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CURES FOR THE UNCUllED 1 HOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula, or King's
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Evil . ' Extract of a letter from Mr .. J . II . Alliday , 209 , High-street Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , 1850 . Sib , —My eldest son , when about three years of age , was afflicted with a glandular swelling in the neck , which niter a short time broke out into an ulcer . An eminent medical man pronounced it as a very bad case of scrofula , and prescribed for a considerable time without effect . The disease then for years went 011 gradually increasing in virulence , when besides the ulcer in the . neck , another formed below the left knee , ana a third under the eye , besides seven others on the left arm , with a tumour between the eyes which was expected to break . During the whole of the time my suffering boy had received the consiant adv vice of the most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltea . ham , _ besides being for several months at the General Hospital , where one of the surgeons said that he would
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ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS , GENERATITB INCAPACITr , AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE . Thirty-first edition , illustrated with Twenty-Six Anatomi . cal Engravings on Steel , enlarged to . 196 pages , price . 2 s . 6 d ; by post , direct from the Establishment , 3 s . 6 d . in postage stamps . ; THE SILENT FRIEND ; a medical work on tho exhaustion and physical decay of the sy 6 ten \ , prpduc 9 « l by excossiveindalgence , the consequences of infection , or the abu 3 e of mercury , with observatjeiU 5 on the . marrried state , and the disqualificatiocfl which prevent it ; illustrated by twenty-six coloured en < gravings , and by the detail of cases . By R . and L . PERKY
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TO PIUS IX . BS JOBS 6 . THUMBS . ( From the liberator , American paper . ) JL cannon s btaren lips arecold , Ana st « et . and tower , and temple old , jk alent as despair . . . The Lombard standsno more at tay , ' Home ' s fresh young Me has bled m Tain , Jto theghastly . trench are they , ^ wounded , writhe in pain . > vnwVhfle the ftatricides of France , Retreading on tne neck of Borne , Tilier at Gaeta ! seize thy chance ! ¦ coward and cruel come . C ^ bok fromtt * Woody skirt ; acted well /
Th y mummer ' s ptrt was * $£ Borne , with steel andfire begirt , Before thy crusade feu . TTer death-groans answer to thy prayer ; Thy chant the drum and bugle call ; Ttolishts , the burning Tilla ' s glare ; ' % y beads , the shell and ball , let Austria clear thy way with , hands , Foulfrom Ancona ' s cruel sacfe , ¦ AndXaBles , withhis dastard bands Of murderers lead thee back . Home ' s lips are dumb ; the orphan ' s wail , The mother ' s shriek , thon may ' st not hear , Above the faithless Frenchman ' s hail , The unsesed shavelings cheer ! ¦ go bind on Borne her cast-off weight , The double curse of crook and crown ; Thou gh woman s scorn and manhood ' s hate , From wall and roof flash down . jfor heed those blood stains on the wall , Sot Tiber ' s bloodcanwash away , mere in thy stately Qiunnal , Thy mang ledTictimslay . ' let the world murmur ; letits cry ¦ Of horror and disgust be heard ;
• Truth stands alone ; thy coward He Is backed by lance and sword . . The cannon of St . Angelo , The chanting priest and clinging bell , " And beat of drum and bugle blow , Shall greet thy coming welL let lips of iron and tongues of slaves , . Fit welcome give thee ; for her part Borne frowninsb ' er her newmade graves , Shall curse thee from her heart !
So wreaths of gay Campagna 8 flowers'* Shall childhood in thy pathway fling , 5 o garlands from their ravaged bowers , * Shall Term ' s maidens bring . But , hateful as that tyrant old , The mocking witness of his crime , In thee shall loathing eyes behold , . The Xero of our time . Stand where Rome ' s blood was freest shed , Mock Heaven with impious thanks , and call Its corses on the patriot dead , Its blessings on the Gaul ! Or sit upon thy throne of lies , A poor , mean idol , blood-besmeared , 'Whom even its worshippers despise , - Fnhonoured , unrevered .
Tel , Scandal of the world ! from thee , One needful truth mankind shall learn ; That kings and priests to liberty , And God are false in turn . forth wearies of them , and the long , . Meek sufferance of the heaven ' s doth fail ; TToe for weak tyrants , when the strong Wake , struggle , and prevail ! 5 ot vainly Boman hearts have bled - Tofeed the crorier and the crown , Si roused thereby , the world shall tread , The twin-born vamnyres down .
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Jm Trade ou * Free Traded ; or , the Self-Enfranchiser . By " Waxsbeck . " London W . Str ange , 21 , Paterno 3 ter-iow . Combked with some eccentricities of thought and expression there are some wholesome ircths set forth in this pamphlet . The author clserres : — let our first political right be our all-absorbing Sane : the accomplishment of which , to be the im-Estable datum from which to begin the regeneration of our country , and the ultimate spread of Peace , Union , and Freedom , over the whole world .
lbs enemies of freedom and Progress would lain isifl into the minds of the people a contrary docirine ; but believe them not , for they are false and Maested counsellors—slaves who live on the spoil G other men ' s rights , whose impunity rears its bead ctet prostrate reason—whose bulwarks of safety is fe supposed ignorance of the great mass of the jspfe . Believe them not , for they are deceitful earns under the guise of pretended friends . From fts right all other good must flow , or flow in vain , lisa theme which demands the asperations of the ablest minds that the ruling power of the universe bs created . It is the alpha of man s political BEtence .
