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      HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT . A Tery Wonderfsl Cure of a Disordered Liver and Stomach . Extract 9 faLeHerfroa Xr Charlu Wilson , 30 , Priwa Stnet ,. Glasgma , gaaeiFebna TgltA , 1817 . To Professor Holloway . S » , —Having taken your pOIg to remove a disease of fce Stomach and Liver , under which . I had long suffered , anahavingfollowed yourprintedinstractions IhaTeregameathathe 3 lth , which . Iha 4 thought loitfbr ever . I had previously had recourse to several medical men , who are celebrated for their skill , but instead of curing my Complaint , it increased to a most ^""^ S desree-SumanlyspeaMnsyour pilUbavesareaEiy Me ! Many ttied to diouaueme from using them , 8 nd x doubtnot but excel

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      A Patient in a dying state . Cured of a Disorder in the Chest . Estrattofa letter / romifr Robert Caltsert , Cheaist , Statists , dated January 22 th , 18 l 7 . To Trofessor Holloway . 8 i ^ -Mr Thompson , National Schoolmaster of Oiis T ^ wn , desires me to send you the parSculars respecting f t son of his ; whohtd been seriously fll for three years and a half , asd who bas derived thegreatest benefits from tfeenseof your medidnes , after trying all ordinary re-Hjorces without effect . The bay is eight years of age , of Etmmous of scrofulous constitufioa . He seems to have bad a pleurisy . which ended in a large collection of matter in the chest , which eventually fanned a passage through

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      THE Earl of Aldborough cured of a Liver and Stomach Complaint . Extract of a letter from the Earl of Aldborough , dated Tilla Messina , Leghorn , Slst February , 1845 : — To Professor Holloway . Sib , —Various circumstances prevested the pocsibiUty of tny thanking you before thia tisie for ysur politenes in sending me your pills as yon did . I now take this opportunity of sending you an erder forthe amount , and , at the same titn ^ to add that your pills have effected a cure of a disorder in my liver and stomach , which all the most eminent of the faculty at home , and all over the coatinsnt , had not been able to effect ; nay ! not even the waters of Carlsbad and Harienbad . Iwish to have another box and a put of the ointment , ia case any of . my family should ever require either . : Tour most obliged and oheiient servant ,

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      TWESTT-PIPTH EDITION . Blvutnited by Twenty-six Anatomical Engravings on SteeL O » i % sskal DitjvaVfieatians , Generative Incapacity , and Irtps-iiments to Harriage . Anew and improved edition , enlarged to 198 pages , price 2 * . Cd . ; by post direct from the Establishment , 3 s . 6 d . ia postage stamps ,

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      ARE ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE THE BEST -. MBDICINB IN THE WORLD . -: . ; In introducing the following Testimonials t ^ ths notice of ihe public , it may hot be out of place in giving s few observations respecting Parr ' s life Pills . This medicine has been before tho British public only a few years , and perhaps in the annals of the world was never seen sueoess equal to their progress ; the virtues of this Medicine were at once acknowledged wherever tried , . and recommendation followed recommendation ; hundredshadsoon to acknowledge that Parr ' s Life Pills had saved them , and were loud in their praise . The startling facts that were continually brought before the public at once re . moved any prejudice which some may have felt ; the continnal good which resulted from their use spread their fame far and wide , at this moment there is scarcely a country on the face of the globe which has not heard of their benefits , and have sought for supplies , whatever might bo the cost of transmission . The United States , Caaad -, India , and even China have had immense quantities shipped to their respective countrios , ana with the same result as in Eneland—UjnvrasAL Good . ' ¦

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      BEWARE OF SPURIOUS IMITATIONS . Sone are genuine unless the words " Parr ' s Lift Pills ' are in White Letters on a Red Ground , on the Government Stamp pasted round each box ; also the fae timHe of tbe signature of the proprietors , " T . Roberts and Co ., Crane-court , FlesUtreet , London , " on the Directions . v . Sold in boxes at Is 1 Jd .. 2 s . 9 d ., and family packeteat lls . each , by all respectable medicine vendor * throughout th « world . Full directions are riven with each box .

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      OS THE CONCEALED CAUSE THAT PttEYS ON THE HEALTH AND SHORTENS THE DURATION OF HUUAN LIFE . ILIUBTBITED WITH CotOUEED EHOSATINOS . Just Published , in a Sealed Envelope , price 2 s . Cd ., or free by post , 3 s . fid . pONTROUL OF THE PASSIONS j a Popular Essay \ J on the Duties and Obligations of Married Life , tho unhappiness resulting from physical impediments and defects , with directions for their treatment ; the abuse of the passions , the premature decline of health , and mental and bodily vigour ; indulgence in solitary and delusive habits , precocious exertions or infection , inducing a long train of disorders affecting the principal organs of the body , causing consumptions , mental and nervous debility and indigestion , with remarks on sonorrhtea , gleet , stricture , aHd syphilis . Illustrated with Coloured Engravingsand Cases .

