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opy of a Letter from 4!r: John Ll9.yd, ef Erto-wen, near

Hartech, Merionethshire, dated 6th June, 1852.
To Professor Holloway,—Sir,—For a very long period I was
afflicted with a dangerous giddiness and frequent swimtnings
in the head, attended by loss of appetite, disordered stomach,
and generally impaired health. Every means had failed to give
me any permanent relief, and at length it became so alarming
that I was really afraid of going about without an attendant.
In this melancholy condition I waited personally upon Mr.
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as to what I had better do ; lie kindly recommended your
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MIRACULOUS CURE OF DROPSY.
Extract of a Letter from Edward Rowley, Egg., of India
Walk, Tobago, dated April Bth, 1852.
To Professor Holloway,—Sir,—l deem it a duty I owe to you
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EDWARD ROWLEY.
INFALLIBLE CURE OF A STOMACH COMPLAINT,
WITH INDIGESTION AND VIOLENT HEAD-ACHES.
Extract of a Letter from Mr. S. Gowen, Chemist, of Clifton,
near Bristol, dated July 14th, 1852.
To Professor Holloway,—Dear Sir,—l am a requested by a
lady named Thomas, just arrived from the West Indies, o
acquaint you that for a period of eight years herself and family
suffered from continual bad health, arising from disorders of
the Liver and Stomach, Indigestion, Loss of Appetite, violent
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liver, arising from frequent colds, smells of paint, and the ef-
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Asthma Female Complaints Scrofula, or King's
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Bowel Complaints Gout Stone and Gravel
Colics Head-ache Tic-Douloureux
Constipation of the Indigestion Tumours
Bowels Inflammation Ulcers
Consumption Jaundice Worms of all kinds
Debility Liver complaints Weakness, from
Dropsy Lumbago whatever cause,
Dysentery Piles &c. &c.
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TUESDAY MORNING, FEB.

22, 1553.

THE

WEEK

THE sharp frost which we noticed in our last as

having so opportunely set in, has continued during
the week just closed, and there is no present sign of
its breaking up. The consequence has been, that
the local amusements have been augmented, skating
has been in vogue on every available piece of ice,
and the Scotch game of curling has been indulged
th true Highland ardour. Of in-door amuse-

ments the most attractive have been the concerts at
the Philharmonic-hall. The band of Mr. THOMAS
is gaining a national reputation, and nightly draw-
ing crowds of delighted hearers of its magnificent
harmony. The first for the season of the Philhar-
monic Society's concerts will take place to-morrow,
(Wednesday,), and on Thursday the shilling series
will be resumed.
Considerable excitement was created on Tues-
day afternoon, by the report received by telegraph,
that the Queen Victoria steamer, which left this
port on the previous afternoon for Dublin, with
above a hundred passengers, had been wrecked

that morning during a snow storm, when almost
close to the desired haven, and that more than half
her freight of human lives had been victims by
the lamentable catastrophe. Further accounts not
only confirmed the melancholy intelligence, but
showed that the extent of the loss had been under-
stated, as it is now believed that the number of
persons drowned was more than seventy
particulars which have since been elicited from the

survivors suggest some important considerations

with reference to the means of providing against
such a calamity as that which has so forcibly
demonstrated the uncertainty of human life. It

appears that the vessel, as far as her owners were
concerned, was well provided with the means of
safety; but, with the proverbial recklessness of sea-
men, who, inured to clangor, seemed to disregard

all fear of its approach, those means were not

available at the very time when they were in urgent
request. One boat, from defect of the lowering
tackle, capsized as soon as it touched the water, the
other boat had the plug out of her bottom, and her
oars were securely lashed to the sides. The first
difficulty was partially remedied by the noble

courage of a boy who used his fingers as a substitute
for the missing plug, and the second was obviated
by the passengers, who were destitute of a knife,
wrenching two of the oars from the lashings by

main force; and it was owing to the praiseworthy
exertions of these individuals, aided by the boats
from the Roscommon steamer, that so many were
saved. There can be little doubt, however, that had
both boats been in serviceable condition, with

