of a rape at Portsmouth, and for whom Mr. CAsTs had
moved for a writ of Habeas Corpus, on Saturday last, was this
day brought before the Judges, and admitted to bail, himself in
4,000/., and four sureties in 1,0001. each.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET , FIRST SPRING MEETING, 426,
.11EIVAIMIXET., SIONDAi
We yesterday gave the decision of the different Stakes and
Matches which, as we then suited, produced excellent sport.
We submit further particulars of the Clarendon which- are
especially called for, from the anxiety existing, at to =hew the;
Derby favourites ran.
Clarendon Stakes. D.M. • •
Dettlng at starting-7 to 2 apt Crusader, 0 to,4,agst.The •
Moslem, b to 2 agat Monarch, 10 to 1 agstXhe General, and
14 to 1 apt Parapluie. The betting altered, consideriblY 'in • '
running, high odds being Offered on the General, who appeared
to be winning.
Scamper took the lead at starting, and made very severe run. , •
ning, closely followed by the Moslem, Crusader, and The Ge.
nerd!, to the New Grounds, where The Moslem came in front,
hard Pushed by The General and Crustitler,—a moat terrible
raga thin, ensued between these three, Scamper and Monarch
nut being-far behind, and Parapluie and the Filhimla-Piite
evidently beaten off. Thus placed, the three continued the
race. The General having, apparently, a slight advantage,
till within a short distance of home when all Chutney's Jockey.
ship could not prevent James Robinson, on Crusader, getting
in front, and winning by a neck. It was one of the finest races
of the season, both jockeys and horses doing their duty.
Scamper was rode by John Day ; Monarch by Wheatley ;
Parapluie, by Goodison ; Filho, by Clift ; and The Moslem,
by Arnull.
Immediately after the races, and till the post left, the betting
became brisk, and the odds speedily assumed a material change. •
Panic left off first favourite, and the two former favourites
went back, Moslem to 13 to 1, Monarch 20 to l. The Gene-
ral is getting up apace, us might be expected. The odds are
as under :.....

2 to 1 art Drngon
4,t0 I &got Uoshawk

NEWMARIE7 sTAx ES.
7 to 2 agst The Baron.

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5 to 1 eget Panic
10 to 1 apt The Baron
13 to 1 apt The Moslem
14 to I eget The General

BT.
16 to 1 agst Advance
18 to 1 agst Dorinda
20 to 1 apt Monarch
20 to 1 apt Rush
4to 3 apt Butterfly 110 to 1 apt Parapluie
6 to 1 apt l'roblem 10 to 1 apt Rachel
9 to 1 apt Mignionette 12 to 1 apt Elizabeth
2000 as. STAKES.
Very little betting—Viscountess anti Dervise the favourites.—
Henrica has paid ft.

NEWMARKET, TUESDAY V.VExINO.
The King's Plate of 100 gs, for mares of all ages. It.C.
Mr. IL Scott's ch. f. Wings . . - -
Col. Wilson's bl. m. Black Daphne . .
Lord Warwick's ch. f. Double Entendre - -
Duke of Grafton's ch. f. Pucelle - - -

Won by a length.
bto 1 atget Wings-2 to 2 agst Black Daphne.
The 2000 gs Stakes, a subscription of 100 PM. each, h. ft. colts,
Ost. 71b. fillies, tist. 41b. R.M.
Duke of Grafton's b. c. Dervise - - - I
Lord Exeter's ch. c. by Comus - • . 2
Mr. Wyndham's bl. c. by Whalebone . .
Duke of Grafton's f. by Woful 0
Lord G. 11. Cavendish 's br. c. by Allegro - ~' ,'; 1
Mr. Goddant's br, c. by Comus - - , -
• , Mr. Theakston's ch. c. by Aladdin • -
5 paid—Won by three-quarters of length. ,
3 to 1 agst Dervise-6 to 1 agst Mr. WYndllB'n,.
i ..
Fifty Pounds, by subscription, for allages. Last Time masa
of lI.V. ~ , • 1
Duke of Grafton's ch. f. Pucells ' -
- . 2
Lord Verulam's ch. f. Viteilina -
tAiler?.pGerttoistrie, ncioir. 'gs
.c he, 11;1En g Fis., bet
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... ;
...:. _ I
Won by a length.-3 to 1 set Pucale—Aven On vitutum

THE. LONDON JOURNALS.

I AYLY EXTRACTS `FROM THE MORNING PAPERS,
APRIL: 26, 1826.

