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I am living at Lower Berkeley street, flrosvernor-gqogro.
member Me. Itipt,y and to) it. ph- goi,,g ti,,wit tootcten
up the plaintiff. at the desire of the mother. I saw her
the morning after her arrival. In my opinion her mind
was under a strange delusion. The only answer I could
get from her was, "The Lord's wilt" that she should
live down at Charlinch, and that was tha only reply I
could obtain from her. I gave directions that a medical
man should be nen:, for, and that she should not be left
alone, as I thought she might do herself some injury.
Cross-examined—l was the first to recommend that a
medical man should be called in.

Thomas Morton—l am a fellow of the College of
Surgeons, and was called to see the plaintiff. I exa-
mined her, and found that she had left her home to fol-
low a person of the name of Prince, whom she believed
to be Almighty God. She declined at first to reply to
any of my questions. She said I had no right to ask
any questions whatever. Afterwards she replied as to
the state of her health. I have bad considerable expe-
rience in cases of insanity, and had no doubt of the pro-
priety of signing a certificate stating her unsoundness
of mind.

Dr. Rowland and Dr. Stillwell confirmed the foregoing
evidence of the unsound state of mind of the plaintiff,
which was also confirmed by Dr. Turner, a gentleman of
forty years' experience in these cases:
The usual hour having arrived for the rising of the
Court, the case was adjourned until to-morrow (this day).

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
W ORSHIP-STREE T.
A respectably-dressed elderly person, who refused to
give either name or address, was placed before Mr. Ar-
nold, charged with repeated acts of gross misconduct,
upon Hackney Downs, towards several ladies and their
servants residing in that neighbourhood.
Inspector Coward, of the N division, stated that for
some weeks past numerous complaints had been lodged
at the police-stations, respecting the disgusting conduct
of a man who was in the habit of lurking about the
Downs at the hours when they were most frequented by
unprotected ladies, with their nursemaids and children, for
the purpose of air and exercise, and subjecting them to
insults of the most offensive and indelicate description.
TNo or three constables in plain clothes were accord-
ingly directed to keep a vigilant watch for the detection
of the offender, but all their efforts were unsuccessful
until that morning, when Devitt, 310 N, who was se-
creted behind a hedge, observed the prisoner advance
from a clump of trees, and, walking directly up to a
young woman who was in attendance upon some chil-
dren, deliberately expose himself. The young woman
instantly withdrew with the children, and the prisoner
then proceeded in the direction of some ladies, who
screamed and fled•upon being subjected to similar infa-
mous conduct, and the officer made his way to the pri-
soner, who immediately took to his heels, but after a
sharp pursuit was overtaken and secured.
Three young women, servants of families in the
neighbourhood, entirely confirmed the preceding state-
ment, one of whom stated that she had been molested in
the manner complained of on various occasions during
the last three weeks; and another, who had been insulted
in the same way on the previous Saturday, stated that
the prisoner was in the habit of carrying a telescope, to
enable him to discern the approach of any person who
would be likely to afford them protection trona his scan-
dalous conduct.

The constable Devitt produced a small brass te'escope
which he had found upon the prisoner on searching him,
and seen him apply it to his eye immediately before he
committed the outrage referred to by the last witness.
When called upon for his defen,,e, the prisoner, who
was very much agitated, said that he would not attempt
to deny the evidence in support of the last transaction,
for which he felt thoroughly ashamed of himself, and
entreat* d ►he magistrate to take a lenient view of his
misconduct, in consideration of his wife and family, who
would be bill eted on hearing of his disgraceful posiiion.
Mr. ARNOLD said that he felt it his duty tu a case of
such a❑ infamous description, to carry out the law to its
utmost extent, and he should therefore commit the pri-
soner to hard labour, as a rogue and vagabond, for three
months in the House of Correction.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, June 25.
Their Lordships met at Five o'clock.

- PE mioNs.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Man-
chester, complaining of the state of the law respecting
judicial oaths, and in doing so expressed his beliet
that evidence in courts of law should always be taken
upon oath.
Lord CAMPBELL thought there might be persons
who would be more bound by an oath than by affirma-
tion.

