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the Week ending on Satunl
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431,083,175

Dated the 7th!day of June, 185;

BANKING DE
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Rest 3,112,913
Public deposits (in-
cluding* Exchequer,
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National I)ebt, Sav-

ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 5,211,1r8
Other depoidis 13,282,876
ieven Day and other
Bills ........ . 583,884

£37,145,871

Dated the 7th day of Juuo, 1855.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
Tho Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending June 5,
1855, exclusive of .the Duties of Customs paid or payable
thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the British Possessions in America 923. 10A d.
Mauritius ...... 003. Od.
di « East Indies..... ODs. Od.
No return for the two latter.

A return to the House of Commons (obtained by Mr.
Brady, M.P.) was issued, on Friday, of the naval farce
on the lit ult. The force consisted of 288 ships, and
6,447 guns. In the Baltic fleet there were 49 fillips,
mounting 1,464 guns.

marvellous phenomenon, it had higher
,purposes to fill
than exciting their imagination or interesting their . in-
tellect, and he saw plainly it was, as it had been.• stated
by Mr. Sanbv, " a gift given by God 'with which to al-
levjatethesufferings of mankind, 'and that thegreat point
tor them to strive to attaup wao tQ Place it on such a foot-
ing• that some institution might be established wherein
mesmerism might be practised simply as a remedial
agent. (Hear.) -How successful it had been in accom-
plishing that object they all • knew, and it was not his
intention to enter into:thiradails of that suecesWit,their
institution, or the experiments there carried on, lieciiuge
that would be done by more able hands who would ad-
dress them. He felt he should not be doing justice to
his own'feelings if he failed to say one word in admira-
tion of, and in gratitude to, one individual who had con-

tributed to the- advance of mesmerism, for wherever
mesmerism was mentioned the name of Elliotson was
revered. (Applause.) Dr. Elliotson, by the open and
indefatigable v.athe had displayed from the commence-
ment, to investigate the truth of the science, had lost
the sympathy and support of many of the members of
that profession of which he was a distinguished orna-
ment, and if he had not outlived their obloquy, he had
merited and obtained the approbation of all those who
loved to see truth flourish and fully carried out, and had
earned the gratitude of hundreds, and the good opinion
of thousands of his poor suffering fellow-creatures.

(IPPlanoP.) If they agreed with him that mesmerism,
as a curative agent, should be adopted and fully carried
out, he called on them to support the institution, and
take a deep interest in it by visiting it with theirfriends,
and indnee them to become subscribers to it with them.
Those who were already subscribers to the institution
could not show their devotion and belief in the science
better than by doubling the amount of their present sub-
scriptions, to allow the institution thereby to increase
its benefits. (Applause.)
Dr. ELLTOTSON then read the report of the committee,
which was an elaborate and highly-interesting document.
At the commencement of the year they had 47 patients
on the books, since which they had had 204 more,
making a total, for the year, of 251. Of that number
69 bad been cured, 9 had nearly completed their cure, 49
had been improved to a greater or less extent, and 41 were
still under treatment. The cures exceeded by 27 those
of the preceding year. The report mentioned cures that
had been effected of St. Vitus's dance, nervous affec-

tions, asthma, contraction of the hand with a sore in the
palm, derangements of the digestive organs, affections of
the kin, scrofula lupus, palsy, &c., and one case of
dropsy in a female who was suffering from an ovarian
tumour at the same time. This patient, after being in
the hospital and once tapped, was told she must have
an operation performed, which she objected to ; and
after being tapped three times was discharged as incur•
able. She suffered greatly after that, and was in that
state that she hoped death would terminate her suffer-
ings. She was tapped altogether 55 times, and in all
495 gallons were drawn from her. Under mesmeric
treatment she had recovered, and was that day in the
room. The report bore ample testimony to the assiduity
of the secretary and the officers of the institution.
The Rev. G. SANBY moved the receptinn and adop-

tion of the report, which, be said, was bath interesting
and instructive. It was interesting to them who were
met together in behalf of this good cause to know that
the institution was progressing so favourably, was ad-
vancing so steadily, and remedying so much evil ; and it
was instructive from the details it gave of the manner in
which mesmerism operated. He hoped, when the report
was printed, it would be read attentively, and considered
both by the friends of the cause and its enemies. The
institution was admirably conducted, everything being
regulated in a proper and careful manner ; and he fear-
lessly asserted there was not another institution in the
kingdom where a better system of order and regularity
prevailed. When a patient entered the institution be
was questioned as to the hospitals he had been in and
the treatment he had there received, and also from his
own medic-.l attendant, and the suffering he had endured,
and was informed he would have to attend regularly for
some time, dependent on the nature of his malady, but
by no means to imagine ho would derive miraculous
effects from the treatment at once. All the cases, with
their progress, were registered in a hook, so that, in ten
years hence, if any person wished to know the particu-
lar condition of a patient, at any particular hour, it
could be furnished. By that means they were accumu-
lating a mass of valuable mesmeric statistics, available
for the future prosecution of the science, as knowing to
what diseases the great curative agent was more imme-
diately applicable. He congratulated them on holding
this their sixth annual meeting on a science they were
told, a few years since, was ridiculous, and when their
mesmerisers were opposed, and those who attended
their meetings were laughed at. They were now forcing
their way in spite of the opposition they had met with,
and this institution had taken root. and would be a per-
manent thing amongst them. He was much struck
with a remark in the report, that one of their cures was
equivalent to several cured by other means. He should

