The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAI EVENING-, MAY 17, 1847.

knowledge of their owners, will be struck out by the time
prescribed, unless specially ordered to be left in.
NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, 1847.

THURSDAY.
Match, 300/., 100 ft, first-half of Ab. M.; Mr. Ford's
Shazadee, Bst 51b, agst Duke of Bedford's Fistiana, Bst, both
three yrs old.
Match, 100 h ft, Bst 41b each, T.Y.C.; Mr. O'Brien's
Eagle of the North agst Duke of Bedford's Sable.
SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1847.
MONDAY.

Match, 3001., 100 ft, 7st 101 b each, first half of Ab. M.
Mr. Ford's Shazadee agst Duke of Bedford's Fistiana.

FRIDAY.

Match, 3001., 200 h ft, 6st each ; Cesarewitch Course; Lord
Eglinton's Erys agst Duke of Bedford's Bridle.
Match, 200 h ft, Sst 21b each; Clermont Course; Lord
Eglinton's Glen Saddell agst Duke of Bedford's Duplicity.

IRISH POOR-LAW BILL.
HOUSE OF LORDS. _MAY 14.
List of Division in the House of Lords on the motion to
agree to Lord Monteagle's Amendment for Limiting the
Duration of the Irish Poor-law Bill.

CONTENT.

DUKE.
Richmond
mAiltzvisEg.
Downshiro
Orinondo
LAILA.

EARLS.
Monnicashell
Ranfurly
Rosso
Stradbroke
Winchilsea
Roden
Burlington
Wicklow

BARONS.

Abin ger
Berwick
Bolton
Castlemaine
Colchester
De Ros
orthwiek
Rayleigh
Bedesdale
Southampton
Stanley
Templemoro
Tenterden
Wrottesley
Blayney
Boston

Bathurst
Dartmouth
Clare
Desart
Ellenborongh VISCOUNTS.
Fitzwilliain Clancarty
Enniskillen Combermero
Leven ARCHBISHOP.
Lonsdalo Dublin
Lucan BISHOP.
Malmesbury Gloucester

NON-CONTENT.

DrIES.

Redford I
St. Albans

EARLS. BARONS.
Galloway Cottenham
Ripon Erskine
MARQUISES. St. Germans Foley
Lansdowne Shaftesbury Hastings
Conyngham Glasgow Montfort
Northampton Waldegrave Strafford
Clanricarde Yarborough Sudeley
Camden Zetland Whanicliffe
Cholmondeley Harewood Rianaird
Morley Manners
:VISCOUNT. Kenyon
Sydney Mostyn
BARONS.
Beaumont
Byron •
Bruce
Camoys
Campbell
Carrington
Colborne

Auckland
Chichester
Clarendon
Clan williain
Devon
Dude
Fortescue
Granville
Grey

BI3IIOPII.
Peterborough
Lichfield
Lincoln
Worcester
nereford
St. Assph
Ely

PAIRS.

- Bishop of Durham
Earl of Charteville
Lord Portman
Earl of Off( rd
Viscount Lake. Earl of Denbigh
Marquis of Alba Lord Beauvale
Earl of Erne Lord Vivian
Earl of Orkney - Earl of Ilchester
Marquis of Exeter Earl Spencer
Earl of Munster Viscount Clifden
Earl of Bradfard Lord Dinorben
Marquis of Abercorn Lord:Dacre
Earl of Sheffield Lord lValslnghara
Bishop of Exeter Bishop of Chester
Duke of Newcastle Marquis of HeadfOrt Earl of Limerick ' Earl Verulam
Lord Sondes Lord Gleneig
Viscount Beresford Marquis of Anglesey
Lord De Lisle Lord Crewe
Marquis of Ely Earl of Leicester
Lord Ashburton Earl Minto
Earl Delawarr Earl Fitzbardinge
Earl Digby • Bishop of Salisbury
Earl of Eldon Earl Camperdown
Duke of Manchester Marquis of Winchester
Lord Wynford Lord Lilford
Earl of Cardigan Duke of Norfolk
Earl of Tankerville Earl Cornwallis
Lord Saltoun Earl of Fingall
Lord Willoughby d'Eresby Bishop of London
Earl of Wilton Duke of Roxburgh
Duke of Beaufort Lord Langdale
Earl Nelson Earl of Effingham
Earl of Somers Lord Lyttel ton
Viscount Canterbury Bishop of Rochester
Marquis of Ailesbury Earl of Ellesmere
Earlfof Warwick Bishop of Oxford
Earl of Longford Bishop of St. David's
Lord Brougham Earl Craven
Lord Middleton Earl of Sefton
Lord Faversham Duke of Buccieuch
Viscount Strangtord Lord Gardner
Duke of Cleveland Bishop of Ripon
Earl of Haddington Earl Powis
Lord Gage Lord Churchill
Earl of Kinnoul Earl Bowe
Earl Egmont Viscount Falkland
Duke of Montrose Marquis of Westminster

List of Peers who did not vote either way for Lord Mont-
eagle's Amendment on the 6th inst., but who voted on
Friday last, either in person or by proxy, or who paired off
in favour of the Marquis of Lansdowne's motion for the
Bill to be permanent.
DUKE. Chichester
Buccleuch Cornwallis Salisbury
MARQUISES. VISCOUNT. LORDS.
Camden Melbourne Arundell
Cholmondeley BISHOPS. Dc Manley
TAILS. London Denman
Howe Lincoln Hastings
Denbigh Rochester Howard de Walden
Fitzhardlnge Worcester Willoughby de Broke
Leicester Winchester Walsingliam
Sefton Chester Sherborne
Onslow Ely Alvanley
Beauchamp Oxford Gardner
Lindsey Ripon Pctre
Mount Edgcumbe Peterborough Strathallan
Powis St. Asaph
The proxies of the Earl of Abingdon and Lord Bayning
were, through a mistake, not extered. If proxies had been
called for, there were entered for the Government 62, and 44
against, the majority would consequently have been 30.
1

ETSIIOP.

