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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY 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, 184!

Tll URSDAT.

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 4lb each, T.Y.C.; Mr. O'Brien's
Eagle of the North agst Duke of Bedford's Sable.
SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1847.
MONDAY.

Match, 300/., 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 Eryx agst Duke of Bedford's Bridle.
Match, 200 h ft, Bst 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.
EARLS,
Richmond Mountcasheil
stAeutrisEs. Ranfurly
Downsbire Rose
Ormonde Stradbroke
BAILS. IVinchilsea
Bathurst Roden
Dartmouth Burlington
Clare Wicklow
Desart
Ellenborough VISCOUNTS.
Clancarty
Enniskillen Combermere
Leven
ABCHBISHOP.
Lonsdale Dublin
Lucan BISHOP.
Malmesbury Gloucester

BARONS,

Abinger --
Berwick
Bolton
Castlemalne
Colchester
De Ros
Northwick
Rayleigh
Redesdale
Southampton
Stanley
Templemore
Tenterden
Wrottesley
Blayney
Boston

NON-CONTENT.
EARLS.

DMus.
Bedford I
St. Albans

Galloway
Ripon
usaiamsEs. St. Germans
Lansdowne Shaftesbury
Conyngham ' Glasgow
Northamptbn Waldegraye
Clanricarde Yarborough
Camden Zetland
choiniondeley Harewood
Morley
EARLS.

BAR.ONS,
Cottenham
Erskine
Foley
Hastings
Montfort
Strafford
Sudeley
Whariieliffe
Kinnaird
Manners
Kenyon
Mostyn

Auckland
Chichester -
Clarendon
Clanwillian2
Devon
Dude
Fortescue
Granville
Grey

:vtscounr.
Sydney
BARONS.
Beaumont
Byron
Bruce
Camoys
Campbell
Carrington
Colborne

BISHOPS,
Peterborough
Lichfield
Lincoln
Worcester
Hereford
At. Asapk
Ely

PAIRS.

Earl ofCharleville Bishop of Durham
, Earl of Orfcrd Lord Portman
Viscount Lake. Earl of Denbigh
Marquis of Ailsa Lord Beauvale
. Earl of. Erne . Lord Vivian
Earl of Orkney Earl of Ilbhester
Margin; of Exeter Earl Spencer
Earl of-Munster • Viscount Clifden
. Earl of• Bradford . Lord Dinorben
Marquis of Abercprn , . LordD)acre .
Earl of Sheffield Lord Walsinghara
• Bishop of Exeter Bishop of Chester
Duke of Newcastle Marquis of Headfort
Earl of Limerick Earl Verulam
Lord Sondes
Lord Glenelg
Viscount BeresfOrd Marquis of Anglesey
Lord De Lisle • Lord Crewe
Marquis of Ely . Earl of Leicester
Lord Ashburton, Earl Minto
•
Earl Dela warr Earl Fitzharding,e
Earl Dfgsy 'T - 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 Tankerrille • 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 Lyttelton
Viscount Canterbury Bishop of Rochester
Marquis of Ailesbury Earl of Ellesmere
Earliof 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 Buccleuch
Viscount Strangford Lord Gardner
Duke of Cleveland Bishop of Ripon
Earl of Iladdington Earl Poivis
Lord Gage Lord Churchill
Earl of Kinnoul Earl Howe
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 BISHOP.
Buccleuch Cornwallis Salisbury
MARQUISES. VISCOUNT. LORDS.
Camden Melbourne A rundell
Chohnondeley DIsROPS. De :Hanley
EARLS. London Denman
Howe . Lincoln Hastings
Denbigh Rochester Howard de Walden
Fitzhardinge Worcester Willoughby de Broke
Leicester Winchester Walsingliam
Sefton Chester Sherbome
Onslow Ely Alvanley
Beauchamp Oxford Gardner
Lindsey Ripon Petre
. Mount Edgcurnbe 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.

