The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-25 00:00:00

SINGULAR SURGICAL CASE.

The last number of the Lancet contains an ac-
vount of- an operation, by which Mr. Liston con-
trived, with his usual skill, to extract a bone, which
had been swallowed by a woman while eating, and
which had got into the windpipe ; she was admitted
into the Infirmary, when the operation was per-
formed. We subjoin the following extract :

" The following was her state on admission :—The
respiration was stated to be more tranquil than it had
been for some time past, an improvement ascribed to
the application of a blister, about ten days previously.
It was not much hurried, but became so after very
slight exertion, even, at times, by speaking a few
words continuously. It was noisy and stridulous, par-
ticularly during inspiration. The chest, all over, was
natural on percussion, and the vesicular murmur was
unattended with any morbid sound, except a little
below the sternal end of the right clavicle, where,
when the respiration was at all hurried, there was, over
a small spot, a pretty loud sonorous rale ; the sound
was heard over the superior angle -of the right
scapula ; in other respects, both sides of the chest
were perfectly natural, and the respiratory murmur was
equal in both.

" There was no complaint of pain, but the same
sense of rawness, formerly mentioned, was still felt on
coughing, and during her attempts at expectoration.
Her sleep is still disturbed by the difficult breathing.
Towards morning, she usually expectorates a mucous
fluid, tinged with blood, and, in her attempts to dis-
charge it, she feels as if it were obstructed by some-
thing acting as a valve a little below the right cla-
vicle. Deglutition is unattended with any pain or un-
easiness. Her appearance is expressive, at times, of
considerable anxiety, and she feels assured that the
foreign body is still lodged in the air-passages, and
places her finger over the spot where she supposes it
to have been fixed all along.
4‘ Mr. Liston, from her own account, and from an
investigation of the symptons on her admission, was of
opinion that the body still remained, and was the cause
of her distress, and from the knowledge that, on ac-
count of the greater size of the right bronchus, and
the more obtuse angle which it forms with the trachea,
foreign substances must frequently pass into it, and
also from the indications afforded by auscultation, he
was satisfied that it was lodged on it, and entertained
strong hopes of his being able to remove it by opera-
tion. The patient herself was willing to submit to any
thing for relief.
" On the 14th, the usual operation of, tracheotomy
was performed, and, after a little delay, to allow the
irritation produced by the admission of a drop or two
of blood into the trachea to subside, a gun-shot probe
was passed down to the right bronchus, and the bone
was immediately struck. A pair of curved forceps was
then introduced twice, but, as the body could not be
grasped by them, another pair, of a different construc-
tion, was tried, by which it was at once seized. In
the first attempt to extract it, it escaped from the for-
ceps, but, on the second, it was brought out without
much difficulty. The passing of the instruments pro-
duced violent fits of coughing, with heaving of the
'he id lividi If the face. The removal of the
leous relief; the respiration became
'asy, and the stridulous inspiration
'ie patient submitted to the opera-
itude, and nothing could express
termination. Immediately after
wound was dressed with lint,
water, which was frequently r
when the oozing from the
ceased, its edges were brought
,ned by means of the isinglass

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1834.

It appears from the statements of Irish mem-
bers, that great distress prevails in the south
and west of Ireland, on account of a scarcity of
provisions, and that this will be gradually in-
creasing yet for six weeks, and Government
are called on to adopt some measures to save
the people from starvation. In other words,
Great Britain is to support not only its own
poor, but also the poor of Ireland—a
country said to possess the finest soil and
the finest peasantry in the --world. But
for John Bull's inherent good nature and
humanity, such a system would have been up-.
rooted long ago. The exports from Ireland to
England are increasing year after year, to the
injury of the English landlord and tenant.
There is also a constant influx of Irish labour-
ers, keeping down the wages of the native
peasantry, and throwing vast numbers on the
parish. The Irish landlords are exempted from
many taxes, to which the English are
liable ; they screw up their rents to
the highest pitch—they grudge the payment of
tithes, part of which might relieve the poor at
least from the payment of the Catholic clergy ;
and when famine comes, as it does periodically,
they call upon England, burdened with taxes
—oppressed with poor rates, and inundated
with Irish labourers, to raise money either by
subscriptions or Government grants, to main-
tain the very poor on their own estates. This
is trespassing too much on good nature.
The kindly feelings of the people of this
country will not leave the Irish to
starve ; but it is evident that such
a practice cannot be long continued, and
that, sooner or later, the Legislature will be
forced to place the two countries on a more
equal footing. The Poor Laws Bill will not
have fair scope in England till this is 'the case,
and the welfare of the Irish peasantry will not

