The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-21 00:00:00

THE SUN•

DR. TURNBULL.

TO THE E

--,- most -
es
(From a Correspondent of the Morning Advertiser.)l
1 unwarrantable and unjustifiable attack by IVI,SSC?* -"__
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.—I had the pleasure of charac.tersa
_on:
SIR,—I observe in your Paper of this day a vi.
cardo, Wilkinson, and Wilson, upon my
witnessing to-day the result of an experiment made by
our countryman, Dr. A. ru-nbull, at tie Institution I
lew Board, No. 29, Tokenhouse-yard. . ef the
Royale des Sounds et 'Moots, which, notwithstanding all i Secretary of the National and Provincial anti-C .
1 In the first place, as regards the insertion ,
men
the impediments thrown in his way, and they were not
few, but more of that anon, were perfectly successful. !
! in our handbill (as those persons politely designt. c
the
The Meter, whose valuable discoveries entitle him to allow 1 names of the Members of Parliament and Genttenslte).
me to say that they are not put there fe
the
.goodwill of all the friends of poor suffering ho- I purpose of misleading the public, but merely
menity, was surrounded by numerous friends, neither I as the prospectuses distinctly state, as parties _
c.iw
age nor six nor clime being wanting, several English, are i .1 A
pmegee to support the cause, and not as bo.it,.
Americans, Frenchmen, and other foreigners being pre- ! pledged to support the efforts of this Board in pat !,
sent ; among the latter were a considerable number of i cular ; therefore the accusation of the gentlense 1
members of different scientific bodies, who came lucre- completely erroneous. Ttif rs IC'
dulous, hut went away convinced on this first occa- T
et a ears to me that the measures of ..-eSS • ~_,..
sion. Dr. Turnbull only operated upon two of the cardo andP Wilkinson are not grounded upon suche„t‘T_
miles
children, though his desire was to have done so upon a interested motives, nor have they at heart the
.sa 1.1. r_!
much greaser number ; but there was a great jealousy of
the nation in this all-important object, otherwise they
evinced that it was almost with difficulty after he had would not attempt to cramp our efforts by such iaIPIR
congregated his frieude and the friends of science and proceedings.
humanity about him, that he could even induce the
P The Anti-Corn-law Association, no doubt, feel theca's, -.
physician of the house to place these two at his disposi- selves aggrieved that we should have undertaken•
51).0!
1 fion, and he then selected the two cases in which Dr. which they ought to have done, viz.:—the canVorsi I 5
Turnbull was most likely, according to his own ac-
count, to fail ; they were both children who had once leaving pelit'ens at shops for promiscuous signature:the
for bone fide signatures from door to door, an n,.° ...
heard, and whose deafness was the result of disease in The Lord Mayor very justly observed, " Tna et, - !
early fife, to whom the Doctor prefers those who have paper was very ingeniously put together, and esat:,
never heard ; in addition to this they were both le
the :moment suffering Irma illness or disease, the the defect.
described the negligent mode of getting sifttlatere'"
if the Board were determined to remedy
; -Rord-
one having an enlargement of the glands and the ler
v. hy, this is the whole and sole object of dais --ad _ate
other suffering under the effects of scrofula. For my-
self; I confess, though no medical man, I trembled for sums from the public, and are collecting now ; end
the result, because, as an Englishman, I had a certain The Anti-Corn-Law Association have collected
vivhot,.
efforts have they made? None!
1 quantay of amour proper as to the success of my The petitions emanating from this
countrymn Hwe a's experiment. over, he tackled to ready received the signatures of severalßo deed
have
!eeari:L.:.
hug
and wwia
with good courage, and perfectly succeeded. After cantile houses, and others of equal importance, r _re;
having poured the liquid which is used by the Doctor assuredly be entrusted to influential Members foo pre ,
into the ears of the two boys, he left them to repose for sensation at the ensuing Parliament. Tnis is a, 'ode
a short time. At the expiration of six minutes, striking is professed, and which profession will be rigidlr
two books one against the other, the child, a boy about hered to. —on tfP''"!
12 years old, could hear the sound, ar d gave notice smil- If the Anti-Corn-Law Association really!'" arty
ingly that he had done so. Dr. Turnbull then audibly, but forward the great cause, why do they opOot'e an} P . .
not. loudly, repeated to him a few words in his ear, such as anxious to carry out their proposed views? i demon"
" Oa, B, papa, and how wow wow :" these the child I trust that the foregoing facts will cleortY
valuable
repeated after him. It is to be remarked that this was strate to the public at large (through your iti ;4 to
clone without his having looked et the child, or made to journal) that this is not an invention 14 10 rai.ci
as
hint any sign, so that it could not be imagined that it
was merely the copy of the action of the mouth. He wind," and thereby redeem my character from au
unjust attack..
then took the second, who evidently heard as well as I am, Sir, your most obedient Servant,
sum,
the first ; but, from a want of proper conformation in the S J. BYNG, See
from SO
organs of speech, could not repeat so svell. Subsequently, P.S. It is worthy of notice, that a person • ogees
at the expiration of about fourteen minutes, from the Anti-Corn-law Association waited upon tue last
