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Just published, the Seventh Edition, price 33. ; and sent free,
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MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PRE-
MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for
ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suf-
fering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence,
Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the
Treatment of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Gleet, &c. Illustrated
with Cases, &c.

By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY,
Consulting Surgeons, London.
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teresting cases. The .book, as has been already stated, is the
result of very ample and daily increasing experience in a class
of diseases, which, for some unaccountable reason, have been
either altogether overlooked, or treated almost with indiffer-
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SECOND LETTER FROM. MR. OSBORNE.
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MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS•
The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the week ending Jan. 8, 1842." The Table is
issued from the Office of the Registrar-General :

CAUSES OF DZATH.

Weekly
Total. Average
1838-9-40-1
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases. 139 - 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 143 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration . - .
Diseaseerie the '}Eivi4ibtritiooa., is • . 3lB 268
25 -kg
Diseases of • the . ,Steraactt, , Liver,. and 'ether
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints' Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, B‘c ....... . ..
Deaths 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat..... l4O 104
1142autire.r
INt62sh, 7ee Deathsk .
01. d Age, or Natural Decay
Cause Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Ilitip.4er,sa_nici:ernopeictbr4ol7,
s not specified ......... ..........
Deaths from all causes...
Average Weekly Deaths ............. .
Average
Weekly to
West Districts—Kensington, Saint
George ( Hanover-square), .%Yest-
minster, St. Martin in the Fields,
St. Pancras, Islington, Hackney 162
Central Districts—St. Giles and St.
NoSrtth. jDamistersicis---gt..-IVia-r;y•-.1e....-b-o''-e.. 13.5
George, Strand, Holborn, St.
George, St. Luke, East London,
West London, City of London ... 188
'East Districts—Shorcditch, Bethnal
Green, Whitechapel, St. George
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 206
South Districts—St Saviour, St
Olave, Bermondsey, St. George,
Southwark, Newington,Lambeth,
Camberwell, Rotherhithe, Green-
wich..

300,705

365,660

373,806

392,49 i

~ ... 221

438,060

---
Total 912 1,870,727 971
which include the City of Lon-
-32
i isst rsilcattsed herein that
don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality—.
umnedienrinn the
mentioned,
Metropolis are comprised the
and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Fulham, Hammersmith( ChapelrY), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad-
dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newingt°n), St. Leonard (Brent
vere2agt e
hs fionr tlhB3e three 1839, and 1840,
ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Niroolwich. The population, as
1831,
ree years by 156.
enumerated in was 1,594,890 ; and in June 1841, was
hwekgl
yt he d
wl-,aBs7ooet obtained Tby edividein
TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING
Jan. 1. Jan. 8.
Highest ...... ... . ........... 470
41°
Lowest ................ 31 28
Daily Mean ..... ........ ... 39 84
General Register Office, Jan. 13, 1042,

