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LAW INTELLIGENCE,—This Day.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the Lord Chief Justice and a
Special Jury.)
HUNTER Y. SHARPE.

This protracted case was again resumed this morning.
Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., Mr. Sergeant Parry, and Mr. H.
Williams, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Karslake,
Q.C., Mr. Quoin, Q.C., and Mr. Stephens, for the defendant.
Dr. Markham, the first witness called, was examined by
Mr. Stephens. He said he was a Fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians, a member of the Royal Surgical and
Pathological Society, physician of St.. Mary's Hospital,
and he was also the author of different medical works. Ho
had read Dr. Hunter's work on the theory and treatment
of consumption ; and with respect to the former, as to the
disease being caused by carbon in the lungs and tubercles,
by difficulty of respiration, he agreed with Dr. Williams
and Dr. Bennett as to the fallacy of that doctrine.
Carbon was no more a constituent of a tuberele than
of any of the animal tissues, in which it was
found, in some of which it existed in large quantities.
He ridiculed the idea that tubercles could be
decomposed by the introduction of oxygen into the lungs.
In fact the immediate acticin of oxygen could no more take
place on the lungs than thatl'of the oxygen in the atmo-
sphere could act on ono of the fitagers, except through the
agency of fire. It was well known to the profession that,
in cases in which there were extensive deposits of carbon
in the lungs there wore no tubercles, and where the depo-
sits were extremely small tubercles were found.
The Lord Chief Justice—ls it not true that oxygen
mixes with and purifies the blood ?
Witness—There was no doubt about that ; but he re-
peated his statement respecting its immediate action on
the lungs. Dr. Hunter's book gave no specific information
whatever as to his mode of administering oxygen, and his
cases contained no records upon which a medical man
could rely, although a medical man might perhaps be able
to guess from the work what the author meant. He
could not clearly understand what Dr. Hunter meant
by his use, in a generic sense, of the term
alterative, when applied to specifics. As a medical
record he considoired Dr. Hunter's work quite valueless.
Unless he had some authentic literary record of cases he
could not adopt Dr. Hunter's views on this particular
point. As regarded the inhalation of stramonium and other
medical agents mentioned by Dr. Ranter, he believed, as in
the case of asthma; it would be beneficial. Referring to ho
gentleman examined on Wjdnesday as having been under
Dr. Hunter's care, those cases were not consumption, and
he had no doubt that any physician in London could pro-
duce similar instances iu which patients had received the
same relief. He believed that all physicians effected cures
(Laughter.) He expressed his conviction that it was only
by the expulsion of carbonic acid that consumption could
be cured. The witness then repeated in sub ,tance the
medical views and arguments of the previous witnesses
who had been examined on behalf of the defendant.
In cross-examination by Mr. Coleridge, he said that the
theory of Dr. Hunter amounted to nothing in a scientific
point. Every physician who practised would of necessity
have to make himself acquainted with consumption.
Dr. G. Johnson said that he was a Fellow of the Colle e
of Physicians and member of the University of London, and
author of various works on medical subjects. He consi-
dered generally that the theory of Dr. Hunter was opposed
to that developed by medical science in reference to con-
sumption. The assertion of Dr. Hunter that an effusion
of blood was not caused by a rupture of a blood vessel was
quite absurd. The blood vessels were not porous, and no
hemorrhage, even from the nose, could take place without
some artery being broken.
In cross-examination, by Mr. Coleridge, the witness said
this latter statement was not a matter of opinion, but of
unquestioned fact.
Dr. William Odling, Fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians and lecturer on chemistry at St. Bartholomew's
Hospital, gave similar evidence, and said that chloric acid
used by Dr. Hunter was not in the pharmacopeia, and was
chiefly for fireworks, being an explosive material. It
might, however, be weakened by water to any extent.

This closed the evidence.
Mr. Karslake then summed up the case for the defence.
Mr. Coleridge replied on the whole case, and at the con-
clusion of the learned counsel's address,
The Court adjourned until to-morrow.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

WANDERING ABOUT WITHOUT MEANS OF SUBSISTENCE.
—Henry Gubbles, a boy, was charged before Mr. Knox
with wandering abroad without proper guardianship, or
the visible moans of subsistence.

A constable proved seeing the boy about three o'clock
that morning in Castle-street, Oxford-street, following a
gentleman and begging ; and as the boy was shivering and
his teeth chattering ho took him to the station. no had
made inquiries respecting the boy, and found that he had a
mother living with a man, and that the mother paid very
little, if any, attention to the boy; and the poor little fel-
low told him that lie often slept in the passage, with the
front and back doors wide open all-night.
Mr. Knox asked the bpy whether that was true.
The boy said it was, and that hie mother lived with a
man.

