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toms similar to those which the prisoner Peper they are 
generally, I believe, placed under restraint? Wit = Wes. 
Such symptoms. often ee develop iemeclvey Sarecas 
many have these delusions for e time and are harmless, and 
ues they may suddenly impel‘ fifean to the commission of crime. 
rawford sworn 
feat ttt by Mr. Bodkin.—I am a lecturer on Medical Jurispru- 
dence at the Andersonian Institution of Glasgow. I accompanied 
the medical men last mae he eae the prisoner was visited in 
sisted in ation. I haye heard the evi- 
ven ay Dr Bait andre entirely oe in all he 
has said with reference to M‘ Nanghten’ 's insanity. .M‘Murdo, 
surgeon, sworn, and examined by Mr. Cockburn et an sat sur- 
geon of Newgate. My opinion has not been reduced to writing. 
I have regularly visited the prisoner ever since he was confined 
ains to ascertain his state of mind. 
and was so al 
n he committec offence of which he is charged. 
T have given that opinion to an parties engaged in the prosecu- 
tion. I believe that he was insane at the moment he committed 
the offence. He believed that he was acting in self-defence an 
correctly. That opinion is we result of several conversations. 
ir. A. Key, surgeon, sworn and examined by Mr. Clarkson.—I 
am surgeon of Guy’s ‘Hospital. I have not seen the pul oner dur- 
ing his confinement in Ne ewgate. I saw him for the first time in 
my life yesterday. Ihave been in court ere the whole of the 
was eXx- 
empt from all responsibility ; that he had no control over his ac- 
tions. Ihave not had my attention parti ected to the 
subject of insanity, but I have been engages ae ingnigles. 
T think a perso on may be under the influence of a morbid delu- 
sion, and e to conduct the ordinary affairs of wie. The 
el usion era Maneted him to the act deprived him of all moral 
control. Mr. Forbes Winslow, surgeon, examined by Mr. Clark- 
Sone ‘am the author of the “ Plea of Insanity i in Caine Sate 
and other works on the subject of insanity. I have been in court 
during the whole of the trial, and have not been summoned on 
either side, and have heard all the evidence on the part of the 
Crown and for the defence. Judging from the evidence which I 
have heard, T have not the slightest hesitation in saying that the 
prisoner is insane, and that he committed the offence in question 
whilst afflicted with a delusion, under which he appears to have 
been labouring for a consid derable length of time. Lord Chief 
Justice Tindal.—Will you repeat what you have just stated? Mr. 
Winslow ae expressed an paaeenes opinion onthe PupaReE ‘Ss 
Jing-1 house. Mr. Clarkson addressed the jury, and said that the 
prisoner was formerly an army-agent and cae ad me carried on 
business in Regent-street. He was a mem! the Junior 
United Service Club, from whence se neon es alleged to 
have been stolen, and under these circumstances a question of 
law might arise me ae whether the present indictment should be 
sustained. He ee aie to detail the facts: of the case, 
w seh have recently been laid before our readers. The Recorder, 
allusion to the di aes siehertadl by counsel in point of law, 
eat that ae proper time for that ec. to be argued would be 
when se arose upon the evidence. Witnesses were then examined 
at some length, but the Court ultimately ruled that the indict- 
ment coud not be pre te as it expressly stated that the pro- 
perty was stolen in a dwelling-house, a term which could not be 
applied to a club, Renta was therefore acquitted. He 
was then charged upon ennrine indictment, with stealing some 
oe and forks, the property ot Sir James 
trustees of the Army and Navy Club. As the pe alte 
under snl vat peice. was Sas have been so fully a 
cently t will be unnecessary to state more than that t 
a cle ae prov fet that the prisoner had an esas oH LANE: 
the property in question, and he was proved to have pledged i 
afterwards. Several Spas were called whos gave the sae 
a good character. The jury found the prisoner ates pidseeny 
and he was sentenced to be transported for seven ye 
Were other indictments against the prisoner, but tees were ant 
peaneedad with. ates, aie of plate was, however, handed 
over by the pawnbroker idererent prosecutors. 
SSIZB INTELLIGE ster.)—The Churtist Trials.— 
The unusual length to which aay report ofthe trial of M‘Naughten 
and the Parliamentary debates of t! Is, compels us 
to postpone until next week the details of the trial a ee Fear- 
‘us O’Connor and the other esters at Lancaster. The prison- 
rs concluded their defence on Wednesday ; but after the Attorney- 
feneral’s reply, the learned udeall at the request of the jury, 
deferred his summing up until Thursday, on which day the trial 
terminated. Of the 52 prisoners indicted, 15, including Dr. 
