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LITERARY NOTICE

On the Health of Body and Mind. By Forbes Winslow,
Esq., Surgeon, London. Renshaw, Strand. 1 vol. Svo.
A work with this title has just been published by Mr. F.
Winslow, a practitioner, well known as the author of The
Anatomy of Suicide," and other works of a medical and
popular character. The principal portion of the publication
has a relation to the early detection and early treatment of
disorders of the mind, a class of affections to the study of
which Mr. Winslow is known to have devoted the labours of
a professional life. Mr. Winslow lays down the principle,
that in every case of mental derangement there is a well-
marked early or premonitory stage (not recognised by the
profession as insanity) in which the patient is conscious of
the approach of the malady, and struggles against its en-
croachments. The author of the work before us enters fully
into this interesting subject—the incubation of insanity—
and shows what the early signs are, how they are to be
checked, and what course of treatment, with the view to the
prevention of serious aberration of mind, is necessary. He
maintains, that in this stage a cure may be effected. In-

cipient insanity, in nineteen cases out of twenty, is said to be
curable, provided the patient is conscious of the existence of
nervous disorder, and consents to subject himself to prompt
and efficient medical treatment. Much credit is due to Mr.
Winslow for having, in his " Anatomy of Suicide," as well
as in this work, pointed out the connexion between all
affections of the mind, including the disposition to commit
suicide, and physical derangeme►:ts of the liver, stomach,
brain, and heart. Mr. Winslow's work is full of valuable
information on the subject of latent insanity, and should be
in the possession of every medical practitioner, particularly
those engaged in the treatment of the insane. The author's
observations on the treatment of insanity clearly prove to us
that he speaks from practical experience. Independently of
Mr. Winslow's remarks on the early indications of insanity,
the work contains much important and interesting informa-
tion on the subject of health generally, written in a popular
manner, free from technical phraseology. The essays on
" Longevity," " Malaria," " The Art of Being Ill,"
" Cold," " Asphyxia," and " Death," are replete with
facts which cannot be too generally circulated. Mr. Win-
slow's work cannot fail to add considerably to his character
as a medical man.

VA RIETIES

He that refuseth to buy good counsel cheap, will generally
buy repentance dear.

Contentment without the world is better than the world
without contentment.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to
do with diligence.

Affliction teacheth a wicked person some time to pray ;
prosperity never.

Carefully avoid those vices which most resemble virtue,
they are the most dangerous of all vices.

No one in his heart derides religion long. What are we
—any of us ? Religion will soon be our only care and

friend,

To endeavour to gain the perfect happiness promised in
the next world, is the surest way to gain the greatest happiness
this present world can bestow.
Pride is seldom delicate—it will please itself with very
mean advantages ; and envy feels not its own happiness, but
when it may be compared with the misery of others.

A good man is the best friend, and, therefore, soonest to
be chosen, longer to be retained ; and indeed, never to be
parted with, unless he cease to be that for which he was
chosen.

Boz gives us some new and amusing specimens of the cur-
rent vocabulary of America. "We were a pretty tall time
in coming that last 15 miles—that's a fact." " Pretty loud
smell of varnish, Sir." These are common examples.

PRODUCTIVE LABOUR.—A countryman sowing his field,
two pert fellows riding that way, one of them called to him
with an insolent air, " Well, honest fellow, it is your business
to sow, but we reap the fruit of your labours." To which
the countryman replied, raising his hand to his neck, " Very
loikely, you wull, vor I be sowing hemp."
AN ORNAMENT TO HER SEX.—In " Notes by a Reader
of History," in Fraser's Magazine, we find this curious pas-
sage :—The following is a summary of the exploits of a Queen
of Syria, Cleopatra by name :—she had been the wife of three
Kings of Syria, and the mother of four. Two of her husbands
she had been the death of, and of her sons, one she murdered
with her own hands, and would have served another after
the same fashion, only he poisoned her instead.

