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IRELAND.
LOYAL NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION.

DUBIN, Mama! 17.—There was a "monster" meeting of
the Association to• day in the Conciliation-hall, every part of
which was densely crowded.
At half-past one o'clock Mr. O'Connell entered the hall,
accompanied by several leading members of the Committee.
The lion. and Learned Gentleman wore most conspicuously
in his hat a large branch of palm and a bunch of shamrock.
On the motion of Mr. O'Connell, seconded by Mr. W. S.
O'Brien, M.P., the chair was taken by the Mayor of Lime-
rick, W. Geary, Esq.
The Criantstax briefly addressed the meeting, and congra-
tulated them on the glorious prospect which the repeal cause
was making.
Mr. RAY, the Secretary, read the minutes of the last day's
proceedings.
Mr. O'Coxseer. said he wished to state, at the commence-•
ment of their proceedings, that upon that day week the re-
peal martyrs would be on their way to Kilkenny, to attend
the great dinner to be given them on the following day.—
(Hear, hear.) They would stop in Castleconnor on Monday
night, and remain there until after last mass on Tuesday,
which was a holiday in the Catholic church, and then proceed
in procession to Kilkenny; therefore, as it was impossible to
be in town on Easter Monday,
.he would at once move that
the Association, at its rising, should adjourn until that day
fortnight.—( Hear, and cheers.)
The motion having been seconded and carried,
Mr. O'CONNELL handed in several subscriptions, among
which were 41/. from the Regular Carpenters of Dublin. He
also read a letter on the subject of the removal of paupers
from England to Ireland, and in reply to it, stated that he
would not assent to the Irish Members going to St. Stephen's
to oppose the measure of Sir James Graham, as suggested
by the writer.
Mr. R. D. BROW NE then proceeded to address the meeting,
observing that he would not have done so at so early an hour
were he not about to leave town ahataavening. In doing so,
he said that one of the ablest Irish papers the Nation, had
lately declared it to be the duty of all Irish Members, either
to attend that Hall, or to attend in their places in the Bri-
tish house of Commons, a doctrine which met his fullest
concurrence, for his belief was, that the representative who
did not either agitate at home, or in St. Stephen's, was un-
worthy of the confidence of his constituency, because, al-
though he might do no positive wrong, a negative evil would
arise from what he would call a dishonourable apathy.—
(Hear.) The Learned Gentleman having stated that it was
his intention to move, on some future occasion, in Committee,
to have the time of meeting extended, concluded a length-
ened speech by going over the whole account of the State
Trials, and then, referring to the proposed visit of her Ma-
jesty, he said, during the previous year, when the Liberator
was in prison,- that Ireland was a house of mourning; and
he, therefore, expressed his hope that their beloved Sove-
reign woull not visit that country. However, since that,
the gloom which spread around them had dispelled, and he,
as a loyal subject, would soon be delighted to greet her upon
her arrival amongst her Irish people.—(Hear.)
Mr. O'Cosswaa., in alluding to some observations of Mr.
Browne with reference to the proposed grant to Maynooth,
said that they would take it as they got it, although they
did not consider it half enough.—(llear.) lie also noticed-
her Majesty's visit, and stated that he hoped The Irish people
would keep a groan for Sir Robert Peel and Sir James
Graham, and give them, when they came over, what he
calle.l " a little cheek music."—(Cheers.) In her Majesty's
presence they would not, of course, do so, or do anything
which might for a moment be considered disrespectful, but
when they caught them by themselves they would give them
plenty of it.
