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    • ASTONISUINU EFFICACY or
    • Treatment of Jews ix Hanover.—An act of bar barity has recently been perpetrated in Germany
    • prices, acritonte, Wn^iesS;
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      2 "¦ K" . " >S ^ . J^. « The Northbftn S...

      2 " ¦ k " . " > s ^ . J ^ . « THE NORTHBftN STAR . January s , 1 ** 7 .

      Astonisuinu Efficacy Or

      ASTONISUINU EFFICACY or

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      IIOLLOWAY'S PILLS . "Hie Testimony of a Cler ^ viuan vouching to Keren Cases of C ores bj thcie wonderful Pills . Sriroel of a Letter fro » the R * . George Prior , Curate of Veva-jh , Letter K * my , Cirrigart , Ireland , 10 ft Jan . 1 W 6 .

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      OX THE CONCEALED CAUSE OF CONSTITUTIONAL OH ACQUIRED DEBILITIES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM .

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      t-i « . s . M { . r .-iu i tint of tii «? simple re m « a than perhaps half the world i- aware » f ; for , it m ab remembored , where the fountain is polluted , the s trust that flow from it coanot be pure . " . '

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      ABERNETDY'S PILE OINTMENT . WH AT a painful and noxious Disease is the PILES , aud comparatively how few ot the afflicted have been peimaiKiitly cured by ordinary appeals t « medical skill . This , no doubt , arises from the us of powerful aperients too frequently administered by the profession ; indeed , strong internal medicine should always be avoided in all cases of this complaint . The Proprietor oi the above Ointment , after years of acute suffering , placed himself under the treatment of that eminent surgeon , Mr Abeructliy , —was by him restored to perfect health , and has eujayed it ever siucc without the slightest return of the disorder , orer a peri"d of fifteen years , during which time the Mime Aberuethiau prescription has been the

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      BLAIR'S GOUT AMD RHEUMATIC -PILLS , A severe caso of Rheumatism , communicated by Mr , Allen , Proprietor of the KotliirjiKtM Mercury . Mercury Oflice , Nottingham , March 17 , 1845 . Sib , —I have the pleasure ot jnrwiirding y » u the v > urticulars of a case in which BLAIR ' S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS have proved eminently successful . A young w > raan , named Mary Wain , accompanied by her parents , who reside at Watnall , near this town , called up m me on Saturday last , being desirous of making her ease known for the benefit of the public .

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      not , Doncaster ; Judson , Harrisen , Linney , Ripon ; Fog . gitt , Coates , Thompaon , Thirsk ; Wiley , Easingwold ; England , Fell , Spivey , Huddersfield ; Ward , Richmond j Sweeting , Knaresborough ; Pease , Oliver , Darlington : Dixon , Metcalfe , Langdale , Northallerton ; Rhodes , Snaith ; Goldtborpe , Tadcastor J Rogerson , Cooper , Newby , Kay , Bradford ; Brice , Priestley , Ponfefract ; Cordwell , Gill , Lawtoa , Dawson , Smith , Wakefield ; Berry , Denton ; Suter , Leyland , Hartley , Parker , Dunn , Halifax ; Booth , Rochdale ; Lambert , Boroughbridgo ; Dalby , Wetherby ; Waite , Harrogate : Wall , Barnsley ; and aU respectable medicine venders throughout the kingdom . Price Is . ljd . and 2 s , 9 d . per box .

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      FOR STOPPING DECAYED TEETH , Price 2 s . Gd .

      Treatment Of Jews Ix Hanover.—An Act Of Bar Barity Has Recently Been Perpetrated In Germany

      Treatment of Jews ix Hanover . —An act of bar barity has recently been perpetrated in Germany

      Atamst A Jew Which, To A Certain Extent,...

      atamst a Jew which , to a certain extent , is unparalleled in modern history . We call it unparalleled , because it did not proceed from a frantic mob , but f-om a deliberate Government— because it did net originate in a heated populace , but was executed under the c =: ver of the law . We abridge the melancholy particulars from Lkr Jude . Shulm Moses , a Jew of about 50 yea ; s of age , was a native of Germany ; but . his lather bavins died iii his infancy , and ho himself having with Jim mother ( who married a * ec » nd time ) ltd a wandering life for many year . " , he could never ascertain his birthplace . lie subsequently settled in the kingdom of Hsu-over ,

