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London, England, 1864-07-23 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY Z.

An eminent physician was called in to attend a
complicated case of dyspepsia. The patient, an
eminent diner-out and gastronomist, was disposed
to attribute the impaired condition of his stomach,
his loss of appetite, and his shaky nerves, to any
other cause than high living and an inordinate
variety of dishes. No evidence of fevered tongue
and bilious eye could persuade the patient (who
was not only a gourmand but • member of Pazlia-
ment, that his complaint was over-feeding. Nobody
could persuade him that it was not over-work of
brain and excessive devotion to his country that
had reduced him to that horrible state of sleepless-
ness and dejection. A martyr to patriotic
labours, he took comfort in the thorough,
consciousness of self-sacrifice, and proposed
to restore an exhausted frame in the sulphur baths
and chicken broth of the German " Waters." The
doctor suggested • change of life—earlier hours
and simpler fare. " The fact is," he said, "you eat
" too much and too many things. More people are
4' killed by over-eating than over-drinking. Just
" be good enough to convince yourself of the fright-
" ful penalties you have been inflicting on your
" unfortunate stomach, you incorrigible tyrant !
" Order your usual dinner to-day, but instead of
" consuming it throw it all into a basin by your
" aide, and eat a chop instead. When all the
"courses are gone through take a look at
"the contents of the basin, and imagine all
" that mixture tossing about and fermenting in
" that digestive apparatus of yours, which is
" now so terribly deranged."ffiThe patient com-
plied with this singular advice; and repented, and
lived happy ever after. We have been irresistibly
reminded of this case of indigesttion by the state
of the Notice Paper of the House of Commons
during this last week. Since the great debate which
decided the fate of the Opposition for at least six
months to come, the House has dwindled to a mere
y”orum. Government makes and keeps a House,
but on the Opposition side, and below the gang-
way, all the silent members and the walking gen-
tlemen have absconded to the Continent, or to the
Isle of Wight, and only • few earnest potterer', a
tew incorruptible small talkers, a few painstaking
bores, a few conscientious fanatics, a few of
those sticklers who, like playgoers from the
country, are determind to see it out, and •
iew of those'parliamentary boarders and lodgers
who seem to have no7existence half the year
apart from the benches on which they sit, and to
which they cling as to a refuge for the bouneleas ;
--only the incorrigibles, the inevitabba, and the
indispensable* remain to wind up the business of
the Session. Yet, look at the Notice Paper ! What
a feverish activity ! what an =slaked passion
for the public good!! what an insatiable curiosity !
A little before dusk in summer • sudden impe-
tuosity seizes upon childhood throughout the whole
animated creation. Fish, flesh, and fowl, and
little boys end girls, are all equally obstreperous
and restless at sunset. Something of this infan-
tins rutheniumss seizes the remnant of the
House of Commons just before they go to roost for
the recess. Here, for instance, are • few items of
the business transacted and questions asked on
Thursday evening :—" Distribution of pay in the
" Navy," " Foreign State Papers," " Putrid
" Mast," " Hill Reservoirs," " Wine Licenses,"
" Passports," " Her Majesty's Ships Reesarch and
" Enterprise," "Japan," " Poor Relief," "Edu-
" cation Inspectors' Reports," " Casual Poor in
" the Metropolis," " A New Care War," "The
" Royal Academy," and, last not least, " The
" Indian Budget," which comes in like • leg of
mutton at the fag end of • German table d'hole.
Pt CHARLES WOOD chatting, as the French say,
" between pear and obsess," on the destinies of
A hundred and fifty millions of British subjects
to some fifty of the last men in town, in the tone
of an amateur Chancellor of the Exchequer at •
Mechanics' Institute, might well be the last straw
that breaks the camel's back. But no : the
realest optimism of Sir CHARLES stimulated and
sharpened the digestion of the House ; and after
the House had gone into committee on
the Appropriation Bill, and Mr. GLADOTONE had
disabused the committee and the country of the be-
lief in more than a nominal surplus of 55,000/.,Mr.
AYRTON glanced at the inconsiderable question
of the Balance of Power in Europe. Then followed,
inter aba, the New Zealand Loan Bill, and the
spithead fortifications, and the Indian medical
service ; and at daylight the House adjourned,
to meet again at noon to lunch upon the
Indian Budget. At dinner time the same
evening, the following were a few of the scraps of
the entertainment :—Chincha Islands ; Penton-
ver's Island ; Armstrong Shells ; Prince Conan
coup d'itat ; WLsrox's Retreat ; Cathedral and
Collegiate Churches ; Emigration of Circassian ;
the Mexican Empire ; the loss of life and pro-
perty in the American civil war ; the came of Mr.
O'Mau.sv lawir ; Emigration to the United