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THE GREAT MISTAKE . Well , real ! J Tm astonished quite , And scarce know what to say , To find that Sunday , after all , Is still a working day ; That , spite of Legislative Acts , And Bigotry ' s bram fever , The world is going round to day As rapidly as ever . Ithoug ht ^ xcep ^ rgan pii » as not to blow
ThB wind was , iS : flowers were to be takenup tf they presumed to grow : That every stomach , ship , and thing In an ? kind of motion , Most stop for hours just twenty-four , To offer its devotion . I thought , too , nothing must he read gave psalms in holy walls , Yetthere are placards posted up , Announcing " sales" and " balls ;" That men could neither send their thoughts , yor be allowed to carry 'em . Nor Christian pastors take their fees From folks—or even marry "em .
I thought , if e en the sun came oat , It would be deemed a crime , And that some plan had been devised To bind the wings of Time ; That every dial , clock , and watch , "With six days' labour irking . Would have to wind up its affairs And stop its hands from working . AU mail delw ' ries were to stop , Yet there is Mrs . Binns—Ungodly woman!—jnst co nfined With—would you think it?—twins ; And Ticar Dobbs . to whom 'twas thought A day ' s respite was given , This very morning made his will , And went , I hope , to Heaven . There goes the doctor in his gig ,
And there is Chemist Brown As hard at work as if he meant To knock his counter down ; Yea , even while the parish church- ' With pious sonls is filling , A fellow , awling" Mackerel , " Sells two soles for a shilling . I thought all labour was to cease , Yet poor old Mr . Crnpp , The bishop ' s carriage can't knock down Bnt some one picks him up ; And just because tbe church takes fire , The zealous congregation , Bush out for engine , pipes , and pails , To stop the conflagration .
I thought that Jane , my Lady ' s cook , . And John , the butler , too , Would be obliged to go to church , As other Christians do : And that , however odd it seem , Each ostler , footman , baker , Believed from toil , wonld leisure 1 at e To worship God , his Maker . And Sunday trains still running—well ! They'll sure fly off the rails , Conveying pleasure-seekers when They dare not take tbe mails . There really must be some mistake 1 — 'Tis Saturday or Monday , For we are holy people now—That is—npon a Sunday .
We never dream of labouring , Upon the seventh day—Or riding out , or doing aught That savours of display . Ho children , servants , cattle now Are Sabbath-breaking sinners—And what is more , we've given np Our nice hot Sunday dinners . Alas ! methwhs—I ' ve been deceived , And so have half tbe town-It merely is the " Sunday Post "
The wise heads have pat down-As if , by making it a sin , To send an urgent tetter , They did the smallest good on earth , Or madeone bad heart better .
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The Peopk o f the Caucasus , and their Struggle for Lxberiy with tlie Russians—( Die Volker des Caucasus , 8 ( 0 . ) By Friedrich Bodenstedt . Second Edition . Frankfort am Main , Lizios ; London , 2 Jutfc The vicissitudes of the war in the Caucasus of late have been surprising enough to awaken the interest of Western Europe , even amidst her own nearer anxieties . Last year it was said that the conquest of Achulgo , tbe stronghold of the redoubtable Schamyl , had effectually broken ihe power of that daring leader . In direct contradiction to such reports , later accounts from Daghestan tell of the re-appearance of the notable partisan amidst the
lines of the Russians , and of a defeat of the latter , the most severe , if the details of the event be true , that they have yet suffered in tbe Caucasus . In any case , these exciting changes would he in favour of a book professing to describe this interesting region , and to add to our knowledge of its brave inhabitants . The main interest of Herr Bodenstedt ' s work - will now be enhanced by its undertaking to give a more precise account than had previously appeared of the priest-warrior of Daghestan , and of tbe new sect as the prophet of which he succeeded in arraying the independent mountain clans against their common enemy with a kind of combination unknown in earlier periods of the struggle .
The author has evidently lived for some time in tbe region -which he describes , or in the bordering districts along the Caspian , both in Georgia , and in North Daghestan . His acquaintance with Asiatic and Russian languages and customs , appears to have been gained both by study and from intercourse with the natives of the south-eastern frontier . He is not ignorant of oriental writings that refer to his subject ; and bis Russian statistics prove an access to official authorities which are not to be found in print . These , however obtained , can scarcely have been imparted to him as one of those writers whom the Court of
St Fetersburgh hires to promote its views , through the press of . Western Europe . His sympathies are declared against Russian usurpation ; and the tendency of his essay is to prove how little real progress it has yet made in subduing the Caucasus , the enormous waste of money and life with which its fluctuating successes have been bought , and the fallacy of ex pecting a better result hereafter . The best part of his work is , that which
delineates some features of the later movement in the Caucasus , hitherto bat little known in Western Europe . The historical survey with which the book opens , comprising—with a sketch of Russia ' s usurpation of Georgia , and a keen discussion of the pretences on which she churns the sovereignty of Caucasus—an account of its several clans , and of the topography and statistics of that region , and an able sketch of the origin and settlement of the Cos-Back tribes , is also ably drawn up .
From the ethnographic part we take the following rough estimate of the numbers of the male population of the Caucasus able to bear arms . They are given by Herr Bodenstedt , with the provisio that they are bat approximate , as follows : — Belonging to tbe race of Kartwel-includrng , as branches of one parent stock , the Georgians , Imer ians Sonant
Min-, greUans , and Suanetes 300 , 000 Abshadian and Tscherkessian tribes , occupying tbe region between the Kuban and the Black Sea { or those commonly known to Europe under tbe denomination of " Circassians" ) 160 , 000 fcsgluans 350000 Armenians 135 , 000 Of Turkish and Persian descent 350 000
• £ 1 , 285 , 000 Other authorities compute the number variously , between one and one and a half millions . The larger estimate may not be found excessive when the extent of the region is considered . The Lesghians we see are here rated at 350 , 000 fightingmen : —of these , somelOO . OOO must be struck off , as tribes under Russian control—the remainder will form the able male population of that region , in which the chief warfare ofthe last ten years has raged . What it has cost in life on the Russian side to attack —bitherte " with no lasting effect—this handful
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of m ountaineers , maybe guessed from a single note inserted in the A ppendix , dated 1847 . " The present Russian force in the Caucasus " — . including , of course , the armed Cassocks on theKubanandTerek—" amounts to 200 , 000 . " Taking into account the numbers yearly cut off by disease , more fatal even than the mountain war , every step of which must be won bv the most reckless waste of life—the " Russian Officer" may , perhaps , truly affirm that the annua * expenditure of life by Russia in her warfare with Schamyl , has for many years past exceeded the whole number of the population at any one time directly under the rule of that chieftain .
