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C , »™ .. g K - V urious compounds bcine sole b vtZ , m in " Jators upon the credulity of M 1 l ' ubUcT unT ^ " W " tion of the name of DU BAKUY'S 9 rpv ! t ™ S ? e imlta-BI .: A FOOD , or wtih u f ^^ iWRW licioua and invaluable remedy' fur iSBSf S *« , - tion . Nervous . Bilious , and Liver ComXta 5 ? ii 2 E" Rn BARRY and Co . caution Invars against These Zf ^ attempts at imposture . There is noting in tK'S vcgetableltingdom that can legitimately be calledWi « Da Barry ' s Uevalerita Arabica , ' a plant which is cultivated by Du Barry and Co . on their estates alone , and for the pi-e panrtion and pulverisation ¦ of which their own Patent Machinery alone is adapted . let Corn Chandlers sell their pease , beans , lentil , and other meals under their proper names , and not trifle with the health of Invalids and Infants , for whom DU BARRY'S UEVALENTA ARABICA alone is adapted . Bu Barry and Co ., 127 , New Bond-street , London , t * iv the ., 6 : ? 1 t approbation of Lord Stnamde Decies ; the Venerable Archdeacon Alexander Smart , of Ross-a cure or three years' uervousaesB : MhW-Omim-iiI TTmnwn
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^ epileptic fits are much lessfrequent than formerly , instead of coming on every three weeks , there are nowintcrvais of seven or eight weeks between , and with very little convulsion . I am in great hopes they are gradually leaving her , as she is greatly improved in healtk and strength . I am , dear sir , yours faithfully , Joriw II . Allen , Captain R . A ., Londen , 9 th February , 1800 . Respocted Friend-I think no one who bad received or seen so much geod and comfort result from it as in my mother s case , would be without it in sickness ; Thou art at liberty to use this letter as thou thlnkestbi ' Ht , and I mil ciioerlully answer any inquiries . I am , thy friunu , Kdwabd Ubdett , hanitary Engineer , 4 c , 2 , Princes-street , Manchester , 3 rd month , 19 th , 1849 . wWch i h T S h m yQU that the d > tt" ' Ba . of nil iha ^ 8 Uffl ! rcd for tW ) J ' cars » is ml «* improved , and dmnmon « 11 f ? ' Ptoms considerably abated , since I 2 ** t »"" IS the Revalenta ; ' and should it continue Samoei f relapse , I shall have little to complain of , < tc . 1848 . Lixr 0 K > Marltet-streot , Leicester , Kbvtml : er 2 nd , usf of ' the " " ! lill ? ae P eo ^ WwaWe benefit from-the ^ ££ ^ SSSS ^ Si A . «— OMician ,
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ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS , GENE 1 UTIV H INCAPACITY , AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MAKHIAGE . Thirty-first edition , illustrated with Twenty-Six Anatomical 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 the exhaustion and physicaldecay of the system , producad by excessive indigence , the consequeneep of infection , er the abuae of mercury , with obaepvati <* n ? . on the marrried state , aud the dianualitiratiODfl Which pi-event it ; illush-ated by twenty-six coloured en * Cravings , and by the detail of cases . By ' Ri and 1 ,. PKKRT and Co ., 19 , Beiners-strcet , Oxford-street , London . Published by the authors , and sold by Strange , 21 , 1 'afernoster-row : Hannay , 63 , and Sanger , 150 , Oxiord-street , istarie , 23 , Tichbornc-street , Haymarket ; and Gordon , 146 , Leadenhall-street , London ; J . and R . Raimes and Co ., Loithwalk , Edinbui'gh ; D . Campbell , Argyll-street , Glasgow ; J Priestly , Lord-street , and T . Newton , Cliurcbstreet , Liverpool ; R . Ingram , Market-place , Manchester .
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Brother Chartists Beware ! of " Wolves in -SAeeiw ' Clothing . " ¦ RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED WITHOUT A " TiiUSS !!