      married , and became the father of three children , llavinijin the spring of laat year come under judicial examination , he could not prove his country , and thus became , as it is termed in the German law , homeless . Shulm , altera f-rtnightV imprisonment , was released , receiving orders to leave the c-juutry , and under penalty of corporal punishment never more to enter it . No regard was paid to his representation that , having been settled in the country lor nearly halt' a century , and not knowing his native country , the neighbouring Governments would send him to the state wliMiee he came , viz , Hanover , lie was first sent into the grand duchy of Oideuburg , tbe anthuritiesoi which immediately sent him back to Hanover . Having thusthough

      invo-, luntarily , returned into the country , the penalty of corporal punishment was ij . flieted , " and he himself then tent into the neighbouring duchy of Brunswick . The authorities returned him again into Hanover , and the ponr wretch underwent a second time the degrading punishment t ' .-r an invoiunUry act . Upon this he was sent into Prussia , but again returned , and was again punished , lc was a heartreading scene to behold Shulm in the mitl-t cf the winter , on foot , laden with the few things ho still possessed , hunted about by the authorities from place to place , and followed on foot by his wile , with a babe

      at hu- breast , and two little children , one of five and ihe other of four years old . At last , when no country woud receive him , l . e was kept in custody at lluya , in ILnover . It v as in vain that a huniano lawyer , Opperraan , applied for him to the Diet of Frankfort ; he received no answer , and equally un successful at first wa-j the application of Shulm to Government for means to enable hint to go to America . His benefactor then opened a subscription , when the public showed itself more humane than the Government . The latter , however , at last came forward , and the ' jiiisciable wreteh was enabled to embark at Bremen for America . —The Voice of Jacob .

      1 bul FOit MoitDEn . —The Court of Assizes for the Rhone , at its last , sittings , condemned to death a liberated convict named JDcbas , for the ntunfer of a poor , i ;; ed widow named Bei-jon , who lived alone in a house belonging to one of her sons in tho commune ol St . Di < li . r au Mont li ' Or . During the whole 0 / the- 24 th June , her house remained shut up , and her neighbours , tlmtigh they repeatedly knocked and called , c-mkl not obtain any answer . In the evening the cries of some animal ' s , which she kept , convinced them that she was stirring , and two of tho

      neighbours sot into her dwelling throw an upper window , which they reached by means of a ladder , and found her lying litems on tho floor of her chamber , having b ^ en evident y nvurde > ed . The only verson seen about the bouse in he course of the preceding day was Debas , and hi * well-known brutal character at once fixed suspicion upon him , and lie was arreted . Circunistantia' evidence , wasgiven on the trial of sufficient sticngth to warrant the jury in pronouncing him guilty , ami the court sentenced hira to death .

      The Sweets of Lm ^ qi-kkcj ? . — " How beautiful lie discourses ! ' ' said one lady to another , as they sat listening to a celebrated orator ; " whatever he lets fall from his lips is sweet and full of eloquent : !" J usv then Mr . Orator " lei fall" a great big tobacker chew I

      Artificial Teeth. Mu. Howard's I'Atknt.—...

      ARTIFICIAL TEETH . Mu . Howard ' s I ' atknt . —The attention of those who have lost their teeth is especially directed to the following observations : —The extrucion of the few teeth or roots which may remain in the mouth , is insisted upon by many dentists , preparing ; artificial teeth ; this is not necessary , as Mr . HOWARD'S Patent improved method they eao he fixed in the mouth with the greatest accuracy answering most fully for every purpose of articulation and mastication : and so perfectly natural in appearance as to defy detection by the closest observ . tr , without ej tracting xny teeth or stumps , or g iving any pain whatever . The new Patent Teeth , invented by Mr . HOWARD , . Surgeon Dentist , ( S 4 , Jlerucrs-strcet , Oxfori ' -street , London , will be found move economical than others .

      Doctor He Massed , of Van Diemcn ' s Land , and Holloway's Pills . —Extract of a letter from John Kni ght , Esu ' dated Launceston , March , I , 1345 : — " Professor Hoi ' loway . - Dear Sir , —I am authorised by Doctor de Dassel " of this colony , to inform you , that having witnessed here in several instances the extraordinary effect of your Pills , he , in consequence , is induced to say that you may make use of his name as attesting to their efficacy — Signed , John Knight , Can- Villa , late proprietor of the " Lauueet . tou Advertiser . "—These Pills net upon the foundation of the system , thus curing the most deeprooted complaints , even when every other treatment has failed .

      Sanatory Reform. Wo Shall Inquire Into T...