Mr. O'BRIEN handed in various subscriptions from diffe-
rent parts of Ireland, England, and Scotland. The Hon.
Gentleman stated, in reply to an observation made isy Mr.
Browne, that the members of the Committee of the Associa-
tion were not only engaged on a Monday, but during the
entire of almost every day in the week.
Mr. O'Consmer. then moved the following resolution
" That a majority of the House of Commons having refused
the inquiry sought by Mr. Thomas Duncombe, M.P. for
Finsbury, with a view to prove that his letters had been
opened in the General Post-office, this Association feels it to
be a duty to the people of Ireland to place upon record its
indignant denunciation of a proceeding so disgraceful to the
Government of a free country ; and offers its cordial thanks
to Mr. Duncombe for the strenuous exertions made by him in
exposing this detestable system of espionage." The conduct
of the majority of the House of Commons was so disgraceful
on this head, that it needed no comment from him (Mr.
O'Connell).—(Cheers.) Had Mr. Duncombe succeeded in
his motion, he (Mr. O'Connell) would have gone to London
to complain of the opening of his letters; for he had reason
to believe that during Lord Anglesey's administration in Ire-
land, private communications of his (Mr. O'Connell's) were
opened ; but as the Member for Finsbury had not succeeded,
he (Mr. O'Connell) knew that he had no chance of obtaining
an inquiry.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. S. O'BRIEN seconded the motion, and observed that
if the people of England were in favour of a system of Post-
office espionage—as it would appear they were from the con-
duct of their representatives—he hoped that the Irish people
would declare, through their representatives attet:ding at the
Conciliation Hall, that they despised it, and considered it un-
worthy of a free state.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. O'CoNNELL rose again, and moved that the Committee
be granted leave to sit again, in order to report on the pro-
ceedings of the Land Commission.—(Hear.) The Hon.
Gentleman then called on the men of Ulster to join him in
looking for a repeal of the union. He proclaimed to them
from that spot that a plan was forming to rob them—to
plunder them of their tenant right.—(Hear, hear.) They
had now a reason for the north of Ireland being in such
a tranquil state, while disturbance and assassination pre-
vailed in the south. In the north the tenant had the be-
nefit of any improvements he might make on his land ; fur
when he was giving it up the incoming tenant was obliged to
pay him for them ; but in the south and in other parts of Ire--
land the landlord had the benefit of the tenant's improve.
ment, and when he (the landlord) thought proper to eject
him, the unfortunate tenant was driven out on the roads to
starve. The situation of the men of Ulster would be in a
short time reduced to as forlorn a condition as those of the
south, if they did riot take his advice, and, forgetting all party
distinctions, join him in demanding a repeal' of the legisla-
tive union.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. S. O'BRIEN seconded the motion, which passed una-
nimously.
Mr. O'CoNNELL then announced the repeal rent for the
week to be 406/. 10s. 6d.—(Cheers.)
Caleb Powell was the second chairman, and the thanks of
the Association were voted to the Mayor of Limerick.
The following are the closing prices on the Dublin Stock
Exchange this day (Monday):—Three per Cent. Consols,
991% I---Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, 1021,4 %
Three-and-a-Half per -Cent. Debentures, 1021,4 44—Hiber-
nian Bank, 36—City of Dublin Steam Company (1836) 53
Kingstkn and Bray Railway, 934 %—Dublin and Drogheda,
90—Great Southern and Western Extension, 774 7g—Dub=
lin and Belfast Junction, G—Dublin to Mullingar and
Athlone, 2143 14 %—Dublin to Galway, 31,1,—Dundalk and
Enniskillen, 3 2',74—Waterford and Limerick, 4

