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Therapeutics—Tho history of medicine is bv no means flattering to science. It is questionable whether more is
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Known ot diseases , then' cause , and their cure , at this moment , than in the time of Galen ; it is certain that diseases are quite as numerous , and in the aggregate as fatal . Every age has produced some new system of artificial therapeutics which the next age has banished ; each has boasted in its turn of cures , ami they , in their turn , have been condemned as failures . Medicines themselves arc the subjects unsettled ; in fact , that it has no established principles , that it is little more than conjectural ? 'At this moment , ' says Mr . Pinny , ' the opinions on the subject of treatment are almost a 3 numerous as the practitioners themselves . Witness the mass of contradiction un the treatment of even one disease , namely , consumption . Stroll attributes its frequency to the introduction of bark . Morton considers bark an effectual cure . Krid ascribes the frequency of the disease to the use of mercury . Brillonet asserts that it is cur-
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FRANCE . The new Ministry has heen formed and Genera ' Changarnier dismissed . The Assembly has shown itself extremely hostile to the new government , and a scene of great confusion took place on the day the ^ linisters first appeared in their seats . The Committee of the Assembly moved for ty M . de Remusat to propose the measures commanded by circutn . stances , has chosen the Due de Broglie as President , and M . Lanjuinars , a member of the tiers parti , as secretary . The composition of this Committee shows that it is hostile to the government , but as , with the exception of MM . Baze and Nettement , who have
always distinguished themselves by their vehement opposition to the government of the President , the Committee is in general composed of moderate men . it is certain that no measure will be recommended , which will result iu throwing the country into a revolutionary path . The first step of the Committee las been to demand the communication of the ^ we-• ces-verbaux of the Committee of permanence . Not only did the government call upon the house to -Comply with this request , but M . Baroche challenged their publication . The voluminouscess of these documents , which will take some time to print , renders it probable that some days will elapse before the Committee will adopt any decisive course , as their conclusions will be based upon the studv of these
printed minutes . As these chiefly refer to the questionable proceedings of the Bonapartist clubs during the recess , and to the system of treating the troops with champagne at the reviews with a view to getting up an imperialist demonstration , it seems as if a resolution was in comtemplstion condemning the dismissal of Changamier as . . the removal of the only guarantee against the ambitious projects cherished by the President . Anyhow it will be exceedingly difficult for the Committee to formulate any resolution which will gain a majority in the Assembly , for if an eulogy of General Changamier should be introduced into their motion the Left to a man will vote against it . In the meantime we hear that the Committee will call on the Ministers and General
Changamier to appear in its presence to give explanations . General Changamier has removed from the Tuilleries to a lodging in the RueSt Honori . On Sunday the Mountain held a meeting and appointed a Committee to watch over present event ; , among whom are Messrs . Victor Hugo , Cremietu , Charras , Arago , and Girardin . The committee on privilege had decided the creditor cannot prosecute his debtor before having obtained the authorisation of the Assembly . This having been given , the representative loses his seat unless he discharges his debt within three months .
The publication of the minutes of the Committee of Permanence , is likely to damage the President less than his adversaries . These pmces-terleavx in fact contain nothing new , and are merel y an official version of what appeared in the newspapers during the last sis weeks of the recess . The excitement respecting the dismissal of Genexal Changarnier having now passed away , the feeling becomes daily more prevalent that the party of order in the National Assembly has committed a blunder in supporting M . de Remnsat ' s proposition . No portion of the public has taken up the quarrel on the part of the Assembly . On the contrary , most people admit that Louis Napoleon was quite light to dismiss an officer who was set up as a rival , and as a greater man than himself .
M . Sanguinais has presented hi 3 report , which instead of reccommending any censure on the president , simply proposes the following resolution to the Assembly : —* The National Assembly , acknowledging the right of the Executive Power to dispose of military commands , blames the use it made of that right , and declares that the General-in-Chief of the army of Paris preserves the title to the confidence which the National Assembly testified to him in the sitting of the 3 rd inst ., and passes to the order of the day . ' The Assembly declared urgency on the measure .
