The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-11 00:00:00

G REA T CPNSEIWATIVE DINNER OF HERE FORDSHIRE. Herefordshire, Wednesday Night, Five o'Clock. The conservatives of this county dined together here this evening in the Shire Hall. The display was one of the most magnificent we have seen in any part of the empire. All the wealth, influence, and intelligence of the county was congregated to manifest that, although Herefordshire has never been boldly prominent in the assertion of its political opinions heretofore, this :com parative inaction has at length ceased, and the proceed ings here this evening, together with the firm and zealous conservative spirit evidenced by all who were present, : will serve to mark this county as one amongst the mos devoted to the preservation and maintenance of the con - stitution and the independence of the estates of parlia ment. In a word, the character of the meeting and the proceedings formed a marked contrast to those by which the recent whig -radical congregations have been distin guished ; here there was no disunion, no under-current squabblings, no quarrelling—the produce of intemper ance; every portion of the proceedings of the evening was characteristic of a great meeting met for the purpose of asserting their determination to uphold the institntions of the country which have been its pride and the source of its prosperity against the inroads of revolutionists. At an early hour in the morning the equipages of the no bility and gentry began to arrive, and indeed it was with considerable difficulty that lodgings could be procured last night at any of the hotels in the city, the number of applicants for tickets being much greater than even had been anticipated. All which it had been originally con templated should be issued was 500, the number of per sons which the great hall could "accommodate; but by twelve o'clock to•day the applications became so numer ous and pressing that the grand jury room was laid with tables for additional guests, and eventually the long pas sage leading from the street to the Shire Hall was ap propriated to the same purpose. By these means the committee were enabled to issue nearly 300 more tickets, which were most anxiously sought for, and were all sold in an hour after they were printed; and yet there were more . than 200 persons who had sought admission, but who were unable to procure it. What then becomes of the boasting of the whig-radical party of the neighbour hood, that the conservatives of Herefordshire could not " get up" a dinner ? The answer is a triumphant one. But there is much reason to rejoice that these boastings have been made audible, as they have had the effect of rousing the conservatives to their duty, and the effect will react witl► a vengeance upon the radical party; for we can predict with good reason that the number of their representatives in this county will be sadly lessened, if not rendered a cypher, at the next election. The interior of the Shire Hall was yesterday hand somely decorated with festoons of evergreens, inter spersed with blue and white favours (the county colours) behind the chair; upon the raised platforms, which usually serves the purpose of a hustings, was erected a triumphant arch appropriately ornamented with bunches of laurel and banners. Upon it was inscribed—" The institution in Church and State ;" and immediately be hind it was placed a banner inscribed "The Hereford shire Conservatives—not for party, but for their country's good." Immediately over the entrance within the room were the letters " W. R." in variegated lamps,surrOund ed by laurel wreaths, and upon each side heraldic banners inscribed, "Loyalty to the King, submission to tl►e law, and justice to the people"—" Church, King, and Con stitution, virtute non vi :" whilst around the rooms were fixed other inscriptions in blue and white—" Our glori ous Constitution," "The Conservative Cause," " Church and King," "King, Lords, and Commons," " Fear God and honour the King," "The land we live in," "Success to agriculture," "Speed the plough," &c. At half-past three, there being then nearly 800 persons assembled, the chair (in the absence of Lord Eastnor, who had met with an accident) was taken by Sir Edwin Scudmore Stan hope, Bart. After the cloth was removed, and " Non nobis" sung, the Chairman proposed the following toasts :—" His Majesty King William the Fourth"—" The Queen" — "The Princess Victoria"—which were all followed by tremendous and enthusiastic cheering. The Chairman said that the next toast was one of ma nifest importance, and was so completely adapted to the purposes for which they had met, that he had again to regret the absence of the noble lord that was to have filled the chair. There was, however, no man more de voted to conservatism than himself. but his devotion did not confer on him the ability to deliver his opinions as he could wish ; he Would do his best, however, to induce them to drink that toast with the zeal becoming Britons and Protestants. (Hear, hear.) It was " Tlie conser vative cause throughout the United kingdom, and may it be everywhere triumphant"—(loud cheers, which last ed several minutes. They had not met there that day for party or for factious motives. (Hear.) No, they had met there as conservatives, with the determination to maintain the constitution in Church and State, and to preserve the institutions of the country from being tram pled under foot. (Hear, and cheers.) Tue . period had arrived when it behoved every man to make up his mind her to be a conservative or a destructive. (Hear.) — Men might call themielves tories, whigs, or radicals; but a man must now either be a conservative, resolved to maintain the constitution, or a destructive, determined to pull it down. (Hear.) He would not say on which side that meeting ranged itself He was sure they had met with the determined purpose of upholding the con stitution, and one moment's reflection would tell them that they did right. (Loud cheers.) Did not that con stitution confer liberty upon the subject,-and enable any man, however humble, if he possessed sufficient talent, to aspire to the first stations in the land ? (Hear.) Why, therefore, should they not maintain it, instead of running after a phantom of liberty and equality which began in revolution and rebellion, held its course through blood and rapine, and would have its end in tyranny and op pression ? (Loud cheers.) He rejoiced, however, that the thinking people of England were coming to their senses. (Hear, hear.) He rejoiced that the spirit of conservatism was fast spreading through the country.— (Hear, and cheers.) Englishmen were naturally loyal and attached to their institutions, and, being so, they were naturally conservatives, and they well kneW that the conservatives were their friends, and that the whigs were their enemies, and the very friends of the whigs themselves said so. (Hear, hear.) He would, in order to show this, read to them an extract from a pamphlet p , .alished by one of them who had been led on by'ih ern to make a certain claim ; but when he had d9ne so, an d gained them, as all others had, that gentleman had said, " that however he suffered from the tories, yet they prac tised what they professed—were consistent in their pro fessions; they assisted each other, and were grateful to their supporters—(hear, hear) —whereas the whigspos sc,:sed principles which they were ashamed or afraid to cart y into action. They made promises which they did not fulfil, were ungrateful for that support by which they were kept in power, and repaid the confidence of the peo ple with disappointment and disdain." (Hear, and Cheers.) This was the opinion of a whig, he would say a radical, supporter of the Government; and he would ask, was it in the hands of such men the destinies of the country should be entrusted ? Should such a trust be confided to men who are stigmatised by their own sup porters as faithless, and upon whom no reliance must be placed ? (Hear, and loud cheers.) Let the conserva tives of England go f ort h t h en , prou d o f t h e j ust i ce o f their cause; let them unfurl their banner, inscrib'ed as that v,luch was now placed over their door, " Fear God, and honour the King." Let them place their trust not in this man or that,. but in the God of Israel, and there was no doubt that they w ou ld b e v i ctor i ous. (L ou d cheers.) The Chairman concluded by proposing the toast. Earl Somers said that before he entered upon the sub ject of the toast which had been just given, he would state to the meeting that nothing but severe indisposition could have detained his son, Lord Eastnor, from the meeting. He was, however, less annoyed at this when he considered the able mane-r in which the duties of chairman were performed by their president. Loud applause. Now, in regard to the toast which had been proposed, it would certainly be a desirable thing that lie, occupying as he did, the important situation of his Ma jesty's lieutenant of the county, should support the ad ministration—(hear) ; but, he would how could lte do it?