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CURE OF RHEUMATISM ASD 1 UIEUMATIC GOUT . E Hffw O , t i Lct T Vfrom ^ Tll 0 mas Bl lHlt 0 » . landlord of the Waterloo Tavern , Coatham , Yorkshire late of tha Life Guards , dated September 28 th , 1848 m , !' . ; 7 V ? . ] s tlm , i " as a man ^ Rheumatism and Rheumatic Gout , nnd for ten weeks previous to using j our medicines I was so bad as not to hi able to walk I had tried doctoring and medicines of every kind , but all to no avail , indeed I daily got worse , and felt that I must shortly die . irom seeing your remedies advertised in tho paper I take in , I thought I would give them a trial . I did so . I nibbed the ointment in as directed , and- kept cabbage leaves to the parts thickly sprend with it , and took the Tills night and morning . In three weeks I was enabled to walk about for an hour or two in the day with a stick , and in seven vrseks I coidd go anywhere without one . I am
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If Mankind are liable to one disease mnre than another , or if there aro any particular affections of the human budw we require to have a knowledge cf over the rest , it is certainly that class of disorders treated of in tlie new and inu proved edition of the "Silent Friend . " Theamhovs , im thus sending forth to the world another edition of their medical work , cannot refrain from expressing their , "rati * nciition at the continual success attending ' their cllyrts , which , combined with tho assistance of medicines , exclusively of their own preparation , have been the happy causa of mitigating and averting the mental mid physical miseries attendant on those peculiar disorders ; thus proving the fact . that swft
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Ax accident occurred on the 12 lk on the vailioad , frosri Hamburgh to Bevlin . A iiio having brokca _ out in the villngo of Lechsee , two rire-engiiErs ^ Crex sent off from Hamburgh by the railroad . At aloufc two leagues from the city a waggon , in whwlikwwo the engines and the firemen , gotkoso from ^ juj . liioflr . ^ motive and van oft" the rail . All tho iBen ' - ^ ere ^ . seriously hurt , and tho five-engines wow brck 'n"tb . pieces . r - p } -: ¦
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IMPROMPTU G > * BECEIVIXG AX EAGLE ' S QOIX FROM LAKE SUFERIOB . BY I . G . WniltlEB . All day the darkness and the cold Upon my heart have lain , like shadows on the winter sky , like frost upon the pane ! Bnt now my torpid Fancy wakes And , on thy Eagle ' s plume , Bides forth likes Sinbad on his bird , Or vfitcli upon her broom \ Below me roar the rocking pines , Before me spreads the Lake , " Whosei long and solemn sounding waves Against the sunset break . I hear the wild Rice-Eater thresh The grain it has not sown ; I see with flashing scythe of fire The prairie harvest mown ! I hear the far-off voyager ' s horn ; I see the Yankee ' s trail—His foot on every mountain pass , On everv stream his saiL
He ' s whittling round St . Mary ' s falls , Upon his loaded wain ; He ' s leaving on the Pictured Rocks His fresh tobacco-stain . I hear the mattock in the Mine , The axe-stroke in the dell , The clamor from the Indian lod ^ e The Jesuit ' s chapel bell ! I see the swarthy trappers come From Mississippi ' s springs ; And war-chiefs with their painted brows And crests of eagle-wings . Behind the scared squaw ' s birch canoe
The Steamer smokes and raves ; And city lots are staked for sale Above old Indian graves . By forest lake and water-fall I see the pedler ' s show ; The mighty mingling with the mean , The lofty with the low . I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves where soon Shall roll a human sea .
The rudiments of empire here Ave plastic yet , and warm ; The chaos of a mighty world Is rounding into form ! Each rude and iostling fragment soon Its fitting place shall find—The raw material of a State , Its muscle and its mind ! And , westering still , the star which , leads The Xew World in its train , Has tipped with fire the icy spears Of many a mountain chain .
The snowy cones of Oregon Are kindling on its way ; And California ' s golden ' sands Gleam brighter in its ray ! Then , blessings on thy Eagle quill , As , wandering far and wide , I thank thee for this twili ght dream And Fancy ' s airy ride . Yet , welcomer than regal plume , Which Western trappers find , Thy free and pleasant thoughts , chance-sown , Like feathers on the wind .
Thy symbol be the mountain bird , Whose glistening quill I bold ; Thy home the ample air of Hope , And Memory ' s sunset gold ! In thee let Joy ¦ with Duty join , And strength unite -with love ; The Eagle ' s pinions folding round The warm heart of the dove . ¦ So , when in darkness sleeps the vale "Where still the blind bird clings , The sunshine of the upper sky Shall glitter on thy wings !
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SUNSHINE AND SIIADOW ; A TALE OF THE XIXETEEXT 1 I CENTURY . BT TIIOUAS SIAKTIX WHEELER , 2 ate Secretary to the National Charter Association and National Land Company , Chapter XXV . The sails are filled , and in pride she turns Froin the red west where " The sunset burns , " And the streamers have caught the glowing hue , As they sport in joy o ' er the waters blue . Listen again to the gladsome song Sent from the heartTof that joyous throng . ¦ Welcome , ye waves , and thou restless sea ,
Land of our birth , we return to thee ! The jarring elements unite to urge The buoyant vessel through the boiling surge ; 'Gainst adverse winds she holds her steady sway , Sorcalms retard , nor tides her course delay : The skill of feeble man triumphant braves * The power of air , and lords it o ' er the waves . But whence that skill ? let gratitude be given . - "Vfhere it alone is due—to working men "Who had the sense that taught us to aspire , To rule the world by water and by fire . And nature ' s laws contracting to a span , Plae'd power gigantic , in the hands of man .
