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AN EFFECTUAL CURE FOR PILES , FISTULAS, 4c. ABERNB-THY'S PILE OINTMENT.
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What a painful and noxious disease is the Piles ! and , comparatively , how few of Mm -im ; , uo , i 1 ,. t n cured by ordinary appeals to medical skill ! This , no doubt , arises from the " use of noworfnf nn « - . V P «™' a" ™« Jadministered b / the profession ; indeed , strong internal medieina ^ u ?^^ complaint . The proprietor of the nbovo OmtmGnt , aftoi-yoavs of acuu * & ** £ , 2 m 1 i , imVlf u , iihwhP S meat of that eminent surgeon Mr . Abemethy ; was by him ^^ to i ^ ect hcafth ^ na h ^ nK i ? e » wS wthout the slightest return of the disorder , overa . penod of fifteen years , during which time the same Abei ' n .-tliian prescription has been the means of healing a vast number of desperate cases , both in and out of the too riotm ^ " . i ^ w of friends , most of which cases bad been under medical care , aud some of them ( M- a very considerable timV ff nethy ' s Pile Ointment Avas introduced to the public by the desire of many Who imd been perfectly healud bv it « m . niiM tion , and since its introducHon the fame of this Ointment has spread tar and wide ; even . Urn medical profession - ' vvav * slow and unwilling to acknowledge the virtues of any medicine not prepared by themselves , do now freelv and ' i ' - ' mkiv admit that Abernethy ' s Tile Ointment is not only a valuable preparation , but a never failing remedy in every stair > and variety of that appalling malady . ' * ^' Sufferers from the Piles will not repent giving the Ointment a trial . Multitudes of cases of its efficacy might ha produced , if the nature of the complaint did not render those who have been cured , unwilling to publish their name * Sow in covered Vots at 4 s , 6 d ,, or the quantity of three is . 6 U , potsinoneforlls ., with full directions fur use hvBar clay and Sons , Furringdon-street ; Edwards , St . Paul ' s Church-jard ; Uutler , 4 , Cheupsine ; Newbory , St . Paul ' s ' Litton " Po \ r Clmrch-yard ; Jolmson , 68 , Cornhill ; Stinger , 150 , Oxford-street ; Willoughby and Co ., 61 , Bishopsgate-street With ' - out ; Owen , 52 , Marchmont-street , Kurton-cresent ; Eadc , 39 , GoBwell-street ; Trout , 22 tf , Strand ; Hannay and Co -G 3 Oxford-street ; Prentice , 84 , Edgeware-road ; and retail by all respectable Chemists and Medicine Vendors in London ' V Be sure to nsk for " ABEttNE'CUY'S 1 HLE O 1 STMENT . " . Tlie Public are requested to be on their guard against noxious Compositions , sold at low Prices , and to observe that none can possibly be genuine , unless the name ofC . I-fiMG is printed on the Government Stamp affixed to each pot , 4 s . Cd . ; which is the lowest price the proprietor is enabled to sell it at , owing to the greut expense of the Ingredients .
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CORNS AND BUxMOJfS . PA VL 'S EVER ? TaN'S FRIEND , Patronised by Hie- Royal Family , Nobility , Clergy , da . Is a sure and speedy Cure for those ; severe annoyances , without causing the least pain or inconvenience . Unlike all othe remediesior Corns , its operation is such as to render the cutting of Corns altogether unnecessary -. indeed , wemav sav , th practice of cutting Corns is at all times highly dangerous , and has been frequently attended with lamentable / -onsequences , besides its liability to increase their growth it adheres with the most gentle pressure , produces an instant and delightful relief irom . torture , and with perseverance in its application , entirely eradicates the most inveterate Corns and Bunions . Testimonials have been received from upwards of one hundred Physicians and Surgeons of the greatest eminence , as well as from many Officers of both Army andJN avj-, and nearly one thousand private letters from the gentry in town and country , speaking m high terms of this valuable remedy . J Prepared by John Pox , in boxes at Is . IJd ., or three small boxes in one for 2 s . 9 d ., and to be had , with full directions for use , of all wholesale and retail medicine vendors in town and country . The genuine luu the name of John r ' ox on the stamp . A 2 s . Ud . box cures the most obdurate corns . Ask for " Paul ' s Every Man ' s Friend . " Abernefhy'B Pile Ointment , Paul ' s Corn Plaster , and Abernethy ' s Pile Powders , are sold by the following respectable Chemists and Dealer * in Patent Medicines : — Barclay and Sons , FarringJon-strcet ; Edwards , 67 , St . Paul ' s Church-yard ; Butler , 4 , Cheapside : Newberv St . 1 ' . Vj ' jSutton , Bow Church-yard ; Johnston , 16 , Greek-street , Soho , and 68 , CovnhiU ; Sanger , ISO , Oxford -street ; Willoughby and Co ., Gl , Bishopsgate-street Without ; Owen , 52 , Marchmont-street , Burton-crescent ; Eade , Si ) . Guswellstreet ; Prput , 229 , Strand ; Hannay and Co ., 63 , Oxford-street ; Prentis , 84 , Edgeware-road ; and retail by ail respect , iible chcnusU and medicine -vendors in London . CoujiTBi Agesib . —Baines and Ncwsome , Ileaton , Sraceton , Beinhardt and sons , J . C . Browne , 48 . Briggatc ; Bonton , Garland ; Mann , Bean , Harvey , Haigh , late Tarbottom ; Bolhvnd and Kemplay , Land , Moxom , C . Hay fuc Bri ^ ate Rhodes , Bell and Brook , Lord , It . C . Hay , Medical Hall , ; Leeds ; Kimmington , Maud and Wilson , Kogerson ' Staufield ' Bradford ; Hartley , Denton , Waterhouse , Jepson , Wood , Dyer , l'avker , Jennings , and Lejland , Halifax ; Smith El ' . and - Hurst , CardweU , Gel ] , and Smith , Wakefield ; Pybus , Barnsley ; Knowlcs , Thorne Brook , and Spivev , Huddcr . ifield ' HudEoii , Keighley ; Brooke , Doncnster ; Matthews , Creaser , Uriffield , Cass , Goole ; Milner , Pickering Stevenson * Whitby ; Bolton , Blaiishardand Co ., Hargrove , Fisher , Otley , linney , York ; W ' ainwright , Howden ; Ilorsby / Wranxham ' Jefferson , Malton ; BuckaU , Scarborough ; Smith , Furby , Bridlington ; Adams , Colton , Pullen , Selby ; OmWier Market Weighton ; Gledhill , Old Delph ; Priestley , Fox , Pontcfract , ; Dalby , Wetherbyj Slater , Bedale ; Dixon , 2 forthallvrton Ward , Kichmond ; Ward . fctokesley ; Foggitt , and Thompson , Thirsk ; Monkhouse , Barnard Castle ; Pease , l ) arliii"ton Jennett , Stockton . And by all respectable Chemists and Medicine Vendors in every Market Town in England WjioiESAiE Aoenib . —Messrs . Uolton , Blanshard and Co ., Druggists , Miuklcgate , York .
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CAUTION . Unprincipled persons , taking advantage of the celebrity of "DH . LOCOCK'S WAFERS , " . - attempt to foist upon the . public various Piixs and Mixtures under nearly similar names . The public is cautioned that aft such preparations are spurious and an imposition : the only genuine Medicine has , besides the words "Dk . Locock ' s Wafers" on the Stamp , the Signature of the Proprietor ' s Solo Agents , Da Silva and Co ., on the Directions given with every Box , without which none are Genuine .
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UNDER ROYAL PATRONAGE . PERFECT FREEDOM FROM COUGH , In Ten Minutes after use , and a rapid Cure of Asthma and " Consumption , and all Disorder ' s of the Breath and Lungs , is insured by . DE . LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS . The truly wonderful powers of this remedy have \ nlled forth testimonials from all ranks of society , in all qunvters of the world . The following have been just recived : — , SURPRISING CURE OF ASTHMA .. , From Mr . William Bowen , Cartlett , " Haverfordwest . Sib , —Having been afflicted for many years with a violent cough and asthma , and having tried all other medicines in vain , I was recommended to try Dr . Locock ' s Wafers . I sent to you for a box , and . to my great astonishment , I found relief the very first night , and have continued to get better ever since . " Their effects are really wonderful . My appetite is now good , whereas formerly I could scarcely keep any food on my stomach . I have myself since recommended them to several persons , who . have always received the greatest relief from them . —( Signed ) W . Bowe . v —Dated February « h , 1848 .
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PROTECTED BYfROYAL . 'LETTERS PATENT . DR . LOCOCK'S FEMALE WAFERS . IIAVE NO TASTE OF MEDICINE . THE ONLY MEDICINE RECOMMENDED TO BE TAKEN BY FEMALES . Price , Is . IJd . ; 2 s . OH . ; and lls . per Box . BEWARE OF IMITATIONS . Unprincipled Persons counterfeit this Medicine in the form of PILLS , < fcc . Purchasers must therefore observe that none are genuine but "WAFERS , " and that the words , "DR . LOCOCK'S WAFERS" arc in the Stamp outside each box .. ¦ ¦ ¦' Observe . —There are various Counterfeit Medicines , having words on the Stamp so keahjut besemiimkg these , as to mislead the unwary . Purchasers must therefore strictly observe the above caution . Prepared only by the Proprietor ' sAgents , Da Silva and Co ., 1 , Bride-lane , Fleet-street , London , Sold by all Medicine Vendors .
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YOU MAY BE CUBED YET ! HOLLO WAY ^ OIXTMENT . CUKE OP RHEUMATISM AND RHEUMATIC GOUT . Extract of a Letter from Mr . Thomas Brunton , Landlord of the Waterloo Tavern , Coatbam , Yorkshire , late of the Life Guards , - dated September 28 th , 1848 . Sin , —For a long time I was a martyr to Ithenmatism and Rheumatic Gout , and for ten weeks previous to using your medicines'I was so bad as hot to be able to walk . I had tiled doctoring and medicines of every kind , but all to no avail , indeed I daily got worse , and felt that I must shortly die / From seeing your remedies advertised in the paper I take in , I thought I would give them a trial . ' ' I did so . I rubbed the ointment in as directed , and kept cabbage leaves to the parts thickly ' spread With it , and took the Pills ' niglit arid morning . In three weeks I was enabled tqwalkahoutforanhourortivointhe day with a stick , and in seven weeks I could go anywhere without ono . I am now . 'by the blessing of God and your medicines , quite well ,
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tion , and at this time my toes are perfectly cured . — ( Signed ) Oliveh Smith J £ . nki . ns To Professor Ilolloway . AN EXTRAOBDIXABY CORE OF A DESPERATE SKIN DISEASE . . On the 21 st July , 2 S 4 S , the Editor of the MfHSsilite newspaper , published in India , inserted the following editorial article in his paper : — " We know for a fact , that IloUoway ' s Pills and Ointment act in a most wonderful manner upon the constitution , as an eccentric Coolie called Eliza , employed in our establishment , was affected with myriads of Ringworms , which defied all the Meerut doctors , and promised to devour the poor man before he was underground ; we tried ' Holloway' upon him , and in a month he was perfectly restored to his former condition andcleanliness of skin . The effect was miraculous . " The Pills should be used conjointly with the Ointment hi most of the following cases : — Bad Legs .. Corns ( Soft ) Rheumatism Bad Breasts ¦ Cancers ' Scalds Burns . Contracted and Sore Nipples Bunions Stiff-joints Sore Throats Biteofiloschetoes EJephantiasis Skin-diseases and Sand-flies Fistulas Scurvy Coco-Bay Gout Sore-Jieads Chiego-foot Glandular Swel- Tumours Chilblanes lings Ulcers Chapped-hands Lumbago Wounds Piles Yaws
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ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS , GENERATIVE INCAPACITY , AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE . Twenty-fifth edition , illustrated with Twenty-Six Anatomical Engravings on Steel , enlarged to 19 U pages , price 2 s . Gd ; by post , direct from the Establishment , 3 s . 6 d ., in postage stamps . THE S I L INT FRIEND ; . a medical work on the exhaustion and physical decay of the system , produced by excessive indulgence , tho consequences of infection , or the abuse of mercury , with observations on the inarmed state , and the disqualifications which prevent it ; illustrated by twenty-six coloured engravings , and by the detail of cases . By R . and L . FERRY and Co ., 19 , Benicrs-street , Oxford-street , London . Published by the authors , and sold by Strange , 21 , Paternoster-row ; Hannay , 03 , and S-. mger , 150 , Oxford-street ; Starie , 23 , Tichborne-street , Haymarket ; and Gordon , 146 , Leadenhall-strect , London ; J .: and R . Raimes and Co ., Leithwalk , Edinburgh ; B . Campbell , Argyll-street , Glasgow ; J . Priestly , Lord-street , oad T . Newton , Chui'chstreet , Liverpool ; U . Ingvsvm , Muvkot-pluce , Manchester . Part the First Is dedicated to the consideration of the anatomy and physiology of the organs which are directly or indirectly engaged in the process of reproduction . It is illustrated by six coloured engravings .
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rji 6 OTH-ACHiE PERMANENT ! Y A ^ URED by usinj ^ BHANDE'S ENAMEfc , -tpr filling ; decaying teeth , and . rendering them sound and painless . Sold by Chemists every where . Price Is . per packet . : , ., . RECENT TESTIMONIAL . : ¦ Sib , —Finding BHANDE'S-ENAMEL so excellent for its purpose , I feel it my duty to recommend it to all who suffer with . the tooth-ache that I come in contact with therefore SOU will obligeby sending a packet to Mr . Jamee Williams . Hobbins , SMVednesbury .-Your obedient servant , Thohis MoiAARK-tyednesdayi March 13 , 1849 . ^ ¦ ! ™" * ¦ CAUTIQN . r-The- ; great- success of this preparation" hasinduced numerous unskilful persons to produce spuriour imitations , and to copy .- 'Brande ' s Enamel" AdvertSe ! Sv V s ne ^ f ^ herefore , to guard against juch impositions , by seeing the" signature Of JOHN WittIB accom . pames each packet * , ' ,., ; ,- •• •¦ . .. ,. - , .-- ¦ ¦ ^ London ; Manufactured . only :. by JOHN WILLIS , 24 / £ as : TempleChamhers , Whitsfriars ,-Fleet-street , removedfr 4 , Hell s-buildines , Salishurv-sauare . / Wfa * SBKb > tflll t . ¦
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Lab ouri BX DR . P . M . M ' DOCALL . See that proud ship , high looming in the view ; Inspect the forests where her timbers grew ; There labour vriclds the axe , and saws the team , Then shapes her ribs , her planks , and caulks each
seam , "Where noisy shipwrights ply their useful trade . Yonder her ropes are spun , her cables made , In that dense flaxy mill her sails are wove , By riggers fashioned , bent , unfurled , or rove ; Ton anchor hanging o ' er her bow apeak , "Was forged by labour , which by mining deep , Discovers ore to cast her booming gun . See now she ' s launch'd , and up her signals run , From maintop peak , down to her dancing boat , From wnister ' s shoe tacfc , to the captain '? coat , She's labour's own , Old England ' s oaken wall , To brave the billow , and the hostile ball ; She rolls majestic on the heaving tide , ' And spurns the ocean , as rare labour ' s pride .
Close by the Thames the Gothic senate stands , The chiselled toy of labour ' s useful hands ; Its towers , and arches , windows , doors , and halls , Its sculptured statues , arms , and solid walls , "Were all by labour reared , from lowest pile To fretted pinnacle of ancient sty le . , The city temples , and Paul ' s towering dome , The palace pillars of the noble ' s home , - All witness bear of labour ' s fruitful task , "Whose beauties grand most eloquently ask , "Why he , who all these storied columns rears , A slave kneels rajjged at their base in tears ? By Tvhose hard palm their symmetry was built , "Whose scanty wages oft entice , to guilt . „ Despondent duty at the loom , and frame , "Whilst robing beauty , but repeats the same ; And wonders why its coatless back is bare , "Whilst weaving textures plentiful and rare .
That peasant , stooping like the willow ' s bough , "Whose skill directs the meliorating plough , "Who sows the grain , and reaps the bending ear , TOiose toil each heart expands , all threSRlds cheer , "Wonders why he " , ' midst blessings widely shed , Should see his children weep for daily bread . ilarkthat vast engine , in its swift career ; Those smiling passengers unused to fear ; Their lives , more sacred than their wealth , entrust To that mechanic black -with oil and dust ; And thou , Victoria , great England ' s * Queen , "With all tby ministers , are fearless seen , Thy crown confiding to a ' woman ' s care , Too ignorant the freeman's vote to share , "With those whose attribute is merely rent , "Whose wealth accumulates from wages spent :
But not from toil , who like the lily blow And live by works that from the willing flow . Too ignorant to wield the giant force , Of steam careering on its mighty course . Too ignorant to work the magic Press , And mould ideas that its type 3 express ; To make slight paper for the impress bold , Thatkeeps its lesson when the mind grows old . Too ignorant £ he lens to cut or grind , That draws Heaven ' s curtain to the dazzled mind , That shows where systems over systems shine , That nears His throne , Omnipotent , Divine , Prom whose dread palm , and awful labour grew , This atcm earth , which into space he threw . Labour's the shadow of that . Mighty Cause "Who rules all nature , and who breathes her laws . Labour will yet a prouder end fulfil Subservient to His majestic wilL
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THE PROSE TTORKS OF JOHN MILTON . "With a Prefece , Preliminary Remarks , and Isotes ; "b y J . A ' . Sx . John . VoL IE . London : H . GK Bonn , Yorkstreet , CoventGarden . This—the concludingTolome of Milton ' s Prose "Works , is principally occupied ¦ with that immortal author ' s celebrated works on the * question of "Divorce ; " works -which " may be said nearly to exhaust all the pTrilosophy and learning of the subject ; " and which , as the editor remarks , " may serve to enlighten both our legislators and philosophers , if they -will be modest enough to listen and to learn . " There follows a brief butmost interesting treatise on "Education , " exceedingly worthy the thoughtful consideration of statesmen and public reformers . In this volume is also contained the famous treatise on " The Likeliest
Means to Itemove Hirelings out of the Church . " Miltox , in Ms opening address to the Parliament , observes -with prophetic foresight , " Till religion l ) e set free from the monopoly of hirelings , I dare affirm ,-that n « model whatsoever of a commonwealth "wul pro ^ e successful or undisturbed . " In the following extract he forcibly describes the evil of
DffiEnSC rHEACHERS . Hire of itself is neither a thing unlawful , nor a ¦ word of any evil note , signifying no more than a due recompense or reward : as ~ when our Saviour saith , " the labourer is worthy of his hire . " That which makes it so dangerous hi the church , and properly makes the hireling ; a word always of evil signification , is either the excess thereof ,- or the undue manner of giving and taking it . "What-harni the excess thereof brought to the church , perhaps was not found by experience till the days of
Constantme ; who , out of his zeal , thinking he could be never too liberally a nursing father of the church , might be not unfitly said to have either overlaid it or choked it in the nursing . "Which was foretold , as is recorded in ecclesiastical traditions , by a voice heard from heaven , on the very day that those great donations and church revenues -were " given , crying aloud , " This day is poison poured into the church . ' "Which toe event soon after verified , as appears by another no less ancient observation , " That religion brought forth wealth , and the daughter devoured the another . "
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TITHES . But with what face or conscience can they allege Moses or these laws for titles , as they now enjoy or exact them ; whereof Jfoses ordains the owner , as we heard before , the stranger , the fatherless , and the widow , partakers of the Levite ; and these fathers which they cite , and these-though Romish rather than English laws , allotted both to priest and bishop the third par t only ? But these our Protes . tant—these our new reformed English Presbyterian divines , arainst their own cited authors , and
to the shame of their pretended Deformationwould engross to themselves all tithes by statute j and supported more l » y their -wilful obstiuaey and desire for filthy lucre , than by these both insufficient and impertinent authorities would persuade a Christian magistracy and parliament—whom we trust God hath restored for a happier reformation—to impose upon as a Judaical and ceremonial-law , and yet from that law to ^ more irregular and unwarrantable—more complying with » covetous clergy—than any of those l'opish Mngs and parliaments alleged .
"Where did God ever clearly declare to all nations , or in all lands ( and none but fools part with their estates without the clearest evidence , on bare supposals and presumptions of them who are the gainers thereby ) , that he required the tenth as due to Him or His Son perpetually and in all places ? TOiere did he demand it , -that Ve might certainly know , as in all claims of temporal rig ht is just and reasonable ? or if demanded , where did he assign it , or by what evident conveyance to ministers ? yhless-they can demonstrate this by more than conjectures , their title can oe no better to tithes than the title of Gehazi was
to those things which by abusing his master s name le rooked from 2 faaman . Muck less where did he command that tithes should be fetched by force , ¦ where left not under the gospel , whatever his right was , to the free-will offerings of men ? "Which is the greater sacrifice , to bely divine authority , to make the name of Christ-accessory to violence , and robbing him of the very honour , which . he . aimed at in bestowing freely the gospel ,- to commit simony -andrapine , both secular ana ecclesiastical ; or ,-on lie other side , not to give up the tenth of cmlright and propriety to the tricks and impostures of clergymen , contrived . with all .-the art and argument that then- bellies can invent or suggest ? :
BAPTISM , MARRIAGE XSD BURIAL PEES . ' ' How ill it had become John the Baptist to demand fees / or his baptising , or ^ Christ for his christenings ? "Tar Je 3 s it becomes these now , with a greediness lower than that of tradesmen calling pasgengers to their shoprand ^ yet paid beforehand , to ask again fer doing that which those their founders did freely . If men of themselves come to be bapiised ,, they are Vther brought by such as already pay the minister , or comei to . be one of his disciples and maintainers ; of-whom to ask a fee as . it were
for entrance is a , -piece of paltry craft or caution , liefitting none' but beggarly artists . Bnriahv and marmges are so little to be any part of their gain , that they ,-who consider well may find them to be no part of their fraction . At burials their attendance they allege on : the ; corpse ; . all the " guests do : as much nihirBd . i .:. Bufethen : prayers at the grave ; snpe ^ stitib . usly " : required : > yet " if jeqnired , their last performaoee'io . the deceased of their own flock . Bit ihefnneral sermon ; at their- choiee , <>? if not ; an occasion offered them to preach out of season , wii&U one-part of their office . But something
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must be spoken in praise ; if due , their duty ; if un " due , their corruption , a peculiar simony of our divines in England only . ? * * *' As for marriages , that ministers should me ddle with them , as not sanctified or legitimate , without their celebration , I find no ground hi Scripture either of precept or example . Likeliest it is ( which our Selden hata well observed , L 2 , c . 28 , Ux . Eb . ) that hi imitation of heathen priests , who were wont at nuptials to use many rites and ceremonies , and especially , judging it would be profitable , and the increase of their authority , not to be spectators only in business of such concernment to the life of man , they insinuated that marriage was not holy without their benediction , and for the better colour , made it a sacrament ; being of itself a civil ordinance , a household contract , a thing indifferent and free to the whole race of mankind .
Towards the close of this powerfully written treatise the author asks : — " How pan any Chr istian object it to a Turk , that his religion stands by force only ; and not justly fear from him this repl y * 'Your . 8 both by force and money . '" Milton adds : — " This is that which makes Atheists in the land , whom they so much complain of : not the want of maintenance , or preachers , as they allege , but the many hirelings and cheaters that hare the gospel in their hands ; hands that still crave and are never satisfied . " This is plain speaking with a vengeance 2 ^ He concludes with the following : —
PLUS TROTHS . Christendom might soon rid herself ( of the hireling icrew of parsons ) and be happy , if Christians would but know then * own dignity , their liberty , their adoption , and let it not be wondered if I say , their spiritual priesthood , whereby they have all equally access to any ministerial function , whenever called by their own abilities , and the church , though they never came near commencement or university . But while Protestants ,- to avoid the due labour of understanding their ovm religion , are content to lodgcit in the breast , or rather in the " , books , of a clergyman ,- and to take it thence by scraps and mammocks , as lie dispenses it in his Sunday's dole ; they will be always learning and never knowing :
always infants ; always either his vassals , as Jay papists are to their priests ; or at odds with Mm , as reformed principles give them some light to be not wholly conformable ; whence infinite disturbances in the state , as they do , must needs follow . Thus much had I to say ; and , I suppose , what may be enough to them ,- who are not avariciously bent Otherwise , touching the likeliest means to ' . remove hirelings out of the church ; than which nothing can more conduce to truth , to peace , and all happiness both hi church and state : If I be not heard nor believed , the event will bear me witness to have spoken truth ; and I , in the mean while , have borne my witness , not out of season , to the church and to my country . \
Milton ' s "Familiar Letters" conclude the volume . Of these letters two or three are peculiarly affecting , revealing as they do somewhat of the trials and sorrows of their great author , and his majestic resignation under the weight of calamities of no ordinary kind . His second letter to the patriotic Athenian , Leoxakd Philabas , can hardly fail to draw tears from the reader—tears of sympathy and admiration . ' .- . '•
In publishing this remarkably cheap edition of the prose works of Milton ; Mr . Bohn has done for the public good that which entitles him to the thanks of the community generally , and the applauding aid of the . directors of the press in particular . We shall be much gratified if the notice we have taken of these volumes shall "be found to have assisted the sale of works which ought to be in the hands of every Englishman . . -.... - ¦¦
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Ine Illustrated Atlas , and Modesn History of ike World : Geographical , Political , Commercial , ami Statistical . Edited by E . Montgomery Martin , Esq . Parts I . and II . London : J . andF . Tallis , 100 , St . Johnstreet . This is a most superb work—and as cheap as it is beautiful . We quote the following from the introductory address : — To general education , geography is as necessary
as grammar is to language ; indeed , ignorance on this point is scarcely consistent with practical knowledge on any other . It is suited to all ages , and to all classes of society , and must possess , peculiar intcrostto the pGoplo of a-maritimo kingdom like England , whose peace and prosperity are so intimately connected with the extension of commerce , and whose colonial , mercantile , and international relations include all regions from the Arctic to the Antarctic circles .
Issued in fortnightly parts—of which there will be about thirty-two—the work , when completed , will make a magnificent volume . Each part will contain two illustrated coloured maps , engraved on steel , accompanied by four large pages of descriptive letter-press . The Parts before us contain maps of the "Eastern Hemisphere ; " "Cabool , the Punjab , andBeloochistan ; " " Austria ;"" " Mexico , California , and Texas . " These maps ( with the illustrations' which accompany them ) are beautifully engraved . The letter-press—though condensed—is bufficicntly full to : impart to the reader correct ideas of the general character of the earth , and the several countries into which it is divided . Every family should purchase this admirable Atlas .
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A Poetical Petition to Queen Victoria , § c ., fyc . By Dr . P . M . M'Douall . Liverpool Published by Mrs . P . M . M'Douall , 71 , Front Portland-street . Tins poetical petition is " on belalf of the oppressed working classes of . Great Britain and IreJaad , in demand of their political rights . " We" extract the following introductory notice : — This is published by Mrs . M'Douall , of 71 , Front Portland-street , Liverpool , under the superintendence of a Committee , who have volunteered to assist her in business until her husband's liberation .
In handing it to Mrs . M'Douall , he said , " I shall be buried alive in some of these modern inquisitions , without the possibility of communicating my feelings , -wishes , or opinions , on any subject , therefore , I charge you to publish any , or all , of my writings , which I leave behind me , and I hope the people will do you and them justice , for I shall be denied both the right and the duty to assist my children . " The Committee trust that they will be supported in their _ attempt to protect Dr . M'Douall's persecuted family . Signed on then * behalf , by Akdiujw Wait , Secretary . Liverpool , April , 1849 .
The poem—or " poetical petition *'— -will commend itself . The lines entitled "Labour , " at the head of the preceding column , are extracted from this work . We add the following linesr-the poet is addressing the Queen :- — That jewelled crown upon thy youthful head , "Was chased and wrought by men who pine for bread . . The flowery lace , the silk , and satin train , Were wove by hands all cramped by cold and pain . •'¦¦¦ ' ¦ ' : Consumptive death rests on that needle's poirt , And that small pin disturbs the infant ' s joint ; That cotton ,. damp- with negro ' s" crimson'tears , It 3 tale , conveys of brief and blighted years ; That table blade , more fatal than the gun , Strikes down e'er forty years their sands have run ; Those coals that blaze upon thy peaceful hearth " ,.
Explosions dread , the damp , and crumbling earth Announce , with mining . riBks , and moving fears , The speechless agony ,, and orphan ' s tears . Those soldiers , too , that ' neath the tropics broil , And Bhiver at the pole ; are sons of toil ; ; Those seamen , rough for frolic , or the fight , ' Have cheered some lowly cot , or mother's sight ; Their , health , their home , their toil , then- lives , ' theirall , . . , .-- .- ,. ,- / Are freely , fully , at their country ' s call . "• ¦ And shall those men , who o ' er the field and wave Have borne your flag , sink rightless to the grave And all their , kindred live a helot ' s life , , .-• 'Midst . toil , and want , and then ; long deadly strife , "Without the suffrage power to shield and save ~ Fromworkshop slavery , and workhouse grave ' . . We earnestl y recommend-thispoem'toour readers' ;* its extensive circulation Js due to ' the
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' HIMUIILnm ., —Mil IIM . I author , and may be of considerable service to Ms bereaved family .
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The Progressionist . No . 1 . New Series . London : E . Ward , 54 , Paternoster-row . A . penny periodical , published ( wo believe ) monthl y ; devoted to the advocacy of Chartist principles . . .-,-- «
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The XJxbridge Spirit of Freedom , and Working Man ' s Vindicator . No . 2 . Uxbridg e : J . Kedrup ; London : J . Watson , , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row . At least , in its outward and visible form , this is an improvement onNo . 1 of the " Spirit ;" there is also an addition of four pages . As regards the matter , it is sufficient to say that it is not inferior to the contents of the first number . The signatures of the writers ( working men ) are significant : —" An Ouvrier , " "A Democrat , ' * "A Proletarian / ' &c . They speak out bravely . Such " open and advised " writing in defence of Democratic principles is most cheering . There is some first-rate poetry in this number j witness the following specimen : —
PRESS OX ! PRESS ON ! Press on , press on ! ye rulers ! in the stirred world ' s . onward track , — . It moves too sure for ye to put the clock , of freedom back ? We ' re gathering up from near and far with souls in fiery glow , And Right doth bare its arm of might to bring the spoilers low . Kings ! priests ! ye ' re far too costly , and we weary of your rule , We crown no more Divinity where nature writeth "Fool ! " . - . ' ¦ ¦ Ye must . not bar our glorious path , as in the days agone ; You know that God made MEN , not kings nor knavish priests , press on !
Press on , press on ! ah ! nobles ! ye have played a daring game , . But your stars are falling , and out-fades the prestige of . your name . Too long have ye been fed and nursed on human blood and tears , The naked truth is known , and Labour leaps to life - and swears . . . His pride of strength to bloated ease ! he will no longer give ,. For all who live should work , lords , then all who work might live ! The struggle comes ; make much of what ye ' ve wrung Irom fatherland—Press on , press on : to-day w ask--to-inorrow we'll command !
Press on ! a million pauper foreheads press in misery ' s dust , — . . The champions of the golden truth , still eat the mouldy crust . This damning curse of tyrants , must not crush the nation ' s heart , — .. ; The spirit of a million slaves , doth pant on fire to start ,... . And strive to mend the world , and walk in freedom's march sublime , While myriads sink heart-broken , and the land o ' er-. swarms with crime , " Oh ! . God ! " they cry , " we die , and see no earnest won ! Brother , "join hand and heart ,. iind to the work , — press on , press on ! " '
The Uxbridge Spirit of Freedom deserves , and , we trust , will command , the support of the working classes .
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SUNSHINE AND SHADOW ; A TALE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . BY THOMAS MARTIN WHEELER , Late Secretary to the National Charter Association and National Land Company . Chapter VI . Read on , and thou shalt find fit speculation . Deep as the depths of thy sagacity ; I will decry the present generation ; As portrait painter , show my small capiicity ; Perhapsrilmaketheedoubtmypen's veracity ; Perhaps I'll revel in things dead and gone ; ' But all Task thee is , read on ! read on ! " Beste .
In a spacious dvawing-voom in ope of the bestsituated streets in the town of Liverpool , adorned with more profusion than warranted by good taste , sat Walter North . Nearly eight years have passed lightly . over him since his introduction to our readers ; the fine , frank , high-spirited boy was now become the polished citizen of . the world ,, and reported to be one of the most prosperous merchants of this far-famed commercial city . Time had not effected many changes in the person of Walter North ; he was what the Ladies ( God bless them ) denominate a handsome man ; tall , and well-proportioned , with fine black eyes , raven hair , and features rather remarkable for vivacity and good humour than for intelligence . He was still
unmarried , though a prize in the matrimonial market that many were contending for ; but Walter looked on marriage as he did on any other portion of his business—with the keen eye of a trader . . He was still young ; he could now command a match that a' few years back he could not have dreamed of ; business was fast increasing , and a few more years of singleblessedness might enable him to mingle his blood with that of England ' s nobility ,, so he heeded not the pits and trapfalls in which anxious mothers and maiden aunts sought to ensnare him , but pursued his ambitious schemes / : smiling with self-complacency at their selfish views . His father had retired from trade , and was living in the suburbs of , the metropolis ; arid under Walter ' s management the business had progressed—both in London and Liverpool
—from almost a retail concern , to a gigantic mercantile establishment . "Walter was tho beau ideal of a merchant ; open arid candid by nature , the shrewdness and spirit of trade , that he had imbibed from his father , enabled him to make good merchandise of these qualities ; careful without being penurious ; enterprising without being . rash ; indifferent to the interests ofothers , yet careful , by attending to . the decencies , of life , to obtain their good opinion ; he was a specimen of that large and influential class who , " destitute of any high principles , and deficient in intellectual attainments , by their tact and readiness to accommodate themselves to the world , leave talent and principle far behind them in its estimation , succeed far better in securing to themselves possession of its' treasured goods , and bid fair to dethrone the feudal aristocracy of the realm , and monopolise the political and social power of the
empire . . Arthur Morton , with a cultivated intellect , with an enthusiastic , love of justice , and an enlarged spirit of benevolence , is in danger of perishing from the want of the necessaries of life ; whilst his quondam friend—deficient in all these qualities , but giftedwith worldly prudence—is rich in the world ' s goods , and deemed an ornament to his-class . Such is life , and such the qualities necessary for . success The generous , the noble , and enthusiastic are candidates for a life of poverty , and inheritors of an early and unwept grave ; whilst the cold , selfish calculator , . whose heart never -warmed . with love to God or man , rolls in wealth and luxury , and his fair fame is emblazoned by tho chisel sf the statuary .
When such things ave , can .. wo wonder that the tenw pie of virtue is " devoid of worshippers ? whilst tho temple of Mammon is thronged by thousands of eager devotees , who , in their haste to offer homage at her polluted shrine , crush and destroy , each other . Alas ! strong-indeed must be our belief in the doctrine of human perfectability , and great indeed our trust in the principle of progression ; or all would be carried away by the stream , and the world , become one huge market , where youth , beauty , intelligence , and virtue would be bartered away , for luxury and easQ . ' ; { and patriotism and independence be among the catalogue of things that were , but whose existence has ceased . ¦ ' '' .. ! . Sad arid depressing as is this picture of human h
nature , faintnot . thou man of the Future , thoug pridoand meanness fade , jaway , for pride and meanness io succeed them , ; yet . it wili . not always be so : the present transition phase . of society is already passing away , and the bright future appears in dim perspective ; then shall noble hearts , with ' noble feelings glowing within themselves , scatter blessings round them .. The curse oftignorance shall vanish before the light , of increased knowledge , and . this fair globe Become the" happy region which Infinite Intelligence designed it to be . ;¦ .- ¦¦ i li . ' - Such thoughts ana such studies engrossed not the attention of Walter North . Seated before a blazing fire ; ( it was a .. wintervevening , ) . and occasionally sinninir at the . contents . of , a :, tumbler , which-stood
before him , he seemed buried in thought , and from the cast of his features the subject of Bis cogitation was of an " Wpleasaht ' nature , —at length a . smile broke the gravity of his closed lips , and he muttered audibly : — " ' Thesilly fool ,: to refuse such an offer ; a baronetcy . and £ 4 , 000 a-year is no bad catch for the daughter of Joe North ; . true , . ; is double . her age aid a residence ; in , the West Indies has , not contributed to the strength of his constitution , but the better Tor the girli ' sbe will soon be a blooming widow'with a splendid jointure . -. ; . Sn ? Jasper ' s name and connexions will be of service to me-m . my .- 'matrimonial spec , and the . match must . comeoff / . Auaih wasthe " sombre fiiie of his . countenanceTe-S j and . the-i dntractin ' g brow , and f ^} sinning ' at the almost empty .- tumbler , - showed ; that the mind was , deeply meditating on the means to Sere ttoVobject '; at length- lifi- thoughts agsun
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found utterance in words :- " I will write to Julia ttL £ fv i V eek 5 with mc » a ' trust to my ? f- wh /? , S t 0 ex P cdito this marriage ,-& * \ fai 1 ' ; littl 0 ^ nt force - must beap-Srf » / . h 8 r elder brother and the best Kth ^ trae interests ? " So saying , he rapidly asm ?? - . athlselb ° w , which was aWereo by L ^ r . i 1 Very ' , an , ( lordGringwlliting materials , he apeedUy despatched a missive to " Joseph North ^ sq .. Oporto House , Brixton , " with an enclosure ior , duua , containing an affectionate invitation to spend a short period at . his bachelor residence Ueplenishing the tumbler from tho decanter beside nun , ne applied himself vigorously to discussing its contents , —his feefc are thrown upon the opiosite ^ r : ^ . fraSrant . . c 5 n . : X ? cigar speedify permines uie
room , ana Walter . North is as happy and as free from quaint of conscience as though he had not been planning the ruin of his only sister . Conscience , thou art a very cheat . ' frighting the timoul ' if " ^ P of a sycophant to the bold . ' Thou arch tormentor of mankind ! whipping fe- f ? lash ^ * eir own" entwining rl ^ h a ° b ? , neath thy terrors , the murderer hath ffid m ' y * <> the scaffold ; the weak-minded 3 * victim to the suicide ' s grave , or sought the n ^ T f a mani ! iC > S Ccl 1 5 whi 5 st the 8 tron gruLTdth " ° n-1 ? eartcd ; man of the world hatii H , hnf -f ashls slave ' and deprived thy scorpion \ nnntn ™???? nTedL st 5 ? S- Thou wast implanted Oy nature m the breast of raan neither to hB nis sm-f Kia i ' i I" ! * "oi . uicr 10 . uu ms sen
new -n ^• v testinV ftJ ant i bufc to act a ^ a moral barometer , E ^ nS weight and value of his good or evil SinnH ° Z § ? che 6 k J ° S uid 0 and reg « 'ate ai ? ^ S ? # . . UStom has rendered thee what thou art , and formed thy meshes of such subtle , but elastlJk hT "' that ^ encumber and crush the S ' « fu P ? . wevless torestraia the strong ; thus adding another ink to the heavy chain which the S 0 / mank » 'd hug with such areary pleasure to their hearts fettering tho freedom of their limbs , and causing them to fall an easy prey to their re-Stfte ° PPreS T' Wholau S hs wlth Satanic mirth freedom C stl < u ^ 1 es to achieve their natural ( To be continued . )
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Property and Labour . —Those who are ponsessed of enormous wealth would fain persuade us it is the offspring of their own industry . It is no such thing ; their own industry would not sell in any market in the world for sixpence . They mi ght have speculated , employed others , or resorted to any of the thousand and one stratagems by which immense fortunes are made , by gambling with the labour of others , but , separate from society , or acting individually as workmen , where would their immense wealth arise from ? It is clear then , that the exorbitant sums in the hands of our merchant princes and great manufacturers ' , is the difference between the acknowledgment doled out to the producer , and the actual price which the commodity may realise , —Chartist Tracte for the Times .
The Boston Post is responsible for the following : — " Why ia Jenny Lind like a leg of well-fed mutton ? Because she is neither Grist nor Alboni . " Suvkry . —The weight of chains , number of stripes , hardness of labour , and other effects of a master ' s cruelty , may make one servitude more miserable than another ; but he is a slave who serves the best and gentlest man in the world , as well as he who serves the worst—and he does serve him if he must obey his commands and depend upon his will . —Algernon Sidney . A Beaten Echo . —An old writer thus describes a talkative female \~ " I know a lady who talks so incessantly that she won't give an echo fair play . She has such an everlasting rotation of tongue , that an echo must wait until she dies before it can catch her last words . " .
. Want of _ Union . —The more numerous men are , " the more difficult it is for them to agree in anything , and so they arc governed . There is n 6 doubt that If the poor should reason /— " we'll be poor no longer , —we'll make the rich take their turn , "—they could easily do it , were it not that they oan ' t agree ; so the common soldiers though much more numerous than their officers / are governed by them for the same reason . —rDr . Johnson . ' '"'¦' Tub House of Commons . —The British House of Commons has been proved one of tho most corrupt assemblages that can well be imagined . So much so , that they are often engaged in long debates to
prevent bribery at elections , and other ovil practices , by which a number of them obtain scats in that assembly . A few weeks ago , Mr . Moffatt introduced a bill to compel members of parliament to pay their debt , a number of them relying on their privileges to enable them to defraud their creditors , The perjury , bribery , intimidation , threats , and personal injuries inflicted on ihe electors at each trial of party strength , would fill volumes ; and we continually find a portion of those elected , ' again unseated for the glaring corruption which they or their agents had practised . —C' / iartis « Tracts for tMJims . . New Defisitios of an Evergreen . —A man who does not learn by experience . " !
Parliament Inferior to the People . —If Parliament should begin to refuse giving satisfaction to the people , the people will ; begin to refuse putting any confidence in parliament ; and if this should ever come to be the case , they ( the pavliament ) not only may , but ought to be put aside . —Sir John Barnard s Debate on the Convention , 1739 . The Morning Herald is not very complimentary in its enumeration of Sir Robert Peel ' s supporters : — " Every hard-handed and grasping Jew—every wolfish and hungry Dissenter—every turbulent and disloyal Roman Catholic—every disappointed and sour Whig-Radical pamphleteer and essayist . "
Ruffs . —Queen Elizabeth and . her ladies are represented in all pictures as cased in whalebone , with waists very long , and made . excessively small by tight-lacing ; with enormous stiff ruffs round their throats , and small caps of point lace , which now go by the name of Queen Elizabeth ' s cousin , Mary Querni of Scots . ; The ruff was sometimes kept upright by a wire frame ; and , was sometimes so stiffly starched as to stand up by itself . Starch of various kinds came into fashion ; and in the next reign a certain Mrs . Turner brought over from abroad the method of making yellow starch , which
was so much admired , that every fashionable lady appeared in a yellow ruff . done up with Mrs . Turner's starch . . Mrs .. Turner was at length hanged for murder . She appeared on the scaffold in a handsome yellow ruff . Every lady threw away hers ; and not a yellow ruff was seen any more . The starching of runs became so important a business , that a Dutch woman named Van der Plasse came to London to carry on and teach the art . The premium she asked was five pounds—a great sum in those days—and an additional pound for the secret of preparing the starch . —Guide to Trade . — " The Dress Maker . "
The House of Lords is composed of the descendants of our landed aristocracy . Some owe their eler vation to the time-serving and political subserviency of themselves or their ancestors , whilst others , are descended from the offspringof royal bastards . This department of the British Constitution is all but powerless , except as a useful machine for placing its veto on any measure which public opinion demands from the Minister of the day , and which he may desire to , avoid . From the cleverness arid address with which they perform these kind offices , . they have been termed , by . some , the Obstructives , and by others , denominated the House of Incurables . Suppose a follow what has nothing , marries a gal what has . nothing ; is her things ' his ' n , oi \ is his her'ri , or his ' n and hers hor ' n ? A nice question
to decide , that J . Benevolence . —There cannot be a more glorious object in ereation ' thari a human being replete with benevolence , meditating in what manner he roighi render himself most acceptable to his Creator , ; by doing riiost good to his creatures . —Fielding . At the late Kilkenny Assizes , Constable Devlin having given evidence against one Luke Byrne , the latter , affecting to be horrified , exclaimed , " It ' s no wonder for the pitaties to be black when the likes iv you is in . the country !" , , ¦ " . ' . :. ,, Affections . —It appears , unaccountable that oiir teachers generally have directed their instructions to the head , with very little attention to the heart ; From Aristotle down to Locke , books without number have been composed for cultivating and imDrovj
lite the understanding : but few , . in proportion , : for cultivating and improving the affeetions . —Lord Kaimet . i .: ., .:: , .. : . ; . . ..- ¦¦; A Clincher . —An Irish Knight . was once disputing ' with a French coin-tier as ; to the age and standing of their families , when the latter , as : a'finisher to the argumeiit , said that luYaucestbrs were in the ! ark with Noah . / f That is nothing , " says the Hibernian , with a rich brogue , «' for ; at the deluge ray forefathers were cruising ' about inqbpatojxhtirovmr ^ " Pkinters' Proverbs . —Xiiverinquire , thou of ithe editor for . the njewB ) for behold it js . his ' dutyat the appointed ,. time . to give it unto / thee without asking .-When thou dost write for his paperj never say unto him , " -What thinkest thou or my pieoe ?" - _ f <>* i £ may be that the truth ' may . ' . offend '' thee . It is hot fij ; thatthpu ' shouldst ask him who is , the author of
^ an article , for . hisJuty . requires him to keep . such things to himself .: . When thou dost enter into his omce , have a care unto thyself that thou ' dpst riot look atwhat maybe lying open ' . fof that is 2 ot meet In"the ! sight -of " . good breeamg . ;; sreither ; exaniirie thou Uieproofsheet , tpr Jit .. iS : notready to meetthiiie eye , that thou mayest ' understand 'it . Prefer the paper ofthy , town to any other ; and ' subscribe immediately for it , arfdpav in adyaricei arid'it' shall ! be ¦ t # TW& ,. thte '' andtV ; iittle : oh ' « S . ; .. '" . ' ' ; A' Fancy PBEBS . ^ . Ata'baIlfor , ' the Boyal , Infirmary « i Edinburgh ,.. onrTuesday , an-officer of the 2 l 8 t appearedin a strange , ''fancy « dress ;; On the right side he appeared as * lady , ¦ y tii ' S flowing ring > lets andelegant lhuglin dress "; aridfori the left as a S ^ K ?^! ' . # *« n' # lier ^ wa ' Snadmirable . The . combination of the hat andlady's cap , on his head . was . very ? eleverly-managedf and evea % o the feet the duplicit waBkepttv ,
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An Effectual Cure For Piles , Fistulas, 4c. Abernb-Thy's Pile Ointment.
AN EFFECTUAL CURE FOR PILES , FISTULAS , 4 c . ABERNB-THY'S PILE OINTMENT .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 5, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1521/page/3/
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