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THE RUGELEY MURDERS.
Sia,—ln this terrible case, suppose that Palmer bad relied
upon his professional character and pleaded that the poisons had
been given medicinally, we have yet to learn how such a criminal
could have been brought to the bar or justice. Would not the court
and judges have been helpless in such a case ? James Morison, the
Ilygeist. wanted the country of this years ago, and now the dreadful
crnsequence has come to pass. Weil may Mr. Hibbert, of Manches-
ter, in his public letter say, " that Hygeists, by reason of their pro-
test against all these vile poisons, hold at this moment one of the
proudest situations in her Majesty's dominions."
Dr. P,ater, of London, in his work, is the only medical man who
has had the honesty to do Mr. Morison justice on this question, by
stating " that to Morison the country was indebted for lifting his
voice against these poisons." Queen Elizabetk used to say, " Promo-
gativani nostram, nemo audeat diiputare ;" and Palmer, in reference
to these vile poisons administered medicinally, might have said the
same thin,,.

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DR. KAHN'S TREATISE, THE SHOALS
and QUICKSANDS of YOU Ill." an Essay, spec:Lilly Intend-
et to avert danzent to which the young and susceptible are peculiarly
liable, and to an est the progress of evil.

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THE MENIBEIt3 OF THE BRITI4H COLLEGE OF HEALTH,
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Jan. 18, 1.56.

Ilygeisis do not war with doctors as men, well knowing that there
are many most learned and good men in the medical profession, but
against their system, which sanctions the use of these infernal poisons
as medicines.

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with Practical Observations on a safer and more
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Aysteni, obtained by the use of the Microscope in detecting and
listinguishing,
obfycuorminpalrayiti. zawmhinetahtelorn,aggiaingreal cause and effect of
or climate, followed by practical remarks, fohuanbditesd
experience in the treatment of Impuissance,
smv ecru),
ovga,
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sgoe r twentyvou Local weakness, Sperinatorrhems, dsc. To which
ore added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Ma-riage, with pre-
mutionary hints on the evils emanating from empirical prfictice,
Ind on the dangerous remedies advocated by various writers on
sDebyieliatny:
these important disorders.
By SAMUEL LAWERT M.D.
37, BEDFORD-sQUA IE, LONDON,
D )ctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of
aEdin-
burgh,
Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society,
Lieenlate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, 80., Rce,
The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful eon-
,equeaces resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses,
ihich have produced more misery in Youth, degradation in Man-
ood, and premature decay at all stages of Life, than, perhaps, any
thor class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is
their Oysical condition, and who are conscious of baying hazarded
,articula.rly recommended to persons 'en' ertaining secret doubts of
the health, happiness, and privileges to which every human being is

IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHINCERy.
TRIESEIViAIt.--On the 29th of May, 1855, an
injunction was granted by the High Court of Chancery, and
on the I Ith of June following was made perpetual, against Joseph
Franklin and others, to restrain them, under a penalty of one thou-
sand pounds, from inaitatin, this Medicine, which is protected by
Royal Letters Patent of England, and sc::nrod by the Seals of the
Ecole de Ph irmacie do Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine,
Vienna.

TRIES MAR, No. I,
is a remedy for Relaxation, Shermatorenett, and all the distressing
consequences arising from early abuse, &c., and its effects are effi-
cacious in youth, manhood, and old age ; and t those persons who
are prevented entering the married :state from t a resule of early
errors it is Invaluable.
TRIESEMAR,No.:,
effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely
eradicates all traces of those Disorders which Capa:vi and Cubebs
have so long been thought an antidote for, to the tutu of the health
of a vast portion of the population.

TEIJtSEMAR, No. 3,
Is the great Continental Remedy for that class of Disorders, which
unfortunately the Engiish physician treats with 3lercury, to the in-
evitable dtstruction or the patient's constitution, and which all the
sirsaparilla in the world cannot remove.

THIESE MAR, N( s. 1, 'I, and 3, are alike devoid of taste or smell,
•nd of all nauseating qualities. They may lie on the toilet tale
without the!r 11,e twine suspected,

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EXTRAORDTNARY -ROBBgRY IN BIR-
MIA GUAM.

