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

SOMNAM BULISM.

The following extraordinary case of Somnarta-
buliirti has been communicated to us in an au-
thentic manner. It is principally linportant in a
medical point of-view, on .accousit of the suCcesa
ful use of hleeditio its a remedy
A remarkable instance adds affection of the ncvres occurred
tin Suatlay evening la,st, October the oth.; to a lad named iiienige
`Davis, 16i years of age, in the service,of Mr...Howson, btrtcher,
! af firidge.road;trunbeth at about 2ft minutes after nine o'clock
'the lad bent forward in his chair, and rested his forehead on his
hand,- andin started up, went for his'whip, put on
its one spor,. and went thence to the stable ; not finding Ilia
own Saddle in the proper place, he returned to the house and
asked for it. . Being asked what he wanted with. it, he replied, to
go his rounds. He returned to, the stable, got on .the horse with.
out the saddle; and .was• proceeding to leave the• Stable : it 'Was
with much tififficulty and force that Mr. Rawson, jun. assisted
by the other lad, eotild'reinoyerhim from `the horse ; hit strength
was great, and it was with diffiephylte.WAS brought, in doors.
Hewson, sen. diming home at this titintFt -for Mr. Ben.
jamin Itidge,.an eminent praetiMuter in Brit road, who stood
by him fen a quarter of an hour, during wine time the lard eon•
sidered hinutelf stopPed -at the turnpike aare.,ltiral took shiptinte
out of hia pocket to be changed; 'and holding out his.hand for
the change; the. siinentie Was returned to hint. lie intrnediately'
observed, " None, ofyour nonsense, that is the sixpence again,
give twiny change:l. wheh,3o was' given to him. lie count-
ed it over, and said, " None of your.'l4ltotratio ; that) is. not
right, `f want' a penny more;" making the 4 jd. which was his
proper change. : He then said, " Give me'mjr castor," (ine.4n:
mg his hat), which slang terms he had been in the habit of
using,ug,
and then biotin to whip and spur to get his:lnirse'On „-
his pulse lit this time was 13d,, full arid bittti; np change.of
it*lfttHaiiet &Am obierVed, nor any tipairtiodie'affedtion of
thr tott,tehstl Me. cper,reata faing dim)/ Me whole qf the time.
'llis'enet`tras taken nit' his arm, shirt sleeve stripped up, and
31r. Ridge. bled !him to 32, minces t: nn thermion:hat) taken
place in him during the first part of the. time ,the blood Was
flawing t; at ttlinGt •`2.4 , ounces thaPtilite began to ilecrortse,: and
when the full quantity named above had besnt-taken, it was
at 80—a slight perspiration on the-foreheiid.' 'During the time
or bleeding, Mr. Ilewson, related the, cirenrostanee of a Mr;
in Holborn, whtilieson some years back Walked
matter 'thriving then
omit nu the:parapet of the' house, in his altar .The hay .jeinea
the -cOnVentatian, and observed he lived at the corner of,Brown-
.joiv-street.; After the nail weeded up, he unlaced one hoot and'
said he would go to ;in three minutot from this time he
bee"nkeeinir hinntiir'inftre 'asked what'
1), ,Igaitt .44:iagthet./te slightest rccowcto,„
oPanuYp
antii g
agrithehawdooptorsisete:n_di't Wltothodnegrttil)etniTttin:ginbeeiivarig4
then administered, he went in bed, slept well, and the next day
l'reelrtti,PeffertlY Well% tiehintY•tft m! the bleeding
and .6peration of the medicine, atulhas no tecollectien whatever
of what had taken place. None of his family or himself were
ever affected in this way before.--( Vne Mum )

