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IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS,
Just published, by IL BaiMere, 219, Regent-street, London.
No I.
Bvo., in cloth, price Is., by post free, ss. 6d.,
tAN TRUE & FALSE RPERMATORRHCEA ;
-N...." with the View to the Cdtrectiorityrwraz:qwead Errors
in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility or the
Generative System, or Sexual Hypochrondriasis. Translated from
the German of Dr. PICKFORD, of the University of Heidelberg.
—" Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi-
cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first
time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi-
cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall
detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his
power to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1351.
—" The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this
distressing malady by translating this little book, and by laying bare
the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to
cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object
than to fill their own purses. The difference between true Spertaa-
torrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are
accurately described, and thus a safe guide is offered for the
treatment of the malady,"—Medical Circular, May 5, 1852.
—" We have delayed so long upon the contents of the preliminary
chapter, that we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of
the subject specially treated of by Dr. Pickford ; but the moderate
price at which the brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of
every one interested in the matter."—Dublin Medical .Press, April
38,1852.

No. IT.
Bvo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 45.
THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Princi-
ples at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even Its most Inveterate
and apparently Intractable Forms. To which is added, PRACTICAL
OBSERVATIONS ON THE TREATMENT OF SPERMATORR-
HCEA BY CAUTERIZATION ; its Inefficiency and Danger.
BY F. B. COURTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
"Those who complain most loudly are those only who know not
how to use the common instruments
geons has been maeced with all kinds of violence, an indifference
about the simple cure of diseases, and a passion fbr operations and
all the excesses and horrors of surgery."—John Bell's Surgical
Observations.—" In proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has
given the history of a great many cases successfully treated, as Gad
as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated.
Such are cases ix., xi., xii., and xviii. No. ix. had resisted, for a
period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was finally
removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and 'xis. appear, both
in duratiol, severity, and complication of symptoms, of a more ag.
gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet the
treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved el:due/AIY Successful."
—Professor Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture.

INAUGURATION OF THE STATUE OF
THE LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL.
A ceremony peculiarly interesting in its character took
place at Tawworth on Friday—the inauguration of a
statue to the memory of one of the greatest of Etig-
land!s statesmen in the town which he had for so long a
period represented, and near which he for the greater
part of his life resided. We have no time to dwell upon
the details of a ceremony which brought to witness it all
the gentry from the surrounding district, large numbers
of persons from the neighbouring manufacturing town
of Birmingham, and in which the mayor and eorpoia-
don several members of the family of the late Sir
Robert Peel, and other persons of distinctisn took part.
Suffice it to say that in front of the old Town-hell at
Tamworth, on a massive granite pedestal, there now
stands a majestic statue of the second Sir Robert Peel—
of him for whom a nation mourned.
The statue, which is in broL ze, is a very striking like.
ness of the Right Hon. Baronet; the size is 8 feet 4
inches; the attitude is good, and the peculiarity of
feature which characterised Sir Robert is well developed.
The artist is Mr. Matthew Noble, who has certainly
done the fullest justice to the great work entrusted to
him.

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statue. On the platform were Sir Charles Clarke, the
mayor and corporation of Taraworth, Sir Robert Peel,
Mr. Fred. Peel, MX., Captain Townshend, M.P., Ctil)•
tain Peel, C. H. Bracebridge, R:q., of Atherstone-hall,
and a number of other persons of distinction in the neigh-
bourhood.
