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EVENING SUN. .•---. . No 1,5,355 LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVE;vIBER 23, 1841. IN order to afford a further opportunity to the OWNERS of UNSTAMPED EXCHEQUER BILLS to have their Outstanding Securities Examined and Stamped, Notice is hereby given, that on FRIDAY NEXT, the 26th inst., any Persons desirous of having Bills Examined and Stamped may deliver them in at the Exchequer between the hours of Ten and Four, when such Bills will be Examined, Stamped, and returned to the Holders, on Saturday, the 27th. AMOUNT cf EXCHEQUER BILLS RECEIVED and EXAMINED to the Evening of FRIDAY, Nov. 19. Number of Bills 31.134 Value • 111 ON TEA GLE, Comptroller-General. Exchequer, Nov. 20, 1841. OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITU _ VON, REGENT-STREET.—MORNINGS and EVENINGS except SA'. URDAY EVENINGS. The GREAT FIRE of the TOWER of LONDON, with the Military Signals and Music, in Two beautiful additional Pictures, are just added to other changes in those remarkable Scenes, the DISSOLVING VIEWS. Varied LECTURES, ORRERY, MICROSCOPE, DIVING BELL and DIVER, and 2,000 Works of eminent Art, Science, and Ingenuity. A VIEW of CANTON, elaborately finished by a CHI NESE ARTIST, and other COSIIIORAMIC VIEWS, are added in the Evening Exhibitions. Admission to the whole, One Shilling. Opens at Half-past Ten o'clock in the Morning, and Seven o'clock in the Evening. FORGE AND MILL AT LIVERPOOL. TO BE SOLD OR LET, those spacious and eligible PREMISES, situated in Oxford-street, Vaux hall-road, called the VAUXHALL FORGE. The Machi nery is completely fitted, and wi:h Working Tools ready foe use. e Works comprise Shingling and Drawing-out Hammers, Pudling, TBalling Mid Furnaces, and a Chaffry, a fourteen and eght-inch Train of Rolls, and a Guide Train, three Pair of Shears, two Cranes, and whatever is required to Manufacture uses and Bars. The whole is driven by an Engine of 40-horse power, to which two Boilers arc attached. There are excellent Office Rooms, Scrap House, Smiths' and Join: rs' Shops, Lodge, Weighing Machine, &c. &e., form ing altogether a complete estal;islinn-nt. There is always an abundance of good Scrap to be had on the spot at a reason able ;.te. Liveipool is allowed by competent judges to be one of the st situations i❑ the Kingdom for manufacturing a superior descriction of iron. • ycur earth as brass. I will smite you with blasting and mildew.' To execute these judgments is the prerogative of the Most High ; and, when. His just judgments are abroad, let the nations of the earth learn righteousness. Wasting rains, and storms, and hurricanes, and parching suns and wild tornadoes, are the ministers of His vengeance ; they execute his stern decrees, and it is for the children of men to humble themse!ves before Him, and repent them of the sins whip h have provoked his anger. We arraign not the Providence of God. We presume not to call in question his ever-righteous acts. Ile v..eld the elements of nature either to bless or chastise mankind. He can blot out the hopes of the husbandman. Ha can blacken and melt the reen stalk till it is consumed in the slime of death. Ile cdn break and flatten to the earth the tall and stately reed that sustains the fall ripe ear, or send the blight which withers the bloom of the shaping fruit. He can fill the land with the cry of the famishing and the la mentations of the desolate, instead of the song of the reaper, and the shout of the harrest-home. He can do RAILROADS.—TR AVELLERS to LON DON by Railroads, or otherwise, will find the most ample accommodation on reasonable Terms, •at EVANS'S GRAND HOTEL, King-sheet and Piazza, Covent-garden. Bed and Breakfast,. One Guinea per Week; Coffee Room Dinners, 2s. Fine Sherry and Port at ss. per bottle. Admittance at any Hour. Apply to the Owner, Jeha Waring, Lydia Ann-street, Li verpool. MR. THOMPSON'S LECTURE ON THE CORN-LAWS AT EDINBURGH. This Lecture, on account of the importance of' the subject, we give at as great length as our limits will ad mit. The Church in which it was delivered (Bristo street) was well filled by an audience admitted by ticket. JOHN DUNLOP, Esq. (a landed proprietor) was called to the chair. Mr. THOSIPSON rose amidst much cheering, and said —My Fellow Citizens—l can with truth assure you, that nothing less than a strong sense of duty could have induced me to place myself in the situation which I now occupy. I rise, for the first time in my life, to deliver a lecture on the Corn-law of Great Britain. In taking up this subject there is much to embarrass the speaker, however disinterested his rnotiaes, however simple and uncompromising his Prinerplei. The knowledge that his motives are those of pat r i o ti sm an d benevolence— the belief that his principles are sound and righteous— the conviction that he is supported by a large number of the most enlightened and virtuous of his countrymen— thesa considerations may animate him to the attempt, but cannot render him insensible to the difficulties of his position. I look, however, with confidence to those around me for sympathy and indulgence.—(Cheers.) I do not set myself up on this oecesion as an oracle ; I come to declare with simplicity and candour the conclu sions at which my own mind has arrived ;.and to give, as far as I am able, my reasons for adopting those con clusions, and to submit both to your candid judgment. Though I claim to be sincere, I make no pretensions to infallibility. I shall be happy, certainly, if your ver diat is in favour of' my propositions in the main ; but, at the same time, I am ready to receive, with meekness and gratitude, any information calculated to correct the errors into which I feel myself liable, in connection with others, to fall on this and every other great national question.—(Hear, heir, hear.) As all I have to say must, for the present, be comprised within the compass of a single address, I shall not we try you with historical retrospections or lengthened quotations from authorities, however high and venerable ; still less shall I offend you with personalities, with attacks upon the motives of those who differ from me, or seek to em broil you in the strife of mere political parties. My ob ject is truth—my sole aim and end the good of my suf fering, fellow-subjects. In my humble co-operation with my excellent friends in the cause of the repeal of the present Corn-law, I am actuated by a desire to render some service to the poor—to be the advocate of the rights of industry.—(Cheers.) I can assure you I have not rushed into the conflict on this question from a love of novel'y, or a thirst for notoriety. I am not conscious that I have any eye to self-interest or popu larity. At no period of my brief life have I ever felt a stronger wish to be at liberty to fix and concentrate my attention upon one subject, and that of another though kindred kind. Various considerations, however, have combined to urge upon me the duty of doing what lies in my power to aid the present very general effort for the extinction of the existing imposts upon the food of the people.—(Loud cheers.) The principles on which I advocate the total repeal of the Corn-laws are soon stated. I have heretofore often appeared before you in this place to denounce the monopoly of human freedom —(Loud cheers)—l now appear before you as the no less determined enemy of the monopoly of human food. —(Cheers.) I would have all men free, I would have all men fed.