Star.
London, England, 1824-01-05 00:00:00

HERTPORD JAIL.

attirday, Mr. Harmer, the Solicitor for ITunt, ar.
r:ved in Heitfordt alsd had an interview with hit client
in the jail. Both limit and Prohert's spirits are deptessed ;
those of the latter, it is said, from an apprehension of
the rigid cross-examination which he is likelyto endure,
after being examined as King's evidence, Thurtell con-
tinues entirely unmoved, and talks of the family arrange-
ments for his future. maintenance, which he hopes to
have carried into effect When he gets rid of the present.
accusation. He reads the Newspapers, and converses
with great apparent indifference upon the common
topics of the d ry. He talks of being liberated from the
jail about two o'clock on Wednesday next, and intimates.
the plan he will adopt of getting quietly to town, when.
be hopes his lather will enable Mm to live on the Conti-
nent, in such a manner as hi; circumstances will perthit.
• In the course of Saturday, Mr. James Connolly, ac-.
-companied by a friend, arrived at the jail, and_applied
-to Mr. Wilson for permission to see his brother, Mr. Pa-
trick Connolly, on the subject of employing professional
assistance. Mr. Connolly's friend said • his name was
Peters, and that he was a military man : he introduced
the brother to the Governor of the prison, and said that
they were very solicitous to see the prisoner with the
least pos,ihle delay, as they meant to drive over to the
Cotoiter's Inquest, which was about to sit, and be the
bearers of a written authority from him, •to authorise
71r: Noel to act as his solicitor, that Gentleman deem-
such an order necessary.
The Rev. Mr. Lloyd, the visiting Magistrate, was im-
mediately sent for, and he promptly repaired to the jail.
The 'prisoner was then brought from the ward in which
7:e is confined, into 'the counting-house, where he had
aa interview weep his brother, in the presence of Mr.
Lloyd and Islr.Wilson. The prisoner and his brother
alrook hands, and were much affected. Mr. Peters (who
bad retired before Mr. Connolly entered) was then in•
-troduced, lend the necessary instructions for professional
sr,iaancie being given, the parties withdrew.
The piisoner, Patrick Connolly, is a tall gentlemanly- •
Inoking man, fashionably dressed.: he says that he was
15 or 16 years a surgeon in the Dublin Militia. His
rlanner was composed, and he speaks of the fatal act
which lie perpetrated -as one justified by the violent
attack made by the assailants on the house of his friend,
Captain Nestor. Brith the brother and his friend seemed
asirous, if possible, to have the trial entered upon.at
C.; a.ljeurned. commission, which will sit to-morrow,
to proceed upon the prisoners charged with the
nuirderof 31r. Weare„ but there is no chance 'of Con-
tolly's ease being heard before the March Assizes, tie
i;sinarried to a Lady who has some independent prof.
erty ; she has, however, resided .separate from • him `irn,
Hampshire for a considerable time. Ile has'requesol
t!re daily attendance,of the jail-braiber, as he is not al-
-I.rwed the use of his owls dressing implements. A lancet,
„441 a small paper of gunpowder,' were found in his
Fo'ckets when he was lodged in jail.
The fatal occurrence atShenley•hill, has excited a
:cry strong sensation at Brighton, from the circum-
flance of Mr. Connolly having practised for some time
:';ere us a (surgeon. He had a very elegant house in
Sr. James's•street, to which was attached a chymist's
Chop. Slr Matthew Tierney, it is said, patronised him:
from which circumstance, as well as from a reputation.
t,r skill in his profession, he would probably have emi-
_succeeded, had some domestic unhappiness not
warred his prospects. At Brighton Mr. Connolly. and
!:ir, wife separated: a coach and handsome establish-•
nein were •in consequence given up. Mr. Connolly'
:::ortly afterwards left Brighton, with very diminished
:..cans and diminished views of prosperity from those
s.lth which he first came there.

BRIGHTON, JANUARY 2.

The splendid Ball at the. Pavilion was continued till
after three o'clock this Morning. 'The Grand Music-
loom was used as a bail-roont on this resplendent occa-.
::on. The dancers were numerous. In a waltz the
Duchess of CLARENCE honoured the RUSSIAN AURAS-
:AD= with her hand. The Royal Duke did not dance.
FUND sY E*EXlNG.—Although the festivities of the Pa-
viion terminated with the juvenile party on New Year's
Day, yet the fineness of the Saturday imparted_a most
gay and cheerful appearance to the town. The Steine
cast thronged from an early hour with a biight assem-
cf beauty and fashion, and the several pedestrian
curies:were permitted by the mildness of the day to
extend their walk along, the chain pier.
The dinner party at the Pavilion, on Friday and Sa-
s;:rday, consisted of the Lord and Grooms 'in Waiting,
the immediate members.of his Majesty's Household.
This day his Maaesry attended Divine Service at the
pavilion Chapel. The KING was dressed in black, and
simply wore a star on his left breast. Lord ST. Hz-
Lord FRANCIS CONYNGRAU, Sir E. NAGLR, and
!'ir A. BARNARD, occupied the pew on the right of his
?liarnsn's pew ;in that on left were seated the La-
dies at present -sojourning at the Pavilion. The body
of the Chapel was filled with an elegant assemblage of
Ole Nobility and Gentry who were fortunate enough to
procure tickets of admission. The Chapel only contains
300 persons. The Dean of HEREFORD read prayers,
and the Dean of SALISBURY preached. The words,
Reformink time," taken from a verse in the 1 Ith
chapter of the Epistles of St. Paul, supplied the text, on
which the Very Rev. Dean expatiated, and delivered a
very sensible discourse on 'the judicious distribution of
time, and dwelt upon the sentiments which the period
of the new year should inspire. The Anthem was taken
• from the 2d Psalm, ' Witlifizriaus and relentless rage
:My do the Heatlicn stornr?' The organ pealed its full
note in unison with the choir, but the' music was less
powerful and effective than on Cirristmas Day.

