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MONUMENT to JAMES MOIISON, the
HYGEIST.

TO TOE EDITOR.
Sir,—When Mr. Morison proclaimed that health depends upon the
purity of the blvd, and that alone, he as it were emancipated the
world from meclical thraldom,and rendered the whole arcana of health
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health.

HEALTH DEPENDS UPON THE PURITY OF THE BLOOD .
Sir,—Upon this point everything turns. If health does depend on
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Liece of patchwork ; therefore James Morison, the Hygeist, consi-
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the monument which is ha contemplaticn.
I remain, Sir, yours,

A 111 DEIST.
The Immortal Harvey proclaimed the circulation of the blood—
James Morison, the Hygcist, proclaimed that health depends upon
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gentleman who arrived '
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therefore, that
Cape for England, she could not be well anticipated to ar-
rive at Plymouth before the 10th or 1 lth of Marc
allowing for the strong easterly winds which have pre;vallluld
for some days, it would be difficult to approach the mouth of
the Channel. The gentleman who gave this information
as to the Bosphorus, Captain J. V. Hall, came home from
Sierra Leone in the Ceres, merchant ship, of London, which
put into Falmouth on Saturday, through the impossibility of
' a a' . aetting up the Channel g Ina the strong east wind. He
Felt
Falmouth on Monday, and came on to Plymouth in the
51ercur),, Irish steam •packet. When the Ceres left Sierra
Leone, on the 18th of J “"arY, fl, large fleet of merchant
eLipe yore lying time.

MEETING AT LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S,
TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWS.
Sir,—Some little time ago you kindly afforded me an
opportunity of submitting to the public my views on the
thin state of parties, though probably some of them
were little in accordance with your owe. Allow me to
request-that •you will 'continue your indulgence, and
permit the enclosed letter to Lord John Russell to ap-
pear in your columns. The considerations, urged in it
appear to me of some moment; and '° private and.confi-
dential" communications to groat men on such subjcets
have little chance of being attended to.

