The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-28 00:00:00

WORALLL V. JENKINS.

This was an action brought to recover the amount
due upon a promissory note of 20/. It appeared that
a person of the name of Cooke had applied to the
Marylebone Joint-Stock Discount and Loan Com-
pany, for a loan in the commencement of the year
1841.. The. sum of 191. was advanced to him by the
CoMpany, upon his giving the present promissory
nate; for the payment of which three persons, of the
names of Thwaites, Pollyblanke, and Jenkins, the
defendant in this case, made themselves sureties. The
note was made payable on demand. to 'Messrs. Deakes
aald Sodon, the Chairman and Deputy-Chairman of
the Company ; but it seemed that there had been. ari
understanding between the -parties, • according to the
usual mode in which the Compang transacted busi;
ness, that the amount might he paid in instalments.
Immediately after the present defendant had signed
his name as a surety, he found he had reason to think
that Cooke was in embarrassed circumstances ; upon
which he proceeded to the office of the Company, and
informed the Chairman that he wished to have his
named removed from the note, the amount of which
had not then been paid. Notwithstanding this notice,
however, Cooke afterwards received the amount. Two
instalments of eight shillings each had been paid by
Cooke ; but as he became unable to meet any portion
of the remainder, application was made to the three
sureties, and Pollyblanke paid to the Company the
sum of 101. The sum of 9/. 4s. then remaining due
upon it, it passed from the Company into the hands
of the present plaintiff. The defendant now pleaded
that there had been no consideration for the note paid
by the plaintiff; and that the defendant could not be
made liable, inasmuch as he had given notice before
the note had been cashed, that he would not be a surety
for its payment.
Mr. Barnard, one of the two attorneys fo the
Company, stated in evidence that the note had been
put into his hands by his employers, in order that he
might take proceedings to recover the amount. Be-
fore any proceedings were taken by him, the note
had been given to 31r. Chapple, the other attorney of
the Company, who also acted as attorney for the
plaintiff in the present case.
Mr. Deakes, the Chairman ;of the Company, de-
posed to Mr. Jenkins, the defendant in this case,
calling at the office of the Company, and giving notice
that he wished to withdraw his name from the note,
the amount of which had not then been paid. Wit-
ness refused to allow him to take any step
in the matter, as the note was drawn up and the
names of the sureties attached to it. The note was
dated in the month of February, 1841, and had
passed from the hands of the solicitor of the Com-
pany into those of the present plaintiff at the latter
end of that year. 'Witness did not know what con-
sideration the plaintiff might have given for the note.
No further evidence was produced, the Learned
Counsel for the defendant contending that it was evi-
dent that his client could not be made responsible for
the payment of the note after the notice he had given
of the withdrawal of his name; and, secondly, that
there was reason to believe that the present plaintiff
was merely a party put forward by the Company to
recover the amount due.

