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London, England, 1852-09-01 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAYnix .. r
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9 SEPTEMBER 1, 1852.

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THE BELLE OF THE VILLAGE.
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Immediately,
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.- THE CO UN TRY MARKETS.
IPSWICH, AuG. 31.
Our supply of wheat to-day consisted principally of
new, which sold at very irregular prices, from the qua-
lity and condition being so various. The sale was by no
means brisk, and prices 2s to 3s per qr. lower. Very
yh,icohalsyoladfsawt asamtrpifileesuanpdpeerarleadst.
In other articles nothing passing.
wlitetelresolrdataets.
PER QUARTER.
m OF market,
be la' r lwe
FIR QUARTER.
Wheat,red (old).. 44s to 46s Beans
Ditto (new)
Ditto, white (old). 50s to 54s Oats oos to Ode
Ditto (new) 46s to 50,1NIalt OOs to 008
Barley ......... ...... 28s to 31s1Flour, per sack
AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING AUG• 28, 1852.
Wheat
Beans,.. •-•.• 0 „ —s Od
HULL, AUG. 31.
Messrs. Taylor and Bright's Circular states—We
have had a week of exceedingly favourable weather
for harvest operations, and much progress is made
throughout this district. The trade has been more
viet this than the preceding week, but still several sales
of old foreign wheat have been made to distant places,
where the new crop seems to have suffered more than
with us. To-day we had a good attendance of farmers,
and a fair show of new wheat; condition much better
than last week, and quality generally good. The general
run of prices was from 38s to 41s per qr weighed 631 b
per bushel. Very little old English offering. A very re-
tail sale for old foreign, the current demand being on
fresh red qualities. Barley goes off for consumption at
our currency. Beans are 61 to Is dearer, especially
Egyptian, which are now much reduced in stock. Peas
exceedingly scarce, and in great request. No alteration.,
.in the linseed market. Cikes very . firm. Nothing
doing in rapeseed. Rape cakes.fetch full prices.
The following are the present prices of grain :
s. 8. 8. 8.
Wheat, English, red 38 to 41 Peas, white and yel. 30 32
Do. white 42 44 Do. grey
Dantzic and Ko- ' Linseed, Black Sea 44 46
nigsberg 42 -- 46 Do. Peteraburgh ... 42 45
Pomeranian and Do. Riga&Archngl. 38 —42
Hamburgh . 37 42 Do. Konigsberg .... 36 40
Danish, Holstein, & Per ton.
Friesland 36 38 Lins. c., Hull 01 Os to 7112 s 6d
Russian and Odessa 34 38 Do. fine for. ...71 5a Od to 0/ Os
Oats, English
Do. Danish.... : 16 18 Rapeseed 23/ 10s to 241
Do. Friesland lB 20 Rape cakes...B7a 6d to 903 Od
Do. Russ. & Odessa 16 —lB Tares, English. OOs —00 s
Barley, malting OO -- 00 Do, foreign 25s —30 s
Do. grinding 23 '24 Guano
Beans 3O 32 Bones, do 9os Od to OOs
Do., foreign 2B 30, Rye Meal .. 71 Os
CORK, Aua. 30.

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gentleman who was staying position, went to the cler-
with him. The circum-
stances were stated to the surgeon, who determined
the nurses. For some time their efforts had no
result, but at length a bundle was discovered between
the chila's arm and body, which one of the nurses
immediately laid hold of. The girl, as it is alleged,
instantly called out, " You must not touch that."
" But I must have it," said the woman. " But,"
said the deaf child, " you shan't have it." " I will
have it," exclaimed the nurse, and away went the
bundle, the child with great resignation saying,
" Well, if you will, you must." The surgeon
undid the parcel, and found it to consist of about
a score of napkins, bits of linen, &c., which, it
is said, had been recently used. These were
spread out upon the counterpane, and the parents
and two watchers were summoned in to gaze
upon the not very fragrant discovery. Of course
the utmost consternation was depicted on the
faces of the parents. The mother immediately
accused the child of deceiving her, but was properly
stopped by the remark that this part of the imposition
could not have been carried through without her
agency. The father seemed in an agony of distress,
and solemnly protested that he was entirely ignorant
that the napkins were there, and that so far as he
knew neither morsel nor drop bad ,passed the child's
lips for sixteen weeks. Messrs. Webb and Whitby,
the medical gentlemen, and the nurses, immediately
left the cottage, and all, with the exceptionindignant
of the
surgeon, walked on to Woodbridge, feeling
at the imposition that bad been practised. It is
during Saturday,
im-
portant, however, to notice that
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs-
day, she had had no food or drink, neither was any
food found in the bedding. Mr. Matcham, a medical
practitioner, makes the following statement :
" TO THE EDITOR OF THE IPSWICH EXPRESS.
" consequence of the statements which have
been made relative to the above case, I took the earliest
possible opportunity of visiting the parents for the pur-
pose of hearing their version of the affair. I now append
briefly their statement Elizabeth Squirrel' did not
take any food during the time the gentlemen appointed to
watch were present; nor had she taken any for fourteen
weeks. 2. No food was found in or about the bed when
searched by the nurses. The evidence so far is conclu-
sive. The only suspicious ciroumstasce is the searching
of the bed and finding twenty-one pieces of handker-
chiefs, cloths, and fragments of long deserted and forgot-
ten dresses, containing dried fasces, hard, mouldy, and
swimming on the surface of the water when put into it.
After hearing the statement of the parents, I proceeded
to the clergyman of the parish (the Rev. Mr. Frances),
and had an interview with Mr. Frances, the surgeon,
who made the examination at the request of Mr. Webb.
His answers to my interrogations were most satisfactory.
