The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-09 00:00:00

No, 17 563.]
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CONTRACTS for RUM, SUGAR, COCOA,
and TOBACCO.
Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport
Services, Somerset•place, Jan. 6,1849.
The Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord high Admiral
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby give
notice, that on 'faults:DAY, the 18th instant, at One o'clock, they
will 1;e ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Con-
tract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling
Stores, at Deptford, the undermentioned alludes, viz. :
When to be

delivered

The produce of the British Pos- Gallons."'
RUM sessions and not less than half llalf in 3weeks
50,000
to be the produce of the British , and the re-
Possessions in the West Indies, winderin 3
SUGAR (the produce of the British Fos-1 Tons. weeks after
50 wards.
•50
lllalf in a fort-
night, &the
20'l remainder in
a fortnight
• L afterwards.'

Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel.
11` PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE LNCAPA-
CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
cow Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. Gd., or
bo post, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps,
TUE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex-
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with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating, certain dis-
aialiflcations. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. My It. and
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PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
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PART 11. treats of the consequences resultinf, from excessive iridul-
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Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings.
PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
he primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for
heir treatment. This section is illustrated 'sy Seventeen Coloured
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PART IV. contains a Prescription for the Prevention of Disease
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L 0 V E is the leading feeling of the human
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every other impulse ef nature, and is not only stronger than avarice,
but more engrossing even than ambition. No man is exempt from
its influence, or can avoid its sway ; and business, pleasure, philo-
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power of LOVE, which, unlike most things, increases in intensity
with time, until it receives the sacred consummaiion of marriage.
When union does not take place, however, this passion, this
fervour, this golden tide of the manliest feelings becomes a deadly
poison in the heart, which Now darkens, as it before bright-
ened, all things upon earth. How is it that men, of most un-
changeable habits, will change at the very altar, and after a life-
time spent in the fulfilment. ef every engagement, snap the very con-
tract, asunder which should be most binding to an honourable mina?
It is the effect of conscience. The Lover, by enervation of early
habits, or the results of secret disease, knows himself to be
disqualified, and dares not enter a state which has been
it.stituted by Divine Law for tks fulfilment of important
ends. The wretched condition of such a being must subsequently be
beyond measure deplorable i Loving and beloved, he entails the
most miserable disappointments on the object of his choice, and upon
himself a desolation the meet horrible, when the simple possession of
natural attributes would change the scene, and yield to both a life of
unalloyed happiness. The subject is interesting, arid deserves the
attention of all. These desirous of investigating it will find the
fullest and most satisfactory information in the little work entitled
SELF-PRRSERVATION,

illustrated by forty coloured engravings on the anatomy, pltralology,
and diseases of the reproductive organs ; with practical observa-
ions on the secret infirmities of youth and maturity, resulting from
By Solitary habits, excesses, or infection.
SAMUEL LA'MEET,
Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of
Edinburgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Mall, London, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Sec.
This treatise is the result of a long course of study in a peculiar and
much neglected branch of medical practice, and the author having ob-
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ment of*** diseases.
arinew OF THI WORK.

La'Mert on the Infirmities of Youth and Maturity.—" There are
scenes in the drama of life which are acted with no spectator but
Conscience ; and of these the result is ever disastrous. Happy the
mortal who meets with a timely mentor to snatch him from the gulf
Into which such scenes must plunge him In the book before us
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upon all who are tempted trust It
rigid path of abstemiousness and
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t aught innocence the book is not, of course, needed ; but wherever
laxity has prevailed, the tender yet awful voice breathing in these
pages is likely to prove as strikingly beneficial as the admonitions of
a homily blended with the practical advice of a writer on medicine."
—rnited Kingdom Magazine.
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TO THE LADIES.
This lady had the following letter inserted in the " Times" news_
paper on Aug. 7, 1546. Reader, remember, this letter was put fat
the paper by the lady herself, as a testimony to me.
" Mrs. Weekley, of No. 3. Swan-street, Borough, takes this oppor-
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beyond any to her taste. She will feel a pleasiro In answering any
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few drops on your hairbrush before brushing the hair, will give tho
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The most delicate ladies may use this delightful product of the
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ou the *norm of the head; if very bad, repeat-lt every quarter of an
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heads, it has such a peculiar cooling influence on the brain as to pre-
vent convulsions, as well as promoting the growth of hair.—See
pamphlet of testimonials.
Allletters addressed to William Grimstone, Herbary, Highgate.

