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w , »™™ I ? , ° t 0 inf 01 ' m tlle rea ( lfrs of tho Northern STAnthat a Volume of Upwai-Qs of O-ie Thousand Testimonials will shortl y be published . KEAll THE FOLLOWING : — in the nve oases I wrote to you about , tho romeilv Ium pnfeoUy succeeded ; nndmo another for ae " o S « . tal ] It . rmil . '_ Jolm Armstrong , Navy Surgeon . We have witnessed the cure of three cases of ttunhiM K ; »« " »'« treatment , « hich confirm the remarks we made some time since on the utility of this dinovery to those-snfteniig from Hernia . ' -MEDi 6 AL Jouknal . y oio i ? i 7 - ! ne , dy T " , lscurea my Ru P'u re after everything else had failed . I have used violent exertion since , but Bu swat S ) fe '" comiiig down . ' -Miss Sjmmouds , ' A fair tims has elapsed since I used your remedy , ani moreover I have been examined by a surgeon , who declares U is quite cured . ' —Mr . Potts , Hath .
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Beware of Guinea , Foreign-named Quacks , who Imitate this Advertisement . Pains in the Bade , Gravel , Lumbago , Rheumatism , Gout , Indigestion , Debility , Gonorrhau , Strietutt , Olcet , ( be . T ) R . BARKER ' S PURIFIC TILLS \ J ( of which there are useless imitations under other titles ) have in many instances effected a cure when all other means had failed , and are now established , by the consent of erevy patient who has yet tried them , as also by the faculty , themselves , as the most safe and efficacious remedy ever discovered for discharges of any kind , retention of the urine , and diseases of the Kidueyt , and Urinary Organs generally , whether resulting from imprudence or otherwise , which , if neglected , frequently end . ing in stone in the bladder , and a lingering death ! For Gout , ( sciatica , Rheumatism , Tic Doloreux , Erysipelas ,
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PEACE . f tM have loved peace , and from bole to bole Of immemorial , undeeiduous trees , ffoald write , as loTers use , upon a scroll The boif name of Peace , and set it high ^ here none should pluck it down . Oa trees , I Xot iipon gibbets!—with the greenery Of dewv branches and the flowery May , Sweet meditation ' twist the earth and sky Providing for the sliepherd ' B holiday ! Xot upon gibbets 1—though the vulture leaves gome quiet to the bones be first picked bare . Sot upon dungeons ' .-though the wretch who grieves And in-oans within , stirs not the outer air ™ T ^
As " much as little field-mice stir the sheaves . Xot upon chain-bolts ! though the slave's despair * Has dulled his helpless , miserable brain , And left him blank beneath the freeman ' s whip , To siiig and laugh out idiocies of pain . 5 or yet on starving home 3 ! where many a lip Has sobbed itself asleep through cur 3 ea vain ! J lore no peace which is not fellowship , And which includes not mercy . I would have Bather , the raking of the guns " across The world , and shrieks against Heaven ' s architrave . Bather , the struggle in the slippery fosse , Of dying men and horses , and the -wave Blood-bubbling . . . . Enough said!—By Christ's own cross ,
And by the faint heart of my womanhood , Such things are better than a Peace which sits Beside the hearth in self-commended mood , And takes no thought how wind and rain by fits Are bowling out of doors against the good Of the poor wanderer . What ! your Peace admits Of outside anguish while it sits at home ? I loathe to take its name upon my tongue-It is no peace . * Tis treason , stiff with doom , — ' Tis "ajreed despair , and Inarticulate wrong , Annihilated Poland , stifled Home , Dazed Xaples , Hungary fainting ' neath the thong , And Austria wearing a smooth olive-leaf On her brute forehead , while her hoofs optpres 3 The life from these Italian souls , in brief . Mrs . TCroytsixg .
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J . Lady ' s Voyage round the World * By Ida Ppeiffek . Williams and Norgate . Is June , 184 G , Madame Pfeiffer sailed from Hamburg h , to Brazil in a Danish brig , which arrived at Eio on the 16 th of September ; and left It on the 8 th of December , in an English barque , for Valparaiso , where she landed on the 2 nd of March , 1847 . After a fortnight ' s stay , she took passage in a Dutch ship for Macao ; touching b y the "way at Tahiti , where she stayed long enough to witness some curious effects of the new "
civilisation" introduced by the French " protectors " of Queen Pomare . From Macao , which she reached on the 8 th of July , she sailed in a Chinese junk , —a bold experiment , tried for economy ' s sake , —to Canton ; saw what Europeans" may of that city , and returned in the same manner to Hong Kong , having been well treated by Chinese skippers and passengers on both occasions . At Hong Kong she took second-class berths for Ceylon eta Singapore in the Oriental ( English ) Company ' s boats , of the charges and bad accommodation of which—for fore-cabin
passengers—she bitterly complains : —we fear with too much reason . High fares may be excused by the expense of steam-vesEels where coal has to be imported from Europe ; but we know also that it is the vice of our carrying companies to neglect the cheaper sort of passengers for the sake of those who take the nest places . She reached Ceylon on the 17 th of October , and left the island ten days afterwards , in another British steamer , for Madras and Calcutta , where she landed on the 4 th of November . In the following month she
steamed up the Granges to Benares;—travelled by post arid bullock waggons to Allahabad , Agra , and Delhi ;—which last city she reached on the 19 th of January , 1848 . Hitherto , with the exception of the two trips in the Chinese junks , she had always been under the safeguard of European . conveyances ; from Delhi she took a land route for Bombay in a bullock waggon , with native guides and drivers only , through territories not wholly under English sway , —her sole points of refuge being the stations of missionaries and of British
residents at certain stages of her journey . These , indeed , spared no pains to assist and hospitably receive her wherever they were found ; but the intervals were lonely , and not without danger . She reached Bombay on the loth of March , and left it for Bussorah 170 Muscat in an English steamer , where she was well treated , —as also in the government boat , which took her gratis np the Tigris to Baghdad . The trip lasted from April 23 rd
