The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-02 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec. 1.

THE KING v. D.;:virrr.
The SOLICITOn-GENERAL said this was'AH
against the :defendant, a soap and tallow-manufacturer .at
Deptford, and it charged him with having illegally manufac-
tered soap and candles in various instances, by which he had
incurred penalties to the amount of MI.
The Learned Counsel called several witnesses, by whose evi-
dence it appeared, that tin: dcf,uitiant occupied premises fur the
manufacture of soap and candles is Copperas-Erne, Deptford.
In December last the officers of Eteise searched the premises,
and after some time discovered that. the ground in the cellar was
soft, and appeared to have been newly dug; a spade was pro.
cured, and after diggin,; about a' spade deep, they came to some
boards ; one or these they took up, and then descended into a
cavity of about nine feet square,- containing two soap frames
with about three hundred weight of yellow . soap in each ; a
pipe and funnel were also found in sa soapy state, and they
were so formed that a communication could be truttle from the
boiler to those frames, so that the soap in its liquid state could
run into the frame* through the pipe and funnel. A piece of
new brick-work was discovered in the side of the cavity, which,
when taken away, would' admit a person to reach nut the soap.
frames. This hole comuoicated level with the stoke-hole of the
soan-boller.
The Jury found a verdict for the Crown.

Sir ASTLEY Cow,Ell, in his lecture 0,1 wed.
nesday night, when speaking of the experiment which he
tried .on the dog at Guy's flospital on Friday week, and an
account of which was given in the THE Sus of the 24th ult.,
said—" This experiment, gentle Men, delighted me; I do not
know that I have ever experienced greaterpleasure in Inv life
than I fult in going home from the hospital on that day. \Vali
respect to antidotes Against the effects of poison, it is well known
that they are in a great degree useless. It is impossible, for in.
stance, to get.rid of arsenic from the stomach by any remedy
that can be administered. It is doubtful whether any man
ever recovered from the effkni -of 'that poison by means of an
antidote. So with respect to .o)durn,. when it is taken into the
stomach in such 'large quantities that vomiting cannot be ex.
cited the patient cannot be ,relieved by the exhibition of
medicine: fir where it the antidote against the effects of opiuna P
A few weeks ago, a nurse in this hospital died in cone.
queue of having swallowed opium. No relief was adminis.
tired to her; hut can it be said, after what-Ivo saw.on Friday,
that no relief could have been administered to her A short
time since, a patient died in the ether hospital under similar
circumstances ; the quantity. of Opium taken being so large,
that-vomiting could not be excited by, any means which were
employed. I was myself, on one occasion, called to u yount
lady, who had trilten two ounces of the tincture of opium. t
was ten o'clock in the* morning when I first saw her ; she was
then comatose. I tried to excite vomiting, by the sulphate of
copper, given in as large'deses us I could venture to administer;
which I have sometitnes known to succeed whenall other means'
have proved ineffectual. It W3* however unavailing in this
watehit!i; the regular progress'
p
case, and I sat by.this par lady from ten o'clOck in die morn.
liniegf.uniti4l
Let me eight
I ai y yt
thtee,vettthicil7,,
gentkmmi
whether
an
expert.
to death, without being able to administer to her the, least re-
line:it of this kind is not in the highest degree.' interesting, anti
whether.we are not infinitely indebttal to the man what:l.st sub.
gested the means of administering relief under such atilt:to-1g
circumstanoes ?"—t The biner!.)
Dr. PEARSON, Of GeOrirs'e•StrePt IlatiOVer•
square,' in lecturing a few days two 'upon tike stomach,. ob.
served .that Allis organ had no Paver over sttbattances endued
with vitality ; and that this circumstance accounted for the
atieica
fact of the Prophet Jonala having remained- undigested in the.
stomach of the whale . for the space of three days and three
nights.
i anrn. roriont,i:disCovery la-highly-important, both in.
theological point of view,—(