The Sun. — London, England, 1832-02-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The signature of Lord Roden might almost save any one the trouble of reading a long docu ment to which it has lately been affixed, and which is now published under the title of an " Appeal of the Protestants of Ireland to their brethren, the Protestants of England and Wales." Although the purpose of an " appeal" ought to be stated as distinctly, one would suppose, as the prayer of a petition, it is with some difficulty we have gathered, after a second perusal of the pro lix composition to which the name of " Ro den" has been subscribed, what it is that the parties to the memorial pray for ; and indeed, after all, the boon Mr which they supplicate is rather loosely expressed, though we must ac knowledge it to be a pretty large one—" Our liberties, our lives, our homes, and our altars are endangered : we know we shall not appeal to our English brethren in vain, to stand up with us in their defence." There follows thereon a deal of boasting about " loyalty," and " attachment to the British Constitu tion ;" meaning thereby, as the old oath of a certain illegal association used to imply, that loyalty to the King and attachment to the Con stitution are incumbent upon Irish Orangemen just so long as, and no longer than, both shall remain subservient to " Protestant ascendancy." This belligerent paper hits right and left ; it at tacks sucessively the Catholic Bishops, dema gogues, peasants,—then falls foul of the new plan for popular education,—the Irish Reform Bill, — the grant to Maynooth College,—the opening of the close corporations ; but chiefly, and above all, the existing Ministry. Taking it, then, as a whole, we can collect nothing practical from this church-militant manifesto, but that it calls upon the English " brethren" of the loyal men of Ireland, to do neither more nor less than, first, overthrow the present Government root and branch—and next (being on velvet with a Tory Administration), set every Popish priest, and demagogue, and peasant, and Protestant Refor mer into the bargain—a goodly company—adrift upon the Atlantic Ocean in some stormy night. The naive expression that the politics of Orangemen " are founded upon their religion," contains a notorious truth : their religion is a religion of loaves and fishes, and between it and their politics there is no doubt a bitter confor mity. At the same time let it not be supposed that any friends of Reform in Church or State ran look without deep regret and commiseration at the sufferings of many virtuous clergymen in the south of Ireland, reduced, with their fami lies, to absolute want, by the inveterate repug nance of the Catholics to pay the tithe which the law allows them. We consider such unfortu nate gentlemen entitled to relief in their necessi ties, it being obvious that they have become the victims of a legislation to which they were not parties,—that the rights with which the existing law has invested them, and on the faith of which they embraced the profession of clergy men, are such as cannot now be enforced. As for the tithe—once more we affirm it to be un tenable. Tithe-committees are sitting at this moment, and close spectators are not over satisfied with circumstances which meet their oh. nervation. We hope no rider will be clapped upon the Tithe Reform. The Irish Chancellor, with what truth we know not, is accused of hating issued a (political)injunction, and stopped the proceedings which the King's Ministers here had commenced ; but the Learned Lord must surely understand the real wants of Ireland, and love the Established Church too well, to ag gravate, with his eyes open, the dangers of both Church and State, by intercepting a great mea sure of just conciliation.—Times. The conduct of Austria with regard to the Italian Legations is consistent with the whole course of its policy from the first revolution of France to the present time ; but the conduct of the French Government is unprincipled in the extreme. Here we see a Government founded the other day upon a popular revolution, pro claiming in the earlier period of its existence the principle of non-intervention to all Europe as the polar star of its policy—then, upon the first violation of that general principle by an Austrian invasion of the independent States of Italy, de nying the prohibitive words by which it had pretended to guard against foreign aggression, the principle which it had laid down for its own guidance—next, upon another quarrel between the Pope and his Italian subjects, and another irruption of Austrian troops to settle the affairs of Italy, the French Government throw off th e assumed policy of non-intervention as a worn out mask—offer their armed interposition in favour of the holy tyrant, who sheds the blood of his Catholic subjects because they ask for their political rights—and Austrian and French bayonets gleam together in portentous alliance on the soil of ancient freedom, protecting the Papal brigands in their work of out rage, slaughter, and devastation. It is some time since we first stated that Casimir Perier acted more like the French Minister of the Holy Alliance than a Minister of regene rated France. The progress of time developes more and more the progress of his policy to wards the full adoption of the despotic principles of that iniquitous confederacy against the rights of nations, that, while it exists, will never let Europe have peace, unless the peace that the slave has, who struggles not against his masters chains. It was thus that the Spanish Inquisi tion, which also assumed the name of the " Holy Office," exercised forbearance, when its jaded racks, its flames, and tortures, had si lenced all freedom of opinion in the sleep of death. One of our Paris correspondents had yesterday the following observations, which are deserving of particular attention, when the pro tocol farce is succeeded by the new political di vertissement of " Approaching Ratification."