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      DECLARATION OF THE GUABMAX 8 Or BREST , DEVOJf . We , the undersigned , solemnly declare , that before Thomas liollins , ( one of our parishioners ) commenced taking "lhilsu ' s Scorbutic Drops , " he was literally covered with large running wounds , some of thorn so laraa tbat a person might have laid bis list in them ; that before he had finished the first bottle be noticed an improvementand that , by continuing them for some time , lib got com ! pletely restored to health , after everything else hud failed . Me had tried various sorts of medicines before taking "Halse ' s Scorbutic Drops , " and had prescriptions from ( lie most celebrated physicians in this country , without deriving tbe least beneiit . " Halse's Scorbutic Drops . " hava completely cured him , and he is now enabled to attend to his labour as well as any man in our parish . From other cures also made in this part , we strongly recommend ' Halse ' s Scorbutic Drops" to the notice ' of the public signed by John Elliott , sen ., Lord uf the Manor ; Jobs ilAsm . No , William Peause , Henry Goodman , and Abthdk Langwortht . —June 21 st . 1843

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      g |* F Mankind arc liable to one disease more than another , or if there are any particular affections of the human body wo require to have a knowledge of over tho rest , it is certainly that class of disorders treated of in the new and iin-. proved edition of the "Silent Friend . " The authors , in thus Bending fortU to the world another edition of their medical work , cannot refrain from expressing their gratification at tho continual success attending ' their efforts , which , combined with the assistance of medicines , exclusively of their own preparation , have been the happy caus « ot mitigating and averting the mental and physiciiliiiisertes attendant on those peculiar disorders ; thus proving the fact ,

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      Hoilowai s Pats Aim as Excellent Rkiikdt for Ikdigestioh , Bilious and Livia Complaints . —All painful and distressing sensations arising from these complaints ( which are too well known to require a description here of their symptoms ) may be easily removed by a few doses of this inestimable medicine , for such is its efficacy that the most debilated constitutions are effectually stre ' nethened and the aversion to exercise overcome ; they give buovahcT to the spirits , create an appetite , and promote digestion . At this season , when epidemics are so prevalent , these pills should be frequently taken ; they surpass every other remedy as a preventive of mali gnant disorders . PauSl's Kveky Man ' s Friend , ( Corn Plaister ) . may be relied on as a speed y and certain cuv « for those painful and stubborn annoyances Corns and Bunions , causing the lame and afflicted to walk with comfort . A large aud iner # asing demand having proved its efficacy , lias induced several ptvsons to put up a spurious prepartion , therefore be siir 6 to ask for "Paul ' s Every Han ' s Friend , " and do hot be persuaded to puveliaso anything eke . A single trial will convince of tis immeasurable superiority over all other plaistcrs , liquids . < fec .

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      FREEDOM . BT CHAH 1 ES J . SMUH . Upward as the mountain towers , Onward as the ocean flows , Piercing through the clouds of error , Sweeping o ' er a -world of -woes , Spite the weight of snows is pressing On its distant steepy brow , And the giant storms are breaking O ' er its rugged bosom now . Though the tempest fiercely rages , And the lightning round it leaps , Thus th 6 spirit form of Freedom Upward towers , onward sweeps , Through the weight of evils crushing And the storms that round it beat ; Tain the tempest and the lightning-Fall they harmless at his feet . °

      Bising as the sun at morning , As the milder moon at night , Making glad a world of darkness , TPhen the day is bright and cloudless , Then with burning ; dazzling gleam ; "When the shades of evening gather , Then vrith softer , gentler beam . Thus with Freedom—shining brightest Where the truth has strongest * sway , And amid the realms of error , Still it never lost its ray—Though oppression ' s mists o ' ershadow , Bunding for a spell its light , Still a sleepless Tigil keeping Through the day and through the night As the hoary hills eternal ,

      As the rock of ages strong , Noiseless through Time ' s ceaseless changes , Beating back the wares of wrong—Though the elements , conspiring , Wage a wild and fearful strife , From the mighty shock recoiling , With renewed and stronger life . Thus with Freedom , standing ever By the wayside of the truth , With the birth of Time coeval , Yet in all the bloom of youth-Mocking every feint to crush it , Of the puny arm of man , With the myrmidons of power Clustered in the tyrant ' s span !

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      Oral ions , Lectures , and Addresses . By Ralph " Waldo Emebsojj . London : G . Slater . 252 , Strand . This is one of the most interesting and valuable of Mr . Slater's remarkably cheap volumes . For the insignificant sum of Two Shillings , the reader may make himself sufficiently well acquainted -with Emersox , who has been pronounced by Carlylb , of American thinkers and writers—the foremost man . When we name the sum of Two Shillings , \ re must add that for that sum the reader may purchase theTolume of "Emerson's Essays , " in addition to the work under notice . From the volume before us , -we extract the following

      MEMOIR . "Ralph "Waldo Emerson , born 1803 , is the son of a Unitarian clergyman of B-ston , and in 1821 , when about seventeen years of age , was graduated at Harvard University . Having turned his attention to theology , he was ordained minister of one of the congregations of his native city , but embracing soon after some peculiar views in regard to the forms of worship , he abandoned his profession , and retiring to the quiet village of Concord , after the manner of an Arabian prophet , gave himself up to ' thinking , " preparatory to his appearance as a revelator . His oration , entitled Man-Thinking , ' delivered before ths Phi Beta Kappa Society in the summer of 1837 ,

