The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-21 00:00:00

THE GREAT LONDON DRAINAGE
COMPANY.
The OBJECTS PROOSED to be ACCOMPLISHED by this
COMBPANY are, toP AFFORD MEANS for EFFECTUALLY
DRAINING the METROPOLIS ; to PRESERVE the THAMES
from the IMPURITIES at PRESENT PASSING ISTO If, by
DIVERTING THEM into a TUNNEL SEWER; and to COL-
LECT all the PRODUCE of the SEWERS for APPLICATION to

AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that APPLICATION WILL
be made to PARLIAMENT in the NEXT SESSION, for leave to
bring in one or more BILLS to incorporate a company, with powers
to make, construct, and maintain lines of sewers, drains, and cul-
verts, and other works on the north and also on the south sides of
the River Thames, for intercepting mid collecting the sewage from
all existing sewers and drainage which are now emptied into the
River Thames, and from all drains and sewers hereafter to be
constructed within the limit of the said Bill or Bills, and for ac-
quiring and collecting such sewage and conveying the same into
receptacles and depositories to be constructed for that purpose ; and
it is intended that the lines of sewers and drains to be constructed
or the said works on the north side of the said River Thames shall
commence at or near Charing-cross, in the parish of Saint Martin-
in-the-Fields, and shall be made in, under, and through the lands,
streets, roads, ways, passages, and other places in the several
parishes, townships, and extra-parochial places following, or
some of them, that is to say, Saint Martin-in-the-Fields.
Saint Paul Covent Garden, Saint Mary-le-Strand, the precincts of
the Savoy, Saint Clement Danes, in the county of Middlesex ; Saint
Dunstan in the West, Trinity Church, Gough-square, Saint iSridged
t
or Saint Bride, Whitefriars, Bridewell precinct, Saint Martin Lu
gate, Saint Mary Magdalen Old 'Change, and Saint Gregory
by
Saint Paul's, Saint Augustin or Saint Austin Old
'Change, and Saiut
Faith under Saint Paul's, the precincts of Saint Paul's, Allhallows
Bread-street, and Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Mary
Aldermary, Saint Anthony or Antttolin, and Saint John
the Baptist, Saint Mary Abchurch, and Saint Lau-
rence Pountney, Saint Swithin London Stone, and Saint Mary
Bothaw, Saint Clement Eastcheap, and at. 31artin Orgars, and Saint
Leonard Eastcheap, and Saint Michael Crooked-lane, Saint Mary-
hill, and Saint Andrew Hubbard, Saint Margaret Patten, and Saint
Gabriel Fencburch-street, S tint DUI/Stall in the East, Allhallows
Barking, Saint Botolph within Aldgate, Saint Botolph without
Aldgate, and the Tower liberties and precincts, all in the city of
London ; Saint Botolph without litigate, the Tower liber-
ties and precincts, Saint Mary Matfelon ot terwise
Whitechapel, Saint Katherine near the Tower, Saint John Wap-
ping, Saint George in the East, Saint George Ratcliff, Saint James
Ratcliff, Saint Paul Shadwell, Saint Dunstan Stebonheath other-
wise Stepney, Saint Anne otherwise Saint Anne Limehouse, Saint
Dunstan Mile•end New Town. Saint Dunstan Poplar and
Blackwell, All Saints Poplar, and Saint Leonard's Brom-
ley, in the county of Middlesex ; Westham, Eastham.
Plaistow, and Barking, in the county of Essex ; and
North Woolwich, in the counties of Kent and Essex, or one of them,
and shall terminate in certain marshlands, in the parishes of Bark-
ing and Woolwich, or one of them, at or near the junction of Bark-
ing-creek with the River Thames, bounded on the south by the
River Thames, and on the east by Barking-creek, where
it is proposed that certain receptacles, depositories, and other
works shall be made and constructed for the reception
of the said sewage ; and powers will also be applied
for in the said Bill or Bills to erect and construct on the lands to be
taken for such works all such houses, buildings, machinery, engines,
apparatus, and works as may be necessary for the purposes of the
undertaking, and to lay oat, make, and maintain depots, yards,
wharfs, quays, embankments, landing-places, and other works and
conveniences.
And it is intended that the line of sewers and drains on the
south aide of the River Thames, shall commence at or near the
Earles Sluice Sewer, Tictualling Office-row, at Plough-lane, in
the pariah of Saint Mary Rotherhithe, in the county of Surrey, and
shall be made in, under, and through the lands, streets, roads, pas-
sages, ways, and other places in the several parishes, townships, and
extra-parochial and ether places following, or some of them, that is
to say, Saint Mary Rotherhithe, in the county of Surrey ;
Saint Patti Deptford, Saint Nicholas, Saint Alphage Green-
wich, in the count of Kent ; Saint John Horsely-
down, Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, Saint Olave Southwark,
Saint Thomas in Southwark, Saint Saviour Southwark, Saint
George the Martyr Southwark, Christchurch in Surrey, Saint Mary
Lambeth, and Saint Mary Battersea, in the county of Surrey, or
some of them, and shall terminate at or near some marsh land bor-
dering on the River Thames, in the said parish of Saint Alphage
Greenwich, and lying between the said River Thames and the end of
a lane known as the North Horn-lane, where it is proposed that cer-
tain receptacles, depositories, and other works shall be madeers will
and
constructed for the reception of the said sewage ; and pow
also be applied for in the said Bill or Bills to erect and construct
en-
on
the lands to be taken, all each houses, buildings, machinery,
gines, apparatus, and works, as may be necessary for the purposes
of the undertaking, and to lay out, make, and maintain dope s,
yards, wharfs, quays, embankments, landing-places, and other
works and conveniences to be used in connection with the said
works.
And powers will also be applied for to enable the Company to be
incorporated by the Bill or Bills to enter
anupdonotalressetvherroala
venal lands,
buildings, roads, streets, ways, passages,
nd
under which the said intended works are to be made and carried, and
to break up and open the same for the constructing, making,
and maintaining the sewers, shafts, and drains; also
powers for the purchase of lands and houses by com-
pulsion and otherwise, and to vary and extinguish all
rights and privileges connected with said lands powers will
also be applied for to make lateral deviations from the lines of the
proposed works to the extent and within the limits defined upon the
plans hereinafter mentioned.
And powers will also be applied for to obtain from the funds of the
Commissioners of Sewers for the time being, who shall receive