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      CONTENTS OF THB WORK . Chap , i . —The influence of the excessive indulgence of the passions iu inducing bodily disease and mental decrepitude . Illustrated with Coloured Engravings . Chap . 2 .-Enervating and destructive effects of the vice of selfindulgence , inducing a long train of diseases , indigestion , hysteria , insanity , meping melancholy , consumption , stricture , impotence and sterility , with observations on the purposes and obligations of marriage , and the unhappy consequences of unfruitful unions . Chap . 3 . — Seminal weakness and generative debility : the nature of impotence and sterility , and the imperfections in the performance of the principal vital function consequent ia mfJ-practices , the treatment of the diseases of the « ind and body which result from these causes . Chap . 4 . —¦ Gonorrhoea , its symptoms , complications and treatment , gleet , stricture , and inflammation of the prostate . Canp . a . —Syphilis , its complications and treatment , Cases , Concluding Observations , Plates , &c . By CHARLES LUCAS aud Co ., Consulting Surgeons , 69 , Jfewman-street , Oxft » rd-street , iLondon . Member of the London College of Medicine , ic ., 4 c .

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      S'Jd by Brittain , Si , Paternoster-row : Hannay and Co ., 63 , Oxford-strcet ; Gordon , 146 , Le adenhall-street ; Mansell , 115 , Pleet-strect ; Sanger , 150 , Oxford-street , London ; Winnell , 78 , High-stre-1 , Birmingham ; Whitmore , 119 , Market-street , Manchester ; Howell , Si , Gbirch-street , Liverpool ; Robinson , 11 , Greenside . street . EcSuTuurgh ; Powell , 10 , Westmoreland-street , Dublin , and all booksellers . The t * sk of preparing and producing the work entitled 'Conlroulofthe Passions , ' by Messrs Lucas , though apparently not one of magnitude , demands a most intimate acquaintance with the mjsteries of a profession of the highestcharacter . To say that tlie author has produced a volume which cannot bo otherwise considered than as a treasure , and a blessing to the community , is not saying too much ; and being written by a duly qualified medical practitioner , its pages give evidence of the results of much personal investi gation , « nd great researches in the study of medicine . Ina word , the work has merits which develope no superficial attainments , and we cordially and most earnestly recommends it for general perusal . —Weekly Chronicle . *

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      . jgjth . ^^? \ Instant Relisf and speedy ^^^^^ it C 0 XIG COLDS . JsgyagfJIJiffllg * Hoarseness , Asthma , HoopfgjgglggglgjgggS'grjg ing Cough , Influenza , Con-BRO 0 KE-r nPti ° ' - *

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      INFLUENZA CURED . Gentlemen , —The great benefit I have received from the use of your Kellifluons Cough Balsam for the Influenza induces me to add my testimonial , so that , should another nnirersal visitation of that compluiat occur , mankind may know the best remedy . I can assert what per . haps no other individual can , that of Seine witness to the cure of a great number by your medicine , which all would do well to try . —Yours respactfull y , Geo . Wxtebhodsb . —Dewsbury , 1839 .

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      3 , Essex Chambers , Manchester , Sept . 8 th , 1547 . Dba ? Sirs , —Several of my family have derived much benefit from the use of your valuable Mellifluous Congh Balsam ; and you will I think do good service to society , by making the medicine more generally knows . Yours very faithfully , To Messrs T . M . and 6 . Brooke , ff . P . Bobebw . Dewsbury .

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      There are fifty-two lighthouses oa the Irish c ust , and the annual ? xpendiiare for the ' r maintenance is e 3 ' . iniatedai ; £ 42 . 815 i

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      ' In cases where ths Cough or Shortness of Breath is very violent , an occasional dose of Brooks ' g Aperient or Anti . bilious PilU will be found to accelerate the cure . , : > ^ Prepared only by T . M . and Oi Brooke , chemists } Dewsbury , in bottles at 18 Jd . and Ss ; 9 d ;« ach . -J . ' - ' . ' -And . sold wholesale by them ; Messrs Barclay and Sons , Farringdon-strest ; Hannay ;¦ and Co ., ^ Oxford-street ; DavyMackmurdo and Co ., Upper Thames-street ; and Thomas Mirsden and Sons , ' Queen-streat , London . Thomas Eyre and Co ., Liverpool . Bolton , Blanchard aad Co ., York . Aud retail by all respectable pateatmedichw vendors .. - - * ¦ ? ' - ¦ ¦ * v * ¦

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      DISPSNSARY FOR THE CURE OF DISEASE ^ OF THE SKIN . AND ALL . CUTANEOUS AFFECTIONS Hahpstead Stbeet , JiTiB 0 T Sqb « e ,-Ptyritian—THOMAS INNISfM . D ., 33 , FUaroy iguare ' Members / tJie Royal College of Surgeons , London ; tah Aisistant Surgeon in ihe Son . Eatt India Company ' s

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      IT IS astrango anomaly in the practice an 3 pro Tress of medical science in this country , that amongst all the benevolent and noble institutions established for th « alleviation of human misery , there exists but one devoted to the cure or amelioration of Diseases of the Skin it is a truth well known to the members of the faculty that the ravages of these stubborn and < jndurinir placues of human life are more extensive than those of any other known disorder , there bting little short of half-a-million of patients annually seeking relief . If we turn our eves to France we shall find the importance of this subject fa'ly recognised , and the exertions oimen of science countenanced and

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      Shortly teillbe jro&lwftsd , A TREATISE OS SKIN DISEASES , And all Cutaneous Affections , arising from functional derangement of tha digestive organs , degenerated state of the blood , or other causes ; By Thomas Innis , M . D ., Member of the Royal College of Surgeons , London Late Assistant Surgeon in tke Hon . East India Com any ' s Service ; Physician to the Dispensary forDiseaes of the Skin , Bampstead St ., THeroy Sgjuave ; With numerous cases showing tho Author ' s succ 8 sful treatment of Cutaneous Diseases of the most inveterate character , and suggesting treatment whereby many distressing and disfiguring blemishes of the skin may be removed , and all painful affections of the skin alleviated . Dr Innis may b » consulted dail y , at his residence , 33 . Fiteroy Square , London . ,