      attracted a great deal of attention , but less than his address before the senior class in Divinity College at Cambridge in the following year . He began now to be understood . His peculiarity was not so much his system as his point of view . He did not pretend to reason , but to discover ; he was not a logician , but a seer ; he announced , not argued . His prominent doctrine is , that the deity is impersonal—mere being , and comes to stlf-consciousness only in individuals . The distinction of this from pantheism is this , that while pantheism ' sinks man and nature in God , ' Mr . Emerson ' sinks God and nature in man . ' "In 1838 Mr . Emerson published 'Literary Ethics , * an oration , and in the following year a smaU volume entitled'Nature . ' InlSiO , he commenced "The Dial , " a magazine of literature , philosophy , and

      religion , which was continued four yeara ; in lSi \ f he published "The Method of Nature , ' an oration ; * Man the Reformer , ' a lecture on some of the prominent features of the present age ; three' Lectures on the Times , ' and the first series of his' Essays . ' In the nest two or three years he published little except his papers in ' The Dial , ' but in 1844 he gave to the public lectures on 'New England Reformers , ' 'The Young American , ' and' Negro Emancipation , in the West Indies , ' and the second series of his * Essays . ' He has since delivered lectaes on * Swedenbourg , ' 'Napoleon , 'New England , ' and other subjects , which are regarded by some who have heard them as decidedly the finest of his works ; and in December , 1846 , be published a volume of Poems , which have peculiar and remarkable merits .

      " Mr . Emerson is ' a seeker with no past at his back- ' He evidently aims to break the moulds of popular beliefs , and to getat the heart of the matter , to look around and within with the fresh vision of 'a first man , ' and like Adam in the garden to put his own name upon what he sees . He has none of the iU-hmnonr which denies because others affirm ; he simply takes leave to look for himself . While , therefore , he continually sees and represents things in singular lights , and sometimes inverts them so that it would seem to be an inevitable conclusion that either he is crazy or we ; on the other band he regenerates our faith , by giving us an original testimony to great truths . Thus his essay on the' Over-SouL' notwithstanding its uuscriptural title , is as orthodox as St . Paul .

      "Whatever appearances there may be to the contrary , Mr . Emerson is no destructive . He is a builder , a born and anointed poet . His demand is Truth . He must stand face to face with the Absolute . Insatiable as is his craving for truth , he is always orderly and serene . He gives no sign that any deterring considerations have ever occurred to him . Whatever suggestions of fear or policy there may be , they are less than cobwebs U him . They cannot impede , they do not tven tease him . He is as Self-possessed and as assured as if lie carried in his pocket a commission , signed and sealed of all mankind , to say just the thing that he is saying .

      " ilr . Emerson is never commonplace . Hence we infer that he is a genuine worker . He cannot , like a host of others , write in his sleep . Everything is wrought out by his own thought . I have sometimes fancied tbat be must , in bis listless moments , repine at the siubborness of his genius , which can bear to be mute , but which cannot declaim , nor tolerate in him any attempt at * fine writing . ' There is a very common latent , passing for a great deal more than it is worth—the sole talent of many quite distinguished

      writers—which lies in tbc putting of words together so fitly and musically that they seem to sing a new truth , when it is ' au old song , ' with no variations . Mr . Emerson is utterly deficient in this power . He cannot juggle with words . He has no bank notes ; nothing but bullion . If he states an old and wot Idknown truth , he does it with that felicity of expression which gives us a fresh sense of its value , and we confess that the same thing was never before so well said . He fits his word to his thought , consulting no ear but his own .

      " In reading Mr . Emerson ' s works we must observe Coleridge ' s admirable rule : ' TV hen yon cannot understand au author ' s ignorance , account yourself ignorant of bis unJerstandhi ? . ' At the slightest glance we shall find here and there in them much to inspire respect for his sagacity asd admiration for his genius . When , therefore , he " seems to be unintelligible , or absurd , modesty dictates that we should at least entertain the question whether the defect be in Mm or us . If we cannot explain bis ignorance , we shall do wisely to distrust our own understanding . It is possible—nay , it is in a very high degree probable , not only that he really has a meaning , bnt that be has a very good and a very great meaning , and that he has expressed it in the very best form , so that , were we as keen-sighted as he , we should recognise the beauty both of the thought and the

      expression . The above " Memoir'' is from the pen of Emerson ' s countryman , Edfus Wilmot Gbiswold . Of the " orations , " " addresses , " &c ., we have no room to speak , we can only assure our readers that they will find this volume -worth infinitely more than the price charged for it ; and well worthy their thoughtful perusal .

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      Barketfs Reformers Songster . Part I . Edinburgh : B . Barkett , 177 , Fountainstreet . A very neat song-hook , comprising the most popular songs of the three kingdoms , together -with a great variety of Odd Fellows , Temperance , and Patriotic Songs . We cannot say much for the poetry of the Odd Fellows and

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      HAYMARKET THEATRE . On Monday evening a one-act farce entitled "A Bird of Passage" was produced at this theatre with success . Mr . Carey Chick ( Mr . Wright ) , the bird in question , i . e ., a traveller from Pickering to Pocklingtonin Yorkshire , arrives at the " Union Hotel" in the latter place just in time to exercise 1 h 3 peculiar propensity of setting people by the ears . He findsthat Mrs . Waters Rummer ( Mr 3 . F . Matthews ) , the landlady of the" Union , " is about to give her band to Mr . Chaunt Ginger ( Mr . P Bedford ) , a horse-dealer ; that Mr . Cognovit ( Mr . Lambert ) is preparing to draw up the marriage articles for them , at the same tune that his nephew , Ernest Hopeful ( Mr . WokrellI . is to take in

