her sons was similarly deranged, and all his children intelli gent. This deranged son married a wife who became de. ranged on religion, and whose brother has long been religiously crazy, and sister is not sane. This crazy pair, before their derangement, had a most lovely and amiable daughter; as is often the case, extra talents and goodness being frequent concomitants of mental disease.

SALLY JACK, a deaf mute, aged sixteen years, was adver. tised as having left home twice, in a deranged state of mind. Her mother was insane several years, and three of this mother's children are deaf mutes. A grandmother has been deranged many years on religious subjects, and her granddaughter partially so, on the same subject.

A woman in New Hampshire was subject, for many years, to religious insanity. She feared she had sinned away the day of grace, and was irrevocably doomed to eternal perdition. One of her daughters was deranged on the same subject; a son was deranged-subject unknown; and another son was crazy on perpetual motion.

A tailoress at Barnstable, Massachusetts, became deranged on religion twice, from extra application to her trade. Her pastor, Rev. Chester Field, of Lowell, Massachusetts, heard it remarked, that derangement" run in her family."

Mrs. HEAD, formerly of Boston, died crazy. One of her sons has been in the Massachusetts lunatic asylum some twenty years, in winter, but is rational in summer. Loss of property first occasioned his lunacy. One of his sisters has been crazy many years, and a daughter has been raving distracted by turns, for a long time. Her head, at the crown— Self-Esteem and Approbativeness-is so tender, that pressure there gives her great pain, and sets her crazy. She is a most estimable and interesting woman, and just before being attacked, suffers everything from feelings of unworthiness, and apprehensions of being laughed at.

THREE SISTERS and a brother, formerly residents of Claremont, and Unity, N. H., have each been deranged, and had deranged children and grandchildren. One of the latter is so raving distracted, that chains and strait jackets have often

been used to prevent his doing damage. This whole family is uncommonly noble and intellectual.

Mr. F, of Andover, Massachusetts, a man of superior intellect and great business capacities, after having amassed great wealth, became dull, stupid, unable to comprehend, and finally deranged, and was sent to the Charleston lunatic asylum, where he died. One of his sons, a youth of uncommon natural abilities, prosecuted his studies, night and day, with astonishing success, till insanity supervened, consequent on excessive cerebral action. He has been many years in the lunatic asylum at Worcester, where, in imagination, he is transacting an immense business, writing to foreign merchants, making up price-current lists for the papers, and the like. Two of his sisters have been so far deranged as to have been sent to the Charleston lunatic asylum, yet have since recovered.

The BASS family, already mentioned as long-lived 319, are subject to derangement. Moses Bass, one of the early settlers of Vermont, and son, have been so. A nephew has been crazy for twenty years; and J. Bass is deranged regularly every five years. One of the females of this family would stand on the top of chairs, and walk around rooms on the moulding, and like feats, when deranged; and another married a man named M- several of whose children and

grandchildren are deranged.

TO SAMUEL FLINT, of Vermont, I said, while making a professional examination, "Take heed, or you will be crazy." He had previously been partially so, and his sister had been deranged, and confined six years in the insane asylum at Brattleboro, Vermont. A brother had been two years in an insane hospital, and is not right yet. His uncle General Flint's great-grandmother Walker, was crazy.

A son of Rev. Dr. Axtell, of Geneva, was recently advertised in a newspaper in the neighborhood, as having left the New York Episcopal seminary, partially deranged. The ad vertisement added, that "his mother died in the Hartford insane hospital."

Three of a Carter family, in Vermont, have died deranged,

and the only survivor is often out of her head, feeling unworthy, as if in the way, and despised.

"A lady who had been three years in the insane department of the Pennsylvania hospital, died week before last, A younger sister, who had for some time attended the picture-room attached to the hospital on Spruce-street, after returning from the funeral was so completely overwhelmed with grief, that her reason was dethroned in about forty-eight hours, and she took the place of her deceased sister in the insane ward. Yesterday morning she expired! She has a widowed mother, and only sister of fragile conconstitution, to both of whom it is feared this heart-rending blow will be fatal.”—Philadelphia North American.

GEORGE III. AND QUEEN VICTORIA.

We do not endorse the following by copying it, but let it stand on its own evidence, yet those who have been in the company of the queen, say she leaves her seat and company every few minutes, when out of her consort's sight, to look after him. This has given rise to the impression that she is jealous, but is, perhaps, analagous to the case of Mrs. H. BThe quotation is as follows:

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"QUEEN VICTORIA INSANE.-Letters received in Buffalo from a gentleman in England, according to the Commercial Advertiser of that city, state distinctly, what before has been darkly hinted at, that the insanity which so long afflicted George III., is likely to prove hereditary in his granddaughter, Queen Victoria. The symptoms, it is said, are already apparent, producing as yet but little more than what the French term tête monté, but giving rise to painful apprehensions of the result.

