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      f ) R . BARKER'S PUR 1 F 1 C PILLS U ( of which there are useless imitations under other titles ) , have in many' instances effected a euro when all other means had failed , and are now established , by the consent of every patient who has yet tried them , as also by the Ficuwv TlltJUhLVEg , as the jnost safe and efficacious remedy ever discovered for discharges of any kind , retention of the urine , and diseases of the Kidneys and Utinuvy Organ * gcnurally , whether resulting from imprudence or otherwise , which , if neglected , frequently end iu st . ; no in the bladder , and a lingering death J Fop Gout , Stt ' uAtfctt , Rheumat ism , Tie Boloreu * , Erjsipeia * , bmpsy , Scrofula ,. Loss oy Jluir or Teeth , Dcpresntou of Spirits , Uluslriug , Incapacity for Society , Study or Business , Confusion , GlddiutSB , Drowsiness , Sleep without Refresh , ment , Fear , Nervousness , and even Insanity itself , whtfD , as is often the case , arising from , or combined with Urinary Diseases , they are unequalled . By their salutary action on Acidity of the Stomach , they correct l . ile and

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      RUPTURES EFFECTUALLY and PERMANEltTLY CUliED WITHOUT A TRUSS !—Da , GUTHREY still continues to supply the afflicted with his celebrated remedy for this alarming complaint , w ich haa never failed iu effecting a perfect cure , it is npjilica .. ble to every variety of Single and Double Hupture , m male or female of any age , however bad or long standing ; is easy and painless iu application , causing no inconveuienca or confinement , Ac . ; and will be sent free by post to an ; part of the Kingdom with tull instructions , rendering failure impossible , on n ceipt of sfeven shillings in postaga stamps , or by post-office order , payable at the General cost office . Address , Henry Guthrey , M . D ., 14 , Hand court , llolborn London . a great number of old Trusses awl Testhnonitils have been letc behind by persona cured , as trophies of the success of bis remedy , which may be seen by anysuf . iurer . l thaukful for my restoration to health and com- . fort , by your beautiful cure of my Double Ilupture , '—Mrs Barrett . ' As you were hind enough to show me your Museum of old Trusses when I calle . i on you , I think it nothing but lairl should send you mine to add to the number , as it is now useless to me ; X have not worn it since I used your remedy , five months ago . '—John Clarice , itisiey , ., i > r . Uuthrey being the solo possessor of the Kemedy for Rupture , it can only be procured direct from his resideuce as above . DEAFNESS , SOISESls THE BEAD AND EARS , &c . ¦ ¦ 'The most important discovery of the y ear in medical science , is the new Uemedj- for Ue'dft \* ss , \ tc , introduced by Dr . Guthrey . '— ' Medical Itevien' for the year 1850 Dr . GuiJircy / s Itemed ? for deafness , ic , permanently restores hoarme , enabling the patient in a few davs tn hear the ticking of a watch , even in cases wV . ere the deaf ness has existed lor many years from anj caue wliat " ver ana has been successful in hundreds ofoijw Tf struaieuts and surgical assistance have failoi ! in .. ;¦ . * . lief it removes all those distressing uoSun § l f / , " and c-ar ,, and by Us occasional use vM v " t t , S occurring again at any future period . deafness liilipassis LoST ° < GUtlU " ^ - - ' ^ Haad-court , Holborn . ever 7 caEe 7 A I : crfectana P ™ auent cure U guaranteed ia r » - « n ) Leena mani ' notleafness for eleven years , but mo l-o ^ t ^ H ^ SSi *» " ««« * « ° J , J "i" * ivc " U'J l'y aU 'he auvists as incurable , and triat-ft ^ seterai instruments . & . c ., but to no purpose , they aits Ni-ti maue mo wowe . Your remedy has ( jti-ecir . d-WeL' ^ Cvy can hear , . watch tiek ciearli-, '—1 a « . Js » . B- — , Oi ^ S ^ rf . ' Thank God I was ! cd to try your Remedy for Datteto ^ mj I'lmd prevented me itveaehing for three year ? , and ^ B ^ i e ^ w . jy , advice 1 could get was of no avail . I cau now g ^ aJraiSTni ^ l . v duties as b < fore . Send me ha fa dozen lor my pkityK ' ry ?^ risbion i-s , Jorwhi h I will enclose ^ Mi order fur Ji'd / -JHW r ^ vr Iiobertli , Herts . fi \'] ^^ r . i X ^" . ivi . ' -i

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      10 THE . PSEBIDBSX OF IBJlXCE . Hast thou forgotten , ttiou more - » ile Than he who clung to Helen ' s iale Rather than fall among the brave ! Hast thou forgotten so thy flight , "When sparing Philip ' s ^ eaceful might , Disdain'd to hurl thee to thy grave ? Forgotten the chain ' d eagle , borne Shaken by ridicule and scorn Up Boulogne ' s protid columnar hill ? Twice traitor , ere a nation's trust Kais'd thee a third time from the dust For what ? . . to oe a traitor still . The hands that thrust thy uncle dovrD , . And threw into his face his crown , Contemptuous , were held forth to thee Stot for tby -valour or thy worth , Believe me , were those Lands held forth ,

      no , hut lrom joy that thou wert free . 0 brow of brass ! 0 heart of stone i Dost thou of Europe ' s sons alone Repel the exile from , thy shore , "Whom Plague ' s implacable disease , Whom murderous men , tempestuous seas , Had spared , whose wrongs far worlds deplore . Him , when the 6 ons of Iamael saw , . The man who gave free men the lawj " . """ " * . They stopt the camel-train to gaze ¦; ' ; For in the de 3 erfc they had heard The miracles of Kossuth ' a Word , : The myriad voices of his praise . Sim , ever mindful of her trust , America / the firm , the just , Beneath her salutary star Invokes , and bears across the main , Until his native land again