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      NOTICE . —Ihese Losenge 3 contain no Opium or any preparation of ihnt Drug . COUGHS , HOAR S ENE S S , AND ALL ASTHMATIC AND PULMONARY COMPLAINTS EFFECTUALLY CURED BY

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      IMPORTANT TESTIMONIALS . Copy of a Letter from 'Colonel Hawker '( the welU-noum Author on 'Guns and Shooting' ) Sia , —I cannot resist informing ; you of the extraordinary effect that I hnve experienced by taking only a few of 3 Tfl i ? 5 . ?^ J v had a coush for seTeral weeks > tnat defied all that had been prescribed for me ; and yet I got completely rid of it by taking about half a ' box of your Lozenges , which I find are the only ones that relieve thecough without derangin g the stomach or dicestive organs . I am , Sir , your humble servant , P . Hawkeb .-Lorgparish House , near Wkitchurch , Hants , October 2 lst . 18 £ tia -

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      Letter from Mr Wain , Lhvggtst , Ltstergate , Kot ^ ngham , Sib , —I feel it my duty to inform you of a wonderful cure performod by your Lozenges upon Lydia Beurdsley , serv-nt to a relative of mine . Abeutfiveor six months since , 1 happened to send one of your circulars to Mr Ford , of Stapleford , near Nottingham : after Mrs Ford had read It , she said to the servant , who had had a bad cough for many months , and had tried various remedies , but all in vain , ' Here is something that will cure you . ' Mrs Ford sent to me for a box of your Cough Lozenges for her , and by the tima she had taken it , the cough left her and has not jet returned , which is now nearly five month siuce You are at liberty to muke the above fact known in the must public manner you think proper . I am sir , yours respectfully , \ Y . Wain . —Nottingham , Oct . 12 , 18 tt \

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      Restoration of Voice by Keatvng ' s Cough Lozenges . Sib , —I bave great pleasure in informing you of the Rreat good your . excellent Cough Lozenges nave done me . In December , 1845 , 1 caught a severe cold from riding two or three miles , one very wet night , ' which settled in my lungs , and quite took away my voice , so that I could not speak above a whisper from that time until the beginning of December last 1 tried all kinds of medicines , but they were of no avail . I was then advised to try your Lozenges , which I did only to pleaee my friends ; but before I had finished a 2 s . 9 d . tin , my veice , to my great joy , came back as strong as ever . I am , Sir , your ' s respectfully , James Martin .-Glasgow , January 12 , 1817 .

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      Sit , —I have been afflicted with a severe cough and shortness of breath , for nearly eight years , and after try . ing various remedies , did not find myself any better . I purchased a small box of Heating ' s Lozenges of you , from which I found great benefit . The second box , 2 s . 9 d . size , completely cured me , and I can now breath more freely , aud am as free from cough as ever I waB in my life . Hoping that others , similarly afflicted , will avail themselves of so certain and safe a remedy , 1 remain , Sir , your's faithfully , Whuah Andebson . —Birkenhead near Liverpool , Jan . 8 , 1817 .

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      Sib , —In justice to yourself and duty to the public , I am Induced to bear testimony to the efficacy of Kenting's Cough Lozenges , which I ara in the constant habit of taking , being troubled with a cough and difficulty of breathing , often arising from indigestion , &c . I have also recommended them to many persons who have been suffering from coughs , and in no instance have I known them to fail . In one in particular , where the lady had obtained the best advice , these I . 'zenges were found successful . I shall beglad to testify to their merit to any one who mfy feel din ] osed to make a trial . I am , Sir , yours pratefully , Susan Pilkinotoh . —Manchester , St Peter ' s Hotel , Qeorge-street , Feb . 18 , 1817 .

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      N . B —To prevent spurious imitations please to observe that the words Keath . g ' s Cough Lozenges' are engraved on the Government Stamp of each .

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      A FlBK BOTPECIED TO BE IHE ACT OF AH InCBNDIAIHT occurred on Wottons farm , in M hater , Isle of Shepp ey , about midnight on Friday last . Tho property destroyed consisted of a wheat stack , and a stack of straw , valued at £ 200 . The occupier of the farm , Mr Clince , was not insured . Tho stacks wero situated in a field at snme distance from the farmbuildir . ss , otherwise the destruction of propertv must have been much treater .

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      Cf WORTHY OF PUBLIC ATTBHTk ' "' - ^ mb AM . WHO TALUfi IMMEDIATE RJ »™ « 7 A- MATHER'S . COUGH and ASTHMATIC Wa . ^ R S , a safe and agreeablsTjimedy ' iror ^ coug hi , ' ' colds , a * V *' incipient consumption ! hoopin j coujrh , hoaraenoes ,. % " tin / of bloodi ? and all diBordirs of , thB cheit and lungs ;—they promote a free and gentle expectoration , dissolving the congealed phlegm / conseguBritly affording immediate relisf , and in an ineredibly short space of tim « a rapid cure . To public speakers , vocalists , Ac ,, Ac , they * r « invaluable , as they clear the throat , and r « nd » r the voice highlv melodious Thiy are exceedingly pleasant to the palate , andfre * from any delnterioUs fngrsdient . ; Thi fact that many thousand persons have provedtheir high efficacy during the last winter , and , the vary numerous and satisfactory-testimonials given" to th » proprietor , afford the moat ample avids . nca of their excellence . —Sold in boxes at Is ., and family boxes at 2 s . 6 d . oaeh . —Tha following unsolicited testimonials will convey some idea of their celebrity : — . _„ .-.. * . eras or cough ov tbn ybars' standino . 'To Mr Mather . chemist , Hulme , Manchester .

