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that a similar method to that which has produced sUcli

in conclusion, permit me to add, that there is yet am-
ple time to complete an organ before the hall is jittished ;
and as it appears to be a general wish that the Queen
should visit us on the occasion of its being opened, I

would earnestly recommend the corporation to amend
their proceedings forthwith, as in a couple of months all
might be ready for commencing the organ. If this is de-
termined upon, beg to suggest that Dr. Felix Men-

delssohn be engaged to compose an oratorio to Perform on
the occasion; and further, that he superintend its per-
formance, and open the organ. He is confessedly the
_

. ,
greatest organist living ; andas her Majesty has thehigh-
est admiration of his works, nothing would be more likely

to insure her
This would

ttendanee.
indeed, be a triumph, an
he opening of the " St. Geor

an era in mu

Sincerely tr

ing the further deliberations of the Law

Courts Co-nrunittee may b€

those at Seville, Wei

n, or flaa

timony of the
n, permit me to

mapiticence which suggested its

A REST I

)RGANIST

THE INHALATION OF I

THER

We mentioned, in the last Standard, that, at the meet-
ing of the Polytechnic Society, the previous evening, Mr.

ether. We'described briefly the apparatus which Mr

bested by him the
Two

existing plan, as by the modification sr
patients are able more readily to inhale the vapour

Persons had previously tried, in Mr

breathe tlie undiluted ether and tailed. The first patient,
a young woman, who wanted two or three teeth extracted,
tried the vapour for a few seconds, and then refuQed to
proceed, saying that something was going down her throat
which she did not like, and she could not be induced either
to give the vapour a further trial or t
tracted without it. The second, a yot____ „. --
teen, made two or three trials, but would not persevere,
when he (Mr. S.) volunteered to inhale it, provided a pro-
mise was given his teeth should not be interfered with, as
he had not any that he was at all desirous'of parting with.
He commenced, and in 21 minutes was in p, state of pro-
found insensibility, in which he remained for about two
minutes, when he recovered. Mr. Smith said, that when
he commenced inhaling the vapour, he resolved to mark,
and recollect as distinctly as he could, the sensationshich
he might experience during
he succeeded in some meast
describing them. He found the vapour so
was at first quite unable to breathe it

re the teeth ex-

)f fifteen or six-

but that, though
great difficulty in

coughing and irritation of th

.ong, that he

lereforo

hit Upon.' a method of diluting it, by holding the mouth-
piece in such a manner that a little air was admitted to
dilute the vapour, gradually lessening the aperture, until
at length he could breathe the vapour alone without diffi-
culty. After a few inspirations of the undilute"
he felt that he was losing all power of voluntary motion,
and that lie was even then, though quite sensible of what
was going on, in fact, completely in the power of the
operator. In a few seconds more he seemed to be sur-
rounded by millions of stars, each tinted with all the pris-
matic colours and in rapid motion, accompanied by s -
as if all the gongs in the celestial empire were 8(

the stars decreased in numbers and brilliancy

vapour,

until at