proper lowering tackle, the greater part of those on
board would have been saved, as the distance to a
place of safety was only about half a mile, and the
sea was not very rough. The brave commander,
with the spirit of a true seaman, remained at his
post, but, unfortunately, with his second and third
officers, perished with the sinking vessel. It is
much to be desired that some steps could be taken
to provide more effectually against the consequences
of such a calamity, as it too often happens, par-
ticularly with steam-vessels, that the danger is im-
minent, when, perhaps, it is least expected.
The meeting in behalf of the Liverpool Indus-
trial Ragged Schools, which was held on Tuesday
last, attracted one of the most crowded meetings
which has been witnessed for some time in this
The speeches were listened to with great
attention, and the resolutions agreed to with enthu-
siasm. The proposition for training some of the
boys as seamen was favourably received, and it is
hoped that the Committee will be enabled to carry
it into effect. We have alluded to the meeting
more at length in a leading article. _

The half-yearly meeting of the Liverpool United
Gas-light Company showed a prosperous state of
their financial affairs, the dividend declared amount-
ing to five per cent. on the half year. The public
would have been better satisfied with an announce-
ment of a reduction in price, as a reasonable con-
sequence of such remunerative profits ; but a ques-
tion to the Chairman on this subject only produced
an indefinite promise of a reduction being made at
some future time. As diminished cost usually

leads to increased consumption, the consumers will
be disposed to think that the amount of dividend
supplied ample argument for no farther delay.
At the annual meeting of the Liverpool Provi-
dent Society, on Tuesday, at which the Mayor pre-
sided, the Rev. Rector CAMPBELL called attention
to the importance of supporting the Society as one
of the most efficient means for the suppression of
mendicancy. It was too often the case that the
bestowal of casual alms was offering a premium to
imposition, and tending to perpetuate vagrancy ;
whereas by contributing to the funds of the Society,
and referring to them all applicants for relief, true
charity would be exercised, and the really necessi-
tous would have their wants relieved.

GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.—WiII English
statesmen and English parliaments never be made
to see the great truth, that what is wanting for the
efficient and peaceable government of Ireland is not
the conciliation of this or that party—not a prop
now to Protestant ascendancy, and a lift anon to
Papal despotism—but the steady, impartial, unflinch-
ing, and uncalculating administration of the law.
By that means alone, by the induction into the mind
of Orangeman, Papist, and Ribbonman alike, of a
conviction that every breaker of the law, every dis-
turber of the public peace will receive at the hands
of the government, whether it be Derbyite, or
Peelite, without paltering or evasion, the full mea-
sure of the law honestly dealt out. By these means
alone, can Ireland be relieved from the baneful
activity of party spirit, which has laid a spell upon
all productive and legitimate energy, and worn her
to the extremest point of helplessness and debility.
—Morning Post.

THE DERBY ELECTION COMNIITTEE.—MaIIy
borough elections are a mere trial of skill between
the Whig Flewker and the Tory Frail. The general
who influences the greater number of indifferents
wins the day. The Whiffs will have Flewkers,
Tories will have Frails, and even Radicals look out
for good and safe men. If by act of parliament we
could create voters who would be unselfish, and
act from principle, all this would come to an end.
But as this is impossible, we must bear the evils
inseparable from our corrupt humanity. It would
be an exceedingly amusing sight to behold the
whole body of Whig purists who uplift their eyes
at the name of Frail, marched one by one through
the lobby, and obliged to plead guilty or not guilty
to the use of good and safe men in their election
concerns. How few could lay their hands upon
their hearts and say " Not guilty, upon my honour."
We never yet heard of a Whig scrupling to make
use of an election agent. Were the secrets of all
boroughs disclosed, how many immaculate repre-
sentatives who are publicly wiping their mouths
and saying," I have done no evil," would be found
to owe their seats more to the tact of their Frails
than to their own merits. They are happy that no
Reform Club has as yet offered £7OO for their let-
ters. Give us a better system with all our hearts.
Consign Frails and Flewkers to oblivion as soon as
possible—the sooner the better; but it will be quite
time enough for the Whigs to crow in the Drum-
lanrig fashion when they have wiped their hands
altogether of using other than purely constitutional
influences at their elections. We may well speak
feelingly upon the subject. In Ireland we have
suffered at our elections the full curse of Frails and
Flewkers in long black coats, booted and spurred,
with heavy horsewhips, and followed by a horde of
myrmidons armed with shillelahs, for the last quar-
ter of a century. These are the " good and safe
men" of the Liberal party. By virtue of their ex-
ertions the Whigs feasted year after year on the
loaves and fishes of Downing-street. The recol-
lections are forced upon us by the rampant glee

with which the Times recurs to the worn-out theme
of Frail and Flewker. The Liberal party have
much to forget, much to repent, much to undo,
and much to amend, before they make the Derby
committee a subject of congratulation.—Dublin

Evening Mail.

