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" Sir,— I think it a duty I owe to the public to make known
the efficacy of a remedy which I met with accidentally, and
which has been of such wonderful benefit to myself. Some
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extended from the ancle to the leg, thigh, back, and to the
,arms. Having exhausted every resource of relief which I and
my medical friends in the country could suggest, to no
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sulting Sir Benjamin Brodie or Mr. Liston—then to adopt sea-
bathing. By accident I met with Mr. Feaver, 16 LudgateAill,
Who applied his Embrocation, and, to my great astonishment,
I had no spasm that night, nor have I had one since. The next
morning I came down stairs without my crutches, •and was
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now rapidly recovering. Having for many years had an ex-
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In adding my testimony to Mr. Feaver's Embrocation, I am ac-
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to be nothing but a nefarious traffic and humbug.
" I am, your obedient servant, •
" TREVOR HOLLAND, Surgeon.

" Carmock-, near Walsall, Staffordshire.
" P. S. At the various consultations held upon my case, the
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opinion that the frequent violent attacks of spasms would ter•
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had the slightest symptoms of spasms since the first application
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MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF TIIISDAY.

CHBONICLE.—The number of ig 12
United Kingdom during
119,060, about '33,000 of whom, New Zealand included,
went to the Australian settlement. The importance to
the last
eFi
fearl'l Prialo,tEls.
aysE'rNoEinG;t.ol s t
the now depressed Eil,Plish manufacturer of such an DX •
cession to the population of these colonies, may be esti-
mated by the fact that in ten 3 ears to 1840 the exports
from the United Kingdom to the Australian colonies,
had increased from a declared value of 393,4711. to
2,004,385/. And yet in 1810, the entire population of
those colonies could barely have exceeded 150,000 souls.
Nor let it be imagined that this vast amount merely re-
presents a transference of so much English capital, on
which no return was made. The colonists, who in 1831
sent to the English market less that three millions of
pounds of wool, were ten years subsequently enabled to
raise and send ten millions of pounds to the same mart.
Within the same period, alsc, 17,000 tuns of spermaceti
oil were exported by them to Great Britain.
In the first of this series of years our commerce with
Australia gave employment to 70 whips, with a tonnage
of 24,-68G tons. -In 1840 it employed 299 ships, with a
tonnage of 108,000 tons and upwards.
The aggregate amount of exports from the United
Kingdom to airports of the world in 1840 little exceeded
51,400,0001. The' evidence which the official tables of
trade supply, of •So large a proportion as 2,000,0001. of
these exports being to Australia, would seem to indicate
how much, attention to our colonies, the exports of
the United hingdom might be increased, and within a
period not exceeding that isr-,svhich the wool -of Aus-
tralia has increased from hundreds to tens of thousands
of pounds. " •
SUN.—The funds recovered a trifle from the effect of the sales,
noticed this afternoon,band Consols left off at 91 911 for
Money, and fur the Account; Bank Stock, 167 169 ; India
Stock, 249 251 ; Exchequer Bills,
Old, 51 53 ; New, 49 51
prem.
The prices of Foreign Securities were—Belgian, 101 102 ;
DutchTwo-and,a-Half per Cents., 51i 511 ; Danish, 811 821 ;
Brazilian, 641 651.
The quotation of Mexican declined to 35 for Money, and
35i- for the Account.

A decided improvement was exhibited in the Share Market
towards the close of business. London and Birmingham were 181
183 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 48 50 ; Great Western,
88i 89i ; the Half-Shares, 63i d 4; South Western, 62
; North Midland, 54 59i ; the Half.; hares, 28i 29 ;
South Eastern and Dover, 23 23i ; Eastern Counties, 8:11
; Northern and Eastern, 39i- 40 ; Blackwall, 9 9i ; and
Brighton, 33i 34a per share.
The Foreign Exchanges were altogether better, especially in
Paris and Hamburgh. The large purchases made at the late
Indigo sales have, doubtless, to a great extent, contributed to
this advance in the latter place, but still the probability of any
great demand for produce, against which bills would have to be
drawn, having been removed, the balance of trade will, it is
almost certain, remain in favour of this country for some months
at least to come.

The Bonds quoted in the official lists were—Colombian, 20%
20% ; Spanhh Five per Cents., 20i, and the Three per Cents.,
20
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Papers to the 30th March have been received from Sydney.
The accounts continue to be favourable for British goods, but
the caution is again repeated that the imptovement is owing
more to the diminution of stocks than to increased demand.
The want of labour appears to be felt here also, and measures
were about to be _ adopted to petition the home Government
that convicts might again be allotted to them.