      Avenges an unrighteous war . England 3 2 glory that mine eyes First opened job thy sterner skies , Where the most valiant of mankind , Sear gentlest hearts ; I glory most At the proud welcome on tby coast Of him , the brave , the pure , the wise . My England ! look across the Strait ! Behold the chief whom thousands hate , - Bat fear to touch ; because the Czar Nods at him from his saddle-bow , And says , " If any strike a hlow Against my slave I rush to war " Safe art thou , Louis ! . . for a time . But tremble . . never yet was crime , Beyond one little space , secure . The coward and the brave alike Can wait and watch , can rush and strike . . Which marks thee ? one of them , be sure

      Some men love fame , despising power , Well sheltered from its sultry hour , And some lore power , despising fame ; Among the crowd of these art thou , And soon shalt reach it . . but below , A Jellachich ' s and Georgey ' s name . October 7 . Walter Savage Likdob

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      A Refutation of the Charge of Imposition and Fraud , recently made at the Police Court of Birmingham , against ike Baroness Yon Beck , iased upon Authentic -Documentary ' Evidence . Collected by Consiakt Derra de Moroda , London : Bontley . Some weeks ago oar police reports gave an account of the strange proceedings connected ¦ with the seizure of the Baroness von Beck , at Birmingham , as an imposter , and her consequent death at the moment she was to have been placed before the magistrate . Iff . Pews , -who acted as her secretary , vria seized at the

      same time , as an accomplice in the imposture , whatever it was , bat -was set at liberty immediately after the death of the Baroness , with an admission that he , at least , belonged to a highly respectable Hungarian family , and was not personally cognisant of any fraud . There the matter appeared to be hushed up , as far as the prosecutions were concerned , and there , to all appearances , they intended it to rest . There were , however , even at that stage , some facts which pointed to a mystery that required clearing up ; and , fortunately for the deceased lady , she has found in her secretary and Mr . Bentley , the publisher of her Memoirs , able and zealous defenders of her character and

      memory . The case , as stated in the publication at the head of this notice , is supported by ample documentary evidence of the highest description , and though all the facts may not yet be disclosed , the narrative leads irresistibly to the conclusion that the lady called the Baroness von Beck was treated , on at least very slight grounds , with a harshness and violence which led to her death , and is in its circumstances without anyparallel in this country . "We regret this the more , inasmuch as Itfr . Daweon was prominently mixed np in the proceedings , which , as related byM . Derraand M . Kaszonyi , were more fitted for the meridian of Naples than an English town . It has yet to be proved

      that tb . 9 lady was guilty of any deception , in calling herself by the name she did . The only gronnd for the allegation is , the statement of M . Hajnik , 1 n the Police Court—that there was no such person as the Baroness Von Beck ; whereas , the documents now published prove that she was addressed by that title by many Hungarians of high rank , amongst others Count Paul Esterhazy , a letter from whom of the most respectful terms , and in a manner thoroughly confirmatory of her own representations , as to the services she rendered in the straggle for Hungarian independence . M . Gorski , aide-de-camp to General Bem , in " a declarat ion " states ;—

      On the 27 th of July , whilst travelling as aide-decamp from Clausenberg to Stegedin , I found Madame von Meszleayi , Kossnth ' s sister , in Arad , from whence I travelled with her to Szegedln ; and she also spoke of the merits of the deceased Baroness von Beck . Lastly , on the 27 th of July , I accompanied Kossuth ' s mother from Oroszhaza to Arad ; on which occasion also the Baroness von Beck was frequently remembered . All the abovementioned persona knew her , and entitled her Baroness Beck .

      It is desirable that Kossuth , on his arrival in this country , should set this matter definitively at rest , for the character of M . Pulsky , his agent in this country , -sadly needs a decisive and prompt vindication from the serious charges involved in the singular narrative of the two witnesses we have mentioned . Instead of resembling anything that could have' taken place in a matter-of-fact town like Birmingham , and under the forms Of English law , it reads like » etory of the Inquisition in Venice or Madrid , in the palmy days of that institution : —

      After briefly describing the first appearance tf the Baroness , or alleged Baroness , in Birmingham , the interest which she excited , her serious illness , and her removal to the house of Mr . Tyndell , the writer proceeds : — On the 28 th of August , the Baroness was so far recovered , that she was present at a soiree given bv Mr . Tyndall ; and even felt able to comply with the desire of . the company , that she would give them a specimen of the Hungarian national dance . On the following evening , August 29 th , there was also a party at Mr . Tyndall ' s , and everything went on pleasantly till about nine o clock . JIT . TyndaJl then enteredand summoned his lady and her aieter

      , from the parlour , informing them that bis sister , Mrs . Ryland . had been taken ill . There were three Hungarians in the company at this period—the Baroness Ton Beck , M . Constant Derra , and XL Daniel von Kayzonyi . Derra was seated at toe Piano , playing some Hungarian airs , and the other two were conversing . As soon as Mrs . Tyndau and "her sister were removed , Mr . Tyndall came to Derra , touched him on the shonlder , and requested him to step into another room , as there was a gentleman there who wanted to speak to him . Derra immediately obeyed the summons ; but no sooner * as he outside , and the door shut , than he vraa Seized by two policemen , hurried along the passage ,

      a nd thrust into a cab , which was waiting . All bis demands for explanation , as to the nature of the charge upon which he was arrested , were treated with contempt and insolt . The cab drove off to the Police station in Scw-street , where he was searched i&e a thief , and his letters taken from him to the lumber * of " six , two of wkidi were never returned After this operation , he was conveyed to the cella 111 Moor-street , where he was locked up . The J aroness and Kaszonyi were still in the room , knowing nothing- of what had befallen Derra . A bout ten minutes or a quarter of An hour after 'is removal , Mr . Richard Peyton approached the Baroness , -and politely offered her Ms arm , iati-

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      mating his wish , to speak to her in private . She accepted his support , and left the room , when the same scene was played over again . She could not speak English ; and it is easy to conceive the terror of a helpless woman , thus dragged from the midst Of a social assembly , where , the tery moment before , she had been treated with all possible re-Bpect and attention ; dressed as she was for an evening party , and infirm in health , suddenly , and- in ignorance of her alleged crime , carried off to prison . ^ L ^ i !^ O ! Peak ,, lo .. ^ in PrlTat . <\ ^