      marwage the daughter of one Mr . Cockle , on condition that the aforesaid nephew has resigned to him the uncle ' s business , on his retiring from it . Consequent upon her intended marriage , Mrs . Rummer is proposing to resign the proprietorship of the hotel to Anna Marie ( Miss Tcrxer ) , her chambermaid , upon the latter making happy in the matrimonial bonds Mr . Soyer Skillett ( Mr . Mustard ) , the cook of the establishment . Upon this concatentation of circumstances the indefatigable meddler sets to work , artfully contriving , by those processes known only to busy-bodies and eavesdroppers , to make all the parties concerned renounce the obligations into which they had entered , and to throw everybody and everything into a state of supreme confusion . But Mr . Chick ' s enjoyment of the mischief he has effected is of brief duration , for he is detected by

      one Mr . Chatties Pusher ( Mr . Botce ) , a commercial traveller , as having played precisely similar pranks elsewhere . His victims become suddenly aware of the deceptions to which they have been subject ; Mr . Chick is covered with confusion , which is in no wise removed when he comes forward to speak the "tag , " in which he unconsciously recommences an entanglement of affairs . The dialogue , although here and there somewhat too broad , is generally sparkling , and there are several highly comic situations enveloped . Mr . WuiGnr . was quite at home as the prying mischief-maker , and Mr . P . Bedford was happy in the delivery of sundry sporting phrases ; and , indeed , all who shared in the farce acquitted themselves well . It was given out for repetition amid the universal applause of a crowded bouse .

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      CREMORXE HIPPODROME . In addition to the usual equestrian spectacles which haveibecn recently introduced at this place , a very curious exhibition , similar to that which has been a source of admiration and delight to tbe Parisians , has been presented to the public . It consists of a car drawn by three horses abreast , tbe car is of the shape of the curs used in the Greek games , la it is a group of three persons—viz ., Mr . T . Thompson , who represents Apollo , and two women , who by a very curious piece of mechanism , formed of steel bars and springs , appear to be supported horizontally in the air by winjre spread from their

      shoulders , one hand only of each of them restingon the shoulders of Apollo , who stands upon one leg upon a rowling globe . The car is driven at a rapid rate round the enclosed hippodrome , and the whole creates a remarkable illusion . The mechanism of springs and bare of steel was used with success in something of a similar manner in mesmeric exhibitions , and deceived some of the votaries of that craft . In this " chariot of the sun " it is applied more legitimately . The whole has been very well got up , and was hailed with the applause of a very large body of spectators .

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      Lancashire , —SIarriages op Uxcosfirmed Persoxs . —For some time past the vicar of Leigh and the incumbent of Bedford have refused to marry or to publish the banns of marriage of unconfirmed persons . A Government prosecution has been instituted against the latter clergyman for refusing to marry two parties whose banns had been published in the usual manner before the board of guardians , and who presented to him the registrar ' s certificate . The trial is expected to take place at the next Liverpool Assizes , and the offence is described as one of misdemeanour . A few weeks ago a tomi " man named James Williamson , of the parish ot Lowton , and a young woman named Mary Ann Kcarsley , of the parish of Leigh , desired the vinar

      of Leigh to publish the banns of marriage , but he refused , on the ground that the female had not been confirmed . An appeal was therefore made to the Bishop of Manchester , who directed the vicar to publish the banns . They have accordingly been published during the last two Sundays . The vicar , however , has intimated his intention of instituting proceedings against the female , her father , and brother ; the father for neglecting to cause his children to be confirmed , and the children for neglecting to come for that purpose . Tlic vicar , on Thursday week last , personally served the following notices upon the parties : — " I , James Irvine , vicar of Leigh , in the county of Lancaster , and diocese of Manchester , do hereby require you , James Kearsley , weaver , residing in a cottage situate in a street commonly called Canal-street , near the east end of Twist-lane , in the township of Pennington , within the parish of Leigh aforesaid , to send vour son

      Peter , and your daughter Mary Ann , to the parish church on Sunday next , and every succeeding Sunday and holy-day , to bo there instructed and examined in the church catechism , after the second lesson at evening " prayer , until such time as they have learned all that is therein appointed for them to learn . —Dated this Cth day of September , in the year of our Lord , 1 S 40 . ( Signed ) , J . Irvise , Vicar of Leigh . —David Geees , witness . " The following extracts from the canons of the Church accon £ panied the above : —" And likewise , if any of the said fathers , mothers , masters , or mistresses , children , servants , or apprentices , shall neglect their duties , as the one sort in not causing them to come , and the other in refusing to learn , as aforesaid , let them be suspended by their ordinaries , if they be not children ; and if they so persist , by the space of a month , then let them be excommunicated . Canon lix . "

      Mr . More O'Fekrall , having been severely censured by tbe Colonial Office for his recent conduct towards tbe Italian refugees , has resigned the governorship of Malta , but it is uncertain whether or not his resignation will be accepted . Mr . O'Ferrall was in London last week , and is now said to be at Boulogne . Death of the Bishop of Xohwich . —We have to annonnce the death of the Right Rev . Edward Stanley , D . D ., Bishop of Norwich , who expired on the 6 th hist , at Braban Castle , near Din » waU , after a short illness , which terminated in fatal congestion of the brain . Deceased was son of Sir J . T . Stanley , Bart , and was born in IW . —Daily News .

      The amoust of capital on which the legacy duty was paid in Great Britain in the year 134 S , was £ 44 , 348 , 721 .

