The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-27 00:00:00

HEALTH OF OARIBALDL

TO TUX ZDTTOR OP TUX WI U.

811,-4 have the honour of forwarding you for
insertion in the Express the following official
report, sent to this committee from Prams°,
Partridge.-1 am, itc., J. MACRAE MOM.
Garibaldi Committee,
10, Southampton-street, Strand, Sept. 26.

NIL PANTICIDOZ'S LWOW TO TEN OAIIBALDI ITALIAN
UNITY COMMITTAL _ _

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The reports received in England of General Genitalia's
health, and of the state of his wounds, were so various, cow
tradlotory, and alarming, that I was commissioned by some
of the General's friends to visit him professionally, and to
ascertain, from actual observation, his real condition.
I arrived at Spezzia on the 16th of September, end I have
shoos that time daily visited the General at Varignano, in
company with Dr. l'randina and his other medical attend-
ants, and I have been constantly present at the morning
dressings of the wound. I have been further permitted,
through the courtesy of the surgeons, to maks a personal
examination into the nature and extent of the injury.
The accident may be described shortly as a transverse com-
pound fracture of the right internal milleolus (ankle bone),
produced by a rills shot, which, though it opeoed the joint
by a small aperture, did not enter it. um itself in soy
other part of the limb. The outer ankle bone remains un-
injured, nor doe* the astragal= (the peat pulley-like bone
of the foot which sustains the leg) appear to have been
injured ; the most careful examinations made immediately
after the accident, and since, have led to the conclusion
that no other boos except the tibia (or greater boas of the
leg) was implicated in the injury.
At first, severe inflammation, 'welling, and excessive pain,
followed upon the infliction of the wound. But these were
subdued by cold applications, catapleams, leeches, and eta;
so that now the ankle and surrounding part present nearly
their natural size and form, the foot being almost
at a right eagle with the leg, and otherwise in excellent
position.
The wound, the circumference of which (on its superficial
aspect) is rather larger than that of half a franc, looks well,
and discharges healthy matter mingled with molecular frit.
menta of exfoliating bone, which are rarely larger than
grains of sand. The present unserollen state of the ankle
and of the parts around it permits of an examination which
has confirmed the summaries, given by other circumstances,
that the bullet did not enter the joint nor effect a lodgment
elsewhere. The injured parts are now free from inflame e.
Lion, and, unless moval, are no longer panful. The wound is
simply dressed with sharpie, spread with aerate, endeavored
with a light poultice, the foot being msintained at rest and
in position by a amiable apparatus of small pads, pillow and
bandages. The wound of the left thigh, which was slight
and superficial, is now well.
The General's manner is very patient and tranquil ; his
health is fairly good, though he is much emaciated ; his
appetite is tolerable, his pulse is quiet, his tongue is clean
and moist, and upon the whole he sleeps well. He has
within the last two days been removed into a larger, more
airy and quieter chamber than that which he at first
occupied. Every one about the General seems attentive
to hts wants and wishes; sod his friends have supplied
him (and I hope will continue to do co) with those neces-
saries and comfort; which his situation demands. My
opinion is that (bearing in mind his habitually abstemious
habits), if mental es well as bodily repose are steadily en-
forced. if the injured limb be kept at perfect rest, if the
general health and strength be sustained by suitable nourish-
ment (ad if Deed be, by stimulants), by well-aired, well.
kept, and quiet roomy sad, lastly, by a continued supply of
those 'comforts semseary to his present oonditioa, the
General will, with tints (certainly some months) and ea
r,have a good useful foot, though the ankle joint may become
stiff, or, at the best, be only partially moveable. I beg to
express my entire concurresioe in the treatment pureed by
the surgeons who attend General Garibakli, and who dress
his wound with solicitous care and skill.

