The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The signature of Lord Roden might almost
save any one the trouble of reading a long docu-
ment to which it has lately been affixed, and
which is now published under the title of an
" Appeal of the Protestants of Ireland to their
brethren, the Protestants of England and Wales."
Although the purpose of an " appeal" ought to
be stated as distinctly, one would suppose, as the
prayer of a petition, it is with some difficulty we
have gathered, after a second perusal of the pro-
lix composition to which the name of " Ro-
den" has been subscribed, what it is that the
parties to the memorial pray for ; and indeed,
after all, the boon Mr which they supplicate is
rather loosely expressed, though we must ac-
knowledge it to be a pretty large one—" Our
liberties, our lives, our homes, and our altars
are endangered : we know we shall not appeal
to our English brethren in vain, to stand up
with us in their defence." There follows
thereon a deal of boasting about " loyalty,"
and " attachment to the British Constitu-
tion ;" meaning thereby, as the old oath of a
certain illegal association used to imply, that
loyalty to the King and attachment to the Con-
stitution are incumbent upon Irish Orangemen
just so long as, and no longer than, both shall
remain subservient to " Protestant ascendancy."
This belligerent paper hits right and left ; it at-
tacks sucessively the Catholic Bishops, dema-
gogues, peasants,—then falls foul of the new plan
for popular education,—the Irish Reform Bill,—
the grant to Maynooth College,—the opening of
the close corporations ; but chiefly, and above
all, the existing Ministry. Taking it, then, as a
whole, we can collect nothing practical from this
church-militant manifesto, but that it calls upon
the English " brethren" of the loyal men of
Ireland, to do neither more nor less than, first,
overthrow the present Government root and
branch—and next (being on velvet with a Tory
Administration), set every Popish priest, and
demagogue, and peasant, and Protestant Refor-
mer into the bargain—a goodly company—adrift
upon the Atlantic Ocean in some stormy night.
The naive expression that the politics of
Orangemen " are founded upon their religion,"
contains a notorious truth : their religion is a
religion of loaves and fishes, and between it and
their politics there is no doubt a bitter confor-
mity. At the same time let it not be supposed
that any friends of Reform in Church or State
ran look without deep regret and commiseration
at the sufferings of many virtuous clergymen in
the south of Ireland, reduced, with their fami-
lies, to absolute want, by the inveterate repug-
nance of the Catholics to pay the tithe which
the law allows them. We consider such unfortu-
nate gentlemen entitled to relief in their necessi-
ties, it being obvious that they have become
the victims of a legislation to which they were
not parties,—that the rights with which the
existing law has invested them, and on the faith
of which they embraced the profession of clergy-
men, are such as cannot now be enforced. As
for the tithe—once more we affirm it to be un-
tenable. Tithe-committees are sitting at this
moment, and close spectators are not over-
satisfied with circumstances which meet their oh.
nervation. We hope no rider will be clapped
upon the Tithe Reform. The Irish Chancellor,
with what truth we know not, is accused of
hating issued a (political)injunction, and stopped
the proceedings which the King's Ministers here
had commenced ; but the Learned Lord must
surely understand the real wants of Ireland, and
love the Established Church too well, to ag-
gravate, with his eyes open, the dangers of both
Church and State, by intercepting a great mea-
sure of just conciliation.—Times.
The conduct of Austria with regard to the
Italian Legations is consistent with the whole
course of its policy from the first revolution of
France to the present time ; but the conduct of
the French Government is unprincipled in the
extreme. Here we see a Government founded
the other day upon a popular revolution, pro-
claiming in the earlier period of its existence the
principle of non-intervention to all Europe as
the polar star of its policy—then, upon the first
violation of that general principle by an Austrian
invasion of the independent States of Italy, de-
nying the prohibitive words by which it had
pretended to guard against foreign aggression,
the principle which it had laid down for its own
guidance—next, upon another quarrel between
the Pope and his Italian subjects, and another
irruption of Austrian troops to settle the affairs
of Italy, the French Government throw off the
assumed policy of non-intervention as a worn-
out mask—offer their armed interposition in
favour of the holy tyrant, who sheds the blood
of his Catholic subjects because they ask for
their political rights—and Austrian and French
bayonets gleam together in portentous alliance
on the soil of ancient freedom, protecting
the Papal brigands in their work of out-
rage, slaughter, and devastation. It is some
time since we first stated that Casimir Perier
acted more like the French Minister of
the Holy Alliance than a Minister of regene-
rated France. The progress of time developes
more and more the progress of his policy to-
wards the full adoption of the despotic principles
of that iniquitous confederacy against the rights
of nations, that, while it exists, will never let
Europe have peace, unless the peace that the
slave has, who struggles not against his masters
chains. It was thus that the Spanish Inquisi-
tion, which also assumed the name of the
" Holy Office," exercised forbearance, when its
jaded racks, its flames, and tortures, had si-
lenced all freedom of opinion in the sleep of
death. One of our Paris correspondents had
yesterday the following observations, which are
deserving of particular attention, when the pro-
tocol farce is succeeded by the new political di-
vertissement of " Approaching Ratification."—
He says " what becomes of the principle of
non-intervention :2 It has been erased alto-
gether from our diplomatic code, and we have
replaced it by a totally opposite principle, for
we have despatched a detachment of troops to
Civita Vecchia, with the view of re-esta-
blishing the authority of his Holiness the
Pope. We have tendered the aid of our
army to the Pontiff of Rome ; we are abetting
and assisting in the invasion of the confines
of Ancona ; and those very soldiers, who have
so often made the echoes of the Italian Penin-
sula resound with the sacred name of Liberty,
must now, forsooth, move in the escort of the
Legate of the Holy See, and afford protection
to the tribunals of the Inquisition. Our pro-
wess,
then, it will be evident, is pretty regular.
‘Ve first of all declare against intervention in the
case of Belgium ; but- we were then weak, and
still no intervention occurred. In the next place
sve proclaim that we shall not consent to any
intervention in Italian affairs. We were then
supposed to be less feeble, and yet no interven-
tion took place. Thirdly, we are now powerful
—at least we are told so, and our modesty makes
us believe it then, we lend ourselves to a

