The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-02 00:00:00

11 intelligence
i millennium at hand ;
•
1 tidings, by mail or by dilligence,

ttlC J(

3 a perishing land

sure's you're alive now,
es in the hive now shall slumber and sleep ;
Atcrs, quite weak on her trotters,
vows to make every thing cheap
the moti

es of man or of ministers ;
are if.he's honest and true :
views that are selfish and sinister,
—hut what's that to you?
6rudge it, if sorry to trudge yet,
aught in the Budget there places to keep ?
oft we've been4:heated, it won't be repeated,
2e Trade for ever, and every thing cheap !

their purpose

s at the thous
thing a pound,
itich a lot of it,

lit of it

f fond of molasses,

o'er slavery weep?
.s, your Humes and M`Gregors,
;ers, and every one cheap.

s for sense and sincerity.
they make such a fuss :
e of colonial prosperity,
Ist or West Indies to us ?
opinions are true thick and thin ones :
.....ffninions we'll make a clean sweep :
l's to be had of them, France will be glad of them,
,er both commerce and colonies cheap.

old animosity ;
ak prejudice lay on the shelf;
ports, and ne'er ask reciprocity—
sers just are as good as yourself.
.“—on's fast slipping—'tis time to be clipping
the wines of our shipping that cumbers the deep
rational ever is rational ?
sr for us—Free Trade is cheap !

Glory's too d

;o hear our itinerant lecturers,
them is the thing understood ?

y for our great manufacturers,
tion is all for your good.

ou're made poorer,
irer a profit to reap ;
yment will help their enjoyment,
nd labour, and every thing cheap.
, while you've breath left to cry it with.
find is whate'er it may mean;
d till yon've nothing to buy it with,
will hereafter be seen.
deception, delusion,
conclusion just makes my heart leap;
;ot under, leave Whigs free to blunder,
and plunder make every thing cheap !

LITERARY NOTICES.

Facts on Affricalture. By W. Dixon.
Serum est Cavendi tempos in mediis malis."

mmending the perusal of this admirable brochure at
filar season of excitement on the corn laws, we are
)y an anxious desire for calm and dispassionate
and although the author does not profess at present
urination of the legislative enactments
gulated, because in an
he present, adequate justice could not be rendered
nerous interests involved, which their acknow-
rtance would imperatively demand," yet Mr.
abundant testimonies, not only of the vigi-
s of other countries as China, Sweeden,
and Denmark, to secure by their fiscal regu-
lequate supply of the staff of life to their own
own soil, but also furnishes irrefragable
close connexion of agricultural with

into an c

raffle in corn is now re

al prosperity, thereby demonstrating " that it is the
f every government to guard and promote the interests

.culture

11 information, relative to the annual produc-
Iption of grain which the work exhibits, is
ces of unquestionable validity ; this valuable
ether with the othcial tables and parnamen-
h arc abundantly supplied in the ap-
sential untility, in comprehending the
lrings of this ndw engrossing subject, and evinces
me time a spirit of deep research in the author,
been rewarded by a vote of thanks from the Central
cultural Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

ation, t

th Australian News. No. 1. AYLWARD. Liverpool.
is a monthly publication, appearing on the 15th. It
ry unpretending work, but evidently one that will do
It appears to deal in broad facts, and avoids useless
itions. The accounts given by it of the State of South
lia are very encouraging. It will be useful to those
The price is only three halfpence.

to emigrate,

British Miscellany and Chessplayer's Chronicle.
London : Hastings, Carey-street.
r.arnc of chess has latterly become a far more general

t than heretofore ; it numbers among its votaries
it, and the most learned in the land, but is no

xclusively an aristocratic game, witness the great in-
in the number of the provincial chess clubs. Several
been made, both in this country and in
dish a chess periodical, but after a brief ex-
ey have invariably failed, yet the want of such a
niversally felt and acknowledged. Of late, the only
public medium of communication for the chess world has
been Bell's Life in London, and this is objectionable to
many on account of the connection of this paper with the
vulgarities of the prize ring, and the peculiar and corre-
sponding style in which the articles upon chess are written.
The new periodical, of which the first five numbers lie upon
our table, appears well calculated to occupy the vacant sta-
)f a chess player's chronicle ; we understand that it
d by Mr. Staunton, one of the strongest of the Lon-
Each number gives some selected unpublished
nd problems, and a commencement has been made
publishing the brilliant games between the lamented
Donnell and De la Bourdonnais, wilh valuable notes.
wish success to this undertaking, and if it con-
to be as well conducted as all the five numbers which
!ached us, it cannot fail to obtain the patrenage of
real amateur of the cheese-player. We may add ap-
tely in this place that the match pending between the
lubs of Liverpool and Armagh has just terminated in