Persian tribute to Steam . I do not vouch the fact ; but 'tis too clear , Things are not as they should be : such as pause To think upon these matters , cooly , swear There never was cfiect without a cause : And if old England be gazetted , there Must be a—"• well , I hope not ! the new laws Should keep the people quiet , or , as some Are pleased to call the lower class—tlic scum . Tlic latter term is somewhat incorrect , And , therefore one I wish my friends to drop ; For both by cook and chemist I suspect , The stunt is mostly found npon the top . Indeed , without the slightest disrespect , I may as well observe , before I stop , That wovth—like plumbs in pudding wlien we ' ve got ' em—Is often apt to settle towards the bottom .
Reade . On a June morning in the year 1842 , the sun Shining as it shines only in wanner climates , and throwing its splendour f : ir across the broad waters of the Manhattan , reflecting its rays on the crowd of sails that adorn this glorious " bay of the New "World , bringing iuto broad outline the whole surrounding coast , and the islands with which it appears to be indented , making it not far inferior in joint of beauty to the proud bay of Naples itself , whilst in commerce , and as an agent of civilisation , it is fast outstripping its boasted rival , even in its palmiest days , Arthur Morton embarked on board ihe " George Washington" steam vessel , and left 3 ^ ew York " to return to his native laud . There is some nivstic tie that ever binds the heart to the
land of its b : rth , to the home of its early recollection ; and though Arthur had uo friends to greet Mm on bis return to England—though a felon ' s doom perhaps awaited hiflC and he left friends behind kinder than any he could expect to make in £ is own land—jet didliis heart bound with joy at the tiioiiglit of once more beholding the white cliffs of Albion , and again embarking in the arduous enterprise of achieving the long withheld ri 2 hts of her injured sons . The residence in the New World , and ihe change of appearance incidental to the early stages of manhood , would , with a fictitious name , le fell convinced , entirely obviate any danger from lis connexion with the Birmingham riots ; and thus listening to the dictates of Hope , he left a good
lome in a free land , to return to the uncertain fate ihat awaits all the sons oflabour in our own boasted country . The " George Washington" was a splendid vessel , fitted with every convenience that a residence even on land could contain , and contrasted favourably even with the comforts he had received during his voyage in the " Esmcralda . " What a re-Tolution has steam effected in the affairs of man ! Steam , thou mighty agent , that hast more than realised the deceptions of the necromancers of oldthou annihilator of time and space , that clasps the "whole world in the embrace that joins island to island , continent to continent , the Old World to the 3 few—that art destined at no distant period to unite all the sons and daughters of men into one great
family contract , in which neither king , bishop , nor noble will be named or known—great and varied as have been the advantages thou hast con--reyed unto the capitalist and the worshipper of IMammon , and evil though thou bast inflicted on the sons of toil , who have strove in vain to compete with , thee—flesh and muscle against steel and Steam ( rain yet gallant struggle)—yet even the democrat can afford to sound thy praises , for thy true mission is only now commencing ; like thy irother worker , Man , thou hast been made the tool of the selfish and the designing , but thou art outliving the period of thy nonage , and becoming teo powerful fur ihv mailers—thou wilt not much
longer obey the will of the few , but wilt minister to the wants , and crown the wishes of the many—no longer to them a curse but a blessing , tby end will be accomplished , thy mission fulfilled ; steam , the regenerator , will have rewarded the exertions of those who invented and brought it into practical operation . Such were the reflections of Arthur , as the steamer triumphantly held her way through the tlue waters of the Atlantic . Swiftly sped the vessel o ' er the briny waves , and in less than a fortnight from leaving New York our hero was landed in Liverpool . During his residence in tbe "West Indies and America , bis accumulated savings had amounted to a decent sum , he had , therefore , no occasion to seek
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immediate employment . After spending a few days in Liverpool , he proceeded to Manchester here as in Liverpool , misery abounded , most of the mills and manufactories were running short time , and tr ade of every description was in a depressed statein Burnley Colne , and other parts of North Lancashire the distress was still greater ; thousands We unable to procure even bread sufficient for their sustenance-many actuall y died of starvation . The Anti-Corn Law League , taking advantage of this circumstance , had ,, attheir variousmectinfs , attributed the whole of tins destitution to the working of £ SSi ^ rt !? hngUage of the most violent cha-Sr , t ad fUedu ? ovvtilcse n'en . ^ om mi Sery had ? vri - J P eratl 0 V ° rise and overthrow the S ° a " densurecheap breadhih it
KJ , S ' , _ , . , g TtfZ '^ FT ™ ™^™* ' Wellwas Tr the peace of England that Chartism was theprefhSfc ^ Jw ' S operatives in this district-that they knew the fallacy of the reasoning of their interested employers , and had too often been led astray by then- pretended friendship to put trust in their physical force leadership . Still hunger was powerful , frenzy was beginning to supersede reason , and it needed all the influence of the Chartist leaders to counteract the insurrectionary doctrines propounded by tbe emissaries of the League . Nor was this state of things confined to Lancashire alone ; tbe manufacturing districts of Yorkshire , subject to t&e same influences , were alike bordering on a state of incipient revolution . But it was in the mininsr
districts of Staffordshire that the League influence was brought most actively to bear ; there the prestige of their power was superior , because their characters as magistrates and employers was only partially known , and it needed but the tocsin of revolution to be sounded , to have thrown the whole district into convulsion . Artfully had these results been brought about ; aware that the Charter was the paramount object with the working men , they propagated their doctrines through the agency of Chartist orators and preachers—needy men , who ha . d'deserted the cause of principle for the pelf supplied from the coffers of expediency ; and these men , but half renegades , so mixed up the two questions , and appealed so strongly to the religious and
fanaucai sympathies of their audience , that these poor dupe 3 were easily led away by their promises of the Charter , and a repeal of the Corn Laws , within a few weeks , provided thoy carried out the measures propounded by the League . Such was the state of the political world , in which Arthur Morton , under an assumed name , was about to embark . How changed the scene and actors , during the few ycare of nis absence ; scarcely one member of the Convention of 39 was now active in the Chartist movement , exile , persecution , desertion and death , had scattered that once formidable body . Frost and Ins companions were in exile ; Lovett , Collins , and I racent ( the beau ideal of his youthful aspirations ) , had sunk into the obscurity of mere sectional parti-0
