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IN CASES of SECRECY consult the TREATISE on every tHsfte and Symptom of the VBNEREAL DISEASE , in its '; mild and most alarming forme , just published , by Messrs . PERRY and CO ., Surgeons , No . 44 , Albion-street , Leeds , Private Entrance iu the Passage ; and 4 , Great Charles-street , Birmingham , and given gratis with each Box of PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS , price 2 s . 9 d ., 4 s . 6 d ., and lla . per Box , containing a full description of the above complaint , illustrated by Engravings , shewing the different stages of this deplorable and often fatal disease , as well as the dreadful effects of Mercury , accompanied with plain and practical directions for an effectual and speedy cure , with ease , secrecy , and safety , without the aid of Medical assistance .
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Perry e Purifying Specific Pills , prioe 2 s . 9 d ., 4 s . b'd ., and 11 s . ( Observe none are genuine without the signature of R . and L . Perry ou the side of each wrapper ) which are well known throughout Europe and America , to bo the most certain and effectual cure ever discovered for every Stago and Symptom of the Venereal Disease , in both sexes , including Gonorrhsoa , Gleets , Secondary Symptoms , Strictures , Seminal Weakness , Deficiency , and Diseases of th « Urinary Passages , without loss of time , confinement , or hindrance from business . They have effected the most surprising cures , not only in recent and severe cases , but whon salivation and all other means have failed ; and when au early application is made to these Pills , for the cure of
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the Venereal Disease , frequently contracted in a momant of inebriety , tho eradication is generally completed in a few days ; and in the more advanced and inveterate stages of venereal infection , characterised by a variety of painful and distressing symptoms , a perseverance in the Specific Pills , iu which Messrs . Perry have hapoily compressed the most purifying and healing virtues of the prinoipal part of the vegetable system , and which is of the utmost importance to those afflicted with Scorbutic affections , Eruptions on any part of the body , Ulcerations , Scrofulous or Venereal taiut ; being justly calculated to cleanse the blood from all foulness , counteract every morbid affection , and restore weak and emaciated constitutions to pristine health and vigour .
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The rash , indiscriminate , and unqualified use of Mercury , has been productive of infinite mischief ; under the notion of its beiiig an antidote for a certain disease , the untutored think they have only to saturate their system with Meroury , and the business is accomplished . Fatal error ! Thousands are aunually either mercurialized out of existence , or their constitutions so broken , and the functions of nature so impaired , as to render the residue of life miserable . The disorder we have in view owes its fatal results either to neglect or ignorance . In the
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first stage it is always local , and easy to be extinguished by attending to the directions fully pointed out in the Treatise , without the smallest injury to the constitution ; but when neglected , or improperly treated , a mere local affection will be converted into an incurable and fatal malady . What a pity that a young man , tho hope of his country and the darling of his parents , should be snatched from all the prospects and enjoymetns of life by the consequences of one unguarded moment , and by a disease which is not in its own nature fatal , and which never proves so if properly treated .
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It is a melancholy faot that thousands fall victim , to this horrid disease owing to the unskilfulness of illiterate men , who , by the use of that deadly poison , mercury , ruin the constitution , cause ulceration , blotches on the h « ad , face , and body , dimness of sight , noise in the ears , deafness , obstinate gleets , nodes on the shin bone , ulcerated sore throats , diseased nose , with nocturnal pains in the head and limbs , till at length a general debility of the constitution ensues , and a melancholy death puts a period to their dreadful sufferings .
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Messrs . Perry and Co ., Surgeons , may be consulted , as usual , at No . 44 , Albion-street , Leeds , Private Entrance in the Passage ; and No . 4 , Great Charles-street , Birmingham . Only one personal visit is required fron a country patient to enable Messrs . Perry and Co . to give such advice as will be the means of effecting a permanent and effectual cure , after all other means have proved ineffectual . Letters for advice must be post-paid , and contain the usual fee of one pound .
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THE CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACUM Is now universally established as a remedy of great efficacy . It is possessed of the most invigorating powers ; warming and cheering the spirits , and promoting digestion . It is an excellent remedy fox nervous , hypocondriao , consumptive , and fem | jp complaints , lassitude , and weakness arising from juvenile imprudencies . Sold in Bottles , at 11 s ., or four quantities , in one family bottle , for 33 s ., duty included . Observe—No . 44 , Albion-street , Lee dp ,, & ? " Private Entrance in the Passage .
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Country Patients are requested to be as minute as possible in the detail of their cases—as to the duration of the complaiat , the symtoms , age , general habits of living , and occupation in life of the party : the communication must be accompanied by the usual consultation fee of £ 1 , without which no notice whatever can be taken of their application ; and in all cases , th « most Inviolable secrecy may be relied on . N . B . —Seven Doors from Soho Square . Sold by J . Hobson , Market-street Leeds : and Shilhto , York .
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£ Harrison , Market-place , Ripon . Langdalk , Bookseller , Knaresbro and HarrofM * Mr . R . Hurst , Corn Market , Wakefield . , Mr . Davis , Druggist , No . 6 , Market Place , tf *** Chester . , ; Mr . Jo hnsois Bookseller , Beverley . Mr . Noblb , Bookseller , Boston , Lincolnshire Mr . Noble , Bookseller , Market-place , HulL Mr . H . HuRTON . Louth , Lincolnshire . Iris Office , Sheffield . Chronicle Office , Lord Street , Liverpool , , And at the Advirtuer Office , Lowgate , HulL Letters . inolosinga Remittance , answered byt * . turn of Post ; and Medicine pnnotnally trM »««»" totheaddreM . eithe initials wan t *
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moral labyrinth , and a standard whereby to judge , when delicacy of health should appear to attack any of his young charges . wha ; ll . ereal cause of such attack may be , and thus he w Itenabled check the evil in its incipient state . The CLERGYMAN , in whose sacred character is at once concentrated the twofold relation of parent and instructor , will here be directed as to the nature of tkose habits to which youth is addicted ; he will also be enabled to point out the disastrous consequences which are sure to follow from them , if not relinquished . Messrs . CURTIS and CO . are to be consulted daily at their residence , No . 7 , Frith-street , Soho , from Ten till Three , and Five till Eight in th « EveniDg .
