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      wonderfal Care « f dreadful Dlcer » u » Sere * in the Face and Leg , in Friac * Edward Iiland . The Troth oftkit Statement uxu duly attest *! be / or * a Jla ^ ittr « t « . I . Hooh Micdokald , « f Ut M . \* lUn f ' t C «« ntj . do hereby declare , tbat a mwt wonderful pretenratUa ef mv ife hat been effected bythenso « f Hollow « y '« 1 U 1 U and tintment ; and I furthermore declare , that I w «* very much afflicted with Ulcerous Sore * iu miy Face and Lrj ; logevere wat my eamplaint , that the greater part of my no » e and the roof of my mouth was eattu aw » y . amd my Igg had threa large ulcer » en k , and that I applied to ¦ treral Medical gentlemen who prescribed for me , but 1

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      ON THE CO . VCEALED CAUSE OF CONSTITUTIONAL © R ACQUIRED DEBILITIES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM . Just Published , A . new andimportant Edition of the SOenx Friend on Human Frailty . Price 2 * . 6 d ., aad sent free to any part of the United Kin ? dom on the receipt of a Post Offiae Order for 3 s . 6 d . A MEDICAL WORK on the INFIRMITIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM , in both sexes ; being an enquiry into the concealed cause that destroys physical energy , and the ability of manhood , ere vigour has established her empire : —with Observation * oa the baneful effects of SOLITARY INDULGENCE and INFECTION

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      COUGHS , HOARSENESS , AND ALL ASTHMAT AND PULMONARY COMPLAINTS . EFrSCTDALLT CDBED BT 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 Prassia , and his Majesty the King of Hanover , has been bestowed on them ; as also tbat of the Nobility and Clergy of the United Kingdon ; and , above all the Faculty have especially recommended them as a remedy of unfailing officacy . Testimonials are continually received confirma . tory of the value of these Loxenges , and proving the perfect safety of their use , ( for they contain no Opium nor any preparation cf that drug ;) so that they may be given to females of the most delicate constitution , and children of tbe most tenderest years without hesitation .

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      VALUABLE TESTIMONIALS . The folio wing Testimonial ef a Cure of a Cough of twenty years standing , and recovery of strength will be read with much interest : — Sir . —I beg to inform you that for the last twenty years I have suffered severely from a cough , and have been under medical treatment with but little relief , and have not for many yean been able to walk more than half a mile a day . After taking three boxes of your Lozenges my Cough entirely left me , and I have this day walked to R'iss , a distance of four miles : for thisalmoit renewal of life I am solely indebted to your Lozenges . Ton are at liberty to make what ase you please of this letter , and I shall be happy to answer any enquiries respecting my cure . I remain , Sir . your obedient and obliged servant , ( Signed ) Hast Cooke . Pencrais , July 16 th , 1815 .

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      FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH . THE BEST APERIENT AND ANTIBILIOUS MEDICINE FOR GENERAL USE IS FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH , which effectually relieves the stomach and bowels by general relaxation , without griping or prestration of strength . They remeve headache , sickness , dizziness , pains in the chest , &c , are highly grateful t » the stomach , premote 4 igr * tion , create appetite , relieve langour and depression of spirits ; while to thote ef a full habit and free livera , who are continually suffering from drowsiness , heaviness , aud singing in the head and ears , they offer advantages that will aot fail to be appreciated . This medicine has for many years receivad ths approval of the most respectable classes of society , and in confirmation of its efficacy the following letrer has been kindly forwarded to Mr . Prout , with permission to publish it , and , if requisite , te refer any respectable persou to its author : —

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      Prospective and Music—Old Astley once abused his scene painter for not painting the columns of a temple of the same length ; and when the man pleaded the law of perspective , replied , " D o n't talk to me of perspective , Sir ; the public pay their monuy to see pillars according to nature , all of a length , and they shall have their full measure , and no deception . " On another occasion the double bass iii the orchestra was doing nothing whilst his brethren were rasping away with all their might . His employer demanded an explanation , and being told by the performer that he had forty bars' rest , exclaimed in nigh dud geon , " Rest indeed ! I pay you for playint not for reBting , bo play away , and be d— --d to you !'