—(" hear," and loud cheers.) How could he do so, when their conduct appeared to his understanding to tend to the destruction of the old established, excellent, and well-tried constitution of the country ? (Loud cheers.) He could not conceive from their conduct that they had any other views than to substitute for it a more democratical shadow ; and seeing this, he was bound to condemn and to withhold his approbation from them. (Cheers.) There had certainly been one or two measures carried by government of which he approved. He considered that the new poor law was calculated to remove frOin property an increasing burden, and to in• duce the poor to recover their independence, while at the same time they supported themselves and their families. (Cheers.) The Tithe Commutation Bill he also con sidered a good measure, as removing a source of eternal dissatisfaction between the clergy and their parishoners, and would be of essential benefit to the farmers. (Hear, hear.) Having said thus much, on the one hand regard ing the government, he would now conic to the dark side of the picture,. (Hear, hear.) They knew, when Earl Griey caused the Reform Bill to be introduced into the house of u be commons, that he declared, both pub licly and privately, that although , it tvas a st rong - measure, he had caused It it; introduced as a final one, which would prei - ent. the necessity to f further concessions to the spirit of democracy ;how _far hid the present ad ministration. born e..ont thin declaration ? for the present government was but a weak ramification of that which had been thrown out. (Hear, hear.) day lnstead of the final, e very Reform, Bill beingthey found them urging democratic measures. ( 1 - t h r. Could they then rely upon such men, or, on the.contrary, should not they SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. rely upon such men, or, on the contrary, should they not do all in their power to get rid of a such government, and to provide such an administration as would really benefit the country ? (Loud and continued cheers.) — Instead of the Reform Bill being final, they were now told that. it was merely the commencement of a perpetual series of changes. (Hear.) What then could that lead to but to a democracy, unless they not only expressed strenuously their detestation of such measures, but also united heart and hand practically to put an end to such a ruinous system ? (Loud cheers.) What, then, could he say of the appropriation clause? What of the Irish Corporation Reform Bill ? (Hear, hear.) Those mea sures, thank God, and thanks to the House of Lords, had bean defeated. (Loud and continued cheers.) They had been thrown out; and what, then, could he say, to the English Corporation Bill? (Hear.) It had des troyed all the corporations in the kingdom, and had thrown the whole weight of municipal power into the hands of the lowest of the low. (" Hear," and cheers.) Was that the way in - which the well-regulated, mixed, and moderate monarchy of England was to be main tained ? (Hear.) Would they not use every consti tutional means, every zealous endeavour to counteract such measures? (Loud cheers.) But if such had been the conduCt of government, he would ask how they pro posed to pursue it ? By the aid of an unnatural coali tion—an Irish Popish coalition—a coalition with persons who had declared the House of Lords to be a nuisance, and who meditated its immediate overthrow? ,(Loud cheers.) To oppose such measures they should all cor dially unite; and for his own part, old as he was, he was determined to exert every energy to prevent the con. summation of such a system. (Loud cheers.) They must act with vigour and resolution, and in the name of God, then, let them consider what was due to them selves, and do all in their power to check the mad, the ruinous course of policy pursued by the government.-- [Loud cheers.] The toast was then drank amidst loud and eontinued applause. The following toasts were then proposed by the Chair man : " The Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Clergy of the Established Church of the United Kingdom."— " The Army, and Navy."—The Lord Lieutenant of the county—Lord Somers"—and were received with rap turous and prolonged applause. Viscount Hereford then, in a short, and appropriate speech, proposed " The health of their President."— (Great Cheering). Sir E. S. Stanhope said that he must, indeed, be in sensible if he did not feel deeply gratified at the compli mentary manner in which they had received the toast proposed by his noble friend; but he would merely say, regarding himself, that, from the first moment lie had put his foot in Hereford till now, in no one public act of his had he been actuated by private or interested motives. (Cheers.) He had from the period of his connection with the county devoted himself to uphold those princi ples which he had from his infancy professed. (Cheers.) He was aware that every man who took any part in public affairs had enemies, and that he had been set down as a party man, upon whose bigotted opinion no dependence could be placed, because lie had been the uncompromising advocate of the Constitution in Church and State; and, as long as he lived, so long might they depend on it that his services would be devoted to the glorious cause. (Loud cheers.) He was told that lie had needlessly agitated both the city and county. As regarded the county, let them look around the meeting, and say if he had agitated in vain ? (Loud and enthusi astic cheers.) They had been told that they could not possibly get up a conservative dinner, or muster 300 conservatives in the county. 'Why, in that room alone there were many more than 300 persons, and they would have had more than 300 more present if they could have accommodated them; and yet they were told that Here ford was a radical county—(" No, no," and cheers.) — Why there were men enough within that building alone who could afford a practical demonstration to the contrary, and a triumphant one too, at the next election ; for if each brought with him but one friend as determined to uphold the constitution as he himself is, the thing is done. (Loud cheers.) He had said at the commence ment of the proceeding that they had met for the grati fication of no local party politics. No; disclaimed such a purpose. What they wanted was that every Englishman should use and exert his influence, his vote, and his voice, so that they would be beneficial in sup porting the Constitution in Church and State. (Loud cheers.) He knew that there was present in the Hall a vast number of the yeomanry, the :freeholders of the county. There was also present a number of freemen of the city, and a host of gentlemen of rank and influ ence in the neighbourhood; and he now called on them not to wait till the next election arrived as the period when their exertions were to commence. Now the pre sent moment was the period when they should commence with vigour that should be continued as strenuously as though the safety of the whole empire depended on it. They had met to show the power and strength they nos- ; messed to maintain the great cause which they had adopted and he had received letters from several noblemen and gentlemen, stating that nothing save circumstances of an imperative nature could have prevented their being present ; amongst them were Lords Ashburton, Hotham, and Muncaster ;—(clieers)—and he would just allude to that which he had received from Lord Hotham, to show the rapidity with which conservatism was spreading through the country. His lordship mentioned that he was about to leave for the purpose of presiding at a con servative dinner in Yorkshire, where he expected 600 persons to be present. Now, the fact turned out, that instead of 600, there were 860 persons present, and more than 200 had been turned away for want of room. (Loud cheers.) Now it was said that it was impossible that we could make any thing like a respectable muster in Here fordshire ; but how had this been realized ? If they had thought that so many had been unable to procure admis sion as there were, they would have built a tent ; they ' would have dined in the open air rather than lose the presence of so many who had been unable to procure ad mission. The hon. baronet concluded by thanking them for the compliment they had paid him. Sir John Cotterel then, having eulogised the parlia mentary conduct of Edward T. Foley, Esq., the conserva tive member for Herefordshire, who had stood forward in support of the church and the king by every vote he gave, proposed the health of that hon. gentleman. Mr. Foley, in returning thanks, observed that it was always his sincere desire to perform his duty satisfac torily to his constituents and the country; and he was happy to congratulate them upon the fact that, from the opinions manifested by that numerous assembly, the prin. clples of conservatism were the principles of the connty. (Loud applause.) He was, indeed,, gratified, to find principles congenial with his own entertained by so many respected friends, and he would observe that it was only by upholding those principles they could secure the itF. stitntions of the country from the attacks made upon theta under the mask of reform. (Loud cheers.) He sincerely thanked them for the honour they had conferred on him. (Applause.) The meeting was afterwards addressed by the follow ing gentlemen:—the Rev. Mr. Matthews, Earl Somers, Harley Rodney, E sq ., Mr. Barnabv, M.P., Sir J. Cot terel, H. Burr, Es q., and Mr. L. 