The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-01 00:00:00

IVANCHSTER AND BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY.

CONTRACT FOR WORKS.
Notice is hereby given, that the Directors of the Manchester and
'Birmingham Railway Company, will MEET at their Offises, No.
23, Bond-street, ManchaScr, on WFDNISDAY, the .16th January,
1834 i), at Twelve o'clock A Noon, to RECEIVE TENDERS for
Santraet No. 6, or Congleton Viaduct Contract.
T. make and maintain the Bridge or Viaduct over the river
Dane, the northerly end of which is to ba situate in afield, marked
on the Parliamentary plan as die. Bl, in the township of Hahne
Wallileld, in the County of Chaster ; and the southerly end of which
is to be situate about two chains distant from the south side of the
read leading from Congleton to Westfields, being in the field,
saaricod on the said plan No. 13, 4rl the township of Congleton., in
the sold nounty. The length of the viaduct will be about 3,078, feet,
and its greatest height about 118 feet 6 inches from the river to the
rails.

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Drafts of the contract, with plans and specifications, will be ready
for inspection on and after the 28th instant, at tie offices of the En-.
gineers-in-Chief, Store-street, Manchester.
Printed forms of tender may be had at the Engineers' office ; and
all tenders must be lodged previously to the hour of meeting, at the
Company's office, in Bond-street, Manchester, endorsed " Tender
for Works ;" andbo tender, except the printed form furnished by the
Company, will lie attended to.
The party wiwse tender'fs accepted will be required to enter into
a bend, with tvrh sureties, for the due performance of the contract,
to the extent of.lo per cent. on the gross amount of such contract;
and the names and descriptions of the proposed sureties must be set
forth in the tender.
The Directors will not ,-onsider themselves bound to accept the
ewest tender ; and they expect the several parties tendering, or
persons duly authorised by tiem, to be. in attendance at the offices
Bond-street, Manchester, at the time of meeting.
(Signed) . THOMAS 11.SliTON, Chairman.
Mancheiter and Birminghim Railway Office,
23, Bond-street, Manchester.

. COUNTY FIRE OFFICE RETURNS.
TWENTY PER CENT.:
NOTICE, ii hereby given, that the above Retur.: will he al.-
lowed to such persons as have completed Seven Years' Insurance
..,' :: • daring the last year, in their next payments of Premiere and Duty.
, ..
J. E. -REATAIO.NT, Seert "
SO, Regent-street, Piesadilly. sary.

