The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

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nt have precipitated the that beauty of a landse*
toner was rescued from carpet of the earth, P
the military went in
majesty of vegetati,
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these debentures was not only the
,ut the promotion of mueh industry,
Instead of a complete stagnation,
activity and abundant employment
and its vicinity improved rapidly,

rich the principal holders of deben-
n the colony, and as speedily as pos-
. any deterioration of vslue, induced

sibfe, te,6 64--
those persons to buy up gum, ax, umber, or copper, or other
native produce, to be exported as remittances to their corre-
spondents instead of money. Some built small s others
improved their I ‘nded property by fences and better buildings.
The results were conspicuously beneficial."
This resort of necessity appears to have been one of the
captain's most heinous offences.
The impression produced by the whole of the pamphlet
is one of complete exculpation of the gallant officer, who
has performed his duties in- -a most critical positip

Most happily, as no 1 and trackless forests... _
d, the chief protector- riance prevails, will not do more than compete with the
ffect a peaceable ad- glory of the ptiroreval woods of Canada. 1 know of no-
'torn of the prisoner thine in this world capable of exciting emotions of wonder

id adoration more direct than to travel alone tnroub-
Pines, lifting their hoary heads beyond man's
jay heen in vision, unless. he inclines his head so far backwards as to
1 w de- be painful to his organisation, with trunks which require
nig ye fathoms of line to span them ; oaks of the most gigantic
ha n form ; the immense and graceful weeping elm ; enormous
he Jiic poplars, whose magnitude must be seen to be conceived ;
b girded lindens, equally vast ; walnut trees, of immense size ; the
,ve 'been the first in
4d all the public docu- beautiful birch, and the wild cherry, large enough to make
tables and furniture of.—Sir R. H. Bonnyeastle's Canada
rnor appears to have and the Canadians in 1846.
ebentures, for the pur- HANIvELL ASYLUM.—The Hanwell Asylum is one of
: colony until he could the noblest instances of wisdom-tempered zeal and hu-
t Britain. At the be- mane skill which-our age can boast of. The building and
"the local govern-
, e
being then esti-
revenu
its
several patients, sometimes nearly a thousand in nom-
alaries and ordinary cur-
her, are treated according to the intensity of their afflic-
tion ; but in no case is unnecessary restraint practised.
aths in arrears ,there was
,canting even to two-thirds I Working upon the proverbial association of idleness and
expenditure'; the establish- vice, in all cases where practicable, employment is re-
ch was authorized by the sorted to as a remedy ; and nearly all., the operations of
,h received at the Close of this vast estabisment are conducted with the utmost
governor was strictly pro- order by lunatics; shops of lunatic tailors and shoemakers
3ritish treasury, and no lottn may be seen here at work, and the bakery, the laundry,
qircumstance, and and other domestic offices, are worked by the same " pa-
ssetient" classes. The out-door arrangements are upon the
vernment until assistance and
same system of non-restraint. The gardens and shrub-
om England, to relieve the cre.
stress, and to keep numerous beries are neatly kept by the inmates, and are allowed to
—some from actually starving— enjoy their health-giving air with the most indirect sur-
or debentures, bearing five per veillance, and various pastimes are allowed to minister to
:ion of one year ; and as these the " mind diseased." Within doors, reading of an in-
ed by several speculators, and teresting and attractive, though not exciting, character, is
s mach depreciated, they were
Ibe noticed that this paper cur-. provided ; the tables are strewn with cheap periodicals, in
a permanent: it was intended to the hope that their good seed may not invariably fall upon
a very limited period, not exceed- the mind, as it were lying fallow. Here, as in the sane
was probable that some arrange- world, outside of the Hanwell domain, society has its pets
me Government for their with- and butts, and men are prone to sport with each other's
e debentures enabled the weaknesses ; but this is no new phase of humanity. We,
ns, and saved an extremity
hardly be appreciated ter who remember but too distinctly the clanking fetters and
the horrifying gaze of the inmates of the old Bethlehem,
have inspected Hanwell with very different feelings; and
as we walked, almost unattended, through crowds of " lu-
natics," were indeed gratified to find them so far sane as
to be sensible of their humane treatment. From the wall
of one of their dormitories we copied the following
lines :

" Behold!
No gloomy cells where sullen madness pines
In chains an't woe, where no glad sunlight shines;
But here kind sympathy for fallen reason reigns ;
Our rule is gentleness, not force or galling chains."
On the south side of the garden lies the burial• ground,
wherein all patients not removed by their friends or pa-
rishes are buried ; and here sleeps the individual who
planned the asylum, and eventually became one of its in-
mates for a long period previous to his death—one of those
'extraordinary coincidences which belong to the category
otpppulir fatalism.—Sharpe's London Magazine.