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EVENING, APRIL 10, 1851.

THURSDAY

dry chlorine did not bleach, whilst the damp gas in-
stantly removed the colour, the decomposition of water
supplying the oxygen gas.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the Howe of Commons.)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9.
SMITHFIELD ENLARGEMENT BILL.
Order for Second Reading read ; Motion made, and Ques-
tion proposed, " That the Bill be now read a second time :"
Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and
at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day
six months." Question put, "That the word now stand
part of the question." The House divided :

MINORITY—AYES, 121.
Arkwright, George Forester, G. C. Morris, David
Baird, J Jules Fox, It. M. Mullings, J. R.
Bankes, George Frewen, C. H. Newport, Viscount
Barnard, E. G. Gailwey, Sir W. P. Noel, Gerald J.
Barrow, W. 11. Gibson, T. M. O'Brien, Sir Lucius
Beresford, William Gilpin, R. T. O'Flaherty, Anthony
Blackstone, W. Gooch, E. S. Osborne, Ralph
Blair, Stephen Goold, Wyndham Packe, C. W.
Blake, M. J. Raiford, Sir.llenry Palmer, Robert
Blandon', Marquis Halsey, T. P. Pechell. Sir G.
Bolder°, George H. Hamilton, G. A. Reid, Colonel
Brooke, Sir A. B. Bostic, Alexander Renton, John C.
Bramston, T. W. Henley, J. W. Reynolds, John
Brocklehurst, John llervey, Lord A. Rice, E. R.
Buller, Sir Y. Hildyard, T. B. T. Richards, Richard
Banbury, W. Hindley.Charles Rushout, Captain
Burghley, Lord Hornby, John Scott, Francis
Burroughes, H. N. Iludson, George Seymer, 11. K.
Chaplin, W. J. Hume, J. Sidney, Aidernaan
Chatterton, Colonel Humpliery, Ald. - Smollett, A.
Cobbold, J. C. Inglis, Si lt. Stafford, Augustus
Cocks, T. S. Jermyn, Earl Stanley, Edward
Coles, IL B. Johnstone, Sir J. Stanley, E. 11.
Copeland, Ald. Jolliffe, Sir W. 11. s.eplienson, Robert
Cubitt, William Jones, Captain Thornhill, George
Currie, 11. King, B. J. Tyler, Sir G.
Davies, D. A. Knightley, Sir C. • Vesey, Thomas
Deedes, W. Knox, Colonel Vyse, R. H•
D'Eyncourt, C. T. Lacy, H. C. Waddington,:David
Duncan, Lord Lennox, Lord A. Waddington, H. S.
Duncombe, T. Lennox, Lord G. 11. Wakley, Thomas
Duncombe, A. Locke, Joseph Wall, C. B.
Duncombe, 0. Lockhart, A. E. Walinsley, Sir J.
Dundas, George Lockhart, W. Williams, John
Dunne, Colonel Lygon, General Williams, W.
Du Pre, C. George Mackenzie, W. F. Willoughby, Sir 11.
Edwards, Henry Mackie, John Wortley, J. S.
Evans, Sir De Lacy Macaghten, Sir E. Wynn, 11. W.
Evans, John M'Gregor, John
Evelyn, William J. Nagar, W. H. TELLERS.
Farnham, E. B. Maher, N. Duke, Sir James
Filmer, Sir E. Maunsell, T. P. Masterman, J.
Forbes, William Meux, Sir Henry -