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE.
GENTLEXEN,
THE announcement by Sir Charles Napier of his
having been called into active service will impo e on you the
duty of select ng another Member in his stead to represent your Im-
portant and influential borough in Parliament, and I respectfully beg
to inform you that it is my intention to solicit the honour of your
suffrages, whenever the vacancy may occur.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your faithful and obedient servant,
DAVID SALO ONS.
3, Great Cumberland-place, Hyde-park, May 17, 1847.

13, Great Marlborough-street.
SIR GEORGE -SIMPSON'S OVERLAND
JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLD,

IS NOW PUBLISHED,
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Orders received by all Booksellers.
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NEW NOVEL BY MRS. GASCOIGNE.
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo.,
E VELYN HARCO UR T,
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THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the Manzgement of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee.
THIS EVENING

WV be performed a new Comedy, called TEMPER. Sir Marma-
duke Topple, Mr. Farren ; Sir Charles Tempest, Mr. Hudson; God-
frey, Mr. Tilbury; Emerson, Mr. Webster; Cyril Tempest, Mr.
Howe; Lady Tempest, Mrs. Seymour; Mrs. Herbert, Mrs. Glover ;
Florence Wilmot, Mrs. Fortescue; Miss Fielding, Mrs. Humby.
Atter which, the FOUR HUNGARIAN INSTRUMENTAL 'VO-
CALISTS will give their imitations of various instruments, with the
Lips only.

To conclude with the Astronomical Extravaganza, called THE
NEW PLANET; or, Harlequin out of Place.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste
THIS EVENING

Will be performed the original Drama, called THE FLOWERS
OF THE FOREST ; a Gipsy Story. Cheap John, Mr. Wright ;
Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinchin, Mr. P. Bedford; Leybourne,
Mr. Worrell ; Cynthia, Madame Celeste ; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ;
Starlight Bess, Mrs. ; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding.

To be followed by the Opera Butfa Sketch, called JENNY LIND.
Principal characters by Yessrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, Lambert,
Selby, Culleniord, and 1.1.11.;s Woolgar.
To conclude with the Farce of SHOCKING EVENTS. In which
Chr. Lambert, Mr. Worrell; Mr. Munyard, Miss Harding, and Miss
Maplin will perform.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed the Play of THE HUNCHBACK. Master
Walter, Mr. Creswick ; Sir Thomas Clifford, Mr. J. Webster ; Lord
Tinsel, Mr. J. Vining; Julia, Mrs Butler; Helen, Mrs. Stirling.
After which, the new Farce, entitled A WIFE F 01; AN HOUR.
Principal characters by Messrs. Walton, Granby, Vining, Cowell,
Compton, Mrs. Hughes, and Miss E. Stanley.
To conclude with the new Farce, entitled A SLEEPING
DRAUGHT. Vincolo, Mr. Granby; Bruno, Mr. Walton; Rinaldo,
Mr. Fisher ; Popolino, Mr. Compton ; Gabriotte, Mr. Cowell ; Yaldo,
Mr. Smith ; Signora Francesca, Mrs. Hughes ; Nonna, Miss Stanley.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley.
THIS EVENING

Will be performed the now Drama, called THE CREOLE ; or,
Love's Fetters. Damiron, Mr. F.Mathews; Alphonse, Mr. Murray,

Hyacinthe, Miss Dickinson; Bokes, Mr. Keeley; Latour, 11fr,
Emery; Virgin's, Mias M. Keeley; Louise, Miss May; BeLlona,
Miss Daly.

Af er which,. the entirely new occasional Dramatic Sketch, called
JENNY LIND AT LAST; or, The Swedish Nightingale. Charac-
ters by Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Turner, air. Kink:pal, Mr. Bellingham,
Mr. Bender, Mr. Yarnoid, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravanza, called THE
WOOD 132EMON ; or, One o'Clock, In which Messrs. Keeley, A.
Wigan, F. Matthew:, Bellingham, Kinioch, Silver, Miss Dickinson,
Miss Daly, and Mrs. Keeley *ill appear.

FRENCII PLAYS.— ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Lessee Mr. John iNlitchell.
• THIS EVENING
Will he performed the c min Vaudeville of LA DOT D'AU-
VERGNE. Pierre, M. Intmery ; Jerome, M. Pagenier ; Madeleine,
Mdlle. locquet ; Felicite, Mdme. Dumery.
After which, the new Comedic, UN COUP DE LANSQUENET.
Desrousseaux, M. Regnier ; La Marquise du Puzy, Mdlle. Denain.
To conclude with thd popular Comedy of OSCAR ; ou, Un Mari
qui Trompe:sa Femme. Oscar, M. Begnier ; Juliette, Mdile. Denain.
Boxes, Gs. ; Pit; 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 34. ; Gallery, Ss.
Boxes and Stalls may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library,
33, Bond-street; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open
daily from Eleven till Five.

ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
CLOSE OF TILE ENTERTAINMENT.

The nobility, gentry, and th, public are respectfudy informed, that
the popular Entertainment given by the Ettropian Serenaders, Pell,
Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germcn, will be positively ter-
minated at the end of the ensuing month of June, previously to the
fixed departure of the Company for the Continent, on the sth of
July. Since the connnencement of this Entertainment, more than
four hundred performances, public and private have been given in
London ; and, notwithstanding the numerous ♦ulgar imitations which
have been recently attempted in the metropolis, the unapproachable
superiority of the above party is established by their undiminished
popularity and success. During the few remaining weeks of their
engagement, the performances will be continued every Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday evenings, and a Morning Performance will
take place every Wednesday. The entertainments of the Thursdays
during the month of June will be appropriated for the separate Bene-
fits of each member of the Company. And, in order to produce an
agreeable souvenir of the unparal!eled popularity of these perform-
ances, it is intended to present to every visitor of the private boxes
and stalls a portrait of the beneficiare in his private appearance, and
also in his professional capacity, illustrating some favourite melody.
Such portraits will be executed front the life, in the finest style, by
11. Maguire, Esq., and are already nearly completed. The benefits
will be arranged in the following order:—
Thursday, June 3, for the benefit of Germon (tamborine),
Thursday, June 10 ditto Stanwood (accordion),
Thursday, June 17 ditto White (banjo),
Thursday, June 24 ditto Harrington (banjo),
Thursday, July 1 ditto Pell (bones)
previously to tire last Farewell Performance, on Saturday Evening,
July 3.

Boxes and Stalls at Mitchell's Roy-al Library, 33, 011 Bond-street
and at the Box-office of the Theatre.

- -
ASTLEVS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. William Batty.
Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the
Royal Family.
Last nights of the grand Equestrian and Dramatic Spectacles, pre-
vious to the Whitsuntide splendid productions.
TIIIS t Nu
Will be performed Lord Byron's Dramatic Poem of THE BRIDE
OF ABYDOS ; or, The Corsair. '
Unequalled SCENES in She CIRCLE, with the performances of
the Arabian horse, Diamond of the Desert ; the four Mexican Antipo-
dean Artistes ; and the celebrated Clown. Mr. W. F. Wallet.
To conclude with ZARAII ; or, The Gipsy Tribe of Bohemia.
Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot.

Stalls, 55.; Boxes,-45.; Uppet: Boxes, 33 ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, is,
Upper Gallery, tkl. Commence every evening at Seven o'clock,

LOYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
TIIIS EVENING

Will Do performed RU iII ; or, The Lass that Loves a Sailor,
Bernard, Mr. hicks ; Ruth, Miss Vincent.
After which, the Farce of the LOTTERY TICKET. Wormwood,
Mr. Gardner.

To conclude with THE WIZARD OF THE WAVE ; or, The £hip
of the Avenger. Captain Faulkner, 31r. Hicks.
Boxes, Is.; half Price, 6d. Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

Under the patronage of her Majesty, his Royal highness Prince
Albert, the Queen Dowager, &c.
WILL OPEN THIS DAY, May 17,
And every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
The Zroprletor begs to announce that he has, at a considerable
expense, erected a new Entrance, and a luaguificeut WalLwith
flower borders, statues, and a Central Fountain, In front of the
grand Pictorial Representation of

TILE TOWN INDBAY OF GIBRALTAR.
The Menagerie contains many specimens, including the Giraffe,
Gazelles, &e. The Promenade Concerts, conducted Ly Godfrey. A
representation of the Porcelain Tower of Nankin. The Gothic Bridge
of Statues. The grand Pyrotechnic Display, representing the
SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR.
Showing the commencement of the Bombardment, partial destruc-
tion of the. Town, and Blowing up of the Battering Ships.
During the season, M. JUL LI EN will give a series of Concerts;
the Band will consist of one h• uttre.4 reriorrners.
Ad,nission, Oi•e

The Royal South London Florletiltunil Society will hold their
Grand Spring Flower Show, on Wednesday, May 26.

TIIE WEATIIER.—Sux OFFICE, MAY 16.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 52; Highest. 66 ; Noon, 66,

BAROMETER, 29.65.
WIND S.W.; occasional squally showers and sunshine,

MAY 17.

THERMOMETER, Lowest, 50 ; Highest, 66 ; Noon, 65,
BAROMETER, 30.—WIND S. W. ; fine.

WWI WATER AT LONDON-Mal WE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 29 minutes after 3. Erenlng 49 minutt s attel 3.

tiling the animal passins of the multitude by
the breath of his inflammele egotism. Now that the
Repeal Association is inapable of acting with its
customary energy and peseverance, seeing that its
great leader is still sojouring on the Continent, for
the purpose of recruiting is debilitated constitution,
the firebrand patriots, who are sticklers for physical
force, are endeavouring toilch from him that popu-
larity with the Irish tnultittie of which he has hitherto
been the sole object. A enthusiastic race like
the Hibernians must alwas have some medium
through which to express thir political sympathies.
The sudden illness and retirment of DANIEL O'CoN-
NELL have deprived them f the medium to which
they have been accustomed for very nearly half a
century. The Young Irelarlers perceive the oppor -
tunity afforded by this (to thin) felicitous calamity,
and hence their periodical lemonstrations at the
Rotunda, and their flagrant ari hyperbolical speeches
at what is, no doubt ironically called the Irish Con-
federation. If these melodralatic gentlemen really
imagine that a whole nation is to be deluded by
claptrap phrases and insolent boasts, they will find
themselves most pitifully mistiken. By the latest
intelligence received from tie travelling com-
panions of the Hon. and Learned Member
for Cork, it would seem that the recovery
of that extraordinary man is now tolerably
certain. On his return, with t renovated constitu-
tion, DANIEL O'CONNELL will lave sufficient to ac-
complish of Pacifying his countrymen and
reconc in
reconciling them way
mtothe dispensatons of PROVIDENCE
and the efforts of a benignant Gorernment.

