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DR. LA'MERT ON TUE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF Yo(nit
AND MATURITY.—WITH 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON

STEEL.
published, and may be had in French or English, in a Sealed
Envelope, 2z. 6d., or post-free, from the Author, for forty-two
'tamps,

SELF-PRESERVATION; a
Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on
the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity,
usually acquired at an early period of life, which debilitate
he physical and wental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural
‘'eelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical
Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion,
whether arising from these causes, close study, er the influence of
:ropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis,
stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis-
eretion. With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the
anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs,
explaining their stractui es, uses, and functions, and the various
injuries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and
infection. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.,
37. BEDFORD-SQUARE. LONDON.
Doctor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member
of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c.
Von work contains an accurate and complete account of the
Anatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs. It un-
fertunately happens that the unhappy victim of excessive inclul-
!once. and vicious habits, while suffering from their invariable con-
sequences, unwisely entertains a fear of applying to a qualified physi-
cian for relief. Shame and the dread so frequently, but erro-
neously entertained that these complaints are beyond the reach of
art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking for assistance where
alone it can be procured. Dr. LA'MERT has taken the highest
medical honours, as his diplomas testify, and the great extent of his
practice for many years is a guarantee for his professional experi-
ence, which has reference alar.s.st solely to the treatment of these
diseases.

Published by the Author, and may be had of Kent and Richards,
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THIRTY-FIRST EDITION.
ll:ustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravinyi on Steel.
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATION'S, GENERATIVE INCA-
..

PACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE.
New Edition, enlarged to 496 pages. Just puidished, price 2s. 6d., or
by post, direct from the Establ shment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps,
SHE SILENT FRIEND, a MPclical Work on
the infirmities and decay of th 3 generative system, from ex-
,!essive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury,
with remarks en Marriage, and the means of obviating certain die-
qualifeations. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and
L. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Bemers-street, Ox-
ford-street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange,
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Stacie, 23, Titchborne-street, Haymarket; and Gordon, 146, Leaden-
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PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-productive
organs, and is illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings.
PART IL treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in-
dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing
mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative
Incapacity. Illustrated by Three Explanatory Engravings.
l'aitx 111. treats of the diseases resulting from intection, either in
the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for
their treatment. This section is illustrated by Seventeen Coloured
E tar avings.
PART IY. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a
Simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated.
This important part of the Work should not escape the reader's
notice.

PAST V. is devoted to the eonsideration of marriage, and its du-
ties. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the
whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into.
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OF TUESDAY.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street._
S. Mobbs, Brompton, coal merchant, July 30, at
twelve.

In the Country.
E. Brien, Bristol, cabinet maker, Aug. 1, at eleven, at
the Court, Bristol—J. Fletcher, Manchester, auctioneer,
Aug. 1, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—G. List,r,
jun., Kingston-upon-Hull, wholesale ale and porter mer-
chant, July 31, at half-past twelve, at the Town-hall,
Kingston•upon-Hull.

PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
W. J. Haddan, Tottenham, common brewer, 10Id., on
Thursday, July 11, and three following Thursdays, be-
tween the hours (..f eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Stanafeld, Baainghall-street.
e od,y_-
. s;
T. and W. A. Peirce, Chapmanslade, Wiltshire, clo-
thiers, 15s, 63., on Thursday, July 11, and three follow-
ingthe eta M between
Thursdays,
Stansfeld d
ent h, enhasoiunrgshoafi 1
-eslterveeent.
ffi.2 and two, a t
onJ G. Puller, 'St. James street, wine-merchant, 2s. 6d.,
new proofs, on Thursday, July 11, and three follow-
ing Thursdays between, the hours of eleven and two, at
the office of SlLcSatansfeld, Basinghall-street.
bacon merchant, ton
following Thursdays"
W. Shackel, Canning-place, Old-street, St. Luke's,
icain Thursday, July 11, and three
two, at the office of 4retren the hours of eleven and
betwTehursday, July
August Sophia Tip. Stansfeld, Basingball-street.
sale stationer, 38. 8d Peon Upper '
Thames-street, whole-
following Thursdays
two, at the
,Sxt aonresyoel the
hours of eleven and
Basinghll-strcet.
11, and three
Corn merchant, miller,
and three follow-
i. Wolsey, Wcreham
t.ind two, at the
and biker, .55., on Thursday, Jul
ing days, between the hours of eleven
office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basingball-street
Theobald and Church, C
olchester, coal merchants
'
and coke manufacturers, 2td., on Thursday,July 11,
and three following Thursdays, between the hours of
eleven and two, at the once of Mr. Stanafeld, Basing.
hall•street.
J. H. Theobald, Colche;ter, coal merchant, and coke
manufacturer, Is. 21., on Thuraday, July 11, and three
following Thursdays, between the hours of eleven and
two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, thsinghall-.street.
C. Haylock, March, Isle of Ely, cabinetmaker and
joiner, Is. 4d , on Thursday, July 11, and three follo w-
ing Thursdays, between the hours of eleven and two, at
the office of Mr. Stansfdd, Bacinghall•stre:t.
J. Metcalfe, New Ma!ton, Yorkshire, corn and coal
merchant, 6d., any Monday or Tuesday, between the
hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Hope,
Leeds.

