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1 MOST MIRACULOUS CURE OF BAD LEGS , AFTER FOR'IT-TllUEE YEARS' SUFFERING . Extract of a letter from Mr . William Galpin , of 70 , iSc . Mary ' s Street , Weymoutli , dated May loth , 1851 . To l'rofessor IIouowav , Sib , —At the Hgo of eighteen my wife ( who is now sixtyone ) caught a violent uold , wliiuli settled ill her Icg ^ . flmJ 6 Tor since that time tlioy haw * U ™ more or lessoore , and greatly innuineil , Jkr agonies were distracting , and for months together she was deprived entirely of rest
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A WORD TO THE WISE . ( From the Christian Socialist . ) hawk swoops straight upon the Tictim-The lSSngs deep fasten pa their prey , r 3 despots sing Te Deuins for their glory , G Incky burglars revel till the day . ktbts « et guineas , Poets bay-leaf garlands , fr ' ind sfatesmen take their welcome old age T . « v who ' explore the mysteries of the star-Ihcy lands , .
Sometimes get places , pudding , profit , fees . Vfovhets earn stonings , drawings in the dirt , \ nd crucifixion ' twixt two gibing thieves , T human souls may prosper by their hurt , jheir corpse-hands hold the ages harvest sheaves . ii # 5 -sOTt ^ aata blood , " sailh God , Almighty Lord —• i « Ts&e mine , " saith he , the martyr , Godinspired , jije mine the breast wherein to sheathe tlie sword , That men may pause awhile , with slaughters tired . " j 2 e loeikelb not to right , or left , nor ever Stops on his way to draw reluctant breath ; gat—as to ocean ceaseless runs the riverjiarchea high-fronted , steadfast , fixed , to death .
Tae Biren-jnggling Maehmels allure him , With prowues ear-kept—with subtle wile , jiiinfeing how they may horn liis frenzy cure him , And drill him down Into the rank and file . Of p lotting men , half-workera with the Devil : » Dost ihon want Heaven' * Come let as build new Babel ; fthere thou ahalt dwell upstairs , secure from evil , lad gcribble party pamphlets if thou ' rbable . " Uut the great heart of the elect of God , Speaks one sad word amid the tongue-bred ' Hide here , and die npon the low earth ' a sod , Xor hope to see , in this thy span of life . A , II . L .
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fa Shabby Fammerley ; or , Some Account of -Vy Missuses . Expojed Monthly by Emmerbf IMdivate . Part I . KoFeinber . Lonooa : 16 , Upper "Wellingtou-street , Strand . las may be regarded as the legitimate sequel 8 'Tlie Greatest PJague in Life . ' As in 'iai veracious and amusing "work , the foibles , raknesses , follies , and defects of domestics , stre caught and subjected to truthful , but pial criticism . So ' Emmerley Tiddrrate * bi presented to herself the task of describic the Mistress-class from the servant ' s point eVie \ r . The First Part is full of huoww ,
fecy and kindl y tempered ; tout in the midst aiis ebullience grave questions are bandied in aamier which shows the -writer has looked society-with the eye of a philosopher and ^ Innthropist , as well aB a satirist ; and the lowing up * which many of the well-bred pisies of selfishness found in the pages before S , cannot fail to have a beneficial effect on & future treatment of the large class of kiuestic servants , by those upon whom that
ias is bo greatly dependant for life being ia-ie endurable . One tiling we can Touch for"Esiiwrley V portraits are all life-like . There * n mistaking them . Sharply and accurately atiiued , they are filled up with the finest and afei discriminating artistic touches , and presat not gnl y 'species / but iudividuals bef * , with a trnthfulnes 3 almost equal to ¦ ie Dagiierrotype ; while they possess a genial &i kindly glow of colour that the Daguerlaiype has not yet attained .
iiiss Tiddirate thus announces her intenfen : — 1 :. ere has been a many hooks wrote a \> ont ub ^ -at gals , and what the ' missuses has to put up ? 'A from us , and I think it i time some one stood Tied and clapt the boot on the totfcer leg for the * ksand honsemades of Iogland , and gust showed te whirled a little of what we has to suffer from t jEiaissusses . People has pizined the pubUck again I 5 , andno « 7 I mean to step in with an antelope , *! ich shall make all armless , if I can only get the pilhck to swaller it—so there 1 r means to tell all I ' ve seen—all I've knone—all ^« neerdon—and all l \ e felt and undergon in
E ? eheckerd courier . I shall give my constint ^ Iferibers an inside into the hawfnl places I lived j ?; « nd eo let " em have an oce ? n of the dreadful ^ nations witch I ' ve sometimes got into . I shall '•?* aallop to them , muuth after muntn , the seens . [ HLat there domestic melly { dram , in witch E . T Js took the hiuterestinv part of the erroring . I « an to hold the mirrow up to nnchure , as they says , ^( 5 show all my missusses one after another contumel y , and then ask 'em whether tfcey oughtn ' t to « ashamed of tbeirselres to work a poor gal off her , fty legs , as I cive yon my -word , cautions reader .
