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A v now performing in this country, gave the following unsoli-
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To the Proprietors of Parr's Life Pills.
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dicine, to testify as much.—Yours, respectfully,
Long Island, Nov. 9, 1844. • WM. H. HACKETT.
• ***: The extraordinary effects of this medicine Is the wonder of the
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LAMERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c.
" He, who in pleasure's downy arms
Ne'er lost his health or youthful charms,
A hero lives, and justly can
Exclaim, in me behold a man !"
Just published (in a sealed envelope), Tenth Edition, price 2s. 6d., or
sent by post, free, to any address, :is. 6d.,
QELF-PRESERVATION : a Popular Essay on
L 3 those concealed disorders, originating in youthful excesses,
and terminating in Nervous Debility, Local and Constitutional
Weakness, and all those Sinkings, Anxieties, and Tremors, which
afflict the Weak, the Sedentary, and the Delicate. With Practical
Observations on Marriage, and on the Anatomy, . Physiology, and
Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, with plain Directions for their
perfect Restoration.

By SAMUEL LAMERT, Consulting Surgeon,
9, BEDFORD-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate of
Apothecaries' Hall, London,

" The various positions of Lover, Husband, and Parent, the in-
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through the follies and frailties of early indiscretions. To such, among
others, this Essay addresses itself; and by its perusal many questions
may be satisfactorily adjusted that admit of no appeal even to the
most confidential Mend."—Stafford Gazette.

"Long experience in the treatment of a class of diseases hitherto
neglected and most imperfectly understood by the great bulk of the
medical profession, has enabled the writer to prove that there are
concealed causes of Nervous Debility in existence, where the mere
routine practitioner would never dream of finding them ; traceable
to certain habits, forming the most secret, yet deadly, and fatal
springs of domestic misery, and premature mortality."—Waketield
Journal.

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FOURTEENTH EDITION of the SILENT FRIEND on Human
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THE SILENT FRIEND ; a Medical Work on
the Infirmities of the Generative System in both sexes ; and
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The baneful effects of solitary indulgence, neglected syphilis symp-
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FIRE IN THE WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE• ROAD.-
About a quarter before two on Wednesday morning a very alarming fire
broke out on the premises occupied by Mr. Thomas Wright, boek-
seller and stationer, No. 42, Westminster-bridge-road, near the
Orphan Asylum. The flames were first perceived by a policeman,
who while pursuing his beat observed a bright reflection through the
fanlight over the shop door. An alarm was instantly given, and
after the lapse of some minutes, during which the fire made rapid
progress about the lower part of the premises, the only person
sleeping in the house was aroused, and in a state of comparative
nudity, with considerable difficulty effected his escape Into the street.
The engines were sent fur on the first alarm being given, and two
being stationed in the Waterloo-road, a very short time elapsed before
they were on the spot. There was, however, as usual on the Surrey
side of the bridges, a lamentable delay in the supply of water, and
great fears were entertained that the fire would extend its ravqges to
the adjoining houses. By the very excellent management of the
firemen, when enabled to work, this calamity was happily prevented,
and, indeed, the upper portion of the premises was also saved from
destruction. The whole of the stock and furniture in the lower floors
Was entirely destroyed. The origin of the fire could not be ascer-
tained, but it was supposed to have originated in the shop, probably
from an escape of gas. Police-constable Stratford, 50 L, at the
imminent risk of his life, when the door was opened by the party who
escaped, rushed up stairs, and searched each room, with a view to
extricate any person that might have been sleeping therein. The
poor fellow on his return to the street was much exhausted, and
his intrepid conduct was rewarded by the cheers of the assembled
crowd.

CHEESE AND BREAD SELLERS.—" How can you
think of coming to set up in opposition to me in the same street? I
have been here alone thirty years ; nobody has opposed me ; and, I
assure you, it has been as much as ever I could do to get a living. I
think such as I ought to be protected." " My answer to you is this,
that when prices are reduced, and good articles sold, people will be
attracted to the street, instead of being driven elsewhere, and there
will be plenty to do for us both. Your articles have been dear, your
shop dirty, and your customers uncivilly treated. Your not having
made money has arisen chiefly from want of opposition. You will
see, when 1 start, the people will be better used, and we shall both do
better than you have done with all the street to yourself."—Not a
bad illustration of agricultural protection and freedom.—The Struggle.
THE POOR MAN'S " FRIENDS.”—The present Go-
yernment.would fain have the public to believe that they have a
consideration for the poor. Let us see. They refuse them cheap
food by keeping on the wicked corn-h•vrs ; they have considerably
reduced the interest in the poor man's bank, the savings' bank, and
now are concocting one of the most cruel poor-laws that was ever
invented. And these are the men who would have the public to
believe that they are " friend*" of the poor.---Prom a Correspondent.

