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T HE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS apdCOM MISSIONERS of HIS 21L-IJESTI ^ S NAVY do hereby give Nutter, that on IrEDNESDAY, the 27th In vont, at One o'Cloch, they will be ready to treat with suck P e'unY as may be willing to Contract for supplying his Afajesty's Yards at Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheer 'le", Portsmouth, and Plymouth, with [From the Cork Advertiser, March 12.] EXTRACTS FROM THE D %MY MORNING PAPERS, March 16, 1822. quest, rxends, al near hields, g out; Stella, .s rquess el, for y and ! some !, for tilico ; !tar.— IS ac- being 1 sails nearly, , at,4 on Lady ands; .wills n:ils; East taken %Tes- reit, We ivel s by sting nte— the 111 i - mis re of the bets the .d--- 1. to n de r ,1 of a to lect- the ig to nsa by eine. date This Lion, have ouch that re in tit of ; im out orts, lade, DDS. onto. to the id tall eration only 3,1 and morn various Mon- 5s 2d 3s 10d == aitland, ornhill, ' Ccok- , Mrs• Tavern, :tied by le SUN. BRAZIERS' and FOUNDERS' GOODS. Form of the Tender may be seen at this Office. No Tende r will be received after One o'Clock, im the day of T reaty, nor any noticed, unless the party, or an ‘lgent for 4114 , attends. Every Tender smrst be accompanied .hy a Letter ad dressed to the Navy Board, and signed by two responsible Persons, engaging to become bound with the Person tender t''s', in the Sum of 10001. for the due performance of the Cottroct. PrNIS is to give notice, that in Pursuance of Directions from the COMMISSIONERS for VIC ,IIALLING HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY, I shall be ready at t his Place, on TUESDAY, the 26th inst., to receive Tenders writing sealed ( up), from such Persons as will undertake to n urcba se the HIDES, (except what may be wanted for the Yards), and FAT that may be produced from the Oxen 'iaught ere d for the service nf His Majesty's Victualling De -71-talents at Chatham and Portsmouth, front the Ist day of PTI'S next ensuing, until the iOth day of June following. f Tenders to contain prices, expressed in words at length 4 1 : each article, and to be made separate f each port.— ' same to be paid for at the end of each mo nth. WILLIAM MELLISH. S tiadwell-Dock, March 12, 1892. This Day was published. REPORT of a REHEARSAL of an HUN s„'TERI.A.N ORATION, at the ROYAL COLLEGE of 'CRGEONS, read tO COMMITTEE Of UNDERTAKERS, Y WILLIAM WOEFUL, of Fleet-market, with the Curate °I Black Fryars at his Elbow, &c. s Now, u n derstanding that the Curate, and your swett oflare god at such eruptions, and sudden breakig out mirth (a s o it were), I have acquainted you withal, n to the end to Crave your assistance." SHAKESPEARE. London : Published by C. G. Dyer, Compton-street, Soho, and sold by all the Booksellers. TIMPROVEMENTS IN SAIL-CLOTH._ HE PROPRIETORS of the ANTI MILDEW PROCESS have to announce the follow ing additional Testimonial : Messrs. BROWELL and Co. Feb. 14, 1822. I have the satisfaction ta inform von I have had a fore-top m'ast's stay-sail made of unbleached canras. prepared by yon, ;HI hoard the Latona, from London to Shields, during the last four months, in which experienced very , heavy gales (q Wind, the sail being wet and dry,•and often confined in the net, and has no appearance of Mildew. _ JAMES. PATERSON. This is to certify, that the above sail was made by us of Crowell and Co.'s prepared canras, and that we have this day IXarnined. it, and it has no appearance of Mildew. WALKER and HENWOOD, Feb. 14, 1822. Sail-Makers, Limehouse Hole. The Process is equally applicable to the whitest and dearest well as to the brownest and cheapest Canvas. It does not 'Tt the least diminish The strength, but improves the Colour Fed softness of textnre in all. It is effected a few days, for 10 1% (, , Shillings per Bolt, and is returned, when sent to them, t , parts of the town wit hout expense, the same breadth ' , 11, 1 length as when eceivel. A red Crown and B, or the I T H. ds " Anti-Mildew," are marked in various places to skew s L it the Bolt has undergone 'trowel) and Co.'s Process.- 40-Cloth of rations gnalities, which have undergone the r i" e ", may be had at the following houses, viz. Messrs. c oliners an d G ut h r i e, 9, Idol-lane ; George Brown, 53, Ratcliff; Peter Walker and Co. 310, and J. 1,,15e a , . 