The editor ' s caution on the subject of Russian statistics is , however , worth remembering here : —• The foreign traveller , who wishes to obtain a glimpse of the statistical relations of this country will do well to put more faith in printed Russian documents than in the oral data of Russian officials—those , even , whose position renders an exact knowledge of the internal circumstances of the country a positive duty . For your true Russians are never more delighted than when a foreign author sets forth in public with a good round budget of nonsense concerning their nation ; but they
dread the truth , as owls do the light—like the basi lisk , they would die , were they by accident to behold their own real image . For this reason , therefore , every Russian of the right sort will frankly contribute his aite to perplex the traveller ' s notions , and to keep truth out of tbe way as much as possible . With what satisfaction do these gentry then rub their hands when they detect mistakes which they themselves have begotten ? What a rejoicing there was in the Boyar drawing-rooms when M . d'Arlincourt , in his " Etoile Polaire , " brought into the book-market all the absurdities and obsolete fictions with which he had been
emmmed in Moscow and Fetersburgh . '—so many false numbers to discover ! and so many wrong names ! such a mass of fables , and so little truth I and Russian society depicted- in a manner at once so preposterous and so highly scented—as if tbe author bad written with a dottrel ' s feather dipped in attar of roses ! In short , it was an ecstatic triumph—a pleasure more than enough for the heart of an orthodox 'Muscovite . It was bnt fair in the Emperor to repay the innocent delight which the noble Ticomte bad thus afforded to his Majesty ' s subjects who speak French—with tke gift of an order .
We have said that the most instructive part of Herr Bodenstedt ' s essay is , his sketch of that politico-religious scheme which made Schamyl formidable to the Russians . This system , it is to be observed , arose and has been since fully developed only in the Eastern Caucasus , where of late the main stress of the war has been . The western tribes ( our " Circassians " ) who took the lead at an earlier stage of the contest , were not then , nor have they since been inspired by the fanatic zeal
which united the tribes of Daghestan . They fought from a mere love of independence , each little republic by itself ; and their efforts , however heroic , being without concert , declined before the vast force of the invader . In the region looking westward from the Georgian frontier on the Euxine , on the one side of the Caucasian range , and along the lower Kuban on the other , the Russian posts are now seldom threatened but by small predatory hands—the natives , retired to their mountain villages , have for some time made but few more
formidable incursions . The war is transferred to the region spreading eastward from the Elbrus to the Caspian ; where the strife for free existence is animated not less by the hatred of Russian slavery than by a fresh outbreak of Mohamme dan zeal against Infidel invasion , —a revival , in fact , of that warlike fanaticism which made the Moslem name terrible from the eight to the sixteenth century . It dates from the years 1823-4 ; at which period a " new doctrine" began to be preached secretly at first , to the select Ulema , afterwards to greater numbers , in word and writ
ing , by one Mullah Mohammed , a famous teacher and a judge ( or kadi ) of Jarach , in the Kurin district of Daghestan . He professed to have learnt it from Hadis-Ismail , an Alim of Kurdomir , highly famed for wisdom and sanctity . It laid bare the degradation into which his countrymen had sunk by irreligion and by the jealousy of sect ; their danger in consequence , from enemies of the true faith ; and urged the necessity of reform in creed and practice , in order to regain the invincible character promised by the Prophet to believers . The theoretic part of the reformed doctrine
seems to he a kind of Sufism ,--tbe general character of which mode of Islam , long prevalent in the adjacent kingdom of Persia , has been described by our own orientalists . Disputed questions as to its origin , whether in Brahmin philosophy or in the reveries of Moslem mystics , cannot be discussed here ; it must suffice to indicate those points which appear to connect it with the hieratic policy that has given a new aspect to the -warmths Caucasus . Proceeding nominally on the basis of the Koran , it inculcates or expounds a kind of spiritual transcendentalism ; in'which the adept is raised above the necessity of formal laws , which are only requisite for those who are not capable of rising to a fall intelligence of the
supreme power . To gam this height by devout contemplation must be the personal work and endeavour of each individual . The revelation of divine truth , once attained , supersedes specific moral injunctions ; ceremonies and systems , even of religion , hecorae indifferent to the mind illuminated by tbe sacred idea . A higher degree is the perfect conception or ecstatic -vision of the Deity ;—the highest—reserved only for the prophetic fewa real immediate union with his essence . Here , it will he seen , are four steps or stages , each of which has its sacred manual or appropriate system of teaching . In the hieratic system of which Schamyl is the head , the divisions seem to correspond pretty nearly with this arrangement , as follows : —
The first includes the mass of the armed people ; whose zeal it promotes by strict relig ions and moral injunctions—enjoining parity of life , exact regard to the ritual of the Koran , teaching pilgr images , fasting ablutions ; the duty of implacable war against the Infidel , the sin of enduring his tyranny . The second is composed of those who , in virtue of striving upwards to a higher Divine intelligence , are elevated above ceremonial religion . Of these the Murids ( seekers or strugglers , ) are formed : a body of religious warriors attached to thelnam , whose courage in battle , raised to a kind of frenzy , despises numbers and laughs at death . To accept quarter , or to fl y from the Infidel , is forbidden to this class .
