The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-24 00:00:00

EXPORTS-ON BOARD.

Teas—A fair amount of business bas been done in
most kinds since the departure of last mail, and gene-
rally at lower rates for cash, the teamen being desirous
to realise that they may be enabled to make their ar-
rangements for the purchase of the new crop. ,
Congou—.About" .30 chops have been settled, leaving
70 or so in the market, and some 15 not yet arrived.
The present quotations for cash are 12 to 13 taels for
good ordinary, and 15 to 17 taels for but middling black-
ish leaf rather strong. Souchong of common quality is
quoted at 12 taels, best middling 16 taels, middling 20 to
26 taels, about 6,000 chests in market. Of Flowery
Pekce about 8,000 chests remain unsold, for which 16 to
24 taels is wanted. Of scented Teas the stock is now
1-11ctka71s.maAy t these rates some pur-
chases small, about 500 half chests obfeOgraunogteedPaetklooe
taot 2114
leaving ;
r, and 10,000 ten-catty boxes
latter. About 2,000 half cheststo 28 tads, and Caper, 3,000 ten-catty boxes, at 17 to 20
in market fully 7,000
taels.othbaiealealsi
half cheats
cesahs Plainnehdisa atvcsl
foacopiObfleeerrtseahtn,nse gtomoef
foart
made, leaving
of Ning Yongs have been settled at 16 to 18 taels for
quoteoc
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good. Stock left 2,000 half chests.
Green—The stock of Young Hyson is much reduced,
and consists only of cargo quantities, the market being
entirely cleared of superior sorts.
aq tu
a2lll t
it
toy
in 22 taels;
rlieotyuinse 25
estimated to o 2 9
no
y Tsahne thechests;
;
Of
the rates paid for late purchases are 27 taels
for common, 29 to 32 taels for fair, 34 to
40 taels for good to superior, and fine to finest 42 to 64
taels. Skin is quoted at 14 to 16 taels for cargo, 18
to 22 for superior, and fine to finest 24 to 27 taels;
at these rates upwards of 3,000 chests have been settled,
is offered at rather lower rates—common
(Taiping)
ed
it 15 taels, and good to fine 18 to 26 taels ;
stock
leaving some 3,000 in stock. Twankay continues neg-
lected,
half chests. Imperials and Gunpowder
have been in demand, and about 10,000 half chests are
reported as settled at 26 to 28 taels for Taiping ; 32 to
35 and 36 to 30 taels for superior Singlo and good
NlOylllle kinds, and for fine Moyune 44 to 47 and 50 to
53 taels ; stock in market about 8,000 half chests.
ei
p,3n asgl,llod,
a mostly of middling qualities. Canton sorts and mixed
kinds are altogether unsaleable, and the nativo holders
cannot even get them shipped off under any advance.
Silk—About 800 bales are reported as settled at from
390 dulls. to 405 dolls. per picul for Tsatlee.
Sugar appears very scarce, and although the want of
tonnage stops the rates have advanced ma-
terially.l, 6 dolls. ; N 0.2, 40 dolls. 70c., down t(
No.
for low
shipments,
dolls. to 3 dolls. 25c.brown.
becoming more abundant.
3 Quicksilver has advanced to 130 dolls.
Vermillion to 63 dolls. for No. 1,
Freights to England have been ruling at 61. 10s. to
ges--13a,ring s credits on London at six months'
71., but is now,

sight have been sold to some extent at 4s. 4d., but few
other bills offering. East India Company's accepted
bills on Bengal sold immediately on arrival of the mail
215 rnp.•es.

DEATII OF 2tlli.
It is with unfeigned regret we announce that the Paris
journals of Saturday, received last night, bring the con-
firmation of the account already published of Mr. O'Con
nell's death.

The following letter from Dr. Duff, an English physi-
cian at Genoa, who attended Mr. O'Connell in his last
moments, is published in Galignani's Messenger :
" Genoa, May 16.
" Some account of the closing scenes of the life of an
individual who has filled so remarkable a position in the
world as Daniel O'Connell, must prove interesting to the
generality of your readers, and I therefore, as an English
physician called in to attend him, take leave to lay before
you the following statement:—
" On Monday, May 10, I saw Mr. O'Connell for the
first time, and ho was then suffering from profuse and
involuntary diarrhcea, with great pain of the abdomen
under pressure, strong rapid pulse, flushed face, &c. Mr.
O'Connell had also chronic bronchitis of some years'
standing. From the remedies employed these symptoms
were much ameliorated, and on the morrow he seemed
convalescent. But, from Mr. O'Connell's great repugnance
to swallow even the most simple medicine, this state of
improvement could not be followed up. On the evening
of Tuesday (11th), the new symptom of congestion of
the brain presented itself. Active measures were imme-
diately had recourse to, and from them there was a de-
cided improvement. Again the aid of internal remedies
was denied, Mr. O'Connell refusing to take any medi
cine. Towards the evening of Wednesday (12th) the
symptoms increased. Mr. O'Connell was restless, and
sometimes slightly incoherent. Our former measures
were again employed, but with slight success. During
Thursday all the symptoms increased with great ten-
dency to sleep, from which, however, he could easily be
roused ; the breathing was much embarrassed ; circula-
tion became difficult, and in some degree indistinct, and
the mind wavered. Thursday night was passed in a
state of profound heavy sleep, with increased difficulty
of breathing, and in addressing those about him, he
imagined himself in London, and spoke to them as if
there. On Friday he was much worse, the breathing
very laborious, the voice scarcely audible, and the
words half formed ; all the symptoms had in-
creased. In this state he lingered on till Satur-
day night, seemingly conscious of the presence of
those about him, but neither attempting to move
nor speak. My treatment of Mr. O'Connell was
always in conjunction with Dr. Beretta, of this
place, and a young French physician, who had accom-
panied him from Lyons, and, on the day preceding his
demise, we had the advantage of consulting with Dr.
Viviani, the oldest practitioner of Genoa, and of high
repute. By his advice, and as a last resource, a farther
application of leeches to the temple was advised, but all
was in vain; he expired last night at half-past nine o'clock,
p.m., apparently suffering but little pain. During the
whole period of our attendance upon Mr. O'Connell it
was with the greatest difficulty he could be induced to
take medicine or even necessary food, and he perse-
veringly abstained from drink for fully forty hours.
Had this been otherwise, the period of death might have
been procrastinated, but his failing health and spirits,
with constant tendency to cerebral congestion, rendered
certain his death at no very distant period."
The death of Mr. O'Connell had created a greater
sensation in France than was to have been expected.
The Univers, the chief organ of the Catholic or high
church party, appears on Saturday encircled with a
black border, as a mark of respect to the memory
of the eminent liberator of Irish Catholics. We
give the following selection from the remarks of the
Paris papers on Mr. O'Connell's death. The Univers
says—
" O'Connell is dead at the height of grief as at the
height of glory, harassed by the ungrateful conduct of
some of those whom he saved, but still less troubled by
their ingratitude than frightened by their folly. On
leaving Ireland he saw other adversaries of his designs,
other enemies of Ireland than those he vanquished. This
is not the moment to explain who these Irishmen are,
and what they desire, who feared not to hate and insult
O'Connell dying in the midst of the world's respect; but
no one is ignorant that, restrained by his hand to the
last moment, they made him contemplate with dread the
death which approached to deliver them, hastened by
their impious hope. That was the secret, too easy, alas!
to penetrate, of the august sadness which was imprinted
on his features, and which wrung us with grief during
the few moments that we saw and heard him. His manly
heart succumbed in the agony which the future inspired.
The famine afflicted him, but Young Ireland would have
driven him to despair. To strengthen himself against
such alarms all the energy of sentiment which with him
was the spring of his glorious life, was not too much;
he prayed, he confided himself to God, he invoked the
Holy Virgin, and demanded assistance both for his soul
and for Ireland, equally desolated. Let us hope and
pray like him, let us hope and pray for Ireland, let
us hope and pray for Daniel O'Connell, this great ser-
vant of God, because he was a great servant of man,
a great and sincere apostle of liberty. Before Him who
judges the judges of this world he will, we are confi-
dent, be found pure. Let our prayers come to his aid,
if, after his slow agony, he has still to efface some of
those stains with which human frailty marks the most
elevated souls. Let us remember that what he has done
for the Irish Catholics he has done for all Catholic na-
tions. His rights to our gratitude are not less numerous
than his titles to our admiration."
We read in the Constitutionnel—

