The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-15 00:00:00

RUPTURE OF THE RIGHT AURICLE..

Mr. Rutherford, of the Commercial-road,
was called, on the 10th November, 1825, to a
young woman, aged 24, who had had a fit re-
sembling epilepsy. She was, when seized, un-
able to speak, and felt very cold. She had some
brandy and water administered, after which she
complained of much 'throbbing in her head,
with confusion, and some vomiting. The pulse
was hard and frequent (100 to 110), but
regular. Leeches were applied to the temples,
a blister to the pit of the stomach, and
she was purged. Next day she was rather better,
and was ordered ten drops of digitalis (we
presume the tincture) every six hours the ; and
dose was afterwards increased. Nov. 14.—She
complained of pain in her chest, and the pulse
was still hard. Mr. Rutherford took 12 ounces
of blood from her arm ; it flowed in a full stream
but produced no alteration in the pulse, though
she said she was relieved. She did not show the
slightest disposition to faint after the bleeding,
but, on lying down, she suddenly exclaimed,
" Oh dear, my heart ! it will certainly burst ;
ere
my feet feel so strange—they are quite dead ;
pray put your hand on my heart, Sir, it
will come out !" I went immediately round
to her bedside, when she expired in my
arms, in a state similar to fainting. On
were examining
the body,
oy
found to be in
slight adhesions of the lungs to the pleura ; but
the pericardium was much thickened, as if front
previous inflammatory action, and distended.
—On opening it, a mass of dark coagulated
d' a
healthytthe
viscera,
stateera , ; there we in
re
slight general,
blood presented itself, the heart being com-
pletely buried beneath its
surface, on the in-
spection of which we discovered that the right
auricle was ruptured, near the superior cava ;
its parictes were particularly thin and flaccid,—
which The only circumstance whi I could learn front
could sister was, thtt, about four years before her
death, she had been the subject of decd mental
inquietude, aid from that time had •
occasionally
suffered from
palpitation. These palpitations,
however, appear to have been extremely violent,
its it is mentioned in a preceding part of the nar-
rative that her sister could hear the sound of the
vibrations as sho lay by her side in bed, her lips
becoming at such times purple, and her whole
countenance assuming a cadaverous appearance.
—Medical Gazette.

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NOVEL, AND SUCCESSFUL OPERATION.—
The operation of removing oatairact, by extraction, wan
re-
cently performed with the most complete success on Mi.
DAVENPORT, of King-street, in this city, by Mr. GEo.
HARRISON, jun., in the presence of Mr. TYRRELL, an
oculist of great celebrity. in London, Dr. MACEERAY,
.end other medical gentlemen. Mr. DAVENPORT had been
!eprived of the sight
,of that eye Inc tell years, but now
lees as well with it as with the Ohm-.Ciotti. Courant.

SPIRIT OP TIC LONDON JOURNALS.

No topic is more strongly insisted on by those
who are disposed to condemn generally our Parlia-
metr,nry proceedings, than the inutility of many in-
retirics, commenced, it is said, without adequate
motive, prosecuted without due diligence, and con•
eluded without leading to practical results. The
huge blue books which succucd each other (luring the
session, and deserve the greeting given by the late
Duke of Cumberland to the volumes of Mr. Gib-
bon, are referred to triumphantly by such reasoners.
.4 Eli ! another - big square book, Mr. Gibbon,"
lye's the observation of this Royal critic. Ira "great
?o0k" has been justly termed "a great evil," it un-
aoubtedly becomes a greater if paid for out of the
public purse: and it must be admitted, that it 16
ludicrous to see the finance accounts in the windows
of a pawnbroker; the navy estimate; tit a cheese-
monger's ; sheets of reports on vagrancy and
prostitution wrapping pious tracts; and the evi-
dence on the state of Ireland forming the en-
'elope of Cork butter or of Lundy Foot's snuff.
More discretion might undoubtedly ybe evinced in
moving for many of the sessional papers, and more
judgment and economy in printing them : but it
ought never to be forgotten, that from entire pub-
licity is derived our most practical check upon ex-
_

iscing abuses; and small is the error of giving too
much information, in comparison of the guilt of with-
holding any. It is also of the first importance to
prepare the public mind for changes rendered neces-
.

