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    • TUB GBEATESr CORKS VF A«Y JiBUlVlkJn INTUS GLOBE.
    • TO THE INHABITANTS OF-GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAN©.
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      Tub Gbeatesr Corks Vf A«Y Jibulvlkjn Intus Globe.

      TUB GBEATESr CORKS VF A « Y JiBUlVlkJn INTUS GLOBE .

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      HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT . Hxtraordinarf Core of a « eatieman eights-yesre of » S » , rfaveryBadLeg . Extract i f a Letter , deled Saxmwtikan && £ January , 1847 . To Professor Hollow » y- ¦ ^ t ec Sii . -Ibestoinformyouth-atl ^ ferf ^*^^ for some years , and had be ^ nn ^ J ^ C ^ wttiiia spectahle Surgeon here for some " ^ ' . f ^^ wi tha , s £ y relief , so that at last 1 rnenUoueJ * £ * £ ?« ££ ™ £ , I Should Kke tut trv vow pMl' aad oiatJrn » t , - -pa m « w « BosVfoffKS . y chane ^ intmvLiDg tte knife . t . » get a proper , dueharce . " BvtaWnc vow ifilUand using jour « itmentM g « tim-«« n ^?™ nrf and in a snort timt a .-ouipletecure . for " ^ H I , u JvS - and to you , Sir . I ( return . iuy sincere Sots ' SR ! £ Sta & abouther ^ Wis called a surprising *^ % ( Signed ) moiUM 0 teOTHB * . * * The alxrre Ge » Uei »» n is n * w so hale and strong , ^ ven inhis SOth year , as to be able to . disclwg * th « duties as Clerk to the Commissioners ofiSsuo ** , at Saxmuudhain .

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      IMPORTANT TO FAMILIES . THE POPULAR REMEDY .

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      IMPDRTAvIT TO MANY . REES * COMPOUND ESSENCE OF CTJBEBt—The i most speedy and effectual remedy ever diaetvered for the cure of discharges , gleets , strictures weakness wbkes , pains in the loins and kidceys , heat . irrita < jon , and gravel , frequently removing every symptom of disease in four days , sometimes sooner . It contains in a concentrated state all the efficadonsparts of the Cubeb costbined with the salt of sarsaparjlia and other choice alteratives , wtadumakeit invaluable for eradicating all impu riiies from the blood , preventing secondar . symptom * aUing off of ^ e hair , blotches , & c , and giving strengttad to

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      Caraik Khahb * ob the Baxq . ce WitHEt : tBB ( > cured of a Dreadful Scorbutic complaint by Hollow . nys Ointment and PiUs . _ iu this astonishing case the who . ' e of the body and legs were covered with Ium . is nearly the t we of tonquin beans , and had been so for the last three ye . ? rs . Surprising to relate , this terrible disease completely ( lis- ' appeared from the system iu the course of a uionth , by having large quantities of the Ointment well rubbed iu every night ; and morning , and taking the pills in copious doses . This cure is known to many respectable people , astae vessel was discharging hep cargo in the Thames « rsly ¦ bout a fortnight swee . "

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      r ' tvAMf L \> ti'H flLL Ot Ut . Al . lu , ^ ' ? Price is l ^ d per box . THIS excellent Family PILL is a Medicine of long-tried efficacy for correcting all- disorders or' the Stomach and Bowels , the common symptoms of which are Costiveness , Fln « uleiicy . Spasms , Lass of Appetite , Sick Headache , G ddiness , Sense of Fulness after meals , Dizziness of tha EJfes , . Drowsiness and . L ' ainsjn the Stomach and Bowels : Indigestion , producing a Torpid state of tho Liver , and a . cons . quent Inactivity of the Bowels , causing a disorganis < tion nf every function of the frame , will , in this mest excellent preparation , by a little perseverance , be effetftealljvreniored . Two or three doses will convince the afflaoted-of its salutary , effect The stomach will speedily a-egain its strength ; a healthy action of tho Hror , noirels , and kidneys will rapidly take place ; and instead of listlessiiess , heat , pain , * and jtundiied appearance , strength , activity , and renewed health , will be the quick resmt < € . takiqg . thi 8 medicine ,. according to the directions accompanying each box . These Hills are . particularly- efficacious for Stosnacli , Conghs . -Culds , Agues , Shortness of Breath , and ail Oh--tractions . of thaU inary Passages ; aud . if taken alter t <*> free an indulgence at table , they , quickly restore the systern tobsinntural state ot" repose .

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      aN THE CONCEALBD CAsPSE OF CONgTilTUTIONAL 9 R ACQUIRED EBIUHTIES OF THE GEiiSRATtV . E SYSTEM . Just Published , Anew andimportantEaithw of the Stent Frknd on fliinwn Freiity . tdce 2 s . fid ., and sent free 4 e y part of the United Kinedom on the receipt of a Post Offise Order for 3 s . fid . i MEDICAL WORKonthelKPlRMITlES ef theflE IT 5 RATIVE SYSTEM , in feuft sexes : beiog an oa tuiry into the concealed caste , tiat destroys physiea _ nergy , and the ability of mimhuod , ere vigour has esta " ] Ushe 4 her empire : —with dbservaisoni on the banefu effects of SOLITARY INDHLGENCB and INFECTION ' oca ! and constitutional WEAKNESS , NERVOUS IRRIrAfKON , CONSUMPTION , and on the partial or total JXTiINCTION of the REPRODUCTIVE POWERS ; with neans ef restoration : the destructive effect * of Gonorrhea ,