On examining the pulse he found it beating 85 to the
minute; it subsequently increased to 95, and ulti-
mately to 120. He is of opinion that Elizabeth Squir-
rell is suffering from a disease of the heart, which
of course would readily account for the variation
of the pulse. Mr. Frances found no faeces that had re-
cently passed, nor was there any appearance of urine,
which I humbly submit to the learned and reverend
divines would have been the case had she taken food-or
drink during the time they were there or previous. I
respectfully submit that there is no evidence to criminate
either father, mother, or daughter. I confess it is diffi-
cult to account for the discovery of so many fragments
of garments, &c.; but the fact itself, when properly con-
sidered, exonerates the parents, for no one could believe
them so devoid of cleanliness as to leave such things in
the house to the detriment of their own and child's
health, if they knew of it. In review of these facts, I
must conclude that there is no evidence at present to
justify us in branding the Squirrel's with imposture. I
would invite the public to visit for themselves, hear the
counter statements, and then decide. The inquiry has
terminated so far in a very ungentlemanly and unscien-
tific manner, and nothing but a second watch of gentle-
men who have no interest but the public in view will be
conclusive. Trusting to your usual willingness to give
the truth so far as you can arrive at it for the insertion
of this letter—l am, Sir, yours, &c..
" ALFRED R. MATCIIAM, 01. D.
•
aornicktgatailkktae our narrative :
On the morning following the discovery the father
came to Ipswich with a bundle of napkins, which we
believe he took to Mr. Webster to prove that they
had not been recently used, but we cannot tell whether
these were the identical ones that were found,
whether the wife deceived the husband, or whether all
have been engaged in carrying through one of the
most blasphemous pieces of deception on record.
After the discovery the girl folded her hands, and
looking to heaven (for it is fully believed that she has
the use of her sight) said, " I commit myself to the
care of my guardian angel, and know that Gad will
take care of me." When her father left for Ipswich
she exclaimed, " Never fear, father, I @hall weather
the storm—'twill
all end well." We understand that
her parents and herself still stoutly assert that she
has taken no kind of nourishment for sixteen
weeks, and that each of the three is most anxious for
a further trial which shall extend over fourteen days.
Unless there be full and unimpeachable testimony.
that the state of the napkins was such as to indicate
without doubt that they had been recently used, the
case in the eyes of the public will not be deemed sa-
tisfactorily settled. Our duty is to state the two
sides of the case, and to leave our readers to form their
own conclusions. It must not be forgotten that the
whole value of the discovery rests on the testimony of
the two nurses and the medical gentleman, and in the
preceding letter Mr. Matcham coolly asserts that the
surgeon told him the feces had not recently passed,
nor were there any appearances of urine. If this be
so, what becomes of the discovery ? What becomes
also of the fact that, closely as the girl was watched,
nothing was seen to pass her lips, and the fact also
that her pulse alternated from 85 to 120 a minute ?
Were the nurses, also, quite accurate in their ac-
count of what occurred when they seized the napkins ?
Probably it will be deemed necessary to make a
further examination, should not the report of the com-
mittee be perfectly conclusive.
We need hardly add that it is believed the girl can '
see, and that her alleged ability to read writing with
her fingers is disputed. It is also believed that she
can hear, and if the conversation regarding the clothes
be accurately narrated, there is positive proof that she
has the use of this faculty. Regarding the ringing
of the glass,
we ought to add that she has in her room
a glass harmonicon, which frequently laid on her bed,
and on which she was very fond of playing, though
we cannot conceive what delight she could take in
music that she could not hear. The belief is that
this is the means by which the ringing is occasioned ;
that in lieu of the invisible angel's wings, she touched
it under the bed clothes while her visitors were ab-
sorbed in their devotions.
But we must leave the whole case to the judg-
ments of our readers. Much more might be written.
We might enlarge upon the fact that the girl is un-
doubtedly an extraordinary character—that at the be-
ginning of her illness she certainly took but little to
sustain life—that reports of her abstinence from food
spread widely—that the cottage was besieged—thatt
its humble occupant was lionised—that the pare ds
had their vanity flattered and their pockets replenishn e
—and that the thing has gone on to the present
rcumo.
m_
mo-
ment, interspersed with many extraordinary ci
allusion to the matter.
stances. For the present, however, we drop further

Many of eerom allegationslpswich
connected Express
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EXTRAORDINARY NARRATIVE.
the
ing extraordinary narration have for some time been
known to us, but to up the present period we have for
tey reasons preferred remaining silent regarding
)tt the follow-
ing
them. It is our painful duty to allude to a very re-
markable case, many of the features of which are so
abhorrent, from their apparently profane connexion
with religious subjects, that we could wish we had
been spared the duty of detailing them.
Shottish am is a quiet village in Suffolk, distant
from Ipswich thirteen miles, from Woodbridge five
miles. Aseph Squirrell (a small tea dealer) and his
wife have long resided there, and were believed to be
honest, industrious, and worthy people. Amongst
their family was an interesting girl named Elizabeth,
who, in fact, is the heroine of our tale. Whilst a
mere child this girl gave evidenve that she possessed
a very superior mind. At ten she placed
wasunder
the care of Mr. Osborne, the •
village schoolmaster,
who soon perceived that his pupil was a girl of great
natural ability. She was attents •
ve to her studies,
and whilst others were at play
she would be closely
engaged in poring over the books that composed
Mr. Osborne's library. H •
eying a religious turn
of mind, she read upon all theological points. She
also made herself acquainted with the English
poets, with history, wit • h parts of botany, and
with phonography. In June, 1850, at the age of
twelve, sbe left the school from illness, occasioned, it
is said,close. filition beeente se a--
by too
the
,one . studies. Her ill-
ness assumed the shape of a spinal affection, for which
she had the best medical advice, and was subsequently
sent to the East Suffolk Hospital, in Ipswich, where
she remained about six weeks. She then returned
home, became worse, and lock jaw set in, depriving
her, as it was alleged, of the power of swallowing.
