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ABERNETHY'S PILE OINTMENT.
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MM ^ iMMi ^ i ^ B ^ ^ BmMM—MaM ¦ Wh at a painful and noxious disease is the Piles ! and comparative , how few of the afflicted hare been . per- ' manently cored by ordinary appeals to medical skill ! This , na doubt , arises from the use of powerful ' aperients too frequently administered by the profession ; indeed ) strong internal medicine should always bt avoided in all cases of this complaint . The proprietor of the above Ointmont , after years of acute suffering , placed himself 1 tinder the treatment of that eminent surgeon , Mr . Abernethy , was by him res tored to perfect health , and has enjoyed it ever since without the slightest return of the disorder , oveV a period of rif i-en years , during which time the same Abernethian prescription has been the means of healing avast number of desperate cases , both in and out of the proprietor ' s circles of friends , most of which cases had been under medical care , and some of them for a very con tiderable time . Aberncthy's tile Ointment was introduced to the puhlic ny the desire , of many who had been nor * fectly healed bv its application , aria since its introducUon the fame of this Ointment has spread far and wide- ev . n the Medical Profession , always slow add unwilling to acknowledged the virtuis of any medicine not iircuared hv themselves , do now freely and frankly admit that Abernetliy ' a 1 'ilc Ointment is not only a valuable preparation but a never failing remedy in every stage and variety of that appalling malady . V p wraon , but Sufferers Hill not repent giving the Ointment a trial . Multitudes of cases of its efficacy might be OToducDa if the nature of the complaint did nut render those wha haye been cured umv . llmg to publish their names pTOdUCMl ' Sold in coTercd Pots , at 4 s . 6 d . or thequautity of hr * e * s . fad . Pots in one for Us , with full directions for use bv C King , ( Agent to the Proprietor . ) Napierstri-et . Hoxton . > m ; Town London , where also can be procured everv Patent Medidueofrepute . Vcc tfr ^ * * Bc sure to ask for" ABESETHY'S p . ILE 0 I f /! T- .,, ' ie lubl « are requested to be on their guard aptnst noxious compositions . Mid at low ;§«*"« g ^ £ * ££ ^ f . r " ^ P ^ ybe genuine , unless theC gL& » aa ^ CORNS AND BUNIONS . PAUL'S EVERY MAN'S FRIEND . Palroniicd hy the Royal Family , Nobility , CUrgy , &c . It a sure and speedy Cure for ^ " ^ memoyaiun , without causing the least pain or Jnconvenience . Unlike all other remedies for torn =. its operation is such as to render the cutting of Corns altogether unnecessary : indeed , we may say , the practice « f cutting Corns is at all fames highly dangerous , and has been frequently attended with lamentable consequences , besides its liability to increase their growth ; it adheres with the mGst gentle pressure , produces an instant and delightful rehef from torture , and with perseverance in its application , entirely eradicates the most inveterate Corns and Bunions . Testimonials have been received fr m upwards of one huml ed Physicians and Surgeons of the greatest eminence as well as from m » uy Umeers ot both Army and Navy , and nearly one thousand private Utters ftoji the « entrv in town and country , speakiiiR in high terms ofthis valuable remedy . ° J "" "" Prepared hy John Fox , in boxes at Is lid . or three small boxes in one for 2 s 9 d , and to be had , with full . lirections for use , of C . King , > apier-street , Hoxton , New Town London , and all wholesale and retail medicine vendors in town and ouuutiy . The genuine has the name of John Fox on the stamp , "is 9 d Box cures the most obdurate Corns Ask for " Paul ' s Every Man ' s Friend . " AbTiietny ' s Pile Ointment , Paul ' s Corn Plaster , and Abernethy ' s Pile Powders , are soli bv the followiuKreSDecti h ' ,, Chemists and Dealers in Patent Medicines : * » 4 « iiw . ho . « Barclay and Sons , Farringdon-street ; Edwards . 67 , St . Paul ' s Chureh . yard ; Butlor 4 Cheanside- Ni > ivh »» «* P-ul '*; button , Bow Church yard ; Johnson . 16 , Greek-street , Soho . aud 63 . Corn MI . SamwMM Oxf , nl £ ? WiUonsbby and Co , Cl . Bishopsgate street Without ; Owen . 52 . Marchmond-s treet Burtoncrescent * ' Eade a r « J well nrect ; Prout , £ 9 , Strand ; Hannay and Co ., « . Oxford-street ; Hunter and James " Webber row and ttail ' by ali respectable chemists and medicine venders in London . ow > uu " " ° " CorsTHY Agests : —Baines andNewsome ; Mr . Buckton , Times Office ; HeatonSmepfnn n-. ii n «; ni . „» „ t a 3 . C . Browne . 4 s , Briggate , Thornton . 35 Boar Lane , Demon , Garland , Mann , JBeiSi arvev aS 1 , te T ^ fr ' BolLmdandKemplar , LandMonm , C . Hay , 106 . BHgRate , Rhodes , Bcllsrad Brooke Lord R C llav mSSS nJB Leeds : too ^ r . Key and Fisher . Bradford ; Hartley , Berry , Suter , Leyland Halifax SmMi ' Rhili iL t r V ' Gdl , Smith . Wafaftdd ; Fybus Barusley ; KnowlesfThorne , Brooke and SpWejV Huddersfield ^ Hud ^ m ' KMuJI ' . Loftuoiu , e . Reinhardt ( late Carlton-, Kirton , Alcock , Baines Bui-rell , Bell , Burton . S ^ Ifelsoii . Fn ^ in l & + * ' ing , Carton . Williamson , Chapman . Hammond , Wallis , Walker , Broomhead , NobleTrrtV ? & jTsS ^ hln ^" K ^ SS ^^ Ku - tKS ^ CiedhiU . IHJIM i ft . Pnestle , Fox Puntcfect ; Dalby , Wetherby / SlMer , Bedale . Dixon , NortSton £ ! rdTfc ' mond ; iV . rd . Stukesey , FoSgit and Thompson Thirsk , Monkhouse Barnard Castle ; Pease , DarKi gton Jenne Stockton ; a :. d by s . 11 respectable chemists aud medicine venders in everv market town in England ' Wholesale Agents-Messrs . Bolton , Blanshard , and Co ., drug « ists , Micklegate York .
