The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, M4B.

the battle of Waterloo, he had the satisfaction of meet-
ing that invincible man, the great Duke of Wellington,
returning from the Chapel Royal with his Prayer-book
under his arm : thus showing that ho had done his duty
on that Sunday evening as well as amid the thunders of
war on the field of Waterloo. The Noble Duke was a
great example in every way—as a patriot, a warrior,
and as a British subject.—Dorset Herald.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas have
arrived at Hamilton Palace from Brodrick Castle. The
Duke of Hamilton is entertaining a distinguished party
at the palace, including the Prince of Parma, the
Countess of Dunmore, &c.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire are
entertaining a family circle at Hillsborough Castle.
Lord and Lady Edwin Hill have arrived from War-
wickshire.
Lord and Lady Ashley are expected in town this
week from Scotland,
FAMILIES O LITERARY MEN.—With the excep-
tion of the noble Surrey, we cannot point out a repre-
sentative in the male line of any English poet. The
blood of beings of that order can be seldom traced far
down, even in the female line. There is no English
poet prior to the middle of the 18th century—and, we
believe, no great author; except Clarendon and Shaftes-
bury—of whose blood we have any inheritance among
us. Chaucer's only son died childless ; Shakspere's line
expired in his daughter's only daughter. None of the
other dramatists of that age left any progeny ; neither
did Raleigh, nor Bacon, nor Cowley, nor Butler. The
granddaughter of Milton was the last of his blood.
Newton, Locke, Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, Hume, Gib-
bon, Cowper, Gray, Walpole, Cavendish (and we might
easily extend the list), never married. Neither Boling-
broke nor Addison, nor Warburton, nor Johnson, nor
Burke transmitted their blood.
EDINSUR4II.----RUMOURED JUDICIAL CHANGES.—It
was rumoured yesterday in Edinburgh that the Lord
President Boyle is about to retire from the bench, and
that the Solicitor-General is to be made a Lord of Ses-
sion. By this arrangement the Solicitor- General will
have to resign his seat for Kirkcudbrightshire; and we
have heard that Mr. T. B. Macaulay, late one of the
Members for Edinburgh, will solicit the suffrages of that
constitueney.—North British Mail.
SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY (CANTERBURY BRANCH).
—The interruption to the traffic on this branch, occa-
sioned by the excessive floods on Thursday night last,
which broke down a culvert intended for the purpose of
carrying off surplus water, has now ceased, as a footway
has been carried across. Some goods-waggons were
passing over the culvert at the moment of the accident;
the engine and tender and ono truck had crossed be-
fore the culvert gave way. The works for replacing the
culvert are proceeding, and will be shortly completed.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE HAYMARKET MEATRE.
—An inquest was held on Saturday by Mr. Payne, at St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of William Win-
field, aged 39, a scene-shifter at the Theatre Royal,
Haymarket. John Sutherland stated that on Sunday he
was at work with the deceased in the Haymarket
Theatre. At four o'clock in the afternoon the deceased
told him that he was very ill; that he had slipped whilst
at work in the flies,
*reefing the lines of the stage-cur-
tain. He was not so seriously injered as to be com-
pelled to leave his work that day, but the following day
be was obliged to go home. Mr. Jacksoa, the house-
surgeon, said that the deceased came into the hospital
with erysipelas of the left side. He died on Friday from
inflammation of the lungs, brought on by the injury.
Verdict, " Accidental Death."
DAVIS' STRAITS WHALE AND COD FISHERIES.--
The Sunflower, Captain Smith, of this port, arrived here
on Saturday last, from the Davis' Straits cod fishery,
with the very fair cargo of 12,000 cod, three tons of
halibut, and about four tons of cod-liver oil. She brings
the following report from Captain Alexander Stewart, of
the Joseph Green, of Peterhead, who was spoken with
on the 18th July :—Joseph Green, 4 fish, 67 tons; Lord
Gambier, 2 ; Truelove, 4, 60 ; Abram, 1 ; Prince of
Wales, 3 ; Lady Jane, 4, 50 ; Jane, 2, 35 ; Horn, 4, 50;
Princess Charlotte, 4, 50 ; Alexander, 3 ; Chieftan, 2 ;
Regalia, 2 ; Pacific, 2 ; and the American ship, 3,
Captain William Jackson, of the American ship *Lol-
lop, of New London, who was also spoken on the 18th
July, by Captain Smith, gives a somewhat better re-
port, as follows :—Abram, 1 fish, 10 tons* ; Lord
Gambier, 2, 30* ; Prince of Wales, of Hull, 3, 30* ;
Truelove, 4, 65 ; Lady Jane of Newcastle, 4, 60 ;
Chief tan of Kirkaldy, 2, 28* ; Regalia, 3, 30 -
Jane of Boness, 2, 28 ; Advice, 3, 40* ; Alexander,
3, 40 ; Horn of Dundee, 4, 60 ; Princess Char-
lotte, 3, 54; Pacific, of Aberdeen, 2, 30; Joseph Green,
of Peterhead, 3, 45; M‘Lellan, of New London, 3, 40.
" Most of the whales," observes Captain Jackson, " were
caught at the S.W. early in May. We got two in April,
before the other ships made the ice. We had rough
weather. The Discovery ships passed Lively on the 2d
July, all well, and left their letters there with the Danish
Governor to be sent home with one of their vessels.
We saw two of their brigs going to the northward, and
another was at author in the harbour. Some of the
British whalers had been at Opernswick five to six
weeks, and were stopped by the ice. Seven of the British
came south along with us, the other seven remained there
with a bad prospect of getting northward until late.
Those marked * are to the north, 18th July, off Holstein
Berg. We have had very fine weather since we came
north. The ice had not broken up to the north. Please
report us to America, all well. We hope to reach the
west side of Davis' Straits, and all of us take more
whales."—Hull Advertiser.

