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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 36, 11 April 1844, Page 4

A late number of the Lancet contains a notice of eertain experiments performed on cats, one of which is peculiarly brutal in its character, and not of any scientific importance in its resuhs. A foreigner of the name of Weinhold, took away the brain and spinal marrow of one of those animals, and filled up the space thus made with an amalgam of mercury, quicksilver, and zinc. Life appeared to be instantly restored, the animal lifted up its head, opened and shut its eyes, and looking with a fixed stave, endeavoured to walk, and wheneverit dropped, tried to raise itself upon its legs. It continued iu this state some twenty minutes, when 1 it fell down and remained motionless. During all the time the animal was thus treated, the circulation of the blood appeared to go on regularly ; the secretion of the gastric juice was more than usual, and the animal heat was re-established. Although it is not expressly so stated, the cat must have been alive when this fellow cut away its brain and spinal marrow, or else the processes just described coU\d not havq been reproduced; aud we can easily believe that a person capable of thus tormenting an animal, would not hesitate, were it not for the penal restrictions, at repeating his scientific experiment on human creatures. A model of a fireproof magazine, about 9 feef square, and containig gunpowder, was one day last week, at Westminster, submitted to a heat of one hundred degrees Fahranlteil, without being at all ..injured. * A hive of bees, despatched by railway from London yesterday week to Mrs. Joseph Pease, sen. Darlington, arrived save at the latter place on the following morning, and “as busy as bees,”'need be.