Nothing has ever equalled be Young Ireland
braggadocios in violence of sentiment or bombast of
utterance. By their inflammatory orations they are
assuredly numbering themselves smong the most re-
prehensible class of juvenile offenders. They are
drawing down upon their extravagant faction the
indignation of a stern, and powerful,and afflicted realm.
Instead-of coalescing with the sincere wellwishers of the
sister island, instead of labouring-practically to ame-
liorate the condition of the dying and neglected mil-
lion, instead of evincing a manly susceptibility in
regard to the sorrows of their fellow-men, they are
striving heart and soul to sow dissension among the
masses, to aggravate the sufferings of starvation by
the anguish of discontent, to cast obloquy upon an
Administration whose paramount anxiety is to assuage
the woes of a people of whom they are said to be the
bitterest enemies and the most ruthless murderers.
Can any mat, with a spark of the be-
nign fire of Caristianity in his bosom, can
any man with a sound intellect, or a heart not
wholly hardened agtinst the influences of humanity—
can any man, indeed who is not entirely bereft of his
senses entertain the :lightest respect for the political
ranters and jumpers cf the Irish Association? Messrs.
O'Gonmars and Muitaunn may conceive that they
are acquiring a reputaion kindred to that of ROBERT
EMMETT. If so, they are labouring under a deplo-
rable delusion. They ire so far from eliciting the
approbation of the sensible, that they are ensuring
for themselves the contumelious regard even of the
least discerning. Perhaps in their very recent
emancipation from the school-room these youths
may bear some dim remembrance of the masterly
description of CATALINE, written by the his-
torian SALLUST. Shou d this classic reminiscence
have not altogether faded from their memories
through the ecstacy of their democratic ardour,
they would do well to draw an analogy
with that immortal portraiture, and henceforth
eschew the demoralising tendencies of their phre-
netic and fanatical doctrines. If they are not
actually playing such fantastic tricks " before high
Heaven as would make; the angels weep," they are
certainly conducting themselves in a manner that
must make all honest patriots grieve.

It is one (and that one not the least) of the many
evils of the present dearth and famine with which it
has pleasedPaovinEiscE immediately to afflict Ireland,
and mediately, through the failure of the craps in that
unhappy country, this, comparatively speaking, more
favoured island of England, that the attention of the
Legislature and of the public has been so completely
absorbed in' attempting to devise measures to
mitigate the horrors of this appalling affliction,
as to render it necessary to leave unredressul and even
uninvestigated many abuses which call loudly for
reform, and which, had they occurred in times of
greater material prosperity, would have at once
demanded, and have obtained the immediate attention
of Parliament. Foremost among these, as placing in
jeopardy the personal liberty of every one of her
MAJESTY'S subjects, is the Law of Lunacy; the neces-
sity for a sweeping reform in which is demonstrated
by a trial which took place in the Court of Queen's
Bench in the course of last week. The case to which
we allude, is the case of " CIIMMING v. INCE," which
was tried before Mr. Justice ERLE and a common jury.
The plaintiff was the unfortunate Mrs. Cusisinsc,
to whose case as an illustration of the necessity of an
alteration in the present state of the law we have, on
more than one occasion, directed the attention of the
readers of The Sun. The action was brought by Mrs.
CusisseNG to recover possession of certain title-deeds
detained by the defendants, in consequence of an
arrangement entered into not to prosecute a com-
mission de lunatico against the plaintiff; one of the
conditions of which arrangement was that the plain-
tiff shoull make a certain disposition of her pro-
porty in favour of the two defendants. The circum-
stances of the case, as stated by Mr. COCKBURN, the
counsel for the plaintiff, and admitted by Mr.
WATSON, the counsel for the defendants, were these :
" Mrs. Cumming, the plaintiff, was a woman entitled to
certain freehold property. She was a person considerably
advanced in life, and was perhaps rather irascible anti im-
patient. Between herself and her two daughters, the wives
of Messrs. Hooper and Ince, differences had arisen, and these
persons had thought fit to apply for a commission of lunacy
against their mother. This commission issued on the 29th of
July; it lay for some time without execution, but towards
the middle of August the parties proceeded to put it into
execution. The plaintiff had been put into a lunatic asylum
as early as the 13th of May, and she was brought up from
that place to be examined under the commission. On the
29th of August the investigation began, before Mr. Barlow,
the Commissioner, and after continuing for four or five days,
an arrangement was entered into. In consequence of that
arrangement, the title-deeds of the plaintiff were delivered
up. It was to set aside this arrangement that the present
proceeding had been instituted."
2he now sought to recover the possession of those
deeds, because the consent she had given to this ar-
rangement was not a free and voluntary consent.