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MURDER OF A HUSBAND BY POISON.—For some
days past an extraordinary degree of excitement has
prevailed in Old Weston, a village situate a few miles
from Huntingdon, arising from rumours, which have
been industriously circulated, relative to the death of
Mr. James Smith, a wealthy farmer resident in the
neighbourhood. Mr. Smith, it appears, died in the
month of June, 1547, after an illness of only a few hours'
duration, having, up to the time of his illness, been a
man of robust health, and of strictly temperate habits.
His illness was as violent as it was sudden. He was
seized with violent retching and purging, and from the
beginning of the attack suffered the most frightful agony.
Twelve months passed over, and Mrs. Smith formed a
matrimonial connexion with a gentleman named Parsons.
Shortly after she discharged her servant, who was in her
employment at the time of Mr. Smith's death,
and who had been for many years before connected
with the family. From this servant the serious charges
against Mrs. Smith (or Parsons) have arisen. She states
that Mr. Smith was taken suddenly ill, having previously
exhibited no symptoms of indisposition, and that his
wife administered to him a mixture which produced the
consequences already described, and which speedily re-
sulted in death. Mr. Beedham, the Coroner, on having
the statement brought under his consideration, imme-
diately ordered the exhumation of the body, and com-
mitted it to Messrs. Peck and Fernie, surgeons, of Kim-
bolton, and Mr. Foster, of Huntingdon, for the purpose
of a post mortem examination. The result of their in-
vestigation was a determination on:the part of the Coro-
ner to send the contents of the stomach to Professor
Alfred Swayne Taylor, M.D., of Guy's Hospital, Lon-
don, for a complete analysation, and the inquest on the
body is to be held this day (Monday).
THE WELBECIC WK.—An anecdote is told of the
late Duke of Portland, father of the present Duke, and
grandfather of the late lamented Lord George Bentinek,
which we do not recollect to have seen in print. His
Grace, who was a celebrated man in his day, had a large
party at dinner, and alter the cloth was removed, the
wine having circulated with the usual freedom, the com-
pany were somewhat elevated, when an immense oak,
celebrated throughout the whole country, and the ruins
of which are still to be seen at Welbeck, became the
subject of conversation. The Duke offered to bet five
hundred guineas that he could drive a carriage and six
through the heart of this magnificent representative of
England's forest glories. A gentleman took him at
his word, and the subject was dropped for the evening.
Next morning his Grace recollected, with not the most
pleasant feelings, the transactions of the preceding even-
ing. The oak which he had virtually doomed to destruc-
tion was one of the finest ornaments of his estate, and
rather than devote it to ruin, he resolved to sacrifice the
500 guineas. Accordingly he intimated his design of
immediately delivering a cheque to the gentleman who
had taken the bet, when he learned that numerous bets,
on the same subject, amounting to a very large sum,had
been made by other parties, in justice to whom he con-
sidered that he was bound to attempt the feat. Ac-
cordingly an archway, sufficient to admit a carriaga, was
chalked out upon the ample trunk of the tree; a tunnel
was excavated through the solid mass, and his Grace, on
the appointed day, in the presence of a large company
of ladies and gentlemen, was actually driven in state in a
carriage drawn by six beautiful horses right through
the oak. The remains of this giant of the forest, mag
nificent even in ruin, are still standing; and, but for this
foolish frolic, the tree might have flourished for many
ages to come on the ducal domain of Welbeck.—Cant-
bridge Advertiser.