The third includes the more perfect acolytes , who are presumed to have risen to the ecstatic view of the Deity . These are the elect , whom the Imam makes Naibs , or vicegerents , —invested with nearly absolute power in his absence . The fourth , or highest ; implying entire union with the Divine essence , is held by Schamyl alone . In virtue of this elevation and spiritual endowment , the Imam , as an immediate organ of the Supreme Will , is
himself the source of all law to his followers , unerring , impeccable ; to question or disobey his behests is a sin against religion , as well as a political crime . It may be seen what advantage this system must have given to Schamyl in his conflict with the Russians . The doctrine of the indifference of sects and forma enabled him to unite the divided followers of Omar and of Ali , in a region where both abound , and where the schism bad formerly been one of the most effectual instruments of
the enemy . The belief in a Divine mission and spiritual powers sustains his adherents in all reverses ; while it invites to defection from the Russian side those of the Mohammedan tribes who have submitted to the invader . Among these , however , Schamyl—like his predecessors in the same priestly office—by no means confides the progress of his sect to spiritual influences only . The work of conversion , where exhortation fails , is carried on remorselessly by fire and sword ; and the Imam
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is as terrible to those of his countrymen whom fear or interest retains in alliance with Russia , as to the soldiers of the Czar . With a character in which extreme daring is allied with coolness , cunning , and military genius , —with a _ good fortune which has hitherto preserved his life in many circumstances where escape seemed impossible , —it may be seen that the belief in his supernatural gifts and p rivileges , once created , must always tend to increase in intensity and effect among the imaginative and
credulous Mohammedans of the Caucasus ; and that , this apt combination of the warrior with the politician and prophet , accounts for his success in combining against the Russians a force of the once discordant tribes of Daghestan , possepsing more of the character of a national resistance than had been ever known before in the Caucasus , —and compelling the invaders to purchase everyone of their few , trifling and dubious advances by the terrible sacrifice of life already noticed .
; In this formidable movement , the highlander's natural love of freedom is fanned into a blaze by a religious zeal like that which once led the armies of Islam over ono half of Asia and Europe . Although it reached its highest energy and a more consummate developement under Schamyl , it was begun b y bis predecessors . Of the Mullah Mohammed , who first preached the duty of casting off the yoke of the Giaour , and the necessity of a religious reform and union of rival sects , as a means to that end , we have already spoken . This founder of tbe now system , an aged man , untrained in arms , never himself drew the
sword in the cause ; hut was active in diffusing its principles , and preparing a warlike rising by exhortations and letters circulated through all Daghestan . Suspected of these designs , he was seized , in 1826 , by the orders of Jermoloff ; and although he escaped , —by the connivance , it is said , of the native prince employed to capture him , — he afterwards lived , in a kind of concealment for some years . The post of Imam was thereupon assumed by a priest who was able to fight for the new doctrine as well as to preach it . The first armed outbreak took place under Kasi-Mullab , about the year 1829 ; from which time , until
his death in a battle at Himry , in 1831 , he waged a terrible and , although often defeated , a virtually successful warfare , against tbe Russians , while he prosecuted the work of conversion among the tribes of Islam , who delayed to acknowledge his mission , and to join in his enmity to the Russians , by the extremities of bloodshed and rapine . His death , after an heroic resistance , was hailed as a triumph by the Russians . They counted on the extinction of the new sect in tbe defeat of its leader—whose dead body they carried about tbe country to prove the imposture of his pretensions . This piece of barbarism produced an effect the reverse of what they
expected . ' The venerable face of tbe Imam , the attitude in which he had expired , with one hand pointed as if to heaven , was more impressive to those who crowded round the body than his fearless enthusiasm had been—and thousands who till then had held aloof , now joined his followers in venerating him as a prophet . Of this first warrior-priest of Daghestan , Schamyl was the favourite disciple and the most trusted soldier . Easi-MuIIah was not killed until Schamyl bad already fallen , as it seemed , under several deadly wounds—bis re-appearance after this bloody scene was but the first of many similar escapes , the report of which sounds like a fable . He did not , however , at once succeed to
tbe dignity of Imam : the office was usurped for more than a year by flamsad Beg ( Bey ) , whose rapacious and savage treatment of some of the princely families of Daghestan nearly caused a fatal reaction against the new sect , and the destruction of its main support , the Murids . Han sad Beg performed no action of consequence a » ninst the Russians ; but expended his rage against the natives allied with them , or reluctant to obey his mandates . He was assassinated in 1834 by some kinsmen of a princely house whose territories he had usurped after a massacre of its princes . In tbe affray which took place on the occasion , there perished with him many of the fanatic Murids , who had become odious as
instruments of the cruelties of tbeir Imam . On his death , Schamyl was raised to the dignity ; but it was some time before the mischief done by his predecessor , was so far repaired as to allow him to act with energy as the prophet of the new doctrine . One of the ill effects of ilamsad Beg's iniquities bad been tbe defection to tbe Russians of a notable partisan—Hadji Murad—for many years a fatal thorn in the side of the independent party . This and other difficulties , among which was the unpopularity of the Murids under Hamsad Beg , were removed by new alliances and precautions , while all that eloquence and skill could perform was applied to restore the credit of tbe religious system—before
Schamyl could hazard a direct attack of the Russian enemy—who meanwhile had taken advantage of the delay and disunion to gain ground in many parts of Daghestan . From the year 1839 , however , tbe tide rapidly turned ; and the result , from that date until the period at which the account closes ( 1845)—when Woronzow was appointed to command in the Caucasus , with nearly unlimited powers —has been that the Russians , in spite of tremendous sacrifices , were constantly losing ground and influence , while Schamyl gained both in equal proportion . We extract the following account of the Caucasian hero , whose portrait , we believe , has never before been so fully exhibited to European readers : —
" Schamyl is of middle stature ; he has light hair , grey eyes , shaded by bushy and well-arched eyebrows—a nose finely moulded , and a small mouth . His features are distinguished from those of his race by a peculiar fairness of complexion and delicacy of skin ; the elegant form Of his bauds and feet is not less remarkable . Theapparent stiffness of bis arms , when he walks , is a sign of his stern and impenetrable character . His address is thoroughly noble and dignified . Of himself he is completely master ; and be exerts a tacit supremacy over all who approach bini . An immoveable stony calmness , which never forsakes him , even in moments of the utmost danger , broods over bis countenance . He passes a sentence of death with tbe same composure with which he distributes "the sabre of honour" to bis
bravest Murids , after a bloody encounter . With traitors or criminals whom he has resolved to destroy be will converse without betraying the least sign of anger or vengeance . He regards himself as a mere instrument in the hands of a higher Being ; and holds , according to the Sufi doctrine , that all bis thoughts and determinations are immediate inspirations from God . Theflow of his speech is as animating and irresistible as his outward appearance is awful and commanding . " He . shoots flames from bis eyes , and scatters flowers from his lips "—said Bersek Bey , who sheltered him for some days after the fall of Achulgo—when Schamyl dwelt for some time among the princes of
theDjighetes and Uhiches , for the purpose of inciting the tribes on the Black Sea to rise against the Russians . Schamyl is now ( circa 1847 ?) fifty years old , but still full of vigour and strength ; it is however said , that be bas for some years past suffered from an obstinate disease of tbe eyes , which is constantly growing worse . He fills the intervals of leisure which his public charges allow him , in reading the Koran , fasting , and prayer . Of late years he has but seldom , and then only on critical occasions , taken a personal share in warlike encounters . In
spite of his almost supernatural activity , bcnamyl is excessively severe and temperate in his habits . A few hours of sleep are enough for him ; at times he will watch for the whole night , without showing the least trace of fatigue on the following day . He eats little , and water is his only beverage . . * According to Mohammedan custom , he keeps several wives —[ this contradicts Wagner , who affirms that Schamyl always confined himself to one ];—in 1844 he had three , of which his favourite , JDur Haremen ( Pearl of the Harem ) , as she was called , was an Armenian of exquisite beauty . "
Will Russian arms prevail in the end ? The following is Herr Bodenstedt ' s answer ; after noticing tbe arrival of Woronzow , and the expectations raisen by his talents , bjr tbe immense resources at his command , as well as by such events as the storm at Schamyl ' s stronghold of Dargo : — "He who believes that tho issuo of thi s contest tongs on tbe destruction of stone fortresses , on the devastation of tracts of forest , has not yet
conceived the essential nature of the war in the Caucasus . * * This is not merely a war of men against men—it is a strife between the mountain and the steppe . The population of the Caucasus may be changed ; the air of liberty wafted worn its heights will ever remain the same . Invigorated by this atmosphere , even Russian hirelings would grow into men eager for freedom ; and among tbeir descendants a new race of heroes would arise , to point their weapons against that servile constitution , to extend which tbeir fathers had once fought , as
blind , unquestioning slaves . " To this answer of Herr Bodenstedt ' s we will add nothing of our own . We are weary with * a't , n 8 for the events of history such as we would have them .
