The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-06 00:00:00

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;This Day.)

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Ten ran.

IHPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—EThi Day.)

The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' Amendments to the Dorset Central Rail-
way, Rhymney Railway, and Watchet Harbour bills
were considered and agreed to.
EASTERN BENGAL RAILWAY BILL.
Mr. C. FORSTER, moved that the Eastern Bengal
Railway Company Bill be considered, and read the thiru
time forthwith ; prints of the bill having been deposited
with the do tkeeerrs xesterday.
SCINDE RAILWAY.
Mr. C. FORSTER moved, that the Scinde Railway
Company Bill be considered, and read the third time
forthwith ; prints of the bill having been deposited with
the doorkeepers yesterday.
NEW ZEALAND LOAN GUARANTEE BILL.
Th , adjourned debate upon the second reading of this
bil. was resumed by
Mr. HENLEY, who said that he should vote for the
second reading of the bill, but unless that portion of the
measure which authorised the application of the loan to
the purchase of the land of the natives was omitted when
the bill was in committee, he should feel it his duty
.to
vote against the third reading.
Sir J. GRAHAM thought the security ought to be
minutely examined on which this guarantee rested,
he objected general'y to the practice of granting loans to
colonies. He would therefore suggest to the Colonial
Secretary the adoption of the follo wing motto :—" No
lender be, for the lender loseth both his loan and friend,"
and provided this measure received the sanction of Par-
liament the Government wou!d have to bear the reapon-
sibility of passing it.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
colonies were .of the greatest advantage to the commerce
of the country, and in order to secure the prosperity and
good government of their colonies they gave them finan-
cial assi-tance, more particularly if they required it in
their earlier years. The present bill was founded upon
that principle, and. he th9ught the Government was per-
fectly justified in taking the steps they had. At the
same time .he must admit that the colonists of New
Zealand had no legal claim on the house; They merely
appealed to the generosity of the British Parliament
and, under all the circumstances, he thought the house
might give the appeal the most favourable answer.
Mr. ADDERLEY urged upon the house the necessity
of passing the bill, which was calculated to be of the
greatest service to the colony.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS and Mr. GILPIN opposed the bill.
Lord A. CHURCHILL said, from a personal visit to
New Zealand, he felt certain that the coloni-ts were
possessed of means fully ample to liquidate the loan.
[LEFT 'SITTING}

ACTION AGAINST A SURGEON FOR UN-
SKIFUL TR.BATMENT.-DAMAGES, 501.

At the Manchester City Court of Record, on
Monday and Tuesday, before Mr. Monk, Q.C.,
deputy-recorder, an altion was brought by Mary
M‘Gee, a reeler, now out of employment, to re-
cover 501. from Mr. Thomas Wilson Dyson, sur-
geon, of this city, as damages for negligent and
unskilful treatment of her broken arm, by means
of which treatment she had been totally deprived
of the use of her right hand.
Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Torr, and Mr. Cottingham
appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Ovens and Mr.
Leering for the defendant.
Mr. Wheeler having opened the case, the plain-
tiff, Mary M`Gee, stated that, on the 17th of
February, 1855, about ten o'clock in the forenoon,
she was walking on the flags in front of the Royal
Infirmary. The snow was on the ground, and the
pathway was very slippery. Having slipped her
foot, she fell, and broke the radius bone of her
right arm. She was taken into the infirmary,
where the bone was set and the arm bandaged, and
splints put on. She then went home, and after-
wards sent for Mr. Dyson, the defendant, who
arrived about six o'clock the same evening. He
unbanda,,e•ed the arm and examined it, and then
replaced the bandages and splints, saying it was
perfectly right. Here,arm felt bandaged tighter
then than when it was bandaged at the infirmary ;
and she soon after had a pain which she had not
felt before. She was unable to undress, or. obtain
any rest for four successive nights, in consequence
of the great pain in her hand, which felt ." as if
something alive was moving inside." Four days
after the, accident she again saw Mr. Dyson, and
told him of the pain she was suffering, and that
the bandage was too tight ; but he said it ought
not to be slackened. He, however, gave her some
sleeping draughts. The pain continued in her
hand and wrist for the next three days, when
Mr. Dyson called again. She still complained
of great pain, and also informed him that she
could get no rest. Ho said he could not
slacken the bandage unless her 'nails were black,
which Would be a Sign that it was too tight ;
but ordered her more sleeping draughts.
He afterwards attended her at intervals of three
days, and on each occasion she complained of a
continuation of the pain. On the 17th of March
he removed the splints. He hand was then a dark
colour, and flat • and there was a round place on
the ball of her thumb, about the size of a halfpenny,
which was of a very black colour. Mr. Dyson
then put on the splints again, and said they must
remain another fortnight. She still continued in
great pain ' • and on the Wednesday. following Mr.
Dyson told her that on the following Saturday (the
24th March), he would put on lighter splints, and
" remove her out of purgatory." On that day he
accordingly removed the splints, when her thumb
had a hole in it. He then told her to go home at
once, and get to bed, and apply a poultice to her
hand, for sloughing had set in. She went home
to lied, and Mr. Dyson visited her at her house.
During the last week that she was under his care,
which was in the beginning of May, sbe went for
advice to Mr. M‘Dowell, homceoeathic doctor,
who ordered her to dust it with flour, but she did
not do it. A few days after she went to Mr.
Milner, and continued to apply to him for advice
during 18 months. Her hand was healed by Mr.
Milner ; but she had completely lost the
use of it,
and was unable to follow her trade.
Mr. Ovens, on the part of the defendant, corn-
plained of the lengthoftime which had been allowed
to elapse before bringing this action, and the injus-
tice of calling upon Mr. Dyson to speak to things
which bad occurred more than two years since.
He contended that the success with which his client
bad carried on his profession for so many ears in
Manchester was a sufficient answer
to the charg..
of want of skill ; and as to the other allegation, of
want of care, he should call witnesses who would
s ayhe tat his treatment was a proper one
Th witnesses having been examined. in support
of this statement, and Mr. Ovens having summed
up the defendant's case, Mr. Wheeler replied on
bEhalf of the plaintiff. The learned judge having
summed up, the jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff. Damages, 501.-3Po/cheater Guardian.

