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      S 2 The Northern Star. February 6, J* ,,...

      s 2 THE NORTHERN STAR . February 6 , J * ,,,

      Abernethys Pile Ointment. —.^— J^^W— M ¦

      ABERNETHYS PILE OINTMENT . — . ^— J ^^ W— M ¦

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      r What a paicfal and noxious disease is the Piles ! and comparative , Jiow tew of the afflicted have been per . j \ f & antwtly cured by ordinary appeals to medical skill ! This , no doubt , arises from the use of powerful i aperients too frequently administered by the profession ; indeed ) strong internal medicine should always be avoided l in all rases of this complaint . The proprieto' of the : ibove Ointment , after years of acute suffering , placed himself I under the treatment of that eminent surgeon , Mr . Abcroethy , was by him restored to perfect health , and has enjoyed i it ever since without the slightest return uf the disorder , over a period of flfjeen years , during which time the same i Abernethianvrescription has been the means of healing avast number of desperate cases , both in and out of the i proprietor's circles of friend-, most of which cases had bie > i under medical care , and some of them for a very coni fdderable time . Abernetliy's Pile Ointment was introduced to . the puWw by the desire of many who had been perfectly healvd by its application , and since its introduction the fame of tins Ointment has spread far and wide oven the Medical Profession , always slow add unwilling to acknowledged Hie vinous of any medicine not prepared by themselves , do now freely and frankly admit that Abernetay si tie Ouiti . ent is not only a valuable preparation , but a never failing remedy in every stage and variety of that aPP * ""? malady . Sufferers wilt not repent givicg the Ointment a trial . MoJtrtudes of cases of its efficacy might he produced , if the nature of the complaint did not renderthose who have been cured unwilling to publish their utmes . Sold in covered Pots , at ts . Gd . or thequautity of hr . e < s . 6 d . F « ts inone for lis ., with full directions for use , bv C King , ( Agent to tlie Proprietor , ) Napier-str . et , Iloxton , > ew town . Loudon , where also can be procured every Patent Jleoicine of repate , din .-ct from ihe ongimal makers , with an allowance On taking six at a time ; * * Be snretoask for « ABESETlirs PILE OINTMENT . ' ' The Public are requested to be on their guard sgi-iBst nuxiuus compositions sold at low prices , and to observe that none can possibly be genuine , unless the name of O Kiko , is printed on the Government Stamp affixed to each pot , 4 s . 63 ., which is the lowtst price the proprietor isemtbledtoseUitat , owingtoUiegreatexDenseoft ; eingredients . l * CORNS AND BUNIONS PAUL'S EVERY MAN'S FRIEND . Patronised by the Boyal Family , Nobility , Clergy ; i-c-It a sure and speedy Cure for those severe annoyances , without causing the least pain or ' nconvenience . I ' nlike all other remedies for Corn ' , its operation is such as to render the cutting of Corns altogether unnecessary : indeed , we m . vy say , tlia practice of cutting Corns is at ail times highly dangerous , and has been frequently attended with lamentable consequences , besides its liability to increase their growth ; it adheres with the most gentle pressure , produces an instant and delightful relief from torture , and with perseverance in its application , entirely eradicates the most inveterate C « rns and Bur . imis . Testimonials have been received fr m upwards of one hund ed Physici : ns and Surgeons of the greatest eminence , as wvll as from many Officers of both Army and Navy , and nearly one thousand private letters fto ; u the gentry in town andcountry , speaking in high terms of this valuable remedy . Prepared t . y John Fox , in boxes at Is l § d , or three small boxes in one for 2 s 9 d , aud to be bad , with full directions foruse , t « f C . King , Napier-street , Hoxton , New Town , London , and aU wholesale and retail medicine vendors in town andeountiy . The genuine has the name of John Fox on the stamp . 2 s 9 d Box cures the most obdurate Corns . Ask for " Paul's Every Man ' s Friend . " Ab'rtietuy ' s Pile Ointment , Paul ' s Corn Plaster , and Abernethy ' s Pile Powders , are sold by the followingrespeetab ^ e Ch-rinists and Dealers in Patent Medicines : Barclay and Sojis , Farringdon-street ; Edwards . 67 , St . Paul ' s Church-yard ; Butkr , i , Cheapside ; Newbery , St . Paul ' s ; Sutton , Bow Churchyard ; Johnson , ll > , Greek-street , Soho . and 6 i , Cornliill ; Sanger , 150 , Oxford-street ; WiliougUby and Co . *> 1 , ISishopsgate street Without ; Owen , 52 , Marchmond-street , Burton-crescent ; Bade , 3 D , Gos-• wc-l street : Vrout , « 29 , Strand ; Hannay and Co ., 63 , Oxford-street j . IIuater and James , Webber row ; and retail by all respectable chemists and medicine venders in London . Couxtbx Acekts : —Baincs and Sewsome ; Mr . Buckton , Times Office ; Heaton Sraeeton . Hall , Bernhardt and Sons , J . C . Browne , 4-S Brifegate , Thornton , 35 , Boar Lane , Denton , Garland , Mann , Bean , Harivv Unigh , late Tarbottom , Boiland aadKemplay , LandMoxon , C . Hay , 106 . Briggate . Rhodes , Bell and Brooke Lord , " a . C . Hay , Medical Hall , Leeds : Cooper , Kevand Fisher , Bradford ; Hartley , Berry . Suter , LeylandHalifjx ; Smith , Eland , Uur » t , Cardwell , GclLSuuth , Wakttield ; PybusBarnsley ; Knowles , Thome , Brooke and Spivey , Huddershcld , Hudson , Keighley ; Loftnouse , Bernhardt ( late Carlton ) , Kirton , Alcock , Bauies BuiTell , Bell , Burton , Healey . Melson , Freeman , Picker , ing , G .-ir tt . a , Williamson , Chapman . Hammond , Wallis , Walker , Broomhead , Noble , Forster , Hardman , Stephenson , " War , Evder and Raker , Hull ; Pipes , Keningham , Johnson , Earle , Cornwall , Robinson , Brigham , Beverley - , Brookes , Duncaster ; Mstt'iens , Creaser , Driffiield ; Cass , Goole ; Milner , Pickering : Stevenson , Whitby ; Bolton , Blansliard , and Co , Hargrove , Fisher , Otley . Linmey , York ; Marston , Brigg ; Hurst , Robsuu , Armitage , Ingoiby , Longbottom , Louth ; Vaimvright , Howdcn ; Rayner , Smith Burlington ; Hornsby , AVraiigbam , Jefferson , Malton , Rhodes , Suaitn ; Ciiaiuplrv , Bnmiheid . Ireland , But-kall , Scarborough ; Smith , Fu by , Bridiugtoii ; Adams , Colton , Fallen , Seiby ; Ombier , Market , Wcig ' uton ; Fleck , Marsh , Rotherham , Hatterslcy , Uall , Officer , Barton , Browne , Gainsberough : Gledhili , Old D » lph , Prfc-stley , Fox , Pontefact ; Dalby , Wetherby , Slater . Bedale , Dixon , Northallerton , Ward , Riclknio-. 'd ; Ward , Stukesley , Fo / git and Thompson , Thirsk , Monkhouse Barnard Castle ; Pease , Darlington ; Jennett , SU ck-. oft ; aiui bv all respectable chemists and medicine venders in every market town in England . Wholesale Aients-Messrs . Bolton , Blanshard , and Co ., druggists , Mieklegate , York .