      SANATORY REFORM . Wo shall inquire into the causes and : remedies of tho unhealthiness of towns . Tho causes may be divided into three principal heads . First , those which are external , relating to the state of streets , courts , and alloys ; secondly , those which are internal , as the dwellings of the labouring classes , lodging-houses , work rooms , factories , schools , and public institutions ; and , thirdly , those which may be deemed personal , particularly individual cleanliness and the attention which mothers pay to their children . This classification is , in some degree , arbitrary ; but it has the convenience of presenting the whole subject in broad outline , though , in the collection of tho details , which cunstitutc tho evidence , wo shall not bo

      able to follow this tripartite division ; nevertheless , the whole inquiry admits of a consecutive arrangement , and we shall commence with the statistics of overcrowding . The aggregate density of the population of Kngland and Wales is in the ratio of 275 inhabitants to the square mile ; but this ratio assumes a very different character when exclusively applied to towns . According to the Appendix to the third annual Report of the Registrar-General , theaverage density of population in tho twenty-one principal towns was 5045 inhabitants to a fqtiaro mile , 'iho scale , however , rises prodigiously higher if we take the largest towns and those portions of them which are most crowded , For instance : the ratio of inhabitants to the builded area on which they reside , is , in London , 50 , 000 to the square mile ; in Birmingham , 40 , 000 ; in Leeds , 87 , 000 : in Manchester .

      100 , 000 ; and , in Liverpool , 130 , 000 . This is an average ; but there are particular portions of all these towns much more densely peopled , and it is to be noted that mortality dominates the highest in the most crowded localities , of which wo have already given some examples . All tho medical evidence proves that the victims of fever are chiefly to be found in courts and alleys , where there is neither drainage nor ventilation , and where masses of people are congregated on a small area The Rev , J , Clay , in bis report in Preston , furnishes an extraordinary proof of the fatal mortality which arises from want and proper ventilation . In a period of five years , the deaths in t ! -, c town , takinu : an average of numbers and of age , were seventeen times greater than within the walls of the prison—a difference which can only be attributed to over-crowding .

      " It is matter of record , that in the first American war , 2000 seamen died in one fleet through defective ventilation . In our workshops disease and death arc multiplied through the same cause . Under this head , Dr . Guy has given valuable testimony . He carefully compared , the health of two sets of men . forty each , working at tho same occupation , theone set in five small close rooms , the other in five large airy rooms . In the former , each man had 303 cubic feet of air , in the latter , each had 789 cubic feet of air . In all other respects their situation was precisely the same , We shall give the result in Dr . Guy ' s own words : — ' Of the forty men occupying the smaller rooms , and consequently breathing a hotter and fouler air , five had spitting ; of blood , six were

      subject to severe catarrh , six complained of indiuestion , two of great debility , and one of rheumatism . On the other hand , of the forty men occupying the larger rooms , and having a purer and cooler air to breathe , only one was subject to catarrh , two to indigestion , ono to pain in the chest , one to nervous symptoms , ono to head-ache , and one to varicose veins . " These m « ui were compositors working in a printing-i ffiee . The men in the first five rooms had less than half the quantity of air to breathe than the same number of men in the larger rooms , and hence arose the difference in their sanatory condition . In the work-hops of tailors similar consequences have been observed , and when the atmopherc is vitiated , the tendency to pulmonary consumption is

      aggravated ; for exercise , to some degree , counteracts the ill em-cts impure air , for which reason , in . crowded ball-rooms , it is better to dance than to stand still . In heated rooms the fear of catching cold induces the closing up every opening through which a current of air may enter , and thus the atmosphere is poisoned . Then comes on a sinking state of the enfeebled body , aiid spirits are resorted to as an artificial stimulus . Thus the physical frame is ass liled by the joint attack of an ' external and internal enemy , generating scrofula and inflammation of the lungs . Only inferior to the disastrous consequences of overcrowding and defective ventilation , are the evils which arise from inadequate supplies of water in dwelling houses . The present daily consumption

      of water in the metropolis is equal to the contents of a lake fifty acres in ox tent , and of a mean depth of three feet . The metropolis is at present divided among « t nine large water companies , who are practically irresponsible for the quantity and quality of the water they supply , the Legislature having taken no securities for tho supervision and modification of its distribution as tho public interest should from time to time require . The greater part oY the dwellings of the poorer classes are either altogether without water , or are furnished only with . a very scanty supply of unfiltered water of a high degree of hardness . According to the last returns there were upwards of 70 , 000 houses without ar-y supply oi water whatever . Hitherto , the intermittent supply has been universally adopted , that is to say , the water is pumped

      out of receptacles in which it is lodged at certain periods , so that they who want it cannot always obtain it . The actual co ^ t of these receptacles , consisting of butts , tanks , and cisterns , is estimated on the lowest calculation at two millions , and the plan has been proved to be not only costly and unnecessary , but positively pernicious . On the intermittent system the water is generally turned on three times a week , and at each supply the film and black deposited on the surface are mixed , up with the previous filthy accumulations . Even on the surface of the Water Company's reservoir in the Green Park , the deposit of the soot , or dirt , or dust , may at times he observed as a dark scum or dingy carpet over it . On this branch of the subject it may be desirable that we should cive the opinions of practical engineers .

