The Sun.
London, England, 1830-07-08 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL,

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I A Court ,of Common COuneil was.held un Tues-
day at Guildhall, which. was .fully attended*. ;,,
The Sheriff's reported that, attended by the De-
puty Rernembruneer, they had nwandience with his
Majesty on Saturday last, in his closet in St. James's
Palace, to know when his Majesty would receive
the dutiful and loyal Address agreed to at the last
Court, ,that they were most graeiously,received,and
his Majesty stated it would, give him at all times
peculiar pleasure, to attend to
.the duties,of the Cor-
poration of Loudon, but that he could not consis-
tently with his feelings receive the Court of Common
Council in the manner they were entitled to be re-
ceived until after he had paid the last duties to his
late Majesty, when he would appoint an early day.
Upon a motion of Mr. Deputy OLDHAM, it was
referred to the Committee for General Purposes to
consider and report whether the practice of appoint-
ing the Masters or Prime Wardens of the twelve
superior Companies, to officiate as the twelve Citi-
zens to assist the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor at the
solemnity of the Coronations of the Kings of Eng-
land, be founded on any right; and also, as the
Court of Common Council are the represenatives
of the Citizens at large, whether or not the said
twelve Citizens should be selected from amongst its
members.

The Nightly Watch Committee presented a Re-
port referring to two plans for effecting improve-
ments in the City Police, which had been prepared
and suggested by two different Siib-Commiftecs and
which had been printed and sent to the Members of
the Court.

Mr. Alderman VENAnt.Es moved a Resolution—
" That the whole system of Police by day and night
within the City was imperfect, Sand required revision—
that it was important to secure the establishment Oa prin-
ciple of uniformity under the euntroul of a Central Com-
mittee, to be appointed by the .Court,--to make arrange-
ments to ensure the efficient co-operation of the Watch
and Polite of the various Wards when necessary--to
strengthen the day Police---,to reduce as far as possible the
number of Ward Constables, and to relieve the inhabi-
tants of the City.of as large a portion as possible of the
sums paid by them for the support of the Nightly Watch
and Day Police : and that it be referred to the Committee
to consider and report the manner, in which these objects
could best he accomplished without impairing or endan-
gering the rights and privileges of the City."
A very long discussion ensued,and.ap amendment
was moved by Mr. FoRREST, " That the Watch
Committee do consider what improvements can be
made in the Watch Act annually, passed- by the
Court," which was adopted npon a division, the
numbers being :—For the amendment, 6.5; against
it, 1.4;, majority, 41.

PREVENTION OF HYDROPHOBIA BY
OPERATING On the NERVE r►enrest the BITE,

(From the -Edited.)
I have not yet heard any aetisfactory
,physiological
reason why the absorption of the rabid virus should
take so long a time m its progress; all other 'animal
poisons operate 'eery quickly;, 'Weeds it cannot be
referred to either lymphatic or sanguineotts absorp-
timi—the latter almost instantaneous, and the former
consuming no long period.
I will therefore assume ea my postulatum that there
is another absorption—namely, by the nerves—and
that it is peculiarly slow its progress; it would nut
be difficult to produce arguments in support of this
opinion, as, for instance, workers in white lead, who
are afflicted with diseases, Confessedly nervous, yet
not produced
,until a considerable lapse of time after
they haVebeen engaged in their• pernicious occupation.
An instance of hydrophobia Occurred in My own
practice, in:whiefi the,patient did not exhibit hydro-
phobic symptoms until nine months after he bad
been bitten by a rabid animal ; in this case it was
found that the wound.had been inflicted immediately
upon the saphena nerve.
I think I have a fair right to assume, In the ab-
sence of a better theory, that the success of cau-
terization or excision'after the bite, of suspected
male depends upon the destruction' of the proxi-
mate.nerve.

Now, as I should consider any oblervations upon
this diseaie impertinent which did not lead to some
practical result, I would propose, as a consequence
of my hypothesis, that, in all cases of bites inflicted
by suspecred anithali, the nearest large nerve to the
wound should be divided, or a portion excised above
the part, so ns toP intercept its communication with
its origin.
Nay, more—gianting me the postulatum. I 'slab-
cited in the beginning, that the nervous absorption
is peculiarly tedious, stealing, as it were, inch by
inch, I would advise, even weeks after the bite, the
excision of the nerve, but nearer to its origin in pro-
portion to the lapse of 0,:11, Jenkins,

, .
On Siturdny eveninq two canal Wats, laden
with pdtatoei and other provisions, were stopped near En-
field, county of Meath, by a vest concourse of the peasantry
and plundered of the entire cargoes.—Cork Ctinstitutinn,
CURIOSITY.—A gentleman informed ua, a
few days since, that a day or two previous, while in pursuit
of wild turkeys in liar; county, Ky., in company with a
friend, that they 'diseovereti on the summit of a kraiw or
eletlitiOn, a large hole, that would admit a man's body
without much difficulty. Curiosity . led - them to make
proparations'for descending into it, tad after the neceiniary
preparation, and other company, they, did dOstsmd, end St
the depth of shout sixty, feet, entered a cavity or room
apparently cut..out of the solid rock `(thraugli which they
:had passed for many feet,) which appeared to be 16 0.:,18
feet square. Our informant was the first person who en-
tered , the aubterraneous room, and Leah' he was not a
little surprised that the first ohject which met his eyes was
a human skull with the teeth all in it. Upon' further
examination, it was found that the whole place was filled
With human' skeleton, of men, women, and children.
Except immediately under. the small aperture through
which they descended, the place was pectin:4ly dry, and the
bones in a state of great preservation. An entire skeleton
Of O human laxly tem ;obtained. , iThey;eatioluded to ..zri"
Mine how deep the boars laid, and penetrated through
;them in one place between four And Seven feet; but Annul
;hymnist as plentiful 88 on the top, but thereseemo to rite
en filteniive eflluvia;as they began to come to where it was
A little thump. There was no outlet to she roam,, sod
large *Wake which they found in there, and which pared entirely docile, had passed round the room several
times while they were in it. It is a subject_for the T..."
lation of wise men and. philosophers, 81 these 0° visit.e.-
,
it have no conjecture As to the cause of thia,singular ha-
bitation or charnel-lime of human
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4hri WatA.tower..