The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-06 00:00:00

Russia and the United States.

On the 19th ult. General Clay, the American
Minister in Russia, while travelling in the interior,
was entertained by the Corporation of Merchants at
Moscow. On alighting at the Mercantile Academy,
where the dinner took place, General Clay and Mr.
Curtin, his Secretary of Legation, were received by
the directors of the Academy and some members of
the committee of reception. Having been conducted
to the banqueting-hall, the guests were again for-
mally received by the committee, and the more
eminent among the company presented to them.
The latter consisted of 127 Russians, among whom
some of the great dignitaries of the city are men-
tioned as having been present.
The company having seated themselves, the
orchestra played " Yankee Doodle" and a Russian
national air amid universal applause. M. Ryasonoff,
the President of the Corporation, proposed the first
toast. He said--
' pentlemen,—The first toast at every Russian dinner is
The health of the Emperor.' It is but paying him the
natural tribute of our boundless love and devotion to wish
him health and a happy reign for many years to come !"

The American " Hurrah !" and the Russian
" Oorrah !" which responded to this toast mingled
with the sounds of the orchestra striking up the
Russian national hymn. M. Lyamin, the Pre-
sident of the Imperial Exchange, next rose to ad-
dress the company in the following terms :
" Gentlemen,—For mercantile men entertaining the
Minister of the United States in this country nothing would
be more natural than to speak of our wish to enter into
more direct and intimate commercial relations with the
great commonwealth he represents. Much, indeed, might
be said on the mutual advantages likely to attend an alli-
ance between our rising industry and America, a country
abounding in raw materials of every description. But in
inviting our honoured guest we were actuated by motives
other than commercial. About a year ago a Russian squad-
ron cast anchor on the American shores. On that occasion
our sailors met with a most cordial reception on the part of
the Americans. To be a Russian, in the eyes of the Ame-
ricans, was the best title to a friendly welcome; and that at
a time when we were looked upon with adverse feelings by
certain other nations in different parts of the world. Gen-
tlemen, a Russian cannot but love his country with enthu-
siasm, and for this reason foreigners loving Russia and the
Russians have a claim to our gratitude and esteem. Now,
the Americans, setting aside all considerations of minor
importance, and paying no regard to the changing aspect
of politics, have ever shown themselves friendly to this
people and Government. Let us, therefore, gratefully ac-
knowledge their amicable disposition towards this empire,
and let us drink to the health of the worthy and highly
esteemed Andrew Johnson, the President of the great
Power on the other side of the ocean—the President of the
United States of America."

Protracted " Oorrahs !" followed this toast, the
band joining in with " Hail, Columbia." At the
request of the committee, General Clay permitted
the following telegram to be sent to the American
Consul at Liverpool, for transmission by mail to the
addressed :

" To his Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the

United States of America.

" The merchants of Moscow, welcoming to their city the
Minister of the United States, drink to the health of your
Excellency.

" THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF

RECEPTION."
General Clay then returned thanks in English :

" Gentlemen,—lt is quite unexpectedly that I find my-
self paying a visit to your ancient capital, the cradle of the
Russian nation. Indeed it was before my arrival that you
had arranged this dinner in honour of Mr. Jeremiah Cur-
tin, my esteemed friend, who does not regret the pains he
took to learn yourmagnificent language ; nor should I have
accepted the invitation you kindly sent me unless I knew
that in the generous Russian heart there is room enough for
friendship and goodwill towards both. I gratefully receive
and acknowledge, in my name and in that of my country-
men, those expressions of friendlyesteem which the citizens
of Moscow have been pleased to employ in regard to the
people of the United States. I am proud at finding the
name of our President joined with the name of Alexander
IL—that glorious monarch, whom God gave to the living
generation as a guarantee of prosperity to Russia and as an
honour to humanity feral! time to come. Fate had reserved
it for these two rulers of two great nations to devote them-
selves to the work of freeing the slave and making all men
equal before the law. I cannot look upon this coincidence
otherwise than as a special dispensation of Provi-
dence, which, both in monarchies and republics, in its own
mysterious way, steadily and unceasingly promotes the
liberty and civilisation of the human race. Let us bow
reverentially before the Divine will. Let us, in obedience
to this will, maintain, foster, and consolidate that friend-
ship between the Russians and Americans which lie him-
self has inscribed with inde:ible characters in the records
of history. Let us love each other as we love our own
domestic hearths, as we love our country and national
honour. Let us keep up those feelings of amity and good-
will, and remain true to them as wo mean to remain true
to liberty, which, though it may often require the blood of
martyrs and heroes to water its course, will yet be cher-
ished for ever."