She lived on suction, ilk
11- being poured down her
throat, but the quantities were so small that her
death was daily expected. She, however, to the
astonishment of her friends and the villagers, con-
tinued to live on, although it was said she did not
take a morsel of solid food. At Midsummer, 1851,
she recovered from her lock-jaw, but it was alleged
that she had previously been seized with blindness and
deafness—faculties which she did not regain. The
way in which sbe had lived. begun to be talked of,
and some excitement was occasioned amongst the
gossips of the neighbouring villages. But at about
this time the writings and speeches of the child oc-
casioned considerable interest, which was heightened
by the assertion that she still ate no food. Persons
living in the locality came to visit her, and found the
patient in a humble apartment, supported on her bed
by pillows, with a countenance which most of them
called " angelic," but which. certainly was re-
markable for its singularly, devotional cast,
and for the great intelligence which beamed
from it. Although it was alleged she could not
see, her eyes remained open, and but little defect
could be observed in them. To her visitors who
sympathised with her she would-say, when lamenting
her deafness and blindness, that " what she had
learned during health were the tools she had to make
use of during her illness. Every hour that passed
away added to the excitement, and spread her fame
wider and wider from her native village. At all
hours of the day parties wended their way to her
cottage, and no sooner had they gazed on the child
than they were interested in her—an interest that had
a strange dash of mystery in it when they were as-
sured that for nearly two years not a particle of solid
food had passed her lips. But the moment she begun
to speak she fairly enchained the sympathies of her
hearers. For the most part her remarks applied
to religious subjects, on which she. would descant
a beauty'of'language, power of thought, and de-
votiOn of mind 'to which old divines could make little
prete,naion, and 'she became to be regarded as a being
who had some direct missien•to accomplish on behalf
of Deity. Her intellectual and devotional powers
were developed to their utmost whenever sceptics or
infidels were within range of her voice. On secular
subjects, also, her remarks were clearly and power-
falls/ given; and also manifested an inti-
mate acquaintance with the topics on which
she dwelt. Her parents were equally as-
itie,,Rtheis, and egte,,maleernskupeee,
from food were religiously correct. Her statement
regarding herself and her alleged peculiar condition
was, that she had seen a vision of angels, one of which
number had consented to become her constant atten-
dant and guardian. Lest she should not be believed,
she frequently prayed earnestly that God would grant
to her and her visitors some immediate manifestation,
which should convince all that she was really the
object of God's especial favour. After a time her
prayer was answered in this wise—whilst her visitors
were deeply engaged in devotional exercises, a ringing
noise was heard as if proceeding from a smTheall tumbler
glass that stood some distance from her. sound
excited the attention of those who were present, who
listened in wonder to her statement that whenever it
sounded it was swept by the invisible wings of the
angel that attended her, and was a direct manifesta-
tion from heaven of the presence of God. Often and
often did this mysterious ringing occur--and always
when they were most devout; but the visitors were
unable to account for it. Sbe often, although deaf,
expressed much anxiety that it should ring, and after
its peculiar sounds had been heard she seemed bathed
in a sort of ethereal inspiration during which her
thoughts flowed from her lips, burdened with devotion
and religious zeal. During a considerable part of
her peculiar state she gave evidence of great sensibi-
lity of touch, being, as it was asserted, enabled to
read any person's letters by running her finger over
the lines, and deciphering by the same alleged means
the phonographic characters that were printed on
letter wafers.
Amongst those who visited her were not a few who
endeavoured to detect whether or not any imposition
pas practised. Some of these attended day after day,
but all were fairly beaten, and came away convinced
that it was physically, intellectually, and religiously
a genuine case. Rather more than three months
since, she and her parents stated that the milk ceased
to afford her any nourishment, and that, in fact,
from that time she left off taking any sustenance at
all, neither food nor drink passing her lips ! Visi-
tors closely watched her, and were convinced that
she was really living on from week to week without
partaking of any kind of nourishment. The excite-
ment out of doors, and throughout many parts of the
country, was now at fever heat. Medical men, cler-
gymen, dissenting ministers, carriage aristocracy,
gig, cart, and foot folk, alike shared in
as the intense de-
sire to gaze on this extraordinary child, and to
much
listen
to the words which fell from her with
weight as if she really had indisputable credentials
On being asked
that she was an oracle from heaven.
when and how this mystic scene would end, she re-
plied," Oh ! in my triumphant entrance into glory !"
Some gentlemen in Ipswich, who had become
deeply interested in the case, at length felt that it was
quite time that some systematic effort should be made
to test it to its fullest extent ;These gentlemen judged
that an eight days' trial would settle the matter as to
whether or not she partook of any kind of nourish-
ment. Accordingly, two females of good character
were selected, at the earnest entreaty of the father of
the girl, who were instructed to keep watch over her
for eight days and eight nights, it being an instruc-
tion that the room should never be left without one of
them being present. Three weeks since they com-
menced their task, receiving their instructions from a
medical man, and at the end of eight days returned to
Ipswich, declaring that the child had not had any-
thing to its lips during the whole term, and that they
were thoroughly convinced it was a genuine case.
