The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-02 00:00:00

PADRE GAVAZZI IN LIVERPOOL.

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This celebrated Italian priest delivered hie- MVPa
lecture in the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, s'esterlt
morning, at eleven o'clock. The room was crosrdr_
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wveoryreirespectable audience, and among the elite D'
the galleries we neticed many of our local clergy,
ame.,
Fieys,The eloquent Padre, on making his appearance, wig
greeted enthusiastically. He was accompanied by tan
Rev. David James, of Kirkdale, Signor Granata,
wDrre.uMoe',Nsceeil.e, Dr. Hume, Dr. g
Italian merchant, resident in Liverpool, and R. Walkdent
Esq. The Padre was dressed in his usual costume, !
black cloth soutanne, reaching to the ground, and fastebo tln!"
in the centre by a large sash of stuff ; around the Y 2
on the right of his bosom, was a red cross, and on thole,lefta
bronze medal; over this he wore a long black sergl,g„
The
the usual dress of priests of the " Barnabite Order.
Father possesses a remarkably intelligent countenancer;
and his eye seems continually lit up with an enthusialf
peculiar to the children of the sunny south.
address is commanding, and his intonation distinct, wal":
his voice is of a high and rich tone, calculated to attract.
and impress his audience. When listening to the deep'
,
toned eloquence of the Italian priest, we could not but
revert back to the position which he filled in his own Peer
Italy, and to the captivating influence which his fiery elo-
quence must have exercised over the Italian minds
he addr fro
essed m the pulit of the Uiversit Church I
Rome, when mourning over the patriots slauy ghtered hY
the Croats at Milan and Mantua, and denouncing, in
his
own fervid eloquence, vengeance on the hangman HeYeall'
and the butcher Radetski.
The Rev. D. James was voted to the chair amid loud
applause.
The CHAIRMAN said he had intended giving the audience
a brief epitome of the life of Father Gavazzi, but inasmuch
as it would not be desirable to prolong the morning sitting,
or render this lecture very tedious, he would abstain (roll
doing so, and reserve to himself the privilege of giving.)
either that evening, or the following one, if the Chao'
man and the time would permit him. He had read the
life, and also the part which Father Gavazzi had taken in the
movement in Italy to remove Popery and to establish the 30
dependence of the Italian nation on the broad prinelPirli
of civil and religious liberty (applause), and he had 0,.°
hesitation in saying, that in consenting to occupy !"
chair at the present time, he did not compromise In the
least degree his own principles as a subject wares"
attached to monarchy in our own country. He felt so?
that if he had lived in the days of James the Seconnt
when he became a Papist, and endeavoured by evell
means in his power to restore Popery in this our native
land, he should have been one of the party to drive WM
from power (applause), and to invite the Prince of Orange
to occupy the throne as the defender of Protestantism en
the liberties of England; and he had no hesitation in adding+
that if in his life-time any individual should ascend the
throne of Britain, like James the Second, he should b
prepared to take that part (applause) •, but he anticipate
no such result, and therefore he simply stated that wit°•
out compromising his own views on the subject of ecclesi;
astical and civil government, he by no means compromise'
his own principles as a supporter of the monarchy in on;
own land, so long as monarchy protected the civil an"
religious liberty of the entire people.—(Applause.)
The PADRE then came forward to the front of the Ow
form, and opened his oration by stating, that the kale'
diate object of the son-disant apostles of Rome, from the
Pope to the humblest priest, was to restore things to the
same state of servile debasement and grovelling supersti-
tion, as that of the dark ages, by promoting idolatry, wee;
tal ignorance, and abjection. And these men, observe",
the Padre, are those who claim to be the vicegerents an
ministers of the Nazarene, the God of Mercy. These mell
are they who endeavour, by means of " bulls" issued tol
the adulterer and assassin of the Vatican, to substitute
their own filthy idolatry, and degraded prostrations, for,
the simple and unadulterated worship of the heart—their
sacrificial blasphemies for the self-sufficient and all'
atoning altar of atonement ; and the veto of a bias'
phemous butcher, and his seventy purple despots, for
the sign manual of Calvary ! (Cheers.) Away with such
heresy from the religion of Christ. Away with such !