The words of General Clay elicited much ap-
plause. He was succeeded by M. Gorboff, a Mos-
cow manufacturer, who, as his countrymen had done
before him, spoke Russian :

" Your Excellency— I have been charged with the agree-
able commission to welcome you in the name of the Mos-
cow merchants—to welcome you as our guest and as the
representative of a country which has so often and so so-
lemnly expressed its sympathies with Russia. I sincerely
regret my being unable to address you in your own lan-
guage, and can only wish that the foreign sounds falling
upon your ears at this moment may convey to you the
sympathetic feelings which we, the Russians, shall ever
harbour for the honour, the interests, and the greatness of
the country whose Plenipotentiary you are. We, the
citizens of Moscow, the most Russian of all Russian
towns, congratulate ourselves on being able to repay a
small portion of the debt of gratitude we owe to your com-
patriots for the hospitable reception they lately gave to
the Russian mariners in New York. The sympathies we
feel and utter are real and heartfelt. They are based
upon a similarity of interests and peculiarities, which
will come out more and more strongly as the development
of both countries progresses, and which will, we trust, affect
the destinies of the world. I do not mean to indulge in
vainglorious phraseology. What I say I believe to be true—
it is my political creed, it is the political creed of all Russia.
Here are two immense colossi—Russia and the United
States. With their unmeasured extent, inexhaustible re-
sources, and peculiar population they confront the ancient
kingdoms of Europe like beings of another kind. They are
two riddles which have not 'been solved as yet, but whose
mot, we confidently hope, will become one day apparent,
when Russia and the United States will have attained to a
more prosperous, powerful, and influential position in the
world than any of the older and earlier developed States.
Both you and we may proudly point to those proofs of irre-
pressible vitality which we have given whenever we were
left to our own unfettered genius and the promptings of the
people's heart. Just now both of us have issued from a
Period of the greatest difficulties. Our troubles were com-
mon, and so is our triumph. It is the consciousness that the
power of both countries is unshakable which is the source
of our mutual sympathy, and causes both peoples to look
upon each other with feelings of unqualified respect, jus-
tice, and esteem. Either people confiding in its own energies
naturally admires the other which is equally powerful. It is
the love of the strong for the strong which binds them to-
gether. Our interests, too, are not likely to clash. But
lately we (the Russians) had to negative the absnrd demand
of our German neighbours, who wanted us to reduce our
tariff for the benefit of their own manufactures. Such an
egotistical attack on the benefits of our industry the Amer-
icans have never made. They have never envied, never im-
perilled the growth of Russian manufacture. They have
never offended the feelings of the Russian merchant, but
always behaved in a way which allowed us, and even made
it obligates. upon us, to honour and support their country
and
their flag. To quote your President in his recent Mes-
saawgaeitte Congress, both of us are in a position quietly to
events,' and both of us may entertain hopes
that comingue hethich seems difficult in our internal affairs,
and is calculated
to awaken doubt, will be eventually settled
by the force of eirequistm
I begppoo ces. Animated with these feel-
ingsa double toast—a toast which will be
to
readily responded
by all present, and re-echo in the
heart of every man livin g in the boundless expanse of both
our empires—a toast to the
steady aggrandisement of the Prosperity indivisibility, and
And glorious United
States of America, and to the p great e
rpetual welfare of our own

The passages relative to the alleesciuniiiialraritybe-
tween the two countries and their
institu-
tions" were greeted with thundering
aPpiause The
orchestra having played the " Star spangled ban_
ner," Mr. Curtin, the American Secretary of Le,,_
tion, begged leave to address the company in their
awn native Russian :

"Gentlemen,—General Clay, my respected chief, being
unable to express himself in Russian, it becomes my gratify_
ing duty to thank you for the friendly welcome you have
gi ven:us in your own language, a language which lam happy
to say is no longer unknown to me. From the depth of my
heart I thank you for all yon have said in honour of my
country. Being fully aware how ardently Russia is beloved
by all present, I am convinced that the toast in which you
blended her name with that of America was not only an
act of courtesy towards your guests, but also a friendly
greeting offered them by sincere and faithful well-wishers
of their country. To me, and to all my countrymen, no-
thing can be more satisfactory, more gratifying, than that
brotherly toast which 1 have just heard proposed and jubi-
lantly received in the ancient capital of the Russian Czars.