—(Cheers.) I am therefore a friend to a free trade in the necessaries of life, and to free trade gelerally, in the most enlarged meaning of the word. It seems to me both reasonable and right that the la bouring man should be at libe.ty to barter the fruits of his industry for the products of every part of the earth ; and that a-wrong is done him, when kris made to pay a higher price for the food that sustains him than that which is absolutely necessary.— (Hear.) I believe all protection, as it is called, for the benefit of particular interests to be needless, and worse than needless, to be injurious to the community at large—(Cheers)—and that an unrestricted commerce with all the nations of the world is the system most in accordance with the laws of nature, the designs of Providence, and the hap piness and welfare of mankind.—(Loud cheers.) By reading, observation, and reflection, I have reached the conclusion, that the very interests sought to be pro tected, are themselves injured by the operation• of the restrictive system, and that in seeking the repeal of the Corn-laws, I am no less the friend of the landlord and operative.—(Cheers.) throughr a ive . — the farmer, th an I um the friend of the manufacturer and C a lo h n e g er s s ei es .) r l o ' f ha y t ea a rs v , ici and ou s t o system,whi which acted a variety of other s y stems have been conformed, can be the uponpe t at once reversed, without inconvenience, and without loss in particular cases, I neither maintain nor expect ; but I am thoroughly convinced that the fears so loudly expressed by agriculturist s and their advocates, are ge nerally without foundation, and that they, in common with all other classes, would soon rejoice in the benefits conferred by a system of unfettered interchange,— (Cheers.) It cannot be denied that the Corn-laws is the question now uppermost in the minds of the people of this country,. and that the attempt would be vain, even were it justifiable, to turn the attention of the peo ple to any other question. Th e peace of the country demands its settlement.—(Hear, hear.) Were it not so, it is one which in its own nature deserves and impe ratively requires consideratio n . The causes of stagna tion and decay in various branches of trade—of bank ruptcy among merchants — o f idleness, of pauperism, de moralization, and ripening disaffection among the hum bler classes—of anxiety and alarm among all, should surely be inquired into ; and as the existing Corn-lag is alleged by many to be one of the most fruitful sources of the evils and miseries which are obvious to all who will open their eyes, it ought to be immediately and tho rougly investigated, both in its principle and its work. ing.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) What is the Corn law of this country ? Divested of the mysterious and• delusive phraseology in which many are in the habit of defining it, it is a law to make the bread of the people dear.—(Hear.) Bread, like every other commodity, can only be made dear by making it scarce. The Corn law, therefore, is a law for rendering the bread of the people scarce.—( Hear.) And what is bread ? It is emphatically called the staff of life. It is the prime nourisher of man. It is the peculiar aliment for which there seems to be an universal appetite. It is the pro vision which God himself has made for the supply of his children's wants. By the lips of His Son he has taught us to pray, " Give us this day our daily bread." Nor, does lie forget to answer the prayer. He has placed us in the midst of a world capable of yielding from its sur face sufficient for the wants of every living thiaig ; and the promise He has given to us and our children is— bile the earth remaineth, seed-time and harvest ;kt ' shall not cease." If there be any who seem to be delivered from absolute dependence upon this par ticular kind of food, they are the barbarous and un tamed children of the wilderness ; but man, as he ad.* vances in civilization and refinement, becomes more and more sensible of his need of bread. Without it he lan guishes and decays. What is the duty of man as taught him by the Word of God, by the instincts of his nature, and even by the example of the inferior ani mals .It is to feed his offspring, to nourish and support those who are placed in a position of dependence upon him.—(Cheers). What is scarcity ? What is famine ? By whatever cause produced, it is one of the the most fearful evils with which a people can be visited—terri ble in itself, frightful in its physical effects, most lament. able in its social and moral results. See its effects on board the vessel, tossed upon the ocean, far from port, its stores of food exhausted ; hunger at last converts civilized, brave, and generous men into ferocious can nibals. " At length one whispers his companion, who Whispers another, and it thus goes round, And then into a harsher murmur grows, An ominous, and wild, and desperate sound; And when his co mrade's thought each sufferer knows, 'Tis but his own, suppress'd till now 'tis found ; And out they speak of lots for flesh and blood And who shall die to he his fellows' food." , This, it is well known, is not the fend, of a poet, per petrating a libel on the species, to heighten the effect of his fictitious narrative, but the stern testimony of faithful history, demonstrating the truth that hunger will transform men, before humane, and kind, and po lished, into the greedy butchers and devourers of their nearest and only associates. Look at the family where famine enters--look at the foi tress or city besieged— survey the province or district visited by drought— think of the scenes that have been . witness e d i n I n di a . What is famine when sent by a Just God? It is a punishment, a grievous curse, a punitive visitation. " He tuna') the fruitful field into barrenness for the wickedness of them that dwell therein." In His righ teous displeasure he says, If you will not yet, for all this, hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins. I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heaven as iron and all !ll's, and he has often done it. But, to man it be leno not to usurp the prerogative of his Maker. It is for him to succour and to help his fellow-man. It is for par.ints, rulers, legislators, and' sovereigns, to care for those committed to their charge —to take all wise and proper means to provide bread enough and to spars. It is for them to imitate the conduct of Him who is good to all, and whose tender mercies are over all his works—who openeth his hand and supplieth the want of every living thing —to whom judgment is a strange work. Who hath commanded us to deal our bread to the hungry, and to satisfy the afflicted soul, and to bring the poor that are cast out into our house.— (Loud applause.) For wise and good ends we are placed under a law of mutual dependence—of man on man, family on family, community on community, nation on nation.