The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-29 00:00:00

,LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY•

There was some discussion iu the matter; but it resulted,
as will be the case in all successful undertakings, in the
declaration which has already been announced.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week,
_

Mlles Opened.
Railways.

Ileecipts.

1815.

1815 1804

Belfast and N. Counties...... 1:16
Belfast and County DOwn.... 48
Blyth and Tyne . 28
Bristol and Exeter l2ll
Caledonian

2.31 a 2`07
1,013 835
2,07 2.263
7,342 7,124
22 216 20,t,72

121 i
111

Cambrian l3)
2.595 2.007
Cockermouth K & Penrlth .. 311 411 _
Cockermouth and Workin .. 9 9 372 339
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 434 .1.83
Cork, Blackrock, &Passage 6l fi 243 341
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall 651 651* 4,465 1.775
Deeside l7 17 5:38 434
Dublin &Br !fast Junction.... 63 63 1,637 1.505
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 2, 93 1,8 4
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO7l 911 4,226 3.594
Forth and Clyde Junction
Furness, &c 5O 5 ) 35)1 3,25
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik~&E.l.lnion
Great Northern 4Ol 365 38,975 3 ,836
Great North of Scotland 99 99 3,00 3.048
tit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 510 437
'I t. Soutlin. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 3871 387/ 10 ~,!34 11.461
Great Western l2BO 1236 75.595 71,573
Hull & Hornsea
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno ll7l 1171 1,818 I,'`Bl
Inverness & Perth Junction L 8 1191 2,225 2,078
Irish North-Western 145 145 2,075 1,960
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 403 45 101 43,370
Limerick and Ennis... 241 20 231 211
Limerick and Foynes 261 261 183 125
Llanelly 464 461 770 780
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London and 131ackwall 5l 61 2.188 2,162
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 272 2674 24,897 23,333
1 12,988 1c.t.29
London, Chatham, & Dover ; { 1271 127
rri),pooasitan Extension 2 _ J 2,9 ).0 2,,:00
Do. Kent 7_ 27 3,20 3.00'
t _

Lon., Tilbury, & Southend 42* 421 2,7z0 2,95 t
& Lincolnah 246 2121 20,19.1 19,111
Manch. S.Jun.& A ltrincham 91 9j 1,637 1,619
Slaryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
__Si
_3l 2,436 2,319
- _ _

Midland (incl. N.-Western) 663. i 611 49,898 49.390
Midland G t.Wes tn. of Mad- 262 2601 5.167 4.130
Slonkland 7l/ 711 1,6 .7 1,689
Pffonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 4l 41 2,871 2,762
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 11881 1169 70,193 73.760
North London 9 9 3,382 2,341
North Staffordshire 258 258 8,617 8.902
Rhymney l9l 191 1,163 963
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern . . 138 138 t,299 .5,878
Somerset and Dorset 66 66 1,149 874
South Devon ..•••• 98 751 B.i t 6 4,207
South-Eastern 3OB 308 28,431 27,945
Taff Vale 6l 57 5,869 5,600
Ulster 1054 1054 3,005 2.711
Vale of Clwyd.
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 401 887
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,539 1,1 5
West Cornwall 271 271 - -
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 6' 2 584
Whitehaven Junction l3 13 9 7 912
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 601 819
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian 328 828 39,694 31,933
Bahia and San Francisco ... • 76k 76k 4 3 389
Belgian Eastern J unction 264 264 310 828
ilombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306 1851 5,303 3,436
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 189 5,7.8 4,517
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1181 7,481 7,472
Easturu 01 France 1176 1428 .72,645 65,104
Eastern Bengal - - East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1477 Ls3s 23.589 21,635
Great Central of Belgium 295 295 6,581 - -
Great Indian Peninsula 590 5531 23,270 11.126
Great Luxembourg l3l 134 5,344 4.514
Great Southn of lndia
Great Westeree 79
5n of Canada 315 3 5 ,98877 501
Madras
.
418 10
6,841 6.372
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant (81 650 20,1 2 17.423
Northern of Canada ..
Northern of France 728 728 62,576 57.501
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons. & Alediterrn 1067 1781 135,302 133,459
Paris and Orleans 1616 1611 66,168 64.549
Recife and San Francisco, &c. 774 774 2,089 639
Sande lO5 105 - -
Do. Punjab, &c 253 32 - _
South Austrian, &c ......
Victoria Victoria 251 196 10,043 10.543
25 25 409 551
West 4N- %Fn. of France

Commission of Lunacy.--Extraordinary Case.