' AND SCIENCE.

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A !MIMED MAN AND rIORSZ.
-The Academy of Sciences at Paris lately heard a re-
port on the discovery of a petrified man and horse in the'
forest of Fontainebleau. That forest is very remark-
able, and has never been properly examined. Cuvier is
charged with the investigation of this astonishing petri-
faction, and this may lead to other important researches.

FOlO4 OF THE EARTH.
The author bf the Mecaitique Celeste his published
the fifth and last volitme of his great work. The ques-.
tion of the fora of the earth is treated by him in points'
Hof view in which it has not hitherto been considered :
that is-to say-Ist, The dynamic effect of the presence;and distribution of the waters on the surfaie of the,
globe. 2dly, The_ compression to which The interior,
beds are subjected. 3dly, The change of size, which
' may result from the progressive cooling of the earth.—
M. de Laplace has arrived at the following results : that,
the great mass of the earth is by no means homogene-
ous ; that the beds situate at the greatest depth are the
most dense; that those beds are disposed regularly
round the centre of gravity of the globe, and that their
'lerns differs little from that of a curved surface gene.
rated by the revolution of an ellipsis ; that the density
of water is nearly five times less than the mean density
of the earth ; that the presence and distribution of the
waters on the surface of the earth do not occasion any
considerable alterations in the law of the diminution of
the degrees, and in that of weight ; that the theory
of any considerable displacing of' the poles -at the stir-
face of the earth is inadmissible, and that every geolo-
gical system founded on. such an hypothesis will not at
all accord with the existing knowledge of the. causes
which determine the form of the earth; 'that.the tem-
perature of the globe has not sensibly diminished since
the days of Hipparchus (above two thousand years ago),
and that the actual loss of heat in that period has not
produced a vaiiatioti, in the length of the day, of the
two hundredth part of a centesimal second.--Nets
Monthly Magazine.

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HATCHING FISH.
The Chiner have a method of hatching the spawn
of fish, and thus protecting it from those accidents which
ordinarily destroy so large a portion of it. The fisher-
men collect with care on the margin and surface' of
waters all those gelatinous matses which contain the
spawn of fish. After they have found a sufficient quan•
City, they fill with it the shell of a fresh hen egg,which
they have previously emptied, stop up the hole, and,
put it under a sitting fowl. At the expiration of sl cer.
Lain number of days, they break the shell in water
warmed by the sun. The young fry are presently
hatched, and are kept in pure, fresh water till they are
large enough to be thrown into the pond with the old
fish.. The sale of spawn for this purpose forms an im-
portant branch of trade in China. In this, as in soon
other matters; re may perhaps take some useful lessons
from the Chinese.. The destruction of the. spawn of
fish by troll•nets,.threatens the existence of the fishery
in many parts. While so much, care is taken for the
preservation of game; some care ought to be bestowed.
on the ereservation of fish.—lbid. •
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A NEW NOSE:
Most of bur Readers must have heard of the now
operation, lately performed et St. Thoraas'sllospital,
and of its ill success. In consequence of Ws failurep
Many have shevin a disposition' to" deride: end Under-
value the efforts of surgical science, and even td Mies-
tion. their applicability to such cases. We are happy;
therefore, in being enabled to state, that so late as last
Seiitember a very unfavourable care of this kind was
successfully treated in the St. Pancras Infirmary, by Mr.
Davies, the Surgeon. the particulars of which ate de-
tailed in-The Medical Repository for this month, p. 39,
The patient is now quite well: the wound on his fore-
head, whence the new nose was cut, is completely eke-
vized ; the nose retains its shape; and his countenance,
considering what a ravage disease [syphilis] had made
of it, appears manly.

ARTIFICIAL ANATOMY.
It is well known that imitations of the human subject,
for anatomical study, have been made in wax hitherto,
in consequence of its flexibility: These imitations, how-
ever striking and correct, could only present the surface
Of objects; they could not give the internal details,
which are still more necessary to the study they were
fitter for the purposes of a Museum than a Theatre a
Anatomy. M. Aurour, a young and clever French
physician, has made an astonishing improvement• in
those imitations. With a composition resembling paste-
board, he has been enabled to construct complete bodies,
in which all the organs, the minute 4 details of external
and internal conformation, are accurately represented.
,The exterior parts are unshipped easily, and according
to the rules generally observed in dissection. They give
place to the interior parts, which in their turn can be
removed with similar facility. Thus the human body
can be decomposed into a thousand different pieces.
which, as they are regularly numbered, can be again re-
united to each other. Two advantages are thus obtained
over the ordinary method; the disgust inseparable from
the dissection of dead bodies is avoided; and the pupil,
by recomposing the body, may give a more peifeet
knowledge of its individual points. The only objee..
tions to M. Auroux's invention is, that the shades of
colour are more perfectly represented by the wax than
by his composition ; but this obstacle may be sur-
mounted; and, for the rest, his imitation is perfect.—
The smallest organs, the nerves, the muscles, the veins,
and all the vessels, are represented with rigid accuracy.
This ingenious invention admits of being applied to
many useful and interesting purposes of anatomical pa-
thology...Jim:cum.

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