976, Wapping; and Walker and Henwood, Lime ° Hole. WIDOW \VELCII'S FEMALE PIL L S hare obtained the sanction and approbation of Gen- Is l i e e r4 !n of the Medical Profession, as a safe and valuabl e i n d'cine, in removing obstruethins, and relieving other tL u veniences to which the female frame is liable, especially w s e which at an early period ot life frequently arise from er 4 :,! of exercise, and general debility of the sys . tem. They el 7ie au appetite, correct indigestion, remove gieldiness and head ache, and are eminently useful in windy dis 14ties,•pains in . the stomach, shortness of breath, and palpi p" of the ar e, stomach, are requested to remark, that, as a testimony of 0 4 . 1 , h enticity, each Bill of Directions, is signed with the 4-4 e of jAy eca • ./ N i 4 writing Sold wholesale and-Retail, in London, by Wright, 4 6. Fleet-str ee t ; B arc l a y and So ns ', Fleet Market ; New -0;1')'. and Sons, St. Paul's Church Yard ; Sutton and, Co. Bow st'Lltch Yard ; Sanger ? 350, Oxford-street. opposite Bond- Evans and Son, Long Lane, Smithfield ; Johnston, ~,e ek - s trect,Butler and Sons, Cheapside; Godfrey 4t .9 Windus, Bishopsgate-street : and by all Country Venders, :s•Pd per Box. it is necessary to inform the pnblic that KBARSLEY'S 4,,the only original * and genuine Medicine, and has been pre red by them f o r mor e than thirty years. I) READFUL ACCIDENT, from the bursting of Ga someter.—About four o'clock yesterday after ,°.°n, one of the gasometers in Friars-street burst .th a dreadful explosion. Here is the reser t°4 for supplying Blackfriars-road and the ad eent streets with gas, and the gasometer that t tl rst was quite new, and at the time it burst t' s tained about 'l6O tons o f wa t er . Th e acci ent, it is supposed, happened from the gasome- I f' . bein g t oo muc h c h arge d w i t h gas. Wil -1441 Morgan, an engineer, was thrown from the 7soeneter full 10 yards over the wall of Mr. An tirews's pre m i ses i n G reen - s t ree t, an d kill e d on h 'e spot. Th e d amage d one to t h e neighbour °°d is very cons id era bl e, an d a great many per sons a ( hav e b een severe l y h urt . M r . R oper ' s , bon e boiler) premises are completely destroyed, 11 4 he narrowly escaped %sith his life ; he is much b li rt• Several houses and other manufactories have seen much injured. But the most afflicting erne of all, is th e ca l am it y su ff ere d b y M rs a rke, whose husband was on 'Wednesday last Wed to death, by losing his hold, and falling 4h t o a ca u ld ron o f b o ili ng water, in Green-street, 1t :" 1 Whose body lies at Gu:-'s Hospital for in tkiThent. The power of the water was such, on 1;B bursting of the gasometer, that it completely 43 bed away Mrs. Clarke's house, and a little in arms was dreadfully hurt, and carried 17 4 y by the force of the water near 50 yards 'Qin whence the house stood. On Saturday night, or rather towards Sunday morning, a large party of Insurgents, well armed, visited se veral houses in the neighbourhood of Blarney and Inniscarrs, and made the inhabitants swear that they had no arms; but they obtained money from several, and prescribed places in which it should be left for them by others. They also admi. nistered oaths against tithes, rent, and taxes. Although we have not been able to ascertain the names of all those whose houses were visited, yet the following are amongst the num ber.—Two farmers, named Hayes and Hagarty, near Mar nep ; Dynan, a mason; and a farmer named Coleman, who lives at Cloughphilip. The insurgents were extremely enra ged on finding that some of the above persons had delivered their arms to the Magistrates on the preceding day. They said, that those to whom they had so unsuccessfully applied for arms, should suffer for their obedience to the taws. This day a party of soldiers, under the command of a ser jeant, escorted some prisoners from Fermoy to this city. One of them is a female—some of them are charged under the Insurrection Act—others for illicit distillation. This morning James Burdon, John Burdon, and Jeremiah Connor, were committed to the County Gaol, by Samuel Pen rose, Esq., charged with having arms in their possession, which they concealed. We understand that an account has been received here this day from Limerick, stating that the Stewa . rd of a Mr. Burke, of that County, was murdered, and two of his daughters vio lated In coniequence of information received, Capt. White pro ceeded to Merchant's-quay, on Saturday, and took from on board the Packet about to sail for Bristol, four of the pas sengers, countrymen, which he afterwards . lodged in the Bridewell. During the last week, several farmers have been visited by night, and sums of money demanded from them, in the neighbourhood of Ballinhassig, and where the sums required happened not to be convenient, the inmates were sworn to send them to certain houses appointed for the purpose, The house Which these nocturnal depredators select for the mo