The Sun. — London, England, 1829-04-16 00:00:00

MEN-OF-WAR PACKETS. Various opinions have been adduced as to the cause ofhe loss of the men-of-war packets, with many sug gestions also offered to make them safer vessels at sea; and lately several alterations have been proposed by Officers of the different Dock-yards, which would todoubt materially tend to the greater safety of them, Yet the point would not be wholly accomplished by I ttlY plan I have. heard of. As a seaman who has - e many voyages in deep waisted vessels of this description, I wou ld o ff er my op i n i on that t h e cause Of the loss of the packets is, in all probability, to be attributed to the short, or what is now termed dandy tiller, and that with a very raking stein post, Ivhich the pickets have, gives so very small a leve ?age for steering, that, running before a sea, they tannot answer their helm quick enough to prevent their either broaching too or coming by the lee; the vessel consequently fills, and with a heavy body of 'eater on deck, and so much of that deck skylights that can only be ill-secured, the sea, unable to escape by the ports and scuppers, forces its way bel ow, and the vessel founders as a natural conse quence. A.B. • " THE MANIA FOR ANATOMICAL DIS SECTION AND OPERATIVE SURGERY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, --The tremendous crisis which Burke and Hare have been the means of instituting for the cure of anatomical mania, and the false notions which this revulsion has elicited concerning the nature of dis section, induce me to offer some remarks which may perhaps r be equally serviceable to your medical and general readers. I would, in the first place, advise all to be chariiable to each other on this subject; and even to rejoice'at the horrible sacrifice of life, which h 55 be en as seasonably discovered, to prevent a far 'tore lamentable : degradation of moral sentiment W hich this mania was manifestly cau s i ng among t h e l ower class. • I hesitate not to say,. as the result of what all now know, that the gradation is very easy fr om the habit of selling their friends for dissection, when dead, to that of killing or a ll ow i ng t h em to die for the same purpose. It remains, then, only to discover the causes which have contributed to en courage the former habit; and here I must impugn the Medi ca l, or, more particularly, the Surgical Profession, for their extravagant e stim a t e o f th e valu e of anatomical knowledge and manual dissection, aud the public for their contradictory ac quiescence and resistance: the latter have, by both these-means, greatly aided in increasing the bonus offered to the jackals of the dissecting-room. They have first idolized the exclusive superficial anatomist as an expert operator, and then invented safety to mbs and other means' to render difficult the ac quisition of th e requ i red sk i ll. But, i t seems, f rom t he increasing vigilance of magistrates and their subordi nate agents, as if the public had already zennd that the viper which their ignorance had The y was attempt i ng to st i ng the i r own b osoms. i lley began to despise the simple prescriber of jalap , a nd rhub ar b, and extoll to the skies the hero of the 'Meet and scalpel : but they have found to their c ast that the latter will perform his maiming opera ticsas upon them while living, and ultimately steal them from their peaceful graves, and dry them in t he sun like so many simple herrings. That the a ncients might reasonably feel great curiosity to examine the structure of the human body, when th eir_ observations were unavoidably restricted to th e inferior animals, may easily be imagined; but it a.necessary to look further in order to understand W hy the anatomical mania has continued t o grow w i lt!! the f acility of indulgence, till it has t a k en ex ctoZre possessi on o f t h e pro f ess i onal m i nd, and has totally thrown into oblivion all the knowledge of our predecessors on the impalpable and general phenomena o f animal life, and on the changes producible in them by medicine. Why do we now hear both the booing and the pompous medical maniac appeal in cessantly to actual manual dissection, as the sole and absolute requisite in his art ? Why does he Place the tie plus ultra of talent in the ability to cut off a limb which another might have healed ? We /nay infer the reason from the observable fact that he treats all disease as if it originated and existed solely in the part most palpably affected; whose vi tality and function he considers independent of the test of the body, and subject only to their peculiar lo cal influences. He even allows a wounded limb t 5 affect the whole system of vital organs, in sympa thetic fever, without perceiving the absurdity of ne teeting their influence, in a part which, without L eir support, must inevitably die. Thus, he fore'- ," draws together, with his bewitching plaister, an ['neer which nature opened as the best palliative of a e . igeneral derangement; and which, in spite of his 4 0 ._ , 'et efforts, she often luckily re-opens in the same , e anoth er part. He tortures his mechanical gen i us a invent trusses, with which to restrain a protrud lit int est i ne, thinking he has nothing more to coun teract than the impulse of sudden exertions, which he eannot a g.ne that any human body can safely 111 ,, - " e • He t ormen t s hi s strictured and fistulous r i , ati ent with dil at i ng b oug i e s, having no conception t ' l , t an occlud e d li v ing canal di ff ers from a dead tu b e %hie!) he may force open by mechanical power, exerted in the direction of either extremity. For aght he knows, food and its residue might easily be t on; to:exchange their places of ingestion and e x p e l - len ; for he does not understand that each extremity c 't the alimentary canal can contract naturally and effi e4 e t n tly onl y on matter ap p ro priately consistent arid 4atulant,:so that we need not expect from him an h t eMpt so t o regu late all the secretio n s of the body he may form in the lower gut a natural bougie, es it gradually excites the natural action of t 'Part, may caus e th e p at i en t t o f ee l th e pleasure of qxistence and gratitude to his creator for its sup- Pon without without any necessarily disgusting function. hi e thus see t h at h e cannot efficiently apply even °wn local principle of practice. With all this tendency, however, to partial locality, he aims oc onally at the use of general remedies ; but we I L lt i they a rs e still local and partial. It is in vain L lit. he ascends from local to what he calls general "'ceding; for in either operation, he demonstrate s , t hst h e h as no not i on o f hi s d ar li ng re f uge Mamma tirla) except as it consists in excess of blood. If he , °lv es medicine, we still find that he acts exclusively ‘l,!' the -liver, bowels, skin, or kidnies, following I ; ir oughout, as circumstances may have made him ta ° o Se Ab e rnethy, Hamilton, Clutterbuck, Broussais, 0t enure other local -.sages. Man seems to him to be Made up of as many separate identities as there 7 : 'Parts or organs in his body; any one of which pa ring contracted disease, may lead the rest in its t. as our maniac himself blindly follows in that som e medical autocrat. He speaks of their 41114 of imitation and sympathy, though they tern not, in bis ideas, to have any necessary fun- IMtiental analogy among them, so that a man 4 ,lht as well .iae packed up with parts taken in -110 iroiiiiitely from as many different individuals. ' 4 ‘ , despises as such all theories which tend to shew that vitality is one throughout nn animal body; lie has no notion even of warming his shivering patient, except by external heat ; for the brandy, with which he occasionally cheers his on n phlegmatic carcase, he dreads as the lighter-up of his bugbear inflammation, and as an incendiary more terrible than his fellow-maniac Martin, of Minster notoriety. But why all this ? I answer simply, because his education has taught him to use his eyes, his ears, and his touch, only in the grossest manner : reason and enlarged observation have been degraded in his mind, because lie has been rendered capable of rea soning no farther than that two and three make five rather than four, and of observing only that flesh is not blood, nor blood flesh. Without being a mathe matician or an experimental philosopher, he has learnt to ape the scepticism of both ; and to dis trust all evidence that does not consist of an angle or a colour. • If lie endeavours at all to enlarge the sphere of his knowledge he calls in the aid of the microscope or the conjuring stethoscope; and thus, prying, as he thinks, into the very nooks of the human body, he laughs like the idiot fly, at the great circle of animal life to him for ever invisible. How, indeed, can he be expected to be capable of more ? He turns up his nose now at his apprentice who compounds his insignificant potions, only be cause he himself held the same degrading situation for several years of his life; just as I have seen a barber turned physician, treat contemptuously one of his late block-scrutinizing fraternity, though he had himself put off only the name, not the manners and habits of the craft. Nay, this absurd mode of education is to be perpetuated by that chef-d'oeuvre of legislative wisdoM, the jalap-merchant's act; and the student is condemned to sigh for several years, for the opportunity of cutting up the human car case, though he is all the while quacking with his precentor's inferior patients, or with the victims of the public charities; a sort of quackery, forsooth, which he is led to think he never can fully understand without the sovereign requisite manual of dissection. Thus disgusted at the nearly obliterated traces of the scanty education which he may have received in his very boyhood, and with a knowledge of his profession, such as refers to keep ing books and colouring mixtures, or• mayhap, dis solving salts in senna-tea, as a panacea, he goes to make himself expert in the dissecting-room, to gape at what he calls a capital operation, and to run through the wards of an hospital, utterly despising every patient that is not condemned as the victim of operating ignorance. When he returns to claim the confidence of the public, he trusts, in reality, to all-powerful nature, while he puffs off his secret compounds with a soft or a pompous exterior, and waits with the feeling of a shark for the chance of signalizing himself by irrecoverably maiming some of his Majesty's more honourable subjects. That I am not drawing an imaginary picture will be acknowledged, when I state that I have heard of a pompous gentleman who became notable for open ing the wind-pipe for the relief of croup, as often as many open a vein in the arm, until he had repeat eily found himself the assistant of the great mur derer—death. Cataract has, of late, become a great object of the operating mania; and yet it might easily be proved that a majority of patients do not enjoy a twentieth part of the benefits desirable from couching or extraction, for want of judicious general treatment before and after the operation, treatment which we cannot look for so long as the surgeon's object is only to lower the system, that it may better bear the consequent inflammation ; and so long, let me add, as he supposes the formation of cataract to be totally independent of any condition of the body in general, and of any remedies thereto rip , plicable. I can bear testimony to the effect of such ignorance in a gentleman who is, at this moment, calm, by looking forward to the operation alluded to as an easy and certain means of regaining his sight, when hereditary cataract, which is already evident, shall have become complete, though he is sensible that his health has great need of improvement, and that his sight varies with it. If this gentleman be disappointed by the failure of the anticipated opera tion, he will surely curse the anatomical and operat ing mania of the day. But I may illustrate this subject more palpably to the minds of the public, and particularly in the great town of Manchester, by a reference to the tremendous spectacle which was there exhibited of surgical monomania and physiolo gical ignorance, on the occasion of the late notori ously melancholy launch; when, to the utter ne glect of the great principle of reciprocity on which all the animal functions support each other, and especially those of respiration, circulation, and the generation of heat, veins and arteries were attempted to be cut as if they could create the blood which the heart had ceased to throw into them ; when, on the other hand, and, as if for contradiction's sake, blood was actually squirted into the empty vessels; when these means, with artificial respiration through the natural passages, and through openings rudely made in the wind-pipe; when I say these partial arid exclusive means were relied upon to re-animate bodies which were lying enveloped in their dripping garments, and on the chilling ground ! Let me tell the actors in this tragedy, that life is neither air nor blood alone; and that before they pretend to repeat the experiments of John Hunter, or any other phy siologist, on more than cats and dogs, they should learn more of anatomy and physiology titan is im plied in the knowledge that an animal body con tains heart, lungs, and blood-vessels, demonstrable by the superficial dissection. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Alancliester. CENSOR lIIEDICUS. We learn that in some parts of the country, an expedient has been hit on for supplying the place of the small local notes, which the bankers, by the late act, are now prohibited from circulating. Manufacturers and others who have large sums to pay weekly to their work people have. drawn cheques on their banker of U. each to a very large amount; and as these are readily taken by the shopkeepers, on the credit of the issuer, they have passed from hand to hand instead of being presentei to the banker's for payment, and have thus got gradually into cir culation. As there is nothing illegal in offering a cheque drawn by another in payment, there was no other diffi culty in the case than in finding people willing to take them, and they possessed an advantage over the country bank notes in paying no stamp duty. The banker on whom they were drawn ran no risk, as he would only pay them to the amount of balance in his hands belonging to the drawer; and if the credulous people who took them, for want of any thing better, or through old prejudices in favour of a piper circulation of some kind, chose to go on, the circulation of these cheques may extend until some shock to local credit shall bring them again to their senses. Some individuals of large dealings in this way were pre paring, it is said, to have cheques printed, so as to save the trouble of filling up and signing in the usual manner. Some remedy ought to be found for this abuse, if possible, or the act for extinguishing the small notes will only have substituted one class of paper issuers for another, at once more numerous and less worthy of credit.— Times. A dreadful accident happened on Tuesday, near Aldgate Church. A Mr. BRAASCH, a commission agent, and highly respected, slipped his foot off the pave ment at the monsent a waggon laden with coals was passing, the fore wheel of which passing over his head, literally crushed it to atoms. His death was instantaneous. He has left a wife and family. " FASHIONABLE AND MISCELLANEOUS. The Duke of CUMBERLAND left town. about nine o'clock yesterday morning, on a visit to the KING at his Palace at Windsor. The Duke of WELLINGTON left town for Windsor yesterday morning, fur the purpose of having an audience of his MAJESTY. The Princess SOPIIIA took an airing in her carriage yesterday, for the first time since her recovery from her recent indisposition. A deputation of West India Merchants and Planters, and some of the Agents to the West India Islands, attended at the Treasury yesterday, and had a conference with the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. Lord SEA FORD, Mr. PALLMER, M.P., Mr. HIBBERT, and Mr. COLVILLE, were among the deputation. A deputation of the principal Auctioneers, among whom were Messrs. WINSTANLEY, IIOGGART, MARSHALL, and GEO. ROBINS, were admitted to a con ference with the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER yester day afternoon, at the Treasury. Prince POLIGNAC, the French Ambassador, had an interview with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday at the office of the Secretary of State fer Foreign Affairs. Viscount MELVILLE held a levee as First Lord of the Admiralty yesterday, at the Admiralty, which was attended by about thirty Naval Officers. Earl BATIIURST visited Mr. Secretary PEEL yesterday. The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER en tertained the Cabinet Ministers to dinner yesterday even ing at his residence in Downing-street. The news of the accouchement of the lady of THOMAS WENTWORTH BEA U moNT, Esq., M.P., at Branch Hill Lodge, near London, on the 11th instant, of a son and heir, was :received with great glee by the numerous friends of the family at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Monday last. The bells of the several churches in that town rang merrily on the occasion, as did a'so tlo e of St. Mary's, Gateshead. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following Commanders took leave of the Court previous to departing for their respec tive destinations ;—viz., Captain DAVID RAE NEWALL, Waterloo; Captain JAMES BURNETT, Scaleby Castle; Captain ROBERT SCOTT, Vansittart; Captain GEORGE KINNAIRD BATHIE, Lowther Castle; and Capt. ROGER B. EVEREST, Charles Grant, China direct. Captain CHRISTOPHER BIDEN was sworn in to the command of the ship Princess Charlotte of Wales, consigned to Bengal. REMOVAL OF THE MENAGERIE FROM EXETER 'CIIANGE.—The removal of this immense Col lection of Wild Beasts has been effected without the slightest accident, and with a boldness and tact that could only have been the result of long practical experience. The arrangement' of the Collection at the King's Mews will, we understand, be on a most superior and extensive scale, and we trust will obtain the same degree of public patronage that it has always hitherto enjoyed. The Lions alone are worth the money paid for seeing the whole Col lection ; they are magnificent animals on the largest scale of magnitude. A few days ago, one of the Worthy Magis trates of Queen-square Police-office was requested by a gentleman to attend on an officer's widow, residing at Bethnal-green, at any convenient time, fur the purpose of administering an oath, and signing an affidavit authorising her to receive her husband's pension, the lady being bed ridden, and unable to attend herself. The Magistrate ac cordingly repaired to the lady's dwelling, and after per forming his necessary duties, in the course of conversation, from various circumstances, discovered that she was his aunt, and instead of being a Captain's widow, she was the widow of an Admiral. It is rumoured that a celebrated Commoner, the son of a wealthy Baronet, has incurred his father's high displeasure, by the course which he has taken upon a certain vital consequence. A hostile meeting took place in the Garrison Close, one day last week, between two gentlemen of this town. The affair was amicably adjusted, after an inter change of shots.—Hull Packet. The Secretary and all the clerks in the Com missioner's Office, in Chatham Dock-yard, have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to remove to Sheer ness. It is expected that the clerks in the Navy Pay office will also be removed to that place. Commissioner LEWIS, from the Navy Board, is, we understand, ap pointed to superintend both yards, Commissioner Curl- NINGHA3I retiring with the rank of an Admiral.—Maid stone Journal. We understand that a valuable and handsome piece of plate has been presented to STEPHEN LOVE HAIVI MICE, Esq., first surgeon of the Royal Naval Hospital at Plymouth, by the officers of that establishment, and the families recently belonging to it, as a memento of their re spect and esteem, and to mark their sense of the high opi nion entertained of his professional abilities, which we are authorized to state have been exerted on all occasions with so much kindness and attention, with suck promptitude and skill, as to make Mr. HAMMICK'S retirement a matter of deep and general regret. This is the second piece of plate which has been presented to this gentleman, on the occasion of his retiring from the public service, by those who have had the best means of appreciating his character and worth, from having acted with him in the same esta blishment.—Plymouth and Devonport Journal. The largest of all known medals is supposed to be that which the States of Upper Austria presented, in the year 1716, on the occasion of the birth of the Impe rial Prince LEOPOLD, which weighed 16 mares, or eight pounds, of fine gold. Previously, the medal which King CHRISTIAN V. of Dcmnark caused to be struck, in com memoration of the naval victory gained over the Swedes, in the year 1677, passed for the largest medal extant. LUDICROUS SCENE.—III a case which oc curred in the Crown Court during the late Gloucester Assizes, a countryman who had been subpoenaed as a wit ness on the part of a prisoner, set the whole Court in a roar of laughter. Matters proceeded very smoothly dur ing his direct examination, and he made no objection to answer any question which was put to him on behalf of his friend in the dock, but after he had been subjected for some time to the galling fire of a cross-examination by the Counsel for the prosecution, he became restive, and at length finding his stock of patience completely exhausted, he expressed his determination to answer no more questions from the same quarter in the following re solute terms " I wont say no more—be cloned if I do —l'se a told you all I knows about it—and that's all I got to say, by G—!" When the Counsel for the prisoner again addressed him, he said, " Aye, I can speak to these mon, but its unpossible vor I to answer so mony on ye, at .once—as to the Lord—he up there—(pointing to the 'lunch)--let un ax me as mony questions as un likes, and I'll answer un, but I'se can't tolk to a lot of fellows all at one time. " Cheltenham Chronicle. ANOTHER ROWLAND STEPHENSON.—A Mr. W., a considerable speculator in corn, and otherwise connected with trade, has absconded, carrying away with him a considerable sum of money, obtained by arts of im position on confiding friends, on whom his plausible and insinuating manners, together with high pretensions to openness in his dealings, had, at one time, made most fa vourable impressions, though of late his character had ma terially suffered in the estimation of the public. It is to be feared that he has also succeeded in swindling tradesmen in several other towns, as it is known that in Leeds he had ordered goods to Liverpool for exportation to a consider able amount, some of which have actually been shipped off for New York, to which place, after he had completed the sum of his nefarious designs, he was intending to ship himself. Before, however, this could be accomplished, he was, in consequence of his mysterious absence, and other suspicious circumstances, pursued to Liverpool, where he had been heard of, but where, owing to some secret inti mation, most unhandsomely given him, he contrived to elude his pursuers. They have, however, succeeded in attaching a considerable sum of money, lodged in the hands of his agents; and stopping, in tronsitu, a considerable portion of manufactured goods, purchased by bills at three months' date. On finding himself in the proximity of those whom it would not be pleasant to see, be lost no time in taking his course across the island ; and there is the evidence of letters from him, with the Portsmouth post-mark on them, that he has got out of the country in an American ship, called the Columbia, destined for New York. We have scarcely ever heard of such a tissue of fraud, contempt of all moral prin c ipl e , an d di sregar d f or the welfare of his friends, us is attributed to this man. His projects have not been on so magnificent a scale as those of RownaND STEruzwsow, but yield not to his in profligacy and utter recklessness of the ruin in which they may involve his connections and hi s own f am il y. _ H e h ae eft a wife and six children.—Hull Rockingham. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Earl of St. Germains, in St. James's-square, from Surrey ; Colonel and Mrs. Brown and family, at their residence, King street, Portman-square. from Amwell Bury, :.Herts George Dempster, Esq. and Mrs. Dempster, in George-street, 'Hanover. square, from Scotland; the Marquis and Marchimiess de Macelo and suite, at the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington ,and, Cod:. streets, from the Brazils ; Mr. and Mrs. C. F.'Bennett and Miss Sheppard, at ditto, from the Royal York Crescent, Clifton'; , T. B. Estcourt, Esq. M.P. at ditto, from Devizes; G. Towrey, Esq. et Crawley's Hotel (late Cook's), Albemarle-street, from Sunning hill ; Mrs. and Miss • Purcer, at the St. George's Hotel, -Albe marle-street, from the Continent; ,Mrs. and Miss B. Cummings, at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, from Paris ; William M‘Duft; Esq. at ditto, from Ireland ; Capt. and Mrs. Lambert, in Regent-street, from Brighton. CHANGES. The Countess of Mansfield and Lady C. Murray, from Mivart's Hotel, for Richmond; the Marquis and Marchioness of Salis bury and the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, for Hatfield ; Viscount and Viscountess Eastnor, from St. James's-squat e, for their seat, Reigate, Surrey ; Miss Wykcharn, from Stratton. street, Piccadilly, for Brighton ; Viscount Boyle, from the Hyde- Park Hotel, Hyde Park-place, for the Continent; Lord and Lady Gray, the Hon. Misses Gray, and the Hon. John Gray, from ditto; Captain Hotham and the Lady Susan Hotham, from ditto, for Brighton; the Hon. Henry Pierrepoint, from ditto; R. Benyon de Beauvoir, Esq. and Dliss Benyon, from their house in Grosvenor-square, for Englefield House, Reading, Berks ; Colonel and Mrs. Thompson, from Gould's Hotel, Jer myn-street, on a tour ; J. M'Neil, Esq. and T. Ferguson, Esq. from ditto, for Edinburgh; Lord and Lady King, for their seat, Oakham, Surrey ; Colonel and Mrs. Pemberton and family, from Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook and Davies-streets, for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Arundell and family, from ditto, for their seat, Litton Park, Devonshire ; Mr. and Mrs. Blackwell, from ditto, for Paris • the Earl of Waldegrave, from ditto, for Paris; Major Wyland, Lady Johnstone, and Sir Frederick Johnstone, from Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, for their seat in Oxfordshire ; Mr. Mrs. and Miss W. L. Childs, from ditto, for Dover; Mrs. and Miss Prime, from ditto, for their seat in Sussex. . . ARRIVALS AT BATH. Lord and Lady De Clifford, Viscount Harden ' Sir J. Erskine, Sir Lawrence and Lady Palk - Hon. Captains Aylmer, Keith : Lady Long, Lord Sandell, Lord Blaney, Hon. Mrs. Walde grave, Colonel Payne, Colonel and Mrs. Comyn ; Majors Sin,th, Baldwin, Fuller; Captains Anstruther, Queade ; Lieut. Peck; Rev. Messrs. Fawcett, Nash, Jones, Cumming, Hill ; Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Whitmore, Lloyd; Mr. and Mrs. Gerard, Salmon, I'roeye, Ernot, Phelps, Russell, Whitmore Williams, Sewell ; Messrs. Bart, Breton, Norris, Ireland, Langslow, Hickman, Ameluge, Yescomb, Duncan, Frere, Wallis, Baxon, Degby, Sheppard, Cothurst, Bailward, Davies ; Mistresses Morris, Phelps, Stevens, Lenyard ; Misses Harris, Jeb, Moore, Willis, Edmunds, Morinow, Molyneux, Long, Corballes. ARRIVALS AT CHELTENHAM. Marquis of Bute, Earl Somers, Lf.rd James Stuart, Hon. and Rev. T. Coventry, Lady Clonbrock, Judge' Johnstone, Mr. Jus tice, Park. Mr. Justice James • Parke, .Sir Alexander Willson, General O'Neill, Colonel Coulson, Colonel M'Murd, Major and Mrs: Carter, Rev. G. Lloyd, Rev. Mr. Cumming, Rev. S. Dowell, Captain Carpenter, R.N. Captain Lowry, Capt. Young, Captain Lawson, Darroch, Mr. and Mrs. Belcher, Mr. and Mrs. Dolphin, Messis. M. Orme, Bolton, Burgass, J. Blackburne, Archdeckne, Clemens, Gerrard, Norbury, Welsh, Blayney, Goddard, Thomas, Cross,' Maxse, Bold, Newmarch, Meyrick, Macnamara, Wickens, J. E. Dowdeswell, M.P. two Dowdcswells, Gist, Price, R. Jones, T. 0. Taylor, Nugent, Latimer, Du . Pre, Litt, Adams, Goodrich, R. Berkeley, Grasebrooke, Crane, J. L Phillipps, M'Donnell, W. G. Thomson, Fullarton, Parker ; Mistresses Morgan, Hodgson, Ansel, Whitcombe, Evans; Misses Carr, Richardson, Clemens, &c. MR. SADLER'S BLUNDERS. Lf he following has been in type for ten days, but we could not find room for it in consequence of the pressure of Parliamentary matter. We trust, however, that the cogency of its argument will suffer nothing by the un avoidable delay.] TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Saa,—l have scarcely enough of physical strength to hold my pen, but I feel at my heart's core the triumph of justice over bigotry, which has been achieved in the Lower House of Parliament; a similar victory, I trust, awaits us in the Upper House. My immediate object in addressing these lines to you is to notice the allusion Mr. Sadler has had the hardihood to make to the execution of the Earl of Stafford, in support of his argument against conceding the Roman Catholic Claims, and as proving the propriety of dissolving the Parliament to ascertain the real sense of the country. He asserts that " expediency was the principle which produced that horrid catastrophe." I deny it. He has forgotten the history of those times, or he would re member that it was a weak assent to the delusions, clamour, and violence of the people which brought that upright, venerable, and innocent Nobleman to the scaffold ! flume observes, " This is the last blood which was shed on ac count of the Popish plot ; an incident which, for the credit" of the nation, it were better to bury in eternal oblivion ; but which it is necessary to perpetuate, as well to main tain the truth of history, as to warn, if possible, their pos terity and all mankind never again to fall into so shame ful, so barbarous a delusion." Thanks to Mr. Sadler then for this blundering reference. As an old Whig, Sir, 1 would pay every respect to the opinion of the people. I would allow further, that the voice of the people is always right, sooner or later ; but that their first impression is always right, I most positively deny. During Lord Staf ford's trial, Hume says, " The clamour and outrage of the populace, were extreme." But how different was their deportment at his execution ; and when all the foul intrigue of the pretended Popish plot was fully developed, we know the revulsion was so great as to make them "lose all regard to truth, honour, and humanity." What would it have profited to appeal to the people either while under the panic of a supposed Popish plot, or under the excitement produced by a conviction of its utter falsehood ? " Tumul tuous petitions" were resorted to, and as they were the result of deception then, so are they now. " The terror of each 'man became the source of terror to another, and an universal panic being diffused, reason and argument, and common sense, and common humanity, lost all influence over them." But mark what follows, speaking of the trial of the pretended criminals, the historian adds, " the courts of judicature, places which, if possible, ought to be kept more pure from injustice than even national assem blies themselves, were strongly infected with the same party-rage and bigoted prejudices." And has there been nothing like this, Sir, in Ireland ? As then so now, the public have been made to swallow the grossest absurdities. And it is a curious illustration of what party feeling will produce in any age, that as the burning of the city of London, in 1666, was imputed t the Papists, so was the burning of York Minster in . 1829. I recommend the perusal of history in the times preceding the Revolution, to prove the identity of that phrenzied panic which seized some men's minds then as now. I will make only one more quotation from flume ; it is part of a speech of some Noble Lord in those days, and which may serve as a model fur one of his descendants, in the approaching debate of England's Peers in 1829. " I would not have so much as a Popish man or a Popish woman to remain here ; not so much as a Popish dog or a Popish bitch ; not so much as a Popish cat to pur or mew about the King." I re peat, Sir, that I respect the voice of the people, but tumultuous petitioning has been always one of the artifices resorted to in bad and factious times—" an admirable ex pedient for spreading discontent, and for uniting the nation in any popular clamour." Further, Mr. Editor, to shew first impressions even of the higher orders in society are not always right ; is it not an historical fact that the Exclusion Bill of 1688 was opposed by all the Prelates except two, and only carried in the House of Lords by a majority of $1 to 49. Public opinion, I apprehend has undergone a remarkable change, and Mr. Sadler and Lord Eldon will confess the clergy of those days were wrong in adhering to the old family, for if their advice had been followed, we should never have had King William► of glorious memory on the throne. I trust it is not re served for the age we live in, to hear principles the most opposite to civil liberty enforced from the pulpit, and adopted in numerous addresses in the same manner as Charles the Second, was " congratulated on his escape from Parliaments." The penal statutes and restrictions of those days were necessary to preserve the Constitution, but they were not the essence of the Constitution. These statutes were themselves a salutary breaking in upon the Constitution, and it is proposed to break in now upon the Constitution for the same wholesome purpose, the salva tion of the Constitution in Church and State, and the maintenance of the Protestant ascendancy. Such is my opinion of the policy of the present mea sure, that possessing a considerable estate near Wexford, I consider it worth mere by ten years' purchase than it was three months ago ; and I am happy to confirm Mr. Peel's statement in bearing testimony to the peace and harmony restored to that country, once the focus of rebellion. Sir, my rent-roll recites a melancholy list of tenants' hanged and shot in the year of that rebellion. I rejoice, Sir, at the prospect which is opening upon us, or rather already realized, when every rival feeling, every invidious and worthless distinction hiving ceased to inflame the minds of either Protestant or Catholic, we shall boast of a united Empire, a tower of strength to ourselves, and of terror to our. enemies.. . I am, Sir, your's, SURRIENSIS. PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. PARIS, APRIL 11. L--You already know the fate of the two projfcts of law, presented some time ago by the Ministry to the Chamber of Deputies, and ‘vi;hdrawn on Wedtie•dity last. As soon as the ar ticle for the suppression of the councils of arron dissement was agreed to, M. Martignac, the Minister of the Interior, shut his portfolio, aHd walked out along with the Keeper of the Seals. This precipi tate departure, taken in connection with the agitation which appeared in the features of the two Ministers, excited a presentiment of the coming event. In the course of half an hour they both returned, pale, and in evident perplexity. M. de Martignac immediately afterwards read the ordinance, which withdrew the two projects of law. A respectful silence followed this notification. By this step, very inconsiderate in itself, and very disrespectful in its manner, the Ministers have placed themselves in a position the most false and painful. The first result of it is, a sacrifice to the right side to counter-revolutionary opinions, since all the orators of that side disputed the principle of the election of administrative councils, loaded the Ministry with reproaches, and refused, in great part, to vote on the question. The Ministers have wounded the ruling opinion in the Chamber, and having quar relled with the left side, must find its majority more uncertain than ever. It hopes to form a majority with the two centres, bUt its efforts will be fruitless, unless it makes its peace with the right side ; and, in order to do so, it will be necessary to make those concessions to that side which the centres will re ject. It will be curious to see how it can escape from this difficulty. On Wednesday, M. de Martignac's reception day, all the right side, so hostile to him in the morning, and at the preceding sitting, waited upon him to offer him their . support. His friends pretend that he did not receive with much gra. titude this civility, which contrasted so strongly with their conduct in the ChaMber. This pouting will not last long. M. de Martignac's affections are with the right side, with whom he fought under Villele. But in the mean time the left is increasing its force. It has the elections at its disposal, and if it is sacrificed, its revenge is certain, and will be de- cisive. Do you not think it mad that a Ministry, on the eve of great events, having it in its power to ally itself with the country by concession or restitutions of which the consequences have been very much exaggerated, should neglect the opportunity, or rather gratuitously renounce its confidence and affec tions ? The King was yesterday exulting in his triumph. The news from the Chamber' gave him graat satis faction, and relieved him from annoying impor tunities. It is asked, will the Chamber be dissolved after the session, or will the Ministry be renewed and modified ? The dissolution of the Chamber appears impossible, but the modification of the Cabinet seems inevitable. Every one now forms a ministry to his own mind. Some make out a coalition ca binet, with M. de Polignac in the Department of Foreign Affairs, M. de Ravez, Minister of Justice, and M. de Portalis (created a duke) at the head of Ecclesiastical Affairs. The departments of Finance and Commerce were shared between M. Cassimir Perrier and Humann, and M. de Lalot was placed in the Admiralty. Bat this composition of the ca binet is impossible, and must be given up to the empire of dreams. The only certain change yet agreed upon is said to be the admission of M. de Rayneval as Minister for Foreign Affairs. The ministerial power at present depends only upon twenty or twenty-five Members who form the right centre. _ _ _ Would it not have been decent in M. de Alai.- tignac and M. de Portalis to have waited till the fol lowing day to put in execution their stroke of power, especially as the other Ministers remained in the Chamber during their short absence ? Must we conclude from this that there is any misunderstand ing, and that the former assumed all the respon sibility ? We are en the eve of great events.—Times. MOUNTRATH PETTY SESSION, APRIL IR 8 IRISH AMUSEMENTS. A young, robust, broken-pated fellow, named Foster, having his head enveloped in an Irish ban dana, and one of his legs swathed in bandages from the knee down to the toe, came into the room sup ported by a friend, and was by order of the Magis trates accommodated with a chair. Well, Mr. Foster, said one of their Worships, can you tell what broke your leg ?--I believe, Sir, answered Mr. Foster, it was bruk with a little bit 01 a shtick. After a lengthy investigation, it came out that Mr. Foster, arm-in-arm with another jintleman, one John Phelan, otherwise John Bless, did on Satur day last walk up and down the streets of Mountrath, as if the whole town belonged to their two selves, offering five pounds for the head of a Dooley. Hereat all the Dooleys took umbrage, as it was right they should, but waited like prudent tac ticians until they could set hands upon Mr. Foster in some place where he might not be so much the cocic of the walk as he appeared to be in this nate town of Mountrath; and the opportunity came quite handy the following evening—for being a Sunday evening, and therefore a dies non, Mr. Foster hap pened to be taking out the calves to the pasthur, when up comes Johnny Dooley, with Pat, his brother, and Johnny Jackson, a blood relation, the whilk three then and there quilted Mr. Foster pretty soundly for his pridial impertinence. Foster tan for his life into a neighbour's house, but they broke open the door and dragged him out, pounding him with sticks until they thought he was done, and then throwing him upon the dunghill to die, chute and comfortable. Pat Magee, an old man, who was brought to prove the assault, had a sort of floating consciousness of the persons and events above described, but he was " so near dthrunk at that present time," that he could not put ft upon his sowle in soberness to remember any thing with sufficent distinctness to " swear plump." A smart lively damsel came forward to bear wit ness to the aggravating behaviour of the complainant on Saturday in the town, but when the book was put to her she declined to swear, in regard of her being in a Certain condition. Are you married, my girl ? said one in authority. —Yes, please your Worship. And who is your husband ?—Tom Bergin, Sir. So I thought; and I shall endeavour to have that gentleman sent over the water for polygamy. He is married to half a dozen other women besides ? Oh yes, said the lady smiling, they say he has enough of us. What is more extraordinary, said the Magistrate, I hear that you were aware of the fact before the knot was tied. How could -you be such a fool ? Why then, indeed, said she, with a simper, it is not so asy to get a man at all, Sir. Informations were taken against Jackson and Pat Dooley for the assault; and, per contra, Mr. Foster was bound over to be of the peace towards all the Dooley tribe. One of his sureties, when called upon to acknow ledge himself indebted to our Sovereign Lord the King, provided his friend should rise his hand to a Dooley during three years to come, exclaimed-0 that's too long for a boy to keep the paice. Let it be only till the Session is over. That is to say, said the Magistrate, until the 24th of this month ?—Well, said the bailsman, I'll stand to it for a year : but for three years, by the powers I would not be bound a for the Priesnt himself for so long a time. There was no insisting after this, and the Bench knocked under. The parchment-makers are said to have reaped a profitable harveltt by the late uneximppled zeal for peti tioning. SOME ACCOUNT OF PARTRIDGE THE MURDERER. Thi of his , s ibeiy sltsei‘h.tvsl wretched criminal paid the earthly penalty crimesJ. eaoon:sflsyeol It years of 11 n tiety ll , ohn r e, ‘ol o ,l ahn d soauA a gmfr y odeuu:g l hr a rule s dt os t hc , tfi ernsn Jonas baf i osen t rn2s li asoo: confessed z u : dei t elrti r t fi joihgaefetrr Ansell,oNh hh l l ee a ins iaoa, of about t ii the our gaol. He was visited on Saturday by the Rev. f d guilty, not only of the crime for which he was to suffer, d been missed for several days. This confession, as it affects other persons, still at large, was retained by Mr. Smyth ; but the main facts were subse quently divulged by the prisoner to others. Partridge was one of a family of 18 children, of whom 15 are still living. His parents, who have always borne a good character, and five of his bro. thers and sisters, visited him on Sunday morning, His fathet: had heard on the road the report of his confession, and said to him, " Why, George, Ted Partridge (the man acquitted on the charge of air ing over a woman at Waldinfield) says you killed little Jonas." Ihe prisoner said, " Yes, - father, I killed both the boys." " Good God, George," exclaimed the unhappy father, " how came you to do that ? I would have laid my life you never did it." ",oh,`father I" said the prisoner, "my ruits was all from being acquainted_with them girls, the " (persons living near his father). He then stated that he had been repeatedly connected critni. nally with these three girls, but in particular with Bet, who was within a few days of her confinement when she married; that this woman (for what rea son he did not then state, but it is understood in consequence of Jonas Ansell having been a witness of more than they approved) urged him to kill - the boy, which he at first refused, but that she after wards gave him a knife, and promised to yield to his wishes as often as he liked, for nothing, if he would cut the boy's throat; that In consequence of this he went in search of the boy, and found hitn sitting on the brow of a ditch,' without his jacket, near the ozier-ground, where lie stabbed him ; that the poor child made some little noise, but was soon dead. Whilst committing this cold-blooded crime, he saw two boys, bro thers of Bet playing at some distance, but thought they did not see him. The boys, however, found the body, and went and told their sister, who as the prisoner believed, dragged the body into an oat-field till night, and then put on the jacket a-id carried it into the ozier•ground. Bet's mother, as he supposed, thinking the children might, get into trouble, went and, helped her daughter iu removing the body. The prisoner stated that he re , turned the knife to the fiend that tempted him to the crime, and who, he said, from that time always kept him poor by extorting his money under threats of informing against him. The prisoner persisted declaring that he did not steal Mr. Poole's cosset lamb, and his father said he believed him; for lie had never brought any mutton into their house, as he knew it would not be taken in, and he had no other place to cook it, and he had of late been tin ' able to pay ss. a week for his board, as he used to do. T he prisoner also denied at that time that be had intended to do any violence to young Hawkins, son of a respectable farmer in the parish, who was waylaid by him some years before, as lie was re turning home from Bildeston with change for a 10/. note, about dusk. On Sunday night, however, about 10 o'clock, this monstrous villain told Mr. Orridge that lie had something more to say to him, and he then acknow ledged that, in consequence of young Hawkins having checked him about going along with" those girls," he had intended to murder him ; that he pulled him off his donkey, and was feeling for Itit knife, but could not find it, when he was alarmed by some person coming up. The culprit informed Mr. West that he had latterly been in the habit of attending a Methodist Meeting, frequently three times on a Sunday, though his parents went to church. He declared that he went with serious motives himself, but that the abandoned women before alluded to, resorted there for no other pur pose than to meet with young men. Earnestly do we wish that this man's fate may be productive of salutary effects upon the minds of the young of both sexes; but it is a melancholy discouragement to the hope of such benefit that George Partridge, with the guilt of one murder already on his conscience, was actually a spectator of the execution of Corder.—Bury Post. EXTRAORDINARY INSTANCE of MENTAL HALLUCINATION. PARIS, APRIL s.—ln an action for alimony, brought before the Court of First Instance here by a Mrs. Walker against her husband, an eminent English glover in the Rue Richelieu, the following extraordinary instance of mental hallucination, on the part of the plaintiff, was related by the defend' ant's. Counsel :—Mr. Walker married a Miss 011iver, a native of England, like himself; a large fortune was promised, but never paid him. The happiness of the new married couple was not of long duration. Airs. Walker, who belonged to a family which counted amongst its members, in by-gone ages, an Archbishop of Canterbury, looked down with all the pride of birth upon the humble trader, and instead of attend ing to the management of the house and the shop, found it necessary to pay frequent visits to her noble relations in England, from whence, in her letters, she was fond of repeating " that the noble blood of the 011ivers ran in her veins." This folly, however, led to no serious disturbance between her husband and herself until 1809, when facts of the most extra ordinary nature led to a change in the relations of the parties. At that period Bonaparte had attained the summit of his glory. Mrs. Walker, dazzled by the victories of this hero, conceived the most vio lent love for him. This she gave vent to in the most burning letters and passionate declarations, which rapidly succeeded each other. She was pre sent at all the Emperor's reviews, and sought every possible occasion to see and be seen by him. She was fully persuaded that so devoted a love must meet with a return, and, recollecting that she was descended from the illustrious house of 011ivcy, she was led to hope that, by means of a divorce, she might be called to share the imperial throne with the object of her love. The extravagance of her conduct, so publicly exhibited, at length attracted the attention of the police, and she was ordered to quit Paris and reside at Versailles. Change of place, however, produced no change of sentiment ; on the contrary, deprived of the preseixe of Ler hero, her imagination took but the wilder flight. She renewed her epistolary declarations and profes sions of passion, and became so pressing, that at length a rendezvous was given her in the Park of Versailles. She hurried to the appointed place in a state of the most intense agitation. Instead of the Em peror she found one of his pages, who handed her into a brilliant equipage, which took her, alas 1 not to the Palace of the Tuileries, or the groves of St. Cloud, but to the madhouse of Charenton. Here she was treated as a maniac, and, for a long time, continued under the illusion of her love and imaginary gran deur. She could not be made to believe that it was by order of her beloved Emperor that she was confined there; and she was only convinced of the ingratitude of him whom she loved when, after his divorce from Josephine and second marriage, the news of the birth of the King of Rome was brought to Charenton. This so calmed her heated imagination, that, in a short time after, she was pronounced to be sane, and set at liberty. She then sought to return to her husband, but he re fused, after such extraordinary conduct, to receive her. What became of Mrs_ Walker from that period until the present application the Counsel did not explain. The amount of alimony demanded was 2,000 francs a year; but the Court, though de ciding in favonr of Mrs. 'Walker, awarded her only 960 francs a year.