The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-24 00:00:00

Translated ftom the German of Dr. PICKFORD

"Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent practi-
cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first
time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the nos-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
.owor to correct.'l—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1851.
"We promised in a former number that we should recur to this
work, in order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author lashes
with great severity the impostors who make a livelihood by preying
on thq credulity of the public. lie tribe of Quiet Symathisers,'
and ' Medical Friends,' are mercilessly exposed ; and if this hook
could find its way into the hands of those who stiffer from th com-
plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many lundreds would
be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of
less Importance, though it is that which tip's quacks most prize—
much money --This volume is well qualified to put an end to the
empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the treat-
"v'nt upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore,
,Ikely to do much good. Medical Circular, June 16, 1852.
No. 11.
Avo.. in cloth, price 38. 6d., by post free, 48.,
THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF TILE URETHRA, on Princi•
pips at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Inveterate
and apparently Intractable Forms.

BY F. B. COURTENAY,
Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

"In proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has given
history of a great many cases successfully treated, as had
any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had operated.
auch aro cases IL, Xt., xii., and xvlli. No. ix. had res'sted, ibr a
period of twelve yeti's, the treatment by dilitation, and was flnslly
removed in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xix. appear, both.
In duration, 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 eminently successful.'
—Professor Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.)

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sack at five o'clock.
Lord BEAUMONT gave notice that, on Friday, he
would call attention to a treaty concluded relative to
the succession to the Crown of Denmark,
The Earl of MALMESBURY gave notice that, on
Friday, he would put a question to the Foreign Secre-
tary as to the negotiation going on between Russia and
Turkey.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH gave notice that on
the Gth of June, in moving for correspondence he would
comment on the measure which was to be introduced on
the 3d of June, in the other house, for the government
of India.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a, petition from Sir A.
Stewart, complaining of the depreciation of property in
the West Indies. The noble and learned lord touched
at some length on recent colonial legislation, and also
animadverted very severely on the attempts lately
brought to light to introduce slaves on the coast of
Cuba. He concluded by asking the Government whether
they were aware to whom the blame of these proceedings
was to be attributed ?
The Earl of CLARENDON said he was sorry to say
that the slave trade was carried on to a considerable ex-
tent in Cuba, and that, although our Consul-General at
the Havannah was indefatigable in his efforts bo bring
these proceedings to light, he was, owing to the peculiar
laws of Cuba on the subject, unable always to suc-
ceed. He could, however, assure the noble and
learned lord that no endeavour on the part of
the Government would be spared to put an end to the
traffic. The Spanish Government had recently given
the most solemn assurances that the treaties should be
rigorously adhered to.

After a few words from Lord BROUGHAM and Lord
WHARNCLIFFE, the subject dropped.

INDIA.- TREATMENT OF THE NATIVES.

Lord ELLENBOROUGH begged to know Nriether
there was any objection to produce the proceedings of
three courts-martial which had been held in India, on
Mr. -, a lieutenant in one of therßengal cavalry re-
giments. In 1850 this gentleman had been tried for
drawing his sword on his superior officer on parade, and
since that time he had been tried, within little more
than one month, on three separate charges, for striking
three natives---one of them a member of a caste in high
esteem with the Hindoos. For these offences he had

been fined six months' pay and put back several steps ;
but he was still allowed, it would appear, to remain an
officer of the ar my—that army upon the fidelity and de-
votion of which depended altogether the maintenance of
our dominion over India, which fidelity and devotion
depended on their respect for their European masters.
(Hear, hear.) The house might be assured there
was great danger in permitting persons who had
been guilty of such outrages as these upon the natives
to remain in the army. (Hear, hear.) He trusted that
the officer to whom he had referred would be taken to
answer for his offences before the Supreme Court, and
if found guilty, which there seemed little doubt he would
be, be dismissed the army. Should the Court of Direc-
tors decline to dismiss him, it was competent in her
Majesty, by an order under her sign manual, to dismiss
the offender.

Earl GRANVILLE said, that the home authorities
anxious to do all in their power to protect the natives of
India from cruelty, oppression, or other wrong, bad
issued a general regulation that any officer in the Indian
army found guilty of having committed any such offence
against the native population should be cashiered, and,
sent to England. He had no doubt that the next mail
would bring word, if the offenee complained of had been
proved, that the offender had been punished in pur-
suance of that regulation. (Hear, hear.)
COMMON LODGING-HOUSES BILL.