(lon player

e heart

f the former

FASHIONS FOR JULY,

London and Paris Ladies

' Magazine of Fashion.)

3LI GE.—Robe of batiste de laine, poussiere,
iin cambric, and collar A chile, and plain
ncy straw bonnet edged, and with plaid
black silk, with frill of the same. _

LsrrE.—Robe of barge in pattern of pale
and sleeves_ a
_petites coulisses, and deep

edged with fringe. Black taffetas scarf, with ruche.
met of crape .fronce violette of lace and flowers, cor-
ig with the dress ; handkerchief with inlets of
nes, manchettes and collar trimmed with Valen-
The corsages continue to be made tight, and with
orsages grand' mere a l' Amazon, with gimp trim-
d those a chile or revers, are also worn ; for young
nerally square, or with folds ; and in thin
.e made a coulisses. Tight sleeves still
'win their ground, but they are variously ornamented,
the small gigot of moderate fulness at the shoulder, and
,__t on the lower part of the arm, is fashionable.
Generally speaking, tucks have replaced flounces, though
,ometimes used for tall figures •, tucks are frequently
ith fringe or lace, or folds rise en tablier, en
for silk pinked ruches are used, and on

they sr
ials the

I either

or in a wave

of Valenciennes, and embroidery

of pink or blue organdy, worked in tambour, witl
e same colour, are very pretty for public dejeuners
5 of deep blue are quite the rage in Paris

Arts continue to be worn in every variety ; the most
,ant are of lace, Ottomane velvet, and real cachemere
th plain centres and pine ends, or figured in Asiatic boll•
Lets ; then follow those of foulard, shaded silks, barege
uslin, &c. &c. The newest and most fashionable style o
icket-handkerchief is with inlets of Valenciennes all round

Bonnets are now much ornamented, lace and flowers inter-
mixed ; the form continues small, partaking very much of
the capote. Straw bonnets, trimmed with velvet of two
colours, with ruche inside, are pretty. Leghorns are mostly
ornamented with lace, or wreaths a la Ceres, in poppies,
daisies, &c. ; honeysuckle is also seen, but the most elegant
are those of hydrangea in every colour.

NG NEAR HOLY.
MR. PENNANT OF Dow
1E COUNTY OF FLINT.--It is really with con-
to notice the
II as disgust, that we feel bsou
arrival of the
ofeentleman,
cling exhibited in Mold on the
the death of this most estirnayboe
sere did not exist in this, or an
xemplary in every relation of life wherreeolui county,
to the poor in his neighbourhood was unceasing
N. quantity of ale was given away by the
party, amidst expressions of feeling towards this
) horrible to mention. Nothing, we are gratified
ive been more unfounded than the hope of the
ining an accession of strength by the death of
amiable gentleman. Lady Emma Pennant, herself
servative, educates her daughter, the heiress of this
~erty, in the principles of strict attachment to our
'tuition in church and state, and it is preposterous to
)se that if even there was the power there could be the
Lotion in any one to insult the memory of the dead by
_ling the tenantry to record their first acts after the death
of their benefactor, in opposition to what were known to have
been his wishes. Our radical opponents know they will not
a gain •
single vote, but are endeavouring to bolster up their
fading hopes of success by having recourse to these base
expedients.

DEATH (

NEWTON BRANCH OF THE PROVINCIA,L
DICAL AND SURGICAL ASSOCIATION.

