To take or to pull down any dwellinghouse, or other dwelling. To deviate over any inclosed lands or grounds, more than one hundred yards from the line of the road. To take or to make use of any garden, yard, or paddock. To take or to make use of any park, planted walk, or avenue to a house. To take or to make nse of any inclosed ground planted as an ornament or shelter to a house, or planted, or set apart, as a nursery for trees, or any part thereof respectively. Casting or throwing rubbish, &o. Into any drain, ditch, or other water-course, so as to obstruct the water from running or draining off the road. Shovelling up or carrying, without authority, stone, gravel, or other materials, slutch, dirt, &c. from off any footpath or causeway, or any other part of the road. Wilfully preventing in any manner per. sons from passing upon the road. Digging, making, or using, any pit or pits for sawing timber or wood within thirty feet of the centre of any turnpike road, unless the same be inclosed by a fence from the road. § 76. subjects drivers of vehicles, carrying goods for hire or sale, to a penalty not exceeding 20s. for neglecting to fasten their dogs to such vehicle. Cap. CXXVII. For applying eertain Monies therein mentioned for the Service of the year 1822, and for further appropriating the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament. MEDICAL REPORT. REPORT OF DISEASES and CASUALTIES occurring in the public and private Practies of the Physician who has the care of the Western District of the City Dispensary. Q% UACKERY, of any kind, the writer of these papers has never spared; not that he has thought it worth while to go out of his common course in order to meet and attack the many-headed monster, conscious as he is that professional interference with the unprincipled proceedings of nostrum proprietors, or the lying statements of pretenders to secret plans of cure, is both beneath the dignity of regular medicine, and calculated to defeat its own purpose. If the people will be deceived, let them be deceived, has ever been the Reporter's feeling; and indeed, in some instances, it would seem cruel to destroy faith, however ill founded, when it is capable of effecting actual benefit. In proportion, however, to his indisposition of thinking or caring about syrups, or balsams, or vegetables, or tractors, is his disposition to attend to those kind of appeals to observation and good sense, which some are too ready to reject as empirical and worthless, merely because they a little deviate from the routine of established practice. In this predicament is the proposed plan of treating cancerous and other disordered structure, simply by pressure. The Reporter's observation of Mr. Young's practice has not, perhaps, been sufficiently extensive to authorize very decided language on the subject; but what he has seen of it has been largely in its favour. He has witnessed two cases, especially, in which open cancerous, or fungoid, disease has been arrested in its destructive march; and a few days since, in company with one of the most respectable surgeons in London, he was called upon to observe the decided improvement, under this treatment, of a very large schirrous breast. The subject of the disorder is the wife of a respected medical friend of the Reporter, who is exceedingly satisfied with the result, as far as at present manifested. The reader of these papers shall be duly informed of its progress; mean time, the writer cannot help again protesting against the indolent or interested feeling which would class Mr. Young's manly and open appeal to fact and principle, with the charlatanism of secret and superior pretension. Some Disease of all kinds has, till within the last few days, been still comparatively infrequent. Fevers and stomach-ailments are now beginning to appear. cases of scarlatina have lately fallen under the writer's notice, of more thau ordinary severity; their malignity, however, has rather been in their sequel than in their first state. Two cases especially are at this moment under treatment; in one of which there is every reason to suppose water on the brain; in the other, water in the chest. The inflammatory irritation by which scarlet fever is characterized, implicates especially that part of the organization, viz. the small terminal arteries of either the outer skin or internal surfaces, from which effusion is readily induced. Hence the dropsical swelling of the surface, which are so commonly the consequences of the malady in question; and hence the pouring out of fluids into internal internal cavities when the pervading irritation shall have happened incidentally to fall upon internal membranes. These effusions are the most easily produced when the subject is of a scrofulous constitution: if any one medicinal has more control over them than others, it is foxglove, and the operation of this powerful drug