libel on the covenant of grace, coming through Jesus,ane
perfected by his blood. Let the man-masai—the
officer of Austria, he who impiously styles himself vice'
gerent of Christ ; he who deserted his throne, his people,-
his flock, and fled at night from imperial Rome in corn-
pang with a chattering woman ; he who offered up a hell"
thenish mystic sacrifice, thanking God for the slaughter (
his people, and blessing the bayonets that drank the"
blood ; he who listens to the dying groans of the pent-uP
.victims of St. Angelo, and presides o'er banquets of he;
man slaughter. Let him away. But this man is called
the vicegerent of Christ ! Away ! away ! impious bias'
phemer ; go shelter yourself in the arms of Ferdinand OS
butcher of Naples ; the assassin stained with the blood to
his own subjects. Dare not, impious mocker, to Kill
call yourself father of Christianity, the only interpreter 0
the gospel. Away, away, you sacrilegious blasphemer'"
The eloquent and impassioned orator next proceeded t,"?.
state that the extension of clerical power in Rome is "`
proportion to the superstition and:prejudices of the peoPle'
The Romans, the noble and worthy descendants of Brutus'
whilst Pio Nono was embracing the assassin Freiman° °'
Gaeta, shook off the ignominious yoke of popery, her Pre-
judices and superstitions, and proclaimed civil and religiolle
a liberty,
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eternal city. But the young republic is strangled ere Yet
it lived. The French traitors, led by the Jesuit Oudinot,
and commissioned by the renegade Louis Buonaparte'
assisted by the Austrian and the Spaniard, and Neapolitan
to crush every new born liberty. But not without 0
struggle, as the exploits of the 30th April, performed 131
the hero of Monte Video at the Villa Pamphide ske44.
•
(Applause.) And Rome—his own poor Italy, would Ye;
live, and another Garabaldi will rise up to annihilate, f°'
ever, the cursed despotism of the Papal empire (cheer%
the " tribuneship" will be renewed, and a Protect al
president will yet preside o'er the destinies of that 1811",„'
that has ever given martyrs to Christianity and heroes
chivalry.—(Cheers.) The triumvirate will be restorett
and Rienzi's successors will again preside on the throne;
the Caesars.—(Loud cheers.) Rome will again re-eell
with shouts of exultation, and the Republic
enthroned in the people's affections. The learaea.
and eloquent padre here reviewed and Amalfi:,
in a masterly style, peculiar to himself, the cause' in"to
encing the modern apostleship of Rome, in its efforts 0
promote the Romish ascendancy, with all its disastr°
consequences, and showed that the entire effort was to ret;
gain a long-lost ascendancy, and again introduce, in all
°n
barbaric ferocity, the bloodthirsty design of the Can%
Law. (Applause.) England ( remarked the illustr%
Padre) is essentially a free country : and hence P°P.1,0..
priests are not so much esteemed as in other 03.2„0
tries. But yet efforts are being ever made to enthru-0
their power and to elevate their influence, and hells,
behold the apostleship of Padre Newman, the ex-Proi
testant minister, who, in his puerile and detre 01
superstition, attempts to create and reconstruct K,..00,
influence on English superstition and Irish degradaLi
both of which he promotes by two means,—first
believing in all the relics brought forward and exhih'
by the Romish church, such as the relics of the robeeT34
Jesus Christ, an old torn rag, covered with blood, Tied
exhibited at Rome, as a divine importation. The leor.sy
and eloquent Padre here gave a detailed account of oi4
of these foolish and wretched trumperies, and en 0,
into an epitomised history of the origin and the cire_sji
stances attendant on it. He, the learned father, felicitoilre,
described the daguerreotyped rag called the kerchief °
ronica, exhibited and venerated at Rome, as beinfLella,4o.)
pression of the countenance of Jesus Christ. (u"`"the
He also referred to the blood of St. Janario, and t 0 ins,
transparent humbug of the blinking Madonna of RA' ire.
will 11
and characterized all these as the means Ors for,.
fluences detailed and advocated in Romish ighl
the purpose of ensnaring England, in order that gibed
be again brought back to wallow in the mud foluoneo
of superstition and ignorance. Hero the imPaestbieg
and all but inspired orator launched forth into_.,o°.sooo
and eloquent denunciations of the conduct of wl bier
and Newman in advocating delusions so gross,.t the
phemous, and so degrading, and went on to say teeiode.