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A Rkpobtbr in rRincoATs . —Mrs . Swisstilielm who U : is acquired some celebrity as an , editor , lias turned Cousri'ssional reporter , and fc ' now one of the lions of the Sennto ChanibiT . The New Enqkmder suys ; -. " The old reporters eye her aalwuco , nnd do not seem to relish such an intrusion upon their anl lory ; but sho don ' t care for them . " ¦ A SlIFFEIlEIt FROM SLVBKE DliUlUTV ' AND A SllVnW Co . SSTnUT . ON CUBED BV UoMOWAt ' B PlLlA-Mr IU * UOS ' van Vow-Ken , n merchant , residing at Nymcgon , in Holt bnd , bad been sullcnnn- for year * from a go . S d !" , i % ; im strengtlvhad htomu . so prostratoa « , at tawai \ « ito mpumV . c of mtuHd ., g to m . y kin . l . of bn » to « i ; Ms ™« s ''« ton « -ns rapidly Kivmgwny , iioUvitlistamlu . g tho elWtai of the cleverest rawlicnl ' men to arrest it , * at this crisis he commtfneod takint- 'ljollowny ' s 1 'ills ; < nd l . v their useltis lohlth and streuj-tli ave perfectly re-cshiblislV rt , in gratitude for which blessing he desires that vubiichy bu i . 'iv . 'n to it it , that others may sedi relk-l'b y the same
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THE IRISH FELON * Away from his home , the hero was torn , like a felon in fetters bound ; And bis wife was left behind him forlorn , Bat his country he never disowned . It was treason against the Crown and State , To speak of the wrongs we endure , To p ity the victims of Saxon hate , And to plead the cause of the poor . It was treason to err unite , unite ! And join iu the Holy Cause , In the battle of right , against the might Of the Saxons and their " laws . " __ —
There is food in the land for every hand In this beautiful emerald Isle , got the base , mauradiug , Saxon band Take the fruit of the people's toil . A nd thousands of men to the death are driven For want of their daily bread ; But their blood appeals to the God of Heaven Like the blood of Able shed . ' And though years of wrong may aggregate , This bat hastens the earning hour , When tyrants shall meet the tyrant ' s fate , f And the people shall know their power . He was tried by a perjured Saxon crew , And condemned to the felon ' s fate , But the people lore and honour him too , As a martyr to Saxon hate .
They called him / don , and thought that the name ¦ . : . ; . Would bring him to shame and disgrace , But that is " the word which kindles a flame In the hearts of the Celtic race . They teach their children the treason , strong How Mitchel was noble and true , And his wron » 3 they must avenge , ere long , Oa the heads of the ruling / eic . ' Away from his home the hero was torn , Like a felon in fetters bound . And his wife was left behind him forlorn ! But bis country he never disowned . —D . W .
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* Acopy of the above song was sent f . > r insertion to the Iris h Felon , and fel into the hands of the government offi cials , when the office was ransacked , in 18 iS . t The fete of Charles L
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The Press . A Family Literary Journal of Amusement and Instruction . London : "W . Horsell , 13 , Paternoster-row . A new weekly penny periodical , the first number of which contains an abundance of instructive and entertaining matter . While abjuring party politics , the conductors of the Press recognise " the right and the duty of moral insurrection—the insurrection of the understanding and the heart against tyrauny , bigotry , hypocrisy , and falsehood , though the tyranny , bigotry , hypocrisy , and falsehood sit in t&e very seat of Moses , and are environed with the prestige of authority , antiquity , and legitimacy . " And they promise to keep no terms , except those of truth and open rebuke , with consecrated turpitude , and legitimate and old established iniquity . " From an excellent article on " Quackery and Quacks , " we givethe followm ? extracts : —
CHABMS A 5 D AMULETS . Dr . Warburton aligns the origin of amulets and other magical modes of cure to the age of the Ptolemies , which was no' more than 300 years before Christ ; but the testimony of Ga ! ea at once sets this aside , for he tells us that the Egyptian King , jechopsns , who liied 630 years before the Christian era , had written that a green jasper cut into the form of a dragon , surrounded with rays , and applied externally , would streughten the stomach and organs of digestion . It is highly probable , also , that the ear-rings which Jacob buried under the oak of Secbein were amulets . Theophrastus pronounced Pericles to be insane because he discovered that he wore an amulet about his neck ; and in the declining era of the Roman empire , this superstitious custom was so general that the Emperor Caracalla was induced to make a public edict , ordaining that no nan should wear amulets about his person .
So rife were amulets and charms even in the middle ages , that the council of Laodicea prohibited ecclesiastics from wearing amulets and phylacter ies , uncer pain of degradation . Saints Chrysostome and Jerome were likewise zealous against the same practice . Even our immortal Boyle , the father e > f experimental coemistry , had great faith in amulets , and believed that by wearing certain substances around theneck , oron other partsof the body diseases might be both prevented and removed . He tells as that" some of these external mendicamentE do answer ; for that he-was himself subject t /» a bleeding from the nose ; and having used many remedies without avail , he found that the moss of a dt-ad man ' s -kull , though only applied so as to touch
the skin , to be the most efficaceous remedy . "Dr . Chamberlayne ' s Anodyne necklace" for a long time wa 3 the dne qua nan of mothers and nurses , until its virtue was lost by the decline of reverence for it ; as a consequence of the many children who died in spite of haying worn it . The grey liverwort was at one time thought not only to hare cured hydrophobia , but to have prevented mad dogs from biting the persoDB -who had it about them . Cramp r ings were also used , and eel skins tied around the limbs , to prevent spasmodic affections . Sticks laid across the floor on going to bed would cure the headache ; and to place a gridiron tinder the sheets , on getting into bed , would
infallibly remove the rheumatism . Even tbe immortal author of the "Novum Organum " once submitted to the lady of an English ambassador to have " an hundred warts removed from his hands , " by rubbing them with the fat side of a piece of bacon , which was afterwards nailed to a post with the fat side towards the south ; "in five weeks , " says my lord , "they were all removed . " It is unfortunate , doubtless , for publishers and bill-aticfcera that her ladyshi p is not living at the present day , as she certainly would have opened premises in the Strand , or thereabouts , and commenced a vigorous system of puffing and advertising , and probably have benefited philology with a few new words , though perhaps to the danger of the vocal organs of honest
men . Nothing is more natural , and at the same time more erroneous , than to attribnte the cure of a disease to the last mwlieine that had been employed . The advocates of amulets and charms have ever been thus enabled to appeal to the testimony of what they are pleased to call experience , in justification of their superstitions ; and cases , which in truth ought to be considered lucky escapes , have been triumphantly puffed off as skilful cures : and thus have
medicine and practitioners alike acquired unmerited pr aise or unjust censure . This species of delusion reminds ns of the Florentine quack , who gave the countrynian . his pills , which were to enable him to find bis lost ass . The pills beginning to operate on the road home , obliged him to retire into a wood , where he actually did find his ass . The clown , as a matter of course , soon spread a report of the wonderful success of the empiric , who , no doa' . it , afterwards reaped an ample reward from the owners of strayed cattle .
