Star.
London, England, 1827-11-16 00:00:00

136TTING.ROOM, TATTERSALL'S, Nov. IS.

The Oats sad Bt. Leger are at present quite ant et. the berg;
the fanner, in Periirehrt is not likely to be noticed after the
Doeneatioas aro dedffined, sod which ate expected to be numerous
and important. Mr. Pette's Inc is Impacted to be unusually strong.
It is willsient to state that. the faveeprites are in exactly the same
plum as when last queted. P., the Derby, Mule has been dune;
wine of the Merchant's pasty were present,• bat did not do any
%seism The odds wet* then—._

• 10 1 art ST. Thornhill% Merchant
I to / apt Hoe. E. Peres The Colonel
Is to I apt Lkiltesif Graftoo% Druid
IT to 1 gat Dote of Rutland% Hainpden% colt
It to I opt Unto of Rutland% Setortl colt (taken)
tom I apt Doke of Grafton% Omen
too 1 apt ME. Tlaarahill% Shoveler colt
Ift to I apt any when.
SWAFFHAM COURSING MEETING.

Swartatam, Tummies, Monsure.
There has.been a considerable accesolon of visitors since ear lam,
WI the town a now full of sportsmen, Mmes, mad dogs (ur the.
he upwards of 100 are bete). At the grand Bail OA Friday
11.14 all the great families of die comity were present. Assether
nabs glee" to-right. The hali.memi hae been iumnemil time
he yew by. Mr. Newham, the Norwich architect. The One dai's
asinlieg was le the West-sere deld, when the hares were Omit*
lit fa sod unwieldy, from the mildness of the weather; they kw,
mdahly made for the wood, without reaching it, as they were soon
tweak and after Innumerable wises, killed before they cook! get
is theamper. Tbe second days fun (yesterday) was ill tie City-
lidd, where the hares ran stronger, and kept better before the dogs.
The course between Woodirian and Asp, for the Cup, was remark-
ably severe, and wen only be downright hard work—the beer
(Woodmen) the favourite at Sto 1. The puppy matches were ea.
Wiest. 'early gee bemuses were present, ant as amazing number
elpedestriam The second day's open wait off as under—

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Gem—Mr. Gerten's Rhybrk
Mr. Redhead.* &Nag
id Ceuese—Mr. Gurney's A•pp •
Mr. asses Wroclaw

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Mr. Radiread'a Lasser beat Mr. GordatesMk. Stands
Mr. Redhead's Lovely but Ids. Trues
Gerdon's be. d. p. Spaniard boat Me. auckwartit's Beek
M. Rost's red b. Windermere beat Mr. Gamy% Mb. wad w. b. p.
Atte
Mr. Wi
lk% blb. 4. p. Carobs beat Mr. Tymea's bit. d. p.
Freedash •
lit. Gooney's r. b. p. Ameba& beat Mr. Aytates blk. b. p. Anse
test
Mr. Reit's Mk. b. Wonky beat Mr. Wliklnson's r. b. Czarena
Mr. llekwordsrs acted rw. b. p. Ilatterly beat IdroDeno's brind.
t b.p. Dusky
' Er. Carter's r. b. p. Gossarser beat Mr. Mee% Moe b. p. Ursula
Rdwards'e red sod er. b. p. Errs beat Mr. Shute s f. b. p. Ulric*
Mr. Edoardia r. b. p. Item beat Mr. Shute 's band. b. p. Moline
' fit. lidoards's br. b. p. Enterprise beat Mr. Stoneheweis r. d. p.
Cheat
Buckwortkla Mk. and w. b. p.Brlel beat Mr. Deon's r. b.p.Dove
The fellowtrag were undecided—
Mk. Rhate's Ulys.es apt Mr. Deus% Dowager
Mr. Shore % Una apt Mr, Drees Dapbee
Mr. &onelower's Otbo age Mr. Carter's Galles& -
Mr. Stoaelsewees Onus ages Mr. Wilkinson's (sgar.

