The Express. — 1860-09-01 (London, England)

BRITIAN 111.111IVIL—The British Museum will be cloeeil to the public from this day to the 7th inst. inclusive, for the purpose of being thoroughly cleanses' in every department, and new arrangements being carried out tot the accommodation of visitors. Since the new directions respecting the nerthu4-ruom have been issued, re. quiriug that ovary apphottion for admiseion should be aa companted by a written ',commendation addressed to the principal librarian. no less they 30,000 persons have availed themselves of the 'simonises' and facilities of reference now afforded to students by the tnieteee of the national col. lertiou.  CARDINAL ANToNELLI AND HIS Game. —The Inchon Olwrem.,oclent if the Maitchester Gilardian writes: —" Let me 141 • trait or two of t'ardned Antomilli to the very intereeing iinem contained in the article of the Saturday Review. Thev illustrate the odd mixture of caution, coalmen, and timidity in the roan, and the pew of insecurity in which he lives. He was showing • gentleman, from whom I have the story, his valuable collection of ancient genie. They WWII deposited in a room in far removed from that usually occupied by the cardinal that my informant es Ids • ocprisc that, food so he wna of .tidying ..::4 I=l his treasures, the iardinal did not find rime place of custody lees remote for them. ' I seed to keep them in a cabinet opening from my bedroom," mid Antoaelli, " but it occurred to me that if robbers liroice in, it wee highly de. inside that the moat valuable °Welds of my oalsction should be deposited es far of me as possible. Suppose these gems in that chest—that thieves came after them that I awoke and overheard them. They might think it advisable to cut my throat. But now there is no fear. if they rob me of my genie I shall at least be out of earshot, and it will not be accoirory to give me my quietus in order to get of deer with the booty. DeLastota4 0/ GREAT MlNDR.—Peter the Groat and Charles V. have au indubitable right to figure among mail 'statesmen. The mother of t bailee warn insane, and limos styled imam la folk. His grandfather, Perdieand of Aragno, was profoundly melancholy, and lie himself was epileptic. So was Julius friar. Itic:.elieu had occasional attacks iif insanity, in which he fancied hinmelf • hone; be would prance round the billiard table, neighing, kinking mit at his servanta, and making a great noise, until, exhaustod by fatigue, he suffered himself to he put to bed and well covered up. On awskies he remembered nothing that bad posed. His sister, the Marquise de Brfaish bad a droll hallucination " Bile crov.iii. avoir un ilernere de ! crustal, w voulait pie s'amssoir ae pour de le suer, et le teimit auigueuseumat eatre eon deux mains de peur as ' lei “mvit nialheur." Cromwell had rite of hypochuedria. ' Dr. Pranria was unequivocally insane. Dr. Johnson was hypncliowhisoal, and declared that he owe !Veiledly heard his neither call to him " Himmel ! when obe was many niilm distant. 1101111001111 was asmainly insane. Saint Simon is said to have cormaittsal suicide under circumstances iudiusting inmalty. Mourner "pawl his life in a continual hallucinatioe." Carden, Swedenborg, Limier, Zimmermann, bawd, Van Ilelmout, Loyola, ht. Frew.* Xavier, St. Dominic, all hail visions. keen Luther had his hallunism tines • Sabot frequently appeared, not only to have labstands thrown at his supbatiod heed, but to get into the , vidonmes bed and be bride him. Jeanne d'Arc gloried I in bet celestial vistuus.—Blackwood's Mayazine for September.