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JUKE 2, 1849. THE NORTHERN STAR.
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Juke 2, 1849. The Northern Star.
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TO THE PEOPLE . ( From the Progressionist . ) People of England ! be no longer dreamers ' Smew your souls for freedom ' s glorious kap ! look to the future J lo ! our day-sW glimmers A . pulseis stirred , which never nforelaall sleep ' ftrSin . * ' Men ' S eyes ^» ' " * « m » e Tie tKtitor kings turn pale in pleasure ' s bower ' Tor at tire sound which comes like thunder-sob-| he leaves from royalty ' s tree faU hour by hour-Earthquakes leap m our temples , cAmbling throne and power ! . ° Vampyres have drained the human heart ' best
s Wood , = "" " """ Kings robbed , and priests have cursed us in God's same ; Oatm ihe midnight of the past -we ' ve stood , T r 2 v ~ eiends d , nrkn . P ued their hellish game . ^? ve n W 0 rsmpping a gilded crown Which drew heaven ' s hghxsevg imxghieb on our head I Chains fell on ns as -we were bowing down—Wedeemed our gods divine , but lo ! instead . TBE ! ABE BUI PAIHTED CUT , "WITH MORS THE CHARM HAS TtEB ?
Andia ibis "happy England , " this the place—The cradle—of great souls self-deified * mere smiles once revelled in thepeasant ' s face—Ere hearts-were masked by gold-lips steeped in pride ? r mere—toil with open brow -went on li ghthearted « _ Where—twain in love , law never thrust apart ? Then is the glory of our life departed ! Erom ns who sit and nurse our bleeding smart . And sink afraid to break the laws that break the heart !
Hushed be yon heralds on the walls of fame ? _ Trumping this people as their country ' s pride ! weep rather with your souls on fire with shame . See ye not how the palaced knaves deride—Us easfly—flattered fools ? how priestcraft stealthy , Stabs at our freedom through its veil of night Grinding the poor to flush its coffers -wealthy ? ' Hear how the land groans in the grasp of might Then quaff your cups of wrongs ! and laud a Briton ' s right I * * * * Immortal liberty ! 1 see thee stand Like morn just stepped from heaven npon a
moun-Tvifiirosy feet and blessing-laden hand ; Thy brow star-crowned ! thy heart love ' s living fountain ! Oh ! when wilt thou string on the people ' s lyre-Joy ' s broken chord ? and on the people ' s brow Place empire ' s crown ? light up thy beacon fire "Within our hearts with an undying glow , 2 for give us blood for milk , as th' world is drunk -withnow ? Cursed ! cursed be war ! the world ' s most fatal glory—Ye wakening nations ! burst its guilty thrall ! *" Time traits with outstretched hands io shroud the
gory Glaye , from his shuddering sight , beneath obli--vion's pall . The tyrant laughs at swords' the cannon's rattle Plashes no terror on his murdering soul ! ThoughtI Mind ! must conquer Might ! and in this battle , The warrior ' s cuirass or the sophist ' s stole Shall blunt no lance of light , no impulse backward roll ! Old poets tell us of a golden age , mien earth was sinless—gods the guests of men Ere guilt had dimmed the heart ' s illumined page . . And our rapt seers say't will come again . Oh happy age 2 when love shall rule each heart , . And time to live shall be the poor man's dower ! When martyrs bleed no more , nor poets smart—Mind be the only diadem of power ! People ! it ripens now I Awake I and strike the hour !
Hearts hi g h and mighty gather in our cause , Bless , Bless , oh God ! and crown their earnest labours ! "Who dauntless go to win ns equal laws— . "With mental armour and with spirit sabres I Bless , bless , eh God ! the proud intelligence "Which like a sun sits on the people ' s forehead ! Humanity springs from them like incense ! The future bursts upon them—boundless—starried—They weep repenting tears that they so long have tarried ! Thomas Gkraxd Massev .
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THE DEMOCRATIC REVIEW OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN POLITICS , HISTORY , AND LITERATURE . Edited by G . Julias JLasney . 2 fo . 2 , June . London : 5 , "Wine-office Court , Fleet-street . The principles and objects of the Democratic Review have been already set forth in this journal , through the medium of the " Prospectus" which has appeared for some weeks past in our advertising columns . From the Editor ' s opening address " To the Working Classes" we select the following extracts : —
THE TRESS . The aristocracy and bourgeoisie who in this country have monopolised all property , political power , and social influence , have added to their other usurpations , a monopoly of the Press . The Daily journals , without exception , are opposed to your interests . The "Weeklies—with a few Exceptions , Stamped and unstamped—are in the hands of commercial speculators , who , intent only on making profit , pander to popular degradation , by filling their Journals with accounts of murders , executions , and every description of crime , glowingly portrayed , to excite a vicious , morbid appetite . Th £ 3 Jtonthly and Quarterly Magazines and Reviews are published for the entertainment of the "
respectable , " and " superior classes only—or to uphold class usurpations and lie down the cause of Justice . From the 24 th of February , 1 S 13 , to the Ji resent hour , nine-tenths of the Newspapers Daily and "Weekly ) , Magazines , and Reviews , have unceasingly misrepresented the revolutionary movements on the Continent , and calumniated the men who as true Democrats , striving-for Justice to all , have taken part in those movements . Even the " Liberal papers" have not extended their liberality beyond patronising the betrayer Lamartine , and the butcher Cavaignac . Stamped or unstamped , I doubt if half-a-dozen publications throughout
England have had the honesty to vindicate the Red ^ Republicans , to defend such men as Barbes and Albert , Xouis Blanc and Caussidiere , and to take the part fully and fearlessly of the Revolutionists of France , Germany , Hungary , and Italy . The secret of the bitter and unscrupulous hostility of the English press to the veritable Revolutionists , and sincere Reformers of the Continent , is to be found in the fact that that Press is the slave of "Wealth and Privilege . The work of a Censorship , without the odium attached thereto , is accomplished in this country fcy taxation , restrictive laws , corruption , and class-domination .
