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A letter from Caen (Calvador) of 30th Jan., says :
"Yesterday evening at ten o'clock, a fire broke out in
the central prison of Beaulieu, where there were 1,500
prisoners. Assistance was very speedily brought, but
it was not till after several hours of unremitting exer-
tions, seconded by many thousand citizens, that they
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mains, only part of the goods in the workshops were
saved, and almost all the machines were destroyed, with
the works in progress. The loss is immense, and may
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Some of the prisoners distinguished themselves by their
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THE KIRK.—The crisis in the Kirk, which
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dawned on the Non-Intrusion leaders, but too late to enable
them to pause in their wild career. On Monday they had a
meeting in this city of their friends, for the purpose of pro-
claiming their embarrassments, and endeavouring to excite
public sympathy. The principal speakers were Mr. Cunning-
ham, Mr. Guthrie, and Dr. Candlish. Forsaken by the Go-
vernment, contemned by their own Presbyteries, and neglected
or derided by the people, nothing is left for them but separation
from the State. This, in particular, is the tone assumed by
Dr. Candlish ; but, in the meantime, a stand—confessedly
hopeless—is to be made against patronage—against the very
means by which they themselves entered the Church. This,
, price 39. , and sent free, however, cannot avert the explosion which is evidently at no
Jest published, the Seventh Edition
I great distance.—Edinburgh Paper of Wednesday.
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ANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PRE-
Wednesday evening, the 26th ult., an inquisition was taken
11IATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for Wore 11. Churton, Esq., at Moston Hall Farm-house, in the
ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suf- parish of St. Mary, Chester, on the body of Margaret 'lane •
fering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence, gin—she bad been separated from her husband about three
Solitary Habits, or Infection; followed by Observations on the years, and had been residing in Lancashire for the last twelve
Treatment of Syphilis, Gonorrhoea, Gleet, &c. Illustrated months, where she supported herself and two children by
with Cases, &c. cap-making. She had been induced by her distressed circum-
o k sele By J. L. CURTIS ar.d COMPAN Y, stances to pawn even the clothes off her back, in order to pay
Publishedr to byth
thee Royal Authors,coleagned . fsosldurg byeot tlis a,ili 219,ere,
Regent-itle,lical
Consulting Surgeons, London. for her lodgings, and obtain bread for herself and family. She
left. Preston on the previous Friday, with her daughters for the
Bo
purpose of seeing her mother, who resides in this city. On
street; Strange, 21, Paternoster-row, London; Guest, fir- Monday-week they walked from Birkenhead; and late on that
mingham ; Sowler, 4, St. Ann's-square, Manchester ; Philip evening, they applied for a night's lodging at Sutton, but ap-
South Castle-street, Liverpool ; Fannin and Co., 41, Grafton-, pealed in vain, as the people would not get up to let them in ;
street, Dublin; Duncan,ll4, High-street, Edinburgh ; and to they then walked on to Mutton, where they arrived at twelve
be had of all Booksellers. o'clock at night, and where they sat down on the road-side.
This Work, a Seventh Edition of which is now presented to Deceased complained of fatigue, and said, "I do not think I
the public, ten thousand copies have been exhausted since its shall ever get up again alive.' The night was very cold and
first appearance, has been very much improved and enlarged wet ; she fell asleep with both her children by her side. The
by the addition of a more extended and clear detail of general eldest, who is about twelve years of age, did not awake until
principles, as also by the insertion of several new and highly in- the mortinrAewLiaennkshsiedefouanncAtwhaats Mr. mowtity, rhhead,fallen inte.ifi.
teresting cases. The book, as has been already stated, is the
guounert;er, by
; on attempting to lying
her frorms(rslietiresult of very ample and daily increasing experience in a class
upon
a sound slumber, it was discovered that she was quite
sup-
of diseases, which, for some unaccountable - reason, have been posed).cad. Verdict, " Died from hunger, and exposure to the in.
either altogether overlooked, or treated almost with indiffer-
ofChester Courant.
clemency the heather.—
once, by the ordinary medical practitioner. The proverbial
Tuesday niul last,
traffic SHOT.—On..it
and well known rapacity *1 unqualified practitioners, who A
traffic on the health and, credulity of patients, has been en- the butler of Mr. James Dennis Brampton, of Driscoe-house,
couraged and aroused by this supineness, on the part of the Essex, was alarmed, between o'clock in the
regular surgeon. In order to obviate the pernicious effects morning, by a noise resembling two and three
the rattling of broken glass.