Sir CHARLES CLARKE stepped forward and said—
Ladies and gentleman, the occasion which brings us
together this day must be looked upon as one of a mourn-
ful character; but the blew having boon struck, it is our
duty to submit, not to question the will 'of Him who
orders, and who expects to be obeyed. Many of you are
not unaware of what took place here after the death of the
late Sir Robert Peel; to such as are not I may perhaps
be permitted to say that as soon as possible ateer in-
telligence reached us of the death of our good friend steps
were taken with a view to carry out some design, such
as would enable us in a suitable manner to mark
our respect for the memory of the great spirit who
had been snatched from us. A certain number of us
met in the Town-hall, and the result was a deter-
mination to erect a monument to Sir Robert Peel's
memory. The question that next presented itself
was, what that monument should be; the first thing
that suggested itself . was a column—the next was a
statue; now, it appeared to the committee that a column
was best suited to perpetuate events, but that a statue
was the best memorial of an individual, anti we deter-
mined on a statue accordingly. Well, then, the next
question that presented itselt for consideration Was the
place of erection. Hint's Hill, a short distance from the
town, was a favourite site with some, as the statue
might- be seen from a distance; others wished that the
statue should always be in the presence of those who
respected and loved the man; and this feeling lerepon_
aerated, and the statue was erected here, in the market-
place of Tamworth, opposite to that Town-hall from
which his eloquence had so often rung and charnee,l, not
only the hearsa ,of his hearers, but by his good sons_
enchained their understandings.--(Bear, hear.) Word:
occupy bw., a small space—they are burn, they live for a
brief time, and their echoes as briefly die away. eketiuns
remain—the test of a public man's sincerity, and of the
amount of good or evil be effects for his fellow-creatures,
—(Cheers.) Thenext question that presented itself far oar
consideration was the material to be employed fop eh,
statue; if this had -been an Italian clime, or the statue'a
roofed edifice, Carrara marble would have been. era.
played; but in this case there were substantial reasons
why a more durable material should be used; we wished
that the statue should be in the open air, of such setae_
terial as to stand the wear of the boisterous elernents-ea,
type of those boisterous elements which his encountered
in the /louse of Common.where the eloquence , t 0
Peel late Sir Hobart
shone forth for so many yearn wi.th
'such distinguished s lustre, and where be obtained 'such
world wide-i-such ludo reputation. We resolved then
on what is called a bronze
standing all weathers-.the s t'uc"
an emblem capable of
alike typical of hill- whose rainstorm, and the sunshine,
tion had withstood every shochkaletder ahnod whose repeal.
glory of his country--tho ornament of of wtts aline" it
Commons—and the friend of his neighbours,—(Chas° ' -
The lion. Baronet next described the large coin eerie)
which had taken place fur the execution et thePea(til
meat in this town; into it entered the celebrated
Bthnes, to whom was awarded 301. for the second bestteld
design, the glory of executing the statue having
de-
volved, after mature deliberation by the committee, a,,,Mr. Noble. Well, ladies, and gentlemen (continued I.e.
Charles) the work is executed—there- lie stands; la-
him be exposed. (The covering was instantly remeas-cf
from the statue, and in it was presented, almost life-hk,
the late Sir Robert Peel. It is a wonderful likeness, and
for several minutes the audience wend on it ailet% tl
and, as might be seen, sorrowfully.) Sir Cha4
Clarke went on to describe the peculiarity of the site ,
the face being turned, as it seemed to the reporte2,,
N.W. by N. First (be said), the blow hid been straek
which laid Sir Robert Peel low, and celled upen him for
that debt which all must pay; the world was then to
him nothing—he bad been to it everything; and by ti
statue the first of four positions was represented:-. his
back was turned on the great assembly in watch his
played for so many years so conspieueus a part, 'the
House of Commons; let us hope that be has found a home
in heaven. On the right of the statue was the church
in which he worshipped; on the left, in the distance,
was the magnificent palace which he built, and Which
he lived not long to inhabit; whilst, lastly, his face *as
turned to the district where he was born—to that
County where the wealth of his father was honestly and
honourably obtained.--(Cheers.) Ia conclusion, Sir
Charles Clarke finally presented to the Ms} or of Temp_
worth the statue of Sir Robert Peel. He cherged him to
protect it as he would a neighbour and a friend in diffi.