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EXTRAORDINARY CURES BI HOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT , wonderful Care of dreadful Ulcerous Sore sin tho Face and Leg , in Prince Edward Island . I ! n Truth ofthis Statement was duly attested before a Magistrate . I , Hdoh Macdunaid , of Lot 55 , in King ' s County , do hereby declare , that a most ivonJerful preservation of my if « has been effected by the use of Holloway ' s Pills and eiutment ; and I furthermore declare , that I was very much afflicted with Ulcerous Sores in my Face and Leg ; iosrver . ? was my complaint , that the greater part of my nose and the roof of my taouth was eaten away , and my Itg had three large uiccrs on it , aud that I applied to several Medical gentlemen who prescribed for me , bat I '
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OX THE CONCEALED CAUSE OF CONSTITUTIONAL OK ACQUIRED DEBILITIES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM . Just Published , A uc-w andi mportant Edition of the Silent Friend on Human Frailty . Pr = ce 2 s . 6 d ., and sent free to any part of the United Kingdom on the receipt of a Post Offiae Order for 2 s . 6 d . A MEDICAL WORK on the INFIRMITIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM , in both sexes ; being an enq'nry mto the concealed cause that destroys physical energy , and the ability of manhood , ere vigour has established her empire : —with Observations on the baneful my .-ts of . SOLITARY INDULGENCE and INFECTION l < v j ! and constitutional WEAKNESS , NERVOUS IRRK TATION , CONSUMPTION , and on the partial or total
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pae 3 of coim . laints hitherto little understood , and wered over by the majority of the medical profession , for asst reason we are at a loss to know . We must , how I ha , confess ' . hat a perusal of this work has left such a j faverable iu-. pressiuii on our miuds , that we not only re . commend , but cordiall y wish every one who is the victim f r ^ t folly , or suffering fryw indiscretion , to profit by advice c ontained iu its pages . "— Age and Argv * < Pait I . ofthis work is particularly addressed to those I who are prevented from forming a Matrimonial Alliance , i and will be found an available introduction to the means i of perfect and sscret restoration to manhood . Part II . treats perspicuously upon those forms a : di « ea « es , either in their primary or secondary stat-, arising from iufectiou , shuwing ho « v numbers , through i j neglect to OD ' . aiu competent medical aid , entail upon ' . 1 themselves years of misery and sufferinn .
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VALUABLE TESTIMONIAL . The fallowing Testimonial © fa Cure of a Cough of twenty years standing , aad recovery ef strength will be read with much iaterest : — SiR . —I beg to inform you that for the last twenty years 1 have suffered severel y from a cough , and have beun under medical treatment with but little relief , and have n » t for many years beeu able to walk more than half a mile a day . After taking three boxes of your Lozenges my Cough entirely left mo , and I have this * day walked to Ross , a distance of four miles : for this almost renewal of life I aw solely indebted to your Lozenges You are at liberty to make what me you please of the letter , and I shall be happy to answer an ; enquiries re . ¦ peering my cure . I remain , Sir . your obedient and obliged servant , ( Signed ) Mart Cook Fentrais , July 16 th , 1843 . To Mr . Keatinf , St . Paul's Church Yard , Londou . Cheetham Hill near Manchester , August 31 st , 1845 . Sis , —I am glad I have taken your aivice in trying Mr
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' ' 1 - - l i —— KEAT 1 NGV 5 COUGH LOZENGES , as I hare for a long tim » been troubled with BhortneB * of breath and a bad j cough , and have tried a great variety of medicines , but I derived very little benefit from them : but since I have j made trial of Kbatinq's Couch Lvzenqis , I have breathed better , and the cough is quite gone . I am , Sir , your ' a truly , Sarah Fletcbeb . To Mr . Caori . ' Saffron Walden .
