On this page
- Departments (5)
- Adverts (2)
-
Text (16)
-
Apbil 37, ,1850. i - THE NORfl^^iRiiyrSi...
-
jpeetra.T
-
Mi^stEEsV^oy'r GO! a toss's lamest. , _ ...
-
i.\tDltW&*
-
Tie Chrono-T hermalist; or People's Medi...
-
The People's Review. Edited by Friends o...
-
The Proyressionist. Published weekly. Lo...
-
WnMit &mu$?imm$
-
, ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.. Sir He...
-
THE TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE. The result of th...
-
BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH, New Road, , L...
-
Return of a Siberian jBxiee.—The little ...
-
VMJtmw
-
^ Ankcbotes or &ib .Isaac Newton. — Some...
-
: Bf Manki»i> are Hahle to onj-aiseasa more tnan another,
-
, Lately i sniali tortoise was rdniittdd...
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Apbil 37, ,1850. I - The Norfl^^Iriiyrsi...
Apbil 37 , , 1850 . i - THE NORfl ^^ iRiiyrSirjAg . j T 3 ^
Jpeetra.T
jpeetra . T
Mi^Steesv^Oy'r Go! A Toss's Lamest. , _ ...
Mi ^ stEEsV ^ oy'r GO ! a toss ' s lamest . , _ ^ - ^ nt Opposition lias done everything tbat any " ^ JT ^ er diTor ever could hav e done , towards « PP ? L VMinistrv : but notwithstandteR the usual tar tiW ^ iso frequently given , the Ministers won't flon ^ hw fcwl ^ j . ^ Tho hard we strive with might and main The Whigs to overthrow , ind lost dominion to regain—The ^ nisters wontgo ! i- sticks the stubborn limpet race Fast to the rocks , just so _ Do Ministers stick fast to place , And swear they will not go ! flre » ve asled them once , we ve asked them twice , .. ..
-ffc ' ve asked them thrice ; but no , Thev lausrh to scorn all good advice , ^ Su Swear they wiUnotgo ! sitanlev looks jaundiced with despair , " Peel black as any crow ; Snt what avails their patriot care ? The Ministers won't go ! ; E ' en Sibthorp ' s threats appal them not , Xor Sliaw ' s long phiz of woe ; -y like oaks , they brave our rattling shot ; And swear they will not go I
last week defeated , one and all , I thought they'd march : but to ! They stuck the faster for their fall , M & swore they would not go ! Tho' some of us cried " Shame , " and some Ejaculated "Oh ! " . indothersfrom surprise were-dnmb'Twas vain—they would not go ; * Tis my belief , ifSatan ' sself ( Their patron saint yon know ) Should sar , « Be off ! " from Inst of pelf , They' ^ sw . ^ e wo n'tgo !" TvKGS AXD PRIESTS .
Ah there's a curse has gone abroad-It withers half the worksof God ! It changes men to beasts : It bellows from the lowest hell It echoes but one damning knell—The curse of kings and priests . This is the curse that sears the earth , And hurries dessolation forth In all her dread array . In darkest mummeries enshrined , It prostrates the immortal mind , Till all its powers give way .
It narrow ? , freezes half the sotd—• Distracts the great harmonious whole "With Wind sectarian pride ; Pours one unmixed , unbroken flood Of piesious guiltless human blood Till earth ' s blest soil is dyed ! JI'Queen
I.\Tdltw&*
i . \ tDltW &*
Tie Chrono-T Hermalist; Or People's Medi...
Tie Chrono-T hermalist ; or People ' s Medicc Enquirer . March , 1850 . London : Charle Gilpin , 5 , Bishopsgate-street Without . Noiwithstaxdesg tiie great development i phvacal science which distinguishes the pre gentdar , it is universall y admitted that th art of medicine has not kept pace With th movement of progression . This retardmenl we are inclined to believe , may be trace . j * . ^ r _ -3-j ir _ ~ i ~;~ i . ~ l »«~_* . 4 . n ~
ias the majority of those belonging to a profession that , of all others , should be the most liberal and enlightened . As a class , medical men have always dreaded innovation , and , attached to theories which have no foundation in nature , they have hitherto attacked "with derision and obloquy every writer who has come forward with the laudable endeavour of exposing error , and offering views , whereby thai art might be improved .
