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(}N TRUE & FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA,
i with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors
relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility of the
'eerative System, or Sexual ilypoctiondriasis.

„ Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD
Dr. Picktord is known to English readers by his frequent practi-
i'' contributions to German medical literature. This is the first
„_.-41% he informs us, that he has as reseed himself to the non-medic
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hS equr'ly fiagrani ev' which it may L..) in s 'wer to correct.”
ilifmnilon Medical Gazette, Maw ), 1851. The tribe of Quiet Syma-
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YOUTH AND MATURITY.
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EXPENSE OF PARLIAMENT.—It is shown that the ex-
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PROPOSED RAILWAY TO NAIRN.—The committee of
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—the state of the money market precluding the possibi
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their names to be included in the provisional committee
of the short line in question. The ground has been
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railway contractor, who reports most favourably, and
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such as will insure the remunerative character of the
scheme. He will also take a considerable portion of the
stock ; there is no reason to doubt that the remainder
will readily be disposed of.--Inverness Courier.

THE EASTERN QUESTION.

( From the Morning Herald.)

We must repeat the warning which yesterday we
felt ourselves compelled to address to the people of
England. The support of England is not yet ho-
nestly and unreservedly and energetically given to
the Sultan in the war which he has at last been
forced to declare. The drivellers of our Cabinet
are still dreaming of peace by negotiation, and it
has been determined that before England commits
herself to actual hostilities with the Czar, the me-
diation of Prussia shall be invoked. Until the
opportunity for this arises nothing is to be done
that will commit this country to an open hostility
with Russ'a.

We may, perhaps, venture to ask of our readers
to give credence to this statement upon the faith of
the verification of all that we have hitherto pre-
dicted or told in relation to this question. We
may remind them, that at the time whc-1 every one
of our contemporaries represented the Eastern ques-
tion as brought to a close—when public opinion
acquiesced in these hopes, this journal persever-
ingly repeated the warning that these expectations
were mere delusions.

With the same confidence in the correctness of
our information with which we then maintained our
opinions in opposition to those whose judgment we
were bound to respect, we now emphatically tell
the British public, that it is not settled in our
Cabinet that England is to support Turkey in the
war which very likely has by this time commenced,
but that any active intervention of the British Go-
vernment is to be staved off until there is time for
another attempt at negotiation by the interventiox
of Prussia as a mediator.

It has been found impossible so to control the
movements of the Porte as to afford the opportunity
for this before a formal declaration of war. In
spite of the treacherous councils of his allies, the
Sultan has vindicated his own independence by
demanding the evacuation of the Principalities,
and declaring war if it be not complied with. This
step, we are told, he has taken in opposition to the
advice of the representatives of the four Powers.
Why was this advice (riven ? Plainly because it
was still believed that the door to negotiation had
not been closed, and that it was still possible to
find a pacific solution of the dispute that threatened
the peace of Europe.
The Sultan, however, having declared war, it
was impossible for France and England openly to
desert him. The necessary consequenc,) of that
proceeding was, that our fleets should enter the
Dardanelles. It has, however, been intimated by
the Emperor of Russia, that if the movements of
France and England are confined to this step, his
Imperial Majesty will not consider this as an act
of war, or as an act necessarily interrupting his
friendly relations with the Western Powers. It
has accordingly been determined that the move-
ment of our fleet shall be confined to this.
The public must not be deluded by demi-
official announcements that the fleets of France
and England are at the disposal of the Sul-
tan for any purposes for which he pleases
to employ them. We most emphatically and
positively state that they are not so. No com-
munication whatever has been made to the Porte
than it can use a British man of war for any pur-
pose whatever. The magnificent stories about
burning Sebastopol and mastering the Euxine, all
are dreams of the future. Up to the hour at which
the last advices left Constantinople, not a single
assurance had been given to the Sultan that Eng-
land would support him in the war which he has
undertaken, and the fleet has not offered its assist-
ance to the Turkish Government.