sans ; Brien , a victim to his own jealous feelings , fi ** lost to the movement ; O'Connor and 31 Douall were the only men of note of that large array of enthusiasm and talent , that he found attached to the Chartist party . The Anti-Corn Law League had sprung into existence , and was then at the zenith of its power—strong in its organisation —rich in funds—powerful in talent—supported by the Majority of the Press of the kingdom—it soared to an equality with the government of the country , and seemed to challenge it to a trial of its powers . It had assembled 600 delegates as its representatives in Westminster , forming a rival Parliament to that of St . Stephen ' s ; it assembled in February , continued its sittings for a month , again re-assembled in July , and broke up at the beginning of August . Argument gave way to declamation ; threats of revolution were openly avowed ; tracts and addresses of the most exciting description were distributed far and wide ; the note of preparation was sounded , and the public daily expected the conflict would commence , but their leaders were men of talk , not of action , they wanted the advantages of a revolution in their favour , but they dreaded its risks . Amongst other plans propounded , was the strike of the colliers , to cause all other trades to come to a stand still , and the notable plan of a month ' s holiday , was again revived by a dissenting minister , a delegate from a town south east of London , this latter plan was referred to a committee
of the body , who never publicly reported thereon , nevertheless , after events proved that it was the plan adopted . Meanwhile , day after day passed , and no decisive steps were taken ; the people would not rise to please these valiant talkers . Contempt was beginning to supply the place of fear , when they wisely broke up their Conference , and sought refuge among their constituency . Chartism was to powerful , the influence of the Northern Star , the organ of Mr . O'Connor , and the Chartist body too widely spread for the inflammatory speeches of the League orators to have their desired effect . Open rebellion having failed , the first act of the drama closed , meanwhile the riot proceeded , and a few weeks disclosed its many hued events . ( To be continued . )
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Prize Essat ox Direct Taxation . —The essay to which has been awarded the prize of £ 70 , offered by the National Confederation for the best essay on the subject of " National Taxation and the Equitable Adjustment © f the same , " has just been published . We have barely bad time to glance into its pages here and there , but that glance has been sufficient to convince us that it is a most interesting history of the process by which the burden of taxation has been gradually shifted from land and real property to the shoulders of the industrious classes , and a most powerful argument in favour of the justice and policy of retracing our steps , and making ' direct taxation , on an equitable principle , the vale , instead of the exception , in our fiscal system . At present we can do no more than indicate that the basis of taxation proposed is the capitalised income derived from labour , and all sorts of property , estimated at so
many years ' purchase : —for example , the wages of a labourer at 7 i years , leasehold property at 12 i , real property , consisting of houses , at 15 , and land at 20 years , which for Great Britain and Ireland is estimated at £ 6 , 274 , 508 , 125 ; a tax of i per cent , on which would realise a revenue of £ 47 , O 58 , S 11 . The enormous saving in the expense of collection , the unspeakable advantages of freeing industry , commerce , and manufactures from the incubus of the Customs and Excise , the checks upon jobbing , patronage , and needless expenditure , tbe doin « away alike with smuggling and the preventive service , and many other advantages , social , moral , and political , anticipated from the proposed change , are inost ably set forth ; and even those who may not be disposed to agree with the writers in their conclusions , cannot withhold their admiration for the zeal and ability with which their arguments are enforced . —Liverpool Mercury .
Mi . nixc ix New Zealand . —By way of Sydney we have received a file cf New Zealand papers , hom which we learn that the Kawau Mining Company are erecting extensive smelting works at Kawau . The Souu ' iern Cross says : " We have good grounds for supposing that the-Kawau mine will turn out a second Burra , for , though the ore may not be quite so rieh , yet it will be obtained at a very much less expense than from the great South Australian mine . The inland carriage will be saved , which of itself would form an excellent profit . From inquiries which we have lately been making , wo find that operations arc so forwarded at the " Kawau , that the aiding out of the ore will now proceed with great rapidity after tlic calcinimr and smcltin < r works an *
completed . " Four shafts have been sunk and several levels driven , and the latter arc said to have kid open an enormous quantity of ore , estimated at 100 , 000 ton ? , and now calculated at being produced " at grass" at Is . Cd per ton . The prices paid for sinking the shafts are stated to have varied from £ 40 to' £ 80 per fathom , and £ 10 to £ 16 for driving the levels . There were about 1 , 000 tons of ore on the surface ready for smelting . It is estimated that the calcining-housc will calcine about 144 tons per week . There arc only about six miners on the works , no fewer than sixteen having left for Sydney , but as those six could raise , it is estimated , sixty tons per day , they will be able to do much more than keep the calcining and smelting works in full
operation . —Adelaide Observer , April IS . Inos Sewer for the Thames . —The Builder asks , is not the recently constructed tube at the Menai Straits suggestive of a plan of sewerage ? Let us suppose a series of tubes laid down on each side of the river , made of wrought iron , strongly rivetted , and m lengths of twenty feet by twelve * in height , and eight m breadth , —the top of the tubes either level with or only one or two feet below the bed of the river . There can be no difficulty in sinking these tubes : any derangement might be quickly remedied , and the saving in expense , as compared * ritb . Mr . Phillips ' s tunnel , enormous . The junctions could be easily made , and at anv time closed
or altered , j > ro re nata . These tubes could be carried from Hammersmith to Woolwich Reach , at a distance from each shore of about forty feet , or say about half-way between high and low water-marks . Corrugated irontowers of about sixfeet square might rise at intervals of a furlong , for the escape of gases generated , and provided with a sluice or flood-gate on one side for tho admission of water at ebb tide , when a greater impetus is required , as is often thecase in a Ion ? drought . The natural and proper incline of the river to seaward might be kept ; aud at the terminus at Woolwich marshes mieht be a spacious dock , in which the accumulate sewage could be drained and solidified , takiug advantage of the ebb to get rid of the superfluous moisture .