— He says " what becomes of the principle of non-intervention :2 It has been erased alto gether from our diplomatic code, and we have replaced it by a totally opposite principle, for we have despatched a detachment of troops to Civita Vecchia, with the view of re-esta blishing the authority of his Holiness the Pope. We have tendered the aid of our army to the Pontiff of Rome ; we are abetting and assisting in the invasion of the confines of Ancona ; and those very soldiers, who have so often made the echoes of the Italian Penin sula resound with the sacred name of Liberty, must now, forsooth, move in the escort of the Legate of the Holy See, and afford protection to the tribunals of the Inquisition. Our pro wess, then, it will be evident, is pretty regular. ‘Ve first of all declare against intervention in the case of Belgium ; but- we were then weak, and still no intervention occurred. In the next place sve proclaim that we shall not consent to any intervention in Italian affairs. We were then supposed to be less feeble, and yet no interven tion took place. Thirdly, we are now powerful —at least we are told so, and our modesty makes us believe it then, we lend ourselves to a second intervention. So much for our foreign policy, in the consideration of which I have not included any reference to that question respecting principles which, unfortunately, were discussed in Poland with the effusion of blood—again in Germany, where liberty had made so many con verts—and finally on the soil of Italy." De voted Italy ! when will the beautiful land of arts and civilization—the nurse of freedom, and the mother of glorious • men—cease- to he torn by the vultures of rapacious and sanguinary ambition ? But we are not surprised that the foreign policy of the French Govern ment should disclose the same hatred of the prin ciples from which it derived its existence that has distinguished its policy at home. The surest indication of a Government bad at the core, and conscious of evil intentions, is act attempt to crush all freedom of opinion by the persecution of the Press. Since the establishment of the throne of Louis Philippe upon the smouldering ashes of that revolution which consumed the despotic power of his predecessor, there have been nearly four hundred Government prosecu tions against newspapers in Paris, besides seizures of papers, and arrests of journalists. But from the time of the accession of Casimir Perier's Ministry the persecution of the journalists has been especially sy , tematic and unrele►►ting. The nocturnal depredator abhors the watchman's torch, and l►e who is about to steal from a people their liberties does well to extinguish the light of the Press. Since Casimir Perier lends the troops of France to set up the power of the Pope, cannot he borrow in return, from his Holiness, the Inquisition, to assist him in the utter destruction of the great engine of public opinion ?—Morning Herald. The Reform Bill being so far advanced in the House of Commons, and approaching the Peers, the people become naturally extremely alarmed and anxious that the means which can alone secure the efficient amendment of the represen tation, and obtain any future beneficial results, should be promptly and fully adopted. All our accounts from the country and the columns of the provincial press state, that the most lively apprehension and solicitude exist throughout the nation, on the subject of the early and sufficient exercise of the Royal prerogative. With sincere gratification we believe we may confidently assure our readers that the Bill will be carried in the Upper House, and that at the fitting time his Majesty's Ministers are prepared to ensure its certain success. Moreover, that they will be duped by no cajolery or artifice of moderate Re formers, but boldly and fearlessly use their own power, and the prerogatives which the British Constitution has wisely entrusted to the Sove reign for great political emergencies. The time of exercise of this power is of course a matter of critical judgment; and reasons may, and we be lieve do exist, of an important and unquestion able nature, not communicable to the public, which wisely influence the Cabinet in deciding the period of action. We believe, that if all the circumstances attending the different negotiations between the Ministry and the " Moderate" party of the Tories were made known (and Ke judge from the representations of the Anti-Re formers), that the integrity of Lord Grey would be displayed in a most honourable light. No compromise has been sought by Lord Grey, nor has he ever assented to discount one fraction of the essentials of the Reform measure. The Prime Minister of Great Britain, who has thus mag nanimously acted, under the most trying and dif ficult circumstances, could not, therefore, expose a nation to revolution and social anarchy by failing in nerve to exercise power cheerfully and resolutely given to him by a patriotic Monarch. If Lord Grey had lacked the foresight or resolution on the subject of the prerogative, his name would have been consigned to the scorn and execration which no language could pourtray. The doubts and anxiety of the Reformers will be allayed, and in the meanwhile we trust that they will give credit to the Government for prudential reasons in not having earlier resorted to the prerogative, and in delaying a declaration of the Ministerial intentions on this all-important sub ject. As the close of the political existence of the boroughmongers approaches, the public must be prepared to witness the frantic and dying ago nies of the last moments of corruption. A band of hack placemen and political dependants will be extinguished, and one hundred present Mem bers of the House of Commons will politically expire with the present session. Such a cala mity naturally drives them to despair, and the prayers of Sir Robert Peel will in vain invoke the ancient household gods of St. Stephen's to save them. We shall hear of impeachments, and other shrieks of desperation, but we repeat that their cause is now utterly hopeless. Their devices and " quibbles" will no longer avail ; govern who may hereafter, they will never go vern more. The Duke of Wellington is re ported to have refused all the intreaties of the " moderate" party to consent to allow the se cond reading of the Bill, and he threatens that in the event of its success he shall secede from the Legislature with a chosen band of followers ! So grievous a resolve will, doubtless, fill the whole nation with dismay, and we shall soon see whether the British Parliament will be thus purified. Of a copious addition to it we are confident ; and such a voluntary subtraction from the House of Lords may thus prevent any ultimate increase of its numbers.