She was under duress, which the existence Of re

straint and the fear of a continued abode in a lunatic
asylum imposed upon her." 2dr. Justice EELS, in his
summing up, told the jury "that an agreement derived
all its force from the mental consent of the party who
made it. It might be valid as to externals, and yet void
in law if the mind cf the party making it had not gone
-Monk with it when made. Where there was an appa-
rent consent and an apparent execution, still if it was
shown that it was obtained under duress, and not by
the free will of the party, the agreement would be
void." His Lordship, therefore, put this question to
the jurors—" whether the plaintiff's apparent consent
for Mr. PETERSDORFF to sign the agreement on her
behalf was obtained by the effect of the restraint she
was under, and without the exercise of her free will?
If the arrangement had not been made the inquiry
would have gone on. The jury was empanelled, and
the plaintiff knew that a verdict must be taken. If

would find for
the jurors now thought that the plaintiff had con-
sented to this agreement without any exercise of her
free will, they would find for the plaintiff; if they
thought she bad consented of her own free will they
entirely for them."
Our readers will recollect that at the time the
the defendants. This question was
arrangement was entered into, we expressed an
opinion that It pints, upon the very face of it,
invalid, because if Mrs. CUMMINO were insane, she
was incapable of executing any
legal docutnent ; and
ine, the arrangement, as having been entered into
under duress, was void, and it is with some gratifi-
cationf sane,
that we find that opinion suppotted by tb high
. a legal authority as Mr. Justice ERLE. The jury re-
turned a verdict for the plaintiff; invalidating
the arrangement, and restoring to Mrs. CUMMING full
control over her property. Thus after a lapse of twelve
months; after an incarceration in an asylum of
four months
; after all the anxiety and all the
expense attendant upon an action at law,
Mrs. CUIUMING has obtained a tardy remedy ;
hut she would
if the law rendered, as it ought to render, a public ;
preliminary have escaped all this suffering
inquiry into the sanity or insanity of any ,
alleged lunatic necessary, before authorising the de-
tention of such alleged lunatic in any asylum. We
shall be told again as we have been told before, that

the law renderi it necessary to have the certificates
of two medical men to authorise the keeper of an
asylum to detain any alleged lunatic, and that the
commissioners of lunacy are appointed to see that
this provision of the law is strictly complied with.
We have already demonstrated the utter worthless-
ness of such certificates—certificates which may be
purchased in the market at the rate of 103. each.
But is even this requisition always complied with ?
What is the evidence as to that point given in the
present case. We quote from the report of the
trial:—

" Mr. Justice Erle accordingly took from the statement of
Mr. Haines the following detail of the circumstances of the
case. The plaintiff was a person 69 years of age, the de-
fendants were her two daughters, and their two husbands.
She was taken to a lunatic asylum on the l 2th May, 1846.
On the 19th July the plaintiff's husband died. On the 29th
July a commission in lunacy was taken out. Notice of exe-
cuting it was given on the 22d of August. The plaintiff was
taken to a madhouse on the opinion of one medical man."

This last sentence is cunningly and cautiously worded.
What does it mean—that there were the certificates
of two, but the opinion of only one medical man—or
that she was received into the madhouse on the autho-
rity of a single certificate, and detained after her recep-
tion upon the authority of a second—or that she was
detained upon the authority of one certificate only ?
It may mean either of these. How comes it
that the Commissioners did not elicit by their
inquiries the fact that she was taken to
a madhouse on the opinion of one medical
man ? Is the law even less careful of the liberty of
the subject than we have hitherto supposed it to be ?
Does the law authorise a person to be taken to a
madhouse, upon the opinion of one medical man ? If
it does, is it not more than ever necessary that such
law should be altered ? And that no alteration short of
a public preliminary inquiry previous to incarceration
can be satisfactory, is demonstrable from the facts of
this very important case, as we propose to prove on
some future occasion.

In support of the cause of civil and religious liberty
our earnest endeavours have never been wantirg.
The principle is of vital importance to the growth
and maintenance of civilisation. Man acts accord-
ing .to his feelings, and he shows himself most rational
when these are tempered with judgment. The sen-
timents of religion are those which influence the
human mind down to its profoundest depths. The
history of the whole world is fraught with terrible
illustrations of this truth. No political lever has
proved itself so powerful as that of religious enthu-
siasm. This feeling has demonstrated itself, when once
kindled, as the infallible precursor of most of the re-
markable events recorded in the histories of different
nations. Under its influence thrones and states have
been shaken to their foundations, and revolutions have
come and gone, resembling, in their rapid succession,
the repetition of the hurricane during a continuous and
desolating tempest. The potency of this principle is
evidenced by the reflection that some of the fiercest
struggles between religious communities have turned
more upon the forms than the principles of their
different creeds. The comparative peace which has
so long been enjoyed by the world at large, and Europe
in particular, and the favourable rise which nume-
rous countries are making in the scale of civilisation,
are attributable to the homage which has been, and is
mow, for the most part, paid by their respective Go-
vernments to the benign principle of toleration.
Persecution in any shape, on account of a man's re-
ligious persuasion, is at length happily beginning to
be viewed with general abhorrence by all enlightened
people. Here and there we witness occasional out-
bursts of an intolerant spirit, even in England
itself. Fortunately these manifestations are of
an isolated character. They are, in fact, still-born.
The motives of public bodies, such as the Pro-
testant Association and National Club, are not to be
impugned; but their judgment is open to be arraigned,
their fears to be slighted, and their conduct to be
represented as tyrannical in its effect. Were the
powers of the Vatican exercised in the most arbitrary
and bigoted manner, they could not be more viru-
lently assailed than they are at this moment by
a prejudiced few ; but as they happen to be
notoriously wielded by Pius IX. in a spirit
of liberality, such that Austria herself has openly
censured his policy, a more inopportune moment
could not have been selected for attempting to raise
a No- Popery cry. Lord JoHN RUSSELL on Friday
took occasion to pay a well-merited tribute of admi-
ration to the course which his HOLINESS has pursued
since his accession; and, in answer to a question from
Mr. HORSMAN, whether the Government contemplated
taking any steps to place the British relations
with Rome on a more friendly footing, his Lordship,
after adverting to certain legal difficulties at present
existing in the way of deputing a Minister with cre-
dentials from this country, avowed his conviction of
the desirableness of establishing formal diplomatic
relations between England and Rome. We have no
doubt that this important subject will hereafter re-
ceive the consideration to which it is entitled.

