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ABERNETHY'S PILE OINTMENT.
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A "LORD" AND HIS DUPES—EXTRAORDINARY DOIKGS OF A JEREMY DIDDLER.
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THE POOR COLONY OP OSTWALD. NEAR STRASBU...
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Sleep.—The Poet Young s:iys, " Sleep is great Nature's
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_"ITTflAT » _palBfal and _nvxions Disease is the FILES W and comparatively how few of tho afflicted ban l _^ _en permanently cured by ordinary appeals to _insdica jjall This , no doubt , arises from tlie us .- of powerfu aw _^ cnts too frequently administered by the profession indeed , * trong internal medicine should _alwajs b > _. _roided in an cases of this complaint . The Proprietor o the above Ointment , after years of acute suffering , plaeei limself under the treatment af that eminent surgeon , Mr _AbsrnelliJ , — * n _*» s by 1 ** m restored to perfect health , ant has enjayed it ever since without the slightest return ol the disorder , over a period of fifteen years , during _wliiil time the same Abernethian prescription has been th «
means of hesliuj ; a . vast number of desperate cases , both in and out Of tbe _lrroprietor ' s circle of friends , most oi which cases B 3 d Been under medical care , and some oi Sao fin- a considerable te ABERNKTIIY'S PILE OINTMENT was introduced to the public by the desire oi manv _whohadtK-en perfectly healed by its application ; „ _d ' since its introduction the frma of this Ointment has spread far and wide ; even the Medical Profession , always slow and uuwulmg t _, acknowledge the _-rirtnesof any medicine not prepared by themselves , do _^ _freS _andfranklyadmittbatABERNETHY . _SriLB OINTMENT is not only a Taluable preparation , but a _oever-failmgremedy in every s tage and variety of that appalling malady . _„„ . _„„„„ _ __ , _ , the trial
Sufferers will not repent giving OINTMENT a . -Mnltitudenof cases of its efficacy might be produecd , ii tiie nature of the complaint did not render those who bare been cured unwilling to publish their names . Sold in covered pots at 4 s . 6 d . with full directions for use , by C . King { agent to tlie Proprietor ; , 40 , A ' apier-Street Hoxton , New Town , London , where also ean bo procured every patent medicine of _rtpute , direct from the _original makers , with an allowance in taking six at a -time . * * * Be sure to ask for " Abernethy ' s Pile Ointment . " THE PUBLIC ARE REQUESTED TO BE OX THEllt ¦ GUARD AGAINST NOXIOUS COMPOSITIONS AT LOW PRICES , and to observe the name of C . King on the Governmeut stamp affixed to each pot , 4 s . 6 d ., which is the lowest pric « the proprietor is enabled to sell it at , _orrio'to the great expense _« f the ingredients .
' "Abernetliv _' s Pile Ointment , "" Paul's Corn Plaster , " aud " _Aberneihy ' s Pile Powders , " are sold by the following Agents : —Barclay ami Sons , S ' _sirringdon-strt'et ; Edwards , 67 , St . Paul ' s Church-yard ; Butler , 4 , _Cheapcde ; JSewbery , St . Paul ' s ; Sutton , Bow Church-yard ; Johnston , 1 C , _Greek-strevt , Soho , - and < J 8 , CornLiU ; Sanger , 150 ; Oxford-street ; Willoughby aud Co ., 61 , _Bishopsgate-street Without ; 0 w « n _, 52 , _Marchmoiltstreet , Burton-crescent ; Eade , 39 , Gos well-street ; Prout , S 29 , Strand ; Hannay and Co ., C 3 , Oxford-street ; Hunter And James . Webber-row ; and Retail by all respectable Chemists and Medicine Tenders in L-ndon .
CORNS AND BUNIONS . PAUL'S EVERT MAN'S FRIEND . Patronised by the Royal Family , Nobility , _& c . PAUL'S EVERY MAN'S FRIEND is a sure and speedy cure for those severe annoyances without the least pain or inconvenience . Unlike all other remedies for Corns , its operation is sucii as to render the euttiug of Corn * altogether unnecessary ( indeed , we may say , that tbe practice of cutting Corns is at oil times highly dangerous , and has been frequently _attenuua with lamentable consequvnees , besides its liability to increase their growth ) . It adheres with the most gentle pressure , producing an instantand delightful relief from torture ; and , with perseverance in its application , entirely eradicates the most in verate Corns and Bunions .
Testimonials have been received from upwards of one hundred Physicians and _Surgeons of the _greatest eminence , as well as from many officers of both Army and KaTy , and nearly one thousand private letters from the gentry in town and country , speaking in high terms of this Taluable remedy . Prepared _byJobn Fox , in boxes at Is . lid , or tliree email boxes in one , for 2 s . 9 d . ; and to be had , with fuH directions for use . of C . King , 40 , Napier-street , Hoxton , * Ksw Town , London ; and all wholesale and retail Medicine-vendors iu Town and Country . The Genuine bas ths name of John Fox on the Government Stamp . A 2 s . 9 d . box cures the most obdurate Corur . Ask for "Paul ' s Every Man ' s Friend . "
_Coosrst _AcEjrxs _: — "Baiiies and "Sewsome ; Mr - Buck ton , Times Office ; Ueaton , Smeeton , Hall , Rein , hardt and Sons , J . C . Browne , 48 , Briggate , Thornton , 35 , Boar Lane , Beaton , Garland , Mann , Bean , Harvey , _Haigh , late Tarbotton , _BoIIaud and Kemplay , Land Uoxon , G . Hay , 10 G , Briggate , Rhodes , B 11 ami Brooke , Lard , R . C . Hay , _Medical Hall , Leeds : Cooper , Xvy , and Fisher , Bradford ; Hartley , Berry , Suter , _Leylaud , Halifax ; Smith , E land , Hursf , Cardwell , Gell , _Sraith-ITakefield ; Pybus , Barnsle y ; _Knowles , Thome , Brooke , and Sptrey , Huddersfield , Hudson , _Keighley ; Loft , house . Rcinhardt ( late Carlton ) . Kirton , Alcock , _Baynes-Barrell , Bell , Burton , Heal ? y . _Melsoa , Freeman , Picker ' ing . Garton , Williamson , Chapman , Hammond , _Wallis , Walker , Broomhead , Noble , Forster , Hardman , Stephenson , Weir , Ryder , and Rarker , Hull ; Pipes , K _^ niugham , Johnson , _Earle , Cornwall , Robinson ,
Brig ! : ara , Beverley ; Brookes , Duneaster ; Matthews , Crtascr . Driffield ; Cars , Go »! e ; Milner , Pickering ; Ste-? enson , Whitby ; Bolton , _Maushard , and Co ., Har _/ rove , Tisber , Otlcy , Linney , _lork ; Marston , _Brigg ; Hurst , Robson , Armitage , Ingoldhy , _Longbottom _, Louth ; Wainwrigbt , Howden ; Rayner , Smith , _Burlington ; florsby , _TFrangoam , Jefferson , _Malton ; Rhodes , Snaith ; Ciiamp-Jey , Bromhead . Ireland , Buckall , Scarborough ; Smith , Furby . Bridlington ; Adsms , C . / lion , Pullen , Sflby _' Ombler , Market Weighton ; Fleck , Marsh , Roihsrhara ; Hatterdey , Ball , Officer , Barton : Brown , Gainsborough ; Gledhill , OKDelph ; Priestlay , Fox , Pontrefact ; Dalby , _Wstlivrhy ; Slater , Bedalej Dixon , Northallerton ; Ward , ¦ Richmond ; Ward , Stokesley ; Foggit aud Thompson , Thirsk ; Monkhonse , Barnard Castle ; Pease , Darling-On ; Jcnnett , Stockton ; and by all respectable Ciiemists and Medicine Tenders in every Market Town in England . Wholesale Agents—Messrs . Bolton , Blanshard _, and Co ., _"Drajrgisti , Micklegate , York .