It was announced on Tuesday that the greater part of the officers of the staff of the National Guards of the Seine had sent in their resignations to General Perrot , the new Commander-in-chief of the National Guards ; and that in their letters to that effect they expressed their discontent at the dismissal of General Changarnier . The delegates of the French , Hungarian , German , and Italian Democratic Committee in London , have addressed a letter to the liepullique , in which thsy say that the Society of Democratic Socialist
Refugees in London on the 6 th inst , proceeded to examine the question raised by twenty-six representatives of the Left of the Legislative Assembly , as to abstention or non-abstention in the municipal and ^ departmental elections which will take place between this time and 1852 . After mature deliberation , the society unanimously declared against the conduct recommended b y the twenty-six representatives to the Democrats , who have escaped from the electoral razzia of 31 st May ; and it moreover charged its committee to make , known through the press , its resolution .
SPAIN . A telegraphic despatch to the French government says : —' . The Madrid ? Cabinet has resigned . General Narvaez immedialc ' y left Madrid , and is now at Bajonne . ' This despatch bears no date .
GERMANY . The Austrian , Pru * sain , and Russian monarchs will shortly , it is affirmed , meet at Dresden . The Old Diet is to be re-established , it is said , with very slight modifications , which supposes the consent of Prussia . Austria ' s plan of a Zoll Union is the same as that which was approved of by all the German states , with the exception of Brunswick . On the footing of this plan she is ready to treat with Prussia on the subject ; and , if Prussia refuses to do so she will send deputies to the Zollverein Congress which is to meet at Dresden Bext Februarv
PRUSSIA . The vote come to by the Chamber has been va . Jiously interpreted , bat we think it was a wise one If they hadI diredly censured the Ministry . most probably the Second Cbesaber would have been dissolved by the King , and they would thus have been playing into the hands-of the Ministry . As it is they have sufficiently shown -their want of confidence by the majority of hostile speeches delivered , and bv the very small majority . Two important projects of law , brought forward b y the government , have been referred to the sections . The one is a bill for regula the
ting action of the press ; the other , a project for the introduction of—first , a new system of class taxation ; and , second , of z graduated income tax . lbe press bill , mainly founded on the provisional law now in vogue , is very tyrannical . It requires caution money from the editors of journals and periodicals , and demands other guarantees from editors . It at the same time defers the trial of persons accused of o 3 encas by means of the press tc jcries . The project , which is of great length , will come on for discussion ere long ; and we shall then see whether the Chambers will agree to this contiaued tyranny .
SCHLESWIG II 0 LST 2 IN . The Stadtholders have published a proclamation , in which document the ? state that , since the Germanic Confederation has resolved to enforce the treaty of peace of the 2 nd of July , ISs Q , and since that Confederates has . promised to protect the rights of Holstein as well as the vested ri ghts and ancient connexion existing between thatduchv and Schleswig , they , the Stadthclders , had chought it incumbent on themselves to decree the cessation of hostilities . They fieall y protest that they have placed the rights of the country under the crotec tion of the Germanic Confederation . The ? ako ex press their thanks to tee army , tie navy " ^ the population at large and they rel y en thV mauue' SZ * ?^ H * . ****?* ** « signtheir office admini
as soon as an strative board Adi ha ?« been appointed by the Germanic Confederate From a proclamation which they have adLTed t 0 the army , it appears that the Holstein boons will contumeinpossession of the fortresses of Rends-JrSS " ? ^ commissioners have returned to Hamburg . It is stated as the opinion £ , K ? P -n CtlCal and sensibIe " » B » * at the Austnans will not leave Holstein as readily as they 5 a i ?* The world has mD ( * to learn yet el the Austrian plans . Hesse Cassel and Holstein are not the sole points to which their military sT * "" . ' were directed - ft » mooured abroad mat the Austrian government desired to diglocate B urge force in Oldenburg and Brunswick ; to punish the former for its pertinacious adherence to « ne Zolkerein , and the latter for Us refusal to permit the passage of the Austrianson their road to Holstein . ITALY . The secret prea is still at work , aad , notirith-* t » naing a reward of 2 . 000 dolls , has been offered w « ny person who will disclose the name of the
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printer , pamphlets by Mazzini and his party , daily appear . As far as can be ascertained it appears that their plants well organised ; that they regularly receive letters and instructions ; and it is said that Mazzini can command men , arms , and money , but that no active measures -will be taken , until some disturbances in Europe call off the attention o ! Austria and France . It is also stated that the Roman States are preparing for a sanguinary reaction against the Rctroeradists . On Christmas Eve and on New Ym ' a Day several persons were dismissed from their employment , which shows that the censors are still at work .