The Duke of CLEVELAND presented a petition
complaining of the increase that had recently taken
place in the number of beer-houses, and praying the
House to take steps to limit them in future.
Lord MONTEAGLE presented a petition to the
contrary effect, and praying that beer-houses, might be
recognised by law.
Lord STANLEY presented two petitions against the
admission of Jews into Parliament; also a petition from
the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company, praying
for the re-committal of a certain Railway Bill. He thought
it would be desirable to refer the petition to the Board
of Trade to determine whether that Bill should be re-
committed or not.
The Mari or garitA.ll-V-1.1.11E wished to guard himself
against giving any opinion on the petition, but there
were matters patent upon the face of the Bill which
[ showed that it ought not to pass without scrutiny.
As to the suggestion of a reference to the
Board of Trade, if such course were adopted the
Board of Trade would devote its earnest attention to the
subject and report as soon as possible.
Lord BROUGHAM understood that generally it was
an excellent Bill, but that justice required some alteration
in its provisions.
Lord PORTMAN recommended that the petition
should be referred to the Committee, with power to refer
to the Board of Trade.
After a few words from the Marquis of ORMONDE,
Lord MONTE AGLE expessed a doubt as to whether
the reference to the Board of Trade could take place
consistently with a due regard to the privileges of the
House.
Lord STANLEY would then move that the Bill be
re-committed, with power to the Committee to ask for
the assistance of the Board of Trade.
After a fere words from the Marquis of ORMONDE,
Lord PORTMAN referred to the standing order
giving power to the Chairman of the Committee to re-
port that an unopposed Bill should be proceeded with as
an opposed Bill.
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The Duke of RICHMOND thought it was always
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Lord REDESDALE said the Bill was an opposed
Com-
mittee.
Bill. He thought that the House would do right to
refuse to receive this petition, as being contrary to pre-
cedent.
After a few words from Lord BYRON, the motion
was agreed to.
RELATIONS WITH SPAIN.
The Earl of ABERDEEN rose to draw the attention
of the House to the state of our relations with the
Spanish Government. If it had nut been for the
many great events which had taken place in Europe,
the state of our relations with Spain would no doubt
long since have attracted the attention of their Lord-
ships. It was now more than twelve months since
our relations with the Court of Madrid had
been interrupted, and our ambassador had been dismissed
with contumely. It was clear that a Government
had a right to dismiss an ambassador. The Regent
Orleans had not only dismissed the Spanish
Ambassador to the Court of France, had not only sent him
his passports, but had caused him to be arrested and sent
as a prisoner to the frontier, and had afterwards justified
his conduct in the face of Europe. The Spanish Govern_
ment had not gone E 0 far, they had merely sent our
Ambassador his passports. He did not mean to say
that the Spanish Government was justified in so doing.
He did not believe they were ; but up to that time
no explanation or reparation had been made. That ap-
peared incredible. —(Hear, hear.) They may have
thought that our ambassador was the friend of anarchy
and revolution, but it was their duty to adduce proofs in
justification of their belief. However, it was not his
intention to examine into the causes of the persuasion of
the Spanish Government that our Ambassador was ex-
ceedingly hostile to them, and the eider and abettor of
anarchy and revolution. It was evident that Government
feared this country and its representative, and acted
under a very strong impression of the sort to which he
had alluded. But that was no justification of the act to
which he now drew attention. The question now rested
between the two Governments. The gentleman who was
our Ambassador at the time had amply justified himself,
and received new honours and a more important appoint-
ment. The question, he now repeated, rested with the
Government. What he had witnessed lately of the con-
duct of the Spanish Government made him exceedingly
anxious upon the subject of our relations with that
country. The Spanish Government had turned out
more stable than was anticipated, and had now so little
to dread from internal disturbances, that they could
spare eight or ten thousand troops for service in Italy.
Our relations with that Government were important,
and our misunderstanding with it had delayed
the settlement of a treaty for the introduction of
our manufactured and cotton goods, which had been our
object for thirty years. If the present Government in
Spain remained in office he looked for a satisfactory ar-
rangement of our differences with them, but that de-
pended greatly upon ourselves. He trusted that due
caution would be mixed with an earnest endeavour to
arrange the unhappy differences existing between the
two countries, and that another effort would be made to
open up a new market for our trade. He would now
ask whether there was any prospect of a speedy renewal
of our diplomatic relations with Spain?
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that he did not
intend to go into any discussion respecting the recent
exclusion of her Majesty's representative from
Spain.
That had already been done, and after full consideration
there could be but one opinion upon the subjt,ct, that a
justification and explanation was due from the Spanish
Government, but up to that moment nothing had been
done that was satisfactory. He regretted much that
that was so, but they were always ready to accept a
reparation, and with that object an offer of mediatiou on
the part o the Kin..' of the B..lgians to mediate, bad not
been declined. That monarch, who was so well fitted
for the office, had not received on the part of Spain any
offer of reparation which he thought himself justified
in recommending to the consideration of the Bri-
tish Government.—(Flear, hear.) The personal
honour of our distinguished representative was
bound up with the public honour, and if even through
him any communication was made, he could only say
that it would receive their immediate attention. All
offers made hitherto on this subject were not concessions

