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because it would be protecting them from the oppression
of those above them. That he had good reason to know
was the feeling of the people. The ballot, however, must
come, because justice could not deny it for ever; and he
appealed to them if it were not better to gracefully yield
the boon at once, rather than wait till they were forced to
yield it ungraciously. Let not therefore their fears deny
that which at no distant day their fears would compel them
to grant. He would not detain the house further than by
stating that he had a firm conviction that the words of
Bentham were true, namely, that " secrecy of the suffrage
was the pole star of reform." (Cheers.).
Mr. MOWBRAY said, in rising to offer a few observe,
tions in opposition to the motion, he considered he had a
right on behalf of the House of Commons to complain of
the attack made on it by the hon. member for Bristol, in
describing it as a hostile House of Commons. The hon.
gentleman was the last person from whom such a charge
ought to have proceeded.

Mr. BERKELEY remarked that what he said was
"hostile to reform."

Mr. MOWBRAY said on the 28th May last the house
passed in the most general terms an instruction to the
committee on the Reform Bill, that the committee should
have power to make provision for the better prevention of
bribery and corruption, not specifying any particular plan,
not excluding this particular crotchet of the hon. member
for BristoL But against that particular proposition the
hon. member for Bristol recorded his vote. (Hear.) He
thought, therefore, he had a right to say that the house,
whenever he took its general feeling as expressed by the
resolution or as evinced by the various inquiries which had
taken place before the various election committees, had
shown itself indifferent to ary measure for the prevention
of bribery and corruption. The hon. member had taken
them back 240 years and over all portions of the globe,
but he owned when he recollected the freshness of the
illustrations with which the hon. gentleman had been in
the habit of portraying the organs of these septennial
saturnalias that he had not entertained them with such
amusing illustrations with reference to the demoralisation
and bribery as he had been accustomed to do. The hon.
gentleman had divided his arguments into four classes,
first, that in answer to the ballot being unmanly, he said
that the ballot prevailed at all the clubs, and especially at
military clubs ; but he need not remind the house how often
that argument had been quoted, and how it had invariably
failed from want of analogy. One was the election of a
person for social purposes ; the other was the election of a
person to discharge a great public trust. But when the
hon. gentleman taunted them about the doings of clubs he
thought he was going to enlighten the house with regard
to the arcana of one with which he was conversant, and
tell them what was the position of the Reform Club also
with regard to the ballot. The hon. gentleman said the
second argument against the ballot was that it was un-
English, and he met that argument by saying that it was
not so. He (Mr. Mowbray) contended that it was against
the feelings, habits, and convictions of Englishmen—nay,
more, it was so far un-English that it was opposed to
the general opinion of this country. America used to be
the stock argument in favour of the ballot, but now
America was given up, and the hon. member took them to
Wimbledon to see the volunteers. Then the hon. member
took them to France, and he quoted a French elector, who,
speaking of the candidates, said, " They enforce a promise,
but they cannot secure a vote." That was exactly what
the opponents of the ballot said, that they might get a pro-
mise, but the man would tell them a lie, and would not
give them the vote. (Ironical cheers.) Then they were
taken to the Australian colonies, and if those colonies had
not adopted the ballot within the last half-dozen years he
did not know where the hon. member would have gone for
his argument. The hon. member had completely failed to
prove that the ballot had been successful to such an extent
in Australia that it was right it should be adopted in this
country. Then the hon. gentleman came to the argument
against the ballot that the franchise was a trust. The hon.
gentleman always found a difficulty in encountering that
argument. He was obliged to admit that it was a trust,
but then ho tried to explain that in his own way ; he said
it was a trust which the voter was to exercise fairly and
indifferently. Clearly it was not a property. The hon.
member, he supposed, would not. contend that a man had
a right to sell his vote. The franchise was a sacred trust,
and the voter must not be allowed to shelter himself under
secret voting. Publicity was the first principle of all our
proceedings in public life; publicity characterised the pro-
ceedings of the house, of courts of justice, and municipal
institutions. But he believed that the attempt at secret
voting would be inoperative, for the Englishman's whole
course of action must be altered, his election speeches and
canvassing must be put down, his tongue must be tied
among his own friends and in his own house. It was be-
cause ho believed the ballot would tend to degrade the
public spirit of this country ; because he thought it would
tend to endanger the institutions which had given us
greater freedom than any other nation that he opposed the
adoption of this motion.
Lord H. PERCY said, as the hon. member for Bristol
had brought unfounded accusations against his brother, he
repudiated them with scorn. The hon.member had brought
three accusations. Two of them ho had not heard of before,
but with regard to the interference of his brother's steward
ho was prepared to deny it. (The noble lord then read a