J. Hague, Rotherhithe, engineer and millwright,
Bid., on Monday, 15th instant, or two subscqunt Mon-
days, between the hours of eleven 4nd three, at the
office a Mr, Canna, Birchin-lane.

farmers—A. Milne, W. Milne, and F. Milne, Manches-
ter and Oldham, cotton-spinners—J. Keet and G. Facile,
Farnham, Hampshir:, wine merchants—J. Hemmings
and T. Coles, Bristol, mail cart contractors—J. Jackson
and E. Leaf, Burton Leonard, Yorkshire, tanners—W.
Bentley, and G. R. Kershaw, Oldham, Lancashire, iron-
founders—G. H. Gutch, I'. G. Gutch, and W. H. Gutch,
Poole, coal merchants (as far as regards T. G. Gutch)—
E. Brewster and E. West, Hand court, Dowgate, City,
printers—T. C. Newman, T. W. Newman, and 11. J.
Newman, Laurence Pountney.lane, City, tea agents (as
far as regards T. C. Newman)—W. Smith and S. Edwards,
Dudley, Worcestershire, nail manufacturers—T. Watk in-
son and H. Wa:kinson, Wavertree, Lancashire, quarrymen
and builders—R. Hind and H. Watson, Preston, Lan-
cashire, iron and brass fonnders—J. H Cooke and W.
Silverleck, Groat St. Helens, City, merchants—S. Smith
and C. Hutton, Halifax, coal merchants—E. Bladon and
W. Woodcock, Old Brompton, brewers—T. Barton, J.
Pettit, and J. Cheesman, Wadhurst, Sussex, drapers—
W. Macdonald and IL L. Bartlett, Buckingham, coal
merchants—W. Hood and R. Fraser, Union•street,
Southwark, distillers—J. Naiin and T. J. Millington,
Manchcstt r and Hamburgb, merchants.
INSOLVENT I'ETI rioNERs.
William Baxter Philps, Salisbury.
Benjamin Robert Heath, Ipswich.
Francis Davis, Oxford, livery-stable keeper.
John "Linkman, Ipswich, beer house keeper.
Anne Mayhew, Yoxford, Suffolk, milliner.

Elizabeth Mlyhew, Yoxiord, Suffolk, milliner.
Henry Kaevett Bransby, Southwold, Suffolk, school-
master.
Richard Fry, Alpington, Devonshire, butcher.
William Ansell, Balsbam, Cambridge, joiner.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
J. Young, Glasgow, merchant, to meet July 12 and
Aug. 7, at two, within Whyte's Temperance Hotel,
Glasgow.

T.✓ Ronald, Gruinart, Island of Islay, Argyleshire,
farmer, to meet July 13 and Aug. 3, at one, within the
Wellington Inn, Dunoon.
P. Barrie, Calton of Glasgow, cattle dealer, to meet
July 12 and Aug. 2, within the Waterloo Tavern,
Glasgow.

A.-Manson, Whitelaw, grazier, to meat July 12 and
Aug. 2, at two, within Dowell's Rooms, Edinburgh.

VISIT OF THE NEPAULESE AM-

BASSADOR TO WOOLWICH.