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Mr . W . ' s invariable rule is to give a Card toatfb of his Patients as a guarantee for Cure , whiob h « pledges himself to perron * , or to return his Fee . For the Accommodation of those who cannot JM *' veniently consult Mr . W . personally , they ( to * obtain his Purifying Drops , Price 4 s . od ., at OJ the following Agents , with Printed directions * plain , that Patients of either Sex may Cure tie ** selves , without even the knowledge of a bd * . fellow . »¦•» - ¦ ! Mr . Hbaton , 7 , Briggate , Leeds . Mr . Hartley , Bookseller , Halifax . Mr . Dewhirst , 37 , New Street , HuddersfieM . Mr . HARRisoN , Book 8 eller JMarketPlace , Ba » n sI « r « Mr . Hargrove ' s Library , 9 , Coney Street . York . Messrs . Fox and Son . Booksellers . Pontefaefc
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sexes , who perish of what is Called pulmonary consumption , heart disease , tabes , &c , the sole and e ^ olus ive origin has been the indulgence in certain destructive habits , practised by youth muoh more frequently than is at all suspected . The PRECEPTOR , also , who holds temporarily , at least the relition and responsibility of a parent , will , by persuing this work , be directed , and very much assisted in investigation and detecting the too often ooncealed practices so often introduced into schools , whereby the health and ultimately the lives of hiB pupils are sure to be compromised , unless the evil be checked in proper time . He will here find a clue to guide him through the intricate mazes of this
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the system becomes tainted , the whole mass of blood impure , and the Constitution rained with Poison . producing Ulcers and Eruptions on various partsor the body , frightful to be seen—often closely resembling and mistaken for diseases of a Ibbs painful character . Mr . W ., as a Member of the Medical Profession , and from the peculiar nature of hia prM- - tice , can , with the utmost confidence , even to tho most timid , offer hope , vigour , and perfect healA . What a grief for a young person , in the very prim * of life , te be snatched out of time , and from alltb * enjoyments of life , by a disease always local at Irst , and which never proves fatal if properly treated , »»> all its fatal results are owing either ta neglect o * ignorance .
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mark the terrific consequences , social , moral , and p hysical , which are sure to follow from indulgence , in certain habits , would be entirely out of place in an advertisement . We have no hesitation , however , in saying that there is no member of society by whom the book will not be found interesting , whether we consider such person to hold the relation of a PARENT a PRECEPTOR , or a CLERGYMAN , The PARENT , who beholds his beloved child pining away , and fast approaching to a premature grave , in consequence of some disease , which , for want of a careful investigation of its real cause , has been set down to the score of consumption , will , on perusing this work , be astonished to find that in nine-tenths of the cases of young persons of both ,
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In recent cases a perfect Cure is completed within a Week , or no Charge made for Medioine after that period , and Country Patients , by making only one personal visit , will receive Buch Advice and Medioines that will enable them to obtain a permanent and effectual Cure , when all other means have failed . . Having successfully acquired a thorough knowledge of all the various stages of that insidious and too often fatal disease , and the deplorable results , aa well as frequent loss of life , which often ocoun ^ through displayed ignorance , by those unqualified , having but very little knowledge either © f the dif < order , or component principles of Medicine ; thai -
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mark the terrific By J . L . CURTIS and COMPANY , Consulting Surgeons , London . Published by the Authors , and sold by Balliere , Medical Bookseller , 219 , Regent-street ; Strange , 21 , Pateruoster-row ; Advertiser Office , Hull ; Review Office , Nottingham ; Machen and Co ., 8 , D'Olierstreet , Dublin ; Duncan , 114 . High-street , Edinburgh ; and to be had of all Booksellers . The Work which is now presented to the public is the result of very extended experience in a class of diseases and affections , which for some unaccountable reason have been fither altogether overlooked , or treated with apathy , and almost indifference , by the ordinary practitioner . To eutor into the details of these affections , to point out their causes , and to
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ADVICE . MR . WILKINSON , SURGEON , HAVING devoted his Studies for many Yearts to the successful Treatment of the VENEREAL , DISEASE , in all its various Forms ; also , to the frightfal consequences resulting from that destructive practice , "Self Abuse , " may be personally consulted from Nine in the Morning till Ten at Night , a ^ l ^^ undaX . s tiU Two - » 4 ls » TRAFALGAR STREET , NORTH STREET , Leeds , and every Thursday , at No . 4 , GEORGE STREET , Bradford , from Ten till Five . "
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Just published , in royal 18 mo ., cloth , price 3 s . ; and sent in Town or Country free , by post , 3 . s . 6 d ., MANHOOD : the CAUSES of its PREMATURE DECLINE , with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION ; addressed to those suffering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence , Solitary Habits , or Infection ; followed by Observations on the TREATMENT of SYPHILIS , GONORRHOEA , GLEET , &c . Illustrated with Cases , &c .
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PEEP INTO THE SECRET-SERVICE MONEY ! Factory Inspectors , alias Government Spies—Valuable Tell-tale Table for Political Lecturers—Emigration , &c . PEEP A T THE PEERS AMD THE PARSONS ! Showing the Connection of Church and State , and the value of several hundred Good Fat Livings , with other important information . London : Published by John Cleave , at his Penny Gazette Office , Shoe-lane , Fleet-street ; Hey wood , Manchester ; O'Brien , Abbey-street , Dublin ; and the Glasgow Universal Suffrage Association , Thompson , Agent . John Leech , Buxton Road , Huddersfield , Agent for the West Riding . N . B . —A few of last year ' s Black Books on Sale ; apply to the Booksellers . Every year is different , and each equally useful .
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This Medicine is sold , by appointment . by Edwards , St . Paul ' s Church Yard . London , in B « es , at 1 b . l £ d ., 2 s . 9 d ., and Family Boxes , 11 s . etch ; the Boxes at 2 s . 9 d . are equal to three small , aad those at 11 s .- equal to five at 2 s . 9 d . Full directions are given with each box . May also be had of the following Agents : —Birmingham , Shillitoe , Chemist , 43 , High street ; Bristol , E . S . Dowling , Chemist , High-street ; Bath , Meyler and Son , Printers ; Newcastle-on-Tyne , Blackwell and Co ,, Printers ; Manchester , Mottershead , Chemist , Market-place ; Liverpool , W . Rawle , Chemist , Church-street ; Leeds , Reinhardtand Sons , Chemist , Briggate ; Sheffield , Whitaker , Printer , Iris Office ; Edinburgh , Duncan , Flockhart , and Co ., Chemist . CS- Ask for " Parr's Life Pills . " Any Bookseller who has not got them in stock , can readily procure them in his book parcel from London , without extra charge .
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RICHARDSON'S POPULAR BLACK BOOK , WITH ALMANAC FOR 1841 . PRICE THREEPENCE , p ONTAINING an Expose of the Taxation \ J System—National Debt—Pay and Cost of the Army and Navy—A few choice Civil Contingencies —Estimates for the Years 1840 and 1841—Nice Pickings put of the Taxes—Police versus Education , or Crime and Intelligence—Coat of Persecuting the Chartists-i-Special Commissions—Jobs—Poor Law Commissioners—Working of the Devil ' s Law in Woburn Abbey Lands—What have the Royal Family Cost , and what do th « y Cost Annually!—Comparative State of the Sailors , R . N . —The Felon —The Bastilised Pauper aud the Independent T . ahmirer .
