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"SANITAS AC FELICITAS."

NAR. LA'MERT, M.D., &c., 37, Bedford-square,
London, may be consulted personally or by letter, upon
the important subjects chiefly dealt with in his popular Me-
dical Essays "On the Cure of NERVOUS and PHYSICAL
DEBILITY," "THE SCIENCE OF LIFE, OR HOW TO
LIVE," "SECOND LIFE, OR ELECTRICAL NERVOUS
FORCES," &c.
These works, which in the original English versions have
reached respectively their 71st, 30th, and 10th editions, have
been translated into most of the principal languages of
Europe. Their extensive circulation may be attributed in
great measure to the fact that the Author is the only duly
qualified and legally registered Practitioner who has made
the Diseases of the Nervous System, arising usually from
Imprudence, the peculiar objects of his attention. The im-
pediments which so often embitter life and render it a state
of misery, by disappointing its fondest hopes and marring its
highest objects, are, though varied in form, closely analogous
in reality. But the sources are numerous that contribute to
silent misery and unhappiness. The mischief may arise in-
nocently, sometimes from deleterious influences devolved
from the necessities of position—sometimes from circum-
stances that occurred years before the sufferers were born,
sometimes from accident or the influence of injurious climate,
but chiefly from Self-incurred Afflictions, dating back, in too
numerous instances, to a period long preceding that at which
reason could be matured by experience.
Those who may have a consciousness, or even a suspicion,
that any of the observations here made have peculiar applica-
tion to themselves, or to those near and dear to them, may now
reflect that cases are indeed rare in which practised science
cannot fully realise the long-deferred hopes, remove all causes
of mutual reproach, and replace chronic embitterment by
permanent content. Enually rare and exceptional are those
cases for which there do not exist resources capable of re-
storing the bloom of health, the lightsome sparkle of the eye,
the radient smile, and the elastic at, p, to those suffering from
some mv,terioum and blighting influence, which alike defies
the solicitude of the parent and the perspicacity of the family
medical friend, whilst it is evidently drying up the very foun-
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A professional prejudice, which happily is now fast disap-
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comprised under the general designation "Nervous and
Physical tiebility," though these affections are probably more
destructive and widely prevalent than any others.
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THE LATE MR. JOAEPH LOCEE, M.P.

At the opening meeting of the Institution of Civil
Engineers, the president (Mr. G. P. Bidder) thus
referred to the loss the profession had sustained in
the death, during the recess, of Mr. Joseph Locke :
Before commencing the ordinary business, the
president reminded the assembled members that at
the opening of the last session they had heard from
the then president, Mr. Locke, a most feeling ad-
dress announcing the deceases of those two dis-
tinguished members of the professiOn, Mr. Brunel
and Mr. Robert Stephenson. How little was it
imagined that the lips which then uttered the fer-
vent eulogy upon the memories of his departed
friends would so soon be hushed in the silence of
the grave. Another of the leaders had passed away,
cut off in the prime of life, and in the full vigour of
his intellect. In Mr. Locke the profession had lost
one of its most eminent members, whether regarded
professionally or socially, and the institution one
of the ablest presidents that had occupied that dis•
tinguished position. Sprung originally from that
great nursery of practical engineers, the works at
Newcastle-on-Tyne, Mr. Locke acquired there his
mechanical knowledge and his unbounded confi-
dence in the powers of the locomotive engine.
He was soon transplanted to co-operate with the
late Mr. George Stephenson in several of his early
works, and nearly at the commencement of the
construction of the Grand Junction Railway,
the separation occurred into the causes of which
it was as unnecessary as it would be invidious
to enter. This separation between the master
Brunel might be said to have died as the Great
Eastern commenced its trial voyage. Mr. Robert
Stephenson was taken away. on the eve of the com-
pletion of the great Victoria-bridge over the St.
Lawrence; and Mr. Locke's decease occurred on
the completion of his long-cherished project—the
extension of the narrow gauge line to Exeter, the
capital of the West of England. These remarks
would be incomplete, if no allusion were made to
the distinctive features which marked Mr. Locke's
professional career. They would be best under-
stood by extracts from the able address he had
made to the members on assuming the presidential
chair, only three years ago. He then said—" Let
us consider the principle on which public works
are now undertaken—the motives that supply those
abundant means by which alone they become pos-
sible. It must be seen that the problem proposed,
on such grounds, to practical science, is not merely
the execution of certain works, but rather their ar-
rangement and construction in a manner calculated
to realise the object in which they originete. . . .
