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London, England, 1860-02-28 00:00:00

NO MORE MEDICINE

Yon HABITUAL CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION (DYSPEPSIA),
DEBILITY, NERVOUS, BILIOUS, PULMONARY, AND LIVER
COMPLAINTS.
DU BARRY'S DELICIOUS HEALTH-
RESTORING REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD.—
Certificate No. 36,418.—1 n our practice we have been enabled
to appreciate the virtues of Du Barry's Food. In its effect on
chronic dyspepsia (indigestior), nervousness, constipation,
diarrhoea, on bilious and liver complaints. cough, astbm i, de-
bility, and incipient consumption, we find it the safest remedy.
—Dr. Ure, M.D., F.R.S., Dr. Harvey, Dr. Bright, Dr. Shor
land, Dr. Campbell.
Du Barry's Food cures effectually—Acidity, asthma bilious-
ness, blood to Ihe head, bowel complaints, bronchitis, ca-
tarrh, colds, congestion. constipation, consumption. eramps,
cough, debility, despondency, diarrhoea, distension, dizziness,
dropsy, drowsiness, dysentery, dyspepsia (indigestion), erup-
tions exhaustion, fevers, epileptic fits, flatulency. gout, ha-
bitual constination, headache, heartburn, haemorrhoids, hys-
teria, impurities. indigestion (dyspepsia,) Irritability, irrita-
tion of kidneys and bladder. liver complaints, loss of memory,
low spirits, nausea and sickness, nervousness, nervous fan-
cies, neuralgia, noises in the ear, pains between the shoul-
ders,'palpitation, partial paralysis, pli'egm, pulmonary com-
plaints, rheumatism, scrofula. sinking, sleeplessness. sore
throat, spasms, tightness across the cheat. At about one
penny per meal, it effectually cures the above, also children's
complaints, and saves fifty times its cost in medicine. It does
not turn acid nor interfere with a liberal diet but imparts a
healthy relish for lunch and dinner, and restores the faculty
of digestion, and nervous and muscular energy to the most
enfeebled. We extract a few out of many thous ind cures :
Cure No. 55,816, from the Rev. James T. Campbell, Syder-
stone,Rectory, near Fakenham, Norfolk : "In all cases of in-
digestion, and particularly where the liver is affected,
!consider it the best of all remedies. -James T. Campbell."
Cure No. 71, of Dyspepsia, 'from the Right Honourable
the Lord Stuart de Decies : "I have deiived considerable
benefit from Du Barry's Itevalenta Arabica Food. Stuart de
Decies."—Cure No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescr:bable agony
from dyspepsia, nervousness. asthma. couo'h, constipation,
flatulency, spasms, sickness at the stomach and vomiting,
have been removed by Da Barry's excellent Food. Maria
Joiv. Wortham Ling, near Dias, NoKolk."—Cure No. 52,087.
Field-Marshal the Duke of Pluskow, of a gastric inflamma.
tion of the stomach.—Cure No. 51.614: Baron de Polent;
Prefect of Langenau, of many years' horrible sufferings of
the rerves and an obstinate tonstipation. Cure No.
47,121 : Miss Elizabeth Jacobs of Nazing Vicarage,
Waltham Cross, Herts. a cure of extreme nervousness
indigestion, gatherings. low Writs. ard nervous fancies.--
Cure No 48,314: Miss Elizrbeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Li'
verpool: a cure of ten years' dyspepsia and all the horrors of
nervous irritability. -Cure No. 18.216: Dr, Andrew Ure, of
constipation. dysnersia, nervous irritability.—Cure No. 34,210:
Dr. Shorland, of dropsy and debility.—Cure No. 36.212: Cap-
tain Allan, of epileptic fits.—Core 42,116; Major Edie. of
enlargement of the live.% and total prostration of strength
Cure No. 36.418: Rev. Dr. Minster, of cramps, spasms,
and daily vomitings.—Cure No. 26.418: Dr. Harvey, of
diarrhoea ard debility.—Cure. No. 30,618: Dr. Wurtzer of
consumntlon.—Cure No. 32.880: William Hurt. Esn., Bar-
rister. of paralysis.—Cure No. 46.27`0: Me. James Roberts,
timber merchant, of FrimleY, Surrey, 30 years' diseased
lungs, spitting of blood, liver clerangement, partial
deafness.—Cure No. 46.8!4: M.. Samuel Laxton. Lei-
cester, of two years' diarrhoea. Cure. No. 52 612 :
The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart, of many years' ner-
vous irritability, bile and irdigestion, • Cure No. 54.812: Miss
Virginia Zeguees, cured of consumntion, after her medi-
cal advisers hail ahardored all -hopes of recovery.—
Cure No. 130: "Twenty-five years' rervsusress, con-
stipation, indigestion, and debility. front which I 11:- ve
suffered great misery, ard which ro medicine could re-
move or relieve, have been effectually cued by Du
Barry's Food in a very short time, W. B. Beeves. 181,
Fleet-street, London."—No. 4,208: Fight years' dvspepsia,
!nryousness. debility. 17ith cramps, spasms. and nausea, for
which my servant had consulted the advice of men se have peen
b
effectually cured
be hap". tDa Barry's health-restoring Food. shall
o answer any inquiries. Rev. Join Flavell.
Rectory,
Norfolk." No. 32.836 Three Years'
and general debii' with
excessive nervousness
has been rad easitlyuarrimoved
-.y which
pains in my neck and left arm,
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A r:hdencos of Ross, Skinereen." -