      We proceed to a consideration of those rcmedia ^ measures which are included under the heads o drainage and sewarage . From the earliest periods o ' our constitutional history fundamental provisions were established by the legis ' ature to secure tho free flow of running waters , which were deemed to he national , rather than local property ; and it was part of the prerogative of the Crown , often exercised , to ipsue special commissions , as well before as after the passing of statutory enactments , to protect the people against the encroachments of private interests upon the great public water courses for mill power or for fishing weirs . Such protection is specially guranteed by the 16 th chapter of Magna Chartn . The laws and customs of Itoroney Marsh were settled by Henry of Bathe , one of the judges in the reign of

      Henry the Second , and his ancient ordinances were respected as the embodiment of the principles which should regulate all future decisions , A commission was issued in the third year of Henry the Fourth , to furnish the means of providing Kindon-upon-Hull with pure water , as well as for draining that town , and removing impure sea or fresh water . We might easily cite some very at , cicnt precedents showing the solicitude of the Jeaislature on this subject , but those quoted must suliice . Descending to more modern times , we find that among the provisions of the 54 th George III ., now repealed , the surveyors of the highways had po . ierto require and compel the occupieis of the land adjoining to scour and cleanse the main sewers and drains , and piy the expenses of it ; but the general Highway Act , now in force , contains no such provision .

      In all its combinations there is no public measure which presents an amount of benefit equal to that of Sanatory Reform . It is eminently conse vative of health and property . It would invigorate the physiciul constitution of all classes , render labour more uninterruptedly productive , diminish the rate of mortality , save the heavy charges which fall on the poor during sickness , and diminish the poor rales . By the aid of water constantly at high pressure iiies never coulil become serious , insurances would be economized , and property would be more secure against conflagration as also life . Asa consequence ot the system being fully carried out , tin tax on windows must be abo ished , because it is a tax on ventilation , and the health of tbe people must no longer be

      perilled for the sake of revenue . Habits of cleanlines s which John Wesley remarked were next to habits of godliness , would become general ; the working classes would feel greater respect for the interior of their homes and their own personal appearance , when water was poured into their dwellings , and the streets in which they resided were thoroughly drained . Were this great reform purchased at a large outlay of money , it would be cheaply obtained ; but it is certain that the sewago of towns would pay the cost of all local sanatory improvements , while its distribution over the surface of the soil would double or quadruple the produce of agriculture . Thus , under all views , sanatory and moral , social and economic , we consider the health of towns the most important

      measure that can be submitted to the wisdom of Par Hn merit , and one which eminently commends its If to the patriotism and philonthrop ' hy of the whole nation . * ' The rights of property must no longer constitute the wrongs of tho poor . " The legislator must possess and display the moral courage of protective interference , nor shrink from the high mission to which ho is called . The slaughters of fever must no longer continue to be as fatal as theelaughters of -. tar , ami no longer can we be permitted to acton the brutal maxim that disease was intended to keep down a superabundant population . We have now le-anwd that the preservation of the public health is

      tho wisest economy ; that it will not only save money , but preserve the physical strenslh of those by whom all wealth is created ; it will give us productive for unproductive citizens , by nerving tho arm of labour . It will diminish the number of widows and orphans , relieve workhouse infirmaries of their unfortunate inmates , and check that tendency to physical degeneracy now so painfully attesle i bv " medical observation . But the people must to operate with sanatory reformers in this noble work : the working classes will be chiefly benefited by the judicious ov " - ganization of the proposed system , affd if thi-v will steadily act on the principles recommended bv the disiutticstedRebs of an elevated tmd elevating

      Sanatory Reform. Wo Shall Inquire Into T...

      science , we shall enter upon : *> new epoch of happi ness and . civiliz <\ tiorir-T < jpi ' e , Dad 26 ; article— " Iffl portanoe of Sanatory Reform . "

      The New Means Of Rendering Sur-• Ical Op...