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      CRACOW . by loaxra mazzini . It it finished \ The last fragment of that brave nation , whose body was riddled with wounds in the dofenco of Europe , against Mahometanisro , has disappeared . The last rag of its warrior mantle has been torn and parted among them , and they have thrown it as the price of blood , to the one who , in these latter times , has most deeply struck the viotim . to that one whose immediate agents ( rewarded for . their conduct ) hare organised , directed , paid for the massacres of Gallioia . First assassination , then plunder . Cracow is now an Austrian city . The Austrian flag floats , like a bannered shroud , over the monument of Knscuisko . The

      heavy tread of the Austrian sentinel profanes the threshold of the old cathedral where lie the bones of Sobieski , the saviour of Vienna . There was no real force there ; nothing that could seriously menace the Trinity of Evil about to accomplish this misdeed ; twenty-three square German miles , deep Jn the midst of the Prussian dominions , Austrian " posseseions , and Russian Silesia . But a name was there , a remembrance , the outward sign of an existing idea ; and in this si gn , this remembrance written on the frent of a . city , in which , from 1320 to the ei ghteenth century , the chosen of the nation were anointed kings of Poland , there was a reproach , a living remorse , for the dismemberers . They desired to efface it . They had aworn by the name of God ,

      in 1815 , to maintain in perpetuity the independence of Cracow ; but since then they have so falsified their oaths , that one perjury more could not stay them . They had placed their oaths under the guarantee of other powers , England and France , swearing with them to the treaties of Vienna ; but they knew very well that the highest possible energy of constitutional governments would not go beyond an inert protest—Pilate ' s washing his Bands of the innoceet blood . They have torn the treaty , and given the last blow to . their victim . To-day the last spark of life has disappeared : Old Poland is dead ; nothing but its ghost remains . May it , like that of Banquo , take its seat at the tables of the reigning Macbeths , and urge them , through terrors and the keen agonies of remorse to their final overthrow !

      The bitterness of our words must not be attributed to grief . We brand a orime ; we have bo dread of its consequences : far . from it . Speaking individually , we ; like everything which clears and renders more precise the situation of things in Europe . Thank God , the peoplo have never signed the treaties of Vienna ; they have never acknowledged themselves bound by them ; and it matters little to their Mure whether or not they are violated , annulled . But their being torn up by the very persons who had drawn them up and signed them , adds to the mo . rality of the cause we sustain ; it proves that there is no law , not even that which they had imposed upon themselves , for the absolutists ; it dissipates a phantom which yet held timid minds in uncertainty ; it chases the mist accumulated by diplomacy over the question which occupies us all ; it leaves face to face nationalities and their oppressors , ri g ht and bruie force . The victory is not doubtful . In these

      • lays nations do not perish ; they transform themselves . In incorporating Cracow , Austria , the representative of immobility in Europe , has only added one enemy more to those ajrealy stirring in her bosom : she has , by uniting their interests , added one more pledge of alliance to those which already existed between the two future avengers , Poland and Italy . And when the word of death has passed over our lips , we hasten to add the epithet old to this sacred name of Poland . "We know very well that her tomb » the cradle of a young and beautiful and grand Poland , which the popular faith of the dawning epooh will baptize for the holy struggles of civilisation . But the intentions of the despoiling powers does not the less merit the indignation of every honest heart , the branding of every people that has not entirely lost in apathy and in the worshi p of material intere s ts , the sentiraunt of the unity of the human race and of European fraternity . The triumph of the Christian faith had it 3 cerm in the Wood of the

      martyrs ; but we do not , on that account , bless the memory of their executioners . Yes , that old Poland , aristocratic Poland , which we admire for the chivalrous bravery and Christian instincts that impelled it to throw itself in the way of the Mahometan invasion , but whose interior organisation can find no sympathy among us , is dead : dead never more to revive . The Polish peoplj rises from its tomb . And the time 13 so providentially marked for its advent , that every blow the oppressors strike at the nation turns to tho profit of its cause . The massacres of Gallicia have proved to the last representatives of the Polish aristocracy what old recollections of oppression and the instincts of equality can do when perfidiously managed on one

      side and neglected on the other . The occupation of Cracow teaches them that they have nothing to hope from di plomatic combinations , and that these very treaties ef Vienna , invoked by some of them , as a basis for the re-establishment of I know not what mutilated kingdom of Poland , were nothing more than so much waste paper , good at most , to give to those who signed them leisure to wait the favourable m o ment f o r the work of destruction . They know that now ; and , with the exception of some incorrig ible m e n , who comprehend nothing of the ways of G p d upon the earth , they are entering—they will all soon enter into the great democratic current , which alone contains the secret of life for Poland and or all peoples . They know , on the one hand , th a t

      ae power of Poland exists henceforth altogether in the masses , and that it is only by abdicating their ancient privileges , and appealing to the peasant to fraternise with them on the common ground of equality , that they can conquer a second life for their common country : they know , on the other hand , that a people has no right to a national existence , except in so much as it proposes to itself an end beyond and out of itself , a missi o n t o accom p lish or the good ef all ; and they comprehend that Poland ought not to live again , but on condi t ion of placing herself as advauced guard of all the Slavonian po p ula t ions , that from the shores of the Baltic to the Adriatic coasts of Illyria , now bestir themselves under the impulse of national instincts , unknown everywhere , and especially in England .

      jut destined to change one day the map of Europe . It is sufficient to recall , as regards the first tendency , the demands annually made , since 1810 , by the diet of Leopol to the Emperor for the abolition of feudal service , and to make the peasants landowners—the identical reclamations of the Grand Duchy of Posen —the language of the insurrectionary manifesto of Cracow , of the 22 nd of February , 1816—and all the characters of that manifesto , too little studied , too soon forgotten , which has initiated a new era for Poland . The general movement of the Slavonian races will be the subject of several articles , in which 1 shall endeavour to gain appreciation for the importance of this renovating element upon Europe , and the directing part therein that Poland prepares : o take .