MAJORITY—NOES, 246.
Floyer, John Norreys, Lord
Foley, J. 11. Norreys, Sir D.
Fordyce, A. D. O'Brien, J.
Forster, Matthew O'Connell, John
Fortescue. Chichester O'Connell, M. J.
Fortescue, J. W. Ogle, S. C.
Fox, W. J. Ord, W.
Freestun, Colonel Ossulston, Lord
Fuller, A. E. Oswald, Alexander
Glyn, G. C. Owen, Sir John
Goddard, A. L. Paget, Lord A.
Grattan, Henry Paget, Lord Clarence
Greene, John Pakington, lift John
Greene, Thomas Parker, John
Grenfell, C. Pascoe Perfect, R.
Greaten, Charles W. Peto, Samuel
Grey, Sir G. Pilkington, James
Grey, Ralph W. Plumptre, J. P.
Grosvenor, Lord R. ronsouby. C. I.
Guest, Sir John Portal, Melville
Gwyn, Howel Power, Dr.
Hall, iir B. Price, Sir Robert
Hallyburton, Lord Pugh, David
Hamner, Sir J. Rawdon, Colonel
Harcourt. G. G. Ricardo, Osman
Hardcastle, J. A. Rich, Henry
Harris, Captain Hominy, Colonel
Harris, Richard Eomllly, Sir John
Ilatchell, John Russell, Lord J.
Hawes, Benj. Russell, E.
Hayter, W. G. SalweY,Colonel
Heald, James Saudars, George
Heathcoat, John Sandars, Joseph
Henry, Alexander Seymour, H. D.
Herbert, Sidney Seymour, Lord
Haywood, James Shafto, R. D.
Heyworth, Lawrence Sibthorp, Colonel
Higgins, G. G. Simeon, John
Hildyard, R. C. Smith, J. A.
Hill, Lord E. . Smith, John B.
Hill, Lord M. Smyth, John George
Hobhouse, T. B. Somerset, Captain
Hodgson, W. N. Somerville, Sir W.
Hollond, Robert Spearman, H. J.
Hope, Henry T. Stanford, J. F.
Hope, Alexander Stanley, W.O.
Horsman, Edward Stanton, W. S.
Howard, E. G. Strickland, Sir G.
Howard, P. IL Stuart, Lord J.
Hutchins, E. J. Stuart, 11.
Hutt, William Stuart, John
Jocelyn, Viscount Sutton, J. H.
Kershaw, James Tancred, IL W.
Knox, W. S. Tenison, E, K.
Labouchere, Henry Thicknesse, R. A.
Langston, J. H. Thompson, Colonel
Lascelles, W. S. Thornely, Thomas
Lawless, Cecil Tollemache, John
Legh, G. C. Towneley, John
Lennard, T. B. Townsheud, Captain
Lewis, G. C. Traill, George
Long, W. Trevor, G. R.
Lopes, Sir Ralph Tafnell, IL
Mackinnon, W. A. Verner, Sir W.
M'Neill, Duncan Verney, Sir H.
31`Taggart, SlrJ. Vivian, J. H.
Mahon, Viscount Walpole, Spencer
Mandeville, Viscount Walter, /.
Marsh.ll, J. G. Wawn, J. T.
Matheson, sir J. Wegg-Prosser, F.
Matheson, Colonel Welby, G. E.
Maule, Fox Wigram, L. T.
Melgund, Viscount Wilcox, Brodie
Miles, William Wilson, James
Monsen, William Wilson, Matthew
Moody, C. A. Wodehouse, E.
Morison, Sir W. Wood, Sir Charles{
Mostyn, E. Wood, W. P.
Mowatt, Francis Wyvill, M.
Mulgrave, Earl Yorke; E. T.
Mundy, William TELLER&
Naas, Lord Christopher, R. A.
Napier, Joseph Fitzroy, Henry

Aeland, Sir T. D.
Adair, Hugh E.
Adair, R. Shaft°
Aglionby,
Anstey, T. C.
Armstrong, Sir A.
Arundel, Earl of
Ashley, Lord
Bagge, W.
Bagshaw, John

Baithe, 11. J.
Baines, M. T.

Baldocii, E. 11.
Baring, Sir F.

Barrington, Viscount
Bass, M. T.
Bell, Jacob
Bellew, R. M.
Benbow., John
Berkeley, Admiral
Berkeley, Henry F.
Berkeley, C. L.
Bernal, Ralph
Birch, Sir T.
Bowles, Admiral
Boyle, Colone,

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Brisco, 31.
Brockman, E. D.
Brotherton, Joseph
Brown, W.