After some discussion among Counsel, a verdict
was returned for the defendant in the sum of 9/. 45.,
subject to a special case as to whether sufficient evi-
dence had been given of the allegations advanced in
the defendant's plea.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—Except by setting up false claims to
the credit of having prosecuted the wars in China and
Affghanistan to a successful termination, thus endea-
vouring to build up a credit for wise policy on the
character and conduct of the Whig Gorernment, the
Tories—for men recently invested with office, and its
usual sources of satisfaction—are the most discon-
tented of any party in such circumstances of which
history supplies an example. It is true, when the
Tower guns were fired last week in honour of the
gratifying success which has attended the British
arms in China and. India, the journals of the party
exclaimed, " That's our thunder !" But the dis-
honesty and folly of the assumption were too palpable
to obtain a momentary regard—except, indeed, a
laugh at the impudence or ignorance in which the
false claim originated. With this exception, the looks
of the Tories are pitiably lugubrious ; and their lucu-
brations are as dismal as their looks. No Conserva-
tive Festivals have be en held to celebrate theirtriumph,
and to afibrd the members an opportunity of congratu-
lating their supporters on the results in Parliament of
their hustings victories. Agricultural dinners have
been either scenes of positive strife and mutual up-
braidings ; or, at the best, the members could only en-
deavour to console the disappointed farmers with
" hopes that things will turn out better than they,
fear, thoursh they certainly do look very gloomy."
The wages of the farm labourers must be re-
duced, and fewer hands be employed on the land."
say se,me ; " The landlords must come down in
their .tents, to meet the depression in prices," exclaim
others; while fearful prognostications of the coming
events are heard at every fair and market. And yet
the, Tories have got Peel. They gave him a good
thumping majority, tood, that he might be able to ac-
complish their wishes ; preserve the Corn and Provision-
laws from invasion ; and also please the highflyers of
the Church by adopting their plans for increasing
ita power and extending its influence; multiplying
churches and clergymen at the national expense ; and
divers other collateral and subordinate means of giving
monopoly additional strength, and inspiring bigotry
with increased energies. We need not look far for
the causes of this open dissatisfaction with their posi-
tion. Peel, in whom they trusted, has played them
false. In every particular which immediately con-
cerned the cherished interests of those who placed
him in office, he has disappointed their expectations.
If he has not violated express pledges, he has destroyed
hopes—whether justified or not, is not the question.
They hoped for. and expected from Sir R. Peet a far
different policy from that he has pursued. They assert
that their interests are attacked by the Government
which they gave office, that it might defend them
against others. " Peel and Perfidy" are regarded,
by a large majority of the Tories out of doors, as
synonymous terms ; and many of the county Mem-
bers within the House of Commons are prepared to
give effect to the opinions of their constituents, and
renounce the leadership of a Minister who has re-
quired from them a practical abandenment of the
professions and pledges by which they obtained their
seats in that assemhly.
STANDARD.--The Governor-General has issued
a proclamation announcing the early retirement of
the British army from the Affghan territory, and
giving in clear and satisfactory propositions the rea-
sons for that policy We believe that every one in
this country was 'prepared for the course which
Lord Ellenborough
can doubt of • om
has adopted • but if any
its wisdom,
of the proclamation
Ameguhstahretem, the reasoning
The remove
iore their'
doubts.
inv •
taken fora lithe of
the purpose of placing oy was ander-
n the throne
a Prince believed to be popular with the majority of
the Affghan nation (if a congeries of reciprocally in-
-dependent and often hostile tribes can be called a
nation), and also believed to be favourably disposed
to the BritiSh empire. Both hypothesis proved
to be fallacious. The Prince's unpopularity
- was demonstrated by his deposition ; his want •
of fidelity to British interests was no less I •

clearly shown by his conduct and the conduct of
his family; and, at all events, any engagements
made with him were dissolved by his death. The
purpose of the invasion having thus wholly failed
and failed because it was undertaken upon fallacious
grounds, nothing, under ordinary circumstances,
would have remained but a retreat from the scene
of so great a blunder. But this timely retreat was
not resorted to by the wretched British Government
of the time, and worse blunders, attended by the
most deplorable consequences, ensued—to borrow
the words of the proclamation, " Disasters unpa-
ralleled in their extent, unless by the errors in
which they originated, and the treachery by
which they were completed." These disasters, dis-
graceful as all military disasters are, rendered it im-
possible for Britain to lay down her arms until the
disgrace was effected by victory, and until the perfiy
of which her gallant soldiers were the victims had
been avenged. Both have been gloriously achieved
—the whole of the Affghan territory has been
overrun by a triumphant army—all its chief cities
have been reduced—all its principal fortresses dis-
mantled —and the tyrant who led in the late
war against this empire signally defeated and ignomi-
niously chased from the country, with, as there is rea-
son to believe, little prospect of being permitted tr re-
visit it. Thus the honour of the British arms has
been fully vindicated, and no imaginable reason for
centinuing a British force in Affghanistan remains.

GREAT ANTI-CORN-LAW MEET-
ING AT HUDDERSFIELD.
(Abridged from the Leeds Mercury.)
The first of a series of deeply interesting soirees
to take place in Yorkshire, in furtherance of the great
object of Corn-law repeal, and the destruction of the
existing restrictions on the people's food, was cele-
brated on Friday evening, in the spacious saloon of
the Philosophical-hall, Ramsden-street, Huddersfield.
The occasion was one of high importance, not only
for the dignity and benevolence of the object contem-
plated, but for the enthusiastic spirit with which the
assembly entered into the cause—an assembly of both
sexes, of the first respectability, extensive in numbers
and intelligent and influential in its character. It was
nearly seven o'clock before the tables were cleared,
and soon after the spacious I'9orn, gallery, and hall,
were crowded to excess.
William Brook, Esq., on the mo!ion of Wm. WIL-
LAN s, Esq., was calledto the chair, wh::111 he proceeded
to take amidst loud cheering.
The CHAIRMAN, opened the business of the' meeting
in a very excellent speech.
W. R. C. STANSFIELD, Esq., M.P., moved the Est
resolution. It was as follows :—" That this meeting
regards the laws which prevent the free importation
of foreign corn as the chief cause of the deep, long-
continued, and increasing distress under which the
nation suffers, and looks to the total repeal of those
laws as the safest, shortest, andmost effectual remedy."
J. BRIGHT, Esq., of RGchdale, seconded the reso-
lution.