      The whole of this scene appears at first reading incredible . A little further on it is Btated that , by some means , the hoBt was induced to conceal from Ms unsuspecting guest the designs of her accuser , — 'to lead Mr . Hajnik into the garden himaelf , —widen the opening in the window-curtains , and stand by while the domestic circle was overlooked , and the helpless woman who had long been a member of it marked and noted by Hajnik . ' This mysterious visit , —this night arrest—so far as appears in these papers , without warrantwithout stating a specific charge—without offer to accept bail for an appearance in the morning , —surely all these strange and secret

      proceedings bad reference to gome other motive than the charge that the lady sold a romance for a true story , —and which it has been thought convenient carefully to conceal from the public . One result of these proceedings , however , does come to light in the papers before us , and seems to indicate the direction in which motives might be sought . The papers of the Baroness were seized , —and have since been kept by some one " . —and the parties to this pamphlet even complain that the abstraction and retention of these documents have deprived them of the most important means of here proving her innocence . —But , to the story : —

      Easzonyi was still in the parlour , completely ignorant of what had taken place , nor bad he the remotest hint of it until Mr . Tyndall , after deposing against the prisoners , suddenly entered the apartment , and said : " Gentlemen , we have all been mistaken in the Baroness von Beck—she is no Baroness . " Kaszonyi took , this foe a jest , atid thinking it rather out of place , replied , " Je troure ceite farce bien drOIe . " Mr . George Dawson , however , assured him tbat it was no jest , for that both Derra and the Baroness were at that moment in prison . Kaszonyi astonished and indignant at what he deemed the falsehood and treachery practised upon his friends , demanded the nature of tbe charge

      against them , the name of their accuser , and the place of their imprisonment , intending to do something , though he knew Dot what , for their defence , Neither Mr . Tyndall , however , nor his friends , would answer any of Kaezonyi ' s questions . All he could extract from them was to the effeotthathe would know all about the matter at eleven o'clock the next morning . Kaszonyi then left Mr . Tyndall ' s house , and went into Birmingham to make inquiries concerning his country people . He walked about the town till ejeren o'clock at night , seeking for information respecting the place of their imprisonment , but without success . Finding all his efforts in vain , he then returned to his hotel .

      M . Derra continues the narrative . — Placed in a miserable cell , my brain on fire , and my bosom bursting with Bhame and rage at the frightful outrage inflicted , on me , I walked up and down like a wild animal in Us cage . I felt as if my very heart would break with the anguish of my wrongs , and the sense of my helplessness . I had not a friend near me , to whom I could apply tor advice or assistance ; I was completely surrounded by the toils of my unknown enemies , I thought of my aged parents , and pictured to myself the fatal shock it would be to them to hear that I had been dragged to an English prison . I thought of my father , smitten to the grave with sorrow at the disgrace of bis son , and it almost made me mad . I

      could hare shouted aloud with desperation , and had the means been at hand , I fear I should have been tempted to do myself a deadly mischief . I know not how the hours passed—they seemed to me then to stretch themselves out into ages ; and now that I look back upon the whole , it is like a hideous dream . At length the morning began to dawn upon this night of misery . The violence of the tempest that raged within me began to abate ; I could think of my position with something like calmness . I sat down upon the wretched bench that served for a bed , and tried to comprehend the circumstances of the last few hours , and to discover if possible tbe cause of my captivity . Whilst reflecting upon these subjects , my attention was attracted

      by a low mournful sound , which seemed to proceed from tbe cell adjoining that in which I was confined . I had been , aware of this noise all night , though I was so distracted with my own passions , tbat it did not excite my special notice . It sounded like the voice of a human being in distress . lapproached the partition and listened attentively , and soon distinguished the voice of the unhappy Baroness . She was groaning weakly , and praying that some Christian would give her a glass of cold water for Christ ' s sake ! and send her a physician , as she was dying . She spoke German , and therefore was not understood ; but I heard a rough voice cry to her several time to be quiet . I begged the Keeper very movingly to allow me to go OUt of

      my cell for a few minutes ; he did so , and accompanied me himself . I looked into the Baroness ' s cell : she was sitting upon the side of the bed . I was astounded at the change which had taken place in her appearance since the last evening ; her face vwia shrunken and unnaturally pale . SheBWayed from side to side , unable to sit in an upright position , and kept up a continual low wailing . As soon as she saw me through the grating , she beckoned me to Stay , arose from the bed , and staggered to the wall , against which she supported herself whilst she crawled to the door outside which I was

      standing . "I am falsely charged with being no baroness , " she said ; " and they say that we are impostors . " Her voice was altered and wild , and she sobbed convulsively when she had uttered these words . She then cried out , " Send me a physician —I am dying—a little water ! a little water ! for Jesus' sake ! " —The keeper , Joseph Yates ( let his name be recorded with honour ) , was kind enough to procure her a glass , of water , which she bad prayed for in vain in her own language for nine faoura and a half . I then returned to my cell , to await the investigation , which I was informed would take place at eleven o ' clock before the town magistracy .

