The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-12 00:00:00

PRIP4TZ MADHOUSE&

TO TB II

No. I.

or ?111 PIMA.

GENTLINIA—On Friday last a tale wee brought
to me that a ease prisoner had escaped trona private
madhouse, bad just bellied sa attempt to recapture
him by violent entry into a dwellierkease, and was
now hiding in the suburbs.
The case was grave ; the motives alleged for his
iacarceratioa were sinister; but the interpreters
were women, and consequently partisans, and some,
though not all, the parties concerned on the other
side bear a fair character. Humanity said, "Look
into the case." Prudence said, "Look at it on
'both sides." I insisted, therefore, on a personal
interview with Mr. —. This was (+wooded, and
we spent two hours together, all which time I was
of course testing hie mind to the best of my ability.
I found him a young gentleman of a healthy com-
plexion, manner cif, but not what one would call
excited. I noticed, however, that he liked to fidget
string and other trifles between his finger and thumb
at times. He told me his history for some years
past, specifying the dates of several events; he also
let me know be had been subject for two years to
fits, which he described to me in fall. I reseguised
the character of these fits. His conversed's woo
sober and reasonable. But had I touched the ex-
citing theme ? We all know there is a elssolitipsd-
men who are sober and sensible till the sae hiss
chord is struck.' I came, therefore, to dist deludes
which was the original ground of —'s ineareers-
tino—his notion that certain of his relations are
keeping money from him that la his due.
This was the substance of his hallucination se he
revealed it to me. Hu father was member of a
firm with his uncle and others. Shortly before his
death his father made a will leaving him certain
=ties, the interest of 5,0001., and, should he
tin!. twenty-fonr, the principal of ditto, and
dle reversion, after his mother's death, of another
afesiderable atm.

Early last year he began to ironic. why the prin-
cipal due to him was not paid. His uncle then told
him there were no assets to hie father's reedit, and
never had been. On this, he admits, he wrote
" abominably passionate" letters, and demanded to
inspect the books. This was refused him, but a
balance-sheet was sent him, which was no evidence
to his mind, and did not bear the test of addition,
being 40,0001. out on the evidence of its own
figures. This was his tale, which might be all bosh
for aught I could tell.
Not being clever enough to distinguish truth from
fancy by divination, I took cab, and off to Doctors'
Commons, determined to bring some of the above to
book.

Well, gentlemen, I found the will, and I dis-
covered that my maniac has understated the interest
he takes under it. I also find, as he told me I should,
his uncle's name down as one of the Witnesses to the
will. Item, I made a little private discovery of my
own, viz., that is residuary legatee, subject to
his mother's life interest, and that all his interest
ander the will goes to five rebating"' of the genera-
tion above him should be die intestate.
I now came to this oonelosino which I think you
will share with me, that —'s delusion may or may
net be an error, but cannot be an hallucination, since
it is simply. good logic founded on attested facts. For
aswhich a& lies the balance of credibility ? The
father makes a solemn statement that he has thou-
sands of pounds to bequeath. The uncle assent" in
writing while the father is alive, bat gives the
father and himself the lie when the father is no
longer on earth to contradict him. They say in law,
"Allegan contraria non set audiendos."
Being now satisfied that the soi-disant delusion
might be error but could not be aberration of jag-
meat, I subjected him to a new elms of proofs. I
seed him if he would face medical men of real
sminmatm and not in league with madhouse doctors.
"Hs would with pleasure. It was his desire." We
went fleet to Dr. Dicksoo, who has great experience,
and has effeeted some remarkable curet of mania.
Dr. Dickies, as may well be supposed, did not take
ae many emeeds as I had taken boars. He laughed
' to morn the very notion that the man was mad.
"He ie as sane as we are," said Dr. Dickson.
From Bolton-street we all three go to Dr. Ruttledge,
Hanover-square, and, on the reed, Dr. Dickson and
I agree to apply a Met to Dr. Res, Dr.
which it
would have been on many accounts unwise to apply
to a man of ordinary skill. Dr. Dickson introdooed
and me thus:—" One of thee. is Masse, 'aid to
be. Which is it?" Dr. Rnttledgs took the problem
mighty coolly, sat down by me first, with an eye
like a diamond : it went slap into my marrow-bone.
Asked me catching questions, touched my wrist,
saw my tongue, and said quietly, " This one is
sane." Then he went and eat down by
. enti
drove an eye into him, asked hiss catch's& ques-
tions, made him tell him is order all he had
done atom Raven delude, felt pulse, saw tongue:
" This one is sane too." Dr. Dickson then left
the roomette, telling him what was —'s supposed
delusion, and begged him to examine him upon it.
The examination lasted nearly half as hour, during
which related the circumstances of his mis-
understanding, his capture, and his escape, with some
minuteness. The result of all this was a certificate
of sanity; copy of which I subjoin. The original
can be seen at my house by any lady or 'agleam&
connected with literature or the press :
sofa We milli that we have this day, bah aoejoistly
aid , seemed Yr. sad we lad him to be is
shay et amid said, sag labeerlei mailer as &-
Wm . Illereover tee eatmeele a very mime&
=ISO the said Yr. bee et so mobil of his hi
trier leerily.
He boa eocealeasily had egGspdo Ite.
(Bleed) Jetta* Romano; M.D.
8. Dtcesox, 111 D.
19, Geergerelnet, Hanover-square, Awe< 9, 1868.
This man, whose word I have no reason to doubt,
my. the keeper of the madhouse told him he should
severs* out of it. This, if true, implies the absence
of all intention to cure him. He was a enstomer,
not a patient : he was not in a hospital, but in a
pol, condemned to imprisonment for lib, &sentence
so awful that no English judge has ever yet had the
heart to pronounce it upon a felon. is ea
erlAaa•
The law is too silly, and one-sided, and slow, to
protect him against the prompt and daring men who
are ems now hunting him. Bat while those friends
the God of the fatherless has raised him concert his
defence, you can aid justice greatly by letting day-
light in. I will explain why this is in my next.—
' I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
' CHARLES RRADE.
Gerriek Club, August 10.