like to have an investigation by a committee similar to
the Sebastopol committee, of the comparison of cures
made by their institution (which took in the refuse of
other hospitals, allowance being made for their limited
means) with that of other hospitals, and ho had no doubt
they would stand in a very advantaaeon; position. The
result of such a comparison would also show similar re-
sults to that of the Sebastopol committee, that it was
the love of medical routine and medical red-tapism that
prevented the people from calling to their aid that great
power which nature bad so proviLientially and bounti-
fully afforded them ; and rather than hurt the feelings of
their friends who were medical men they allowed their
relatives to die. Mesmerism was a great troth in nature,
and he considered they were madmen not to employ it
when they knew its advantages. He was glad to see so
many ladies present, because they possessed more moral
courage than men. They spoke their minds when men
were afraid of offending their medical practitioner, and
he called on them to stand forth and insist on mesmerism
being tried before all other remedies had failed. (Hear.)
Flaying, witnessed the attention paid at the infirmary to
the patients, and the thankfulness they expressed for
the benefit they had derived from the treatment, he con-
sidered they were arrived at a point from which they
could not be driven back. The institution had taken
deep root, and for which they bad reason to thank God,
and take courage to gn on and defy all opposition. .
Mr. JANSON, of Exeter, seconded the motion. He
had been unexpectedly called on to do so. and was not
prepared with a speech for the occasion. The best thing
he could therefore do, was to give them some informa-
tion of the progress of the science in that part of the
country in which he resided. He was located at Exeter.
and he knew of no provincial town where it had made
a greater progress than in that city. He had often asked
the question why it had not progressed the same in other
large towns, such as Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, and
Manchester. He wished all persons in the provinces
would exart themselves, and try if they could not estab-
lish something like a mesmeric movement, and give them
the result of their exertions at similar meetings to that,
which would greatly add to their interest. They had
effected many excellent thingi at Exeter, to many of
which he referred, but which it was needless for him to
enumerate in detail, as they must be well known to the
readers of the Zoist.

Captain HUDSON, of Leeds, moved the second resolu-
tion, and in doing so, observed that in his part of the
country the advocates of mesmerism left no means un-
tried by which to advance the science and benefit the
afflicted. He had delivered 50 lectures on the subject
at Liverpool, 58 in liuddersfield, and 90 in its neigh-
bourhood, and he had just finished his 80th lecture in
Leeds. He regretted there was not more opposition,
for if there was they would progress more rapidly. At
one of his meetings he had 14 doctors and six clergymen
present. The latter and four of the foriner were friend.'
of the science, and before the meeting terminated he
succeeded in passing two resolutions in his favour. Tr-
brother of one of the medical profession present most
opposed to the science declared. his conversion to the
principle of mesmerism, and that he would do all'he could
in its furtherance. He appealed to the ladies to exert
themselves in the movement, because he had always
found them the best men of business. (Laughter.)
Wherever he went, instead of ten opposing him, h.
found a hundred supporting him, because he showed
them there was a power connected with mesmerism cal-
culated to do an infinite amount of good. After giving
instances of the cures he had effected (iecluding that of
a medical man) by mesmerism, ho moved that Major-
General Bagnold be elected a vice-president.
Mr. MONCKTON MILNERs seconded the resolution. The
greate4t amount of opposition the science received wa..-
from scientific men, which appeared to many persons
to
he a great misfortune, and inclined them to think ill of
such men in consequence. He was of a different opinion,
and rather thought it was their good fortune to live In a
scientific age and amongst scientific people, and which
was a special reason why they might hope mesmerism
would become successful, and, by the exertion of honest
men, take its proper place as a science. Mesmerism had

ledge of facts, and not from being led away by anything
surprising or curious. He wished them to confine their
attention to this 'rriatier as regarded medical science.
Those interesting and wonderful phenomena of mesme-
rism connected with the mind, were of a totally differeLt
clikrater, imperfectly understood now, and likely to
leash personS-ticr.a3r from a clear invemtigation..of the
simple !actg. Mesmerism was a great medical agar;t
which Providence hal given to mankind, which
was not to be played with as a matter of amuse-
ment, but to be applied seriously, and which
might lead to bad or good effects if well or ill applied ;
and, therefore, it was that ho anticipated an enorwous
amount of benefit would be conferred on mankind when
those principles became implanted in the minds of an
intelligent community, and they met the advocates of
this science in a proper manner by bringing their friends
to be operated on by the mesmeriser, but not as a last
resource. So long as persons did that, and tried their
constitutions and damaged themselves in every way by
other treatment before they became converts to this
science, they must not be disappointed if they were not
then set right. It would not be giving mesmerism a
fair el'aance until people applied to it as to any of the
other healing arts--at the beginning of the disease.
(Hear.) He hoped this infirmary would greatly pro-
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mote that end, because then all the opposition of scien-
tific and medical men would not in any degree be an

