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tacert to the amount ot koov »»TaT>.iiFgchcai. .ihiimjwj wawadgMaiBTOBiBai ~*' * '" ' " ¦ i1 ** Rocbkuy.—On Saturday afternoon a most bare-
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ivari Ul mun:aiiu«."•« raat ajuiu mi Att Devonpobt.—On Saturday the Right Hon. the ITnv\ of Auckland. fl.G.B.. First. T.nnl t\t *!« u
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Afflicting Sdicide.—On Saturday Mr. Wakl...
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¦^ fc ^> ^ W » w ^ V > VV XV ^ THE MfiPTHERN STAR . September 19 , 1846
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^ uure Ulcerous Sores in the Face and Leg , in Prince Edward Island . Tht Ti-mo / fkU Slated wu dty « a * fcd before * Magistrate . T , Hugh Macdoxald , of Lot 56 , inKing ' t County , do Bereby declare , ftat a mort wonderful preservation of mj life ha « been efieoted by the use of Hollowaj ' s Pills and Ointment ; and I furthermore declare , that I was very much afflicted with Ulcerous Sores in my Face and I * g « o severe was my complaint , that the greater part of mj nose and the roof of my mouth wa » eaten away , and my lag had three large ulcers on it , and that I applied to « l > eral Medical gentlemen who prescribed forme , bat I
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ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE OF CONSTITUTIONAL OR ACQUIRED DEBILITIES OP THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM .
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p ' ainte , . ad effectually republishing- thehiiUh of the cinstitution . Topensns •¦{• ring - up « n thei-wpwisibUu ties of matrimony , and who sver Bad tfas misfortune dor their mow youthful days *• Ve rfeeied wift asjr form » f * e « diseases , a previous oo * rs « « f this medleiae ie highly essential , an * ot the greatest importante jui , bio re serious affections are risited ; upoH an innoov * " * ifc « nd ? oSspriHg , from a want of these & iraplej > reoauU * ns , Ibaa perhaps half the world is aware of ; for , it must be remembered , where the fountain is polluted , the streams that flow from it sannot be pure .
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ABERNETHY'S PILE OINTMENT . WHAT a painful and noxious Disease is the PILES , and comparatively how few of the afflicted ha . Tc been permanently cured by ordinary appeals to medical skill . This , no doubt , arises from the us ^ of powerful aperients too frequently administered by the profession ; indeed , strong internal medicine should always be avoided in all cases of this complaint . The Proprietor ot til * abOVC Ointment , after years of acute sutfering , placed himself under the treatment of that eminent surgeon , Mr . Abernethy , —was by him restored to perfect health , and has enjoyed it ever since without the slightest return of the disorder , over a period of fifteen years , during which
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BLAIR'S GOUT AMD RHEUMATIC PILLS . A severe casu of Rheumatism , communicated by Air . Ailuii , Proprietor of the A ' oUingh-um Mercury , Mercury Office , Nottingham , March 17 , 1815 . Sie , —I have the pleasure of forwarding you the particulars of a case in which BLAIR'S GOUT and RIIEUMATIC PILLS have proved eminently successful . A young woman , named Mary Wain , accompanied bx h * r parents , who reside at Watualt , near this town , called upon me on Saturday last , bcisi ^ di-sirous of making hei case known for the bcuelit of the public . It appears that Alary Wain had for some years past born a gre . it sufferer from Rheumatism , but that in October last sh = was more than ordinarily afflicted , so much so that her father fetched her from her place ot service , in ordsr that she uiijriithavi tbe attention of her
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ANTLSMUT COMPOSITION . THE ONLY CERTAIN PREVENTITIVE AGAINST THE SMUT IN WHEAT , AND THE ATTACKS OF THE WIRE WORM , GRUB , AND SLUG .
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REES COMPOUND ESSENCE OF CUBEBS . —The most speedy and effectual remedy ever discovered for the cure of discharges , gluts , strictures , weakness , whites , pains in the loins and kidneys , heat , irritation , an < l gravel , frequently removing erery symptom of disease in four days , sometimes sooner . It contains in a concentrated state all the efficacious parts of the cubeb combined with the saltofsarsaparillaand other choice alternatives , which makes it invaluable for eradicating all impurities from the blood , preventing secondary symptoms , fallin ^ . pf the hair , blotches , & c and giving strength to the whole system , It does not contain mercury in any form , and may be taken by the most delicate or weakly of either sex with perfect safety , as well as benefit to their general health .
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Tacert To The Amount Ot Koov »»Tat≫.Iifgchcai. .Ihiimjwj Wawadgmaibtobibai ~*' * '" ' " ¦ I1 ** Rocbkuy.—On Saturday Afternoon A Most Bare-
tacert to the amount ot koov »» TaT > . iiFgchcai . . ihiimjwj wawadgMaiBTOBiBai ~* ' * '" ' " ¦ i 1 ** Rocbkuy . —On Saturday afternoon a most bare-
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robbery , nearly . was commit ed at the London and Jo ' nt-Stcck Bank . It appears that Mr . Edward Go .- ] in . about the time mentioned , attended at the bank , for the purpose <•!' p . a } in « in money on account ' of tlicfiinu .. While standing theic he felt a sl ' uht tug at his coat , and turning round lie ob « crvcd a gentleuumly-lookiii " mini , attired in a shonting-jackei ; , going rapidly out r » f the bank , but be unfortunately took no notice of the circumstance , mul gave no alarm , th' -ugh when lie paino to pay in his money he found that hi " ? pocket bonk had been adroitly abstracted , with its contents , which consisted of notes and gold , Ac ., amounting to £ 321 2 s . lid ., besides over due bills , and sundry iclti rs and memoranda .
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An extraordinary cure of a b ; id leg at IfoniCiistle , by Holloway ' s Pills and Ointment . —A few Uavs since Mr . John Simpson , u highly respectable bookseller , iu that town , states that a gentleman of his acquaintance hail been suffering for many years from one of this worst description of bad legs , frequently enduring the most excruciating pain . He had been under the care of several inciHeal men without obtaining the least benefit . This gentleman , however , lias just been cured by these invaluable medicines , after every other treatment tailed . The Ointment will cure chilblains , ami chapocd bands in a few hours . CoiiKs and Bunions . —It is a well-fcnovi n fact that the ni-lady of corns and bunions is more universal than perhaps any other unnatural growth with which mankind is aitHii'tcd ; audit is equally well known , that ill" all maladies it is also the most painful awl intolerant . To find some tvmeily fur the cure , ov at least the amelioration thereof , has en lied forth the esertioi . S of many of the
nios : emiii ' iit members of the medical proicssjuii . 01 those of modern times , none have laboured harder to arrive at this grand desideratum than lias the proprietor of" Paul ' s Kv-ry linn ' s Friend ; " and the success whieh has happily attended his exertions , after many years ot elaborate study , may be estimated from the fact that hundreds of medical men have not only themselves received personal benefit ; therefrom , but they iuvariiiblv rcconminnd it to their friends and patients . It is in general use by the Koyal Family , nobility , clergy , itc ., in fact , by all ranks ar . u condition ' , from the Queen on the throne to the peas . int in iiis cottage , and all acknowledge its efficacy and value . Its fame is daily becomingmi-re extensively ditVused , and it is already used to a great extent i . n the Continent ; even the Chinese , with all their prejudices , luis notdisdained to seek relief therefrom . «• Paul's Every Alan ' s Friend , " ( Corn I'laisten is scid by all respectable Chemists and Mcdii-ine Veneders in every to . ui throughout the united kingdom , iuboxes at Is . lid . and 2 s . 3 d . each .
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ANTI-SLAVERY MEETING . A meeting convened by the Council of the Anti-Slavery League for the purpose of reviewing the proceeding , of the Evangelical Alliance with regard to slavery m the United States , was held on Monday evening at Exeterhall , every part of which was densely crowded , several ladies occupying seats upon the p latform . In the irame . diate vicinity of the chair we observed Wi ham and Mary Howitt , Mr . George Thompson , Frederick Doug las ( the emancipated slave ) , Mr . Giorge Sturge , Dr . Thomas Price , Mr . J . R . Mlvy . of the United States , Mr . George PiJliington , & c , & c . ., On the motion of Mr . R . Smith , the S ecretary to he Anti-Slavery League , seconded by Mr . William Shaen , the Rev . John Burnett was called to the chair .
The Chairman commenced his address to the meeting by observing that the position ko had been called upon to occupy was to him an unusual one . The occasion on which they had assembled was one of great importance to the friends of freedom throughout the world . ( Hear , hear . ) They had had meetings in that hall recently , in which men had avowedly assembled with the feeling of brethren , and in the union of brotherhood . But it had occurred to some that the same feelings of brotherhood ihould be extended to a race of men long subjected to a very different influence . To many , too , it had occurred that the opportunity was lost , but it was manifested in a manner which showed that the parties concerned were not unaware of the importance of considering kindness and charity as belonging to free men . The question of party was not overlooked , but , on the contrary , had been
freely discussed . A resolution was moved in the assembly of the body to which he referred , " That all might be brethren in Christ , and treated as such by the Evangelical Alliance , who either held slaves against their will , or who held them for their own interests . " that resolution at last was withdrawn , and very properly rescinded by the Alliance , and the whole question thereby left in abeyance . Now , if the American brethren should return to their own country and give it to understand thatin England slavery was a ' question she was content to bold in abeyance , he was sure tbe meeting would concur with him in saying they would deeply wrong the generosity of the English nation . ( Hear , hear . ) They had
assembled that evening to tell them that the judgment of the Alliance was not the judgment of the people of England ; but that it was the judgment of a comparatively small number , though gathered from different parts of the three king doms , as well a » from America and from the continent . That selection of individuals , however free from reproach they might otherwise _ be , had given a judgment calculated to lead the Americans to believe that this important question remained in abeyance ; and tbey should take care that it should not go forth ab tho decision of England or of Europe , That Mine night they would learn the sentiments of Americans on tiie subject , and that the decision of the Alliance was not even their decision .
Mr . Thomas Lloid Gaebison then came forward , and said he could sincerely declare that he felt deeply embarrassed on the present occasion , not because he did not stand there in a good cause—not because he had so little to say but because of the magnitude of the subject which had brought them together , and because he found it in his hear t to say much ; yet knowing that he must not trespass « . n their time , as there were other speakers wlwmtliey WOUld be more anxious to hear . If he had ever desired bonds With them , and strength to meet a solemn emergency , it was on that occasion . He remembered that those- who advocated and were the representatives of three millions of American people , held in the galling chains of slavery were with them . Ho wished to feel with them , and he r . mcmbered that their eyes wcrouponhim . Oh , that they were there , indeed , that they might see them in all their wretchedness and all their suffering , that their hearts might be moved as that of one man , and that they might be made to behold what slavery was ! He felt unable to cope with that tremendous subject , for he had
neither" ffitj nor words , nor worth , Action nor utterance , nor the power of speech To stir men ' s souls . " The most he could do was to speak right on , " of thing * which they themselves did know . " As for the question itself , he wan sure every one would hold it to be of the deepest importance , and one which in due season would attract the attention of all Christendom . They had not assembled for a sectarian purpose , or to indulge any feeling of dislike for a body , because , perhaps , they had been shut out from it in consequence of thecreed laid down for the regulation of its members . They were to regard its proceedings without reference to its faith ; for they knew that no sect or party had teen allowed to pass by on s jathed by him , which had shown itself inclined to the persecution of the Anti-slavery cause in the United States on
account of its peculiar tenets . On that account he had riven up all sect and party , and at any time he wmld be rvady to exercise the freedom of denunciation which it conferred upon him . The object of their meeting was to concede to the Evangelical Alliance all that it could claim as h religious body ; and they would not judge of it by their own standard if that should happen to beja different one . They would then easily be able to determine , whether that body deserved the approbation of the relig ious world , or whether it had not been false to all its religious professions , and henceforth to be regarded with condemnation and execration throughout the world . If the Evangelical Alliance had baen constituted for a particular purpose , and that purpose were other than 'he abolition of slavery , then no man could have complained of its not having taken up the question oi slavery . But
ho nevertheless thought , that whatever might be their religious opinions , they had some reason to complain of that body , that it was in some re < , r . ec : s a prescriptive body . N » man at the present day would b : anxious to be considered an enemy to Christianity , for it was fashionable iu this a"e , as well as popular , to be a follower of Christ in words at least , if notin deeds . The Evangelical Alliance , in th * line of conduct it had pursued , and in actual opposition to their manifest princip le , had shown itself a thoroughly anti-Christian body , unqualified to do a work which God had never given it to perform , whoever else mig ht be the chosen instruments in his hands , of engaging in the the great work of the regeneration of the world . ( This declaration was received by simultaneous hisses from all parts of the chamber , and the cheering which was afterwards mixed up with it , occasioned a scene oi
indescribable confusion , which only the prompt interference of the Rev . Chairman put a stop to . ) Mr . Garrison resumed his address , by observing that he had spoken oi pa rticular denominations apart from their Christian principles . It was manifest beyond a doubt that the pretenions of the Evangelical Al ianee amounted to nothing short of its being a body inspired by the Holy Ghost . Notwithstanding its absurd claim to divine inspiration , it had overlooked the social and religious condition of three millions of their suffering fellow creatures . A resolution was proposed by the llev . J . II . Hilton to the ffect that slaveholders should not be admitted into the Conference . It was a noble motion , introduced in the glorious spirit of Him who cam' , to throw open theprison doors and set the captives fre < : ; but it was rejected by
those who deserved the scorn and execration of men and angels . The happiness of three millions of human beings was concerned whose lot was most horrible , and although one should suppose it did not require half a moment ' s consideration , yet it was referred to the consideration of a Select Committee . They did not understand what slavery was , or how slaves were treated . ' So the Special Committee met , and it was deemed essential that sohmn prayers should be offered up for them , and fiat the Holy Spirit be invoked to bless their future progress . ( Ironical cheers . ) He ( Jlr . Garrison ) maintained that all those prayers and proceedings were a mockery before God . ( Cheers , hisses , and some confusion , in the midst of which several persons on the platform and in the bodv of the building withdrew . )
The CilA'KM . iN having called for and obtained silence , p romislni ; that whoever chose to reply Should bo heard . Mr . GaBBtsoai continued—He believed that if the Committee acted rightly they had no occasion whatever fur seeking direction from God , and that they had no just cause for delay , unless they meant in some way or other to wrap up the question . ( Loud cries of "hear , hear . " ) The American delegatus who attended at the Evangelical Alliance , held , or at hast professed to hold , that all men in the eyes of God wove equal , and yet they , as well as the other m < ushers of the Alliance , sat day after day , and week after week , and no light from heaven came upon them ; God did not reveal his will with regard to slavery . He ( Mr . Garrison ) hud no hesitation in saying that such conduct was downright blasphemy . ( Cheers . ) The Committee at last made a special report ; that report
denounced intemperance and a profanation of the Lord s day , duelling , slavery , and other things . Now , he could hardly conceal his indignation when he remembered that Luthev and Calvin , Vox , and others of the most celebrated reformers , had declared the Sabbath day ft Jewish institution , and that even now a large portion of Christians believed that one day was not better than another . Ho was , he repeated , indignant to find that such men were in their eyes no befer than drunkards ; and that , with respect to slavery itself , they held , that except where slaveholders were so of thair own will , they should beadaiiited into Alliance . That nport was again recommitted , and at last they resolved that nothing connected with slavery should appear on their proceedings in any shape whatever . ( Hear , hear . ) He ( Mr . Garrison } stood in that assembly to take the mask off those
men , and to pronounce them to be nothing less than wolves in sheep ' s clothing . ( Cheers . ) He had shewn that that Alliance professed to be animated by the spirit Of God ; lie judged it by its own standard , not his ; and If the evidence he had adduced proved it had acted an unchristian part , the fault was not his but theirs . If men who had any regard for the Bible , and believed it was inspired by God , could shew him in its pages a line which authorised one man to hold propi vty in anotherif thvy could prove to him that any passage in it made slavery lawful , he should put it into the fire . ( Loud cheers . ) And if any one could shew that God allowed one creature to make a beast and a slave of another , all ! ie should say was that their God should he his level . ( Cheers , and some hisses . ) The lion . Gentleman , after referring again to the result of the conference with respect to slavery in America , sat down amid loud cheers .
The Chairman then called on any gentleman who chose to address the meeting in reply to Mr . Garrison to come on the platform , on which an old and respeetable gentleman availed himself of the invitation , and was announced as The Rev . John Preston—IIb said he was a Baptist minister uf a coiiffregation iu EustoiKtiiwc i a mem ' her of the Evangelical Alliance , as it was termed ; he attended its sittings during niueteeu . sessions , and trspe .
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cially during the aggregate raeeting . of tbe Committee at Eteter Hall , for two days / on the' subject of slavery , and had , therefore , he presumed , soms rig ht to be heard . ( Hear . ) He certainly came to the meeting expecting to hear the "Evangelical Alliance" condemned for its conduct with regard to slavery ; but he did not expect to hear Christianity in general undermined —( cheers and hisses)— or prayer to God rio'iouled . The results which followed at the Conference respecting ojbm en tirely owing to the delegates from America , who attended them . The whole of the British members were decidedly opposed to it , and on Saturday evening , during the conference , When a report was brought in by the Committee excluding from the Alliance slaveholders , there was a general dissatisfaction among the American delegates , because such a topic-was introduced at all ; and among the British , that it did not go far enough . The report was referred back again , and the words omitted , because 8 > the Americans would have it . A VotOE . —You let them have it .
The Rev . Mr . Preston . —Let them have it ; he was sorry to say , and to be obliged to say it , that the Conference , or the Alliance , wereoverpowered . buthe was preud to acknowledge that the members connected with the British Islands werea'l totally averse to slavery . Mr . Geoboe Thompson then presented himself , and was received with loud cheers . They were assembled to see what the standard was which ft nation set up osthe question of slavery ; to comment upon the short comings and proceedings of the Evangelical Alliance , and to pledge themselves that no body of men shall lower that standard , or damage the cause of bleeding humanity . They never raised their voice against slavery , but received slave-holders into full communion . Even . their publicft « tions in this country now denounce the abolitionists . He would then ask his Baptist brother who it was that
undermined Christianity ? Did they require Divine lllu . mination on the question of slavery f Natural justice and Christianity rejected slavery as accursed—as the un . clean thing that would contaminate the ark . Mr . Hinton . in the Evangelical Alliance , moved that the words " exept slave-holders , " should be added to their confession of faith , 'but that was rejected . The Alliance compromised the anti-slavery principle by rejecting that amendment , The Rev . Gentleman who spoke last said that they were led by the American members . In fact , the Alliance was lead by them like asses . The Baptists had the honour , that the mover of that amendment was of their body . He then went on to animadvert on the conduct of the Presbyterian body , -when he was interrupted by a gentleman who denied that they had favoured slavery . He ( Mr . Thompson ) had heard Doctor
Cuningham and Dr . Candlish in the general Assembly ' state Christ and his Apostles had received slave-holders to the right of communion , and he had placarded those declarations through the Streets of Edinburgh . There were three fugitive slaves on the platform . Ho wished the hall was filled with them . The Alliance held it was not a crime to be a slave-holder , when it was not of his own fault . Would that meeting sanction the princi ple that God placed any man in the position that he could not avoid committing crime ? They adopted that resolution . The question was—would they admit slave-holders ? By that resolution , they compromised theprincipleof antislavery . They , preferred union to the assertion of the anti-slavery principle . He held that in that meeting they were bound to condemn that compromise . He knew their difficulty . The Americans were numerous , and the Scotch were not few , and what they wanted In numbers they made up in subtlety . There was not a slave-holder in the Southern States who did not hold that they had a property in man . Oh , that the three millions
of slaves had the intelligence of men and the feelings of manhood to take their case into their own hands . ( Hear , hear . ) The Rev . Dr . Cox , who led on the Evangelical Alliance , had a nigger pew in his chnpel , and Dr . Page justified it by saying that the slaves were placed on the right side of the chapel , as God sat on the righthand of his father . —( Murmurs . ) The principle of the Anti-Slavery League was that "Slavery was a sin . " The Rev , Dr . Cox had been an anti-slavery advocate , but now ho was the moderator of a general assembly of robbers , and was thanked by them . Bishop Mead composed sermons , to bereadby slave-holding masters to their slaves . In these he counselled the slaves to do the work for their masters as they would for God —( murmurs )—that their masters were God ' s own overseers —( murmurs )—and by doing so they would receive their reward in Heaven , The Evangelical Alliance would never meet again until slavery in America was abolished . They might have a slave-holding Alliance in America , but they would make England too hot to hold them . He concluded by moving the follow na resolutions : —
" That , whereas there are three millions of human beings in slavery in the United States of America , subjected every moment to all the liabilities attaching to every description of property—a condition which , while as respects rights and privileges , they are ranked with the clods and creeping thinas of the earth , they are , in respect to the laws framed to enforce their submission , subjected to a responsibility more than human ; a condition , the essential element in the preservation of whieh is , the virtual annihilation of their accountahlcness to God , and the substitution of the absolute w ; n of the master , as the only law they are to obey ; a condition in which the attempt to improve and exercise their deathless faculties is regarded and treated as a crime ; a condition , finally , entailed upon their posterity to the latest jreneration .
"That we regard American slavery as & sin of unrivalled magnitude , demanding the condemnation of every human being who respects the law of God , or recognise the principles of natural justice and the equal rights of man . Whereas it is a self-evident truth that where there is a sin thfre must be a sinner ; and that when the sinner ceaSeS to exist , the sin of which he was guilty ceases to be ; and whereas American slavery is not merely a ' sinful system , ' or * institution , ' but a series of sinful acts , perpetrated by individuals , each of whom is separately responsible ; and whereas , when slavery becomes law , and assumes the form and stability of a social institution , the individual is not in consequence released from his responsibility to obey the law of God , and to cease from doincr ' evil ; but is , on the contrary , laid under an obligation to bear testimony against the unrighteous enactment .
"That we repudiate tbe doctrine that slavery , as a system , or institution , or thing existing in the form of law , is sin , while the si ive-holder , for wh ^ se benefit the law or institution has been framed , and who is directly the perpetrator of the wrong , is innocent , and Is entitled to be received into , society , and even into the church , is a respectable and Christian man . In our judgment this doctrine involves the momentous principle , that sin ceases to be sin when sanctioned by human law , and interwoven with the texture of society a doctrine which would , under similar circumstances , justify polygamy , piracy , idolatry , or any other sin that should obtain the sanction of a legal enactment , or be elevated to the dignity of a social institution .
" That the relation of master and slave , when defined and sanctioned by law , is by that very process rendered a more inexcusable sin on the part of all who come into it as slave-holders , seeing they assume the relation , with a full knowledge of its unutterable horrors and fearful responsibilities , and of the perpetual wrongs to the slave necessarily involved in it ; and therefore the slave laws of America , instead of extenuating the guilty of living slave-holders , do , in reality , enhance their criminality , and make them justly chargeable with all the guilt connected with the administration of those laws , which , by the relation they have assumed , tbey practically sanction and uphold . ' * And also are condemnatory of the proceedings of the Evangelical Alliance with regard to the question of slavery . " The Chairman having put the resolutions ,
Mr . P £ Bcr St . John came forward to oppose the resolutions , and to defend the Evangelical Alliance . He opposed the resolutions as disrespectful to ' the Americans * but he was heard with great impatience . The resolutions were then put and agreed to , and a collection made to defray the expense of holding the meeting . Mr . Frederick Douglas ( the fugitive slave ) then came forward . He said he would add his testimony to the description given of the state of slavery in America . He could say that slavery had no greater supporters in that country than the churches of America . It was upheld in sermons , presbyteries , and conferences . On that account they were obliged to war with them , or abandon the anti-slavery cause , "What would they think of a reli g ion in which stripes , tliumbscrews . dungeons . and bloodhounds
continued under its eyes , without its denouncing such things ? AVhnt would they think of men who denied marriage to two millions of people ? There was one member of the Alliance of whom he knewsomething , he meant Dr . Smyth , of Charleston , who performed mock marriages , leaving out the words " whom God has joined together let no man put asunder , " with the view of securing to the masters the right of separating man and wife when they pleased . Something had been said of players . He had a master who prayed , yet he saw that man tie up his ( Mr . Douglas ' s ) cousin , a young woman , until the warm blood trickled on the ground , and justified it by quoting this passage of scripture : — "He that knows the will of his master and doeth it not , is worthy of stripes . " He then went into a statement to show that the Northern and Southern States were linked togetliir in support of slavery . A vote of thanks having been given to the Chairman , the meeting separated .
Ivari Ul Mun:Aiiu«."•« Raat Ajuiu Mi Att Devonpobt.—On Saturday The Right Hon. The Itnv\ Of Auckland. Fl.G.B.. First. T.Nnl T\T *!« U
ivari Ul mun : aiiu « . " •« raat ajuiu mi Att Devonpobt . —On Saturday the Right Hon . the ITnv \ of Auckland . fl . G . B .. First . T . nnl t \ t *!« u
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; . , ., me - miriilty , laid the foundation stono of the new establishment commenced on the Devonshire bank of the River Taraar , at Morice Town , Devonport , lor the building , repairs , and equipment of ateam-vessels , the ' manufacture and repairs of steam-engines and iniieliinery , and ^ for other purposes connected with the multiplication and preservation of the roval steam navy of Great Britain . Tho total area of the ground which is to bo included in the establishment ,
will be about seventy-five acres . The contractors , i have now employed on the works seven hundred and fifty men , one hundred and ten horses , three steamengines , with twelve miles of railway ; 630 / i ) 00 eubio ievt of stone ( granite and limestone ) are -on the the ground , and they are working seven of t ^ e Drinciual quarries of the country . The works , vill pro « re ' * s with the greatest rapidity , and it is exnectcd thVa steanicrwill beadniitted into one of ; \ S J ^ three years and a half from this time . The event was celebrated vyM the usual ceremonies ,
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Afflicting Sdicide.—On Saturday Mr. Wakl...
Afflicting Sdicide . —On Saturday Mr . Wakley held an inquest at the Victoria , Edmund-street King's-cross , on the body of Catherine Warmisuanj , aged forty-two , whose husband , a tailor , lives in Upper Edmund-street . He stated that on returning from business on Thursday evening , he found hig wife stretched on her bed" and almost mad with pain of the head . She had never suffered so before . Mr . Hicks , a surgeon , was sent for , and prescribed for her j after which , she went to bed . Hemissed her from it about two in the morning , and going in quest of her , he found her in the water-closet , dead , from a deep wound in the throat , which , no doubt , she
had inflicted on herself , with a large carving-knife that lay by her ride on the seat . She was always expressing fears that her children would come to poverty , though their prospects were quite otherwise . Another witness proved that deceased laboured under such a strong delusion that penury would bo the lot of her and her offspring , that she grumbled at every penny she was obliged to spend . The surgeon who saw her on Thursday evening , told her that she was pregnant , and she has been heard to say , that child-birih had been so agonising to her , that she could not bear to Uve to suffer its panga again . Verdict , " Temporary Insanity . "
Extensive asd Destructive Finu at Glasgow . — We exceedingly regret to announce the total destruction by fire on Sunday morn ing of the extensive sugar refining establishments at Cartsdyke belonging to Messrs . James Fairrie and Co .- About three the alarm was given that a stove in the adjoining ship , building yard was on fire , and from its close proximity to the large sugar-house , the greater danger was at once apprehended for the safety of the whole adjacent valuable property . In a short space the flames caught the house , and speedily assumed a most formidable appearance , setting at defiance every exertion to stay their destructive progress . The conflagration assumed in an incredibly short space of time a force awful to behold . Fortunately the morning was calm , and sad as the tale is , it
would have been rendered still more sorrowful had a breeze at the time been blowing from any quarter . The large building first seized stood in two short hours a melancholy ruin—presenting nothing but blackened , calcined , tottering walls . The smaller one adjoining soon followed , and the fire being now confined , the engines were kept at work on the one building , which continued till far in the day burning in several parts . The stock of goods on the premises at the time , we understand , was very large , and , in common , we are sure , with every one in this community , we deeply regret that Its value is not nearly covered by insurance . We are sorry in having to add the loss of lite to our account of this calamity . A very decent and industrious man named Matthewson , a smith in Messrs . Steele ' s building-yard , was killed by the falling of part of the south gable of the
large gupr « hoi \ se . Along with others he had been engaged at the time at one of the engines , and when his body was recovered , the hose was still firmly fixed in his hands ; and we regret to add , that he has left a wife and child to mourn his sudden and painful end . —Greenock Advertiser . Easteh-v Counties Railway . —On Monday morning an accident occurred on this line to an excursion train consisting of thirty carriages and two engines . On the Brentwood incline , which is 1 in 90 , the train came in violent contact with a truck left there by the plate layers , by which many ot the passengers were thrown from their seats and severely bruised . The men on the engine jumped off immediately before the collision and were found to be most severely injured . ^ One of them had his thighs fractured . _ The parties who left the truck upon the line were given into custody .
A Mysterious Affair . —The Gazette des Trihmaus says , a tragical occurrence , olouded in mys . tery , has lately taken place at the waters of Orizza in Corsica . It appears that on the 21 st of August last , a young and beautiful woman was suddenly taken with a most violent attack of a convulsive o r Spasmodic character , and died almost immediately . She had only just arrived at the waters in company with her brother and four servants . The story is , that she had been married only two years , when a separation took place between herself and husband , who was one of the richest nobles of Pisa . The ill assorted match , and the separation which had so soon followed it , had made sad havoc with her health and spirits , and being melancholy and absttacted , she constantly fled from society . Herjmly amusement , ir . is said , was found in writing letters of a confidential character to some intimate friend . Still her melancholy added to , rather than diminished her
captivating loveliness , and it was difficult to believe that one so wealthy , so beautiful , and in the very ( lower of her nee ( for she was only twenty ) , could look with indifference on the approach of death . Such , however , was the case ; and she died apparently without one lingering thought of life or its enjoyments . Iler body was subsequently opened , for the double purpose of embalming and ascertaining the cause of death . For the latter purpose her stomach was submitted to a chemical analysis , and this led at once to the discovery that she had died from the effects of a very strong dose of arsenic . It is said , that could the last letter which she wrote previously to her death have been intercepted , it would have thrown some light on this mysterious business ; but that , under present circumstance , the time has not arrived , consistently with the ends of justici ' , further to remove the veil from this painful and mysterious occurrence .
Three Lives Lost ox the River . —On Sunday evening two accidents happened in Erith fteach , one of them involving the loss oi three Uvea . A pleasure sailins boat , called the Miriam , went down the river to Erith , managed by Joseph Leonard , and another man conversant with the management of pleasure yachts . There were three gentleman on board whose names have not transpired . The wind freshened in the evening , and while the boat was coming up the reach one of the men went aloft to reef the gaff-topsail , and while he was doing so a squall of wind caught the sail , and the top weight of the man caused the frail bark to capsize , and the whole party were immersed in the water . Two of the party almost
immediately disappeared , and were drowned ; Leonard clung to the hatches and other floating gear for some time , but ultimately sunk before assistance could reach him , and also met a watery grave . The other waterman , and one of the gentlemen , said to l ) e the owner of the boat , wore savod . None of the bodies have been recovered . Soon afterwards another accident occurred in the same reach ; a quay skiff , containing seven persons , which had been down on a pleasure trip , was capsized in a squall ; six of the party clung to the boat , while Robert Hamilton , a waterman , swam towards a sailing barge at anchor , and made known the danger of his companions ; the bargemen immediately put off in their boat and saved the whole of the party .
The Horrible Murder at Chesterfield . —Connected with this horrid affair an opinion prevails that the deceased ' s body was cut up and carried away in parts to the cesspool , in which his mangled remains were discovered , ibis idea , however , is not supported by the surgeon who examined them ; he clearly ascertained that the first vertebra , which connects the head with the spine , had not the appearance of having been separated bv any violence , as it was found complete . But it must b * e borne in mind that the second and third vertebras arc not to be found , and , if the head was separated from the body after de . ath those bines would be so broken up as ' to be undiatingtushable afterwards . The mangled remains were interred in St . Thomas's churchyard , Brampton , on Monday last , followed bv a large
party ot friends and relations , including Ellen Boresford , and attended by an immense concourse of spectators . The prisoner was removed to Derby gaol on Friday morning , in the custody of Sharpe , an active constable of Chesterfield ; a great number of people congregated at the railway station to witness his departure ; he arrived a short time before the train , and made a request to see Mr R-. Statham , butcher , by whom he was employed , and with whom he conversed , seemingly without reserve , and did not seem in the leas-t unnerved ; when the train arrived he was hurried through the crowd to the carriages , upon which he appeared pale and agitated . He shook hands wih some acquaintai ces , and bade them good bye . He also told Mr . Statham that he was innocent of the minder . There was some groaning on
his proceeding to the carriage , otherwise there was no strong feeling manifested bv the congregated throng , lie is a very dimiuitive man , being onlv five feet one inch in height , stout built , active , and having a repulsive countenance . Among the fraternity he and his brother in derision of their small stature , were known by the namesof " Gog" and " Magog . " A few days ago ho addressed a letter to Mr . 11 . Statham , which contained little more than desiring his respects to his acquaintance and assertions of his innocence . He did not , however , forget his old friend ' Nero , ' a favourite dog , to whom ' he sent' his respects . ' Prisoner is described bv his late employer as being remarkably temperate in his habits , and
rothera timid disposition . Collis , the supposed murdered man , was a good looking person , twenty-six years of age , about the middle size , dark hair , and light whiskers , and well known and respected in the neighbourhood . Ellen Beresford , the young woman to whom he was betrothed is , a pretty and respect , able looking young woman , and her Case has excited much sympathy , as it is stated to have been the intention of Collis to marry her had he lived . A number of benevolent individuals , feeling that she was tieprived of a husband , and her child of a father , by this tragic occurrence , have laudably determined to raise a subscription in her behalf , and there is no doubt but their praiseworthy object will meet with the success which it merits .
Firb os Hoaud a Snip . —Lato on Sunday night a lire broke out on board the brig Reliance , Captain Robinson , lying in the Thames , off Wcst-laue , llotherhithe . It " was caused through drying some firewood in the caboose . The ship ' s crew , upon aiscoxevilivl t '\ 0 disaster , set to work but before th-y couln set the flames c-xtinguished one side of the ca ^ boose was buraed ,
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 19, 1846, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_19091846/page/2/
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