" The hopes which had been conceived of the recovery
of Mr. O'Connell have been cruelly disappointed. The
great orator had scarcely arrived at Genoa when he felt
himself mortally attacked, and was the first to declare
that he had only three days to live. His malady was
complicated with an inflammation of the intestines, and
nothing could stop the progress of the illness. The
death of such a man would have been an important event
at any period; but in the present difficult situation of
England, and with the famine which desolates Ireland,
the disappearance of the Liberator acquires extreme im-
portance. Nobody can foresee the consequences of such
an event, or the influence that it will exercise over the
fate, not merely of the English Cabinet, but also that of
the three kingdoms."
The following is from the Courrier Francais :--
" Daniel O'Connell died on arriving at Genoa. Per-
haps this patriarch of the accursed tribe sought the
isolated mountain on which he could die far from his
own. If he did not despair of his ;people, it is certain
that his people began to despair of him. O'Connell had
the soul of a prophet, but he had the mind of a lawyer.
It was in the paths of legality that he desired the Irish
agitation to move; to the encroachments of England he
always opposed legality, and England often retreated
before that respected buckler. But has Ireland made a
step? Look where she now is after these thirty years
of sterile agitation! If Ireland be bound to pay a tribute
of tears and grief to him who announced himself as her
liberator, it is to that magic and inspired voice which it
will hear no more, it is to that ardent soul which in-
spired a whole people with its breathing, it is to that el -
quenee, winged like a canticle, sad as a psalm, varied as
a drama, and in which appeared at times the disordered
inspiration of the ancient prophets—it is, in a word, to
the consoler of the afflicted that Ireland owes its re-
grets, and in no wise to the avenger of the oppressed.
Let her weep for this great soul that expires; but it is
for England especially to regret in O'Connell the con-
ciliator who, by his oratory, effected so long a truce be-
tween the oppressed and the oppressor. Perhaps the
voyage of O'Connell to Italy was a voluntary exile; per-
haps he felt before he died all the vanity of the task he
had undertaken. In the last years of his life he might
have seen Ireland, if not separating herself from him,
and taking from him the popularity she had given, at
least demanding a more powerful and more resolute
action, seeking in short in Young Ireland' more active
and more decided instruments of agitation. O'Connell
never employed against O'Brien and the other agitators
who lately came forward to dispute with him the direc-
tion of Ireland, those bitter sarcasms, those crushing
bursts of wrath, with which he armed himself against his
adversaries. If the great agitator did not confess that
he deceived himself in submitting the cause of Ireland
to the justice of a Saxon Parliament, his noble heart, so
loving and so devoted, did not at least desire to show
those who thought of the salvation of Ireland by more
energetic means that they were wrong. When he saw
O'Brien and his friends appeal resolutely from Ireland
oppressed to Ireland armed for the combat, the old
champion exclaimed, May they accomplish a work
which I have not dared to attempt I and he retired from
the arena to die."
The personal history of Mr. O'Connell is identified
with the political history of Ireland for nearly the last
half century. To publish, then, in the columns of a
newspaper, a sketch of that history, would obviously be
as impossible as it might be said to be superfluous. The
early portion of his life is not, however, so familiar to
the public ; and hence the following details, extracted
from a work recently published by his son, John O'Con-
nell, Esq., M.P., and thus stamped with a character of
authenticity, may be of interest to our readers:—
" Daniel O'Connell was born in 1774, at Carhen,
situate about a mile from the presentpost-town of Cahir-
civeen, at the head of the harbour of Valentia. His
childhood and boyhood passed at this birth-place, with
the exception of visits, sometimes of considerable length,
to Darrynane, then the seat of his father's elder brother,
Maurice O'Connell, who, being childless, adopted his
nephews, Daniel and Maurice, and took, in a great men
sure, the charge of their education upon himself." The
sketch proceeds to say—" A poor old hedge schoolmas-
ter, by name David Mahony, may be given to fame as
the first who taught Daniel O'Connell his letters. At
the age of 13 Mr. O'Connell and his brother Maurice, a
year younger than himself, were sent to the school of the
Rev. Mr. Harrington, a Catholic clergyman, at a place
called Redington, in the Long Island, two miles from Cove,
the first school publicly opened and held by a Catholic
priest since the penal laws. At the expiration of a year
the two brothers were removed from this school by their
uncle Maurice in order to be sent to the continent, to
pursue their studies at greater advantage; for this pur-
pose they were embarked in a brig bound to London,
the captain of which was to land them at Dover, whence
they were to take the packet to Ostend. The tide being
out at Dover when the vessel arrived, those passengers
who were in haste to land had to do so through the surf
on the open beach; and Mr. O'Connell's first acquaint-
ance with England was marked by a ducking in the surf,
the boat having capsized through some mismanagement
in beaching her. An opportunity offering in a few days,
the party proceeded to Ostend, and thence by treyk •
eu h yt and diligence to Liege, where, however, a disap-
pointments awaited them. Mr. 0 Connell was found to
have passed the age when boys could be admitted as
students, and they had to retrace their steps as far as
Louvain, there to await new instructions from home. The
difference of disposition between the two boys was here
strikingly shown ; Maurice, the younger, naturally
• enough, availed himself of his six weeks unexpected holi-

days (the interchange of communication between their
then abiding place and the remote shores of Kerry re-
quiring that interval) to indulge in all a boy's vacation
inn. merit:•:• • . • .lrottit-f,