In consequence of the escapo from the Castle of St . Angelo of Sig . Uffreduzzi , who was condemued go tho galleys for twenty years for political reasons the * Castellano' ( superintendent of the castle , ) of the name of Sig . Fantoni , has heen arrested , and many of the prisoners , accused of having given their aid to the escape of the prisoner arc treated with the greatest severity . The castle of St . Aii-elo is now exclusivel y in the ha nds of the French garrison . Provisions of all sorts have been carried to the castlo these last few days , and the French are making strong repairs and improvements in the wails and in the interior of the fortress Of the cannons , only two have been left in the hands of the Roman soldiers , and the powder magazine near the Porta St . Paolo is in possession of the French .
It is stated that General Gemeau , commanderln-chief of the French garrison in Rome , in mating to his government the report of the last collisions between the Roman and French soldiers , made use of those words : — « Les soldats du Pane sont lea plus insolents et indisci plines soldats du moude , et les plus mauvais sujets de Jeur Souverain .
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Malignant fever and dysenterry are decimating the troops in the Punjaub . In India a trifling encounter took place at the Kobat frontier bRtween the British troops , under Major Taylor , and the Wuzeer ; the latter were repulsed by the British troops , and only one wounded . Piracies are still being perpetrated near Java . In Hesse Cassel a permanent military tribunal has been established . It consists of an upper
tribunal , an under tribunal , and a committee of inquiry . The first is composed of three Austrian and two Bavarian officers . The under tribunal consists of three Bavarian and Two Austrian officers , and the court of inquiry is comprised of one Bavarian and one Austrian officer . The City Council being assured by Count Leiningen , hovh verball y and by writing , that the « severest measures' were in contemplation if they should continue to hold out , and that on their submission compulsive measures would cease altogether , sent in on January Sfch their submission .
The three Hessian journals which were the organs of the refractory parties are still suspended , and their presses sequestered . The' Vienna Zeitung gives the postponed budget for the second quarter of 1850 . The total amount is 47 , 460 , 761 florins ; the total expenditure , G 6 , 045 , 892 guilders , making a deficit of 18 , 585 , 130 guilders . The Bank directors have resigned their posts . Count Leiningen published on the same day a permission for the re-appearance of the late forbidden journals in Cassel . They are still forbidden throughout the rest of the electorate .
In the United States a revised tariff has been published augmenting all articles of foreign importation one-half per cent ., and increasing the imposts on national imports b y " one-seventh . It likewise augments the export duty on each box of sugar 50 c , on each quarter of leaf tobacco 29 c , and on every thousand chests 25 c . In imports this change is to take place on the 1 st of February , and continue for two years , in exports from the 1 st of January . Vessels from Europe are allowed to the 1 st of March . According to advices from Nicaragua to the 18 th of November , the ports of Salvador were then blockaded by the British , and those of Nicaragua threatened . It is stated that war had been prepared between Costa Rica and Nicaragua . The Brazilian government are actively engaged in warlike preparations against Buenos Ayres .
The Holstein Diet held a secret sitting on the 10 th inst . The debate continued all night , and the bouse adjourned at thirty minutes past four on the morning of Saturday . They resolved to instruct the Stadtholders to accede to the demands of the Commissioners , provided the Commissioners consented to the occupation of Rendsburg and Freiderickfort by Holstein troops . The numbers were forty-three ayes and twenty-six noes . The cholera has almost entirely ceased in King ston and Spanish Town , Jamaica . The state of siege has again been renewed in the Grand Duchy of Baden .
The'Munchener Zeitung' states from Dresden that almost all the delegates a . the Congress in that city have now lost all hope of obtaining anything like a satisfactory result . This sweeping assertion seems , however , specially to apply to the agents of the lesser South German States . The First committee of the Congress has suspended its labours , since no result was attainable . Indeed , every proposition respecting the organisation of the " Chie * Federal Board met with a decided opposition . The Second Committee , although it continues its sittings , has no hope of gaining a basis for i : s labours . since that basis was to be prepared by the Firs Committee . It is stated that Prince Schwarzenberg will remain at Dresden to support the com - mercial policy which Austria intends to urge on the delegates . The Committee on Commercial Affairs held its first sitting on the 8 th inst .
