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    William And The Infant Prince Beingwell,...

    Chloroform . — Simpson , w assistants , sat down late one night , after an arduous day ' s toil ; and , when most physicians as well as patients were wrapped in sleep , began to inhale various substances which had been collected . A small bottle of chloroform had been raked up out of some obscure corner , and was to take its turn with the rest . Each experimenter having provided himself with a tumbler or finger-glass , a portion of each selected fluid was poured into the bottom of it , and the glass was placed over , warm water to favour the evolution of vapour . Holding the mouth and nostrils over the vessels , these votaries of science , courageously explored this terra incognita by inhaling one vapour after another . At last each charged chloroform

    his tumbler from the small bottle of , when immediately , says Professot-Miller , an unwonted hilarity seized the party ; they became bright-eyed and very happy , and conversed with such intelligence . as more than usually charmed other listeners who were not taking part in the proceedings . But suddenly there was a talk of sounds being heard like those of a cotton-mill , louder and louder ; a moment more then all was quiet , and then—a crash . On awaking , Dr . Simpson ' s first perception was mental . " This is far stronger and "better than ether , " he said to himself . His second was to note that he was prostrate on the floor , and that his friends were confused and alarmed . Hearing a noise , he turned round and saw his assistant , Doctor Duncan , beneath a chair ; his jaw dropped , his eyes staring , and his head and in

    half bent under him ; quite unconscious , shoring a determined , and alarming manner . More noise stilt , and much motion * And then his eyes overtook Doctor Keith ' s feet and legs , making valorous efforts to overturn the table , or more probably to annihilate ever 3 - thing that was upon it . All speedily regained their senses , and , from that day—or , rather from the middle of that night —dates the discovery of the marvellous properties of chloroform . A patient was found in the Royal Infirmary who submitted to its influence during operation , and who awoke up afterwards , quite unconscious of what had happened , with a jncrry eye and placid countenance . Henceforward , ether was all but abandoned ; and chloroform is now used , more or less , in every public hospital both in Great Britain and on the Continent . —Household Words .

    Convocation .-r-Tho Convocation of the prelates and clergy of the province of Canterbury took place at Westminster on Wednesday , when there was a consider , able gathering of members of both Houses . The Bishop of London , in the absence of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury , presided in the Upper House . Mr . Henry Hoare , the banker , was in attendance to present a petition , through the Bishop of Oxford , praying for the renewal of the active duties of Convocation and the admission of the laity to a part In the business , but it was postponed till Friday . The Lowor House was presided over by Dr . Elliot ,. Dean of Bristol . A warm discussion ensued on the reading of the report of the committee on the Matrimonial and Divorce Act , during

    which the Prolocutor expressed his opinion that the advice of the clergy in Convocation ought to bo taken by tho Legislature before changes were made affecting the ritual of tho Church . The Lower House assembled on Thursday , tho Dean of Bristol presiding . After a lengthened discussion on the standing orders tho report on homo and foreign missions was taken into consideration . A strong desire was expressed that more encouragement should be held out to tho clergy ,, for undertaking missionary work for short periods . A motion was carried by a largo majority for taking stops to settle tho difficulties arising in churches in missionary stations . Some other business having been transacted , th « house adjourned .

    Sensible Fashions . — "Nix , " writing to Punch , <> b ~ fiorvos : — - " Those who are old enough to rcoolloct tho time when young ladies were thoughtloss , foolish , uowJtohlng ' , lovely , and helpless , ' loss than forty years ftg <> i can remember what their irresistibility was ., Kvory youpg man Jn tl ^ ose days was in love , or liable at any moment to fall in love . You could not go about without being smitten with a pretty faeo , or figure , or foot , presented under conditions of dress expressly calculated to omlto , Now there is no fear of that . Tho female neaa and heart have gob ooolor , lightor , and harder

    prosperous and happy . ' " This announcement produced an explosion of loyalty , the guests sprang to their feet , and made the Welkin ring with their cheers . Parchment ok Paper ?— The question so summarily decided by Mr . Baron Bramwell- has been settled in a contrary sense in the Supreme Court of New Brunswick . The rules' of court require both in England and New Brunswick that the record and judgment roll should be engrossed on parchment . A disappointed defendant moved to set aside the proceeding on the ground that on that occasion pulp parchment , which he called paper , had been used . It was shown that the article in question was made of the skins of animals , and possessed the characteristics of parchment . The judges ruled that to all intents and purposes it was parchment .

