MRS. NEWTON.—The Commission of Lunacy issued in the ease of
this lady (whom, in despite of her marriage, the reporters persist in designating Miss Bagster), has been sitting every day during the week, greatly to the delight of the lawyers, the penny-a-line men, and the editors of the Daily Papers, who are at present rather at a loss for filling matter. The facts elicited from the cloud of witnesses exa- mined are few and uninteresting. All of them agreethat the lady is of weak understanding; that she knows nothing of arithmetic; that she is very passionate, very fond of good-looking men, and not very delicate in her conversation respecting them. Au rate, if old Alderman Crow- ther had cut her off with a shilling, instead of leaving her 4,0007. a year, we doubt not that she would have got through life, with a little shoving, as readily as• her neighbours. As it is, we rather think the Jury will find her incompetent to manage her own affairs, and Mr. Ray- mond Newton will lose his bride. As yet, however, only the evidence for the lunacy of the lady has been examined ; the evidence against it may turn the scale. There has been, of course, a host of doctors ex- amined; and they are all agreed that the lady is of imbecile mind : if it had been a question of imbecile body, we would have reposed more trust in their evidence.
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