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that I had nothing to do with my
I then said I was sorry to hear V
left him, lie said se ry calmly, Yes
know where she is. I have employed a detective
to trace her, and I am going. to Scotland this even-
ing to bring her back. I cautioned him against
using any violence, lest it should be brought for-
ward against him ; and he said, You need not be
afraid. I can be firm without being violent. She
knows that I have right on my side. I shall tell her
I am acting under my lawyer's advice, and that the
law gives me great power as a husband, and I shall
therefore tell her to come home without making any
piece of work. He then added," Here again--they
are spreading all manner of reports about my wife ;
among others, that when I married her she owed
Emmanuel, the jeweller, several hundred pounds ;
but, in fact, she owed him only somewhere about
£6O, which she paid out of her own money." I
think that was the whole of the conversation I had
with him. I told Mr. Bury Hutchinson, the solici-
tor of Mr. Windham, that I was only a consulting
surgeon, and did not pay special attention to mental
diseases. I therefore advised that he should send'
for Dr. Sutherland, Dr, Tuke, Mr. Connolly-, and
Mr. Lawrence, who were considered first rate autho-
rities on such subjects. Dr. Winslew's name was
mentioned; but Dr. Neale had previously informed
me that when he called on Dr. Winslow in the
mornihes for the purpose of obtaining his services he
found Gen. Windham sitting in the waiting room,
and, consequently, nothing further was said about
Dr, Winslow. I frequently in the course of my
practice meet with cases of insanity. During my
interview with Mr. Windham I neither saw nor
heard anything which would justify me in arriving
at any other conclusion than that he is of sound
mind. His demeanour was characterised by perfect
self-possession, perfect calmness, and total absence
of levity, especially when he referred to his father.
I observed no signs cf slavering. I should say that
Mr. Windham, as far as his physical appearance
goes, is a well developed young man. He seems to
me to have plenty of animal spirits, and is the kind
of man who would be fond of athletic exercises.
Cross-examined by Mr. Chambers—The forma-
tion of Mr. Windham's mouth would not lessen the
space filled by the brain.' There are the two orbits,
and the whole cavity of the nose between the cra-
nium and the roof of the mouth. The peculiar for-
mation of Mr. Windham's mouth is not confined to
idiots, nor are idiots restricted to that formation.
It may be observed in idiots, but it occurs in other
cases as well. Mr. Windham did not tell me how
long he had worn the plate introduced into his
mouth by Mr. Lintock, the dentist, for the purpose
of shielding the upper jaw. I made an affidavit in
this case, but I have gone more into detail in my
evidence to-day. I did not ask Mr. Windham how
it happened that his wife had gone to Scotland.
Re-examined—ln my opinion the formation of
Mr. Windham's mouth has no relation at all to the
question of his sanity or insanity.
Dr. Gwyn, examined by Mr. Karslake—l am a
medical man, practising in Hammersmith. I am a
native of Norfolk, and it was my uncle who pro-
posed Gen. 'Windham at the last election. Early in
September I saw Mr. Windham in Norwich, and
upon his invitation I went to Felbrigge-hall on the
23d. Mrs. Windham and Mr. Roberts were there.
Mr. Windham consulted me professionally about
his throat. I attended him for some time, going
down from town for the purpose. He made a pecu-
niary arrangement with me himself. I went out
shooting with him. He proved a capital shot and
a good driver. His demeanour was that of an ordi-
nary person. I never saw him do anything that
could not be done with propriety by a person of
sound mind.
By Mr. Coleridge-1 had never seen nor heard of
Mrs. Windham before I went to Felbrigg-hall, near
the end of September. On the 23d of September I
know she was perfectly well; since the Bth October
she has suffered very severely.
Cross-examined by Mr. Chambers—Mr. Wind-
ham never told me of certain letters which had been
returned to him from the Dead Letter-office. I so
cempanied him down to Scotland on Sunday, the
3d November. He told me that he wanted me to
go with him to Glasgow, and mentioned something
abort a paramour or lover of Mrs. Windham. He
said he suspected that she had been unfaithful to
him with that person and had run away with him
to Glasgow, where he was then living as a member
of an operatic company. I told him that, owing
to the illness she was suffering from, it was not
likely she could be unfaithful to him at that time.
He did not tell me, as far as I recollect, that he had
received information that they were sleeping in the
same bedroom in the hotel. He did not tell me that
Mrs. Windham had been in Dublin with the same
individual after her marriage. He informed methat
he had received a letter from his wife saying she
was staying in Dublin. Mrs. Windham left Fel-
brigg owing to her husband's illness on the 29th of
September, and she returned from Dublin on the
Bth October. I was not aware that the opera singer
was in Dublin at the same time. I slept all the way
to Glasgow, and have no idea how Mr. Windham
got on. During the journey I did not hear him
shout out the name of the person whom he suspected
of cohabiting in Glasgow with his wife. We did
not succeed in finding Mrs. Windham. After stay-
ing only 40 minutes in Glasgow we returned to
London, and Mrs. Windham was found in the Euston
Hotel. In Glasgow we were told by the landlord
of the hotel in which Mrs. Windham had lived that
while there she conducted herself with perfect pro-
priety. Mr. —, I think, was still in Glasgow, for
I saw his name in a playbill in the hall of the hotel,
but we took no steps to find him out. Mr. Windham
sat in the cirriage all the way to London.
The cross-examination of the witness was not
concluded when the court adjourned.

