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THE LANCET.—ANIMAL MAGNETISM.
THE LANCET of AUGUST 7th contains an
Editorial Article on the Tricks and Deceptions prac-
tised by Performers and Patients under the stale name of
" Animal Magnetism," showing the total failure of the Pa-
tients to fulfil the promises of the Magnetisers, when the sig-
nals which pass between them in secret are effectually disal-
lowed. The Number also contains numerous communica-

tions on subjects of medical science, and articles of profes-
sional news.

Lancet Office, Essex-street, Strand ; and to be obtained of
all Booksellers and Newsmen in town and country.

MARRIAGE.

New and Enlarged Edition (in an Envelope), price 55.,
by post 6s. 6d.,
MARRIAGE—Its Intent, Obligations, and
Physical abd Constitutional Disqualifications, Medically
considered; with Essays on Hereditary Health, and on many
of the C..ncealed Infirmities of Human Life. T. which is
added, the Confessional—comprising details of Melancholy,
Nervousness, and Feeble .Health, arising from Care, Grief
Anxiety, Dissipation, Gourmandism, Corpulency, Love, and
Religion, with numerous Engravings, &c., the entire forming
a series of interesting, original, and important Papers, ad.
dressed especially to these approaching and arriving at Puberty
and Manhood, and called " PROFESSIONAL RECORDS. '

By a PHYSICIAN.
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NEW WORK ON STRICTURES OF THE URETHRA.
Just published, price se.
APRACTICAL TREATISE on the
CAUSES, NATURE, and TREATMENT of
STRICTURES of the URETHRA, and their CONSE-,
QUENCES.

By FRANCIS EURDETT COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.L.
And late Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure a
Strictures of the Urethra.
..!ONTE NTS.

CHAFTkR, t.
Causes of Strictures.
Divisions of Strictures.
Consequences of Stnctures.

CHAPTER 11.

Of the Different Modes in

practice for the Core of
Strictures, by the gougie,l
the Catheter, the Lunar
Caustic, and 'Cutting In-
struments. The Author's.
Mode of Cure.
CHAPTER 111.

On the Diseases where the

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Symptoms resemble those of
Stricture.

CHAPTER Iv.

Of the Treatment of the Mala-
dies Consequen upon Stric-
ture.

APPENDIX.

'Cases Illustrative of the Su-
periority of tho Author's
Mode of Cure over the Treat-
ment by the Bougie, Cathe-
ter, Lunar Caustic, and Cut-
ting Instruments.

lookseller, 219, Regent-street;
tiers' ;court ; Onwhyn, Cathe-
lirmingham ; Ross and Night-
:sellers in Town and Country.

HERRING FISHERY.

(From the Edinburgh Courant.)
DUNBAR, AUG. 4.—The fishing yesterday morning
was decidedly the best in the season, and kept all the
curers busy throughout the day ; the number of boats
on the station about 140. Many had above 30 trans ;
one went as high as nearly GO cram. This morning it
is not so abundant, although many good shots have been
brought in. Selling price from 12s. to 14s. per cran.
Besides home curers there are five French huggers in the
harbour. The only cry out is, the want of harbour
room, and it is a cry much to be regretted ; but it is
hoped will be soon remedied by the extensive harbour
improvements now only waiting the sanction of the
Treasury to carry them into execution.
ANSTRUTHER, AUG. 3.—Last night upwards of 300
boats put to sea with light winds and fine weather, and
and this morning many- of them returned well laden with
shots varying from 10 to 40 barrels of herrings of ex-
cellent quality. Prices, from 28s. to 135., fell as the
heavier cargoes arrived. Some boats realised 2S!. for
their morning work; and some of the curers have bought
200 cram to-day. There are several French vessels in
the harbour, and the town is all bustle and animation.

PETERHEAD AUG. 2.—The fishing at this port con-
tinues, as usual, equal to any on the coast. We have about
400 boats employed, and 18 cargoes have arleady been
shipped, partly for Hamburgh, but chiefly for our own
ports to the Southward.
. . .