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An Inference . —On Saturday , Mr . Wakley . M . P ., held an inquest at ; the Cock and Lion , Wismore Street . Marylebone , on the body of Joseph Crampton . aged four weeks . The mother found it dead in bed by her side on Wednesday morning . It had not been previously ill , nor had it met with any accident . The Coroiwr , at the latter case , said it was a very common one , and that he held sometimes four or five similar inquests in a day . The impression used to be that all children so dying had been overlain . There never was a more stupid fallacy , and he believed the members of his own profession were the authors of it . In the course of some observations in reference to the presentstate of Ireland the Coroner
, s < ud it was all owing to the want of a poor law in Ire and . "We roust teach the owners of land in Ireland , ' said Mr . Wakley , " that they must either find employment for their poor , er support them by a tax on their property , as we do 'in Ens-land . He would advocate in his place in Parliament the extension of the principle of the English Poor Law in Ireland . A verdict of Natural Death was returned The L » H .-Wo 0 Lwicn , Jan . 30 . _ This morning * , at halt-past eij-ht o ' clock , the whole of the troops in the sarnson were mustered in the Riding School at the Royal Artillery Barracks , to pee the sentf lice of
a district court-martial , held on Wednesday last on gunner and driver . T . Beatty , of Cap tain Grant ' s company ( 10 th battalion ) carried into effect The prisoner was convicted some time since by a district court-martial of the crime of desertion and of stealing half a sovereign , belonging to Corporal Frazer , which the latter had entrusted him to get changed . He was then sentenced to six months , ' imprisonment , and to be branded with the letter I ) . This sentence fi * ?? m" in * . effe < t . and the prisoner was sent to the Military Prison , at Fort Clarence , Chatham . Whilst in confinement , ! he attempted to injure his e y es , with the view , by inducing a dnnrivntinn nf
siijht for the purpose of being discharged from the regiment . Being detected , he was sent up to Woolwich , to be tried for this offence , technically called " tampering . " and the district court-martial sentenced him to receive fifty lashes . The sentence was carried into effect this morning , under the superintendence of the field officer on duty . The unfortunate man received the fifty laahes at the hands of two drummers , the first being , according to practice , withdrawn , after he had inflicted twenty-five lashes , rhe prisoner , though evidently of a weak frame of body , bore the infliction with the most stoical indifference , and at its conclusion refused to allow any of his comrades to assist in putting on his clothes . f His struggle with his suffering was , however , of butshort duration for , on being brought into the open air , he became faint , and he was supported by three men up the steps of the Royal Ordnance ITuspital , whither he was at once conveyed , PAnnpntnn f \~* O _ i . UJ . •__ _ 1 . ¦ ¦¦ BBmra / oami
. « u » . — vu -uay evening oetween tne hours of aixand seven , a man , twenty-five or twentysix years old , carrying a blue bag on his arm , called at the residence of Mr . Todd , in Nottingham Place , with a false message , and stole from the hall two great coats , one of them dark ereen , lined throughout with sable fur , and worth £ 50 . On Sunday evening the house of Mr . Tutt . No . 8 , Georgina-street , Camden Town , was robbed during the absence of tU inmates , of a double-bottomed gold watch with three gold seals and key , twelve silk handkerchiefs , and other property . The thieves entered by breaking in at the kitchen window . On the same cveninir , the house of Mr . Simmonds , 11 , Exeti r- Street , South , Camden lonn , was entered and robbed of a gold neck chain
, £ 4 . in gold , 10 s . in a silk purse , and a great coat . « j jr Siicide of a Surgeon . —On Monday , Mr . Payne held an inquest at the East India Arms , Fenchurch Street , on the body of Mr . Thomas Greenwood , aged 41 , a general practitioner , of No . 2 , Fenchurcli Buildings . The deceased came home on Sunday evening in a state of intoxication , and shortly afterwards was observed to mix something with his tea , which he swallowed , and died after a short interval . Mr . Henry Bailer , surgeon , of Jewry Street , said ho had been acquainted with the deceased for many years , and had known him to have made two previous attempts on his life . When called to him on Sunday , lie wund him insensible , and in a ouarter nf
an hour the deceased died . Witness had examined the hpid in the tumbler , and found it to consist of tea mixed with essential oil of almonds . One of the jurors said that about three years ago the deceased sustained severe injuries on the head by falline off an omnibus and since then was occasionally out of his mind . Verdict , Temporary Insanity Aurmisg Kibe . —On Sunday mornine a fire nearly , attended with the most disastS * results ' was discovered on the premises belonging to Mr J £ Clarke , ironmonger , situate at 8 , Limekiln liilL and when first discovered was ascendin g the stair ! case . 1 he inmates happily succeeded in effecting a
saie retreat ; out the fire could not be extinguished until that portion of the house in wfieh Horn , raenced was burned out , and the furniture and upper rooms were severely damaged . Paixlmi OruiuTioNs- Effects of Ether-A man was admitted into the London Hospital haviii * his ancle completely crushed by the fall of a cask 0 " f sugar upon it . Immediate amputation was essential , but the patient obstinately refused to submit to the operation , till lie wan told it could be done without pain . Then he readily assented . The ether was administered , and the leg removed . The patient afterwards asserted that he had felt no pain but on the contrary , that his sensations were of the most pleasant description . When the crushed limb was afterwards dissected , it was discovered that the large artery and veinoftho leg were completely severed by the accident . Now , had the operation been delayed ( and without the ether this would have happened ) the patient might have rallied in a fewhnnw
from the shock , and then a violent bleed in » from the wounded artery would have followed , enough to exhaust or destroy the patient . The extirpation of a large tumour from the neck of a lady residing at Redford , occupying sixteen minutes in performance , is reported by the surgeon who operated as having been