BATTLE OF SCORPIONS.—Four scorpions were put into a
hole dug in the earth. They soon began to fight. The mode
was curious. Having two claws like a crab, with these they
attempted to seize each other by the head. When one hap-
pened to be thus caught he seemed sensible of his danger,
and cried out ; but the other, regardless of his cries, turned
round his tail and gave him one sting. The one that was
stung, as if aware of its mortality, resisted no more, but laid
down till he died. The other, as if avrar, of the same thing,
gave himself no further trouble. They all had the same
method of fighting, and all the vanquished acted in the same
manner. The surviving conqueror was put to death, as too
dangerous to be allowed to escapee—Campbell's Travels in
South Africa.
CURIOUS MEANS OF KNOWING THE POSITION OF A
SHIP IN FOGGY WEATHER.—There is a provision (at
Holyhead) for the safety of the packets which attracted my
attention, from never having known anything of the kind in
my life. The Stag Rock, on which the lighthouse is built,
is connected with the main land by a chain bridge. I was
surprised at the number of sea-fowl upon the rock, and asked
why they congregated in such numbers, and were regularly
fed every day. The harbour-master told me that they were
objects of his care and anxiety : for that when the packets in
foggy weather could not make out any land, and finding by
their lead they were close to the shore, they were in the
habit of firing a gun, and at the report the sea-fowl flew up
screaming, and thus indicated the position of the packet in-
stantly. I tried that experiment when I was there, and
found it answer inimitably.—Evidence of Captain George
-Etxmat R.N., before Parliamentary Committee on Post-
office.

INTRODUCTION' OF CHRISTIANITY INTO OTAHEITE.—
Seldom had any enterprise commenced under auspices more
favourable, or that could promise more certain or speedy
success to its authors, than the introduction of Christianity
into Otaheite ; and yet, after all the labours, sacrifice, and
anxiety of twelve years, it arrived at a termination alike
disastrous and fruitless. The missionaries had left their
native land to save the remnant of an interesting people
from destruction, and to promote their temporal as well as
spiritual welfare. But, notwithstanding, their utmost endea-
vours, they had seen the process of depopulation urged on
with a fearful rapidity, by causes which, though they regretted
them, they could neither diminish nor control ; and amidst
anarchy, bloodshed, and all the other horrors of barbarian
warfare, they were ultimately driven from the field where they
had trusted to gain a triumph for the Gospel and the benign
spirit of civilisation. There were many grounds to conclude
that, during the time the mission had existed in Otaheite, the
experiment of raising a savage people to the rank of a
Christian community had been tried and completely failed;
and the result, according to the ordinary grounds of calcu-
lation, might be supposed to demonstrate the impropriety of
expending more labour or money upon an object for the
accomplishment of which it might be asserted, that the time
had not yet come. But, as the darkest hour of night is that
which precedes the dawn of a new da7, so the Bloom now
the E
cast over the missionary cause was about to be followed by a
nxrnevrteiaonnsseinttitehres brighter light than had yet shone upon their e • .
South Sea. Po mare, who . . felt that when
the principal means of impro
left his shores, one of vement bad
le, no sooner
been withdrawn from his p
peothan, in the mosstaw affairs in a
somewhat more settled state,
return.
He was stillearinnedst man-
ner, he invited them to
his paternal dotninioneseda'nan
exile in e,imeo, excluded from
than formerly either to protect
consequently, had less power
them from danger, or to aid their endeavours for spreadin
civilization among his subjects. It is doubtful, too, whether
his favourable thoughts towards the Christian brethren
ought to be ascribed to his late reverses, and to an impres-
he inefficacy of
sion thereby produced, in regard to t
idol-
worship for obtaining supernatural aid ; or whether adversity
did not lead him to reflect on the declarations lie had so often
heard respecting the true God, and to connect his present
condition with a sinful life, of which he had not yet seriously
repented. motive, there
repented. But, whatever may have been the
his spirit,
. and,
at spirit, and,
is no doubt that his fallen estate had subdued h
the same, weakened'the influence which his native
super-
stition had, till then, exercised over his heart. In the
ol.au-
tumn of 1811, the missionaries left their retreat in New H
land. and set sail for the Georgian Isles, the original scene
of their labours. They joined the king in Eimeo, where
they now established a school, and, so far as circumstances
would permit, resumed their wonted course of instruction
in public and in private. It was not long before their pious
efforts were rewarded by a signal triumph of the Christian
faith over the absurdities of idolitary. In July 1812, the
king publicly professed his belief in Jehovah, and his desire
to be baptised into the sublime doctrines and hopes revealed
by the gospel.—Edinbargle Cabinet Library, No. XXXIII.
—Polynesia.