letter from the steward in which he stated that he had em-
ployed the voter in question, but that he found ho could
get the work done for less, and had therefore written to
state that he desired to close the account).
Mr. ONSLOW said he did not wish to enter into the
general question, but to state to the house certain facts which
had come to his knowledge within the last few days, and
which had transpired in the borough which he had the
honour to represent. He admitted that gentlemen on his
side of the house were as guilty of evil practices as certain
gentlemen were on the other. The Liberals were, how-
ever, very clumsy imitators of those masters of the art,
the Conservatives. (Laughter, and cries of " Oh.") The
great landowners were bitter enemies of the ballot, and
why ? Because the last thing in the world they would
give up was that political influence which they most un-
justly and unfairly exercised over their dependents.
There was an election at Guildford last week, when
the Solicitor-General was one of the 'candidates. The
hon. and learned member was opposed by a gentleman who
becausethe
becauseha the occasion was the first
and most fitting opportunity that was afforded of protest-
ing against a Government which he With many other per-
sonsd an
wish to sit in Par-
lciaammeenfotrw—(alr notad4hte Par-
liament—(laughter)—but
believed did not enjoy the full confidence of the coun-
try, and also of protesting against the methods that had
been adopted for the purpose of defeating the most modest
proposal of reform ever offered to the country. (Cheers
and laughter.) This gentleman came forward, and he (Mr.
Onsdow) did his best to help him. They
got at least half
the promises in the borough. There were 647 voters, and
the Solicitor-General polled 316 ; but the intimidation that
was used was so extreme that it threatened to ruin the
trade and prosperity of the borough, and so the Liberals
withdrew their man. (Laughter.) They had a
right to assume that those who had promised them
their votes would have appeared at the poll if they had
dared. (Oh 0 For forty years the Liberals had always
stood at the head of the poll ; and why did they not on the
late occasion? How was it then that the Solicitor-General
should have polled3l6 and the Liberals only 12 ? (Laugh-
ter.) Such i thing was unparalleled in the annals of Parlia-
ment. The fact was that if they had persevered the town
would have been half ruined : the tailors would have had
to close their shops, the shoemakers would have made no
shoes, the laundresses would have been unemployed, the
butter would have been unchurned, and the whole borough
would have been ruined. (Laughter.) The noble lord as-
serted that the letter he had read had nothing whatever to
do with the matter ; but he (Mr. Onslow) had it in his
hand. It was dated Albury-park, July 10, and it was writ-
ten to a saddler:—" Mr Dowling—Please make out your
bill, as I may probably desire to close the account on Sa
turday next"—the day after the poll. (Cheers.) Ho (Mr.
Onslow) would make no comment on that letter (Cries
of " Name.") It was written by Mr. G. W. Howes, the
steward of Lord Percy. To mention another case. There
was a tradesman in Guildford who went to AlburY-Park
on the morning before the election. He was in his draw-
ing-room and was doing his business there. (Laughter.)
The nearest relation of Lord Percy was in the room, and
that party— (a laugh).....said,
" Well, how are you going to
vote ?" The tradesman replied, " I have not made up my
mind." The party then said, " If you vote against the
Solicitor-General, you must not come to this house again ;
it is the intention of Lord Percy to send for the poll book,
and those who vote the wrong way shall no longer come
near this house in the way of trade." (Cries of
"Name.") He, (Mr. Onslow) had the greatest possible
faith in his information, and if the noble lord wished he
would give it to him in a private interview. Ho consi-
dered that the Liberals had only rolled so few votes in
consequence of the bribery, corruption, and intimidation,
which were employed on the other side. (Cheers.)
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the very style and
tone of his hon. colleague's remarks showed that he had
recently returned from the hustings. The letter which he
had just produced was represented at the Guildford elec-
tion to have been received from a peer of the realm. It
was made to do duty in a most remarkable manner, and
suspicion had in consequence attached to a noble lord re-
siding in the neighbourhood of the town. After all, what
did that letter prove ? Admitting that its object, notwith-
standing the disclaimer of his noble friend, was really to
intimidate Mr. Dowling, it had wholly failed in its object.
For what did Mr. Dowling do ? Why, the very first thing
he did on receiving it was to express his intention of re-
cording his vote, as an Englishman should do, in accord-
ance with his own political views. The letter, therefore,
instead of proving any necessity for tho ballot, was really
an argument against it. (Hear, hear.) Then the hon.
gentleman told a story of somebody that had told him that
somebody had been to Albury, and that somebody had
said something to him there. This was the Bast time that
he (the Solicitor-General) had heard of the matter, or he
would have inquired into it ; but he could quite under-
stand that in many places statements of the kind might be
made. One of his own housemaids had said to a work-
man, "If you don't vote for Mr. Bovill don't show your
face here again ;" and he (the hon. gentleman) had no
doubt a good many housemaids had said that. (Laughter.)
The fact was, the housemaid had been long in his service,
and took a warm interest in his success ; but the man to
whom she spoke was a decided Radical, and nothing

