The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-16 00:00:00

WAR AND DEBT.

A calculation bis lately 'been 'Matte, from
which it has been ascertained, that of the 127
years, which elapsed•between the Revo%id mi and
the General Peace in 1815; 65, or rather more
than one-half, have been passed in war, on which
2,024 millions have been expended; which sum
is thus subdivided :

Millions.

War of the Revolution, from 1688 to 1697 36
War of the Spanish Succession, 1702 to 1713 621
Spanish War, 1789 to 1748 54
Seven Years War, 1156 to 1763
American War, 1775 to 1783
War of the French Revolution, 1793 to 1802 464
War with Buonaparte, 1803 to 1815
Of this expenditure we borrowed, and come-
quently saddled posterity with the payment of
principal and interest, 834.4 millions, and raised
by taxes the remaining 1,189 millions. During
this period it is added that the poor-rates in-
creased from 750,000/. per annum to 542- mil-
lions ; and the average price of wheat from 445.
to 935. per quarter. This calculation, it will be
seen, only looks at the matter in a money point
of view ; but if, at the same glance, the mind
could embrace the sacrifice of human life,
and the mass of pain, misery, and wretched-
ness, which those wars produced, surely
both the understanding and the feelings
must shrink from the contemplation of such
scenes and such 'consequences, occurring in a
State professing to be guided by the lights and
influence of Christianity. But laying the moral
influence out of the question, and appealing only
to the more sordid interests of mankind, surely
there must be force enough in the foregoing
'statement to induce any one to pause before he
would involve the country in fresh wars without
a strong- and urgent occasion, and which can
only have the effect of adding to the enormous
load which the folly, and something worse, of
those who have gone before us, have inflicted
upon the country.—Morning Paper.

JOHANNA SOUTHCOTE HERSELF

AGAIN.

It was some time since mentioned that three
of the followers of this defunct dame were on
the Sunday evenings holding forth to the
walkers in the King's Park. They are still
sauntering about here, and on Sunday se'nnight
the orator coupled the name of his prophetess
with the long-expected Millenium, in a war
which would have been highly amusing, from
Its extravagance, had it not been shocking from
its impiety. The preacher stated, in so many
words, that Satan- had created much confusion
in Heaven before he and his rebellious legions
were expelled those blessed mansions, and the arch
enemy of mankind was at present creating a great
qir and disorder among the nations of the
earth, previous to his final expulsion, and the
commencement of the Millenium. By referring
to the 12th chapter of Revelations, it would be
found that, when the Woman clothed with the
Sun was about to be delivered, a great dragon
stood ready to devour the child, but it was
caught up into heaven. In like manner, a great
dragon—" the wickedness of the world"—had
stood ready to devour the celestial child of
Johanna Southcote ; but it was born in secret,
and conveyed to a place of safety by superna-
tural agency, where it was living in obscurity.—
The orator did not state whether this son
of the Prophetess was residing in a distant pa-
rish or a distant kingdom—whether he was
at school or at some useful trade—but he
averred that, in a few years, he would be
especially invested by Heaven with power
to work a miraculous change on men of all,
colours, castes, and creeds, and introduce the
Jong-expected Millenium. A sceptical wag in
the assemblage, on hearing this astounding
clincher, bawled out, " 0, Sandy Campbell,
that'll no do." Instead of being disconcerted by
this bold interruption, in which his veracity was
questioned, the preacher, like his prototype in
the play, vociferated in reply, 1$ Rail on, ye
scoffers, for you know not what you do," A
dreadful schism ensued in the congregation, and
a scene of noise and confusion ensued, which
was rather unseemly on a Sunday evening. It is
a mortifying reflection, that any of the people of
this enlightened city should be so weak and cre-
dulous as to squander their money upon these
strolling apostles of ignorance and impiety,—
Edinburgh Paper.

As a proof of the peaceable condition of Tip-
perary, and the disposition of the peasantry to obey the
law, we nay assert on the authority of a letter from Tip-
perary, that seventeen men were lately escorted safely to
pr;son, guarded only by the jailor and one policeman.

GOREY MEETING.—OR Monday last a
Bruoiwiek Club Will held at Gorey, the Earl of COIIRTOWN
in the Chair.

We understand it is in contemplation to in-
stitute a Brunswick Club in Cheltenham, with a view of
its becoming an auxiliary to that which, we learn, is
about to be established in this county.—Cheit. Chronicle.

RAmsclATE..—Fish is particularly plentiful
and cheap here, for one may get a turbot, weighing 25164.
for 8c , which would fetch 30s. at least in London.

