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      Refugees And The " Times." 18, Queen Ann...

      cording to mjr opinion , every stranger residing in England exercises but his own tight , whatever the reasons of his residence , and whatever his op inions may be . A stranger has as much right to reside in England as an Englishman has to reside in Italy , Germany , or Hungary , & c . ; and if they say to me that here we are free and there they are slaves , I answer that for the present the Government of those countries , though illegal because not acknowledged by the public opinion , must be respected by the Englishmen who go there , just as we residing in England must respect the laws of this country , though some of them are unjust . If the hospitality means the sympathy expressed by the English democracy for all the political refugees , then I assure you that we are all grateful for it . —I am , Sir , P . Caruso , Advocate , an Italian refugee .

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      Homfflopathy. 41, Ludgate-Street, St. Pa...

      HOMfflOPATHY . 41 , Ludgate-street , St . Paul ' s , November 11 , 1851 . SIR i As a humble minister of the therapeutic gospel of homoeopathy , I thank you for the valuable articles on that subject , which you have published m your leading columns . Not less thankful am I for the opportunity you have afforded two of the opponents of homoeopathy , " Video" and " Hephaistes , ' to expose the weakness of their cause in your ? 'Open Council" of the 1 st and the 8 th instant . " Video ' s ' flatulent dogmatism has received a dignified reproof from your correspondent «• Earnest . " Will you now permit me to analyse the indictment preferred by ¦ ' Hephaistes" against my colleagues and their system , and to show what skimble-skamble stuff Allopathy can talk with a grave face , and fancy all the while , poor dear old dotard , that she is giving utterance to earth-shaking oracles ? It is not often our opponents venture upon the perilous field of argument . Abuse is easier and safer , and they generally stick to it . When they do pretend to argue , they invariably make liberal use of that kind of sophism technically called ignoratio elenchi , which means the trick of falsifying your adversary ' s case , imputing to him doctrines he never professed , and claiming the honours of victory when you have demolished your own flimsy fabrication . ' Hephaistes" deals largely in this sort of false logic . Perhaps he cannot help it . For my part , I can easily forgive a man for misrepresenting my meaning who does not know his own , or cannot express it intelligibly , not to say grammatically .

      1 . " Hephaistes" says that homoeopathy " denies all the established laws of physics and chemistry . " That is not true : it admits them all . 2 . He says , *? it asserts that matter of a certain kind , and almost of every kind , increases in power as it decreases in bulk . " That is not true . Homoeopathy makes no such assertion . Moreover its axioms are expressed with philosophical precision , and nqt in such slipslop as ' ? Hephaistes" writes . " We know the contrary , ' he continues . ? ' We know that the greater the quantity" ( before it was bulk ) the greater the power , and in exact proportion . " The electrical power of a body , if tha . t means its capacity for receiving and giving off free electricity , varies as its surface , and not as its quantity . " Matter , " he says , " acts physically in proportion Electric matter does not act in

      t . O its quantity . ' proportion to its quantity alone ; but in a ratio compounded of its quantity and its intensity . 8 . He says homaeopathists assert that " minuteness gives power . " That is not true . No such ambiguous proposition is contained iu the homoeopathic creed . What does he mean by power ? Power is a relative term , and among the things it relates to is some effect or other to be produced-Minuteness will not give to a bar of steel the crushing power of a sledge hammer ; but the minuteness of a couching needle ' s point ia one of the elements of its power of penetrating the coats of the eye without rending or contusing them . The true artist economises power ; the bungler { i . e ., the allopathiat ) uses it in pernicious excess . The homoeoimthist rftminiuhca the doses of his medicines down to a

      point short of that at which their curative power ceases ; but far beyond that at which their power of injuring the patient vanishes . He finds by hourly experience , independently of all speculative reasoning , thnt in the process of diminiHhing the dose the latter limit ia attained much sooner than the former . He finds , too , by hourly experience that whilst the f / iminution of hia dosca thus increases their curative power relatively , their < wmmunition increases that

      power positively—that it dynamized them ( not dynamutiKefi , as " HephaiBtes" writes . Plain Knglish Mr . Smith might be excused for auch u Holer . ism ; but Smith sublimated into " llephaistew" ought to be better up iu hi * Ureek ) . He , therefore , luya it down us an axiom that the diminution and comminution of specific medicines ( for nonu other are h . utnuuop » t 1 iic ) within limits not yet practically determineddo greatly increase their curative power .