'Charlton, M.P. We p o s a e ov Several rtal other e e l r o t e o u: s n ts t a w n e d r e s p t ihrei then - s p t i r r o r p i n o g s e s d p a e n e c d l i s e p s e . regret that our limits will no t perm it us t o give a f u ll re - Mies made, and the meeting then separated. Such was the result of the first conservative dinner of Herefordshire. It will be a severe lesson to th e whig and the only cause f or regret i s,. manageme n t h a d not antici p ated t r i a l t i ca t l h s e o m h a m t i c t o t e u e n t o y f ; such a rally round the cause of the constitution. Had there been a temporary building erected, more than one thousand persons would have dined together to-day; a s it was the display of character, numbers, and loyalty, was in the highest degree gratifying; and we are aware that at three o'clock as much as live guineas was offered for a ticket in vain. LUCIEN BONAPARTE'S OPINION OF THE ENGLISH CONSTIIUTION. really constitutional, is requisite for a greatf But, in England. I have been convinced thhy, that l a e., m a o s na tn rc u h a and more, perhaps, than any other form ov, see here (if not the best) at least a good andgpobvenprpnpmvernetp.nbNliVee not in a programme, but in facts and manners ; The legis lative power, wisely divided amongst t hree authorities, who exercise, without obstacle, their own prerogatives executive power, having all the authority to do good, and not having, and not seeking, to do evil ;—t he judicatory power is so completely independent, that the most obscure individual, as well as the richest lord, the most illustrious or the most humble exile of the continent, repose equally in security, beneath the guarantee of the jury that no sacreligious attack can tarnish, and beneath the inviolability of the domicile that no wretch can violate;—the elective chamber, named by eight hundred thou sand electors: the chamber of peers, in fine, is accessible to every citizen, and too powerful and too enlightened to yieid to the seductions of courts, or the clamours of the multitude. These hereditary magistrates have been for above a century and a half the defenders of the charter, the immortal work of their ancestors. Their tutelary supremacy wilt long continue to be the palladium of the British liberties: provided they never cease to oppose an immoveable resistance to the overflowing torrent of demagogical opinions, that a social overthrow can alone satisfy; provided they do not abandon their ground, to defend them selves feebly against that of their adversaries; —provided they follow always the h i g h state of reason, whic judges in the first place of the effect of a new law upon the whole of the constitution, instead of considering solely that absolute perfec tion of theory, illusory enough, of is . sometimes, to thetooiiisi seductivenuateiiito the political mortalg amelioration ; — prov id e d, . a b ove a l! appearanceo f body, aa be not drag ge d th roug h th e mu d , that the patrician toga or at least that it insp ire no lon g e r the same veneration that iv felt for the royal mantle, or the elective house; for • (whether through error, thoug htlessne s s, or a false popularity , ) to provoke, to contribute , o r even to y iel d , to the profanation; to the subjection of one of the three funda mental authorities, would no longer be advancing in the p at h of a sage reform. salutary Would it not he abjuring old England, and demolishing at its base that chartei as yet without a rival the ancient world, and whose vital strength resides in the equal independence, the equal respectability . . the equal inviulabllitV of the king, the lords, and commons !—.3l:en,wii. , of Lucien goolaporte, Prince of Caniun. THE lIONICEPATHIC SYSTEM OF MEDICINE. We copy the following humorous, but, we believe, accurate description of the doctrines and practice of this new school of medicine, from our able contemporary, the Manchester Courier: "To build up an universal system of medicine upon a simple proposition : to make it plain to the patient by what means and in what manner his cure may be effected ; to change the vague and obscure terms of art into a catalogue of distinct and intelli ble symptoms; and, last, not least, to convert the odious opera tion of taking physic into the.simple and not inelegant diversion of swallowing a few tiny pellets of tinctured sugar—to the utter extinction of all draughts, pills, and boluses, and extreme dis grace and discomfort of apothecaries—these ate the dashing in novations on the therapeutic art essayed by Dr. Hahnemann; and this is the character of that doctrine of Honteppathic, which, for the last twenty . years, has caused no little sensation among our Teutonic neighbours, though its very name has as yet scarcely penetrated into our insular regions. In this dispeptic land, where almost every work, however contemptible, upon the interesting topics of disease, diet, and digestion, obtains its hour of popularity, and where the German language and literature are now generally studied, we have found - no notice of a subject so likely, it should seem, to excite attention, except in a few slight and superficial observations by Dr. Granville, entombed amid the heavier masses of his journal. Be the doctrines of Hahnemann, therefore, true as they are pleasing, or false as they are startling by their novelty, it is time that they should be made known to the British public, - and submitted to the keen and sagacious criticism of our own medical school. The fundamental principle of Honicepathic is expressed in its name. It is, according to Dr. Granville, " the art of heal ing founded on resemblances;" or, more plainly, it seeks to es t4lish as an universal truth the preposition, that every disease incurable by such medicines as would produce i❑ a healthy per son symptoms similar to those which characterise the given disease. Opposed, then, to the ancient dogma of the palliative method contraria contrariig, the " observation, reflection, and expe rience" of Elahnemann have led him to pronounce the oracular decree, similia similibus curantur, that is, let one nail drive out another; or, in the language of the poet,— " Tut ! man, one fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish ; Turn giddy, and be help by backward turning ; One desperate grief cures With another's languish Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old wilt die!' Lines which plainly evince that Shakspeare, who was so many things without suspecting it, was, among the rest, a Homce path ist ! It is upon the foregoing propositioni, true or false, that Hahnemann grounds his division of the healing art into three branches. .First stands the Hotnospathic, the " only proper method," imitating nature in her most scientific mood; then the idiopathic or hutropathic, hitherto the commonest method, which hopes to cure disease by exciting dissimilar affection; listly, the antipathetic or enantiopathetic, (the pulliutice , ) which meets a disorder in the teeth, opposes contrary to contrary, gives for a season a seeming relief, but ends by making matters worse. It is a proof of Hahu-nemann's celebrity that he has made these learned appellations current over great part of the continent. There, the dispensers of health and longevity are now Hmucepaths or Allopaths. Out of the main theorem of Hoincepathie proceeds two corol laries, which have excited as much discussion as the great prin ciple itself. The fist is, that disease is nothing but an aggre gate of symptoms; and that therefore, in the treatment of dis ease, the physician's sole business is to extinguish the symptoms, since this will necessarily infer the extinction of their cause. It is true that ce“ante ("aura tollitur ePctus, but the reverse of this adage is held by Hahnemann to be equally true. He and his disciples,-though skilled in the facts of pathology, reject the customary names, whether popular or scientific; they profess to know nutniug about _ _ All feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, but only about the component pains and debilities which these and all other varieties of sickness are made up. A genuine hoineepath does not ask you whether you have a fever, or a cold, or a fit of gout or of rheumatism; but he makes curious in quiries as to the state of your skin, your head, your joints, or your principal toe. Nay, he does not understand what you mean by a head-ache, or ear-ache, or stomach-ache; but he must learn in what part of the head, in which of the ears, in what corner of the stomach uneasiness prevails; and whether it be a throbbing or a boring pain, a gnawing, or a pricking, a rending, or a griping paiu. For, since by symptoms alone his practice is guided, he must have at least full cognizance of these, pursuing them through all the categories of how, where, where, and, with an inquisitive minuteness that defies the com petition of common inediciners. Two closely-printed pages of the organon dictate the heads under which these inquiries ought to be conducted, and still leave an undefined 4 - c. to be filled up by the sagacity of the practitioner. The second corollary from the great homeopathic principle is attained through something like the former process of ratiocina tion. Since, in the treatment of a disease medicines calculated to produce similar effects are alone to be used, these medicines will have to work upon au organization already predisposed to be affected by them; and the power of medicine being at any rate more energetic than that of natural sickness, a very small quantity of medicine must be adequate to act upon an organiza tion thus prepared. The slightest aggravation of the disease by medical means will constitute an artificial malady powerful enough to controul and suppress the natural one; and the more slight this artificial malady. the more easily will it, in its turn, give way to the vital principle. The necessity of small doses is thus plausibly deducted ; but the practical shape which this con clusion takes is the most startling part of the whole Hahnemau nic system, and that which will assuredly give the rudest shock to the reader's credulity. Proceeding step by step in his reduc tions, Dr. Halineman has at length brought down his doses to an exiguity