Under this regime of corruption and fraud , profit is the grand object of speculators in Newspapers , Magazines and Reviews . Hence the filthy and lying advertisements of quacks and impostors , which crowd the advertising columns of the Journals . Hence the sickening accounts of royal rareeshows , and the routes and revels of aristocratic flunkeydom . Hence the columns , the pages , devoted to the service of stock-jobbers , railway gamblers , and the rest of the race of money grubbers whose name is " Legion . " Hence the total omission , or , worse still , the travetties of meetings , and proceedings of the poor and unprivileged classes . Hence the
contempt , the scom , andlies poured out npon Chartism , and the fiendish persecution waged against the advocates of Equal Rights , and Equal Laws . Hence the conspiracy to misrepresent the glorious Red Republicans and Communists of the Continent , and the encouragement given to royal , ar istocratic , and tourgeois assassins to wage a war of extermination against the champions of Equality , Freedom , and Justice , . and , hence , my duty , —the duty of every true man—to expose the falsehoods , refute the calumnies , and lay bare the frauds of these worst enemies of mankind—a duty which will be zealously discharged by the contributors to the Democratic Review .
The several political sections of the " higher orders" are represented by their part y " Reviews . " The Conservatives have their Quarterl y , the "Whigs their Edinburg h , and the " respectable" Radicals their Westminster Beview . "Why should not Democracy be represented as well as Toryism , Whigliberalism , and Sham-Radicalism ? TVhy should not the " lower orders , " ( as you are insolently termed ) have their " Review ? " . "' . I can imagine the contempt of aristocratic and " respectable" readers ( should any such chance to glance at this periodical ) , and can anticipate the
sneers of the professional critics , at tne very uuew this publication . Then * contempt and sneers will be 8311 further excited at the price charged for the Democratic Review . " Threepence ! " " Can a respectable ¦' monthly' issue from the press at such a price ? Impossible . " It is true that the Democratic Review is published at one twenty-fourth of the price charged for the Westminster , Edinburgh , and Qmrtffrlyt It is true it cannot , compete in bulk and appearance with its aristocratic and " respectable '' rrrals . " Iti is true that the services of the " eminent writers" who seirtheir souls to the proprietors of ihe Six Shilling Sevieivs , cannot be commanded for
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this serial . But , myfriends ,= for these deficiencies you will be compensated , by the unbougbfc labours ot m ? nwho have devoted their lives to the service ot Justice ; "Men who are bold enough to be > . neSt ' -ii honest enough to be bold ? ' writers wno will at least give evidence of possessing the rare merit of proclaiming the truth and defending the right , regardless of selfish considerations . The remainder of the article ( we have quoted only a small portion ) , is in the same spirit , and is calculated to win for the writer anything hut fevourable "Opinions of thePress . " The next article is an able Address by Mr . Walton the Trades
, "To of Great Britain and Ireland . " Then follows the first chapter ot a new work , intended to he published by its author in the Democratic Review , on that question of questions—the Lanb . The author proposes to refute the "Labour " argument of Locke and Cobbett— -the "Law" argument of Paley— and other arguments of the " best writers , " advanced in support of the right of private property in Land also , to show how such " right" was really acquired ; how possession of the Land was obtained—how the people may possess it again—and how , by its resumption into the common fund , all taxation
may he abolished . " The Elections in France " is the title of an article contributed by a French correspondent of the Review From this article we quote the following soulstirring sentences
:--THE DEMOCRATIC JLVD SOCIAL BEPEBLIC . The progressive march of the Democratic and Social Republic will date from the elections of the 13 th of May . Henceforward it advances to certain victory . The votes of the army have established between itself and the people a mutuality of interests , which it would be dangerous for auy ambitious power to attempt to break asunder . Yes 1 the Democratic and Social Republic is assured , for the people and the army have consecrated it by the unanimity of their votes , which declare that there shall be no more impious wars between proletarian brethren , but that hatreds shall retire to their birth-place—the hearts of the privileged orders . A coup d ' etat on their part would serve onl y to accelerate the triumph of the democratic cause .
In spite of shackles forged by the men of privilege , France has recommenced her march of progress . Democrats of all countries , let us take courage ! Before long , the French Republic will complete its mission . The divine precepts of Jesus Christ will be made the basis of universal human happiness , and harmony will cleanse all hearts of hateful passions . Then it will be no longer necessary , as it is now , to say , ' « "Watch and be ready to repel by the sword your oppressors , while they attack you with instruments of death . " For the mission of man is not to massacre his brother man , but to love him , andtb live with him in fraternity ; An elaborate " Political and Historical
"Review—domestic and foreign , from the pen of the Editor , includes in its subjects , of comment the late faction-struggle on the "Navigation Laws ; " Mr . Drttjimond's " Financial Reform" motion ; the debates on "PrisonDiscipline , " the "Septennial Act , "and "Vote by Ballot ; " also the movements and meetings of the Chartists , " Reformers , " & c . ; the state of Ireland , the annexation of the Punjaub , and the riotsin Canada ; also the French Elections , the conflict between the kings and the people of Germany , the siege of Home , the war in Hungary , & c , & c . From this article we extract the following : — . . ,
APPEAL TO THE CHAHTISTS . "We observe with regret that Sir Joshua "Walmsleyand his friends persist in their sectional movement for partial reform . A great national movement will be impossible without a oneness of aim , and that aim must include the rights , the interests , and the sympathies of the proletarians . The masses who have pledged their faith to the Charter may not oppose the moderate reformers , but they certainly will not join them ; and most certainly the moderates themselves are not strong enough to achieve the objects they have in view , lacking the
support of the working classes . To the proletarians we say : Up and work for yourselves I Be no longer the scoff of Europe . Show to the heroic democrats on the Continent that you too love Liberty and are resolved to establish the Rights of Man—political and social . By your past labours , — by the hope you have to see your children free , — by the sufferings of your persecuted advocates , — by the memories of those who have perished in your cause , — we adjure you to cast off your cowardly , criminal apathy , — we demand of yon to rally and struggle once more for the enactment of
THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER ! Under the head of " Literature , " lengthy reviews ( including very interesting extracts from the works reviewed ) , are given of Prentice ' s "Tour in the United / States , ' ' and Louis BtA 2 fc * s * ' Appeal to Honest People . '' In the Letter from "A Proletarian Sufferer for the Charter" on " The Sheffield Election , " we recognise the hand of an old and valued friend . His letter is well worth the perusal of the Sheffield electors and non-electors . A most feeling , eloquent , heart-moving Letter from "Louis Blanc to the Heroic and Suffering Patriot , . Akmasd Babbes , " will , we venture to predict , he hig hly prized by the readers of the Democratic Review ; we select therefrom the following extracts , ( the writer is speaking of the Revolution of February : )—
The sun of those great days will shire again . Ay , let our enemies give the name of madness to your enlightened magnanimity ; injustice , oppression , falsehood , and evil—these are the true madness . And they would have already discovered this , were it possible for madness to recognise itself ; for what wretchedness can compare to theirs , who have with them but the army , and against them their conscience . Are they not in continual dread of the possible outbreaks of poverty ? And amid the phantoms evoked by their terror , is there not one that for ever and ever appears before them , which seeks for bread , and finds but a musket . Is not io-morsow the word of our hope , the word of their fear ?