—Morning Chronicle. The magistrates of Ireland, in refusing to pay the fees on the renewal of their commissions, have no doubt exposed the country to serious inconvenience. But much benefit will result from the attention which has thereby been drawn to a system which is a disgrace to the nation. The amount of money levied in this country, in the shape of fees of various kinds, payable to men who perlorm no equivalent services, is enormous. Offices have been multiplied merely to create incomes for a host of useless indivi duals. Why should any fees be paid by any public servant ? A magistrate, whether unpaid or stipendiary, performs services to the public ; and he ought not to be called on to pay one farthing to enable him to act. What an incon sistency it is to pay a stipendiary magistrate, and to demand fees from him at the same tune ! The public servants ought to be paid according . to the nature of their services. Services of some sort are required for the renewal of com missions, and the functionaries who perform these services should be rewarded accordingly at the public expence. The services for which fees are demanded are, however, in general so trifling, that all who receive fees may be de scribed, without muc h i m p ro p r i e ty, as sinecurists. Last night Lord Wicklow put some questions to Lord Plunkett on the subject of the fees de manded in Ireland, which were objected to as illegal, and diff erent f rom the fees paid in Eno.- land. As far as we can understand the answer of Lord Plunkett, he did not say that it was proper that fees to the amount complained of should be. demanded from magistrates,. but the i►npolicy of the law under which they were ex , acted was chargeable on the late Government. " The Act of the Ist of William IV., under which the fees were demanded, was a measure of the late Administration." However, it seems the Lords of the Treasury, ashamed of the matter, issued a minute, dated the 31st of January last, directing that the fees should only be paid as remuneration for labour actually done, and he should direct in future that no more should be demanded than an adequate remune ration for the time and labour necessary for the preparation and issuing of the warrants. Lord Plunkett was quite indignant that it should have been given out— " That he bad countenanced the exaction of those fees, only because his rel (tion was his Secretary. Such an in sinuation was wholly inconsistent with his character..._ (Hear.) It had been said, he understood, that he allowed his Secretary only 5001. a year, and the Noble Lord to whom that question was attributed was also reported to have said, that he could not tell what the Lord Chan cellor of Ireland did with the rest.' Now he (Lord Plunkett) could not believe that the Noble Lord, if he made such an observation, meant to insinuate any thing discreditable to him.—( Hear.) When Sir Anthony Hart was Lord Chancellor of Ireland, he had for his Secretary a gentleman named Long. On his (Lord Plunkett's) ap pointment to succeed Sir Anthony Hart, he gave the office of Secretary to Mr. M'Casky, a gentleman of high respectability, well fitted to discharge the duties of it.—. But in consequence of the representations which were made to him by a gentleman of the Chancery Bar, re specting the satisfaction which Mr. Long gave (luring his Secretaryship, he directed Mr. M'Casky to request that gentleman to give his assistance in the office, and to pay him out of the fees a salary of 5001. a year; afterwards, as Mr. Long had been Secretary before, be thought it would be kinder towards him to make him Joint Secretary with Mr. M'Casky than to employ him on the footing of a clerk in the office.--( Hear.) But as to the insinuation which had been made respecting the manner in which the surplus of the fees above Mr. Long's salary of 5001. a year was disposed of, he would not -condescend to contra. dict it. He did not think it necssary for him to disclaim having any share in the fees of the officers under him.— (Hear.) " This statement puts us in mind of a passage in Mr. Galt's new novel of The Member. When Archibald Jobbry, Esq. M.P. had ob tained for his relation, James Gled, the office of distributor of stamps in a Scotch county, which he discovered to be worth 1,0001. a year, he de termined to make the most of it : " When I came to consider," he save. " that the place I bad gotten for my relation, James Gled, was so very lucrative, I really felt as if I had committed a mistake, and was very angry with myself; but, on reflecting a little more upon the subject, I saw that it might be turned to peat public, good : for inasmuch as the places and posts of Government belong to those Members and others that get nothing else for their service% in support of Govern ment, a judicious man will husband his share of them, so as to make the distribution go as far as possible. Accord ingly, I will show that 2501. a year would have been a most liberal god-send to James. I thought that if it were three, it would he a great thing, and that there would be 7001. over tai apply to other public purposes. I there fore wrote to him, and said that I had got the place fur him, but that his salary was to he 300/. a year, the re mainder being subject to another disposal. " In due course of post I received a most thankful letter for my beneficence, agreeing most willingly to be content with his share of the allowed emoluments. When I got this letter, and got Janus established in his place, I then bethought me of the most judicious appropriation that could be made of the surplus ; and thereanent 1 called to mind a son that I had in the natural way, that was in the army. To him I portioned out 300/. per annum, for lie had been a very heavy cess en me, notwithstanding he was serving his King and country ; and