LUNATIC ASYLUMS. mitted to the House of Commons the long-promised Bill of Government, for providing additional accommodation for the insane poor, in this country, as well as for establishing of a Central Criminal Lunatic Asylum, for the custody of persons acquitted of criminal offences in Ireland, on the ground of insanity. The Bill was read a first time, its second reading being fixed for Monday last. The Bill is for the purpose of erecting Provincial Asylums, each to contain about 400, one of which is purposed to be at Omagh for Ulster, and into which are to be drafted all the incurable cases at present blocking up the District Asylums. This, it is expected, will leave abundant room for the reception of recent or supposed curable cases of the disease into the District Asylums, as at present in operation, and which it is intended solely to set apart for such cases.

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