      THE NEW MEANS OF RENDERING SUR-• iCAL OPERATIONS PAINLESS . [( From the Morning Chronicle . ) Sib , —Having been the first in this country to employ the inhalation of ether as a means of rendering surgical operations painless , I beg to enclose yon , for publication , the result of several cases in which I have extracted teeth with success under the above

      circumstances . It was on the 17 th of ( his month that I received from my friend , } Dr . Boott , the first intelligence relating to this discovery , and which intelligence had been conveyed to hira , on that day , in a private letter from America , and stated that numerous surgical operations ' . had been performed at Boston , and amongst othew numerous extractions of teeth , and I immediately contrived an apparatus for the purpose of testing these remarkable allegations . On the 19 th , in the presence of Br . Boott and his

      family , at his own residence , I operated upon a youhg person thrown into sleep by the inhalation , extracted a molar tooth from her lower jaw . The inhalation occupied a minute and a half , and the patient ' s recovery from sleep another minute . Dr . Boott then questioned her respecting tho tooth , and she expressed her great surprise at findiag that it was removed . She said that all she had felt was merely a sensation of cold around the tooth , a sensation which was caused perhaps by the coldness of the extracting instrument .

      The apparatus employed consisted of tho lower part of Nootli ' s apparatus , with a flexible tube , to which was attached a ball and socket vnlve ano mouthpiece similai * to those coixmonly used for inhalation . I repeated the experiment a few days after on other parties , hut in several cases little or no effect was produced by the vapour ; the fact was that the ball and socket valve , though impervious to water , was not so to air , moreover as tho patient was becoming insensible , and the breathing tranquil and involuntary , he had no . longer the' power of raising the ball . Hence the breath passed into the vessel and diluted the ether vapour , and only an incomplete insensibility ensued .

      Instructed bv these circumstances , I have had another apparatus made by Mr . Elphick , of Castle Street , Oxford Street . It consists of a mouthpiece , containing two valves , a perpendicular one which permits of a perfectly free inhalation , hut closes when expiration bestins , and opens the other , an horizontal valve , with a perpendicular action at the top . By this means inspiration and expiration are both allowed [ with the greatest freedom . To the end of this mouthpiece is attached a pad , containing

      a [ spring- well stuffed and adapfed to the external contour of the mouth , also a clip for compressing the nostrils , and thus preventisg the patient from drawing in the air , either through the nose " , or by the corners" of the mouth . This-apparatus I tried on Saturday last on two patients , from one of whom I removed on upper molar , from the other , a deep seated stump . My success was complete . Yesterday I again operated at my house , in Dr . Boott's presence , on Mr . Dixon , surgical instrument maker , of Tonbiidgc Place , Now Road .

      The acctunt ho gave of his status during the operation is extraordinary : he described that ho underwent a most remarkable dream , in the course of which all that he had done , and read , and known , and all the events of his early youth seemed to be " compressed into a circle . " lie then felt as though an evil spirit was endeavouring to triumph over him , but still his confidence in his own victory was prcdominant . The actual removal of the tooth seemed to be coincident with the last effort of the supposed evil spirit . In haif-a-mimite the patient was conscious of the presence ef those around him , and in two minutes he was fully recovered . He had been completely unconscious of the operation .

      This morning , at the Metropolitan Free Hospital , in the presence of several medical men , 1 again operated in two cases with the same success—one a child twelve years of age * the other , a young man of twenty-seven years of age . From the child , I removed two teeth ; from the man , a large molar tooth from the upper jaw ; the latter , on being questioned as to pain , replied that he knew nothing about it , as ho had lost . his brains . Both recovered in two minutes , and left the hospital perfectly well . In conclusion , I may remark , that I entertain the moat confident hopes that at last a means is provided which beyond all fear of failing , without any reference to the peculiarities of individual temperament , susceptibility , or idiosyncracy , will be at tho service of all who arc obliged to undergo the operations of dental surgery . ' 1 trust , however , that ho incautious er unwanantable experiments will be tried—that

      whether the patients suffer pain or not , the worth of the human body will be too thoroughly recognised by all humane and scientific men to allow them to palter for one moment with the interests or in tho avenues of life . The general humanity and enlightenment of the age will t litis allow a discovery to bo harmless which otherwise have been made the means of much reckless mutilation . In this case this new application of steam will be , indeed , a wide blessing ; and the steam of ether and other substances innumerable , if properly applied , may lead to results as new , whether in surgery , physiology , or physclmlogy , as the steam of water and its application has been in the physical , domestic , and social existence of mankind . I am , Sir , your obedient servant , Jambs Rohwsoh , Surgeon Dentist . 7 , Gower Street , Dec . 28 th , 1840 .

      Inundation In Rome. A Letter From Rome O...