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- What is ACo ^ rJETTB ?—A young lady of more beauty than aertse ,, mere accomplishments than learning , more charm of person than grace of mind , more admirers than friends , more fools than wise men for attendants Longfellow . > : . ¦ The Rev . Dr . Scoresby , in a paper read before the British Association , stated that the highest crest 0 f a wave above the trough of the sea , in a series of Atlantic observations , was found to be forty-five feet . ..:. ¦ . ''¦ ' ; 1 Awkward Coincidence . —In a Tyneside village church , the curate on Trinity Sunday preached a sermon which was recognised as TMotson s . In'the afternoon the incumbent , who had been absent , returned and preached the very same sermon .
A BLACK Stohv . —A shower of black rain fell recently in Northamptonshire , which on the authority of a clergyman who relates the fact , rendered two boys who were loading his waggons , " as black as chimney sweepers . " Cai ? t . Stanfouu , who , at sorae personal risk , and with singular disinterestedness , supplied the commissariat of the Cape of Good Hope with provisions when tbeir supplies were , during tbe late disturbances cut off from every other source , has received the honour of Knighthood . Povrrty has in large cities very different appearances . It is often concealed in splendour , and often in extravagance , i It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest . They support themselves by temporary expedients , and that every day is lost in contriving for tomorrow .
VinroE op Strawberries . —The act of eating strawberries , says an eminent medical writer , cleanses the teeth and gums , and purifies the breath . It assists digestion and fortifies the stomach , and being of itself entirely soluble , never turns sour or undergoes fermentation . In many cases it is positively medical , removing rheumatic affections and other diseases arising from obstructions of the system . A Bum .. —A certain Irish attorney threatened to prosecute a Dublin printer for inserting the death of a living person . Tbe menacer concluded with the remark'That no printer should publish a death , unless informed of the fact by the party deceased . " .
True Chabiit . —If we give ' only to receive , we lose the fairest objects of our charitv—the absent , the sick , the captive , and tbe needy . When we oblige those that can never pay us again in kind , as a stranger upon his Inst farewell , or a necessitous person upon his deathbed , we make Providence our debtor , and rejoice in the consciousness even of a fruitless benefit . * * * He that gives nothing but in hope of receiving , must die intestate . — Sbnkca , 1-1 Oman Natorr . — Elliott , the Corn-Law Rhymer , said , if you wish to know what human nature is , you should solicit subscriptions for a
poem . He had done so : and one man said , " D—n you I why don ' t you write something a gentleman enn read ? " Another , ' "Well , . I suppose I mu * t patronise your vanity , or what you please to call it !" Pbidb Humbled . —Leigh Hunt ' s father was a stalwart clergyman , who knew not what itw-ato truckle . One day , being in company with a certain fat and purse-proud bishop , they fell into a discussion , in which the pompous prela'ical bigot deemed his dignity wunld go for half the aruument . Finding that Mr . Hunt hud the best of it , he turned fiercely on him , saying , ' Sir do you know what I am ?" ' ¦ Dust and ashes ,. my lord , " replied the
clergyman . ' I am an old fellow , " says Cowper , in one of his letters to Hurd , " But I bad once my dancing days , as yon have now ; yet I could never find that I could learn half so much of a woman ' s character by danc ing with her , as by conversing with her at home , where I could observe her behavi ur unobserved , at the table , at the fireside , and in all the trying circumstances of life . We are all good when we are pleased ; hut she is a good woman who wants no fiddle to sweeten her . " A Hint to Newspaper Proprietors and Correspondbmts—By a recent order issued by the Postmaster-tGi reral of the United States , all correspondence for editors and publishers of newspapers printed in the States of the Union , is permitted to pass postage free through the territory of the United States , provided such correspondence relau-s exclusively to matters connected with their respective
newspapers . Sono . —Oh , marry the man you love , girls , if you can get him at all ; i » 'ha is as rich as Crocus or a * poor as Job in hi * fall . Pray , do not marry for pelf , eirls , ' twill bring your soul into thrall ; but marry the man you love , girls , If his purse be ever so small . Oh , never marry a fop , girls , wheiher he ' s little or tall ; he'll make a fool of himself and youlie knows nothing well but to brawl . But marry a sober man , girls ( there are few left on this ball ) , and you never will rue the day , girls , that you ever married a ' all .
