lustration: A TERRIBLE TURK.

"I will Fight! He Hit me First!"]

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THE INN-FLUENZA.

[Illustration: W]

We have had our attention called to a complaint which, it seems, has
long been prevalent throughout the kingdom, although but little notice
hitherto has publicly been taken of it. It threatens now, however, to
become as prolific a source of correspondence as the Cholera; and
scarcely a _Times_ passes, without at least a column of "Constant
Readers" on the subject.

We are not aware if a specific name has as yet been found for it; but we
think it may be best described, perhaps, as a sort of Inn-fluenza,
although it certainly in some degree resembles also a remittent fever,
seeing that the sufferers cannot generally make progress without a
remittance. And it partakes still further of a febrile character, since
it usually is attended with irritation in the patient.

Of the symptoms which lead to it, perhaps the most painful is a species
of opthalmia, which commonly afflicts the patient with the most
distressing ocular delusions. He has been even known, under its
influence, to declare that he can see only a pint of wine in a decanter,
which his attendants have assured him contains a bottle; and candles,
which he similarly has been told are wax, he has frequently been found
unable to distinguish from composite. The sense of taste, too, it seems,
is similarly affected. When offered pale ale, the patient not
unfrequently will pronounce it to be swipes; and in some cases he has
actually mistaken that for Cape, which is warranted, and even charged
for, as Madeira.

We trust that the urgency of this complaint being now admitted,
efficient means will be at once devised to stop it. There is little
doubt, we think, that the sufferers hitherto have been bled too freely,
and another course of treatment should be certainly adopted. We do not
generally advocate the use of the knife, but in this complaint
decidedly, wherever any person is attacked by the symptoms which may
lead to it, we do not know if we can well prescribe a surer remedy than
cutting.

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RANDOM RECORDS OF A RUN THROUGH CERTAIN CONTINENTAL COUNTRIES.

(_By the Author of "All the Great Metropolises"._)

[We rather think the following letter has reached us by mistake, and
must have been intended for one of our morning contemporaries.
However, we print it.--ED.]