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London, England, 1827-12-12 00:00:00

TALMA'S HEART.

-The great*French tragedian died of stricture of the
lemur's, which reduced that intestine to the diameter
of three lines, causing great accumulation above it, and
II ultimately rupture of the coats, with effusion into the
peritoneal cavity. He laboured under anther com-
plaint, however, which must sooner or later have caused
his death, and which is more interesting, as having been
more immediately connected with his profession. The
heart adhered to the pericardium at its apex, to rang
a dark•coloured tumor, connected with the left ven-
tricle, and which in reality was a true aneurism. The
' walls of this sac appeared to consist of the pericardium
and serous membrane of the-heart glued together, and
containing layers of fibrin, while the muscular fibres
of the ventricle considerably attenuated, were partially
extended over, Ahe tumour. The size of the Aneurism
was about that of a small egg ; it had displaced the
point of the left ventricle, which was thus thrown ,a(
little forward. The origin of this pathOlogical condition
of the heart, whichLwas. not suspected during his last
illness, may perhaps fairly be dated from the following
occurrence related.by Talma's family. Some years ago.
after great exertion in playing the character of Hamlet,
he suddenly felt a sensation of burning heat in the re-
gion of the heart, and an uneasiness which lasted one or
two days, but which did not attract any serious atten•
tim. From this time he frequently suffered from pal-
pitation, particularly after professional exertions. It it
probable. that in a mind like Talma's, passions, though
' artificially excited by the cunning of the scene, and the
intense and absorbing manner in which he entered into
the character he represented, may have produced the
same effect upon his. frame, as moral impressions from
mensal causes, are•wont to do on others; thus assimi-
lating in their effects the real and imaginary in the
miseries of life. It is probable. too. that had this great
tragedian not laboured under the obstruction which
proved fatal, he would have expired in one of those
tempests of passion which held the spectators in dreadful
admiration, and thus (to borrow the enthusiastic lan-
guage of his countrymen) he would. hove died au milieu
de /a gloire i—From the London Medical Gazette No. 1.

Therefor• now about 2,500 clergymen connected with
the Church Missionary Society, amongst whom are the
Bishops of LLANDAI/1 and SALIsEURT.

I Ox;ORD, DEC. S.— MURDER. Yesterday morning
one of the watchmen of this city discovered a female
lying in the streets at the back of Christchurch, in a
state of insensibility; and at first supposing that she
was stupified by intoxication, be procured a wheelbar-
row for the purpose of conveying her to some place of
safety ; but he soon discovered that she had sustained
injury of a nature too horrible and disgusting to be de-
scribed. The unfortunate womarti whose name was
Preece, recovered her senses sufficiently to disclose the
dreadful facts of a murder so appalling as to exceed in
atrocious brutality any event' upon record. It seems
that she had been prevailed upon to accompany two
demons in human form, during the afternoon of Thurs-
day, and drank with them till a late hoar in the night,
when they led her down to*, street in which she was
found, where with a stake they inflicted such wounds as
left no chance of her life being saved. She lingered in
the most excruciating torments till this morning, whan
she expired. The-poor creature, however, gave such a
description of her murderers, as ti►e have the most san•
guine hopes may lead to their detection... Gloucester
ead Chekenhem Herald.