12 DECEMBER 1863, Page 2

M r. Charles Reed reports in the Times an almost eqiidly

horrible case—a man, supposed to be a dangerous lunatic, whom he saw chained to an iron bar in a shed at Tregony. Ike "man betrayed an unextinguished love for little children, upon whose poor con- tributions of broken victuals he seemed to depend for the best part of hislitt :bread," but the town authorities could not settle what

to do m, and so left him chained, apparently for years ! And all these people in both these cases were " respeclkible " men, who would have regarded the infinitely slighter offence of killing their victim as a crime endangering their future condition. Is there, by the way, such a thing as a clergyman either in Flushing or Tregony, and if so, what has he been doing all these years?