unheard of, and seemingly incredible. The mil lionth' part of a grain of many substances is an ordinary dose; but the reduction proceeds to the billionth, trillionth, nay to the decillionth portion of a grain ! By describing the mode of pre paration, we shall give a clearer idea of these marvellous pres criptions. Supposing the medicineto belong to the mineral kingdom, one grain of it, it possible in a pulverized, form, is mixed with 99 grains of sugar of milk, by rubbing them toge ther in a 'glass or stone mortar for the space of an hour. Of this mixture one grain is, in like manner, taken and compounded by another rubbing of an hour's duration, with 99 grains of sugar of milk, so that each grain of this second composition only con tains one ten-thousandth part of the original grain of medicine. A third tituration will bring the proportion down to one mil lionth, a sixth to one billionth, and a ninth to one trillionth part, and so on, if it be expedient to carry the reduction farther. In the preparation of mercury, one grain of pure running quick silver is reduced in this manner to the millionth degree; a sin gle grain of the powder thus obtained is then dissolved in 99 drops ofdiluted spirits of wine; one drop of this solution is again shaken together with 99 drops of the vinous spirit, and another repetition of this process having reduced the mixture to the bil lionth degree, a few sugar pellets, of the size of poppy-seeds, are moistened with this liquid, whereof two or three constitute a dose ! In expressing medicine from a plant, one drop of the extracted juice is mixed and reduced in the same manner with repeated quantities of the spirits of wine, until the proper degree of at tenuation is achieved. For administering all kinds of homeo pathic medicine, the sugar pellets are the favourite medium. A more agreeable mode of physicing was certainly never devised; nor one more sure to relieve the specific drug, suitable for a given case, from the admixture of heterogeneous elements. But the deglutition of even these miute particles is not esteemed al ways necessary; in the use of the loadstone, it is by touch alone that the medicinal effect is sought to be produced. In more than one instance Dr. Hahneinann prescribes merely to smell the phial in which the pellets are inclosed ; nay, by some hints that he drops here and there, he seems to believe that certain drugs may be taken as adepts read music, at sight ! Though we should abstract from this doctrine of infinitesimal doses the last-mentioned excess or its extravagance, there would still remain enough, in all conscience, to dilate the eyes of the greediest lovers of the wonderful. It is against this part of his system that Dr. Flahnemann's opponents have directed the thickest shafts of their ridicule, as well as of their more serious arguments. Thus the facetious Ludwig Wilhelm Sachs, a professor in the University of Konigsburg, seeks to demon strate the nullity of the small doses, by comparing them with a flea set to draw the load of four horses; though to this "base comparison" it might well be answered by a Homcepath, that the flea which should bear an analogy to his thrice-pounded and well-shaken preparation, could be no common flea; and that, if it were so, the weight removeable by such an agent could be no proper loSrthen for a team. Another ingenious ad versary suggests, that if the decillionth part of a grain have any efficacy, an ounce of medicine thrown into the Lake of Geneva would 'tie sufficient to physic all the Calvanists of Switzerland. But to this it has been thought worth while gravely to reply, first, that there is no real analogy between the terms of this fanciful proportion; and secondly, that the body of liquid contained iu the lake of Geneva could not possibly, even by one of its own violent storms, be shaken into such perfect com mixture with the medicinal ingredient as the conditions of a Homcepathic prescription require. Further, the self-contra dictions of Huhnemann under this head are arrayed by Dr. Sachs against him. It seems, that in 1797, Dr. Hahnemann talked and wrote of the marvellous effects of ignatia amara in an epidemic fever among children, when he gave from one-half to two-thirds of a grain to infants between one and three years of age, and from two to three grains to children between seven and ten years, repeating his doses every twelve hours; now a trillionth, a quadrillionth, or even a smaller portion of a grain, is deemed by him a sufficient dose; so that the inhabitants of a whole solar system might be cured with what he formerly gave to a suckling. So. in cases of influenza, the ILthneniann of former days was wont to administer from thirty to forty grains of camphor every twenty-four hours, and did nut fail of curing once in a hundred instances; whereas, according to his pre sent practice, a new universe would need to be created for the consumption of such a dose." Such is the system of Homcepathic, of which Madame Malihran's physician is a disciple. Can any one wonder that she did not recover? CALAMITOUS FIRE AT QUEBEC. --- By the arrival of the snip ',Samuel, in 2.3 days from Quebec, we have received the particulars of a most destructive fire which occurred at Quebec on the Pith of September. This day at noon a fire broke out in the upper part of the store in the Queen's Wharf, occupied by llr. Vass, which speedily communicated to the stores of Mr. Buteau, and the lauding warehouse near the Cul-de-Sac, and to the dwelling houses in front. The fire is now (three o'clock) still raging, and has extended in the direction of St. Peter's-street' as far as the house of Mr. Marrett, and along Roue Sons le Fort to Mr. in;; fl o ,a, hd ki e s isi n ai e si. w er r ,chnacillnrsiie, carried de and ct the east, at .a;a interior c f cef n dc; there is notohesLit ying how far it may extend. The house at the corner of, St. Peter-street, and Rue Sous lc Fort has also taken fire, and a house in Chaplin -street was set on fire b y the burning shingles, hut, from the inhabitants being on the alert, the fire has been extinguished without doing Lunch mischief. The flakes were carried completely over the town, and fell thickly on the esplanade. The tide was unfortunately out when the fire commenced, ' and six large schooners which were aground in the Cul-del-Sae h ave b e er. consumed, with their cargoes. The white town is in confusion, and the streets thronged with carts removing property and goods. No estimate can be formed of the amount of .property con sumed, but the stores of Messrs. Masson, Strang, Langevin, and Co., and the other stores on the wharfs, are said to have been full of goods. So awful a lire was never before known in h e flamesnot have extend beyond o i me o t their abated,p prese n t t i it h Quebec. H a lf-past Fonr.—T The risks taken up on the several properties th e Quebec Fire Insurance Comp an Y amount to £15,191, viz. £6,500 en limits. . that the rav a g es w buildino, and ES 695 on merchandise. Six o'clock.—The flames are now effectually snlidued, and we are happy in being able to announce that the Catholic Church, although several times on fire, has sustAined little. damage. From the central situation of tbis edifice, had the fire flu ()ugh the whsle of the market-sqoare.— taken effect upon it the dreadful element would, i n a ll proba bility, have spread Sionda77l. FIRE AT LONDON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. Shortly after five o'clock yesterday morning the private watch man on duty at the London University, Gower -street, was alarmed by discovering that a fire had broken out at the east end of the boys' school situated immediately behind the centre of the main line of building. As soon as be gave the alarm, mes sengers were despatched to the nearest fire-stations, but no en gines arrived until near six, by which time the whole school was one body of flame. With the least possible delay the engines were then brought into play, and were worked with great effect. A number of the firemen were stationed in the vestibule imme diately under the dome, to prevent the flames con.municating with this part of the building, from which the school was sepa rated only by a wooden partition. All the exertions of the fire men were now brought to bear upon the east end of the school house, merely to prevent the fire spreading. Ail hope of saving the school itself had been lost from the first discovery, so great an ascendancy had the fire gained before any thing was known of its existence. The building consisted of nine rooms—four under ground, four class rooms on the basement story, and one large school room on the first floor. There was a great deal of timber in the building. The four class rooms were divided off from each other by wooden partitions, and they also containA a number of raised seats or benches, which all helped to feed the flames. The fire is believed to have originated in one of the hot air stoves used to warm the different rooms of the school. Had the vestibule above mentioned once taken fire, it is more than probable that the whole of the extensive building, north and south, would have fallen a sacrifice, as one of the unfinished wings contains a quantity of shavings and timber. The greatest anxiety was experienced by every one connnected with the Uni versity for the safety of the library and museum, which have both fortunately escaped untouched. Indeed the destruction is altogether confined to the school house; nothing else is even damaged, and no property was burnt there beyond a few school books belonging to the boys.—Morieinq Herald. PRECAUTIONS IN CASE OF FIRE IN HOUSES. 