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tainly that class of disorders treated ot in me new ana im proved edition of the "Silent Triend . " The wtaors , ia thus sending forth te the world anotker edition of their medical work , cannot refrain from expressing their graMfication at tbe continual success attending their . effortsj whichj combined with the assistance of medicines , exclusively of their own preparation , have been the happy cause of mitigating and averting the mental and physical miseries attendant on those peculiar disorders ; thus proving the fact , that the
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HEALTH WHERE 'TIS SOUGHT ! HOLLO WAY'S PILLS , Cure of a Disordered Liver and Stomach , . ¦ when in a most hopeless . state . Extract of a Letter from Mr . Matthew Harvey , of Chapel Hall , Airdrie , Scotland , dated tbe 15 th of January , 18 S 0 .. Sir , —Youv valuable pills have been the means , with God's blessing , of restoring me to a state of perfect health , and at a time when I thought I wns on the brink of the grave . I had consulted several eminent doctors , who , after doing what they could for me , stated that they considered my case as hopeless . I ought to say that I had been suffering from a liver and stomach complaint of long standing , which during the last two years got so much worse , that every one considered my condition as hopeless . I , as alast resource , got a box of your pills , which soon gave relief , and by persevering in their use for some weeks , together with rubbing night and morning your Ointment over my chest and stomach , and right side , I have by their means alone got completely cured , and to the astonishment of myself and everybody who knows me . —( Signed ) Matthew Habtei . —To 1 ' rofossor IIolumvat . Cure of a Case of V / eahiess and Debility , of Four
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. Lately a small tortoise yras ' remittea ' jkhroujh the post-office to London ; just ' isfc'bipturedj ' saYo ' that a small label was pasted on it .
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MINISTERS WON'T GO ! ¦ ¦" . AI 0 BI * 8 ilMBNX . « . rm »« nt Opposition has done everything that any ' &M ^ Te « r could hare done , toward . ° Wf ^ t jLMinistrj ; but notwithstanding the usual t ^ Kteai so frequently given , the Ministers won't ^ i > _ J&nii > V PMt > , . &' Tho' hard we strive with might and mam The Whigs to overthrow , And lost dominion to regain— . The Ministers won ' t go ! £ s sticks the stubborn limpet race Fast to the rocks , just so Do Ministers stick fast to place , And swear they will not go ! We ' ve asied them once , we ' ve asked them twice ,
¦ Vfe ' ve asked them thrice ; but no , Tney laug h to scorn all good advice , And swear they will not go ! Stanley looks jaundiced with despair , Peel black as any crow ; Bnt what avails their patriot care ? The Ministers won't go ! E ' en Sibtborp ' s threats appal tbem not , 5 or Shaw's long phiz of woe ; Like oaks , they brave our rattling shot ; And swear they will not go ! Last week defeated , one and all , I thought they'd march ; but lo ! Thev stuck the faster for their fall , And swore they would not go !
Tiio' some of us cried " Shame , " and some Ejaculated "Oh !" And others from surprise were dumb'Twas vain—they would not go ! 'Tis my belief , if Satan ' s self ( Their patron saint yon know ) Should say , "Be off ! " from lust tf pelf , Tliev'd answer , '' We won ' t go !
KDJG 3 AXD PRIESTS . Ah I there ' s a curse has gone abroad—It withers half the works of God ! It changes men to beasts : It bellows from the lowest hell j It echoes bnt one damning knell—The curse of kings and priests I This is the curse that sears the earth , And hurries dessolation forth In all her dread array . In darkest mummeries enshnaed , It prostrates the immortal mind , Till all its powers give way .
It narrows , freezes half the soul—Distracts the great harmonious whole With blind sectarian pride ; Pours one unmixed , unbroken flood Of precions guiltless human blood Till earth ' s blest soil is dyed J * M ' Qbeex .