*TAN:. Th
r,e
ConferenceEsci„
Baxter,
he
SAltcoates.
The CHAIRMAN Vt. manufacturer,m ett o - a t
Dundee,tentpoo'ckloct
Chair.
k.
Edward
te
Tlib,meeting was opened with prayer by the
ReV. Mr. Ellis, b.!.
n addressed the meeting. He iin-
diettted ; the ministers ONS2ligionfroni thecliarge of being
out of their proper place in h.:tending a rneeting such as
_this—. He thought they would lia.ye fqiled in their duty if
theyliad stood aloof while want. and tm.7ery Were 'st3lk-
-4,,ing over the land. In confirmation of this Opinion fie
cited a passage from the book of gehe':_niah, where 'the
prophet rebuked the rulers of the }and for their conduct
in a time of scarcity, and " set a great assemblf against
them," the consequence of which was that the :"-411ers
listened to the cry of the people and conceded to the.7l
their request. Let it not then be said that the minis-
ters of the everlasting Gospel were out of the Mile of
their duty When they advocated the Cause of troth,
and justice, and humanity.—(Applaus#,) -He should
now with the consent of the meeting •Stitte a few facts ,
connected with the trade of Dundee. Arid first, with
regard to the state of crime. During the 1?-0 nine
'4'o7n
years the number of petty thefts, as it appeared
the books of the Dundee POlice Court, had tripled ;
and that in spite of the most vigorous efforts of Chris-
tians of all denominations. Then he would refer to two
public Acts of foreign States, passed in 'consequence of
our Corn-laws. It was Well known that the first strin-
gent Corn-law was passed in 1815, and in 1816 the Ame-
rican Congress passed a severe law restricting the im-
portation of British commerce into that country ; and in
the same year Prussia framed her famous commercial
league, the object of which was one of decided hostility
to this country. It' was well known that Brazil was.
about to follow their example ; and all as measures of
retaliation because we would not admit the corn and
the timber, a e sugar of these countries. Ills third
fact had refe to -the home trade. This point had
not been su tly • pressed upon the meeting yester-
, He thu Lthe home trade had been more injured
than the foreign trade ; and in proof of it he might men-
tion that it appeared from a return published in Man-
chester, that while a greater quantity of goods had been
exported last year than formerly, arising from the want of
demand at home, no less than 150,000 fewer bales ofcotton
had been disposed of at home than in former years.lVas not
that an awful state of things ! For himself he might
state that lie was connected with a house in Dundee
which paid 33,0001. annually in wages. It had been
ascertained with considerable precision, that in the years
-1835 and 1836, when the price of food was cheap, two
thirds of his workmen's wages were spent on provisions ;
but that now, when corn had risen 60 per cent., they
were obliged to' pay an additional 7,0001. a year for
food ; so that instead of two-thirds of their wages nine-
tenths were spent .on provisions alone. Now, where did
this additional 7,000/. come from ? It was clear it must
be abstracted from the sum formerly spent on manufac-
tured articles. It could not go to the Leeds clothier, or
the Manchester calico-printer; so that to that extent the
home market was destroyed. If that was the case with
one establishment, what would it be over the whole of
Dundee, and over theeeuuntry ?—(Hear.) The effect of
this was, that the manufacturer dismissed his workmen,
so that the rise in the price of food acted injuriously in
two ways—it abridged the comforts of one class, and it
threw another class out of work altogether. After some
farther observations, he called upon
The Rev. Mr. HARVEY, of Glasgow, who moved the
fourth resolution in a lengthened address.
Bailie GREIG, of Perth, seconded the resolution.
Rev. Dr.' TAYLOR, of Auchtermuchty, did not mean to
detain the meeting_ with a lengthened address; but as
there were no other speakers from his part of the coun-
try, he begged to lay before them a few facts connected
with Auchtermuchty and its neighbourhood. The po-
pulation of the parish amounted to 3,355. Of these 1,140
were engaged as hand-loom weavers, and of these one-
fifth part were now out of employment. In 1815, the
wages of -these people averaged 14s. per week; now
they did not Amount to more than 4s. 2d. per week
But besides these there were a number of females ai

aged persons who were not engaged in weaving but in
winding bobbins; their wages was but a scanty pittance
even in the best of times; what it was now he would
leave the meeting
.to imagine. The usual food of the
people, he was credibly informed, was potatoes—oat-
meal they scarcely ever saw; and anything approach-
ing more to the nature. of a luxury was altogether
unknown. Even potatoes would not be procured. if it
were not that the people have generally . small plots
of garden ground, on which they are reared. Newburgh,
he believed, was still worse than Auchtermuchty. Much
might be said on the moral and religious aspect of this
question. It put a barrier in the way of children attend-
ing school, and parents attending church, from the want
of decent _clothing ; and it hardened their hearts against
religiousimpressions. • As a minister of the Gospel, he
felt-himself hampered and fettered in the circulation of
the doctrinal truths of the Gospel.
:Surely a minister
was not out of his duty, when he inculcated on his people
the duty: of, contentment ; and yet he. declared that for
some time past he had never ventured to speak ,on the
subj cot:7-(U reat applause.) Let him not be misunderstood.
He had never attempted to speak, on the subject, of con-
tentment mlithout first attempting, as Richard Baxter
says, to demulse their hearts by an awkward expla-
nation of what contentment did not imply, as well as
of what it did.—(Renewed applause.) Be could not
attempt to excite the gratitude of his people fOr God's
bounties, without first being compelled to tell them that
the distress they suffered did not result ftlom the Di-

