The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-24 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

Dwarkanauth Tagore and suite, from Fenton's
Hotel, St. James's-street, for Paris ; Mr. and Mrs. R.
L. Maitland, from ditto, for America; Mr. and Mrs.
Nightingale and family, from ditto, for Embley Park ;
Rev. H. C. Marsh, from ditto, for Barnack Rectory.

MR. LISTON AND THE SURGEONS
OF LONDON.

(Abridged from the Provincial Medical Journal.)
A very interesting case of tumour in the neck oc-
curred in the month of October, 1841, under the care
of Mr. Liston, in the management of which some
peculiar and untoward circumstances arose, which
gave rise to much discussion and misrepresentations
among the members of the medical profession. It
appeared that the patient, a boy of nine years of age,
was a puny, sickly child, who, after having laboured
under a violent cough and fever, had a tumour form
on the right side of the neck, which increased to a
very considerable size, so as, when the boy was ad-
mitted into the hospital, to occupy the whole of the
right side of the neck and project inwardly into the
mouth to such a degree as to render difficult the pro-
cesses of breathing and swallowing. This tumour
presented a sensation as if it contained fluid, and also
had slight pulses occurring at the same time with
those at the wrist. It was situated over the carotid
artery. Being looked upon as a chronic abccss, Mr.
Liston made a small puncture into it, which was fol-
lowed by a gush of florid red blood, to the extent of
four ounces in a few seconds. The opening was im-
mediately closed. The next day a ligature was placed
around the artery,but the boy died a few days afterwards,
exhausted by re,peated hemorrhage. On examination of
the parts after originallyisn came to the conclusion
that the disease was a chronic abscess of a
scrofulous character, and that the opening into the
artery, whence the loss of blood took place, was con-
sequent upon the vessel ulcerating from without. The
details of this case, published in the medical journals,
gave rise to much discussion and reprehension among
the members of the profession, some defending the
view of the case taken by Mr. Liston, and the treat-
ment adopted : others, forming a large and influential
body, condemning both altogether. Under these cir-
cumstances, Mr. Liston adopted the only course left
open to him. lie drew up a paper on the subject,
detailing the case, treatment, and appearances after
death, and submitted it for the opinion and adjudi-
cation of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society,
the highest medical authority in the kingdom. It
was read at a meeting of the Society held in Marchlast
on which occasion the president, Dr. Williams, took
the chair. The views there expressed by Mr. Liston
were warmly adopted by Dr. James Johnson and
other surgical luminaries, but itappears that, although
the paper was really a. very excellent one, and would
have made a very creditable appearance in the "Me-
dical and Chirurgical Transactions," the publishing
Committee decided on refusing it a place. Mr.
Liston, if we are rightly informed, then submitted his
paper to a meeting of the General Council, who,
strange to say, likewise rejected the unfortunate
memoir.

A man of ordinary genius would have pocketed
the insult r.nd the paper, and forgotten both; but
Mr. Liston was born too far north to be done by
a Cockney Council. The volume of Tranactions was
distributed last week to the members of the Medical
and Chirurgical Society, and with each volume was
sent Mir. Liston's memoir, printed in the same type,
of the same form, &c., and looking exactly like a
paper, which, by some mistake, the binder had for-
gotten to bind up with the volume. In fact, most of
the members of the Society who received the volume
of Transactions, and its rider, viewed, and probably
still view, the circumstance in this light. The plan
was a clever one and succeeded.