      But , if the occupation of Cracow is destined to serve , rather than to injure , the Polish cause , is there not in it a great lesson for Europe , a warning to all people , a definition cloarer than ever of our duties , too long iorgotten ? There is no longer , at the present time , any Public Law in Europe . The treaties of Vienna formed the basis of international transactions among the European governments : they are no more . There exists now in Europe a league between the despotic states in order to accomplish Evil , whensoever that can serve their interests or their principle of retrogression . There exists no alliance for G ^ od , for the protection of national liberties , for the defence of the feeble , for the peaceable evolvement of the progressive

      principle . In the heart of a Humanity which calls itself Christian , issue of the law of love , there is absolutel y nothing collective to represent love , to represent the consolidation of the families of humanity the common mission of everything that bears upon its brow the sign of human nature . Ilato rei ° ns tor only Hate acts : it . has its armies , its treasures us compacts ; its rights is Force . Here , it orgal nisesand accomplishes , with atheistic sangfroid , the butchering of one caste by another ; there , it combats belief ' s by torture , it crushes down the human soul under the knout ; elsewhere it says—the independence of this territory hinders my projects , —and it suppresses it . Switzerland feels that in the absence of a National Compact , of a federal organisation where the general interests of the country would have place , every quarrel between two localitieacan only be exhausted by force , and brings on a civil war ; she aspires to give herself a comDact . tn

      build up the holy arch of her nationality ; Brute Force says to her-you shall nave neither Compact nor Nationality ; you shall keep within your bosom the source of civil war , but so soon as civil war appears in the midst of you , we shall occupy yonr territory with our armies . Twenty-two millions of Italians feel that the hour is come to realise that fraternity to which God from of old has called them they have abdicated , renounced in the expiation of a common suffering of three hundred years , their old enmities , their egotistical prejudices ; they aspire to embrace each other in a common bond , in a c ommon life . Brute Force says to them-remain disunited , hostile feeble , forever ; we will it so , and our armies are there to maintain our will . There is not a single government which dares interpose , in the name of God , and of Immortal Justice , its arm , its action . Not one that appears to feel how immoral , how impious , how atheistic is this inertness

      Such is the actual state ot Europe ; such is the lesson unfolded by the occupation of Cracow . It is the throwing off the mask on the part of the despotic principle-a programme of its intentions and of its future acts-a gauntlet of defiance , flung in the name of Force at all , peoples or governments , who maintain that the law of the world is the prin ' ciple of liberty in love . v " Shall the gauntlet be taken up ? It shall , without doubt , in a heur more or less remete , by the enslaved peoples . But for those who already rejoice in their liberty , are there not from henceforth duties ? Can they not , even now , accomplish them in part ? 1 shall endeavour in the next number to give somo reply to tin © double question .-itopfe ' i / oumrt ,

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      DEATE FROM ; IMPURE AIR IN A LODGING . Ah inquest was held on Monday nlgbt at the Bed Lion , Shoe Lane , on the body of a man unknown , who died suddenly in a common lodging house in Field Lane , Ho ) , born . The deceased had occupied a bed in the lodging house , No . 26 , field Line , for which he paid fourpence per night for the last three months . In tho day time he got work , if he could , about tho docks aud wharfs , nnd was known by his fellow lodgers by the cognomen of the' Old Gentleman . ' Nothing further was known of him than that he had told a fellow lodger that he was a native of Cambridge , and that in early life he bad been a farmer . On Friday night he returned to his lodging about six o ' clock , and complained of a pain across the loins , which he thought was caused by the cold . He went early to bed , and during the ni ght he wa » heard to laugh hysterically , and in the morning was found a corpse . The only property found upon him was four duplicates in u tin box and a halfpenny .

      Dr . J , Lynch said that ongoing into the room he found a very offensive smell of animal exhalation , as if there had baen teveral persons sleeping in it . He stooped down at the first bed , and jound the body of the deceased , He bled him , and a very Bmall quantity of black blood , like treacle , flowed . On looking around the room h « saw quite sufficient to account for the death ; the room could not give , under an ; circumstances , healthful accommodation to one individual , much lesi to four , who had been sleeping in the same apartment . The fireplace was blocked up , and every means had been taken ta prevent a free current of air in the apartment . Many of these lodging-houses wero built over cesspools , and the impure air breathed in the confined apartment had the same effect upon the vital parts as inhaling the noxious vapour of burning charcoal . The man might probabl y have

      been affected with lumbago , but he died in a fit , no doubt cauBed by breathing impure air . He had no hesitation in saying the death in the present case was accelerated by i want of proper . ventilation . A man required for tho purposes of life 1 , 000 cubic feet of pure air , and should not inhabit a room less than ten feet high by eight feet wide ; but the room in which the deceased , with three other persoas slept , was neither so wide nor so high . Dr . Lyach , at considerable length , gave a most painful des-¦ criptton of the wretched hovels where the poor creatures paid for nights' lodgings in the vicinitj of Sinithfield and field Lane . In some of them eight or nine persons slept , whilst accommodation was afforded for only two . Referring to the health of the people inhabiting courts , the Doctor said that it was a well-known fact that out of 100 , 000 children born , 50 , 000 died solely from inhaling impure air .

      Mr . J . Carville , as relieving officer of the union , he said he was witness to ninny cases being brought from thooo houses to the workhouse , and he could mention as a fact that , some time back , four persons were brought from one of those houses who died in twenty-fours after their admission , solely from inhaling the impure air . The lodging-house-keepers Lad been told by him that the in . stant one of their lodgers was taken ill they were to send him to the workhouse . On going over one of these houses he found thirty-six beds in one room , so closu together that there was barely room to pass between them . The fire-places were stopped up so a » to make more room for beds . Coroner;—If a fever was to break out in such a house , the consequences to the neighbourhood would be dreadful , as tboru would be no knonlug where It woulj stop . Dr . Lynch — Fevers are constantly breaking out in these houses ; and the worst is that it is spread through , out the community by the inmates constantly removing from one part of the metropolis to the other .

      The Jury returned a verdict , " That the deceased died from natural causes accelerated by the want of pure ven tilation , the Jury at the same time requesting that th attention of the authorities be drawn to the subject , s that there be a proper supervision over lodging houses , "

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      BRUTAL CONDUCT OF A BAILIFF . An inquest was held last week , at Hanley , on the body of au elderly man , named Underwood , who had seen better days but in his old age had fallen into misfortune . He was distrained upon for six months rent , which , coupled with inability to meet it , was the last feather on the camel ' s back , the poor old man sunk under it , in connexion with the uucival conduct of the bailiff . He cut his throat and afterwards threw himielf in a mash tub nearly full of water . The grandaughter of the d eceased deposed to the gross conduct of the bailiff Shenton , and the coroner having ordered him to be called in addressed him as follows : — . Do you think that because you are armed with the authority of the law to destrainon a person ' s goods yeu are justified in using improper language ? Do you think every house you nter is your own—that you are lord and master ! I

      have been given to understand that your conduct in this unfortunate case hat been overbearing and abusive , and I here warn you , for the future , not to overstep you authority—not to trample upon parties in distress . I ! am not only bound to believe what I hate here on oath | —that your conduct was disgraceful in . this affair ; but 1 1 hear from the gentlemen of the jury , who know your i gensral character , that jou are in the constant exercise I of unbounded rascality . Whoever you may be employed by , if such conduct comes under my notice , I will not , hesitate to speak of it . Justice ought to be administered leniently , and not in the ' . vagabondiatog manner you ! have been in the habit of dispensing it . Depend upon i it you shall be watohed . You are only a tenant for life ; j and , in all probability , the life of this poor man might b « iY « b «« ft BtTOmdbutiw your disgweetui contact ,

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      Shentoa retired completely abuhed . naT ^^ " ^^ ssr— " i ^ sjttftis "m ^ C ^ SS ^ * - * . poraryins « nity . » * m ln a « ' of ^ Tha Coroner refused to allow the baillffii tt » pensei as wltnes «» . m the " "" M « .

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      POISONING OF A YOUNG FEMALE IN ESSEX Bbihtwood , Tubsdat . —An inquest , which h cupled several days in the course of the last thr . 06 " was brought to a close yesterday afternonn [ * Week « i C . C . Lewis , the Coroner for the WeSn biv- **' fbi ^ r * - " ¦""""• a . fcr-taiKt ; The deceased '! name was Lucy Boultwnnrt au healthy looking young woman , aged g v " * T "' the daughter of a labourer , ivingatV' ' V * " " small Tillage , situate . ix miles nor th . east " f ' ^ n ^ Up to Michaelmas last she was in the sohKu" ^* atlitlk Baddock , whereit seems . hebecame ?/^' Yoll discovery of which led te her discharge from St V « , employ . She returned to h « r parents at HannVn »« u and remained there until the 8 th of last month 8 dl she left on a visit to her lister , a Mrs . Vale atK four miles from Hanningfieid . She was then toft { health and spirits , but in the cour . e of the evening that day she became suddenly ill , and in twentj ? nn ° hours was a corpse . Her sister , Mrs . Vale , who attend her , said deceased first complained of a severe he&da J followed by violent retchings and vomiting of ,, £ froth . The vomiting subsided , she fell back on Z floor as if in a fit . During the night she ocM 6 ! onall had fits , and at eight o ' clock on the evening o ( tl » jS she died . la

