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ICTO THE EDITOR OF THE 5.4, 1
Sir,--For-the information and sitisftictWsit tTgri
public, who are evidently so much interestcnn the'
welfare of the poor man Cooper, who was acci-
dentally shot on Thursday last at the Wimbledon
butts, I beg you will be so good as to allow me to
convey through your columns an authentic account
of his present condition, more particularly as I hear
and see so many erroneous statements of him.
A penetrating wound of the cavity of the chest
must always be a very serious affair, but it by no
means necessarily follows that because a man re.
eci ves a wound of this or any other cavity of the
body by a rifle bullet, the aperture of whose en-
trance and exit shall be Opposite, that the interven-
ing contained orgnris are inv,aiably completely
penetrated. So much depends upon a variety of
circumstances connected both with the position of
the individual firing, as we:l as of the man who is
shot, &c., which are well understood by all experi.
enced military surgeons, and duly taken into
consideration before venturing to pronounce any
definite prognosis as to the probable issue of the
wound,

Now, in this case, if the bullet had transfixed the
intervening structures which exist between the
anterior and posterior parts of the chest, the most
important structures of the left lung would have
been wounded, as also some part of the heart itself,
and only a fatal result could be anticipated. Such,
however, in my opinion,
after a careful examination,
and taking every circumstance into consideration,
was not the course of the bullet, and I ventured to
pronounce that the poor fellow's chance was by no
means so hopeless. lam happy to feel daily more
confirmed in that view, but, unfortunately, the
future results of the accident may, I fear, be much
complicated by the fact that the bullet still remains,
no attempt having been made to extract it from its
reported position in front of the chest after the first
receipt of the injury.
The man is blessed with an unimpaired constitu-
tion, and his temperament is most favourable, which
no doubt will serve him hereafter ; but if he has this
to be thankful for, and the hairbreadth escape of
sudden death which, under Providence, he has had,
how much must he ever feel indebted, if he should
ultimately recover, to the humane and anxious
solicitude of Lord and Lady Elcho, who have been
so unceasing in every effort to provide for his
smallest comfort P And I can but feel that the
remembrance of this must always be a deep source
of gratitude to every soldier of the Brigade of
Guards, so many of whom have been associated with
these annual Volunteer meetings, and now express
so much sympathy for the sufferings of their
wounded comrade.—l have the honour to be, Sir,
your obedient servant,

JOIIN WYATT,
Surgeon-Major, Coldstream Guards.
Guards' Hospital, Vincent-square, July 24.

The Danish Question.

Under the title of "La France et Europe," the
Pays publishes another article, warning the two
German Powers not to imagine themselves at
liberty to dispose as they please of the Danish prod
vinces. The late debates in the English Parliament
on the diplomatic documents published in London,
but repudiated by the three Northern Sovereigns,
show that all parties in England are of opinion
that for the advancement of progress and civilisa.
tion and for the maintenance of peace, the union
between France and England should be made more
and more intimate :—" And let no mistake be made
in the matter," says the writer," when on both sides
of the Channel an intimate alliance and a cordial
understanding are spoken of, it is not in view of a
material war, to be made and carried on in com-
mon with cannons and muskets. No one anticipates
anything of the sort. It is in view of common efforts
to be combined in favour of civilisation, peace, end
liberty. Civilisation, peace, and liberty appear to
still have in old Europe stubborn and incorrigible
adversaries who concert together to impede their
normal development, and the calm and legitimate
expansion of those principles. Well, the statesmen
of France and England say with reason that the pro-
jects directed against liberty are without danger on
the day when the two great Western Powers,
which are at the head of the nations, labour to.
gether for the general prosperity and for the
emancipation of humanity. Whilst in both houses
of the British Parliament the Ministerial mem-
bers, as well as those of the Opposition, recog-
nise the value and utility of the Anglo• French
alliance, the Ambassadors and Minister of the
Northern Courts and of the Governments of Ger-
many make energetic protestations of their lively
sympathy for the Court of the Tuileries: All the
Cabinets of the European continent make it their
duty to declare that they attach the greatest price
to remaining in harmony with the Cabinet of Paris.
They assure that Government of their ardent desire
to live in the best intelligence with it, and affirm
that never a hostile thought nor a warlike inclina-
tion had entered their minds. In a word, if all do
not seek the alliance with France with the same
eagerness, because all do not follow the same
liberal and progressive, pacific, and civilising
career, all at least endeavour to reassure her as
to their feelings and intentions; all prove clearly
the high esteem in which they hold her, and the
extreme confidence which they accord to her.
We may be allowed to eulogise the Emperor's
Government for those results which spring from
the Nisdom and moderation it has shown in the
question of the Duchies. France has not to trouble
herself materially either about the plans more or
less contrary to right and equity which Austria an d
Prussia appear to pursue with the complicity of
Russia relative to Denmark. Those projects do not
affect us directly ; they interest infinitely more the
Diet, whose authority they suppress, and the Con.
federation, whose dissolution they prepare. The
Emperor's Government, cannot, however, remain
indifferent to acts which at the same time shock the
old and the new public law—to a violence which no
longer belongs to the present age, and which re-
veals a spirit of conquest so contrary to modern
manners—and to diplomatic arrangements which
attest the intention of opposing the pacific and
regular advance of ideas of progress and civilisa.
tion. Those are tendencies and facts to be re.
gretted, and are too much in opposition to the
requirements of peace and the principles of liberty
of our times for the chastisement not to follow the
fault, since he who sows the storm must of neeessitl
reap the whirlwind. France of 1789 and of 1864
must disapprove by her language of such tendencies
moment an im-
mense such facts, in order to show clearly that she
belongs to young Europe, and not topothliecy
doe s
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aenardm pdbioishtwiianosetnoerdlrsdewe,'rshitgaveiniedevddh
. The
tphoissitsi
which the Court of the Tuileries
ness which characterise her present
from the contrast between this disinterestedness and
moderation hone
considerable moral
political ascendancy,
influence. That ascendancy an infiuence it is which
she will know how to place at the service of unit
s and true liberty."
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BEATE( OF MRS. WOOD, TUE VOCALIST.—Thig
once celebrated vocalist expired on Thursday last
at Ba'claire Ball, Bretton West, near Wakefield, where she
had resided for the last 12 months, Mrs Wood had retired
from public life for many years, and devoted her talents to
the teaching of music at Leeds. It was at the national
theatres, Drury-lane and Covent-garden, that Mrs Wood,
as Miss Paton, first won her great fame as a vocalist, and
gained a hold upon the admiration of the public which never
ceased until her final retirement from the stage. Fier reper-
toire, when her fame became established, extends( 1 through
the whole range of English opera, in which 'there was
scarcely a piece which she did not adorn by her attractive
vocalisation and dramatic talents. It was in the zenith of
her reputation as a vocalist that she was married to Lord
William Lennox. The union, however, did not prove a
happy one, and no very long time elapsed befolre a separa-
tion, followed by a divorce, took place. She s, lb se quently
married Mr Wood, himself a vocalist of considerable talent.
As Mrs Wood she continued to maintain theliigh position
she had achieved as the first of English fenn tl a vocalists,
gradually contracting her public engagemen t s, however,
until she finally retired from the stage, and took up her
residence at Wakefield, where she liv,2d for several years.
She afterwards removed to Leeds, votere, as alt eady stated,
she occupied the position of a teacher of IlaUBiQ .