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that ere the arrival of letters from home, for which they
were waiting, he had risen to a high place in a class of
one hundred and twenty boys. Their uncle's new orders
were, that they should go to St. Omer, whither, accord
ingly, they proceeded, and remained a year—viz., from
early in the year 1791 till a similar period of 1792--when
they were removed to the English college of Douay for
some months. Mr. O'Connell soon rose to the first place
in all the classes at St. Omer."
The following is an extract from a letter dated 1792,
written by the Reverend Dr. Stapylton, president of
the College of St. Omer, to Mr. Maurice O'Connell. i
giving his estimate of the characters and capacity of his
two pupils respectively :
" You desire to have my candid opinion respecting
your nephews, and you very properly remark that no
habit can be worse than that of the instructors of youth
who seek to gratify the parents of those under
their care by ascribing to them talents and qualities
which they do not really possess. You add, that, being
only the uncle of these young men, you can
afford to hear the real truth respecting their abilities or
deficiencies. It is not my habit to disguise the precise
truth in reply to such inquiries as yours. You shall,
therefore, have my opinion with perfect candour. I begin
with the younger—Maurice. His manner and demeanor
are quite satisfactory. He is gentlemanly in his con•
duct, and much loved by his fellow-students. He is not
deficient in abilities, but is idle and fond of amusement.
I do not think he will answer for any laborious profes.
sion, but I will answer for it that he never will be guilty
of anything discreditable. At least such is my firm be-
lief. With respect to the elder, Daniel, I have but one
sentence to write about him, and that is, that I never
was so much mistaken in my life as I shall be unless he
be destined to make a remarkable figure in society."
The Jacobin politics of France had no charms for the
young men, as was evinced on their journey home,
when they fell in with strange company :
"At length came the order, and the funds, for their
journey. On the 21st January, 1793, the day the unfor
tunate Louis was beheaded at Paris, the brothers set out
in a voiture for Calais, which they reached early on the
morning of the 23d ; not, however, without some
parting compliments from their friends, the soldiery ;
who went so far as several times to strike the head
of the vehicle with their musket-stocks. The Eng-
lish packet-boat, aboard of which the boys pro-
ceeded with as little delay as possible, was pre-
sently under weigh, and as she passed out of the har-
bour, Mr. O'Connell and his brother eagerly tore out
of their caps the tricolour cockade, which the commonest
regard for personal safety rendered indispensable to be
worn by every one in France; and after trampling them
under foot, flung them into the sea. This boyish out-
burst of natural execration of the horrors which bad
been committed under that emblem, procured them a
few of those sonorous curses which only a Frenchman
can give, from some fishermen rowing past at the mo-
ment, by whom the cockades were rescued from the
waves and placed in their hats with all becoming rever
ence. It was the packet-boat which brought over the
intelligence of the murder of the king. On board that
packet-boat were the unfortunate John and Henry
Sheares, whose tragic fate, in the year 1798, is so well
known. To their heated minds the revolution of France
did not bear the same revoltieg aspect that it did to
others; and they were loud in praise and prediction of
its ultimate tendencies to good, in despite of the crimes
and abominations marking its progress. The execution
of the unhappy Louis was freely canvassed between them
and an English gentleman on board, and John Sheares
boasted that he and his brother had been present—having
paid two national guards for liberty to wear their uniform,
and do duty for them on that occasion. Good Heavens,
Sir,' said the English gentleman, what could have in-
duced you to desire to witness so horrible a spectacle?'
Love of the cause, Sir,' was the reply. The
excesses of the French Revolution were so re-
volting to the subject of this sketch, that it is not to le
wondered at (we give the author's words) that Mr.
O'Connell should, when, in 1794, he became a law
student at Lincoln's Inn, be in a state very nearly ap-
proaching, as he has often said, to that of a Tory at
heart." This, however, did not last long; and his con-
version from the one extreme to the other seems to have
been as rapid as extreme conversions generally are:—
"So strong and ardent were these feelings, that the cele.
brated trial of Hardy and others having occurred about
this time (viz., October, 1794), Mr. O'Connell attendee
it daily, certainly nut more for the mere interest of the
thing, or benefit of the law arguments to him as a
student, than for the gratification of anti-revolutionary
feeling, at seeing a supposed offender in a fair way of
receiving condign punishment. To Mr. O'Connell's
astonishment he found, ere the trial had proceeded very
far, that his sentiments were fast changing to those of
pity towards the accused, and of something of self-re-
proach for having desired his conviction and punish-
ment; and, each successive day revealing more and
more the trumped-up and iniquitous nature of the
prosecution, the process of change in Mr. O'Connell's
mind ended by fully and finally converting him to
popular opinions and principles, and confirming
his natural detestation of tyranny, and desire of
resisting it." Mr. O'Connell's manner of life,
during his bar career, is thus vividly given in an
extract from an extract :—" In one of those entertaining
sketches of the Irish bar which, some two-and-twenty
years ago, Mr. Sheil and Mr. William Henry Curran
supplied to a London periodical, Mr. O'Connell's mantle'
of life, in the time referred to by himself in the foregoing
extract, is, if we may use the word, outlined with consi-
derable vigour and effect. The silent and absorbed vigil
for hours before the dawn; the dimly-lighted study; the
sign of our salvation hanging pictured against the wall ;
the motionless form beneath it, with head bent over the
voluminous law papers scattered in profuse disorder
around ; the same hermit-like figure, a few hours later,
transformed into the bustling barrister, keeping con-
tending attorneys at a run, to match his mountaineer
rate of going, as he hurried to the courts ; the third
transformation, late in the afternoon, when the man of
legal points, precedents, and abstruse arguments would
be found the merry, rollicking agitator, declaiming in a
popular meeting and now playing on the laughing fa-
culties, and anon on the deepest and most powerful feel-
ings and passions of his auditory with a master hand—
as he assailed with ridicule the petty despots of the day.
or depicted with terrible vividness the wrongs, the mise-
ries, the oppressions of Ireland and her people ; such
were the leading features of Mr. Sheil's sketch., and they
were true to nature."

