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BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH,
New-road, London.'
Sir,—As a low medical journal is endeavouring to mislead the
public as to the birth and parentage of JAMES MOItISON, the
Ilygeist, we beg to send the following for publicity.
We are, sir, your obedient servants,
Monisofe and Co.

February, 1853.
_BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of JAMES MORISON, the 1117-
G E IST, with the reasons that led him to the discovery of the Hy gei at r
t,y stem of Medicine, and he" Vegetable Universal Medicines," after
35 years of inexpre.ssibla suffering under the Medical Faculty :
J ,4ES MORISO..N, the youngent son of Alexander Morison, Esq.,
was born' at Ropie, in the county of Aberdeen, in the year 1770.
The family ha, been long known as one of great affluence and re-
spectability, and the subject of this brie. sketch was the second
brother of John Mel:soli, late member for Banf.shire. In early life
he studied at the University of Aberdeen, and afterwards at Hunan,
in Germany,,.being intended for the mercantile profession. After
finishing his studiel he resided at Iliga, as a merchant, and sulve-
quently in the West Indies, where he acquired considerable Kest
India property. Flavin suffered much from ill health, he was ob-
liged to leave that country and proceed to Europe, seeking from
change of clime a restoration to health, It is now 25 years age,
that, by his discovery and perseverance, he accomplished his own
ex traord nary cure.
We cannot do better than describe the following interesting par-
ticulars, given by himself in the " Mot isoniana :"
~ A 35 years' inexpressible ant/bring, both of body and mind, is an
event, too, which falls bat to the lot of few, if of any at all. Had it
pleased God to have coifed me out pt this world eight years ago, I
should have died as another man, and been forgAton, and the world
could bare reaped no benefit from my case and misfottunes, nor
frt•ru thd favourable effects produced by the same means on my
children. Thin is a guarantee to the world not often to be met with,
and a convincing proof of the motto prefixed to this advice, that
' health and old age are within the reach of us all."
•

For the remainder of the Biography, see the abridged " Mori-
soniana."

Family motto—trno Ictu—At ono blow.

Faintly- estate—Strawberry-vale, Finaley, Middlesex.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

THE MINISTERIAL MEASURES.
( From the Times.)
The Government measures are no longer a matter
of speculation. " You see your dinner," as the
master of the house says at a family gathering,
equally anxious to invite attention to the viands on
the table and to warn against rash expectations.
The public will not be disappointed, and certainly
will not be astonished at the programme. What
can be expected from Ministers who dropped from
the Christmas-tree, and who are barely half-way
through their first official quarter ? But, lest it
should be thought that while we defend we depreci-
ate, we will say at once that we are perfectly satis-
fied with the bill of fare before us, even though it
does not come up to German dimensions. All experi-
ence proves the dishonesty of promising much, for
much cannot be done in one session. If the measures
enumerated by Lord John Russell last night are
tolerably well digested, and really pass into law,
they will constitute an important mass of legisla-
tion. Taking them in the order in which they are
described, and in which they are to be introduced,
Lord John Russell announces a bill to enable the
Canadian Legislature to deal with the clergy re-
serves, a pilotage bill, to be accompanied with ex-
planations on various other matters respecting the
shipping interest, a bill for the removal of the
Jewish disabilities, a measure, or a " proposal,"
as Lord John calls it, " which will tend to great
improvements, and promote the cause of education
throughout the country ;" a " proposition" with
respect to the Uniirersities of Oxford and Cam-
bridge and the recent commissions of inquiry, an
educational measure affecting Scotland, a "pro-
posal" with respect to the system of secondary
punishments, in order to supply the place of trans-
portation to the Australian colonies, which her
Majesty's Ministers have determined to stop forth-
with ; a Landlord and Tenant Bill for Ireland, of
a nature to settle that much agitated question—
and nothing more this session. Immediately on
the opening of the session of 1854, Lord John
hopes to introduce a measure of Parliamentary
Reform, which, however, he cannot undertake to
say will be much more comprehensive than that of
last year ; and he also trusts he may then be able
to put the income tax on a more satisfactory and
permanent footing. Such we believe to be the
'substance of Lord John's statement last night.
Here and there the hint of a measure may have
escaped our attention, or our pen, but we have at
least given the chief heads of the work cut out for
the session.
Some of those measures are of sufficient mag-
nitude to distinguish a session that did nothing
else of a progressive or remedial character.
To provide a good substitute for penal colonies,
to devise a plan that would secure the means
of education for all without trenching upon reli-
gious liberty or truth, to make the Universities
really open and national institutions, and to give
Irish tenants a tithe of what they expect without
abolishing the interest of the landlord, are works
severally enough for one year—not to say one
Administration. To be candid, we do not expect
to see it all done by next August. None of
these things are done in a hurry. We have
to consider not merely whether Parliament will
have time to exhaust half a dozen important
subjects in as many months, but whether it
will be able to do so in addition to all the
other subjects which will be forced on its at-
tention by hostile or independent legislators.
Ireland will come in for a good deal. The Parlia-
mentary and Financial Reformers will have their
say out. There are nearly two hundred new mem-
bers who will have to prove the wisdom of their
electors,r on some subject or other.
The agricultural
b yspeaking
interest will not be wholly silent.
Cardinal Wiseman and Maynooth have already
been mentioned. The Crystal Palace is to be
opened this summer' either on Sunday or not.
Sir Benjamin Hall and the Marquis of Bland-
ford are already at work on Church property
and episcopal incomes. The Ecclesiastical Courts
are really to have something done with them as
soon as a pending inquiry is concluded. Such are a
few of the seeds of prospective legislation dropped
on the waters last night in the space of one brief
hour, for the house was up at ten minutes past
6. Ve had almost forgotten that there are a
hundred and thirty election petitions, some of
them involving nice questions, and all of them
likely to bring out the fact of considerable bribery
and corruption. With all this before us, are we
wise or not to be satisfied with' the moderate con.,
tents of the Ministerial programme ?
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to do so ? And what is he
when not on his hobby ?
Equally useless is it to
reason with the Opposition.
It is the business of an Opposition, before all
things, to cease to be the Opposition by"changing
places with the other side. For them to facilitate