The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-30 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

•BRUSSELS, JAN. 26.—The average-price of wheat in the
week ending on Saturday, Jah. 22, was 28f. 30t., 'and that
of rye,. 22f. 35c. jier hectolitre. :These prices show an in-
crease cf6s eentirres on wheat, and of (-)3 ceritimps on rye,
peeheetolitre.

Ye4Crday theCliamber of Commerce: opeaed,.apd closed
the geneial debate On the project 'of, law relatiVe toithe rank
and mode Of diginission and promotion of armylt adopted the articles Land IL 'of the project of law.
•• The Conbtess de Thiennes has placed at the disposal of the
magistrates of the Commune of Brugelettet the sum of 000
francs, by means of I.lbich a distribution of bread bas been
made to the poor. A list of subnriptioni in-favour• of the
poor of East and West Flanders is in circulation atAntwerp.
It contains'numerouksignatureaforpretty, considerable sums.
We observe sums bf 1,000. 500,' and M francs.
The editor of the Brussels and 'English Journal, published
at Brussels, has just opened a subscription for the poor- Irish
among the English who reside in Belgium; • • .
ANTwErtr,•JA:st. 25.--4--The thaw, which set in on Saturday
evening, has-been accelerated by an abundant rain, which
set in yesterday evening, and by 'a pretty high wirid. The
floating ice on the-Scheldt is greatly diminished; and if the
present temperature continues the naVigation will be open in
a few days. The- Belgian .steamboat, the 'Princess Victoria,
will probably depart for London on Wednesday. •
BRUSSELS, JAN. 26.—The- Chamber of 'Representatives
commenced to-day the discussion and the vote of the project
of law relative to army physicians.
Accoraing to the tables annexed to the project of law,
relative to the augmentation of the number of representatives
and of senators, the total population of Belgium in its actual
limits, was on the 31st of
December, 1f330 3,760, 000
• It is how
4,335,319

Being an increase since fan: 1831 ... 575,319
On the occasion of the death of his Serene Highness the
Landgrave and Sovereign Prince of Hesse Homburg, the
King has put on mourning for seven days, beginning on the
24th of January.
The Franckfort Journal confirms the news of the conclu-
sion of a treaty for the contraction of a railway between
Trieste and Bavaria. .

The Bavarian Govern Mont will commence in the spring
the line which is to unite Salzburg to Munich. This line
will open a communication between Bavaria on the one side
with the sea, and on the other with the

A letter from Berlin, of the 21st .January, says, "It is on
the 24th, the anniversary of the coronation and of the fetes of
the orders of knighthood, that we expect the act convoking
the Provisional Estates as States General. This assembly,
it is said,• will sit with closed doors; • the Government will
treat it not directly, but through Commissioners, and with-
out-the presant intervention of the Ministeri."
BERLIN, JAN. 24.—This day the celebration of the an-
niversary of the coronation and of the fetes of the orders
• took place by command of his Majesty the King
At noon the knights installed since the 18th January last
year, and the holders of honorary insignia, as well as those
who were to receive these distinctions, assembled at the
royal palace. After the ceremony their Majesties, the royal
family, and the most distinguished personages, repaired to
the Palace Chapel, where the service for the anniversary was
celebrated, and thesermon preached, by the Rev. Dr. Strausz.
After dinner service the royal family repaired to the
Knights' Hall, where many had the honour of being intro-
duced to their Majesties. Nearly, 800 distinguished guests
sat down to table in the royal palace.

We understand that Lord Torrington has been ap-
pointed Governor of Ceylon.
CANADIAN POST-OFFlCE.—Amongst the Parliamen-
tary documents yesterday issued was a copy of the report of
the commission appointed by the Governor-General of Ca-
nada, since the union of the two provinces, to inquire into
the state of the Canadian Post-office, and Mr. Stayner's
statement relative thereto. This return was moved for by
Mr. Warburton, and ordered to be printed on the 28th of
August.

