The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-24 00:00:00

MR. DYCE SOMBRE.

The following remarks respecting the imputed lunacy of
this gentleman appear in the Delhi Gazette
"If such of our readers as are interested in the fate of Mr.
Dyce Sombre will have the goodness to turn to our journal
of the 9th of March, 1844, they will find the translation of a
document prepared in Paris by a Committee of Medical men
at the request of the Prefet de Police,' and at the instance
of Mr, Sombre, when endeavours were being made to seize
his person, and once more bring him within the jurisdiction
of the tribunal by whose fiat the Commission of Lunacy had
been issued. The result was, as stated in the place in-
dicated, that Mr. Sombre was pronounced entirely free from
the malady imputed to him by the London Com-
mission. Circumstances, to which it is needless to advert
at any length, induced Mr. Sombre to revisit England,
where he was treated, it appears, in a manner so totally at
variance with the exp:ctations he had entertained, that
he again ssithdrew himself from the jurisdiction of the
British Courts. In the course of his travels he proceeded to
the Russian capital, and there became, as ;night naturally
have been expected, anxious to establish, by further exami-
nations, the real state of his mind. To thiS end he made an
application to the Russian Minister of the Interior of St.
Petersburgh (we write on the authority of official documents
before us), the result of which was that between Jan. 2d and
Feb. 20, 1845, he was subjected to a series of inquiries,
directed, as the Parisian Council had been, to the subjects
most likely to require investigation ; from this the ten me-
dical men of standing, who conducted the same, declare bins
to have come out quite as untainted by insanity as any of
themselves, and Mr. Sombre must have enjoy, d in an extra.
ordinary degree the cunning, with which those afflicted with
the disease attributed to him are endowed, if he mane ged to
elude the vigilance displayed and detailed in the docume,•ts
before us, and which carry conviction to the mind. Mr.
Sombre, armed with the testimony of the Russian Medical
Council, soon after quitted St. Petersburgh, and arrived at
Brussels, where he also solicited the intervention of the
authorities to obtain a medical examination,. which was
granted, and four physicians and surgeons, having been ap-
pointed to the duty, and investigated the Ms with the
signedce
closest attentice., calling in to their assistance two gentlemen,
directed Messrs.
Gt
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casesla ln and
o f pii
reD°
Crommelinck,tls.l,, a whose
certificate,
studiesea the,a have
nbaenein-
mously expressing their conviction of the soundness of Mr.
Sombre's mental faculties, which certificate is dated the `2lst
of June, and is equally strong with those previously drawn
up in Paris and St. Petersburgh. It is undoubtedly a mar-
verous circumstance that five Parisian, ten Russian, and six
Belgian practitioners, many of them of repute, should have
come, unanimously, to a conclusion so diametrically op-
posed to the declarations of the London physicians, and one
which time may explain. -We do not pretend to do so. We
give the facts as we find them, and leave our readers to draw
their deductions."

It appears that the facts stated here have wade a strong
impression in certain quarters, and that the affair will in a
few days come before the Lord Chancellor, on a petition for
suspending the verdict of the jury. The petition has been
lodged aid Counsel engaged ; among others Sir Thomas
Wilde in its support, the object of which is to prove that the
delusions under which Mr. Dyce Sombre laboured are now
completely removed, and that hejs capable of managing his
own affairs. It is said that Lord Metcalfe, from his acquaint-
ance with the family in India, and also the personal regard he
has for the petitioner, takes a deep interest in the question.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
This circuit is the only one yet appointed. Mr. Justice
Patteson and Mr. Justice Coleridge have timed the days for
holding the Assizes in the respective counties on this cir-
cuit, viz., for the
Northern Division of Lancashire}
Monday, Feb. 16.
at Lancaster
Westmoreland, at App1eby......... Thursday, „ 19.
Cumberland, at Carlisle
Northumberland, at Newcastle Wednesday, ~ 25.
Newcastle and Town
Dnrham, at Durham Monday, March S.
Yorkshire, at the Castle of York Saturday. „ 7.
City of York, at Guildhall .. Same day.
South Division of Lancashire, at} Saturday, ~ 21.
Liverpool ....... .

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
VICE-CIIANCRLLOR'S COURT, Jan. 23,
(Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAN.)
RIGBY V. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
MB Honour in this cause granted an interim injunction in favour
of the plaintiffs. In May, last year, a bill was hied by the Messrs.
Rigby for this object ; the defendants pat in a demurra-, and the
cause was argued before his Honour, who over ruled the demurrer,
and sent the case to be tried by two actions at law. In 1841 covenants
were entered into between the Messrs. Rigby and the Company about
the erection of refreshment rooms at the Swindon station ; the
Messrs. Rigby taking a lease of the premises on express terms for 99
years, and agreeing io erect refreshment-rooms ; the Company, on
their part, expressly stipulating that all trains, up or down, except
goods trains and express trains for a special purpose, should stop for
ref, eshment at the Swindon station. But the Company, in May last,
advertised and began to ran what they celled "express trains" be-
tween London aid Exeter: without stopping at the Swindon station,
except for the exchange of passengers and taking in a supply of
water, which did not s•ccupy more than from one to three minutes.
The plaintiffs estimated their loss arising out of this arrangement at
1,3001. a-yea:.

liis
IfoNotta said that all the facts of the case, and the poinis
of law raised in argument, had been decided in favour of the plain-
tiffs, bnt consldeting the relation of both parties in the suit to each
other, and at the stage at which the suit had arrived, he granted
only an interim injunction, with liberty, if the defendant wished it,
to raise another action at law.

BAIL COURT, Jan. 23.
(Sittings In Banco before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.)
HOLMES r. CROSBY.
Mr. HEATH appeared to show cause against a rule nisi obtained
last term by ➢!r. Crompton to set aside the award made by an arbi-
trator in this case.

The original action was brought in consequence or Mr. Crosby
selling to the plaintiff as guano, a composition, not only useless but
injurious. The parties agreed t• refer the matter to arbitration, and
Mr. Harwood Barrow an accountant was chosen. From his state-
ment it appeared that after a due and earetni consideration of all the
facts of the case, and an examination of the witnesses, he had deter-
mined that Mr. Holmes should pay to Mr. Crosby the' sum of
167/. 6s. 2d., and should also bear all the costs of the proceedings.
Mr. Crompton had obtained a rule nisi to set aside that award on the
ground that the action was net decided by It—that it was not
decided which of the parties had been entitled to proceed in the
action, arid which party was liable to pay the costs, and also that the
ground for the payment of the sum by Mr. Holmes was not.specifled.
and that it might have been awar.'ed to Mr. Crosby on some matter
et difference between him and Mr. Holmes, independant of the
action which was then left undecided.
Mr. limn argued that if there was any separate matter of dif-
ference between Mr. Crosby and Mr. Holmes, on which the award
could have been made, the onus lay on his Learned Friend to show
that such was the case, as a mere assumption of the fact was 'mufti.-
cient. Ile also cited a great number of cases in which the circum-
stances were similar to the present one and in which the award of
the arbitrator was considered to be final.
Mr. CaomrToN was hsard at some length against the validity of the
award.
Mr..Tustice WILLIAMS said that it did appear to him that some
part of the case placed under the consideration of the arbitrator had
not been decidesi, and, therefore, the rule nisi obtained by Mr.
Crompton must be made absolute.