be attended to by their landlords till they are
driven to it by self-interest. Let the landlords
know they have an interest in saving the poor
from starvation, and they will attend better to
the internal government of the country. They
will then find it expedient to reside more fre-
quently on their estates—to provide work for
the poor, either in constructing roads or re-
clabning waste lands—to check the oppression
of middlemen—watch the conduct of Grand
Juries, and, above all, by their presence and ex-
ample, to encourage good order and industrious
habits, with the ' view of attracting capital to
the country. At present they leave all to agents or
middlemen, who have as little feeling as the negro
drivers in our West India Islands. The people have
no encouragement either to be peaceable or
industrious. The rents are so high, that, inde-
pendently of incumbrances, the small tenants
can barely earn a subsistence ; and when, in
addition to this, they have to pay tithes or an
additional rent, when the people have to pay
their own priests, in fact, support a double
church establishment, and when reduced to
the brink of starvation, they see the produce of
the country exported, and no provision made
for want, which they could not by any pos-
sibility prevent, who can be surprised at find-
ing them a wretched, disorderly, and discon-
tented people ? From all that we have seen
and heard of the Irish peasantry, we believe
there are no people in the world more grateful
for kindness, and none more willing to obtain a
subsistence by the labour of their hands.
That, certainly, is the character of those
who come to England ; and we must con-
clude, therefore, that the different character
which they exhibit in Ireland, arises entirely
from the different way in which they are treated
by their natural protectors—the landed proprie-
tors. Let the Government hold out some in-
ducement to the Catholic clergy to discourage
agitation, and compel the landlords, from mo-
tives of interest, to attend to the wants of the
people, and we shall not despair of Ireland.

In the House of LOrds last night, on the
presentation of petitions against the claims of
the Dissenters, by the Bishop of LLANDAFF,
relative to the London University, the
LORD CHANCELLOR made one of his
most effective speeches, both as regards its
style and sentiment. He was particularly happy
on the subject of the Tory mummeries at the
late Oxford election and convulsed the
House with laughter by the broad, vivid
contrast which he drew between the be-
haviour of the students of the London Univer-
sity on a certain public occasion, and those who
haunt the classic stream of 'the Isis. On the
subject of the Dissenters, his Lordship ob-
served, that those who denied the right to
found a University for them were much more
worthy of a place in the Museum than in the
halls of a college.

We are glad to find that Mr. T. DUNCOMBE
has announced himself as a candidate for the
borough of Finsbury. He is an acute, in-
dependent gentleman of the right stamp,
and, during the late fierce and pro-
tracted struggle for Parliamentary Reform,
rendered essential services to the cause, and
was always found fighting in the van. That; his
talents and energies were not duly appreciated
in the corrupt borough of Hertford, should be
an argument in his favour with the enlightened
electors of Finsbury.