Church of Rome always cuts off the head of anl hock
pendent man, or make him a Papist. That ,es'e'hootr
has constructed her whole theological system on feLs sar
and error, and hence the inquisition, by which se, spai.ll'
presses the'
sublime truths of philosophy. Look e"..bnone:
that classical ground of the inquisition and brothe' whits
and you see her a giant in bigotry and terroris%e net,
but a pigmy in knowledge,—(Cheers.) She° le of r
said the learned Padre, the Vatican as a mitlcr the Iras-
protected by the Popes : it cannot compensate for or tha
prisonment of Gentiles, nor can it compense",;, 'Obof
miseries and the imprisonment of Garron!l"o",ese
had. in his dungeon, to endure the otfie'° wan, _.
a meddling priest, predecessor of your )T...l3,,lfiegbftwie-
who denounces to his brother followers in 13"borabsta
all who do not believe in Pio Nono and
-
church. The learned padre concluded the f7sif
so-
superstitions were not tolerated in any Chrisrsorn_
sp
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but were looked upon with disgust; the bp
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which was that they adhered more closely anc,ll, lore
ciously to the simple truths of Christianity. ,hert
padre resumed his seat amid loud cheers. ev.
A vote of thanks was then moved to the
as also to the Chairman, after which the meetit;6
Y„opun•
The Padre, on being recognised outside by W
was loudly cheered.

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ferent pieces. During the week they have rkoen,
scenes from the "Merchant of Venice," and ' the Old
eliciting applause by their spirited acting these cletr
eamenatgiacgseewasietboefq!
parts of these tragedies. We hope io Dal/
eeeeliridninTijaicorrect conceptions of the different char° .0 c 0,.. eta 03' will soon revisit us. Mr. and imedi f
also delighted the admirers of finished 0° the
have sustained. Last night the equestrian sea' OOP;
menced, the company consisting of Messrs. _.lOl,
Dr°l7o' er
M'Collum, and Co.'s. talented troupe fro
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sea i re
Theatre, including also the whole of MO.!' Tbellea
celebrated stud from the Hippodrome at Paroiste fiOl
decidedly the best company that bairo of
TAverpool.
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evil we suggested the appointment of " competent ana-
lytical chemists, in whose scientific skill confidence could
be reposed, to submit to test all doubtful articles received
at our Custom-houses ;" and to show the necessity for
Such an appointment, we stated that we had before us a LOSS OF A COLLIER AND ALL HANDS.—A terrible ac-
sampler
cident happened off the Tees on Sunday night. A large
government sanction, which, on 200 grains being su of "lie" tea, imported into Liverpool, b
-
barque was coming down from the south with the fleet of
Milted to a chemical analysis, were found to contain
light colliers. About seven o'clock in the evening she
was crossing the Tees, when she came in collision with a
22 grains of sand, 23 grains of a doubtful leaf, and 85
loaded collier (supposed to have come out of Hartlepool),
grains of an earthy soluble matter ; we also stated that
a specimen of a writing fluid, extracted from what had been which went down at her bows, and all hands perished.
imported as port wine,but which, in reality, was little more The name of the collier is not known.
'
than a decoction of logwood, could be seen at our publi-
MERCHANT SEAMEN S FUND. —The Lords of the
cation office. Yet, in the face of these and other stubborn Committee of Privy Council for Trade have, in pursuance
Victo-
facts, writers, in two of our contemporaries, the Courier
of the powers given to them by the act 14 and 15
and the Mail, have come forth to do virtuous battle in ria, cap. 102, sec. 23 and 39, fixed the Ist day of January,
1
behalf of the Customs, and in doing this they have given 1852, as the day on which the voluntary contributions to
good cause for her Majesty's honourable board to exclaim, be made to the Merchant Seamen's Fund, after passing of
the said act, and the grants of pensions from the said
' Save us from our friends !"