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z.r...1 that they would noz, a.ink it inc,n-
sisma with their own honour to hear and receive
the justification of Sir Henry Bulwer from the asper-
sions so unjustly cast upon his character.—(Hear,
hear.) Before he sat down he might take that oppor.
tunity of mentioning, in regard to a question put to him
on a previous evening, respecting the communications
that had taken place between the French Government
and this country, in regard to the expedition sent to
Rome, that he was now able to lay upon the table of the
House all the communications between the two countries
in reference to the affairs of Italy.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition
from the Lord Mayor and Common Council of the City
of London in favoor of the Alteration of Oaths Bill.
The Noble Marquis also laid upon the table of the
House two returns from the Palace Court, ordered by
their Lordships.
PACKET COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SCOT-

LAND AND IRELAND.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY moved that.a Se-
lect Committee be appointed to inquire into the expe-
diency of removing the Packet Station and communica-
tion between the South-west of Scotla:.d and the North
of Ireland, and to ascertain the public grounds upon
which the harbours of Port Patrick and Donaghadee are
to be abandoned, and those harbour; which cost the
country 400,0001., for the sake of a trifling saving, to
substitute a long sea voyage of 90 miles from
Greenock to Belfast, which is now the object of her Ma.
jesty's Government; and to report thereon to the House.
The question resolved itself into first, the expediency
and advantage of a short passage; 2dly, the wisdom and
prudence of abandoning it; and lastly, the saving to be
thereby effected. On the first two points it was well
known that all previous Governments had been agreed,
and that at very great expense they bad kept up this
passage. lie believed that the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer himself at this moment was of opinion that it
was the safest and most convenient, and that if he could
follow his own convictions it would not be interfered
with or abandoned. For his own part, he did not
exactly understand with what department of the Go-
vernment the change originated. The postal com-
munications of these ports was formerly under the
control of the Admiralty; he supposed it was now under
the Noble Marquis the Postmaster-General. He was
certainly very much surprised when he heard of the in-
tention to break up this packet station, and had felt it
to be his duty to accompany a numerous and respectable
deputation to Lord J. Russell, in order to lay the facts of
the case before him, and, if possible, to induce the Go•
vernment to reconsider their decision. The able speeches
made on that occasion by gentlemen fully conversant
with the question, and the documents they had adduced,
to all of which publicity had been given by the press,
rendered it unnecessary for him to detain their Lord-
ships by any lengthened statement. The answer of Lord
J. Russell was in effect that he could not give any deci-
sive reply. He supposed the Noble Lord wanted time
to confer with his colleagues. He had since received
the following letter from the Noble Lord:—
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Donaghadee, the Government have come to the decision
to abandon the postal route between those two places.
The harbours will be attended to by the Admiralty, but
it is not thought advisable to continue the expense of
the packets when the service can be more cheaply pro-
vided for.

