The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-12 00:00:00

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PRICE 111.

her! ! The prisoner seemed much distressed in his mind;
he wept, and had a handkerchief in his hand.
Mr. haws Marrs, surgeon, and Dr. Atkinson, deposed
that any one of the wounds was suffident to cause death.

John Armstrong, constable, produced a quantity of
clothes' which were literally steeped in gore. The marks
on the but had been evidently struck with a round-headed
instrument resembling a hamtncr. The constable got the
clothes produced from Mary Graham, where the deceased
lodged; but he did not see them taken from her body.
The Coroner aked the prisoner his mime, when he
audibly replied, ".Philip Tinneley."
Mr. Lowry informed him that he did not wild' him to
make any confession ; when the prisoner coolly replied, " I
have made one already."
The Jury retired, (merely for form's sake, for they were
perfectly satisfied), and in three or four minutes returned,
finding a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Philip Tin,-
neley.

The prisoner is a diminutive man of unprepossessing.ti-
terior, and altogether very shabby in his appearance.—
Whilst Armstrong, the constable, was showing the Jury
the bloody clothes of the deceased, the prisoner stood with
his hat partly over his face, eyeing them askance. A copious
perspiration spread over his face, and the convulsirfe heav-
ing of his breast clearly indicated the emotions contendirig
within. But though he -was apparently labouring under
much mental suffering, when spoken to by the Coroner,
he returned a very ludible and collected answer. During
the. time he was before the Jury, he stood with his eyes
Closed, and only opened them to look upon the clothes of
the deceased, which he had so shockingly stained with her
flood. There was a dark scowl upon • his countenance,
which gave to his person a forbidding and rather terrific
appearance.

SINGULAR CASE OF RECOVERY OF SIGHT.

The following ease is from the .Philosophical Transac.
lions just published:—When about six months old the
patient, who was born blind, was placed under a Parisian
oculist, who performed an operation on both eyes. The
operation proved unsuccessful, the right eye was attacked
with inflammation and completely destroyed, and in the
left the vision was not restored. The lady continued in
this situation till after she had reached her forty-sixth year,
when she applied to Mr: Wardrop. This gentleman found
the right eye-ball collapsed, but the left possessing its
natural globuled form, with a transparent. cornea,- but
obliterated pupil. She mull distinguish a very dark from
a light room, but was not able to perceive the situatiowof
the windoW from which the light came. -On the 26th of
January, he operated on this lady, after which she could
perceive more light, although she was unable to distinguish
either forms or colours. ihe result of the first attempt
justified the favourable views entertained of the state of
the retina, and the propriety of a second operation, was
determined on. On the Bth of February, Mr. Wardrop
repeated the operation, after which the power of vision was
not: nitch increased. The operation was again performed
ort•tte'l7th of the same month, with complete success.
She returned home in a carriage from the house in which
the operation was performed, with her eye covered only
with a loose piece of silk. The first thing she noticed,
was haekney-coach passing, when she biai t 1 " What is
that large thing that has passed by us ?" In the course
of the evening she requested her brother to show her his
watch, concerning which she expressed much curiosity,
and she looked at it a considerable time, holding it close
to her eye. She was asked what she saw, and she said
there was a dark and a bright side; she pointed to the
hour of 12, and smiled. ller brother asked her if she saw
any thing more? she replied, " Yes," and pointed to the
hour of 6, and to the hands of the watch. She then
looked at the chain and seals, and observed that one of the
seals was bright, which was the case, being a solid piece
Of rock crystal. The next day Mr. Wardrop asked her to
look again at ' the watch, which she refilsed to do, saying
that the light was offensive to her eye, and that she felt
very stupid; meaning, that she was much confused by the
visible world thus for the first time opened to her. On
the third day she observed the doors on the' opposite side
of the street, and asked if they were red, but they were hi
fact of an oak colour. In the evening she looked at her
brother's face, and said that she saw his nose ; he asked
her to touch it, which she did; he then slipped a handker-
chief over his face, and asked to look spin, when she
playfully pulled it off, and naked, What is that ?"
On the sixth day, she told us that she saw better than
she had done on any preceding-Ally ;." but I cannot tell what
Ido see;. I am" quite stupid." She seemed, indeed, he.
wildered from' not being able to combine the knowledge
acquired by the senses of touch and sight, and felt disap-
pointed in not having the, power of distinguishing at once,
by her eye, objects which she could Bo 'readily distinguish
from one another 'by feeling them.
On the seventh day she took notice of the mistress of
the house in which she lodged, and observed that she was
tall. She asked whit the colour of her gown was ? To
which she was answered, that it was blue;" so is that
thing on your bead," she then observed; which was the
case : " and your handkerchief, that is a different colour ;"
which was also correct. She added, " I see you pretty
well, I think." The tea-cups and saucers underwent an
examination " What are they like ?" her brother asked
her. " don't know," she replied; " they look very queer
to me ; hut I can tell what they are in e minute when I
touch them." She distinguished an' orange on the chimney
piece, but could form no notion of what it was till she
touched it. She seemed now to have becorne more cheer-