H. ASHWORTH, Esq., of Bolton, in an excellent
speech, followed Mr. Bright, and was received with
great cheering.
Mr. COBDEN then rose, amidst great applause, in
' support Cif. the first reiolution. He'said he had heard
a reference. to the power-loom and the spinning-
jenny, and he ifresumed that it Was meant that those
inventions were the cause of the present distiess.—
(Hear, hear.) Why, if the distress was confined to
the worker with power-looms, or hand-looms, or spin-
ning jennies, there might probably be an easy solu••
tion of their difficulties. But when he had just come
from Sheffield, where he had been surprised, on going
through the workshops, and found them labouring
still with their primitive tools ; where he had mar-
velled to see with what wonderful dexterity a man
would hammer out the finest penknife or razor with
a mere hammer and anvil ; when he knew that in
the midland counties, where they made hosiery by
machinery, which had not been materially altered for
two hundred and forty years—(Hear)--to which
there had been no application of steam, and when
there had been no change of fashion, and no variation
whatever, except that there had been more people
wearing stockings now than at any time before—
(Cries of" Many are without," and loud cheers)—
and when he knew that bad as might be their
condition in Huddersfield, it was comfort and happi-
ness compared with the present state of those working
as framework knitters in the counties of Leicester
and Nottingham ; when he knew these facts, he could
not receive the objections to machinery as being a
sufficient solution of the difficulties which now beset
this country.—(Hear, hear.) Why, if the absence
of machinery was calculated to promote prosperity
in a community, he thought then that poor un-
happy Ireland ought to be the most blessed
country upon the face of the earth.—(Applause.)
But really this question of machinery, if it were pos-
sible that we could prevent machinery, and if that
would do them any good, did appear to him to be
quite beside the present question more immediately
, in hand.—(Hear, hear.) 'They had a proposition to
make to the public mind of this country, which,
; whether there might be fewer or more machines,
they held under all circumstances to be necessary
for the prosperity of this country.—(Hear, hear.) It
had been well stated by his friend, Mr. Bright, that
where there was a limited supply of food the limited
quantity must fall chiefly upon the working classes,
and he (Mr. Cobden) held another proposition which
Mr. Bright did not state to them, that all the increase
of food that would be brought into the country con-
sequent upon the repeal of the Corn-laws would all
be consumed by the working classes.—(Hear, hear,
' and applause.) If the middle classes now have
enough bread, they would not eat more bread if
twenty millions of quarters were to be imported next
year. He knew a difficulty which some people
might entertain on the subject of the importation of
corn. It might be argued if a large quantity of corn
were imported, it would only diminish production at
home, and that it would throw out of employment
agricultural labourers to give increased employment
to manufacturing operatives. This goes on the sup-
position of the working classes already having suf-
ficient food. He maintained that it was an unde-
niable proposition that of the people of this country
not more than three parts out of the four were fed as
they ought to be fed.—(Hear.) With regard to the
policy of the Anti-Corn-law League in the present
movement, and what was intended by the Council to
entitle themselves to their confidence, he said that as
members of that League they had met that assembly,
as they had heard from their worthy chairman and
others, with a design of raising a large sum of money
for the purpose of effecting a total repeal of the Corn-
laws.—(Hear, hear.) Now it was right that the
gentlemen present who might contemplate aiding
themselves—for they would not aid the League
more than themselves—it was due to them that they
should know who and what the men were who asked
for the money, and to what purpose they intended to
apply it. The Anti-Corn-law League iWaS founded
about four years ago, for the purpose of effecting, by
constitutional and legal means, a repeal of the Corn
and Provision-laws. They had been industriously at
work hitherto, with all the means placed at their
disposal—disseminating information, and creating dis-
cussion to enlighten the public mind upon the subject
of these monopolies. It was something new in an
L agitation in this country, that the individuals who
were taking a prominent part in it were not men
' seeking political objects of any kind.—(Hear, hear.)
They came before them as men of business like them-
. selves, having no objects but these in which the
audience were as much interested as themselves—
(Hear, hear)—and they came before them pledged
that they would follow out the agitation without
turning to the right hand or to the left, or seeking any
other object. To seduce them from that object they had
tempters from above, and tempters from below—they
had been in the shape of aristocrats themselves, and
they had men in the aristocratic service masquerading
in fustian jackets, for the purpose of temptingr them,
if they could, to go from the object. They had not
listened to any such temptations—they had not incor-
porated with their agitation any other object what-
ever, nor would they.—(Hear, and loud applause.)
They (the Council) thought that this was the time,
when they had already shaken the fortress, to give a
mighty onslaught upon the citadel of corruption
itself.—(Applause.) They had already begun an
organization which would enable them to distribute
such masses of overpowering evidence on the question,
as they believed would induce every man who had
the candour to avow his belief of the justice and
policy of their cause.—(Hear, hear, hear.) The
Council of the League had not waited for them to
raise the money before they began the process.—
(Hear, hear.) They were told by the monopolist
press, when they had the hardihood to throw out
this proposition to their fellow-countrymen, they might
as well have asked for 50,000,000/. as for 50,000/.
The Anti-Corn-law League took a very different
estimate of the disposition of their countrymen.—
(Hear, hear.) Without waiting for the money to be
raised, the League had every press in Manchester
engaged in their service, preparing the evidence in
support of their object which they were going to lay
before the country.—(Loud applause.) Well, they
might say the monopolists would not read their evi-
dence; they could not get them to buy tracts and
papers. Well, he would tell them another plan the
League had adopted in order to put the evidence
into every Conservative house and news-room. They
i went to the publishers of every magazine in the coup-•
I try, and they pail them for stitching in every periodi-
cal among their own pages, a certain number of
pages upon the Anti-Corn-law question, and thus the
Duke of Buckingham himself, at his seat at Stowe,
finds, every first of the month, when he receives
Blackwood s Magazine, and every other periodical,
They had other means by which they in-
a tract containing sound doctrines against his darling
tUeonrdnedlatwe'.get evidence into the hands of every voter
in the country ; and were these not the right means to
be pursued ?—(Applause.) If they approved of their
plans, he called upon them to co-operate in raising