A RUTLAND GRAND JURY.—At the sessions on
Thursday, the grand jury returned a bill into court as
follows:—" Know bill on the first count: a true bill on
the last count."

CHIEF JUSTICE MANSFIELD.--This great lawyer,
probably with a view to prolong his own days, was al-
ways anxious, when old witnesses were in court, to know
their customary habits of life. It so happened that two
very old men by the name of Elm were one day the ob-
jects of his inquiry. " You are a very old man," said his
Lordship to the elder brother; "I suppose you have
lived a very temperate life?" "Never drank anything
but water, my Lord," said Elm. "Nor you neither, I
suppose?" said the Judge, addressing himself to the
younger brother. " When I could get nothing else, my
Lord," was the reply. "I always took my glass with
my friend." " Well, then," replied his Lordship, "all
that we can say is, an elm will flourish wet or dry."
THE EDINBURGH CHARTIST TRIALS.—These trials
have been appointed to take place before the High Court•
of Justiciary next month.
A PRIZE TO SIR R. PEEL.—At the Blackburn
agricultural meeting last week, a silver medal was
awarded to Sir R. Peel for his estates in Oswaldtwistle,
as the owner not being the occupier who has laid down
the greatest number of rods of stone or tile drains in the
best manner.

APOTHECARIES-HALL.—The following are the
names of gentlemen wbo passed their examination in the
science and practice of medicine, and received certificates
to practise, on Thursday, October 19 :—John M'Millan,
Hull ; Robert Webster Gillespie, Newcastle-on-Tyne ;
Robert William Ellis, Bristol.
PAIINrED TEA.—Professor Reid, a practical
chemist of New York, and a person to be relied upon,
states that, having seen in the shop windows of that city
a sample of green tea of a very bright colour, he sus-
pected it was of that class of painted and poisonous teas
lately Examined by London chemists. He examined the
article, and says he has discovered it to be painted tea;
that is, old stale and exhausted tea covered with some
colouring matter, no doubt injurious to health; and
proposed a simple test, which is, to take a spoonful of
tea and put in half a tumbler of water, and allow it to
stand for five minutes, and then stir it up, when the

paint will be detached and form a turbid mixture with
the water. The public, however, cannot always be upon
its guard against these frauds, and the only mode is,
that when painted tea is actually sold and detected as
such, publish the name of the person who sells it, in
order to guard the public against future imposition.—
The Patriot.
ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.—As Captain
Pearce, was a few evenings since, passing close to Beth-
lehem Hospital, he was accosted by a woman, of whom
he endeavoured to get rid; but as she persevered in her
importunities, and caught his arm, he flung her off, He
had scarcely done rso before he was felled to the ground
by a ruffian, who fractured his skull with a life-
preserver, and while his victim lay on the ground insen-
sible, and weltering in his blood, ho rifled his pockets.
The police soon afterwards found the unfortunate
gentleman stretched insensible on the ground, whence
they removed him to his residence. Captain Pearce is
now going on favourably, and all danger of his life is
removed.
It is understood that Mrs. Moilliet and James
Moilliet, Esq., are about to erect a new church at Ab-
berley, Worcestershire.—Birmingham Gazette
SALE OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL TlMES.—Yesterday
Mr. Hodgson, the auctioneer, again put up to public
coaspetition, by order of the mortgagees in possession,
the copyright and printed stock of this weekly journal.
Bidders wore very shy, and after considerable delay it
was knocked down to Messrs. Palmer and Clayton, the
printers, for 1301.
BIRMINGHAM, CORN-EXCHANGE.—The first anni-
versary of the Corn-Exchange wil; be celebrated by a
dinner in that establishment on Thursday next. C. N.
Newdegate, Esq., M.P., Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
(the Members for the borough), and the high-bailiff
have severally accepted invitations, and promised to
attend.—Birmingham Gazette.
His Excellency the Turkish Minister and the
Princess Callimaki have arrived in town from a tour of
visits in Wales, having on their route to the metropolis,
♦isited the University of Oxford to view the different
collegiate establishments.
LONGEVITY.—In the churchyard of Firbeck, Notts,
is a head-stone, with the following inscription:—" Isabell
Robinson, of Stone, buried November, ye 22d day, 1694,
aged 114 years. Also James Robinson, son to ye above
Isabell, was buried July 24th, 1730, aged 109 years."
How DID THEY COME ? —Mr. James Ellis, of
Goose Gate, Nottingham, box maker, has a pear tree in
his garden, on Windmill-hill, Sneinton, which blossomed
in spring, and bore plentifully in July. There is at
this time another supply of fruit on its branches, and,
what is the most surprising circumstance attending this
second bearing, it has not been preceded by the slightest
appearance of blossom.—Nottingham Journal of Friday.
SHIPS WITH DOUBLE KEELS.—At a meeting of
the Royal Dee Yacht Club, on Tuesday, Mr. Scott
Walker exhibited a number of ♦ery interesting mo-
dels of vessels, constructed on a new principle, with
a double keel. The chief objects aimed at are a
very shallow draught of water, combined with
great safety and speed, and a peculiar adaptation
for the use of the screw as a propelling power—or we
should say screws, as the model, built to represent a
steam-vessel, carries a screw at each keel, which, re-
volving in opposite directions, though worked by the
same engine, produces a steadiness and equality
to the motion of the vessel hitherto unattained. One
of these models represented a vessel of two hundred
tons, and Mr. Walker assured the party assembled, that,
on the nicest calculation, and allowing for incidental
circumstances, a vessel built on the lines of this model
would not, with its burthen, draw more than three feet
of water.—Chester Courant.
SHOCKING SUlClDE.—Yesterday, a young man in
the employ of a butcher carrying on business in the
neighbourhood of Hatton-garden, was taken to task by
his master respecting the price of some mutton chops
alleged to have been sold, but which were not accounted
for. An altercation ensued and the master threatened
to send for a policeman, when the man, in a paroxysm
of passion or fear, seized a knife and cut his throat as
he stood in so fearful a manner that he expired in a few
minutes afterwards, before surgical aid could be ob
Dined.