this, it will be allowed, was as correct a doing as any arrangement of the kind ; far more so than that of those who have large pensions themselves, from which they make allowances to their sons, although these sons be of the patriots that make speeches to mobs and multitudes, declaring themselves as pure men, unsullied by any aliment drawn from the people ; what is, in a sense, no doubt the fact ; for their allow ances are from their fathers. " Having given the three hundred to Captain Jubbry, I then thought of old Mrs. Ilayning, my stint, who was the widow of the Minister of Dargobble, and had nothing but her widow's fund to live upon. So I gave her one hundred pounds. . . • . The remaining three hundred I stipulated with James Gled should be laid aside in the Bank, year by year, to be a fund from which I should, from time to time, con tribute to public subscriptions; and few things in my life have I been more satisfied with; for so long as James Gled lived, it will be seen by the newspapers what a liberal subscriber I was ther e by enabled to be to public chlrities, by which I obtained great rule and power in them; and m.ny a poor man's child and orphan likewise have I been the means of getting well educited. Indeed I take some blame to myself that I did not more rigidly en force the same principle of distribution in the salaries of all the posts that I got at different times for my kindred and constituents." It is very well to make the most of the fees, in the way of diffusing happiness ; but it must not be forgotten that lees are taxes on the public, or rather on that unfortunate portion of the public, the suitors in our Courts.—What an Augean stable remains to be cleared out ! Morning Ch ro nide. WEATHER IN THE HIGHLANDS.—A union seems to have taken place between our winter and spring—the latter, at least, appears to hive fairly ap proached us, and winter to have already withdrawn the last of his forces. Such fine mild weather at the present season has been rarely witnessed in the North. Flowers are springing in the garden, birds are singing in the fields, and even on the bleak and rugged sides of Loch Ness, the birch and larch trees are putting forth bud and blossom. So favourable a winter has hi en a blessed boon to the sheep-farmer. From all our pastoral districts we have the most cheering accounts ; the clip of wool will be most abundant ; the losses never were so small, or the sheep in a finer condition.—lnverness Courier. SUICIDE AT THE GOLDEN CROSS.—O n the night of the 4th inst. a gentleman of respectable appear ance arrived by the Birmingham coach, and took up his abode at the Golden Cross Inn, at Charing-cross. Being a total stranger he paid his bill every day. On Friday morning, however, ss. 6d. was unpaid, and as he was going out, the waiter told him it was the custom to pay every thing before strangers left the house. The gentle man said he was short of cash, and left a paper bundle as security. He returned at night, and on Saturday morning, not making his appearance at the usual time, his room was entered, and he was found lying in bed, quite dead. Three empty phials were on the table, which had cont Lined three ounces of laudanum. From papers found in his clothes, it appeared that the deceased was an agent to the pro. prietors of the projected rail-road in America, and had been sent to this country upon business connected with the intended scheme. There was a paper with the name of " ANDaEws" on it ; and in the parcel which he had left as security, there was only a dirty shirt and a necker chief. An inquiry will be set on foot in Birmingham and Manchester respecting him. An investigation has occupied the attention of the Magistrates of Hinry-street office yesterday and the day before. A Clergyman of the Established Church, a married man, anti principal of a school, was charged by Mr. D. RONA yNE, on the part of Mr. WA r.sx, of Marlbo ' rough street, glover, under the lAlowingeireurnstances:— It appears that on Sunday, between one and two, when Mr. and Mts. WALSH were absent st Divine Service, he called at their house, and having been shown into the drawing room, the semant, a young girl, not above fifteen years of age, and whose personal attractions were by no means exciting, was called to hint ; he first said he wanted a 'llk of gloves, but on her replying that her mister never sold gloves on Sunday, he procee led t o t a k e lib ert i es w i t h her, saying, " Come here, my good g i r l, unt il I see are you fit to be married." The arrival of Mrs.WAt.sit prevented further progress. Si shocked was this lady at wh it she witnessed, that she exclaimed, " Oh, AIA KC A ART, Who is that ruffianof ? '' The girl, having been sworn, d e scribed the nature the assault. Mrs. I tVat.stt was lik ew i se s w o rn, and described the part she had witnessed of the disgraceful scene ; and the Magistrates, seeing fully the extent of the offence, have botin , l the girl to prosecute at the next Commission. A gentleman who, we believe, attended professionally on the part of the Rev. Gentleman, became security for his fort hcorning, Freeman's Journal. APPEARANCE OF THE MALIGNANT CHOLERA IN LONDON. MEETING OF MEDICAL MEN. The official accounts of the appearance of the malignant cholera in this metropolis, which were made known yesterday, has, as might have been expected, created as strong an impression amongst the medical men in London, as the public generally, and the most careful attention is being directed by practitioners to the subject. An opportunity oc curred last night of a general conference at the London Medical Society which meets in Bolt-court, Fleet-street, and in consequence an unusually large assemblage of medical gentlemen was collected, in the hope of hearing some authentic accounts of the cases. The meeting included fifty of the most ex perienced and practical men in the profession, and amongst them almost every medical man who had attended the cases either before or after death which have as yet occurred in the metropolis and its neigh bourhood. The subject was introduced by Mr. HOOPER, surgeon, residing in the London road, who had attended one of the cases, which he related. The