      , 4 . HephttiatOHSttysthatwo homoeoputhistB " usesmall quantities , but of the most powerful medicines , uh much of them uu l \ w faculty dare to do . ... Bueh powerful medicines that small quantities are alone possible " That is untrue , flagrantly untrue , both ia spirit and ift the latypT , U i % worn t * ue , life caso yvpuW * UU to

      the ground by his own showing ; for the gravamen of his indictment against us is that our doses arenuUumfold smaller than those which allopathists prescribe . It is true , but not in the sense in which he puts it , that we use most powerful medicines . All our medicines are in our hands m powerful to cure , because we know how to apply them rightly , but many of them consist of substances disdained by the old school as feeble or totally inert . What does that school know of the natural magic latent m an oyster shell , in the point of a blacklead pencil , or in a bit of burnt beefsteak ?) Bu reste , your readers will not have failed to notice the supergenteel air of this writer in the arbitrary and exclusive use he makes of the denomination " the faculty . " I am afraid I must set this down as rather snobbish .

      5 . He commends the dietary of the homoeopathists , but says " they attribute its effects to their medicines . " That is not true . Their well-attested success in rapidly subduing the most violent acute diseases , in relieving strangulated hernia without the fearful and uncertain aid of the knife , in the medical treatment of lying-in women , of infants at the breast , and of domestic animals , can hy no possibility be due to the effects of diet . 6 . Lastly , he denounces homoeopathy as a spurious science , " which has avowedly a mere theory for its

      foundation , not yet supported by facts , but contradicting known facts . " And that is not true . Homocopathists make no such avowal . On the contrary , they hold that no man who had fairly studied the history of their science , could fail to see in it a most beautiful example of the inductive method of philosophy . The misfortune is that our opponents will not engage in that study . In the true spirit of allopathists , whose practice is founded on a priori reasoning , they try homoeopathy , not by the test of experiment , but by that of their own preconceived

      opinions . So much , Sir , for what homoeopathy is Bot ; if your allopathic readers desire to know what it is , they wilL find plenty of competent persons among my professional brethren , always ready to afford them that information . If the allopathists are so well assured of the truth of their doctrines as they tell us they are , and so sincere in their pity for our deluded followers , why do they not meet us in a full and public discussion , and expose , if they can , the hollowness of our pretensions ? Any of them who are willing to make the attempt , shall have the opportunity afforded them if they will communicate their wishes to , Your obedient servant , Walter K . Keixt , M . B .

      November 5, 1851. Sir,—Thanks To You For...

      November 5 , 1851 . Sir , —Thanks to you for devoting the space you have to this subject . I say so because " Video " who calls it humbug , and thinks he argues when he calls names , has given you a specimen of Allopathic rebuke forgetting to reason . Allopathists think they cure when they torture ; that they strengthen by weakening , and set men up by bleeding and drastics . " Video tells us that Liebig says homoeopathy is humbug ; he wishes us to infer that allopathists should leech , bleed , and purge us , and that when we see our infant children restored to us by mild and gentle means , we should believe they are cured by the force of imagination !

      If we were to believe this , should we or " Video ' be entitled to tho name of " Johnny Green . " I am sorry he is so unripe as to think that he can make draatics go down by scolding those who won ' t gulp them . Poor Video ! he can ' t see that if imagination can cure us we need conjurors and not allopathists . Edward Search .

      Bakunin, The Russian Martyr. Mauchline, ...

      BAKUNIN , THE RUSSIAN MARTYR . Mauchline , Ayrshire , November 11 , 1851 . Sir , —I have read with painful emotion the notice in your paper of the execution of John $ akunin , the glorious Russian Republican . I pray you to obtain and publish in your paper the date , that it may bo remembered , and tho particulars , that they may bo borne in mind , of tho hero ' s martyrdom . My heart is wrung with grief . Once , and once only , and but for a few moments , I met liakunin . It was at tho oiliee of the Rdforme , in Paris , a few days after the February revolution . It "was evening , and seeing him but for a few moments , by a not very brilliant gaslight , my recollection of him is too imperfect to enable me to minutely describe hia person . I remember , however , that he left upon my mind the impression of being one of tho noblestlooking beings ( he was very tall ) my eyes ever saw . The Dcmokrata , and the National have reminded Kurope how ho combated with tongue , and pen , and bwoiu , for liberty and universal justice . On tho barricades of Dresden he was the bravest of the brave . Vanquished bythe homicidal mercenaries of that pair of liberal scoundrels , the kings of Haxony and Pxusniu , be wus dragged from dungeon to-dungeon , and transferred from king to kaiser , and from kaiser to autocrat , xmtil , ufter Buffering tortures which , in all probability , will bo found on inquiry , tohuve equalled thotjo inflicted on Konuraki , liakunin found relief from Ida s ^ vtforingB at the hand of the expeutioner .

      > many year * ago we were visited by the kin * * Prussia , the king of Saxony , and the accursed T ° Would to God they would repeat their visit . ^ JoT signal lessons are needed to strike terror to the smT of these royal murderers . O thou redressor of ft wronged , thou consoler of the afflicted , thou terror t tyrants , Nemesis named , hasten thy conquerin ? W ° steps , make bare thy red right hand ! OK Julian Hahney . many year * ago we were visited bv th * v ^» .,

      ± oi His ea » ins are broken ; the blood-droiToTTl stand upon his brow no more ; -. p a 2 ° ny " And he is Freedom ' s aow , and Fam *'* One of the few immor-tal names ' That were not born to die . " Again I entreat you to publish the particulars M BakWs martyrdom ( oneof amultituOe of 2 SL * f that the democracyof Europe may know , treaSE ^ - and avenge . ^ ureup , Not

      Health Of London During T^ Wefjk (From T...

