The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-05 00:00:00

CATELEPSY.

A very curious and interesting case of this malady,
one of rare occurrence, is at present in Jervis-street
hospital. The subject is a young and beautiful woman
about 22 years of age ; she has been married about 13 months,
and is a native of the county of Wicklow. The present case
has some features about it to distinguish it from any on re-
cord, and as it may be interesting to many of our professional
and scientific readers, we will briefly detail some of the
circumstances connected with it, On the 29th of June last,
this woman was taken into the hospital labouring under sci-
Optl*Or 3 olio nufforod grofttly from tho diecaac. The usual treat
ment was applied, but without any improvement. She never
for a day left her bed until the first of August following, when
she expressed a wish to go home ; she suddenly got up,dressed
herself, and walkad out, apparently quite well. On the 22d
of October she again applied for admission to the hospital,
labouring under the same complaint ; she looked pale, but in
no degree lost flesh ; about a week after, a friend to one of
the patients in the same ward gave her abuse for some
imaginary offence ; this threw her into violent pa-
roxysms ; she became nearly insensible, had violent
retching, her countenance was suffused, the globus
hystericus was visibly rising in her throat : the fit
continuing for an hour, she seemed much exhausted
after it. She was affected with similar paroxysms every-
day, the sciatica in the mean time ceasing. In the in-
tervals of these fits she seemed quite well, and apparently in
gond spirits ; on the 13th she lost her speech, but possessed
her intelligence so far as to know what was said to her, to do
any thing she was desired, or make any sign to show she
understood what was said, but the utter incapability of
articulationg a word continued. Up to the 21st she apho-
nia existed—not even a monosyllable escaped her lips,
The paroxysms continued unabated in their violence.
and were more frequent than before. On the 22d she be-
came cataleptic ; after the violence of the paroxysm has
ceased she falls into apparently a sound sleep. Her
countenance assumes the most placid smile, the lips
retain their pure vermillion hue, the cheeks tinged
with the glow of health, the eyes cleased, the
breeching quite natural, the pulse unchanged, the
arms and hands become quite rigid, but whatever
position they are placed in, they remain so ; even the
fingers may be opened and closed, and will remain unaltered
during the catelepsis. When the eye-lids are raised, the
eye-balls are seen to be turned upwards, and the pupils di-
lated ; the toes are bent inward, the fingers outward ; the
feet are teo rigid to be moved, unless by great force. She
continues for ten or a dozen minutes in this state, and then
comes on the violent paroxysms, after which seems calm and
restered. On Wednesday the effect of music was tried upon
Ler ; the fine chords and swell notes of the harmonicon did
Dot in the least degree affecther. Her sense of taste seems
to be paralysed ; the most bitter draught she takes as if it
were the most agreeable ; she has taken but little nourish-
ment, an ,11 sleeps very little, and not more than two hours
at a time ; j,,:%r disposition is most cheerful and amiable.
There are but few' eases of this kind upon record.—Dublin
Evening Mail.

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ALARMING INTELLIGENCE.-At the sitting of
the Rolls Court on Wednesday nearly two hundred solicitors
were sworn in.—Old England.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—An Inquest was holden
at the Black Horse, Kingsland-road, before Mr. Baker and a
respectable jury, on view of the body of Mary Ann Turner,
alias Ross, a fine young woman, twenty years of age, who in
a fit of love and despondency had thrown herself into the Re-
gent's Canal, and was drowned. Thomas Tyler, a manufac-
turer of toys, occupies a house on the banks of the canal, and
about two o'clock on the morning was awoke from his sleep
by hearing the loud cries of a female apparently in distress. He
instanttly got out of bed, and went towards the canal, from
whence the cries proceeded. As he was approaching he heard
the deceased, who he observed on the surface of the water,
exclaim, " Come Jcm I come Jem !" and " Oh, my father !"
and then sunk. He went for the drags, and succeeded, with
assistance, in getting the body out of the water in about
twenty minutes from the time he had first seen her. One of
the jury here remarked it as somewhat singular that the de-
ceased had marked on her arm in Indian ink the name of
Thomas Tyler, which was also the nanie of the witness. In
consequence of this singular coincidence the jurors examined
the witness at considerable length. He said that he had a
sun of
i the same name with himself, and that a female resem-
bling n appearance that of the deceased, used unfrequently to
call on him, and he believed that there was some intimacy be-
tween them. On the night in question his son went to bed at
ten o'clock, and did not get up before seven next morning.
Thomas Tyler, the son of the first witness, had been acquainted
with the deceased, who was an unfortunate girl, for about
eighteen months, and used frequently to call upon her at her
lodgings in Friendly: place, Finsbury. She used frequently
tonall upon him at his father's to see and take him out with
her, as she appeared very much attached to him. He was not
aware that she had his name dotted on her arm in full, and
thought it was merely his initials. The jury returned a ver-
dict of " Temporary Derangement."

PRICES OF STOCKS THR
Bank Stock 2234 3
-Cer Red. 90X J 9.0%9

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New 5 per Cent.
India Stock shut
Ditto Bon
South Sea Stock :
Old Annuities
New Ditto
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1151 —
Exch. Bills, .£ I ,000 37 511 pres.
Ditto 500 37 58 orn
Ditto Small 2, 37 E 6 pm.
Ditto Commercial.... - Pm.
Ditto Advertised — MTh
Bank Stock for Account
India Stock for Account
Consols far Opening 92 T 4 T

3 per . Jilt. _ _... ...... .
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3t per Cent 99th
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New IS% per Cent,
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Jan. 3, 1860 l7 1-16
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!Brazilian Bonds
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Buenos Ayres Bonds
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Milian Bonds
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Columbian Bonds.
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Columbian Bends, 1821
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Danish Bonds
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Greek Bonds
Ditto Bonds, 1925
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Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent —l
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Dittn, 6 per cent.
DWI Account
Neapolitan

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Paid. Per Share.
Bolanos Mining Company l3O 130
British Iron Company
Real del Monte Mining Co., Registered all. 104. H.
Ditto Unregistered
Canada Company

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Portuguese Bonds
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. Ditto New Bends g15%7±18,i
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Prussian Bonds

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Russian Bonds, 1522
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Spanish Bonds 5144% 5%
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French, 5 per cent . 105 f. 75e.
----- 4 per cent. 2sf. 40c
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Exchange f. —c.
Dutch, 13.. i per cent 53% 4 3%
Ditto Account 53 43%
Ditto, 5 per cent 99%
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PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC 2.
3 per Cent. Consols 89% Grand Canal Deb.. 6 per cent. 112
Ditto Reduced B3li Ditto, 4 per cent 63
3!L per Cent. Stock 98% Hibernian Bank
Ditto New, 1830 IA% City of Dublin Steam Co. 99
314 per Cent. Debentures 9.'14 National Insurance Company _SRN
Bank Stock 2.26,4, City Debentures, 4 per cent... MA
Royal Canal Stock
Grand Canal Stock 2414 per cent. 92 4