The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-20 00:00:00

11 whole would be strengthened- by a 'Whig 'Lord, I
'totally unacquainted with the duties- of office, enter-
ing at so advanced a period of life upon' his new
official career. When Lord Lansdowne is Premier,
Lord Holland will, no doubt, be a Cabinet Minister
of high rank. It may be some consolation to the
country to learn, that neither of these elevations is at
present probable. The application just made to
Lord Harrowby, who so recently retired from poli-
tical life, to accept , the office of first Lord of the
Treasury, affords'a proof quite conclusive to all who
have even the most superficial knowledge of the
feelings and principles of the leading political men
in England, that Whig iViziense is' not in thi, as-
cendant.—,lbid. •

The " whispers" of the City, that Lord Gode-
rich had resigned the high situation of Premier,
reached us as far back as. Thursday last. Had we
been as ambitious as one of our contemporaries, to
avail ourselves of the brief existence of- the daily
bubbles which are blown and btirst in the regions of
the Stock Exchange, we might, therefore, have an-
ticipated the self-styled engrossers of excluSive in-
telligence. But not being interested in the specula-
tions of Bartholomew-lane, we disdained imposing
on our readers what we did not ourselves be-
lieve. On the ensuing Friday, the rumour which
had been whispered to the few, having been
bruited forth by them in order to operate upon
the many, we noticed it as it, deserved, among
those city reports which were entitled to no credit..
We knew that . others would endeavour to swell

it into importance, because it would not other-
wise have answered the expectations of its-authors;
but we guarded the public against the delusion,
leaving those who chose to believe a falsehood, to
enjoy the advantage and felicity of their 'choice.—
The event turned out as we anticipated. One of
our contemporaries, who had • only ventured to
whisper the fabrication one day, sounded it forth the
next as . with the trumpet blast. Another, who
thought it at one time too delicate to mention, in
the course of a few hours proclaimed it as a fact
which it was absurd to dispute and vain to deny.
The next step was to fill up the vacancy which 4prd
been created, let it be recollected, by the pre-
tended friends of. the. Minister whom they were
exerting every nerve to disgust, if not to injure
and to destroy. We shall not do the candi-
dates, described as contending for the spoils of a still
sitting colleague, the injustice of naming them. We
leave that to their trumpeters • or; as we have no
doubt they look upon them, dieir calumniators ; for
we are convinced thatunless they have renounced those
principles of honour by which they have hithertobeen
guided the conduct imputed to them must be felt by
them as a severe and undeserved infliction. Indeed, the
fabrication' was too clumsily got up to maintain it-
self, if it had been looked at with the unimpassioned
coolness of disinterested.. attentior. But too many
selfish feelings were let loose by the rumour of
a change, to allow of calm consideration.—
Hence the most palpable absurdities and con-
tradietionS were overlooked, and :the assure

once with which systems t*•erc formed and
erected, diverted public notice from the sandy na•
tare of their foundations. Our conduct through
the whole of thia politla. whirlwind has been firm

and consistent. What we asserted at the first, we
repeat at the last, and those who most stoutly de-
nied our statements, are now compelled by the force
of truth and circumstances, to read their own—to
modify their assurances, and to prove that they
really knew nothing of what they pretended was
known only to themselves. We stated at the first,
that there would be no Change in. the head of the
King's Councils. This statement. we reiterate. Our
opponents knew the fact,. mid now that they have
found that neither denials-nor exertions of all kinds,
have availed to produce the contingency wLich they
announced, because they wished it, they are obliged
to admit their knowledge. But they adroit it, as may
be expected frovi men'. who have done :ail to disguise
and to destrov, They do it slowly, partially, and
imperfe.,_!tly, light cif must not break at
one upon,them, there is too .much deforMity to re-
veal. Ray after ray mug. be prudently introduced,
and dettetion, by being progressive, will, they think,
be less striking and less painful. Already have
they beetionpelleti to aelmewledge, in direct cgn-
-1,.4-I;ptieT. to thei.- "no.it solenau assurances, that.

i .oro ~-otqich would remain l'it another
Thoto'=heappointed, the veil' condition on which all
Misters hold their offices, so that the litnitatien
wlich they intend to intiimte, is, in Pv-t, ',one at
-:;7; Soon they will be reduced to ov,-n, that titli-
yremieiship has never been in danger, and cannot
be endangered, and the public will then see what
must have been their intentions in acting as they
have. done, and where the mass of their errors can
charitably be ascribed to ignorance, or does not fall
more necessarily within the province of malignity.—
..Tem Tinies.