The reasoning of both writers is so much alike, that ourf f
are to commence.und, which are to be made in pursuance of the said act,
observations in reply to the longer article in the Mail of are
NOTICE .—We are glad to observe the
November 8, will be applicable as well to the writer in
honourable mention made of the cabinet sent to the
the Courier. . Great Exhibition, by Messrs. Banks Son, and Co., Our proposition proposition is characterised as "A most utopian
i
cif manufacturers, Keswick. This s a complimenten of
dream, a most impracticable proposal, and would involve
which Messrs. Banks, Son, and Co., have just reason to
incalculable interruptions to the commerce of any great
be proud. The exhibition of the cabinet has also had the
Port." We differ with our contemporary in the opinion
effect of adding to their list of royal patrons his Maj
esty
that the appointment of an inspecting chemist would
in
lead to the "incalculable interruptions" of which he the King of Belgium, who, after seeing the cabinet the
Great Fair, commanded a supply of pencils for his own
appears to have such a commercial dread. Most indubi-
use, to be ordered direct from the manufactory.—Cum-
People one interruption would he incurred,'—that of the
Berland Pacquet.
People being poisoned by a systematic and legalised pro-
DEATH OF A FEMALE FROM EXCESSIVE DRINKING.—
eess of fraud. The duties of the official whom we say
Elizabeth Cope, aged 44, and who occupied apartments at
there exists a necessity of appointing, should not be, as
No. 2, Morriss-place, Bridge-street, and who had been
our contemporary says, "to deliver scientific reports or some years engaged as organist at St. Saviour's-church,
learned opinions to those benighted and unhappy wights, Southwark, but for irregular conduct had been discharged
the Customs officials,",so much as to prevent the stomachs
from her appointment, was on Thursday morning found
of her Majesty's subjects from being polished by plumbago lying dead in bed. There were no marks of violence, nor
or scoured by the other harmless ingredients used as tea- anything near her to account for death ; but the servant
coatings,—as to see that her Majesty's lieges imbibe not a who waited upon her stated that she had procured for
decoction of logwood, under the expensive delusion that her mistress generally three pints of brandy daily for the
they are swallowing down port wine,—as to be the pre- last ten weeks, which she usually mixed with water.
vendee medium to an infusion of the filthy sweepings of Deceased always bad a glass by her side. The surgeon,
the Chinese tea-houses being taken into the stomach, who was called to see the deceased, said that when he
ender the mistaken idea that persons are partaking of that visited her he generally found her suffering from the
"cup which cheers," &c. effects of drinking large quantities of brandy, and no
But our contemporary says,—"Not only is there no doubt she died from exhaustion consequent upon such
Customs law in existence under which any adulterated ar- habits of intemperance. The Coroner's jury returned a
tide could be detained and confiscated, but it is a settled verdict, "That the deceased died by the excessive drink-
fiscal principle, in articles composed of mixed ingredients, ing of brandy."
that the full duty on the more valuable part is to be
FORLORN STATE OF THE FARMERS.—NOthing can be
charged," and that if such duty be "paid on any article— more striking or more deplorable than the condition of
gay tea, for instance,—however adulterated or counterfeit, the farmers of North Devon, as evinced by the speeches
the .law and the practice both compel the officer to recog- at the Chulmleigh meeting, on Monday. The greatest
nice the article as the tea of commerce."—" I thank thee, despondency appeared to have seized upon the yeomanry,
Jew, for this !" Now this may be beneficial to the re- and the determination which was announced by one or
venue ; but we rather doubt that where sand and paddy two of the leading men to leave the country for a more
are put off as tea, logwood as port wine, and any other in- promising clime, found a ready echo in the sentiments of
definable filth as some definable genuine article, the public others whose statements reveal the startling magnitude to
Would not be much benefited. which the torrent of agricultural emigration threatens to
But the legal portion of our contemporary's article is in increase. The present distress appears in too many cases
keeping with the moral one :—both are bad. If our con- to have depressed every other feeling but that of self-pre-
temporary will refer to the Customs acts, he will find that servation, and in some instances where the landlords are
all goods are to be properly described on landing, or on doing their utmost to avert the immediate pressure from
taking them out of the Customs warehouses. But how the tenant, yet the impoverished farmer, dreading :sp-
ears this salutary provision be enforced by the present proaching troubles, harbours the single design of cutting
Customs staff ?. For our contemporary himself says : the Gordian knot by a wreckless abandonment of his
"We are aware that the ingenious and crafty Chinese have homestead. The whole framework of society seems to
shown it to be worth their while to ship hither imitations of be loosened, and nothing but wretchedness and ruin in
tea—the lie tea lately shown at cur Excise-office was purely a the prospect.—Exeter Gazette.
