Star. — 1828-04-30 (London, England)

PRIVATE LETTER, DATED PARIS, APRIL 27.  Lord in certain the intpsr believed also !new, difficulty Lord and cola the MOT,  The the''  The whi one  In nothing has public opinion made greater progress in France than on the question of national independence. Not many years ago, the meeting of a Congress. or the arrival of an Ambassador at Paris, inspired general alarm. It was known that the effects of such an event would be felt in the acts of the Government, and sometimes in the enactment of laws. This year our journals have mentioned the arrival of Lord Londonden y. They have added, that be comes in cnncert with Au,tria to make propositions hostile to the liberty of nations : but the news has produced no greater effect than if his Lordship had been sent as the Envoy of the little.republic of San Marino. It is not that England has lost het influence, but people are convinced that if she had a Government opposed to the principles professed by Mr. Canning and his friends, that Government could have no influence on our internal affairs, and could act but feebly on our foreign policy. If his Lordship, therefore, has come to France with any sinister views, be must be surprised at the litde sensation which his presence has excited. Our industry and commerce seem to be in a state of embarrassment. One of our first commercial houses has failed. Prince Talleyrand, the Duke of Aremberg, and Baron Louis, have suffered great losses by it. The first has lost several millions. M. Paravey, the chief of the house, committed suicide before the failure was known. He was a mah highly esteemed, and has left a family fox whom great sympathy is felt. He bad left home for executing his fatal purpose, when an offer arrived of assistance, which would have enabled him to re-establish order in his affairs. His death is ascribed to reproaches, which offended his delicacy. addressed by the chief of another banking establishment. It is said that The deficiency will be 16 or 17 millions of francs, but nothing certain is yet known.  . . ever, think it necessary to trespass on their Lordships for any very considerable time. The County Lunatic Asylum Bill was a Consolidation Bill. It consolidated seven statutes, and thus simplified the law without making any great alteration in it. The object of the Bill was to enable Magistrates to place in a proper asylum those unfortunate beings in the louver class of society who were drprived of reason, arid thereby reduced at once to absolute poverty. The very terms, pauper lunatics, expressed two of the gre ite.t calamities to which mankind were subject. As soon as a poor man was afflicted with insanity, his arm was para. Sped; his means of subsistence were cut off, and his unfortunate wife and children were driven to the refuge of a workhouse. It was necessary not only to provide for the subsistence of persons in this deplorable situation, but to provide for them also the means of cure. Now this Bill enabled the Magistrates of every county in Englaad to provide for those unfortunate brings not only the means of subsistence, but the opportunity of g subjected to a curative process. The great mischief of the present system was, that the paiochial officers were tempted to send their lun.ttic paupers to the cheapest asylum that could be found ' for them. In many instances they paid only nine bela shillings a week. The consequence of this was, that when Magistrates visited the Asylum, the proprietor had a ready excuse for any impropriety or defect of arrangement. He would say, .. I can lodge and feed the pa. tient at this rate, but as to any curative process at such a scale of remuneration, it is entirely out of the goeslion." it was only while the disorder was recent that any hope of cure could be entertained. By the present system, that period was suffered to elapse, and the re. suit was, that the pauper became an incurable lunatic. The machinery of the present. Bill was to enable two Magiptrates on the representation of any parties having an in the fate of the patient, to order his removal from the parish authorities to the County Asylums. The County Asylums now in existeoce hal effected much good, but not so much as might have been effected had it not been restricted by their limited funds. It was only,necessaiy, however, to visit one of them to be convinced of the superior advantages ecjoyed by the patients confined in them, in respect to space and classification and general treatment, as compared with those in any private .receptacle. He anticipated no objection to the second reading of this Bill, and he inteuded to propose to their Lordships to refer it,.together with another more general Bill on the subject ot Lunatics, to a Committee above stairs. It was his anxious wish to secure the passing of this Bill, from the opera. tion of which he anticipated the greatest advantages; and he knew no better method of surmounting difficulties and obviating objections) than by appointing a Select Committee.  Lord CALTHORPE said, he had been an eye witness of some of the shocking abuses in one of the Asylums to which the Noble Lord had alluded. His hope was. that the Bill would prove an effectual chec Is upon those abuses. The Noble Lord entertained the most ardent hope that the Bill would receive the support of that House, and pass into a law. The Marquis of SALISBURY considered the Bill liable to objection. The Earl of MALMESBURY said, that the observations of the Noble Lord applied to the more general Bill, of which he would move the second reading presently. The DM was then read a second time, and ordered to be referred to a Select Committee. The Committee was named, and the va. riots Pedtioas on the table open this subject were ordered to be Wetted to It.