On Thursday morning a most daring robbery was
committed on the premises of Mr. 11. Burbidge, corn
factor, Bradford-street, Birmingham. Upon the shop
being opened, it was]discovered that the iron safe in which
Mr. Burbidge kept his hooks, title deeds, and each, had
been carried off. The safe weighed nearly 4001 b., and
was fastened to the wall by the strong brackets on which
it rested. Though nothing else had been disturbed, the
booty thus obtained was considerable., there being in the
drawers of the safe no less than 1401., of which about
551. was in gold, 351. in silver, and the remainder in
notes. To Mr. Burbidge, however, the cash was the
least valuable portion of its contents. An entrance had
been effected by a window immediately over the shop
door. Thence access to the shop was easy, and possibly
confederates were admitted by the front door, in order
that operations requiring at once strength and dexterity
might the more easily be conducted. The inquiries
made, with a view of ascertaining how the safe was
carried off led Mr. Burbidge and the police to conclude
that it had been taken off the premises shortly after six
o'clock, at which hour the constables on night duty are
relieved, It so happened that the officer on the beat
had that night received special instructions from Mr.
Burbidge to keep a sharp look out upon the premises,
as the carcases of a couple of pigs had been temporarily
left in the coach-house. The thieves or their confede-
rates had perhaps noticed that this was being
done, and were consequently prevented leaving
the shop during the night ; but it seems more likely that
they had fixed on this period of the morning as the most
suitable for their purpose. Detective-sergeant Manton,
who was employed in the case, ascertained at the outset
of his inquiries that a hand cart bad been seen near the
shop about ha'f-past G. and that this had been taken in
the direction of Trinity church. Betwixt 9 and 10
o'clock a boat passing through a lock of the canal situated
at the hack of this church, experienced seine obstruction
in its progress, not being able, we presume, to sink low
enough. Au examination led to the discovery that an
iron chest was lying in the lock. Mr. Burbidge having
heard of this at once went to the spot, and, with the as-
sistance of Manton, endeavoured to recover it. Finding,
however, that on raising the, safe the books were drop-
ping out, he went to the canal office for the aid of the
officials. Mr. Lloyd. one of the managers, kindly re-
turned withT h
e them.safe was Theas
recovered
ewrae sd,e completely ewtei emptied
the
bof
and important documents, though of course the
cw:s°thker9 h.ad disappeared. Sledge hammers must have been
used to force the chest open. It was so bent and torn
that its maker would have been unable to identify it.
There is no doubt that. the operation of forcing it open
s'a
piece of waste ground near Trinity
church, performedrclieati
das°tn a
the noise of doing so must have been
considerable, it may seem surprising that detection did
not follow. This, however, shows that the boldness and
daring of the thieves was of a ca'culating character.
They thought that at such an hour no one would be
likely to suspect the nature of their occupation, espe-
cially as one of the stone-breaking yards belonging to
the corporation immediately adjoins the spot. We be-
lieve that the police have obtained some clue to the
thieves.—Birmingham Journal.

TEIE MONSTER GUN A
WORKT HE MERSEY
IRON.

This immense gun, the largest that has ever been at-
tempted or made, is now completed, so far as the forging
is concerned, the finishing stroke having been given to it
on Saturday, when it had its last heat. It has afforded
the esteemed proprietors, the Messrs. Iforsfall, and Mr.
that,Clay' the manager, the most lively satisfaction to know
not only has the gun turned out to be a most beau-
tiful piece of workmanship, but that this result has been
acquired without a single accident. The time occupied
in its manufacture has been about seven weeks, during
which time it has not been out of hands night or day.
The scene of the manufacture, on Saturday, presented a
most stirring appearance. The fiery-red furnace shed a
peculiarlight on the working parties engaged ; and when
the monster
mass was brought out, glowing with heat,
added to the sound of orders from the head artisans
and coupled with the aspect of the 40 or 50 men em-
ployed on the staff, all anxious to attend to every in-
struction with the most prompt obedience, the scene was
one of the most exciting kind. When the huge hammer
had done its work, the whole establishment was imme-
diately apprized of it, and the loud buzzas of those sow,
of Vulcan testified their satisfaction with the successful

