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London, England, 1845-12-11 00:00:00

OTHERS.

Valuable Freehold Property, land-tax redeemed, comprising the
Bull Inn and Tavern, Coach and Waggon-oflices, and extensive
Premises in the rear, &c., producing rents amounting to 8451.

per annum.
W.
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from
at the Auction Mart, early in the month of February, in Lots,
That extensive and old-established TAVERN and HOTEL,
called the BULL INN, desirably situate in Bishopsgate-street
Within. The property comprises a spacious coffee-room, bar, bar-
parlour, with several well-arranged sitting.rooms, and thirty-six
convenient sleeping apartments, appropriate domestic offices and
servants' rooms, arched beer cellars and wine vaults of an extent
commensurate with the business which has heretofore been carried
on. A house and tap in the yard, which from the situation com-
mands a good trade, underlet to Mr. J. Kerrison. The above pro-
perty is let to Mr. T. Ginger, who holds until Midsummer.day next,
under the terms of an expired lease, at a reduced rent of 3001. per
annum. Also, in the rear of the inn, extensive range of pre-
mises, comprising coach and waggon offices, spacious warehouses,
coach-houses, stabling for 74 horses, with lofts over, in the occu-
pation of Mr. R. M. Shorter, whose business is of that magnitude
as to require and fully occupy every portion of these premises,
and who holds under an agreement, at a rent of 5201. per annum.
A house in the yard, also in the occupation of Mr. Shorter, at
251. per annum. The above property, situate in the heart
of the City, immediately adjoining the Excise-office, and in
the vicinity of magnificent improvements now in progress,
thereby greatly enhancing its present and prospective value,
would be well adapted for a depot or terminus, should
it be required by any railway companies now- about to be
formed, or for a brewery or distillery, or for any other purposes
where extensive premises and surface are required. Also a sub-
stantially.built Freehold House and Shop, desirably situate, No. 91,
Bishopsgate-street, let on lease to Mr. Peacock, for an unexpired
term of 21 years from Michaelmas last, at a ground rent of 39/.
per annum, and in the occupation of Mr. Tyler, at an annual rent
ef 140/. _ _

The property may be viewed by permission of the tenants, and
particulars, with plans annexed, may be had in due time of Messrs.
Desborough and Young, solicitors, 6, Size.lane, City ; at the Mart;
and of Mr. W. W. Simpson, 18, Bucklersbury.