DISCOVARY OF NATURAL GAS AT

HULL.

On ae 28th ult. an extraordinary phenomenon
was witmss-ml in Crystal-street, Hull, at the pr;-
vase residence and private waterworks of Mr.
Thomas Stather, of the firm of Thompson and
Stather, civil engineers. It was that of fire and
water issuing at the same moment from the same
fountain. Mr. Stather wished to sink a well, and
for that purpose Ea d engaged a large body of ape-
rienced men. Up to 5 o'clock mi Monday afternoon
the well sinker bad bored to the depth of 48 feet
below the surface, and at 45 to 48 feet had found
a bed of peat, three feet thick, bene ith which be
issued ai ns
ofmsaorrifra'e ceS b
t
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came to a bed of gravel, containing broken flint and
h e
from the of the fi-h.
oriAnsz iihne
awater
bubblingnow
fountain, -varying in height from one to six cr seven
feet, arid from to 10 feet, spurting out volumes of
gravel and fi'e sand, the sinker, who had, in sink-
ing other wells, previously seen something of the
kind, 'though on a smaller scale, t:eing certain that
this was occasioned, not by the force of water, but
of gas of some kind, determined to try whether it
was inflammable, a thing which he had never in his
life attempted before; and t') his surprise there
arose a lurid flam^, two yards_in height, issuing
fr,m a tube three inches in diameter, and through
which the water continued to flow and boil over
without at all diminishing the volume of flame,
which ascended considerably higher than the gar-
den wall, which is seven feet high. The flame was
extinguished for the night, for fear of alarming
the neighbourhood. On Tuesday morning Mr.
J. D. Sollitt, the chymist and lecturer, and head
master of the Hull Grammar School, was brought
to the spot in consequence of the discovery, and
during the day Sir Henry Cooper, M.D., and
other scientific gentlemen also examined the ex-
traordinary phenomenon. A tube, three inches
in diameter and six feet high, was added to the
one which was a few inches only above the ground,
ond. the Water and the gas still flowed freely to-
gether, but after a time the water ceased to rise
so high, and gas only escaped. At 10 o'clock on
Tuesday morning Mr. Sollitt stated that the quan-
tity of gas which had escaped through that orifice
—supposing it to have continued with the same
force as he witnessed—would, fiom 5 o'clock on
the preceding afternoon, haire more than filled the-
largest gasometer at -any of the gasworks in Hull,
and would, in fact, have been sufficient to light
during the night all the streets in this town of
100,000 inhabitants. This gas is the true fire-
damp, which recently proved so fatal at Lundhill,
and has frequently done so in many other collieries.
It was burning when Mr. Sollitt arrived, and he
at once pronounced it to be of purer quality than
the carburetted hydrogen gas with which the
btreets of Hull are. lighted. The appearance of
the flame was, be said, like that produced by car-
buretted hydrogen, but, on having the flame ex-
tinguished,-he" stated that from the smell the car-
buretted hydrogen evidently contained free sulphur.
He stated that it arose from the. decomposition of
vegetable substance—as grass, trees, &c., in the
state of transition from the vegetable coirdition to
that of coal ; and he repeatedly remarked that
lb was a very pure gas—much purer than that pro-
duced from coal. The duration of the supply would
depend upon the quantity of peat. If the bed of
peat had been 18 ft. to 20 ft. in thickness, as is
sometimes the case, the continuance of the supply
of gas might have been calculated upon, but as the
seam was only three feet thick it was less likely to
be long continued. In the evening of Tuesday
Mr. Stather had some gas piping affixed to the
aperture and eight burners were kept lighted in.
his engine-house, while a very large and powerful
flame continued to issue from the aperture of the
main tube, directly over the well. It should be
observed that at that time the sinkers had got two
feet below the bed of peat, and that, therefore, the
flow of gas was no longer through the interior of
the boring tube, but ascended along its exterior—
and of course its volume was very materially
diminished. Mr. Sollitt anticipated that the
supply of gas would entirely cease when the bbring
irons reached down. the rock. The full supply
can, however, be recovered by again boring io the
depth only of the peat. The water obtained at
the same level as the gas was of a very soft quality,
and would be good for washing purposes. On
Wednesday evening twenty-one burners were sup-
plied with gas from the boring in the well, without
the intervention of any gasometer. Since then the
boring has been carried down to the solid rock,
which was found at a depth of fifty feet, and the
supply of gas has for the present ceased.—Hull
Packet. •