that she could have said could have had the least 1
influence upon his vote. Ho (the Solicitor-General) had
long resided in the neighbourhood, and had associated
himself with persons of all shades of opinion ; but he
had never heard it suggested that any number of house-
maids would deter any workman or tradesman in the town
from exorcising his privilege of voting as he pleased. As
to the result of the late election, he could only say that
the opposition candidate had been selected with great care,
and he was convinced that that gentleman had only been
withdrawn in consequence of the total failure of the friends'
expectations, and after resorting to means which he (the
Solicitor-General) would have been ashamed to imitate.
(Cheers.) They opened a number of public-houses by way
of maintaining the freedom of election and the independence
of the voters. (No, no.) He (the Solicitor-General) said
" Yes." He was pressed to follow the example, but he de-
clined. He was ashamed to take up so much time by re-
ferring to the Guildford election, and he could only repeat
that nothing which had occurred had in the least degree
shown that there was a necessity for the ballot. (Cheers.)
Capt. VIVIAN (who spoke amidst cries of " Divide ")
deprecated the introduction of any personal element into
the discussion. Ho really did not see why the subject should
be treated as a party question at all, as it was only a ques-
tion of procedure, and merely concerned the mode of taking
votes—not the votes themselves. Ho agreed that the fran-
chise was a trust, to be exercised for the benefit of the non-
electors. But if on the day of nomination the non-electors
decided by a show of hands that the polling should take
place by secret instead of public voting, the returning offi-
cer might be authorised to declare the mode of election in
conformity with that decision of the non-electors. (Oh,
and hear, hear.)
Mr. LOCKE (who rose amidst loud cries of "Divide ")
said that his right hon. friend opposite (Mr. Mowbray)
made use of the reference which had been made by his
hon. friend (Mr. Berkeley) to the Frenchman,who told him
that under the ballot he could made a promise, but that it
could not be enforced, as an argument against the ballot.
Now he (Mr. Locke) contended that it was a strong argu-
ment in fovour of the ballot, because he denied the right
of a man first to exact a promise, and then to enforce it.
What right had a man to enforce that which they all
admitted was a secret in the bosom of the person who had
the right to exercise it ? He admitted that the franchise
was a trust, and that the voter should have full oppor-
tunity of performing that trust, but under the present
system you get a promise, and then you wish to have the
means of preventing the voter from performing that trust
according to his conscience. The ballot was the only mode
in which he could exercise his trust as an honest and con-
scientious man. In the Reform Club they for a time aban-
doned the system of a general ballot, and they delegated
the trust to forty members who were called the forty
thieves—(laughter)—of whom he had the honour to be one.
(Laughter.) But they had recently at a general meeting
determined to return to their first-love, and now the old
system of general voting was adopted. (Hear, hear.)
After a few words from Mr. BERKELEY, in reply, the
house divided—

For the motion ~. 110
Against it ... 197-87

Mr. HUNT obtained leave to bring in a bill to enable
her Majesty to declare gold coins to be issued from her
Majesty's colonial branch mints a legal tender for pay-
ments; a bill to confirm provisional orders under the
Drainage and Improvement of Lands Act (Ireland) and the
act amending-the same ; and a bill to amend the acts relat-
ing to the intended courts of justice.

Tho Militia Pay Bill was read a second time.
The County Assessment Bill was read a third time and
passed, as was also the Now Forest Poor Belief Bill.