AN Ex.-M.P,

My Lerd,—Not having
a 11036 in Parliament at this
' • LORD JOHN RUSSELL.
nn-call to present myself among
ruble in Chesham-place to-
ship, which at the present
deemed an eligible member
advice is seldom much attended hail I might not have been
the conclave. Unasked
sist the impulse td Submit .1, few6(l
to, sod yet I cannot re-
sist reflections to your lord-
such a manner as may enable.
useless.
Your Lordship's aim is crisis may not be altogether
to .
re-construct your party in
such
upon you the office of leader
tion of public affairs. The
of the
fact of your taking
You to resume the direc-
tion
Opposition, bpissu-
ing circulars to Liberal
inference. But you have taken task.
ers, would warrant this
abaliaLtregaining a position
pro-
vinces; and the eager, widely dl
Mr. E. Ellice have not escaped
There is nothing wrong in all tmjused, secret efforts, of
steps in the
notice.
It is natural and pro-
per that your Lordehipahould
which enabled you to carry into
entertain. Your position as a public
the principles yon
.
perhaps, more than any living liberal e man entitles you,
statesman, to take
the initiative. I have adverted to your
and private, simply because itie best that in the present
ur proceedings public
ale
brought to act in concert should understand ebseee of being
'
tuo that should
section
r
clearly and
explicitly what each is driving at.
state of affairs -all men whosi;el
Your Lordship's object, then, is to
1i
being the case
re-construct a
party of which you shall be leader. 11
withiast dreeslairtiaobja youlet stand
Y understand in
is
and°
of public opinion
from which alone you can hope to obtain a recruits; and
to
that those who may be persuaded cast in their lot
with yours, should understand clearly the conditions on
which they associate themselves with
You
The party of the Russell administration *
is dissolved.
The accession of Lord Derby to office hasth not done this;
it has merely made it apparent to all
more than two years your party has e world. For
_reconsisted solely of
the political retainers of half-a-dozen at families, in-
timately allied with each other by '
intermarriage.lt
was a minority even in the House of Commons;
it was
to a much greater extent a minority in the
large. You were kept in office by the weakness of your
country at
adversaries, not by your own numbers. your
majorities
were fluctuating, uncertain; made up sometimes of men
of one party, sometimes of another. They voted not for
you but against others.
Again, even within your own limited party
* there
were irreconcileable feuds and damaging allies Your-
self and Lord Palmerston felt and acted towards each
did
other as Asmodeus and his brother devil after their
fellow-fiends had compelled them to kiss and t,
e friends.
The Grey section of the cabinet was alike hostile to the
Palmerstonian and the Russell-Minto section. The
Clarendon section preserved a kind of neut •
ralltY. The
Foreign Secretary who replaced Lord Pah:aeraten wa
none of your choosing- So much for your union amour
Ts
yourselves : and as for the damaging character of some
of your associates, it is only necessary to remind
of •
of the
Jae snappish imbecility of the Chancellor you
Ex-
chequer.
'I he task, therefore, which you have imposed upon
yourself in undertaking to organise in opposition
aspiring to office is no less than this: In the first
place, to bring together a number of leaders competent
to act as ministers and disposed to co-operate with each
other in harmony
and good faith; in the second place
to regain the lost confidence of the great Liberal'
party
in the country. •
The first is in a great measure your own private con-
cern. You cannot but be aware that to ensure the sup-
port of the great Liberal party, you must be able to
show (hens that you are in a condition to form a
Mi-
nistry. But who the men are with whom your Lordship
can and will act, none but yourrelf can know. Of course
you will be prepared to-morrow to to the gen
tlemen explain •
-
who assemble at your summons who your coad-
jutors are. It does not indeed appear
that this will be
an easy matter.
For example, there is Lord Palmerston • . even if a re-
conciliation between you and him were probable or pos-
sible, h
his e has so damaged himself with,the country (I) that
alliance might do you more harm than good. Again,
Lord Grey, one of the ablest of your ex-colleagues, bas
so conducted • himself in the Colonial-office, that many
who admire
.his talents and have confidence in his tin-
mples (!), would be most reluctant to see him there I)
•
again.
ilne even those who would have no (Alec ions to Earl
_Greyeodi himself, demur to his bringing back Sir Charles
W in his train.. It is rather an awkward forlook-for-
ward your Lordshi in seeking '
Lordship, that,
a Governmen Government, you must bc • by shakingoff of
gin
your already too few allies
Then with respect t * •
ng o o the form' f new connexions,
at
some unfortunate peculiar • '
oes of temper displayed by
your Lordship while in lice, inspire fears of your suc-
cess in any such attempt, The manner in which you
received the proposal oe
tuenta to associate Sir I3ome of your loading consti-
tobert Peel with you in the re-
presentation of the City has not been
extent to which you allowed ---
---1
forgotten.
The
influ-
ence you even in personal piques to
awkwardly appointmentsremomret to the bench, is also
abroad that you are deficientAn impression has gone
is indispensable in the in that magnanimity which
him a strong body man who aspires to collect around
There, however, as ID, competent colleagues in office.
have
which few if any, can D already said, are matters in
All that a'disinterested rtr we
to advise your Lordship.
your attention to the dim bird party can do is to direct
to the relations In whichaulties that beset you, owing
allies, and your constitutionalou actually stand to old
nexions. aversion to form new con-
With respect to the m
of the liberal sans by which the lost confidence
warrant to sp party is
eak. Convta be regained, I have a better
terms, with men of all "sing, on free and confidential
knowing what it wants,
parties, I have opportunities of
the liberal party, of and how it regards you. By
public opinion. Under COtir
this
I mean the liberal section of
whole party of progress f designation I embrace the
Sir Robert Peel to the rom
the admirers of the late
Bentham. With many followers (if any survive) of
this great body is unani diversities of opinion and temper,
friendly to the diffusion oneaclus on certain points.. It is
sound secular education; it is
friendly to a liberal commercial policy; it is friendly to
sloe of' taxation, and to policy it is friendly to a revi-
national revenue; it is --
revised appropriation of the
to undo centralisation ofeagerl for law reform; it is hostile
meet which are best devolved functions of local gevern-
Some woeld go to week riled upon local elective bodies.
but all are bent upon having sweepingly than others;
sures adopted to promote theseg immediate tangible mea-
sures
one great nee objects.
nietry of general confid eh deprived your late Mi-
mity of per pose which and support was the infir-
upon to act on its can characterised it whenever called
urgent reforms it declined to principles. Many
dertook inauch a way as led Undertake—many it un-
no sincere desire to see its os,lliell to suspect that it had
suspicions cannot be obliteratil measures carried. These
sions of liberal sentiment. • Theo by mere vague es-
yourselvesprofin or our new or old cone public can have no faith
to definite meld colleagues until you commit
Lion. A revised budget; a re• that will stand examine-
nual expenditure; a cornprenaPpropriation of tha-an-
of general secular instructieonh; Sire and practical scheme
colonial administration; these an improved system of
in your power to propose hill other measures it is
gather to support them, and you
th arliament. Men will
you may again rally a party roundei proounders. Thus
other way of doing it. Youp ; there is no
Again—there is no use in inincin,,,
tributiou of patronage, while las• matters-»- oar dis-
tionable in the extreme. Nepotism to office, was objec-
mingled in it, to an extent utterl andd corruption were
not wish at this juncture to irritateyoldisrePutable. I do
rating specific instances; but should Sores by enume-
easily do so. you desire it I can.
If tbe gentlemen who are to
_meet dour
morrow are wise, and sincere in theirdes Lordship to-
the Liberal party, they will speak Ira to re-organise
points, gand insist upon satisfactory PhinlY on those
guarantees for the future. This may ,/gl3lailations and
but it is the only way to get at the -9t be' agreeable,
efficient Liberal ministry. You and 3,o:ete-ration of an
colleagues have isolated yourself from thr few quarrelling
party; you must win it back if you we great Liberal
office with credit to yourself. To unseat- old return, to
comparatively an easy matter; to ea Lord Derby is
strong and lasting administration is a Pia" him by a
_. us-
cult task. mach more diffi-