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      SUJf SHINE AND SHADOW ; A TALK OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . BT XH 9 MAI MARTIN WHEELER , Late Secretary t « th « National Charter Association and National Land Company . Chapter XXIV . Spirit of Time ! all silent power , That grows with each succeeding hour , To thee we bow—to thee we raise A chorus of eternal praise . Gladly thy dictates wo obey , Gladly we see thy power increase , Bole ransomer from Fiction ' s sway . True source of Joy , and Hope , and Peace I Oh ! thou at length—at length wilt show , That Freedom is no faithless beam , Whose flickerin g rays deluding gleam , But a bright torch whose spreading glow , Shall o ' er the clouded future stream . SUif si ^ Tvn « 1 Bn ,. . ^ 7 ^

      Proud spirit , whensoe ' er thy birth , " Or wheresoe ' er thy flight may end , Still speed thee o ' er our heaving earth , Let speed upon thy course attend ! Though sailing oe r us silently , We feel thy grateful presence nigh , And hail the motion of thy wing , O ' er us softly quivering . Oh ! speed thee , speed thee , hasten on , Banish errors one by one , Thou all-redeeming power , thou power without a throne . Beste .

      The fourth morning from leaving his dungeon , saw Arthur Morton sailing on the blue waters of the Atlantic , towards the shores of the New World , and he speedily arrived at Now Orleans , where he had letters of introduction to some of the principal merchants . The kindly terms , in which he wni spoken of by his late employer , soon procured him » situation as a commercial traveller . And hi this capacity , during ene and a-half year ' s residence in America , he visited most of its principal cities , and observed its varying traits of character—from the phlegm of the descendants of the early Dutch settlers of New York , to the high blood and bounding spirits of the sons of Maryland and Virginia ; from the shrewd calculations and stubborn spirits

      of the children of the Puritans of old , to the new tribes , half-Indian , half-American , thatconstitute its army of pioneers , subduing the wilderness and clearing the forest alike of its wild animals , and wildc human beings . And everywhere he saw displayed that spirit ef enterprise—that energy of action carried into all the varying concerns of life , which always distinguishes Republican Institutions—rendering them famous in tbe annals of the world . Much did he see to admire , much also to condemn in their customs and manners . And a clear inspection of their social condition , soon convinced him that political liberty was only valuable as a means to « n end , that in itself it was powerless against the spirit of competition ; that the slavery of poverty

      was an evil that eat so deep into the human heart , that even Liberal Institutions could not perceptibly mitigate the evil ; tending only , in some instances , to render it more conspicuous and glaring . There also he saw the same elemental war of the natural feelings of man , rebelling against the artificial codes by which he is surrounded , which raged in his native land , and which will ever rage until conventionalities give place to justice , and the real bo worshipped instead of the fictitious . Even there ho found that glorying in the name of republicans thoy were cheated with the shadow , instead of enjoying the reality of liberty . There , as in Britain , the mass of the population was at the bottom of the wheelthe many dependant -upon the capital of the few . The aristocracy of wealth was becoming as

      dantrorous as the aristocracy of rank ; the vices of the old world becoming naturalised under fresh phases in the region of the new . The master-key of the whole social failure— "the monopoly of the soil "—was even there festering and cankering the very core of the heart of freedom ; engendering and propagating the foul fiends of black and white slavery ; disfiguring and disgracing the fair form of liberty , and causing its worshippers to avert their gaze from this land of promise , and seek , in other climes , to establish that regime of which the model exists yet but in imagination , but which , when realised , will throw into the shade the dreams of Plato , and all the visions of the Utopians ; for what vision can be so bright as the spectacle of a great neoulo

      living under the gentle rule of impartial law ; each one ' s welfare equally cared for by tho paternal 6 tate ; each one possessing all the liberty that equal laws can give for the free devclopement of his own improvement and happiness ; each one respecting himself and his fellows as moral beings subjects alike of the majesty of Heaven . No oppression bowing down tho weak to the strong—the friendloss to the favoured ; no lordship ot man over any of his species ; no woman bowing beneath slavery ' s yoke ; no power but for the common weal ; no end but universal happiness . Before such a scene visions of crowns , and ceronets , of patrician honour and baronial dignity , however highly wrought and richly coloured , must pale and fade away . Though Arthur

      could not but view the defect of the American institutions with the bitterness of regret , yet he saw no cause for despair . America , he reasoned , was stul in the transition state—still contending with the evils implanted by European settlement . And , as yet , not perfectly gifted with the experience necessary for the cure of the evils she endured ; their political education is but yet in its infancy , and bitter experience will teach them many useful lessons . They have the germ , the power within themselves for all improvement ; all they need is the knowledge and the will to renovate themselves , ere the curse of wealth and distinction shall have penetrated so deep into the vitals ef their EOcial system as to render them unable to reform

      themselves , unless through the purifying power of a world-shaking revolution . He saw that America , with all her defects , was far in tho advance guard of freedom ; they possessed the fullest control over the machinery of the go vernment—enioyed the most perfect freedom of conscience—were well educated , and lightly taxed—extreme wealth , or extvemo poverty , were rarely to be found—the laws wore well executed and cheaply administered—peace and economy caused prosperity and order to abound—for the discontented and restless the New States opened an attractive field—literature and the fine arts were beginning to be universally cultivated—gamblino and drunkenness were being fast banished from society . United within themselves they might bid defi to the worl

      ance d , and speedily comprise within their dominion the whole territories washed by the Atlantic and Pacific waves . Whether such an accession would add to their real strength remains to be proved ; each fresh addition of territory hitherto , has increased her strength , and begat a greater desire for aggrandisement . Who shall say how it will end ? It is easy to prophecy—to indulge in black and dismal forebodings ; but if past experience is to be a guide— if reason is allowed to have unprejudiced sway—it would declare that the whole of the Northern and Southern Continents—all that is comprehended under the name of America , would be better governed , more in accordance with tho feelings of the inhabitants and the interests of tho great human family , under tho star-spangled banner of

      the United ( states , than under the despots of Europe , or than they are by their present insane and fleeting tyrants . Tho Free Land Movement had not then commenced its career ; that movement which , if honestly and skilfully conducted , will prove the saviour of America , by distributing true notions of man ' s inherent rights , and acting as a check to the overwhelming influence of capital . All honour to the founders of that movement . Chartism , despised and persecuted at home , has sent forth her martyred champions to America , who have mainly aided in establishing this young and flourishing plant , which , reckless of all party feuds , is spreading its roots in that generous soil , and will , we trust , yet become the monarch of the domain , affording shelter and protection under its luxuriant foliage to the denizens of the whole world . { To be continued . )