THE FRENCH PRKSS ON THE INDIAN

MJTINY.

( Prom the Sieele. )
The serious events which at present menace the
power of Great Britain have naturally communi-
cated flesh ardour to the enemies of the English
alliance. Certain journals perceive danger for
England in Egypt, Persia, Liclia, China, Greece,
Canada, and other countries, and, to judge from
their conclusions, England's days are numbered.
We cannot for our part so soon forget that our sol-
diers wear on their breasts, as a mark of honour,
the effigy of Queen Victoria. Were a revolt to
burst out to-morrow in Algeria, which God forbid,
and we were to sea the English rejoice over that
event and prognosticate our ruin, we should as-
suredly treat them as bad allies ; we should point
out to them the sacrifices made by France at hiker-
mann and elsewhere. But another reason ought
also to restrain the said journals from condemning
the existence of England, namely, the simple fact
that she is still, upright and unhurt. We cannot
lose from sight the history of our ally, formerly
our gigantic foe ; we cannot forget those wonderful
strokes of fortunes which her energy had prepared.
We know the immensity of her resources—the
struggles she has formerly sustained ; and far from
considering present events as a blow, we look upon
them as a warning from which she will derive pro-
fit. England will learn (what the Crimean war
and the:contests with Persia and China have also
taught her) that if commerce and finances are
powerful auxiliaries they must be supported by a
military organisation based on equality. We are
persuaded that the English will understand, and
will impress that knowledge on their public men,
that the time of old traditions has passed, as like-
wise that of a tortuous policy. A frank and de-
cided policy is the.only one suitable to the present
age. We are convinced that the English are well
able to meet their present dangers. We have sceu
in China how they can strike when necessary, and
certainly British patriotism will accomplish all that
is required in India. Without aspiring to pro-
phetic powers, we foresee that the first result of the
Hindoo crisis will be the transfer of the adminis-
tration of India from the hands of the Company to
those of the British Government. ludia will be-
come an English colony.

[(From the Gazette de France.)
The old system of colonisation has crumbled to
pieces, and England has a new world before her ;
it is on the manner that she will comprAend her
task that depends eitilift a new lease of greatness or
the ruin of her commercial and political prepon-
derance. This prediction 'is by no means exagge-
rated. India has formed the strength and power
of England ; and it is through that empire that she
exercises that undoubted supremacy in the world
which Russia now covets, and which formerly was
exercised by France. An attack ort the Indian
colonies is tantamount to an attack on the mother-
country ; all political or military men who have,
undertaken, cr wished to undertake, a' campaign
against English influence, have turned their eyes
to her Asiatic possessions. The. projected expedi-
tions of Napoleon to the banks of the Indus has not
been forgotten ; and we have recently seen Russia
at work ia the same region. As regards the new
organisation of the army, the company will ex-
perience great, and perhaps umionquerable, diffi-
culties. The system which consisted in employ-
ing native forces as a powerful means of defence
is exploded for ever ; on the other hand,' it is
equally impossible to confide the active service to
European troops. Without entering deeper into
this complicated quesfon, England, we perceive,
is engaged in one of the greatest struggles she has
ever bad to sustain, and on. the result of which
depend her fortune, her influence, and glory.

(From, the Unimers.)
It is a matter of surptise that. the majority of the
consorts of the kings, who 1131e:the petty States of
India under the protection of the English Govern-
ment, give birth only to daugi3 ters. Is this result
to be attributed to the Provi clence which watches
over the interests of the company, or are the mid-
wives, who deliver those Que,,m, bribed to sub-
stitute female for male childrea ?

We read in the Paris Pays : -" Several English
journals, speaking of the recent; events in India, ac-
cuse one of the great powers of .Europe of having by
its intrigues excited the natives: to revolt. The3e
accusations appear to be devoid of foundation, and
we are assured that they are co:ntradicted by an
official document recently issued by the Governor-
General of India himself. This document declares
that the revolt was spontaneous„ that it was pro-
duced by numerous internal cau.s4 3S, and that up to
the present time no trace of any 3 breign excitation
has been dlscovered."
On the other hand, the Presse s. tales, on the au-
thority of a traveller just arrived from Ems, that
at a grand dinner given the other day, at which
Russian Boyards only were present, the"host pro-
posed the health of the ". Great Mogul, and that
the toast was received, with frantic