INVALID INSTITI,TTION.
TNST IT UTION for the SOCIAL and TEM-
IL FORA R Y RETIRV.AIEN Tof INVALIDS.
, P,,ieenes
Tfii ROYAL HIGHNESS the DUKE of SUSSEX.
VICE-PATRONS.
li 4". His Grace the Dulei of Richmond.
is'f- S.The Right Honourable r.
the arl of Chichester.
,e,s. The Right Honourable Lord Wharncliffe.
, 4,, ' The Right Honourable Lords-Seaford.
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:?-' . • Fiii. Emily Wilmot, Bait.; XI).
ess, ts,ltt. ,Siieflarry Veeney, Bait., M.P.
es *i, ' ' .q,Charles Forbes, Birt..„
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tenjarign Rotch, Esq.
Edward Hornor, Esq. ' I Edward Harper, Esq
• 'es CONSULTING PRY SiCI Alf.
George Hirkbeck,..MD.
• ' CONSULTING AN VlsiTlNG,PilysimAx..
Charles H. ilkinson M.D.
CONNULT NG SURGEON*.
' Edward Stan ey, Esq.; F 11. S.
. s Surgeon to- St. slirthelomew's Hospital.
RESIDENT 'AIEDICAL (31710 ER AT DENHAM PARS.
C. A. slinnt, M.D.
Member of the Royal
,College of Physicians of London.
The Female department superintended by Mrs. Hunt.
`BAI..IKERS.—AIessrs. Coitus and Co. 1
SEC ItYTA 111% —James Taylor, Esq.
The object of this Institution is the restoration of the mental
faculties of person ein the upper walks of life when disturbed by
disease or other,causes. Persons of fortune, whose nervous tem-
perament rila)t nigt4;a temporary retirement desirable, will here find
esroteation and A }ionic, the Institution being conducted on princi-
ples involving insist important advantages, as connected with the
ultimate recovery ofs the invalids, and the security and satisfaction
afforded to sheicftiendk namely, first, that of studying the hap-
piness and- einusepse4teriof . the Patients, and preventing them, as
much "as'possiblei (tlisTigKat all times under proper moral and me-
dical restrAnts),•froth'ieelieg that they are excluded froth the Or.. dinaryt privileges-of sec i4ty e-eecdedly, that of classifying the •Pa-
tients ,in separate estaisfisinen %and nuts allowing those whose'.
disease assumes a, permanentlYtyi I " •"0,10 spy way, pernienhkly;
offensive character, ;to reside in. establiklunent apppprißted to'
:such as are capable of; enjoying the privileges of social intercourse
and, thirdly, that of placing eech'establishment at all times' Under
an entirely disinterested sureeillatice.
The great and most important/novel feature of this Institution is,
that, while each of its establishments is in the strictest iensa Private
,Asylum as regards the namTs and fainily connexion:4,d its inmates,
and the special accommodation,provided for those Who requite it, it
•iis, in the most important sense, a' Public Asylum, inasmuch as the
'visits of the usual Medical Attendant of the Patients, or their
ffriends and relatives, are allovied without' any previous notice ;
e. while every opportunity of searching into abuses or mismanage-
s' , . ment, as well as the power of Jestoringthe Patients to their friends,
or to general society, when it may be done with propriety, is given
i to persons of the highest rank, talent, and acknowledged
integrity;
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s and who have an-interest whattiVer in the pecuniary arrangements
or emoluments of the Institution ; thus affording opportunities for
s., the Patients to make-complaints, whether frivolous or just, without
• . the fear of being afterwards harshly treated, of which so many dis-
V , tressing instances'pecur. ••
It is a melanchely'faCt; thit,' while the' Pauper Lunatics in the
.county asylums are protected by the disinterested surveillance of the independent magistracy of the country, and are blessed with the
medical attendance of a resident paid officer of first-rate talent,
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-whose emoluments do not depend in any way on the number of pa-
tients he can retain in the County Asylum; the unfortunate suf-
. firer in the higher walks of life has no refuge but the ordinary
licensed madhouse or private residfmee, where there is no surveil-
.
lance, and where the interests of the medical man, and of every
one by whom the Invalids are surrounded, are notoriously so much
-more promoted by their remaining lunatic than by their recovery„
that a constant struggle between principle and self•interest must be
the resplt, while their friends often dare not encounter the re-
proaches of the world for thus consigning them to what is too often
not unjustly considered as a cruel and heartless oblivion, and are,
therefore, induced, at any sacrifice of comfort or convenience, to keep
them at home, an arrangement at all times, it is well known, least
. , likely to promote their recovery.
t To provide a remedy for this obvious and crying evil, the bane
lcof all existing Private Lunatic Establishments for the upper-classes,
the present institution Las been founded, and placed under the dis-
t interested surveillance of its Vice-Patrons, Noblemen, and Gentle-
men, whose high -public character and station in society cannot fail
to insure public confidence, and who have no other interest in the
Institution but what is prompted by a noble desire to benefit mankind.
,e( To these Vice-Patrons is given the power, whenever they choose
•., ! to exercise it, of visiting the Institution, of instituting inquiries, of
orcommunicaAng with the Resident Medical Officer of the Institution,
with Pee friends of the parties, and of restoring any patients to
. them, or: to general society, without reference to the Committee of
st' Management, or to' he Proprietors of the various Establishments
of tn. e Institution. To the Committee of Management are con-
lii.ied the arrangements for receiving patients into the Institution,
. ettid the superintendence of the detailed management of its Esta-