The fifth anniversary of the Newton Branch of the Pro-
vincial Medical and Surgical Association was held at Newton
yesterday week. The business of the day commenced with
a preliminary meeting of the council at eleven o'clock in the
forenoon, and soon after twelve the retiring, president, Sand.
M'Cullock, Esq., of Liverpool, took the chair. At this time
there were assembled a number of the most respectable and
influential medical practitioners in this part of the kingdom,
amongst others we noticed Thomas Jeffreys, M.D., David
Baird, M.D., William Duncan, M.D., J. M. Banner, Esq.,
Hugh Neill, Esq., of Liverpool; Edward Holme, M.D., F.
L. S. Edmund Lyon, M.D., G. A. Chaytor, M.D., Robert
Thorpe, Esq., Joseph Jordan, Esq., of Manchester; Wm.
Twemlow, Esq., of Northwich James Kendrick, M.D.,
F. L. S.. John Sharp, Esq., and G. H. Hardy, Esq., of
Warrington.
Mr. M'Cummcn, in opening the meeting, regretted the
absence of the president elect, Dr. Llewellyn Jones, of
Chester, (from whom a letter, apologising for his unavoida-
ble absence, was read,) and stated that the duties of his
office would necessarily devolve upon his friend, Dr. Baird,
who, he had no doubt, would discharge them with satisfac-
tion to the meeting.
Dr. BAIRD, on taking the chair, made a few observations
on the unexpected position in which he found himself placed,
and concluded by calling upon Mr. Hardy, one of the secre-
taries, for the report of the council, which he read. From
amongst a variety of topics, chiefly relating to the proceed-
ings of the association during the past year, its finances, &c.
we select the following passages as having a more particular
reference to the profession generally, or to the community
in which this branch is placed :
" Your Council have had great pleasure in observing the
rapid progress which the queStion of Medical Reform has
made during the past year. Besides the three principal
Medical Corporations, most of the other chartered Colleges
have admitted the necessity of extensive changes and
amendments, and the well directed efforts of the various
Medical Associations have fGrced the consideration of this
all important subject upon the Legislature itself.
" Still it is manifest that the present state of this question
is such as to demand the most careful and judicious ma-
nagement ; and the future steps to be taken in pursuit of the
highly desirable end we have in view will require mature de-
liberation, and a comprehensive survey of the opinions and
sentiments of all parties concerned. _ _ .

" The error which has hitherto pervaded much that has
been done relative to medical reform, has been a too great
haste in the devising of the specific plans upon which such
reforms should be conducted."

" But the calm and temperate manner in which the Provin-
cial Medical and Surgical Association has entered upon this
great work, has done much to .-nunteract this evil ; and nt
the amilver3ury meeting which will shortly be held in York,
we are informed that " the Reform Committee," which it
had previously appointed, " will be prepared with a report,
which members are requested to give a eareful perusal, be-
fore they make up their minds as to the course which the
association should pursue in endeavouring to obtain an im-
proved system of medical polity." Whatever course that
may be, the spirit, which has hitherto characterised all its
proceedings in reference to this subject, entitle it to the con-
fidence and respect of every member of the Medical profes-
sion, and holds out strong encouragement to believe in the
ultimate success of its exertions. . .

"Before closing this report, your council wish to notice,in
terms of high commendation, the efforts which have been
made to establish a Sea-bathing Infirmary for the poor of
this and the neighbouring counties. Such an institution
would constitute an important and valuable adjunct .to our
medical charities ; for not only would their funds be relieved
from the burthen of dispensing large quantities of medicine
to a numerous class of patients, without any commensurate
advantage to the cases themselves ; but it would also enable
us effectually to relieve hundreds of our fellow-creatures,
who are at present compelled to drag out a miserable exist-
ence for want of that health-creating stimulus which sea air
and sea-buthing are alone capable of affording, and which
no course of medicine, however judiciously prescribed and
administered, is at all calculated to supersede. Your Coun-
cil, therefore, would earnestly entreat every member of this
association to exert his utmost influence to further this phi-
lanthrophic undertaking—for they feel assured, that there is
not a village, or town in this district, in which such an insti-
tution may not be made one of the greatest blessings to
many. It has been a source of regret to them, that no prac-
tical good should have hitherto resulted from the highly re-
spectable and influential meeting which was held some time
ago in Manchester ; and it is to be feared that the neglect
of fixing upon some convenient site may have, for a while,
defeated its benevolent object. It is hoped, however, that
the individuals, who then interested ihemselves, will not
relax in their efforts, confident as they are, that success
must ultimately reward them."
The report was unanimously adopted.
It was then agreed that a special meeting of the council be
called on the last Thursday in September, for the purpose of
making arrangements, which may be more effectual in pro-
moting the scientific objects of the branch, and affording
such local information, which is what ought to be considered
one of the leading features of every branch in connection
with the Parent Association.
The appointment of officers for the ensuing year was the
next business gone into. Dr. Kendrick, of Warrington, was
elected President, Dr. Lyon, of Manchester, and U. M.
Banner, Esq., of Liverpool, Vice-Presidents, and Messrs.

Sharp and Hardy, General Secretaries.
A long discussion ensued touching the propriety of adopt-
ing a proposal made by Dr. Cowan, of Reading, to make it
compulsory upon every associate to subscribe 5s per annum
to the Benevolent Fund. The meeting were unanimously

opposed to the proposition, and they also expressed them-
selves in strong terms on the impropriety of any of the branch
associations being allowed to make a deduction from the
subscriptions to meet the local expenses.
Dr. BAIRD having vacated the chair, which was then oc-

copied by Mr. Thor-p, of Manchester, proceeded to read a
paper upon Delirium Tremens. After some prefatory re-
marks, he stated that in the year.lB34, when he was physic-

ian to the Liverpool Lunatic Asylum, two cases of delirium
tremens died suddenly after a fit of screaming ; one was under
his own care, the other a under the care of another physician
of the infirmary. He observed that as there was no general
rule of treatment established for this disease, and as the go-
vernor, Mr. Owen, stated that several such occurrences had
taken place under his predecessor's superintendence, he was
i.to g 11.1 uaa uo Ya yvvs

more powerful remedies which had been generally recom-
mended, and occasionally found to be successful, in order to
cut short the disease, and prevent a recurrence of similar
catastrophes. With this view he gave calomel, opium, and

. .
tartarised antimony, in various proportions, and repeated
them every hour, kr five or six hours, and afterwards at
longer intervals, assisting them by croton oil, or castor oil,
or the infusion of senna and gentian, supporting the powers
of life, by ammonia, tether, and camphor, and in very ex-
hausted habits allowing porter, but forbidding in strong
terms, a continuance of the accustomed stimulus. By this
plan of treatment he was enabled to cut short the disease and