This, however, did not fully satisfy the gentlemen
alluded to. The thing was now universally
in these localities, and it talked of
was determined to spare no
pains to test it to the utmost. They formed themselvs
into a committee of eight persons, and drew up
one was that for
regu-
lations for their guidance; eight
days and nights she should never be left
linwatched ; and another was that each gen-
tleman on guard should make a written entry of the
events that occurred every hour, and that he should
sign his name to it. (This committee will not
make their report until the seeingen of this day. The
facts we subjoin, therefore, o received direct
from any of their number, but we think we may
guarantee their strict correctness.) On Saturday
week, August 21, this watch commenced, and went
on without the slightest thing to excite suspicion, ex-
cepting a little restlessness, until the evening of the
following Thursday, when Messrs. Pitcairn and
Burton (booksellers)' were relieved by the Revs.
Webb and Whitby. The former gentleman had long
been a sceptic in the matter, and on entering the room
thought he discovered an unpleasant smell. He left
for an hour's walk, leaving Mr. Whitby in charge.
The father then entered, and complained of the want
of faith which the watchers in charge manifested, and
then suggested that they should seek the blessing of
God. He immediately knelt down and prayed with
apparent earnestness and solemnity and at consider-
able length. Mr. Whitby was close to the bed, and
during the prayer noticed some agitation of the
clothes, and fancied something was offending his
olfactory senses. When Mr. Webb returned Mr.
Whitby mentioned his suspicions, and as the nose
of the former gentleman again convinced him that
something was wrong, he insisted that the bed
should be searched. The nurses, who were also present,

On Monday next, in purple cloth, price One Shilling',
THE AUTUMN GUIDE TO THE TURF
FOR 1852.
CONTENTS :—A complete Calendar of the Races in 1852, up to
the end of August—The Horses Indexed, with their pedigrees—
Performances of the Two Year Olds during the same period—The No-
minations complete to the end of the season and the Derby and
Oaks for 1853—Derby Lots
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THE 134th Number of the HYGEIST and
MEDICAL REFORMER for SEPTEMBER, contains:—
An Article on the Rise and Progress of the British College of
Health, New-road, London—Au Article on the Case ot Mr. Pascoe ;
showing the pains tat en by the medical profession to get him off
from the ten years' transportation to which he was sentenced by
Mr. Justice Erie. If Mr. Pascoe had been let off by the Secretary
of State, we should then simply have had the Government sanc-
tioning Secret Poisoning l—Bleed Changes in Disease ; proving the
truth of the Morisonian System of Medicine—Adulteration ot Pre-
served Fruits. What are such adulterations but the various metals
in their chemical combinations which are held out medicinally by
doctors ?—Puffing Doctors and Hospitals in Churches—ldeas Beget
Ideas. By 31`Kinnon, of Cape Breton—Symptoms of Canine Mad-
ness—Further Subscriptions to the Morison Monument.
May be had at the British College of Health, New-road, London ;
and at the Hygeist Office, 262, Strand. Price 12., or 2d. by post.

OR OC
'Wherever the sun shines or the wind blows, or business,
pleasure, and health is pursued by the numerous grades of the hu-
man family, Dress, elegant and serviceable, is constantly sought,
but nowhere is it found so cheap, so good, or so fa.hionable as at E.
MOSES and SON'S, where variety is applied to every 'article, and its
styles approved by all parties. Sportsmen find •it easy, waterproof,
and elegant. Parents find it more-pleasing to their-children and more
satisfactory to themselves than-any other. Excursionists discover It
is expressly the dress they need..and Noblemen, Clergymen, Trades-
men, or Mechanics each give it their warmest approval, while all
purchasers are convinced that I'6 qUality and cheapness exhibit the
triumph of E. MOSES. and SONbver every other house in the world.
MUCH GOLD , AND LITTLE GOLD.
Emigrants, your circumstances demand plain statements, sup-
ported by truth and experience. - Your " Little Gold" should become
the germ of " Mpch Gold," and-if judiciously spent is sure to sue.
teed. " Much Gold" may, be expended with ineNperiencekootat-
tres, and little service will ydu get from their goods.
" Little Gold" will procure at E. MOSES and SON'S an Outfit
which will answer the most important purposes, from the time of
your embarkation to the period when your wishes are realised in
the possession of wealth.
" Much Gold" may be'consumed 1u separate purchases by Emi-
grants, but " Little Gold" will procure such a collection of clothing
and useful articles as are worth'calling an Outfit, if E. MOSES and
SON'S Establishment is tbd only place applied to. • •
" Little Gold" in a good niarket is better than " Mach Gola'l'in a
bad one, as an unsuitable ()atilt will he the most expensive as well
as the greatest impediment to the Emigrant's success. E. MOSES
and SON'S boundless, but Select and. appropriate 'Steck shows the
Emigrant most convincingly that he is at the lo'dst market in the
world.
" Much God" m ay be easily obtained in Australia at the
" Diggings," or almcist any- other employment,. but " Little
Gold" spent at E. MOSES and SON'S will put the Emigrant in pos..
session of mare useful and serviceable goods than " Much Gold". will
at present procure in any of the colonies.
A separate department ketit for Outfitting. Full Lists of Outfits
and all necessary information relative to sailing of vessels, .Bsc.,
may be bad on application, or -post free, to any part of the
kingdom. .
No CONNEXION WITH ANY FILER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON,
except their own Establishments, as follows :
London City Establi.shment, 15.4, 155, 156, and 157, ~111.pOries, 83,
84, 85, and 86, Aldgate, oppoeffe the Church, all communicating..
,nLdo3n,dri street,onart,W
es
allendil communicating.
507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1,2,
ting.
Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19, Bridge-street.
' Sheffield Branch,36, Fargate. -
Merchant Tailors, Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot
and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentleman.
The Establishments arc elided from Sunset Friday, to sunset on
Saturdays, when business is rearmed till Twelve o'clock.
A new Book, entitled " The Library of Elegance," *containing a
fall list of prices, and directions for self-measurement, • can be, had,
gratis, on application, or forwarded, post-free, to any part of the
singdom.
