The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-14 00:00:00

TWAL OF COUNT AND_COUNTESS DE

-130CARLYIE.

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l!ode
The following noblemen and gentlemen and other
distinguished penionages visited Mr. Wyld's large
of the Erth. in L?icestr-square, during the past week.'
—.Duke of Wellington, Duke of Northumberland, Duke
of Hamilton, Earl of Dartin9tith, his Excellency the
Airltrian Ambwador, Lord and Lady Granville, Lord
Craven, Colonel Bailey, M.P., Captain Green, Mx., sir
W. Clay, M.P., and Mr. Waittr,
MEININGEN, MAY 20.—A new edict has been
added to our statute-book. It regulates the administration
of an oath. The formula be,ins with the words, " I take a
solemn oath," &c., and concludes, "So help me God." The
sacredness and inviolability of the oath, together with the
,111Pi4i,Iftskttendant on perjury, must be explained by the
mb.bi of the respective parties. No Jew is in
'1.114;t0:04571in
epellad to take the oath in the synagogue.
b egt4,orghtlelr
4.deB ,fO,l itlitriAmENT.--Oniv 13 public Acts
_avlik.Oecii-14z4v3 in the present session, notwithstanding
r"" tjas been sitting mere than four AlOllO5.
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The whole of the sitting of the Court of Assizes of
Mons on Wednesday was occupied with the requisitory
of the Procureur du Rol. e entered into an elaborate
examination of all the circurast Inces proved in evidence,
and contended that they established that the murder had
been resolved on by both the accused, and perpetrated
by both; and that both had taken the measures they
considered calculated to prevent their guilt from be-
coming known. He had not concluded when the court

DESPERATE SUICIDE.
On Wednesday an inquest was held at Mr. Gough's, the
Steam-packet Tavern, Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick,
before Mr. Wakley, deputy coroner for Middlesex, upon
the body of Mr. Samuel Thorrington, aged 58, a coal-
merchant and barg,,e-master, late residing at Hill Cottage,
who destroyed himself by discharging a rifle-pistol at the
back part of his head. The first witness called was
Sophia dlorrington, the deceased's wife, who stated that
on Monday evening, the deceased and herself were the
only persons in the house. About eight o'clock she
went into a room occupied solely by the deceased, in
which ho transacted business, and asked him for an en-
velope to enclose a letter she had been writing to one of
her daughters, who is living at Windsor. He said, "I
won't give you one." He then went into an adjoining
bed-room, and the witness went back to her room and
sat down. In a few minutes he walked in holding a
pistol in his right hand, and exclaimed, "Here, old girl,
the time has come." She, fearing that ho was about
to murder her rushed towards him, caught hold of
the pistol with one hand, whilst with the other she
opened the front door, and ran into the front garden
and culled out " Murder, police." A policeman was
Pissing at the time, and as he was entering
the garden the report of a, pistol was heard by
bdtli t;±* them. She returned to her husband's room with
the policeman, and found deceased lying en the sofa,
weltering in his blood, and the pistol grasped in bis
right haul. He was teen struggling in the agonies of
death. When he came to her he was without his shoes.
Dr. Holdness, of Windsor, had attended him for fifteen
years. Had said ho was decidedly insane, and ought to
be under confiuement. He appeared always anxious for
usincso, and closely attended to it.. He had said she
Was a disreputable woman, and would not believe the
children were his, although she had borne him eight.
He had repeatedly threatened to murder witness. When
she came it was to see his mother, and she took posses-
sion of a mall bed-room. When deceased knew she
was in house he said he would get a policeman to
drive her our, and he only wished he had a pistol. De-
ceased kept a sword between his bed and mattress, and
a brace of pistols on the, mantel-piece. She had been
fourteen months away troll him. Jessey Allen, police-
constable, 106 F, gave confirmatory evidence. Ocher
evidence was given, including that of a Mr. Bambridge,
a sea-la-law, who said, that although the deceased lived
separate from his maintained her by indirect
means, and he had always acknowledged his children;
but the was an unhappy difference existing between
deceased and his wile, created by interaering acquaint-
ances of the wife. A verdict was ultimately returned
that the deceased destroyed himself in an unsound state I
of mind.