That which distinguishes our age from those which have preceded it , and gives it its historical originality , is the character of strength and univer * safity which now marks doctrines that were formerly only held by a few thinkers , melancholy philosophers , unrecognised tribunes , or sects rapidly stifled , like the first Christians—the only true Christians ! The thinker , the philosopher , the tribune , who , in the present day , represents the imperishable tradition of fraternal equality , is named , in France—the people ! To contain it , prisons are
too narrow . Our triumph is certain . Oh , my dear Barbes ! did you but know how doubly sweet and precious this conviction is rendered by the affection I feel for you ! I know that your Faith , professed in your sublime speech before the tribunal at Bourges , is to you a source of ineffable consolation , that it is . that whicli raises you so far above the mass of mankind ; - that it is that Faith which renders you invincible in suffering ; for God has fashioned you of the nature of heroes , of the nature of martyrs , and I know your heart .
Forty closely-printed pages for Threepence ; the Democratic Review is cheap enoug h in all conscience . Of its merits we advise our readers to ( purchase this number and ) judge for themselves .
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The Progressionist . No . 2 . New Series June . London : E . Ward , 54 , Paternoster
row . There are some sound Chartist articles in this number of tie Progressionist . The poetry is Very much in advance of what usually passes under that name . The spirited Stanzas addressed "To the People , " in ihe , first column of this page , -we have extracted from this number of the Progressionist—a publication well entitled to the support of the working men , of whose rig hts and interests it is the able and fearless champion .
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The Land Monopoly , the Suffering aud Demoralisation caused byit ; and the Justice and Expediency of its abolition . By Ebenezer Jokes . London : Charles Fox , Paternpster-row . The " Land Monopoly " is rapidl y becoming the question of questions , and it is easy to . see that ere very long the aristocracy , will have , to face a movement , compared with which all former popular movements will appear small indeed . In this pamphlet the author argues , that " The people are dependent , the people beg , the people are humiliated , the people are poor , the people starve — . because tlie people , are landless . " . ¦ : ¦ .:. - .::,, ; : ; : - Mr . E . Jone % shows that the Land
Monopoly—asexistmg in GreatBntaui—prevents the cultivation of the / Laad proportionate to
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the wants of thepeople , causing ah insufficiency of agricultural production , and preventing the equitable distribution of that which is produced ; and further shoivs , that to terminate the Iiaud Monopoly ( by declaring tho Land national property , and giving compensation to the present landlords ) , would be both just and expedient . Inthe following paragraphs the author shows how the abolition of the Land Monopol y would accomplish
THE EMANCIPATION OF LABOUR . Every man or body of men , dissatisfied with the remuneration , 0 r -with the conditions of the remuneration , offered for their labour in the labour market , might be entitled to go to the national land managers , and demand permission to locate themselves on their own share or shares of the land , to produce their own food , on the ground that the action of the labour marict did not award it them on fair terms ; or even on the ground that they have aright to do so if they choose . This plan would not only secure for such Home Colonisers their share in exchange for the labour of nrodiicin < r it .
but would also produce and . maintain an equallv ] usfc arrangement for all other labourers left m the labour market . Por it is evident , that for the labour market to retain any labourers , it would be obliged to raise the remuneration of their labour , and their general treatment also , until they would be as well situated as if they were to avail themselves of their right to location on the land . Philanthropists have long seen and exposed the justice of fixing a minimum rate of wages ; this plan of unlimited Home Colonisation would at once establish a just one , free from the evil . of . personal interference , self-reguJating-, and proportioned to the cost of food .
Let not malevolence exclaim , " who is to find the capital necessary for the location of such of these Home Colonists as should themselves possess none , viz . the food they would need until the production 0 t j j st cr ° l ' seed > tools ' & c" The fundsexpended in the support of pauperism would be sufficient for the purpose , or would not be . If the hrst should be the case , there is : an end to the objection . If the second supposition should prove to be the correct one , or if the said funds should be discontinued to be raised , because this application of them would set the labouring classes free , not from the guidance , but from the despotism of capitalists , then must it be said , that such aid is dxe from society generally , and that society must be made to advance it as a loan . Por had there been no . land monopoly , and every man had always been able to
adhere to his share of the land , property would have been so diffused , that a man without capital , ( excepting the idle and extravagant , who must take the consequences of their conduct ) would not be to be found ; and , as the land monopoly has been created and kept up by society , the necessary compensation to the victims of its consequences must be by society made . So long , however , as the land is held to be the private property of a few , to the exclusion of the many , no such plan , nor any similar plan , can te adopted . There can be no way of guaranteeing to each industrious Englishman his interest in the soil he is born unto ; equitable distribution of English produce cannot be secured ;—and this country must still remain , glittering in its heights and pinnacles with untold riches and brilliancy , but -within all poverty and pauperdom , the wonder and disgrace of civilisation , ihe richest and wretchedesfc nation in Europe .
This pamphlet will recommend itself to the friends of real reform ; it is hardly necessary to add , that we wish it an extensive circulation .
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The Boxapames . —It may be worth while here to devote a few lines to them and their relationships . It is , of course , known to every one that Napoleon Bonaparte was the second son of Charles-Marie Bonaparte ; that he married—first , Josephine , by whom he had no issue ; second , Marie Louise of Austria , whose only child , the Due de Reichstadt , died in 1832 , at Vienna , when the right line of tho Imperial family became extinct . Napoleon had four brothers—Joseph , his elder , Lucien , Louis , and Jerome ; and three sisters—Eliza , Pauline , and Caroline . Joseph , Kin ^ of Spain , left two daughters— Zenai'de and Charlotte—but no sons . Lucien , Prince of Canino , had no less than eleven children , five sons and six daughters ; of whom there arc still
living , Charles Napoleon , Prmcc of Canino , who married his cousin , Zenaide , daughter and heiress of Joseph , by whom he has ten chddren—Louis Lucien , Pierre Napoleon , Antoine , Charlotte ( married to Prince Gabriclli ) , Christine ( married to Lord Dudley Stuart ) , Lajtitia ( married to Mr . Thomas Wyse ) , Alexandrine ( married to Count Valentini ) , Constance ( now a nun ) , and Jeanne ( married to the Marquis Honorati ) . Louis , King of Holland , who married Queen Hortense , had three sons , Napoleon , Napoleon Louis , and Louis Napoleon—the only survivor and now President of the French Republic . Jerome , King of "Westphalia , bad two sons , Jerome Napoleon and Napoleon , and one daughter , Matilde , now Princess Demidoff . Of the sisters of Napoleon .
Eliza married Prince Felix Bacchiochi , and left one daughter ( now married to Count Camerata ) , Pauline left no children . Caroline married Murat , King of Naples , and became the mother of the present Lucien Charles Murat , of Lastitia ( married to Count Pepoli ) , and of Louise ( married to Count Rasponi ) . This is the entire Bonaparte family . Of the brothers and sisters of the Emperor only Jerome now remains . Of the second generationhis nephews and nieces—there are fourteen ; and of the ihmi generation there is a still more considerable number . As will be seen from the foregoing programme , Louis Napoleon is not the head of his family by order of his nature . By right of primogeniture all the descendants of Lucien would take precedence ef the heirs of Louis ; but , as is well
known , Lucien was in disgrace when his imperious brother had the order of succession to his empire fixed—and he and his descendants were excluded . How far this law , founded on a whim , is binding in such a new state of things as the present is a question which the partisans of the family are beginning to askthemselves . Louis Napoleon is tho only remaining male member of the families entitled by the laws of the Empire ( 28 Floreal , an . xh . and 5 Frimaire , an . xin . ) to the succession . The Prince of Canino , the real head of the house , has declared his intention of returning to France and entering the Chamber . The other princes of the family who are at present prominently before the public are—Pierre , brother to Canino ; Napoleon , son of Jerome , late ambassador to Madrid ; and Lucien Murat . AtJienteum .
Lord Brougham is Lead— There is a story current that some time since a whole army of " Lord Broughams , " executed in lead , and of colossal proportions , aisembarked in the United States , and were drawn up on a public quay in two lines , resembling an avenue of Egyptian statues . The Custom House officers were lost in wonder at the sight of so many giants turning up their noses at Brother Jonathan , and inquired what the monster importation meant . " Statues of Lord Brougham , " replied the skipper ; " one for every city m the Union ; being the gift of his lordship ' s English admirers to the American Republic . " Lead , as such , is subject to a heavy import duty , but " works of art" are admitted free . What could the officers of Customs
do ? They did not swallow the skipper ' s story , hut they couid not detain his statues ; and in a short time Lord Brougham was in the melting-pot , and " cast into bullets for the Mexicans . "—Builder . Bell Steam Gauge . —An ingenious application of electricity has been made by Mr . Arthur Dunn , by means of which signals are given that indicate the pressure of steam m the boiler of an engine . Tubes being filled with mercury are made part of a , galvanic circuit—and connected with bells as the mercury rises from increasing pressure in the boiler ; the circuit is thus completed , and the bells respectively rung indicate the amount of pressure . In this way attention is called to the condition of the steam the moment it exceeds its ordinary and safe working condition .
A "Warning to Smokehs . —A singular case of asphyxia is related in one of the French journals . A youth of the name of Lemoine paid a visit to an uncle , who is a farm labourer in the neighbourhood of Havre . This man occupied a small and illvehtllatcd apartment . The nephew-, at eight o ' clock in the evening , went to bed in the room . Soon after , the uncle and some companions entered the room , and all fell to smoking . The youth , ¦ was asleep . At midnight the visitors withdrew , ana the uncle Wnt to bed . Laying his hand upon his nephew , he found him unnaturally cold , and endeavoured to awake him without effect . Help was called , some indications of lifes appeared ; arid a physician directed operations for the recovery of the patient . All proved vain-the next day he expired . A post-mortem examination was made , and the physician pronounced that he died of congestion of the brain , caused by the respiration of tobacco smoke during sleep . iT _ .
HOMAGB . IO WOMAN , — JSOt among * . uw ojwwua was marriage held in higher honour than among the people of Siwah . Neither bachelor nor widower is allowed to dwell permanently within the walls , or remain on a visit after sunset . As soonas the young men reach a certain age , they are driven forth to build themselves dwellings in the suburbs ; and when a wife dies , sentence of expulsion is forthwith passed on her disconsolate partner ; and for this reason it is that on every side numerous houses exist but especially towards the north , where there is-a regular quarter round the base of the second conical hill . — -Adventures in the Ubyan Desert , ; := "¦; "No monopoly , " said a ; sun-beam dispersing , a dew-drop that was hiding in the folds of a , rose . " Mr Fox Maule is remarkable for his head of hair . iVittv ' ffag in describing'it , says , ' imagine . the heads Of four niggers multiplied by . the backs-oi three merino raBiS ; and you wdl have a tolerable notion of it . *
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SUN S ?^ E * D SHADOW : A TALE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . BY THOMAS MABTIN WUEELEB , Late Secretary to the National Charter Association and National Land Company .
Chapieh IX . The sentiments of older days inspire His breast and lead him on . He nothing heeds Ihe lessons of the times . Let others hire , And pawn , and sell their country . Modern creeds lhat suit Britannia's modern heroes . Fire More bright , warmed those of whom the scholar reads ; From them ho learned his love of liberty , From them he learned to conquer or to die . Beste .
With deatnlcss minds , which leave where they have past A path of lighb , my soul communion knew , Till from that glorious intercourse at last—As from a mine of magic store , I drew Words whicli were weaoons , round my heart there grew , The adamantine armour of their power , And from my fancy wings of golden hue Sprang forth . Shelley . A lapse of some months has taken place since Arthur Morton arrived at Birmingham , during which interval his leisure time has been devoted to the . study . of ... politics , with occasional attendance at the meetings , then almost nijrhtly held . His
shonmates , conscious of his abilities , had often invited him to address these public assemblages , but the inherent shyness of his nature had hitherto prevented his doing so . Meanwhile tho political atmosphere was growing still more dense and clouded . The National Convention still continued its sittings in the metropolis , but their proceedings were not characterised by that unity of purpose which influenced those who had elected them . Oh ! it was a noble , a heart-inspiring sight , to seethe myriads of working bees in all our vast hives of industry , abandoning all sectional pursuits , forgetting all minor subjects of rivalry , actuated by one mi ghty impulse , sacrificing their time , their talent , their hard-earned pittance / and , in many instances ,
their employment , to one grand object ^ -tho regeneration of their country . Such union , such devotion , deserved , and would have ensured success , had their delegates in Convention been inspired by the same devoted self-sacrificing spirit . But the spirit of party and of class was fast gaining the ascendancy in that body ; composed of ill-assorted and hastily-combined materials , it had no coherency in it—all was rivalry and opposition , This rendered their proceedings a source of discord to their constituents ; spreading the evils of disunion from the centre to the remotest limits of the Confederacy , reducing their moral and physical stamina , until they fell an easy prey into the hands of the goycrninent . Let not our censure be too sweeping—great and noble spirits were there in that Assembly . Men who were an ornament to that body , and to
the class to which they belonged , but their influence was not sufficient to restrain the wild but honest ardour of the physical-force party on the one hand , or the cupidity and selfishness of many of the moralforce party on the other hand . The government , paralysed in the first instance , speedily regained assurance , and amidst its internal divisions , and the retirement of many of its members , the remnant of the Convention , distrusting their position in the metropolis , resolved to entrench themselves among the physical-force men of Birmingham . But , alas for the reputation of Birmingham ! it no longer suited the Whigs , nor the Whig press , to parade tho
numbers , organisation , and military equipment of thy sons ; the phantasmagoria had achieved its object , the conjurors were seated at the helm ; they needed not the illusion , so tho spell was broken , tho charm deprived of its power , and thou wast transformed from a military citadel , bristling with guns and bayonets , into thy ordinary quiet and peaceful position , never again to regain thy warlike character . On the evening previous to the expected arrival of the Convention , a large meeting took place in the Bull Ring . Densel y crowded was that vast area , the dim lights showing in dark perpectivc the eager and anxious countenances of the assembled
thousands . Speaker after speaker poured forth in angry invective , denunciatory of the middle-class leaders , who had betrayed and deserted them , and declared their fierce determination to dare the vengeance of the government , and rally round tho remnants of their delegates . There is something tragic even in the excited passions and feelings of one individual—but when these feelings , these passions , arc communicated to the multitude by the electricity of eloquence , the scene is majestic and overpowerin g in the extreme . All sense of individuality is annihilated—the unit is lost in the mass —the solitary billow merged into the raging ocean , which swells and foams as if in disdain of the laws which regulate its motion . So it is with the
multitude , -when once heart hath spoken to heart , and the sympathy of mutual fooling and mutual indignation has linked the speaker to his hearers . Arthur Morton had been accommodated with a seat on the temporary platform . The spirit of the time and the hour was burning within his veins . A feeling of suffocation pervaded his frame . Unknowing what he did , and scarce conscious of his own identity , he sprang to the centre at the close of one of the speakers'harangue , and , casting a glance of fire on the agitated and troubled mass of human beings below nim , gave utterance to the pent-up feelings of years , and poured forth such a torrent of fervid eloquence that the excited myriads before wiin tno
mm were speii-uounu potent cnarm . jxo longer swelled and roared that mighty living ocean . Motion itself seemed hushed , and the strained eyeballs glaring upon him , and the dense heavy silence which prevailed , were the only visible signs of the working of the spell . A brief-pause in the orator ' s burning words seemed to break the charm , the death-like silence quivered into voice , until tho whole mass was redolent of sound . Again the voice of the orator falls upon their ears—hushed again is that stormy ocean . With the energy of inspiration , the speaker lays bare the miserable sophisms of tho advocates of misrule , and laughs to scorn their bksphemous plea of right divine . The world ' s past-history is thrown
with lightning glance into his hearers' very hearts , and shown to be one red record of misery and crime wherever man ' s rights have been kept in abeyance ; next his powerful eloquence vents itself on tho treachery and deceit of thoso worshippers of the golden calf who would use the energies of his audience as the stepping-stone to their own advancement . The flimsy veil of their apparent co-operation is torn to shreds—tho bitter mockery of their similarity of interest is laid bare with iron handtheir conventional hypocrisy is exposed in all its narrow and naked deformity , and earnestly and solemnly are they appealed to , to cast off all dependence upon others , to trust solely to their own energies , and leave the decision to the God of justice and the God of battle .
The audience still listened m breathless silence , but the orator had ceased ; and while the echoes of their applause were still ringing in his ears , he was quietly treading his way to his home , overcome by this unwonted excitement . No after speaker addressed the meeting . It would have been but of little avail . The hoarded eloquence of an embittered life , the hard experience of hunger and of want , had been lavished upon them , and all meaner food would have boon rejected . Of all the varied gifts of man , the most powerful , the most fascinating , is the magic of the tongue , whether breathing soft whispers to beauty ' s willing ear , or commanding the wrapt attention of the listening senate—whether thundering in the pulpit , or pleading at the bar , its effects arc alike potent . Would that its accents were only powerful in a right and just cause ; ( To be continued . )
Paupeb Establishments.—By An Act Which C...
Paupeb Establishments . —By an act which came into force on the 11 th May ( 12 th of Victoria , chap . 13 , ) provision is made for a more effectual regulation and control over the maintenance of poor persons in houses not being the workhouses of unions or parishes . The Poor Law Board is empowered to issue , rules and regulations to houses where the poor are maintained under contract ; to prohibit the reception or retention of inmates ; to remove any officer ; to regulate contracts ; and ( by the seventh ) to order an inspection , by which a recurrence of the Tooting case , it is hoped , will be prevented . "And be it enacted , that the said commissioners may , if they shall think fit , appoint apersonj either
temporarily or permanently , to visit any such house or establishment , and . to inspect the same and the poor persons received and maintained therein , and to make a report to . such commissioners , upon any visit and inspection ; arid such person shall be paid by the guardians or overseers , as the case ; may be , of the several unions or parishes from which , poor persons shall have been sent , and shall , at the time of such visitation , be maintained therein , such remuneration as the said commissioners shall , by order under their seal , direct . " Justices may visit houses , and the General Board of Health may appoint a superintending inspector for ; such establishments .
One Hundred and Eight Years Old ' . —There is now living at Scalpa , in the Isle of Harris , a woman piamed Marian Morrison , who has attained the age of one hundred and eight . She hears' and sees well , can walk on a good road ten miles in the day , and can knit and darn without spectacles , which she has never used . She has paid rents to a succession of seven proprietors . She has never indulged in dainty food ; or ardent spirits ,:: buthas lived on " good wholesomellighland fare : " : ; : j Several cannon balls have been found in the Vatican Gallery ; at . Rome , and diave been placed in the collection of coins , with the inscription ,. ' . ' Gift of Pio Nono , "
Paupeb Establishments.—By An Act Which C...
THE STANFIELD HaLL MURDERS . . It reference to the description of the finding of a blunderbuss , with which it . 'is supposed Rush committed the murders at Stanfield Hall , Col . Oakes , the chief constable of the Norfolk police , has addressed the following letter to several journals ;—" Having read in your journal a communication from a Wymondham correspondent , which imputes blame to myself and tothe officers under my command , for not having previously discovered the blunderbuss which has lately been found at tho Potash-farm , I rely with confidence on your kindness to fr ' iva insertion also to the following short re ]) ly to it . - . ¦' . - ¦ , '¦
"The general search which was carried OR throughout the whole of this property , and up to the very gates of its farm-yards , was essentially as your correspondent has described ; but there are circumstances in connexion with those farm-yards which require explanation , inasmuch as they presented difficulties which wo had neither means nor authority to surmount . The Potash Farm was in the occupation of Mr . James Rush , and not of his father . Up to a certain point all our operations had been freatly to his advantage . 'His ditches and his fences ad been trimmed andcleaned out ; his manure had been collected from various parts of the farm , and placed in convenient heaps for him , while those previously formed had been turned . All this was
materially to his benefit , and in all I consequently received his most ready concurrence ; but unfortunately his interest did not require that his yard should be disturbed . Ilis . labourers were threshing in the barn ; the waggons were passing over that yard to deposit the corn to be so threshed ; the cattle were turned into it , and were there fed . The whole of his business , with the exception of ploughing , seemed to be concentrated in that spot ; had I therefore , under such circumstances . ' made a forcible entry , upon this part of the premises , I should indeed have carried my research , as your correspondent says , to almost , complete demolition . The manure collected in that yard had been frequently turned , as far as we could reach it with forks ,, but
the enormous mass of which it was composed ( amounting to many hundred loads ) could not by possibility have been removed without resorting to means far beyond those whicli I had hitherto pos sessed ; but on the very day , the very moment after tho prisoner Rush was committed for trial , I applied to the magistrates then assembled at the Castle to furnish me with authority to keep possession of Potash Farm until my search could be completed . This I did for the express purpose of removing the manure and straw from the farm-yard , and of taking down the several stacks which were yet standing . This authority the magistrates did not feel themselves empowered to give , and I consequently remained in my previous state of
dependence on the will and pleasure of Mr . Rush . He had already given me intimation that he should no longer allow me or my officers to trespass upon his property ; but it was not until he named a certain day on which he should take legal steps to prevent it that I consented to withdraw , on his promising that nothing which was capable of concealing the objects of our search should be removed until previous notice had been given to the police . This condition was faithfully observed in regard to the stacks , and none were removed but in the presence of the police ; but the motive for the very sudden and unexpected removal of the manure I am inclined to think is not even yet before the public , which will at once explain the breach of our conditions in
regard to it . ' It is briefly this : —a memorandum had been found amongst the papers of Rush , indicating particular spots in the farm-yard where a brown paper parcel containing papers and a pair of boots was concealed ( of course no mention was made of the blunderbuss , ) but in the search for this property it was discovered . " I think it right to apprise you that what has been described as a shed , was actually standing in the farm-yard , and was composed of nothing more than a few long wooden uprights , supporting a canopy or roof , under which the cattle took shelter and were also fed . That 1 have been condemned for having done too much in the discharge of my late duty I am aware , but to be censured for having
done too little is what I could never have anticipated , even from the malice of an enemy . "R . M . Oakes . " Another Proof op Rush's Guilt . —The following letter still further confirms the guilt of Rush : — " Sir : Knowing the anxiety of the public to ascertain all the particulars of the late murders in Norfolk , I beg to inform you that , having had my attention called to a letter in the Daily Neivs of Tuesday week , from Mr . Duncan , stating that a doublebarrelled blunderbuss had been found at Potash Farm , it occurred to me instantly that a man exactly answering Rush ' s description bought such a gun of me on the 13 th of July last ; and leeling quite convinced that the gun found was that which 1 had sold ,
and feeling , further , that it was Rush who bought it , I immediately wrote to Sir J . Boileau on the subject , and described the gun exactly , and on the following day Col . Oakes brought the gun found at Potash lor me to see , and it turns out to be that which I sold . The person who bought it had a stick made for making cartridges , and was shown tho manner of making them , and was also supplied with slugs , flints , & c . The gun is a flint doublebarrelled bayonet blunderbuss . Feeling that this circumstance supplies the only link wanting to complete the chain ot evidence , induces me to request the favour of insertion in your valuable journal . —I
ain , Sir , Ac , John W . P . Field , for Parker , Field , and Sons , gunmakers , 233 , HighHolborn— May 25 . Emily Sandi-okd . —A weekly paper of Monday says ;— " This young woman , for whose aid a subscription has been collected , amounting to many hundred pounds , left Gravesend on Sunday with her child , the result of her intercourse with Rush , in tho barquo Casper . Tho Casper will remain at Plymouth for a few days , and thence proceed to Port Adelaide . Emily Sandford looked careworn and haggard , and evidently wished to avoid the gaze oi parties who had visited the vessel for the purpose of taking a farewell of their relatives and friends . "
Excounter With A Tigek.—The Following Ex...
Excounter with a Tigek . —The following extraordinary tiger story is from the Graham s Town Journal . The adventure is said to have taken place on the 25 th of March last : — "Mr . Charles Orpen has iust returned from the interior , after having had a most narrow escape from death in an encounter with a tiger that had been wounded . The furious animal leaped upon him , struck his gun and whip OUt Of Ills hand with the first blow of Ins paws , and wounded his head very severely with his teeth in several places . All the wounds on his head are on the scalp , except a severe one on his right temple , leaving a large scar , and a slight one on the forehead , just above the nose . The flow of blood from these wounds prevented his seeing , as it ran into his eyes ; but , nevertheless , he continued tocrapnlo with the animal , and finally to throw it
down and kneel upon it . During this struggle Mr . Orpen endeavoured to seize the tiger by the throat , but not succeeding in this he grasped it by the under jaw . Thus situated he continued for about half-an-hour struggling with the animal until at length , gradually relaxing its hold , it sank down and died from loss of blood . At the same moment Mr . 0 ., unable to hold up any longer , fell fainting upon the savage beast . His hands and arms were shockingly mutilated—there being thirty-three wounds on one and twenty-five on the other . Many of the wounds are down to and even into the bone . Some quite through the hand , and across veins , arteries , and nerves . Besides other wounds he was scratched in numerous places by the animal ' s claws , and his clothes were nearly torn from his back . Tho head and skin of the tiger have been preserved ,
measuring nine feet from the nose to the tip oi tne tail . Mr . 0 . was laid up for two months and ft half , often fainting from weakness . His wounds frequently bled afresh , the blood being so thin as to be almost colourless . At the time of this encounter Mr . Gumming ( his travelling companion ) lay ill of fever in his waggon . He had , however , with him four Kaffirs , with assagais , one Hottentot with a gun and two dogs . The latter were useless , merely springing about and . yelping , while the Kaffirs , throwing away their assagais , ran off at once . The Hottentot'leaped into the river close by , and in a fright fired off his gun in the air . Mr . 0 , suffered greatly by the joltingof the waggon and the want of proper medical assistance , lie is now gradually recovering , though it is . feared he will never recover the proper use ot his left hand . "
. Worth a Guinea . —Mr . Thomas Featliersfone , the respected Secretary of tho Sheffield Temperance Society having suffered severely from tboth-nche , was cured by the use of Brando ' s Enamel , upon whicli , he wrote to the proprietor to the following effect ; - " I would nave given a guinea for such a cure as this ' . " And there are thousands now enduring torture , ' who , if they knew .. tlie ' advantageS really derivable from the iise of this preparation , would buy a guinea ' s worth for a shilling , and put an end to their sufferings . They are , however , so inany impositions afoot , that people reluctantly place confidence , where it may justly be bestowed . . Abebnetht ' s Toe Powders were specially prepared as anadiunct to the external application of . "Aberhethy ' s Pile Ointment" for every variety of the piles . The use of powerful aperients ' tends greatly to , destroy the beneficial effects of the outward application and to increase rather that diminish the ' disorder ! . It is too much the custom
with the afflicted to have recourse to strong purgative medicine in cases ' of this ' complaint , and in almost every such instance the patient is . materially injured and the disease greatly ' aggravated . Whtre the bowels are . confined the '" Aucrnethian Powders" have the effect of removing the obstruction , arid of allaying ' the inflammation that exists . They cool arid strengthen the body and render thoroug hly efficient the use of the , ointment . An Ulcerated Leg of many yeabs standing , cured bt Hclloway ' s Ointment and Pnxs . —Extract of a letter from Mr . Edward Nicholls , 34 , Kosc-strccr , Covent-garden ; June 10 th , 1 S 48 : — "To Professor Holloway , —Sir : For years I had a had leg , and about four , years ago an abscess formed , ' which the treatment : adopted : by- several medical men failed to heal , and I despaired of a cure . ' Latelymy friends recommended your , medicines , and . by their use alone I soon found . a great improvement , and in a few weekfimyleg . was perfectly cured . 'Lean now walk ten miles a day with an great ease as when I was twenty ygav » old . aud now X am fifty , "—( Signed ) E , STicholw ,
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" You Should Never Let The Young Men Kis...
" You should never let the young men kiss you , " said a venerable uncle to his pretty niece . '' 1 know it , undo , " replied she penitently . " Yet I try to cultiviite a spirit of forgiveness , seeing that when one has been kissed there is no undoing it . "—Ameri can Paper . . John O'Gaunt . —The palace of John O'O .-uint , in Lincoln , has been sold by auction ; and it is reported that the building is to bo pulled down and the materials sold . It was at one of the windows of this guild-hall that Lord Husscy was beheaded , for taking part in the rebellion against tho Reformation . Tho doomed palace is generally considered to have been built by John 0 Gaunt for the summer residence of Catherine Swinford , the sister of Chaucer , the poet . Tho remains of this ladv are interred in tho cathedral , near those of lienrv ' of Huntingdon , the historian .
. ADVANTAGE OF HAVING A VOTE . —All llOr . CSt John Hull , travelling through Germany , on arriving at the gate ofa city was requested to describe himi : " ?¦ k , mvi "S exactly what de & xnutlon to apply to himself , lie answered that he was " an elector of Middlesex . " . As' an elector in Germany is "" ' » im portant personage than thoseVho £ oKi i . UBlWo t , tle in En e ^ . a * ««™« m SKt 7 mV 1 ^ thoir S ^ s - » n < i »» e ? H . irds turned out and did military honours to the English elector . ° The population of Manchester is at this time above the population ot all Lancashire oHuv voara ago . ° ''
What next ?—A petition has been presented to the House of Commons from certain parties , stating that great injury was done to the public morals in consequence ot tho indelicate character of some ot the pictures in the National Gallerv , and proving that the objectionable portions mi ght " be painted over or expunged . —[ We recommend that the putir-bners be tarred and feathered to bring them to tlieiv senses . ] CnuuLLY Kind . —At Sunderland , latelv , a cripple named Wilson , the wife ofa travelling " swiatmeat merchant , went into the shop of Mi * . Paliu , chemist , in a fit of jealousy , and asked for an ounce of laudanum . M sooner was it placed before her than she drank it off . With much ado ( for she made forcible resistance ) , the stomach pump was applied and the drug withdrawn . " Ye ' vc done a sad job , " said the poor woman , "to bring me back to a life oi misery . " .