The other orders on the paper having been disposed of,
the house adjourned at half-past twelve o'clock.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, July 14.—Her Majesty's paddlewheel
despatch vessel Psyche, 2, Lieut.-Commander A. R.
Blanc, which left Malta on the 22d ult. for the
Adriatic, returned to this port on the sth inst. The
Victoria, 102, screw line-of-battle ship, bearing the
flag of the Vice-Admiral Commander-in-Chief, the
Right Hon.. Lord Clarence E. Paget, C. 8., and the
Royal Oak, 35, ironcased frigate, were at Patras on
the 3d inst. The Resistance, 16, ironclad, had either
left, or was on the point of leaving, for Naples.
Lord Clarence Paget intended to leave in the Vic-
toria for Corinth, thence cross over the Isthmus,
where he would meet the Gibraltar, 81, and proceed
in her, together with the captains of the respective
ships, to Athens, to have an audience of the King.
The Gibraltar would then leave for Malta to refit,
the Arethusa having been sent to the Piraeus to re-
lieve her. The Enterprise, 4, ironcased sloop, Com-
mander Rowley, which, was at Ancona when the
Austrian fired into the Italian fleet, has been or-
dered into Trieste. The Racer, 11, screw corvette,
Commander L. Brine, is at Corfu. The Assurance,
4, Commander Pym, took the last mail from Malta
to Patras, where the Commander-in-Chief was ex-
pected to return about the 9th inst. The next mail
will be taken by the Psyche, now in port. The
Wizard, 2, Lieut.-Commander Murray, arrived at
Patras, from Malta, on the 3d at noon, and is ex-
pected back here to-morrow with despatches.
Deputy-Inspector-Gen. C. A. Anderson, Chief Me-
dical Officer of the Royal Naval Hospital at Malta,
has been offered the post of Senior Deputy-In-
spector-General at Hagar, and has signified his
willingness to accept the appointment. The Italian
paddle-wheel corvette Archimede, 6 guns, arrived
here on the sth inst. from Naples, and is likely to
remain here some time, with the view, it is sup-
posed, of exercising a wholesome check on persons
in this island who are suspected of making clandes-
tine shipments of arms and ammunition for Sicily,
with treasonable intentions against the present
Italian Government. The boats of this vessel
having been observed making soundings in the port,
the attention of the Italian Consul was drawn to
the subject, and the commander of the Archimede
was informed that such a practice was contrary to
the port regulations. The Italian commander is
perhaps unaware that charts with all the soundings
of Malta harbour can be had from any bookseller
at the cost of a few shillings. In my last letter I
informed you that a quarantine of seven days had
been put by the Malta Government on arrivals from
Liverpool. Before there was even time for this
term to expire the Government cancelled their pre-
vious order, having in the meantime ascertained
that no cases of cholera whatever existed at Liver-
pool. Our Chief Secretary to Government, Sir
Victor Moulton, leaves to-day by the Marseilles
packet, to meet Sir Henry Storks in London.
The unarmoured screw frigate Mersey, 3,733
tons, 1,000 horse-power, nominal, of engines, made
an official trial of her machinery at Stokes Bay,
near Portsmouth, under the superintendence of
Capt. W. C. Chamberlain, commanding her Majes-
ty's ship Asia and the Steam Reserve at Portsmouth,
on the completion of her repairs and refit for com-
mission.

The hired sailing transport Charlemagne, belong-
ing to Messrs. John Lidgett and Sons, of London,
has arrived at Portsmouth from the Thames, and
will embark detachments of troops to-day for con-
veyance to Calcutta.
The iron turret-ship Wivern, 4, Capt. Hugh T.
Burgoyne, V.C., is preparing at Devonport for ser-
vice on the North American station.

The iron turret-ship Prince Albert, 4, Capt.
Arthur Wihnshurst, will be taken from Plymouth
Sound into Hamoaze to receive some alterations.

Yesterday morning steam was got up on board
the American national iron-clad turret ship Mian-
tonomah, Capt. Beaumont, and it was expected that
she would leave the Nero for her contemplated visit
to the Baltic.

The officers of the Ordnance Select Committee of
Woolwich Arsenal yesterday terminated a course of
firing to test the efficiency of Col. Boxer's improved
breechloading cartridges. They are adapted so as
to suit and be perfectly applicable to the various
grooves of each kind of musket to be used in the
service with a rifling of •577 bore. The following
have been used in the experiments with a satisfac-
tory result :—The Enfield and naval rifles, the ar-
tillery carbine, and the Lancaster rifle. An order
has, in consequence, been received from General
Peel, advising Colonel Boxer to prepare an un-
limited amount of these cartridges for the gene-
ral service of the army, as Colonel Dixon, supe-
rintendent of the Royal Small Arms' Fac-
tories, has stated his intention of forwarding to the
Military Store Department at Woolwich, with the
joint assistance of the various contracts about to be
issued, not fewer than 150,001) breech-loaders be-
fore the close of the present year. The strength of
the cartridge-filling branch of the Royal Labora-
tory is consequently to be augmented by some 500
or 600 lads and girls. The department, during the
Crimean war, was organised so as to be carried out
on an extensive scale in the Plumstead marshes,
and on a principle to exclude, with ordinary care,
the possibility of much danger, each shop being
separated by a high mound of earth, and a plentiful
supply of water being ready at hand. The most

