The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-05 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, JAN. 2.—The King, accompanied by M. Con..
way, set out this morning for his country seat at Ardenne.
This evening, at eleven o'clock, a funeral service was per-
formed in the church of St. Jacques, near Candenburgh, on
occasion of the anniversary of the death of Princess Mary,
liuchess of Wurtemberg, sister of the Queen of the Belgians.
A great number of persons of distinction were present at this
service, which his Majesty causes to be performed every year.
The Queen was accompanied by the Countess de 14Ierodi ; the
Marquis de Rumigny, the French Ambassador; the Duke de
Bassarra, Chief Secretary of the Legation ; all the Blinisters,
the persons composing the Royal household, some Senators'
Deputies, &c., were present. Her Majesty and all the per-
sons of her household, were in deep mourning.
The Moniteur publishes the 14w which fixes at 4f. per 1,000
kilogrammes the import duty on Jarley till Dec. 31, 1844, and
which enacts that when wheat is exempt from import duty,
the Government may subject rye, to the same regime.
The Moniteur, of the 3d, contains several columns of com-
plimentary addresses to their Majesties, in the name of the dif-
ferent public bodies, on New Yedr's Day.
ROME, DEC. 23.—A few hours since Count Von Manteuffel,
Aide-de-Camp to Prince Albert of Prussia, arrived here, ex-
press from Berlin, bringing to th air Royal Highnesses Princess
Albert and Prince Henry of Prussia, the intelligence of the
death of the Count of Nassau. Notwithstanding the deep
snow, he performed the journey in eight days and a half.
The Ru-sian General Paskewiteh, brother of the Prince of
Waraw, died this afternoon.

P. S.—'l he melancholy news of the death of her father has
induced Princess Albert to give op her plan of remaining here
for the season. She has determined to leave Rome within a
week, and return to Berlin.—Ad9emeine Zeitung, Dec. 30.

RICHARD DADD.—The order for the transmission
this unhappy young man to England is in the hands of the
•
author„ :es here; h but it is held back from a kind and merciful
.
consideration, and will not be put in fore.
e
until a few days
before the corn me.-:cem en t of the assizes; his imprisonment in
^ county will consequently be very brief.
the common gaol of ti •
Very brief also will be" his trial evidence of his insanity for
some time previous to its sceits...'6„°lY consummation will be
artists, sufficient to
given by one or two of his intime,e hiiend3'
satisfy the jury, although forming but a nallpart of the proofs
that might be adduced, if necessary, and poor fellow will
for
he remainder
,
,b,
his
soncead l
ifree.m removed
Latest. t
accountsso e laan
dat,
sice
bsyin e
him
as
in a
bad state
of health, but receiving unremitting attention from theia..rsons
under whose care he is placed at Fontainbleau. —Art- Union,
KING'S COLLEGE lIOSPITAI..—HOSPITAL PRACTICE.
A case occurred yesterday, at the King's College Hospital,
which proves the superiority of London surgeons. A man,
from near Colchester, was ads fitted on the previous day
with dislocation of the left humerus, or of the left arm, at
the shoulder socket. He stater: to Mr. Steel, the house-
surgeon, that the dislocation took place three weeks ago;
that he consulted a surgeon immediately after the recep..
tion of the injury, and vt as tole. by him that there was no
dislocation. He then consulted two other local surgeons,
who acknowledged the injury, tad endeavoured in vain to
remove it. One of fix operations lasted nearly five hours,
causing the patient the most hitt ase pain. Mr. Steel, asto-
nished at the recital of these fact's, particularly one of them,
when the dislocation was so palpeble, ordered the man into a
warm bath, telling him that two o'clock on the following
day Mr. Fergusson, one of the chief surgeons of the hos-
pital, would operate on him. T'r.e 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 Mr. 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 the success of the operation,
rendered extremely difficult by reason of the length of time
that had transpired since the occurrence of the dislocation.
The presence of Mr. Fergusson, tb-r 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 brougnt 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 Lcodon hospital practice is an
additional inducement to the benevolent to support the public
medical metropolitan institutions.
The .Britannia steamer, Captain Hewitt, has just
sailed (seven r. sr. ) carrying thi, mails to Halifax, Nova
Scotia, and Boston, United States ; the mails for Canada
alone weighed upwards of a tun aed a half, and the number
of letter and newspaper bags made a total of 128.
A Correspondent of 'lite San papor, enclosed to the
editor, in a letter from Cowes, Isla of Wight, flowers of all
seasons, indicative of the extreme mildness of the weather,
and, no doubt, as a strong hint, touching the soft loveliness of
the air i a the warm south coast of England. But we can tell
The Sun's Corresponeent (for it is a Sun's affair) that at
Stonehouse, between Devoneort and Plymouth, in a garden
behind Messrs. Payne and Wrentmore's premises, is a tree now
garnished with two hundred apples as large as wallnuts ; not
a confectioner's tweltth night show, but placed there by
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand. We warpass them at
Cowes, we have had flowers (blossom), and fruit—Plymouth
Journal.