RE HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT.
THE. LATE INQUEST ON MR. CORDWELL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—After having bten accused of a fact from which
I have been exonerated by the accusers themselves, 1
have been condemned fJr another without having had
the power of defending myself. The only resource left
to me is to make an appeal from a one-sided judgment,
formed without any explanation having been previously
sought, to the impartiality of the public, who, before
deciding, will require to hear both the accusation and
defence.

I hope, whatever your personal opinion may be, your
liberality will permit me to make the fallowing obser-
vations.

In all ages the medical profession has been divided by
conflicting opinions, and the violence of the struggle has
been in proportion to the degree of importance of the new
ideas sought to be promulgated. At such periods,
those who have not been placed by nature
above the old routines have shown them-
selves constantly unjust and passionate to such
an extent as even to deny the most palpable facts. I
ati, therefore, not surprised at the struggle which the
homeopathists have to encounter with the old ideas, nor
at the passion and injustice shown by the practitioners,
who, although men of unquestionable abilities, will not
admit any novelties of importance, even when the wel-
fare cf society depends on their reception. lam an ho-
meopathist from conviction.
At the inquest which has just taken place my qualifi-
cation as a physician was duly ascertained, and as, in
addition to this, it was found that my medical treatment
could not be called in question, it became necessary to
find some other point on which an attack- could be
founded, and, if possible, so conduct the charge as to
leave me without the power of defence, or of entering
into any explanation that might remove the false opinions
thus sought to be created. My regimen has been judged
and condemned. It is admitted, however, by many phy.
sicians, whether homoeopathists or not, that aliments are
hurtful in different ways in a morbid condition of the
system. The most common reason is, because they can-
not be digested, or with much difficulty, or imperfectly.
This happens even when the principal seat of the dis-
ease is not in the intestinal tube, and, of course, it is
much more to be dreaded when the disorder has the sto-
mach and intestines for its seat, and when those organs
are seriously affected.
I shall not here detail the numerous effects of imper-
fect digestion, the inconveniences and dangers which are
its consequences, but only remark that it prevents the
aliment administered from producing the effect we aim
at, since it is not what we eat that nourishes us,
_but
what we digest.
Therefore the first among all the dietetic rules is the
following:—Whatever may be apparently the want of
aliment never give any if it cannot be digested, and in
no case give more than the digestive organs can deal
with. These organs, when diseased, become often much
worse under the influence of food, which produces irri-
tation, and even when digestion is still possible, though
difficult, the influence of the organic action required by
it may spread much beyond the apparatus by which it is
accomplished.
It suffices to consider the sort of febrile'action which
always attends digestion, even in the normal state, to
understand that it cannot but increase the fever or in-
flammation if such conditions of the organism exist, or
hasten their development if any predisposition should be
present.
In the case of Mr. Cordwell all the "symptoms indi-
cated serious alterations in the intestines. The typhoid
fever was at hand, and the least irritation of the mucous
membrane of the digestive organs could not but aggra-
vate the state already so serious. The disease and food
were both to be dreaded ; the aliments could not nourish
him, as he was not able to digest them. The correct-
ness of this opinion has only been too sadly demonstrated
by the unfortunate trial made by our honourable medical
brethren, who, having an opinion contrary to mine, tried
various kinds of food—" first one thing, and then an-
other"—which were vomited by the patient up to the
time when vitality, exhausted by the struggle against the
aliments, was finally extinguished. The beef-tea, not
being able to go through the stomach, was found in that
organ at the post mortern examination.
The regimen which has just been made a subject of
attack does not rest on any crude idea. Its efficacy is
not merely supported by theory or by a simple hypo-
thesis. We can demonstrate its good results by the
report of cases at our Homee.)pathic Hospital in Loudon,
where 2,753 patients have been treated, of which number
only 53 have died, showing one death in 51.503 cases.
Very few hospitals in the world are able to set forth
similar results, and these results will appear still more
remarkable when it is remembered that homeopathy
being still a new practice is very little known, and con
stand), misrepresented, and that patients consequently
come to the institution where this mode of treatment is
applied only as a last resource. Moreover, it is not only
from my own personal practice that I can bring forward
proofs, but also from that of Dr. Ozanne of Guernsey, of
Dr. Hanson at Melton Mowbray, of Dr. Chepmell, resi-
dent physician of our hospital, and of all the homeopathic
physicians who prescribe the same regimen.
Besides this, it is a curious fact that the propriety of
our regimen has been so fully demonstrated, that since
the homeopathic cures could not be any longer denied, a
great many medical men, our opponents, have attributed
them to that very regimen in older to deny the power of
our medicines, while we now find that it is the regimen
which is the basis of accusation. Our adversaries ought
to be more consistent if they wish to escape the appear-
ance of partiality.
That the regimen is safe, but that it is not the regi-
men but the medicines which cure, will be shown by the
fact that there have been cured at the Homeopathic Hos-
pital, in Hanover-square :-38 cases of cerebral affec-
tions, 48 epilepsy and paralysis, 26 amaurosis, deaf-
ness and dumbness; 5 cataract, fungus, fistula ; 57
scrofulous opthalmia ; 218 gastritis, cutiritis, and both
complaints combined ; 285 pneumonia, pleuritis, hydro-
thorax, bronchitis, &c. ; 36 hooping-cough, 65 phthisis,
90 cutaneous diseases, scirrhous, cancerous affections,
&c. ; 36 scrofulous affections, 44 mercurial affections,
&c., in not one of which cases will it be pretended that
diet alone could prove effective.
In conclusion, I will merely add that the institution
where the mode of diet and regimen which has been
condemned is carried out in conjunction with the homoe-
opathic system is widely supported (as will be seen by a
reference to the list of subscribers) by the illustrious, the
noble, and the talented of the land.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
P. F. CURIE, M.D.

