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LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1841.

No 15,360

NATIONAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY
FOR GRANTING
LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c.
No. 26, CORNHILL.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
DIRECTORS.
T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
J. Elliotson, M.D., F. R. S. John Rawson, Esq.
John Griffith Frith, Esq. John Riddle Stodart, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq.
George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.

FRASER'S MAGAZINE for DECEM-
BER. Price 2s. 6d., contains,
A Summer Holiday. Part 11. Noon.—The Greater and
Lesser Stars of Old Pall-mall. Chapter XIV. to XVIII.—
The Condemned Cells. From the Note-book of the Ordinary.
Chapter X.—Wanted a Clerk : an Advei tisement.—Parties in
the Kirk. With a Note to Sir Robert Peel from Oliver Yorke,
Esq.—Our true British Queen. By Robert Story.—Anec-
dotes of Actors.—Ad Vulgo Vocatum Dan O'Connell.—" A
Plea for the Porkers." By Timothy Knowall, Esq.—Signs of
the Times.—A Chapter on the Dogs of several of my Ac-
quaintances. Mr. Delastro's Toby ; Mr. Bramble's Negro.—
The History of Samuel Titmarsh, and the Great Hoiarty Dia-
mond. Chap. XI. to XIII.—A Dublin " Mayor's' Nest.—
Index.

ARMY and NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

that his Lordship has succeeded in obtaining for the
Service a considerable boon, greater in extent, in fact,
than was expected.
Neither is the very impartial manner in which his
Lordship's judicious discrimination has been exercised
in the selection, less worthy of praise than his success in
accomplishing the extent of this promotion. As regards
the advancement of Captains to Flags, that is governed
by seniority • therefore we can only express our grati-
fication at findingC so many distinguished names added to
the list of Admirals, whilst others, intimately associated
with our naval renown, have attained to higher grades.
The Lieutenants promoted to Commanders, in num-
ber no less than eighty, hare also been selected with
strict impartiality ; and in respect to these, the First
Lord has laid down a principle which we trust will go-
vern future general promotions. One indispensable con-
dition in the claims of the selected candidate was, that

The following are the Major-Generals employid on
the staff who will be removed by the brevet :—Ellice,
western district, Plymouth ; O'Connell, Commandant
New South Wales ; Sir J. Macdonald, commanding the
Guards in Canada ; Sir John Gardiner, Deputy Adju-
tant-General ; Sleigh, Inspecting General of Cavalry ;
Lord Greenock, commanding in Scotland ; Sir Robert
Arbuthnot, Bengal ; L'Estrange, southern district of
Ireland, Cork ; Sir Thomas Pearson, northern ditto,
Belfast ; Sir: William M'Benn, south-western ditto,
Limerick ; Sir William Carroll, western ditto, Athlone ;
Sir James Douglas, Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey ;
Clitherow, commanding at Montreal.
The following are the Colonels employed who will be
removed by the brevet from their commands, &c. :—Sir
W. Warre, Commandant at Chatham ; D'Aguilar, De-
puty Adjutant-General, Ireland ; Pasley, Engineers,
Chatham ; Turner, Assistant Adjutant-General, Ireland;
Burrell, from Lieutenant-Colonelcy 18th Foot ; Riddell,
Assistant Quartermaster-General, Ireland ; Elrington,
from Lieutenant -Colonelcy 47th Foot; Sir Edward Wil-
liams, from Lieutenant-Coloneley 9th Foot; Sir Guy
Campbell, Deputy Quartermaster-General, Ireland ; Sir
Charles F. Smith, Royal Engineers, Gibraltar; Elli-
combe, Royal'Engineers, London; Webber Smith, Royal
Artillery, Dublin; Brotherton, Cavalry Depot, Maid-
stone; Arnold, Royal Engineers, Portsmouth ; Pym,
Royal Artillery (Horse); Faunce, Inspecting Field
Officer, Bristol ; Brown, Rifle Brigade ; Crawford, Royal
Artillery, Plymouth; Aitchison, Scots Fusileer Guards;
and six Aides-de-Camp to her Majesty.
The following are. some of the appointments which the
promotion will place at the disposal of the Admiralty:—
The command at Sheerness, vice Digby ; the com-
mand at Cape of Good Hope, vice King ; Plymouth
Dockyard, vice Warren; Hasler Hospital, vice Chee-
tham; Coast Guard, vice Bowles ; Pembroke Dockyard,
vice Jackson ; and her Majesty's ship Formidable, vice
Troubridge; all romoted.
Naval Aides-de-Camp, vice Poulett, Maitland, Trou-
bridge, Radstock, Cadogan, B..wles, Parker, and Dun-
das, promoted.
Good Service Pensions (150/. per annum), vice Coch-
rane, Ayscough, Wyse, Lye, Percy, and Inglefieldp pro-
moted.