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ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . Some beautiful additions have been lately made to tbe galleries of the fine arts in this establishment . They consist of a number of crayon portraits from the pencil of Mons . ilagues , a French artist . Among them we observed several paiutiugs of females , charmingly executed , together with portraits of distinguished military individuals , drawn in a most characteristic manner . These productions cannot fail to enhance tbe reputation already obtained by this gentleman in this beautiful and novel style of execution . The admirable engravings by Mr . Charles Wags are the admiration of all lovers of the fine arts who visit this National Institution .
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Lobs Asjuet and his Sabbatarian friends will rejoice to hear , after all their pains to fitop the delivery of Sunday newspapers , that the London and Southwestern Railway Company have volunteered , pending more complete arrangements , to receive at the Waterloo-station , and fur » ard to any station on the line , on payment of one penny , newspapers addressed to private individuals , aud directed to be left till called for . They must be open at both ends . In addition to the stations at Waterloo and Sine Elms , newspapers may be left at the following placesi—rj amuro' Wharf , Upper Thames-street ;
Swan with Two Necks , Lad-lane ; Spread Eagle , Gracechurob-street ; Cross Keys , Wood-street ; Golden Cress , Charing-crass ; Universal Office , Jte grtnt-circus ; George and Bine Boar , Holborn ; Griffin ' s Green Man and Still , Osford-sUreet . — WtoU s Lupatch . . ¦ ¦¦ ¦; The Pgbuc Records . —The public will be gratified to learn , that all the preliminary arrangements * f » completed for erecting a building oh a site of " « Rolls estate , sufficiently large to contain the PnWic records , and archives . The Rolls House , JJ 0 II 3 Court , and present public buildings on the Jails estate , are intended to be preserved in the ™ st instance for the transaction of business : Be
S !( l es affording ample room , for arranging and preserving the records now in the custody of the ^ ster . of the Rolls , the new , structure . will give Jpom to the public records which may accrue for ft « nest twenty years ; ¦•••"' '
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LETTER FROM T / F . MEAGHER . j tra ? te ° ^? **?* ?***«*•• the following ex-S ^ ivldfelnT-I **¦"'* ' * * ' ^ w jsa iBaTEi ^ ties in Ireland : though indeed the largest of them is barely equal to a good-sized parish in the lame old countij . They are , in fact , little more than great wildernesses of bush * ( which you must Know is the wild uncultivated tortion of the island . ) lhey are used for the roost part as sheep walks ; include from forty to fifty housesscattered in ll - -- MEAGHER' |
, a directions over them ; can boast of half a dozen public houses , a Methodist chapel or two ; three or lour police stations ; and perhaps two or three respectable country seats , the properties of the moro educated and influential settlers ; but , altogether , any one , the best of them even , is as disconsolate a retirement as the most sentimental exile need possibly desire . Between'a . district and a prism tnereis just the same difference ( and no more ) as that between a paddock and a stable . In the one tde animal has the range of a grass-plot ; in the other he may twist and turn , as well as he can , in
"P Wednesday morning ( the Wednesday after the day of our arrival ) , about three o ' clock , the guard-boat <» me alongside , and , for once in my '" ™ ™ ady to start . Having wished good-bye to 0 Bnen , M'Manus , and O ' Donoghue , I went on deck , and there I found the captain , the surgeon and two or three of the others waiting to take leave of me . Thi 31 looked upon as particularly kind of them , for they had hardly been three hours in bed , k ( 2 ? the evenln g before with the officers of the 99 th , and not having returned to the ship till long after twelve o ' clock . But , as I have written t 0 —— > » t was ' part and parcel' of the generous , straightforward , gallant kindness , which we experienced from them all through the voyage .
