The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-29 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 29 1861.

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Physiological matters, generally, are largely dealt
in by Dr. Holmes, too largely for a novelist,
though not too largely for their immense and in-
creasingly recognised importance to the student of
human nature. The following is a specimen of a
line of argument very common in our author's
writings :
Ministers talk about the human will as if it stood on a
high look-out, with plenty of light, and elbow-room reaching
to the horizon. Doctors are constantly noticing bow it is tied
up and darkened by inferior organization, by dose, and all
sorts of crowding Interference; until they get to look upon
Hottentots and Indians—and • good many of their own race
—as a kind of self-conscious blond-clocks with very limited
power of self-determination. That's the tendency, I say,of
• doctor's experience. But the people to whom theyad
their statements of the results of their observation belong to
the thinking ekes of the highest races, and they are con-
scious of a great deal of liberty of will. So in the hoe of
the fact that civilisation with all it offers haa proved a deed
failure with the aboriginal rams of this country—on the
whole, I say, a dead failure—they talk as if they knew from
their own will all about that of a Digger Indian! We are
more spate
.go by observation of the facts in the ease. We
Ire scantly mink weakness where you sieLtanteity.
do say were ' sight ; I oily tell what you Asa lied
to be the fact, right or wrong, in talk* with eseikea. Yea
see, too, our notions of bodily and mini disease, or ski, are
apt to go together.. We used to he as hard on sickness as
you were an sin. We know better now. We don't look at
Nickname as we used to, and try to poem It with eve
that is offeosive—bunt toads and earth-weans andr
broth, and worse things than these. We know that disease
has something back of it which the body isn't to blame for,
at least in most mum, and which very often it is trying to
get rid of. Just so with sin. I will agree to take • hundred
new-hero babes, of • certain stock, and return seveatedlvo
of them in • dozen years true sad basset, if not "pious"
children. And I will take another hundred, of a different
stock, and put them in the hands of certain Ana-street, or
Five-points teachers, and seventy-five of them will be thieves
and bars at the end of the sense dozen years. I have heard
of an old character, Colonel Jaques, I believe it wee, •
famous cattlezbreader, who used to say be could breed to
pretty much any pattern be wanted to. Well, we doctors
Nee so much of families, how the tricks of the blood keep
breaking out, just as much in character es they do la looks,
that we can't help feeling as if a great many people hadn't
a fair chance to be what is called "good," and that there
isn't n text in the Bible Weber worth keeping:az in mind
than that one, " Judge not, that ye be not j
We had marked several peonage, in which vital
and debated questions similar to this are discussed
with the same freedom and acuteness. The ability
with which he handles and the scientific fertility
with which he illustrates them are primps the
most remarkable feature of Dr. Holmes. writings.
Fiction, though he is fairly successful is it, is not,
we think, his forte, and he can scarcely be offended
by our adding that in our opinion his merita as •
thinker are so great as to reduce the question of his
merits as a novelist to a quite subordinate rank.

ROYAL SEA-BATHING INIPIRMARY, MARGATE.

The annual meeting of the friends of this
charitable institution took place yesterday at the London
Tavetu. S. TOKKINB, Esq., presided. The minutes of the
bet meeting having been read and adopted,
The Rev. J. HOIXISON, the hon. secretary, salineitted the
remlt, which stated that the number of patients who had
obtained relief from the hospital during the pest year was
891 Of this number 689 were in-patients sad 131 out-
qta 311 . The deaths had very much depressed he number'
only nine ; the previous year they numbered 24.
Of in-patients, 157 were men, 169 women, 195 boys, sad
177 girls 915 were afflicted with diseases of the bones, Ti
with diseases of the hip, 35 with spinal commie's' 25 with
dimness of the eye, 175 of the glands, 118
and 39 scrofulous. The hospital was a national cos,
and patients from every part of the kingdom were ad-
mitted. The charity had been brought into mom gsnesl
notice, which increased the donations and sa
bittr(ha iratorni
patroness of the institution, and who was always • wise and
faithful counsellor. Her royal highness was traipse* a
resident in the vicinity of the hospital, and the nee of hew
name was of essential advantage in testimony of its useful-
sees. The balance-sheet showed that the income for the mat
year amounted to 8,892/. 19s. 91., and the expenditure to
7,8811. 10a. 7d., leaving a balance of 1,0111. Bs. 7d. After
some discussion the report was adopted. The Lord Bishop
of London was elected as vice-patron, the Earl of (lamer-
von as president, and the Hon. Jocelyn Percy, Mr. Alder-
man Makin, and Mr. Alderman Conder were elected as vice-
presidents. The caters of the institution having been
severally re-elected, the proceedings terminated with a vote
of thanks to the chairman.