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LAW INTELLIGENCE —This Day•

A Political "Biffin."

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:sittings in Nisi Prius, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn
and a Special Jury.)
HUNTER V. SHARP -LIBEL.

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The hearing of this case was resumed this morning, and
the following evidence in addition to that of the plaintiff,
which was concluded yesterday, was adduced.
Dr. Paterson said he resided in Cavendish-road, St.
John's-wood, and he had consulting rooms in Welbeck-
street, and his only medical qualification was his diploma
from the College of Physicians, in New York, and ho
had seen the diploma of Dr. Hunter. _

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Evidence was then given of the absence of a gentleman
named Leo Contorso being absent from the country, and
whose testimony was considered to be material.
Dr. Henry Melville mid he was a physician, and had
taken his degree at Edinburgh. He knew Dr. Hunter at
New York in 1853. Dr. Hunter's practice as consulting
physician in pulmonary diseases was SL) large that he had
employed himself and otlker medical men to as;;Lit
Ile remained with Dr. Hunter until 1854, when ho went to
Canada. He renewed his acquaintance with Dr. Hunter
in this country in 1864, and again assisted him in his prac-
tice. He was intimately acquainted with Dr. Hunter's
theory, and wrote the preface for the fifth edition of his
work. The medicines were the same as were found in
the ordinary pharmacopeia used by medical students, and
consisted of stimulants, sedatives, and alteratives.
The Lord Chief Justice —This was a new theory, and
the question is whether this ingredient could be introduced
through the throat into the system of the patient by ordi-
nary men from the instructions in Dr. Hunter's book ?
Witness—His experience for 12 years showed him that
an ordinary practitioner could apply the ingredient with-
out difficulty by inhalation. The theory of inhalation was
not a novel one, and was known to Hippocrates and Galen,
and practised by some eminent physicians of modern times.
The book of Dr. Hunter was quite intelligible to medical
practitioners, but perhaps, if he had written for medical
men only, he might have introduced this formula. The
book was intended as a popular exposition, and he consi-
dered that its principal merit was its being efficiently
systematised, as regarded the mode of inhalation, which
was a very delicate operation.
The Lord Chief Justice said that what ho wanted to
know was whether Dr. Hunter's book contained such in-
structions as would enable the ordinary practitioner to
treat a patient, according to the system of Dr. Hunter ?
Witness—He should certainly say so. Some medicines
could be more easily volatilised than others. Dr. Hunter's
theory was based on the practice of inhalation, as adopted
by some of the most eminent physicians. Dr. Hunter
hada large practice in this country, and he was very suc-
cessful.
The Lord Chia Justice—Was the success on the part of

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the physician or the patient? (Laughter.)
Witness—Certainly, the patient himself. He gene-
rally saw the patient, and when that could not be done he
and Dr. Hunter acted on the best information they could
obtain, and sometimes they acted on the diagnosis of tho
disease as supplied by the patient himself. That was in
conformity with the practice of the profession. The medi-
cines he used were furnished by Corbyn, were of the best
quality, and contained no ingredient that was not used by
the profession generally.
The case was proceeding when we went to press.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.---This Day.'

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

STRIPPING CHILDREN.— T WO girls named Emma Richard-
son and Caroline Foster, were charged before Mr. Tyr-
whitt with stealing several articles of wearing apparel
from two children named Clutterbuck, residing in Upper
Rathbone-place.
Mr. Robert Silman, of No. 43, Foley-street, said that
about four o'clock yesterday evening he was passing by
the Middlesex Hospital when he heard some children
down a mews crying. On going down the mews to
ascertain the cause, the prisoner Foster ran away from the
children, leaving Richardson putting the children's clothes
in order. Richardson said that Foster had been attempt-
ing to rob the children, and that she was going to take
the children home. He told Richardson to stop with the
children while he went after Foster and she promised to
do so, but on his return with Foster she was gone.
Mrs. Emma Clutterbuck identified several articles of
clothing as those the children had on when they left home,
and one of the children had told her that on 3 of the girls
wanted to get her frock off ; but on telling her that her
mother would beat her if she went home without it, and
beginning to cry the girl desisted.
Mr. Silman said the children had been promised some
sweetmeats by the prisoners.
A constable of the E division said that when Foster was
brought to the station she gave the address of Richardson,
and on going to Stroud's Vale, King's-cross, and taking
Richardson into custody, she said that it was not her who
stripped the children, but Foster.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remarked in remanding the prisoner that
it was a shame two little children could not be in the
streets without being robbed by two girls like the prisoners.