The bill passed through committee pro forma.
CHIMNEY-SWEEPERS' REGULATION ACT
AMENDMENT BILL.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved that the report
on this bill be received.
The Earl of CLANCARTY opposed the bill. With
respect to Ireland, the result of his inquiries was, that to
a great extent the act which the noble earl desired by the
present bill to enforce uniformly had been carried out ;
but in some instances it was found impracticable to apply
machinery to .old houses. In the west of Ireland peat
was burnt, and the soot arising therefrom got into a
hard cake, which it was found impossible to remove by
the machinery at present used. In order, therefore, to
prevent crude and impracticable legislation, he should
move that a select committee on the subject should be
appointed, and that its report should be considered
before the biT.l was read a third time.
Lord BEAITMONT wished the noble lord who had
just sat down. had moved the rejection of the bill, which
appeared to be erroneous and dangerous in principle, and
in its details ineffective and miserable. This was not a
bill to prevent boys going up or descending chimneys ;
for already, he was sorry to say, an act for that object
had been passed, but it was a bill to prevent boys, he
might almost call them young men, under the age of 16
from carrying a bag and a brush for the purpose of as-
sisting the cleaners of chimneys. If their lordships
passed an act to prevent that occupation he did not
know where they could stop, and, where it not for the
high character of the noble earl, the originator of the
bill, he should be disposed to designate the measure as
the effusion of pitiful cant and pseudo-humanity. He
wished that the existing act had never been passed, be-
cause he believed that the effect had been that a fe w
more houses had been burnt than would have been other-
wise. He admitted that there was cruelty in forcin g
children up ill-constructed chimneys, but that might be
obviated by laws having reference to the construction of
chimneys. He objected to this constant interference by
the Legislature in alt matters of private trade, and he
suggested that the bill should be reported that day si
months.

Lord PANMURE deemed it not unbecoming in that

house to throw the shield-Ofits protection over infants
not able to protect themselves. That had been done int
respect to factories, and it was especially necessary to,
do the same in the case to which the present bill referred,
because there was no trade in which infants were ex-
posed to so much wanton cruelty as in the trade of chim-
ney-sweeping. He knew that the lives of many hun-
dreds of poor children had been saved by the existing
act, and as that prohibited the master sweeps from taking
apprentices under 16 years of age, the present bill was
intended to guard against the evasion of the law by pre-
venting children under 16 years of age being employe&
in the chimney-sweeping business uncler the name or
assistants, and being then forced into chimneys becausee
the owners of the houses would not incur the trifling
expense necessary for rendering the flues adapted tee
machine sweeping. He did not regard this as an in .
fringement of the principle of free labour ; but he con
ceived it to be just such a protection as their lordship
were bound to throw round a class of persons who wer,
too helpless to protect themselves.
Lord ST. LEONARD'S thorght their lordships :
should be careful not to adopt any course that might
tend to de3troy the chimney-sweeping trade. It was a
trade which they could not do without, but at the sam,
time every body must be desirous to remove any abuse:
that were connected with it. As the law now stood,
chimney-sweeping by boys was not only prevented, but
also cruelty to boys, and therefore to that extant the.
case was provided for. He had been informed that;
there were times when it was absolutely necessary to•
send persons up chimneys to extricate the machines ;
that even in that house, on occasions where the instru-
ment got up a chimney in which one flue communicated
with another, it was impossible to extricate the machine
without sending somebody up. (Hear, hear.) If a man
was too large, then a boy must be sent up—not to sweep
the chimney, but ,to extricate the machine. Now, IT
the law, as it stood at this moment, a boy might.