BODDAM, Auc. 3.—The weather has been very stormy
since the commencement of the fishing ; but the 34
boats have landed 445 crans ; and there has been a good
catch this morning ; the particulars of which cannot be
ascertained until next report.

THE HARVEST IN SCOTLAND.
(From the Edinburgh Courant.)

HARVEST.— Barley harvest was commenced on the
farm of Mr. Mollison, Easter Echt, so early as Saturday
last, the 31st of Jul). The quality of the grain appears
to be excellent, and the quantity will rate at about ten
returns. Other portions of barley in the district'will also
soon be ready
...fur cutting.
. . . .

'Omit:N.-L.-Mr. George Mutch commenced the harvest
in this early parish on Monday last, the 2d inst., by cut-
ting a patch of bear on Muirycrook.
INVERNESS, AUG. 4.—On Monday last we had a
favourable change of weather—the long-continued mois-
ture having given way to genial warmth and drying
breezes. Towards the end of last week we visited Mo-

rayshire, and were glad to observe the excellent prospect
of harvest which is everywhere visible. The farmers all
state, that during the month of July the season was ex-
tremely wet, in consequence of which the turnip crop,
which had brairded finely, was checked in growth, but
both the barley and oats have been much improved in
straw. Wheat has suffered from rust, and as a con-
siderable breadth of this grain is sown in Morayshire,
the loss will be felt by many farmers. The description
of oats called • Sandy Oats is in great favour here ; it is
fully ten days earlier, has as much straw, and fills better
than the early Angus. The rain has not deteriorated the
potato crop, which is unusually abundant.

THE PAPERS OF THE DEAD,—It is always a
sad and terrible task—where there is any human feeling
in the heart—that of examining the papers and letters of
those who are gone. The records of fruitless affections
of disappointed hopes, of tenderness perhaps misplaced,
perhaps turned by the will of fate to scourge the heart
that felt it, are there all before our eyes. Side by side,
at one view, and in one instant, we have before us tho
history of a human life, and its sad and awful moral—
we have there the picture of every bright enjoyment, of
every warm domestic blessing ; while written by the hand
of death beneath them, is the terrible truth, "rhese are
all past away for ever, and so will it soon be with thee
likewise

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; 1 The dinner to Sir Robert Stopford took place on Thurs-
r day evening at Portsmouth. The assembly was a very
numerous one, comprising a great number of distin-
-3 guished gentlemen.
On the entrance of Sir Robert Stopford and the rest
' of .the. guests,-the band of the Portsmouth division of the
Royal Marines saluted them with the air " See the con-
' quering Hero comes," followed by three hearty cheers.
After the removal of the cloth and grace,
The CHAIRMAN rose and rave, as the first toast of the
evening, " The health of her Majesty the Queen," with
three times three.—(Chters.)
Air—" God save the Queen.",
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The health of his
Royal Highness Prince Albert and her Royal Highness
the Princess Royal."
The toast was drunk with great applause.
The CHAIRMAN said' the next tlast be had the honour
to propose to them was " The)iealth of the Queen Dowa-
ger and the rest of the Royal Family."
Drunk with three times three, and long-continued (
cheering.
The CHAIRMAN then said that he had the honour and
pleasure of proposing " The health of the clergy."
The Rev. J. P. M‘GiirE, Vicar of Portsmouth, in
rising to acknowledge the toast, said that he would merely
state what he felt to be the sincere feelini, of the whole
clergy as to the subject which had that day brought them
together. The clergy had felt, from the beginning of
these exploits, the greatest interest in the part which
their illustrious guest had been called on to fulfil.—
(Cheers.) They had prayed for him before, and in
action.—(Cheers.) They had given thanks for him in
their hearts during his absence and his efforts, and they
now hailed his return to his native land. The Rev.
Gentleman concluded 1;7 repeating his thanks for the
kind mention which had been made of the profession.—
(Cheers.)
The CHAUIMAS, in proposing the next toast, " The
Navy," said it would be impegf -.Cut in him to attempt
to eulogise the. Britisii navy:--Hear.) They who had
witnessed our fleets fitted out and despatched from their
roadstead, and who had seen them' as regularly return
laden with trophies of victory, needed no excitement
from him to give fresh interest to a toast which he was •
sure they would all drink with heartfelt satisfaction.
Admiral Sir E. CODRINGTON returned thanks. The
honour of returning thanks could not have come from
any one more properly than from Sir R.' Stopford. But
from early life he had been under Sir R. Stopford's or-
ders, and Sir Robert having commanded him to do this
on the present occasion, he now begged to return them
his sincere thanks on behalf of the profession to which
he had the honour of belonging.—(Cheers.) 1
The CHAIRMAN then gave " The Army of Great Bri-
tarn—the admiration not only of England, but of the i
world."—(Loud cheers.) 1
General Sir HERCULES PAKENHAM returned thanks.