WOOLWICH, JULY 10.—Ilis Excellency General Jung
Bahadoor Koona ur Runajee, Ambassador from the
Court of Nepaul, Colonel Juggett Shumsbere Jung Ba-
hadoor, and Colonel Dhore Shumsbere Jung Bahadoor,
and Captain Cavanagh, arrived at Woolwich at a quarter
past twelve o'clock to-day, and were received in front of
the Royal Artillery Mess-room by Lieutenant-General
Sir Thomas Downman, C. 8., K.C.H., Commandant of
the Garrison, and Brigade-Major Bingham.
Several horses were in waiting, in charge of the men
of the Riding-house troop, under Captain Wingfield,
and his Excellency and the Gallant Colonels having
mounted on those selected for them, proceeded to view
the Royal Military Repository grounds and the Rotunda.
His Excellency and suite then witnessed the dis-
mounting of a mortar of 35 cwt., and what is termed a
disabled brigade, or the mode in which troops are ena-
bled to convey their guns what injured or incapacitated
for service from a battle field. Under an adjoining
building a number of men were at work attaching a
species of old junk for wadding to shot, which appeared
to interest his Excellency, as he took one of the shot in
his hand, and minutely inspected the manner in which
the wadding vi as attached.
His Excellency then entered the model room and wit-
nesssed some remarkable specimens of bridges. He
then proceeded to the Rotunda, and on the ground in
front inspected a number of brass guns cast in the
reign cf Henry VIII , and recovered from the Mary
Rose, lost in 1545. On the same spot wore guns
cast in the reigns of Mary, of Elizsbeth, of Charles I.
(1638), of Charles IL, (1676), James 11. (1685), William
end Mary (1694), and Anne (1706),with French,Spanish
Danish, Maltese, and Chinese, Sinde, and Affghanistan
guns.
On leaving the Rotunda and Repository grounds his
Excellency and suite mounted their horses and proceeded
to the grand dei.ot, and, after a short visit to the Royal
Arsenal, going over the whole of the grounds to
witness the large supply of guns, shot and shell in
store there. After the mode in which guns are
proved at the butt bad been explained his
Excellency returned to visit the boring department,
where he was received by Lieutent-Colonel Burns
and shown the beautiful machinery for finishing
brass guns and other work connected with that branch
of the service. He then visited the foundry, where pre-
parations were making for casting 24 and 12-pounder
brass guns. On proceeding to the carriage department
he was received by Colonel Gordon and Lieut.-Colonel
Colquhoun, and conducted to the wing where Nasmyth's
hammers were in readiness for work, and a quantity of
old iron, brought to a red heat, being brought out of the
furnace, it was in a very short time hammered into a
bar, and after undergoing an additional heating was
taken to the rolling mills, and converted into a bar of
useful iron in an incredibly short period. Several bars
were rolled while his Excellency was present, and he
witnessed the process with evident satisfaction. The
planing by Bramah's machine, the boring of wheel axles,
and the turning at one time of the six pieces required to
form a wheel for a gun-carriage, and the formation of
lance-poles were witnessed with great interest, and on
leaving the department his Excellency shook hands with
Colonel Gordon and Lieut.-Colonel Colquhoun, at the
same time expressing through Captain Cavanagh the
gratification he experienced at all he had witnessed. His
Excellency then proceeded to the laboratory depart-
ment, where he was conducted to the room where speci-
mens of the various implements of destruction used in
ancient and modern warfare are deposited, and there
he showed his general knowledge of the uses to which
they are appropriated. He also inspected the manufac
ture of balls by compression, and the making of per-
cussion caps, which interested him greatly.
It was intended that his Excellency should visit the
storekeeper's department, hut having occupied upwards
of four hours in his inspection to-day, he expressed his
intention to come to Woolwich again shortly to witness
a review of the Royal Horse Artillery and field batte-
ries, and inspect the other departments he had not time
to visit on this occasion. On leaving the Royal Arsenal
at 20 minutes past four o'clock P.M., his Excellency
shook hands with Lieut General Sir Thomas Downman
and Brigade-Major Bingham, and thanked the Com-
mandant for the attention which had been paid to him
during his visit to Woolwich, with which he was more
than ordinarily gratified.

MR. HOWITT'S NEW WORK.—We are requested
to state that Mr. Colburu has this day published " The Year
Book of the Country; or, the Field, the Forest, and the
Fire Side," by William Howitt, author of " The Book of the
Seasons," &c., in 1 vol. with illustrations, 10s. 6d. bound.
The following popular novels are also just published :
1, Adelaide Lindsay, edited by the author of "Emilia Wynd-
ham," &c. ; 2, Mornings at Matlock, by R. Shelton Mac-
kenzie, D.C.L. ; 3, La Vend6e, an historical romance, by
Anthony Trollope, Esq. ; 4, Anne Dysart; or, the Scotch
Minister s Daughter; 5, Freston Tower; or the Early Days
of Cardinal Wolsey, by the Rev. R. Cobbold; 6, The Story
of a Man of Fashion ; or, Sin and Sorrow. Also just ready,
Petticoat Government," a new novel, by Mrs. Trollope.
ROYAL FItEE HosrurAL.—At the quarterly meet-
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Regret was expressed that one of the large wards, containing
LO beds, was still unavoidably closed from want of funds,
hut great hope was entertained that by the continued bene-
volence of the public the committee would shortly be enabled
to place these beds at the disposal of the medical officers for
the relief 91 the suffering poor.