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      Sir , I am truly glad to inform you that I havereceived great And permanent benefit from your Cough Wafers , I have oeen affected with violent cough for tho last eight years , but after taking one box of your Wafers . I found immOdiaU relief , and have since continued with a moderate use of the Wafers , in a sound stflta of health . It is with a feeling of gratitude that I bear testimony to their value , and shall be glad if you will use this letter to bring their merits more fully before the public . I am , yours respectfully , John Suiton , treasurer to tn » ' Manchoster Branch of the National Land Csrapany . —1 , Kingston , street , Hulme , Manchester , Dec , 6 th , 1817 .

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      Prtpared &nd sold Wholesale' and retail by the sole proprietor , Win . Mather , ( lucceuor to E . Stanton . ) chemist , 105 , Chester-road , corner of Bradshaw-street , Hulrae , Man . Chester ; and by Messrs Sutton and Co ., Bow Churchyard Mr C . Kingf , St , Napier-street , Hoxton New Town , Lon . dtm ; Mr Jtt . Sutton , Review office , Nottingham ; and retail by Mr J . Heywood , stationor , 170 , Deansgata , Man-Chester ; Oakley , chemist , Preston ; Bradbury , stationer , Bolton ; Lees , stationer , Oldhara ; Whitby , druggist , War . rington , and by ' all principal ' chemists and medical vendors . ¦¦ • • ¦ ¦ ¦ " ;¦ ¦¦ . ¦¦

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      A CERTAIN AND SPEEDT CURE FOR INFLUENZA , COUGH S , COLDS , ASTHMA , INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION , AND ALL DISORDERS OF THE CHEST AND LUNGS ;

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      CAUTION . Persons desirous of testing the efficacy of this medicine , must observe that on each bottle are ths words 'SPENCER'S PULMO . s'IC ELIXIR , ' and that each wrapper has a fac-sirailu of the Proprietors' signature . ' T . ROBERTS and Co . ' Prepared only by . T . Roberts and Co ., Crane-court , Fleet etreet , London ; and Sold Wholesale by Edwards , 67 , St Paul ' s Churchyard ; Barclay nnd Sons , Farringdon . street ; Sutton and Co ., Bow Churchyard ; Sanger and Co ., Oxford-street , London ; Mottershaad and Roberts , Manchester ; Raimes nnd Co ., Edinburgh ; and Noble , Boston ; nn < ' Retail by all respectable Medicine Tenders in the Kingdom . In bottles , at Is . 1 Jd . and 2 s . 9 d . eaeh . The bottles at 2 s ; 9 d . contain naarly three small .

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      The Irish members are beginning to abas ; Ea $ - la i ai bad as ever . This reall / koto a 3 if the ? intrudeJ making app'icatioa for another ioan . — Ptmdt .

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      nous , and now tbat influenza has been , so fatal and cholera is expected , a few of the medical men of the locality have partially succeeded in attracting the attention of thetownsfolk to the necessity of sanitary reform . One raode adopted for drawing notice to tbe question has been the exhibition on the walls of the following joke on a serious subject : ' At the annual general meeting of the Fever Club , 1847 , the grand prize for filthy atreetB and sanitary neglect was presented to tbe su c cessful candidate s , the parochial offi . cers of St Nicholas and St Paul ' s , Deptford ; Mali ? , nant Typhus , Esq ., the chairman , on presenting the prizo ? , expressed his admiration of the misconduct of the reolpient =, who , lie declared , had reached the

      acme of parochial nncleanliness , and were therefore entitled to t h e b e at t h a nks o f himsel f a nd a ll o t her diseases . —Messrs Scarlotins , Intermittent Fever , Consumption , Influenza , Small Pox , and a number of other epidemics and diseases , also warmly eulogised the recipients of the prizes , and bore strong testimony to their merits—The Chairman then read a letter from Asiatic Cholera , Esq ., in which that gentleman expressed his sorrow at not being able to be present at the meeting , having been delayed longer than he expected on his journey , but promising to pay his re * spects to the successful gentlemen immediately on his at rival . This announcement was received with loud cheers . —A deputation of undertakers who were in waiting then presented an addross to the fortunate

      parochial functionaries , thanking them for their exertioBS in behalf of their tntdo , and begging a continuwce thereof . The proceedings then terminated . Whatever is , is Right . —A Jtu d'Esprit . — Two friends , who had not seen each other for a long time met one day by accident . ' How do you do ? ' says one . 'So , so ' replied the other ; ' and yet I was married since you and I were together . ' ' That is good news . ' ' Not very Rood , for it ' was my lot to choose a termagant . ' ' I t ' s a pity . ' ' I h a rdl y t hink so , for she brought me two thousand pounds . '' Well , there is comfort . ' ' Not much , for with her fortune I purchased a quantity of sheep asd they all died of the rot . ' 'This is indeed distressing . ' 'Not so distressing as you imagine , for by the sale of their