' The MAYOR then rose and said—Gentlemen, we are now
arrived at that very interesting period of this evening—
of doing that honour to our illustrious guest which he so
largely merits. Gentlemen, the name of Sir. Robert
Stopford is no stranger to you.—(Cheers.) The Gallant
Admiral, gentlemen, whom you have met together to
honour has not burst upon you with some single and.sud-
den exploit which might soon be forgotten.—(Hear, and
cheers.) The Gallant Admiral entered the naval profession
at a very early age, and though of high birth and noble
parentage, he passed through all the requisite and subor-
dinate stages of the service, and never shrank from the
performance of any duty which his profession required at
his hands—(Cheers)—giving at an early period of his
life convincing proofs of the talent and character at
which he has since arrived, and the most promising inti-
mation that he would eventually reach the very summit
of his profession.—(Prolonged cheering.) Gentlemen,
I will not on the present occasion attempt to go at length
into the history of Sir Robert Stopford's services to his
country.—(Cheers.) To do that it would be necessary
for me to go through the naval history of Great Britain
for the last half century.—(Great applause.) Many of
you who are now present have yourselves been witnesses
of his conduct, whilst others have read the history ofhis
achievements in the annals of their country.—(Cheers.)
Gentlemen, I will name a few instances merely to show
that your Gallant Guest has been very extensively en-
gaged in the public service.—(hear.) Sir Robert Stop-
ford, then, commenced his career with the relief of
Gibraltar. He was subsequently present in the Prince
George at Lord Rodney's action, and was engaged in
the action of the glorious Ist of June, 1794.—(Cheers.)
He was on board the Phreton at the famous retreat of
Lord Cornwallis, and assisted in the Spencer, at the
action at St. Domingo.—(Cheers.) Again, the Gallant
Officer assisted at the capture of the Danish fleet, and
held a command at the expedition to Java.—(Cheers.)
And, gentlemen, the last, though by no means the least
important command which was held by the Gallant Ad-
miral Stopford, was that which comprised the period of
his late glorious career in the command of the Me-
diterranean fleet.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I will
not attempt to describe the vast importance that at-
taches to the events in connection with .these last ser-
vices of the Gallant Commander.—(Hear.) You- all
know the nature of those unhappy differences which so
recently prevailed between the Sultan of Constanti,
nople and Mehemet Ali, the Paella of Egypt.—(Hear.)
You all know that the feelings of the whole of Europe
were fixed upon the Gallant Admiral ; that his every
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prevailedpainful
that Europe might be involved in a general war.—(Hear,
hear.) But, Gentlemen, Sir Robert Stopford, by the ex••
cellence of his judicious arrangements, and by one de-
cisive blow, dispelled all our apprehensions and dissi-
pated our alarms.—(Great cheering.) Gentlemen, Sir
Robert Stopford has been eminently distinguished in the
public service during his whole life ; but there is one
point of view in which I am 'anxious, for a few moments,
to contemplate the conduct of the Gallant Admiral,
viz., with reference to his private character.—(Cheers.)
Gentlemen, you have yourselves heard this evening. the
testimony of your respected vicar, that not only is Sir R.
Stopford a great man, but that he is also a good man.—
(Cheers.) lam sure it must gladden the hearts of all
here to know that her Most Gracious Majesty has given
to the Gallant Admiral an honourable retreat, wherein he
will have ample opportunity of exercising the virtues of
his character.—(Cheers.) The Chairman concluded by
proposing " The health of Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert
Stopford."

