In the Court of Chancery yesterday, Mr. Cooper moved for
a writ of babea corpus directing Dr. Costello, the proprietor of a lunatic asylum called Wyk House, at Brentford, to bring up the body of John Watkyns, lately a fishinonge in Princes Street, Soho. Mr. Donovan, a fishmonger in Oxford Street, lately noticed, that for several' days his friend Mr. Watkyns had failed in his attendance at Billingsgate Market; and on inquiry learnt that he had been conveyed to a lunatic asylum, on the sole ground that he was in the habit of getting intoxicated after quarrelling with his wife. The place of his confinement was concealed, and it was with much difficulty that Mr. Donovan traced it out; even when that was done, access to the patient was denied and delayed. It was found that Mr. Wat- kyns had been carried off while tipsy, on the 20th of April. An order for the writ was immediately granted by the Lord Chancellor—Mr. Watkyns to be produced in Court today.
At the Thames Police Court, yesterday, on the application of Prince Castel- cicala, a summons was granted by Mr. Ingham against Captain John Moody, a British subject, to answer for a violation of the Foreign Enlistment Act, in un- lawfully equipping the steam-ship Bombay on behalf of certain persons assuming to exercise the powers of a Government, and waging hostilities with the King of the Two Sicilies, with whom her Majesty is not at war.
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