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2 THE NORTHERN STAR. December 26 184g
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EXTRAORDINARY CORES
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WANT OF THK "COMMON NECESSARIES OF LIFE....
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i SEIZURE OF CRACOW.. Last week a public...
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Ten Hours Bill.—A meeting ofthe delegate...
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V THE ANDOVER UNION AGAIN!! We take the ...
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SOBSBM ©fiifflH OF THE WHITEHALL MuD-LaM...
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HOW TO TAKE IN SNOBS. A case was heard a...
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DESTITUTION AND DEATH. A case occurred i...
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FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION AT BRISTOL. Bbist...
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MYSTERIOUS CASE OF POISONING AT LUTON, I...
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CURIOSITIES OF THE CATTLE SHOW . One par...
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FoBTt'MES made bv Adveehsinc— From a sma...
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2 The Northern Star. December 26 184g
2 THE NORTHERN STAR . December 26 184 _g
Extraordinary Cores
EXTRAORDINARY CORES
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HOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT . wonderful Cure of dreadful Ulcerous Sores in the Face and Leg , ia Prince Edward Inland . The Truth of this Statement was duly attested before a Magistrate . I , _Hooh JlACDOSAlD , of Lot 55 , in King's County , do _hereby declare , that a most won hrful preservation of my iie has beea effected by the use of Holloway ' s Pills and Ointment ; and 1 furthermore declare , that I was very much afflicted with Ulcerous Sores in my Face and Leg ; so severe was my _complaint , that the greater part of my nose and the roof of my mouth -was eaten away , and my leg had three large ulcers on * , and that I applied to
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ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE OF _COXSTITUTION AL OR ACQUIRED DEBILITIES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM , last Published , k new and * , mportant Edition of the Silent Friend on _ETurnan Frailty . Price 2 s . 64 ., and sent free to any part of the United Kingdom on the receipt of a Post OfSae Order for 3 s . 60 . A MEDICAL WORK on the INFIRMITIES ef the GENERATIVE SYSTEM , in both sexes ; being an _enquiry- into tbe concealed cause tbat destroys physical energy , and the ability of manhood , ere vigour has established her empire : —with Observations on the baneful effects of SOLITARY INDULGENCE and INFECTION ; local ana _-constitutional WEAKNESS , NERVOUS IRRI-
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Constitution . To persons entering upon Ihe _responBibili ties of matrimony , and who ever na _« the _misfortuoy ¦ iur . their more youthful days to be : affected . _wrfhenn vgorm of these diseases , a prious course _; of ; thismedicm _highly essential , and of the greatest . importance _^ 0 . 8 ' ° re serious affections are visited upon an innooir * * v « « . _-iffi-jrin- , from a . want of these-simple , remea than perhaps half the world i " aware of ; for , itm ab _* _» _remtmbwed , where the fountain is polluted , the _strust that now from it cannot be pure .
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COUGHS , HOARSENESS , AND ALL ASTHMAT AND PULMONARY COMPLAINTS . EEFECtCAl . I . Y CORED BV KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES . Upwards of thirty years experience has proved the infallibility of these Lozenges in the cure of Winter Cough , Hoarseness , Shortness of Breath , and other Pulmonary Maladies . * The patronage of his Majesty , the King of Prussia , and his Majesty the Kins of Hanover , has been bestowed on tli . in ; its also that of tbe Nobility and Clergy of the United Kmgdon ; and , above all the Faculty have especially rec immended them as a remedy of unfailing ufiicacyf Testimonials are continually _received _conbrma . tory Of the value Ot these Lozenges , ana _proving the perfect sal ety of their use , ( for thej contain no Opium nor any preparation of that drug ;) so that _th _^ ymay be given to females ofthe must delicate constitution , aud children ofthe most teuderest years without hesitation ,
1 (Death From The Lath Intense ' Cold And The
1 ( Death from the lath intense ' cold and the
Want Of Thk "Common Necessaries Of Life....
WANT OF THK "COMMON NECESSARIES OF LIFE . —On Saturday an inquest was held afc New Brompton , oh the body of Anne Boyce , aged 56 years , whose death it was alleged had been caused by the want of the common necessaries of life . Deceased was the widow of a soldier in the Life Guards , who died about two years ago , and usually obtained her living by washing and charing . She had latterly had Is . Cd . per week from the parish of St . George's in the East . She rented the back kitchen of a house in Yeoman ' srow , for which she agreed to pay ls . 3 d . per week , and it was in this apartment she was found by her landlord , stretched upon two hoards placed across a couple of chairs , without anything under her or over her , and in a state of complete nudity . She appeared to be very cold and faint , and nearly insensible .
There was a bit of fire in the grate , but not bigger than could be held in the hollow of his hand , and there was neither food nor a farthing of money in the room . As soon as her wretched condition was discovered , she was helped to a cup of tea and some bread and butter , but she gradually sunk , and was found lying dead ou the floor on Wednesday morning , at five o ' clock , having , it is supposed , fallen off the boards . The deceased was never seen to have foud all the time she was in lodging ; but she was a very clos *; woman , and was not in the habit of speaking of her circumstances . She had often been asked to go into the workhouse , hut she refused , saying , , she would rather die in the streets . The jury returned a verdict that the deceased died from exposure to the intense cold and the want of the common necessaries of life . Bam-low was 60 miles within the walls , whichl were 75 feet tkkk and 300 feet higb .- _^ _uer y . _fl J
I Seizure Of Cracow.. Last Week A Public...
i SEIZURE OF CRACOW . . Last week a public meeting took place at the National Ilall , Ilolbom , to express public opinion on tho late violation of the treaties of Vienna ; and on thc evident determination of the three Powers to annihilate the Polish nation . Our reporter attended and furnished us with a report of the proceedings . It happened that one of the _conductors of tin ' s Journal was compelled through illness to absent himself from the office from Thursday last , and in his absence the report was omitted , much to the chagrin of the writer of this explanation who , , is ; most earnestly desirous of giving publicity ;!* 0 every demonstration in favour of Poland without regard to places or persons . No . matter where held , or who the speakers , tlie " cause" is everything with us . The following is an outline of the proceedings .
Dr . Bowsing was called to' tbe chair , and said it might , perhaps , be in their remembrance that nearly at the close of the last session of Parliament a motion was brought before the House of Commons , calling for an inquiry to ascertain whether the treaties of Vienna had not been violated , and also to ascertain the results of the recent calamitous occurrences in Galicia . He confessed that in that motion , so presented ; he felt little sympathy . He bad : neve r recognized those treaties as the laws of Europe ; he had never admitted that the destinies of man depended on the . arrangements made by those who tyrannized over him . ( Hear , hear ) He felt , on the contrary , that as those treaties were made by despots in the interests of despotism , so b y despots they would be broken in the same interests of despotism _, ( diet « . ) He pledged himselt , however , on the occasion
to which he referred , that if no other member of the House of Commono would undertake to bring forward the Polish question in its integrity , he would do so himself ; . and that he would aalc , not whether tfie treaties cf Vienna had been violated , but whether the present position of Poland was consistent with the politics and the peace of Europe , and the universal rights of man . ( "Hear , " and cheers . ) He congratulated them that Cracow existed no longer as ' an independent republic . The question now under their consideration . _^ did not relate mi-rely to the welfare Of two hundred thousand CracoviHns , hut of twenty millions of Poles ; it did not affect inertly a small fragment of territory , but it embraced thc interests of tlio whole of that _aBcient country between the Borysthcnea and the Oder , and between the Carpathian Mountains and the Baltic Sea . He had said he rrjoiced that this was not a mere Cracovian question ; and yet he could not but feel that
libertj and civilization owed some debts to Cracow . He could not forg _.-t that Cracow was the scat of the "first university founded in northern continental Europe He could not forget that Cracow was the place where the first Polish press was e . stabliihed . He could not forget that from Cracow emanated one of the noblest declara . tions ever made in favour of universal religious liberty , ( Hear , hear . ) He could uot forget that Cracow was _' the p lace where the ancient monarchs of Poland were crowned , and where their remains still reposed . He could not forget that with Cracow was _associated with the name of Copernicus ; and that in that city were deposited the remains of _Cnsimir , of Sobieski , of Ponia towski , and of Koscuisko . ( Hear , hear . ) He called upon them to give the persecuted Poles _thvir help , and the assurance of their friendly and fraternal affection , The work in which they were now engaged was a holy and a Godlike work , and it was one which they might be assured would be crowned with success .
The meeting was also addressed by Messrs . Moore , Savage , Holyoake , Linton , Watson , and Mr . William _llowirr who said he _had-greatpleasureih being present at this meeting ; and he might avail himself of this opportunity to give some explanation on a , subject which had occasioned him _considerable pain . Inthe course of last _spring , at the time when the Austrian outrages in Gallicia bod been recently committed , a public meeting was held to sympathize with the unhappy inha . bitants of that district , and to express detestation at the conduct of the tyrants by whom those cruelties had been _perpetrated . He was invited to attend that meeting , but , as he had not been in the habit of attending public meet * ings for many years , he excused himself from being present on that ground . Fotlong afterwards the communications from two Polish noblemen who were friends of
his . and who _resided in their native country . He would not mention their names , fur those whom he was addressing knew that there were such a place as Siberia—( hear , hear)—and that there were such things as hired Austrian assassins . ( Cheers , and cries of "Shame ! " ) He Would only say , therefore , that these gen'lcmen wrote to him stating that they had seen , with great grief , from the English newspapers , that he had not felt it his duty to come forward at a publie meeting and express his sympathy for their unhappy country . God knew he felt no disinclination to do that , ( Cheers . ) He rejoiced in the breach ofthe _treaty of Vienna which hail just been committed by Russia , Ptussin , and Austria . Ths simple fact was , ' that at this moment no treaty existed in Europe ; for by tbis breach of tbe treaty of Vienna , under whioh the _sta _-e of Europe was settled at thc conclusion of the
last war , every European treaty contracted by the Powers which had thus broken faith was violated . Ho Was glad that they had done with these rags of treaties ; and it was now for the people of England to determine whether this state of things should continue any longer . ( Cheers . ) It had been _WH ' rJ tbat the people of this country had never been wanting in thc expression of their sympathy for the wrongs of Poland ; but in that sentiment he could not concur . It appeared to him that whatever they might have felt , _thCj bad as a nation been exceedingly remiss in the expression of their opinions on this subject . Th « y had been content to leave the decision of these matters to _Governments , to the very despots whose desire it was to annihilate every spark of liberty . ( Hear . ) Those who were acquainted with the history of Poland would know that we owed n great debt to that country . At the end of tbe
17 th century , when the wholo of Europe WHS niG ! 19 Cfl (] with invasion by the Turks , who stemmed the torrent , relieved Vienna when invested by the invading foe , ' and preserved the liberties and Christianity of continental nations ! Who but the Poles under the gtillunt Sobieski ! ( Cheers . ) England too , was not free from the charge of having some shire , though indirectly , in the wrongs inflicted upon Poland ; for the tyrants under whose iron rule the Polish nation had so long groaned , were our allies in the last war , and a portion of the subsidies with which we _supplied tbe Emperor of Austria to enable him to withstand thepower of Napoleon was diverted to the persecution and oppression ot the Poles . ( Hear , hear . )
They ought , then , to feel it a _sacred duty to urge Upon the Government of this country the necessity of insisting on the restoration of Polish nationality . They ought to compel the Government , by tho fo . ee of public opinion , to take up the question ; and they ought not to relax their efforts until their object was attained . ( Cheers . ) If they waited , as they had done for 70 years , till the Government moved in this matter , they might wait for 70 or 700 years longer . He called upon them , then , to determine , as a people , to make their opinion of the atrocities committed upou an independent nation by the Powers of Austria , Ilussia , and Prussia , heard and felt throughout the world . ( Loud cheers . J The following resolutions were adopted :
That this meeting , though it views with disgust and abhorancethe attempt ofthe three Powers to complete the annihilation of Poland and tbe destruction of the Polish cause by the seizure of Cracow , yet cannot help expressing its satisfaction atthe violation , by such seizure , of that infamous compact known by . the name of the Treaty of Vienna ; inasmuch as that violation expose * nakedly to tbe world the designs aud objects of the three Powers , and deprives them of all pretence for again appealing to that treaty in support of the present tyrannies of Europe .
That the treaty of _Viettna _, which pretended to finally settle the Governments of Europe , being now overthrown , there can no longer be any question , even among those who respected the treaty , as to the necessity of reconsidering the present construction of what are called tbe Government of Europe ; that this meeting , therefore , deems the present a fit opportunity for reasserting ihe right of every nation to choose its own Government , to protect its own nationality , and that it re-echoes the appeal of the Liberals of France , in expression towards the Poles , Us warmest sympathy , confident of the resurrection of Poland and the ultim te triumph of liberty and
justice . Tbat an association be now formed whose object shall be to spread over the widest field the principles of national liberty and progress , and to aid in establishing ; a good understanding among the people of all countries _.
Ten Hours Bill.—A Meeting Ofthe Delegate...
Ten Hours Bill . —A meeting ofthe delegates was held last week In tbe vicinity of the _worksof _Meesrs . Fielden . The object of _thej _. _meeting was to devise means for carrying on the " agitation , and raising funds for that purpose . The first subject brought under consideration was the propriety of holding a delegate meeting of factory workers from every manufacturing town in Lancashire and Yorkshire , and after-some discussion as to the place of meeting it was resolved unanimously that the meeting should be held iu Manchester , on the 27 fcu inst ., ( next Sunday ) , and that in the meantime every town should be written to , requesting them to send their delegates to tbat meeting , with specific instructions as to any material point they desired to lay before the
meeting . The next subject was tbe propriety ot appealing to the public for pecuniary assistance . It was stated that the agitation of the measure . had cost the operatives and their friends not less than £ 30 , 000 , a great part of which had been subscribed by the cotton spinners and other factory workers ; and it was urged as a reason why an appeal should be made to the nobility and { -entry , thatthe present depressed state of trade iu Che manufacturing districts , and the consequent falling off in the earnings of the people , operated very much against the collection of funds . At the close of tike-discussion , a . form of appeal embodying the foregoing reasons was unanimously adopted by the delegAtes . — Manchester Examiner .
Tub Walls of Nineveh , were 106 feet high , and thick enough for three chariots abreast . Mr . Yoaatt , in one of Ids orations io the members o f the Veterinary College , observes— _"'thatiby tho improvements in modern chemistry , tho medical _jirofession are enabled successfully to treat diseases -which were previously supposed as not within the reach . of medicine . " This truth h _:. s been manifested for _' . niaivy years , but in no instance of greater importance io 'mankind than J , y the discovery of Blair ' s Gout and _Mejuaatic Pills .
V The Andover Union Again!! We Take The ...
V THE ANDOVER UNION AGAIN !! We take the following / graphic- arid suggestive letter from the Times , which vouches for its correctness by the following introductory paragraph . The narrative would be spoiled by comment , and is one of the most effective illustrations of the treatment of the poor in this country we ever met with : —We . publish the following letter as we bave received it , without correction or abbreviation . We have no doubt that it is a genuine letter , and , allowing lor the natural indignation of the writer , a correct history of' the treatment he received : —
TO THB _BWIOBpF THE TIMES . Sir , —Hunger , us I ' ve heard say , breaks through Stone Walls ; but yet I sbod _' nt have thought of letting you know about my poor Missus ' s death , but all my neibours say tell it out and It cant do jou no harm and may do others good , specially as Parliament is . to meet soon , when the Getitlefoke will be talking about the working foke . I be but a farmers working man , and was married to my Missus 26 years agone , and have three Children living with me , one 10 , another 7 , und t ' other 3 . I be subject to bad rumatlz . and never earns no more , as you may judge , than to pay rent and keep our bodies and souls together when we be all well . I was tended by Mr . Westlake when he was Union Doctor , but when the guardians turned him out it was a bad job for all the Poor , and a precious bad job for me and mine .
Mister Payne when ho came to be our Union Doctor tended upon me up to almost the end of hist April , but when I send up to the Union House ' as usual , Mr . Broad , the _Beleving Officer , send back word there was nothing for me , and Mr . Payne wodnt come no more . I was too bad to work , and had not Vittals for me , the Missus , ami the young ones so I was forced to sell off the 3 ed , Bedstead , and furniture of the _youug ones , to by VittaU with , and then I and Missus , and the young ones had only one bed for all of u » . Missus was very bad , to , then ; hut as we knowd twere no use to ask the Union for nothink cept we'd all go into the Workhouse , and which Missus couin't a bear , as she'd bin parted from the children , she si-r ids down to tell Mr . Westluke how bad we was a doing off , aud he comes to us _diiectty and tends upon us out .. f charity , and gives Missus Mutton and things , which he said , and weknow'd too well , she wanted of , and he gives this out of bis own rocket .
Missus complaiut growd upon her and she got so very bad , and Mr . Westlake says to us , I do think _theguardiiuis _wouldu't let jour wife lay here and starve , but would do something for you if they _knowed how bad you wanted things , and so , says he , I'll give you a Smitieatefor some Mutton and things , and you take it to Mr . _Btoad , the _releving officer . Well , I does tbis , and lie tells me that he'd give it to the guardians and ht tne know what ; they said . I sees him again , aud O , says he , I gived that _Sertificate to the Guardians , but they chucked it a one side and said they _wouldnt tend to no such thing , norgiveyou nothing , not even if Missus was dying , if you has anything to do with Mr . _Wvstlake , as tbey had turned him off . *
_Itnldmy Missus this , uud then says she wc must try to get their Union Doctor , Mr . Payne , as we eaa ' tgo on for ever taking things from Mr . _Westlake ' s Pocket , and be turned out of Place , and so good to m . * . ny puor folks besides us . So we gets Mr . Payne after a bit to come down ; and he says to Missus you're v . ry bad , and I shall order tbe Union to send you Mutton and other things . Next Week Mr . Payne calls again , and asks Missus did she have the things he'd ordered for her to have ? She says I ' ve had a shillings worth of Mutttn , Sir . Why , says he , you want other things besides Mutton , and I ordend them for you in the Union Book , and you ought to have them in your bad state . This _gous on for 5 or fi Weeks , only a shillings worth of Mutton a week being allowed her , and then one Week a little Gin was allowed , and after that as Missus couldnt get out of bed a Woman was sent to nurse and help her .
I didn't ask Mr . Payne to order these ere things , tho bad enof God knows they was wanted ; but iu the first week in last November I was served with a summons to tend afore the Mayor and Justices under the _Vagranc-Act ; I think they said twas cause I had not found _thi-se things for Missus _mysi If , but the Union Doctor had ordered em ofthe Guardians on his _sponsibility . Willi I attends _ufore the Just ces , and there was nothing against me , aud so they puts it off , and oi ders me to tend afore em agaiu next week , which I docs , and then there wasnt enof for em to seed me to Gaol as thc Guardians wanted , for » month , and they puts it off again for another week , and says I must come afore em again , and which I doe 3 ; and they tells me theres nothing proved , that I could afford to pay for the things , and I mite go about my business .
I " _ustlokes three days' work , or pretty handy , by this , and that made bad a go » d bit worse . Next Day Mr . Payne comes again , and Missus was so outdactous bad , she says cant jou give me something to do me good and ease me a bit ; says Mr . Payne , I dont see you be much worse . Yes I be , says Missus , nnd I wish you'd be * o good as to let me send lor Mr . Westlake , as I thinks lie knows what'd make me easier , and cure the bad pains I do suffer Mr . Payne abused my Poor Missus , and dared her to do anything of that sort , and in we were feared to do it , lest I should be pulled up again afore the Justices , and lose more days work , nnd perhaps yet sent to gnol , Eight days alter this Mr , Payne never having come nist us , and the Union having lowd us nothing at all , my poor missus dies , and dies from want , and in agonies of pain , aHd as bad _off-is if shed been a savage , for she could only have died of want of thein things which she wanted and I couldnt buy if she'd been in afureign _lan-J , were there-no parsons and people as I ' ve heard tell be treated as bad as dogs ,
Years " agon .- , if anybody had been half so bad as my missus , and nobody else ivould have tended to her , there'dbeen the clergyman of the parish , at all events , who'd have prayed with htr , and seen , too , that she didn't die of starvation , but our parson is in favour of this here new Law , and as he gets £ 60 a-year from the Guardians he arnt a going to quarrel ttitll llis Bread _8 Ild Cheese for the likes of we , and so he didn't come to us . Altho' he must have knowed how hi Missus was ; and she , poor creature , went out of this her-- w _.. rld without any Spiritual _consilatioa _Jwhatsomever irom the Poor Man ' s Church .
We'd but one bed as I ' ve telled you , and only one bed . room , and it was very bad to be all in the same room and bed with poor Missus after she were dead ; and as I'd no money to pay fur a Coffin , I goes to Mr . Broad , then to Mr . Mnjer _, one of the Guardians , and then to the _overseers , and axes all of ' cm to find a coffin , but 'twere no U 3 e , and so , not knowing what in the world to do , off I goes to tell Mr . Westlake of it , and he was soon down at the houce , and blamed me much for not letting he know af re Missus died , and finding wed no food nor fire , mottling for a shroud cept we could wash up some .
thin- *; , and that we'd no soap to do that with he gives us something to get these ere things and tells me to go _again to the Beleving Officer and t _' others and try and get a coffin and to tell un Missus ought to be hurried as soon as possible , else t ' would make us all ill . This I does as afore but get _nothii . _g , and then Mr . Westlake gives tne an order where to get a coffin , and if he had not stood a friend to uie and mine I cant think what would have become of em , as twas sad ut nights ta see the poor little things pretty ni gh break their hearts when they seed their poor dead mothir by their side upon the bed .
My troubles wasn ' t to end here , for Strang to tell even the Register of Deaths for this District dont live in this the largest Parish with about 5 , 000 inhabitants , but at a little Village of not more than 400 people and 5 Miles oft ' , so I had to walk there and back 10 miles , which is very bard upon us poor folk , and what is worse when I got there thc Registrer wasnt up ; and when ho got up he wouldnt tend to mo afore hed had his breakfast , and it seemed as ' twas n very long time for-si poor chap like me to be kept a waiting , whilst a man who is paid for doing what I wanted won ' t do such little work as that afore here made hisself comfortable , tho ; I telled him how bad I wanted to get back , and that I should loose a Day by his keeping me _waiting about .
That this is mostly the fault of the Guardians rather than anybody else is my firm beleif . tho' if Mr . Payne had done his duty hed a been with Missus many times afore she died and not have left her as he did , when he knowed she was so bad , and hed a made un give her what she wanted ; but then he must , he says , just , what the Guurdiatis wishes , and that arnt to attend much t /< tbe poor , and the Relieving Officer is docked if what he gives by ev 6 h the Doctors orders arnt proved of by the Guardians aterivard , and he had to pay for the little Gin the Doctor ordered out of his own Pocket , and as the Newspaper says , for the Nurse , as this was put in our Paper by I ' m sure I donl't know Who , but I believe tis true , last week :
" Andover Union . — At the meeting of the Board of Guardians last Saturday , Mr . Charles Broad , the Andover _relioving-orhcer , presented his weekly account as heretofore , when tiiere appeared au item of 3 s . Cd ., paid to a nurse , ordered by the Burgeon , Mr , Payne , to the wife of Dichman , whe was acquitted by the magistrates , as reported by us last week , on the charge of not supportiag his afflicted partner . Mr . John Lywood moved that such a Charge ought to be struck out , to teach Mr . Broad to be more circumspect , or rather to be more hard-hearted for the future . The motion was carried , and thus a feeliag and efficient officer had that amount to pay out of his own pocket , though he has to support himself and familj respectably < m £ 60 per annum . "
And now , Sir , I shall leave it to you to judge whether the Poor can be treated any where so bad as they be in the Andover Union . I ? . m , Sir , John _TJicuman .
Sobsbm ©Fiifflh Of The Whitehall Mud-Lam...
_SOBSBM _© fiifflH OF THE WHITEHALL MuD-LaM _** . — On _Sunday-morning , an old woman , who for years has obtained a living by gathering coals in the Thames at low water , whilst proceeding along Scotland Yard , dropped down in the street , and suddenly expired . The deoeased , who was between sixty and seventy years of . age , was well known to the coal merchants and watermen at Whitehall as Peggy the Mud-lark , and man * ,- a time has shebeen seen up to her arm-pits in mud gathering up thc pieces of coal that had fallen from'the barges . Iu this manner she bas managed to obtain a -subsistence for herself and family lor many years . _Railway L . w . —Eight men recently employed on the Bristol and Exetur _Jiailway were convicted at Exeter on Friday last , ol having- left tour ballast waggons on theiline whilst they v / ent to a publichouse to drink , -though _rfiie mail train waa shortly expected . They _\ v _^ r _« . u « _ellsums _wttying from £ 10 to £ 2 .
How To Take In Snobs. A Case Was Heard A...
HOW TO TAKE IN SNOBS . A case was heard at the Marylebone Police Court on Saturday last which forcibly exhibits the feasibility by which ' the middle classes of this country can be duped by the use of great names . _;;¦¦> . Francis Olirkro was charged with haying obtained diamond jewellery , ofthe value of £ 000 arid upwards , from Mr . Linnet , wholesale jeweller ' . and silversmith , of " _" _loomsbui'y-squitre , under pretence of disposing of the property to her Majesty and his Eoyal _HighnesB Prince Albert .
_, The prosecutor said , that on the 7 th of January the prisoner cnllt d on him , and said enough to induce him to let him have two brooches for thc purpose of showing to the Queen . Witnesscoulff not ' ii collect the' exact conversation that occurred , but he was positive the prisoner said the brooches were to be shownVto her Majesty . The brooches were lyiug on the counter . . The prisoner looked at them , and said he thought be could dispose of them . He said be was very intimate with the Queen . Mr . Long : Do you mean to say tbe prisoner used those words ?—Witness : Yes . The prisoner said the Queen often talked to him Tbat while he was at work at the palace the Queen frequently stood at his elbow and { chatted with him , The prisonersaid he was constantly employed at the palace , and . as far as my memory will , serve ine , the prisoner added that be had been commanded or desired to bring something to show her Majesty .
Mr . Long : Who did the prisoner say had ordered him to bring something to show ? . Witness ; Her Majesty and Prince Albert . On the ISth of January I saw tbe prisoner again , and he then obtained two diamond rings , tor the purpose , as he said , of showing to tbe . Queen and Prince Albert . The prisoner said be had sold the brooches , but had not beer , able to get a check from Prince Albert , but he should be sure to have the check on the following Wednesday . The prisoner said the check was to be in payment of the brooches . I believe the broocues were sold to her Majesty tn consequence of a conversation with the prisoner . The prisoner told me he had been commissioned by the Duke of Gloucester . Mr . Long : Recollect yourself . Witness : I am certain the prisoner said the Duke of Gloucester . Mr . Long : Were you not aware there were no such person in existence . >
Witness : No , I was not . The prisoner . said be had been _commissioned by the Duke or Duchess of Cloucestcr , or some one of the Royal Family , to get two diamond rim ; ' ! . Alter a very long examination , and many counter statements pro . and con ., the magistrate committed the prisoner for trial atthe sessions .
Destitution And Death. A Case Occurred I...
DESTITUTION AND DEATH . A case occurred in Worcester last week which excited much indignation against one ol the relieving officers of that city . A woman , named Sarah Dovey , living in a void house unfurnished , and entirely destitute of the commonest necessaries of life , was taken in labour , and a midwife , named Pool . was fetched , who delivered her of a mule hiid . . At this most critical time the woman was lying upon tbe boards , having no bed nor any article of clothing , except an old go » n . Her head was supported by a couple of bare bricks , by way of pillows , and there were only a few embers of fire in the urate . The weather was most severe at the time , the thermometer being several degrees below the freezing point . When the child was born , it was discovered that the woman Dovey was
entirely unprepared with clothes in which to wrap it , _Dover ' s sister procured some gruel for the mother , and the midwife got the child a little clothing , but neither had a sufficiency of either clothing or food , aud the relatives of the woman Dovey having expended all ihe money they could spare , the relieving officer of the district was applied to far relhf . This was on the day after the l yingin , by which time the child was evidently suffering fiom the extreme cold . Mr . Crisp , the relieving officer , on being applied to , after calling the woman names , said , " He should not come to the nasty —— that day , " He was told that unless _something was dona for tho poor woman and her infant immediately , both _wcrnld bu lost , to which the humane reliever of the poor answered ,
" And serve her right to . " The officer kept iiis word , KHd did not attend to the case that day . Ou the following day ( Tuesday ) , however , he did call at tbe wretched abode , where he found the woman lying in the same destitute wretched state as has already been described . He then gave a shilling to a huckster , with instructions to allow Dovey to have what she required to that amount , but gave no relief in the way of clothiug . The child gradually grew worse , and died , and then it was that the affair came to the ears of the magistrates . The police magistrate sent d _. wn a blanket to the mother , and also gave directions for affording her whatever she , in her delicate state , required-but the woman being naturally ofa robust constitution , and inured to hardships , is recovering from her illness .
Meauwnile the magistrates gave information to tbe coroner for this city , and an _inquist has been held upem the body of the infant , when tbe above facts were disclosed , and the whole affair was thoroughly sifted , the coroner and jury devoting a whole day to that duty _. The jury expressed their disapprobation of the relieving officer's conduct , and returned tht following _vcrdist : " That the death of the deceased child was caused from exposure to the severity of the weather without proper clothing ; and ' the jury cannot separate without expressing their opinion that there was neglect on the part of the relieving officer , in not giving more prompt attention to tne case . "
Fatal Boiler Explosion At Bristol. Bbist...
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION AT BRISTOL . _Bbistoh , Saturday Evening A paiafu ] _SODiflllon "ToS created this morning in the neighbourhood of St . Phillip and Jacob , by the explosion ofa boiler atthe extensive foundry of Messrs . Hotliern and Slaughter , the eminent railway aad marine engine-manufacturers , by which two wen lost their lives , ami several others were so seriously injured as to lie at our infirmary in a precarious state . It appears tbat at half-past eight o'clock this morning , the usual breakfast hour at the foundry , the large engine which drives the different turning-lathes a : id other machinery , was stopped _. It was a rery cold morning , and , notwithstanding that there is an order posted up to the coutrary , several of the men went into thu boiler-room lor the sake ofthe warmth it would afford them while eating their breakfasts . At about a quarter be ! ore nine o ' clock tbe boiler suddenly exploded . The explosion took place
lit the bottom , j ust above the fire-box , and the briek-u ork underneath being blown ever , the steam and sculdiug water were forced outand tilled the boiler-room , most se . verely scalding all who were present . The principal engineer , the engine-driver , and the _foreman w _^ re promptly on the spot , and thc injured men were got out . One of them , a youth , named Thatcher , was scalded in the most frightful manner , there was scarcely an inch of his body untouched by the boiling water , and the steam which he inhaled so injured the air tubes of his lungs , that after enduring tbe most intolerable agony for about a quarter of an hour , he died while on his way to the infirmary . Three or four others received most _extensive injuries ; one of whom , a man named Thomas WalUer , died thiB evening , af . er enduring the utmost suffering . The scalding steam bad _psnetrated hisluugs also , aud caused in . Ham a tion , which terminated his . life .
An inquest was held this afternoon on the body of Thatcher , when the different parties connected with the works were examined , to see if the accident had been the result of any negligence . It was stated in evidence , thnt the boiler was comparatively a new one . That it was examined every month by the engine-driver and the foreman of the engine department ; that as lately as Monday week it was overlooked—the men going into it for the purpose , and trying it with a hammer—and found it tu be lu good working order . It had attached to it two safety valves , both of wbich were seen to act regularly less than au hour before the explosion took place . The Coroner , in summing up the evidence , observed that all proper precautions seemed to bave been takeu , aud the Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death . "
Mysterious Case Of Poisoning At Luton, I...
MYSTERIOUS CASE OF POISONING AT LUTON , IN BEDFORDSHIRE . I Luton , Satcbdai Niout . —The inhabitants of this place and neighbourhood have been very much excited duiing the past month , owing to the death , under very mysterious circumstances of a youug lady named Allen , nieeii of Mr . _Ednard _Woakes , a surgeon , practising here , under whose roof the deceased had lived for twelve months previous to her death , Mr- Edward Baildon , superintendent of the Luton division 0 » tbe Uedfordshire police , proved having exmined deceased ' s bedroom on the morning of her death . He found nothing bearing the marks of having contained poison . A letter , the seal of which was broken , was lying under deceased ' s pillow . Mr . Woakes took it , nnd said it was of no consequence . He told me it came from a young lady named Cant . Witness asked Mr . Woakes what _prussic-acid he had in his possession . He replied that he did not use it . He afterwards said all he had was contained iu a small bottle , and was so weak that it would not cause death . He said he bad purchased it to poison a dog .
Fanny Plummer , a friend of the deceased was next called . She proved that after a " Dorcass meeting , " in August last , _deceased showed witness a small bottle which she stated contained prussic-acid . Deceased at that time _expressed a wiBh to die , and subsequently witness received from her a letter , in which she threatened to destroy herself . Witness bad not told any one of this circumstanve , and now very much regretted not having done so . There being no further evidence , the Coroner charged the Jury , and after remarking on the various points in the ease , expressed his « onviction _, from the manner in which they _hadlisteued to the evidence , that they would return a verdict in accordance therewith .
The Jury consulted for about half an hour , and at the expiration of that time recorded a verdict exactly similar to that returned by the former Jury , vis ., ' ¦ That _itho . daeeased died from the effects of prussic-aeid but how , 'or ib y whom _udmiaistered ; tbe " r is no evidence to show' "
Curiosities Of The Cattle Show . One Par...
CURIOSITIES OF THE CATTLE SHOW . One party of ladles attracted my atten « 6 n _bVtbe fr „ dom of th _. ir criticism , „ ot alone on the fat am" ,, Ii but on the feeders . . The , came to tbe _exhS \ Z il _' l carriage , with liveried attendants , I supno . rtwJ " _" that they must belong to _thatclass _' of _sSy _moS _% tuknow something of the lord they so freely ™ 2 *? _ThepUcewasthe iat hog . RhowJthe _£ _»^ . « d Lady with scarlet flowers in her bonnet . - * * t wnn _^ . how _anything of Lord Badnor _' _. _can _befat _; do _„" t _jouX Lady _- without flowers .- " I should not have _thoueht h * would have had a wel / . ted creature .. bout him » * * _^ _S £ _ST _« _5 lfh "* > _--
Smockfrock . Fortj . five weeks old , ma ' am and one day , _myam , when th _, y came from home ; they be _thm days older now ma'am . * nree Lady—W | _, at have they been fed on « _taSCkfr 00 k _"~ BarUy _- mittl , ma , ! l , n andw _*' J' _™* PO _" _whSsT _^* ' _barley-tneal and wheydid J ™ ° y ; » d Jrt _' T _^ _" _* _* ' ' " ' > and * _v _^ yaBd barley mea 1 ; 48 bushels of meal , and as mud , v , hey as they would drink , and about 6 bushels of ' tawes . * Lady . —Who served them with their food f Smockfrock , —I did , ma'am _. Lady . —And did you never eat with them « Smockfrock . _ Eat with them , Ma ' am ? Eat with hogS ? ° 8 don , t mean ' m - - _* «*» , v Ll ! dj' 7 \ e 8 ' ** sk ytm if you never ate their barley * _, meal and whey and potatous ? _** ¦
Smockfrock . —No , ila ' uin ; I should think not . Men _bsant hogs , be they ! Lady . —But some men Would like to be as well fed as hogs , would they not ? Lord Radnor ' s men are not so well fed as his hogs , are they ? At this , Smockfrock looked around him , and at the faces of the people , who crowded ab- > ut to hear the dialogue , and was silent , The lady who had no flowen in ber basket put her parasol on the no . _* e _otona of tbe sleeping pigs , and disturbed bim , whereupon lie grunted msstillnaturedrr , and disturbed hia fellow-pig 5 , whioh also grunted ; and the lad y with the flowers Said , "Cojneaway i ' rim _tliem , they 9 peak for all the world like the man they belong to . "
Fobtt'mes Made Bv Adveehsinc— From A Sma...
FoBTt'MES made bv Adveehsinc— From a smal pamphlet , entitled "The Au of _MakiiiL- Money , " an extaact has been taken and is going the round of the _provlnciul press , pointing out the facilitj ofmaking _immente sums by the simple process of continuous advertising Doubtless large sums have been , are , and will be made by such a system by certain persons of ai . ilitv , who no doubt would make their way in the world * if ' called upon to play differ , nt parts on the great stage of life ; but to supposed that men in _general must as a matter of course acquire wealth by such means is as ab . _turd as to imagine that all the pennilegs and shoe _, less of London are capable of rising to the dignity aad wealth of an alderman or lord mayor of _L-mdon simply by reading the "Young Man ' s Beit Companion "
Money is not so easily made as the writer of the article referred to would lead people to suppose ; if it be so , few need be poor . But to our text ; loitunes made by advertising . Undoubtedly the greatest man of the day as an advertiser is Hollowaj , who expends the _i-normoos sum of twenty thousaud _pounda annually in advertise _, tnents alone ; bis name is not only to be si-en in nearly every paper and periodical published in the British isles but as if this country was too small for this individual ' s exploits , he stretches over the whole ef India , having agents iu all the _<" , 7 F < - rent par ' s of _thv uppir , centra / , and lower provinces of ihat immense country , publishing his medicaments in the Hindoo , Oordoe , _Goozrntee , Persian and other native languages , so that the Indian public can take the Fills and use his Ointment , according to general
directions , as a Gochney would do within the _. foiir / d of Bow bells . We find him again at Houg Kong and Canton , making his medicines known to the Celestials b y means of Chinese translation . We tr « ce him from _theneu to the Philippine Islands , where he is circulatinit his preparations in the native languages . At Singapore he has a large depot : his agents there supply all the islands in the Indian Seas His advertisements are published in most ef tbe papers at S \ dney , HobHrt Town , Launcestun , Adelaide , Foit Philip , and indeed in almost every town of that vast portion of the British empire . _Returning homewards , we Slid bis Pills and O ' _m'meat selling at Valparaise _, Lima , Callao , and other ports inthe Pacific . Doubling the Horn , we track him in the Atlautic—at Monte Video , Buenos _Avrr 6 , _^ Santos , Bio de
Janeiro , Bahia _, and _Peruamhuco : he is advertising in those parts in Spanish and Portuguese . In all the British West India Islands , as also in the Upper and Loner Canadas , and the neighbouring provinces of Nora Scotia and New Brunswick , his medicines are as fami . liarly known , and sold b y every druggist , as they are at home . In the Mediterranean we £ r . d them selling at Malta , Corfu , Athens , and _Aiexandri-j , besides at _Tnnis aud other portions of the Barbary states . Any one taking the trouble to look at the "Journal "' and "Courier" Of _ConatantinopJe , may find in these , as well as other papers , that Holloway ' s medicines are regularly _advertised and selling throughout the Turkish empire ; and even in Russia , where an almost insurmountable barrier exists , the laws there prohibiting the entree
of patent medicines , Holloway ' s ingenuity has been at work , and obviates this difficulty by forwarding supplies to his Agent at Odessa , a port situated at the Black Sea , where they filter themselves surreptitiously by various channels , into the very heart of the empire . Africa has not been forgotten by this indefatigable man , who has an agent on the River Gambia ; also af Sierra Leone , tht plague spot of the world the inhabitants readily avail themselves of the Ointment and Pills ; thu * . we can she **? our readers that Holloway lias made the complete circuit I ofthe globe , commencing with India and ending , as itt I now do , with the Cope of Good Hope , _whtre his medi _* i _cines arc published in the Dutch and English language !; and while speaking of Dutch , we have heard that * he has made large shipments to Holland , and is about advert !*'
ing in every paper or periodical . publi-bed in that kingdom : we might add that he has also _strtTtetl his me 6 i . cine in some parts of France : iu some portions of Ger . many : as also in some of the Italian states . We hat " beenatsomelittle trouble to collect all these facta ; b " _- cause we fear that the articlebefove , aIIuded to , "' the Art of making Money , " is calculated to lead people to spend their menus in the hope ( as the author states ) _ofmakiig _» hundred thousand pounds in six years for his pains , ty holding up as an easy example to _tollow such a man sf Holloway , who is really a Napoleon in his way . Manj may have the means , but bave they tbe knowledge !
ability , energy , judgment , and prudence necessarjl Failing in any one of these requisites , a total loss is certain . Holloway is a man calculated to undertake _mS enterprise requiring immense energies of _b-idy aud mio » _. No doubt he has been well repaid for all his labour ; nnd is , we should suppose , in afairwayof ranking a la' "* fortune . Of course it is not to our interest to deter the public from advertising ; but , as guardians of their in . * - rest , we think it our incumbent duty to place a lig _* _' ' house upon what we consider a dangerous shoal , wr . ' *'' may perhaps soon or later prevent shipwreck and _ruinl " the sanguine and inexperienced about to navigate !" such waters .
The Editors of the " Edinburgh Review , " in a nurali't published about three years ago , stated , that he considered he was making a desirable bequest to posterity 1 * handing down to them the amount of talent and abilitj required by the present class of large advertisers , & that period Holloway ' s mode of advertising was most pf minently set forth ; and If these remarks , conjointly with his , should descend to a generation to come , it " _^ be known to what extent the subject of this article ¦"" * able to carry out his views , together with the _consl _¦ _qu _«* _expenditure in making known the merits of _bisprepaf ' tions to nearly the whole world , — -Pietorial Times .
Comparative Degrees of Heat asd Oold . —T ' intensity of the frost of tbe present winter _furm _* * * _*' interesting matter tor comparative seasonable speco lation . It is a subject of philosophical observa tion that intensely hot summers are commonly followed winters of intense cold , the one beiug in thc ratio I the . _ither . The opinion seems to be borne out bf ' reference to the summer of tho present year , wP it will be recollected , was one of great ar . tl long end 6 ing heat ; and it is further apparently so , as _indica " by a reference to weather tables ranging _through long cycle of years . Facts and result ' s apparent ]/; opposite are full of interest , and open up a wide _»' ; for the reasoner . In northern climate ** , where !; winter is both long and severe , the glass ' _-raBS _*
below zero , and tbe season extending , in soffit ! stances over eight months ofthe year , the _sun-m _* whieh contain the elements of spring and sum- * are generally hot . The earth for the winter ti * " -, ice locked ,- "; rivers and lakes are - _" _-lieeted over , * even springs and gushing fountains aro _fro'scn Thus it is in North America , Russia , and the _^ of the countries in the northern regions . ' changes of temperature are instantaneous , and ' _!> uncommonly happens , that the people _inbabw those countries witness , on retiring tn bed , the depth of winter , with all its concomitants ; a * - " rising the next morning , behold " glomus sunii » grafting itself on lovely spring . The theory % tensely hot summers and severe winters dovew ' reie
with each other is forcibly illustrated by a to tlie year of " the great comet , " 1811 , the _sn » J of which was one of great heat ; and the win" " that year was one of great comparative seven )' also , the ensuing year of 1812 . memorable tor IS * structiou of Napoleon ' s army in Russia , the »•" shearing them off like snow flakes drilling v » stormy wind . . ( _Hollowav's Ointment and Pills . _-Extraoriliiini _;^ _, of a Diseased Knee of Ten Years' _standing-Air- _1 l » erry « s , residing at No . 2 l , Fargatc-street , _.-i" : ¦ _, now cured of uu abscess ou the knee and a __ *•» _< _, which had been bad tor ten years ; indeed , cvei - j , was fourteen . He lost from the knee joint _**>* _' _* J \ of bone , one bring two inches in _leng tu . ilc _..- ( : under the most eminent of the _tacuity ' » „ ,. i aud at last was told that his Kg must be a * --., as a cure was quite impossible . 'iVv _ei'thel---. _k , cure has been effected in this hopeless cant i _*} derftilinedUiues .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 26, 1846, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_26121846/page/2/
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