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Cases of every description have all been cored simply by the use of Parr's Life Pills , thus showing that what has been considered different disorders , and requiring different treatment , all originated in tbe same cause , and can be cured by one uniform treatment . Although powerful in conquering disease , thef are as pure and harmless as new milk , and rnay ha administered with ooa $ deoeo to thev * invalid , however weakly from long fll health , who * J will soon enjoy those delightful symptoms of a return to strong health , namely , good appetite , sound sleep , and an increase of animal spirits . To have produced a medicine so benign and mild in its operation and effects , and yet so effectual in searching out and curing disease of however long standing , exhibits on the part of Old Parr cbep research and a thorough knowledge of his subject .
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years have been so speedily re-invigorated with aa infusion of new blood , and consequently of new life and strength , that their re-appearance amongst their fellow-beings , who had long given them up as incurable , is looked upon as the greatest of the many great wonders of this miraculous age . The whole ' of our Bystem is built up from the blood—nerves , ' sinewa , muscles , and even solid bone ; this being th © case , the grand object is to keep this precious fluid ( the blood ) in a pure and healthy state , for without this purity disease will show itself in some way or other . ¦
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hardt , Leeds ; Brooke , Dewsbury ; Dennis and Son , Moxon , Little , Hardman , Collier , Hargrove , Bellerby , York ; Brooke and Co ., Walker and Co ., Stafford , Doncaster ; Linney , Ripon ; Foggitt , Thompson , Coates , Thirsk ; Wiley , Easingwold ; England , Fell , Spivey , Huddersfield ; Ward , Richmond ; Cameron , Knaresborough ; Pease , Darlington ; Dixon , Metcalfe , Langdale , Northallerton ; Rhodes , Snaith ; Goldthorpe , Tadcaster ; Rogereon , Goldthorpe , Cooper , Newby , Kay , Bradford ; Brice , Priestley , Pontefract ; Card well , Gill , Lawton , Shaw , Dawson , Smith , Dunn , Wakefield ; Berry , Denton ; Suter , Leyland , Halifax ; Boot and Son , Rochdale ; Lambert , Boronghbridge ; Dalby , Wetherby ; Waite , Harrogate ; and all respectable Medicine Venders throughout the kingdom . Ask for Frampton ' s Pill of Health , and observe the name and address of " Thomas Prout , 229 , Strand , London , " on the Government Stamp .
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hardt FOR FEMALES these Pills are most truly excellent , removing all obstructions ; the distressing head-ache so very prevalent with the sex ; depression of spirits , dulne 8 S of sight , nervous affections , blotches , pimples , and sallowness of the skin , and give a healthy and juvenile bloom to the complexion . As a pleasant , safe , easy aperient , they unite the recommendation of a mild operation with the most successful effect , and require no constraint of diet or confinement during their uso . And for ELDERLY PEOPLE they will be found to be the most comfortable medicine hitherto prepared . Sold by T . Prout . 229 , Strand , London , Price Is . l ^ d . per box , and by his appointment , by Heaton , Hay , Allen , Land , Clapham , Tarbotton , Smith , Bel-Townsend , Baines and Newsome , Smeeton , Rein
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The Clergyman who holds the valuable doctifaent abovementioned , has , by the assistance of a vtey able chemist and physician , caused the receipt of Old Parr's to be made into Pills , and -although only a space of eighteen months have elapsed since the trial , upwards of seven hundred cures have been effected ; more than one-half were considered inourable ; and what is more remarkable , cases which possess the very opposites as regards outward symptoms : the balsamic and invigorating effectB on the blood produced by these medicines is perfectly miraculous ; many who have kept their beds for
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Parr spent much of his time in the study of the vegetable world , and has fortunately left behind him , though long hid to the world , the valuable fruits of his labours . Besides the valuable receipt from which Parr's Pills are now compounded , there are several MSS ., pieces written in his old quaint style , on the value of health ; hiB opinions , though somewhat differently expressed , were that the vaneties of clime and modes of living make but'little difference to ou $ period of existence—that the laws of nature are simple and easily understood , but they require perfect obedience .
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stomach will speedily- * egain its strength ; a healthy action of the liver , bowels , and kidneys , will rapidly take place ; and , instead of listlessness , heat , pain , and jaundiced appearance , . strength , activity , and renewed health , will be the qnick result of taking this medicine according to the directions accompanying each box ; and if taken after too free an indulgence at table , they quickly restore the system to its natural state of repose . Persons of a FULL HABIT , who are subject to head-ache , giddiness , drowsiness , and singing in the ears , arising from too great a flow of blood to the head , should never be without them , as many dangerous symptoms will be entirely carried off by their immediate use .
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Moreover , I bequeath to my second Great Grandson ye method I employ for preparing ye medicament . Given this day , and in ye H 7 th year of my age , » - , M Thomas Parb . " " Winnington , Salop , Januarie 17 th , 1630 . " " . _ .. . - . This singular character was the oldest maa , sritk one exception , that England ever produced > bia biographer says , " the days of his you * b , according to his own account , was a series of longwidpalnftu illness , but that by some secret meanB he eured himself , and was stronger than most men , wjjen fi « married his first wife , which he did at the advanced age of eighty-eight ; he again married at thermal ing age of one hundred and twenty ; at one hundred and thirty ht used to thresh corn , and do any . laborious work . He had seen ten Kings and Queens of England .
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FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH . " ¦ '' ' Pric 6 Is . l £ d . per box . rilHIS excellent Family PILL is a Medicine o ± . long-tried efficacy for correcting all Disorder of the Stomach and Bowels , the common symptom of whioh are costiveness , flatulency , spasms , loss o appetite , sick head-ache , giddiness , sense of fulness after meals , dizziness of the eyes , drowsiness and pains in the stomach and bowels . Indigestion producing ^ a torpid state of the liver , and a constant inactivity of the bowels , causing a disorganization of every function of the frame , will , in this most excellent preparation , by a little perseverance , be effectually removed . Two or three doses will convince the afflicted of its salutary effects . The
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OLD PARR'S LAST WXLX . & TESTAMENT . A MOST singular document has recently teea ti . brought to Tight , and is now in the possession if the Rev . Wm . Arther , of East Peckham : it tppears to have been written by the celebrated ) LD PARR , who attained the almost incredible ge of one hundred and fifty-two years , and who eft this document to a relation : it is written on > archment , and although upwards of two hundred rears old is in an excellent state of preservation . Che following is an extract : — "These do certifie yt ye undermentioned * Ib ye nethod of preserving health , which by ye grace of Vlmighty God has caused me to attain to- my miramlous old age . Albeit in my youth I was afflicted vith ye Bloody Flux and King ' s Evil , but whiob til left me by using some dayes ye herbs as herein vritten . " Here follows the receint : —
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And Notice is also hereby given . That at the said General Quarter Sessions of the Peace to be holden at Knaresborough aforesaid , an Assessment for the necessary xpences of the said Riding for the half-year commencing the 1 st Day ° LApril next « wU 1 be laid at the How ef Twelve o'Clock at Noon . C . H . ELSLEY , _ . , „ , „ Clerk of the Peace . Clerk of the Peace ' s Office , Wakefield , December 14 th , 1840 .