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accommodate vessels of 100 ft. long, 19ft. beam, and
51-ft. draught, so that by this route our gunboats
might gain Ontario and Erie, while the corvettes
and short frigates came up by the St. Lawrence. At
Sorel, also, about 20 miles below Montreal, is a river
which leads through the St. Outs Lock and through
the Chambly Canal, direct on to the head of Lake
Champlain. The locks on this canal admit ships of
113 ft. length, 22ft. beam, and Gift. draught, so
that by this route also any number of gunboats
might be sent into Lake Champlain, on the waters of
which there is not a single vessel larger than a
steam ferry, and on the shores of which are large,
rich, and utterly unprotected towns, such as Bur-
lington, Newhaven, &e. All these canals are
British property, on British toil, and held by the
Canadian Government as the keys which give
access to our ships to the most distant provinces of
the West. In our previous notice of the military
reinforcements for Canada we omitted, in speaking
of the high efficiency of the military train, to men-

tion the name of Colonel I\l‘Murdo, io whom, us
having been intrusted with its organisation from the
commencement until very recently, so much praise
is most justly due.

7HE TVINDHA3I CASE.

Mr. Hancock, chief surgeon of the Charing•cross
l{ospital,—l have carefully examined Mr. Wind-
ham's mouth, It is a peculiarly-shaped mouth.
The upper jaw is exceedingly narrow, and drawn
so much to a point in front that there is room only
for two teeth. It measures rather less than an inch
from one front molar tooth to the other, whereas

the average width of weil-developed jaws is from
to lain. The roof of the mouth, or hard
palate, instead of being a piano-concave, is ex-
tremely lofty and shaped like a pointed arch, so
that it diminishes to a very great degree the cavity
of the nose. The depth from the soft palate to the
back of the throat is unusually great. The lower
jaw is also narrow, but not so much contracted_ as

the upper one. His tongue is fully developed—
large in proportion to the size of the jaws. This
condition of mouth would affect very materially the
sound of his voice and lead to or favour very much

the slavering that has been described, and also the
noisy, and apparently disagreeable, mode of eating.
It would also have a considerable effect upon the
appearance of his face, and would likewise very
much affect the tone of his laugh. I should doubt
whether Mr. Windham could halloa or laugh as
other people do. The relative volume of the diffe-
rent air-passlges is so very much interfered with
by this formation of the mouth that the sound of
the voice and the laugh must be materially altered.
In deglutition the tongue is pressed against the roof
of the mouth. In a natural formation of themouth the

act of swallowing i.s done almost unconsciously ; but,
in consequence of the extreme height of the roof of
Mr. Windham's mouth, that formation would re-
quire some unusual attention from the party him-
self; so that, while from the size of the tongue and
the contraction of the jaws, the pressure upon the
salivary glands would produce when Mr. Windham
was excited an unusual secretion of saliva, the

height of the roof of the mouth would prevent that
saliva being conducted down the throat in the usual
way. The same remark applies to the swallowing
of food. The peculiar structure of the hard
palate must interfere with the passage of air through
the nose by inspiration, and it is obvious that in
Mr. Windham's case, in order to obtain the