' •*}• have took and done roe . But E . T ., thank Iwdness grashous , has a little sperret of her own Jjul left , aud what ' s more she intends to show it in fctathly parts , price only one shilling . ^ In porsaance of this resolution we get fetches of the 'koddling missuB , ' tlio Motherly missus / the 'lodging-honse niis-{ . ' the ' dressing missus , ' the ' suspiahus j&aus , ' the ' tidy and perticlder missus / the divenl y missns / and , Jastly , we are iufroa to the Stucka ^ Fammerley . Tiie delation of the 'lodging-house missns * gives
pmrx to the Mowing capital and well served hard hit at the wholesale adultera-Qre , who now poison the people under pre-Juee of cheapnesa , under the sanction and 'ilroaageof the Rt . Hon . Sir Chas . Wood , y art ., Chancellor of the Exchequer . hSU SiSS th 8 Bl l * «' J «* and kawfee impos-St ? Uhthe ? f ° ftf T Pot » and their Little gnvsters as 'nd hold teea ^ fffor party at ^ fH' / V " ? P unni 3 hed fortheircheetings . SI" . JJ % m ™** & to work their own *? niEteme rodjansfor the rest of their davs-a i _ - , e i'OOrashastofiiidt ! . eirown tee an < fah « nn , v he
55 * Tt T ' even , were a «» a * 5 « t ? « , i ? ° ' nS nn : 'P enBy oat « f their J ; k tUeveM be no one as woald talk so morrel as -ff TTOuld , or be so extra superfine vuchn ,, and ; % tosing out sto p theef , and have the retch £ tout « o Bottommv B ^ forbis owdashus condick . V only to think of tbera there wicked adulterers ^* g to black led the tee for all the whirled as I tbM " T ^ k rmSnre J th 0 U 2 " . they cat ) t call ^ Uuere led the sermt ' s best frend Well do oS" T ° 7 ' fjtiwwnatai I'd beenareraarkiog to ^ r sinihn g black of laic , as it were onpossibie to *• a good cup oi tee no how . in ttese degenercus
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times , —when low and be old ! out it come tbnt the grossers had been a frying up tUe old tee lwres after all the ? oodm s had been wrinched out of ' em with at least three waters , and the karpits swept with ' em into the bargane likewise ; and then they'd took to blackledding ' em up into the be § t sowshong or pigo , and a strongly wreekemencJing ' em afterwards for fammerley use . So no wondow people mite put in a spoonful for each party , and even barf a duzzingforthepot , and still git not a bit of goodness out of it ; for how cood it be otbevwise , seeing as the missuses bad had fu 3 t dror at the tee , — and let them alone for putting as letle as they possibly can into the pot , and gitting aa mntch as they possibly can out of it ;—and when they ' ve
done with it , in coorae it goea to the kooks and houseraades , witch t-akea and squeedges all they can out of the leeves , and tben gives tbem away in charity to the charwoman , -witch the cautious reader may rest insured teglarly rings out the very last drop ofjews as rcmanes in ' em , —for they're perfect Hogefs for tea , they are , —and then , after all the drorings and wrincbings , and aqueedings and ringings , it turns out now that the washed out things is sold to be fiizzled up into your fine full-flavoured wiry peaeo , aud so finally at larst finds their way back to the Golden Teapots and Little KannystBi's what challenges the whirled and denes repetition , to be there sarved out again as the best four
shilling mixed to the missuBes of the capital of Yourhope ; and when the missuses haa done their WUSt with the tee once more , it is banded down afresh to the kooks , and from them descends anew down to the charwomen , and so in the end gets back another time to the Goolden T pots , there to be Barved out over and over again once more to the missusses , and so to keep on working round and round threw a reglar change of waters , for all the whirled like a covey of gold fish in one of them there glarso globes . Oh , I'd have all your Goolden T pots and Little Kannysters made to work in chanes at Bottommy Bay , and forced to get a honest living for theirselves for wonce , I wood .
Here is another equally smart and telling blow at the system of competition selfishness , which works so much evil in society . It is the mean stack up people who encourage the adulterators and sweaters , and between them they crush the honest labourer to the dust : —• But of all the missusses I ever lived with , the greatest buty were Mrs . Stuckup , as I used to call her , thoe that in corse wertu ' t her rite name . She were the very piock of shabbinesar , surelie , and coodn't have been shabbier nor meaner in her ways it she'd had a Scotch pornbrokcr for her father , and her mother bad been a close-fisted old made , a trying to make the inoat of a small penshun she were entitled to as the widdertof anoffiser in the login
army—witch I needn ' t say she wertn't . Oh , the small things she and them two gals would do to appeer grate in the whirled ' s i , is quite onconsivable , and , I give you my word , quite onbelivable into the bargane likewise . They'd walk tho cheap brown paper shoos off their feet ^ to save a a sixpence , they wood . Talk of the Cornish Beckers , aa is diskribed so grunically in Mr . Loyd's Penny "Black Pirut , or a Father ' s Ouss "—no , no , what a stoopid I hm ! there ant no cuss to the Black Pirut , it's the " Woolf of the Black Forest ; " and yet it ant that nyther , for sow I come to think of it , it ' s the" Death Grarap , " which has the cusses in it ia penny parts , and I ' m a compounding tbem all together . Well , as ^ I were
a going to say , talk of the Cornish Reckers ! they were mere innersint babbie 3 to the Stuckups , Only let them hear of a shop a going to pieces , and see signals of distress put oat , in the shape of large bills , heded " Hawful Sackrefice , " and down they'd be to the spot in no time to see whatever they cood " piekupfornotbint at all , " as they said . Wny , they hadn ' t a gown to their bar aa wasn ' t a " tremenguus failure , " nor a petfcicufc belonging to them as hadn ' t been obliged to be " cleared off owing to the enlargement of the premmyses . " I used to say they was a pack of she vrolves as went about in bankrupt ' s clothing , —witch I flatters myself wasn't so bad for a nousemade . Only let it come to there ears that some party wag a selling his
things off at fifty per cent ., as they says , under prime corst , and onless it were a mere empty roomer on the part of some sharp cutting blade in th « linning draper line as were famed for " shaving the IladiCB , " they'd hurry down to the place aa quick as a return herse , and half fill a kab with their dirt cheap barglns ; and when they got home , there they'd set a looking em all over , andadeliting theirselves by wondering how the peeplecould live as made em ; and each insuring the t ' other that they reelly must have been stole , as they were serting shure they never cood hare been made for the money , but that , as they said , were nothink to them , being a matter for the defective pelisse to meddle there heds with , and not they , for things
wood be come to a pretty parse , if peeple were expected to demand the title dids of every trumpery yard of ribbing or calickur afore they cood lay out a ftapenny on sitch things . Oh , they were reglav ogers for cheap things , they was . Every stick of there grand furniture had been bort of your "Persona about to Marry , " or mmmidged out of Brokers' Ilow , or aggled for ab Awckshuns ; and not a cup , nor a glarae had they , but what bad come from some staring " Red house" or other ; wile aa fore there tins and thingg , they had one . ind all formed part of the stock of some Little Dustpan , The verry shot's to there feet was the best Paris made brown paper things , as could be got at the
lowest p ossible figger from 8 Qjn « Widen liOOIi or other ; and I do verily beleeve , if ever them gals had a chance of gitting settled , they'd have begun the world on one of them there cheap -wedding wrings , as is said to be made out of old luckey ginneys , without never no menshun of the brass fardens aa ia mixed up veitb em ; and when any ^ shabby fammerley pays the det of naehure , I ' m SOTe they'll sped S 6 me dislieounb to be took off for it in the { other world , and will leave word in their wills , that their funeral is to be got up and performecl by the party , > 3 blacks bis cheap corffins on the pavements , and give directions for their executioners to contract for the greatest possibul number of fethers for the lowest possibul sum . "We recommend the * Shabby Fanamerley * as a monthly visitor to the firesides of our readers , who are both merry and wise .
