The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-11 00:00:00

availab

3f the country for

mills offer thems
enable the eultivl

marketable

in the convers

his own spinnir
woodman to or

works, ar*

Ameiica- must

lirected toward

munieations of the

result therefro
to her shiuow

and fn

_ .
tion which takes off upiards of a thousand persons per --is s--
power of female love and devotion ;the memoir
day to people the soil of the United States and British the
America, yet of this vast number only a mere fraction of Columbus is significant of enterprise ; Cicero
proceed direct in British ships to British American ports. represents eloquence and virtuous enthusiasm ;
We have shown above that a large portion of our shipping Socrates calm and dispassionate inquiry ; Cromwell
enter those ports in ballast, thus enhancing the cost of is symbolical of inflexible purpose ; and the other
their homeward cargoes of timber, bre,adstnffs, and other
produce. By-and-by the advantages afforded by the St. names which figure in the volumes have each their
Lawrence route, not only to Canada, but also to the wes- typical significance. In the execution of his self-
tern territory of the United States, will become more ex- allotted task, Lamartine has aimed more at
tensively appreciated ; and the British and colonial ship- dramatic than historic effect, and his success has
)caner will be enabled to compete successfully in a trade been in accordance with his aim. The book will
prove popular and add to his fame.

,ne past ten years,
have been profiting extensively, and almost exclusively.
The diversion of the passenger carrying traffic to British
American ports will at the same time exercise an impor- The Water-Cure in Consumption and Scrofula ,
tant influence in improving the model and build of our an exposition of the Question of their Curability.
colonial ships. A considerable improvement has been By John Balbirnie, M.A., M.D. London :
effected in this direction within the past few years, and Lon mans.
especially since emigration has increased so rapidly to the
gold districts of Australia. The builders in the ports of Efforts to unravel the mysteries of medical
St. John, N.B. and Quebec have of late been producing science date from a very remote antiquity, and.
ships whose performances at sea have not been surpassed although they do not occupy a place in the very
by those either of the mother country or of the United
earliest stages of human inquiry, they are still
States, which pride themselves upon the qualities of their
clipper vessels. Some of the fastest vessels in our Aus- sufficiently ancient to form remarkable means for
tralian merchant fleet are of colonial build ; and this estimating the progress of several branches of
branch of industry promises to become one in which a far intellectual development from a very early period
- - - - - -

from which t

..
greater amount of labour and capital will be employed, In tracing this development it is not a
little singu-
than was the case when the colonial builders studied only
lar to observe the connexion which, nearly all
to secure great carrying capacity at the lowest possible
rove-
through the course of investigation and imp
cost of construction.
With such inducements before him, it is no won-
meet, has been maintained between pharmacy and
cation f water as a ag. Te
der that the attention of the intending emigrant is the appli
Asclepia, or `Temples ofcurative
ent
Health,' scatterehd
more and more directed to Canada as his future
home ; and when these advantages are better known through Greece among the classic and even the
the tide of emigration will be chiefly directed heroic ages, were frequently, if not generally,
situated in the vicinity of springs, many of
towards this improving colony. After an ingenious
these, no doubt having their waters impreg-
letter to Eusebius on Riddles, we have an enter-
taining running commentary on " Evelyn and nated with mineral agents, and from which
n
Pepys, ' whose chronicles afford more real insight no small amount of their pharmaceutical value was
into the condition of England after the Restoration unquestionably derived, but even to the present
than any histories of the period can do. We pass day it has not been definitely settled how much of
over the the sanitary influence has been directly traceable
Manor," second part of " The Secret of Stoke
which is, in reality, a commencement of to the mineral agency, how much to the mechanical
the " family history," agency of the water with the remark that it givespursuing the history
good promise of being attractive. "The Battle of alone. In
of medical research, every one must admit the
Lepanto" is an elaboration of an incident in that truthful significance of the aphorism of Hippo-
interesting period of history when the Venetians crates, the father and founder of medical science,
fought for Christendom against the Turks ,• and " Life is short, and Art is long," and this signi-
existing circumstances give an additional interest ficance will be doubly clear when it is borne in
After several pieces of poetry, mind that the author of the aphorism was contem-
pt to render into metre a spirit- porary with the Prophet Malachi, and that even
kg,to the present day, notwithstanding an almost
Jf Schamyl, the Circassian prophet
at
warrior, the unremitted investigation, the elementary principles
amber concludes with an ably written
the European Alliance and of therapeutic art are still matters of dispute.
political essa. on. " .
Russia." It -npossible to do justice to it by " Who shall decide when doctors
question too trite to disagree ?" is a
a
our space will permit, but we require repetition, but it is
anv extract v one which
careful perusal to every one tends in no small degree to puzzle plain-
the course of the present
mindedhence theni eTivupon a very important subject
'or speaks approvingly
time to t" diversity of curative means which from
and gives 1 time, find eloquent advocates among me-
Austria,mea practitioners and ready patrons in
the ranks
of a greatly-perplexed, though deeply-interested
nublic.

