The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRE

security of our Eastern feilow-usijects of its
primary end and aim. Them persons wouy have
no difficulty in calling such disregard of the wants
and feelings of a subject people by its right name if
it were devised in Vienna and practised at Milan.
The argument of " duty," which is not always insin-
cere on the lips of despotic rulers, would then be esti-
mated at its proper value. But where India is con-
oerned, they are impatient of an administration
which regards itself as existing, before all things, for
the people governed, and would substitute for it an
organ of English sentiments and English will. Even
now, day by day, journalist' who would feel injured
if the distinction of " liberal" were refused
them, deride the notion that the first claimant
ea the Government of India is India itself. Great
emistiss, high in credit and good intentions,
but blinded by seal to their own injustice, are pro-
claiming that no amount of voluntary missionary
effort, no exuberance of individual real, will dis-
pense the Government of India from the bounden
obligation, in its official character, to denounce the
opinions sad wound the feelings of the people it
sesames to protect and defend. Persons of such
opinions should well consider the consequences of a
policy of irritation, and not disdain to take a lesson
by Mr. RALEY.

THE Rev. Mr. LEACH is a clergyman of the
Church of England, of good family and fortune, who
has just escaped being shut up for life in a mad-
house. The moving spirits in this attempt were his
mother, his married sister, and her husband. The
reverend gentleman had on two previous occasions
laboured under attacks of mental infirmity, and had
ore been put under restraint. But he had been
released, and had for sate years been allowed
the free indulgence of his eccentricities. Singular
as these were, Mr. LEACH appears to have been
perfectly barmier. He seems to have lived alone,
or with his mother. He was a religions enthusiast.
He was possessed with the idea that the Millennium
was " dawning," if indeed it bad not already
dawned. His actions were all guided, he said,
by the Holy Spirit. In early youth he had
shaved off his beard, but the Scriptural injunction
against effeminacy and women's attire had induced
him to resume the badge of manhood. He enter-
tained strong views as to the necessity of personal
defame, and, on the occurrence of some burglaries in
his neighbourhood, provided himself, after the fashion
of Notting kill, with four or five pistols, and
declared that he *brad carry about gunpowder in
in his waistcoat-pocket to keep it dry. He was a
man of kindly and domestic habits. lie thought
servants ought to be treated more on an equality, and
carried his principles on this point somewhat to an
extreme. Feeling lonely, he was in the habit of asso-
ciating with his women servants, would occasion-
ally kiss them and sometimes take them on hie
knee. Even this, however, he declared was does
by the command of a power which he did not rio-
ters to disobey. In his delicate attentions he drew
distinctions : one kiss he would imprint upoa the
lips—another upon the cheek ; but the former kind
of carer was reserved exclusively for the young
woman he intended to make his wife. Clergyman
though he was, he was in the habit of playing whist
with his female domestics, but then the game was
sanctified by his reading a chapter or singing
a hymn between the deals. For a clergyman
and a rational man these were no doubt
strange