Abernethy's Pile Ointment.
ABERNETHY ' S PILE OINTMENT .
Frampton's Pill Of Health. Tiie Best Ape...
FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH . TIIE BEST APERIENT AND ANTIBILIOUS ME . D 1 C 1 NE FOE GENERAL USE IS _FBAMPTOK'S PILL OF HEALTH , which effectually relieves the stomach and bowels by general relaxation , without griping or prostration of strength . They remove headache , sickness , dizziness , pains in the chest , ic , are highly grateful to the stomach , promote _ligrstion , create appetite , relieve langour and depression of spirits ; while to those of a fall habit and free livers , who arc continually suffering from drowsiness , heaviness , and singing in the head aud ears , they _oSer advantages that will not fail to be appreciated . This medicine bas for many years received the approval of the most _respsctable classes of society , aud in con-£ rmat ; on of its efficacy the following letter has been kindly forwarded to Mr . Prout , with permission to publish it , and , if requisite , to refer any respectable person to its author : —
"To Mr . Pront , * 229 , Strand , London . " Heavitrea , Exeter , April 24 , 1814 . "Sib , —I feel p leasure in being able to bear my strong and unsolicited testimony to the excellence of your ' Franipton _' _s Pill of Health , * which I consider a most _saie , efficacious , and very superior general medicine . The widow of an officer , an elderly lady , and near relative of mine , has used them—rery _rarely having recourse to other medicine—for a long period of years ; she lias recommended thi-m extensively , and in one instance in which she induced a person to adopt them , and Supplied tlie first box herself , they have proved of extraordinary efficacy . I thin ' - ; that perhaps there is scarcely any other ofthe patent _ratilicines before the public of equal value as a ' friend in « e « _tT—certainly not possessed ofsuperior cl aim s . I Shall be happy on all occasions to give chem my _individua 1 recommendation , and am Sir , your obedient _ssrvant * " "
Se ; d hy Thomas Prout , 229 , Strand , London ; and by his appointment by Heaton , Hay , Allen , Lund , ifaigh , Smith , BeU , Townsend , Baines and Newsome , Smeeton , Reinhardt , Tarbottom , and Horner , Leeds ; Brooke , Dewsbury ; Dennis and Son , Burde-Mn , Moxon , Little , Hanlman _, Linney , and Hargrove , Tork - Brooks and Co ., Wallser and Co ., Stafford , Faulka ; r , Boncaster ; Judson , Harrison , Linney , Ripon ; Foggitt , Coates , Thompson , Thirsk ; Wiley , Easingwold ; En-land , Fell , Spirey , Huddersfield : Ward , Richmond ; Sweeting , Knavcsboroug h ; Pease , Oliver , Darlington : Bixou , _Metcaife , Langdale , Northallerton ; Rhodes , Snaith ; Goldthorpe , Tadcaster ; Kogerson , Cooper , Kswbv , Kay , Bradford ; Brice , Priestley , ponfefract ; Cordwell , Gill , Lawton , _Dawstm , Smith , _WakeSeld ; Berry , Denton ; Suter , ieyland , Hartley , Parier , Bu & U , Halifax ; Booth , Rochdale ; Lambert , Borougbbridge ; _Dilby , Wctherby ; Watte , Harrogate : WaU , Banisley ; and all respectable medicine renders throughout the iinsdom . Price Is . lJd . and 2 s . 0 d . per box .
_Aak for _FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTn , and observe ths name and address of "Thomas Prout , _2- . ' _3 j Sauna , Loudon , " on the Government stamp .
Astonishing Efficacy Or Holloway's Pills...
ASTONISHING EFFICACY or HOLLOWAY'S PILLS . The Testimony of a _Clergymat _touching to _Bevjn Casts of Cures by these wonderful Pills . . _Es-fract of a Ltfter from , the Rev . George Prior , Curate of Mevagh , _LetterX _^ _my . Cjirrigart , Ireland , _lOtft Jan . 1840 . f o Professor Holloway . Sib , —I i <« id you a crude list of some _clerea cases , all cured by the use of your Pills . I caunot exactly _givs you a professional name to the various complaints , but this Ifenow , snme of them baffled the skill « i" Derry and this County . In a previous letter this gentleman states as follows : —Within a short distance of my bouse resides a small farmer , who for more than twenty years has been in a bad State of health ; Mrs . Prior gave hira a box of the Pills , which did him so much good tbat I heard him sav , for twenty years past he never ate his food or enjoyed it so much as sine * taking your Pills . ( Signed ) Geokce Pbioe . » * * The ab _» ve _rererend aid pious gentleman purchased
some pounds' worth o f the Pills for the benefit of his p » or parishioners . Bad Digestion , with extreme Weakness and Debility—an Extraordinary Cure . Mr . T . Gardiner , of Ne . 9 , Brown-street , Grosvenor-Huare , had bee » in a very bad state of health for a long
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time , suffering _mich from a distended _etomacb , very im-) paired Digestion , with constant pains In his Chest , was extremely _nervOUS _, and SO greatly aeWUtatea as scarcely able to waUc one hundred yards' during the long _feriod af his declining health he had the advice of four ofthe I most eminent physicians , beBideB five surgeons ef the greatest celebrity in London , from whose aid he derived i no benefit whatever ; at last he had recourse to Hol-- loway _' _s Pills , which he declares effected a perfect Cure in i a very short time , and that he is how as strong and I vigorous as ever he was in his life . This being so extra-- ordinary a case , may lead many persons almost to doubt i tbis statement , it might therefore be necessary to say ; tkit Mr . Gardiner is a broker , aud well known . j Cure of a Confirmed Asthma , accompanied with great Debility . Extract of a Letter from John Thompson , Esq ., Proprietor of the Armagh Guardian , Armagh , 17 ft April , 1840 .
I To Professor Holloway . j Sib , —There is at present living in this city a Serjeant , ¦ who had been for many years in tbe army at Cabul , in ' the East Indies , from whence he returned in September last . On his way here , from the change of weather of a tropical to a moist climate , he caught a very violent cold , which produced a confirmed case of Asthma . In December Ia 6 t he commenced taking your Pills , and by the use of two lis . boxes , with two 4 s . 6 d . pots of your 1 Ointment well rubbed into bis breast , he is , I am happy to say , net only quite cured of the Asthma , but is also become so strong and vigorous , that he informed me yesterday be could now run round the Mall , with any person in the city , and that he uerer got any medicine equal to your Pills and Ointment . ( Signed ) J _> Thompson . THB Earl of Aldborough cured of a _Lirer and Stomach Complaint .