Beyond this, observing the springs from which our
profession draws its support, and the relation which
it bears to the voluntary. employment of private
means in public works; the significance of financial
results, as final exponents of their success, or
failure, must be apparent ln every point
of view, therefore—whether especially considering
that it is the triumph of science to solve the whole
of every problem submitted to it, and not a part only
—or regardingits general relations to the object of
modern society in inviting its exercise ; it will be
seen that the financial result of their joint opera-
tion is not their least important feature ; and that
the appreciation of this side of the question really
concerns the engineer no less than the statesman or
the capitalist." Those who had watched the career
of Mr. Locke were well aware how pertinaciously
he adhered to these rules. It was not that he feared
engineering difficulties, for when they were inevi•
table he encountered and overcame them with skill;
as for instance in the works of the Manchester and
and pupil occasioned painful feelings at the time,
but it must now be looked upon as an inevitable
necessity, for the more rapid development of the
railway system, at the period when the existing
modes of transit had become totally inadequate for
the requirements of commerce, and for the growing
wants of civilisation. It had always been observed,
that whenever the necessities of society required
any peculiar development of talent, or any parii-
cular invention, by the interposition of an all-wise
Providence, the man and the knowledge were
forthcoming to provide for the growing wants of
society. On the introduction of railways, it was
requisite that a vast amount of mental energy and
of physical exertion should be employed, in order
to render the development as rapid as possible.
Mr. Locke !possessed peculiar qualities of mind
which secured for him the confidence of capitalists,
by whom the construction of the Grand Junction
11 Railway was entrusted to him. At an early period
of the railway epoch he became the engineer of the
South Western line, whence he almost naturally
sought for and ultimately accomplished the exten-
sion of the system to France, where in the construc-
tion of the Paris and Rouen, and Rouen and Havre
lines, he introduced English capital, English work-
men, and English contractors, and initiated the con-
tinental railway system. He was thus the first who
promoted the establishment of the present rapid
communication between the great commercial capi-
tal of Great Britain, and Paris the fashionable me-
tropolis of the continent. Returning to the field of
his early labours, he undertook the extension of the
lines from Preston to Carlisle, and thence to Glas-
gow, Edinburgh, and, ultimately, to Aberdeen, thus
becoming also the pioneer of the Scotch railway
system. Without entering minutely into the de-
tails of his professional life, which would be given
in the official memoir, it would be admitted, from
what had been stated, that Mr. Locke was entitled to
be considered one of the great engineers of the period,
and a distinguished pioneer in the introduction of
the railway system. There was a curious coincidence
in the circumstances of the deceases of the three dis-
tinguished men who had been removed within little
more than a year. Each one had departed on the eve
of, or at the completion of, some great work. Mr.
Sheffield Railway. But his great anxiety, and
which secured for him the confidence of a large
body of capitalists, was to attain his object by avoid-
ing difficult and expensive works, from a desire
that all the works on which he engaged should be
commercially successful. The abnegation of profes-
sional renown arising from the construction of monu-
mental works, whilst establishing his reputation as
an economical engineer, induced him to turn to the
locomotive engine, and to tax its powers (in which
he had, from the earliest period, the greatest confi-
dence), for overcoming steeper gradients than had
hitherto been deemed compatible with economy and
safety. In this he was very successful, and when
viewed in conjunction with the previously-men-
tioned general features of his professional life, it
must be conceded that the decease of Mr. Locke
had caused a gap in the profession which would
long be felt. It would be improper to close this
hasty sketch without alluding to the extent to
which both Mr. Locke and Mr. Robert Stephenson
had acquired the confidence and esteem of a large
circle of friends in the House of Commons. 'They
had ably maintained the dignity and the indepen-
dence of an important profession, which should
always be adequately represented in Parlianient.
They went there without any personal objects be-
yond that of fair ambition to attain an honourable
position ; whilst there they were eminently useful,
and it might he hoped that before long other active
useful members of the profession would assume
their places in the house. Of the urbanity and im-
partiality with which Mr. Locke had acquitted
himself of the duties of President, it was unneces-
sary to say a word, all that he had said and done
was so recent and had been so universally approved.
The members of council, and those who had en-
joyed his friendship, would lament the loss of a
genial companion and the institution a valuable
and influential member.
It was announced that the following paper would
be read at the meeting of to-morrow the 20th inst.
—" On the River Orwell, and the Port of Ipswich,"
by Mr. George Hurwood, M. Inst. C. E.