THE CHOLERA AT TOOTING.
Yesterday, in pursuance of a request from the
General Board of Health, a return was made of the
number of fresh cases of cholera that had occurred
from two o'clock P.M. yesterday. The return stated
the number of such cases to be ten, the number of
cases of diarrhoea four, the number under medical
treatment 118. We were informed, however, that
six more children were seized before six o'clock yes-
terday afternoon, and that seven more deaths had oc-
curred at that hour. With regard to the children
removed to their parishes in London, we understand
that in St. Pancras twelve have been attacked with
cholera, and four have died ; in the Royal Free Hos-
pital, Gray's Inn-road, several new cases have occur-
red, and live of the children are dead. In the Tooting
Asylum itself the -total number attacked has now
amounted to 260 ; and the deaths to 84.
Yesterday a meeting of the Board of Guardians
of the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, was held, for
the purpose of considering where the pauper
children of the parish, who have hitherto
been at Mr. Drouet's establishment, should
be placed. Communications were read from the
General Board of Health, and from the Poor-law
Board, recommending the removal of the children.
After some discussion, however, upon the difficulty of
finding an eligible abode for them, it being also stated
that Mr. Drouet's Asylum was not now overcrowded,
it appeared to be the general opinion of the guardians
that the children had better remain there ; and a
deputation was appointed to wait upon the Poor•law
Board and the General Board of Health for their
further advice upon the matter.
It was stated by Mr. Gaskell, at the meeting, that
Mr. Drouet's establishment ought never to have had
more than 800 or 900 in it ; but that the collection
of the much larger number recently there had been
sanctioned by the Poor-law Commissioners. It was
also stated that a complaint of the quality of the food
had more than once been made on the part of this
parish, and that for some time the removal of the
chil-
dren had only been a deferred question, the difficulty
being where to put them.
The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Ryder) said he believed the
cause of this outbreak of disease to be princi-
pally, if not entirely, overcrowding and poor living.
The charge allowed to Mr. Drouet was stated
to be the sum asked by him, nor had he ever com-
plainedof it as insufficient; and at Alr. Aubin's, at
Norwood, with double the number of attendants, the
charge was the same. It was added, that Mr. Drouet
was supposed to make, upon an average, a clear
weekly profit of is. by each child after paying the
whole expenses of his establishment. Some of the
older boys were sent out to work, and he got Ss. per
week for their labour.
. .

After some further discussion, and the appoint-
ment of a deputation to visit the asylum, the board
adjourned.

A HARD CASE.—Mr. Robert M'Cormiek, R.N.,
surgeon of twenty-one years' standing, and fifteen
years' actual service, chiefly in the 'West Indies, and
North and South Polar regions with Captain Sir
Edward Parry and Sir J. Clarke Ross, performing
the duties of naturalist in addition to those of surgeon,
contributed the geological portion to Ross's narrative
of the expedition; on his return from which he re-
mained on half-pay for two years, when he received the
appointment of surgeon to the William and Mary, one of
the royal yachts, an appointment held by all his predeces-
sors for a permanency, or until promoted (one of whom
was made Deputy-Inspector of the Woolwich division of
Marines, another receiving the appointment of Surgeon to
the Dockyard). On the yacht being paid off last year
to be replaced by the Fisgard frigate, Mr. M'Cormick
was not even permitted to serve the ordinary period
of three years, customary on an appointment to a ship
newly commissioned, thus placing him on half-pay in-
stead of giving him that promotion to which he was so
justly entitled, not only from the peculiar nature of the
cervices he had performed, but which had been conferred
on every other officer of the expedition alluded to, on
its return, now five years since, during which period no
less than eight surgeons have been made Deputy-In-
spectors, four of whom are juniors to Mr. M‘Corruick,
and with no other services to recommend them for
that step than the ordinary routine duties of their
station. Notwithstanding the unjust treatment to
which he has been subjected by the Admiralty autho-
rities, Mr. M'Cormick offered his services to Govern-
ment to conduct an expedition in search of Sir John
Franklin—au expedition which he was eminently quali-
fied to undertake from his great experience under two
such distinguished leaders as Parry and Ross. This
gentleman has, moreover, other claims on the attention
of the Admiralty as being the son of a naval surgeon
who lost his life in the shipwreck of her Majesty's ship
Defence, during the war.
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SANE SLICK'S NEW WORK, " THE OLD JUDGE ;
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Dickens or Thackeray. By the aid of his humorous and
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the North American colonies as perfectly as though
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independence. Stephen Richardson, the character of the
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Chronicle.

