The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-09 00:00:00

'RITTEN ON THE SUATAIIT OF SNOWDON, IN

1811.
While on Snowdon's top I stand,
Loftiest of the Cambrian tribe ;
Vain the muse with daring hand,
Would the matchless scene describe;
Crowded cities, rapid floods,
Fill the mind with strange delight;
Boundless oceans, pathless woods,
Overwhelm the wond'ring sight.

SURGICAL ANECOOTE.—A few years ago, one
of the dressers in St. Thomas's Hospital wished very much
to perform an operation, and he turned his attention to the
surgery boy, who had a bad leg, and said to hint one day,—
" Abraham, I should like to cut off your leg." " Indeed 1"
said Abraham, " I should not like it." " Oh," said the dyes.
ser, "it will never he of any use to you, in its present
,state, and therefore you had better be without it. I will take
a lodging fur you_l will give you some money, and you
shall be well attended." The boy's scruples were over.
come—he took the money, went to the lodgingell iv as
fixed, and the . operator began, but finding a great . discharge
of blood, he cried out to his assistant, "Screw the tourniquet
tighter." He obeyed, but in doing so the screw broke, and
at this unforeseen accident the dresser lost all presence of
mind; he jumped about the room, then ran to the sufferer, and
endeavoured to stop the effusion of blood by compressing the
wound with his hand, but in vain—his sleeve became filled with
blood, and poor Abraham would have died in a very short time,
had not a pupil accideztally called, who had the presence of in in d
to apply the key of the door to the femoral artery, and by com-
pressing It, stopped the bleeding, and thus gained time for the
application of another tourniquet.
A LAMB LIVING- WITHOUT Foot) OR WATER
:).8 DAYS.--A lamb, six months old, the property of Mr. Chas.
Hall, jun. of Englishbatch, near this city (Bath), was seen by
him on the 31st of August. On the following morning the
lamb was missing from the field, when Mr. 11, of course made
every search and inquiry after it, but in vain. On Sunday
se'nnight !Sept. 211), Mr. Hall was walking in the sante field,
accompanied by his dog, through whose sagacity he discovered
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though wasted in flesh. Mr. H. dug out the poor animal, and
and it appears likely to live. Its place of concealment wail three
feet deep, two feet wide, and five feet long.' The truth of the
above can be verified by the shepherd, as well as his master.--
(Bath Gazette.)
It may be proper to make the public aware,
that by an Act of the Leglidature, persons purchasing, or re.
ceiving in pledge, clothing or other regimental articles, from
soldiers, are subject to a very heavy penalty. An Instance of
this kind occurred at Stirling last week : a soldier called at the
shop of a woman who keeps a small grocery, and got sixpence-
worth of tobacco, but having no money, said he would pay it
Again, and left a shirt as a pledge for his returning. Some
short time after, in the worrians absence, the husband per.
mitted the soldier to add sevenpence more to the debt. The
circumstance having come to the knowledge of the nian'a (Mi-
ce'', the grocer was taken before a Justice of the Peace, and
fined in five pounds, being the lowest sum . the Act allows to
be levied.