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    • CURES FOR THE UNCUliED! HULLO WAY'S. OINTMENT. An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula, or King's Evil.
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      TO PIUS EL Bt » HH G . WHITHER . ( Erom the Liberator , American paper . ) T he cannon s brazen lips are cold , _^ for red shell blazes in the air , And street , and tower , and temple old , Are alent as despair . Ibe Lombawlstand 8 n < ; . mo eat . _V ?» . . Rome s fresh young life has bled m Tarn , Dead in the ghastly trench are they , Or , wounded , writhe in pain . v w while the fratricides of France , Are treading on the neck of Borne ,

      Hider at Gaeta I seize thy cnance : Coward and cruel come . frees now from Xaples' bloody skirt ; Thy mummer ' s part was acted well , ¦ _ffhile Rome , with steel and fire begirt , Before thy crusade felL Her death-groans answer to thy prayer ; Thy chant the dram and bugle call ; Thy lights , the burning villa ' s glare ; Tbybeads , the shell and ball . Let Austria clear thy way with hands , Foul from Ancona _' s cruel sack , And _Sanies , with his dastard bands Of murderers lead thee back . Rome s lips are dumb ; the orphan ' s wail ,

      The mother ' s shriek , thou may st not hear , _Abor e He faithless Frenchman ' s hail , The nn sexedshavelings cheer ! Go bind on Rome her cast-off _weighty The double curse of crook and crown ; _Though woman ' s scorn and manhood ' s hate , From wall and roof flash down . _Xor heed those blood stains on the wall , Not Tiber's blood can wash away , mere m tby statel y _Quirinal , Thy mang led victims lay . let the world murmur ; let its cry Ofhorror and disgust be heard ; Truth stands alone ; thy coward lie Is backed by lance and sword .

      The cannon of St . Angelo , The chanting priest and clanging bell , And beat of drum and bugle blow , Shall greet thy coming well _, let lips of iron and tongues of slaves , Fit welcome give thee ; for her part Rome frowning o ' er her new made graves , Shall curse thee from her heart 1 So wreaths of gay Campagna ' _s flowere Shall childhood in thy pathway fling , So garlands from their ravaged bowers , Shall Term ' s maidens bring . But , hateful as that tyrant old , The mocking witness of his crime , In thee shall loathing eyes behold , The 3 ero of our time .

      Stand where Rome ' s blood was freest shed , Mock Heaven with impious thanks , and call Its curses on the patriot dead , Its blessings on the Gaul ! Or sit upon thy throne of lies , A poor , mean idol , blood-besmeared , "Whom even its worshippers despise , _Unhonoured , unrevered . Yet ; Scandal ofthe world ! from thee , One needful truth mankind shall learn ; That kings and priests to liberty , And God are false in turn .

      Earth wearies of them , and the long , Meek sufferance of the heaven ' s doth fail Woe for weak tyrants , when the strong Wake , struggle , and prevail ! Sot vainly Roman hearts have bled To feed the crozferand the crown , If , roused thereby , the world shall tread , ' The twin-born vampyres down .

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      Free Trade Out Free Traded; Or, The Self...

      Free Trade out Free Traded ; or , the Self-Enfranchiser . By *« Wansbeck . " London TV . Strange , 21 , Paternoster-row . _Combined with some eccentricities cf thought and expression there are some -wholesome truths set forth in this pamphlet . The author observes : — Let our first political right be our all-absorbing theme : the accomplishment of which , to be the immutable datum from which to begin the regeneration of our country , and the ultimate spread of Peace , Union , and Freedom , ' over the whole world .

      The enemies of Freedom and Progress would fain instil into the minds ofthe people a contrary doctrine ; but believe them not , for they are false and interested counsellors—slaves who live on the spoil of other men's rights , whose impunity rears its head over prostrate reason' —whose bulwarks of safety is the supposed ignorance of the great mass of the people . Believe them cot , for they are deceitful enemies under the guise of pretended friends . From this right all other good must flow , or flow in vain . It is a theme which demands the asperations of the noblest minds that the ruling power of the universe has created . It is the alpha of man ' s political existence .

      We have no faith in " Tvansbeck ' s " scheme of " petitioning . " Humbly begging and pray ing " with hated breath and in a bondman ' s key , ' ' will never win anything bat contempt from the withholders of the rights of the people . "Thelabour Question ? ' "Should the Taxes on Knowledge be Abolished ? " The Beasoner .

      Part L Vol . IX . London : J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row . The two first-named of these publications are tracts issued by the " Political and Social Tract Society , " established at the John-street Institution . The author of tract Ifo . 1 treats of the Labonr Question in its Ideal , Experimental , aitd Practical Aspect . The following illustrates the " Organisation of Labour" in its rudimentary form : —

      Parliament is asked to appropriate some piece of waste land , capable of sustaining from 200 to 500 poor families ; to build suitable habitations for them —plain , substantial houses , drained and ventilated so as to be salubrious . The buildings might be arranged on a co-operative plan , so far as the common conveniences are concerned , which are already being realised in Model Washing and Lodging Houses , and Baths . There might be a public kitchen and a public table , for those adults who __ were very hungry would make no permanent objections to a dinner in company . In such a colony trades and manufactur es should be introduced in such proportion as would enable the residents to supply themselres ,

      as far as possible , without barter—in fine , to render them self-supporting and self-dependent __ Let proper superintendents and directors be appointed by the founders of the colony . Let it be understood that whoever came were to perform such work as might be appointed to them to do . Let the hours of labour be so ordered so as not to exceed the average extent of strength of the parties who are to perform it—their remuneration being wholesome shelter , wholesome food , sufficient clothing , and a useful education for their children . The surplus products of the colony—when any—should be disposed of , to repay the cost of its foundation and expense of direction ; and afterwards it should become tbe properly of the colonists , who would have before them the prospect of ultimate emancipation . There should be no air of charity about the