thee culty; he asked this from sucee, ding ma ors, and-from
town of Tamworth ; he charged them to protect the
statue of the great• Sir Robert Peel as an erudite scholar,
as an accomplish able and ambitiou
M Parliament. ofaccomplished gentlemen, es an s
Ile charged the town to proteo
the statue of Sir Robert' Peel as a geed and a refigioui
man; of on© therouubie
y eateched to the town to which
and to whom he attached, and be had Little doubt
they had been thoroughly
be fully appreciateddoubt, he said, that the charge would
The MAircre(llZod carried into et.--(Caters.)
sentences, accepted teiei;ght' E24')'
in few graceful
sentences,
that the charge of sl,rru.,!t, mid imseltand
kindly recamlored. Uharle-6 Clarke was fully
a worship feelingly ttuverteu lo

the private excellences o: the late Sir Robert Peel; acd,
in conclusion. said—
So flouris;es and fades majestic man," .
After this formal proceeding, the d to
the Town-hall, where 'some 300 persons—the larger
proportion being ladies--partook of on elegant dejeuner.,
served up by Mr. Rhodes, of the King's Arre-sßae ,
Sir Charles Clarke gain presided.
Sir C. CLARKE (who had-been Sir Robert's pltvi‘=i'in)'
with kindly allusions to- the domestic IVe of Sir Robtrt
Peel, gave the toast " To his memory," which was drunk
in solemn silence. •
E .‘ The
company retire r
The AlAvon of TAMWORTA next gave a teeev,"
good health of Sir ltohert Peel, and the members of his
family."
Sir ROBERT PEEL briefly and with great feeliPfl ""
knowledge& the compliment thus paid to his family; and
in promising to convey
meat to his mother, Lady P
- who was abroad, he said
that he knetv she would be deeply affected, and that for
the moment she might he evercome inkier sense of -gra-
tification at the kindness evinced on this occasion, as
tho expression of that .cOMPii'
must, indeed, all who hore the name of Peel =and who
possessed any claims of kindred, lie expressed his sa'
tisfacti6u at;seeing the statue
placed in Tamworth mar-
ket place—a spot irrevocably associated with his father's
Public career and politicalre
lion. nown.—(Applause.) the
Baronet proposed " The health of Sir C.. Clarke."
Sir CHARLES acknowledged the compliment brisilY,
and proposed the health of the Mayor of
which his Worship as briefly acknovrledged Tamworth,
. Mr. FREDERICK PEEL M.P.,
Who was received in a
most affectienately cordial manner, in a most eloquent,
feeling, and thoughtful speech, gave the health of the
artist employed in executing the statue, Mr. Noble, ex-
pressing his complete sense of the difficulties an artist
must always encounter in the endeavour to catch the
pencil and the chisel the
soul and the spirit of the original in conveying by the
subject to
to marble. Be spoke feelingly of his illustrious father's
fidelity to popular institutions and_pf his sympathy
withiand for the prosperity cf',lll6 4..aw.laer etassea
,his country, and expressed his satisfaction that note only
here but abroughout the country, his labours, his princi-
ples, and his public conduot were fe!ly appreciate&
aid of the
Mr. -C. A. BRACEBRIDGE afterwards addressed the
canvas or
assembly, chiefly in praise of the excellence of the statue;
and after Mr. Noble and Mr. Hanwell had respectivel,y
Oreturned thanks for their healths being drunk, the.cotn-
Loy dispersed.
They dispersed to even a pleasanter scene. Sir Ba-
hibort Peel had kindly thrown open his grounds and
s house and fine gallery of pictures to the public,
whither the people flecked to view and admire, the
tine taste of the late Sir Robert in getting toge-
ther en fine a colt etion of his most celebrated contem-
poraries,
But no time is left to U 4 to speak of Drayton Manor
or its contents; in the cool evening the people revaren-
tinily wended their way to Drayton Bassett, where Sir
Robert lies' buried, and tearfully they looked on his
Ttomb.' His school and furrn7fello'vv's grave at falUckriall
orkard, or Erskine's in the remote county of Linlith-
Ow, are now no more drearily si.uated than is
,that
of the great Sir Robert keel. But ho is remem-
bered, and his memory will be cherished by English-
men when those who assailed hire and his policy are
forgotten. '

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MARSHAL„EXcELMANS.