The to:lst was drunk with the greatest possible expres-
sion of generous and grateful feeling.
Admiral Sir Robert Stopford then rose to return
thanks amidst overwhelming applause, by which he was
so much affected that his first sentences were all but in-
audible. Ile said—lied I more eloquence than falls to
my share—had I all the eloquence I could desire, -I
should still want words and language to express my deep
' sense of the honour I have received from the reception
I have met with since my return to England.—(Cheers.)
I am more particularly indebted to his Worship the
Mayor for the most eloquent way in which, far beyond
my merits, he proclaimed my name.—(Cheers.) With
respect to my reception in England, no trump of fame,
no herald announcing pompous achievements preceded
my return.—(llear, hear.) The reception I met with
here when my brother officers gave me a dinner a few
days ago, arose from those magnanimous and liberal feel-
ings on the part of the British public which are always
displayed towards officers who have done their utmost
endeavours to discharge their duty—feelings which re-
quire no prompting, and which are always the more
welcome from being unsolicited. (Loud cheers.)
Honours have been conferred on various occasions—
the ornaments which attend those honours may
sometimes have been purchased by money, but the honour
which I now rect.ive is beyond all limits of caprice, and
of a nature that no money can purchase.—(Hear, hear.)
Gentlemen, I think it due_ to you, and to the company
I now address, to say a few words on the immediate sub-
ject of this meeting relating to Syria.—(llear.) You all
know how inadequate our means were when we first
landed in Syria to oppose 70,000 men, under the com-
mand of a warrior of some distinction, Ibrahim Pacha,
and whom we were to oppose only by the marines of our
shipS, a few handsfull of 'lurks, a few sappers and miners
and artillerymen, and these were the extent of our
means to drive 70,000 men out of a country like Syria.
—(Hear.) I was appointed Commander-in-Chief by sea
and land of that expedition. The officer of the
army who was appointed immediately to take -command
of the troops on shore, unfortunately for him, was seized
with such a violent indisposition that he was perfectly
unable to do any thing. I had, however, the good for-
tune to have in my second in command an officer, Sir
Charles Napier—(Loud cheers)—who. had had the ad-
vantage of occupying very useful positions under the
l)uke of Wellington, and who had also most gallantly
distinguished himself on many occasions in Por-
tugal.—(Loud cheers.) To such a man I very
gladly looked to supply the
place of the general officer
who was prevented from acting by indisposition. As he
was upon the coast of Syria for some time before I went
there, he judiciously selected a situation which was occu-
pied immediately on my arrival with the troops, when
operations commenced. Ills subsequent operations were,
as you are aware, of a nature to check and paralyse the
Egyptian troops, so that they never came into collision
with the Turkish troops under arms, except in one in-
stance, when, by a simultaneous attack on the Egyptian
troops in front and rear, he succeeded in expelling those
troops from Syria, and delivering them over to, the com-
mand of the officers of the Sultan.—(Cheers.) (So we
understood the Gallant Admiral, but he spoke so low as
to be scarcely audible.) To that officer, therefore, I beg
to express the greatest obligations.—(Loud cheers.)
Neither can I forget the obligations .I owe to a distin-
guished officer now here, Capt. Collier—to Capt. Boxer,
of the Pique, who was employed in the more southern ope-
rations—to Capt. Barclay, who was engaged in another
part of the operations—to Capt. Stewart, in the Benbow,
who was employed northwards, and to all commanders and
men who so ably and so nobly performed their duty.—
The operations on the coast of Syria extended near to
a line of three degrees of latitude, if not more. There
must, of course, have been numerous. detachments from
the Commander-in-Chief to perform the services on that
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of mine attri-
buted to the birds and fishes, of beingin two places at
once, he could not possibly be in more places than one
at the same time.—(Cheers and laughter.). Therefore
what has been said about the Commander-in-Chief not
being there is fully answered. by the fact of its being im-
possible, and I feel myself An every way fully exculpated
for placing reliance iu officers on whom I knew I could