The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-29 00:00:00

SUCCESSFUL CASE 07 TRANSFUSION 01 BLOOD:

—On Wednesday evening last, at the close of
Dr. Beumnree's introductory lecture, that gen-
tleman communicated, to a numerous class, ano-
ther snccessful case of transfusion of blood into
the veins. A woman had lost a large quan-
tity of blood after labour ; her life was in immi-
nent danger ; and, in fact, from all the symptoms
there was no probability that she could live more
than three or four hours. Mr. Doubleday, of the
Black friars-road, who attended her, ha:Mg rend
in the Lancet of the operation of transfusion,
which Dr. Blundell lately performed w'itlt suc-
cess, determined to make a trial of it. He ac-
cordingly took a quantity of blood from the arm
of her husband, and having made an opening into
the median vein of the right arm, proceeded to
inject the blood with a syringe, i❑ the manner de-
scribed by Dr. Blundell, in the late experiment.
The operation was performed without the least
difficulty ; and ns soon as three charges of the
syringe, or six OUIICCS of blood, had been in-
jected, the woman, who was a native of the sis-
ter kingdom, exclaimed, " By Jasus ! I feel
as strong as a hull 1" The syringe was reple-
cished several times ; and upon the whole, four-
teen ounces of blood were injected. Mr. Double-
day then very judiciously discontinued the in-
jection, as the patient began to experience a slight
pain in the head. The woman shortly after de-
clared that she felt herself well enough to get up
and walk. Not one bad symptom has supervened
since the operation.—(G/asgoto Mechanics' Ma-

gazine.)
Usi of CATS.—About three o'clock on Sunday
morning last, the Globe Tavern, Bury, kept by Mr. Holt, was
broken open by some persons, who effected an entrance through
the tap-room window, after forcing the shutter, and wrenching
away some iron bars which were placed on the inside, and were
proceeding to plunder the house ; but it so happened, that for
some reason, or perhaps for no reason, one of the robbers was
accompanied by a dog, who found his way into the kitchen,
where he was instantly set upon by a couple of fine cats that
were kept in the house. The dog, not being so well aware as
his master of the necessity of silence on such an occasion, re-
sented the attack ; and the trio immediately joined in producing
a " concord of sweet sounds," a delightful compound of bass
and treble, which speedily arosed the astonished inmates of the
' house, and compelled the robbers to make a hasty retreat, with-
out having obtained the value of a sixpence to reward them for
their labour.—( Manchester Mercury.)
The united parishes of St. Margaret and St.
John, Westminster, have sent to all the pa-
rishioners a document entitled " The Paro-
chial Directory," which, on account of its
utility, deserve general imitation. It contains
a list, with addresses of the curates, church-
wardens, overseers of the poor, parish clerks,
beadles, constables, district surveyor, surveyors
of pavement, paviours, scavengers, lamp-lighters,
inspector of nuisances, engine keepers, turn-
cocks and assistants, Officers of the Trus-
tees of Tothill-fields, and times .of meeting,
the different collectors of taxes and rates—their
several offices, when and where the governor
of the poor, the watch, and paving committees,
&c., assemble. (Such a list will not only inform
parishioners when and where their oVlrial men
may be found, but it will also give them an idea
of the number of Boards, Committees, &c. they
have in one way or other to pay for.)
DituAneur, Accturwr.---This morning, as a
little boy, named Wilkins, whose parents reside
in Dorey-street, Lambeth, was looking out of the
second floor window, which he had contrived to
open during his mother's temporary absence for
a few moments, and before her return into the
room again the child had unfortunately fallen out
of the window into time yard. On the little suf-
ferer being taken up both his alleles were dislo-
cated, and there was a severe coutuz.ion of the
skull ; he was instantly carried for medical as-
sistance to a surgeon in time neighbourhood, with-
out any hopes of recovery.
Yesterday, the pulling down of the old King's
Mews walls, fronting Pall-Mall East, and by
Charing-Cross, took place ; and the old houses,
saddler's shop, public house, &c., were being
levelled with the earth. About half the Mews
area, that portion next to St. Martin's lane, has
been enclosed within wooden fencing, for the
temporary accommodation of the military, &c.—
The improvements, preparatory to snaking the
grand opening from the Haymarket to St. Mar-
tin's church, will proceed forthwith. •
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NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN

SUBSCRIPTION ROOM., DEc. 29.

