The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen honoured theHamarket Theatre with her
presence last evening. Her Majesty was attended by h.
Marchioness of Tavistock, Honourable Miss Murray, Lady
Theresa Digby, Viscount Torrington, Hon. Major Keppel,
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and Colonel Buckley.
The Marquis of Normanby had an audience yesterday of
her Majesty.
Her Majesty honoured Mr. Francis with a sitting for
her bust yesterday.
The Marchioness of Tavistock and Lady Theresa Digby
have succeeded the Marchioness of Normanby and Lady
Charlotte Copley, as the Lady and Woman in the Bed-
chamber in waiting on the Queen. And Viscount
Torrington and the Honourable Major Keppel have sae-
ceeded Lord Gardner and Sir Frederick Stovin us the
Lord and Groom in Waiting on her Majesty.
The Princess Augusta, attended by Lady Mary Pelham,
arrived at Clarence House, St. James's, at haif-past three
o'clock yesterday afternoon from Brighton. The Duke
of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness. The Duchess
of Gloucester dined last evening with her Royal Highness
at Clarence House.

The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Jones,
left town yesterday afternoon for Kew.
Viscount Melbourne left Bracket Hall on Monday for
Panshanger, the residence of Earl Cowper.
Dispatches from Sir George Arthur, Lieut.-Governor of
Upper Canada, and from the Governor of Gibraltar, wet c
received yesterday at the Colonial Office.
CZESAREAN OPERATION.

A highly curious and important case of the Ceesaresn
operation was performed on Friday at the Hopital des
Cliniques de l'Ecole de Medecine, by profest or Paul Du.
bois, in the presence of the most distinguished surgeons of
Paris, several foreign physicians, and a great number of
medical students. The patient was a dwarf, whose height
did not exceed 37 inches, deformed in a most unusual de-
gree, with a head of enormously disproportioned size,
twisted legs, of stupid appearance, and partially deficient
intellect, and whose conformation was such as to
render the performance of this terrible operation im-
periously necessary, as the only chance of saving the
life probably of • herself and certainly of iwr
This poor creature had been, as it were, sold by bar
parents, dwelling in a village in Picardy, to a traveliiea
mountebank, who passed a bargain with them, without her
knowledge, and on the strength of which he had takea I
about the country with him, showing her at fail
making considerable profit by her. It appears t.
had entertained the notion that the ofTpring
poor woman would be small and deformed 'ae Laraa
and it was fromlthe expectation that he should be a emit
gainer by her and her gild that her pregnancy bad be ei
caused. About six weeks since this unfortune;te creature
was brought to the hospital above mentioned in a state
of the utmost destitution and misery, with scarcely any
clothing, and, as Professor Dubois expressed it, bearing
a certain sentence of death with her, the only possibility
of escaping from which, as must be the cane with ail
persons of similar conformation, was the operation that
he had to execute upon her. The affluence of tu-
dents into the amphitheatre of the hospital was so excessile,
that the Professor humanely declered that he would not go
on with the operation unless the numbers cf his audience
were reduced, and a large body of students with much good
feeling retired. The patient was then brought in, and the
Professor with equal skill and gentleness of mariner com-
menced the dreadful operation, from the consequences of
which, though the pain actually occasioned. is perhaps act
greater than that of the ordinary course of nature, no patient
has ever been known to recover in the hospitals of Paris,
although they often have in other localities. The Professor
never manifested greater judgment and sang from! than in
this the sixth operation •of the same kind which he ha-i
performed, and he received the wannest congratulatiens
of all the members of the faculty who were pretent
as
soon as it was terminated. Without going into any details
of the case, it will be sufficient to say that all the ordinary
difficulties of the operation were increased in the must un-
expected degree, by the internal phenomena being found
to be as anomalous as the external. The result, how-
ever, was, that a female infant, perfectly welj formed, was
extracted, and that as soon as its cries rewarded the poor
unfortunate mother for all the had uttergone, and in.
vf ',all she bad shown great fortitude, the had strength az:d
self-possession enough to ask what its sex was, and whe-
ther it was alive. We are sorry to have to add, that not,
withstanding the unceasing care of Professor Dubois and
the head midwife of the hospital, their patient died 'yes-
terday morning at seven o'clock. The infant is doivq;
well. The autopsy of its unfortunate mother's corpse
takes piece this morning. —Galignani, Monday.
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