Bruce, C. L. C.
Buck, L.IW.
Banbury, E. 11.

Burrell, Sir C.

Cabbell, B. B.

Campbell, W. F.
Cardwell, Edward
Carew, W. P.
Carter, J. B.
Caulfeild, J. M.
Cavendish, C. C.
Cavendish, G.H.
Charteris, Francis
Childers, T. W.
Clay, James
Clay, Sir W. '
Clerk, Sir G.

Clifford, H. M.
Clive, H. B.
Cochrane, A. D.
Cockbura, Sir A.
Gke, Edward K.
Colebrooke, Sir T.
Colvile, C. B.
Compton, 11. C.
Corbally, M. E.
Cowan, Charles;
Cowper, W. F.
Craig, Sir W. G.
Dalrymple, Captain
Darner, Colonel
Dawson, T. V.
Denison, J. E.
Dick, Quintin

Divett, E.
Douglas, Sir C.
Drummond, Home
Drummond, Henry
Duckworth, Sir J.
Duncan, George
Duncuft, John

Dundaa, Sir D.
Ellice, Edward
Ellice,"E., jun.
Ellis, John
Elliot, John E.
Emlyn, Viscount
Evans, William
Ewart, William
Fellowes, E.
Ferguson, Colonel
Fitzpatrick, J. W.
Fitzwilliam, G. W.

SMITHFIELD MARKET REMOVAL BILL.
Order for Second Reading read; Motion made and Ques-
tion put, " That the Bill be now read a second time." The
House divided :

MAJORITY-AYES, 230.
Evans, William Morison, Sir W.
E wart, William Mostyu, E. M. L.
Fellowes, Edward Mowatt, Francis
Fitzroy, lion. H. Mulgrave, Earl
Fitzwilliam, G. W. Mundy, William
Floycr, John Mure, Colonel
Foley, J. 11. Napier Joseph
Fordyce, A. D. Norreys, Lord
Forster, M. O'Connell, M. J.
Fox, W. J. Ossulton, Lord
Freestun, Colonel Oswald, A.
Fuller, A. E. Peelle, C. W.
Gilpin, Colonel Pakington Sir J.
Glyn, G. C. Parker, John
Goddard, A. L. Perfect, Robert
Gordon, Admiral Pete', Samuel
Greenall, G. Pilkington, Jamea
Greene, John Plumptre, J. P.
Greene, Thomas Portal, Melville
Grenfell, C. Pascoe Power, Dr.
Grey, Sir George Price, Sir R.
Guest, Sir John Pugh, David
Hall, Sir 11. Rawdon, Colonel
Hall, Colonel Ricardo, Osman
Hallyburton, Lord Rich, Henry
Hanmer, Sir Joha Robartes, T. J. A.
Hardeastle, J.:A. Romilly, Colonel
Marris, Captain Romilly, Sir J.
Harris, Richard Rushout, Captain
Hawes, B. Russell, Lord John
Heald, James Russell, Edward S.
Heathcoat, John Russell, F. C.
Henry, Alexander Salwey, Colonel
Herbert, Sidney Sanders, G.
Ileywood, James Seynaer, li. K.
Heyworth, L. Seymour, H. I).
Higgins, George Seymour, Lord
Hildyard, It. C. Slaney, R."A.
Hill, Lord E. Smith, John Abel
Hill, Lord Marcus Smith, J. B.
Hindley, Charles Smyth, J. G.
Ilobhouse, T. B. Somerset, Captain
Hodgson, W. N. Somerville, Sir W.
Holland, Robert Sotheron, T. 11. S.
Hope, A. Spearman, li. J.
Iloward,lE. 0. • Stanford, J. F.
Howard, P. H. Stanley, E. H.
Mitchell, John Stanley, W. 0.
Hutt, William Stanton, W. H.
Jermyn, Earl ' Strickland, Sir G.
Labouchere, Henry Stuart, Lord J.
Lacy, 11, C. . Stuart, 11.
Langston, J. H. Tancred, 11. W.
Lascellee, W. S. Tenison, Edward K.
Lawless, Cecil Thicknesse R. A.
Legh, G. C. Thompson, Colonel
Leonard, T. B. Thornely, T.
Lennox, Lora A. Tollemache, John
Lewis, G. C. Tutisell, Henry
Lindsay, Colonel Tyler, Sir G.
Lockhart, A. E. Vane, Lord H.
Long, W. Verner, Sir, W.
Lopes, Sir Ralph Verney Sir IL
Mackie, John Vivian, J. H.
Mackinnon, W. Walpole, S. U
M'Neill, Duncan Wawn, J. T.
Mahon, Viscount Welby, G. E.
Mandeville, Viscount Willcox, Brodie
Marshall, J. 0. Wilson, Matthew
Marshall, W.. • • Wodehouse,Edmund
Matheson, Sir J. Wood, Sir Charles
Matheson, Colonel Wood, W. P.
Maule, Fox Wyvill, Marmadttke
Melguncl, Viscount Young, Sir John
Miles, William TELLERS.
Moffatt, George
Monsell, William Grey, H. W.
Moody, C. A. Hayter, W. G.