We have no faith in " Wansheck ' s " scheme if " petitioning . " Hnmblyhegguig and praying " with bated hreath and in a bondman ' s ffij i' ? will never -win anything but contempt ma the withholders of the rights of the people . "TheLabour Question . " "Should the Taxes mKnowkdgeleAboUshed ? " TheBeasoner . PartL VoL IX . London : J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head-passage , Paternoster-row .
iffitwo first-named of these publications are feck issued by the " Political and Social 5 xact Society , " established at the John-street imitation . The author of tract No . 1 treats of the Labour Question in its Ideal , Experimental , and Practical Aspect . The following iBastraies the " Organisation of Labour" in ' tis rudimentary form : — Parliament is asked to appropriate some piece of *» te Jand , capable of sustaining from 200 to 500 poor families ; to build suitable habitations for them -plain , substantial houses , drained and ventilated So as to be salubrious . The buildings might be ar-& > ged on a co-operative plan , so far as the common
ranremences are concerned , which are already being Safised in Model Washing and Lodging Houses , « nd Baths . There might be a public kitchen and a jBblie table , for those adults who were very huai ? vonld make no permanent objections to a dinar m company . In such a colony trades and ma-^ ittures should be introduced in such proportion ssvonld enable the residents to supply themselves , Jjj&ras possible , without barter—in fine , to render ran self-supporting and self-dependent Let P P » superintendents and directors be appointed j ^ ftunders of the colony . Let it be under-« wa that whoever came were to perform such work 5 naghtbea ppomtedtothemtodo . Let the hours
w labour be so ordered so as not to exceed the ave-™ & extent of strength of the parties who are to gr form it—their remuneration being wholesome *™ ter , wholesome food , sufficient clothing , and a « aoi education for their children . The surplus ^ jcts of the colony—when any—should be dis-*?™ - tf . to repay the cost of its foundation and ~ Fnse of direction ; and afterwards it should bei ™ ethe property of the colonists , who would have !*™ re them the prospeet of ultimate emancipation . « ere should be no air of charity about the place—^ Personal humiliation—but such order and en-Z ?» ent of duty as would ensure the productive-^« the place .
rjfose arrangements made , let the government 2 , the destitute and able" families of the unem-** £ * to enter such a colony . Let there be no ^ "fiea iisn as to opinion—all shades of politics and ^ osyshould be equally eui gible , and thecoming , * -9 * ig , or leaving , equally optimal . Manv would ^ eome—many would not stay ; but ' if they jphed , their blood would not , as now be at the I * of the law , which binds up all property and r ^ e the poor to perish , or degrades them in the gw-honse . There should be no degradation here , ^ eplony should be ' such a place that a man of ^ Padent spirit could come to it . The principle j j ^ j ation should be , as far as possible—Assis ^* without interference , help without dominion .
^ ip objections made to the plans of Mr . Owen T Jr'f-firound of their indefinitenes 3 , have not been founded . The English" are not theorists ; their S £ essentiall y practical , deals directly with j ^^ o remedies . Mr . Owen has done this with |^*? ood sense than he has been credited with . jC ^ ag social disturbances arisa from the collilUen S ^ petitive interests , and the number of ( f do * " ?™ % augmenting through the increase khaW onand tbe displacements of machinery , 5 . . i PrOBOSeH fho inctitntinn nf TT « m « H / tlnniaa of
islM " ^ ° s extinguishing pauperism , and £ X no » g habits of self-dependince , which must W ^"" ' * ? ! to that state of Pmdenceand intehg ^ T 7 n shall regulate the human family in ^ w the naturalmeans of subsistence . ColoB&r Sard ae rodunental institution of Home tf issm . ?^ a Drec nreor to a more perfect system ls % rf 7 v O n * But f » probability or improba-^ iainfirt fei ? tateon ' nottoiiogthe I diBcussion | S ^ 4 : ?!^ fe ^ ^» is a condensed reproduction of
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facts and " arguments previously published in fevour of the repeal of the iniquitous Taxes on Knowled ge . The Part of the Beasoner contains too first four numbers of a new and improved Series of that publication ,: The " Reasoner , Tracts , " , published , with each number , constitute . a-valuable 'feature of the new series . "We give the following sensible observations on . i ¦; ¦ Oaih Takiso . —If Sir Peter Laurie meant what ne said the other day on thebench respecting oaths , it is reasonable to expect that his worship will lend his assistance to those who are desirous of " putting down , " amongst other follies of the age , the system of Bible-kissing now practised hi our courts of > ^ - > -ry : ; :- ^ ' . ' ¦
justice . In the Times of February 19 th , in the report of the case of Mr . Kenealy , who stood charged with bratally iU-usmg his natural child , a boy six years old , Sir P . Laurie is stated to have declared— " If a person cannot , speak the ^ truth without being sworn , I would not believe him on his oath . " It is clear he does not feel that thelips which have been forced by legal form to touch the &ew Testament , are . more likely to breathe out words of truth , than those which have not " smacked the calves' skin . " He knows well enough that the oath ia not only a mockery of religion , butan insult to the majesty of truth .: It is to be hoped the tune will soon come when this piece of mummery will be abolished . It cannot but
carry with it effects most hurtful to the moral nature of man , and if so , must be a very pestilence in the heart of society . For what does it , by implication teach ! Just this : that men are under no obligation to speak the truth in ordinary every-day life — that in their general intercourse with the world it is' of little consequence whether they , utter falsehoods or not —and that tbe truth is only required of them when placed in a witness box , after they have kissed the outside of a book , the contents of which they are perhaps wholly ignorant of ; and because , if after this kissing they chance to be caught in a lie , the law can punish them for something called perjury . So that the law really says , 'I can ' t
punish you for saying what is false , but for saying what 13- false after the ceremony of being morn . In a general way you may tell lies , if convenient , without any great sin , but in this particular instance you incur a penalty if you speak not the truth . * To any reflective ' mind this must appear most demoralising , and doubtless it is so . It is placing form before spirit—an empty , trifling , irreverent bodymotion before the eternal , ever-beautiful idea of Truth . Wo should teach manking that their duty to Truth and Justice is antecedent to all oaths and outward forms . Until we do this we shall fail to build uo in tbe mind a loftv conceDtion of moral
