The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-06 00:00:00

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STATE OF TRADE.
The opening of the pi eseut year affords a pleasing prospect
for the commercial interest ; there seems every probability of a
large business, and the chance of profit is greater than has been
afforded during the last few years. Yet we have no ground for
supposing that every difficulty is over; and we, in great measure,
attribute the improved appearance of mercantile operations just
now rather to increased c,tution and diminished expenditure in
every branch of our import t,nd espert trade, than to any actual
alteration in our relations with foreign countries. We have,
during the past twelve months, been enabled to ship manu-
factured goods at lower rates than at any previous period. The
expenses of manufacturing are reduced by the improvements
of machinery, anti low prices have induced continued large orders
from tho-e markets which are the principal recipients of our
exports ; but one fact must be borne in mind—it is notorious
that our shipments have consisted of a great proportion of
heavy goods, requiring but a small amount of labour from the
operative in comparison with finer fabrics, which used to form
the most conspicuous part of almost every invoice.
Some important alterations of the tariff are justly expected
during the ensuing session. The great benefits that were to ac-
crue from last year's measures have not yet been experienced;
but, in one instance, where a leading article in every house-
hold was at tacked, and the duty placed on anew footing, great
indeed has been the advantage—we allude to coffee, the con-
sumption of which is rapidly increasing under the influence of
reduced prices. In this ease, too, the West India interest is
still protected, at an enormous cost to the consumer, but the
system is not carried out to that absurd and abominable
length which precluded the possibility of admission to foreign
sugar until the consumer has to pay ninepence per pound
for the brownest description that the West Indies afford;
then, and not till then, under the present system, is any
relief afforded, and then only to prevent prices going higher.
Let slave-grown sugar he placed on the same footing as slave-
grown coffee ; and great will be the change ; but let us go
further, and treat it as we do slave-grown tobacco, and the re-
venue would receive an addition in the shape of duty of not
less than five millions sterling per annum. Let us have some
anal.,gy in our fiscal regulations, and we shall immediately
have our commerce established on the best foundations.
During the week there has been again some excitement in
the cotton market; speculators will not leave business to its
natural level, anti even in the face of an addition of 30,000 bales
to the supposed stock, arising from some miscalculation in the
weekly estimates, discovered when the actual stock in the port
was collected, there has been a great business, at rather im-
proved prices. Money is cheap, and if it is to be thrown into
such channels as the cotton market, it will indeed be found to:,
plentiful, and may probably materially affect our manufacturing
; a favourable view is taken
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trade. In all branches of business there is more disposition to get
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Liverpool Mercury.
THE :METROPOLITAN rotc JANUARY.—This :Maga-
zine, always taking rank among the most distinguised periodi-
vale, has commenced the Lew year with strong claims to undi-
minished favour. It has fifteen original contributions of
sparkling talent, from the pens of eminent writers, besides a very
copious miscellany, among which literary criticisms of keen dis-
crimination and sound judgment, constitute a valuable portion
of its notices of new works. The following are among the
original articles :—On the Approaching State Trials—The
Palais Royal—Le Belle Blanche, by Mr. Crawford—A Vision
of Time—The Brother and Sisters—Recollection of a Royalist
Officer—How will it End—Histories and Mysteries, with some
beautiful poetry, from several distinguished pens.— Taunton
Courier.
KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—HOSPITAL PRACTICE.
—A case occurred on Thursday, at the King's College Hospital,
which proves the superiority of London sutgeons.
us do A man,
from near Colchester, was adm Med on the previy
with dislocation of the left humerus, or of the left arm, at
the shoulder socket. He stateC to Mr. Steel, the house-
surgeon, that the dislocation toult place three weeks ago
that he consulted a surgeon immediately after the recep-
tion of the injury, and was told by him that there was no
dislocation. He then consulted two other local surgeons,
who acknowledged the injury, end endeavoured in vain to
remove it. One of the operations lasted nearly five hours, ,
causing the patient the most intense pain. Mr. Steel, asto-
nishedat the recital of these facts, particularly one of them,
when the dislocation was so palprple, ordered the man into a
warm bath, telling him that two o'clock on the following
day Mr. Fergussun, one of the chief surgeons of the hos-
pital, would operate on him. Tr;a patient was kept on low
diet, and an hour previous to the appointed time for the
operation, took a second warm bath. The critical time
arrived ; Mr. Roberts, pupil of I,lr. Fergusson, accompanied
by several students, passed through the ward (the Albert) in
which the patient lay
in bed, into the operating theatre with
the necessary apparatus. Great interest was shown by all
the inmates of the ward for that success of the operation,
rendered extremely difficult by reason of the length of time
that had transpired since the occeirrence of the dislocation.
The presence of Mr. Fergusson, the operator, was announced,
and the patient. rose from his bed cheerfully, and walked into
the theatre. The first attempt failed
owing to looseness of the
apparatus, and the man was brougtit back to his bed still con-
fident. A smaller apparatus having been procured, he again
submitted to the painful operation,
and in less than 15 minutes
the dislocation was reduced, to the infinite satisfaction of the
patient himself, and to the joy of his fellow-sufferers in the
Albert ward. This triumph of London hospital practice is an
additional inducement to the benevolent to support the public
medical metropolitan institutions.
RicitAnn DADD.—The order for the transmission
of this unhappy young man to England is in the hands of the
authorities here; hut it is held back from a kind and merciial
consideration, and will not be rut
in force until a few day
before the commencement of the assizes ; his imprisonment in
the common gaol of the county will consequently be very
Very brief also will be his trial : evidence of his insanity for
some time previous to its melancholy consummation will be
given by one or two of his intimate friends, artists, sufficient to
satisfy the jury, although forming but a small part of the proofs
that might be adduced, if necessary, and the poor fellow will
be at once removed to some lunatic asylum for the remainder
of his sad life. Latest accounts cl3scribe him as in a bad state
of health, but receiving unremitting attention from the persons
under whose care he is placed at rontainbleau.— Art- Union.
TIIE LATE BISHOP OF CLOGIIER.—There was not
so much secrecy observed respecting the latter days of this
miserable man, as our Contemporary the Scotsman supposes.
It was pretty generally known,
that, at the time when he fled
from trial, he was traced to Belfast, where all knowledge of him
was lost, for many years. Subsequently, he was discovered to
be residing at the house of his sister, at Donaghadee ; but none
acquainted with the secret seemed to like the office of dragging
the wretched creature from his hiding-place. He loitered
about his relative's dwelling, dressed, generally, in servant's
livery ; but under a fictitious name. After the lapse of some
years, he became alarmed for his security ; and removed to the
banks of the Clyde, within a short distance of Glasgow;—
taking with him two or three Irish domestics, and assuming
the name of Thomas Wilson. He then dressed in the rustic
Highland garb, and used to wander about the streets, and the
vicinity of the town. He kept up a regular correspondence
with his connexions in Ireland ; and gave away a great deal of
money in pretests to the poor persons who were kind to him
during his concealment at Donaghadee. He lived retired; but,
it is said, still preserved something like style at his table.-.
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