LUNATIC ASYLUMS.
The following examples given by the Metropolitan
Commissioners in Lunacy in the years 1843 and 1844,
of the state and condition of the inmates in some
licensed houses, will convince the reader of the neces-
sity of providing the means of checking the abuses
and defects therein pointed out. The report is ad-
dressed to the Lord High Chancellor of England. In
noticing the houses to which the Commissioners more
pointedly allude, we deem it unnecessary in every in-
stance to mention the names of the governors or of the
county. One asylum reported, was formerly a small
gaol, the cells and rooms in which, when visited, were
apparently in their original condition ; windows had
not been added, excepting to the part that faced the
public street. The food and other necessaries were
contracted for; the rooms were deficient in every com-
fort and almost every convenience; they were small and
ill-ventilated; some of the lower rooms almost dark, and
the interior of the asylum altogether out of repair; the
two day rooms, one containing seven males, the other
five females, each measured about twelve feet by nine
feet; the floors were of soft stone, and parts of them had
been torn up and destroyed. There was no seat, table,
or any article of furniture in the women's room, and
nothing except a table in the men's room. The men were
standing; the women standing or sitting on the floor;
but in the presence of the Commissioners, a long board,
or seat, was introduced and fixed against the wall, upon
which, however, only four could sit; there were large
holes in the walls and ceilings; the airing courts were
small and cheerless; the floors were strewn with large
stones, either fallen or forced from the buildings, which
were dangerous weapons in the way of two of the pa-
tients, who were mischievous ; there was also among
the seven male patients one fastened in a chair, in a se-
parate room or cell. The dress of all was dirty, ragged,
and insufficient ; the stockings on the female patients
such rags only as are occasionally seen on heaps of rub-
bish ; not a single change of linen, either for the beds or
the person ; there were only sixteen straw beds, in a
most filthy state, for the eighteen patients. One patient
(a boy of nineteen), slept on loose straw, upon a stone-
floor, in a small dark cell ; another patient (a girl), who
was convalescent, slept in the same room with the keeper
and his wife, on a bed belonging to them. Two patients
were confined in strong chairs, to which their arms were
fastened. Two were thus confined separately in small
rooms, to which scarcely any light was admitted through
the gratings; one, a woman, was entirely naked on both
the days on which the Commissioners visited the asylum;
both dirty patients, and the stench was such as to be
scarcely possible to remain there. No place for exercise
during wet weather ; no books or amusements ; prayers
a ere never read ; no clergyman attended, although a
female patient, who was occasionally depressed and ima-
gined that she had not done her duty to her child which
had died, appeared especially to require the consolation
of one. The allowance to the keeper and his wife (the
matron), who was well-disposed to the patients, was the
same rations as the pauper patients, and 201.: they kept
no servant ; on the first visit of the Commissioners the
keeper was absent at work for some person in the neigh-
bourhood ; water only was allowed for drink ; culm and
clay for firing ; chopped straw for beds ; bread made of
barley meal and wheaten flour. On the second visit to
the same asylum the Commissioners say that, although
some symptoms of improvement were manifest, the place
was wholly unfit for the treatment and care of the insane.
Alluding to an asylum to which many pauper patients
are sent from this county, the Commissioners say, " It is
situated in a densely-crowded neighbourhood; the yards
are dull and confined, and the internal accommodations
are inconvenient and defective ; and it has no land what-
ever for employing its paupers."
"At our first visit to another house," the Commis-
sioners say, "we found a gentleman residing as a
boarder without certificate, whom we had known as a
certified patient in one of the houses in the metropo-
litan district ; this person was evidently unfit to be at
large. The owner stated that he had been in the habit
of sometimes receiving low-spirited or desponding per-
sons as boarders. He also said that he had on several
occasions permitted patients in his establishment to exe-
cute deeds affecting property, but that before doing so,
he always satisfied himself that the act was proper.
There are three different houses belenging to the same
person, which are licensed, and also a cottage (since
licensed) to which parties are sometimes removed." In
a paragragh immediately following the above, the Com-
missioners say, "It is questionable whether a proprietor
of a licensed house who receive boarders of this class, or
who permits deeds to be executed by persons who are
under confinement as patients, ought to be entrusted with
a license." Instances are mentioned, referring to other
places, where imbecile persons in asylums have signed
deeds, the nature of which they did not understand.
The report, we regret to state, does not contain a
house which is spoken of by the Commissioners as a per-
feet example. Bedford is said to have been greatly im-
proved of late. The Commissioners frequently speak
of houses in language of condemnation, as concerns their
condition, as well as to the reprehensible, state of accom-
modation, and the cruel system of restraint which is
practised in them, notwithstanding the services and so-
licitude which the county and borough magistrates have
evinced under the several Acts to perform a very pain-
ful duty. The Commissioners speak of numerous es-
capes of lunatics, some of which have been attented by
the most melancholy consequences ; in one instance the
insane person murdered his wife and daughter in a vio-
lent paroxysm of epileptic mania, and in a most savage
and horrid manner. It is recommended that asylums,
which are generally shut on a Sunday, should be open
to labourers, the relatives of the patients in particular,
who cannot afford to visit them at the sacrifice of a sixth
part of their week's wages.
Among other suggestions of the Commissioners for
the amendment of the laws, are the following:—That
the number of patients in one asylum shall not exceed
250—that some provision be made, from time to time,
for the removal of incurable paupers to a workhouse, to
be exclusively appropriated to such a purpose—that
every county and public asylum or hospital have a resi-
dent medical officer, and a visiting physician—that a full
account of all receipts and disbursements, with the pro-
perty of every county asylum, the sources and amount
of income, and the application of the same, be published
annually.
According to the last official return of lunatic paupers
in this county, there were 325, of which number, it is
stated, there is accommodation for two only in a private
asylum ; there therefore remains 323 uprovided for.
Among the examples given in the report of the cost
of land, buildings, furniture, &c., is that of Bedford,
where there is accommodation for 90 male and 90 female
paupers ; the total expenditure, including 9 acres of
land, 20,5001. Average cost per head, 1141.
Another example may be mentioned, where the number
provided for approaches nearer to that required for this
county, viz., Wakefield, in Yorkshire. It is thus de-
scribed :
Laud.—ln addition to pleasure-garden and
grounds, 40 acres are cultivated as farm and
kitchen garden. The cost
,Buildings, fittings, sic 38,000