Tub Oxford Chronicle states : " The original Bear and Ragged Staff public-house , at Cumnor , Berks , haa been taken down . This was the house of which mention is made in ' Kcnilworth , ' where the parties concerned in the tragical fate of Amy Robsart met and partook of a cup of sack , from the tap of Giles Gosling , ia the days of Queen Elizabeth . " It has been remarked that "the climax of human indifference has arrived , when a woman don ' t care how she looks . "
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THE ROYAL ETCHINGS . TO THE EDITOR OP TIIE NORTnEllX STAR . Windsor , Monday , September 17 th , 1849 J ' ~ Tlenmtme , Ibegofyou , to trespass upon f vi ^ Ji uable sPace > and to request , very respectmay , the favour of your inserting this communication . ° I . would , most willingly , have abstained from again obtruding myself upon the notice of the public , but , m the letter written by Mr . Anson ( Her Majesty s Privy Purse ) to my wife , in reply to a communication . Mrs . Judge transmitted to the vjueen , there are , really , so many mis-statements and inaccuraciesthatinjustice to wife
espoci-, , my ally , as well as to myself , I cannot refrain from giving such explanations as arc now rendered so essentially necessary , —the more so , since Mr . Anson forwarded a copy of his letter to tho Times , which has since gone the whole round of the Press , with tho following editorial comments appended : — "Mr . Judge and the Royal Etchings!—We published a few days since a letter from Mr . Judge , which seemed prima facie to establish a case of hardship . Our readers will see by the following letter from Mr . Anson how unfounded Mr . Judge ' s statements were , and with how much kindness and charity he has been treated by the royal objects of his unwearied calumny " '
Such was the impression which was very naturally created by a perusal of the letter ( when left unexplained ) of Her Majesty ' s Privy Purse . . In order that the public may arrive at a fair and just conclusion , I beg leave to append a copy of the letter from my wife to her Majesty . Mr . Anson ' s reply having already so extensively appeared , I need not occupy space by copying it here . My wife ' s letter to the Queen was forwarded to her Majesty , under cover to Mr . Anson , and was as follows :-TO HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY , THE QUEEN . 13 , Gloucester-place , Windsor , „ „ ... August 25 th , 1849 . Madam
, —Conceiving from your Majesty ' s well-known clemency of disposition , that your Majesty cannot be made cognisant of the injustice perpetrated in your Majesty's name and that of your illustrious consort , towards my husband , I am induced to address myself to your Majesty , in the hope that you will condescend to exhibit towards my husband the kindl y , generous feelings of your Majesty s heart , and to command that common Christian chanty may be displayed towards one of vour Majesty ' s most faithful subjects . Unfortunately for my husband , he purchased , several months since , openly and fairly , some etchings , the production of your Majesty ' s and your royal husband ' s leisure moments . At the time he considered himself fortunate in having in his possession such examples , both of his sovereign ' s genius and amiability ; for the subject of moit of your Majesty's productions fully exemplified the latter
qualification , exhibiting striking proofs of your Majesty ' s maternal tenderness , a truly feminine trait of character that is thoroughly appreciated by every Englishman . When he first purchased the Etchings , he did so without any ulterior view but merely because they were the production of your Majesty ' s genius . After having them in his possession some time , the idea suggested itself to mo that if it were possible to obtain your Majesty ' s and your illustrious Consort ' s consent , an exhibition of the Etchings would prove a profitable speculation . I expressed my opinion in the course of conversation , and my husband fell into my views . Means were taken , ( they might perhaps be considered rather circuitous , but they were the only ones under various circumstances , which I will not at present enter into , as they would occupy too much of your Majesty ' s valuable time , and my object is to be as brief as possible ) , to obtain your Majesty ' s consent ; and
the first intimation we had of your Majesty ' s and his ttoyal Highness the Prince Albert ' s dislike to such a proceeding , washy no less than si * wits of injunction , filed in your Majesty ' s High Court of Chancery ; two against my husband ' s publisher , two against my husband , and two against my son , when one single letter from your Majesty s solicitor , or any one connected with the court , would have been quite sufficient to ' have obtained the end intended without incurring the enormous expenditure of money that has already been dissipated by your Royal Consort and the luckless defendants , causing one of them-Mr . Strange , to expatriate himself and family , and the other—my unfortunate husto
oana—be incarcerated in a prison . The injunctions against my son , your Majesty ' s advisers withdrew , beeauso they had uot an atom of foundation Whereon to build their false superstructure . And your Majesty , after the letter I took the liberty ef addressing to your Majesty , in February last , kindly exonerated him from costs , with which he had been saddled , for which gracious act , permitmehumbly offer to your Majesty my most grateful acknowledgments , and to observe , that the brightest gem in the Royal diadem , glitters not so brdhant ' . y , as one act of mercy conferred by a Sovereign on the most insignificant of their subjects , as it not only secures to them the love of their people , but is registered in Heaven , where it confers everlasting glory .
My husband ,, to avoid the ruinous expenses , was compelled to appear in forma pauperis . The Vice Chancellor decided against him ; he was adjudged to give up the etchings and the catalogues in his possession , which he has done , and to pay costs ( although a pauper ) to the amount of upwards of i' 300 . This bill of costs was taxed by the Taxing Master , and reduced to the sum of 4 S 1 S 1 . Is . 8 d . In the case of Mr . Strange ( my husband ' s publisher ) , your Majesty ' s Royal Consort consented to forego his costs , aud was publicly thanked in court , by the counsel , for his leniency and kiuduess—but to ouv utter dismay anil astouisbment , that very sum , so forgiven by the L ' rince Albert , and thus publicly obtaining His Royal Highness thanks and eulogiums for his kindly feeling , is tacked on to my husband ' s costs , aud he is compelled to pay it . If this is justice I have done . I caunot bring myself to imagine , that it was the intention of your Royal Consort , to impose the paymeut of those / onrttKH costs upon my husband .
