The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-10 00:00:00

Mr. J. A. SMITH,

hould he laid before the

iciest son of the Marquis

taken by

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of the Church

in opposition to t
that the Church c

ara brougham of his case on Friday night in the House of
ords. It was an ex parte statement, and he hoped the
)use would suspend its judgment on the matter.
Mr. FERRAND moved that Mr. Clements, the poor law
immissioner, should be called to thetar to explain his con-
,,or in hpinm nresent at a meeting in Halifax, when the board

n thit hou

;olunon censuring observations made

Sir J. GRAHAM

influen,

ion which was un

justice to the services of Mr. Cle-

a division, the motion was del

a majority of

The Earl of LINCOLN, in reply to a question From Jur.
Hume, said that the rumour of new stables being about to
Claremont at an expense of thirty or forty thou-
Stables were about to be erected

but not at the public expense, and the cost

nt into co

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th.

mates were proceede

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and the principles o

of £10,006. His

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nd to rest
d to then,

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He contended, that there was a marked distinction
Scotland. There

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amendment to that effe

idependent jurisdiction of the

HOUSE OF dOIMMONS.-

ited, that 1,750 quarters of corn had
Wolgust last year, of which 150
)s per quarter; the remaining

-WEDNESDAY

In reply to a question from
Mr. GLADSTONE

r. BLACKSTONE

come into the Thames from
quarters had paid a duty of
1,600 quarters were still in tk

Mr. HUTT moved the second rt
)f Foreigners Bill, and, referring

ing of the Naturalisation

o the practice.of other n

► the words of a
isos orle Britannos

said that this country

respected

tment of foreigners, and he had little
:hina would, ere long, outstrip us in

that even C

defeated by a majority of 71 to 22

cket service,

irteution to the irregu
sels of the Royal Wes

arity of ti

I India Mail

ated one, and it was therefore not very surprising
ors of calculation should have been committed. Re-
:w scheme had been adopted, lessening
o be traversed, and he hoped that hence-
bviated.

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aving been disposed of

TREATRV. ILOYAL, 'WILLIAMSON .SQuAitL

MRS. CLARKF

most respectfully announces that her BENEFIT is appointed
' - place

ON MONDAY NEXT, thel3thinstplit,
on which occasion the celebrated 17formers,
Mr. NV: FARREN,

Mrs. GLOVER%
of the Theatres Royal, Drury-lane, ovent-garden, and
Haymarket, will make their appearance.

First Night of the New Drama of
reformation in GRANDFATHER 'WHITEHEAD,
distinction led to one the most popular production of the last season at theTheatre-
a the reformation Royal, Haymarket, in which
~ wish of the people, Mr. W. FARREN
s effected by the people will sustain his original character of " Grandfather White-
: consequence has been head," and
•chial while the Church
n. gentleman then sup- • •

STUART

his original character of " Langley."
,orted at great length ~,—. Mrs. TERNAN
Church of Scotland. (late Miss Jarman,) of the Theatre-Royal, Covent-garden.
Mr. C. Bauce moved the adjournment of the debate, Mr. BROWNE,
which was immediately agreed to. of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-lane, and of the American
Sir J. GRAHAM then brought in a bill for regulating the Theatres, will also appear ih principal characters, and
employment of children and young persons in factories, and Miss FANNY TERNAN,
tor the better education of children in factory districts. the Juvenile Actress, only seven years of age, will appear,
Lord ASHLEY expressed his concurrence to the greater for the first time, as " Edward Drayton," in the Drama of
sill, but hoped some further restrictions on the GRANDFATHER WHITEHEAD," and will also perform in the
ir would be adopted by the government; if not Farce of THE YOUNG ACTRESS.
ne should certainly, when the proper time came, move an
.

d-AN MONDAY next, the 13th instant, will he revived the
ki favourite Comedy, called

THE WAY TO KEEP HIM.
Sir Bashful Constant .... Mr. W. Farren,

the second character performed by him at the Theatre-

Royal, Covent-garden.
Lovemore .... (first time)._ Mr. Stuart.
Sir Brilliant Fashion Mr. Browne.
The Widow Belmour Mrs. Glover.
Mrs. Lovemore (first. time) Mrs. Ternan.
Muslin Mrs. Clarke.
After which, the highly successful Drama, as performed
Seventy Nights in succession last season at the Theatre-
Royal, Haymarket, called
GRANDFATHER WHITEHEAD.
Grandfather Whitehead Mr. W. Farren.
Edward Drayton.... (his Grandson) Miss Fanny Ternan.
Langley
Louisa Mrs. Seymour.
To be followed by a Drama, in one Act, adapted from the
" Actress of all work," expressly for Miss Fanny Ternan,
called

THE YOUNG ACTRESS;
OR, THE MANAGER PERPLEXED.
In which Miss Fanny Ternan will sustain Six Characters

Tickets to be had of Mrs. CLARKE, 1, Houghton-street,
Williamson-square, and of Mr. CooKE, at the Box-office of
the Theatre, of whom places may be taken from Ten until
Three o'clock : no Places can be secured unless Tickets are

Doors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the Perform-
ances to commence at Seven o'clock precisely.
Lower Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, 3s. 6d.; Pit, 2s. 6d. ;
Gallery, Is.
Second Price at Nine o'clock :—Lower Boxes, 2s. Gd. ;
Upper Boxes, 25.; Pit, is. Gd. ; Gallery, 6d.