to May 12 th . At this point the greater troubles of her journey may be said to have begun . There were part of Turkey and part of Persia—wild districts both—to be crossed "before reaching Russia . On June 17 th she set out to ride with a caravan for Mosul through a bare and savage country , with no European in company , ignorant of all Eastern languages , and merely hoping to find American or German missionaries at the end
of her journey . The privations , weariness , and danger of this , and of the further caravan routes " from Mosul towards Tabriz , where her worst perils ended , were such as a strong body and a , resolved mind alone could have enabled her to surmount . Nor was even the security of a caravan always available on this expedition . At one stage—Sah-Bonlakwhere the last convoy stopped , after waiting for another for some days , in wretched quarters , where she could make her wants known only by signs , she Resolved , in mere desperation , to ride off by herself with a guide to Tabriz , a distance of fifty miles , across a
country infested with marauders : —a feat that would be thought fool-hardy in a soldier . This whole expedition , indeed , all circumstances taken into account , is perhaps the most notable instance of female resolution and tenacity that we have ever read of . From Tabriz , which she reached on the 5 th of August , 1848 , she was more easily forwarded by English consular aid in a caravan to Erivan , —thence by post to Tiflis . She had now come once more into the region of European power ; but Russian officials and post-drivers soon taught her that a lonely female may find better usage among the rudest Mohammedans of
Kurdistan . Posting from Tiflis , on the 5 th of September , along the southern line of the Caucasian range , she arrived at Maraud ( on the Bione , the ancient Phasis , ) in four days ;—a boat then carried her to Itedonfc-Kale , on the Black Sea ;—from whence a Eussian steamer took her to Kertscli : —in another she went on to Odessa , Here , on the 17 th of September , 1848 , she was thankful to lose sight of Russian " civilisation . " It had been her design to visit Moscow and St Petersburgh before
turning homewards ; but her short experience of Muscovite treatment had been such that her only desire was to escape from it as soon as possible . The rest of the voyage , in steamers , by way of Constantinople , Smyrna , and Athens , to Trieste , where she arrived on the 30 th of October , 1848 , need hardly be mentioned . After her troubles and risks on the route from Baghdad to Kertsch , the rest
of the way home must have seemed as easy to Madame Pfeiffer as a walk in the garden would to most of her sex . She had gone round the globe in two years and three months , —having within that time , by her own calculation , traversed 34 , 950 ( nautical } miles by water , and 2 . 762 ( English ) by land , independently of many small excursions taken from various stations during the journey .
In a case like this , events that look serious in ordinary voyages—sea storms , bad inns , rough roads , and rude company , —paSB unnoticed as trifling casualties : our attention is fixed on stranger incidents in which the traveller ' s energy or endurance is brought out in relief by the circumstance of sex . Early in
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her journey , on an excursion from Rio to the German colony of Petropolis , her courage waa sharply tested . She was wending her way on f 0 ° t » m company with a certain Count Berchthold ,--who seema on this occasion to have yielded the post of honour to his female com- ' panion . The district was said to be infested vita runaway slaves ; but—The numerous convoys , driven by negroes , as well as single travellers on foot , of whom we met several , removed all apprehension ; so that we took little notice of one negro who had for some -time been dogging us . But upon our reaching a move solitary part of the road , he suddenly bounded forward , journey , on an excursion from R . i » toti . « < ?™ a colony of Petronolis . her coura ™ wi »
wielding in one hand a long knife , in the other a lasso , pressed upon us , and by signs rather than words gave us to understand that he meant to murder and drag us into the bush . We had no fire-arms , this part of the road having been described to us as quite safe ; and had nothing , indeed , but our umbrellas to use in self-defence . I had , however , a pocket-knife , which I instantly drew out and opened , determined to sell my life dearly . We primed the stabs as well as we could with our umbrella ? . But these did not hold out long ; and , unluckily , the negro succeeded in grasping mine , —we struggled for its possession , it broke , and I retained merely a bitof the handle ; but daring the struggle he had
let fall his knife , which rolled a few paces away ; I promptly darted after it , and just thought I had got it , when he , quicker than I was , thrust me down with hand and foot , and recovered his weapon . He brandished it furiously over my head , and gave me two wounds , one a stab , the other a deep gash , both in the left fore-arm . I now thought myself lost ; and desperation only gave me the courage to use my knife still . I stabbed at the negro's brest , he parried it , and I . only wounded him smartly in the hand . The Count hastened up , and seized the fellow from behind , which gave me the opportunity
of rising to my feet again . All this had been the affair of a few instants ; the wound I had given the negro made him frantic ; he gnashed his teeth at us like a wild beast , and brandished his knife with frightful rapidity . The Count , too , soon got a slash across the whole hand ; and we should both have certainly perished , had not God sent us help . Horses' feet were heard on the paved road ; the negro instantly quitted U 3 , and fled into the bush . A moment afterwards two horsemen came round the turn of the road : we hastened towards them ; our wounds , which bled copiously , as well as the cut-up umbrellas , soon explained onr position .
