The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-26 00:00:00

3:11 S G MIL I. A Zif iiii 0 UV.

On Tuesday night information was received at the
various metropolitan police stations of an extensive
robbery of plate and jewellery having taken place at
the house of Mr. Muddell, No. 6, Little St. Thomas
Apostle,Queen-street, Cheapside, the house having been
broken into during the absence of the family on the
night of the 13th inst. A reward of 301. is offered for
the apprehension of the thieves.

On Tuesday afternoon a young woman of respec-
table appearance, attempted suicide by throwing her-
self ofiliankside into the Thames, and as the tide was
high at the time, and no boats in sight, she would in-
evitably have succeeded in her rash design, but for the
prompt and praiseworthy intrepidity of a coalheaver,
named Stephens, who plunged in and succeeded in
grasping her by the hair as she was about to sink. A
boat having by this time come to their assistance, they
were taken up and brought ashore.
The dispute between the colliers and their em-
ployers is the Ashton-under-Lyne districts has been
amicably arranged, the men having received an ad-
vance upon their wages of twopence in the shilling.
Coals have been raised in price one halfpenny per
cwt., which is thought by the manufacturers to be
most exorbitant.

Mr. Templeton is giving a series of musical enter-
tainments in Dublin, from the songs of Burns, and
other Scotch poets, and has been cordially and en-
thusiastically received.
For several days past a considerable number of
vessels, which have been windbound in the Thames
for upwards of a fortnight, have returned to the
harfs and tiers, in order to get a fresh supply of
provisions, the stores which they had at sailing having
been wholly exhausted. The long continuance of
easterly winds has entailed considerable additional
expense on shipping.
A pension of 6001. a year falis into the Civil List
by the death of Lady Ann Culling Smith, sister of the
Duke of Wellington.

NEW YEAR'S-DAY AT WINDSOR CASTLE AND THE
TUILERIES.—A singular, and, perhaps, unprecedented
event, will take place on New Year's-day. The, royal
table at the Tuileries, and the royal table at Windsor
Castle will both be supplied with portions of the same
prize ox, the first of the class at the late cattle show.
Mr. Minton, purveyor to her Majesty, having become
the purchaser, politely offered, through the French em-
bassy, to present his Majesty Louis Philippe with a
sirloin, a rump, and an aitch-bone, for his festival on
New Year's-day. The offer was graciously accepted,
and the immense joint, or rather combination of joints,
for it is in one piece, weighing 44 stone, or upwards of
3501b5., will leave London on Saturday morning by the
General Steam Navigation Company's packet for
Boulogne, where it will be received by Mr. Minton's
agent, who will transmit it by express to Paris, so as to
reach the Tuileries early on Monday morning.
REMARKABLE OPERATION FOR THE CURE OP
CONSUMPTION.—The Medical Gazette contains a long
article from the pens of Dr. Hastings and Mr. Robert
Storks, surgeon, descriptive of a remarkable operation
for the cure of consumption, by the perforation of the
cavity of the lung through the walls of the chest. It
consists in making an opening between the ribs iato the
cavity which forms in the lung during the latter stages
of consumption. The immediate effects of the operation
(which requires only a few seconds for its performance,
and which causes but slight pain) in the case in question
was the diminution of the frequency of the patient's
pulse, which fell in 24 hours from 120 to 68 ; freedom
of respiration which had been a very distressing symp-
tom ; loss of cough and expectoration, both of which had
been very severe. 'This operation, which has established
the possibility of curing this hitherto fatal disease, ap-
pears to have been completely successful ; the report of
the condition of the patient a month after its perform-
ance being, that he was rapidly regaining his flesh and
strength, whilst his respiration had become natural, his
pulse had fallen to 80, and his cough and expectoration
had. wholly ceased. In the article in the Medical Gazette
the symptoms of the patient before and after the.opera-
tion are all narrated at length by Dr. Hastings. The opera-
tion is described by Mr. Storks, by whom it was performed.
We have heard that this operation was tried many years
ago but with littlesuccess; the invaluable assistance to be
derived from the stethoscope in affections of the lungs
being at that time wholly unknown to its originator.
It is not surprising, therefore, that it should have
fallen into disuse when the surgeon had nothing to guide
him to the seat of the disease but pain and increase of
temperature.

TilE HON. G. H. HUTCHINSON.—At the meeting
of the electors of Tipperary, held at Cashel, on Thurs-
day, the Hon. George Holy Hutchinson was unani-
mously named as a candidate by the Repealers of that
county to represent them in the Imperial Parliament.
Mr. Hutchinson, our readers Are aware, is at present on
the Continent, and this selection, therefore, must be
especially grateful to his feelings as being made in his
absence—Cork Examiner.

\VAKEFIELD.—A meeting of the friends of free
trade was held in the Music Saloon, on Tuesday evening
last, to concert measures for putting on the country re-
gister as many free trade voters as possible. J. blicki-e.
thwaite, Esq., occupied the chair, and the v.,:ceting,
was
addressed by R. Cobden, scl.• Bright, Esq
M.P., and ether gentlemen ; lifter wbien resolution.;
were passed in furtherance of the Above object —Halifax
Guardian.

INQXNWltiviii AT WESTOE.—On Thursday morn-
ing hot, abaut half-past two o'clock, a fire was discoveied
burning in an onstead of Mr. Tony Waller's at Westor.
ii,fore it could by got under, about twenty tons of hay
and a quantity of potatoes were destroyed. From ap-
pearance the fire must have been caused by an incen-
diary,—Tyne .ffercury.