      The death of the unfortunate lady in the ante-room of the court is followed by the examination and acquittal of M . Derra : —and then , the whole matter is hushed up . The statements of this pamphlet , so far as they can be tested , sustain themselves , —and the letters are inferentially contradictory of the statements on the other side . We lay before our readers , to be received as they may choose , one of the speculations of the pamphlet which undertakes to expose the springs of the proceedings against the BaroneBB : —

      There is reason to suspect that a plan was concocted with the utmost secrecy , and that extraordinary exertions were used to collect every scrap of evidence which could tell against tbe Baroness , with the intent of making a fatal swoop upon her on the evening of the 29 Lb . There is also reason to suspect tbat the most extraordinary efforts were made to lull the Baroness into entire unsuspiciousness of what was intended . She was not once asked for her credentials . She was surrounded with the most flattering and apparently hospitable attentions . She was deprived of all possible means of defending herself , whilst a barrister is brought down from London , armed with the results of all this eacfir industry . The charge 13 proceeded with

      whilst tbe woman lies dead la the court ! The magistrates discharge the other person accused with , her , on the ground that there was no evidence against him . The advocate then begs that the papers of the deceased maybe given up to film , Stating , with a supernatural clairvoyance , that they contained the particulars of a conspiracy among the Hungarians . They are given \ ip to him ; and , by a strange sympathetic action , her lodgings in London are visited at the same time , and her kejs taken away . That those papers contained a plot , rests upon the mere assertion of the Baroness's accusers . That they contained most important proofs of her integrity , is very certain ; such , proofs as would have effectually demonstrated it to the world . The judgment of those who knew most about the Baroness ' s affairs

      is , that tbe whole process had for its object to discredit her as an authority on Hungarian ufiairs before the British public . This looks extremely probable , when the declared enmity between her and certain individuals is considered . Indeed it is impossible to believe that all this mighty preparation , this hunting » P of evidence , that secrecy and finesse , that simulation of kindness , that feverous excitement to have all ready by the 29 tb , which the very dates of Iteters read against the Baroness betrav could have been deemed nectssnry , were she and which

      the wretched , illitertae , depraved woman her enemies represent her . Instead of moving heaven and earth for her destruction , a breath would have swept her way . But she was making her way with the public ; sbe was about to publish a new work , which might haply be made the vehicle of her resentment , It must not come out ; she must be stigmatised ; everything must be done to rrnsh her at a blow . That fcue most extraordinary nereuasions were used to iaduce the gentlemen at ES g bam to act as they did is pretty plain : on

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      no other grounds can . their conduct be accounted for . The ends of justice would have been abundantly answered by taking the Baroness into custody on the morning of the investigation , but to take her from the midst of an evening party would give more eclat to the vengeance she had provoked . Had the Baroness been warned of what was in preparation , ahe would have communicated with f rieads willing and able to defend her ; therefore she was to be kept in the most entire ignorance of the coming accusation . o h 3 Sounds can . fcheir conduct accounted

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      Rambles through Borne . By the Chevalier DE Chateuin . London : Hope & Co . Most writers about Borne fall into raptures about its antiqutty—its palaces , pictures , and sculptures . The Chevalier de Cbatelain takes a matter-of-fact view , and presents us with a description of the' eternal city , ' very different from that of the sentimentalists , antiquarians , and artists , who usuall y undertake the task . As some of his recollections are derived from a sojourn in Rome twenty years ago , it is possible that they may now be out of date , even in a city which is subject to the rule of an infallible and immutable papacy , But the pleasant st y le and lively nature of the sketches carry the reader agreeably along . Here is a description of the muchtalkedof Corso , very differentfrom the ordinary ideas Englishmen have gathered of it from other tourists ,

      When you hear of the Corso , at Borne , as the rendezvous of the nobility , who drive up and down in elegant equipages countless in number , you naturally fancy a superb avenue , well aired , and bordered , as in most of our southern towns , with verdant trees and magnificent cafes—those temples of fashion and pleasjireB ; and you even perhaps go the length Of imagining . that , as it is without question , . the native land of music , snatches of delicious symphonies will reveal the taste of a melodyloving people , or that , at any rate , at some distance both youth and childhood would each be partaking of the amusements of their ages , and that it was the very place to enjoy , at the decline of day , the coolfrflBbnesB of the breeze , and to witness the partbeams of the

      ing sun .... Well , then , good people , pray undeceive youreelreg . When , six weeks after my departure from France , I was told "There is the Tiber , " I perceived a rivar of no great breadth , that I crossed by a bridge , rather ill-built than otherwise , after having looked with disgust on two horrible statues of saints , the modern production of a would be sculptor , who had been entrusted to decorate the bridge . On the right I behtld the Castle of St . Angelo , the Vatican , the sublime Basilica , and , the mournful Monte Mario , with its bjaok cypresses . On the left I perceived some abrupt hills , some kind of raawb . es , and ft number © f ruins of old castlea , held sacred among artists , under the title of PousBin ' s buildings . Then appeared a

      desert of a street , two miles in length ; then the Porta del Popolo , the piazza of the same name , that is ornamented by a superb obelisk , and disgraced by two fountains ; the sculpture of whioh is an insult to ail good taste ; and lastly , a street almost aB long a 8 the first , but much narrower , and overshadowed by tall houies , several of whioh are styled palaces , — -this , they told me , was the Corso . The equipages form two lines , that cross each other , and continue circulating after passing the goal . The whole population of Rome being thus crowded into one narrow neck , the foot passengers are well nigh trodden underneath the hoofs of the horseB , luckily not much given to capering ; but in summer this conglomeration of human

      beinga occasions anexceBs of heat and dust that is scarcely endurable . Bufc at least , say you , in the midst of all theBe disagreeables , the rich alone surely hare ihe privilege of dispersing mud and uusb to the baser orders on foot . Wrong again , Side by side with a prince , or even an ex-majesty ! comfortable ensconced in an elegant equipage , behind which are clustering a whole swarm of lackeys , strangely accoutred , you perceive a cobbler dizened out in his Sunday clothes , and proud as a peacock in the midst of his radiant family , seated on the well-worn cushions of an old caJecfte , drawn with difficulty by two Rosinantea at the last gasp . Three or four of his apprentices are stuck up behind to personate lackeys . It is amusing to watch the airs he gives himself ; how he surveys , from top to toe , the stranger whose boots he blackened that