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The Chrono-Thenadlist ; or Peoples Medical Enquirer . March , 1850 . London : Charles Gilpin , 5 , Bishopsgate-street Without IfoiwrrHSTAXDixa the great development in physical science which distinguishes the present dar , it is universally admitted that the art of medicine has not kept pace with , the movement of progression . This retardment , we are inclined to believe , may be traced to that narrow-minded policy which characterises the majority of those belonging to a profession that , of all others , should be the most liberal and enlightened . As a class , medical men hare always dreaded innovation , and , attached to theories which have no foundation
in nature , they have hitherto attacked with derision and obloquy every writer who has come forward with the laudable endeavour of exposing error , and offering views , whereby their art might he improved . Dr . Samuel Dickson—the author of "Fallacies of the Faculty , " and who has just pnbushed the first number of a periodical , entitled the Ckrono-Thermalist—forms a striking illustration how far envy and jealousy are rancorously cherished towards those who have the moral courage to lay bare the false and dangerous theories of an art , the advancement of which , as it has been justly said , hears no proportion to its antiquity . Dr . Dickson tells
us—in language which indicates deep-injured feeling—that he has been treated as the overloaded ass treated the good-natured man who relieved it of a part of its burden ; "he has "been , ' le informs us , " lacked and calumniated , and belied—kicked by the asses he would have befriended . " Alluding to his former work upon the errors of the faculty , he goes onto remark , "If his enemies think he is dead , they were never more mistaken . He was only asleep ; and now he awakes , to agitate , agitate , agitate—to know no rest till the eyes of the public he opened to the infamy of a class of men , to whom—fearless alike of open force and secret fraud—their combined
numbers , and their silent machinery of corruption and collusion—he now flings down the gauntlet of contempt - and defiance . Creatures who traffic in the blood and ¦ sinews of a nationwho eat their dishonest bread at the expense of the sick , whose sufferings they prolong—who turn one of the most noble and God-like arts into &e basest and vilest of callings—the author of the Chrono-Thennal system has armed himself at all points , for the long and sustained encounter ! " Such a defiance , and such terse , hut severe allegations , may he rather startling to those unacquainted with the real state of
medical practice . "We , however , must candidly avow , J $ r . Dickson has not heen treated fairly . We have carefully perused his work , and are disposed to believe that much is required to place the profession in a more honourable position than what it now enjoys . The errors which prevail , and the deplorable ignorance that exists amongst the general herd of practitioners , have long disfigured it in the estimation of the intelligent portion " of society . There are many high-minded and enlightened men belonging to the medical professson who admit the prevalence of great evils . Even so far back as the time of Boerhaave , the medical art was in bo disgraceful a condition , that he
boldly declared , more of mankind were killed b y medicine than cured by it ; and in our own day , the late Sir Antony Carlisle , expressed the same sentiment . J > r . Dickson has fearlessl y denounced and exposed its errors , in broad and unsparing language ; and we would wggest to the writers of medical reviews , that II would be more fair and candid to meet the Ch rono-Tliermalism upon other grounds than those of abuse and calumny , for " who , " according to Milton , " every new truth put to y ? Tn * * free and ° P encounter ?" we EhaUDothere enterupon any investigation regarding the theories of disease propounded ° y Dr . Dickson , but we should be doing tuOi great injustice were we to withhold «
avowal of praise to the talent which he evinces wnilst elucidating Ms doctrines . The views which he developes in regard to the predisposing causes of Cholera , we deem highly correct , and concur with him freel y when he says , that the primary seat of the disease is to be found to tiie brain and nervous system , " The treatmeat of this disease reflects great opprobrium upon medical men in general ; and we are the ^ ore impressed with the science of Dr . Diet Stfs views by knowing , that in decided cases ° f Cholera , the most , beneficial results have at * 8 en by directing attention to the cerebropJflal system ; one application of a sinipism - ^ S tbe course of the spine , we have seen in 5 Ore than one instance arrest , almost
immecp te ' y , the progress of this terrible malady . Jj VOnl d be well that the majority of the medi-~*' pr ofession would think for themselves , aiid ^ 'unplidtiyfollowdoctrmespKgnantwiththe ^ nu scM evousaild f atal coil 6 eqaence 8 t Me-.. ^ l ^ unfortunately for their patients ; are JJ ^ ed ^ itliallthernbbishof the school , " of ** ' ^ wt son deserves full y the gratitude gaiety , in having exposed the Dumerous ^ and felse theories propagated by those 2 »* g to themselves thetitle , of Professors , a nwr i Dn Biciso ^ done nothhig else , as J ^ cal reformer , than denounced the . indis" ^ uiate-UEe of blood-letting ; and tEe absurd
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The Progressionist . Published weekly . London : -Collins , 113 , Fleet-street . Tins periodical we have on several occasions recommended to our readers . In the number before us , there are several excellent articles from the pen of the editor , and also from the able and fearless John Rymill , and other contr ibutors . We select the following ;—•
OTJR SOCIAL SYSTEM . ' In another place we have alluded to the ten hours bill , and from those remarks it will be seen , that we attach importance to the decision of the Legislature on this question . As there stated , we heartily wish success to the men who are seeking to establish the ten hours system on aproper and legitimate footing ; because that system recognises the right of the Legislature to interfere to protect labour from the tiger-like grasp of capital , —ar ight which we have constantly maintained in opposition to the views of the let-alone , free-trading school of political ecoHO- ' mists , —Tiera which in our heart and conscience we loathe and abhor .