1 our Majesty must allow me to observe , that up to that period in the proceedings / duriug which those costs were incurred , my husband had been perfectly passive ; not doing one single act to compel His Royal Highness to expend one farthing of the enormous sum that he has done , for the benefit of tlic lawyers ; for I sec none accruing to others . And yet , for that sum , to us an enormous one , nearly £ 200 , he was actually arrested , and dragged to Reading Gaol , on Tuesday last , ( although he had previously made an affidavit that he is not worth £ o in the world ) leaving me , his wife , and seven boys , wholly dependent upon him for support , with nothing but the prospect of a workhouse before us , and himself imprisonment for life . I will not , I cannot , think , that either your Majesty , or the Illustrious Prince , your husband , would , if you were acquainted with the fucts , allow such nn act of injustice » nd cruelty to be committed in your Royal names .
It is in the humble hope that your Majesty will exert your Royal prerogative , and command that justice should be done to one of your Majesty's subjects , whose only crime is poverty , and that my husband may be restored to me and his family , to avert the horrors of a workhouse and a prison , that 1 have taken the liberty of addressing myself to your Mnjesty . As a wife and a mother , I ask your Majesty ' s sympathy . As oiw of youv own sex in trouble and affliction , I crave your Majesty ' s pity . As an Englishwoiuau , aud the native of a country boasting of its freedom , I respectfully urge my right to be listened to by my Sovereign , and in tbe full confidence that my Sovereign , in listening to the details of my wrongs , will also be graciously disposed to redress them . I beg leave to subscribe myself , Madam , With feelings of the deepest veneration , Your Majesty ' s most faithful and dutiful subject ( Signed ) Marv Judge .
My most excellent wife having been accused by Mi * . Anson ( and that accusation having gone forth throughout the world ) of descending to utter that which is not strictly true , I feel myself imperatively called upon to protect and defend her . In begging the attention of your readers to such explanations and corrections as I hopo you will allow me to place before them , I need not remark upon the term " petition " which has been applied to the letter of Mrs . Judge ; for I am not disposed ( and it would ill become me , seeing its effect , ) to cavil jjust now about terms . 1 will now proceed to notice the mistakes in Mr . Alison ' s letter . Mr . Anson states : —The " allegations" brought forward by Mrs . Judge , in her letter to the Queen , " ave wholly unfounded . " I solicit Mr . Anson to point out one single " allcwition" which is not strictly and fairly founded in truth .
Mr . Ansou states : —Mr . Strange ' s costs have not "been added to mine . " Let me call your attention , sir , to the following confirmation of Mrs . Judge ' s Sllesntion ( in this respect ) by Mr . Mills , who taxed Prince Albert s bill of costs , reducing it from upwards of £ 300 to £ 1 S 1 . Is . $ d .: — " I attended with niy solicitor , on Monday the 6 th of August , by appointment , at the office of the taxing master , to tax the costs of His Royal Highness . "When 1 found that , according to the order obtained by Prince Albert , His Itoyal Highness demanded from mo Mr . Strange ' s costs , as well as my own , Isaid to Mr . Mills , " Mr . Strangt having been absolved , it now appears that Prince Albert has thrown all his own costs upon me . Am I so to understand it , sir ? " " Certainly , " said Mr . Mills . " Then , " I observed , "His Koyal Highness
Prince Albert applies to me to pay Mr . Strange s costs as well as my own ! " " That is so , " was the reply of the taxing-master . " Why , sir , " I said , " it was considered to be an act of grace on the part of His Royal Highness Prince Albert to absolve Mr . Strange from , and to forego , tho whole , of bis costs . " Mr . Mills replied , « ' Then it is an act of grace which has not been fulfilled . " Mr . Anson states—My debt (/ . c . the costs for which I was incarcerated ) is not * ' owing lo His Royal Highness Prince Albert . " The writ "which was served upon mo by Mr . Seeker tho town clerk of Windsor , on the 15 th August last , proceeded thus : — " Victoria , by the grace of God , &c . We command you that you pay or cause to be paid , immediately after the service of this writ , to His Royal Highness Prince Albert , or the bearer of these presents , £ 181 . Is . 8 d . costs" &c . The warrant upon which I was apprehended , in less
than a week afterwards , and incarcerated in Heading gaol , states that the keeper of the county gaol is to " safelv keep" my body " for not paying the sum of £ 1 S 1 . Is . 8 d . costs , TO liix Royal Highness l ' rince Albert . " And further to show ( and this I merely do , in order , to correct a false impression which has gone abroad , without intending to utter one offensive expression ) that the costs must have been claimed from ino by the Prince Consort , I have only to remark , that , had it not been for a private note , kindly written for Mrs . Judge by His Royal Highness ' s solicitors , to Mr . Blandy , the unilor sheriff , at Reading , I should have had to remain in gaol until the Prince ' s own signature had been obtained , ( from Balmoral ) for my discharge from custody . As it was , however , this strictlj legal form was dispensed with , in kind deference to ' the anxious feelings of my wife ; for which , on that account , I am very thankful . Mr , Anson , states W'Tto suit against Mr .