' Ross consists of iorty-five houses—the most of them being but one story high , and seldom venturing as much as a skylight . Amongst . these fortyfive houses , I include the military barracks , where the soldiers yawn and smoke all day ; the police station , the external appearance of which reminds me of a neat wei gh-house , in some decent , tidy little village at home ; two sentry boxes : the Methodist chajtel , with a barrel-organ inside " of it ; the Protestant church on the top of a bill , looking very cold and disconsolate ; two inns ; an 'ironmongery and general warehouse , ' where ewjy description of article , whether of food , furniture or dress , can be had—where , in a word , a green cheese or a gridiron can be procured with equal facility ; the post-office , a disgrace to letters , and I should say a considerable drawback npon the humanising
influence they are supposed to produce ; an eating house for travellers ; ' half a dozen dog houses ; three private residences ; a smith ' s forge ; and an infant school , without windows or roof . The defence of this important place is entrusted to the two soldiers I have mentioned ; whilst its internal peace and propriety , are guaranteed by the presence of three constables , who seem to me to do nothing but chop firewood all day . Yon can easily imagine , then , the rapture with which my days come and vanish in thisElvsinmofthe South Seas . Jokes apart—my life here would be as lonely as any hermit ' s , and would be , many times , very dismal too , were it not for the occasional visit of - He is somewhat elderly , but full of life , vivacity , and vigour ; very fond of a little social intercourse , and a brave old sportsman . I have found him very kind and attentive .
" The Wesleyans constitute a very numerous sect in this colony—they beat the Protestants by many a head , and run np to the Catholics closely . There are the Israelites , too , a diminutive sect , as far as numerical strength is considered , but large in the activity of its members , the profusion of their beards and the abundance of their faith . * * * * As for the Catholics , numerous as they are , the facilities they possess for complying with their religions duties—for hearing mass on Sundays even—are very limited . In the entire of this district of Campbell Town- one of the largest districts of the colony , it being thirty miles in length , and from ten to fifteen in breadth—there is not a single place for Catholic worship ; the nearest
place being at Oatlands , where the Rev . Mr . Bond , a fine generous-hearted Englishman , officiates . This being the case I asked permission to attend there on Sundays , and , as you will nerceive , by the paper marked No . 4 , was peremptorily refused . This refusal may have arisen , it is true , from O'Dogherty ' s being at Oatlands ; but it is , I conceive , hardly a sufficient reason for witholding from me so obvions a ri ght . They must be aware , too , that O'Dogberty and I can meet any day we choose —tbe southern boundary of my district being the northern one of his . This boundary is formed by a pretty broad stream , called the Blackman ' s riyer ; and at a certain point little more than seven miles from Ross , it is crossed by a handsome bridge
of three arches . At the middle pier of this bridge —that is half way across—O'Dogherty and I assemble , generally speaking , every Monday . Three hundred yards on O'Dogherty' 3 side of the river , above tbe bridge , there stands a very good inn ; and at . four o clock each day . of meeting , the landlord of this inn , attended by one of his men , and a great sheep-dog comes down to the ' Irish Pier * with a tray , containing a joint of lamb , some slices of ham , a fowl of some sort , and a selection from the vegetables in season ; the man in the rear bringing up a bottle of colonial ale , a cheese , a loaf of br ^ ad , and a proportionate supply of butter , the sheep-dog seeing the whole safe , and comfortably deposited at its destination .
" I most tell you moreover that , three weeks ago , upon our comparing the maps of our respective districts , we discovered another point where the three districts of Campbell Town , Bothwell , and Oatlands also unite , and where consequently John Martin , Kevin Izod O'Dogherty , and Thomas Francis Meag her can meet without the slightest infringement of the order , which prohibits any two or more being in the same district together . The last mentioned point is at the juncture of two lakes , which lie np in the mountains twenty-three miles from Ross , twenty-five from Bothwell , and nineteen from Oatlands . It is a wild , wild place , certainly ; away in the heart of the country ; without a sign of human life , save a solitary shepherd and his wife ,
who live in a hut within half-a-dozen yards of the point of junction , and who cook chops and . onions for us in the most expert and liberal manner ; a wild , wild place , covered with forest , stocked with kangaroo , tiger cats , black swans and snakes . But the pleasantest hours I now spend , come and pass away in the midst of all this wilderness . An ! there is nothing in this world equal to the companionship of friends ; without it , the sweetest , loveliest scenes become tiresome and distasteful ; with it , the coldest , rudest , wildest spots put on looks of gladness and seem blest with all good things . The government have inflicted the worst punishment on us by setting us apart in the colony , where they have condemned ns to a useless , wearisome ,
goodfor-nothing existence . I suppose they were apprehensive that , if permitted to go together , we would raise another' rebellion , ' and declare V » n Diemen ' s Land a free republic—one and indivisible ! ' The gentlemen are vastly mistaken if any such apprehensions trouble them . If I had a lease of this island for 999 years , and could do what I liked with it in the meantime , I declare most sincerely and solemnly that I would leave it in the course of fourand-twenty hours , aud pitch it to the snakes which infest it , or any other reptiles , with or without legs , that bad tbe taste to remain in it . It is—withoui the least exaggeration—a horrible place to live in * * To sum up , all I have to say on this subject , God seems to have designed this land for an Eden , but man has cruelly marred the design , has impiously defaced , and cruelly destroyed it . The climate , the scenery , tbe capabilities of the soil , the resources of its woods , its rivers—every
feature , every faculty with which it has been blessed bears testimony to the beauty and beneficence of Heaven . Bnt , over all this beauty , over all these gifts , tbe slime of the old empire ' s outcast , guilt is flung , and there it lies turning into foulest leprosy , and tainting with its poison everything around it . " So much , then , for the colony ; now a word for myself . I am in excellent health—never was in better—I take plenty of exercise ; ride from twelve to sixteen miles a-day ; sometimes , whenever , in fact , I go to the Lakes , accomplish a journey of very near fifty miles iu the week , aud hare altogether shaken off a good deal of my laziness , and with it a good deal of superfluous weight" Copy of a letter from Captain Aldham , addressed to the Irish exiles on board the Swift , in reply to their expression of thanks for his kindness during the voyage . ( Copy . ) " If : M . Sloop Swift , October 25 ta , 1819 .
" Gentlemen , —Under the unpleasant and difficult circumstances in which I have been placed , I consider it a duty to yourselves as it is a great satis f action to me ,-to acknowledge the very ' conciliating , affable , and gentlemanly line of bearing you have pursued , and the kind feelings you have shown , while I was engaged in carry ing out the painful task imposed-on . me during our long voyage of nearly four months . It is this feeling , and not any merits of my own that has enabled roe to perform that duty in a manner which has called forth those
flattering sentiments , far beyond my deserts , whic you have been pleased to express . With deep regret I leave you in a land so distant from your own native home " ; but there is an ' eternal home' beyond far more cheering in prospect , to which . we all must look forw ard with the utmost anxiety . May it be yours to find that home when this world's cares hare ended—that house where pain and sorrow have ho place , but peace ahdlove alone . That happier days may soon be yours . ¦¦ ... . "I remain , my dear Sirs , yours very faithfully " andsiucereiyj . j , : ' ( Signed ) " W . C 6 rawjkLus- / j » HAMV *
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aA 1 f \ 0 f - . 0 rres £ ondenoe betweea Mr . Meagher and the Assistant Comptroller of Convicts - No . 1 . ( Copy . ) " On board her Majesty ' s Sloop of War " Sir W « , ; * he Swift . October 29 th , 1849 . SiL } 0 { l which , in pursuance of SSlW * 0111 * l - e SecreW y : <> f state for the S ? S 22 ? r it Excellen ° y the Governor of Vani Bremen s Land has made me , is given on the ZtZ ? % shaUdistinctly engage not to S " *^ of co mp aratWe liberty which such a privilege confers for the purpose of escaping . ' I am EP d ; t 0 statemrep , v thatI have ; i £ ^^ tffJXSttT W ment for thetirm of » n < nnn "' - * T iUill& however , to pledge myself for jys&i& ' . Sii ' ** - * * ** __ Co Piesof . correspondence between Mr . Meash
" I am , Sir , your obedient servant , ,, .,. , ., " Thomas Francis Meagiier . lo the Assistant Comptroller of Convicts . " « i ' nil . ' - ( c ° py- ) .. t ~ . e As 8 istant Comptroller has laid before the Lieutenant-Governor Mr . Meagher ' s letter , in which he declines to engage tor an unlimited or undefined period not to use the comparative liberty which a ticket of leave will confer upon him , in order to a ttempt to escape . " . 2 ~" The Assistant Comptroller has now to acquaurt Mr . Meagher that the Lieutenant-Governor has approved , in reference to the willingness which he has expressed to enter into the necessary engagement for three or six months , of his receiving a ticKet of leave for six months upon his assurance that during such period he will regard himself bound by such engagement .
j * ~ -The Assistant Comptroller encloses a copy oUne regulations which were shown yesterday to « r ' » r > and by whio h he must be governed . rt ~ Meagher ' s residence has been fixed in the tarapbell Town district , and arrangements will be made for his proceeding thither by , coach tomorrow morning . He will arrive in Campbell Town m the afternoon of the same day and will have to report himself personall y to the police magistrate on Thursday morning . : " 5—Mr . Meagher must regard himself as under the charge of the police magistrate , and be governed by such instructions as he may receive from that officer , in reference to the regulations under which he holds his ticket-of-leave . " 6—Should Mr . . Meagher desire to prefer any request to the Lieutenant-Governor , or bring any matter under his Excellency ' s consideration , ft will
De necessary that he should address hiacommunica tion to the Comptroller-General of Convicts . ( Signed ) " Wu . Nairn , Assistant-Comptroller " Comptroller-General ' s office , 20 th October , 1849 . "
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— : — ¦ . " . ¦ Discovert of a Mountain of Gold . —A party of emigrants by way of the Salt Lake , arrived at * Los Angelos , give an account of the existence of gold on that route east of she principal mountain , range when a company then fitting out for a spot about sixty miles from the Pueblo changed its deUjrmina . tion and proceeded in search of this other . The route lay in a north-east direction from the . place of departure and was full of difficulties . Striking the Mahahve river , they followed its course seme distance , crossing and recrossing as necessity compelled , some days as often as fifteen times , leaving it where it makes its bend to the south-east , towards the Colorado , into which it empties . Obstacles were encountered at various points of the journey almost insurmountable , in tbe shape of mountains of rock , which they had to climb , and mountains of snow which they could not avoid , narrow gorges through which they had to pass , and still narrower cling , along whose crests nothing but a mule could , pass with a prospect of safety , and where the slightest misstep would land rider and all hundreds of feet below ; but they pushed on about 230 miles from the Pueblo , the point for which they started . Here among the eastern spurs of the Sierra Nevada they found the object of their search—gold and silver too ; and in such quantities as they had not dreamt of—a perfect mountain of rocks with silver and gold mingled and commingled in solid masses , weighing from one to many tons . The quartz proved to be exceedingly hardto