SIR CHARLES WOOD. - The abject, though
shuffling, explanation which Sir Charles Wood had
to make, by letter through his colleagues, to the
Imperial Parliament, would be simply ridiculous,
but for the untoward fact that the Queen and the
country are. disagreeably compromised by his in-
discretion, Sir Charles Woofs personal dignity
is a matter, we take it, of exceedingly small con-
But it is a matter of serious regret and an-
noyance, that a Cabinet Minister should have put
it in the power of a Foreign Potentate, and that
Potentate a "parvenu," to demand a humiliating
explanation at the hands of the British Government,
the Government of Queen Victoria. The peccavi
epistle of the blustering President of the Board of
Trade is paraded in the columns of the Moniteur,
as a humiliation inflicted on the peifidc Albion; but
it will hardly be considered a sufficient set-off
against Waterloo.

SIR JAMES GRAHAM —The Irish Government
has gone out of its way to commute the sentences
of imprisonment pronounced upon two students of
Galway College for an assault, arising out of their
disrespectful and disloyal conduct in keeping on
their hats and hissing at the performance of the
National Anthem, " God save the Queen !" Such
an intimation is of a piece with the proposed prose-
cution of the soldiers engaged at the Six-Mile
Bridge in keeping the Queen's peace, by the Law
Officers of the Queen's Government. The whole
proceeding is worthy of a Cabinet, a member of
which has dared to assure a Radical mob, that
"although he is fresh from the Royal presence,"
they need not he afraid of contamination, because
he brings with him "a clean bill of health." Is
there no honourable member, by the way, that will
make Sir James eat up that dirty speech of his
across the table of the House ?—John Bull.

CLERGY RESERVES IN CANADA.—The first
question calculated to test the Conservative and
Church character of the Coalition Ministry is before
Parliament, and that by their own act. The result
is that our worst anticipations are fulfilled. All
regard for the religious principles which the
Government of Queen Victoria is bound to uphold,
and all regard for the principle of the sacredness of
property, without which no human society can long
continue to exist in peace and security, is cast to the
winds, as a peace-offering to unjust, unreasonable,
and irreligious clamour. Let the same rule by which
the ministerial measure proposes to deal with the
clergy reserves in Canada, be applied to the Church
at home, to our corporations, and to other descrip-
tions of property whose origin can be traced to
public grants, and there is an end at once to all our
institutions—an end to the settlement of property in
this country. The revolution commenced in Canada
may not be attended with bloodshed, but it is a
revolution nevertheless, and that a revolution
fraught with the most mischievous, the most
perilous consequences. Such is the Conservatism
of the cabinet of the Earl of Aberdeen ! such the
security which Mr. Gladstone's presence in the
cabinet affords to the church ! Mr. Gladstone pro-
bably consoles himself with the assurance given to
the House of Commons by Mr. Frederick Peel—
the Duke of Newcastle being seemingly ashamed or
afraid to introduce the bill, where it ought to have
been introduced in the first instance, in the Upper
House. " The Church of England," said the
smooth-tongued Under-Secretary, "he doubted
not, would win its way in the colony as it had done
in the United States, by the purity of its doctrine,
by the soundness of its teachings, and by the virtues
illustrated in the actions of its clergy"—the clergy,
to wit, whom the bill proposes to strip of their legal
endowments. If the church's purity of doctrine,
the soundness of her teaching, the virtues of her
clergy, are sufficient reasons for stripping the Church
in the colonies, why should not the same argument
hold good likewise with regard to the Church at
home ?—John Bull.