Acland, Sir T.
Adair, Hugh E.

Adair, R. A.
Aglionby, H. A.
Ansley, Thomas
Arbuthnott, lion. H.
Armstrong, Sir A.
Arundel, Earl of
Ashley, Lord
Bagge, William
Baines, M. T.
Baillia, H. J.

Baldock, E. 11.

Baring, Sir F. T.
Barnard, E.G.

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Barrington, Viscount
Bass, M. T.
Bell, Jacob •
Bellew, R. M.
Berkeley, 11. F.
Berkeley, C. L. G.
Bernal, Ralph
Birch, Sir T.

Blair, Stephen
Blandford, Marquis
Booker, T. W.
Bowles, Admiral
Boyle, Colonel

Brilm;ton, T. W.
Brisco, ➢i.
Brockman, E. D.
Brotherton, J.

Bruce, C. L. C.

Bunbury, E.
Burrell, Sir.C.

. .
Burroughes, H. isr.
Cabbell, B. B.

Campbell, W. F.
Cardwell, Edward
Carew, W. 11. P.
Carter, J. B.

Cavendish, C. C.
Cavendish, G. 11.
Chart eris. Francis
Christopher, R.

Clay, Jame!,

Clay, Sir W.

Clerk Sir G.

Clive, 11. B.
Cockburn, Sir A.
Cocks, T. S.
Coke, Hon. E. K.
Colebrooke, Sir T.
Colvile, C. K.
Corbally, M. E.
Cowan, Charles
Cowper, W. F.
Craig, Sir W. G.
Dalrymple, Captain
Darner, Colonel
Davies, D. A. S.
Dawson, T. V.

Benison,' J. E.
Divett, Edward
Douglas, Sir C.
Drummond, henry
Drummond, horns
Duckworth, Sir J.
Duncan, George
Duncuft, John
Dundas, Sir David
Edwards, Henry
Egerton, Sir P.
Egerton, W. T.
Ellice, Edward
Ellice, E., Jun.
Ellis, John
Elliot, John

MINORITY—NOES, 65.
Arkwright, George Filmer, Sir E. Muntz, G. F.
Baird. James Forbes, William O'Brien Sir Lucius
Barrow, W. 11. Gallwey, Sir W. P. O'Connell, John
Blake, M. J. Gooch, E. S. O'Flaherty, Anthony
Boldero, Henry Halsey, T. P. Osborne, Ralph
Brecklehurst, J. Hamilton, G. A. Pechell, Sir G.
Banbury, William Hastie, Alexander Renton, J. C.
Burghley, Lord Henley, J. W. Reynolds, John
Chaplin, W. J. Hildyard, T. B. Richards, Richard
Chatterton, Colonel Hernby, John Scott, F.
Christy, Samuel Hudson, G. IS nsollett, A.
Coles, 11. IL Inglis,, Sir R. H. Stafford, Augustus
Copeland, Alderman Keogh, William Taylor, Thomas E.
Cubitt, William Knightley, Sir C. Vesey, Hon. T.
Devercux, J. T. Lennox, Lord 11. G. Waklcy, T.
Duke, Sir James Lockhart, W. Walrusley, Sir J.
Duncombe, T.; Mackenzie, W. F. Williams, John
Duncombe, A. Megan, W. H. Willoughby, Sir H.
Duncembe, 0. Maher, N. Wortley, J. S.
Dundas, Georgo Masterrnan, John
Du Pre, C. G. Mitchell, T. A. MIA'S.
1 Evans, Sir De Lacy Moore, George 11. Sidney, Alderman
1 Evelyn, W. J. Mullings, J. R. Hume, Joseph