M‘Douall, Thomas Couper sand Bernard MC Cartney, were found 
guilty only on the rth count of the indictment, which charge 
them with having “ cumbleuonely. and ae assembled to. 
gainers and by violence, threats, &c., forced divers peaceable 
ubjects of the realm their oceupal ations,” &c.; 
fiftesn, cotbeee? including Mr. Feargus O’Connor, were 
Verally found guilty on the fifth count ee charged them with 
having “ unlawfully endeavoured t fe her Majesty’s liege 
Subjects to disaffection and hatred ef, ae laws, and having 
insanity. . Philips, su nd lecturer at the Westmin 
Hospital ser aie called, but tLord I Chief Justice Tindal interposed 
and said—Mr. So Wales General, are you prepared, on the bat of 
the Crown, with a1 idence to combat this testimony of t 
manical Gees who now have been examine: because we 
nk, if yon have not, we must be under the necessity of stop- 
ane the case? Is there any medical evidence on the other side? 
The Solicitor-General.—No, my Lord. Lord Chief Justice Tindal. 
—We feel the eeiteaees especially that of the last two medical 
gentlemen who have been examined, and who are strangers to 
both sides, and only observers of the case, to be very strong, @ and 
sufficient tot induce may. sills brother and myself to stop the 
case, The 1 said, tl H ofthe jury, after 
the iced T Mtave received from the Bench, I feel that I 
should not be properly discharging my duty to the Crown and to 
the public, if I asked you to give your verdict in this case against 
ie prisoner. The Lord Chief Justice has intimated to me the 
very strong opinion entertained by himself na the other learned 
suet who have presided here to-day, that the evidence ane the 
art of the defendant, and more particularly, the evidence of the 
retical witnesses, is sufficient to show that this Sdforianate 
man, at the time he committed the act, was rE meee 
insanity; and, of course, if he were s! he would be led to 
ious, re to say, on cas at of 
the defence. There is no een Rharoidndbeha splat on the part 
of the public prosecutor, but that the ends of public justice shall 
lies attained; and, certainly, when in the streets of this metro- 
is a crime of this sort was committed, it was incumbent on 
Hire who have the care of the public peace and safety to have 
the case properly investigated. The safety of the lives and per. 
sons of all of us requires that there ae be such an investiga- 
tion. On the part of the Crown I felt it my duty to lay betore 
you the evidence we possessed of the ped of this young man, 
T cannot agree with the observations my learned friend has made 
on the doctrines mre authorities that have been laid down in this 
those doctrines and authorities are correct 
away? The Lord ‘éniet braatite I eens to mean to submit 
that question to s for a verdict against the 
prisoner. The tarred Judge will Mabinit the case to you, and 
then it will be for you to come to your decision. The Lord Chief 
guste Ales Gentlemen of the jury, in this important case, 
which d very great a paths during the tw: wo preceding 
days, he Soin I shall have to submit to you is, whether on the 
who! to of the evidence you have near you are satisfied that at 
the time the act was committed, for the commission of which the 
prisoner now stands charged, he had that competent use of his 
See as that he knew that he was doing, by the e very 
act itself, a wicked and a wrong thing? If he e was not sensibly 
at the time he committed that act a violation of Be 
law of God or et man he ot 
dihet ay 
pod so fave. Che Tearned brethren, iy ed a¥inence’ we Nate rete 
ical persons who have been 
lever’ ran y doubt 
No nOWes er, sufficien 
say whether you want any forther inforingtion: 
re, my L Lord. 
The Pore man 
The Lord Chief 
ground 
inc ey Robberie 
several ievictments charging h him 
Quantity of sliver spoons and forks from different club-houses, of 
& hich he had the entrée, 
© first indictment charged the prisoner with stealing four 
Poons and one fork, the property of John Howse, in his dwel- 
ersuade ses neg ur age the said liege subjects 
to unite, mesenger and agree to leave their several and res- 
employ: ments, ae eS produce a aie te of labour 
throughout a large portion of this realm,” &c. e rest were 
acquitted. Judgment on those who wer enisian 5 deferred. 
SPORTING. 
TATTERSALL’S, Tuurspay.—DERBY.— 9 to 1 agst ie: 
Blakelock’s A British Yeomat n; 16to 1 agst Colonel Peels surat, 
25 to 1 bak, Mr. Bell’s Winesour ; 25 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton’s 
Aristides ; 27 to 1 agst Colonel Anson’s Napier; 33 to 1 aet Mr. 