, such a degree that during their short stay all the implements made for this particular purpose before starting were completely worn out in the operation of drilling and blasting . The strangest part of the whole discovery is yet to be told , these large boulders of gold , silver , and quartz have the gold in the south end and the silver in the north end . No exceptions were found in their examinations , the silver being the more abundant of the two . In the words of the person who was on the spot , "there is enough silver there to sink every trip in this harbour . " Possibly , some may look on this account as a jest , and , so far as the practicability of putting the discovery to any use at present is concerned , it is so . All the water to be found for miles and miles around is highly impregnated with salt , or saleratus , or both . Not a single drop of water
tree from one or other of those properties did one of the party obtain during the ten days of their stay . The whole region is a perfect waste , and disease and death must , inevitably follow any prolonged stay . On their return they met a large company going to the same spot . A true statement of the diffieulties and dangers of a further prosecution of the expedition induced about 200 to turn back—fifty went on . The gentleman named , from whom these facts have been obtained , is now in this city , with specimens in his possession brought from the mother mountain . They are the most singular « nd beautiful we have ever seen , and one need only see them and hear him to be convinced that nething has been told but the truth . These facts are communicated by the gentleman who headed the party of exploration—a gentleman formerly connected with tbe New York press , Mr . Riell , of the New Era . The specimens we have seen . —The Pacific Sews .
Beneficial Effects of Tea . —Tea is more and more becoming a necessary of life to all classes . Tea was denounced first as a poison , and then as ah extravagance . Cobbett was furious against it . An Edinburgh Reviewer , in 1823 , keeps no terms with its use by the poor : — " We venture to assert that when a lab -urer fancies himself refreshed with a mess of this stuff , sweetened by the coarsest black sugar , and with azure blue milk , it is only the warmth of the water that soothes him for the moment , unless , perhaps , the sweetness may be palatable also . " It is dangerous even for great reviewers to " venture to assert . " In a few years after comes Liebig , with his chemical discoveries , and demonstrates that tea and coffee have become necessaries of life to whole nations by the presence
of one and the same substance in both vegetable . " , which has a peculiar effect upon the animal system ; that they were both originally met with amongst nations whose diet is chiefly vegetable ; and , by contributing to the formation of bile , their peculiar function , have become a substitute for animal food to a large class of the population whose consumption of meat is very limited , and to another large class who are unable to take regular exercise . Tea and coffee , then , are more especially esssential to the poor . They supply a void which the pinched labourer cannot so easily fill up with weak and sour ale ; they are substitutes for the country walk to the factory g irl or the sempstress in a garret . They are ministers to temperance ; they are borne comforts . —Dickens' Household Words .
A Witch . - A French woman of the name of Bertrand ascended in a balloon from Lisbon ' a few days since . In a couple of hours afterwards Madame prepared to come down . A gentle breeze had wafted her slowly across tbe Tagus in a S . E . direction , and at 5 p . m . having passed over Aldegallega , and seeing a village conveniently situated for her purposo , she began to make her preparations for what she flattered herself would be a quiet and safe descent , little dreaming all the while of what was going on below . The villagers , who had assembled as usual on holidays , were in the thick of their sports , when the terrific apparition presented itself to their view . Great was the consternation among them . Their first movement was a general uplifting of rijjht
hands , with tho thumb inserted between the index nnd forefinger , which when accompanied , as it was upon thisr occasion , with aloud proclamation of defiance to the devil and all his works , may be recommended as an excellent preservative against witchcraft and alt sorts of diabolical devices . As the monster approached , many , losing faith , in their specific , took to their heels , and when the fair seronaut addressed tbe others through her speaking trumpet , most of them , feeling quite sure that it was the archangel coming to call them to their last account , went down on their knees and roared for mercy . A few stout hearts , however , remained , who , cudgel in hand , stood their ground manfully , determined to do for the witch as soon as she came within their reach . The witch , however , seeing these demonstrations , threw out ballast , rose again , and with much difficulty succeeded in effecting a safe landing some miles off . .
Australian Views Respecting Mateimont . —At this little homestead there were five men , whose savings would , have enabled them to have taken farms , if they could have met with suitable girls as wives ; nnd they pretty plainly animadverted upon tho policy of those whom they considered the proper persons to have rectified their grievances . One remarked , " What does Lord Stauley care , so that he has a wife himself ? " "Ah ! " responded another ; " and Peel , with all his great speeches , never said a single word about wives for us . " " Lord John Russell too , " said Tom Slaney , " seemsjustas bad as the vest . "What does he think we are wade of ? Wood , or stone , or dried biscuits ? " " If ; ought to be properly represented to Earl Grey , " observed the fourth . " Do . they , call this looking after a . young colony ? lias nobody no sense ?" - "Ye ? , replied the most sensitive of the part y ; " tbo ' Queen ought . to , knowitr ^ ifc is a ' cruelshame . "^ Dickens ' IkmclioM Words .