The miscreant was pursued , caught and carried off to prison ;—Madame Pfeiffer " got her wounds bound up , " and then " continued her journey" —as if nothing had happened . But indeed , in every kind of courage " useful to travellers" we find her eminent . Some days later , on an expedition , alone , beyond the frontier of the white men , she accompanied the wild Indians in a forest hunt , the produce of which was " three parrots and a monkey , "on which she was invited to feed : —
My hosts ( she says , ) cooked them , spitted on wooden skewers , by roasting over the fire . To make the meal the more savoury , they warmed in the ashes some heads of maize and roots ; then , gathering broad fresh leaves , tore up the roast monkey with their hands into several portions , laid a good large piece of it on the leaves , adding to it a parrot , some maize and tubers , and set the whole before me . My appetite was boundless , as I had tasted nothing since morning ; so I began at once with the roast monkey , which I found excellent ; the parrot flesh was by no means equally tender and savoury .
In the same brave practical spirit , she is prepared , when occasion requires it , to meet the hindrances which forbid active exertion in wading or climbing to the wearers of petticoats . The vallies of Tahiti , for instance , are cut up by innumerable watercourses : —there is no walking through the interior unless you are ready to plunge into these at every half mile . — Expeditions on foot in Tahiti are very fatiguing as the abundance of water in this island is such tiTa * you have frequently to wade through rivers and sand beds . I was very suitably dressed for this : I wore strong men ' s shoes , no stockings , trousers , and a blouse , which I tucked np as high as my hips . Thus accoutred , 1 started with a guide on my journey .
At a moment ' s warning too , Bhe will trust herself on a bottomless volcanic lake in a vessel compared to which the bowl of the " wise men of Gotham" might seem a " great amiral . " To cross this lake ( in Tahiti ) you must either swim or use a very alarming kind' of boat , which every native can prepare in a few moments . Curiosity to try such an adventure induced me to make signs to the guide that I wished to cross the water . He immediately tore down a few stems of the Feni ( Pisang ) , tied them together with long stalks of
rough grass , laid some leaves upon them , launched the raft into the water , and beckoned me to take possession of this shred of a ferry boat . I felt , indeed , some little alarm , but should have been ashamed to let it be seen . So I took my seat and my guide who followed swiming , pushed the raft before Mm . I went and returned in safety ; but I may honestly confess that I was not quite easy in my mind during the passage , the vessel was very slender , and it floated rather under the water than upon it , —there was nothing to hold by , and ever ; push threatened to throw you overboard .
" J would not advhe any one who cannot swim , " she coolly remarks , "to try this way of sailing . " Another instance , displaying what is perhaps the rarest kind of fortitude , will nearly complete the sketch of a resolute character , which justifies its owner's self-reliance in whatever case of trial . She is making her slow way through the Mahratta country , towards Bombay in a bullock cart , with its driver and single native guide—This driver from the very outset of the journey had seemed queer in his ways , if not quite mad ; now he would quarrel with his cattle , now he caressed them ; at times he would shout to the
passengers that went by , at others he would turn and stare hard at me for some minutes together . Bat as I had with me a servant who always walked by the side of the baili ( waggon ) I cared little for this . This morning , however , my servant had , without leave gone on before to the next station : and I found myself alone with the crazy driver on a solitary road . After some time he got down from the waggon and walked close behind it . These bailis are closed with matting at the sides only , and at either end are open , so that I could easily have looked to see what he was about , ; but I ' didnot choose to turn round , lest I shonld set him on thinking I suspected him of evil intentions . I
merely turned my head gradually sideways , so that I could partly watch him . Soon afterwards be came forward again , and to ray alarm took from the waggon the axe with which every driver is provided , and ' again went to the rear . I now had no dcubt that he had some mischief in Ms head ; but I could not escape from him , and of courBe therefore could show no fear . But quite softly , and without attracting his notice , I drew my cloak within reach , and folded it well up . in order that I might at least guard my head with it in case he should strike at
me with the hatchet , for some time he let me remain in this anxious state ; and then once more returned to his seat , and stared hard at me , —after which he descended again . This proceeding he repeated many times in succession . At last after a full hour , that seemed an eternity , he laid down the axe , settled himself in the waggon , and contented himself with glaring at me from time to time . In another hour we reached the station , and overtook my servant—whom from thenceforth I always kept at my side . -
"We shall conclude our extracts with some of the lady ' s experiences of Russian character ; which took her by surpise at a moment when she had just traversed , without molestation , and not without hospitable treatment , what she had supposed would have proved the most barbarous tmtof her journey . The caravan from Tabriz crossed the Russian frontier at Ivatschivian on its way to Tiflis ; and one evening was encamped at Sidin to the north of Arara , —
Some fifty paces from the post road . Towards eight p . m ., I went as far as the highway for a walk ; and was about to return , when I heard the jingling bells of post horses . I remained standing in the road to see the travellers go by , —a gentleman with an armed Cossack at his side , was seated in the open car . When it had passed me , I quietly turned round ; but to my surprise I heard the carriage stop , and nearly at the same moment felt myself seized by one arm . I tried to shake myself loose ; pointed with the hand that was free to the caravan , and cried ont that I belonged to it . The fellow
immediately stoppedmy mouth withhis other hand , and threw me . upon the car ; where the gentleman too , laid hold of me . The Cossack mounted nimbly , and the postilion was made to drive off as hard as his horses could go . AH this had happened so suddenly that I ihardlykuew what was the matter . The men held me tightly by the arms , and my mouth was not released until we had got bo far from the caravan that my cries could no longer be heard there . Fortunately I was not overcome by fear ; I at once supposed that these amiable Russians in their real must have taken me for some tery dangerous person , and thought to make an im-
