The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-04 00:00:00

THE CONSULTATION ON GARIBALDI.

A letter from Spezzia, dated Oct. 31st, says :
The consultation held on the 29th inst. on General
Garibaldi, was a stormy congress of about twenty
doctors—ltalian, Swiss, and German; the eminent
French surgeon, Professor Nelaton, had been called
away to Paris the night before the consultation,
and Professor Partridge arrived the day after it.
The substance of the report, like a royal speech,
leaves much to be desired ; the upshot is this ;
The ball is somewhere—perhaps in the tibia, the
chief bone of the leg ; perhaps in the astragalus, the
bone of the arch of the foot ; perhaps somewhere
else. At all events, it is presumed to be still in the
wound ; although no one, except M. Nelaton, pre-
tends to have felt or touched it. Supposing it to be
there, it is agreed to leave it so ; not a very difficult
conclusion to arrive at for men who acknowledge
that they only guess as to its whereabouts; and

consequently, as there is no urgency in the case,
either from the ordinary detail of symptoms or oc-
casioned by the presence of a foreign body, no
question of an amputation is to be entertained at all.
The wound, in fact, is making, and has made from
the first, the usual progress of such injuries when
that progress is favourable. That anything in the
case called for this consultation—that any emer-
gency had arisen in which more advice was needed
—I cannot find anyone to assert.
Mr. Partridge, detained by the accident of travel
in atrocious weather, only arrived yesterday morn-
ing. He saw the General at once, and, after a long
and patient inquiry, declared that he saw nothing
to change in his first opinion. He did not presume
to say the presence of the ball was impossible, but
he averred that there was not anything to indicate
its presence, either by the testimony of those who,
like M. Nelaton, examined with a probe, or as M.
Porta did, explored with a finger, thrust rudely in
up to the knuckle, and occasioning such an intensity
of agony as to make the patient, long-suffering
Garibaldi cry out " You are a butcher !"
As little is there, Mr. Partridge declares, in the
symptoms, to argue the existence of the ball. In a
word, the question is just where it stood before,
and it is for General Garibaldi's interest it should
stili, for the present at least, remain so, since any
needless exploration, any painful investigation
through parts highly inflamed as they are, might
produce the very worst consequences, and necessi-
tate at last, from the impatience of his doctors, that
very amputation they are now so eagerly discuss-
ing how to avoid.

M. Nelaton gave a very cautious and reserved
opinion—valuable, of course, from his eminence as
a surgeon. He declared that he thought the ball was
in the wound, but lie did not say,what some would
consider as important, whether he deemed the arti-
culation had been opened. He assumed, indeed,
that he touched the ball, but the way in which he
adds, " It may be that at some future period its
removal may be practicable," rather disposes one to
be less confident in the opinion. The most inve-
terate advocates for the presence of the ball, and for
the imperative necessity to search for and remove
it, are Dr. Bertani and some other very " advanced
politicians," who loudly proclaim the case to be far
more serious than others represent it, and amputa-
tion to be a mere question of date ; if not to be done
❑ow, to be had recourse to some time hence.

The declaration of the seventeen doctors in con-
sultation is textually the following :
" Although the examination of the wound by the
finger and the probe was rendered incomplete
through the pain) occasioned to the patient, and
failed to establish the presence of the projectile, yet
from the critical signs obtained by examination and
otherwise, it is the present opinion of the doctors
assembled in consultation that the ball exists in the
wound.

" It will therefore be necessary to repeat the exa-
mination at a more opportune moment, and deter-
mine the precise position of the ball ; and, if possi-
ble, extract it without occasioning dangerous con-
sequences or serious lesions. At present the case
calls for no surgical operation whatever."

Dr. Pirakoff, one of the first operating surgeons in
Russia—well known for a great operation which
bears his name, a partial removal of the foot—saw
the case to-day with Mr. Partridge; and as M.
Pirakoff's experience was acquired by the treatment
of several thousand gunshot injuries in the Crimea,
it must be admitted that no more valuable assistance
could present itself than his advice. He concurs
completely with Dr. Partridge, not alone as to the
nature of the case but in every detail of the treat-
ment. He advises a total absence of all interference
by the knife, cold water dressings to the wound,
more fresh air for the sick man, and fewer visitors.
Generous diet, tranquillity, and less of that sym-
pathy which takes a personal forzn and manifests
itself in hand-squeezings and tears, and I have
heard sometimes in kisses. These both the English
and the Russian surgeon are disposed to regard as
prejudicial to the general's recovery, and entreat
that for the future they may be discontinued. Mr.
Partridge leaves to-night, in weather as fearfully
stormy and threatening as that he arrived in. He
carries with him every good wish of those who sur-
round Garibaldi, and who, with all the jealousy of
foreign interference, are yet far from insensible to
the delicacy and tact of a consummate surgeon and
an accomplished gentleman.

SPORIING INTELLIGENCE.

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„. ----T.—The Greek debt, which is
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now a subject o
of £Boo7oetOsivOara(o.f which £530,000 is in existence),
Andrew Loughnan and Co. at 59,
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standing), following year by Messrs. J. and S.
and of another
sta.
Blear
wholly unpaid since July, 1826, and on the latter since
been
1827, a period of about 33 years. The loan gua-
ranteedJanuary',
England, France, and B, •
by . Russia upon the elevation
n d idnong loan
a) ind24C takenbo
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of Prince Otho of Bavaria to the throne was for £2,343,750,
And was conducted by Messrs. Rothschild. Upon this the
dividends have of course been regularly paid, but only from
reserved funds of the loan itself in the first instance, and
since then chiefly from the Treasuries of the guaranteeing
Powers, who are now, therefore, in each case heavy claim-
ants upo n the Greek Government. The guarantee is not by
the Powers jointly, but is distinct in each case for a third
of the loan, so that the price of each portion from time to
time is regulated by the respective value of English, French,
and Russian securities. The only period when anxiety was
felt regarding the dividends on any one of the portions was
in March, 1848, when a dividend fell due in Paris, and it
was uncertain what course the Provisional Government
might take. With regard to the Loughnan and Ricardo
loans, it appears that the bonds carried coupon sheets fur
42 dividends, of which only four were paid. These coupon
sheets, in conformity with a Dutch practice, have since ban
detached from the bonds, and the coupons are sold at so
much per £lOO, but, as the arrears spread over about 35 or
36 years, and the coupons originally issued covered only 21
L years, there must, it seems, be about 14 or 15 years of
Isubeequeut dividends which will still pertain to oath bond