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yo
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per
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restored
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dt souls,
rhs:eypiar
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air
furs
paatuuenncarki
who will
ly
mosities in the Liberal ranks. But tho soothing sys-
tem which they recommend and act upon „n
Only
lead
to a hollow superficial semblance h union,
mangy
grievances, and the o'otaining of gua.
expression of old
rc nn iedenesenfouer'nt :lendfuture. tcan
nt
oca

en
wh°tlhneapyelepilrie
aneftsnliti:laoytiolfltdoth.n,ut
this
is
not
pr oTvhees ugLde nsense
p reenvde nitn anytell i gbeolnd cyeoft the b
ee
14:
st 0: bist:vreytfoo
rrmvwill-,
ion:or:11g back the
power
general pubfrom doing mucalishg;
store the hcptarchy
corn-laws, pr.( vent the proprresseo
.n
trhir,aro
affairs
cdi tti oc an
t.
' ;
•nternai
induce the country to meddl
toof
a foreign
domineering states,
ho ri
gh. entrustehor othh efoe
enough. The honour, the intere
of
e country, -
the
re-
lic intelligence. Such is not the Government quire a government abreast or ahead
of Lord
Derby; and such, begging your Lordship's pardon, was
not your own Government. There_is no rival candidate
in the field whose claims to the r_retuiersi,,
perior to those of your Lordship. It i ~,p are su-
- -s not rivalry that
weakens you, but your own past conduct. r
...t is true
friendship to remind you of this, for it is 00y byes-
QapiDg fro l the Baitilo of your Mu Nlitioal ecierig, wid

identifying yourself with liberal public opinion, that you
fiave any chance of gratifying your natural and praise-
worthy ambition.
London, March 10, 1852.

AN EX-M.P.