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WEST RISING OF YORKSHIRE . CHRISTMAS SESSIONS . N OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that the Christ-. miB General Quarter Sestf ' ons of the Peace for the West Riding of the County of York , will be opened at Knabesborough , on Tuesday , the Sth Day of January next ; and by Adjournment from thence will be holden at Wakefield , on Wednesday , ^ ™ l ° ' th ? * month of January , at Ten ot the Clock in the Forenoon of each of the same days ; and also , by further Adjournment from thence , will beholden at Doncaster , on Monday , the 11 th LMy of the same month of January , at Eleven of the ^ lock in the Forenoon , when all Jurors , Suitors , Persons bound by Recogniiance , and others having business at the said several SessionR , are required to attend the Court on the several Days and at the several hours above-mentioned .
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HUDDERSFIELD CO-OPERATIVE TRADING COMMUNITY SOCIETY . THE Members of the above Society bee most m . JL pectfuMj to inform their Brethren , the PVodno . tive Classes , that they have on hand a Larm Assortment of : 8 road and Narrow WOOLLEN CLOTH , CASSIMERES , KERSEYS , BUCKand DOESKINS , TWEEDS , FANCY WAISTCOATING , CAMLETS , &c . &c , all of their own Manufacture , which they offer at very reasonable Prices ; and as their Goods are made for durability more than to please the eye , they hope they will meet with that Support from their " Order , " which a strict attention to Business merits . Co-operative Societies , Communities , or Private Persons can be served on the shortest Notice . STORES , No . 10 , Wmtoate . WAREHOUSE , No . 2 , Pack Hobsk Yard . Huddersfield . . - ABRAHAM TURNER Secretary . 1 ' ™"""^^™^^
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Trkatkest op New Ideas . —A new idea or intention is first met with universal distrust . It will never do ; the man is an an enthusiast ; it is highly dangerous , &c . The thing does nevertheless , perhaps ; and then all the very same people , who formerly denounced it as an innovation , turn round and say , " Oh , all that was quite well known before . " Thkt i . rrn . 1 : K 5 ow , -who coldly talk of the poor man 3 bereavements , as a happy release from pain to the departed , and a merciful relief from suspence to the Burrivor—they little knew what the agony of those bereavements is ! A silent look of affection and regard , when all other eyes are tcrned coldly away—the consciousness that ' we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us—is a hold , a stay , a comfort in the deepest affliction , which no wealth could purchase or power bestow .
Whes is a ma > - thinner than a lathi D ' ye give It up!—When he is a shaving . Thb 5 atio > -al debt is considerably more than a dollar per minute from the time our first parents were in paradise to the present time!—more than 415 sterling per hour through all ages of man ' s existence !! The Greeks of the present day are just as " wide awake , " if not quite so intellectual , as their ancestors . A . fire took place at Constantinople recently , extending to the summer palaces of the English ana
French Ambassadors . Many effects were saved , and put on board a Greek ship in t :-e harbour ' " But , " says a private letter ,, " the Greek , soon perceiving that a favourable north wind blew , took advantage of it , and suddenly sailed away with the whole cargo . " This was unquestionably a genuin ° "Greek " transaction altogether . The only wonder xs , how the British Ambassador , who is siated to be a considerable lo ^ er by the affair , should have trusted his property on board a Greek vessel . Tne devouring element might as well have had his goods as the Greek captain . The latter certainly got his cargo cheap .
A * AatEaicu Hikt . —The editor of the Portland Transcript , an American paper , published a poem commencing with the following pathetic stauza : When the cold storm howb around your door And you , by light of taper , Sit coziiy by the evening fire Eujoying the last paper—Ju = t think of him whose work thus helps To wear away the winter , And put this qHery to your self-Have 1 paid np the printer ? M . Lenokkasd , a celebrated mechanic , has discovered the means of printing on one cylinder both rides of the same sheet , which enables his mechanical press to act wi ; h a quickness double any hitherto known , and can produce 4 , 000 copies in one hour .
A coRKESPoSDEXiof the . Morning Chronicle says—* Thai by the explosion at Acre , 2 , 000 . souls were shattered into 20 , 000 atom * in one iiistaut . " Five atoms are therefore equal w one soul . A New York newspaper , called The Brother Jonathan , printed on one sheet of paper , measures five feet six inche 3 by four feet two inches , and concontainB sixty-four columns . The Cohjottal of an engine-driver , the other day , for breach of orders , although not attended with mischief , was something marvellous in tie way of
ponce sagacity . Hitherto the omissions and other misdemeanours only of such gentry have come under magisterial or coroner ' s cognizance after the full allowance of mischief has been committed . Preventives have nevtr been dream ; of , yet prevention is the main thing to be attained , if possible . The severest punishment of a railway officer after a collision , wiil not be of the smallest benefit by setting the broken bones of the sufferers . Jt is something fained , therefore , to punish not only for whit is one , but for what under certain circumstances might have occurred .
Ptpfyisjl— A dandy went into a haberdasher ' s shop u > purchase a vra ; ch riband , - which cost 4 d . He laid Is . on ifco counter , and the shopman gave him fid . oniy , forgetting the copper was due to him ; Bo -after a short tune the lounger , looking at the man , said , " Fellow , fatigue me with the 2 d . "—Jamaica paper . A few dats six « e a little girl went into a tobacconist ' s shop in Chesterfield to purchase a penn ' orth o' baccy . "Who is it for , my girl ?" inquired the shopman . "It ' s for my mothtr , sir , " ¦** Is your mother a Whig or a Tory V She isn ' t nether , sir ; she ' 3 a stockinger . "—Derbyshire Courier . A PlCmper . —The Siamese twin 3 , Chang and Eag , who live on an estate of their own in Wilks county , North Carolina , voted two votes the other day at the election . They both voted Whiz .
HOW TO GET A TlCHT Rl > G OF A Fl . NGEK . — Thread a needle fist in the eye with a strong thread , pass the head of the needle , with care , under the ring , and pull the thread * through a few inches towards the hand ; wrap the long end of-the thread tightly round the finger , regularly all down the naii to reduce its size . Then lay hold of the short endi and unwind it . The thread passing against the ring will gradually removs it from the" finger . This never-failing method will remove the tightest ring without difficulty , however much swollen the finger maybe .