has before been referred by the writer to the remarkable property it ap. pears to possess, when properly managed in its administration, of imparting tone to the minute vessels. It is truly astonishing to witness the giving-way of the quick, irritative, debilitated, pulse, under a cautious and gradual administration of digitalis, and the coming on in its place of the steady, orderly, and comparatively slow, movement, which is the harbinger of returning strength. An obstinate case of stomach-weakness has lately been effectually remedied by one-grain doses, twice a-day, of the sul phate of zinc, with fifteen of the extract of gentian, administered in the form of pills. This case here is especially alluded to on account of the sufferer having gone steadily through the usual routine of al terative stomachics with but temporary benefit. The zinc, with gentian, here proved permanently operative; and the Reporter must reiterate his often-told tale, that tonic agency upon the nervous and muscular fibre is a more important principle to recognize in the treatment of disease, than some seem disposed to admit. A case of epilepsy, which has lasted many years, is now under treatment with the sulphate of zinc and nitrate of silver; and the visits of the disease, since these medicines have been taken, are not only less violent, but "fewer and farther between." From some instances the writer has recently met with of the incidental expulsion of worms under the use of medicinals that had been administered with other views, he is disposed to think that the mints are more powerful vermifuges than is generally thought the lumbricus teres seems especially to be disturbed by them, and it would be as well, in obscure cases of stomach or nervous affection, that either the spear-mint, or peppermint, or pennyroyal, should constitute the vehicles of more active materials, as they might prove anthelmintic in cases of worms being present. D. UWINS, M.D. Bedford-row; August 20, 1823. REPORT OF CHEMISTRY AND EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY. THE Select Committee of the House of Commons on the subject of Gas-lights are of opinion, that the danger likely to arise from gasometers and gas-works is not so great as has been supposed, and that therefore the necessity of interference by the legislative enactments pointed out in the Reports referred to them, does not press at the present period of the session. It is in evidence, that the carburetted hydrogen gas, usually supplied to the public, is not, of itself, explosive; but that, in order to render it so, a mixture of from five to twelve parts of atmospheric air, and the application of flame, is necessary; whilst the manner in which the gasometerhouses are in general built, renders it extremely difficult to form the mixture requisite for explosion, and consequently renders the chance of accident remote. The danger attendant on the use of gas in the streets and passages, appears also to be small; and that it will, probably, by the better management and care of the persons employed in these establishments, be henceforth lessened. It appears that, in some of the gas-works, safety-lamps are used on the premises, to guard against accidents that might occur by the application of flame to any explosive mixture that may have been formed by leakage from the gasometers or pipes." A species of red earth, called Terras, has been found in the parish of St. Elizabeth, in Jamaica, which turns out to be an excellent substitute for terras or puzzolana earth, and may therefore be of great value to the inhabitants of the West Indies. One measure of this earth, mixed with two of well-slaked lime, and one of sand, form a cement that answers extremely well for building any drain or bridge, or any structure in water, for it will soon harden and become like a stone. The decay of modern paper is lamentable, and the causes are two-fold: the materiel, and the mode of bleaching the rags; or the employment of sulphate of lime, &c. in the pulp, and bleaching the rags previously, or the paper subsequently, with oxymuriatic-acid gas, or chlorine. Nettles (says Mr. Murray) would be an excellent substitute for linen rags, if linen cannot be obtained in sufficient quantity. The last number of the American Journal of Science contains a very interesting article by Professor Silliman, on the defla grator of Professor Hare. He has not only fused the anthracite and plumbago, but has actually converted them into diamonds. "On the end of the prepared charcoal, and occupying an area of a quarter of an inch or more in diameter, were found (says he) numerous globules of perfectly melted matter, entirely sphcrical in their form, having a high vitreous lustre and a great degree of beauty. Some of them, and generally they were those remote from the focus, were of a jet black, like the most perfect obsidian; others were were brown, yellow, and