AUDITORS.
Professor Wheatstone, F. R. S. I Professor Graves, A.M. F.R.S.
ACTUARY—W. S. B. Woo!house, Esq., F. R. A. S
PHYSICIAN—J. Elliotson, M.D., F. R. S.
SUROEON—E. S. Symes, Esq.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Sweet, Sutton, Ewens, and Omman-

ney, 6, Basinghall-street.
BANKERS—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co.
LIFE ASSURANCE.
ADVANTAGES.—Perfect security front a large paid-up Capi-
tal and accumulations--Equitable Rates--Power to borrow
Two-thirds Premium paid, without expense or forfeiture—and
Profits annually divided.
N.B. Policies for Short Periods at Lower Rates than at any
other Office, with option of continuance for Life, at the usual
rates.

if promoted to Lieutenant prior to 1830, he should have
served afloat five years in that rank ; if promoted subse-
quent to that year, four years. The reason of the distinc-
tion was, because the first term embraced:a much larger
extent than:the last, and therefore afforded more opportu-
nity for service.
This principle has been rigidly acted on, and many
disappointed candidates may, therefore, satisfactorily ac-
count for the preference of others who had 'no greater
pretensions than themselves, but who had fortunately
completed the conditional period of service ; and the
knowledge of this will from henceforth stimulate young
officers to aim at constant employment, instead of idling
their time on shore.
Of the Mates, many have passed so long, and been so
long neglected, that the news of their promotion will be
a welcome surprise. Of the eighty selected we perceive
that the junior passed so long back as 1835.
As respects the army, the only regret we feel on the
present occasion is in the exclusion of the Majors of
1830, officers wlio, as stated in our Gazette of 30th Oc-
tober, are all veterans, and have obtained their present
rank by sheer length qf service. The additional step would
have cost the country nothing.
The expenses of the Army Brevet will rat6r exceed
20,0001. We annex a list of officers, some of whom have
already been removed, as shown by the London Gazettes
we this day publish, and the others are liable to be dis-
placed ; but nothing further than is contained in this
day's paper, has been finally determined upon.
It is very probable that Lieutenant-General Sir John
Macdonnell will continue on the Staff in North America,
Major-General Pasley will remain in his post at Chat-
ham, and Sir Charles Frederick Smith at Gibraltar.—
Naval and Military Gazette.

DEFERRED ANNUITIES.
The best and most varied provision for after life hitherto of-
fered—£2 12s. per annum Os. per week) at 20, will at 65
give the policy-holder the choice of an annuity of £47 16s. 6d.,
or £349 11s. cash, or policy at death of £466. Similar ad-
vantages at 50, 55, and 60—Two-thirds payments lent at any
time, and Two-thirds returned in case of premature death.
The detailed Plans, and Last Annual Report to be had at
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forwarded post free.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary.

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Stock, forwarded upon application.