      HEALTH OF LONDON DURING T ^ WEfJK ( From the Registrar-General ' s Report . ) It was shown in the report for the last week of October that the mortality was considerably diminished it now appears that , concurrently with a great fall in the tern perature , it has again risen to nearly the same amount as prevailed during the earlier part of last month . The deaths registered \ n London in the week ending last Saturday were 989 . In the ten corresponding weeks of 1841-50 the average was 967 ; but the population has increased since that period , and the average , if correc ted ia proportion to the increase , is 1064 , compared with which last week ' s mortality shows a decrease of 75 . T ^ ie increase in the previous week is visible amongst the young the middle-aged , and persons of advanced life . It is also observed in all those classes of disease which make the largest contributions to the mortality . As in former weeks , scarlatina and typhus predominant .

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      Mon^Y Market And City Intelligence Frida...

      MON ^ Y MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE Friday . Consols have gradually risen this week . On Monday they were quoted at 98 | 8 ; and by Thursday they had reached 98 g 4- The opening prices this morning were—Consols , 983 5-It is reported by the sagacious , that we are about to witness a mining mania , owing to the plethora of capital in the City . Remember railways in ' 45 . The fluctuations of the week have been , Consols , 98 £ £ ; Bank Stock , 214 to 215 ; Exchequer Eills , 52 s . to 55 s . premium .

      Foreign Stocks were yesterday officially quoted at the following prices : —Mexican , 24 g and $ ; Portuguese Four per Cents ., 33 |; Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents ,, 102 J and } ; Sardinian Five per Cents ., 81 J , f , and |; the Scrip , 3 J discount ; Spanish Five per Cents ., for the " account , 20 f and { ; Passive , 5 J ; Dutch Twoand-a-Half per Cents ., 59 ; and the Four per Cent . Certificates , 90 J .

      Bank Of England. An Account, Pursuant To...

      BANK OF ENGLAND . An Account , pursuant to the Act 7 th and 8 th Victoria , cap . 32 for the week ending on Saturday , October 2 o , IHji . IS 8 UK DEPARTMENT . £ £ N . to , Unwl .... 28 . , 515 % ™« % * °£ : ' ! $ tS G ° . ' . ? : . . " . ' : iM « . jg Silver Bullion ,... ^ J *« v ^ WAU fiK X 28 . 614 . BANKING KEPAllTMBNT . * X Proprietora'Capttal , 14 , f > 53 , 000 Government Socu-Hesl 3 . 151 . IU rlties («* $ " * " * Publlo Deposits ( in- Dead-weight An % H eluding KxcUe- nuity ) . .. , ;«' } Vfl ; i 8 quer , BavingH' Other Securities " 'Jjg ' asO Banks Cooamis- - Notea . _ ¦¦¦ '• sionera ' of National Gold and Silver ^ Debt , and Divi- Coin < U-nd Account *) .. 5 , 175 , 358 Other Deposits 10 , 474 , 704 Seven-dayandothcr BillB 1 . 265 , 367 - £ -M ( Jl'J . M '' jC 34 , Giy , 53 G r % . . ( r , ' \ . ier . Dated October 31 , 1851 . ' kl . MahmiAJX , Chief Cuxhar .

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      JUUTI 9 H FUNDS FOlt TIIK I'AST YfYMK . ( Closing PriceB . ) ^ ..... Satur . Mont . ' Tue * . « £ *» - f ^ W Hank Stock .... 2 * 14 MU « N | 7 g ___ 3 per Ct . lied .. « 7 » » 7 S » 74 « ' 5 M | - ¦ - » p . O . Con . Ans . On m « JH _ B _ . - " 8 p . O . An . 17 VJ 0 . —— ~ Z ~ ,, o > < M — af p . Coat . An . « BH S » 8 fi J ^» J ^_? 1 — N ow f > per OIh . « 7 7 ' L » ngAn « .. 18 ( 10 . ] _ J ^ m > aCl } — [ nd . Bt . ioip . ct . *» ' * « 5 y i > —" Ditto UQ » d « ¦• G » l > ?» P " $ dp Ex . miK iooo / . pi i » - * v £ J £ , ftr ,,, — Ditto , 5 ) 0 . MP W | & j P ^ , . feftp - Ditto , Huittll 51 I > "J l . » * " r AVKUAOK PlllOK OK 8 UOAH-. ™^ ;^^; -: 'Zr ^^ »»< SX mbur 1851 , 1 » » 3 * . 8 d . per owt .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 15, 1851, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15111851/page/20/