topaz-coloured; others were greyish white, like pearlstones, with the translucence and lustre of porcelain; and others still limpid, like flint glass, or in some cases like hyalite or precious opal, but without the iridescence of the latter. I detached some of the globules, and firmly bedding them in a handle of wood, tried their hardness and firmness; they bore strong pressure with out breaking, and easily scratched not only flint-glass but window-glass, and even the hard green variety which forms the aquafortis-bottles. The globules which had acquired this extraordinary hardness were formed from plumbago, which was so soft that it was perfectly free from re sistance when crnslied between the thumb and finger." Speaking of the globules obtained in another experiment, he ob serves, that "some were perfectly limpid, and could not be distinguished by the eye from portions of diamond." The expe riments detailed remove every suspicion which might be entertained that these globules were the earthy matter contained in the plumbago, which was vitrified by the intense heat. They were exposed in a jar of oxygen gas to the focus of a powerful lens; and, although they neither melted nor altered their forms, a decided precipitate was formed upon the introduction of lime water into the vessel. The globules of melted plumbago are absolute non-conductors of electricity; as strictly so as the diamond." Mr. Faraday, of the Royal Institution, has made the important discovery of a method, by which carbonic gas can be condeused, and exhibited in a liquid form, limpid and colourless like water: he has also effected the same thing with the following aëriform substances, viz. nitrous oxide, sulphurous acid, sulphuretted by drogen, cyanogen and euchlorine, all of which, except the last, produce colourless fluids; that of chlorine being of a yellow colour. Mr. Faraday's mode of operating has been published, but only briefly, with regard to chlorine, and a repetition thereof by Sir H. Davy, with respect to muriatic acid it appears to consist, in causing the gases to be evolved from substances containing them, in hermetically sealed glass tubes, when the pressure of the atmosphere of evolved gas occasions its condensation into a fluid. The same thing has been effected, by mechanically forcing the gasses into a strong vessel, immersed in a frigorific mixture. Upon dividing a tube containing fluid chlorine, a report was heard, the yellow fluid instantly disappeared, and a strong atmosphere of chlorine gas was produced. The fluids resulting from the A new and powerful galvanic apparatus has been constructed at the London It Institution by W. H. PEPYS, esq. consists of a single sheet of copper and one of zinc, each fifty feet long, and two feet broad. They are wound round a wooden centre, and kept apart by pieces of interposed hair-lines. The coil and its counterpoise are suspended by a rope over a tub of diluted acid. When lowered into the tub, its electricity is so low, as not to affect the electrometer; even a bit of charcoal serves to insulate it, and it can hardly ignite an inch of platinum wire of one-thirtieth of an inch diameter; but when the poles are connected by a copper wire, one-eighth of an inch diameter, and eight inches long, it becomes hot, is most powerfully magnetic, and admirably adapted for all electro-magnetic experiments. Indigo has lately been submitted to a rigid analysis by Mr. WALTER CRUM, of Glasgow, whose experiments are detailed in the "Annals of Philosophy;" whereby it appears, that sublimed or purified indigo is composed of one atom of azote, two atems of oxygen, four atoms of hydrogen, and sixteen atoms of carbon; and in the course of these experiments he was fortunate enough to discover two new substances allied to indigo: one of them, named by him phenicin, consisting of the above elements of indigo, combined with two atoms of water (or of its component gases); and the other, which he calls cerulin, consisting of the same elements of indigo, combined with four atoms of water (or its gases). Cerulin, in combination with the sulphuric salts, is found by Mr. C. to possess the singular property of being soluble in pure or distilled water, but not so in impure water, of any kind which he tried; and hence he explains the practice of many experienced laundresses, who, in the washing of printed dresses, particularly those whose colours are dark, have found it necessary to rince them in hard water (or else in salted or alumed water instead,) before hanging them up to dry, otherwise the colours run or spread on to the white parts. MONTHLY .......... 20 0 0 50 0 0 0 5 7 20 0 0 42 0 0 20 0 0 70 6 0 do. 48 0 per pipe 0 do. 50 0 9 10 0 10 0 per ton, do. 25 galls. 54 0 0 0 0 0 per ton. 2 1 0 3 10 0 0 16 0 Port, old ........ 42 0 0 0 per butt Sherry Premiums of Insurance.--Guernsey or Jersey, 258. a 308.-Cork or Dublin, 25s. a 30s. --Belfast, 5s. a 30s.