In the history of their foreign relations Americans have
been ever in the habit of regarding it as the most auspici-
ous fact that the Russians have been always amicably dis-
posed towards them. We value your support and rejoice
in your friendship. We are aware that they were granted
us also at a time of trial and anxiety ; we al e aware that
from you we have heard nothing but words of sympathy
and approval. Those words have sunk deeply into the
hearts of the American people. We shall not forget them.
I, too, am of opinion that our friendship is neither acci-
dental nor even spontaneous. It is founded on the most
simple and natural principles of political life, and of such
a kind that we may confidently reckon upon its continu-
ance and further development. We are bound toge-
ther by pleasant recollections, by the sympathies of our
souls, and the common aspiration to great intellectual
objects. You are aware that at this moment an orthodox
church is building at New York. Both Russians and Ame-
ricans have joined together to erect it. On the field of the
practical arts I may point to the Russo-American telegraph
asa common achievement of the two nations, and as a work
of world-ride renown and importance. I was in the United

States when that brilliant conception was brought before
the public. I remember well the general enthusiasm it
awakened, and I venture to say that no enterprise ever
enjoyed anything like the popularity which rewarded the
scheme of binding the two countries together. My country-
men patiently await the moment when, giving expression
to their feelings of respect and gratitude, the President of
the United States will profit by the completion of the new
line, and despatch the first salutary telegram to the Czar.
You have spoken of the past and future of Russia and
America. To this I reply that both of us have nothing to
be ashamed of in the past, and nothing to fear in the fu-
ture. In the past, Russia and America, firmly relying upon
God, have both battled for their independence, and anni-
hilated foreign influence in their midst, whatever shape it
might assume. Thus far we have been successful, and
we wish for nothing better than that God may be as
gracious to us and our children as He has been to our
ancestors. As regards the future, the two countries
will be only more intimately connected, having learnt
to know each other in the past. I am convinced,
gentlemen, that the more intimately acquainted
my countrymen shall become with you, the more they will
love you. The year I have passed in Russia has been one
of the most pleasant in my life. I wish I was sufficiently
conversant with your language to be able to embody all
my thoughts and sympathies in words, and to tell you
what my sentiments really are ; but I must be content to
say only what I can express, and to leave untold much
that I feel. lam happy, however, that here, in this time-
honoured Moscow of yours, the centre of Russia and of Rus-
sian hospitality, I can just pay you my respects, and bid
you God speed in your own tongue. It will be a gratifying
event to remember for the rest of my life that I have been
the guest of one of the most celebrated and heroic towns
of which history relates. Thanking you once again for your
courtesy and hospitality, I close by quoting the words of
one of our American poets God bless the great Empire
that loves our great Republic. Success to its people, and
long life to the Czar !' " .

Fresh enthusiasm, fresh hurrahs. The majestic
tune of " God save the Czar" again resounded in
the hall. Mr. Curtin, the Russian reports say,
had been so deeply affected by the solemn import of
his words that his voice trembled, and he could
not suppress other and more significant signs of
the emotion he experienced. His every passage
was received with prolonged applause. When he
had ended he was embraced, according to the re-
ports (and kissed, according to the Russian custom,
if I may be allowed a conjecture), by every one
present.

M. Ryasonoff, the first speaker, then proposed the
health of Gen. Clay, who was presently surrounded
by his hospitable entertainers, and loaded with a
hundred compliments in Russian, English, and
French. Prince Shtsherbatoff, the head of the mu-
nicipal authorities of Moscow, thanked Gen. Clay
for the honour he had conferred upon the inhabit-
ants of the city by spending a day or two among
them, and proposed " The continuance of the good
and mutually advantageous relations between Russia
and America." After this M. Torboff (the same
who had previously declared that for the strong to
love the strong is both the most natural and profit-
able way of bestowing their affections) rose at the
request of the committee to propose the health of
Mr. Curtin :