Mr. Knox said he must do something for tho' poor boy,
who looked half starved.

The constable said the boy had a few common paper
flowers with him.

Mr. Knox said ho would rescue the boy, if he could,
from his misery.

A man (who said he was the boy's stepfather) said it wan
the boy's fault that he slept in the passage. The boy was
in the habit of going out and going to the play.
Mr. Knox asked the man whether the boy was in tho
habit of getting anything to eat; •
The man had the impudence to say that the boy had
plenty.

- The boy's mother, who had a pair of bad black oyes,
said the boy was itt the habit of going out to sell people
flowers, but she had not let him out for some time till
yesterday, owing to his not bringing 'home the money ho
got.

The boy said that was not true. Sometimes ho took
home as much as 3s.

The mother denied this, and said that she was willing
for the boy to go to a school, to save him from " badness."
Mr. Knox asked the man and the mother to look at the
boy, and tell him whether they considered he had "plenty
of food." The boy was,
in fact, half-starved. He believed
the boy was sent out for the purpose of getting money to
take home. The boy's appearance showed pretty well how
he was treated. The boy's appearance was truly miserable.
He would send the boy to school, and would not take the
trouble of asking his mother any questions. The boy
would go to Feltham for three years.
As he was leaving the court the boy thanked the
magistrate.

BANK OF FRAME-

,PARIS, Nov. 29

The following is the return of line Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, toge ther with the cor-
responding figures of the previous.- account

Nov. 22.
fr.
182,500,000

DEBTOR.
Nov. 29.
fr. c.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857)
Reserve of the Bank
and its branches
Reserve in landed pro-
perty
Notes in circulation
Banknotes to order and
receipts payable at
sight
Treasury account cur-
rent creditor
Current accounts, Paris 228,49(1,936; :i2 208,842,170 73
Do. branch banks
Dividends payable 837,121. 75 879,053 75
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last

7,044,776 02; 7,044,776 02

22,105,750 it 22,105,750 1,

4,000,000 4,000,000
973,213,71) - 961,517,875

six months
Surplus of receipts not

1;,211,912 D.l 18,998,03.1 28

2,372,304 91 2,372,301 91

distributed
Sundries

Total
CREDITOR.

Nov. 29. Nov. 22.
Cash in hand and in fr. c. fr. c.
Branch banks
Commercial bills over-
due
Commercial bills dis-

counted, not yet due 312,001,333 94 284,490,811 46
Do. branch banks 347,557,733 352,694,115
Advances on deposit of
bullion 32,572,700 70 30,582,300
Do. branch banks 9,465,456 9,946,400
Do. on French Public
Securities 14,166,900 13,990,700
Do. by branch banks 8,006,600 8,077,900
Do. on railway shares
. .

and debentures
D. branch banks 25,351,600 25,653,900
Do. on Credit Fonder
Bonds -
Do. branches
Do. to the State (Con-
vention, June 10, .
1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000
Government Stock re-
serve 12,980,750 11 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
Rentes Immobalisees

(Law, Juno 2, 1857) 109,000,000 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of
the Bank and landed
property branches 8,441,188 8,428,516
Expenses of manage-
ment 2,442,618 92 2,293,808 96
sundries

Total 1,685,284,643 71 1,649,881,281 03
Certified by the Senator-Governor of the Bank of France.
(Signed) ROLTI AND.

MARKETS. —This day.

MARK LANL.

The supply of English wheat on sale to-day was but
moderate. The trade was quiet, and sales progressed
slowly in all descriptions. Factors, however, refused to
accept less money.
The market was fairly supplied with foreign wheat.
Importers wore very firm in their demands, and prices were
maintained.

Floating cargoes of grain were in request at full cur•
rencies.

The supply of barley on sale was tolerably large. Fine
malting produce was firm at quite late rates. Medium and
inferior barley sold heavily at drooping currencies.
Malt changed hands to only a moderate extent at late
rates.

The oat trade was quiet at the rates current on Monday,
The market was moderately supplied.
Beans and peas ruled steady at full quotations.
There was a fair demand for flour at late rates.

SKIP ARRITALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch 850 1,560 3,070 70 2,570
Irish
Foreign 24,730 "3,120 21,680 24,040 sks.
1610 brls.