A handsome Almanac for the Year ending 1852 can be had, gratis,
On application.
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Barrels. Currency.
20 White wheat IRs 6d to 19s 6d 00s Od-20 stone
98 Red wheat 179 Od to 2J, Od)
0 Ditto ON Od to 00s Od 19, Od-20 do
O Ditto oos Od to 00s Od
0 Barley oos Oct to 00s Od •
O Ditto
0 Ditto
34 8ere...........10s 4d to 10s 6d 00s Od
199 Oats Bs 6d to- N Od
163 Ditto 9s Od to N sd>. 93 Od—') do
0 Diq. • Os Od to 00s Od
O Pigs ' * 001 Od to• 00s Od ON Od per cyst
Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:
7 barrels white wheat; 2 red; o.harley; 25 here; 20 oats ;
0 Quantity-of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week t
Wheat,'4so. Bere, 537. Oats, 2,775. Pigs, 0.

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37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society,
Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c.
The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful
consequences resulting from irregularities and excesses, which
have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man-
hood, and premature decay at all stages of life, than, perhaps, any
other class of disease known to modern pathologists. The treatment
adopted is founded on experience gained in the most celebrated
schools of medicine both in this country and in continental Europe.
The results of the knowledge thus acquired are here condensed under
the personal supervision of Dr. La'Mert, himself one of the few
legally qualified physicians who have devoted their whole and un-
divided studies to this important branch of medical science. In short,
every peculiarity relating to the treatment of the diseases incidental
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and academic honours at home and abroad, is in itself a sufficient
guarantee that those who may place themselves under his care
will, in every instance, meet with that delicate consideration and
inviolable secrecy which are so requisite in the treatment of these
cases.
Published by the Author, and may be had of J. Gilbert, 49, Pater-
aester-row ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; Starie, Titchbomeree -st t ,
forty-two
stamps, ; Mann, 23, Cornhill ;or tree by post for fo
stamps, from the author, who may be consulted personally, o orby
letter, daily, from Ten till Two, and from Six tin Eight:

NOVEL LUG-GAGE FOR RAILWAYS.
In fact there was
An Irish woman travelling per London and North-
Western Railway, from Liverpool to Manchester the
other day, having secured tickets for herself and two
"Glass,"
aboutit
that any 1114" particular care was re •
children, presented a large box, say 4 feet by 2 feet, and
2 feet deep, to the porters, which was placed at the top
of one of the carriages. The box was not marked
nothing
in its transmission, and when the train reachedcluMisite
cheater it is said to have been sent down the slide from
top of the carriage on which it had rested sans nal
oorin.d'iTcalsteis
monie, and alighted with a bump on the cell-
landing-stage
which was calculated to produce concussion of the brain,
if the box had possessed brains. But the porters
never supposed the box did contain any brains, and
they treated it like any other box. The Irish woman
m
claimed the box, and but for a
nothing more would probably haveher
part
nothing been thought
either of her or her luggage. She made t
ade fhe
slight mistake, however, On getting the box free of cost
from the porters, of opening it before she left the staticl,
when out sprung two children who had been packed in-
side, and who fortunately, it seems, had escaped either
being smothered or getting concussion of the brain from
this hazardous mode of treatment. The railway people
now put in a claim for carriage, but who ever knew an
Irishwoman with any money under such circumstanrally
ces?
" Get blood out of a stone," is an were gene
applicable to such cases; and, as they were not disposed
to retain the children, the box and a few clothes which
d. to pay," are
now lie at the station marked 2s. 7cli
till the satisfaction they obtained, or are ever likely te
obtain. he children were 10 to 12 years of age, and
had beenT packed with a head at either end of the box,
and, except a little bit of wood which appeared to have
been aidentally chipped off one side of the lid, had no
openingcc for the admission of fresh air or ventilation.

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suite. We need not enter into a description of these,
but may state our impression that the furnishing of
her Majesty's
Victoria and Albert has nothing finer.
There are deck cabins for the attendants upon his
Highness and suite, and there is also an apartment
for the Pasha's pipe and smoking apparatus, and the
cooking range, the operations in which will be prin-
cipally done with charcoal. A magnificent awning
covers the main deck and poop. It is of rich silk
damask, worked to an original design, with deep silk
fringe and hangers, It is covered with fire-proof
cloth, to guard against any damage by sparks from
the funnel. The quarter-deck and poop are covered
with oilcloth.
In point of decoration the outside of the yacht is
worthy of the interior. It is adorned in the highest
style of art, agreeably to the taste of the country for
which this little floating temple of costliness and
beauty is intended. Round all the windows, from
stem to stern, are carved and gilt architraves, and the
bulwarks are ornamented with carved fretwork, re-
lieved with gold. The paddle. boxes are alto highly
ornamented, and on a shield in the centre is the ves-
sel's name in Arabic—viz., the " Faid Reber 6." The
figure-bead is composed of his Highness's crest,
supported by two lions richly gilt. The hull is
painted a rich green colour, and is literally one blaze
of gold from stem to stern.
The Fsid Rabani will proceed to sea about the Ist
of September, under the charge of Captain Brown
and a trustworthy crew and able engineers. She will
as auxiliary to her steam-
cpaorwr, ye r sailsbu to
tnhjeus jury-masts, - tswmilarsbe,
removed on her arrival in
Egypt. Her station will, of course, be permanently
on the the Nile, and, from her light draught of water,
she will be able to sail up the " Father of Rivers"
from the Delta till within twenty miles of the first
cataract—in all, a distance of about 800 miles. We
may add that these external gorgeous fitting will all
be removed from the yacht before she sets sail, and
that her hull, down to the water-line, will be covered
to protect her from injury by the sea. Once out,
however, a couple of days will serve W reit Iterlis' *leo
is destined to remain.