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mS' ' ° Td from his liavinS mad 0 Ws s" 6 " "S ^ . eed , tho suit was never " dropped " against Mr , Strange . It went through all its various stages up to the day of trial on the 2 nd of last Ovrhen tLe Vic e Chancellor's judgment was toally pronounced . Mr . Strange made no " submisbv ™ ,, n w ^ appew ' - .-Mr . Strange moved lutfoTf « . . behalf ohumelf only ) for the dissonn ri , « ofu ho * -S ullction » bef 01 > e th <> " Chancellor , Th « n \? 2 f Decem ber . That motion was refused . th » v ? nl ange » PPealed against tho decision of \ Z r i ,, hancc } loi- to the Lord Chancellor ; and WM > - «> rd Chancellor confirmed the decision of the loivL ) i e" the suits came on for final hearing before the Vice Chancellor , on the 2 nd of June ° , M , L « f r Counsel ( unknown to , and without ho consent of , their client , who had not been eonsuited on the subject } am-md t . h . if-. Mr . Str . inire
SoV , - P tho analogues , and consent to tfie pi " vr . , bemS n ^ de perpetual against him , upon Slf . T 8 ty and p » nce Albert paving their own Krf « ™» 7 costs , in the case of Prince Albert , o ™ 2 & " m hlch > as wel 1 as W ° ™ . ™ s in l Berks a u , " - common Sao 1 of tho county of oAlrNft tU 31 S the " submission , " on the part AaSn'f W X Prominently put fovwavd in Mr . muot l . lnn L ^ Straa S ' «* en « P to this period , / hwelroS ^^ 1110 ? ™ ? ^ ^^ tl e wh 2 ? ( 8 l » ° 5 "P tTie catalogues I had , but &i £ Si 2 « 8 W . M iBsm ^^^ ^¦
s ^ -sasa ^ = sa ^ s ence he appears to wish to be drawn , by so ambi guous a term , is , I think , manifest Incv ™ JSS ConSV ^ * , * f Uer t 0 induceth « S ton oi fc to expend one farthing " for the benefit of the lawyers" { as Mrs . Judge £ as very properly remarked ) from the moment the Injunctions were obtained against me until thtf suit came on for trial and final hearing before the Vice-Chancellor on the 2 nd of June . All I did was to file my answer in accordance with the order of the court , and no more . Had I not done so , I should have been apprehended tor " contempt . " There was no " pertinacity" on wt / part . I remained perfectly quiescent ; prepared , at all times , to obey the orders of tho court , which I have done most strictly .
Mr . Anson states— "The costs are due to the Solicitors employed in the cause ; " and that " any payment of costs , therefore , on tho part of her Majesty and the Prince , will be a gratuitous donation to your husband . That the costs arc due to Prince Albert ' s Solicitors ( but not from me to them ) there can be no doubt ; but surely Mr . Anson does not mean to maintain that if / am unable to pay , Messrs . White ( the Prince s Solicitors ) have no claim against their illustrious clients ? Her Majesty ' s Privy Purse surely , must know better 1 Notwithstanding the painful circumstances under which I was taken to Reading Gaol , I cannot but feel deep gratitude towards her Majesty , for the sake of my family , for having enabled me to emit a
prison tor my home ; and when I reflect upon tho errors and mistakes in Mr . Anson ' s letter to my wife—mis-statements which I fear have been placed before my Sovereign and her Royal Consort even perhaps , in a magnified degree—I feel doubly < n-atoful . Her Mnjesty and the Prince , I greatly fear have been induced to believe ( relying upon the accuracy of tho represen tations made to them ) that my efforts have been devoted , for years past , to the infliction of " every possible injury on her Majestv , the Prince , their famil y , and the Court by a system ot espionage ; _ and that I have been misrepresenting and vilifying " all the acts of their private lite . And , doubtlessly , both my Sovereign and the Prince Consort have really believed all this ! Thus accused , I demand the ;;» w / s . I utterly deny the accusation . I sokmnlv -nWd " Tint . m »; j »» "
With such charges as these alleged against mepoured , I am afraid , into the too-confiding ear of my sovereign—doubly and trebly grateful do I feel for the magnanimity , tho high-mindedness , the exalted and noble feeling . displayed towards my anxious wife and family by her Majesty , in order that they should not " suffer in a cause with which their names are in any way connected . " I again most urgently demand tho proofs of these foul charges . To paraphrase the termination of Mr . Anson ' s letter to Mrs . Judge ( written evidently , I think , for publication ) , may I be permitted to support my family by " honourable industry ; " and may I , also , be allowed to struggle on at Windsor , unmolested m my labour and my efforts to obtain a living for the future . °
In concluding this necessarily lengthened communication , I must bog to remark , that I am still strongly impressed with a firm conviction that her Majesty has never boon made really aware of the precise nature and extent of the proceedings which were taken against me in the name of tho Sovereign ; and that ir . y conduct ( not only as regards the " Royal Etchings , " but in other respects ) has not been fairly represented to the Prince Consort . If the truth had been faithfully and undisguisedly placed before her Mnjesty and her Royal Consort , it is my firm conviction that my unfortunate family would have been spared the endurance of all the misery to which they have ( for months past ) been so painfully subjected . I trust , however , they will be
now permitted to look forward , with hope , to more cheering prospects and better days . Youv kindly inserting this communication will be conferring a lasting and valuable favour upon Sir , your most obliged and faithful servant , Jasper Tomseti Judui ; . [ We have seen the copy of a letter sent by Mrs . Judge in reply to tho letter of Mr . Anson , in " which she very justly complains that her letter ( or petition ) to the Queen was not published , and in which she contradicts Mr . Anson ' s assertion , that her statements were wholly' unfounded . The letter is written in a firm but inoffensive style , » nd reflects great credit on the writer . Wo much regret tli .-it want of space prevents us giving it publicity . —Ed . N . S . ]
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Mes with Tails !—M . E . Du Conrot , who lias been for some time engaged in tho exploring of Central Africa , has ^ communicated to the Academic des Sciences of Paris , some curious particulars of a race of Gliilanes who possess tho appendage of a tail about a decimetre in length . His description of the instance which ho examined is as follows : — " To ¦ convince me of the existence of this species of man having this exterior prolongation of the vertebral column , the Emir sent for one of his slaves named Belial , who was about thirty years of age , who possessed this tail , and who belonged to this race . This slave spoke Arabiac perfectly , and was very intelligent . I examined him , aiid was
perfectly convinced . Ho informed mo that his country was beyond Sonncar , through which ho hail passed—and that a language was there spoken which ho had , completely forgotten . He cstiinatwl the number of his race at ' about thirty or forty thousand ' . He said they wcio cannibal ? , ' and that they worshippedsomc the sun and moon , some tho stars , others the serpent and the sources of a great river , to which they sacrificed tbeir victims , lie concludes his narrative by stating that it would not bo difficult to procure some individuals of this race of men , by application to tho slave merchants who explore the countries on the borders of tho Red Sea "
Blowing up op the Snip Minerva . —Intelligence has been received at Lloyd ' s of the destruction of the ship Minerva , Captain Hovonden , master . The ship left Sydney on the Cth of February last , bound for Portland Bay , having on board , besides passengeners , 200 barrels of gunpowder , and a large quantity of rum , brandy , and sulphur . She was obliged to put into Jervis Bay to undergo repairs and left that place on the 20 th of March . On the following day , at four o ' clock a . m ., the hold was discovered to bo on fire , and the crew being aware of the dangerous nature of the cargo , launched the boats , and made their escape in them without delay
, accompanied by the captain and passengers . Within fifteen minutes of their leaving tho vessel a tremendous explosion took place , carrying the decks 500 feet into tlic air . The rum and brandy , &o ., were ignited , as the vessel , after burning to ' the water ' s edge , sunk . The boats made for Port Fairy , and , after being tossed about in a tempestuous " sea for six days , and having nothing but a keg of water and somobaracootas to subsist upon—the baracootas proved poisonous and were thrown overboard—snececuod in reaching Port Philip Heads , were assistance was obtained .- The loss is estimated at several thousand pounds .