second intervention. So much for our foreign
policy, in the consideration of which I have not
included any reference to that question respecting
principles which, unfortunately, were discussed
in Poland with the effusion of blood—again in
Germany, where liberty had made so many con-
verts—and finally on the soil of Italy." De-
voted Italy ! when will the beautiful land of
arts and civilization—the nurse of freedom,
and the mother of glorious • men—cease- to
he torn by the vultures of rapacious and
sanguinary ambition ? But we are not surprised
that the foreign policy of the French Govern-
ment should disclose the same hatred of the prin-
ciples from which it derived its existence that
has distinguished its policy at home. The surest
indication of a Government bad at the core, and
conscious of evil intentions, is act attempt to
crush all freedom of opinion by the persecution
of the Press. Since the establishment of the
throne of Louis Philippe upon the smouldering
ashes of that revolution which consumed the
despotic power of his predecessor, there have
been nearly four hundred Government prosecu-
tions against newspapers in Paris, besides seizures
of papers, and arrests of journalists. But from
the time of the accession of Casimir Perier's
Ministry the persecution of the journalists has
been especially sy,tematic and unrele►►ting. The
nocturnal depredator abhors the watchman's
torch, and l►e who is about to steal from a
people their liberties does well to extinguish the
light of the Press. Since Casimir Perier lends
the troops of France to set up the power of the
Pope, cannot he borrow in return, from his
Holiness, the Inquisition, to assist him in the
utter destruction of the great engine of public
opinion ?—Morning Herald.

