13 JULY 1839, Page 8

• The treatment of Lady Flora Hastings continues to furnish

the daily

papers with matter of controversy, conducted in not very courteous terms. The Morning Post perseveringly fixes attention on the subject, by letters from medical and legal correspondents, in which Sir James Clark and the other parties accused are severely handled; while in those communications, and in leading articles, the Queen is also glanced at. The Times insinuates that the removal of Sir John Conroy is the real grief in the Dutchess of Kent's household, and that Lady Flora's wrongs are put forth as a blind to the public while revenge is taken for Sir John's loss. In these disputes we feel little interest The post-mortem examination seems to show that Lady Flora's death must have ensued ere long from internal disease: that her bodily sufferings were aggra- vated, and her decease hastened by the mental distress, which her calumniators must answer for, is more than probable.