But then the man was harm-
less, and he was certainly a person of learn-
ing and ability. To meet him in a drawing-
room, or, as one of the witnesses more cautiously pat
it, "in the company of learned and scientific men,"
no one would suppose him insane, and his Milan
sad tradespeople found him punctual in payment
sad obliging in manner. For years, even his friends
admitted him to be ecoentric, but never thought of
petting him in a madhouse. However, about the
year 1867 his theory that " Marriage was the first
thing, and the second thing, and the third thing,"
began to fructify. His sister, Mrs. SEDDIEN, and
her husband, found that he was actually about to
mom one of the damsels whom he had hitherto been
moilootad with careening. There is no conclusive
Mimeo of insanity in that. Chancellors, judges,
Milos, and the like, have done as mad things
Is this way as poor Mr. LEACH. Such an inteo-
don, is itself, would never induce anyone to
pat hie brother or anybody else into em
asylum. But there were other facts. It tuns
out that on this death of his mother, Mr. Limn
would Mater entitled to 30,0001. If be died
withootekiithini and intestate, that fortune must
erne de Mr. and Mrs. SEDDEN. This was too
spimeld a prospect to be obscured by a servant-
maid and a young family. It was natural enough
that the mad doctor should be called in by the
BIDDEN/ to see whethereccentricities could notbecon-
'trued into insanity. The thing was managed. Peer
Mr. LEACH was consigned to an asylum. Oise jury,
unable to agree on a verdict, has been discharged, bat
another jury has just come to the conclusion that Mr.
LEACH is quite competent to manage his own Adm.
With this verdict every friend to the sacredness ef
personal liberty will oonsur. Eccentricity is SW WEL
madness is another. Dr. WricsLow, whoa fret con-
sulted on the matter, recommended his friends to wait
until Mr. Lesca had committed some overt set el
insanity. That overt act woe, according to Mr. arid
Mrs. Sumac's opinion, committed when he wee about
to marry his servant-maid. The jury, who bad the
whole ewe very ably brought before them, naturally
and properly looked with suspicion on such a proof of
insanity as this. They, no doubt, remembered that
a marriage might prevent the addition of 30,0001.
to the fortune of those friends who sought to prove
the madness. The best and clearest summary of the
whole owe is to be found in the admirable letter of
Mr. LEACH, the supposed madman, written after his
incarceration in the asylum, to his brother-
la-law, Mr. BIDDEN. " Nobody," he writes, " ever ,
• *sight of imprisoning CHARLIE MASSEWS
when he married Madame VLETSTI. And, though
4 there is a religious motive associated with mine, if
" that would indicate insanity, you might as well
0 imprison the whole body of Quakers, of Meth*-
" dist*, of Swedenborgians, of Mormonitee, and I
4 know not how many, who act according to their
" consciences, and believe that they act more or less
' under divine isfluenoe in their every-day pro-
" ceedings. It is grievous to think that, but for my
" temper on the Friday previous, and my divulging
" my intended marriage—which, by the way, if I
" had chain, I could have contracted secretly—
• neither you nor anyone else would ban eared
*aims than you have ever oared for my religions
"gees or conduct; that is to say—not a two-
" penny piece." This is the whole truth of the
matter. The ens is a mat discreditable one to the
mother cad the brethsr-in-law i and the oonsequenose
of a murals' altruism as such grounds, the insanity
of Mr. LUCE might have been to the last degree
dangerous. If eccentricity and a medical certificate
are all that is reqeired to deprive a man of hie
liberty and shut him up in • madhouse, what be-
comes of the boasted liberty of this ecesstrie sad
doctor-ridden British people P

CITTTAL PALACE.— VIII 81111ILLING VAT. •-•
TriIDAT, MAT 11.--Adaimises at HAN; b 7
mos Welly N 3; Ida vldlue, 11.

•
. OSHOILNE, MAT 26.
The Queen, Prince Consort, ad Royal Family
walked is the grows& yesterday.
Her Nefeety's dhow party Winded her the Cochin' of
Heat, the Prheis of Wales, Priam Alfred, Prison Alice,
Prime Lehilmes, Priam Victor of Hebadotta, the lady itt
Wiliam to the Dachas of Eat, the Hca. Mrs. Grey,
Visoseat Valletort, Sir Osage Cooper, 81r Jams Clark,
Captain the His. J. Damao, Yr. Gibbs, sad Kr. Cowell.
The Band of the Royal Mariam played dories darker.

Mr. Maw, has Hoag Law, had ma Warrior with
Lard Steady yerterisy et the Colonial-oak& Mr. Ilyeritry

Thomson h;clahre es iaterview with him lordship yesteday:
The Chew:mike of the Ruesorair arid Mrs. Disraeli have
left town for Lagley Park, thowst:

Dempatoltsa war; -racadvail yasaiday at the Colastakdloa
treat tbs Clawastat al Card& Daspatabas yen seat

yesterday hoes the

Kong, deykei, wad the Mainitins.

to the Gammon of Haag

The Duchess of Inverness will give s grand ball
this e►ening, at her apartments la Beesiagloa Palace,
The Countess of Albemarle and the Ladies Louisa
sad Auguste Koppel have arrived at 11, Oreressir-maare,
hem the Cestiamt.