GOVERNMENT FAVOURS TO LITERARY MEN.—Mr.
J. P. IVesthead having taken a warm interest in fa-
vour of Mr. J. C. Prince, author of " Hours with the
Muses," forwarded, a few days ago, a copy of the
third edition of Prince's poems to Sir Robert Peel.
Along with the volume Mr. Westhead sent a letter to
Sir Robert, explaining the circumstances of the poet,
and suggesting that it would be an act of genuine
kindness to place him in some situation where he might
enjoy a moderate salary, and have sufficient time to
allow of his cultivating his favourite pursuit. Th
following is the reply of the Premier to the applica-
tion :—" Whitehall, Oct. 15.—Sir-.....i
. be leave to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter, and
of the vo-
lume which accompanied it. It doesf nis:‘liteceur to me
Prince any
that I have the means of procuring
hiricii you refer.
situation of the descriptioanfgathtoor;
I transmit to you, from
which I
to apply to such a purpose, the sum of am at
501, and liberty
re-
quest you to apply it in such
most for the interest of Mr. a manner as may be
obedient servant, R Prince.—l am, Sir, your
head, Esq.,
Alanchester."onEßT PEEL.—J. P. West-
hA Government contract—Manchester Courier.
fw 1(1 must prove has just been announced,
acturersacceptable to the Yorkshire manu-
and artisans
year. It is for 120 Oat this very dull season of the
the use of her ,00 yards of baise and serge for
to comprise. a Majesty's navy. The contract is also
other very large quantity of worsted and
clothing. Government are
if appearances are to be believed, the
are resolved to have most ample supplies
for the use of both services, as contracts for all de-
scriptions
of stores and clothing have of late followed
each other more closely than at any time, unless at
periods when the country was embroiled 'in a conti-
nental war.
EXTENSIVE RODBERY.—lnformation was on Satur-
day afternoon received at the different station-houses
of the Metropolitan and City police, that, during the
previous night, an extensive robbery had been
com-
mitted at the house of Mr. Edward kord
ei, No. 28,
New Church-street, Portman-market, St. Aal•ca
The property carried off consisted of ylebone.
England note for 1001., No. i 5-, 266' "
a Bank of
dated Feb. 5,
1841 ; another note for 100/., No. 6,492, dated Jan.
6, 1835 ; and a Bank note for
Aug. 9, 1841 • also 14/, in gold 201., No. 28,079, dated
and silver, and various.
articles of valuable jewellery. It was contained in a
drawer of a wardrobe situated in Mr. Mordecai's
bed-room, which had
been forced open with a chisel.
GRAss.—There seems unanimity of
to be a general
opinion that there is land
more grass. in the pasture..
of the northern counties than has been known a this
season for many •
years.—Kendal Mercury.

SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON
GAZETTE OF FRIDAY..
INVESTITURE OF HIS MAJESTY THE. KING '
OF SAXONY, WITH THE ENSIG.IiS AND
HABIT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF
THE GARTER.
DRESDEN, OcT. 11, 1842.
The Queen, Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of
the Garter, having been pleased, by a Commission,
under her Majesty's Royal Sign Manual and the
Great Seal of the Order, to constitute and appoint
the Right Hon. Thomas Earl of Wilton, Viscount
Grey de Wilton, one of her Majesty's Most Honour-
able Privy Council, Grand Cross of the Royal Hano-
verian Guelphic Orrler, Colonel of the Tower
Hamlets Militia, and her Majesty's Envoy
Extraordinary arul Minister Plenipotentiary, on
a Special 31;iasion to this Court, and Sir
Charles George Young, Knight, Garter Prin-
cipal King 'iF Arms, to be her Majesty's Pleni-
potentiaries for investing his Majesty Frederick
Augustus Ring of Saxony with the Ensigns and
Habit of that Most Noble Order, the said Plenipoten-
tiaries, 'with their respective Suites, embarked at
Wool:filch, on the 25th ultimo, and, having reached
this Vlty, the Earl of Wilton had an audience of is
Majiesty, on the 3d instant, and the tuaangements
haa•nag been subsequently made for the Investiture,
with the Ceremonies prescribed, his Majesty was
pleased to name Saturday last, the Bth instant,: for
that purpose.
At twelve o'clock on that day, the several persons
appointed to assist at the ceremony, assembled at the
residence of the Earl of Wilton, where M. de Langen,
one of his Majesty's Chamberlains, having arrived to
attend the Plenipotentiaries, a procession was fowled
to the Palace in the following order :
A Gentleman-Rider and Grooms of the Royal '
Household, in state liveries, on horseback.
A Royal Carriage conveying three of the Genle-
men appointed to carry the Insigaia.
Royal Carriage conveying two of the Gentlemen
of the suite of the Plenipotentiaries.
A Royal Carriage conveying two of the Gentlemen
of the suite of the Plenipotentiaries.
A Royal Carriage (preceded by the 1 arming
Footmen) conveying her Majesty's Plenipotentiaries,
accompanied by M. de Langen.
On entering the Great Court of the Palace, the
Mission was re,ceived by a gaard of honour, present-
ing arms, and upon alighting from the carriages,
ascended the. Grand Staircase, lined by a guard of
infantry, being conducted by eight of the King's
Chamberlains, two Aides-de-Camp of his Majesty,
and two grooms ; at the head of the staircase it was
received by the following great Officers of the Court,
viz., t.:txcir Excellencies M. Reitzenstein, Grand Man-
cha do Ia Cour, le Comte de Loss, Grand Marechal
du Palais, and M. de Luttichaw, Marechal de Ia
Cour, and conducted to the Great Corridor, which
was fined by a guard of honour of the Royal Guards,
where a procession was again formed in the following