LIvERPOOL, DEC. 27.—Wind N. by E.—Arrived the Pur-
suit, Adie, from Jamaica, sailed from Montego Bay 4th No-
♦ember; Jane, Livingston, from Maranham, sailed 20th No
vember—the Columbian was to sail 23d November for Liver-
pool—on Dec. 5, in lat. 25. 7. long. 47. 0., spoke the British
Tar, from Liverpool for New Orleans; Grand Turk, I.ll‘ Known,
from Virginia, sailed Ist December ; Martin, Martin, from
St. Pctersburgli ; Hcnriette, Groat, from Riga. The Leeds.
Stoddart, for New York ; Julius Cwsar, French, Philadelphia ;
Plutarch, —, Charleston ; Huddersfield, Corsar, Jamaica,
went out of Dock, and ai,cliored off the Rock, and will pro-
ceed to-morrow morning's tide, wind permitting. The Sir
Howard, Douglas, from St. John's, N. 8., for Liverpool, a
Beerhaven. _

[ FROM LI.OVD'S.I
DEAL, DEC. W.N.W.—Arrived the Economy,
Fleming, from Memel; Brothers, Blaclett ; Leonidas. scow,
and Lord Melville, Robertson, from Quebec; Charles Hamil-
ton, Dickenson, from New York. Arrived from the River the
Arno, Young, for Grenada ; and Resolution, Parker, for the
Mauritius.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 28.—Wind N.N. W.—Arrived from
the Downs the Clydesdale, Rose, for Madras and Bengal ;
Ceasar, Fisher, for Sierra Leone; James Harris, Smith, for
Jamaica ; Silver, Mackie, for Rio ; Isis, Mann; Hazard,
Walter, and Nestor, Weakner. Arrived the Camden, Pear-
son, from Riga. Sailed his Majesty's ship Dromedary, for
Bermuda ; Sovvreign, and Joseph Green transports, for Cork ;
Shipley transport, for London; and Lord St. Helens, Oliver,
for ditto.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 27.—Wind N.N.E.—Sailed the Don-
caster. Church, for Van Dieman's Land ; Polidore, Fiche, for
New Orleans ; Eliza, Ogle, for Messiha, and the Doris, Neil-
son, for Nantes.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 27.--Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the
Union, Vittery, from Cork. Sailed the Dutch brig of war
Brak, for the West Indies ; Harpy Revenue cutter, for Cork ;
and the Sarah, Cundy, for Gibraltar.

SINGULAR MURDER.