-Hambro', 20s, a 508.-Madeira, 20s. a 30s.-Jamaica, 40s. a 50s.-Greenland, out and home, 6 gs. a 12 gs. Course of Exchange, Aug. 19.-Amsterdam, 12 10.-Hamburgh, S8 2.—Paris, 26 5. Leghorn, 464.-Lisbon, 52.-Dublin, 94 per cent. Premiums on Shares and Canals, and Joint Stock Companies, at the Office of Wolfe and Edmonds'.-Birmingham, 310.-Coventry, 1100l.-Derby, 1401.-Ellesmere, 651.Grand Surrey, 441.-Grand Union, 18. 10s.-Grand Junction, 250.-Grand Western, 44-Leeds and Liverpool, 3751.-Leicester, 3001.-Loughbro', 35001.-Oxford, 7451.-Trent and Mersey, 2000l.-Worcester, 331.-East India Docks, 140l.-London, 118.-West India, 1834-Southwark BRIDGE, 191.-Strand, 51.-Royal Exchange ASSURANCE, 255l.—Albion, 51.-Globe, 1551.-GAS LIGHT COMPANY, 751.-City Ditto, 1281. The 3 per cent. Reduced, on the 26th was 83; 3 per cent. Consols, 82; 4 per ́ cent. Consols, 101; new 4 per cent. 1003; Bank Stock 226. Gold in bars, 31. 178. 6d. per oz.-New doubloons, 3l. 15s. 6d.-Silver in bars, 4s. 11d. ALPHABETICAL ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BANKRUPTCIES announced between the 20th of July, and the 20th of Aug. 1823: extracted from the London Gazettes. BANKRUPTCIES. [This Month 61.] Solicitors' Names are in Parentheses. ADAMS, J. Union-street, Southwark, oilman. (Drew and Sons Alderson, R. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, surgeon. (Constable and Co. L. Astor, W. H. Sun-street, Bishopsgate-street, musical instrument maker. (Lester Austin, J. Little St. Thomas Apostle, Cheapside, warehouseman. (Gilbank Awty, R. H. Liverpool, dealer and chapman. Crump Baker,T.W. Foley-street, tallow-chandler. (Mayhew Beart, J. Limehouse, timber-merchant. (Beet, L. Bond, J. Cawston, Norfolk, farmer. (Fisher and Co. Broadhead, W. H. and T. Artillery-court, Chiswellstreet, printers. (Allen Butcher, T. Holborn, vietualler. (Carpenter Clarke, J. L. Honiton, Devonshire, saddle-maker. (Luxmore, L. Cocker, G. H. Grenville-street, Brunswick-square, bill-broker. (Wigley Consitt, R. and R. Lee, Hull, merchants. (Shaw, L. Copp, J. High-street, Bloomsbury, draper. (Gates Crisp, C. and J. Harris, Bristol, shoe-makers. Williams and Co. L.. Davies, M. Bodynfol, Montgomeryshire, farmer. (Rogers, L. Dawson, H. Leeds, silk-mercer. (Makinson, L. Graves, J. and H. S. Langbourn Chambers, mer. chants. (Fisher Green, G. York-street, Covent-garden, woollendraper. (Sweet and Co. Green, J. White-horse Terrace, Stepney, coal-mer chant. (Freeman and Co. L. Harris, J. Llandarrog, Carmarthenshire, cattle- Hawkins, J. U. Star Corner, Bermondsey, carpen. ter. (Lee Hobbs, T. Westminster-road, victualler. (Bennett Holroyd, W. Leadenhall-street, machine-maker. (Parris Humphreys, H. and W. Lacon, Liverpool, ironfounders. (Lace and Co. Hopwood, J. Chancery-lane, bill-broker. (Mott Jones, T. St. John's-street, West Smithfield, stationer. (Tanner Kenning, G. Church street, Spitalfields, silk-man. (Webster and Son Ladd, Sir J. Cornhill, watch-maker and Jeweller. (Spyer Lean, T. Liverpool, coach-maker. (Garnett Longworth, J. Liverpool, builder, (Leigh, L. Lucas, J. Weymouth-terrace, Hackney-road, muaical instrument maker. (Lester, L. Mandate, E. Sebergham, Cumberland, lime-burner. (Falcon, L. Middleton, R. King-street, Rotherhithe, merchant. (Greaves and Co. L. Morton, R. Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, paperhanger. (Hill Piercy, J. and R. Saunders, Birmingham, edge-tool makers. (Swain and Co. L. Ramsden, H. Walworth, coach-master. (Charsley and Co. L. Righton, J. Bristol, haberdasher, (Clarke and Co. Reed, T. High Holborn, linen-draper. (Jones Rogers, R. Piddle Hinton, Dorsetshire, farmer. (Hine, L. Rothwell, P. Runcorn, Cheshire, corn-dealer. (Brunderett and Co. L. Saffery, E. Downham, Norfolk, farmer. (Consteen Sciaccalaga, J. Old Bailey, merchant. (Lavic and Co. Shorthose, J. Hanley, Staffordshire, earthenwaremanufacturer. (Anderson and Co. Simpson, R.Watling-street, warehouseman, (Holton Smith, J. Bradninch, Devonshire, paper-maker. (Hurd and Co. L. Smith, W. B. Bristol, innholder. (Williams and Co. Sqnires, T. St. Albans, saddler. (Fairthorne and Co. Steward, M. H. Long-lane, Bermondsey, pumpSymes, K. Kingswood, Wilts, clothier. (Bourdillon maker. (Clutton and Co. and Co. L. Tabberer, B. Monmonth, currier. (Jenings and Ce. Warr, J. W. Davies, and T. Matthews, Tipton, Staffordshire, iron-masters. (Turner and Co.L. Watts, E. Yeovil, Somersetshire, butcher. (Williams Wibberley, G. Liverpool, merchant. (Chester, L. Williamson, J. Withington, Lancashire. (Johnson and Co. Manchester. Large, J. Wootten Bassett, Wilts Manning, J. Clement's-Inn Palfrey, W. Hinckwick, Glouces-* tershire Parker, T. Stourbridge Player and Keen, Bristol Reid, D. Princes-street, Spitalhelds Renaud, E. Birmingham Rodger, J. Sheffield Roper, W. J. and W. Damens, Yorkshire Sharp, J. B. Smith, J. Liverpool Southbrook, E. C. Covent Garden Chambers |