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above, on all cases of Nervous Debility, Languor, Incapacity,
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ITERDICeAgiLsttDeIt;ICIE.s A
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SECTION I.—The Physiology of the Generative Organs.
t tnen ts— Advan-
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[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Notice.—In consequence of Messrs.
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tion similar to that which they previously advanced, and wish-
ing to do those gentlemen every justice, Mr. Thorley is induced
to enlarge his coming pamphlet, making it 64 pages instead
of 32- showing beyond doubt that their observations on the
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ruinous expenses incurred by medicines,
through
annoyances, and
distant climes. We quote a few of
cod liver oil. or visits to
and muscular energy withou: any..of th_e_un,certa.inties,
Cure No. 39,618—Dr. Wurtzer, of consumption. Care No.
cures effected by this delicious food.
54,812—Miss Virginia Zeguers, cured econsumption, after
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td when, as
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c from cough, expectoration, nocturnal p rs
-Pirations, and
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Jis now- perfectly well. Cure No. 46,270—Mr.ames
Roberts, timber merchant, o' thirty years diseased
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par-
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of Plusknow, of gastric inflammation of the stomach
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No further intelligence has arrived from Japan
announcing any change in the state of matters
there; but it is confidently hoped that the firm
attitude assumed by Mr. Consul General Alcock
will have the effeet both of reassuring the Japanese
Government and of checking the improprieties of
the British residents who have behaved in such a
manner as to cause the partial stoppage of trade.
It is due to the commercial community of China
to mention that it has very generally condemned
their conduct. It is difficult to obtain information
as to what is going on in the Japanese ports, but
there appears to be very good grounds for the
warnings held out by Mr. Oliphant and others
against the expectation of any great and sudden
extension of British trade from the opening of
these ports. When first opened there were
a number of curious articles presented in the
market which gave something to do, and the pur-
chase of gold coins afforded a most profitable trade ;
but the real commercial question in regard to Japan
—viz., how far it is willing to take our manufac-
tures and can give us raw produce—vet remains to
be solved. The question as to how far Japan may
be able to supply us with coal is about to be inves-
tigated by Lieutenant Malcolm, It. who has
Shanghae for Nagasaki for that purpose. The
Minister of the United States at Yedo lies clic' -lly
communicated that lie has obtained a pledge from
the Japanese Government that the treaty of Yedo
will be carried out in its integrity, and that, more
particularly, Japanese produce may be freely tur-
chased, and all Japanese articles may be exported
without limit, except rice, wheat, copper coin, and
uncoined Japanese gold and silver. The quarter to
be occupied by foreigners will also be settled imme-
diately.
From Shanghae the only news of importance is
that the Chinese Government has given the coup de
grace to the gratuitous supposition that it means to
ignore the American treaty which was ratified at
Peh-tang. Not content with allowing that treaty
to come in force, and opening the new porte of
Swatow and Taiwan, it has extended the provisions
of the American treaty to the English and other
treaty powers. Ho, the Impel lel commissioner,
has been authorised by the Emperor to direct that
the tonnage dues at the various open ports be levied
at the reduced rate of four mace per ton, as secured
by the DCNN American treaty, and has even given
directions for the granting drawbacks for the extra
mace which may have been paid by British and
other ships since the 24th of November, when the
new treaty came in force.
There was a report among the Chinese that
llwashana one of the Imperial commissioners who
signed Lord Elgin's treaty, had been put to death,
but. it has not been authenticated.
Another ship has left for the British West Indies,
with Chinese emigrants, among whom there were the
large propertion of 115 women, 37 boys, 20 girls,
and 11 infants. A third vessel will very soon be
despatched; it is likely that wary more emigrants
will come forward after the Chinese New Year,
which falls on the 23d instant ; and the success
of this tcheme is now set beyond doubt so far as
China is concerned.
Mr. Gingell, the newly-appointed consul at
Amoy, wnere he was sic?-consul before his recent
visit to England, has entered upon his duties at
that port, relieving Mr. M. C. Morrison, who ap-
pears to have won high respect and regard at Amoy.
Of local matters there is absolutely nothing on
record—not even a fire or a libel case,