passage of the proper amount of air into the lungs,
he has fallen into the habit of keeping his mouth
open, and this habit, added to the peculiar action of
the muscles of the upper lip, gives that apparently
vacant look which appears about the lower part of
Mr. Windham's face.
By the Master. I have seen similar mouths
before, presenting similar results.
Witness resumed.—The formation of the back of
his mouth would lead to snoring. He told me that
some years ago his mother took him to Mr. Lintott,
a dentist, who extracted some of his teeth, and then
introduced a plate with pegs or wedges into his
mouth for the purpose of stretching the upper
jaw. He also told me it was a formation prevalent
in his family on the maternal side. He referred to
three persons in particular who had a peculiarity
of the same description. He told me his mother
had attributed the slavering to his having been
tongue-tied as a child, and the operation having
been improperly performed. I asked him whether
he recollected it, and he laughed and said, "I
recollect a good way back, but I don't recollect
that, for I was an infant at the time." My exami-
nation was made, I think, on the 17th of December.
He told me he had nearly cured himself of the
slavering. I saw him first on the Ist November,
On that occasion I was with him- nearly three-
quarters of an hour. Dr. Neale was present. I
had no previous knowledge of the case. When I
went to Piccadilly, Mr. Windham accompanied
Dr. Neale and myself into a room. I placed him
in a:chair opposite the window that I might watch
his countenance while he was talking to me. He
told me that he wished to see me because his uncle
General Windham, was endeavouring to prove him
insane ; that long before he came of age the general
had spread reports that he was an idiot and squan-
dered his money; that it was very foolish of the
general to treat him so, because he had over and
over again told him that it would be the worse for
him and for his sons. " But it was no use," he
added, " and therefore as my father left me power
by his will to cut off the entail, I have
done so." He also told me that upon
a more recent occasion the general had
sent him word that if he married he would be
if he wouldn't have him locked up. I asked hiin
whether he had any evidence to that effect, and he
replied that his uncle sent the message through his
bailiff. He then continued, "He accused me of
keeping improper company, alluding to Mr. Ro-
berts. Mr. Roberts has been a good friend to me,
for you must know that I have only come into a
portion of my property—X3,ooo a year. Of this
I have to pay my mother £1,500 a year, and I leave
you to judge whether I can support a wife and
keep up a large place in the country, besides having
apartments in London, upon the remainder. I
therefore was in want of money. My father had
always cautioned me against getting into the hands
of the Jews, and I was determined not to do so.
Now, Mr. Roberts was with me at my estate in the
country, when one day out riding he said Why
should you borrow money,
paying interest upon
interest, when you have the money here upon
your estate ? You have so many trees ; they are
being spoilt, and I can introduce you to a timber
merchant who would not attempt to cheat you by
taking the timber in a lamp, but would pay you so
much afoot for it.' Of course I consented, and he ac-
cordingly introduced me to Messrs. Lawrence and
Fry, who are very respectable timber merchants,
and who paid me £l,OOO down, agreeing to give
me some £350 a month up to £5,000 a year for
four years, or £20,000 in all. He said, " The trees
have not been cut for so many years that, so far
from the estate being injured, it would be much
benefited by having the timber cut down ;" and he
added, "You may depend upon it I shall take care
that they don't cut down anything that will injure
the estate." Ho told me that after his marriage,
on coming to town, he could not afford to take a
house, and therefore his wife advised him to take
apartments in Mr. Roberts's house, he being her
trustee. He declined telling me what rent he
paid, but he assured me it was not exhorbitant.
I asked him whether they could bring any accusa-
tion of intemperance or extreme extravagance against
him. He said, "No ;" he lived well, but was not
intemperate, and he was very fond of driving hor_ses,
but there was nothing in that. I asked him_ how
many horses he kept. He replied that before his
another for himself,
marriage he kept only two, but that since then, as
his wife was fond of riding on horseback, he had
bought a riding,,
horse for her,
and two carriage horses. I said, You have six in
all ;" to which he replied, "No, only the two riding
and the two carriage horses.asked him
how much food he gave his horses. He said, I keep
them down at my estate in the country, and I am
very particular that the grooms don't cheat me. I
muchofcorn a day. You can easily
hay as they can eat, and
allow
eachhas the
four horses a
feedss
tell how much it has in the course of the week. I
said, "But how much do you make it yourself ?"
and he answered, We calculate differently in Nor-
folk from what you do in London. You calculate
by the bushel or quarter, we calculate by the boll ;
but it is somewhere about a sack of corn per week
for two horses. I said, "You have not mentioned
the straw. Oh, he replied, that doesn't cost me
anything, my tenants are obliged to supply me
with that. I then said, "As insanity has been al-
leged against you, have you ever been examined by
any medical man on the part of Gen. Windham ?'
He replied, I don't know whether it was a medical
man or no, but somebody called on me a short time
ago pretending that he came about a debt which he
said was owing to him by my mother. I therefore
began to suspect, and very quietly bowed him out
of the room, saying he must know as yell as I did