Extract of a Letter from the Earl of Aldborough , dated Villa Messina , Leghorn , 21 st February , 1845 : —
To Professor Holloway . Sir , —Various circumstances prevented the possibility -- -tiny thanking you before this time for your politeness in sending me your pills as you did . I now take this opportunity of sending you an order for the amount , and , at the same time , to add that your pills bave effected a cure of a disorder in my liver and stomach , which all the most eminent of the faculty at home , and all over the continent _, had not been able to effect ; nay I not even tbe waters of Carlsbad and Marienbad . I wish to have another box and a pot of the ointment , in case any of my family should ever require either . Your most obliged and obedient servant , ( Signed ) ALDBOiioiraH . This Wonderful Medicine can be _recommendedwiththegtsatest confidence for any of the following diseases . _*—
Ague Female Irregulari- Sore Throats Asthma ties Scrofula , or King ' s Bilious Complaints Fits Evil Blotches on Skin Gout Secondary Symp-Bowel Complaints Headache toms Colics Indigestion _TicDoloreux Constipation of Inflammation Tumours Bowels Jaundice Ulcers Consumption Liver Complaints Venereal Affections Debility Lumbago Worms , all kinds . Dropsy Piles Weakness , from Dysentery Rheumatism whatever cause , Erysipelas Rctentien _ofUrins & c , _& c . Fevers of all kinds Stone and Gravel
Sold at the establishment of Professor Holloway , 2 _H , Strand , near Temple Bar , London , and by most all respectable Druggists and Dealers in Medicines throughout the civilized world , at the following prices : — -Is . lid ., 2 s . 9 d ., 4 s . Cd ., lis ., 22 s ., and 33 s . each box . There is a considerable sariag by talcing the larger sized . N . B . —Directions for the guidance of _patients'in every _disorder are affixed to each box .
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ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE OF CONSTITUTIONAL OR ACQUIRED DEBILITIES OF TIIE GENERATIVE Sl'STEM . Just Published , A new andimportant Edition of the Silent _friend on Human Frailty . Price 2 s . 6 d ., and sent free to any part of the United _Kingdom on the _receint of a Post _OfH < ie Order for _3 s . 6 d . i MSDICAL WORK on the INFIRMITIES ofthe GE-/ X _NBRATIVE SYSTEM , in both sexes ; being an enquiry into the concealed cause that destroys physical energy , and the ability of mnuhood , ere vigour has established her empire : —with Observations on the baneful effects of SOLITARY INDULGENCE nnd INFECTION ; loc . il and constitutional WEAKNESS , NERVOUS
IRRITATION , CONSUMPTION , and on the partial or total EXTINCTION ofthe REPRODUCTIVE POWERS ; with means of restoration : the destructive effects of _Gonorrhsea , Gleet , Stricture , and Secondary Symptoms are explained in a familiar manner ; theWork is Embellished with Ten fine coloured _EngraTings , representing the deleterious iunuenceof Mercury on the skin , by eruptions on the head , face , and body ; with approved mode of cure for both sexes * , followed by observations on the obligations of M ARRIAGE , and healthy perpetuity ; with directions for the removal of certain Disqualifications : the whole pointed out to suffering humanity as a "SILENT PRIEND" to be consulted without exposure , and with assured confidence of _suuce-JS .
By R . and L . PERRY and Co ., CoNSULTiKa _Sobqeohb . Published by the Authors , and may be had at their Residence , 19 , Berner 3-street , Oxford-street , Loudon ; sold by Strange , 21 , _Paternoster-row ; Ilannay and Coi , 63 , Oxford-street ; Gordon , 146 , Leadenhall-street ; Powell , 10 , Westmorland-street , Dublin ; Lindsay , 11 , Elm-row , Edinburgh ; D . Campbell , 13 G , Argyle-street , Glasgow ; Ingham , Market-street , Manchester ; Newton , Churchstreet , Liverpool ; Guest , Bull-Btreet , _Bii-minghaui . OPINIONS Of THE _PBES 8 . "We regard the work before us , the "Silent Friend , " 5 S a work embracing most clear and practical views of a paes of complaints hitherto little understood , and wered over by the majority of the medical profession , for asst reason we are at a loss to know . We must , howha , confess that a perusal of this work has left such a raverable impression on our Blind *! , that we not only r « - commend , but cordially wish every one who is tho victim f r - *» ¦* folly , or suffering from indiscretion , to profit by e advice contained in its paces . "—Age and A rgus
Part I . of this work is particularly addressed to those who are prevented from forming a Matrimonial Alliance , and will be found an available introduction to the 111011119 of perfect and secret restoration to manhood . Part II . treats perspicuously upon those forms <»( diseases , either in their primary or _sccoudury stab * , arising from _infection , shuwing how numbers , through negUct to obtain competent medical aid , entail Upon _themseh-cs years of misery and suffering .
THE CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIACUM Is intended to _reliere those persons , who , by an _immoderate Indulgence of their passions , have ruined their constitutions , or in their way to the consummation of tl-. it leplerable state , are affected with any of those previous yraptoms that betray its approach , as the various aftt'C-» _ons ofthe nervous system , obstinate gleets , excesses , ir . _^ gularity , obstructions of certain evacuations , weakness , . otal impotency , barrenness , & c . This medicine i 3 particularly recommended to be taken _i-cfore persons eater into tbe matrimonial state , lest , in _flieevent of procreation occurring , the innocent offspring . should bear enstamped upon it he physical characters derivable from parental debility . Price lis ., or the quantity of four at lis . in one bottle for 33 s ., by which Us . is saved ; the £ 5 cases may be had a usual , which is a saving ef £ 112 s .
THE CONCENTRATED DETERSIVE _ESSENCE , An anti-syphilitic remedy for searching out and purifying ths diseased hr . « iours of the blood ; conveying its active principles throughout the body , eve » penetrating the taiuutest vessels , removing all corruptions , contaminations , and i-spurities from the vital stream ; _eradicating the merbid virus , and radically expellin _? it through the _si-ia Pries Us ., or ; our bottles in one for 33 s ., by which Us . is saved , also in £ _* > cases , which saves -El 12 s . Venoreal _contaminatian , if not at Hrst eradicated , will ten remain secretly larking in the system for years , and , lth *> _U !? b for a while undiscovered , at length break out
pou the _ual- ' _. oj - . y individual iu its most dreadful forms _tr else , unseen ,, " _- _' . vnally endanger the rery vital organs af existence . To those suffering from the consequences which this disease may have left behind in the form of secondary symptoms , eruptions of the skin , blotches on the head and face , ulcerations and enlargement of the throat _sitons , and threatened destruction of the nose , palate , Sic , nodes on the shin bones , or any of those painful affections arising from the dangerous effects ofthe indiscriminate use of mercury , or tho evils of an imperfect : ure , the Concentrated Detersive Essence will be found to oe attended with the _mostastonishitig effects , hi _checking he ravages of the disorder , removing all scorbutic _complaints , and effectually re-establishing the health of the _voastitution . To persons entering upon the responsibiliy
ties of matrimony , and who ever had the misfortune dur their more youthful days to be affected with any " f _»«* ra ofthe ?* diseases , a pvious course of this medicine is bighly essential , and of the greatest importance as , i-ore serious affections are _visitcdjupon an _ianoo '" _- " _- ' "rife and _ffspriH'j , from a want of these simple precautions , than perhaps half the world is aware tf ; f * r , it must be _remembered , where the fountain is polluted , the streams hat now from it caunot be pure .
PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS , Price 2 s . 9 d ., 4 s . 61 ., aud Us . per box , With explicit directions , rendered perfectly intelligible to every capacity , are well known tbxougkout _Eurepe t _« be tiie most certain and effectual remedy crcr _discovered fur _gonorrhoea , both in its mild aud aggravated forms , by immediately allaying inflammation aud arresting further progress . Gleets , strictures , irritation ofthe bladder , pains _« f the loins and _kidneys , gravel , aud other _disorders of the urinary passages , ia either sex , aro permanently cured in a short space of time , without confinement or the It _** st exposure . The above medicines are prepared onl y by Messrs . R . and L . PERRY and Co ., Surgeons , 19 , Berners-street , Oxford-street , London . Messrs . PERRY txpett , whin consulted by Utter , the usual fee of One _Pomid , without which m notice whatever can be taken ofthe communication _.
Patients are requested to ] be as _minata as possible in be detail of their cases , as to theduration of the com . laint , the symptoms , age , habits _» f living , and general ccupation _, Medicines earn be forwarded to any part of
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he world ; no diBculty cam occur , as they will be secureW packed , and carefully protected from observation . N . B . —Country Druggists , Booksellers , Patent Medicine venders , and every other shopkeeper , can bt supplied with any quantity of th _» Cordial Balm of _Syriacumf _ths Concentrated Detersive Essence , and Perry ' s Purifying Specific Pills , with the nsual allowance to the Trade by most of the -. rincipal Wholesale Patent Medicine Houses in Londo * _. of whom mav be bad He " Sile » t Friend "
A "Lord" And His Dupes—Extraordinary Doikgs Of A Jeremy Diddler.
A "LORD" AND HIS DUPES—EXTRAORDINARY DOIKGS OF A JEREMY DIDDLER .
The Following True Story, " Stranger Tha...
The following true story , " stranger than fiction , " extracted from flhe York Courant , forcibly illustrates that base snobbish worship of every animal calling himself a " lord , " which is the disgrace of English 80 eiety generally , and the middle classes in particular . Such besotted brutes as the dupes of this _strolling swindler cannot be too severely fleeced , and these York fouls have been properly punished for their base sycophancy ; we are only sorry that they hare not suffered tenfold more . A Jeremy Diddler it York—It appears that a fellow about five feet eight inches high , with large grey eyes , light hair , moustaches and imperial to match , _represent ing himself as " the Right Hon . E T . Vernon , " by some extraordinary stratagem , managed to introduce himself
to a highly respectable elderly lady , who resides near York , and Informed her that he was the son of a peer of the realm , but was obliged to leave his home in consequence of youthful indiscretion . Having received twenty thousand pounds 'from his noble confiding parent and having lost the whole , he was obli ged ( as the policemen say ) to " Btep it j" and having made-York his head-quarters , he fell upon his knees before the above lady , and in tbe mostsupplicant voice implored her protection . Being touched with his misfortunes , and particularly as he was considered the son of a proud aristocrat , the lady promised her assistance , and the prodigal em rose from his knees , apparently with the strongest feelings of gratitude
and repentance . The lady then immediately discovered that the clothes which " the right honourable " wore had seen the best of their days , and directed him to call on the following day , when lie was ordered to get measured for a suit . Having thus obtained a Arm footing into the good graces of his benefactress , he was in the course of a week introduced to many of tho most _tespectablc families in Tork , with whom ho feasted to bis hean ' s content . During tbis acquaintance , which continued about three months , he managed to make divers calls upon the exchequer of his benefactress , to the amount of £ 300 , when he took it into his fertile imagination to take a trip in a _wajier boat on the _Ouse . and passing by a window looking
ou the water , he espied two young ladies and an elder one , most Industriously working at their needle . He immediately _garo a sudden " ahem , " when tbe interesting group raistd their heads , and discovered the gay Lothario ' s hand In rapid motions to his lips . The young ladies replied by a slight motion of the _hi'ad _, the mother at the same time taking a most _scrutinisin-r glance with her eye-glass at the nautical young blade . When the next day arrived , the '' right honourable" drew bis little bark opposite the window at the game hour . He again commenced kissing his hand , and continued to do so for several minutes , tbe movement being occasionally returned , first by one sister , and then the other , _atid lastly , even by the mother herself . This recognition was apparently ju 3 t what the nautical _suain desired to obtain , for he immediately pulled his boat to the bank
side , and _nt once went to the door of the house , and having given a most aristocratic double knock , was in due _Murae of time shown into the parlour . The amorous swain then threw himself at the feet of the elder daughter , laid hold of her hand , and in the most fervent manner pressed it to his lips , at the same time declaring himself the son of a p _* _-er , and ungovernably in love wiih the " adorable girl before him . " After a great deal of conversation , during whic Jeremy told the same Story as he had done to the lady alluded to above , he modestly hinted his earnest desire to stay and spend an hour or two with his charming girl , when the mother replied , that " his lordship'' could scarcely condescend to take tea with them iu their humble abode . Whereupon , ' * bis lordship" declared that he should be proud to stay in the company of his " adorable girl ; " and . after
numerous apologies , "the right honourable" remained to tea . The next day arrived , when " his lordship " took tea and supper at tbe houso , with _divurs glasses of port and sherry to assist digestion . In tiiis way things went on for a week , and the husband beingaway from home , was apprised of tbe lucky nibble his family had made in catching a lord . The father , of courBe , came home , nnd was at once introduced to his " lordship . and an arrangement for a grand Sundaj ' s _dinnt-r having bepn made , it was also another day of triumph for the " right honourable , " who , having enlisted himself in the good opinion of his future father-in-law , a fortnight ' s acquaintance managed to bleed him of £ 50 , and in the course of another fortnight , of j £ 10 more . Thus things went on for nearly ten weeks , when the lady ( the mother ) bfcame tired of the expensive and
constant visits of " his lordship , " and made arrangements to accompany her daughter to Scarborough , as the lady said , to put to the test the strength of his love , no doubt thinking that " absence makes the heart grow fonder . " One of her daughters and tho servants were left at home , with instructions not to allow " his lordship" to dine at the house during their absence , ffis lordship was also reqnested not to call during their stay from home , ami readily promised acquiescence . But , lo ! the next day came , and the good dinners _having too great a fascination , " his lordship " _ealltd and coaxed the young lady to allow him to dine with her , to which she consented , and "his lordship" continued to do so during the week , occasionally assisting the young lady in making cheese cakes , & c ., for tea , the overplus find their way to * ' his lordship ' s " pockets . When " dearmamma" arrived at home , she discovered in her larder a large bundle of cheese and currant cakes , with cold mutton chops , & c _., which were packed for the " _risrhthonourableV ' _suppi-rand breakfast . Next morning the lady waxed wroth , upon hearing that
her disobedient son-in-law had dined there every day that week ; but this matter was soon made up by kisses from " the right honourable" to all the members of the family . On the following day , " the right honeuraUle " went to the house In a great hurry , saying lie was going to London , to take a casket of jewellery , which bad been Iris mother ' s , for safe keeping to his banker ' s , being the jewels which were to adorn his dear " Dura "— -upon her presentation to the queen . The contents of this case , in reality , two pounds of tongue , two cold partridges , cheese , and currant cakes , with a bottle of sherry , provided by his female benefactress above alluded to ; and it will scarcely be bulieved that the father credited every word of this _accomplished swindler , and actually gave bim £ 5 to take him up to London . The next day , _however , discovered all , by a clergyman calling upon the father of tha young lady , and explaining the true character of the fellow , who was a strolling actor , and most adept swindler . We ( rori 6 Currant ) understand he has taken with him a valuable gold watch , and other jew _.-llery , to the amount of £ 60 belonging to his female benefactress .
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INCREASE OF CRIME IN THE POTTERIES . For some time past it has beon a matter of legitimate and honest congratulation that the Potteries—as a district—were _retr-trkably preserved from crime of •> serious character . The events of the last fortnight , we greatly fear , will deprive us of this gratifying feeling . Shops have been pillaged—bouses broken open aud _robbd '— . private dwellings attempted—before the winter has arri . ved , and apparently by an organised and reckless grin ? . On Sunday evening , during the hours of divine serv : « , an attempt was made to enter into the houso of Miss Kirkham , of Trent Vale . The inmates were alarmed by the breaking ofa window ; an alarm bell was rung , and the depredators decamped . At about seven o ' clock on the same evening , as the butler and housekeeper of J . A . Wise , Esq ., Clayton Hall , were walking along the lane , leading from the mansion to Trentham turnpike-road , to
meet their fellow servants on their return from church , they were attached by seven ruffians , who knocked tbem down , brutally ill-treated them , and robbed the butler of his watch , sixteen shillings in money , his hat and stick ; from the housekeeper they took a small black bag , containing copper coin . Her watch escaped their notice , but the violence _nrUU which she was knocked down , stopped the movements of tl'e watch , and thus indicated the time when the outrage was committeil . Two hours _afterwards , a gang of seven , evidently tl-. e same party , presented themselves at the Ilanchurcli toll-house , situate between two and three miles from C _' ayton Hall . Their vociferous _cri-js of " gate" aroused the slumbering collector , and he hastened to open the door , preparatory as he thought , to unlocking the gate for a carriage . Tho desperadoes rushed into the house—secured the collector
by knocking mm down on the floor , almost senselessand demanded his money . Stunned by the blows , the toll-kcptr was slow to answer , when one of the gang said , "Give hiai a tap on the other side of the head . " They then led him to a table , in a drawor of which was placed the cash , nnd took from thence more than Hil' 06 pounds in gold , silver , and _coppar coin . In leading tlie poorfellow to the table , they said , " Old felloi _" -, ivhere ' s the timepiece 1 " but he had no watch , and they were consequently disappointed in this portion of the booty . While this scene of violence was being enacted below , the wife of the toll-keeper , at the top of lior voice , was crying out " murder" from the chamber window , The gang , on departing from the house , clo _50 d the door in the face of the plundered toll-keeper , warning him if ho watchod which road they took they would blow out his brains . The woman continuing to call out from the chamber then attracted their notice , and , in order to silence her , they threw part ofa heavy stick into the window , which broke
one or two panes of glass in its passage . Early the next morning the police were making enquii ies in every direction—so during a succession of outrages having alarmed the whole district . A similar party was observed by a shoemaker , on hig return to Newcastle , near to the lane leading to Clayton Hall . One of them approached this man and bade him good night . Just as ho was turning round to return the salutation , the man who had spoken pressed something cold to his cheek ( since thought to be the head ofa hammar _, ) and said , " If you had _' ut spoken , I should have slit your face . " The gang intimated that they had mistaken the shoemaker for a policeman ; upon whom they intended to wreak their vengeance . The shoemaker passed on , heartily glad to leave such dangerous company behind him . Mr . Chief-Superintendent Sweeting succeeded in apprehending four of the men known to start from the Black Lion , the others had absconded . On one of the men , when taken , tht hat _belenging to Mr , Wise ' s butler frag fouud . The butler
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entified the stick tlirown into tho _toll-aoH fe m > j the stick he had with him when attacked and robbed . The magistrates committed the four men for trial at tho assises , and further disclosures are expected . — . Staffordshire Mercury .
Improvements In The Dwellings 0? The Wor...
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE DWELLINGS 0 ? THE WORKING CLASSES ; Messrs . M'Gregor and Laird , the directors of the Birkenhead Docks , have erected dwellings for the Dock labourers , in which some important _improvements have been made by Mr . Long ) the architect . Without drawings or plans it would be difficult to give an accurate conception of the improvements . The buildings arc four-storied , of red bricks , with light sandstone _window-cills and copings . Their external aspect would suggest to a Londoner the idea of a block of buildings constructed for professional persons , for an
inn of court or Chancery , and , with little addition and variation of ornament , they might match with the new hall of Lincoln ' 9-inn . They are , in fact , flats or sets of chambers , consisting of two sets on each fl > or . Each set consists of one living room and two sleeping rooms . The floors are of arched brick . The living room is floored with a hard Welch fire-brick tile ; the sleeping room floors are boarded . The staircases aro of stone , with iron balustrades . The flut brick arches of which the flours are constructed arc tied together with iron ties , and the whole building is fireproof .
The most important points of improvement are , how * ever , those in which snme principles of the sanitary report in respect to the means of cleansing and ventilation for the working classes aro carried out . Each set Of rooms is furnished with a constant supply of water , and also with sinks for washing and a watercloset , and means of communication with a dust shaft from , the whole set of chambers , by which all dust and ashes might be removed at once from the apartment without the nec ssity of the inmates leaving them . The party entered the rooms which were inhabited , and questioned the inmate * as to their experience of them . One nursing mother , in a neat and well-kept set of rooms , attested to the superior conveniences of this arrangement , as a most important relief from the fatigue and exposure to the weather in a common town dwelling . She had now no occasion to leave her child alone whilst she went to a distance to fetch water * , neither had she to keep dirty
« r waste nater , or dirt or ashes 111 the room until she could find time to carry them away . "She had now ) scarcely ever to go down stairs and leave her child . " Each set of rooms w _» b provided with one conduit for the ingrees of fresh air , and another for the egress of vitiated air . Those examined were newly inhabited , but tho immediate _uanitory effect of the arrangements was perceptible to those who have visited such abodes in the entire absence of offensive effluvia or of " closs smells . " This observation was extended to the whole range Of buildings . The sinks in each room were trapped with bell traps , as were all the openings to the drains and the gully-shoots in the paved courts and _thorjushfares . A constant supply of water was secured , the house-drains were well flushed with water , and cesspools were entirely abolished . This range of buildings is perhaps the first practical examp le of tlie entire removal of one chief source of physical depression and pestilence common to all the existing dwellings of tho working clasBes in
towns . The price at which these objects were attained was the next topic of inquiry . The rents charged were from 3 s . Gd . to 5 s . each net , according to its position . But this included a constant supply of water , and the U 8 e of one gas burner in each set of rooms , and all rates and taxes , and moreover two iron bedsteads , and a grate with an oven , and ' _convenicHt fixtures , Some of the inmates admitted that they had paid as high a rent in Liverpool and other towns for no larger apartments of the common inferior construction , but without any of the conveniences and additions , The directors stated tbat they conceived there would be little value in an examination which was
not fairly remunerative to the capitalist , and that for this class of town dwellings , considering the trouble and attention they required , a less return than eight per cent , on the outlay would suffice as an inducement to their construction ; and tin ' s return tbey should make . Those who have lired in chambers in London would admit that they had in the essentials very inferior _accommodation for double and treble , and much higher rents . Each set of rooms was perfectly " self contained , " and the arched brick floors _«? : ive them advantages in respect to quiet which few sets of chambers possess ,
Lord Morpeth , Lord Ebrington , Mr , Chadwiclc , Mr . Monckton Milnes , and the Hon . W . Cowper , examined these buildings last week , and were much pleased with them , but Mr . Chadwick while approving of the advance thnt had been made , _suggested some further improvements in that class of dwellings . He thought that an additional room was required , that the ventilation should be self-acting , and that warm as well as cold air should be supplied . Wider thoroughfares would give more sunlight to the lower and Interior dwelling—but , as a whole , they were far superior to the common _buildings erected by Building Societies .
We are g lad to see a commencement made in a much needed and most important practical reform . We have long entertained the idea that similar buildings are much required for the working classes of London , especially . It is of the utmost importance to them that they should be near their work , for lime is money , butin consequence ofthe high value ofthe land and buildings in the metropolis , it is next to impossible for them to secure the desirable proximity to their daily labour . Where they do so , it is as lodgers at an enormous rent , for a small portion of a tenement possessing _r . ot a single _convenience , because
never intended to be so tenanted . It is a common thing for rents of £ 20 and £ 25 yearly to be paid for the bare walls of two small apartments , without cupboards , place for coals , arrangements for cooking , or in fact for the most ordinary and indispensable domestic 1 'PqutrementS . The result is discomfort and continual loss , which presses severely upon the weekly earnings , because however thrifty the parties may be inclined , they are the victims _oftheoystem which coops them up in a pair of bandboxes without the means of effectively regulating their household affairs .
[ In the " Improvements" that have recently been made in the metropolis , the interests or convenience of tho working classes have as usual been totally disregarded . The fine new streets are not intended for them . No building suitable to their means or wants have replaced the dwellings from which they have been driven . The consequence is that the discomfort , squalor , and disease which were complained of in St . Gile ' s have boen compressed in Saffron Hill and similar localities , where even sleeping room on landing places is paid for at a high rate . It is disgraceful both to government and capitalists this treatment of the industrious classes . There is yet in the new thoroughfares opened in St . Giles ' s , plenty of space left for the erection of similar dwellings to those at Birkenhead ; and we know of no speculation which , merely in a monetary point of view would be so profitable . The whole of one side of Kndell-Rtreet is available for this purpose , and we should be glad to see tho subject taken up practically . —Ed . N , S . )
The Poor Colony Op Ostwald. Near Strasbu...
THE POOR COLONY OP OSTWALD NEAR STRASBURGH . This colony-claims the attention of society at large unaccountof the social principles on which it is founded and their application to tho right of man in its general bearing upon practical life . Its purport is to remove one of the most pressing evils ofthe day , pauperism , hy showing that there Is no lack of means to combat in its principle . The founder of this colony is Doctor Shiitzenberger , a celebrated lawyer at Strasburg . Asa member of the French Chmnbre des Deputes he was enabled to become conversant with the political and social relations of
France , while in his capacity of Maire of Strasburg he had ample opportunity to learn more intimately the necessities and interest * of the people in their more limited character ofa mere community , He is himself a large farmer and landowner , and has studied deeply the various systems of political economy at home nnd abroad , ne is a personal friend of M . _Considerant , the present head of Fourier ' s school , and though he never ad _located the extravagances of that school , he did not condemn the good practical points in it , which he took into consideration in the foundation of his colony .
In his report ofthe 23 rd December , 1839 , to the Municipal Council of Strasburg , the Maire enters into the causes of pauperism , as _also into the means of remedying and obviating its evil consequences _. The report characterizes pauperism—though there were poor at all times—as an evil peculiar to modern society ; as the consequence of great industry and preponderance of large capital , the effect _ofdivisiou and of labour . But the reporter finds the principal cause in the entire dissolution of the previous organization of labour by guilds , companies , and corporations . The privileges , monopolies , and distinction of castes mi g ht have been abolished , while the social tie that existed between the members of one and the same trade , as also the honour and discipline of industry , ought to have boen preserved . A mere reform was
as easy as possible , instead of which the old institutions are destroyed , while new ones havo been created in their stead , and the whole social system of the present day rests on the sterile principle of absolute freedom as proposed and acted upon in the latter part of the past century . The consequences of frco and absolute competition are , on the one hand , increase of national wealth generally , and an appareitly improved condition of whole classes of producers , as viewed from a material standing point ; and , on the other , total uncertainty in trade , discontent of all classes with their social position , a perpetual war between the - various producers , an increase of quackery and deception , a progressive annihilation of the middle classes , a preponderant monopoly of the larger branches in industry ( in lieu of the abolished smaller _monopolies , ) and abuse of credit and with it also increasing bankruptcies .
Itis vain to expect that circumstances will at last restore tbe moral tie between the labourer and his employer . The economical principlo of free competition has in tho meanwhile entered into our morals , habits , and even prejudices . The question c : m no longer be of au annihilation of freo competition , but of a consolidation of its principles , of a restoration of a moral and social tie between the employers and tho labourers , of an organization , guidance , and representation of the common interests of trade , and of tho revival of a common spirit of mercantile honour , _togethir witha salutary ordor , in the place of th « merely individual interests and
The Poor Colony Op Ostwald. Near Strasbu...
heir dismemberment , such as exists in the present day . The second cause of pauperism Dr . Schiizenberger finds lu the too exclusive application of capital to industrial speculation .. From this standing point be declaims against the artificial industry , whilst much land lies still uncultivated ( more especially in France , ) and the produce of the soil is capable of being increased threefold . He even rejects the expedieney of protective duties in certain branches of agriculture , and proposes to esta . Wished in their place agricultural banks , to release the farraor from tha claws of the usurer .
After many more details as to his views ofthe causes and effects of pauperism , he proposed to establish a » ag ricultural colony inthe woods of Ostwald , which is partly _intersectud by tlie railroad leading from Strasburg to Basel . It comprises a fertile ground of 147 hectares , which used to yield a gross produce of only 1 , 800 francs . The maison de refuge in the town itself , he proposed to he a mere provisional depot for beggars and vagabonds ; from whence they might be admitted , after good conduct in the same , to the colony , where they would obtain better food' even in the lowest of the three divisions . He attached great _importsneo to ihe moral advantage aceruing to both sexes and all ages , from a wholesome and varied agricultural occupation , A beneficial effect was al _* o expected to _result from this model colony for theimprovement of agriculture at large ; as farmers are far better instruct ! d by facts and practical example than by abstract principles and theoretical expositions .
The approval of government followed after some inter . val , " gmee a la lenteur deplorable que I ' _attirailburcaucratic de la _ccntraliMlion administrative fait peter sur la marche da affaires" *); it was only at the end of 1810 that the purchase of Ostwald was made , and the necesary edifices sketched out . In the centre of _thetcplonyriaeB the chief edifice , containing the dwelling olHlie managing officers and clerks , two dining balls , kitchen , & c . To the right and left stand four houses with dormitories , each adapted for fifty individuals ! A little farther are a large stable for sixty or eigthy cattte , ( a second is in progress ) a large
bain , several small bouses for theartUans—wbeelrights , blacksmiths , shoemakers , tailors , dec , all members of tbe colony , exclusively working for the same . The buildings and yards are surrounded b y a large ditch , beyond which are tbe fields and gardens . Most of the edifices arc so built as to be capable of extension if _necessary ; an additional small outlay would easily enable the managers to provide for a population of at least 100 individuals . Tbe administration consists of u director , a secretary , a few paid inspectors and servants , whose collective salary does not exceed 7000 fr . ( £ 280 . ) Ihe annual expenses for erery colonist has been estimated , for tbe year 1843 , at 237 fr , 40 cent . £ 9 . 14 s . )
Tbe moit sanguine expectations entertained of this model colony have been fully realised . The fifth part ofthe cleared ground is destined for the artificial cultivation of fodder ; the marahy low grounds have been converted into rich meadows ; a nursery is erected on a large _scele , while the five hectares containing kitchen-gardens , are now the richest In the whole of Alsace . The moral condition of the population is in keeping with their improved and flourishing material situation . From the first si * . lenient , the 10 th March , 1841 , until the 20 th Nov . _1813 th -colony had received ( a few women _excepted ) 1 !) 1 male dividuals ( 13 C Roman Catholics , fiftyfour Protestants , . id one Greek . ) Of these 191 , not less than eigthty-thr < . have left the colony as highly moral , talented , and iuc _istrious - _jergons , and settled in the neighbourhood wi : ! i success . Only two were imprisoned for theft , and twel _i were sent back to the workhouse in Strasburg-.