Madrid journals of the 9th and 10th ult. have been
received.

A letter of the 9th gives the following particulars
relating to the late alleged attempt on the life of the
QUEEN, and to Don ANGEL DE LA RIVA, the supposed
assassin, and his accomplices :
" The attempt upon the Queen's life on Tuesday evening
continues to monopolise public attention. The affair is un-
dergoing a very serious and active investigation by the ma-
gistrates ; but nothing transpires either to confirm or dispel
any of the reports in circulation. Don Angel de la Riva,
who is said to have fired the pistols, is in custody ; he is
an advocate, and was lately employed in editing the nou-
velles direrses of the Clamor Public° ; but the politics of
that paper did not exclusively engage his attention, for he
was at the same time intimately connected with Don Diego
Coello, editor of the Faro, an ultra-Moderado journal, es-
blished under the auspices of Senors Mon and Pidal. Senor
Coello has also been questioned by the examining. magistrate.
The official statement is anxiously looked for by everybody,
for regicide is deemed an impossibility among Spaniards; it
it not therefore surprising that many persons persist in doubt-
ing whether the pistols wers loaded with ball. Since her
Majesty's arrival at Aranjucz she has repeated her in •
vitatious to Don Francisco to join her, but he is in-
flexible. lam assured that he Las written to his cousin
the Count de Montemolin, declaring the date of his last
personal communication with the Queen ; which supposes
suspicion of a jealous character. He also expresses appre-
hension of some attempt upon his lilt—an insinuation ren-
dered absurd by the Queen's well-known amiable disposition.
Notwithstanding the intense anxiety which pervades every
class of society, it is gratifying to be able to state that no
fears have arisen respecting the tranquillity of this capital.
The money crisis, which weighs so heavily on London and
Paris, has naturally prcduced its effect here, and our com-
mercial horizon is gloomy; however, there is at present great
activity in building, so that the labouring classes have plenty
of work.

"P.S.—I have just heard that Senor Coello has been ar-
rested, and is now in prison, and also that some important
individuals are implicated, as having instigated De la Riva
to his criminal attempt."
The QUEEN has invited Generals SERRANO and
CORDOVA, together with the Marquis of MIRAFLORES
and Senor PACRECO, to the Court at Aranjuez.
The Gazette publishes royal decrees, appointing
General BicAnn.') SCIIELLY Captain-General of An-
dalusia, in the room of General YEZUELA ; General
Baron DEL SOLAR DE ESPINOSA, Captain-General of
Granada ; and General FERNANDO COTONER, Captain-
General of Burgos.

The Tiempo announces, that on the evening of the 9th
some alarm was created in Madrid by the explosion
of two petards at the Puerta dcl Sol. The KING has
refused to join the QUEEN at Aranjuez, and has gone
for some days to the Prado.

It is said that PACHECIIO is opposed to the promul-
gation of a royal decree giving force to the financial
projects of Senor SALAMANCA. Food riots of a serious
nature have taken place in the provinces of Seville
and Grenada.

MADRID BOLSA, MAY 10.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 314 for paper; the Five per Cents. at 191 ; the
Debt without interest at 5%; and the Coupons, at 16 for
cash.

'We have received the Paris papers of Friday and
Saturday.
The interpellation of M. GUIZOT by M. ODILON
Rumor, on the subject of the recent change in the
Ministry, took place on Friday in the Chamber of
Deputies. The scene is thus described by the
National:---
M. Odilon Barrot questioned M. Guizot as to the motive
for the dismissal of the three Ministers. M. Guizot replied

that it was done because such was the pleasure of the Crown.
M. Lacave Laplagne said it was not his fault, and M. de
Girardin replied, after which the Chamber broke up. All
this did not occupy an hour. About 2,000 persons went to
the Chamber; about 1,200 of them for the sake of amuse-
ment. and amused they must have been, for it was very
droll."

On this subject the Presse says—
" Testerday was an evil day for the Ministry. It is left
in an abased situation, from which it will be difficult for it
to extricate itself. An inexorable severity towards its as-
sociates must, in turn, recoil upon its own head. It must be
extremely confident in its own strength not to show greater
indulgence, or rather it must feel itself extremely weak Snot
to be wore generous. If the Ministry had been strong, if it
had pot felt that its existence Was at stake, it would hate

undoubtedly postponed all modification of the Cabinet until
after the session."