AN ADDENDA, BY A FRIEND TO " FAIR PLAY."
Mr. Wakley put this question towards the conclusion
of the inquest to Dr. Roots, the eminent physician of the
old school—Do you consider, from the knowledge you
have of the whole case, and after heal ing all the evidence
adduced to-day, that death wcs causedby a natural disease?
Dr. ROOTS—I DO.
Mr. Headland, a general practitioner in the old school,
was next re-called, and when asked the same question,
expressed an opinion entirely corroborative of that given
by Dr. Roots.
Extract from Miss Jane Maguire's evidence, sister of the
landlady of the house, in respect to this poor fellow's
state of health previously :
Examination resumed—l never received any directions
from Dr. Curie as to the treatment or diet of the de-
ceased. They must have been given by him to his nurse
in attendance when no one else was present, except, per-
haps, Miss Sharp. On one occasion the deceased told
me he would not take anything the doctor had net or-
dered him, desiring me at the sama time not to interfere.
Mr. Wakley—Have you any means of knowing what he
did take ? Witness—The first two or three days I
made him barley-water, which he took. He bad also
grapes, figs, and those kind of things, which I procured
for him about the same time, but after that Ido not
know what he took. lam sure he took the barley water,
because I gave it him myself.
Mr. Wakley—Did the deceased ever express to you
any apprehension of being in danger ? Witness—HE
HAS TOLD ME THAT HE NEVER HAD A
DAY'S HEALTH IN HIS LIFE, but he did not
speak of being in danger until the Saturday
.before his
death, when he asked me to write to Dr. Curie, which I
instantly did, and sent a servant with the letter. At that
time he said he thought there was a change. This was
about three o'clock on the Saturday. I had not then
seen anything of the discharge of blood which had been
spoken of. From the first to the last the deceased had
in attendance upon him two servants and six nurses—
that was from the 19th or the 20th of February until
his death.
Mr. Wakley remarked that deceased seemed to have
been subjected to the homoeopathic system of attendance

at any rate.
From this testimony it is clearly proved—first, That
both the medical men agree that death was caused by
lia taral disease. Then, what does Mr. Wakley say? Why,
he addresses the jury thus :—" After the opinion ex-
pressed by the medical gentlemen who have been
called as witnesses, it must be utterly useless to carry
the inquiry any further." But this is not all ; for we
have the declaration of Miss Maguire that the deceased
assured her he NEVER HAD ONE DAY'S HEALTH IN HIS
LIFE ; and yet the jury append to their decision, after
first giving a very honest verdict, to the following effect—
",We find that B. Cordwell died from exhaustion, caused
by Iws of blood from his intestinal canal, produced
by natural disease." Now let us see what follows,
that could by possibility induce the jury to impugn their
own verdict, and then inquire what could induce them
to come to the following mysterious conclu ions :
" The jury caneot retrain from expressing the
strongest feeling of indignation and disgust at hearing
it proved by the testimony of the nurses and other per-
sons that the afflicted gentleman had been cruelly ex-
posed to a system of starvation while in a state of most
extreme debility, during at least ten days previous to his
death, he having, duricg that long time, been allowed
nothing but plain water, ander the express direction of
his medical attendant." This discrepancy we leave to
Mr. Wakley to explain. It should seem, after telling
the jury they could not prosecute the inquiry any fur-

ther, the evidence of the m^dical men being so conclu-
sive, the Coroner concurs in the monstrous ejaculation
of this jury. The REASON is now to be inquired into by
Dr. Curie's friends.