      INUNDATION IN ROME . A letter from Rome of the 12 th , gives the following additional details of the late storm in that city : — TVe know not how to describe to you the effects of the tempest which has devastated this city for the last { four days , and which still continues . We never witnessed such weather ; the rain fell in tonvnts and the thunder rolled incessantly . The Tiber overflowed its banks in the most frightful manner ; one-half the city is inundated by its waters , and the inhabitants of the Corsohave five feet depth of water round their houses . AH the quarter of the Campo Marzo , the Ghetto Ripetto , the Corso from tbe Place du People to the Place Colonna has the

      appearance of a large lake . The inhabitants , surprised by the rapidity of the inundation , found themselves prisoners in their houses , withomVfood and leveral without any assistance being possible ^ Since 1805 such a scene has not been witnessed . The loss has been immense . The shops and cellars are under water . Yesterday the waters subaided a little . Apart of theCorso is free , but boats still ply through the adjacent streets , carrying provisions to those who are still imprisoned . The Jews ' quarter has suffered the most , but the extent of the disasters cannot be yet known ; the mails no longer arrive , and two or three bridges on the high road from Bologna , aud in the Marches , have been carried away .

      A correspondent at Rome writes as follows : — Rome is once more under water . For some days past the rains havf continued to fall incessantl y ; and on Wed . nesday morning the Tiber overflowed its " banks , partially flooding the Via Ripetta . The river continueil to rise gradually during the day ; towards evening a slight decrease was observed , and people went to bed satisfied that the worst was over . About twelve o ' clock a sudden accession of water completely inundated the streets in the vicinity of the river , and all the lower portion of the city , and so terrifically rapid was the rise , that by four o ' clock the Piazza del Popolo , the Via del Babuino , the Corso , as far as tho Colonna , and all the connecting streets ' , including tho Via Cnndotti , were only to bo lia « si-, l tit boats , 'it \ C utmost consternation prevuihil .

      By daylight the waters had reached to within a foot of the keystones of the arches of Ponte Sisto , those of the Ponte St . Angelo , Molle , and others less elevated must have been completely covered . The Pantheon of Coursl , the Temple of Vesta , Santa Maria in Cosmedin , and all the excavated ruius in the Forum , were under water . The country from the Poncian hill presented a scene the most deplorable—one vast sheet of water , from which the roofs of houses and the tops of tree * were alone visible . It is impossible at prestnt to form even an idea of the loss of life and property occasioned by this visitu . tion . The amount of misery it will produce among the poorer classes is not to be imagined . Nothing approaching this as a flood has happened here since that of 1805 . The river from tbe Si < to presents an appuarance absolutely frightful , the turbid waters boil and roar through the arches , as if they would carry all before them , and trees , the woodwork of houses , curratdu , dead animals , and ivery species of floating material , gave a terrible

      forewarning of the nature of accounts yet to reach us from the country , 1 hove dilayed writing until 1 could tell you of tho subsidence of the flood . It commenced to decreaie two hours since , but the r . dn which had ceased for six and thirty hours , has recommenced , aud should it continue through the night , we shall be in a worse condition than before . Under this emergency the energy of the new government is strikingly manifest . -Many thousand * of loaves , nine , and meat , in imormon * quantities , are already in process of distribution , ibt > Pope himself going about in person to tho more afflicted neighbourhood , and superintending their relief . The Prince Borphete , too , has Imitated this example in a princely manner , and nil that can will be done to millgate tho surVcrin KS of tho poor . In the Jews' quarter the mischief has been severe , the people having been com . pelted to make holes in tlm solid walls to allow tgr . ss and ingress , the gated at both ends of that ' place being under water . Great as way be the present distress , the greatest has yet to eoir . e , and hill .

      P . S . —I open my letter to tell you that I have just heard that a house , containing fourteen persona , all of whom had perished , bai been washed away by the floods . I fear this is but one of mitny similar results of this awful visitation . Upwards of twenty magnificent stcue pines , tlvose Joys to painters , have been blown down upon an estate of the Borghese , scvea . niilcs from Rome . At this moment ( VI o ' clock , Villi December ) the watetnas again inundated ( he Corso , a'idJ * atiitrising .

      Prices, Acritonte, Wn^Iess;

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      Fatal Accidents With Fltte-Armst An Acci...