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The SnffHsk Republic . No . II . London "Watson , Queen ' s Head Passage , Paternoster-row . IJjfj > j 3 R the head of 'our martyrs' the present number contains a stirring memoir of Marat ; aud several other papers exhibits the stem and consistent adherence to principle which has distinguished this periodical from its commencement .
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The GirldhooA of Shdkespears Heroines . Tale XII . Olivia , the Lady of lllyria . By Mary Cotyden Clakke , London : "W . H . Smith and Sons . AxotheRj and , alas ! fast drawing towards the last , of the beautiful series of tales with which Mrs . Clarke has enriched our literature , and aided the Euglish people to
comprehend yet more thoroughly the genuis of their immortal and uorivalled poet . We have not space for comment or extract ; but , in brief , may say , that it exhibit all that feminine excellence of discrimination , that fine insight into the influences which form character , and iu early life react on mature life , whieli we have so frequently noticed < ind praised in the earlier tales .
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RECEIVED . The Ckristiaa Socialist . Nos . XLIV . and XLV . Tracts by The Christian Socialist . Labour and the Poor . Part I . Bezer , 183 , Eleet street . Notes to the People . By EbnesT JONES . No . XXVIII . Pavey , Holywell-street .
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MR . BRONTERRE O'BRIEN AND THE ' GLOBE . ' TO THE EDITOR or THE NORTHERN STAR . The Secretary of the National Reform League presents his compliments to the Editoi of the ° * Northern Star , ' and requests , on behalf of the Council of the League , the favour of his inserting the accompanying letter of their President in reply to the calumnious misrepresentations made by the Editor of the ' Globe' in reference to Mr . O'Brien ' s speech at the Highbury Barn Banquet . The letter has been sanctioned by two public meetings ; and a copy was sent to the ' Globe , ' but all the satisfaction rendered by that paper was the insertion of one paragraph , to which was added some sneering comments , after the manner so commonly practised by ' respectable * Editors when they wish to throw mud at truths of which they are either afraid , or have no sympathy with . Eclectic Institute , Denmark-street , Soho ,
Nov . 11 th , 1850 . TO THE EDITOR OF THE " GLOBE . " Sir , —I have just been favoured with a copy of your impression of Tuesday last , containing a report of the Kossuth Demonstration , and your editorial comments upon the banquet which followed . In the latter I find , amongst other aualagous matter , the following significant remarks upon what , for lack of better information , I must presume was intended by your reporter to pass current for a sample of my speech at the Banquet . I ex . tracttbe passage verbatim from your second leading article : — riant plant tae Tree—fair Freedom ' s Tree-Mid five , and blood , and slaughter ! The patriot ' s heart its soil shall be , And tyrants' Wood it » water .
11 That was the tune Gopenhajten Fields echoed to some " sixty years Bince , " in the old French Revolution days , when , aa Louis Blanc reminded his audience , ' the republicans of France announced that they would send 50 , 000 caps of liberty to the republicans of England . ' And that is the tune Mr . Bronterre O'Brien is of opinion can be successfully struck up again now : — When France gave the signal for this movement alt the deapets of the world would attack them , then England would give the signal for a democratic rising , aud they would fl y not only at tUe political tyrant * , but at &n the rich mercantile monied classes whe supported them , and they would sweep away all vestiges of feudal tyranny all over Europe . ( Cheers . )
" Negociantism will be made a crime a » ain , as under the regimen of the glorious and immortal Robespierre ; and ' money coined on the flace de la Guillotine '—if Mr . Bronterre O'Brien , and his kind , get their way . " Now , is it not precisely because incendiarie 3 of this class are justly dreaded—is it not precisely because pure democracy could not work in France a fortnight , without bringing out in arms the subsidised bands of the national workshops to pull down the very Legislature wbioh Universal Suffrage had just set up , —is it not precisely because—in a country where * feudal tyranny' had already been long swept away—it was found , in the months succeeding February , 1848 , that not only ' all the rich
mercantile monhd classes , but every man who had the most modest competence to guard , or the most useful industry to exercise—was alike threatened by clubs in his possessions , and broken in upon by tumults in his occupations—is it not because 1793 , with its ' unlimited powers' of Jacobin commissaries , its inconvertible currency , its maximum law of prices—its turbid torrent of utter economical confusion , aggravating political anarchy —19 it not because all this was plainly coming in again—because thero was no single revolutionary absurdity or revolutionary violence that was not revived in the language , and sought to be translated into act , by the Louis Blanca , Ledru-Rollins , and the rest—that the reaction , so much deplored , followed V .