Commander in Coast Guard, vice Gape ; of Comus,
vice Nepean ; ditto, Pearl, vice Frankland ; ditto, Ser-
pent, vice Seale; ditto, Sappho, vice Fraser; ditto, Rose,
vice Christie ; ditto, Electra, vice Gostling ; ditto, Jas-
sour, vice Boultbee ; ditto, Scout, vice Larcom ; ditto,
Racehorse, vice Fitzgerald ; ditto, Indus, vies Yonge ;
ditto, President, vice Smith ; ditto, Fantome, vice But-
terfield ; ditto, Lily, vice Allen ; ditto, Queen, vice Hay.
Lieutenant of Coast Guard (Inspector), vice Nu-
gent ; ditto, Semaphore at Kingstown, -vice Wigley ;
ditto, at Cobham, vice Baynton ; ditto, Coast Guard,
vice Curlewis ; ditto, Victory, vice Powell ; ditto,
command of Partridge, vice Morris ; ditto, Snipe,
vice Baldock ; ditto, steamer, Volcano, vice West ;
ditto, cutter Raven, vice Roelpel ; ditto, in com-
mand of brig Rolla, vice Hall ; ditto. Etna, vice
Willson ; ditto, Seaflower, vice Robilliard ; ditto, Has-
tings, vice Smith ; ditto, Cambridge, vice Welch ; ditto,
contract steam-vessel, vice Wolley ; ditto, Caledonia,
vice Worsfold ; ditto, Impregnable, vice Wright ; ditto,
Hydrographical-office, vice Becher ; ditto, Rodney, vice
Taylor; ditto, Vanguard, rice Lyster; ditto, Coast Guard,
vice Hills ; ditto, St. Vincent, vice Binstead ; ditto,
Ganges, vice Johnstone ; ditto, command of steamer
Pluto, vice Blount ; ditto, Monarch, vice Macdonald ;
ditto, Implacable, vice "White; ditto, command of steamer
Tartarus, vice Smith ; ditto, Inconstant, vice Noble ;
ditto, Calcutta, vice Edmunds ; ditto, St. Vincent, vice
Edwards ; ditto, Coast Guard, vice Blair ; ditto, steamer
Lizard, vice Esteourt ; ditto, Coast Guard, rice Lake ;
ditto, Isis, vice Montagu ; ditto, command of the brig
Dolphin, vice Littlehales ; ditto, vice Indus, Brown ;
ditto, command of Comet steamer, vice Syer ; ditto,
Cambridge, vice Mends ; ditto, command of Weazle,
vice Edmondstor.e ; ditto, Vestal, vice Hand ; ditto,
Dublin, vice Kearsey ; ditto, Impregnable or Howe
(flag), vice Maclean ; ditto command of Bonnetta, vice
Austen ; ditto, Dido, vice Abbott ; ditto Ganges, vice
Hamilton ; ditto, Ardent, vice Johnstone ; ditto, South-
ampton, vice Henry ; ditto, Sappho, vice Hope ; ditto,
Curaeoa, vice Morgan ; ditto, Vernon, vice Dacres ;
ditto, Rover, vice Murray ; ditto, Warspite, vice Horn-
by ; ditto, Winchester, vice Fisher ; ditto, Illustrious,
vice Ogilvy ; ditto, Magicienue, vice, Thompson ; ditto,
command of Rapid, vice Tryon ; ditto, IN iagara, vice
Ellicombe ; all promoted.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PIPERS OF THIS DAY.

TIMES.—The failure of Messrs. Hector and Co.,
bankers, of Petersfield, was announced on Saturday in
the City. The concern is but a small one, and the lia-
bilities are not supposed to exceed 30,000/. There are
hopes that the bank is solvent, but the London agents
declined to make advances upon freehold securities. Mr.
Hector, one of the firm, was lately Member of Parlia-
ment for the place. It may be observed that the failure
has scarcely created any sensation whatever in the City.
The unfortunate military claimants upon Portugal,
while complaining of their miserable condition, add se-
veral animadversions on the regulations which have al-
ready been adopted by the Commission. It seems, that
upon seeking information from this Commission, a series
of what are called "general rules" is placed in their
hands, and that they find them so vague and indefinite
that it is difficult to decide what construction is to be
placed upon them. Another point, of which greater
complaint is made , is, that on a claimant attending the
Commission, a debtor and creditor statement is laid be-
fore him, made out in the Portuguese language, with
the amounts expressed in Portuguese currency, so that
he is unable to ascertain the particulars of the adjudica-
tion. Altogether there seems to be nothing but difficulty
in every shape in the way of these ill-used men.
CHRONICLE.—A sale by the Bank broker of 42,000
Consols for Bank notes depressed the market at one
period of the day per cent. This sale is supposed to
form part of 1,700,000/, short subscribed of the 5,000,0001.
loan on funding, which deficiency the Chancellor of the
Exchequer must now obtain on stock or otherwise, from
time to time, as the market can afford the pressure.
Such is the result of the famous financial mea-
sure which Mr. Goulkurn declared to have met with
success beyond his most sanguinary expectations. He
even went so far as to assert that he had obtained