      FATAL ACCIDENTS WITH FlttE-ARMsT An accident of a most appalling nature occurred atMilvertonon trtday last . A man named Cross had been on a shooting excursion , and on returnine home , placed his gun , which was loaded with a full charge , close to the clock . One of his sons , a mere youth , as soon as his back was turned , took up the gun , and pointing $ at bis mother , pulled the trigger , when , shocking to relate , the gun went off and the whole contents were lodged in tho forehead of the unfortunate woman's head , who immediately fen down dead . The father immediately ran down stairs when he heard tho report , when a frightful scene presented itself to his view ; the body of his lifelcs * wife , weltering in her blood , and his son standing frantic conditionTho

      Over m a . unfortunate wo . man left a largo family to deplore her untimely end " An inquest was held at Bream , last week , on the body of Thomas Isaacs , a boy about twelve years of age , whose death was occasioned in the following de plorable manner : — Three men , named Thomas " Brown , William Beach , and George Ridler «*«? in company on the 13 th inst ., having tw o guns with them , with which they amused themselves shootine at small birds . Alter a whilo they adjourned to the Cross Keys Inn , Bream , and drank two quarts of beer between them , and then left to proceed home As they parsed along the road , a bird came and alighted within dwtance for a shot , and Uidler said "Shoot the whoop , " meaning the bird , upon which ' both Brown and Ridler raised their guns to their shoulders and fired . Only ltidler ' s cun . Iiowpvo ,.

      went off , that of Brown having hung fire , but thislm did not seem to be aware of ; indeed , all thn > e men declare they believed at the time that both guns had exploded . While they were looking for the bird the boy Isaacs came up , and as he approached them Brown said , "I'll have a bit of fun with the boy " and then called out to him , "I'll shoot you my boy . " The poor lad stood still and laughed , and Ridler asked him , " Where aro you going to , my little man ? " to which he replied , " Down to r ( chard Morgan ' s , to have my dinner . " All this time Brown , who was about a yard from the boy , contilined his most unhappy frolic , still pointing the rauzzlo of the gun backwards and forwards in " front of the child , when at last the gun went off and

      , lodged the contents in the breast of the ill-fated boy who put his hand to his bleeding breast , and cried out , - ' Oh dear , oh dear ! " Brownhiruseifseemed horror-stricken at what he had done , and exclaimed " Oh Lord , oh Lord ! I have sh t the bo v—what shall I do ? " and running to the little fellow ' he took him in his arms , and eaid , " my dear child , I would not have done it for ^ lie world—1 thought my gun was empty . " They carried the wtunded victim of this most melancholy and fatal jesting to a neighbouring cottage , Brown continuing like a man distracted at what he had done , and Ridler proceeded with all haste to Coleford , for a surgeon ; but long before hia return the deceased breathed his fast sigh , in the cottage to which his mangled body had been carried .

      Lastweek , the following melancholy accident hap . pened in the island of Portland : —As a preventive man , of the name of Hancock , stationed in the island , who had just returned fromd duty , was cleaning the barrel of his pistol , the charge of which he had unfortunately omitted to withdraw , ( while holding it with the muzzle pointed towards his person , it unhappily went off , and the contents were lodged in his body , excepting the ball , which passed through him causing immediate death . He has left a wi . dow and seven children to lament their bereavement of a good husband and father . An inquest was held on the body on Monday , before J , Wallis , Esq ., county coroner , when the Jury returned their verdict , " Accidental Death . "

      Mysterious Death . —On Tuesday evening , a lengthened inquiry took place at Guy ' s Hospital , o » the body of a person whose name is supposed to be James Cupping , about 50 years of age , who died in consequence of his throat having been severed in the churchyard of Woolwich Church . Alexander Murray , a labourer in Wonhvieh Dockyard , said that at about 12 o ' clock on tho night of Thursday , Oct , 16 , he was . ' passing through the burial-ground ad . joining Woolwich Church , when he saw deceased standing against the railing , and beckoning to him with iiis left hand ; witness went to him , when he exclaimed , " I havecut my throat . " He was taken to the Mitre Tavern , where the wound was sewn up . Policeman Harris said , that tncnext day , the

      relieving officer of the union called his attention to the deceased , who was residing at alodjing-house , in High , stnet . He appeared to have been a man who had been in better circumstances . He would give no account of himself . There was three halfpence and a card in his pocket . No knife or razor had been found . Before he was removed , he attempted to tear the wound in his throat open . Mr . Murell , one of tho house-surgeons of Guy ' s Hospital , produced the card found on tho deceased , on which was a marquis ' s coronet , with the name on it printed , "II Marchese de Beccadelli . " Deceased died on Sunday from the effects of the injury . The sister

      of Cornelius Ward , in which deceased was placed , stated , that deceased informed her that he had been living on the Continent for the last 21 years . He had then been only three days in England . He had lost a great deal of property , en account of which , during tho last two years , he had given way to drinking , from the effect of which for 4 S hour ' s he was almost in a state of unconsciousness . lie could not say whether any one cut his throat or whether he did it himself . Verdict— " That the deceased died from a wound in his throat , but how the injury was caused there was not sufficient evidence to satisfy the Jury . "