chemical preparation, without an atom of tea in the whole. So
MOST. EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT.—A circumstance
also was the spurious tea manufactured by the casually detected
841 g Ceornevciatecilifiliuoankaera.nT where is the use of half measures? which has caused considerable sensation in the neighbour-
* divieexnatious obstacles to the dispatch of hood of Clerkenwell, occurred on Friday. It appears
siness in foreign imports, and yet leave uninspeetee all the that an elderly gentleman, lodging at the house of a per-
inetamerphosed sloe leaves, and all the chopped besoms and son named Colley, in Compton-stteet, Compton-street-
catechu of home manufacture?"
road, had been lying ill for some short time past, and be-
Leave uninspected all the metamorphosed sloe leaves and tween eight and nine o'clock on last Thursday evening he
all the chopped besoms and catechu of home manufac- was much worse, and became totally insensible,—to all
tune !" What does our contemporary mean ? He has just appearance the old gentleman had ceased to exist. One
laid that the dishonest Quaker was detected and convicted ; of his sons laid the body on the bedstead, and tied the
and if he has forgotten the circumstance, we will remind face up with a piece of sash line to prevent the jaw from
him of it, that the conviction was brought about through dropping. Having done so he left the room and locked
the very fact of the Inland Revenue department having the door, keeping the key in his possession. In the mid-
at its command those appliances which we wish to see die of the night the inmates of the house were alarmed at
extended to the Customs,—namely, the means of making hearing loud groans, which appeared to come from the
chemical analysis with despatch, and at small cost. Will same room in which the supposed dead body was lying,
Our contemporary inform the public upon what principle and which was immediately afterwards followed by a loud
of impartial justice the dishonest Quaker was fined, and noise resembling the fall of a heavy substance. Several
his property confiscated, for manufacturing illegitimate persons at once proceeded to the room, but could not
leaves for tea, whilst her Majesty's Customs, who allow effect an entrance. Next morning about eleven o'clock,
ingredients ten times more injurious to pass as tea, sanc- the key was obtained, and the undertaker, accompanied
tion and give currency to fraud with impunity ? by the son's wife and another female, entered the room,
But the preventive, or rather detective measures sug- when, to their surprise and dismay, the body was found
Bested, smack so much of comicality that they would form under the bedstead, doubled up nearly half. The persons
good subject for laughter were it not for the moral princi- who were present instantly removed it on the bed, when,
Ple involved by such a course of reasoning. on the arrival of a medical gentleman, the body was found
" Let (says our contemporary) a separate scientific depart- to be warm, but life was quite extinct.—Sunday paper.
went be created under the Board of Trade, legally authorised, HORRIBLE MURDER IN ESSEX.—A cold-blooded and
to pay periodical domiciliary visits rather to retail establish- determined murder has been committed at the villa of
ments and truck-shops, and especially to those where the poor g are systematically deceived and defrauded." Tollesbury, in Essex, On Tuesday morning, a man
named Cobb, a ere
is left his cottage to pursue his
The argument here just amounts to this. First, one avocation, leaving his wife and a little girl in bed. As the
class of government officers are to be the means morning advanced some of the occupants of the neighbour-
of sending afloat spurious and poisonous commodities, and ing cottages, not observing Mrs. Cobb moving about,
then our contemporary facetiously suggests that another went in the direction of the cottage, and on approaching
class of government officers shall be appointed to root out heard the little girl crying very loud, and in a tone of
and bring to punishment the dealers in those very articles fright. They found the door fastened, whereupon they
for the legality of vending which they received the ex- burst it open, and following the direction whence the cries
ample of her Majesty's Customs. But this idea, notwith- of the child proceeded, entered a back-room up steers,
standing its facetiousness, has not the poor merit of even where they were horrified at discovering Mrs. Cobb, the
originality. The very state of things which he alludes to mother of the crying chile, lying in bed in her nightclothes,
exists at the present hour. Every dealer in tea is fur- and weltering in blood. Upon the side of the deceased's
dished by the excise with an extract from the statute 4th head were marks of violence which appeared to have been
George H. cap. 14, sec. 11, which enacts that every per- inflicted with a hammer or other heavy iron instrument,
miBoll who shall have in his custody or possession any tea while, in addition, there was a deep gash in the throat, of
xed with other ingredients, &c., shall for every pound some four or five inches long, so deep as almost to sever
eight forfeit the sum of £lO. But what would be the the head from the body. We need hardly state that the
Position of the Boards of Inland Revenue and the Cus- unfortunate victim was quite dead at the time of the dis-
the,
s were the former's officers to seize upon that which covery, and the medical men were of opinion that death
,e latter's had admitted and received duty for as tea ? could not have been an act of suicide, but that a cold-
ese evil doubtlessly lies with the Customs, in rendering blooded murder had been perpetrated. The next step,
themselves particeps crimini in the first instance. Were therefore, was to endeavour to establish some clue to the
,ouch an unjust piece of jugglery to be attempted, both circumstances under which the murder had been corn-
boards would be laughed to scorn. milted. Police-constable Fox having heard of the occur-
After vigorously denouncing the appointment as "a rence, was soon on the spot; and ascertained, upon in-
piece of absurd nonsense," but not proving his case, our quiry in the village, that Harrington, the only male person
contemporary virtuously reasons that "it must not be who was left in the cottage in the morning, had subse-
forgotten that a vast proportion of our imports are re- quently gone to Salcot, a village a few miles distant, for
,exPorted to the Continent of Europe and to all parts of the purpose of purchasing a boat. In the evening, how-
Pe world." This, verily, is the very acme of moral logic ! ever, Harrington returned to the village, and Fox having
48 England's commercial character and reputation of such managed to get into his company, discovered on his
e,ll:leari importance that she will lend herself, through her trousersseveralstains, seemingly of blood, half obliterated.
;elstorn-houses, to palm off spurious articles as genuine Several other facts tended to fix the guilt upon Harrington,
°tornodities, merely because they are to be sent to who is only twenty years of age, and he was arrested.
oreigners ? It is not pertinent to the argument at issue, Later in the day a circumstance of great importance oc-
>lamely, the appointment of analytical chemists at our curred. A man, while proceeding across the fields to Sal-
elfferent Custom-houses,—that we should follow our cot (where the prisoner stated he had been on the preced-
ctltemporary through his other observations relative ing day), had his attention diverted to some unusual foot-
e° the harrassing delays already existing in Customs' prints in a ditch, and upon stepping into it found wrapped
„..?arainations. We are not going to argue that the up in a bloody handkerchief a razor, also stained with
machinery of this !department may not be rendered blood. These were at once brought to the police, and
e.:ali more effective, less tantalising, and carried Wash (at whose house prisoner lodged) immediately
with a greater regard to economy than at present. identified the razor as being his; and Mrs. Wash, sister
Is' e reiterate that the laxity In
our customs' regulations to the prisoner, identified the pocket-handkerchief as one
Pe
one great cause of the immense adulterations which which belonged to him. No motive beyond plunder can
lel afloat amongst society; that it is the duty of the go- be alleged for the crime.
e_ernment not to encourage such a system, by lending its THE APOTHECARIES' INQUISITION.—Our readers are
neneenanee and aid to it ; but that, on the other hand, no doubt aware that a new practice of medicine, called
eis imperative upon them to check the evil by every Homeopathy, has for some years past been making great
available means ; and, we contend, that the one which
received
on the continent and In America, and that it has
ould be effective is the appointment of analytical
Chemists.), Our contemporary has not attempted to im- ments in this country, where it has gradually been adopted
'lugn :our facts ; he admits that the Customs do allow by a considerable number of members of the medical pro-
Velterated articles to be imported, both for home con- fession. One of the leading peculiarities of the new
ti'llulption and for re-exportation, but he boldly places on system, as distinguished from the old, is, that it substi-
.e record a plea of justification, on the ground of expe- tutes minute doses of carefully prepared chemicals in place
mien
tcY and revenue; and contends that the proper way of the drenching quantities of drugs and water for which
i; Put down the practice of vending adulterated articles the old system is so celebrated. Instead of the " mix-
rle,Le keeep up a staff of officers for the purpose of ture as before," and the' three draughts before bed-time,"
teeeection and bringing to just punishment the poor the homoeopathic practitioner sends his patient a minute
Oil dealers, who have been supplied with the spu- dose—so small, indeed, as compared with the quantities
tt:los commodities in which they deal through the hitherto presented by the doctors, that the great question
esediurn of her Majesty's Customs, whose sanction is taken with reference to the new practice is, whether the doses
11,5 euarantee for the genuineness of those commodities. are sufficient. At a meeting of the Provincial Society of
leee effect of such a system, if put into operation, would 1 " Regular Practitioners," held at Brighton a short time
del with most unjust and cruel tyranny. It is the since, it was resolved " that there are three classes of
a 'lght of absurdity, and something a great deal worse, for practitioners who ought not to be members of this asso-
sirsernrnent board first to become the propagators of ciation—namely, first, real homcepathic practitioners ;
tees, and then censors, by bringing to punishment the second, those who practise homoeopathy in combination
hil,d or third-hand participators in the very frauds of with other systems of treatment; and third, those who hi.en they themselves have been the means of creating. under various pretences, meet in consultation or hold pro! tiliti' ;vas. the position we took, and this position we fessionalintercoursewith those who practise homeopathy."
