§ MR. DILLWYN,in moving for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Laws relating to Lunatics, said, it was founded on the Report of the Select Committee which sat to inquire into the subject last year and the year before. They recommended that the confinement and treatment of lunatics should be hedged round by additional safeguards beyond those which were provided by the existing law, and to that, as well as to some other recommendations of the Committee, he proposed to give effect. He regretted that the subject had not been taken up by the Government, because they would probably have deemed it to be their 1404 duty to introduce a more comprehensive measure than he, as a private Member, could expect to carry. He should be glad to see them bring in a Bill to consolidate all the Lunacy Laws; but, in the absence of any such proposal, he hoped they would, at all events, support a measure which would, he believed, make a substantial improvement in the law as it now stood.
§ Motion agreed to.
§ Bill to amend the Laws relating to Lunatics, ordered to be brought in by Mr. DILLWYN, Sir GEORGE BALFOUR, and Mr. HERSCHELL.
§ Bill presented, and read the first time. [Bill 111.]