princi ple . Tbe more we learn upon the crutch of the External the weaker will become the nervespring of the Inner soul . Here are a few lines from 'famous old Chaucer on the subject of swearing : — . Great swearing is a thing abominable ; And false swearing is yet more reprovable . The highe God forbade swearing at all , "Witness on Matthew ; but in special Of swearing , saith the holy Jeremie , Thou shalt swear soth thine oatbes and not lie . And swear in doom , and eke in righteousness , But idle swearing is a cursedness . - FraxkGrast
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ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . The second lecture of Dr . Bachhofiher * s proves no less interesting than the first on the Philosophy of Scientific Recreation . The learned Doctor , in this , explains the principles governing the effects commonly known as light , and shadow , and colour ; although , at first , a subject seemingly devoid of popular interest , under such skilful management it bears an all absorbent theme . The most prominent features connected with the philosophy of sight were beautifully entered into by the Professor , one and all tending in their minute perfection to evidence the wisdom and skill of an aU-wise Creator . Had one little muscle been forgot in the construction of the eye , we should have been under the necessity of using one hand to observe any object presented in the other . The involuntary motion , or winking of
the eye , could have as little been dispensed with , serving , by its peculiar motion , to close and preserve the eye from all adventitious matters . The morement of the upper lid of the eye is explained by the Doctor , when carried on involuntary , so extremely rapid as to preserve the image of tbe object without cessation upon the mind , but however quickly this winking be performed , designedly we cannot prevent the momentary Ios 3 of the image during such process ; , this ( the Doctor ) made the basis of a number of experiments . The next point touched upon / was the operation of seeing not performed , as we may imagine , by the eyes , but by tbe mind . Dr . Bachhoffner concluded his admirable lecture by a number of most brilliant experiments . Sir Henry Bishop still continues , his delightful lectures on Music daily .
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MEDALS OF JAMES MORISOK , THEHTCEISr . AXD GREAT MEDICAL REFORMER , May t » had of all the Agents for the sale of Morison ' s Kllg . PRICE ONE SHILLISGEACH . In Bronze , 10 s . 6 ( 1 ; in Silver , 2 J . ; in Gold , 18 t . JAMES MORISOS , the Hjgeist proclaimed—THE IMMORTAL lstly . —That the vital principle is in the blood . HARVEY - 2 ndly .-That all diseases arise from imparity of the PROCLAIMED THE blood . 3 rdly . —That such im-CIRCCLATIOJJ OF THE purity can OHly he eradicated by a purgative such as BLOOD . Morison's Vegetable Universal Medicine of the British College of Health , Newroad , London . 4 thly . — That the deadly poisons used as medicines by the doctors are totally unnecessary in the cure of diseases .
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PiELiiiiEsiiET Reform . — A meeting of tbe Bethnal Green Reform Society was held on Monday evening at the Jforfolk Arms , William-street , Bethnal Green , which was numerously attended ; Mr . Joseph Dean in the chair . Mr . Hackman , one of the delegates to the Rational Reform Conference , made bis report , which was approved and adopted . The meeting then proceeded to take into consideration the principal objects of the society , which were to obtain the elective franchise for all persons living in houses for which the landlord pays the rates and
taxes , without the necessity of claiming to be rated to every rate made during the four quarters of the year . —The Chairman stated that a bill had been prepared by Sir William Clay to remedy the evil , who wa 3 now in communication with the government and the law officers of the crown on the subject—Mr . YTickham urged upon the meeting the importance of watching most closely the progress of this bill , which there was too much reason to fear wonld be rendered nugatory by the government officials . The meeting resolved to act spon Mr . Wickham ' s suggestion .
A Moksteb Pluralist . —In the fourth edition of Mr . Whiston ' s pamphlet , " Cathedral Trusts and their Fulfillment , " just published , he gives , at page 80 , the following list of ecclesiastical income , tithes and benefices held by a single clergyman : —Prebendal income , £ 1 , 000 ; tithes of Doddington , £ 3 i 7 10 s ; ditto of By the West , £ 12 ; ditto of Lympne , £ 503 ; ditto of Leynham , £ 765 12 s , Cd ; ditto of Stone , £ 218 3 s . 6 d ; Rectory of Saltwood , £ 685 ; cum Hythej £ 95 18 s ; Rectory of Cliffe Rochester , £ 1 , 391 103 lOdi ; glebe of ditto , 20 acres , £ 35 ; total , £ 5 , 053 14 s . 10 | d . " To look , " says the author of "Ecdesia Bet , " " at Cliffe church , and think of- — is one of the most painful sights and scenes of home travel which a Christian man
can witness and weep over . " Mr . Whiston notes too that "The canonical rector has not moved from his cathedral orbit to Cliffe more than once in the last 12 years . " And in his preface Mr . Whiston states that to the sum of £ 5 , 05314 s . lOid . " are to be added , great tithes of Lynsted , £ 627 13 s . 10 id ; great tithes of Iwade , £ 535 16 s . 3 d ; total £ 1 , 16310 s . m ; making thereal total of £ 6 , 217 5 s ; to which report gives something more . Neither Mr . Whiston , nor the writer of " Ecclcda Dei , " add the name of this unfortunate churchman . As , however we have before remarked on the case without any such false delicacy , we may now repeat that he is the Rev . Archdeacon Crofte . —Daily News . Posi-office Notice , —The following notice has been sent to the deputy-postmasters , by command of the Postmaster-General : — " General Post-office May 12 , 1850—It is found that many postmasters still forward , on the Saturday night , in their
London through * bundles , letters and newspapers which ought to be kept over for the despatch to London the following day , viz ., letters for London and the London district ; letters for foreign parts ; inland letters , prepaid by money ; unpaid letters ; letters for Guernsey , and Jersey ; and newspapers . Particular attention must be paid to the previous instructions , which direct that the ' London throug h' bundles are to contain none but stamped forward letters , and the state ' s or government letters . Ko registered letters , unpaidletters , or letters prepaid by money , or newspapers , are to be sent , nor any letters addressed to London or the London district , except the government letters . Postmasters at the outportsmust , however , forward to London , as usual , all foreign , colonial , and ship letters landed at those ports . * . The CoionssiosEBs of the Board of Customs baye just issued an order that no person can be appointed to fill a clerkship in the Customs hereafter who has not a knowledge of tfie French and German languages , and of arithmetic and algebra .