vine arrangements, but from the laws of men. He
felt restrained, when leading the public devotions, from
using such expressions as this—" He filleth their hearts
with food and gladness" because he was afraid that
instead of exciting emotions of gratitude to God, he
should only excite resentment against a class of men
who were regarded as the authors of all these evils.—
(Hear, hear.) He was satisfied that the people knew
who were the real authors of all their sufferings. He
kneW this, because those who wished to go deeper than
Merely repealing the Corn-laws, objected to them being
touched, lest by the abolition of this great practical
grievance the people would cease to agitate for any thing
more.—(Great applause.)
Dr. HEUGU, after some preliminary remarks, said,
the general argument against the Corn and Provision—
laws had been handled,' and will be handled, by others.
To them I leave this argument, on the ground of the
essential injustice of all monopolies. The one view of
these laws to which I shall advert, is their enormous
pressure on the industrious and poorer classes of the
British- community, and the consequent immorality of
their character. The direct object of these laws is to
enhance the price of the necessaries of life—is to
every consumer to pay more for these articles than, but
for these laws, he would require to pay. Many things
about their working, and about the mode and results
of their abolition, are disputed ; respecting this, their
designed object, there is, and there can be, no dispute..
If a fixed duty is imposed, the design of the impost is to
add its own amount to the price paid for it. If the pre-
sent sliding scale be preferred, or any modification of it
which may seem good to the Knight of Drayton Manor
—(Laughter)—as the price falls the impost rises ; and
it does not cease till corn has attained the rate which de-
notes scarcity and menaces starvation. I repeat it, then,
the direct, declared, undeniable and undenied object Of
these laws is to raise the price of food in Great Britain.
—(Hear,' hear.) The increase of price thus by force of
laW effected has been shown to be very great. Those,. I
think, who have attended most closely to the subject
have shown that the price of corn in this country is
raised about 40 per cent. by the existing Corn-law ;
that is to say, we are forced to pay 51. for what we
should otherwise procure for 31., or 125.. 'or what we
could, were these laws repealed, get for Bs. This is
an enormous pressure of taxation affecting the whole
cemmunity. In the payment of this tax tlfbre is
neither 'drawback nor evasion. It affects the Whole mass
of consumers ; but it presses with accumulating weight
just as you descend in the scale of society, and
crushes with its full weight those at the bottom of
the scale, the poor and helpless.—(Hear, hear.) The
Rev. Doctor at some length contended that the Corn-
operated as an income tax on the poor of from fir-
teen to twenty per cent., while it diminished cas you as-
cended
the settle of society, till among
.the' rieh'it becalm:.
imperceptible ; and their necessary eff ect is to produce
scarcity, straits, and discomfort among the laborious;
and to spare the rich. The laws of man ought not tb op-
pose the known will and laws of God. The moral law
of God is the expression of his own character, wise,just,
and
,
and good.. If the exposition which has been given of
the nature and operation of these enactments be just,
can we come to any other conclusion than this very so—
lemn one—that they are in direct opposition to the
known character of the Supreme Ruler, that they are di-
rect violations of his will and law? Can the righteous God
sanction the unjust laws of his creatures? .Can the God

of mercy sanction oppression? Can He who has revealed
himself as the guardian of the poor, who has taught us to
celebrate the government of his Son in such strains as
these, " He shall judge the poor of the people ; he shall
save the children of the needy, and break in pieces' the
oppressor ?"—can He approve of those unrighteous
and merciless statutes which spread oppression and suf-
fering through every cottage in the land ?—(Hear.) The
very worst form that injustice and 'oppression can as-
sume is that of laws which involve and sanction them. In

this ease you set at nought this appointment of the
Supreme huler, " He that ruleth among men," be he
Prince or Senator, " should be just, ruling in the fear
of God.". You pia& your authority in the perilous posi-
tion of antagonism to His—you so multiply difficulties in
the way of redress, as to render a lifetime of labour neces-
sary to accomplish it—you produce the wish of national
eenvulsion—and, more than all, you all the while expose
your country to the gathering storm of the Divine indig-
nation, proclaiming in vain, "Cease to do evil ; learn to
do well ;. put away the evil of your doings from before
mine eyes." For myself, so strongly am I convinced of
the flagrant wickedness in the sight of God which. these
laWs include,"that if-no othei object were to'begained by
this Conference than to record our solemn protest against
this national sin, I think the end would justify the means.
We do record our protest. Before God'and man we dis-
avow these wicked laws ; we never consented to them ;
we never shall. On other heads than ours the responsi-
bility of their formation, their continuance, their enor-
mous wrongs, must rest. All we wish is-4heir repeal
for ever.—(Cheers.) He condemned the view taken by
the higher ranks of the aristocracy, that these laws are
in favour of the country, and that they are objected to
only by clamorous manufacturers and discontented ope-