tres'ltain. The Customs, at present, have not the full In other words, any member of this sagacious body who
ibeeit!e of detecting the adulterations, more especially in dares to think for himself, and who wishes to learn
top", Which pass through their hands, even were they whether the new system of medical treatment may not be
It girlish to avail themselves of them : the admixture of better than the old, is at once to be cut off from all asso-
eheeie saccarine matter renders all their testing instru- ciation with his professional brethren. He is to be
Peeees but, The admissions of our contemporar are pointed at as a charlatan and a quack, and to be excom-
ee of this ; then, such a moral system ought not to ct d ! That any body of educated men should have
leeocillecked at the fountain head, inasmuch as it would g-ieuenni a e brought to stultify themselves by adopting such a
Nee " interruptions to commerce !"
mode of stifling inquiry is scarcely credible ; but they have
Ilart,a again say, more especially with regard to our own actually been expending the funds of the society in mak-
kee that there exists an absolute necessity for Govern- ing the fact known. They have resolved that free inquiry
illie 'lnterfering in this matter, and that with promptness
si far that shall not exist. In defiance of public opinion, they say
that medical science shall not be improved, and they
t'sew, contemporary concludes by warning his readers expect with their birch rod to sweep back the tide of in-
tlspe"Proposal " smacks strongly ofd job, as it is shrewdly telligence which they are too blind to see will come in
gt,4Bcted that the proposed Government office, with a and overwhelm them. Let them have a care, however.
and ee°tue salary, is to be created for a particular man, The science of medicine is of all sciences the one which
e' Nethat the 'fittest man forsuch an office is to befound." has made the least pro ress Doctors are still the men
l°,„'lset}e" says he, " Dr. Sheridan MuspraTs apocryphal who " put into a body gofwhich they know little, drugs of
eeseles"laY preclude him from openly or actively putting which they know less ;" and it will not do for them to at-
te 51e c ma
as the only chemist who can set to rights the
tempt to revive. a system. of opposition to free inquiry,
te eees °Lemerce of Liverpool. But his journalistic and other
ki .wey'vrhom he is so incessantly puffed, as scarcely second which even an infallible church cannot now enforce.—Atlas
tpVe)igi great Professor Kant"—we begpardon, Professor TWENTY ULCERS ON THE LEGS CURED BY HOLLO-
till tto beat
stirring in the matter. Withoutany disre- WAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—Extract of a letter from
Mr. 0. B. Knocker, dated Mount Gambia
_South Austra-
ero we checkmate e cvr doctor, we must say, we hope his friends
14' b_lt,
kite did . lia, July 7, 18541.—" To Professor—lialoway.—Sir —A
Ato: did not, as insinuated, put forward the name or
cure has just come under myeerteiervation, in which the
seieereo_Pratt as " the only chemist who can set to rights
efficacy of your Ointment anti Pills has been full proved.
itt; !hat: watt
of Liverpool ;" on the contrary, we
A man of the name ear Joshua Smith had upywards of
te ,lel .y even in the absence of Dr. Muspratt, there
twenty ulcers on hie shins, which were so difficult to cure
e_ree,l44l erpool, other competent men in this branch of
that almost every remedy had been applied without any
lee grits every way qualified to dischare the duties of
It Isom welch ought to be established without delay." good effectr'Your Pills and Ointment were then resorted
‘I tankd Dr mto, andeidabout six weeks he was completely cured, and
, • uspratt as an efficient chemist,—whic 1 .carceii, a mark is to be seen."
't Would be difficult for our contemporary, with '