The coloured citizens of Cincinnati, when they re-
ceived the intelligence of Clarksen's death, resolved to wear
mourning for thirty days.
General Espartero and the Duchess of Victory have
both been suffering from indisposition, arising from the recent
inclemency of the weather. The Gallant General continues
at. Abbey Lodge, Regent's Park, and, we learn, is now re-
covering,

AN EPICURE.----On Saturday week, a young pig
walked into a confectioner'S shop at Preston, and in a few
moments helped himself to some twenty shillings' worth of
Chorley cakes, mince pies, Queen's cakes, and other deli-
cacies—twice as much,-in fact, as he himself was worth when
he had finished.

- TIIE C2ESARIAN OPERA TION.—The subject of this
case, a dress-maker, aged _7, of a mild disposition, is only
four feet one inch in height on account of great distortion of
the pelvis and lower limbs from rickets during childhood.
Her general heakh is good. Oa the evening of the.7th of
184 G, while under temporary excitement, she had con-
nexion once with a young man lodging in the same house.
She was not aware of being pregnant until the. seventh
month, when she consulted a surgeon, who, conscious of her
dangerous position, sent her to Mr. Skey, under whose care
she was admitted into St. Bartholomew's 'Hospital. An ac-
curate examination was then made by several distinguished
accoucheurs, who were unanimous in their. opinion that ens-
bryotouly would be impracticable on account of the extreme
narrowness of the antero-posterior diameter of the pelvis. It
was, therefore, recommended no operative proceeding should
be adopted until the full period of utero-gestation ; and that
the Cassarian section would then be the most proper 'measure.
The nature of the case being fairly and fully explained to
the patient, she readily consented to undergo any operation
which offered the best chance of relief. At two o'clock in
the morning of the 25th Of January she was awakened from
sleep by the commencement of labour. The membranes
gave way soon afterwards, and the pains increased.
Skey, with several accoucheurs, made an examina-
tion per vaginain at halt-past four A.M. The os uteri was at
that time very little dilated. A second examination was
made at half-past seven o'clock. The os uteri was still in
the same condition, but the labour pains were rapidly in-
creasing. The operation was therefore no longer delayed.
The vapour of ether was inhaled by the patient -for six
minutes before its effects were manifest, an incision eight
inches in length was made down to the linea alba, commenc-
ing two inches above the umbilicus, and terminating two
inches and a half above the pubes. The linea alba was then
divided to the same extent on a broad director. The uterus
was fairly exposed, inclining to the left. Adequate pressure
over the front and sides of the abdomen was neces-
sary to prevent protrusion of the intestines. An incision
from five to six inches in length was then made into the long
axis of the uterus, from which a well-formed, healthy-looking
female child was easily removed. The placenta was extracted
shortly afterwards. Thus- far the operation occupied six
minutes. Immediate contraction of the uterus to -one-half
its previous size followed the removal of the child.. The free
veneous hemorrhage which took place from its cut surface
was arrested by cold water and pressure between the hands.
In half an hour the uterus had contracted to such a size as
to render its replacement within the abdomen safe. Accord-
ingly, with the sanction of Drs. Rigby, Fergusson, Moore,
P. Smith, and others, the incision in the abdomen was brought
together by eleven sutures. Broad strips of plaster were
applied to support the muscles, and cotton-wool placed on
the abdomen with a flannel roller over. the whole. It may
be as well to observe that the inhalation of the ether pro-
duced insensibility, to the pain of the first incision. Its
prolonged exhibition was not allowed, lest it might possibly
interfere with the contraction of the uterus.—Medical
Gazette.