      Muhder of Seamen uy Australian Aborigines , — A letter written by tho master of the schooner Thomas Lord , and addressed to Air , Lewes Scon , of 23 , New Broad-street , gives an account of the murder of the supercargo and two seamen belonging to that vessel , on Mulgravo Island , at the western end of Torres Straits . The vessel was trading with the natives for tortoise-shell and beche le mer , aud was provisioned for a 12 months voyage . On the rooming of June 3 rd , according to the narrative of the captain . Bessant , . the supercargo , with the carpenter and four hands , left the vessel in the longboat . Each man was well armed , besides the boat carrying the swivel guns mounted on the rail . They took provisions and water with them , intending to stay away for three days on a cruise up the river , to barter with the natives . They first proceeded along

      the southern end of the island , trading with tho natives during the day . The carpenter , who had been in New Caledonia before this , did not like the appearance of the savages , who were doing all they could to entice the boat ' s crew ashore by many cunning devices which natives usur , lly resort to . About Gin the evening , finding trade getting slack , they left the island , and proceeded to a small drv sandbank , thinking they would be safe there . " They made a fire , and had supper , after which the carpenter proposed going to the boat to sleep in it , but poor Besaaut said he should prefer sleeping on shore , thinking there was not the slightest danger . The party divided , the carpenter and two hands proceeding to the boat , which was anchored a few feet off the shore . About nine o'clock the carpenter called from tho boat .. "Who has the watch on

      shore ? " Poor Bessant replied , " The whole of us . " These were the last words he was heard to utter . Poor fellow , he little thought his end was so near . About II o ' clock the carpenter was awakened by hearing a noise on shore . He looked up , and to his horror beheld , by tho light of the moon , the wretehel savages , who hud conic across in their canoes , murdering poor Bessant and one of the seamen . He instantly tired at them , when they gave a loud veil and retreated to the scrub close by . Through the resolute conduct of the carpenter they succeeded in getting the remaining seamen into the boat , but not

      before tho poor follow was dreadfully wounded , lie afterwards died on board of bis wounds . The supercargo must have been quite dead when the carpenter and the remainder of the boat ' s crew took possession of his body ; but they were compelled to give it up , as the natives , to the number of at least JW , were again approaching from the scrub , and canoes were observed coining with numbers more . I hey appeared to have been killed while asleep , and 1 am certain made no resistance . Poor Bessant had his pistols in his belt and his carbine under his head , lio was a brave fellow , and would not have given ia but with his life .

      Viickko Hoax —A hoax , doubtless in imitation of , and prompted by , that practised on a tradesman i 11 ' < r P * ayed , off uere h > st week , with consider- able effect . On Tuesday morning various tradesmen I received , * through the post , somej letters ( unpaid ) ] dated" George Inn , Snargate Street , " containing orders of various kinds , and purporting to be written i by the worthy landlord , Mr . Philpott or Mrs . Phil- ¦ pott . T he parties were generally required to be at I tho " George " at half . past ten o'clock , a . m . Accor- umgly , punctual at that hour , an undertaker was in r attendance to take the measure of a gentleman , just ; l dead , for n coffin , and to do tho other requisites < i appertaining to his calling on the solemn , occasion ; i nor had sufficient time elapsed for explanation as to ti tho honx when up came a cam iage to drive a pari ? I ; for a morning tide . Presently there came two s >

      butchers * men with legs of mutton , two grocers' laus d with each a huge cheese , a tobacconist with a box of c tho best Ilavannahs , and other such like necessaries , eas per order . Meanwhile , also , a fashionable hair- n dresser , "kit in hand , " entered to shave the dead a man ; and apace the chimney-sweepers were seen to I enter , shouldering the implements of their craft ; , 11 while tho dustman called in tp- ascertain "furth er [ a particulars" about fetching the night-cart . In the U midst of the hubbub , a gentleman , from the upp ^ P end of the town , dropped in to inquire what it «' as »" " to his interest" that Mr . Philpott had to tell hiui- u The perpetrators of this wicked hoax , who , as yet , j < remain undiscovered , arc , doubtless , chuckling over ) t the success of tb'eir object ; but it is not unlikely |; e they may soon he brought to light , and made to e answer for tho ' . r wanton cruelty . —Dover Chronicle , le .

      Human B ' o . NBs . —ln the human body there ; ue 2 Wi J bones ,

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 2, 1847, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_02011847/page/2/