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"1-9 J ULY 11, 1856.

AWIDOW LADY, possessing a thorough
knowledge of Domestic Management, is desirous of obtaliing
an Engagement as Companion to a Lady, or to superintend the
family of a Widower; or she would undertake the household arrange-
ments of au erdetly or invalid Lady or Gentleman.—address, C. G.,
E. A. Marsden, Esq., 4, Sise-lane, Bueklersbury, City.

4PPEI,LATE JURISDICTION-BILL,

(From the Times of this day.)
It is scarcely surprising that the Commons should
have refused to adopt the Appellate Jurisdiction
Bill which had been sent down to them from the
Upper House. This bill—happily we can speak Of
it in the past tense—was open to well nigh. every
objection which could be brought against a Parlia-
mentary measure. It entirely failed in providingi
a remedy for that which is a great and acknow-
ledged evil—viz., the want of a suitable court of
last appeal to conclude litigation in civil matters.
It defined and narrowed the prerogative of the
CrOwn where the usage of ages had left the prero-
gative broad and' undefined. At .the same time
that it did this it introduced innovations far more
startling than the one against which it was mainly
directed. We have far from exhausted the objec-
tions to this most unwise and unconstitutional bill,
for surely nothing could be more, at variance with
the practice of Parliament than that one House of
the Legislature should continue to hold an abnor-
mal and irregular session at the same time that
the other House was relieved from the duty of at-
tendance, and the Crown was debarred from all
interference. •Thie provision for the continuous
session of the Hoilse 'of -LOids in its judfcill
capacity at the same time that its legislative
functions were suspended was either ridiculous
or open to the very gravest suspicion. If no-
thing more was intended than the formation of
Court of Appeal disjoined from ,the ordinary
operations of the House of Lords, then the obvious
course, to avoid confusion, was to have a !roue° of
Lords and a Court of Appeal of an entirely inde-
pendent character. If, on the other hand, the new
Court was to remain clothed, in some' m ysterious
and indefinable manner, with the privileges and
majesty of a legislative body, the very gravest
evils might have resulted from a course so diame-
trically opposed to the principles of the constitution
as that one bianch of the Legislature should remain
in permanent session while the funCtions of the
two others remained in suspense. Happily, we
may speak of this danger as of one which has been
overcome. The House of Commons decided last
night by a majority of 22—that is to say of 155 to
133—that the bill should be referred to a select
committee—in other words, that it should be re.
jetted. Such a measure as this could only be passed
by surprise. In the recess the minds of men will
be keenly directed to the contrivance of some re-
medy for the great evil of which this bill was a posi-
tive aggravation. This was the line of areunnnt
which was taken last night by various speak re, but
even those who took the most moderate view of
the question strongly objected to the proposition of
the Government. To Mr. Raikes Currie the new
court appeared to be it "monstrous sham." The
Appellate Court w )uld be 'the House of Lords,
and not the House of Lords ; it would corrupt the
Puisne Judges, and, in fact, make confusion thrice
confounded. Mr. Cardwell, with great reason,
complained that, whereas now we have two Courts
of Appeal—the one within the limits of its powers
reasonably good, the other outrageously bad, the
tendency of this bill was to overthrow the tribunal
which actually worked well in favour of the court
which was on all sides acknowledged to be of the
most unsatisfactory character.
The coalition by which it- was sought to carry
the bill met with a signal defeat, and it deserved
to be defeated. Throughout the discussion, cer-
tainly throughout the discussion in the House of
Commons, the speakers in behalf of the bill have
notoriously attached no credit to their own argu-
ments. The Attorney-General is not a man who
ever fails to make out a good case when the cause
intrusted to him is one which can be defended ;
but how weak, how meagre, how unlike his usual
style was Sir Alexander oekburn's pleading on
Monday night in favour of this bill I He himself
would obviously have been relieved could he have
looked forward to the division of last night. As a
lawyer of great practice and experience, no man
knows better than the Attorney-General that the
evant'of a pro-pereCourtext Liet Appeal' in civil
matters is one of the great opprobriums of the
profession ; but, after we have waited so long, is
this a point' which can be duly considered in a
couple of stifling July evenings at the close of a
session, simply because the Peers happen to be in
a somewhat impetuous mood ? A measure which
decided in a, most unfavourable sense the question
of a final Court of Appeal, and dealt with high
differences between the Crown and the House of
Peers, was to be hustled through Parliament at
the close of a session really with less consideration
than is bestowed upon many a private bill. Well
might Mr. Evelyn Denison implore Lord Palmer-
ston "not to allow this miserable measure to come
between the House of Commons and him." It
was a bill to which, in its present condition, and
without further inquiry, the House dared not and '
could not without the grossest dereliction of duty
give the force of law. Either ono of the two
great principles which it involved was quite im-
portant enough to necessitate the most matured
discussion.

