The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-12 00:00:00

CO t TILT CUICULA R.

The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on horseback yester-
day morning, attended by the Maid of Honour and the
Equerries in Waiting.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred,
the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken an
airing yesterday in an open carriage and four, accompanied
by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday after-
noon at a meeting of the Commission for promoting and encou-
raging the fine arts in the re-building the Palace of
Westminster.

His Royal Highness arrived at Gwydyr House at a quarter
before three o'clock, attended by Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in
Waiting. The Commissioners present were the Marquis of
Lansdoxne, the Earl of Lincoln, Lord Colborne, Lord .Ilahon,
Sir Robert Peel, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, and Mr. Benjamin
Hawes.

The meeting broke up at half-past four o'clock, when Prince
Albert, attended by Mr. Eastlake, the Secretary to the Com-
mission, and Colonel Bouverie, honoured Sir Robert Peel
with a visit at his residence in Whitehall Gardens. Some of
the Commissioners also visited the Right Hon. Baronet after
the meeting.
The Queen and Prince Albert, and their Majesties the King
and Queen of the Belgians, honoured the performance of tt.c
French Play with their presence yesterday evening. The royal
suite included the Viscountess Jocelyn, Baroness d'Hoogh-
vorst, Earl of Morton, Colonel Buckley, Colonel Bouverie,
and Major de Mnerkerke.
Sir George Hayter's picture of the Christening of his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, in St. George's Chapel at
Windsor, was removed yesterday from Buckingham Palace,
previou,ly to its completion for engraving.
The Queen inspected, on Thursday, an entirely new descrip-
tion of waterproof cloak, which was submitted by Mr. George
Doudney. Her Majesty was most graciously pleased to express
her approval.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager left her residence, Marl-
borough House, in a crrriage and four yesterday morning,
for Bushy House, Bushy Park. Her Majesty was accom-
panied by their Serene Highnesses the Duchess Ida of Saxe
Weimar and the Princesses of Saxe Weimar.

Their Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had
a dinner party yesterday evening at Cambridge House. The
company included the Prussian Alinister and Madame Bunsen,
the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl and Countess Delawarr, the
Earl and Countess of Dalhousie, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Westminster, the Marquis of Granby, Earl Cadogan, the
Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine Villiers,
Lord Ossulston, and Baron de Talleyrand.
Dispatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.

LUNATIC ASYLUM for the MIDDLE
CLASSES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Having attended the meeting for promoting an asylum
for the insane of the middle classes, I was prepared to support
the prtject with the utmost of my ability, if I found that this
new institution was to be conducted on the opposite principles
of the present systrnt of the private lunatic asylums; that is, if
the interest arising from the detention of the patients should,
by the regulations of this new institution, be severed from that
of the proprietors or governors, or, in other words, that a
patient should be received with a view to effect his cure, and,
as soon as that could be effected, or he became so far convales.
cent as to give a fair and reasonable expectation of his final
recovery, he should be discharged. The new insti,ution should
not he conducted in the manner of the private asylums at pre-
sent. Under the present system, it is hardly caricaturing the
principle on which they are conducted to say, if a patient when
he enters be not mad, he shall quickly be made so; if he be
mad, he shall be kept in that state until he be incurable. I
appeal to the return of the very few cases of cures from the pri-
vate lunatic asylums for the truth of this startling preposition,

