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WORKS ON THE EYE AND EAR,
BY HUGH NEILL, ESQ
" Surgeon to the Liverpool Eye and Ear In' firmary," and
"Hon. Surgeon to the Liverpool Institution for the Deaf
and Dumb."
Just published, by Longman and Co., London ; and Waln3s-
ley, Liverpool : price 25. 6d.
A.TEILL ON DISEASES OF THE,EYE. This Work
J.ll treats on the Cure of CATARACT, by an operation less
painful, more speedily accomplished, and more certain in its
success, than the operations in general use.
" Our author gives a tabular view of the Diseases of the
Eye which fell under his treatment, with a history of some
of these, which proves him to be a scientific surgeon, and an
excellent operator. His explanation of the operations for
CATARACT is good ; while his narrative of cases of blind-
ness, cured by operation, must not only be gratifying to him-
self, as well as to the governors of the Liverpool Ophthalmic
Infirmary, but to the public."
" We copy. the following interesting eases from Neill's
Clinical Report of the Diseases of the Eye, as redounding to
the credit of the operator, and to the state of surgery in pro-
vincial hospitals.' —London Medicdd and Surgical Journal.

By the same Author, third edition, price Is. lid

A It LPORT UPON DEAFNESS, when resulting from
Diseases of the Eustachian Passage; with the Modern Me-
thods of Cure : being a paper read to the Liverpool Medical
Association, on the 19th December, 1839.
" Liverpool Medical Institution, Dec. 1911, 1839.—A
lengthened discussion took place on the merits of the plan of
treatment; after which a vote of thanks to Mr. Neill was
carried unanimously, for his having brought the subject be-
fore the association." -
Also, Second Edition, PRACTICAL REMARKS on the
USE of the CATHETER, AIR-PRESS, and VAPOUR
APPARATUS, in Cases of DEAFNESS, arising from Dis-
eases of the Inner Passages of the Ear, contained in the Re.
port of the Liverpool Eye and Ear Infirmary for the present
year.
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By order of the Churchwardens and Overseers,
CHARLES HART, Treasurer.
Parish Offices, Fenwick-street, June 16, 1841.

INSOLVENT DEBTOR.—To be heard at Monmouth, in
the county of Monmouth, on the 12th day of July, 1841,
at the hour of Ten in the Forenoon precisely :
CHARLES HOWE, late of the parish of Llansay, in the
count of Monmouth, out of business, in lodgings, previously
of the Chapel Farm, in the parish of Tintern, in the county
of Monmouth, out of business, in lodgings, then of 15, Col-
lege-street, in the city of Bristol, out of business, in lodgings,
then of No. 24, Queen-square, in the city of Bristol,
out of business, in lodgings, then of No. 10, Kings-street,
in the said city of Bristol, out of business, in lodgings,
then of the parish of Llansay, in the county of Monmouth,
out of business, in lodgings, then of the town of Crickhowell,
in the county of Brecon, outof business, in lodgings, then of
No. 35, Lime-street, in the town of Liverpool, in the county
of Lancaster, out of business, in lodgings, then of the State of
New York, in the United States at North America, out of
business, in lodgings, then of No. 35, Lime-street, in the
town of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, out of busi-
ness, in lodgings, then of the town of Nottingham, in the
county of Nottingham, out of business, in lodgings, then of
No. 35, Great George-street, Portman-square, London, out
of business, in lodgings, then of No. 10, Kings-street, in the
city of Bristol, out of business, in lodgings, then of Llansay,
in the county of Monmouth,-
out of business, in lodgings,
then of the *Beaufort Arms, in the town of Crickhowell, iu
the county of Brecon, licensed victuaofllerßrecon, and formerly of the
town of Crickhowell, in the county ,mercer, gre-
eer, and general shopkeeper.

TO THE ELECTORS OF SOUTH LANCASHIRE.
GENTLEMEN,
THE occasion being at hand when you will be called upon
to exercise your privilege in the election of your repre-
sentatives, I consider it my duty respectUly to present
myself to your notice as a Candidate for the honourable post
to which I have twice been elevated by a majority of your
suffrages.
On those former occasions I have had to address you on
subjects of general policy, on which my opinions are un-
changed. and I have no reason to presume that yours have
undergone alteration. On such it would be idle now to
detain you, and improper to do se with any purpose of di•
vcrting your attention from topics of superior interest, at
the moment on which you have a right to know my opinions.
I am opposed to a total repeal of duties on the importation
of corn ; though, not speaking with the authority of a minis-
ter of the crown, I do not affix the character of madness or
criminality to those with whom I differ on this point. I
believe, however, that confusion and transfer of property,
amounting to a social revolution, would be the consequences
of that measure; that its best success would be some exten-
sion of our manufacturing establishments unattended with
any real improvement in the condition of the operative, but
accompanied by great risk to him from dependance on foreign
nations for supply, and by a disturbance of the home market,
which would confirm and extend the distress under which he
now labours.