Dr . Samuel Diclcson—the author of "Fallacies of the Faculty , " and who has just published the first number of a periodical , entitled the Chrono-Thermalist—forms a striking iDustration how far envy arid jealousy are raucorously cherished towards those who have the moral courage to lay bare the false and dangerous theories of an art , the advancement of which , as it has been justly said , bears no proportion to its antiquity . Dr . Dickson tells us—in language which indicates deep-injured feeling—that he has been treated as the overloaded ass treated the sood-natured man who
relieved it of a part of its burden '; "he has been , " he informs us , " kicked and calumniated , and belied—kicked by the asses he would have befriended . " Alluding to his former "work upon the errors of . the faculty , he goes onto remark , ** If his enemies think he is dead , they were never more , mistaken . He was only asleep ; and now he awakes , to agitate , agitate , agitate—to know" no rest till the eyes
of the public be opened to the infamy of a class of men , to whom—fearless alike of open face and secret fraud—their combined numbers , and their silent machinery of corruption and collusion—he now flings down the gauntlet of contempt and defiance . Creatures who traffic in the blood and sinews of a nationwho eat their dishonest bread at the expense of the sick , whose sufferings they prolong—who tarn one of the most noble and God-liVe arts
mto the basest and vilest of callings—the author ofthe Chrono-Thennal system has armed himself at all points , for the long aud sustained encounter ! " Such a defiance , and such terse , but severe allegations , may be rather startling to those unacquainted with the real state of medical practice . "We , however , must candidly avow , JJh Dickson has not been treated fairl y-TVe have carefully perused his work , and are disposed to believe that much , is required to place the profession in a more honourable position than what it now enjoys . The errors
¦ which prevail , and the deplorable ignorance mat crisis amongst the general herd of practitioners , have long disfigured It in the estimation of the intelligent portion of society . Th ere are many high-minded and enlightened men belonging to the medical professson who * knit the prevalence of great evils . Even so « r back as the time ofBoerhaave , the medical ? rt * as in so disgraceful a condition , that he baldl y declared , more of mankind were killed ° J medicine than cured b y it ; and in our
° * n day , the late Sir Antony Carlisle , ex-Pressed the same sentiment . Dr . Dickson has fearlessl y denounced and exposed its errors , in broad and unsparing language ; and we would nggest to the writers of medical reviews , that ^• ould be more fair and candid to meet the Wfforio-Thennalism n P other grounds than ttose of abuse and calumny , for " who , " acwrding to Milton , "every new truth put to W Tm ? ' m free and ° P ea encounter ?" 8 ? " not "ere enter upon any investigation regarding the theories of disease m-oiinmirled
° ? Ut . Dickson , but we should be doing ^ great injustice were we to withhold our 2 m of P * 3 * 86 te ihe talent which he evinces *«« t elucidating his dortrmes . The views ** ucb : he developsin regard to the predisiios-« ig causes pf Cholera , we deem highly correct * tttt concur with him freely > Hen he says , that ? 6 primary seat ofthe disease is to be found 111 the brain and nervous system . ' The treatment of this disease reflects great opprobrium % > a medical men in general ; and we are the ^ ore impressed wifch . the ' scienee of Dr . Dick-^ ST iews . by knowing , that in decided cases ^ Chbleray the most' beneficial results have r ^ by directinar attention to the
cerebro-PUiai EyStem ; one application of- a' sinipism a the « jnrse of the spme / Tve . have seen in ulan ? ono ^^ nce aTres ^ almost imme-Iwi ^ ° P ^ g * ° * this terrible malady , ^ ould be ell that the majority of the medijj 0 tj Pro , ion would thmk for themselves , and ^ t ^^ followdoctmeBpTegnantwiththe dical W ""^ 0 Qs ; andJ fatal consequences , ile' ^^' ^^ r aatelyfortheir patients , are ^^^¦ wthanth erubbishof the schrol , " of so ^^^ ae 8 ^ ves fully " the gratitude tfrort *}^ ha ing exposed ihe ^ numerous s and false theories propagated ; b y those l , j » T ? neinseIvestheiatle ofProfessb ™ .
» me ? , Dr Dicksondiffie - notMngelse , as Pjj ^ tTBformer , than denounced the iudfcs ""^ teuseof blooa-Teiting " ; andWe ^ suid
Tie Chrono-T Hermalist; Or People's Medi...
and devastating practice of low diet , in the treatment j pi :. dkease ] s .. in general s -he would have richly merited the highest praise . Truly has itieen said , V that move of mankind Juive perished by the lancet than by the sword " . Poor Byron fell a--victim to this dreadful practice ; it is , however , consolatory to know , that some intelligent practitioners participate liberally in those scientific views which Dr ., Dickson " has , with , so much moral courage , ' boldly proclaimed . Contemplating the medical profession in its present deplorable state , we Have no hesitation iu saying , that it is one vast system of quackery ; arid yet , we hear , that in the
present session of Parliament a bill is to be proposed , whereby , additional powers iriay be given to those bodies , which , constituted as they are , deserve no other character than that of huge antiquated monopolies . Still , we trust , the Legislature , debased as it is by its unprincipled conduct in resisting all political reform , will have some portion " of common sense left , as to reject at oncethis measure , and look upon it as a piece of bare-faced effrontery . The growing intelligence of the people will ultimatel y be the best means of . checking empiricism , whether it be confined to legal or illegal practitioners . Giving power to incorporated bodies that are in themselves the models of
rapacious avarice , and the types of error and ignorance , would only perpetuate those evils which have so long disgraced the profession . Monopolising laws will never make men either wise or honest . "We are no advocates for exclusiveness in any department of knowledge . We respect intelligence , combined with integrity , and are p leased to recognise it , whether the elements of science are acquired in a college or a garret . Convinced that Dr . Dickson is influenced by every generous impulse in the exposition which he has brought before the public , and that he is actuated by the best of motives—so as science and art may be rendered subservient and useful to Bis fellow creatures—we earnestly recommend his zealous animadversions to the notice of our readers .
The People's Review. Edited By Friends O...
The People's Review . Edited by Friends of " Order and Progress . "—London : C . Mitchell , Red Lion Court , Fleet Street . This publication has breathed its last . . In its dying words , complaint is made of the 'Northern Star" having " denounced articles , written by men not yet recovered from the wounds and fatigue of revolution , as reactionary papers . " Observe the mischief of men writing under a mask ; hut for this statement , we should not have imagined that the authors of
the articles alluded to had anything revolutionary about them . If the writers in this '' Review " did indeed take part in the struggles of 1848-49 , we must say , that judging them b y their own literary productions ^ we regret not their failure . Better is it that the present system should endure until the veritable revolutionists are strong enough to . establish their ascendancy , than that those who at present rule should be cashiered only to make way for the Friends of" Order and Progress . "
The failure of this publication is easily ac counted for . Its conductors , too liberal f or the " Friends of Order , " are too tame and indefinite for the " Friends of Progress . " Men who pride themselves on believing in the integr ty of tyrants , and on acting up to that belief , have . no vocation for editing a "People's Review . " The assertion that " beneficial changes are at the command of those w . ho
can reach the understanding of rulers , " is , as the Americans would say , all bosh . According to the editors ofthe " People's Review , " Nicholas , Metternich , Guizot , Thiers , Russell , Cabral , & c , are mere innocents , who do wrong only because they don ' t know better . Poor , dears ! "Wh y does not Bob . Thin start a " ragged school" for the instruction of these unfortunates ? The Lord save us from all
evilparticularly the nuisance of political sentimentalism . The articles in this number on " Progress , " " Amer ican Literature /' the " Factory Question / ' the " Polish Question / ' and " Democracy , " are all ably written ; but , with- one or two exceptions , are disfigured by blemishes we have before complained of . "We cannot regret the extinction of this " Review ; '' but if its editors will act on Burn ' s Advice to the Devil , —" tak a thought an' men' /' . we shall be happy to meet them again . Democracy cannot tolerate half-and-half partisans . A word to the wise is sufficient .
The Proyressionist. Published Weekly. Lo...
The Proyressionist . Published weekly . Lon-: don : Collins , 113 , Fleet-street . This periodical we have on several occasions recommended to our readers . In the number before us , there are several excellent' articles from the pen of the ' editor , and also from the able and fearless John Rymill , and other contributes . "We select the following ;—
OUR SOCIAL SYSTEM . In another place we have alluded to the ten hours bill , and from those remarks it will be seen , that we attach importance to the decision of the Legislature on this question . As there stated , we heartily wish success to the men who are seeking to establish the ten hours system on aproper and legitimate footing ; because that system recognises the right ofthe Legislature to interfere to protect labour from the tiger-like grasp of capital , —ar ight which we have constantly maintained in opposition to the views of the let-alone , free ^ trading school of political economists , —views which in our heart and conscience we loathe and abhor .
But because we wish success to the ten . hours movement , we wish not to be understood as holding the opinion , that bills of this description can effectually protect the industrious classes from the avarice and cupidity of the profitmongers . No . TVe hold that the bill in question is but a palliative of the evils incident to our social system , and not that it will destroy those evils " . We believe the evils under which our working millions groan are the necessary results of the . system itself—a system which divides the population into lords and serfs , into masters and slaves , and which must , as a matter of necessity , chain the latter to the selfish desires , whims , and caprices of the former . .,: < We have a landed aristocracy , renowned in history and experience for its hatred to popular right
and liberty , and its extreme jealdusy of the people s power . And this aristocracy , existing , as it pretends , by divine right . ' and under divine sanction , holds the land of the country locked up as though in a prison . Jfot one inch of ; soil can the industrious classes lay their hands on , without the special sanction and permission of this powerful class . If we cultivate that soil , it must be done chiefly for the profit and advantage of this same aristocracyi and those under them , who , for a share of the plunder ,-assist in rivetting our chains , and so prevent our escape from their deadly grasp . We are allowed ,- it is true , to eat just so much as will enable us to continue our horrible drudgery ; but beyond that , with some few exceptions , our wealth goes to glut the t hcall
avarice of the idle , and he pysiy , mentally , and morally worthless members of society ; and even a large portion of our own class they keep unwillingly idle , as a reserve upon which they can fall back with tolerable certainty , in case their slaves should become restive under their galling yoke , and so refuse to £ 0 through their menial occupation of working in . order that others may enjoy on just such terms as the slaveholders choose to offer . By these means they are enabled to go oh continuall y augmenting their own gains , and as continuall y to draw from the resources of the workers ? And if they dare but complain , they are pointed to numbers of their own class , who are kept idle . aiid whom they threaten to take in their places if they do hot accede to their brutal termsi And thus they make a portion of the oppressed the very means of perpetuating their own misery and the misery of their unfortunate brother workmen . - Hence : the want of union amongst the producers . Hence those
bitter dissensions that exist in the . ranks of the labourers themselves ; who behold- in ' the persons of their fellow labourers ( whose industry is brought into competition ' with their own ) their veriest enei mies ; and- well do the guilty oppressors « jf their species know the effect which their horrible ' systenv must ! produce j and-well do they , with the , nicest calculation , count on those burning : dissensions as the meansof perpetuating their ; hellish craft . ""* . " " And ; solong as the soil of the nation continnestb be the property - of -individuals ; sxr long must the landless continue ¦; toi'be the slaves ' jotithe landA owners ; because it isin the power of- thisfclass , ; by sufjeringtbelandTto lie 'waste ,. _ alway 3 -tokeep . a surplus of labourers in - the market ,. aod _ then , if those ] laWurtrsxbmpiain of their condition ; they are insultingly told , that at home there-is- ' noiroom fOT . tneiifrand } if . they ^ reinotacohtent ' j tebe : nnder- < the fostering care . of the flftrvergut philosophers bo
The Proyressionist. Published Weekly. Lo...
longmg . tp the rante . of theuvIdTo oppressors , they must ' betake ' themselves'to'Australia while there are 15 , 000 ; 000 ' acres of ; go 6 d j larid at home which ' has niever yet . been ip ^ tt under the ploug h or the spade , nor made available , fpr ; any ; purposes whatever of , cultivation .. .. If ; the surplus population , as it is insultingly and ^ blasphemously termed , had but the chance , they would speedil y alter this ; , thoy would turn the how barren wastes of our " country into smiling gardens of cheerfulness and-plenty ; they , . would , by their . labour , cause the deserts of our . country to ; bloom with , the Creator ' s luxurious ; vegetation . , But now , their arm s are palsied , ' their bodies stricken" with decay ; because under , the blasting -curse of-landlordism . ^ Destroy this power ,-and one-half the work is accomplished ; contmue it , and it will be impossible to enjoy social happiness , as it is impossible for the deadly Upas tree to be promotive of Health and life .
- To repeat the laws of primogeniture and entail is only to trifle with the question . It mi ght have the effect of throwing more land into the market , and thus give a , chance . to -wealthy , capitalists , to purchase ; but who does not see that this would , bo a conservation ofthe aristocratic principle ? That it would be merely substituting one aristocracy for another , and by no means a more humane or benevolent one than now exists . If we wish to make the soil really contribute to . the . welfare : of society , we must abolish individual ownership . entirely , and make the nation , through a . freely elected'legislature , the sole proprietor of its own natural inheritance . Unless this be done , we may repeal taxes , pass ten hours bills , and the like , but : there will never be any effectual protection to industry .
FBKNCH DBUOCRACTANDTHB ENGLISH BRESSGANO . The thousand and one Etnas of the pressgang , have been spitting forth their burning lava , their fiery hate , and smoky lies upon the sacred champions of-liberty . They have hurled the barbarous bolts of hatred ; they have applied the , engines of malice ; and they have used all the inventions of men and fiends to blacken , and blast , and damnify the men who have given up liberty , property , family , country ; and in many cases life itself , for the achievment . of their country ' s freedom . The infernal presseang . of England have rendered
themselves eternally infamous by their dastard . and damnable endeavours to cover the sacred names of continental patriots with shame , and overwhelm them with reproach . But their endevoiirs to traduce" the motives , blacken the characters , and blast the fair fame of ) our beloved patriot brethren will prove abortive .. The base and truculant crew of hireling scribblers , and mean mercenary thieves , who employ their time to wound the feelings , misrepresent the intentions , ' and damnify the character of honourable men , will find their services rewarded in the well merited
contempt of all honest men ; The base wretches of the . pressgang sek to throw back the glorious cause of freedom—social arid democratic—by traducing the character of the men . who spend their time in the advocacy of these principles . The -Times is daily venting its mean and paltry spleen against the brave democrats and socialists of Paris ; it represents in every issue of its filthy broad sheet , that j the socialists are . "drunkards , " "thieves , " "spoliators , " " seducers , " and " murderers , " and contends , that should socialism triumph , universal pillage , drunkenness , vice , and murder would be the order of the day . But the limes is an old liar . The democrats , and socialists of Paris arc not drunkards , seducers , and murderers : they are gentlemen , not of parliament progeny , . but of heaven ' s own making ; men of probity , truth arid courage .
They are not guilty of the horrible crimes imputed to them ; and the . Times ' . correspondent knows as well as we , that . such . is not the case . livery christian man is bound to curse these fiendish men of the press with heart hatred . They are infamous and measureless liars ; and they merit the derision of all honest men . They should be scouted from society , spurned from the threshold ot every home , aud generally avoidedas a plague or a pestilence . They have cast their nets in hell ; fished for falsehood ; arid circumvolved the world" for lies , with which to assail and assassinate the bravest and the noblest men that ever took human flesh : But the pressgang has signally failed . The elections of Carnot , Tidal , and De Flotte , in the recent contest at Paris , prove most completely , that social democracy is stronger than ever .
The heavens put on blackness ; the rumbling of the distant thunders may be distinctly heard ; tbe lightnings will soon career across the sky ; the revolution is at hand ; it can be delayed but a little longer ; it will speedily be ushered ' in ; ' and then will the veritable democratic and social republic be proclaimed ! If this triumph be not achieved before the general election of 1352 , most assuredly it will be achieved then . We fervently hope that Frenchmen may be able to secure their social rights by the exercise of their political rights . Most sincerely do we hope that they may never have to draw the sword in defence of freedom any more . But if the plotting tyrants who now rule France succeed in destroying the republic , and wresting universal suffrage from the people , then we say it is the duty of the people to resist their tyrants by the force of arms , and may God defend the ri g ht .
Englishmen I . - . as you value your country—as you love your wives and little ones—as you value truth , honesty , and freedom , I call upon you to prove your devotion by your faith , your earnestness , yonr sacrifices , and your works ; Push onward the ark of Truth—man the shi p of Freedom—forsake her not in storm or in tempest—and depend upon it you will have the satisfaction of seeing her enter the haven in triumph , and into the port of happiness and peace . John Htmill . -
Wnmit &Mu$?Imm$
WnMit & mu $ ? imm $
, Royal Polytechnic Institution.. Sir He...
, ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . . Sir Henry R . Bishop has commenced his second series of admirable lectures on music , at this Institution . The lectures are extremely simple and instructive , which make , them so valuable to an establishment of this ' kind , where all science must be in a popular form . Several . airs from the Miller and h '< s
men , ' and other compositions of the lecturer , were executed by the vocalist / and accompanied on the pianoforte by Sir Henry . All the illustrations were executed admirably , and called forth repeated p laudits from the audience , who appeared to realish this musical treat , provided by the Directors , most highly . The chemical lecture by Mr . Pepper is , at present ,: on the different methods proposed to be used in conveying pyrotechnic and other signals to the expedition of- Sir -John Franklin in the Artie Regions ;
The Taxes On Knowledge. The Result Of Th...
THE TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE . The result of the division was sadly against the friends of knowledge , and the fact of 190 members being found to vote for a continuance of these scandalous taxes prove pretty , . conclusively the state of bur House of Commons . Among the friends of . the " Taxes on Knowledge" arid the lovers of dear newspapers appear the ^ nanies of- Peel , father and son , the junior Peel proving himself , on every occasion , the exact counterpart and imitator of his respected father . Really people hoped better . things-from " the Tamwo rth conjurer , " who however , of late ; seems determined to show that there is little difference between him and the premier ; The Perfites are i every day " becoming small by degrees and ¦ beautifully less , " and no wonder , for their leader refuses to initiate any
bold : and reforming line of policy which might have the effect of enlisting the sympathies of the people on his side . Between Peel and Russell there is riot much to choose , the chief-difference being that the former is less obstinate and more acute than his Whig rival ; bufas for politics , - Peel has shown himself quite as conservative and quite as opposed to the reasonable demands of the people . One can scarcely wonder that his followers diminish day by day , and that the Peelite party' bids fair to become the roost insignificant in the house . ; His attorney-general , Thesiger , has long become tired of waiting upon Sir Robert , and Smythe , the memberfor Canterbury and the writer of some clever , but unintelligible , articles in the ! Morning ChronieU , is often found at issue with be
his old leader . But , however surprised' one may to find Peet supporting the government in their maintenance of . the ; Taxes on Knowledge ; nobody can be atallastonishedtpfind . thenameofiWalter . the proprietor of the . Times , on the same side .. Walter naturally treriibies for the monopoly of the Times , which would , doubUess' / be endangered by the ' removal of the newspaper stamp and' advertisement "duties . 'It is all very well for * ' the leading : journal' ? ^; to declare that it would probablybe a gainer , by the removal of these taxes ., . Everybody knows that tte . Times trembles at the idea of the competition to which it would be ' exposed from'the niorerecently established , but more liberal , hewspapersi ' Of course ; the benefit of theabolition ofthese taxes would be chiefly feltby those journals which are most inaccordancewith the vJpwsmnil nrincinles'of the ereat massiof the people ,
and it is-notorious that the great mass , of the people heartily detest' the '; : fls »« . Walter , notwithstanding the . professioria made in- the leading ' columnsJ of his journal , takes good care to vote for the maintenance tf ' these taxes * " : 'Fh & penny stamp and the advertisement ; system ., answer / very well at Prinling-: housesquare , and a change mightfvery possibly alter things for . the worse / while it could hardly improve them : This is the mode' in which the ' operktion' of these taxes is viewed oyHhe " proprietors of old-established papers generally . Theyiare y . ery comfortably off now , and do very -well j . with things . as . they are , and / like the rich £ eer ' who could . not bear tne idea of death r beCause he felt persuaded ; that . he-should'never be so fceU ; 6 ffinywKereWe '' astih thisi world , 'theyhave ^ aB instinctive dread ofraayrohange , which : canuot'improve , 'hutmayt . diateribratelitlieir ; p () siUQU . 7 rC ' < ^ ; f ^ Wjr , <^ ffi < A " nwn ^« Jftrcji ^ . r < . ' ¦ ¦ <¦ . ' ' ¦> >' < ¦ ¦ "'>
The Taxes On Knowledge. The Result Of Th...
yy { AATI 01 SAL PvEFORM ¦ LEAGUE . ^ ; .. / . ;¦ 'Mr . O'Brien , the presidenrof'this association , held his usual weekly meeting , at ; We John-street Institution , on Friday , evening last .:. In the course of his address , he drew attention to the cheering fact that , according to the" Irishman—a copy of which excellent paper he . held / in his hand-a large open-air demonstration had recently taken place at Kilkenny , at which the broadest democracy had been advocated , as well as theddctrine that the land was ; tlurpeoplo ' s— '' from 'deepest earth to highest heaven ; . and that the people should prepare themi selves to hold it .- ; Mr . O'Brien , after saying that this was the most advanced move ever yet . made : in Ireland ,.. went into a histbrv of the various fruitless
agitations which O'Connell had fostered , particularly his ^ plan of tenant-ri ght ; and showed that oven the boasted Emanci pation Bill had made the mass of the people ; less free than they were before : He then showed that , ; although the clergy were always the inveterate enemies of everything having a democratic tendency , yet that Atheism could do nothing for the people . It was true Christianity that , we waiitedi T-riot such Christianity as the Pope ; for hadthat man believed in the real doctrines ^ of Christ ,, - he would , never have allowed French and Austrian butchers to murder , his people in order that he might preserve his domination at Rome . Whatever-such a man professed , he was practically ; an . Atheist . Mr . 'O'Brien then referred
to the approaching Conference , of delegates to the Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association , and to the proposed deputation from the . National Charter Association and the Reform League to that body , to test the good faith of tho Financial' Reformers towards tho working classes . If that body were in earnest in desiring a union between the middle arid working classes , they w , ould so arran ge matters that , at the , next general : election , the working classes should have tho power of electing and sending from ' twenty-five-to thirty men of their , own . choice / i . to represent - their ^ interests in Parliament .: Mr . O'Brien then called upon the meeting to approve of that plan ^ by show , of . hands , which i was responded to in the most unanimous
manner . _ : ¦< ~ - > ; Mr . : Stai . lwood then addressed the meeting on the subject of tho Conference ,: and showed , in reply to an objection which had been raised , that the property qualification .. difficulty had been often very easily surmounted . ' ' . ' .. . '"' At this meeting- ^ pfevious to Mr . O'Brien ' s lecture—the second quarter ' s Report of the Council of the National Reform League was ( read to the members present . It began by recording several circumstances of a congratulatory nature / in relation to its progress ; and s ' tated ,-that the council had no apprehension as to _ the ultimate , popularity of its princip les and ob j ects , ! although its' numerical strength had not yet' reached a very large number . One cause of their deficiency of numbers mii ? ht"he
found in the' co-existence of numerous other reform bodies—all professing different objects arid -views , and thereby tending to confuse the , minds of , the people-i-especiall y when they saw that the leaders of those different parties had arrived at no unity of opinion as to what positive reforms were required , that ; would be worth struggling for , and-how they could-be best accomplished . This want of union among the popular leaders of the . day . was much to be lamented , and it ( ' eriabled the , enemies of the . people to deride their agitation , because they knew that while divisions existed in the popular camp , the unprivileged and unenfranchised classes could never gain either their , pollticalpower . or social influence . ' The report recorded the . late , missionary , tour of the president , and stated that branches of the . League
had , been formed at Glasgow ; Edinburgh / and Sheffield . " It also alluded to 'the series of resolutions which hadbeenpassed : atarcrowded meeting of the National Regeneration Society , held recentl y in the Leicester-square Institution , on the motion of the president . These resolutions had been cordially inserted in their papers by the editors of the Northern Star and the' Tribune , but had remained unnoticed by ^ several of the cheap stamped papers to which ; they had been sent—showing the little sympathy they . had with tho people ' s cause . A few evidences of the recognition of the principles ofthe League which had recently appeared in print were noticed . A recent correspondent in the Leader had forcibly argued against private property in land ; and had put forward the sound axiom , that
" each man has a right to require that those conditions of existence , under which . God originally , placed man on the earth , shall be preserved substantially in all the stages of human progress , " which may be considered a parallel to one of the fundamental principles of the League . A letter of Mr . Hugh Doherty , in the New York Tribune ,. was also noticed , complaining that the French Socialist leaders did not grapple with the question of land monopoly ; and at the same time advocating the principle of legislative revolution , with regard to abstract laws of common r ' ght , and non-interfence , with regard to the habits and customs of the people .
The report concluded by deprecating the apathy , indifference , and luke-warmness which the majority of the working classes— especially ot London — exhibited towards all movements for political or social reform , proving the deep degradation which a long course of political and social slavery had engendered , and which had induced them to believe that they had nothing whatever "to do with such questions , and that it did riot concern them who made the lavs , or what were the principles upon which they were governed as men and citizens . But that lamentable fact would not be allowed to drive the members of the National Reform League to the conclusion which most of the followers of
the ' ? dismal science of political economy have arrived at , . and which has led them to assert that extrerrie poverty must : always accompany a high state of civilisation , and that it is a natural and . unalterable ordination for the great body of the people to be the passive instruments of the privileged and civilised classes .. ' All members ofthe Leaguowould emphatically deny the truth of a philosophy so unchristian and so unphilanthropic , and would do all they could , however little , to disabuse theirbellows of any such belief . And , in . so doing , they would
not only be performing their duty towards others , but to themselves ; because . while the present laws upon land and money are maintained ; and while the corrupting and dangerous power of huge armies of soldiery and police is heedlessly conferred upon governments , no real approach could bo made towards the realisation of that glorious trinity of aspirations—Liberty , Equality , and Fraternity—which is how floating before the mental vision of a large portion of the family of man , giving them faith and courage to pursue their arduous struggles against error , despotism , and oppression .,
British College Of Health, New Road, , L...
BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH , New Road , , London . ARSENIC IN CnOLEKAnVoH ! OH ! Oil ! Fellow-Couotbymen . —What to elo f think of this ? Arsenic in cholera ! Oh ! Oh ! Well , if ' ydri will take the trouble oflooking into the JlfttKwt :, rimes ,, you will find printed in . large letters , 'Case of Asiatic Cholera , successfully treated wnri AiisENic . ' , A' doctor positively' advising arsenic in cholera—the case'is also reported at length in the 89 th number of the Hi / f / eist , to be luid at the office , 308 , Strand , price Id . or 2 d .. hy post . Well , can you be surprised , my friendsl'that we should have so niany cases of felonious poisoniiig throughout the , country by arsenic t . What is the real . difference between the prisoner and the doctor ? Why , ' that in one case , the party , when he dies , is said to . have been murdered by arsenic , and in theother , to'have died of some disease or . other . Let tilings ,
we say , be called by their proper names . The doctors have made the public so familiar with poisons , that tho lower classes think . there is : no harm , taking a lessen from the . ' Guinea trade gentlemen •/ and , for our own part , we do not see any real difference between the . felonious prisoner ' and the doctor—the only difference is , that the doctor , in some cases , gives the poisnu in such doses as not to kill , though in many he does ' kill , hut then don't you ' see it is called 'death or disease ' andnot > ¦* murder ' - ' .:. : ¦'¦ ¦ ¦ :- .. Now , fellow countrymen , can you be surprised , that wha was called cholera , last yiar , should have been so fatal , whilst . such poisons were given for its cure ? Arsenic , opium , & c . • ; That this doctor ' s advice was generally takeu about arsenic in cholera , we will not say , but it was published in the columns of a widely circulated medical paper , and answered the purpose intended mightily—viz ., of i pao-OLAIMIMO DEADLY POISONS As ' CURES FOR CUoLEItA—Oh , oil . What a pity that the aqua tofana is unknown . to
doctorsthey might just give a little of it to some unfortunate patient , and then publish to the world with trumpet : tongue , ' that the acqua tofana was an excellent remedy for some disease or other , ' and the poor ignorant and confiding public would swallow all , We should then see ' aqua ofana g marked on fine bottles in the chemists' and drug gists' shops ot tliis fair island . ' let the people arise from their lethargy ! . - ... * ; The member * of the British College of Health , therefore call for the total prohibition of the folloiviiig deadly poisons as medicines : — - : - ' ' ¦ - " ¦¦ ¦ - - 1 . Arsenic in all ' its forms , i . '• . ' -. ¦ .- -, . / - .. i 2 . Prusic Acid . in all its forms . 3 . Opiinri ih all Its forms . ; * ' ' ¦ ¦ ; i . llerciiry'la all its forms , i 5 . Nux Vomica in all its forms . . . The different ' metals in sill their chemical eombina-Joni , ; which , being ¦ wholly ihdigGstible do not , and eT « r can ; assimulate witW flesh arid blood .
Return Of A Siberian Jbxiee.—The Little ...
Return of a Siberian jBxiee . —The little town of -Montastrucj- near Toulouse , has recentl y been signalised- by an event . , . An old soldier named Dames has rc appeared Tthere after ' an' absence * of forty-Wb years ; 'The ' folio Wing is a brief sketch of his'history , which we aresorry wecanriot give inall its details ;—Dames entered the service in 1808 , and in 1812 took part . in theltussian campaign , in which he had the miBfortune to : be mitde a prisoner . His family MU ' receTveil iio ' tiuiiigs of him from that
time ,: and every , one believed him dead , when he suddenly presented himself to the-astonishment of those ; of : the inhabitants / of-Montastruo who : remembered him . i This ipiemorablerelio . of the ; Imperial ; armies , who has been thirty years irijSiberiaVwheiice he hasretuvneil ^ by ' . br . dertf tW Emporer , is said to have : Amassed a considerable 'fortune- ( iurinVhis captivity . ^ C 6 niiiidtionriil . lf ! . i ' * H--: ' ti ? .: y . ; J : ; d .-j GABMKNi > wiiHonT ^ A ; SBAiK ~ A wearer iuj . Man' chosterihasinvonted a jnuchine , by . which ; itrousers or evenicoatsimjvy . bp ^ oyenJBomplete lli . one pieq & l rtquir ^ g ^ pt ^ ou ^ ^ ae ^
Vmjtmw
VMJtmw
^ Ankcbotes Or &Ib .Isaac Newton. — Some...