Thsse, it will be observed, are plain matters of
fact, upon which we can be contradicted and ex-
posed if we are wrong. Lord Clarendon has openly
stated that he has in one instance at least sent
official documents to the Times. We now defy
Lord Clarendon to contradict the statement which
we make. No communication has been made to
the Porte, assuring it of England's consent to the
war. No offer has been made of the services of our
fleet, either for the purpose of aggression or de-
fence. Nay, instructions have been sent which
prohibit the employment of our ships in support of
any movement that has for its object the dis-
lodgment of the Russian troops from the Princi-
palities.
In the meantime it is perfectly understood that
the Russian Government will abstain for the pre-
sent from attempting the passage of the Danube.
The presence of our fleet in the Sea of Marmora is,
therefore, for immediate purposes perfectly useless
—Russia can well afford not to resent it.
In this state of things intimations have been
given both to Austria and Prussia, and indirectly
at least to Russia, that the British Government
will accept of the mediation of Prussia when that
power sees the proper opportunity to interfere.
We do not of course profess to detail the precise
communications in which this plan has been ar-
ranged. But we can, and do positively, state that
the plan has been arranged, and that it is perfectly
understood that no active measures will be taken
by our Government to support Turkey until an-
other effort is made to avert the necessity by the
mediation of Prussia. On the other hand, it is
equally understood that no movement south of the
Danube will be made by the Russian troops until
time is given for the intervention of Prussia.

Unfortunately the Sultan—the party the most
interested—has not been consulted as to this
scheme. It is at least possible that as the
manoeuvres of diplomatists were before disconcerted
by the declaration of war, they may be again thrown
into confusion by the passage of the Danube by the
Turkish forces.

It is hoped, however, by the framers of the
scheme that even this untoward event would not
disconcert it. A hostile encounter, confined to the
Turks and Russians alone, would in their opinion
rather promote it. If the Turks were defeated on
the northern bank of the Danube it would be an
excuse for forcing unfavourable terms on the Porte.
It would not precipitate matters if the Russian
Emperor observes his implied engagement not to
cross to the southern. On the other hand, it is
calculated that a defeat of the Russian troops in
the provinces might not indispose the Emperor to
a pacific accommodation.
Upon these miserable calculations the energetic
action of England is suspended, and we are incur-
ring the risk of permitting the hostile armies to
cross swords on the Danube before England has
declared her position in the contest. We believe
the idea of now terminating the dispute by the
mediation of Prussia is absurd. The scheme has
been invented for the purpose of paralysing the
action of England and France, and for the further
purpose of attaching Prussia and Austria as allies
to the Czar. It is to be observed, of all the schemes
that have been propounded for the pacific solution
of this question, not one of them has involved the
suspension of hostile preparations by Russia.
While Turkey was engaged by the protocols of
Menschikoff, Russia was concentrating her troops
upon the Danube and the Euxine. The Princi-
palities were seized while diplomatists were framing
very clever dispatches. While Europe was amused
with the pacific efforts of the Vienna con-
ference, Russia was strengthening her position,
pouring fresh troops into the conquered pro-
vinces, and sequestering their revenues to her
own use. So now she is perfectly willing that
Europe should again be occupied in the follies of
pacific notes, while sbe is steadily and resolutely
pursuing her own course, retaining the pro tinces of
Turkey by an armed occupation, and resisting by
force any attempt of the Turkish Government to
dispossess her. For so far Europe has been nego-
tiating, while Russia has been making war. Until
the Russian troops evacuate the Principalities there
is no negotiation on equal terms. To engage in
any, while they are occupied by the troops, is to
betray the cause of European independence.
It is with deep mortification that we repeat our
statement, that the resolve of our Cabinet is to
keep aloof from active participation in the contest
until one more chance is tried for Lord Aberdeen
and the interests of peace. And upon this hope-
less chance our Ministry are perilling the cause of
the civilisation of the world.
It is absurd to say that these frantic efforts offer
the most remote prospect of peace. They are not
adopted in any rational conviction that they can
do so. They are the struggles of the Cabinet, not
to maintain the peace of Europe, but to keep toge-
ther the Coalition. To postpone the evil day of
their dissolution every crotchet is grasped at ; and
the determination of the question that must break
them up is postponed for even the crotchet of a
Prussian mediation.

THE CORPORATION AND THE ROYAL COMMISSION.—
The following fact, with reference to the forthcoming in-
quiry into the state of the corporation, and the proba-
bility of the sittings of the commissioners being open or
closed, is given on the authority of the secretary, Mr.
J. D. Coleridge :—" It is not the intention of the com-
missioners to admit reporters from the newspapers to be
in the room during their sittings. They propose to have
a shorthand writer of their own, and to print and cir-
culate the evidence given before them from time to
time."

REMOVAL OF TEMPLE•BAR.