be sent up a chimney to extricate a machine, though
it was unlawful to employ him in sweeping it ; but
the bill of the noble earl proposed that nobody under
16 should be employed to assist a master chimney-
sweep within any house. (Hear, hear.) By such an
enactment they would embarrass the trade, without
doing any real good. (Hear.) He hoped, therefore,
the noble earl would take further time to consider this
question, and when he had produced a measure really
calculated to remove the abuses that now existed, be
would find no more earnest supporter than himself.
The Earl of WICKLOW concurred very much in the
views taken upon this subject by the noble lord below
him (Lord Beaumont). The noble earl had given no good
and definite reason why this measure should be carried
into effect. The only reason he gave for it was, that the
late act was evaded by boys being smuggled into houses
as persons carrying bags or brushes, and then by stealth
put up the chimney ; but the law as it stood was so strin-
gent, that it was almost impossible it could be evaded in
this way, The act was not evaded in London, because
the 'penalties were well known there, and if the noble
earl would only circulate bills to let the people in the
country generally know what the penalties were, as little
evasion would take place in country districts. lie, there-
fore, looked upon this as a useless piece of legislation.
The noble earl (Paumure) said the law interfered for
the protection of children. That was true, but the law
did not prevent them entering into a trade under 16. If
this bill passed, there would be a penalty imposed on a
chimney-sweeper for taking his own son to assist him in
his trade. (Hear, hear.)
The Duke of ARGYLL said, the chief argument in
favour of this bill was the fact, that the former act to
prevent children being employed in chimney-sweeping
was evaded. It was notorious that such evasion took
place, and therefore they were called upon to prevent it.
Of course, if any noble lords were of opinion that the for-
mer act was a bad act, he could understand their opposi-
tion to the present bill, but those who approved of the
first act ought to approve of the present also. (Hear.)
The noble earl (Wicklow) said that the Legislature, in
interfering in the case of children, never prevented their
entering a trade ; but, to make his observation applica-
ble to the present case, everything depended upon what
he meant as the trade of chimney-sweeping. The bill
before their lordships prevented young persons being
employed " within any house,"—these words having
been added to the bill by the noble earl. It was plain,
therefore, that children might be employed out of doors.
Lord MONTEAGLE said, the bill prevented any per-
son under 16 years of age from using the trade of a
chimney-sweeper within any house. Now, by a stand-
ing order of their lordships, it was provided that no bill
for "regulating the conduct of any trade," or "altering
the laws of apprenticeship," should be read a second time
till a select committee should have considered and re-
ported on the expediency or inexpediency of the house
proceeding to take the matter into consideration. The
object of this order was clearly to prevent hasty legisla-
tion on these matters, and he believed it was impossible
for any bill to come more distinctly under its provisions
than the present. He therefore called upon their lord-
ships to enforce their standing order in this case. (Hear.)
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY might not have been
sufficiently acquainted with the orders of their lordships'
house ; but, as to the merits of this question, nothing
should ever induce him to recede from the position
which he had taken up. (Hear.) With regard to the ob-
servations of the noble baron opposite (Lord Beaumont),
who had spoken with so much force against legisla-
tion upon this matter, he could only say that he trusted
in God he should ever fall under his censure, and under
the censure of all those who, with him, could apply to
the course he had taken a charge of cant and miserable
legislation. He rejoiced in the observation the noble
lord had made, and ho rejoiced that the noble lord had
nothing more tangible to bring against the measure which
he had introduced to their lordships' notice. (Hear,
hear.) The noble lord had told them that the act of
1840 had produced no good whatever. Now he had
great reason to complain that he and other noble lords
rose to make statements upon this subject while they
were not able to corroborate. Having no knowledge of
the class of which they spoke, not having given them-
selves the trouble to inquire personally among the people
themselves, to perambulate the streets in which they
lived, and to go into the dens of human misery where
they were to be found, they nevertheless came before
their lordships and affirmed that the late act had pro-
duced no beneficial effects whatever. Now, he totally
denied the statement of the noble lord. He could pro-
duce the most convincing testimony to show that consi-
derable advantages had arisen from that act ; that there
were hundreds and thousands of children, who, but for
that act, would have been employed in this disgusting
and degrading occupation, now engaged, after being
educated in trades and occupations that were worthy of
the dignity of free men and the privileges of a Christian
people. (Hear, hear.) It seemed to be thought that
the sweeping-machines and the system of chimney-
doors could not be used except at great expense, and
without breaking the ornamental parts of drawing-
rooms ; but the fact was, they could be constructed
at a very small cost indeed, and if they prevented alto-
gether the occupation of climbing boys, these chimney
doors would be universally used, for here was not a
house in any part of the kingdom, however old it might
be, where they could not be erected at a small expense.
The noble lord said that fires had greatly increased in
consequence. [Lord Beaumont dissented.] Did the
noble lord now repeat to the house the assertion that,
in consequence of the act of 1840, fires had occurred or
increased ? If not, the noble lord had, in his place in
Parliament, without inquiring, and with the view of
exciting a feeling against this act, and to induce their
lordships to throw out the present measure, made a very
wide and untenable statement.
Lord BEAUMONT explained, that ho had made in-
quiry as to the truth of the facts to which he referred.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY expressed a hope that
their lordships would not take on themselves the re-
sponsibility of defeating a measure intended to remedy a
condition worse, if possible, than that of slavery.
The Earl of ABERDEEN entered fully into the feel-
ing which animated the noble earl on this subject. At
the same time he would recommend the noble earl, with
a view to maintaining the regularity of their proceed-
ings in that house, to allow the bill to be referred to a
select committee. It was understood that the commit-
tee would not enter into any
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The bill was referred to a select committee.
Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-:—(YESTERDAY. )
The SPEAKER took the chair at five minutes to four
o'clock.

PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The Lords' amendments to the following bills were
considered and agreed to :—Salford Extension and Im-
provement ; Teignmouth Harbour and Teign Navigation.
The following bills were read a third time, and
passed :—Gravesetid and Wrotham Road ; Great Extra-
mural Cemetery Association ; Kilkenny and Great South-
ern and Western Railway ; Ludlow Cattle Market and
Slaughter-houses ; Manchester Improvement ; Midland
Railway; North British Railway; Staines, Wokingham,
and Woking Junction Railway ; Swaffhana and Bottisham
Drainage (No. 2) ; Weston-super-Mare Waterworks ;
York Drainage and Sanitary Improvement and Foss
Navigation ; Edinburgh Waterworks (No. 2).
The reports upon the following bills were considered
and agreed to, and the bills were ordered to be read a
third time :—London, Brighton, and South Coast Rail-
way ; North and South Western Junction Railway ;
Sunderland Dock ; Wildmore Fen and East and West
Fens ; Great Western Railway (Henley).
The following bills were read a second time :—Aber-
deen Tailors' • Incorporation Estate, Fisher's Divorce,
Baroda and Central India Railway Company.