Yesterday, at the Clement's-inn Han, an inquisition in
Lunacy was taken before Francis Barlow, Esq., and a
special jury of 17, in the case of William Backwell Tyning-
ham, Esq., of Tyningham, Bucks, who, it was alleged, was
of unsound mind, and who was an inmate of Dr. Blanch's
establishment, near Paris.
Mr. Karslake, Q.C., appeared in support of the commis-
sion ; Mr. C. Hall watched the case on behalf of the unfor-
tunate gentleman ; and Mr. Wickens attended on behalf of
some members of the family.
The Master in Lunacy explained to the jury that inqui-
sitions were not now of frequent occurrence, but where a
party was residing out of the jurisdiction of the Court of
Chancery, as in this case, and there was no power to bring
him over to England, it was necessary that the question
should be submitted to a jury, and they would have to
determine whether he was capable of managing his
affairs, because if he was not, then the Court of Chancery
could take his property under its control, allow a sufficient
sum for his maintenance, and protect the other portion for

hose who were entitled to the same. Mr. Karslake stated
he ease, and described it as one of a romantic character. It
appeared that Mr. Tyningham, who is 36years of age, and
possessed of considerable landed estates in Buckingham-
shire, having been educated at Eton and at Oxford Uni-
versity, was married to a young lady on the 25th of
March last, and left the Westminster Palace Hotel on that
day, for the wedding tour, accompanied by a German
widow, Mrs. Herman, who acted as lady's-maid. Mrs.
Tyningham was described as a person of great personal
attractions, with whom he had been acquainted three
months. They proceeded to Dover, and reached Paris on
the 25th March. On the following day he became excited,
and declared that he was " fire proof." Ina few days his
malady developed itself ; and on one occasion he challenged
the statue of Napoleon I. to come down to fight him. On
the Ist of April Mrs. Tyningham became alarmed, and Sir
Joseph Olive, the physician to the embassy, was consulted.
On the 2d of April Mrs. Herman enticed him into a car-
riage, and he was taken to Dr. Blanch's establishment,
where ho still remained. The learned counsel read the
evidence, taken under a commission, of Dr. Blanch, Sir
Joseph Olive, and an attendant at the establishment. The
unfortunate gentleman was described as having been very
,violent and assaulting several persons; ho picked up and
chewed leaves and grass.
Dr. Rogers was called as a witness before the jury, and
described the four interviews he had with him at the esta-
blishment, the last being on Thursday ; he was not violent
but was clearly a lunatic. The complaint was acute mania,
and he might become an idiot. Knowing that ho was an
Oxford man Dr. Rogers spoke to him on the recent Oxford
election, and asked him if he was a Conservative, to which
he replied that he liked "black beer and coal heavers."
Mr. C. Hall said ho appeared on thepart of Mr. Tyning-
ham to watch the proceedings, and after hearing the evi-
dence ho had nothing to say on the matter.
A Juror suggested that another physician should see him.
The Master said the evidence was brought down to the
present period, and ho could not order further evidence.
At the desire of the jury,
Mrs. Harman was called, and described the conduct of
the unfortunate gentleman from the day of the marriage
to the 2d of April, when he was taken to the asylum.
It was also proved in evidence that his physical health
and that ho did not wish to leave the place.
Master rlow told the jury that the question was,
whether at the p:esent time Mr. Tyningham was capable
of managing his affairs, and the evidence was brought down
to Thursday last. It wag necessary that twelve of the
jury should be unanimous in their verdict.

Ono of the jury required further eoL
deuce, but the other
sixteen were of opinion that Dr. Tynin&balo was of un
sound mind, and the verdict was recorded.

Mr. Lawrence, the senior surgeon of St. Barthd-
lomew's, has this week retired from the surgeoncy
of that hospital. "By this retirement," says the Lancet,
"Mr. Wormald becomes senior surgeon, and Mr. Luther
Holden becomes surgeon after some 30 years connection
with the hospital. Other changes have already been
arranged at the close of the last session, by which Mr.
Paget and Mr. Holmes Coote became the lecturers on
surgery, and Mr. Heiden and Mr. Callender the lec-
turers on anatomy. Among the candidates for the vacant
assistant-surgeoncy are mentioned Mr. Willett and Mr.
Baker."

MURDER OF A BAILIFF IN IRELAND.—On Wed-
nesday the body of a man named Thomas Devlin,
agent on the estate of Mr. Archibald Godley, Ladyrath,
Navan, who had been Missing from his home for the last
10 days, was found in a ditch, at Mountainstown, dread-
fully mangled. There is no doubt that he was foully and
brutally murdered. Those who discovered his body were
attracted to the spot where he was lying by the smell
arising from the putrefaction of his remains.---Trish Times.
FATAL FOOT RACE AT MIDNIGHT.—On Thurs-
day an inquest was held in Pownall-road, Dalston, on the
body of Mr. Robert Griffin, aged 50 years, who died from
disease of the heart after racing with a young man on
Saturday night shortly after 12 o'clock. The jury returned
a verdict in accordance with the evidence.
INTERDICT AGAINST THE SALE OF PORTRAITS OF
THE PRITCHAUD FAMILY.—We are informed that interdicts
have been served on two persons in Dundee against the
sale of photographs of the family of Dr. Pritchard, on the
ground that such sale is unauthorised and injurious to the
feelings of the friends of the family.—Dundee Advertiser.

IHALF-YEARLY MEETING—(THIS DAY).
This afternoon the half-yearly general meeting of the
shareholders of this company was held at the International
Hotel.
Mr. Leo Schuster, whose retirement has been for a long
time announced, appears to have reconsidered his determi-
nation to resign, and again presided, and, with his usual
ta.A, laid before the proprietors the state of their affairs.
The report which was presented has already appeared in
The Sun.