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QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord DENMAN and a special
jury.)
BAKER V. LOWE.
This was an Action brought .by the plaintiff, who is a sur-
geon, residing at Hampton, against the defendant, who is a
half-pay officer, to recover a sum of 1931., for services per•
formed by the plaintiff for the defendant in his professional
capacity—also for medicine.
Mr. Chambers, Mr. Peacock, and Mr. Sewell, were for
the plaintiff; and Mr. Crowder conducted the defendant's
case.

It appeared that the defendant was attacked on the 16th
of September, 1842, with spontaneous gangrene of the toe,
1 being this period about sixty-one years of age, and in pre-
vious rood health. At first he felt a severe pain, and in tour
days Mr. Baker amputated the toe. Inflammation proceeded,
and on the Gth of December Mr. Liston was called in,
and ordered a soothing treatment, a stimulating one, con-
sisting of brandy and wine, having been used by Mr. Baker.
The gangrene had extended so far, that the defendant lost
his leg. Mr. Baker sent in his bill of 193/., but the defendant
said that he lost his leg in consequence of the injudicious
treatment of Mr. Baker. However, he offered to allow the
plaintiff 941., which was refused.
The principal interest resulted from the different opinions
of the medical men who were examined.
Mr. Liston, Mr. Partridge, Mr. Perry, and Mr. Bransby
Cooper were examined on the part of the plaintiff; who indi-
cated some of them—more cautiously than others—that
the application of stimuli was not improper treatment, and
that the application of the knife was right where what was
called " the line of demarcation" was properly marked.
On. the part of the defendant, Mr. Lawrence gave a decided
opinion that a stimulating treatment was improper in this
r case ; that it was always better to leave nature to throw off the
diseased part, and that it was impossible for the line of
demarcation to be sufficiently marked in four days to justify
the use of the knife. Mr. Aston Key and Mr. Skey gave
pretty nearly similar evidence.
The foot of the unfortunate gentleman was in Court to
assist the surgical gentlemen in their operations.
Ilis Lone suir having summed up the evidence,
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for 138/. 14s. ;
also finding that there was no want of skill in the plaintiff.

SPIRIT of th. PUBLIC JOURNALS.
?Rom THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The Premier has taken a bold course. While
he remains in office the income-tax must be continued. He
has no alternative, except giving up the protective system ;
and as that would, in all ,probability, involve the imme-
diate relinquishment of office, it is to be avoided at all risks.
On the whole, the most obvious inference, from a review
of the statement of last night, is, that Sir Robert
is painfully conscious of the failure of his financial
schemes of the last three years. Nothing has been success-
ful but the income-tax, the imposition of which involved
no financial ability beyond that which is every day displayed
in the parish vestry—an estimate of the amount of income to
be taxed, and of the percentage upon it which will yield the sum
required. Even in this ho was far from accurate. The produce
was estimated at considerably less than 4,000,000/.—it yielded
more than 5,000,0001. Vast apparent changes were made
in the tariff with the ostensible object of largely dimi-
nishing the cost of subsistence, and so increasing consumption
as to revive the ordinary sources of revenue. At the end of
three years the cost of subsistence is found not to be sen-
sibly affected ; and any increase in the consumption of taxed
articles, and consequently of revenue, is traceable directly to
causes which would equally have operated under any system
of taxation not involving an entire stoppage of our foreign
trade. As a general rule, wherever the tariff has been
altered, the result has been a loss of revenue. The
duty on copper-ore smelted for home consumption,
forms, we believe, the only exception. This, however, as it
amounted merely to the removal of a prohibition, originally
absurd, and which had long been found practically injurious
to all concerned, and is, in reference to the great objects now
in view, extremely trifling—would be unworthy of notice,
were it not thus singular. A comparison of the tariff as it
stood before and after the changes made in July, 1842, is
sufficient to show that the reductions of duty were almost
entirely upon articles (as, for instance, drugs and other
things of a similar nature, used in medicine, and in various
manufacturing processes) upon the price of which, to the
ultimate consumer, the duty can never have more than a
very slight effect. The inefficacy of such reductions, for the
purpose of reducing prices, extending consumption, and so
materially increasing the quantity of the article brought to
char e, cannot indeed be better expressed than it was by
Sir R. Peel himself, some years ago. "I know," he said
in his speech on the Budget in 1830, "from experience, and
it is easily proved with respect to several articles the duties
on which have been reduced, that the benefit of the
reduction is enjoyed by the dealers, and that the
remission I
article does not decrease in proportion to the rprice
ealic.e o.fnth oe.
