LUNATIC ASYLUM.

Evening Star, Issue 4139, 2 June 1876, Page 3

LUNATIC ASYLUM.

To the Editor. Sm,—Poor “D.E.F.”; he is to be pitied 1 Fancy his sanity ! when laboring under such delusions about the critical acumen of Mr Paley, of Yarra Bend—the blood-thirsty intentions of "A.B.G. and again that other sign of aberrancy— the morbid cariosity to know if “A.8.C.” is anybody else than “ A.8.,0.” What a superabundant amount of suggestive fertility Mr Paley must have had (according to “D.E.F.”) when the sole recommendation was a '* Night Watchman.” Ne doubt poor “D.E.F/s” memory is bad t tis.*a wonder, he is: already enjoying the hospitality of Mr Hume’s hotel How pleasant it is to know that a man can Uve on nearly fourteen pence halfpenny a-day, and that medical journals and casebooks are unnecessary institutions in this enlightened century. That, while the msdmalß in Melbourne and elsewhere pay smartly for tbe .privilege of being visiting medical officers to public institutions, on account of the indirect emoluments accruing from these poets, the members of the same fraternity m our midst get paid directly sums of L6OO, LIOO, and so forth, and further exercise their votes in nominee boards. Surety we ought to be grateful for diyinelv inspired newspapers, .for mud scramblers, and for such mental aherrants as D,E,F.” being in our midst. Let “D.E.fT” be. assured I am a warm advocate of Mr Hume’s ability, but a warmer opponent of impurity and disihgenuonsness. rnever resort to such clumsy instruments as knives spoh a$ the gentleman who sails under the pseudonym of 44 Castigator ” and his phone do. I again ask the divinelyinspired organ apd its stolid scribe of the .Batfroy street,fold tp avow the truth, regarpin'g the late hospital the impure transactions that took place in a well-known publip.body Pf nominee characthose appointments. Punedin, June? 1 ’’ # A.P.C.