The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-04-14

stye. There are Simpsons and the London within
stones throw but men will go to the Cock? Why
have the Shades Swallowed three brilliant fortunes
to their successive owners? It's all within. So poor
Green Bonface is not making money, and the cho-
rister boys are looking, sickly. In vain does the
German Professor whistle on his stick; in vain the
short man yells tolloderalitie' The kidneys hang
on the hands of the butcher and the nsoent waiter
ia thinking of starting elsewhere, on his own hook.
However, since Evans was built hosts OF splendid
halls have sprung up. There's Canterbury Hall,
there's Westons there's the Raglan and Others, too
numerous to mention; most of them will go or have
gene to grief; instance the Surrey Gardens Music
Hall. Topping them all however, is the st. James,
Hall which opened last night structure which, il
we except the Redoubten Sale, at Vienna and the
St. Georges Hall, at Liverpool, is the finest concert
hall in Europe. The proportions are so admirably
observed that the impression produced at fiist on
spectator standing in the centre Of the body IS one
OF smallness. The dimensions are, however, these:
height GO feet, breadth 60 feet length 1879 feet.
The novel features of the building are however
those of the lighting and the decorations. The
vauted roof supports scores OF rods, each support
ing star of gas nthe horizontal plain. When all these
stars are lit the effect is sngularly beautiful The
orchestra stage projects forward forty feet into the
body of the hail. thus securing that advantage pos
sessed so prominently by Her Majestys theatre:
the placing the performer nearly in the middle of
the audience. The ceiling is decorated 10y Mr. Owen
Jones' the architect in the Moorish STYLE proiusely
with gold and many colors. The arched form OF
this ceiling gradually expands over the orchestra so
as to simulate the form OF one or shells, from
which Venus, in poetic imagery is seen rising out OF
the sea- The hall cannot fail to be a success,
and Exeter Hall, the Hanover Square Rooms and
Willis will, we expect, come off now but second
best. The hall itself is perfect but the restaurant,
it is called in the polished language Of the Cas-
str0ie is as eXecrabe as IL well can be. You go, TOT
instance out of Regent street into narrow passage
lined with row of dusty evergreens and suddenly
you find yourself gazing into an abyss hot and
steamy. For all the world you feel like Martins
Curtius about to jump in the gulf 1t is more IKE
the Cafe des Arengies, in the Palais Royal, than
anything else We know, except it is the engine room
of Bells baths at Brighton. You think to find the
knives and forks chained to the table, and when
You ask for the carte anticipate the perlsal
of Prison regulations Donald is the ''lesse." That
is to say he has promised to pay g 800 year for
the rent, on condition that he may charge any one
any price for anything Last night. told you, was
the opening of the ball. 1t was, should say, pri-
vate view. On this suspicious OCCASION it being
eight o'clock in the evening, everybody was SUP
seems to open in London now but what all the
press asked to feed. The inference is plain that
the judgment OF the press is in its stomach. In
the St. James Hall was exhibited most curious
American circular piano. in which all the ham
mers are made to play round perfect cylinder. 1t
is to be tested there. Doubtless you know more
about this invention than DO Ibeeve that the idea
Of the hall first originated with Mr. w. Beale, son of
Mr. Beale OF the firm of Cramer, Beale Co, and that
the site was chosen and obtained by Mr. +. Chap
pel the solicitor to the company The chief pro-
motors are Messrs Cramer. Beal and Chappell, of
Regent street, and Messrs Chappell & Co., of Bond
street and 10 these gentlemen the public are prnci
pally indebted for the pecuniary assistance which
has at last set the concern in working order.
Old fools have been from time i'm memorial consid-
cred the worst of fools but when their folly like the
frog stonng in Esops fables is injurious to others,
they should be deemed the worst of antiquated vii
lans. The Right Honorable the Earl of Cardigan,
the first in and the first out of the Balakava charge,
the General Inspector of our cavalry has for a Sc
cor iu1a hot p1 1OsnifalifV
eloped and sloped 70 the Continent with Miss De
Horsey, the only daughter of a wealthy commoner,
and the niece OF an earl.
The medical profession finding, we suppose that
all it does do is not much, has made a remarkable
grab at public credulity 10 enhance its k9dos. They
are busy in celebrating the details OF the origin,
growth and secession OF supposed new disease
diphtheritis The evidence OF there being such
disease is very poor and the best informed patho
logists agree that the affection is but a severer
form Of angina. All the mucous membranes are
liable to take on exaggerated function, to assume
morbid functions or 70 lose functional power and so
are all vital tissues. Mucous membranes however,
being the most vascular tissues Of the body 1.-THE
most subject to take on perverted action from the
dissemination of a materies morbi in She blood or
the ropagation by continuity OF infaInatory states
Of this fluid. HeRce any disordersd state of the
blood, whether hyperstbenic spasmodic affects
mucous membranes primarily and Immediately.
That IL how diarrhGa or nordinate fluxes occur so
frequently from the intestinal mucous men,
braDe from the simplest causes. such as
vicissituGes in temperature. Function is in
excess, and consequently secretion il in excess.
Now the reverse Of this obtains in diphtherits.
The mucous membrane Of the mouth and pharynx
loses functional power whether this be from loss
OF nourishment in the blood which feeds it, an
absence of selecting power in the eptheal cells Of
the mucous membrane. for the elements of nutrition
from the blood, is not known. This however, takes
place. The disturbing force whether il be local in
the system or general in the atmosphere or food
acts suddenly, potently and certainly. The mem
brane loses function and becomes dry. The super
fetal capillaries having no longer anything to
The membrane whitens and falls Off in shreds. In
fammaton from this abnormal condition is set up
in the subjacent tissues. EXudations of serum take
place into the aroolar tissue with utilization swell.
ing is consentaneous. The air passages become
gradually oblitemtcd from the tumeiaction and the
patient dies asphy xiated.
But such indeed u the course aud character Of all
diseases Of the respiratory MUCOUS membranes pre-
ceded by or sequential to inflammation of n low
type. Inflammation once set up in tissue Of de-
PRAYED vitality opposes barriers TO its progress.
Hence the march Of the disease Is rapid But with
the exception that il affects alike the i'll nourished
and the sturdy the poor ana the noh the infant aad
the aged: il presents in Itself no features sufficiently
TO enttle Il 20 the appcllafion Of n new
and distinct disease. The best remedy, and that
which is now always administered 10 our hospitals,
is the chlorae ofpotash. with or without compounds
of chlorine, such as chloric ether and hydro chorc
acid.
Our Sc. Petersburg Correspondence.
st. PETERSBURG. March 10, 1858.
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