    The Emperor Promoted . — -A . letter from Florence says that the Jesuits spit all their venom against France and Sardinia , and heap epithets of abuse on the French and Sardinian sovereigns . They have formally deposed Lord Palmerston from the post of Antichrist , which he has held since 1847 , and installed the Emperor Napoleon III . in his stead . Woman ' s Sphere . —Woman has found her true " sphere" at last . It is about twenty-seven feet round , made of hoops . — Gateshead Observer . Another Victim . —We read in Galignani of

    Wednesnesday : — " Another fatal accident , caused by the overamplitude of ladies' dresses , took place three days ago at Montpellier . A young lady , about twenty-three years of age , and belonging to one of the wealthiest families in the town , was standing near the fireplace , when her dress caught fire . At first she used every effort to extinguish the flames herself , but finding that she could not do so , she ran out of the house * and , crossing the street , went in a blaze into the porter ' s lodge of a house opposite . There the flames were extinguished , but the unfortunate lady was so dreadfully burnt that she died oh the following day . "

    Micro-photography . — -I was recently handed two small pieces of glass , [ in the centre of one of which , by dint of close and painful examination , I discovered a speck of about one-sixteenth of an inch in diameter , which bore somewhat the resemblance of a portrait of a head ; in the other was . also a speck about one-eighth of an inch in diameter , but which I could not recognise as . any particular object . By holding the first piece of glass up to the light , and looking thrpugh a powerful magnifier , I discovered a perfect portrait ,, and in the other a group of . five portraits , equally perfect . To what use might not this mode of photographing be put . ' In war the iriost elaborate instructions might be carried in a button or the head of a pencilrcase , and the General or Secretary of War needs but a magnifying glass to save he use of spies , and men from hanging ; the whole archives of a nation might be packed away in a snuffbox .

    than they used to be . To these changes of nature , costume arid manners correspond , and produ . ee a corresponding effect on the beholder—a healthy , cooling induration . Formerly the dress was subordinate to the person * now the person is subservient to the dress : —a mere framework for the support of the martial red petticoat , and the rest of it . No fellow can become enamoured of a quantity of clothes , which fix his gaze , and avert froni the object inside of them his unpleasant attention . " He remarks that the ladies having , by their modern habiliments , effectually disguised any beauties their figures possess , if they would only take to wearing masks , their costume would be perfect . has arrived

    A Lion Hunt at Sea . —The Himalaya from Gibraltar and Tangier , from which latter place she brings the presents of horses and wild animals sent from the Emperor of Morocco to her Majesty , consisting of o ne lion , one leopard , six ostriches , one gazelle , six horses / two mares , and an animal called by the Moorish attendants " irwy , " but which in appearance much resembles the mountain sheep of California , known by the trapper name of " bighorn . " The horses and animals have come to England in charge of four Moors , who form no slight attraction , dressed in their Moorish costume . The somewhat unusual spectacle of a " lion hunt " took place on board on the 2 nd instant . One of the

    Moors was engaged in feeding the lion through a door which opened for that purpose in a part of his cage or den , when , with a sudden spring , the animal dashed through the opening on to the steamer ' s main deck , which , as may be imagined , was soon " cleared . " The hatchways were at once closed , and measures promptly taken by Commander Seccombe to secure the animal as speedily as possible . For this purpose the commander , with the senior lieutenant , boatswain , sergeant of marines , and two men , descended to the main deck , taking with them the end of a stout line ; this was riven through a ringbolt in the deck , and a running noose formed with the end . After some considerable

    manoeuvring the noose was thrown over the lion s head , the word given to the hands on deck , who ran away with the other end of the line , and the lion was pinned down to the ringbolt in the deck . His legs were immediately secured , and he was dragged back to his den in safety . Sir George C . Lewis on Public AFFAiRS .- ^ On Thursday , at a grand entertainment given by the Fishmongers' Company , Sir G . C- Lewis returned thanks for the members of the late Administration . He said he quite agreed with their hospiitable chairman , that it was measures and not men that the country wanted , and he was willing that the late Government should be regarded and judged in that light . When they took office they found the country deeply involved in a inost arduous

    and desperate contest with the empire of Russia ,, and they were enabled , before yielding up the reins Of government , to bring that struggle to a glorious-conclusion , and to obtain a firm peace , which he hoped had tranquillised the affairs of Europe , The measures also which that Government hud conducted to a successful termination were calculated equally to promote t he internal , foreign , and colonial interests of the empire . An allusion had been made to the Liberal principles which had guided the late Administration , but those principles , he was glad to say , had spread wider and wider since then throughout the country , even to the extent of affecting the present members of her Majesty ' s Government . At the presept moment a great measure of Parliamentary Reform was promised by the Conservatives , and the party of resistance was suddenly about