It would appear by the Paris papers of Mon-
day that the French Ministers are carrying
every thing their own way in the elections. In
every one of the twelve arrondissements of
Paris, and the two rural arrondissements of the
department of the Seine, the juste milieu have
triumphed by immense majorities over all their
competitors. Even in Strasburg, which was
supposed to be almost exclusively republican,
two ministerial candidates have succeeded in dis-
placing ODILLON BARROT and VOYER D'AR-
GENSON, who were the late representatives of that
city. The Madrid correspondence mentions
that the alarm respecting the cholera had in a
great degree subsided, and that a bulletin had
been received from the Carlist Chief, TORRE,
to the effect that he had defeated 3,000 of the
QUEEN'S troops at Arrexho on the 14th inst.,
with the loss of 400 men, killed and wounded ;
and that crowds were flocking to the standard
of ZumALACARREGUY, who, it was supposed,
however, would have great difficulty in making
head against the strong forces which were com-
ing up from the Portuguese frontier.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PANIS, JUNE 23.
Five per Cents., 106 f. 30c. 1' 6f. 20e.
Three per Cents., 781. '2,5e. 77f. 95c.
Bank Actions, 1,25 f.
Rente de Naples, i4f.
Roman Five per Cents., 96.
Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 394;.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 47%.
Royal Spanish Loan, 8.5%.
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 76%.
Belgian Loan, 1531, Five per Cents., 9b4.
Haytian Loan, 280 f.

Justice is often sacrificed to expediency, but
to have the principle openly avowed in a public
assembly is a rare occurrence. What good
shall we get by doing justice to the Jews ? was a
question openly put, and well answered. It is
not, however, the first time that expediency has
been set in opposition to justice, and preferred
by the audience to whom it was addressed.
" I find no fault in him at all," says PILATE.
" It is expedient, exclaims CAIAPHAS, that one
man should die for the people." " Crucify
him," " Crucify him," shout the multitude.

The_ weather has again become extremely
sultry. On Thursday, at midnight,' M. Chevallier's
thermometer marked 14 8-10 deg. above zero Reau-
mur, or 65+ deg. Fahrenheit ; yesterday morning, at
ten o'clock, 22 8-10 deg. Reaumur, or 83i deg.
Fahrenheit ; at noon, 23 5-10 deg. Reaumur, or 85
deg. Fahrenheit ; at one o'clock, 24 deg. Reaumur, or
861 deg. Fahrenheit ; at two o'clock,. 23 deg. Reau-
mur, or 834 deg. Fahrenheit.—Paris Paper.

Died, at Bluntisham-cum-Earith, during the
past week, and in the same house, within a few days
or hours of each other, Mr. Spinks, the father, Wil-
liam the first-born soh; and Edith, the daughter, all
much lamented Victims-to ptilmOnaiy-ciin-stiiiiptiOni on
which occasion a funeral sermon was delivered filling
the parish church to overflow.—Stamford News.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

THIS DAY, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour.
DISSENTERS.

Lord R. MANNERS presented petitions from
Preston, Loughborough, and other places, against the
claims of the Dissenters.

Mr. FORSTER presented a petition from friendly socie-
ties in the borough of Walsal, for the protection of the law.
Lord R. GROSVENOR presented a petition from the
resident Welch inhabitants of the city of Chester, praying
that no clergymen or bishop be appointed to office in Wales,
Who does not understand the language of that country.
Mr. JER VIS supported the petitipil., 0.
Mr. RUTHVEN also supported it, a4Wished the same
principle might be adopted with regard to Ireland.
After a few words from Mr. SINCLAIR, the petition
was laid on the table.