order, viz.:—

Hugh Lindsay Antrobus, 'Frederick Foster, Esq., at-
E benring the Book tubed to her Majesty's
of he Statutes. Legation at Dresden,
bearing the Surcoat and
• Sword.
Captain Courtenay E. W. Lieut.-Colonel Lord
Boyle, R..N., bearing Charles Wellesley, bear-
the Hat and Feathers ing the Hood and Col-
and Star. lar.
2dward Howard Gibbon, Esq. York
Herald, bearing the Garter and the
Ribband and George.
Jr ate:, Pulman, Esq„ Richard Charles Mellish,
Richmond Herald, Se- Esq., K. H„ Secretary
cretnvy of the Corn- to her Majesty's Special
mission, beat ;ng the Mission, bearing the
Sovereign's Commis- Mantle and Cordon.

sion.
Sir Charles Geo. Young, The Right Hon. the Earl
Knight, Garter Prim- of Wilton, G.C. 11., her
civil King of Arms, in Majesty's Envoy Ex -
bli Mantle, .Chain, and traord;nary and Minis-
Badge, carrying his ter Plenipotentiary,
Sceptre, and hearing wearing the Collar of
the Sovereign's Letters the Royal Hanoverian
of Credence. Guelphic Order.

The Mission, passing through the ante-chamber to
the first Parade Room, lined by the Infantry of
the Guards ; through the Tower Room, lined by the
Cavalry of the Guards ; and thence through the
Banquet Room to the Throne Rohm, advanced into
the Royal Presence with due reverences, and was re-
ceived by his Majesty, sr' rounded by the Ministers
of State and Great Officers of his Court.

The Gentlemen, healing the Insignia filed off to
the right and left; the Secretary of the Comnai•_sion
advancing to a table, placed on the left hand of the
King, in order to deliver the Insignia to the Pleni-
potmltiary. _

The first Plenipotentiory, the Earl of Wilton, then
Irrat-le art address to his Majesty, declaratory of the
obieet o the -Mission' at the conclusion of which
Gart.T. delivered to his Lordship the Letters of
Credence, whieh his Lordship presented to the King,
-who delivered them to M. de Zeschau, M.;iiistcr
fi)r Fof-eign Affairs. The Statutes were then, ;71
like manner, presented to the King, who, thereupon,
d:ilivered to his Lordship a certificate of his Majesty's
acceptance of the Order, with the usual reset nations,
uader the Royal Sign Manual and Great Seal of
Ssxony. The Commission was, in the same manner,
prescrltea to the King, who delivered it to M. de,
L;,ldena.n, President of the Council, who, having
rend Cr.a same aloud, delivered it to Garter who gave
it to'tiie Secretary.

