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Cir r. Bulwer Lytton and His VIE.
The Somerset County EGG Gazette gives = long,
bat remarkably calm and dispissionate account OF
the recent Imprisonment OF Lady Lytton IN q IN ad-
! housc, by her husband, on the presence, which
every one knew was false, shat she was insane.
Tho marriage OF Sir Edward aud Lady Bu.wer oc.
Cured. under very promising auspices, twenty
ssven years ago. In about ton years, the mutual
unamiability of the pair led to fierce outbreak.
Mr. Bulwer having broken down 10 bis maiden
speech Ia the House Of Commons. Mrs. Bul~er
was 20 uuwomanly TO taunt him with his failure.
and he 30 unmaniy as TO strike her a blow. From
that time, they separated finally, and made var
upon each other continually. She wrote several
novels, attacking Sir Edward and law,f coming bis
friends. He. however, has become rich and pow.
erful, his annual income being estimated at from
IS 900 to $4,000, whilst, officially, he holds the
important position under Lord Derby's admins.
strasion, of Colonial Secretary.
The Somerset Gazette states that for three years
past Lady Buiwer has been living at Ciarkes ho-
tel, In Taunton, In that county. Taunton Is q
ANAL place, and like all small places, every body
/. knows the business and the habits OF every body
eise, and no one is disposed to be too charitable
about AIRY body. OF course, person OF Lady Bel
wer's distinction could not escape prying eyes and
gossipning tongues and yet, subjected to this in-
.,a:sitorial scrutiny, "Lady Lytton, says the Ga'
zstte .never did aught that We are aware OF, land
we have taken pains to ascertain the truth, to
cause 10 any ono with whom she had communica.
ton the slightest suspicion that In her case reason
had been dethroned, or that her brain was In any
degree affectedt with lunacy." When the fact OF
her committal to mad house was first mentioned
Ia Taunton, it was received with incrsdulity, but
when convinced Of the truth of it, the exclamation
was, ''Good Heavensl Lady Lytton in a mad house!
For whasl Who can have sent her there! She is
no more mad than am, or any one ese." "There
Is on all hands" says the Gazette, ga firm belief
that Lady Lytton Is the subject Of horrible and
appalling injustice and wrong; that, while per-
fectly sane, she has been shut up In lunatic asy-
lum, merely that woman who has, no doubt, been
a constant cause of annoyance to her husband,
may be prevented forever from giving him similar
trouble"
frk l., dpi.
rer of Lady Lytton. 1t regards her as unamiabe
and naughty; it says that her later literary works
seem to have been undertaken principally for the
purpose Of publishing to the world the snfieriDgs
and wrongs she has endured from her hu.band, and
that 10 more than one instance she has evinced
unkind feelings 10 her writings towards very esti
mable and excellent persons. particular exam
pie is mentioned Of an excellent lady of Taunton,
who il held up to rdcule in one of her ladyship's
latest productions "yery Successful" merely be-
cause she had not paid to Lady Lytton such atten
lions as her iadyship thought were her due. Bu'
all this 10 very far from iunacy for, as the Gazette
pithily observes, s'if upkind and offensive person
alities in print were considered evidences OF q
.dsranged brain. few writers would be isafe from
incarceration in a lunatc asylum"
g The Immediate train of circumstances which led
to the late explosion were, briefly, as follows -
When Sir Edward Bulwer married his wife, che
had a small property worth f400 year, and her
husband being then in INDECENT circumstances, she
trans erred this sum to him in order to give him
qualification for a seat In Parliament. When, in
1886 their separation took place. he consented 10
nav her f4OO q year during her life, which Las
been her allowance from that time to the present,
notwiths standing his own annual income ID estina'
ted at from $4,000 to 100000. Lady Buiwer dc
sired an allowance more In proportion to his IN
come, and the wants of a woman moving in Ter
circle than the miserable pittance which the baro'
net had yielded. Her appeals were quite unsuc
Cessful, and il was while smarting under this dis
appointment, that she lately confronted the as,
founded baronet on the hustings at Hertford
when he was seeking reelection to Parilament,
and whilst, in tho act Of paying gallant tribute
10 the female beauty by which he was surrounded
Lady Bulwer suddenly appeared upon the ground
and gave the cleo tors a piece Of her mind. Tho
baronet, 1t 10 said, sstrembled exceedingly, and
looked like a man suddenly attacked by paralysis"
He rstrsated from the hustings, while his wife crI
aCoward,n and remained for the time, master o.
the situation.
But the great baronet hiss had his mighty O.
ven Se He seems to have collected his faculties
Completely after the scene at HEREFORD and select
ed /, mode of punishment which would have done
h,nor to the ingenuity and malice OF the devil
He sent a spy to Taunton to observe and make u
note Of her eccentricites and Oddities and he us
patched DIR. Thompson and a nurse from q luna
tic asylum, VIII, held conversation with her for
fise hours, introducing only topics that were ca-
calated to excite intense indignation. She, how
ever, preserved her equanimity, and it was not
till a subsequent period that the worthy emissary
under circumstances of great aggrsvation, gave
her up into the hands of the police, on acerticate
OF insanity, signed by two medical tools Of Sir Ed
ward, and also, is ii believed, by that excellent
gentleman himself. The occurrence excited the
most intense indignation in Taunton, and public
meeting was held, ia which committee was ap-
pointed to that justice be done to Lady Lytton,
and resolution adopted declaring that such an
arrest under such circumstances called "for pub
lie expression of alarm tor the rights and liberties
the subject" The Gazette points out in strong
terms the wrong and danger of sending person
TO the mad house upon the word of two medical
men, and that confinement In lunstic asylum
should only be possible after public inquiry sim
liar to that which must precede the committai Of
. person accused Of felony to the common gaol. Ii
this should lead to some legislative provision
by which sane people may not be consigned by in.
teresaed parties to the society of manacs, enough
Of itself TO drive from its throne, good will
come ont of the evil.
The latest intelligence of this extraordinary case
il tho release Of Lady Lytton from imprisonment,
and compromise Of some kind by which an ar
mistics 10 established between the hostile parties
But no cosnpromise, no armistice can retrieve the
character Of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. or save
him from the odium Of an enormous crime, or
throw veil over the frghtful nature of which, in
this act OF anspeakabIs malEgnity, he has permit.
ted mankind to have glimpse. He may still con-
tinue TO astonish the world with the brilliant
light" of his ssnoble sentiments" but men will
hsDcelorth lock upon them ~ the phosphorescent
light Of moral decay aud corruption.