The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-28 00:00:00

A NEW MORTARA CASE.-THE TABLES
TURNED.

It appears from a letter addressed to M. Louis
Venillot, of the Univers, that Par's has been the scene of
a new Mortara case, with this difference, that the Jewish
Rabbi has, in the present instance, played the role of
Pope. The facts are as follows:—M. Rosenthal, a
Polish Jew, placed his son, aged twelve years of
age, in a catholic school in the Ratignolles. The
father of M. Rosenthal, who happens to be the chief
rabbi, hearing this consulted the Jewish coneistory in Paris,
and it was decided that the lad should be removed from
the catholic seminary. Accordingly, one morning as he
got out of the omnibus which conveyed him to school, he
was seised and carried off. The boy's father made com-
plaint to the chief rabbi, who returned for answer, "You
will see him no more." The facts were laid before the Pro-
cures Imperial, the Prefect of Police, and the Minister
of Justice, but up to the present moment no
' satisfaction has been obtained by M. Rosenthal. Asa last
resort be wrote to the Univers complaining of the violence
done to him as a father, and asking whether it is to be en-
dured that the parental authority can be thus openly
defied and annulled in the very centre of Paris. The
point of the matter is that M. Louis Veuillot, who strongly
maintain. the right of the Pope to take sway the son of a
Jew from his father, as strongly protests against the
chief rabbi doing the same thing. "Either," says M.
VenUlot, " the father must recover his son, or he must
know and we must know why his paternal rights are not
respected."

The Emperor Napoleon is said to be busy at a
" Life of Augustus," which will be the complement of his
" Life of Crier."

The French blue book not only gives its readers
statistics on the trade, commerce, and finances of the
country, but curious bits of information on the most com-
mon place subject. From the report on the state of the
floating debt to the derivation of • chignon the transition
is startling. Nevertheless the " Livre like" contains the
latest and most reliable information on these very different
subjects. It informs us that the convents of France are
the best markets for hair. Thus the daughter of • noble
house becomes the spouse of the church, her golden tresses
are cut off by the ecclesiastical scissors in view of a
crowded congregation of the faithful, and fall on the
marble pavement of the convent chapel amidst the sobs
and sighs of the fair recluse's family. The ceremony over,
the long hair is carefully gathered up and sold for • con-
siderable sum to an agent.

A letter from Trieste, in the Wanderer of Vienna,
mays :—" The experiments made in December lest at Pole
with the new artillery has shown the superiority of the
projectiles manufactured in the Austrian arsenals, as the
English shells burst at the moment they touched the
armour-plating, whilst those made in Austria penetrated
it intact. Those results have recently received a striking
confirmation. Experiments were being made on the prac-
tising ground with an Armstrong gun, when two of the
English shells burst in the tube and damaged it. Such •
thing has never occurred with an Austrian shot."

Tau BISHOPRIC OF LICHFIRLD.—Ii wee stated in
our columns, yesterday, that the Rev. Dr. Selwyn, Bishop
of New Zsabuid, had been offered the above preferment,
and declined it. Sincei the negotiations with Bishop Sel-
wyn which resulted is this answer, further steps have been
taken to induce him to accept the Alm, and although be
considers the claims of his antipodal diocese as a bar to his
acquiescence. it is not out of the bounds of posdbility that
homey yet be influenced to alter bin determination.—
Birmingham Pod.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

After Term Nisi Prins Sittings at Westminster.—{Before
the Lord Chef Judie* and a Special Jai'.)
ASSOLON v. STATHAM.

This was the third day of the hearing of this extraor-
dinary case of tooth drawing.
Mr. W. Chambers, Q.C., and MrW. Taffourd Salter were
counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Giffard, Q.C., and Mr.
Murphy were counsel for the defendant.