enriUllittici
iespdi.o 3
0f- • ---- -- -- -
was weighed, and,
absolutely- necessary- that all- men should know, that there are undertaking. Oa Monday this gun
• •
personal management which cannot be violated without after deducting the chain and tackle froth it, its weight
nciarring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed was 24 tons 7 cwt., the largest piece of wrought-iron
to heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties ever manufactured. It is now pretty generally known
tay be mitigated, hew the sting of their bitterness may be removed,
that the Messrs. Ilorsfall purpose to present the country
ad how the evil and its consequences maybe avoided, and above all,
:net there is scarcely any degree of phyi'cal infirmity or functional with this gun—an honourable and oonvincing proof of
crangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. our enterprising townsmen's superior skill and patriotic
to Author hay fora series of years been engaged in au extensive osiet. The measurement of the gun is some 15 feet ;it
•act!ce in the treatment 01 theca delicate complaints, which have si 1
vnortunately been too generally confided tt the care of ignorant is to be of 13-inch bore, and its power of propulsion to
amairics, wile inflict great injury on those who are induced to place be of power to urge a spherical shot of 302 lbs. five miles.
'4.lth in their pretensions. It will be a swivel gun, placed in the bow or stern of
NERVOUS DEBILITY stay be hal price is, of Messrs. Sher-
wood and Co., 33, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; the vessel. Several naval and military men have taken
I ,rue, 19, Leicester•square; Mann, 39, Cornhill ;or free by post for great interest in it. We are given to understand that it
1 (Tuesday),
14 st..ny,po to any address from the Author's residence,tresidence,3l, Ben-
is proposed to have this gun taken to the lathe to-da)
"%I-square.
At home for consultation daily from eleven till two, and from silt and in the course of about a month hence it
till eight. ' will be ready for service.--Liverpool Standard,

Spirit of the Public Journals.

(From the Morning Aciveetiser of this day.)
We beseech the country, with all the earnestness
which we can impart to our words, to rally round
Lord Palmerston at the present moment. His
Premiership is in peril.. Bat that is not the ground
on which we Make our appeal to the people of
England: Fur mere Premierships we care nothing.
Prime Ministers, like Princes--
May flourish and may fade ;
A breath may make them, ai a breath bath male.

But in the present instance the honour and inte-
rests of the country are involved in the fate of
Lord Palmerston. No journal has more freely or
more frequently arraigned the policy of the Noble
Lord than the Morning Advertiser ; but th,lt was
avowedly with the view of urging him on to greater
vigour in the conduct of the war—never with the
view of ejecting him from the Premiership. With
tho facts which have been brought to our know-
ledge within the last few days, we cease, at least
for the moment, all opposition to Lord Palmer-
ston, and call on the nation at large, as it values
the dignity, the honour-, and the interests of Eng-
land, to rally round him as one man. _

There is deep-laid conspiracy to eject him from
office, similar to that to which he fella victim in 1851.
It is not only a hostile'Court, and traitors in his
Cabinet, that ho has to contend against, but Conti-
nental Powers, aye, and parties, too, high iu poli-
tical position, who are preituned to be in alliance
with us against Russia, are at this very hour: in-
triguing against, and lahouring" to accomplish the
downfall Of the Noble Lord. What we have often
prepared our readers to expect, has at last occurred.
Those on whom we relied in the war against Rus-
sia have failed us, and unless the people of England
avow, without delay, their readiness to stand or
fall by Lord Palmerston, not only will the Noble
Lord be sacrificed, but England and Europe will,
ere long, have to lie prostrate at the feet of the
Czar.

Lord Palmerston, supported by Lord Clarendon,
is—we say it advisedly—the only man in the coun-
try to whom the people can look with any confi-
dence in this crisis. If an insecure and igdomini-
ous peace be not concluded, England and Europe
will owe their escape to the patriotism, the energy,
the intelligence, and consummate diplomatic skill
of the Noble Lord at the head of the Government.
Let his Lordship—for his encouragement to per-
severe in the course he has chalked out for himself,
of determined resistance to the designs of Russia—
be assured of this, that he has the people, to a man,
with him, and that, whenever he feels that the
proper moment for a dissolution of Parliament has
arrived, the country will attest its confidence in
him, by returning, amidst the loud plaudits both
of the electoral and non-electoral bodies, such a
majority of Members in his favour as will put an
extinguisher on all those who,are at this moment
leagued together for his overthrow, as the only sure
way of promoting the purposes- and plans of the
Czar.

(From the Times of this day.)