1. Should a fire break out, send off to the nearest engine or police station. 2. Fill buckets with water, carry them as near the fire as possible, dip a mop into the water, and throw it in showers on the fire until assistance art ices. 3. If a fire is violent, wet a blanket, and throw it on the part in flames. 4. Should a fire break out in the kitchen chimney, or any other, a blanket wetted should be nailed 10 the upper ends of the mantel-piece, so as to cover the opening entirely, the fire will then go out of izself; for this pm pose, two knobs .should be permanently fixed in the upper ends of the mantelpiece, upuu which the blanket may be hitched. 5. Should the bed or window curtains be on fire, lay hold of any woollen garment, and beat it on the flames until extin guished. 6. Avoid as much as possible leaving any door or window open in the room where the fire has broken out, as the current of air increases the force of the firs . .7. Should the staircase be burning so as to cut off all com munication, endeavour to escape by means of a trap-door in the roof, a ladder leading to which should always be at hand. 8. Avoid hurry and confusion; no person, except a fire policeman. friend, or neighbour, should be admitted. 9. In case a lady's dress takes fire ' she should endeavour to roll herself in a rug, carpet, or the first woollen garment she meets with. 10. It is a good precaution to have always at hand a large piece of baize, to throw over a female whose dress is burning, or to be wetted and thrown on a fire that has recently broken out. 11. A solution of pearl ash in water thrown upon a fire, extinguishes it instantly; the proportion is a quarter of a pound dissolved in souse but water, and then poured into a bucket of common water. 12. It is recommended to householders to have two or three fire buckets and a carriage mop with a long handle near at hand; they will be found essentially useful in case of fire. 13. All householders, but particularly hotel, tavern, and inn keepers, would exercise a wise precaution by directing that the last person up should perambulate the premises previous to going to rest, to ascertain that all fires are safe and lights ex tinguished. N.B. Householders are respectfully enjoined to direct that the foregoing instructions be affixed in a conspicuous part of the kitchens, that they may be seen by the servants. LORD MULGRAVE We extract the following from the first number of the Dublin Standard. We hail this new conservative journal with delight. It promises to prove a valuable coadjutor. " Lord Mulgrave may Le an amiable man in private life, he may possess genius and talent, but their displays are fictitious, not real—our children will not find their record in the benefits which Ireland will derive from his government. His address and manners may be elegant and pleasing, but the Protestants of Ireland are not to be smiled and bowed out of their liberties and rights. The turnkey of Newgate may adjust a pair of fetters with great tact and delicacy, but still the fetters when on will not be less felt, and he would be a fool who should suffer the manacles to be rivetted on him as a mere experiment how better he could walk. We should, probably, be delighted with Lord Mulg;rave if we knew him in any character but that of King's Lieutenant. Harmless follies may be laughed at; mis chievous follies should be restrained. "To those who habitually respect the laws, it is painful to speak slightingly of the authorities placed high in the ministra tion of them. To do so, unaffectedly pains us; but, when great public interests are at issue, compliment should give way to duty, and things should be described as they are, in the stern ness of truth. " Lord Mulgrave is a vain man, and his vanity that is within public observation is of the meanest description—it is the vanity of being thought a handsome man.; that such is the case, the pains he takes and the artifices he resorts to, for personal deco ration and exterior effect, prove the premises. A great mind cannot descend to the fashion of a shoe-tie, and its aspirations take a higher flight than the adjustment of an elf or love-lock. A man occupied by such cares is either too young or too old to govern a country—he is unfit to govern at all. Lord Palmer ston is a coxcomb whose age we all know, despite of his curls and his rouge; but our foreign and home policy alike show that it is not Narcissus, young or old, that we want, but statesmen— " Men in whose rule we fully may confide; Not him who with peculiar grace can ride, Or lady ogle, smile upon the rabble, Dance the giddy waltz, or small-talk gabble; Court admiration as he walks the streets, Bowing to every vagabond he meets; And, lest his lures fur want of practice fail, E'en seeks his quarry in the common jail; All kinds of villains letting loose agen, To take the lives and goods of honest men, And in our courts, as in the senate, see The rampart reign of popish perjury.' " A MAIDEN SPEECH. At some radical meeting in Roscommon (and heaven knows it is not worth inquiring what it was about) the Lord Dillon is reported to have concluded an eloquent harangue in the follow ing bashful terms:— " I will give you a pledge—l will promise to maintain the rights of Irishmen. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, this is my maiden speech —my first entrance into public life ; lam like the modest virgin, blushing at the hymeneal altar. I feel that lam stand ing on the altar of my country, and about to register sacred vows (Hear, and cheers.) 1 may say, lam but just yoked." Bless us all!—was this spoken by Lord Dillon ? It must be some " error of the press;" and, therefore, courteous reader, male and female, read, (nostro periculo,) for Lord Dillon—Lady Dillon. This very " easy change"—as the grammarians say--renders the whole passage consistent and intelligible—save where her ladyship promises to "maintain the rights of Irishmen"—read here again, on our authority, Irislvonzen. Now, we see plainly why her ladyship, who has but just been "yoked," and come from " registering her sacred vows at the - hymeneal altar"— " blushes so modestly and virgin like" on her " first entrance into public." We can now perceive h,w, as this is the first maiden speech of the speaker, it is likely to be the last—and that Mr. Joseph Myles Wllonnell should say—" Now that we have you, we shall take care, my lady, to keep you in harness;" and after the loud cheers with which this good joke was re ceived, her ladyship should continue—" You shall find that I will remain in harness. I am anxious to be employed in the service of my country. (Loud cheers.) I am, and I avow it with pleasure, a reformer, and, please Gud, I shall die one. — (Great cheering." We wish Lord Dillon joy of his bargain —she his " a strapper, by St. Anthony !" Where does this happy couple spend the honeymoon ? Dublin Evening Mail. FEMALE FASHIONS FOR OCTOBER. EVENING DRESS.—Of clear muslin, with bands of green vel vet, the bottom of the dress worked between the bands of velvet with gree n lamb's wool; the hair dressed low, with a wreath of green Rowers. WALKING DRESS.—Of pale lilac organdie, with double frills of organdie, worked at the edges; collerette of French caltbrie; bonnet of partite d'ltaiie, trimmed with black velvet and corn flowers. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.—Some autumnal mantles have already appeared. and seems likely to become fashionable. They are indeed well calculated fur the season. Some are of cashmere, lined with white satin; others of black taffetas, lined with coloured satin; but as neither are wadded, they are suffi ciently light to be comfortable, wit hoot bei n g oppressive. Those of the first kind have drab grounds, with rich cherry-coloured 'detached patterns. The round of the mantles and the deep pe lerine are edged with cherry-coloured velvet. The collar, which descends in the lappet style, is also of velvet, and the pelerine open and looped on the shoulder displays a large sleeve. Some half-dress materials have already appeared both in mousselines:de laine.and in the mixture of silk and cashmere wool. Where velvet is employed in the trinitning of a dress, it always makes part of the ornaments of the coiffure. It has also, in a great degree, replaced ne,l:chains. The prettiest of that kind is a very narrow velvet ribband, either black, violet, or ponceau, vibieh encircling the throat, forms a knot of four t oques in front, in the centre of which is placed an ornamental agraffe, a pin, or any other fancy bijou. If the fair wearer wishes to add a cross or a Jeanette, she attaches a second velvet under the knot, and it falls as low as the centre of the bosom. Fashionable colours are cherry-red, emerald, and Pomona green, ecru, straw, and several shades of lavender, rose, and blue. • PUBLIC OPINION.—Yes, opinion will .cork its way, however latently or insidiously. It is amusing to sit on a beach, and watch to e flux of the ocean. You put your Cie or your finger on the last mark of the encroaching element—it rises again, and passes its former limits; you feel no force in the water—it would not rub a chalk mark off your shoe;, yet notwithstanding it would overwhelm you if Yon did not make way for it, and is, perhaps, while you are composedly contemplating it, silently undermining and removing the very ground on which you stand. Such is publi c o pi n i on — suc h i ts growth—such i ts effects. W ihe ther t be in politics, in morals, Or in religion, opinion is a tide; oppontion but renders it turbulent, and diverts its course—it still flows on despite of all impediments.