It will be remembered that a woman called Mrs. Petschler, who had been a patient in the Macclesfield Asylum, got a firm of solicitors in Manchester a few months ago to write a long anonymous letter to some of the principal daily papers, making very serious charges against the management of that institution, and its officials. The Committee of Visitors at once requested the Commissioners in Lunacy to undertake a special inquiry into the whole matter. This has now been done by Mr Cleaton and Mr Howard, and the following are the conclusions of their report:—