On the CAUSES of the, N,UMERICAL INCREASE of
ROMAN CATHOLICS in IRELAND, as compared with
that of the PROTESTANTS.
That the Roman COlkOliCS Of this country have
increased in number during the last century and
a halt, in a lunch greater ratio than the Notes:
tants,.is known to every man acquainted Avid)
the statistical affairs of Iyeland. We shall, how.
ever, lay some proofs of the fact before our read-
ers, and then proceed, Without further preamble,
to investigate the causes from which so remark-
,
able. a disparity proceeds. t
It appears from certain records of the manor
'of Newry, that in October, 1756, LAancrlot
Watson, high-constable of that town, made a Cen-
sus of that part of it which is situated in the,
county of Down, and found there 2130 Protes-
tants, and 1249 Roman Catholics. So that thef
Protestants were to the Roman Catholics in nearly
the ratio cor two to one. At, present, however,
the Romanists of this very district vastly exceed
the Proteitants in numbers.
Further—We learn from Ware's 6ata Who--
norum, page JBl, that on the, Bth of August, 1611,
a census was made of the,citixens of Dublin, (that
is of the adults), and there were found to 4ed.5.5:0
Protestants, and 2608 Romanists. AL preiwkt
the Romanists of Dublin far exceed the Proosr
tants in number.

Yut:ther—A bout 50 years ago it %you'd have
been a very difficult thing to find
,300 Roman ..'far
tholics in Belfast and its neighbourhood. At, pre.
sent, at least 3,500 persons,pf that persuasion at-
tend the two chapels in this town.
Again, We find by a census recorded in the
lithei•nin Dominion!' of the accurate Pe 11110,
that in the year 1731 tine inhabitants of Ireland
amounted to 2,010;2'21, of whom 700,4,53 were
Protestants--4,309,768 Roman Catholics .;
that there were not in all Ireland two 11,011111111StS
to each Protestant.
At present the population of this country,, as
found by the late census, amounts to 6,846,840.
The relative number of Protestants and Catholics
may be approximated in the following manner :.
By a return of theThittidier Of all the Presbyterian
congregation in, Ireland; whiWthe'Editdr of the
News Letter has taken some pains to procure, and
that number fairly ;multiplied 4y, a properiaverage
of families, and these again by the individuals of
whiCh they consist, the amount is found to be
53,0430, or thereabouts. The otiwr Protestants,
incluilhig the members of the Established Church,
the Independents, Methodists, Quakers, liaPti4s,
and others, may be estimated at 720,0p0, so
that the Protestants in all may he Considered its
amounting to 1,250,000, leaving '5,596,'849 as the'
number of Romanists in Ireland; thatis betwixt'
4 and 5 to each Protestant.

And bow ive 6411 briefly invi,Stigato Ole 'closes
which hairO prodiic'ed so marked ao effect.

First then—Titer; Ints been in the course of
the last 120 years a vast emigration from Ire.
land to North America. At first the emigrants
were almost exclusively Protestants, becau,e the
Aborigines of the country have perhaps a stronger
affection for their native land, and a higher opi.
Ilion of its advantages, than the inhabitants of
any other region on earth. They have even a
local attachment to the• very soil, and will cling
to it and divide and subdivide their fields amongst
their respective families, whilst there remains
even a rood to partition.

Now, emigration front any country rapidly in-
creases its pophiation, because it leaves the non-
emig n
raot youth more Ott their ease, and thus e-
cournges marriages and the multiplication of fa.
milies, for n hit+ improvementsagriculture.
afford, for a considerable time, It corresponding
hopport, till an overpressure of population be-
comes again an inducement to spirited and ad-
venturous person to change the scene. Thus the
counties of Armagh and Mmtughatt, from which
emigration has always been brisker than from
any Other part of Ireland, have so vastly increas-
ed in population, that there is not one acre for
the support of each inhabitant. Yet this is the
very district where Primate Bootle'', ,about the
year l 728, expended large sums of money to
keep the people at home, lest the country should
be left a desert.

It is, therefore, evident that an emigration
solely Protestant mutitilave tended mightily to
incr4 a,e the Roman Cittholic population which
remained to fill the vacancies thus in the first in-
stance produced. In later times some Itomanists
haVe emigratea, but their 'lumber is to that of the
Protestant emigrants as one to 13, as we found
sometime ago by inquiries which we made, from
year to year, in Ne4ry harbour, where many em.
bark for the United States.