Mr. F. O'CONNOR presented a petition from Richard
Keefe, an elector of Dungarvan, complaining that
his vote was rejected by' the assessor at the late elec-
tion, because he was absent from his house six weeks,
at work at his business. The honourable member
stated that he know of several persons being thrown into
gaol, and driven into Bridewell by the police with drawn
swords, because they would not promise to vote for the
present hon. member for Dungarvan. He had no hesita-
tion in saying, that he could prove bribery also to a large
amount against a member of that house. The interference
of the government, too, went to a greater extent in Dun-
garvan than at any other election. Would the right
honourable Secretary for Ireland say that he had
nothing to do with all this ? The interference of
government and the Duke of Devonshire, the conduct
of the stipendiary magistrates, and the courw pursued by
the Solicitor-General for Ireland, occasioned such a state
of things, that had it not been for the galla'st conduct of
the troops, his hon. friend would not now have been
member for Dungarvan. He pledged himself to support
all the allegations he had made, and he hoped Government
would show a disposition to punish all 'those who were
guilty of such conduct.
Mr. LITTLETON said that it .was most ex-
traordinary for the hon. member to make such a
charge, and demand an explanation of him, since
till this moment he had had no intimation of the
nature of the charge. He vindicated the character of his
right hon. friend as being above such imputations, which
after all rested on the evidence of stolen letters, which
must have been purloined by some scoundrel.
Mr..F. O'CONNOR said he explained the nature of the
charges he intended to make against the Solicitor-General
and the ex-Secretary for Ireland, on Monday night last,
and the right hon. gentleman asked him to postpone it.
Mr. LITTLETON had no recollection of any such
communication. The hon. member might have intended
to tell him, but if such words had met his ears, would he
not instantly have flown to his right hon. friend, and ad-
vised him of it ? He knew nothing of the facts of the
case, but this he knew—that there was no bribery in the
case of. Mr. Baron, and the money remitted by the Soli-
citor-General was not public money, but money raised by
subscription among Mr. Baron's friends.
Mr. F. O'CONNOR said he never saw the letters al-
alluded to till that morning. He denied that he had taken
the right hon. member by surprise, for he was confident
that he did make the intimation to him in that house, and
mentioned Mr. Stanley by name. What he had stated he
had stated on his own responsibility, and he was convinced
that he could rely on the soureethifrcrm which he derived
his information. He repeated that he could prove bribery
against the hon. member for Waterford, and neither that
allegation nor any other did he intend to retract. He made
his charge, and he appealed to the house, and not to the right
hon. gentleman who had placed the Solicitor-General now
that nothing but an inquiry before a committee of the house
could relieve I im f om.

Mr. LITTLETON explained.
Mr. C. O'DWYER supported the petition.
Mr. SHEIL referred to a letter written by the Soli-
citor-General, in which there was the phrase, " The 5001.
which were promised"—so that there was a contract for
sending 5001. (Hear.) It was quite evident that this
was a matter of great importance, and deserving of
serious attention. (Hear, hear.) The right honourable
Secretary for Ireland, with as much official caution
as was convenient, had condemned the imprudence of the
Solicitor-General for Ireland, and imprudence in politics
amounted to criminality in Downing-street. ( Hear. )
When money was remitted for the purposes of an election
by the Solicitor-General as the medium, did the right hon.
gentleman think his prudential condemnation was suffi-
cient? He (Mr. S.) believed Mr. Crampton to be a
man of personal worth and honour, yet he contended that
an investigation was required, or if not an investiga-
tion, an explanation from • the Solicitor-General himself.
(Hear.) A charge had also been made against a stipen-
diary magistrate, who was an officer of the Government
more subordinate than the Solicitor-General ; and he sub-
mitted that some proceeding plight- to emanate from the
right hon. Secretary for Ireland. As 'to the charge about
stolen letters, he remembered -when the Lord Chancellor

of England produced a private letter from Saurin, the At-
torney-General for Ireland, and when that letter was the
subject not merely of litigation, but of a resolution of that
house ; and when Sir R. Peel charged the present Lord
Chancellor with the using that letter, the latter turned
round, and asked " What, then, was the conduct of the
Tories when they resorted to stolen letters for evidence
against the Queen ?" ( Hear.) Let his hon. friend bring
this matter before the house, and make it the subject of a
resolution, embodying that letter, and no doubt an im-
partial inquiry would take place, and full justice be done to
all parties.
Mr. GISBORNE hoped that before the course sug-
gested by the hon. member who spoke last was adopted,
the circumstances would be inquired into. He regretted
this petition was not laid before the Secretary for Ireland.
Mr. O'CONNOR said he had informed the right hon.
gentleman of all the circumstances of the case.
Mr. GISBORNE resumed—This was a very serious
charge. The party might be innocent, and whether he
was innocent or guilty the case ought to be inquired into.
He regretted that the hon. member who brought forward
this petition had not made the hon. member for Waterford
(Mr. Galway) acquainted with this charge.
Mr. O'CONNOR said that he had communicated the
charge to the hon. member for Waterford, and he did not
choose to take any notice of it.
Mr. MILDMAY said that he understood from what had
fallen from the right hon. Secretary for Ireland, that the
letter of which use had been made in the present instance,
had been fraudulently obtained. There could, therefore,
be no parallel between this easel and, that in which the
letter of Mr. Saurin was used.