There is no occasion to follow Mr. Duncombe 'over all the ground
which he retraced with so much industry and ability on Tuesday
night. On the abstract question there can hardly be a doubt. Go-
vernment transmits our letters, and affords us one uniform and uni-
versal system, on the express condition that we do not employ against
it, and against peace and order generally, one of its own chief
organs. Every man who drops a letter into the village letter-box
does so on the understanding that he is not dropping poison into the
system. - Such an understanding must be further secured by a com-
petent right of inspection. It is the responsibility and authority of
the State to provide, as far as possible, that no manner of harm shall
accrue to the common weal. A man's letters are his own property,
just as his house is his castle; but the investigation, and even the pre-
vention, of crime must pitsS the threshold, and must break the seal: Only
these exceptional powers ought to be most tenderly handled. The
man who brings lightning from the skies must remember that life and
death depend on the insulation of his fingers from the wire which
they grasp. Not less is the terrible caution necessary for those who
are dealing with warrants to search men's persons, houses, and let-
ters. For mere simplicity's sake, we will confine ourselves to one
single point in Mr. Duncombe's speech. There is no occasion for
more. His own words will always best express his own meaning :
" I come now to the last charge. I stated that my correspondence
had been violated and my letters opened. Now, upon this the Com-
mittee are perfectly silent. I, in my place, stated this in the first in-
stance. I had only been informed that my letters going to the Albany
had been detained for the purpose of opening. One gentleman said,
' You cannot suppose this?' I said, 'lt is very odd.' He re- •
plied, ' They could not be so mean and shabby.' But though the
Committee is silent upon it, I now will prove that my letters were
ordered to be detained and inspected, and opened on the authority of
the Right Hon. Baronet. Now, I must say that I feel degraded in
admitting this : I think it is a degradation for any Member of the
House of Commons to know and feel that he is a worthy object of
suspicion to warrant the Secretary of State far the Home Department
to insult him and to open his letters. I cannot Conceive a greater
personal insult; or a greater insult to the constituency a man repre-
sents—a constituency large, enlightened, and numerous ; the repre-
sentative, not the nominee of a rotten borough. It becomes, therefore,
not only an insult to me, but a gross insult to the constituency I
have the honour to represent. I will go further : if my eorre-
s2oulence is not to be free, I ant not a lit representative. And.
to tfie name of that constituency I call on the Right Hon.
Baronet again to justify, if he can, the opening of my letters.
I know not what story he may have "trumped up to this Committee
of the Commons, or that Committee of the Lords, but I say he owes
it to me, to this House, and he owes it to tn 3 constituents to tell you,
and to tell them, the justification upon which he ordered my letters
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place asks the Bight lion. Baronet whether, in the exercise of his
fhnctions, he has opened that Member's letters, and he finds that that
Secretary of State, while he has had the meanness—aye, the baseness,
to conceal his act, has not had the courage to avow it."
Now, it does not require a moment's consideration to see that such

a charge, not against any one public officer, but against some part or
other of the Executive, cannot be suffered to remain unexplained ; a
man might as well think to hobble on with a broken limb. The
wound must either be healed or fester. Mr. Buncombe may have
behaved very cavalierly, or the Committee of last session very out-
rageously or very stupidly. Those are minor questions. The fact at
present is, that a Member of Parliament charges the Executive with
what a civilised country considers almost the greatest of violences
and dishonesties. We cannot see Why Mr. • Buncombe should not
have what he demands—a Committee, through which, if not in which,
he may ask the questions he wishes. He declares himself able and
anxious to produce certain important evidence. Opportunity is the ruin
of false pretenders. If it is wished to put this gentleman hors de combat
for the session, at least clear a space, and let hint have room to realise his
boast. But it is ridiculous to say the Committee of last year was cal-
culated either to verify or to convict his statements. Sir James
boasts that it contained a majority of his political opponents. Who
are Sir James's political opponents ? Who are his friends? The so-
cial relations by which he is best known to the political world cannot
be expressed in the terms of friendship, whether positive or negative.