"The journeys of the queen to Scotland, France, and Belgium, and her frequent short tours in various counties of England, have been made, it is farther said, in the hope that a change of scene, and filling the mind with new thoughts, might break the distempered chain, and, if possible, avert the threatened danger. This may be nothing but gossip, but when, as in this case, there is the hereditary taint of insanity in the blood, there is always reason for apprehension."

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Mr. H, of W, Vermont, has been deranged. father rendered himself crazy by overdoing. Three of this father's sisters were deranged, and three of their descendants.

Mr. R, and his father, two paternal uncles, and his father's mother, were all deranged. All were also subject to a trembling of the hands.

"The murderer Spencer, who, with such premeditation, murdered his young wife at Jersey City, is a nephew of the Hon. Joshua Spencer. His father was a clergyman, but has been for several years an inmate of the asylum for the insane at Hartford. The murderer has been a politician and stump orator, an office-seeker, a schoolmaster, a mesmeric lecturer, all along a money-borrower, but not a money-payer."

I. H- has a brother who has been an inmate of a lunatic asylum, and he, apprehensive of a similar fate, has already selected a room in the same institution.

Mrs. M, of L. I., became crazy about property, because her farm was perforated by a turnpike. Her son became crazy and shot himself, and her daughter, also insane about property, neglected her household affairs, would rake and scrape everything she possibly could for the New York market, and then go in person and sell it.

"Edward Oxford's grandfather had been insane, and his father always subject to destructive and suicidal mania, and his mother affected by nervous delusions. Before his birth, she frequently received from her husband blows which rendered her insensible, and on one occasion was greatly terrified by his presenting a loaded gun at her person. When Edward Oxford, the prisoner, was at large, he would beat children with stinging nettles on their arms, till they were quite blistered, he laughing and crying violently at the same time. He would throw out of the window or break whatever came in his way."-SAMPSON, on Criminal Jurisprudence.

While making professional examinations in Danvers, Massachusetts, in 1841, a mother brought in her precocious son expressing great anxiety lest he should become deranged, her reasons for which were, that his father died of derangement, and that his paternal grandmother died in the Charleston lunatic asylum, and that several of his father's brothers and sisters had been more or less deranged.

REPORTS OF LUNATIC ASYLUMS.

Taking our leave of isolated fanatics, let us canvass a broader field of inquiry. Insane institutions tell the same story, only on a larger scale-communicating summary results without descending to particulars. As far as they report at all, that report may be fully relied upon; yet a far greater

number of their parents have deranged relatives than are known to these institutions, and even the relatives of the patients, and more still, have had deranged ancestors 318 Yet every institution of this kind unequivocally confirms this great truth, that insanity "runs in families." Some of these

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At Turin, out of 1,066, 128 inherited the tendency. At the Bicêtre, out of 3,446, 343 were by inheritance. At Charleston, out of 1,557, 337 cases were hereditary. At Ivry, out of 431 subjects, 150 were by transmission. On this point, the New York lunatic asylum, in 1846, reports as follows:

"That a predisposition to insanity is very often transmitted, is a fact well established. Thus of 844 patients who have been in this asylum, viz., 431 men and 413 women, 224 were known to have insane relatives. That many of the others were thus predisposed, we do not doubt, but we were not able to learn anything respecting their relatives. 104 were known to have insane parents, viz., 58 men and 46 women.

“It would appear from our inquiries, and they have been very carefully conducted, that insanity is a little more likely to be transmitted by the mother than by the father, and that mothers are considerably more likely to transmit it to daughters than to sons, while the fathers most frequently transmit it to the sons. Thus, out of 58 men, 35 had insane fathers and 23 insane mothers, while of 46 women, 16 had insane fathers and 30 insane mothers. We have known, however, of repeated instances in which insanity was transmitted by one parent both to sons and daughters.

"But a predisposition to insanity is also transmitted from parents, who, though not actually insane, are remarkable for violent and ungovernable temper, eccentricity, wanderings of the imaginations or weakness of mind. Mothers in whom the nervous system predominates, who are prone to hysteria, and who have suffered much from affections of the nervous system, are very apt to transmit a tendency to similar diseases to their offspring, and sometimes to insanity; especially if they have, during pregnancy, experienced violent emotions, such as terror and extreme anxiety of mind.

"Children begotten in old age, or when the difference in the ages of the parents is very great, and also the offspring of those that have been very intemperate, are believed to be predisposed to mental disorders. Sometimes great originality of mind in the parent, intense study, and entire devotedness to a particular pursuit, appear to predispose the offspring to insanity or idiocy."

The sixth annual report of the trustees of the Massachu