Gr fith’s Newcourt ; oe to 1 agst Lord Westminster’s Languish 
colt ; 40 to 1 agst of Grafton’s Cataract (taken, and after- 
wards Se 3 40 to i agst Mr. Bowes’: SE ee 1000 to15 
agst Mr. Taylor’s Gamecock; 1000 t agst e of Rich- 
mond’s con nopean (taken) ; 1000 to 10 seed Colonel Peels Caen ; 
1000 even between Mercy colt and Gamecock. OAKS.—5 to 1 
agst Lord Westminster’s Maria Day (taken), 
" 'THEATRICALS. 
Her Maszsty’s Tuearre. — The opera will open 
this evening, with Donizetti's new opera of <Adelia. 
Madame Grisi, Madame Persiani, Mademoiselle Moltini, | 
Signor F. Lablache, and Signor Mario are the recognised 
fayourites who will appear this season, .with Signor 
Carti, a new tenor, and Signor Fornasari, a new basso. 
Mademoiselles Taglioni, Cerito, Fanny Elssler, Guy 
Stephen, Camille, and M. Perrot, are among the engage- 
ments for the ballet, with the addition of a new dancer, 
Malle. Adele Dumilatre. The whole of the opera com- 
pany, with the single exception of Madame Grisi, will 
probably appear before Easter. The ballet will open with 
Mdlle. Dumilatre, who will make her appearance ina 
piece called Z’ durore. Malle. Cerito will not arrive till 
May, when she will appear in a ballet called La Naiade, 
founded on La Motte Fouqué’s romance of Undine. 
Among the operatic novelties are mentioned Linda di 
Chamouni and Don Pasquale, by Donizetti, Paer’s Ca- 
milla, Herold’s Zampa, and an opera composed expressly 
for this theatre by Costa, called Don Carlos. 
S¥iiscellaneous. 
Mortality.—The Quarterly Table of Mortality, in 114 
of the principal districts (including nearly all the large 
towns) of England and Wales has just been published ; 
whence it appears that the average total number of deaths 
jn the four autumns from 1838 to 1841 (inclusive) was 
42,003: the total number for the last autumn was 39,368: 
the quarterly average for the past year, 40,554. These 
numbers are inclusive of metropolitan mortality which 
for the corresponding periods averaged respectively 11,861, 
11,631,and11,318. The population in the metropolitan dis 
tricts was at the last census 1,870,727 ; in the entire of the 
districts included in these returns 6,534,535. Some things 
in these statements are startling. Thus, while the mortality 
of the metropolitan districts is in round numbers 12,000 
during the winter quarter, the mortality for the same period 
in Birmingham was in round numbers 1,000, with a popu- 
lation of only 138,000. The following remarks appended 
possess considerable interest :—The mortality in the 114 
districts was 2.57 per cent. annually (1838-1841), conse- 
| quently much higher than in the rest of the country; 
hence it is believed that the districts in the return will be 
the first to indicate the rise of any epidemic, or any dete- 
rioration of the public health. The enumerated population 
increased from 1831 to 1841 about 1.74 per cent annually. 
The present quarter closes the year 1842; in whic 
161,106 deaths were registered in the 114 districts. If we 
raise the average 4.4 per cent. as a correction for the in- 
crease of population in 25 years, the average applicable to 
1842 will be 171,400; while the deaths registered in that 
the quarterly average. The mean temperature of the 
autumn of 1842 was 0.7 deg. eee the average ; the fall 
of rain was 6 inches, the average being 4.6 inches. In 
the metropolis the epidemic class of diseases was less fatal 
than usual; one-fourth of the deaths in this class was 
caused by scarlatina. Bronchitis and pneumonia prevailed. 
Scarlatina is mentioned by the registrars as still prevalent 
in several districts, particularly i in the southern parts of 
the island. The districts in which the number of deaths 
was greater than the average of the autumn quarter in the 
same districts are, Maidstone, Brighton, Norwich, Devizes, 
Dorchester, Plymouth, Redruth, Penzance, Stroud, Chel- 
tenham, Hereford, Worcester, Woolstanton, and Burslem, 
Coventry, Leicester, Basford, West Derby, Bolton, Hali- 
fax, Pontypool. The districts in which the number of 
deaths was less than the average of the autumn quarter in 
the same districts are the Metropolitan districts, Isle of 
Wight, Portsea, Winchester, St. Alban’s, Northampton, 
Cambridge, Ipswich, Exeter, St. Thomas, Bristol, Shrews- 
bury, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Macclesfield, Great 
Boughton, Liverpool, Blackburn, Rochdale, Bury, Wigan, 
Ashton, and Oldham, Sheffield, Huddersfield, Leeds, Hull, 
Sunderland, Gateshead, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Carlisle, Aber- 
gavenny, and Merthyr Tydvil.— Times. 