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FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, 1843

The result of the trial of the unfortunate man—
M`Naughten—is one which is calculated to give rise to
serious reflection, as to the state of the law which can
permit crimes, such as the murder of Mr. Drummond,
to be committed with impunity. With the correctness
of the verdict returned we can find no complaint.
With the evidence adduced before them, we cannot
see indeed how an intelligent jury could have given
any other decision than that the prisoner was absolved,
by virtue of the monomania which possessed him,
from the consequences of what was only, in fact, the
working of a paroxysm, or, as the medical witnesses
termed it, "the climax" of his disease. M`Naughten
was a perfectly sane urn, for all the ordinary purposes
of life, and upon every other subject than the delusion
with which he was afflicted; but, that delusion once
brought into activity, every sense of right and wrong
was at once extinguished in a sense of fear or of hatred
towards his imagined persecutors. It is quite possible,
too, from the evidence adduced, and the discredit,
justly we think, thrown upon that of the inspector of
police who deposed to the confession of the prisoner,
that Sir Robert Peel was the party whose life he ima-
gined he had taken, that the offence may have been
the mere work of a momentary frenzy, and not the
premeditated deed which the circumstance of his hav-
ing waited for weeks about the neighbourhood of
Downing-street at first appeared to constitute it. The
workings of an ill-directed mind are hard to trace.
There may have been floating in his thoughts some
wild notion of protection to be acquired by communi-
cating his fears to some member of the government,
similar to that for which he had applied to the autho-
rities of Glasgow in vain ; and whilst in pursuit of this
object, the criminal deed may have been accelerated
by circumstances, or by a distorted imagination, as
d-2scribed by himself to Dr. Munroe when he said that
" the person at whom he fired gave him a scowling look,
and that all his previous feelings rushed to his mind."
A medical gentleman, it must be remembered, accus-
tomed to the treatment of persons insane or afflicted
with morbid delusions, was
.much more likely to elicit
truth from the unfortunate prisoner, than a police in-
spector. .

The verdict of the jury, therefore, we conceive to be
perfectly in accordance with evidence, and with a
humane interpretation of the law as applied to the
case; and we rejoice therefore that we are spared the
pain of witnessing the terrible spectacle, which would
have been the execution of a man notoriously, as the
prisoner was, of, at the least, imperfect sanity. But,
may we not ask, are there not many cases in the cri-
minal records of this country which, did ali the cir-

cumstances attending them receive ;the same strict
investigation as this case of WlNaughten, might re-
solve themselves into theLaesult of mental delusions
more or less strongly displayed ? Is the boundary
between mental and moral disease so accurately de-
fined that any man can declare where the evidences of
one shall not be taken as evidences of the other ? Can
the murderer, whose deed of blood is committed under
the overpowering influence of jealousy, be esteemed a
perfectly sane man ? Or is the, drunkard, labouring
under the influence of delirium, which is a disease,
quite as much as any of the countless forms in which
insanity presents itself—a man capable of controlling
his actions ? We suspect that all great criminals are
more or less afflicted with disease of mind; and that
strict application, in a number of cases, of the same
lavishness of expense displayed in the defence of
M‘Naughten, would be successful in developing facts,
bearing upon the mental condition of the accused,
which would startle at least, if they did not entirely
convince a humane jury, who had before them only
the alternatives of acquittal and the doom of death by
the executioner.

At this moment there can be no doubt that there
are hundreds of monomaniacs roaming at large upon
the highways of the world—men of perverted intellect,
exciteable to the wildest and most dangerous passions,
and in whom the distinctions between right and wrong
are so faintly traced that a momentary influence may
extinguish them altogether. Apply to the crimes
which may be committed by such men, the same mer-
ciful consideration which has been applied to those of
Oxford and M`Naughten ; and society will become
almost divested of protection. On the other hand,
compel a resort to a preventive system. Shut up such
men in lunatic hospitals—as M`Naughten ought to
have been shut up, if the authorities of Glasgow had
done their duty ; and those establishments must be
augmented to the size and number of our union work-
houses.

Two things are clearly deducible from the result of
the case before us, If we are to give that wide exten-