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      EXTRAORDINARY CORES HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT . wonderful Care of draidi ' il Ulcerous Saresin the Face and L * g , in Prince Edward Island . The Truth of ( his Stateaittit teas duly attested iefore a . Magistrate . 1 , Hr ^ a Macd iNALB . of Lot 55 , in King ' s County , do hereb ; , declare , that a msst wonlcrfui preservation of my if « t has been = Se « ed by Vbe n * e of Holloway ' s Pills and intaient ; aud I furthermore declare , that 1 was very much afUWted with Ulcerous Sores in my Face and Lrg ; So ssveiv was u » y complaint , that the greater part of my nose aud the- roof of my mouUi was eaten away , and my Itg bad tarec large uiccrs on it , and that I applied to

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      OS i HE . 'OXOEU . Bil CAUSE OF CONSTITUTIOXAL Oi : ACUIMIBD UTILITIES OF THE GENERATIVE SYSTEM . Just Published , A ij » w and ; mpoitaitt Edition of the Sileni Friend on ilumuu Frailty . fr . ee 2 s . 3 d ., and sent free to any part of the United Kingdom oi > the receipt of a Post 0 £ ee Order for 3 s . Sd . A MEJ .-1 CAL WORK on the INFIRMITIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM , in both sexes ; being an enqv :-Tv itiVj the concealed cause that destroys physical energy , and the ability of munluM-d , ere vigour has estabiisaed bsr empire : — with Observations ou the baneiui ec ? ct ; of SOLITARY INDULGENCE and INFECTION ;

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      pies of comi . Iaints hitherto little understood , and wcred over by ihe majority of the medical profession , for asst reason we are at a loss to know . We must , how ha , confess ' . hat a perusal of this work has left such a faverabie impression on our minds , that we not only recommend , but cordially wish every one who is the victim f J , st folly , or suffering from indiscretion , to profit by advice c ontained iu its pages . "—Age and Argus Parti , of this work is particularly addressed to those who are prt vented from forming a Matrimonial Alliance , and will be found an available introduction to the means of perfect and secret restoration to manhood . Part II . treats perspicuously upon those forms ei disea-es , either in their primary or secondary stat * -, arising from iufection , showing how numbers , through ncgb . et to ootaiu competent medical aid , entail upon themselves years of misery and suffering .

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      COUGHS , HOARSENESS , AND ALL ASTHMAT AND PULMONARY COMfLAlNTS . ttFECTCALLY CU 3 ZD Bf KEATIXG'S COUGH LOZENGES . Upwards ot thirty " years experience has proved the infallibility of these Lozenges in the cure of Winter Cough , Hoarseness , Shortness at Breath , and other Pulmonary MaUdies . The patronage of his Majesty , the King of Prussia , and his Majesty the King of Hanover , has been bestowed on tbim ; as also that of the Nobility aud Clergy of the Uuited King Ion ; and , above all the Faculty have especially recommended them as a remedy of unfailing efficacy . Testimonials are continually received cenfirmu . lory of the value of these Lozenges , aud proving the perfect safety of their use , ( for they contain >; # Opium nor nm j preparnlitn of that drug ;) so that they may be given to females of the most delitvite constitution , and children of tbe most teuderest years without hesitation .

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      KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES , aa I have for a long time been troabled with shortness of breath and a bad cough , and have tried a great variety of medicines , but derived very little benefit from them : but since I have made trial of Kbatino ' s Couoh Lozenges , I have breathed better , and tbe oough is quite gone . I am , Sir , your ' * truly , Ssbah Fletcueb . To Mr . CHorr . Saffron Walden , July llth , 1811 .

      Metropolitan Intelligence*

      Metropolitan intelligence *

      Ax Inferesce —On Saturday, Mr. Wakley . ...