BANK 01' ENGL4ND.--A Court of Proprietors
was held yesterday for the election of directors. The pro-
ceedings commenced at ten o'clock, and at four o'clock
the following gentleman were declared duly elected :—Thomas
Baring, Esq., Henry Wollaston Blake, Esq., Edward Henry
Chapman, Esq., Robert Wigram Crawford, Esq., William
Cotton, Esq., Benjamin Buck Greene, Esq., John Oliver
Hanson, Esq., John Benjamin Heath, Esq., h irkman Daniel
Hodgson, Esq., Henry Lancelot Holland, Esq., Thomas
Newman Hunt, Fsq., Charles Frederick Huth, Esq., Alfred
Latham, Esq., George Lyall, jun., Esq., Thomas Westerman,
Esq., Alexander Matheson, Esq., James Morris, Esq., George
Warde Norman, Esq., John Horsley Palmer, Req., Sir John
Henry Pelly, Bart., Henry James Prescott, Esq., Thomas
Charles Smith, Esq., Thomas Matthias Weguelin,
Francis Wilson, Esq.
TY POGRAPHICAL CUBIOSITY.—We have been shown
a very interesting specimen of typographical ingenuity—an
architectural elevation of the Free Church College on the
Mound, composed wholly of moveable types. The effect, at
a little distance, is that of a wood-cut or engraving, and,
considering the nature of the materials, is really wonderful.
The work, which is to be forwarded to the Great Exhibition,
is the production of Mr. R. Ramsey, a compositor in one of
the newspaper offices in town.—.EdinburglsCourant.

A well•known impostor, named Evan Griffin, Was
yesterday committed from the Maryieboue Police-court for
month for elmumuing Eta in the Amt.

THE QUARTERLIES.
THE ZOIST for April. No. XXXIII.
The present number of the Zoist contains two most
interesting cases of the cure of tetanus or lockjaw in
horses by means of mesmerism. These cases are so
important that we make no apology for giving them
entire. The cases are communicated by Dr. Elliot-
son. The first case is by Mr. H. S. Thompson, of
Fairfield, near York, the other is by Mr. South,
veterinary surgeon, New Bond-street.