(From. the Morning Chronicle. )

Temple-bar is, at the present moment, a conve-
nient scapegoat for sundry civic sins. It is in-
dicted on several accounts. It is an obstruction to
the traffic—it is ugly—and it perpetuates a ridiculous
fiction, viz., that absurd jets civitatis, so dear to
the heart of prentice and Common Councilman, by
which it is supposed that the Queen has to sue the
Lord Mayor for permission to enter within the
sacred precincts of his jurisdiction. Upon a recent
application to the Court of Common Council for
funds to repair the gate, the proposition, though
endorsed by a Select Committee, was rejected ;
and it is hence concluded that the prospects of the
poor old barrier are bad. The City has not actually
condemned it, but refuses to repair it. It is said
—upon what grounds we are not aware—that the
structure is in an insecure state. We do not our-
selves believe in its danger ; but the conclusion is
drawn that, as in the case of an ailing sheep, it
must be butchered to save its life.
We hardly know which to denounce most—the
flimsiness and folly of the arguments used for its
retention, or of those employed for its destruction
—the excuses we mean, which have been venti-
lated in the City, where, of course, the real point
at issue has been, and not unintentionally,
shirked. The state of the approaches to the City
is a disgrace ; and of this the public reasonably com-
plains. But the public is inquiring where the City
funds go—the Royal Commission is looming omin-
ously near—and so Temple-bar, being a solid struc-
ture, is made to bear the burden of all the inconve-
nience of the City streets. Temple-bar is the conve-
nient answex to all complaints of civic mismangement.
This is more 4poori,iy.- There is not—more shame
to the City—a decent and available arterial com-
munication through it ; and so the citizens lay the
blame on a passage which is out of the City. The
obstruction in the City always eddies round Lud-
gate-hill and Fleet-street, rather than at Temple-
bar. The City authorities seem to have succeeded
admirably in bringing a converging traffic to the
angle between Farringdon-street and Fleet-street
—they have done their best to choke the gorge at
that spot—and now they lay the blame on a com-
paratively open space half a mile further on. The
new Cannon-street and the new Gresham-street
will be perfectly ineffectual to relieve the traffic,
so long as its westward current is confined to Lud-
gate-hill and Fleet-street. Holborn-hill, on ac-
count of the draught required, is totally useless ;
and simply to drive shafts of communication, to
terminate, as Cannon-street at present does, in
nothing—or to melt_ off into Ludgate-hill, as it
will do—is equally nugatory. Unless a parallel
line to Ludgate-hill and Fleet-street is opened
westward, Cannon-street might as well have been
left unbuilt. Of course, what is wanted is a line
of new street carried from the west end of Cheap-
side annihilating the pestilential garbage cellars
of Newgate-market, removing the Central Criminal
Court, absorbing the site of the Fleet Prison, and
letting light, moral and physical, through the mass
of squalid courts, alleys, and lanes which form a
block between Farringdon-street and Charing-
cross.

This, and nothing short of this—for a southern

line is, we suppose, hopeless, with the solid ob-
struction presented by the Temple—would relieve
the traffic. Let us see how far Temple-bar inter-
feres with it. As everybody knows, it is a struc-
ture of three arches—a roadway and two footways,
divided by two piers, each 4 ft. 6 in. wide. Now
the real nuisance of Temple-bar is the footways,
which are little more than five feet wide. The
whole possible obstruction which Temple-bar can
offer to the traffic consists in that part of the pier
which projects into the roadway—that is, about
nine inches on each side. Temple-bar, then, is an
obstruction to the extent of exactly a foot and a
half. Were it pulled down to-morrow, the road-
way could not be enlarged two feet in the clear,
for any diminution of the present footway, even
with the pier space added, would be simply impos-
sible. If Temple-bar were pulled down, the road-
way would be only 20 feet wide.