      Ax Inferesce —On Saturday , Mr . Wakley . M . P ., held an inquest at ^ the Cock and Lion , Wigmore Street , Marylebone , on the body of Joseph Crampton , aged four weeks . The mother founil it dead in bed by her side on Wednesday morning . It had not been previously ill , nor bad it met with any accident . The Coroner , at the latter case , said it was a very common ' one , and that he held sometimes four or five similar inquests in a day . The impression used to be that all children so dying had been overlain . There never was a more stupid fallacy , and he believed the members of his own profession were the authors of it . In the course of some observations in reference to the nrescntstnte of Ireland , the Coroner

      said it was all owing to the want of a poor law in Ireland . " We roust teach tbe owners of land in Ireland , " said Mr . Wakley , " that they must either find employment for their poor , or support them by a tax on their property , as we do in England . lie would advocate in his place in Parliament the extension of the princinle of the English Poor Law in Ireland . " A verdict of Natural Death was returned . The Lash .--Woolwich , Jan . 30 . —This morning , at half-past ei ^ ht o ' clock , the whole of the troops in the garrison were mustered in the Riding School , at the Royal Artillery Barracks , to see the senttRce of a district court-martial , held on Wednesday la . it , on gunner and driver , T . Beatty , of Captain Grant ' s company ( 10 th battalion ) carried into effect The

      prisoner was convicted some time since by a district court-martial of the crime of desertion and of stealing half a sovereign , belonging to Corporal Frazer , which the latter had entrusted him to get changed . He was then sentenced to six months' imprisonment , and to be branded with the letter D . This sentence was carried into effect , and the prisoner was sent to the Military Prison , at Fort Clarence , Chatham . Whilst in confinement , 'he attempted to injure bis eves , with the view , by inducing a deprivation of si < iht for the nurpose of being discharged from the regiment . Being detected , he was sent up to Woolwich , to be tried for this offence , technically called " tampering , " and the district court-martial sentenced hint to receive fifty lashes . The sentence was

      carried into effect this morning , under the superintendence of the field officer on duty . The unfortunate man received the fifty lashes at the hands of two drummer ? , the first bcins , according to practice , withdra w n , after be bad inflicted twenty-five lashes . The prisoner , though evidently of a weak frame of body , bore the infliction with the most stoical indifference , and at its conclusion refused to allow any of his comrades to assist in putting on his clothes . l His struggle with his suffering was * , however , of butshort duration , for , on being brought into the open air , be became faint , and he was supported by three men up the steps of the Royal Ordnance Hospital , whither he was at once conveyed . Robberies . — On Saturday evening between the hours of sixand seven , a man twenty-five ortwentvsix years old , carrying a bluo bag on his arm , called

      at the residence of Mr . Todd , in Nottingham Place , with a false message ,, and stole from tbe hall two great coats , one of them da'k green , lined throughout with sable fur , and worth £ 50 . On Sunday evening the house of Mr . Tutt . No . 8 , Geor » ina-street , Camden Town , was robbe-1 during the absence of the inmates , ofa double-bottomed gold watch with three gold seals and key , twelve silk handkerchiefs , and other property . Th ^ thieves entered by breaking in at the kitchen window . On the same eveninc , the house of Mr . Simmonds , 11 , Exet- r Street , South , Camden Town , was entered and robbed of a gold neck chain , £ i . in gold , 10 s . in a silk purse , and a great coat . St-icinx of a Suroeos . —On Monday , Mr . Payne held an inquest at the East India Arms , Fenchurch Street , on the . bod y of Mr . Thomas Greenwood , aged 41 , a general practitioner , of No . 2 , Fenchurch Buildings . The deceased came home on Sundav

      evening in a state of intoxication , and shortly afterwards was observed to mix something with his tea , which he swallowed , and died after a short interval . Mr . Henry Bailer , surgeon , of Jewry Street , said ho had been acquainted with tbe deceased for many years , and had known him to have made two previous attempts on his life . When called to him on Sunday , he tound him insensible , and in a quarter of an hour the deceased died . Witness had examined the liquid in the tumbler , and found it to consist of tea mixed with essential oil of almonds . One of the jurors said that about three years ago the deceased sustained severe injuries on the bead by falling off an omnibus , and since then was occasionally out of Ins mind . Verdict , Temporary Insanity

      ALAn . Mi . vc has - On Sunday morning , a fire , nearly attended with the most disastrous results , was discovered on the premises belonging to Mr . J . I . Cavke , ironmonger , situate at 8 , Limekiln Hill , Limehouse . Ihe fire originated on the ground floor , and when hist discovered was ascending the staircase . 1 he inmates happily succeeded in effecting a safe retreat ; but the fire could not be extinguished until that portion of the house in which it commenced was burned out , and the furniture and upper rooms were severely damaged

      PaixlesS Operations— Effects op Ether —A man was admitted into the London Hospital having his ancle completely crushed by the fall of a cask of sugar upon it . Immediate amputation was essential , but the patient obstinately refused to submit to the operation , till he was told it could be done without pain . Then he readily assented . The ether was administered , and the leg removed . The patient afterwards asserted that he had felt no pain , but , on the contrary , that his sensations were of the most pleasant description . When the crushed limb was

      afterwards dissected , it was discovered that the large artery and vein of tbe leg were completely severed by the accident . Now , had the operation been delayed ( and without the ether this would have happened ) the patient might have rallied in a few hours from tbe shock , and then a violent bleeding from the wounded artery would have followed , enough to exhaust or destroy the patient . The extirpation ofa largo tumour from the neck ofa lady residingat Redford , occupying sixteen minutes in performance , is reported by the surgeon who operated as having been