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effected without the least consciousness of pain to the patient , and three operations upon the eye performed at the Maidstone Ophthalmic Hospital appear to have been equally successful . With a view to ascertain precisely the successive effects produced by inhaling ether , and so determine to whatextentit should be carried , Dr . Plomley , of Kent , breathed it himself , and says that its effects may be divided into throe stages or degrees . The first is merely a pleasurablefeeling of half intoxication ; ihe second is one of extreme pleasure , similar to the sensations produced by inhaling laughing-gns . Consciousness in this stage is not destroyed though there is
incapa-, bility of motion . There is not exactly an insensibility to pain , but an indifference , " a cswe-for-nothiny" sort of feeling . If operations are done in this stage , the patients almost always recover before the operations are completed , and the results are unsatisfactory . Most of the failures may he at tributed to this cause . The third stage is one of profound intoxication and insensibility . The individual is lost to pain and outward impressions ; but the mind is often revelling in the most pleasurable regions as in a dream . This ia the stage for operating . It may be known by the relaxed state of the muscles and the falling of the pulse . '
Surgical Opbk&tiok without Pain . — Another successful application of the vapour of sulpheric ether has been made at Westminster Hospital where a part of the thigh bone was removed b y Dr . ' Snow from a patient suffering from necrosis . The operation lasted seven minutes , during which time the patient remained unconscious of pain . On Tuesday afternoon two more operations were successfull y performed in the large theatre of the Charing-cross Hospital , on patients while under the influence of ether vapour . The first operation was performed by Mr . Avery , and consisted in the removal of the large toe nail of the left foot—a very painful process ; and , in the second case , Mr . Stegnall . the house-surgeon , extracted several teeth from
a young man who bad inhaled the ether . In b » th cases the patients acknowledged that they had not felt the slightest pain during the operations . AURMINO FlRB , AND NARROW EsCAPK OF SEVERAL * amiues . —On Sunday night , shortly before eleven o clock , a destructive fire brok e out upon the premises in the occupation of Mr . Rouse , straw bonnet maker , Carrying on business at No . 13 . Bermondsey-street . Ihe flames originated in the front shop , and were first discovered by police-constable 250 M , whoimmsdiately sprang his rattle , and after considerable trouble succeeded in aroufing from their slumbers the whole of the inmates , consisting of four or five families . Before however , that he had accomplished his object the shop became fired from end to end , and the flumes
were rising with such fury that none ot the residents were able to gain the street door fortunately they were enabled to effect a retreat from the back of the premises , thereby escaping a most horrible death . One of the lodgers , whilst deseending with a child in his arras , fell through one of the windows and seriously cut his hands . The engines having arrived , and an abundant supply of water having been obtained from the mains in the district , the fireman set to work , and by- carrying the hose int 1 ) the building , they were enabled to attack the flames in the right quarter , which soon got the fire subdued ; not , however , until the whole of the stock in trade was destroyed , and the premises seriously burned .
Dkstituuos in St . Luke ' s Chelsea . —This parish contains aboit 45 , 000 inhabitants , of whom one in very 14 is n » w actually receiving parochial relief . The returns lor the past wevk are a » follows -. —Inmates of the woikhousea , 397 ; children at the establishment at Tootinir , 126 ; recipients of eut-door reief , 2 , 604 ( being an increase in this class since last week of 668 ); the total amount to 3 , 217 , of whom about one-third are Irish . There have been from 150 to 220 new applications daily , and they seem likely o be still more numerous .
Smo \ ja Accident at the Eustos Square Railway Station . —On Tuesday afternoon , between two and three o ' clock , an accident of a very serious character occurred at the above railway station to one of the porters , named Joseph Price , living at 23 , Granville Street , Somera Town . He was unloading the train at the station , and by some means gotjammed between the buffers , and sustained such injuries as to render his immediate removal to the University College Hospital necessary . Fatal Accident at Whitehall—On Tuesday a
poor old woman named Aim Green , aged 70 , who revAtA m Wellington Place , near Tothill Fields prison , expired in the Westminster Hospital , from injuries received from a carriage . She was crosssing the road at Whitehall , and being very deaf , did not hear the approach of a carriage , although repeatedly called to , and the consequence was that the pole Btruck her on the head , and she was very severely injured . She was taken in an insensible state to the Westminster Hospital , where she died from the effects of the wtfunds .
Plate Robbery —O i Tuesday the police received information of a burglary having been committed the previous night at the house of Mr . W . Cope , of 85 , St . Mnrtin ' s Lane , vellum binder . The thieves must hare been well acquainted with the premises and the habits of the family , as also of the plate depository , a large closet in the drawing room , to which alone their attention was directed . The lock was foreed , and the whole of the plate was abstracted , consisting of a quantity of silver table , tea , dessert , sravy , mustard , and salt spoons : forks , mugs , and other articles , together with wearing apparel , to the value in all of nearly £ 100 , with which the depredators got clear off .
Impudent Robbert . —On Tuesday afternoon a weil dressed man , apparently about forty years of age , called at the residence of Dr . Brydges , iO , Guildford Street , Russell Square , and urder the pretence of having something to communicate to that gentleman , was shown into the parlour , whilst the servant went to apprise his master . A few minutes afterwards the Doctor entered the parlour , and was surprised to find that his " visitor" had decaped , taking with him a set of valuable surgical instruments in a morocco case .