Mr. SHEIL explained. The one letter was as much
stolen goods as the other.
Colonel PERCEVAL said it was wasting the time of
the house to spend it in debating as to how those letters
were obtained, as in his opinion they were equally discre-
ditable. Mr. Saurin had as much reason to complain of
a breach of morality as the present Solicitor-General for
Ireland, as both letters were obtained by unhallowed
means. (Hear, hear.) He hoped, however, that the
matter would be fully investigated.
Mr. LITTLETON said he was anxious that he might
not be misunderstood. When he spoke of certain stolen
letters he meant some that were addressed to the Solicitor-
General, which were torn up by him and put in the fire,
and were gathered up from thence and made use of. The
letter in question was written by the Solicitor-General to
other parties, and of course could not be so obtained.
Mr. LAMBERT said he could never consent to an in-
quiry founded upon documents obtained in the infamous
manner in which the present letter had been obtained.
If the accusation was brought forward upon evidence fairly
obtained, he wouldnot object to the fullest inquiry.
Mr. O'CONNOR said he was very glad that the matter
was taken out of his hands by the right hon. Secretary ;
and he (Mr. O'Connor) trusted that it would be fully
investigated.
Mr. FINN considered that the course that had been
adopted was most discreditable, shouts and cheering hav-
ing accompanied assertions which ought never to have
been made.

mr. m. O'CONNELL thought that the gentlemen who
complained of the production of letters, ought to recollect
the letters produced in another place, with rest- to the
tame elephant. It appeared to him from vents
that had been made, that it was
ed
that the great fault of the Solicitor-Gener;
committing corruption, but in making it k, ne
had done so.
The petition was then ordered to lie on the table.
CAPTAIN AITCHESON.
Mr. FINCH presented a petition from Kensington,
complaining of British soldiers being obliged to attend di-
vine worship in Roman Catholic countries..
Sir H. HARDINGE contended that it was the duty of
soldiers to attend to the orders of their superior officers.
nut
In the present instance Captain Aitcheson was ordered to
fire certain guns ; he had refused to dott so
in so,consequence and the
rin
g h
ofe
there
i b conse-
quence was that he had been tried by a courtmartial, and
dismissed the service.
Major BEAUCLERK thought that Captain Aitcheson
had been very hardly dealt with.
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Advocate-General in the
house, he (Mr. Plumptre) would postpone the case till he
should have a better opportunity of bringing it forward.
After a few words from Mr. Hardy, Mr. Wilks, Mr.
Ruthven, and some other honourable members,
Mr. FiNcit replied, and the petition was laid on the
:able.

After the presentation of several other petitions, it being
three o'clock, the Speaker left the chair.

It is amusing to see the name of Joseph
Bonaparte among the stewards for the dinner to be
given to Mina, who became the idol of his countrymen
in consequence of his determined opposition to Jo-
seph's pretensions as sovereign. Who could have
anticipated such a circumstance in 1810 ?

COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

The LORD CIIANCELLOa came into court this morning
at 10 o'Clock, for the purpose of hearing the Appeal that
was in the paper, of " Attorney-General v. Brentwood
School," but in consequence of Sir Edward Sugden, who
had to open it, being required to attend in the House of
Lords, to reply in a part heard appeal there, and there be-
ing no other case ready to be heard, his Lordship left
shortly after 10 o'Clock.