Without seeking , Sir , or ciringfor the good will of the mercantile class for whom you write , allow me in self defence to say that I owe entirely to the genius of your reporter so liberally accorded me in his pretended extract from my speech ; and that I am no less indebted to your own liberality for the particular revolutionary sentiments yoa ^ are pleased to tag thereto . I never spoke the words attributed to me by your reporter , and I hold with none of the revolutionary tenets you so magnificently endow me witb in your editorial comments . The particular passage of my speech which your reporter has so ingeniously mangled , referred exclusively to France and the Continent . It referred to the notorious threat of Lson Faucher and other * , to place
the propertied classes of France under the protection of foreign bayonets , in case the bayonets of France should not suffice to extirpate the Red Republican party . It had no reference whatever to the " rich mercantile , or monied classes" of England , who have not , eo far as I am aware , yet threatened us with an importation of foreign bayonets , to strip us of the few rights we have , nor even to prevent the enfranchisement of the working classes . I assorted , and do still assert , the right of the French Democracy , and of every other continental democracy , whose constitutional rights have been suppressed by brutfl foP <> e , io rise np in eelf defence aRainst the despots who enslave them , and against the rich mercantile and propertied classes , in whose hands
the despots are but mere irresponsible tools . But I deny the right of the British people , or of any other people amongst whom public opinion is free to express itself , and to whom legal and constitutional means of redressing grievances are open , —1 deny the right of all such peoples to employ other than such legal and constitutional means for the attainment of the reforms they seek . It is only when nil aucb means are swept away , and when public opinion is suppressed by arbitrary power , that I recognise tho right in any people to _ take the law into their own hands . This , Sir , is my creed ; whether good or bad , I never held any other . Your reporter , however , has given me a very different one , which Iask you , by publishing this letter , to give me the opportunity to repudiate .
The quasi-patriotic slang of the stansa you introduce is not my slang : it suites neither my taste nor sentiments . I never wrote , nor spoke , nor approved such trash , in prose or verse . If there was a marked difference between the " sobriety " of Monday ' s demonstration and those of former days in Copenhagen-fields , you owe that difference , sir , tome , —as much , at least , as to any other person concerned in it . I was one of the General Co mmittee who helped to get it up . I concurred in everything that the managers did , that was conducive towards giving it the character of" sobriety" which you so
much admire . . And I believe I am the only public man in England who repeatedly advised , in public , that no demonstration at all should take place in case the authorities , or II . Kossuth himself , should be adverse to It . For this , of course , you will give me no credit , because I am entitled to it . Bui witb true Whig liberality , you credit me abundantly for the turbulent spirit which characterised a Copenhagen-fields' demonstrations some fourteen years before I was born ! This is exactly the sort of liberality which real reformers always get from " moderate" ones , and " friends of order \"
You call me " an incendiary , " and you say negociantism will be again made a crime , "if Mr . Bronterre O'Brien and his kind get their way . " I deny your moral right , and I bejieve you have no legal right , to misrepresent me in this atrocious manner . I hold no one opinion or doctrine which cau give you the right tuu . 3 to hold mo up to the hatred and vengeance of a class who are self-armed , with almost unlimited power , over the lives and fortunes of their fellow subjects ; and who have never yet ( a 9 a class ) evinced justice , truth , or mercy towards any reformer opposed totAWV selfish class interests , I would not , as you pretend , make negociantism a crime , nor coin money on the Place de la Guillotine . Bat if I had " my way , " I would
take cafe that ntgodans and negociantism did not , as they have done in this country , usurp the rights of a whole people , in order to coin mouHtains of eold out of the sweat and blood and marrow of their TictimB , the producers , whom these negotiant , and their feudal accomplices , have left without a shred of constitutional right or power , in any one of our institutions . I would not suffer them to dictate at their eaprice the laws which govern landed tenures , public and private credit , currency , and commercial exchanges . I would no more concede to them such powers than I would concede to them Iho privilege of buying and selling their
fellow men as their friends , the planters , do the blacks in America . I would not suffer them , in concert with the landlord-class , to espel from the constitution every man who did not , more or less , Jive at other peoples' expense , through the fraudulent mechanism of property and tax-qualifications . I would not suffer them to exterminate : i whole race , as they have done with our Celtic brethren in Ireland . In a word , I would make producers as independent of ntgoviani as negocians are now of producers ; and let negociantism , like every other ism . find its level under just laws , which gavo it neither more nor leB 8 protection than wight exist for all isms .
I never said it was a crime in merchants or landlords to ue merchants or landlords ; but I say , and still say , it is a horrible crime in merchants or landlords to conspire against the rights of their fellow racR ) and to usurp both tho prerogatives of the sovereign and the rights of the people , as they have foully aud feloniously done in this country . Landlords and profit-mongers hare , I assert , usurped an almost unbounded jiower of lif \) afltl death orcr tho great bulk of their fellow subjects in this country . They have shut us out of both
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houses of ^ avhavnent-out of municipalities-out of all public hoards-out of vestries and'bo .-irda of guaraians-out of all offices of trust and ' emolunient—out of grand and petty juries-out of all share and participation in judioial ' proceeoings-out of all control over the army , navy , and ordnanceout ot the church-out of the public press-and out ot all participation in the administration , and benehcial resources of our colonies . These never was more complete exclusion for one class , —never more complete usurpation and monopoly for an . other class . The fruits are , what we see around u 3 ,-unbounded wealth and luxury for the usurpers -unbounded poverty and wretchedness for the excluded . To all this I would put an endI would
. do so , however , by just and legal means ; and not by proscriptions and confiscations , as you insinuate . I would not resort to a single one of the revolutionary appliances you bo gratuitously connect my name with , —I would have no " unlimited powers " of Jacobine Commissaries-n o " inconvertible currency -no '' iaw ofmaximunT-no "requisitions " -no forced loans "—no sponging of the debt-no violation of public faith—no " revolutionary absurdity , nor "revolutionary violence . " In a word , I would effect every change t&at was needed without invading the ri ghts or liberties of a human being ; and without any interference with property , or acquired possessions , other than such interference as the laws of every civilised country
sanetion , —namely , the commutation of property upon equitable principles , wherever such property existed of a nature or kind to interfere with other peoples right of property , and which , by right , should never have been private property at all . If you ask how I would effect my contemplated reforms , without resorting to tho revolutionary meium you BOjuBtly stigmatise , my answer is : read the seven propositions of the National Reform League ; u . society conspiring some 300 of the most intelligent of their class in London , and of which I , its president pro tun , will bo happy to enrol you a member . In these seven propositions you will find enough of my politioal and social creed to satisfy ,
even you , that I am no revolutionist of the Babeeuf or 1 , 793 schools . And if you desire any further satisfaction , I offer it to you in this shap 3 : I ohallenge any man of the party you represent , or of the other great party opposed to you , to discuss publicly with me , the reforms needed in this country , to guarantee us against a revolution of violence ; and I will undertake , ( on the condition oi fair play on both sides , ) to carry my propositions against both parties by an overwhelming majority . And , moreover , that my proposed reforms go to prevent a revolution , while those you can advocate go dii'ectly to provoke , and ever to necessitate a revolution ! I am , Sir , your humble servant , 53 , Castle-streetj Oxford-street . J . B . Obrieu . KovembcrT , 1851 .