A Sermos . —Mr . Edward Brooks , of Huddersfield , gave a sermon in a Methodist chapel at Oakham , in which he said , ** I had a glorious salvation of souls in a place I preached in last year ; the men sweated » o for salvation that they were obliged to pull off their coats and waistcoats , and the women their gowns ! " "He had , " he said , " effected the salvation of the squire's wife , but the devil would not let her have her soul at liberty . She prayed in her room , but the devil entered there . She prayed in the barn with the door closed , but the enemy got in there ; and a » last she did him by praying in a barrel , the joints of which were too close for him . "Lincoln Mercury .
A Chartist orator , at the Northampton meeting for getting up an address of congratulation on account of the birth of a Princess , observed , in reply to a puff of her Majesty ' s husband , with no Email shrewdness— "As to praising Prince Albert for being a mild and inoffensive person , why , bless me , ichat has he else to a \ V Exactly s-o . It must be remarkably eaiy to get a character for mildness and inoffensrveness , with the aid of £ 30 , 000 a year . "Why , it is an income to make a man content with all the world , and particularly so with himself . It
is true princes are often found mischievous enough , \ who enjoy as great facilities for being otherwise as I Prince A : bert . It is , too , precisely because they ; have " nothing else to do , " that they are fond of getting into mischief ; other people , besides princes , j find themselves in the same predicament . Could j princes be persuaded to turn their attention to i something useiul * there would bo doubtless less i reason and excuse for their doing mischief . But in ! this lies the difficulty ; and if Prince Albert will only ' be pleased to continue "harmless and in offensive , " \ there will not be much grumbling . —Age . ¦ '
A Hoax by Cobbett . —About the time that the Princess of Wales ( the unfortunate Queen Caroline ) ¦ was about to become a mother , the late William Cobbett , of eccentric memory , published a newspaper in Philadelphia . He spent his Sundays chiefly a ; the lesidence of a Quaker gentleman , from England , who had been settled in Pennsylvania , and never failed to present him with a copy of his paper . The worthy friend seemed to eare little about the concerns of the mighty republic , but was all alive to any news from the old country—from fatherland ! Cobbett resolved to have some sport with this amiable feeling , and , accordingly , when his Saturday ' s impression was struck off , the following intelligence was inserted , in the copy for his kind host : — "By the
ship jjustarrived from Liverpool , welearn that the j Prmcess of Wales , on , was safely delivered of two j young princes , who , with mother , are doing well . It seems that a circumstance somewhat embarrassing attended the accouchemeat . The double blessing being unexpected , the nurses and assistants goi into some confusion , and the Mule strangers were ehifted from hand to hand , till it became uncertain which had the right of primogeniture .. _ This was awkward enough , and some long-headed politicians are already foreboding a renewal of the bloody contests for succession that distracted England for two hundred years , under the Red and W hite Roses . " It is needless to add . that when the cat was let out of the bag , a hearty laugh concluded the harmless hoax .
Getting on Board the "Great Western . "When this splendid steam-ship first came to New York , it was difficult to get on board of her , unless by special invitation , or an order from the agent ' s office . An np-the-lake friend of onra , in company with two New Yorkers , went np to her , and tried to get admitted , but without success . Our Dunkirk friend said to them , " I can get on board that steamer . " "No jou can ' t , " his friends replied ; " they would let us pass , if they would let any body . " u Well , stand by , and see me try , " Our friend is a short , thick-set , ijrood-looking man of about fortysay thirty-five . He put his ivory-headed cane under his left arm , and , holding his pencil and memorandum-book in his hand , "walked np the plank . " I
suppose I can take a look at the inside of this Tesael , " said he to the officer on duty , " Our orders are peremptory to admit no one . " Well , I don ' t care a d—n stranger , on my own account , but my father was very anxious I should bring him a description . " "Your father—who , Sir—is he a public officer ?" " Well , yes , I rather reckon he is . My father ifl Governor of Kentucky ! " " Walk aboard , Sir—are those gentleman friends of yours ! " asked the sentry . The son of the Governor of Kentucky looked slowly around * to his companions , who were silently admired his cool audacity , and taking a deliberate mrvey of them , told the officer he did not doubt they were -very respectable people , but they had not the honour his of acquaintance . " Dunkirk against the y , oAd . » -Bufahni * n .
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manufacture now , if you wert to leave her to-morrow ? Not half a million . Compare the imparts of Belfast and Dublin , and « ay which U retrogading ? Look althe analysis of the trades of Dublin , oollected by the Trades' Union in 1831 : look at the picture dzawn by your own friend , Mr . Mooney , and be consistent for onee in your lifetime ; your own friends aw making a hyperboleser of you . Look at the month of your river Liffey , choked up with English coal monopolisers ships , - who take several millions annually out of the country , without a mrnrmur from you ; look at your linen halfc ; look at your Custom House , where you said on \ e , the " rats were running about with tears in their eyes ; " but I presume they are not so sorrowful now since you sent your dear boy ' s son , and your Corn Exchange door-keeper , with £ 150 a year to feed them .
I shall give you one more specimen of the " better condition" of Ireland , at one of those annual gatherings where you display so much of your fine , national , sympathetic feelings for the poor "Of that thrice-happy land that is blessed with your " waking theme : " 4-0 n your rent-day of last year I attended at Denmark-street Chapel , the doors of which were crowded with more poor than I usually noticed , anxious , I suppose , to « how their opposition to your unhallowed encroachment upon their rights . But there stood near the collector a tall , gaunt , spectre-like creature , with four perishing little ones , uncovered at head or foot , and little on their bodies . Oh , be assured , Sir , I did not envy yon of your fine Christian feelings , when I thought oil the way in which you were laying up riches in this life !
