At the end of each year of labor, the workman, in whatever field his efforts may be expended, is accustomed to survey the results and to estimate his progress. The merchant takes stock of his goods, the agriculturist calculates his gains and re-values his cattle and crops, the politician counts his party, and the student contemplates the more noble acquisitions of mind.

We condense, from the July number of the American Journal of Insanity, the following account of the above meeting. In the American journal, although the discussions are reported very briefly and the papers read are only named, the account of the business of the meeting occupies twenty pages.

Towards the close of the late Parliamentary Session Lord Dudley Stuart piqued the curiosity of all persons interested in asylum matters by enquiring of the Secretary for the Home Department, whether he could afford information respecting an evasion of justice by the admission of a criminal into the Norwich Lunatic Asylum. Lord Palmerston replied that the fullest investigation should be made. We have hitherto refrained from referring to the circumstances thus alluded to, because only partial information has until recently been attainable, and even that has been obscured by the expression of much personal feeling. A long and earnest discussion at the Norwich City Sessions on the 24th ult., puts us in possession of all the details, and of the minutes of the Visiting Justices, before whom a full and careful investigation took place. Reduced to their briefest expression, the circumstances appear to be as follow.

The Commissioners in Lunacy have done great service to the public by drawing up their Eighth Report to the Lord Chancellor, and especially by publishing the answers received to their circular enquiring particularly into the employment or disuse of instrumental restraint or seclusion.

In following the order that we have fixed upon, we most begin with general pathology, which as you see in the above diagram, is divided into three groups of lesions. 1st, Partial 2nd, General 3rd, Those primitively partial which tend to become general.

It has afforded us great pleasure to receive a Report of the Asylum of Meerenberg (North Holland) for 1852–3; and, as we believe but few of our readers are acquainted with this excellent establishment, we propose to lay before them the most important information contained in it. To those who already know something of this asylum, a few extracts from the Report before us will also be interesting.