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-.nd lean prove it by my own observation.
When I offered myself to the meeting, the Noble Chairman
put me down ; he would not hear a word—he chose to assume
that l must be opposed to the new institution. For once Iris
Lordship was in error. Nearly five years of unmerited con-
finement, passed under his Lordship's surveillance, in five pri-
vate asylums, has not steeled my heart nor rancoured my breast.
I was prepared to support his Lordship's views, if they were to
be carried out on a just, liberal, and humane system.
Allow me to ask, why is his Lordship so sens►tive and deter-
mined to stifle all public discussion on matters of lunacy? and
why will not his Lordship accede to an inquiry before a Com-
mittee of the House of Lords or Commons previous to further
legislation, and hurry on both Houses to legislate without the
information that has been proffered to them by those best ac-
quainted, by practical experience, with the subject?—Your
obedient servant, WILLIAM BAILEY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—l have just seen your paper of this evening, and
basing turned to the report of the business in the House of
Commons, I beg leave to call your attention to the noble and
unsupported exertions of Mr. T. S. Duncombe in behalf of
real and ( ffee.tual reform in the present laws affecting the sei-
zure, detention, treatment, and release of persons of unsound
mind. I do not wish to exaggerate the importance of the
subj,ct, but if only one or two in a thousand are confined as
insane patients, and if only one in a hundred of those may be
unjustly and improperly seized, or unjustly and improperly de-
tained after being restored to a state of convalescence, still the
intense sufferings of such unfortunate individuals, and the re-
sponsibility the Legislature incurs of allowing a possibility of
any such person under such circumstances having his reason
dethroned, does, I think, demand the attention of reflecting
and consit'erate men. And when we consider that subjects of
the grandest nature connected with religion, and the modest
and delicate treatment of females, and the putting a stop to the
most unheard-of cruelties, and the expenditure of millions of the
public money are involved in these measnres, may we not be
surprised and grieved, that scarcely a House could be formed
t 3 discuss Lord Ashley's Bill ? In hopes that by your able pen
you may stir up more of the Liberal Members, at least, of the
House, to come to Mr. Duncombe's aid in a question so
deeply connected with religious and civil freedom, I venture to
address these few words to you, and I have the honour to be,
sir, your obedient humble servant,
London, July 11, 184.5. JOHN PERCEV AL.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.—Captain Turner's company
6th battalion, recently first on the roster for service in Canada
having been ordered to New Zealand, Captain Henderson, with
Lieutenant Hon. W. Yelverton, four non-commissioned officers,
25 gunners and drivers, the most part selected of those acquainted
with stone-cutting and bricklayers' work, and one collar.maker,
one shoeing smith, and one wheeler, are to embark in the Castle
Eden, hired convict ship, expected down to moorings near the Royal
Arsenal, from Deptford, for a passage to New Zealand. The
other portion of the company is ordered to Weedon fer a short
period until an opportunity offers for their embarkation. The
change in the destination of Captain Turner's company has caused
the issuing of orders for Captain Stanway's company, Ist battalion,
to hold themselves in readiness to proceed with Major Andersou's
company, I stbat,alion, for foreign sex vice, at Halifax, Nova Sc Aia
arid Captain Vaughan Arbuckle's company, 6th battalion, is to be
mmediately withdrawn from Manchester, to hold themselves In
readiness to embark with Captain Glasgow's company, 2d battalion,
for foreign service in Jamaica.
JULLIE'N'S MONSTER CONCERT AT THE SURREY
Zootocican GA RDENS.— One of the most extraordinary spec-
tacles was exhibited yesterday evening in these Gardens that
we ever beheld. Jullien's second Monster Concert took place,
and, although the rain came down in torrents from the com-
mencement to the close, above three thousand persons of the
highest respectability braved the continued tempest, to Usten to
this prodigious " Congress Musicale." We are certain no one
but Jullien could have effected it. We must confess, we
scarcely blamed them, the effect was prodigiously grand and
effective, and we hope the spirited eonooctors of this um ivalled
musical treat will be induced to give the public one more con-
cert this season ; at all events, annual it must be, it is worth
coming a hundred miles to hear.
SUICIDE BY A MERCHANT IN THE CITY.—(From
a Correspondent.)--We regret to learn that Mr. Clements, late a
partner in the extensive and respectable firm of Messrs. G. Bout.
field and Co., woollen warehousemen, 60, Gracechurch-street, com-
mitted suicide during the night of Monday last. It appears that on
the 25th of June, only a fortnight ago, Mr. Clements ceased to be
a partner in the firm of Messrs. Bousfield and Co., for whom he also
acted as traveller, and as such was well known throughout the
provinces. We understand that in all his commercial dealings Mr.
Clements was a man of unimpeachable "integrity ; but prior to the
dissolution of partnership some unpleasant words having been ut.
tered in the warehouse, a separation was resolved on, after a service
of nearly forty years. After the dissolution of partnership Mr.
Clements commenced business as a woollen warehouseman in
Queen.street, Cheapside ; but a few days after he had taken pos-
session of the premises he seemed to be suffering from the effects
of indisposition, and was recommended to proceed to the country
to get a change of air. Accordingly he proceeded to Dartford,
Kent, where some of his friends reside, accompanied by his
daughter. On Monday evening he left his temporary residence
for the purpose of taking, as he said, a short walk in the fields.
As he did not return that night or the next morning (Tuesday),
inquiries were made after him, and he was found lying in a field
with his throat cut nearly from ear to ear, aml quite dead, the
ground being deluged with his blood. The body was removed to
Dartford to await a coroner's inquest. The deceased has left a
widow and family.—Shipping Gazette.

A MAN KILLED BY FALLING INTO A `YELL.—OiI
Monday afternoon, as Edward Letherland, plumber and glazier,
Scotland-bridge, was repairing a pump in the yard of Mr. B. Scho-
field, Cheetham.hill, he had the tn.sfortune to fall to the bottom of
the well, and his skull was severely fractured. Eight minutes
elapsed before he was got out of the water, and he was then quite
dead. The deceased was forty-two years of age, and has left a widow
and two children.—Manchester Guardian.

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A man named Coulotnier, employed on the 13or-
deaux and Teste Railroad, near Pessac, a few days back, seeing
two men loitering a rout, suspected that they meant no good, and
l_ty down son the line to watch them. The heat of the day over-
powered him, and he fell asleep. He was roused from his s;umber
by a violent pain in his left foot. It was the train which had gone
over his toes and crushed them. He was taken to the hospital,
where be is 404 wo,
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