But because we wish success to the ten hours movement , we wish not to be understood as holding the opinion , that bills of this description can effectually protect the industrious classes from the avarice and enpidity of the profitmongers . Jfo . We hold that the bill in question is but a palliative of the evils incident to our social system , and not thnt it will destroy those evils . "We believe tbe evils under which our working millions groan aretbe necessary results of the system itself—a . system ¦ which divides the population into lords and serfs , into masters and slaves , and which must , as a matter of necessity , chain the latter to the selfish desires , whims , and caprices of the former .. L We have a landed aristocracy , renowned in
history and experience for its hatred to popular right and liberty , and its extreme jealousy of the people ' s power . And this aristocracy , existing , as it pretends , by- divine right , and under divine sanction , holds the land of the country locked up as though in a prison . Rot one inch of soil can the industrious classes . lay their hands on , without the special sanction and permission of this powerful class . If we cultivate that soil , it must be done chiefly for the profit and advantage of this same aristocracy , and those under them , who , for a share of the plunder , assist in rivetting our chains , and so prevent our escape from their deadly grasp . Tve are allowed , it is true , to eat just so much as will enable us to continue our horrible drudgery ; but beyond that , with
some few exceptions , our wealth goes to glut the avarice of the idle , and the physically , mentally , and morally worthless members of society ; and even a large portion of our own class they keep unwillingly idle , as a reserve upon which they can fail back with tolerable certainty , in case then * slaves should become restive under their galling yoke , and so refuse to go through their menial occupation of working in order that others may enjoy on just such terms as the slaveholders choose to offer . By these means they are enabled to go on continually augmenting their own gains , and as continually to draw from the resources of the workers . And if they dare but complain , they are pointed to numbers of . their own elass , who are kept ' idle , and tnreaien to
wnom tney taKe in their places if they do not accede to their brutal terms . And thus they make a portion of the oppressed the very means of perpetuating their own misery and the misery of their unfortunate brother workmen . Hence the want of union amongst the producers . Hence those bitter dissensions that exist in the ranks of the labourers themselves , who behold in the persons of their fellow labourers ( whose industry is brought into competition with then ? own ) their veriest ene ' - mies ; and well do the guilty oppressors of their species know the effect which their horrible system
must produce ; and well do they , with the nicest calculation , count on those burning dissensions as tiie means of perpetuating their helDab : craft . ' . And , so long as the sou of the nation continues to be the . property of individuals , so long must the landless continue to be , the slaves of the landowners ; because it is in the power of this . class ,, by suffering the land to lie waste , always , to keep a surplus of labourers ' in the market , " and'then , if those labourers ' complain of their condition ; they are insultingly told ; that at home there i& no room fortbem , and , if' they ; are . nQt 'content ; to ; be under thefostermg cafe of the starve-gut philosophers be-
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longing to the ranks of their idle oppressors , they must / betake . themselves to Australia ;¦ while there are ld , O 0 OjO 00 acres of good land at home which has never yet been ; put under the plough or the spade , nor . made available for any purposes what * ever of cultivation . If the surplus population , as it is insultingly and blasphemously termed , had but the chance , they would speedily alter this ; thoy would turn the now barren wastes of our country into smiling gardens of cheerfulness and plenty ; they would , by their labour , cause the deserts of our country to bloom with the Creator ' s luxurious vegetation .: But ; now their arms are palsiedir . their bodies stricken with decay ; because under the blasting curse of landlordism . Destroy this power , and one-half the work is accomplished ; continue it , and it will be impossible to enjoy social happiness , as it is impossible for the deadly Upas tree to be prbmotive of health and life .
To repeat the laws of primogeniture and entail is only to trifle with the question . It might have the effect of throwing more land into the market , and thus give a chance to wealthy capitalists to purchase ; but who does not see that this would be a conservation of the aristocratic principle ? That it would be merely substituting one aristocracy for another , and by no means a more humane or benevolent one ¦ than now exists . If we wish to make the soil really contribute to the welfare of society , we must abolish individual ownership entirely , and make the nation , through a freely elected legislature , the sole proprietor of its own natural inheritance . Unless this be done , we may repeal taxes , pass ten hours bills , and the like , but there will never be any effectual protection to industry .
FRENCH DEMOCRACY AND THE ENGLISH PBESSOANG . The thousand and ono Etnas of the pressgarig , have been spitting forth their burning lava , their fiery hate , and smoky lies upon the sacred champions . of liberty . They have hurled the barbarous bolts of hatred ; they have applied tko engines of malice ; and they have used all the inventions of men and fiends to blacken , and blast , and damnify the men who have given up liberty , property , family , country , and in many cases life itself , for the achievment of their , country ' s freedom . The infernal pressgang of England have rendered them ; selves eternally infamous by their dastard anil damnable endeavours to cover-the sacred names of continental patriots with shame , and
overwhelm them with reproach . But their endevours to traduce the motives , blacken the characters , and blast the fair fame of our beloved patriot brethren will prove abortive . The base and truculant crew of hireling scribblers , and mean mercenary thieves , who employ their time to wound the feelings , misrepresent the intentions , arid damnify the character of honourable men , will find their services rewarded in the well merited contempt of all honest men . The baso wretches of the pressgang sek to throw back the glorious cause , of freedom—social and democratic—by traducing the character of the men who spend : their time in the advocacy of these princi p les . The Tim ?* is daily venting its mean and paltry spleen against
the brave democrats and socialists of Pans ; it represents in every issue of its filthy broad sheet , that the socialists are "drunkards , " "thieves , " " spoliators , " " seducers , " and " murderers , " and contends , that should socialism triumph , universal pillage , drunkenness , vice , and murder would be the order of the day . But the times is an old liar . The democrats and socialists of Paris are not drunkards , seducers , and murderers ; they are gentlemen , not of parliament progeny , but of heaven ' s own making ; men of probity , truth and courage . They are not gniliy of the horrible crimes imputed to them ; and the Times' correspondent knows as well as we , that such is not the ease . ; Every Christian man is bound to curse these fiendish men
of the press with heart hatred . They are infamous and measureless liars , and they merit the derision of all honest men . They should be scouted from society , spurned from the threshold of every home , and generally avoided as a plague or a pestilence . They have cast their nets in hell ; fished for _ falsehood ; and circumvolved the world for lies , with which to assail and assassinate the bravest and the noblest men that ever took , human flesh . But the pressgang has signally failed . The elections of Carnot , Tidal , and De Flotte , in the recent conteat at Paris , prove most completely , that social democracy is stronger than ever .
