The Sun. — London, England, 1828-12-13 00:00:00

. ~~ „,, ips o inap_erd _at,itfeur.,-,0- 4 .- I n iej 7 e tt , iel ... Nr. Hod skinwho -. Quaker , le a , immediate) in g ia i the 4 ,, %de " it, : an d d th h er e e ha b d e an opening, friend, it is thyself has would prove, and w i nd l `Pi?'4 ,would Mr. Hod 1: 1 " u n, that it. Mr. Ke at there was y open gs i no openg *hen extremepl''' ' e /' had examined the parts immediately before. He the hop: , ,..' i Li' e ctl lProve to them the stupid ignorance of Lambert, for if irage to u_'' - „ i had sCnfle, he would know that if the opening was made erneuxu.st:trogier; ' teased t l t i et e l fo b i l -eeps, it would.bave been traceable by the extra-. ; but this was not the case; there was no ex ust die node' bated blood. I now come - to Mr. Lambert, the con tuipeflitc:iti::: ' ktitliittibttertt: the Lancet at eight guineas per month. Mr. lira .:vears that he knows more of his profession than ut to peifO it 4 . _ pseuds'. t br Cooper. vt He makes 'a coniniunicatien to the ` o ; te ,vrei; mee t;_ Mi... tte 'akely is- a wit, and Mr. Lambert par. It is 118 41 ' .., , p, e 7, 4 11 i01 that entertaining accomplishment. "My •e niei. r . '" u 'i ; 4 7_ • k nife" trte was a portion of• Mr- Lamberts, and he tad k 1 the FI S j ,. , th ia w it h 1 . ‘ w , hole Occurrence into a diatietic shape. My uncle's knife, and half a dozen other t j e e 7. - w. 5.v. 1 ,,,, °: t " . _m u eide.—Post mortem examination. On Tuesday , t h e ia p i a al...7, - ; ,. 1 / , ' thereeperation rook place by - Mr:. • B. Cooper, the eace t', ; i li a , - 1 ILe t 4 : 7 Korget, .my uncle's knife, - the blunt gor lig throllii - A ' 8 "'--, and. on Wednesday evening, as might be ex- A intrOdllC,P, ' 4 , the man died.” - Now, gentlemen, what think you the bladdc o 1 .: , , ' l 4 ll,4 the taste of a wan who had witnessed such an operation, liters a bar' •, ' t c 4 Who had thus d . who . described it, and then thrown a descrip wiermae.tor . h f r o 4 :, , I, 4llQ f ici i: into dramatic form? I know - not, if the choice lull a en eu re, whether I should choose to teethe inventor urpose of the 1. 'f ee if umny, gross and false as it is, or the reporter Toil will tov De tts.th.true, and yet capable of throwing it into such a ire that Of ' . Is.. - i l s " per a ine in o th o e ? , A eo ftli " , _,' e 'ee_dtn • gthe libel, and commenting on several pa5tk1e,:....".... tkle,:....".... Court. Gentleman said that the libeller win' i r t o is du c ce e d e ie_ t a :2l 1 ,ir k _ , ,, , t. The libeller met them, openly' avowing h 97 , , , did publish all this and it is true—the sum and sub instrumen'• .; e e of the charge is true—kfr. Cooper is an unskilful LO not he pr, to.o:,autd most unfit to be a surgeon at Guy's Hospital." r par ithe as fing s ‘f i ';' tft te , 44 ,, I defence of the libeller was to' the following adults, r", 7 0. t oita.. '7". . am Editor of the Laneet, in which I - publish. " 1 1 ,i Il y ",'' 9 t the cases which occur ia the public hospitals." innidanweihttoctiti, et Z i t ) (said Sir James)", I do not' know how Guy's N et Zi tts t can be considered a public one; OS it ii not, nor 'the w o o p uld_ .,, b e r 14 4 ~ ...supported by public contribution. ' It did not Ti: stoat oraw is , o .... 11 1„. doors against those who went there for the pm... 4 ol:7 of science, although it was anxious 0 exclude such as a variety ° 1 h %lled le.. themselves, in order that they may invent - and very Uli • F ur inate calumnies. The Editor went on to say,' " my' e is 11 ° "'ter brought ja school o f , : 1 ,, e, .. me in the usual course the report of this ilie • _,with critioal remarks, and I; •as -in duty bound, pub it opernti n ° ,i n ', " 1, , i , t, believing it to be true, and not knowing to the cone this sot', k Y• So if the Editor of the Lanczt got limn a person to to , „, ta f f1.. t ..., ,, .. , I' ;: i t a i i nii he rno gi_agee . eight guineas a month a falsehood, how the),a do oo t, he' d. ' iatsmous, he 01 i n duty bound to publish it to the h A,. Bad as that libel wa., and base as were the e " calls ii ' ''''es• which gave it birth, th e defendant had nut oint. 11: c 'do .,... ced lei* single wituess who did -riot entitle the a throu L , titt to a. verdict. All the witnesses in succession , re i s ,:ii; , •lek ~.lisi!edb b eyond the possibility of doubt the falsehood of t 44 i g ii i:" l ' v l bi ; ~ i,k • l r l e i t l c e rse_ „_ . tlie pleas on the rcieurd were those by defendant mat stand or fall. Those pleas he bladJ .i el; i k tLe, and could net be pretended to have supporters.— lg. into P' IC , witness did t h an ides. p i a i t tee, for each in d bet ere4).,,,i; 1 t i li,tiemnivetentpe co rs n o tr t a t d o a b l e ed pia tt ed e other. The wiTtaheetinrsotx wasand I,' th at WV' - %Oh o of the i:i. A. • __, i 1 4 . . r .U4d. himself ; that man was Lambert ; it le polar i i 4,11 144 M that he had upon two occasions differences with. the see" k ''' ' Cooper lie was auspected of contributing to the. . r. __ jog , • lie 4. __ a It new turned out that he was receiving-eight :i1 little,l9 1 " j ,,,, in t 7. . e -Inouth for lais.,eoutributions, and more aocord tha, w,o ,' Z er th sat e G ua i ntity'ffif the matter which he supplied. At y's Hespitid, be gave °fleece to the company, ra .,_ f r og . ! a ll' ~ t 4. 47Wwordered by Mr. Cnoper awl others to le t the room. a d p ie ra l: a . L,, e : _ore . made to extract th at fact flora Lambert upon t 4 Iti tlinuatlon ; at: length be- said he remembered that rent forir j . (: 0,,... 0, 4 0g ' his presence 'disagreeable, he left the room. T isr a t7; 4 - , -1,. .` - nother occasion, a short time before the report, w ; •• 1;,, 4 was the subject of the present trial, hlk was then , ins__ L t ,. ru in tn; - t f v,; ,s e'te4l, .but not thou known ' to be a spy to the Lancet; ,ii:sr o i3 is l , tia t7a . rei that he had used the term " Bat," a word this'..,t, • ,_ l ? 4 by Mr. \Yokel' , to designate hospital surgeons, es hare - 0 t , 1• 7 4 ke them ridiculous,- and his work the more po operator iC". Dire Cooper was- o ff ended with the expres- , ad out tad 1 / 41 4 4: ~ Whn questioned open •this point Lambert its • anus' (4 41 ' I certainly did not mean to give .effence to Mr. discolier:: r h „Per." Did )ou not (I asked him) on your oath say, . cammeu,t a r y er ) ,` , : g tou would ,, _ watch an opportunity of having your re het7, ~,."1 ? I cannot swear that I did ;lam a, man of x. it. ti w y wg °K e w' , 4 , 114. , t 1 t1 g. , te a m lled per; on l cannot swear that I said so ; I remember T _ e! .. tk „ , . for an apology." Yea, be did watch iry: - 119 , l '. opportunity of destroying Mr. Cooper. He went to come now' I tame who gave him eight uineas . thin ied by 111 r• uretowho h a . the ' h pretensions a - respectability whiclir!o fniiii a ~ 1, 4. , .14 P t 1 4 ',94 . think of accepting. - " On . nay hcnoue," says be urgeons ' Nakeiy, s. it is true." Wakely however lops off some : r ii i i i ir ye e o ti ii 4 ": l et tof the libel, befor e he inserts it. Lambert puts his. it t i in between the bladder and the rectum, and then says II to I , 9a' r. C. h a d fo rce d , , I , L , " th e f ur - cups in that direction ; a statement :til lea! i 0 . !! , unless he was ignorant beyond what could be sup -61"1. ' C l it Ile Most birnself have invented for time purpose of oinpleo ° . t : i,j l4 ', using the rep.utation of an individual, towards whom re w ; e44 , P a i it , Qad' before .Vottiert vengeance. In the whole comae of po troP , 4 . , professional - experience - (e.ustinued the Learned Coun t wag n • ~,, it 'l' noer saw a libel, the Malice of -which a renc let h ;,, ititlid boldly avows himself-4m throws the shield everLatu- Ir. C041;1.. Prat' and be moot sow fay'the consequences. • Don't sup ite flott; 01 , e , that there was.any reason in what. be said. yesterday ADO i_ m .: t . YOU. , He . told you that he would sincerely th e .pal; • 4ret the .ineertion• of this charge, should. it . turn ~t h. the _P r op .. k 4 ,to, ;be: untrue. What, would he ruin the fame i be b robreote - ' th it f a m ily" of an innocent- and respectable gentleman,. and ; _ •. P b „ Of . ki t ,i,, g e t 4 1 4. Y -*WI\ 4 whining excuse? No, lie .has 11`1'. be 1 ), 1 / 4 , - Powingn omiie with .his reporter, and -ifbe be ' 1 01*. tr. Euless WI infamous , you (turning to the defendant) 7 1 a ea t l .,'„e j y,, 1 4 4 1 1. °: . f SO v . ." you were tint actuated by malevolence, 14 Y etc . % i v area deliberate trafficker in lies and slauder.• :It ras the ta . rt , . 4,.. '" you: four oe.five thousand pound* ti -year, and law, 'e lt like the - 1 4 7 4 4 and feeling , declare that you ought to be puoished 5t li a s; tbe , ii _ e so venal and 1)44 au attaek upon A loan who first it ' f ra rf ciie' wietlyen. Ne other person but you reaps pro fi t. .7":4 . i t :4 thii slauder,--an4 the more respectable and the more :o o ite,, 1, 4 . 0 t 1 Pillar the obj!et of that slander is, themore likely is it to ye!' _ J iev ,;7re an eat; tided oircolatiop. The Newspapers, too, I ' t 7 o u ca u rt i c kil t : the--precursors of this enhouny,,,,,they told those netiprofeeisional wen, that soinethiug was to be el a t ' a ck e r es t _. l l. t 4 ' '''':#4l 4 i ' e er t ! fie 1104 outuhoc of the ~l a ncet too shocking e ir • 5 _: 4 i ht _ ordinary publi - cation. •You, forsooth, are lobe the judge 6 A 6' a i ii" . (n,evrt your. own hie and ilia explanation which Mr. :el: I :g oo f C ... lier , may . wish to . give to you ; and yoU have the irnpu , . sere 001 T, after ing4ttug this charge, to (All on hint fur a .estf ' tlj‘ '9' 4414itzikAt4up. After - some farther • remarks of 1 1 ,1 c 4 0 141, , 0 7. oature,. Sir . i trinee ...'Qi4tlett said that the only re ,litt a l. ott,' h4;,eret“,!;l°...liltrie,so. produced by the •defendant was Mr. , ,i,, , , I( ge.,.-oe was, front 41. that the I,„earmal Counsel - ort to b 4 l ''„._ l l. he, - ;‘, a respeetehle Mao, atatl if he posses. - seed, as it re, Fl.'s 1, .(o,ct t tl ‘s ial to be , Loped lie did, that sense of justice and of good '‘,, _,,, -0 4 ! p,.. fc, he.avoull pro fi t by the lesson now offered to him—. weepte. a i a. r ze.i . again to judge rashly of the skill and knowledge of any be s re-l• profesaiOnal man, without first giving the opportunity cps to 0 - , ,•, • • I , jet , 4. Ai ranneg what difficulties might have presented them li° fi o tl a „v0" 1 te-itlyn in any operation which might, at fi rst view, At lie iie j, ! l'i , e..er i(ii7 Mr. Partridge to have. been: Anieltiliully per. g(t. sv„; • t ' il lt :teed. The Learned Counsel said . that he would allow y tlt' o d, i f , ease to go abroad even with the verdict for the plaintiff, .ge; * OO 4t lt could at the same time be said that that .verdict was ike it ji ; ~ li taited merely by. some defectin the defendant's evidence. ..4F. - . 7 , ; e i 0 Would got conoent to take a verdict on such terms. dg g.. li t Or the sake of the cheracter_of his client, .be felt himself a str°4oi „7,and to produce as witnesses in support of thaecheracter, Avg', d' it tipli 'lttle of the highest and most eminent Men .in the ul t. , ~ija, ,,r .fession, and ' among o th ers Dr. P.oget, the relative of e .. , o , v ever-to , be-lamented friend, Sir Samuel Remaly.— t i d it - , t i fr citing several civics, in which for a less ' aggravated the 4 0. 4 f, Wil , • 4 . .. e z. - :.:.ost era )curs dan. - -.4eze ha : : 1 . I , IT-1 giien , '„„ . . lw; r 4 1 0.0!: , sorisfi , leitilxi "most 1 ii4 l Jury tli Irnirk 7,0, 1 :04, 0 ,144. ' souse uf 'the 'fierioui ' injuiY aimed ' at - hiS ~' , t f; :Mt, by-the libel which the defendant' bad • thus bolo eibe_.___. - . , • not • • • 01/ t ,. . sneu. .ale conjured them to give an opPor.• ion ~„,, t 'bity of triumph to the defendant, or to bold the riirc? ' l4 intiff up to th e ~., .. .., 414 .. , •• _ •";.:.''',, AO, •• tt • tS I, , ri 7 lnd iv ii . ti ~ b ass might conceive to lira temperate'virJ 10 91 1 r old j7,,`A .betituthch ItnalevoleActeiand baseness tread' ionVert aiit'f i- t ie , lo- a , smiree of triotepitl ~ ••• , ~ e.- -It .oi ,- k t . o P ell 1' The'folloterinrwitrfes ' ' roIIT 4 1, —1 e, V- '' ' \T "e q'll collect :---... , 4 . _,. ; ii. 4.4 4 .18 V"S ANTI, examined by Mr. Poteece—l am Iw, be surgeon at Guy's Hospital ; I was one of the pupils there, , 0 '4,1 i t, ..Li saw nearly all the operations which took place there ; I r° o l.. I have. seen Sir Astley and Mr. Cooper operate for the t Mr. os , i ti sne, and have operated myself six times:- Mr. B. Cooper rat 1 1 ,.., f - t . ,Perated ,several times in my presence ; I saw th e opera ay .0 il l ; !.. a ,-.... l a_ c tio,v, in ~..niy. chr.rreter ~O.t assistant-su . rz, ene ; im' ?' - er I gi,c4l4iokilltstßa k atikkfifti , iqiqines; 1. t k i..:ibe is'. H ag ue 4,,i.c.urd,ot se* the first iith,,sion'lioni the'p6 ' ~,., : i l a i igt h,il 1 a t ii,i,t, 1 was."- I -distinctly felt"M r. Coop'eN. Of liaio '"u tFe 7 ' .' i .! ° °.Ye. Of' triS . S444 : Wl'lli 1 1 44.4 44 rtly 4 bigicl ; t 004144 it' " un j !litcr - taiii no doubt „that • the knife 'cut into the . blad. he ‘ v° „.,1 'sr. When the assistant feels the knife in the ~,,ter-‘ b t be s „, ouve, lie delivers time staff to the operator. I was mice ''tines) keeent a' the post mortan examination, and 'could ~ °l .ii g ,d.. klti no reason for thinking that the fi rst inoisiou did :not time ..,; h into the bladder. NO one Pan form an adeouate oeinion . .. , _ . r 0 ,,,,0i1: 1 r ,, -, use rfitileiety ~t aii epera‘ion • but the oßerator„hito raiof , . lfl . ' I tWidli that i'had . tin't ,. the' beat ''inealtui 4r gioi,.._ upo I 11414 *k ; .: ,_ 1 "t4e_....'ilifSeilltif, lA, V " IP: - OR 0.1 3 44.i9i . t . nes . * LL ,,,,a i ao , ~-se la Mte case great nifficalty in feeling the situa bw_ s od na 'at the stone; I cannot form an opinion se to tiativ,',.eto nethar.the forceps reached the bladder the first time, • e,oviii , ° ln 'I think that no man would have, introduced the for rectoro; 4 1 , a unless his fulger convinced Mtn the bladder was i l 'aletrafetie 4 this case the 'tint was in the ii;tefiQr Felt . . .. .. , . of the bladder, behind the penis, and high up. That tituation satisfactorily accounts f tht• forcup., straight or crooked, not : finding it. We g(oier dly expect the stone to be in the - inferior p ..t of the I,l4ilder, in the hollow of the pelvis ; in the inajoiity of rotes it is fount there. The shape of this stone was o v-d and flat. That sle .l i e account, to 'me why it eluded' the fio ceps. Finding that the forceps did not reach the stone, Mr. Coop;-. tried different foreep - 4 and other instruments. I sounded the patient on the table before he was cut. I did not feel the stone until I was withdrawing the " sound."- Although . thus per ceptible by sound; it still elude the forceps. The patient was a stout man. During the operation I tried, but could not reach the bladder' with my finger. I might have reached the prostate gland. I think that in this state of things it was necessary to enlarge the wound, 'Mad to do, this Sir Astley's knife" was used: It required time to make this . second - incision with caution and care. A cuteng goiget Was afterwards used for the same purpose. Ido not recolleet whether a blunt gorget was introduced, but I do not think that it was.— The cutting orget acts as a guide for the forcepi, and makes the bole large enough. If the wound were sufficiently large before it would not do any harm, because it is introduced on the finger' like the knife; the stone was ultimately extracted. Now did Mr. Cooper use the proper means to extract the stone, being in the place it was?—Certainly he did. Was any great and unnecessary violence used by him ? --I think none ; nor were there more instruments used than were required. I think that the operation, under the circumstances of peculiar difficulty, was performed with as much care as the case could have required. The delay which occurred in the operation was owing entirely to the situation of the stone, and the difficulty of detecting it, and not to the want. of skill or care in Mr. Brausby Cooper. Is Mr. Bransby Cooper a skilful surgeon generally ?.. Certainly. I know that he was with the army in Pe ninsula, and also in America, as an army Burg. 77.1. know he was at Norwich Hospital, which is celebrat.d incite thsit any other county nospimi for Lithotomy. He was also at Edinburgh studying medicine. I think that lie is skilful in his profession, and tit to Ire a surgeon in Guy's ' Hospital; I have known him for about twenty years; I was at the Post Mortem examination, and saw the bladder and the rectum. From my examination ; of them, - there was nothing to induce me to believe that the forceps had passed between the bladder and tectum with violence. If it had, I must Lave perceived it; there would have been'an extravasation of blood. The deceased was an unhealthy man. I haie seen other operations for lithotomy. - The length of time is no crite rion of -the' skill of the operator. 1 have seen Mr. B. Cooper perform the operation since successfully in about a minute. I road the Lancet, but I have not seen the:euccesie ful- operation reported. I have seen Mr. Cooper tie the subclavian artery, which is an operation requiring the most perfect anatomical knowledge, and could scarcely be done by accident. Tying the subclavian artery, in my opiebni, requires greater skill than litho. tosny. A 'by-gander cannot in well appreciate the diffieultiei of an operation, as the operator himself. •I should not venture to him ate opiniOn upon the diffieulties of ao operation, without first communicating with the operator. The preparations were once more brought into Court, sad Mr. Wakely requested that they might be taken outof the glass, as otherwise no accurate information could be derived of'thein. The bladder in a state of preaerva-' tion Was accordinglo taken from the glass, and Mr. Wake ley proceeded to cross-examine the witness. There might 'have been thirty persons present at the post mortean examination, I cannot *ay that the .tune was attached to the bladder, but there was a spot which induced rue to think that that was the precise situation in which the store was placed ; tha operator did any (Lowing the operation that he could not explain the cause of the diffi culty ; I think be had no knowledge of the situation of the stone ; the 'loose cellular membrane is between the pubis and the bladder, and attaches the latter to the former; when the Iladder is empty it is contracted, and then it might embrace the stone. . . . The cross .examination then proceeded into the anatomy of the parts, which the Chief Justice said he hoped was of no importance,' for be could not understand it, not being able in hear•either question or answer, from toe low tone in which they were spoken. This hint had itt effect, and the parties elevated their voices so as to become somewhat more audible, The witness proceeded—My finger could not reach the bladder; a flat stone is inure difficult to lay hull of than a round stone, 'and a small stone is more difficult to lay hold of than a large one. The enlargement of the open in time to do it with care. It might take ten seconds: The cutting . gerget was used only once. I did not ask the operator to explain the difficulty while the patient was under the operations He did he believes ex plain it after it ,was over, but the patient was unbind ing while he Was so examining. He wos nubound iu the course of half a minute. I have always been of opinion that Mr. Cooper was a skilful surgeon. There not stated that it was an infamous job, placing Mr. B. Cooper over my head in the hospital. I believe I never could have said so ; 'though I may have .said, like all other 'disap pointed candidates, that I ought to have been elected . . (A laugh.) I never threatened to publish documents exposing the corrupt system of election at Guy's. I never said so to von -I was At a dinner a few weeks back, when Dr. Haslain asked me whether I bad said that Mr. Bransby Cooper had a large fortune, and that •he was more fit to spend it than to be surgeon of the Hospital —I ieplied that I had not said as, but that I wished he had a largefortune for them. I might have succeeded in toy election. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. Continuation of the evidence of Mr. Thomas Callaway. —I cannot distinguish in this prt-paration between the rut made by the gorget and that made by the knife. I have seen an appearance produce.' in the cellular membrane by the forceps passing between the bladder and the Worn, but the appearances in those cases and in the one in question were not similar. hi the former there was ex travasated blood, and in the latter there was none. The cellabar membrane was dark coloured, which might be the cate without its containing extravasated blood. The witness was re-examined by Sir James SCARLETT as to the use of the bent forceps, and the witness de posed that from the time at which Mr. Cooper used the bent forceps he (Mr. Calloway) , conceived that Mr, Cooper must have had the same ,idea of the difficulty which was then passing in his hand ; it was not the simple operation of cutting which occasioned the delay in per forming the operation. Ily a Juror,—The operation is always thought to be difficult when the stone is in the anterior•part of the bladder, but did not anticipate any extrenr.lioary difficulty in this case, though the patient was orthat weak habit that he was :it unlikely to sink under a great operation ; the sound could not have placed the stone in a position more difficult to be got at. Mr.. C. A. Key examined—l am the senior surgeon to Guy's • Hospital; I am a surgeon since 1812; I have per formed 40 or 60 operations in lithotomy myself; 'I have seen Mr. Cooper operate several times ; in the operations Mr. Cooper has performed be has nut lost rsore than the average number of patients; from the descrir. s ion of the operation, as given by Mr. Calknora . A . ,• think it likely that ; shcathl ieve a4tipted, 46 same 'Process as . Was adopt:en by eiaiper. The length of time occupied in the ope ration Was no criterion of the skill of the .oper , :tor.— Have known causes where, although the stout could be touched; there Was yet great difficultOn eatractiug it in consequence of the blander grasping the stone. .1 ; think from the eyidere rvidt;ced. that the op,?ziat,t§kp. was sniepti.- facally ilerfortuet . ~f 'any. Viol i erice had !leen ustel„ think its 4ffects could e doteavered after dcatb. ,Tbe PA- , 4 4 fie , in th`e'ccomar hierOVatm Would have been found lacerated, and i n 4 state of slough, with extravasated blood. I was • present at the port molten examination, and the cellular membrane was perfectly sound, and not lacerated. If the-forceps had been introduced with great force. into. the prostate gland, it would have shewn the effects of that force, bnt • no such effects were visible after death. The wound pre.sented the appearance of a 9P:Ai;_ s f into the. reds cf the Li - to/tier th.ro-,;40. ttie ilvoqta k w ! Viin , tutring , •oott iT4A; . f' think an inatrnment a A o liwde' td the Oreinnttanced of the case, but tl.ink a iv,da h a vz answered the purpose equally well. It is only very fair eases according to my experience, teat the bladder . canoe reached by• the finger ; but it is desirable to do so if possible. I had some conversation with Mr. Lambert in the square of the Hospital. Mr. Lam9ert said, " Your straight staff will never retch a deep per. nium.r I rat ified, " Lir, yon know nothing about it bayii , rove~ tterfo:Anri The f l uf,:*lll 44 , 4wer 4i we it v ijOis 4 10ikk it•O • ii4 a shallow one. I told liellin4glit'thii"pritieum deep, I had operated upon one twice asdoep.' Not having seen the perinum (luting life, I could give no opinion as to its depth, a n d did not therefore say that it was a deep one. Mr. 11. Cooper, in his sperations, has seldom exceeded theaverage time. I have tied the subelavian artery twice It is, when tied in cases of aneurism, one of :lo host difficult; cpetAiv,i , w,sv igcr y, , TficittOttllM ig !nu &mei& dperueuti la easy enough. It requires great skill, great presence of mind, and greal knowledge of anatomy to perform spel► ait Op erat i on . assi4ted Mr. B. Cooper in pet fin timing this nper.►tioo, and I never sov one better pet formed in toy life, it was fi„. assencwism. I never saw Mt. 13. Cooper loNe his presence of mind upon any occasion. I consider him to be a good and sk►lful surgeon. , . . Cross-examineil--I saw in the Lancet a report of tLe tying. of the subelavion kirtt; y. - Sir JAME@ SCA REETT—IIdy Lord, there was su c h a report, in ivhich Mr: C. was spoken of very handsomely ; that was prior . to the quarrel between Mr. Lambert and Mr: C - oper at the dinner M:. Wakely—Was that report prior er subsequent to the dinner? Witness—At was subsequent to it, most certainly. I otiect to the use of the gorget before an Opening !s made into the bladder, because then a considerable degree of forge toast be . used ; bus after an opening has been made into the cladder, my objection will certainly , nol I have operated between 50 or 60 times ; 40 of these were at Guy's Hospital, end lost only three patients. With justice to . Mr. oopej:„ I ought to say' that the major part of these . 40 were young patients; Mr. Cooper performed about twelve times at the hospital, but as I do not keep an account of his patients, I cannot tell how many of them died. I use as many instruments in the lithotomy operations as I may find necessary for extracting the stone, sometimetitnes three, sometimes more. If the bladder con • tracts it may bold the stone in contact with it. I think that I had perl'ormed about three operations before I pub-lished my work on lithotomy. In the ease in which Mr. Bransby Cooper tied the subclaviati artery; the patient ultimately died, but I think that he died. more from disease than froth the operation itself—his death was occasioned by suppuration below the ligature. Nei. ther sn the Operations that I hive seen, or that I have my self performed, have I seen the subclavian artery tied in is better manner than it was done by Mr Bransby Cooper. I consider Mr. Cooper a scientific surgeon. What do ,you mean by science, as applied to surgery ? I consider that a man is scientific who-knows good reasons for what he does. I ana certain that I had no conversa sion with Mr. Bransby Cooper respecting this operation before the report appeared. I have since that conversed with him, but it was upon immaterial points, I had , .never the difficulties of this operation explained to me. . Have you ever sent a contributive to the Lancet?— Yea, upon the occasion of the separation of St. Thomas and Guy'e hospitals, I sent etc answer to an article which previously appeared in the Lancet. I saw in the Lancet since the operation in question, an article highly praising Mr. Bransby Cooper, and undoubtedly it is my belief that I expressed my approval of that article. Mr. JOSEPH LAUNDY, examined by Sir JAMES SCAR -LETT.—I held the instruments for Mr. Cooper whilst he he was performing the operation.' I have witnessed almost all the operations of St. Thomas and Guy's Hospitals for the last thirty years, and have seen Sir Astley Aooper and Mr. Cliue perform several times. Some operations of the description now under consideration have lasted as long. The most tedious one I ever saw was by Mr. Cline, surgeon, it lasted an hour and forty minutes; the stone was ultimately ex tracted. .1 have seen the operation last • an hour, but not often ; -one by Sir Astley lasted an hour, it was at the hospital. Cross-examined by the defendant. —I an not a surgeon, I am an instrument-maker, and do not know the causes of. the delay in the c.tatia that lasted an 'hour. Dr. Hodgskin, a Quaker, examined by Sir L'Sca a- LETT.—I am Professor of Morbid Anatomy at Guy's Hos pital. I should think that the peritoneum of the deceased, front his size, must have been deep. From the appear ance of the parts, I was aware of no other wound, except one front the external surface into the bladder—there was none between the bladder and the rectum. The kid neys. as is generally the case in suyjects of that nature, were mottled with white spots. I should certainly have seen it, if there had been any wound between the bladder and rectum. I cannot say that the wound passed anywhere but into the bladder. Atter I removed the parts they were put away, and J. Lambert asked to See them. I or one of my assistants took them down for him, I went away; afterwards James Lambert shewed me a passage be tween the bladder and Or rectum, and as I bad not seen the passage before, I taxed him with making it. He had the finger in the passage when he shewed it to me. If that had been made recently before death there would be an extravation of blood. It is my firm conviction that it was made after death. From my knowledge cf Mr. Cooper I look on him as a very fair surgeon and a good anatomist. Cross-examined—l read or heard Use report of the post mortem essminhtion in the Lanett read, and it was cor rect us it appeared at the examination, except an far as re garded the passage between the rectum and the bladder. Mr. Etiolate, examined by Mr. PoLvocx—l have re peatedly conversed with the plaintiff on surgical subjects, and conceive him a very intelligent surgeon. I heard Mr. Calloway'a account of the operation, and I think that it must have been difficult. I think that. Mr. Cooper performed it skilfully. But I have never seen that gentleman perform any operation.... I have repeatedly performed the operation ut lithotomy, and it varies in its circumstances more than any other; the use of a great number of instruments indicates the dif ficulty of the case. Cross-examined—l attended a meeting at the Free mason's Tavern, composed of the lecturers at several hospitals, and it was considered that we had all a common cause against the Lancet. —I paid part of the expences of the second application to the Court of Chancery, for an in junction to restrain the publication of Mr. Abernetlee Lec tures. I have subscribed to enable a man to set up an op sition journal to the Latieet, but since that I have known nothing of it. Re-examined—lt appeared to me to be a great grievance to have the lectures published, because they were published incorrectly, and brought great discredit on those whose lectures wvre published. Mr. Traverse—l have been in practice 20 years: and I have been in the profession since 1800 ; I have heard the evidence of Mr. Calloway, us to the operation, and I have heard of no circumstance which could impeach the skill of the operator. I think the operator is the best judge as to the instrument which ought to be used. The length of time is no criterion of the skill of the opera tor. lam acquainted with Mr. Cooper, and think that he is an ingecious and intelligent surgeon, and tit fir the situation he, Lolde as surgeon of Gay's Hospital. Thece are often cases of lithotomy which for a long time baffle the skill of the 1)t operator, and I conceive the ca , e in question to be 'une of that description. I have had conversations at Saint Thomas's Hospital on the subject of the Lancet. The surgeons met to upon the subject. I was not present at any differenc e of opinion between Mr Lambert and Mr. Cooper. 1 have remit the report in the Lancet, and I do not consider it to be fair or a professional account of the operation. Cross-exliminsd—l did not witness either the operation or the post rucutent exalt - lit - 460n. I have peilm mad the operation twice whe•. - e then! was no stone, although th e patient had preuiously all the symptoms, which ceasvti after the operation. He had the opinions of four other suigeons its to the exi4teuce of the complaint before he per forated the operation. Re-examined—lf I ha,d newr heard of the 'report I should, on it, blush for the person who h a d ma d e sucha report. Mr. Green was next examined—l am the nephew of the late Mr. Cline, and have been for eight years sur geon to St. Thomas's Hospital. I have often performed the operation of lithotomy, sod atn repiAted ,co ~be very successful. I witnessed one capital rApeAa,tiott by Mr 13ianSby Cooper, whiel; ht. pertormed admirably well The trpecatiko;l \yak tha; 41 tying the external iliac artery, tirr tkill, is somewh a t like puttitT a ligature on the sulnlAvian artety. Vrom Mr. Callowaye description of the ovrarion, 1 think it Wag skilfully conducted, and I should conceive it to have been a case of great difficulty ; the length of tune_ is of itself no 'criterion of the skill of the operator; the must skilful burgeon might have occupied the same time, and yet the result have been equally fatal. cross-examine!l—lt requires great imatomieal knowle4V v, tie the iliac artery. I was at the meeting a; hr. f"e7 masons' Tavern. Sou* res 9t apt time had been . r.tr,b!isll6. I cf:Yft V vUtetl to the expenses of the in- Ile,,xamined—Thelectures were incorrectly published' only one of them was free from misrepresentation. Dr. Babiugton was next ealle'd and examined by Mr., Pont.sex—l knew the plaintiff well, a n d had had - cue- Versatioos with hi,a upon anatomical subjects, with which, he seemed to,,be perfectly.acquainted. The b es t proof , of my covietionol,bis skill is that I h ave p!acpc.t A'attlkot Om under him as an sareili Art ; r , TCW . virivutiees to the surgeons of tlie`hospital have all their advantag e s in .common. It makes no difference what surgeo n th ey are placed under as to the knowledge they may have as opportun ity of ac• quit ing. Dr. Roget examined—l have had many opportunities of witnessing Mr. Cooper's practice, and I is a skilful andjudiciaus corB7t.D . a. l vtio r T 4rif t is report, and tb;..tsk that LO, W‘'4iVdNIVN4SIIt to have written such ti , trptlef. . Cross-examined—l Lave never witnessed Mr. perform a capital operation. Those on which I met him Were ones of minor ioportonee. . Mr. Morgan Nos next exiauined, and gave similar te.s , .timony as to Mr. Coopf.r's abilities. , • . , This witness was net cross-examined. Mr. Hilton examinen—l was a pupil at St. Thomas's, and I ant now assistant-demonstrator. I was at the post niortern examination, and told not reach the bladder with my finger.. •I slid not wit,. the operation. Sir A. Coopen-I was supcenaed by the defend,int,• and I heard the account - given by-Mr. Harrison of the educe-. tion of Mr. Branilw 'Cooper. • That account was per feetly correct. Mr. 13. Cooper had been•in my house, .and hod continued opportunities of witnessing my practice. He had opportunities of experience at Salamanca, Thou louse, and Vittoria, . and afterwards in Canada, I sub sequently took him as an apprentice, not conceiving that the species - of practice- he had witnessed, was the most , pro , per for an hospital. • The plan of placing Lim as surgeon of the hospital was not mine, but if I thought that lie was not fit for the situation, I should most certainly have opposed his appointment. In my practice I have often sent him as my substitute, which I should not have done if I did not think him competent. Mr. - Bransby Bumper When be first went to the Hospital, was a good anatomist, and a very goodlurgeon, but he wanted experience in hospital practice. Still a young man must not be crushed in the outset, - or the country will be • deprived of perhaps fist rate abilities. The difficulty in the present case was, that the stone was enveloped. in the folds of the bladder, which did not let go its hold of it until the man became very considerably ex hausted, and then it dropped, so that the straight for*ps. could catch it. With respect to time, it was not to be at • all considered as acritei ion of skill. .The stone was small, and it should be known, that it was the small stones which caused the difficulty, because they were often enfolded in the bladder. No man could be a judge of the opera tion, unless he had • performed it, and no, man . could judge of the individual case unless he ayas the performer. I have been 25 years_ in practice, and I have in one years - performed the operation of lithotomy 18 tiwea. should think it unkind to form an opinion of the skill dis played in a case without communicating . With the operation, for I should he loth to destroy the character of another matr, and Unwise, because that opinion; could sCareely. be correct. Cross examined by Mr. Wilkely.—Sir Astley, have you never said that a good surgeon ought ti. he like a good Ge neral, that he should wade up to the neck in blood ? • ' Have you nut said so in your lectuirs to your pupils?. Sir A CooPer.- - --Tdon't know,-I may have said so, lam sometimes fond of using strong expressions. I like, in short, to be understood. (Great laughter.) I think it one of the greatest evils that a man should be attacked in early lire ; and that he should be crushed, be cause he happened ro bare the misfortune, however capable he might be to practice in his profession. It is a power which 1 think the public press ought not to have. —(Laughter.) Mr. WAERLY.—Sir Astley, do you not think that the interests of the. public would be best consulted by having men of experience appointed as surgeons to the Hospitals, and nut to appoint them for the purpose of acquiring ex perience. _ _ Sir Astley.—l think that every hospital ought to have an Assistant-surgeon, who would thereby - he prepared for ale situation w hi c h h e wou ld subsequently hold. Mr. Wakely.--Was Mr. 13ransby Cooper an assistant before he became surgeon? Sir Astley Cooper.—No was not ; but I think it would be a good regulation to adopt in all of them. Mr. Wakely_What WAS the particular difficulty in this case? Sir A. Cooper—There was so little water in the bladder that this man must have made water immediately before the operation. If the bladder were full of water the stone would have been easily struck. Mr.Wakely.-..-What is the danger to be guarded against in the operation of lithotomy ? Sir Astley Cooper.—The chief danger to be guarded against is violatace.. Mr. Wakely—Supposing the stone to be felt, but en veloped in the folds of the bladder, would nut the more prudent course be, after having vainly tried for ten minutes to extract it,' to place the patient in his bad again ? Sir Astley Cooper.l should certainly think not, if the stone could he telt. - In that case the surgeon should per severe until he got away. Mr. Wakely—Nave you sot read Celsus, Sir Astley? —(Laughter.)—Sir Astley—l oave dippail- into Celsus, but I do not conrider Celsus as'a good surgical authority, although he is a classical one.—(Much laughter.) Mr. Wakely.—ls not the practice in Edinburgh and, Paris to r ut the patientt to bed in such cases as I base supposed? Sir Astley Cooper—l have studied in Edinburgh, and I have witnessed operations of 'kiloton.) , in Paris, but I never saw such a practice resorted to. Mr. Wakely—How long may the contraction of the bladder continue? Sir Astly—lt might last an hour. I will give you an example—ln went into the theatre at St. Thomas's Hospital, whom an, operetion of :fihotomy was being periormed by a gentleman who is now in Court. It was one of great difficulty. The stone wasenveloped in the folds of the bladder, so that the point of it only could be felt. After nearly the lapse of an hour, he passed the instrument be tween the atone and the bladder ; but,the contraction still contihued, • Mr. Wakely—:-What evil could result by placing the pa ient in bell until the contraction -was over? Sir Astley—Just this—What you would not like—You would have two okerations instead of one to perform.— (Laughter.) It the stone was tilt, tlt; surgeon ought to persevere. Mr. Wakely.—Why is it more difficult to introduce, the finger after death than before ? Sir Astly—lf you had ever put your finger into the blad der of a living subject you would know the diffirent. By putting your finger into the bladder of the dead subject, you would have known as much of the difficulty of this case as you now do of what is passing in the moon.— (Much laughter.) Br-examined by SI: J. Scaat.zrr.—My nephew was a surgeon in the army, and he was my demonstrator of ana tomy. He gave great satistac►tion to me ; and the students were so gratified with ehe clearness of his lecture: tbat they felt pleased than a man who hd so easy a method of communicating knowledge rhould be placed in a situ atiod where he world have the means of conveying it. Mr. Dalrymple, the surgeon of the Norwich Hospital deposed to the celebrity of that Hospital for its operations in lithotomy, and be had himself performed the operation not less than seventy-six times. Had heard Mr. Celloway's description of the operation, and sow from that description no indication of want of skill on the part of the operator. Has often had similar difficulties, and has always a number of instruments than those that were mentioned us employed by Mr. Cooper. Believes Mr. Cooper well qualified to fill the situation of hospital surgeon. Had himself the naktbrtune to have a case where the stone was so large that it could not be removed, and in three hours the pa tient died. :o Cross-examined---In that (lase the stone weighed over fourteen ounces. Alin: Watson examined—l am Secretary to the Court of Examiners of the Apothecaries' Company ; the young man, Clapham, did come to be examined, in order to ob tain his certificate. Mr. Wakely rose to reply when we went to press, the Case will not be over before ten o'clock. THIRD EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Eleven o'clock Continuation of the evidence of 111 r. Watson.—! have an affidavit of John Claphan, to the effect that. he was 21 years of age on the 21st of April, 1828. This affidavit was necessary, in order that he should get his li cense to be examinell. This affidavit was sworn at a Po-. lice-office in Middlesex. I don't know that Mr. lA.lbert did more than give a certificate of the ;;;.-4:,ral character of . Claphan. Sir JA : A A r. i SvAßlErf—That is my case. • After a short pause Mr. Wakely proceeded to reply. He said that at the cominencem,ent of the case yesterday the learned gentlemen opposed to him expressed some appre hension lest by the breaking down of the defendant's wit nesses, the opportunity. would not be afforded of bringing forward the host of evidence to the great and extraoo 4g y skill of Mr. hransby Cooper. The cign,tl;:mau was then told that he might inaV , easy on th a t bead, the result jus ‘ tii;mte.ke ;lea:ration of th e d e f en d ant, his wituesa:4tl44, r‘dtie,raen down, and not a ch arge ! nought likAtiul against Mr. Cooper h a d b een answere d . A verdict must therefore be given for the defendant. Aft er re f err i ng to the origin and progress o f th e L aucet, the dv fentlant declared that the. proceedings ,of that day Wad the most peculir that ever took place. would - have supposed from' the parade w4l , e , ,b 1 0% 1 " • ease was heralded, shat the relert Faucetteas a fa bricatio4— the :3c..41 9,ivaticda ever wa s performed — %,0 itli,ckg . V!ct foundation fl•om b eg i n ning to end , ex 41',1At In the malevolent mind of the defendant. One of the witneeses for the plaintiff admitted that there were 20 , spectators, and yet with a ll t h e i n fl uence o f Mr. 8. - , he was only able to produce one VA:ltaft' but the charge roads ' ki so - v a initti% e ill t s 4V • Sought • LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER )3, 1828, We perceive by an advertisement,in our front page, that the Friends of Civil and Religious Liberty, connected with the County of Kent, are to have a Public Dinner at Maidstone on Monday, the 22d inst.—that patriotic Nobleman, Lord DA RNL EY, in the Chair. The list of Stewards contains a number of Noblemen and Gentlemen, embracing several Members of Parlia►neht, all on the side of liberality and justice. The object of the meeting is highly praise worthy, as will be seen by reference to the Advertisement. We regret that want of space prevents our doing more than calling public at tention to this very meritorious meeting. The Kent Liberal Protestant Petition to both Houses of Parliament, praying for such effectual and speedy relief to his Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects as the deliberative wisdom of Parlia ment may afford, is now lying for the Signatures of Freeholders only at the King's I lead Tavern, Poultry. The Allgemeine Zeitung of the 6th inst. contains the following respecting Greece, and the natural reluctance of the SULTAN to send Ambassadors to confer with those who insist as a preliminary that he should resign his sove reignty over Greece. Bur, however unpalatable that measure may appear, it must be submitted SMYRNA, OCT. 25. The Courier de Sotyrne has the following letter from Syra, 13th October : —The question of the frontiers of Greece seems exclusively to engage the attention of the Athbassadors at Poros, and yet they do not seem to have come to any positive decision on this important point. The French Ambassador seems. sensible of the necessity of ex tendingt to coili .N cr e.v th ( e ;i l e il e i c e e be h t e % y ve o en nd t t h h e e C l;t i l t i .s m o u f s, Ar a t n a d ::d is su y p o p i o ii se a d s recognised. therefore . the most suitable boundary. The Engli s h A m b assador has not yet deClared himself; but the expediti on t o P rev e sa :v . : s ah u n t s t i d w e r d ta i k n eu fa w et i : hiswith b k e knowledge, it:ideges,,, sequel. i n , e d l i . td duly yus ec be presumed that lie consents that this boundary shall be The Russian Ambassadoris wholly s ile nt, we do not know whether from prudence o r indifference. 'Meantime the Ambassadors are collecti ng statistical information. A prodigious mas s o f t a bl es an d calculations lies on the table of the C ongress at P or O s. Within these f ew days they have, at " l eng th, laid Before the President eight and-twenty q ues ti ons , respecting which t h ey requ i re'' information, and w hile t hi s le collecting t h e y m ean to make littl e e x curs i ons f or their recreation. Wudo justice to the indef a ti ga bl e act i vity of the Am b assa d o rs, but ob serve that indent:ll4y ;a Printed On the co untenances of all the Greeks.. lire general o pinion is pa rticularl y ex -I,,t*.ed in a memorial that has been *ecroly circulated heaa for same days p as t, an d is sdd to have hceo written by a respectable E cclesiastic. The main argument of the writ*r is, th a t th e Christi , " little regard to its old Anthipsadors to fettle the affairs . q,f, Q.E.etF , pay too a,n o Ne Ot to a be expected that the Alotq. bilP l o` l l . 6 1 11. distant country, W t!,i C. l i l 'i . 64Cirti:12%h'''Iajet4f d ispute, to who. VI the .- . ca p i t a l a year . ago attend ambassa:do , :4. i . ap,d refuse to return when he invites Nv,it\ o, lX )4 ()11se' r, - ;" • dpian negotiate with an Ambassador nuswi..p.,owkri.,, 4sitils.ein;odtivimittheci4: nrative of a nation which Is to derive its o fi r : 11 p0 4 t l v lu er w „ c .l 'l ,i n ,.l 2 , -- sen s s large armies against his conntry from the result of the 'lli i ioeiatiask? Must WC not acknowledge that a represol4l,7 e ~t the Sultan could hit possibly be fuN .. .,li i is, with full . rs ii , + every new question r*,,iotr` e d r en j et : i t necetwar, po% e , for him to apply V) . A ist 6,,weetAgtt for, fre s h • • . Instrue t.ions, by vch* 4iirleiii ' delay would' be o ccas i one d . r'ke w.tixtb. thinks that the Ambassador ought to o r i• ol t i v ti i ,a t . lt i the i t s ..; t p i r w e.: A '''"i h I l I if • f - 14(4 1° the captta ,aste on y p revsc ere tle a ales G.. r'' - • '' t k y v ilop en tg .t. he soon advantageouslygulated, VIENNA, Dec. I.—Nl eqo lt v.' .. / , eft. 96,, ; Bank Sharei, 1096, Ar i cmr,i,van Papers to a late date b,axe beenre ceived. The general. impression, seems to be, that JACKSON will be elected President. ix-% career." tracts will be found in another column. The fol lowing %%ill show that some of the Americans are N‘ishing, or at least throwing out hints, that the term of the President's duration in of should l;e extended from four to six, or even eight years. The next step, we presume, will be a perpetual Dictator, and General JACKSON seems to be a :man nowise disinclined . to avail himself of the honour : . . (From the Philadelphia National Gazette of Nov. The New York American of yesterday nominates Judge Smith as the successor of General Jackson, preferring him to Governor Van I3urtn. The stone Paper dwells upon the propriety of so stoeroliog the Ccderal Constitution, that the term of the Pret,ident of the United States shalt be eight or six years, withont re-eligibility. we believe the public opinion to be favourahl e to such an atnerid went. Six years would be snore agree Ale to the spirit of our institutions than eight.. (Front a Paper of the 20th Nov.) The Vnited States ship hornet arrived here last evening from a cruise, h oni Pensacola. She has retoined here in consequence of having the yellow fever on bored, which, it appears, nothing hut frost will eradicate front the ship. Mauritius Papers to the 31st August have, been received at the North and South American Coffee-house. They (-Ordain little worth extract ing. A Paper of the 30th contains the answer of Sir LOWRY COLE, to the address.of the in habitants on his leaving the Colony, in which he says,. " it is highly satisfactory to me to have been succeeded in this GovernMent by an old friend and fellow soldier sincerely trust that his Civil Administration of this, Colony may be asdistinguis,hedas has been'his military SHIPPING INT E LLIGENCE--(PH!SpA Y.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAT, DFC.•l2.—Wind the , Cameron's Rod, from Ho ; Wan Cromlie, flout icerit Leohe ; Jane and Elizabeth, from Meesin,; Arrived from London. the Waterloo; Davis, fin- .Nstinitt ;' Martha', Jana ,on, fur :India. Pr.Y! ouru, DEC.. 11.-.—Wind W. F. W.— In ived - ti e Lalla, Warre, from and tht. Ctutherk, from Bahia, with sails split; 'and' Other trivial damage. FALMOUTH, Drcil has blown a strong gale all hat night from the S.W. mad continued till this morning, when theAvitol veered to the W. The ships all ride well. Arrilied tilos Naury,.MArquand, horn Cette. MARGATE, DEC. IQ.—Arrived the Lady Goderich, Wilson, from Demerara. Cowes, DEC. Ht.—Arrived the Hottentot, Weiss, front the 111nuritiva , sailed 4th Sept. . Jeescv, D FC• O. —Arriveel the Fanny, Voass, frrm Oporto, bound to London, assisted in by pilots. A verAel, supposed to be the.. . Vigilant of Peterhead, Christie, froth ()porta, was totally yrreekrd riddle Galley brad near 13.thituore, Ireland, ora Sunday. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TwaLr4 &ow: We scarcely rocolieet 83 completall'it,:t stagnaticm in business generally a.s at present exists in the City. Con soli, which in the latter part of yesterday were flat and declined to 87, sellers, left of buyers, and opened this morn ing at the same price. The only alteration since is that of their being 87i, buyers, their present price. Eiehequer Bills, 61 3 ; and India, Wads, 62 4 pm. Nothing worthy of notice in the Foreign Funds ; prices nearly nominal, exhibiting, however, symptoms of decline. In Shares Brazilian tunes have returned to their former premium of 40 .2. Three per • Cent. Consuls, shut; - big°, for Ac . ; Three per Cent, Ileduced, 86 ; India Stock, shut ; India Bonds, 62 4 pm. ; Bank St oc k, 209 210 ; Exchequer BilLs, 61 3 pm. frokEIGN.-Brazilian, .631 ; Buenos . Ayres, 48 k ; atilian, £6l- 71 Cal um bi an , 22k 3 ; Danish, 62 : 1 I, Greek, 17 1 ; Alrxkan, Five per Cent., 251 6 ; Ditt n , Six per Cent., 32 1; Pi•ritvian, 181 191 ; Portuguese SS,- 53i-; Russian, 95 ; Sp an i s h, 1 0 k , Miters.—Anklo Mexican, 771 b di a . ; Brazili an , 40 2 ; Bolanos, 100 110 pm. ; Colombian, 11 13 dim.; n ee d Del Monte, 150 160 per sliaru; United Mexican, 232 die. TWO O'CLOCK • Console' are alternately buyers and sellers at 81, are now the former, after being strong THREE 0' CL 0 CE. Consols for Account, 87 i; FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Consols Danish 621 Do. for Ac. 87i Greek, 18 . 25 Brazilian Bonds Mexican, 1825 -- Buenos Ayres Peruvian Chihli Do. Russian 951 Colunihian, 1824 221 I Spanish HiS Majesty will hold a Court on Monday next at Windsor Castle. • WINDSOR, DEC. 12.—The King has not ~ heel out of the Castle since taking up his residence -there on Tuesday last, his leisure hours from public Lusioese being chiefly occupied inspecting and directing the ar lrasantg:loll::tiro.f jetffheoll'uwrulytintrtev,iiipaintings, architect, ,b,._. . 1 ; viletii Majestytl continile4 to enjoy excellent health. On Tuesda y evenine tKheingG o ti:ee ern iu tn 4 e ste t k ffi 'l c s os c , 3f s o Castle, his Majesty was most graciously pleased to confer on him the honour of Knightho o d . Messengers eontintie to arrive and dep art almost d aily, with despatches front m a j es ty's time id filileti Occupied. Yesterday evening the King, iu order to provu the effective soffit! of ; from the inn!,...c new Music Room, or. de" hie private baud to attend. 'flail King, with his i t i h is a . t :: of aPartnients in the distinguished attendants, ding in a small mom, adjoining. great att e ntion to the nimbi,: tll:olaeoymeddl:uvbniellso-fv:fu:nrgendi'wetria:i.dsthoril spoil,l e(.l oinfraoni greattle sound uiea,u zt o , f t t l it i : interesting and delightful etrieet of the niusi‘:. Th e Bishop of Lincoln, the Eaa oi l' Aber dress, Viscount Beresford, Mr. Secretary Peel, and Sir G eorge Cockburn, had interviews with the Duke of NI el lington yesterday, at the Treasury, Despatches were brought by an Itllian High Commissioner 'of the lor.:nalt for Sit mes senger yesterday eveuir.g.- fur the Earl of Aberdeen, from, the Right Hon. Stratford Canning. Despatches were also brought, by the same messenger, from Sir Frederick kl ut p t The Prussian . Ministor had an intervie* yes terday with the Earl a Abotown, at the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Mai n , otheeoLrgo:dmurray. Cower,Ti DL:ktie;vfuley, Nttfolkia -- st week eiTtertained a the !ton. Mr. Lamb, shooting Nay at h4l scat at Fornham, consisting of Earl and other gentlomea i The sport at the Hyde en .t_k a turdey WCJ'a as follows •-...-439 brace of pheasants, !,,ase of bares, 1* raidAU, and 1 woodcock A batiso also took P l ate' at Benyon de Beauvoir's, Culford Hall, on Thursday, at which 191 head of game woe. killed. - The petition a tou, against f urt h er conceasione to the Roman has already 5,000, signatures attached to it.—Exeter t F p a w gre-ed to ma the s th tilt. at New- i,, 9 Catholics, r. • 'NORM) S H ARK OR DOG FISH: ZQUALUS SAII2E, L.—A small specimen of this lish, weighing 5+ lbs. and in Icngtb, 34 inches, was eaweit in Denton ',ohne c a m ov j.) 3 :0, near Caldew-bridge, Carlisle, on mr e d am d a y Lot, by a boy who observed it struggling in a b l u di a q pooh This. fish is easily distinguished from the 4to -a tha British Unake, by having a strong sharp spine placed before mil of the back fiat BOY TORN BY A LIONESR.—On Saturday last, during the exhibition of Morgan's Itlenagerie, at Mal ton, a little boy indulged in some familiarities with the roness,, which she hnimal not approving of, struck hisn some sortie blows with. hu paws, and thereby oxc.it‘r/ eunsideaaihle.alarti t fot kis safety. •We are happy to learn that Le w.a.s inonetliately extricate 1. He was soru.ca the head ar.4l face, and presented a frightful. peet.icle, hut a reetiveriug state.—Bull Advertiser. , very where in the proper 'place for witnesses, he had surgeons from St. Thomas's Hospital, he had Sir Astley Cooper, from Conduit.street, and it svit.s to be won dered that the Emperor of Morrocco was net also thrust . into the box.—With reference to the influence which Sir Astley Cooper had in the appointment of surgeons to Guy's Hospital,. lie put it the Jury whether tilt. Astley was entitled to recommend any na...n to tlw care of patients as he had done. his own nephew in this instance. This- Hospital belonged not to the Directors, but to the poor, for whose use public funds had been granted. Mr. Calloway was elected an Assistant Surgeon, and Sir Astley Cooper consultiog on the - saw day that Mr. Bransby Cooper was appointed ti, the situation of Surgeon. It was a saying of John Hunter, that bad sue genus made work for good ones ; and that good surgeons would starve but fir the bad ones, Perhaps it was reference to the aperations of Mr. B.. Cooper that these two supernume rarica have been appointed. The defendant here became so much exhausted that be retired from the Court for a-few minutes. Ott his return, he observed twain upon the übsente of witnesses in reply to the charge who had been present at the operation. Leaving out of consideration the technicalities of pleadiug, • the defendant thought himself entitled to a verdict, if the report were substantially correct. Could it he pretended that Mr. Cooper was a skilful surgeon when lie was unable • to explain the• causes of the difficulty that presented iteelt ? Could he be said to have presence of mind when, whilst be was plunging his instrnments into the unfortunate patient, he openly declared that he could not find the reason fin not being able to extract the stone. - • The poor man re peatedly called on them and implored them to loose him— He knew the torture of his complaint, he felt the torture which he was then undergoing, still he cried to be let " No,". said Mr. Bransby Cooper, " my reputation is COU cerned—l must take out :the stone, evan though you should die." lie did die, The defendant most solemnly protested to God that he had ne ill will towards Mr. Cooper, he believed bins to be a most amiable private cha racter, but as a surgeon, as a surgeon of a public hospital, as a public functionary, he denounced him to be ignorant and incompetent. Let' the Jury weigh well the evidence, and if they felt that they, if !afflicted in a similar way, would not suffer Ah. Bransby Cooper to operate on them, then they must -find their verdict for the defendant. At the conclusion of the defendaut's address, which-was delivered with great animation and effect, he was applauded by a large number of persons in the remote part of the Court. This ebullition of feelirg was checked by a very decided intermation from Lord Tenterden that he would commit the patties to custody, if they persevered in it. The conclusion of Mr. Wakely's speech came rather un expectedly upon the audience, as at the close of a very animated sentence, which, from his loud to and runeati.i promised to he the precursor of a very impassioned climax, he abruptly exclaimed, raising his hands above his bead, " I AM DONE, GENTLEMEN." Hie LORDSHIP thou proceeded to sum up the eviolence. The Jury after two hours deliberation, returned, at a quarter to a eleven, with a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages 1001. PRICKS or: STOCKS THl,s DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ILIDIc S tuck - :Ivo' Cent. N 6.1. - p 3 or Cent ; Cow shut iNcw Ditto 'P..", per Ce.t - iLii. MN*, ..t 1,4:00 'M. 62 61 pee. Dim.) not & per Cent. !alto, 1: kri l6l. IA ; Ditto Commercial li ,clt. 1.. Auu. 14 5-16 7-16 140.: tbr Account - 1.14.1 Li Stick ' stint !mita for Account - t.bittco ikaltLiti4 65 63 at ft 2 pm. Cow. for Acct B7 4 TO CORRESPONDENTS. Civic" of Bristol seemsiostandi; his Own ahadow. The paragraph alluded to was copied from a country paper. When Civic Next attempts to sport his wit, let it be at his own expence, otherwise his, paper economy will look " exceedingly silly." e 3 ••••. 4