ENGLISH ITEMS.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 682, 9 July 1870, Page 3

ENGLISH ITEMS.

g Illuminating the Human Body.— ir Milio, a celebrated Busian surgeon, is invented a means of illuminating le interior of the living human body ith the aid of a concentrated beam of ectric light. The ingenious Muscote, says the Daily Telegraph, thus snders the working of the mortal achine, it is said, as perceptible as we were all made of glass. He has cently demonstrated his idea by acing in his mouth a bullet, which scame plainly visible when the face as subjected to the electric beam. he doctor's hope is, to use his method ir the exploration of musket-ball ounds; and, as he has a further lan of extracting bullets by magatism whenever they contain any on or steel, he intends to petition all Blligerent G-overnments to abjure lead ir the future in the manufacture of issilesl The first part of his discoiry, however, is the most absorbing, [enceforward, a lady who doubts the ncerity of her lover can have bis eart "diascoped" by the doctor's lamp, ersons who have " something the tatter with them " can find out what : is by merely turning on the light • ad medical students need only illulinate themselves to study anatomy in the life." Mr C. Forster's Bill abolishing forliture for felony was read a second me, and Mr Bruce announced that ie Government wished to see it assed. Forfeiture is a relic of the Id time, and is radically unjust, as it mounts to a fine inflicted not in proortion to the offence, but to the wealth of the party offending, who, as a a case.quoted by Mr Forster, might e only constructively guilty. A lerchant in that case was found uilty of manslaughter because his uperintendent had been careless, and ad the verdict been sustained he rould have lost his entire property. L murderer with nothing is not fined, rhile a great mine-owner might be ned a million or two for neglecting ome precaution in a mine he had ever seen. Sir Butherford Alcock's new treaty ith China is not to be ratified, but 'e are not a little afraid that the pium revenue has found an enemy mch more dangerous than that ronderfully long-winded diplomatist. 'he Americans are growing the poppy a the South at a profit, and, it is said, impose to grow it on a large scale by Chinese labor. Now, it is true that he Indian opium is at once protected ly its quality and by the habit of the mokers, just as Havannah cigars are ; lut Americans are apt to hit their ustomers' taste. If they succeed, we oust bid good-bye to opium, and tax obacco, which will be a difficult busiless, more especially as natives conider smoking eating, and object to leretic interference with food. They Till, in the end, invent some clever excise, as they have done about Droitrich salt, but there will be trouble irst. If the Greeks of the Levant fere a little sharper, they would beat roth India and the TJnion yet. An attempt to overset monarchy in Italy by a rising in several cities at mce has failed. In Pavia and Kacenza blood was shed, and there is reason to believe that the Modena Brigade had been tampered with, as several non-commissioned officers fled. Fhe Times fastens the insurrection on Mazzini, and produces a letter in svhich, he announced himself pleased irith the "manly promises" of the party of action. We doubt if it is well for Italy to break with the House of Savoy before it has acquired Borne, and detest these crude outbreaks, but we do not exactly see what Mazzini has done that Prim did not do. Prim went himself. So did Mazzini, as long as he could be of any service in the field. The Times says, " Mazzini is a conspirator, and nothing else." Do people die for conspirators, and dying blesa them ? because these Italians do. Mazzini is wrong, but to call the old Bed prophet a mere conspirator only is like calling Louis Napoleon a mere King.