The heavens put on blackness ; the rumbling of the distant thunders may be distinctly heard ; the lightnings will soon career across the sky ; the revolution is at hand ; it can be delayed but a little longer ; it will speedily be ushered in ; and then will the veritable democratic and social republic be proclaimed ! If this triumph be not achieved before the general election of 1852 , most assuredly it will be achieved then . We fervently hope that Frenchmen may be able to secure their social rights by the exercise of their political rights . Most sincerely do we hope that they may never , have to draw the sword in defence offreedom any more . But if the plotting tyrants who now rule France succeed in . destroying the republic , and wresting universal suffrage from the people , then we say it is the duty of the people to resist their tyrants by the force of arms , and may God defend the right .
Englishmen ! as you value your country—as you love your wives and little ones—as you value truth , honesty , and freedom , I . call upon you to prove your devotion by your faith , your earnestness , your sacrifices , and your works . Push onward the ark of Truth—man the ship of Freedom—forsake her not in storm or in tempest—and depend upon it you will have the satisfaction of seeing her enter the haven in triumph , and into the port * of happiness and peace . . John Rymu . Ii .
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ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . , Sir Henry R . Bishop has commenced his second series of admirable lectures on music , at this Institution . The lectures are extremely simple and instructive , which make them so valuable to an establishment , of this kind , where all science must be in a popular form . Several airs from the ' Miller and h ' s men , and other compositions of the lecturer , were executed by the vocalist , and accompanied on the pianoforte by Sir Henry . All the illustrations were executed admirably , and called forth repeated plaudits from the audience , who appeared to realish this musical treat , provided by the Directors , most highly . The chenvcal lecture by Mr . Pepper is , at present , on the different methods proposed to be used in conveying . pyrotechnic and other signals to the expedition of Sir John Franklin in the Artie Reg ions ;
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THE TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE . The result of the division was sadly against the friends of knowledge , and tbe fact of 190 members being found to vote for a continuance of these scandalous taxes prove pretty conclusively the state of our House of Commons . Among the friends of the " Taxes on Knowledge" and the lovers of dear newspapers appear tbe names of Peel , father and son , the junior PjCel proving himself , on every occasion , the exact counterpart and imitator of his respected father . Really people hoped better things from " the . Tamworth conjurer , who however , of late , seems determined to show that there islittle difference between him and the premier . The Peelites are every day "becoming small by degrees and beautifully less , ' and no wonder , for their leader refuses to initiate any
bold and reforming line of policy which might have the effect of enlisting the sympathies of the people on his side . Between Peel and ' Russell'there'is not much to choose , the chief difference being that the former is less obstinate and more acute than his Whig rival ; but as for politics , Peel has shown himself quite as conservative and quite as opposed to the reasonable demands of the people . One can scarcely wonder that his followers diminish day by day , and that the Peelite party bids fair to become the most insignificant in the house . His attorney-general , Thesiger , has long become tired of waiting upon Sir Robert , and Smythe , the member for Canterburyand the writer of some clever , but unintelligible , articles in the Morning Chrgniclt , is often found at issue with be
his old leader . But , however surprised one may to find Peel supporting the government in -their maintenance of the Taxes on Knowledge , nobody can beataUastonishedtofind . thenaineC'fWalter . the ' proprietorof the Times , on the same side .. Walter naturally trembles for the monopoly of the Times , which would , donbtless , be endangered by the removal of the newspaper stamp and advertisement duties . It is all very well for . 1 " the leading journal" to declare that it would probably be a gainer by the removal of these taxes . . Everybody knows that the Times treat-. bles at the idea of the competition to . which it would be exposed from the more recently established , but more liberal , newspapers . Oi course , the benefit of the abolition of these taxes would be chiefly felt by those journals which are most in accordance with the irieu'c : ami nrinp . inlea of the ereat mass of the people ,
and it is notorious that the great mass of the people heartily detest the Times ; Walter , notwithstanding the professions made ini the leading columns of his journal ; takes good care to vote for the maintenance of these taxes ; The penny stamp and the advertisement system answer very well at Printing-house' square , and a cliaugemight very possibly alterthings for the worse , while it could hardly improve them . This is ' the mode in which the operation of these taxes is viewed by the proprietors of old-established papers generally . They are very comfortably off now , . and . do , yery ; well with things as they are , and , like the rich ' peer ,. who could not . bear the idea , of deato because Ke felt , persuaded that he should never be so ' wdloffdn ^ where ' efaas in this world , tney ; have an instinctive aread of' any' change , ' which cannot improve > . but , inayjdeieribiate ,, ^ their fa&itiom ^ -Corm wndent of ifo Birmingham Mercury . ' ¦
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. ; . i : r . ii NATIONAL EBFORM I / EAGUB . ; Jlr . O'Brien , the president of this association , held his usual weekly , meeting , at the John-street Institution , on Friday evening last . . In the course of his address , 'he ' drew attention to the cheering faot that , " according to " tho Msliman—a copy of which excellent paper he held in his hand— . *» large onen-air . demonstration had recently taken place a Kilkenny , at which the broadest democracy had been advocated , as well as the doctrine that the land was the people ' s— " from- deepest earth to highest heaven ; ' and that the people should prepare themselves to hold it . Mr . ^ O'TBrien , after saying that this was the mostadvanced move ever yet made in Ireland , went into a history of the various fruitless agitations which O'Oonnell had fostered ,