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT. GARDEN.—On
Saturday last her Majesty's box was occupied by the
Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, Viscount and
Viscountess Barrington, the Hon. Miss Barrington, and
the Hon. Percy Barrington. There were present, his
Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, the Danish Minis-
ter, Count Reventlow, Count Kielmansegge, the Prince
Francois de Lichtenstein, the Duke and Duchess of
Beaufort and Lady Blanche Somerset, the Dowager
Duchess of Bedford and Lady Rachel Russell, the Mar-
quis of Douro, the Marquis of Headfort, Earl Granville,
Viscount and Viscountess Castlereagh, Viscount Canter-

bury, Viscount and Viscountess Maidstone, Mr. and
Lady Eleanor Graham, Viscount Exmouth, Count Po-
tocki, Lord George Powlett, Lord Henry Lennox, M.P.,
Lord Suffield, Lord Alexander Lennox, Lord George
Manners, Lord and Lady William Powlett, Lord Aber-
dour, Mr. and Lady Caroline Sanford, the Hon. Sir
Edward and Lady Buller, Hon. Mrs. Phillips, Hon.
George Miles, Hon. F. Byron, Sir William and
Lady de Bathe, Lady Harley, Sir Jaques Clif-
ton, Sir Bellingham Graham, Sir Arthur Aston, Sit
Henry Webb, Sir Clayton and Lady East, Lady Jodrell,
Sir William and Lady Moleswortb, Lady Macfarlane, Sir
Charles Kent, Sir Jasper and Lady Atkinson, Sir John
and Lady Campbell, Hon. Charles Hanbury, Sir Ben•
jamin Hall, Hon. James Byng, Sir James and Lady
Ross, Sir Charles Marshall, Sir Richard Quentin, W.
H. Gregory, Esq., M.P., Henry Baring, Esq., M.P., 11.
T. Hope, Esq., Henry Greville, Esq., F. F. Courtenay,
Esq., Admiral Mitford, Admiral Sykes, Mr. and bfisse,
Morior, Colonel Thornton, Colonel Derville, Colonel
Northland, Colonel Blane, Captain Hood, John Den
nistoun, Esq., M.P., and Mrs. Dennistoun, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Coghlan, Mr. and Mrs.
Villebois, Mrs. Ashton Yates, IL Halsey, Esq., Mrs.
Crawsha,y, Captain Riddell, A. Bernal, Esq., E. Dela
field, Esq., Arthur Webster, Esq., Mrs. Milner Gib-
son, tke.

London.

NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING OFR. DOUBLE-
DEE, THE CELEBRATED OARSMAN.—Yesterday morning
an unfortunate accident happened to Robert Doubledee.
the celebrated waterman, and coxswain of the Sons ot
the Thames Club, which doubtless would have ended
fatally had it not been for the activity of the captain ot
the Starlight iron steam-boat. It appears that Double-
dee was out on the river, practising in one of those
cockleshells, miscalled wager-boats, when his boat wa,
struck by a heavy surf, which instantly filled it. Find
ing that the boat was sinking, Doubledee shot head fore
most out into the water, with the intention of swimming
ashore. At that instant the Starlight steamer came
along, and had it not been for the captain stopping the
vessel and dropping astern, Doubledee would have beer
cut in two by the wheels of the steamer, for when he
jumped into the water the boat was within a couple oi
feet of him. As it was, his wager-boat had her bottom
stove in; but Doubledee was kept from sinking until a
waterman came along, who pulled him into his boat and
took him ashore.
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dressed in a blue jacket and dirty white trousers and cap.
At the London-bridge railway terminus, on the same
day, Mr. Blythe, of Leather-lane, Holborn, was robbed
of a lady's gold watch, with lever escapement, gold
dial engine-turned (maker's name "C. Williamson,
No. 1,807.")
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vinces of the Austrian monarchy should be invited to
join Bohemia in constructing a monument to the hero on
the field of battle of Aspern ; but this, after a long de-
bate was overruled.
Mr. David Salonlons has resigned his appointment
as returning officer for the burough of Marylebone, con-
sequent on his having become a candidate for its repre
sentation, in the room of Sir Charles Napier, at the en-
suing election. Mr. Salomon's successor, as returning
officer, has not yet been named.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen held a Court on Saturday aftcrnuon
Buckingham Palace.
His ito) i E;;;.;1,.. s the Prince of Luccr,(iftet;:, 1'12;
Count Adrien de Revel, the Sarti:n:ti,t Chargivtl A 'ff*es;
a:ld ~L audlnee ttf -her
Majesty. His Royal Highness was int*tred :by
Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., her MajestflOprincipal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted
by Colonel the Hon. Sir Edward Cost, her Majesty's i4V
Master of the Ceremonies.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen and Prince Albert on Saturday.
His Royal Highness Prince George visited his Royal
Highness Prince Albert on Saturday.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert left town at twenty
minutes before four o'clock on Saturday afternoon for
Claremont. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness left
Buckingham Palace in a carriage-and-four, accompanied
by the Prince of Wales and the Prince of Leiningen.
Four carriages and- four followed, containing their Royal
Highnesses Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Prin-
cess Alice, and the Princess Helena, the Viscountess
Canning, the Marquis of Ormonde, Major-General
Bowles, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. 13, Phipps, Captain
the Hon. A. H. Gordon, and Dr. Meyer.
Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were conducted
to their carriage by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, the
Hon. Misses Stanley and Dawson, the Lord Chamber-
lain, the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, Viscount
Clifden, Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness, and
Sir Frederick Stovin.
The august party arrived at Claremont at a quarter-
past five o'clock. The Queen and Prince Albert, ac-
companied by the Prince of Leiningen, walked out in
the gardens and park soon after their arrival.
The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay arrived on a
visit.
Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner had the honour of
joining the Royal circle at dinner.
Consort took
morning,
usual earlyrning,her Majesty and
and h
yand herte
Royalßoyal
Family took their accustomed walking and riding
exercise.

The Queen and Prince Albert, and the Ladies and
Gentlemen of the Court, attended Divine service at
Claremont yesterday. The Hon. and Rev. Charles
Leslie Courtenay officiated.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Lucca, accom-
panied by Count Revel, the Sardinian Charg6 d'Af-
faires visited 'her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glou-
cester, yesterday, at Gloucester House, and their Royal
Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at
Cambridge House.
We have authority to announce that the State apart-
ments in Windsor Castle will be closed from this day,
the 24th inst., until after Monday, the 7th of June next.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent attended Divine service
yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The
prayers were read by the Rev. J. V. Povah, the les-
ions by the Rev. Mr. Repton, and the Communion sar-
vice by the Bishop of London. The sermon was
preached by the Rev. Dr. Jell, who took his text from
Psalms lxviii., verse 18. The anthem was, " I was in

the spirit" (Blow). Mr. Turle presided at the organ.
rhe sacrament was administered by the Bishop of

