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    • Sato mto JZfeafet intcIMjinwr.
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    • - ABERNETHY'S PILE OINTMENT.
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      What a pai ^ inl and noxious disease is th » Piles ! and comparative , how fe « r of the afflicted have been per . manei-U y cured by ordinary appeals to medical * k : ll ! This , ho doubt , aiises from the use of powerful aperients too frequently administered by the profession ; indeed ) strong internal medicine sh < mld always ba avoided in allcasesof thii complaint . The proprietor of the above Ointment , alter years of acute suffering , placed himself unut-r the treatment of that eminent surgeoi , Mr . Abernetiiy , was by lum restored to perfect i ealth , and has enioveit it ever since without the slightest return of ihe disorder . .. ver a pmodof hfcen years during which time the sime Abernetbian prescription has been die means of healing a vast number of desperate cases , both in and out of the proprietor ' s circles of friends , most of which cases had bL-e . under medical care , and some of them for a rerv win Sidtrable time . Abernetuy * . Pile Ointment was mtrodue . . 1 to the public by the desire of many who had been n « r fectly healed by its application , and since its introduction ua fame of this Ointment has spread far and widi . ¦ K * n ths Medical Profession , always slow add unwilling to acknowledged tlio virtues of any medicine uot Venared bv themselves , do now freely and frankly admit that Abernct-y ' s *' e Omt Cl » ' is not ouly a valuable oreDaration hut a never failhi- remedy in every stage and variety of thataiipalhug malady . J ¦"""" P P ar- «« oi > . but Sufferers will not repent giving the Ointment a triai . Multitudes of cases of its efficacy might be produced if the nature of the complaint did not render those who have beci . cure . l unwilling to publish their nlniGs proouctu , Sold in covered Hots , at 4 s . 6 d . or thequauUty of hr . e is . Cd . Pots in one for 11 s- withfull direction ^ for « qp hv C King . ( Agent to the Proprietor . ) Xapierstr . et , Hoxton , » ew Taw ., . London , wherT . to " « w "E ZcSed ^ every Patent . 'Jediciiie of repute , direct from the original makers , with an allowance on takinir sixat a Mrrn ? Be sure to ask L " ABEXETHY'S PILE OINTMENT . " - The Public are refuefted u ! be on their ^ d ga mst noxious compositions sold at low prices , and to obserre that none can possibly be ceiiuinr unless th ^ umm , J . Kisa , is rrintel « a the Government Stamp affixed to each pot , 4 * . cd ., wh ^ ck is thelow st ^ price the propS ? ea able 3 to sell it at , owing to « . ht great cspcasc of t einsn-iiients . v proprietor

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      Abomimablb Owknok . —At the Lewes Assizes . John Bowyer , 55 , a person of gentlemanly appearance , who has for thirty years practised as a solicitor in the town of Petworth , was indicted as a principal in feloniously demanding money fromSir C . Burrel under a threat of accusing his son , Mr Percy Burrell of an abominable offence : and Daniel Steer . 29 , was charged as an accessory in feloniously inciting the other prisoner to make the charge . It appears that Mr Percy Burrell , the eldest son of Sir C . Burrell , of Knepp Castle , a magistrate for the county , and highly connected , had been for several years residing u pon the continent , and was staying at Paris at the time of the present transaction ; and it seemed that the prisoner Steer , whose father had been in the service of Colonel Wyndham . and who was known to

      the Burrell family , was at Paris with his wife in December , 1844 , and upon his meeting Mr Percy Burrell accidentally , ho made himself known to him as a dependent of the Wyndham family , and asked him for some pecuniary assistance to enable him and his wife to return to England . It appeared that Mr Burrell gav * him fifteen francs , and this was clearly proved to have been the whole extent of the transaction between Mr Burrell and the prisoner , although the subsequent proceedings showed pretty clearly that the journey of Steer to Paris , and his meeting with Mr Burrell were the commencing proceedings of a most atrocious conspiracy to extort money . In the beginnii . g of Janunry , 1845 , the other prisoner , Bowyr , first made his appearance in the transaction , and meeting Mr Coppard , one of the solicitors of