particularly his plan of tenant-right ; and showed that even the boasted Emancipation Bill had made the mass of the people less free than they , were before . Ho then showed that , although the clergy were always the inveterate enemies of everything having a democratic tendency , yet that Athoism could do nothing for the people . It was true Christianity that we wanted—not such Christianity as the Pope ; for had that man believed in the real doctrines of Christy ho would never ; have allowed French and Austrian butchers to murder his people in Ordei 1 that he mig ht ; preserve his domination at RomeV Whatever such a man professed , he was practically an Atheist . Mr . O'Brien then referred
to the approaching Conference of delegates to the Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association ; and to the proposed deputation from the National Charter Association and the Reform League to that body , to test the good faith of the Financial Reformers towards the working classes . If that body were in . earnest Jn desiring a union between the middle and working classes , they would so arrange matters that , at the next general election , the working classes should have the power of electing and sending from twenty-five to thirty men of their own choice , to represent their interests in Parliament . Mr . O'Brioh then called upon the meeting to approve of that plan by show of hands , which was responded to in the most unanimous
manner . , Mr . Stallwood then" addressed the meeting on the subject of the Conference , and showed , in reply to an objection whish had been raised , that the pro ^ perty qualification difficulty had been often , very easily surmounted . At . thismeeting—previous to Mr . O'Brien ' s lecture—the second quarter ' s Report of the Council of the-National Reform League was read . to the members present . It began by recording several circumstances of a congratulatory nature , in relation to its progress ; and stated , that the council had no apprehension as to the ultimate popularity of its principles and objects , although its numerical strength had not yet reached a very large number . One cause of their deficiency of numbers mierht be
found in the co-existence of numerous other reform bodies—all professing different objects and views , and thereby tending to confuse ttie minds of tho people—especially when they saw that the leaders of those different parties had arrived at no unity of opinion as to what positive reforms were required , that would be worth struggling for , and how they could be best accomplished . This want of union among the popular leaders of the day was much to be lamented , and it enabled the enemies of the people to deride their agitation , because they knew that while divisions existed in the popular camp , the unprivileged and unenfranchised classes could never gain either their ' political power or social influence . The report recorded the late missionary tour of the president , and stated that branches of the League
had been formed at Glasgow , Edinburgh , and Sheffield . It also alluded to the Borie 3 of resolutions which had been passed at a crowded meeting of the National Regeneration Society , held recently in the Leicester-square Institution , on the motion of the president . These , resolutions , had been cordially inserted in their papers by the editors of the ftortheni Star and the Tribune , but had remained unnoticed by several of the cheap stamped 'papers to which they-had been sent—showing the little sympathy they had with the people ' s cause . A fewevidences of . the recognition of the principles of the League whioh had recently appeared in print were noticed . A recent correspondent in the Leader had forcibly argued against private property in land , and had put forward the sound axiom , that
" each man has a right to require that those conditions of existence , under , which God originally placed man on the earth , shall be preserved substantially in all the stages of human progress , " which may be considered a parallel to one of the fundamental principles of the League . A letter of Mr . Hugh Doherty , in the New York Tribune , was also notioed , complaining that the French Socialist leaders did not grapple with the question of land monopoly ; arid at the same time advocating the principle , of legislative revolution , with regard to abstract laws of common right , and non-interfencG , with regard to the habits and customs of the people . The report concluded by deprecating the . apathy , indifference , and luke-warmness which the majority of the working classes— especially oi London —
exhibited towards all movements for political or social reform , proving the deep degradation which a long course of political and social slavery had engendered , and which bad induced them to believe that they had nothing whatever to do with such questions , and that it did not concern them who made the lavs , or what were the principles upon which they were governed as men and citizens . But that lamentable fact would not be allowed to drive the members of the National Reform League to the conclusion which most of the followers of the " dismal science of political economy" have arrived at , and which has led them to . assert that extreme poverty must always accompany a high state of civilisation , and that it is a natural and unalterable ordination for the great body of the people to be the passive instruments of tho privileged and
civilised classes . AH members of the League would emphatically deny the truth of a . philosophy so unchristian and so unphilanthropic , and would do all ttey could , however little , to disabuse their fellows of any such , belief . Arid , in so doing , they would not only be performing their duty towards others , but to themselves ; becauso while tho present laws upon land and money are maintained , and while the corrupting and dangerous power of huge armies of soldiery and police is heedlessly conferred upon governments , no real approach could bo made towards the realisation of that glorious trinity of aspirations—Liberty , Equality , and Fraternity-r-whiea is now floating before the mental vision of a large po ' rtien of the family of man , giving them faith and courage to pursue their arduous struggles against error , despotism , and oppression .
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BRITISH COLLEGE OF HEALTH , Nbw Road , London . ARSENIC IN CHOLERA !!! OH !• OH ! Oil ! : FELLOw-CptmaYMEN . —What to do think of thisi Arsenic in cholera ! Oh ! Oh ! Well , if yon will take the trouble of looking into theMedieal Times , you will find printed in huge letters , ' Case of Asiatic Cholera successfully tbeated with Arsenic . ' . A doctor positively advising arsenic in' cholera—the case is also reported at length in the 8 !) th number of the HygeUt , to be ; had at the office , 3 U 8 , Strand , price Id . or 2 d . by post . Well , can you be . surprised , my friends , that : we should , have so many cases cf felonious poisoning throughout tho country by arsenic ? Whiit is the real difference between the prisoner and tlie doctor ? Why , that in one case the party , when lie dies , is said to have been murdered by arsenic , and in the other , to have died of some disease or other . Let things , we say , be called by their pr . poi' naraes . The doctors have made the public so familiar with poisons , that the lower classes think there is no liarm ' talcing a lessen from the ' Guinea trade gentlemen ; ' and , for our own part ; we do not see any real difference between the felonious prisoner . and the doctor—the only difference is , ' that thedoeto ' r , in some
cases , gives the poison in such dosos as not to kill , though in many he does Mil , but then don't you see it is culled 'death or disease' and not 'murder' ' . '' . ' Now , fellow countrymen , can you be surprised , that wha ms called cholera last y < ar , should have been so fatal , whilst such poisons wcro given for its cure ? Arsenic , opium , &p . That this doctor ' s advice was generally talcon about arsenic in cholera we will not say , but it was publishedin the columns of a uudefy circulated medical paper , and answered the purpose intended mightily—viz ; , of pbo-OLAIHIMO DEADLY POISONS AS COHE 8 FOB CnoLEKA—Oh , Oh . What a pity that the aqua tofana is unknowu to doctorsthey might just give a little of it to' some unfortunate patient , and then publish to the world with trumpettongue , ' that . the acqua tofana was an excellent remedy for some disease or other , ' and the poor ignorant and confiding public would . swallow all . We should then see ' aqua ofana < marked on fine bottles in the chemists' and drug gists' shops ot this fair island . ' . Let the people arise from their lethargy ! ' . " . ' . ' The member * of the British College of Health , therefore call for the total prohibition of . tho following deadly poisons
as medicines : — 1 . Arsenic in all its forms . " ¦ ¦ 2 . -Prusic Acid . in all its forms . ' . 3 . Opium in all its forms . . ' . 4 . Mercury in all its forms . 5 ; Kux Vomica in all its forms . ' .- Che different metals in all their . chemical cornbina-Josb , . which , being wholly indigestible do not , and ever can , assimulate with flesh and blood ,
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Return of a Siberian Exile . —The little town of Montastr ' u ' c , near Toulouse , has recently been signalised by : an event . An old soldier named Dames has ro-appeared there after' an ; absence of forty-two years . The following is a brief sketch of his history , which woi arc sorry we ' ciinnofgive in all its details j ^ -Damea . entered tho 8 ervice in 1808 , and in 1812 look part in"the Russian campaign ' , in which hehad the misfortune to be nwde a ' . prisoner , " His fjiniily had received no tidings of . him . from that time , and . every , one believed him dead , when he suddenly presented'himself to tho astonishment ofthose of . the inhabitants of Montastr . uc who remem- ' bered him , ; This memorable relic of the Imperial armies , who lias been thirty years in Siberia , whence he has returned , by ordeivoJE . tbe . Emporer iis aaid , tb have amassed -a ^ considerable , fortune during- his captivity . ^ -Cqnstitiitionnel . ' ' ¦ '"''" "" '
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; Anbcdotbs < o * rSir Jsaac Newton .- Some of these stones may be true , and some may he only Joe Millers . ¦ Such as that wherein the philosopher lost in the stars while sitting by his English fire-side and becoming extremely uncomfortable , rings the ' bell and says hastily , " John , John , take away the-fireplace ! " And again , that history of the visit by Dr . Stukeley , the antiquarian , whpbeing hungry , picked the bones ' of a fpyrt and put them under a cover , and then waited till Newton came down stairs , and took off the cover , saying , " Oh dear , I thought I had not dined , but I see I have ! " Entering immediately into conversation with his friend—too intent on science to be subject to the cravings of nature , except as a form ! " I will . not make oath that either of these anecdotes are truethough it is related—if 1
, remember it aright—that good honest Stukeley declared that Ms adventure was " a fact ! " More strange and notable than either of these stories , however—if true—is that of Newton and a certain fair lady . ' There was one , it seems , who h 8 d tender thoughts towards him ; but , alas for the lady , the ? were not reciprocated in the breast of the philosopher ! He never thought about the sex—he could not get time to think about them—inveterate bachelor as he waa to the day of his death . And sitting in his night-gown in his chamber ^ some say , often with but one leg in his inexpressibles - even till afternoon—calculating , unable to resist the sudden
mathematical thought that would dart through his mind as soon as he awoke—who would not pity the fair one that might have happened to become his wife ? Yet this lady had some such thoughts , until ono day being left alone with him while he was smoking his pipe—so runs the record ~ Newton became abstracted : forgot all . about the lady ; shot up among the comets : the lady aighed , and—mechanically , let fall her lily hand on the philosopher ' s knee ! Behold , the philosopher took it iin-rand , still among the comets , in spirit—mechanically made use of the lady ' s little finger us a tobacco stopper . —Thomas Cooper . ¦ - ¦ .,
Ladibs don t know whether they like smoking or not ; with special favourites , ¦ " they like it ; " with general favourites , " they don't dislike it ; " and , with no favourites , " they detest it . " Durhjgthe recent fire at Limehouse church a burial took place in the grounds ; and after its destruction a marringe took place in the ve 9 try . The bride climbed over the ruins to confirm her hopes . A Man very much intoxicated was sent to prison . "Why don't you bail him out ? " inquired a
bystander of his friend . " Bale him out ! " exclaimed the other , " you couldn ' t pump him out !" The Septennial Act . —Dv . Johnson , one of the most furious of Tories , in his life of Addison , alluding to the royal prerogative of creating peers to make a majority , says , " H was an act of authority violent enough , yet certainly legal , and by no means to be compared with that contempt op national right with which , some time afterwards , by the instigation of Whiggism , the Commons , chosen 5 y the people for three years , chose themselves for seven ! "
The American ambas ^ idor , on returning thanks for his health at the Mansion-house , on Easter Monday said , that "When the loyal cup went round , he drank for 22 , 000 , 000 of his countrymen . " Grenadiers . —Frederick William , King of Prussia , had a pet regiment of giants , many of whom he actuall y bought up at fancy prices . Nothing gladdened his eyes like a man six or eight : feet in height . One day he met a . peasant girl seven feet good in height . " Having called her to him , he gave her a letter to the colonel of his Brobdignag grenadiers ,
containing positive orders to have the bearer instantly married to the tallest man in the regiment . Thegirldid not know the king , ' who had appeared like an everyday private gentleman : but she was somewhat Suspicious . ¦ So she gave the letter to a little old ' woman , ' ugly enough to make a horse break his bridle . Judsje of the astonishment of the colonel when he read the king ' s . ' , letter , and looked on the shrivelled and crooked form of the bearer ! Judge , too , of the feelings of the notens vqlens bridegroom ! The girl found out the trick which had nearly been played upon her , and congratulated herself on her
escape . , Curiosity in Knowledge . —Nothing wraps a man in such - a mist of errors , as his curiosity in searching into things which are beyond him . How happily do they live , who know but what is necessary ! Our knowledge does but show our ignorance . Our moat studious researches , are but a discovery of what we cannot know . . We see tbe effect , but we cannot guess at the cause . Learning ib H ' se a river , whose head being far in the land , is at its firit rise , email and easily viewed ; but still as you proceed , it gapes with a wider bank ; not without pleasant and
delightful windings , while it is on both sides , set with trees , and the beauties of various flowers ; but still , the farther you follow it , the deeper and broader it is ; till at last it empties itself into the unfathomable ocean ; there you see more water , but no more shore , no end of that fluid expanse— Owen Fclltham . A PRovEssiR of Hebrew at Oxford , iu the course of his lecture , made frequent mention of radical words . After it was oytrtvio of the bedmakers , who were among the auditors , wevc talking together , when one said to the other— " I say . Jack , how he touched up the Radicals—didn ' t he ?"
Grocbrs and others who sell marmalade arc in the habit of stating , as an additional recommendation of the commodity , that it is an excellent substitute . for butter . An old woman purchased some , believing it to possess all the proprieties of butter . Some time afterwards she called on the dealer , and said she had beenimpoged on , " as it was nae substitute for butter at , a , " for she hnd tried to fry fish in ' t , and they were burned to a cinder . " Upon the door of a house near Bride water ,
occupied by father and aon , the former a blacksmith , and publican , the latter a barber , is a board with the following inscription : — " Barnes and Son , blacksmith and barber ' s work done here ; horse shoeing and shaving , locks mended , hate curling , bleeding , teeth drawing , and all other furriery work . All sorts of spirital tickers according to the late comical treaty . Take notis my wife keeps skool and lays fokes as ushuall , teaches reding and writing ! and other lanwatches , and has sistauts if required to teach horitory , sowing , the mathewmatics , and other fashionable diversions . "
, . An Old Legend with a New Tail . —In her Memoir of an Hungarian Lady , Theresa Pulsky tells tbe . following story , tipped with a political sting : — " A . miller at Brariyisfoo ( a steep mountain path , when his mill had stopped , being overwhelmed with sorrow at the prospect of . starvation for his wife and children , plunged into the forest . There he met a fine gentleman , with a cloven foot , a red cloak , and a cock ' s feather in his hat , who promised to get him water for tbe mill if he gave up nn object ; he possessed without knowing it . The miller ( it is not doubted ) recognised the gentleman ; but , needproving more powerful than conscience , lie acquiesced in the proposition , and hastened home . There he-found the mill in full activity : and his
mother-m-law met him joyfully , with the news that , his wife . had happily borne him a son . The poor man was struck dead on . the spot with horror . The fine gentleman soon came , and carried the baby away under his red cloak . For a long , , long time , the little one ' s mother heard nothing about him , and mourned for him : till at last the tidings reached her , that her son , owing to his eminent education , had grown a doctor of laws , and a mighty grand gentleman , Minister of the interior at Vienna ¦!" A " dandy black" stepped into a provision shop in Boston recently to buy some potatoes ; before purchasing he gave the following truly eloquent description of its nature : — " De tater js inevitably bad or inevitably good / Dere is no mediocrity jn the combination of de tater . De exterior may , indeud , appear remarkably exemplary and butisome , while the interior is totally negative : but ; sir , if you wends the article 'pon your own recomwendations ,
knowing you to be a man of probity in all your translation ' s ; why , sir , without further circumlacutions , I take a bushel . " A medical man was employed by a labourer to attend his wife during her illness . The doctor hinted ( according to his custom of such good folks ) his fear of not being ultimately remunerated for his trouble . 11 ve £ 5 , " said the poor fellow , " and if you kill or chic , you shall have ' em . " The poor woman died under the doctor ' s hands ( it may be charitable to add that she would have done so without his help ) , and after a reasonable time had elapsed , Bolus called for his £ 5 . The man put the following questions to hmi :- Didyoafo"Mroy wife ? " "No ! " was the reply . "Did you cure her ? " "No ! " again" Then ) " said the disconsolate , " you have no legal demand . " ¦ . .. A wHiTEn in Notes and Qutries gives the following " wicked but witty" epigram by La Monnoye ;—" The world of fools has such a store ,