MR. THOMPiON'S CASE.
" Understanding that a case of lock-jaw or tetanus in
a horse has been successfully treated by Mr. Amor, of
Bond-street, I have thought that an account of a case of
lock-jaw in a horse, treated by myself, several years
ago, and in which the animal recovered, may not be
altogether uninteresting.
"A valuable yearling colt was suddenly seized with
lock-jaw. As I was from home, staying at a friend's
house in the neighbourhood, my groom immediately
dispatched a messerger to inform me, and in the mean
time sent for a veterinary surgeon. I arrived a few
minutes after the veterinary surgeon, and asked him
what treatment he proposed. tie said bleeding, and, if
possible, giving calomel and opium: if he could nut get
anything down the throat, then to give it injections in
the first place of oil and opium. I next asked him if
he had seen many instances of tetanus. He answered
that he bad seen many. How many had he cured?'
None!!' I then told him, as that was the case, I should
prefer killing the colt my own way; and I immediately
set two men to work, one on each side, to rub the animal
from the head to the tail with a piece of flannel steeped
in oil, hartshorn, and camphorated spirits, and to make
the friction as light and as rapid as possible over the
animal. When the men were tired, I put two others to
take their places. I had the satisfaction in two hours of
finding the animal could turn his head slightly, and that
it could separate its teeth about half an inch. This
process was continued for several hours, and there was
a further improvement. I then ordered some sheep to
be brought up, and two to be killed every two or three
hours, and their warm skins to be wrapt round the
body and neck, and partially over the head. The colt
the next day could move about, bend his neck, and drink
freely. I continued this treatment for two days, i. e.,
friction and sheep skins, and at the end of a week a
slight stiffeess only in the limbs was observable; but the
eyes were still turned up and drawn inwards. The
friction was still persevered with for an hour or so each
t
day, and the animal kept warm. Te last thing hat
got quite right was the direction oft he eyes. It was
nearly five or six weeks before they looked quite natural.
The colt got perfectly well; I sold it for a good price,
and it won several races afterwards. Its name was
Cable, by Sheet Anchor. At the time I pursued this
treatment with the colt I was altogether ignorant of the
benefit of mesmeric manipulations, though I had been
long aware of the great use of friction and animal heat
in cases of strains, rheumatic affections, and swelling of
the joints and limbs.
"The first time that I witnessed the good effects of
animal heat in recent strains was when I was quartered
with my regiment in Ireland. A horse I was training
sprained the fetlock so severely that it could scarcely
put its foot to the ground, and the joint was much
swollen. I was recommended by an old man, who had
had great experience with horses, to apply a lamb skin
hot from an animal recently killed. The effect was al-
most immediate; the horse very soon appearing free
from pain: and with no other applications than fresh
skins, and light friction, it was soon quite sound again.
The application of a sheep akin, warm from the animal,
in cases of strains, or rheumatic affections of the loins
and back of a horse, is a very old and common remedy
with country farriers; and I know of none so efficacious.
The skin is generally left on until it becomes offensive:
but I am convinced, from experiments which I have wit-
nessed, that the application of fresh skins is far more
effective. Of the use of friction every horse owner is
aware. After severe work, or when the legs are at all
swollen, hand-rubbing is the usual and constant practice
of all good grooms; and I have often seen hard swel-
lings removed by the use only of constant friction with
the hand. 11. S. TllO/IPBON.

" Fairfield, near York, Feb. 28, 1851.
"EASE EY 74R. SOUTH.

" Sir,—l hope you will excuse the liberty I have
taken in writing to you respecting the case of tetanus
that you saw at my Infirmary. Should you, Sir, con-
sider this case worthy of forwarding to the Zoist I shall
be very happy. Your obedient servant,
"To Dr. Elliotson. G. SOUTH, V. S.

" On the 25th Dec., 1860, I was sent for' to see a
horse that was very ill, and on my arrival I found him
suffering with a general spastic rigidity of the muscles;
the jaws were completely closed. I had him removed
to my Infirmary with the intention of carrying out the
new views on the subject; and, if possible, to put him
into a comatose or sleepy state. Having had the oppor-
tunity of seeing the operation of mesmerism in the
human subject, and with a satisfactory result, I con-
cluded that some relief might be given to the horse; and,
with the kind assistance of Mr. Amor and a fried, we
commenced our operation at 5 o'clock P.m., and con-
tinued till 12 P.M., and durinc, the latter part of the time
he was sleepy, frequently nodding' his head, and nearly
falling. We made passes with contact from the back of
his head to his tail, and down his face.
"26th, 8A M. I recommenced my former treatment
with the assistance of Mr. Amor and my assistant; we
kept at him until 11 P.M. At 6P M. I was visited by
Dr. Ashburner and Mr. Amor, who kindly assisted in
the operation.
"27th. Treatment continued to 31st; water well MeS.