[From the Richmond (American) Compiler of Nov. 241
On Monday, the 4th April last, Evelina Cun-
ningham, a young woman who lived near Charleston, in Cecil
County, Maryland, left her home to go to a relation's not far
distant, taking with her the child of a relative about four years
old. She had to pass a short distance on the port road leadiag
from Ilavre de Grace to Elkton. About eleven o'clock in the
day, she stopped at a house on that road, where she was invited
to wait a while,and the man of the house and his wife told her they
intended going the same way, and would walk with her. She re.
plied, that the child walked very slow, that she would therefore
go on, and they might overtake her. These people were de-
layed, and did not leave their house till about 1 o'clock. While
on their way, they observed a strange man come out of the
wood, near where Miss C. was afterwards found, carrying a
s;loe'ri
bundle, and wearing a dark coloured surtout, who asked as he
passed them, " how far is it to the ferry ?"—(Havre-de-Grace
terry.) No uneasiness was entertained by the family which
Miss Cunningham had left, it being supposed she was at the
house site intended to visit. On the following Friday morning,
the child, in an almost famished state, was discovered stand-
ing at a branch by a neighbouring woman, who, knowing the
whomchild, asked it " it come
a,—nc,uom, t;, with
Why
T?
did
child,
pointing
I Is,wotere (100 ,m “
come
wwtiilttihaunty." "Where is
he
t
yea Aunty is asleep," it answered, " I could not
wake her." Persons went immediately to make search, one of
whom tollowing the track which the child had made in going to
and from the branch, was led directly to the lifeless body of
Miss Cunningham. Of the horrible and blood-chilling spec.
tack which it exhibited, we are permitted only to say, that on
her body and neck were found 11 wounds, as from the stabbing
of a knife; her hands were cut, as if from seizing the weapon,
and the blood-vessels on one side of the neck were cut in two.
—From the extended position of her arms and hair, she ap-
peared to have been dragged by the feet from the place where
she wag first wounded. She had worn black worsted stock.
ings, which were pulled offend taken away : whether they were
marked or not, is not known. She was found with one shoe on.
The child said it had put on one of aunty's shoes, but could not
get on the other. It could give no other information of the
murderer, than that " a big ugly man cut aunty with a knife."
The little sufferer had continued with the body from Monday
till Friday, leaving it only to go to the branch to drink, but
often crying, and begging its " minty" to awake and get up.
The lower part of a shirt sleeve, evidently torn off, was found at
the spot, and is still kept.—One John Connors, a native of
Canada, and a shoemaker by trade, was arrested in Virginia on
the Ist June, and has been lately tried in Maryland for the
above murder. lie was acquitted, on full proof that, at the
time the crime was p:rpetrated, he was in Millersburg, ten.
tucky. This man's arrest quieted inquiry as to others. On thealey
of the murder a stranger crossed the ferry at Havre.de-Orace,
who paid the ferryman a striped cotton jacket, with sleeves, for
his ferryage. This titan had with him a bundle, and wore a •
dark-coloured surtout, supposed to be of bottle-green. A meta
in a similar dress, and also having a bendle, was overtaken on
the road by a boy in a gig, who asked the boy to let
him ride. On being refused, he got into the gig, and
continued in it till they saw Miss Cunningham at some
distance, and whom they would soon have met, when
the man jumped out, anti sat down on the side of the road.
On the previous Saturday night two men, a woman, and
a child, who said they had come from the Potomac Canal
lodged at a house in Cecil county, near the Chesapeake and
Delaware canal. About 12 o'cloe'k on Sunday, being a stormy
snowy day, they left the house for the canal. Early on Mon-
day morning one of the men returned, got his breakfast, and
took from his bundle several articles of clothing, which be
left, saying they belonged to the other man, who returned and.
took them the next day. The woman and child did not come,
beck with them. The man who returned on Monday morn-
ing soon left the house, to go back, as he said, to the Potomuc
Canal, and passed on the post road from Elkton towards Havre
de Grace. He wore a dark-coloured coat, and had with him a
bundle.—On or about the 13th of April, a man was arrested in
Baltimore, who, on his examination before a Magistrate, stated
to the Magistrate and a gentleman present, that he saw the
young woman who was murdered at Cecil ; that he was sitting
in the wood, on the road side, when she passed by ; that he re-
mained in the neighbourhood till Friday, when she was found
that in passing along the road he was afraid, being a stranger,
rhet he might be taken up, and asked a gen tlentsn on the road to
let him ride in his carriage orremain in company with hitmthelat.
ter of which hedid ; that he saw the funeral,and was sorry to thick
that so tine looking a young woman should have ben so cruelly
treated ; and finally, that be carne trout Havre-de-Grace to
Baltimore by water. This man. when arrested, had a dark
surtout and a bundle with him. What is yet mere strange, he
told the Magistrate and the other gentleman that be came from
Canada, and that his name was John Connors. The boy men-
fioned above, and another person being sent for, said he wee
nut the man they had seen on the road. He was discharged,
and asked the Magistrate for a certificate to prevent his being
taken up again, which was given him.

On Monday night, the 12th inst. about eleven
or twelve o'clock, Mr. W. jun. of Wood •
Norton, a member of the.FOulshain Associatiotu,
was suddenly alarmed by the barking of his
yard dog, and immediately suspecting that some
thieves were upon his premises, went out with, his
servant, ta king his douhle-barrelled-gun. On
coming near his fowl-house, he observed a man to
issue thence, and immediately discharged both
barrels at him. The thief then said he would mur-
der him, and aimed so violent a Wow at
that it broke the barrels of the gun, and injured
Mr. Gill's hand. On Mr. Gill calling for another
gun, the villain immediately decamped, leaving a
hat and five turkies in one sack, and three
• empty ones. Mr. Gill then sent to a friends at
Little Franshsm, from whence he ex pezted the
thieves came. Sorne men Ka W two persons shortly
afterwards come to a house in a cart, change
horses, and immediately afterwards start; one of
them was without a hat. The men were fol-
lowed and ultimately secured—one at Great
Fransham, and the other at A ttlebnrgh ; a third
man was afterwards said to have been severe-
ly wounded, and at the same time these t..vo
omen escaped from Mr. Gill':, was lying in a barn
near. The two men w,re fully committed lot
trial 11 the Rev. D. lloste.—(Burs Gazetl4)