to the
includin4

attem

stirring address

who fakes a

war with Russia. Th

of the

satisfactory

Poland

t a rest(
•eadjusti

he territorial arrangements
treaty of Vienna. He enters

The class of diseases more particularly referred
to by Dr. Balbirnie in the volume now under con-
sideration, were long deemed hopelessly incurable,
and yet that clinging to life and those sympathies
which confer upon it most, if not all, of its charms,
have prompted effort after effort for subduing the
destroyers. These efforts, we are now told in
many and respectable quarters, have happily
of Celebrated Characters. By Alphonse
resulted in the discovery of means by which even
de Lamartine. London :R. Bentley.
the fell attacks of consumption may be repelled,
,se two volumes of memoirs are interesting and the insidious ravages of Scrofula evaded.

'uroPean State
interest 9•1 all

modern days-,--wi
icated by adulat

arIOUS

e against the Attila of
d by his spies and intox- I wuicj

the fae€

Different classes of medical practitioners (for we
speak not here of those empirics who claim the
knowledge of a remedy for every human ill) seek
the attainment of so desirable an object by dif-
ferent means ; and while one finds his assumed pal-
ladium in one agent or course of treatment, another
rests his hopes of success in the employment of
others ; yet all of them agree in several points.
These may be briefly stated as consisting in the
employment of moderate and frequent, "but not
exhaustive exercise—in securing a plentiful supply
of pure air, and in the temperate use of a generous
diet. The application of any, or even of all of
these, is not pretended to be sufficient for removing
the dangers of hereditary taint, but a careful
observance of them will, it is reasonably averred;
be grpatly conducive to modifying the effects of
that taint where it already exists, and in averting
its approach where under other circumstances it
might find ready access. In advocating the water
treatment for the cure of consumption, Dr. Bal-
birnie enters minutely into a consideration of the
pathology of the disease, and insists with philo-
sophic firmness upon the importance of dietetic
This is well put in the following re-
marks on

influence

THE INFLUENCE OF FOOD AS AN EXCITING CANS
OF CON3UMPTION AND SCROFULA.

Ly scanty nutriment, or the use of food deficient

.e quanti

and quality of its staminal principles, is so
frequent an antecedent of consumption, that it must be
regarded in the light of an exciting cause of the tubercu-
lous constitution. Indeed scrofula is the peculiar appanage
of the ill-fed. Early improper feeding, if it does not
destroy life, sows the seeds of scrofula. Bringing infants
up by hand is an unnatural mode of nutrition, and pre-
pares the constitution for present scrofula or future con-
sumption. The shape and nature of the blood-corpuscles
are altered in young animals fed on other substances than
_. Defective milk will produce emaciation and debility,
and sow the seed of tuberculous modifications of the blood
and other diseases. The maternal milk is scarcely substi-
tutable—cows' milk differs materially from woman's. It
contains more than twice the amount of proteine and less
oil and sugar; besides it is generally a mixture of the
milk of many cows—a circumstance likely to derange the

digestion of an infant. Moreover cows are often diseased
—those almost always which are kept in large towns and
stall fed. Milk that has stood some time, and milk from
the beast are very different things. With loss of tempera-
ture the former loses the halitus in which its piquancy
resides, and from that time also chemical changes and de-
composition begin.