merised, and likewise gruel, were frequently offered, but
he was unable to partake of the slightest quantity.
" Jan. Ist. Treatment continued; and oefore leaving
him two quarts of water were strongly mesmerised, and
drunk by him.
" 2d. Treatment continued.
" 3d. Ditto, ditto; symptoms better; not so much
rigidity of the muscles or excitement; and with great
difficulty ho partook of a little hay. There wes thus
decided improvement on the 9th day; and from this
time he continued to mend.
" 4th. Symptoms better; treatment was persevered in.
and he steadily improved, so that on the 25th Feb.
sent him home perfectly well.
"*.„' Those who thought Miss Martineau mad for de-
claring she cured a cow may ponder on these two cases,
and begin to remember that cows, horses, and other
brutes, are, like us, flesh and blood, and brain and
nerves; and, like us, eat, drink, and feel, and walk, and
above all things take physic like ourselves with advan-
tage.—JOHN ELLIOTSOI
Dr. Elliotson might have added that in cases of
animals the opponents of mesmerism are precluded
from repeating the old exploded libels of collusion and
imposture, with which they were wont to greet both
mesmeriser and mesmerisee, when any mani-
festation of the curative powers of mes-
merism took place in the human subject.
They cannot treat these horses as they endeavoured
to treat poor James Wombwell, who had his leg am-
putated without feeling it whilst in a state of mes-
meric sleep, in 1842, and who has been the object of
the unceasing persecution of certain parties ever
since. They bave not scrupled to forge pretended con-
fessions in his name. The whole history of this dis-
graceful affair is given in the present number of the
Joist. Colonel Davidson contributes some interest-
ing illusttations of mesmerism in the native human and
brute inhabitants of India, attributing to the stare of
the tiger and of the serpent mesmeric effects by which
they produce coma in their victims before they seize
them ; and Sir Charles Isham relates some curious in-
stances of spectral, visual, and acoustic illusions. Mr.
Lloyd, of Naburn,near York, relates an interesting case
of tetanus in a youth successfully treated with mesme-
rism, from which it appears that this usually fatal
disease readily yielded to mesmeric treatment. Among
the curiosities of mesmerism may be mentioned the
report of Dr. Motherwell, of Melbourne, in Austra-
lia, of a clairvoyante who traced the whole course of
Sir John Franklin. The paper was communicated
to Dr. Ellietson, who transmitted it to the Zoist, with
a request that only a portion of it should be published
at present. The following is the report :
"Friday evening, Ist October, 1850.—A letter writ-
ten by Sir John Franklin, in 1838, was placed in the
hands of a clairvoyants by Dr. Motherwell. She said
that she saw the writer in Hobart Town, the place where
that letter was written; and upon being requested to
trace the writter from thence, she described with com-
plete accuracy several events in Sir John Franklin's life
in the Australian colonies, and ultimately followed him
to England. She then commenced following him upon
his expedition to the North Pole: and the following is
substantially and nearly verbatim the account which she
gave from time to time of the expedition :
" ' I see the vessel Sir John Franklin is in; there are
other vessels with him; they are all starting together.
I think there are three or four of them, and they are
sailing now : they ore passing land just now which is
very high. Shall I follow the vessel Sir J. F. is in,
because they are beginning to separate? (Told to fol-
low the vessel.) I see land now; it is very low, and
seems inhabited by natives who are quite astonished and
are running down to look. The vessels are beginning
to come near each other now, and I see floating in the
sea those large white cliffs; they are icebergs. . .
requestZ
forwartdhatht etwhehorleesMt
may
S.tontohte
beedipteurbsliostethdeaf otst
but
pre-
sent; for it by no means follows that, because those
parts of her enunciation which can be at present verified
are perfectly correct, the remainder must be equally so.
Indeed the case may be, in regard to what is known to
be correct, cerebral sympathy rather than clairvoyance.
The best clairvoyants wander egregiously, and the pre-
sent, however gifted, is no exception, because in one cir-
cumstance she is to a certainty incorrect. I believe in
clairvoyance; but I place implicit reliance in no clair-
voyant; and, as there is generally more error than accu-
racy in the whole clairvoyance of every person, however
minute and abundant the accuracy, I shall defer publi-
cation of the remainder till we have tidings of Sir John
Franklin and can verify her statements.—J. ELLIOTSON.%