Messrs. Tod and 'Macgregor, of Glasgow, have
been selected to undertake the entire contract of
building and fitting up this gorgeous pleasure ship,
which they have effected by securing the services of
the most eminent artists in Great Britain and France.
We have no doubt that these gentlemen could have
sent out two magnificent ocean steamers with less
trouble to themselves. But " sweet is pleasure after
pain ;" their past anxieties will be consoled by the
fact that they are the builders of the most splendid
steam-yacht in the world. All the operations have
been personally superintended on the part of his
Highness Abbas Pasha, by Senan Effendi—a gentle-
man highly qualified for the task. He was one of 20
Egyptian youths sent to England in 1829 by the late
Viceroy, Mehemet Ali, to acquire the English lan-
guage and the art of shipbuilding, which he did,
partly in Portsmouth and partly in Sheerness dock-
yards, during a residence of nine years in the country.
He returned to Alexandria in 1838, and filled an
important office in the public dockyards there until
dispatched, in September of last year, to superintend
the construction of the Faid Rahn&

STEAM-YACHT for the PASHA of EGYPT.
The attention of the numerous visitors to the Clyde
at this season has been attracted by a steam yacht
lying in the dock of Messrs. Tod and Macgregor, the
well-known steam-ship builders. The embellishments
of this vessel, which will be ready for sea in a week,
are of such a gorgeous character as to lead to the be-
lief that in this case the power of wealth and the in-
genuity of man could go no further. This steam-
yacht is intended for the use of his Highness Abbas
Pasha, the Viceroy of Egypt, during his excursions
upon the Nile, and as the " Faid Reber*" or "Di-
vine Favour," as she is named, is beyond all doubt
the most brilliant steam-vessel ever fitted up, some
short description of her may not be out of place before
she leaves our shores for her ultimate destination.
The Nile, in bygone times, has been associated with
all that is magnificent in the material and construe •
tion of her princely barges ; for speaking of the
aquatic progresses of the beauteous Cleopatre,
the historians tell us " that the whole poop of
her ship flamed with gold ; the sails were purple,
and the oars inlaid with silver, which kept time to
the softest music. A pavilion of cloth of gold was
raised upon deck, under which appeared the Queen,
robed like Venus, and surrounded by the most beau-
tiful virgins of her Court, of whom some represented
the Nereids and others the Graces. Perfumes burnt
on the deck, which spread their odours to a great dis-
tance upon the river on each side of its banks, which
were covered-with an infinitude of people' -co tom-the'
novelty of the scene had drawn thither.' The bosom
of the Nile is again destined to bear the most splendid
vessel which the world has seen, propelled by steam-
power, and excelling in beauty and costliness the
barge of the renowned Queen of Egypt -as far as
modern art and science excel those of the ancients.
To afford the usual statistics, we have to state that
the Faid Rabane is a most exquisitely modelled little
steamer of the following dimensions, viz. :
Keel and fore-rake ••• ... 180 feet.
Breadth of-beam... ••• . . 20 „
Depth of hold .. •••
••• 9 If
Draught of water
• • 3 11
Power -of engines ... 150 horses.
The ship is furnished with oscillating engines, has
feathering paddles, and performs thirteen knots an
hour without the slightest perceptible vibration.
These engines are bright with brass and steel work,
and are altogether finished with the same taste and
care which a superior workman would use in turning
out a gold watch. Although the vessel has an ordi-
nary escape pipe, it will not be used, for the steam
will be blown into the water from the sides-of the
yacht ; and his Highness and Court will escape those
drenchings of condensed vapour which occasisnally
make such havoc of ladies' dresses. She has three
safety-valves, and a beautiful small brass donkey en-
gine, quite independent of the others, which is used•
for supplying the boilers with water when the large
engines are still.
The principal features of this ship, however, are her
interior furnishings and decorations, which, when
completed, will realise all that has ever been dreamt
of in connexion with Oriental splendour. Some no-
tion of the extent and magnificence of these fittings
may be learnt from the fact that 500 men in Glas-
gow and elsewhere have been employed upon them for
some time past, and are still working night and day.
Here is all that is beautiful in the carver's and painter's
art, and all that is gorgeous from the looms of
Lyons and Spitalfielda. There are, in short, no
fewer than 450 pictures, of separate subjects, set in
frames, almost any one of which would adorn the
drawing-room of a prince. To notice these decora-
tions, however, more in detail, we may state that
from the main-deck the visitor enters his Highness's
reception-room, which is in the poop—an apartment
of unrivalled beauty, fitted up with the richest rose-
wood bulkheads, doors, &c , the panels of which are
Bled with those beautiful pictorial designs, on papier
=chi, to which we have referred, and set in the
most elaborately carved and gilt frames. The di-
vans, which extend round the saloon, are covered
with costly cloth of gold, from the front of which is
suspended gold embroidered needlework, and mas-
sive gold bullion fringe ten inches its depth. Between
the windows are a series of l)asatl e-alnittvAa Attire=
cions stones, executed by the new patent gem-ena-
melling process. These are set in frames, carved in
black walnut, and gilt in mat and burnished gold.
The ceiling between the beams (which are of maho-
gany, French polished) is filled with designs of fruit
and flowers on papier mache panels, enriched with
gold border mouldings. Round each door are richly
carved and gilt architraves and pilasters, all of diffe•
rent designs, and representing various lovely floral
combinations.
Entering off the saloon on the starboard side, is his
Highness's bed-room, which is fitted up in a corre-
sponding style of elegance and grandeur. On the lar-
board side is his Highness's dressing-room, similarly
adorned; and adjoining these is the bath-room, the
floor and sides of which are lined with marble. Round
the windows are curtains of gold damask, edged with
gold lace and fringes, surmounted by carved and gilt
cornices, and valances of crimson silkvelvet ,
em-
broidered with needlework of gold ,with fuchsias,
fringe, tassels, &c., all of the rarest gold manufacture.