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGII OF MARYLEBONE.
GENTLEMEN,
THE announcement by Sir Charles Napier of his
having been called into active service will impo e on you the
duty of select jig 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 3, Great CuSALO ONSCumberland-place,Hyde-park, May 17, 1847.

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HER 31AJESTI"S THEATIIE.
TOMORROW EVENING, Tuesday, May 18, will be performed
Bellini's Ol era, entitled

LA SONNAMBULA,
Amine, .Mdlle. Jenny Lind ; Lisa, Madame Solari ; Count Rodolph,
Signor F. Lablache ; and Elvino, Signor Gardoni.
To be followed by a DIVERTISSEMENT, in which will be pre-
sented the Pas de la Couronne, by Mdlle. Cerito and M. St. Leon.
A new Pas de Deux (by M. I'errot), by Mdlle. Rosati and 11. Perrot.
And Pas Styrienne, by Madlle, Cerito and M. St. Leon.
To conclude with the admired Ballet (by 31. P. Taglioni), entitled
CORALIA,
(Omitting the two tirst Tableaux).
Coralia, Mdlle. Rosati; Huldcbrand, M. L'Dor ; the Squire, 31.
Gouriet ; Bertha, Mdme. Petit Stephan; the Page, Mdlle. Honore ;
Duke,; M. Gosselin ; Fraisondin, 31. Venefra ; Ulrich, 31. Di Mattia.
The Free List is suspended, the Public Press excepted.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully in-
formed, that a grand EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURS-
DAY EVENING, ➢lay 20, when will be performed Meyerbeer's
Opara, entitled

ROBERTO IL DIAVOLO.
Alice, Mdlle. Jenny Lind; Isabella, Made. Castellan ; Roberto, Signor
Frasehini ; Rambaldo, signor Gardoni ; Sacerdote, Signor Bouehe ;
and Bertram, Signor Staudigl.
To be followed by various Entertainments in the BALLET DE-
PARTMENT, combining the talents of Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. C.
Rosati, Mdme. Petit Stephan, Mdlles. Cassan, Ilonore, James,
Julien, Lamoureux, and Mdlle. L. Grakn. M. Perrot and M. St.
Leon.

The doors open at Seven. The Opera to commence at Half-past
Seven o'clock.
Pit Tickets may be obtained, as usual, at the Office of the Theatre,
price 10s. 6d. each.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN,

GRAND EXTRA NIGHT, combination of talent, THURSDAY
next, May, 20, when will be performed the Opera of-
LUCREZIA BORGIA.
_ _ .

The principal characters by Madame (Iris!, Signora Alboni, Signor
Mario, Signor Marini, Signor Tamburini, Signor Ley, Signor Polonini,
Signor Lavin. Signor, TMli, Si ;nor Piacentini, and Signor Tagilafico.
To be followed by the Second Act of the Opera of
L'ITALIANA IN ALGIEM.
The Principal characters by Signora Alboni, Mdlle. Angelini,
Bellini, Signor Salvi, Signor Rovere, Signor Polonini, and Signor
Marini.
To conclude with a new grand Ballet, in three Tableaux, entitled
LA SAL A MANDR IN E
In which Mdlle. Fanny Elmler and Mdlle. Dumilatre will appear ;
also 3ldlles. Baderna, Bertin, be Mellsse, Delechaux, M. Petipa, M.
Mabille, &c., will dance. The ballet by M. l'lasis, the music by
Signor Curmi, the scenery by Messrs. Grim and Tahiti, and the
costumes by M. Bailey.