We have no desire to make any remark adverse
to a statesman who has rendered to his country ser-
vices of so eminent a character as those which
have distinguished the administration of Lord
Palmerston during the recent war. It must,
however,. remain a subjebt of grave astonishment
that a iS/inister who could not bring himself
to argue more strongly in favour of a measure than
Lord Palmerston argued last night in favour of
this " miserable bill" could consent to introduce
it at all into the House of Commons. The founda-
tion of a good Court of Appeal is not a slight mat-
ter. Th e decision of this question, which was
provoke& at the close of a session in so hasty and
unguarded a manner, was one which would affect
the most important interests of the country for
centuries. to come. What had the First Minister
to say in favour of this abortive bantling of the
Peers, wraich he had so carelessly adopted ? Why,
the legal force in the House of Lords was on the
decline' ; it was advisable to strengthen it • it was
therefore advisable to pass this bill. We can
scarcely believe that so resolute and clearsighted a
man .could be in earnest when, after stating his
own fantire conviction that the House of Lords had
come to an erroneous decision on .the question of
life peerages, and declaring that many successive
GovernMents had held that the creation of life
peerages was within the prerogative of the Crown,
he yet argued that the error of the Peers ought to
receive the sanction of the Legislature, that the
opinion of successive Governments ought to be dis-
regarded, and that a most clumsy sham should be
'established, all because an acknowledged evil
.would be remedied by an accession of legal force to
the House of Lords.. This is literally all which
Lord Palmerston could urge in favour of a measure
which-was permanently to affect-, the administration
of justice throughout the Btitish empire.

(From the Daily News of this day.)
Further discussion has only served to make
more clear the false position into which Ministers
have suffered themselves to be betrayed with re-
spect to the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill. There
was last night an open avowal of mutiny and revolt
among the very trained bands that usually support
them. The vehement and vivacious remonstrances
of Mr. Rallies Currie against the manner in which
the second reading was carried, followed by the
graver appeals of Mr. Evelyn Denison and others,
could not but tell upon Lord Palmerston. RE)
was plairJly told he held his post as official head of
the Liberal party, not because he was the legitimate
ropiesentative of their opinions, but "as a com-
pvomise"—because, in short, he had shown more
pluck and perseverance in times of difficulty abroad
than others of his recent colleagues, and because
he was on some points suppcsed to harbour more
liberal notions than his Tory opponents. But the
Premier was warned, in terms not to be mistaken,
that ito consideration for past or hope of future
would suffice to assuage the
i;ath.ering
sseerr,vseiceos
f being sacrificed to the designs of their
political . antagonists that was beginning to pre-
arty, and surrounded only by a staff
vail in the ranks of his supporters.At the head
rsr pofficials, he had a few nights ago
ranted
ridden down the broken and disor-
ganised'rooffthe Tb
ied salaried
alnld Liberals, on whom in the hour of real
need the maintenance and defence of his power
a bsol utel: V depended. We can fancy how
the adruo nitions administered some time before his
fall R. Peel for similar desertion of friends
and t
piaon of foes must have' recurred to the
minds of those who listened to these unwonted
it% o Sir
warnings.
But the difference was not more strik-
ing in the sul33ect of the warnings than in the party
and personal position of those by whom they were
pronoun ;ed. The great Conservative leader delibe-
ra t
the bulk of his followers because
they
upon
standing between him and the
1 y i n fos is r
tse od o
nation at. large. Lord Palmerston, when he ,

