The Sun.
London, England, 1838-11-09 00:00:00

VAN BUTCHELL ON FISTULA, &c

Third Edition. Just published, in Bvo., cloth boards, price is.,
with additional Cases,

FACTS and OBSERVATIONS relative to a
successful MODE of TREATING PILES, FISTULA.,
HEMORRHOIDAL EXCRESCENCES, TUMOURS, and
STRICTURES, without CUTTING or CONFINEMENT;
illustrated with numerous cases ; being a familiar exposition of the
practice of S. J. Van Butchell, Surgeon Accoucheur.
Published by H. Renshaw, No. 356, Strand ; sold also by the
Author, at his residence, No. 16, Percy-street, Bedford-square.
" The fact that this treatise has run through a third edition, that
it has been very extensively circulated, and met with equally
.ex-
tensive approval, sufficiently attests its merits. It is written in a
plain unlaboured style, and contains a number of grateful testimo-
nials to Mr. Van Butchell from persons who have been cured by
its learned author."—The Western Luminary, May 21, 1838.
" Few men connected with the complicated departments of sur-
gery are deserving of more grateful mention that Mr. Van Butchell,
whose unwearied dedication to the cure of those most painful of all
diseases, which this book treats of, has resulted in a continued
course of success in cases of the most hopeless and forbidding na-
ture. * We find nearly every page recording some
astonishing elm e in patients whose sufferings had been for many
years' duration, and most excruciating in their nature. The warmth
of
expression with which the gratitude of some of the restored is
couched must be truly gratifying to the feelings and highly credit-
able to the skill and judgment of Mr. Van Butchell."--Weekly
True Sun, July 16, 1631.

" THE MONK MURDER."—Carrick, the fellow
who assumed the character of a monk or friar, was arraigned
last Monday at the Dublin Commission Court for the murder
of the boy Touche. In his character of schoolmaster, about
May, two young boys were entrusted to his care ; ono was
named James Howlin, who was twelve years of age; the other,
Stephen Devine, seven years old. These children were in-
trusted to his care upon the faith of his representation that he
would take them to Balscaddin Monastery. A rather re-
spectable female, named Letitia Broncordi, married to an
Italian, who was in the service of Mr. Greene, the fishmonger,
of William-street. and lived at No. 33 in that house, became
in some way acquaiinted with the prisoner and his pursuits, and
was induced about: the end of July, to commit the child, James
Touche, for whom she had stood as god-mother, to his care.
A sum of 91., collected by subscriptions, was given by this
woman to the prisoner with the infant. About the last week
of July the prisoner, who gave this woman to understand that
he was about to take the child to Balscaddin, came to Wil-
liam-street with James Howlin, and took it away, not to Bals-
caddin, but to an obscure lodging in a single back-room, first
floor, John-street, St. Catherine's parish. After evidence had
been given establishing criminal cruelty against the prisoner,
Mr. Justice Moore charged the jury saying, if they conceived
that the prisoner contemplated taking away the life (:, I the
child when he exercised the cruelties towards him detailedin
the evidence, they were bound to find him guilty of murder.
If, on the contrary, they they did not come to that conclusion,
they were at liberty to find hin:t guilty of the minor offence of
manslaughter. A verdict of " ,Manslaughter" was ultimately
recorded. Sentence will not be passed on him until the ter-
mination of the commission.
Public feeling has been not a little agitated by the
discovery of a case of infanticide. Frances Wells, housemaid
to General Maitland, of Manderston, had been suspected of
tnootbhieceawboas taken of the suspicion, till the General,
being in a state of pregnancy, which she denied, and no more
immediatelyd ead body of
taking his walk by the side of a lake in his grounds, dis-
saentforweoit,t,eraedf a stationary object partially above the surface, which,
last week,
basket
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minoaorbeodatto,
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curling-stone, and
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to her recently new-bornto
examine infant.
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and
the gentlemanst
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. ex-
amination was instituted, the • mother.
h was her com-
mittal to Greenlaw result
of
whic
gaol to take her trial for the crime at the
next Circuit Court. The stone had been fastened to the
basket to sink it, .
butthe attached
having been fixed cord by which it was
to the end, instead of the middle of the
basket, left part above water, which led to the discovery.—
Berwick Advertiser.

PROLIFIC POTATO.—On the 12th ult., the pro-
duce of a single potato root was gathered in a field
in the
occupation of Mr. John Gray, of Nunnington, which weighed
sst. Vbs., and the tops 4st. 2lbs., being equal to 1,176
bushels for one. The set weighed one ounce, and the produce
2,104 ounces,.— York covant.

This Gazette contains the Treaty of Commerce and
Navigation between her Majesty and the Emperor of
Austria, an abstract of which appeared in The Sun
about a month since.

It consists of fourteen Articles and two Declarations, by
one of which it is agreed that the French text shall he
considered by Austria as the original text. Dated 3d July,
the Declarations, 14th September.