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THE NORTHERN STAR. . „, February 5 ,^ i ...
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" AN EFFECTUAL CITvE FOR FILES, FISTULAS, &c.
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NATIONAL DEFENCES, OR WHAT HAVE RAILWAY ...
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THE CAPABILIT1E3 OF TKE LASD . TO TUB >D...
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MR FIELDS AGAIN. TO THE EDITOR OF TUB NO...
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TO THE EDIT0K OF THE NORTHERN STAB, Sir,...
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IPSWICH. IPSWICH . ' TO TIIE EDITOB OF T...
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OUR NATIONAL DEFENCES. PUBLIC MEETINGS, ...
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Westminster County Court.—Tfgg v. Palmer...
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The Northern Star. . „, February 5 ,^ I ...
THE NORTHERN STAR . . „ , February 5 , ^ i & iR , ¦ * . ¦¦ --. - _ - !*! ' . ' . ' . ^ iSgg ! — — - — U ..-1 .., c . mrni-. i . 1 he I IPSWICH . BugteyStamford IPSWICH .
" An Effectual Citve For Files, Fistulas, &C.
" AN EFFECTUAL CITvE FOR FILES , FISTULAS , & c .
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ABERNETHY'S PILE OINTMENT . , , ^ = , ««» ve is the Piles . ' : md comparative ! . * how few of the afflicted have beer , ptrnva--rr-IIAT a painful and ™* f " : * 5 to Medical skill ! Tlii * . no doubt , arises from the use of powerful awweitts \\ ncntlv cured by ordm , vv ^ strong intcriii . 1 medicine should always be av-jwed in M too frequently administered ! . y «« £ ^ £ ^ iCe 0 h . tme ,. t , alter years of ac-. te suflcring . p laced l » . msdfunicr cases of this complaint . The Prop ™* « ¦« Abcrncihv , was by ldm restored to perfect health , andhas eujojtd it ctw fne tr . atn . cnt of «^»' $ ^ a perfod of . fifteen year ,, during ^ Ufch ti «« the « u « Ab « . ance wilhoui tna . sJg htestiLtUi noiuK . i Iiuniber of dcsperate rases , both m and out ot t" * ^ - aetliian inscription has I : ecn * mw n » oi Hwi »^ » , Medicalcare , and some of them for ft very « oiifflder . Srtetor ' s circles of friends , i nort of « huh c . ' ^««« p bU b h ' . f nial ( y vbo lmd b « n perfect y Ibte time . Abcrnethj ' s P , le 0 ™*™ £ ^ Xd .. ° f «««« of this ointment has spread far and wide ; wen the Sealed by tts » PP « at . on , and n . ce its i .. roducuo .. t Medictae not prepared ^ f ^ - ^ JS ^ l ££ A ^* & £ ^ rill Ointment , is not on . y a viable pre ^ tton , but a £ 5 ^^ £ !«« 5 ie and variety of that appa Ung ; ma £ dy „ , , t J * %£ ? ££ ^ 2 S ^ dfd ^^ or ^^^ hSe ' heen cured , unwiUin * to puthsh ^^ o veredpot , at « .. Bd , or . the quantity ^ ^ J ^^^^^ V ^ S S ^ Z ^^^ sureto ^^ . ABBB ^ rrs ™ ^^ ^ . ^^^ ^^ ^^^ agai „ st noxious rtSi ^ BM * «« l . pot , i « . fid ., which is the lowest price thegroprietor is « $% Z ^^^ e ^ at expense of the to ^ dtoU .
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" corn s and bunions . PAUL'S EVERY MAN'S FRIEND , Patronised bp ^ tlie Eogd Riwty . Nobility , 'Ckirgy , & e ., "* ^ ose severe atinovanees , without causing the least nain or inconvenience . Unlike Is a sure and speeS J CUTe > Vf ^ t „ - . ! T , is sucl » ' as to wilder the tuning of corns altoprtlu-r unuoc ^ csary ; indeed , all oth ^ r reu , edies for « W 1 « . ^ . P ' . f """" jg at all times dlllUSWOns , a > id has been frequently attended with lamenta . „ e mav sav , the practice « . cu ""' . l ? . f '; , : „ crea « e their irvo « th ; it adheres with the most gentle pressure , produces an "ble con sequences , besides its liaouuj u i - wUh rsuve ,. auee iu its application , entirely eradicates the mosj instant and delig htful relief from toriuiu , iuvef rate cms and bunions . nowards of one hundred Phvsicians and Surgeons ofthe greatest eminence , Testimonials have been received tron f - d ncarJ .. thousand private letters from the gentry in as well as from many olncws ofpoth Avn > 5 J ^ . ^ S' lfl pemed ^ town ardcountpy . ' . sj . eakinginilugh terms tl wis , \> ^^ ^^ ^^ j „ one for o . 0 ti , an ( i to be had , with full Prep : red by JoH . v Foz , m boxes al x ~\ * £ ree * Hoxton New Town , London , and all wholesale and retail Medi-^ irections for use , of C Kisg , > o . a , p * . . tl ; e Iiame j 01 IN pox on the Stamp . A 2 s . 9 d . box cures the « ine vendors in town and country . The e * ™^ , . , s Evcry Man - Friend . ' most obdurate corns . ^ m ™ Planter -nd Ahemethy ' s'File Puwderf , are sold by the following respect-AbernMhy ' s l'ile Ointment , raui s vo ™ i - ^ , able Chemis ' ts and Healers ia Patent « J- ' ^ " ? 5 " flc f - st p ; iUi > Church-yard ; Butler , 4 , Chcapside : Xewbery , St Barclay and Sons , Farnng d . m . strtct . f ^* '' CornhiH ; Ransar , ISO , Oxfoid-street ; Willoughby and Co ., fil , Pau . ' s ; Sutton . Bow Chuvch-yard ; ' ' « {? » ; 1 > roUt ^ Str £ ud 1 Iam ; av aud Co 63 Oxf ord-street ; aud Eisl-. opsg . nte street Without ; Lade . ^^ y ^^ in London . retail by all resectable . Chemist * ana- ^ eu ald officej B : lth . -wiHnall , Birmingham ; Noble , Boston ; Brew , CoCSTfiT ' . CESTS . —M ¦? ' «» " * Han ) rr Feee Paess 0 < Sc * , Cheltenham ; Bwoko and Co ., Doneajter ; Sim-Bri B htGn ; FeriiJ and Score . Bristol , F ^ ^ Hodgf 0 n . Exeter ; Coleman , G . « ucester ; Henry , Gutrnsey ; rnond ? , Dorchester ; Seawm , v *™*™ ' uu , 3 dertfield ; Stephvnson , Hull ; Pmni-1 , Kiddirminster ; Baines and Berry , Halifax ; Duggan , Htretord ; o ^ Lincoln . JewsbnrVf Manchester ; Blackwell . Newcastlc . uptm . Tjne ; ITewfoma . Leecs ; Aspinal , Liverpool , ^ KoEIuLK \ tws Office , Norwich ; Mennie . Plymouth ; Clsrk , Pilot Button . Kmtwoffice , > otunShBm ; R ' eni 1 il ) g . SguHrev , Salisbury ; Ridste and Jackxiu , Mebcdbx Office , Oacelrr « x ; Heci ^ Ia . ney :. ' - ^ Uan ( ia | i , Southampton ; Mort , Suffiird ; B « ghy , Siamftpl ; Shefceld ; \ . attoi . , Ga ^ osicLE v i ^ , offl ^ Sunderknd ; Saunricr ? , Tmrton ; Roper , Ulm & tono ; Card-Sims , Stockport ; \ ins andcarr -, n ^^ Warw ick ; Gibson , Whitehaven ; Jacoh and Co ., Vinchester ; well , TVaktneld ; b . arpe , ADT ^" _ „ „ . „ hton Worcester ; Mabson ^ Tarmouth ; Bolton , Blanshard and C . Maunder and vo ., Woivc . rbamp . on , £ ^ \ Bttnj > Carmarthen ; Wllltam ? , Swansea ; Raines , Edinburgh ; Tcr ^; Joim K . "S , Bads ™ = ' ¦ ; . Rradford , Cork ; Butler , Dublin ; Thompson , Armngh ; asd by all respectable Allan , Greenock ; Mu , st-all ^^ " ** £ t To , ' n tkrowhout the United Kingdom . € hemists and M : oicine TVnders m evtrj ji ^
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SCURVY AND I . MPUKE BLOOD . AHOTHEF . HO > T SXTB * OM ) W * M CORE « »* " " TTALSE'S SCORBUTIC ViROrS . -Thefollow . nfdca ^ J ! has excited so much interest , that «« Guavd « n . o . the parish of Br . at . Devon , have considered it . their-toty to sign their names to the accompanying impor ant def claration . It is well worthy the notice of the pub he .-'We the undersigned , solemnly declare «» t , bt . oie Thomas Robin , ( one of our parishionerFl , commenced taking Hake ' s Scorbutic Drops , he was literally covered with lar = e runninc wound * ( some of them so terse that a per » , n mient have laid hi * fist in them ) , «» ai befo-e Ihe hid . finished the first bottle he noticed an "OP ^™™ - and that by contmuiu .- them for some tamei he gotxom . pletely restored to health after everything else had fai led 1 fie had tried various sorts of mcd . cines fe e' ° n e { a f k " ^ 'Halstfs Scorbutic Drops , ' and had P ^ mP ™ w ttemostcelebrated physicians in this country , without deriving the least henefit . « Halse ' s Scor butic Drops lave completely cured him , and he is now enabled to at tend to his labour as well as any man ri our pans ¦ . Train other cuk-s also nia . io in this part , «' l stronj , y recommend' llalse ' s Scorbutic Drops * to the twWk of the ' Signed by Johs Eluoit , sen ., Lord ofthe Manor . " ' Jous Mannikg . William Peakce . * Hesst Goodmak . 'AiiTUCR Langwostht .
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ag ~ - Iustaat Relief and speedv ? i % \ , £ & ' " W :. Cure for ^^'" - ^' Vt ^ -OS . COUGK-S ; COLDS , S >" - ' - ^ i ^ - " iiM 5 ? V « Hoarseness , Asthma , HoopeM ^^ i ^^ sOs Cough ! I ,, fll : \> - ^^ oi ^ -s- ^ SSKS ^ ssss * . sumption , ic , by BROOKE'S MELLIFLUOUS COUGH BALSAM . ETEUY family ought to keep a constant supply of the rn .-uk-i-. ie , which is prepared from ingredients ofthe most hea lag . softening , and expectorating qualities , is a rich and ideasaut pectoral balsam , and has been given in numerous cases with singular success . The extraordinary power which it possesses in immediately velievitv . ' , an J eventually curing , the most obstinate coughs , colds , hoarseness , asthma , and ail complaints of the breath , is almoit incredible , but will be fully proved on trial . In th-. it unpleasant tickling tough , which deprives the sufferer c constantly ot' rest , it will be found invaluable , as it iiiftanllj alios the irritation , a single do 5 c affurdinj immediate relief , and in most cases a single bottle effects a permanent cure . For the hooping cough , it will be found an invaluable remedy , depriving those harrassinff spasmodic paroxysms of their violence , and from its powerful expectorant and healing qualities , speedily effecting a complete cure . During the " periodical attacks of the influenza , which have so often occurred during the winter , many individur . ls k -ve expressed co the proprietors that they have received material relief from its use , and it may be recommended as a remedy of the first importance in that disease
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. 1 can confidently recommend it as an excellent remedy in such cases . You arequiteat liberty to publish this case . Yours respectfull y , W , Uainsworth . IXFLUENZA CURED . Gentlemen , —The great benefit I have received from the t use of your Mellifluous Cough Balsam for the Influenza ! induces me to add my testimonial , so that , should ano-! titer universal visitation of that eomplaiat occur , maiij kind may know the best remedy . I can assert what per i haps no other individual can , that of heing witness to the i cure of a great number by your medicine , which all | would do well to try . —Yours respectfully , Geo . WatebaoosE . —Dewsbury , 1 S 39 . 3 , Essex Chambers , Manchester , Sept . Sth , 1 S 47 . Deap 8 ms , —Several of my family have derived much i benefit from the use of your valuable Mellifluous Cough | rfalsam ; and you will I think do g * od service to society , by making the medicine mere generally known . Yours v .-rv faithfully , ToMeEsra T . M . aud ( 3 . Brooke , W . P . Uobests . Dewsbury . In cases where the Cough or Shortness of Breath Is very violent , an occasional dose of Brooke ' s Aperient or Anti-Wlious Pills will be found to accelerate the cure . Prepared only by T . M , and C . Brooke , chemists , Dewsbury , in bottles at 134 d . and 2 s . 9 d . each . And sold wlmlesale ' by them ; Messrs Barelayand Sons , Farringdon street ; Hannay and Co ., Oxford-street ; Davy Mackmurdo and Ce ., Upper Thames-street ; and Thomas ilarsdeu and Sons , Queen-streat , London . Thomas Eyre and Co ., Liverpool , Bohon , Blanchard and Co ., York . And retail by all respectable patent medicine I vendors .