RAILWAYS AND TELEGRAPHS 1N THE

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Annexed are the latest accounts of the progress
of the Cape of Good Hope and Natal, especially as
regards telegraphic and railway communication :
" Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope,
Nov. 21, 1861.
" In my last you were informed that contracts
were about to be entered into by the Government
for the erection of electric telegraphs between Cape
Town, the seat of government, and the military
headquarters—namely, Graham's Town. The con-
tract was signed on the 18th inst., and Mr. Charl-
ton Wollaston, one of the parties to the contract,
proceeds to England by this mail to complete
arrangements for the erection of the wires. The
contract is taken with a subsidy of £1,500 per
annum from the colonial government. For this
consideration all government messages must be
transmitted free of cost for a stipulated number of
years. Natal, not to be surpassed by the older
colony, has also entered into terms with Messrs.
Pickering and Wollaston for the erection, main-
tenance, and working of a line of electric tele-
graphs between the port, Durban, and Pietermaritz-
burg, the capital. The corporation, the mercantile
associations, and the banks have all liberally offered
and engaged to pay a fixed sum per annum for
several years as a guarantee for the interest of the
sum expended on the line. The port and capital
of British Caffraria are in regular communication
with each other throughout the day. Mr. Mackenzie,
the sub-contractor for the line from Algoa Bay to
Graham's Town, has finished a large portion of this
length, and communication from the Sunday River
to Graham's Town can now be had at any time.
The line from Cape Town to Simon's Bay is now
made available for dropping the time-ball in the
Admiralty-yard, thanks to Sir Thomas Maclean,
the Astronomer Royal; and the railway company
are about to place the city in communication with
the towns Stellenbosh and Paarl by means of the
telegraph. Mr. Cox goes down to Paarl for this
purpose next week.
" The works of the Cape Town and Wellington
Railway are being pushed on now with all the
power the company possess, and it has been said,
on fair authority, the first part will be opened for
traffic about the Ist of February.
"The line projected from the metropolis to the
suburbs, towards Wynberg, is expected to answer
well. Mr. Marcus Smith, C.E., has been appointed
engineer to the company. To-morrow a meeting
will be held at Durban—a village situated about 18
miles from Cape Town, and six from the nearest
railway station—to consider whether it shall be put
in communication with the railway by a tramroad.
As soon as the railway is completed to 'Wellington
active steps will be taken to have it extended to
oreester, through New Kloof and Talbagh. This
would open the most productive part of South Africa
to markets which are not worth attending at pre-
sent.
" The money-market has continued to indicate a
healthy state of trade. Large advances have been
made for wool, this being the season when the port
is active with shipments. Discounts are not quite
so free within the past few days, the banks towards
the close of November putting the screw on a little,
prior to a tight squeeze, which is usually given at
the end of the year, to enable the directors to show
a flourishing report, and give large dividends after
their half-yearly meetings. Ten and 15 pTr cent
are commonly paid for private accommodation.
While the Cape has refused to be represented
mined
of cat Exhibition next year, Natal has deter-
uoeti
aeitaf.
figure well. Strenuous effortsars, there-
fore, being made to collect a large and choiceetriraeld
exTtehned‘
colonial produce and manufactdaros•
ing medium' is sadly require
Natal."

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ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.—
The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week ending Jan. 4, was 2,689, Of which 667 were now
cases,