.ary by the progress of time, but to which the in-
dividuals immediately interested, and possibly the
mass of mankind, may not be wholly consentient.
Sensible reports become in this way the pioneers
which precede the march of legislation. The
relaxation of our maritime code, and the adop-
tion of liberal commercial principles, owe their
origin to the reports on foreign trade pre-
sented by Lord Wallace. The resumption of
cash payments, in 1819, would scarcely have been
effected, had it not been for the bullion report of
Mr. Horner. In the_ same way Sir James Macin-
tosh's report on erminal law laid the foundation for
the bills introduced by Mr. Peel and by Lord Lans-
downe. It would indeed be unphilosophical to con-
sider those measures valueless whose good conse-
quencei are not immediately apparent. In morals
and polities, as in vegetation, there are seeds which
must lie in the ground for a season before t hey ger
minate, and long before they bring forth fruit. A
a till more valuable branch of Parliamentary inquiry
is that which produces its salutary effects without
a ny legislative interference whatever, and solely by
on the public mind, by directing the atten-
tion of active and benevolent persons to useful pur-
suits, and thus augmenting by natural means the sum
of human knowledge and happiness. These latter
observations hare been suggested with reference to
the subject of education, and to the wonderful exten-
sion of the means of instructiGn, since the report of
Mr. Brougham's memorable Committee. Among
the many important benefits which that gentleman
has been the instrument of conferring on his fellow-
creatures, his glorious efforts in the cause of educa-
tion, though not the most brilliant, are perhaps the
most solid claims he possesses upon the esteem of
the present, and the gratitude of the future genera-
tion. The eloquent defender of public liberty--the
accomplished debater—the able advocate—the en-
lightened reformer of our laws—each of these titles
the people of England gladly and universally confer,
and feel a pride in acknowledging, But it is as the
individual who has given the great impulse to the
education of the people, trt impulse aided by the
friends of liberty, and to which the enemies of know-
ledge are now compelled to lend their reluctant
aid,—it is as the founder of the New King's
College as well as of the London University,—
it is in this useful and beneficent capacity,
invested with these great powers, and per-
forming these honourable duties, that we now ten-
der him our warmest and most unaffected acknow-

fedgments. We have been led into these remarks,
in consequence of a statement made in the House of

Commons during the late Sessions, to which we
have had occasion to refer. By returns collected
by Mr. I.:•roug*ham in 1818, embracing 4,84 parishes
in different parts of England, the number of unen-
'lowed day schools appeared to be between 1,4C0
:Ind 1,500, containing somewhat less than .50,000
scholars. In 1828, it was stated, on the part of
Mr. Brougham, by Mr. Spring Rice, that by the
evidence of similar returns, the number both of
!chools and of scholars had more than doubled. For
the zeal with which the Established Clergy lent
their end to procuring this information, they are en-
titled to the greatest credit. In 1828, the schools
exceeded 3,000, and the scholars 100,000. To the
friends of freedom, knowledge, and virtue, it is im-
possible to suggest a more gratifying subject for medi-
tation. The schoolmaster is indeed abroad.—Times.