      Ax Inferesce —On Saturday, Mr. Wakley . ...

      effected without the least consciousness of pam to tuf patient , and three operations upon the eye performed at the Maidstone Ophthalmic Hospital appear to have been equally successful . With a view to ascertain precisely the successive effects produced by inhaling ether , and so determine to what extent it should be carried , Dr . l'lomley , of Kent , breathed it himself , and says that its effects may be divided into three stages or degrees . The first is merely a pleasurable feeling of half intoxication ; Ihe second is one of extreme pleasure , similar to the sensations produced by inhaling litughiiig-g ; is . Consciousness in this stage is not destroyed , though there is

      incapability of motion . There is not exactly an insensibility to pain , but an indifference , " a care-for-notliin ^ " sort of feeling . If operations are done in this stage , tiie patients almost always recover before the operations are completed , and tbe results are unsatisfactory . Most uf the failures may he a' tributed tn this cause . The third stage is one of profound intoxication and insensibility . The individual is lost to pain and outward impressions ; but the mind is often revelling in the most pleasurable regions , as in a dream . This is the stage for operating . It may be known by the relaxed state of the muscles , and the falling of the pulse .

      Surgical Opebatiok without Pain . — Another successful application of the vapour of sulplieric ether has been made at Westminster Hospital , where a part of the thigh bone was removed by Dr . Snow , from a patient suffering from necrosis . The operation lasted seven minutes , during which time the patient remained unconscious of pain . On Tuesday afternoon two more operations were successfully performed in the large theatre ot the Charing-cross Hospital , on patients while under the influence of ether vapour . The first operation was performed by Mr . Avery , and consisted in the removal of the largo toe nail of the left foot—a very painful process ; and , in the second case , Mr . Steghall , the house-surgeon , extracted several teeth from

      a young man who had inhaled the ether . In bath cases the patients acknowledged that they had not felt the sli ghtest pain during the operations . Alarmug : Fire , and . narrow Escape of several Families . —On Sunday night , shortly before eleven o ' clock , a destructive fire broke out upon the premises in the occupation of Mr . Rouse , straw bonnet maker , carrying on business at No . IS , Bermondsey-street . The flames originated in the front shop , and were first discovered by police-constable 250 M , who inirnidiately sprang his rattle , and after considerable trouble succeeded in arousing from their slumbers the whole of the inmates , consisting of four or five families . Before , however , that he had accomplished his object the shop became fired from end to end ,

      and the fhmea were rising with such fury that none of the residents were able to gain the street door . Fortunately they were enabled to effect a retreat from tbe back of the premises , thereby escaping a most horrible death . One of tho lodgers , whilst descending with a child in his arms , fell through one of the windows and seriously cut his bands . The engines having arrived , and an abundant supply of water having been obtained from the maws in the distiict , the fireman set to work , and by carrying the hose into the building , they were enabled to attack the flames in the rig ht quarter , which soon got the fire subdued ; not , however , until the whole of the stock in trade was destroyed , and the premises seriously burned .

      Dbstituiion iw St . Luke ' s Chelsea . — This parish contains about 45 , 000 inhabitants , of whom one in very 14 is now actually receiving parochial relief . The returns for the past week are as follows : —Inmates of the workhouses , 397 ; children at the establishment at Tootin ; :, 126 ; reci pients of eut-dnor relief , 2 , 694 ( being an increase in this class since last week of 668 ); the total amount to 3 , 217 , of whom about one-third are Irish . There have been from 150 to 220 new applications daily , and they seem likely to be still more numerous .

      Serious Accident at the Euston Square Railwav Station . —On Tuesday afternoon , between two and tiireeo ' cleek , an accident ofa very seriou-i character occurred at the above railway station to one of the porters , named Joseph Price , living at 23 , Granville Street , Somers Town . He was unloading the train at the station , and bysomemeansgotjammFd bstween the buffers , and sustained such injuries as to render his immediate removal to the University College Hospital necessary . Fatal Accident at Whitehall . —On Tuesday a

      poor old woman named Ann Green , aged 70 , who resided in Wellington Place , near Tothill Fields prison , expired in the Westminster Hospital , ftora injuries received from a carriage . She was crosssing the road at Whitehall , and being very deaf , did not hear the approach nf a carriage , althoug h repeatedly called to , and the consequence was that the pole struck her on the head , and she was very severely injured . She was taken in an insensible state to the Westminster Hospital , where she died from the effects of the wounds .

      Plate Rmbbery . —O . Tuesday the police received information of a burglary having been committed the previous night at the house of Mr . W . Cope , of 85 , St . Martin ' s Lane , vellum binder . The thieves must have been well acquainted with the premises and the habits of the family , as also of the p late depository , a large closet in the drawing room , to which alone their attention was directed . The lock was forced , and the whole of the plate was abstracted , consisting ofa quantity of silver table , tea , dessert , gravy , mustard , and salt spoons : forks , mugs , and other articles , together with wearing apparel , to the value in all of nearly £ 100 , with which the depredators got clear off .

      Impudent Robbery . —On Tuesday afternoon a well dressed in : in , apparently about forty years of age , called at the residence of Dr . Brydges , 10 , Guildford Street , Russell Square , and ucder the pretence of having something to communicate to that gentleman , was shown into the parlour , whilst the servant went to apprise his master . A few minutes afterwards the Doctor entered the parlour , and was surprised to find that his " visitor" had decaped , taking with him a set of valuable surgical instruments in a morocco case .

      A Pbkcocious Thief . —At Bow-street , on Tuesday a boy named Benjamin Kerrison , about eleven years of age . was brought before Mr . Jardino , charged with the following daring attempt at robbery , at Messrs . Farrance ' s , confectioners , Charing Cross " . Jane Beaty said she was in the employ of Mr . Farrance , and was in his shop on Tuesday morning ; about a quarter before eleven her attention was attracted by hearing the sound of the till in the side-counter being drawn out , and almost immediately afterwards she saw the prisoner run out of the side-door into Spring Gardens , and she also observed that he had got the change-bag in his baud . It contained a quantity of silver . A short time previous to the robbery she had taken ' some change from it , aud the prisoner must have seen her put it back in the till , as he bad been watching

      about there all the morning . When he ran out she pursued him , and never lost sight of htm till he was stopped by a man , and , just before he was so stopped , she saw him throw the hag over the area of No . 9 , Spring Gardens . Edward Butt , police constable 03 A , said , a little before eleven this morning he saw a crowd in S pring Gardens , and on going up saw the prisoner down the area of No , 9 , Spring Gardens , and the last witness was also there picking tip the money . He took the prisoner iuto custody , the young woman charging him with having stolen a bag containing some money . He counted the money ; it consisted of ten half-crowns , forty-six shillings , twenty-five sixpences , and two fourprony pieces—in all £ 4 4 s . 2 d , He had driven the prisoner away from Mr . Farrance ' s shop door several titles during the morning . The prisoner , who had nothing to ? ay , was fully committed for trial .

      Heartless Treatment of the Poor . —On Tues . day an inquest was held by adjournment , before Mr . Baker , Coroner , at the house of Mr . W . Finney , the Queen ' s Head public house in High-street , Pop lar , concerning the death of an infant named Louisa Banner , aged 18 months , who died on board a Gravesend steaai-boat , on her way to Blackwall . The inquiry excited considerable interest . The body of the child , when thejury viewed it , was in a emaciated Mate , and covered with sores . It appeared from the evidence of Mary Ann Banner , the grandmother of the deceased , who resides in St . Martin ' s-l . ine , Westminster , that the ciiild was '

      diegitimate . The child appeared a very promising one when born , though very small . The mother and child had been removed backwards and forwards severatyimes from St . Martin ' s-in-tlieFields , Westminster , to Chatham , owing to a dispute , ns to settlement , and on the 23 vd they were again sent back from Chatham , per steamer , and on arriving at Biackwall the child was found to be dead . The medical evidence proved that deceased ' s death had been accelerated by exposure to the cold . Attc " other testimony the Jury returned the following verdict— " That Louisa Banner died from natural causes , " and added that the child was not in a fit and proper state to be removed . "

      EXTXSSirS hOBBSBt OF Gi > lD ASD SlLTER . —Oil Tuesday information was circulated that between ten and eleven o clock on Monday night there was stolen frm tlie house o f Mr . James Clarke , New-stveet , Lambeth , a rosewood writing-desk , brass bound , containing £ 185 in sovereigns and £ 100 in Bank of England notes of £ 10 each , the numbers and dates unknown . Tbe robbery is supposed to have been committed . by a tall thin man in dark clothes , who was seen entering the parlour window , which had been left unfastened , and who must have gone upstairs and taken the writing desk from the first floor

      front room , and left the house by the front door . Metropoditan ' axd Suburban Cemeteries Society . —A parliamentary commission has just terminated the preliminary inquiries for the first Bill introduced by this company for a cemetery of 150 acres , east of London , the estimates of which , being proved , showed a return of a net dividend per annum of from 12 to 20 per cent ., as the ground may be filled up in 250 or 350 years . The standing orders were declared to be complied with on Saturday , and Messrs . Masterman and Lyal , members tor the city of London , have undertaken the charge of the Bill through the House of Commons .

      The Fraternal Democrats. The Fraternal D...

      THE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS . The Fraternal Democrats held their usual meeting on Monday Evening last at the German Society ' s Hall , Drjjry Lane . J , A . Miohelot presided . Several town members were elected , and candidates for election nominated . Jesse Caines , of Bristol , was elected honorary member . The address of the Polish Democrats to Europe having been rend , K . rnest Jones moved , and Charles Keen seconded , " That a suitable reply be given on behalf of the society , and Julian Harney and Ernest Jones were appointed to o . aw up an address to that effect . " . . Other business was postponed m consequence ot the absence of G . J . Haraey , occasioned by ill-health . The next meeting of the society will take place on Monday evening , February 15 th .

      Democratic Committee For Poland's Regene...

      DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE FOR POLAND ' S REGENERATION . This committee assembled on Tuesday evening , January 2 Gvh , at the Chartist Assembly Rooms , Dean Street , Soho . The president being engaged during a portion of the evening attending the Registration Committee , Mr . John Moy was called to the chair . The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and confirmed : letters were read from Accrington , Leicester , Sheffield , Bath , and Deptford . Mr . Step hen Bailey was elected member of the committee , alter which the following country members were elected : — Accbinoton . —William Beesley . Bath . —Henry Page . Dumtrihs . —Peter Gray . DarwoBD amd GsEENfficH . —James Wilehire , — Robinson , Thomas Paris , — Richardson , George Floyd , Walter Friar , Joseph Morgan , John English , Charles Firth , Simon Sweetlove , and Samuel

      Brewerton . Leicester . —Thomas Rayner Smart . Sheffield . —George Cavill . Mr . Harney , in accordance with the promise given in his letter in reply to the Weekl y Dispatch , tendered tbe resignation of the secretaryship , Mr Henry Ross moved " That Mr . Harney ' s resignation be not accepted . " Seconded by Mr . Caug hlan , and carried unanimously . Mr . Ernest Jones moved , " That this committee consider the attack made by the Weekl y Dispatch on Mr . Harney , as base , calumnious , and unworthy of the character of the English press , and the members of this committee tender to Mr Harney the expression of their undiminished confidence , and thanks for his valuable services . " The motion was seconded by Mr . Doyle , and unanimously adopted . The secretary read tbe address of " The Polish Democrats to Europe . " The address was warmly applauded .