MAJORITY-NOES, 121.
Abdy, Sir T. N. Headiam, T. E. Parker, John
Adair, Hugh E. Ileneage, Edward Patten, W.
Adair, R. A. Henry, Alexander Pelham, Hon. D. A.
Anson, Colonel Hervey, Lord,A. Pigott, Francis
Bagshaw, John Heywood, James Plowden, W. H.
Baines, M. T. Heyworth, Lawrence Pusey, Philip
Baring, Sir F. llobhouse, Sir John Ricardo, Osman
Bass, M. T. Ilobhouse, T. B. Rice, E. R.
Berkeley, Admiral Hodges, ;T. L. Rich, Henry
Berkeley, C. L. liolland, Robert Robartes, T. J. A.
Bernal, Ralph Howard, Lord E. Romilly, Colonel
Birch, Sir Thomas Howard, CW. G. Romilly, Sir John
Bouvarie, E. P. Howard, E. G. Seymour, Lord
Boyle, Colonel Hughes, W. B. Sheil, R. L.
Ilrotherton, J. Hutt, William Simeon, John
Buxton, sir E. Jervis, Sir John Smith, Vernon
Carter, J. B. King, P. J. Somerville, Sir W.
Childers, J. W. Labouchere, Henry Sotheron, T.
Clay, James Lascelics, W. S. Spearman, henry
Coke, Hon. E. K. Lemon, Sir C. Strickland, Sir G.
Cockburn, A. J. Lennard, T. B. Tancred, 11. W.
Collins, W. Lewis, G. C. Thompson, Colonel
Cowper, W. F. Lindsay, Colonel Thornely, T.
Craig, Sir W. G. Littleton, E. R. Tollemache, F. J.
Denison, J. E. Locke, Joseph Townley, R. G.
Dundas, Admiral Mangles, R. D. Tufhell, Henry
Dandies, Sir David Marshall, J. G. Turner, George
Ebrington, Viscount Marshall, William Vane, Lord IL
Estcourt, J. B. Martin, John Vivian, J. H
Evans, William Martin, C. W. Wakley, T.
Fitzvvilliam, G. W. Matheson, Colonel Westhead, J. B.
Forster, M. ..__
Maule, Fox . Wilson, James
Fortesene, J. W. Melgund, Viscount Wilson, Matthew
Fox, IV. J. Milner, W. 31. Wood, Sir Charles
Frcestun, Colonel Mostyn, E. Wood, W. P.
Greene, Thomas Mowatt, Francis Wrightson, W. B.
Grenfell, Charles W. Mulgrave, Earl Wyvlll, Marmaduke
Grey, Sir George Ogle, S. C.
Grey, Ralph Wm. - Paget, Lord A.
liatchell, John Paget, Lord G.
Hawes, Benjamin Pakington, Sir John
ilayter, W. G. Palmerston, Viscount

TELLERS.
Hill, Lord M.
Bellew, R. M.

TUESDAY, JULY 9.
ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.

Motion made, and Question put, " That leave be given to
bring in a Bill to make the Franchise in Counties in England
and Wales the same as that in Boroughs, by giving the right
of voting to all occupiers of tenements of the annual value of
ten pounds." The House divided :

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MINORITY-AYES, 100.
Adair, Hugh E. Gibson, Thomas M. Nugent, Lord
Adair, It. A. Shafto Grattan, Henry O'Brien, Johx
Aglionby, H. Greene, Johx O'Connor. Feargns
Alcock, Thomas Hall, fir B. Pearson, Charles
Ansley, Thomas Harris, Richard Pechell, Sir G.
Bass, Thomas Ilastie, Alexander Perfect, Robert
Berkeley, C. L. G. Hastie, Archibald Pigott, Francis
Blake, M. J. Headlam, Thomas Pilkingten, James
Blewitt, It. J. Henry, Alexander Ricardo, J. L.
Bright, John Heywood, James Rice, E. R.
Brocklehurst, J. Heyworth, L. Hominy, Colonel
Brotherton, Joseph Hobhouse, T. B. Salwey, Colonel
Brown, Humphrey Hodges, T. L. , Scholefteld, William
Brown, W. Hodges, T. T. Smith, John B.
Carter, John B. Howard, C. W. Somers, J. P. 7
Clay, Sir W. Humpliery, Ald. Stuart, Lord Dudley
Clay, James Hutt, William Talbot, J. H.
Cobden, Richard Jackson, William Tancred, H. W.
Collins, William Kershaw, James Thompson, Colonel
Colebrooke, Sir T. Locke, Joseph Thompson, George
Cowan, Charles Lushington, C. Thornely, T.
Crawford, W. S. M•Callagh, W. Tollemache, F. J.
D'Eyncourt, C. T. M'Gregor, John Wakley, Thomas
Divett, Edward M`Taggart, Sir J. Walmsley, Sir I.
Drummond, Henry Meagher, Thomas Walter, John
Duncan, Viscount Mangles, R. D. Westhead, J. P.
Duncan, C,eorgo Marshall, William Willcox, Brodie
Ellis, John Matheson, Colonel Williams, John
Evans, Sir De Lacy Melgund, Viscount Wood, W. P.
Evans, William Milnes, R. M. Wyld, James
Evelyn, W. J. Mitchell, T. A.
Ewart, William Morris, David TELLERS.
Fagan, William Mowatt, FranciS Hume, Joseph
Forster, Mathew Muntz, G. F. King, P. J.
Fox, W. J. Norreys, Sir D.