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OLYMPIC THEATRE . A farce called the "Original Bloomers" has been brought out at this theatre , but without any remarkable success . The subject has already been done to death upon the stage , and tbo young ladies in the present case , who find themselves exposed to the taunts and ridicule of a mob of Londoners , and thereby get cured of the disposition to be reformers , are now neither very novel nor very agreeable personages , However aa apiece de chcomimie& , the fiirce answers a temporary purpose , and will probably be found for a few nights in the list of entertainments .
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THE GREAT EXHIBITION . The points which now mO 3 t interest the public in connexion with the Great Industrial Exhibition aye the disposal of the surplus , and the preservation or otherwise of the building , both of which , although tho royal commissioners lwye given some indications of their viewa , are still subjudiee . It may be assumed as certain that the surplus fund will be appropriated to the inculcation and diffusion of scientific principles , and the Up ' plication of those principles to arts and industries ; but by what organisation these indispensable desiderata are to be secured remains to be determined . We shall probably have to wait till the POfferS Of tllO l'OJial OOmmissibUers are renewed before they promulgate their scheme . With respect to tbe building , it appears that the subject of the
agreement with Messrs . Fox and H « i > dersOB was considered at the last meeting of the royal commissioners , and the following resolution adopted " That although under ordinary circumstances the payment of a higher sum than that agreed upon for work executed under a contract , after public tender , is highly objectionable , and would establish a very dangerous precedent , and although tho commission could admit no claim on the part of the contractors , yet that they wure of opinion that under the circumstances recapitulated in the report of Lord Granville and Sir W . Oubitt , Messrs , Fox , Henderson , and Co ., should bo secured asainst ultimate positive loss , and that the sum of £ 35 , 000 , as recommended in the above report , should be forthwith' advanced to them upon
their written agreement to abide by such terms and conditions as the commission may hereafter prescribe . It is ateo agreed that the further questions raised in that report , as to the final verification and settlement of the accounts , and as to the conditions to be imposed in case of tho materials being sold for a higher sum than that estimated , should be referred to the finance committee . The above conditions anreetl to : —Charles Pox , John Ilenderson . —5 ? ov . 6 , 1851 . " No one who remombers the circumstances which attended the completion of the Crystal Palace , and the vast efforts then made by the contractors , would desire to see thorn losers by the transaction ; aud the public ,
we have no doubt , will learn with satisfaction that they have been thus equitably dealt with . It will bo seen that the royal commissioners have not us yet como to any definitive resolution with rogard to the purchase of tho building . Prince Albert has written to the Marquis of Anglesey expressing his gratification at the good oonduct of the engineers employed at the Crystal Palace , and adding : —The royal commissioners have thought fit to award a sum of £ 600 , to be laid out either iu drawing or mathematical instruments , or in otber suitable lasting memorial of their connexion with tho Exhibition , for tho non-commissioned officers and privates of the lloyal Sappers and Minors , to be distributed by the officers .
The following notice has been given : — " SURRENDER OT THK BC 1 LDISO TO HIE COKTIUCTOBS . " 1 . The executive committee have n-ceived the instructions of her Majesty ' s commissioners to announce that the possession of the building will be given up to Messrs . Fox , Henderson , and Co ., the contractors , oi ) 1 st Dec . next , " 2 . The executive committee nuvfi , tuMcfore , to recommend that any exhibitors who may not yet have removed their goods or fitting 9 should do so without further delay , as it will not be in the povier of the executive ) committee to afford any assistance to exhibitors after that date . On tho 1 st of Dee . the staff of the executive committee will be withdrawn , and the cranes , platforms , and various appliances for asBistinffthe exnibitorB removed .
" 3 . Any ' exhibitors who permit their articles , after the 1 st Dec , to remain in the building , must apply to the contractors , and make their own jirrangoments as to the hours , tfcc , for admittance , &c . " i . It must be distinctly understood that , l » ko her Majesty's Commissioners , the contractors , duiiojr any period they may suffer tho exhibitors ' goods to remain in the building , will not be re . sponsible for any loss or damage , or for accidents which may arise from the necessity of removing the goods from one part of the building to another , and collecting the remaining articles into ono spot . " By order of the executive committee , " M . Diobt AYyati' Secretary . "
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The " Moniteur da Loiret" gives the following IB the plan of campaign proposed by an individual it Orleans , well known for his violent demagogical spiniona . At a given moment possession would be taken of all the bells of the churches , first securing the persons of the clergy . At tho sound of the tccain all the members of the secret societies would issemble and attack the Chateaux , the farms , and ill isolated habitations . All the Ofikea of ttlG notaries would be set fire to in order to destroy the securities of creditors , reloaae debtors , & :. Tbe authorities aro said to bo aware of these facts , ind to Imo nn eye on this dangerous Individual . It \ i said tli&i tlio Austrian government has determined to have a general Industrial Exhibition ol the Works , of All Sationa at Yienaa ia 1 S 53 ,
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A Cum ? tor Bad Leos . —Blooraerism . —Punch . Cobs—When ig a clock on the stairs dangerous ? —When it runs down . Why are authors who treat about physiognomy like soldiers?—Because they write about face . Why is a steam valve like a person who has been in imminent danger ?—Because it has a uarrow
escape . Debts . —It is a remarkable peculiarity with debts , that their expanding power continues to increase as you contract them . Struck by lightning , Is the cant term used by thieves , &c ., when arrested through information conveyed by telegraph . Stuhy is the bane of boyhood , the aliment of youth , the indulgence of manhood , and tbe restorative of age —W . S . Landoh . "I am happy , Ned ,, to hear the report that you have succeeded to a large landed property . "— «• Arid I am sorry to tell you that it is groundless . " Mind your ow . y Business . —Let every man mind his own business , and there will hot be half the trouble in the world that there is at present . — Olive Branch .
Honour and Honesty . —The difference there seems between honour and honesty seems to be chiefly m the motive . Tbe honest man does that from duty , which the man of honour does for the sake of character . A Tar at Church . — " I would not always live , " sung a chorister one Sunday . A burly son of Neptune , who had dropped into the church , to see what was going on , bawled out , " You couldn't do it if you would . ' " A Modbht Lady . —An exemplary young lady uptown k very particular about closing the windowcurtains to her room before retiring for tho night , in . order to prevent " the man in the moon" from looking in .
An eminent special pleader nm once asked by a country gentleman if he considered that his son was likely to succeed as a special pleader . — " Pray , sir , " he replied , " can your son eat sawdust without butter ?" Proof Positive . — " How , " said a county-court judge to a witness , " how do you know the plaintin was intoxicated on the evening referred to ?"" Because I saw him , a few minutes after supper , trying to pull off his trowsers with a boot-jack . "Verdict for defendant . Rogues . —Muggins says that rogues ought to be well paid ; it gives a fellow so much trouble . He once cheated a man in a horse trade , he says , and was in law about it afierwavds for orer fourteen years . Unless you have got loteof patience , therefore , never set up for a rascal .
Shkli , Fish . —Upwards of fifty-six tons of shell fish , gathered by the Boston fishermen , from the sands Bbout Boston Haven , and which before the Great Northern Railway ran were uncollected , are now taken daily to Leeds , Liverpool , and the populous inland towns , and sold at a remunerative profit . Gold and Silver Cow . —The value of gold and silver coin of all denominations , in nil quarters of the globe , is said to be . t' 500 , 000 , 000 , and the quantity used up in plate and ornaments at about £ 500 , 000 , 000 , making in all about £ 1 , 000 , 000 , 000 ot theprcc / otis metals in use at the present time in various ways .
Back Hastilt . —The most attentive man to business we ever knew , was he who once wrote on his fihop door— " done to bury my wife ; return in half an hour . " He was co relation io the lawyer who put on his office door , "Be bjck in five minutes , " and returned only after a pleasure trip of three weeks . Exixtt . vATxo . v of the Alphabrt . —Which are the most industrious letters ?—The Bee ' s . Which are the most extensive letters ?—The Sea ' s . Which are the most masculine letters?—Tbe flu ' s . Which are the egotistical letters ?—The l ' s . Which are the leguminous letters?—The Pea ' s . Which are the sensible letters ?—The Wise .
Another Invention . —Mr . John Davies , the master attendant of the Royal Clarence victualling establishment , at Portsmouth , has just completed a ship ' s cookjnmgalley of extraordinary dimensions , for her Majesty ' s iron steam-frigate Sim , om . It cooks food for a thousand men , and will distil ninety Rations of fresh water from salt water per hour . Husbaxds Wantbd . —Four go-a-head young ladies , advertise themselves in the " Troy Whig " ( U . S ., ) as severally in want of a husband . They will receive sealed tenders through the Post office , post paid : and wiclowers are speciall y notified not to apply , as the ladies do not deal in secondhand goods ! EPIGRAM . —On hearing a Lady praise a Reverend
Gentleman ' s Eyes . I Cannot praise tho Doctor ' s eyes . I never saw his glance divine ; For when he praya he shuts Ms eyes—And when he preaches , he shuts mine . Fkathkrs and Fur—They tell a story of a man out west who had a hare-lip , upon which he performed an operation himself , by inserting into the opening a piece of chicken flesh , it adhered , and tilled up the spacu admirably . This was all well enough , until , in compliance with the prevailing fashion , he attempted to raise a mousraciie , when one side grew bair and the other feathers .
Hapton . — The township of Iiapton . near Burnley , in Lancashire , is about four miles in length , and nearly Hie game ill breadth , anil co » lains many respectable farm-liouscs , besidns some scattered villages , numbering , in the whole , not far from 1 , 000 inhabitants ; yet in all this township there is neither church , chapel , menting-house , Sunday-school , elergymau , dissenting minister , lawyer , surgeon , nor magistrate . Watkr Gas . —A very beautiful invention has recently been patented in France , that of produciug an illuminating gas from steam , by passing it over red-hot charcont . There is little doubt that this simple invention will sooner nr later supersede coalgas , which , cheap as it is , yet Jacks perfection in many points . The water-gas is so pure that , in combustion it produces nothing to deteriorate the air , find will not discolour metallic articles that are exposed to its influence , a quility much desired by jewellers find philosophical instrument makers .
Mow to Judob of a Book . —A worthy tobacconist , in the High Street of Auld lleekie , wna complaining one day of n book which a very erudite doctor haa published . " It ' s a bad one , " said he , —" How ? said his friend ; "I always thought Dr . Findlay had been a worthy , good man . "— " It ' s the worst book I ken , " said the shopkeeper ; " it ' s ower 014 for a pennyworth o' snuff—and it ' s no big enough for three bairbees' worth I " Literary Dinners . —We know atoan who invariably reads while eating his dinner . The table is never set unless a book is placed beside his plate . When he kaves . the house in the morning , he tells his housekeeper to have Tennyson and toiuatoeg for dinner , or Shakapeare and " smoldered chickens . " Bacon and pork and greens ; Burton and buttered beans ; Oarlyle and calf ' s head ; the " Edinburgh Review" and grouse , ( to , Jle is go ardent an admirer of the "llylstone Doe , " that he can ' t eat vension without , a copy of Wordsworth beside him .