A singularly-grown violet was plucked a few days since near Truro . Its stems , instead of being ot tho usual form , were flattened and winged ; its dowers were suspended on a kind of tendril , while one of the flowers appeared , as it were , in a state of transition between a leaf and corolla , and was illustrative of the botanic theory that flowers arc but farther developed leaves . Thf Monastic System in England . —Near to Leicester there are forty individuals known as the " Forty Monks , " who belong to the Cistercian
order ; thirteen years ago they had 2 S 0 acres of very bad land given them upon which they entered , and have at the present time 130 acrc . s in cultivation . This they have performed with their own hands , besides raising corn , grain , and roots of various kinds . They possess horses , cattle , sheep , and implements of agriculture . Last year these monks relieved with food 32 , 000 persons , and gave occasional lodging to 7 , 000 more . In 1847 they relieved 30 , 000 people with food , and gave lodgings to 12 , 000 more . —Leicester Chronicle .
Anijialcoles , —It may bo truly said thai where life begins or ends , or under what extraordinary circumstances it is met with , it is not easy to determine . That living insects are to be meb with in boiling water seems , perhaps , impossible , vet so it is , and may be easily proved . For instance when wo are preparing for ourselves that refrcshii ' . g beverage called tea , by pouring boiling water on its leaves , we have little idea that wc are also preparing an agreeable warm bath for thousands of little
animalcules ! If there is any doubt of the iact , we can easily convince ourselves , by first procuring a teaspoon full of spirits , above proof , and Ihen pouring it on the warm tea-grounds which have been lott at the bottom of tlio cup . In about half a minute they become violently convulsed . In a word , we have been playing a most mischievous , perhaps cruel , experiment , lor we have made tho little creatures mad drunk . This docs not last long . To so o them distinctly a good microscoiic is requisite ,
Mr . Maurice Power , son of the lamented Tyrone Power , having played for some time past on the American stage , with considerable success , the Irish characters of his talented lather , made his delut before a Dublin audience on Tuesday night , and was cordially received . BIUVISSIMO ItOMA .
BY UUMF-URF . Y JOYEUX . Nurse of Gracchus and of Brutus ? though amid thy ruins lone Deemed the treacherous invaders that thy ancient pride was gone ; That amid the dust and ashes in thy sad and solemn
urn Every spark of thy great spirit had for ever ceased to burn ; Thought they _ then to tread in triumph where Camillas stood of old , When the Gaul was paid in iron what lie vainly sought in gold ? 'Twas a thought of moony madness , such as idiot brain had framed , Which had every manly forehead with a blush of crison shamed . Ah , in sooth , it was degenerate thus to think thoud ' st tamely wear Fetters , by a foe rct ' astencd , which were first too hard to bear . Little recked they that the widow of earth ' s mightiest , noblest ones Had yet draughts of milk heroic to sustain her living sons ; "
That she heard ancestral voices calling from her ruined domes , Every word a nerving impulse , to do battle for their homes . Children whoso dark eyes reflected skies ' ncath which a Scipio grew , Would have lisped some ancient story , with an import deep and new , Till their sires from their embraces would have hurried to the wall , In their breast a sterner daring than doth answer trumpet ' s call . "Women would have scorned the recreant ; had he shunned to plnoo his frame , As a death-defying bulwark , for the ancient Roman name . But the Boman was true Boman , dauntless as m earlier days ; And the pinion of the eagle dashed away the
trooping jays . Juggling monks and craven princes , red with their own people's gore Ne ' er may mouth and mumble paters , mocking Rome s bravo children more , Till the noblest and the bravest , having struck their last , shall lie 'Neath that heaven which saw the greatest of the ancient great ones die ; Till o ' er many bleeding bosoms tyrant lung or priest shall pass To his banquet of dishonour or his mockery of the
mass . But if beats one heart that ownoth aught ef freedom ' s quenchless light Or one soul to God that prayed that He would dofend theright , Gauls nor Goths , nor king nor kaiser , priest nor pontiff e ' er shall come , But as captives or as corpses through the . storied streets of Rome . Birmingham Mercury , A Modest Editor . — "We have tasted Dick ' s bottled Edinburgh ale , " says the Manx Liberal , " and can pronounce it excellent ; a good hearty
swig in this hot weather is worth all the cold water of the Amazon , whatever teetotallers may say . When we have half-a-dozen long-necked bottles sent us , as in this ease , for review , we get on with some spirit ; and if any onewho hasa house to let will allow us to live in it for a year , rent free , then we will 1 ) 0 able to toll the public whether it is a ' desirable residence' or not . The country at large know not what they lose by being stingy with the newspaper editors . " . Tub fourth volume of " Bancroft ' s History or the United States" is announced in tho American papers to appear in September next .
A Warning to Tmevks . —Mr . Cobby to the telegraph office at Derby : — "I have a navigator , who states his comrade has gone by the 5 . 45 from here to Derby , and has stolen his watch and bundle . The bundle contains two shirts , marked I . P , at the bottom . The thief is a little stout man—waistcoat —pearl cuttons . If you will get a constable and search him the man will come by the mail . " Oa the arrival of the train at Derby . Mr . Cobby received the following answer;— " Wo have got him . and found the things on him . " The thief , on Thursday , appeared before the Sheffield magistrates , and was committed for trial . " Censcience I" said Mrs . Hopkins , indignantly , ' " Do you suppose nobody has got any conscience but yourself ? My conscience is as good as yoursay , better too—for it has never been used in the course of my life , while yours must be nearly worn , out !"—J & W 011 Chronotvpe .
Toothache . — A correspondent of the Monthly Magazine says— " Although I am unacquainted with anything which gives immediate ease m this severe pain , I can inform you how the toothache may be prevented . I was much tortured with it about twenty years ago . Since that time ,. however , byusing flower of sulphur , as a tooth powder , I have been wholly free from it . Rub the teeth and gums with a rather hard tooth-brush , using the . sulphur , every night ; if done after dinner , too , w Wpttfcr . It preserves the teeth , and ddesnot ecmmumcatfe any smell whatever to the moutbr .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 2, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_02061849/page/3/
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