§ MR. BELLsaid, in reference to the hon. Member who had been the previous day taken into custody he begged to inform the House that he had obtained two certificates from medical men, which he had placed in the hands of the Serjeant at Arms. These certificates fully confirmed the opinion that the hon. Member for Nottingham required medical advice, and he had thought it his duty to take that step, because he considered that as the hon. Member had been placed in custody for an offence for which he was not responsible, and that the step had been taken in the belief that he was of unsound mind, it was only proper that the House should be in possession of the fact upon medical authority—more particularly as the House was aware that the medical and legal professions were at issue as to what was the precise line of demarcation between soundness and unsoundness of mind. In the present case the medical men had pronounced the hon. Member to be of unsound mind; and should any person think proper to sign an order to the keeper of a lunatic asylum, he would be admitted, but in that case the person signing the order would be responsible. He had not interfered in the matter as the friend of the hon. Member, but simply because he understood that he had no friends, and he was desirous that the facts of the case should be known, and justice done.