      same morning , and how his robust helpmate , vastly proud of the new net of green ribbons on her head , is minutely criticising the dresses of neighbouring marchionesses and countesses . Should the carriage by chance be obliged to stop , or should some Croesus call for an ice to dispel his ennui , then . immediately the cobler loses no timo in 8 end « ing a deputation to the retailer of wines , and , while tbe melancholy lord of millions is picking at an ice , or tasting his orgeat glace , an enormous flagon of . Itomanesco , borne in triumph ia the midst of his neighbours , serves to quench the thirst of father , mother , children , lackeys , and coachman , until it is fairly emptied . The merriment that presides attheselibationsthrowsahalo of gaiety

      over its immediate vicinity , tbat contrasts forcibly with the mournful gravity of all tbe test . In the midst of this carousal the carriages of the cardinals may be distiuguished by their massiveness , their redness , their old fashioned gilding , and the multitude of lackey shanging behind them . Nearly stifled within the depth of Ms carriage , his eminence can only throw a side-long glance at the fair ladies who pass and pass again ; but , on the other hand , he enjoys the wondrous satisfaction of hearing the drums heat , and seeing the soldiers turn out of the guard-house to present arms to him , all of wWjs 1 » not without its value at Rome . In the midst of all this , wbat becomes of the exquisites ? Doubtless they are capering round those carriages best filled with inmates of the softer sex , or are galloping at full speed in the English fashion , at the imminent risk of breaking their necks . No such thing . It is not in the Corso the same as in the Bois de

      Boulogne in France , or Hyde Pats . in . Engl&fivl . Those who require riding on horseback , either from want of exercise , from habit , or from vanity , must rest content at Borne with creeping behind tbe equipages—and the number of such persons is very limited . By far the greater portion of young men of ban ton , after having slowly paced the old Corso [ intra muros ) , come and place themselves right and left on the Piazza del Popolo . There they stand , crossing their arms , twisting their gloves , pulling up their cravats , and pirouetting abruptly on their heels , as if some one had called to them from behind , though they know such is not tbe case , and bowing every minute to the ladies that pas 3 them , happy if they receive in return a smile or a glance wuich can be perceived by their rivals . Night comes on and they retire , for the most part exceedingly bored ; but they have sho wn themselves—and at Rome this is the main point .

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      The Christian Socialist . Pavt II . London : J . Berger , Fleet-street . The following extract concludes our notice of the as yet little known ' Island of Sark . ' By the way , as touching the colonization and lordship of Sark , I find that the first recorded occupant of this isle was a bishop , a certain Saint Maglorious , who But , for an ensample to bishops , let me quote the guide book , which doubtless is true to the letter . " In a . d ., 588 , St . Sampson was bishop of Dol in France ; and his diocese , being a small one , was augmented by the addition of Guernsey , Jeraejj and Sark . Ha , b&img a pious man , gave his whole heart to the work of his bishopric , and because he could not bestow as much

      attention and care on these islands as be wished to do , be appointed an assistant and successor iu the person of St . Maglorious . This latter , an equally holy man , devoting himselt to the work of an evangelist , resigned his bishopric , and went to Sark , which he chose for a place of retirement , for meditation , and for prayer , before he entered on his ministry . " Just a thousand years after this , when the monastery which old Maglorious had built here had crumbled to dust , and all priests and pirates who in turn held rule of the island , had in turn disappeared , Queen Elizabeth granted tbe possession of Sark to a certain Helier de Gartcret of Jersey , and by her letters patent , the present Seigneur holds it . This first lord of Sark

      Was a true king-man , for he lefs his own fine geignoury of St . Ouen in Jersey , to colonise this wild island , and so fairly did he set it in order for his posterity , that he was soon exporting corn from the little harbour , for an approach to which , ho bored through the bard rock-wall of his new dbmain , the tunnel through which to this day , the traveller generally enters Sark . But in course of time , a De Carteret arose who took unto himself debts , whereupon the Seigneury was sold to one Mv . Milner , " whose next heir becoming Bishop of Gloucester , sold it" again . So the last person who sold Sark was a bishop ; I note him , as a token of changed times , and in inglorious contrast with old Maglorious .

      But now if any servant of God would buy the lordship of Sark , not as a speculation , or as a good property , bufc that he might set himself to work in right earnest to do his duty to the island , and to make all men therein do theirs ;—what might- he do ? Great things I believe , just nothing less than first making a model colony , or parish , or commuaity . forthewhole world toimitatejiindjSecondlv , making this island one of the richest and most populous places on earth , —making it to atono for the dark deeds of the old pirates , whose stronghold it was in the dark ages . But fine fellows they were I doubt not , —true steel , but twisted , like a gun barrel—worth " , the handful of them , for courage , half the landlords and cotton-lords , and ali the slop-sellers in Britain .

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      What raw-materials , then , for the fabrication of m « ir < fl ' ' Sark ? Much many ways , S ™ W Physically ; nothuioh ¦ tateUectuahytnat stuff would have to be-imported and grown , in K ^ f * the isl * n < i ar 8 generally handsome , wen . buiit fellows ia their prime , and they live often * f S [ eat age } the women ( as is the case whereever ia » ali-civilised communities , man ' s helpcaSnl ? fh dehlS , drud S ' cribbett ia tlie . loweit t £ I » i r e soul > instead of having freedom in thoifir ? ? k P T °£ the 8 Pi « t , ) are stunted and ugly , TfiX , theli . « le -girls are generally very pretty 2 ! « f rt * ^ P , PeopH knowing little of the rest . ot the world , they deal as little in its vices as they do m its . refinements . Traditionally accus-«*? » -ir an almosl - 'bsolute ' monarchical rule , they feotil L " . ? leid ' anato « napeotMdaf . fection m return for leauerahiD Thev would Droraw- material * . « ,, „ . f ™ tiT ^^ n ftf

      oaoiy DB somewiiat jealous at first of a foreigner J ;' ^ not «¦ n ^ ive of the Channel UtooAl SoT ! th ? their Iord ! if * to jealousy want ? V ?> he would not be the man Sark wants . The parliament of forty tenants , the ma-S i * ? 5 - be . ofanhewdiUrynrktocracy , contains withm itself the germs of a republican government , which might be developed bv degrees , as the age . ripened for it . The eeigneur himself holding id hia band * the title to his power againtt au comers from without , might delegate more or less of his authority to others within his realm , as they might be fitted for it-till , having raised to nis own level in education good men of his coislanden , he mi ght finally abdicate into their hands his patent , that they ahould elect their own seigneur , and so perfect the little republic . There is at