—Town and Country .11agazine. EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH. _The wife of Mr. James M'Clel land, 6, Suffolk-street, has been safely delivered of three chil dren, two girls and a boy. Their respective sizes and weights have been accurately taken by the medical attendant. All are living.. weight. Length. Circumference of head. i s t_Qins. 181- inches. 131 inches. 2d —s4lbs. 175 inch s. 13_ inches. 3d —s4 . lbs. Itii inches. 121 in hes. From ear to ear, in a vertical direction, 81 inches; circumfer ence of chest, 114 inches ; f rom posterior pit. of head to lower part of forehead, 94 niches; difference between upper and lower limbs A inch, the latter 9 inches; there is scarcely any differ ence in the respective measurements of the latter two. Only four instances of the kind have occurred it) the Britain-street Lying-in Hospital during a period ni seven vest rs, commencing November, 182 ti, although 16,651 births have taken place in that institution 'luring that time.— Me Enni,kiPea. THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK AND MRS. GRAHAM. Captain Currie has authorised the publication of the following statement : TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. " Stß,—Having read iu your newspaper of the 30th of last month a statement, signed by Mts. Graham, concerning her ascent with the Duke of Brunswick on the 2'2.1 of August last, I think it but justice to his Serene Higness to make public the following remarks thereon. Mrs. Graham asserts that she has not received from the Duke of Brunswick anything more than the sum agreed upon by his Serene Higness for the ascent. Now, the fact is, there was no stipulated sum agreed' upon. The duke asked me what I usually gave, when I told him EIU or guineas, and the costs of posting to town, which made it about £l2, with which I said I was convinced Mrs. Graham would feel satisfied, as I had not heard that any more had been given by any of the persons who had accompanied her on her previous ascents. After the accident, his Serene Highness having expressed to toe his desire to present to Mrs. Graham more than the sum before-mentioticd, and haying requested my advice on the. subject, • I said I thought double the usual amount would be sufficient, but His Highness most generously (after I had expressed that opinion) sent Mr. Graham £SU, which amount was mentioned in all the papers of the day, and considered by all persons with whom I have conversed on the subject as very liberal. Judging from the above error of Mrs. Graham, I think there can be uo doubt of the veracity of His Serene Highness's statement as to having been thrown out, in stead of having quietly stepped out of the car (as asserted by her,) at the• moment of the descent, especially when it is re membered that Mrs. Graham found it necessary to catch hold of the hoop to lessen the violence of the shock. Any one at all conversant with aerostation must be aware that it is impossible to step out quietly, when descendine. with such rapidity as de scribed by Mts. Graham herself, unless the car was secured by the grapnel. - Those persons who witnessed ,he accident, even from a distance, his highness assures me, felt convinced he must have been considerably injured from the height they saw him fall, and. wished him to have medical advice, and be bled, to avoid the consequences of the shock. His Serene Highness in my opinion did everything that could reasonably be expected from him, haying waited with the unfortunate lady for upwarus of fon: hours, and ever since expressed to me his regret fur the accident, and for her situation. "Before I conclude, I will just notice one very foolish account given by Mr. Graham, a day or two after the accident, and to which he signed his name, saying that the duke stepped safely out of the car, &c., and that Mrs. Wilson, his wife's sister, in Poland -street, could corroborate what he had stated, both being at the time miles from the spot where the accident occurred, and Mrs. Graham being at the time incapable of speaking. " Common justice to the Duke of Brunswick has induced me to trouble you with this letter.—l am, sir, your most obedient servant, " R. W. CURRIE. " Isle of Wight, Oct. 3, 1836." *** If we remember, Mr. Amor has been repeatedly referred to as having stated that be saw the Duke of Brunswick.step out of the car. Mr. Alain will probably now think it necessary to state exactly what he saw. DUKE OF BRUNSWICK AND MRS. GRAHAM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Sta,—Having just now perused the statement of Captain Currie in the columns of your journal, I am compelled, although only partially restored to sight at preseut, to take up my pen, requesting you will have the goodness to insert what I now state in your respectable journal. It is true I last week wrote an account.of the dreadful accident under which I am labouring, and when the newspapers containing the seine, with my signa ture attached, were brought and read to me, I regretted to seve ral individuals that my own expressions were so mutilated, at the same time conceiving that on account of my sight, perhaps, what I really wrote may have been almost unintelligible. Now, sir, instead of writing that I saw the Duke of Brunswick step out of the car safely on terra firma without the slightest inconveni ence, 1 wrote—' Immediately after the concussion to the earth, I was suddenly elevated' in, the air, and saw his highness stand ing on the field." With regard to the height which I fell, I was told that several men, who were'close to the spot, first thought that an individual in the car had dropped a handkerchief, then thought it a little girl, and, as I fell lower, discovered it was a woman. I also on the day on which I was brought home from Converse Farm (last Tuesday week) was helped to the window of the farm to look at the large balloon belonging to Messrs. Gye and Hughes, which passed over Doddinghurst, and dis tinctly heard Mr. Muir and his men exclaim—" It is the very height Mts. Graham was when she fell from her car." With regard to his Highness the Duke of Brunswick, I have, since my return to town, gratefully mentioned the solicitude of his Highness while standing over me at Converse Farm on the evening of the accident for nearly four hours, as, since my re turn to reason, has been related to me by a lady, who was alto present at the time. Another mistake in the account I gave which surprised the is, that I have a slight recollection of my fall to the earth, whereas, sir, I distinctly stated, that after feel ing myself falling on one side, after I fell from the car, I re member nothing until after my restoration. With regard to the inflation of my clothes with atmospheric air, as I am con tradicted, all I can do is to refer to those individuals who actu ally saw the fact to which I allude, which circumstance, together with the subsequent loss of my infant in embryo, my medical attendants affirm, was the only means of saving thy life. With respect to holding the loop, 1 have only to refer to a great num ber of gentlemen, even Captain Currie himself, ( who first ascended with Mr. Graham eleven years ago,) whether it is not almost always observed in descending when you have not a safety bag (which was first thought of by my h us b an d). How ever, as human nature is by no means infallible, I had better refer to other aeronauts, who have met with' equally disastrous accidents as myself; but on this occasion his serene Highness, I am happy to find, was exempt from the sufferings to which a gentleman was subjected who accompanied a present celebrated aeronaut in an aerial excursion, and which gentleman is now living. They were both confined for a long time, but I pray sincerely I may be the last of the profession who may be so un fortunate. I have to add, that I beg to inform Captain Currie he is quite mistaken in imagining that every person I have had the honour of conducting through the "realms of air" has ac companied me for the sum of ten pounds; and although I am compelled to notice his address on the subject, still I have the . utmost respect for him as a gentleman. Entreating, if you can make out this apparently unintelligible scrawl of a person partly deprived of sight, you will insert it in your valuable co lumns.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, October 6. M. GRAHAM. P.S.