hearkens to Derbyite schemers and intrigues, and
consents 'to do their bidding in resisting progress,
commits the fatal error of encircling himself with
the follies and prejudices of an aristocratic faction,
to the exclusi.ou of the sympathy and confidence of
the great body of the community: Sir Robert had
everything to compensate him for the loss of power.
The noble lord, were he obstinately to persist in so
infatuated a course, would have nothing to coun-
tervail the sacrifice. Equally, marked is the con-
trast between those by whom the words of augury
were uttered in 1845-and those who discharge a
like duty in 1856. Mr. Disraeli was heard, rather
in wonder at his temerity' than in serious belief
that his ominous words were a prophetic verity;
swiftly and inexorably to be fulfilled. What gave'
them force was, that the distrust he dared to arti-
culate lurked silently in the hearts of many—of
many who listened in silence, and who would have
prob ibly denied that they approved of what was
said :by the Unsupported and almost shunned
spokesman of wile-spread Ciiicontent. In the
present cas , the tone of rebuke, if not of menace,
is used by men of long standing-among the Whigs,
of moderate opinions and long-tried fidelity to
party ties, of more than unquestioned indepen-
dence of character and fortune,, and, above all,
with the ready and undisguited. support of scores
of men like themselves, both in and out of Parlia-
ment, who if asked by any insolent underling what
they wanted would be apt to answer, as a vener-
able nobleman is said, to have answered when
similarly questioned, " Thank God, sir, I want
'nothitigbut good .government -and that great men
should stick to their principles."
The Tories naturally strove to hold their official
recruits to the fatal bargain they had entered into.
But it was edifying to see how theirsatisfaction-at
the pickle into which their ministerial confederates
had been lured, gleamed through their clumsy
attempts to defend the measure in detail. Speakers
like Mr. Mathis could not muster impudence
enough to argße gravely in favour of anything
the bill contained. They even took pains to de-
clare that they were thoroughly and at heart
ashamed to do so. It was for other reasons
they were_ready to vote with Government on the
question. Just so—the other . reasons being
reducible in a few words to this, that Lord Derby
having entrapped Lord Palmerston into a com-
promise of matchless. absurdity, by which
Crown and Commons,. Bench and Bar, Lords and
Lawyers, ',ere all sure to be dainaEfed and dissatis-
fied—Lord Derby's followers in the Lower House
must at any cost adhere thereto, and give the Go-
vernment iv.) exoue for retractation on the ground
of being unsust,aiued by their new allies. This,
and this alone, formed the gist of all that was mut-
ter d rather. than uttered in support of *this most
wretched measure during the long debate on Mr.
Currie's motion.• • Lord Palmerston endeavoured to
soothe Vie malcontent Liberal, but in vain. It was
addressing the -deaf adder, that listens not to the
wor:±s of the charmer.. The house, by a majority
of 155 to 133; resolved to relegate the bill to a select
committee—that bourne from whence so few bills
return. If Lord Palmerston is wise, he will with
draw it at once.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-JULY 10.
APPELLATE JURISDICTION BILL.

Order for committee read ; motion made and question pro-
posed, " That Mr. Speaker_ do now leave the chair :"
Amendment proposed, to
.leave out. from the word
" That " to the end Of the question, in order to add the
words "the bill he referred to a select committee" in-
stead thereof; Question' put, "That the words proposed
to be left out stand part •of the question." The house
divided : Ayes, 133 ; noes, 155.
•
AYES-133,
Baines, Rt. Hon. M. . Hamilton, Lord Claud Osborne, R.
Baird, J. Hamilton, G.A. Paget, Lord A.
Ball, J. Harcourt, Col. . Paget, Lord G.
Baring, T. ' 'Mite! t, P. . • Palmer, Bounden
Bentinck, G. • • • Hildyard, R. C. Palmerston, Viscount
Bethell, Sir R. .. Horsfall, T. Peel, Sir R.
•
Biddulph, Col. R. M. Hughes, H. G. . Peel, F.
Bignold, Sir S. ' 'Johnstone, J. Repton, G.
Blandford, Marquisnt Joilitle, Sir W. Bolt, P.
Bouverie, Hon. E. P. Jolliffe, IL • Russell, F. W.
Bramley- M.:ore, J. Jonas, Admiral Rust, James
Brand, IL B. W. Kingacote, Capt. R. Seymour,:H.
- Bruce, Lord E. ' Knatehbull, W. • Sibthorp, 3lajor
Buck, Col. Labolicilere,itt.non.ll Smith, X.
Buckley, Gen. . Langton. W. U. Smith, It.
Bur-ell, Sir 0_ , , Lewis, Sirttil. C. Smyth, John
Iturrowes, P.obert• Liattett, u. AA, -.-- Spooner, It. -,...,,
Cayley, E. S. . . I.uasuy, Col. J.. • • - Stauttope, J.
Chaplin, W. L:ttle on, E. Steel, John
Christy, Samuel ' Loekhaft, W. Stracey, Sir H.
Cockb. m, Sit A. J. E. Lowe, It. Sturt, H,
Cocks, T. S. . Lowther, Capt. Taylor, Colonel
Codrington, Sir C. W. Luce, T. Thesiger, Sir. F.
Cole, H. A. Maeartney, G. Trail, G.
Coles, H. • Mackinac) ~ W. Uxbridge, Earl
Corry, H. T. L. . Dlalms, Richard Vane, Lord H.
Cowper, W. March, Earl of Villiers, C.
Craufurd, E. 11. J. Massey, W, Waddington, H.
Davies, D. • Matheson, A. Walcott, Admiral.
Disraeli, B. Matheson, SirJ. Wa,pole. S.
Duncan, Viscount . Miles, W. Walsh, Sir J.
Ferguson, sir It. Monck, Via. Welby, Sir G.
Fitzgerald, J. Mozicreiff, J. Whatman, J.
Follett, li. S. • Monsen, W. Whiteside, J.
Freestun, Colonel .Morgan, 0. Whitmore. H
Freshtleld, J. Diostyn, E. Wlgram, Loftus T.
Galway, Viscount 'AI owatt, F. . Willoughby, Sir H.
Gooch, Sir E. - Mowbray, J. R. Wilson, J.
Graham, Lord M. ,Mullings, J. .K. WoNld, B.
Greases, E. Nast, Lord Wrightson,' W.
Greene, Thomas Na; ler, J. - Wynne, W.
Gregson, Samuel Neeld, John
Grey, Rt. Hon. Sir G. Newdegatc, C.
Grey, It.
,Newport, Viscount
Grogan. Edward Nisbet, It
Hall, Sir Benjamin lieirth, Col. J.