THE TREATMENT OF INSANE

PERSONS.
A subject of great social importance, and one which
is now and has for ,some time been exciting profound
interest in the county of Gloucester, was on Tuesday
brought before the Gloucestershire Court of Quarter
Sessions at the Shire-hall. The chairman of the

court (Mr. P. Burnell) presided, and among the
noblemen and gentlemen of the bench were—the Duke
of Beaufort, Earl Fitzhardinge, Lord Morton, Earl
Ducie, Viscount Combermere, Sir C. Guise, Sir
Martin Crawley Bocoy, the Hon. Craven Berkeley,
&c. About sixty magistrates were on the bench.
The question for diszussion was, as to the renewal
of the license to Dr. Bompas to keep a lunatic
asylum at Fishponds, near Bristol, in this county.
At the last quarter sessions a committee was ap-
pointed to investigate certain charges of laxity and
mismanagement alleged against Dr. Bompas in refer-
ence to this asylum, he being the proprietor. It is
alleged that the treatment of the patients has been
marked by coercion and restraint, such as,

in the improved modern system of treatment,
has been generally abandoned; that some
patients have been received into the asylum with-
out due regard to the obtaining of the required certi-
ficate of two medical gentlemen; that patients have
been detained in the establishment after the

"visitors" have given their opinion that they were
sufficiently recovered to be removed; that one patient
had been subjected to harsh treatrvent by the keepers;
that he had been denied the use of a Prayer-book ;
that a letter from him to the visitors had been inter-

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cepted ; and that he was forcibly thrust into a strong
room under the pretext that he was violent: that he

was handcuffed, chained, and kept in the dark; that
letters written by the wife of another patient to her
husband had been detained, &c.

The committee appointed at theist Quarter Ses-
iions was composed of the visitors to all the county
lunatic asylums, being magistrates of the county of
Gloucester, and the chairman of the committee was
Mr. Purnell Bransby Purnell, the chairman of the
Court of Quarter Sessions.
It should bo stated that the asylum was founded in

1738 by a Dr. Mason, and remains in that family at
this moment, the present manager, Dr. Bompas (a
great grandson of Mason's) having succeeded his
father, the late Dr. Bompas, on his death in 1847.
It is a private asylum for the richer class of patients,
and the expenses of the establishment are paid for by
the friends of the unfortunate patients. It is licensed

for sixty-five patients, viz., thirty-five male and
thirty female, and is divided into three departments—
one denominated the gentlemen's department; one
the middle class of farmers; and the third, the sick
and noisy department. The mode of treatment at
this asylum was first called into question at the Mid-
summer Quarter Sessions in the last year, on Dr.
Bompas applying for a renewal of his license, and the
license was then renewed for six months only, at the
expiration of which time it was understood that Dr.
Bompas was to give it up to other hands. At the
last Michaelmas sessions, however, he applied for a
renewal of his license, in the usual way, for a year,
and then it was that this official investigation was

ordered. The investigation was conducted near the
asylum, and lasted several days. The evidence taken
on oath before the committee ran to great length.

Some of the patients who had been under treatment
at the asylum, and who were now considered in a fit
state to give their testimony, were examined.
The cases inquired into were numerous. In the
case of Mr. W. V it was alleged, that having

met with an accident by which his ribs were broken,
his case was neglected for two days. The reply was,
that the fracture had not been at first discovered.
This patient had been thirty years in the asylum,
and was in a state of intoxication when the accident
happened.
The most serious allegation against the treatment
adopted at the asylum was developed in the evidence
given in the case of Mr. W. G. E—. This patient
was subject to occasional irritation, he is a graduate
of Oxford, and gave viva voce evidence on the in-
quiry. He had been locked up in a cold cell without
food or light, chair or table, and had been chained in
bed by two chains, one by each leg fastened to the
bedstead. He was also put in a strait-waistcoat, and
was kept chained for some weeks until the visitors
saw him, and ordered the chains to be taken off. He
had broken some windows when irritated, but it was
denied that he was so violent as to require any such
coercive measures as those adopted in his case. There
was no convenience for warm water in the middle and
third class department.
In the case of Mrs. the wife of a Welsh
clergyman, the patient complained of being removed
to a very gloomy room, and of being denied free com-
munion with her daughter and friends. She declined
in mental and bodily health during her stay in the
asylum, and immediately improved on her removal.
Mr. H. C— was placed at the asylum in Sep-
tember, 1847, and left on the sth of July, 1848. He
wrote three letters—one to his wife, one to his brother,
and the third to a partner in his house of business at
Bristol. His wife replied to his letter on the 26th
of February, 1848, but the letter was not delivered
till the 16th of March, on the day of his wife's visit to
the patient. Dr. Bompas had told Mrs. C— that
the letter had been duly delivered. His reply to the
case is, that he did not deliver the letter (which con-
tained an account of the illness of the patient's child)
on account of the patient's state of health.
Other cases of a similar nature were brought
forward.

