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with the above enumerated causes, so manifest, that the List of strangers, published during the last season, presents the names of 153 british ladies and gentlemen, amongst whom are to be found their Royal Highnesses the duke and duchess of Cambridge, an ambassador, an envoy extraordinary, six lords, four baronets, a field-officer, a consul, an exlord mayor of London, a gentleman of His Majesty’s privy-chamber, two doctors of medecine, a surgeon, two clergymen and several military and naval officers, most of them with their families.

The establishment at Brighton, where the various german mineral springs, and also those of Carlsbad, are imitated by a chemical process, has drawn the attention of the public more towards them than the best publications. The patients, who came over to us, after having drunk Carlsbad at Brighton, held all the same language. Those who thought themselves benefited by the imitation, said: “We come to you to accomplish our cure;” and