The Reform Bill being so far advanced in the
House of Commons, and approaching the Peers,
the people become naturally extremely alarmed
and anxious that the means which can alone
secure the efficient amendment of the represen-
tation, and obtain any future beneficial results,
should be promptly and fully adopted. All our
accounts from the country and the columns of
the provincial press state, that the most lively
apprehension and solicitude exist throughout the
nation, on the subject of the early and sufficient
exercise of the Royal prerogative. With sincere
gratification we believe we may confidently
assure our readers that the Bill will be carried in
the Upper House, and that at the fitting time
his Majesty's Ministers are prepared to ensure
its certain success. Moreover, that they will be
duped by no cajolery or artifice of moderate Re-
formers, but boldly and fearlessly use their own
power, and the prerogatives which the British
Constitution has wisely entrusted to the Sove-
reign for great political emergencies. The time
of exercise of this power is of course a matter of
critical judgment; and reasons may, and we be-
lieve do exist, of an important and unquestion-
able nature, not communicable to the public,
which wisely influence the Cabinet in deciding
the period of action. We believe, that if all the
circumstances attending the different negotiations
between the Ministry and the " Moderate"
party of the Tories were made known (and Ke
judge from the representations of the Anti-Re-
formers), that the integrity of Lord Grey would
be displayed in a most honourable light. No
compromise has been sought by Lord Grey, nor
has he ever assented to discount one fraction of the
essentials of the Reform measure. The Prime
Minister of Great Britain, who has thus mag-
nanimously acted, under the most trying and dif-
ficult circumstances, could not, therefore, expose
a nation to revolution and social anarchy by failing
in nerve to exercise power cheerfully and resolutely
given to him by a patriotic Monarch. If Lord
Grey had lacked the foresight or resolution on the
subject of the prerogative, his name would have
been consigned to the scorn and execration
which no language could pourtray. The doubts
and anxiety of the Reformers will be allayed,
and in the meanwhile we trust that they will
give credit to the Government for prudential
reasons in not having earlier resorted to the
prerogative, and in delaying a declaration of the
Ministerial intentions on this all-important sub-
ject. As the close of the political existence of
the boroughmongers approaches, the public must
be prepared to witness the frantic and dying ago-
nies of the last moments of corruption. A band
of hack placemen and political dependants will
be extinguished, and one hundred present Mem-
bers of the House of Commons will politically
expire with the present session. Such a cala-
mity naturally drives them to despair, and the
prayers of Sir Robert Peel will in vain invoke
the ancient household gods of St. Stephen's to
save them. We shall hear of impeachments,
and other shrieks of desperation, but we repeat
that their cause is now utterly hopeless. Their
devices and " quibbles" will no longer avail ;
govern who may hereafter, they will never go-
vern more. The Duke of Wellington is re-
ported to have refused all the intreaties of the
" moderate" party to consent to allow the se-
cond reading of the Bill, and he threatens that
in the event of its success he shall secede from
the Legislature with a chosen band of followers !
So grievous a resolve will, doubtless, fill the
whole nation with dismay, and we shall soon
see whether the British Parliament will be thus
purified. Of a copious addition to it we are
confident ; and such a voluntary subtraction
from the House of Lords may thus prevent any
ultimate increase of its numbers.—Morning
Chronicle.

The magistrates of Ireland, in refusing to pay
the fees on the renewal of their commissions,
have no doubt exposed the country to serious
inconvenience. But much benefit will result
from the attention which has thereby been drawn
to a system which is a disgrace to the nation.
The amount of money levied in this country, in
the shape of fees of various kinds, payable to
men who perlorm no equivalent services, is
enormous. Offices have been multiplied merely
to create incomes for a host of useless indivi-
duals. Why should any fees be paid by any
public servant ? A magistrate, whether unpaid
or stipendiary, performs services to the public ;
and he ought not to be called on to pay one
farthing to enable him to act. What an incon-
sistency it is to pay a stipendiary magistrate,
and to demand fees from him at the same tune !
The public servants ought to be paid according.
to the nature of their services. Services of
some sort are required for the renewal of com-
missions, and the functionaries who perform
these services should be rewarded accordingly at
the public expence. The services for which fees
are demanded are, however, in general so
trifling, that all who receive fees may be de-
scribed, without much impropriety, as sinecurists.
Last night Lord Wicklow put some questions
to Lord Plunkett on the subject of the fees de-
manded in Ireland, which were objected to as
illegal, and different from the fees paid in Eno.-
land. As far as we can understand the answer
of Lord Plunkett, he did not say that it was
proper that fees to the amount complained of