patient was a back-maker (a kind of cooper), Florence Sullivan, residing at No. 1, Mint street, Southwark, his age 62, reputed to be before the attack a strong healthy man, very temperate, in the employ of Mr. Young. He was perfectly well on the night of the 7th instant, ate a sprat supper, and went to bed. Soon after twelve o'clock he was suddenly seized with a purging, and got out of bed to relieve himself. Ten minutes after he was again compelled to quit his bed, and in a short time vo miting came on, with dreadful cramps in the calves of the legs, arms, hands, and muscles of the abdo men. He did not apply for medical advice until twelve o'clock the next day, when Mr. Evans, the surgeon, saw him, and he was then in a state of excessive exhaustion ; no pulse at the wrist could he felt, the extremities were cold, a clammy perspira tion bedewed the whole body, and the whole of the appearances of a patient in the blue or intense stage of the malignant cholera were present. The alvine evacuations were not at this time of course very co pious, as they had so long existed, but they were whey-like, and a little tinged with blood. The vomiting had ceased some hours. The sti mulating remedies usually resorted to were tried, and a little heat was restored, but not perma nently, and at seven o'clock the same evening (the Bth) he died. The post modem examination took ' place in twenty hours. The abdomen was very tense. Internally, the stomach, small intestines, omentum, and peritoneum, were in a highly con gested state. In the stomach was half a pint of fluid like coffee-grounds. Its mucous membrane was dark and pulpy, and towards its pyloric extre mity there were some black patches. The ilium was congested, and contracted in some parts, having throughout the appearance of a piece of red velvet. The liver was healthy ; the branches of the vena cava were congested, but the vena porta was empty. The gall-bladder full of bile and distended ; its ducts contracted. The bladder was contracted; only a tea-spoonful of fluid in it. The heart was flaccid, but the right side was filled with fluid black blood. The lungs were excessively congested, and upon being cut the air-cells were found filled with fserum mixed with air. There was no abscess, nor were there any tubercles ; the right pleura pulmo nalis was adherent to the pleura costalis. In all other respects the body was stated to be healthy, or the appearances were of inferior note. The more important and debateable points came immediately under consideration. Mr. HOOPER stated, that some gentleman who had attended from the Board of Health said that the case was not one of cholera, because the abdo men was tense and the lungs were congested. however, it was decided in the society, was a very incorrect decision. Dr. WHITING saw this patient, and his evidence on the present occasion, as well indeed as that of all the gentlemen similarly situated, was interesting and important, as conveying the impressions of a medical man who now saw this disease for the first time. " This is, I think," he observed, "a highly important case; I never saw such a one before, either corresponding in the symptoms or as regards the appearances of the body. They were most re markable. At first I concluded that there were two diseases, one in the lungs, and another in the bowels; and my feeling was, that it was not a case of cholera, but something far less important. But I have since seen two other cases, the symptoms of which were in every material respect analogous to this, and it is now beyond all doubt that the whole were cases of malignant cholera. The disease is, therefore, un doubtedly in London, and as undoubtedly will spread. The peculiarities in the case were, a great degree of blueness over the surface of the skin, more especially of the arms and legs—a colour like that of lead, or darker, more purple, and a countenance indicative of the most excessive anxiety. I inquired if the man felt acute pain ? He said he did not, but rather great uneasiness over the whole body, more especially over the chest. The breathing was three times as rapid as usual, the pulse not to be felt. On the examination after death, two things were remarkable--the red, or, as it has been termed,' the congested appearance of the bowels, and the state of the lungs. From the latter I thought the disease in the lungs was peripneumony, for I never saw congestion in the lungs present the same remark able appearance. When they were cut into, the gash was completely filled with frothy matter. My impression accordingly was, that it was a combined case of inflammation of the substance of the lungs arid of the mucous membrane of the bowels. (The appearance which Dr. Whiting believed to be the results of acute inflammation were, if the matter be' not further disputed, which it hardly can be, the congestion of blood, which must be regarded as es• sential consequences of the malignant cholera.) I will take the opportunity of mentioning the other cases which I saw. The first was that of a woman, who was perfectly well yesterday (Sunday) morn ing. She went to the New -cut, Lambeth, before breakfast, and there drank some port or elder wine, and came home perfectly well ; but before she could take her breakfast, she felt indisposed, and was in duced to obtain medical advice. The gentleman who saw her thought it was only a common affec tion of the bowels, and merely sent her some chalk mixture and opium. But violent purging and vo miting soon came on, and excessive prostration fol lowed, coldness of the surface, loss of pulse, and sunken countenance ; the tongue white and clammy, the fluid ejected like whey; and in fifteen hours from the attack she was a corpse. The other was that of a boy who was found ill (in the Borough, we believe) in the morning, when his mother arose, with vomiting and purging, and the same prostration, entire coldness of the extremities, and low pulse speedily followed, and the boy died. The post mortenz appearances in the woman were very different from those in Sullivan. There was merely a light blueness on the mucous membrance of the bowels. Indeed, Dr. Hodgkin, of Guy's Hospital, the morbid