The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-28 00:00:00

1826.

1,861 Posteas.
1,562 Where Verdict found for Plaintiff.
299 Where Verdict found for Defendant.
Amount of Damages £361,683 10 7%
Amount of Plaintiff's' Costs on Postea 117,719 5 7 %
Amount of Defendants' Costs on ditto
Included in the above number are 99 Causes in Ejectment, with
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One shilling Damages.
1827.

1,991 Posteas.
1,(57 Where Verdict found for Plaintiff.
301 Where Verdict found for Defendant.
Amount of Damages £253,539 17 234
Amount of Plaintitlie Costs on Postea. 113,0'74 17 9:i
Amount of Defendants' Costs on ditto
Included in the above number are 125 Causes in Ejectment, with
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One Shilling Damag s,
1828.
1,803 Posteas.
1,532 Where Verdict found for Plaintiff
271 Where Verdict found for Defendant.
Amount of Damages £221,151 10 9N
Amount of Plaintiffs' Costs on Postea 91,114 16 2%
Amount of Defendan s' Costs on ditto
Included in the above number are 103 Causes in Ejectment, with
One Shilling Damages.
THOMAS LE BLANC, Master.
King's Bench Office, Temple, March 18.

COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, MARCH 23.

POST-MORTEM EXAMINATION OF TIIE CELEBRATED DR.

SAMUZL JOHNSON.

The second paper read by Dr. Wilson was one of extra-
ordinary interest. It was a paper found by Dr. Wilson,
among his father's (Dr. James Wilson's) MSS., detailing
the post-mortem examination of the celebrated Dr. Samuel
Johnson. The particulars of the examination, conducted
by Dr. James Wilson, Dr. Cruikshanks, and another, a
few hours after Dr. Johnsou's death, have never before
been published, and the paper was listened to with great
interest. From the document it would seem that the
learned Doctor was, in a great measure, the cause of his
own death. He was afflicted much with the dropsy, and,
having been disappointed in seeing his medical adviser so
soon as he expected, he procured a lancet, and opened his
legs himself, but produced a rapid flow of blood, which in
a few hours caused death. By the post-mortem examina-
tion it appeared that one of the Doctor's kidneys bad been
so much diseased as to have caused it to shrink to the size
of a bean. The other kidney was perfectly healthy. The
Doctor was never known to complain of any pin in his
kidneys. The second remarkable feature was a great re-
duction in one of the testes, which was considerably
shrunk ; the other perfectly healthy. The heart of the
Doctor had considerably enlarged, and was much larger
than that usually possessed by man, and in a state of per-
' feet health. It is somewhat extrarr unary that the post-
tnortem examination did not extend to the head. —Lancet.

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HEREFORD, MARCH 26.

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This was a criminal information against the defendant
for five feveral libels on the carpet manufacturers of
Kidderminster, to which the defendant pleaded Not Guilty.
Mr. Seri ant R ussau. said the defendant was a clergy-
man of the Church of England. In the beginning of last
year the carpet manufacturers of Kidderminster, in con-
sequence of considerable decrease in their profit, came to
.a determination to reduce the wages of their workmen.
This proceeding caused great discontent among them.
They met in a body, proceeded to the house of one of their
employers, broke his windows, and did considerable
damage, and refused to work at the reduced wages. nines
were in th:s state, when the defendant thought fit to publish
and circulate a series of libels, the subject of the pre -ent
information, which not only contained libels on individuals,
but treated subjects the most sacred with ridicule.
The Learned Counsel then called witnesses to prove the
publication of eleven libels by the defendant, and the excited
state of the workmen. The Jury returned a verdict of
Guilty.

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HOME ClRCUlT.—PnimapsTowu, MARCH 20.

The assizes for the King's County terminated this day.
The most interesting trial was that of Mr. APDonough,
a Galway gentleman, from the neighbourhood of Portumna,
who was indicted for the murder of a Mr. Davis. The
circumstances we►e as follow :—A Mr. Sadlier, and a Mr.
Dowling, the latter being the uncle of the prisoner, quar-
relled, and a challenge ensued, M'Donough acting as second
to his uncle. The parties met, exchanged shots, and were
removed fron► the ground without any explanation or apo-
logy on either side. Davis, the deceased, a friend of Mr.
Sadlier, being dissatisfied at this mode of settling differences,
challenged the prisoner to fight him, which the other de-
clined, on the ground that he had no quarrel with Mr.
Davis. " You shan't have that to say," said the other,
and spat in his face. M'Donough, nothing moved by this
outrage, took out his handkerchief and wiped his face,
declaring at the same time that he would resent the insult
in a more proper place. The deceased, however, still in-
sisted that he should fight him without stirring from the
spot on which he stood, and threw one end of his handker-
chief at him, in token of defiance. Irritated by these re-
peated provocations, the prisoner drew forth a pistol and
fired. The ball passed through Davis's head, and lodged
in the body of a countryman, who is since dead in conse-
quence of the wound. M'Donough ran immediately to the
place where his horse stood, pursued by an immense mob
of Tipperary boys of the faction of his assailant, and had
just time to leap into the saddle and escape with his life.
The Jury pronounced a verdict of acquittal, to the great
satisfaction of all present. Mr. M'Donough is a gentle-
man of excellent character and most unoffending demeanour,

The remains of an infant were got last week
under the hearth-stone of a person who lives in one of our
suburbs, enclosed in a coffin into which a quantity of lime
had been put to accelerate decomposition. The man had
occupied the house but a short time. Hie family were
greatly annoyed by the immense quantity of clocks and
other insects, which were constantly issuing forth, and on
lifting the atone to ascertain the cause, made the discovery
mentioned.—Londonderry Journal.

FORCE OF IMAGINATION.—The following
case lately occurred, under the care of M. Itiauar, at the
Hospital of St. Louis :—A young man from the country,
a labourer, imagined that he had swallowed a young snake
in a glass of water. "It is five years," said he, " since the
accident occurred ; since which time the animal has not
ceased to grow. It has now attained an enormous size,
and produces great inconvenience: constantly in motion,
it traverses the belly, mounts into the chest, and sometimes
rises up to the left eye, when I have a distinct perception
of its size and colour. Sometimes its movements are so
violent and painful, that I am obliged to constrain them
by seizing and squeezing it through the parietes of the ab-
domen." The patient described a variety of other circum-
stances connected with his internal enemy, and appealed
to the bystanders whether they did not hear it hissing;
yet, in all other respects, he was perfectly rational. M.
Maurtv, aware that no reasoning would avail, affected to
agree with him. The patient himself expressed his con-
viction that nothing but an operation could save him. It
was performed in the following manner :—lu order, to
render the illusion more complete, a large plait was made
in the integuments of the abdomen, the base of which -was
traversed with a bitoury, and a live adder introduced into
the wound in the-farm of a seton, so as to be under the
skin. One of the wounds being covered with the hand,
the patient was requested to assist by seizing the head of
the "serpent," and unite his efforts to those of the operator
in extracting it. No idea can be formed of the joy of the
patient without having witnessed it. Next day he de-
clared that be was prodigiously shrunk, in consequence
of the extraction of the horrid creature ; all the torments
which he had suffered fur five years were removed; the
cute was complete in a few days, and what is snore re-
markable it has continued permanent. One circumstance
a one for a moment rendered it doubtful ; the patient was
a raid that the serpent might have left some eggs, but his
, confidence was completely restored on being assured that
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