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The following telegram, front Lord 1
has been received at the Foreign-Ake :

oHsls i . irs, 614 ilide.'eAugust 11, lAD mm.
CA:wort, arid suite just
ern.' etT-iiii the iheirsgesof Hotel, Dusseldorf.

CALCUTTA ANI) QM/41A MAILS.

We have been rammed by the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigable Company with the fol-
lowing telegram, received by them this morning
from Marseilles :

.4 The steam-ship Bazine, with the Wendt* and
China mails, arrived at Marseilles at 6 o'clock this
morning.

" The mails leave for London at 10 o'clock.
" The ship will probably be in quarantine until
to-morrow evening."

Papers from Calcutta to the Srd of July have been
received via Trieste. The following is their latest
intelligenee

" Service Message' from G. F. Edmondatone, Esq.,
dated Allahabsd, Seth June, 13.3_1p.m.
"We have the following information from Agra,
dated 26th June. The party of fugitive rebels trom
Gwalior, who crossed the Chumbul, have been
Lugely joined by the other fugitives at Snwmuttia,
30 miles west of Dholepore, and, from an informa-
tion just reoeived, hem moved to Maklespore. It is
supposed they are making for hyper., but their
movements on the next stage will indicate whether
they are bound for Bhnrtpore or Jeypore. They
have no gnus, but have 17 elephants, and are about
7,000 horse and foot. Captain Orr moved on the
26th towards Goonah. Order re-established in
Oiralior.n

" Service Message from G. F. Edmondetone, Esq.,
dated Allahabad, June 27, 10.16 p.m.
" The following telegram, of to-day's date, has
just been received from Agra :
" ' The whole of the rebels from Owalior reached
Hindown during the 24th inst., and by morning of
the 26th their number, with camp follower,, was
estimated at 16,000. It appears that they have a
few zamboornas on elephants. They appear to be
divided in opinion as to going to Bhurtpore or
Jeypore. Captain Eden writes that the first in-
telligence of the movements of the rebels caused
great alarm, that this had since subsided. Captain
Nixon keeps a stout heart at Bhurtpore. Brigadier
Shower, marched for Euttehpore Sickree last night
with a small force, which will be increased as de-
tachments sent to Dholepore, now returning to Agra,
can come to Futtehpore Bickree.' "

CHINA.

Papers from Hong Bong, of June 22, give news
from the Peiho of the 9th. No opposition was met
by our gun-boats on the route to Tientsien from those
forts at the mouth of the Peiho whose capture was re-
ported in our last summary. On the 29th of May,
both the Earl of Elgin and Baron Oros, with their
suites, took up their quarters in the vicinity of the
city. Soon afterwards intimation was received of
the appointment of To-ming-ah, a general of the
Mancbou banner, as Special High Commissioner.
On the 6th of June the Earl of Elgin had him
first interview with his rzoellency—the Baron
Gros meeting him in similar state the day fol-
lowing. It is presumed that the business of these
meetings was entirely formal, and, failing prompt
compliance with our demands, the Ambassadors are
prepared to declare war. " Without such declaration
of war, says the Prised of Chime, " we see no
feasible means of bringing matters to a proper
fooling."

In the south of China the news of actual
hostilities at the north appeared to be the
signal to societies banded for annoyance of
the barbarian to proceed to actual operations.
The papers contain details of the capture and
decapitation of several Enropeans, the murder
of Sepoys and police on duty, and attempts at incen-
diarism. "No person feels safe; and one of two
things most shortly be performed ; either we must
entrench the foreign quarter at Henan in such a
manner that foreigners may sleep o' nights, or vacate
►he place altogether."

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

(PT =acme inizaszari.)
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SOUTHAMPTON, TIONSDAT.

The steam-chip Sultan, the were:clays dee,:with
the poition of the Bombay mails, ii:okow in
sight.

ARRIVAL OF TRH

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LIVERPOOL, THOIRODAT.
The steamer Kangaroo has arrived.
On the 29th of July she passed the steamship
Jars going in to New York, and on the 31st passed
a large steamer bound west, supposed to be the
Vanderbilt.