ArMANITS.—In Liverpool and Manchester, last
week, 500/. was collected for,the defence of Mr. M‘Manus
at Clonmel, by his friends, and which sum the prisoner
received.—Limerick Chronicle.
ESCAPE or MR. DILLON.—The Pilot states on
authority that Mr. John B. Dillon has landed safely at
New York.
The fine Highland properties of Strathnashalg,
Monkcastle, and Gruinyard, in Ross-shire, have been
purchased by Mr. Bankes, of Letterewe, at the price of
22,0001.
WORCESTER.—The Earl Beauchamp, Lord Ward,
and the Hon. Robert H. Clive, M.P., have respectively
given the handsome donation of 1001. towards the erec-
tion of a new Corn Exchange in this city.
PRECIOUS STONES.—The recent disturbances in the
French capital in particular, and other portions of the
continent of Europe, had the effect of causing so large
an influx into this country of diamonds, that they are
now " a drug in the market," and nearly unsaleable.
ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
—Yesterday evening, on the arrival of the half-past six
o'clock train at the Shoreditch terminus of this railway,
Richard Ellis, a man employed in the telegraphic de-
partment of the line, incautiously attempted to step
from one of the carriages on to the platform while the
train was in motion, in doing which his foot slipped and
he fell under the wheels. He was instantly killed.

REAL DEL MONTE MINING COMPANY.—A special
meeting of this company was held at the offices, Duke-
street, Adelphi, yesterday, to consider the propriety of
confirming a resolution passed on the 25th of September
last for dissolving the company—Sir R. Prince in the
chair. The chairman said that the meeting had been
called on as late a day as possible, in hopes that tho
Mexican mail would have been in many of the share-
holder's hands, thinking it desirable to have some infor-
mation as to what had been going on in Mexico before
finally resolving on the dissolution of the company. The
directors were also of opinion that it would be desirable
to have such information ; and, as the Mexican mail,
which was due on Saturday last, would probably arrive
in a day or two, he would suggest that the meeting
should be adjourned till Monday next, which would al-
low them one day to send the result of the meeting to
Mexico. The shareholders generally agreeing in the
suggestion of the chairman, the meeting was, on the mo-
tion of Messrs. Horace Twiss and Wilson, accordingly
adjourned. _