1,000,0001. beyond what he asked. Mr. Baring, however,
speedily demolished the Right Hon. Gentleman's ima-
gined surplus, by showing that he was nearly 2,000,0001.
below his wished for amount, which was 2,500,0001. in
cash and 2,500,0001. in Exchequer bills, whereas he had
not obtained much over 3,000,0001. in both. Neither
could he tell how much he had in money or how much in
Exchequer bills. We see the upshot of the measure,
which, as Lord Melbourne remarked, is stripped of its
only claim to merit, that of success.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
The following are some of the good things which the
Promotion will place at the disposal of the Admiralty:—
Promoted.
Command at Sheerness vice Digby
Ditto at Cape of Good Hope King
Plymouth Dock-yard Warren
Haslar Hospital
Coast Guard Bowles
Pembroke Dock-yard Jackson
H.M.S. Formidable.... ....
Naval Aides-de-Camp, 10s. 6d. a-day Poulett
Ditto ditto ... Maitland
Ditto ditto ... Troubridge
Ditto ditto • „.. Radstock
Ditto ditto ... Cadogan
Ditto ditto ... Bowles
Ditto ditto ... Parker
Ditto ditto ... Dundas
Good Service Pension, 150/. per annum Cochrane
Ditto ditto ... Ayscough
Ditto ditto ... Wise
Ditto ditto ... Lye
Ditto ditto ... Percy
Ditto ditto ... Inglefield
Commander in Coast Guard vice Gape
Ditto, Comus Nepean
Ditto, Pearl Frankland
Ditto, Serpent
Ditto, Sappho
Ditto, hose , Christie
Ditto, Electra
Ditto, Jaseur Boultbee
Ditto, Scout Larcom
Ditto, Racehorse
Fitzgerald
Ditto, Indus yiotzgra
ngeld
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Ditto, President
Ditto, Fantome
Ditto, Lily
Ditto,
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ienn C. Guard (Inspector) lay
Allen
Lieutenant
Nugenten
Ditto, Semaphore at Kingston Wigley
Ditto ditto at Cobham
Ditto, Coast Guard Curlewis
Ditto, Victory Powell
Ditto, command of Partridge Morris
Ditto, ditto Snipe
Ditto, ditto steamer Volcano Wrest
Ditto, ditto cutter Raven
Ditto in command of brig Rolla
Ditto, ditto .Etna
I;itto, ditto Seaflower Robilliard
Ditto, Hastings
Ditto, Cambridge
Ditto, Contract Steam-vessel Wolley
Ditto, Caledonia Worsfold
Ditto, Impregnable Wright
Ditto, Hydrographical Office Becher
Ditto, Rodney Taylor
Ditto, Vanguard Lyster
Ditto, Coast Guard Hills
Ditto, St. Vincent
Ditto, Ganges
Ditto, command of steamer Pluto Blount
Ditto, Monarch
Ditto, Implacable ..
Ditto, command of steamer Tartarus Smith
Ditto, Inconstant Noble
Ditto, Calcutta.
Ditto, St. Vincent
Ditto, Coast Guard Blair
Ditto, steamer Lizard Estcourt
Ditto, Coast Guard Lake
Ditto, Isis Montagu
Ditto, command of brig Dolphin
Ditto, Indus Brown
Ditto, command of Comet steamer Syer
Ditto, Cambridge
Ditto, command of Weazle
Ditto, Vestal
Ditto, Dublin .......... .. . ....
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rseeay
Ditto, Impregnable}(Flag),,,,,,,, ,
Ditto, command of Bonetta ............ Austen
Ditto, Dido ................................. Abbott
Ditto, Ganges .............................. Hamilton
Ditto, Ardent ............................. Johnstone
Ditto, Southampton
Ditto, Sappho
Ditto, Curacoa Morgan
Ditto, Vernon Dacres
Ditto, Rover Murray
Ditto, Warspite
Ditto, Winchester Fisher
Ditto, Illustrious
Ditto, Magiclenne
Ditto, command of Rapid . .
Ditto, Niagara Ellicombe