" Gentlemen, Never did I wish so much to be a good
speaker as now. But, perhaps, it is least necessary to
speak well when one has a theme• which is sure to appeal
to the sympathies of every one in the audience. Moreover,
whatever pains I might have taken to prepare myself for
this rare and joyous occasion, I should never have suc-
ceededin expressing myself with that force, that warmth,
and that heartfelt cordiality which we have all admired in
the words of one of our gu9sts, who so flatteringly spoke of
us in our native tongue. (Applause.) I have risen to thank
this our guest—this guest, who, to the common satisfaction
of all present, will understand my addressing him in Rus-
sir, as Jeremiah Davidovitch Curtin. (Immense applause.)
Gentlemen, your enthusiasm hurries me to the end of my
speech. I will imitate the example of our guest, who closed
his magnificent address by quoting American poetry. Sir,
Jeremiah Davidovitch ! Neither I nor any of my friends
would be able to thank you according to your deserts.
Therefore, permit mo to give you a Russian verso in re-
turn for your find American quotation :
" The more we feel, the less we speak.'
Gentlemen, fill your glasses and drink to the health of
Jeremiah Davidovitch Curtin !"

The scene which followed this toast the Russian
reporters declare their incompetency to describe.
This time we may be quite sure they kissed him.
The rest of the speeches were chiefly devoted to
a curious and semi-political discussion of the old
controversy between Free-trade and Protectionism.
M. Tchetverikoff, a member of the Committee of the
Imperial Exchange, thus dilated upon the manufac-
turing interests of the two countries. lie said :
" It was not political interest alone which riveted the alli-
ance between the two countries. Their manufacturing into-
rests, too, were identical. They were quite peculiar to them,
and had no resemblance to the commercial wants and require-
ments of any other country in the world. Russia and Ame-
rica were the two only countries which, while they abounded
in raw materials, were also large enough and in every way
fit to develops an industry of their own. Both, therefore,
were Protectionist, and both had been made the object of
incessant attacks on the part of the theoretical Freetraders,
as well as the manufacturing communities of those other
countries in the world which had a highly developed in-
dustry, but no raw material to draw upon at home. Of
course, those countries wanted to obtain the requisite sup-
ply of raw produce from Russia and America, and to resell
it to them in the shape of manufactured goods. The Ger-
man Zollverein had just addressed to Russia a formal ap-
plication to that effect, and he had been among the mem-
bers of the Moscow committee charged with reporting on
it to the Government. He had come to the conviction that
Carry, the American economist, was right in saying that
agriculture would never prosper in a country where there
was no industry ; and that to develops the latter was the
only means of promoting the former, of enriching all classes
of the people alike, and, as regards Russia and America more
particularly, of restoring the balance in their national
budgets. The consequences of adopting freetrade would be
terrible in both countries. In Russia the corn that was not
required for home consumption had to be sold below cost
price even now, otherwise it could not be exported at all. It
was but stating a plain fact to say that they had 11,000,000
of freedmen among them who chiefly depended for their ex-
istence upon agriculture, and this when agriculture had not
yet become a p%ying business in the country. But even
were it ever so profitable there would be always the long
winter months to fill up with some industrial pursuit. It
was useless to deny that at present they were idled away
by the largest portion of the peasantry, and that the tariff
might be amended in some respects. The construction of
railways alone would never enrich the agricultural popu-
lation. The Americans had had those railways for many
years past, and the price of corn in the West had still been
exceedingly low. Indeed, the railways had been obliged
to reduce the freight for corn to render its exportation at
all possible. He therefore hoped he would meet with the
approval of all present in proposing the protection and in-
creasing activity of the Russian and American manufac-
tures ; and as he also held that direct commerce between
the two countries should be as much encouraged as pos-
sible, he would include in his toast the reconstruction of
the American mercantile fleet and the creation of a mer-
cantile navy on the shores and in the shipyards of their
own beloved Russia."

General Clay, the American Minister, replied to
the above (which must have been briefly trandated
to him) in an energetic speech :

" Gentlemen,—Among all objects of natural science man
is the most curious, as well as the most complicated. But
a much more complicated organism is a State, comprising
in itself so many different human individualities. Political
science, therefore, is the profoundest of sciences, and at
the same time the most grateful of all. In the remarks we
have just heard, the speaker drew a faithful picture of the
commercial condition of our respective countries. The
Russian and American industry being but young, require
to be protected against overwhelming competition. It
has taken France and England many centuries to collect
the capital, the skill, and the experience they now employ
in their
mills ; they, too, wero Protectionists, while
they had to fear foreign competitors; and it was only
when they had reached the top of the ladder that they
turned Preetraders, throwing op en their markets to all the
world, and requesting all the
world—the non-industrial
countries included—to do the same in return. Russia and
America, were they to comply with the request, would, it
is manifest, become tributary to Franco and England for
all time to come. We, the Americans, should never cease
to furnish them with cotton and tobacco, while they would
always sell us their calico and cigars at ten or a hundred
times the price they paid for the raw material. Just look at