benefit oy the construction of such works, a guarantee of a minimum
rate of interest on the capital expended in the said works, if the di-
vidend should, at any period, be a less sum than such minimum rate

of interest.

And notice is also given, that duplicate plans and sections describing
the lines and levels of the said intended works, together with
books of reference thereto, will be deposited for public in-
spection, on or before the thirtieth day of November, 1851, with
the Clerk of the Peace for the comity of Middlesex, at his office at
the Sessions-horse, Clerkenwell, in the said county ; with
the Clerk of the Peace for the city of Westminster, at
his office in ;Carlisle-street, Soho-square ; with the Town
Clerk of the city of London, at his office at the Guildhall of the city
of London, in the said city ; with the Clerk of the Peace for the city
of London, at his office at the Sessions-house, Old Bailey, in the
said city ; with the Clerk of the Tower liberty, at his office in
Wellclose-square, within the Tower liberties and precincts of
the said city ; with the Clerk of the Peace for the county
of Essex, at his office at Chelmsford, in the said county; with the
Clerk of the Peace for the county of surrey, at his office in North-
street, Lambeth. in the said county ; and with the Clerk of the
Peace for the county of Kent, at his office at Maidstone. in the said
county ; and that, on or before the thirtieth day of November next,
a copy of so much of the said plans and sections as relates to each
parish in or through which any of the said works are intended to be
made or carried, together with a book of reference thereto, will be
deposited with the parish clerk of each such parish, at his place of
abode.
Dated the tenth day of November, 1851.
J. J. MOREWOOD, Promoter of the said Company,
London.

LEICESTER-SQUARE IMPROVEMENT.
OWNERSHIP OF SQUARE OR GARDEN.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that APPLICATION is intended
to be made to Parliament, in the next session, for an ACT to put an
end to all disputes as to the enclosed square or garden in Leicester-
square, in the city of Westminster, whereon a building now used as
a public exhibition is erected, and more effectually to vest the same,
and the lee simple and inheritance thereof, in James Wyld, Esq., the
present owner of tie said building, and of the said square or garden,
and to extinguish all rights of entry into the said square in respect
Of property adjacent theret-, and all charge upon such property in
respect of such entry, and to take powers for the compulsory pur-
chase of any right, property, or privilege belonging to the owners of
land or houses, in relation to the said square or garden.
Dated this thirteenth day of November, 1851.
JAMES COPPOCK, 40, Parliament-street.