It has never fallen to our lot, since the establishment
of this journal, to record a Naval promotion of such ex-
tent as we this day present to our readers ; and our gra-
tification is very greatly increased by the universally-
admitted impartiality that has governed the selection.
The first intention was to limit the Army Brevet and '
Naval promotion to a very small amount, the state of the
revenue being pleaded for making the most rigid economy
imperative ; and we can state with confidence, that the
first programme did not include more than half of what
has been at last conceded to the earnest remonstrances
of the heads of the Army and Navy departments.
We have always contended that such fleeting and ever-
varying circumstances as a rise or fall of the revenue,
principally depending on the state of trade or other con-
tingent causes, should not be permitted to weigh in the
scale of justice against the claims of old and meritorious
officers at a season of public jubilee, but particularly on
such an occasion as the present, that seldom occurs more
than once in a generation, and which it has always been
usual to commemorate by an extensive Brevet and pro-
motion. Whether with these, or such-like arguments
on behalf of the Navy, Lord Haddington combated the
formidable objections of the Finance Minister until he
finally overcame thew, we know not ; but this is certain,

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MANSLAUGHTER at BABWORTH
NEAR EAST RETFORI).
Last week we briefly noticed an unfortunate case of
maniaughter committed .at Babworth, near Retford
and promised further details in our next. We now
proceed to do so by giving in full the particulars which
transpired at the Coroneqs inquest, before P. R.
Falkner, Esq., the Coroner, held at the house of Mr.
Wm. Burton, the Mason's Arms Inn, Spittal Hill, pre-
mising our observations by stating that two boys were
tenting birds ; one, John Peacock, in the employ of the
Hon. J. B. Simpson, and the other John Bland, in the
employ of Mr. Parkinson, jun., at Babworth, the latter
of whom, being armed with a gun, did shoot at Pea-
cock, whereby he came to his death. The following
are the particulars of the evidence given at the inquest :
William Hollin, a labourer in Mr. Simpson's employ,
deposed that, on Tuesday last I was working in one of
the fields, near which both the boys were tenting.
Going across the fields I heard Peacock cry out " Oh"
do come to me, I am shot! I am shot ! I shall die ! !
I ran up to him and found him bleeding ; his jacket and
shirt were bloody. He was lying on his side, and I
asked what was the matter with him ; on which he re-
plied " Mr. Parkinson's boy has shot me through the
heart, and I shall die !" I did not then see Bland (Mr.
Parkinson's boy). I took Peacock up and carried him
to the Botany Bay cottages. Whilst 1 was carrying
him he said nothing more as to how the matter hap-
pened. He appeared to be suffering severely, and often
cried out that I hurt him. I frequently shifted his po-
sition, but he continued to complain. Peacock had no
gun. He was afterwards removed to his father's house
on S pit tal.hill.
Hannah -Jarvis said—l was at Benjamin Peacock's
on Tuesday last when the deceased was brought in. I
asked him bow the affair happened, and what was amiss
with him ; to which he replied " I am shot through the
body." I then asked what he had done to the other
boy. He said " I had not done anything ; but that
the boy loaded his gun with a stone, and went into the
plantation to seek a rabbit. When he came out he said
" Damn you, I'll shoot you ?" We had had no quarrel
with each other. When be threatened to shoot me, I
turned my back to him, whilst he pointed the gun and
shot me. I then proceeded to go to Rollin, but in
doing so fell twice." After ho was brought home he
always said he should die. I was present when his de-
position was taken before Mr. Lee by Mr. Rigsby.
Deceased was between twelve and thirteen years of age.
Mr. Bigsby here handed in the deposition of the
poor boy, which was as follows :—" I was tenting birds
for Mr. Simpson, in a field near the canal, in the parish
of Babworth, in the field on the other side of the canal.
Mr. Parkinson's shepherd's sou was tenting with a gun in
a field of Mr. Parkinson's on the other side of the canal.
The boy tried to find a rabbit but could not ; he then said
be would shoot me. I turned my back and soon after
heard a gun go, and I fell: I was shot. I saw him load the
gun before he said he would shoot a rabbit, He went
into a small plantation, and when he came out he said
he could not find a rabbit, and would shoot me. I saw
him point the gun. I have been to a Sunday-school,
and can say the Lord's prayer. He loaded the gun
with a stone. It was about noon."
Elizabeth Rollin, the wife of William Rollin, was in
Benjamia Peacock's house on Tuesday last, when
Bland came to see the boy Peacock. He went up
stairs, and whilst there, and in the dying boy's pre-
sence, he said be did not shoot him purposely ; but
having the gun under his arm, on full cock, his smock
frock caught the trigger, and it went off. In answer
to this Peacock said, rather emphatically, " Yen did
shoot me." Deceased died on Wednesday night about
twelve o'clock.
Mr. Allison, surgeon, who had been making a post
mortem examination of the body, came into the room,
and gave the following evidence. He said, on Tuesday,
November 15th, I first saw John Peacock, and found a
small bole in the skin of the back, on the right side, a
few inches below the ribs ; into which hole I passed a
probe a distance of from two to three inches, at the
end of which hole there was an opening into the body.
This day, on opening the body, I found a laceration
through the right kidney, and a hole in the liver ; on
cutting into the substance of the liver, I found the
pebble stone now produced.
The pebble was of a dark colour and of an oblong