COMMERCIAL SUMMARY,
HONG-liONG,__.l3osi•less in general could not be
much worse than it is et the present time at all the
ports open to foreign trade. Rice alone :s firm,
most articles of import are lower P n d heaNy of sale,
and in merry instances quite neglected. A large
amount of the depression is attributable to the near
approach of the Chinese New Year (23d instant),
by which date it is " China custom" for every man
to have his house set in order, his business transac-
tions reduced to the smallest possible compass, his
liabilities discharged as far as practicable, and he
himself prepared to inaugurate the new year a new
man. The turn of the year, and the holidays over,
may see a partial revival to business, but we fear
some time will elapse before We enjoy similar ac-

The design and erection of the Britannia Tubu•
lar Bridge was not only a gigantic engineering
triumph, but a work which marked the commence-
ment of a new epoch in this country, when every-
thing was to be made subordinate to the economy
of time in our means of internal communication.
Quick travelling was the first object, and as long
as that was secured expense was often but too
little regarded. The Britannia-bridge was erected
at a cost of some .E 600,000 or £BOO,OOO sterling to
save a delay of h tlf an hour on a 12 hours' jour-
ney from London to Dublin, and this bridge, with
the Saltash Viaduct and others, became types of
a class of works which overcame at any cost the
most stupendous engineering difficulties to gain a
few minutes on 300 miles, or save a passenger the
trouble of carrying his carnet bag from one lug-
gage van to another 100 yarns distant. The Lou:
don and North-Western Railway Company, with
the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, have
been foremost in their efforts to secure all the
facilities which engineering skill and money could
accomplish, and of which, as we have said, the
Menai-bridge is so striking an example. To cross
these straits in two minutes, and to lose two hours
by inferior steamboats in crossing the larger straits
which separa'e Holyhead from Dublin, was, of
course, not to be thought of, and thus the Menai-
bridge principle, as we may call it, was pushed to
its utmost in order to secure the fastest seagoing
steamers in the world. During the whole history
of the rise and progress of fast steamships—from
the time that the Royal Sovereign was built for the
station in 1821 till the Caradoc and Banshee were
sent forth to eclipse everything in speed, and so on
down to the present day, the packets between
Holyhead end Dublin have always been considered
to number among them the best and fastest
steamers in the world. Such a reputation, how-
ever, can only be gained and maintained by the
most incessant vigilance and the most rapid adop-
tion as to form and means of locomotion which

the progress of eiti_cr naval architecture or
steam machinery can supply. The boats of the
Caradoc and Banshee class were an improvement
on all which had gone before, as much as
the Eblana and Prince Arthur vessels improved on
these again. The time for further progress in these
latter ht s again arrived, and another step in ad-
vance is about to be taken, which will place on the
Holyhead station such boats as it is confidently
expected s ill surpass, both in speed and power, any
which have yet been attempted. Some idea may
be formed of their capacity when we state that the
four new vessels which are building—the Ulster,
Munster, Connaught, and Leinster--will each be
upwards of 2,000 tons' burden, 350 feet in length,
and propelled by 800-horse power at a rate of speed
contracted to be not less than 18 knots an hour.
But for the gigantic increase which is made almost
monthly in the sped and seagoing capabilities of
our ocean steamers, such dimensions and such power
and speed might well be thought extraordinary in
packets intended for a run of 61 miles. They are
likely to be among the steam wonders of the next
12 months, by which time there are certain to be
some that will equal them, the number of which
will continue to increase till the mail service must
in time take another well considered step, and pass
ahead of all as heretofore. Three of these splendid
vessels are being or are nearly built by Messrs.
Laird and Sons at Birker head, and the four.li by
Samuda and Co., on the Thames. The first, the
Ulster, was launched by the Marchioness of Chan-
dos from 11r. Laird's yard on Saturday last; the
second vessel', with )'iat building in London, will
be sent afloat about the end of next month, and the
last from Birkenhead in April next. Tre dimen-
sions of the Ulster, which was launched on Satur-
day, were—length extreme, 350 feet; depth of hold
20 feet ; width, f: ", feet ; draught of water, 12 to
13 feet ; tonnage, 2,:300; nominal horse power, 750;
estimated average of speed, 20 miles an hour. The
engines are to be oscillating, and will be supplied
by Bolton and Watt, and the paddlewheels are, of
course, to be fitted with feathering floats. Mr. Laird
has adopted his wave-line principles in the form of
the hulls of these vessels, and, like other cele-
brated fast-going steamers which have been launched
from his yard, all the three Holyhead packets
have a considerable spring in the keel forward, and
some slight rise aft. Both the entrance and stern
of the packets are exquisitely fine, the former to a
great extent reminding the spectator of the bows
of the Great Eastern. All the packets are, for

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