The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-21 00:00:00

VICTORIA (AUSTRALIA) RAILWAY LOAN,
MEd ender the alelthstay et the Railway Lem hat d Ise
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consolidated revenues et Victoria, and redeeniebie ea tha IM
October. lea.
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Ranks. as agents In this connUT if the °mentors, of Vittoria
for the rimmeiatkm at the shove 'Leon. HIIRKBY 01V g :Stale%
that PUBLIC TEN PEW, will he rciviced for a1.000.00U DEBEN-
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the above•uanicti Act, at the Lonitim and Westminster Bank at
Two o'cliuk precisely sin the aft,no,in of TIL BALMY the Ma
instants up to which tinte sealed tenders will he received there
from all pieties who mu) forward the soma addressed to the
Chairman of the Conmattee. out c 1111.111.1 lenders for the
Victoria "in per emit Loan,- or attend in prison therewith. In
eases of equally of tender beyond the amount to be lamed,
they will be subset to a pro rata thoilniation.
A deposit of Ilse per et id. on the amount of each tender most
be previously pall to the tondo. and Westminster Beak. The
tenders will then Ise opened to the presetice of all so attesdins,
and read publicly. as.,, tho purl timers forthwith deciated to be
those who have tittered the highest price mit under the inialmen
previously hoed. and winch shall lie centalucil in a sealed piper,
pieced on the table Wore the leaders ate opeued.
Tenders by the same permits 41 various prices must be made
out and delivered separately. and parties must be careful not to
enehos the deretrit vi the sealed tender.
Tenders at a pre including fractious of a shilling other than
sixpence will not lw accepter
The Debentures at cootracted for will bear Interest from the
Ist Aprtl next soul a ill tie delivered to the subeenbers at the
London um" Wmtminster Beak ea that day, upon payment of
the Warne due thereon.
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LONDON, rumDAY, JAN. 21.

Jr sums by no means improbable that the pro-
ceedings in Lunacy may do that for Mr. Witco-
nsn's estate which the wretched youth, with all

his wild extravaganoe. has Si yet failed toaccom-

plish. The necessary expenses of the investigation
have been variously computed, and, according to
some, the estimate touches the enormous sum of
611,04)01., which must come out of the estate. The
estimate is probably exaggerated; but at all events
it is utterly impossible to occupy the valuable tine

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of some half-dozen of the bat counsel at the bar

for • month, and to collect together hundreds of
witnesses, many of them of the most expensive de-
scription, except at very serious cost. If,
indeed, it were really necessary, in order
to ascertain the mental condition of Mr.
WINDHAM, to tmdertaks these tedious pro-
ceedings, and to incur these gigantic costs, sub-
mission would be the only remedy. The difficulty
of the inquiry, and the imperfection of human
institutions would be a decent consolation. But
to those who have watched the WINDHAII case, Or

who know anything of the ordinary mode in which
judicial investigations are conducted, it has long
been abundantly obvious that all the ordinary
principles upon which such investigations ought
to be conducted, have in this case been utterly
ignored. It would be wrong to say that these
principles have been wilfully neglected by the Court.
But in the conduct of judicial investigations discre-
tion and a firm will are not lees essential to the
presiding magistrate than technical knowledge.
It needs but a sentence or two to demonstrate that
the protracted length of this inquiry is traceable
not to the peculiar mode which has been appointed
foe the purpose, but to the mismanagement of
those whose duty it is to carry the law into effect.
Even as matters now stand there is scarcely any
single individual who has not made up his mind
upon the subject. Whatever the Master or the
Jury may think, the public thoroughly understand
the distinction between vice and folly or extrava-
gance and insanity, and no doubt they have
formed a very clear opinion as to which of these
two classes Mr. WINDHAM'S actions belong. But if
they still have any doubts upon the subject they
might readily be set at rest by a very simple
process.
Consider for a moment the nature of this in-
quiry. As a preliminary step it was necessary to
satisfy the Loans Jcsricus in Chancery that there
was a prima facie case against Mr. Wier:owe.
Accordingly General WINDHAM, who is the
uncle and guardian of the young man,
along with several others, stated certain
facts to the LORDS Jenne's, and petitioned
them to grant a commission for the purpose of
inquiring whether Mr. Wrwra•st was or was not
of unsound mind, and by reason of such unsound-
ness of mind unable to manage his property. After
considerable hesitation, Lord Justice Ksionr
Ilaucz and Lord Justice TOMMIE granted the com-
mission, and Mr. SAMUILL WARRIN and • Jury
consisting of 23 gentlemen have been sitting for
about a month, hearing evidence upon the question
which has been submitted to them. Now, if any
such question were submitted to any ordinary
person, his course would be obvious. Naturally
the first thing he would do would be to call upon
the persons who had started the question.
Every human creature is to be assumed to be
sane, and therefore Shy impartial person
required to decide upon the sanity of •
fellow-citizen would of course Insist upon hearing
the facts alleged against his sanity, and upon see-
ing and cross-examining the persons who made the
statements. If General WINDHAM and the other
petitioners had made no allegations against Mr.
Winnsam, the commission never would have been
granted. The foundation of the whole proceedings
rests upon their evidence. It is obvious, there-
fore, that they ought to be produced before Mr.
W•RREN and the Jury, In order to repeat the story
which they have already told to the Loans
J rirrt. r.. It is • cardinal and common-sense rule
of law that, in order to prove a fact, the beet
evidence should be the first produced. The evi-