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Kff ' . When my mouth wasfree they began with the usual list of wise questions , as to name , country , Ac . I knew enough of Russian , indeed , to give them the required information , but this did not satisfy them ; -thev demanded to see my passport . If they would Bendformy trunk , 1 replied , I could avouch myself to their entire satisfaction . At last we came to the posthouse , where they put me into a room ; the Cossaok posted nimself with his musket at the open door , so as to keep me always in his eye ? -and the gentleman , too , whom by his dark green velvet facings I took to be an imperial officer , remained for some time in the apartment . Half an hour afterwards came tho nortant rapt ,, ™ : tok ^ moViUi u ; , ur n jw began with the usual list of ^ JfLS *^
post master , or whatever else be might be , to survey me , and hear an account of the doughty deed of my captors , who weve not slow to describe the transaction at full length and with grinning countenances . I was forced to pass the night , thus strictly watched , on a wooden bench , without either linen or cloak , and suffering from hunger and thirst . They neither would give me a coverlet nor a morsel of bread ; and whenever I rose from the bench , though but to take a turn in the room , the Cossack rushed upon me , and forced me back to
the seat , with an order to keep quiet there . Towards morning my luggage arrived ; I produced my papers—and was set tree . But instead of making any apology for having ill treated me , they laughed in my face ; and as I passed out through the court , all the inmates pointed at me with their fingers , and joined in chorus with the mirth of my two provost marshals . Oh , ye good Arabs , Turks , Persians , and Hindoos , —nothing like this everbefel me at your hands ! * * and here in a Christian empire !
At Jalta in the Crimea , where the steamer from Kertsch lands its passengers for a few hours , Madame Pfeiffer had reason to admire the address of Russian officers in a less violent way of punishing the stranger for being alone , and a woman preparing to embark again , — I had to wait more than two hours , as the gentlemen mbh whom I had to return on board had not yet hnished their carouse . By the time that it was over , one of the party , an officer of the steamer , was so badly intoxicated that ho could not walk . With the host's assistance be was dragged by two of the gentlemen to the beach . Here our steamer '
s g » g jay , but the sailors refused to put us on board ; the boa } was engaged for tho captain . We had to mre another , —twenty silver copecks was the price asked . The gentlemen knew that I did not speak Russjan , but they did not know that I understood the language a little . I could hear plainly enough what one of them said to the other in a whisper - I have no silver , let us make the lady pay for us !" After this , turning to me , he said in French , " tho saareof the charge which you-have to pay comes to twenty copecks in silver . " These were gentlemen with pretensions , I suppose , to education and breeding !
A party of English tars , making no such pretensions , she soon afterwards fell in with in steaming down the Black Sea . Their mode of proceeding , however , she found somewhat more manl y . The honest fellows , who had taken a vessel out to Odessa , were returning by Constantinople ; and she won their hearts , she says , by speaking English to them . We fancy that finding a woman without friends in a strange country would of itself speak to them in a language that our sailors readily understand .
As soon as they observed that 1 had no companion they asked me if I spoke Turkish well enough to manage with the boatmen and porters . Upen my sayiug that I did not , they proposed to take charge of everything for me , if I would go aahoro with them . I gladly accepted their offer . On our way to the shore , a custom-house guard rowed up to us to search the baggage . In order to prevent him from delaying us , I slipped some money into his hand . When we reached tho land , I wished to pay for our trip , but in vain ; tho English sailors would not let me do it . They said I had paid the customhouse man for the whole party ; and it was now tbeir turn to pay for the boat . I saw I should only have offended them by pressing them to take my money . They then engaged and settled with me for a porter , and we parted very good friends , — As we do with this brave lady .
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vDwWmSfn daun ^ ess lad , rtirrednot an inch voSlv anTiS ? l to u soizo him : he colo «> 'ed tothe , whh ? Jv ? hl 3 bold beautiful black eyes head . Was held m ^ acingly over his "Beg pardon forfrightening the lady , you misftoken ^ . ? ; ; - ^ tbi 3 minute ' y ° ™ t bo m oken of such tricks as these . " if „ JmiH w f , " Snid th 0 b ° y- trembling more , as Xl £ f . Wlih ai ? ger and defi ! VI > ce than with fear : Kn ? fc « * a VO i i "Mammy , " he criod , " run fnTun hnf ° nnt " ? ' ? Ste Phen-he was comioHha ? holdVme d » "" ^ ^ ° ' ^ Bridget Owen came out of her lodge , as a young she-panther might huve rushed out of its den- as supple as graceful , and almost as fierce , sho sm'W lov
wavanung her arma round tho boy and stood confronting David ; her lovely , passionate eyes flashing with fury , her nostrils dilated , her short upper lip quivering over the even whito teeth below as though it had a separate life of its own . She was a perfect picture : and as David looked at her in amazement , a dim notion of some sort of link between the beauty of animal and human lifo flashed through his . brain ; while Sandy whispered him"Oh ! sir , have a care ; ye dinna ken a' " while Bridget turned and called scornfully to Eleanor , down in the road . "How could you let him beat my boy ? " she said ; " I was sorry for your ' s !" But Eleanor only hid her face in her hands , and shuddered ; and at the same instant , hefore David could move to rejoin her , the doe cart was drivnn
at full speed to the spot ; tho horBe checked with such suddenHess , as to throw him on his haunches , and scatter the snow and earth up the bank where they stood , and Sir Stephen leaped into the road , and advanced into the centre of tho agitated group "What the is all this ? " shouted he " What are you at ? What has happened ?" " It ' s the new Laird wants to horsewhip me , " said young Owen . " You meddled with the boy—you meddled with the boy !" Sir Stephen seemed incapable of uttering another word . B
" Tho boy flung the key at Lady Penrhyn ' s horse , " began David . " Sir , " said the master of Castle Penrhyn , with a fierce oath , " I don't care a curse what your reasons wore for meddling with him ; I say he shan't be meddled with , d-n you ! " and Sir Stephen looked livid with rage . David ' s heart swelled with defiance ; he glanced down towards Eleanor , who was leaning against the 9 tonc-work of tho gate . "If the son of your lodge-keeper " but he was again interrupted ; interrupted by Bridget .
" Oh ! " said she , with wild impatience , " the boy has better blood in his veins than yours will boast —match with who you may . Speak up for your own , " added she , looking towards Sir Stephen , and pressing her hands against her temples as if the beating of tbeir pulses made her dizzy . " Speak up for your own ! I declare to the Lord , I could leave you tomorrow , though I broke my heart on the hills , if I thought you'd see him struck by any stranger of them all ! This comes of ouv livinsf here as we do , to bo at every one ' s beck and bond , like servants
and slaves ! and tho angry tears b urst at last from Bridget ' s eyes , and quenched their hot light : her voice broke down in sobs ; and with a strange but graceful gesture she swung her hand back , and pointed " without turning to the desecrated lodge where she thought it a degradation to dwell ; but which certainly looked as little like the abode of a servant on the estate as it well could . Her tears fell like oil on fire , in Sir Stephens ' s heart . Ho laid his hand on the boy ' s shoulder , and , taking one fierce step nearer David , ho said with a fresh oath . — . " ' ¦
" Sir , this boy l ? mine ! Mine ! " he repeated with vehemence , glancing towards ; . Eleanor as if he defied even her presence in the ' confession , —' "I won ' t have him meddled with , either by milady , or by you , or by any other lady or gentleman ; curse me if I will ! If she don't like him at the lodge , by- , I'll put him in the castle : if she don ' t like him at her horse ' s heels , I'll put him by her side at table . S'blood , am I master of Oastlo Penrhyn , or are you ? Things have gone on here in a strange way since you dropped amongst us , aud my patience is conic to a halt , sir . My house is mine —my wife is mine—and this boy is mino ; we don't want you to govern us , and curso me if I wiBh ever to see you on this side the gate again !" Ho paused , and , looking round , put tho boy from him .
"Go in now with your mother , and come up at dinner-time to the Castle ; bring your things ; come for good ; come to livo there , do you understand ? Go in , Bridget . " lie stepped down into the road . " Wish Mr . Stuart good-bye , Eleanor , " he said . ' She held out her cold hand , and looked vaguely in his face , " You do not seem very fit for riding ; get into the dog-cart . I'll drive you home myself . " He lifted her in , touched his hat sullenly to David , and drove away . And then old Sandy , to whom the groom had intrusted David ' s horse , unlocked the gate ; and keeping the reins over his arm , walked . through the wood by David Stuart ' s side ; and as they walked , told him all that had been known for years at the Castle ; all that Eleanor herself had known for years , but had never spoken of , respecting Bridget Owen and her children .
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Postage op Books , &c—By a Treasury warrant , dated the 2 nd of June inst ., it is ordered that all printed books , magazines , reviews , pamphlets , &c , whether British , colonial , or foreign , may be transmitted by poet between any part of the United Kingdom and Canada , or the Ionian Islands , subject to the following rates of postage , viz ,, if not exceedingilb . in weight , Cd . ; if not exceeding lib ., lsPf not exceeding 21 b ., 2 s . ; if not exceeding 3 lb ., 3 s . ; if above 3 lb ., an additional rate of Is . No packet is to contain more than one printed book , &c , and is not to exceed in length , or breadth , or width , or depth twenty-four inches . The postage is to bo prepaid by postage stamps . If posted in Canada or tho Ionian Isles the ^ postage
to bo prepaid either by money or stamps . All packets to be sent in covers open at the ends or sides , and no writing except the address to be permitted upon them , or in the contents thereof . Officers of the post-office to ' havo power to delay the transmission twenty-four hours , or until the despatch of the mail next after that b y which the packet ought otherwise to have been forwarded . Printed votes and proceedings of parliament , or of colonial legislatures , and such publications as pass under the newspaper privilege , are exempted from these regulations , and nothing in the order is to extend to packets sent through France , or any foreign country to which a transit rate of postage would be payable thereon , nor to any packets sent vate
by pri ships . SuprosEn Tiuces ' of Sir Johk Franklin . —A morning contemporary gives circulation to a report as to some supposed traces of Sir John Franklin . These traces , which are said to be "by far the most lmpotant , presumptive or otherwise , which have yet reached us respecting the missing expedition , consist of the following : — »• From the voluntory testimony of one of the seamen engaged at Stromnrbs for the Prince Albert , we have the following facts , elicited and taken down in the presence of Mr . Kenned y , the commander of that expedition , and others ; and the statement is attested by the seaman in question , William Millar , who declares that , if required , he would make the same upon oath . He states that he was on board the
Prince of Wales in 1818 , when , early in September , during very thick weather , they entered ( as they believed ) Lancaster Sound , and steered west , advancing slowly . The fog continued very heavy for some days , when it suddenly lifted , and high land was seen on the larboard side , over the mast head . The captain , being at first doubtful if it were the loom of icebergs or ot land , sent a boat off to ascertain the fact , and of this party William Millar formed one . He states that on landing the marks of shoo prints were distinctly visible in the mud , above high-water mark ; close by was a small cooking place blackened bv fire , and a little further on
well-built cairn , about four or five feet high-, of winch the party pulled away a few stones ; but , being recalled by a signal from the ship , which was being driven in shore by the current , were compelled to return on board immediately . " From the above it is inferred that some of Sir John . Franklm s party must have visited the spot , and that beneath the " cairn " is deposited " distinct information of his past progress and future intention . " Thk funeral of Mr . Sheil took place on the 28 th ult ., at the church of St . Michele Visdoraini , -at Florence . It was attended by the whole of the corps diplomatique and the AuBtrian and Tuscan generala and staff .
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Childhood is like a mirror , catching and reflecting images from all around it . New Orleans MAxm .-If your sherry is bad , send to a sherry cobbler , and get it mended . Con . —What kind of rooms are always the best ventilated ? Mushrooms ;—because they are grown in the open air . A Bold MAN- .-The man that isn't afraid of thunder talks of going to the Great Exhibition without takug his wife . Pleasures may be aptly compared to many very great books , which increase in real value in the proportion they are abridged . Nature teaches us that we are all dependent ; we are like cog-wheels pushing each other along by filling up mutual voids . B J
The MoscuiTO .- "It is a curious fact , " say some entomologlst 3 ( " that it is only the female mosquito * ' n , r £ ' " t 3 U 3 - A baelielorsaysitisnotatall vUilOUS * AvARicE .-An avaricious man ia like barren S r £ T dl WhiC £ SUcks in a 11 the ™« a" * dews with greediness and thirst , and yields no fruitful herbs or plants to the inhabitants ; *« . . ? ? n ™™ nt having undergone an entire ine on n ' ed ' to ' tif' T "'* - ' u ™? rePairin 6 , has been iffl'iS . M . W : the pr 5 co of admission toter ^ ten ?? - , ° "R 8 are necessary 5 | rAS ? l j & !^ hr istta ^ ¦ N ? / f , oLnK .- '' AmI not a little pale' " iKSS'rt r rather short ^" o % p u e nt ( hLtT ' ' it . n el 01 ' ' . " Yott l °° k more like a Dig tub , was the blunt rejoinder
. Manners CoNTAGi ous .-It is " certain that either wise bearing or i ^ iorant carriage b cTugh tasS aice diseases one ot another ; therefore lot men take heed ot their company .-Shakespeare . Swords " ceased to be worn as an article of dress " through the influence of Beau Nash , and were consequently first out of fashion in Bath . "Wewear no swords here , " says Sir Lucius O'Trigger .-ites and Queries . A PuzzLB .-If the apple which William Tell shot from the head of his son gave liberty to Switzerland , how many bushels of the same size , from tli 8 same orchard , woidd it have taken to make a barrel of cider ? Sharp Rkply . -A party of yoang fellows found fault with the butter at a boarding house . What is the matter with it ? " said the mistress .- " Just you ask it , ' said one ; " it is old enough to speak for itself . '
Belfast . —The population of Belfast has in-»« ¦ . since the oensus of . 1841 , from 75 , 000 to 112 , iitspresent amount . In 1831 the number was 53 , 000 , and in 1821 only 37 , 000 ; so that in thirty years the nwtropnlia of Protestant Ulster has considerably more than trebled its population . Passports . —The Great Exhibition will , perhaps , do more than the French Revolution of 1848 in abolishing French passports . The Bou ' ogne Gazette contains a communication from the Minister of the Interior to the Sous-Prefet , partially abolishing the nuisance of the permit system . CoTTON .-Letters from U jmk of the 13 th of February , announce that MJ ^ Hy . the agent sent out from England to expertJMK& 9 n the growth of cotton , was about to shfjHPcargo of bales for Liverpool . Liberia , ic waS * expected , would at no distant uisiani
period become a large exporter . period oecome a large exporter . ¦ Indian Tea . —The Friend of China states , that the tea plants , transmitted by Mr . Fortune from the Celestial Empire to the north-western provinces of India , have flourished as well as could possibly be expected , and that , in the course of a few years , there is every probability that tea willforin an export from our Indian Presidencies . Laconic Answku . —A fop of a fellow who was sauntering about a country village , saw a pretty face at the window of a house near which a little boy was at play . " Bob , " said he , " who is that fair lady looking out ?" - "Sis , " was the laconic renly . " - Will you tell me if she is a maid or a matron " asked the exquisite . — " She ' s a tailoress , " answered tho lad . resuming his play .
Forgbtfowess . —The summer passes over the furrows and the corn springs up ; the sod forgets the flower of the past . year ; and the battle-field forgets the blood that has been spilt upon its turf ; the sky forgets the storm , and the water the udon-day sun that slept upon its bosom . All nature preaches forgetfulness . Its very order is the progress of oblivion . An Advertisement in the Times seriously announces a new song , with the modest requost , " Oh , give me back but yesterday ! " A companion to the abo
ve , " Oh , could you spare to-morrow , love ? " is in preparation ; to be followed by the sequel lyric of "You haven ' t got such a thing as next week about you , have you ?" Southport . —It appears from the census that there are 900 more females than males in Southport . The CAroiucle says that \ vhen it was a small village , there were , one winter , eighty-four marriageable ladies and four marriageable gentlemen ; but" those gentlemen were too fond of dogs , hawks , &c , to think of changing their condition !"
