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Adelina Patti in chancery.

--A detailed account of the disagreement between Mille Adelina Patti and her relatives, is published in the foreign journals. Her fall name is given as "Adelina Maria Johanna Clorinda Patti," and it is stated that she was born on the 19th February, 1843, that the defendants Maurice Strakoach at al. have pocketed all the proceeds of her engagements in operatic singing, etc. The chancery bill filed in the case proceeds to state that the defendants had acted for many months past with cruelty and oppression toward her, and that every moment is watched by her faller and Strakoach, not there of whom will allow her to communicate with her friends, or to receive letters from them; and they seek to thwart all freedom of action on her part, and confine her to certain rooms, and even threaten her with violence in case of her resident. They open her follow without her concent, and retain some from her altogether.

Maurice Strakoach has also accused Mille Pattle of dishonorable conduct, and of acts of which she is totally innocent; by which they have drives her, as she has alleged, almost to the verge of madness, and she is represented as being thereby rendered most miserable.--She has entered into an engagement of marriage with a young Belgian nobleman of fortune, himself, unfortunately, also a minor, to whom she is ardently attached, and who is now in this country. Her father and brother in-law strenuously object to the marriage, or, in fact, to any marriage on her part they being evidently afraid that they will thereby be deprived of the profits of her engagements.

It is new understood that the case has been settled. The young cantatrice has retreated, and even gone so far as to-day all knowledge of the person who, as her "next friend, "made the complaint to the court. It is added that no doubt now exists that the Paris with the Haron milltaz

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