The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-24 00:00:00

THE WAR IN PARAGUAY.

Some apparently trustworthy intelligence has arrived
at Liverpool from the River Plate. Lopez is collecting
arms and men, and seems bent upon prolonging the contest.
But many of the families who were.ordered to follow him
to the mountains have escaped and returned to Asuncion.
Here things are beginning to look orderly. The Brazilian
and Argentine representatives charged with the formation
of a provisional Government have succeededin preventing
anarchy, if nothing more. The town is quiet, and
property of every description is respected. There have
brim no further war operations, but the Allies are
" advancing."

There was a Liberal demonstration at VICIMIM
on Wednesday, to celebrate tho return of the Liberal
members at the la-Mt election, and the defeat of the
petition which was presented against their election. The
festivities c ,mmenced with a banquet in the afternoon, fol-
lowed by a soiree and public meeting at night.
It iv stated that the Bishop of Down, " who has
alone among the Irish prelates proved himself capable of
taking a dispassionate view of the question which is at
present engrossing the attention of Parliament and the
country," will be nominated President of the Commission in
which the property of the Irish Church is to be temporarily
vested.

SINGULAR CASE OF TRANCE.—Another interest-
ing case of Trance, in which a girl has lived for six
months, and is still living, without food (and which is
somewhat analogous to the case reported from Wales),
has occurred at Ulverston. It is now occupying the at-
tention of the medical men in the district. A girl named
Addison, eleven years of age, was in October last re-
moved to the Old Hall Farm, the property of Mr. A.
Brogden, M.P., for change of air, and almost imme-
diately she lapsed into a state of lethargy, being totally
unconscious of everything passing around her. In this
condition she remained until January, her parents
occasionally moistening her lips with a little tea or wine
and water. She then regained consciousness for a few
days, and was able to converse. She spoke of the hap-
piness she had lately experienced, and of interviews she
had had with friends in heaven. Upon relapsing into the
unconscious state in which she now lies, her features
assumed an ecstatic expression; and, strange as it may
appear, that portion of the head which Dr. Gall assigns
as the organ of veneration has retained a perceptible
degree of warmth, whilst the rest of the head, as
well as the body, has been perfectly cold. The
features are immobile, the eyelids alone shewing
a reflex action when touched. All the limbs are
rigid, and the only sign of life exhibited for the long
months has
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medicalod men who have visited the case consider
it more interesting than any of the numerous similar ones
related in Dr. Forbes IVinslow's work on " The Obscure
Diseases of the Mind and Brain." Dr. Barber, who is
contributing a paper on the case to the Cumberland
branch of the British Medical Association, holds the
theory that the lethargic condition of the child is due to
non-elimination of the urea. She is gradually becoming
-ttiiire and more emaciated, and appears to be ra 'di
y a
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