WHAT NEXT P—The Cork Examiner of Friday
contains the following:—" Jenny Lind is a relation of
the Archbishop of Dublin."
CURLING.—On Thursday morning curling was
enjoyed on Mr. Gairdner's artificial pond. The ice was
keen, and several games were skilfully contested by a
party of eight, who, from a little past six in the morn-
ing till nine o'clock, plied the bracing exercise. Such is
the sheltered situation of this rink, that curling was
quite practicable during the whole day.—Kilmarnoch
Journal.
SPLENDID MARINE VIEW IN THE FIRTH OP
FORTH.—On Friday afternoon, about two o'clock, a view,
which has rarely if ever been excelled was afforded to
the inhabitants of Leith and its vicinity. As far as the
eye, with the aid of a glass, could reach, the whole line
of the Firth was studded with vessels, in all amounting
at least to one hundred and eighty sail. From the Island
of May upwards they appeared to the naked eye in a
direct chain, and attracted very general observation.
Such a numerous flock of vessels, in such a fine per-
spective, has been rarely witnessed in the Firth. Many
of them were outward bound ; but arrivals, especially
from the Baltic, we understan, may be mentioned as
numerous.—Edinburgh Post.
A CURE !OR THE TOOTHACHE.—A POPULAR
Imasza.—The following precious morceau will give
some idea of the advancement of erudition among the
commonalty of Wales. It is an infallible cure for the
toothache. To be written on paper—thrice sealed—and
worn next the heart. Here is tho text as used in the
parish of Hope. But I am told there is a different read-
ing in the parish of Mold. "As Jesus walked thrawgh
the giat of Jerusalem he saw peter weeping and said
into him why weepest thou peter said because i have got
the toothake then Jesus tuched his tooth and said have
feath and thy tooth shall ake no more glory be to the
father And to the Son and to the holy gost amen
W"lom Pml" The name is that of the patient—which
it appears necessary to write in this form, and also ac-
cording to the use of Mold. The Charm, which I send
you, was written in 1843, and had been worn ever since,
up to last week, when it accidentally came into my
hands, on its transit from the original patient to an-
other, a friend of his, grievously afflicted with the said
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great skill in the Scriptures, and can tell you what are
the reforms wanted in the State, and what the Church
regimen ought to be.—Chester Courant.

ATTEMPT TO MURDER A YOUNG WOMAN.—On
Saturday a man, named John Dunn, was brought before
the magistrates at Newcastle, charged with having cut
the throat of a young woman named Ann Moffett, with
whom he had been keeping company. From the evi-
dence it appeared that the prisoner had been lodging in
a house which overlooked that in which the female re-
sided ; the consequence was that an intimacy sprang up
between them, and the prisoner frequently visited the
female at her father's house. On Sunday night last he
called upon her and accused her of having been out with
another man. This she denied, when he flew into aeio-
lent passion ; his sweetheart, on perceiving the state he
was in, went out, and returned home about half-past
nine. The prisoner, who had concealed himself on the
stairs, on hearing her approach, emerged from his hiding
place with a razor in his hand. He attempted to cut
her throat, but she laid hold of the blade of the weapon,
and in drawing it through her hand nearly severed one
of her fingers. He afterwards through her down, knelt
on her stomach, and, having held her head back, he in-
flicted a frightful gash in her throat ; he then made his
escape, leaving the poor girl weltering in her blood.
Medical aid was soon obtained, but the poor creature is
not expected to live many hours. The prisoner, who
was not apprehended till Thursday last, was remanded
for a week, to see whether the girl will recover or not.
STRANGE MODE OF ARRIVING AT A VERDICT.--
I was in a case some little time ago in which one of the
parties, from an humble anxiety to save his client the
costs of a special jury, acquiesced in a 'common jury ;
who, to his consternation, gave a verdict for 4001. to the
plaintiff, who, the late Lord Chief Justice had told them,
was not entitled to one farthing. One of the jury after-
wards declared that he had been resolved to give a ver-
dict for the
.defendant, and after several hours' alterca-
tion they put four slips of paper into a hat, bearing
respectively the four sums of id 501., 4001., and 1,0001.
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COURT CIRCULAR.
WIND S OR, MONDAY.
Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting this
morning. His Royal Highness was attended by the
Earl of Listowel (Lord in Waiting to the Queen),
Captain the Hon. J. Denman, and Colonel Seymour.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, her Serene Highness the Princess of llohen-
lohe Langenbourg, Lady Anna Maria Dawson,
Baroness de Speth, Lord and Lady B,uthven, and
Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson.
The Band of the Second Life Guards attend during
dinner, and her Majesty's Private Band will after-
wards attend in the Castle.

The Earl of Clarendon had an interview with Lord
John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street. The Noble Earl had also an inter-
view yesterday with Sir George Grey.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town
yesterday evening from his seat, Hickleton-hall,
Yorkshire.
Mr. Wyld, M.P., had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday, at the Home-office.
Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial-office for the Governor of St. Helena.