In this so-called refuse of society , consisting of beggars and vagabonds of debauched and idle habits , were some who had been reduced to this low state rather innocently , by press of circumstances over which they had no contr ») , while the majority of them owed their condition to their own faults , The improvement wrought in them in so short a time is the more remarkable , as most of them arrived thereat an age when bad habits are not overcome easily . Itis true the colony contains persons of nearly all ages from twenty to seventy , and even eighty years old ; the average age , however , is computed to be not less than forty years . In large characters is written over the do * rs of the dormitories . Brandy is the way to the hospital I
The occupation of the colonists , previous to tbeir entrance , was of a varied character . The greatest part were depraved shoemakers , tailors , aud labouters ; but a lew of _thtjm were wheelrights , ropemakers , weavers , lock _, smiths , blacksmiths , bakers , plasterers , painters , coachmen ifcc , while _thirty-one had no trade whatever . All these people cheerfully suited themselves to their newagricultural calling ; a proof that even corrupted factory labourers may most advantageously be employed in anew colony _. Every momiDg early , at five , the sound of the drum wakes the colonists to their various works . _Half-an-hour is allowed for dressing aud cleaning ; they all then USsemble lor prayers , after which , the work is given out for the day under the conductors of each group , which varies every day , not to over fatigue the mind by sameness .
At six 0 clock the labour begins and lasts until six in thu evening with tbe interruptions consequent on the two meals , breakfast and dinner . After the evening meal they again assemble toprayers , andatseven they repair to their dormitories , where every ono has a separate iron bedstead with ihe requisite bedding . Neither are there wanting regular baths to encourage cleanliness . The uniform dress of the colonists is not at all unbecoming ; their food very simple but not meagre . Every one receives dail y not _kss than two pounds of Dread of better quality than ammunition bread ; for dinner they receive broth with vegetables , and _half-a-pint of tolerable _wiiJfc ; meat is dealt out twice a-week , when wine is not given . In harvest time , when more physical efforts are necessary , even the Industrial labourers must give a helping hand in the
fields , while during the so-called dead season , they are employed in repairing the public roads or cleaning the streets at Strasburg . On Sundays and other holy days they all repair to a neighbouring church for divine service , and the rest of the day is devoted to proper reading and conversation . On such days they are also allowed to spend their time in town ( Strasburg ) until six in the evening . There are three peculiar annual festivals held in tbe colony , on the second Sundays of the months of May , July , and September . At the latter festival , gifts are _distributed amongst tho best labourers from voluntary donations . To encourage still more emulation in industry , labour and honesty , the director
announces publicly the names of tbe most distinguished on every Sunday . In point of talent and industry , the colonists ars divided into three classes , with a daily pay of four , six , and eight sous ( twopence , threepence , and _lourpence , ) of which , however , they only receive onethird , as two-thirds are retained as an equivalent for their maintenance , To the superior hands is moreover , allotted a piece of ground for gardening , and it forms a point in the projected plan that at some future period the half of tho nctproduco should be distributed amongst the labourers , and the other half added to the funds of the institution . The punishments are confined to ad . monitions and reduction of wages alone .
All these wonderful improvements were wrought in the colonists not by the . introduction of the silent system , increase of labour , _^ diminution of food , or privation of all that tends to eheer life , but simply and solely by keeping them to a strictly organized activity , and habituating them to cleanliness , by not making labour a burden but a pleasure to them , and by rousing iu them the feeling of human dignity and a desire to live honestly and work diligently , by mild and humane trertment . Before the establishment of the colony , the half of Oswaldt which _belo . _iged to Strasburg only yielded a net income of 400 francs ( £ 16 , ) and the capital value was computed to 145 , 000 francs ( £ 5 800 . ) At present the value of the land alone is now estimated at 352 , 000 francs ( £ 10 , 080 ) or nearly double . To thi 9 must be still added the edifices now estimated at 101 , 000 francs ( £ 4 . 040 ) as also the furniture , cattle , ifcc _, valued at about 23 , 000 francs ( £ 1 , 000 . )
In tli » year 1843 the total expenditure was 27 , 193 fr ., While the revenne was 46 , 515 francs . Thus showing tdat the colony has not only maintained itself by its own resources , but even promises gradually to increase its revenues , and to hereafter become itself a support for poor communities within ts neighbourhood . —The Topic . # _Sorsoh , Notice Historiquo , p _^ J 5 .
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Sleep . —The Poet Young s : iys , " Sleep is great Nature ' s
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second course—the balm ot hurt minds . " Johnson says , " It is the parenthesis of human woe . " Sleep being thus appreciated by mankind , how desirous ought we to be that all should tranquilly enjoy "sweet repose , " the general obstruction to which is through an unhealthy action of the liver er other Yiscera . A little attention to the " young disease , " by having recourse to a mild aperient , often produces the most salutary effect , and for such purpose Frampton ' s Pill of Health stands prominent iu mililii ! nninion . Holloway's Ointment and Pills . —Blotches on the skin . —An extraordinary cure . —A youug woman , named Martha Kelly , residing with her friends at the corner of Silver-street Stepney , had been from her youth covered with blotches , which much impaired her health . She was always in a low , nervous , and irritable state . This poor girl had been to almost every hospital and medical institution in London , without obtaining any relief ; but notwithstanding the failure of all the medical men who treated her case , she had been completely cured by the use alone of these wonderful medicines , which will cure any skin disease , of however long standing tho case may be .
Abebnktiit's Tile Powders were specially prepared as an adjunct to the external application of " Aberneth _j ' s Bile Ointment" for every variety of the " Tiles . " The use of powerful aperients tends greatl y to destroy the beneficial effects of tho outward application and to increase rather than dimmish the disorder . It is too much the custom with the afflicted to have recourse to strong purgative medicine in cases of this complaint , and in almost every such instance the patient is materially injured and the disease greatly aggravated . Where the bowels are regular , internal medicine ot any kind is scarcely ueccssary , but when the system is confined , the " Abernethian Powders" have the effect cf removin g the obstruction , and ot allaying any inflammation that exists . Thev cool and strengthen the body and render thoroughly emeient the use of the " Ointment . "
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Poetical , —As the Swiss revolutions usually occur in autumn , the fall of the constituted authorities is said to bo . vegulated by that of the loaf _.
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A Toutio man while travelling on the _MdT " _- Counties Railway last Saturday , on arriving- at' * v n < ley , perceived that he Aad got into fhe _LeccatpVT * stead ofthe Nottingham train , when he opened til * carriage door and jumped out while the train _»» in rapid motion . Death was the result . a 8 Last week , a train on the Leeds and Bradford linn on arriving at the point where it crosses the Leed * and Liverpool canal , ran off the embankment , nearly thirty feet high . The coupling chain fortunate }? - broke , by -which means the passengers came off safely . Had the carriages followed the engine asad tender , the loss of life must have been great . Tha engine driver sustained severe injuries , the stoke * was less hurt . '
A _Gomsiow took place on the Glasgow and Edinburgh line last week , in consequence of some empty trucks being left on the same Jine of rails on which _, the express train to Glasgow was running . Thu engineer fortunately observed tbe obstruction , and by stopping the engines as far as possible came in contact at a _' speed of seven instead of forty miles . . The mischief was thus confined to the destruction of property only . A ' ballast train on the Great Western , which should not have reached the Brunscombe station until four o ' clock in the morning , arrived at that point about eleven o ' clock in the evening . The switches had been turned to put an _engine and tender requiring repairs into the shed , and the policeman neglected to replace them ; the consequence was the ballast train ran into the shed and a violent collision ensued . The driver decamped , 'but the policeman was taken into custody .