—One mistake which appeared in the papers in her name Mrs. Graham will also thank to be corrected. The altitude attained by the duke and Mrs. Graham did not quite reach three miles, whereas she is made in the papers to have men tioned four miles. THE LIONS OF SOUTH AFRICA In South Africa are found the largest and the smallest of the animated kingdom. Among the beasts are the elephant, weigh ing 4,0001b5., and the black-streaked mouse, only the fourth part of an ounce! The cainelopardalis or giraffe 19 feet high, and the elegant zhuik or viverra of three inches; and among the feathered tribes, the ostrich, six feet high, and the creeper, about the size of a cherry. The lions inhabiting the Bushmen's country are said to be remarkably fierce, and it is generally credited, that though at first averse to attack man, yet when once they have tasted hu man flesh, they loose that awe of him which they usually evince, unless when extremely hungry—indeed, it is asserted when a lion has once succeeded in carrying off some unhappy wretch, he will return regularly every night in search of another; and there are instances where the native tribes have been so dread fully harassed as to be forced at times to desert their station, and seek another settlement. It is also a singular fact that he prefers black men to whites. Several curious instances have been narrated of the unwil lingness of the lion to attack wan: the following will suffice, and at the same time demonstrate the courage of the Cape Dutchmen. Diederick Muller, one of the most intrepid lion hunters in South Africa, (he and his brother Christian having killed up wards of thirty) was once hunting alone in the wilds, when he came suddenly on a lion, who, instead of giving way, as they generally do, seemed disposed to dispute with him the dominion of the desert. Diederick alighted, and when at 15 yards dis tance took aim at his forehead, the lion being then couched and in the act of sprin g i ng; t h e moment the hunter fired, his af frighted horse started back, and the bridle being round his arm caused him to miss. The lion hounded forward, and at a few paces dit!tafice confronted the hunter , who stood defenceless, hi s gun having been di sc h arge d and his 'horse fled. The man and the beast stared at each other with fixed eyes fora few moments, at length th e l atter s l ow l y d rew b ac k wards, whilst D iederick began t o l oa d hi s gun • at this movement th e lion growled, l oo k e d over his should er ' and returned. Diede rick stood still; the lion again sneaked back, when the boor proceeded to rain down his bullet, on which the lion again re turned growling angrily. At len g th when he had increased his distance to-20 yards, he suddenlyturned round, and fairly took to his heels. There can be no doubt that the resolution of Die. derick saved his life, for had he exhibited the least sign of fear, or given way one i nc h, t h e savage beast woul d have sprung ' upon him instantly. The encounter of Gert S c h epers, a V ee B oor o f t h e Cradock district, with a lion had h owever a less firfunate result. Gert was out hunting in company with a neighbour, and coming to a fountain surrounded with tall reeds, he handed his gun to his comrade whilst he proceeded to search for water. He no sooner approached the spring tha n an enormous li on, sprang close at his side and seized him by the left arm. The man thus taken by surprise' aware that the least motion would insure his instant destruction, stood st oc k st ill an d fi xe d hi s e y es on t h ose of the lion, who unable to with s t an d t h e ga ze of his v i c ti m, c l ose d hi s own, still holding him fast with his fangs but without biting him severely.. As they stoo d i n t hi s pos iti on f or some moments, G . est beckoned t o hi s cominal i on to approac h an d s h oot the lion in the forehead w hi c h h e m i g h t h ave eas il y d one, as the ani mal still kept his eves fast closed, but his cowardly comrade re treated to the top Of a neighbouring rock. Had Gert remained quiet for a few moments, the hunters af firm that the lion would have released his hold and left him un injured, but he lost patience, and seeing himself abandoned, drew his knife, and with his whole force plunged it in the ani mal's breast. The thrust was a deadly one, but the enraged beast now strove to grapple with him; the hunter who was a powerful man, used his utmost efforts to keep him at arms length, but the beast in his dying agonies so dreadfully lacerated his breast and arms as to lay the bones bare. At length they fell together, and his cowardly companion, who had witne s sed the earful struggle, took courage to advance and succeeded in careying his m a ngled friend to the nearest habitation, but he expired on the third day of locked jaw. Many authentic instances have been recorded of the affection and gratitude of which the lion is susceptible; with the brief . narration of one that was witnessed by myself, I close this ac count of the African Lion. Prince (the tone lion before men tioned) had a keeper to whom he was much attached; th e keeper got drunk one .lay. and as the captain never forgave th is crime, was ordered to be flogged; the gre ing was ragged on the main deck opposite Prini;e's den, it large barred up: place, the pillars very strong and cased with iron. When the keeper began to strip, Prince rose gloomily from his couch and got as near to his friend as possible; on beholding his hare hack he walked hastily round the den, and when he saw the boatswain inflict the first lah, his eves sparkled with fire, and his sides resounded with the strong and quick lashings of his tail; at last when th e blood began to flow from the untortunate roan's back, and the clotted cats' jerked their gory knots close to the liou's d en, his fury became tremendous, he roared with a voice of thunder, shook the strung bars of his prison as if they had been osiers, and finding his • efforts to break loose unavailing, he roiled and shrieked io a manner the most terrific that it is possible to con ceive. The Captain fearing he might break loose, ordered the marines to load and present at Prince : this threat redonoled his rage, and at last the Captain (whether from f ear or clemency I will nut say) desired the keeper to be cast off and go to his friend ;it is isapossible to describe the joy evinced I t the lion, he licked with care the mangled and bleeding back of the cruelly treated seaman—caressed him with his paws, which he folded around the man as if to defy any one renewing: a similar treat went, and it was only after several hour s th at P rince would allow the keeper to quit his piwvoion and return _luring those who bad so ill a ed hint.—Colonial iary, Cape of Good hone. DU. BELLUOMONI'S EXPLANATION OF MADAME MALIBRAN'S ILLNESS Dr. Beltuomini has sent the following letter to the Editor Of the Mai ?tiny Post:-'- " 79, Quadrant, Oct. 4, 1836; . • " Sir,—So many different statements have appeared on tb subject of the illness of Madame Malibran de Beriot, that I the have come to the determination of laying before the public facts as they really happened, in the hope that you may be rt . l; duced to give my cuininunication a place in your valuable j ourual. " At 6 o'clock p.m., on Saturday, the 17th of September last, I received a letter from M. de Beriot. in which he e xpreeee.. d thus:—'biuiself My poor dear Maria is seriously ill, and in b ed . She has. been bled, but the complaint has been only augmen t ! by it, and she is to day in a state of constant delirium. I t w not know what to do, er what will happen. I am in despair. Your presence would restore life to us both,' "Three hours after the receipt of this letter 1 entered a post; chaiie, and arrived at Manchester on the 18th, at half-pas! . p.m. The patient Was then pa r tly d e li r i ous o nly, for De loterw' remarked to me, ' See, site knows you.' She did recognize ate, in tact, and rose fruit her bed and embraced use i but she •i llv mediately sank down again. " 1 was then told of all that had taken place. Since her are rival at Manchester from 10 to 12 ounces of blood had be e ! taken front her, but on the f o llowi ng d ay, no t w ithstanding great weakness, she would go to the church and sing, but slut was totally incapable of so doing, and she was immediat el y taken home. From that time u n til t h a t o f w hich I speak nearly 24 hours, she bad been in a s t a t e o f cons t a nt fever an d fiequent delirium, accompanied by stron and incessant co n ' g vulsious, which nothing could allay, a nd which brought on fre quent vomitings. She had no sl e ep, no nour i s h m ent, and sbei took in part only the remedies prescribed for her. " After - a scrupulous and most careful examination and consv: deration I found that the viscera of the chest and abdomen ha d not been attacked with malady, and I stated it as Illy uPI that the disease was a nervous fever, uf a must dangerouslin and attended vr;th extreme weakness. " I immediately set to work to administer to the patienttbOt remedies which I thought desirable, and while I was so eugage a ' it was announced to M. de Beriot that Dr. Bardsley and M r ; Worthing,ton were in the adjoining chamb er . • What to do? said 1. Miss Novell°, who was there, answered, I will goal speak to them,' and then, turning to me, she asked, Would you wish to see them ?' Engaged as I was in adusinisterini the medicine, 1 answered, ' I will do so if they wish it; bnt_,. du not consider it necessary.' Miss N o v e ll o h a ving returned with an intimation that they wished to s p ea k t o me , 1 iustanuf went to them. Dr. Bardsley was so good as to tell the what re medies he had prescribed. I thanked him, but at the same tin° I apprised him of the fact that I considered any consultatio n between myself and them on the subject of the future treatmen t of the patient useless, a s m y s y s t em o f t reatment was that Of hoincepatliv, with which, in all probability, they were un acquainted'. 