The deplorable accident which has terminated the-life
of Marshal F,xcelmaus deprives the French army of al-
most the last of that illustrious generation of soldiers
who won their first laurels under the eyes of the Ent-
peror Napoleon, and held the rank of general in the
divisions of the Imperial army. Whateeer others may
have had to tay or to unsay on the events which hare
restored a member of the Bonaparte family to supreme
power in France, General.Excelmans had a right to act
upon his well.kuown and undeviating fidelity to the
Imperial cause. He was the officer who first rallied his
division after the battle of Waterloo, and it was he who
marched upon Paris, and checked the advance of the
Prussians beethe brilliant skirmish at Versailles, whieh
Was the last incident of the ' war. During the Restora-
tion no man was more suspcted or persecuted than EX-
(*imam. He was tried on one occasion by court-martial,
on suspicion of keeping up a treasonable correspondence
with Murat,' who was still King of Naples at that
time, this charge being only supported by a letter of civility which was seized by the French police in the private papers of Lord Oxford, as he Was passifig
through France. He was subsequently banished from France altogether, without trial, and resided for some
time in the Grand Duchy of Natisau. Even after ho hid
permission to return to his native country, and was
raised to the dignity of a Peer of France by Louis Phi-
lippe, ho did not hold the high military oppointments or
receive the first military honours to which he Wes emi-
nently entitled by the length and brilliancy of his ser-
vices. it remained for the nephew of the Emperor to
confer the stall' of a Marshal of France on this venerable
bat vigorous survivor of tho Imperial armies; and ac-
cordieely the first nomination to this high honour which
Louis Napoleon had it in his power to bestow was very
properly given to General Exeelmans. His commission
as a General of Division bore date the Bth of Sept.,
1812;
and General Harispe is his only surviving senior officer
of that rank in the whole army.
Marehal Excelmans was born on the 13
Novem-
ber,
1775, at Bar-10-Due, in. that martiel provincone
13th of
ofFr erica which Louis Napoeon has just traversed.
sil,
joined the army very young, and distinguished himself
in the 3d battalion of the Meuse under the orders of
.Ge-
neral Outline; in 1799. Shortly afterwards be was aura
teched to the person of Murat as hie aide-de-canaPr their intimacy continued ahnost
tho close of Joachim Murat's adventurous and iii-starred
Austerlitzt,
career. At the opening of the campaign of
tuainterreptedly until
he displayed extraordinary bravery at the affair of
Wertingen, previous to the capitulation of Ulm. The,
Austrians were at di—len_er, in a hamlet in advance e' Wertingen when the advance of the. French Was
an-
nounced. They sprang on their horses and rallied theirAt
men, whose fire checked the advance of the enerq* of
this moment Excehnans, than a mere captain ,
Dragoons, galloped up; and his share in the honours
of that day is thus recorded by the historian of
the Empire: Fie
dismounted, with 200 Dragoons
theire.
who had volunteered, and, dashing
carbines in hand, they cleared the forward with
Spot of those who °en
up
and
cupied it. Fresh detachments of Dragoons came '
the meantime; the Austrians were pressed closer
the
closer; they were followed into Wertiugen
~bY,h -
French, who passed through the town, and foetid i
et
ti:-
selves before a rising ground, with nine Austrian
ba
lions formed into ones quare, not extended, bu'-' closerio
arid deep, and with artillery and cavalry on the fib
The pliant Exeelmans, without a moment's
,; delete
charged the square, and 'in the shock had u's,hchia
killed under him. Colonel Meaupetit was killed `' tin,
side, Notwithetanding the vigour of the attack,.gurat
compact mass reineined unbroken. At length
made his appearance with his masses of cavalry,
Linraes with . the Grenadiers of Oudinon Lannes
e
charged the enemy with his squadrons; and t e
led his Grenadiers on the border of a wood I
Austrians.
