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      THE HEART'S CHARITY . BT SUZA COOK . -. „ man walked abroad one day , da poor nun walked the selfsame tray , ^ en a paleandstarvirja face came by ^ -itba ^ ied Up and a hopeless eye , i ' d tbat starving facepresumed to stand ¦ i ask for bread from the rich man ' s hand ; « "f rherich man sullenly looked askance , » . ; , oathering frown and a donbtful glance . HI tow nothing , " said he , « to give you , -J anr such rogue of a canting crew ; ^ S , getwork ! Iknow fa 1 l weU Srhiningl ^^^ " can tell . " And he fastened bis pocket , and on he went , rrj th his soul untouched and bis conscience content .

      Xn * this great owner of golden store Hid boflt a church notlong before , T ^ noble a fane as man could raise , And the world had g iven him thanks and praise ; And all who beheld it lavished fame On his Christian gift and godly name . < rhe poor man passed , and the white lips dared To ask of him if a mite could be spared ; - The poor man gazed on tbe beggar ' s cheek , y < saw what the white lips ceuld not speak . lie stood for a moment , but not to pauso On the truth of the tale or the parish laws ; He wasseeking , togive- ^ thongh it was but small , T- r a pennv , a single penny was all ; 3 at he cave it with a kindly word , \ rjiile the warmest pulse in his breast was

      'Tiras a tiny seed bis Chanty shed , Sut the white lips got a taste of bread , And the beggar ' s blessing hallowed the crust That camelike a spring in the desert dust . The rich man and the poor man died , As all of us must , and they both were tried At the sacred judgment-seat above , Por ih & r thoug hts ot em ana deeds of . love . The balance of Justice there was true , And fairly bestowed what fairly was due ,

      ind the two fresh comers through Heaven s gate Stood their to learn their eternal fate . The recording angels told of things ~ , That fitted them both with kindred wings ; But as they stood in the crystal lights The p lumes of tbe rich man grew less bright . The angels knew by that shadowy sign , Th at the poor man ' s work had been most divine ; jind they brought the unerring scales to see THiere tie rich man ' s falling off could be .

      full many deeds did the angels weigh , ? 5 at the balance kept an even sway , jivd at least the church endowment laid ¦ filth its thousands promised and thousands paid , " With the thanks of prelates by its side , In the stately words of pious pride , . And it weig hed so much that the angels stood To see how the poor man could balance- such good . ; A cherub came and took his place JJjthe empty scale with a radiant grace , And he dropped the penny that had fed 'White starving lips with a crust of bread . The church endowment went up with the beam , And the whisper of tbe Great Supreme , As be beckoned the poor man to his throne , "Was heard in this immortal

      tone—- '' Blessed are they who from great gain Give thousands with a reasoning brain , But holier still shall be his part "Who gives one coin with pitying heart . "

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      SHE NATIONAL INSTRUCTOR . London : W . Rider , 16 , Great Windmillstreet . Part L of this new weekly periodical ia now ready . Owing to the circumstance of theivo-Uonal Instructor having been commenced about the middle of the month , there are but three numbers in the monthly part under notice . In previous numbers of the Star , we directed its readers' attention to the merits and contents of Nos . 1 and 2 of tbe Instructor . "We proceed to do likewise with No . 3 ; and from an excellent article on " The Competitive

      System , " present a few extracts . The able writer of the above-named article , after speaking cf the " progressivedegradation and poverty of the masses , " and indicating these as the consequences of mechanical improvements , -trul y says that : It is against these things that what is called "Socialism" wars , not under any impulse of personal hostility , but with the aim and desire to replace existing institutions by societarian arrange ments , calculated to develope superior principles of action amon <» all classes ; to make society what it onsht to be ° by so distributing the products and blessings of modern science as not merely to increase the greatness ofthe nation but the happiness ofthe

      people ; not the wealth alone , but the comfort of the family . The commercial competitive system is opposed to all these things ; competition , as at present conducted , is a progressive and perpetual development of misery . Instead of combining the powers at the disposal of society , so as to make them produce the most useful results , it places these powers in constant opposition , and either annihilates them , or produces mischief by their action . Society is thus so constituted , that the prosperity of one establishment is . in too many instances , built up on the ruins of many others , and , we ask , if that can be a principle of order , wealth , and prosperity , which makes of society a confused mass of forces , each of which triump hs only by the destruction of its opponent ? It is to this principle of competition , now omnipotent in trade and commerce , that we can alone trace the astounding social anomaly of