On the 9 th and 10 th inst . , at Cologne , two political trials took place , the first against an article published in the West Deutsche Zeitung , ' and the second against an article in the' Kolnische Zeitung . ' The editor of the' West Deutsche Zeitung' was accused of' exciting hatred among the different classes of Society . ' The article consisted of phrases translated from the French journals , in which the writers declaim against priests , employers , the well to do , and the employer class generally . Its author has been condemned , but in the
minimum penalty . The other inculpated article , that of the ' Cologne Gazette / contains , according to the public prosecutor , the two crimes—1 , An affront to the reverence of majesty ; and , 2 , Calumniation of the minister . The jury acquitted the editor of the ' Cologne Gazette' on both these charges . The last verdict has all the more significance , inasmuch as the accused and his advocate each frankly admitted the facts , and rather turned the trial into an attack on the King and his minister than made a defence .
The insurrection in Prussia is still unsettled . The Wiener Zeitung' has made the most of the miraculous flow of blood from the wounds of the image of our Saviour which is reported to have taken place in the Saturnin Chapel , near Apt , ia France , and the church will not fail to follow its example . There are persons still living who rememher that the illustrious Joseph II . was a great disbeliever in miracles , and that he actually prohibited the growth of the beard on a fi gure of Jesus Christ which is near one of the-doors of the Cathedral of St . Stephen . He ordered a couple of sturdy
grenadiers to mount guard on tfce spot , and so great was the fear which their formidable moustaches inspired that the wooden image did cot venture to disobey the imperial mandate . It hac Jong been £ saying in Austria that Joseph was born half a ceatary too soon . It appears that the Catholic hierarchy is detennined to make the outer maa of the inferior priesthood what it should be , for the Consietorial Court of the Archbishop or Salsburg has issued orders that the tonsure is to be kept well shaved and that the priest's collar is always , to be worn . The wsisfcoata of the clergy are to be buttoned up to the throat ; no blouse , pantaloons , or calabrese
( slouch ) hats are to be worn . A dandified cut of the clothes is to be carefully avoided , end when officiating the priest is to wear his clerical gown ( talar ); buckles are to be worn in the shoes on high days and holydays . Some hints are also given relative to the unseemliness of frequenting publichouses , stopping out late at night , end smoking . In Prussia the Minister of Commerce has concluded an arrangement with the Prussian Railway Companies , by which all Prussian workmen and indwtriek going to England to visit the Great Exhibition will bt conveyed in second-class carriages at third-class fares . As the secend-class carriages on these lines are fitted up with every regard to the comfort of the public , the advantage to the passengers will be considerable .
The Austrian army under Legeditsch is advancing towards Holstein with all speed ; the daily march is ten hours , and no rest-day is allowed . It is stated that the glorious patriot , Gen . Bern , died on the 10 th of December . The rest of the emigrants have left Shumla for Constantinople It is affirmed that the exiles at Kiutahia are about to be liberated . It is stated that he was descended from a Pridian family of noble rank , settled near
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Marienwerder , and that the name was originally written Behm . The deceased general was born in 1790 in Galicia , where his father was in the service of Prince Sangusko . He entered the Polish military service in 1812 , and on the outbreak of the revolutions entered that of Hungary . The remnant of the emigration of Shumla arrived at Constantinople on the 6 th . The Porte treats them with liberality . They will be embarked for England at the expense of the Turkish government , and nourished during the passage , and each will receive three pounds Stirling . The emigrants of Kiutayeh will be speedil y set at liberty , the negotiations with the cabinet of Vienna for their liberation having at length been successful
There is quite a di plomatic imbroglio between the government of the United States and that of Austria . The particulars are—that Austria has offered as an ultimatum , the alternative of this government refusing to receive Kossuth and other Hungarian refugees , or that the Emperor will no longer be represented by an accredited agent in the United Stales . Indeed the Chevalier Hulsemann , the Austrian Charge d'Affaires at Washington , is even now virtually , if not actuall y , suspended . It seems that he ' had sent to the ' Administration at Washington a letter stating the above alternative , and that the Honourable Daniel
Webster , Secretary of State , had returned a decided reply , to the effect that the United States ever had been , and ever would be , regarded as an asylum for political refugees , especially those of a Republican character ; that if Kossuth and his companions came they would be received and welcomed ; and that if , under 6 uch circumstances , which were strictl y consonant with the spirit of the constitution of the United States , the diplomatic agent should demand his passports , they would be immediately given to him . These , it is said , are the principal points of Jfr . Webster ' s repl y , rendered in language alike respectful and firm . No consideration will induce the American