EAST INDIA IlousE.—Yesterday a ballot was
taken at the East India house for the election of six directors,
i
in the room of Mr. IN lliain Butterworth Bayley, Mr. Rus-
sell Ellice, Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.13., Mr. Ross Donnelly
M es Mr. John Masterman, M.P., and Major John
Arthurangi A
MolOrle3: who go out by rotation. At six o'clock the
glasses were closed and delivered to the scrutineers, who re-
ported that the election had Callen on Mr. John Cotton, Mr.
John Loch, Mr. Charles Mill, Mr. Wm. Henry Chicheley
plowden, M.P., Mr. henry Shank, and Mr. Henry St. Geo.
Tucker. A Court of Directors was also heist at the East
India House, when the thanks of the Court were voted una-
nimously to Mr. John Shepherd (Chairman), and Sir James
Weir Hogg, M.P. (Deputy Chairman), for their great appli-
cation and attention to the affairs of the East India Com-
pany during the past year.
We are requested to contradict, on authority, the
statement that " the elder brother of the Bishop of Oxford
bad been received into the Church of Rome a few days
linCile".■••fferaidi

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.)

DUBLIN UNIVERSITY.
Four articles in the present number are devoted to the
review of works the recent publication of which has ex-
cited attention in the reading world. Of the graphic
volumes of the gallant Major Edwardes it is happily ob-
served, "All is written in a plain, unpretending, straight-
forward, military style; by no means deficient in either
elegance or force of diction, and perfectly intelligible in
every line. We are not mystified by affectation, or any
exuberant display of Eastern metaphor, phraseology, or
nomenclature; there is no studied exhibition of oriental
learning, to render a glossary indispensable at the end
of every sentence. We meet with no abuse of
any one, no undue assumption of exclusive per-
sonal superiority; but a disposition to do justice to all
parties concerned, in a simple narrative of events.
The author is evidently of a buoyant, happy, contented
temperament, and wishes to render his readers as happy
as himself. Young and successful, he looks on the
bright side of life's picture, and casts its shadows. All
this is wholesome and invigorating, and when we close
the volumes, so far from being wearied by their perusal,
we feel sorry they are not longer." The republication
of the works of the deathless Bunyan, the all but inspired
author of the most sublime mad beautiful allegory ever
penned by man, is admirably noticed; so are Lord Elks.
mere's edition of Amari's " History of the war of the Sioi-
hem Vespers," and "Roche's Vanities of Literature.''
On the latter, the delightful and rare work of the
Octogenarian of Cork, we could dwell at length with
pleasure, did our limits at present permit it.
Sir John Stevenson, whose name will go clown to
posterity linked with the great lyrist to whose
verso he wedded the exquisite strains of the
Green Isle, is commemorated in a well-penned memoir,
accompanied by a full-length etching of the friend and
coadjutor of Thomas Moore. " Maurice Tiernay" finds
himself unexpectedly transported to the banks of the
St. Lawrence.. " A Yarn about our Forefathers" opens
a most amusin history of a family resident in " the
good old times" in the western city of Skibbereen, la
superba; and in " Leaves from the Portfolio of a
Manager," we have a delightful gossip on the dramatic
productions of Joanna Baillio. Jonathan Freke Slingsby
is glorious this month, in his version of the " Hymn of
St. Patrick," " The Lover's Complaint," " Love in
Reality," and "The Bachelor's Memories"—the last an
exquisite! ballad. In the third mentioned of these lays
occurs the following enigmatic: clue to the name of the
bard's " Fayre Ladye," and although he states that—
" Not one in a thousand that try will make out of it
The name of the maid most beloved of his heart,"
we commit it to the investigation and ingenuity of our
readers. He thus propoundeth:—
" And now to conclude with a stiffish conundrum—
A part of the stern of a boat o'er the wave,
Seven haiels whose barren twigs cast no fruit under 'em,
Is the name of the fair one who holds me a slave."