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*has taken three dozen calomel pills, ten dozen draughts, five dozen boluses; using several embrocations, and at intervals, other remedies."

"It is extraordinary that he recovered."

"Quite so, your ladyship-at one time I had very little hope-obliged to stop all medicines-began almost immediately to rally, and is now able to walk about."

"In spite of your active treatment, doctor."

"Ha ha! very good your ladyship, very good-what pungency in your wit-something of the gentian quality about it; but for the sweetness, 'the saccharum album' of your ladyship's disposition, your shafts would be quite overpowering-like Cupid you wound with a golden arrow. But my Lady Jane,

how does she like her new lover?"

"He is a very agreeable old man," interrupted Lady Jane, "at least mainma says so-although I do not see much to admire in him."

"Quite candid, my Lady Jane."

"I shall never expect to be happy with him."

"Oh, my dear lady Jane, happiness is out of all modern dictionaries."

"My daughters do not think so," interrupted the Countess Millars."

“Oh do not mind such strange opinions, my lady; they are caused by a slight dyspeptic attack affecting the organ of selfesteem, and will soon pass away.-Oh! by the bye, your ladyship, an ingenious friend of mine has effected a most valuable discovery."

"What is that, pray, doctor?"

"An embrocation which, when applied to any particular organ in the head, causes an extraordinary developement of the corresponding faculty, it is expected to produce the most extraordinary effects on society, and will, I have no doubt, supersede our modern systems of education."

How so pray?"

"Thus, your ladyship; take any person whose disposition you wish to change, or whose faculties you wish to improve: you have only to apply the embrocation over the particular organs indicated-they become rapidly developed, and the whole system is changed. The author expects to make poets, philosophers, statesmen, indeed, all descriptions of persons, which the exigencies of the time may require, and to any ex

tent. One young lady of my acquaintance, on whom the embrocation was applied over the organ of poetry, composed a beantiful stanza on her lap-dog, a few moments after."

"That is extraordinary, indeed."

"Still more extraordinary-an incredulous friend, in ridicule, applied it over the organ of benevolence in a statue of Hercules; next morning a mark appeared in the place, and Hercules's club was found broken. I do not exactly say that this was caused by the embrocation altogether, but the coincidence was certainly extraordinary."

"How is it received by the fashionable world?"

"With the greatest delight, your ladyship: it is generally regarded as the greatest boon that has ever been conferred upon man. My friend has already made a host of converts, my Lord Weathercock, the Marquis of Skylark, Sir Francis Blunder, and many others, who have taken him by the hand, and intend obtaining for him Her Majesty's patronage."

"Can you explain, doctor, how the embrocation acts?" Oh, very simply, your ladyship; through mesmeric influences-by the agency of animal magnetism, and the preponderance of electric developement in the system."

"It will cause quite a sensation in the beau monde, and scientific world."

"Quite so; and but for the unfortunate appearance of the new planet at the same moment, (another singular coincidence) it would have been, by this time, generally acknowledged as a great public benefit, and a parliamentary grant conferred on the talented discoverer. But your ladyship must excuse meI must take my leave, as I have a consultation at one."

"Shall we see you at Almack's to-morrow evening, doctor." "I fear not, your ladyship."

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"To be candid with your ladyship, for I conceal nothing from my kind patroness the Countess Millars, tients has died lately, and I feel I cannot go after."

"Indeed not well-we must observe the rules of society." "His decease has cast quite a damp on my spirits: ha! poor fellow! He was one of my best patients, and I thought he should have held out through the dull season at least. I wish your ladyship good morning."

"I shall see you again soon, doctor."

In a day or two, your ladyship."

"Let me know about your patient, Lord Totter; may we hope to see him soon."

"In the course of a few days, I have no doubt. I have put him on a course of bark, from which I expect the best results he shall pay my Lady Jane a visit on the first opportunity."

Doctor Squill took his leave of the Countess and her daughters, and left Grovesnor-Square in his Brougham, which he had scarcely entered before he had pulled forth a copy of the "Medical Times" several years old, and commenced to pretend to read.