should be. demanded from magistrates,. but the
i►npolicy of the law under which they were ex-
, acted was chargeable on the late Government.
" The Act of the Ist of William IV., under
which the fees were demanded, was a measure
of the late Administration." However, it seems
the Lords of the Treasury, ashamed of the
matter, issued a minute, dated the 31st of
January last, directing that the fees should only
be paid as remuneration for labour actually done,
and he should direct in future that no more
should be demanded than an adequate remune-
ration for the time and labour necessary for the
preparation and issuing of the warrants. Lord
Plunkett was quite indignant that it should have
been given out—
" That he bad countenanced the exaction of those fees,
only because his rel (tion was his Secretary. Such an in-
sinuation was wholly inconsistent with his character..._
(Hear.) It had been said, he understood, that he allowed
his Secretary only 5001. a year, and the Noble Lord to
whom that question was attributed was also reported to
have said, that he could not tell what the Lord Chan-
cellor of Ireland did with the rest.' Now he (Lord
Plunkett) could not believe that the Noble Lord, if he
made such an observation, meant to insinuate any thing
discreditable to him.—( Hear.) When Sir Anthony Hart
was Lord Chancellor of Ireland, he had for his Secretary
a gentleman named Long. On his (Lord Plunkett's) ap-
pointment to succeed Sir Anthony Hart, he gave the
office of Secretary to Mr. M'Casky, a gentleman of high
respectability, well fitted to discharge the duties of it.—.
But in consequence of the representations which were
made to him by a gentleman of the Chancery Bar, re-
specting the satisfaction which Mr. Long gave (luring his
Secretaryship, he directed Mr. M'Casky to request that
gentleman to give his assistance in the office, and to pay
him out of the fees a salary of 5001. a year; afterwards,
as Mr. Long had been Secretary before, be thought it
would be kinder towards him to make him Joint Secretary
with Mr. M'Casky than to employ him on the footing of a
clerk in the office.--( Hear.) But as to the insinuation
which had been made respecting the manner in which the
surplus of the fees above Mr. Long's salary of 5001.
a year was disposed of, he would not -condescend to contra.
dict it. He did not think it necssary for him to disclaim
having any share in the fees of the officers under him.—
(Hear.) "
This statement puts us in mind of a passage
in Mr. Galt's new novel of The Member.
When Archibald Jobbry, Esq. M.P. had ob-
tained for his relation, James Gled, the office of
distributor of stamps in a Scotch county, which
he discovered to be worth 1,0001. a year, he de-
termined to make the most of it :
" When I came to consider," he save. " that the place
I bad gotten for my relation, James Gled, was so very
lucrative, I really felt as if I had committed a mistake, and
was very angry with myself; but, on reflecting a little
more upon the subject, I saw that it might be turned to
peat public, good : for inasmuch as the places and posts
of Government belong to those Members and others that
get nothing else for their service% in support of Govern-
ment, a judicious man will husband his share of them, so
as to make the distribution go as far as possible. Accord-
ingly, I will show that 2501. a year would have been a
most liberal god-send to James. I thought that if it
were three, it would he a great thing, and that there would
be 7001. over tai apply to other public purposes. I there-
fore wrote to him, and said that I had got the place fur
him, but that his salary was to he 300/. a year, the re-
mainder being subject to another disposal.
" In due course of post I received a most thankful letter
for my beneficence, agreeing most willingly to be content
with his share of the allowed emoluments. When I got
this letter, and got Janus established in his place, I then
bethought me of the most judicious appropriation that
could be made of the surplus ; and thereanent 1 called to
mind a son that I had in the natural way, that was in the
army. To him I portioned out 300/. per annum, for lie
had been a very heavy cess en me, notwithstanding he was
serving his King and country ; and this, it will be allowed,
was as correct a doing as any arrangement of the kind ;
far more so than that of those who have large pensions
themselves, from which they make allowances to their
sons, although these sons be of the patriots that make
speeches to mobs and multitudes, declaring themselves as
pure men, unsullied by any aliment drawn from the people ;
what is, in a sense, no doubt the fact ; for their allow-
ances are from their fathers.

" Having given the three hundred to Captain Jubbry,
I then thought of old Mrs. Ilayning, my stint, who was
the widow of the Minister of Dargobble, and had
nothing but her widow's fund to live upon. So I
gave her one hundred pounds. . . • .
The remaining three hundred I stipulated with James
Gled should be laid aside in the Bank, year by year, to
be a fund from which I should, from time to time, con-
tribute to public subscriptions; and few things in my life
have I been more satisfied with; for so long as James
Gled lived, it will be seen by the newspapers what a
liberal subscriber I was thereby enabled to be to public
chlrities, by which I obtained great rule and power in
them; and m.ny a poor man's child and orphan likewise
have I been the means of getting well educited. Indeed I
take some blame to myself that I did not more rigidly en-
force the same principle of distribution in the salaries of
all the posts that I got at different times for my kindred
and constituents."

It is very well to make the most of the fees,
in the way of diffusing happiness ; but it must
not be forgotten that lees are taxes on the public,
or rather on that unfortunate portion of the
public, the suitors in our Courts.—What an
Augean stable remains to be cleared out !
Morning Ch ro nide.

WEATHER IN THE HIGHLANDS.—A union
seems to have taken place between our winter and
spring—the latter, at least, appears to hive fairly ap-
proached us, and winter to have already withdrawn the
last of his forces. Such fine mild weather at the present
season has been rarely witnessed in the North. Flowers
are springing in the garden, birds are singing in the fields,
and even on the bleak and rugged sides of Loch Ness, the
birch and larch trees are putting forth bud and blossom.
So favourable a winter has hi en a blessed boon to the
sheep-farmer. From all our pastoral districts we have
the most cheering accounts ; the clip of wool will be most
abundant ; the losses never were so small, or the sheep in
a finer condition.—lnverness Courier.