When I heard this poor woman exclaim , in words that told too deeply of her woes , "Ah , Christians , dear ! pity these four poor little orphans : Mr . O'Connell has money enough for his family ; . but these poor little children have neither money nor father to help them : think of the poor and the fatherless , Chrirtians , dear !" Be assured , Sir , I did not envy the collector his office in stepping between the poor , the fatherless , the oppressed , and the outstretched hand of charitable benevolence , to grace the diadem that is to crown you " Prince-of Beggars . " Be assured , Sir , I shall not envy you your love for Ireland in wearing this crown , when I know that its rubies are the blood , and its p-. vrls the tear-drops , of the fatherless , the poor , and the oppressed ! But , be assured , Sir , that I shall
u > ver cease to hold you up to public odium till the people of Ireland are unburdened of a tribute ihat compels them to give , Csesaf more than Hiis due . Be assured , Sir , that I haVe Lu 4 a train for you that will cut the Gtordian - Knot that binds you to the Catholic hierarchy and priesthood of Ireland . The house of prayer must not continue to be desecrated by your money- ^ obbing collecting box . You take care to hold with the bishops , and you know how to manage the priests . You know priest Davrin was removed from Limerick for daring to give his opinion of your destructive policy . You know yaur press soon silenced the Rev . Thomas Magulre for
daring to s » y he would raise a society of Repealers Thus you have made Ireland like th © island of Java , no mau \ can live within the pestiferous circle of the blighting influence of the upas tree , that you have planted in the Corn Exchange . Who will dare , as Tom Reynolds said , spsaking of your exchange , " say more than his prayers . " Your paid pack sneeriugly told me I ought to be amongst the Chartists In England . I am now amongst the Chartists of England ; and I will make them rue the day 1 came here . I am now in the presence of men whose minds are unbiassed , and unshackled by a truly free press—where I can disgorge the full venom of roy loathing .
In the name , then , of the Chartists of England , whoa they have foully misrepresented , vilified , and calumniated—in the name of liberty—in wboie satred name they have so long deluded their unwary dupes —in the name of Ireland , that they have disgraced in the name of free discussion , on the rights of which they have trampled—but , above all , in the name of the honest and virtuous Irishmen who allied themselves with me—I fling back with contempt , indignation , and scorn , my utter disgust at the unworthy , as -well as the unmanly course adopted , ( at youi » ug . gestion , and for wkich you ^ thanked them ) , by your paid minions , to stifle the voice of free discussion , and keep my unfortunate country in the throes of poverty , degradation , and distress . 1 , to » . , have a country to servo , but have not got a country to sell ! Aud ,
therefore , shall never seek for her freedom by instalments ! Repeal has been your hobby , on which you dread any man to ride but yourself ; and , so well trained have you this hobby that he acts up to the old axitm , i . e ., will neither clear hia manger , nor allow any other to do so for him . You have never raised the banner of Repeal until you have been first stirred up , as it were , with a long pole ; and then only have you done so by the dread of any other man taking precedence of you . Never was man more rejoiced than you were when Feargus O'Connor conceded to yeu the privilege of bringing forward that measure in the House of Commons ; and , previous to his imprisonment , yeu would have given the beat years rint you have ever got ( dearly as you love it ) if it wonld but purchase the rope that would hang him .
Your enmity to Chartism has not proceeded from your hatred to the Chartists or your love of Whiggery , but solely because you knew that if you lent your aid to the Chartists they -would have he # n vietorioua , -and . y « a dreaded that the qhaplets of patriotism stuwdd . m placed on the broVfol anotberr You have admitted that bad Ireland joifced the Chartists she could have had anything she wished for . How sordid , then , Sir , must your motives be , and how meanly confined your love of country , to let slip the moment that you admit yourstlf would Lave released your country from the trammels of htr long degradation . Out upon such patriotism ! say I , that could blink an empire ' s freedom for a personal pique . We Chartists like to try
" Truth , valour , and love by a standard like this . " Now , mark another specimen of your consistent treachery to the Charter , which you once signed and presented to William Luvett . You stated , in your letter to your " dear Ray , " that Chartism , in its mildest form , was illegal in Ireland , and that any delegate from England was liable to be arrested the moment he landed in Ireland ; thus calling on the Government by implication , and sanctioning thuir conduct by your auth-rity ( for your " dear Ray" says you are the first CFiiMi > AL lawyer in the land ) , to " arrest the delegate from the Convention . Now , admitting such a delegation to be illegal , what did you do in a few weeks after ? Why , you swallowed your own legal opinion , by
actually introducing Mr . Acland to the Political Union in Brunswick . street , as a ' Delegate" of the Manchester Anti-Corn Law League !! ! And yourself and your leagui have bean ever since paying Murray and Finnigan , two Anti-Corn Law delegates , to lecture in Ireland for sowing the Beeds of a system that would turn every county in Ireland into pasture hind , aud deprive the labourer of the paltry pittance which he can even now scarcely procure fr » m the tillage of the soil . But why did you encourage this league ? In order to divert the people of Ireland and England from Repeal and the Charter ; but you shall not longer keep Ireland iu the dark ; the western horizon shall be illuminated with stars , till a reading room be established in every parish in Ireland .
In your piace in the House of Commons , you told your cheering Whigs tint tne Chartists had grievances ; but that they should fii 3 t be put down , and then tlieir grievances redressed . This was Irishman-like ; first cut their heads , and then cut their plasters : but did they act upon your bloody , brutal mandate ? Yes , they did ( do not start , the phraseology Is your own ); and does not the shade of poor Shell haunt you ? Shot by a party whom you borrowed for the bloody work from your good Lord Ebrington . But , Sir , the day is not far distant when , perhaps , this very good man , and these very good bayonets , will test your devotedness to your long cradled baritling-RepeaL You wanted the Chartists to give up their leaders , because they lacked the cunning to be political ahufflera , and brick and
mortar w highnga : because they did not enable you to say in England as you now say in Ireland , "I am now the indisputed leader of the Irish people !! " You endeavoured , by every device , to thwart their proceedings , to mar their prospects , and blast , by your withering influence , the full blown blossoms of 4 beir anxious hopes . You endeavoured by every means to frustrate their designs ; with them you disputed every pass that might lead them to the goal of their political freedom ; you have looked on as a mute when you have seen Henry Vincent , dragged from the side of his aged and helpless mother , dragged from prison house to prison house , and forced to work for those who left his mother and little sisters forlorn , and to droop by the pestilential vapours of a cheerless dungeon !