There is in one of the anti-Catholic journals of
yesterday a specimen of modesty almost without ex-
ample. We are therein assured that Ireland lots
been tranquillized, and that the public benefactors
on this occasion have been Lord Anglesea's procla-
mation and the Brunswick Clubs ! Ireland pacified
the Brunswick Clubs! With regard to the Lord
Lieutenant's proclamation, we shall merely refer to
dates for the truth of our assertion, that it Plowed,
instead of preceding, and therefore, instead of pro-
ducing, the sudden abandonment of the popular
_amee.tings in the south of Ireland. For the Cumber-
" Clubs, it is enough to refer again to the daily
accounts, during the List three months, from that
country, for, proof that the peasant meetings were
resorted to as dipseprlareyestotfieimcemnenseirdiulmerileal forces,
combined combined with
meanour, that the Catholics e
mightaierbse tYrTiuttnypohantle;
contrasted with the Brunswick
con-
duct was savage, and their numbers ridiculously
ous
weak. The undisguised object of these tranquilli-
zing ruffians was to challenge the Catholics to
fight, and to provoke them by insultsbeyoonpde
the measure of human patience, with the h
that civil war, not national repose, /night be
the consequence. The Catholics had sagacity
enough to penetrate the meaning of the Brtms-
wickers, and virtue enough to resist the temptation
intended by their outrages, They forbore to raise a
single hand against the Orangemen, whom, so far as
physical power was concerned, they might have mas-
sacred in a week, had they chosen to load their con-
sciences with sanguinary recollections. And now
a wretched slanderer comes forward with that false-
hood—than which one more base was never uttered
—that it is the ferocious Orangemen who have tran-
quillized Ireland, not the humane feelings or political
wisdom of those who direct the people In spite
of the Orange bellowing, and of the Duke of Wel-
lington's obstinate silence, emancipation is rapidly
moving on. English Protestants are too acute not
to see this dilemma—that if the want of emancipa-
tion be the real causes of the discontents of Irelarsti,
the grant of emancipation will be the cure for them ;
and that if emancipation be not the object, but
something else which the Catholic body have en-
tered into some strange conspiracy to conceal, they
may be as easily quelled by force of arms after being
emancipated, as they now are; since, whatever po-
litical effects may flow from that great measure, we
have loot yet heard any one affirm that it will give a
sudden spring to the population, or increase their
physical power.—lbid.
I The advantages gained by the Turks overa Power
which has so long been a bugbear with political
alarmists, will now perhaps dispose tnen to think as
much too favourably of the former as they before
undervalued them. The truth is, hardly tiny thing
is known of the Turks in the West of Europe; our
travellers dare not spread themselves over the coun-
try, and their knowledge of Turkey is therefore
limited to a few great towns and the routes. We
know merely that the Turks are a finer race, both
in point of strength arid beauty, than the natives of
our part of the world. Hacquet, the naturalist, one
of tire Emperor Joseph's professors, who examined
in detail several of the finest provinces of Turkey
about the commencement of the French Revolution,
attributes the cause of the superiority of the Turks
to the Western Europeans in an animal point of