A Prbcious " Fix . —Papers having been lodged to file an injunction to prevent the Dover Company from opening the Ashford and Hastings Line , on the ground that the line , as constructed , does not agree with the parliamentary section ^ The other day an injunction or decision was obtained , prohibiting the company from paying any more dividend until the said line shall have been opened . Therefore , an injunction being obtained to prevent tbe opening , and another to stop future dividends until the opening , the company are in a true American " fix . " Was ever Woman in such Humour . Wooed ? -
The following is paid to be the manner a Sandwich Islander proposes marriage , when he falls a victimt to the lender passion : —The chief told her that if she wou'd become his wife he would send one hundred sea oUersto her friends , that he would never ask her to arrcy wood , draw water , dig for roots , or hunt for privisions ; that he would make her mistress over his other wives , and permit her to sit at her ease from morning till nijiht , and wear her own clothes ; that ? he would always have abundance of fat salmon , anchovies « nd elk , and be allowed to cmoke as many pipes of tobacco a * she thought proper , together with many other flattering inducements .
The Mixkd Arrows . —Cupid , one sultry summer ' s noon , tired with play and faint with heat , went into a cool grotto to repose himself , which happened to be the cave of Death . He threw himself carelessly down on the floor , and his quiver turning topsy-turvy , all the arrows fell out , and mingled with those of Death , which lay scattered up and down the place . When he awoke be gathered them up as well as . he could ; but they were so intermingled that , though he knew the exact number , ho could not rightly distinguish them , from which it happened that he took up some of the arrows which belonged to Death , and left several of h ' » own in the room of them . This is the cause why we now and then see the hearts of the old and decrepid transfixed with
the bolts of Love ; and , with equal grief and surprise , behold the youthful , bloooming part of our species smitten with the darts of Death . JlLUSTRATIOMJ OP AMERICAN " FREEDOM . "—A gentleman lately from Missouri relates to us the following incident : — A slave-holder in the southern part of Missouri started for California , taking with him a slave whom he had promised should accompany him to the mines , and then have an opportunity of earning enough to purchase his liberty and that of his wife and children . The master proceeded as far as St Louis , and there placed him in a slave-pen and sold him for 750 dollars . The agreement between the master and the slave was , as the latter related to
our informant , that he should accompany him to the mines and work for him eight . hours every dsy , and have the remainder of his time to dig on " his own hook . " He wag to pay his master $ 00 dollars for his liberty , COO for his wife ' s , and 400 each for his children . " My heart was high , " said the negro , as he related his story , u as I thought ot the prospect of becoming free and having my wife and children ; but think how I felt , " and the tears rolled down his cheeks , when " inassa sell me to get money to curry him to the gold mines . Oh ! dare ' er no God for my massa ; he no go to hebben when he die . " " The story was heartrending , " says our friend : bnt he adds " it is a scene . of every day life among slavetraders . "—Sailv Wisconsin .
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Our bodies have been entirely formed , an now forming , and will continue to . be built yp during Lfe from the Blood . This being thiedse , the grand object is to keep this precious fluid ( the blood ) in a pure and healthy < state , for without this purity , disease will show itself in some way or the other . ¦ ' . ' . ' : It is universally admitted that this Medicine will purify the Blood better than any other , and will con quer Disease , Copy of a letter addressed to Mr . Drury , Bookseller , Lincoln . Sir , —I , Charles Foster , ground-keeper to Henry Rhep . pfcerd , Esq ., do this day , Octobers , 1847 , ' attest to the following statement : 'Having been ill alongtime . pvoceeumg from pain in my body , attended with considerable fever , very faint . ' sick in the morning , without being able to discharge anjthing from the stomach , aud no appetite whatever , with , many other disagreeable symptoms all over ameremedical man was able to benefit me , and I became reduced in strength so . much as to prevent toy attending to my , usual avocations . Hearing tha many benefits derived from old Pabb ! b Puis , I decided at owe topive them a trial and purchased'aboxatybur shop , near the Stone Bow , Lincoln , and it affords me great pleasure to inform you that , the one box entirely cured tne , and I am now entirely restored in health ; hut whenever I feel le . ' s active , and not so lively as usual , I immediately have rr course to old Parb , and a couple of his pills bring me right . Tlie astonishing effect Pass ' s Pills have bad upon me is such ttmt . I can scarcely believe that I am the same man I was a few months ago .: I felt then as , though my life was nearly ended ; now , I feel hearty ,..-nd able to undertake any description of work and exertion , without feeling that excessive fatisue I did previous to taking them . It is really and truly new life to me : I have given this ' statement volun . tary , for the benefit of those of-my fellow' creatures who know nothing of old Paev ' s wonderful pills : I remain , sir , yours respectfully , Charles Foster . —Lincoln , Octobev 5 th , 1847 . To the Proprietors of Parr's Life Pills . Sirs , —The above case has been given me this day from tbe lips of Mr , . Charles Foster ,, who came , for two boxes , and who was not disposed to t ; o away , without' sending you word for the benefit be has received . I remain , yours , & c , JAMES i DRURT . •; - . ... ¦ - .-,. - .. ¦' . In order to protect the public from imitations , the Hon , Commissioners of Stamps . ordered the words "PAKE'S LIPK PILLS" to be engraved on tbe Government Stamp , which : is pasted round the sides of each , box , in -White LCTrgBS on a Ked Ground , Without this mark of authenticity , they are spurious , Sole Proprietors , T . ttoberts , and Co ., Crane-court , Fleet-street , London ; ¦ and " sold Wholesale by their . appointment ; by B . Edwards , 67 , St Paul ' s Church-yard ; also by Barclay and Son ? , Fairingdon-steeet ; and Sutton tmd Co ., Bow Church-yard : and retail by at least one agent . . in every town in the United Kingdom , and by most of tlie respectable dealers in medicine . Pruo le . ljd „ 2 s . 9 d „ and family , boxes Us . each ,. ; 'The Life and Times : ef Thomas Parr . ' may be had gratis , of all agents , both in tewn or country .
