The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-20 00:00:00

OLD BEDLAM BACK 'AGAIN.

(hoot Punch.)
From this stage of advancement in psychology
and humanity, we look back almost incredulous at the
miseries, the tortures, the cruelties, the atrodoss
tresdasesti owe, seder the same of ;vestment, indicted on
the insane. Accompanied with same doubt that each
honors. ever misted, is our retrospect of the fatten,
msamics, stripes, bruises, wounds, sores, nudity in straw,
Ca, and versus then ordinarily associated with the ides
of madasee—theiz the regular circumstances of a redden's
is Bedlam. _ _ _

However, them is no doubt thin Sea things were—once
upon a time. Of mares, a very long thew ago ; somewhere
in the dark ages, thLdmilf racks, diumb.screws, red-hot
pincers, whipping, balf-banging,
embowelling, in'iralsTAiworaela at least, than
the good bid limee, whim win= is ebeenisied and illus.
Mated by Fiellimg awl Mew&
Why no; not guile is mu to primitive antiquity. A
little bedew hem the mythological era: somewhat lees
doske the alfren of ages. Net in the epoch of the late Sir
Math= Pithy. bat in that of the present Sir:Peter Laurie;
fiebeet. enly lhe ether day.
Seed the evilest* that haa been laid before the Commies
dean, of Lassie relative to the management of the
gationts is Bethlebm Hospital. In particular, peruse the
lONS Si NW Hannah Hysou, of Yles Whittlegham, and
you can. For that may not be possible if
are strong and your stomach is weak; and
Ce it wagy be understood why the details alluded to are
Mt guinea In a peeiedied which is taken in at every coffee.
WSW MA liss ea sa Islas' at every meal.
Aped dee the Mallemente—explanutory and

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of the treasures, the matron. sad the resident iiediesi
ellow. Mr/ether with Ilk. P. H. Laurie's defence of the
Oneresse; hen alai& testlainy you will discern that
the hen el them dithy and highthd disclosures melted,
in the Rata, ken mime of the parties responsible for the
onion of the Remits& bang to. lazy, others too flue,
Nye en mush onemenited, peeperly
wtoereattend to it : the
subsk, Zti, thlia the mallets."'
oausteued gtempisrovisi abandoned,
dr et:
" probable withheld their medicine, starved
them, beet , kept SSE In !11th, straw, and, it would
nem, fa dodos.
To sconst be these enormities ma be mentioned one
more cleanness, thus stated by the
" It will be numbered that et the head of this establish-
ment of tilleisis is din Peter Lauri% the. of our readers
may probenti Mini to their nailisinien the many and the
heated dissossleos Thigh Ink
_Own et the meeting.of the
magistrates kr the sanity et tniesen ups the nukes
that were brought forward by Mr. ilasSeent Adams sad
others for the Introduction of the • Inman et nefonstraint
=et treating the Meade peoples IR ths Mowed'
Wife was the melt skint eppensst, spsa those
nessints, to the wisdoms i • nehmen to the reports of
the vernal meetings pees that that opponent was
Sir Peter Laurie. Moreover, it will be found that the
worthy slemen, in most of hue speeches in opposition, not
merely sandemsell the attempt mnemesis, and introduce
the 1 sen-resteeint system,' proposed by Dr. Conolly to
be pot fiats painneat premise at Unwell, but he set
an the nurse of tomehnent in nes In Bethlehem Hospital, of
winds astabliahmset he was blosedi the leading' head, and
the in/ nealting tram the plan adapted in ii% Drone's-
Sabi. es tles fitseriest possible ground for not entertaining
I=e new pretty geed roof that the inhuman
sad netreint system—or when unseats to the same thing,
the Resilient system, of treating the inane, does not
answer. Let him—who puts down everybody and every-
thing that malts itself whist his majesty, from suicide to
Ady—put dews that. Bluely the stubbornness of
Or Peter Laurie, eyes, ezeeedeth not the stubbornness of
hen. If it don, long are the son of Laurie, and he goeth
en ell-fours • let him gran seem, sad drink water, and
musk Um abides et the plata.

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