C=SI ..inilitbi*O:.: . 4'*# Inside , Bedlam—Scene in Bethlehem hospital., The - London, Telegraph describes some of the scenes in the Bethlehem Hospital for the Insane, in Frigland : ''.ln Bethlehem'Hospital every , effort ii3nsed ' to.make the life 9f the-inmates cheerful. hear As 'you walk down the corridors Yon e the cooing of the pigeons, and the' quick, AiibUrint notes of Of singing birds , flitting to and fro - in large and, well:tended aviaries. ; Presently you come, to an aquarium, anon :an .: to's stand of flowers, while there are s t ettes and engravings on the walls. • - Eve 1 where light;; everywhere elbow .room `an ••-breathing space. Hence as you are led d , froin stage to stage you gradually get into - state of mind in which it is not in the 1 'surprising to you to find yourself with Scan very gentlemanly lunatics playing billiards; '-not do you feel at all astonished bY-and•by •to" hear a piano in a neighboring room, and recogniz,e. a bit of, Beethoven.. Parts -a Bethlehem seein, more like a chib _than a • . mtdhouse. Every man is allowed to smoke after the dinner; and it is with a strange feeling: f semi-bewilderment that you stroll into a reading room and see a gentleman quietly enjoying his' tobacco over, a number of the Illustrated liretql. - .Pitied I" Pertain ly ; has been mad,for years; will be mad for fyears; but not; for all that, miserable—not; or all that, cut 'off 'froth ' the felloWsPip'. of Pis race I• It is hardly the' sufferers from acute - Mania, perhaps, that afflict one' , -the most.: - • Here and i there,. over a fine proud. face, 'you see a sbadow pass like a thunder clond, ~as the mattie hour• a torment comes upon put in thatere is still some courage and lnazilioad left. Yonder, stricken the, worst loud of melancholy, a poor ‘crett 'Jure, his hair -all.: gray or _grizzled, , T uaks t:himself incessantly - to and.fromponhis seat, shrinks' from atouch as froM , firtf, and gives no 'l,tinswer to a ' kindly tsitititsttien"Prit-a moan. If thislie his state at midday; ;What `,is it when the night! *lobes - irkt, Pass oa ; • and now, tow old, think the rosy gentleinen,aileep in :tkeheir:by the chimney corner? The rosy. gentleman looks up with .-a surprising amountof briskness as he:bears -the'question, and - eniWers4. "Ninety, sir." Bek' is' not dretinhig, "not-romancing.'He Came to this hespital—think of it—in Jan . nary; 1827, *diem* forty-eight years old; and there is still a-color in his cheeks., :Less cheerful, but robust jri hie language to a degree which is ahnos terrific, is en old sailor in the neighborhood. Our men swore terribly hi Flanders, but this grand'old vet , eran would outswear thirty troopers. Never was there an old gentleman so utterly unfit for'publication. In the female wards situated in the east ern part of the hospidl, we meetwithAany more cases of chronic and persistent dela ' sion than among the men. The very first fdr ; instance,-whom ire accoste des - Gabes herself as "Queen of Heaven and ',Earth," and speaks of Her Most Gracious .MajestV Queen Victoria in a slighting tone, and de lout es" bas. --=A .poor unhappy gen .tlewoman has been here for Years; she has • grown old,'and sharp, and wrinkled; _her "white hair hangs In . great tangled twain; %boat her, and there is a look, like ° than of hunger, in her-eyes es she presses 'towards. ,the door of her littliiivom, and would-,fain . pass on and bustle hy,you.• Involuntarily, man _shrinks trom• the touch- for: just secon; and 14 is not your first impulse,: but a return of your reason, and yourreverence for woman, which- makes you accept and press the hand that she offers you. Ab, it is a thin, worn hand. Honestly, one is glad anon& to mount to 'the tipper galleries, where the more hopeful, at any rater the quieter cases, are to' be met with. " Decorous as a private drawingroom are many of these apartments, where some of the patients sit reactilt, others working, others again, .„praOticing at, the piano. A ; poor girl, who is, in the strict conventioal !:sense, young.QT—eagerly accosts us'as pass..:ewe As one might guess, it is thenld story . of a love that came to nothing. The `'face is bright Still, and 'pretty,. thoukh the, eyeinre tioubled; and there is a pain ; .f 4 little.; in , the ; voice. Sensibly and quietly, with a Alnd-. of subdued eagerness lhaf is wonderfullY touching, she pleads for her . , release; she is quite welt; 'she would be :quite safe; she take care of herself per , fectly; A crucial question; is. then asked, "Ah l but I shall tell you the truth, or not the`truth ? Whoa I tell you the truth, you keep me here." "And the truth," God help us, is that she is engaged to a young gentleman, "and that the greater part of Europe belongs tohim. The soft but earnest voice—a lady's. in re every ume— treinbles doWn into tears, but the eyes, though suffused, look proud ; and have a touch of anger in them, as she says, "You keep me here because I tell the truth." No quieter voiee could you hear, and you must be strangely constituted 'if you can turn away from euchnn interview_ without pain and sickness at the"heart. • , - • Average Age orAtilauda. ' The average,' age of cats is 15'years;. of squirrels and hares, 7 or 8 years;, of rabbits,- . 7; a' bear rarely exceeds 20 years; a - wolf, -20; albs, 14 to 16, lions are long lived, the, one known by the name of Pompey to the age of 70 years; elephants have been; known, it is asserted, to live to the great a,ge of 400 , yeais.; When. • Alexander the. Great had conquered Poing, King of India, he took a great elephant, which had fought' very Valiantly for the King, and named him Ajax, .dedieated bin:4o the" sun, and let': him go with this inseription : "Alexander, the son of Jupiter, dedicated Ajax to the' sun:l? The eleplituas found' witli this. inscription 850 years after. Pigs have been, known to live totheoge, of 20, and the rhi- ; noceros to 20; 11, heirse hits been known to: live to the age of 62, but average 25 to 80;• camels -sometimes jivetathe, sg e of • -100; stags are very ldng Itved; sheep seldom ex ceed the age of 10; cows live about 15 years, and'are then killett.fer -beef. envier con siders it probable that whales sometimes live I,oooyears, the dolphin . and porpoise attain the age of 30; an eagle died at 'Velma at the age of 104 years: ravens -frequently reach the _age _of 100; sw,ans have been; known to live 800 years. = Itti.