      Colonel Wyndham , at the Petworth Quarter Sessions , he called him on one side , and he at once distinctlv made the charge which formed the subject of the present indictment , and wished Mr Coppord to communicate with Sir C . Burrell or Col Wyndham in order that the matter might be hushed up , and that there should be no exposure . He , at the same time , said that Steer was the person who made the aceusation , and that he must have a thousand pounds to hush it up , and he produced two letters , dated from ¦ Paris , and addressed to him by Steer , in which that prisoner detailed the circumstances of the revolting accusation , and said that Mr Burrell bad promised to give him a thousand pounds on New Year ' s day , and if he did not do so he would come to Enpland and expose him . Bowyer also produced a letter , which he represented to be in the handwriting of Mr Burrell , signed in the fictitious name of John

      Smith , dated from St . Martin ' s-lane , and promising to pay the money on new year ' s day . lie at the same time suggested that Sir C . Burrell should give him ( Bowyer ) a thousand pounds , and that he should at once proceed to Paris and propose to Mr Burrell to lend him that sum ti stop proceedings , and take his note of hand for the amount , which he said ho would endorse to Sir Charles upon his return as security for the repayment of the money _ by his son . Upon the circumstance being communicated to Sir Charles he at once indknantly spurned all idea ot compromising the charge , and declared that he would not give the tenth part of a farthing to defeat the ends nf justice , and upon his being shown the letter signed John Smith , he immediately saw that it was not his son ' s writing , and from other circumstances it became pretty clear that a very deep laid sohemo of extortion was in existence . It transpired that

      a short time before Steer went to Pans , he was sepn to drive one day into the town of Petworth , in a gig with a servant in livery by his ai'io . Such a proceeding on the part of a poor labouring man , naturally exciting some surprise , he made vprv free use of the name of Mr P . Burrell , and made insinuations which were , no doubt , intended to operate in furtherance of the scheme of extortion- Steer continued in Paris during tho time of the negotiation between Bowverand the soli , citor of the Burrell family , and Bowyer continued to produce letters fr » m h \ mand his wife respecting the charge , and expressing their intention to come to England , accompanied by an Italian , whom they designated aa B . Steer's wife was represented as beingperfeclly aware of the nature of the pretended

      connection between her husband and Mr Burrell , and they asserted that the reasons why he would not give Steer the money he promised him on New Year ' s Day was , because he would not get , as they said , a " divorcement" from his wife , and send her to England , so that he might remain with Mr Burrell . All these proceedings , however , failed in their object through the firmnessof Sir C . Burrel !; but it should be stated , that upon a representation being made to Mr P . Burrell , of 'he charge that was made against him , he explained what the real chararter of the transaction was , stating that he was merely induced from a feeling of charity towards one of the family dependents in distress in a foreign country , to sive Steer fifteen francs to holp him home , and that the charge was a most base nnd unfounded one .

      Finding that all attempts at extorting money ha < 1 entirel-failed , Steer came to England , and having committed some offence , he was sent to eaol , and if any doubt could have possibly remained as to the falseness of the charge made by him against Mr Burrell , it wa ? entirely removed by his making a voluntary admission to the chaplain that the transaction was exactly as represented by that gentleman , and that the charge was entirely false ; and he at the same time asserted that Bowyer had been theoriginal concoctor of the scheme of extortion , and that he was merely his instrument in carrying it out . These facts were proved in evidence , and Mr P . Burrell . uponhis being examined , repeated upon his oath the statement made in his

      letter , as to what took place between him and the prisoner Steer , and declared that , after giving him tho fifteen francs to help him home , ha heard no more of him until he received an intimation of tho charge that had been preferred against him . The Lord Chief Justice then went carefully through the material points of the evidence , and ( he jury almost immediately returned a verdict of guilty against both prisoners . IIis lordship ordered them to be called up for judgment , ard in passing sentence he expressed his entire concurrence in the verdict that had been delivered , and adjudged them both to be transrorted beyond the seas for the term of their natural lives . The prisoner Bowyer , who appeared quite astounded at tho sentence , was then , with his companion in crime , removed from the bar .

      PoisoNis-a— Sentence of Death . —At Bury St . Edmunds , Catherine Foster , 18 , wasarraiened , charging her with the wilful murder of her husband , John Foster , by administering to him arsenic , at Acton , on the 18 th of November last . The deceased , who was an agricultural labourer , was a native of Acton , a small -village near Sudbnry , where also lived the prisoner , for whom , though of no prepossessing appearance , he early in life conceived a warm affection . They went to school together in early youth , and worked together till she went to service , at the a ? e of sixteen , when his boyish penchant ripened into manly love . During her absence he frequently visited her . and matters progressed between them in this way till the autumn ot last year , when the prisoner , being about to pay a visit to her aunt at

      Pakenham , a village on the other aide of Bury , and twenty miles from Acton , the lover became most desirous that the marriage should take place , possibly because , like all lovers , he fancied that every man would fall in love with the lady of his affections , and he might loso his priie . Be that as it may , according to Mrs Morley ' s testimony he earnestly urged the propriety of his being at once married , and agreed that he would allow his bride to pay her promised visit to her punt as soon as she pleased after the ceremonyall he wanted was to be married at once ; and being backed in his suit by the prisoner , the ceremony took place at Acton church on the 28 th of October , after which tho young couple took their abode in the house of Mrs Morley , with whom was then living , besides hor daughter , a son , Thomas , aged three years .

      John Foster , having thus gained tho long-cherished object of his heart , was as happy in the possession of his youthful wife as man could well he . On the third morning they parted according to his promise . He handed her into the carrier ' s cart , and bidding adieu to her , asked if " she thought she would st » y all a month ? " To which she replied , " No , John , I'll be back before . " At the lapse of ten days she returned to her home , and her husband ' s cup of happiness seemed filled to overflowing . He was happy as the day was long ; worked with zeal , alacrity , andjoyousness in the daily discharge of his " lot in life . " He was then , as he had ever been , according to one ot the witnesses , " as strong and blooming a young man as ever you seed , " though he had about a fortnight before met with an

      accident while loading a waggon of hay , but that bad only produced a slight headache , a thing which his friend assured him would soon pass off—as he " often had it on Monday , after a day ' s rest . " This remark was fully verified . The deceased soon resumed his wonted cheerfulness and strength , and on the 17 th of November returned from work to his evening meal with his friend , singing all the way to that house whence he never departed alive . On his arrival he partook of supper with his wife and her little brother , their homely meal consisting of dumplings , potatoes , and tea . Tho man had no sooner partaken F his dumpling than h » was taken violently sick at tho stomich . and obliged to go into the yard . Soon after this his mother-in-law , who had been out nil day washing , came home and found him retching ¦ iolently in a basin , the contents of which she threw into a neighbouring ditch , near to which some fowls

      were in the habit of picking : up their scanty subsist-1 rnce . During the whole of the night the poor man remained in great pain ; at four o ' clock he tried to « et up , but fell down from great weakness , and on the following morning his wife vent to Melford for a doctor , whom she told her husband had got a " bowel complaint , " and asked to come and see him that day . Deeming from her account that his patient was suffering from English cholera , then very prevalent , the surgeon prescribed accordingly , and the prisoner took away the medicine , somo of which she save to her husband . On her return she found him worse than when she left him , and he finally died in her arms at four o ' clock , and soon after which hour his mother and the surgeon arrived . On the same day the fowls all died , and a pott mortem examination of ™ body of the deceased was made by Mr Jones , of M « fonl , At that time noBuBpicion \ ras engendered ,

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      and that gentleman gave it as his opinion that the deceased came to his death from English cholera ; butsuspicidn being afterwards excited by the death of the fowls in a sudden and mysterious way , a fur . ther and more searching inquiry was deemed necessary by the coroner , and the , con ' . ents of the stomach of the deceased were taken to Bury , where they were subjected to analysis by Mr Imago and Mr Newham , who unhesitatingly pronounced the presence of arsenic in great quantities , not only in the stomach and its contents , but also in the crop of the fowls , and a pudding bag , in ' which the prisoner had boiled the dumpling , of which the deceased had eaten on the night before his death . Under these circumstances recourse was had to the familv for further information , and it was ascertained that the prisoner

      had spent the day with the mother of her husband " very comfortably , " from twelve to four , when she stated that she " must go home , for it was dumpling night . " Ilcr brother was also called before the coroner , when he stated that bis sister had made one dumpling for supper , of which they all partook . Afterwards , however , he varied his statement , and then , as was stated to-day , deposed to having seen his sister make two dumplings on the night in question , into one of which she had put some powder out of a paper , after which she burned the paper , and put that dumpling into a pudding cloth . He is also represented to have stated that he and his sister supped off a different dumpling of which the deceased ate . In addition to this it was shown that

      after the unfortunate occurrence the prisoner had stated that " she wished she had gone to Bury before she bad married , tor then she would not have been married at all , and would have got a g > od place . " This she stated on the day after her return from Bury , and also on that after hor husband ' s death , when she had pone into a neighbour ' s house in tears and asked forleave to stay thero " while the doctors opened John , " which she could not bear to witness These fact * were for the most part proved to-day , but the boy , when examined , though he stated that he had seen his sister make the two dumplings , and boil one for the deceased in a bag , denied that he had seen her put anything into it from

      her pocket , or burn any paper , and persisted in say . ing that both his sister nnd himself , who bad not ex * hibitedjany symptoms of illness , had partaken of tke same dumpling with the deceased . On this subject Mr Image and Mr Newhiim both deposed that if the deceased had taken the poison in that dumpling , it was impossible that any one else could have tasted it without experiencing great illness and danger to life from it . At the close of the case for the prosecution , which occupied the entire day , the jury retired for about 20 minutes , and after that time returned a verdict of guilty , The learned judge then , in a most impressive and feeling manner , passed the awful sen . tence of death . The prisoner , who is a good-looking country girl , wa 3 then removed , apparently

      unconcerned . Commission of Lunacy . —On Monday a commission de lunatico inquirendo was opened at the Coach and Horses adjoining Sion House , at Isleworth , before Mr Commissioner Winslow and fifteen special jurora , to inquire into the state of mind of the Rev . B . Lewes , rector of Kilrbedin , Carmarthenshire , now at Dr Costello ' s . Wyke House , near Brentford . The unfortunate object of the inquiry is G 2 years of age . He is a bachelor , and possessed of a rectory worth about £ 500 a-ycar , and of freehold property worth about £ 500 a-year more . About 14 years since he was affected with a mental attack , from which he recovered , when he told Cant . Davis , who had taken out the commission , that should be again be affected

      he wished him to take charge of his property . In March . 1846 , he fell from bis horse , and was dragged some distance in the stirrup , which so shook his nerves , that on the 31 st of March he was attacked while performing the burial service at his own church so as to be unable to go on with it , and from that time he had laboured under delusions , showing that he was not able to take care of himself or property . Captain David Davis , magistrate of Carmarthenshire , described the nature of the reverend gentleman ' s property—his first « nd recent attack of insanity . After he fell from his horse he dressed and came down stairs , seizing his gun , with which he attempted to shoot himself . After that delusions of poverty came on ; he turned awav his workmen

      under the impression that he could not afford to pay them . He refused to have bis hay or corn out , saying he could not afford to pay , and it was recessary to get it done by the tenants . He further imagined that he was dirty in his person , for which tuere was no foundation . The present proceedings were rendered necessary by Mr Evans , a brother-in-law , having taken forcible possession of part of the freehold property . The rev . aentleman imagined every person he saw was a sheriff ' s officer , who , he feared , wished to take him for debt : and also that he expected to go to Newgate , or die in a workhouse . W , Williams , Esq ., M . P . for Coventry , gave similar teg .

      timony , which was confirmed by the evidence of Dr . Costello , the proprietor of Wyke House , Dr Conolly , and Sir A . Morrison . The rev . gentleman was then introduced to the _ Court . He slated that he knew the object of the inquiry—hft knew that he was not capable of taking care of himself or his property . He was in debt and difficulties ; if he had £ 20 , 000 he could not pay his debts . He was very comfortable at Dr Costello ' s—it was such a beautiful place . The unfortunate gentleman in other respects bore put the foregoing testimony , andthejury , without hesitation , returned a verdict , dating the unsoundness of mind from 31 st March , 1846 .

      Charge of Wilful Mtodkb . —W . Peck and W . Goodwill were indicted at Beaumaris , for the wilful murder of a boy , named Martin , by cruelly beating a > d otherwise maltreating him on board the brig Athelstone , of which ship Peck was captain , and Goodwill first mate . The crimo was alleged to have been committed on the 4 th ot January last , whilst the vessel was on her voyage from Quebec to Swansea . The brig left Quebec in November last , bound for Swansea , and on the day named in the indictment was in the English Channel ; a gale of wind had been raging , but having partially subsided , all hands were ordered on deck to make sail . In a short time it was found that the deceased had not come on deck with the mate ' s watch , to which he

      belonged ; the mate went below for the purpose of sending him up , when he found the boy in . the act of dressing . He took a small line or piece of yarn , and heat the boy with it , and then stripping off his clothes except his under and flannel shirts , hauled him on deck through the scuttle-holes ; the mate went over to the lee side , and held the boy in tho water , which broke heavily over , the vessel , for about ten minutes ; on being released , the deceased went below for the purpose of putting on his clothes ; in about a quarter of an hour , the captain passed down to the forecastle , and was followed in a tew minutes by the mate ; shrieks and cries were heard by the crew on deck , as from a person in great agony , and the second mate was an eyewitness of the

      beating inflicted by the captain . The two officers were down for about a quarter of an hour , at the end of which time the lad was again forced on deck through the shuttle hole . At this time there -was blood on his face . He was dragged aft , the captain beating him along with a piece of rope near an inch thicK , knotted at the end . During the whole of this time the buy had nothing on but the two shirts . The captain beat him for four or five minutes when on deck , and then ordered him to ascend the rigging to loose the mainsail . He afterwards ordered the second mate to go aloft , and thrash the boy to his duty , as he was sheltering from the inclemency of the weather , on the leeside of the mast . The mate , however , did not strike the boy ,

      but nit the ropes instead . On descending the lad was again beaten by the captain with the maintopsail halyards , ropes three inches in circumference . The captain then took up a boathook , and struck Martin on the small of the back with it , using all his power and might ; this was repeated five or six times , and the boy appeared as if dying : it was betweea five and six o clock on an intensely cold winter morning , with a heavy aea running . The boy was next observed lyin ? on the chain-cable , amidships , with no clothing on him ; he was stretched on the cold iron , with his legs and feet uncovered , and appeared insensible . Soon after , he was carried down to nis hammock by the mate and one of the crew , and , in a short time after , he expired . The body was covered with marks all over black and blue , as though it had been terribly

      beaten ; on the following Jar it was consigned to the deep , tho funeral service being performed by the captain . It appeared that the unfortunate boy was rather sickly , of tender constitution , and was troubled with a flux . _ He , however , was capable , when he chose , of taking his . share in the working of the vessel . The first port the vessel arrived at was Holyhead , where she was discharged and the crew paid off , when one of the men laid the information . The above evidence was sworn to by five of the crew , who generally agreed as to the severity of the beatings , the uncovered state iu which the boy was , and the blows with tho boot-hook , which was 13 or 14 feet long . The jury acquitted Gqedwill , and found Peck guilty of manslaughter , with a recommendation to mercy . He was sentenced to two years' hard labour .

      The St Mabtn Mobdkr . —At tho Bodmin Assiws ! Mary Treverton , 30 , ; was indicted for the wilful murder of Samuel Ilockin , at the parish of St . Mabyn , on the 10 th of October . The decoaaed was a cooper at the village of St Mabyn . He was a married man , and had before and since his marriage carried on an illicit intercourse with the prisoner who lived in the same neighbourhood . They had quarrelled on various occasions previous to the fatal deed . John Clements , a labourer , stated that on Satucday , the 10 th of October , he was passing along

      Denham-briclge-lane , about a quarter before six o ' clock in the morning , when he tound the deceased lying upon his face . There is a house on the spot where the body was found , and the head was close to that house . The back of his head was severely cut , and there was a quantity of blood upon it . Tho wall was covered with brains . Ilis ceat pocket was pulled down and torn . The coat was also torn up the back . He was not quite dead , but insens . ib . i 6 . Ho found a I Btone , about five feet six inches from the body , and there was blood upon it . He afterwards saw it in the possession of the coijr ' table . On tke Sunday

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      before deceased ' s marriage , witness visited deo ^ I whovras then living with the prisoner , irl *** . Ilockin etandine with his head bleeding , and 1 , ** minutes afterwardB , the prisoner came in TW' ' . * ness went on to state that on that occasion a ^ took place between the prisoner and deceased , ' the former threatened to knock his brains out i * Hockin , the widow of Samuel Ilockin said L " » fifty years of age at the time of his death Th ! " * soner had been living with him before wittier Pn < married to him . After the marriage the decease , ! !•' , ' continued to visit the prisoner , and he was f 8 llil occasions absent from witness all night Three I r subsequent to the marriage , Mary Treverton ami ? went awav from the village and were absent ihZ three weeks . Ever since the period of his returnT rinnnioArl rnnfinnnd In linn _ : tU . , . '" IHa ubwcwvu in i

      » w .. v ... » v » . IIC mm witness—but i had often seen him at the prisoner ' s house . DecV . S was at home on the evening of Friday the Ofh October , and he went out at seven o ' clock Sim ° ' to bed at twelve o ' clock , and i B Ver " ml 7 * alive from that time . She did not know whetL 1 ? had any money about him on the night in , queS He never gave her any money . Crnss-examined-P wascontinually visiting Mary ¦ Treverton jnln ? . ?' time of his death . wftmAKffid Xtt t ceased It waaseventeen months old HiwaVoiift sober when he left the house on he KM 9 th Oct ., but he had been drinking itt that day Mary Dart said she sat up the wholo uf th » « i& in a kitchen which looked into thi ^ ffl course of the night , between one and two o ' clock 2 observed a light in the kitchen window at TreJ ? ton ' a house . It was a moonlight night , and bet * £

      two and three o ' clock she ob » erved a man pass w window twice . Ho was drcswd in a light fustian coat and trowsers . She thought it was Samuel Hockin . Between five and six that morning , h 9 hit her home and went into Trcverton ' s paW Thedoor was not fastened , but Treverion ' s door L locked or bolted . A few minutes afterwards the prj . soner came down and opened the door , she had on ? a day cap , and her clotheB appeared " crammed ' " Witness asked her if she had been to bed , and she said "Yes . " They then heard voices outside , and the prisoner lookfd out of window . Several peopla then came to the door and said , " He is dead' ' Witness ' s little girl came in afterwards and stated

      that bamuel Hockin was found dead . The prisoner replied , " Who could be so cruel ? " Witness asked her why she did not go out ? and she said she eould not on any account whatever . Witness said gha thought aha saw S . Ilockin pass by her window on the preceding night , and the prisoner made no answer . At that time G . Stcphenscame in and said In a few minutes your house will be searched ' Whereupon the prisoner went up stairs and did nil come down again until theconatable arrived . West the constable , said something to the prisoner ' s mo ! ther , who thereupon called her daughter down . Sh « had no shoes on , and she took a pair of sUddcm from

      under the stairs and put them on . The constahlj told her she must go with him , and she said "What do you mean by that ? " The constable West pro ! duced the shoes , and some hair cut from deceased ' s head after his death , also the stone , which still pre . seated marks of blood . Mr Siade addressed the jury tor the prisoner , and after commenting upon the whole of the case , contended moat emphatically that the evidence was not sufficient to warrant them in finding a verdict of guilty . Mr Justice Cressnell having summed up tha jury deliberated for a few minutes , and returned a verdictof Nut Guilty . The prisoner clapped her hands for joy , and was iramediately conducted out of court . The excitement caused by this trial was very great . It was remark .

      aoie that the majority of the spectatorswere females , and iMr Justice Creeswell observed , that there were many women whose curiosity led them into scenes from which the better feelings of human nature ought to exclude them . The ladies present appeared fully to understand this rebuke from the learned udge .

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      Westminster Debating Society . —The membera of the Westminster Debating Society held their usual weekly meeting on Saturday evening , when Mr Fitch was elected chairman , and opened the business of the meeting by announcing the subject for dis . cussion , viz .: "The Best Means of Appropriating the Land to the Benefit of the Working Classes . " Mr Bowler , in a masterly speech , contended that tho land ought to be in the hands of the government , to be leased out to the people in allotments to such an extent as would ensure each man , by the exertions ot his physical powers in its cultivation , an honest and competent livelihood . Mr B . next quoted from several authors , showing the great amount of evil

      the people were suffering under , and attributed tha greatest portion of that evil to the land being in the possession of the few , instead of , as it ought to be , in the hands of the many . The land was man ' s natural inheritance—his birthright , and never would he be able to exercise his faculties , moral , physical , or intellectual , with that benefit and satisfaction to himself and to his fellow-man , until that which was first given to him by his Creator was restored , and he became once more tho consumer of what bis labour produced . ( Cheers . ) Mr Cathie replied , and said he could not understand what Mr Bowler meant when he asserted that they had a " right" to the land . No man had any mere particular " right " than another to tho possession of the soil : but he

      argued that present circumstance demanded that those who held ^ it now Bhould continue to do so . Place the English working classes upon the landmake them an agricultural people , and what would become of them ? What condition were the people of Ireland in now ? He need not ask that twice , for he was sure there was not one present but kneir what was the position of the Irishman , and whe felt for his sufferings with that fellow-feeling which is alone proverbial among the poorer classes of any country . He maintained that just what was the condition of Ireland at the present time would ha that of England , were she reversed into an agricultural country , in a few yeaw time ; for to no other cause could he attribute the ignorance and distress