form.
This being the whole of the evidence, the Coroner
briefly recapitulated it, making several comments as he
proceeded ; after which the Jury retired, and after
being absent a few minutes, returned with a verdict of
manslaughter against
,John Bland, and be was com-
mitted on the Corone.r s warrant to take his trial at the
next Nottingham assizes.
Bland is just turned 13 years of age, and appeared
but little affected with the situation in which ho was thus
so unfortunately placed.

The elephant of the 76th, which landed in this
port with the gallant Celtic warriors, direct from Ceylon,
their last station of foreign service, has accompanied the
78th to Dublin, and marched in with the band.—Lime-
rick Chromck.

PRICE 5d

TRIALS OF ANIMAL MAGNE-
TISM ON THE BRUTE CREATION.
A most curious little book, bearing this title, has
been put into our hands. It is written by Dr. John
Wilson, Physician to the Middlesex Hospital, and its
blunt style, and the air of indifference which it breathes
throughout as to the reception its statements may meet
with, are such as to prepossess one in favour of its au-
thor's sincerity, if his character in this respect were
not already well known. His Preface is a plain and phi-
losophical account of the considerations which induced
him to give animal magnetism these " trials." In giving
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ference from them. Having referred to the various
phases of alternate attention and contempt which Mes-
merism has presented since its existence was first
pointed out to philosophical observers, he says, " As,
however, the science professes to be founded upon ob-
served and ascertained facts, it seems to Ibe entitled
to a full examination before its claims be altogether
rejected. The extraordinary character of the
facts which constitute its basis, affords a good
reason for making the examination proportionally
rigorous and severe, but no reason for dismissing the
subject without any examination at all." He then ex-
plains that until renewed experiments were recently
brought under public observation, he was so far from
yielding an easy assent to the doctrines of the science
that he did not think it worth while to direct any time
or attention to it. But, in consequence of those recent
experiments, he conceived a desire to institute such re-
searches as were consistent with strict propriety and due
caution, into the reality of the magnetic influence, "in
order to satisfy himself whether the existence of such an
influence had been established as a physical fact; and,
if so, whether this new power might be safely and bene-
ficially applicable as a remedial agent in the treatment
of diseases of the human frame."
Dr. 'Wilson's view, so far, is precisely in accordance
with the strong opinion and advice of that eminent and
cautious philosopher, Dugald Stewart, in the "Elements
of the Philosophy of the Human Mind," vol. iii. p. 221.
The passage is curious, and may be consulted with ad-
vantage in the present stage of the mesmerictontroversy.
Accordingly, the Doctor, in some peculiar cases,
"in which the ordinary remedies had been em-
ployed in vain, thought it allowable to try whe-
ther any effects such as have been ascribed to ani-
mal magnetism, would be produced upon his patients
with beneficial consequenees ; ' and advancing " by slow
and cautious steps, the results were surprising to him-
self." He says he " produced remarkable and various
affects upon all the patients upon whom he operated, and
the infirmities under which some of them laboured, were
materially relieved or removed." "Restraining himself
within the strictest bounds of caution," he was in-
duced to institute experiments with a view to ascertain
what effects would be produced on the brute creation by this
agency. This mode of investigation, he thought, could
not be liable to the objection, either that there was col-
lusion between the operator and the subject, or,
when the character of the operator was above suspicion,
that the subject was an impostor.
Having thus briefly given a sketch of his views and
motives, we shall leave his experiments to speak for
themselves, in the following extracts:—
" My first experiments on animals were made on cats,
but as they were more or less connected with the
cases of my patients, which I have not en-
tered upon here, I may briefly notice that
many experiments were made on four cats and kit-
tens, at intervals from the 16th of May to the 3d of Oc