,roduce convalescence in the space of 8, 10, or
_l2 hours, in

r.
upwards of fifty cases since the year 1831. He then ob-
served that all the cases were in the last or violent stage of
the malady, and detailed the symptoms as they appeared to
him, as well as the circumstances of two cases, which lie
denominated exceptions. One, a robust, middle-aged man,
who had been three days ill before seen, and just come out
of a fit, whose pulse was imperceptible, and on whom medi-
dine had no effect. The other had been the subject of seve-
ral previous attacks, and having suppressed by violent mea-
sures, a discharge from his legs, he fell into a comatose state,
out of which he could not be recovered. The doctor then
proceeded to observe, that he had intended to have stopped
here, but when he found that it was the practice of the coun-
cil of the Medico-Chirnrgical Society of London, not to re-
ceive any case to which no remarks were appended, he
thought he could not do better than follow the suggestions
of the council of a society so long and so justly celebrated for
the manyftaluahle communications which its members have
flornished•to tire profession. He would, therefore, by trac-
ing the origin and progress of the symptoms, and from the
effect of th,e remedies, attempt to deduce some idea or ex-
planation o the cause of a disease, upon which all authori-
ties agreed in opinion that the appearances on dissection
did not afford such information as would tend to remove the
obscurity which continues to haug over the nature of the morbid
processes. He then detailed the progressive steps of the
drunkard, from the taking of the first glass of spirituous
liquor to the final outbreak of the malady ; and also the
symptoms which indicated a progressive increase of disorder
in the mucous membrane of the stomach, bowels, and biliary
system. He canvassed the views of the different authorities
who. have written upon the subject, some of whom had seen
thu disease to arise from other causes than drunkenness. He
adduced the opinion of Dr. Craigie and other pathologists,
to prove that pain in the irritated or disordered state of the
mucous membrane of the digestive organs was never felt in
proportion to the degree of irritation, and that irritations
produced by articles of food and drink, and by morbid and
unnatural secretions, without giving rise to pain in the course
of the canal, produce in. various organs unusual sensations
and phenomena. lie quoted from Mr. Jenning's report upon
the chemistry of the blood, to show that the sanguineous,
nervous, and digestive systems may be, and are frequently,
all affected at the same time and in the same person ; and
that no one system can be long disordered without inducing
disorder in others; and, to decide which system is primarily
or secondarily affected, is, at once, the most important and
most difficult problem the medical practitioner is called upon
to solve. He then proved by a survey of all the cases which
he had treated, and from analagous cases, that the nervous
and cerebral symptoms did not begin to subside until their
bowels began to be relieved of their dark-coloured and offen-
sive contents, and thence inferred that the excessive and con-
tinuous use of spirituous liquors was, first to induce a morbid
condition of the nervous membrane of the stomach, bowels,
and biliary system, and that the nervous and cerebral affec-
tions were only gradually reduced by the long continuance in
the use of the stimulus. He combated the idea of the disease
being of an inflammatory nature, but had met with cases
complicated with inflammation of the lungs. He believed it
to be essentially a disease of irritation, because it may con-
tinue for some time, subside, and again occur, without leav-
ing any visible organic change, which inflammation would
not do,—because the loss of blood is generally fatal in this
disease, and does good in inflammation • and because dis-
section does not show the usual results dinflammation, but
generally morbid appearances in the biliary and digestive ap-
paratus. Dr. Baird then took the opportunity of observing
upon an opinion which, he said, was pretty generally enter-
tained by the public and the profession, and by several au-
thorities who have written upon the subject, that the stimulus
which has produced the disease should not be withdrawn,
but continued during the treatment. In refutation of this
opinion, he brought forward the facts of the very rapid and
satisfactory manner in which the cases recovered in the
asylum, where the stimulus was wholly withdrawn, and where
only porter was allowed in a few cases ; and also the circum-
stances of a case which he attended with Mr. Jorie, of Liver-
pool, where the plan of treatment which he had recommended
failed, in consequence of the use of spirituous liquors being
continued ; for upon the same plan of treatment being again
adopted without the stimulus, a perfect state of convales-
cence in less than twelve hours was the result. He stated
that he was in possession of the facts of various other cases to
prove his views, and concluded with a hope that the plan of
treatment might be as successful in the hands of the mem-
bers as it had proved in his, so that a general rule of treat-
ment might be established in at least one of the diseases
which have arisen to afflict humanity.
Mr. BANNER, of Liverpool, stated that he agreed gene-
rally with the principles and views detailed by Dr. Baird,
and also with the plan of treatment which he advocates. He
had always found great advantage from due attention being
paid to the state of the bowels. There were two points upon
which the paper was deficient, the moral treatment, and the
subject of restraint, which he presumed had been adopted,
the cases being in an asylum. He had derived advantage
from the suggestions of a medical friend from Dublin, who
said he had discovered that patients in this disease had a par-
tiality for one individual in a family, through whom the mind
of the patient might be judiciously operated upon, and he
had always found the greatest possible good to arise from en-
trusting the medical management to this particular individual.
With reference to restraint, he had no doubt that violent
asses, in their struggles to get free, had frequently died.
Dr. BAIRD •
,in reply, said, he could not see the slightest
possible chance of
o
any good to be expected from Mr. Ban-
ner's moral
According to his experience, the patients
were generally
view According
of every person, and rather obsti-
nate if opposed'
and the best way to get them to take medi-
cine, or to do what
l was
was wished for, was to do the very oppo-
site. As to restraint,sl glad that Mr. Banner had re
•
marked upon it, becausegave
been ?
ve him an opportunity of stating
to the members, that it
had a
n ittrye, and he had restraint as possible in the cases
solis practice to use as little
of
for-
bid it altogether in the cases of delirium
Mr. NOTTINGHAM, formerly House Surgeon to the Liver-
pool Infirmary, begged to offer a few remarks upon the ap.