The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-30 00:00:00

will not hazerd his reputation for toxicity by identi- I
f. lug Innis If with them; he will not march through,
a. r t, C .vetitry with them.
And for tide, alrocat as much es for any of hie pre-
"' 00, good services, the country is grateful to S.r
It' at it I Pe EL It thanks h.m for cstholic em sncipa-
ti ;it thanks him for the repeal of the corn-laws;
Du :,t, .we all, it thanks him for the honest refusal to
rat 'amend for employment men of questionable
tiorseity.

r reweave to our remarks on the ease of the
11..'iare,rie 11 Lstionx, the Queen mother of the
de•.rtset DifuLtr.r Simon, we have been favoured
skin en extract from a letter, written by a native
f it lem,o of high character and attain-oents, resident
F. ti• t ,• friend in this country, which .xintans
a • Utu.,..0.t s t mo• strous and so inconsistent with all
iriish notions of the treatment of state prisoners,
Innen mare of lsdif s of rank, that we print it, chiefly
the lip.• its main sex rion will nceave an antho-
el e n•red:cti^n. The letter is dated 21st of April
the passage refirred to runs thus :

lhe %Inverse; t.t have r• moved the Rases of Lahore from
It • c (Henan") to Cnandul Garb (Chews.). There is a
• j• ..1 iron, is which Trimbrikji Devgrs was formerly
oui Nn. d. The Renee was put into this age ; from it die
be • ti..wev.r, mowed. Such is the rumour cement here.
T. • f, ,vunor-Osseral's rivet and his people have searched,
a•••: ..re sr.er.Mng every place to find her. The cage had
H., •• sat sentries place I over it. I have myself gone and
th-n it. A rasa said not have does what a woman he,
Her el ditte, fernitere, &e , are left. The Ranee,
w • was imprisoned is the eve, as well as two Sikhs, who
• outsid.. o• it, bay, disappeared in a manna (mite un-
Kroft" ant.. Too Rana. wrote and left • paper, the eon•
n. oat which were, " Yoe have broken your faith ; very
w but I *arm you will send my t Mete within two
Iwo •• a otherwise it will go hard with you." It is not my
Is •mesa t.. dwed upon this event; but that the government
▪ • i tontine a princess in a stage, and that she should
. ...t•i•hstan4ing the sentries placed over her, is real:,
ea
there is an iron cage in the fortress of Chunar,
so a .t.d by toe writer, is a fact of which we have
t. r r...s m y. It wee erected to contain the note-
✓ TILIMPHIK.II DEVORL who assassinated, or WY
▪ t 4 to have ammeainated, to the horror of all India,
e Chi. f or Patriarch of the Brahmins ; and in it
t .t en I.in .1 was kept under British surveisl-nce for
11. teen. But that this cage has ever since been
se spied by our state prisoners—that the Ranee of
1. %storm was for a moment even confined therein—is
I i• sesertion which we trust will prove to be utterly
Li Needed. Foe, if tree, it would inflict indelible
l'ware on the British government of Indio. Such
a finings would be intolerable if inflicted on the
at et savage Thug in that country ; but to consign the
i 'ow of a wevereign prince whose fidelity to us is
poem Is the very prcelamation that appropriates to
en/settee the empire he won for himself, who
as not been convicted of any crime, and who
has sought in vain even for a statement
4 f the charges on which her person has been seized
• d venial f,orn place to pl ice as our apprehensions
di t sied, and os which her property was confiscated,
ould be en infamy cticulated to bring down not
only the na inns! exserati .n but condign punishment
throe who ordered it. But as the statement was
correet in the city adjoining the fortress, as the
nativea, after the Ranee's flight hurried out to the
t oto as to see the iron cage whence, it was alleged,
eh.. Mid etcaced ; and as tt c rumour, by this time, has
wend t' rout: India, it is ircumbent on the East
India Company to take immediate nutico of the
assertion.
Without at present entering further into the tin.
unistancea, most imperfectly state-I as yet, under
welch the person of the Ranee was seised at Lahore,
we caenot help saying that the treatment
which this Princess subsequently received at
ti e hands of the Ind a government, has
n once wearily harsh and severe, and is unworthy
..1 that gee, rnment. And when it is known that
lie value of her private property confiscated by the
ledt. it authorities, is not leas than 200,0001.. mo-
tives of a v. rydiacreditable character may be assigned
for stk. h treatment. Admitting that at Lahore she
might have been dangerous from the influence she
:misled over the Sirdars, surely she was powerless
to do ary s. Hi us mi chief at Snackerpoor, when in
oar power. Y. tat a moment's notice she was carried
If thence to !Senores; and no sootier was all danger
over to the Punjaub, and that country antexed to
British India, than the Rance was removed from Be-
mires to the fortress of Chunar. Now, Chunar is not
only It Ftltl• prison of the Indian government, but it
is a confined, hot, unhealthy place; and is associated
in native minds with stories of horror and death.
Front it the Ranee had the courage to ewer. And
for her tseape from what she deemed would be a
life-long imprisonment no one can blame her.
We have, it seems, demand, d. and are about to re-
gain possession of her from the King of Nepaul. Let
us hope then that she is not again to be sent to Chu-
nar, but will be restored to some degree of personal
freedeon ; and that, if her private property be not
returned to her, satisfactory reasons will at least be
assigned for its retention and confiscation—not vague
e ,arses intrigue or imputations on her moral
character.
We mast repeat too. the remarks,we made on Thurs-
day, as to Dnuesr &ann. The hands to which his
nurture and education are at present entrusted
are rot such as ought to direct and form
the character of a prince. The gentleman in
question is, in his own sphere, a most re-
spectable and honourable person, is well qualified
to write or to compound medical prescriptions; but
he he. none or'Zl:orie qualifications, intellectual or edu-
cational, for the task which has been ccnflded to him.
It is, moreover, unjust, unfair, and ungenerous to leave
the royal boy in his present pecuniary wsition ; he
lies been mode to cede the sovereignty of the Pun-
jaub to us without having received any guarantee of
any fixed sum f r his future maintenance and sup-
port—pa uniarily, he and his family, and any issue
he may have, are at the mercy of the Indian govern-
ment. In star, ho has lost a kingdom without gain-
ing in exchange a private fortune. This is not the
rsition which the descendant of Ronan Siecn
ought to occupy. It is degrading to him, and it is
not creditable to the British governmeat.

IN the wide doctrine of tolerance there are few
points that require to be more strenuously and mite-
lewdly junketed than the right men have to be as
alp.url as they please. There is nothing criminal in
being a fool so lour as a man's folly does no harm.
A very wseul, practical lesson in this way has just
been read by the decision of the court and jury in the
ease of Nottidge e liipley. The only objection that
can %ell be urged ag nost that decision is the low
figure of the damage*. It could have been wished,
too, that the medical men, and above all the commis-
sioners of lunacy, who were mixed up in the affair,
could have been swinged as heartily as the private
parties; but it is obvious that the form In which the
ection was brought placed the two former out of
&ogee.
It may be as well to premise that we ae-
knowlege in the breaded and most unqualified
tense of the term, that Miss NorriDGE and
her atom:ate. of the Agapemon• are fools.
Attempts were made, in the cuurse of the trial, to
prove tley were something worse. But the attempt
to establish the charge of gross profligacy completely
broke down. We are not asserting their innocence •
we know too well the insensible gradations by whici
fanaticism passes into lieentiouseess. There ere but
ter, many cases on record to establish the tendency,
on the part of those who in religious matters have
cast off tts constraints of common serve, to fling three
f c-mnren decency after them. All that we lay is,
Ilia in the present as we see no better proof of the
ex;rence of anything of the kind, than the gossip of
lid, ego publics, always indignant when they me
rove set differently from themselves, and but too
prone to give vent to their righteous wrath, by re-
tailing all their black conjectures and surueoss as
pee ti e fate.
But we admit that the inmates of the Awesome
ere tools positive. Lawyers, apothecseariee, par-
sons, retired firmer., old maids, and all the
rest of them, they are auperoatura'ed with folly.
Men and women who have attained to mature years—
we will not my to the years of discretion—sad can
take the Reverend Mr. PRINCE for an incarnation of
Deity ; ob 7 him implicitly when he enjoins one line
of conduct one hour and another the next; and glorify
God I.y playing a game at hockey, may, without any
lack nf charity, be set down as fools.

But their lelly harts no one but &we Ives. They ?o
not insist upon other people being fool I also. They do not
eren obtrude their practices on public notice ; they
rather reek seclusion, and ask only to be left in Face.
'1 hey rei,e their walla higher to chat out the imper-
tinent gane of the boors who come to gape and wonder