      This wag the substance of the evidence taken at th flr « t meeting of the jury , when , in consequenc . of « , ni ctous being entertained that the deceased was e > ici « if / * the time of her death , Mr . Lewis , the Coroner , direc ted I pott mortem examination of the body to beimmedt at i proceeded-with , Accordingly , Mr . Anthony Wells , a su geon , made a minute examination , and stated the reiuU at the re-assembling of the Coroner and Jury . vl showed that the unfortunate woman was not oiilv in th condition suspected , but that her death had been n , duced by poison . This fact was established bv » i . quantity of inflammation in the stomach Inothfispects the body was in a most health y state Mr wX was of opinion that the poison administered wag of vegetable : description , and from what he had heard h . believed ,, to have been takeu with a view of procu ^ Other evidence having been glren

      , The Jury found the following verdict _ That th « a ceased died from the effects o / accrtatvT gelble s ^ unknown to the Juror , , but by whom admSi ter ° or how taken , there was no evidence to show

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      The Ice in Shields Harbour . —A Bridkqroou w a Fix . —On Sunday morning week there was so much ice in the river , at Shields , owing to the break up after the thaw , that the Tyne steam ferry was under the necessity of dropping anchor midway in her pat * sage between north and south , and "Thereshe lav Till mid-day . " " t hr ee hours a t the lea s t , with all her passengers on board , doing penance for the peccadilloes of tlie preceding week . The turn of the tide brought release , and the Tvne has since enjoyed a Christmas holiilayf that she might undergo repairs , and be in no ) danger of '' breaking up " for a holiday at the new year . A ew sculler boats we understandseeing their " big

      , , brother at a sta » d , had the imnertinenco to attempt the enterprise which he had failed to achieve , bearing in mind the injunction " to make hay while the sun shines , " but they were speedily arrested by icebergs , and locked up in xa \ arctic prison . One of these wrecks was a mournful affair . The sculler ' s fare was a venturesome bridegroom , whose future partner in life awaited him on the opposite shore . Surrounded by obdurate ice , which even the fire of his , love was not hot enough to thaw , there he sat , shivering , by the side of old Charon , and wondering what his brido would think of his absence . Once he thought of Hero and'Leander , and was half inclined to essay a swim to shore ; he was also inclined to remain

      where he was and not try his swimming powers in competition with so many ice floes ; bo Leander ' s feat was not eclipsed by our " Hero . " An acquaintance , recognising him from the quay which he hail quitted , accosted him at the top of his voice , crying , Assay ! Bob , mun \ try to wauk back over the ice , an gan roond by the railway ! " But the unhappf man , dreading lest in making the | attempt , there should be chance to be a ' bob" in the water , stuck to tho boat . It wero better , thou g ht he , to be a married man on Monday than food for fishe 3 on Sunday . Folding his arms , therefore , he kept his safe seat in the stern for three mortal hoi > rs , wrapped up in his reflections and his new coat .

      Glorious Prospect . —A person who advertises in a morning paper for a clerk , holds out this inducement : — ' A small salary will be given , but ua will have enough of overtvork to make up for the dflficiency . '

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      It behoves us always to bo on our guard , when alone we should watch our thoughts , when in society our tongues , and when in our families ouv tempers . Indeed * upon our properly guarding the last depends much of out social happiness and domestic comfort , taking < - "ar « W counteract that continued irritability of mind which is tj » precursor to ebullitions of passion . But our mental disposition is so intimately connected with our physical condition , that what is frequently considered ilUempeft or peevishness , is in reality but tho result of a dening' * ment of the digestive or other organs of the bady , » i"J

      requires medicinal not moutal remedies . To sucu v < recommend with confidence Frainpton ' s Pill of HM ""* as being certaiu to its effects , and gcutlo in its opera tion . Holloway ' s Ointmeut and Pills . —An authenticated cura of a fearful case of Tiles . —John Thompson , Esq ., the virj respectablft editor and proprietor of th « " Armag h uoa - dian , " » n Irish newspaper , vouches as to the fact ot ^ extraordinary cureof a case of Piles of the most distressing nature and of some years * staudiug , which wasent . CPj ' by th « semedicines whenever ? other means had tan *> ; The person aUuded to is a goutieman of laago estato a' « great influence in tho county of Armagh . No one ne *» suffer very long from Piles , Fistulas , and what U torimu a » bearing down , " if they will have rooourso to tkosu w famed renwdles .

      The Stockport Improvement Bill.

      THE STOCKPORT IMPROVEMENT BILL .