THE.' ARMY.
THE MINIE RIFLE.
leVreoo str.l a vic
t6llooilytaArrtdssufs,:r, soMmAeßctiame7 .The practice
yesterday with this new arm was carried on fromrifl
wad afterwards
the whole of the non-commissioned officers advanced
to within 250 yards of the target and commenced
firing as if they had been, a skirmishing party and
continued firing until they had retired 800 yards
from the target. The number of rounds fired during
the day was three from the rest by each non commis-
sinned officer, and ten by each when firing as a re-
tiring party, and the practice was excellent, a great
number of the halls entering the target even at the
long range of 800 yard.. The non-commissioned
officers assembled again in the marshes to-day, and
the practice was carried on by file firing, first, nt 200
yards range ; second,; t 400 yards ; third at 600 yards,
and last at 800 yards, each non- commissioned officer
firing five rounds at each of the above ranges, or
twenty rounds by each man to-day. Several
distinguished officers having expressed their
intention of being present to witness the
practice with the 11.1inic rifle to-day, two 12-
pounder howitzers from each of the three troops of
Royal Horse Artillery, under the command of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Bell, and a 9-pounder field battery,
consisting of three 9-pounder guns and one 24.
pounder howitzer, arrived in the marshes at one
o'clock, P.m., under the command of Colonel Ander-
son. The distinguished, officers expected from town
did rinttnitife; 'bur Were- fiFelebt-Lieliteria-ni:
General Sir T. Downtnan, C. 8., ' commandant
of the garrison • Lieutenant-General Sir Hew D.
Ross, K.C.8., Deputy Adjutant-General of Artillery ;
Colonel Blanshard, C. 8., commandant of the Royal
Engineers ; Colonel Chalmer, Assistant Director-
General of Artillery; Colonel Brereton, C. 8., K.H.,
Royal Horse Artillery; Lieutenant-Colonel Palliser,
Lieutenant-Colonel Tborndike, Brigade Major Bring-
ham; Captain Riddell, Deputy Assistant Quarter-
master-General to the Royal Artillery ; Brigade
Major Walpole, Royal Engineers; Lieutenant-
Colonel Alves, and a number of officers on the full
and halfpay lists of her Majesty's land forces—there
being upwards of one hundred officers present be-
longing to the various branches of the service,
who all appeared greatly interested in witness-
ing the practice. At the conclusion of the firing of the
Minie rifle at 800 yards range, the six 12-pounders of the
troops of the Royal Horse Artillery were brought
forward to a station at 850 yards range, and five
spherical live shells fired from each of these howitzers.
The practice was very good at that long range, and
showed how destructive the Royal Horse Artillery
could be with that description of arm which can be
brought into the field with great rapidity with only
four horses, and moved and fired by the gunner with
equal facility as their light 6-pounders. The 9-
pounder field battery was drawn up at 1,000 yards
range, and fired spherical shells at that distance. The
Royal Horse Artillery subsequently advanced, and
tonic up a position at 300 yards distance from the tar-
get, and five rounds were fired frOm each howitzer at
that range with case-shot, which spread considerably
with destructive effect. The 9 pounder field battery
was brought forward to within 350 yards of the
target, and fired a number of rounds of case ih of also
with destructive effect. When the firing was discon-
tinued, shortly after four o'clock, Major Brownrigg,
of the Grenadier C4uards, instructed detachments of
the Royal Artillery in making signals, or telegraphing
intelligence to each other by a plain and simple mode
always at hand to operate_ witb. Twelve gunners, six
carrying their chacos on the muzzles of their wa-
hines, and six carrying their great coats in the same
way, were brought forward to a station at 750 yards
from the mound. Three of the gunners their chacos
on the top of their carabines, and, three their great
coats, were then marched to the mound and then took
up a position upon the top of it, the three carrying
their chacos in front, and the three carrying their
great coats in the rear, each man separating about
two steps from each other. The other six occupied
similar positions at the distance of 750 yeards from
the party on the mound. The telegraphic communica-
tions commenced by the three front rank gunners on the
mound raising their carabines, surmounted by their
chacos, at arm's length above their head, which was ex-
plained by Major Brownrigg, and responded to by the
other three similarly appointed raising their carabines,
surmounted by their chacos, over their heads. A
similar movement was made by the -three gunners in
the rear on the mound, with their great coats. The
chacos and great coats were subsequently raised two
at a time, and one at a time, from right to left, evi-
deatly forming a very comprehensive alphabet or
understood signals of intelligence. The one party
was then brought 100 yards nearer the other, where
they went through a similar course of operations, and
both parties soon comprehended the object in view,
and responded to each other with great rapidity. It
is supposed the experiments to-day will conclude the
practice with the Mink"! rifle for the present at Wool-
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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE MEDITERRANEAN.
We have correspondence from Malta to the 2d inst. of
some importance. It is already know❑ that the Indefa-
tigable, 50, Captain Smart, K.H., and the Encounter,
14, screw-corvette, Captain Gordon, had been ordered
to Lisbon, and that the Phaeton, 50, Captain G. Elliot,
had been sent to Corfu to relieve the Indefatigable. The
Encounter arrived at Malta February 27, from TenedJs,
mad was ordered to leave on the 9th inst. for England,
not. Lisbon, and it was reported at Malta that the Phae-
ton would likewise follow the Indefatigable to Lisbon.
It was stated that Sir William Parker had received
orders from the late Board of Admiralty to detach a
couple of line-cf-battle ships from his fleet to Gibraltar
and Lisbon, and that the Vengeance, 84, Captain Lord
E. Russell, had been selected to proceed immediately to
Gibraltar, and the Albion, 90, Captain Hope Johnstone,
to Lisbon.