butler is en the -ound-floor, and
sure to result from the practices of such pretenders, the The sleeping-room of the .
direction g, ,
from which the noise seemed
authors have for a considerable time devoted themselves ex- adjoins the pantry,
elusively to a certain class of diseases; of the necessity of so to proceed. The
leading
butler immediately arose, and cautiously
doing,
into the pantry, he distinctly heard ya
doing, they were further convinced by feeling that tact in in- opening the door eat the outside of the pantry window
vestigating the latent sources of many diseases, which arise sound as though someovh the shutter with an instrument of some
on
from certain secret praetices, can only be acquired by an ex- were boring through
that an attempt was being
elusive and undivided attention to this department of medical kind. Feeling certain
into the into house, he took a brace of
practice. The numberless instances daily occurring, wherein made to effect an entrance
to a staircase-window overlooking the
affections of the lungs, putting on all the outer appearances of pistols, and proceedingh e:men, apparently occupied in attempting
consumption, which, however, when traced to their source, pantry,discovered t r__e.nstant.y
I throw uptbe window and fired
are found to result from certain baneful practices, fully proves to effect an entrance. 1-/ 1
direction of the robbers, whom
that the principle of the division of labour, is nowhere more one of his pistols in the
ining two, after one
of
applicable than in medical practice. We feel no hesitation in immediately fell; the re
n'tahe fallen man and standing an instant,
saying that there is no member of society by whom the book seized upon the body of
.disappeared, the
1 after them without will not be found useful, whether such person hold the relation butler firing his other piste f lout effict. An
before
of a Parent, a Preceptor, or a Clergyman. alarm was instantly raised, but
the any
of the inmates could
The PARENT, who beholds his beloved child pining manage to emerge from the house,.
.noir of a chaise-cart,
heard, in which ' •
away, and fast approaching to a premature grave, in cense- driven at a rapid rate, was lt is conjectured the
quence of some disease, which, for want of careful' investiga- villains escaped.
him of its real cause, has been set down to the score of con- A MISER'S CONSOLATION.--Sir ,john Cutler
gumption, will, on perusing this work, be astonished to find, complete miser—he boasted that Provi-
known as a
was well
himi that in nine-tenths of the cases of young persons of bothliar favour in causing li. dence had showed peculiar is natal day
sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary consumption,that I
heart disease, takes, &c., the sole and exclusive origin has to fall on the 29th of February, solie had but one birth-
been the indulgence in certain destructive habits practised
by day to keep in four years.'AND HEARING,
SIGHT
youth much more frequently than it is at all suspected.
The PRECEPTOR, also, who holds (temporarily at i In consequence of the great inconvenience kit,
,et 3 to persons'
by . perusing this work, be directed and very much by their not being enabled to be properly suited with Spectacles, in investigating and detecting the too often con- &c.. and which have come under the notice (to some extent) of the
cealed practices so oten introduced into schools, whereby the Messrs. S. and B. Solomon', Opticians) &C., 39, Albemarle-street,
'health and ultimately the litres of his pupils are sure to be corn- Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel' and 76, Ring Williiitti.street,
promised, unless the evil be arrested in proper time. He will City ; they have contrived a mode by which individuals at the most
here find a clue to guide him through the intricate mazes of remote part of the globe can be suited with their Newly-invented
this moral labyrinth, and a standard whereby to judge, when Spectacles, as correct as if the person were i resent; by those who
of his young delicacy of health should appear to attack any have never made use of Spectacles, stating the number clinches they
charges, what the real causes of such attack may be, and thus can see moderate sized print from the eye, and those who are
making
he will be enabled to check the evil in its incipient . state use of Spectacles by sending them, and making the same statement
.
The CLERGYMAN, in whose sacred character is at once when in use. Immediately the Newly Invented gvectacles aro
concentrated the two-fold relation of parent and instructo • will placed before imperfect vision that mist and. tlio `-'-' . '
lness which appear
here be directed as to the nature of those habits t'
• before the is ren owed; every el • -
to which eyes at once,Ject becomes clear and - distinct, so that the most aged imperfect litsig becomes b•' I timid
estrous consequences which are sure to follow from them if not brilliant, and is brought to its youtl:dul, natural "Bht
relinquished.