tober, 1838, and each of them was put to sleep at the
first trial ; and ultimately I was able to put first one
and then another to sleep ; and at the end to leave three
sleeping together, being as many as could ordinarily be
brought together at once. One of these, a Tom, the first
of them that was magnetised, and on which that opera-
tion had been most frequently repeated, became easily
and strongly influenced by it ; so that he has been pulled
about—lifted up by the nape of the neck, and his ears
tickled with a pen, during which he would remain mo-
tionless, and was then said to be in a state of catalepsy.
Sometimes when lifted up by the head or tail, the eyes
might partially open, without the limbs moving, and
when dropped down, the eyes again closed, and so con-
tinued to sleep, without making any effort to move
from the place, where he had been dropped."
Then follow detailed accounts of a series of experi-
ments (of which notes seem to have been taken) from
the 26th of September to the 17th of March fol-
lowing. The first were made upon three cats,
with rather odd names, and a terrier. These
are described as having been all sent to sleep, in times
varying from five to ten minutes or a quarter of an hour;
and his accounts of the symptoms of excitement and
quasi-delirium, which they occasionally exhibited, are
very amusing. In other instances, goats, pigs, and dogs
of several kinds, were subjected to the manipulations—were
frequently put to sleep, and manifested, in various ways,
their susceptibility of the influence. The most extraor-
dinary of these was the case of a " stout St. Bernard's
puppy, six months old," wltich had been blind from birth !
It is thus related :
" I began the passes, while it was at large in a room, I
and, as it moved about, I continued acting on it as I was
able, by following it and continuing the passes. After
some time it became irritable, made a whining sort of
noise, so that for safety I removed farther from it while
I continued the passes. It yawned eight times as it was
sitting on its haunches, it trembled a little, its eyes began
to close, and head to droop, when it suddenly recovered
itself. These alternations of drooping the head and
rousing itself were repeated several times, till it
lay down at full length, and was then soon
put to sleep. It remained in this state for twenty
minutes, when it got up, and I moved off to a different
part of the room. The dog kept moving from place to
place, examining, with its nose, every thing that it came
near, but particularly the floor and chairs. This con-
tinued more than five minutes. When it came near to
me, and had touched and smelt me, it began whining,
shaking its tail, and showed other symptoms of satisfac-
tion,—then lay down at my feet, though I had not seen '
it since the day of its birth, and its master was, at the
same time standing beside me, and it took no notice of
him. The servant who had brought the dog into the
room was sent for to take it away, but the dog would
not go with him. Then, the great dogs, its father and
mother, were brought in, and when they went out, it
followed them out of the door, but immediately left
them and returned to me. And, on my walking out, it
followed me, although, from its blindness, unable to see me."
He details experiments, if possible, still more extra-
ordinary in their effects, upon macaws, poultry, ducks,
geese, and turkeys, and, most wonderful of all, upon FISHES !
But to extract them at such length as would enable the
reader to form any judgment upon the subject would
occupy too much space; and we must refer the curious
to the book itself.
The adventurous and yet most cautious author pro-
ceeded to try his hand upon the wild beasts in the me-
nagrerie of the Surrey Gardens with various success,
but with most decided success upon the Elephants !
The latter, he says, he repeatedly put to sleep in the
presence of their keeper, and elicited from them still
more surprising manifestations of the mesmeric influence.
He thus explains his reason for discontinuing his opera-
tions in this novel field ;—" No further trials were made
on the elephants and other wild beasts, from my un-
willingness to carry the experiments beyond a certain
point; for I had no means of judging what the conse-
quences might be, should such animals, after repetitions
of magnetism, get into the irritable stage, or should
they, after being put to sleep, pass into the state of som-
nambulism or delirium."