The Doors will open at Half-past Seven o'clock, and the Opera
will commence at Eight.
Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes to be obtained at the Box-office, Bow-
street ; and at Cramer, Beak, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee,
TIIIS EVENING

Will be petrol med a new Comedy, called TEMPER. Sir Marma-
dulse Topple, Mr. larren ; Sir Charles Tempest, Mr. lludson ; God-
frey, Mr. Tilbury; Emerson, Mr. Webster ; Cyril Tempest, Mr.
Bowe ; Lady Tempest, Mrs. Seymour ; Mrs. Herbert, Mrs. Glover ;
Florence Wilmot, Mrs. Fortescue ; Miss Fielding, Mrs. Humby.
After 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, ADELPHI.
Under the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed the original Drama, called THE FLOWERS
OF TIIE 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. Fitzwilliam ; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding.
To be followed by the Opera Buffa Sketch, called JENNY LIND.
Principal characters by Messrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, Lambert,
Selby, Cullenford, and Miss 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 FOR 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;
Mr. Smith ; Signora Francesca, Mrs. Hughes ; Norma, Miss Stanley.

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

Will be performed the new Drama, called THE CREOLE ; or,
Love's Fetters. Damiron, Mr. F. Mathews; Alphonse, Mr. Murray,
Hyacinthe, Miss Dickinson ; Bokes, Mr. Keeley ; Latour, Mr.
Emery; Ylrginie, Miss M. Keeley; Louise, Miss May; Bellona,
Miss Daly.
Arei which, the entirely new occasional Dramatic Sketch, called
JENNY LIND AT LAST; or, The Swedish Nightingale. Charac-
ters by Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Turner; Mr. Kinloch, Mr. Bellingham,
Mr. Bender, Mr. Yarnold, and Mrs. Keeley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravanza, called THE
WOOD DAIMON ; or, One o'Clock, In which Messrs. Keeley, A.
Wigan, F. Matthew, Bellingham, Kinloch, Silver, Miss Dickinson,
Miss Daly, and Mrs Keeley will appear.

FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed the c'mic Vaudeville of LA DOT D'Au-
VERGNE. Pierre, M. Dumery ; Jerome, M. Pagenier ; Madeleine,
Mdlle. Focquet ; Felicite, Mdme. Dumery.
After which, the new Comedic, UN COUP DE LANSQUENET.
Desrousseaux, M. Regnier ; La Marquise du Puzy, Mdlle. lienain.
To conclude with the popular Comedy of OSCAR ; ou, Un Mari
qui Trompe:sa Femme. Oscar, M. Regnier ; Juliette, Mdlle. Denain.
Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3,. ; Gallery, 'ts.
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 the public are respectfully informed, that
the popular Entertainment given by the Ethopian Serenaders, Pell,
Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon, 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 commencement of this Entertainment, more than
four hundred performances, public and private have been given in
London ; and, notwithstandingthe numerous vulgar 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 wal 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 unparvreled 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 from the life, in the finest style, by
11. Maguire, Esq., and are already nearly completed. The benefits
will be arranged in the folio ving order:—

Tinlisilay, June 3, fur the benefit of Germon (tamborine),
Thursday, June 10 ditto Stanwood (accordion),
Thursday, June 17 ditto IVhit (banjo),
Thursday, June 24 ditto Harrington (banjo),
Thursday, July 1 ditto Pell (bones)
previously to the last Farewell Performance, on Saturday Evening,
July 3.

Boxes and Stalls at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-stree
and at the Box-office of the Theatre.

ASTLEY'S 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.
THIS EVENING
Will be performed Lord Byron's Dramatic Poem of TIIE BRIDE
OF ABYDOS ; or,' The Corsair.
Unequalled SCENES in the 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. L'roadfoot.
Stalls, ss. ; Boxes,. Is.; Upper Boxes, 3s ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ;
Upper Gallery, 6d. Commence every evening at Seven o'clock,

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
Will be performed RU TH ISM or, TheEVENING 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 TIIE WAVE ; or, The Ship
of the Avenger. Captain Faulkner, Mr. 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 Proprietor begs to announce that he has, at a considerable
expense, erected a new Entrance, and a ruagnificent Walk, with
/tower borders, statues, and a Central FOuntain, in front of the
grand Pictorial Representation of
THE TOWN AND BAY OF GIBRALTAR.
The Menagerie contains Many specimens, including the Giraffe,
Gazelles, &c. The• Promenade Concerts, conducted ry 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. JULLI EN will give a series
of Concerts;
the Band will consist of one 11-ndreei Performers.
Admission, One Shilling.
The Royal South London Floricultural Society will hold their
Grand Spring Flower Show, on 'Wednesday, May 26.