      On the motion of Mr . Doyle , seconded by Mr . Ross , it was resolved that the " Address " just read be eatetid on the minutes , and acknowledged by addresses from this committee "To the Poles " and " To the British People . " Messrs . Ernest Jones and Julian Harney were appointed a sub-committee to prepare the addresses . Some other business having been transacted , the committee adjourned . The committee re-asserabledj on Monday evening last , but in consequence of the absence ' fit the secretary , occasioned by indisposition , but little business was done . The committee adjourned to meet again on Friday evening .

      # gy- Mr . Doyle , when on his recent tour , received at Dundee and Aberdeen the names of several friends desirous of becoming honorary members of the committee ; unfortunately Mr . Doyle has lost or mislaid the list , therefore , our Dundee and Aberdeen friends will oblige by sending their names , & c , to Mr . G . J . Haraey , Northern Star Office . Some names were expected before this time from Edinburgh ; will our democratic friends in the Scottish metropolis afford their aid to the committee ?

      Anniversary Of The Birth Day Of Thomas P...

      ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH DAY OF THOMAS PAINE . A public tea party was held at the Literary Institution , John-street , Tottenham-court-road , on Friday evening , January the 29 th , in commemoration of the birth of the immortal Thomas Paine . Mr . Thomas Cooper presided , and after tea delivered an appropriate address . He also read a letter from a gentleman in Che North commenting on the services Thomas Paine had rendered to the human race . The letter excited warm applause . The cuaVcuYiHi then gave the first toast : — The people may they study , tbe first principles of government , and may they never reliuquUli the struggle for social and political rights , till the whole population have obtained them .

      Responded to by Mr . J . B . O'Bnen . The next sentiment was : — The memory of Thomas Puine , may his works , imperishable as the language in wkich they are written , become universally studied and reduced to practice . Responded to by Mr . J . Watson , and Mr . "Walter Cooper . The next sentiment was ;—The Press , may its transcendent talent be exerted in establishing the rights and liberties uf mankind , aud in elevating the intellectual , social , and moral charade * of tlia people . Responded to by Mr . Alexander Campbell , and Messrs . Buchanan and Stallwood , The next sentiment was : — The speedy downfall ot the iniquities of Kingcraft and Priestcraft .

      Responded to by Mr . Henry Hetherington , and Mr . W . D . Saull . The speeches were all interesting and worthy of the political and intellectual celebrity o f the speakers . The musical harmony of the evening , included the " Marseilles Hymn , " " A man ' s a man for a' that , " and several other choice effusions of the democratic muse . The services of the choir were most efficient , and the singers , both male and female , deserved and received the enthusiastic applause of the meeting .

      The Land! To Tub Blkmbetts Of Benefit So...

      THE LAND ! TO TUB blKMBEttS OF BENEFIT SOCIETIES AND SICK CLUBS . Brothers—For years past I have noticed the advocacy of tfco Small Farm and Allotment System , and also that tb « Labourer with the allotment , is in affluence in comparison with the Labourer without it . Being fully satisfied of its benefits , I resolved to introduce the subject before the society oi * which 1 was a member , we having funds which were not very profitably employed . Accordingly , nearly fire years ago , I proposed that weshould purchase Land as the safest investment , and for affording healthful and profitable employment for the leisure hours of the members who chose to take allotments . I had some trouble to get a seconder , and not another voted with me . The next year 1 made the same proposition , and had about twenty supporters . I beg of the members to make

      inquiries as to the benefits to be derived . Resolved to persevere , I proposed it a third time , when my proposition was carried all but unanimously . Previous to this , we had a mortgage paid back , which had been lent at four per cent ., aud which we resolved to put in the Savings Bank , according to our usual practice ; namely , to appoint two members to invest about tiairty pounds , hut this time we had one hundred and twenty pounds to deposit , so in consequence we had to appoint eight members . When we applied at the Savings' Bank , the Chairman inquired it it was Club money we wished to deposit , and being answered in the affirmative , he asked if the Club was enrolledwe answered that it was not ; then , he said , all the money you have deposited in this manner , is , strictly speaking , forfeited , and we cannot receive any more ,

      but you will be allowed to withdraw your deposits , and at your next meeting tell your members the benefit to be derived from enrolment , and try to get them to have the Club ; enrolled . We then took the money to a private bank , who informed us that money was so plentiful , they could only allow one per cent . ' . interest . It might be plentiful amongst their own class , but God knows it was the reverse amongst us of the working class . We considered these things over the next meeting , and came to this conclusion—that we were sufficiently well informed to manage our own affairs , and we had better be our own bankers ; accordingly , we purchased two acres of middling quality of land , at one hundred guineas per acre . Two acres and twentythree rods , with a well sunk near one hundred feet , the fences putting in order , and a road up the centre

      of the land , cost near two - hundred and seventy pounds ; and yet it will pay the society five per cent , on the outlay , and answers wdl for the occupants . I have been offered by persons out of the society , as much as two shillings per rod for an allotment . The allotments are mostly o f titteen rods each , one of which 1 hold , and which produces quite a sufficiency of vegetables for my family of five persons , besides a lodger or two . The vegetables are of the best quality , and the remnants assist in rearing a pig or two . The rent is a mere trifle , and the labour is amply repaid in the improved health of the shop-pent artizan , to say not one word about profit , which is not

      inconsiderable , especially this winter , when potatoes are selling at fourteen pence per peck , with all kinds of garden produce dear in proportion . Each allotment is well stocked with winter greens celery , and cabbage plants for the spring , and a short time will be seen shoe-makers and tailors carrying their spades early in the morning to follow a natural employment , which some wiseacres sav will incapacitate them lor their usual employment ; but experience has taught us the reverse of this , for we number some ot the best workmen in the town . From the above , 1 hope some may be led to see the advantage that Land Investment is to us as a society , and as individuate .