The " Attorney-General v. Hoare " is appointed for
to-morrow.

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, JUNE 23.
—There has been a fair attendance of the trade in our
cotton-market to-day, and about 3,500 bales have been
sold at the prices of last week—viz., 400 Pernams,
• 60 Maranhams, 1144. t 30 Sea Islands, ;
remainder in American from lid. up to Sid. 400 Ame-
rican taken for export.

APPARENT DEATII.—A young man died
lin the hospital at Paderborn, who could not be buried
until three weeks after he had breathed, at least to all
appearance, his last breath. It was not till the 20th
day that the characteristic phenomena of death became
manifest. The circumstances of the case were these :
—This young man had been a little time before cured
of a tertian ague, when he re-entered the hospital,
presenting some signs which caused an apprehension
of phthisis, without, however, presenting any well-
marked symptoms of this disease. In other respects
no disturbance in his health. On the day lie died his
eyes were suddenly opened, and for some minutes we
found an irregular beating at the pulse. Several small
wounds resulting from cauterizations, to which Fe then
had recourse to rouse him, suppurated the second,
third, and fourth day. On the fifth, the hands of the
body were turned back • from the fifth to the ninth day
there exhaled from half body an abundant sweat,
free from odour. Towards the end of the ninth day,
there appeared over a considerable part of the dorsal
region serous bullm, similar to those of pemphygus.
The limbs still preserved their natural suppleness, and
on the 18th day the lips still retained their red vermil-
lion colour. For nine days the forehead continued
furrowed with vertical wrinkles, and all this time the
countenance preserved an expression never presented
by the face of a dead body. The body was kept for
nineteen days in a warm room, it exhaled not the least
foetid odour, and there was observed on no part of its
surface any cadaveric lividity. The emaciation was
not very considerable, a circumstance which, if it had
existed, might have served to explain these different
phenomena.—Hu/eland, Journal de Pract.
hands; and Dublin Journal, May, 1834.

