The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-14 00:00:00

UMMARY OF NEWS

AND

Vutilit Optitton,

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
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The cold was still very intense at Paris on Wednesday. At
in the morning of that day, Fahrenheit's thermometer marked s,
by 17 below freezing.
The Memorial des Pyrenees eontains accounts of the falling of
several avalanches in the Valley of Ossau. A number of ids
and sheds filled with cattle were buried In the snow at Aae,but 00
human lives were lost. 00
The cold in the South appears to have been very greit'•
Monday morning, at, seven o'clock, the thermometer at 1414-
marked 101 degrees centigrade below zero (14 Fahrenheit).
A few days ago, a great mass of the snow which covered t°'
the
plateau upon the slope of the mountain which overhear .A
village of Moliere, in the Ave)ron, fell upon the s
the
buried four houses, with their inhabitants. Several of tbif
inhabitants were deg out alive, but eleven persons perished

disaster. oat
We read in the Presse :—." Among the instructions'anu n-
which the Duke de Broglie carries with him to England, thefts],
said to be a project drawn up by M. Bonet, Governor of Stns
who is still in Paris. The plan proposed by M. Bonet weulf/141,
are assured, advantageously modify the treaties of 1831 and I
ha
We are ignorant, ho sever, in wt it
The Constitutionnel publishes a cop,consists. of the" commercial tressoll
between France and China. It consists of thirty-five
is similar in every respect to that which has bees concluded_
^
England. •