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      StEEP . —Tha Poet Young « ays , "Sleep is grent Nature ' s second course—the balm of hurt minds . " Johnson says , " It is the parenthesis of human woe . " Sleep being thus appreciated by mankind , how desirous ought we to be that all should tranquilly enjoy ' ' sweet repose , ' * the general obstruction t » which is through an unhealthy aeu in of the liver or other viscera . A little attention to tbe "young disease , " by having recourse to a mild aperie nt , oft " produces the most salutary effect , and for such pui ^ ose Prampton ' s PiU of Health stands prominent ia publleo' ^ oni

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      GOUT ! tfOUTS ! UUUTII ! \ V Tft « 2 ftto Speeljie Patented Medicine for Gout , Patronised by the Facuttg , Ifobility , aud Gentry , * u . T -

      To The Inhabitants Of-Great Britain And Irelan©.

      TO THE INHABITANTS OF-GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAN © .

      Fellow Cowstry Men,—The Condition Of Our...

      Fellow Cowstry men , —The condition of our conntry at the present time is one which even the most callous cannot look upon with indifference , hut to the thoughtful mind , —tho mind that has observed a similar state of thines in years gone by and contemplates their re-occurrence . Again , two question" naturally arise , are ( these things natural , or brought about by legislative selfishness and tie misgovern-. ment of the affairs * f this empire ? The latter is ¦ unquestK-nhbly tie fact . The whole history of nsan proves that they who thaws ' toiled , fought , ficd and died for "property , " " . country , " < fcc . have but done so merely for the benefit of others . What > have the splendid achievements and improvement ? in machinery dune for the great tfendy of the people . - ? Given them more labour for lens wages . There are powerloom weavers

      weaving 406 yards of calico doth weekly , who can hardly buy themselves a shirt in the course of a year l Which of yon can look back to the ' 26 and " 27 38 and ! -89 , and ' 42 , with calmness , seeing how near the present jBtate of things approaches those fearful times ? The history of cotton spinning presents seasons of prosperity with quick successions of depression . and tbe ffi « 8 t deserving . because the most industrious have always suffered most . Is it not the duty of the rich man as well as the poor , to prevent if puss ble , a recurrence of scenes so disastrous ? Is it not tbe duty of every ma'i to make the lands of any country as fertile and productive as possible , so that we may be enabled to produce the first necessaries of dfe in abundance , thus ranking us independent of f' -reianera for fond , encouraging our home market for manufacturers , and keeping the all mighty bullion in ourown country .

      Is it not the duty of all to promote tho extinction of pauperism , that curse and disgrace to England ! Should not the industrious workman , deprived ot employment by the introduction of new inventions in machinery , be provided with employment on the fund , so that he might become a useful and happy pvnducer . instead of an unwilling and miserable idler ? Assuredly these things should be . But how are these thing * to be done ? By carrying out the scheme nt rhe National Land Company and Labour Bank . For the latter the land and the buildings of the Land Company will be far better security than all the other banks on the face of the earth can boast of .

      History furnishes us with a "Small Farm System , " far inferior to that of the Chartist Land Company , namely—that of Lycurgus the Spartan Law . giver : and for five hundred years , while the Spartans clung to their small allotments , they were happy , bidding defiance alike to domestic traitor ami invadirm foe . However we may appeal to the sympathies and reasons of the rich and powerful , it must never be forgo ten that the redemption of Labour from the thraldom of Capital must be brought about mainly bv tbe people themse ves . The united pence of millions will outweigh the pounds of the hundreds . Suppose the value of an allotment to be £ 200 , and suppose that 10 , 000 members pay annually

      threepence per week , tins will locate one per week , or fifty-two per year ; double the sum paid in , to 61 . per week , and you locate one hundred and four annually ; pay Is per week and you locate two hundred and eight annually . When we look at thirty millions impounds of sterling money invested in Savings Banks , which enables the Chancellor of the Exchequer to prop up a tottering and unjust system of society ; to pay secret service money to hired spies ; to pay armies , navies , and all the expensive props and tools of oppression ; can we not see the whip we put into our tyrants' hands , to scourge us from the cradle to tbe arave . Let all such money be withdrawn by

      working men ( if they can get it ) and invested in Labour ' s Bank , to locate man on the soil , and make our country teem with abundance , and a free , happy , contented and patriotic people . We do most emphatically call upon all classes of society , but more especially the working classes , to forward the plans laid down by Mr O'Connor , and . the Directors of the bind Company , so that hundreds , nay thousands , may be snatched from overcrowded cities , and an overcrowded labour market , to enjoy the free air of heaven , and labour for himself oh a free soil ; where , in the language of scripture , every man may "Sit under disown vine and fig tree , none daring to make him afraid . "

      Sigm-d m behalf of the Ashton-under-Lyne Branch of tbe National Land Company . . lA » fKs MacGuiknbs , Chairman , Jahrs LflCKKrr , Corresponding Sec .

      Suecidk Op A Spbhdtuhift Sailor.—An Inqu...