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METROPOLITAN INTERMENTS BILL . On Monday ^ evening a crowded meeting , convened by the Metropolitan Sanitary Association , was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern , Strand , in favour of this bill . Lord R . Grosvenor , M . P ., filled tbe chair , and on the platform were Lord Ebrington M . P ., Mr . Mackinnon , M . P ., Mr . G . Thompson M . P ., Mr . Wyld , MJP ., the Rev . Dr . Watlington and many others who have distinguished themselves in the cause of sanitary reform . The CnAinuAN , in opening ^ he proceedings , observed , that the subject they had assembled to discuss was one of extreme importance to every single member of the country—the decent interment of the dead , or , as the Patriarch Abraham had more appropriately described it , "the burial of the dead
out of our sight ; because when the spiritual part of us had winged its way from the last remains of mortality , ' however much they might have been cherished during life , nature spoke to us in a warning voice , not to be misunderstood , that if we had any regard for the survivors we must consent to bury tho dead out of our sight . Until recently it was supposed that our system of sepulture was carried on m a decent manner ; but public feeling had been suddenly disturbed by the revelations contained in Mr . Walker ' s pamphlet , which revealed to their astonished eyes that scenes were enacted in this country which not only were not creditable to us , but which would have disgraced Hottentots and Esquimaux . The parties impugned . had loudly
denied the fact . Inquiries were made ; a case of most crying evil was established ; and it was discovered , that of all the nations of the earth between Calcutta and California , England was the only one , with all her boasted civilisation , that had failed to make provision for the decent interment of the dead ; and not only that , but we had suffered interests to grow up in perpetuation of that horrible system which it almost defied human ingenuity to remove . We had at last a practical remedy in the shape of a bill now before Parliament . ( Hear . ) The principle on which that bill was founded would meet , -he thought , with universal concurrence . ( Cheers and "No , no . " ) Theprinciple'to which he alluded was this—that that whioh was of
universal concern should not be left to chance arrangements or isolated exertions ; but that in the case of the interment of the dead it should he carried into effect by those who had no particular interest to serve , who should be entirely responsible to public opinion , and who should carry their duty into effect in such a manner , that every man woman , and child , who chose to inquire , should be able to ascertain exactly in what manner the remains of their friends and relatives were to be disposed of . ( Cheers and uproar , and cries of " So they can now . " ) The reason why that measure most strongly commended itself to his sympathies was that it was for the benefit of the working classes . ( " Oh , " and cheers . ) He firmly believed
tnat there was implanted in the working classes of this country the strongest sentiment for the dead . He knew instances in which they had almost starved themselves to secure the decent interment of their friends ; but that honourable , ftonest , ^ dignified feeling had been most grossly outraged by tho gcGnea they had been compelled to witness . They might think it a sentimental or fanciful idea of his ; But : he did indulge a hope if these national cemeteries should be established , f « , w 8 ^ ntemplated ^ this m > A * no very ex-SJ « te f fr ? m the metropolfs , that on ; the Sunday the . working classes of this great metvo-. polis , would go forth on therailways-for thesake of searching out the spot and planting a flower on the tomb of some dear lost one . ( Cheera . ) He
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was not going to discuss the bilL in extreme denf . £ - ? cli yi ^> while the danger , was : immi-^ £ «? overw ¥ ming majority Wafeveriing to 5 w w . government , that they . participated in £ » LT ! r le - fe (! lingand . were anxibus . to apply Lhinn «! n ' ' pO 88 ible remedy t 0 ai state ' of things "OT man must sincerely deplore . ( Cheers . ) . JSLj ° u' ? 0 N came forward to move" the first SKfc f ? 9 8 ubJectedtoahnoyancesaridin : HfT <> f such a nature as renderedhis ' remarks ? SSiJnaudable . He observed-that the-under-Tf »\ nn " m * whom the' opposition . appeared to emanate ) could not suffer by this bill , i It could not be 2 S ^ t the government could consent to turn Sfnlf . 8 > , ! nd those who were already in / the ifSSS ? W 0 Uldno doubt C 0 litinuet 0 be employed . n ! W . r «^ n renothl n else he shouldsupport this ™ nT ™? ° 1 i ount of the P resent high charges , so Kffi ^ the Poor that they were often com-E ™ Sj kee P the dead in their houses for three weeks or a month . ( A storm of interruption here ^ ni . n f 8 p c e er which lasted for some time , the attempts of the chairman , and other gentlemen to obtain order being wholly ineffectual ) . Thehoh . member wasafclength able to add / that it was' for the welfare , of the community , the health of . the great metropolis , and the happiness of the country absolutely requisite that the system of extramural interment should be adopted . - Tho resolution he had to submit was this :- " That in the oninion of
tms meeting , the present sjstem of burial in the metropolis is prejudicial to healtb , incompatible with decency and solemnity , demoralising in its tendency , and unnecessaril y expensive " « !™ VNi word l Mr - G - Thompson , who successfull y , appealed to the : meeting to hear the speaker who was to follow , . ^ ordEBRpcGioN , M . P ., presented himself " in support of the resolution . It had been calculated that in and around the metropolis about- 52 , 000 persons died annually . What became of their bodies-whei-e were the spaces provided to bury the dead out of sight . ( Avoice , " Plehtyofcemeteries . " )! yes , but now was the poor . man to convey his - relations thither ? , ( Cheers . ) Prom a Parliamentavtfretnm