      I remain , yours respectfully , G . A . —Secretary to thk Bury St . Edmund ' s Baptist Fribkdly . Socim .

      Richard Oasuefi , Jbsqt ^^ To The Right ...

      RICHARD OASUEfi , jBSqT ^^ TO THE RIGHT HON . LORD JOHN RUSSPrt STA TE MAJE 3 TrS PRINCIP ^ « SS 5 & f J ? [ Under the » b 0 Te head Mr , Oasflerhas m-w , ter oocupying four columns and a quarter ofuV a le ( ' Post . Its extreme length prevents us givjne X i '"* its complete form , the following , ' extracts contal ! ' " ia stum * . Ed . N . S . ] tain «« tub-Mx Loan—There wag a time when your Lording under the misrepresentations of polit ical ^' " ' supposed , as did many others , that I was an i " " *'" ' person ; " you were wont to hear me denounced" )!^' ' ' of your colleagues , as " an incendiary " -. " ad ¦ ' * »» the peace . " Other * , who hare outlived simil ' i ° from high quarters , have ceased to be distrusted ' f hope that now I may be relieved from the imn * ¦*"' made by slanderers , and that your Lordshi p wm C 8 si" 1 " ject counsel , even from myself . Uok tt-* • # It has , by successive Governments , been a « j Um j interference and regulation in our industrial jn j , " ^

      tire interest * are oeirimemm to tne increase of i » that the only way to promote that increase is , { j , at 8 allll i man should do that which seems most profita ' ^ ' . J self , having no regard to the profit of others ; for B ° , ' that productions are only valuable in prdportion t * ability of those who require them to become purc ° " ^ and that their increase can only be profitable ia J ' tion to that demand . m ^' The result of this great mistake has been , that a individuals have accumulated immense masses of w u whilst the millions , who have been the itu trumcM f creating that wealth , are sunk into a state ofp < jT

      misery , ana moral aegraaaiion mat is trul y app ) r " These , iustead of being the first and best ccu tomcrg f *' the products of our national industry , are , in milli „ , ° J instances , unable to purchase the bare necessaries ot 17 , and we are , consequently , driven to forei gn raarkusfo * ' the sale of those very commodities that our own r » J [ need , but are not able to buy . * Again , the character of the people has been mn grievously misapprehended ; Englishmen have |)(„ thus estimated and described bj & r « c « nt Lord \! nan . cellor , in a speech to the House of Lords— - As in . mediately calculating on parish relief , " and " longer striving for the means of maintaining thsij children , but heedlessly , recklessly counting upon (( ,,

      parish fund , oat of which , whether in sickness or is health , in youth or in age , in impotence or in vigour , they know that they may claim the means of support ; and setting the pains of labour against those of a scaat ^ sustenance , they prefer idleness and a bare subsisted to plenty earned by toil . " His Lordship also asserted-We have a constant , and I may also say , almost i regular proof , in every part of the country , in distrieti agricultural , manufacturing , and even commercial , asi whether the petple are superabundant or scares , it , creasing , gtat ' onary , or diminishing in numbers , fty able-bodied men prefer a small sum in idleness to i large sum in wages attended with a condition of earning those wages by labour . * * Naj , ttie keeper of it , king ' s conscience absolutely declared , " Idleness and ter sister , Guilt , now stalk over the land . ' "

      The character of the people of England has bes wofully mistaken by their governors . They are notidij , mj Lord ! Their fault is—they are too laborious . Mi ! . lions of our fellow subjects , thus misrepresented ani misapprehended by their governors , have worked them . selves to death ! Hundreds of thousands , male and female , have sacrificed their lives , by over-workiij before they reached their twentieth year ! The people of England are not "lazy , " my Lord ! They are hi incessantly engaged in the useless and destructive nat

      of unrelenting competition ! True , there are often hun , dreds of thousands unwillingly idle—and wbv ? Be . cause they have previously worked too long , or tecau « others are now doing so . It is the boast of tli « « n , ployers of operatives in the manufacturing districts , " that those shops that work over hours are ahvajspre . ferred . " This is often done , that by over-siraiaing hi , own strength , the artisan may keep his wife and chit , dren out of the mill . It is this proneness to " over-time ' that makes labour of so little value .