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      WILL OF THE TSAR PETER , EMPEROR OF RUSSIA . ( Prom No . IV . of thTJemoemtlc Review , for September . ) v . nllv followin g document , the genuiness of which Thi . ° be "" questionable , speaks for itself , iho successors of Peter have too faithfully executed rfnnili u , tlons > and the end he desired will , unn ™ i y e accomplished , unless the nations of 2 ™? nd western Europe combine in an AntifS e > Evea that maybe tried" ° In the name of the Most Holy and Indivisible Trinity-** A to > t 0 al 1 our Descendants and Successors tion-Z and Qmmment ° f th <> * w « fo » Na ' gh ^ JT — 1 »

      JiStn ^ l « ? whom hold our life and iVvin ' \ havlnS revealed to us his designs , and ntiwrff ii T PP « t Permits us to regard £ t TilH establish Lr dominion over all thenttimJ * $ * su PP ° rted by the fact that all mostmT , ^" P" * o ? the world have , for the KnR : ? nearlyt 0 that condition of im-P rcsulf h 5 ?? l hcy are warchin S rapidly . tainlvc ^ l ' , t they ° > aybe easily and cer-Sm atffi £ ^ ? i ? * ^ ° ? » when they shall yffioWn ! r- full ^ 0 W 0 r ' - l consider the in-Sa decree of ? l ! , e 3 ' M ° theast and west ' byu 9 ' iS ft tFOTldenco which formeVly rel fiat ans Onian empire by ^ invasion of

      2 , y lts . » tera tho arid plains of E » ypt . I found Russia a small bvook ; I leave it a « e 4 river . Our successors will mako it a rfsea SrV 0 / 61 ' ^ 80 a 1 1 Europe , if they kno v tlm Em t ° h nf " ^ wav ( ^ J therefore lea'S S * i ? llowm instructions , which I recommend to their constant meditation : — 1 . To keep the Russian nation in a state of perpetual war , m order always to have good soldiers . They must never be permitted to repose , except to repair the finances . For recruitimr vour armv

      choose the favourable moment of attack ; thus you will make peace advanco your projects of war , and war those of peace , for promoting the increase and prosperity of Russia . _ 2 . Attract by all possible means , from the bostluformed nations of Europe , Captains , during war , the Learned , during peace , that Russia may profit by all the advantages of other countries . 3 ; Be careful to mix yourselves up with all tho affairs of Europe , and particularly with Germany , which being the nearest neighbour , merits the most of your attention .

      4 . Divide Poland , by formenting in her bosom continual disorders and jealousies . Gain the power by gold ; influence and c orrupt the Diet , in order to have an influence in the election of the kings ; obtain partisans , protect them ; if the neighbouring powers oppose you , overcome the obstacles by sowing divisions in their countries . 5 . Take all you can from Sweden . With this view separate it from Denmark , for which do as much , and take care not to excite their jealousy .

      6 . Marry the' Russian princes with the German princesses ; multiply these family alliances ; unite your interests ; and by tho increase of our influence , bind Germany to our cause . 7 . Seek an alliance with England for our commerce , as being the most useful power , for tho developement of our marine , and exchange of our timber and other productions , for her gold ; and keep up continual communications with her merchants and sailors , that ours may acquire experience in commerce and navigation .

      8 . Extend your line continually on the coasts of the Baltic , and southward on the shores of tho Black sea . 9 . Approach as near as possible to Constantinople and India . Remember , that he who commands these countries is the true Sovereign of the world . Keep iip perpetual warfare with Turkey and Persia ; establish magazines in the ports of tho Black sea , ; obtain by degrees the entire command of this sea , as well as of the Baltic . This is necessary for the entire success of our projects ; hasten the foil of Persia ; open a route to the Persian Gulf ; restore as much as possible the ancient commerce of the Lovant , by way of Syria , and thercbv advance

      towards India . Once there , you will have no more need of English gold . 10 . Carefully seek alliance with Austvia ; appear to lend yourselves to her ideas of dominion over Germany , and secretly exercise against her the jealousy of the other princes ; manage in sueh a wav that each of them may be disposed to claim the as ' - sistance of Russia ; and exercise over them a sort of protection , which will prepare the way for your future domination . 11 . Make it the interest of the House of Austria to drive the Turks out of Europe ; and neutralise her jealousy by ottering her apart of your conquest , of which at some future time you cantako possession again . 12 . AhoVC all . V 0 .-W \ ft . fl « vr > Ymrt x > nn n \\ tVin f « V . «

      matic Greeks who are dispersed in Hunga ry and Poland , become their centre and their support ; establish universal dominion over them by a kind of sacevdoUil autocracy ; thus you will make a great number of friends among your enemies . 13 . - Sweden dismembered , Persia vanquished , Poland subjugated , Turkey conquered , our armies united , the Black sea and the Baltic guarded by our vessels , prepare separately and secretly , first the Court of Versailles , then that of Vienna , for sharing with Russia the empire of the world . If one of them accept the proposal , flatter her ambition and self-love , and employ the one to crush the other , by putting them into a state of conflict . The result is indubitable ; Russia will possess all the cast , and a great part of Europe .