ney to be deposited in, is always one where the occupier is either in an infirm state of health, or at such an advanced peflod of life as to prevent the suspicion of his being of the patty. PRESENTATION OF THE FREEDOM OF THIS CITY TO THE LORD LIEUTENANT. His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant's Answer, delivcred to Sir N. C. Colthurst, Batt M.P. for the City of Cork, on being presented by him with the Freedom of the City. WELLEsLEv—I accept the hondur, which you are pleased to confer upon me, with a high sense of its importance. To be enrolled on the Panel of Freemen of so distinguished a City must always prove creditable to me, arid the motives which you assign for this tt♦ark of your favour greatly-enhance its value in my estimation. My gratitude is due to you for the kinaness of your expressions, sand you may be assured of :my continual anxiety to justify your confidence by a diligent attention to my puhlic duty. (From the Limerick News of Monday.) Fifteen men were convicted at the Special Sessions of Rat h keale, and dispatched from thence to the convict ship .at . Cork. No disposition has been yet manifested to give up 'arms. One of the convicts, named David Donovan, while being conveyed away on a car front the Sessions-house, took off• his hat, cheered, and exclaimed, " Boys, do not give' up a gun !" POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MURDER OF AIRS. DONATTY. HATTON GA RDEN.—Yesterday several witnesses were exa mined: Their testimony went chiefly to skew that the decea sed often expressed great apprehensions that she should be murdered by some of the relations of her late husband, who would come into possession of her property on her decease. In consequence of this statement, David Dunatty, the bro ther of the deceased's husband, wets brought up and exa mined: He is of short stature, about 45 years of age, and resides-in Petticoat-lane. He is well known about the Royal Exchange, and gets his living by hawking pencils'and quills. He bad been transported, and some time ago suffered im prisonment on a charge of threatening to murder the deceased. It was further stated that at another time, when the deceased kept a house in Acton-street. Gray's. Inn-lane, she was alarm ed, in the dead of the night, by a noise as if some person was endeavouring to break into the house. She instantly got out of bed, and on looking out of the window she saw a man in the area at the kitchen window. The deceased took a blunder buss which she constantly kept loaded for her protectiOn, and discharged it at theman,upon which he ascended the area steps, and was about escaping, when she fired a pistol at him, but. whether or not he was injured Was never known. The neigh bourhood was in consequence thrown into alarm, and the watchmen searched the house all over, but no person was found therein. After the confusion had ceased the deceased retired to bed, and in the morning early, on the maid-servant opening the yard door, she perceived the shadow of a man in the privy. She was dreadfully alarmed, and shrunk bark, upon which David I)onatty (the man above alluded to) came out of the Privy, saying to the girl, " Don't be alarmed, its me; I have been very ill with a pain in my bowels." How lie Came there was never known, as he had not been seen at the house for a week before. From these extraordinary circnm stances the Magistrate ordered him to be brought in, and he was examined at considerable length. He admitted having been transported, and having been taken on a peace-warrant at the suit of the deceased ; but declarer! he never threatened her life, but that she bad dreamt. he canoe to murder her ► and upon that visionary dream he was apprehended. The Magistrate said he could not place the least credit on the latter part of his account, as no Police Magistrate would grant a warrant against an individual fur an offence which the person who applied had merely dreamed of. It being now nearly four 'o'clock, th 4 investigation was adjourned, and David Dunatty was ordered to be kept in custody. A private Letter from Paris says, the Chapels at night resemble a theatrical 0. P. row in Lon don. When the Missionaries begin to chaunt a psalm, the congregation rise up, waving their hats, and interrupt the service by singing lewd songs, accompanied by every kind of horrible noises. Last year, about this time, a woman of nearly fifty years of age, residing at Burnside of Callow, parish of Cortahhy, fell into a sleep, which con. tinued without. interruption during two weeks. She again relapsed into that state on Tuesday se'nuight, and continued in a pleasant slumber four days and five nights. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The figure which Ministers cut in the discus sion on .Maberly's Motion respecting the Public Accounts was sorry enough in all con science. Here are men triumphing in the most extravagant manner, when they think they have caught any Member in an error, however trivial ; respecting their accounts ; and Mr. Maberly comes forward, and forces them to confess that the whole mass of them is one tissue of error and inaccuracy, —that no two statements of any one branch of income or expenditure agree with each other—and tinitno mat can possibly tell whether the money entrusted to them has or has not been fairly appropriated. Mr. Croker can collect to gether a parcel of tawdry figures of speech upon occasion, in order first to confuse a very plain matter, and then charge that confusion on his op ponent ; but. in this way only can he be of any use to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. There is not, it would appear, sufficient knowledge among them to devise a plan for keeping the accounts in an intelligible manner. Year after year they have been lost in the perplexity created by their own ignorance and unskil fulness; and when all their shifts and sub terfuges are unavailing to prevent an expo sure, they throw themselves on the mercy of some of the Gentlemen in the House acquainted with business, in order to be taught by them the proper manner of discharging their duty. Surely this will teach them to affect a little modesty hereafter, if they have none. We have had the good fortune to obtai❑ a copy of the letter from Mr. Arbuthnot, alluded to by Lord John Russell, from a Gentleman to whom it was addressed, and who was residing in the country at the time he received it. It has been stated to us, at the same time, that shnilar letters were only sent to Members of Parlia ment then in the country, in the habit of voting with Ministers. The following is the copy•in question : • (Pluswrr..) • Downing-street, WI March, 1822. rlv DEAR Wednesday next, the 13th instant, a motion is to be made by Lord Normatiby, to abolish the office of one of the Postmasters-General, and on the 14th, the day following. Mr. Creevey makes a similar'motion against the Board of Controul. In this manner the just and necessary influence of the Crown is fron d day to day attacked ; and as of her Motiuns of • a similar •Aature are to be made by Lord Althorp, &c. it will be quite impossible for any set of men to conduct Ihe Government of this Country, Unless practices of this kind shall be successfitlly reisted. • It seems as if the Opposititin, in despair of coming into Ohiice, had determined - rttlsreakttown the means of- admini stering the Affairs of tlie Cotintry ; and as this subject is be come most se: ions, I hate no scruple in apprising you of what is now. passing, with the hope and expectation that you will think it necessary to attend,:and thus to lend your aid in stemming the torrent of such dangerous innovation. four's, most sincerely, C. ARBUTHNOT. rNEW TIMES.] After the season of clamour comes the season of reflection ; and fortunately, in our country, the latter is usually more permanent in - its operation than the former. Solid fact is at length elicited from the mass of misrepresentation; and good sense is sure to prevail in the end. These re marks are strongly illustrated by a paper laid last week before Parliament ; and proving that the amount of taxes repealed since the termina tion of the war, after deducting- the amount of those imposed, is little short of Seventeen Mil lions per annum !! So extraordinary a fact—a fact utterly beyond all parallel in the financial' history of the most prosperous nations, deserves to be brought distinctly under the consideration of every individual, who is capable of reflection on such a subject ; we therefore lay it, with pleasure, before our readers, as follows : Ptoperty-Tax L 1.1,267,957 Malt Duty, England and Ireland 2 912,571 Customs, Exports, Goods coastwi , e, and Tonnage 1,105,675 Assessed Taxes, Husbandry Horses Windows, &c. Ireland . . . Add the Tax on Husbandry Horses, which was rt.- pealed in 1821, and which had produced in the year ended sth April, !Mt Add also, the Is. Duty on Malt now prippused to be taken off I 400,000 L. 90,677,691 Deduct Duties imputed, viz. Excise Duties on Soap, per Act 56 Geo. 111 292,365 Custom Duties, pc: sundr3• Acts 56 Geo. 111. on Butter, Cbeese, Rape and Cole Seed, &c. . . . 78,365 Increase of Custom Duties . , per Act 59 Geo. 111. Cap. 5'2 500 OOO Cus!orns Duties, per do. Cap. 83 22 ► 743 Excise Duties, do. Cap. 52 . • du. Ireland, do. Caps. 72 and 87 L. 3,855,885 Amount of Taxes repeated since the termination of the War, after deducting the amount of those im posed I. 16,791,806 Two or three points seem perfectly clear,upon the simple inspection 'of this estimate :—First, the taxation of the country was seventeen mil lions heavier than it now is, when agriculture was highly flourishing. Secondly, the distress now complained of has been increased as the taxes have been diminished. To infer from these pre mises, that taxation is the sole, or even the prin cipal cause of the distress, certainly requires an intellect of a very peculiar configuration. Again, the remission of a direct tax of ten per cent. on the landlord's income, and half as much on the tenant's, forming together fifteen per cent. on the agricultural interest, was of no avail whatever to save them from distress ; and yet they are taught to expect a miraculous recovery, by the reduc tion of certain indirect taxes, which do not amount at the utmost to two and a half per cent. ! Tun TUVI ZS.) The issue of Air. Creevey's motion, NN ith re spect to the Board of Control, djd not surprise us; but we may hence take occasion to comment upon some of the general topics which were in troduced. Complaints are uttered every day that sordid motives are imputed to public men— that they are held up to obloquy as devoid of honour, indifferent to the general welfare, and studious only of private advantage. But who, we ask, are those that utter the complaints ? Why, public men themselves. And was there ever a guilty man in the world that did not say he was ill-used and injured by his ac cusers ? Thus much at least is certain, that when men accept of office, and simultaneously contradict opinions which they had held before— here are two awkward facts brought together, from which the public will and must draw con clusions unfavourable to the parties, if a suffi cient explanation is not given. Mr. Charles Wynn , says, " he did not accept of office till he found " that the opinions of those with whom he joined " coincided with his own." In 1816, he declared, " that he did not believe that there was a gen " tleman in that House who thought that the " ridicule was not justly and properly directed " against the dress by which that noble class of 44 men (the soldiers) had been disfigured. lie 44 would ask any gentleman if he believed that " the fooleries and fopperies of some regiments 44 of dragoons were the wish of their officers ? " The ridiculous trappings which meritorious " officers had been obliged to appear in, had cc never been brought forward with the view of " ridiculing the officers, but those who exposed " them to appear in such a disguise."—(Han sard's Debates.)—Does this gentleman mean to assert that the opinions of those whom he has joined do now coincide with his own, with respect to the propriety of simplifying the dress of the soldiers ?—But to go more par ticularly to the Salt Bill and the subjects connected with it : the same Right Hon. Gentleman says, that he certainly voted for The abolition of the Salt Bill formerly ; but how can he do the same thing now, when it is deter mined to maintain a Sinking Fund of 5,000,000/. ? We will tell him how, in strict conformity to his recorded opinions, if he does not mean to give them up—by adhering to his old conviction, that the colonies ought to support their own military establishments, and that those colonies which could not do so were not worth keeping! There was not the least occasion to vote against the re kal of the Salt Duties, because the Sinking Fund was to be established, inasmuch as Mr. Wynn's recorded opinions supplied a ready substitute for the Salt Duties by retrenchment. [MORNING lIERALD.I An -intertegting discussion took place in the House of Lords, yesterday evening, upon the system of Tithes in Ireland, in consequence of a Petition presented by the Duke of Devonshire from the City of Waterford ; in which the Mem bers of that Corporation declared, that provided any effectual plan were adopted for remedying the system in question, they would be ready to make considerable sacrifices in the Tithes of 13 parishes, of which they were the owners. And the Noble Duke, with an equal degree of libe rality, said he would willingly make similar sa crifices with respect to the Tithes of '2.0 parishes, of which he was proprietor. The Earl of Li verpool stated that the question of Tithes in Ire land was now under the consideration of the Marquis Wellesley, and others of his Majesty's Ministers; and that it was their intention to in troduce some plan that should remove the causes of those complaints which had so long been made in Ireland respecting the system in question. [MORNING I'OST.I The Duke of Devonshire presented last night, in the House of Peers, a Petition from the Cor poration of Waterford, stating that they possessed the tithes or thirteen parishes, and expressing their willingness to sacrifice a share of their pro perty to remove the causes of the present evils. They therefore prayed that their Lordships would inquire into the state of Ireland, and take the tithe system into their most serious consideration, with a view to propose a commutation, or any other means calculated to render them less bur thensome and vexatious to the people. The Noble Duke, who is also a Lay Impropriator of the tithes of twenty parishes, expressed his readiness to make large sacrifices for the same object. Ile urged the necessity of the measure, and contended that the existing dis turbances ought not to prevent or delay inquiry. The Earl of Liverpool concurred in all the sen timents expressed by the Noble Duke ; he stated that both the Noble Marquis at the head of the Irish Government and his Majesty's Ministers had bestowed and were bestowing the most se rious attention upon that important subject. He could not yet specify any particular measure which might be introduced, but he admitted that no pretence for delay ought to be found in the disturbances which afflicted Ireland.—The Marquis of Lansdowne presented a Peti tion to the same effect from the Lay Impro. priators of tithes of Listowel and eleven pa rishes in the South of Ireland. The liberality with which so many individuals claim leave to sacrifice their personal interest to the welfare of their country, not only holds forth a rich promise of her future happiness under a more just and rea sonable system, but casts a redeeming glory over the dark scenes of which she has lately been the theatre. It is in offers like these, and not in loud clamours to reduce the income of aged and industrious public servants, that true patriotism is shown.—Previously to the presentation of these Petitions, the Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Navy Five per Cents.' Bill," [BRITISH vitEss.j The expediency .of altering the system :of tithes in Ireland was made the subject of some important discussion in the House of Lords yes ' terday evening. Petitions were presented &Om the City of Waterford and several other places in Ireland, in which not only the payers, but the receivers of tithes, pray the House to relieve the country from a system which they feel from experience is fraught with evils of the mast fearful rnagni:ude. The Earl of Liverpool re peated the information which had been pre siously. given to the House of Commons b y Mr. GOulburn, that the Government bad taken this subject into most serious consideration, with a view to ascertaining bow Gr a commuia tion of tithes was practicable. It is much to be lamented that the Government had not earlier directed its attention to this important point,— Every hour's delay is pregnant with serious mis chief, as it prolongs the source of the fargreatest part of those crimes which have occasionally stained the character of Ireland. With respect to the principle of a measure for commuting tithes, it is ,most satisfactory that no difficulties can arise from the opposition of private or personal interests. All lay impropriators are most desirous of having a precarious and uncertain species of property converted into one to which they can look with confidence ; and the same feel ing, we are•assured, pervades the whole body of the beneficed clergy. An appropriation of land in every parish for the support of the church and the clergyman, must not only prove highly gra tifying to the clergy personally, but must give even increased stability to the ecclesiastical es tablishment. In many parishes in the South of Ireland no tithes have been paid for the last twelve months, and in none have the cler gymen received their full dues since the re turn of peace. The distresses of the farmers, and in many instances their unwillingness to pay what they conceived to be an oppres sive demand, have compelled the rectors of parishes to have recourse to the law for the recovery of their just and legal rights, and the result has too frequently been seen in the alienated feelings .of the exasperated peasantry. Severity of this nature exercised towards the poorer cicsses of society must prove highly distressing to the minds of clergymen and gentlemen, and it is not surpris ing that they should now anxiously beseech Par liament to relieve them from so irksome a ne cessity, and at the same time remove one of the roost prolific sources of irritation and violence among the unfortunate