test in this country, there is reason to believe that wherever it has been tried in those analagous cases which have subsequently made their appearance here, and which Dr. Golding Bird describes as having presented themselves at intervals ever since that period, an equal success has been obtained. It is, however, from India that latter evidences have been forwarded on the subject. About nine months back it was announced that the Rajah of Tanjore, struck with the results which he had observed from the action of homeopathic remedies, had erected an hospital in which that treatment was adopted. About the same time, also, an extract of a letter, dated Bombay, from a gentleman in the Company's service, and addressed to a practitioner in London, made its appearance to the following effect:

"I have waited till the last day for posting my letter, to give you the particulars of an event which has created a considerable sensation, and some surprise, amongst the people of Bombay:-but can only inform you that, in the General Military Hospital, homœopathic remedies have been applied with success in the treatment of cholera. My information, which is correct as far as it goes, is, that the number of cases so treated is between twenty and thirty; that all, or nearly all, were cured; and that those were the only cases of successful treatment at that period in the hospital. My informants-several who had access to the most authentic sources-further state, that the medical officer who applied the remedies acknowledged his ignorance of homœopathic practice, and treated his patients, as they express it, from a book.' I am of opinion that this could not have taken place without the sanction of the medical board, and that the practice was urged on them by influential persons not belonging to the profession, several of whom I know are now warm advocates of the system.'

"It is to be regretted that the London medical journals have not thrown any subsequent light on this statement, more especially as it has been affirmed on the very best authority, that similar results have been obtained in another part of the Eastern hemisphere. Dr. Wilson, Inspector

General of Naval Hospitals, appointed by the Government, in 1841, to superintend a large floating hospital during the operations of the British forces in the Chinese seas, in his Medical Notes on China, recently published, says, after three years experience, In the cholera cases [atmospheric and febrile,] the doctrine of the homeopathists, similia similibus curantur, is partly admitted. Whatever may be thought of the theory on which the practice is founded, there is no doubt that the practice is often highly beneficial. At the invasion of many febrile affections, involving important organs, and leading, if not speedily arrested, to dangerous, perhaps destructive lesions of those organs, it often acts with an absolutely curative effect.”

The homœopathic treatment of cholera is detailed in the second volume of the Journal of Health and Disease, p, 214, 215, 216, 217.

BRAIN POWER AND INDUSTRY, THEIR RESULTS.

It is a mental pleasure of the highest order to trace a powerful brain exercising itself in the way of steady industry, overcoming the difficulties of position, and rising to eminence. It must have struck every unprejudiced observer, that the most energetic and the most wealthy of the middle classes have been working men, who, by self-denial, industry, and a wise application of the few means they possessed, made their way onwards. And delightful would it be, were working men, instead of abusing the middle classes, to seek to imitate the examples which daily history is presenting of men, who, like themselves, have gained a high position in society by pursuing a well-directed course. To aid in developing this healthy state of mind, the history of Mr. Crawshay, the great iron founder, is presented. (Extracted from the Daily News, October 1847.)

On Friday Mr. W. Crawshay, the most powerful of " the iron kings" of the principality, gave a sumptuous entertainment to the inhabitants of Merthyr and Dowlais, at the

Bush Hotel, Merthyr. Upon his health being drunk, Mr. Crawshay gave the following graphic account of the rise and progress of his family as ironmasters, and of the gradual progress of the iron trade of South Wales. He said, "I ask not for public life, I never did; my whole object being to enjoy the esteem of those I see before me, and of the men whom I employ; to know that I enjoy their good will is my greatest gratification. God grant that my sons at 60 years of age may receive the same compliment from your successors. My connexion with this place is so well understood that little remains for me to tell you: but, if I do describe to you the first part of my grandfather's life, I trust you will receive it in the way in which I intend it. My grandfather was the son of a respectable farmer at Normanton, in the county of York. At the age of fifteen father and son differed, my grandfather could not agree with his father—the reasons are unknown to me and my grandfather, an enterprising boy, left Normanton for London, and rode his own pony up. When he got to London, which in those days was an arduous task of some fifteen or twenty days' travelling, he found himself as destitute of friends as he possibly could be. He sold his pony for 157., and during the time that the proceeds of the pony kept him he found employment in an iron warehouse, kept by Mr. Bicklewith. He hired himself for three years for 157., the price of his pony. His occupation was to clean the counting-house, to put the desks in order for his master and the clerks and to do anything else he was told to do. By industry, integrity, and perseverance, he gained his master's favour, and in the course of a few months he was considered decidedly better than the boy who had been there before him. He was termed 'the Yorkshire boy;' and the Yorkshire boy progressed in his master's favour by his activity, integrity, and perseverance. He had a very amiable and good master, and at the end of a very short period, before he had been two years in his place, he stood high in his master's confidence. The trade in which he engaged was only a cast iron warehouse, and his master assigned to him, 'the Yorkshire boy,' the privilege of selling flat-irons, the things with