Sensible Proposition . —A prisoner in gaol lately sent to his creditors the following proposal , which , he believed , would be for their mutual benefit : — " I have been thinking that it is very bad for me to lie here and put you to expense . My being so chargeable to you has given me great uneasiness . I know not what it may cost you in the end ; therefore , what I would say is this : —You let me out of prison , and instead of nine shillings , \ o \ i shall 'aIIgv me only seven shillings a week , and the other tfvo shillings go towards the debt . " Mkjis . of the Grbat Exhibition . —The beautiful porphyry vase , contributed by the King of Sweden , hns been presented by his Mnjesty to Prince Albert .
At a meeting of the Commissioners , it is understood that votes of money lor the designer of the Crystal I alace l and other deserving persons , weie liberally passed : Sir Joseph Paxton to receive £ 5 , 000 ; working members of the Executive Committee to receive good sums ; between 42 , 000 and £ 3 , 000 , lo be divided in rewards among the Sappers and Miners ; and a considerable sum to be handed to Sir Kiohard Mayne , for distribution among his Exhihjtien division of Police . Turough Lord Granville , and in consequence of the warm interest which he takes in the Schools of Design , the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been p revailed upon to authorise an expenditure of £ 5 . 000 v v ? purchase ° f objects from the Exhibition which may serve as models forstudy , and wheih may tnureby exercise a permanently elevating influence upon the art manufactures oftte countrv .
a suggestion made by Professor Ansted and s > oiiy , lor the formation of a Commercial Museum t-ir imports and Exports , has been adopted by the executive Committee ; and the selecting and t > rranging ot specimens is in progress . Among the instanceslof handsomely liberal cooperation towards this object , is that of the free gift by Messrs . LawwTl ' . . Edinburgh , of thrir collection of £ 9 Mn \ agnc ! lltllral P " « ce , which cost some * 4 , UUU to gather and arrangg . It is announced that a considerable portion of tho " surplus" will be devoted to tho formation of a fund for maintaining this Museum , ° The following are the ' quantities of eatables and drinkables consumed in Mr . Youndiusbaml ' s refreshment courts , from the opening > the closing of the Exhibition : —Breud , 21 , 536 quarterns -, coffee , 9 . 181 lbs . ; pound cakes , 28 . S 2 S lbs . ; Savoy cakes , 20 , 415 lbs . ; Bath buns , 311 , 731 lbs . ; plain buns , 460 , 057 lbs , ; cotlate loaves , 57 528 lbs .: milk
17 , 257 quarts ; cream , 14 , 047 quarts ; ice , ISO tons ; meat , 113 tons ; ham , 19 tons ; potatoes , 30 tons ; salt , IG tons ; soda water , 4 = 0 , 863 bottles ; lemonade , 130 , 093 bottlca ; cinger beer , 305 , 050 bottles . The abort ! is exclusive of articles sold b ; Air . Masters ) in the eastern aud western refreshment courts .
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USMEBGROUSD LoDOWGfl . —The General Board of Health have issued a notification , under tbe O 7 th Beotion of the Public Health Act , on the subject of cellar dwellings . The act referred to makes it unlawful tO let or Occupy as a dwelling an ^ vault , cellar , cr underground room , built or rebuilt after 31 st of August , 1848 , or not let or occupied before that date , and any person so letting or occupying is liable to indictment . The act further provides that no underground chamber that does not answer to a certain description , tbat ia to say , that is not seven feet in height , of which three feet must be above the level of the street , that has not an open area of that
two feet six along it 3 entire frontage , is not drained , warmed , and ventilated in the manuer prescribed , shall be inhabited notwithstanding that sn"n room may have been inhabited hitherto . The penalty of neglecting these provisions is 20 s . a day , where there is a local board ot health . To this notification ia appended extracts from the Reports of tae Commissioners on the . State of large Towns and Populous Districts , and from the Reports of the Superintending Inspectors to the General Board of Health , descriptive of the condition of cellar dwellings and common lodging houses in Tarious towns throughout England arid > Ya \ es .
Of the articles found in tho Crystal l ' alaoe by tbe police between the 1 st of May and 24 ih of October , 5167 1 819 have been restored , and 3 . 318 yet he at the office awaiting the application of their owners .