The following was sent by a vagrant, confined in out
County Gaol, to bis wife:

WOMMITS Canary GAOL, 151 w Nev. l sty.
Ur Duo Wire,—Dwring the dame I sus in confinement, I hope
7". still net be remiss to maks that the crepe of apples and pears
Itstdiased am got bi die time.. that se mikidretnre they
rtsdy to be transformed sate that delicious called eiderand
l'trry. Let me bog that yes may me Het as potatoes I bee*
"sr Pt II by me who are very particular in clearing the ground;
and I hose you will amid by one et sty teems a hogshead el the
hest cider, to treat illy emkrfeoaee compaeless with, as I truly
,7°i2atisise with them on their misfortunes • and remit to me at the
"ft‘ dile same mow, perdsase grubliss with, as I stand in
Emu med. Tea knew the lime that lamto he liberated, and I
ke_frt *di provide a feast of the choicest Mends He country can
and send HAWN* to the whole of 'my castemen to maw
"willrod the day, that they may ceestandete me en my return frees
Ass" my offence is bet eta trifles eature.and as I am cenmeitted
the Vagabond Act only. U yes have me mash bilk you need eat go
%He Bask ; as the volhs censidued use for sauteing
1116041 hay rick, will,lio Swot. let you ham a few pounds of
Waite for me till you can conmeleetly dialers* the simmosi. I
hose yam will beim He alert le seeing my orders completed with
revect to the cider business, sad km* of hamatios ao many gin
40116. as dilatoriness moat probably will terminate in our rasp. If
1•11 choose you may procure an apron full of two of ballads of He
hat authors, as, though we are a little advanced in life. I think the
'sentry fain monld seem quite unfureished without us. Let me
sef you CU fully comply with the above requests.
Goa bless yea, Lreasais yew% very affectionately.
We regret to find, that amongst the sufferers in the
globous action with the Turks, were several officers'
connected with this neighbourhood. Capt. BATHUIUT,
of the Genoa, was, we believe a nephew of the Bishop
of this Diocese. Lieutenant FITZ Roy, Oho was shot its
the very f,st act of hostility on the part of the Turks,
wa, the second son of the Rea. Geo. William Fits Ray,
of Kernpacn Lodge, Norfolk. And Mr. Bosses's, se-
verely wounded in the Admiral's ship, is a son of Sir
Henry Edward Banbury, Bart. who had entered the
service but a very short time.—Bury Post.

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MIDDLESEX Nr~W LUNATIC ASYLUM.,
A upmerous sates of the Magistrates of NI
thee County took" place in the Sessions' House,
Gil ken well, yesterday, to consider the ptoptiety Of
mating a new Lunatic Asylum for the county. The
Chair was taken at twelve o'clock by Mr. Cover.
Mr. ALLan, the Clerk of the Peace, read ttie Roo::
lotion passed at a former meeting of the Magistrates,'
explanatory of the object for which they wets that day,
convened. He then proceeded to read Resolutions
passed at various parishes.
The Resolutions of the parish of St. George, Hanover.
square, approving of the erection, were also read.
Mr. Sergeant Pau. said, such were the nature and
multiplicity of the facts connected with the qoestion
under consideration, that he hardly knew how to
lay tliem in order before the meeting. There were
la the county •of Middlesex 873 pauper lunatics, out
of which nunsbet 567 were in what were called
Licensed Madhouses. It was not necessary that a me-
dical certificate should be given with a pauper lunatic,
upon being consigned to one of those houses. Here
then were upwards of fire hundred individuals sent to
a Madhouse, without any certificate declaring them to
be fit objects for such an abode ; the consequence of
.sshich was, bat there was no return made to the
Commissioners is to their situation--(A cry of " No").
This assertion was denied ; but he made it on the
authority of the 49th of George IIL which set forth
that the keepers of Licensed .I.unatic. Asylums were
hound to make a return to the Commissionets of all
the lunatics in their houses, except paupers. He
gisited one of those wretched receptacle.% and mest
*y this he did not think that that respectable and learned
body, the College of Physicians, did their duty towards'
the poor unfortunate confined in those asylums. Ac-
'cording to the Report of the Committee of the House
of Commons, it appeared that two hours was the time
copied by the Commissioners in inspecting the inmates
;pt those licensed asylums. Was this sufficient time to
wake the necessary inquiries relative to the complaints.
Att. of the eatious patients? He need hardly offer an
opinion on the subject. There appeared to be a strange
opinion held .by the College of Physicians, that they
could not refuse a license for a private mad-house, that
their duty was simply ministerial. If such was the
fact, what was the use of a Licenser at all ?—(Hear,
heat.) He was astonished that a doubt could for a mo-
ment have been entertained by the College of Physicians,
that they were authorised to refuse a license if tt ey had
proper ground for doing so. The Learned Sergeant
here recited, from the Report of the House of Com-
mons relative to licensed madhouses, various acts ol
cruelty committed in a licensed lunatic asylum, the
proprietor of which, according to the evidence of Di.
Bright, would have been refused a license by the Col•
lege of Physicians, if they felt themselves empowered to
do se. There was another circumstance that was to
be consideied, and that deeply—namely, the want of
classification that existed in !leased madhouses--
It was true that the men were divided from the
women; but that was not sufficient—there Ovoid be