peasantry of their country. The Duke of Devonshire, the Marquis of Lansdown e and several other oble Lords, closely connected with Ireland, expressed them selves very strongly upon this subject. HYDROPHOBIA. The following important statement of the mode of cure practised in the Ukraine, for the bite of a mad-dog, is translated from the Berlin State Gazette, (No. 20) of the 14th of February 1822, and is certainly entitled to the consideration of medical practitioners : " When Mr. Marochetti, an operator in the Hospital at Moscow, was in the Ukraine in 1913, in one day 15 persons applied to him for cure, having been bitten by a mad-dog. Whilst he was prepering the remedies, a deputation of se veral old men made its appearance to request him to allow a peasant to treat them, a nian who, for some years past, en joyed a great reputation for his cures of hydrophobia, and of whose success Mr. Marochetti had already heard much. He consented to their request, under these conditions, Ist, that he, Mr. Marochetti, should be present at everything' done b f the peasant ; Rdly, in order that he might be fully convinced that the do:: was really mad, be, Mr. Marochetti, should select one of the patients, who (should only be treated ac cording to the medical course usually held in estimation. A girl of six years old was chosen for this purpose. The peasant gave to his 14 patients a strong decoction' of the Summit,' and ' Fl. Genista lutese tinetorise,' (about a pound and a half daily), and examined twice a day under the tongues, where, as he stated, small knots, containing the poison of the madness, must form themselves. As soon as these small knots actually appeared, and which Mr. Maro chetti himself saw, they were opened, and causterised with a red hot needle ; after which the patient gargled with the de coctien of the Genista: The result of this treatment was, that all the fourteen (of whom only two, the last bitten, did not shew these knots) were dismissed cured at the end of six weeks, during which time they drank this decoction. But the little girl, who was treated according to the usual me- thods, was seized with hydrophohic symptoms on the seventh day, and was deed in eight hours after they first took place. The persons dismissed as cured were seen three years after wards by Mr. Maroohetti, and they were all sound and well. " Five years after this circumstance (in 1818), Mr. Maro chetti had a new opportunity in Podolia of confirming this important discovery. The treatment of 2G persons, who bad there been bitten by a mad slog, was confided to him; nine were men, eleven women, and six children. He gave them at once a decoction of the Genista,' and a diligent examina tion of their tongues gave the following result :—five men, all the women, and three children, had the small knots already mentioned; those bitten worst, on the 3d day, others on the sth, 7th, and 9rh, and one woman, who had beers bitten but very superficially in the leg only; on the list day. The other seven also who strewed no small knots, drank the ' decoct= gensite six weeks, and all the patients were cured. " In consequence of these observations, Mr: Marochetti • believes that the hydrophobic poison, after remaining a Oust time in the wound, fixes itself for a certain time under the tongue, at the-opening of the ducts of the ' gland's!: sub maxeller,' which are at each side of the longue-string, and there forms those small knots, in which one may feel with a probe a fluctuating fluid, which is that hydrophobic poison. The usual time of their appearance seems to be between the 3d and 9th day after the bite; and if they are not opened within the first. 24 hours after their formation ' the poison is re-absorbcd into the. body, and the patient is lost beyond the power of cure. ~For this reason, Mr. Masochetti recommends that such patients should.be immediately examined under the tongue, which shemld be continued fur six weeks, during which time they should take daily IA pound of the ' decoct. geoist.' (or four times a day the powder I drachm pro dosi If the knots do not appear in this time, no madness is to he apprehended; but, as soon as they skew themselves, they should be opened with a lancet, and then cauterised, and the patient should gargle assiduously with the above-men tioned . 4 decoct.' • ...... " We hasten to communicate to our readers this important discovery, (which we borrow from the Pet,r,burgh Miscel laneous. Treatises in the lienho of Medical Science, for 3821,') which certainly deserves the , full attention of all. medical practitioners; and which, if confirmed by experience, may bare the must beneficial results.).4i,