It was also reported that the heaviest steam-frigate in
the Mediterranean, the Terrible, would accompany the
Vengeance.
Banshee, steam-packet, Lieut. Commander Hosken,
arrived at Malta from Marseilles with the Overland India
Mail, and brought the dispatches for Sir W. Parker
under which he has distributed his force.

Spiteful, 6, steam-sloop, Captain G. Parker, arrived
at Malts, March 2, for Naples.

In our naval intelligence yesterday we stated that her
Majesty's steam-ship Dauntless lett Cork at one P.M.
on Thursday, and arrived at Plymouth at half-pest
eight P.M. on Sunday, making the passage in about 80
hours. The Cork Steam ship Company's steam-vessel'
Adler, Captain Tooker, left Cork one hour after the
Dauntless, passed her outside, and arrived at Plymouth
at five rm. on Friday, making the passage in 27 hours.
It appears that there is a positive order from the
Admiralty that her Majesty's steamers shall use their
steam power only on emergencies. There being no wind
when the Dauntless left Queenstown, she steamed out
of harbour, sailed across to within a few miles of Ply-
mouth, and then got up steam and went into Plymouth.
SIB E. BELCHER'S EXPEDITION.—The Resistance and
Resolute will be completed by the dockyard this month.
The screw-tender Intrepid, it is reported, will be out of
the hands of the dockyard at Woolwich by the 28th
inst., and the screw-tender Pioneer by the 31st instant.
We stated that there were yet some vacancies in Sir E.
Belcher's expedition fitting at Woolwich. An assistant-
surgeon and two men have been entered since Saturday,
and there are now vacancies for another assistant-sur-
geon and a mate or midshipman, and some half-dozen
men to make up the fell complement of 182. We may
also state that the North Star, Commander Pullen,
fitting at Sheerness, had on Monday last vacancies for
an officer and half-a-dozen blue-jackets.
THE ARROGANT SCREW-FRIGATE.—Vire are glad to
hear that the Arrogant, 46, screw•frigate, Captain R.
S. Robinson, is not to be paid off. Orders have been
received at Portsmouth for the ship to be refitted for
further active service.
We are glad to find that the Blenheim, 60, screw fri-
gate, Captain W. H. Henderson, C.B , has been ordered
to fill up her crew to her full sea-going complement, 500.
She will be completed by the dockyard about the 18th
instant.
on the full-pay retired list
Captain Thomas Stevens,
of the Royal Marines, died in Durnford-street, Stone.
house, on Monday. He entered the service in 1812.
Cyclops, 6, steam-frigate, for the reserved squadron, I
first class, will be ready to come out of dock at Sheer- ;
nets about the 22i inst., and will be out of the hands of
the dockyard by the 30th.
Ganges, 84, will be
readyto come out of dock at
,
Sheerness by the first week in May, according to the pre- 1
sent arrangements.
Ilighflyer, 21, steam-corvette, has been taken out of
dock at Woolwich.
she is complete, with the exception I
of fitting Grant's cooking and distilling galley.
Horatio, 24, screw-steam guard•ship. Captain
Sheerness by the
Hon. S.
s
T. Carnegie, to be ready for sea at Sheer
26th inst., is lamentably short of blue jackets. Seamen
will neither go to Sheerness, nor will they enter for any
ship there.
London, 92, Captain Hon. M. Stopfo d
com-
pleted by the dockyard on the 15th instant,r . will be
edy for sea within a and '
will be
re month from that
scarcely a blue-jacket on board and
isat time. She has
any at Sheerness. )
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tenant West (late in command of the Dee), is to have a
complement of sixty offiaers and men.
THE. SCHLESW IG-HOLSTEIN NAVY. —A letter from
Kiel states that on the 4th the navy,of the Duchy of
Schleswig Holstein was formely given up' to the DaniSh
Govmtment.