•Their Sound Magnifiers Invi''. s. I/ and state.
le v dice c originalenable
Messrs. will .
Messrs. CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their persons at ae advanced - ""e
of 40 and a 0 Years' standing of
residence, No. 7, Frith-street, Soho-square, London: extreme deafness •- •"gt' and convers e
Country Patients are requested to be as tninnte as possible in sound of af . - 4 join in general . a ion, and to catch t e
the detail of their cases—as to the duration of the complaint, in the I- ...dant tow speaker
at it public assembly they are not
the symptoms, age, general habits of ]tiring, nor mere uncomfortable, "an having a
.aist perceptible, . ...
gs and occupation in sn".. "
life of the party ; the communication must be accompanied h- ...ii piece of fine wool in its place. The Sound Magnifiers, Invi-
the usual Consultation Fee of l/., without which no - -, , able Voice Conductors and Spectacles, are sent daily (by post) to
..
whatever can be taken of their application ; and in 01 04.e,e various parts of the country. 39,-4tbemarle.street, Piccadilly, op-
mot inviolable sway stay be relied on., ..f rwo, ill. posits the York Hotel, and 76, King Willi ,
pint skreet, city.—NP
- '-' • ' connection• with persons of the same name,

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY
CHRONlCLE.—Parliament assembles at a time when
there is no longer any doubt as to the distress whichne presses
with
with more or less severity on all the industrious classes, but
s
most severely on those who are employed in trade and ma nu-
factures, and when the question is not whether remedial ryes,
sures are necessary, but whether it is not now too.hite to hope
from them the efficacy with which, at an earlier period, they
might have been attended. Had the late Ministry been
allowed to give effect to their intentions, the people might
have been spared much suffering, and many evils which emit
no longer be remedied might have been avoided. But we
dwell not. on the past ; we look anxiously towards the future:
In the Speech from the Throne, in the recent resignation of
tl.e Duke of Buckingham, in the important statements of the
seconder of the Address in the House of Commons, and in the
speech of the Duke of Buckingham in the Lords, and his nomi-
nee, Mr. Escott, in the House of Commons, we perceive
grounds for entertaining the hope that Ministers are
alive to the distresses of the country, and prepared
to propose measures equal to the emergency. A strong
wish was expressed in both Houses, that • the question
of the Corn-laws should now be permanently settled. The
whole system of sliding scales and averages ought at once to be
superseded by a moderate fixed duty. It is impossible- that
any sliding scale should work satisfactorily ; and it is of great
importance for the interests of agriculture, as well as trade,
that men should be able to understand their true position.
When the Legislature are engaged on the question, they ought
to settle it for good and all; and certain we are that no settle-
ment can be permanent which will not allow our manufacturers
to carry on a commerce with the corn-growing countries of the
world. The present sliding-scale may no doubt be greatly im•
proved ; but even the best sliding-scale, with its system
of averages, must be a great impediment in the way
of trade, especially with distant countries. The speech
of Lord Juhn Russell was calculated to raise him
if possible in the estimation of the country. He met the
announcement of Ministers with the utmost candour, . and
appeared only anxious that the expectations of, the nation
should not be disappointed, and that the measures of Minis-
ters should be as little objectionable as possible. He dwelt, no
doubt, with just pride, on the tribute paid by the present Min-
isters to their predecessors, in the measures which they have
announced. If Ministers are true to tine nation, and prove
themselves faithful guardians of its interests, they may boldly
count on the support of their political opponents. We only
hope that all is equally safe in their own party. The Duke
of Buccleuch is a good substitute for the Duke of Buckingham.
Personally, he has a deeper stake in the country, and the pros-
perity of agriculture cannot be indifferent to him. May we,
then, consider the Duke of 13uesleuch a more correct represen-
tative of the landed interest than the Duke whom he has suc-
ceeded ? Surely it is time that the landowners should cease to
consider their prosperity possible while the industry of the
country is depressed.