DEATH OF THE HON. AND REV.
DR. WELLESLEY.
The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Valerian Wellesley,
D.D., died on Saturday morning last, at his house,
in Durham College, which he held in virtue of iris
being a prebend of the Cathedral. The deceased divine
was the fifth of seven sons of first Earl of Mor-
nington. His eldest brother was the celebrated Mar-
quis Wellesley ; the second brother, Arthur Gerald,
died in infancy; the third was the late Earl of Mor-
nington, better known as Lord Maryborough ; the
fourth was the Duke of Wellington ; the sixth, Henry,
afterwards became distinguished as a diplomatist, and
was elevated to the peerage as Baron Cowley ; the
seventh, Francis Seymour, died early. Dr. Welles-
ley's path was chosen for him in a sphere very different
from either the military or the diplomatic profession.
After the usual University course, in which he did not
attain any particular distinction, he took holy orders.
In 1827 he was presented by the Bishop of Durham to
the living of Bishopswearrnouth, of the declared
value of 2,8991. per annum, and with a population
of 27,000 ; and in, the same year he was made a
prebendary of Durham. The declared value of his
prebend is 3911., but of course this gives no evidence
of its real value, especially in so rich a district. Dr
Wellesley was also a chaplain of the Chapel Royal at
Hampton Court. Thus he came within the ordinary
designation of " pluralist;" but, considering the ex-
traordinary interest possessed by his family, and that
the services rendered by his brothers to the State
would have reconciled the public mind to a little
nepotism in his behalf, it cannot be said that he was
allowed to enjoy the advantages derived from his
birth to an extent calling for any reprehension. As
to the animadversions cast upon the late Dr. Wel-
lesley, in common with the other prebendaries and
clerical authorities of Durham, for having, as is al-
leged, profited by leasing mines under Church lands,
the proceeds of which leases were, it was contended,
Church property, not individual property, that is a ques-
tion of legal right which is still matter of dispute,
and on which the courts of equity and law have
hesitated to pronounce a decision. While Dr.
Wellesley held the position he did he was not called
upon to compromise the rights of his contemporaries
or successors. Ile was never a man greedy of pre-
ferment, or no one could for a moment doubt that
his family interest might have secured him high pro-
motion in the Church. When the Duke of Wellington
became Prime Minister it was universally supposed
that he would elevate his brother to a bishopric ;
indeed, efforts were made by some parties to induce
him to do so ; but in his own emphatic way he de-
clined, and with him "finality " meant something.
He had his own good reasons of course; and if some
may be of opinion that the habits of the soldier little
qualified the Duke to say who should not, any more
than who should, be a Bishop, he could, at least, take
his stand on a resolute determination not to appear as
one given to nepotism.
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dogan. Her Ladyship died in 1839. Dr. Wellesley
has left several children. His eldest daughter,
Emily, married, in 1836, the Hon. and Rev. Robert

Liddell, son of Lord Ravensworth, and vicar of
Barking, in Essex. Another daughter, Georgiana
Henrietta Louisa, married, in 1827, the Rev. G. D.
St. Quentin. A third daughter, Mary, married her
cousin, Viscount Chelsea; and a fourth daughter
married, in 18.2, the Hon. George Augustus Liddell,
brother of the Rev. Mr. Liddell, who had married her
sister. Dr. Wellesley had reached his 78th year.
His decease had been long looked forward too as an
occurrence likely to happen, as he had some time
before shown those symptoms of decline which were
so natural to one of his advanced age. Beyond this
notice of his Church preferments and his family
connexions, we have nothing to record of the deceased,
who did not court publicity at any period of his life,
and for many years had resigned himself to the quiet
and unpretending discharge of the easy duties at-
tached to his prebendal stall. In himself he pre-
presented no points of interest to the public; but his
death so far inspires regret and suggests reflection,
as that he was one of those few remaining links
between the past and present contemporaries of his
illustrious brother.

