6 JANUARY 1849, page 17

The Fishponds Lunatic Case.

SOME case occurs every now and then to remind us of the slow progress made in reforming the law of Lunacy. The Fishponds Lunatic Asylum, near Bristol, has been an hereditary......

Railway Gratuities.

OF all helpless creatures "the Public" is the most impotent. Poor Public can do nothing for itself: it cannot assert public rights, but depends for that office upon Mr. Wakley,......

Privilege Of The Peerage.

OuT of all the prisoners in the Queen's Bench prison on Monday last, one was selected for discharge—because he was a Peer ! The spectacle is one of the same kind with several......