—( Hear, hear, and great cheering.) If I have not wrongly interpreted the designs of the benefi cent Ruler of the Universe, he intends that, while asso ciated under different forma and names of Government, men should yet be united in sympathy and interest, ex changing the diversified products of their soil and in dustry, communicating and receiving all useful know ledge, each contributing according to his opportunities and advantages to the general stock of human science and human happiness, and thus be all linked together by innumerable bonds in the harmonious society that becomes children of a common parent. In looking at the different countries of the world, we shall find none that combine all the advantages which nature has pro vided for the comfort and welfare of men, and none that are wholly destitute of them. One country en joys a rich soil, fruitful in all agricultural produce ; taother possesses mines of metals and coal, which fit it for the production of manufactures. The different kinds of food and fruits are peculiar to different coun tries and climates. The materials out of which the various kinds of clothing are manufactured come from every quarter of the globe. The torrid zone supplies articles which comfort and delight the inhabitants of the frigid ; and the frigid, in return, furnishes mate rials which refresh the people of the tropics. Both contribute to the wants and luxuries of the inhabitants of the temperate zone, which is able amply to repay the obligation. Tills is beautifully illustrated by Virgil : "Here golden harvests wave, there vineyards glow, Fruits bend the bough, or herbs unbidden grow— ller saffron Tinolus—lnd her ivory boasts, Spice wings the gale round Saba's balmy coasts; The naked Chalybes their iron yield, The powerful Castor scents the Pontic field, While famed Epirus rears the equestrian breed, Born for the palm that crowns th' Olympic steed; In stated regions, from the eternal Cause, Such Nature's compact and unbroken laws." But I must not forget that it is argued by many, and always professedly on behalf of the poor, that it would be unwise and dangerous to be dependent on foreign countries for our supplies. I have noticed that this is almost exclusively the argument employed by those who are interested, or deem themselves to be inte rested in restricting our supply to home produce.— (Hear, hear.) Many who thus argue are rich, and are surrounded by every article that can minister to a re filled and fastidious luxury. I Lave heard this argument used at a time when the table at which we were seated was made of foreign mahogany—when the wines on the table were from half-a-dozen different parts of the world—when the dessert was the produce of al nost every clime—the figs from one country, the wapes from another, the pomegranites from another, the preserves from another, the olives from another, and the apples from another—when the carpet on which we tr)d was foreign—when the oil burning abov! cur head was foreign—when the coffee that we sipp3d was fo reign—when the radiant gems, and rustling si:ks, and rich brocades, and curious fans, and novel fashLns of the ladies, were all foreign—when the music played after dinner was foreign, the words foreign, the fair performer the pupil of a foreign master—when even the manners of the company were foreign.—(Laughter and cheers.) But, the fast is, the present restrictions on the importation of food render us far more dependant on foreign countries—(Hear, hear,)—and place us far more at their mercy, than we could ever be if trade was free and untrammelled. Nor shall we ever bs inde pendent of speculators at home, and of the fluctuating supplies which other countries may be alo!e at the shortest notice to furnish us, until steadiness, regularity and permanency, be given to our commerce, by the re moval of every impediment to a free interchange of products.—(Cheers.) I have already said that I dis cuss this question with special reference to the welfare of the poor. I have said that the object of the Corn laws is to make bread dear, and that this can be done only by making it scarce. From the artificial scarcity so created the consumers escape in proportion to their wealth ; consequently the evil presses with continually accumulating severity upon the humbler classes exactly in the degree of their inability to sustain the burden.— (Hear, hear.) These lams, too, operate with ever augmenting force, owing to the natural, progressive, and irresistible increase in the numbers of the people. Let me endeavour to show a little more parti cularly that the Corn-laws, while they impose an almost imperceptible and perfectly insignificant tax upon the rich—a very moderate tax, however unjust in princi ple, upon the middle classes—impose a heavy and in tolerable burden upon those who are least able to sup port it, namely, the labouring classes of society, or the great mass of the people. This must be obvious at a glance, from the fact that these laws operate as a tax upon the first necessary of life. Take a familiar illus tration. A labourer or mechanic earning 40/, a year, having a wife and four children, will expend one-half of his entire income, or 20/. a year, in bread alone, or at least in bread and substitutes for bread. If we suppose that one-half (or, make any deduction you please, the force of my illustration is the same)—if we suppose that one-half of these 20/. arises out of the en hanced price produced by the operation of the Corn laws, then the labourer and mechanic thus situated is paying 10/. a-year for the purpose of propping up the system of high rents and dear bread ; in short, the labourer is paying an income tax of twenty five per cent., or double the highest rate which was paid by the middle and higher classes of so ciety in the most extravagant years of the late war, and all this without for a moment including the charges to which he is subjected by th• fiscal regu lations necessary to the Corn-laws, or the innumerable disadvantages under which he labours, all springing from the same cause. The small shopkeeper, or better class of artificer, with the same family, and whose in come is 80/. a-year, although he may be better clad and housed, and use more tea, and beer, and spirits, will not use more bread than the labourer having one half his income ; his earn-tax will, therefore, be also 101; but, instead of its beUlg one-fourth part of his income, it will be but one-eighth part of it ; and instead of being an income tax of twenty-five per cent., its rate will be ot,: t,velve and a half per cent. It is ob vious that the consumption of agricultural produce, but more especially of bread, the first necessary of life, bears no proportion t o i ocomes . Th e f a mily of six persons, with five servants, and having an income of 1,600/. a-year, will not exceed 401. a-year, or less than one-fortieth part of the income, instead of one-halt, as in the case of the labourer and mechanic, or one fourth of it, as in the case of the shopkeeper ; the tax upon this income, instead of being, as in the case of the labourer, twenty-five per cent., or, as in the case of the small shopkeeper, twelve and a half per cent., will be only two and a half per cent. It is unnecessary to pursue the illustration. Whatever difference of opi nion there may be respecting the causes of our pres en t national embarrassments, and especially of the condi tion of particular portions of the labouring community, it is undeniable that millions of our countrymen know not the taste of wheaten bread. Though they till the ground, and sow and reap the harvest, they are forbid den, by a wicked law, to be partakers of the grai n t h ey have helped to cultivate. 'Their food consists altog e th er of the inferior kinds of agricultural produce.—T( areear. wasting away ) Millions now are upon short allowa nce . frominsufficiency of food. H undreds of thousands are on the brink of utter starvation. The poverty and wretchedness that first overtook the labour ing masses, have reached the class above, a class that must always, to a great extent, he depend ent upon the producing classes. The depression in their trade has added to the embarrassment of the manufacturer, who finds himself losing, at once, both the home and foreign market. The consequences are inevitable. All suffer, but most of all, the poor m an — t h e man who depends wholly upon his industry . f or hi s d a i ly bread—who has always been confined in his enjoyments to the commonest comforts of lif e , b ut i s now deprived even of those whieh are absolut e l y necessary to his existence. I —(Hear.) 