SPALDING, LINTOLVSHIIIII
FREEHOLD BREWERY, with 25 INNS, PUBLIC, arid BEE*
HOUSES, &c.
MR. `'V. W. SIMPSON bas received instructions
from the Prdprietat to over for SALE by AUCTION,
at the New Bell inn, Spalding, in the tacinth of January, in Lots,
The ALBION BREWERY; situate in Double.otreet, Spalding,
comprising a convenient residence (occupied by Mr. Proctor, who
has the management of the doneern), si pared yard inclosed from
the street by folding gates, in whichisthapeprboraecwhiteodufsrliviAthlbetrutn.
rooms and extensive malt and hop chambers, counting-house,
cooper's shop, and cask sheds. Across the lane leading to the
fit& is n spatious store room, large yard
Albert-
street by iolding 00; an excellent inalthouse with 16-quarter steep,
two working floors, kiln, and screening refrain, with barley chambers
of ample dimensions, waggon and dray shed, coal house, &c. ; also
a Nell-htuse; in which is a Well affording an abundant supply of
eacellerit water to the bretiety and tnalthouse. These buildings are
dewredhapaviodailea,bieH
brick-built and slated, and in a very Peace State of repair; they
possess a commanding frontage of nearly 260 feet to the river
Welland, which communicates with Stamford, and is navigable
to the feS; than the property must always be exceedingly valuable
from ihelf great, eiterit dud the facilities afforded by the cheap
transit of water carriage, and the breviefi Windings and yard
out.wlayomtoltig,htitobeultroenn,
fodtlbe aca II:,
othg rriecantile business ; together with twenty-five inns, public
at a very moderate
ami bee: fiCiase#, *c.; situate in Spalding, Pinchbeck, Gosberton,
Donington, ThurlbY,
Fleet, Gedney, and Crowland.
The property will be sold in lots, and particulars may be had
in due time, of wifsr.. J. R.. Carter and Son, solicitors, Spalding ;
Of Mr. William Proctor, who rill now on application show the
home prenalies ; and of Mr. W. W. Simptoii, estate, brewery, and
t tiqtinery agent, Ac., Bucklersbory.

To be SOLD, pursuant to a DECREE of the MOH COURT'
of CHANCERY, made in a cause " HILL against HANSON,"
w;iti the approbation of ANDREW HENRY LYNOII, Esq.,
cute of the lllaSterl of the said Court, some time in the month
of February, 1840, of whi6 due notice will be given, at the
Auction Mart, London, by Mr. W. W. SIMPSON, the person
appointed by the said Master to sell the same,
'LIE Next Presentation to the Vicarage of
Felsted, in the county of Essex. The tithes of the parish,
01725.391 d. peracres have been commuted into a rent
h annum, exclusive of the glebe, con.
t a
The turn to present is contingent upon the Earl
extendingc:nr
igneg., 28f
sacres. 0ver,231.
of Mornington surviving the Rev. Jeremiah Audry, the present
incumbent.
Particulars and conditions of sale may in a short time be had
gratis at the said Master's Chambers, in Southampton-buildings,
Chancary-lane, London ; of Mr. Thomas Smith, solicitor, 15,
Furnival's Inn ; of Mr. Cuthbert Singleton, solicitor, 21,
Great
JiltSoll.6treit, Bedford-row ;at the Auction Mart; and of Mr. W.
W. finspria, Is Pettly.sw.

46,846
Average cost per head on 420, the number accommo,
dated, 111 L
[Half the quantity of land, at one-half the price, -----__
would reduce the average cost per head for the like PARIS AND ORLEANS.—On the 24th of August, 1843,
nufabiT to about 1001. ; below that average we do not M. ',eve, of Orleans, was robbed of twenty-nine shares
find mention made of an asylum being built and fur- in the Paris and Orleans Railway. These shares were
nished.]presented to M. Vandermarcq, agent de
The Commissioners recommend elevated situations Forteau, for the purpose of selling them at the Bourse.
with extensive grounds, and that employmentVanderrnarcq sold at 668 francs, each of the shares
forded to all patients, whether private or Pauper ; and which had been confided to him, and gave the sum to
that they should be induced to occupy themselves as which they amounted, 17,367 francs, to the person who
much as is consistent with their bodily health ; not, had brought them. This sale was not known till 1844,
however, with the view of deriving profit from their when the shares were again presented at the Bourse b •
labour, but solely for the purpose of relief or cure. the Company Hottinguer, which had become the owner),
The number of insane persons ascertained to exist in M. Textoris, agent de change, having obtained them for
England and Wales exceeds 20,000 ; two-thirds of it. All was then revealed. M. Leve, from whom the
whom are objects of charity, and are maintained en" shares had been stolen, made his complaint at the Par-
tirely at the public expense. quet d'Orleans, but the thief could not be found. M.
In most of the counties, where sums equally large Lev e having commenced legal proceedings against M.
Vandermareq, whom he held responsible, to recover
have been required, a considerable portion . has been
contributed by private donations, and we anticipate theh from him the amount of the shares, judgment was, on
the 6th instant, delivered in the Tribunal Civil de la
pleasure of having_to record many liberal ac s of t e
like description.— Herald. . Seine. The substance of the judgment was, that the
----------------- -- , court held M. Vandertnarcq irresponsible for the sale of
Lord Wharncliffe, Loa P of the Council, the shares, the demand of M. Leer badly founded, and
was rather better yesterday. condemned him to pay the costs of the proceedings.
The works on the railway from Paris to Sceaux, urged