EQUITABLE FIRE
PA-NY, 26, CORN
DIREC
T. LAMIE MURRA
W. A. B. Bennett, Esq.
Hugh Croft, Esq-
Geo. Fuller, Esq.
Ralph Gough, Esq.
Sir A. W. Hillary, Bart.
M. C. Maher, Esq.
John Moss, Esq.
The Equitable Fire Office will, by a constant analysis of its own
exnerience, from time to time, adopt such rates of premium as the
nature of the risk may justify, and with tnis view an annual investi-
gation will be made into each class of risk, and a return of one
moiety, or fifty per cent. of the net excess, will be made to all classes
of Insurers whose policies have been in force for three years,
Farming Stock insured at 33. per cent. without the Average
Clause.
Losses are made good without deduction or discount.
Prospectuses, and every information may be obtained, on applica-
tion at the Office, or to any of its Agents.

INSURANCE COM-
HILL, LONDON.
:TORS.
\IC, Esq., Chairman.
John Rawson, Esq.
John Shaw, Esq.
Wm. Scott, Esq
Edmond S. Symes, Esq.
Clement Taber, Esq.
Augustus Vigne, Esq.

SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH
Messages for Paris, Brussels, Antwerp, Cologne, Berlin,
Dresden, Frankfort, Hamburgh, Munich, Vienna, Trieste, Venice,
and all the intermediate Towns on the Continent, will be received
at the London-bridge Station of the South-Eastern Railway Com-
pany, and at the Office of Mr. Reuter, 1, Royal Exchange Buildings.
Dated 13th November, 1851.

DAVIES'S BOTANIC WAX CANDLES, 11d.
per lb.; sperm, 2s. and 2s. 2d. ; patent sperm, 11d.; Britisk
wax or sperm, Is. 4d. ; German wax, Is. 2d. ; fine wax, Is. 5d.;
transparent wax, Is. 4d. and 2s. 4d. ; best wax, 2s. 3d. ; composite,
6%.1., 7%d., 9d., and 94d. ; Palmer's 6%d.; magnums, Bd.; mid
size, 7%/a.; store candles, 4%d. and sd. ; wax-wick moulds, id. ;
Yellow soap, 445., 505., and 545. per 112 lbs. ; mottled, 565.
Windsor soap, Is. 4d. per packet ; brown Windsor, Is 9d. ; rose,
2s- ; almond, 2s. 6d. Sealing wax, 45. 6d. per lb. Argand, vege-
table, carrel, or colza oil, 4s, 6d. per gallon ; sperm oil, 7s. 6d. ;
solar, as. 6d. ; seal, 45., for cash, at DAVIES'S old established
warehouse, 63, St. Martin's-lane, opposite the Westminster County
Court.