[MORNING. inutAtp.]
Return of all. the houses licenced for the recep,
tion of Lunatica in Great Britain, the,names ofte
PrOPrietors, .and the number of patients confined in
each, has been laid before the House of Commons.
We have. otily to regret that the information contained
in this document is so. meagre and defective. From
many counties there is no return at all, and among
these is the county of Middlesex, where there are so
many honks licenced for, the reception of lunatics.
From some there is a. return of the patients confined
not only in private mad-houses, but also in public
asyltuns. From others no return of the number of
patients confine& in the latter, and from only one es-
tablishment, the Shrewsbury House of Industry, is
there any return to show whether the house is regu-
larly visited by medical men ; so that we have no means
Of ascertaining the exact number of patients, nor the
manner iuwhich they are treated in the different asylums
throught4he country. The latter species of infOrma-
riqn, however, is by far the most important, and tomake
the document complete. such. returns as the following
ought to have been called for, the names of the visiting
physicians to every public and private asylum through-
MA the kindom—the number of times they had visited
the asylum each yeas--what 'complaints against the
proprietors or keepers had been made before any Ma-
gistrate) and how these. had been disposed of.; the
result of any inquiries that had been instituted for the
purpose of correcting abuses in public asylums—also
affidavits by the visiting physicians,. certifying, from
their own personal knowledge, what was the mode of
treatment adopted. by the proprietors of these private
read-houses--whether, they considered it the best, and
whether, for aught they knew, it might be of such a
nature as to harass and.. irritate the feelings of the un-
happy patients, and thereby prolong. the malady,..for
the, purpose of answering the views of those interested.
If such returns were made, it is extremely probable,
that in some parts of them. there would be sad blanks;
thst in others it would, be found that complaints had
been made before Magistrates, and that inquiry bad
been left to physicians, or to the friend of physicians,
interested in concealing abuses, and that the visits of
physicians, particularly to private Mad-houses, were,
like 'those of angels,. few and far between. In
former numbers of this paper, we called the attention
of our readers to the abuses that were supposed to
exist in private, Mad-houses. We say supposed, be-
cause the mysterious manner in which such establish-
ments are conducted' prevents' the public from ascer-
taining 'correctly their real state. A number of letters
from. different individuals bore, testimony to 'such
abuses, Mid contained plans for reinedying them. We
believe, however, that no remedy will be effectual, till
the siole management is taken out of the hands, of phy-
sicians, and till the public be made acquaintedwith the
froceedings that take place in these abode's of misery.
fhe relatives of the patients. might object to this.
-They-might as welt however, object to the publicity
given to evidence taken at .Coroners' Inquests, and we
can see no reason why the law of England should
sanction it in one case and prohibit it in the other.
Such a Court of Inquiry was instituted for the be-
nefit' of the public in general, and tiur checking the
wicked attempts of relatives, or of persons re..
siding in the same house, who might .be inte-
rested in the death of any member of the family.
What reason, therefore, can there be for this se-
. crecy in the treatment of Lunatics ? A murderer is
commonly regarded as the greatest of. criminals, but
there is no reason why that man should not be equally
abhorred and. punished, whoe fi.om selfish moti-iss,
subjects a fellow creature to unmerited insult and hope-
less confinement„ement, and thereby confirms a disease which
is worse than death. The keepers of private Asylums
are interested parties. We should be sorry to suppose
that many of them resort to improper modes of treat-
ment, for the purpose of prolonging the captivity of
their patient, but we have no hesitation in saying that
such instances clooccur,. and that one solitary instance
et a human creature being needlessly confined and
driven by cruel treatment to confirmed madness, ou_ght
to be a sufficient reason for the interference of the
gisleture. Itwere better, indeed, that all such places
were declared illegal, than that the present mysterious
.system should be continued.. In the. public. Asylums
throughout the kingdom, the. patients. are more regu-
larly visited by medical men than the private estab-
, lishments—the public are occasionally admitted, and
eonsequently some•apinion can be formed of the man-
ner in which the patients are treated:;. but. those of a
private description are as inaccessible to the pub-
lic as the bastale was in the reign of Louis XV., or as
the state prisons of the Grand Seignior are at the
present day. Every establishment is liable to abuse,
unless the proceedings be occasionally laid before the
• public ; and when it is recollected that ho many of our
fellow creatures are cenflued throughout the country in
places of this description,' every friend , of humanity
must admit the necessity of some change: , From the
iiriperfect Returns laid before the House it would ap-
per that 7,904 persons have been, entered into the
Registers as Loanitics frour.lBls to 1824. In Some
lerge towns the number of women exceeds that dwell
in the proportion of six to seven; in others of five to.
six, and from the Return made this year,hy the. Phy-
sicians of Bethlem Hospital to the Court of gover-
nors, it appears that . the number of women in that
establishment exceeds that of men by nearly one half.
The proportion of inert to women, however, in the
gross amount, is as four to three. There has been no
return from IrelancL In that country, with all its po-
verty and wretchedness, we believe instances of Suicide
are much less frequent than in England'; and it is ex:-
tremely probable- that the number of Lunatics bears a
„similar proportion. It would, therefore, be interesting
to ascertain the number of both these eases in Ireland,-
in order to compare them. with 60e of Great
Britain.

[MORNING CIIIIONICLE.j
If there is one subject more than another, respecting
which one would think there couldof be. no difference
opinion, one would imagine
it is that of allowing Coun-
sel
. to_ persons prosecuted for felohy. net same argu-
merit which would go to the exclusion of Counsel in
criminal matters, would go to-theexclusion of them in
civil matters ; for if it be' proper that there should be-
no pleading on the evidence in a matter affecting life, it
is proper that there should also be none in a matter of-
less moment,-property. The allowing. Counsel to ad-
dregs Juries,is either proper or improper,but itis clear that
it cannot be proper in 0110 ease and improper in another.—
The most superstitious determination to suppot every
thing that is established, merely because it is esta-
blished, 'eould, alone maintain that the allowing a
Counsel to address a Jury for a defendant in a matte