An old man who had been to the city to draw his pension , fell while crossing London bridge , and a cart wheel passed over his body . He died in two hours afterwards . " _* A rou . YG ma named Lautreix . of the village of Lagrange , became deeply enamoured of a rich neighbouring farmer ' s daughter , who burned with a reciprocal flame , but the lover was poor , and her parents obdurate . Lautreix sought his Marguerite in the fields , and held a long conference with her , the nature of which is not known , but at the conclusion he drew a loaded pistol from his pocket , discharged it at her , and killed her . Retiring from her bleeding form to a distance of three hundred yards , he again charged the pistol , and fired it into bis own mouth :
ho fell for the moment , but soon found he had not done the deed effectually . He consequently raiised himself , and , mutilated as he was , went on toward *} the Lake of Guelles , distant at least a quarter ofa league . Another pool of blood in the way showed that he had fallen a second time , but once more gained sufficient strength to reach the water , and thus put an end to his life . The'Gazette des Tribunaux gives an account of a murder and suicide under similar circumstances , but in a different part of France : — "A young man , ' employed in the Greffier ' s office at Clamecy , lately became enamoured of a young girl in the neighbour I hood , and asked his parents' permission to marry j her . A decided refusal was given , on the ground j that the girl was not by any means an advantageous i match for him . __ He determined to make another I application to his parents , but was again refused . ' He went out immediately , and informed the eirl of
what had occurred . She was overwhelmed with despair , and at last exclaimed , 'You swore to be mine ; let us die together ! " He agreed to the pro . _posal . Ihe girl procured a bottle of spirits of _tur-Ppntine . and the young man a pistol , and thusoroyided they proceeded to the Canal du Nivernais . 1 hey drank the contents ofthe bottle , and then tying themselves together with the strings of the girl s apron , placed themselves on the very edge of tlie canal . He then placed the pistol to his head and fired . The charge shattered his skull , but did not kill him . At the moment the shot was fired ,
the girl jumped into the water , dragging after her the young man . But , when once in the water , the instinct of preservation returned , and the girl contrived to scramble out , pulling with her her unfortunate companion . Both then uttered cries of distress , andsome persons coming up found them in that position The young man expired shortly after , but hopes are entertained of saving the girl's life . A Clerk of the Bank of England drowned himself in the New River last week in consequence of domestic differences .
A woman while crossing Blackfrairs bridge , on Saturday night , was jammed between an omnibus and injured so severel y that she was conveyed to the hospital . A _Fjsjuie Burglar . —Hester Elizabeth White , 23 years of age , about the middle height , dark hair and eyes , and fashionably-dress , was charged with having committed a daring burglary . On the night of the 20 th inst ., the house of Mr . Jones , a gentleman of property , residing at Woodland Cottage , Ealing , was burglariously entered and robbed of a writing desk , containing four £ 10 Bank of England notes , £ 10 iu gold , and £ 20 in gold and silver coin , consisting of guineas , half-guineas , and seven shilling pieces , several trinkets , a miniature of a gentleman in a
morocco case , and a pocket book containing wills , deed ? , and other papers . The police traced the note } to various shopkeepers in Regent-street and Oxfordstreet , who had changed them in the sale of muffs , boas , and other articles of dress . In one instance , the true address had been given with the note , and the police on going to the place , discovered the pri _» soner in bed , apparently very ill . On searching the room the stolen writing-desk was found under the prisoner ' s pillow , brokeu' open , but still containing the ancient coins and other property , except the Bank of England notes and sovereigns . In the prisoner ' s box was also found a parcel , done up in brown paper , directed to " Mr . Jones , Ealing , " containing the wills , deeds , and other papers . The
prisoner was removed to the station house at Ealing , and while there she stated that she formerly lived ia service with one of Mr . Jones ' s female servants , and by that means had obtained access to that gentle * man ' s house . On the 20 tn inst . she went down there for the day , and left there at nine o ' clock at night , and was accompanied by Mr . Jones ' s servant , and a servant at the next house , to the Ealing station ofthe Great Western Railway , who witnessed her departure by the last train for _Paddington . Before she left the house , she managed to raise , unperceived the bar of the kitchen window shutter out of tha catch . On getting out of the train at Paddington , although it was a drenching night , she immediately returned on foot to Ealing , and waited until tlie family of Mr . Jones had retired to rest , which tiiey usually did at half-past eleven o ' clock . When she found all was quiet , she climed over a wall , six feet
hig h , at the side of Mr . Jones ' s premises , and , _Ihl'ftWing the kitchen window up , had ho difficulty in lifting the iron bar of the shutters , which , having accomplished , she got in , and in the dark went up to the front drawing room , and stole the writingdesk , taking her departure with it the same way that she entered , after which regardless ofthe pitiless rain , she retraced her way to town , and reached Crown-court , Pall-mall , about eight o ' clock in the morning , in a very exhausted state , and soaked to the skin , her stays having been saturated . The parcel directed to Mr . Jones she intended to send back , the articles being of no use to her . She was remanded for the attendance of the necessary * witnesses , and in consequence of her illness from the cold she caugM in the commission of the robbery , she was sent to the infirmary of the Westminster Bridewell for _re-examination _' when able to bear it .
A warehouse and factory at Rochdale , belonging respectively to Messrs . Soani and Co ., and Messrs Turner and Co ., were _la _* t week destroyed by fire . The damage is estimated at £ i , Q 00 _, and about _?¦/ persons are thrown out ol work , Murder of a Policeman at Bristol . —On Sunday evening , a hackney fly drove up in the St > Philip ' s police station , and a woman of the name of Ferris got out , and rushing into the charge room said to Inspector on duty , " Take me into custody--take me into custody . " The inspector , observing that the woman was a Mrs . F ., the _step-daughter _^ of polic _" sergeant Franklin , the reserve sergeant , residing ° f the station with bis wife , tbe unfortunate woman i mother , and that she was in a high state of excitement
and slightly flushed with drink , for the moment discredited her . observation , and replied , " Takevott into custody ?—for what ? " She immcdiatelv ' replied that she had cut a man ' s throat in _Lion-iir _^ and begged the inspector to go there . Upon proceeding to the spot , he found that police constable Patrick White , No . 1 _J 2 _, was dead , at his lodging * having had his throat cut from ear to ear in a » ' dreadful manner ; and , upon inquiry , he leaf ? that the deceased lodged in the same house fa which the woman Ferris resided ; and that , in _* course of the morning * , it being Mrs . Ferris ' s birt »' day , her brother , who is a flv driver , came overt " see her , some beer was sent lor , and some rum , a party stayed drinking together , there being a youi > S woman of the name of Jones in the company . abc _-f continued drinking the greater part ofthe day . ** in the afternoon , the woman JoneB went upstairs to
her bedroom , and was soon followed by White . l » ' » circumstance , it is said , excited the jealousy of M" * Ferris , who had on attachment for the _polisen _^ and she followed upstairs and found them m no ° . _T gether . White shortly afterwards came downsta" » and sat down smoking his pipe , when on a _a _*** _";^ Mrs . Ferris being then in the room , he wa 3 . 1 , Ci u d to utter somo incoherent expression , and the oi was seen rushing in a stream from his throat . _^ poor fellow managed to crawl to the do < H- ot _^ house , and across tbe street , where he was up _^ a , person whom the confusion had attracted to _^ spot , who sent for a surgeon , and endeay < _j _>* , _* J stanch the blood with a pocket _handkerchief _^ . _^ gradually Bank , aud very shortly died . _^" " ; nto _liayc taken the parties who were in the h _**" _^ . _^ . custody . An inquest was held on the body _w , day , when the parties present at time the m _^ was coranvtted gave evidence as to " * _¦? _?"„) . n o facts , but the coroner remarked that , alwl _*" 1- 4 doubt as to the cause of death _mighti exist . » t f mortem examination was necessary , andtn ? _JL utf was remanded to await t'he issue ot that 'O ' _- _^ p _, 1 On Tuesday , surgical evidence having » IC " _,. 1 the jury returned a verdict of" Wilful MuJ ' der -
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 7, 1846, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_07111846/page/2/
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