      placeno personal humiliation—but such order and enforcement of duty as would ensure tbe productiveness ofthe place . These arrangements made , let the government invite the destitute and able families of the unemployed to enter such a colony . Let there be no qualification . as to opinion—all shades of politics and theology should be equally elligible , and the coming , staying , or leaving , equally optional . Many would not come—many would not stay ; but if they per ished , their blood would not , as now , be at the Boor of the law , which binds up all property and leaves the poor to perish , or degrades them in the poor-house . There should be no degradation here . The colony should be such a place that a man of independent spirit could come to it . The principle of regulation should be , as far as possible—Assis tance without interference , help without dominion _.

      The objections made to the plans of Mr . Owen on the ground of their indefinitcness , have not been well founded . The English are not theorists ; their genius , essentially practical , deals directly with evils and remedies , ilr . Owen has done this with more good sense than he has been credited with . Perceiving social disturbances ariso from the collision of competitive interests , and the number of unemployed daily augmenting through tbe increase of population and the displacements of machinery , he has proposed the institution of Home Colonies

      as me best means of extinguishing pauperism , ana jntroducing habits of self-dependence , which must he the transition to that state of prudence and inteUigencc which shall regulate the human family in relation to the natural means of subsistence . Many regard the rudimental institution of Home _Colonies as a precursor to a more perfect system « Association . But the probability or improbability of this state ought not to clog the dis cussion or unm ediate improvements , which are quite independent of ultimate measures . Tract No . 2 , is a condensed reproduction of

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      facts and * arguments previousl y published in favour of the repeal ofthe ini quitous Taxes on Knowledge . The Part of the Beasoner contains the first four numbers of a new and improved Series of that publication . The "Beasoner Tracts , _"^ published with each number , constitute , a valuable feature of the new series . "We give the following sensible observations on 1 Oath Takiso . —If Sir Peter Laurie meant what he said the other day on the bench respecting oaths , it is reasonable to expect that his worship will lend his assistance to those who are desirous of " putting down , " amongst other follies of tbe age , the system of Bible-kissing now practised in our courts of

      justice . In the Times of February 19 th , in the report of the case of Mr . Kenealy , who stood charged with brutally ill-using his natural child , a boy six years old , Sir P . Laurie is stated to have declared— " If a person cannot speak the truth without being sworn , I would not believe him on bis oath . " It is clear he does not feel that thelips which have been forced by legal form to touch the New Testament , are more likely to breathe out words of truth , than those which have not "smacked the calves' skin . " He knows well enough that the oath is not only a mockery of religion , butan insult to the majesty of truth . It is to be hoped the time will soon come when this piece of mummery will be abolished . It cannot but

      carry with it effects most hurtful to the moral nature of man , and if so , must be a very pestilence in tbe heart of society . For what does it , by implication teach ? Just this : that men are under no obligation to speak the truth in ordinary every-day life —that in their general interconrse with the world it is of little consequence whether they utter falsehoods or not — and that the truth is only required of them when placed in a witness box , after they have kissed the outside of a book , the contents of which they are perhaps wholly ignorant of ; and because , if after this kissing they chance to be caught in a lie , the law can punish them for something called perjury . So that the law really says , 'I can't

      punish you for saying what is false ,, but for saying what is false after the ceremonvof being sworn . In a general way you may tell lies , if convenient , without any great sin , but in this particular instance you incur a penalty if you speak not the truth . ' To any reflective mind this must appear most demoralising , and doubtless it is so . It is placing form before spirit—an empty , trifling , irreverent bodymotion before the eternal , ever-beautiful idea of Truth . We should teach manking that their duty to Truth and Justice is antecedent to all oaths and outward forms . Until we do this we shall fail to build up in the mind a lofty conception of moral

      principle . The more we learn upon the crutch of the External the weaker will become the nervespring of the Inner soul . Here are a few lines from 'famous old Chaucer on the subject of swearing : — * Great swearing is a thing abominable ; And false swearing is yet more reprovable . The bi g be God forbade swearing at all , Witness on Matthew ; but in special Of swearing , saith the holy Jeremie , Thou shalt swear soth thine oathes and not lie . And swear in doom , and eke in righteousness , But idle swearing is a cursedness . Fbask Grant

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      Royal Polytechnic Institution. The Secon...

      ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . The second lecture of Dr . Bachhoffner ' s proves no less interesting than the first on the Philosophy of Scientific Recreation . The learned Doctor , in this , explains the principles governing the effects commonly known as light , and shadow , and colour ; although , at first , a subject seemingly devoid of popular interest , under such skilful management it beare an all absorbent theme . The most prominent features connected with the philosophy of sight were beautifully entered into by the Professor , one and all tending in their minute perfection to evidence the wisdom and skill of an all-wise Creator . Had one little muscle been forgot in the construction of the eye , we should have been under the necessity of using one hand to observe any object presented in the other . The involuntary motion , or winking of

      tho eye , could have as little been dispensed with , serving , by its peculiar motion , to close and preserve the eye from all adventitious matters . The movement ofthe upper lid ofthe eye is explained by the Doctor , when carried on involuntary , so extremely rapid as to preserve the image ofthe object without cessation upon the mind , bnt however quickly this winking be performed , designedly we cannot prevent ; the momentary loss of the image during such process , this ( the Doctor ) made the basis of a number of experiments . The next point _touched upon , was the operation of seeing not performed , as we may imagine , by the eyes , but by the mind . Dr . Bachhofiher concluded his admirable lecture by a number of most brilliant experiments . Sir Henry Bishop still continues his delightful lectures on Music daily .

      Medals Of James Morison, -Thehyceist . A...

      MEDALS OF JAMES MORISON , -THEHYCEIST . AXD GREAT MEDICAL REFORMER , May he had of all the Agents for the sale of Morison ' s Fills . PBICB ONE 8 _HILLTNG EACH . In Bronze , 10 s . 60 . ; in Silver , 21 . ; in Gold , IS . JAMES HOR _1 SON , the Hygeist proclaimed—THE IMMORTAL lsfly . —That the vital principle is in the blood . H A R Y EI 2 _ndly . —That all diseases arise from impurity ot the PROCLAIMED THE Wood . 3 rdly . —That such _im-CTRCTJLATION OP THE purity can only he eradicated by a purgative such as BLOOD . Morison ' s Vegetable Universal Medicine of the British College of Health , Newroad , London . 4 thly . — That the deadly poisons _Tised as medicines by the doctors are totally unnecessary in the cure of diseases .

      Pabiiamesiart Reform.—A Meeting Of Tbe B...

      Pabiiamesiart Reform . —A meeting of tbe Bethnal Green Befonn Society was held on Monday evening at the Norfolk Arms , William-street , Bethnal Green , which was numerously attended ; Mr . Joseph Dean in the chair . Mr . Hackman , one of the delegates to the National Reform Conference , made his report , which was approved and adopted . The meeting then proceeded to take into consideration the principal objects ofthe society , which were to obtain the elective franchise for all persons living in houses for which the landlord pays the rates and

      taxes , without the necessity of claiming to be rateu to every rate made during the four quarters of the year . —The Chairman stated that a bill had been prepared by Sir William Clay to remedy the evil , who wa 3 now in communication with the government and the law officers of the crown on the subject . —Mr . Wickbam urged upon the meeting the importance of watching most closely tho progress of this bill , which there was too much reason to fear would be rendered nugatory by the government officials . The meeting resolved to act upon Mr . Wickbam _' s suggestion .

      A _Mo-nsteb PLraAMsr . —In the fourth edition of Mr . Whiston ' s pamphlet , " Cathedral Trusts and their Fulfillment , " just published , he gives , at page 80 , the following list of ecclesiastical income , tithes and benefices held by a single clergyman : —Prebendal income , £ 1 , 000 ; tithes of Doddington , £ 347 10 s ; ditto of Hythe West , £ 12 ; ditto of Lympne , £ 503 ; ditto of Leynham , £ 765 12 s , Od ; ditto of Stone , £ 218 3 s . 6 d : Rectory of-Saltwood _, £ 685 ; cum Hvthe , £ 95 18 s ; Rectory of Ciiffe Rochester , £ 1 , 391 10 s 10 di ; glebe of ditto , 20 acres , £ 35 ; total , £ 5 , 053 14 s . l ( l _| d . " ¦ To look , " says the author of _"Eccksia Dei , " " at Ciiffe church , and think of ¦ is one of the most painful sights and scenes of home travel which a christian man

      can witness and weep over . Mr . Winston notes too that "The canonical rector has not moved from his cathedral orbit to Ciiffe more than once in the last 12 years . " And in his preface Mr . Whiston states that to the sum of £ 5 , 05314 s . 10 id . " are to be added , great tithes of Lynsted , £ 627 13 s . 10 | d ; great tithes of I wade , £ 535 lCs . 3 d ; total £ 1 , 16310 s . lid ; making thereal total of £ 6 , 2175 s ; to wldch report gives sometJdng more . Neither Mr . Whiston , nor the writer of " Ecclesia Dei , " add the name of this unfortunate churchman . As , however , we have before remarked on the case without any such false delicacy , we 'may now repeat that he is the Rev . Archdeacon Crofts . —Daily News . Post-office Notice , —The following notice has been sent to the deputy-postmasters , by command of the Postmaster-General : — " General Post-office , May 12 , 1850—It is found that many _postmasters still forward

      , on the Saturday night , in their ' London through bundles , letters and newspapers which ought to be kept over for the despatch to London the following day , viz ., letters for London and the London district ; letters for forei gn parts ; inland letters , prepaid b y money ; unpaid fetters ; letters for Guernsey and Jersey ; and newspapers . Particular attention must be paid to the previous instructions , which direct that the ' London through' bundles are to contain none but stamped forward letters , and the state ' s or government letters . No registered letters , unpaid letters , or letters prepaid by money , or newspapers , are to be sent , nor any letters addressed to London or the London district , except the government letters . Postmasters at the outports must , however , forward to London , as usual , all foreign , colonial , and ship letters landed at those ports . "

      The Cojmissiohehs of the Board of Customs have just issued an order that no person can be appointed to fill a clerkship in the Customs hereafter who ba 3 not a knowledge of the Freneh and German languages , and of arithmetic and algebra .

      Thejxh1b1tion Of The Industry ., Of All ...

      THEJXH 1 B 1 TION OF THE INDUSTRY ., OF ALL NATIONS . THE GREAT HUMBUG OF 1851 . Fellow Countrymen , —Workers , either with head or hands , who take an interest in securing for honest English industry its just reward—grant me , I pray , a few moments attention while I inflate this great bubble of 1851 , till it burst , and be resolved into its primitive lixivium of soap and water ! The schemeof an Exhibition ofthe Industry of all Nations , resisted by successive administrations , has , at length , been foisted upon the public by a court intrigue , carried on . with some five or six members of the Society of Arts in the Adelphi . —of which society

      mnce Albert is presidenfc-who in Prince Albert s name , and under his especial patronage , have succeeded in launching this unwieldy project on the vast ocean of British gullibility , and , at the same time , have thrust themselves into lucrative appointments on this Royal Commission—ever a fertile source of jobbing and corruption . In a state of transition * from an artificial , high duty system , called protective , to a more sound and healthy one , we have not yet obtained free trade . The duty on foreign corn has been repealed ; the duty on slave sugar reduced , by canting and recanting Lord John Russell ; but many important necessaries of life are still as heavily taxed ; tea , some hundred per cent : beer , naner .

      tobaccoalmost the only luxury of the working man—twelve hundred per cent , the Press , now consequently become , with few exceptions , the organ of the Money Power—the window tax , it appears , is above the working roan ' s level of luxury-all these taxes are still raised ; yet despite this onerous amount of taxation—which the chief promoters of this precious scheme are-most deeply interested in maintaining at the cost of the productive classes—it is proposed thus suddenly to drive the English artizau and piechanic- _^ still an unenfranchised political cipherinto direct competition with all the nations of the world . Cheapness , mark me , —( " tremendous sacrifice ! " " nominal prices ! " ) -is one ofthe qualifications of articles for exhibition , though cheap things

      wijlbe found dearenongh at last , —after the mischief is done . If this forced introduction of continental prices for manufactures be found necessary for the Money Power , at all events , let the working classes msist upon being first relieved from the system of indirect taxation upon articles of consumption , which falls directly enough upon them , the producers , and therefore consumers also . Let the people also demand how the National Debt is to be paid off , and put a stop to the Whig million loans to landlords out ofthe surplus taxation from the people . The productive classes will be the first to suffer by this forced reduction in the price of all _manu * factored commodities ; the difference must be paid by the working man by a reduction of his wages , unless relieved by a proportionate reduction of taxation . He requires untaxed raw material ,

      untaxed necessaries of life , and the Whigs repeal the duty _' on Bricks ! lie asks , small blame to him , for Universal Suffrage—and a Royal Commission is issued to devise means for increasing the already fearful amount of competition , the devil take the hindmost principle , against which he now finds it so difficult to contend . Who is to profit , I ask , by this reduction ? The Money Power , now becoming omnipotent , unless the people secure to themselves their fair share of political influence . People of England , remember the railway mania 1 and tremble , when you reflect that political power in this country , is still monopolized by men who parcelled you out and sold you , like the bullocks in Smithfield , to the highest bidder : as the Church sells a Cure of Souls —whose salvation she tells you depends upon her teaching . Heaven help poor souls with such teachers !

      This Royal Commission is not content with inviting foreigners to exhibit their wares duty free , i . e . to open a shop in Hyde Park , but has also offered them money premiums to tempt them over to complete with native industry , and has obtained considerable sums of money for that purpose — the foreigners not subscribing one farthing . The privilege of exhibiting his wares , duty free , would surely have been a sufficient temptation to tbe foreignerit would be a better advertisement for him than a column of the Times . In these day of steam-boats and railways , the trader runs no risk of having his goods damaged , _tn transitu , and the cost is insignificant _^ . The foreigner will pay no English rate , rents , nor taxes , and willexhibit at our expense , witha sure sale afterwards , and probably future demand for his goods . He may and probably will deprive the " legitimate trader , " who has to pay English rent , rates ,

      and taxes , of his regular customers , who have already and to a perceptible amount , stopped their orders , " until the great Exhibition of 1851 ; " and when the Exhibition is over , to whom will the orders be piven ? Wh to the foreigner , to be sure , and his foreign novelties—novelties to John Bull at least , however ancient they may be . Boll ! you are a great fool : but if you allow yourself to be bamboozled by this barefaced imposition , this imprudent job , this conspiracy of art-manufacturers—who can't sell their trumpery wares then I say , and I say it with the highest respect for your many virtues , that you are a greater fool than I took you for . Therefore , I say , brave Bull , take timely warning ! First very widely extend the suffrage , and cut down your ' Budget , as it is , " to what " it might be ; f _aee Mr . Samuda ' s pamphlet , just published by Effingham Wilson , ) then send for the best and most skilful actuaries—not the _Whis _; tax

      eaters" _With such old Counsellors , " as Peel , " advise , " and pay off your debt like an honest brave Bull as you are . When you have accomplished these important preliminaries ; when you have emancipated yourself from thraldom of the feudal Whigs of the soil ; when you have returned a House of Commons which shall represent the People—not the Whigs and the tax eaters —when you have honestly paid your Debt , —then , but not till then , invite your foreign competitors to exhibit specimens of their bandy work . But if you do not mind what you are about , my worthy friend , the foreigner _« iii come over , first win your prizes , carry off your regular customers , and then laugh at you for your pains , as a silly , gullible old fool . And you , my poor Bcll , will not laugh , unless it be at your own folly . Your sincere friend and well-wisher , May 1 st , 1850 _Thalaba . _ACAnBMicuB .

      •M Metropolitan Interments Bill. On Mond...

      • M METROPOLITAN INTERMENTS BILL . On Monday evening a crowded meeting , convened by the Metropolitan Sanitary Association , was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern , Strand , in favour of this bill . Lord R . Grosvenor , M . P ., filled the chair , and on the platform were Lord Ebrington , M . P ., Mr . Mackinnon , M . P ., Mr . O . Thompson , M . P ., Mr . Wyld , M . P ., the Rev . Dr . Watlington , and many others who have distinguished themselves in tbe cause of sanitary reform . The Chairman , in opening the proceedings , observed , that the subject they had assembled to discuss was one of extreme importance to every single member of tbe country—the decent interment of the dead , or , as the Patriarch Abraham had more appropriately described it , "the burial of tho dead

      out of our sight ; because when the spiritual part of us had winged its way from the last remains of mortality , however much they might have been cherished during life , nature spoke to us in a warning voice , not to be misunderstood , that if we had any regard for the survivors we must consent to bury the dead out of our sight . Until recently it was supposed that our system of sepulture wa 3 carried on in a decent manner ; but public feeling had been suddenly disturbed by the revelations contained in Mr . Walker ' s pamphlet , which revealed to their astonished eyes that scenes were enacted in this country which not only were not creditable to us , but which would have disgraced Hottentots and Esquimaux . The parties impugned bad loudly

      denied the fact . Inquiries were made ; a case of most crying evil was established ; and it was discovered , that of all the nations of the earth between Calcutta and California , England was the only one , with all her boasted civilisation , that had failed to make provision for the decent interment of the dead ; and not only that , but we had suffered interests to grow up in perpetuation of that horrible system which it almost defied human ingenuity to remove . We had at last a practical remedy in the shape of a bill now before Parliament . ( Hear . ) The principle on which that bill was founded would meet , he thought , with universal concurrence . [ Cheers and "No , no . " ) The principle to which he alluded was this—that that which was of

      universal concern should not be left to chance arrangements or isolated exertions ; but that in tbe case of the interment ofthe dead it should be carried into effect by those who had no particular interest to serve , who should be entirely responsible to public opinion , and who should carry their duty into effect in such a manner , that every man , woman , and child , who chose to inquire , should be able to ascertain exactly in what manner the remains of their friends and relatives were to he disposed of . ( Cheers and uproar , and cries of " So they can now . " ) The reason why that measure most strong ly commended itself to his sympathies was that it ' was for the benefit of the working classes . ( ' _« Oh , " and cheers . ) He firmly believed

      that there was implanted in the worKing classes of this country the strongest sentiment for the dead . He knew instances in which they had almost starved themselves to secure the decent interment of their friends ; but that honourable , honest , dignified feeling had been most grossly outraged by the scenes they had been compelled to witness .. They might think it a sentimental or fanciful idea of his ; but he did indulge a hope it these national cemeteries should be established , as was contemplated by this bill , at no very extreme distance from the metropolis , that on the Sunday the working classes of this great metropolis would go forth on the railways for the sake of searching out the spot and planting a flower on the tomb of some dear lost one . ( Cheers . ) He

      •M Metropolitan Interments Bill. On Mond...

      .. ' . . . •¦ _i > • " _¦<¦'¦' - ¦¦¦ ¦ ' ,:. ~ ' _JJ ? P . t , Roing ' to discus ' s the bill in extreme deul ; their objebi ; _wasTwhile'the _dangeFwas'iinmi- ' ent , by an overwhelming majorityithat evening . to now to the government that they participated in . oat honourable feeling and wero . anxious to apply u- ? _arliest possible-remedy to a state of things _rhwh _eyeryimanimust sincerely deplore . ( Cheers . ) Mr . Maokjnnon came ' forward to move the : first _esolufcion , but was subjected to annoyances arid _ih-Brruptions of such a nature as rendered his remarks 'most inaudable . He observed that the _underakers ( from whom the opposition appeared to emaate ) could not anfffirhv this hill . It . _eould not hA .

      supposed that the government could consent to turn undertakers , and thoso who were already in the if M _? ess wouW , no doubt continue to be employed . Jf there were nothing ' else , he should-support this measure on account of the present high charges , so oppressive to the poor that they were often ' compelled to keep the dead in their houses for three We * l month . ( A storm of interruption here met the speaker which lasted for some time , the attempts of the chairman , and other gentlemen to obtain order being wholly ineffectual ) . The hon . member was atlength able to add , that it was for the welfare of the community ,. the heajth of the great metropolis , and the happiness of the country absolutel y requisite that . tho system of extramural

      interment should be adopted . The resolution ho had to submit was this - . — "That in the opinion of this meeting , the present system of burial in the metropolis is prejudicial to health , incompatible with decency and solemnity , demoralising in its tendency , and unnecessarily expensive . " After a few words from Mr . G . Thompson , who successfull y appealed to the meeting to hear the speaker who was to follow , Lord _Ebrisoton , M . P ., presented himself in support of the resolution . It had been calculated that in and around the metropolis about 52 , 000 persons died annuall y . What became of their bodies—where were the spaces provided to bury the dead out of sight . ( A voice , " Plenty of cemeteries . " ) Yos , but how was the poor man to convey his relations

      * ioL i ' Cneers _- ) Prom a Parliamentary return of * 1843 he found that , there wero , of parochial churchyards , about 170 acres ; of Protestant Dissenters , 20 acres ; of private or commercial burial grounds , 13 acres ; and about half an acre belonging to the Roman Catholics . Now , about 110 corpses might be annually put away in an acre , and before the ground was re-opened those corpses had returned to their parent dust . Theaverage in these burial grounds had been about 191 , or nearly double ; but in one , St . James , Clerkenwell , there were as many as 3 , 000 to an a ore , and there were ten others with upwards of 1 , 000 to the acre . The effect on the soil was that it turned

      black , ditchy , and greasy , offensive to the senses and most prejudicial to health . Was not this a disgrace to the country and revolting to the feelings of a civilised man ? This was a task which the government had not undertaken as a chivalrous crusade against public opinion , uninvited to it by anybody ; but in compliance with almost unanimous public feeling . The princi ple of bargaining in such matters as the burial of the dead was most revolting , especially at a time when such bargaining had of necessity to be made ; and he denied that , under parochial control , such arrangements as the government . proposed could be satisfactorily carried out . Let the details ofthe bill be discussed as much as they pleased , but let them assert the principle of the

      bill . Mr . Nodes , who announced himself as an undertaker , after considerable uproar , was permitted to address the meeting from the platform . He objected to the term " unnecessarily expensive" in the resolution , and denied that funerals as conducted by undertakers were more expensive than was absolutely necessary . Let the cemetery companies consent to receive the bodies at any hour , and not confine the undertakers to one particular time , and the charges would be considerably reduced . There

      was , he contended , nothing in the bill to guarantee that charges hereafter should not bo as high as at present . He looked upon the proceedings as a " dead set against his profession , " intended to fatten those who are already fat enough . Mr . Box , another undertaker , moved an amendment to expunge the objectionable words , insisting that the competition amongst the trade was too great to admit of exorbitant charges . The question was then put , and the resolution was carried by an immense majority , not above thirty hands appearing to be held up for the

      amendment . Mr . G . Citoickshank was then announced to move the next resolution , and essayed to speak , but a disturbance that had commenced amongst the crowd , which was swaying backward and forward at the rear of the meeting , prevented his proceeding . Suddenly a rush was made—the temporary barriers which separated those who had tickets from the great mass were broken down , the reporters' table was upset , and their notes dispersed . All was immediately in the utmost confusion ; and Lord R . Grosvenor manfully maintained his pos t , it was evident the proceedings * could not go on . His Lordship at length intimated as much , and the meeting abruptly terminated .

      Deputation Of Protectionists To Lord Joh...

      DEPUTATION OF PROTECTIONISTS TO LORD _JOHH RUSSELL . On Saturday last a deputation from tbe delegates who assembled at the Crown and Ancher _, in the course of the week , waited on Lord John Russell , at his official residence in Downing-street , to present to him an address agreed to bj the " Conference , " held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern , on the 7 th inst . Mr . G . F . Youso headed the deputation , and read the address which was agreed to at the meeting of delegates .. After a desultory conversation , in which the bad temper displayed by the meeting was the principal topic of discussion , Lord John Russell said : I can onl y say that I take upon myself the _whols responsibility of any advice which I may feel it my duty to give to my

      sovereign . My experience leads me directly to the opposite conclusion to that arrived at by you upon the point , whether we ought to go on with Free Trade , or return to the principles of Protection and Restriction , nor do I think it desirable to dissolve parliament in order to arrive at the sense of the country on the subject . With respect to the suffering which is stated to exist , though I think much of what is said is incorrect , I have heard sufficient from some parts of the country to know that deep suffering does exist , and I am aware that that suffering is partly attributable to the recent change in our commercial laws , and I believe it to be inevitable . Ten years since I clearly saw that this country required some _chanse of those laws affecting supply , as it was

      yearly becoming more commercial . My object was to make the transition so as to occasion as little suffering as possible . I am sarry to say that a combination of agricultural and other interests decided that- no necessity for any change of our system existed in 1840 , though the opinion of parliament in 1 & 16 became completely changed . A general election followed their decision in 1847 , and the electors decided to continue the policy the House of Commons had laid down in 1840 . 1 do not think it was very wise on the part of the interests in 1840 not to seek some compromise of the great question which I then brought under consideration . I think it would be far more unwise now to pretend to reimpose protective duties , for , so far from that settling the question , I believe it would Rive rise to fresh agitation for alterations of the laws , which would be injurious to the protected interests

      themselves ; and I believe that nothing could be more injurious to the permanent interests of the country than for parliament to impose protective duties in 1851 , which would again lead to agitation and their repeal in 1852 or 1853 . All return to the former system being , as I believe , impossible , it may be desirable to equalise , if possible , the charges upon land , which I believe to be the wish of all parties . However great or difficult the change , I believe that the general aspect of the country is encouraging , and that it is the duty and interest of all parties to endeavour to adapt themselves to it . Entertaining these views , I feel it my duty , either as a minister of the crown or a member of parliament , to ac . in conformity with them , and if I entertained your views I should act accordingly . Mr . Youso and Mr . Guthrie having addressed a few words to his lordship in support of their views , the deputation withdrew .

      Protectionist Deputation To Lord Stanley...

      Protectionist Deputation to Lord Stanley . — After the deputation had left Lord John Russell ' s official residence , in D owning-street , on Saturday las * , they proceeded by appointment to wait on Lord Stanley , at the mansion of the Earl of Eglinton in St . Jamea ' s-square , where Mr . Layton , as chairman of the deputation , presented an address to his lordship , in his " acknowledged character of leader of the great Protection Party in the House of Lords . " In bis reply , Lord Stanley counselled patience and perseverance . Step by stop , if not the quickest , was at least the soundest , policy- It was only by gaining first one man and then the other that , in a permanent body like the House of Lords , they could convert a minority into a majority in favour of the

      protective principles . Hi 3 lordship concluded his address as follows : — " If you ask my advice , I say persevere in the course you have adopted . Agitate the c untry from one end to the other . Continue to call meetings in every direction . Do not fear , do not flinch from discussion . By all means accept the offer of holding a meeting in that magnificent building at Liverpool ; and in our greatest commercial towns show that there is a feeling in regard to the result of our so-called free trade widely different from that which was anticipated by the free traders , and from that which did prevail only a few years ago . Your efforts may not & e so soon crowned with success as you hope j but , depend upon it , let us stand hand to hand firmly together , let the landlord , the tenant , and the labourer—aye ; and tho country shopkeeper—aye , before long , the

      Protectionist Deputation To Lord Stanley...

      _™ _nnij _^ r « hjmt _etf , be . called on to show and to prove what the effects of this _Experiment _aSnd sure as * e stand together , _iJSSSSEwS termined to _asserteur rights , so , certainly , at the expense , it . may . be ,. intense suffering , and perhaps of ruin to many-ofruin . which , Golknowsfff I _cVd avert I would omit no effort for that purpose-but ultimately , certainly and securely we shall attain our object , and recede from that insane policy which has been pursued . during the last few years . I have now only to return you my most grateful thanks for the compliment you have paid me in wishing me to receive this Deputation . I have heard with the liveliest interest the statements of Mr . Layton . If in any

      part of the country—for now through you I address every district—if . there be but one district in which a suspicion is . entertained that I . am flinching from or hesitating in my advocacy of those principles on which ! stood in conjunction with my late deeplylamented friend Lord George Bentirick , I authorise you—one ' and all of you—to assure those whom you represent , that in me they will find no hesitation , no flinching , and no change of opinion ; that , attached as I ever have been to the principle of protection , that attachment remains unchanged , and I only look for the moment when it may be possible for us to use the memorable words of the Duke of Wellington on the field of Waterloo , and to say ' Up guards , and at them !' " \'

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      Tue Biteh Bitteh.—A Man In The Dress Of ...

      TuE BITEH Bitteh . —A man In the dress of a workman was lately walking in tbe Btreets of Berlin with a packet in his hand , sealed with five seals , and inscribed with an address , and a note that it contained one hundred thalers in treasury bills . As the bearer appeared to be at a loss , he was accosted by a passenger , who asked him what he was looking for . The simple countryman placed the packet in the inquirers hands , and reques ted that he would read the address . The reply was made as with an agreeable surprise , "Why this letter is for me ; I have been expecting it for a long while ! " The _messenger upon this demanded , _teti thalers for the carriage of the packet , which ' was readily paid , with a' liberal addition to the porter . The new possessor of the packet hastened to an obscure corner to examine his prize , but , on his breaking the seals found ¦ nothing but a few sheets of blank paper , on _" which was written "Done . "

      A Grbkk Maid being asked what fortune she would bring her husband , replied , "I will bring him what gold cannot purchase—a heart _unsootted , and virtue without a stain , which is all that descended to me from my parents . " Novel Use of the Electric Telegraph . —On _Wednesday week the following announcement was posted outside the window of the Electric Teleeraph office , Stockport : — "The Queen delivered of a Prince at 8 . 20 this morning by Electric Telegraph . " The Judge ' s Warning —The great Lord Chief Justice flo . lt , when youne . was verv extravagant , and

      belonged to a club of wild fellows , most of whom took to an infamous course of life . When his lordship was engaged at the Old Bailey , a man was tried and convicted of a robbery on the highway , whom the judge remembered to have been one of his old companions . Moved by that curiosity which is natural on a retrospection of past life , Holt , ( thinking the fellow did not know him ) asked what had become of such and such of his associates . The culprit , making a low bow . and fetching a deep sigh , said , "Ah , my lord , they are all lunged but your lordship and I . " _.-. ¦ •' :

      : Mrs . Partington ik _Iil-Hbalth . — " La , me !" sighed Mrs . Partington , "here I have been sufferin ' the begamies of death for three mortal weeks . Fust , I was seized with a painful phrenology in the left Hampshire cf the brain , which was exceeded by a stoppage of the left ventilator of the heart . This gave me an inflammation in the borax , and now I ' m sick with the chloroform morbus . There is no blessin' like that of health , particularly when you ' re sick . " A Trick . —A shrewd fellow , in extreme poverty , resolved to get credit for a miracle . He put the

      yolks of several eggs into a hollow cane , and stopped the end with butter ; then walking into an ale-house he begged to fry a single egg for his dinner . The smallness of the repast excited curiosity , and they gave him a morsel qf lard ; he stirred the lard with his cane , and to the surrounding peasants , produced a handsome omelet . This miracle established his fame . He sold omelets , and grew rich by his ingenuity . Woman ' s Makeshift . —Among the papers of a female bigamist , brought before the metropolitan magistrates on the 20 th ult ., were the following lines in manuscript : — A thousand faults in man we find ,

      Merit in him we seldom meet , Man is inconstant and unkind , Man is false and indiscreet , - Man is capricious , jealous , free , Vain , insincere , and trifling too ; And yet the women all agree , For want of better—hb must do ! Scholastics of Kerry . —B . Here ' s a fine , fat , boldlooking buuncing B . Say Bee ! ( Bay !) No , not Bay ; try again . ( Terry : Bee !) Capital That'll do . Mind it ' s not a flying bee , not a humming-bee , nor a bumble-bee , that sports yellow satin breeches , and wears the point of a needle in its tail . It ' s a better B than the B ' s in your father ' s garden _, and you may touch this B over and over again , and

      he'll never sting you as the other JB's do ; but I'll be after stinging you , maybe , tomorrow , if you don't remember him again ; and I'd wish you obsarve that he stands for the Baker , and Barber , and for Ballyheige , and _Ballrclare , and Ballycleave , all noted towns for fairs in our counthry , and maybe you'll be fighting at them yet , as your father and grandfather have done before you —( Terry grins , )—and don't forget that B stands for Beef , and Bacon , and Butter ( if we could only get at them , ) and for Blarney , our renowned castle besieged by that thief o' the night , Cromwell , who thought to stop our mouths with his gunpowther and cannon-balls , but was very much mistaken . I thing you'll know him well now , bo move your finger down to

      O . ' Oh ! Did you ever see the full moon rounder than that ? or an apple ? OnIy the Kerry pippins are round enough every way , till ye begin to bite them ; and this poor fellow is as flat as a pancake . Look at it , Terry , and just think what soort of a noise you'd make , if I tuk a fancy to give your ear a little bit of a pinch , so . ( Terry gets frightened and roars out Oh !) There did ' nt I tell you so , my dear boy ? And you'll never forget it , now it ' s wanst been pinch'd into you ! 0 , that ' s a greater letter entirely . What would I be without it ? or any of the ould O'Sullivans ? or even the new branches ?—( but I ' m ofthe raal stock ) —or the O'Connell's , or O Tooles , or O'Callaghans , or O'Bymes , or O'Gradys , O'Donnels , or

      O'Shaughnessys , or 0 Flahertys , or O Briens , and whole regiments and armies ofO ' s that sprung out of our ancient nobility ? Sure they might as well kse their eyes or their cars ( that some of them did lose and could not never get back again , ) or their very noses off their faces , as lose their O ' s . Then think of the round of a cart-ffheel _, and of that big black-Riiard , Oliver Cromwell , with Omedawns and Orthographies , and cannon-balls , and the pinch of the ear ( Terry feds his ear ) and I'll go bail you'll never forget the O . But it ' s time we're losing . S . Here now—Is _' nt this a lovely letter , 'ferry ? Did you ever see a Swan in full sail ? That ' s him to the life , if there was only a sup of water under him . You must call out Ess , ( Terry : Ess !) Yohavo it

      nate . Soc how stately he is ! a mighty , elegant , stout , clover-looking letter , and one of tho best in the whole alphabet , being the father , and grandfather , and greatgrandfather of all the Saints in tho blessed calendar—there would be no Saints at all , but for his _introduction . So you must rivirince the S beyant all the other letters ; and remimber , that he stands lor Sunday , and Soap , wanst a week before going to overtake the Mass ; and Salt with the potatoes that day anyhow ; and Saxons ( bad scran to them)—that driv us into holes and corners ( myself of tho raal old stock that says that ); and School , where yer getting into great learning already , and soon will come to the history of Scipio , king ofthe ould Romans , and Solomon , that built the _biggest chapel in the world ; and Sampson ,

      that' pulled it down again over his own shoulders . And now , Terry dear , don't forget S stands for Straw _? and remind yer father of the holes that ' s in the roof , that ho promised to mend up for mo agin winter—and that it ' s for an O'Suluvan . T . Down you pop now to T , a raal nate letter , balanced as true as a rope-dancer at the fair . Ball out Tee ! ( Terry : Tay !) No , that ' s Tay what tho quality do bo drinking with cranio and lumps of sugar in it . Try again , Tec ! ( Terry : Tee !) That ' s right—my dear—and you'll know him again , when you'll see Mick nalloran coming up from the river , with tho two piggins of water hanging aerass the lift over his shoulders . You must know he stands for Tutor—and I beingyour Tutor , he stands

      for mo—and likewise tor Turt—and Two-pence ( the regulations of this flourishing Academy ) and Tiber , the great river that rims through Rome—and Throy , a big city in the Aste , that was taken by tho Phenishons just before they came to settle in ould Ireland . It also stands for Tarn , in tho county Meath , tho capital of the counthry in ancient times , and twice the size of Dublin—that ' s only a new city , and them that lives in it none of the raal Irish at all , but mostly now comers , an' very troublesome people and hard to plaso . My hand t ' ye , I wou ldn t give a stone out of ould Thritiity for all the burnt bricks and smoky chimblys in Dublin , that weio never heavd tell of in tho ould times ! Movo along _—DiiWin University Magazine

      now . . , _D'Israku _, in his Curiosities of Lwatme , states that the four ages of typography have produced no loss than 3 Oil _. OOO works ! Taking each woik at _hreoSmcs , and reokoning _eaolriropression to consSoiiyo 300 copies ( a vory moderate supposition ? tho actual amount of volumes which have issuoYfrom the presses _^ Europe down totho year 1816 , _appoars to be 3 , 277 , 040 , 0001 :

      Tue Biteh Bitteh.—A Man In The Dress Of ...

      John Soalbs , of Mirfiold , a labouring man , aged _^ years _^ _has'beeeh married three times ; his first wife lived seven years , during _; which time she bore him seven children , having twice twins . His second wife lived also seven years , and during that time she bore him six children , having once twins . And his third wife , who is yet _nlivej has born him seven children in four years and four days , having " three times twins . " The said John Scales has not one single tooth in his head , his front teeth being all of them double . —Leeds Times . A convict named Murphy , lying under sentence of death in . Ireland , on . being asked how he was g ° j K on , said , " Oh , sir , I would get on very well if I had more to eat and a smoke of the pipe to shorten the day for me . "

      A OUNCE TOWABDS EARTH . ¦ Uear girl , dont ' t carry your head so high , ' nu . * _^ 1 J P provokiRgly mocking ; w I ° _M ? r e l" 8 _h « ng up your eye , vvitli tltet big hole in your stocking ! . A Flower _*? the _Hbart . _-a wife , full of truth , innocence , and love , is the prettiest flower a man can wear next to his heart .

      Cures For The Unculied! Hullo Way's. Ointment. An Extraordinary Cure Of Scrofula, Or King's Evil.

      CURES FOR THE UNCUliED ! HULLO WAY'S . OINTMENT . An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula , or King ' s Evil .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 18, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_18051850/page/3/