      14 . If , however , which is not probable , both should refuse the offer of Russia , a quarrel must be got up between these two powers , a quarrel which will exhaust both . Russia , then , talcing the advantage , of this decisive moment , will inundate Germany with her troops , previously collected . At the same time two fleets filled , with soldiers will leave the Baltic and Black sea , will advance by the Mediterranean and the ocean , keeping France in check on one side , and Germany on the other , and these tAvo countries being conquered , the rest of Europe will soon fall under the yoke . It is thus that Europe may be brought into subjection .

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      Admission' to a Catholic CoxvUst . —On Saturday last two young ladies went through the ceremony of what is termed "taking the veil , " or entering upon their noviciate , previously to being professed as nuns , at tho new convent of the Good Shepherd , the second Catholic Institution of tlio kind ill Hammersmith . One of the ladies whoso name did not transpire , is from Guernsey , and entered as a lay-sister . The other , Miss Ryder , is highly connected , and is a convert to the Catholic faith . Amongst the friends who attended to witness her separation from the world , were tho Hon . Mrs . S . Murray , the Hon . Miss Frazer , and the non . Mcthnen . Her brother and sister were also present . Being assembled at one side of the

      chape ] , adjoining the convent , and the nuns , about twelve in number being ranged at the other both facing the altar , the young ladies proceeded to turn to tho threshold of the sanctuary , where prie dkux were prepared for them , and kneeling down , a hymn was chaunted by a choir of girls from the cloisters to tho Virgin Mary , whose nativity the Catholic church that day celebrated . The llcv . Dr Wiseman ( assisted by the Rev . Mr . Phillips , chaplain to the convent , the Rev . Mr . Searle and Rev . Mr . Guidez ) then eaid a low mass , . it which the two noviciates and the entire community received the sacrament , and afterwards , assuming his episcopal insignia , delivered an exhortation ou the necessity of walking in the footsteps of the blessed Virgin

      ilio rev . prelate s discourse was followed by pravers S t pecm m , tothe occasion and the blessing of the robes &c . Tho ladies then withdrew to cast aside their worldly attire-Miss Ryder bein ? dressed as a bride with a rich lace veil suspended from her head ( the lay-sisters plainly ) , and returned in the garb of the order of the Good Shcphevd , when they were invested by the bishop with the veil , as- an emblem of S y ff 1 > m ' , , ' ^ , dtoconceal them from the eyes of the world . They also received from his hands a rosary , to remind them " that they wore consecrated to the blessed Virgin . " More prayers & # » - Ht * " « ' ' ykissed cach « f their " Sisters m Christ , " and after bowing before the altar , left tho sacred edifice ¦

      Discovery of Coal in Egypi . -TIic Journal des JWotenubluhes a letter from Grand Cairo of the date of the 1 st of August , which announces the discovery , by a French civil engineer , of a stratum of coal in the vicinity of the Nile , . towards Upper J-gypt . This is a most valuable discovery , inasmuch as it will relieve the government from the enomous tribute paid to England for the purchase of this indispensable article . Two engineers , an Jinglishman and a , Frenchman , were employed to investigate the lands in the vicinity of the Nile , for the discovery of coal about tnro ' eyears ago ; but tnose superficial inquirers reported that there was none , and that , moreover , none would bo found ? Ml ~_ ¦ J » - »» IW * J UUliW IIUM 1 U UW » VW »» V » t i

      me rench engineer first mentioned , more diligent and more skilful than his predecessors , has completely overthrown this bold assertion . The samples have been referred to a commission , and the excavations will . be continued on a large scale hie Murder , of hie Hesrichsons . —Captain ilenrichson , husband of Mrs . Henrichson and father 01 ner children , who were barbarously murdered by weeson Wilson , in Liverpool , about six months smce ; arrived m the Mersey on Sunday morning , at two o clock , in the ship Duncan , from Calcutta , of 1 ? i Was tho commander . The unfortunate gentleman savr an account of the murder in a newspaper at St . Helena on tho 11 th of July . On landing no was conveyed to his house in Loyesoh-street , whore the dreadful crimes were perpetrated . The murderer Wilson will be executed this day at noon .

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      Jk £ * WEf < K > ? hen the workmcn wero employed in repairing the interior of Chelsworth Church , near 2 pvS ? n fine .. fresco P » Jnting , in excellent proarch Th' \ . dl 8 c ° ve « u Just over tho chancel W » , f mtlns ro ? M «» nts the day of Judgment . m J ' AK » 5 « b Provinces . -Nearly 200 sftttEW j ^ ta ^^ tt llfitS' bUtthG mj ° * haTe *^*« Sn Harmless mirth is the best cordial aeainst th <» consumption of the spirits ; wherefore jesSfs not orseSn eSpaSSCth DOt in *« " % . WI noSS n ? r my dow «" as the *» ssion - " Wake ur here , and pay your lodgings , " said

      The Board of Health amd ins Earlt Closiso AIoveuent . —In a communication received by Mr Ltlwall , secretary of the Early Closing Association ' from Owydyrhovuo , Whitehall , and bearing date the 7 th inst ., it is stated " that the board are fully satisfied that the late hour system , especially m close , ill-ventilated shops , has a tendency to predispose those who are subject to it to epidemic disease . It is a singular fact , that Rushand Thurtell were bedfellows at the same school . A Wise Remark . —Some monarewise , and some men are otherwise .

