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Political Occurrences, S^c. 



[Jan. 



TtcpiiWics ayrpear to multiply in South 

 Anx'rica, l)iit it is nioro by a separation of 

 iiicnibors of old bodies than by an accession 

 ■oi' new ones. Upper Pern, havinp; liad a 

 free choice left it by the povernments of 

 I'eru and La Plata, each liopinfr no doubt 

 that the upper Peruvians wo\dd decide in 

 its favour,- has given both the slip, and Iiave 

 set up for themslves as an independent 

 poweV. 



Letters from Madrid state tliat the new 

 Spanish minister is busy in undoing all that 

 vas done by liis predecessor. The persons 

 Arrested by order of 2ea are set at liberty 

 by the order of the Duke of lufantado; 

 iind the persons banished from the court 

 imder the former are recalled by the latter. 

 The Conservative Junta, whose operations 

 were supposed to he paralyzed by the late 

 change in the cabinet, has resumed its sit- 

 tings. 



Concurring accounts from India state 

 that there seems no probable, at least no 

 di^finite ho.^e of a termination to the hosti- 

 lities with the Burmans. A pretended ne- 

 gotiator is said to have been despatched by 

 the court of Ava, to amuse Sir A. Cam))bell 

 with projwsals of peace, and to have disap- 

 5)oared suddenly when he found th-it the 

 ^season itself was likely to accomplish the 

 real end of his mission, by c\itting short the 

 inarch of the British General from Prome 

 to Umincrapoora. 



Tlio Brussels papers contain n notice of 

 the alTiiirs of the diet of IIu!igary calculatefl 

 to attract some attention. It a[)pears that 

 this diet, which was o))cned with so much 

 pomp, instead of proceeding with the expe- 

 ilitiou the Emperor re(pnred of them to 

 tiie vote of supplies, begiin to discuss the 

 infringements upon their constitutional 

 liijhts, and embodied llie substance of their 



complaints in an address to the Emperor. 

 The address received an angry and rather 

 thi-eatening answer, esjiccially recommend- 

 ing them to inoceed to the grant of the 

 sn)>i>lies. This was followed by a second 

 resolution of the diet, not granting tlie suji- 

 j'.lies, but expoimding more fully the gi-ounds 

 upon which tliey had urged their first com- 

 plaints. As Hungary was supposed to be 

 one of the parts of the Austrian empire 

 most attached to the sovereign, these pro- 

 ceedings have given rise to many sj)ecida- 

 tions ill Germany. 



The I'rench papers mention the death of 

 General Foy, the distinguished opposition 

 leader in the Chamber of Deputies. So 

 great was liis popularity, tluit at the last 

 election, when the liberal opposition was 

 reduced from 140 or 150 to 17 or 18 mem- 

 bers, he was chosen for three jdaces. 



It is stated in theCon.stitutionneI,tliat the 

 gross amount of subscriptions already re- 

 ceived for General Foy's family extends to 

 433,185 francs, or about .£17,323 sterling. 

 A still later accoimt states it at .£"20,000. 



Ever)' lover of constitutional freedom and 

 the liberty of the press, will be rejoiced 

 to liear that the Courier Franc;ais and 

 the Constitutionnel, French newspapers, 

 \>Tiich have been proceeded against in 

 the Cnur Royale at Paris, for the al- 

 ledged tendency of their articles to cast 

 a slur upon religion, liave been aetpiit- 

 ted. The Courier Frangais observes, that 

 the sentence of the Cour Boyale will be cf 

 the greatest benefit to Catholics, not merely 

 in France, but in every otiier ccnnitry, by 

 shewing that it is not the Catholic religion, 

 but the vile alloy which it was attempted 

 to mix up with it, which is dangerous to 

 society. 



MONTHLY MEDICAL REPORT. 



TitF. unusual mildness of the weather during the last month, lias prevented the np- 

 rearance of those severe cases of bronchial intiammation wMch are wont to shew them- 

 selves at this season of the year. In no former period, ))erliiips. was the metiojiolis ever 

 so free from fog in the month of December, ; and of all the exciting causes of broricliilis 

 (subacute and chronic), none can be imagined so iioweifid, and no one, in jioint of fact, 

 is so universally found to operate as inhalation of air loaded with this kind of condensed 

 moisture. The cases of cough and expectoration which have occurred in the reixirter's 

 practice have been numerous indeed (as they always must be in this variable climate); 

 but they have uniformly yielded to mild remedies, or, at farthest, to the loss of eight 

 ounces of blood from the arm. 



It liiis occurred to tlie reporter to witness, during the same period, a very large num- 

 ber of cases exhibiting the following eluiracters : — The patient complains, in tlie first 

 instance, of rheumatic and wandering pains alTecting the shoulders, back, and chest. 

 Tiiese arc succeeded by a seiuse of tightness or coimlnrlion across the cliest and pit of 

 the stomach, with dithculty, or ratlier a sense of weight, in drawing a full breath. If 

 the comjilaint be suffered to proceed, there follow ))aliiitation and head-aehe. With all 

 this ajiparent disturbance of the resjiiratory organs, there is little or no cough, and no 

 exi'ectoration whatever, The appetite is good, and the sleep undisturbed. From the 

 ' uniform effects of the remedies employed, the reporter is satisfied that these symptoms 

 are altogether the result of simpk constipation. The colon becomes torpid and inac- 

 tive, and partly by mechanical distention, and jiarlly by nervous sympathy, so disturbs 

 the diaphragm in its functions, as to give rise to tlie unpleasant and; ajipareatly, alarming 