government to refuse a reception to the Hungarian exiles . It would be quite absurd to suppose otherwise ; and the least submission to Austrian dictation in such a matter would cover any United states administration with an unpopularity that it could never survive . The 'Ledger' newspaper and printing-office , the largest in the United States , was destroyed by fire . Loss from 80 , 000 dols . to 100 , 000 dols . ' The unhappy divorce case between Edwin Forrest , the tragedian , and his wife ( late Miss Sinclair ) is once more before the court in New York . The affidavit of Mrs . Forrest has been completed , denying in toto the charges of Mr . Forrest , and showing that events and words had been artfully
perverted and distorted ; while there are also affidavits from N . P . Willis , the author ; his brother , Richard Willis ; Granby Calcraft , of England Messrs . W . A . Howard , G . W . Jamieson , Samuel M . Raymond , and others—all swearing positively that they believe Mrs . Forrest to be virtuous , and neither of them has ever been guilty of unchaste conduct towards her , or witnessed in her any of the improprieties charged upon her by her husband . These affidavits find ready belief with the public , especially as Mr . Raymond ' s affidavit , as well as that of Mrs . Forrest , show the violence of Mr . Forrest ' s temper , and the coarse and proprofane language he was sometimes in the habit of using . Popular sympathy is evidently with the
lady . The trial of Narciso Lopes , and others connected with the foray in Cuba which took place last spring , has commenced at New Orleans . Among others who did not attend the summons is General Quitman , now Governor of Mississippi . It is , however said that he will be brought before the Court , which is favourably constituted for the fearless administration of justice . As the Austrian troops passed through Gottingen ,
on their march to Holstein , the students assembled at the gate , and sang the national song' Schleswig . Holstein , ocean-girded , ' as they went by . General Legeditsch warned the commandant of the town against permitting such demonstrations for the future . No part of the Hanoverian army accompanies the expedition ; but a strong force is being organised to act on the frontier as a police when the Holstein army is disbanded . It is expected that that measure will let loose a crowd of adventurers throughout the north of Germany .
The following case which has just occurred at Magdeburg , is worth relating as an example of the operation of some of the old laws and powers of the State which the constitution has left tradiminished : —A man , at Seehausen , in the Altmark , took his child to be baptised in the church , demanding that he should receive the names of ' Jacobi Waldeck . ' The clergyman refused to allow the infant to bear names which have a party sound , though one is that of an eminent physician , the other that af a great jurist and judge of a Superior Tribunal of Berlin ; their names therefore hardly imply any mockery of religion or deliberate insult to Christian and social feelings which might justify a clergyman in refusing
to baptise by them . The father declined to have the child christened b y any names but those selected by himself , The clergyman took proceedings against him , and the Court of Law , exercising its power , appointed a curator or guardian to act for the child . But the curator appears to have been a friend of the family , for he demanded of the con . sistory that the baptism should be completed in the names chosen . This was again refused , and the curatoy required to have the child christened in ' usual' names . The parents would not comply , and as it was notified that a compulsory baptism ( or Iwangstaufe ) would be performed , the mother left the place with the infant , and for some time eluded
the inquiries of the police . At last she was discovered in the little town of Arendsee , arrested , and brought under an escort of gendarmes to Seehausen —the infant , as the corpus delicti , snugly packed in a har . dbasket or trag-hwb , and carried by two men , in safe custody , but happily unconscious of his earl y collision with the authorities . Arrived in Seehausen , the mother was taken to the prison , and the infant to the church . The burgomaster and the gensdarmes were in attendance as witnesses , and with locked doors the rite was performed , the child being taken hack to the parents , named as their' superiors ' pleased . But even this was not the end of the
affair . The mother , for refusing to give up the child and absconding with it , was charged with re . sistance by act to an officer of the authorities of Ohrig lceit in the discharge of its orders , ' and was condemned to two months' imprisonment . Against this sentence she appealed , but the Court of Magdeburg has within the last few days confirmed the decision , and the mother is now in confinement . The whole case is an illustration of the pedantic despotism of the German system of government , interfering in the most petty details of life , irritatiHg and alienating the people for no purpose , and setting a formidable legal machinery in motion against matters that have no affinity to crime .
A letter of the 25 th December , from Constantinople , says : — ' Said Pacha , the Sultan ' s brotherin-law , a Derweesh of the old Turkish school , who had heen sent to Damascus as Governor , by Resheed Pacha , has had the misfortune to bastinado to death an unfortunate Jew under Prussian protection , Dr . Romano . The Prussian mission is , however , far from treating : the matter with levity , and Said Pacha- is deposed and ordered to Koniah , to dance with the Demesnes there if be please . The Pacha's Intendant and the chief of his Mousquetaires have come up to Constantinople , and will probably find their way to the pillory .