lid, and entertained greater expectation of comfort from
her adinission into the visible world; and she was very
sanguine that she would find her newly-acquired faculty of
more Use to her when she returned home, where every
thing was faMiliar to her.
On the eighth day, she asked her brother, when at
dinner, What he was helping himself to 'r" and when
she was told it was a glass of port wine she replied," Port
wine is dirk, and lOoks to me very ugly." She observed
when candles were brought into. the rani,' her brother's
face in the mirror, as well as that of a lady who was pre-
sent; she also walked, for the first time without assistance,
from a chair to a sofa' which was on the opposite side of
the room, and back again to the chair. When at tea, she
took notice of the tray, observed the shining of the japan
work, and asked, " What the colour was round the edge ?"
she was told that it was yellow; upon which -she remarked,
" I will know that again.

Eighteen• .
motions,ts h e r
f fed, Mr. Wardrop attempted to aseertain.by a few ex-
days aft-er the last operation
~liad been
petiole precise notions .of the colour, size, forth, po..
and distances of
.external objects: She
saw the difference of colours; that is, she received
siivtiznoy
and was sensible of different impressions from different
colours. When pieces of paper one and a half inch square,
itrigdifferentlysiitishecod themloured' were presented to her, she not only
dat once one from another, but gave a
decided preference to some colours, liking yellow most, and
thml Paciit pink. It may be here mentioned, that when de-
sirousxam.ining•an object, she had considerable diffi-
cultyin directing her, eye to it, and finding out its position,
,aring her hand as well as her eye in various directions,
as a permit ' when blindfolded, or in the dark, grtniefi with
his hands for what he wishes to touch. She also distin-
guished a large from a
small object, *he'll they were boll,.
held up before her for comparison, she s„sia she saw dit-

Arent forms in various objects which were shown to ter.
On asking what she meant by different forms, such as long,
round, and square, and desiring her to draw with her finger
these forms on her other hand, and then presenting to her
eye the respective forms, she pointed to them exactly; she
not only distinguished small from large objects, but knew
what was meant by above and below; to prove which, a
figure drawn with ink was placed before her eye, having
one end broad, and the other narrow, and she saw the po-
sitions as they really were, and not inverted. She could
also perceive Motions; for when a glass of water was placed
on the table before her, on approaching her hand near it,
it was moved quickly to a greater distance, upon which she
immediately said, " You move it ; you take it away."
She seemed to have the greatest difficulty in finding out
the distance of any object; for when an object was held
close to hex eye, she would search for it by stretching: her
hand far beyond its position, while, on other occasions,
she groped close to her own face for a thing far removed
fmm her.

She learned with facility the names of the different co-
lours, and two days after the coloured papers had been
shown to her, Oil coming into a room, the colour of which
was crimson, she observed, that it was red. She also ob-
served some pictures haniiing on the red wall of the room
in which she was sitting, distinguishing several small figures
in them, but not knowing what they represented, and ad-
miring the gilt frames. On the same day she 'walked
round the pond in St. James's-square, and was .pleasedwith the glistening of the sun's rays on the Water, as well
as with the blup sky and green shrubs, the colours of which
she named correctly.
It may be here observed, that she she had yet acquired
'fy the use ffer sight, but, very little knoilledge of any
forms, and was unable to apply the information gained by
this new sense, and to compare it with what she bad been
accustomed to acquire by her sense of touch. When,
therefore, the experiment was made of giving her a silver
pencil-case and a large key to examine with her hands, she
discriminated and knew each distinctly; but when they
were placed on the table, side 'by side, though she distin-
guished each with her eye, yet she could not. tell which
was the pencil-case and which was the key.
From this period till the time of her leaving London, on
the 31st of March, being forty-two days after the opera-
tion, she had acquired a pretty accurate notion of colouri,
their different shades and names. Her knowledge of dis-
tance and of forms was very incomplete, and there was oni-
siderable difficulty in directing the eye to an object. She,
however, entertained the hope, that when sbe got houie,
her knowledge of external things would be more accurate
and intelligible, and that when she came to look at those
objects which had been so long familiar to her touch, the
confusion, which the multiplicity of external objects now
caused, would in a great measure subside.
There is no other case on record of the sight being
restored at such an advanced age; in the celebrated in-
stance recorded by Chiselden, in the 35th volume 'of the
Transactions of the Royal Society, the boy, who was Also
born blind, received his sight at the age of fourteen. In that
case, also, the boy could distinguish, before the operation,
black, white, and scarlet, and when in good light, he had
that degree of sight which generally continues in an eye
affected with cataract; whereas in the lady whose case we
have given above, the pupil being completely closed, no
'light could reach to the retina except such as could pass ,
through.the substance of the iris.