LITERATURE.
1. ON THE ANTIDOTAL TREATMENT OF
EPIDEMIC CHOLERA. By John Parkin,
M.D., 4^c.
2. FIVE MINUTES COMMONSENSE ABOUT
ASIATIC CHOLERA; or, Short and Plain
Rules for the Prevention, Management, and Treat-
ment of the Early Symptoms of the Disease, intended
for the Unprofessional Reader. By a Fellow of the
Royal College of Surgeons of England.
The work of Dr. Parkin is entitled to the imme-
diate and serious attention of the medical profession.
Dr. Parkin announces that he has discovered a
specific for cholera, an antidote for the poison which
generates cholera in the human constitution, and that
specific and that antidote is no dangerous poison,
like mercury or opium, no ruinously expen•
sive drug to be procured only in small quantities,
like musk, but a remedy cheap, of easy access to all
classes, and perfectly innocuous. It is carbon admi-
nistered, either in the form of the powder of freshly
prepared charcoal (Dr. Parkin insists much upon the
necessity of having the charcoal freshly prepared), or
of carbonic acid gas (the latter is by far the more
pleasant method) obtained from the decomposition of
some of the alkaline carbonates by means of tartaric
or of citric acid. The following are the directions
given by Dr. Parkin for the preparation of the car-
bonic acid gas :
"As it is absolutely necessary that the medicine
should be taken in a proper manner (for, otherwise, the
patient will only be swallowing a simple solution of
tartrate or citrate of soda, instead of a certain portion
of carbonic acid gas) ; it may Rot be superfluous to
point out what I consider the best mode of preparing
the remedy.
" Thirty grains of the powdered carbonate, bicarbo-
nate, or, as it is now termed, sesquicarbonate of soda, or
potash, should be put into a large tumbler, with a wine
glassful of water ; to which is to be added a dessert
spoonful of any simple syrup, mixing the two ingredients
together so as to form a homogeneous mass. Then
take twenty grains of citric or tartaric acid, and dissolve
it in half a wise glassful of water, when the solution is
to be poured on the contents of the tumbler, and the
mixture drank off immediately, before the effervescence
has subsided. If more convenient, or when to be ob-
tained, lemon-juice may be substituted for the citric or
tartaric acid—in the proportion of two table spoonsful
of lemon-juice to the same quantity of soda or potash.
As the object in giving the syrup is to render the
mixture more tenacious, and to prevent the gas escap-
ing so rapidly as would otherwise be the case, it is
not necessary, when the lemon juice is used, to add any
syrup."
This remedy given during any stage prior to col-
lapse will prevent the stage of collapse from coming
on, according to the statement of Dr. Parkin, con-
firmed by the statements of various medical prac-
titioners who have adopted this plan of treatment,
which, simple and apparently inadequate as it may
appear to be, has yet proved more successful than
any that has hitherto been adopted.
" Thus soda water, solution of soda, and effervescing
draughts, were used, in the treatment of the disease, by
the surgeons at Cawood, near Selby, and by the medical
practitioners at East Retford.
" Two cases of confirmed collapse, successfully treated
by Mr. Radcliffe with carbonic acid gas, were inserted in
the Lancet ; while the same remedy, as I have since
learnt, was extensively employed in Devonshire—par-
ticularly at Plymouth—and with such success as to
attract the attention of unprofessional persons."
But it was in Spain more particularly that the
remedy proposed by Dr. Parkin was brought to the
test. When the cholera first broke out in Spain, Dr.
Parkin immediately proceeded to that country ; and,
says Dr. Parkin—
" In answer to some observations which were made
in a newspaper of Barcelona, relative to the effect of car-
bonic acid in one particular case, the attendant physicians,
Dr. Ardevol, Dr. Frau (Professor of Anatomy and Sur-
gery), and Dr. Sauch (Physician to the General Hospital),
the first individuals in that town who adopted the plan
of treatment here pointed out, express themselves in
these terms:—' The Spanish physicians, resident in
Barcelona, who had the honour of meeting Mr. Parkin,
admitted from the beginning, with cordial assent, the
opinions of this gentleman; since, although they were
not entirely ignorant of the good effects of carbonic acid
gas, to this English practitioner (whose name already
belongs to history, adorned with the most grateful re-
membrance of mankind) is to be ascribed the glory of
having established the administration of this medicine.
This chemical agent is a specific remedy for the cure of
the Asiatic cholera, in its first and second periods, ad-
ministered by skilful hands and with medical tact. We
have had the satisfaction of saving, with this remedy, do-
zens of individuals who were brought to the gates of
death.'
" The former of these gentlemen, in a subsequent
communication, and after a more extended trial, offers
the following strong testimony to the efficacy of this
remedy:—"The carbonic acid gas is a chemical agent
which positively neutralizes the morbiflo poison of
cholera. Its effects are observable in the first, second,
third, and fourth periods of the disease. In that of
the preliminary diarrhoea it modifies the morbid im-
pression in a perceptible manner; changes the nature of
the discharges, giving rise to bilious secretions; and pro-
duces a speedy alteration in the choleroid physiognomy
of the patient, who soon acquires his normal appearance.
The efficacy of this medicine,' continues the writer, is
most visible at the commencement of collapse, when the
blueness appears, and when there is an alteration and
sinking of the voice. This medical metamorphosis ap-
pears most remarkable in such (otherwise) desperate
cases; since the physician observes with pleasure the
speedy effects of the neutralization of the poison, by the
disappearance of the anxiety; the recovery of the voice;
the animation of the physiognomy; the return of the
pulse, and the removal of the state of depression ; and,
finally, remarks that the patient passes to the period of
reaction with a free development of the pulse, confirming
thereby the hopes of the sufferer for the re-establish-
ment of his health. In the algid state, with blueness,
loss of pulse, suppression of urine, and visible depres-
sion, if the patient preserves his intellectual faculties, its
good effects are also observable to all who have sight
and wish to see. And I will say, finally, that, in the
ectual state of our knowledge, the materia medics, in
this case, has no other agent which can replace it."
Dr. Pascual, of Mataro, thus describes the effects of
the carbonic acid when administered in cases of
cholera :