the necessary expenses for carrying out the plan ,
They must put their shoulders to the wheel. They
must have advocates. How would they fare in a
Court of Justice, if they had ever so good a cause, if
they had not money to purchase for themselves an ad-
vocate.—(Hear, hear.) If they made the electoral
body fully acquainted with the clEestion of the Corn-
laws, they would not have to wait long before that
body—the interests of all being inseparably connected
with the question—would do justice to the community
at large.—(Hear, hear.) It would not be necessary
to wait for another general election ; there was magic
even in the process of raising 50,000/.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Cobden made some further ohservations on the
past laborious exertions of the League, by which he
considered the struggle for Corn-law repeal had been
nearly consummated, and that now speedily the great
victory might be realised, concluding his able speech
by an appeal for the pecuniary and personal aid of all
present.—(Loud and continued applause.)
The CH A.IRM AN then put the resolution to the meet-
ing, which was carried unanimously.
J. T. CLAY, Esq., of Rastrick, moved the second
resolution, which he read as follows :—" That the
partial modification of the Corn-laws which took
place during the last session of Parliament, is attri-
butable mainly to the existence and operations of
the Anti-Corn-law League ; and it is only to the
influence and exertions of the same Association, im-
proved and strengthened by an increase of numbers,
intelligence, and funds, that this meeting can look
with confidence for the ultimate destruction of those
laws. Under this conviction, the meeting rejoices in
the determination of the Council of the League to
adopt a more general and perfect system of agitation,
and pledges itself to co-operate heartily in the en-
deavour to raise the 50,000/. proposed to be ex-
pended by the League in the prosecution of its
laudable designs." He (Mr. Clay) appeared there
as the representative of his uncle, a veteran in the
cause, though now unable to take a part in their
exertions.—(Hear, hear.) His uncle, he had told
them, was incapable of exerting himself as he had
done, but had still the power to render them the
necessary assistance. On his behalf, therefore, he
begged to present them with a check for 3001. to-
wards the fund.—(Tremendous cheering.)
P. SCIIWANN, Esq., seconded the resoloution, and
humorously alluded to the title of " Corn-law Pope
of Huddersfield," bestowed upon him by Mr. Cobden.
k Before the separation of the meeting a further sum
of 3801. was collected.
'tkunks were then carried by acclamation to the
Chairmail, and to the gentlemen who had attended
the meeting as a deputation from the Council of the
League ; and the meeting, which continued to he
elrowded to the ver.cr last, broke up about eleven o'clock.

