The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-25 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON,

THE

past week we have been favoured with more auapi-
ClOll3 weather, and there is certainly a mere pro-
mising appearance of the hop grounds. Sad and
disastrous as was our last report, in consequence of
the force with which the wind had swept its broad
invisible pinions over the plantations, battering its
poles, and in some few places tearing the plant up by
the roots, deplorable and disheartening as were these I
circumstances, " hope springs eternal in the human '
breast," and the farmer, assisted by the weather, in-
stead of becoming inactive, has set about in right
earnest to repair, as far as in him lay, the damage
effected. If fine weather continues for a few weeks
there will be plenty of hops in this locality; and as they
have throughout been entirely free from any attack
of fly, flea, lice, or mould, they cannot fail to produce
a good sample.
SAtimnuasT. Notwithstanding the late high
winds, the burr is improving, and fast coining into
hop.
ROLVENDEN.—Our hops are very much injured by
the winds, and the duty lessened to a very consider-
able degree, but being free from any disease, we ex-
pect to have them of a good quality.
CANTERBURY.—The late gales have battered the
hops about very
much, and done them considerable
damage where they were much exposed. In some
grounds nearly half the poles were blown down.
Last week left the hops altogether in a very precarious
state, a great deal of the burr showing no symptom
of growing out ; but the weather this week, on some
occasions being very warm, has causedi the burr to
ohvelope into hops very fast, and enabled those out to
grow rapidly. Much mould is to be met with at
places. The general appearances are stillin favour
of a large growth.

ARTIFICIAL EYES.
A number of gentlemen assembled in St. Anne's Die-
pensarynd Ear Institution, Rose-hill, Liver-
pool,o'clock, by on Monday.afternoon, y
and E
don of Dr. Nottingham
andthe
Eye
afternoon,
institution, to witness the method of adapting artificial
ers"ors who had had the misfortune to lose the
both eyes. The form lof the artificial
eseFttisoeexactlyone that of the natural eye when open, being
convex, of about the thickness of a rather thin glass, and
forms a beautiful covering to the sightless orb. Of
course the s•ze, shapti, and colour of the eye have to be
regulte.ed and adapted according to the requirements of
each case. Out of the number of cases presented during
the afternoon, no two were alike. The eye is placed in
its position in an instant, and removed again in little
more time, and both operations are effected without
giving the slighest pain to the patients. The instanta-
neous change in the appearance of the patients is as
pleasing as it is surprising. The natural expression of the
countenance is restored as if by magic. In cases where the
eyelids have become considerably contracted it would
be necessary to use a small one at first, and progress to
the proper siza by degrees. A number of the persons
submitted for the experiment were selected from the
patients who have been under the treatment of Dr. Not-
tingham in the institution; but several were strangers,
and had been afflicted with loss of sight in one or both
eyes for several years. They were of both sexes, and
varying in age from that of an infant of about eighteen
months to fifty years. In several cases the sight of one
eye had been restored under the treatment of Dr. Not-
tingham though the patient was quite blind when en-
tering the institution. There were several hale young
men, and two or three young women servants so circum-
stanced, and it vitas astonishing to observe how com-
pletely the natural expression was restored to the face.
One interesting case was that of a respectable young
woman, about sixteen years of age, who lost her right
eye about nine years ago, through receiving a stab
with a pair cf scissors. She
possessed good features,
but, through the loss of her eye the expression was
destroyed. It was most gratifying to see how delighted
she was to observe (in a looking-glass) the miraculous
change that had been made in her appearance. There
were several cases of persons under 14 years of age, who
had lost the sight of au eye through severe cold when
infants. The case of a respectable mulatto woman de-
serves to be particularised, because M. Boissoneau de-
tected instantly that she had an artificial eye which had
been badly placed, having had an oblique instead of a
horizontal direction. The poor woman was in ecstacy
when she found that an eye had been inserted and re-
moved without the slightest pain, for she said she had
" suffered martyrdom" to have the former inserted.
Many other cases might be particularised, but the effect
in all was much the same—what was a deformity was
to a wonderful degree restored to ih pristine appear-
ance, in many cases challenging detection by the ob-
server. The proceedings, which occupied the whole af-
ternoon, were terminated by votes of thanks to M.
Boissonneau, Dr. Nottingham, and the chairman.—
Liverpool Mercury.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, Aug. 24.
DOWNING-STREET, AUG. 25, 1852.
The Queen has 1 !en pleased to appoint Boyle Travers
Finniss, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary, Robert R. Tor-
rens, Esq., to be Colonial Treasurer and Registrar.
General, George Frederick Dashwood, Lg., to to Col-
lector of Customs, and Alexander Tolmer, Esq., to be
Commissioner of Police, for the colony of South AU3-.
tralia.