The Countess Millars addressed her daughters: "Now, my dears, retire and get yourselves ready; it is near one o'clock, and I have ordered the carriage at two. This, you know is Wednesday-benevolent day-and I have to visit the different charitable societies of which I am lady patroness, namely, the Caffre Civilisation Society-the Italian Organ-boys' Protection Association-the Anti-Siberian Slavery Society, and the Esquimaux Moral Improvement Association-what a delightful task, to rescue these ignorant creatures, these wretched savages, from the darkness in which they are sunk, and share with them the blessings of modern civilisation, and the truths of Christianity.-That recalls to my mind the distressed widow Mrs. Jones has Fidelle given her the mendicity ticket I ordered her?"

"Oui, madame," replied Fidelle, who had just entered the room to wait on her young mistresses.

Another hour passed, and the Countess Millars and her daughters drove from their door in Grosvenor-Square, on their benevolent mission. They passed many squalid figures, and gaunt faces, and emaciated frames, which craved with an hundred tongues their charity-they wondered what the Mendicity Society were about, or what the workhouses were built for.

IRELAND AND THE IRISH.

BY TRIBUNUS.

Article I.-Land.

THE great evil of Ireland is, and has ever been, the great competition which exists in that country for land.

This competition is not voluntary, but forced upon the people by their necessities. In other countries, in England and Scotland at least, the peasantry have other resources: if agriculture be not sufficient to employ their surplus population, the manufactures may be resorted to for employment; if these be already filled, the mines, canals, and other public occupations afford a means of support to the industrious; if all these fail, the poor laws and the workhouses give to the necessitous relief and a shelter.

The Irish people want all these resources (with the exception of scanty poor laws within these few years past): there, neither manufactures, mines, nor other occupations are to be found, whereby the people may toil and live, if they should fail in procuring a patch of land, to provide for themselves and their families.

The owner of the land, or landlord, sees or has seen this, and accordingly has taken advantage of it. The dense population of the country, (Ireland is, excepting Belgium, the most densely populated country in Europe), and their want of other means of support, has thrown the people into the landlord's hands; he offers his land to public competition; one bids against the other, until the highest bidder, and perhaps most distressed of the expectants, obtains the prize, at a rent many times above its value.

Who can wonder at the result? The peasant tills the ground; if the season be prosperous and the crop productive, he lives, and pays his rent; if otherwise, the latter is unpaid, he lives on his crops, if it be possible for him to do so, and disputes with his landlord the possession of his only means of subsistence. The landlord applies to the law for assistance, which grants him the police and military, and the poor peasant is driven from his home, a wanderer to perish.

Where lies the fault?

The landlord lets his land at an exorbitant rent; but has he not a right to bring his goods to the best market and sell them to the highest and best bidder ?

This is a principle, the abstract justice of which, no one can question; and yet the practical results of which, in this and other instances must be prevented or averted by the state.

This may be done without directly interfering with the liberty of the subject, namely the landlord, in disposing of his goods in the best market. It is done by rendering the peasant so far independent, as not to be constrained to offer more than a fair price for the land. This is accomplished by a judicious but not extravagant poor law, which gives the landlord the option of permitting the peasant to cultivate the land at a fair rent, or of supporting the said individual at his own private expense, in or out of the workhouse.

But some will say this is interference with private property, although indirectly accomplished. It may be so; but state policy demands it for the general good, and applies the same policy to a much wider extent.

If the seller be allowed to sell his goods on the best terms, assuredly the buyer has an equal right to purchase in the best and cheapest market.

Are we permitted to purchase sugar in this manner, or brandy, or rum, or bread, or tobacco, or two thirds of the commodoties of life? Assuredly not: we are restrained by differential duties, and other fiscal regulations, to pay for a worse article, a higher price, and to what end? Simply to put certain sums into the pockets of West India planters, and others; who thus receive under the term "PROTECTION TO COMMERCE, TRADE, &c. &c.," a heavy per-centage above the actual value of their produce, in the market of the world.

Is the West India planter to be deemed worthy of protection and the Irish peasant to be denied any share in the protective influence of the State?

This principle is carried out in the management of more internal affairs; the monied, manufacturing, commercial, landed, and other interests, all receive their share, indirectly, or directly, of this protection from the State.

Ireland will never be powerful, or prosperous, until her great practical grievances shall be redressed; and we know of no more practical grievance than want of food, want of clothing, and want of shelter.

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