Enclosing every oor are also gold damas r a
k curtains
of aidifferent design, and all
ofedgehich the d with gold lace,
wre are five,
fringes, &c. The mirrors,
are enclosed by curtains of similar material ; for it
seems to be the custom of tthes.o_rsiee.ntals to cover their
In the centre of
mirrors, except when in sell u
stands a rich circular
the floor of this reception-
rosewood table, supported oan.ndolpbheinaus,ticfouvierefrduwititahnda
splendid table-oloth, present'
with
massive gold lace,
floral designs, and edged wit
fringe, and tassels. if possible, decked out in a
The lower cabins are,
style of still greater costliness
cious a n ms
taagi
rnciafiscee, necne:
The descent to them is by a spa-
orned with stained
ad
closed with mahogany, an ,
achem panels, got up in the
glass windows and papier
The steps of the stairs are
highest style of the art.
glass, painted with gold
laid with very thick P
-recious stones in mosaic
borders, and represen-tliantge
work. At top and bott.omp.of this unique flight of
plated columns of fine
steps are four large
chased work, between swilhviecrh-.are fixed. the handrails,
designs in carved fretwork.
and filled in with pleasing
these. stairs, is a spa-
of rosewood. At the bottom of
cious lobby, fitted up with
polibranchshed
bl
rbird's-eye
yt
hee maple
and elegant panels, from
wsuite, with baths, &c. Pro-
ceeding
wait-
ing-rooms for the Pasha'snter the dining saloon, which
inward, we e
a fine apartment, about 20 feet square, fitted up also
s
in maple, with papier mache pan.elst,. and adorned with
a most brilliant cluster of pain Inge, representing
animals of the farm-yard, the forest, and the desert.
Some of the latter are painted in the act of killing
of the bear and
their prey, and others, especially
monkey tribes, are thrown off in very comical atti-
tudes. It is worth while to notice that the human
figure is not in any part introduced, as being con-
trary to the religious notions of the Orientals. On
each side of the dining -room are placed large divans
of richly carved rosewood, covered with crimson and
gold damask, with gold embroidery and fringes 113
character similar to the adornments in the saloon
above. In the centre is a rosewood table like that
already noticed. In this hall are various other most
exquisite furnishings, which it would be tedious 8°
enumerate in detail.
At the end of the dining saloon, and towards the
stern, are two large mirrors, between
n entrance
pair of folding doors, and through themwsit
la very rich
obtained into another lobby, fitted upce which are
its
finely deco-
satinwood bulkheads, the whole P
rated. On each side of placed cabi-
nets, with carved fretwork andyte.
this lobbifts-a..r
ageless doors, for
From this lobby
the reception of gold or silverof eda
his Highness is ap-
the private retiring sa.rin,...artment corresponds in
preached. This beautiful
anr
_c:rdinary steamer. It is
and surrounded with
position with the cabsinniatvocd
fitted up with rich
floiwers
and gold damask on a
divans, covered with festooned with embroidered
cued,
massive gold bullion fringe 15
rich white satink,gar nd
gold needlefofrront.
Round the windows, doors, &c.,
inches deep innd
gold damask curtains, with gold
are white
in stylea similar totheupper. saloon. At _
cornices,a richly carved and
end of this apartment. are placed
gilt table and mirror, and in the centre a beautiful
ble
papier mache' two chairs, inlaid with pearl
ta and
and adorned with designs of birds and flowers. The
ceilings of this and the rest of the lower cabins are
covered with gold damask, worked according to ori-
ginal designs, with flowers, &c., and bearing his
Highness's crest in the centre, each panel forming a
complete design of itself.
The floors of these cabins, as well as that of the
poop saloon are covered with gorgeous carpets, which
for beauty of design and workmanship and richness of
texture far exceed any of the tamed productions of
Brussels which we have seen, and we have pride in
stating that they are of Glasgow manufacture. We
may add that each carpet is worked in a single
piece. All the doors of the different apartments,
both in the upper and lower saloons, are surmounted
with richly-carved and gilt architraves and pilasters,
enclosed with curtains. The locks, hinges, and han-
dles of the doors are richly plated on German Inver,
and they, as well as the finger-plates, are exquisitely
chased.
The fore cabin contains twelve separate apartments
for the accommodation of the Pasha's officers and

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
DAILY NEWS.—Our readers cannot fail to have
rpeienacaerokfeidhttehleligcoenheetinuthaal appearancetmighthe ht
inte our columns
, mns,
Theofa
Cambridge University Commission shard a meeting yes-
terday." The portion of our paper which contains this
ntains this
reiterated announcement would be incomplete without
it, and the number of yesterdays chronicled and to be
chronicled threatens to be such as to promise to the
Commission an age equal to that of a Chancery suit
under the venerable Eldon. Now, with all due respect
to the Commissioners, they are losing their time. The
evidence they will have in their power to bring forward.
will be, as the French have it, like mustard after dinner.
The Oxford Commission has exhausted the subject. No
one after Mr. Stanley's able report need be at any loss
for materials upon which a judgment may be founded
on the University question. That report, and the evi-
dence which accompanied it, showed most clearly that .
the present University government and administration
is an undoubted usurpation, and in opposition to, all the
principles which presided st the foundation,
not only of the University, but of the Colleges.