mpediment to the reception of truth, big rather useful
n the end. Sensible men who wait to be converted

until the evidence was almost too strong for them, when
they began to believe and receive those opinions would be
their best supporters and earnest advocates, and it would
be among scientific men that mesmerism would achieve
its nonquest over the credulity of mankind. (A.pplaase.)
Major-General BAGNOLD said—ln offering you the mo-
tion now in my band I shall merely say that my pre-
sence here, I trust, is a guarantee that I firmly and im-
plicitly believe in the curative powers of mesmerism, and
yet I confess that for many years of my life no person
could have doubted or ridiculed the whole question more
than I did. Guess, then, my astonishment at finding that
what I hai reject :el when presented to me in the repulsive
shape of religious jugglery was founded on a simple fact
in nature, and one as demonstrable by a little patient
inquiry as any schoolboy's first lessons in electricity
or chemistry. But if I felt a degree of shame and
regret for opportunities lost of acquiring a useful know.
ledge, what will eventually be the shame and disgrace
of those scientifically educated men whose particular

province is to look into nature's truths and make them
known, but who, instead of doing so, abuse and revile

those who would do this work for them? However, I
do not totally despair of the medical profession. I have

myself made some converts from that body, so far, at
least, as belief goes—but, alas, I cannot, I fear, find
their moral courage to avow and practice it. A talented
young medical friend of mine, not long since acting
House-surgeon at one of our principal London hospi•
tals, at Inv suggestion put it to the proof by trying it
on a too-t frightful case of hysteria that had baffled

every other treatment. He succeeded to his perfect sa-
tisfAction, and his poor patient left the hospital with

prayers and blessings on his head. In the warmth 01
his feelings be promised me ttv case for publication—
but when the time carne de lined saying, " with am-
ple proof as to the fact I dare not publish it, hut I trust
a time will come when more independent of the heads
of my profession I can put them at defiance. At pre-
sent it would ruin me." But ladies, it is to you I would
particularly address myse;f, you who by your nature and
your Christian education; are ministering angels iu sick-
ness and suffering. Are you aware of the powers you
possess in healing the sick, or at least assuaging pain by
a few patient waves of your bands ? That in this power
you possess a mine of wealth you can dispense to others,
and, like the widow's cruise of oil, is inexhaustible—that
in your own family-circle of relatives and friends it is in-

valuable, and to the poor often more acceptable tha.upecu-
niary relief? Pardor. my enthusiasm, but feel the time

is not far distant when it will be as common for the arorkg
and powerful to give out a little of their superabundant
health to the sick and weakly as it is now for the rich and
affluent to give their surplus wealth to the poor and needy.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, let me close my appeal
to you with the remark, that infirmaries cannot be kept
up on good luck and wishes alone. We then offer you
the assurance that what pecuniary assistance you can
give us shall be faithfully and economically applied.
Mr. ADOLPHE KEIST seconded the motion.

Mr. PURLAND moved the appointment of the ladies'
committee, with an especial vote of thanks to Mrs. Ham-
bleton, of St. John'twood-road, for her great liberality
towards the funds of the, infirmary and the embellish.
ment of the house. That lady, he said, had expended
upwards of 1001. at the infirmary, in addition to 301.
presented to the fund!, which showed how much could
be done by those who bad the means if they were deter-
mined to support this science.

Dr. ELLIOisoN seconded the motion, and bore testi-
mony to the great benevolence of Mrs. Efambleton, to
whom the institution was much indebted for her libera-
lity, and for which it was impossible 'the committee
could adequately expreFe their thanks of its value as an
example and stimulant to others.

Mi. LEWIS, a gentleman of colour, in moving the fifth
resolution, said he advocated the science for the sake of
suffering humanity, having witnessed its wonderful ef-
fects in Africa, America, and the East and West Indies ;
and he felt certain that when the subject was more gene-
rally known and fully understood by the public they
would 'avail themselves of it. He alluded to the intro-
duction of the science into Edinburgh. A few years
eince mesmerism was considered there to he a humbug,
and that there was no truth in it, but he knew of no
city where it was now making such rapid strides as in
Edinburgh.
The Rev. J. EKING seconded the resolution, believing
the institution deserving of support.
Captain HUDSON moved a vote of thanks to the officers
of the institution, which was seconded by Dr. SYMICS.
A vote of thanks was accorded to the noble chairinan,
who, in acknowledging the compliment, said it afforded
him great pleasure to contribute in any way he could
towards the object in which they were all so deeply inte-
rested. He hoped before long the large towns of Eng-
land would establish a similar institution to that they
had in the metropolis.