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cording to my opinion , every stranger residing in England exercises but his own light , whatever the reasons of his residence , and whatever his opinions may be . A stranger has as much , right to reside in England as an Englishman has to reside in Italy , Germany , or Hungary , &c . ; and if they say to me that here we are free and there they are slaves , I answer that for the present the Government of those countries , though illegal because not acknowledged by the public opinion ,. must be respected by the Englishmen who go there , just as we residing in England must respect the laws of this country , though some of them are unjust . If the hospitality means the sympathy expressed by the English democracy for all the political refugees ; then I assure you that we are all grateful for it . —I am , Sir , P . Caruso , Advocate , an Italian refugee .
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HOMOEOPATHY . 41 , Lud ^ ate-street , St . Paul ' s , NoTember 11 , 1851 . Sra , —As a humble minister of the therapeutic gospel of homoeopathy , I thank you for the valuable articles on that subject , which you have published in your leading columns . Not Ipbs thankful am I for the opportunity you have afforded two of the opponents of homoeopathy , "Video" and Hephaistes , " to expose the weakness of their cause in your "Open Council" of the 1 st and the 8 th instant . " Video ' s " flatulent dogmatism has received a dignified reproof from your correspondent " Earnest . " Will you now permit me to analyse the indictment preferred by " Hephaistes" against my colleagues and their system , and to show what skimble-skamble stuff Allopathy can talk with a grave face , and fancy all the while , poor dear old dotard , that she is giving utterance to earth-shaking oracles ?
It is not often our opponents venture upon the perilous field of argument . Abuse is easier and safer , and they generally stick to it . When they do pretend to argue , they invariably make liberal use of that kind of sophism technically called ignoratio elenchi , which means the trick of falsifying your adversary ' s case , imputing to him doctrines he never professed , and claiming the honours of victory when you have demolished your own flimsy fabrication . " Hephaistes" deals largely in this sort of false logic . Perhaps he cannot help it . For my part , I can easily forgive a man for misrepresenting my meaning who does not know his own , or cannot express it intelligibly , not to say grammatically .
1 . " Hephai 6 tea says that homoeopathy " denies all the established laws of physics and chemistry . " That is not true : it admits them all . 2 . He says , " it asserts that matter of a certain kind , and almost of every kind , increases in power as it decreases in bulk . " That is not true . Homoeopathy makes no such assertion . Moreover its axioms are expressed with philosophical precision , and not in such slipslop as " Hephaistes" writes . " We know the contrary , " he continues . "We know that the greater the quantity" ( before it was bulk )
. ' The electrical power of a body , if that means its capacity for receiving and giving off free electricity , varies as its surface , and not as its quantit } r . 11 Matter , " lie says , " acts physically in proportion to its quantity . ' Electric matter does not act in proportion to its quantity alone ; but in a ratio compounded of its quantity and its intensity . . 5 . lie says homoeopathitits assert that " minuteness gives power . " That ia not true . No such ambiguous proposition is contained in the homceop ' . uliie ^ creed . What does he mean by power ? Power is a relative term , and among the things it
relates to is some effect or other to be produced . Minuteness will not give to a bar of steel the crushing power of a sledge hammer ; but the minuteness of a couching needle ' s point ia one of the elements of itH power of penetrating the coatB of the eyo without rending or contusing them . The true artist economises power ; the bungler { i . e ., the allopathist ) uses it in pernicious excess . The homceoputhist Jtmiimhes the doHct ) of his medicines down to a point short of that ut which their curative power ceusea ; but far beyond that at which their power of injuring tho patient vanishes . Ho finds by hourly experience , independently of all speculative
reasoning , that iiv the proceaH ol uimiimhing the dose the latter limit is attained much sooner than the former . Ho limits , too , by hourly experience that whilst the {// munition of hia do . sca tlmn inereusoa their curative power relatively , their rummiiiution incre ;» He » that power positively—that it dynamizes them ( notd ynanmtizeu , as " Jlephuistett" writes . Plain KngliHh Air . Smith mig ht bo excused for aucli u Holecimn ; but . Smith , sublimated into " HeplmiHtoH" ought to bo better up in hit * Greek ) . lie , therefore , lays it down as an axiom , that the diminution and comminution of specific medicines ( for none other aro homujopathie ) within limitH not yet practically determined , do greutly increase their curative power .
4 . lie ]) haittte » nayn that we homruopatlutitH " use Hnuill quantities , but of t he mostpowcrful medicines , an much of thorn an tho faculty dare to do . . . . such powerful UMidicincu that small quantities aro alone possible ) . " That is untrue , flagrantly untrue , both in spirit and in , tho lotftfr . Xf it were true , hi « catfo would ' .. fall to
the ground by his own showing ; for the gravamen of his indictment against tts is that our doses are million - fold smaller than those which allopathists prescribe . It is true , but not in the sense in which he puts it , that we use most powerful medicines . All our medicines are in our hands most powerful to cure , because we know how to apply them rightly , but many of them consist of substances disdained by the old school as feeble or totally inert . What does that school know of the natural magic latent in an oyster shell , in the point of a blacklead pencil , or in a bit of burnt beefsteak ? , Du reste , your readers will not have failed to notice the supergenteel air of this writer in the arbitrary and exclusive use he makes of the denomination " the faculty . " I am afraid I must set this down as rather snobbish .
5 . He commends the dietary of the homoeopatmstS j but says they attribute its effects to their medicines . " That is not true . Their well-attested success in rapidly subduing the most violent acute diseases , in relieving strangulated hernia without the fearful and uncertain aid of the knife , in the medical treatment of lying-in women , of infants at the breast , and of domestic animals , can by no possibility be due to the effects of diet . 6 . Lastly , he denounces homoeopathy as a spurious science , " which has avowedly a mere theory for its
foundation , not yet supported by facts , but contradicting known facts . " And that is not true . HomoBopathists make no such avowal . On the contrary , they hold that no man who had fairly studied the history of their science , could fail to see in it a most beautiful example of the inductive method of philosophy . The misfortune is that our opponents will not engage in that study . In the true spirit of allopathists , whose practice is founded on a priori reasoning , they try homoeopathy , not by the test of experiment , but by that of their own preconceived
opinions . So much , Sir , for what homoeopathy is not ; if your allopathic readers desire to know what it is , they will find plenty of competent persons among my professional brethren always ready to afford them that information . If the allopathists are so well assured of the truth of their doctrines as they tell us they are and so sineere in their pity for our deluded followers why do they not meet us in a full and public discussion and expose , if they can , the hollowness of our pretensions ? Any of them who are willing to make the attempt , shall have the opportunity afforded them if they will communicate their wishes to , Your obedient servant , Walter K . Kelly , MB .
" the greater the power , and m exact proportion " the greater tho power , and in exact proportion
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Noi-ember 5 , 1851 . Sir , —Thanks to you for devoting the space you have to this subject . I say so because " Video " who calls it humbug , and thinks he argues when he calls names , lias given you a specimen of Allopathic rebuke forgetting to reason . Allopathists think they cure when they torture ; that they strengthen by weakening , and set men up by bleeding and drastics . " Video " tells us that Liebig says homoeopathy is humbug ; he wishes us to infer that allopathists should leech , bleed , and purge us , and that when we see our infant children restored to us by mild and gentle means , we should believe they are cured by the force of imagination !
If wo were to believe this , should we or " Video ' be entitled to the name of " Johnny Green ? " I am sorry he is so unripe as to think that he can make drastics go down by scolding those who won ' t gulp them . Poor Video ! he can ' t see that if imagination can cure us we need conjurors and not allopathista . I ^ dward Search .
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BAKUNIN , THE RUSSIAN MARTYR . MiMH'hline , Ayrshire , November 11 , 1851 . J 3 ih , —I have read with painful emotion the notice in your paper of the execution of John Bakunin , the glorious llussian Republican . I pray you to obtain and publish in your paper the date , that it may be remembered , and the particulars , that they may be borne in mind , of the hero ' s martyrdom . My heart is wrung with grief . Once , and onco only , and but for a few moments , I met Bakunin . It was at the olKce of the He' / brma , in Paris , a few days after the February revolution . It was evening , and seeing him but for a lew moments , by a not very brilliant gaslight , my recollection of him is too imperfect to enable mo to minutely describe hia person . I remember , however , that he left upon my mind the impression of being one of the lioblentlooking beings ( he was very tall ) my eyes over saw . The DtnwFcrata , and the National have reminded Europe how he combated with tongue , jmd pen , and a word , for liberty and universal justice ; . On tho barricades of Dresden he , wan the bravest of the brave . Vanquished by tho homicidal mcreeniiries of that pair of liberal Hcoundrels , the kings of Saxony and Prussia , he ; wan drugged from dungeon to dungeon , and transferred from king to kaiser , and from Imiscr to autocrat , until , after suffering tortures which , in all probability , will be found on inquiry , to have equalled those inflicted on Konainki , Hakunin found relief from , his Biifltforinjrs at tlie hand of the executioner .