Lord and Lady Moncaater have arrived at
Almond's Hotel, in Clifford-street, from Wetter Priam
Yorkshire.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs,
Disraeli bare kit town for Langley Park, Slough.
Lady Lister Rays gave a soiree dormant@ last
@vowing, at the family mansion in Portland-place.
The Right Hon. Sir W. G. Hayter, Bart., M.P.,
and Lady Sayan., have left London on a vidt to Lord and
Lady Hatherton, at Teddesiory Park, dark* the Whitson
ter•

The Pint Lord of the Admiralty will hold a levee
there on Tuesday nazi, the Ltd June, at two o'clock, and
he will continue to hold levees en the Tuesdays of each week
at the same bout until furt►er so**.

By the death of Mr. John O'Connell. the Clerk-
ship of the Haaaper, .shie SW per sneum, is left at the dis-
posal of goverinosat. The seuwaleg sons of Daniel O'Coa-
nen re Morgan O'Connell, forwarly mamba for Math, sad
Daniel, the youngest, who sito ix the borough of Trans.
Some twenty years ago, co mom Mr. O'Connell, than In the
math of his WINS old proudly to boat that tare wire
" eight of as "—a very forcible hint to dm minion, 1 Wit
day. In 1858 bat two of that &weldable phalanx ore sur-
viving, rad may one of the seise a O'Connell is now to be
found cm the rolls of psalmist.

The Earl of Liman proposes to move the following
meadow when the Howe of Lords takes into considera-
tion the Comma= remand for dieagmeing with their lord-
ships' aeseadmeate Provided also, that whenever say of
bar Mojsety's subjects prodhaetag the J oda religion shall
be required to tats the oath appointed by this sot on may cm-
orbs otter than an applioatica to be elndtkd to sit snd vote
in either hone of partiamat, the words 'And I make this
dedendast upon the true faith of a Christian' shall be
matted ; sad that tees sad altar the prang of this eat it
shall be lawful he the Howes of Lards and for the Roan of
Camino= tespeothely, by rt =Won of the bon= to deter-
mine that the form of the add oath, ao tr we snob oath rests
upon or refers to the Christi= faith, shall, he the pupae
only of =eh oath being athalaithwed to peso= palming
the Jewish religion, be modllisd, and to sake sate maid=
tics emordingiy in seek manner as to sash soak than =all
man beet eakedated to adapt the form of the odd oath to the I
lean= sad ommientioue scruples of the said persons profess-
ing the Jewish religion."

TEE ADMINISTRATION OP TRINITI COLLEGE,
DUBLIN.

