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Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 23, Paternoster-row. Price,

Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel.
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA.I A-
CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
New Edition, enjarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 6d., or
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THE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on
the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex-
cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury,
with remarks on Marriage, and tke means of obviating certain dis-
qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. aid
L. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-stroet, Oxford-street, London.
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PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive indul-
gence, and their lamentable elects on the system, producing mental
and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity.
It is illustrated b 3 Three Explanatory Engravings.
PART 111. Treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in
the primary or secondary form, and cantatas explicit directions for
their treatment. The consequences of early neglect and of the abuse
of rnereury, are also clearly pointed out. This section is illustrated
by Seventeen Coloured Engravings.
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which the dangers of infection are obviated. It combines with the
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PART T. Is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its
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DR. HAMPDEN AND THE DEAN
OF HEREFORD.
Dr. Merewether has addressed the following letter
to Lord John Russell:-
111 y Lord,—l have had the honour to receive your
Lordship's letter, announcing that you had received
my memorial to the Queen, and that you had trans-
mitted it to Sir G. Grey for presentation to her Ma-
jesty; and by the same post I also receive the infor-
mation that Sir G. Grey had laid the same before the
Queen, and that " he was to inform me that her Ma-
jesty has not been pleased to issue any commands
thereupon." Under these circumstances I feel com-
pelled once more to trouble your Lordship with a few
remarks.

Throughout the correspondence in which I have
had the honour to be engaged with your Lordship, as
well as in the interview which you were pleased to
afford me on the subject of the appointment to the
see of Hereford, it has been my object frankly and
faithfully to declare to you the facts which have come
to my knowledge and the honest conviction of my
mind. I desire still to act upon the same principle,
and to submit to your Lordship finally, and as briefly
as possible, the following considerations, upon which
I feel constrained to adopt a course which, however I
may apprehend it will not be entirely congenial to
your Lordship's wishes, will, under the circumstances
in which I am placed, obtain from your Lordship's
candour the admission that it is the only course which
I could pursue.
I crave your Lordship's indulgence whilst I enu-
merate the special obligations to which I am bound,
and I state them in the order of their occurrence.
When matriculated to the University of Oxford, of
which I
Vain still a member, the following oath was
administered to me, as well as on taking each of my
degrees :—" Tu dabis fidem ad observandum omnia
statute, privilegia, et consuetudines hujus Universi-
tatis ; ita Deus to adjuvet tactis sacrosanctis Christi
Evangeliis."

Again—when I was admitted to the sacred orders
of priest in the church of God, a part of my ordina-
tion vow was expressed in these words—that I would
"banish and drive away all erroneous and strange
doctrine contrary to God's word."
Again—when I was was inducted, on occasion of
the installation to the office which I hold in the ca-
thedral church of Hereford, as I stepped over the
threshold of the fabric the restoration of which, for
the due honour of Almighty God, it has been my
pride and anxious endeavour to promote, I was
required to charge my soul with this responsibility :--
"Ego, Joannes Merewether, Decanus Herefordensis,
ab httc Nora in antes, fidelis ero huic sacrosanct
Herefordensi ecclesim , necnon Jura, libertates, privi-
legia, et consuitudines ejusdem, proviribus observabo
et ea manutenebo et dEfendam pro posse meo ; sic
me Deus, adjuvet, et lime sancta Evangelia."
My Lord, I cannot divest my mind of the awful
sense of the stringency of these engagements at the
present exigency. Let me entreat your Lordship's
patience whilst I endeavour to explain my apprehen-
sion of them.

In my letter of the Ist of December, in reply to
the second which your Lordship was pleased to ad-
dress to me—and which correspondence I trust your
Lordship will permit me publicly to refer to in vindi-
cation of my conduct, should need require it—l Ob-
served, " In regard to Dr. Hampden's tenets, I would
abstain from any opinion upon them till I have again
fairly and attentively read his writings." That act of
justice I have carefully performed, and I will add,
with an earnest desire to discover grounds upon which,
in case of Dr. ilampden's ever occupying the high
station for which he has been selected by your Lord-
ship, my mind might be relieved from all distrust, and
I might be enabled as cordially as possible to render
that service which the relative duties of diocesan and
dean and chapter involve.
It is painful in the extreme to feel obliged to de-
clare that I discover in those writings many asser-
tions—not merely references to theories or impres-
sions of others—but assertions, which to my calm
and deliberate appreciation appear to be heterodoxical,
I believe I may say heretical, and very, very much,
which is most dangerous, most objectionable, calcu-
lated to weaken the hold which the true religion we
possess as yet obtains, and ought to obtain always,
upon the minds of its professors, I feel certain that
the pertiaal of Rnveral of tho.c worlcs by any of Lhet
class who, " by reason of use" (in cautious examina-
tion of such productions) " have not their senses
exercised to discern both good and evil," would pro-
duce a doubt and distrust in the teaching of our
Church in her creeds,—her formularies,—her liturgy,
would rob them of the ;inestimable joy and peace in
believing, and be highly detrimental to the spread of
true religion.
Such being my conviction, I would ask your
Lordship how it must affect my conscience in refe-
rence to those solemn obligations which I have
already detailed ? I have sworn that I will observe
all the statutes of the university of which I am still
a member. The statute of that university touching
this matter stands in the following vrords,•-at this
moment uncancelled, unrepealed Quin ab univer-
sitatecommissum fuerit S. Theologise Professori Regio,
ut unus sit ex eorum nurnero a quibus designantur
selecti concionatores, secundum Tit. XIV., 58 (Ad-
dend., p. 150), necnon ut ejus concilium adhibeatur
si quis concionatur coram Vice-Chancellario in
questionem vocatur, secundum Tit. XVI., s. 11

(Addend., p. 151), quum vero qui nunc Professor est
scriptis suis publici juris factis, ita res theologian
tractaverit, ut in hac pane nullam ejus fiduciam
habeat Universitas; statutum est, quod munerum
prredictorum expers sit S. Theologim Professor Re-
' gins, donee aliter Universitati placuerit, me vero quid
detriinenti capiat interea Universitas, Professoris
ejusdem vicibus fungantur alii, scilicet, in conciona-
tJres selectos designando senioranter Vice-Cancellarii
deputatos, vel eo absente, aut ipsius Vice-Cancellarii
locum tenente, proximus ex ordine deputatos (proviso
!temper quod sacros ordines susceperit) et in consilio
de concionibus hahendo, Pro2lector Dominae Marga-
rettm Comitisem Richinondim." Should I not be
guilty of deliberate perjury, if, in direct defiance of
such a decree, I did any act which should place the
object of, it in such a position as to be not only the
judge of the soundness of the theological opinions and
preaching of a whole diocese, but of those whom, from
time to time, he must admit to cure of souls, and even
to the sacred orders of the ministry ?
I have sworn, at the most awful moment of my
that I will " banish and drive away all erroneous
and strange doctrines contrary to God's word." It
may be replied, that this engagement applies to the
ministrations in the cure of souls, inherent only in
parochial functions; but the statutes of our Cathedral
Church constitute me one of the guardians of the
soundness of the doctrine which may be preached in