    — Photographic . News , " The Poor Man ' s Church . "—The Rev . W . B . Wroth , of St . Philip ' s , Clerkenwell , has determined upon giving up the pevv-rents , from which his income was derived , and trusting for the future entirely to a free church and the offertory . The rev ., gentleman , in his address on the subject , says : — " It has been a continual cause of grief to me that so few of the working classes are ever to be found within the houses of God in London ,

    and the other large cities and towns of our land . I have heard many reasons assigned for their absence . But the reason working men themselves ( surely th , a best judges on . this point ) have not uufrequently given me is of this nature , 'We don't like to go where we don ' t appear to be wanted- —where we have to sit ia seats marked " free seats , " . or " for the poor , " and where wo arc made to feel our poverty more keenly by invidi-r ous distinctions . ' This is what working men say ; and 1 must confess there is a great deal of truth in the

    comto become the party of movement ; the old Tory garrison was about to offer terms of capitulation to tho force of public opinion at last . It would remain with the Parliament to say whether those terms would be accepted . Ho was sure there wore some present round him who could remember tho great Keform struggle of 188 X , and the almost unrelenting animosity and bitterness with which that contest was carried on . At the present day they saw that party which in 1881 had so strenuously opposed Reform now loud with the cry that it had not gone far enough , and coming forward with strong promises that they would bring in another and a better bill of theftr own ; Ho certainly trusted that they would bo successful , and that the present Government would , as they ought , legislate in such a satisfactory manner as would give to tho cipntry in 1859 the liberal energy and vigour which hadTcsultcd from the Reform Bill of

    plaint . " BURAECK AND ITS MONKEYS . —The ttlOSt numOlOUB and flourishing , as they certainly were the only gay and , active , population of the pity were apes and monkeys . They live in high esteem among the citizens , and trett pariahs and Europeans with profound and contemptuous indifference , till they become aware of tho generul propensity of tho latter to shy bricks at them . It is curious to watch an old patriarchal baboon when he learns , for the first time in his life , that ho is exposed to personal outrage ; projectile No . 1 , which goes near him , he affects to believe tho result of some extraordinary accident , and continues his examination of his person , or that of a friend ' s , with us much dignity as tho avocation . second brick

    1881 . Common Council . —At a Court held on Thursday , at which the Lord Mayor presided , an address to her Majesty , congratulating her on tho birth of ft prince , son of tho Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia , was unanimously carried , as well as a similar one to tho Prince Consort . Tho liito town clerk banded in his resignation , and Mr . Frodorick Woodthorpo wan elected in hid place , Both gentlemen addressed tho court . Tub Qubun and the Canadians . —A t a supper givon at Toronto , the Hon . Mr . Carter , the . Premier , waa present and said , "Gentlemen , attholast audience with which our beloved Queen honoured mo , her Majesty addressed the following words to mo :, ' Mr . Carter , I understand that you are about leaving idle country for Canada ; do not fail to communicate to my loyal subjects in that province , that I tako tho deepest interest in Canada , and that no one more than I do desires to see its people

    will permit him to exhibit . At tho or paving-stono , however , his faith in tho doctrine of probability is shaken ; ho rousoa himself up , stands up , and makes a menacing faco at tho aggressor ; but as the plan of attack devolopa itself , and brick No . 8 flies past , followed by 4 am ! 0 , with a chatter of r « ge he bounds up a tamarind tree , ahukea tho branches , puts on tho moat hideous grimaced , and really behaves very much an a noble Havago would do in tho same trying position . They are now buay eating tamarinds . Tho roads arc full of them . Thoy aro on tho tops of walls and houses , and in tho proves , and round the convoy , and by the tanks , always . in tho best places , never shaggy or ragged , and universally respected by their fellow-inhabitants . — Mr . ItuaacU in tho Timea .

    auakes as those of the Corurie district , by Mr . Drummond ' all phenomena of deposition and abrasion ; the effect of agricultural operations on the soil and surface ; the result of special inquiries on building stones , or researches for economical substances . He referred to the share that women had taken in geological pursuits , to Lady Murchison , Lady Lyell , the Marchioness of Hastings , MissBenett , Mrs . Cobbold , and Mary Anning . About forty members were elected . Court of Aldermen-.- —On Tuesday the Court of The

    Doctor ith his two Aldermen sat for the despatch of public business . court proceeded to the adjourned consideration of the petition of Mr . John Elder Duffield , complaining of defects in the list of electors of the ward of Aldersgate ^ street , and against the return of Deputy Larkin as a common councilman . Mr . Piper , the ward clerk , underwent a long examination as to the matter of the peti-r tipn , and Mr . De Jersey replied on behalf of Mr . Larkin . The court came to the unanimous conclusion that the petition should be dismissed .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 12, 1859, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12021859/page/9/