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning I'apers,Dec.29, 1825.

[THE Trees.]
The present price of bread and meat—that is,
of every branch of farm produce—at a time of
profound peace, would of itself be sufficient to
slew that England stands in a" false position"
with respect to these essential articles. Prices
have been forced up by unwholesome means, and
the recent confusion in the trading world has
been greatly enhanced, if not mainly caused by
the difficulty, we trust the physical impossibility
of continuing them at the -same high level.—
B'utcher's meat at 9d., and the 41b. (not the
quartern) loaf at 10Id. or 11d., are fearful phe-
nomena in a country which cannot exist, or flou-
rish at least, but through the success of its in-
dustry over that of rival States, and which, there-
fore, must command the labour of its workmen
at such wages as will support a permanent corn-
petition with every other people. That prices of
subsistence for some months past have been too,
great to admit of a free or sure market for our
mannfabtures at a fair profit, the overstocked
condition of the warehouses in every quarter of
the kingdom, and in most departments of manu-
facturing industry,will demonstrate. At the ex-
isting state of wages, there can be no adequate i
foreign vent for our commodities ; and from the
spirit of overtrading upon small or fictitious capi-
tal, manifesting itself in the efforts of desperate
men to carry on a losing traffic, and gain a short
livelihood on other people's resources, the failure
to sell what has been bought on trust, recoils
upon those who have granted credit indis-
creetly, and involves the fall of many solid
and respectable fortunes in the bankruptcy or
flight -of adventurers who never were possessed
of any. Among the various and successive
steps which have raised the market value of
commodities within these two or three last
years, well informed men do not hesitate to rec-
kon—The unfortunate act for authorising the
country bankers to issue 1/. notes, a sort of cir-
culation which was accepted greedily by the
secondary class'of dealers every where, and as
eagerly furnished by the country bankers in the
shape of accommodation to all who wanted it :
The excessive issue of Bank paper, which had
the effect, although we must presume that it did
flow from the intention, of enabling Ministers to
reduce the 5 and 4 per cents., by which, in fact,
they added to the capital of a debt of 800 mil-
lions :--Then came the system of lending the
Bank capital on mortgage—a mode of employing
the funds of a Bank which can 4never be too
loudly deprecated :—Last of all, we have had
our blessed Corn Laws to give force and
power to the preceding causes of embarrass-
ment. This, indeed, is the monopoly, which,
combined with an excess of paper, we must, in
order to clear the-ground of our future national
prosperity, prevail upon Parliament, if it repre-
sents the feelings of the people and understands
their wants, to demolish. It has been already
hinted that a league might be possible between
the landlords and manufacturers, to club their
respective interests, and enforce their double
monopoly against the nation at large. The at-
tempt may be made, for there is nothing too
Orlious, inconsistent, or culpable, for selfishness to
drive at: but the manufacturers ought to be
aware that their own acts have stopped them
from such an undertaking. They have already
agreed to the measures of Government for li-
beralizing the national commerce—they have
declared their readiness fur a contest ivith fo-
reigners, and defied them—they cannot now re-
tract ; but if they murmur, as perhaps they
may,. at any difficulties thereby entailed upon
them, it is their business to co-operate with
the public and the Ministers for a comple-
tion of the new system of free trade, by se-
curing plentiful subsistence and moderate wages
on one side—and by cleating a system of fair
dealing on the other, through a check to the
abundance and the abuse of credit. The interest
of the manufacturers, and their duty, to ad-
vance, not retreat, in the road on which they have
entered. If not, they will have the Corn Law
perpetuated, and, after the fashion of rude and
barbarous times, monopoly instead of liberty,
made the corner-stone of British commerce.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Greek cause, :which has been so many
times on the .brink of destruction, will again, in
alVprobability, be rescued from danger, and,
perhaps, at the moment when success appeared
the least to be expected, it may be crowned with
.triumph. 'The accession of the Emperor Con-
stantine is an eventof the greatest importance to
the Creeks at the present crisis of their struggle.
From his infancy his views have been directed to
that quarter. Latterly the pacific policy of the
&TOljr Alliance, of which his brother Alexander
iivrts,''the author, -deprived him of all reasonable
-hope of gratifying his.ambition of founding afresh
;the Christian -Empire of the East. Ile is now
,suddenly released from this restraint, and invest-
ed with absolute. power to carry into execution
:the projects which were instilled into his child-
'hood,and which it is known he.has ever since
,warmly cherished. There can be no doubt,
-therefore, that, with a rough and ardent temper
like his, he will, -as soon as he feels himself
-lirmly seated on 'the Imperial Throne, turn his
"eyes -towards Constantinople. The insurrection
of the Greeks, . the most favourable circum-
stances he -could. desire in case of , hostilities
with the Tnrkish Government, was apparently so
•noarly quelled, that- unless he manifested his de-
'-s4fns at an early period, there vas much reason to
-apprehend that,he would lose the important be-
nofit's he-might derive from the aid and co-opera-
tion of the Greeks. We have therefore been look-
ing,to every arrival from the .East during the last
two or. three 'days, .for some indication.,of the
feelings of the. new Emperor with regard, to the
Sublime Porte. It appears by the German Papers
received yesterday„,that M: Von. I\'linziacky, the
" Russian Ministers delivered a note to the Reis
EfFendi• on the .47th of November, complaining
that-the Beschli Agas, after leaving the' Princi.