      present very little money in circulation m Sark . All rents and tithes , as I have said , ar 6 i ? K t ln d ' " t'l ere « scarcely any hired labour : each helps his neighbour , and receives help in turn , inis little point would be good seed for a fine harvest of associative growths . You may perhaps be puzzled to discover what are the physical advantages which fil Sark for . a field of human industry .,. Its shallow soil and rock-girt coast do not seem to promise much , either in the way of production , or of distribution and reception Aow you are well aware , though Sark men are not , that a deep , inexhaustible soil is not the true foundation on which human food is to be built . Human bodies are the Btuff of which human bodiea are to be made ; . sewage manure is the transition state of the material , the vehicle through which the human spirit is to animate the earth . Inhabitants and

      worker * then , ace what Sarfc . Tfa « t , s to mafce it grow food . It wants an importation from soino of the rich streets , and from a poor yard and alley or two that you and I know of in a certain city , —a little fresh blood and life to quicken its heart and to consume its ownproduca on its own surface . But do not suppose that I want , to make a mere agricultural colony of the island . Work is to be found for the increased population , which ought soon to be far more numerous than the land would require , even when it . was all converted into a teaming gardon . Kow the universal wealth of Sark ia probably considerable , as the primitive rooks of which the island is formed are interlaced with veins in every direction , and some of these must contain metal . —

      Mines have been worked here in old us well as in recent times , and much silver , copper , and lead havo been brought to light , These , however , have been closed either from want of capital , or from partial exhaustion , bo we will not consider this branch of industry at present . Sark , however , is more rkhly provided with one greafc source of wealth , than almost any other piece of land in the world of equal size : this is , its water power . —One of the great sources of the wealth of England is its coal . Now the value of coal conaiats in its being a reservoir of force , by means of wbich the same results may be obtained , as by bo much human muscle , without the necegsity of foediug it . —S ; irk , it is true , has no coal to work steam engines , nor has it any rivers , scarcely any thine- that can be

      called % brook to turn a water wheel . But it has its tides , such tides as scarcely any other spot under her Majesty ' s Gsown can boast . The Bay of Fundy has its rise and fall of three score or more of feet . But that is not within a day's water distance of both London and Paris . The tides of Sark rise and fall from thirty to forty feet ; and the water being deep all round the island , the form of the shores is the very best for rendering this vast power available . Just conceive the huge upheaving force whioh through all time has been quietly working away round this island , utterly neglected , as it is everywhere else by man , who as yet is only half awake . There is scarcely any limit to the amount of work to be got out of the sea here . Here

      it is lifting up , through forty feet perpendicularly , twice daily , vay number of thousands of tons weight you like to mention , the whole of which , instead of idly dancing about tbe clifls , is ready to set cotton , silk , or flax-mills working like glory . But every wave that ripples or rushes rolling against the coast ~ u lifting a score of times in every minute the weigh ? of its whole mass through a height varying from an inch to a fathom . Sot only again does tho tide heave ; and life , but , in some places , where smaller islets cling about the small mothetisles , with a channel between , it rushes to and fro unceasingly in currents , to which , all mill races you ever saw , are mere trickles . There it flows , the life-blood that might be of whole generations

      of throbbing machinery . And even if all this were noc enough , there . 13 no place better fitted than Sark for making the wind do service . Here it stands towering four hundred feet above the sea surface , with tbe idle , reckless wind sweeping over it unopposed . How strange is it that this power 80 willing , and so able to serve , has never been set to any work except to move ships , and to grind corn , and in some few places to pump water : there ia some strange traditional indolence in the llUIu 3 . U faculty of adaptation . Here , then , are the means for enabling the lord of Sark to find work for his companions , and helps for them in thoir work , for enabling tbe future population of Sark to do service for the world outside , while it maintained its own

      internal life by co-operative industry . These are the capabilities of Bark , but before all these could be developed , humbler industry must be encouraged . The men would bare to be induced to take some really productive employment instead of the miserable substitute for labour called fishing , in which the excitement of danger , alternating with the patience of laziness , takes the place of the energy aadpersererance proper to human toil . There is at present but little communication with Guernsey , tbe nearest inhabited island , almost none with any other place : the only traffic being by means of a small sailing boat , which is of course dependent ; on the caprices of the wind . The day is nearly come when the elaborate clumsiness of masts and sails will be discarded from our sea boats . Steam ,

      till a mightier and more convenient power is revealed , must do all our locomotion by sea as well as by land . One of tho first things tlie lord of Sark would have to do for his domain , would be to establish a small steamer for facilitating communication with tbe markets in the other islands . Sark is of all others the island which requires to be set free from the tyranny of the winds by the use of steam . There are so many rocks in the sea around it , that the navigation by sail is by no means safe . Steam would reduce these inconveniences to a minimum . I feel this keenly , for this is the third day that I—wanting to get to Guernsey , which is only six miles off , and of whose town I can see every house from mjr window—am detained here weatherbound . This is positively wicked in the year 1851 .