CURIOUS CIRCUMsTANcE.—Among the
numerous arrivals of the Race wear;
we should have no
partridgepartridges,which were seen bov • g-
tired that a covey of
over the High-street on the night of Thursday, the
inst., shortly after the gas had been lighted, and just as
the company attending the ordinary at the King's Arms
were about to make a hearty meal of their kindred.
The birds, to the number of nine or ten
to be winging their way from the South, and
iflew
so extremely low, that many of them came in contact
with the roof-tree of the tenement occupied by Air.
BAIL:EI F and others. From this point they crossed to
the opposite side, and in attempting to clear the large tene-
ment built by Messrs. SINCLAIR and HoWAT, one of them
,struck the side wall, and then dropped on the sill of a
wiodow in the second flat, where a large. gas-lamp was
seen blazing. As the circumstance was noticed, chiefly
perhaps from the Mistle without, the window was raised
and the bird caught. In "a short time it recovered, and
after being made a pet of for two or three days, had the
honour of being conveyed in a carriage and four as a pre-
sent to the children at Raehills.—Duerfries Courier.
MISERIES OF A STUTTERER.—A short
time ago, a gentleman, in the west of. Scotland, had (yea-
sina to sink a well in his garden. After the well had been
completed to a considerable but necessary depth, he ordered
o tradesman to be sent for to perform some operation at the
bottom of the well. The gentleman was afflicted, in an
uneommon degree, with an impediment in his speech ; and
it so happened that the messenger brought a person who
poke as unintelligibly as his master. While the trades-
;llan was occupied in the well, the gentleman unfortu-
nately paid him a visit, and, looking
over the parapet,
roared out, " D-d-d-do yu-yn.y., thith-thith-think ‘
• ma-ma-k' ;u-
-yu-you wr-wr- a goo-goo-d jo jo-b o'
that "?' The other responded, " 'T-'t-'t's a da-da-
darnn'd awk-awk-wark ane—b-b-ut I'll d-d-do m-
ro-my be-be-best fur't." The gentleman, who is of a pe-
culiarly sensitive and irritable disposition, no-usner heard
the reply, than, without saying a word, he ran to a heap
of stones that remained unused in the building of the well,
and seizing the largest, was about to fling it on the head
of the innocent mechanic, when his arms were seized by a
bystander, who explained, and convinced the enraged ern_
ployer that his workman did not mean to insult
The result was, (the gentleman being glad that he had
eaeaped the commission of murder, and that there was
;Loather who was as bad a speaker as himself), that, after
tn., work was t urnpleted, the two orators sealed their am ty
py a hearty drinking bout,-.-Wdineuri4 OUerrer, imeme

LITERATURE.

FARR ON CANCEROUS ULCERATION.
LONDON, 1828.

Dr. Farr has conferred a great benefit on the
public by- his present' able treatise on'that most
dangerous and obstinate of all disorders, the
Cancer:-, He has evidently devoted considerable
attention to the treatment of such ailments, and
as his praetice has been widely extended, and his
remarks founded on his own personal experience,
we think they are entitled to respect. In almost all
stages of the Cancer he deprecates the use of the
knife; which, however, he says, is far less in vogue
now than it was some six or seven years ago. A
mild method of treatment he thinks infinitely
preferable, particularly that method which tends
to the production of crusts or granulating mar-
gins ; during the process of which all further
ulcerous discharge stops. On this subject Dr. Farr
observes, " I have one such case now under my care,
the patient, a female upwards of seventy ; the
ulcer original exceeded four inches in circum-
ference ; those walls (or crusts) are now formed,
so that it would be difficult to introduce a quill
into the centre of the ulcer, if ulcer it may now
be called, and with this circumvallation her pains
and suffering have ceased, and she has recovered
her accustomed health and spirits." The can-
cerous ulcers which are least obnoxious to the
production of crusts, are those situated on the
face and in the breast where the operation of ex-
cision has been performed, arid the diseased
glandular mass has been removed. "In such
cases," adds the Doctor," when the wound made
by the operator refuses to heal by the ordinary
means now employed, you may generally succeed
by incrustation." The most dangerous period
for Cancers, and that at which they are the
most difficult to cure, is the age of forty and
under ; the ulcer is then generally both rapid
and resistless in its effects. Dr. Farr describes
the crusts by the terms of natural and artificial;
the former, of course, is the safest mode of cure,
but the latter he has found efficacious. The
process of formation is as follows :
" NATURAL CRUSTS.