2d/y--'l'he Prot()mut 'youth, who are chiefly
the descendants of English and Scotch families,
will pause4tefore thtiy marry, and will'make pre
vious inquiry whether there be any prospect of
their being able to support their expected land.
lies with some degree of comfort. On the, other
hand, an aboriginal Irish peasant, if he thinks he
shall he enabled to procure potatoes for the`food
of his intended wife, and honed-for jag' and
the coarsest kind of covering for their clothing,
will marry without farther' thought, and commit
tilt sequel to Proviclence.

St/ti,—t'4' hen inie' rOiarliagea take place betwixt
Roman Catholica and Protestant. 4 in 'Ohm
slntices, out of ten the issue is oducated in the fuith
of Ratite : FOE the ItOuraniiits: generally believe
that there is no sflVation out of Me pale of the
Pupal church, whilst the Prutustunti- entertaining

r. Perbwk w 4 mulct...Tata this partion of the Protestant com-
munity. On this, point::Wa. have not: such. correct data to phi.
cecd upon as on the other. Perhaps sortureorrespondent who
has turned his attention to the subject may favour us with the
result of his observations.

a more liberal idea, thinks that'hittbehlisitoliptes
soul maybe sated "w ttiA • it4'.atititg'e Otie
r: hence the gfr 1,0 Ihaone infiuitelyposieds.
' .thut of, the other, and, aitbo.rders on intolerante;
corresponding elle4 to 7prodOced. Thelatts,
,„of,wi4c,h we :now. speakare,glariog, and must be
91*p,19.everyjnule,s,obsprvati99,
401,y,--..Doctrinal opinions are inculcated much
;earlier into the infant tnindsof the children of
human Catholics than
,of Protestants.
.soon
its they can speak, they are taught to repent Ave
'Maria* and other prayers,
.and habituated to the
vlenA id ceremonies of. their elturch„, Tbey are
also Ittoght orally, either by their Pareuts-or by
,theirclergyipen, to recite cateehisms even before
they,cat read, or write. In the very first 4a-wit
of the: understanding they, are led to believe, that
their church ,is. an iwidlible guide in religious
flouters' and that.it woold be impious to question
Any of its deci:,..ions. Thus the doctrines of the
church,of !tome make a part of their earliest and
most durable impressions. They idiftlffied
a it,were with I,lo,eir, mepial existence, and LlM-
their most iitterestimf recollections of
their parentaand friends, uod of all 911 whom they
had implicitly, relied in the belplessoess of their
temlex years. Their very, intellects araprostrat-
ed before the power of a church, the .litinliibia/N
which they never dared to
,doubt.
nations, also, are amused and captivated .by the
pompous avid imposing ceremonies of the Rontish
Church, and they look upon the enure simple
formi of Protestants us comparatively fitopid, and
uninteresting. They are ,therefore, shielded,, as
far as possible, from prosely (ism, or
,fr,qm, the
adoption of opinions Which an authority that they
deem divine has pronounced to be heretical,
schismatical, and darnuable.
On the contrary.--Protestants hold the right, of
• •
hn~a
to jutignoil, and will ttotsubmit to the more
dictation pi any nor adopt it, doctrine*:
further.' than they deem them, to bo fottoded ort
the Scriptures, They are of course not-precinct.:
ed from change of opinion.
;i/hlaj---•Political disa bi li ties atiecting the Ro.
man, Catholic Body are felt by all, and uttite
them all in one coonnott cause„ They excite u
powerful and perpetual re action, and whither
they be, the result of judicious or injudicious •
laws,thei keep alive L'Exprii de corps, and ren.
tier the Romauists peculiarly anxious to guard
and increase, their present prkileges, and to aug-
meta their numerical strength.

Whilst we have thus Adverted to the great in-
' crease of the Itornan Cfahlios of Ireland in num-
' bers, we have made no reference to the rest of
the United Empire. in Grte t Mohr, the Pro.
testa its are so decidedly superinr in 9umbers tp
11,1 e Roman Catholics-- -their wealth so immense--
their influence so extensive--and the power of
the state by which their religion is stiPPocl4 so
irresistible—that even' if the Rouen' Catholic
of frelithd were inclined to malie any effort to".
separate the two COAMirks, or to subvert .the
established Constitutio'n—the strngglc wnt4a not
be Of long duration. Tliey would be t.rulled,irl
'the vain attempt. This tutu an tniderteking
Wlick Ntwoh on, aided by the Continet:tal Mod
inuclis of Europe, was. nut able to achieve, even
L%rben in the very zenith of ,his4.l,ower.