complete arrangements are also made for the com-
fort of the young people employed. A spacious
garden surrounds the little territory of shops, which
produces an ample supply of vegetables at a cheap
rate, and, together with a moderate provision of
meat and bread, under careful and well directed
supervision, mess dinners are provided at a few
pence per head. In the evening the young people
are conducted in gangs to their respective abodes,
and are reassembled similarly each morning with
great care and punctuality.

The five troops of the C brigade Royal _Horse
Artillery, in command of Col. Huyshe, recently re-
turned to headquarters from India, have been horsed
and equipped for ready service, and yesterday un-
derwent inspection at Woolwich by Major-General
Warde, C.B. The horses appeared to be already
under perfect control, and the men, who have all
returned from an extended furlough granted them
to visit their friends, appeared well up in their bri-
gade duties. After inspecting the men and the
accputrements, recently supplied from the Royal
Arsenal, the General, attended by his staff, took up
a position in front, and the batteries marched by in
slow and quick time. The men were in drill cos-
tume, and performed the marching past remarkably
well.

Yesterday the following troops embarked at Go-
vernment quay, Gravesend, on board the chartered
transport Beaumaris Castle, for Calcutta, for the
purpose of augmenting the Royal Artillery serving
in the Bengal Presidency,—viz., 9 sergeants, 14
corporals, 4 drummers, and 268 men, with 34
women and 40 children, of the Depot Brigade,
Royal Artillery, together with the following officers :
Capt. H. C. Hammond, 46th Regiment ; Capt. R.
Aislabie, Lieut. B. Raikes, Lieut. J. E. Josselyn,
Lieut. V. 11. Walker, and Lieut. Robert de
Marylski, Royal Artillery ; Ensign Harvey R. S.
Foley, 42d Royal Highlanders ; Ensign A. P.
nines, 91st Highlanders, and one army school-
master ; the whole under the medical charge of
Assist.-Surg. C. A.Mannsell, M.D., Royal Artillery.
The hired transport St. Lawrence embarked at
Gravesend yesterdaythe following officers and troops
for conveyance to Calcutta to join the service com-
panies of their respective corps :—Capt. J. Walker
and 63 non-commissioned officers and men of the
Royal Artillery ; Lieut. A. J. Harrison, Lieut. H.
W. L. Paddon, Ensign A. H. Morgan, and 115
non-commissioned officers and men of the Ist bat-
talion of the 7th Royal FusiAeers, together with 13
women and 10 children, the whole in medical
charge of Assist.-Surg. A. S. Russell, M.D., Royal
Artillery. The whole of the above troops embarked
yesterday under the direction of Brigade-Major
W. W. Lynch and the officers of the Quarter-
master-General's staff at Chatham Garrison, the
Beaumaris Castle and the St. Lawrence having
previously been inspected by Major-Gen. Sir
Robert Walpole, K.C.B. Both vessels will leave
the Thames to-day, 24 hours elapsing after the em-
barcation of the troops to allow of their settling
down on board before proceeding to sea.
The screw unarmoured sloop Cruiser, 5, 752 tons,
60-horse power nominal and collective, of engines
(a vessel of six knots measured mile speed, and ab-
surdly allowed to carry guns and figure on the
official Admiralty " Navy List" as a fighting ship)
yesterday steamed out of Portsmouth harbour and
made a trial of her machinery, under the supervi-
sion of the officers of the steam factory and reserve,
on the completion of her outfit for commission. .
A naval court-martial is ordered to assemble on
board her Majesty's ship Victory, at Portsmouth,
to-morrow, Thursday, for the trial of Commander
Hunter and the officers and crew of her Majesty's
late screw sloop Amazon, for the loss of that ship
by collision with the merchant screw steamer Osprey.
ry The iron armour-plated turret ship Wyvern, 4
Capt. Hugh T. Burgoyne, V.C., got up steam yes-
terday, and went outside Plymouth Sound. She
will probably go back to Hamoaze.

The sailing brig Sealark, 8 (tender to Impreg-
nable), Lieut. J. N. Croke, left Plymouth Sound
yesterday for the Channel, to drill and exercise the
boys.