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Published by the Authors, and sold by Balliere, Medical Bookseller to the Royal College of Surgeons, 219, Regent street ; Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Pattie, 4, Bridges street, Strand, London ; Guest, Birmingham; Sowler, 4, St. Ann's-square, Manchester; Philip, South Castle-street;Liver pool ; Machen and Co., 8, D'Olier.street, Dublin; Duncan, 114, High-street, Edinburgh • and to be had of all Book se ll ers The following are a few of the numerous testimonials this popular work has received, and which the limits of an adver tisement will only allow of being published : The rage for books in all departments of Science, literature, and the arts, was, we believe, never so prevalent as at the pre sent time. The unavoidable consequence of this is, that we meet a very considerable proportion of indifferent, useless, and even bad books. With the force of thin prejudice on our minds, we with no little reluctance were induced to peruse Messrs. Curtis's work, entitled "Manhood ;" nor did it re quire much perusal fully to satisfy us that the book was not one of the common stamp. The scientific views taken by the authors of the source and origin of many of the most distressing effects of certain depraved habits, fully establish their claim to the character of experienced and judicious surgeons. To quote passages from the work in proof of our assertion would be departing from the established rules of the daily press. The result, however, of our careful perusal of the work, has been to impress us with a thorough confidence in the talent and skill of the authors, and to satisfy us that those entrusted with the care of youth are not a little indebted to them for fur nishinc, them with a means of preventing some of the most frightful maladies to which flesh is heir.—Old England. Messrs. 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Having, however, been induced by the character given of this work by an intelligent friend, we ventured to open its pages, and now feel no hesita • Con in saying that we arise from its perusal instructed and edified. The clear exposition of the source of many of those diseases which proves so fatal to youth, and which are set down by the every-day observer as the result of common causes, suPh as exposure to cold, sudden vicissitudes of tempe rature, hereditary taint, &c., is truly convincing and extre mely satisfactory. We say " satisfactory," inasmuch as Messrs. Curtis have shown that many diseases, such as Pulmonary Consumption, Epilepsy, &c., hitherto the opprobria of medi cine, may, when taken in proper time, and submitted to judi cious treatment, be brought to as favourable a termination as any other class of ffections. 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Country Patients are requested to be as minute as possible in the detail of their cases.—As to the duration of the corn plaint, the symptoms, age, general habits of living, and occu pation in life of the party ; the communication must be ac companied by the usual consultation fee of 1/., without which, no notice whatever can be taken of their application ; and in all cases the most inviolable secresy may be relied 0.1, PRICE 5d cently furnished from all parts of the kingdom, that vast multitudes are in a condition of actual want—that domestic suffering in every conceivable form prevails— that disease has f,llowed upon the heels of famine, and that death is making havoc among the most destitute portions of the community. I need not mention places —I need not state partieu:ar facts—l may be permitted to say, however, that I have myself had but too frequent opportunities of ascertaining the truth of these appalling statements. I have had much to do recently in the molt, thickly-populated parts of our country. I have Leon brought into near contact with all classes of socie:y. I have seen with my own eyes the miseries and privat ons of the poor.—( Hear, bear ) I have heard in private the complaints of merchants and manufac turers. I have beheld the stagnation and gloom of once busy and flak ing towns. I have conferred with deputations of starving operatives. I have perused many hundreds of letters from ministers of religion, 0! all denominations, on the state of the labouring poor, and the causes of their miserable condition, and I own, that while touched with compassion for the physical suffering brought under my notice, I have been unable to look forward without apprehension and dread to the slow, it may be, but sure growth and . ultimate deve lopment of those passions which arc stimulated and called into action by hunger and destitution.—(Hear.) hear.) I greatly question if ever, in the history of our country, there was an equal amount of wretchedness and suffering among our labouring fellow-subjects, or ever a time when those who are in employment, and lifted for the present above positis e want, were more miserably remunerated for the labour they perform. I have paused to inquire if the calamities around us, and the more dreadful consequences with which we r.r. threatened, are to be regarded as inevitable—as the natural results of uncontrollable causes—as the just judgments and visitations of the Almighty. I have looked at my country in her geographical position, her physical futures, her political relations, her moral in fluence, her resources of science, industry, skill, and energy, and I have stood astonished at the fact, that in this home of Empire, tYs seat of Legislation, this work. shop of the world, there should be found a mass of wretchedness and want, without a parallel in any other part of the globe. I have gone to the word and to the works of God, and have been taught by both, that a bountiful and unfailing provision has been made for everything that hath life ; that to man bath been given dominion over everything created ; that every green herb on the face of all the earth, hath been given him for meat ; " That God's free bounty bids this globe produce More than enough for all his creatures' use. * * * That earth's prolific fields, For man and beast alike, abundance yields." And that yet, notwithstanding, there are thousands in this favoured country whose condition is as bad as that of the debased Australian, upon whose path the light of science and civilization has never shone. What a spectacle is this! while there is all this pauperism and want and misery at our doors, the ninth part of the land of the whole globe is ours—we have a dominion embracing every variety of climate, in every pa:i. of the earth—territories studding the Atlantic, hemming in both the Arctic Oceans—enclosing a whole empire in the East—marking every place of commercial import ance in the Indian and Pacific seas—we are exalted in arts, invincible in arms, fearless of invasion, our com merce is commensurate with the habitations of man, we are powerful in foreign alliances, we arc free in our political institutions, we possess unrivalled means of production, our dominions abound with natural riches above and beneath the soil, either at home or abroad, embracing every healing balm, every fragrant berry, every luscious fruit, every nutritious grain, every costly gem, every precious metal, every useful mineral, every animal fur, every vegetable wool. All mankind are, or would be our customers—we might clothe the Orientals of the east, and the Anglo-Saxon races of the west— we might be first in the markets of Europe. And yet, Britain, that can hold the world at bay—that can maintain the integrity of distant empires —that has spent twenty millions in the cast, in three years, in wars twelve or fifteen thousand miles away. " With armaments that thunderstrike the walls Of rock-built cities, bidding nations quaVe, At:d Monarchs tremble