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Brother Chartists Beware ! " of Wolves in Sheeps ' ,,-. , .,, . Clothing . " , . ' RTJPTTJRES EFFECTUALLY CUBED WITHOUT A TIUJSS !! . THE CRUEL IMPOSITIONS upon the unwary by a gang of youthful self-styled doctors , some of whom for obvious reasons assume f oreign names , and others the names of eminent English practitioners , forge testimonials , from Journals which never existed , and have recourse to other practices equally base . Such for instance , as professing to produce Whiskers , Hair , & o .. in a few weeks , and advertising under the name of females to give the character of persons from their writing , should induce those afflicted mtti Rupture to use great judgment as to whom they apply for aid . Testimonials from numbers of the Faculty and patients who have been cured of Rupture , establish the efficacy of DR . DE ROOS' REMEDY in every case hitherto tried . It is perfectly free from danger , causes no pain , confinement , or inconvenience , applicable to both sexes , and all ages . Sent free with full instructions , & c , rendering failure impossible , on receipt of 7 s . cash , or by Post Office order , payable at the Holborn Office . . A great number of Trusses way be seen , which were left - behind by persons cured , as trophies of the immense success of this remedy . < N . B . Letters of inquiry should contain two postage stamps . Address , Walter De Roos , M . D ., 35 , E ' . y-place , Holbornhlll , London . At home for consultation , from 10 till 1 and 4 till 8 . ( Sundays excepted . )
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DEAFN ESS . — Important Notice . — Mr . FRANCIS , ' the eminent aurist , who has devoted his attention solely to DISEASES of the EAR , continues to effect the most astonishing cures in all those inveterate cases which have long been considered hopeless , and of thirty . or forty years standing , enabling the patient to hear a whisper , without pain or operation , effectually removing deafness , noises in the head , and all diseases of the aural canal . Mr . F . attends daily from 10 until G , at his consulting rooms , (> , Beaufort-buildings , Strand , London . Persons at a distance can state their case by letter . Advice to the poor , Monday , Wednesday , and Friday , from G till 8 in the evening .
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ON THE PREVENTION , CURE , AND General character of SYPH 1 LUS , STRICTURES , Affections of the PROSTRATE GLAND , VENEREAL and SCORBUTIC ERUPTIONS of the face and body , Mercurial excitement , & c , followed by a mild , successful and expeditious mode of treatment , . Thirty-first edition , Illustrated by Twenty-Six Anatomical Engravings on Steel , Now and improved Edition , enlarged to 196 pages , ust published , prict 2 b . 6 d ; or by post , direct from the Establishment , 3 s . M . in postage stamps . " THE SILENT FRIEND , " a Medical Work on Venereal and Syphilitic Diseases , Secondary Spmptoms , Gonorrbtea . < Ssc ., with a PRESCRIPTION FOR THEIR PREVENTION ; physical exhaustion , and decay of the frame , from the eflectj of solitary indulgence and the injurious consequences ol the abuse of Mercury ; with Observations on the obligations of Mabiuage , and directions for obviating certain disqualifications . Illustrated by twenty-six coloured engravings , ByR . and L . PERRV nnd Co ., Consulting Surgeons , 19 , Berners-street , Oxford-street , London , Published by the authors , and sold by Strange , 21 , Paternoster-row ; Han . uay , 63 , and Sanger , 150 , Oxford-street ; Starie , 23 , Tichborne-street , Haymarket ; and Gordon ,-MB Leadenhall street , London ; Powell , 88 , Grafton ; street , Dublin ; andRalmes and Co ., Leith Walk , Edinburgh . Parti , treats of the anatomy and physiolog y of the reproductive organs , and is illustrated by six coloured engravings . Part II , treats of the consequences resulting from excessive indulgence , producing nervous excitement , and generative Incapacity . It is particularly addressed to those who are prevented in consequence from entering into the marriage state , Illustrated by three explanatory engravings . Part III . treats of the diseases resulting from infection . Illustrated by seventeen coloured engravings . Part IV , contains a Remedv for the Prevention ot Disease by a simple application , by which ; the danger ot infection Is obviated . Its action is simple hut sure . It acts with tbe virus chemically , and destroys its power on the system . This important part of the work should not escape the reader ' s notice , Part ^ V . is devoted to the consideration of marriage and its duties . The reason of physical disqualifications , and the causes of unproductive unions are also considered , and the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into , The Authors as regularly educated members of tht Medical Profession , having had long , dUigent , and Practical observations in the various Hospitals and Institutions for the relief of those aflucied with SVphilis , Secondary Syinptoms , Stricture , Venereal and Scorbutic Eruptions ot the face and booy , have perhaps had an unusual opportunity of witnessing their dreadful and destructive consequences In all their various stages . Hence , knowing the practical necessity of sound judgment in such serious cases , and having seen the injury that bas arisen from the carelessness and neglect of its study , Messrs . R and L . PERRY have devoted their attention exclusively iothispeculiur class of maladies , and the relief they have consequently been enabled to render to their fellow creatures , is fully testified and gratefully acknowledged by convalescent Patients , and others dnih arriving in tews from all parts of the country , for the express purpose only of personal consultation , while their exertions have been crowned with the most signal ndvan tages , yet , from what they have experienced in inquiring into the nature and causes of these infectious complaints ( from their most simple condition to that of the most dangeroui and inveterate ) they have always entertained the possibility of their prevention and removal . . Messrs , R , and L , Peart and Co ,, Surgeons , may be consulted us usual , at 19 , Berners-street , Oxford-street London , from eleven to two , and from five to eight in the evening ; and on Sundays from eleven to one . —Consultation Fee JE 1 . THE CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE ESSENCE AN ANTI-BTPMLITIO BBMEHT , Is recommended in Syphilis and Secondary Symptoms . It searches out and purifies the diseased humours from the blood , and cleanses the system from all deteriorating causes . Its influence in the restoration to health oi persons labouring under tbe consequences which inevitably follow contamination is undeniable , and it also constitutes a certain cure fo i scurvy , wrofula , and all cutaneous eruptions . Its active principlu \ re transmitted by the medium athe circulating fluid throughout the entire frame , and : even penetrate the more minute vessels , removing and expelling in its course all corruptions and impurities from the vital stream , so as altogether to eradicate the virus oi disease , and expel it witli the insensible perspiration through the medium of the pores of the skin and urine , Price lis ., or four bottles in one for 83 e ., by which lis . is saved , alee iu £ S cases , by which will be saved £ \ VI * To be had at the London Establishment THE CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACUM Is expressly employed to renovate the impaired powers of Ufe , when exhausted by the influence exerted by solitar . 1 indulgence on the system . Its action Is purely balsamic . its power in re-invigorating the frame in all . cases of n « r < vous and sexual debility , obstinate gleets , impoteucy , barrenness , and debilities arising frsm venereal excesses , ha .-been demonstrated by its unvarying success in thousand * of case * . - To those persons who are prevented entering the married state by the consequences of early errors , it is invaluable , Price lis . per bottle , or four quantities in one for 33 « . ' ¦ : ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ • ¦ . ¦ Tho £ 5 cases of Stbucum or Concentrated Detersive Essence can only he had at 19 , Berners-street , Oxford . street . London , whereby there is a saving of £ 1 12 s ., and the patient is entitled to receive advice without a fee , which advantage Is applicable only to those , who remit £ & , tor n dc ^ cf ^ f ¦ ' PEllRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS Constitute an effectual remedy in all case ? of Gonorrhoea GlceU , Stricture , and Diseases of the Urinary Organs , Price 2 e . 0 a . t is . 6 d ., and lis . per box . . Patients are requested to be as minute and concise a » possible in the detail of their cases , noting especially tin duration of the complaint , the mode of its commencing , iti symptoms and progress , age , habits of living , and positloi in society . Medicines can he forwarded to any part of tht world | no difficulty can occur ,: as they , will be Kcurelj packed , and carefully protected from observation . N . B . —Medicine Vendors can be supplied by most of th « Wholesale Patent Medietas Houses in London .