of 1843 he found , that there were of parochial churchyards , about 170 acres ; of Protestant Dissenters , 20 acres ; of private or commercial burial grounds , 13 acres ; and about half an acre belonging to , the Roman Catholics . : Now , - about 110 corpses might be annually put away in an acre , and before the ground' was re-opened those corpses had returned tetheirparent'dusfc . The average in these burial grounds had been about 191 , or nearly double ; but in one , Sfc . James , Clerken well , there wore as many as 3 , 000 to an acre , and there were ten others with upwards of 1 , 000 to the acre . The effect on the soil was that it turned black , ditchy , and greasy , offensive to the senses
and most prejudicial to health . . Was not this a disgrace to the country and revolting to the feelings of a civilised man ? This was a task which the government had not undertaken as a chivalrous crusade against public opinion , uninvited to it by anybody ; but in compliance with almost unanimous public feeling . The princi ple of bargaining in such matters as the burial of the dead was most revolting , especially at a time when such bargaining had of necessity to be made ; and he denied that , under parochial control , such arrangements as the government proposed could be satisfactorily carried out . Let the details of the bill be discussed as much as they pleased , but let them assert the principle of the
bill . ¦•¦¦' ¦ Mr . Nodes , who announced himself as an undertaker , after considerable uproar , was permitted to address the meeting from the platform . He objected to the term " unnecessarily expensive" in the resolution , and denied that funerals as conducted by undertakers were more expensive than was absolutely necessary . Let the cemetery companies consent to receive the bodies at any hour , and not confine the undertakers to one particular time , and the charges would be considerably reduced . There
was , he contended , nothing m the bill to guarantee that charges hereafter should not bo as hi gh as at present . He looked upon the proceedings , as a " dead setagainst his profession , " intended to fatten those who are already fat enough . Mr . Box , another undertaker , moved an amendment to expunge the objectionable words , insisting that the competition amongst the trade was too great to admit of exorbitant charges . The question was then put , and the resolution was carried by an immense majority , not above thirty hands appearing to be held up for the
amendment . Mr . G . Cruickshank was then announced to move the next resolution , and essayed to speak , but a disturbance that had commenced amongst the crowd , which was swaying backward and forward at the rear of the meeting , prevented his proceeding . Suddenly a rush was made—the temporary barriers which separated those who had tickets from the great mass were broken down , the reporters' table was upset , and their notes dispersed . All was immediately in the utmost confusion ; and Lord R . Grosvenor manfully maintained his post , it was evident the proceedings could not go onl His Lordship at . length intimated as much , and the meeting abruptly terminated .
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DEPUTATION OF PROTECTIONISTS TO LORD JOHN RUSPKLL . On Saturday . last a deputation from the delegates who assembled at the Crown and Anchor , in the course of the week , waited on Lord John Russell ; at his official residence in Downing-street ; to present to him an address agreed to by the " Conference , " held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern , on the 7 th inst . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ - . ¦ Mr . G . F .-Young headed the deputation , and read the address which was agreed to at the meeting of delegates .
After a desultory conversation , m which the bad temper displayed by the meeting was the principal topic of discussion , Lord John Rosseli . said : I can only say that I take upon myself the whole responsibility of any advice which I may feel it my duty to give to my sovereign . My experience leads me directly to the opposite conclusion to that arrived at by you upon the point , whether we ought to go on with Free Trade , or return to the principles of Protection and Restriction , nor do I think it desirable to dissolve parliament in order to arrive at the sense of the country on the subject . With reepect to the suffering which is stated to exist , though I think much of what is said is incorrect , I have heard sufficient from some parts of the country to know that deep suffering
does exist , and I am aware that that suffering is partly attributable to the recent change in our commercial laws , and I Believe it to be inevitable . Ten years since I clearly saw that this country required some change of those laws affecting supply , as it was yearly becoming more commercial . My object was to make the transition so as to occasion as little suffering as possible . I am sarry to say that a combination of agricultural and other interests decided that no necessity for any change of our system existed in 1840 , though the opinion of parliament in 1846 became completely changed . A general election follewed their-decision in 1847 , and the electors decided to continue the policy the House of Commons had laid , down in 1846 . I do not think it
was very wise on the part of the interests in 1840 not to seek some compromise of the great question which I then brought under consideration . I think it-would be far more unwise now to pretend to reimpose protective duties , for , so far from that settling the question , I believe it would give rise to fresh agitation for alterations of the laws , which would be injurious to the protected interests themselves . ; and I believe that nothing could be more injurious to the permanent ; interests of the country than for parliament to impose protective duties in 1851 , which would again lead to agitation and their repeal in 1852 or 1853 . All return to the former
system being , as I believe , impossible , it may be desirable to equalise , if possible , the charges upon land , which 1 believe to be the wish of all parties . However great or difficult the change , I believe that the general aspect of the country is encouraging , and that it is the duty and interest of all parties to endeavour to adapt themselves to it . Entertaining these views , I feel it my duty , either as a minister of the crown or a member of parliament , to aci in conformity with them , and if I entertained your views I should act accordingly . Mr . Young and Mr . Guthrie having addre 3 sed a few words to his lordship in support of their views , the deputation withdrew .
Protectionist Deputation to Lord Stanley . — After the deputation had left Lord John Russell ' s official residence , in Downing-street , on Saturday las , they proceeded by appointment to wait on Lord Stanley , at the mansion of the Earl of Eglinton in St . James s-square , where Mr . Layton , as chairman of ; the deputation , presented an address to his lordship , in his " acknowledged character of leader of the great Protection Party in the House of Lords . " In his reply , Lord Stanley counselled patience and perseverance . Step by step , if not the quickest , was at least the soundest , policy . It was only by gaining first one man and then the other that , in a permanent body like the House of Lords , they could convert a minority into a majority in favour of the
protective principles . ¦ His lordship concluded his address as follows : — . " If you ask my advice , I say persevere in the coirse you have adopted . Agitate the country from one end to the other . Continue to call meetings in every direction . Do not fear , do not flinch from discussion . ^ By all means accept the offer of holding a meeting in that magnificent building at Liverpool ; and in our greatest commercial towns show that there is a feeling in regard to the result of our so-called free trade widely different from that which was anticipated by the free traders , and from that which did prevail only a few years ago . ; Your efforts may not be so soon crowned with success as you hope ; but , depend upon it , let us stand band to hand firmly together let the landlord , the tenant , and the labourer—aye and tbo country shopkeeper—aye , before lone , the
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manufacturer himself , be called nn " f « It . ' "" ,. prove what theeffects of thTe ' p ^ m ^ e ll ° sureas we stand together , temperatel y but firmlv de l termmed to assertour rights , so certainly : at the' pensMtmay be , intense suffering , and perhaps n ' f . ruin to many-of rum which , God knoWs , if IK lavertr would omit no effort for that purpose—but ultimately , certainly and securely we shall attain our object , and recede from that insane policy which has been pursued during the last few years ' . I have now only to return ; you my most grateful thanks for the compliment you have paid me in wishing me to receive this Deputation . * I have heard with the liveliest interest the statements of Mr . Layton . If in any partoftneijountry—for now through you I address every district—if there be but one district in which a
suspicion is entertained that I am flinching from or hesitating in ray advocacy of those principles on which I stood in conjunction with . nay late deeplylamented friend Lord George Bentinck , I authorise you—one and all of you—to assure those whnni you represent , that inme . they will find no hesitation , no flinching , and no change of opinion ; that , attached as I ever have been to the principle of - protection , that attachment remains ' unch ' anged , and I only look for the moment when it may be possible ' for us to use the memorable words of the Duke of Wellington on "j field of Waterloo , and to say ' Up guards , and at
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The Biter . Bjtien . -A man in the dress of a workman was lately walking in the streets of Berlin with a . pacbet m his hand , sealed with five seals , and inscribed with an address , and a note that it contained one hundred thalers in treasury bills .. As the bearer-appeared to be at a loss , he was accosted by a passenger , who asked him what he was looking for . The simple counfryman ' placed the packet ' in the in .
qinrers hands , and requested that he would read the address . The reply was made as with an' agreeable surprise , - "Why this letter is for me ; 1 have been expecting it for a long while ! " The messenger upon this demanded ten thalers for the carriage of the packet , which waB readily paid , with a liberal addition to the porter . The new possessor of the packet hastened to an obscure corner to examine . his prize , but , on his breaking the seals found nothing but a few sheets of blank paper , on which was written "Done . " : ¦ !
¦ A Greek Maid being asked what fortune she would bring her husband , replied , "I will bring him what gold cannot purchase—a heart unspotted , and virtue without a stain , which is all that descended to me from my parents . " ' . . Noveii Use of the Electric Telegraph . —On Wednesday ^ week the following announcement was posted outside the window of the Electric Telegraph office , ' Stockport :-. " The Queen . delivered -of a Prince at 8 . 20 this morning by Electric Telegraph . " The Judge ' s Warning —The great Lord Chief Justice Holt , when young , was very extravagantand
, belonged to a club , of wild fellows , most of whom took . to an iBfamous course of life . When his lordship was . engaged at the Old Bailey , a man was tried and convicted of a robbery on the highway , whom the jud ^ e remembered to have been one of his old companions . Moved by that curiosity which is natural on a retrospection of past life , Holt , ( thinking the fellow did not know him ) asked what had become of such and such of his associates . The culprit , making a low bow , and fetching a deep sigh , said , "Ah , my lord , they are all hanged but your lordship and I . " '
Mrs . Pabtington in Ill-Health . — ' La , me !" sighed Mrs . Partington , " here I have been sufferin ' the begamies of death for three mortal weeks . Fust ; I was seized with a painful phrenology in the left hampshire of the brain , which was exceeded by a stoppage of the- left ventilator of the heart . This gave me an inflammation in the borax , and now I ' m sick with the chloroform morbus . There is no blessin' like that of health , particularly when you ' re sick . " . , , _ .. . ., A Trick . —A shrewd fellow , in extreme poverty , resolved to get credit for a miracle . He put the yolks of several eggs into a hollow cane , and stopped the end with butter ' ; then walking into an ale-house
he begged to fry a single egg for hi 3 dinner . The smallnessof the repast-excited curiosity , and they gave him a morsel of lard 5 he stirred the lard with his cane , and to the surrounding peasants , produced a handsome omelet . This miracle established his fame . He sold omelets , and grew rich by . his ingenuity . Woman ' s Makeshift . —Among the papers of a female bigamist , brought before ! the metropolitan magistrates on the 20 th ult ., were the following lines in manuscript : — ¦ A thousand faults in man we find , Merit in him we seldom meet , Man is inconstant and unkind , Man is false ' and indiscreet , Man is capricious , jealous , free ,