      Suecidk op a Spbhdtuhift Sailor . —An inquest was held on Wednesday evening at the Crown and Shear * , Sparrow-corner . Minories , before Mr William Payne , on the b' «! y of Paul Pinned , aged thirtyone , a seaman , who committed suicide . From the evidence » f the wifnexses , it appeared that the deceased had been leading * very " racketty" life since this time two yetrs , wlieo he was paid off from her Majesty ' s shin Illustrious , and , in addition , received £ § 00 , a partus" some property left him . All this money he > qiwsidered away , and recently went to Portsmouth witfe barely rufficient money in his pocket to get himKelfan outfit . He was unable to get a shiptkere , and by the time he got back his money was gone . On Thursday last he tHnk lodgings at the

      Royal Mint coffee house , and from his manner and incoherent language the landlord thought him out of his mind . On Saturday he went to the navy rendezvous ° n Tower-hill , and shipped himself for her Majesty ' s vb < p Ocean , but soon afterwards be seemed to re . ret what he had dine , for on returning to his lodgings be said that if they wanted him they must co « ie t '> r him . He was to have gone on board on Tuesday , but . on that day the servant of the coffeehouse found him lying in his bedroom , weltering in his blopd . He had cut his throat with a razor , and was dead . Tnough a common seaman , he belonged to a very respectable family in Berkshire , and would shortly hare had £ 1 , 400 , the remainder « f the money left him . The Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity .

      AWFUXIY SuDDKN DeaTO OP A GenHEMAN OP FOBtone . —An inquest was held on Wednesday , by Mr W . Carter , at the Duke of Clarence Tavern , Pentonplace , Walworth , respecting the death of Mr Mark fownley , aged 39 , a gentl' -roan of independent property lately residing at No . 3 , Pemon-place , near the Zoological Gardens . The deceased , by the evider . ee of the toother , had been subject to apoplectic attack * forfome timepaat , for which he had had medical advice On Saturday he called to see the deceased on business , aid on going to his bedroom , found the door fastened . On entering the apartment the deceased was lying tin tbe bed partially uncovered . and

      apparently dead . Mr Orlop , surgeon , was called , who pronounced the deceased to have been dead several hours . Death had arisen from an attack of apoplexy , no doubt the result of natural causes . Tho Jury returned a verdict of ** Natural death . " The GtoRioos "Fibbtop Juke . "— William Burk , late boatswain of Devonport Dockyard , who in tbe bent of tho action , when the Royal George , in consequence of her spars being shot away , was fighting wi . houta H * g , climbed with nails in his mouth and hammer between his teeth to the shivered stump and nailed tbe colours to the mast , still lives in the west of England , respected by all who know him

      The Nottingham Review says that great distress has been caused by the elopement of the married daught er of a gallant M . P . residing in that county . She bag deserted a sick h usband and a young family .

      The Land Plan And The Population Questio...

      THE LAND PLAN AND THE POPULATION QUESTION . ; Of the various questions in political and social economjr-wbich have engaged the attention of thinking men'daring the last century , perhaps none haveetieitddsucb warring opinions as that which relatetto tlie laws of population . Malthus-says that there is a natural law by which mankind ' . has a tendency ^ to increase in the geometrical progression , whilo'ms means of subsistence « an only "be made to increase in a-canctirrent arithmetical progression . In other words , that mankind increases in > a geometrical scries ofiltS . i . 8 . 16 32 . 64 , 128 . whilst fond only increases in an arithmetical series of <\ , % 3 , 4 . 5 , 0 .. 7 / 8 . From these premises the Malthusian economists

      deduce'the conclusion that war , famine , poverty , 'tits-CBfievand intemperance , aro necessary evils ordained as a > preventive against an nndueincrease of population . If we admit these 'g loomyrtksgmns , then farewell to our fondly cherished schemes for the ameltor . tti » n oft . be condition of the human race—if JrisSi famin sand Mexican wars , thepotato blightandfche malaria of typhus , be the aeents ( d'l'rovidence . fhen must < eiir visions of the future vanish into nothingoiirTTJtnpia recede from our view , 4 ike the miraijeraiaeu -waters in the desert before tho gazeofthe weary-traveller . 'But'happilv for our faith in progress , there are > no grounds for the startling and hideous doctrines of 'Matthus ; on the contrary , it . canbe proved by irrefutable arguments that population does not increase

      in a geometrical posression , that tike-means nf subsisfcenec inerea . se in more than arithmetical progression , and that poverty is not a « heck npon . bui rather an incentive to . the increase of population . It appears fronvthe returns of the census ' , thnMhe population nf England and Wales has progressively increased , with the exception of the year 111-0 , but by rro means in a regular ratio , and very far from being in a geometrical progression . But even admitting this to be the c » sr , there is not a single f act , nor the faintest semblance of * fact , to bear out tbe ab-urd and ridiculous dogma , that the supply of fond only increases in an arithmetical progression . All the s' -urces of human subsistence increase far raw . rapidly than in geometrical progression The pow ^ r of multiplication in

      nearly all the animals used as fond , infinitely exceed that of man ' , and what is true of the animal king'lom , i « no less of tlin vegetable world . In the Philosophical Transactions for l ^ OS , an experiment is detailed , which folly confirms this position ; by separating the roots obtained from a single grain of wheat , and transplanting them , it was made to yield 500 000 grains . Similar f-xperiments made by Lord K > nyon ' s steward , iniStfr . and by Mr Palmer of Cheam . 'in 1843 , resulted in like proofs of the powers of the soil . Decs not science advance in a geometrical ratio ? And have not the powers of the soil been doubled by the application of chemistry to agricultural purposes ? Agricultural ehcmistiy is yet in its infancy , and none can predict the advantages which may result from its extended application .

      I now come to the third of Mr Malthus dogmas , and the most abho rent to human nature ; I mean the influence of poverty upon the increase of population . The doctrine that vice and misery are necessary to confine the peculation w ' thin the means of stihsistt noe , has served to prop up the present system o ' ' error , and to damp the a pirationsof the disci olesof Goo'lwin and Owen , and all who punt after a higher and happier state of existence than the anomalous antagonistic present . But it is now proved by incontRstible ntntiatical evidence , that the mortality eccasionedamottgadults by poverty and intemperance , does not check , hut rather stimulates the undue increase of imputation . Its principal effect consists ; n substituting a young and weakly population for one

      fairly pr » portioned . In those places where , deaths are fewest , and the average duration of life longest there also occrs the emalkst number of births . I may refer to Ireland , the most pauperised and degraded country in Eurone . and there we fi d that the population has doubled in forty-five years while thatof Kpg ' andhns doubled only in seventy years , and Scotland in an hundred years 0 'i the other hand , ' we find that in Norway and Switzerland , where the people generally enjoy a greater amount of prosperity than in most other parts of Europe , th ? re the population remains nearly stationnry . The ff .-cts of poverty and misery upon human life is well illustrated , bv the following table of the average duration of life in the three classes of gentry , tradesmen , and labourers , artizan , & c , ;—

      lohs CI . Trading CI , "Working CI . Kendal .., 45 30 . 3 * Truro ... 40 33 28 Kensington ... 44 29 20 Bath ,,, ,., 55 37 S 3 Strand , London 43 33 2-t ¦ Wlutcchapjl ... 45 27 22 Derby ... 49 38 21 Leedo 4 t 27 19 Bolton ... 34 23 18 Bethnall-grcen 45 2 G 10 Liverpool .. 35 22 15 The city of Geneva is said to be the only one in Europe in which there is an early and complete set of registers of marriages , births , and deaths . From these rt gistries it appears that the progress of population , and the average duration of human life , have been as follow- : — Year Population . Average Duration of Life .

      15 S 9 ... 13 . 000 8 1 S 98 ... 16 93 + 13 1711 ... 18 51 ) 0 27 1721 ... 20 781 28 1755 ... 21 . 816 30 1781 ... 24 810 ... ... 33 1785 ... 25 51 ) 0 36 1789 ... 26140 39 1812 ... 24 . 158 ... ' ... 40 1828 ... 26 m 42

      183 i ... 27 . 177 ... ... 45 The gradual amelioration of . the social . condition of the Genevese had increased the average duration of human life ; the proportion of births ' was reduced , but greater numbers of the children born w- re preserved , and the proportion of tho adult population became greater . In the early and barbarous periods , tho excessive mortality was accompa . nied by an extraordinary fecundity , as we see it now in Ireland . In the last ten years of the seventeenth

      century , each murriage , produced on an average five children , the average duration of life was under twenty years , and Geneva had scarcely 17 . 000 inhabitants . Towards the end of tho eighteenth century the average number of children to a marriage was three , and the duration of life averager ! thirty-two years . At the present time the average births < . o a marriage scarcely exceeds two , the average duration of life is forty-five years , and Geneva contains a population exceeding 27 . 000 . In 1836 the births barely replaced the deaths , and the population became stationary .

      The preceding facts and statistics present us with a new law of population , not dreamed of in the philosohby of the Milthnsian economists . It shows beyond the possibility of a doubt ., that poverty does not check the increase of population ! but rather acts as an incentive ; and that , as the condition of tho people becomes more and mere ameliorated , births will he fewer , and the average duration of life greater . Remove the working population from the dark and typhus generatins courts and lanes of our crowded towns , and from the physical and moral miasma of tbe factory-hell , and place , them in cottages like those I ia ely had the pleasure of seeing

      at O'Connorville , and instead of the present rapid increase of population , births will be fewer , and , instead of thousands being brought into the world to perish in sixteen years—the average duration of life , in Hethnal gteen—the average will be raised to s ' o : ty . _ Population would then increase gradually until it attained the maximum of rattans for its subsistence , when it would become stationary , the births would only replace the deaths , life would bo prolonged to an extent which it is now impossible to predict , and the enrth would become a Paradise of peace , happiness , and l » ve . Tuomas Fnosi .

      Rkuahkabib Circumstance.—As The Children...

      Rkuahkabib Circumstance . —As the children of a gentleman , residing at Larse , were pla > ing along the beach near that town , their attention wa > attracted to the neck of a bottle projecting out of the sand ; and . upon its being uncorked , a document was found inside , ot which the following is a verb itim copy : — " September 1 , 1843 . —1 , Willhm Carson , was born in a small fishing village in Cornwall . When 15 I went to sea , contrary to the wishes of my parents . Whilst making Otaheite , we ran upon a coral reef . The boats were staved , and I alone escaped to laud . Let those who find this short account , try , for God ' s sake , to free a poor wretch who haann w been in banishment three years . "— Cornww'l Gazette .

      MOBMOH COLONY IN CALIFORNIA—The " St LotliS Union" of 4 th May , states that the advent of the Mormon Battalion , California , has been followed by the publication of a paper at Yerba Buena , in which tlie doctrines of the latter day saints are promulgated . The successful march of this battalion shows tbe skill of its commander in overcoming the most formidable obstacles on the route . The distance from Santa Fc is about 1 , 100 miles , and the inarch was made through mountains and over deserts where for days neither food or water for the men , nor forages for mules and . horses could be procured . The battalion was composed of infantry companies . The main body of the exiled Mormons is still on the plains near Council Bluffs , and north of Missouri . They have suffered great privations during the winter , and the news of the safe arrival of their brethren in California will increase their desire to resume their journey westward . "

      Utilitarian Socistv . —U » H of Science , City-road . On Sunday , evening next , June Gth . Mr Lake Burke will deliver a lecture demonstrating the existence of a God , upon purely philosophical principles . To commence at halt-past 7 o ' clock . Soukthikolike a Scahcitt . — "a Traveller " inf ? £ -i ? i . " \ , k ^ » few days ago at ' Trduhridge ( Wiltshire , ) he found a real scarcity existing id that town ; bread not being procurable at any price .

      'Aft English .;Life. (From The Labourer]...

      'Aft ENGLISH . LIFE . ( From The Labourer ] Chartist . M 8 ^' ; £ i ""! 'L In a pleasant little country village in the North ol England lived a family of the name of t > tedman , consisting of en elderlv couple and tneir two surviving children , of whom the eldest was but ci-htcen . and the youngesta blooming little girl of seven . 1 hey Were a happy family ; at least as happy as time and circumstances would allow—but the parents were growing old—and the younger ck'ld yet too younu to ' take its plaee either in the factory or the licld . Stedman rented a few acies of land from a noble lord in the vicinity ; ho had taken it , a waste overgrown with thistles—it was now a garden rich in the best produceof the earth , for the strength of the old man had been put into the soil;—the furrow ? of his farm

      bad grown more rich , as the furrows on his face grew deeper , and his rent had been priportionably raised from a few-hillings to two pounds an acre . He thus paid , dearly for the privilege of improving another man ' s property ; but , notwithstanding , ho contrived to make ends meet , and support * d himself and his family in comparative comfort . When , however , his landlord found that the old man ' s strength began to fail , and his children were too yotins to replace him , hehejan to look round foranothcr tenant , and one day Stedman and his family received noties to quit , and'in due course of time wandered nut into tlie world from their fnmilhr fireside , their pleasant cottage , and tlicir pretty garden . Long and linger ing were the looks they cast on their once happy

      home . It was a bright day ol Sprmx—the trees were green and the birds were sinaiou , the air had that indescribable freshness which thrills th-. ninth the frame and makes confinement a torture , as they progressed to the nearest fac'oty town ; for Stedman < inu'd not get employment in his village as a labourer , —he was too old ; bis children could not cam wages enoueh for their support ,- they were too young : but rumour had told them "f the blessings of a factory-life ; at least , the nates of Moloch wereevr open to receive young children , —and worn , weary , and dispirited , they passed the steaming threshold of his : emple . The child grew still and mournful as it left the fresh green fields far behind , and the hot , clammy air of the factory town came reeking around , j

      The vou ' ng soon found employment ( for at that time the hihour market was not so overstocked naiiovy , ) but the a « ed were driven back to wail ani starve on the brink of their graves . For a while the children eupportr < 3 their parents , but the heart-broken couple saw with auony how their darlings lost their health and spirits day by day ; the fresh , full-blooming cheek grew thin , flaccid and haggard ; the eye listless , and the voice hoarse and strange . But , more than , this , their very nature had changed—they had been good , industrious , and obedient children ; now , constant toil , harsh treatment , and nbtiS " had soured their young hearts ; they grew complaining and fretful , listless and indolent ; the education of tyranny wasdemotalisine the good , and adding fresh slaughter to the army of the innocents .

      After a time trade grew worse—that is , worse for the poor and better for the rich—profits became larger , wages became less ; the pittance of the children scarcely su / liced for their own support , and the poor old couple were obliged to seek parish re lief : it was out-door relief at first . Stedman and his wife were of industrious habits , but they had not been able to obtain work themselves ; now , it chanced that the mother , who was u good workwoman , received an order from a charitable lady to knit S"ine stn' -kings for her children . As scon as the panVh authorities found this , they ilei-rived her of two loaves per week , and a part of her pittance , as though dreading to see industry ' s endeavour to emancipate itself from thraldom . Again , the eldest son got a

      little better employment , and hastened to relieve his poor old mother ; and for this a further reduction was made , so that the woman was a Jofer by the g /» 'idrifS" > fber « hi ] d . Thiw authority encourages the domestic alF < ctions ! At length , Stedman and hi' wife were reduced to the last extremity , and they suffered much before they would go to the bastile ; for they had always lived together , and they loved eaeh other dearly . They were unable to pay the rent owing for their iniserab'c corner in a garret , and thus one evening , late , they wandered houseless through the streets . The police stopped them , abused them , arraigned them ; boys gathered around ; the magnanimous guardians of the peace beat the children , and then dragged the aged couple to the

      station-house , guilty of the unpardonable crime of being too poor to pay for shelter ' . The Union was how their only refuge ; but even the Union would not receive them ; they had not won a settlement , and tbry were passed from parish to parish , their old brines clatterimr over the pavement , as they were jolted a ong—till at . leigth t ' c jaws of a bastile opened upon them ; the companions of many years were torn from each other , and each went and died in a separate prison , amid the brutal insults , the blows , and the starvation of the Poor-Law . Perchance on their death-beds they may have thought of thei «* cottage home—those distant acres—and the rental the . landlord was now receiving out of the best years of their booties lives .

      Meanwhile despair was doing its work on their e' -phsn children . The very affections of their hearts were blunted by their misery—their parents were no more—themselves were I eing murdered visibly ; and thus they worked sullenly , selfishly and callously , without hope , and therefore without one monitor to virtue . Bad example , too , was ar < -und them ; no one was rewarded for being good . We have seen how the verj law crushed every attempt at industry and thrift ; how it placed barriers in the way of redemption—that law placed no barriers in the way of drunkenness and dissipation . The gin-palaces were open ail around . The weekly dole would not supply nourMiinfir food ; the weakened stomach was even unable to « iigesta wholesomn meal . The wage sufficed to buy drink tostay the sinking frame—to forget—to drown thought—what wonder that a man should grow a drunkard ? Young Harry Stedman sunk into

      the snare ; but , disgusted with himself and with the world—eager for anything to gain redemption—tme luckless mornin he enlisted in a regiment ordered on immediate service to tbe East Indies . Daring hi < stay iii the factory town , he bad become deeply attached to a young girl , an orphan like himself , who preserved the ingenuousness of her character in the midst of contamination , and whose pristine beauty was rendered more inreiestingby the sorrowfulmagi ' c of privation and failing health . It was owing to this love that a latent energy still burnt in his heart : the reci'niting serjeant told him of glory and gold to btgained in the army . and . with that delusive hope , he . left his country . ' I will return , Mary , " he cried , " my own , own love ! I will return rich enough to marry you , ind we will buy a few acres , and build a snug little nest lor ourselves and . " The drums rolled , the fifes played—farewell and away ' . — what have the poor to do with love or hope ?

      Five years after the above scene a miserable cripple , cloth' -d in rags , was beheld entering the straggling outskirts of a factory tnwn . He had Inst a leg and ruined his health in his " country ' s service , " and now he returned , hopeless and pensinnless , for he bad gained the ill-will of his serjeant , by not becoming his slave and screening his delinquencies , and therefore had bden flogged within an inch ol his life , and dismissed _ from the service with iunominy , for presuming to he more honest than his superiors . Here , then , was the happy bridegroom

      come to claim bis bride . Yes ; he found her grave in the parish churcl .-yard . Jler health had declined more visibly after bis departure , for mental snfPring was added to bodily weakness . She lost her work ; she had no friends ; and she too for a time , was martyred in the bastile . I he little strength and hnpeshc still posse-S' d was brutally trodden outof her gentle heart , and that sweet , kind , noble girl was cast , like w rthless dust , without the common semblaneeofrespi-ct , from the workhouto kennel to the parMi chnrnei house .

      This—servant of thy " country ! " —man , who hast fou-fhf . and bled for thy " sovereign ! " this is what thy " Queen and country" in thine ubsence did to her thou dnlst confide to their care , to her who was dearer , far dearer to thy heart than life itself . And tbe MwminglittJeni . s ' ier , that once played and laughed upon thy knee , what is she . !—where is she ? —a prostitute upon a death-pallet ! And blame ber not ! Under a g-od form of society , she wou'd have been a vinuou * wife and a happy mother ; but starvation visit . d her ; then came the tempter , for she was beautiful ! G <> ld was off-red in the moment of keen ht . nger ; love was vowed in the hour of woman ' s

      weakni ss—the spoiler triumphed—then spurned her ! Sno was driven from his mill because she dared to complain ! she was hunted from the neighbourhood ! Even the chance of red mption was thus refused her —she was forced upon the streets , and the bruised fl . wer was crushed for e . v < r , and , like a worthless wetfd , thrown topeiishamidcorraption . The maimed cripple stood by her side—he lingered by the grave ot his belovid—ho saw the rich man ' s chariot rolling past the cliurch-j ard—he heard the bell sounding to evening service and the sleek parson driving to church—he beheld the bayonets glitter in the barrackyard—^ earth-sitk he turned to heaven—and laid down to dm !

      I his is what tbe land , the loom , and the bavonet achieve for an Englishman ! Is the picture " overcharged ? We defy any one to assert it ! It is the daily result of our social state ! Be happy , working man ; be proud of your " glorious constitution . " This w the true picture of Eugmsh Lipb .

      Horrible Cabb Of Selp-Mutiution.—Police-...

      Horrible Cabb of Selp-mutiution . —Police-constable Meadows , 98 B , discovered Goader , a tail-r , residing at 22 , Queen-street , Brompton , lying at the corner of that street , wallowing in blood . He was immediately removed to the hospital in a senseless state , where , upon examination , it was discovered that he had frightfully mutilated a part of his person with a sharp instrument . No reason can be assigned for the act , which was committed at the man ' s own residence . The unfortunate man is lying in a hopeless condition . . A correspondent of the Tims proposes that the flour of the horse chesnut should be used for . the stiffening of calico , < vc , instead of flour obtained from wkeatt

      A Dosker's Bbat? 55 ^ A Frisnd Has Forwa...

      A DOSKEr'S BBAT ? ^ A frisnd has forwarded tons a r Mercury , containing the following ° [ tll e of the long-eared correspond ' ^ „ *> C ^ SmsBT .-Otanhm ^ n ^^ m ^ Town Hall on the evening , ni t . , ™ 9 ,, T er « ii hT Wednesday the llth . on the oiS 'he » , !> scheme , or . a » it is cnptiraliiuriv « , il ,, " Pun * , ?* lano Society , " t , ya Mr ClJ ^^ ' ^ S mercenaries who are endeavour !™ m , V S 9 ! li O prrtences of providing h » PW fcj * « t i > f dastry , " to excite the mindg of Z ? J Nft against the others , to shake their « ma 2 ! !* C tionalinstitutions , and to seatter abro-,, i ^ " *» arrows , and death . " Tho i .. m „ . « .... « W ,. , >

      which whs professedl y to explain the J " . ** ' operations of the Chartist scheme for purT t' plt 5 « M consist d mainly of .-,,, artful atcac * L * T * % Banks , the lecturer all , ™ ,, „ J " «>• S , ' positors no valid security for ttuir cash W , «* ¦ £ . statements put forth were at the time ioudi . ""Aft . by the assemble i bunds of Chartisu m , d V"Hd they failed of producing the deiired effect '' 'rj proved by the fact tha' on the two folio , ! * ' h , s kte » several new deD' » itors placi-d tb » ir little ™? ^ ""h * . hank . But . rqNritaiMe as were the printi ^ , * ' » the oh the first evening , they wereiunoe . » u , iZ - ' lm ' i 9 te li t \ m leprous dislilmenl of the next evenin- J . » h Mil , the prete-ce of expl „ inin 2 the present « yi 7 , , ' " % memory Kepr ^ entation the aristocracy , « , , j „ A Hthe avcient institution * of the connlri / , were Wttr / 1 ,, . <« v - j cnuiicivits

      v ... „„» .. „~ . „ , •¦ ' VUlipei ( 1 ( 10 ) 1 J , u * "W b ^ ena suV . j ctof inquiry ain uiiKnianv « fth »„??>« of the town , how it came to pas * { hut th () ""'""' am , belonging as it dnesto a nMeman not lesSj , , i " , 1 } » f .. r hi , wc'J-knotvn determination to cw , gJ , V n " great interests which have h > w been tho saf . „„ the , » the nation than for the liberality of his p-, liti « i " ments , could for two successive iibfht . c & 8 1 , *• public Jitart of sedition and blasplimy . It is honed ' T tt { will be lonvbi fore another exhibition of a X , i , J racter he allowed to take phce . c a The friend who forwarded the Stamford !{„„ , „ sent therewith the following remarks ' •'< " Ilavine recently h ard . Mr Thomas Clark » i . delivered two lectures in the Town l / all at Si ' . ilol

      one upon wie uo-oprrabve Land Plan , and tho . oi I upon Parliamentary Reprei » nta ' . hn , 1 WM m , i eratified with them , and I daresay that the worloC class who were there w .-re much gratified also , f 0 r 1 havesmce heard someofibemsav . thattbeycmildliJ sat nil maht to hear him , and that they stvutd I tpu hear him again , or a .. v other of the Chartist lect urer I here appears to be a ereat desire amnnastthe wnt inc classes for the coming of Mr O'Connor „ l th ^ u p thcrem ! l - I' ^ . that desire , for t /„ thfi which Mr Clark spoke . „ f in his lecture . « wtS which they had never been accustomed to hear Liberty and I-reedom a- Spil-by . are wl . they h £ have been en are straneers to ; they | WTe always hi class power ° " ^ dom , mitf , «» 3

      ™ . ,,. „ * 'A Constant Readih : " What would become of the long eared def ender nf £ u If A" ) , ere " and " anftient institutions i should Mr O'Connor visit Spil > by ! We wmSJj the poor animal to tho care of his keepers , he is e » i dentlymabad »/ iy ' "

      The Ten Hours' Bill. On Wednesday A Meet...

      THE TEN HOURS' BILL . On Wednesday a meetine of the parliamentart nrnmoters ofthe Ten Hour * ' Bill was held nt th « King ' s Arms Hotel New Palace , yard , for ti e pur . pose of conerattilatinir the working classes on the sti' -eessnf their labours , and also to ur « e them'to make pood use of the time which the passing of tbe bill would afford them . The Riuht Hon . the Lord Ashley presided , and there were present the Earl of Ellesmere . Lord Feversham , nnd Mr Fielden . The Noble Chairma . v in opening the pivicedinoj congratulated the delegates from the manufacturinj district * on the successful tei-minp- . tion of their lab « m , He said the lsto « June , 1817 , wou'd tie long retmnu hered , and he belb-ved the v ctnry that had beer , accomplished would be handed down by historians jj one of the grea ' est event of legislation . They hail obtained a bloodless victory , but one whb-h would carry freedom and contentment into the cottages of thon « nnds of indnstnous oonr .