The Bishop of Norwich (Clerk of the Closet) and the
Dean of Hereford (Deputy Clerk) were in waiting.
The Queen Dowager was attended by the Marchioness
of Ormonde and Earl Howe. The Duchess of Kent
was attended by Lady Augusta Bruce. Among the
nobility present were the Duke and Duchess of Beau-
fort, Ladies Ormonde, Wilton, and St. Germans, the
Marquis of Anglesey, Lords Cawdor, St. Germans,
Rosebery, 'Wilton, and Zetland. The Duke of Welling-
ton and Sir Fred. Trench attended the early service yes-
terday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers
were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the sermon was
preached by the Rev. Dr. Goddard.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge,
and the Princess Mary, attended Divine Service, yester-
day, in St. Michael's Church, Chester-square.
The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine Service in
Grosvenor Chapel, yesterday.
lier Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left town
for Claremont.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, their Royal High-
eesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, and the Princess Mary, honoured her Ma-
jesty's theatre with their presence on Saturday evening.
The Marchioness of Ormonde and the Earl Howe were
in waiting on the Queen Dowager.
The French Minister transacted business at the
Foreign office on Saturday.
The Princess Callimaki, wife of the Turkish Minister,
was erroneously stated to have attended the Polish Ball
on Friday last. The Princess was not present.
The ceremony of the consecration of the Hon. and
Rev. Robert Eden, to the Bishopric of Sodor and Man,
took place yesterday, in Whitehall Chapel. The cere•
triouy was performed by the Bishop of Carlisle (offi-
ciating for the Archbishop of York), assisted by the
Bishop of Ripon and the Bishop of Oxford.
The sermon was preached by the Bishop of Oxford.
Francis R. Dyke, Esq., officiated as Registrar, and read
the Letters Patent and the Licence. John Burder,
Esq., administered the oaths, and Mr. James Barber
officiated as Apparitor-General.
The following members of the new Bishopricks Com-
mission attended a meeting on Saturday, in Whitehall-
place. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, the Bishops of Durham,
Winchester, and Chester.

The Rev. R. Jones, and Captain Buller, R.N., had an
interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday at the
Home-office.
The Marquis of Normanby visited Viscount Palmer-
ston on Saturday. The Noble Marquis had also inter-
views with Lord John Russell and the Eallof Clarendon.

Mr. French, M.P., had an interview on Saturday
with Sir George Grey.
The Duke of Roxburgh had a❑ interview with tho
Earl of Clarendon on Saturday, at the office of the Board
of Trade.

Al

Lord and Lady John Russell went to Richmond on
Saturday afternoon.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
On Saturday evening Mademoiselle Carlotta Grisi
made her debut for the season, in the character of Es-
meralda. The part of Esmeralda is peculiary her own.
She was the original Esmeralda. She has always
created a furore whenever she has appeared in the cha-
racter, and though others have attempted, none have been
able to approach her. Her pantomime is beautifully
expressive--her dancing is a perfect triumph of
choerographic art, and her youthfnl appearance, for the
absence of which in such a character no skill can com-
pensate, renders her the very Esmeralda of the author—
the very incarnation of the most poetical of the creations
of Victor Hugo. On her appearance she was warmly
welcomed by the audience, and cheered by her enthu-
siastic reception, she surpassed herself. All the
pas were most effectively given, and were
herrt pantomime was exquisite.
ed by Perrot and St. Leon,
She
edly was applauded,adirabi y and
supported
and the Esmeralda bids fair to be as popular on this, its
revival, as it was on its first production. It was pre-
ceded by Lucia di Lammermoor, with Castellan, Fras-
chini, and Coletti. The house was crowded.. The
Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, who only
arrived in town on Saturday afternoon, aacupied
her Majesty's box, and was the object of general
attention. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager,
accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, and attended by the Marchioness of Ormonde,
Lady Augusta Bruce, Earl Howe, and Captain Somerset,
honoured the performances with her presence. The
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and her Royal High-
ness the Princess Mary, attended by the Baroness Ham-
merstein, the Hon. Miss Napier, and Baron. Knesebeck,
were also present. His Imperial Highnesf; the Grand
Duke Constantine of Russia honoured the performances
with his presence, and occupied the Queen's box ; his
Imperial Highness's suite comprised his Excellency
Baron Brunnow, Baron Friedricks, Admiral Little,l Mr.
De Haurowitch, M. De Berg, and th onel
Grey. There were also present his oColonel
Grey.
Highness
nister
the Baroness Brunnow, and Mdlle. Olgar de Lechner, the
his Excellency the Bavarian Mi ,
DPruikneceaGndeorlg)ue chess of Cleveland and Lady Augusta
Poulett, the Duchess Dowager of Cleveland, the Mar-
quis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of
tluntley, the Marquis of Westmeath, the Marquis of
Kildare, the Marquis of Ely, the Marquis of Clanri-
carde, the Marquis of Donegal, the Countess: of Powis
and Lady Lucy Herbert, the Earl and Countess of
Wilton, the Earl of Falmouth, the Countess Poulett and
Miss Dormer, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of
Munster, the Earl of Shelburne, Earl. Grenville,
Viscount Cantalupe, Viscount and Viscountess
Castlereagh, Viscount Clitden, Viscount Canterbury,
Viscount Somerton, Lord and Lady Willoughby
D'Eresby, Lady Fitzroy Somerset and Miss Somerset,
Lady Elizabeth Hope Vere and the Misses Vere,
Lady Foulis, Lord Sandys, Lady Caroline Buckley,
Lady Frederick Bentinck, Lord Gardner, _Lord Saltoun,
Lord Cranstoun, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord A.Fitz
clarence, Baron Nicolai, Count de Ba rtie, M.
Hon. C. dj.
Wellesley, Sir H. Willoughby, Sir Hsmry and Lady
Koudriaffsky, the Honourable Miss Copley, the
Woodford, Mr. and Lady Caroline
Sandford, General the Honourable a Cavendish, Colonel
Bowers,
Capt. Reynoldl3, Capt. Smith,
Capt. Wood,
Meux, Sir Alexander
Mr. T. S. Duncombe, M.P., Mr. Norman
Macdonald, Mr. Hubert De Burgh, Mr. Bradley, Mr.
Arabin, Mr. Major Buckley,
and Mrs. Wheeler, Mr. Ri?pton,
Mr.
Bateson, M.P., Mr. Hardwicke, Mr. Tunnelly, Mr. and
Mrs. E. Phillips, Mr. Packe, M.P., Mrs. Packe Reding,
Mr. E. St. John Mildmay, Mr. Errilaton, Mrs. Grote,
Sir George Wombwell, Sir H. W ebb, Hon. General
Upton, Sir W. Massey Stanley, Hca. D. Ashley, Hon.
G. Byng, Major Baring, &c., &c.
THE

GRAND DUKE CONSTAN-
TINE OF RUSSIA.
The Black Eagle, with his Imperial Highness the
Grand Duke Constantine of Russia on board, was tele-
graphed off Woolwich about a quarter before ten o'clock
on Saturday morning. At half-past ten the Grand
Duke landed, being received by the officers of the gar-
rison, and also by the Secretary of the Russian Lega-
tion. The usual military honours of a guard pfh honour,
&c., were paid by the military authorities.n _
two of the
Queen's open carriages and four, The
Duke and the gentlemen of his suite
tereoteiln, where
readi-
ness, and proceeded to town to
alighting
from his carriage
m whichiv aer
t's entered
his Imperial Highness on
was received by his Excellency the Baron de Brunnow,
the Russian Minister.
At half-past one o clock, the Grand Duke, accom-
panied by Baron de Brunnow, left the hotel, and paid a
visit to the establishment of Messrs. Hum and Roskell
in Bond-street.
A number of complimentary visits were paid to his
Imperial Highness during the afternoon, at Ilivart's
• hotel.
In the evening, his Imperial Highness, attended by
his suite, honoured the performance at her IV iajesty's
theatre with his presence.—Observer.

