The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-18 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1883.

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Parzsmirrrso 47D TRAINING.

As much misapprehension exists in the public
waled respecting the condition of Heenan before sad after
hie late contest with King, the following authentic par-
ticulars may not be without interest :—Four or five hours
after the termination of the fight on the 10th inst. be
arrived at a friend's house in Loudon. Mr. J. F. Clarke
saw him immediately. He was then suffering horn
great exhaustion. His face was considerably disfigured,
anti there was a cut on the right side of the upper lip
shoat half as inch in length, which required a stitch.
There were no bruises of anyooosqusnce about the body,
but there were • few wretches oe the cheat. Tim action
of the heart was very feeble, sad the pulse scarcely per-
ceptible. Suitable medicines were resorted to, under
the lawman of which he gradually improved until the
13th. On the evening of that day he had a fainting it
On the lith Dr. Tanner saw him in oonsaltation with Mr.
Clarks. He was then weak, his nights had been seethes
sod there was considerable unseal:less on taking a deep in-
spiration. Oa examining him, all marks about the chest
bad nearly disappeared, while the bruises upon the face
were evidently quickly fading. The cut in his upper lip
bad healed. The right need bone was loosened from its articu-
lation. ; but there was no fracture. On carefully practimeng
Aitecultelloo, the heart's mein ems band is ha feeble,
ugh there was no bruit, the valves sating efficiently.
The pules was weak, very compressible, sod rather above
100. The left lung was healthy ; but over the apex of the
right there was dulness. with evident 'iglu of congestion.
On either side at the back of the neck there was consider-
able stiffness, which was ascertained to exist chiefly in the
tendinous attachments of the trapezium muscle to the occi-
pital bone, ligamentum nuohe, dorsal vertebras, and
spine of the scapula. The immense development of the
muscles about the shoulders and chest was very remarkable.
They stood out prominootly, and as little encumbered with
fat as if they had bees cleaned by the scalpel. In firmness
they resembled cartilage. The same conditions were also
apparent in the real muscles of the abdominal wall, the
Mediums intersections (linear transverse) of which were
strongly market. But with all this splendid development
it was evident that Heenan had received a shock from
which his system was only slowly recovering ; though
whether this loss of power was due to the punishment re-
ceived in the fight or to the hard training which he had pre-
viously undergone, may be a disputed point. As physiolo-
gists, it seems to us highly probable that his training had
been too prolonged and too severe. When Heenan went
into training on Wednesday, September 23—lust *levee
weeks before the match—his weight was 13. t alb. As he
stepped into the ring on the 10th east. he was exactly list.
At therms time King weighed 1344., though be was three-
quarters of an inch taller than Heiman, whose height is
Eft. ljin. Those who know what severe trainiog memos will,
perhaps, agree with us that Heenao wee probably in better
condition five weeks before meeting his antagonist than
on the morning of his defeat, although when he stripped
for fighting the lookers-on all agreed that he seemed to
promise himself an easy victory, while exalting in his fine
proportions and splendid muscular development. It is
now clearly proved that Heenan went into the contest
with much more muscular than vital power. Long before
he had met with any movers punishment—indeed, as he
states, at the cloys of the third round—he felt faint,
breathed with much difficulty, sad, m he described it, his
respiration was " roaring." He declares that he received
more severe treatment at the hands of Sayers than be did
from King; yet at the termination dills former fight, which
lasted upwards of two hours, he was so fresh as to leap over
two or three hurdles, and distances many of his friends in
the rem. It was noticed on the present occasion that his
phirsique had deteriorated, and that he looked moot) older
than at kin lest appearance in the ring. Without offsets(
any opinTon as to the merits of the combatant., it is eertain
that Heenan was in a state of very deteriorated health
when he faced his opponent, and it is fair to conclude that
deterioration was due in a great measure to the severity
of the training which be had undergone. As with the
mind, so with the body, undue and prolonged exertion
must end in depression of power. In the process of the
physical education of the young, in the training of our re-
cruits or in the sports of the athlete, the case of Heenan
suggests a striking commentary of great interest in a physio-
logical point of view. While exerass, properly so called,
tends to d.-velopment and health, ono/mire seediest pro-
duces debility and decay. la these times of over•excikement
sad oust-competition in the race of life, the ease we now
pot on resod may. be studied with advantage.—Thu
Laced.

A large and influential meeting of the owners of
proprietary medicines was held oe Tuesday last at
Andertoe's Hotel, Fleet-street, with a view to tate
the Decessary steps for opposing the iotroductioo of clause
57 into the present Medial Act of the General Council of
Medical Education, which if allowed to become law would
prove fetal to the interests of all medicine proprietors. Mr.
R. Barclay occupied the chair, and resolutions were unani-
monsly posed appointing 'committee with full power to
take such measures u may be deemed nectuary for pre-
ventiug the passing of the bill, and nearly 3,0001. was
thereupon subscribed towards raising a fund far defraying
the expenses.

THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.-011 Wednesday
evening Mr. William Taßack, secretary to the Society for
the Abolition of (Atonal Punishment, delivered • lecture on
' the above subject at Maidstone, in the Town-hall, lent by
' bee Mayor (or the occasion. The Rev. R. F.. Maclellan oc.
copied the chair. Allusion was nude by the lecturer to
the recent local exemplifications of the non-deterrent effect
of capital punishment. Thus the murder at Chatham by
Burton. last spring, was speedily followed by Holden 's
mime, and the latter by • third murder in the same town.
At the trial of Burton there wee an objection tuned maims
empennelling say Maidstone men on the jury, on account
of the known prevalence, in that town, of decided opposi-
tion to capital punishment. Such • feeling has been re-
peatedly strengthened by the special opportunities afforded
by as amiss town for enamoring both the nou.deterreet
mud demoralising effects of the gallows. On the motion of
Mr. Frederic Wheeler, • resolution disapproving of death
punishment was carried unanimously is a krpaudience.
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY or LONDON.—At the
monthly general meeting held yesterday at the
Society's-house, Hanover-square. Admiral Sir William
Bowles, 1C.8., in the choir, Sir Robert J.
Buxton. Bart., Colonel Charles Demises, Colonel Coots
Synge Hutchinson, Lieut.-Colonel Archibald Henry P.
Smart Worthy, Lieut.-Colonel William Hoary Seymour,
C.B. ; Yours. Myna, B. Bowyer Adderley, George Iced,
James Seed, John Samuel Tancpaeray, Warier, B. M.
Lyaley, Colin W. Mama*. Jobs B. Martin, Robert Taylor,
George Reopen, Percival Lewis Hatobso, George Boohoo,
Oswald Smith, James Gurney, Joseph Prestwich, James
Bischoff, J. Green Elsey, Enc Smith, John Graham, and
Mum Aims Swanwick were elected Fellows; and Mr.
E. D. Cope, of Philadelphia, and Lient..Colooel Patrick
Stewart, R.E corresponding members of the society.
Major AA,. Ansesley, and Meson. Henry al Court Raping too,
R. lime, W. J. Potts, W. F. Schofield, D. T. Evans, 1t,...
Linklater, Mr. Austen H. Layard, M.P., Ceder-Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, sad Miss A. E. Fisher. were
proposed as candidates for the Fellowship. Mr. Joshua
Alder, of Newcastle-upon. Tyne, and Mr. Albany Hancock,
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, were likewise proposed me nor-
respooding members of the society.
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN:—
Names of candidates who plowed the major examination,
Dec. 16th, as pharniiiceutioentiste:—Gowlsed. William,
Sunderland; Heathers, William. Maidstone; Hopgaal,
Richard C., Chipping Norton ; Hoskin, Montague J. It.
Sonthamptou ; Millar, Frederick C. M., Beaminster ;
Olivier, Jacques L., Mauritius.
THE bicascisone hortmrriort.—On Wednes-
day 'maim last a wellatteeded meeting was bold at the
Merylebose Literary sad Scientific Institution. Lord Fer-
nsoy we. in the chair, and, in his opening speech, said 1.1.
object of that meeting was, by public subscriptioaa, to raise
fronts to take the institution out of it, difficulties. The
secretary read the report of the committee of management,
who mid they very much regretted that, wiles& support
were given them, they should be obliged to close the mei.
Union; sad, further, that the president (Sir Francis Gold.
amid), had lent them 5001.. and had promised to give it to
them if 5004 morn could be raised, and that they had
therefore resolved to all two meetkp for the purpose
of soliciting assistance from the public. Mr. Michell moved
the fine resolution, to the effect that the institution should
be supported. The Rev. J. De Hewer Williams seconded
the reeolutlon. Books, be mid, were at one time the
strength of them institutions, but there had been • gloat
change; the circulating library of to-day was not the
same as that of thirty years ago. The committee of the
Institution had decided to add 7,000 new books to the
7,000 old if the inditution were kept open. Svrjeaut
Parry proposed &resolution tendering Par Francis Oeldemid,
the president of the institution, hearty thous for his
offer, and pledging the institution to do it. utmost at
once to comply with its condition. He believed that this
Institution wee the oldest of its kind, except the Heohanied
Inetatution founded by Dr. Birkbeck. He could sot wider.
eked why such institutions should dew in Loaded ; it wee
not so Moor great provincial towns. He was sot 'shamed
to say although he regretted it, that be had had so univer-
sity education, bet this he knew, that he bad derived great
veleantage (between thesis of 18 aud 25) from beloegieg
Literary arid Sciestille Instigations. Dr. Hare seconded
the resolution, which was carried neashnously. Dr. Whit-
more moved OM as many gentlemen es pmeible should be
added to the premed eseveseleg commlftes, be awry out the
object of the meetisg. He palsied sot ths moresite of
presidium counter attrectiose to the nimie-halls and other
nerve objectionable plains of amassment. Mr. Wellhead
seconded the resolution, which was carried onsoimously.
About 200 f. wee subscribni at the meeting. es vote of
theatre to the chairman lereainatad the proceedings,

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE,

(arum's Tzuosass.)
THE POLISH INSURRECTION.
BRESLAU, Doc. 16.

An engagement took place on the 14th inst. at
Niche.lowice, in the palatinate of Cracow, in which
the Russians were beaten by the insurgents, who
also seised the custom-house chest. The Austrian
troops prevented the Russians from retreating into
Galician territory. The insurgents have also ob-
tained a success at Lukow.

VIENNA, Dgc. 17.
Advioes received here state that the insurgents
defeated the Russians on the 14th, at Michalowice,
a Russian Customs' post not far from Cracow, and
took possession of the funds. The Austrians pre-
vented the Russians from retreating into Galician
territory.

The Poles have also been victorious in an engage-
ment at Lukow, in the government of Lublin.

The Wanderer of to-Clay confirms the statement
of some days back that the son of Count Andrew
„akdooyaki has been condemned to death at Warsaw.

DENMARK..
COPENHAGEN, Dic. 17.
The King of Denmark received General Fleury
this morning.

PRUSSIA.

STUTIOART, Ow. 17.

Prussia has given notice to quit the kollverein,
in order to secure liberty of action with regard to
the pending negotiations.
"The manner in which these negotiations are
being carried oc," says the official Staatsatimiger,
"testifies that all the contracting parties are ani-
mated by the desire to continue the union."