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MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST,

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The Grimsby Ghost. By the Editor.
An Undertake:. By the Editor.
Twenty-three Minutes past Two (founded on fact). By John
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The Chemist's First Murder. By Laman Blanchard, Esq.
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Army.-2. Naval Retirements.-3. '1 he Artilleryman's Re-
veille.-4. The Sieges of Borstall.-5. On Desertion in Ca-
nada, by Sir James Alexander.-6. 'lhe Khyber Pass, and
Operations of the Force under Lieut.-Colonel Sir C. M. Wade,
C. 8.-7. Errors and Faults in our Military System.-8. Our
Naval Chiefs of other Days, by a Tar of the Old School.-
9. Sketches of the Austrian Cavalry, by a ci-devant Hussar
Officer.-10. Military History of Jamaica, with a Glance at
St. Domingo, by Lieut.-Colonel Wilkie.-11. Pastages in the
Life of a Sailor.—:l2. British and Foreign Arms.-13. Remi-
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M‘Naghten.-15. The British Grenadier.-16. Affghanistan
and China.-17. Report on American Naval Affairs.-18.
Mutiny at Spithead —l9. Health of the Troops.-20. Circle
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which they are composed. The Report of the Poor-law
Commissioners says :
The state of the dwellings of many of the agricultural
labourers in Dorset (Lord Ashley's Dorset) is described in the
return of Mr. John Fox, the medical ofli..er of the Cerne Union.
Ile says, " three eases of disease occurred in a house occu?ied
by nearly fifty persons on the ground-floor ; tke rooms at e
neither boarded nor paved. and are generally damp. Eleven
persons slept in one coon:." In many of the enttages the beds
stood on the ground-floor, which was damp, three parts of the
year. Scat rely one had a fire-place in the bed •ruGm, and one
bad a single pane of glass stunk in the mud w all as its only
window, with a large heap of wet and dirty potatoes (happy
people to have potatoes) in one corner. Persons livinf, in such
cottages are generally very poor, very dirty, and usually in rags,
:lying almost wholly on bread and potatoes.
The medical officer of the Uxbridge union states—

The cottages of the poor are mostly of a bad description,
frequently mud walls, and often situattd close to the dykes
where the water is for the most part in a state of stagnation.
Often times not more than one room for the whole family, some
times two, one above the other.
Of the Bedford union it is said—
Most of the residences of the labourers are thickly in-
habited, and many of them are damp, low, smoky, and com-
fortless. " A large proportion of the cottages in the Ampthill
union are very miserable places, small and incon-
venient, in which it is impossible to keep up even the ccmmon
decencies of life. I will refer to one instance, with which lam
well acquainted. A man, his wife, and family, consisting in
all of eleven iud.viduals, resided in a cottage, containing only
two rooms. The man, his wife, and four children, sometimes
five, slept in one of the moms, and in one bed, some at :he
foot, others at the top—one a girl about fourteen, another a boy
above twelve, the rest younger. 'I he other part of the family
slept in one bed in the keeping-room, ia whicit their
cooking, washing, and eating, were percortned. How could it
be otherwise with this family, than that it should be sunk into
the most deplorable state of degradation and ih.pravity. There
are many cases, and a very great number that make
near approach to it."
In Durham the peasantry (according to Or. Gilly) were
crowded into small places, 24 teet by in which eight, ten, or
even twelve persons dwelt (scarcely the allowance for
the slaves in A slave ship). Flow they lie down to
rest, how they sleep, how they can preserve common
decency, how unutterable korrors are avoided, is beyond all
conception. The case is aggravated when there is a young,
woman to be lodged in this confined space, who is not a mem-
ber of the family, but who is hired to do the field work, for
which every hint; is bound to provide a female. It shocks
every feeling of propriety to think that in a room, and within
such a space, civilized beings should be herding together with-
out a decent separation of age and sex.