The visitation appointed to be held in
College to hoer the spent! of Dr. Shaw and Dr. Cs
two of the Fellows, who bed boa onstred, or edtbsithed,
by the lewd, for having written • labor to • sobvispaper,
was opened as Monday by the Archbishop of Dahlia mad the
Vise-Chmothor of Ware& Mr. Brewerar, Q.C., Mr. Loyd,
Q.C., end Mr. Dad, Q.C., apparel der the booed ; M.
Levees, Q.C., owl Mille far Dr. Shaw • sad Year. :07,
(LC. lad libith he Dr. Conti/hi& Th. war la
=err tae addriseed by Dr. Mow be the Dailies Dear
es the 17th of March het, with embeathe to same re-
sorb web by Mr.e=issemb
spoathorepertalthe la
let of ebraory. Dr. thaw observed Shed the
of Mr. eigabeee der the isseebd idoliorissr=6"
seeds Wiles makable aim to odor elsaillord balththmeth
mad he vend ma ID apay—" These who me is tho lob
=lwith the bete of dhlte sew Well's la Trldly
)sloo, bow that thin le, think so 'VIM ci
prapelybabel eamolmos,' bat ea bask ' tradolai ideqnsts
reatemsmediese' or being 'amthadail la the deist. of their
della by the prompter of penstims,' there en rent very
swim mese of want, Weed. thee es to the peempeots of
'cabs pensions as the resiede eardoe; =oh
=in Trinity Oellepo ale Noldeled te sembems d the
body width dew d the We Lir d judge Meth
seed ever espied to Ai Odd lass albs mo and bindlima
shod have resthrod ',drama . 1 shall odd ob-
serve that thin me sew mix daghwo
usticsibt
eblipd to resertlethetzbansows
weastitag a abed; b., as • berm of
d 1
I wit avow way bit SO Os obi* misbthades Os
Wimp aosesslo Ow • dew ps would bad le lls and
impealast ehmemliad tsisms se milli* awed b
the penes* distribute:a of the easmthe IS the
arreagenstm whiolt the interim ofvetlialli was mai
width the oaks of paths smbetb"
Os the lab of Apk Dr. liCka,who thowreriedhoithip
elle Wee, see essommeed bow Ds Pemba.sddader
Mows, dm with Dr.lidte who ss•
oder laster as dr mos Os bed
rseskilia
as. NM to theea:—" the thmeramdas of IL Wend
Abdo d the cede. la the istemsmMs Wray of It maks%
whoa* Mew or Masts bembiebt with the died-
pies aft= swam to Se spirit of thosbiliths
The deltham a teemed rued with foll ealhembyt.
deallt as ostred •II akar whithe the pro-
ved as awls: hilow•Awhos properly called ca. lets Itheil
te amend or dedth _
ideleace of Ude lebthel nab:
iitmh oldebble Ammo be say nether the
te ailetsal Mattel" him ithisherirmed
"Dr. thew add Dr. Ormidral be aktesiebel
to thee& Mamie smisig In hamar NA shim wee what
=pada siplast. M heartes wear fro* the
sa sea die SO asterlisesid.

PUNTERS' Purstow SOCITIT.—Hie Royal
um the Duke a Osmiorlder Us sigmas' to flogrminat
hoestits to hisser this soeisq by pa et
manta Isabel at tir Load's Tawas, ea PAW amt.
amide al Lomita tad ottaelmetni mush., ofrea bi NS
parliament will mho to p a steLds:
gentleman diellypithst in litstalare sal tolhar
cossetted with dr Weary Imeinoss hew a I
show :by their attmodasso their erimmtla el Kt NO
=poiesta.
or OF LONDON'S Boutaaat 01111,123 W
moms. —The Bishop cd Lomita haa ask the ildig=4,
rospeenteiteasardenbabat toolneetions :
June L 111gbasto; Friday, Inas 4 Humph* Waligyel
Jams 14, Oast Shama ; Woitatia_y. Imo la, Hessolosto I
tied Utility Chit* Tatastima ; Prim Jar 11., Weide
tad sad Wer Has; WasteWme 111. ii.,l
Baird ; W Jae se. awl aim • .
day, July I, Soak , lay L
Kosdelt Jay 6, Paha.; ;May, July 9, Wig; Ilkaisp:
Jay Berms; Wasseday, July 1L Ovameold ; Prim
hay 1 Palmy ; W•eastiesi, lily 31,Bilmass; Friday,
Jay
13, It. Peres Church, Haminosmaidi; Wednalay,
Jul/ 21, Lowfsbasa.
1901MISOONNLABB NW Driaoli DENTRICT ROM
—The dada llet of sestarelorhe remedy sada costams
the soma aO9 pus labiliss UAW as The fa.
Maas held sea this Ha them seat :—Kr. O.
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Howersaa MN; the lialsoloes a the late Mr. o. IsT
:kw
KolkdkigLetr.
iii08,492"6, Mos. =A lb.
; Kr. C. r. la= 'rrii., rto ; 34,.
I. Newest* 1.000; Kr. I. Gry Marva, 1,440;
tly,. Arks, Newcastle, 1,1120 ;'[r. J. %lid's,
; Kr. J. Jokey, Ilemartla, MOO; ths
....*".. liteldes. 616; Yr. W. Koesteimi.Lter.
UM Kr. . Pull. P LON ;
sea, 1,600 ; Yr. I. ail, Ptak
M; Kt. O. Lary, 11. P . 6U; W. 1. Ilitmeado,
71111; .111111ii1,10; 114 r,
Ltyamoo-yyli; and Kr.
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