LAURENT'S CASINO.
ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
St. James's, is OPEN every Evening for the Winter Season.
Laurent's well-known and celebratet Band, principal Cornet-A-
llston, Boulcourt.
During the recess the Rooms have been re-decorated, and many
improvements made, under the sole direction or Mr. G. F. Bryer.
Doors open at Half-pason —Ot EighNE SHILLIN t, to commence at Nine o'clock.
AdmissiG.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TA.TTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Martinson's Nancy—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Harrison's Trickstress—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. S. Herbert's Grand Duke—taken
3,000 to 45 agst Mr. H. Stebbing's Knook Knoll—taken
4,000 to 60 agst Mr. J. Arnold's Pitsford—taken
1,000 to 10 agat Mr. H. Hill's Hothorpe—taken
1,000 to 10 agat Lord Caledon's Barbarian—taken
The above were the only bets laid.
CREWE GRAND STEEPLECHASE MEETING.
Acceptances for the Crewe Grand Steeplechase, of 10
sovs. each, with 60 sous. added.
Isaac, aged, list 31b—Peter, aged, lOst 121b—Jesuit,
aged, lOst 101b—Ploughboy, aged, lOst 81b—Heroine,
aged, lOst 71b—Barrister, aged, 104—Wide-awake
aged, lOst—Clatterbox, aged, 9s . '
e Slb—Cheerful 5 r t 121b—The Cripple,
aged, Y g, 9st 61b—Braggadocia,
aged, 9st.
Acceptances for the Edleston Stakes, a free handicap
steeplechase,
for horses that never won a steeplechase
value 100 sell. clear, of 3 Isom each, in ease
of
ac-
ceptance, with 30 sous. added; acceptances to be
signed on or before the 24th of November.
Frank, aged, list 81b—Ploughboy-, aged, 1 lat—ge.
roine, aged, lOst 121b—Defaulter, aged, lost I Ilb-
Springy Jack, 6 yrs, 10st 61b—Standard, aged, lost 6-1 b
orome, aged,
—Widow Machree, lOst 21b—Frederick J
Royal Blue, 5 yrs, lOst—Lady Jane, aged, lOst—Vul.
_9st
tore, aged, lOst—Dick Swiveller, aged,
121 b
Governor, 6 yrs, 9st 71b—Modesty, aged, 9st 51b—
Braggsdocia, aged, 9st 4th—Pride of the iNorth,late
Poesy, aged, 9st 21b—Resignation, 6 yrs, 9st 21b—Cob-
nut, 4 yrs, 9st—Stanley, h b, aged, 9st—Constance,
aged, 9st—The Sweep, 5 yrs, 9st—Llara Rook, h b, 6
yrs, Oct—Maid of the West, late Bridesmaid, 4 yrs,
BstiOlb—Protectionist, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b.
The Hatherton Stakes closes on Monday evening,
November 24.

HUNTING .
Mr. Farquhargohnocsewilds., Mon. CAPPOINTMENTSoke's Wood; Wed.,
Winford; Eri.,
Brighton 'tarn., Mon.-oodP•steham; Wed. Race-course;
Sat., Dyke, 101.
Brookside liarrs.. Mon. Newmarket Hill; Thurs.
Telscombe Tye—it*
Crawl, y. and Horsham hcla , Mon Tilgate L
Wed. Ncrtolk Arms Gate, Worth:Fri. the HydeLlgoe!
r
Worcestershire hds., Mon. Cuw
Fri. Thddesley Wood—loi. le; Wed. Shrswlll ;
Herefordshire lads., Tues. Acor.bury Prior;
Fri'
Fitth mile-stone on the Frooat's Hill-ruad-11.
.Ledbury lads., Mon. Wallnins; Fri. Edwin's Wocd,
near Brom y ihrd-103..
Warwick3hire hth..., Mon. Priccohorpe; TUCB, What-
cote; Thurs. Lower Shucliburgh; Fri. Burton Daasett
Tollgate.
Shropshire lids., Mon, Sundcrne; Thurs. Woolstas-
ton-101.
Cheshire hds., Mon. TALI; Wed. Kinderton; Thute,
Bradfield Green; Sat. Norton Priory-10i.

DAILY WEATHER TABLE.

State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.

Prmtotrrl—Wind N., gentle breeze—overcast.
BEUGHTON—Wind N.E., calm—cloudless.
klisrmas—Wind N., gentle breeze—cloudless.
FoLKEsToNE—Wind N., gentle breeze—overcast.
Turenarnoa—Wind N W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
GREENWICH—Wind N., gentle breeze—cloudless.
STmooD —Wind W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
Swiwnole—Wind N.E., light airs—frost.
LEIGHTON—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
COLCHESTER—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
CAMBRIDGE—Wind N., gentle breeze—cloudless.
Irs.nmouTH—Wind E., hard wind—partially cloudy.
LitnamiGHAM—Wind N.W., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
LIVERPOOL—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—foggy.
SHOP—Wind N.W., calm—hard frost.
BEtArrocK—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
The returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Wednesday morning at nine
o'clock :

Loszulor—Wind S.W., calm—foggy.
CARLow—Wind N.E., hard wind—rain.
MIILLINGAR— Wind W., strong breeze—rain.
Poonx—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.

TO CORRESPONDENTS
No communication can be attended to unless auth4
ticated by the name and address of the writer.
Rejected communications cannot be retuned.

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LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1851.