anatomist, said, that in nny other case he should passed over this as an appearance of no possible moment. The lungs were turgid with blood; there was no frothy mucus as in the man's case. The ►arge vessels of the heart were loaded with blood. The contents of the bowels were modi fied by what she had taken. A mustard emetic was given her, but she did not eject it again. (Tais circumstance is a very important one, and is men tioned presently by Mr. allaway. Mustard eme tics have been very strongly recommended in the north of England ) She had discharged the whey like fluid (a decided characteristic of the cholera). Th e gall bladder had bile in it ; but was not re markably distended. Mr. EVANS attended Sullivan, and corroboratcd Mr. Hooper's account. The only notice of the cir culation of the blood (he said) was from a slight quivering of the heart on placing the ear over it. The appearance of the nails was very peculiar : they were quite shrunk, and like those of a child, and the skin of the fingers was excessively shrivelled. lie had never before seen such a ca=e. H, was decidedly of opinion that the appearances in the lungs and intestines were those of congestion, and not of inflammation. The matter ejected from the bowels was like boiled gruel, a branny ricey fluid. (It was subsequently stated, that although the lungs did not indicate any pulmonary disease, yet the man had had symptoms of it, and some previous affection of the bowels, but certainly not sufficient disease there to refute the opinion that the appearances now were those of congestion.) The treatment employed was, the vapour bath ; one grain of ex tract of opium and two grains of calomel every half hour, with spirits of ammonia and camphor mixture every quarter of an hour; hot blankets were also used. The fluid in the stomach was discoloured by port wine given the patient. The question was here asked whether the blood was dark and pitchy, as it is reported to be in cases of malignant cholera. Dr. Whiting said it wa , black and venous, though he thought not pitchy in either case, but that some clots of blood were dis coverable in the vessels. But Mr. Evans had no ticed considerable pitchiness, and Mr. Hooper said that the blood in the right side of the heart was fluid, but black and tenacious ; some of which got on his pencil while taking notes at the examination, agglutinated it firmly to his finger. Mr. J. S. Smith said it was dark-coloured, but not thick. (This seems not to have been a very carefully no ticed circumstance.) Dr. GILCHRIST had been to Sullivan's house, and since seen the bodies of three persons who had died of the cholera at Limehouse, and one who died to-day at Rotherhithe. En all of the cases, the principal symptoms precisely corresponded with those of cholera patients at Sunderland, Russia, and the rest of Europe. There was a peat want of precaution in the cases, for the body of one patient had remained ever since in the room in which the whole of his family was living. No other person, however, in the house had yet taken the disease. Mr. MILLARD, Demonstrator at the Webb-street School, had made the examination of Sullivan's body with Mr. Pitcher, and pointed attention to those things which had more particularly excited his atten tion. These, no doubt, will be carefully given in one of the medical journals. He considered them as especial pathological signs of the malignant cholera. The colour of the intestines, to his view, was not of a bright red,; but a livid leaden red. The blood in the lungs was certainly venous and grumous, and wanting in decarbonization, and pitchy, as if lumps of pitch existed in a pitch of a fluid consistence. Ili other parts it was venous, but not in all of them pitchy. One peculiarity was, that on rubbing .some of it in his hand, it speedily became red. He had seen two or three more cases that evening (Monday) in Dean-street, Borough, all of them cholera, he thought, more or less modified, under the care of Mr. Clarke. The evidence of all the medical gentlemen who had seen the cases was now uiven, that the internal appearances were those of congestion. Dr. J AMES JOHNSON thought it beyond all doubt that these were cages of malignant cholera, however modified or graduated, and that it had existed for at least two months in London. He cautioned the pro fession against expecting always to find pitchy blood. He wished to know what steps had been taken to trace the origin of the disease in London. Mr. EVANS and Dr. GILCIIRIST stated, that after the most careful inquiry, not the least trace of con. tagion had yet been detected. Mr. EVANS, another medical gentleman, who had attended numerous cholera cases at Warsaw, was asked what medical men might regard as an indu bitable sign of cholera; and he replied, the appear ances in the tongue of a cold, death like, pearly feel. This to him would be an invariable test. As to its treatment, he had had the disease himself in War saw, after much exposure to wet and cold, and he took 10 grains of calomel every twelve hours, and got well : that was the principal treatment. He took the disease in a hotel where it had before been, and although afterwards for many hours a day in cholera wards, he did not catch it again. Bleeding ought to be tried wherever it was possible. In Ber lin he had seen large doses of belladonna and nitrate of bismuth tried. Mr. CALLAWAY, of Guy's Hospital, spoke of other proofs of the cholera; the marble, icy hand, more cold than that of a corpse; the cadaverousness of the countenance, which once seen could never be forgotten ; the eyes sunk and lost in their orbits. — What would restore the circulation ? When brandy and opium was given in the London cases, he found an effort of the blood to move made. As for bleed ing, it would have been madness to attempt it in the case of the woman, for scarcely a vein could be seen in the whole of her suddenly shrunken body. He had never before seen such prostration. He cautioned practitioners against expecting blueness. He could not himself see it in this woman, though in fact they had washed her hands to discover it.