^ Ankcbotes or & ib . Isaac Newton . — Some of thesestories may be-true , drid ' sbme may be-bhlv Joe Millers . Such as tbatrwherein the philosopher lost in the stars while sitting'by his English fire-side and becoming extremely uncomfortable , rings the bell and says hastily , " JohnVJubn , take away the fireplace ! " And again , that history ofthe visit by Dr . Stukeley , the antiquarian , wKo being hungry , picked the bo ' nes of a fowl and . put them under a cover , and then waited till Newton camedo-wn stairs , and took of f the cover , saying , "Oh dear , I thought I had not dined , but I see I have ! " Entering immediately into conversation with his friend— -too" intent on science to be subject to the cravings of nature , ex-:
cept as a form ! I will not make- oath that either ofthese anecdotes are true , though it iu related—if I remember it aright—that good ! hoaest Stukeley declared that his adventure was " a fact ! " More strange and notable than either of these stories , however—if true—is that of Newton and a certain fair lady . There was one , it seems ,- who , had tender thoughts towards him ; but , alas for the lady , they were not reciprocated in the breast of the ' philosopher ! He never thought about the sex—be could not get time to . think about them-inveterate bachelor as he was to the day of his death . And sitting in his night-gown in his chamber—some s ' ayi often with but one leg in his inexpressibles -even till afterneon—calculating , unable to resist the sudden mathematical thought that would dart through his mind as
soon as he awoke- ^ -who would not pity the-fair one that might have happened to become his wife ? Yet this lady had some such thoughts , until , one day being Mt alone with him while he was smoking his pipe—so runs the record—Newton became abstracted : forgot all about the lady : shot up among the comets : the lady si ghed , and—mechanically , let fall her lily hand on the philosophers ^ knee ! Behold , the philosopher took it up—and , still amon , » the cornets ; _ in spirit—mechanicall y made use of the lady ' s little finger as a tobacco stopper . —Thomas Cooper , ;¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦¦¦ Ladies don ' t know whether they like smoking or not ; with special favourites , " they like it ; " with general favourites , " they don ' t dislike it ; " and , with no'favourites , "they detest it "
During thb recent fire at Limehouse church , a burial took place in " tile grounds ; and' after its destruction a marriage took place in the vestry . The bride climbed over the ruins to confirmher hopes . .. A'Man ver y much intoxicated was sent to prison . "Why don ' t you bail him cut ? " inquired a bystander of his friend . " Bale him out ! " exclaimed the other , " you couldn ' t pump him out !" Thb Skptenmal Act . —Dr . Johnson , one of the riiost furious of Tories , in his life of Addison ,
alluding to the royal prerogative of creating peers to make a majority , says , " it was an act of authority violent enough ; yet certainly legal , arid by no , means to be compared with that coNTEMPr op national kigut with which , some time afterwards , by- ' the instigation of Whiggism , the Commons , chosen by the people for three . years , chose themselves tor seven !*' ¦'¦ . The American ambas ? idor , on returning thanks for his health at the Mansion-house , on Easter ' Monday said , that > ' . ' When the loyal cup went round , he drank for 22 , 009 , 000 of his countrymen . "
; Grenadiers . —Frederick William , King of Prussia , ' had a pet regiment of giants , many of whoin he actuall y bought up at fancy prices . Nothing gladdened his eyes like a man six or eight feet in height . One day he met a peasant' girl ' seven feet good in height . Having called , her to him , he gave her a letter to the . colonel of his Brobdignag grenadiers , eontairiing . positive Orders to have the bearer ^ instantly married to the tallest man in theregiment . The girl did not know , the king , . who had appeared like an everyday " private" : gentleman : but she was somewhat suspicious . ' ' So she gave , the letter to a little old woman , ugly enough to make a horse break his bridle . Judge of the astonishment of the colonel wheiiheread the king ' s letter , and looked on the shrivelled and crooked form of the bearer ! Judge , too , of the feelings . of- the nolens volens bridegn > om ! The girl found out the trick which had nearly been played upon her , and congratulated herself on her
escape , . Uukiosity in Knowledge . —Nothing wraps a man in such a mist of errors , as his curiosity in searching into things which are beyond him . How happily do they live , who kn 6 w but what is . necessary I . Our knowledge does but show our ignorance . Ourmost studious researches , are . buta discovery of whatwe cannot know . We see the effect , but we cannot guess at the cause . Learning is like a river , whose head being far in the laud , isatitsfirit rise , small and easily viewed ; but still as you proceed , it gapes with a , wider bank ; , not without pleasant and
delightful windings ; while it is on both sides , set with trees , and the beauties of various flowers ; but still , the farther you follow it , the deeper and broader it is ; till at last it empties itself into the . unfathomable ocean ¦ there you see more wiifer , ' but no more shore , ' no eridof that fluid expanse— -Owen Fcllthwn . A professor of Hebrew at Oxford , iu the course of his lecture . ^ made frequent mention of radical words , ' After it was oYrrtW of the bedmakers , who were among the auditors , were talking together , when brie said to the other— "I say . Jack , how he touched up the Radicals—didn ' t he ?"