SUICIDE AT THE GOLDEN CROSS.—On the
night of the 4th inst. a gentleman of respectable appear-
ance arrived by the Birmingham coach, and took up his
abode at the Golden Cross Inn, at Charing-cross. Being
a total stranger he paid his bill every day. On Friday
morning, however, ss. 6d. was unpaid, and as he was
going out, the waiter told him it was the custom to pay
every thing before strangers left the house. The gentle-
man said he was short of cash, and left a paper bundle as
security. He returned at night, and on Saturday morning,
not making his appearance at the usual time, his room was
entered, and he was found lying in bed, quite dead. Three
empty phials were on the table, which had cont Lined three
ounces of laudanum. From papers found in his clothes,
it appeared that the deceased was an agent to the pro.
prietors of the projected rail-road in America, and had
been sent to this country upon business connected with
the intended scheme. There was a paper with the name
of " ANDaEws" on it ; and in the parcel which he had
left as security, there was only a dirty shirt and a necker-
chief. An inquiry will be set on foot in Birmingham and
Manchester respecting him.

An investigation has occupied the attention
of the Magistrates of Hinry-street office yesterday and the
day before. A Clergyman of the Established Church, a
married man, anti principal of a school, was charged by
Mr. D. RONA yNE, on the part of Mr. WA r.sx, of Marlbo-
' rough street, glover, under the lAlowingeireurnstances:—
It appears that on Sunday, between one and two, when
Mr. and Mts. WALSH were absent st Divine Service, he
called at their house, and having been shown into the
drawing room, the semant, a young girl, not above fifteen
years of age, and whose personal attractions were by no
means exciting, was called to hint ; he first said he wanted
a 'llk of gloves, but on her replying that her mister never
sold gloves on Sunday, he procee led to take liberties with
her, saying, " Come here, my good girl, until I see are you
fit to be married." The arrival of Mrs.WAt.sit prevented
further progress. Si shocked was this lady at wh it she
witnessed, that she exclaimed, " Oh, AIA KC A ART, Who is
that ruffianof ?
'' The girl, having been sworn, described
the nature
the assault. Mrs. ItVat.stt was likewise sworn,
and described the part she had witnessed of the disgraceful
scene ; and the Magistrates, seeing fully the extent of the
offence, have botin,l the girl to prosecute at the next
Commission. A gentleman who, we believe, attended
professionally on the part of the Rev. Gentleman, became
security for his fort hcorning, Freeman's Journal.

APPEARANCE OF THE MALIGNANT
CHOLERA IN LONDON.

MEETING OF MEDICAL MEN.

The official accounts of the appearance of the
malignant cholera in this metropolis, which were
made known yesterday, has, as might have been
expected, created as strong an impression amongst
the medical men in London, as the public generally,
and the most careful attention is being directed by
practitioners to the subject. An opportunity oc-
curred last night of a general conference at the
London Medical Society which meets in Bolt-court,
Fleet-street, and in consequence an unusually large
assemblage of medical gentlemen was collected, in
the hope of hearing some authentic accounts of the
cases. The meeting included fifty of the most ex-
perienced and practical men in the profession, and
amongst them almost every medical man who had
attended the cases either before or after death which
have as yet occurred in the metropolis and its neigh-
bourhood. The subject was introduced by
Mr. HOOPER, surgeon, residing in the London-
road, who had attended one of the cases, which he
related. The patient was a back-maker (a kind of
cooper), Florence Sullivan, residing at No. 1, Mint-
street, Southwark, his age 62, reputed to be before
the attack a strong healthy man, very temperate, in
the employ of Mr. Young. He was perfectly well
on the night of the 7th instant, ate a sprat supper,
and went to bed. Soon after twelve o'clock he was
suddenly seized with a purging, and got out of bed
to relieve himself. Ten minutes after he was again
compelled to quit his bed, and in a short time vo-
miting came on, with dreadful cramps in the calves
of the legs, arms, hands, and muscles of the abdo-
men. He did not apply for medical advice until
twelve o'clock the next day, when Mr. Evans, the
surgeon, saw him, and he was then in a state of
excessive exhaustion ; no pulse at the wrist could he
felt, the extremities were cold, a clammy perspira-
tion bedewed the whole body, and the whole of the
appearances of a patient in the blue or intense stage
of the malignant cholera were present. The alvine
evacuations were not at this time of course very co-
pious, as they had so long existed, but they were
whey-like, and a little tinged with blood. The
vomiting had ceased some hours. The sti-
mulating remedies usually resorted to were tried,
and a little heat was restored, but not perma-
nently, and at seven o'clock the same evening (the
Bth) he died. The post modem examination took '
place in twenty hours. The abdomen was very
tense. Internally, the stomach, small intestines,
omentum, and peritoneum, were in a highly con-
gested state. In the stomach was half a pint of
fluid like coffee-grounds. Its mucous membrane
was dark and pulpy, and towards its pyloric extre-
mity there were some black patches. The ilium
was congested, and contracted in some parts, having
throughout the appearance of a piece of red velvet.
The liver was healthy ; the branches of the vena
cava were congested, but the vena porta was empty.
The gall-bladder full of bile and distended ; its
ducts contracted. The bladder was contracted;
only a tea-spoonful of fluid in it. The heart was
flaccid, but the right side was filled with fluid black
blood. The lungs were excessively congested, and
upon being cut the air-cells were found filled with
fserum mixed with air. There was no abscess, nor
were there any tubercles ; the right pleura pulmo-
nalis was adherent to the pleura costalis. In all
other respects the body was stated to be healthy, or
the appearances were of inferior note. The more
important and debateable points came immediately
under consideration.