— Others thought it was perceptible. A gentleman stated he had that evening left a fresh case in Lambeth-butts. This patient was gone to the workhouse, for at home he had not fire, or bed, or the common necessaries of life. Dr. WHITING now adverted to the important effect of the mustard emetic given to the woman. It had a very bad effect in this case, and he was sure hastened her death. Indeed, he thought she would have died under it. Two or three tea•spoonsful of mustard were given in water. She did not vomit it, and perhaps this (prevented probably by opium previously given, which had occasioned torpidity of the stomach) was the cause of its bad effect. Dr. JAmEs JOHNSON said that any rate his first step would be to give an emetic; whether of mustard (a tea-spoonful in half a tumbler of water) or some other substance. Perhaps sulphate of zinc would be the best. All that he had heard went to prove its value and the possibility of procuring blood after vomiting; though if emetics did not produce vomit ing no doubt they would be prejudicial. Much of the debate of course we cannot detail, but the above are the topics which occupied etten tion. The disease, it was suggested, was taking a straight line, beginning at Limehouse, thence to Rotherhithe, the Mint, and Lambeth. Hints of se veral other cases were given. The meeting broke up at ten o'clock. Dr. Burne was in the chair. There is no want of care and research into the disease on the part of the medical men in the metropolis; but the deep distress in which they find the patients, all of them hitherto temperate people, is in every respect harassing, and entirely subversive of the very cherishing treatment whieh this awful disease requires before it can be effectually combated. We are confidently told that the Generalship of Marines, vacated by the decease of Admiral Sir RICHARD BICKERTON, will not be filled up. We rejoice to bee our navy rewarded, but sinecures must be abolished.—Hamp. shire Telegraph. A MARRIAGE CASE.—For some time past, an old soldier, who enjoys a comfortable pension, after the fatigues and dangers of many a hard fought field, made suit to a young woman belonging to New Lanark, whose con sent he at length obtained, after a good deal of ma nceoyring (for lo ve , we b e li eve, was out of the question.) During the siege, some how or other, the veteran's time piece had come into the lady's possession, which she re tuned in spite of all remonstrances, prob.bly as a make believe that it was to count the tardy moments, as they crept slowly by ; but, in reality, as an indemnification for the crying -Biller, which was to come out of her pocket; for he, poor soul ! had presented all his to the eternally craving Bacchus. True to her plighted vow, she parted with the " one pound one," and the parish clerk executed his put of the business upon Sunday last; but, on Mon day, the day for attestation, the hero, conceiving that he had not been fairly enlisted, promptly and peremptorily refused to take the oath. The bride, however, nothing daunted, refused to surrender the watch, which sh e con ceived to be justly her due, for her lost guinea, the expense of a new gown, trills, lace, gloves, and all the other para phernalia attendant upon such occasions. Possession i, at all times the best part of the law; therefore, when Ce case was brought before the Court, their honours, much to the lady's satisfaction, amerced the faithless and ungallant soldier, in his watch, as smart money, for the unhandsome manner in which he had treated so generous a lover.— Gklegoiv Free Press. RAW HIDES. rer Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. a. d. to I.& liest Heifers &Steers 2 6 210 Ordinary 1 8 110 0 2 4 Market 6 0 each. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A middle aged individual, who gave his name Ezekiel Ifrixey, was brought before the LoRD MAYOR yesterday, upon a charge of having twice disturbed the congregation of St. Swithin's Church, on Sunday, by attempting to enter into a theological controvery with the clergyman. The LORD MAYOR—This is very extraordinary and improper conduct on your part, Mr. Wixey, and if it is repeated I shall be under the necessity of taking severe notice of it. InS'atie Divine, said Mr. Wixey, solemnly—thou art in error ; I am an apostle sent by Heaven to testify against the wickedness of the world, and the abominations of the Church. The LORD MAYOR—You must find some other way of fulfilling your mission ; I cannot permit you to interrupt public worship in the manner you have of late. Wixey—l have a call—l have a mission from above, and I'm not ashamed to own it. LORD MAYOR—Are you married ? —On that point, responded Wixey, I beg to stand crooked. As it was evident the man was afflicted with partial insanity, the Lord Mayor directed that he should be removed to the Compter, and treated with humanity, until such time as his friends came for ward, to whom he was to he delivered. This is the same individual who interrupted the congregation a few weeks ago at Bow Church. It appears that he labours under a very curious clerical monomania. He most unaccountably entertains the idea, that the doctrines of the Church of England are not those of the Christian religion, and that he his been specially appointed to correct what he considers to be elerical abuses. Upon any other topic he is per fectly rational and collected. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10}6d. fot the lb. Loaf. There are others who sell f rom }id. to I)4d, below that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—Feb. 13. `em! English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) ) —s. 675. fine —8.11)35. Old Ditto Ditto —s. —s. fine —s. --a. Niew Foreign Ditto sos. 66s fine —s.lo6s. Old Ditto New White Clover, -9. —s. fine —s. --s. 365. 565. fine —s. 6Gs. Old Ditto Ditl —s. 465. fine —i. 61s. gew Trefoil —s. 20s. fine ...G. 368. 31d Ditto Rib Grass English Carraway Foreign Ditto Coriander —,—..— St. Foin Rye Grass l'acey Ditto Linseed, for feeding Ditto, for crushing — Canary Seed, New— ' 'lan Old —s. 15s. finc --a B. —..— 10s. ‘2ss. fine 30s. 353. —s. —s. 535. fine 575. —s. —s. 645. fine 635. —s. —s. fine 345. 345. .(per —s. 'lss. fine 80s. 82s. —s. —s. new 20s. 255. 40s. 455. new —s. —s. —s. 525. fine —s. 58s. 465. 48s. —s. fine —O. —s. 80s. 92s fine ---s• —s. —s. 7—s. fine —4. White Mustard Seed—(per Bushel)* —s. Ss. 10s. fine Brown Ditto los. 15s. fiat, --s. Turuip Seeds, Rounds. Green and Red Ditto . —s. —s. —s. fine 14s. --s. --51. —s. fine 18s. fares, Old —a. 255. Wis. fine —s. Ditto New —s. —s. fine 425. 465. Raise Seed, English, fine (per Last) 22/. Foreign PRICES OF HOPS.—Feb. 13. Kent Pockets. 41 15s. 61. O. to Si. N. Sussex Ditto 44, 10. 51. ss. to 51. 14s. Iffsex Ditto 41. 10s. 51. 15 , . to 61. 15s. Farnham Ditto. Fine 91. Os. 121. Os. to 01 Os. Seconds Kent Sussex Ditto - Os. Essex Ditto 3l. 15s. 51. Os. to 51.-12 s. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil brown 164. Os. Refined 0 Linseed Oil 22 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand ll 11 Rape Cake, per ton LEATHER. Per lb. d. to el. English Horse Hides.. 12 15 Spanish Ditto 17 19 Per dozen. , Calf Skins,. 36 to 4411 n. 15 20 Ditto 50 to 701 b. 21 24 Ditto --- 70 to 801 b. 18 21 Small Seals, Greenland 20 20& Large ditto — PRICES 0 Per lb. d. to d. Butts, English 16 21 Ditto, Foreign 15 18} Dressing 121 15 Ditto 161 18 Ditto, light Crop Hides, 1ight,.,..,, 12 131 Uitto 40 to 451 b. 14 15 15 161 WHITECHAPEL HAY DIARKE'f.—Feb. 11. Flay 543.0 d. to 84s. Od. I Clover...—. 655. Od. to 120 s. Od. 9.45. Od. to 365. Od. SHEEP SKINS. 45.*Cd.105;.6111fcW;;............ 2s. Cd. to 4s. N. Shearlings--. Os. Od. to Os. Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 8111 Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) . 33. Od• PRICE OF TALLOV Town Tallow 523. Od. Yellow 463. Od White 453. Od. Soap Ditto 453. Od. Nfelted Stuff. .375. Od. Ditto hough 255. Od. Ware—....-- Kidneys --. Scotch Reds , SOAP, See. per 1121 b. Yellow SClap.worowaen".. 625. od• M0tt1ed....,... .. 70s. Od. White _........... 745. Od. Graves ......--............ 165. Od. Good Graves .............. 55. (41• PRICE OF POTATOES.—Feb. 13. 2/. ss. to 31. Os. per ton. 01. Os. to 31. Os. ditto. 2/. Lis. to 31. Os. ditto. COAL MAR Per Ton. kdair's 20s. Od. Bensham Main 16 0 Coxlodge --....... 19 9 Dean's Primr05e.,,.,..,...,. 17 6 East Percy.,---- 17 6 Hebburn Main --. 20 6 _ „ 19 6 Kenton West 20 0 Killingworth ~,.,,.21---.. 0 Panto!) Windsor.....--- 18 0 St. Lawrence Main,.,,.,. 19 0 i West Hartley 19 6 Willington „ 20 6 Walls End Brown's-- 21 6 Ditto Bell,Robson,&Co. 19 6 Ditto Bewicke and Co. 21 9 Walls End Callerton —.. 16 6 , )itto Clarke and C 0... 19 6 Walls End Heat0n......,.. 21 0 Walls End Hilda 20 6 Walls End Hotspur—, 20 0 Ditto Killingworth 20 3 Ditto Northumberland 20 3 Ditto Perkins and C 0..... 20 6 Ships arri .ET.—Feb. 13. Per Ton , Walls End Newntarch— 21s. ed. Walls End Russell's..., :8 6 Walls End Walker.,,... 21 6 Lambton's 21 0 Walls End Hetton 22 0 Walls End Lyons 21 0 Walls End Lambton...,., 21 9 W. E. Russell's Hetton 22 0 Walls End Stewart's 22 3 Walls End Adelaide.... 20 3 Walls End Butter Knoll 21 0 Cowpen .20 0 Halbeath l4 0 Hartley 2l 0 New Flockton, Milne, and Co l7 6 Old Haigh Moor 15 0 Scremerstone Engine... 15 0 ISilkstone 17 0 Silkstone Field and Co. 18 6 Silkstone 18 6 South Hetton Seam— 16 6 Walls End 15 0 Tan field 18 6 ived, 75. MINING NTELLIGENCE. Tons. Girt. Quantity of Copper Ore solast Redruth last Thurday 2,718 0 uantity of tine Copper.. . 213 6 Average Produce 7 0 Amount of Sale, 11,4171.:31. od.—Average Standard , 1021. 148,0 d, Th e Adventures of a Younger Son," re specting which so much public expectation has beef) excited, in consequence of a letter from Italy, which ap' peared a short time ago in a weekly publication, will certainly appear very soon. The author is an Englisb gentleman of family and fortune, who has gone through more extraordinary adventures, at home and abroad, that ) perhaps any of his countrymen, not excepting even big friend Lord BynoN. A ROWLAND FOR AN OLIVER.—At a time not very distant, it was as established practice through' out the Highlands for the smith to get the mart's head 1 0 return for keeping the owner's axe in repair (luring the I year. About half a century ago, the then Minister of Blair Athule, having killed his mart, sent the head, au' cording to custom, to the smith ; but being fond of a dell' cate bit himself, he sent it minus the tongue. The smith received his tribute without any remark ; but, in the course of a few days, the parson's axe having come to be repaired, he trimmed the head of it, and sent it back with' out meddling with the cutting part. The Minister, oP seeing this, waxed wroth, and set off for the smithy in violent passion. " What, in the name of wonder," said his Reverence, " is the reason that you only sorted the head of the axe; you must be very ungrateful for the pre:, sent I sent you ?" " What," in the name of wonder' said the smith, " is the reason that you took the tongu e from the mart's head ?" "Oh !" said the parson, tutu' ing as smooth as oil, " you must know, smith, that it 15 by the tongue I earn my bread." " I did not kno ll , before," said the Vulcan dryly, " that it was by a nowt tongue." BIRTHS. On the 10th inst. in Great James-street, the wife of M. Mart l '' Esq., of a son, still-born. On the 10th inst. in Alfred-place, the lady of W. C. L. Keen e * Esq. of a daughter. 4 11.1RRIED. At Trinity Church, Maryletione, by the Honourable and Reverend Frederick Hotham, Prebendary of Rochester, Charle ° Woodcock, Esq., of Park-crescent, Portland-place, to the Hon' Louisa Lady Edmonstone, relict of Sir Charles Edmonstone, Duntreath, in the county of Stirling, Bart., and younge o daughter of Beaumont, the late Lord Hotham, of South Daltori, in the county of York. _ DIED. On the 12th inst. in the Albany-road. Camberwell, Sophi a the wife of Mr. W. H. Chinner, of the War-uttice, in the all year of her age. On the 12th inst. in Queen -square, Bloomsbury, Rachael, D ' het of J. Allier, Esq., late of Christchurch, Surrey, and of Majesty's Customs, aged 66. On the 1 1th inst. at Clapton, Mrs. Trower, relict of T. Trowe h Esq., aged 91. ip On the 10th inst. in South Lambeth, John Russell, Esq., the 6;th year of his age. PRINTED AND PLIDLISIIF.D BY MURDO Y O U N G, AT 1 . - SUN OFFICE, 119., STRAND, LONDON. Polled I I 1