the migrations of a single pound of cotton, and you will
easily understand how it is that England, that diminutive
island, should have rendered herself the money market of
the world and the centre of all commercial activity. The
plant is grown, say in Louisiana, and sent to be spun—in
England. For this purpose it must be first placed in the
hands of some commission agedt in Louisiana; then de-
spatched to a seaport town ; then shipped and conveyed
over a considerable portion of the globe to Liverpool, sold
and sent on to Manchester, and, after years perhaps, car-
ried back to Louisiana and sold at ten or a hundred times
its original cost. And now let us imagine that spinning
and weaving machines had been put up close to the plan-
tation in which the cotton was grown, and we shall be ob-
liged to admit that nine-tenths of ninety-nine hundredths
of the price at which the manufactured article was even-
tually sold in Louisiana might have been saved by the
country and its inhabitants. The same remarks equally
apply to a bushel of wheat ; under the rule of free trade the
farmer, as well as the planter,uniformly sells cheap and buys
dear. By imposing high duties upon articles manufactured
out of your own produce you benefit your manufacturers
and your farmers alike. On these principles, and under the
guidance of my celebrated relative, Mr. Henry Clay, has
the American system been recently established—a system
so called in opposition to the free-trade doctrine, which is
nothing but an invention for the purpose of protecting
British interests. By means of oar tariff we have become
the competitorsof England, not only on our own Continent,
but in the entire world. It was in consequence of the pre-
valence of slave labour in the South that our tariff has
hitherto benefited the North alone. The South, down to
the beginning of the rebellion, continued to produce raw
material alone. The consequence of it all is that the
South, at the close of a four years' war, is ruined, while
the North is as prosperous as ever. A wise politician will
not embrace one theory in preference to another, but em-
ploy either according to circumstances. The fundamental
rule, however, must be that each people work the raw
materials produced by themselves and export them to
other countries. Such a system of trade, being profitable
to each individual nation, cannot but promote the com-
mon good of all. From foreign countries we should not
import anything except what we cannot manufacture
ourselves, and this I conceive to be the real and legitimate
task of Free Trade. Thus, I should like to order my er-
mine from Russia, my dates from Smyrna, my tea from
China, my pepper from Java, my silk from Italy, my truf-
fles from France, and my philanthropical phraseology from
England. What America wants is to educate the masses
and to make them equal before the law, to build railways
and canals, and to develope her internal commerce. On
these conditions depends the acquisition of technical skill
by our mill hands, the increase of our capital, the density
of our population, and the extension of our foreign trade.
It is from one and the same source that we shall derive
affluence in peace and power in war. In Russia social
and political arrangements may be different, but she will
derive the same advantage from remaining true to the
same principles. Our politics and our destinies are linked
together. May Russia grow and derive ever-increasing
vitality from the roots of her old civilisation ! May she
have one God, one Czar, one language, and one undivided
nation in all futurit3 !"

This speech, having been delivered in English,
was intelligible to but few among the audience. M.
Tchijoff, a director of the Yaroslaff Railway Com-
pany, then drew a comparison between the United
States and Russia :

" They were very much like each other in many respects.
As early as 30 years ago, M. do Tocqueville, in his Demo-
cratie en Amerique," had said that the Russian and Ame-
rican colossi were the two empires which had been destined
by Providence for the solution of some of the greatest po-
litical problems in the world. Both empires were of im-
mense extent, and both had been formed without foreign
assistance. Both were regarded with feelings of envy and
ill will by Europe, though they had never thought, of in-
terfering with its politics, or conquering a slice of its terri-
tory, or indeed asking its assistance in any way. Both
offered their lands to the immigrant, and had long been an
excellent market for the sale of foreign goods. Both—and
this was a point which he (the speaker), in his former ca-
pacity of editor of a commercial paper, had been specially
prompted to study—had previously entertained very dif-
ferent views on the great question of political economy from
what they did now. They had adopted other views simul-
taneously, and now adhered to a new and peculiar creed in
matters financial. There had been a time when, venerat-
ing whatever doctrines had been invented by :Western
Europe, both Russia and America had consented to be the
hewers of wood and the drawers of water in the household
of civilised nations. But they had got over that, and dis-
covered that science was young, that political economy in
particular was not as perfect as it might be, and that
learned Europe was occasionally as mistaken as themselves.
The doctrine of Protectionism might be regarded with a
mingled feeling of pity and contempt in Western Europe,
but, thank God ! it gained ever fresh proselytes in both
Russia and America. A few years ago they had the hon-
our of seeing in their country Mr. Carry, the renowned
American scholar, whose deep investigations had estab-
lished the fundamental principle of their economical creed
in its modern form. lie would give them " The health of
Mr. Carry, the valiant defender of national labour in its
every form and aspect.' "