. -
It is probable that the influence of diet in the produc-
tion of consumption and scrofula has been exaggerated.
In the alleged cases combined agencies complicate the
result. Wherever insufficient diet operates, there are
also at work with it vitiated air, filth, want of exercise,
cold, humidity, depressing passions, intemperance, and
misery. Now who shall affirm, in the midst of such a
combination of anti-hygienic influences, that bad diet is
the most important factor of the morbid elements ? The
perfect function of the lungs—the blood-making process
duly completed and perfected—is the grand counteractive
of bad qualities of food. But this obviously can operate
only within certains limits. Blood doubly deteriorated by
insufficient food and vitiated air is perhaps the most effi-
cient cause of the tuberculous taint. _ _

A very scanty and apparently innutritious diet oft
suffices for the perfect nutrition of sound bodies placed in
favourable hygienic circumstances. Instances of this
occur in the fare of agricultural labourers as contrasted
with the diet of the better classes of workmen in great
towns. It is the healthfulness and energy of the system
generally that determines the sort of nutriment to be ex-
tracted from food. The strong stomach of the rustic will
elaborate vigorous blood from materials on which the
pampered cit would starve, or which would kill him with

indigestion

The evils of improper and excessive feeding among the
children of the rich are often as grave as, if not graver
than, the want of due nourishment among those of the
poor. Pampering the appetite in youth often ruins di-
gestion for life. The result of all injudicious feeding is
to dispose the system to produce lowly-organized tissues,
instead of the highly-animalized structure essential to
vigorous constitutions. Excessive abstemiousness is quite
as great a bane in its way—especially in growing youths—
destroying first the tone of the digestive organs, and pav-
ing the way insensibly for the inroads of consumption.

While thus enlarging on the value of a properly
regulated diet, and adducing warnings against
what may not inaptly be termed whimsicalities in
food, such as vegetarianism and other unitarianisms
in feeding, the doctor is not blind to the advantages
of healthful recreation, and gives the annexed illus-
tration of how

SEDENTARY HABITS OPERATE AS A CAUSE OF CON-

SUMPTION AND SCROFULA

In a parochial school of twenty-seven girls, well-fed,
clothed, lodged, and tended, seven becaine afflicted with
scrofula, although all were free from the disease when ad-
mitted. Inquiry showed that there was no neglect or de-
fect of the conditions of health but one, viz. SEDENTARY
LIFE. The use of their small playground had been de-
barred them during the preceding winter and spring, by
reason of heavy rains which flooded it. The schoolmistress
had received orders to keep the children strictly confined
within doors at their tasks—a discipline which totally
deprived them of the exercise they had been accustomed
to. Shortly after this, scrofula began its ravages! The
most instructive circumstance in this case, is this, that
before the privation of

exercise not one was affected with
the disease, yet during this period of exemption they had
been so neglected in their diet, that the superintendent
was dismissed from her situation, on account of the bad-
ness of the provisions she catered for them ! But her in-
attention had its merit physiologically—the children had
full liberty to romp and exercise out of doors as they
listed—a compensating weight thrown blindly into the
scale of evil, and to which they owed their good health !
In another school where thirty girls, fed in the best possi-
ble manner ; of these, six were badly affected with scrofula,
although free when admitted. There was no yard or
playground, and the children were obliged to remain in
the school, or in their bed-rooms, during play hours !
These cases demonstratively prove how much more potent
a cause of scrofula is defective exercise than defective diet.

Having said so much of the book as to its ge-
neral excellence, and its concurrence in the views
of others, what shall we say of its peculiar claims
to consideration, namely, its advocacy of the water
agency ? On this subject we fear it would be un-
safe to say more than that it is the curative means
recommended by Dr. Balbirnie, a gentleman who
has established claims upon public consideration
by a careful study of his subject, and a temperate
elucidation of his views.

EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT
ABDUCTION.