Garter then took the Garter and delivered. -it,lto
the Earl of Wilton, who buckled the same around liii"
Majesty's lefr, leg; Garter reading the Admonition in
Latin.

His Majesty was next invested with the Ribband
lard George appendant; Garter reading the Adnioni-
ton.

The liing then delivered his Sword, which Garter
received and retained, as an ancient fee appertain-
in,g• to his Office ; and his Majesty, being then di-
ve.trd of the Ribband and George, was, there-
upon, invested with the Surcoat and the Sword of the

Ga;ter the❑ presented to the Earl of Wilton the
Mantle and Cordon, with which his Majesty was in-
vc,,ted by the Plenipotentiaries; Garter re2d;ng the
Admonition..

:11-,-„leSty was next invested with the Hood, and
then the Collar of the Order ; Garter reading the
.Jnitl,
...4erter then delivered to the Earl of Wilton the
.cla.t and Feathers,-which were presented by his Lord-
. to the King, who placed them on his head, and
his Lordship, immediately afterwards, delivered the
Star of the Order to his Majesty.
The -King then delivered to the Earl cf Wilton Vs
-Majesty's nomination of a Proxy, under the Royal
Sipe:. pod Sign Manual, in the event of an Installa-
tion in the laoyal Chapel of St. George at Windsor.
His -.,leLiesty- being thus invested, Garter, making
his reverences, proclaimed the style of her Majesty
QueP-,1 Victoria, Sovereign of the Most Noble Ordec
of the Garter,' in French, which was followed by a
.`folfrish of . trumpets and kettle drums : Garter,
after a short pause, again making his reverences,
proclaimed the style of his Majeity the King
of Saxony, Knight of the Most -IN oble Order
of the Garter, in French, which was also followed
by a flourish of trumpets and kettle drums : where-
upon the ceremonies of 'lnvestiture being completed,
the Plenipotentiaries, with their respective suites,
snaking their reverences, withdrew from the Royal
presence, and were re-conducted, in the Royal car-
riages, to the residence of the Earl of Wilton, in
the same fanner, and with the same state in which
they were conveyed to the Palace.
The strictest observance was paid to the forms
prAcribed, as suitable to the splendour and dignity of
ihe Most Noble Order; and there were present during
the ceremony of Investiture, her Majesty the Queen,
their Royal Highnesses the Prince John of Saxony,
and the Princess Amelia-Augusta, his Consort; their
Royal Highnesses the Princesses Maria Amelia, Maria
Augusta, and Eliza, with the Princes Albert,Ern est, and
George; his Royal Highness the Grand D uke of Meek-
lenburgh Schwerin his Serene Highness Prince Wil-
liam of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, and his Serene
highness the Prince Woldemar de Lippe ; and also
the Hon. Francis Reginald Forbes, her Britannic Ma-
jesty's Plenipotentiary resident at this Court, M. de
Gersdorff, Minister from the King of Saxony at the
Court of her Britannic Majesty, together with other
persons of distinction.
The streets were lined with the Infantry from the
residence of the Earl of Wilton to the Palace, present.
ing arms as the procession passed.
A splendid banquet, previously to which, the Earl
of Wilton presented Garter, and the several Gentle-
men in the Suite of the Mission to the King, and
afterwards to her Majesty the Queen, took place at
the Palace on the same day; at which were present
their Majesties the King and Queen, and the Princes
and Princesses before- named ; the Plenipotentiaries,
with their Suites; the Ministers of State and Great
Officers of the Court; the British resident Minister,
and the Saxon Minister resident at the British Court ;
and other persons of distinction.
During the banquet, the King arose and drank to
the health of her Majesty Queen Victoria, Sovereign
of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, which was
followed by a flourish of trumpets and kettle drums,
and immediately afterwards by a discharge of artillery
of twenty-one guns.
The Earl of Wilton then drank to the health of his
Majesty the King of
Noble Order of the Garter, Knight of the Most
which was followed .by a
flourish of trumpets and kettle drums : the King then
drank to the health of the Knights of the said Most
Noble Order of the Garter; and afterwards the Earl
of Wilton drank to the health of her Majesty the
Queen of Saxony.
A Grand Circle was held on the evening of the
10th instant, and a Concert given at the Royal Palace,
previously- fro which the Earl of Wilton had An Audi,