L ow
infusing of the liquid into the child's ear,
called the. first heck again, and placed ' his
he to propose a coalition of the two Societies, vrbiej„lea og
behalf of those I represent, declined, theitantiae"„caite
..
watch against the ear. The child immediately
heard it. He then withdrew to a distance, andprOSPect3 to 01
operation being so widely dill rent from what I eas"e, ao
the rroper method, and which our
graduelly approached it, and at about six inches from able explain. This will be sufficient to carry of the
his herd he announced that he heard it. In the sensible person conviction that the proceedio.stertstea!
case of the second boy this experiment was still more Association are grounded upon jealousy and 1°
in a
remerk
ndsmall ehle ; thus, in thede course oftwo fiftechildren,en minutes,altos and , moAnti-Corn-law Board, No. 29, Tokenhouselara'
tives.
a crowd room, ( .
slum II
.have
would not be broken by thunder—who could Oct. 20, 1840. hav° .
have slept in the towers of Notre Dame while the [We insert this letter that Mr. Byttg .rnesy see 0110.
great bell was tolling, were so far restored as to distin- pretext to complain of us. At the same tune. n.,, to
guish as clearly as you or I could the tickling of a watch assert that the gentlemen who made the gibe:j.oib the
which one wears in his waistcoat pocket, and that at a the Lord Mayor are most avowedly connecteddiatecl by
comparatively considerable distance. I alluded before to Anti-Corn- lew Association ; and, being IrePu ~,,,, do
the difficulties which were thrown in Dr. Turnbuli's way, them, k:t regent
and I did so with regret. Ido so again, but my only object names of his constituents. Enough is done --Le taken
it will become Mr. Ben; to make u
isthe truth, and it iswith pain that lam obliged to say that to put the public on their guard, and if theyduair OW°
no facilities were offered to him ; that every impediment in after such an announcement,
was thrown in h•s way ; and that if it had not been for fault. It is possible that the whole scheme inar, A„ti
his own persevering spirit, aided by the interference invention of the enemy to throw discredit caod not to
of souse influential friends, we might at the last. too- 0. 1
seorn-,aw agitation. But our cause is too g°
ore dal'
merit have been sent away without having had the sa- survive the insidious blows cf enemies, or the 01
tisfactien of witnessing the interesting operation of gerous folly of friends.—ED. Sun.]
which I give you the details. Oac testimonial, how-
ever, whi,:h Dr. Turnbull got by accident, a species of ' it will be may yo 011
lapses lingua', was from the Director himself, who stated
that he would not have allowed the experiment to be tried
until he had well assured himself that the matter which the
Doctor used could by no possibility be injurious. I trust
that I shall have opportunities of watching the progress
of this discovery, and I sh all not fail to keep you in-
formed upon it. It has one melancholy feature—it
proves that the cupidity of some men is so great as to
destroy all benevolent feeling ; that there are amongst
us some who, in order to retain the emoluments of an
office, would allow their fellow-creatures to continue to
suffer. Hal the Abbe de l'Epee been still living, he
would have hailed any one who could advance his bene-
volent work with jey ; his successors evidently aro not
so. French, English, Americans, and Germans who
vere present to- day, agreed in two things—the one, that
Doctor Turnbull hal not been fairly treated, the other
that he had completely succeeded.
Oa the same subject Galignani's Messenger contains
on Saturday the following remarks :
" Dr. Turnbull, the inventor of a new method of
operation on the Deaf and Dumb, yesterday made the
experiments at the Institution, in the Rue St. Jacques,
of which we gave notice on Wednesday, in the presence
of several medical men, both French and English.
S.)me &faculty was at first experienced,
_in conse-
quence of the responsibility which would attach to
the medical superintendent of the estiblishment
in the event of the application being prejudicial
to the health of the parties operated on, and also
, from the unwillingness cl the boys themselves to submit to
it. These difficulties were however, at length got over,
and two boys, selected by the Director, were placed
under Dr. Turnbull's hands, The application of his
invaluable remedy was perfectly successful. In less than
a quarter of an hour alter the application the boys
were both able to hear distinctly the ticking of a
watch at some distance from their ear, and also end ta-
voured to imitate different sounds made by Dr. Turn-
bull close to their ear, such as the words papa, mamma,
&c., clearly showing that they • could distinguish
a difference in sounds. Neither of the boys opera-
ted on were horn deaf and dumb, but had become so
from disease. This told still stronger in favour of the
plan of treatment, since Dr. Turnbull has, in the course
of his practice, always found that in cases where the
patient was deaf and dumb from birth the cure was
more easy. Further experiments are to take place,
and it is to be hoped that, for the interests of suffering
hnmanity, no impediments will be thrown in the way
of the full development of Dr. TurnbUl:e great dis-
covery."
I have just learned that the French physicians have
at last given way, and that after a strong remonstrance
addressed to them, they have consented to give Dr.
Tut nbull a full and fair chance. This, I believe, is al
ha wanted.

