Star.
London, England, 1830-04-09 00:00:00

ANIMAL MAGNETISM.

The following fact, which is so interesting to the his-
tory of Magnetism, has taken place in the department of Gets, at
the residence of the Judge of the Peace for the Canton of Condon,
in the presence of divet7able paeans :
John —, a farmer, 23, had an abase inside of the upper
part of the leg. The micas' men who attended him prevailed
on the patient to submit to a puncture, but the operation required
the greatest caution and fortitude, as the crural artery, which tea.
versed the tumour, was frightfully enlarged.
Count de B—, aims maces deal power is remarkable, proposed
to magnetise the patient, la plies somnolency in the first instance,
and then to produce bemeinty in that part of the body where the
operation was to be palbemed, for the purpose of sparing him those
sufferings which would be unavoidable in a waking state. The pro-
puke's' accepted. At the lad Onto minutes the patient was plunged
in a magnetic state. Siarilway -nitrated itself immediately,
but without any particular eassissumss. The patient replied to his
magnetiser, that he sought him in vain, and that he could neither
see thedisesse, north. cause thereof. Doclorlu • • • • performed
then the surgical operation, which had been deemed requisite, with
the greatest dexterity. Es repeatedly plunged the instrument
into the opening made by the bistoury, in order to give an issue
to the purulent matter, when ha flow was Impeded by albumi-
nous flakes. The wound was afterwards bound up. During the
whole operation the patient remained motionless like a statue, with.
out his magnetics' sleep being in the least disturbed ; and on the
physicians proposing that the magnetics' state should be interrupted,
hi. de B. spontaneously awoke the patient. Dr. R. approached him,
and asked if he would submit to the operation. " I must," replied
the patient, " because it is necessary." Dr. R. announced then to
him that it would be useless to begin again, as the operation had
been performed already. The astonishment of the patient was ex-
cessive when proofs of this were exhibited to him. lie had felt
nothing, experienced nothing, and absolutely remembered nothing
but the act of M. de B. when be placed the palm of his hand on his
forehead to make him fall asleep.—Journal de Toulouse.

Died, on the 4th of Sept. last at Baltimore, in the
United States, where he had long resided, Sir RICHATD LYT r LE-
TON REYWELL, Bart. By his decease without issue, the baronetcy
in Ireland devolve' on his wilt surviving brother, Major-General
Sir THOXLIIRZYWELL, H.C.B.

Mr. W. WYNN will succeed to the Speakership, upon
the elevation of Mr. M. SUTTON to the Peerage.
Last night both Houses adjourned to the 26th inst.
the severe labours since the commencement of the Session, and the
Quarter Session occurring between the 19th and 26th, being as-
signed as the reason for proposing so long a recess.
A new writ has been ordered in the room of HENRY
Hopis, Esq. for East Looe, appointed Groom of the Bedchamber.
Last night several petitions were presented from bankers
and others in different parts of the country—Woodbridge, Suffolk;
Witham, Essex, against the punishment of death for forgery. They
and the several members who presented and supported the petitions,
wished Mr. Peers Bill to be more extensive in its repealing pro-
visions.

The Committee of the Sbakspearean Club, at Stratford-
upon-Avon, have received a letter from Mr. Peel, announcing that
his Majesty had most graciously acceded to their request to become
the Patron of the Society.
A • is said to be in contemplation between the
eldest of the Bettie, daughters to Lord Abingdon, and the
Hon. and Rev. Charles Bathurst.—Brighten Gazette.
We have heard rumours, which we give as they have
reached us, that there is a probability of the aid of Dr. Brougham
being afforded to the Government after the mgrs.—lbid.
It is mentioned in a Dutch paper, that Major-General
Sir H. Douglas, Governor of New Brunswick, has arrived at the
Hague. It was understood that Sir Howard was sent by the Bri-
pes
dab Government, in osier to glove to his the King of the
Netherlands the areettray lienratien the boandarke
betwees the %Nei SIMMS NA the peemedeno hs Mirth
America, for the deddso ef whisk his Majesty bin been
chosen arbitrator by Wirth&
Lord Ellenborotao a Divorce BM, yesterday, received
the Royal Assent by Caminkeies. There were only two Peers pre-
sent when the Ceeandeelen was read, Lords Teynbam and it'yn-
ford ; and the salt' Comnstmers who accompanied the Speaker were
Lord Castlereagh, Sir J. Newport, Mr. Trent, and Mr. Capel.
The further consideration of Shakerley's Divorce Bill,
in the House of Lords, hag been "purported shag die." As to
Hammerton's Divorce Bill, it is, and long has been, in the same
place, " waiting for a second reading."
Yesterday, a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when H. Shank, Esq took the usual oath and his seat
as a Director, in the room of J. Paulson, Esq. who had disqualified.
Mr. Smith, the Secretary of the Navy, is now at Ports-
mouth, introducing the new system of duty for the dockyard there,
and making a great reduction in the number of clerks, many of whom
will be pensioned after long services.—Sriplaon Gazette.
IRISH STATIONERY OFFICE.—This office has been
abolished in Ireland. Sir A. B. King, the patentee, has received
compensation, it is said, to the amount of 40,0001. A gentleman
has arrived in Dublin from London to superintend this department,
the necessary supplies for which will be furnished from the head
office in London.

We believe we may announce as a certainty that Baron
M'Clelland's resignation has at last pone in, and that Mr. Leslie
Foster is to be the new Judge. We have heard that the appoint.
n.ent of the latter, though finally resolved upon, will not be coin.
'doted until the Treasury business is at a period of advancement
when there will be no use of his vote. Mr. Shiel is to repair im-
mediately to Louth, to proceed on his personal canvas..
Mr. O'CONN ELL quitted Downpatrick immediately
after the conclusion of his speech to evidence in the Blackwood case.
He travelled to Dundalk that evening; and left Dundalk next
morning at seven o'clock, on his way to Dublin. He is engaged
specially, in another trial, which will take place at Carrickfergus at
the Summer Assizes of this year.
The Messager des Chambres of Tuesday, after an-
nouncing, upon the authority of Letters from London, that the
health of the King of England caused great alarm that the most
celebrated physicians of London had been assembled in grand con.
sultation ; that great financial and commercial agitation prevailed in
the City, that the Duke of Wellington had been summoned in great
haste to Windsor—all very important news, wanting, however,
the trifling quality of truth—gravely devotes two columns to spzeu.
lotions on the probable course of the future sovereign, taking it
for granted that George IV. was in mimesis at the very moment
when his perfect recovery was known here, and proceeds to a con.
elusion that the accession of the Duke of Clarence would be the
destruction of the Ministry of Polignac.
Intermarriages between the Acadians and British set-
tles very seldom take place. " Why," said a friend of mine, to a
young Aoadionne—" why do you keep the English at such a dis-
tance ? you never give them a chance of runnin off with any of
you." "Ah," reOW Ma'mselle Tzator, in ha native polar,
" perhaps the English don't try."—iforrioon's /.titers frogs NOM

A beggar lately died at Lucques who was nicknamed
the butter.pot mem, because the bowel where he lived contained for
furniture nothing hut vessels of such a description. After his de•
cease; however, the neighbours visited the place, and were much
surprised at findleg that his butter.pots were all tilled with geld,
silver, and topper missy, so that his relations will CUM into the
possession of Ewe thus 70,000 franca—Paris Paper.
An applicant's, we understand, has been made to the
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to he anted it the Watt ftd, whoever dee stay beds.
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GM that edgiest purpose.

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