The question then arises, is the magnificent gain
of two feet worth the destruction of the Bar ?
Unless the present roadway could be stretched 10
feet—that is, so as to make Fleet-street at that
point 30 feet wide, and thus allow the width
of another omnibus or waggon—not a single inch
would be gained, nor the remotest relief given to
the traffic. We question whether a roadway three
carriages wide is of much use. A street four car-
riages wide is something ; but, with room for only
three, there is always a struggle on the opposite
lines of traffic for the odd space. It is proposed to
pull down the whole north side of Fleet-street from
St. Dunstan's Church, and all the houses in the
Strand as far as the commencement of St. Cle-
ment's Crescent—that is, to give room for two car-
riages going eastward and two westward. This is
a sensible plan, and it is quite worthy of being
entertained. But this is a very different thing
from the demolition of Temple-bar. The mere
destruction of the gate, leaving the faeces between
Child's bank and the barber's shop as at present,
would not relieve the traffic one hair's breadth.
And all that is now proposed is to pull down that
structure—not to widen the street.
But it js said that the Bar is ugly, and there-
fore o4ht to come down. To which it is replied,
It was built by Sir Christopher Wren, and there-
fore it ought not to come down. We know not
whether the attack or the defence is the most irre-
levant. Its ugliness, which is a matter of taste,
is no sufficient reason for its demolition ; nor is the
fact that it is Wren's handiwork enough to retain
it. The matter ought to be settled on very differ-
ent grounds. Wren erected as many hideous
buildings, in which every principle of art is vio-
lated, as he built structures which prove his sur-
passing genius. And if all ugly buildings are to be
destroyed, as such, we had better make a clean
sweep, and level London from Tyburn to Mile-end.
As to ugliness, the jest of the Common Councilmen
destroying a building because it is, in their judg-
ment, unsightly, is a little too absurd. The Cor-
poration which destroyed the Guildhall Chapel,
and which permits the Guildhall to be what it is,
to talk of Temple-bar as ugly ! The Bar may be
ugly, or it may not ; but the City authorities are
no judges. When they have opened the roof of
Guildhall, and pulled down its ridiculous front,
we will allow them to think of passing judgment
on a work of architecture. At present they are
quite incompetent to deal with the subject.
But Temple-bar obstructs the ventilation, we
think we have heard it said. Not nearly so
much as the church just beyond it ; and if
the Bar is to be sacrificed on this ground,
we tremble for St. Clement's, and even for St.
Mary-le-Strand. The best argument which can be
urged in favour of Temple-bar is, that it is better
than nothing. In a bare, naked, hideous agglomera-
tion of dirty brick walls, which London is, we can
scarcely afford to lose one single inch of cut stone,
or of anything which affects ornament. Anything
which relieves the eye from the painful monotony
of range after range of grim brickwork, tastefully
diversified with oblong window slits, is not to be
lightly flung away. If we were now going to set
up a new archway or a barrier, it is possible, per-
haps probable—though after all doubtful—that the
artist of the Coal Exchange and of Billingsgate
might build a better gateway than the existing
Temple-bar. But as we are not likely to be blessed
with Mr. Bunning's triumphal arch—which might,
or might not, be better than Wren's, we had rather,
on the whole, have Temple-bar than nothing at all.
Its friezes are not perfect, but they are better than
the leaden sky. Its statues are not equal to
Michael Angelo's, but they are something. Temple-
bar cannot quite compare with the Doge's Palace,
or with the Flemish Town-halls • but still, any
structure of Portland stone—anything which looks
massive, and suggests labour and expense--any-
thing which breaks the horrible reiteration of dirty
house and dingy shop—is better than nothing. It
Is, at the worst, a very harmless solecism. It
obstructs neither traffic nor air. It has certain
historical associations. It recalls the days when it
had a purpose. It is the last relic which suggests
that London ever was a walled town. Stir-
ring old memories of murdered Jacobites and
non-jurors are connected with it. It is iden-
tified with the recollections of that great trader,
the first Child, who was the father of political
science. It does nobody any harm, and there are
at least as many who think it not so very ugly as
there are high architectural purists who denounce
it. At any rate, if it is to he destroyed, let it perish.
in the consummation of some grand plan for re-
arranging the whole neighbourhood. What is at
present proposed is pure, wanton, ignorant icono-
clasm, for no purpose or gain whatever either to
trade or taste.

Having said thus much in favour of the retention
of the gate, we fear that we shall neutralise our ad-
vocacy, in the eyes of the gentlemen who met on
Friday last to protect the poor old unoffending
Bar, if say that we cannot sympathise with their
pleas for it. They may all be resolved into the de-
sire to retain " the ancient barrier and landmark
, between the city of London and Westminster"--a

reason which ought to induce the guardiais of our
lacropolis to throw up a rampart, instead of the
ideal barricade of Holborn-bars, against the. fierce
horde of Westmonasterians pouring eastwar d. If
Temple-bar is to be retained only as the symbol of
city exclusiveness, we should say, Down with it ;
and no better time could be chosen for its demoli-
tion than that of the inauguration of Ulf) commis-
sion, which is likely enough to level me ire serious
remembrances of civic grasping and isoll.ition than
this gateway. Nor are we so enainow:ed of that
time-honoured and mystic ceremony iil which the
King of London slams the door ii'. the face of
the Queen of England, as to desire Its perpetua-
tion according to the sapient plan of Mr. Com-
mon Councilman Cox—who proposes to substitute
for Wren's structure a neat and portable iron-wire
fence, to swing backwards and forwards, for the
annual celebration of the great civic rites—or
rights. Perhaps Cox is an ironmonger, and wants
the contract ; but at any rate we can assure him
that, if Temple-bar goes, we are not going to sub-
mit to the tomfoolery of " bronze gates of a light
and elegant appearance." If Temple-bar is to fall,
it must fall. We have offered some considerations
for its retention ; but, if they do not avail with the
public—which, however, we are sanguine enough
to believe that they will—let Mr. Cox and the gen-
tlemen of Farringdon Without be assured that the
plea in favour of having something to perpetuate
the famous dialogue between the Queen's coach-
man and the Lord Mayor's lacquey, will not be
listened to for a moment.