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      A curious affair has recently occupied the attfnlion of the rate-payers of St . Mary ' s Ward in this borough ( Stockport ) , which the following report of a meeting held in the above-named ward will explain . The meeting was holden in the Waterloo Tavern , Waterloo-road , for the purpose of taking into consideration the conduct ef a deputation appointed at a previous meeting to wait upon the aldermen and councillors for St . Mary ' s Ward , relative to the Stockport Improvement Bill . John Allinaon , Geo . Cheetnam . and Benjamin Shattin were the parties who formed the above deputation . Mr . Thomas Woodhouse was called to the chair .

      The Chairman said , that as the decision of that meeting * ould affect materially the agitation which was poiog on through the borough in opposition to the intended Bill , he should call upon Mr . James Mitchell , who was the secretary , to introduce the Brst part of the busines ' . Mr . MnoHKHsaid , it will be remembered that on Tuesday , the 1 st of December last , a public meeting ot the inhabitant rate-payers of this ward was held at the Grapes Inn , in Church-pate , for the ; pnrjM » e of takinj into consideration the present intended Improvement Bill for the B rough of Stockport . After mature considerat on , it was unanimously agreed by that meeting , that a deputation of three should be appointed to wait upon the aldermen and councillors for St . M a ry ' s Ward , particularly to request them not to give their support to any Improvement Bill for this Borough , until the Government measure , which is now pending , shall have been made known to the country . TBat deputation

      had in his ( Mitchell ' s ) opinion violated and betrayed th ' ir trust , however , it was for that meeting " to decide as to whether they had done so or not ., Instead of their waiting upon the aldermen andiMJQriHors according to their instruction the depuration had waited upon Mr . Canpack , the town clerk , and the result of their interview with him had been tke production of a most scandalous and deceitful printed document , which they had caused to be circulated to the number of upwards of one thousand , in favour of the improvements , and to this printed document they ( the deputation ) hal attached their signatures . Now it was not for that meeting to decide as to the truth or falsehood contained in that document , or whether the intended new Bill would be a benefit or an injury to the Borough , but it was for them to say whether the deputation had acted in accordance with tbe decision of the meeting at the Grapes Inn , in which decision they ( the de utation ) had taken a most prominent part , and most cordially gave it their support .

      Mr . Gborq * CnEETnAM , one of the deputation , said , that the instructions which he , along with his two colleagues , had received at the meeting held at the Grapes'Inn . were not exactly to the effect stated by Mr . Mitchell . They had been requested to ask for information relative to the Improvement Bill , which they could not obtain at the meeting in question . Several persons in the meeting here cried out that Mr . Mitchell had offered to give Mr . Cheetham any information he might require upon the subject , but he ( Cheetham ) prevented him doing so , because Mr . Mitchell happened not to be a rate-payer in St . Mary ' s Ward .

      Mr . Cheetham contended that they had waited upon all the councillors , with the exception of one , and he could not be seen . Hf > admitted that he had seconded the adoption of the memorial to the C o uncil , requesting them to stay the progress of the Bill until the Government measure should be made known ; but he also considered it his duty to make inquiries relative to the manorial tolls , the waterworks and other improvements of the Borough . They had ddne so , and the result of that , inquiry had been the production of the printed document in question . He was not going to sty who the parties were that had drawn up that document , any further than that it was got up from information which they received , and he and his ' colleagues were responsible for its existence . They considered they had done n <> more than their duty in pursuing the course the y had , and he could wish some person to show to him that that printed document was incorrect .

      Mr . James Denarit said , that he must express his surprise and astonishment at the language and conduct of Mr . Cheetham upe-i this occasion was without i parallel in the period of his existence . What had the paper produced by Mr . Cheetham to do with the instructions he received from the meeting held at Mr . Pickford ' s ? At . that meeting , Mr . Cheetham and the others , who formed the deputation , had written instructions , and those instructions were that John Allinson , George Cheetham , and Benjamin Shattin , should wait upon the Aldermen and Counc ill o r s for St . Mary ' s Ward , and request them not to give their support to any Improvement Bill until the government nieasure which is now pending shall have been made known to the country , and one step beyond that they had no right to go . But even with regard to the document he would challenge Mr .

      Cheetham to prove that any part of it was correct . He had been appointed to perform a certain public duty , and that duty they had not performed , they had acted contrary to the resolution , which they themselves had seconded and supported , nnd consequently had betrayed the confidence which was reposed in them . Mr . Johs IIiimkb said it now became his duty to expose the trickery of these gentlemen . He was one of those who seldom kept a secret long , and particularly when the . secret affected the [ public welfare . He was prepared to prove that the printed document produced by Mr . Cheetham was not the production of either of the deputation , or of the Aldermen and Councillors , for tlm ward , but that it had been prepared and cot up by Mr . Canpack , the town olerk ,

      The statements therein contained were precisely the same that Mr . Cappark hnd made to him and Mr . Webb but a few days previously . If the document was not the production of Mr . Cappack . why w a s th e the proof sheet sent to that gentleman twice for correction before it could be exposed . He ( Mr . Iluraer ) did not bl . imc the deputation for accepting the kind and gentlemanly invitation of Mr Cappack , perhaps some of them seldom had an opportunity of regailing their Htomachs with the good things they found at the table of that gentleman . While that document was being prepared . Mr . Cheetham and his colleagues , according to his own acknowledgement , were doing justice to the remains of a good old Cheshire Cheese , with other requisites , an « l a few bottles of Mr .

      Cappack ' s best Porter ; and when business compelled Mr . p appack to r tire from their company , th ey had the impudence in his absence to ring the bell , and call for more . lie was prepared to prove that the deputation had allowed themselves to be'tampered w ith b y the town clerk , who is the greatest opponent the rate-pa \ ershave upon this question . Let Mr . Cheetham deny tliPsestatements ,: indho ( Mr . Ilumer ) would pvove them from his own lips , by parties now in this meeting . ( Here the whole meeting exhibited one general feeling of disgust , and Mr . Gheetham admitted the fact . ) The Councilmen for St . Marv ' s Ward had declared that thu deputation had never in their interview with them , requested them to withhold their support to the bill until the government measure should be made known .

      After a few well timed observation from Mr . Bradburn , the following resolution was moved by Mr . Nathaniel Booth . ^ seconded by Mr . James Simester , and carried unanimously : — That inasmuch ns John Allinson , George Cheothara , and Benjamin Shattin , who were appointed as a deputation to carry out tho objects of the above resolution at the Grapes Inn , on Tuesday , the 1 st instant , have betrayed the confidence which was then placed in them by acting contrary , and in opposition to the decision of that meeting , this meeting is of opinion that they are no longer worthy of the confidence and respect ot their brother ratepayers , and ought to be branded by their fellow townsmen , as traitors to the canse of justice and humanity . It was then unanimously agreed , moved by Soranco Bury , Seconded liy Mr . Roads

      That a memorial signed by the inhabitant rate-payer * of St . Mary ' s ward be immediatel y got up and presented to the Aldermen and Councillors for the said ward , requesting them not to give their support to any improvement Bill for this borough , until the government measure for the regulation of Borough , dsc , shall have bem made known to the country .

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      THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERT OJ THE PRESENT , TIME . THE USE OF ETHER IN SURGERT . We noticed last week , a method of rendering a patient insensible to pain during the performance of surgical operations by the inhalations of the vapour of ether combined with atmospheric air . The following are the particulars of the successful amputation of the leg of a patient in the Bristol General Hosp ital on Friday , in which thiB new principle was tried : — A young man , a patient in the Bristol General Ho s p ital , had , on Friday , his left leg removed above the knee—an operation rendered necessary by a white ¦ welling of three years' standing ; and at the suggestion of Dr . Fairbrother , the senior physician to the hospital , Mr . Lansdown , the operating surgeon , was induced to try the effect upon the patient of the inhalation of the vapour ot sulphuric ether . After inhaling the vapour for one minute and a half , the patient became unconsciousand the Burgeon

      com-, menced his incision , and after the lapse of two or three minutes , Dr . Fairbrother again administered the vapour , keeping his fingers on the patient ' s pulse , and watching his breathing . Wino was administered in small quantities alternately with the vapour , which kept him in a state cf unconsciousness fortheperiodof 15 minutes . The limb was separated from the body in one minute . During the operation the features did not express tbe least pain , and the patient remained motionless . After the operation he awoke , perfectly quiet and calm ,, and said he had nut felt any pain , either in cutting through the Bkin , flesh , bone , sawing the bone , or in tying the vessels , some of which required to be dissected from the nerves . Since the operation the patient has slept better than he has for ten nights , and is going on favourably . The following letter upon the best mode of applying the vapour we have received from Mr . IIera | jatb , the well known analytical chymist , who was present at the operation : —

      Sir , —I feel it would be wrong to withhold from the faculty and public in general that we have repeated the American experiment of administering tbe vapour of ether ai a means of deadening the sensibility of the nerves , and with the most perfect success . A young man was to lose his leg by amputation of the thigh , at the Bristol General Hospital , and this was thought a good opportunity for the trial . The operation was rather a long one , and from several arterial branches having to be taken up , it occupied II minutes , and during this whole time the man was kept iu a perfectly quiescent state , without motion or sound . He afterwards stated himself to have been conscious of the amputation , but without pain , beyond that of a scratch ; and during tbe operation it ' was found that with the assistance of wine on

      the one hand , and the vapour of ether on the other , he could be elevated or depressed with the most complete controul , bis absence of pain being continuous . The operator , Mr . Lanfdown , nnd the other medical gentlemen present , will , no doubt , give the public the details of the case , and my duty is merely to show the very simple application of the agent ; no complicated apparatus is necessary , nor any extraordinary care in purifying tbe ether . A common , but very large bladder , should be fitted with a collar to which an ivory mouth piece with a large bore can be screwed , without tbe intervention of any stopcock pour in about an ounce of good common ether , and blow up the bladder with the mouth till it is nearly full ; place the thumb on tbe mouthpiece . and agitate the bladder so as to saturate the air in it with the vapour ; as « oon as the patient is ready for the operation close bis nostrils , introduce the mouthpiece , and close