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such art angements made, that when a patient was cot*
valescest he should be relieved from the sight of all.
mental agony, otherwise his mind would be again
broken down, and again he would become a prey to
that malady *bids he had just escaped. Another gre
defect was, the want of Medical Gentlemen: In one
asylum which he was acquainted with, there was only
one Gentleman to attend from five to six hundred pa!
tients, for vibirdi be had only the *sum of 3001. a-year
out of which were to be taken the expenses for medi-
cine. From the want of classificetion, " the curative
process' was wholly neglected. Teo treatment in Most
of them hours was, severe chastisement, handcuffs, fen.
ters,droildiniisuigati us, Ac. thus subduing the mind by
the total (testi motion of the body. Tnis was the state to
which thew fellow creatures were reduced, whose only
act would be, if they were. to regain tlprir sanity
mind, to cc..e tin hour they Were bona..-(Hear, bear.)
The Learned Gentleman alluded to the evidence of
Mr. Warburton, on the subject of it Crib Patients,"
'and commented upon that Gentleman's testimony
'before the House of Comment in severe terms: The
petitions that were that day read, stated the poitiotiers,
to be content with the treatment the pauper lu-,
natics received. They said, there was no reason to
complain of the treatment, and that the charges Ilse
pauper lunatics were extremely moderate--(Hear, and_
laughter.) it was no matter how their wretched fel:
low.ereatnie suffered, or how badly he was attended to.
—it was all right, because, forsooth, it was done at a
moderate expence. (Hear, bear, and laughter.) He
did not know the exact sum that would be wanting to
complete the building, but be denied that it would at
all amount to the extraordinary sum stated by sontii
gentlemen, namely, 500,00.01. An asylum in Lanai,'
shire, which contained 300 persons, cost only 60,0001.1
Supposing the building to cost 200,0001., the principal)
and interest would be maid in 16 years, by an addition
of one halfpenny in the pound of the parish rates. He,
was satisfied that, instead of a county lunatic asylum
being an expence to the county, it would ultimately
turn out a saving; .for the care and attention that
would be paid to pauper lunatics, in such an Asylum
in the one proposed, would so operate upon the
poor patients that: restoration of their senses might be,
looked on with certainty, and a redaction in point of
numbers be the consequence. The Learned Sergeant;
then proposed the following Resolution :—" That It
the opinion of the Magistrates of this County that a
Lunatic Asyldm is much wanted in the County, and that
the immediate erection of one is absolutely necessary."
- • -' venation seconded the Resolution.

Sir Guouoa FAanami opposed the.Resolutioo, upon
the ground of the great experwe. He concluded by
maul, 64 That the Matta be referred to the, further
consideration of the Committee to see how far' the
abuses coamplAined of zooid be remedied.*
- Mr. Bet LANTICSS seconded the amendment.

Mr. Sergeant Psu. shortly replied.
The CHAIRMAN then put the amendment, which was
lost by a large majority, as was also one of Mr.Briscoe,
for an Asylum upon a limited sears.
The original Resolution was carried by a majority of
27, there being cooly ene opposed to it.
It was then proposed that a Committee of nine should
be appointed to reserve plans, proposals, Ste. and report
the melt to the next County Meeting.
The Court shortly afterwards broke up: