The Express.
London, England, 1856-02-09 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9.

%raordinary verdict: "Ouilty of wilful murder, bat
we recommend him to mercy on sweat of his Wont
predisposition to insanity." More extraordinary still,
Mr. Justice WIC/BUSS/4 after camierving some time
with Mr. Justice WILLIS, is reported to have told
the prisoner " that the jury had eons to the weds-
sion, that although he might be insane on some
points, yet that he knew right from wrong, and they
recommended him to mercy. Under these circum-
stances, he should abstain from passing sentence, and
merely order judgment of death to be reseeded:,
Now, with all possible respect for Mr. Jar
tics Wicarrierw, we cannot think this debt.
S arely, he ought to have taken the grew
tunity of repressing at once the Mho 1111
a mere " predisposition to insanity " aught 6 w-
ean from punishment, in a case where the mime
not esmenitted under the direct inessase of any
tuella ablation. And this he might have ties in
leweitmeel way, by bitsmisig the jury Oat he would
thsle 1•1111111112 to the proper teeter,
pt Illemmesllme bailing eat no hope that die ra-
sssmaislaa weld be attended to. We siont that
this slue was woe promel, for it is imPoinge pc*
to applaud do kftsauslisa at a new sh■.at of un-
certainty into the eimilietration of our std daal law
from the admission ale ground of =Wyatt.' so vague
and unsatisfactory u a predisposition to insanity."

Lost) Dessv and Lord CAMPBELL do not appear to
feel quite easy under their triumph of Thursday night.
They have much the air of men wllo begin to suspect
that certain kinds of victoria' 'say be tam embar-
rassing than detests. They, ar their emaciates and
leaders, have persuaded the lb rale of Lords to vote a
remission of Baron WEMBLEY. MALE% letters-patent to
the Committee of Privileges,, be hoe of au ••••peaeme
par et simple. Bat having rine ea far, they begin to
feel nervous about prooeedi .ng further. Accordingly.
last night, they began to throw out feelers with a
view to ascertain whether their antagonists were
sufficiently cowed to as apt of an offer to allow them
to surrender with the t amours of war. When Earl
GREY malted the CLIME • Juirrica when the Committee
of Privileges won), I sit, the noble and learned
Iced, like a true Beotchnian, replied by putting
a question in his turn—Would Ministers advise
her MAJESTY to c nate Bic J. Paps a peer with
asaaatader to the h sin male of his body ? LOMIDZILET
eagerly supports 1 this suggestion. lierespon Earl
°MANVILLE TWO and all was expectation among the
Conservative rs Am' but their Wee assumed ow ex-
pression of blr Jek disappointment when the 'SAM
lord, after stet keg that he rose to none that the HOODS
do now adjo' its, reamed his wet, without adding
another war, L The garrison refuse even to answer
the sum to surrender.
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Weed. .it sot miry to am bow Misiatere sin,
with bona' sr or eves mannios decency, retreat from
the growl d t►ey have takes sp. They have advised
their Lo' weigh—they have prevailed epos her, to
create a protege for life. By advising her tow& what
Abe tin Jess by their advice, merely because the Home
et Lewd a bee remitted the camideratios of the legality
of the a et tot Committee of Privilegeetwoold be toas-
ted* tt at they have bees guilty of the most ea/gable
troslin am sod levity in prevailing epos the Crows to
tperfo rue as est which they cannot defend. And be
.cost'aete to hold office after such a confession would

be the •sublime of iiesantos. Deliberately, 1170.0.
vably..they have takes a step the results of which,
se regards the legielatiu sad jediedal working of ear
essetitoticia, are nest wamosatoes, sad Deltas they
wish to tread themselves es *tram they oust
abide Ito coesequous. We have a better opinion
of Lead PALMIIIIITON sad his colleague thea to
issagias fora assuasat that they will thus "show the
whits'ssther.•