On the matter coming before the court, it was an
nounced, as a result of the late inquiry, that Dr.
Bompas had relinquished his intention of applying for
a license ; and that the present applicants for a license
for the same asylum were Mrs. Bompas,
mother to
Dr. Bompas, Mr. C. Smith Bompas, brother of the
doctor, and Mr. Nathaniel Smith, also a relative of
the family.
Mr. Smith and Mr. Smith Bompas were then
briefly examined as to their qualification, and their
testimonials were produced.
The CHAIRMAN then read the report of the com-
mittee of visitors appointed to make the official in-
quiry. The report stated that the committee met on
the 19th of November last at Lawford's-gate prison,
and thence adjourned to Dr. Bompas's establishment,
where they inspected the whole capacities and:accom-
modations of the place. On the 221 of November
they commenced taking evidence, and they continued
the inquiry daily up to the 2d of December in-
clusive, and the evidence having been taken down by
a shorthand-writer had been printed. (A. copy of the
evidence in print was in court. It was a formidable-
looking " blue-book," some two inches in thickness.)
The report then referred to the intended ap-
plication for a license by Mrs. Bompas, Mr. C.
Smith Bompas, and Mr. N. Smith, and spoke favour-
ably of the application. Mr. Smith, on whom the
great responsibility of the establishment would rest,
was represented in the report as consulting surgeon
to the Bristol Infirmary, and it seems he visited the
Fishponds Asylum professionally during the super-
intendence of Dr. Bompas. The committee therefore
had no hesitation in recommending that as Dr. Bom-
pas had withdrawn his application for a renewal of
the license, the same license be granted to the three
applicants, Mrs. Bompas, Mr. C. S. Bompas, and Mr.
N. Smith, on condition that the latter do keep a
medical journal and case boOk.
The CHAIRMAN then read some extracts from the
minutes of the journal of the asylum. The visitors
noticed the absence of washing-basins, towels, and
water in some of the departments. The rooms were
clean, but not so the patients. They found a patient
(G. C.) in a " coercion chair," with his arms in a
leathern case, and in a very dirty state (particular-
ised). The keeper said he was cleaned three times a
week. Another patient was found with the quarter
of a blanket round his shoulders, and another quarter
round his legs. After reading these minutes, the
chairman moved "That the three applicants already
named be licensed to keep the Fishponds Lunatic
Asylum for a term not exceeding thirteen months, for
the reception of fifty-one patients."
Mr. SMITH expressed his willingness to undertake
to keep the journal as required.
Rev. J. WITTS, in answer to questions put with
reference to the cost of the recent inquiry, entered
inquiry, including
into a long statement of the various items of expense
counselincurred.
a e
dTehtet
rntotaley costfer of
travelling,th and other
e
ex-
penses of the attorneys and witnesses, shorthand-
writers' bill, and the cost of printing the evidence is
1,2151. 103. 6d.
This announcement excited some surprise.
Some discussion followed on the question whether
Mr. Smith would be required to sleep at the asylum.
He stated that he would undertake to visit the estab-
lishment thrice a week, but could not undertake to
make that his residence or to sleep there, having an
extensive practice in Bristol to attend to. On refer-
ence to the Act it was found that clause 25 required
the lessee to reside on the premises; and then arose
the question what was to be considered a residence in
the eve of the law ? It was observed that Dr.
Conolly was licensed for three asylums, and could
only reside at one. He was licensed, with,two others,
one a lady, in respect of an asylum at Kensigton, but
only the lady actually resided on the spot.
The Duke of BEAUFORT wished distinctly to un-
derstand whether Mr. Smith intended to visit the
asylum every day ?
Mr. Slurs—Certainly not.