Vain , insincere , and trifling too ; And yell the women all agree , For want of better—he must do ! Scholastics of Kerry . —B . Here ' s a fine , fat , boldlooking bouncing B . Say Bee ! ( Bay !) No , not Bay ; try again . ( Terry : Bee !) Capital ! That'll do . Mind it ' s not a flying bee , not a humming-bee , nor a bumble-bee , that sports yellow satin breeches , and wears the point of a needle in its tail . It ' s a ( setter B than the B ' s in your father ' s garden , and you may _ touch this B over and over again , and he'll never sting you as the other B ' s do ; but I'll be after stinging you , maybe , tomorrow , if you don't
remember him again ; and I'd wish you obsarvelliat he stands for the Baker , and Barber , and for Ballyheige , and Ballyclare , and Ballycleave , all noted towns for fairs in our counthry , and maybe you'll be fighting at them yet , as your father and grandfather have done before you —( Terry grins , )— and don ' t forget that B stands tor Beef , and Bacon , and Butter ( if we could only get at them , ) and for Blarney , our renowned castle besieged by that thief 0 ' the night , Cromwell , who thought to stop our mouths with his gunpowther and cannon-balls , but was very much mistaken . I thing you'll know him well now , so move your finger down to
0 . . Oh ! , Did you . ever see the full moon rounder than that ? or an apple ? Only the Kerry pippins are round enough every way , till ye begin to bite them ; and this poor fellow is as flat as a pancake-Look at it , Terry , and just think what soort of a noise you ' d make , if I tuk a fancy to give your ear a little bit of a pinch , so , ( Terry gets frightened and roars out Oh- !) There did ' nt I tell you so , my dear boy ? And you'll never forget it , now it ' s wanst been pinch'd into you ! 0 , that ' s a greater letter entirely . What would I be without it ? or any of the ould O'Sullivans ? or even the new branches ?—( but I ' m of the raal stock ) — or the O'Connell ' s , or O'Tooles , ¦ or O'Callaghans , or O'Byrnes , 'or O'Gradys , O ' Donnels , or
O'ShaugUnessys , or O'Flahertys , or O'Briens , and whole regiments and armies of O ' s that sprung out of our ancient nobility ? Sure they might as well Use their eyes or their ears ( that some of them did lose and could not never get back again , ) or their very noses off their faces , as lose their O ' s . Then think of the round of a cart-wheel , and of that big blackguard , Oliver Cromwell , with Omedawns and Orthographies , and cannon-balls , and the pinch of the ear ( Terry feels his ear ) and I'll go bail you'll never forget the O . But it ' s time we ' re losing . S . Here now—Is ' nt this a lovely letter , Terry ? Did you ever see a Swan in full sail ? That ' s him to the life , if there was only a sup of water under him . You must call oufc Ess , ( Terry : Ess !) Ye havo it nate . Seo how stately he is ! a mighty , elegant , stout , clever-lcoking letter , and one of the best in the whole alphabet , being the father , and
grandfather , and greatgrandfather of all the Saints in tl . e blessed calendar—there would be no Saints at all , but for his introduction . So you must rivirinco the S beyant all the other letters ; and renumber , that he stands for Sunday , and Soap , wanst a week before going to overtake the Mass ; and Salt with the potatoes that day anyhow ; and Saxons ( bad scran to them)—that driv us into holes and corners ( myself of the raal old stock that says iliat ); and School , where y er getting into great learning already , and soon will come to the history of Scipio , king of tbe ould Romans , and Solomon , that built the biggest chapel in the world ; and Sampson , that pulled it down again over his own shoulders . And now , Terry dear , don't forgot S stands for Straw ? and remind yer father of the holes that ' s in the roof , ; that he promised to mond up for me agin winter—and that it ' s for an O'Sullivan .
T . Down you pop now to T , a raal nato letter , balanced as true as a rope-dancer at tho fair . Ball out Tee ! ( Terry : Tay . No , that ' s Tay what tho quality do be drinking with crame and lumps of sugar in it . Try again , Tee ! ( Terry : Tee !) That ' s right—my dear—and you'll know him again , when you'li seo Mick Halloran coming up from the river , with the two piggins of water hanging acvass the lift over his . shoulders . You must know he stands for Tutor—and I being your Tutor , he stands for me—and likewise for Turf—and Two-ponce ( tho regulations of this flourishing Academy ) ¦ and Tiber
the groat . river that runs through Rome-and Throy , a big city in the Aste , that was taken by the Phenishons just before they came to settle in ould Ireland . It also stands for Tara , in the county Meath , the capital of the counthry in ancient times , and twice the size of Dublin-that ' s only a now city , and them that lives in it none of tho raal Irish at all , but mostly new comers an very troublosomo people and hard to plaso . My hand t ' yo , I wouldn't give a stone out of ould Thrinity for all the burnt bricks and smoky chimblys in Dublin , that were never honvd tell of in tho ould times ! Move along now . —Dublin University Magazine .
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John Scales , of Mirfield , a labouring man aged 46 years , has beoon marriod three times ; his ; first wife lived seven years , during which . time . she bora him seven children , haying twice , twins . His second wife lived also seven years , and during that time she bqro him six children , having once twins . And his third wife , who is yet alive , has bornhim seven children in four years and four days , having " three times twins . " The said John Scales has not one H ^ , ' ! 1 in his head > Ma front teeth being all of . them double . -Ze ^ . 2 > -mc ,. . of fwY I T W * Murphy , lying under sentence ffoinfnn m ., Ir 1 1 . on being asked howhewaa § I& t Oh ' > * ™« get on very well shoiSS ^ fofm ^ ° k' « W »>
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THF EXHIBITION OF THE INDUSTRY ' . ; OF ALL NATIONS .