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'EIIAAIES.

The Scotsman of Monday contains the following
extraordinary comment upon the preference shown
by the electors of Wexford for Mr. Kavanagh, for
whose sake Mr. Pope Hennessy was (to very gene-
ral regret) rejected. The House is certainly begin-
ning to number up its curiosities. It now com-
prises among its members an Albino of rhre genius,
both as an orator and as a statesman A Blind
philosopher (one physically blind, that is) in the
person of Professor Fawcett ! [Pity it could not
include a few Dumb members by way of variety !]
And now—to judge from this distressing article
copied by us from the Scotsman, it adds to the
number of its curiosities one only describable with
anything like terseness and accuracy as a Political
" Biffin "

The return of an armies 3 and legless man as ti►e
Parliamentary representative of one of the greatest Irish
counties is an event worthy of more note than has been
bestowed upon it, both for what it is in itself and fur what
it indicates or symbolises. It is a childish and unseemly
procedure, on the part both of electors and elected ; and,
in its political as well as its personal aspect, it is ono among
several recent proofs of the hopelessness of tryingto under-
stand Irish politics, or rather Irish politicians, with their
incongruous mixture of fury and frivolity. With a differ-
ence there is much teaching to the same purpose in the
spectacle of Belfast, the most prosperous and progressive
town in Ireland, returning a representative without name,
services, or any other recommendation than being dull and
obstinate in the bigotries and feuds of 150 years ago, and
returning such a representative under the pressure, not of
purblind aristocracy, but of a democracy more fierce as
well as more foolish by far than was ever swayed by an
English demagogue. _

Why ,was Mr. Kavanagh " triumphantly returned" for
the county of Wexford ? Not on account of .his opinions,
but rather in spite of his opinions. Even if his opinions
had not been notoriously different from those of the mass
of the constituency, the other candidate was of the same
opinions, and could utter his opinions with excessive ease,
while Mr. Kavanagh could not utter them at all—besides
which it cannot be doubted that the county contains other
men of the same mind and of less painfully incomplete
body. Not on account of his assumable fitness or effec-
tiveness—for he is fit only for one function of a member of
Parliament, and is less fit oven for that than any other
man. He could not appear to speak even at the election ; the
rules and customs of the House of Commons will have to
be suspended to enable him even to listen ; and, in order to
enable him to vote, devices hitherto employed only
in rare and extreme cases will have to be employed
on his behalf in every division. It is then on
account neither of his principles, nor of his powers
of giving his principles effect; that this gentleman
has been returned to Parliament on the coritrary, his
principles are unpopular, and he is impotent to promote
them. What, then, is the grand counteracting weight ? what
was the claim which he put forward and the electors ac-
knowledged ? Simply that he was without arms and legs.
That is the simple fact, and it is a very discreditable fact.
He claimed and was chosen on account of his defects—
calamity was treated as merit, and peculiar unfitness as a
recommendation. Such a procedure is discreditable to the
taste and the sense both of him who asked and those who
gave. Mr. Kavanagh's strange and dreadful bodily de-
fects entitle him to the sympathy of his less unfortunate fel-
low-creatures ; and it is pleasing as well as curious to hear
of the success of his efforts to some extent to overcome
his misfortunes, and render his private life tolerable or
even agreeable to himself. To scorn or ridicule a man
thus struggling with such a position would be not only
senseless and cruel, but brutal. But there is a vast dif-
ference between giving to the victim of such afflictions
the sympathy which is his due, and giving him honour
and reward—reward which he cannot earn, and honour
which ho cannot worthily wear. Mr. Kavanagh as a pri-
vate gentleman, claiming the sympathy and goodwill of
his friends and neighbours, is in quite a different position
from Mr. Kavanagh as a public man claiming the admira-
tion of Courts and Parliaments. As a private man, labour-
ing under terrible physical defects, Mr. Kavanagh cannot
help himself, and so cannot be blamed—but when he goes
to care and cost in order To exhibit himself on the most
public platform the country affords, then, if he does not
turn his misfortunes into faults, ho does something to for-
feit sympathy and provoke criticism. It may seem a harsh
thing to say—but is itnot a plain fact ?—that the character
in which he goes to Parliament is that of a curiosity. It
was bad taste in him to seek such a position—it was both
a frivolity and a cruelty in the constituency to give it
him.

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