The Porte have sent Vedgipee Pacha to quell the Arabs of Mesopotamia , who will not allow Dr . Layard to put his nose out of Bagdad . It is worthy of remark , that the field ef battle iraeiortaliaed by the laconic despatch « f Julius Caesar , 1 Veni , tidi , viei , ' translated , even idiomatically , by the Turks , by Geldim Gurdim Sickdim , in his victory over Pharnacea , lies in this country between Zilch and Amasia . Tchapac Oglou was the first who raised Yyzgal into consideration and there exists still a derebeg about fifteen miles fchence .
Lest month , in Austria , white divine Kxvice was going on in the church at Topsoay , in the Sumegh Comilat , a man called out to the organist to cease playing , as he was about to kill the parish priest and the schoolmaster . This was no empty t&reat , for , taking a gun from under his cloak , he fired at the schoolmaster , but , fortunately missing him , the bullet took away the top of his chair . The priest , hurrying from the altar called on his congregation to arrest the miscreant , but they declining to do
so , because 'he . had not offended them , ' left the church . As the ' assassin , who had re-loaded his gun , still remained , the priest and the schoolmaster , taking heart , made a rush at him , and at last , with the assistance of a gentleman ' s haiduck ( a servant ) , succeeded in disarming him . He is now in the county prison at Kaposvar . The bands of robbers are either less numerous or less bold , their depredations being now princi pally confined to the environs of the Bakony forest , and to the neighbour , hood of Szegedio .
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The terrible severity of the Prague sentences has produced a very unfavourable impression , as people cannot lose si g ht of the fact that hundreds of thousands who , strictly speaking , are not a whit ess guilty than the Bohemian students enjoy their liberty , and that some of them now fill lucrative and important posts in the State . In Paris Allias has desisted from an appeal which he had commenced against his sentence of imprisonment . In the letter which announces this resolution , he declares himself tho instrument and victim of an intri gue conducted by M . Yon . lie is about to publish a pamphlet dedicated to the irascible questor of the Assembly , M . B . izo . A few days since a package of Bibles , brought to Cuba , with the baggage of tho Rev . Mr . Parsons , and intended for use under the " Bethel Flag , "
among tho American shipping in the harbour , was seized as contraband goods by tho Custom House officials , and they will probably be put to " the stake , " as Mr . 1 ' . will decline paying duties and a fine for the permission proffered to permit him to return them to the United States . Mr . Parsons has intended no fraud upon the revenue on the religious prejudices of the people , but went to Cuba under the auspices of the " Seamen ' s Friend Society , in the cause of an enlightened benevolence , _ with the main implement of his profession in various languages , to meet the comprehension of bis audience —believing the basis important to aid in the faithful performance of his obligations to those who are humble employers , under the flag of union . He has , however , been forbid the distribution o { Bibles in the English language , on board of American or other vessels in the harbour , and cautioned from high authority that the command must , be respected .
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Cheapness of The Great Glass House . — -If for nothing else , this tremendous pile of transparency is astounding for its cheapness . It is actually less costly than an agricultural barn , or an Irish cabin . A division of its superficies in cubic feet by the sums to be paid for it beings out the astonishing quotient of little more than one halfpenny ( ninesixteenths of a penny ) per cubic foot—supposing it to bo taken down and returned to the contractors when tho Exhibition is over : or , if it remains a fixture / the rate of cost , will be rathor less than a penny and one-twelfth of a penny per cubic foot . The ordinary uxponse of a barn is more th . in twice as much , or twopence-halfpenny per foot . Here arc the figures ; The entire edifice contains thirty-three millions of cubic feet . If borrowed , and taken down , the sum to be paid is £ 7 g , 8 ( J 0 ; if bought , to become a winter garden , £ 150 , 000 . — Dichens ' s Household Words .
Carriage Accidents may be avoided in winter , by keeping the horses' shoes and the driver ' s bottle well corked .
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Therapeutics—Tho History Of Medicine Is Bv No Means Flattering To Science. It Is Questionable Whether More Is
Therapeutics—Tho history of medicine is bv no means flattering to science . It is questionable whether more is
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 18, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1609/page/2/
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