Vancouver's Island, as we maintained from the
first, has been effectually closed
by its being committed to the
against improvement
eh
we
predictedarg
e of the Hudson's
Bay Company. This
from the com-
mencement of the notorious negotiations which ter-
minated in the abandonment of the possession
the members of her BrlmesTv's Governmen
saw what must inevitably be the case if territories. e
of
such importance were, without adequate reason, or at
any rate, without very stringent stipulations, banded
over to the mercies of the commercial body
already particularised. That association of mercan-
tile men had proved itself to be merely
a group of selfish, and what was worse,
sluggish monopolists, actuated in every proceeding,
however minute or apparently insignificant, solely by
a wish for their own aggrandizement. Patriotism—a
hollow word in too many instances—was, in their re-
gard, a virtue to which they never made any preten-
,ins whatsoever. Let it not be said that we are
exaggerating, in any degree, the evils for which the
Hudson's
Bay Company has rendered itself respon-

LONDON,

sible. As NAPOLEON was wont to do so frequently.

we appeal to history for corroboration ; and we rest '
unfortunately but too well satisfied that the records
which have there been preserved, in reference to the
North American Continent, will testify in a manner
altogether unanswerable the accuracy of our re-
luctant accusations. While the United States
have risen from a thinly populated colony into one
of the most densely inhabited among the powers of
Christendom ; while the Canadas have flourished under
the effects of a perpetually multiplying industry ;
while even Texas has displayed evidences of advance-
ment, and Oregon hes opened up numerous fields for
enterprise, and California has collected together mul-
titudes of adventurers from all parts of the globe,
to ransack its mineral treasures—what has been
the condition of the vast and fruitful country
subjected to the Hudson's Bay Company for
its government ? Has it not remained as
impervious to all colonization as the fabulous land of
Utopia ? Has it not defied entrance more rigidly
than the magic garden of the Hesperides ? Have not
its fruits remained more entirely beyond human
reach than the vegetable jewels in the subterranean
p iradise of ALADDIN ? Why the stagnation visible in
that part of the wtstern hemisphere has been long
notorious. Remember, moreover, that the enormous
extent of the possessions thus closed against improve-
ment renders the fact of their past and present condi-
tion peculiarly lamentable. They spread over a surface
equivalent to the whole of Europe, and comprise
within their boundaries a portion of the earth
abounding in sources of wealth and materials for the
extension of commerce. Melancholy enough the
spectacle referred to must surely be allowed to be,
when it is considered that the indolence complained
of has been exclusively for the advantage of about
half-a-dozen individuals.

Under the jurisdiction of the Hudson' a Bay Com-
pany we do not, of course, mean to aver that
there are lands capable of being transformed
into rich pastures, or square miles of coun-
try presenting very remarkable temptations
to the agriculturist, but we do unquestionably mean

to assert that the territories entrusted to them—ter-
ritories embracing among other places the whole of
Labrador—are rich in other things besides the furs of
savage animals, the skins of the bear, the beaver, the
fox, the wild cat, the musk rat, the martin, and
the racoon. Besides these means for obtaining wealth,
the country i❑ question abounds in an extraordinary
variety of minerals—such, for example, as copper,
lead, iron, and marble. Yet not ono of them is
worked—thanks to the ingenious obduracy of the
Hudson's Bay Company. Then, again, on
the coast of Hudson's Bay itself are vast numbers
of the walrus, while along the shores of Labrador
are many very valuable fisheries. These latter are
happily attended to with considerable assiduity, but
inland the soil is delivered up wholly to the enjoy-
ment of the wild beasts, abounding there in pro-
fusion.