distance to cut off the retreat of the
en
2,000 prisonere, several pieces of eanc(lliio badn
some flogs were captured. Lannes and Nurat, who sad
seen Excelmans actually on the point of the ,eoea Ole
bayonets, commissioned him to convey to Napes dunce
news of the first success obtained, and the '
nflagsu wirth
fro
„m tho enemy. The Emperor received at se°n.ia the
the young and brilliant officer, promoted hite ieent-ia
Legion of Honour, and delivered to him the,ins 'tic, ova
the presence of the whole of the staff; in order to
greater distinction to the first recompense n 3 ' '
this wenn
. , sent
oil fought his way to the rank of Genera' e` ,a 1 sent
On the field of Eylau, and shortly afterwards ".
r ed in the
with 7.lurat to, Spain, where he was eielln'Otio Ronal
nefarious plot :of Bayonne, aod cornreyen
not witheut
l'areily of Spain out of their dominions, !las intreat.
"de difficulty in covering their ignomintewaren and
Had he not been taken prisoner shortly tif”!easeal En-
detained for :three years in Eegland, General
earlier to. the
celraans would probably have risen 6ed
highest rack in the army. But he wesaige of Ros-
in 1811, soon enough to serve in the
Cleneral, as we
8,i2, and obtained the rank of Lieutelasn'; day after the
nave said, in. September, 1812, on the
served with
een° of Moscow. In this capacity _
d Silesia in the
ability in the campaigns of Saxony 6,n himself in the
"kwinn Year r,; especially distinguish laced at the
catnnaign of 1814, during which be, waspa uard. Ile also
head of the cavalry of the Imperial at watorland,
commanded the 2rl division of cavalry " oto the tee;
as as Napoleon utotched the greetest inlP-0f those °lnoue
and intelligence, as well as bravery, a nighee eouni
whom haespepielly selected for that ohm,habities ofiG.e'''
Win:tent could not have beenaid to rho
the battle he Vnad
floral Excelmans. After the loss °, of the scattered
almost the only officer in command .0 eetainedohis
t
legions of France who appears to v
ha an insiched- toe
Judgment and to have done his duty._
of -the cepital, if
wards Paris to support the resistance
_r " nveTi,iaa
any was made; but, finding that the nuen s
submission
retired to Clerinont-Ferraut and sent 1 his- 7 ~ u
to the King.
~ to have teralin4ted
His active life may thus be 04' soother generation
before he was 40 years of age, and
e of the Court and
or men sprang .up to wear the favours election of Louie
But the -
the honours of the army.
Napoleon forted him still in a vigorous.of Honour by the
annulated Chancellor of the Legion of
the 2d and 3d of De-
Prince in Aignst, 1849; and on E i fe,,s and the Boyle-
ceraber last, when the Champs
i drub with irresistible
yards were lined with troops e rho liberties of France,
and t
forge the resistance of Paris
aged in see
urtng to
Marsha( leeceimaos was actively etig _
tbn Government the support of the ertnY'
best
of those who fol-
lowed was es a man one of
,the
lowed in the train of NaP°lee", 8 fortunes, for he .vt;as
. hod ostentation, and
without inordinate ambition' w" to his nearest
attached neare
without avarice. lie was fondly impossible to see his
do,tnestic connexinns, and it
owas, with age, or to it'tteh
tail, war-beatsn form, dightiv Dent
, ;zin.
" ut reeebn• '-, the stt4,el)
Lis'resolute contenanec, WithoThere is something pe-
qt a g • . olden. and a gentleman.
termination of such a
oah 1 urn? melancholy in the abrupt e a summer's evening
career by the stumble of a boles
i 7
is still more remark-
ricle from Sevres to Bretenil; .yetn_ in arms of 17 ,
,
tbl-s hew teeny of the, c.014114-clotils of innutnerablo /oio
remark-
seseaPPd
i"
early life airs
1)
acCidehts.
ties', have died at last by wore vulgar
t d
thin created i e n tae
It 3 !lOWA ttlQt the Yac4l3.°7