      w A ^ S- u . ^ ™ - -Mr . , Cottage Place , JNr theBishop s Palace as was burnt , Bristol . A Trial of Patience . —Tho greatest trial of patience is looking for your night-cap after you have put the candle out . Rather Ticklish . —We find in tho Court Circular that the name of the Prince of Wales ' s private tutor is Birch . . f 7 ™ n Al * R 0 ^ IATE « r-The government contrac t for 100 , 000 gallonB of rum for the navy , has iust been concluded with Messrs . Lemon , Waters , and Co . —Man at the Corner . Queer Taste . —A contemporary introduces a piece of poetry with these words : — " The following lines were written more than fifty years ago , by one who has for many years slept in his grave , merely for his own amusement . "

      A Lawyer ' s Opinion of a Lawyer ' s Opimox — Mr . Sergeant Wilkins lately while speaking of the speech of Mr . Martin , said he had given in it many opinions , but they were given gratuitously , and not worth much . " Unless , " he said , " you own a lawyer s understanding with a golden key , his opinion is not worth a farthing . " — ZfrwpooZ Mercury . Belgian Hops . —Several arrivals of some bales of bops have taken place by a steam-ship from Ostend , the produce of Belgium , consigned to a ¦ firm in the metropolis . These continued arrivals of this article of Belgian growth are of interest as evincing a regularity in the supply of this article of merchandise from a country which has not hitherto

      furnished us with hops during any previous year . The Cholera is sweeping off the black population m Louisiana in great numbers . The victims have no premonitory symptoms . They are taken with a weakness in the legs , and in two hours they are dead . They have neither diarrhoea nor vomiting It is awful to see how thoy drop down in the fieldat one moment perfectly well and hearty , and by the time thoy are carried to the house they are no more Every morning there are numbers reported dead on the different plantations . I will say no more on this subject ; it is too awful to dwell upon . As yet no white persons have been affected on the coast . — American Paper .

      Faitbfui . Doo . — Mr . Wintemute was drowned while attempting to swim the Niagara river to an island , on the 4 th of July , There is an incident connected with the death of Mr . W . that is quite affecting , as it exhibits the strong attachment and peculiar sagacity of the dog . This faithful animal had accompanied Mr . W . in the water , and was the means of discovering his loss and the recovery of his body by his friends . —Tho dog , from the moment his master sunk to rise no more , continued to swim in a circuit of some fifty feet , howling and barking , for about two hours ! The continued cries

      of the dog , uttered in the most pitiful and lamentable strains known to the race , attracted tho attention of neighbours from the shore , who at length went to the dog , and recognising him , concluded , from the sorrowful cries and earnest manner , that his master was in the water . This proved to be so ; on searching , his body was found within the circuit made by tho dog , as ho awam round and round . When the body of his master was taken into the boat , nothing could exceed the expressions of ioy manifested by this faithful animal , who , quite oxhausted and feeble , was taken into tho boat alon « with the body . °

      The Literary Gazette has this impromptu : — . Thus Lola her love to her hero veveal ' d : '' My heart you have wounded , I wish to bo Heald ;" But James , who for years had her capers endured , Said , " lleald she may be , but she ' ll never be cured " Mrs . Partington says that a man fell down the other day , in an applejack fit , and that his life was extirpated . Is a mokastceht of t \ io Levant , there is a monk thirty-five years of ago , who never saw a woman He has no recollection of his mother . A California * Adventucer writes from Mazatlan-— " We all travelled through Mexico without passports , and wore treated very well , except that thoy stole everything from us thoy could lay their hands on . "

      A Wiltshire bamb , the mother of a large family , was one day asked tho number of her children . " La , me ! " she replied , rocking herself to and fro , " I ' ve got fourteen—mostly boi / s and girh . " A Correspondent of ifolden ' s Magazine tells an anecdote of an old woman , who , when her pastor said to her , " Heaven has not deserted you in your old age , " replied , " No , sir , I have a very eooi appetite still . " A Young Lady , accompanied by her intended , was lately walking in the neighbourhood of Uigh < vate , when she very innocently inquired , " Don't vou think llkjhgata very pretty ? " Ho , understaiiriW her to say , I < jct very pretty , promptly veplied , " I do " , indeed !"

      'Twas remarked that , during her Majesty ' s sojourn in the metropolis of the green Isle , she was surrounded by persons of every shade of politics . This doubtlcss . was the fact , as her constant attendants there were Siv George Qrey , Colonel Browne and Town-Major White . An American paper says , that so numerous is the company in some oftheinnsin the vicinity of the White Mountains , that at night they place travellers on the floor in rows till they get to sleep , then set them up against the wall and lay down another lot , and so on till all are accommodated . " How , " said a judge to a witness , "how do you know the plaintiff was intoxicated on the evening referred to . " " Because I saw him , a few minutes after supper , trying to pull off his trowsers with a bootjack . " Verdict for the defendant .

      Visiting Dublin a short time ago , I inquired of a native whom I met , which was market day?—" Sure , bless your honour , " replied the Hibernind , "iovery day is market day here . " " Why , Pat , " I replied , " What is dealt in on Sundays ?"" Prayers , " was the smart repartee , " aiid the priest makes \ ia pay mighty dear for them , too . " It is said that " Fortuno knocks once at least , at every man's door ; " but a good author describes the knock often as " a runaway one . " The famous name , Campbell , is derived from two Gaelic words , signifying wry-nose , and the meaning of Cameron is wry-mouth . Tjieue is a story told of a yoiing English nobleman , who , being at Rome , broke out into a violent rage against his Italian valet for having neglected the performance of some prescribed duty , indignantly asking him how ho dared to violate tho

      commands of a descendant of one of the Planta ^ encts . The valet , as incensed as his master for tltc severity of reproof he had received , disdainfully answered , " My pedigree is superior to yours ; my family trace their descent to Venus and Anchiaes . ' " ' When an itinerant Jew , bag on back , bawls out "do , clo , " under the windows of the palatial residences of Belgravia , it is certain that he can boast of a lineage vastly more antique than any derived from Saxon or Norman descent , albeit he can refer to no credentials in the Herald ' s College . There is a note in Mad-stone '' s Commentaries fatal to the pride of genealogy , for it shows that tho older the family tho less pure is the blood of the descendant ; it becoming more and more diluted in proportion to its remoteness from tho parent fountain . Unobservant of this fact , many families have committed the error of tracing themselves too far backwards , and even invented fables to lengthen the ancestral chain .