METROPOLITAN BOARD or WORK& —The board
re-assembled yesterday, after a rooms of six weeks ; Mr. J.
Thwaites is the chair. Tenders WINO opened forth* 01006.
thou of the western main drainage works, and that of Mr.
Maxon for 56,7401. was accepted. The financial statement
was presented, which showed • total cash haws in the
*ails of the treasurer of 131,81351. 17s. 3d. Payments were
ordered to the amount of 5,1201. ls. 6d. The amount re-
quired for the expenses of main drainage for the ner was
reported to be 137,074/. 12s. 3d., and precepts for the several
sums doe for the different parishes were *nod. 'The 11106
of the business was of • routine character.
BARROW Scnow.. —We hear with regret of the
early death of Mr. Joseph Jones, the "head boy" at Har-
row, in his 19th year, the only child of Mr. Jowls J=
of Seversatoke, ls the county of Worcester. 'llre .
re-assembled last week, and the deceased was, we believe,
present in chapel on Sunday. where, as is customary, be
read the lemma. Mr. domes had bees =wet/ this
but had returned to school apparently recovered. a. 2
nesday • relapse set in, and he expired, after snob
ing, ou Thursday morning, at the Louse of the Rev. G. Y.
Harris, one of the masters, to the great grief of all his
nions and a large circle of friends. His death was *
be the result of an organic disease somewhat similar be
under whichßishopVilliers sank rosocidenlyandunenpoileilly
last autumn. This sad event has cast • glom one 00.1
whole school. The deceased had pined many piney, and
was, we learn, a young man of peat ability and preset*
A DREADTIIL DEMOCRAT.-0111* excellent COD-
temporary the .11,4 Clients** is alarmed at the radi-
ealiam of Mr. Ber Ward Hope, sad describes its further
anxieties is the following lionuaspb :—" In echo of some
strange avowal of radical prindpiss, Mr. Bamford Hope has
not succeeded at Stoke•pco-Trent. Wisobserve thstanother
chondiessa—Mr. .1. D. Coleridge—has boss aris.
f a still greater amount of radios/ism, in the pooped
hio
of his a candidate at the next election for Exeter.
We must Goatees that we look with coosiderable alarm and
CHANGE or SURNAME. --Lunt night'a Gazette con- corresponding regret upon such democratic t„aadmiems
tabu the following notifintiou :—" The Queen has been smog those who an identified with high' anorak pia-
pleased to giee and grant unto Arthur Edwin Hill (can- alpha and practices. We cannot but regard the onion of
mooly called Lord Arthur Edwin Hill), of Norwood Park, is democratic palm:4lle with church princies as an anomaly,
the parish of Southwell, in the county of Nottingham, 11101,, sad 006 which comes sworn to us only by the
esam-
knight of the shire foe the county of Rowe, in Irshud, ple of the church of Rome, when and where she has, for
third, but second surviving son of Arthur Blundell-ilandys- her own mischievous purpose, deemed it expedient to
Trumbull, late Marquis of Downsbire, her royal license and flatter aid indulge the lowan of the people.' It is this
authority that he and his lane may, in compliance with • feeling that has made as look with some doubt and mop-
clause motel:led in the last will sod tntamest of Arthur, cies upon what is termed the ' Fres and Open Churches'
second Viscount Dungan*, deceased, henceforth take the movement, in which than has appeared tons fobs as Washes
surname of Trevor in addition to and after that of Hill, sad or ander.ourrent of desmassey tehieh threatens danger to our
also bear the arms of Trevor quarterly, in the first quarter, errasareatira parochial system ; while democracy in the
withthose of his own family : such arms being dist day 42- Hesse ciecaninoes *renew danger to church property and
amplified according to the laws of arms and recorded is the them*. chat and *tau*
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Upon one =anion I bad the good fortune to see General
Garibaldi in company with Professor Zaoetti, of Florence,
and I was gratified to find that my view of the past and
of the prospective treatment (ander certain contingencies) of
this anxious cam coincided with thole of that eminent sue
goon. I cannot conclude this report without expressing my
grateful sense of the prompt aid afforded me by the autho.
cities here in furtherance of the objects of my visit; and
I would also especially acknowledge the frank reception and
kindness of General Garibaldi's medieal attendants, Drs.
Ripari, Prandial', Albaores, Basile, and others, with whom,
for the time being, I have had the pleasure of being thrown
into daily association.
RICHARD PARTRIDOI,
Surgeon to King's Collage Hospital, Professor of
Anatomy is King's Odin*, London. and Member
of the Council of tie Royal College of flumeone
of England.