ence of his Majesty to take lenve, and afterwards Sir
Charles George Young, Garter, and the Gentleinen
composing the Suite of the Pl:enipotentkries, were in-
troduced to his Majesty, and. also took leave; they
were then conducted to the apartMents of the Queen,
and took leave of her Majesty_
The IN.Fssion, during its residence at Dresden, re-
ceived most marked attention and condescension from
his Majesty the King of Saxony, and from the whole
of the Royal Family.
CHARLES GEORGE YOUNG, Gaiter.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. I
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
GLOBE.—There is a woudealul echo to sounds
asinine. Sir Robert Peel sad an asinine thing
once (on purpose, of course), mid hark how bray-
ingly the sound is re-echoed. by Sir John Tyrell.
At the Hinckford Agriculfaral and Conservative
Club, the Baronet thus gave utterance :
"I cannot conceive a r_o ore distressing scene than a
country, if it were the workshop of the world, end :f
it were intersected with railroads from one end to the
other, looking out .an a barren waste. I cannot be-
lieve we shall ext2,erience that state of things."
No, Sir Jrahn!—nor any one else neither ;
though the other vocal Baronet, Sii• (Robert
Peel, thoog'ht fit to deliver himself of the ori-
ginal of
.;:his desolate imagery, and to talk of " a
dull stuxession of manuthetu ring towns connected
by railways," and " cultivation receding from
the -nill-top." To these fancy-strokes, artfully
ad-e.pted to hit the House between wind and water,
arid excite cheering without too much reflec-
tion, Sir John Tyrell has added those touches
•of direct absurdity which were wanting. A
country, the workshop of the world, intersected
with railroads, and that country a barren waste.
How exceedingly probable ! But we conceive
and excuse Sir John Tyrell's objections to rail-
roads intersecting a country. Many a sports-
man, as he rides to cover, entertains quite as
much aversion to them. And what does he care
for their utility to the purposes of the " work-
shop?" Sir John Tyrell congratulates his Hinek-
ford hearers on a the utter failure of the Anti-
Corn-Corn-law League."
"I believe a more thoroughly contemptible body
of -persons, having recourse to measures which would
almost justify the Attorney-General in prosecuting
them for high treason, does not exist.—(Cheers.) I
believe that their joining with the Chartists to procure
the late strike could be proved. beyond a doubt."
Pray Sir John, if this could be proved beyond
a doubt, why is it not proved? Are the party in
power, or those Chartists who have taken the pay
of that party, so fond of the Anti-Corn-law
League as to forbear from proving anything
against it, that the recent official inquiries had
afforded the means of proving? The man who
uses language of this sort, without proof is
simply a slanderer; and it haply he be an ass,
he has one excuse more for slander than Lord
Abinger.
STANDARP.—We have perused with great
pain the violent and unjust attack made by Lord
Londonderry on Lord Ashley, in a letter which
has just issued from press from his pen, the
t tste and tone of which it is hardly possible to
deprecate too severely. We say this reluctantly,
because we are not insensible to the many ex-
cellent qualities of the Noble Marquis, and
feel assured that when the first effervescence
of his anger has evaporated he will regret,
as much as we do, that he-should ever have com-
mitted himself by such a publication. Of all
people in the world Lord Londonderry is one of
the last persons from whom such a tirade ought
to have been expected ; for setting wholly aside
the•spirit and character ofthe composition, so little
accordant with the courtesy we have a right to
look for in aristocratical authorship, good taste, as
well as good feeling, should alike have prescribed
a dignified silence on this particular suhject,seeing
that his Lordship's pecuniary interests were
more or less involved in the issue ; and that he
might otherwise render himself liable to an im-
putation of selfish and sordid motives, which we
are saCsfied he does not deserve. There are
other reasons, hardly less cogent which should
have induced the Noble Lord to have refrained
from such an exhibition, and to have remained
satisfied with the mutilations which Lord Ashley's
Bill underwent through his influence in the
House of Lords. Insteml. however, of sitting
down satisfied with his senatorial efforts
in that House—efforts which Lave rendered the
measure comparatively imperative—Lord Lon-
donderry reserves all the weapons of his anger,
which he could not conveniently employ in the
House of Lords, for a printed pamphlet, destined
to contain the coucentrited essence of his ran-
cour; with which he proposes " to open Lord
Ashley's eyes ;" and if uweined astonishment.
may be expected to produce such an effect, the
Noble author stands SO!11:! Chn nee of accom-
plishing what be desires.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the liaLlpshii'v Lideixndent.)
PORTSNOLITH, OP% 22.—The 6t. James, New
York. packet, :arrived Timr.iday. morning, and
having embarked several passengers, sailed again im
mediately for New 170;k.