Mr. HOOPER stated, that some gentleman who
had attended from the Board of Health said that
the case was not one of cholera, because the abdo-
men was tense and the lungs were congested.
however, it was decided in the society, was a very
incorrect decision.

Dr. WHITING saw this patient, and his evidence
on the present occasion, as well indeed as that of
all the gentlemen similarly situated, was interesting
and important, as conveying the impressions of a
medical man who now saw this disease for the first
time. " This is, I think," he observed, "a highly
important case; I never saw such a one before,
either corresponding in the symptoms or as regards
the appearances of the body. They were most re-
markable. At first I concluded that there were two
diseases, one in the lungs, and another in the bowels;
and my feeling was, that it was not a case of cholera,
but something far less important. But I have since
seen two other cases, the symptoms of which were
in every material respect analogous to this, and it is
now beyond all doubt that the whole were cases of
malignant cholera. The disease is, therefore, un-
doubtedly in London, and as undoubtedly will
spread. The peculiarities in the case were, a great
degree of blueness over the surface of the skin, more
especially of the arms and legs—a colour like that
of lead, or darker, more purple, and a countenance
indicative of the most excessive anxiety. I inquired
if the man felt acute pain ? He said he did not, but
rather great uneasiness over the whole body, more
especially over the chest. The breathing was three
times as rapid as usual, the pulse not to be felt.
On the examination after death, two things were
remarkable--the red, or, as it has been termed,'
the congested appearance of the bowels, and the state
of the lungs. From the latter I thought the disease
in the lungs was peripneumony, for I never saw
congestion in the lungs present the same remark-
able appearance. When they were cut into, the
gash was completely filled with frothy matter. My
impression accordingly was, that it was a combined
case of inflammation of the substance of the lungs
arid of the mucous membrane of the bowels. (The
appearance which Dr. Whiting believed to be the
results of acute inflammation were, if the matter be'
not further disputed, which it hardly can be, the
congestion of blood, which must be regarded as es•
sential consequences of the malignant cholera.) I
will take the opportunity of mentioning the other
cases which I saw. The first was that of a woman,
who was perfectly well yesterday (Sunday) morn-
ing. She went to the New-cut, Lambeth, before
breakfast, and there drank some port or elder wine,
and came home perfectly well ; but before she could
take her breakfast, she felt indisposed, and was in-
duced to obtain medical advice. The gentleman
who saw her thought it was only a common affec-
tion of the bowels, and merely sent her some chalk
mixture and opium. But violent purging and vo-
miting soon came on, and excessive prostration fol-
lowed, coldness of the surface, loss of pulse, and
sunken countenance ; the tongue white and
clammy, the fluid ejected like whey; and in fifteen
hours from the attack she was a corpse. The other
was that of a boy who was found ill (in the Borough,
we believe) in the morning, when his mother
arose, with vomiting and purging, and the same
prostration, entire coldness of the extremities, and
low pulse speedily followed, and the boy died. The
post mortenz appearances in the woman were very
different from those in Sullivan. There was merely
a light blueness on the mucous membrance of the
bowels. Indeed, Dr. Hodgkin, of Guy's Hospital,
the morbid anatomist, said, that in nny other case
he should passed over this as an appearance of no
possible moment. The lungs were turgid with
blood; there was no frothy mucus as in the man's
case. The ►arge vessels of the heart were loaded
with blood. The contents of the bowels were modi-
fied by what she had taken. A mustard emetic was
given her, but she did not eject it again. (Tais
circumstance is a very important one, and is men-
tioned presently by Mr. allaway. Mustard eme-
tics have been very strongly recommended in the
north of England ) She had discharged the whey-
like fluid (a decided characteristic of the cholera).
The gall bladder had bile in it ; but was not re-
markably distended.