If we try to divide the Committee according to [his imaginary rule,
we find it hard to say which is which. Who are the conventional
friends, who the real friends ? Even after acquiescing in Sir James's
reckoning, four on his own side, and five on Mr. buncombe's, one
finds oneself involuntarily cross-dividing and analyzing afresh. Sir
James lavishes his praises on his Committee. Of course he is bound
to praise them, fbr he selected them. He is praising his own
work, and a man loves his own work, because, as an ancient
philsopher tells us, "it is part of a man's own self." They
are not above his praise, for they are certainly not the most eminent
and able of their parties. If we had the choice of a committee, how-
ever, we should not be governed in our selection entirely by party
politics. Sir James's experience of public life has taught him long
before this that facility of character and private understandings, not
to say obligations, are far more to the purpose than mere party dif-
ferences. But friends, or not friends, the Committee could only judge
according to the evidence ; and they would not allow Mr. bun-
combe's own private wrong to come fairly before them. The charge
having been made, and the opportunity of explanation thus far de-
nied, we are bound, in justice to Mr. buncombe, to the Legislature of
which he is a Member, and the constituency which he represents, to
believe that his letters have been delayed and opened. Let us take
the supposition most favourable for the Home-Wince. Let us suppose
that Mr. buncombe, with the usual instinct of an injured man, uti
able to detect the author of the blow, seeks to vent his wrath on

the moat prominent of the adverse crowd, and pass the
blow on to somebody, if not exactly to the right
quarter. A certain phantasia of" Mas-ter James " Gra-ham" peep-
ing into his neighbour's letters has possessed Mr. Duncombe's mind,
and with the knowledge that his own letters have been hocussed, he
joins the two ideas together—the person and the thing. One is dis-
posed to put the liorne-oince out of the question, because really the
Hon. Member for Finsbury is not a person to excite much political
trepidation. He is rather too above-board for that. Eminent in his
own line, great at a Reform banquet, powerful on the hustings, and
not inconsiderable in Parliament, lie is not the man to devote his
days to agitation, and his nights to conspiracy. However he may
deal with the constitution of his country, he will never undermine it.
At least, if our social fabric is so frail as to fear for any communica-
tions that gentleman is likely to transmit through the
penny-post, we can only say it is hardly worth preserv-
ing. If, however, so extraordinary a selection has been
made—if Mr. Buncombe has been elevated into the Guy Fawkes of
Conservatism—it is due to all parties, and especially to the gossipping
public, that a full disclosure should be made. Shocking as it would
be to discover a few score of his letters transcribed into the national
records, it would still be rather entertaining. By all means, insist
then, on a committee of inquiry. What if Mr. Buncombe had all
this time gone rather more deeply into it than peOple gave him credit
for? For example, suppose we should find a letter promising a large
contribution in men and money to the Chartists ? Perhaps a hand-
some remittance in cash, which, under the circumstances, we think
the Home Secretary would almost be justified in diverting to the
public service. Has any one of the minor officials, of whom Sir J.
Graham speaks so highly, made a good hit on the turf lately ? Possibly
the circumstance may be
explained by the discovery of a pri-
vate letter to Mr. buncombe, containing the state of the odds at
Newmarket. Has a lady's billet been left unanswered ? Let her com-
plain of the Home Secretary. Have Mr. Duncombe's tradesmen
been surprised to find their mementos unacknowledged? What if we
should stumble on their bills, and "bills delivered," duly filed at the
Home-office ? If the gentlemen there would not only open, but settle
the accounts, it would be some atonement for the wrong. That is a
price, however, which not even official curiosity will be ready to pay.
But whatever the subject-matter of a correspondence—whether an
invitation to a massacre or a dinner—whether an order for muskets or
dress boots—people generally prefer to keep ikto themselves. They are
no better pleased to find their seals broken titan their windows.
A tell-tale correspondence is as bad as a leaky water-pipe, or a
drain which unpleasantly reveals itself. Mr. Dunc,ombe hinds that
somebody is in possession of his secrets, worthless to everybody,
perhaps, but himself, but still no longer ,his secrets if only the post-
man possesses them. He goes to head-quarters in quest of the stolen
property. The Premier knows too well the misery of unfinished
work, and the inefficacy of half measures,_to refuse Mr. Duncombe's
suit. The Committee of last year made a show of research ;it began
with Edward 11., and quoted abundance of Latin, old Norman, and
Italian documents ; but it just stopped short of Mr. Buncombe's last
charge, expressed in plain modern English, and read by every man in
the nation. This one omission was fatal. It was like amputating a
limb, and just neglecting the one thing wanting to complete the pro-
cess—the tying up of the artery. Quashed this session, the squabble
goes on to the next. Set it at rest. Give Mr. Buncombe full play,
and he will either do for himself or Sir James Graham.—Times.