1 added, that I considered the disease to be * nervous fever, and Dr. Bardsley appeared to be of the same opinion, as be repeated three titues---' Exhaustion, great el' baustion.' " The first effect of the medicine was to allay the c oughs little, and to procure fur the patient four hours of calm else? When I saw her at about six o'clock the next morning lbe fever had considerably decreased, the cough had nearly tits' appeared, and there was no longer any delirium, except, ju deed, a musical movement which seemed constantly to recut 1(7 her mind. At nay request she took a cup of milk, refusing all other sustenance. " From this I began to conceive hopes of her recovery; but, alas ! some hours after the fever increased, the cough and of liriuin returned, and the pulse b e came a ga i n wea k.. The Wow' cines produced relief from time to time,.but the source of the die ease was continually augment e d, a nd more so as the patient positively refused to take any species of nourishment, even b'f injection. "On Thursday, the 22d, I began to lose all hope. Un t i e ! these circumstances, apprehending a miscarriage, I expresso' " wish to put myself in communication with one of the best an' couchers in the place, The name of Mr. Lewis having been mentioned to me, I requestedhim to come, wishing particulat i i to know whether he would think with me that the child vl* dead. He was of my opinion. He recommended that the Pt tient's hair should be cut off, that embrocatious o f water an d vinegar should be applied to the bead, and fomentations to the stotMch. I agreed with him, and hoped success from the ow ploytnent of these means. She bad a very bad night, and pas: for the most part insensibl e . M r . L ew i s , w h o rema i ne d with her while I retired to take an hour or two's rest, thought it do' sirable to administer certain remedies, which, however, pro duced no favourable result. On the morning of the 23d, a car' tain symptom of an approaching effort of nature having or, peared, Mr. - Lewis was sent f u r, and s h or tly a ft er a s p e cies °' labour commenced, but without any effect save that of still more weakening the patient, wh o a t a b ou t h a lf-p ast e i g ht in 11 ' e evening expired. " During the course of the illness there appeared only one slight affection of the'alimentar% organs, which entirely disar peared after the first medicine I administered. The functions of the stomach and intestines went on regularly up to the loot moment. The aversion she exhibited to taking nutritive food was but an increased symptom of that peculiarity of taste whic h is so frequent with femal es e n c i en l e . Thi s f a l se appe tite h ad existed with Madame Malibran de Beriot more than two month!' She had an aversion for meat and all nutritious things. SI disliked sugar, and everythin g th a t was swee t, an d wa s fon only of oysters, fruit, anchovies, and other slight food, and she sustained her strength "with porter and other artificial means " In the month of July she had a terrible fall from her horsel; and was dragged along the ground f o r th e s p ace o f s evers , yards. This caused a great shock of mind and body, contu sions on the head, and an imposibility of moving the left arm at the shoulder. The medicines which I administered to her hav ing a little dissipated the pains and swellings, she would sing at Drury-lane Theatre the same evening, contrary to my advice.-- a circumstance which much retarded her complete recovery. During " her last illness the pains at the shoulder, in the arm. and at the several contusions, returned. Her health had evi dently been destroyed two months before, but her great bold ness of spirit prevented her from paying attention to the advice of her husband, her medical adviser, or her friends. " Here, sir, you have the plain and simple explanation of all that passed relative to the illness of Madame Malibran de Beriot. I trust that it will be sufficient to do away with the many errors and misapprehensions that have existed. JAMeS BELLUOMINI, M.D." OBSERVATIONS ON THE REGISTER AND MARRIAGE ACTS, AS FAR AS THEY AFFECT THE CLERGY OF THE ESTADLISHMENT. The old register act, 52 Geo. 111., and the old marriage.act , 4 Geo. IV., by which the clergy are now governed, are repealed, as far as they relate to th e reg i s t er o f marr i ages, b ut no f ur ther : But, while the clergy still continue to register baptisms and burials as before, the object of the new register act is to procure a record of births and deaths; and this object it will fail to accomplish. 1. BIRTHS.—Every person is directed to give notice of the birth of his child to the registrar within six weeks: and as ther e is seldom any motive for doing it, it will of course be generally omitted. But if it is done, and the child is baptized within six, months, the clergy man mus t g i ve a cert ifi cate of the bapt i sm al name, on the payment of one shilling, in order that it may be inserted in the civil register. 2. DEATHS.—The death of every person must be announce d to the registrar within eight days, of which the clergyman wh' buries the corpse should receive a certificate. But, if no certifi cate is produced, he must report the omission to the registrar , within seven days, under a penalty of ten pounds; whether by post or otherwise is not said. 3. MARRIAGES.—Those who are not willing to have their banns published in church, or to ask for the bishop's license , may give a notice to the superintendent-registrar, who will cause it to be read, on three successive weekly meetings, before the guardians; and a certificate of this being produced to the cler gyman of the church therein named, he is to marry the parties. But, it he performs the ceremony within three weeks after th e entry of the notice, or after three mouths fro.n such entry, he iS guilty of felony. 4. REGISTER OF MARRIAGES.—Before the Ist of Maids next, when the act begins to operate, the clergy will be furnished with new registers, in duplicate, one of which when full is to be kept in the parish chest, the other will be delivered to the su perintendent-registrar, to whom also a quarterly return must be made in April, July, October, and January. NOTE.—By Canon 62, a clergyman is liable to suspension for three years who solemnizes marriage without license or banns ; and by 4 Geo. IV. he is to be punished for so doing with trans portation for fourteen years. By the 7th Was. IV. the certificate of the registrar is made equivalent to the pubiication of banns; but those who perform the ceremony contrary to the provisions of the act are simply declared to be guilty of felony.—Leeds Inteltgencer. A SUBSTITUTE FOR SPRING GUN s.—A gun-maker of Easi ingwold, Yorkshire, has invented an alarm-lamp to replace spring-guns, which it is nu longer legal to make use of. The inventor states that the lamp may be placed against a tree or poet in a stack-yard, or in any place where property is kept, and if any one comes within its limits, it lights up and fires fifteen or twenty reports, which may be }lewd at some mites• distance. When used for preserves, it may be made to send uP a sky-rocket to show in what direction the poacher may be found. It is described as being perfectly free from danger to servants or others having the care of it, but said to be calcu lated, when it goes off, to strike terror into the breast of the' most audacious depredator. EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY PERFORMANCE.—The following extract is from the American Rail Road Journal, relating to a recent extraordinary performance of the George Washingtan , locomotive, on the inclined plane, near Schuylkill, on the Phi ladelphia and Columbia railroad. The engine started at the . foot of the plane and on the plane. After proceeding a few' feet, the wheels were found to slip, and the engine returned - It was said that the rails were found to have been oiled at this place. A small quantity of sand was strowu over the spot an d l the engine again proceeded. She regularly and s t ea dil y gai ned speed as she advanced to the very top, passing over the plan e , in two minutes and twenty-four seconds. Th e ent h us i as m 0 ," feeling manifested cannot be described. S o comp l ete a triump h' had never been attained. The doubts that had been entertaine d by some, and the fears of others, were dispelled in an instant. The eager look that settled upon every one's face, gave wax te" confident success, while all prese n t expressed their gratificatio n , in loud and repeated cheers. The length of the plane is 2, B °e feet. The grade, 369 feet to the mile, or one foot rise iu which is a much steeper grade than the planes on the Moho"' and Hudson railroad, those being 1 in 18., making an asc ent of 196 feet in 2,800 fe e t. Weight of engine with water, 14,930 114- Load drawn up the plane, including weight of tender with Wit" ter and coal, two passenger cars and 53 passengers, 31. 27 u Pressure in the boiler, less than eighty pounds to the Fear!' inch. Time of running, 2 min. 24 sec. It is td be remembereG that the rails were wet with dew. The following are the dimen sions of the Georye Washington engine of Mr. Win. Norris:T ii, Diameter of cylinders, 10 1.4 inches, length of stroke, 17 5 inches; number of tubes, 78; outside diameter, 2 inche s length, 7 feet; diameter of driving. 'm wheels, 4 feot; truck , inches; the engine is six -wheeled, having two driving whee l s ' Whole weight of engine, 14,930 lbs. Actual weight on driving wheels, 8,700 lbs. It must be remembered that there is no con trivance, as in some eng i nes , f or i ncreas i ng t h e adhesion ax leby throwing the weight of. the tender upon the engines. t ) being in front of t he box, preventing any such arra.nger r l i e p n s t ; ' This engine, we are informed, is making the re of the though a full load has not yet been obtained, on a cc g o u b ut r t .. o t scarcity of cars. The greatest load, as yet, dravt - 1 the road, was 119 tons, gross weight, in 22 cars. of steam hour. he now usually works with 70,1b5. pressure wing to ac Un confidently expects to draw 150 tons, at 12 or 15 miles per Mr. Norris considers that these fine effects are o provement in the adjustment of the valves, at tained after a long series of experiments. The e y n i gineer which he has SUPPLEMENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. TUESL_IY, OCTOBER PRINTED .AND PUBLISHED BY RICHARD -PATTISSON, (of cottage, SOacombe, Ckeehire,e) AT No. 4, NORTH CRESCENT, CASTUE-STRP,T j