which our shirts and clothes are flattened. The washerwomen of London were sharp folks, and when they bought one flat-iron they stole two. Mr. Bicklewith thought the best person to cope with them would be a person working for his own interest, and a Yorkshireman at the same time. My grandfather sold those articles, and that was the first matter of trading that ever he embarked in in his life. By honesty and perseverance he continued to grow in his master's favour, who, being an indolent man, in a few years retired, and left my grandfather in possession of the cast iron business in London. That business was carried on at the very site where I now spend by days, in York-yard, London. Various vicissitudes in trade took place in the course of time. My grandfather left his business in London and came down here, and my father, who carried it on, supplied him with money almost as fast as he spent it here, but not quite so fast; and it is there I spent my time, engaged in selling the produce of this country, and you know to what extent the iron produce of this country has risen up. My grandfather established the iron works at Merthyr and Cyfartha, but my father was not left the whole of the Cyfartha establishment, he was left only 3-8ths of it, but by purchase he obtained the whole of it, and, by his benevolence, I have succeeded to it. During my time the concern has not diminished, and I pray God it never may diminish: and I hope the rising generation will see that by industry, integrity, and perseverance, wealth and rank in life in the profession they have chosen are attainable by everybody. Who started with humbler prospects than my grandfather? No man in this room is so poor but that he can command 157. I have told you this before; and I am proud of it. Depend on it, that any young man who is industrious, honest, and persevering, will be respected in any class of life he may move in; and do you think, gentlemen, that there is a man in England prouder than I am at this moment?

OPINION AND ITS ENDOWMENT.

Opinion is the product of the mind working.
Its value is in its power of appeal to the mind.

Its power, that is, its intrinsic value, is dependent upon its truthfulness.

Error, which is opinion, has a value; but this is only in the proportion as it has the appearance of truthfulness. As error has a semblance of truth, opinion should be allowed to conflict with opinion in order to test it, to detect the semblance to be but a semblance.

In this way, and in this way only, can truth be rightly perpetuated.

To ENDOW opinion is to seek to perpetuate it by giving it a money value.

Such spurious, such extrinsic value, legally and nationally affixed to it, will give permanence, (supposing the opinion to be unsound,) to error, by bribing the dishonest and influencing the weak to embrace it; and, (supposing the opinion to be sound,) will injure the intrinsic value of the truth by taking away the strength, which, unaided except by its own power, it will always exercise. Its intrinsic value will be jeopardized by its money value.

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CASE OF ERYSIPELAS, (ERYTHEMATOSA,) WITH OTHER

SYMPTOMS.

[Communicated by W. T. PEARCE, Esq.]

Esther S, an unmarried woman, aged 40, (Dec. 7, 1846,) placed herself under homeopathic treatment by a medical student. She complained of an erythema spreading over face and neck, which her former medical man termed St. Anthony's fire, chiefly affecting one cheek and the corresponding side of neck, extending on and below the chin, and sometimes appearing on the other cheek.

Symptom 1. Skin very red and dry.

Symptom 2.

Symptom 3. and when in bed.

Itches severely at times.

Burning sensation when sitting near a fire,

Symptom 4. Swelled occasionally; when swelled, very much inflamed.

Prescribed belladonna, 1-12th, four globules in eight spoon