A Precocious Thief . —At Bow-street , on Tuesday a boy named Benjamin Kerrison , about eleven years of age . was brought before Mr . Jardine , charged with the following daring attempt at robbery , at Messrs . Farrance ' s , confectioners , Charing Cross . Jane Beaty said she was in the employ of Mr . Farrance , and was in his shop on Tuesday morning ; about a quarter before eleven her attention was attracted by hearing the sound of the till in the side-counter heing drawn out , and almost immediately afterwards she saw the prisoner run out of the side-door into Spring Gardens , and she also observed that he had got the cnange-bag in his hand . It contained a quantity of silver . A short time previous to the robbery she had taken some change from it , and the prisoner must have seen her put it back in the till , as he had been watching about there all the morning . When he ran out she
pursued him , and never lost sight of him till he was stopped by a man , and , just before he was so stopped , she saw him throw the bag over the area of No . 9 , Spring Gardens . Edward Butt , police constable 03 A , said , a little before eleven this morning he saw a crowd in Spring Gardens , and on going up saw the prisoner down the area of No . 9 , Spring Gardens , and the last witness was also there picking up the money . He took the prisoner i » ito custody , the young woman charging him with having stolen a bag containing some money . lie counted the money ; it consisted of ten half-crowns , forty-six shillings , twenty-five six . pences , and two fourpenny pieces-in all £ 1 4 s . 2 d . He had driven the prisoner away from Mr . Farrance ' s shop door several times during the morning . The prisoner , who hadnothingtosay , was fully committed for trial .
Heartless Treatment of the Poor . —On Tuesday an inquest was held by adjournment , before Mr . Baker , Coroner , at the house of Mr . \ V . Finney , the Queen ' s Head public house in High-street , Poplar , concerning the death of an infant named Louisa Banner , aged 18 months , who died on board a Grayesend steaiu-boat , on her way to Blackwall . The inquiry excited considerable interest . The body of the child , when thejury viewed it , was in a emaciated state , and covered with sores . It appeared from the evidence of Mary Ann Banner , the grandmother of the deceased , who resides in St . Maitin ' s-laue , Westminster , that the child was
illegitimate . The child appeared a very promising one when born , though very small . The mother and child had been removed backwards and forwards seyeraljtimes from St . Marfm ' s-in-the-Fields , Westminster , to Chatham , owing to a dispute , as to settlement , and on the 23 rd they were again sent baek from Chatham , per steamer , and on arriving at Blaukwall the child was found to be dead . The medical evidence proved that deceased ' s death had been accelerated by exposure to tke cold . Alter other testimony the Jury returned the following verdict— "That Louisa Banner died from natural causes , " and added that the child was not in a fit and proper state to be removed . "
Lxtkn 8 ive Robbery of Gold and Silver . —On Tuesday information was circnlated that between ten and eleven o ' clock on Monday night there was stolen fr-m the house of Mr . James Clarke , New-street , Lambeth , a rosewood writing-desk , brass bound , containing £ 185 in sovereigns and £ 100 in Bank of England notes of £ 10 each , the numbers and dates unknown . The robbery is supposed to have been committed by a tall thin man in dark clothes , who was seen entering the parlour window , which had been left unfastened , and wiio must Have gone upstairs and taken the writing desk from the first floor
front room , and left the house by the front door . Metropolitan " an » Suburban Cemktkriks Society . —A parliamentary commission has just terminated the preliminary inquiries for the first Rill introduced by this company for a cemetery of 150 acres , east of London , the estimates of which , being proved showed a return of a net dividend per annum of from 12 to 20 per cent ., as the ground may be filled up in 250 or 350 years . The stauding orders were declared to be complied with on Saturday and Messrs . Mastcrman and LyaL members for the citv of London , have undertaken the charge of the "Bill through the House of Commons .
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THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS . The Fraternal Democrats held their usaal meeting on Monday Evening last at the German Society ' s Hall , Drury Lane . J . A . Michelot presided . Several town members were elected , and candidates for election nominated . Jesse Caines , of Bristol , was elected honorary member . The address of the Polish Democrats to Europe having been read , Ernest Jones moved , and Charles Keen seconded , " That a suitable reply be given on behalf of the society , and Julian Harney and Ernest Jones were appointed to draw up an address to that effeot . " Other business was postponed in consequence of the absence of G . J . Hartley , occasioned by ill-health . The next meeting of the society will take place on Monday evening , February 15 th .
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DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE FOR POLAND'S REGENERATION .
This committee assembled on Tuesday evening , January 26 th , at the Chartist Assembly Rooms , Dean Street , Soho . The president being , engaged during a portion of the evening attending the Registration Committee , Mr . John Moy was called to the chair . The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed : letters were read from Accrington , Leicester , Sheffield , Bath , and DepUbrd . Mr . Stephen Bailey was elected member of the committee , alter which the following country members were elected : —
Accrinoton . — William Beesley . Bath—Henry Page . Dumfries . —Peter Gray . Dmtford and Greenwich . — -James Wilshirc , — Robinson , Thomas Paris , — Richardson , George Floyd , Walter Friar , Joseph Morgan , John English , Charles Firth , Simon Sweetlove , and Samuel Brewerton . Lbioestkr . —Thomas Rayner Smart . Sheffield . —George Cavill . Mr . Harney , in accordance with the promise given in his letter in reply to the Weekly Dispatch , tendered the resignation of the secretaryship .
Mr Henry Ross moved " That Mr . Harney ' s resignation be not accepted . " Seconded by Mr . Caughlan , and carried unanimously . Mr . Ernest Jones moved , " That this committee consider the attack made by the W ' eekly Dispatch on Mr . Harney , as base , calumnious , and unworthy of the character of the English press , and the members of this committee tender to Mr . Harney the expression of their undirainished confidence , and thanks for his valuable services . " The motion was seconded by Mr . Doyle , and unanimously adopted . The secretary read the address of "The Polish Democrats to Europe . " The address was warmlj applauded .
On the motion of Mr . Doyle , seconded by Mr . Ross , it was resolved that the " Address" just read be entered on the minutes , and acknowledged by addresses from this committee " To the Poles" and " To the British People . " Messrs . ErneBt Jones and Julian Harney were appointed a sub-committee to prepare the addresses . Some other business having been transacted , the committee adjourned . The committee re-assembled ] on Monday evening last , but in consequence of the absence [ ot the secretary , occasioned by indisposition , but little business ¦ was done . The committee adjourned to meet again on Friday evening .
T / 2 B" Mr . Doyle , when on his recent tour , received at Dundee and Aberdeen the names of several friends desirous of becoming honorary members of the committee ; unfortunately Mr . Doyle has lost or mislaid the liso , therefore , our Dundee and Aberdeen friends will oblige by sending their names , < fco ., to Mr . G . J . Harney , Northern Star Office . Some names were expected before this time from Edinburgh ; will our democratic friends in the Scottish metropolis afford their aid to the committee ?
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¦ ^ i ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH DAY OF THOMAS PAINE . A public tea party was held at the Literary Institution , John-street , Tottenham-court-road , on Friday evening , January the 29 th , in commemoration of the birth of the immortal Thomas Paine . Mr . Thomas Cooper presided , and after tea delivered an appropriate address . He also read a letter from a gentleman in the North commenting on the services Thomas Paine had rendered to the human race . The letter excited warm applause . The chairman then gave the first toast : — The people may they study , the first principles of go . vernment , and way they never relinquish the struggle for social and political rights , till the whole population have obtained them .
Responded to by Mr . J . B . O'Brien . The next sentiment was .: — The memory of Thomas Paine , may his works , imperishable as the language in which they are written , become universally studied and reduced to practice . Responded to by Mr . J . Watson , and Mr . Walter Cooper . The next sentiment was ;—The Press , may its transcendent talent be exerted in establishing the rfglitB and liberties of mankind , and in elevating the intellectual , social , and moral character of ths people . Responded to by Mr . Alexander Campbell , and Messrs . Buchanan and Stallwood , The next sentiment was : — The speedy downfall of the iniquities of Kingcraft and Priestcraft .
Responded to by Mr . Henry Hetherington , and Mr . W . D . Saull . The speeches were all interesting and worthy of the political and intellectual celebrity of the speakers . The musical harmony of the evening , included tho " Marseilles Hymn , " " A man ' s a man for a * that , " and several other choice effusions of the democratic muse . The services of the choir were most efficient , and the singers , both male and female , deserved and received the enthusiastic applause of the meeting .
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«» THE LAND ! TO THE MBMBBR 8 OF BBXBPIT SOCIETIES AXD SICK ™ x . CLUBS . Brothers—For years pa 3 t I have noticed the advocacy ot the Small Farm and Allotment System , and also that the Labourer with the allotment , is in affluence in . comparison with the Labourer without it . Being fully satisfied of its benefits , I resolved to introduce the subject before the society of which I was a member , we having funds which were not very profitably employed . Accordingly , nearly five years ago , I proposed that we should purchase Land as the safest investment , and for affording healthful and profitable employment for the leisure hours of the members who
cnose to take allotments . 1 had some trouble to get a seconder , and not another veted with me . The next year I made the same proposition , and had about twenty supporters . I beg of the members to make inquiries as to the benefits to be derived . Resolved to persevere , I proposed it a third time , when my proposition was carried all but unanimously . Previous to this , we had a mortgage paid back , which had been lent at tour per cent ., and which we resolved to put in the Savings Bank , according to our usual practice ; namely , to appoint two members to invest about thirty pounds , but this time we had one hundred aud twenty pounds to deposit , so in consequence we had to appoint eight members . When we applied at the Savings' Bank , the Chairman inquired it it was Club
money we wished to dep&sit , and being answered iu the affirmative , he asked if the Club was enrolledwe answered that it was not ; then , he said , all the money you have deposited in this manner , is , strictly speaking , forfeited , and we cannot receive any more , but you will be allowed to withdraw your deposits , and at your next meeting tell your members the benefit to be derived from enrolment , and try to get them to have the Ulubjenrolled . We then took the money ton private bank , who informed us that money was so plentiful , they could only allow one per cent . \ interest . It might bo plentiful amongst their own class , but God knows it was the reverse amongst us of the working class . We considered these things over the next meeting , and came to this conclusion—that we were sufficiently nforme
well i d to manage our own affairs , and we had better be our own bankers ; accordingly , we purchased two acres of middling quality of land , at one hundred guineas per acre . Two acres and twentythree rods , with awell sunk near one hundred feet , the fences putting in order , and a road up the centre of tU « land , co 3 t near two hundred and seventy pounds ; and yet it will pay the society five per cent , on the outlay , and answers well for the occupants . I have been offered by persons out of the society , as much as two shillings per rod for an allotment . The allotments are mostly of fifteen rods each , one of which I hold , and which produces quite a sufficiency ot vegetables for my family of five persons , besides a lodger or two . The vegetables are of the best quality and the remnants assist in rearing a pig or two . The is
rem a mere trine , and tne labour is amply repaid in the improved health of the shop-pent artizan , to say not one word about profit , which is not inconsiderable , especially this winter , when potatoes are selling at fourteen pence per peck , with all kinds of garden produce dear in proportion . Each allotment is well stocked with winter Erceiis celery , and cabbage plants for the spring , and a short lime will be seen shoe-makers and tailors carrying their spades early m the morning to follow a natuta employment , which some wiseacres say will incapaciate them for their usual employment ; but experience has taught us the reverse of this , for we number someottJie best workmen in the town . Froluthe above , I hope some may be led to see the advantage itd 'd 1 HVestment » s to us as a society , and as
I remain , yours respectfully , u , A . — -Sbcrktary to tub Bury St . Edmund ' s Baptist FtuuNDir Socrerr .
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RICHARD 0 ASmR ) BSQr ' "'^ TO THE RIGHT HON . LORD JOHH HDSWrr mvwm nt ^ fiB&pj * [ Under the abore head Mr . Oa . tlerhw « , ! ,, ter occupying four columns and a quarter of ti i * let-Pott . Its extrenw length prevents us gin ™ thl ' iT * * its complete form , the -following- extracts contaL er ia stance . Ed . N . S . ] ' ntaln «»« uV Mr Iobd—There wag a time when your lordshi in ? under the misrepresentations of political n ' a l * supposed , as did many others , that I wbb an «• in - '" ?*' ' person ; " you were wont to hear me denounced k ' 0111 of your colleagues , at " an incendiary "— » „ distu if ° the peace . " Others , who hare outlived similar si ? from high quarters , have ceased to be distrusted i . hope that now I may be relieved from the imn ' rea , "' made by slanderers , and that your Lordship will Jr ject counsel , even from myself . ro # • « It has , by successive Governments , been a « aumed n , interference and regulation in our Industrial and pro t tire interests are detrimental to the increase of ^ ut that the only way to promote that increase is , that ' mon should do that which seems most profitable to u ** self , having no regard to the profit of others ; fo rRctf " * that productions are only valuable in proportion , « r ability of those who require them to become pureliai . and that their increase can only be profitable ia n rJ " tion to « that demand . v m tJ ™*^^ " *™ beenttla tafe *
^^ , individuals have accumulated immense masses of wealth whilst the millions , who have been the instruments of creating that wealth , are sunk into a state ofpovertv misery , and moral degradation that is truly appai | in . These , instead of being the first and best customer , for the products of our national industry , are , in millions of instances , unable to purchase the bare necessaries of life and we are , consequently , driven to foreign markets for the sale of those very commodities that our own peo ple ueed , bat aw not able to buy .
Again , the character of the people has been most grievously misapprehended ; Englishmen have beea thus estimated and described by a recant Lord Chan , cellor , in a speech to the House of Lords— " As immediately calculating on parish relief , " and " no longer striving for the means of maintaining their children , but heedlessly , recklessly counting upon tho . arish fund , out of which , whether In sickness or ia health , in youth or in age , in impotence or in vigour they know that they moy claim the means oC support ' and setting th « pains of labour against those of a scant ; tenance
sus , they prefer idleness and a bare subsistencs to plenty earned by toil . " His Lordship also assurttd-We have a constant , and I may also say , almost a regular proof , in every part of the country , in districts agricultural , manufacturing , and even commercial , aad whether the people are superabundant or scarce in creasing , stationary , or diminishing in numbers , that able-bodied men prefer a small sum in idleness to a Urge sum in wages attended with a condition of earnine those wages by labour . * * Xay , the kee ^ r of the king s conscience absolutel y declared . Idleness uid her » wt 8 T , Ouilt , uoiv stalk over the land' "
The character of tho people of England has been wofully mistaken by their governors . They are not idle m > Lord ! Their fault is—they are too laborious . Mil ! lions of our fellow subjects , thus misrepresented and misapprehended by their governors , have worked them , selves to death ! Hundreds of thousands , male aad female , have sacrificed their lives , by over-workine before they reached their twentieth year ! The people of England are not " lazy , " my Lord ! They are t oo incessantly engaged in the useless and destructive war
of unrelenting competition ! True , there are often hun . dreds of thousands unwillingly idle—and wh y ? Because they have previously worked too long , or because ' others are now doing so . It is the boast of the employers of operatives in the manufacturing districts , " that those shops that work over hours are always pre ' femd . " This is often done , that by over-siraining his own strength , the artisan may keep his wifn and chil . dren out of the mill . It is this proneness to " over . iime " that makes labour of so little value .
When the character of the people was entirely misunderstood , none ueed wonder that laws , most op ' posed to their well-being , should bave bten enacted . Undrrthti fatal misapprehension , Governments have passed lawj designed and calculated to force the people into a " fiercer competition "—to the stilt more incessant appli . cation of their industry—to sgonising , killing , and con . sequently , useless labour ; careless as to whether that labour is productive , apparently supposing th at thai which ought to be the most important function of govern . ment may be more safel y left to chance !
