Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1842-12-30

MARRIAGE versus INsANIrY.-The follow
ing statement, taken from Boston paper,
presents some very important and interest
ing results. The single, of both sexes, have
need to be peculiarly careful in their mental
self-discpline, gao al t.
From the examination Of very many re-
ports, out of every five of all the lunatics sent
to American hospitals, three are unmarried
and only two are married, and that almost all
of them are over 81 years of age. On the
other hand, it is pretty certain, that in all tho
community over twenty years Of agr,
there are more than three times as many in
as out of wedlock. If this be the case, then
the unmarried are more than four times as
liable to become insane as married people.
To make this matter more certain, DR..
Jarvis, of Taunton (Mass.) has written 10
some gentlemen in almost every town ~
Massachusetts, and in some towns in Con-
neclcut. requesting them 10 count on the list
of voters-the married, the unmarried, and
the widowers, and to give information Of the
number in such of these classes belonging to
the respective towns.
The proper Development Of the social
principle Of our nature by supplying them
with their proper objects, is undoubtedly
matter Of great importance, in their general
influence on the mind as well as on the for
nation on the character and habits.
As Illustrating the influence Of external
circumstances on the character of insanity,
the statictics relating to the cases of luna.
cy which occurred during the grea, French
Revolution, are among the most interesting
ever published. In that breaking up Of the
foundations Of the old order of society, the
asylums for the insane became crowded, and
as the consequence of the sudden and strange
transpositions of condition which took place,
the insanity of those who had been precipi-
tatcd from the higher places of society, was
of melancholy and despairing character.
while that of such as had suddenly been re-
lieved from the pressure above them, and
had come out from obscurty and misery in-
to brighter and more elevated condition,
was uniformly OF a joyous and hopeful kind.
LARGE PEws.-Tha New York Commercial
Advertiser thus notices what is called the aride
and vanity OF the world, on the other side of the
Atlantic
We ourselves have seen in England, pews
exhibiting not only the dimensions, but the ap-
pontmentS, OF drawing room. One in partic-
ular we remember, that was at least fifteen fee.
square and most elegantly furnished, with car.
pet, fire place, tables, chairs, bookcase, pictures
mantel lamps, foot stools, oltomans, and sofa.
: In fact it was room, not pew, and was divi-
ded from the rest OF the church by high screen,
over which the occupants could see the parson.
but could not themselves be seen by the rest Of
the congregation. To be sure the owner Of this
elegant worshlppng- place was the lord Of the
, manor. and had given new organ and peal Of
bells to the church."
We have recently seen a much worse dis.
play of space, in the way of "worshipping- rooms"
Than that mentioned by our contemporary, though
we never crossed the Atlantic on such discov.
cries.
y We were very civally invited 10 worship with
a friend, into whose neighborhood we had gone.
and we took seat in space partitioned off from
one much larger than the rest. II had fire.
place, table, chair, one picture, no carpet, and no
sofa, but in Their place bed, absolutely a bed
The occupants were SO far separated from the
"PorSon," that they not only could not see him,
but they could not hear him and the owner OF
this enclosure had absolutely set up for himself
and led of the service quite loud, so that he
nigh, easily be heard around the enclosure,
certainly above il, though the aristocratc family
could not be seen by the rest of the congrega-
ton, il any had assembled.
We are told thar this custom IS becoming rath.
/, er fashionable in orr country though in fact the
D room to which refer, was not a pew, but a
I 'shantD" and to be sure, the owner Of this ele-
giant worshpping place was lege, lord, and lane
!: lord, and had bu his church, and begot,en mos,
u OF the little worshpners.-U. S. Gazette.