TELLEAS.

Ilayter, W.
Alolgrave, Earl of

NOES-155.
Acton, Joseph Forster, Charles
Agnew, Sir A. Forster, John
Ale,ck, T. fox, W. J.
knderson, Sir J. Gibson, AI.
Antrobus, E. Gladstone, W.
Bailey, C. Glyn, qr.
Radii,, H. • ooderich, Viscount
Baldock, E. H. Gordon, A.
Baring, Sir F. Graham, Sir J.
Barnes, T. Greenall, Gilbert
Bass, M. Greene, John
Baxter, W. Grosvenor, Ld. R.
Beaumont, W. liaddeld, George
Bell, J. Hankey, T.
Berkeley, Hon. 11. F. Harcourt, G. G.
Biggs, W. Bastin. Alex.
Black, Adam II , stie, Archd.
Blackburn, Peter Headlarn, T.
Bolder°, Col. H. G. lleathcoate, Sir W.
B mliani-Carter, J. Henley, J.
Bowyer. G 11,,thant, Lord
Bramston, T. W Howard. C.
Brocktehurst, J. Il utt, w
Brotherton, J. I zighatn, B.
Brown, W. Ingram, H.
Bruce, H. A. Johnstone, Sir J.
Byag, G. 11. 0. Kendall, N.
Cairns, 11. Kennedy, T.
Campbell, Sir A. I. King, L.
Cardwell. E. Kinnaird, A.
Cav, radish, G. C. Lacon, Sir E.
Child, Smith Langston, J.ll.
Clay, Sir W., Bt. Langton, IL G.
Cobbett, J. M. Laseelles, E.
Colvile, C. F. Lay ard, A. 11.
Cowan, C. Lennox, Lord H. G.
Dashwood, Sir G. Lindsay, W.
Denison, E. Locke, J.
De Yore, S. E. MacEvoy, E.
Dillwyn, L. L. Mf,eGrogor, James
Duke, Sir J. M'Gregor, John
Duncan, George McTaggart, Sir J.
Buncombe, Hon. Col. Maguire. J. F.
Dundas, G. Mangles, It. D.
Dundas, F. 31 asterinan, J.
Dunlop, A. Meagher, T.
Egerton, W. Mall, E.
Evelyn, W. J. 31111nran, It.
Ewart, W. Mimes, It.
Ewalt, J. 3: itehell, T A.
Ferguson, Colonel N (Ant, G.
Ferguson, J. Morris, D.
Fitz Gerald, Sir John Murrough, J. P.