      skins I got more than the sheep cost me . ' ' In that case you are indemnified . ' 'By no means , for my house and all my money hava been destroyed by fire . ' ' Alas ! this was a dreadful misfortune . ' ' Faith ! not so dreadful , for my wife and my house were burned together . ' .. . A French paper says that a few days since the town-crier of Cherbourg , beating his drum , went through the town proclaiming the following : — Notice to yeung girls ! Four young carpenters , who have arrived from Havre , and are employed at the milit a r y p ort , ( here their namea nnd ages were given , ) being tired of a single life , wish to get married . To see them , apply to M . Sofo , innkeeper , Rue du Chantier , ' Two of the would-be husbands accompanied the drummer , who , in showing them to the crowd , cried— ' Here , young ladies , is a speei . reen of ths young men who want to get married . ' A Reward op £ £ 0 has been ofkbkd fob the A ^ mHSNSiOM o p Lord Wiluam Paobt . -Ii appears that true bill found

      a was by the grand jury , at the Central Criminal Court , on Sept . 20 , against' Cant Lord William Paget . R . JN ., for obtaining money under false pretence ? , ' and tbe reward is advertised to be paid to any person who will apprehend and lodge , or cause to be apprehended and lodged , in any of her Majesty ' s gaols in England , the said Lord William Paget , who was lately M . P . for | Andover . His personal appearance is described . The solicitors to the Society of Guardians for tb . 8 Protection ol Trade are announced as the parties aeekinn hia apprehension . Ttphus Fbvhr . —The typhus fover a carrvine nff the peop le rap idly at Todmorden , there is scarce a house but that haB one or more in the influent tu « mills are all running either ten or ^ STC ^ X day now , and i is expected the works on the bwnch K ST Burnley wiu bo «»«« dSS Royal Park at BAmn . siu .-The Commissioners of Woods have now commenced the purchase nf S required for the formation of thia park ?

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      I have al s o recei ve d inf or ma t ion fr o m other sourcea on which implicit reliance nay bs placed , t hat som o masters havo themselves notified to their bauds , ' that petitions for the R * p » al of the Tea Hour * ' Bill wore is preparation , and that they would all be expected to sign them;—tbat other roasters bad caused their over , lookers to ask their hands this-question , ' . Would you rather work ten , eleven , or twelve hours at correspond . ingwageB ? ' evidently intending to mak « the hands be . Here , that the rate of wages per Hour must necessarily be the sams whatever number of hours per day they worked . Tbis it tbe trap tbat they have laid for you , but I have not any fear tbat jeuwill be caught in it . You know , by painful experience tbat wages do sat depend on th » hours of work , bat that they depend on the demand for labour . You know , tbat if your masters oan , by employing ten hands with an Eleven Hours '

      Bill , do as much work as it would require eleven haadi to do under a Ten Hours ' . Bill , the demand for your labour would be loss , and that your wages could not be sustained . You know that your wages Were reduced whim you were working twelve hours , before the Eleven Hours Clause in the Factory Act came into oparatlon ; and you Irnow tbat they have been mor « recently and more generally reduced since the Eleven Hours' Clause has been in force . Tbis plainly ibows you that your laboar was not required , that an advantage was taken ol the opportunity , and your wages were reduced , And now , forsooth , when there is some appearance of your labour becoming moro' valuable , these asiociatod hole and corner gentlemen , with unblushing and indecent effrontery , set to work to compel you to petition for a Rtpeal of the Ten Honrs' Bill , and thereby prevent for a longer period , that rise in wages of which you stand so mueh in need .

      Be ] not deceived by them , Letjeacb , one and all , of you refuse either to use pen , ink , or paper , to sign your masten ' , ot any other petition fora repeal of tbe Ten Hours ' Clause . Tell them that you if HI hold to the law ; and if you are diamiss * d for doing so , tbe public will support you . ' If you do this with firmness , you will bo safe , the Ten Hours ' Bill will be safe , and no one will have tke hardihood to ask for leave to bring in a bill into the Home of Commons to repeal it . But if you be timid and submissive , your masters may triumph , and rivet the chains of slavery on you andyour children for gene , rattens to come .

      Theso associated mlllowners might seem to tbink that tbers had been nopublie mind created on this snbjuct . Have tbey forgotten the numberless petitions tbat have been presented in support of ths Ten Hours' Bill ? If they have forgotten them , and dare venture to introduce a bill into tbe Houaa of Commons to repeal the Ten Hours ' Clause , I promise you and them that tbat public which supported you in obtaining tbe Ten Hours' Bill , shall , if you be firm , give you their support again . But I am anxious to save you and the publics the trouble , the loss of time , and tbe . expense of agitation , and I there * fore again nrgeonyou , one and all ,, not to sign one Singh petition for the repeal of the Ten Hours' Bill , Should any of you , from fear of offending your employer , bave already signed such a petition , go to him and say that you withdraw your same .

      Is not a lack of wisdom on tbe part of these bidden associators quite as conspicuous as is their disposition to enslave the women and cail&en to support them ! Do they not know tbat their oraole , Mr Cobden , said at Stockport , on Friday last , that they , the manufacturers , ¦ had been suffering in tbe cotton district ! , quite as much from a famine In cotton as ia com during the last year ; and if corn were ever so cheap , and if the demand for cotton goods were ever so great , they could not have employment , their mills and machinery could not go , if there was not cotton to keep the mills employed . ' A protiy hard hit , this , at the long hour men , considering the quarter from whence it came . Have not your body , too , through your Short Time Committees ^ been importutting the matters to close their works fer a month , in order to . pmeat a rise in the price of totton , and in order to prevent a reduction in tke rat * sf wages , but without success ? although tbe Free Trade press lauded you for your patient endurance of sever * privations

      and for manifesting sa sound a view of what qught to be done . Would the famine in cotton be over if these men were allowed to have their way 1 Certainly not / for no ' one believes them when they allege , in their form of petition which they wish you to sign , 'that both the employers and the operatives would take a limitation of eleven hours , aB a final settlement of the question . When dil ihey say this before » They are gifted with short memories , and might appear to have forgotten that when ths Ten Hours' Bill was passing through the Commons , a deputation from their body presented a moit audaoio ' us protest to the first Minister of the Crown against any alteration of the Twelve Hours' Bill , and said in their protest that they would throw the wholo responsibility oa her Majesty ' s advisers , if they suffered any reduction of hours to be conceded by the legislature 5 Depend upon it , tbeir aim , iu the first instance , is to get you , by petitions , to re-open the question ; and tbeir aim will then b « to get a repeal of the whole bill , and drive you back to twelve hours .

      How stand the facts , then , as to this ' cotton famine !' Tn the year 1817 ) the mills on the average have not worktd eight hours p » r day , and the consumption of cottoa has bean onl y about 30 , 000 bales per week , against upwards of 30 , 000 bales per week in each of the years 1845 and 1816 , when twelv * hours were worked ; and the stock in Liverpool , as reported on Saturday last , was onlj 866 , 660 bales against 420 , 310 baleB in tbo corresponding week ia 1846 ; tbat is , 54 , 850 bales less on Saturday last and it cannot be disproved , that the increase of mills and machinery , since 1844 , has been so great , that w * re thsj all brought into fnll action , more cotton would be consumedinl 848 , tfce factories only working tenboursa day than there was consumed in 1845 , or in 1846 , whentwrfvi hours were worked . L 6 t these wiseacres then , show , I they can , that the eotton famine would not be « pe rienced next year , if they could succeed in obtaining a « .. l of the Tea HomV Bill , an d that they , as well a . you , would not be great sufferers by working either ele . ven or twelve hours per day .

      Be reiolved , th « n , in order to save your masters as well " yourselves , not to petition for a repeal of the Ten Hours Clause . I am , faotory workers , With respect for you all , Your faithful friend and servant , Centr » . vale , Todmorden , John Fieioth , 14 th December , 1817 .

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      Wioas . —Djstrbw . —Numerous groups of colliers , hand-loom weavers , and factory operatives , ate soing the round of the town and neighboureood soliciting alms / and giving pitiful statements of their distresses . Tbero must be great numbers out of employment in the district—not Ies 9 than from two to three thousand persons—and part of those engaged in the mills are only on about half-work ,

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      FREETilAbjfi IN BOLrONr .- .. k The Power Loom Wearan of Bolton ( whom D * Bowring , the M . P . for that town , says lie rents , sents !) have issued a lengthy address from which wa give the following extracts : — - - ' Inhabitants of Bolton ! are the triumphs of Aee Trade , onoe so l * adly vaunted , to end . In a result so ig . noble f Is the downfall of monopoly , ' then , to be attended with the deeper degradation of the producers of wealth t Is the advtnt of commercial freedom to be heralded by renewed and redoubled injuries on tin

      labowrwij Hasfreedom of trad * , indeed , rendered tbe artisan unable to maintain even the questionable ind * pendenc * and doubtful comfort of his past position ? Haa It armed ths employers with patter to inflict a new and capricious , because uncalled fer , injury ? Have our fiscal fetters been removed , only that we may be bound with a heavicrohain * Has . the loaf beea untaxedonly that we maybe subjected to a heavier Impost ! And bas the power of the aristooracy been overthrown tbat we may submit to the double-thonged ssourge of commercial dos . potiim !

      1 Inhabitant ! of Bolton ! the promises of ' highlwagw , che ap bread , and plenty , to do , ' made by the advocates and supporters of th » League , are still fresh in your memory . They also promised , that if the working classes would but assist them , that they in return vould join with t hem , the workin g classes , for the attainment of the Sot frage , t he Tea Hours' Bill , &e . But how bave the * premises been fulfilled 4 Instead . of supporting , they opposed the Ten Hours'BUI , by every means , both Sal * and foul , in their power ; and even now they are getting up petitions for its repeal , by means which show tbat they are anything but philanthropists . On the establishment of commercial freedom we were to be securtd against future reductions : moderate labour was to be

      rewarded by abundance ; the destruction of monopoly was to bs the destruction of every form of oppression ; Independence and oomfoit ware to be tbe common lot ; but how miserably wa are disappointed ! You heard the promises—you see the result . The period of commercial d « pre » Ion . is nearly past , aBd tbo work of oppression is already begun . Tbe combination of the aristocracy fcw been broken ; but i « succeeded by a combination of ma » nufacturtn . The tax has been taken from our loaf , bit a heavier tax ii to be put open our labour . Cemmeroe is all but free , 'but labour still finds an inexorable enemy . The advocates of Free Trade sr « foremost in proposing t » take from us a large portion more of the little wa hare loft * ....,.. .. ¦ : : •;; ,-.. ¦ , :.. ;; ¦ .. ,. .. '

      Th « e lines are written moro In sorrow than in auger The character of the . advocatei of Pree . Tr ade Is deeply involved iu this question of reduction : 4 | is an act per . ftctly uncalled for ; and it ia an act which even necessity would scarcely justify . Therefore , they ought to raise their voices against it ; tbey ought to have been tbe first to cxpoit its existence and denounce its objecta . They may at some future period require tbe assistance of tbe working classes ; but if they do not abandon their pre « sent course they will find , instead of support , tbeir stern opposition . .. . 'By truer of the Committee of ths Power . loom W « aven * Aiiociatlon , , ' LordCollingweod , Bolton , Dec , 16 th , 1847 . '

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      TO TBE JUUTOK Of SHE HOBTBBBK STAB . Sib , —In your paper of Deownber 4 th ; appeared a lettw addressed to the members ef the Journeymen Steam Engine Machine Makers and Millwrights FrieadJy Society , signed , D . Morrison , of Swindon , ia whioh the conduct of Mr Selsby and myself are animadverted upco at great length . That portion which professes to state proceedings that tookplaca at the London toanen i » an entire misrepresentation , for I did not read two or thrc « columns of the M * nchzstbb Examines , nor did any penon attempt to reply to what I said . The fatta being these : —After the appeal from the Executive Council , and the defence from the Manchester Fourth

      Branch , had been read , a member requested to read tba letter of Mr O'Connor , in that week ' s Stab , this befow any potion had spoken upon * h « subject , and before ! rea 4 anything from any public journal whatever . I objected to recviro any exlraneons communication ag a communication ; but any members who were desirous of speaking in favo * of Manchester Fourth BraBch could quote from any paper to confirm the arguments they used . This was done , and tbis I did when I spoke by quoting three paragraphs from the Mamchbsteb Exie mines , all of which are not half a oolumn . After I bad don » so no person rose to read anything , nor did any porBon attempt to reply to what I had eaW .

      Tour correspondent will no doubt tee that be bas been led into error by paying attention ; to , ' what persons say without taking the trouble to ascertain tbe facts of the case . If such necessary precaution had been taken , his trouble of writing had been saved ; your trouble , and . I may say , annoyance at printing jenonal statements onl y to insert their contradiction , would have beea saved . I may not occupy your columns with answering the rest of D . Morrison ' s letter , but I may be allowed to remark that so much abUBa indicates a want of argument . Our members are ' ignorant ' ; ' our officers are ignorant ; ' all are'ignorant , ' but jour correspondent . It is the concluding word of almost every sentence . Then there ii the' would . be dictator , ' the unconstitutional interferences , 'the ' prejudiced and ignorant ' and aristocratic dandies '

      IfD . Morrison will condescend to use argument in . stead of abuse , aad thereby evince the great Intellects , allty which a ptrson so censorious upon others ignoranoe must poam » , h » might da himself credit and us a ser . viee . You know the anecdote of the attorney , who having nothing to offer in defence of bis client , instructed counsel to abuse plnlntiffs attorney . Jl fear this is D , Morrison ' s position , and as your readers may not of themselves take abuse for anything but abuse , the matter may be safely left with them . 1 am , yours obedientl y , Wh , Kewiow , 13 , White Horse-terrace , Stepney , December 14 th , 1847 .

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      ExmoBDisAnT Floods nr South WAiBs . —The periodical recurrence of extenslvo floods in the valleys of South Wales , more especially in the agricultural districts , at this period of the year is by hi means uncommon , and , perhaps , usually expected . Bui we were quite unprepared for the extraordinary deluge whioh manifested itself in the valley of thia lowy during the whole of Friday , Saturday , and Sunday last . In consequence ef the heavy rains tbe yanous mountain streams had become swollen and turjid , and rushing down with great impetuosity speedily causing the placid streams of the valley to ' assume a similarappearance , and to burat their banks in every direction . The prospect lrom Cannartbenoridgejon Saturday last was truly but awfullvorand .

      a vast sheet of angry rushing water spread itself out tar beyond the ken of human eye , leaving the village of Abergwill y , with the Bishop of St David ' s palace , standing prominently out from the centre of theliquid plain . The various roads on the southern side of the Towy and in close proximity to the river were almost lmpassablo , the water having covered them to theextent of eight or ten feet . Boats were plying upon the fensarn and Tyllwyd roads , being continually in active requisition te convey the farming population to our market . In one instance , a magistrate for the county was compelled to desert his comfortable car-»» Re , and to cross the water in the old-fashioned Welchcoracle . made of willows covered with tarpawling . Messrs Brigstocke ' a brickyard suffered severely

      trom the inundation—no less than seventy thousand bncka being gpeilt by the flood ! Belle Vue-house , the reaidenco of the Rev . David Evans , curate of St Uavid s , had its lower apartments completely inundated ; the furniture receiving considerable damage , nnd the occupants sustaining much personal inconvenience . The Swansea mail , for the first time daring sixteen years , bad to desert the usual route , and , with six horses , had great difficulty in making its way along Fensarn , and thence to the Crocsllwydroad—the inside of the vehicle being completely filled with water . The Lampeter mail-cart and driver were in great dancer on Friday morning , in

      consequence oi the flooded state ef the roads , and the Lampeter and Absryatwith letters and newspapers were not , therefore , forwarded through their osutl channel , but were transmitted through Llandovery by the northern mail on Saturday morning . The flood continued with scarcely any abatement tuptil Monday , when it in a great measure subsided . 7 one time fears were entertained for the safety of tue Carmarthen-bridge , but the old structure stood firmly amidst the warring elements . Yf e are happy to say that no loss of life occurred , notwithstandins considerable damage must necessarily hare accrued on the lowlands . * -JFelifiiaaii of Friday .

      Cama ue ihb Makuiaotumho Districts . —Although trade throughout the whole of Lancashire was p . eyer before known to be in so depressed a state , y . et- , to the credit of the whole community , but particularly the hungered and half-starved working po « Vulation , crime sensibly diminishes . ' ,

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      «>—CAPABILITIE S OP THE LAND TO THE EDITO * OF THB KOBTHIBH STAB , Si » , —If you have room you will insert the following wltVout my urging you to it . It is from the Pen h * CiCLoraDTA , article , * Garden Husbandry . ' My own remarks shall bo few . The value of tho produce ia one year from an acre of garden ground , in the most favourable situation , as stated by Mr Middleton , from the account which he received from a market-gardener is almost incredible , It ii as follows : — RacliAes £ u Cauliflowers ... ... 60 Celery , first crop ... ... 50 Celery , second crop . ,, 10 Cabbages ... ... 30 Endive ... .,. .. 30

      Total from one acre ... £ 220 I will not , need not , make any commont , further tbaa te point to the source from whence this information is taken , to prove what the land can do , has done ' and will do , when under proper management . ' Lodge Mill , scar Durham , I "« ahcis Smite Dscssaber 13 th , 1817 .. *

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      Sib , — . 1 beg to Inform you that the following reiolu . tion was passed at a meeting of the association , held on Tuesday last . ... 'It having betn reported to the meeting , that tho operatives , employed iti some mills , had eipressed their desire that the hours of labour in factories should not Ve restricted to ten hours , but should be continued at elevoa hours as at presont allowed by law . ;; ¦; . :: .- ... -. ? It was resolved ; , ; : ¦ ,- ¦ .. ' >;¦ . ¦ . ¦ ' . >; : ¦ . ' . - . .- . ¦ ::. 'That in tbe opinion of this meeting it is desirablo that some itepi should , be taken bj the muter iphmm and manufacturer ! , for the purpose of correctly ascertaining the opinion of the operatives employed in the different mills , < at'to tha expediency of endeavouring to limit the legislative restriction of tb » hours of labour in factories to eleven hours—and it is therefore recom * mended that such steps bs accordingly taken , but tbat t b e t ime a nd t he way in w h ich i t sh a ll b e d on e shall be left entirely to the discretion of each employer . '

      ' If the opinion of the 6 peratlv « s shrald be in favour of the above limitation , a petition to the House of Commons , praying for a Repeal ef so much of tba last Factory Act as restricts the hours of labour to ten hours per day , would probably be the best mode of expressing and giving effect to that opinion . ¦ I send you forms of petition which may be easily alteredi to their pleasure . " ¦ ¦' When the petition has baen si gned , it maybe returned tome , or you can forward it direct toyeur member for presentation . In the latter case , I shall be obliged by yeur informing me of the number of hands ' -who bave signed it . Yours , most obediently , - ' . William Hsbon , Secretary . 21 , PrinceB-streg , Manchester , 10 th Dec ; , 1847 . \

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      THB TEN nOVtV ^^ p' ^ : % ' The Creatures M *\ «»«<*• dir ^ wor * < $% ' TO THE FA « IOKT WoBKEBS OF iNuliND , IBBIAKD , ak » Scotlakd . —My FiusDs , —The Tea HonrV BUI , Wl , for tblrty-two years , you and th » public -bad oongtMo . tionally been straggling ' to obtain , at the hands of Parliamen t , was passed in tbo last session by overwhelming afjorUibS on every division , in . both houses , and the royal ' asient of her most gracious majesty the Queen was given to it on the 7 th day of June , 1847 . On the 23 rd ef July , ; i 847 , the day ofVprorogation , the Speaker of thi Houie of Commons , surrounded by a vast number of the membarg of both Houses of Parliament , in bis address to the Queen on tke throne , when taking a ratrospectirs view of the business of the session , ' spoke of the Tea Honrt Bill as follows : — - ¦ ¦••

      ' We have found it necessary to place a further limitation on , the heursof labour ofyoungpersons employed In factories , and by giving more time asd opportunity for their religloul and moral Instruction , for healthful recreatloB , and the exerdie of their domestio duties , we have elevated th « character and condition ef a large and industrious class eDgsged in manufacturing operations . ' . ,. Will it be believed that tbis Ten Hours ' - Bill , so straggled ! for , bo obtained , so approved , and ; so . characterised by the highest authority in the House of Commons in ' bis address to the Queen , —will it be believed , I say , tbat an intidiousattemptls now being made to oauBe you , the ' Operatives , ' to be tbe instruments to get tbat righteousmessurerepealedf ,. :, ¦ .:.

      Be on your ? uard , my friends ! Such is the fact IMA . hole and eorner maeting of the ' Associated Mill-ownerB ' ( I should like te know who they are , in order that publicity might be gives to their names ) , was held in Man-Chester , on Tuesday ,-the 7 th instant , at which the following resolutioB was passed , a printid copy of which , as anhexed ] I have to-day received from Mr William Hcrja , Secretary . { Cm . ) ASSOCIATION OP MILLOWNEB 8 .

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      .. » ' - THE NORTHERN STAR . , _ ¦ " """ ^ " ^

      The Grbate5t Cubes Of Ast Jiedicihss Ihthb Globe . ¦

      THE GRBATE 5 T CUBES OF AST JIEDICIHSS IHTHB GLOBE ¦

      The Dirtiness Of Deptford Has Long Been Noto-

      The Dirtiness of Deptford has long been noto-

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 25, 1847, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1450/page/2/