The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-31 00:00:00

14. 4. N. lA. L►N..! V LUNACY OIMMLVION.

( MIS Dar.)

inquir% ours n.unlexl thi4 m..niiug fur the
.i.orath time.
Mr. Henry Jobs Ho .4, surgeon, of Cromer, called sad
..foamed by Mr. Field Mi. Wunlham came to me is Is6l,
refereace to s sore in his leg. On the 4th February in
Hist yew I was soot fur to I'ga:icy's to attend him. I found
La 1... w bruised.. thust.iii he had lama lidding. but he said
irkiisse were sors.ioneil by a fall from his hors...
WWI, surgery eau Itith August, and soul be had
t tust:h of . but din one. Having examined him, I
t .41 bun he would probably be ill for a very lung time. Ile
he woo gulag to the Highlanda fun a fortnight. sad
.-t 416 that afteraouis. I ailvi.e.l Lim nut. sail told him
. nil.% keep very wart, sod pressed atom him the danger
-runiunkatisig the duause to the other eel. I waa seat
los t m Felt alter hi. marriage. I believe cm Sept. 21.
• a Lim Ai.] Mr.. Windham. He sae Iviog oo the sofa
tie u•lil me be warn saderiag from 'kisses.% bwlaeht, and
.11..rrh I west spa es the following clay while they
si re at brealLut Mr. sad Mrs. Windham, Mr. Holrene,
ad two Wire. 1 believe Mrs. Windham'. sisters. He mid
was bettor. At Mrs Windham 's nlue.t I weat there
sicain the best Jay. I was shown into the lalhard.roinn, and
Mr, WinatlAtil tame to Lie. In coasequeuixt of what she mid
• .eft without ragtag Mr. Windham. I west again in the
..fterauon, and the servant. ea opening the dour, gave me a
-.ter which I paduoe. The letter is as follows:—" Feb
brigg, Slept. 24, Dear Sir,—My wife prefers me basis(
ref own medical ass t• attend me, cud lie Le now here,
am san_y for this, but she will hare A.—Yours,
W. F. WiNUILLIC, 1 WrOtAl a note le answer.
From what I bare sera of Mr. Windham I mushier hi.
awa to be use of pest mental defieiency, and I do not
thiak he is able without proper control to take ears of him-
self sad his affairs

Crom-elamised by Mr. Karel/Mt- The sore on his leg
was an ulccr. Mr. Pestleld was at Fe!helot when I saw
Mr. Windham with the brumes us his face. 1 hod had
some cenverottion with Mr. Padfield sod it wan in con-
ec-tuetim that I 'spoke to him as to how the injury had
arisen. It mai* no differeeoe is the treatment as to how
the bruin" had weltered. I sever saw him trawiect busi-
ness. our have I received say other note from him, eseept
that which I have producod. 1 think the imbecility coo-
omital. I form that opinion from what I know and have
heard, couplod with what I have seen, not from what. I have
myself sees aluete, as I have Out *sea enough of him to form
an opiutou. I have bees three years in practice.
I:e.ex.....ined by Mr. Chambers—To form so opinion se
to whether the imbecility is congenital or not, I should re-
. u,ie to have known the person from his infancy.
Hy the Jory I have had Novena conversations with him
.luring the last 12 swaths, sod the result is that 1 do not
onchler him a pertain able to manage his own affairs.
!it. lot bes tt tendon examined by Mr. Chambers--I have
,oveo toy attention to mental dreams fur many /ems
Ina U., the Iltb and 11th December, by order of the Lords
duitices, I. in cenpaa% with Dr. Mayo, taw Mr. Windham
10 the p; menet, of Dr. Bright Dr. Bright was nominated
by than Lord, Justices to attend and listen to what passed.
1 hare read the general idthLivite filed in this case, but not
the medical affidavits. I queetioaed Mr. Windham nu cartels
pcints sauggsated to me by the affidavits. I had the inter-
views with him at my home in Cavendish-ratan. The first
iaterwiew extended over two hours, the second nearly
ea hour. Ti,. interviews took place in the middle of
the day. I sod Dr. Mayo put questions to him.
I pet qoestoms to him in referees* to the misconduct of his
wife mean. to his marriage. Some poets' questioa we.
pet to him as to the stataseets of the alleged impurity of
los wife before Man ins. He mid he was fatly aware that she
bad laws a kept woman, sal kept by mend men; that
he dal not see why that should -be an abjection to his
marriage, as other men, and mass of rank and distincties,
had with impunity dime the same thing, and he mentioned
one very well known name an an instance. I spoke to him
ae to tbe state of his health before marriage. and told him it
bad been alleged that be hal bete suffering op to the
tinie of his marriage from • very aggravated form of
mortal dime, and I mentioned souse of the symptoms
which is had been sail he exhibited. He raid, " That is •
mistake • it is not the disease they represent • it
it nothlig but an abrasion of vine akin." The mine remark
sees mob se to the allegation that he had munnieninned
the dimes to hie wife, and thee he reterred in general terns
te the empeamtioa ho bad awarded her for so doiag,
via. the jewellery he had presented to her. I mentioned
Ne eared about 14.10 and be said that was in comme-
nt. for the injury he hail done. I remarked that it was an
esioonal thing for Mahan!. to compensate vivre for injuries
of that daseripiiss, aid that it appeared • large amount for
aim sint sag he thought Ole was entitled to it mad
he emit Weed It. The conversatioe exteodieg over two
leers was WlllNlNA:Fbil,liscluvive in its character.
Inerinimes I psi a and then Mr. Mayo pat a
tter, sad it was sees diamlty we could get Mr.
tte In gimi bis allsoileue and coseentrate
his thoughts spin the subjects scotched epos.
That te seems *sleet made the conversation &survive, sad
yeesenited Ms eostinuity. I referred to the fact of a
piatimaa. whose name was gime, siespiagin the minshouse
with Mr. Windham. wife the day before he wee rearriad.
I motioned the name of a Mr. --, who, it wee said, had
been living with Mrs. Windham previously to her me-
na;.., sal said that I lad heard be bad slept in
Mrs. Widbnai a bowie on the night before the
marriage. Ile mid it was true they slept is
the mole house but be dallied that they slept ti
Sum reference was made to hie smu eng the g=s
beets at hie (the gentlessaa's) bedroom door. As far as I
mild least from Mr. Wiedhani he dial sot sleep is the
hones cm the night in questing, but the
referred to am! firs. Windham did. ratima
der
Mood that it was at the home is Wimpole.street,
were she lived. I endeavoured to lames@ oe his mind
the impmpnety of s promeding of that kind, and mil it
was sot at all likely that Mrs. Windham having
twee living with Mr. up to the period almost
of the marriage, would lave him sleeping in the same
house with her the eight before the anantege,
without them sleeping together. But he meld set
Mai that view of tee iimeticia I referred ales te
the eameinf another person, with whom it wee alleged
she had cohabited Niece her marriage. Mr. Windham value-
teend a statement that his wife had shortly after lissmisse
cohabited with ascither Mr. -- with whom she bedeelm-
bited previous to her marriage, sad that it was le emessignmes
▪ her adultery with this Mr. No. 2, that be
had determined to commence proceed's.' Is the Di•
yore. Court. I eapreseed doubt. whether an ape
siltation of that kind would be succeedal, be having
married her with • full knowledge of her previous course al
life. He said be did not see that that would be any objec-
tion at all. I understood him to say further
that he haul lived with bar subsequent to the mot
of adultery, sad therefore 1 told Lim that the
offence bad been coadosed, wish would be • fatal objection
to any proceedings ia the Divorce Court. From his
general wooer sod ocistregnation, however, I was under
the inipresmoo that be had no serous ietentien
of applying for the dissolution of his Islinings.
I spoke to hum altout his debts. He could not nom me
anything like an semi account of them. He said they
certaisle amounted to 20,000 f.. but it might be 1101
more. He del me to understand that the debts in the
main were contracted by hie wife. He could
Live me no idea of the joint Inibilities, especially of ben, far
fresh bills were coming in every day, ad he was I. such a
stale of alarm that he was afraid teepee his own letters. I
spoke to him about his selling the timber on the Felbrieg
estate. I told him that I heard be had sold • large amount
of timber on his mate. He said he had doom
so that his income was mall, sad it wag •
means of incremaing his imam. I asked bias
the prim be
thegot. He said le. a foot I asked hies
if that was real value, sad be said it was. I told
bin I understood that the timber be had bees selling at
I• a font wan worth S. CeL He said it was a mit-
tat-e. One shilling a foot was its fall value.
(The witness was under 'camomile° when our report left.)