North, F.
Northcote, Sir S.
O'Brien, P.
Palk, L.
Parker, It.
Peellell, Sir G.
Pcliatt, A.
Perry, Sir E.
Phi llirnore, J. G.
Phillonore, R. J.
Pilkington, J.
Portman, W.
Price, W.
Pritchard, J.
Ricardo, o'.
Ricardo, S.
Rice, E.
Rich, IL
Richardson, J.
Ridley, George
Robartes, T.
Roebuck, J. A.
Russell, Lord J.
Sawie, C.
Scholefleld, W.
Seymour, W. D.
Shafto, R.
shelley, Sir J.
Sheridan, R.
Smith, J. B.
Somerville, Sir W.
Strait, Hon. E.
Stuart, Captain
Tempest, i.ord A. V.
Thornely, T.
Thornhill, W.
Tite, W.
Toilemache, J.
Vernon, G.
Walmsley, Sir J.
Walter, J.
Watkins, Col.
Wickham, H.
Wilkinson, W.
Willcox, B.
Williams, T.
Williams, W.
Wortley, J. S.
Wyvill, M.

TELLERS.
Currie, Raikes
Denison, J. R.

PAIRS.

FOR.
Mr. Jackson

AGAINST.
Mr. Goddard

Mr. Hutchins

Mr. Cu itt
__.

Mr. Nlartin

Viscount Chelsea

Mr. Pelle()Ae

Colonel Forester

Sir De Lacy Evans Colonel Gilpin
Sir G. Strickland Sir J. Pakington
Mr. Sandars Mr• Mundy

Mr. Tomlind

Mr. K. Seymer

Lord Newark
Mr. Grenfell
Mr. S. Fitzgerald Sir E. Hayes
Mr. Dive t Colonel Pennant
Sir M. S. St wart
Sir J. IV. nogg
Lord Raynharo
Sir J Paxton

Captain L. Vernon
Mr. Sergeant Shee
Mr. Gurney Mr. D. Waddington
Mr. P—Urquhart
Mr. Heywood
Sir D. Norrey3 Dr. Michell
Mr. Coffin Sir T. Herbert

Mr. Gaskell

Mr• Bond _ _ n(

Sir J. East

Mr. Adderley

Sir J. Fergusson

Earl of Beetive.

IMMIALINFLUENCS._simpIicity is so closely allied
to eleganee and refined taste that it is sure to make
its way to universal recognition. Such has been the
good fortune of the Bournous ala Bedouin. The
Empress, always remarkable- for her fine instincts on
the eutj4ct of dress, has adopted this graceful article
of attire, and given to it Parisian vogue, and it is
becoming a prevailing " mode among our own upper
classes. The Bournous is notable both for its beauty
and its extreme utility, as its shape is not only ap-
plicable for the opera, promenade, or evening dress,
but is also most convenient for the seaside and for
travelling ; nay, it may even be bad waterproofed.
How great must be the astonishment of the swarthy
Arab of the desert when be perceives that his simple
combination of materials has become the favourite of
fashion among the politest peoples in the world, with
the exception of certain differences as to material,
weight, and ornament ! Messrs. Jay and Smith, of
the " Spossalia," 246, Regent-street, have been re-
quested by high authority to add an exquisite adap-
tation of i his attractive article of dress, in the shape of
a " Child's Bournous," founded on oriental specimens;
and have also made extensive arrangements for produc-
ing the Bournous in perfection in all its forms.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—ehay 10.

BOW-STREET.—Rielta;d Dunn was brought before
Mr Henry yesterday afternoon, upon the authority of
an' ordeit previously issued by his worship, directing an
inquiry as to his state of mind. . •
Mr. Bodkin appeared on behalf of the Crown to con-
duct the inquiry, which occupied several hours, owing
to the discursive speeches, and troubltsome conduct of
the defendant, whose• manner throughout was that of an
excited madman.
Mr. .Bodkin stated that the position which the defen•
dant now occupied was very different from that in which
he had been vaned on former occasions at the police
courts of the metropolis. It was not necessary to refer.
•to the defendant's continued persecution for so long, a
period of Miss Burdett Coutts, for the circumstances
were sufficiently notorious. Now the attention of his
worship would be directed to a series of letters which he
had addressed to some Royal personages, and painful as
it was to giye publicity to the offensive terms in which'
those effusions were couched, it was still necessary to
read them in justification of the present proceevlr,ngs. In
consequence of these letters it was judged necessary to
obtain his worship's order to hare a medical inqiiiry in ,
stitutedlai to the defendant's state of mind ; and Dr.
Sutherland and Dr. Layers were now in attendance to
report the remit of their examination. The letters,
which were addressed to her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge and the Piiucess Mary, had been
submitted to. the Commissioners of Police, by whom,
with the sanction of the Home Secretary, application
was made for the present order to bring the defendant
before a magistrate as a lunatic at large. Atter some
further observations, during which the learned u,unsei
was co istantly interrupted by the :.:efendant (who or
tiered wftw-sses out" of court), .

Mr. Bodkin examined the following witnesses :
Major Home Purvis deposed that he is Equerry to her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. He pro-
duced five letters, which had been received either at St.
James's-palace or Cambridge-cottage, Raw, and which
had been since handed to Sir Richard Mayne. They
were addressed chiefly to the Princess Mary, and were
signed " Richard Dunn."
Cross-examined by the defendant—The last dates
were about the 15th or 16th of June. There had been a
great many previous letters signed " R. D.," which had
been destroyed ; and two or three signed " R chard
Dunn" were returned to the address given by the
writer.

Here Dunn, in a wild and insolent tone, put a torrent
of questions to the witness,!asking him if he could swear
the letters were destroyed ; if he saw them destroyed :
if he saw the letters posted that were said to be returned
to him ; if he wasn't ashamed of hirosel for speaking
from hearing; and, finally, as a gentleman and a roan of
honeur—if be called himself so—whether any lady—
putting Royal Duchesses and Princesses out of the
qUestion, for he didn't recognise such distinctions—
whether any lady who had been addressed in terms of
affection by any one, even a sweep (for all men and wo-
men, being humati beings alike, were actuated by the
same feelings), would destroy any letters if she enter-
tained the idea of assisting the present conspiracy against
him, or if they contained anything that would militate
against him ?
Major Purvis was not aware of any " conspiracy,"
and he should suppose the best way of disc iuraging such
letters would be to send them back to the writer.
At the request of Mr. Bodkin the following letter was
read by Mr. Burnaby, the chief clerk, the defendant
himself repeatedly assisting him in deciphering unintel-
ligible passages :

" Victoria Coffeehouse, Juno 14, 1856.
"Princess,--It I could believe that the outrage perpe-
trated on my feelinAs was sanctioned by you I should never
again address you, for never was outrage so totally unpro-
voked. I have acted entirely in obedience to what I sup-
posed to be your wishes, and I highly estim'►ted your cor-
r ct and proper feelings. I did not supposs it possible that
as a lady you would permit me to pour into 3 our bosom
the warm and ardent affection which you have taught me
to entertain for you, nor did I think that, after having re-
tained those letters so•long, you could place them in the
hands of the Commissioners of Police. My feelings to-
wards you, Princess, were principally created by the en-
couragement I was led to suppose you wished to give me
—they began withyour smiles, they may end with a frown
if you like to end with one. You require no protection
from me but your own feelings. All the empire knows
that money cannot buy my heart. I loved with truth and
sincerity. I acted with candour and honesty. You know
all my circumstances, and if I have acted in any way dis-
tressing to you, do not blame me, but the circumstances.
If yon think me worthy of your esteem and fair hand, let
me know. If you have placed my letters in unworthy
hands, take them back, or have them restored to me, and
you shall never hear from me again. Do not think lightly
of the difficulties of my position, one lady hunting me to
distraction because I wont have her, and another because
I wish to have her. A Christian death were butter than
such a life ! If you wish to write you can easily make
your maid enclose them to me, and I slaguld be greatly
IMified If r could "have an expiah.tion with a poxvois oa
whom you could rely.
"I remain beloved and admired Princess, yours, &c.
" RICHARD DUNN."
The defendant here observed, "That letter is my an-
swer to this charge. I am content to.put in that letter
as my defence."

Ocher letters were received of a wild nal offensive
character, and were proved by Inspector Bray, of the
A division, to be in defendant's handwriting ; but
Mr. Henry did not consider them of sufficient import.
ance to he attached to the depositions.
Dr. John Lavers, of Great George-street, Westniin-
seer, examined—ln pursa (mei of t'►e o. der prniineed I
saw defendant on Saturday last.l had seen Mr. Dunn be-
fore on two previous occasions, to ascertain the state
of his mind, and had conversations with him each time.
From these conversations, and from what I have Peen of
him to-day, I believe him to be insane. My first inter-
view with him was at his own lodgings. li, then stated
that his reason for writing letters to the princess was
that she had given him an unmistakeable look of recog-
nition while riding in her carriage, and that the
Duchess of Cambridge, who sat by her side, re-
proved her for it. This, he said, was so obvious, that
it drew the attention of a bystander, a gentleman, who
spoke of it to him (Dunn) at the time. Afterwards, at
my own house, he stated that the (laughter of a noble-
man (whose name he mentioned) bad wished him to
marry her, and that the father, a marquis, had offered to
settle an annuity of 3001. upon him. He said that two
young women, whom he met in Bond-street, were sent
to look out for him by the Princess, and that while he was
conversing with "Sarah," the Princess's waiting-maid,
at her residence, the Princess herself was waiting on the
stairs, and would have come down to him but for the
servants. He said that the Queen also was in love with
him, and the Palace doors were thrown open to
him, but he had purposely avoided going that way. He
said that the landlady of the reading-room in Bury-street,
St. James's, which he used, had told him repeatedly
that the servants of ladies of distinction had been sent to
inquire after him.

The witness was subject to a long period of " bullying,"
rather than cross-examination, and was asked to define
" ethics," " mathematics," to repeat the sentiments of
" Locke on the Human Understanding, in special rela-
tion to insanity, to state what constituted a fool, and
finally, with vulgar effrontery, defendant desired the
witness to get a looking-glass and save himself the
trouble of the definition.

Dr. Alex. John Sutherland, of 6, Richmond-terrace,
Whitehall, deposed —I am a fellow of the Royal College
of Physicians. My practice has been very much directed
to mental disorders and their treatment, and I am phy-
sician to St. Luke's Hospital. In pursuance of the
order produCed, I have been to see Mr. Dunn once. It
was on the sth inst. I entered into conversation with him
with a view to ascertain the state of his mind, and also
on the following day, when he called on me, I took the
opportunity of observing him with the same view. I
consider he is of unsound mind, and that he labours under
particular delusions. He stated to me that he had sent
a letter to the Princess Mary in consequent-s of certain
facts which he relied on. He said that last June twelve-
month he saw one of the Rayal carriages pas•iria• from
Apsley-house. In it were the Princess Mary and the
Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess smiled and
winked at him. He also told me that the Duchess turned
to the Princess and rebuked 'ner, and that all this was
noticed by a gentleman who was standir', near him.
After that he stated to me that the Princess had written
to him and had put a heart in the corner of it, with the
name "Mary" written on the heart. He said that a
gentleman called upon him at his chambers in the Tem-
ple, and in the course of a conversation said to him—
" Princesses haVe married commoners." He said that on
another occasion, when the Princess was riding out with
some other ladies, she "put out her else, k, as much as
to say, 'lf you salute me I am ready to salute you.' "
He also stated that he bad been to the Duchess of Cam-
bridge's, where he saw the maid-servant, and sod to her
" Sara'i, your young lady is either fl.rtin,e, with me, or
humbugging me." At this Sarah laughed, and he then
asked what sort of pers in the Princess wac, and she said,
" Very amiable, just like her father ;" ulo r which, be
(Mr. Dunn) rejoined, "Their I will try it on " He also
told me that he asked Sarah whether any ladies in the
house wore plaid shaw,s ? and Sarah replied that Viey
did. He said he had seen Miss Fraser and the Duchess's
maid so dressed in Bond-street, near the Clarendon
Hotel, and that one of them said, "Haw do you do ?"
That he i 2 terpreted this to mean that Le was to go to
the house of the Duchess, as the Princess Mary was
alone, it being the day upon which the other members of
the family dined with the Duke of Cambridge. He ob-
served that there had been a good deal of whispering
about the Princess Mary and himself at his lodgings.
He further said that on of e occasion, as he was goieg
towards St. James's Palace, he was overtaken by a
woman, who ran before him to the entrance to tilt
stable-yard by Sutherland house ; that she went in, an.
that almost immediately afterwards he met the Duchess's,
carriage. He told me that if he were not made of
cast iron he could not have withstood these advances,
sad that had they been ordinary women he should,
a.ter such encouragement, have walked: ato their
• ises at once. He said it had been intimat rd to him
that the Duchess had objections to the marriage or
the Princess Mary with Prince Oscar, and that le,
believed her Majesty favoured him, an iriferenct
which be drew fran her manner towards him.
He said that a certain nobleman was desirous that he
should marry his daughter, and that in consequer.ce of
his (Mr. Dunn'e) refusal he had become the object of that(