TEMPLE-BAR, FLEET-STREET, AND THE
STRAND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.
SIR,—In your leading article of Monday last, on the
subject of the removal of Temple-bar, you insist very
properly on the necessity of a new thoroughfare from
the City to the West-end, running parallel to Fleet-
street and the Strand. You will, perhaps, allow (me,
as one whose daily duties oblige him to become cog-
nisant not only of the crowded state of the Strand be-
tween St. Mary's Church and Chancery-lane, but of the
miserable condition of the worst part of the district
which you point out as the site of the new thoroughfare,
to call your attention, and that of your readers, once
more to this subject.

I believe that I am correct in stating that two plans of a
thoroughfare in the direction which you point out have,been
already submitted to Government in connection with an
extension into the City. The first plan crosses Fetter-lane,
skirts the new Record-office, perforates Chancery-lane
opposite Carey-street, widens that street on the north
side, and runs on into Long-acre, after giving off a wide
branch into Holborn in a line with the west side of
Lincoln's-inn-fields, and two or more branches into the
Strand, one of which opens at Pickett-place, within a
stone's throw of Temple-bar. Tho second plan differs
from the first, partly in widening Carey-street on the
south instead of the north side, in order to avoid the
new buildings at King's College Hospital, and partly in
opening out fewer thoroughfares. This more economical
arrangement is understood to be dictated to the Board
of Works by want of funds, and as there is reason to
fear that even the second and less costly plan may not
he carried out for some years to come, I am anxious
to suggest the great relief which would be at once
afforded to the traffic of the Strand and Fleet-street,
in the neighbourhood of Temple-bar, by the opening
out of a loop line joining Newcastle-street, in the
Strand, to Fetter-lane. As you walk into the City,
Newcastle-street is on your left hand, immediately be-
yound St. Mary's Church. It is a thoroughfare of re-
spectable width, and ends to the north in Houghton-
street, which terminates by a cul de sac. The removal
of two houses at the end of this street would open a
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tween this point and the Record-office a small block of
houses only intervenes, and bars the access to the south
end of Fetter-lane. The destruction of about a dozen
houses, some of them of very little value, would, therefore,
supply us with a very sufficient present relief to the crowd-
ed thoroughfares on each side of Temple-bar. Whenever
the Strand and Fleet-street, between Somerset House
and Fetter-lane, happen to be obstructed by falling
houses or disturbed pavements, this new thoroughfare
would discharge very efficiently the duty now so slowly
and imperfectly performed by Holywell-street.
Allow me briefly to point out some of the advantages
attendant upon this improvement. In the first place,
two important public buildings would be rendered ac-
cessible—l mean the new Record-office and King's Col-
lege Hospital. In the next p'ace, a commodious access
would be gained to Lincoln's-inn from the Strand, and
to Somerset House aid King's College from the northern
parts of the metropolis. At present, any one whose
business takes him, as mine does, northward from
the neighbourhood of Somerset House, must tra-
verse some one or other of the filthy and crowded
streets which constitute that nuisance of nuisances and
standing disgrace of the central parts of the metropolis
—Clare-market. One advantage of the thoroughfare
which you so ably advocate would be the destruction of
this most disgraceful assemblage of miserable lanes and
broken-down sheds. My more modest improvement
would lead ultimately to the same result.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
October 25. VIATOR.

By the by, if Temple-bar must be removed, why not
set it up again, as a memorial of old times and Sir
Christopher Wren, within a stone's throw of the present
site, at the entrance to Pickett-place ? It would be in
no one's way there, it would block up no man's light,
and it would be an object from the Strand somewhat
like the Porte St. Martin in Paris, as seen from the
Boulevards. Some day or other, the opening at Pickett-
place must extend itself till it becomes a street leading
northward from the Strand into Carey-street.