Opinions . —Charles the fifth , when ha abdicated a throne , and retired to the monastery of St . Juste , ar oused himself with the mechanical arts , and particularly with that of a watchmaker . He one day exclaimed , " What an egregious fool must I have been to have squandered so much blood and treasure , in an absurd attempt to make men think alike , when I cannot even make a few watches keep time together ! ' Piano-Forte Makeks . —Fifty or sixty years back there were scarcely a dozen piano-forte makers in England : there are at present between 200 and 300 in London alone , while there are makers in most of tho capital towns in the United Kingdom . It is calculated that there are not leBS than 1 , 500 piano-fortes made every week in Great Britain and Ireland , employing , when trade is good , full 15 , 000 workmen of a superior class , and receiving wages accordingly . Camfornian Gold . —The most recent and
anthentic advices from the gold regions of California agree , that to the pregent date , tho richest portions of the metallic tracts have been already worked , and cannot longer be carried on to any great extent . They agree that the workers must henceforward look mainly to the quartz rook deposits , where operations can only be carried on by parties in possession of machinery and steam power , of course involving a certain command of capital . South Australia . —From the census taken during the current year , several interesting results are exhibited . The quantity of land comprises 620 266 acres , and the unsold 240 , 195 acres : tho number of houses in the province is 11 . 981 ; whilst the total population is set down at 62 , 639 , or 34 , 975 males , and 27 , 664 females ; to which add 301 for missions and persons travelling , and we have a total of 63 000 souls in the province of South Australia , on the 1 st January , 1851 .
Duns Done FoR .-The legislature of Michigan has , we hear ; abolished all laws for the recovery of debts . " Base ia the slave that pays ! " So duna , no lawyers' letters , no writs , no bailiffs , no sponging houses , no prisons ! Henceforth , all a man will have to do is to accept a bill aud pocket the cash . Ag poor Sheridan ( he would have approved highly of Michigan legislation ) used to Bay , after setting his name across a half-crown stamp , " Well , thank Heaven , that ' s off my mind . " The Would . —Many an unwise parent labours hard and lives sparingly all his lifefor the purpose of
, leaving enough to give his children a start in the world , as it is called . Setting a young man afloat by money left by his relatives , is liko tying bladders un-Uer the arms of one who cannot swim : ten chances to one he will lose his bladders , and go to the bottom . Teach him to swim , and he will never need the bladders . Give your child a sound education , and you have done enough for him . See to it that his morals are pure , his mind cultivated , and his whole nature made subservient to the laws which govern man , and you have given what will be of more value than the wealth of the Indies .
As Irish Ploughman . —A recent emigrant had applied for employment to a farmer , and being asked f he was acquainted with all kinds of farm labour , replied without hesitation in the affirmative . He was accordingly engaged , and the next morning sent to hold the plough , with the son of his employer to drive . After the horse was tackled in , the boy gave him a start ; but , hearing an exclamation behind , turned and beheld the son of the grean isle ploughing up the ground with his heels , which were firmly set , while he was straining every mnscle to maintain his position , and crying out— " Stop , stop , how can . I hold the plough if you make the horse drag it awav from me ? " '
National Debts of tub various States of Europe . —The total amount of debt borne by the fifty-eight European States is £ 1 , 753 , 278 , 127 ; of which the eight Republics sustain three-twentieths , and the Monarchies the remaining 8 eventeen-twentieths . Every geographical square mile in Europe is burdened with an average of £ 9 , 740 of the public debt ; Hamburgh sustaining the maximum of debt in proportion to its area , and Russia and Turkey the minimum—and in proportion to the population of Europe an average of < £ 6 15 s . per head was indicated , in this case the Netherlands sustaining the
] ! maximum , and Russia the minimum . The revenues of the European states yield a total of £ 207 , 301 , 752 , of which £ 53 , 386 , 293 is derived from the Republics , and £ 153 , 915 , 549 ( or three-fourths ) from the Monarchies , Spain holding the worst position 88 regards the amount of revenue opposed to the national debt , the interest upon which , at five per cent , would consumo the whole revenue ; whilst Prussia requires only a fourteenth of its revenue to be so applied . It is not the amount of debt that undermines the credit of States , but the want of natural resources to cover the required mterestB . 1 ^ t t
• ' Conii ^ ntal STATisiics .-The Russian posses-Tmm > ABla ! . Arnerioa cover an area KtS'S TT mile , ' with a P ° P » lation of 65 , 935 000 . The annual expenditure of the Bus-Bian Btates amounts to £ 20 , 000 , 000 and the public ( 1 0
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Soooni ' - ' ' Notes t 0 an » " « unt «> f numW * I , re m circulation . The Russian army Sols i ° -T rT > and the ' ^ t consms omb S has fmn ' - « ' Tho m ° ™ nti ! o maavoraje ' u ^ fnn 6836 3 of 100 > 000 tans - Thft ofi 2 K MW rt- ^ miles and 37 < inn nna V A . ustri » has 12 , loS square ^ s ? SSH ! tnumbers 500 , 000 men , and the S 1 ? , 1 «• Mt 7 and 600 guns . There aw SMmSb ^ r ° - u a tonnage of 102 , 420 tons Imp "" ^ u ^ ' onf exports , £ 13 , 000 , 000 . Franco , mbus her S , ? J has 0 , 748 square miles , with 86 , 600 , 000 ^ hab tS Expenditure £ 64000 , 000 ; debt , ' £ 221 , 000 000-notes , 17 , 000 , 000 ; army , 205 , 463 men ; Hoot . 328 vessels ; S . 000 guns ; mercantile niavine shins l ' : ! 53 joint tonuagc , ( 5 J 3 , 0-JS tons ; imports , £ 40 , 00 i \ 00 o ' exports , £ 47 , 000 , 000 . Prussia , 5 , 101 square miles , and 10 , 400 , 000 inhabitants . Expenditure £ 1 G , 000 , CI ) 0 ; debt , £ 30 , 000 , 000 ; bank notes ! £ J . 000 , 000 ; standing army , minus the liimiwDhr , 217 , 200 men ; fleet . ' 38 vessels , 84 gun ? , niu ! 997 merchant vessels of a joint tonnage of 40 , 977 tons . —Iwlnische Zcitima .
