The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-01 00:00:00

ETHER VERSUS CHLOROFORM.

TO TIM TIMOR OF TEI IMPRESS.
Eta, The paragraph in your journal of the 30th
Ida headed " Ether TS/1101 Chloroform," chasms • few
words of comment. If the greater safety of ether over
ehlorform was what is there represented, there would be
room for immense public oongretulatiors, but it is unfor-
tunately not so. Oar Americaa ermine take mam-
mon' pride to themselves that it was at Boston the an-
esthetic value of ether was first discovered (perhaps the
diecovery of this center!), land though there have
greatest
naaeriv 50 **ideate fatal from ether in Europe, they
refine BUR eekeowledv them: the paiwaph says, " Pro.
teaser Heyward, el Boston, has declared that, sot.
withalanfing his Tommie& 'aims, he has yet beet enable
to fled any well attested ease of death from the lehalation
of ether.' Now, wise Professor Hayward was in London,
I amid to show him the details of more than a dozen, but
he would not be disturbed in his ancient ideas : his col.
heves in Bootee, however. now admit twenty-five, nearly
all of whk.h I furnished them from the records of European
practice. My friend Professor Simpson (the discoverer of
chloroform), as well as all the chief surgeons in Europe, see
==ageaperior in ether over chloroform. The eta.
would seem to show that at beat ether is
only ose-ibied mare safe than chloroform, and it has many
dierievatagee which will always prevent He coming into
general melte% thus it may explode like parade, sod
when a tseepsoatul of chloroform will answer for a long
orpostiss. a pint of ether will be required for the same
sperelare.
Cidesdeem may be said to be perfectly free from danger,
if swell with peeper peentiens. I have iodividually seen
ishlorokein adnifoistered about ten theneead times, and I
saw caly two ensidente la all theme eases--one at Guy's
IfeepOrd, the other at another hospitd. I have bees a
deem pen, In fact, welching such omen ; but it wend be
almost as bootless aa undeatakieg to watch toe a railway
melded ; le *tier words, the eddy of chlorofeem is some.
thing wonderful, though Profemor Hayward haves so stone
eaters's& to esedennt it, and to exaggerate its accidents.
This Bodesrepertt,, I
_nosy say la comelusion, bee been con-
• by theeel Journals eves in America, as also to
some extent by the Laud sad Medical Ties* as &rig
Wm views el assethatice generally. —I am, he.,
CHARLES KJDD, M.D.
skvilleadesei, W., Feb. I.

The Leeds Hide Volunteer bazaar at the Victeiria
Hall was dosed last night, the prooseds for the four eaya

male amounting to 4,6511 10s. 6d.
Mr. Westhead, M.P., addressed his consti-
tuents at York yesterday. The hon. putters= took
a ,rekomeet of the preoeeding■ of last session of par.
Lamest, and turning to the approaching session,
expressed hie opinion that no striking measure of any kind
will be introduced, nor doss he look on a dissolution of par
Bement this year as at all a probable event. Referring to
America, he expressed a hope that England will under no
oircanastaaess be Waned to Interfere between the North
sad Soo* salon called upon to do so in tba capacity of a
friend—not of America merely, but of humanity.
Mr.Phelpa, of Sadler'a Wells, is engaged at the
Stsaderd Timbre, and will appear there at the termination
of hie mem at &Mee. Wells, the end of February.
A concert is to be given at the St. James's Hall
on the Slitk fa aid of the turd for the PUEOCITS by the late
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IMISIBMIROS MII/Ikr in Northumberland.
There was a rather aingular will case before the
Dublin Meet el Peshsheea Thursday. Bridget Flanagan,
a sett in Begenetreet dem* in that city, died in 1855,
ten days after the was received into the order. She was
to receive a fortune of 4001., a charge on certain lands, on
the day she became a professed nun. She made a will
bequeathing her property to three of the sisters, as trustees
for the convent. But the trustees declined to prove the
will, and were willing that the amide should be dealt with
as in a came of intestacy. Judge Kaoline asked, " How
does it happen that if this will be a fair transaction the
parties are ready to abandon it r To which the attorney
answered that, under the circumstances, the Superiorees
would prefer giving up the property to the relatives.
According to the Gazette de France, Dr. Berar
being farnisisel with a power of attorney from Viscount
de Saint-Priest and the Prince de Sculls, friends of General
Bores, who was lately taken prisoner and shot on she
Neapolitan territory, last week received the body of the
dimmed, which was exhumed to be delivered to him, and
seemed it to Bond.
It is announced that the great spring Horded-
turd Exhibition of Flowers and Planta at Ghent will take
phew* the 2nd of larch. On the day preceding a huna
Add 'edges from all the chief countries of Europe will
enembek ia order to award this prizes. The next day is
Axel Ur a grand banquet, at which the judges, the prize.
in" sad uesenbeni of the society will be present.
Mrs. Slidell bast arrived in Paris, and is staying
at the Hotel do Min.
A letter from Trebizond, of the 15th January,
his the following :—" Our winter is unusually severe. For
OM weeks past no steamers. have arrived. Lieutenant
Watson, of her Majesty's mimic's in Persia, is here, weather.
bound. He made au attempt to reach Batonm by au open.
&eked boat, but was fortunate enough to return in safety to
Tseliseed from Surmeneh. He was a whole night on his
Meru exposed to hungry hyenas, which infest the road, and
travelled, oe foot, over snow of great depth, and acme a
country unknown to him."
A member of the Belgian ultramontane party,
in a recent sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of Brussels,
gave • ' definition of a reactionist and of a liberal. The
reactionist, he said, was the friend of the cur.,, and the
' libeled, has adversary. That definition was not allowed to
pees by the Minister of the Interior. "The curds," said
K. Vsnderpeereboom, "ought to have nothing but friends
among all opinions, and that is what would be the case, if,
defining themselves to their venersted functions, they
abstained from descending into the political arena, avoided
certain inquisitorial proceedings in the interior of fan:dime
and did not transform themselves into political agents. But,
so long as they openly and actively interfere in elections,
bring forward their candidates, and eater into every intrigue,
it will be the right and duty of the liberals to defend the
civil authority."
An African International Society is in course of
being established in Paris, of which the president is Jules
Gerard, the celebrated lion-killer. The object of the society
is to promote the relations between French Africa and the
Soudan, to protect colonial interests, to destroy Dui"'
animals, and to organise subject' of study for naturalists.
The society will likewise occupy itself with archwological
and zoological subjects. The society is already patronised
by the French National Institute, and by the Duke of
Malakoff, Clovernor•Ganeral of Algeria. Several honorary
members hays been admitted.
FRIGHTFUL Duets OP A Lan IN SUNDERLAND.-..
Nonni fiamne, Fmk; LSO PAL—Another frightful
accident has occurred In our 001131ty. Mears. Monday and
Dixon, of Sunderland, have recently opened the Bedlington
Ironworks. This afternoon, shout ten minutes to four, the
partners, with Mrs. Maundy and other ladies, were in the
new mills widening the sawing of iron, when Mrs. Moan.
sey's dress became entangled in the machinery, sad Wore
sal could be given to her, or the engine stopPed, she Ins
dragged in amongst it and literally torn to pieces.