view to the comparative thinntes of the population,
which preserves them from the poverty and misery
prevalent elsewheYe. '" They live (he says) with-
out constraint, and men and women are better
formed than with us, and more beautiful. It is
quite a pleasure to look on the noble figures of
the Janissaries. In the westcre parts of Eu-
rope, town and country rearm with people ; the
misery becomes more insupportable every day, since
all have been allowed to marry, without ascertaining
,how they alse to be supported, What will come in
the long run of such people and their families ? We
have a sample in the poor of the Fauxbourg St. A-
ntoine, at Paris, where needy sans-culottes, from de-
spair, were ready for all manner of excesses. These
are the consequences of allowing the balance to be
disturbed. How fortunate arc those fertile pro-
vinces of the Turkish empire, where there are still
but few inhabitants. Whatever contributes to the
support of life is there in abundance. There are fo-
rests and sufficiency of wild animals, the latter of
which serve in part both to clothe and feed the not-
too-crowded inhabitants. Moreover, there are the
noblest pastures, where the grass reaches to man's
height, and consequently the largest herds find food
there in abundance. The fields may be for years fal-
lowed, and consequently manure is not needed.
The Turks, aware of their advantage, look upon
their epidemics as an advantage, as, by re-
storing the balance in nature, it enables
them to live without care." He then con-
trasts Turkey with the Austrian dominions, in many
parts of which, he says, the lands have been divided
and subdivided, and scourged from the necessity of
constant cropping, so that scarcities are of constant
recurrence. Jackson, in his book on Morocco, also
alludes to time partiality of the Turks for the plague,
which they call the bieNsed, as enabling those
who survive to li: e without care. These notions
are no doubt very different front ours, and indeed
are in some degree produced by the climate. In a
northern and humid climate men are doomed to
incessant toil, and we Owe the improvements which
distinguish us from .the Turks to the desire of escap-
ing from the wretchedness and state of privation to
which the greatest number are inevitably doomed in
this part of the world. The Turks Icing relieved
from the pressure of want, have no motive for exer-
tion ; and if not conquered by their more civilised
neighbours, they will probably continue to live that
life of ease and indolence, which is at the same time
most favourable to the developement of bodily
power.—Morning Chronicle.
Though, generally speaking, County Magistrates
in England are improved from what they were for-
merly, both as to respectability and intelligence, yet
we sometimes hear of acts of petty tyranny and as
ignorant abuse of power by some individuals among
them, which remind one of those Justices of the
Peace of the last century, who have obtained a ridi-
culous renown in the humorous pages of Fielding
and Smollett. The ease of Lewis v. Mowell, tried
the other day at the Carmarthen Great Sessions.
furnishes an instance of the overstepping of autho-
rity by a Magistrate to punish a constructive con-
tempt, which, if adopted as a precedent by Jus-
tices of the Peace, would place the respectable
yeomanry of this country in about as complete
a state of vassalage to their Worships, as
the Mahommedan tributaries are to the Turkish
Bashaws, or the Russian boors to their Feudal
Lords. The case to which we allude was an action
for false imprisontnent; and it appeared on the trial
that the plaintiff was a respectable farmer, who,
having been summoned by the defendant to appear
before him, to answer the complaint of a labourer
on the highways, who had a demand for wages
against him as parish overseer, deferred appealing
before his Worship until the following morning,
when he proceeded towards the Justice's house,but
on his • way found that a warrant had been issued
again,:t him. On arriving at the house, the Justice
asked him why he had not obeyed his summons the
day before ? Plaintiff said "he could not." The
worthy Magistrate then said " is that the answer you
give a Justice ? I will put you in the House of Correc-
tion." Defendant said " do as you please, I do not heed
you." Whereupon the Justice made out a commit-
ment, and sent the plaintiff off in custody, a dis-
tance of twenty miles, to the House of Correction,
where he was kept for three days at hard labour;
that is, at picking up stones, beating hemp, and
primping water—in fact, the treatment of a • rogue
and vagabond. The commitment directed that he
should be kept at hard labour for one week, but the
Worthy Magistrate, having discovered that he had
exceeded his powers, ordered him to be discharged
after the third day. There was some proposition
afterwards about a compromise for 20/., which, how-
ever, was not carried into effect ; and strider the di-
rection of the Judge, the Jury returned a verdict for
the plaintiff, with 50/. damages, which we hope will
have a salutary effect on the temper of other arbi-
trary Gentlemen of the Quorum.—Moraing Herald.
The Irish papers are filled with accounts of public
meetings held for the formation of Brunswick Clubs.
Time proceedings are full of interest, and we only
regret that we have not space enough to do them a
tithe of the justice they merit. But we hail these
symptoms of regeneration—this resurrection of the
dry bones--this spirit of resistance to conciliation—
as a gratifying and propitious omen. Ireland is now
reduced to this dilemma, that if the friends of the
Protestant church and the Constitution of 1688 do
not unite and defeat the intentions of the Cabinet,
the established religion in that portion of the em-
pire must sink into a petty institute of sectarianism.
If Catholic emancipation he granted, adieu to the
Protestant institutions of Ireland ! Protestantism,
as Lord Eldon said on another occasion, must be-
come the humble handmaid of Popery, and a new
source of discontent be created, in time pretensions
of its priests, its saints, and its patriots, to the
forfeited estates of their ancestors. Let it not be
believed, that, if Emancipation were conceded to-
morrow, tranquillity would be restored to Ireland ;
the man who thinks so honestly can be little better
than a good-natured fool. The Catholics, for the
last forty years, hare been gradually advancing their
pretensions. • When the elective franchise was con-
ferred upon them, previous to the last rebellion, and
when they were released from the severities of the
old penal laws, they solemnly declared, collectively
and individually, that with this extent of concession
they would be satisfied. They protested, in
the most formal manner, that all they sought
and desired was the elective privilege, elibi-
tthheomse
and
vethrietiires rig IWhichtso f
eligibi-
lity to serve on juries, and exemption from
pressed personally upon
property by the penal code.
They took heaven, and earth, and the saints to wit-
ness that with this boon they would be satisfied and
tranquillised—that they would be thankful and obe-
diept, peaceful and honest. It was granted. The
them Protestant held out the hand of fellowship, forgot
past murders, past cruelties, and a long anti crimson
score of past crimes; he gave all
ge.thhesicarstkhead
upon the security t
of their solemn
pledge.
pledge has been redeemed, or, rather, how it has
been spurned and broken--how the oath was no
sooner recorded than it Was trampled upon—it is un-
necessary act of conciliation necessary to tell. masfol-
lowed•ve Jacobin conspiracv which
by an extensive
b 11'
ended in a sanguinary Catholic re e ion—a rebellion
in which the priests, %rho had called heaven to wit_
ness their sincerity and their loyalty, acted a promi-
nent part. The trust was no sooner reposed ht them
than it was abused,and their prolofses of fidelity were
flung; to time winds; their chapels were converted into
• nd his laws
sanctuaries of sedition ; and the King a
were denounced from the very altars where, but a few
months before, the hypocrites had avowed senti-
ments of gratitude and loyalty. Many of the men
who thus obtained a change in the law, upon the
ground of their future obedience and the waiver of
additional concessions, are still in existence, and are
the leaders of the frenzied mob that now demand
unlimited and unconditional emancipation. What
then ought we to infer from this ? That the Catho-
lics are not to be trusted—that their insidious ob-
ject is power and Catholic ascendancy. Let them
but within the barrier, and they will soon take the
citadel : remove time only barricade that is between
them and supreme power, and the Protestant church of