MAJORITY—NOES, 159.
Frewen, C. 11. Morison, Sir W.
Galway, Viscount Mostyn, E. M. L.
Gooch, E. S. Mundy, William
Granby, Marquis of Newdegate, C. N.
Greene Thomas Ogle, S. C.
Grey, Sir G. Ord, William
Grosvenor, Lord R. Packe, C. W.
Guernsey, Lord Paget, Lord A.
Guest, Sir John Paget, Lord Clarence
Gwyn, Howel Pakington, Sir J.
Plalsey, T. P. Palmer, Robert
Hamilton, G. A. Palmer, Roundell
Hamilton, Lord C. Parker, John
Harmer, Sir J. Patten, J. W.
Hatchell, John Plumptre, J. P.
Hawes, Benj. Price, Sir It.
Heald, James Prime, Richard
Heneage, G. 11. W. Pusey, Philip
Henley-, J. W. Richards. Richard
Hervey, Lord A. Romilly, Sir John
Hililyard, R. C. Rumbold, C. E.
Hobhouse, Sir John Russell, Lord John
Hood, Sir A. Scott, Francis
Hope,:ll. T. Seymour, Lord
Hotharn, Lord Shell, R. L.
Howard, Lord E. Shelburne, Earl of
Howard, P. 11. Sibthorp, Colonel
Hughes, W. B. Simeon, John
Inglis, Sir It. Smith, M. Tucker
Jerinyn, Earl Smyth, Ji hn George
Jervis, Sir John Somerville, Sir W.
Knight, F. W. Sotheron, T. 11.
Labouchere, Henry Spooner, It.
Lacy, H. C. Stanford, J. F.
Lascelles, E. Stanley, Edward
Lemon, Sir C. Stanley, E. H.
Lewis, Sir T. Stephenson, Robert
Lewis, G. C. Stuart, Henry
Littleton, E. R. Sutton, H M
Lockhart, W. Tenison, E. K.
Long, Walter Thompson, Aid.
Lygon, General Townley, R. G.
Mackenzie, W. F. Trollope, Sir J.
Mackie, John Tufhell, H.
Mackinnon, W. A. Tyrell, Sir J.
Al`Neill, Duncan Vivian, J. E.
Mahon, Viscount Vyse, R. 11. R. H.
Martin, C. W. Wall, C. B.
Masterman, J. Watkins, Colonel
Matheson, Alex. Wilson, James
Matheson, J. Wood, Sir Charles
Manic, Fox TELLERS.
Meux, Sir 11. Hill, Lord Marcus
Moody, C. A. Hayter, W. G.

Abdy, Sir Thomas
Acland, Sir T. D.
Arbuthnott, Hon. 11.
Arkwright, George
Armstrong, Sir A.
Ashley, Lord
Bagshaw, John
Baines, M. T.
Baldock, E. 11.
Baring, 11. B.
Baring, Sir F. T.
Barrington, Viscount
Bateson, Thomas
Bellew, R. M.
Berkeley, 11. F.
Blackall, S. W.
Blair, Stephen
Booth, Sir R. G.
Bouverie, E. P.
Boyd, John
Bramston, T. W.
IlreairidFm, Richard
Brisco, M.
Bra sdley,
Buck, Lewis W.
Buller, Sir J. Y.
Burghley, Lord
Cardwell, E.
Chatterton, Colonel
Chichester, Lord J.
Coles, 11. 14.
Corry, 11. L.
Cowper, W. F.
Craig, Sir W. G.
Crowder, It. B.
Cubitt,
Dickson, Samuel
Disraeli, B.
Duckworth, Sir J.
Dundas, Admiral
Dundas, G.
Dundas, Sir D.
Dunne, Colonel
Du Pre, C. George
East, Sir J.
Ebrington, Viscount
Elliot, John
Farnham, E. B.
Farrer, James
Fitawilliam, G. W.
Floyer, John
Forbes, W.
Forester, G. C.
Freestun, Colonel

WHAT A PERSON MAY DO ON A SUNDAY IN
THE COUNTRY, AND WHAT HE MAY NOT DO.
(From Punch.)
lie may post himself and have as many post-horses
as he pleases, but he must not send a single letter by
the Post.

He may, however, send letters by tying a piece of
string round them and so making parcels of them ;
but thee he must send them by the railway and not
through the medium of the Post.
He may receive messages by the Electric Tele-
graph ; but he may not receive those same messages,
if folded up in a penny letter and sent through the
Puritanical channel of St. .Martin's-le-Grand.
He may travel on the railway with the Mail-Post ;
but he is a fool, or worse—an infidel, if he expects to
receive at the destination of his journey any one of
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He may buy postage stamps on a Sunday ; but he
is forbidden to receive a letter that is stamped with
one, though it is there before him lying on the counter
of the same shop.
He may go to the club or to the public-house to
read the newspaper; but he cannot read it at home
unless he chooses to wait until his Sunday newspaper
is delivered on the Monday or Tuesday morning.
He may go to hear a political lecture, or attend a
Socialist meeting, or join a van party, or rise at five
o'clock in the morning for a cheap excursion, or hire
a horse or a donkey, or travel in a cart, carriage, cab,
omnibus, steam-boat, velocipede, or balloon ; he may
do all these things, and a quantity more, on a Sun-
day ; but he must be debarred from all letters or
newspapers, for none are delivered on that day.
He may send to the hotel for his dinner, to the wine-
stores for his wine, to the pastry-cook's for his pastry,
to the greengrocer's for his dessert, to the cigar
seller's for his tobacco, and they will be sent home to
for they will not be given
to him; because it happens to be a Sunday.
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WU%

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OP THIS DAY.
TIMES—The anti-Sunday post cause appears to
have a rule of its own. It has made its way thus far
by a succession of assaults and surprises which its
maintainers must think nothing less than miraculous.
The process began with the petitions. Respectable
men, in their shops and their parlours, were suddenly
invaded by a sanctimonious banditti in black coats
and white ties, and asked if they feared God and re-
verenced the Sabbath. There was no resisting so
solemn an appeal ; and, with a sort of mesmeric
piety, they signed their names to they hardly knew
what,—something about the better observance of the
Sabbath. When the first assault of the Sabbeterina
pressgang proved insufficient., it was generally inti-
mated that the impious recunant would find Wt-aelf
in a position of unpleasant singularity ; in fact, that
his mune would be posted in a black list of the un-
godly. There was no help for it. What is called
" the argument" was all on one side. As every-
body knows, by painful experience, there ia no-
thing se readily got up as a trumpery
budget of nonsensical reasons for soma fool-
ish little opinion, and men who had written
and received letters on Sundays all their lives without
a misgiving were soon pushed into a corner. Hence
the enormous list of signatures to the anti-Sunday
post petitions—almost equal to Mr. Feargus O'Con-
nor's fabulous muster-roll. After this, the next step
was to surprise the House of Commons, which for
one reason or another surrendered to the saints at the
first summons. Government then either shared the
general panic, or sought to counteract it by an unex-
pected ruse; and one fine morning the world was
surprised to hear that next Sunday there would he
no post. Nothing could exceed the delight of the
Judaiz•rs at this portentous announcement. Their
less willing or less initiated followers, however, were
some of them dismayed to find that the change was
inconvenient, and that they had to pay for their
piety. Hence a sort of reaction on the part of some
who had asked for the alteration, and many more
who had never had the courage to resist it. To stop
the growing nuisance, Mr. Locke gave notice of a
resolution with a view to a counter-address to her
Majesty. He proposed rather late what should, of
course, have been the first step in the affair,—an in
quiry into the best means of reducing Sunday la-
bour, without quite stopping the post; asking, mean-
while, that the post should be restored to its former
position, and the Sunday service resumed. So the
resolution stood in the list, and a large muster of
Members assembled to carry it. But, behold, ano-
ther surprise ! Lord John, having dreamt a dream,
or seen the ghost of Sir Andrew Agnew, acquiesces
in an impromptu amendment moved by Mr.l3eresford
Hope, striking out the proviso that for the present
letters should b 3 collected and delivered on Sunday
as before. The amendment has been adopted on the
principle of a well known Court, castigat que audit que.
The Sunday post is suppressed, and we are then
permitted to inquire why it should be retained.
Mr. Lecke, however, though partially defeated,
made a very good speech, and elicited another very
good one from Mr. Roebuck. The debate that fol-
lowed, we presume, represents the present state of the
controversy, facts on one side and signatures on the
other. Neither Lord Ashley nor his coadjutors ad-
vanced a single fact in reply to Mr. Locke's
very weighty statements. It appears that at Man-
chester and Liverpool the news agents have found it
necessary to organize large staffs of " boys," "news-
men," " footrunners," and even " mounted messen-
gers," to supply the place of the handful of postmen,
Who would otherwise have distributed the London
Sunday papers in the ordinary course of their duty.
Thus Sunday labour has been enormously multiplied
by the late change. If it is so in these two towns, it
must be so at every considerable town in these islands
equally distant from the metropolis. With the utmost
contrivance the Sunday papers will not arrive
till Saturday evening, when it is too late to
forward them the same (ley through numerous vil-
lages lying five or six miles off; for, if a newsman's
round will take him three or four hours, his master
will not send him out at 8 o'clock P.M. on Saturday,
but at 5 the next morning. In reply to these facts,
and some others of equal but more domestic interest,
Lord Ashley and his friends could do nothing but
refer to their 700,000 signatures, to the 41 menbers
of the Town-council of Glasgow, to the 9 bankers,
the 22 physicians and surgeons, the 68 procurators
and brokers, and the 500 commercial men and capi-
talists ; nine-tenths of whom had probably settled the
question by a reference to the 22d chapter of Exodus,
without considering fir a moment to what extent the
commandment was obligatory upon Christians, how
far they really and truly observed it themselves, or
how far the closing of the Post-office would actually
diminish Sunday labour on that day, And so answer
its own purpose. Everybody knows the story of
the boroughrnonger who had to get whatever he
wanted from the Minister by the argument, " We are
seven, my Lord ;" and all that Lord Ashley has to
say in reply to the gravest and most undeniable ob-
jections is, "My Lord, we are 700,000." It will be
rejoined, perhaps, that Messrs. Willmer and Smith,
and a hundred or two other firms in their position
throughout the country, ought to follow the example
of the Post-office, and ought not to send out their
footrunners and mounted messenger:. But they will
send them out, and if they don't send them out o hers
will; so the thing will be done, and. will be the direct
result of Lord Ashley's measure. Nor do we see
how it can possibly be obviated by any arrangements
of the Post-office. We observe that some of the
weekly newspapers suggest that, with a Friday
evening edition, and a postal delivery very late
on Saturday night, the thing may be managed.
But while the people of Lancashire, the West
Riding, and the Potteries can get news on
Sunday up to 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, is it
likely that they will be content with news only up to
the same hour on Friday afternoon ? and, as for a
special delivery of newspapers all over the country up
to midnight on Saturday, so absurd au idea would
never have entered into any other brain than that of
a raging Sabbatarian. It was evident from the be-
ginning that the anti-Sunday-postists would be
pushed to this extremity, for there is absolutely
nothing which they do not expect the nation to sa-
crifice to their hobby. The only argument or fact
that rose above the level of " the 700,000 signatures"
was Mr. Muntz's testimony. "He never could enjoy
a comfortable quiet Sunday, from the number of let-
ters he used to receive. For 30 years he had never
had three quiet Sundays but the last three, and, as
one largely engaged in business, he could assure the
House he had not felt the least inconvenience from the
stoppage of letters." Now, bold as it may be to
correct Mr. Muntz in a matter of his
own personal experience, we will undertake
to do so. The disquiet which seems to have
alloyed his Sabbath rest for the , thirty years
arose, not from the receipt of his letters, but from
his craving to answer them. We know, to oar cost,
his insatiable appetite for letter writing. So far as
regards the receipt of letters, what can it signify to
the peace of one's mind whether a letter is received
on Saturday or on Sunday, excepting that ten o'clock
on Saturday night is the worst hour of the week ?
A man with ordinary command over his actions and
temper can look over a batch of letters on Sunday
afternoon, break a seal or two, put the business letters
in his deskl or his pocket, peruse the private ones if
they seem more important than usual, dismiss the
whole batch from his thoughts, and take a walk with
his wife and children, or, if he pleases, hear the latter
their catechism. The sting of a letter is generally
the necessity for answering it, and nobody is ex-
pected to answer a letter on Sunday. People may,
if they like, but they are not expected, and the day
is always a valid excuse. Mr. Muntz, then, has
mistaken the working of his peculiar temperament
for the necessity of the case. If he will put every
inkstand in his house under lock and key on Satur-
day night, and give the key to his minister or any
other keeper of his conscience, ho will he able to re-
ceive a hundred letters on Sunday without any dis-
quiet. Nay, we should not wonder if in course of
time he acquired so sublime a state of Sabbatical
apathy as to look on the hundred letters without the
least inclination to open them.
CHRONICLE.—We cannot congratulate either
the House of Commons or the. Government on having
adopted a very happy mode of self-extrication from
the entanglements of the Post-office question. The
sort of compromise which terminated the noisy and
disorderly debate of Tuesday night is as far as
pos-
sibly from saving the dignity of the former; andthebest comment on the conduct of the latter is that all
parties concur, with edifying unanimity, in charging
them either with precipitancy, or with want of good
faith. As regards the House, nothing can be more
absurd than the position in which it has pliced itself
by the vote of Tuesday, taken in conjunction with
that of the 30th of May. To act first and deliberate
aftelwards is, proverbially, the acme of reckless
folly ; yet this is precisely what our representatives
have done, in following up their original address to
the Crown, for a total cessation of the Sunday col-
lection and delivery of letters, with a subsequent
prayer "that her Majesty will be graciously pleased
to cause an inquiry to he made whether the amount
of Sunday labour in the Post-office may not be re-
duced, without completely patting an end to the col-
lection and delivery of letters on Sunday." We re-
frain from conjecturing what opinion her Majesty is

