1826.] 



British Lro-is/alion. 



321 



Currenci/. — The 79tli chapter of the same 

 sessions enacts, tliat after the commence- 

 ment of this act (namely from and after 

 January 3th 1826) the lawful current money 

 of Great Britain shall be the currency of 

 the whole United Kingdom of Great I3ri- 

 tiiin and Ireland, and tliat all receipts and 

 payments, contracts, sales, and securities 

 f<iT money, and all transactions relating to 

 money, had and made in any part of the 

 United Kingdom, shall he had and made 

 according to the cuiTcncy of Great Britain. 

 But all gifts, grants, contracts, and secu- 

 rities for money entered into, with refe- 

 rence to the currency of Ireland, at any 

 time before the commencement of this act, 

 are to be paid and accounted for by a sura 

 of such currency of the United Kingdom, 

 less by one thirteenth jiart than the amount 

 of sucii expressed according to the currency 

 (if Ireland. And a subsequent section of 

 1 lie act enacts that, after a day to be named 

 by proclamation, the la^^■ful current British 

 silver and pold coins are to be current in 

 Ireland at the same rate as they are at pre- 

 sent in Great Britain. 



Prevention of frivolous Writs of Error. — 

 The 96th chapter of the same sessions 

 provides that executions shall not be stayed 

 or delayed on judgments to be given after 

 the passing of this act in any of the courts 

 of record at Westminster, and in the coun- 

 ties Palatine, and in the courts of great 

 session in Wales, without the special order 

 of the court or of some judge thereof, unless 

 a recognizance with condition according 

 to the Stat. 3 James I. (entitled An Act to 

 avoid unnecessary Delays of Execution) be 

 first acknowledged in the same court. 



Encouragement oflinhble Schemes. — The 

 91st chai)ter of the same sessions un- 

 happily and imijoliticly (as ])rol>ably many 

 of our readers have found to their .«erious 

 loss and disappointment) repeals the whole- 

 some statute, 6 Geo. I. chap. 18, empliati- 

 cally styled the Bubble Act, and which, for 

 the protection of the public from the designs 

 and contrivances of cunning and unprinci- 

 pled speculators, enacted that all persons 

 presuming or pretending to act as a corpo- 

 rate body, or to raise a transferable stock 

 or stocks, or to make transfers or agree- 

 ments of any share or shares therein, 

 without legal authority, should on cQjivic- 

 tion, be liable to such fines, penalties, and 

 pimishments whereunto persons convicted 

 of connnon and ijublic nuisances were 

 subject, besides such further pains, penal- 

 ties, and forfeitures as were ordained and 

 provided by tlie statute of provision and 

 pnemuiiire of the I6th Richard II.; andtlie 

 statute further enacted tliat any i)erson wlio 

 suffered any particular dajnage in his 

 lawful affairs, by occasion or means of any 

 such unlawful undertaking, should recover 

 by action commenced against the pubhc 

 peculators, treble damages and fidl costs of 

 suit ; and that all brokers selling or pur- 

 chasing'any share or interest In any such un- 

 lawful and dishonest undertakings, should 

 forfeit £M0. But the moral and provi- 

 dent provisions of this beneficial statute 

 have l>een repealed, as we have just stated, 

 by the above-mentioned chapter of the sixth 

 year of the present king and thus a full 

 swing has been freely granted to tlie frauds 

 and depredations of rogues and swindlers 

 of every description and dimension : so 

 much for the foresight of the " collective 

 wisdom of the nation !" 



MONTHLY MEDICAL REPORT. 



The weather during the last month has been, for the most part, unusuall)- mild and 

 uniform, notwithstanding which, die extent of sickness throughout the town has been 

 great, and the mortality not less than that of former and harder seasons. There is every 

 reason, however, to believe, that in almost all of tliese eases, the seeds of disease had 

 been sown during the eailier part of the winter, wlien the variations of atmospheric tem- 

 perature were considerable, and when coldness and dampness were the predominant 

 characters of the weather. The reporter has seen several cases of inflammation of the 

 lungs, contracted at that inclement period of the year, prove fatal during the last fort- 

 night, and he is convinced that it may be laid down as a general rule, that the effects of 

 a severe season are not perceptible in the bills of mortidity until the character of that 

 season has changed. 



Consumptive patients have generally great reason to dread tliis month ; and the re- 

 porter regrets to say, that the remark has received but too many confirmations in the 

 events of that which has just passed. It is certainly a melancholy reflection, that after 

 centuries of patient investigation, with all the aids of modem improvement, and all the 

 advantages of past experience, this disease, consumption, still continues to baffle the skill 

 of the physician, and to consign to a jiremature grave, many of the fairest of the one sex 

 and of the most accomplished of the other. Consumption has this rciriarkable feature about 

 it, that it is the only chronic disorder which preys upon tiiat interesting period of life 

 when the faculties of the body and mind are first fully developed, and when the pro- 

 mises of youth are about to be realized. Infants are carried off by affections of the head, 

 and of the Imigs, and of the bowels. Tlie middle period of life is open to the attacks of 



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