These are only specimens of what occurs throughout
the agricultural districts. There is nothing worse in
the cabinS of Ireland, and if ever the peasantry of Eng -
land deserved the character formerly given of them, they
are now, in their habits and manners, after twenty-five
years' assiduous attention c.n the part of our law-makers,
sunk below the level of the peasantry of any part of
Europe, except Ireland. In France and Italy, the
cliniate enabling people to live in the open air, renders
the house accommodation of the working classes of lesS
importance than in England, and makes their condition
comparatively superior to that of the working classes here.
If Lord ASHLEY, and the rest of the landlords who are so
extremely anxious to improve the morals of the colliers,
will look into the cottages on their estates, they will pro-
bably find amongst the peasantry what Dr. GILLY calls
" unutterable horrors," to which all the vices imagined
by prurient•minded Commissioners in the collieries are
like blushing innocence.
Now let us turn, having for the present done with the
peasantry and their herding together like the beasts of
the field, to the manufacturing districts, and quote a
passage from Mr. ADSIIEAD'S pamphlet on "the distress
ill Manchester." This has every appearance of being a
most authentic account, not merely of the present, but of
the general condition of the working classes in Man-
chester ; and the slaves of the cotton-lords, we regret to
state, are not in a better condition than the slaves of the
landlOrds. Mr. ADSHEAD states that there are 2,040 fami-
lies, consisting of 9,179 persons, of whom 3,479 are chil-
dren under twelve, and 1,743 above twelve, living in
cellars in Manchester. He states that this
is relatively a smaller number than live in cellars in
Liverpool, where, we believe, the GLADSTONES, and other
men of that saintly character, manage to return two
Tories by means of a cellar population, such as Mr.
ADSHEAD describes in the following passage:—
The cellars are most of them neither drained nor soughed.
They are consequently damp, are always liable to be flooded,
and are almost entirely without the means of ventilation, having
rarely but the outlets of door and window at the one side, and
these almost hid below the level of the street.
But the above-ground habitations of the indigent poor are
little better than the cellars, except in the matter of situation.
Nothing in the shape of the meanest comforts of life are
visible in them. Decent furniture there is none,—bricks,
logs of wood, and other contrivances being frequently used as
substitutes for tables and chairs, while the bag of shavings or
litter of straw is laid in some corner to be occupied nightly by
its miserable tenants, with all its accumulation of impurities
inev'ts.b!y resulting front the condition and habits of the latter.
And not always are these abodes of squalor and poverty,
whether cellars or ground-floor habitations, occupied by the
members of one family alms. Frequently, differeot families
occupied opposite corners of the same room, the sexes being no
further se, arated than by the few feet of space which lie be-
tween their respective beds of straw. This state of things has
come under my own observation repeatedly, in visiting the
habitations of the poor. Six or eight persons have I witnessed
inhabiting a damp cellar, males and fem•des congregated to..
;;ether, with a line hung along the hovel for tix use of the in-
mates, upon which were suspended, indiscriminately, their
torn and dirty appal el ; with other scenes Of a nature too dis-
gusting for recital.
In other instances, parents and children were found sleeping
together in the same bed. without regard to age or sex. '1 he
following conversation took place between a member of the
Relief Committee, and a poor widow who applied to the Com-
mittee for a bed :
Examiner—Have you a bed? Widow—l have one.
Exam inei —ls not one enough ? Widow—No ; 1 have a son.
Examiner—What age is he? Widow—Nineteen )ears.
Examiner—And where has he slept ? Widow— With me ;
or he must have lain on the floor.

Of course a bed was given for the eon.
3t would be impossible to over-state the moral and social evils
arising from this state of things. The domestic decencies must
be utterly unknown where habits like these prevail; and every
barrier against profligacy in its coarsest form must be broken
down.

Such is the condition at present of the industrious
classes of England. If the legislator had not meddled
with them, had not passed Corn-laws, as he says to keep
up wages, and established a Church, crowded with well
paid parsons to teach the working classes all that men
ought to learn, what is necessary in this life, as %yell as
what will possibly gain for them life hereafter, we should
nut have had a word to say against the legislator on
account of the condition of the working classes ; but
looking at what the legislator has pretended to perform,
and looking at his unceasing guidance and government
of them, we affirm that he is repunsible for ill the
wretchedness, misery, and horrors, unutterable or utter-
able, which prevail amongst our working classes, and
w hid' are to laic a complete scandal.
No classes, however, can escape the influence of the
contamination we have alluded to. The crowded filth ot
multitudes vitiates the air, and spreads infection and
disease through the land. The moral infection, too,
arising from their manners, is equal to the physical in-
fection arising from their filth ; and while the legislator
supposes that he is merely securing his own authority,
by his multiplied regulations he is spreading moral and
physical corruption and degradation throughout the com-
munity. For the condition of the working classes, we
repeat, he is responsible, and we assert that at present it
is a scandal to the clergy, the gentry, and all the
ruling classes of England.

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