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COKVICT LIFE AT POUT ARTJ 1 VR . Tim "X , ition" of Saturday has a letter from , ¦ . ° Powghoe , one of the persons sentenced to death for participating in the Irish rebellion of 1 S 48 , uut wiio , with the other convicted leaders , was ^ ported for life , ne received a "tickot of KL T , 87 l ral ln Attitralia ; but , having biokm bounds , he vn 8 sent for three months to the cham-gnngs at Port Arthur . The unhappy man unS ^ t £ P sri i s ^^^
» 1 he entire number of convicts at this station of Port Arthur was 300 . Those were divided into gangs of about sixty each , with two overseers over each gang . I was placed in the gang called tho agricultural gang , 'at task work . The 300 men slept in a long , narrow , low-roofed shed , called a dormitory , their beds , or births , orplaces of sleeping , are called 'bunks . ' There are two tiew of them , one over another—the bunks being separated by mero laths—each bunk ia merely the length and breadth of a man—you must crawl in on hands and feet » roll yourself in a filthy rag and blanKet , aliVfl with vermin , and there sleep if you can . A clean pigsty in ,-iny part of Ireland is preferable to 8 Port Arthur bunk . Having crept into this loathsome hovel , nothing Uut o » th » , imprecations , aod obscenity met tbe ear from the wretched compa * nions all around , and between these sounds , the darkness of the den , and the torture of all BortB of
vermm , it was truly an earthly hell . It was summer when I was there ; nine o'clock was the hour for retiring to this place of rest , and four o'oloofc in the morning the hour for rising . A bell rung at four , and you were allowed five minutes to dress , fold your rug , and sweep out your ' bunk . ' Tha 300 men were marched rank and file two deep ; t » a cistern to wash ; and hero men , with inveterate opu > thiilinia on the eyes , ulcerated Jega and arms , and all manner of diseases , performed indiscriminately their morning ablutions . This proeosslasted half an hour , the gangs again mustered rank and file , under theic overseers' ordew , and were marched to their re « spoctive places of worship ; prayers lasted half an hour , and at five o ' clock the gangs were again mus « tared and nwvehed rank and file , two deep , through ; the outer gate of the prison , where the supcrinten * dent and musler-innsrer stoorl and called out each , man's name , to which an answer should be given , accompanied by a asilute . Tho gangs were thea
miirched to their work , and each man was at his daily labour by half-past five o ' clock in the morn * ing . We worked till eight , and were marched ia to breakfast , when wo got some coarse brows bread and a pint of skilly , skilly is made of coarsff flour , nnd water without salt . After breakfast W 9 mustered again , and wero marched back to ouf work , where wo continued till twelve o ' clock ; them ire vrere marched to dinner , when we got somff coarse broth and bread , with a very few ounces of very bad meat—musterod again , and marched tO work till six o'clock—brought to prison again , ranfe and tile—general muster—names called over—stood in columns with legs bare and uncovered ( this was the most insulting and degrading scene in tho vile discipline , it was quite unmanly ) --got some brown bread and skilly—to prayers at half-past six , prayed till seven—then to sehool—remained at school till eight , listening to atrocious recita / a of crimes of every enormity—after school to tha bunks . '
lhia ., 1 * a snort account of one day's life at Port Arthur—multiply it by ninoty-suven , aud ywi v » ill form a sort of estimate of what I had to endure . During thu early part of my time , I was kept sowing corn , digging ground and sowing vegetables . It was broiling hot weather , and to be kept seventeen , houi-8 out of twtii \ ty-fouv , standing ui > t \ er a blazing sun , was hard enough . I remember one day being marched eight miles into tlio bush with a scythe to cut down grass , tie it up , load iv bullock dvay with it , and then walk eight miles back , and never taste food or drink all the whilo . I presume the Whig press will call this ' merciful treatment' of aa Irish rebel . During the latter days of my sentence I was put to besom making . This was considered a sinecure !
" Whilo undertaking my besom making proba « tion , I had to go into tho bush at uaiftpust fifa o ' clock in the morning with , a siukto in my hand , cut down a load of ' cutting grass , ' tie it up , carry it three miles on rny back to a hut , then cut down New Zealand flax , split ifc , make twisted gads of it , then sit down and make twenty-four besoms , tiff them up and carry them in on my baeU , and deliver them to the storekeeper ; and it I were one allOlt of that number I should go into a black liolo for " solitary confinement .. This was the most dange * rous work that could be invented for me , because every time that I put my hand among tho tufts or tussocks of cutting gra ^ s , I was in danger of being bitten by a snake , and yet this was a sinecure . "
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SPEAK BOLDLY . ' Speak boldly , Freeman ! Tihile to-day ThestrlfeiB rising fierce and high , Gird on the armour while ye may , g In holy deeds to win or die ; The Age is Truth ' s wide battle-field , The Bay is struggling with the Sight , For freedom hath again revealed A aiarathonofholy right . . Speak boldly , Hero ! while the foe Treads onward with his iron heel ; Strike steady , with a giant blow . And flash aloft the polished steel . Be true , O Hero ! to tty trust ; lisa and thy God both look to thee ! Be true , or sink away to dust-Be true , or * heuce to darkness flee . Speak boldly , Prophet ! Let tbe fire Of Heaven come down on altars curst , Where Baal , j-riests , and Beera cousj . jrc , To pay their bloody homage first . Be true , O Prophet ! Let thy tongue Speak fearless , for the words sure thine—Words that by morning stars were sung , And aogeis fiymued in strains divine . Speak boldly , Poet ! Let tby pen Be nerved with fire that may not die ; Speak for the rights of bleeding men , Who look to Heaven with tearful eye . Bo true , O Poet ! Let thy name Be . honoured where the -weak have trod , And in the summit of thy fame , Be true to Man—Be true to God ! Speak boldly , Brothers I Wake , and come 1 The Anakiin are pressing on 2 In freedom ' s strife be never dumb ! Gird flashing blades till all is won ! He true , O Brothers ! Truth is strong ! The foe shall sink beneath the sod , "While love and bliss shall thrill the song , That Truth to Man is Truth to God . Wiuiaji Oi , iSD Bourne .
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ffpYEMBE R 16 , 1851 . ^ THE NORTHERN STAR .
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STRAKD THEATRE . Mr . Augustus Mayhew , and " another , " are the authors of a bagatelle produced here on Monday night , under the title of " The Pifthof November , " iu which an old gentleman , who docs not choose to let old customs pass into desuetude , makes great preparations for a Guy and bonfire to do historical honour to the day . The Guy is personnated by a young innamorato , who takes this method of obtaining a clandestine interview with the daughter of the old gentleman . It is unnecessary to say that the latter objects to the union of the lovers , but hi 3 fears aro successfully worked upon when he is made to believe that the youth whom he has denied alliance with his family has been burnt bodily on the green . Tho extravagant nature of the farce will be easily understood from these facts . It has all the advantage derivable from smart and whimsical acting at tllO hands Of Mr . Tibury , Mr . Rogers , and Mias Marshall .
Here Is Tour Remedy. Tt Ollo Way's Ointment.
HERE IS TOUR REMEDY . TT OLLO WAY'S OINTMENT .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 15, 1851, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1652/page/3/
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