The Siecle has the following ferocious attack upon
M. GUJZOT

"There are men whose political conduct is nothing more
than a series of opportune defections. Always in the secrets
of fate, they can foresee events, prognosticate misfortune,
change their stations in good time, bend and accommo-
date themselves with wonderful suppleness and prompti-
tude to the rapid revolutions of Fortune's wheel. Like the
Roman Emperor who admitted into his pantheon the gods
of every mythology, so they have their altar for every wor-
ship, but reserve their devotions for the Divinity of the day.'
These men were found at Glient in 1815, intriguing among
the enemies' bivouacs, while France succumbed at Water-
loo. Brought back to Paris in an English or Prussian
baggage waggon, they have made use of the Restoration
while pretending to serve it, and exercised their pens in the
bureau de r espri public, or in the concilitibules of royalist
reaction. Under this flag advancement was too tardy,
and their impatient ambition turned in another direction
with its arms. Their wounded but prescient pride sought
applauses on another stage. They became doughty cham-
pions of the Socidt( Aide- toi, le Ciel t'aidera. The Revo-
lution of 1830 raised them on its bucklers. On the day after
this popular triumph they induced the new dynasty to deny
its origin, and urged it on to the perilous path in which its
predecessors had lost themselves. A competition of servility
soon brought into action those subaltern pretensions which
dispute for the first place in the vestibule of Government.
The dismissed servant revolts. He resolves to renew the
. assault in the adjoining ante-chamber. There may be seen
the excess of zeal with which he demands credit for his
tardy devotion to the national and constitutional policy.
This holy cause ennobles, in his eyes, every part he may
play. He accepts that of recruiting-sergeant of the coali-
tion, and collects a small platoon of Doctrinaires under the
standard of the great Parliamentary army. 'We find this
man of agility at London in 1839 and 1840, conspiring
against the system which he had sworn to make prevail,
and against the Ministry whose policy he was bound to re-
present. England rendered him justice. He spoke, but
she did not believe him. It is he himself who has told us
so. After he had thus expiated his faults, his repentance
received its reward. He enters into the Ministry, and, to
complete his abjuration, denies all the principles which he
had maintained in 1838 and 1839. He it was who under-
took to purify the temple which had for a moment been
profaned, and to replace on the altar the idol of royalty
which reigns and governs. We now find him, in 1847,
faithful to the practice of his whole life, abandoning the
vanquished, giving the finishing stroke to the wounded, be-
traying those whom fortune had. deserted, and sacrificing his
accomplices to escape the chastisement due to his own faults."

The Chancellor and Committee charged to make
the preliminary investigations in the case of General
DESPANS CUBIERES, on Friday examined' M. LE.
GRAND, Under Secretary of State to the Department
of Public Works, and M. PELLAPRAL, a very old
gentleman, who was formerly a receiver-general.
The distress continues to increase in all parts of
France. In Paris, alone one-fourteenth part of the
population is absolutely pauper, and two-fifths of
the inhabitants have availed themselves of the advances
made by the authorities to ensure to all who claimed it
bread at not more then 16 sous the loaf. In the
provinces, where the Government has not made any
similar advances in aid of the starving population, the
most serious riots have taken place. At Cambrai on
Wednesday a black flag was paraded through the
streets, the multitude vociferating "Bread at 20 sous,
or death." Every quarter of the town was disturbed.
It was attempted to disperse the crowd by a display
of infantry and cavalry, but the military failed in
their efforts. At six o'clock in the evening a detach-
ment of 50 National Guards established a post in the
hall of the Consistory, and the firemen, having taking
arms, contributed to restore order.

At Lille, on the 13th, the bakers' shops were plun-
dered by a mob, and seditious cries were uttered,
among others, Viva La Republique ! Vive Henri V.—
Viva notre Rol qui est en Angleterre (Louis NA-
roLEoN)! There were also serious food riots at
Tournay on Wednesday. These riots were renewed
at Tournay and at Lille on Thursday, but tranquillity
was restored on Friday.
The Panama steamer has been ordered to proceed
to Marseilles and placed at the disposal of Queen
CHRISTINA. CHRISTINA goes to Naples, where she
will remain ten days. It is intended that she shall
on her voyage back to France remain a few days at
Leghorn with her sister, the Grand Duchess of
Tuscany.

Algiers papers of the 10th have been received. On
the 7th Marshal BUGEAUD left Algiers to take the
command of the expedition against Kabylia.
Mr. O'CONNELL arrived at Genoa on the 6th.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
on that day at 77f. 90c. ; the Five per Cents., 115 f.
65c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2251'.; Rouen,
928 f. 75c.; Havre, 645 f. ; Great Northern, 603 f.
75c. ; Avignon, 721 f. 25c. ; Vierzon, 580 f.; Bor-
deaux, 507 f. 60c. ; Boulogne, 407 f. 50c.; Basle, 188 f.
76c.; Dieppe, 320 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 421 f. 25c.;
Tours and Nantes, 410 f.; Paris and Lyons, 431 f.
25c. ; Cette, 442 E 50c. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 53,a.
MARSEILLES, MAY 11.—Marseilles and Avignon, 758 f
75e.; Great Northern, 603 f. 75c.

BUSINESS DONE IN. FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 15. -
The only transaction in Foreign Railways was—Ceylon, !4..

DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, MAY 14.
Money. Bills
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent-- •• . 573, 58%
Ditto, 3 per Cent ........ ••••• • • • • • 70 70%
Ditto, 4 per Cent.. • • • • ..... .• 8914
Antort Syndic, 3% per Cent.• •
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent .. 17234 17354
East India Loan, 4 per Cent.• •.•• • • • 89% 89%
Exchange on London, at sight • ••.• • • 12 20
Two months.— • • ••• • • • 12 02
On Haniburgh, at sight .• 35 50
Two months •.•••• • • • • .• 35 12
On I'aris . ..............
Twomonths. •• • • .......
HAMBURGH BORSENIIALLE, May 8.
Bills. Money.
A. us t r an 5 per Cents ...... ....• •• 108
Bank Shares •••••••• • • • • • • • • ••• • • • 1590
• Anglo-Russian Loan ... ••• • •
Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 102
Ditto let series Inscription ... ..... 101 N
Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 98
Ditto, in Certificate ........ 97%
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ..
Ditto Stieglitz - • • ......
Spanish New 5 per Cent.. •• ••••• • • • • • 1734 16%
Ditto 3 per Cent ........... ..... .• 28% --
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent...... 53
Ditto 3 per Cent. ................
Polish New 4 per Cent. l.oan, 1844....
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent .• •• .. 84
National Bank Shares
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bausrms, MAY 11.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent • • • • ....
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........ --
Loan of Thirty 311111 ons, Four poi-Cent—
Ditto Three per Cent-- .... • ........-.
Ditto Thirty-seven Alilllons, ditto ......
Ditto, ditto, 1840 •• • • • ..... •• •• •• • • • • •• 100
Ditto, 1838 ••..•••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • .. 0836
—Brussels Papers, May 12.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.--VIENNA, MAY 7.
5 per Cent. Al etalliques • • • • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • 107
4 per Cent. ditto.. ............. ..... 97%
3 per Cent. ditto• • • • ...... . • • • 69v,
Loan, 1834 ...... • • • • • • • • 155'"
Ditto, 1839 .... •• • • • • • • ••• • .• • • •• • • • • 119%
Bank Shares' ..... • • • • • ..
Esterhazy's Loan • • • • •• •• . • • .• •• • .
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand .• .• - . 169 ti
Gloggnitz •- • • •• • • •••• • • • • .
Vienna—Milan ••. • • • •• • • 11l
Leghorn ••••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • ' • • • • • 8934
Sienna •••••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • i;gt
Grosetto .• •• •• •• •• • •• ••.• •• go. 951%
Oldenburg ••.•••.••••• • • .• .• .• .• ...• • •
Pestoja •• •• •• •• •• •• so •• •• •46 •• •• •• .• •• ••
l'estli Bridge .. • • .....• •••••••• • • • • • • ••
Apenninert .• .• .• • • ...• • • • ••• • • • aMD

THE ARMY.
11th Foot—Head-quarters arrived at Hobart Town
from Sydney, per Java transport, on the 19ch of Janu-
ary; and were transhipped on the 22d January to the
Elizabeth and Henry, for conveyance to Launceston.
The Java was to take" the remainder, of (he 51st Regi-
ment from Sydney to Madras.
The 58th Regiment had returned from New Zealand
to Sydney.
The 96th and 99th Regiments have eceived orders to
proceed to India from New South Walers.

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ROYAL A5YLUM•0r.b2.15.141.4'15 SOCIETY.—The an-
excellent charity for clothing, edu-
cating,he children of those once in
prosperity, was held on Saturday at the London Tavern, Mr.
Cabbell, MT, presided, and was supported by Sir W. 11.
the Very Rev. the Dean of Hereford,
niver r
and ndd whollyiener °f
m-tabiinstaining t
J; Phillippart, Colonel Lewis, Colonel
ahned of Walea had
ebpl.P"
u Sir
ty Evans, Mr. E. Brewster, and about 180
of
the
governors that his Loyalae d he
Jswioril
Wilkie,
Eki .
effie l:,
.1 Bart.,sealrr. aoj)
chairman
rm
presenteda li
an-
nouncedt i their
highness friends.
the
Prince
become one of the patrons of the society,
a first.donation of 250 guineas to the charity. It was also
stated that his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had
kindly promised to take the chair at the society's dinner next
year. Among the donations announced were—Her Ma-
jesty, 10/. lUs. ; the Queen Dowager, 101. 10s.. ; the
Chairman (Mr. Cabbell), 214 ; Mr. M. Attwood, M.P
21/. ; Mr. E. Brewster and ;friends, 621. 10s. The total"
number- of children in the society's two establishments,
the Royal Asylum at Brixton and the town school, is
294. During the evening the children entered the room,
and the modest and ingenuous manner and appearance of
both sexes elicited the wannest commend • hops of the com-
pany. Their healthy and intelligent looks
they fortunately
share in common with the inmates of many of our well-con-
ducted public institutions; but it was still more gratifying to
observe that every youthful face bore the traces of those
gentler affections which arc only cherished in the kindly
nurture of lit.lipy homes. Several ladies who
visit the asy-
lum, and take a benevolent
interest
in the health and im-
provement of the children, were present. A portion of the
band of the Coldstream Guards were stationed in the gallery,
and the musical arrange'
Messrs. Hobbs, lieneh,-aandellts, which included Miss Betts,
,ockey, materially added to the
enjoyment of the evening.scale
The
dinner
and
wines
were
On
of excellence, and fully upheld the
character of Messrs. Bathe -
and Breach's
establishment. We
are glad to notice that the funds
of this institution (the bene-
fits of which are exclusively confined to the children of those
who have seen better days) are in a satisfactory. and pros-
perous condition.

CORN FROM .AUSTRIA.--The Austrian Observer of
the Bth instant publishes an Imperial decree, prohititing
the export of corn from t 1 e Austrian dominions for five
months,

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