      When the character ef the people was entirely raisuc derstood , none need wonder that laws , most opyosei :, their well-being , should bave bten enacted . TJ » d-. rthlj fatal misapprehension , Governments have passed Ian , designed and calculated to frrce the people into s " fiercer competition" —to the still more incessant appli . cation of their industry—to igonising , killing , iind cm . sequently , useless labour ; careless as to whether ttat labour is productive , apparently supposing that ttot which ought to be the most important function of gurem . ment may be more safely left to chancel

      "She Irutb is manntst { xi can Miswer no good putposi to bide tbe fact ) , in proportion to the relaxation of tU laws regulating our industrial interests and protecting our artisans and labourers , the wretchedness o ! these sons of toil increased , until the detnaad upoa the floor's rates became seriously alarming ; when , taking advantage of this fact , the propounded of the new creed of political economy raised an alarm in tbe minds ot tlniropponents , tbe ancient territorial aristocracy , work . ing upon tne selfishness of the barons of England , lbs vunning " philosophers" persuaded tbeni that , if they dii not entirely change ( with a view to its entire extinction ) , the title of the person to relief , " their estates would bt eaten up by the sturdy beggars , the lasty paupers '"

      In order to secure success to this wicked device , a com . mission was appointed to make a case out against : te poor . On the report issued by that comniissioii , As working classes of Eng ' and , who were , and still an , ths most industrious people in the world , were charged witi surly , stubborn idleness , and many other vices , it ! barons weie not aware of the stratagem , they wert caught in the trap ; they did not perceive that it was the relaxation of the old protective laws that , by reducicj the value of labour , had forced those who could get work

      to work over-time , and these to drive the less fortunate entirely out of employment , forcing them to apply tottt parish fund . Hence the lamentable incrt-ase of demand t ' ov parochial relief . The jiristocraey felt this heavy pressure on their estates ; they did not , however , apprehend the true cause , but , unhappily for their own order ant ! the poor , they believed that the people were"i > ile and vi . clous , and , with a few honourable exception ' s , supportd their enemies , the "philosophers , " in passing a law that deprived the poor of England of a right more sacred than that of their lordships to their estates .

      That was the master blunder of the age . Since then English society has been undi-rgoing the operations ! disorganisation . E / ery rank is thrown into confusion . * # * The last session of Parliament affords a lessen nortfcj a statesman ' s study—it will not fail to arrest the »«* : tion of the historian . After weeks ef debating , an Act was passed , declaring all interference injurious , is » hurry , almost without debate , at the very close of tin same session , the same persons passed an Act , interf » rin ! with every acre possessed by the Irish landlords!—an Act that , in fact , cwifiscates to the poor every rood ot land in Ireland , where for ages the landlords ba « refused to acknowledge that the poor bad any rig ht ) , Thus does it please God to confound human wisdomto punish the proud , and to "break in pieces the op * pressors . "

      « o fact is more easily demonstrated than that tea famine is tha natural fruit of our own selfish syswra oi legislation . It is our duty , while we endeavour to mit : < gate the severity of our just punishment , to confess oar guilt , and to remove tbe cause of our sufferings , t » acknowledging and defending the rights of ail . How are we now striving to avert the evil—to rer . vv * the scourge ? By means , however laudable in th « m * - ! ve ' i utterly inadequate to their end . While we endeavour to relieve the sufferers in one part of the empire , we are , K the natural effects of Increasing the demand for brawlstuffs in other . " , raising their prices , and gradually puvtBf the way to a g * nern ! famine . » # » Now , famine demands a sacrifice on the part of i'X If « c refuse to bear our share at present , the nrej'ss " wilt be more burdensome at some future period .

      Be wise In time . The only methods that can bt (('«¦'•! useful are , ns far as may be , to diminish the genen ! W sumption of bread stuffs . The consumption of bread stuffs in our distiller !* starch manufactories , and cotton mills , should be ia-Rtwitly prohibited by tew , and speculation in tW articles should be interdicted . The Queen should issue her royal proclamation & W ' is necessary in every family to limit the use of b" * stuffs in the kitchens , stables , and ks-nnels—to absoli * necessaries . Her Majesty should set the example b ! rigourously prohibiting the use of any kind of breads tJ . in the royal household than can possibly be dispensed with : her royal favour should be withdrawn fiowallw refuse to make this sacrifice .

      When we have survived this storm it will be w always to hold n Government stock of at least W . uOO . iW quarters of wheat . The union workhouses ( which » i ; 1 be useless for their original purposes , if we wisely « PP re elate the lesson we are now taught ) will make good n > j tional storehouses ; they will then cease to be a nation" ' disgrace—they will be our glory . Do not despise these hints—if the famine be real , ^ sacrifice must be universal—better to make that sacrifc ' while it is bearable than suffer it to work its own uni « ' sal devastation . ( To he concluded in our )\ txt . )

      Corns And Bunions.—Pedcstrtaucwrciseisab...

      Corns and Bunions . —Pedcstrtaucwrciseisabsolu ' ' - ! necessary for the enjoyment of health , persons < W ^\> from walking with ease and comfort by corns and l > untf "' i are confidently recommended to make trial of tin" Cv ! i ' Vlnister known as " Paul ' s Every Man's Friend . " whi «» i can be procured of any respectable Chymist in our tow" " v boxes at Is . lid . for Corns , and in larger hoses for W " and Bunions ut 3 s . 9 d . lfe . Binns and Holloway ' s Ointment . —Dr . Bin" - " ' f (< was one of the principal physicians in the islan d M Jamaica , has expressed himself in the following i » a , in .. > respecting the surprising healing properties of Uollowa ! . o Ointment :-I have made many trials of this oiiitiixM" h cases of vhronic ulcers which several years' expiw ' B f . c the \ Vest Indus tnnght mo to consider as incurable , i *)• . now happy to say that in all cases it was really and truy efficacious—Signed , £ . Binns , M . D ., F . S . A ., Sco . " } ™ loway ' s Ointment will enre bad legs however h' » ii standing , likewise the most obstinate cases of Kin ?* " \ f I or Scrofula .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Feb. 6, 1847, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_06021847/page/2/