AN IRISH MISTAKE. Well ; that's the
way it was for many a long day, and Kishogue was as
happy as the day was long, until, as bad luck in have
it, he made a mistake one night, as the story goes ;
and by dad how he could make the same mistake was
on
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mistake was made, and this was the mistake, you see
—that he consaived he seen his own mare threspassin'
an the man's field, by the road side, and so, with
that, he cotched the mare—that is, the mare, to all
appearance, but it was not his own mare, but the
'Squire's horse, which he tuk for his own mare--all in
a mistake, and he thought that he had sthrayed away,
and not likin' to see his baste threspassin' an another
man's field, what does he do, but he dhrives home
the horse in a mistake, you see ; and how he could do
the like is hard to say, exceptin' that the night was
dark, as I had said before, or that he had a dhrop too
much in ; but, howsomever the mistake was made,
and a sore mistake it was for poor Kishogue, for he
never persaived it at all, antil three days aftber, when
the polisman kem to him and towld him he should
go along with him. " For what?" says Klishogue.
" Oh, you're mighty innocent," says the polisman.
" Thrue for you, sir," says Kishogue, as quite (quiet)
as a child. " And where are you goin' to take me,
may I make bowld to ax, sir?" says he. "To gaol,"
says the Peeler. " For what ?" says Kishogue. For
staaling the 'squire's horse," says the Peeler. " It's
the first I heerd of it," says Kishogue. " Throth,
then 'twon't be the last you'll hear of it," says the
other. " Why, tare an ouns, sure it's no house-
breakin' for a man to dhrive home his own mare," says
Kishogue. " No," says the Peeler ; " but it is bur-
glaarious to sarcumvint another man's horse," says he.
" But supposin"twas a mistake," says Kishogue.
" By gor it'll be the dear mistake to you !" says the
polisman. !‘ That's a poor case," says Kishogue. But
there was no use in talkin'—he might as well have
been whistlin'figs to a milestone as sthrivin' to invaiiie
the polisman, and the Ind" 'of it was, -thisf he "lva6
ableeged to march off to gaol, and there he lay in
lavendher, like Paddy Ward's pig, antil the 'sizes kern
an, and Kishogue, you see, bein' of a high sperrit, did
not like the iday at all of bein' undher a compliment
to the king for his lodgin'.—Lover's Legends and
Stories of Ireland, Second Series.
LEVEL OF THE BALTIC.—The Commercial
Gazette of St. Petersburgh, of May 28, has the fol-
lowing :—" It has been remarked that during the last
twenty years, the water in this port has become consi-
derably lowered, and affords a new proof of the cor-
rectness of the observations made by the ancient inha-
bitants of the shores of the Baltic, that the bottom of
this sea is continually rising, that the level and body
of the water is gradually diminishing, and that the
land is increasing on every side. According to the
researches of the ancient naturalists, phenomena of
this nature most frequently occur in the countries
near the North Pole. We can quote as examples the
lakes of Denmark, which have sunk so low that some
of them are almost entirely without water. Sweden
and Norway, 2,500 years ago, formed one island.
The town of Pittea, in forty-five years, became dis-
tant from the sea two miles, and the water receded
from Loulea one mile in twenty-eight years. The an-
cient port of Lodisa is now four miles from the sea,
and that of Westerwich two miles. At the time of
the foundation of Torneo large vessels could come
close up to it, now it is in the middle of a penin-
sula. The islands of Errgsoe and Caroe, Apsoe and
Testeroe, have been for many years joined to each
other ; and Louisoe, Psalmodi, Magdelone, and many
more have become part of the mainland. It was
upon these facts, connected with other observations,
that Linnaeus and Celsus concluded that the depth of
the Baltic Sea diminished four inches in every cen-
tury, and that in two thousand years it would entirely
disappear. Although more accurate observations made
in modern times do not confirm the diminution to be
so rapid as this, they concur with the generally re-
ceived opinion, that the bottom of the sea, in the
northern hemisphere, rises in a degree, though the
level of the water does not sink. It is diffieult to do.
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CHOICE OF A WIFE.—A beautiful young
woman, with a sublime fortune, is not to be sneezed
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it but to induce you to allow her separate maintenance,
and all the privileges of a bachelor. The world know;
two lovely beings—both beautiful—but the one, sole
child of an eminent banker, and the other, the last of
a second series of daughters raised, as the Americans
say—not forced—from the time-honoured bed of a
country gentleman impatient of widowhood, whose
ancestors had killed their own mutton from time im-
memorial, we should, unless her hair was very red in-
deed, take unto otir bosom the dowerless damsel, were
it only for the pure delight of seeing her, at our ex-
pense, " taking off her marriage clothes," or, in other
words, providing herself with a tasteful trousseau.
In short, we would take her, with rapture, into our
arms, though she had just a shift to her back, and
but one pair of elastic garters ! Like the moon,
without a cloud—or, like the moon, veiled in clouds—
her beauty would thus be ours, too, inasmuch as we
should be the sun that illuminated the lovely orb.
Think, but for a moment, of your bride buying, out of
her own dower, you being farthingless, and receiving
discount for ready money, not only for the four-post
bed, but all the rest of the furniture—nay, the very
house to which you bring her home, and of which,
with a face of the most brazen assurance, you tell her
to consider herself the mistress—she having, conside-
rately, bought up the ground rent, and introduced gas !
Then the degradation of never being permitted, while
you breathe, to put on or take off your breeches, with-
out the consciousness that she paid. for them, (and-
' consequently, is entitled to wear them, ad libitunt,)
j whether velvet or fustian—so inexorable is the law
of the association- of-ideas. Far rather' so help us
Heaven, would we wear kilts till we dropped into
the grave.—Blacktoood's Magazine.

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