      tbe lips round it with the fingers . He must now breath into and out of the bladder , and in about one or two minutes tbe muscles sf his lips will lose tbeir hold . This is the moment for the first cut to be made . In two or three minutes the effect will begin to disappear ; the mouthpiece , thould again be introduced , and this repeated as often as required . If the pulse should indicate a sinking of the patient , a little wine will restore him . I bavs no doubt the inspiration of nitrous oxide ( laughing gas ) would have a timilar effect upon the nerves of sensation as the vapour of ether , as I have notified tint per . sons under its influence are totally insensible to pain ; but I do not think it would be advisable to use U in surgical cases , from its frequently producing an ungovernable disposition to musculur exertion , which would render the patient unsteady , and embarrass the operator .

      The administrator of the vapour will of course take cafe that no fluid ether shall be allowed to be drawn into the lungs , otherwise suffocation would result , or at the best a vioient cough , which must protract the operation , and considerably distress the patient . I am , Sir , your obedient servant , ' William HEBArATH . Bristol , Jan . 1 , 1847 .

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      f J : ? Z ? hockinS accident , resulting in the loss of $ two Jives , occurred between one and two o ' clock on " I ueiday morning , at the King ' s Langley station , on 1 the line of the North Western Railway . f The circumstances in connection with the me ! an « I choly affair , as ascertained from an inspection of the scene of the accident , and inquiries among these , veral parties who witnessed the same , may be briefly stated as follows : — About twenty minutes after one o ' clock on Tuesday morning , a coal train , from the Claycross and Stavely collieries , drew up alongside the platiorm at tho King ' s Langley station , for the purpose of de .

      tacbing some waggons of coal at that place . The morning was very foggy , and the driver not bein g certain as to the exact position of the " points , " stopped the train before arriving at the signal post , and addressing the policeman on duty , said he had Sve trucks to leave at Langley , and should be glad to know whereabouts the " points" were . The police . 1 man signalled him to come on beyond the signal I post , and the train being again set in motion , was P brou ght to a stand just within the " cro .-sing" oa P the up line . The policeman then turned on the R red signal , and ran to the " points" with the in- H tention of " shunting " the waggons ; tho breaks- * man of the coal train meantime detachinthe t '

      g break wag g on and pushing it some few yards back ' " 3 on the main line . While thus engaged , the police- -i man fancied he heard m up train coming , and know I ing the difficulty of observing the ordinary signal 1 amp throug h a dense fog , he ran back down the n line waving his red hand . lamp as a caution to any U advancing train to stop . Before ho had run fifty ft yards he saw the light of an engine advancing at a ^ rapid rate , and the next moment he discovered the ? dreadtul fact that a heavy luggage train , propelled | i by two engines , the drivers of which had evidentl y | : neither of them observed the signals until too late |; to be of any service , was running at a fearful speed i directly into the coal train . The driver and stoker S

      of the first engine attached to the luggage train for- ' 4 tunately observed the policeman ' s hand signal ai well as the red tail lamps on the break waggon of 3 the coal traiD , and as the only chance of escape they threw themselves off the engine on to the line , ! 1 happily without sustaining any material injury . * The two poor fellows on the second engine appear h to have been wholly unconscious of their danger , and as an inevitable consequence , when the collision f took place , they were instaneously killed . Tho crash is described to have been most awful . The leading engine of the luggage train of course first struck the break waggon , which , offering com * paratively no resistance , was knocked to pieces and I thrown about the line in all directions . The coal I

      tram , which consisted of about 30 trucks , was next I struck , and being very heavy , the effect on the lug- 1 gage train was proportionably severe / The two en * I giues with their tenders were crashed together in a j manner which , without a personal observation , it 1 would bo scarcely possible to conceive . Three or I four coal waggons were knocked to pieces , and I about the same number of luggage trucks wero en- i tirely destroyed . The disabled engines and tender were thrown by the concussion entirely across tha I hfte , and , with the other portion of the wreck , com * f . pletely blocked up both the up and down line of rails . I 1 he breaksmen of the luggage train were thrown off [ tho break waggon on to the line when the collision i took place , but fortunatel y neither of them were J much hur t . i

      f he names of the unfortunate deceased are Thofl . Assnp and George Mathers ; the former the driver , and tho latter the stoker of the engine No . 115 . Both men are understood to be married . i Smith , the policeman , is described to be a most ' careful man . He has been employed on the railway ome years .

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      _ 2 < s * l > ' jyvV THE NORTHERN STAR . January ft t * .

      Extraordinary Cures Holloway's Ointment.

      EXTRAORDINARY CURES HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 9, 1847, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1400/page/2/