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Press, Volume X, Issue 1142, 6 July 1866, Page 3

Flies in the Eah.—The "Journal de Medecine et de Chirurgie Pratiques" contains the following curious account: —A locksmith, aged 52, having been treated at the Hospital Beaujon for a dislocation, had been sent to the Asile de Vincennes for his complete recovery. A. few days before leaving that establishment, he felt as if a fly had got into his left ear. He i took a lucifor match and tried to get out the intruder with it, but not succeeding, and the ' pain having subsided, he took no more notice of it. Three days later, being at St. Oven, he experienced a tickling in his ear, which i prevented him from sleeping; and on the i following day he went to Dr Jarjavay's consultation. Here, upon examination, two small larvte, like those which are met with in dead bodies, were found in his ear. The patient complained of very violent pain in that organ and all along a line which, beginning from the middle of the forehead, followed the eyebrow, and, crossing the templo, ended behind the mastoid apophysis. He had cramps and a tingling sensation in the arm, fits of trembling, sickness, &c. On visiting him in the evening, Dr. Jarjavay poured a few drops of ether into his car. This caused great pain at first, but soon after it produced considerable relief, and during the night upwards of a hundred larvro fell out of the ear on the man's pillow. On the following morning the doctor perceived some large larvse of musca carnaria at the bottom of the meatus auditorius. Dr JarjaI II It . • Vay got CL lew out; "With a. proper instrument, tbcn some £*aj««=fcion» w]»icl> brooebto^t of ether" into tbe ear, wberebY three more I ' IJ ! 1 ' • were got na. of. On the day after no more larvre were visible, but the tympanum was ' discovered to bo perforated. The case was now treated with injections of mallows find emollient poultices, and three days later the patient left the hospital perfectly recovered, DeCXDTS OF Huj.'ilLKGr.—At the close of ; the present season several well-known packs i of hounds will be withdrawn from tho field : and tho kennels broken up. The old Berkshire foxhounds, which hare for many years i afforded good sport, and consisting of 110 i dogs, are to be sold at the kennel at Abingdon, i The foxhounds of Mr T. Drake, which have 1 hunted Oxfordshire, are also to be sold; and \ the celebrated "Vine hounds, located at the ' kennel at Overton, Hants, comprising ninetysix running dogs, sre consigned to Messrs '. Tattersall for sale under the hammer. The i Shropshire harriers will be sold, and the < country given up. Some difficulties relative 1 to the Quorn and Cotswold packs of fox- t hounds are on the eve of adjustment, and in I all probability they will be retained for i hunting their own country next season. Many i of the differences which have sprung up ; among gentlemen who meet the above hounds, have arisen out of the cattle plague, land- . owners and tho farming interest having pro- ,

> tested against running tlio dogs over the land , during the prevalenco of the disease, while ( j other members of the hunt were opposed to J the suspension of hunihii;. Tie Surrey [ ! staghounds, kept up by Mr A. Heathcote, J will soon have their last meet. A munificent j offer of the Epsom squire to present the pack ' to any gentlemen who would hunt thi<m in the county, has not been nn.l they ] will be sold, the owner relinquishing j for turf pursuits.—" Post." j Treasury Ciikst Accounts.—A report i showing the sums paid into, and paid out of. I the Treasury during the year ending March 31, i 18(55, has been issued. The total sum paid into the chest, including n, balance in hand of £920,567, was £11,376,435 ; and the sum paid out, including advances to be repaid, was £10,583,650. The balance in hand at the end of March, ISGS, wae £74)2.754 The details sho'vr that during the year £2499 was received as the proceeds of the sale of slave vessels condemned in the Admiralty Courts abroad, and that £3260 was repaid on the same account. Under the head of " Chinese Indemnity," it is stated that the amount received within the year, under the Convention of Pckin, was £446,856; and that on the samo account £394,222 was paid to her Majesty's Exchequer, and £426,457 in compensation for property destroyed. Of the Japanese indemnity £5000 was received as a portion of the amount payable by the Tycoon ; and under the same head £77,412 was paid to her Majesty's Exchequer, and £20,000 to claimants in this country. The total liabilities of the Treasury chest at the end of the year were £1,458,803, and the assets £2,758,803, leaving an available balance of £1,300,000. —"Sun." EXTBAORDINAKT DEATH! OP A YOUNG Giki..—The Borough Coroner held an inquest the other day on the body of Clara Hollands, aged 17. Deceased had been employed as servant for about four mouths by a Mrs Erredge. During that time she had been in excellent health, but on Wednesday she complained of severe headache, and on Friday became so unwell that she was unable to do her work, and left to go home. On her road thither she called at the house of Mrs Harvey, witn whose brother in law she had been keeping company. She there again complained of her head, and remained at the house all day, and in the evening became co 01 that she was carried upstairs to bed in an insensible state, and her mother was sent for. Nearly an hour elapsed before she arrived, and sho went immediately for Mr Sewell, surgeon. Shortly after the mother was gone the girl died, and the evidence of Mr Sewell, who made a postmortem examination, showed that there was considerable effusion in the right ventricle of the brain, in which he discovered a large hydatid cist. This he examined with a microscope, and found it to consist of the ova or eggs of some parasitic insect. For the presence ot this Mr Sewell could not account. The disease was of rare occurrence, but when it had occurred recorded cases showed that death had been sudden. The insects were usually conveyed into the system with food, and after depositing their eggs they left the system. In course of time the eggs are hatched, and death ensues, if it has not taken place before. The disease was often communicated to the system by eating " measley" pork, underdone meat, or watercresees ; and Mr Sewell said that it was a very popular error to suppose that underdone meat was the best for food. Should the meat be affected, heat wae the only thing that would kill the insects, and .there was therefore no danger in well-cooked meat. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the evidence of Mr Sewell.— " Brighton Examiner." Our leonclads. — The Bellerophon returned to Spithead yesterday from her experimental cruise in the Channel. It is stated that her cruise has thus far proved most satisfactory. The ship had been " wore " uuder sail upwards of a dozen times, and had also been tacked and otherwise manoeuvred in every possible position, and in every instance her action in answer to her helm was perfect. The ship is fitted with a balanced rudder, and therefore some considerable portion of the ship's handiness under sail may be attributed to its action without any positive reason being able to be shown for such opinion. T, "We should ! rather imagine that the ship's good qualifications under sail are mainly due to her moder- , ate length and form, rather than to the balanced rudder, although the latter has many points in its favor over the ordinary rudder, I aud one especially so in dispensing with half the usual number of men at the wheel. The Pallas, during her trial on Wednesday, exhibited extraordinary handiness in obedience to the action of her common rudder, making her half circle at full power in 2 mm. 9 sec, and the full circle in 4 mm. 12 sec. The present Chief Constructor of the Navy is endeavoring to combine handiness with speed in the ironclad vessels he is now engaged on, and where lie has succeeded in the first quality so decisively as he haa done in the Bellerophon and Pallas, it would be unjust in the extremeto him to assign the merit of the success to a balanced rudder. In point of speed, too, the trial of the Pallas furnishes a most satisfactory and reliable guidepost for the future, being, as she is, really the first ship of only 225 feet in length between perpendiculars ever driven at a speed of 13 knots. We cannot, however, but regret that she carries the French " ram " at her bows, as without that she would made her 14 knots at a measured mile.—" Times.": Statistical Society.—At the last meeting of this body Mr W. S. Jevons read a paper:— " On the Frequent Autumal Pressure in the Money Market, and the Action of the Bank of England." The author began by describing the remarkable drain of gold and notes from the Bank last autumn, which caused the directors to raise the rate of interest £3 per cent, between September J2B and October 7. The pressure and loss thus inflicted upon trade were unprecedented, and quite unexpected in a sound and prosperous state of trade. He proceeded to show, however, that this drain, though more severe than ueual, was perfectly normal in character. Average tables of the Bank accounts and the country circulation show that the first few weeks of October are altogether peculiar as regards the money market. There is then a concurrence of causes, the payment of dividends, the quarterly payment of rente, &c., the monthly settlement, the dispersion of money for harvest purposes, which reduce the Bank reserve and bullion to the lowest point of the year, and raise the circulation to the highest point. The general growth of our monetary transactions, without a corresponding increase of our reserve of ready capital and currency, undoubtedly tends to render these periodical pressures more marked. It is well known that many men of great eminence in the banking and statistical world consider that these sudden oscillations might be mitigated by a repeal of the Bank Act. Mr Jevons stated hie belief, however, that if these normal fluctuations were more thoroughly understood, the Bank might provide for them before hand, agd, jjejfl fy |j^ more freely when they came ; til© atttapmnl accommodation Vould thus hfl ftifnrrtnli tfl . iiiiiiid ml iilllill til trade, without infringing the sound principle of the Act of 1844.—" Post." Ctteiositirs ov the Estimates.—Among the sums to be paid to Scotland this year are the following items, which may be called aoellttic :—The. Lord Lyon King-at-Anns, £555 ; lieralds, at £25 each, £150 ; pursui?ant3, £100; her Mejeety's Limner, £97; historiographer, £181 ; clockmaker, £16 ; Keeper of the Regalia, £152 ; the Company of iicottish Archers, £20. In the household of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, " two Grentlemen-at-large " receive JE257 between them. Dublin Castle has a " State porter " for little more than a guinea a-week, while " two singing men" cost only £74 Oβ Bd. Ulster King-at-Arms has £200 a-year j Cork Herald is expected to keep himself decently clothed for £18 9s 2d per annum ; ore kettledrummer and three State trumpeters cannot be dear at £36 l&j a-jear. The postage of some public departments is enormous ; for tiiis year the following sums are asked on that account : — Admiralty, £19,000; Colonial Ollices, £1'i,600; Foreign Office, nearly £14,000; Inland Revenue Office, £13,000; War Office, £28,000 odd. The Science and Art Department asks an increase of nearly £500 in this item. —"Athenaeum."