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Ireland is As sure to fall as that the sun shines; and if
it do fall, it will never be raised again but by a con-
; vulsion '‘dich Will shake the empire to its batei.iiiitt
bring the contending parties to the issue ()farms. Thai
the Protestants of Ireland are now sensible of this
may be seen in ilm fOrMidable opposition they are ;it
present making to the threatened conciliation of the
Peel part of the Cabinet. Their speeches breathe
resolution and unanimity. Their language is that
of men who are conscious they ate to be sacrificed,
and the resistance which they are preparing to offer
shows that they will die in the trenches.. And shall
we, the Protestants of England, look tamely on and
See the reformed religion of our forefathers thus
bartered to serve the purposes of feeble and paltry
expediency ? Shall we see our fellow Protestants
reduced to the rank of sectarians, to reserve power
in the hands of men whose duplicity and weak-
ness prove they are unworthy of trust ? God for-
bid we should stand so recreant and 4..0 de-
based in the eyes of Europe ! That Ireland
is in a storm is the fault of the Minister ; that
the mob triumph is the crime of the servants
of the Crown; and that a band of traitors should be
able to melt down the consistency of our statesmen,
and make honour and early professions only words of
perfidy and reproach, is their folly and their sin, not
ours. We are bound by every tie to aid our Irish
brethren, and unite with them in stemming the tor.
rent, which, if it be not speedily stemmed, must
inevitably overwhelm them. The clubs now formed
and forming in England do, indeed, inspire us with
the hope that our conjunct exertions will prevail. But
much more must be done than is yet promised if our
success is to he rendered certain. We must still evince
greater zeal, more unbending courage, more firmness,
more unanimity-, if the issue of the struggle is to be
rendered less doubtful. We have the power, if we
choose to put it forth—and poor and chicken-heart-
ed we will be if we do not exert it. On this point
we cannot do better than take a lesson from the
conduct of our Irish brethren ; and we hope that,
before many weeks pass, we will show that we
have taken the benefit of their example. Bruns-
wick Clubs are becoming as numerous as there are
towns, villages, and parishes in Great Britain : and
if the leaders of these clubs will but speak out and
bring their forces into the field, their success is sure.
The Noble Duke must surrender—Mr. Peel must
fall—Dawson is already prostrate—and all the other
members of that illustrious family will perhaps avail
themselves, from a sense of honour, of some other
source of emolument than the proceeds of taxes
wrung from an impoverished peoplu.—Morning
Journal alias New Times.