MIDDLESEX HosPirAr..—On Monday last, at the
Middlesex Hospital, the efficacy of the ether was put to as
severe a test as it has yet been subjected to. A man of 68
had been admitted with symptoms of stone and. diseased
bladder; so much pain, straining, and struggling attended
the attempts at sounding, that it was with difficulty satis-
factorily accomplished. The vesical tenesmus was incessant,
amounting to total incontinence of urine. Endeavours were
made for several weeks to allay this extreme irritability; so
that some urine might be retained or some water received as
au injection, but in vain, neither could be endured, lithotrity
was consequently out of the question ; and Mr. Arnott de-
termined to perform tha operation of lithotomy, unpromising
as the case was, but, if possible, whilst the patient was under
the influence of the ether. ' seven minutes from the com-
mencement, but in reality only two from the, effectual in-
halation, its influence was obtained. The catheter was then
introduced, and some water attempted-to be injeCted, but not
above' two or three ounces could be boine, and' this, re-
tained by pressure, was ejectedimmediately on the introduc-
tion of the staff, which, owingto the state of parts was ef-
fected with some difficulty and consequent delay the bladder
was cut into; the stone was grasped at once, but-crumbled
under the forCeps, requiring their re-introduction several
times; the scoop was employed to remove calculous matter
like mortar; and, lastly, the bladder was injected four or five
times, so as to wash it out. During the whole time, from first
to last, the patient gave not the slightest indication of suf-
fering ; indeed, it was not until lie was removed to bed and
had been some time in it, and taken some brandy and am-
monia, ttlat •he did Co, and then of soreness merely. Nor
was the influence of the ether limited to this, its anodyne
effect was maintained during the evening, the mail remaining
in a dreamy and "'very comfortable state," as he termed it.'
He declares he suffered no pain.; he knew that something
was being done, but he recollects nothing distinctly " after
' blowing the horn:" Up to this time, Wednesday evening,
he is going on very favourably. Without ether the pain
in this case must have been most severe, and, from the cir-
cumstances mentioned of more than ordinary duration, but
happily the patient wlzs spar, d a..paratus em-
ployed was tine invented by Mr. chemist, of O.N.ford-
street, wl,to was present, andas.sist:A Mr. Tomes in its appli-
.
cation.—ffedical Gazette.

DESTITUTION IN ,ST. LITRE'S, enEl.'s EA.—This
pariah contains above 45,000 inhabitants, of whom one in
every fourteen is now actually receiving parochial relief.
The returns for the past week are as follow :—lnMates of
the workhouse, 397; children at the establishment at Toot-
ing, 126; recipients of out-door relief, 2,694 (being en in-
crease in this class since last week of 568) the total amount
to 3,217, of whom, one-third ate Irish. There have been
from 150 to 220 new applications daily, and they seem likely.
to be still more numerous. The number of paupers at the
corresponding period laSt year was but ],834, showing the
enormous increase of 1,383.
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He had been sentenced to seven-Years! transportation,. and
stealing; contrived to make his caClav
was accordingly placed in a yard
class. 'As we are infortned, upon the mastering of the
sopera to attend the chapel in the:afternoon-of thegabove pri-
less than half • an hour after he'
Wells, upon some pretence, lingered behind the day,
rest, and in
is supposed. that having scaled a - high-boarded partition
dividing the portion of '
the
prison in use from that part
where the new buildings are ' going on, he got clear off by
means of some -of the m• t '
the discovery • ' a erials employed on the works. Upon
being made the intelligence
e was immediately
transmitted by the telegraph to London and Colchester, and
numerous police-constables and other officers were dispatched
in pUrsuit in every quarter of the neighbourhood. - This'first
intelligence of the locality of the fugitive was gained on
Monday morning, when the officer sent to East Hanningfield,
where his friends resided, and was informed that he had been
in the neighbourhood-the night before, and had exchanged
his clothes, which, were subsequently found tied up as a
parcel, anddirected to one of the wardens of the prison, in
the possession of Thomas Bacon, who had been requested to
deliver, it to the carrier, but Bacon asserts he did not know
the party by whom they were delivered. Since that time
no tidings have been heard of him, although the most active
exertions have been made, officers having been sent as far as
Kent, in the expectation that the fugitive had taken shelter
at a relations in that county.—Essex Standard. _

A. hoilible ,suicide took plade last week at Du•
nitres, in the Haute-Loire. A workman at a saw-mill, in
a temporary fit of insanity, placed his arm under one of
the saws, by which it was separated, and then put his head
to the instrument. He. was just expiring when he was
discovered.

BENINGTON.—On Thursday evening the 21st inst.
(about four o'clock), a wheat stack on the farm of Mr. Hol-
land, containing about 20 quarters, was fired, and almost the
whole burnt; plenty of assistance was at hand, and no other
damage was done. It is believed to have been caused by an
incendiary,--Stainforci Mercury.