Such a measure, however, I would, on the best considera-
tion I can give the subject, adopt, in preference to the fixed
duty now proposed by government, which, taking into ac-
count all the circumstances of its introduction, I consider
an indirect but certain mode of effecting total repeal. I do
not believe, or peen to insinuate, that it is advocated by
Lord John Russell with this view or intention ; and I ant
well aware that it holds out a prospect of certain advantages,
which have conciliated towards it the opinions of many per-
sons of weight and authority, who have no object in view
but the good of the community. Believing however, that
to the agriculturists its protection would be delusive, that as
a compromise between parties who suppose their interest to
he conflicting, it would be inefficacious for any purpose of
peace or conciliation; that it would lead to periodical colli-
sions with the people, which no intervention could allay, and
no authority resist; and that it would break down under the
first pressure of a deficient harvest, I, at least, could not be
among its honest supporters.
To a full, careful, and dispassionate revision of the present
system of fluctuating duty, I have not only no objection,
but I think the time is arrived when such revision is required.
I have observed and read too much of the prophecies of the
'ablest men, on extensive measures of political economy, not
to entertain with doubt predictions of exact results. I may
hope, however, that by the application of experience, and
the exertion of the best undsrstandings, modifications of the
present scale may be adopted, which may remedy the main
evils complained of as its concomitants, without the substi-
tution of greater. In all discussions of the subject, when-
ever doubt may arise, whenever authorities may be nicely
balanced, I shall feel it my duty to act as I may conjecture
those who hold the converse of my position in the country
will act. 1 presume that the man 'who is in the centre of a
strictly rural population, will look to its wishes and apparent
interests. I shall do likewise ; and if he looks to his ricks,
I shall look to my chimneys and those of my neigkbours.
With respect to the other proposals of government, on
sugar I have stated in parliament my estimate of the extent
of the relief proposed by government to the consumer, and
my reasons for not accepting it. I have seen no reason to
retract my calculation, or alter my opinion. Timber appears,
by consent of ministers, to have slipped through a hole in the
budget.
1 believe the poor-law, in many of its leading provisions,
unsited to South Lancashire, and uncalled for by the pre-
existing state of the administration of relief to the poor in
that part of the kingdom. This subject is one which has
been condemned as unfit for discussion in parliament at a
moment of expected dissolution. lam unable to understand
the practical distinction thus drawn by Lord John Russell
between the poor-law and the corn-law. It is true, as he
has stated, that in the one case details were under the con-
sideration of the house, in the other it might be the object of
ministers to limit the discussion to principles ; but the at-
tempt at such limitation would have been vain. The princi-
ples on which the government advocate a fixed duty on corn
were perfectly well known through former discussions, and
I know now why the virtue and sincerity of members about
to face their constituents should be more distrusted on the
one subject than the other.

I consider a revision of our commercial tariff a tack worthy
of a strong and united government, and by such a government
I hope to see it undertaken.
An address of this description is necessarily but a slight
summary of topics of leading interest at the moment. I have
confined myself to one object, that of giving you the means
of judging whether, on the score of my opinions on subjects
which have grown into recent importance, you have reason
to withhold the confidence you have twice reposed in Tue. I
might have contrived to obscure or postpone the enunciation
of those opinions under the smoke of an attack on the conduct
and proceedings of a government to which I am opposed ;
but I have thought it fairer not to mix up the exposition of
my own views with reflections on the views or conduct of
others.

I am ready, if called upon, for controversy on these mat.
ters. in its proper time and place. In one respect, perhaps,
I may enter at a disadvantage into the strife of parties. Bo-
dily infirmity, with pain and exhaustion in its train, cannot
confer the wisdom of age ; but I sensibly feel that it may
produce an indifference to the ordinary prizes and rewards of
political contention, which age itself does not always inculcate.
I have no ambititon left but that of carrying with me to re-
tirement, or elsewhere, the consciousness that I have not
neglected a legitimate occasion of serving the community in
which I live. Twice you have afforded me what seemed to
me that occasion. It is now at your discretion to withdraw
or reimpose the obligation under which your confidence and
support have laid me. Proud of that confidence as hitherto
enjoyed, and with a grateful recollection of that support
which no time or circumstance can obliterate, I respectfully
wait your decision.—l remain, Gentlemen, your obedient,
humble Servant, FRANCIS EGERTON.