The Russian frigates Ossliaba and Vitiaz, which
have been at Falmouth for the last few days, left
esterday afternoon for Lisbon, &c. Salutes from
her Majesty's ship Ganges and Pendennis Castle
were given and returned by the Ossliaba.
After repeated experiments with the newly-intro-
duced wrought-iron gun . carriage and platform,
made on the Woolwich Arsenal design, an order
,3,3 r
was granted by the War Department for the manu-
facture on that principle of 32 carriages and plat-
forms to serve that number of gin. and 7in. guns, to
supply a demand from Halifax. The order is now
complete, and will be shipped from Woolwich
shortly for its destination. The advantages of em-
ploying wrought-iron in the place of wood are
stated to be that it is less likely to splinter when
struck by an enemy's shot; that the carriages for
heavy guns are lighter than those of wood, and
that a constant supply of the necessary material
can always be obtained from the Thames Iron-
works and other establishments at hand. A diffi-
culty has been frequently experienced in purchas-
ing well-seasoned wood. The mechanical arrange-
ments for depressing and elevating the gun, fitted
to the more solid material, are also less liable to
derangement and become less affected by the severity
of the weather. The Royal carriage department
officials have now received instructions to commence,
1 on an extensive scale, the construcion of wrought-
' iron carriages to furnish the whole of her Majesty's
ships of the fleet. The establishment will be increaed
for that purpose, and the work will be urged on as
speedily as possible. The Ordnance Select Com-
mittee of Woolwich Arsenal have recommended
that the principle on which the new carriages are
to be built shall not be confined exclusively to
the Arsenal system, but shall embrace por-
tions of other inventors' methods. The elevating
and depressing apparatus will be on Sir William
Armstrong's principle, the running-out gear on that
of Capt. Scott, and the general construction of the
carriages on that of the Royal Arsenal. As the work
progresses the carriages are to be issued to the whole
of the ships in commission, so as not to interfere
materially with existing arrangements.
Mr. George Turner, master shipwright in Wool-
wich dockyard, appointed in July, 1859, yesterday
resigned his post, on superannuation, at his own re-
quest. He is to be succeeded by Mr. W. Ladd, from
Deptford yard, now on leave of absence.
The 31st Regiment, stationed in Portsmouth gar-
rison, will embark from that port for Ireland, ac-
cording to present arrangements, on the 27th inst.
This regiment will then have changed its quarters
six times within two years. There can be no ade-
quate reason for pursuing such a course—a course
detrimental to good order and discipline, entailing
heavy cost to the country,and ruinous to the married
officers in the regiment.

THE PRUSSIANS IN HANOVER.—At Ilanover Gen.
Falkenstein has seized on the military chest containing
285 thalers in silver, 300,000 in gold, and 20,000 in paper,
He has also made a rather large requisition of horses.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Teat the fearful annual mortality o
6,,0( 0 yburt,g children and delicate persons of all ages may be
arrested, if, instead of flying blindly to pills and medicines,
which, though apparently relieving the patient, have in
reality no other tendency than that of increasing debility,
and with it the danger of life, we were simply to study how
to increase the vital force by imparting new and pure blood,
upon which the harmonious development of the whole frame
depends, has been successfully proved by Du Barry's Inva-
lids' and Infants' Food, the Revalenta Arabica, and its
thousands of cures annually. It yields three times as mush
easily assimilated nourishment as the best meat, hnd for
children it is the best substitute for human milk. Dr.
Routh, physician to the Samaritan Hospital for Women and
Children—the best authority on such matters —in his admir-
able publication on Food, says—Amongst the vegetable sub-
stances, th it which comes closest to milk in its composition
is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, con-
taining both phosphoric acid in abundance and chloride of
potasPlum ; it also includes casein, the same principle w hich
is found in milk in its constituent parts. No wonder, there-
fore, that under its influence many children affected with
atrophy (wasting away of the body), and marked debt i'y
have completely recovered. I have given it with the greatest
advantage in such cases ; and far as I may judge from my
own experience, practice fully carries out what theory,
from a knowledge of its composition, led us to anticipate.
In tins, 11b, 2s 9d; 21b, 43 63; 51b, lie; 121 b, 225; 211 b,
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40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London;
also Phillips, tea dialers, 8, King William-street ; likewise
at 61, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate-
street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand
54, Upper Baker-street; 103, Tottenham-court-road;
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Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close
Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St.
John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers and she.
mists,—Beware of spurious imitations.