It showed that the University of Oxford was
originally like all the other universities of
western Europe, an association of teachers united only
by mutual interest—that it chose its own legislative
body and executive officers, its constitution being essen-
tially
democratic. The report further showed, that
when the University had acquired such distinction, as a
place of education, as to make the participation in its
advantages a matter of great desire, benevolent persons
founded " houses of charity" where poor persons might
reside while studying at the University town. That the
lorleess in thesee..tes-eueeesdeflaasariestketir,to obserieeite
a life of poverty and study, and to the performance of
religious ceremonies which cannot now be performed.
That a rigid rule of life was laid down. Further it was
shown, that the value of the property left to these
" houses of charity" increasing, the influence of the
tenants for the time being increased also, and to such
a degree that they were enabled to exclude all other
teachers but themselves—in fact to absorb the Univer-
sity. The poor " houses of charity" have become rich
colleges, sharing amongst them about 150,0001. a year
derived from real property, and an enormous sum de-
rived from students' tees. They allow no one to come
to the University unless as a member of a college, and
thus convert a great national institution into a private
establishment, managed for the benefit of a clique. Of
course similar evidence will be brought forward against
Cambridge. That University also will be proved to have
fallen into the hands of the tenants of the ancient
" houses of charity." It will be shown that democra-
-o°ll institutions have been revolutionised into oligar-
chical,—that large funds have been grossly misapplied,—
and,in short, that Cambridge has not boon far behind
Oxford in the work of destruction. All this evidence,
it is clear, we might well spare; and the same might be
said of the inferences to be founded on them, as Mr.
Stanley's report contains nearly all that can be said
upon the subject. In the meantime there is something
left for the Commissioners to do which might well make
their labours as valuable to the nation as those of the
Oxford Commission. Although a little is said in the
report of the latter body about the extension of the
studies of the University, the question could not be gone
into fully. Now—reform everything else in the
Universities and leave the curriculum of studies
alone, and you will have done bat little to-
wards nationalising the institutions. The nation
will never be brought into sympathy with the
Universities until the education there becomes national.
The great learned men in England at the present day
are not those who have edited Greek plays, or written
Latin verse; they are those whose studies have resulted
in flinging tubular bridges over straits, in bringing one
portion of the island into closer connexion with another
part by means of railways—in transmitting message:
with the speed of lightning—in multiplying
to an incalculable extent by means of machinPrLlutdk
our resoni:ese_
any of the foremost men in the country what is g
lop
man the necessary education of a distinevisee
man of the present day, and he will et
list of subjects any one of
study and toil to master.
these will the Universities
recognise. Out of the vast ocetan
day,o you a long
will require deep
But
tOxford or Cambridge
I human knowledge
wothichobserve, not one of
our Universities
as it is known at the present
or two bays and inlets,
are content with surveying
open to us the road to
lasiiia °the labours of the daring
have The The Universities do not ex-
immeasurable e
smiling
navigators
Ir. aiSialll mind. They have confined them-
pand with the natio°
r gnition of excellence in two or three
selves toand treat the rest of the large map
it were non-existent. Now, we
more from a university than this.
hb branches a nil cut!
as nof
E e i that
en
enc.-
zdecYcp
dot e -
have a rig
national
department in which intellectual eminence
lance 411 erfitself. The honours and rewards of the
can manifest
should be bestowed
ll those w o are pre-eminent in intellectual
ego,' 8-
.any of those divisions of science which
Universities, as national institutions,
acnievements in .
modern discoveries have brought to light, and upon
which the prosperity and the civilisation of the world
depend. There is no reason why, up to a certain point, the
Universities should not be prepared to instruct the 3 outh of
the country in the whole encyclopaedia of science, ab-
stract and industrial. If this were the case, the students
and professors of all branches of learning, scientific and
practical, would be brought into close communion. The
result would be something like an intellectual republic.
There would be no aristocracy of the professors of one
or two branches of learning. The spinner of Latin
verses would be forced to recognise that his achieve-
ments were neither in kind nor degree superior to those
of the man who had thoroughly mastered the know-
ledge of the principles of mechanical science. The
skilful analyst would no longer arrogate to himself a
university degree, to the exclusion of the discoverer of a
new motive power. The possessors of intellectual
might would be all brought closer together, however
their pursuits might diverge, and the Universities
would be elevated into the position they ought to oc-
cupy as interpreters, and in some sense directors, of the
national mind.
he -

THE PEROZEPORE EMIGRANT SHIP.—Among the
passengers who left this country for Australia in the Feroze-
pore, which sailed from the Downs on the 2d of July last,
was a brother of a tradesman of Southampton. He took
out with him two nephews, youths about fourteen and six-
teen years of age, to seek their fortune in the golden country.
Letters were received in Southampton, by way of Havre,
from each of these three individuals on Saturday last. The
followin is an extract from one of them : " Lat. 12.30 N.,
lon. 26.30 W. The Ferozepore, July 23, 1852. All well
on board; no sickness whatever. We have passed several
vessels from London and Liverpool, which left a week and a
fortnight before us. We have ninety-eight passengers on
board. Amongst them are Dl!ssrs. Moyle and Edwards, for-
merly officers in the West India Company's service, also Mr.
Wilkinson, of Southampton, with a party of miners. We
have bad a remarkably fine run, and have every prospect of
a most prosperous voyage. In the Bay of Biscay we ran
twelve miles an hour. In
.the bay also a man was discovered
concealed on board. He is now working his way out- We
have seen plenty of. sharks. We are about six hundred
miles north of the line, and have got apparently into a
rainy quarter. We shall call at Brazil. The captain is
going to try a new route. We have bread instead of bis-
cuit. Good French rolls are made on board every morning.
' Several passengers have falterers on board. There are two,
however,
.belonging to the ship. We fare exceedingly well.
1 The captain in the afternoon comes and plays With tlfl with
the ropes; 59 do many of the pa,ssengers."
I