The truth is manifest ( it can answer no good purpose to hide the fact ) , in proportion to the relaxation of tha laws regulating our industrial interests and protecting sur artisans and labourers , the wretchedness of these sons of toil increased , until the demand upon the poor ' s rates becama seriously alarming ; wheu , taking advantage of this fact , the propounders of the new creed of political economy raised an alarm in the minds ot ' thi ' ir opponents , tlie ancient territorial aristocracy , tvork . ing upon tue selfishness of the barons of England , tbe cunning " philosophers" persuaded them that , if they did . not entirely change ( with a view to its entire extinction ) , the title of the person to relief , "their estates would be eaten up by the sturd y beggars , the lazy paupers !"
In order to secure success to this wicked device , a com . mission was appointed to make a cuse out against tha poor . On the report issued b y that commission , the working classes of Eng ' and , who were , and still arc , th « most industrious people in the world , were charged with surly , stubborn idleness , and many other vice * . Tha barons were not aware of the stratagem , they wera caught ia the trap ; tkey did not perceive that it was the relnxation of the old protective laws that , by reducing the value of labour , had forced those who could get work
to work over-time , and these to drive the less fortunate entirely out of employment , forcing them to apply toth « pnrish fund , Hence the lamentable increase of demand for parochial relief . The aristocracy felt this heavy pressure on their estates ; they did not , however , apprehend the true cuuse , but , unhappily for their own order and the poor , they believed that the people wereidle and vicious , aud , with a few honourable exceptions , supported their enemies , the " philosophers , " in passing a law that deprivad the poor of England of a right more sacred than that of their lordshi ps to their estates .
That was the master blunder of the age . Siuca then English society has been undergoing the operation of disorganisation . Every rank is thrown into confusion . * * * Tho last session of Parliament affords a lesson worthy a statesman ' s study—it will not fail to arrest the attec . tion of the historian . After weeks ef debating , an Act was passed , declaring all interference injuiiouj . In a hurry , almost without debate , at the very close of the » ame session , the same persons passed an Act , interfuring with every acre possessed by the Irish landlords ! -aa Act that , in fact , confiscates to the poor every rood of land in Ireland , where for ages the landlords " have refused to acknowledge that the poor had any right ? . Thus does it please God to confound human wisdomto punish the proud , and to "break in pieces the oppressors . "
&o fact ia more easily demonstrated than that the famine is the natural fruit of our own selfish system of legislation . It is our duty , while we endeavour to miti . gate the severity of our just punishment , to confess out guilt , and to remove the cause of our sufferings , by acknowledging and defending the rights of all . How are we now striving to avers the evil—to remote tha scourge ? By means , however laudable in themselves , utterly inadequate to their end . While we endeavour w relieve the suflerers in one part of the empire , we are , by the natural effects of increasing the demand for breadstuffs in others , raising their prices , and gradually pavitj the way to a general famine . * * Now , famine demands a sacrifice on the part of all . If we refuse to bear our share at present , the pressure will be more burdensome at tome future period .
lie wise iu time . The only methods that can be really useful are , as far as may be , to diminish the general con . sumption nf bread stuffs . The consumption of bread stuffs in our distilleries starch manufactories , and cotton mills , should be in ' - stantly prohibited by law , and speculation in those articles should be interdicted . The Queen should issue her royal proclamation that it . 8 necessary in every famil y to limit the us , of br ad stuttsm the kitchens , stables , and konnels-to absolute neeenaru ! . Her Majesty should set the example by rigouroui-iy prohibiting the use of any kind of bSstS » . ft . royal household than can possibly be dUpensed , efusl lerro [ ^ TOUl ' Sh c ° be wl « " ^™ fromallwho retuse to make this sacrifice .
When we have survived this storm it will be wise always to hold a Government stock of at least 20 , 000 000 quarters of wheat . The union workhouses ( which will bo useless for their original purposes , if we wisely appreciate the lesson we are now taugkt ) will make good national storehouses ; they will then cease to be a national disgrace—they will be our glory . Do not despise these hints—if the famine be real , the sacrifice must be universal—better to make that sacrifice while it is bearable than suffer it to work its own umver . sal devastation . . ( ' ' "J beconctuded in our n « t . )
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ni 2 £ i !» ?» . ^ moNs-Pcdcstrian exercise is absolutely fa ^ f ! xJ tU . e * W » B » t of health , persons deprived tiom walking with « ase and eomfortby corns and bunion * oie eonndently recommended to make trial of the Corn leister known as "Paul ' s Every Man ' s Friend . " which can be procured of any respectable Chymist in our town in boxes at Is , lid . for Corns , and in larger boxes for Corns aud Bunions » t 2 s . 9 d . l ) r . Bhins and Holloway ' s Ointment . —Dr . Biuns , who was one ot the principal physicians iR the island of Jamnwa , hns expressed himself in the following manner respecting the surprising healing properties of Holloway ' * Omtmimt - .-I Unvp madu many trials of this ointment i » casesiot chrome ulcers which several years ' experience in the West Indus taught me to consider as incurable . I am now happy to say that in all cases it was roally and truly cmeaciouB .-Signed , E . Binus , M . D ., F . S . A ., W" Hoi loway s Ointment will cure bttd legs however \» W mli roP / > SCtUcW 0 " obstiuate c * sesot " Kil ' 8 ' sBvil
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 6, 1847, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1404/page/2/
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