The cheers accompanying this toast were cutshort
by M. Aksenoff, a Moscow manufacturer, begging
his mercantile friends to remember that Protection
had been advocated by Mr. Carry as a temporary
measure only, and one which ought to be superseded
as soon as possible by the great and far higher prin-
ciple of Free Trade. He hoped both the Russian
and American industry would make such rapid
strides as to be able to dispense very soon with the
protection they enjoyed. This speech does not seem
to have called forth any applause.
M.Yakuntchikoff, the President of the Mercantile
Academy, proposed " The Progress of Education
and Enlightenment in our Commercial Classes ;"
M. Gorboff gave " The Improvement of the Moral
and Intellectual Condition of the Mill Hands ;" and
M. Tchijoff, who closed the long list of speakers,
recited a poem of Aksakoff in honour of the city of
Moscow. By way of musical epilogue, Russian
national songs were performed by.a choral society
at the end of the dinner. Gen. Clay declared them
to be very excellent in their way, begging to be
favoured with copies of all songs that were in print.
On rising from the dinner table the General was
presented with a photographic album of Moscow
buildings and a history of the Mercantile Academy
in Russia. The whole ceremony lasted three hours

Melancholy Disaster at Sea.—Eating a

Black Cook.

Tho Cunard steamer Scotia, which arrived at Liverpool
on Saturday, brings intelligence of the loss of the schooner
Pattie Martin, and the dreadful sufferings of the crew. It
appears that on the night of the 7th ult., the schooner,
which was bound to Hatteras Island, from New Jersey,
struck on the shoals just outside Hatteras Inlet bar, and
immediately filled. The captain and crew were compelled
to seek shelter in the rigging. They had hardly been there
three hours, when the captain, Denis M. Smith, a native
of Camden, New Jersey, was frozen to death, and in about
half an hour afterwards the cook, a black man, perished
from the same cause, leaving two more men, the mate,
named Steeleman, and a sailor named Tolison, in a most
miserable condition. For five days these two unfortunate
men, exposed to the most inclement weather and without
food or water, clung to their frail support. On the evening
of the third day their cravings for something to eat were
intolerable, and they agreed, as the only means to alleviate
their hunger, to devour a portion of the body of the black
cook, which was done, and upon this they managed to sus-
tain themselves until the 12th, when they were rescued
from their perilous position by some Cape Hatteras pilots.
The poor fellows were in a sad plight, being fearfully frost-
bitten about the legs and feet, as well as, to a certain ex-
tent, mentally deranged.lon reaching the shore, however,
they gradually recovered their reason, but it is feared that
they will lose several of their toes and fingers. The body
of the captain had been recovered. It is feared that but
little of the cargo of the schooner will bo saved.

The great influx of emigrants into lowa during
the past few months has caused an advance of $25 to $35
an acre on timber land in Mitchell county. The Osage
lowan states that such lands now sell at $4O to $5O per
acre. .

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—That the fearful annual mortality of
60,000 young chi!dren 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, slid 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, that which comes closest to milk in its composition
is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revaienta Arabica Food, con-
aining both phosphoric acid in abundance and chloride of
potassium ; it also includes casein, the same principle which
is found in milk in its constituent part. No wonder, there-
fore, that under its influence many children affected with
atrophy (wasting away of the body), and marked debt ity,
have completely recovered. I have given it with the greatest
advantage in such cases ; and so 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, ilb., 2s. 9d.; 21b., 4s. Cd ; 51b., lls. ; 121 b., ; 241 b.
40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London;,
also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street; likewise
at 61, Graceehurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate-
street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand ;
54, Upper Baker-street; 103, 'Tottenham-court-road; 96,
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 che-
mists.—Beware of spurious imitations.