in their capitols ?" With nations all around her, waiting to exchange the fruits of their fertile plains, for the products of her toil ing artisans, Britain cannot feed her starving children! No wonder that, a voice comes to us across the Chan nel, " Britain ! raze, fro:n your shield the lordly hoc, and put in its place the starving operative, vainly sup plicating a sufficiency of food." Under these extraor dinary and afflicting circumstances, it is surely the duty of every thinking, patriofe, and Christian-minded man to turn his serious attention to the causes of our na tional distress. if there ever was a time when party strife should be hushed to repose, when names nod distinctions should be laid aside, when the nomencla ture of faction should be forgotten, it is now—now when no man can, without guilt, look with indifference or apathy on the condition of his country, when the aspect of public affairs is fearfully ominous of col lision and animosity between the different classes of the community, when we are brought to the point at which we have to decide, whether this nation shall continue its onward progress, or commence the melancholy task of retrocession, when all efforts of in dividual benevolence, all outpourings of eleemosynary bounty, all devisings of good men, apart from le gislative interference and a change of system, arc obviously ineffectual to the relief of prevailing misery. The time to look at causes as well as consequences is come, and first in the list stands the law that restricts the supply of food to the people. This Corn-law bears upon its face the mark of injustice, cruelty, and impiety. It is a law that shuts men up to a limited and scanty supply of food, and snakes them pay for that an exorbi tant price. It is a law that places a whole people upon short allowance. It is a law that circumscribes the bounty of the benevolent Ruler of the world. It is a law that robs the poor to increase the gains of the rich. It is a monopoly in the hands of a few, and those few the class best able to do without a monopoly. It is a law which says to the labourer—You shal slot have fair play ; you shall not exchange your labour for the fruits of the earth, according to their real value, but you shall be compelled to take your loaf from us, or die of star vation. Here, then, we take our stand. We plant our feet upon the immutable principles of justice and equity. On Scriptural grounds we denounce all human restric tions upon the supply of food to the people. We claim for the poor the benefit of the Divine provision. We say, with reference to temporal supplies as well as to our sphere of religious usefulness, " the field is the world." We say that the Corn-laws are in opposition to, if they do not effectually frustrate, the merciful and wise designs of God. They violate a sound and health ful and fraternising principle. They turn the key upon the store-house of the Divine bounty and benificence. l'hey say to the cheap and wholesome supplies which other lands would give us, " Hitherto shall ye come, but no further "—until the pockets of the rich are fill ed, the shelf of the poor man shall be empty. We will not, in the first instance, discuss the question with re ference to the probable price of corn under another system. We will not discuss the question of the amount of trade, if commerce in corn were free. We will not attempt to determine the precise amount taken from the mechanic, the shopkeeper, the merchant, the ma nufacturer, or the national exchequer, by these laws, We object to them ab initio. We say they are unnatu ral. They are at war with the designs of God —at war with the rights of human industry —opposed to common sense and justice—founded on selfishness—framed for the benefit of the few —necessarily and inevitably un equal in their operation—a departure from the spirit and mandates of the Divine law ; and that therefore Itvhi ellyd o p u ss g e h t m o y be f r t i o e t p al ds l o and for 11, take ke thisever i aew bolished. s t h h e e d s Y e ou ; otherwise you are at the mercy of .every quibbler. Having thus denounced the injustice of r tri t tpbr e o e f e a e c d e toof sohuorwbeitlosvienjdulraionuds, o a p n e d ra w t a io n n t . W ing the supply of fo o d to the people of thi a s country,awes we 00 over cl k of food — wan t o f clothing —want of shelter, ployment—want stares us h i and fuel, face in every di rect i on. , Wa n t of em and pure air ; and all the usual concomitants of idle ness,; hunger, and domestic destitution —disease, reek essuess, immorality, disaffection, sedition, and threat ened revolution. I ask, is this state of things inevit able ? What are the natural sources of relief? Arc they at hand, or are they not ? Has Providence placed the :means of abundance within our reach? Let us see. The sources of abundance are, rich soils, favourable climates, skill in cultivation, and facility of conveyance, in respect of the products of land, whether they be for the food of man, or of animals for the service of man, or be the materials of manufactures. And, in respect of other commodities, the sources of abundance are, r 4 materials d er i ve d f rom t h e most pro d uct i ve places, skill in converting those materials into the articles wanted, machinery ' machinery f or sav i ng h uman l a b our in the . process, and by strength for setting that machinery in =non, r wearies. science f r om some p ower o f nature which never i h n e e s d e b a ) r , e sourcestbe least t fromp possible s b w i h e icb exertion an to la b b n o n ti b r - . t never before granted to by thiscountry, a abundance ofhu human Now, I fearlessly assert, that all these means are pos sessedfanceexotefnthe earth. The elements world is our market— of the earth are at our feet. The o a f n y greatnessnth other na a t r i : no ours—not nt hte one is wanting. The riches all mankind are our customers ; but to secure the advan tages of our position there must be mutual consumption —an interchange of commodities—in a word, free trade. Let any man compute the productive powers of the world in the present state of knowledge, and then refuse, if he can, to rely on the sources of abun dance ; let him reflect on the appalling extent of e Y. 0.0 EVENING SUN. human wants unsatisfied, and den doubt, if he can, the efficacy of consumption. There is scarcely a civilised spot on the globe on which the now impo verished labourer cannot produce, is excess of his own wants, some peculiar commodity with which he could provide himself with those other commodities he an greatly needs, if his right of exchange were not deprived by the interposition of some arbitrary power. Mutual supply by means of such exchange is the scheme, and it is the law of nature, loudly pro claimed by the diversities of climate, soil, and capacities ; it is the manifest design of a beneficent Providence for the benefit of the human race. But what is the law of man ? An impious pro hibition of the law of God. I figure to myself the family of a Manchester or Birmingham or Pais ley workman, contemplating on a Saturday night the true exchangeable value of their week's work, and com puting how much food, as well as other commcdities it would supply them with under the free operation of the a Memo. of Providence, and of the law of nature. 1 also tisure to myself the family of the Polish or other fore;ge husbandmen longing to doff the;r miserable dresses of sheep-skin, or other rude materials, and to exchange their corn for the fabrics nt the spindle and the loom. A greater offence can hardly be committed then to ob struct the mutual dealings of such parties, except it can be justified as a necessary national sacrifice. 