The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-01 00:00:00

ENFIELD AND EDMONTON RAIL

WAY.
The first general half-yearly meeting'of the proprietors of
this line was held on Saturday, at the London Tavern;
Captain Owen in the chair.
The directors presented a report and submitted the ac-
counts to the meeting, by which it appeared that a balance
of 7514 6s. 4d. remained in the hands of the treasurer.
Ground has been purchased at Enfield for the erection of a
station, and terms have been come to with the Northern and
Eastern Counties Company for a junction with their line. A
contract has also been entered into with Sir. ii. Earle for the
construction of the works for 20,5001., the line to be com-
pleted within five months after possession of the land has
been obtained.

The report on the motion of Captain BOSANQUET, seconded
by Dr. ASTLEY Hot.; was unanimously adopted.
Thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting was
dissolved.

MADAGASCAR, PAST AND PRESENT. BY A RESIDENT.
—We are requested to state that the new work under the
above title is this day published by Mr. Bentley (Publisher
in Ordinary to her Majesty), and may be had of all booksel-
lers, in one volume, price 9s.—Mr. Bentley has also just pub-
lished the following new works :-2. The experiences of a
Gaol-Chaplain, comprising Recollections of Ministerial In-'
tercourse with Criminals of various Classes, with their Con-
fessions, 3 vols., 11. Ifs. 6d.__3. The Homes and Haunts of
the British Poets, by William Hewitt, 2 vols. Bve., with
numerous engravings, 30s. bound.-4. The New and Con-
cluding Series of the Ingoldsby Legends, with a Memoir of
the Author, edited by his Son, I vol., with illustrations by
Leech and Georgd ruikshank, and two Portraits of the
Author, 10s. 6d.—.5. A Canoe Voyage up the Minnay-Sotor,
by G. W. Featherstonhaugh, Esq., T.R.S., &c., 2 vols. Bvo.,
with Map and Plates, 28s. bound.-6. The Outlaw, by Mrs.
S. C. Hall, forming the New Volume of " The Standard
Novels and Romances." 1 vol. neatly bound and embellished,
65.-7. Memoirs of General Pepe, written by himself, 3 vols.
post Bvo., 11. lls. 6d.-8. The Life and Times of Sir Chris-
topher Hatton, by Sir N. Harris Nicholas, Bvo., with por-
trait, 15s. bound.
Air. Wilson, the celebrated Scottish vocalist, the
most popular of living singers at the other side of the
Channel, is, we learn, about to visit Paris, to give a series of
soiri"es, at which the musical world here will, for the first
time, have an opportunity of hearing the national melodies
of Scotland in perfection. Though an accomplished exec
cutant, Mr. Wilson carefully avoids all the elaborate orna-
silents of the foreign schools ; and hence his singing, like the
" native wood-notes wild" of his immortal countryman
Burns, derives its charm, not from artistical display, but
from the sweetness of his voice and touching power of
expression, which finds its way to every heart—rare gifts,
which are the true secrets of Wilson's universal success.—
Galtlynani.
OPERATION UNDER THR INFLUENCE OF ETHER.—
An unusually large meeting of the medical staff, and noble-
men and gentlemen, interested in the important improve-
ment in the operative department of surgery, produced by
the introduction of ether as a means of abrogating pain,
took place in the operative theatre of the Westminster
Hospital on Friday. The operator on this occasion, as upon
the former successful trial of ether, was Mr. Hale Thomson,
senior surgeon to the institution, and the apparatus employed
was that of Mr. Robinson, on whom the duty of administer-
ing the vapour devolved. The patient was a young woman,
apparently about 30 years of age, suffering from a painful
tumour connected with the trunk of the body. In about
three minutes insensibility was produced, and the operator,
with a few strokes of his knife, succeeded in severing the
tumour from an unusually broad connexion with the skin.
The operation was rapidly and dexterously performed, and
although the patient uttered some expressions of impatience
at the commencement, yet it was some minutes before she
was sufficiently recovered from her dream to answer the
questions addressed to her. In her unprepared state the
operation would have been one of intense suffering. Among
the visitors present were Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, Lord
Walsingliain, Viscount Falkland, Lord Morton, Sir Henry
Mildmay, Sir George Wombwell, Admiral Napier, and many
distinguished foreigners.
ALARMING ILLNESS OF MAJOR PAGET, AIDE-DE
CAMP TO THE MASTER •GE.NERA.I. OF THE ORDNANCE.— We
regret to state that this officer is suffering from the effects of
a severe attack of apoplexy, which he su,tained a few days
Since while attending his official duties at the Ordnance
Office, Pall-mall. It appears that he was walking from his
own department to that of Lord Clarence Paget, when he
was suddenly attacked, and fell prostrate. On slightly re-
covering, he was placed in a cab,
_ganadect)on at Chelsea Royal
conveyed to the resi-
dence of his father (General Sir . r
Hospital, where he was attended b
that, on Friday evening,y Dr. M`Laughlen, of that
establialiment. We are happy toadd
he was considerably improved, and that strong hopes an, now
entertained of his recovery
We understand that it is the intention of some of
the political friends of Mr. Wakley, Member for Finsbury, to
invite that gentleman to a dinner, to be held in the borough
on an early day, for the purpose of manifesting towards him
their high estimation of his character, and integrity as a
member of the Legislature. Mr. Fielden, will be re- I
.Meted to preside QLL the wagon.