      What is the safest capital a man can invest in business , and which shall insure him the greatest amount of interest ? Answer : Civility . Friendship . —When I see leaves drop from the trees at the beginning of autumn , just such , think I , is the friendship of the world . While the sap of maintenance lasts , my friends swarm in abundance : but in the winter of my need they leave mo naked . He is a happy man who hath a true friend at his need ; but he is more truly happy who hath no need of friends . Polite—Scion of the ancient stock . 7 « Z < 7 ar-Chip of the Old Block . F . H . D .

      Charles , do you really love tny daughter ?" "You know I do , Mrs . Simpkins . " "How much do you love her ? " " I lovo her—I love her as hard as a horse can kick . " Mrs . Simpkins was satisfied of the strength of his affection . Well Said . —A wealthy farmer in Kentucky says , " I would rather bo taxed for the education of the boy than tyc ignorance of the man . For one or the other I am compelled to be . "

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      ~ ssssgjggggg ; Temperance ditties ; thenational and patriotic songs are thebest ; -- We extract the following THE MIGHT OF RIGHT . [ bt o . d . ] I saw or I dreamt it-no ; 'twas not a dream - fs ^ issa When a , oice whispered , " dease weeplg / soon shall come the TemperaDcedittiea ; thenatio naT ^ fpatrioti c

      Th ^ p ^ pie in Might of their TW eard , ti 11 " ^ ^ ™ Ce at th < firsfc tbafc 1 Tin tSff' y - * Wr . and bolder it grew , ltef "" d jPwat o became pale at its word , « 5 h « 5 J . IT ^ mallS 0 I » on item it threw :-Whom God would destroy he iafatuates first , twA Cup of i ' OMr madness is filled to its height ; fiwt ° £ e ' ° W UkC gmm witheS See ! tbe people are up in the might of their bight .

      " Yon have ruled with a rod , and with scorpions chastised , And laughed at the ruin and torture you wrought ; Bemonstrance was vain , and petitions despised , And the source of your power you regarded as nought . With the hypocrite ' s cloak you have covered your pride . And taught for religion , contention , and spite , Gold—your idol ; but those you pretended to guide , At last have asserted the might of their bight . " I looked again , and behold ! what a change !

      The doom of the slave and the tyrant was sealed ; Each man > as a freeman , and thought it was strange , That the many so loDg to the few should have kneeled , The throne—where a throne was—on justice was based ; Reli g ion -was robed in a garment of light , And this was the shout that in triumph was raised ; " We have won—we are free by the might of our kiqut . "

      And over the length and the breadth of the land , Where knowledge and liberty , plenty and peace , Diffusing their blessings with liberal hand , Bidding ignorance , slavery , and famine to cease . And wealth was no longer of freedom the test ; Xor was there a law heaven ' s bounty to blight ; There were ruler and ruled , but the ruler confess'd The people supreme in the , might of their right ! There are a number of typographical errors in this impression which should he corrected in a second edition . The patriotic , and some other songs , warrant us cordially commending this collection to the public .

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      A Gram of Quarter Sessions is about to be made to Gravescnd , in Kent , and also to Newport , in the Isle of Wight . The increasing commercial importance and population of Grayesend render desirable the holding of quarter sessions there , and ifc will accordingly bo granted upon the fulfilment of tUe necessary conditions as to the proper maintenance of prisons and other expenses required for the purpose of the due administration of justice . In the case of Jfewporfc , the necessity for borough sessions has been created by the withdrawal of the Hants county sessions , which used to be adjourned from Winchester to the Isle of Wight , and held at Newport , but which are now discontinued . The Inhabitants of London , amounting to 2 , 000 , 000 , respire every minute about twelve and a half tons of air .

      TnE Virtue of Herbs . —Nicholas Culpeper , the old herbalist , used to say that a physician without astrology was like a pudding without fat The fact is , the extraordinary cures he used to make he attributed as much to the planetary bodies as to his herbs , for he would contend that every herb should be uatbercd in its proper planetary hour or else it was useless . In these enlightened times this idea is justly laughed at The secretof his success was that be used tlie herbs without any chemical preparation of them ; he simply expressed the juice from them or made a decoction , and he thus obtained the whole of tbe virtues of tbe herbs he wished to make use of . How different tbe practice in the present day ! Now the herb is dried and powderedthen

      , a decoction is made , then this is evaporated to drjrness , next some chemical agent is added to precipitate one portion of it , and another chemical agent to precipitate anotherportionofit , then the whole is evaporated to drv-¦ Kss a second time and thus it is supposed that the very essence is obtained . Pshaw ! the medical propels of the fit ? XI Zy / * <^ ence is in mostcases only fit to throw to the dungheap . Can it therefore be surprising that Halse ' s ScorhUio Drops should have attained such > celebruyfor pnnfong the blood and clearing the body from blotches and scorbutic eruptions , when it is well known that those drops are composed of the j » ices of the herb without any chemical preparation whatever

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      ILVLSE'S SCORBUTIC DROPS . A STJRE CURE FOR SCURVY , BAD p . LEGS , AXD IMPURE BLOOD . Another surprising cure by means of Halse ' s Scorbutic Drops .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 15, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1539/page/3/