Snow in June . —On tho 4 th inst . a storm of hail and snow fell on the adjoining lulls in Derbyshire . I he morning was extremely cold for tho season , and a rather strong wind blow from tho norch-west when tho storm took place . The namo of bridegroom was formerly civou to the new marriod man , because it was customary for him to wait at table on his bride and friends on his wedding-day .
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Stuart ofDunleathj a Story of Modern Times , By the Hon . Mrs . . Norton . Threo Vols . London : Colburn and Co . The story of " Stuart of Dunleath " ia this . Lady Eaymond , a weak self-indulgent beauty , is unable to bear tbe climate of India ; so she is sent home by her second husband , General Sir John Raymond , with his little daughter , Eleanor , who turns out to be the heroine . The General dies just as he is about to land , and leaves his private secretary , Stuart , guardian to his daughter , and executor to his will , with somebody else , who also dies . Stuart ' s father , a Highland chief , has been a selfish and profligate man , and his creditors sell Dunleath .
To recover this patrimonial property is an object of David Stuart ' s life ; but , instead of making any rational exertion for that purpose , he sits down for years at Aspendale Park , educating Eleanor Eaymond , and of course teaching her to fall in love with himself . By way of discharging his duty as trustee , Mr . Stuart speculates with the property of his late patron , in order to raise enough to buy Dunleath ; and loses it all . At this time Sir Stephen Penrhyn , a rough , wealthy baronet , proposes for Eleanor to Stuart ; Stuart waits long enough to learn that Eleanor will decline the offer , after which he goes off and drowns himself "in the Linn , " leaving an explanatory letter behind .
As Sir Stephen , though a coarse person , is not mercenary , Eleanors loss of fortune makes no difference in his feelings , and she is persuaded to accept him . The match , however turns out badly . The parties are illassorted—Sir Stephen ' s sister makes mischief— Eleanor ' s two children die — Sir Stephen has a youug woman in keeping established at the lodge of the mansion . After eight yeara it turns out that David Stuart is not dead after all—he was rescued by a divine , preached to , and went to Canada . There he slaved to acquire a fortune to replace the money he had lost , and by luck is able to do
bo ; but , instead of transmitting it , or returning in his own name , he comes back under an alias , wishing to receive Lady Penrhyn ' s forgiveness . This the lady readily grants , and moreover , she receives and introduces him to her family and friends as Mr . Lindsay . When this piece of deception aud falsehood is discovered , there is a row ; Sir Penrhyn breaks his wife ' s arm in a personal encounter ; but matters are made up again , till another and a final row ensues , because Stuart threatens to
horsewhip Sir Stephen ' s natural son , ( mistaking him for a servant ) , and his father insists upon taking the urchin into the house . Eleanor , under the advice of Stuart , determines to leave her husband , and institute proceedings for a divorce , but she is stopped by a letter from a friend , and the interference of her half brother . David Stuart , though his love is represented as very violent , yields after a letter or two , and in a year his intended marriage is announced , which gives the coup de grace to Eleanor .
For specimen of the writing , we take the following scene , which paves the way for the termination already alluded to . Lady Penrhyn and Stuart , sifter his return from Canada , have been out riding : — They drew up their horses , and waited for some one to come down from the lodge . The inmates seemed always to have a pleasure in the petty disrespect of making Eleanor wait . She patted her horse ' s neck , and averted her eyes from the pretty cott whose adornment seemed to be the
ceaseage , less occupation of some one of the gardeners ; lor even now Sandy was there , lifting away ^ ho hasm of a stone fountain which the frost had cracked , and in which , during the summer time , Bridget kept gold fish to amuse herchildren . Young Owen was there , watching with boyish interest the proceedings of Sandv . David called out to him" Come down * you lazy little fellow , and open the gate , will you ? " , The boy turned sharply round . '' I ' m not gatekeeper ! "
.... _ .. ... ., " Some of you keep it , I suppose , " said David , impatiently . ' , Ti . e door of the lodge opened , and Bridget tossed the key . to Sandy , but the old man ' s hands were occupied , for he bad just taken up a portion of the stone work which supported the fountain . Young Owen snatched the key , and running half down the path , flung it into the road , exclaiming— " Open the gate for yourself , my fine Laird o' Ardlockie I The key struck the fore foot of Eleanor ' s horse , as it stood pawing the snow , impatient of the delay ,
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RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED J' , WITHOUT A TRUSS !
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Northern Star (1837-1852), June 14, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1630/page/3/
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