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fsar ? M ° o 0 iir Twice SHy . " -Many years ago trAn wa * T *) 2 ** & * a c < wnmon mouse in a watmJ , * " lstead l f con «« n « ng it to the usual watery grave , or to the unmerciful claws of the oat , ' timlhS ? r « i * ° keeP » t a Prisoner . After a short ffhJi ? lltfclem 1 ous e made its escape ina room attached to my . father ' s residence intheBank of Encjanu . jl dulnot desire the presence of a wifd mouse in this room , aud therefore adopted ineaus to S «! ^ u Th f oom was P aved with Mone , and enclosed with solid walls . There was no hope for mm , that he would ultimately escape , although there . were abundant opportunities for hiding . I set the trap and baited it with . a savoury morsel , out day after day no mouse entered . / The poor nine thing gave unequivocal signs of extreme nunger , by gnawing the bladder from Rnmo nf mv
Onemieal bottles . . I gradually removed everythiiii irom the room that he possibly couH eat , but still the old proverb , of " Once caught ,: twice shy , " so tar applied , tha t . ho would not enter my . trap . After many days , visiting the apartment one morning , the trap was down , the mouse was caught- tbe pangs of hunger were more intolerable than the terrors of imprisonment . He did not , however accept the unpleasant alternative of entering the ' trap until he was so nearly starved that his bones almost protruded through his skin ; and he freel y took bits ot food from my fingers , through the wires of the cage . . . . .
During the late canvass in Michigan , a surgeondentist was making an excellent speech in one of the interior towns . Alow fellow belonging to the mu Party interrupted him with the question , " What do you ask to pull a tooth doctor ?! ' "I will pull all your teeth for a shilling , and your nose gratis , " replied the speaker . . . .. Curious epitaph in the churchyard of Morton-in-Marsh : — Here He the bones of Richard Lawton , Whose death , alas I was strangely brought on Trying one day his corns to mow off , The razor slipped and cut his toe-off ; His toe , or rather what it grew to , An inflammation quickly flew to ,
Which took , alas , to mortifying ; And was the cause of Richard s dying . Degeneracy op the Age . —V Mother , ' asked a six-foot ,, gawkey after two hours of brown study" what did you and dad do , when he come a coarti . n' you ? " "La suz ! wh y , Jed , we used to eit by the fire , and eat roast turkey , and mince-pies , and drink ciJer ,: and watch . the crickets runniu ' round the hearth / ' " . Good gracious ! times ain ' t as they used to was , mother , that ' s sartin . . Why , jl went a courtin' last Sunday ni g ht ; , I was ail slicked up to kill , and looked teann' sqrumpshus , and the only thing Peg gin mo was a raw piokle !" Importast Decision . —In the Court of Exchequer , last week , a case was tried in which , a wife ( now dead ) , who had received from her husband a \
separate allowance of fifteen shillings a week since 1810 , and had saved out of it £ 100 , ggave it ( just before her death ) to her brother . The Court decided that the whole authority given to the wife by the husband was' that she should maintain herself out of the allowance , and if she saved any momey it became the property of the husband , and she could not dispose of it , either in the stupe of gifts or presents of money , because that formed no part of the authority which had been given to her . " Zeb , " said a chap to his chum the other day , "seems to me you didn't stay long at Squire Folger ' s last night ? " "No , " was the reply ; " I was sayin' a few pleasant things to the daughter , and the old man came in and gave me a hint to go . "
"Ahint , Zeb—what sort of a hint ? " " Why , he gave me my hat , opened the door , and just as he began to raise his heavy boot , I had a thought that 1 wasn ' t wanted , and so I I—took my leave . " A Wonderful Jump . —Recently , one of the many Irishmen now travelling the country , hawking cloth , entered the Red Lion Inn , Winsford , and after teasing the waterman that usually resort to that house , 'to purchase , without effect , one of them drily asked him how much he would take for the number of yards he should be able to jump . The Hibernian replied , "Three shillings . The bargain was made , and the waterman mounted the battlement of winsford-bridge , with the end of the piece of cloth in his hand , and leaped to the bottom
of the river Weaver , taking with him the piece of cloth . The Irishman afterwards compromised with the waterman for twelve yards , at the same time observing that he believed an Englishman would leap to the devil for a yard of cloth . —Macchafield Courier . - , A few days ago a couutryman entered the shop of a druggist in Gateshead and asked for a '' drink " for his cow After being served , he inquired libw the medicine was to be given . "In a quart of warm ale , " was the reply ., " Warm yel be iianged ! aw ' s a teetotaller ! " "Well , but I suppose your cow is not ? " said the druggist . " Noa ; but aw'll be very ; sorry , togie . her" what , aw diiihit drink meselfv" ' " ;¦ .-. . - .