FATAL. ACCIDENT OFF WOOLWICH, THREE
PERSoNS DROWNED.—OR Sunday MOTaillg, Mr.
Brown, jun., the son of the master intendant of 'Wool.
with Dock-yard, Mr. Cranch, feather-dresser, of
Wilson-street, Moorfields, and another gentleman,
attended by one of the men from the Dock-yard, Went
on an excursion of pleasure in a sailing boat, when,
from some cause, not yet ascertained, the boat was
upset, and Mr. Cranch, Mr. Brown, and the boatman,
net a watery grave, the other gentleman was .saved.
' r. ernneb's body was found shortly after the accident,
but too late for resuscitation. The other bodies have
not yet been found.
DANGERS OF THE ICE-BERGs.—,4 The ice soon
beginning to dose around Us, our progress became so
slow, that on the 17th (July) we saw a ship at the
margin of the park, and two more on the following
day. • We supposed these to be whalers, which, after
trying to cross the ice to the northward, had returned
to make the attempt in the present latitude; (71.02.) ;
a supposition which our subsequent difficulties-served
to strengthen. From this time, indeed, the obstruc-
tions froni the quantity, magnitude, and closeness of
the ice, were such as to keep our people constantly
employed in heaving, warping, or sawing through it,
and yet with so little success, that at the close of the
month of July, we had only penetrated seventy miles
to the westward, or to the longitude of about 62. 10.
Hera, while closely beset, on the Ist of August, we
encountered a hard gale from the south-east, which
pressing the ice together in every direction; by mass
overlaying mass for hours together, the' Hecla received
several very awkward nips, and was once fairly laid
on her broadside by a strain which must inevitably
have crushed a vessel of ordinary strength. In such
cases, the ice is forced under a ship's bottom, on one
side, and on the other up her side; both powers acting:
in such a manner as to bring her on her beam-ends.
This is, in fact, the most favourable manner in which
a ship can receive the pressure, and would, perhaps,
'only occur with ice comparatively net very heavy,
though sufficiently so, it is said, to have run complete
over a ship in someextreme and fatal cases. With
ice of still more formidable dimensions, a vessel would,
probably, by an equal degree of pressure,"ha absolutely
crushed, in consequence of the increased difficulty of
sinking, it on one side, and causing it to rise on the
othee---' Captain Pirirjs Third J'oyage.

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We learned yesterday, from authority which we can-
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the loan of 8,000,0
doubt, that of
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of
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paidhas ailtri eatiddyl:
instalment is not due till January. Of this payment
4,300,0001. have been paid in money, and 3,000,000/.
in Exchequer-bills. it will be recollected, that. the
Chancellor of the Exchequer made a great flourish of
his intention to pay the Bank out of this sum, 6,000,0004
of the debt due to that corporation. Those who are
not well versed in Treasury rhetoric and Treasury pro-
fessions, will be surprised to learn that the whole sum '
panic an paid amounts to about 300,0001.! It may be said that
the Bak does not require to be paid; that may or
may not be; but as it is the interest, as well as duty,
of the Government to pay this debt, there must bet
What it
some valid reason to prevent the payment. I
is, we cannot undertake to assert, positively ; but the
best informed believe that there is a considerable
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minutimi of the ordinal "Ys and
great draught made dtirmg I
n tle
f a neinaillr extraorgi-
banks and the arrotthe s,"is v d• it i ,
,
present istress, make m .
Go rnment to keep the engagement to
possible 1." vied d We stated on Saturday that
which it stood p 0 ge .
Ao 10,000 men in road-
Mr„ McAdam is about to.CIIIII y ,
nary supplies during the
hence do the funds arise for this employ-
anentDoe Government
Is money for such an object. . s
out .its ilf ' Twin) district itself is too impoverished to lay
supply the funds ? Without.. stopping to discuss
that
Iltquently expressed de-
terminationis totally at variance with the
propriety of such a contribution, we may say i
any public money for the relief of the distressed die-
of Ministers that. they would not advance
tricts.— Times.