The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-24
A ROYAL SCANDAL.
Insanity Steph In Rnd BnIIts the Curiosity ,
the World.


Insanity steps in and BnIlss the Curiosity of
the World.
London correspondent of the Chicago Tri-
bUne writes as folows;-
The following paragraph appeared last week
in one of the papers-''The scandal-loying
public were expecting some extremely interest
ing details when the Warwickshire case which
has been so much talked about, should come on
in the Divorce Court. They will IL seems be
disappointed. The lady on whom the imputa-
tions rested has been stricken with insanity The
public have no more to do with the matter Pity
for the poor woman-if innocent so terribly
sandered by suspicion; if guilty SO terribly
punished for wrongdoing-must take the place
of any other feeling. Let us pitifully drop the
curtain on the past" On this the Royal Lea
m9ington 9illg ~ ~GnromscIe respectable paper of the
public and the rigidly righteous in our social
life will, probably, be silenced and contented:
but that truer and higher morality, if it really
exist, which will not be satisfied by the know
ledge that vengeance has been visited upon n
PROSTATE and forsaken victim, and will at least
desire that equal rctributiOn should be done to
both-what has it to say of that other, who re-
port AYERS, is too high in social position for ms
tice to reach! VIII he who, perhaps, has no
less violated the tenderest social relations
Will he, because he happen to be in high posi-
tipn, or because, forsooth, he belongs to the
stronger seX-will 1t satisfy a pure sense of
social morality and public justice that he should
be permitted to evade all participation in
that chastisement which has visited the weaker
one in such terrible form? He peradventure,
Will still be found repOsing in the shelter of that
household which he quilted in disguise like a
very felon, for the set purpose $50 runs the re-
porD OF destroying the happiness of another
and which he may leave again and again, for all
society cares or dares, upon the same errand of
niquity, and to the terrible undoing of another
and another, whom the world refuses to screen
or excuse, because she is weaker than he. The
court, the camp, the field will still be free to
him-perchance the throne itsef-but alas
however lofty and powerful may be his position
he cannot raise her to that from which she has
fallen, and where she will ever lie
so low
And none so poor to do her reverence
We may add, as a redeemng tact, that much
Indignation is felt, and we have heard much ex-
pressed in Warwickshire, that the conduct of the
person in high position whose name has been so
commonly associated with this domestic tragedy
should not have been subjected TO a strict inves-
tgation in order that his guilt or innocence
might be demonstrated; and we are assured that
the longer such an inquiry is delayed the
stronger and deeper will grow the suspicion"
1t is well known, of course, to whom this refers;
but the poor lady, the wife of a baronet, made
the accusation against herself and him while in
milk fever after her confinement and statements
so made ought not to be accepted as necessarily
true. Still the public are uneasy, and it was
not without meaning that the Lord Mayor last
night said, in one of his speeches, that IA con-
dition of royalty was the power to respect and
esteem.o