Tug LATE PAINCII CONSOORT.—It is said the, in
mehtel circles the fact of the l`riace's laving been
ended off by typhoid fever in eine days has excited some
menderment. news especially whim it wee men that be was
attended I. four of the most eminent phylicians is
else of whims, Dr. Joiner, his • apreialiti for hie err.
this disease. It is asserted thee, that in all humaa probe.
Inlay the Priacem lilts could have been saved, had he obeyed
the instructions of hie physicist:4e that, unfortanall
be was extremely Mine to We is—the greed
in Duch a eam, sesteinian the body, while eater*
the can— Meat he peelsely refined to Mks them Instil
the Wednesday before be death, when the ilium bed so
completely prostrated bin that it was too late. The
Velure'. aversion to stimulants sad to all strong- remedies
an •sc, its mated, from his WA for bonsiropatby. to which
doctrine be was for some tiros, if nut to the last, a firm
adherent. A day or two aft! the death of his Royal
Highness, Mr. Theed, the ecelpfler, attended at Wiectser
Cavil., by the I,teleti'd °mowed. It was her Majesty's
wish ..hat a east of the Prime's hood should be taken, end
this was aceordiegly done, but not very satisfastorily, as
the Iceitios of the hand prevented a eery successful result.
Mr. 1 hand then ex
_sed an earnest wish to be allowed to
bike a cast of the Mapes face, but it win not for some time
that her Majesty accented him premiss iom The cast of the
face lc sold to he most excellent. The lath incident of the
flower. vent from (Morn. to be placed on he corns of the
deceased Priors, is an affection memento.—Correspondent
of Inc. nu., C•isrwr.,
ARIVAL Th. LIOTAILIA —Laid eiresaiog the Titling-
too Plidhannoutc Hell was deiae!y crowded to witness the
!sat enplane..." of M. Victor Juliet. the " frying man "
hum harm The performanoss of thin young Mtn re the
trep::r are of *a extraordinary mature and very limier to
rhos executed by the coD-Inieem acrobat Leotard
STAIIII AT TUS BINISITION. —The workmen en-
slated nem the seem dome of tits Exhibition %Mies
struck work yenaiday, sad those eensged cm the tauten'
dams were expected to leave to-day. The strike, benlever,
I Sot expend to hod keg durance.
WHoLINALI 8u tar STILALING IN Kum—Me
reenti-mel a little taws since that a large number of
brl been stoles from varier femme in the .f
Biddsodes within a few snostas. lasi week se Ism
2J were serried_ ,elf sad the deoreisteee meneged to apt
sway without isswieg say ease M their whereabouts It
is high time same inner_ were token to theft
essiom robberies. The formatiwe of Prole/Usk
iseisty is the mighhourtovel world appear be be denim-
lea —Sesta Laritrn ge:ette.