      existing in Ireland than to her pastoral and agricultural character . ( Cheers . ) Mr Donelly replied to Mr Cathie in a brief speech ; after which Mr Trumble spoke on the same side , denouncing in severe terms Mr Cathie ' s short-sighted notions , and detended Irishmen and Ireland from what he considered' feul aspersions . He did not consider that the Irish people were ignorant , nor could he for a moment attribute their present downfal to the absurd cause Mr C . had done . He contended that it waj the effects of bad government and foolish legislators —» en who studied not the real wants of the people . He would siy give every one his piece of land and his vote , and then , and not till then , would each and every one enjoy the blessings intended for him at

      Ins birth . ( Cheers . ) Mr Walford next spoke , and contended , on the authority of Thomas Paine and others , that every man had a natural right to an equal portion of the soil ; that no man could claim the land as his property by what was termed " right divine ; " and that man would never be in hi * natural state until he was placed on what God intended he should be—the land . ( Cheers . ) Mr Irvine succeeded , and made an excellent speech , in which he was warmly applauded . Mr Stevens next rose oh the side of Mr Cathie . Air Bowler having rose to reply , was met with a proposition of adjournment , which , however , was negatived , and the chairman dissolved the meeting , by announcing the subject for nest Saturday evening ' s discussion , viz . — . "The Divine Philosophy of Pleasure : " to be opened by Mr Trumble .

      Anti-Slavery Soiree . — On Tuesday evening , » farewell soiree , given as a mark of respect and esteem to Mr Frederick Douglas , the champion of the cause of slavery abolition , previous to his departure to America , was hold at the London Tavern , Bishopsgate-9 treet , and was very numerously attended , 708 ladies and gentlemen being present , amongst whom , we observed the Revs Dr Summing , Price and C « c W . Howitt , Esq ., W . H . Ashurst , Esq ., Dr Oxley . Dr Estlin , Deputy Stevens , Joseph Griffiths , Esq . t Iiungo Bapogee , Vakeel of the Rajah of Sattara , M < Hare , Esq ., D . W . Wire , Esq ., and many others of note and talent . The guests arrived at half-past six o ' clock , and were entertained by vocal music until eight o ' clock , when George Thompson , Esq ., took the chair , and proceeded to address the meeting . The following sentiments were proposed and seconded by several gentlemen , who spoke at length in their favour , and when put to the meeting were carried by acclamation : —

      " This aR 8 emW y hereby expresses its deep abhorrenM of the system of slavery which dooms to compulsory , unmitigated , and uncompensated toil , attended with unuf . era-. le cruelties , a large portion of the human family , and would especially mark its disapprobation e < the American people proclaiming equal and inalienable heirship to liberty as tho birthright of evert human being , and denying the enjoyment thereof to one-siJt ' pait of its population for a poiiod ot seventy years now past , And would further deprecate tho conduct of tlioso bodies of protesting Christians who , b ; their connection with the system , nnd apology for it , are at once strength " eng and perpetuating it .

      This assembly hereby most earnestl y appeals to " >' supreme Legislature of the United States to exercise W prerogative by abolishing slavery in the district of ^ ° ' iumbla , and the traffic between the states , and to the V * rious leg islatures in the south to emancipate tha bw& ' men in their respective territories , as a means of secur ing honour and renown to tha white population , » ° ^ elevation and happiness to the slave . This assembly hereby tenders to Mr P . Douglas the ' heartfelt congratulations ou his attainment of the blesf ings of freedom ; and having witnessed with delig ht t ' magnanimous and undaunted course in pourtrny ftB " touchingly the wrongs and sufferings , and advocating ' Irresistibly tueinalienaUeriguts of 8 , 000 , 000 othi * ft * beings , who are held in chains and slavery ' ^ United States , hereby expresses its unfeigned hope tli « I the great Patent of good may spare his invaluable Ufa ' I labour on their btthalf , vmtll the trump of jubilee » W sound from the Atlantio to the Rocky Mountain ^ from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico . "

      Sato Mto Jzfeafet Intcimjinwr.

      Sato mto JZfeafet intcIMjinwr .

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      v 2 THE NORTHERN STAR . April 3 , l ^)

      - Abernethy's Pile Ointment.

      - ABERNETHY'S PILE OINTMENT .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), April 3, 1847, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1412/page/2/