Mr. EVANS attended Sullivan, and corroboratcd
Mr. Hooper's account. The only notice of the cir-
culation of the blood (he said) was from a slight
quivering of the heart on placing the ear over it.
The appearance of the nails was very peculiar :
they were quite shrunk, and like those of a child,
and the skin of the fingers was excessively shrivelled.
lie had never before seen such a ca=e. H, was

decidedly of opinion that the appearances in the
lungs and intestines were those of congestion, and
not of inflammation. The matter ejected from the
bowels was like boiled gruel, a branny ricey fluid.
(It was subsequently stated, that although the lungs
did not indicate any pulmonary disease, yet the man
had had symptoms of it, and some previous affection
of the bowels, but certainly not sufficient disease
there to refute the opinion that the appearances
now were those of congestion.) The treatment
employed was, the vapour bath ; one grain of ex-
tract of opium and two grains of calomel every half-
hour, with spirits of ammonia and camphor mixture
every quarter of an hour; hot blankets were also
used. The fluid in the stomach was discoloured by
port wine given the patient.
The question was here asked whether the blood
was dark and pitchy, as it is reported to be in cases
of malignant cholera. Dr. Whiting said it wa,
black and venous, though he thought not pitchy in
either case, but that some clots of blood were dis-
coverable in the vessels. But Mr. Evans had no-
ticed considerable pitchiness, and Mr. Hooper said
that the blood in the right side of the heart was
fluid, but black and tenacious ; some of which got
on his pencil while taking notes at the examination,
agglutinated it firmly to his finger. Mr. J. S.
Smith said it was dark-coloured, but not thick.
(This seems not to have been a very carefully no-
ticed circumstance.)
Dr. GILCHRIST had been to Sullivan's house, and
since seen the bodies of three persons who had
died of the cholera at Limehouse, and one who died
to-day at Rotherhithe. En all of the cases, the
principal symptoms precisely corresponded with
those of cholera patients at Sunderland, Russia, and
the rest of Europe. There was a peat want of
precaution in the cases, for the body of one patient
had remained ever since in the room in which the
whole of his family was living. No other person,
however, in the house had yet taken the disease.
Mr. MILLARD, Demonstrator at the Webb-street
School, had made the examination of Sullivan's body
with Mr. Pitcher, and pointed attention to those
things which had more particularly excited his atten-
tion. These, no doubt, will be carefully given in
one of the medical journals. He considered them as
especial pathological signs of the malignant cholera.
The colour of the intestines, to his view, was not of
a bright red,; but a livid leaden red. The blood
in the lungs was certainly venous and grumous, and
wanting in decarbonization, and pitchy, as if lumps
of pitch existed in a pitch of a fluid consistence. Ili
other parts it was venous, but not in all of them
pitchy. One peculiarity was, that on rubbing
.some
of it in his hand, it speedily became red. He had
seen two or three more cases that evening (Monday)
in Dean-street, Borough, all of them cholera, he
thought, more or less modified, under the care of
Mr. Clarke.

The evidence of all the medical gentlemen who
had seen the cases was now uiven, that the internal
appearances were those of congestion.
Dr. JAMES JOHNSON thought it beyond all doubt
that these were cages of malignant cholera, however
modified or graduated, and that it had existed for at
least two months in London. He cautioned the pro-
fession against expecting always to find pitchy blood.
He wished to know what steps had been taken to
trace the origin of the disease in London.
Mr. EVANS and Dr. GILCIIRIST stated, that after
the most careful inquiry, not the least trace of con.
tagion had yet been detected.
Mr. EVANS, another medical gentleman, who had
attended numerous cholera cases at Warsaw, was
asked what medical men might regard as an indu-
bitable sign of cholera; and he replied, the appear-
ances in the tongue of a cold, death like, pearly feel.
This to him would be an invariable test. As to its
treatment, he had had the disease himself in War-
saw, after much exposure to wet and cold, and he
took 10 grains of calomel every twelve hours, and
got well : that was the principal treatment. He
took the disease in a hotel where it had before been,
and although afterwards for many hours a day in
cholera wards, he did not catch it again. Bleeding
ought to be tried wherever it was possible. In Ber-
lin he had seen large doses of belladonna and nitrate
of bismuth tried.