1 stoutly deny the nationality of the object. The restraint is no thing less than' a taking of the necessaries of life from those who have nothing to spare, in order to increase the luxuries of those whose command of them would bear reduction ; supposing, but by no means admitting, that any reduction 1,4 ou!d ensue. There is no rational ground for any protection to our home productions be yond that which may inevitably arise out of duties imposed for the sake of revenue. The poor man has a sacred right to the fruits of his labour, a right which he can never be said to enjoy. unless he be at liberty to make the most advantageous exchange he can of the product of his own labour for that of the labour of others.—(Loud cheers.) I know that a claim is set up by the proprietors of hind for an exclusive protection of their interests. Even granting the justice of their claim, in the face of the fact that the manufacturers have for years offered to relinquish oh protection of their inter ests, and the still more important fact that the labour of the artisan has no protection, and the equally indis putable fact that the tiller of the soil is at this moment among the worst paid labourers in the country,-1 say, admitting the claim, it is capable of easy demonstration that the present system is subversive of the interests of that very class for whose benefit the monopoly has been given. lam happy that we have on this subject the testimony of a Scotch landed proprietor of equal eminence as a Christian, a moral philosopher, and a po litical economist; I mean James Douglas, Esq. of Covers. No class of the community have been more injured by the Corn laws than the landholders themselves. These laws have made the value of land alto gether a lottery. The uncertainty they occasion with respect to the profits of farming, have been highly inju rious to agriculture, and the high nominal vague which they continue to landed property, has led its pos sessors into an expenditure beyond their real income. The Corn-laws have thus greatly retarded the national prosperity, without any class in the nation being gainers by their operation. Indeed, it is only from a narrow view of the subject that they are supposed to augment the rent of land. The great object of every British patriot should be, to place his country at the head of the nations, and to make it the capital of the world. As well might the landlords of Middlesex desire to have the corn of other countries excluded from the London market, as the British landholders seek to ex clude the importation of foreign corn into Britain. Tue rents of Middlesex are hgher, on account of London being the great mart for the produce of the country at large, and the rents of Britain would eventually be raised by the corn of all other countries being freely consumed here, purchased, it necessarily must be, by the great extension of British manufactures, and procured by the industry of an augmented population. In addition to the testimony of Mr. Douglas, Mr. Thompson cited several passages from the published letters of Mr. W. 'Whitmore, exposing the groundless ness of the alarm excited for the agricultural interests of the country, and strongly ridiculing the assertion that a Corn-law makes us independent of foreign countries. The idea of independence, Mr. Whitmore ridicules as the " consummation of impracticable nonsense." Ours was now a dependence of the s cry worst sort ; a de-• pendence to which, in five or six out of every ten years, we are obliged to resort ; but, in order to make it more successful, we take advantage of occasional periods of abundance to injure, insult, and deride the party whose aid we are obliged to implore in time of need.—( Cheers.) It is deeply to be regretted, continued Mr. Thompson, that the great question now agitating the public mind has to be referred fur final adjudication to men, the vast ma jority of whom believe that their own personal interests are involved in the issue, and who are, therefore, ince pacit Ited from coming to a sound or honest judgment upon it. The authors I have quoted are splendid ex ceptions, and are in company with others of still higher rank, who, though to a still greater extent connected witn the land of the country, are equally opposed to the present system. 1 might refer to the names and speeches of distinguished peers—to a Spencer, a Fitz william, a Radnor, a Leicester, a Lansdowne, a Lein ster, a Punmure, a Westminster, a Sutherland, a Cleve land, a Norfolk, a Bedford, a Devonshire, and a Prince of the Blood-Royal, the Duke of Sussex.---(Cheers.) It is legislation by interested parties, legislation for partici:liar classes, legislation upon narrow principles, legislation based upon expediency, that has brought us into our present embarrassed and impoverished coedition—a condition from which there seems no escape, but by a speedy recognition of sound principles, and a faithful observance of the laws of nature and the will of God, that we should do as we would be done by. But I must now take leave to direct your attention for a few mo ments to our present and future relations to a country in which we all feel a deep interest. I mean tho United States of America. I may possibly be able to open a new and cheering prospect to your view.—(Heer, hoar.) It was my Leee and expeetetion, until a day or two ago, that I should have the satisfaction of introducing to the friends of free trade in this city, an intelligent gentle man, from the other side of the Atlantic, who is at pre sent in this country, labouring both with his pen and with his voice to impress upon the people of Great Britain, the importance of removing these unnatural and wicked laws, w hich prevent the citizens of two great nations from exchanging, on equal terms, the produce of their industry. I am sorry to say, that circum stances have occurred to postpone the visit of Mr. Curtis, the gentleman I refer to ; but that branch of the subject on which he would have addressed you, is too intimately connected with the general question to be omitted al together. I shall therefore venture to bring it briely under your notice, and, though the treatment of it will greatly suffer in my hands, yet I shall hope that enough will be said to raise your curiosity, and lead you to de sire to hear more on this matter. The statements I shall make will, by reason of the shortness of my time, be only a few out of a multitude. For the same reason I shall not be able to lay before you the tables and rea sonings by which the truth of these statements can bo verified. But 1 will state nothing which I do not my selfbelieve•to be authentic, nothing which, if called upon for the proof, I am not prepared to sustain by ready and immediate reference to satisfactory evidence. How stands the ease then ? Here we have a dense popula tion upon a soil of limited extent, unequal to the ade quate supply of its inhabitants. Those inhabitants arc increasing at the rate of a thousand a-day. Millions of them are upon a short allowance of bread ; hund f i eds of thousands are on Cie brink of utter starvation. And yet, around us are all the elements of prosperity ; mineral wealth, ma:h n Iv, handicraft skill, untiring energy, the dominion of the seas, the power of st cam, powerful political re l a ti ons , an d peace f u l i n tercourse these circumstances do million s s t re t c h out their hans .r the most civilized na`i ons i n the world. In dand cry —" Give us bread! give us bread not the bread of idleness, but this bread If not, let us will ing to cat in the sweat of our brow.or e l se arc we these shores to other lands, where the a star of hope arises in doom, d to die of hunger." have the privilege of the felon, and be t ransported