THE LUDLOW CASE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The letter which appears in your Paper o
last rvening, from Huddersfield, coincides with the

view taken by the majority of travellers, of the Ips-
Ivieh, Ludlow, after-dinner absurdity. It is well known
And I have it from a personal friend of Mr. Maekreth, in
Bristol, that every expense was most handsomely paid
by Messrs. Christopher, flenge, and Co., the respected
--,nloyers of Mr. M.. who have also, according to his
placed him in an equal, if not more
own nm e....
their establishment than he before
lucrative situation
held, rind el!-c,nether behav:..4 gentlemen employers
always do to a rev:rat-T.4 c9inmere,...Ll traveller. The
Paper alluded to would, to a stronger, be an inference
that they had not acted as they should dos -
Had an Address expressive of sympathy in Mr.
Macitfe'.o w.,,eitient been drawn up, it would have
been signed by ail Sthet. traiel ; but to make a shilling
standard to prevent him, gpgeare a most strange affair.
ilad Mr. M. been so unfortunate as to have lost his
situation, or the use of his limbs, so as to prevent
hire Oiling any situation, the condoling sympathy of
the coffitnettlat world would have been called into full
play, and with their (without egotism) accustomed
liberality, a thousand pounds would soon have been
raised. As it is, it is to be hoped the subscription affair
will be dropped,
A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.
• S:roud, Oct. 21, 1841).

At/o'l'llEn. ALARMING FIRE IN SovniivAng,
AND MiliAkaikotc PrisEraaTtots OF HUMAN LIFE —Tues.
day night, between ft add /2 o'clock, a fire broke out on
the premises of Mr. Kitigtsfofth, cheesemongcr, of Black-
man•strect, Borough. Sergeant Cowlin, SM, was on
thrtx £0 the abase hour, and on pa• sing ntiserved smoke
issulf,g back Pitt of Mr. King.swaith'i premises,
end immediately ir.ettri by springiog rattle and
knocking at the door ; but bekril Life .ncrtat-es stem arot,..sed
the flames had spread with such feat fatticitty that they
were issning from every window at the back c fliq Sense.
At length the family appeared at the front windov;ti lEt
their night el -.flies, :7v.i.king to escape. The crowd assem-
bled below shouted to thorn to throw Out the b'ankets,
which they did, and several rirsona and policemen held
the same.. Mr. and Mrs Kingsworth, in their night
dresses, jumped from the first-floor window, and were safely
teceived in the blankets. The shopman then threw him-
self from the second floor, and mat; hke wise safe:y rece:ved-
Tile fire was now raging with increas,.-d violence, and all
the inmates vseee supposed to have escaped, when an
alarm sent tai/en that a female servant slept at the top of
the house, who ImmAintely after appeared at the front
Attie, screamine• fur assliti,r.e,, and precipitated her:eif.
!'rd.,.!'rd.,. IsrM f:!arful height, and, by miracle, dcicenucd
withuut iniury, ciieevt only a few bruiseg. eau•ed by coming
lu c3ntact whit the Pel"''"'" of arYil tv ark -
her tall was broken The et,g'' west of
the sop.fronst. b
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hridae ro::(1 station, int:hod:3,oy tolicrrved by In
s • ti Watirlo.
large body of f+re brigade, were soon
tsrneotilirilepgcurnbimitunthiceatsehdo!t:
a plentiful supply of Wet'? "*.reing
interior of the
play with great effect. The
_brill
road
odn oc nt"t!ijetgoat:,:da rt,
oda
fprroenmtibseesinwgeprere,sehrovwedev.er,mgr.uttctelidbi,
Kingswort
obtafnietith,.e
Is
damage amounts to 1,000/. Had the uninsured, the
the premises of Messrs. Heath, edurriiciirns
us they being
ga...nhdoul es
oa tathde
jrosienl,lthe,
whose extensive workshops and we
principallyconseqne nc
builteswotu,fld=
risisc-:s acre destroed by 4r e.
beAen),Tostt,,,cltysia.a‘trrso,,r;
these.,
The cr.piratiott tlic,elw-lelitle,llt
st clews foorfintelri.eittitp\rvi(-)
ivatit
Chaotis, Bartle,. and onths, for saition,
was celebrated.
soned for nine and
, •
the latter fqr sit as