MARYLEBONE VESTRY.

BATHS AMD WASHHOUSES FOR THE LA-
BOURING CL ASSES—CHARGES AGAINST
blit PE TER LAURIE.

On Saturday at a very numerous meeting of the
vestry of St. iNlarylebone, the Rev. Dr. Spry in the
ehair.

Mr. T. 11. Smith, Honourable Secretary, accom-
panied by Mr. Bell, the Secretary to the Committee
of Management of the Baths and Washhouses for the
Labouring Classes, in St. Pancras, waited upon the
vestry as a deputation, to contradict the statements
made by Sir Peter Laurie in the vestry on the
previous Saturday, as reported in the Times
of Monday last, that public plunging baths in
these institutions led to gross immorality
among the working classes, and that he had
witnessed on a visit to the above baths fourteen or
fifteen great fellows, stark naked, indulging in the
most disgusting gambols in the water. Mr. Smith
said these statements were wholly without founda-
tion, and calculated to inflict great injury on the
useful institution alluded to. The St. Pancras Baths
and Washhouses had been established by voluntary
subscription, and were conducted by a committee of
gentlemen, chiefly composed of the clergy of St.
Pancras, and therefore he was sure the vestry would
believe that they did not countenance anything like
immorality.—(Hear.) The fact was that round the
plunging baths boxes were erected, with doors four
feet high, for bathers to dress and undress in, and no
person was permitted to bathe without wearing a pair of
drawers similar to those he now produced. The large
plunging bath was calculated to accommodate forty
bathers at one time, and the smaller one twenty-five.
lie (Mr. Smith) had himself accompanied Sir Peter
Laurie over the establishment, and at that time in-
stead of fifteen or sixteen great fellows, there was but
one person in the large bath, who had just got out,
and three or four lads in the smaller baths.
In answer to Mr. George Daniell, and other mem..
bers of the vestry,
Mr. SMITH stated that upwards of 70,000 persons
had bathed at the St. Pancras establishment since
August last, and he never heard a single complaint of
immorality or disgusting gambols amongst the work-
ing classes, who were the parties chiefly benefitted by
the establishment. He considered the assertion a
gross libel upon the working classes.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. PETER LAURIE regretted the absence of Sir
Peter Laurie, who was forced to attend a Committee
of Privileges held that day in the city. He thought
the gentlemen of the deputation had not dealt fairly
with Sir Peter Laurie, in not having read to the
vestry the letter which the secretary of the baths and
washhouses had written to Sir Peter Laurie on this
subject, and the reply he had made thereto. He (Mr.
Laurie) would however do so. They were as
follow :
" Baths and Washhouses Committee-room.
" Sir,—The attention of the Committee of this
establishment has been called to a speech of yours in
yesterday's Times, in which you are reported to state,
that upon visiting these swimming baths you wit-
nessed disgusting gambols on the part of the bathers.
The Committee do not doubt the above report is in-
correct, and therefore that you will give them an op-
portunity of contradicting a statement whieh must
necessarily prejudice the establishment in public opi-
nion. Your early reply will ohliee, Sir, your obe-
dient servant,

"JOHN BELL, Secretary.
" To Sir Peter Laurie, Knight."
To this Sir Peter wrote the following reply :
" 7, Park. square, 19th May, 1847.
Sir,—l have to acknowledge your letter of the
18th instant, and in reply, to state that, although the
report in the Times to which you refer is accurate as
to the number seen bathing, there being but few men
in the plunging bath when I was present, it expressed
my opinion correctly.
" I used the terms you quote in consequence of
what I saw ; at the same time I consider the low
compartments in which a considerable number of men
undress and dress themselves, all but publicly in each
others sight, quite insufficient for preserving that
decency which I am certain the Committee are desi-
rous of maintaining, and for securing which in other
respects they consider it prudent to have a guard con-
stantly on duty during the day, and when gas light is
required.

b.' From circuYr.stances which are forced upon my
notice, a 3 a magistrate, i feel convinced that public
plunging baths are very objectionable, and likely to
produce consequences which are much to be depre-
cated, and I was anxious to dissuade the vestry of
Marylebone from making a public plunging bath any
part of their plan.
I regret that the report did not state that with the
exception of the plunging bath, I expressed my entirt.
approval of the arrangements of the committee.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" John Bell, Esq." P. LAURIE.
Now having read these letters he (Mr. P. Laurie)
would contend that they put a very different com-
plexion on the matter, but he (Mr. P. Laurie) agreed
with his relative, Sir Peter, that these public
plunging baths were likely to lead to immorality and
crime, only known to the police and to those who
were called upon to perform the functions of magis.
trates in this metropolis. Why even the managers
of these baths themselv&s are obliged to employ a
man to look after the bathers.

Mr. G. DANIELL said that it was a most important
point to be cleared up. If it was necessary to hive a
man employed to watch the conduct of the bathers, it
was clearly an argument why these public plunging
baths should not be carried out. He would ask the
gentlemen, therefore, if the immoral conduct of the
working c,asses, whilst bathing, was such as to re-
quire the surveillance of an officer.
Mr. SMITII begged to assure the vestry that such
was not the case. A man was employed, but it was
in case f sudden illness in the water, and in case of
any accident to persons unable to swim.—(Hear.)
in aziswer to further questions, the members of the
deputation stated, that although the two plunging
baths were calculated to afford accommodation to 65
perscras' the number bathing at one time never
averaged more than 20.
Mr. STANOFORD thought the statements of Sir
-Peter Laurie had had a most satisfactory contradic-
tion, and the vestry having almost unanimously con-
curred in an opinion that the statements made by the
worthy Alderman were groundless, the deputation
withdrew, and the subject dropped.
The vestry separated shortly after.

Lord Normanby arrived at his residence in Hill-
street, Berkeley-square, on Saturday, from Paris, ac-
companied by the Countess, on a short visit to London.
He will return to Paris in a f ,rtnight, to resume
his diplomatic functions at the French Court.
There is no truth whatever in the rumour of his
Excellency's retirement from the British Embassy at
Paris. It is incorrectly stated in some of the papers
that Colonel Rurnilly is appointed Charge d'Affaires
durin the absence of the British Minister. That post
is filled by Lord William Hervey, the Secretary to the
Frubressy. Colonel Romilly is Lord Normanby's Private
Secretary.
EARFUL ACCIDENT IN THE GRAY'S INN-ROAD.—
Friday a youth of twelve years of age was knocked
down and run over by horses attached to a carriage-
break, driven by a person named Richards. The poor
boy, suffering from a compound fracture of the skull,
was immediately efonreyed to the Royal Free Hospital,
in ttee Gray's Inn road, where the operation of trephin-
ing was immediately and successfully performed, and the
yretrth is now doing exceedingly well.
SUPPOSED DEATH OP AN AGED FEMALE FROM
FIRE.—On Friday information was forwarded to Mr.
T. Wskley, M.P., coroner, of the death of Mrs. Mary
Tedman, aged 70, under the following circumstances:--
It seems that the deceased, a widow, residing at No. 8,
Bloomsbury-market, .vas, about eleven o'clock on the
night of Wednesday last, suddenly alarmed by a fire
which broke out in her room. owing to the bed-curtains
Navin g caught fire from the candle. and which, but for
the Dr ornpt assistance rendered, would hare proved fear-
fully destructive. The fire was, however, speedily ex-
tinguizhed, but the deceased was on the following morn-
ing found dead in her bed, the presumption being that
death was the result of fright, consequent upon the shock
occasion eel by the outbreak.
Mysi ERIOUS AFFAIR.—On Tuesday week, at
Stoke See Mary, near Taunton, a woman was found
hanging from a tree in the middle of the adjoining copse.
The rope,. which was 10 feet in length, was doubled
round her neck four times, and the height of the branch
'.vas only five feet and a half from the ground ; a weight
of
201bs. would bring the branch to the ground. She was
discovered by a man named Clode, as he was passing
the wood under the copse and he immediately cut her
down. She was i
the
ground. Notwithstanding
kneeling position, and her feet
rested on
must have felt by Notwithstanding the agony she
strangulation, while the weight of her
body was on the ground, not
the
slightest appearance of
a struggle was denoted onn.
were perfectly clean, which grass ; and her boots
ease had she travelled far. wassveldnever se not have been the
parish before, save by a man named
Keech
, whoen isntattle'es
(that he saw a. son answering her description walking
rill the previous evening at the brAt,,,,
about 180 yards from the spot where she' we'Lsfe, found
The de,!eased was respectably attired, but none (c)fulile-
r
linen was 'narked, neither was there aoyt g. hin
on her
give the remotest clue to her ithntific-ition.
pe,•son to g
In
her pocket were found ss. OP., together with two keys.
There were no marks
of violence onto body but a red
nark round the neck,sh, appeared to be about 25
years of ace. The coroner's jury returned an open ver-
dict of "Found I;ute ”—Localpver.
. ,
TEETOTALLERS AT FAULT•—fn Elinburgb, last
week, a person brought his wife to the police• office, on a
charge of habitual drunkenness. The wife, stung by the
complaints of the husband, retorted, "You're no sober your-
set', man.' "Me no sober!" exclaimed the man, "it's four
months the noo sin' I joined the Teetotal Society, and I only
fell through last week a wee; but you wasna joined a week,
woman, till you began to smuggle, and you're scarcely ever
Ibeen sober sine. There's waur members o' the society than
ime; but as for you, you're a disgrace to a' connected wi 'l."
K' Hand your whei,ht, man ; I keepit steady enough till I got ,
'Med o' a drop o' your sin, one Sunday, that ve had hidden
a corner, whaur ye tholeght I wadna look' fuet." " Eh,
lean, was't you that stealt that ? That's waur than ever—
rt.deserve to be sent to Bridewell for that itsel'—lock her
tv„,policeman." The police, however, refused to interfere,
a {yd dismissed them both.