" When the symptoms are mild, and the wound is
in a tranquil state, the formation of this crust may
generally be effected by means of the lotion No. 1.
" This lotion is to be applied twice or thrice a
day by means of a sponge, and allowed to fall freely
over the wound—when this is done, a piece of
writing-paper, larger than the size of the wound, is
to be laid over it, and covered with lint. The object
of this is. to prevent the lint from coming in contact
with the ulcer; by these simple means a crust will
sometimes form in three or four days, generally
within seven days, provided the wound be in a
favourable state.
"On the second day you will frequently see con-
cretions beginning about the edge, and minute gra-
nulations arising from the centre; when the effect is
thus speedy, it is generally in cases where the wound
made by the operation has refused to heal, but is at
the same time in a very tranquil state
" But should a wound of this description produce
too abundant a discharge for the concretion to take

place, it will be necessary in the first instance to di-
minish that discharge, which the practitioner may
easily accomplish by taking a portion of the oxyde
of zinc, and making it into a paste with a little
water, with this he is to fill up the wounds by
means of a soft camel-hair brush, and within forty-
eight hours, he will generally find the discharge
considerably diminished, and probably sufficiently
so to enable him to use the lotion with the advant-
age as before mentioned.*
14. By such means as these, 'a lady who was
operated upon nearly five years ago, continues to
form crust after crust upon the wound caused by
the operation, which has never healed. These

sometimes remain for even three or four months,
and indeed, they are generally detached by accident.
When that is the 'case, she proceeds to form a new
one, and with this treatment she is new satisfied, for

the wound does not increase in size. Now when
wounds of this kind can be easily incrusted, and

tolerably healthy granulations arise, there will be
no difficulty in producing cicatrization, which may
be done in this way. is.scertain by small punctures
in the crust the extent and state of granulation, and
if favourable apply a poultice over the whole, first
moistening ;he margins with some unctuous appli-
cation ; after the application of a few poultices, the
crust will readily be detached ; then take a little of
the oxyde of zinc paste, • and apply it very thinly
over the granulations, which if not thrown off by the
discharge, should be washed off daily, and the granu-
lations slightly touched with the sulphate of copper,
every oecond or third day, or as they may require it.
This article is preferable to the lunar caustic; but if
the latter be used, it should fie with the utmost de-

licacy, as with the end of a feather. In this way, or
by some modification of ii, you will soon see cica-
trization beginning; and eventually you will suc-
ceed in completely cicatrizing the whale surface of
the wound.

"The same treatment /a applicable to this descrip-
tion of ulcer in the face at any period of life. But
in advanced years, the incrustation is not always
formed with the same facility, and this iewls me to
consider the second hind of crusts.

" ARTIFICIAL CRUSTS.

" These, as I have said, may be formed by the ap-
plication of certain pastes or powders to the ulce-
rated parts; and first of the pastes, which may
be composed of the oxyde of either zinc or
bismuth, but neither of these remedies will pro-
duce crusts which can be preserod whole for many
days, and they may rather be considered as prepara-
tory to the more permanent ones which are to be
produced by the lotion. There may be attendant
circumstances,' however, which may demand the
speedy formation of a crust ; thus you may have
assuredasi the patient of the practicability of such a
measure,
. I and of the benefit which \sill result from
It; she will then naturally feel anxious to have
it epeedily
allay her
effected; and with 4 view to satisfy
her doubts, fears, and put a stop to con-'1
stant anxiety, which is
fill up the wound with al ways injurious, you may
one
pa
soter other
(the ozfi
ne these
if
tohxeyt ie
dis-
charges
and in a ,
previously made into a
have a crust, which however
the
natural is
be abundant),
nsh:otth.terticmoeeaysoillyt will
comfortably borne
a
beneficial or durable. it
has however one; nor is it so
diminiehdischarge,
ing the
and preparing the wound
for the formation of a natural
igaicns forrust, and what is at
least of equal importance,
who
will
beassured f
youthe confi-
patient; from
the
facility
olfv
it
t he
which you have formed this
nhi .e iista-
tion, that you can produce another of a more per-
manent character when you please.
" I shall now proceed to describe the other mode
of incrusting cancerous ulcers, which is by means
of
the acetate of lead, and calamine in powder, coin
bined occasionally with opium.
" To ulcers in the breast, the proportion of the
acetate of lead employed may be greater than to
those on the face, or other parts of the body, be-
cause it is never absorbed when applied to cancer-
ous ulcers of the mammary gland, as it frequently is,
if long continued to those of the face.
" The proportions I generally use with the view
to produce incrustation in ulcers of the minim
are, one-third lead, and two-thirds calamine, and

I may here remark, that you will ocraqionally meet
with oxyde of zinc, which wi'l give tle patient consider-
able pain when applied, and that which (has this effect has
always a strong earthy smell,