POST.—We think it will be admitted that the Speech has
be• n so judiciously framed as to be likely to give satisfaction to
the great bulk of her Majesty's subjects. Every right-
thinking person must feel the propriety with which a mother,
as well as a Sovereign, takes the first great public opportunity
which was afforded her, of adverting, in terms of pious
thankfulness, to an event of such interest to the nation
as the birth of an heir to the Crown. Even tho Oppo-
sition will not deny the graceful propriety of language with
which this subject is touched upon ; nor will they dispute
the good feeling which characterises the cordial allusion,
which immediately follows, to the friendly visit of the
King of Prussia. The allusions to foreign matters are in the
usual style, hut of rather more than usual importance. It is
better to hear of the signing of treaties than of the progress
of dispute:,. We are glad to observe the plain language in
which the expected conventions with foreign countries, re-
lating to matters of trade, are spoken of. They are to be
founded on " the just principle of mutual advantage." This is
better than talking about principles of " liberality" or " re-
ciprocity," or any of that jargon which persons who con-
sider themselves political economists are so fond of put-
ting forward, instead of plain common sense. The
only sound and just principle of commercial treaties,
is that of mutual advantage—mutual advantage not
to be assumed as a deduction from a theory, but to be dis-
tinctly stipulated and particularised. The recommendations
to Parliament to consider the means of making the annual in-
come adequate to beat the public charges, and also to consider
the laws which affect the importation of corn and of other ar-
ticles, show that Ministers are determined to grapple with the
great questions which demand a legislative settlement. Why
was not such a paragraph as this in the Speech framed by the
Whig Ministers for the opening of I'arliament last year ? In
point of principle it was equally demanded then as now. But
the late Ministers were afraid to grapple with great practical
questions. They were busy about smaller matters of ma-
nagement. They thought how they were to get through
the Session, and not how the great questions which con-
cerned the interest of the country might be adjusted.
They knew of the Corn-law agitation ; but, instead of an-
nouncing any determination to take the subject into considera-
tion, they spoke of a desire to confine themselves to such
improvements as would produce no party conflict or excitement.
Our present Ministers, having taken a few months to collect
information and to consider what the wants of the country re-
quire, come frankly and fairly forward to adjust these great
matters—the state of the finances, and the Corn-laws. In
the measdne, we think the intelligent public will agree with
us, that Ministers deserve credit for daring to do at once, what
is indeed but their ditty, yet what their predecessors shuffled
off from year to year, because, although a duty, it was one
too difficult for them to perform.
HERALD.—The legacy of floating debt and inadequate re-
venue, which the Lord Melbourne bequeathed to 11,3 succes-
sors, will no longer be tolerated. The " evil which must re-
sult from a continued deficiency during peace," is at last
denounced from the Throne ; and what was the duty of the
Legislature three years ago is now recommended—considera-
tion of " the best means of averting it ;" but the discharge of
the Treasury liabilities, and the eqnalisation of the revenue
with the expenditure, are not recommended to be accom-
plished by the sacrifice of any national interests. The amend-
ment of the law of bankruptcy, the improvement of the juris-
diction exercised by the Ecclesiastical Courts in England and
Wales, and the revision of the law which regulates the registra-
tion of electors of Members to serve in Parliament, are the minor
questions recommendetlby the Royal Speech for the consideration
of Parliament. That these are subjects oftleep and serious interest
no one will deny ; but the omission of far graver and more
important affairs—such as the settlement of the distressing
question which agitates the Church and people of Scotland, the
amendment of the English Poor-law, and the regulation of
factory labour—is as remarkable as it must be annoying to a
large section of the Conservatives. Not a sentence is contri-
buted to the Speech from the Colonial-office, though there is
not one colony the affairs of which do not demand the imme-
diate consideration of the Legislature. British India, too, on
which Sir Robert Peel so frequently during the sugar debates
dwelt with interest, is not named; and the accursed Affghan
war is left to the silent care of the Board of Control. Con-
servative though we be, we are not sufficiently Minis-
terial to notice these omissions without pain. By far
the most important recommendation to the conside-
ration of Parliament, however, delivered from the
Throne,,, is the " state of the laws which affect the
importation of corn, and other articles, the produce of foreign
countries." The deliberations of the Legislature on these
laws may, it is the Royal prayer, " tend in their result to im-
prove the national resources, and to encourage the industry and
promote the happiness of the people:" and God grant that it
may be so. The simplification and modification of our tariff
of import duties, cautiously and circumspectly couducted, will
undoubtedly have such a tendency. To a thorough, if a gra-
dual, revision of those duties, there will be no serious opposi-
tion. But if such a revision is to include the throwing land
out of cultivation, the unnecessary augmentation of the depen-
der.cy of the nation for food on other countries, the en-
couragement of slave-grown tropical produce, or the exclusion
of Canadian timber from home consumption ; to its latitude the
country will reply in a voice of thunder—Nay. To any Corn
Bill which will not throw land out of cultivation there cannot
exist any objection ; to perfect. such a Bill let every reason-
able concession by the agricultural interest be made; but to
any Bill which will sacrifice domestic agriculture, and substi-
tute the corn of Poland and Russia for our own, the most de-
termined opposition must be given.