      Mr Thomas Pott , delegate from Ashton-under-Lyne moved the following resolution : — - That we tire deeply thankful to Almight } Cod for fts success which has on n > l occasions attended our eff .. rt « in this sacred cause , and especially for the final result of nil our labours , b « which the working claws are now put in poese » slon of their long-sought-for measure—the Tea Hours' Bill . Mr Jou . v BnswEn , of Bolton , seconded the motion , which was unanimously adopted . The Earl of Eiatcsmerk t-ahl he very much rejoiced in the event which had brought them together , as did also many of tb , < Peers who had taken an in . terC'tinthe Bill , and he believed that nothing would give them so much pleasure , as he was sureit did himself , than to know that the leisire time afforded by the Bill would he turned to eood account by tbe working population . The noble earl then moved the . following resolution , which was carried unanimously : —

      That the creat object of all our labours was to obtain leisure time , by which increased opportunities might In afforded for extending amongst the factory population the meens of mental and moral improvement , which object having been accomplished , this meetine » tron » lj urges the factory workers seriously to considir hoiv the time ihus afford' -d thtm can be best employed for earning out those ohjects which the promoters of the Bill to both Houses of Parliament had in view . Mr Fr lbe * seconded the motion . Lonp Favebsham said that one of the most important objects now to be accomplished was to extend to the female part of the factory workers the bies » ingi which it was intended by this " Act it should convey . They were , he regretted to say , a class very much

      neglected . It was , therefore , very desirah ) ,, that everything should bo done that could be done to encnurasie an improvement in the domestic nnd moral habits of tho females of the mantifaeturin ? districts . His Lordship then moved . " That the most impnrtint consideration now for all phi anthropists is , how to ex > end the advantages which it is be'ieved will result from this Act amongst tbe female factory workers , and how to encourage them irt the promotion and improvement ^ their domctiehaliiu , more especially the younger branebis of this class of workers , and in all mora ' , reli ions , and intellectual acquirements , by which alone they can he iii ted to become the mother . ^ of the future generations of tbij mightv nation . "

      Mr . Jons Mills , the delegate from Oldham , seconded the resolution , which were carried unanimously . Mr . James Mills moved , and Mr . TifJiis Mawpslf . v seconded the following resolutions , which was carried with applause : — " That the most grateful thanks ot the delegates , and of the workingclasses generally , are due to the Earl of Ellesmere and Lord F versliam , for the manner in which these noblemen conducte- the Bill through the I loose of Lords , and to Mr . Fielden , Mr , Brotlv-rton , and Mr . Aclionby , for the zeal nnd per .-everance they displayed in carrying it safely through the House of Commons . "

      The EaMiOF Ellesjiebe then moved the following resolution , which was seconded bv Lord FavendWi supported by Mr . Fielding , and carried maiimou . sly : — " That the noblemen and gentlemen if tending this meeting who had charge of th < - Bill is both Houses , cannot separate without expressin ? their ttwnks to , and approbation of , the conduct « f the delegates sent by the workinti c ' asses M assist in passing the Bill , for the z-al and discretion nhich they have uniformly displayed during the long and arduous struggle in which they have been el 1 gaged , •' Tbe resolution was unanimously adopted .

      Mr . Jamks Turner said he could not allow that opportunity of thanking the whole of their friends in Parliament to pass , and therefore he would move , " That the best thanks of the delegates are due , and hereby given , to the numerous friends nf tho mei * sure in Parliament who have taken tin active parii in tbe debates , as well as those Members of both Houses who so faithfully voted in its favour . " Mr . John Mum seconded the motion , which wa carried unanimously The thanks of the meeting were then voted to tho early advocates of the Bill , and a warm tribute paidin the memories of the late Nathaniel G . uM and Mr T . Sadler . Th nka were also vote . ) to Mr . J « hP Wood , Mr R . Oastler , Mr William Walker , the Rev . G S . Bull , and the Noble Chairman ; alter which the meeting separated .

      Greenock. —Fatal Riot.—Her Majesty's Bir...

      Greenock . —Fatal Riot . —Her majesty ' s birthday was celebrated in Greenock by almost a general shutting up of shops and places of business . 1 " ^ evening , a large concourse of young men assembled and commenced an indiscriminate attack upon every person who appeared with a hat on his head , while any who sported a cap or a bonnet bad a pas sport through the crowd . The people had it all their otf » way at first , and set the police and special constable * fairly at defiance . Among other proceeding * . l »« 5 f kindled s bonfire , in which everything that tlif / could lay their hands upon was consumed . Ma » y windows were broken . In the latter part of tlie evening , the police and special constables , headed by the provost and magistrates , succeeded in dispersing the mass ; a young man , named Collins , got a blow in the general melee which terminated his ^

      fence . We pass on ' r lives in regretting the past , con plaining of the present , and indulging false-hopes « ? the future . In an English newspaper was the follo wing P *^ sage :- " A number of deaths are unavoidably po" poned . Haymaking began at Stamford on Thursday 1 »* , The same d isease which prevailed many years P » among growe has made its appearance this season .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 5, 1847, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_05061847/page/2/