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H ^ CURES FOR THE UNCUltED ! ' ' OLLO WAY'S OINTMENT An Extraordinary Care of Scrofula , or King's Evil , OhPhPl » m 'f , ? -J-H- AUiday > m nigh-atreet , ¦ '«¦ ?! -2 £ son ' when "bout three years of age , Xf shovuTmc ffl \ ) 8 ! velUn 8 * the neck , whfeh ' Ifaim I „ 0 k 4 ^ int 0 an "to- An eminent medical man pronounced it as a very bad case of scrofula and presenbed for aconsiderablo timewith 0 „ t effectThe * disease then for years" went oh gradually increasfne- in virulence , when besides the ulcer in the ncck another formed below tho left knee , and a third under thi eye be sides seven others on tho left arm , with a tumour between the eyes which nns expected to break . During the whole of the time my suffering boy bad received the constant advice of . the most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltenham , besides being for several months at the General Hospitai where one of thesurgeons said that he would amputate the left arm , but that the blood was so impure , that if that limb were tak . n off it would be then even impossible to subdue the disease . In this desperate state I deter , mined to give your pills nnd ointment a trial , and after two months pe : severance in their use , the tumour brgan perceptibly to disappear , and the discbarge from all the ulcers gradually decreased , and at the expiration of eight months they were perfectly healed , and the boy thoroughly restored to the blessings of health , to the astonishment of a . Jarge circle of acquaintances who could tostify to the truth of this miraculous case . Three years have now elapsed without any recurrence of the malady , and tho boy is now as healthy us heart can wish . Under these circumstances I consider that I should be truly ungvatcM were I not to make you acquainted with this wonderful cure , effected by your medicines after every other means had failed . —( Signed )—J . H . Alhdat . —To Professor HOLIOWAT . Cure of Acute Rheumatism of Four Years Standing . Extract of a Letter from Mr . John Pitt , Dudley , January SiB .-It is with the greatest pleasure that I write to thank you for the benefit I have received from your pills and ointment which have completely cured me of the rheumatism , under which I suffered for the last four years , at times I was so bad as hardly to bo able to walk I had tried every kind of medicine that was recommended without receiving any being . I at last thought I would give your medicine a trial , and purchased from Mr . Hollin , chemist , of this town , two boxes of pills , and two of ointment , and in three weeks , through them and the blessings of God , I vas restored . to health , and strengih , and am now as well able to walk a & ever I was in my life . I am well known in this parish , having Jbeen sixty . five years in it , with the exception of ten . years . I served in the 24 th regiment of foot , —( Signed)—John Pitt . —To Professor Hqllow VTAy . • ¦ •• ¦¦¦ ' ' ¦' Cure of a Bad Leg of more than Sixty Years Standing Mr . Barker , of No . 5 , 'Granam's-piace , Drypool , near Hull , ; h « d ulcers on his leg from the age of eighteen until upwards of eighty , and although for many years he hod sought the first advice in the country , nothing was found to cure them . He very often suffered most excruciating pain for long periods together , which incapacitated . him from attending to his business . He bad given up all hopes of gettimra cure , when at last he was persuaded to try Holloway ' s Pills and Ointment , which he did , and however wonderful it may appear , the leg was thoroghly healed by their means , and by continuing to use the Pills alone . after his leg was well , he has become in health so hale and hearty as now to be more activ « than most men of fifty . — KB . —Tho truth of this extraordinary statement can be vouched for by Mr , J . C . lleinhardt . 22 , Market-place , Hull . February 20 th , 18 D 0 . Cure of a Desperate Case of Ringworm of Six Years Standing . One of the most eminent surgeons in Lima ( the capital of Peru ) had a child covered with ringworm for more than six years ; in vain he exhausted all bis art in his endeavour . ? to eftect a cure . Not succeeding , he consulted among his brethren , the most celebrated medical practitioners of the city , but nothing was found to do tlie child service . When ho was persuaded by Mr . Joseph P . Hague , tho English chemist and druggist , residing at No . U , Callo da Palacio , to try Holloway's Pills and Ointment , which wai done , and after using six large pots of the Ointment , with n proportion of the Pills , the child was radically cured , to the surprise of the whole medical profession . The name of the parent , from motives of delicacy , is withheld . — Lima , 13 th of November , 1849 . The Pills should be used conjointly with the Ointment in most of the following cases : — Bad Legs Corns ( Soft ) Rheumatism Bad Breasts Cancers Scalds Burns Contracted and Sore Nipples Bunions StiiF-joints Sore Throats ' BiteofMoschetoes Elephantiasis Skin-diseases and Sand-flies Fistulas Scurvy Coco-Bay Gout Sore-heads Chieg » -foot Glandular Swel- Tumours Chilblains hugs Ulcers Chupped-hands Lumbago Wounds Piles Yaws Sold by the Proprietor , 244 , Strand , ( near Temple Bar , ) London , and by all respectable Vendors of Patent Medicines throughout the civilised world , in Pots and Boxes , Is . Id ., 2 s . Ucl ,, 4 s „ fie ., Us ., 22 s ., and 33 s ,. each . There it a very considerable saving by taking the . larger sizes . N . « . —Directions for the guidance of Patients are affixed to each Pot or Box .