Art Union Lottertes.—Mr. Serjeant Talfourd having 
been applied to respecting the legality of the various Art 
Lottery schemes at present before the public, has given it 
as his opinion “ that all the schemes above described are 
lotteries, or such distributions by chance as are in direct 
violation of the statutes,”’ and, further, ‘‘ That the parties 
subscribing to or purchasing shares in the proposed dis- 
tributions, and who proceed to take their chances of prizes 
at ne STE of the lots, are liable to the penalties of 
T20G. 2.7), 
K LANE, ae March 10.—Since Monday our arrivals 
of English Wheat have been considerable, bui the principal part 
having gone direct to the Behar ies there is little Showing on the 
Market; the Trade is dull, 
are offering on rather low 
BRITISH, PER IMPERIAL QUARTERS 
Wheat, ee Kent, and Suffolk aes ui 2 & Red 
Norfolk, Lincolnsh 
¢ “ine 
Dates bancotailve und Youeame 
Northumberland and Scotch 
<Z Irish 
Ry 
Beans, Masagan) old and new 
Harrow 24 to 80 
Pigeon, Heligoland . ato Winds. 24 Longpod 24 to2a 
Peas; White + + Goto si, Maple sytem -Geab at ieay 
WEEKLY foie dopereer Sa 
iV ats. | R 
Gao 87. Baro cs 
Fel 3 “4 | 
er ee 
eae a -| 
a | 
Mar 3 saa 
6weeks’ Aggregate Aver, 
Duties . .| 20 0| FG coon n6é 
ure 
English . 7424 ska pute. | 2705 | 
Irish gE i ok a | 
Foreign. — 3° — 3 | 2600 | 
ARRIVALS eet WEEK. 
Wheat arley | Flour 
al te 270 1600 7250 
Trishvex’s 
Scotch. . . = = = = 
Foreign + - —. = ~ - 
GAZETTE OF THE WEEK. 
INSOLVENT.—C. S. Masterman, Croydon, grocer- 
BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.—A. Norton, Edward-street, Pertman- 
square, cabinet-maker. 
BAN cae —R. 
fees -lane, 
Chamber! 
igh-farm, 
ancashire, spade- 
Davies, Grosvenor. 
sis roker 
e-burne 
é aw Thidley, L bicerpealy ues 
larke, € City. 
rds a 
coal-mercha an Sa 
‘i folic; frerehent aE ka G. 
ae a Cox, Glo ces plu Teeter Hall, 
aes jun., Osbaldwick, Yorkshire, 
ik 
shi o°G. Robson, ick, 
fon, Thiel, Sorkshire, linen and woollen raper—E. 
ington, ike or Hron-inerchant—G- Holseya und J. 
Walle, Shot tonemauas i. Goodwin and W. H. Griffin, Loscoe, Der- 
byshire, brickmakers. 
SCOTCH SE BQUESTRATIONS 
of th Tron Compa 
T. Bu ee x00 eeanine ny rilder—-D: Beet ~ 
Mackie, King’s Arms Ian, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, inn 
S—J. Adam, Glasgow, japanner—J. Rei 
Dumbartonshire, i gran: siantactuver =D. 
lesgew, eabinet-maker—W. 
Leicesters! Ell 
Milves ton, Sor 
7th inst., at 
Master, ‘Esq., M- oe ofa daug) 
2d inst, at Alverstoke Church, Capt. 
oe t. G. Dunlevie, late 
of the esth Teaiinent, to Jane, only daughter of the le te Cal Mackrell of the 
, Aide-de-Camp to the Oiueen-—On the 
Church, Le ey Es 
Sets edule of the late 
5. Helghington: i 
ch, Alre! 
wOn' the Gth inst, at the Barish Char 
Church, to Sarah Neyle 
hapman, ey 
Ath, George Godart Henry DeRee meer Gata 
icennaaee on of pein of 
year (1842) were only 161, ae The actual mortality in 
1842 was 2.42 per cent., o r cent. less than the 
average mortality (2.57) of the same districts in the four 
years 1838-1841. The average of the autumn quarter 
was 42,003, or corrected 43,854; so that the deaths 
(39,368) registered in the quarter were 11] per cent. below 
si 
Majesty’ Che 
Kong, on the lath of October Ieee in, th 
Captain and Adjuant of the ath Regiment 
Ist inst., at her house, in Harley street, Eliz: 
Waldegraye, RN. aged: 61—On the 5th inst. 
the Surveyor-General's Office, Tower; aged 62. 
yard, Northfleet, Kent, M. Tait, Esq, aged 49. jj 