AMIITJTATION WITHOUT THE
KN 0 WLEDGE of the PATIENT.
The following " account of a case CY successful am-
putation of the'thigh during the mesmeric state,
with-
out the knowledge of the patient," was read to the
Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of Londoif. on
Tuesday last :
" James Wombwell, aged forty-two, a labouring
man, a calm and quiet temperament, had suffered
for A period of about five years from a painful affection
of the left-knee.' On the 21st 'day of June last; he
was admitted into the district hospital at'Wellow, near
011erton, Notts, no longer able to work, and suffering
much pain. It was soon found that amputation of the
leg, above the knee-joint, was inevitable ; and it was
eventually proposed that it should be performed, if
possible, during mesmeric sleep.
" At half-past one o'clock," continues the narra-
tor, " we proceeded to Wombwell's room, to make
the necessary arrangements. From the suffering in-
flicted by the slightest movement, it was found im-
possible, without needless torture, to place him
upon a table. The low bed, on which he then lay,
was therefore lifted upon a temporary platform.
Ten minutes after being mesmerised, he was drawn,
by means of the bed clothes beneath him, to-
wards the end of the bed. The movement, however,
excited that pain which had so often aroused him be
fore ; and now it did so again. There was something
quite excruciating in the suffering which the state of
the knee produced ; for I had seen him, whilst in
mesmeric sleep, pricked to some little depth, in other
parts of the diseased limb, without being disturbed or
conscious of it. To preclude the necessity of any
further movement, his leg was now placed in the most
convenient position which he could bear. Shortly
afterwards, he declared that the pain had ceased ;
and I again mesmerised him, in four minutes. In a
quarter of an hour I informed Mr. Ward that he might
commence the operation. I then brought two fingers
of each hand gently in contact with Wombell's closed
eyelids, and there kept them still further to deepen
the sleep. Mr. Ward, after one earnest look at the
man, slowly plunged his knife into the centre of the
outer side of the thigh, directly to the bone, and then
made a clear incision, round the bone, to the opposite
point, on the inside of the thigh. The stillness at this
moment was something awful. The calm respiration
of the sleeping man alone was heard ; for all other
seemed suspended. In making the second incision
the position of the leg was found more inconvenient
than it had appeared to be, and the operator could not
proceed with his former facility. Soon after the
second incision a moaning was heard from the patient,
which continued, at intervals, until the conclusion. It
gave me the idea of a troubled dream ; for his sleep
continued as profound as ever. The placid look of
his countenance never changed for an instant ; his
whole frame rested, uncontrolled, in perfect stillness
and repose; not a muscle or nerve was seen to twitch.
To the end of the operation, including the sawing of
the bone, securing the arteries, and applying the band-
ages—occupying a period of upwards of 20 minutes—
he lay like a statue. Soon after the limb was removed,
his pulse becoming low, from the loss of blood, some
brandy and water was poured into his throat, which
he swallowed unconsciously. As the last bandage was
applied I pointed out to one of the surgeons and an-
other gentleman present that peculiar quivering of the
closed eyelids already alluded to. Finally, when all
was completed, and Wombwell was about to be re-
moved, his pulse being still found very low, some sal
volatile and water was administered to him : it proved
too strong and pungent, and he gradually and calmly
awoke.

"At first he uttered no exclamation ; and, for some
moments, seemed lost and bewildered; but, after
looking around, he exclaimed, I bless the Lord to
find it's all over He was then removed to another
room ; and, following immediately, I asked him in the
presence of those assembled to describe all he felt or
knew after he was mesmerised. His reply was, I
never knew anything more ; and never felt any pain
at all. I once felt as if I heard a kind of crunching.'
I asked if that were painful ? He replied, No pain at
all ! I never had any, and knew nothing till I was
awakened by that strong stuff' (the sal volatile). The
crunching,' no doubt, was the sawing his own thigh-
bone. He was left easy and comfortable, and has since
slept well, and is safely recovering.",
This statement is signed and authenticated by W.
Topham, Esq., of the Middle Temple. Mr. Ward
also has given his own account, which bears exact
testimony to every circumstance recited above.