There are at present three Dukes, seven Marquisses,
thirty-one Earls, one Viscount, thirty-five Barons, and five
legal Barons not Judges, in all eighty-two, who owe their
origin to the profession of the law.

At a meeting of the creditors of Raleigh and Co., held
on Friday, at Manchester, the commissioners were unanimous
in their opinion that the Bank of Manchester ought not to
prove on that estate.

A monument to Grace Darling is to be•placed over her
remains, at Bamburgh, and a tablet to be put up in the Fern
Island lig

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per load of 2241b5.

An extensive landholder in Buenos Ayres writes to his
brother in Galloway—" We commenced about the beginning
of the present month (September) to slaughter 4000 bullocks
and 20,000 sheep, for the Liverpool market, to be cured by
the new process of curing.
VISCOUNT MELBOURNE.—His lordship continues to im-
prove in health, but he is not yet able to leave his room, and
it is uncertain when his lordship will remove to town. We
hear that the noble ex-Premier is gradually recovering his
usual gay spirits.

ILLICIT DISTILLATION.—The northwest of Ireland espe-
cially Donegal, and the northern parts of Mayo, are now the
scenes of illicit distillation. on a larger scale than at any time
during the last twenty years, and a number of licenses have
been withdrawn from distillers on the ground of defrauding
the revenue.

LIABILITY OF RAILWAY PROPRIETORS FOR PASSEN-
GERS' LUGGAGE.—In a case before the sheriff of Ayrshire,
it has been ruled that the proprietors of railways are liable
for a reasonable amount of travellers' luggage, when not
booked, but committed to the custody of guards, in conse-
quence of the rule prohibiting passengers from taking their
luggage into the carriages.
DISGRACEFUL ACT.—About 6 o'clock on Sunday evening
some scoundrels cast off the moorings of the floating chapel
(which was on the Severn, near the Grand Stand), and it
came floating down the river. It passed through the bridge,
and was finally brought up off the lower quay, withoutdamage,
so the design of the mischevious individuals was frustrated.
Worcestershire Chronicle.

The Sultan, who will be twenty years of age next April,
has now eight children—two sultans and six sultanas—the
eldest (a son) being two years old, and the youngest (a
daughter) not a month. One of the Sultan's ladies gave
birth to a daughter on the evening of the 18th, an event,
writes our correspondent, " now of weekly occurrence."—
Sun.

THE INDIAN PRISONERS.—A correspondent of the Post
states, that the English prisoners taken by the Affghans, in-
cluding the ladies, concerning whom so much anxiety has
been felt, have been removed by Akhbar Khan to Bameen,
seventy miles to the north-west of Cabool. The removal, it
is stated, has been a consequence of the advancement of the
British forces upon Cabool.
A circumstance of rare occurrence took place at the great
Masonic dinner lately at Spalding, when was observed the
Rev. Mr. Oliver, late curate of Whaplode, aged nearly 90 ;
his son, the Rev. Dr. Oliver; the doctor's son ; and kis son,
the last being 20 years of age—four generations in one family
—all moving in the procession to church—Stamford Mercury.

GIGANTIC FucHsiA.—There is a fuchsia at present grow-
ing in the garden of Mrs. D. Maclean Clephane of Torloisk,
of the uncommon size of 12 feet in height, by 13 feet 4 inches
in circumference. This splendid flower is in full blossom,
and, we should suppose, has hardly its equal in the country.
—lnverness Courier.