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      Takixo & 0 TES . —a great many years ago , when there were slaves in Massachusetts , and some of the best men in the community owned them , there was a clergyman in a town in Essex eounty , whom wo will cail Mr . Cogswell , who had an old and favourite servant , by the name of Cuffee . As was often the ca > e , Cuffee had as much liberty to do as he pleased as anybody else in the house , ' and lie pvobaUy . entertained a high respect for himself . Cuffep , on the Sabbath , might have been seen in the minister ' s pew , looking round with a grand air , and so far as appearance indicated , profiting quite as much by his master ' s preaching as many others about him . Cuffee noticed one Sunday morning that several gentlemen were taking notes of tho sermon , and he determined to do the same thing , So , in the afternoon , he brought a sheet of paper , and pen and ink . The minister , happening to look down mto his pew , could hardly maintain his

      gravity when he saw his negro " spread out" to his task , with one side of his faco nearly touching the paper , and his tongue ibrust out of hia mouth . Cuffee kept at his notes , however , until the sermon was concluded , knowing nothing , and caring as little , about the wonderment of his master . When the minister reached home he sent for Cuffee to come into his study , — " Well , Cuffee , " said he , " what were you doing in meeting , this afternoon V " Doing , massa ? Taking notes I" was his reply . — " You , taking notes I" exclaimed the master . "Sartin , ma 8 !? a ; all the gentlemen take notes . " — " Well , let me see them , " said Mr . Cogswell . Cuffee thereupon produced his sheet of paper , and his master found it scrawled all over with all sorts of marks and lines , as though a dozen spiders , dipped in ink , had marched over it . — " ffny , this is all nonsense , " said the minister , as he looked at the " notes . " "Well , massa , " replied Cuffee , " 7 thought so all the time you was preaching . "

      Hesse Darmstadt . —A fatal catastrophe attended the final meeting of the general assembly of German Catholic associations , held at Alayence , on the 10 th of October . Whilst one of tho members was making a speech a cry of fire was heard . to issue from the bod y of the crowd . It seems that one ot the gas lamps having been accidentally broken a slight escape of gas caused an explosion . The gas was immediatel y turned off , but the sight of tho nre had created a panic amongst a part of the crowd in one of the galleries . A rush was made for the staircase , which became so crowded that several persons were suffocated before it was discovered that all fear of fire was over .

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      Household Words . — " Mamma ! I want some more bread and butter . "—Puncli . A Good Man suffers evil , and does good ; a bad man suffers good and does evil . The Life IB but an index of the heart ; the one tells where the other may be found . It is statbd that the largest sum of money ever given for a diamond was £ 150 , 000 . Sbxf-Kxowledgb . —Few men know enough to know that they know but little . Ambition . —The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds ; and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune . Con . —Why is a beefsteak like a locomotive engine ?—Because it ' s of little use without it ' s tender . —Punch , . ..

      A Gkntlem \ n . — " I say , Bill ; Jim's caged for stealing a horse . "— " Sarve him right ; why didn't he buy one , and not pay for it , like any other gentleman ! " , : % ; Fjmttkuy . —Our flatterers will tell as anything sooner than our faults , or what they know we do not like to hear . . Woman . —Let a woman be decked with all the embelli 8 b . tnen . tft of art and nature , yet , if boldness be read in her face , it blots out all the lines of beauty . Credit . — < lMr . S , is your customer B-r- ^

      a man to be trusted ?"— " I know of . no one more so . He ia to be trusted for ever ; he never pays . " Ankcdotbof Dr . Abersethy . —Lady ( affectedly . ) "Wherein the name of wonder , Doctor , could I have got such a nose as this 1 "—Doctor ; " Out of the decanter . Ma ' am . " Extravagance . —Those who outlive their incomes by splendour in dress or equipage may be said to resemble a town on fire , which shinet by that which destroys it . Bgloium . —The tolal population of Belgium on ( he 31 st December , 1850 , amounted to 4 , 407 , 241 . In 1840 it was 4 , 370 , 882 . The increase , therefore , is 3 G , 339 . Study . —In studying , read aloud : the matter is thus twice conveyed to the brain—by the eye and by the ear , and effects a more lasting impression upon the mind .

      Con . —Why are sheep supposed to be great gamesters . ' —Because the young ones are seen to gambol ( gamble ) , and many of the old ones ate black legs . SiscKKity is to speak as we think , to do as we pretend and profess , to perform and make good what we promise , and really to be what we would seem and appear to be . Upright and Downrioht , —There is a Quaker in Philadelphia so upright that he won ' t sit down to his meals ; and so downright in all his acts , that he never goes up stairs , but lodges ia the basement .

      Awkward , Very . —There are three or four things which it looks very awkward for a woman to do , viz . —to Wihtle , to throw stones at a cow , smoke a cigar , or clfaw > a garden fence . Agricultural Pbodvcb . — During the last eighty years , but more especially during the last twenty-five years , no less & sum than £ 64 , 000 , 000 a year has been added to the agricultural produce of Great Britain . Longevity . —The people live uncommonly long at Vermont . There are two men there so old tbat they have forgotten who they are , and there is nobody alive who can remember it for them . , Suoak . —M . Boissenofc . a distinguished chemist at Cualon , has , it is said , discovered a mode of refining sugar by wbich the use of animal charcoal is replaced by that of a less costly article , river sand .

      Branding Deserters . —A surgeon writing to the "Times , " asks if there U any law for branding a deserter . We beg to inform him that we know of no such law , and that if there is any it must be & brand new one . —fUncft . Comfort in a storm is best insured by taking shelter in some friend ' s house about tbe time he is going to dinner , making him bring out bia heat port , and cracking walnuts by the fireside afterwards . — The Month . A Marriage Portion . —A Greek maid being asked what fortune she would bring her husband , replied " I will bring him what gold cannot purchase—a heart unspotted , and virtue without a stain , whioh is all that detcended to me from my parents . " Gold . —Notwithstanding the immense supplies of gold from California , the bullion in the Bank of England has decreased in the two years about £ 2 , 000 , 000 . Our sovereigns have been exported to France , to he there teeoined .

      A Puntciuation PozztR . — " * of my existence , give meanenirS , " &&id a printer to his sweetheart . She immediately made a — at him , and planted her - $ gr between his i i ' s , " Such an OUt « rage , " saidEWst , lookingf tat her > " iswithouta ^ . " A Widower , —A gentleman was awakened in the night and told that his wife was dead . Re turned round , drew the coverlet . closer , pulled down his night-cap , and muttered , as he went to sleep again , " Oh , how grieved I shall be in the morning !" Popbry . —An ingenious wanderer has been lecturing in Kirkaldy on " Popery , " illustrating his subject by dissolving views of tho rites , &c , of the Roman Catholic Church .