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EMMOIWISARY SUCCESS OF THE NEW REMEDY 1 ! Which has never been known to fail . —A cure effected or the Money returned . PAI . VS IN THE BACK , OUAVBL , LUMBAGO . RHEUMATISM , GOUT , DEBILITY . STRICTURE , GLEET , Ac . DR . BARKER'S DURIFIC PILLS L have long been well known as the only certain cure for pains in the back and kidneys , gravel , 'lumbago , rheumatism , gout , gonorrhoea , gleet , syphilis , secondary symptoms , seminal debility , and all diseases of the bladder aud urinary organs generally , whether the result of imprudence or derangement of the funct ' -ons , which , if neglected , invariably vusultin symptomr . nf afar more serious character , and frequently sn agonising death . ' By tbeir salutary action on : nciiHty of the stomach , they correct bile and indigestion , purity and promote the renal secretions , thereby preventingthe formation of stone in the bladder , and esta-Wishing for life the healthy functions of all the e organs . They hare never been known to fail , and may be obtained through most medicine vendors . Price la . lid .. 2 s . 9 d ., anil 4 s . fid . per box ; or sent tree on receipt of the price in postage stamps , by Dr . Alfred Barker— A considerable saving eifected by purchasing tbe larger boxes . TESTIMONIALS . W . H . Willi ' s , Acton , writes : « lam quite cured now . 1 hail sufivred from gravel and pains in the back and loins . I consider them a groat blessing . ' Mrs , Ednty , Hackney , writes : 'They eured my scrofulous eruption after all oi her medicines had failed . ' Mr . Howe , Avion : ' Your pills quite cured roygraveland puins in the back ; I had tried every pill advertised to no purpose . ' Dr . Thompson : I consider your pills more adapted to these diseases generally than any formula I have met with . ' Uev . J . Stone . Wigan : ' Send me four boxes for some of my poor parishioners ; they are a great blessing , ' Alr . T . Parry , Uuthrin , writes : 'Send me a 4 s , 6 d . box for a friend : the one I had has quite ured me . ' Address Dr . Alfred Barker , 48 , Liverpool-street , King ' seross , London , where be may be consulted daily from 9 till 1 mornings , and 5 till 9 evenings ; Sundays 9 till 1 . PXT 11 AORDINARY SUCCESS OF Jj THE NEW MODK OF TREATMENT . DR . ALFRED BARKER , 48 , Liverpool-street , King's-cross , London , having had a vast amount of practice ut the various hospitals in London and on the Continent , is enabled to treat with the utmost certainty of cure , every variety of disease arising from solitary and sedentary habits , indiscriminate excesses , and infections , such as gonorrhoea , gleet , strictures , and syphilis , or venereal disease , in all its various forms and stages , whether primary or secondary , which , owing to neglect or improper treatment , invariably end in gout , rheumatism , skin diseases , gravel , pains in the kidneys , back , and loins , and finally , an agonising death ! Tha lamentable neglect o this class of diseases by medical men In general is too well known , and their attempts to cure by means of such dangerous medicines , as mercury , copaiba cubebs , ic , havs produced the most deplorable results . All sufferers are earnestly invited to apply at once to Dr . Barker , as he guarantees to all a speedy and perfect cure , and the eradication of every sympton , whether primary or secondary , without the use of any of the above dangerous medicines —thus preventing the pessibility of any after symptoms . This truth bas been borne out in thousands of cases , and as a further guarantee be undetakes to cure the most inveterate case in a few days , without hindrance from business , or any change of diet , Ac . Country patients must beaiaute in the detail of their cases as that will render a i . ettsonal visit unnecessary . Advice with medicines ten shillings . In postage stamps or by post-office order Patients corresponded with till cured . Females may with the utmost safety confide themselves to the care of Dr . Barker , as the most honourable secresy and delicacy are observed in every case . At home daily for consul tjition from 9 till 1 mornings , and fi till 9 evenings ; Sundays 9 till 1 , Post-office orders to be made payable at the Genera Post Office , to Dr . Alfred Barker , 48 , Liverpool-street , King ' s-cross , London . A cure effected or the money returned in nil cases . Just Publishing , aud sent free for two postage stamps . SYMPTOMS OF DISEASE AND THEIR TREATMENT . A . guide for all sufferers , by Dr . Barker . OPINION'S OF IUE PHESS . This treatise is indeed a boon to the public , as it has the two-fold advantage of plaincss , nnd being written by a skilful and duly qualified man , who evidently well understands his subject . —Times . 'This is a pamphlet of superlative excellence , and one which we should recommend to the perusal of all ; in fact it is quite essential to those who contemplate marriage- — Record .
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IMPORTANT . . - ¦ Established Fifty Years , THE great success which has attended d y essrs . PEEl > E in their treatment of all those Diseases es arising from iniiioretion or excess , and the number of oi cures performed by them , is a sufficient proof of their skill 111 and ability in tho treatment of those complaints . Messrs . PfEDE , Surgeons & c , may be consul ted as usual ial from 9 till 2 , and & till 10 , in all stages of the above com' m plaints , in the cure of which they have been so pre-emi- ni nently successful , from their peculiar method of treat- at ment , when all other means hare failed , which has ioi secured for them ihe patronage and gratitude of tuanj uv thcusandswho have Benefited by their advice andmedi- > di cine . Their treatment has been matured by an extensive ilvi practice in London for upwards of Fifty Years , nad wiH wil not subject any patient to restraint of diet orhindran *© n # from business . Those who may require their aid pre respectfully in- in vlted t » make early application , as Messes . Peee-e pledge sdg themselves to that secrecy so essential in such cases , set ( and it will ever be found that lasting benefit can only be ' b obtained from qualified Members of that profession , wb » wb give up other lucrative branches of the profession , and mm devote their whole time to the study of the above nep- ue * lected class of diseases , ) aud to assure them that s speedy : ed ; restoration to Iieulth and strength may be relied on . « .. ft M & ZSS ' ^ scorbutic « sff . ; K » B symptons , obstinate gleet , stricture , e ^ X' ' ™ * 5 debility , And all diseases of the ™ " / «" ' «¦?{ £ ? ' £ with appropriate medicines according » the nature otto © . tw ca . ,., „ ., ? ni , un ilwcribins minutely the case , awl aw Letters i * st P « 5 f > ^ f ] JStamps or money order relet enclosing l " u " . ? c ° ° ' medicine being forwarded rdet SSWS ^ al ^ - A »• Patient cormpovded 'd * 21 . w .-i ll , ° nvered without ftirthcr charge . .-, i :, ;; , ^ Addre ^ SS ? mS . 43 , Ltquorponfstreet , 0 « y .- » j « lan-r « adi Xondo *
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 31, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_31081850/page/3/
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