Controversy . —1 never loved those salamanders who are never well bub when they are . in the ' fire of contention . I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer . one ; 1 will rather suffer a hundred than return one ; I will suffer many ere I will complain of one , and endeavour to right it by contending ; I have ever found that to strive with my superior , is furious ; with ray equal , doubtful ; with my inferior , sorded and base ; with any , full of unquietness . —Bishop Hall . ; . The Pedlar ' s CouBTsniP . —A pedlar , well known in our island districts lately buried his second wife . Being one of those who think it no part of wisdom to embitter the present with the recollections of the past , he soon turned from bewailing the doad to
addressing the ljving . He picked out a neighbouring spinster as well suited for being his third mistress , and lost no time in making his desires known . Jenny , it seeraes , cocked her nose at the offor ; and John , leaving her to her fancy , departed , saying , " Weel , weel , a' the world does not think like you , " which was quite true . Before reaching home , the pedlar met a more compliant fair one . Jenny , in the meantime , reflected on the'dangerous consequences which would likely result from her ruse , and resolved in future to be more kind ; alas , in vain ! next day , as the pedlar was passing by , Jenny called him in , and stated her contrition for the
hard words of yesterday . John heard her through , then replied , " Weel , weel , I ' m owre far pn , wi ' anither and now to think o' gaen back , but if she happens to be na lang liver , I'll no forget to make you my forth wifei "—Perth Advertiser . . : Singular Properties of the Fiourk Nine . — Multiply 6 by itself , or by any other single figure , and tbe two figures foi-ming the product will , in eaoh case , ifadded togi'ther , amount to nine ; for example , 9 multiplied by 9 is 81 , and 8 and 1 added together makes 9 ; so on with tho other figures . The figures forming the amount of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 , added together ( viz . 4 5 ) , will also , if added together , make 9 . . ;
TO-MORROW . To-morrow you will live , you always cry . In what fair country does this morrow lie , That ' tis so mig hty long ere it arrive ? Beyond the Indies does this morrow live ? 'Tis so far-fetched this morrow , that T fear 'Twill be both very old and very dear . To-morrow I will live , the fool does say ; To-day itself s too late : the wise lived yesterday . - ' ' Translated from Martial . A Muff . —The following anecdote was told with great glee at a dinner , by William IV ., ' then Duke of Clarence ., " I was riding in the . Park the other day , on the road between Teddington and Hampton-wick , when-I was overtaken by a butcher ' s'boy on horseback , with a tray of meat under his . arm .
"Nice pony that of yours , old gentleman , " said he . "Pretty fair , ' ! was my reply . " Mine ' sa good un , too , " rejoined he , " and I'll trot you to Hampton-wick for a pot o' beer . " I declined the match , and the butcher ' s boy , as he stuck his single spur in his horse ' s side , exclaimed , with a look of contempt , "I thought you were only a muff . " , . . 1 ¦ . How io pull a person ' s nose — Make him a present of half-a-dozen silk , pocket-handkerchiefs ., True Enough . —If a man were to ret out calling everything by its right name , he would bo knocked down before he got to the corner of the street . DoMffiOPATnic Beer . —Tie a sprig of hops' . to . a rat ' s tail—let the rat swim through a . ' mill-pond , then bottle the contents of the pond— "to be shaken before taken . "
Daviu Pbikce Miller , conjuror , showman , stageplayer , &c .,-who is now giving an entertainment in the provinces entitled " The . Ups , and Downsof Life , " exposes for . prbfit the tricks to which he and his brethren are . occasionally driven for a livelihood . Mr . Miller ^ it seems , travelled in charge of the Bosjesmans , one of whom was his own son The savageB had taught tho youth their language , and he then exhibited , himself ( without deteotion ) as one of . their race . . .. . .: '¦ ' A IADY in thp neighbourhood of Chclmsford . spme time ago received' a letter from another lady ; inquiring as to . the f ' , habits and capabilities" of n
young woman , who lived . with the former as housemaid . The folio wing ; were the vii rious queries : — "Is she clean , ? " sober ? h- > nest ? . steady ? . goodtempered ? willing to be taught ? an earl y riser , without ueinjj called ? not inclined to gossip am ) idle her time ? and has she . ' any . follower *? . " Docs she well understand waiting at table ? and . cleaning plate ! Is she . ' quick ? and can she sew neatly ?" The answer to those ; inquiries was as brief as i t was expressive )'* It . was— "Dear Madam , Polly P 'is ah ' angel ' ' of a housemaid . Prom the making of a bed down to-th ' e . threading of a ' ueedle , you will find her ' . ' aK that yon can wish- and . ' evjen a LITTLE M 0 HE . " - : , ' "' . ' ; . " '
! A wAd in Pehnsylva . ma . nQt long since purchased a fine horse : . returning :-from a rideia few . days sifterwhi'ds , he said lie had discovered .. a . qualityiiu this animal ' which ' added fifty dollars to its valueit shied at a hum-bailiff !
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 29, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1580/page/3/
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