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^ S ^ SE ^^ TpSKijjS ^^ ^^ " expensive practice of r « -i " cVi tj £ . » * j g 5 f : - - g Messrs R . andL . l'ERRY and * .:.- > . rv % . ;* . ¥ ¦> K : # Jh & Co ., thecontinueddemandfor their work , entitled , the 'SILENT FRIEND . ' ( one hundred and tw . ntv five thousand copies of which have been sold ) , and the extensive sale and high repute of their Medicines have induced some unprincipled persons to assume the name of PERRY and closely imitate the title of the Work and names of the Medicines . The public is hereby cautionm that such parsons are not in any way connected with the firm of R . and L . PKHRY aud Co ., of London , who do not visit the Provinces , and are only to bo consulted personal ! v , or by letter , at their Establishment , 19 , Berners . street . Oxford-streer , London . TWENTY-FIFTH EDITION . Illustrated by Twenty-six Anatomical Engravings on Steel . On Physical EHsqiiilifications , Generative Incapacity , and Impediments to Marriage . A new and improved edition , enlarged tol 9 S pages , price 2 s . fid . ; by post , direct from the Establishment , 3 s . 6 d . in p-stage 'tamps , THE SILENT FRIEND ; A medical work on the exhaustion and physical decay of the fystem , produced by excessive indulgence , the consequeneet of infection / or the abuse wf mercury , with observations on tkc married state , and the disqualifications which prevent it ; illustrated by 26 coloured engravings , and by the detail of cases . By R . and L . PERP . Yand Co , 19 , BerKcrs-street , Oxford street , London . Published by the authors , and sold by Strat ^ e , 21 , Paternoster row ; Hannay , 63 , and Sanger , 150 . Oxfordstreet ; Siarie , 23 , Tichborne-street , Haymarkct ; and Gordon , 14 G , Ltaden . hall-street , London ; J . and R . Raiines , and Co ., Leithwalk , Edinburgh ; D . Campbell , Argyll-street , Ghrsg ^^ J . Priestly , Lord-street , and T . Newton , Church-street , Liverpool ; It . H . Ingham , Market-place , JfEiichestes . Part the First
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WORTHY OF PUBLIC ATTENTION . ] T O ALL WHO VALUE IMMEDIATE BELIEF . -. MATHER'S COUUII and ASTHMATIC WAFERS a safe and agreeable remedy f « r couplis , colds , asttm ' . a incipient consumption , hooping cough , luiiirsmess , spit ting of blood , and all disorders of the cliest ami lung *;;—they promote a free and gentle expectoration , dissolving the congealed phlegm , consequently affording imiasediate relief , and in an insredibly short ijpace of time it r . apid cure . To public speakers , vocalists , & c „ & c , tibey are invaluable , as they eluar the throat and render the voice hig hly melodious Tticy are exceedingly pleasatitto the palate , and free from any deleterious ingredietit . Tho fact that many thousand persons have proved their high eflicacy during the last winter , and the very numerous and satisfactory testimonials given to the proprietor , afford the most ample evidence of their excelleiice— Sold in boxes at Is ., and family boxes at 2 s . Cd , eaah ' . —The following unsolicited testimonials will convey some idea of thoir celebrity : — CUKE OF ¦ COUGH ' 0 ( F TEN YEAItS' STANDING . ' To Mr Mather , chemist , Hulme , Manchester . ' Sir , —It is with feelings of the sineerest gratitude that I take this opportunity of bearing iny humble testimony to the value of your Cough and Asthmatic Wafers . For ten years I have been annoyed by a cough wk ' ch -reduced me to the weakest state . In September last , a friend presented me with a box of your very valuable Wafers , from which I received speedy and wonderful relief . I sent for another Is . b » x , and have fast recovered te my former health and strength . I hare received so much benefit from the two boxes I have taken , that 1 hope I may yit live to bless my family . —I am , dear sir , yours faithfully , Wi & mam Johnson ;—Leeds , November 9 th , lSi 6 . '
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THE GREATEST SALE OF ANY MEDICINES IN THE GLOBE . IIOLLOWAY'S PILLS . A Cure of a Desperate Scorbutic Eruption of long Stan » lin « . extract o / o Letter , dated ! Ifoluev / iampton , tfic lOthofFcb . 1847 , coitfinncd oj ; Mr Simpson , Stationer . T » Professor Hollowny . Sir , —Having been wonderfully restored from a state f great suffering , illness , and debility , by the use of your pills and ointment , I think it right for the sake of others to make my case known to you . For the last two years [ was afflicted with violent Scorbutic Eruption , which completely covered my chest , and other parts of n . y body , causing such violent pain , that I can in truth say , that for months I was not able to get sleep fur more than a very short time together , I applied here to all the principal medical men , as also to those in Birmingham , without getting the Ic-tst relief , at last I was recommended by Mr Thomas Simpson , Stationer , Markets place , to try your pills and ointment , which I did , and I am happy to s-ay , that I may consider myseli as thoroughly cured ; I can now sleep all the night through , and the pains in my back and limbs hare entirely left me . ( Signed ) Richard Havem . Curs of a Dreadful and Dangerous Case of Erysipelas fii the following remarkable case the tody had been hot deif and blind from the virulence of the complaint . —Feb 19 tA 1 S 47
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A . BERNETIIY'S PILL for the NERVES and MUS . - t" ^ - CLES . —The Proprietor of these 1 'iIIs is a medical man . The brother of a patient of his applied to Mr Abernethy for advice . He gave him a prescription , and these pills are prepared accurately from that prescription . The p . itient ' s complaint was a nervous one , and it ' was utterly impossible ior any one to be in a worse condition than lie was ; muscular power was ulsolost iusomepnrts , and his legs fairly tottered under him . Ho had a box of the pills prepared , and the effects were all but miraculuus ; f .. r not onl y did Hie nervousness leave him , but muscular power returned to all parts deficient of it . The proprietor has since tried them on hundreds of his * patients , and he can conscientiously state that their elfects in restoring nervous energy and muscular power have quite astonished him . Price Js . tfd . ano . ils . a box . AHERNETHY'S PILL for the NERVES and MUS . CLES . —The nervous invalid should lose no time in resorting to this truly wonderful medicine . They are so harmless that they may be administered with perfect safety to the most delicate constitutions . As before stated , their effects are all but miraculous ; one box of them will prove tho truth of this assertion . As regimen and diet they are of the utmost consequence in all nervous disorders , the particulars , as recommended by tho late . Mr Aberuethj-, will be enclosed round each box 4 s . 6 d and lis . ' .
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U ..-1 .., c . mrni-. i . rvottinguam ; Meunie , Plymouth ; Bugtey , Stamford . Kelt Oxford ; Brooke , Doncaster ; -CiarUc , Preston ; Proctor , Cheltenham ; Heard , Truro ; Bolton and Blanshard , York ; Drury , Lincoln ; Nobis , Boston ; French , Chatham ; Heckle ; , Putiwy ; Noble , Hull ; flrodie , Salisbury . —Burgess and Co ., New York ; 2 -ibcr and Co ., Philadelphia ; Morgan , New Orleans ; ami Redoing and Co ., Boston , America . " By enclosing fifty-eight stamps to MrC . Kinpr , as above , n bos will be forward to nuy part of tho united Kingdom , poalfree , and eleven dozen and sis stamps for an lis . box .
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ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT PREYS ON THE HEALTH AND SHORTENS THE DURATION OF HUMAN LIFE Illustrated with NUMEaous Coloured Engravings . Just Published , in a Sealed Envelope , price 2 s . Cd ., or free by post , 3 s . ( id . CONTROBL OF . THE PASSIONS ; a Popular Essay oh the Duties and Obligations ef Married Life , the unbappiness resulting from physical impediments and defects , with directions for their treatment ; the abuse of the passions , the premature decline of he-dth , and mental and bodily vigour ; indulgence in solitary anddclusive habits , precocious exertions or infection , inducing a long train of disorders affecting the principal organs of the body , causing consumptions , mental and nervous debility and indigestion , with remarks on gonorrhoea , cledti stricture , and syphilis , Illustrated with Coloured Engravings and Cases . CONTENTS OF THE WORK . Chap . ! . —The influence ofthe excessive indulgence of th « passions in inducing bodily disease and mental decrepitude . Illustrated with Coloured Engravings . Chap . 2 .- Enervating and destructive effects of the vice of selfindulgence , inducing a long train of diseases , indigestion , hysteria , insanity , moping melancholy , ' consumption , stricture / impotence aud sterility , with observations on the purpose * and obligations of marriage , and the unhappy eousetiuenees of unfruitful unions . Chap . 3 . — Seminal weakness and generative dobility : the nature of impotence and sterility , and the imperfections in the performance of the principal vital function consequent ta mal . practices , the treatment of tho diseases of the < nind and body which result from these causes . Chap . i . - * Gonorrhoea , its symptoms , complications and treatment , gleet , stricture , and inflammation of the prostate . Chap . 5 . —Syphilis , its complications and treatment , Cases , Concluding Observations , Plates , < fcc . By CHARLES LUCAS and Co ,, Consulting Surgeons , 60 , Newman-street , Oxford-street , ILondon . Member of the London College « f Medicine , & d , & c .
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NATIONAL DEFENCES , OR WHAT HAVE RAILWAY LABOURERS TO DEFEND ? TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN STAB . Sib , —My attention has been attracted to the different meiinn that have been proposed frr the better defence of the nation , and amongst thise I . find there are parties who recommend the ecrolnunt of the railway labourers ( for that purpose ) who lire now out of employment , I having been one of that class of men for the last ten years , deem It my imperative duty to use my little ability to awaken my fellow wching men to a sense of their present position ; and I would advise those parties who recommend the enrolment ofthe nawies , ' to try thoir skill on some other class of men , for I am perfectly
persuaded that if ihe nation is never secure ur . til the navvitshave to defend it , it will have to remain insecure until doomsday . I would ask what have the railway labourers to defend ? I have worked on different railways , and have never seen anything worth the defending except it bo slavery , tommy shop ; , fever sheds , awd many things more , that arc repugnant to tho laws oi equity and humanity . I ask , is slavery worth defending , where the poor man is driven to work like a beast , and in many cases compiled to work in places where his life is in imminent danger every moment , to satisfy the avarice of a greedy contractor ? In the truck system worth defending—a system both ur . jast and cruel 3 Instead of tho workman getting his wages every we . k and spending it to the best advantage , lie is compelled
to take inferior goods out of the tommy shop , and pay the highest price for them , and , in most instances , short weight in the bargain . And I have actually known the pay day put off for nine weeks , in . ordrr to compel the men to take their goods from the shop ; and any man that was discontent was sent to the effioe for his money , and had no more employment . There are also what we term the'fever sheds , which tho masters' build , by nailing a few half-in"h boards together , Their dimensions are , generally , sis yards by fivo on the ground floor , and many of them without any other apartment j ; and I have known twenty human beings—men , women and children—pig together in these miserable' huts , fer wh < ch the tenant has p .-. id six shillings . j > cr xeefb . So much for your humane railway ' contractors . These
arc tho noble institutions they wish us to defend , But thp . nawies arc not such idiots as nil that . Although they are generally termed an ignorant and immoral class ofnien , yet they are a class that are beginning to boldly assert their rights as men , and as citizens of . the world . Though we are ignorant our motto is , 'No vote , no musket , ' It is true we have a great many men who arc interested in railways who have a scat in tho British House of Commons , but is ever the case of the poor navvies mentioned with a view to bettering their social and moral condition ? I " ask ! will an engineer , a contractor , or a railway chairman or director , ever mention the abominable truck system ; with a view of taking more stringent measures to utterly abolish it ? Will an" * one of ihem , if they were to sit in that house of class
legislation for a century , ever bring forward a- motion witb tho design to remove tho grievances which we have to contend with ? No , never . Then I would ask how & = uld they expect us to defend the nation , when its legislators are continually concocting plans to trample the vrorkiug classes under their feet , and keep them there ? We , as a class , are convinced that things hive gone on this way long enough , and wo arec 5 > nfidcnt tkat we shall never be free from tyranny ; that , as working men , we shall never be pl . icod in that proud position which the Almighty designed ; that we shall never he , in reality , men amongst men , or ba enabled to 6 in * with truth , and a patriotic zoal , ' Britons never shall be slaves , ' until we get that soul-enlivening hill—the P-: oplo ' s Charter . Up then , brother navvies , put your shoulders to the wheel ;
show tho legislature you are not so ignorant as they takeynu to be . Let us back our unflinching chief , Feargus O'Connor , Esq . M . P ., with all the means in our power . Recollect , time is precious , and the petition for tho People ' s Charter is being prepared . The working classes arc uniting , and are we to he behind ? No ! rather let us one and all unite with them . Let the Charter , as with the speed of tho quickest locomotive , run throug h the land . Let us hoist the standard of liberty on every railway—In every cutting—on every embankment ; Organise , agitate , demand— then >\ U our tyrants behold our position with amazement—then will proud "oppression leave our shores , never daring more to show its baneful head , on what we may then call truly Britain ' s favoured Isle .
A ' Xavvie . ' Berwlck-on-Twced , Jan . 2 G : h .
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THE CAPABILIT 1 E 3 OF TKE LASD . TO TUB > DIT 0 n OP THE NOhTIIKIW STAR . Sin , —About two years ago , the Hon . E . R . Petre apportioned twelve acres of land into forty-eight allotments , for cottage gnrdens for the workinirimen of S «! b y , each occupant holding one quarter of an acre , at at ' annual rent fof fifteen shillingp . On Tuesday evening last , the working men of Selby calltda public meeting , for the purpose of mem orialiaing the honourable gentleman to allot more land to other parties on similar conditions . 1 attended their meeting as a casual observer , to hear what they had to say on thi subject , and whether any and what benefit had been obtained under euch un . favourable circumstances ( having a considerable distance to go to and from their gnMcn « . ) Several of tl'e parties who occupy the above named allotments wore present at this meeting , and stated publicly , before their neighbours , who had the moans of knowing whethtr their statements were true or false , that they had tho last year realised from fifteen to twenty pounds , by the sale of the produce of one quarter of an acre of land . One man , whose name Is John Copley , said that he had sold upwards of twenty pounds worth of produce from his own plot , besides supplying his family with vegetables all the year , which he estimated at one shillins ; per week . I mentioned this circumstance to a gentleman ' a
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i .. .. i- i ^ ii i ,, uti n-hnMliI riiB that hud last vear banker in this town , who told me that he had last year taken up in his own garden , a plot of early potatoes ; he htid them sold at a market price ; he then measured the ground , and found that tho produce was at tho rate of eighty pounds per acre . A short time since , I was in CJDip / iny with n Mr Buckle , of K > Ifield , near Sclby , A gentleman asked him in my presence , what was the greatest amount of money that he ever made in one year from one acre of laud ? He said , 'I op . ce sold an acre of early potatoes ( ash tup kindeye ) for eighty-five pounds ;
I then planted the samo ground again with the same kind of potatoes , 1 sold tho second crop for forty-fire pounds , making a total in one year , from one acre of land , one hundred and thiity pounds . ' I believe this man never rented more than six acres of land ; I believe he also kept a small public-house in tho village ; he had , 1 was told , realised a very handsome Independence , and chieflv by the produce of these six acres of land . There are several men in this village who only occupy two acres of land—who maintain th < dr families well without working for any other person .
I have given the names and address of those persons , 80 that fny person m ay satisfy himself of the truth of this statement , I am , Mr'Editor , Yours , faithfully , Selby , Jan . 26 th . Jous Linton .
Mr Fields Again. To The Editor Of Tub No...
MR FIELDS AGAIN . TO THE EDITOR OF TUB NOETIIEEN STAB . Sra —Havirg seen in last Snturdaj ' s Stas a letter signed ' John Fields , ' in the fifth paragraph of which he alludes to his connexion with tho town nf Ayr ^ I being personally acquainted with hira while there , a nd with the circumstances to which he refers , would wish to m < d < e a few remarks thereon . Firstly , —He says , 'ho pave twopence per pair more 'ban any shop in the town . ' This ho well knows is totally at variance with the truth , as there were shops In Ajr giving higher wng-s by one . penny per pair than he gave for his best work , ( which , also , had to bo made in a far superior style , ) while his B-cond description of work was pnid as low or lower than any shop in town . Secondly , he says , ( in less than twelve months the shoemakers formed a club , ) wishing it to bo made known that his high wages were the cause of it , while In reality it arose from a deep-rooted convicti on that ! h « y vte's a badly paid elass of-inen . Thirdly , he again walks at the outiT edgo of tie truth , when ho says , they did not present him with a list of wages ; they did present him with a list of wages , but he never pnid the extras . I pass over his allusion to the master *' meeting , merely ritnnrklng that had he had any power to astist them he would have been a fit tool , for while he cantingly pretends to be a friend of that c'a < g of which he is one ; he is , as far as in him lies , their bitterest foe ; md in his inconsistent opposition to the Land Plan ( of which he is a member , ) I only see a fuller development nf those vicious principles he seems so proud of , and which are well known a ad thoroughly despised In Ayr . Yours respectfully , James M'Inttre , late of Ayr . Edinburgh , Jan 31 st , 1818 . P . S . —The above can be attested bj tho men of Ayr .
To The Edit0k Of The Northern Stab, Sir,...
TO THE EDIT 0 K OF THE NORTHERN STAB , Sir , — As ycu have invariably advocated the rights of the labouring class , and of trades ' unions in part culer I humbly b .-s the insertion of tho following , if you can find ep / ice in your valuable Stab . TO THE MEMBERS OF THE JOURNEYMEN STEAM ENGINE MACHINE-MAKERS AND MILLWRIGHTS FRIENDLY SOCIETY . ;
Your society has hadau ' existence of twenty . ono ears it was foundrd to protect its members from the agros slons of unprincipled employers , an-l to afford it * v-ra b'jrs the means of . » ubsisteneo when unetnpl- yed . Every mi'mbcr to thfi present time has enjoyed cqinl righti , 'nh bad bis vote , and all were eligible to fill any offic--bi the society . Oar institution , has ever been democritic in its form of govirnmeht , and our rulers the truer , flex ofthe will of the majority , cheerfully obeyed by all .
But a time has now arrived when there is not only a maiifiKt disposition to change the policy hithirto puisued , but ' even the form of government itself . Some of the members of the council have given expression to these sentiments . They see the society extending , and think the riiflieuiti . 'B to govern it will bo increased ; and being Ign- rant of the true principles that eught to gc « vern a society , and not believing in the doct ine that ' persuasion is better than force , ' are imitating the worst features of aristocratical governments . They are f r using gags and penalties to still ¦ the voice of complaint , aid thus coerce into silence those who have tl e honesty and courage to tell them their tyranny is not just . They exclaim that , 'democracy in our society mu > t be put down ; ' and some of their supporters in the Manchester branches have re-echoed back ' Feargus O ' Connor , Chartism mu * t bo put down , or < ve shall give offence to our employers , ' particularly by some noisy roller torntrs and spin Ho makers , wfco were through p dicy
admittei into No . 1 . and who have by different means contrived to worm their way to the head of affairs in that branch , and are now instruments in the hands cf tho council to cff-Ct their knavish end « . Your council is determined to bear do « n all opposition ; to carry every thing with a high hand—they are adopting a system of centralisiition , —they call themselves an ' oir-nlpottnt board , ' and are determined to ' rule supreme , ' To effect their object , without awakening suspicion , th-y is » ued banking schedules to every branch , to be filled up according to ' ns'rnotions , and then returned ; this was dose under tho pretence of Ascertaining if the ftmds were safe , and banked according to rule , while their r « al olject was ta be put in possession of the nam e of proprietors and managers of banks where each branch had dep-isited money . They will next call for the names of your trustees ; by these means they will gain a power over your mon » y , and thus coerce any refractory branch into submission to their unjust commands by arresting their funds . This was once the case with Glasgow .
The Executive held a mcetlnir on the 22 nd ult .. when the banking returns were examined , and the following wenty-five branches were found to be not banking according to rule : —London , North London , Stratford , Norwich , Woolwich , Hanlry , Congleton , Smethwiek , Barnsley , Manchester Nn . 1 and 2 , Heywood , Rochdale , ifoons Mill , Pre ? ton , Aecrington , Todmorden Clock , heaton , North and South Shields , Darlington Shots Iron WWks , EJinbureh . Dublin , Duudalk , and Cork . The council in all these cases passed the following reso lution : — ' Wo respectfully request you to bank in conformity with rule , ' Then came on tho Land and Labour Biuk question . It was candidly acknowledged that neither No 4 , nor 5 , nor the Dsrby branches , had violated any rule , '—their mode of bankine was 'in confor .
mify to rule , ' but tho bank was tha objection , and thev must suspend those braacheF ; but thoy now ' discovered " , fir the first tinv , that they had not the power , so they agreed to the following resolution : — ' That we take the sense of the society on tho propriety of suspending Na . -1 branch . ' You will ask why not include Na . 5 and Derby . ' The reason is because they had a wish to dective the society . If they obtain power to suspend one they will then suspend all three , and the Hull branch nfterwards . The councillor f « r No . 5 demanded that branch should be put in the same boat with No . 4 this
was granted . Hn th-n proposed , 'that Nos . 4 and 5 should be allowed a email * pace in the next- circular of the council to state thdr reasons for not acceding to their decision , ' that ihe society might , after hearing the deduce , come to a correct oouclusion ; ' that it was unjust to condemn them without a hearicg ; * but this was not allowed them . Brothrr membirs , n-fl-. ct b . fore vrj en . trust the power of suspension to such ' omnipotent' and * supreme' gentry , whose only olject is to disunite the society . Renumber that' Uuioa is strength division is i" eakness . ' '
Although there are so many branches pot hanking according to ruin , they do not ask for them to be suspended in the event of non-compliance , but you are asked to suspend Nos . 4 and 5 , —not for violating rul :-s . —not bi cause the Laud and Labour Bank is unsafe , but because it is 'a political 'bank . ' and without allowing them to speak in self-defence . Tl e report does not ssk to suspend tho Derby branch , nor dues it mention Hull but if you give the council power to suspend one , these two will also be ; suspended , and some of you may fall victims to these ignoramusL'S . Rjmembor , it is unwise and indiscreet to entrust power to fools . This council , contrary to the practice of all preceding ones , has adopted tho plan of meeting in the day tin ™ , at leatt tht-y have done so twice ; for these services , they rrcc-ive
tho trilline sum cf Oi . 2 d . p-r day ! in addition to second class travelling faro , which costs tho societ y 111 . 193 lod . rather too much to pay for thsse' omnipotent' aristocrat to spout their Supreme' ignorance and foll y ! Only O * ' 2 d , a day ! Think of that you 300 unewipl oved " and starving mechanics of Manchester ; you . who on Thursday j « 27 th , held n meting at the Golden Eagh , and agreed to beg the society would transport you to America or some , nhere else , and especially you who have run through jour donation , Mid have nothing to subsist upon but a precarious bounty doled out to you by the cold hand of chanty . This is one of many ways tho aristocrats of your trade have of lavishing the iunds of the socieiv upon themselves , Rvmemb .-r that with tliiw-fourtlu of the present amount of eantributlons you formerly recsivcd more than elouble the amount of donation in one
year . You pay 3 d . per week and receive £ 7 10 s . You formerly paM Gi . per week and received £ 15 103 . Let me advise you , Instead of talking about Emigration , ' whi ! e you are starving hi the streets , or breaking stones , and heaping up ' monuments to your own degradation , you who aro picking oukutn at Gd . per day , or you , who with your families have been obliged to * take * up ' your residence in those dens of human misery and slaifhter houses , called union bastilles , to go to your respective branches and 1 . 11 them you pay more and receive less that there is £ 24 , 000 yet in the funds , and you are pel nshlng for want of the common necessaries of life fell thrm the machinery for governing the society is too expensive , and demands a reformatien . Insist unon having a fair share of your own money . ^ notlung short of the sum formerly allowed . Then go to tho council and compel them to do you ju . tloe .-tf they refus re all them and elect new members . '
1 wish it to be distinctl y understood there are a few exceptions in the council who seem to be willint to march in the ri ght direction . willing to ONE WHO Bill BEEN FIFTEEN Y EABS A MlMDEB of the Mechanics Societv .
Ipswich. Ipswich . ' To Tiie Editob Of T...
' TO TIIE EDITOB OF TUB NORTHERN STAR . Dear Sir ,- —Having occasion to refer to th < - ^ » tha 15 th ult . I observed on the 7 th pigo ftpirilri ( , ° / cmtaining Addison ' s estimate of scepticism , by i , . ^ .: which I conceive that you have unwittingl y dari e a " ^ rain amount of injustic « to tho . opinions of a lar ke » . * ' * tion of your fellow thinkers . I beg to call jour at-iT ,, ' "* to the following extract from Lord Bacon's Es . ^' * Superstition , and there gan be little doubt turn tn S opinion ef the author of the A ' ouion Organon is worttr „ equal attention with that of the writer of the paragraph in question . ' Lird Bacon says , * Atheism laaves man to rea
Our National Defences. Public Meetings, ...
OUR NATIONAL DEFENCES . PUBLIC MEETINGS , Bridgwater . —a meeting , very numerously at . ten > Jed , was held at the Public-room , on Tuesday , January 25 , when a petition to Parliament was agreed upon by a lar ^ e majority , praying that no increase mi flht be made in tne annual grants of money for warlike purposes . The petition further showed , that the petitienera deprecated even the agitation of the guefltion , as it wafl calculated to excite observ-. tion and distrust among the continental government ? , and to kindle a spirit of anirnwity and rrar with nation * between whom there is now a good understanding . Mr T . Clark presided at the meeting . Prkston . —At a very crowded public meeting ot the inhabitants of Preston , held in the Tenipurance . hall , on Thursday of last week , tho following petition to the Douse of Commons was unanimously adopted : —
Your petitioners have hoard with astonishment and regret , that it is intended to increase tho present enor . raous expenditure of the country in the army , navy , and ordnance department ; and tide after thirty-two years of a general peace with all tho powers of Europe , and the recent assurance in the speech from tho throne o £ the continued amicable disposition of these powers toward Great Britain . Your petitioners brieve that the best means of preserving international peace is to conduct the foreign policy ofthe country on just , Christian , and pacific principles , to promote the utmost freedom of commercial intercourse , and to abstain from
intermeddling with the quarrels er domestic affairs of other nations . Your petitioners further believe that a large reduction , rather than an Increase of [ the existing socalled 'Peace Eitablishments' of this ' country , would be calculated to promote the continuance of peace , and that the example of such redaction would have the best possible effect on the ( Hiponition and policy of the other powers and nations of Europe . Your petitioners , thersfore , earnestly pray jour honourable housj not to sanction any increase of the natal and military expenditure ofc he country : , but to t » kc measures for a large and early retrenchment thereof .
DRioriLr . VGTON . —A public meeting of the inhabitants of Drighlin ^ 'ttin was held at the Mechanics ' I'istitute there , on the 26 th ult , wh . cn resolutions opposed to the increise of the army were unanimously adopted . Their spirit and tenor may be slathered from , the following , which was the third resolution : — That this meeting , believing that the maintenance of war establishments is opposed t » the teaching of Chris , ti ' anity , tends to r . tird the progress of th » people in civilisation end liberty , and is calculated more than all other causes to eicite strife and b ' oodshed throughout the world , is decidedly of ppinien that all wnrlike estab . lisbmenta should be abandoned , and a system . & f international arbitration established . A petition to the same tffocfc was adopted , and ia to bo forwarded to Mr Cobden , for presentation to parliament .