AXTKHJHIES FOR TUT . BRITISH MUSEUM . —A VCSScl which has arrived at Chatham from Bombay has brought twenty tons weight of antiquities from Juneveh , which are intended to be forwarded to the British Museum for deposit in that national establishment . Tho authorities of the Treasury havo given the necessary directions for the unshipment and free delivery of the antiquities to tho Museum , and arrangements have been made for tho packages containing these valuable relics to be forwarded direct to tho Museum without being previously disturbed , and there opened and examined by the proper authorities , in order that every care may be taken that no damage should bo sustained by them .
Useful to . tub Usinituteb . —Eyrnkmic diseases are those which occasionally prevail more or less generally in a community . Hence the cholera is properl y called an epidemic . Endemic diseases are those which are prevalent in particular districts , as , for example , the ague in Lincolnshire . Contagious diseases require contact or touch for their communication ; and infectious diseases ave those which are communicable in any manner from ono person to another ,
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,. " Father" sau ) a little boy in a theatre , " ain't that si band box where the musicians are ?" A ladt was asked to join a Union of Daughters of lemporance . She replied , "It is unnecessary , as it is my intention / to join one of the Sons soon " hov w ^ l ^ , vin ° doubted whcther a little nituif . n / ir ^^ i 1 wltness ' understood the natuioand obligations of an oath , proposed to exa-^ SSr -ttSNTcas iS"S B » U *« tIiwrpooladrer-¦•
« . » . '" , , « . «! dunnja ,, ™ , , vcok , „ 7 i ;; rc om ^ A J ^ is ^ s& ^ sr ^ - * ^^ rawrjss affecting orator ho ever heard ; for he never attempted to speak but he excited general pity . lire other day a merchant , in emptying some l . quor from one barrel into another , clapped the funnel into us mouth , and did not discover his mistake until he found himself running over . advertises
A man a house to let , immediately alongside aplum garden , from which an abundant supply of tnc most delicious fruit may be stolen during tho season . We once heard of a traveller at an hotel , who rose from his bed at ni ght to examine the weather but instead of looking out on tho sky , thrust his head through the glass window of a cupboard "Landlord , ' cried tho astonished man , "this is very singular weather ; the night is as dark as Egypt , and smells of cheese . " The other day , one of widow B . ' s admirers was complaining of the tooth-ache . Mrs . B . ' s smart boy immediately spoke up _ « Well , sir , why don't you do as ma' does ? She takes her teeth out and puts cm back whenever she wants to . " A few minutes afterwards , the boy was whipped on some pretence or other .
A FnExcn gentleman having been rescued from a ducking in a river , and taken to a neighbouring tavern , was advised to drink a glass of warm brandy and water " Sir , I shall thank you not to mako it a fortnight . "— "A fortnight , " said he , "hadn't you bettor take it directly ? " " O , yes , " said monsieur , " diroctly , to be sure , but not afortnight , not too weak . ¦ ° A clehgysun in Connecticut was reading to his congregation the beautiful and poetical psalm of David , where ho says , " Mercy and Truth are met together ; Righteousness and Peace have kissed each other . ' At this passage a little girl in the assembly manifested a great interest , and whispered to her mother— " That ' s just as true as you live ; I see Righteous Hill a kissing Peace Peabody behind the smoke house-but how did tho minister know it ?
Once a gentleman , who had tbe marvellous girt of shaping a great many things out of orange peel , was displaying his abilities at a dinner party before Theodore Hook and Mr . Thomas Hill , and succeeded in counterfeiting a pig to the admiration of the company . Mr . Hill tried the same feat , and after destroying and strewing the table with the peel of a dozen oranges , gave it up , with the exclam tl 0 I \ T ' , ' , , anS the Pig ! I ««»'« make him . " Nay , Hill , " exclaimed Hook , glancing at the moss on the table , " you have done more ; instead of one pig . you havo made a litter . " The Height of Impudence . —Taking shelter from a shower in an umbrella shop .