You have looked on without saying why or wherefore , while you have seen the men whom you have taught lessons of political training immured in the dark recesses of the felon's house , grouped with the pickpocket ! the burglar , and the murderer , and fed upon a dietary that would just enable them to return to their families , care-worn , impoverished , and emaciated skeletons . Yes , and you have looked on while you have seen the cold-blooded , calculating sons of oppression prepay the publio executioner , and give orders for the scaffold and the gibbet ; while they dealt out a double death to their victims by keeping them in suspense , and finally NtTT ' hing them from their native land . Oh ,, your honest Whigs like to pay before hand . Let us not wonder if they should take it into their noble considerations . to prepay ( like Castlereagh
the debt of gratitude that is nearly due by them to a certain black gentleman . You have looked on with cold and callous eye , while you have seen Feargus O'Connor laid under the scathing knife of his dastardly masked persecutor , who , though decked with titles next to a Duke , knows full well tn » t he is hia superiorand for what crime ? Simply because he was too honest aud independent-minded to submit to your shuffling dictation , or become » point in your humbugging Radical Whig tail ; because he had placed himself as a target , defying the oppressor and defending the oppressed , because he had applied the axe to the upas tree of corruption that is dealing out death aud devastation within the sphere of its blighting reach ; because he has done that which is inherent in him , lov « d the people with an ardent love , loved them perhaps
v « Not wisely ; but too well . " It was shrewdly remarked by Mr . Oastler , that the Whigs at your bidding Bought the pound of flesh that was next O'Connor ' s heart , but they dreaded the oompact * one drop of blood , and ; but he still lives to triumph , and you and your
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truculent shuffling , promise-breaking Whigs "dread hwa , tho" lonely , " and will dread him more when be shall be'' The last single captive of millions in war . " So you want to sit in a convention of the working classes of England , while O'Connor sits in a dungeon in York Castle I Now , Sir , I tell you you never shall . M Never ! a thousand times never 1 " If there were not another Chartist in England to oppose your return , I will do it . though I were to perish in the attempt ! Do you think , Sir , that the people of Kngland can so soon forget your wantoi jests and cold-hearted buffoonery over the misfortunes of their friends ? Or , do you think , Sir , that your auger , your hate , or your standing aloof will render the people of England either silent or inactive in endeavouring to avenge the injury done their friends ? No , no ; to be silent or inactive would be an acquiescence on their parts in the base conduct pursued by your Whigs towards those whom they love most dear ; and
" What is life when wanting love ?" The people of England know full well that God will free his people , if they but try to free themselvesthey know , too , that knowledge is power ; and they have been taught in the school of adversity neither you , nor your Fox and Goose Club , will divert them from their Charter , and your malignity to Chartism is recorded " In hearts that have suffered too much to forget . " They will continue to press forward till they redeem their country from abjeat sorvility , degrading thraldom , georgeoua palaces , pride-pampered churches , and an overjoyed aristocracy , fat with their toil , their sweat , aud their blood . Now , Sir ,
" You hear my voice atjain , though not so loud , My page , sarcastic , never disavowed ; And now at once I tear the veil away , Cheer on your pack , the quarry stands at bay . " XT . L . T . Clanct . Norwich , Deo . Hth , 1840 .
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VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , That the next W GENERAL QUARTER SESSIONS of the Peace for the Borough of Leeds , in the West Ridine of the County of ^ Yorkj will be holden before Thomas Flower Elm ' s , the Younger , Esquire , Recorder of the said Borough , at the Court House , in Leeds , on Thubsday , the 31 st Day of December Instant , at Two of the Clock in the Afternoon , at
which Time and- Place all Jurors , Constables , Police Officers , Prosecutors , Witnesses , Persons bound by Recognizances , and others having Business at the said Sessions are required to attend . And Nbtioe is hereby also given , That all Appeals will be heard at the Sitting of the Court , on Saturday , the Second Day of January next , and that all Proceedings under the Highway Act will be taken on the First Day of the Sessions . By Order , JAMES RICHARDSON , Clerk of the Peace for the said Borough . Leeds , 3 rd December , 1840 .
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GRAND FESTIVAL AND BALL IN BEHALF OF THE INCARCERATED POLITICAL VICTIMS . A FESTIVAL and Ball , with incidental Concerts , will be given at the Social Hall , John-street , Totteiham-court-road , London , on Monday , Jan . 11 th , 1841 , to augment tha funds of the Victim Committee . Tea on the table at Five o'Clock . The ball will commence at eight o ' clock precisely , and -will be under the direction of an experienced conductor . An efficient band is engaged , and the ball will consist of quadrilles , country dances , Spanish waltzes , &c , &c . Double tickets to admit a lady andjgeutlemau to tea . festival , and ball , 2 s . 6 d . ; single ditto , Is . 6 d . ; double ticket , for ball only , Is . 6 d . ; single ditto , Is . Tickets to be had at the Social Hall , John-street ,
Tottenhamcourt-road ; Mr . Hetherington , 126 , Strand ; Mr . Cleave , Shoe-lane , Fleet-streot ; Mr . Dyson , 126 , Kinusland-road ; Mr . Watson , City-road ; Mr . Adams , 76 , Brewer-street , SomorsTown ; Mr . Johnson , 16 " , North » mVbui ] ding 8 , Somera Town ; Mr . Smith , Little Clarendon-street ; Mr . Maries , Charles-Btreet , Hampstead-road ; Mr . Hall , Hamstead-road : Mr , Barrett , Fitzroy-market ; Magnet Coffee-house , Drury-lane ; Mechanics' Institute , Circus-street , Marylebone ; Dispatch Coffee-house , Bride-lane , Fleet-street ; Committee-room , 117 , Chalton'Street , SomersTown ; of the members of the Committee , and of the'Secretary aud Treasurer . By order of the St . Pancras Victim Protection Committee , Thomas Wall , Secretary .
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TO DANIEL O'CONNELL , ESCi ., M . P . Letthb II . " Could that long-withered spot but be verdant again , And a new spring of noble affection * arise ; Then might freedom forgive thee this dance in thy rri ^ in , And this shout of thy slavery which saddens the skies . How nappy are they in their cold English graves , Whose shades cannot start at thy shout of to-day > Nor the steps of enslavers and chain kissing slaves Be stamped in their turf , on their fetterless clay . " Byroji .