What says the late naval commander-in-chief on
the North American station in reference to the capa-
bilities of these regions, and upon their present
situation ? We ask this, because i❑ the illustrious
Earl of DUNDONALD we recognise not merely one of
the greatest heroes of England, but one of
those men most remarkable fur sagacity and vigilance
of observation. Among other things, speaking of
Labrador, the Earl says*--" The absence of vegetable
productions of spontaneous growth is by no means a
proof of sterility in this region as to horticultural
produce ;" this he remarks after having observed that
"the valleys here, as well as the hills, as far as we
could see inland, are destitute of trees of any kind
higher than gooseberry bushes." Yet, as we have
shown, he does not by any means regard that as a
testimony of sterility. On the contrary, he says im-
mediately afterwards, "in a garden here we saw
potatoes of excellent quality growing from others of
last year's crop, produced on the spot"—adding, "the
owner of the garden showed us lettuces and radishes
as forward as those we left three weeks ago in the
Admiralty Gardens at Halifax." A little further on
he continues, " perhaps a botanist might discover
useful plants in this region adapted to English agri-
culture." It is not, however, to those portions of the
remarks made by the Earl of DUNDONALD upo❑ the
condition of Labrador that we wish espe-
cially to refer, it is particularly and beyond
all to the sentence which follows his observa-
tion that, " the British possessions in Labra-
dor extend over a tract of country as great
as the northern regions of Russia from St. Peters-
burgh to the Pole," and bear in mind that Labrador
is only a section of the Hudson's Bay territory,
Having penned thus much, the Earl of DUNDONALD
writes—" I have often felt surprised at the indiffe-
rence evinced by the Spanish Government as respects
the development of the resources of their possessions ;
but it is with still greater astonishment that I view
the supineness of our own Government in leaving this
vast tract unexplored, and its probable treasures un-
discovered." The reason Is obvious enough—namely,
that Labrador, as well as the adjacent portion of the
North American Continent, has been shamefully
abandoned to the Hudson's Bay Company's Govern-
ment. The consequences we have demonstrated to
be in the very last degree lamentable ; and yet it is to
this same company that Ministers have yielded up
also Vancouver's Island, an island which, if only for
its coal mines, would be one of extraordinary im-
portance. How far our predictions as to
the results of this latter proceeding have
already been verified may be seen by reference
to the latest intelligence brought to England by way
of California, and dated October the Ist, San Fran-
cisco. It mentions that her MAJESTY'S ship Daphne,
Captain FANsUAwE, had recently arrived!in that port
from Vancouver's Island, bringing thence accounts to
the effect that no progress whatever had been made
in settling the colony, and that, sooth to say, there
did not appear the slightest prospect of its settlement
so long as it continued in the hands of the Hudson's
Bay Company the policy of that company
being rather to discourage emigration, and to prevent
the cultivation of their territories. Of course. We
ourselves asserted this long ago—and the intelligence
just received from Vancouver's Island comes only as
a too lamentable verification.
" Notes on the Mineralogy, Government, and Con-
dition of the British West India Islands and North
American Maritime Colonies, &c." By Admiral the
Earl of Dundenald, G.C.8., &c. Bvo., pp. 128. Lon-
don: Ridgway. 1851.

The announcement on the part of the Earl of
SHAFTESBURY of his intention to propose tome
change in the law relating to criminal lunatics, has
had the effect of inducing the members both of the
medical and of the legal profession to direct their
attentioa, not only to the manner in which criminal
lunatics are treated in our asylums, but also to that
preliminary proceeding which renders the confine-
ment in an asylum necessary, viz., the plea of insanity
in criminal cases. Among the many valuable pub-
lications on these subjects which have of late ap-
peared, by far the most valuable is a recently published
pamphlet by Dr. WooD,* the learned, talented, and
indefatigable medical officer of Bethlem Hospital,
who is acknowledged on all hands to be the most ac.
complished psychological pathologist of the day, and
whose position, bringing him into not merely daily
but hourly contact with a large majority of the cri-
minal lunatics at present confined in the United
Kingdom (for we imagine that the number of cri-
minals confined in Bethlem Hospital must equal, if not
exceed, the criminal lunatics confined in all the other
asylums of the kingdom), peculiarly fits him for form-
ing a sound opinion on this subject, and cannot but
secure for such opinion a deliberate and attentive
consideration. Dr. WooD commences his pamphlet
by declaring it as his opinion that much mischief has
resulted to society from the too frequent admission of
the plea of insanity, an opinion in which every lawyer
who has had any experience of the mode
of proceeding in our criminal courts, and every phy-
sician who has even occasionally visited the so-called
criminal lunatics who are confined in our asylums,
wiliatonee cordially concur. lie adds—" I totally
repudiate
irresponsibledoctrineth ;
,t,hautndaninitnhsitsnfpi
elpneiorsnonwies ne-
cessarily
be-
lieve the majority of medical men who are competent
to form an opinion on the subject agree with Dr.
WOOD. And here it strikes us that Dr. WOOD has
furnished a means of reconciling those differences ex-
isting between the lawyers and the doctors on the sub-

* " Remarks on the Plea of Insanity, and on the Ma-
nagement of Criminal Lunatics." By W. Wood, M.D.,
edical
Licentiate of the College of Phykicians, and M
Officer of Bethl©m Hospital.

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