      Be Orderly . —Order and distribution , and singling out of parts , is the life of despatch ; to as the distribution be not too subtle * , for he that doth not divide will never enter well into business ; and he who dividetb . too much will never come out of it clearly . —Bacon . " Positive . "—An elderly miss was heard to exclaim , while sitting at her toilet the other day , " I can bear adversity , I oati encounter hardship , and withstand the changes of fickle fortune ; but O , to live , and droop , and wither , and die like a single pink , I can't endure it , and what ' more , I won ' t !" Astronomical Wit . —A person on remarking the brightness of a moonlight night , with the usual observation of" How bright the moonshines to-night !" was answered by a punster with " I should . wonder if itdidu't . " - ' ! Why ? " said theother . — " Because , " said he , "that ' s the same noon tbat a mouth ago took all the shine out of the sun .

      A Roland for an . Oliver . —A smart young student of anatomy remarked , in the hearing of bis sister , that tbe reason there were so many old maids in tho world was owing to their tight laoing , which so hardened their hearts as to make them impenetrable to the shafts of Cupid . "And tho reason there are so many old bachelors , " retorted the Bister , "is because of their tight strappingthey cannot get on their knees to declare their passion . " No more Grey Haik . —The Kensington instan-LiKGaus hair-dye is easily applied , and imparts io the hair and yrbiskeva a natural and becoming black , without injuring the skin , or ( unless the application be very clumsily managed ) dirtying the shirUolIar . Sold wholesale and retail by Messrs . Warren , RusselJ , and Wright ( successors to the late Robert Warren ) , 30 , Strand ; and applied by Private Tommy Jenkins , of the Metropolitan shoeblack brigade , at his place of business , Prince ' sgate , ; Hyde-park . —The Month .

      " There ' 3 Poison in the ( Tba ) Cit ! "—Hamlet ' s Mother . —There is a spurious tea sold , called "lie tea , " which is simply tea dust and sand made up with rice-water ., Thus , when a lady enters a grocer ' s shop , and asks for a pound of " genuine " tea , the worthy grocer smiles , and thinks nothing of deliberately giving her the " lie . " The grocers may almost be called ' The Poisoners of tho Nineteenth Century . " If they continue in their present deleterious practices , they should be " classed with chemists , and prevented from Belling green tea , as chemists are prevented from selling arsenic . In short , we now move —and we hope some influential member will second our motion next BG 98 ion—tbat " The Aot for the Prevention of tbe Sale of Poisons" be applied mo 3 t stringently towards grocers , or else , our word for it , we shall not have a single washerwoman alive next year . —Punch .

      An Attempt to Pleabe Everybody Successful , —A reverend . gentleman here , well known for his Christian virtues , was some time ago presented with a Geneva cloak and bands , by a portion of his hearers ; the remainder would neither subscribe to nor even countenance such abominations , requesting their pastor not to don the Popish garb . The other party insisted as stoutly that his reverence would assume the pulpit-gown which they had presentGd- Pehee with consistency being a leading feature in the reverend gentleman ' s oharacter , he hit upon a sckeme that would hush all bickerings on tho subject—the plan being neither more nor less than by appearing one-half of tbe day in liia new canonicals , and the other halt'divested of these exterior trappings ! The plan has succeeded admirably—all pnrties being highly pleased with the arrangement ; and we congratulate the revorond gentleman on beinga better tactician than the unfortunate painter . —Mbntrose Standard .

      SriSNiso . —A machine , recently patented by Mr . Kii'kman , of Liverpool , is , perhaps , the most important improvement since the days of Arkwright , and bids fair to create a , perfect revolution . in cotton , wool , and flax- * pinning . It exemplifies a now principle , and in a great measure supersedes the old .. The machinery is very simple and inexpensive , and will produce more yarn , of a much better quality , in the same space , and with the same power .. By this new principle , Mr . Kirkman professes to , and does actually , put a regular and permanent twist in rovinga and yarns ; both ends being held fast , and neither end of the roving or yarn turning round . This has hitherto been held , even by practical men , a physical impossibility . In worsted-spinning , the importance and superiority of Mr . Kirkman ' s process will be more manifest than in cotton-spinning ; the' staple , being longer requires less twist , and , with a never-failing inV pendent taking up power , any quantity of work SeregSity . tUrne ( 1 Off ^ tL < J ^ P « -

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      The Discovery op Gold is Austiulia ;—At the forthcoming Cabinet Council tho recenfc' disoovery or gold in Australia will form one of tho chief topics of discussion , with a view to send out by tho next mail instructions to the governor as to the course he shall adopt with respect to the gold field 3 there . . Tho last packet from Australia brought dispatohos for tho government from the governor , de « tailing tho particulras of the diaoovory of gold , and tne steps which he ( the governor ) , had adopted to secure to the Crown the right to the gold , and also ' to prevent tho peoplo of Australia from going to Bathurst . He also states in his dispatches that he has not sufficient forco at his command vo enable him to carry his orders into effect . It is stated in circles likely to be well informed on the matter that Lord Grey ( the Colonial Sooretary ) entirely agrees with ihe Governor of Australia in the propriety of securing tbo proceeds of this El Dorado to the Crown , and that he will bring the matter before his colleagues at the next Cabinet Council .

      — 'Sunday Times . Tub Great ExuiBftiON . —Wo learn that knighthood has been offered to Mr . W . Cubitt , tho commissioner superintending tbe erection of the build * ing , to Mr . Paxton , and Mr . Fox .

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      October 18 , 1851 . THE NORTH ERN STAR . - ? ot be What . , ¦ T ' " - ^

      Paint In The Back, Gravel, Rheum Atism, Qout , Lum* Bago, Indigestion, Debility, Stricture, Qleet, Die.

      Paint in the Back , Gravel , Rheum atism , Qout , Lum * bago , Indigestion , Debility , Stricture , Qleet , die .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 18, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1648/page/3/