Hb chain * are broken ; the Wood-drops of jmjirv stand upon his brow no more j— y » 3 ony " Andh , \ / eedom ' s now , and Fame's One of the few immortal names That were not born to die . " Again I entreat you to public the particulars of Bakt inm ' s martyrdom ( one of a multitude of i » art * m 1 that the democracy of Europe may know , treasure » n and avenge . * *» Not many years ago we were vwited by the king of Prussia , the king of Saxony , and the accursed Tsar Would to God they would repeat their visit ! Son £ signal lessons are needed to strike terror to the souls of these royal murderers . O thou redressor of the wronged , thou consoler of the afflicted , thou terror to tyrants , Nemesis named , hasten th y conquering foot steps , make bare thy red right hand ! Gr . Juxian Harney .
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MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE r , , , ,, ... Saturday . Consols gradually rose early in the week . On Monday they were quoted at 98 | 1 ; and by Thursday they had reached 98 f | . The closing prices yesterday were—Consols , 984 §> a decline of one eighth . It is reported by the sagacious , that we are about to witness a mining mania , owing to the plethora of capital in the City . Remember railways in ' 45 . The fluctuations of the week have been , Consols 98 £ 4 ; Bank Stock , 214 to 215 j Exchequer Bills , 52 s . to 55 s . premium .
Foreign Stocks were yesterday officially quoted at the following prices : —Mexican , 24 $ and f ; Portuguese Four per Gents ., 33 | j Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents ., 102 |; Sardinian Five per CteatB ., 82 J ; the Scrip , 34 discount ; Spanish Five per Cents ' for woney , 20 |; for the account , 20 $ ; Passive , 5 ; Spanish Three per Cents ., for money , 39 ; for the account , 39 $ ; Veaezuela , 36 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents ., 59 ; and the Four per Cent . Certificates , 901 and 3 .
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, , , » BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE PAST WEEK . , ( Closing Prices . )
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FOREIGN FUNDS . ( Last Official Quotation ( hiring the Week ending Friday livening . ) Austrian 5 pcrCents . — Mexican 5 per Ct . Aoo . 24 # Belgian Bds ., < M p . Ct . 90 Small .. .. 2 l > 8 Brazilian 5 por Cent * . 88 g Neapolitan 5 per Cents . — Buenos Ayres ( 5 p . Cts . 44 Peruvian 4 . J per Cents . 87 j f Chilian 6 per Cents . .. 1014 Portuguese 5 per Cent . —• Danish A per Cent * . .. 10 ' 4 ' tporCtft . JJt Dutch 2 k por Cents ... 5 J > Annuities --4 per Cents . .. 90 g Russian , 1822 , 1 } p . Cta 102 J Ecuador Bonds .. 3 ? 8 pau . Actives , ft p . Cts . ~«* French 5 p . C . An . atParia 90 . 70 Pasaivo .. <> 3 p . Cts .. Juljll , 5 b . l 0 Defamed .. —
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Salur . Mond . Tue * . fPcdtt . Thurt . Frid . ! Bank Stock .... 214 214 2143 : : 3 per Ct . Red .. 97 f 974 97 * 97 | 97 | 97 J 3 p . C . Con . Ans . 97 J 98 | 98 98 g 98 1 . ' 9 & $ 3 p . C . An . 172 S . — 3 p . Ct . Con ., Ac . 98 981 98 98 JJ 98 | 98 * 3 J p . Cent . An . 98 f ' 98 § 98 f 98 ^ 98 } 98 ^ New 5 per Cts . — ¦ ¦ —— Long Ans . , 186 ( 1 . 7 6 7 7 6 Ind . St . IO 4 p . ct . 264 2644 2 C 4 | Ditto Bonds . . 59 p 59 p 63 p 59 p 59 p 61 p Ex . Bills , UH ) 0 l . 51 p 55 p 57 p 55 p 55 p 64 J > Ditto , 5 . w » . .. 54 p 55 p 5 . p 55 p 55 p 54 p Ditto , Sinai 51 p 55 p 57 p 55 p 55 p 54 p
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CORN EXCHANGE . Maek-Lane , Friday , November 14 . —The aupplies o grain during the week have been moderate > and prices are firmly maintained . Arrivals from November 10 to November 14 . En lwh . Irish . Fo "& ' Wheat .. .. 2170 J 2 JW Barley .. .. 31 . ' 5 O JJ 7 » Oats .. .... 320 8330 5490
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 15, 1851, page 1096, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1909/page/20/
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