EXEC UTION.-..-lIERTFORD, DEC. 19.--
This morning-, a little after eight o'clock, John Turner,
convicted. at the last **dyes for this County, cf a rape on the
body of alining girl, -at -St. Alban's, on the:l6th August
last, eas executed on the drop at the county gaol of this
town: His. victim, it
.appear,,' was a girl .of about .12
years of age, .narned ELMO:ITV!. 'FRENCH, whom he bad
known from her infancy, and who resided in the same
house, as,' it seems, the means.of the parents of the girl
were narroW; and had taken 'the culprit in as .:dodger,
and he slept in the sane room as the girl, where also slept
two othLr children and their mother. The mother•, beim,-
i Luoulitss, to leave her house at an early hour in the
morning, and was necessarily obliged to leave the convict
with the chibizen alone, who, taking the:tilvintage of her
absence, diabolically h.buseil the girl at 3evcral different
times, threatening, after the nrst,perpetra►ion of the decd,
that if she hawed it to any one, he would kill her.. In
consequence u; his tlneot. the villain's beinous offence was
not discovered until some time after he had committed the
crime, eight days having elapsed between the time of his
first ill using her and his detection., After his 'condemna-
tion, the culprit behaved with the most unbecoming levity,
and remained in the same state till within a few days of his
execution, when his manner changed for the better. As
the hour approached for his execution; the workings of his
mind became apparent. He was a middling.sized man;
his demeanour was much altered since his-triab He walk-
ed with a solemn but faltering step towards the fatal drop.
'The Rev. Chaplain read the burial service, and in a few
short moments he ceased to exist. The concourse of spec
tators to witness his execution (among whom were several
females) was very great, but his fate seemed to excite no
commiseration.

SPONTANEOUS ARTIFICIAL ANUs•--A
case of the aboVe description is related in a recent number
of the Archives Generates. The patient, at the time she
first applied for medical assistance, was upwards of fifty
years of age. At the termination of a labour, which hap-
pened twenty years before, she had bad an umbilical hernia,
which, not being kept constantly reduced, had gradually
increased ; it at length acquired so considerable a size, that,
in the course of tan years, the whole of the intestines ap-
peared to be situated in a kind, of pouch, which . she sup.
ported by means of a bag made for the purpose. At the
end of the second year, the skin became red at the lower
part of this projecting mass, and small whitish vesiclea
made their appearance. Ulceration took place, and in a
short time a round opening was established, about the size
of a five-franc piece. The circumference of this opening
soon healed, but the centre of it remained pervious, and dis-
'charged, at different times, pus, serum, or blood. During 10
'3-earn which had elapsed from the appearance of this ulceration
Ito the time of her sieking medical aid, the aperture had
closed and opened several times. The movement of the
intestines could be seen through the base of the tumour.
She was still able to continue her usual employment. Some
time afterwards she perceived that a portion of food which
she had taken, issued from the wound, three hours after she
had swallowed it. Upon pressing the hernial sac, fecal
matter escaped front the opening. In the centre of the old
wound, was found an opening about the size of a shilling.
The edges of this aperture projected, and formed a kind of
sphincter. It was ascertained that this opening was situated
on one of the small intestines. It was round, as if it had
been formed by a pair of scissors, and the borders were red
and, tumefied. The intestine was reduced, and fixed near
the wound. Poultices were applied, and perfect rest re-
'commended, to facilitate the union of the parts. The stools
passed in the natural way; they were soon, however, sup-
pressed, and the wound of the integuments contracted, so
that an artificial anus was completely eatabliehed.—.Londoe
'Medical Gazette.