from fr n o o m t front the frozen ocean to the h t e ropies continent of Europe. thirds as, e grest as that of t . the Wes'. There lies, stretche j d ‘. from .a f N er o ti r l t e h i t a o nd S , o t u u t .o h . , expanse o i f u l to countrythrithriving s settled More than • organizeddf • kin the g Ti i- race has spread itself g shores republics. b hundred 1 more than twelve miles . into tele in terior.penetrate( e an h t a k. if [l:lo h .. is S: p ix re o d n ig ra le c u e s, The energies o er, region, and savnodrk todovelope of the Atlantic for more than three : e h n re te e e t n hou m s i a l n li d on m s il o e f s maena d , make. t the are likely to be thirty millions in twenty years from sp granary of the world. The seventeen millions of to-day the e resources ki ng the of English this mighty agu ag the present tim-, and nearly one hundred millions mankind. From this land of p rom i se, the dawn upon in when the cornmeaccment of the next c entury shall Goshen of the earth, a messenger has come to s ay to our starving countrymen, " We can give you bread. We have enough and to spare. Let t' our law -makers be just, and you shall live, at home if you please, and rejoice in the blessings which have been granted to us." Yes, the child offers to sustain the mother. The offshoot turns to succour the parent stem. New England sends her ambassador of peace and plenty to Old England. The emigrant S cotsman sends leis representative to his father-land, to offer the fruit of his adopted country to the dweller in his native laud. —(Cbe 're.) Let we he a little more particular and specific. Of the twenty-six independent States, form ing under one general Government the United States of America, there are six which seem peculiarly adapted to be corn-growing States for other portions of the globe. 'Fitese are the Nortli- Western States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, lowa, and Wiskonsin. These cover an area of two hundred and thirty thou sand square miles, exclusive of nearly as mach more, been styled, inv excellence, the . the title to which is at pres ent mostly i n the Indian country, and the reg ion s i mme di ate ly tribes. contiguous This to w h ea togrowiug territorie s o f America. " The country, is vast IP' ......... la ARMER TESTIMONIAL The SUBSCRIPTION LISTS will be CLOSED on the 3 0th Instant. By order of the Committee. H. S. SMITH, Honorary Secretary. , BankersSubscriptiens r ece i ve d at M essrs. Gosling an d Sharpe s, , Fleet -street ; Mr. Deputy Blacket, West Smith !eld, Treasurer ; Mr. H. S. Smith, at the Committee-room, . °l4k u Coffee-house; and at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet. street. O TICE is hereby given, that by INDEN TURE of ASSIGNMENT, b ear i ng date the 4th day ii s ,'°`'ember, 1841, and m a d e b e t ween 'GEORGE OX andW GEORGE ROLFE, of No. 42, Crawford ;pet, in the county of Middlesex, Drapers, of the first part ; 1 s rI°MAS NEWCIALL, of Wood-street, in the City of A-rdon, Warehousem an , an d EDWARD RAWSON, o f dtrn4ll hury, in the sa id Cit y , W are h ouseman , o f th e se cond thereu ntosubscribed an d se t, and are contained in the first ,Sschedule to the said Indenture, Creditors of the said George _ulhorrow and George Rolfe, jaintly, of the third part; the several other persons wh names d seals are thereunto sub tireibed and set and are ose contained an in the second Schedule to said Indenture, Creditors of the said George Oxborrow _ 4 "e, of th e f ourth part ; and the several other persons whose “araes and seals are thereunto subscribed and set, and are con !kined in the third Schedule to the said Indenture, Creditors of ;s l e aaid Ge orge R olfe alone, of the fifth part ; the sa id G eorge hQ rrour and George Rolfe assigned all their personal estate Led effects unto the said Thomas Newhall and Edward Raw :, their executors administrators, andsaasigns, upon certain 0 11 _ 3 , 41. er the benefit t of all the Creditors of the said George Vxoorrow and George Rolfe ; and that the said Indenture •11 e xecuted by th e sa id G eorge O x b orr o w , G eorge R o lf e , Thomas Newhall, and Edward Rawson, respectively, on the Cie 4 th day o f N ovem b er, 1 84 1 , i n t h e presence o f Ed war d veland S eaman, of No. 12, Pancras-lane, Bucklersbury, in the City o f L ondon, sol i c i tor, w h o d u l y atteste d the exee,u -' tis to ; and the same deed now lies at the office of the . k e said Edward Cleveland Seaman, situate No. 12, Pancras- Zie aforesaid, for the signatures of the Creditors of the said t'rge Oxb orrow and George Rolfe. Dated this 22d day of November, 1841. •-.........1_1___1e55,/Vt James Redding. E. C. SEAMAN. • PAPIER MACHE TEA TRAYS, 50s. the • SET, of FULL-SIZED GOTHIC SHAPE. Supe dift London Table Knives, with ivory handles, 14s. per t :lze e • Brass P o l es f or Wi n d ow C urta i ns , 1,-k inch diameter, 4 ; '-iu: per foot • ' 2 inches, Is. Bd. per foot ; bronzed fenders, 'leet k rgl DS. SUPE RIOR LONDON TABLE CUTLERY WAR ),, NTED.—TABLE KNIVES, with Ivory Handles, 14s. dozen ; Des ser t K nives , ll s . ; Carvers, 4s. 6d. per pair; j> Knives, Knives, with white bone handles, Bs. Bd. per dozen , ap Z e rt, 6s. Bd. ; Carvers, 3s. per pair ; Globe-shape ea tit7s, 4 quarts 275. ; new shapes, 395. ; Papier Macho Tea eatYtalning g.othic ;hape, 50s the set o f full sizes. Catalogues, the prices, with Engravings of every Ironmongery znale necessary to the furnishing of a house of any size, 25 Teent. under any other old-established house, to be had sip (post free). .r PON and BURTON, 12, Wells-street, Oxford-street. Established 1820. pENDRELL'S PATENT FLEXIBLE I N P ENHOLDER.—To ensure ease and comfort in the of Steel Pens, now in such general use, W. P. has, at 'Peat trouble and expense, constructed a PENHOLDER :pos -41 four great requ i s i tes , v i z., c h eapness, d ura bilit y , nea t .r_e.ncs.'ant appea r a nce , an d flexibility.. .4 u quote here th e many scientific opinions that have been ei have n v °q the uses of Steel Pens, and of the great nece s sity of ad r 4 l Elastic Holders, would far exceed the limits of an „,ertiseenent. befe ll: e Proprietor humbly, but with great confidence, ays easnioeetthe public this little, but no less effectual, promoter of pi t ..., . , to all grades of society using a Pen, knowing that his ! Tule P en h o l der has only to be tried to be approved of. ssai f ia n ufactured solely by WILLIAM PENDRELL, Salver .. ''''', 17, Regent's -place, tEETIL—MR. THOMAS'S NEW ME ' ~ THOD of SUPPLYING the LOSS of TEETH, i T 'Lasingle tooth to a complete set, on the PRINCIPLE of e1,.3/4r-ADHESION or capillary attraction, without springs iti:Vs, Or wires, and without extracting any teeth or stumps. feel, are more secure and firm, and WILL SUPPORT and SERVE TEETH THAT ARE LOOSE, _and do not t hick and clumsy in the mouth as those made upon the ailan. THE TEETH ARE OF an ENTIRELY NEW 4.'''NCRIPTION; they will never decay, corrode, or become ir A l ted, and WILL LOOK AS WELL AFTER TEN tls e ''''''°' WEAR as they do the first day they are placed in ANolouth, and ARE MUCH LESS EXPENSIVE THAN arqf T EETH EVER BEFORE USED OR IN , er'' TED, Th e i r exact resemblance to nature defies detection ItgbY the most intimate friend. Mr. Thomas continuesto _,ITORE DECAYED TEETH, ho wever l arge th e cav ity, Fiyi; AST ENS LOOSE TEETH with his celebrated SUC 140„,A,NEum, rendering extraction unnecessary. Mr. '' surgeon-denti s t, 68, Berner's-street, Oxford-street. At home from 11 tills. C AU TION.