Modest Times . —A young lady out West has just refused to bo taught tho organ , on the ground of her not wishing to have anything to do with a swell . Thorough Draught . —A new patent stove for the convenience of travellers has just been invented . It is placed under tha feet , and a mustard plaster upon the head draws the heat through tho whole system . Marino , a Mark . —A Yarmouth malster hired an Irishman , " a green hand , " to assist in loading his sloop with malt . Just as the vessel was about to set sail , the Irishman , who was jingling tbe price of his day ' s work in his trousers , cried out from the quey . — " Captain I I lost your shovel overboard , but I cut a big notch on tho rail fence round the starn , right over the spot where it went down , so you'll find it when you come back . "
A Yankee Answer . —A wager was laid on the Yankee peculiarity , of answering one question by asking another . To decide the bet , a down-castor was interrogated . — " I want you , " said the better , " to give me a straightforward answer to a plain question . "— " I kin du it mister , " said tho Yankee — " Then , why is it Xew Englandors always answer a question by asking one in return ?"— " Du they ?" was Jonathan ' s reply . Specimen of the Sublime and Beautiful . A member for Indiana rose and said , " Mr . Speaker , the wolf is the most . ferocious animal that prowls in our western priaries , or runs at large in the forests of Indiana . Ho creeps from his lurking place at the hour of midnight , when all nature is locked in the arms of Morpheus , and ere the portals of the
cast are unbarred , or bright Phoebus rises in his go \ den majesty—ivhole Utters of 2 rigs are deslroucd . " Puofessioxal Accumes . —Dr . F . after gettin « home highly primed from a dinner party , was called * out to see a lady , dangerously ill . " So , " said the doctor to his man , " by Jove , I can't » o at all ; if I do ; you must load me . " He was led to : \ room where the patient lay stretched upon her bod . The doctor got fast hold of a bed-post with one hand , and with the other seized the lady ' s wrist ; but , alas ! all attempts to note tho pulsation were vain , ' and ho could only mumble out "Drunk , by Jove drunk ! " " Ah , madam , " cried tho Abigail / as soon as tho physician had staggered out , " what a wonderful man ! How soon he discovered what was tho matter with von I"
¦ Memory . —A country clergyman meeting a neighbour who never came to church , although an old man of above sixty , gave him somc reproof on that account , and asked him if ho never read at homo . " No , " replied tho clown , " I can ' t read . " " I dare say , " said tho parson , " you don ' t know who made you . " " Sot I , in troth , " said tho countryman . A little boy coming by at the same time , ' " ' Who mado you , child ? " said the parson . The boy answered correctly . " Why , look you here , " quoth the honest clergyman , " are not you ashamed to hear a child of " five or six years old tell me who made him , when you , that ave so old a man , cannot V " Ah ! " said the countryman , " it is no wonder that he should remember ; ho was mado but t ' other day ; it is a great while , moaster , sin' I \ viu- made . "
low , did you over know a beil to do anything but ring ?—Yes , I have seen a bell pull . —Did you ever see a coach box ?—Yes , and I have si-en a ship (' s \ spar . Buckingham Paiace . —The extensive quadrangle formed in Buckingham Palace by the erection ' of the east wing is , by the express command of her Majesty , to be entirely covered witli india-rubber paving , which prevents tho noise of rumbling wheels . The quadrangle contains ample room for ' the inspection of a squadron of horso or a battalion of infantry . The Way to Wis . —At one of the anniversaries of a Sabbath school in London , two little girls presented themselves to receive a prize , one of whom had recited ono verse more than the other , UotU having learned several thousand verses of scripture . Tho gentleman who presided inquired — "Ann , couldn ' t you have learned one more vors ? , ami thus have kept up with Martha ? " " Yes , sir , " the blushing child replied , " but I loved Martha , and ktpt hack on purpose ! " " And was there any -one of all the verses you have learned , " iignin inquired the president , " that taught you thi . s lesson ? " " There is , sir , " she answered , bi'ishing still more deeply " / n honour nrcferiwi one another . "
JSv a recent l ' ost-offico regulation , any letter having tho writer ' s name and residence engraved on the seal , or written on tho outside , and not finding tho party to whom the same is addressed , will bo r £ turned to the writer immediately through the Postoffice , and not through the Dead Letter Office ; by which regulation considerable anxiety and loss of time will bo prevented . The Duke and the Earl . — The following anecdote is very current in Aberdeen and Banff shires . The Duke of Richmond dislikes small holdings upon his estates , and as the leases offhe crofter expire , lie adds their few acres to tho neighfarm
bounng . ^ The Earl of Tife is of an opposite disposition . Nothing delights him more than to see the curling smoke from tlic little cottage on the roadside as he sweeps through his estates . His factor complained of the number of persons from the Duko of Richmond ' s estate requesting a Cow ' s meat and a small cottage . His lordship , of course , desired him to supply them , and to send none away . At last these applications became so numerous that tho earl desired his factor to write to the duke , that he would greatly oblige by , " not putting out the poor men ' s fires faster than Lord Fife could light them . " It is said that this intimation had the dosired effect .
Quick Wokk . —Last week , Joseph Rush , at Peter Syke , Cumberland , performed the feat of making ono thousand bricks in one hour—ono hundred in five minute ?—and twenty-six in one minute . —Carlisle Journal . The Secret of Becoming Rich . —Every man has the secret of becoming rich who resolves to live within his means ; and independence is ono of the most effectual safeguards of honesty . Flowers . —Why does not everybody have a goranium , a rose , or some other flower in the window ? It is very cheap , next to nothing if you raise it from seed or slip , and is a beauty and a companion . As charming Leigh Hunt says , it sweetens the air , rejoices the eye , links you with nature and innocence , and is something to love . If it cannot love you in return , it cannot hate you ; it cannot utter a hateful word , even for neglecting it , for though it is all beauty , it lias no vanity ; and living , as it does , purely to do you good and afford you pleasure , how can you neglect it ? A Wire suspension bridge has been thrown across tho Ohio . It is 1 , 010 feet in length .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 22, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1540/page/3/
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