F/ MS 2 ' SOIREE AT THE ROYAL COL-
LEGE OF SURGED VS.
The president and conceit of the College of Surgeons
give the first of their three .soirees on the occasion of the
Great Exhibition, on Wednesday evening, when Professor
Owen delivered a lecture, of which the following is a brief
seminary, to the Bite of the profession and several dis-
tineuished foreign surgeons.
Thesirsearned Professor commenced his lecture by re-
markin upon the great difficulty in distinguishing be-
tszen animals and plants. The chemist had endea-
veined to help us, and it was supposed that a close
examination might reveal the true nature of dubious
objects ; it was found, however, that many supposed
animals exhale oxygen, whilst many fungi and alga)
exhale carbonic acid. As regards the binary character
of the vegetable compounds also, and the ternary
and cristernary of animals, it has lately been shown that
the reentle er envelope of the ascidian molusces is com-
posed of a distinct binary compound. SI again in re-
ap, et to the presence of a digestive cavity, the pores in
the auctorial extremity, and the canals in some of the
eutogoa, are clearly analogous to the radieu,m
pores and canals of plants. In fine, the progress of
science not only shows that we have no one die-
tinssuishing test, but even brings to light more close
amito.gi,s. The immediate subject of the evening's die-
course was to point out two peculiar phases of organic
existence—metamorphosis and metagenesis; the former
was illustrated by the passage of the tadpole from a fishlike
animal, breathing by gills :sod living on vegetables, to the
cerniveroue air-breathing frog—or, perhaps, more evi.
stlitly in the development of the perfect, winged insect from
tWt vermiform lessee In the mouesterea mutehin, also, an
eutogeon infesting waterfowl, there is an equally pe-
culiar transformation, one which is particularly interest-
ing• as evidencing the means by which the parasite may
gaiu admittenso to the interior of the body of the
nit. icsal on which preys.
in the ec, ..,. ' it lt passes from the ovum
nataen cf an undeveloped mass, which shortly
"nrnsa a cercariforrn type of body, swimming
freely by tne:
rne.zitns of a long tail, until it reaches its des-
tined he
apertures, or Perhaps
then enter by one of the normal
.apsleyrce its way by means of a long,
sharp roboscis.
fif
final cchining, entersd, it undergoes its
s, sad becomes the fixed, motionless, in-
ternal parasite. maC
geuesit! was illustrated by the
miter parthogsnees or virgin recreation I
P
,it was stated, h dbP o the
aphides. This
years atto, and la's havestigetioans heannvedcelsenarrilnyelpnaroavneyd
following facts:—lti the spring,
the
t whenh the first
animal comes forth from the
some what erablike form, A :
the
sseuegs,tituteasof3o7 iangsleos;
be seen a gshnnilar
birth—this to another, and so on
reproduction—.gut
,witbbi,t it may
; then the spermatic
aphis, to which it givesh
'nation of a perfect
to the seventh or eigot
.tsget-,,T7atioo
fore; seezna to exhaust i 0 ittilni thes for
complete.
individual, for the last c
~r(lsaztagenie aphides is
with wings and ref, nrgaes
medusa , , ureta, as shown by Siebolt
Sboo,rnagain, the
which, msg.
Sam and Daley
edge as a ciliated genam• ---.
ell, prottucss an embryo,
ilebe-
segments, until
ing through its first 64-e'',.3 vire off buds—this
Comes fixed and polype-!ilia, '4l' ''. into polype
IYeach segment is cast
then bee ones constricted trenvifp,rgse,
Waste the constrictions deeesh,n
h generative apparatus—
era perfect medusa, with its ow
7...seuc , as the ease may be. A
testicles or ovaries, and ege y
etagenesis of
analogy comparison was then drawn betweenth ethme
er plant and of a compound polyee, and thefiesneoud.
ren-
dered beautifully clear, it being evident
the ciliated
forms its primary cotyledonary leaf, so
prolongation
mile its first polype ; the plans sends up a
bearing
poiyns ; • lastly,
other leaves so the polype its stem bearing.a
reproductive flower, so theindividual with
: the plant at the end of it; "la.
generative Apparatus, and just as any leaf (in some
polype an
plants) or leaf-bud will reproduce the tree, so any polype
may be removed from the stem and reproduce another.
The Learned Professor then traced the embryonic
deve-
lopmSnt of the ascaris, and deduced the principle that,
as the impression produced by the impregnation was
diffused through the entire. embryonic mass by the va-
p
*us subdivisions of the germinal
vesicle,
so in ro or-
,
tion as the cells of this mass remained unchangedp by
development into tissues, does the property of metage-
riesis`Censain in force. The lecture eras heard throe through-
out with great attention, and was illustrated with excellent
diagrams.