LITERATURE.
AN APOLOGY FOR THE IvEIiVES; or et
Influence and Importance in Health and Disease.
Sir George Lefevre, M. D., Fellow of the Royal Celli
of Physicians, late Physician to the British Emeryor
the Con, t of St. Petersburgh. dJc. London,
man and Co., 1844. read'
This is certainly the most popular, the most,_Acil
able, and the most understandable physiowirxe
treatise we have ever met with. The recent
i-of
coveries of Liebig seem to have turned the heita*bs
our modern physiologists. They look to nOtbiltie
the mere chemical composition of the solids as
fluids, and are fast retrograding into the explode
surdities of humoral pathology. They are a sriftr
of medical Puseyites, who, paying attention els;
sively to externals, neglect that by which aloir
_;,l
would be otherwise the lifeless form becomes ablolwi.,
and lives, and moves, and has its being. In thPir:44l
tems the nerves go for nothing. It was high or
that a protest should be entered against these erlig
sive views ; and we are rejoiced to say then ' so
could not have found a better apologist than b'
George Lefevre. He is a shrewd observer,
ample opportunities for observing, and has tll/110,
them to excellent account. But it is not alone
of
scientific production that this work is worthi tbe
praise. The ordinary reader will find it on pd
most entertaining of books • The legislator
a of
statesman may find in it much that is W"73/004
study. We quote his observations on physic
and phrenology as an instance : 110
" Lavater is too much forgotten in the present dart' Vie'
facial angle cannot but persuade those who study 'pee
fully, that they can read the man in his physiognonlo4oftet
We
is nothing repulsive to religion or morality in these bolo fl 0:&
The same Almighty power which created the W ,re S'
e
have assigned different functions to its parts. _averi
all created with the same moral or physical Pv" do le
Paul has said that some enjoy gifts which other: of
t_a
But all phrenologists are not agreed as to the sethere c",;,
organs of specific moral qualities ; and so lonf as Loot 0;,
' be any doubt upon such a point, the whole science
_,OO
solve as the baseless fabric of a vision. It is soieefAity et;
jected to phrenology, that it is an apology for iMco°'let
crime, and that the vicious may screen themselvelb7if
cloak. This objection, however, cuts both Waist thee °not
actions or propensities depend upon organization, bold
_ao
good or ill is not voluntary on our parts. liVe 5.000
have more power to do ill in one case than of refral
it in the other. That certain states and conditionbst. 14;
brain do influence moral actions, is beyond all d!;e240.4",.
only do the various forms of insanity prove it, but eTna erre
conquerable propensities manifested by some "not en,a,el
puted of sound mind. The disposition to steal is Iva°,
quently innate, where no plea of want can justifY let'sitr4o
the son of a Polish nobleman who had this pmetbe Owor
thing could cure him. All means had been tneo4 for fehitto
and the severest, but to no purpose. There aref volt iti,
keepers in London who cannot point out persons Lportio.
will readily lay out 1001., yet, if they have an ,ur;i00oot
will steal a yard of lace. It is useless to multiKving ife
stances. Accidental circumstances coincide giappell'oll
weight to the opinion of physical cerebral derantco
fluencing the moral man. The most pious ha" ew 000
reprobates by a fall from a horse. I, myself, 900 fot
stance of a highly-gifted youth becoming a dull, bioDS
from this very cause. He laboured under cones
joi
some time, and recovered all but his senses. t ?leo
" Dissection does not always afford us suffielloosad
evidence. Our senses are too obtuse to identifY,l tinit,F:o4l
conditions, but we have sufficient moral proofs in 04_700
thing does occur,—that some change in the balance„,a guo
some disorganization of the nervous mass; for Ire po Pip
and relations, with whose well-regulated conduct' igto,,,r
been all our lives conversant, launch out at once
t;;!sl
most extravagant course of life, sometimes sorae
rent provocation, while at others we attribute it to
unsatisfactory cause." 1301113
A work on the nervous system, which ,_s the
twin no allusion to mesmerism, would be 111',Dej. ,/
of Hamlet with the part of 'Hamlet omit' tyoblco."
following are some of his observations on this ,r
" MESMERIS3L—This subject must be considerfseeS_L.l4
gically and morally. In the latter sense it sot
thing which can come within the cognizance of girp
and, at all events, is out of the pale of medical
inie,tiatt.l/0
exhibitions which we have daily made before le, ~„13 ettl
only be referred to the class of miracles. Lt 00111".
amiss to warn the public how far, and by vrhat.:d pe.atra",
of machinery, systematic imposture may be cell' phaSr
" Considered physiologically, it may be asked ,es, is'
and what is new in these histories ? and wiberierlepyi
view, the whole be not reducible to exciteo.
fluence, which has at all times prevailed olut_lieoraf
circumstances, without usurping any specific 11_r401,70,,
" There is nothing new in the discovery, tre
suspended by moral impression ; the number i thill,awesf6
' comparatively few of those who have not pre:!_a! `;;tottij
own persons. The pain of toothache is rnbni-tale
severe as any to which flesh is heir—the stoU,
i j 0
down by it. The celebrated Tom Crib was autito ite
his muscular force during a fit of it ; and Ye' 'rust
A bye
pain, this torture which often makes a well era-, 'y
against the wall, is entirely dissipated, not IlLd. ae. la,(
moment, but for weeks ;—not by oils and opia'-'5'0.0„,„e fer,
extracting iron, but by the simple rap at th__wt,
who is supposed to have the irons in his lw ye ere 'Weir,'
of incurring a momentary pain still more slater.
geffpo?
one in operation, is sufficient to expel the i .0f 0. ihe
quire no name for this phenomenon ; we ePei:". c 50.41;
and we see, in this instance, that moral catifi3l
upon the nervous system, and suspend phYslithelN trio
pain in question being referable to irritation o be 0.34,44
the passions of the mind, of which fear is one'nerveo:i'rof.il,
wrought upon, the sentient condition of the
x,trocteo4,ooo;
so paralysed as to allow the tooth to be, l'to tbysseest, ir
limb to be amputated, without causing Paftbese ce'sts
I see no reason to doubt of the veracity' 0' .0 sesr:_, pi air
I can find no object in deception, no reason frdioar/oottaito
sion, because there is nothing more extrao;be coo bi
effects of the will directing all its powers to ;frectetirepiefie
tion of one object, than that this should b! which
sod
operation of one passion. It is the fai,t" Os, st„ti'
mountains. This is a word which selalkfooket.' /COO
medical levees ; it sits at the gate like ,a its re,_`-.00010.
is sure to triumph. It will finish by bangt_lgd tleth . 0
cisni and credulity. It is the same that cui of it 0100
of hemorthagy, and the man at the 11°°0„er? It to
Why should we suppose that its reign is one bliol°, e'
paramount in the present day as in times 501
existed from the beginning eof time, and,
.istencerSiafool
end. It is a part and parcel of our moral eSe Pot
presents a great power equal to a host or ann.' it .for
influence over our moral and physical beilAi to be the flno
own disposal ; it is not in the earnest otoe, teaP 0100
those who do, and do in right , 1, 000„es .40
of what some would style their weaknsTed pith qbeirto
their weakness. None are so well acquale Jong °of IB°
who found systems upon it, which last *94 nod le
oot
fan the flame; for it will sometimes go °l' pod Ot
rekindled. arentili es the tb°
"In a physiological sense, all these aIT„ niesu.eno
phenomena are true, but they are bY,roperan ode,
the rest of mesmerism, as far as ".. thiegeoje.:oll
mind are concerned, and its knowledgat°o, to Al
new ;it will require undeniable evatett_a, „Ad..- a,
true. If they be, they rank with :airflow° guy
the pale of physiology." at 44.6 ?
We had marked out several otberbook
P, butfr
of
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tation from this very delightful take lei &Aft)
space compels us to omit them. fop for
George Lefevre with a high admiral' I.:0i ar"
- fro. 4
and with an ardent wish soon to roeet 0
rs woe° to 91"--
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amounting to fifty, desirous to testify ttne War. r.,
for so worthy a nobleman, sat down ,tnial and ni oD.'d
Ronan's Hotel, to a dinner of a most suhstaly: caraP2nuen;olo,,
Hon. Mr. Locker, supported by Or Rite!:. ratrielc Pt'i the ao or-
Brydon, Esq., on the right, and by hee her
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Railway are progressing very
The works on the Brig Farm 14,aunroewiigeebrs:tunliqi,o,
ards tll , the IP-
pleted, will be about six hundred ___,dwity
cr.i.doge jreef
sunk at the summit of the hill, itearlY,.u.and weettdLawi
the bottom of the shaft, diverging ea_'considerftlr.l7,o bete CO
eight feet square have been made tol Afty
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east, a length of about three hundred,l.unsi7ogre
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reached ; but in the western directiolTal.4o3.loll, racseotillros.
so rapid, in consequence of the grea.%, and nc'edditiellt tb
and (lay gangs are constantly- at „Tat
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