Mr. CALLAWAY, of Guy's Hospital, spoke of other
proofs of the cholera; the marble, icy hand, more
cold than that of a corpse; the cadaverousness of
the countenance, which once seen could never be
forgotten ; the eyes sunk and lost in their orbits.—
What would restore the circulation ? When brandy
and opium was given in the London cases, he found
an effort of the blood to move made. As for bleed-
ing, it would have been madness to attempt it in
the case of the woman, for scarcely a vein could be
seen in the whole of her suddenly shrunken body.
He had never before seen such prostration. He
cautioned practitioners against expecting blueness.
He could not himself see it in this woman, though
in fact they had washed her hands to discover it.—
Others thought it was perceptible.
A gentleman stated he had that evening left a
fresh case in Lambeth-butts. This patient was gone
to the workhouse, for at home he had not fire, or
bed, or the common necessaries of life.

Dr. WHITING now adverted to the important effect
of the mustard emetic given to the woman. It had
a very bad effect in this case, and he was sure
hastened her death. Indeed, he thought she would
have died under it. Two or three tea•spoonsful of
mustard were given in water. She did not vomit
it, and perhaps this (prevented probably by opium
previously given, which had occasioned torpidity of
the stomach) was the cause of its bad effect.
Dr. JAmEs JOHNSON said that any rate his first
step would be to give an emetic; whether of mustard
(a tea-spoonful in half a tumbler of water) or some
other substance. Perhaps sulphate of zinc would
be the best. All that he had heard went to prove its
value and the possibility of procuring blood after
vomiting; though if emetics did not produce vomit-
ing no doubt they would be prejudicial.
Much of the debate of course we cannot detail,
but the above are the topics which occupied etten
tion. The disease, it was suggested, was taking a
straight line, beginning at Limehouse, thence to
Rotherhithe, the Mint, and Lambeth. Hints of se-
veral other cases were given. The meeting broke
up at ten o'clock. Dr. Burne was in the chair.
There is no want of care and research into the disease
on the part of the medical men in the metropolis;
but the deep distress in which they find the patients,
all of them hitherto temperate people, is in every
respect harassing, and entirely subversive of the
very cherishing treatment whieh this awful disease
requires before it can be effectually combated.

We are confidently told that the Generalship
of Marines, vacated by the decease of Admiral Sir RICHARD
BICKERTON, will not be filled up. We rejoice to bee our
navy rewarded, but sinecures must be abolished.—Hamp.
shire Telegraph.

A MARRIAGE CASE.—For some time past,
an old soldier, who enjoys a comfortable pension, after the
fatigues and dangers of many a hard fought field, made suit
to a young woman belonging to New Lanark, whose con-
sent he at length obtained, after a good deal of ma-
nceoyring (for love, we believe, was out of the question.)
During the siege, some how or other, the veteran's time-
piece had come into the lady's possession, which she re-
tuned in spite of all remonstrances, prob.bly as a make-
believe that it was to count the tardy moments, as they
crept slowly by ; but, in reality, as an indemnification for
the crying-Biller, which was to come out of her pocket;
for he, poor soul ! had presented all his to the eternally
craving Bacchus. True to her plighted vow, she parted
with the " one pound one," and the parish clerk executed
his put of the business upon Sunday last; but, on Mon-
day, the day for attestation, the hero, conceiving that he
had not been fairly enlisted, promptly and peremptorily
refused to take the oath. The bride, however, nothing
daunted, refused to surrender the watch, which she con-
ceived to be justly her due, for her lost guinea, the expense
of a new gown, trills, lace, gloves, and all the other para-
phernalia attendant upon such occasions. Possession i,
at all times the best part of the law; therefore, when Ce
case was brought before the Court, their honours, much to
the lady's satisfaction, amerced the faithless and ungallant
soldier, in his watch, as smart money, for the unhandsome
manner in which he had treated so generous a lover.—
Gklegoiv Free Press.

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