REPRESENTATION OF BUTE.—Mr. James Stuart Wortley
has publicly addressed the electors as a candidate for the seat
vacant by the death of the Lord Advocate. "Mv princi-
plea," oayo Mk Worth:, At arc thoec of a niaoarc orvad unal-
terable determination to maintain the fundamental institu-
tions of the country, combined with a ready disposition to the
correction ofabuses as distinguished from wanton innovation.'
Loss OF THE RlCARDo.—Extract from a letter of a Pas-
senger in the Ellenborough, Captain Close, arrived at Cal-
cutta :—" 'We had to witness the loss of the ship Ricardo,
which was in company with us the day before, and next day
struck on a sand-bank and swamped. Out of 30 men on
board her, our boats were enabled to save but 20, the other
poor fellows being drowned or seized by alligators before
they could be rescued."
ETON COLLEGE.—Some cases of fever having occurred
amongst the pupils (two or three of which have terminated
fatally), upwards of 200 of the boys left for their respective
homes during the past week. In all cases of fever manifest-
ing itself at the college there is generally more alarm created
than the circumstances warrant, and it is therefore feared
that the school will be broken up this year long before the
usual period.
THREE BOYS LOST.—About a month ago, three young
boys, named Alexander, John, and William M'Gregor, dis-
appeared from their borne in Allan's Land, Seabraes, Dun-
dee, and have not since been heard of. Alexander and John
are twins, eleven years of age; they wore brown jackets, the
former green trowsers, the latter corduroy. William is only
eight years of age, and wore a brown jacket and black trow-
sers. John's hair is jet black, and that of the others rather
fairer.—Dundee paper.
Last week the London and Birmingham Railway company
brought up the 3rd battalion of Foot Guards (about 500
men), as also a battery of the Horse Artillery, horses, guns,
ammunition, waggons, &c., and a demi-battery of the Royal
Horse Artillery. The company also took forward the 15th
regiment (about 800 men) to replace them, being upwards of
15,000 men in all. Another regiment, besides a large num-
ber of horses, guns, &c., are expected in the course of a day
or two.

THE WINE TRADE.—A gentleman connected with the
Portuguese Wine Trade had an interview last week, with
Lord Aberdeen, on the subject of the Portuguese Tariff, from
whom he learnt that the last proposal of Portugal was reject-
ed, but that negociations were on foot which he had very
sanguine hopes would lead to its adjustment shortly. He
also said that nothing could be done during the recess, from
which we conclude that, under any circumstances, no altera-
tion will be made in the duty of Portugal Wine till the meet-
ing of Parliament.
SACRILEGE.—In addition to the cases of sacrilege at
Chertsey church and the church of St. John, Horseleydown,
which have already appeared in the papers this week, the po-
lice have received information of a similar robbery having
been committed on Friday night at the parish church of
Sandhurst, Berks, when a pewter flagon, a silver plate, and
a silver goblet, with cover, were stolen from the vestry-
room. A reward of twenty guineas has been offered by the
churchwardens for the apprehension of the thieves.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—Both houses met pro
forma on Thursday. and were prorogued to December 13.
The Morning Herald says—The day named being so near the
middle of December, puts out of the question all idea of
meeting before Christmas, even if any such intention had
ever been entertained, which is very problematieal, so long
as the laws were efficient to preserve internal tranquility ;
but it was confidently mentioned about the house that the
parliament would be assembled towards the latter end of
January, to proceed with public business.
THE Two THOUSAND POUNDS ROBBERY,—We under
stand that a portion of the proceeds of this robbery have
lately made their way to the Bank of England, in the shape
of a £5OO pound note. It was paid into the Bank of En-
gland by the Messrs Masterman and Co., bankers, London,
to whom it was paid by the Messrs. Rothschild, the celebra-
ted millionaires who received it from their house in Paris.
It has been conjectured that the note was paid in Paris with-
in forty-eight hours of its being stolen in Preston.
The rumoured resignation of Mr. Horsman, member for
the borough of Cockermouth, to which we alluded some
months ago, has now become almost a certainty. The radi-
cals are not apparently without hopes of inducing Mr. Dykes,
of Dovenby, the present High Sheriff, to contest the bo-
rough ; but the recent registration has so improved the posi-
tion of the conservatives at Cockermouth, that there can be
no doubt of the return of Major General Wyndham, who is
pledged to contest the borough on the first vacancy.—Car-
lisle Patriot.
Two days ago the landlady of a lodging-house in the rue
de Clery, surprised at not having seen for several days two
young females (sisters), one 26 years of age, the other 21,
who lodged in the house, went up to their room, and, find-
ing the door locked, called on the commissary of police, who
broke open the door. The two sisters were found dead,
having committed suicide by the use of charcoal at least ten
days before, as was evident from the advanced stage of de-
composition of the bodies. A new-born child was also found
lying dead by one of the females. A letter was left stating
that they had both quitted their places in consequence of
pregnancy, and had resolved to destroy themselves in order
to hide their shame.

BANK or ENGLAND.—Quarterly Average of the Weekly
Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of England, from the 13th
day of August to the sth day of November, 1842, both in-
Published pursuant to the Act 3 and 4 W. IV.,
e
cap. uv9eg

LIABILITIES.
£19,903,000 I Securiti
9,072,000 I Bullion

£21,934,600
9,789,000