That he who would not see an ass Must bide at home and bolt his door , And break his looking-glass . " A Yankee contemporary says , — "When we see a neat , pretty girl , with a free but innocent air—with cheeks like' roses , " and heavenly blue eyes , which seem to repose in serenit y beneath their silken laRheB-rwe always wish she- was near a , mud-puddle , and we had to lift her over . . ;; Patience . —The most striking picture of patience we remember to have seen . is that . of the apple women at the corners of some of tlie large thoroughfares . Their whole stock-in-trade rarely exceeds a
dozen apples , a few sticks of candy , arid perhaps a half-peck of chestnuts , There they sit , generally smoking-a pipe , while they watch their little store , waiting for a / penny customer . Probably , the . whole day ' s ' sale rarely . exceed- two shillings , arid hardly halfofthiscan . be / prouV Yet' they never appear restless ; they are at their post , rniri ' or shine , early and late , nevershowing the least signs of impatience , but apparently enjoying a philosop hical rumination amid , the rank smell of tobaccq ^ np ; the . rumeB of the pipe . " Patience ' on a ' monumenj ; Vr ; it ' s , no . compavi-JoUt-aW 3 ^ alr tfways" affirnVin future bynpple we mm .
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The People ' s Review . Edited by Friends of " Order and Progress . "—London : C . Mitchell , Red Lion Court , Fleet Street . This publication has breathed its last . In its dying words , complaint is made of the ' Northern Star" having " denounced articles , wr itten by men not yet recovered from the wounds and fatigue of revolution , as reactionary papers . " Observe the mischief of men writing under a mask ; but for this statement , we should not have imagined that the authors of
the articles alluded to had scything revoluti onary about them . If the writers in this '' Review " did indeed take part in the struggles of 1848-49 , we must say , that judging them by their own literary productions , we regret not then- failure . Better is it that the present system should endure until the veritable revolutionists are strong enough to establish their ascendancy , than that those who at present rule should be cashiered only to make way for the Friends of "Order and Progress . "
The failure of this publication is easily ac counted for . Its conductors , too liberal for the " Friends of Order , " are too ^ tame and indefinite for the " Friends of Progress . " Men who pride themselves on believing in the integr ty of tyrants , and on acting up to that belief , have no vocation for editing a " People's Review . " The assertion that "
beneficial changes are at the command of those who can reach the understanding of rulers , " is , as the Amerieafts would say , all bosh . According to the editors of the " People's Review , " Nicholas , Metternieh , Guizot , Tbiers , Russell , Cabral , &c ., are mere innocents , who do wrong only because they don't know better . Poor dears I Why does not Sob Thin start a " ragged school" for the instruction of these unfortnnates ? The Lord save us from all
evilp articularly the nuisance of political sentimentalism . The articles in this number on " Progress , " " American Literature , " the " Factory Question / ' the " Polish Question , '' and " Democracy , " ate all ably written ; but , with one or two exceptions , are disfigured by blemishes we have before complained of . "We cannot regret the extinction of this " Review ; '' but if its editors will act on Burn ' s Advice to the Devil , —" tak a thought an ' men * , " we shall be happy to meet them again . Democracy cannot tolerate half-and-half partisans . A word to the wise is sufficient .
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and devastating , practice of low diet , in the treatment , of diseases , uv general , he would have richly merited the hi ghest praise . Truly has It been said , " that more of mankind have perished by the lancet than by the swofdl ? Poor Byron fell a victim to this dreadful practice ; it is , however , consolatory to know that some intelligent practitioners participate liberally in those scientific views which Dr . Dickson has , with bo much moral courage , boldly proclaimed . Contemplating the medical profession in its present deplorable state , we have no hesitation in saying , that it is one vast system
of quackery ; and yet , wo hear , that in the present session of Parliament a bill is to be proposed , whereby additional powers may be given to those bodies , which , constituted as they are , deserve no other character than that of huge antiquated monopolies . Still , we trust , the . Legislature , debased as it is by its unprincipled conduct in resisting all political reform , will have some portion of common sense left , as to reject at once this measure , and look upon it as a piece of bare-faced effrontery . The growing intelligence of the people will ultimately be the best means of checking empiricism , whether it be confined to legal or illegal practitioners . Giving power to incorporated bodies that are hi themselves the models of
rapacious avarice , and tho types of error- and ignorance , would only perpetuate those evils which have so long disgraced the profession . Monopolising laws will never make men either wise or honest . "We are no advocates for exclusiveness in any department of knowledge . We respect intelligence , combined with integrity , and are pleased to recognise it , whether the elements of science are acquired in a college or a garret . Convinced that Dr . Dickson is influenced by every generous impulse in the exposition which ho has brought before the public , " and that he is actuated by the best of motives ^—so as science and art may be rendered subservient and useful to his fellow creatures—we earnestly recommend his zealous animadversions to the notice of our readers .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 27, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1571/page/3/
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