"I have the honour, &c.,

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mentthuo " J. RUSSELL."
Now he thought he had a right to ask in what way the
Admiralty were to keep up the harbours, and what ad.
ditional expense would arise from continuing the packets.
The Queen's subjects could not make the passage in
open boats, and after having, by a considerable expendi
ture within the last two or three years, rendered the
harbour fit for steam-vessels, he asked why it should now
be abandoned, when the present voyage of three hours
could be reduced to one hour and a quarter? The very
small sum at which the mails could now be carried con-
stituted certainly a sufficient reason for a Parliamentary
inquiry into the subject, especially after they bad ex.
pended nearly half a million on the harbour. He believed
that if the Government carried out its intentions in the
course of a year or two they would find out the impolicy
of carrying the mails 90 miles by sea from Greenock to
Belfast, instead of the short passage between these two
ports; and unless, in the meantime, they were attended
to, they would be found choked up, and requiring another
outlay to bring these into. the efficient state in which
they now were. He did not think that for miserable
saving of some thren or four thousand pounds a year
the inhabitants of that, part of the country—nay, of the
country at large—eshanlel be deprived of the benefit of
the existing postal' ,jeriengements, and he added, that
the Noble Marcirry.AClanricarde), as an Irish-
man, should not be a party to such a paltry saving, to
anything that would impoverish a district which, in ad-
dition to its former burdens, was now subject to a rate
in aid. In fact, such was the effect of the announcement
that the Government intended to abandon the mails, that
in one instance three houses, valued at 4501., had been
already put up at auction, and only 55/. offered for them,
the owner wishing to 'grb' to America. He regretted that
such a policy should be pursued, and still more that the
Government did not advise her Majesty to visit Ireland.
He was certain that the moment she set her foot on the
Emerald Isle she would ho rwtoi...-1 with _.tuth w trtry .4'
joy that she would forget, at least for the time, any other
part of her dominions. His fellow-countrymen were
more sinned against than sinning—and it would be the
happiest day they had ever seen if her Majesty's ad-
visers, overlooking all the pretexts on which a royal
visit had been from time to time delayed, would counsel
her to go among her Irish subjects. This might be a di-
gression, but, returning to the motion for a Select Corn •
mittee, he thought he hid made out a sufficient case for
inquiry, and in conclusion he begged to move the motion
of which he had given totice.
Lord CAWDOR approved of the motion, and merely
rose to move an addition to the inquiry proposed by the
Noble Marquis. Last sear, suddenly and without any
reason being assigned for the change, the mail commu-
nication between Waterford and Milford Haven, a court
munication which bad continued for fifty years, and
which was of great rublic utility, had been cut off.
Great dissetisfaction and inconvenience had been caused,
and he therefore wished to add words to the motion
which would bring this case also before the Select Com-
mittee.
The Earl of HADDINGTON said that when he was
in office the principle acted upon in deciding between a
long land passage and a short sea passage, and short
land passage and long sea passage, was to give the pre-
ference to the former.. It was so long since his atten-
tion had been directed to the subj, ct, that he did not
rememeer the facts, letr. he thought that the Noble Mar-
quis had made out a sufficient case for an inquiry, and
he would add that he had never heard of any ships
being lost.
The Marquis of OIANRICARDE said that in not
agreeing with the motion of his Noble Friend (the Mar-
quis of Londonderry), cr to the amendment of the Noble
Brat.' opposite (the Earlof Cawdor), he had no desire to
withhold from their, Lordships any information con-
nected with the proposed change of packet station, but
the subject was one wtich in no degree, he contended,
ought to be submitted to a Committee of Inquiry. There
were no theories ia antagonism, nor was there
any new system to be adopted. The question was one
which could be at once decided on. He assured their
Lordships that the mange of packet had not been
ado,/ ted on insufficient views of economy or ill-
judged parsimony, bit after mature deliberation, and
with an anxious desire to proulete the best interest
of the public service. There were circumstances
which, in the case of steam-packet communication,
bound the Governmett to look not only to the cost
and expenditure, but to the general benefit of the
country, but in the case of the Portpatrick and
DJnaghadee steam-packet stations, they were in no
way bound to regard the personal opinion of interested
parties. He quite agreed, that as a general principle,
the shortest sea passage that could be obtained was the
most desirable; but the rule was liable to modification,
and there was another principle which could not be over
looked, namely, the observauce of the routes which public
opinion and public experience pointed out as the best to
be adopted. The Noble Marquis then proceeded to
the of
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show that the effect of the change of postal communi-
cation, as proposed by the Government, would be most
beneficial for the correspondence, and that the time oc-
cupied in the transit from Glasgow and Paisley to Bel-
fast, would be not on!) lessened four hours, but that the
letters would reach sufficiently early for the first deli-
very. If Portpatrick were continued, an increase of ex
penditure would be required to keep up the proper means
of inter-communication, and that was a proceeding he
did not feel justified in recommending for the convenience
of a small portion of the country.—(Hear, hear.) Sir
John Rennie's opinion with regard to Portpatrick Har-
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drawing his motion for the Committee, in consequence
of the scanty attendance of Peers, but expressing his in-
tention to bring forward the subject again on a future
day, by moving an address to her Majesty for copies of
certain correspondence which had passed between the
Post-office authorities and the parties who contracted for
carrying the mails.

THE INCUMBERED ESTATES BILL.
Lord CAMPBELL moved the order of the day for
going into Committee on this Bill, and stated, that
on bringing up the report, he would move a proviso
to one of the clauses. limiting the power of the Com •
mistioners to certain classes of applications by incum-
brancers.

The Bill then passed through Committee, and was or-
dered to be reported.
The County Cess (Ireland) Bill was mad a third time,
and passed.

Tile House then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 25.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at a few minutes before
Four o'clock.

CONSIDERATION OF LORDS' AMENDMENTS.
The Lairds' amendments to the following Bills were
considered and agreed to:—
Letds and Thirsk Railway (Power to guarantee Inte-
rest on certain Shares, &c.)
Whittlesey St. Mary and Whittlesey St. Andrew Union
of Parishes, and for Improving the Town of Whittlesey.