PLYMOUTH BREAKWATER:
A report that the labourers on the Plymouth Break-
water were to be all discharged, having caused consi-
derable anxiety, we are glad to find, by the following
letter, that rumour had much exaggerated the reality.
" Woodside, 13th Nos-, 1841.
" Sit —I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of yesterday's date, respecting the discharge of 150
men employed on the Breakwater works, and have the
gratification of stating in reply thereto, for the infor-
mation of the Governor and Guardians of the poor, that
only a few extra men are intended to be discharged,
who were, previous to their entry, told they could not
be employed for want of funds during the winter months.
I am, therefore, discharging them by degrees, that
the distress apprehended by the Governor and Guar-
dians may not be incurred ; and I am glad to remark,
that many, if not all, of those already discharged, have
obtained work elsewhere.—l remain, Sir, your obe-
dient servant, " W. STUART.
" Mr. R. Barnard, Workhouse."
—Plymouth Journal.

FEARGUS O'CONNOR'S VISIT TO STOCK-
PORT.—TILE HOUSE IN AN UPROAR.—Mr. O'Connor vi-
sited this town on Thursday, and took tea with a party
of his friends and admirers at the Social Institution,
Hillgate ; after which a public meeting was held in the
same place, at which a considerable number of people
assembled, although twopence each was charged for ad-
mission. No demonstration took place. About half-past
nine, while Mr. O'Connor was addressing the meeting,
a loud crash was heard, accompanied by the screams of
the females, and a general cry that the floor was falling
in. A rush was made to the door, and the partition of
an ante-room was ushed down in the eagernesl to
was, n.v!
out. After the confusion had somewhat subsided, it
ascertained that a beam had snapped asunder, and that
the floor on that side of the room had given Naveay,, a
nopor-
tion of it having sunk about a foot. Fortunately tb
being
se-
rious accident occurred. The audiencer O'Connor an-
nounced •
n
dis-
posed 1 o remain after the alarmt
that he would finish his address on some future
Truces.
A 7 Imes.
for generous living had
A lady, whose fondness
Doctor Cheyne. Upon surveying
iene
Doctor,
the consultedglass
given her a flushed face and caoi:inriblagumgncehleoerdfsmen,lofons
she exclaimed, " Where ihnst
Out of tiler, decanter,
did I get such a nose asti'
replied the Doctor
Madam out of the decanter."
_rs.
Blakesley, the widow of
The funeral ofplace M
yesterday, at one o'clock. The
her murderer, toodk
inthe burying-ground of St. Mary-
body
attended to the grave by the mother of
at-Hill, and was
widow Burdon, and other near reit).-
the deceased, the
was interred
tives. There were but few sectators, as the funeral
was no •
t expected to take places o early.