II? frolic has been ninste,i, and reported ready
for commission. It iA that the officers and
crew of the Jascur will be turned over, the latter
being defective. .

The Florence, for Male!m, is hourly expected from
the river, to embark her pa,,.en:;ers and stock.

The Volcano steam-vessel, Li?utenant-Command-
ing C. J. Featherstone, retur-oed from Beimuda on
Thursday mottling, with Captain Durnford,
who has been employed in s:irvt4ying the state of the
public works at that island ti%d its dependencies.

- The Resistpnce troop ship, Commander W. Patey,
arrived at Spitheo 1 on Thursday night, with part of
the Foot Guards on hoard froln Quebec, and came
into harbour on Friday to disembark them.

The Java transport, Lieut. Inirie, Agent, having
been thoroughly refitted, is ordered to embark the
21 battalion of the 12th lieg7inent for the Mauritius,
and will be ready in about a fortnight. The com-
pany of the 67th Reghnent, Nvb ieh she brought from
Ireland, have been landed at Gosport. The 12th
will come by rail to Gosport, from whence they will
embark.

The Goodwill lighter arrived from Plymouth on
AVenesday morning, with;totem;:;.
The Diligence naval transport, Mr. Martin, master,
sailed with stores from the eastern yards on Wednes-
day morning.
The Nautilus tender art Iced on Thursday last from
Livorpoal, and came into harbour.
Commander De Conroy, who so gallantly distin-
guished himself in the West uui,s, whilst in the corn-
:nand of the Charybdis brig, landed here on Tuesday
List from the Flamer steamer. •
At Spithead—None. .
In Harbour—St. Vincent, Vietwv, Excellent, Bel-
lona (Austrian), Royal George, Orestes, Jaseur, Re-
sistance (troop-ship), Nauti Java (transport), and
Volcano, Rocket, and Echo (4teatners). -
Ships in Dock Prince Regmt, President, Power-
ful, Tyne, Conway, Jaseur, Thunderbolt (steam ves-
sel), and Athol (troop-ship).
In the Basin—Britannia, Collingwood, Frolic, and
Firebrand steam vessel.

firroirrmENTs—Licutenant:,:-11.Stolces,to Strom-
boli; W. G. Buchanan and D. Reid, to St. Vincent;
D. M. L. Alackazie and H. Beresford, to Ex-
cellent.

Surgeons—J. Anirews, to Orestes ; Dr. A. Stuart,
to Hasiar Hospital.
:Nf klshiprnan—F. P. C. OV, en, to St. Vincent.
Vol. Ist Class—S. B. Piers, to Warspite.