The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-19 00:00:00

SIR EDWARD AND LADY BULWER

LYTTON.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—As the son of Lady Bulwer Lytton, with
the best right to speak on her behalf, and so ob-
viously with the best means of information as to
warrant the hope that my simple assertion will be
at once believed in the matter to which I am com-
pelled to refer, I beg to say that the statements
which have appeared in some of the public journals
aro exaggerated and distorted, and that they are
calculated to convey to the public mind impressions
the most erroneous and unjust. As was natural,
I put myself in constant communication with my
mother, and with the gentleman with whose family,
in his private house, she was placed (for I beg dis-
tinctly to. state that she was never for a moment
taken to a lunatic asylum), and I carried out the
injunctions of my father, who confided to me im-
plicitly every arrangement which my affection could
suggest, and enjoined me to avail myself of the
advice of Lord Shaftesbury in whatever was judged
best and kindest to Lady Lytton.
My mother is now with me, free from all re-
straint, and about, at her own wish, to travel for
a short time, in company with myself and a female
friend and relation of her own selection.
From the moment my father felt compelled to
authorise those steps which have been made the
subject of so much mistepreseutation, his anxiety
was to obtain the opinion of the most experienced
and able physicians, in order that my mother
should not be subject to restraint for one moment
longer than was strictly justifiable. Such was his
charge to me.

The certificates given by Dr. Forbes Winslow
and Dr. Conolly are subjoined ; and I ought to
add that Dr. Conolly was the physician whom my
father had requested to see Lady Lytton ; that Dr.
Forbes Winslow was consulted by my mother's
legal advisers ; and I felt anxious to obtain the
additional authority of the opinion of the latter
gentleman, and requested my friend Mr. Edwin
James to place himself in communication with him.
I trust that such journals as have given publicity
to partial and inaccurate statements will do me the
justice 0 publish this communication, to which I
need add no more than to say, that this painful
matter has been arranged, as it ought to be, by the
members of the family, whom it exclusively regard:,.
—I have the honour to lo-3, sir, your moat obedient
servant, ROBERT B. LYTTON.
1, Park-lane, July 17, 1858.
(Copy. No. 1.)
To Edwin James, Eiq., Q.C.
Having, at your request, examined Lady B.
Lytton this day as to her state of mind, I beg to re-
port to you that, in my opinion, it is such as to
11,r f.ola

1. think it but au act of justice to Sir Edward
B. Lytton to state that, upon the facts which I
have ascertaine I were submitted to him, and upon
the certificates of the medical men whom he was
advised to consult, the course which he has pur-
sued throughout these painful proceedings cannot
be considered as harsh or unjustifiable.—l remain,
sir, your obedient servant,
FORBES WINSLOW, M. D., D. C.L.
23, Cavendish-square, July 16, 1858.
(Copy. No. 2).
London, July 17, 1858.
Sir,—Notwithstanding the decided opinion which
I felt it my duty to express with reference to Lady
Lytton, after my visit to her at the private resi-
dence of Mr. and Mrs. Hill, and which, I need not
repeat, justified the course you adopted, I have
much satisfaction in hearing of the arrangements
which havo been made for her leaving their family
in the society of her son, and of her female friend.
—I have the honour to be, sir, very faithfully, your
obedient servant, J. CONOLLY, M.D.

To tho Right Honourable
Sir Edward Bu'war Lytton, Bart., M.P., &e.

AN OFFICER'S COMPLAINT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN ENSIGN.
Sir,—Will you kindly grant ma a small space in
your widely circulated journal ? I belong to a
class of people whose grievances are well known,
hub apparently little regarded. I am an unfor-
tunate half-pay officer, who has been promoted for
merit from the ranks during the late war in the
Crimea, and subsequently placed on the half-pan
list. I have been engaged with one of the regi-
ments of the Light Division of the army as ser-
geant at the battles of the Alma and Inkerman,
and during the whole of the siege of Sebast )pol
I never was absent from duty during that arduous
campaign, and for months I performed the dutieS
of an officer when I was but a sergeant.
Previous to the close of the campaign Lavas re-
commended for and afterwards obtained a commis-
sion, for which I am very grateful, but after the
army arrived in England, I was, as I said befere,
placed on the half-pay list. I have tried all in my
power to obtain re-employment in the army; but
all in vain, although I am free, able, and willing
to serve, and not yet twen'y-eight years of age.
There are numbers of officers now sent out to
India, to fill up vacancies in the army, where I
would willingly serve if I only was permitted, but
these a7c3 men who purchase their appoititmmts,
and because I am not able to imitate them, I sup-
pose I must remain as I am till doom's day.
It is true that I am a poor MAD, with no infiu-
eutial relations. I have no great friends in high
quarters, but still I cannot see why I am not al-
lowed to serve my Queen and country after having
obtained a commission, as well as before.
This, sir, is the grievance th it I have referred to.
My case is not an exception, but I lay it bef'ire you
as an illustration of many more that I know of.
Surely if we were considered worthy of her Ma-
jesty's commission in the army for our services
during the late war, we ought to be still permitted
to serve. Can you, sir, tell me the reason that we
are not ?

A SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDER.
Kirkwall, July 9, 1858.

LAW INTELLIGENGE—(TIiis Day.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.

IN RE CALVERT AND CO.-TRADE 'DEBTOR SIMMONS.
A. trade debtor summons was appointed to be heard
this day, against Messrs. Calvert anti Co., for a sent o f
ab3ut 2,000/., but the case was not argued as the debt
was admitted and a private arrangement made which
did not putliely transpire.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.
r BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A CONSTABLE.—JAmes
a stonemason, was charged before Mr. Beadon
wick
the following brutal assault on M.Bean, 130 C, an
officer of 18 years standing.
111‘Bean said that on the previous day in Moor-street,
Soho, he saw the prisoner driving a cab, and a cabman
came running up saying that the man had got his ceb.
The prisoner then stopped, and on his atteuaptin4 to
take him into custody he gave him two severe blows,
and when he was on the ground gave him two violent
kicks, one in the stomach and the other on the chest,
from which he suffsrad great pain, tho kick on the chest
causing him to spit blood all the morning. The prisoner,
on being charged by the cabman, said he hal only taken
it for a "lark." The caly.nau did not stop to see what
might happen, but as soon as he got his cab drove off.
Toe prisoner, be believed, was a stonemason, working for
the parish of S. James's. The conduct of the plisouer
was very violent, and it took four c.)ustables to take
him into custody.

In answer to Mr. Leadley, the chief clerk, M'Beau
said he had been to a surgeon, who had ordazed him to
remain very quiet for a few days, as he was suffering
from internal injuries.
The prisoner said he had been a teetotaller for two
years and a-half, aid had a little to drink. The cabman
wished him to have a ride and he drove.
Mr. Beadon said he was receiving parochial relief,
was found driving in a cab without a liceEn,, and when
the constable came up he struck him, and afterwards
kicked him in a very serious manner. He should remand
him Lir a week to see what might be the result of the
irjuries.