—The extraordinary demand for et % e , P AHR'S LIFE PILLS has induced several shopkeep ine44. °lean and dishonest principles, to try to impose on the aiei _ nous various counterfeits composed of the most per praitu,s ingredients, merely for the sake of reaping an extra taust eu t ' t allY regardless of the dreadful consequences which (3, sue. ro aa eve, that each Box of tha genuine medicine has pasted *artit,ltpthe Government Stamp, in which is engraved these itron e a • A , R R'S LIFE PILLS, in white letters on a red In no ins 'one other can b e genu i ne . Perf ect eutance has thi s i nva l ua bl e me di c i ne f a il e d t o e ff ec t a erei sed. r... 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B, :i c e° , uss and Diseases of the Stomach and Digestive Or• li i, • • a rem these facts, more than from any mode of advertising, C sale of the Pills is daily increasing ; every person who has t 7 l benefited is anxious to recommend them, and assist his ti'ltilbour —Enclosed is 50/., which please send me in Pills by -4 next " coach. " I am, Gentlemen, yours respectfully, "JOSEPH NOBLE, Printer, Bookseller, and Stationer. 23 , Market-place, Hull, Jan. 18,1641." a s. „a k , Notice the above Caution. Sold in Boxes at ls. 11d., ' 0 :, and 113 with full directions. Di` The Lif e an d Ti mes o f Old Parr," containing remarks on pase, Health, and the means of prolonging Life, 32 pages, efl`u all g ' Engravin s Anecdotes, Poetry, &c., may be had gratis Ageuts. 1 , 1 ,,.• Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Churchyard, Wholesale Agent; ~......._sold by most respeetable Medicine Vendors. Just published, price 35., and sent free on receipt of a Post office Order for 45., IVIONLY VIGOUR : a Popular Inquiry into Ttji m the CONCEALED CAUSES of its PREMA- Itt'g' DECLINE ; with Instructions for its' COMPLETE str tlet : ° RATION, addressed to tho s e suffering from the D e - Sad D o le Conseq uences o f E xcess i ve I n d u l gence i n S o li tary It ers seilusive Habit s , Y out hf u l I mpru d ence, or I n f ection ; with qt l i,!, 011 the TREATMENT of GONORRHEA,Ca, es. s, STRICTURE, and SYPHILIS. Illustrated with Y e, I l'abr,' LUCAS a n d CO., C onsu lti n g S urgeons , L on d on. Llost er _ i soed by the Authors; and sold by Brittain, 11, Pater 'l4) cl ;Effingham Wilson, 18, Bishopsgate-street ; Field, N l:a rra n Regent-street • Burgess, 28, Coventry-street, le rs i tt , k etl Hnett, 141, High Holborn ; and by all Booksel - the United Kingdom. eis_.thsellrious forms of bodily and mental . weakness , . incapa- I g4t,,„ ly Ong, and disease, faithfully delineated in this cau- 1 Or a i a rt tten and practical work, are almost unknown, gene ] understood and treated upon principles correspond. qclettitio:eous and superficial, by the present race of . medical lit e 'Yte_ rs • Hence the necessity for the publication of . a d h a , mgnard, a silent yet friendly monitor, or, where dein 47etair4assad: threatening inroads, the means . of . escape and the it , exteus, estoration. The evils to which this . book adverts p u t! th ere Ze and identical in their secret and hid en o pin, o,lltailies let . "'ne to whom as Parents, Guardians, Hea s of u t - ' Young'p ea ; l e e sPecially of public Schools, is confided the care at inform at i n : Who ought to remain for a moment devo . id . of tended to c. 0„ - ‘ a nd those salutary cautions this work is in- Reitntlerstive debit t' Not ' only are the most . delicate forms of enti Ire f or their but they Y neglected by the family physician,_ _ .:.., (wifelYahstra safe management the exclusive study . ot a la d t,„• 11 oth er d c ' t ed from the routine of general practice, .an ' eed i n ts elaSrtMents of the profession) attentively cuticen 'i% ear ue daily and long-continued observation requisite for If se_ 1 eet treatment of sexual infirmities. Ise'N ' 13tisider the topics touched upon, either in a moral or 1 , 1111 , 0 1131 1 ,, 1e i w i we e find the interests and welfare of mankind . O tee . , ovolved. The effects of licentious, indiscriminate VI I. e,L ai ndulg ence in certain practices, are described with aura a eY andforce which display at once profound reflec t I% illtensive practical experience. tlli e np 7 s t of all Friends is the Professional Friend : and in 1 b ,74 t r„ can he be consulted with greater safety and secresy m lie 1 "Lucas o n Manly Vigour." The initiation into 6,- 118 . j idal #ell e i ss ' its results in both sexes, are ~,- • 441 , W.th fsithf c ul — , but alas or l e for — human nature, with afflicting § l l ~' However, the Authors have not exposed the evil with. ording a remedy. It shows how " Manly Vigour" : t . e tril y impaired, and mental and physical emasculation, eit e „,ti . by uncontrolled indulgence of the pass . ions, can e ; I ',lti se `o , how the sufferer, who has pined in angukh from the 14 411 /le nees of early indiscretion—afraid almost to encounter Nr a ,. °ll, man, can regain the vigour of health and moral 1 410; :.• The work is written in - a concise and perspicuous as des how often fond parents are deceived by the , Il le a t i te rd . _ Physical apperance of their youthful offspring ; how 'ati lt of o ation of the frame, palpitation of the heart, derange- f t he. pt a ,..111 . e nervous system, cough, indigestion, and a train o ere le '''s I ndicative of consumption or general decay, are often :Nits ai d % wrong causes and instead of being the natural re 1 1 1 saiarF°ugenital debility or disease, are the consequences of i lld a in g and pernicious practice, alike destructive to the a k i t ,od b o d y. ti "oush ' ,Ptessint newspaper is not the ordinary channel for the ,:olari t .i llo opinion upon the merits of a medical work, this U 55 not 4 1 O e Prn , to exception in any instance where the public, 41the isoetted and exclusive members of the profession, e lI he ar ties addressed. Upon that which is directed to vial uerimi de, remand nately, the world will form its own opinion, and 1 ,;',1 of ti .,` - _' that medical works for public study should be tee„"icie, hags Mysterious technicality in which the science of itt ler e us tars hitherto shrouded its own ignorance. The work tlo a a l l s ßely, an e a,ls of subjects we believe generally, yet • very sy e ztle, s i v sg , eeted by the medical attendant, and requiring It ' an * collar in operative midwifery and the surgery of the ihtidY• The devotedne , s to a deeply important branch of eac v'ell. " tone of this book is highly moral, and it abounds h a ,se, tiZartitteu! harrowing, yet correct displays of the suffering s t4r ` h tle i'ssersuePofu unbridled sensualism.. No human being can Ll e ,".lng b ea _ or its perusal ; to multitudes it must prove a 4, s ing. iwellold appeal to reason, a permanent ._ tly with tis written in a clear, intelligent style, and is evi- Zsit witr_Preduction of a mind long and practically conver- Rittnizaticte. diseases of the most delicate division of the human ~.t e e l atit Y s 7 tu ril t i Y . of Happiness in the Marriage State is the chief 'ga t -, te rou ?_ but m any upon the wedded dread entering . d ee r itno n i., gua secret fear of unfitness for the discharge of au Aed tn '" tibligat ions. This essay is most particularly ad 4Lkied t o - . a ll suffering under a despondency of the character Zpievi..._aand advice will be found calculated to cheer the th p lies,;:ie,rt, and point the way to renovated health. ~.,1 1' resid.,1- ' • si••Lucas and Co. are to be consulted daily at tok.p 'Lite N la theury es '. 0 . 60, Newman -street, Oxford-street, London. lit:det,ratients are requested to be as minute as possible 4 )1 (4 4 °I their eases, as to the duration of the complaint, by them% age, general habits of living, and occupation in %Ole n 14 1144 13% The communication must ' be accompanied .ete,tl.._fleonsultation fee of 1/., without which no notice ' a he taken of their application ; and in all cases secrecymay be relied on. ill ,\