THE NATIONAL DEFENCES.—The attention o
the country appears to be at last fairly aroused to
the state of its defences, and the Government, now
that the subject has become popular, no longer
thinks it necessary either to ignore it or impede
its progress. Indeed, from no quarter, except Mr.
Cobden and the Morning Herald, will there be the
slightest opposition to well-considered and really
efficient measures of defence. Men feel that the
honour of England, her power and her liberties, are
possessions far too precious to be exposed to the
chance of insult, perhaps even to actual danger.
They feel, too, that our security ought not to lie in
the forbearance of our neighbours, but in our own
inherent strength, and that our neighbours them-
selves are far more likely to keep the peace if they
know that we are in a condition to repel them, and
that the invasion of England can lead to nothing
but the disgrace and defeat of the power which in-
vades her. The famous wish of the Duke of Wel-
lington, that " he hoped the Almighty would pro-
tect him from being a witness of the tragedy which
he could not persuade his contemporaries to take
measures to avert," has received one melancholy
fulfilment in the death of that illustrious man
himself. But it seems likely to receive a more
worthy and happy consummation in the present
state of public feeling, which the publication of his
celebrated letter to Sir John Burgoyne not a little
contributed to bring about.—The Guardian.

THE LORD LIEUTENANCY OF IRELAND.—
There is an obstinate littleness in the siege laid to
the Viceroyalty of Ireland by the Whigs, which
savours of the spite of the Olympian persecutions
celebrated by Homer and by Virgil. The object
is certainly enormously disproportioned to the
indefatigable zeal and duplicity with which it is
pursued. The passion which Lord J. Russell
would seem to have conceived for the bauble, is as
hot and pertinacious as that with s hich the Princess,
in Andersen's tale, sighed for the Swineherd's
pipkin. Nothing will satisfy the noble lord but
Nahoth's little vineyard. He is melancholy, dys-
peptic, and good-for-nothing till he has gained his
little end. Can anything be more paltry or more ! A few solemn asses in London, a couple
of days ago, put their heads together, and made a
hideous trumpetting over the little court in Dublin
Castle. The Observer and the Morning Advertiser
put on the cast•off finery of the Times, and talked
of " tinsel," " mock-courts " and " ginger-bread
pageants," with a hauteur that was perfectly awful.
But when all these stereotyped impertinences, and
a great deal that is personally and wantonly affiont-
ing to Lord St. Germans beside, are put by, a
marvellous short supply of argument remains- in
favour of the robbery. If the government meditate
an attack upon this institution, we at all events
acquit Lord St. Germans of the duplicity of having
intentionally misled us. But no honest man will
acquit the cabinet of a gross violation of ministerial
faith, pledged by the solemn official response of
their highest Irish functionary. The weakness of
the administration is our best hope. They are in
no condition to hazard an unnecessary battle and
we venture to say, that if they do so upon this
issue, they will raise such a storm about their ears
as will swamp their crazy government some months
before its time.—Dublin Evening Herald.

THE JEW BILL.—The little Whig lord who
undertook to herald this measure into the house,
besides sundry private reasons of his. own, as mem-
ber for the City of London, has, in common with
his brother Whigs, this notable reason, that consi-
dering religion an allotrion, an ad libitum affair,
which men keep as they do fancy pigeons, or any
other fancy thing, he cannot see the justice or the
propriety of objecting to a Jew as a legislator, sim-
ply because he has a fancy to revile Him whom
Christians worship. The Radical, who objects to
religion in the abstract, and considers all belief in,
or attachment to, religious doctrines and principles
a social nuisance, discerns in the Jew who aspires
to a seat in a Christian legislature, a brother-spirit,
—one who, like himself, does not care a pin for his
own or any other creed, and professes a religion on
the principle on which every man that wears a
waistcoat is forced to have it of some colour. He
welcomes the Jew on the same bench with himself,
because he feels that to have one scoffer more sit-
ting on it, will strengthen his cause. The Papist,
who, as the history of his Church abundantly wit-
nesses, abhors a Jew as much as a
conquer
abhohriss pork,
is nevertheless willing for once to
aver-
sionappr forach the toladtol tolerate its
the Jew h
e animal,would andnot g y
to the dungeons of the Inquisition, or
Not uncleanth at
roast him in the flames of an Auto-da-fe,—but that
he thinks he can put him just now to a better use.
This Protestant kingdom, with its Proteetant
Church, the Papist knows full well, is strong in the
protection of Him whose name the Jew loads with
imprecations. To abet this nation in offering to
Him the affront of seating the Jew in the legisla-
ture of a kingdom whose sovereign rules in His
name, is, as again the Papist well knows, the surest
way to bring this kingdom to a fall, and to weaken
if not to overthrow, its Church.—John Bull, ,