" The most immediate effects which I have constantly
observed, from the introduction of the gas into the sto-
mach, have been the following :—lf the patient is labour-
ing under suspicious diarrhma; loud rumbling of the
bowels; small pulse; slight alteration in the physiog-
nomy, and voice somewhat changed—the third dose
usually suspends altogether the diarrhoea, and the other
symptoms disappear successively the course of the
disease, consequently, being arrested. If the patient has
that continued mortal oppression at the prmcordia, with
burning heat in the epigastric region; ♦omitings and
rico-water evacuations; remarkable alteration in the phy-
siognomy; without having altogether lost the tempera-
ture of the extremities; it may be said that the carbonic
acid, in these cases, acts miraculously. At the third or
fourth dose the patient experiences a calm and indescri-
bable ease, which makes him exclaim, with all the ve-
hemence imaginable, Give me more of this draught,
for it restores me to life.' Truly it was surprising to
see the rapid amendment of a patient, a little while
before in so dangerous a state."
And, to crown all, we find

" The Commission appointed by the Royal Aca-
demy of Medicine and Surgery in Barcelona, agree-
ably to the order of the Supreme Board of Medicine
and Surgery in Spain, that it should make known what
plan of treatment had produced the best effects, in the
epidemic cholera, in those towns situated in the districts
under the jurisdiction of the Academy, and which had
been attacked by the disease,"
reporting strongly in favour of Dr. Parkin's mode of
treatment.

With such testimonials as these in its favour, the
treatment of the disease by carbonic acid gas is enti-
tled to a fair and an extensive trial, and it has this
striking advantage over every other method of treat-
ment that has as yet been proposed; it is incapable of
doing injury.
The second pamphlet in our list is, in fact, what it
professes to be, " Five Minutes Common Sense
about the Cholera." It first appeared in 1831, was re-
printed and extensively circulated in America, and is
now again reprinted, and should be distributed far
and wide, more especially among the poorer classes.
It is clear, concise, and in every way superior to the
ponderous productions which have hitherto proceeded
from the Board of Health.

THE DIALS or PUBLIC CLOCKS.—The dials of the
new clock at the Palace of Westminster are to be thirty
i feet n diarneter, the largest in the world, excepting a
skeleton dial at Malines, on which the time is shown by
only one hand, and which makes one revolution in twelve
hours. The dial of St. Paul's clock, which is only
eighteen feet in diameter, is the largest in this country
that is furnished with a minute band. A few of the
clocks in Flanders strike on large bells, but they require
to be wound up every day, and in some instances twice
in the twenty-four hours.
RE- OPENING OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—THE
VERNON COLLECTION OF PICTURES.--Iresterd ,37 the Na-
tional Gallery was re-opened, and despite the unfavour-
able state of the weather, was visited by a great number
of persons. This was owing in a great measure to the
exhibition for the first time of Mr. Vernon's collection
of pictures beneath the roof of this national institution.
The rooms selected for the exhibition of these pictures
are situate on the ground-floor of the building, between
the central portico and th© entrance into St. George's
barracks from Trafalgar-square, and are reached by
descending a flight of steps on the north side of the
grand staircase. The rooms aro lighted. eight win-
dows, four on each side, and are divided into aisles by
semi circular arches. One portion on each side is di-
vided into two small rooms about eighteen feet long and
six wide, with one window in each. The other rooms
on each side of the passage are each lighted with three
windows, and in these rooms are hung some of the best
pictures.
THE NEW FOREST TIMBER ROBBERIES.—At the
Southampton quarter sessions, on Friday morning, the
several persons charged with stealing timber from the
New Forest surrendered to take their trials. There
were a large number of magistrates and the Bishop of
Winchester present on the bench. Several pleaded
guilty. John Light was charged with stealing, at
Buskets, five beech trees and other timber, the property
of her Majesty. The prisoner, who is a timber mer-
chant with a good business, was found not guilty.