likely to form of the wisdom of an Assembly which
troubles her with these. contradictory solicitations,
and which, on the very face of its proceedings, inverts
the natural order of inquiry and decision. A frank
confession of error would have been infinitely more
respectable than this lame and awkward evasion. It
is a confession of error, however, though not a frank
one. The experiment is allowed, for form's sake, to
go on for the present—but it is already condemned,
by implication, as hasty and ill-considered. The
'louse distinctly acknowledges that the re-
linquishment of the Sunday delivery and col-
lection of letters is a public inconvenience which
ought not to he lightly incurred, and that it is at
least questionable whether it ought to be persisted
in. Moreover, the entire resp msibility of de-
ciding on the continuance or abendeneient of the
existing restriction is left to those who hive never
missed an of portunity of avowing theinsdws lioiil.,.
to it. For Lord joi) Russell plainly intimeted the-,
wheth-r P,Arliainent sli2ll be sitting or nof, r.t the
time of the completion of the prepopel inquiry, the
Government will take its o e'n cosune without waiting
for further instructions from the House. As this was
interpreted by Lord Ashley (quite correctly, we
imagine) as utterly disentitliug the Premier to the
confidence of the Sabbatarians, the division which
ensued may be fairly taken, despite all apparent am-
biguities, as affording a true measure of the relative
strength of the two parties ; and, under such circum-
stances, a Ministerial majority of 83 was a tolerably
intelligible reversal of the previous vote of the House.
The debate has added little or nothing to our
previous information on the subject, and it is in-
teresting only as showing the effect which even the
brief experience of three weeks has had in modifying
the zeal and abating the confidence of the Sabbatarian
enthusiasts. The great " principle," of which we
mace, heard so much, was quite forgotten—the re-
strictions preferring to entrench themselves behind
the formalities and decorums to which their previous
casual victory had given them a sort of right to ap-
peal. They stood out for the letter of their bond, de-
manded a " fair trial" for their " experiment," and
were eloquent on the " honour and dignity of the
Crown." All this was no doubt perfectly fair as
against the Government, who certainly have evinced
an unseemly and culpable haste in committing the
Royal name to an innovation which they dislike and
disapprove ; but to lay any stress on this kind of
argument only indicates the conscious want of a real
case. For the practical merits of the question we
must look to the speeches of the mover and sup-
porters of the resolution, who, though they
somewhat overdid the theological and " religious-
liberty" party of the subject, clearly showed
that grievous social mischiefs have ensued, end
must ensue, from the Sabbatical interdict
on postal communication. Of the hardships
inflicted on individuals, by depriving them of the or-
dinary facilities of intercourse with relatives at a dis-
tance—hardships which, in cases of illness or other
domestic emergencies, are cruelly severe—we say
little, as we have never observed any signs that the
Sabbatarian zealots are open to this sort of appeal to
their human sympathies. But the point was well
urged by Lord John Russell, who, with a generous
consideration for the rights and feelings of the hum-
bler classes which we wish he had manifested at an
earlier stage of the business, refused to accept the au-
thority of " great bankers in easy circumstances," on
a question which is of extremely little interest to
them so long as rail way companies run Sunday trains
and telegraph wires carry Sunday messages, but
which is of vital importance to those who cannot
afford themselves such costly luxuries. The advo-
cates of the prohibitory regime will, however, be far
more likely to feel the force of the argument, that
their system has actually led t ) a great increase in
the amount of Sunday labour performed throughout
the couutry. Of this fact there can be no doubt
whatever. The transmission and delivery of the
London weekly newspapers alone employ, there
is every reason to believe, many more hands than
have been liberated from Post-office duty ; and when
the capabilities of the "parcel " system shall have
been somewhat further developed by necessity and
experience, we shall have a pretty well organized
Sunday post for every important town in the
kingdom, which will only differ from her
M:ajesty's Post- office establishment in the higher 1
scale of its charges, its more lavish employment of
manual labour, and its total unprofieableness to the
public revenue. For those newspaper readers who '
cannot afford to pay an enhanced price for their
accustomed luxury there are the public-houses
and the beer-shops, where the fagged artisan will
always be sure of getting a good deal for his money
over and above the innocent recreation of perusing
the "latest intelligence." On the whole, it seems
impassible for any considerate person to resist the
conclusion, that what is called a "fair trial" of
the present experiment would produce an enormous
amount of " Sabbath-breaking" and demoralisation.
However, it is not to be. The House of Commons,
while respecting the Sabbatarians' temporary right of
possession, questions their title, and hands over their
case to the scrutiny of their official opponents. Lord
John is to inquire, report, and act at his own discre-
tion, and on his own responsibility ; and unless his
opinion should undergo some extraordinary change in
the process, the result may be set down as already
known. We fear we must add that a confirmed con-
viction of the worse than inexpediency of stopping the
communications of the country on the Sunday will
be only one of the lessons which the approaching in-
quiry-will teach him. Long before he has done with
this business, he will probably be made painfully
aware of his error in having allowed pique, pettish-
ness, or indolence, to get the better of his statesman-
ship, and in having visited the sins of a refractory,
House of Commons on the letter-writing and news-
paper-reading public. 'We shall be most agreeably
surprised if his sarcastic "deference to the sense of
the House" does not involve him eventually in ten
times more worry, fuss, and annoyance, than he
would have incurred by earnestly attempting, in the
first instance, to stem a senseless agitation, and to
procure the reversal of a random vote. We wish
him well through the task which he has undertaken,
of dealing with a movement that owes no small part
of its importance to his own faults of judgment or
temper; and we trust that he will in future deal
seriously with serious questions, and frankly assume
at first the responsibilities which he cannot evade at
last.