Sin , —What would you think if you had been infected with an asthmatical decline for the last thirty or forty years , and your physician , after bolussing and pilling you , and drawing you of your blood , energy , and money , thould walk into your chamber , and thus accost you : — " Well , my dear patient , it is a source of great consolation to me to know that , if I were to die to-morrow , I wonld leave you in a better condition than when I found you . I am now allowed to be the first physician in Ireland ; I stand the undisputed leader of the whole Irish faculty ; but before 1 can pronounce you convalescent , it is essentially necessary that your heart should become as tender as yeur toes—ttiat you make me absolute legatee « f all your property ! place it instanter in my bank , in my name , and at my absolute
disposal r What ! you get pale ; don't shudder , Mr . O"Connell—don't faint : 1 do not mean to deprive you of all ; you shall retain &s much as will supply your children with a daily meal of sea-weed , blood , or lum-> sra ! as they are fond of varieties . Thea rouse ; you look better now : you know I love you with an ardent love ; I think upon you by day—I muse upon you by night ; you are the last thought that visits my pillow , befure I close my ey « s to sleep , and 1 give you the bentfit of my morning meditations . Now , draw your hand shut from your pocket ; allow me to feel your "pulse ! " Now , Sir , 1 venture to say , if you had the slightest bump of resentment on your cranium , you would exclaim , aloof , " Monster ! there is a point of endurance beyond which " or , as Byron said to hia
docter , when requesting his blood , " There , take it , you butcher , and have done with it -, " or even if you had had long corns , and very tight boots , would you not endeavour to impress upon him , " epreuveposit& , " that is , " nothing like leather . " This is prtciaelj the relationship in which you stand with Ireland . You are the quack physician , who , for the last thirty years , has drained Ireland of her bloed , energy , and money ; and now , before you can pronounce her convalescent , you want a fee of 100 , 909 shillings ! Of a verity , you have not studied Galen in the Fabrioean school ! As for the better condition in which you would kave Ireland , I cinnot comprehend vhat you nie * n , unl . as you allude to the puny system of poor laws which you strenuously opposed , and battled with priesl , bishops , and layman
to prevent ; a aw which you said would enslave and degrade the poor ; and that the poor would suffer most from it , while you knew the poer , in many initances in your unhappy country , were dying of starvation : or is it a sign of the prosperous condition of your country to see the people of England , whom you are always abusing , subscribing largely to her relief . The people of B 3 th lately subscribed £ 100 ; but you are not pleased , because they do not make your banker treasurer , and disposer of your funds . Read Mr . Cobbett ' s picture ef Ireland ( and I know it to be true ) , and then pride yourself on the condition you would leave Ireland in . You admit that nine-tenths of the rent rolls are annually spent out out of Ireland ; look at the liberty of Dublin , where there are thousands of human beings
huddled together in ruined hovels , without a pane of glass , to prevent the admission of the wintry blast , without a table , a chair , a bed , or a stool to sit on ; without a rag to cover them , only as one borrows a cloak , the joint property , perhaps , of a doaen , to shift about , as they call it , for those whose delicacy and nakedness excludes them from meeting the eyes of their more fortunate dressed citizens . If this be not painless extinction , help me , Marcus ! while four of your noblemen are in the receipt of the lay tithes of eighty-two parishes ; and the whole country overrun frith a well-pampered , well-paid rural police , who occupy the best stated houses in the country ; these are the boys you promised the Englbh people , but they have not got them yet , and I pray God they never may .
In Dublin you have one thousand police , at a tax of upwards of sixty thousand pounds per annum ; tkesa are your own gentlemen bespattertd with your praise . Early in July last , I left Dublin for Limerick ; but , in passing through Amgier-street to Portobello , on turning a »( jrner I was surprised at meeting several of your gentlemen in blue , one of them who wore an eighteen shilling hat ( this is the price paid to Morgan , in Grafton-street , ) and a twenty guinea switchtail hunter under him , dragging a poor weaver by the collar , who , in the agonies of want , despair , and desperation , had Sciaed on a twopenny loaf from a baker ' s basket , and which he continued to devour with avidity , amidst the wrnton jests of thest gendarmes , who were evidently better fed than taught The same week a meeting was held in the Mansion-house , for the relief of
these poor weavers . And what was collected ? Why £ 35
And what do you give for it elsewhere ?—Why , Id ., Sir . Oh ! three-halfpence a pottle more ?—Yes , Sir . And will they give you what quantity you please ?—Oh ! no , Sir , only according to our families . Those who have no children , only get a pottle in the day . Well , but they give you good measure , don't th-. y ?—Musha , faith , they don't , Sir , it's anything but that ; it wants nearly half a pint of the measure . Well , but it's a better quality ?—Arrah , indeed , its not , Sir ; it's very fine , and , besides , it's musty !
¦ ' ' Thus , -when we take to account the smallne&s of measure , and the inferiority of the article , the conclusion we must come to is , that all the benefit the poor people c-mlil have received was about three farthings , worth more than they could have procured elsewhere , had they the means to do so ! Oh , how base are the wretches whe would thus make a mockery of the plentous gifts which Heaven has shed upon Ireland ' s fertile soil . ' And what hearts of steel must be wrapped in those callous bosoms who could thus wantonly traffic on the credulity of these short-sighted , simple-hearted , poor people .
Another incident caught my eye in this fine city , and , as " trifles light as air , " are sometimes " confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ , " I give it as a specimen of the fine condition in which you will leave Ireland "when yon die a repealer . A poor man had bought a halfpenny worth of ceckles that were hawking through the streets . He stood at a cerner . A group of young women collected areund him ; two of whom I took particular notice of , who could not be less than thirty years of age . The man amused himself eating his small fish , and , throwing the shells at his feet . But what was the employ of the group of young women ? Hear it , and < blush , ( if you
ever had a blush ) picking up the shells , and pinching the small particles of fish that adhered to the enamel which they eagerly swallowed ! And these are the people from whom you want 100 , 000 shillings . These are tee people who have starved themselves to give you their hard-earned pennies over which yeu have » o long ( as though for a wager ) driven the chariot wheels of your despoiling political power ! These are the people whose love , generosity , und privileges you have basely bartered ! And this is the boasted condition of your country , after thirty years of your political quacking . Like Dr . Sangrado , your cure for every evil is bleed ! bleed ! ! bleed ! !! till the very heart's blood of Ireland is
flowing—And nougkt but her beiutiful plumage remaining , To be plucked by the brood that may cling to her last . Tou have often remarked "that there was no country for whom God had done so much , and man so little . " You might with equal applicability have added that there was no man had equal power to do so much good for Ireland as yourself , and none has dona so little . For thirty summers , you have been the meredian sun of Ireland ' s hope ; but " Great or bright , infers not excellence—the earth , ^ Though in comparison of Heaven so small , * Nor glistering , may of solid good contain More plenty tH" the sun , that barren shines "Whose virtue on itself works no effect . "
I will lead you a little farther , just up the river Shannon , where I beheld eleven gay emigrant ships , with their star-spangled banners of welcome and hope , ready to Bear away , in " one fell swoop , " 6 , 000 of the finest peasantry in the world , as you leeringly call them ; some going to the States , more to Quebec , and many I found were going to the wilds of Canada , knowing nothing of ths place where they were going , and caring less , for they said they could not be worse off than at home : and , faith , I believed them . When I was
landed in Clare , a pretty tittle-town that will ever cast a blight on the wreath of your first Parliamentary laurels , till you render an account of the disposal of the enormous fund which was raised for your return , I returned from Ennis , by Cork and Kilkenny , and was horror-stricken at the groups of naked young females that followed oar coach from every station with craving looks and breathless expectation , till exhaustion bad overpowered their care-worn frames ; they fell by the road side , sometimes ( if luck would have it ) to discuss the merits of his most gracious copper-faced majesty !
•• Man ! Tain man — ; No wonder that the angels weep . - Need I draw your attention to the linen trade of the north of Ireland , to prove your consistency , inconsistency . When you found Ireland , the north manufac tured upwards of six million of pieces . What does it
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