Grocers and others who sell marmalade are in the habit of stating , as an additional recommendation of'the commodity , that it is an excellent substitute , for butter . An old woman purchased some , believing it to possess all the proprieties of butter . Some time afterwards she called on the dealer , and said she had been imposed on , " as it was nae substitute for butter at , a , " for she had tried to fry fish in ' t , and they were burned to a cinder . " \" -., j ; Upon the door of a house near Bridgwater ,
occupied by father and son , the former a blacksmith , and publican , the latter a barber , is a board with the following inscription : — ''Barnes and Son , blacksmith arid barber ' s work done here ; horse shoeing and shaving , locks mended , hare curling , bleeding , teeth drawing , and- all other furriery wqrkL : All sorts of spirital lickers according to the late , comical treaty . Take notis my wife keeps skool and lays fokes as ushuall , teaches reding and writing , and other Ian watches ,, and has sistants if required to teach horitory , sowing ,, the mathewmatics , ' and other fashionable diversions . "
An Old Legrhd with a Nb-w Tail , — In her Memoir of an Hungarian Lady ' , Theresa Pulsky tells the following story , tipped with a political sting : — "A miller at Branyisko ( a steep mountain path , when his mill had stopped , being overwhelmed with sorrow at the prospect ef starvation for his wife and children , plunged into the forest . There he met a fine gentleman , with a cloven foot , a red cloak ; and a Click ' s feather in his hat , who promised to get him ; water for the mill if he gave up an object : he possessed without knowing it .- The miller ( it is not doubted ) recognised the gentleman ; but , need proving more powerful than conscience , he acquiesced in the proposition , ' and hastened home . There he found ithe mill in full activity ; and bk
mother-in-law met him joyfully , with the news that his wife had happily borne him a son . The poor man was struck dead on the spot with horror . The fine gentleman soon came , and carried the baby away under his red cloak . For a long , Jong time ) the little one ' s mother heard hothinz about him , and mourned for him : till at last the tidings reached her , that her son , owing to his eminent education , had grown a doctor of laws , and a mighty grand gentleman , Minister of the interior at Vienna ! " . I , / A " . dandy black" stepped into a provision shop in'Boston recently to buy some potatoes ; before purchasing he yave'the following truly eloquent description of its nature : — " De tater is inevitably bad or inevitably good . Dere is no me'liocrity in the combination-otdetater . De exterior : may , indeed , appear remarkably exemplary and butisome , whi ' e the interior is totally negative : but , sir , if you wends the article ? pori . your own , recomwendations ,.
knowing you to be a man of probity in all your ; translations , why ; sir , without further circumlacutions , I take aibushel . " . ; ' . A medical man was employed by a labourer to attend ! his wife during her illness . The doctor hinted ( according to his custom of such good folks ) his fear of not being ultimately rehiuneratid for his trouble . A ' -i'veXS , " said the poor fellow , " and if you . kill or cure , you shall have 'em . " The poor woman died under the doctor ' s hands ( it may be . charitable to add that she would ' have done so without his help ) , arid after a reasonable time had elapsed , Bolus called for his £ 5 . The man put the following questions to n m ;_ " Did yoa Mil ray wife , ? ' 4 "No ! " was the reply .: " Did . you cure her ? " "No ! " again . "Then , " said the disconsolate , " you have no legal demand . " . 1 A wiUTRii in ¦ Notes . and Qutries gives the following " wicked but witty" epigranvby La-Morinoye : — i" The world of fools has such a store , ¦
• That he who would not see an ass Miist bide at hbirie and bolt his door ' , ' And breakhis lo 6 king ,-glass . " A Yankee contemporary sa ^ s , — "When we see a neat , pretty girl , with a free briHnriocent air—with cheeks like roses , and heavenly , ; -blue eyes , which seem to repose . in serenity . . beneath their silken lashes—we alwaj swish > hb was near a mud-puddlej arid we had to lift her over ; ' > - ' ' : Patience . —The most striking picture of patience WB :. remember ' to' have ' seen is that of theapple women at the corners of some of the large-thoroughfares . Their whole'stock-in-trade rarely exceeds a
dozenapplos , afew sticks of candy ; and perhaps a half-peck ' . ' of . chestnuts . '< There they sit , ; generally smbkirig ' pipe ; while they watch their little store , waitirigfor a penny customer . Probably ' the' whole oVssale rarely exceed two fch & ings , and ; hardly half of this can be profit , ¦ Yet they sever ' appear restless : they are at their'post . rnirio ^ shlDe / early audiIateV hever showing the leastsigtts of impatieflce , bufappareritly enjoying a philosophical 1 rumination amidithe rank swell oXtoliaccjLanitt j elumes of the p } pe . K ' Patjenceon a . ^ SWfflfateOTSfe ' m at : Wi ^ slta ^ o « 1 rm Wf ^| r ^ iml «
: Bf Manki»I≫ Are Hahle To Onj-Aiseasa More Tnan Another,
: Bf Manki » i > are Hahle to onj-aiseasa more tnan another ,
Ad00319
ova tuere . nre any particular aneeuons numan body we- Bequire ' to hwre a knowledge of-over the rest , it is c « rtainly that class of disorders treated of iu the new andim provsd edition of the '' Silent Friend . " The authors , la thui sending forth ts the world another edition of . their medieal work , cannot refrain from expressing their grati « ficatfoi * at the continual success attending their efforts , which , combined with the assistance of medicines , isclu . sively ef their own preparation , have been thehappy cause of miti gating and averting the mental and physisalmiserie * attendant on those peculiar disorders ; thus proving the fact , that
Ad00320
HEALTH WIIEliE 'TIS SOUGHT ! HO L L O W A Y ; S PILLS . Cure of a Disordered Liver and Stomach , ' ... . ¦ xvhen in a most hopeless state . Extract of a Letter from Mr . Matthew Harvey , of Chapel Hall , Airdric , Scotland , dated the 15 th of January , 1850 . Sib , —Your valuable pills have been the menus , with God ' s blessing , of restoring me to a state of perfect health , and at a time * when I thought I was on the ln-ink ofthe grave . I had consulted several eminent doctors , who , after doing what they could for me , stated that they considered my case as hopeless . I ought to say that I had been suffering from a liver and stomach complaint of Ions standing , which during the last two years got so much worse , that every one considered my condition as hopeless . I , as a last resource , got a box of yourpills , wliich soon gave relief , and by persevering iu their use for some weeks , together with rubbing night and morning your Ointment over my chest and stomach , and right side , I have by their means alone got completely cured , and to the astonishment of myself and everybody who knows me . —( Signed ) Matthew Hartet . —To Frofessor Hoi . i . owat , Cure of a Case of Weakness and Debility , of Four - - Fears' Standing . .
, Lately I Sniali Tortoise Was Rdniittdd...
, Lately i sniali tortoise was rdniittdd tnfou ^ h tho ppst-6 ffice to'London ,, ) ast as . oaptuvevl ,: fiave , th » t- " ft small . label '? w'tis ' past ' ed on-itf ' . ?> v ' - ^ - - ¦ ' " ' ^ 'l ^¦ " ¦/ : )
-
-
Citation
-
Northern Star (1837-1852), April 27, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_27041850/page/3/
-