THE WEATUER.—SuN OFFICE, MAY 16.
THERMOMETER, Lowest, 52; Highest. 66; Noon, 66,
BAROMETER, 29.65.

WIND S.W.; occasional squally showers and sunshine.
• MAY 17.
THIMMOMETER, Lowest, 50 ; Highest, 66 ; Noon, 65

BAROMETER, 30. —WIND S. W. ; fine.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning .. 29 minutes after 3. J Evening .. 49 minutes stir! 3.

dling the animal passions of the multitude by
the breath of his inflammable egotism. Now that the
Repeal Association is incapable of acting with its
customary energy and perseverance, seeing that its
great leader is still sojourning on the Continent, for
the purpose of recruiting his debilitated constitution,
the firebrand patriots, who are sticklers for physical
force, are endeavouring to filch from him that popu-
larity with the Irish multitude of which he has hitherto
been the sole object. An enthusiastic race like
the llibernians must always have some medium
through which to express their political sympathies.
The sudden illness and retirement of DANIEL O'CON-
NELL have deprived them of the medium to which
they have been accustomed for very nearly half a
century. The Young Irelenders perceive the oppor -
tunity afforded by this (to them) felicitous calamity,
and hence their periodical demonstrations at the
Rotunda, and their flagrant and hyperbolical speeches
at what is, no doubt ironically, called the Irish Con-
federation. If these 'melodramatic gentlemen really
imagine that a whole nation is to be deluded by
claptrap phrases and insolent boasts, they will find
themselves most pitifully mistaken. By the latest
intelligence received from the 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 a renovated constitu-
tion, DANIEL O'CONNELL will hake sufficient to ac-
complish in the way of pacifying his countrymen and
reconciling them to the dispensations of PROVIDENCE
and the efforts of a benignant Government.
Nothing has ever equalled the Young Ireland
braggadocios in violence of sentiment or bombast of
utterance. By their inflammatory orations they are
assuredly numbering themselves among the most re-
prehensible class of juvenile offenders. They are
drawing down upon their extravagant faction the
stern, and powerful, and afflicted realm.
with the sincere wellwishers of the
sister indignation
Instead
island,
f coalescinga
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 man with a spark of the be-
nign fire of Christianity in his bosom, can
any man with a sound intellect, or a heart not
wholly hardened against the influences of humanity—
can any man, indeed, who is not entirely bereft of his
senses entertain the slightest respect for the political
ranters and jumpers of the Irish Association? Messrs.
O'GORMAN and MEAGHER may conceive that they
are acquiring a reputation kindred to that of ROBERT
EMMETT. If so, they are labouring under a deplo-
rable delusion. They are 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. Should 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
'leaven as would make the angels weep," they are
certainly conducting themselves in a manner tha
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 pIeasedPROVIDENCE immediately to afflict Ireland,
and mediately, through the failure of the crops 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 unredressed 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 " CITIVIMING V. INCE," which
was tried before Mr. Justice ERLE and a common jury.
The plaintiff was the unfortunate Mrs. Cumiumo,
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.
CUMMING 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 should make a certain disposition of her pro-
perty in favour of the two defendants. The circum-
stances of the case, as stated by Mr. COCKEURN, the
counsel for the plaintiff, and admitted by Mr.
j WATSON, the counsel for the defendants, were these :
,6 Mrs. Cumming, the plaintiff, was a woman entitled to
certain freehold properly. She was a person considerably_
in life, and was perhaps rather irascible and im-
en herself and her two daughters, the wives
Hooper and Ince, differences had arisen, and theoe
13eoeninsictss.erhtsl.ad thought fit to apply for a commission of lunacy
1111 apopagfetalrat3liinst 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.exam.ned under the commission. On the
29th of August the inve-tigation 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 Let aside this arrangement that the present
proceeding had been instituted."
She 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." Mr. Justice ERLE, 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 of the party making it had not gone
along pith 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." Ills 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
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 had consented of her own free will they
would find for the defendants. This question was
entirely for them."
Our readers will recollect that at the time the
cntdioelri dt
arrangement was entered into, we expressed an
opinion that it was, upon the very face of it,
invalid,a
hubarteees;:se if Mrs. CUMMING were insane, she
was incapable of executing any legal document; and
if sane, the arrangement, as having been entered into
u
wastil
nd s voiadt,
opinionan d i t
supported
is with
by
some
sgor abtiigfih-
a legal authority as Mr. Justice ERLE. The jury re-
turned a verdict for the plaintiff; invalidating
the arrangement, and restoring to Mrs. Cuatainw full
months;
control over
after
apnropienrctayr.ceTrahtuisonafteinr a
a lapsen
nsoyfi'utwin-elvoef
four months ;
but
tpensshee
lavtoteunlddanhtaveupzal)
after all the anxiety and all the
aw,
rende d
Mrs. CUMMING has obtained actionthis at
suffering l
an
h tardy remedy ;
pi fr
e lt ihme i nl aarwy alled
re as it ought to render, a public
alleged lunr..i.an.qu;*y into the sanity or insanity of any
e necessary, before authorising the de-
tention, a Such
alleged lunatic in any asylum. We
511:44 be told again as. we have been told before, 'that