That kuch wouldtc the win we cannot deny ; Ina prudence
rnnsi guard :.qyainst the attempt being Imitc,--(LArr. of pte:.o
13c' ft f Aretri'Lciiitro

r„
SNIITIIVIELD AND FLEET ni,Aatitrrs.

The following Corres'fldndence, between Mr.
MARTIN aed the LORD NAYOR, on tl)e subject
of stepping the thoroughfare in Smithkeld during
market hours, shtiws Mr. MARTIN's unremitting
'attention to the cause of humanity, .tvhile it af-
fords reason to hope• that a new avenue will shortly
be opened from Fleet-market to the North Road.

MR. MARTIN' 'VD TnE LORD MAAOIi.
18, ilk nelocster.betildings, kept.. 23,' 1823;
" MY Lonti—l beg.lettve to- shlieit, yOur Lordhltip's atter)."
don a subject, on 'which I lut4e.reasolt to hope, we have a,
common feeling,
•
" You eatinbt, I think; havo'failettto'Observe that much of
the • confusion which 'prevails, in Stnithlield on 'market day*
.arises from LlN:contact which carts, waggons, and other ear.
riagetr(that are pernalital to pais throogh the
eionfe, into with the cattle Mantling there. ' ha* Art-pie/lily
ripen &fib limbs, of sheep, frattuitd, and! other 'erne)" iteeidentir
happen to cattle from this enure; ~and in addition to tbe
chef occurs In this 'way, the men who are charged with
ears, of the tat& freqtre'inly rteceasitated to litrike them
violently, for the purpotit of urging them to move quickly, out
of the way of greater injury, or a total, destruction.
" I -understabd that until laiely n t earriagea of any-descrip-
tion were, porrnitted to pastvtlitough Smithfield on marketalyN,
during the time of htviortts there. If •it falls within thelaups
of your official authority, to resume that salutary prohibition
,•
from whet I have' stat/a1;I preAtime' it ittY I carnestlY intxtdt:
your Lordibip to adapt mensurea to prevert the continuance Of '
a practice, which is ,not oulyprvumt with injury,, to• inferittr. •
animals, but ofteni.also, whir :danger to man,
" Strong' representations have .been' made' to m 0 on this Ault
siert by an peisoni interested in the good Ravine!'
ment of the Market; and if the •• CorpOratiOn hays not lower.
to prevent the naiAinee embpiaineiT of, it, will in ray opinion- be
advisable to apply to YtitlitthidneMi a'reinedy,
" I hoe, tba honoultolremain, my Lord , •
'4 Your Lordship's devoted humble
RICHARD .ItIA TIN.'
" TO the Med Hoc the Lord MirPor •

'rUE Lon!) -mAytitt TO Mu. MA
nt:Axt Sitt.;.l have had the honour tif reMving ynut,
letter on the solkieet ofstoitping up the thoroughfare in Stilith.
field during market t104r4.
" I witth it warty ltl niy flower to do tolut it 13 tint ; anti r
apitrehetitilton Act.ot Patnalitellt4turd 3 new road front thebot.
tont of Fleet-market to tile northttrotol, would hecretittitette:
a, I fo4ite inontioned the sullieet to savo,4 th+. Corprationt,
and wili4iot full'io ch oto abet's:
• am, my dear Sir, ,-oura very mu iv,
" House Sept Wa ATE."

The Itev. Dtni6Am IVITAIG Minister or the'
Gaelic Chapel in Edinburgh, hat'in'll'ittupea aee'eptini,tln
erowoluvientation,- bonne time ago hunt cilin hitt' favour, fo-ttie
church and .parish of [rig;, in the 7itly)ll-,Qc 014000; Aria
JitlgTie hag been Alec pleased (on the reeennueattition of Mr.
and Mrs. STEWAIIT M ACK E) ZIE, of Seaford') to up pint the
Rev. ALEX. APLEon, Mixiuter of the Gaelic Chapel at Cto.'
tuaxty, to the vacancy.