Sheffield . —A public meeting of the inhabitants of Sheffield took place on Thursday , in the Friends ' Meeting-house , in that town , on the subject ot the national defences . The following address was unanimously adopted : — We , tha inhabitants of Sheffield , in England , in public meeting assembled , impressed with the conviction that tho bonds of amity are strengthened between nations , a 3 well as individuals , by friendly inter-communication , present this acleirees to you , our brethren in France , earnestly desirine that the cordial feeling which thus actuates us may find an echo in your hearts . We have no unify with those who would sow the seeds ef dissection between us , or who are watchful to construe the acts of one people into causes of jealousy and suspicion
to the other . We can see no reason for mutual enmity because we are separated by a narrow channel and speak : a different language , We would practically realise tho truth that we are the children of the soma universal parent , * who created of one blood all nations of men ;' and we desire to entertain towards you the world-prevailing feelings * of Christian love . We recur to those pages of history with sincere regret wrick- chronicle the strife of our ancestors ; an * , fervently hope that the mass of the intelligent and reflecting people of France unite with the vast majority of the Esiglish people , in deprecating hostilities between our countries as the greatest national calamities . Wa trust that rs means of com . municatii-n become more extensively developed , ? nd facilities for travelling increase , the vestices of national
prejudices will vanish nv ay ; that wo shall visit each otfeer more frequently hut to odd to our mutual esteem ; and if natioinl differences unhappily arise , that we shall be wise enough , not *> nly to discover , but . adopt a more rati , nil and Christian , therefore a better sm ! juste * method of abitration , than that ofthe sweird—one consistent with the relations of neighbours find frisi-. d-s , ind by which justice and right , and not Ktight alone , rosy triumph . We regard with hi gh gratification the increase of our commercial intercourse , believing that in our mutual interest in each Other , is to be found a further guarantee ofpeace . Wo wish for , and should rejoice in your prosperity , and cannot believe it inconsistent with our own . We have hailed with satisfaction and pleasure tho events of past years , which hare tended to cement the friendship of our countries . It was witn
delight that we heard of the meetings if our sow reigns on terms of affectionate intercourse ; and we have , regarded with sorrow any occurrences which have appeared likely to mar the fair prospect of peace or lead to strife between our re > pective governments . We trust the day is not fir distant when the fruits of peace may be more fully erjoyed by both nations , than tin y can i-c whilst large and costly armaments are deemed needful for mutual defence ; when the entire cordiality existing hetwein England and France may lead to the reduction , of warlike burdens on the part of end ) without npprr » henslon . Such a procedure on the part of tho two nations we believe would be a blessing to the world ; and we are alread y prepared to petition our government to set the example . In conclusion , hretfcren of Franco , we again tender you the expression of our hearty good * will and regard .
Westminster County Court.—Tfgg V. Palmer...
Westminster County Court . —Tfgg v . Palmersto . n . —This was an action brought by the plaintiff , a pouch wheelwright , against the Right Hun . Lord Piiimcivton , M . P ., to recover the sum of £ IT llK for work and labour done for his lordship . —No answer beinp ; given to the thrice-repeated sununor . s <•! the bailiff for his lordship to appear , tho case was ordered to proceed . There appeared for the plaintifl nn attorney ' s clerk , wHm the judge refused to hear . —Ghifs . the officer of the court , said he left the summons with a mas servant at his lordship's house in Carlton Gardens . The servant told him his lordship was in town , and ho would give it him imniortia . ely . —Tho Judsre to the plaintiff : Have you h « l any
communication from his lordship since the summons ?—Plaintiff said he had not , and proceeded to state that he sued his lordship tor work done in mailing and repairing wheels for his carriage during the years 18-12 and 1813 . Had the order * direct from his lordship ' s own mouth at his residence in Carlton Gardens . It was in the early part of 1 S 42 that his lordship gave tlia order fer one portion of tke we-k . Hal tinny times applied for payment , but never ! J a chance of seeing his lordship . Had written to ; :. i and sent in two or three bills , but had never bar : > n answer . —Tho learned Judj ; e , having carefully . vammed the entries in the plaintiff ' s bo * ks , made aa order on his lordship to pay the debt and costs orr . ha IGdi instant .
Tiik § Murdeh of Eliza Davis , Eleven Ysms Aoo . —lt will be remembered th . it <* n tho 10 th of May , 1 S 37 . a young person , named Eliza Davis , barmaid to Mr Wadley , the King ' s Arms Laxton-place , Frederick-street , Recent ' s Park , was most barbaro-. i-sly murdered in her master ' s house , her throat having : been cut with a dinner knife , which was found upon the counter immediately after the commission of the . appalling deed . The party upon whom suspicion rested was said to be f modeller , who was in the habit oHriqucntiDR tho place , and for a W while Inspector A ? g 3 and S , rgeant p , f ™* division , were in quest of the said person , but without ever being able to gain any tidings 8 ? hira * Tho murder having been perpetrated in broad davli ^ ht and in a thickly . populated vicinity " £ LS fi £ in no incoBMderable degree blamed for thS want 3 vigilance in the matter . There » „ L „„ L 1 .. ™
h ? hprfn ? v ! f th ? t ih * % K * $ l 6 nCth a 0 ha - * < * ivSn m no 8 » fo » r being cleaved up , Injector ledman , of the D division , being in possession oi some very important particulars relative to the case , and _ circumstances of a strongly suspicion ! nature having recently transpired , tending to lead to a conclusion that the sanguinary act was the work of an indiv dual ( not the modeller above refcived to ) but another man , who , at the time of the occurrence , located in the immediate neighbourhood .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 5, 1848, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_05021848/page/2/
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