The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-25 00:00:00

ItIE PAPAL STATES•

A private '.etter from Bologna, of the 16th instl
states that Oardinal Viale Prela had announce
that the Hol: Father would soon grant an vanest.ti
worthy of hits. The Archbishop had even fixed tl
period of the arnnest) for the Bth inst.--the Fe,ass
of the Immaculate C:mception. That da:FAuat,,,
passed, but in amnesty has been declared, L'nc "„-°(;"
there appear b be any intention of grantioo:
The writer Oinks that during the festivitit'
Christmas sow) pardons may be granted, but 13,
iju
to persons contned for robberies or assaults. T` L
keys which are open the prison doors of politicae
tb.,
prisoners are stid not to ha in the bands' of
Pope, but in flose of Cardinal Antonelli and bi*
friends, who maintain the state of siege.

DEATH OF D;,. PAGIB, 7HE PugSl9l3lsl
OF THE CAL E& (,P1 PHYSICIANS

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It is with very Sincere regret that we anee-13,3
the death of this e:cellent and distinguishes rcit."4
which occurred yesterday morning, at half')
o'clock, at his resdence, in Dover-street. ''se
men have run so bug and at the same ti°l,ii
honourable a career. For half a century Preiej"b"ad.
Dr. Paris had practsed as a physician, An" g iii.
tHhee
wpaoswhereronf
ahtisciama-ol
risen to the very hilliest honours which it wat-ovr.
professional brethren to sbeil t
ge on the 7,11 °f `l—nsa's
in the year 1785, and v.
elected physician to thf, Westminster
22 years of ace 'le iv; 0,
most distinguished honour for a..., yol!1°;Paitu133,110„;
and he continued in the active exercise of hiscPiii4
fessional duties until VVitbin a fortnight '3'
Period
even in the history of a nation
death. For 50 years, tlnn—a consideraol° Perl_,
• to whose memory we would fain offer a 8E0,4 tol_
hut° of respect actually engaged
To Dr. Paris, as is well knovn iniutthhee
of suffering and in the retie: of afflicted bulimia
op
and to all per Sons more intimately ace 1
—was the gertlemar_.
rairioetv.eigasito.it..:
uainted lint,:
his careor, the office of physician was DO hirelingo,
work, to be hurried through for the purpose of si.t
cumulating a fortune or earning distinction. 'l-,
I was the business and glory of his life. When Pi_tive
14 years of age he commenced bit studies for I°
arduous profession on which he was about to ente.fr
and followed them up with a zeal incredible 111
so young a person ; when he had attained tile
ripe age of three-score years and to the old Wart
ttewoi rhpn•
ine(?)th
nimi to
heohei
cholera
himself
ivelernl erfcasbootoauli
ill:
nietdlci
8: il
wrote
olr of. ftteht arduous hetehaßeuiyiailer:
s 3 dismissed in a few ilis
stdrvoeoodffl
introductory
Presidenticnittoeaarriyl tllyrjeftp
0 out',
gCraamaubraitdegdei,vahsenwve have said, riinerls,,osnral
hheisbtocroy:ol4';
brief sentences. Bora
member of Cait College -thatl j'.. • ay-.
extenthis contempor:arsieesr3ll' in university, ~,
and elence
eybowu;ntsg itnhsitniendgiuciineje.d A4.1.°,:30. c 3
The Classic alTrips e
of his classical attainments;.__o
was not then in exisru' 0.
andd so, independently of the exigencies of his el,.
ical degree, he had cot at the university all oats
portunity for displaying that fine and inticad_.
knowledge of the writers of antiquity for which 14"
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was afterwards so distinguished both in prt-v--_.
life and as President of the Cotlege of Physioikal,"._
From Cambridge he went to Edinburgh, theu%
markable as a school of med eine, and was 70,
friend and intimate companion of the many ce'
brated men who, in the first years of the centuryi,r
had congregated' in the Scottish capital. On
return to Loudon, at the age of 22, he was elecse.ae.
as we before said, phy. ician to the West ruin 1_,.:
Hospital, hut soon after vacated the app
as as it was his wish to establish himself iu the to_i"ru•
of Penzance, in Ciruwall.
During his residence at Penzance Dr.
tPhearitisedyiasi
tinguished himself as the founder of
Geological Society of Cornwall ; Ithis we beNlviehie,er,,
was the first geological society in England.iers the great
at Penzance, too, he gave to the
boon of the " tarnpmg bar," thelnintshteriurmheunsitnebsys"
which they are enabled to. pursue their
the
fear
of
amid inflammable gases without
riy
striking fire from the
prorc
admirable invention
y heroes have destroyed.
mgr© lives than Paris ntohisdo gimpub se avb eudt
here for 45 or 46 years eln the year 1810nablen-rheturwneads
atcotivLeolyndoocno,upainedd
asap 'tag physician. He was elected Pre-
held fl the hour of his
sident of the College of Physicians in the year 1844/
and this office he un i
a.ctisi
h aician
death. Dr. Paris was not only known ass p Y.
a, ,_
of the highest eminence—he was as remarkable
for his literary ability. The " Life of Sir lisscal
play Day " will ever remain one of the cla i
te the
biographies of the English language. In conjun.o-
- with Mr. Fonblanque he also wro
"Medical Jurisprudence, ' which has remainedrit
text book with lawyers until our own day. -E?_-,1:
works of a more professional character wereno!
treatise "On Diet," which first brought him i.„`'
notice, and which was publishedh aht a vertyrourY,
age ; his " Pharruacologia," whic as run
and his work
on
more editions than most books ;
acknowledged publications, . null,
medical chemistry. Besides thheisse,,a,npdh
" 1.1 as
iniloasnopyf
Sport" has attained an enormous
ainnoiluicsepgonpituelawrihtiyo, A
with his life, the motive f
never really maintained, has altogether terminate_°_:,
In so brief a notice as the one to which wee, te,
necessarily limited by considerations of 5pac,....,w...
can add but little more. The last ten days of "__;,
Paris's life were spent in the midst of most excijr,t
ciating sufferings, w!,.ich were borne with the ulfe'd
remarkable fortitude. His chief concern app e„2l,_,_
to be to console and comfort those around 114.1;;
who could ill disguise their grief at the irepena
and irreparable loss. His intellect remained Wei:
last as clear as at any time of his life, and w..°.`te,
power of speech remained nobody who
him could believe that the end was so near at h_a
_a_ct
The public and the medical profession have sufferoene
a great loss in the death of John AyrtOß par.i9,ablo
of the most disinterested, honourable, an a of
listeneani.
men who have ever practised the professiot.
_e
medicine. The grief of his own family and of
rihr,
whom he honoured with his friendship is not
B. l'_vit'
ter of public concern, save in so tar as it may life,
hover this wise and good man was honoured and u
loved by those who knew him best.—Times.
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