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the law renders: it necessary to hare 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 10s. 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 12th May, 1846.
On the 19th July the plaintiff's husband died. On. the 29th
July a commission in lunacy was taken out. Nome of exe-
cuting it was given on the 22d of August. The plaintiff' was
taken to a madhouse on the opinion if 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 wanting.
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
now, 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 JoUN RUSSELL on Friday
took occasion to pay a well-merited tribute of admi-
ration to the course which his lioraNEss has pursued
since his accession; and, in answer to a question from
Mr. Holism" 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 ?lOU-
relies diverse: 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 Fidel. 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 Aranjuez she has repeated her in-
vitatious to Don Francisco to join her, but he is in-
flexible. I am essured that he has 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 life—an insinuation ren-
dered absurd by the Queen's well-known amiable disposition.
Notwithstanding the inteme anxiety which pervades every
class of society, it is gratifying to be able to state that no
fears have :risen respecting the tranquillity of this capital.
The money crisis, which weighs so heavily on London and
Paris, hes 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 RICARDO SCHELLY Captain-General of An-
dalusia, in the room of General PEZUELA ; General
Baron DEL SOLAR DE Esrplosa, Captain-General of
Granada ; and General F.ERNANDO CoroNER, Captain-
General of Burgos.

The Ticmpo announces, that on the evening of the 9th
some alarm was created in Madrid by the explosion
of two petards at the Puerta del 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.
m BoLsA, MAY 10,
done
MAat 10.-.-The Three per Cents. were
3114 for paper; the Five per Cents. at 1914; t?.
Debt without interest at 0713 ; and the Coupons, at 16 Ivi cash.

S a
TWt uhree day h
a.ve received the Paris papers of Friday and
interpellation of M. GUIZOT by M. ODILON
BARROT,
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 Al. de
Girardin replied, after which the Chamber broke up.
this did not occupy an hour. About 2,000 persons went A
toll
the Chamber am
about 1,2C0 of them for the sake of amuse-
ment, and amused they must have been, for it was very
droll."
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On this subject the Presse says—
" Yesterday was an evil day for the Ministry. It is left
in an abased situation, from which it will be difficult for it
n is t
to extricate itself. An inexorable severity towards its as-
eocieat
more
must, in turn,
recoil
If the upon its
rygenerous.
extremely confident in its own strength not to show greater
indulgence, or rather it must feel itself extremely weak :not
to
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ift it be
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