The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-29 00:00:00

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❑siderable. What the Vice-
cannot say.— Times.

SIR HENRY POTTINGER.—The intended dinner to
Sir Henry Pottinger at Liverpool will take place on the
evening of Tuesday, December 17, in the great ball-
room at the Town hall. The Mayor will preside. The
ceremony of presenting the piece of plate, which is now
being subscribed for, will take place in the forenoon of
the day.—Manchester Guardian.
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lIY;ROPHODIA.—During the last five or six days
the greatest alarm and excitement have existed through-
out the neighbourhood of Turnham-green and Chis-
wick, in consequence of a mad dog having bitten several
persons and animals. It appears that on Wednesday
week, the 20th inst., a small Scotch terrier dog, the pro-
perty of Mr. G. Battersbee, the landlord of the Prince of
Wales public-house,Turnham- green, which was 18 months
old, and had been in his possession from a puppy, was
observed to be in a very strange and excited state. No-
thing was, however, thought of it, and the dog was allowed
to range about during the day, and it has since been
ascertained that he has bitten several dogs at Chiswick,
Hammersmith, and Brentford ; and also a donkey, be-
longing to a water-carrier, named Clark, at Chiswick.
About twelve o'clock on that day (Wednesday) the dog
followed home from his master s house a young man
named Fowler, in the employ of Mr. Dean, a market-
gardener at Strand .on-the-Green, who resides nearly
opposite the Prince of Wales, and there flew at him,
and bit him severely on the thumb of the right
hand. Fowler shortly afterwards complained to
Mr. Battersbee of the dog having bit him, and laid
his thumb open, but nothing serious was thought
of it at the time. About an hour after, however,
a little boy, between four and five years of age, the son
of Mr. King, a tailor, living two doors from the Prince
of Wales, was bitten in both legs by the dog ; and
subsequently, on the same afternoon, Mr. G. Batters-
bee himself, while sitting in the bar, was bitten by
the animal in the middle finger of the right hand ;
a woman named Brown, a dealer in fish, living at Chis-
wick, while passing the house, was bitten in the leg ;
Mr. C. Battersbee (brother of tha landlord), in the right
thumb ; a man named Stowell, in the employ of Mr.
J. Cloud, liveryman, and Mr. Battersbee, senior, in
the thick part of the thigh. Still no suspicion
was entertained that the dog was in a rabid
state until the evening of the same day, when
the dog was seen to bite the door-posts ; and it becom-
ing know that several persons as well as animals had
been bitten by him, Mr. Battersbee directed that the dog
should be tied up in the stable, which was done. From
that time until Sunday last the dog refused either food
or drink, but foamed at the mouth, and gnawed the straw
on which he was placed, and even the bricks underneath;
and on Sunday he was destroyed. All the persons
known to have been bitten have been placed under me-
dical treatment, and have had the parts cauterised with-
out any unfavourable symptoms having appeared. Nu-
merous dogs in the neighbourhood, supposed to have been
bitten, were yesterday destroyed. Mr. Battersbee has
also destroyed his cats, it being impossible to say to what
extent the virus has been communicated. The young
man Fowler, owing to inflammation extending up his
arm, has since become a patient at St. George's
Hospital.
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.—Since Thursday last,
not less than seventy-seven persons have been admitted
into the workhouse of the Banbury union ; and we be-
lieve we are not mistaken when we state that an equal
number are ready to present themselves for a like pur-
pose. Of the seventy-seven, forty-one are from the
parish of Bloxham, and they entered together on Friday
last, passing through our town in melancholy procession.
—Banbury Guardian.
IMPORTATION OF DUTCII OXEN, POULTRY, AND
POTATOES.—Yesterday afternoon the steam-packet Ba-
tavier, Captain David Dunlop, arrived alongside the St.
Katherine's steam-packet wharf, from Rotterdam, with
passengers, and a miscellaneous cargo. She brought no
fewer than sixty head of live fat oxen and cows, several
thousand live geese, ducks, and turkeys, and a large
quantity of potatoes, of excellent quality.