palittes of Moldavia and Wallachia, had shortly
afterwards returned, and committed dreadful ex-
cesses. M. de Minziacky communicated a copy
of his remonstrances to the other Christian Mi-
nisters, from whom it was believed strong repre-
sentations would be made to the Divan as to the
necessity of acting with good faith in respect of
the evacuation of the principalities, and a strict
adherence to the other provisions of the treaty
of Bucharest. The Porte, it is evident, was
alarmed at the approach of the Emperor Alex-
ander, and had probably sent public orders to
the Beschli Agas, accompanied by secret instruc-
tions of an opposite character. The Emperor
Constantine will have no lack of pretences for
any measures to which he may be disposed to
have recourse, and as the notes of M. de Min-
ziacky will very opportunely warrant him in
assuming a harsher tone than R,ussia has for many
years held towards Turkey, he will only have at
once to denounce the perfidy of the Mussultnans.
and pour upon their enfeebled and distracted
empire the overwhelming tide of his enthusiastic
army. Some changes, it is stated, have lately
taken place in the Turkish Cabinet. The Grand
Mufti was dismissed on the 28th ult., but it was
doubtful whether his removal was connected with
any question of public policy. The _ news from
Greece through Constantinople wasall of the most
unfavourable nature. The fleet of the Capital)
Pacha, it was alleged, had succeeded in re-
victualling Patras and Lepanto previously to its
sailing for Missolonghi, against which the whole
force of the Mahometans, both naval and military,
was directed. The garrison, however, were un-
daunted, and resolved to perish under its ruins,
rather than suffer it to fall into the hands of
its barbarian besiegers. That this is no vain
boast, the history of the first defence of Misso-
longhi would if necessary attest. The Samiotes
who had disembarked in Candia, have, it is said,
been defeated by- the Turks, who made a sally
from the fortresses, and " killed them all." To this
extravagant story is appended a report of a mutiny
in Napoli di Romania, in which three 'members
of the Government had been murdered. We
give no credence whatever to these vague and
unauthorised statements. We learn, however,
from them that the Greeks had lost no further
ground, and would he able to maintain the con-
test until the probable interference of the Ern.-
peror Constantine would deliver them from their
perilous condition., The arrival of Lord Cochrane
would also take place about the. same time, and
the influence of his name would alone work won-
ders, even should Russia, contrary to all present
expectation, adhere to the pacific policy of the
late reign.