Amitie, of Westminster Hospital, deposed that he
made chloroform his particular study between 1856 and
1881. The plaintiff's symptoms on the first administration
of chloroform by Dr. Kelley were the result of a timid
administration; that was in not giving sufficient chloro-
form. The symptoms would lead such s medical man to
believe that the patient was not a fit subject for chloro-
form. The patient's present condition could not be traced
In any way to the administration of chloroform.
In cross-examination, he said that fatal results had fol-
lowed its administration by eminent practitioners. There
was scarcely any risk when administered with proper care.
He should not like to swear absolutely there was none,
but it wee very small indeed, in his opinion. It was impos-
bible that plaintiff's condition could have been produced
from tenor so far back as the first administration.

Re-examined—lf any harm happens from chloroform it
happens at ones.
qty the Lord Chief Justice—He held that every person
who was fit to undergo an operation might, with due care
and skill, have chloroform administmed to them. Some
patients required more care than others. There were
practitioners who were of opinion that some per-
sons ought not to take it. Hysterical patients had
a curious tolerance of chloroform, that was the power of
the heart to resist its paralysing action, and when people
spoke of the danger of chloroform, it depended solely in
taking gasping breaths ; is then required a little more
manual care and skill in administering. The inhalation by
lint or an inhaler was an open question. The Scotch prac-
titioners practice the lint system. He had writtenstrongly
in favour of the use of the inhaler, sad he still adhered to
it in the case of an inexperienced practitioner, as it
enabled him to give it with a little move safety than lint.
There was no mischief in this case that might have been
avoided by the use of the joinder.
Dr. B. Richardson, consulting physician to the National
Dental Hospital, had examined the teeth. They pre.
seated marked indications of the disease known as cans-
tomb', and they had caries. The former was a thickening
of the fangs or bone, and the latter the destruotion
of the masticating power. One presented the largest
exostosis he had ever seen but with one ezmi-
tion. There was no known condition of the
teeth that produced so much pain as exoutosis.
He had made the use of chloroform his study for
years, and he had extensivelT practised it, and he should
not hesitate to admicister It again to the plaintiff. A
person who bad been told that the administration of
chloroform had endangered her life, would be, no doubt,
in some degree of terror, and that terror ought to be
dealt with judiciously and carefully before its second

Dr. Hanson, author of the work on " Chloroform : its
Action and Administration," which was gre►tly referred to
in crow-exsadning the medical witnesses, deposed that he
considered the chloroform was properly administered to the
plaintiff at the Great Northern Hospital, and that her
present state and condition could not be ascribed to it.
Mr. Chambers—Do you think her case one of imagin-
ation

Witness--I have a strong impression that if the plaintiff
was to throw away her crutches and have a few cold baths
she might be able to walk nearly as well as I can. Hyste-
ric al pandysis can be cured, and I have seen it cured in a
short time.

Mr. Chambers—What is hysterical paralysis!
Witness—There you put rather a &Mule gouda's. I
should say it is the loss or partial Ices of motion in one or
more limbs which is the result of the particular date of
the system with or without any exciting cause. A person
under terror is excited. I oannot predict how long that
terror might last. The object of calming and re-assuring s
patient before administering chloroform was that moat of
the deaths bad occurred from sudden syncope from moral

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This was the defendant's cue.
Dlr. Chambers said he wished to correct a mistake into
which Sir William Ferguson inadvertently fell in giving
his evidence last night. Sir William said that when
the plaintiff came to him for his opinion she had no
crutches, when, in fact, she bad them, and walked
with them into Sir William's room.
. ._ _ _

The plaintiff i attorney wag ii;;;Called, and stated that
he took the plaintiff to Sir William's hones, and that she
used crutches.
In cross-examination he said he took her there to learn
Sir William's opinion ; but he did not call him on the
abortive

Mr. Gifford said that after the expression of the jury
yesterday he thought he should best discharge his duty
to his client by abstaining from occupying their time with
any general remarks upon the cue.
Mr. M. Chambers, in a lengthened address, summed up
the case for the plaintiff to the jary, and was proceeding
when our report left.