Nothing can demonstrate more irrefregably the
pitiable state to which this country has been reduced,
through submission to the ambitious and unprin-
cipled views of Russia, than the despicable subter-
fuges, and impotent arguments, to which those of
our cotemporaries who wear the Government livery
are reduced, in order to justify its acquiescence in
the blockade of the Dardanelles. England, say they,
has always maintained the right of blockade, and it
would have struck at the root of her maritime power
and commercial greatness, to have interposed the
slightest obstacle to the exercise of a right on which
she has always insisted to a greater extent, and
with much more pertinacity, than any other
power. Such a mode, however, of putting the
question at issue is a mere begging of it.—
The question in dispute is not whether Russia,
acting for herself, and unfettered by treaties
or promises of any description, has,' or has
not, a right to blockade the Dardanelles or any other
port ; for on this point, we believe, there is not
much difference of opinion; but whether Russia,
after having solemnly pledged herself to her Allies
to waive her rights as a belligerent in the Medi-
terranean, can again resume them at pleasure with-
out their consent, or a total breach of that good
faith which forms the only solid foundation of
peace. Our Ministerial cotemporaries, and some
of the French Journalists, make no difficulty in
averring that it was perfectly competent for the
Emperor of Russia, both to lay down and to re-
sume his rights as a belligerent in the Medi-
terranean ; and they justify their assertions
on the ground that when the Emperor of Russia
waived the exercise of these rights, he had every
reason to expect that he would attain all the suc-
cess which he desired without having recourse to
them, and that being disappointed in this respect,
he was compelled to depart from what they deno-
minate the generous fledge which he had given.
This is saying neither more nor less than that it is
perfectly competent for Russia, or any other country,
to act according to her interest—whether to blockade
or not to blockade—to invade or to yield—that pro-
mises are only binding when they can be conveni-
ently kept—arid that the Emperor of Russia, who
commenced his disastrous campaign with unbounded
professions of moderation, may, if he choose, termi-
nate the war by adding European Turkey to his do-
minions without affording any just cause for reproach.
We congratulate our cotemporaries on these their dis •
coveries in political morality; but we trust at the same
time that the period of its predominancy in the Cabi-
nets of Europe will be as brief as it is disgraceful, and
that when it has been once overturned, it will never
again be avowed with such shameless impudence.
If the pledge of the Emperor of Russia meant any
thing, it certainly gave every one to understand that
no hostile operation would be undertaken by him
for his own exclusive purposes in the Mediter-
ranean; this pledge he has broken without the con-
sent of his Allies, nay, even without consulting
them, and according to the notions which we have
been accustomed to entertain on such matters, has
thereby rendered himself as unworthy of future
confidence as his policy was, to all impartial ob•
servers, notoriously destitute of principle. Try it
how our ministerial cotemporaries will, " to this
complexion it must come at last."—Morn. Advert.