duty." Sir Robert's deductions, from 4‘ expeefitenn cbee, ''
correctmade
fifteen years ago, have now been amply pros
—not " easily, if we consider that the
years time, and a good
many millions of money—but,
experiment has been
conducted at the expense
mon uot, of
tithr is to be hoped, sufficiently
to convince all future
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sent Government sources has
more clear than
have not only had no share in
producing such increase—that it has arisen solely from
the increased prosperity of the country, which has rera-
tufted from the recent extension of our trade with foreign
countries—but that the increase from these sources would
have been much larger, while the real burden upon the
country would not have been materially greater, had no
alterations whatever been made. In short, the " expository
statement," lately published, furnishes conclusive proof
that no modification of our system of indirect taxation
which a Minister, supported by what are called the
" protected interests," can possibly effect, will furnish
the means of dispensing with an income-tax. " Protection"
has now been continued to the point at which it renders the
ordinary income of the country permanently inadequate to
its expenditure. To rescue those whose interests are identified
with " protection" from the growing influence of a sound
commercial policy—to preserve the vicious and absurd ar-
rangement by Which the effective weight of our taxation
upon the productive resources of the country is more than
doubled, recourse must now of necessity be had to a direst
tax, admitted to be unjust, because unequal in its operation,
and necessarily attended with the exercise of arbitrary and
inquisitorial powers which' nothing but the diarest_n_ectm
sity can justify in a count.ry such as Great trltain.
The result may not be inamedtatel,y 0/2110us .ll
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THE FUNDS—(CLOSING PRICES.)
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock . .......................... 212% 211% 211%
3 3 per Cent. Reduced ........... -.. 1001/8 100 100
per Cent. Consols ................ 991 A%
99%
New 314 per Cents ....... ... 1033.4%
Long Annuities to expireJan.ls6o 12 1-16% 112'`1
1/8
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859... 1174
12
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860... 11 13-16
South Sea Stock
Consols for Account.... .......
....... 99%9:i 117
9
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 114 d.... 54 56
pm. 56
56
Ditto 500/. .
PRICES OF FOREIGN ONE CLOSING
FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 14 Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 14
.. ... 433/4
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 35,74 35r
Ditto, Account 36 3534 35.
Ditto, Deferred Stock 1614 16,4
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents —
Ditto, Account — 3'
Russian Bonds
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto, Account .••
French, 3 per Cent
Exchange 2sf. 70c. 25f. 70c.
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 98N74 9827 ii
Ditto, 5 per Cent
99 lAt 994
PRICES OF
CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Binn PRICES.
....in. and Gloucester. 100
.. 135 ... ...... ..... 136
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New.... .
Bristol and Gloucester 3O
...... 59 60
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 3 ,i,36 3.
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Churnet Valley ......... 2
5-
Direct /8 /16 /2•• •
Cornwall -
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast Junc. 214 SJ/4
Eastern -Conn.; les l4l. 163....... 171 36'
Easteru Union lO
Ditto Extension
31%
Ely and Bedford ...... ... 1 ......
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
2
/
Great North of England-100 179
Ditto New....
Ditto New
Great Western ... 80 ......178 176 .........
Ditto 1/4 Shares
London and Birminghm (5t0ck)......235 ...........
Ditto, Quarters 2
London and Bright0n... 50
London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d lOl/2 ...............
London and S. Western 41/6310d 79.2 ... ............
Ditto New 21,4 l2A3i
Ditto New 2 . . 9%.
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 1941834
Ditto Guaranteed 5 per
Cent.
London and York 2l/2 7 6%
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Leeds... 73
Ditto 1/2 Shares
Manchester and Birrnin. 40
Midland... 100 127 1262
Ditto New 2 81/2
Midland, Birm., Derby...loo ..... 95
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 24 .. . 48
Newcastle and Berwick 114 ..... .. 171,4 1614
Newcastle and Carlisle...loo ...... 121
North British
Ditto New 1
North Kent
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Oxford and Worcester... 2% 2IS
Rugby,Wor'ster,&Tring 1
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 214 7 678 714 694
South Devon
South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 411,1 42
Ditto, No. 1
Ditto, No. 2.
Ditto, No. 3
South Wales
Trent Valley 2
.. 18/4
1/
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ....
York and North Midland 50 lO6
Ditto 1,4 Share 3
25
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens-. 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Lyons and Avignon
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... ilb
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 6-
Paris and Orleans ...... ... 20
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
Tours andeNantes 1
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia ...