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12.5 ; but the witness had nob got the actual times
of this train !for the day of the accident. When
the :evidence of this witness hal been read over
the Court rose for the usual half-hour or three-

quarters.
The most remarkable evidence this afternoon log
given by Arthur Thompson, the engine-driver, who
is still in a weak condition. He came into court
with his head bandaged. He took the whole Court
by surprise when he made statements completel9
coinciding with thos.3 of Mrs. Dicken.

It was elicited, in his cross-examination by Mr.
Littler, that he has been lodging at the cottage of
Mrs. Dicken's husband since the accident.

The written statement forwarded by him to the
Government Inspector was read over to him in con-
tradiction of sonic part of his new evidence.
Hinton, the guard, was recalled, and gave a cir-
cumstantial denial to the story of Thompson.
Mr. \Voodroffe, travelling sorter of the Irish
mail, also gave testimony contradicting that of the
engine-driver.

REVIVED USE OF THE LAUGHING GAS•

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If we go back to the discovery of sulphuric ether,
we find that in America, as in England, that anvo3-
thetic quickly took the place of the nitrous oxide
gas, but not to the utter exclusion of the nitrous
oxide, which still was given in extremely dangerous
cases, as to persons in the last stage of COn'
sumption, &e., and where the surgeon feared
to risk ether. In dentistry, too, its use had de-
clined. But in 1863 it was again brought into active
service by Dr. J. H. Smith, a dentist of Connecti-
cut, and Mr. Cotton, who delivered the chemical
lecture at Hartford. in 1841, residing in New York.
Its use has been perfecto], and it is found to have
such great advantages fur short operations that Mr.
Cotten,in conjunction with Dr. Allen, a dentist of
New York, established an anaesthetic institution for
the extraction of teeth by the use of the gas, and
each person operated upon entered his name in a
register kept of the cases. Up to January, 1861,
the number of names was seventeen thousand six
hundred and one, and in no single case had the
nitrous oxide produced any alarming symptoms.
From Boston the practice has extended into
other large cities, and is rapidly spreading all
over the country. In surgery, too, nitrous oxide
is again used in many American hospitals. Its
condemnation in England appears to have been,
premature and without sufficient cause. Some eL
the chief dentists in London have been rev"'
ing the experiments made on its first introdue"
tion. The gas has been administered at the Do"
tal Hospital by improved methods, and with great
success, the patients being brought fully under its
influence in about forty secoath, and about the
same time being taken for recovery. The nitrous
oxide gas has one great advantage, which is, that It
does not produce the unpleasant after sytnptein3,
following the use of chloroform or ether ;
this may be compensated by more serious
disadvantages, .which experiment will alone
show. Tne difficulty of preparation will Pre-
vent its use in the army, where chloroforms
.
must continue to be used, en account of its portabl;
lity and easy application ; but the hospitals, where
these objections are not of such serious mome.at---1f
success attend it—it may supersede the use of the
valuable, hut rather dangerous, anaesthetic chlore'
form.—Diekeits's "All the Year Round."

I sit
M. Emile Andreoli, who took part in the °-
Polish insurrection, and on being captured by the
Russians was sentenced to twelve years' imprisell;
ment in Siberia, has just published in the Revil
Moderne the first part of his prison recollections'
some of which are curious. " I was told," he re.‘
marks, " that ou two or three occasions an electric,,
battery had been made use of by the Russian pebe;
to loosen the tongues of the prisoners who refuse(-6
to answer the questions put to them, which shol
that the Russian Government is one of progreso
and knows how to turn the discoveries of science
to account. After all this was not more cruel than
bo,
the torture of the herring. I knew several Is
0.
underwent the latter, and they told me that notlaill°
could compare with the sufferings which they ell,
Au
dured. They were confined in a well...wart'''.
apartment, salted herrings with bread and ovatef
for the first few days being their only food.
they refused to answer the questions of the °'t'
ainining commissioners the bread was first of ell
withdrawn, and then the water, whereupon tll9
the
torture of intense thirst commenced, depriving 0.
sufferer of all moral strength, and even ma d
him abandon the resolution which he had for—ae
te
to die. Very rarely did any one remain 10'1A
when brought before the commissioners a secoo"
- a
time. The sittings were usually at night 111 fo
splendidly lighted apartment with refreshment
all kinds temptingly displayed on the side taldieg‘
ag
cl
The president would usually he most grae-
By-and-by,' he would say, ' we will, if you file
ask you to have something to drink with us•
li"e
o
fever and the vertigo caused the prisoners t° tier
their reason, and they generally yielded.
would not have brought about the same resat
t til°r
thirst, which loosens the tongue even far
readily than drunkenness does."
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