blishments; so as to secure the perfect carrying out of the social,
disinterested, and effective plans which it embraces. To remove
the temptation to detain any patient beyond the period necessary to
establish a cure (where a cure is practicable), the Resident Medical
Officer of each Establishment has a salary wholly independent of
the emoluments of the Institution, in which he will not be allowed,
• directly or indirectly, at any time to participate, so that his disin-
terested attention is at all times exclusively directed to the cure of
, the patients, and the discharge of such as recover under the treat-
ment, or whose friends wish them to be removed; while, as a
further stimulus to his exertions in this respect, a premium is
carrel twed to Lirn by the Institution for every patient permanently
,
acrSording to a fixed scale dependent on the shortness of the
Period
;luring which the patient has been under his care. On him
alnlie devolves the entire responsibility of the medical treatment of
die patients ; it being obvious to thoe who confide their invalid
friends or relatives to the care of this Institution, that this respon-
sibility is of a nature that cannot be shared by the Committee of
Management.
The great hope of the promoters of this Institution is, that they May be able to set an example of a more attentive, benign, social, active, and effective system of treatment for persons afflicted with mental diseases than has hitherto been adopted ; to prevent the pa-
tients feeling that they are outcasts from society, and unfit for so-
cial intercourse, and to direct and encourage that portion of the in-
tellect which yet remains into amusing sources of occupation, while
strict attention to health, air, and exercise, works the restoration,
rendered hopeless only by neglect of these important considera-
tions. Every, object of luxury or taste which the eye of the patients
• has been accustomed to dwell upon, if suddenly removed from them,
`corks evil, which, however gradual in its progress or imperceptible
bil
tsf
origin, is not the less certain in its ultimate injurious effects ;
di a permanent cure be the honest intention of the parties en-
trttsted with their care, the Patients should not be allowed, for one
Moment, to feel that their removal from the noise and bustle of the
world as Invalids, is more than a temporary retirement for the
Inure effectual cure of a temporary disorder, an object which can
Only be obtained by giving them every social and domestic comfort
and amusement which their disturbed state of mind may leave them
capable of appreciating. This system, which reason dictates and
humanity approves, once fairly introduced to public notice, it is
"Ped will lead to its extension, if not voluntarily, at least by some
Act of the Legislature ; for it is surely impossible that the present
svretehed and supine if not worse, treatment of the Upper Classes
Iprivate Lunatic Asylums, can be endured by an intelligent and
dightened people, who, while their best energies are directed to
meliorate the condition of the Pauper Lunatic, leave the more
affluent but equally helpless class of their afflicted
fellow-beings a
Vey to the unmitigated miseries of men i tal naction in those Esta-
blishments, where their bodily wants are too often made the onl • objects of attention or solicitude. y
The principal Establishment belonging to the Institution, and at
present open for the reception of Invalids, is Denham Park, near
tUzbridge, in the County of Buckingham, seventeen miles from
ondon, where a sane society of persons has been provided,_ whose
mixing judiciously with the patients, both male and
lfaecinealep,retovgenest
s, ther with the other numerous appliances of the p
;. their feeling that they are outcasts from society, or unfit 'for social
intercourse. Denham Park is a noble mansion, fit for the receP-
ti," cf persons in any rank of life; containing a private consecrated
The
' "'Mel, where the &mile, and such of the Patients as may be beTnhe-
fited by it, assemble daily for morning and evening prayers.
eountry round it is ver • beautiful ; horses, carriages, gardens, bil-
liads, arehery' fishing,
music, a library, and, in short, every re-
cre
ation and amusement , both in and out of doors calculated to
Telase the mind and promote' the health, are provided. The house
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Ins rernarkably dry and airy, replete with spacious suites of apart
, its, on a scale seldom met with ; the situation is pleasantly re-
ed, and celebrated for its salubrity.
guiThate T. erms of Admission for both. Sexes at Denham Park are re-
lion its by the means of the parties, and the extent of aceommoda-
.ll
all (mired; and the Committee of Management are most anxious
tilheaTe`steaTleisshthat the friends of the invalids should personally inspect
establishment before the terms are finally agreed upon.
' Interisile Payments are required to be made quarterly, and each quay,
PaYMent to be made in advance; but if the patients are re-
t. (wed before the end of any quarter; allowance is made for the
time tileY do not stay, and a return made accordingly. Terms for
- , r, e admission of friends or relatives visiting or residing with the
atients at Denham Park, in cases where the Resident Medical
7.. officer .
at
of such an arrangement, are regulated by special
agreement. '
anV„.l Communications will be considered as strictly confidential,
""aY be addressed to any one of the Committee of Management,
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• ll,es'r k;over to the Secretary, James Taylor, Esq., addressed,
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nill''''park, near Usibridge, Bucks.