TIMES.—The tiew session of Parliament has made an
auspicious commencement. The Speech from the Throne
(which justifies in every respect our anticipation of its pro-
bable contents) stands in advantageous contrast with the do-
cuments of the same class manufactured by the preceding
Government. Although purposely framed so as to give no
unnecessary opportunity for party cavils, it has none of the
vacillation, the evasion, the laborious efforts to say nothing,
by which those lucubrations were generally characterised.
Brief as it is, it has condensed into a small space the in-
timation of a variety of specific measures of Reform with
which the Ministry are prepared, and all of which the country
may be very sure they will not only propose, but carry
through, in the present session of Yarliament. The defi-
ciency in the revenue is to be adequately and immediately
provided for. The Corn-laws are to be altered. The
law of bankruptcy is to be amended. The jurisdiction of
the Ecclesiastical Courts is to be improved. The registration
system is to undergo revision. All this might have been talked
about and promised (as much of it was) by the Whigs ; but by
the Conservatives it will be done. And the principles on which
it will be done constitute a still more important distinction be-
tween the present and the late Ministry. They are concisely,
but pointedly, expressed in the last paragraph of the Speech,
in which her Majesty declares her trust, that the deliberations
of the Legislature " will be directed by a comprehensive
regard for the interests and permanent welfare of all
classes of her subjects." The Ministerial announcements
by which the delivery of the Royal Speech was followed
up in the House of Commons still add to the satisfac-
tion with which the nation will receiC"9 the Speech itself.
The Whigs were unwilling, net only from a laud-
able desire for unanimity upon the present occasn::..qs but also
t
(no doubt) from conscious weakness, to challenge any party
encounter yesterday. Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russ.-11,
as might have been expected, while they could find nothing to
blame in the Speech or the Address, were very free in their
taunts against Sir Robert Peel for having (as they affected to
believe) learned within the last four months to take a different
view of the situation of the country, and of the measures ex-
pedient to be adopted from that which he professed before
his accession to office. For this imputation scarcelywe_rieedpeel
has
s
say there is no foundation whatever. Sir R
never, either before taking office or since, bound himself to
consider the existing system of. Corn-laws irreproachable, or
to maintain them untouched ; he never
revenue
x p essed a doubt
earit might,
that in providing for the wants of f the
and probably would, be necessary to review the import
duties, and the other restrictions upon commerce. The budget
of the late Ministry was not objected to by the Conservatives
because it dealt with these quesuons, buto suppose su that a because it dealt with
them amiss. Lord J. Russellseems
States-
mats who opposes a particular measure, t
re, and afterwards legis-
lates (it matters not
how differently) upon the same subject,
is guilty of politicalpiracy.
lf, indeed,Si So puerile a fallacy needs no re-
futation. Robert Peel were to imitate Lord
.Melbourne—if, after ten months' apprenticeship, he
were to discourse most eloquent music against the
sliding scale (the date of the Noble Lord's conversion
was about contemporaneous with the Nottingham election
in April last), then there might be some ground—though
we oursel,,,, could scarcely regret it—for accusing him
of inconsistency. It is laughable enough to hear lips which in
18-10 pronounced. an
.alteration of the Corn-laws to be " the
it entered into the imagif
maddest idea
which
man to conceive," declare inever 1842 that "nothing can benation moree
absurd ridiculous than the sliding scale ;;"that "it ex.cfed. s
all that can be found• in romance, all that we meet with in
• " Sir Robert Peel, whatever he may.dos
Rabelais. will not
mountebank like this ; and it must be obvious to every
pinllyn,t-fre om the last sentence of the Royal Speech, from the
language of Lord Abercorn, when moving the Address in the
House of Lords, from the circumstance that the Address in tl.e
House of Commons was moved by Lord March, and from the