. THE GREAT HUMBUG OF 1851 . Fellow CouNT RYMENr . Cworkers , either with head or hands , who take an interest in securing for honest English , industry its ; just reward—grant me , I pray , a few moments attention while I inflate this great bubble of 1851 , till it burst , and be resolved into itspnmitive lixivium of soap and water ! The scheme of an Exhibition of the Industry of all Nabons , resisted by successive administrations , has , at length , been foisted upon the public by a court intrigue , earned on with some five or six members of theSociety of Arts in the Adelphi . -of which society Pnnce Albert is president-who in Prince Albert ' s name , and under his especial patronage , have succeeded in launching this unwieldy project on the vast ocean of British guHibili ( y , and , at the same time , have thrust themselves into lucrative appointments on this Royal Commission—ever a fertile source of jobbing and corruption
In a stete r of transition , from an artificial , high duty system , called protective , to a more sound and j ^ aUhy one , we have not yet obtained free trade . The duty on foreign corn has been repealed ; the duty on slave sugar reduced , by canting and recanting Lord John Russell ; but many important necessaries of life are still as heavily taxed ; tea , "W , f * S ? er cent ; beer , paper , tobaccoalmost the only luxury . of the working man-twelve hundred per . cent , the Press , now consequently bep ! 'JT ? exceptions , the organ of the Money Power-the window tax ,-it appears , is above the working man ' s level of luxury-all these taxes are still raued ; yet despite this onerous amount of taxation-which the chief promoters of this precious scheme are most deeply interested in maintaining at SnaTaS 1 ne r « d « c « re classes-it is proposed thus . suddenly to drive the Enelish artizan and
mecnanic-stiU an unenfranchised political cipherinto direct competition with all the nations of the « ° , » a 011 ^ 116 ? 8 ' mark n ? e ,- ( " tremendous sacrifice ! " " nominal prices ! " ) -is one of the qualifications of articles for exhibition , though cheap things mil he found dear enough at few * , —after the mischief is done . If this forced introduction of contmentalprices for manufactures be found necessary for the Money Power , at all events , let the working classes insist upon being first relieved from the system of indirect taxation upon articles of consumption , which , falls directly enough upon them , the producers , and therefore consumers also . Let the people also demand how the National Debt is to be paid off , and put a stop to the Whig million loans to landlords out of the surplus taxation from the people . The productive classes will be the first to suffer
by this forced reduction in the price of all manufactured commodities ; the difference must be paid by the working man , by a reduction of his wages , unless relieved by a ' proportionate reduction ol taxation . He requires untaxed raw material , untaxed necessaries of life , and the Whigs repeal the duty . on Bricks ! He asks , small blame to him , for Universal Suffrage—and a Royal Commission is issued to devise means for increasing the already fearful amount of competition , the devil take the hindmost principle , against which he now finds it so
difficult to contend . Who is to profit , I ask , by this reduction f The Money Power , now becoming omnipotent , unless the people secure to themselves their fair share of political influence . People of England , remember the railway mania 1 andtremble , when you reflect that political power in th < s country , is still monopolized by men who parcelled you out and sold you , like the bullocks in Smithfield , to the highest bidder : as the Church sells a Cure of Souls —whose salvation she lells you depends upon her teaching . Heaven help poor souls with such teachers !
This Royal Commission is not content with inviting foreigners to exhibit their wares duty free , t . e . to open a shop in Hyde Park , but has also offered them money premiums to tempt them over to complete with native industry , and has obtained considerable sums of mopey for that purpose — the foreigners not subscribing one farthing . The privilege of exhibiting his wares , duty free , would surely have been a sufficient temptation to the foreignerit would be a better advertisement for him than a column of the Times . In these day of steam-boats and railways , the trader runs no risk of having his goods damaged , in transitu , and the cost is insignificant . The foreiper will pay no English rate , ; rents , nor taxes , and will exhibit at our expense , witha sure sale afterwards , and probably future deman d for his goods . He may and probably will deprive the " legitimate trader , " who has to pay English rent rates ,
and taxes , of his regular customers , who have already and to a * perceptible amount , stopped their orders , " until the great Exhibition of 1851 ; " and when the Exhibition is over , to whom will the orders be given ? Wh to the foreigner , to be sure , and his foreign novelties—novelties to John Bull at least , however ancient they may be . Bull ! you are a great fool : but if you allow yourself to be bamboozled by this barefaced imposition , this imprudent job , this conspiracy of art-manufacturers—n ho can ' t sell their trumpery wares , then I say , and I say it with the highest respect for your many virtues , that you are a greater fool than I took you for . Therefore , I say , brave Boll , take timely " warning ! Firat very widely extend the suffrage , and cut down your " Budget , as it is , " to what " it might be ; (" see Mr . Samuda ' s pamphlet , just published byEffingham Wilson , ) then send for the best and most skilful actuaries—not the Whig tax
eaters"¦ With such oia Counsellors , " as Peel , " advise , " and pay off yonr debt like anhonest brave Bull as you are . When yon have accomplished these important preliminaries ; when you have emancipated yourself from thraldom of the feudal Whi « s of the soil ; when you have returned a House of Commons which shall represent the Per . ple—not the Whi gs and the tax eaters —when you have honestly paid your Debt—then , but not till then , invite your- foreign competitors to exhibit specimens of their handy work . But if you do not mind what you are about , my worthy friend , the foreigner wiil come over , first win your prizes , carry off your regular customers , and then laugh at you for your pains , as a silly , gullible old fool . Aud you , my poor Boll , will not laugh , unless it be at your own folly . Your sincere friend and well-wisher , Miy 1 st , 1850 Thalaba . Acadkmicus .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), May 18, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1574/page/3/
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