THE

THE ALLEGED LUNATICS'
FRIEND SOCIETY.
eit nt i rag ins 'or a C .
to
(.',spy of a P-tition presented t;otTbeoethHoinnqseusiroefinPtaorltiittie-
Imna.
Defects of the Law of Lunacy.
To the Right Honourable the LabolredstheSpcmioritumaolnas ofnd
Temporal, and to the Honour
of Great Britain and Ireland,
it
rh,
Parliamente United Kingdom
asse
assembled;
and Members o
o
The I. u trthsbele“ PAeltlietgioend
ftbhe
Lunatics'l Friend Society,"
Most humbly showeth,—That in the year 1845 at
Act was passed for amending the laws relating to the
arrest, confinement, and treatment of patients alleged tc
be of unsound mind in the private asylums, public
asylums, and hospitals in this country, intituled " An
Act for regulating the Care and Treatment of Lunatics.'
That under the said Act the seizure and confinemeial
of persons alleged to be of unsound mind may be still
effected in a clandestine manner upon the certificate ni
two medical men, without the sanction of a magistrate,
or the attestation of any clergyman, or of any impartial
person of rank, or of recognised respectability and au,
thority, and by the servants cf private individuals, at 3
not by the officers of the law. And that it appears frOs
the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench, in the cis(
of a lady named Shuttleworth, in this present year, that
such seizure and confinement of any person may be mid(
at the instigation of a perfect stranger to the party's°
confined.
That when any person is so confined the law does slot
require any steps to be taken immediately to ascertain
the real state of such person's mind, and the justice of
the grounds of his apprehension and confinement: nor
does it make penal any unjustifiable attempt to prevent
such person communicating with his friends or attorney;
so that a person may be confined three months before he
can have an opportunity of appealing to any authority
for an examination into the grounds of his confinement,
as the law does not require asylums to be visited more
than four times in the year.
That the law does not require that such person should
be himself informed of the grounds of his confinement,
and of the nature of the charges brought aeainst him;
which, if he is not really of unsound mind, is highly
unjust, and precludes him from being able to defend
himself ; and, if he is of a deranged understanding, is
unreasonable and cruel, as it leaves him to the exercise
of a diseased imagination in conjuring up visionary
grounds for his confinement, so as to become more
a gonised and excited than when he was first apprehended.
That in the year 1845 a clause was introduced in the
Act 8 and 9 Viet., c. 100, at the suggestion of this so-
ciety, by which it was enacted that the certificates of
medical men, declaring that any person is of unsound
mind and a proper person to be confined, shoald also
state the fact or facts, hearsay or otherwise, upon which
.uch medical men formed their opinion; that it was the
object of this society that that clause should be com-
pulsory, in order that the visiting authorities of any
asylum may at once know on what charges any person
elleeed to be of unsound mind is confined, and proceed
to exilinine him upon such charges, and to liberate him
if they proved to be false; in order also to give any
person so confined a knowledge of the charges made
against him, so that he may be immediately enabled to
pnave the injustice of them, if he were of sound mind;
end in order also to prevent collusion on the part of per-
isons conspiring to confine any party as an alleged lunatic;
out that by the same judgment of the Court of Queen's
l3ench, in the case of Mrs. Shuttleworth, it has been de-
termined that that clause is only declaratory, and has
not a compulsory force, whereby it is rendered perfectly
nugatory as a defence for the liberty of the subject.
That the law does not require or allow that such per-
son should be present, either in person or by attorney,
at any inquiry that may be made before the visiting
1 magistrates or Commissioners in Lunacy into the
grounds of his confinement; so that he is unable to
eross-examine the witnesses that appear against him,
and to rebut any false charges or insinuations, or to cor-
rect any mistaken assertions or misrepresentations
respecting him.
That the experience of many patients, during a lapse
of several years, and the communications made by
several patients to this society, prove that the system of
supervision of asylums provided by the law—through
the quarterly visits of magistrates and the occasional
visits of the Commissioners in the country, and through
the quarterly visits of the Commissioners in the metro-
eolis—is highly defective, and not sufficient to detect
injustice, to remedy abuses, and to prevent intimidation
and ill-treatment, but exposes patients in asylums, who
may prefer complaints to the visiting authorities, to
the vindictive persecutions of the servants they have
made complaints against.
That the inspection of the Report of the Metropolitan
1 Commissioners to the Lord High Chancellor for the six
months ending 4th of February, 1846, wherein the num-
ber of miles travelled by some of the Commissioners, anc
the number of patients visited by them is stated, will of
,teelf prove the necessity of further inquiry into this
important subject, and cannot fail of impressing the
mind of those who consider it with the opinion that such
a system is inadequate, and essentially defective.
That it is the opinion of your petitioners that nothing
.port of weekly or fortnightly inspection of asylums—
and that by persons living in the neighbourhood, who
van make themselves acquainted with the cases and
characters of the patients confined in them—can be
Adequate to prevent the abuses which have existed in
these asylums, and which society has so much reason to
deplore; nor can any less frequent inspection do effectual
justice to all parties concerned in the detention of per-
sons alleged to be insane.
That is the opinion of your petitioners that no plan
more effectual or more appropriate can be adopted for
securing such weekly inspection of asylums, or with so
much economy and advantage to the state and to society
in general, than by Government availing themselves of
the assistance of discreet members of the parochial
clergy, together with the magistrates residing in the
neighbourhood of asylums, and authorising them to in-
spect such asylums, and to attend to the spiritual wants
end temporal safety and comforts of the individuals con-
fined in them; end that such a system of surveillance
.ppears to he more especially desirable in respect of the
female inmates of such asylums.
That it is desirable also that a book should be kept in
all asylums, in which alleged lunatic patients, or patients
vho enjoy lucid intervals, might enter their complaints
end observations; and that, on the death of any patient
iii an asylum, the report of such death should be sent to
the Home Secretary, and to the coroner, who should be
required and empowered to make inquiries into the
cause of such death. so that an inquest may be held on
the body, if any circumstances of suspicion should show
the necessity of it.
That by the Act 8 and 9 Viet., c. 100, power is granted
to the Commissioners in Lunacy to give orders to the
friends or relatives of patients to visit such patients; but
that it appears that the Commissioners evade the exer-
cising of this power upon the pretence that they see no
special reasons for giving such permission; and that it is
desirable that the power of availing themselves of this
privilege should be given to any solicitor or medical
man, whom a friend or relative may desire to employ to
visit a patient confined in any asylum, or to any solicitor
or medical man, or acting member of any benevolent so-
'iety devoted to the object of aiding and restoring
alleged lunatics, to whom such patient may have made
application to obtain his release.
That by the Act 8 and 9 Vic., c. 100, any person
confined after the passing of that Act may obtain a copy
of the certificates upon which he has been confined, upon
application to the Commissioners in Lunacy. That tis
desirable that this privilege should be conferred upon all
persons that have been released, whether previous to or
since the passing of that Act, and to persons in confine-
ment as well as to persons released therefrom ; that it is
the practice of the authorities of Bethlehem Hospital to
refuse copies of such certificates to all persons, unless
they are ordered by the Court of Chancery to give such
copies ; and that such practice is most unjust, and ought
to be abolished.
That charges of' a very vague, trivial, and insufficient
nature, are often alleged as grounds for confining per-
sons in lunatic asylums, and appear to be sanctioned as
valid charges by the Commissioners in Lunacy; amongst
these charges may be mentioned the possession of arms,
to defend the liberty of the person (against such arbi-
trary and tyrannical attacks as are practised under the
present law)—peculiar notions on religious subjects, and
a de:ire to promulgate the same, by preaching or other-
wise—e disposition for theatrical pur-uits—slovenly or
unusual habits—wearing the beard, or any costume, not
in itself indecent, but not customary—walking out late
at night —groaning, or excitement under accidental ill-
ness, exaggerations regarding property, speculation,
Szc. That it is intolerable that the liberty of the sub-
ject, the liberty of the conscience, and the freedom of
thought, of invention, and of action, and the aspirations
and exertions of noble and superior minds, together with
the weakness of the afflicted, should be exposed thus to
be trampled upon and cramped by the violent, cruel, and
sordid interference of persons of mean and confined in-
tellect and of timid disposition ; that it is incumbent
upon the Legislature to provide a defence for the liberty
of the subject, by compelling all persons who aro con-
cerned in the confinement of British subjects on such
vague and doubtful charges, to bring the parties accused
before a jury of their countrymen.
That this society do therefore humbly pray that your
Honourable House will appoint a Committee to inquire
into the reforms suggested, and the abuses pointed out,
in this petition, and into the whole system of the seizure,
confinement, and treatment of patients in the lunatic
Asylums of these kingdoms, and of the Channel Islands,
with a view to placing the law upon sound foundations
of religion, justice, and humanity.
And your petitioners will ever pray, Sze.

Loss OF Two HUNDRED AND EIGHTY POUNDS.—
Yesterday information was received by the police that a
letter, addressed to Mr. Reynolds, of Old Broad-street,
!•rom Liverpool, containing two 100/., one 501., and six
, nl. Bank of England notes, had been lost in its passage
through the Post-office. The numbers of the notes are
known, and pay iilent has been stopped.
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCISE, May 21.
(Before T. HARRISON, Esq., H. F. STEPHENSON, Esq.,
and CHARLES Ross, Eq.)
Thomas Connor, of No. 22, Wilk-street, Spitalfields,
was charged with having in his possession an illicit still.
Mr. Hughes, an officer of Excise, proved finding a
still fitted up at the top of the house named in the infor-
mation, with a quantity of molasses wash, and the usual
utensils for distillation, which he seized, and conveyed
the same to this office.
The defendant said he knew nothing whatever of the
business that wascarried on, nor were the premises in his
occupation. He let them to a person some time ago,
who regularly paid him rent for them, and he produced
the rent-book, with the sums entered that he received
from the occupier.
The Couar inquired why he did not bring his lodger
with him? The defendant replied, that he did not know
where to find him. For himself, he was but a weaver,
I and could bring a character from his employer, with
whom he had been for the last five or six years.
The COURT gave judgment in the penalty of 501., and
condemned the seizure.
John Wilson, a seaman, employed on board the Vic-
toria, Leith steamer, was charged with attempting to
remove a quantity of spirits, with intent to defraud her
Majesty of the duty thereon.
The COURT gave judgment in the penalty of 251., and
condemned the spirits.
Thomas Curtis, of the Waterloo-road. coffee-shop-
keeper, was convicted in the penalty of 751. for retailing
spirits and beer without a license.