A local journal, the Tipperary Free Press, furnishes
the following particulars of a most extraordinary outrage
committed on Sunday week, near Clonmel :
" For some time put, Miss Arbuthnot, daughter of the
late Mr. George Arbuthnot, of Elderslie, Surrey, has been
on a visit with her sister, who is married to the Hon.
George S. Gough, the son and heir of the hero of Sobraon,
and who resided at Rathronan-house, distant about two
miles from Clonmel. This young lady, who is reported to
be the possessor of a large fortune, has had several admirers,
among whom was Mr. John Carden, Justice of the Peace,
and Deputy-Lieutenant of Barnane, Templemore, a gentle-
man of considerable property, and held in general esteem
throughout the locality where he resided.
" On Sunday last Mr. Carden proceeded to Rathronan
Charch, where he attended service, at which Miss Arbuth-
not and her sister, the Hon. Mrs. Gough, were present.
While the congregation were in church, a groom was ob-
served leading a very handsome pair of horses along the
road—a carriage, too, was stationed a short distance off,
to which a pair of thoroughbreds were harnessed, and six
strange men were noticed as loitering about, having ap-
parently no particular business in the neighbourhood.
When service was at an end, Mr. Carden was observed
to walk towards the horses, and to carefully examine their
housings, &c., looking to the tightness of the girths and
the freedom of the reins. At the same time the strange
men were observed to draw near to the church-yard gate,
and in a short time Mrs. Gough's car made its appearance.
In it there were but the two sisters—the Hon. Capt. Gough
being in Dublin. Fortunately for Miss Arbuthnot she sat
furthest in the car, which, when passing Mr. Carden, was
stopped by one of his men, and he himself rushed to the
door and attempted to seize the lady. She screamed
loudly and struggled hard against him, and her cries im-
mediately brought to her assistance several of the congre-
gation, including some of the retainers at Rathronan, who
sturdily battled for the sister of their lady. A determined
and serious conflict then ensued. Mr. Carden and his men
were armed with pistols and skull-crackers'—the defend-
ers with sticks, stones, and such other available weapons
as chance threw in their way. While Mr. Carden held
Miss Arbuthnot in his arms, he was struck down by a blow
of a stone, and then seeing they were every moment in-
creasing, Mr. Carden's men covered his retreat to the
carriage (Capt. Gough's car with its fair inmates, who were
half dead with terror, having in the mean time driven off
to Rathronan,) which he entered, and two men having
mounted the saddle horses the party set off at a speed that
seemed to defy pursuit.
" Measures were now taken to secure the fugitives, and
despatches were at once sent off to this town and to Cashel ;
and a party of police proceeded in all haste to Rathronan,
and Mr. Fosbery departed with some mounted constables
in pursuit. Sub-inspector M`Cullagh had given chase be-
fore Mr. Fosbery arrived, and with three mounted police
galloped at top speed for a dozen miles without drawing
bridle rein, and when nearing Farney Castle, came in
sight of the object of their search. Mr. M'Cullagh seized
the horses' heads, and ran them into the ditch, while the
constables drew their swords and prepared for the encounter.
Two men jumped from the dickey of the carriage and
showed fight, but one was immediately knocked heels over
head by the flat edge of a sabre. A police barrack was
within a stone's throw, and the force having turned out to
the aid of their comrades, Mr. Carden and his men sur-
rendered, were disarmed, and marched prisoners back to
Cashel.
_ " A six-barrelled revolver, a double-barrelled pistol, and
a life preserver were taken from the person of Mr. Carden,
who now proceeded quietly with his captors. He was on
Monday morning conveyed to Clonmel, whence he was
committed to stand his trial for attempted forcible abduc-
tion. Mr. Carden was conveyed in his carriage to the
county goal, where he was given into the custody of the
governor. On Monday afternoon, three men—Henry
Atkinson, Patrick Keuneally, and James Atkinson (the
latter of whom was wounded)—were brought in custody to
the police-office, charged with aiding and abetting Mr.
Carden, and were consigned to Clonmel gaol."

A slum emigration agent at Wisbeach has been sent
to prison for six months, for obtaining money under the
false pretence of obtaining a pa,ssage to Australia