Wane a view to the des administration of the
eriminel law it is of the utmost naportanos that the
oleaeest distiastion should be observed between the
guilty malice or guilty passion whisk leads to a
paaishable act of violence, and the lunatic make or
lunatic peados white leads to an am of violates that
mould be punishable. were it not ensued on the
Breed of insanity. Alter all that has bees wrings
sad said as this moque, thus mush at all mots we
appeased to be oker—that when the ester knows
his set to be morally aid legally wrong and
commits it, not seder the Memos of say abseils,
morbid delusion as to the real facts of the we, but
only under the iodeenos of soak an essagsratios of
the seal hots as either premeditated make or sadden
puska la every Matinee gives rise to—ia such mesa
the perpetrator of the set is a criminal properly
smash* on aonvistisk le the unmitigated penalties
of the law.

Applyier this Madded priasiple to the sees of
Wasraox, the welshed ssea who wee esavieted on
Thursday last of the esseseinatica of Mr. Waves,
we eat ear, with every rarest for the lammed
judges before whom be was tried, that we sae MlN-
what surprised at the form of assesses pronounced
urea bin. The facts of the ease are too simple, sad
tee fresh in the recollection of oar readers, to regal=
say recapitelatica hen. We limit ourselves to the
remark. that the sea sleet down his victim es the
alleged grimed that "he had rained and robbed
hiss of his property." Now, was this so ab-
solute delusion P—We do sat my, was it ea.
*My sash a jedgmeat as a cool sad eats.
tweeted perms, having all the facts of the
este Mime him. world ham farmed ? bat. was it a
me= Armee= of the maa's teney—a wild halleelaa.
Noe, baying so bmis whatever la feet? Mast
essiereilly sot. The miniered sea was the lawyer
of the murderer and kis family, sugared ea their
behalf ia massing aortas family estates. The mar.
Amer wonted to sell his gam sad go abroad with the
premeds. Difilealtise had been interposed—eta:Ms

wends as Log ago as heat October the lawyer
brought his sliest beton a angistrals, snaring that
at that lin kis lib was la dosser from kis violent
An arrangement was thee proposed sad needed to,
soder which Warms eland to employ WAUGH, sad
pot his affairs into the look of entire solicitor, Mr.
GAHM. Now, mark what fellows. Os the 14th of
Jenny, two days Won the murder, Mr. &min,
soling satin Wseran't intructioss, bad prepared a
conveyance for the gale of his oliont's shire is the
thinly estates. Os List day Wooos proresen tie
esunistion of Ms pershase is inanity on deducing
from Lie porehocohossooy cerise Amps. urkieA
Awl &Owe ions aultisego of dive& terms Warms
and hoinsoff. Wasraoit, en boning booms
neassively indignan4 an two days alter shot WAUGH
dead wider the abomination with which all are
When bin to the poliesniort bosh from
the murder, Woman told the loopsetor—what
Why, that "if it had not boom for Warms he should
hays hod 8004 but now he oinkd only ban 4001.,
nod GOD only blow who. he should get that, as it
had been thrown into Chantey." Now, no this a
&login, a tiny, the groaning ceimora of a morbid
brain ? Nothing of the art. It was mortily a view
by no awns highly sobered or exaggerated of ea
anal matter of beta view which, sating on a
wicked sad malicious mind. impelled the min to a
frightfal sot of &Libman murder. There being then so
portions morbid delusion as to the relative position'
of hinalf sad his vials. to nun this net balm the
guilt of ander, an attempt was made to show that
the assassin was, goterally, a perms of ansimad mind.
As terse we oan gather hom the evident, this attempt
mainly broke down. Takeo altogetkor it somata
to nothing snore than this, thus Warn" " •
wayward, moody, an sonewhat savage being, ins.
valor in his haists an taking a aided pleasure in
frightning the minds of weak landladies by theatrical
displays of twines* brutality. Ono, the densenaUed
to pave his insanity want to see him la Myren ;
the man told him the seas story he hod told the W-
apner, and tin breath began Rattans segos.
thing in a ashen way &bent "orlon poetise an
sorting ether partise--ersel, teeth the donor, he
was mad.

The juin sftsr dsliNration, brought is this R.

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1856.