The period at which our negotiations for peace
are just arriving is probably the most critical that
they will have to go through. Nothing has as yet
beau received from St. Petersburg, except by tele-
graph, but to-morrow written communications are
expected, and then will immediately arise the ques-
tion of signing a prelitnivary treaty of peace, and
with it the demand, which will doubtless be most
earnestly pressed on the Western Powers, that they
should ( cater into an armistice for the period during
which that treaty of peace is to be discussed.
Hitherto the game has been all on our side. Whe-
ther it be, as the Nord surmise; that Russia has
been actuated by the magnanimous desire of sacri-
ficing purely Russian to European interests, and
also has at length awoke to the tardy conviction
that not only the Western barbarians, but people
who ought to know better, believe that the Czar has
designs upon Turkey and aspirations after the banks
of the Bosphorus, certain it is that Russia has abated
her pretensions with a rapidity after which her
breathless admirers struggle in vain, and has sud-
denly transferred the contest front the field to the
cabinet. Here, however, she will encounter us on
terms far more advantageous than she could pos-
sibly hope for in any other sphere of action. The
good Will of the Princes of Gerntany was_ not very
Jacobi, :earry te. 4t.
field fur the sake of either party. They know the
blessings of ease, and are resolved to enjoy them
to the utmost. While, therefore, the war con-
tinued, Russia, with numerous well-wishers was
pretty sure to be left alone in the field, to defend
herself as best she might against Powers by whom
she was already overmatched. But, though her
friends dare not or cannot fight for her, they have
no objection to do for her any other service she
may exact from them. So long as there is no
danger, no broken head to apprehend, no Power is
richer in friends or more earnestly supported than
Russia. She bears, indeed, a charmed life, and
every petty Prince of Europe regards her with the
same conviction with which Louis XI., in Scott's
admirable novel, looked upon the astrologer Marcio
Galeoti—the conviction that he cannot hope to sur-
vive her decease for a single day. Now, therefore,
that the time of negotiation has arrived, we do not
doubt but that the Allies will be overwhelmed with
professions of perfidious sympathy and affected
approbation, and will discover that innumerable
potentates, whom but a few months ago they re-
garded, and with justice, as among the most luke-
warm of their friends, or perhaps not the least bitter
of their enemies, were always their well-wishers,
always maintained the justice of their cause, always
believed in the certainty of its success, and only
hope that they will now exercise as much prudence
and moderation in the conference as they have
shown fortitude and gallantry in the day of battle.
Russia, we shall be reminded by a hundred titled
sycophants, is still a great and formidable power,
tenderly susceptible of her honour, morbidly sen-
sitive of the opinion oven of her enemies, and sa-
crificing herself, as that veracious and patriotic
journal, the Nord, of Brussels, assures us, rather
to European interests and to European opinions,
than to any inability to carry out the struggle in
which she finds herself engaged. Then it will be
hinted that the feelings of the Emperor would be
grievously hurt by our insisting on one condition,
and the spirit of the Archduke Constantine
by our pressing indiscreetly for another, and
we shall be told, as Mr. Gladstone and his
friends have over and over again told us,
that the best guarantee for peace is not in
extorting harsh and grinding conditions, but in
conciliating those by our generosity whom we have
previously taught to respect us by our valour.
Joined to this class of mediators we must expect
to have to encounter others of a different stamp—
men who view peace and war as stockjobbing spe-
culations, who would open the temple of Janus
that they might buy into the funds low, and close
it again that they might sell out higher. To such
men human life is so much air, honour is so much
dross, wide and prospective plans of policy the
visions of dreamers or of maniacs, who sacrifice
the present to the future, and expect like Rasselas,
Prince of Abyssinia, to-morrow to redeem the pro-
mises of to-day. Patriotism is to them a word to
conjure with, not to express any real or genuine
feeling, and they would welcome for their country
another 'Waterloo, if such a disaster would have,
like its predecessor, the effect of raising the price
of Government securities..

Surely Russia, with such auxiliaries, does not
descend into the diplomatic arena without some
hope of reconquering with her arts those advan-
tages which she has lost by her arms. On the
steadfastnessof purpose, the manly self-confidence,
and the unwavering resolution of the allies it must •
depend to thwart all these manceuvres and to hold
fast their dearly bought and highly prized supe-
riority. It must be clearly understood that these
negotiations are not to be like ordinary Conferences
where each party is straining his ingenuity to see
which can most completely deceive the other—
which can hide his internal misgivings under the
bolder front—which can conceal his real inability
to continue the contest under the loudest declara-
tions and the most dauntless bearing. The allies
have no occasion to have recourse to such paltry
and miserable arts ; they have won their position
for themselves, and they know its value, for they
have dearly paid for it. They cannot certainly tell
what is the true condition of Russia, what money
still remains in her treasuries, what troops in her
fortresses, what spirit in her people, what enthusiasm
in her Church—how many of these paper armies,
which are ready at every point to confront an
imaginary invader in all the might and majesty of
the very boldest type, would be found present in
the body when the day of action arrives. These
things they cannot know, though they may Partly
guess ; but, for themselves, they are sure that they
possess fleets and armies adequate to any enterprise
they may devise, and resources that can support
them in full efficiency so long as anything remains to
`he done. Power has not, as Mt. Cobden would
have us believe, so wholly deserted wealth, victory
has not made so,fast a league with poverty, bar-
' barism has not asserted so decided a triumph over