Although it is certainly no part of our duty to discuss the charges brought against lunacy doctors abroad, while, indeed, we think that as a general rule it is in much better taste to mind our own business, there is the legitimate motive which the discussion of such charges permits, of endeavouring to learn the lesson taught by the failure, if such it be, of laws enacted for the custody of the insane, and thereby seeking to ascertain whether there is any corresponding defect or source of danger in the legislative enactments of our own country. It also behoves the critic of foreign institutions, or of the scandals alleged to occur in other countries, to remember that he may easily fall into the error of forming an erroneous opinion or a harsh judgment from an insufficient acquaintance with all the circumstances of the case.