      general impoverishment and wretchedness in tne midst of superabundant means for creating , and beneficially distributing wealth . It leaves society to the control of chance . All is hap-hazard ; because , instead of the owners of capital , machinery , and labour , acting in concert , and producing only with reference to well-ascertained wants in various markets ; each manufacturer and merchant conceals from his neighbour his transactions as much as possible . The consequence is , that , in numerous instances more goods of a particular description are made than can be profitably disposed of ; there has been no previous concert or calculation upon that point—and the result is what is called a " g lut , " or , in other words , a stoppage in the metunery—consequently a loss of capital and a stoppage of work—in other words , of the production of real wealth , until the surplus is got rid of . _

      As we have already said , new means of wealth , this insane and most vicious system , only add to the evils already existing . Instead of tending to nniversalise the benefits which would otherwise follow the application of the discoveries of genius , it confines the possession of these discoveries to individuals , who , in the mad pursuit of individual advantage , too often convert them into instruments of destruction . A . new machine , instead of becoming profitable to all without exception , as it ought to be , if wisely applied , becomes a club with which the patentee-inventor crushes his competitors , and rubs the thousands who depend upon them for employment . . - - . . is to it to

      The best way to try any system , push its ultimate results . let us , therefore , suppose that , under the present system , human ingenuity bad risen to such a heig ht in tbe region of discovery that manual labour was utterly superseded by machinery . What would be tbe result under competition ? Why , that all those who bad no means of h " vinL' but by manual labour , would be thrown out of work ; reduced to pauperism , beggary and crime , and swept off tbe face of the earth , either by famine or disease ; or die on the scaffolds which would be erected by the possessors of machinery , to punish all who dared to remonstrate against the misery caused by their system—or who , more daring , presumed to touch any of the wealth produced by these

      machines , and monopolised by the machine owners . Let us not be understood to argue against the progress of machineryand the discoveries of science . Considered initself , theinvention of a new machine , designed to lessen the toil of man , is an invaluable benefit . Whence comes it , then , that thousands of labourers are frequently reduced to pauperism by the application of a new process ? Is it the fault of genius , of . science , or of machinery , which renders nature subservient to the wishes of humanity ? No ; ; t is the fault of an absurd and radically vicious syst , under which even good itself is turned to evil . Describing the " internal operation among the working . classes , of the competitive system , " the writer observes that

      Competition , in producing poverty and idleness , produces also immorality and crime . Want and ignorance make thieves . Misery , by engraftui " hatred and despair upon ignorance and muegamea passions , makes murderers . Misery and recKJess want drive into the streets those most p itiable of all the victims of our demohaical system — those wretched women who barter their persons for hire . The records of our police offices , the trials at . our criminal courts , testify in a thousand ways , that society introduces into its very heart , by the original Tice of its constitution , hatred , envy , and violence , theft , murder , and prostitution ; that it places itself continually in the alternative of being either oppressed from above , or constantly destroyed by attacks from below .

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      Having briefl y alluded tothe humbug of our country and government being self-styled Christian , por excellence , . and having / contrasted our national and governmental professions and practices , our authors prophetically remarks that , ¦" . ''" From the heart of nations there rises up continuall y a protest against the violence and the wrongs inflicted on the masses . Revolutions are but the * -occasional explosions of the accumulated force , which outraged humanity must continually exert against such a foul and unnatural system . A biogra pWcMnoticeof "Rienzi , the Tribune , " will be read with interest . Having informed the reader of the plebian origin of Rienzi—ofthe kind of education he had

      received—and of the degraded condition of Rome , at the period referred to , the article thus proceeds : — Young Rienzi saw and deeply deplored the evils of his country . A disinterested desire to relieve it ftom its oppressors sprung up in his breast , and he began ma remarkable manner to pave the way for the accomplisment of that great end . At accidental meetings of the people , whether in large or small bodies , he allowed his voice to be heard , and took every occasion to recall to the remembrance of bis heroes the glories of their ancestry . Being an eloquent and energetic speaker , Rienzi speedily became a favourite with the people , and his addresses

      to them in the streets grew more and more frequent . Daily he would assemble bands ' of them around him , and pointing their attention to the lions , serpents , and other emblematical figures abounding in every part of the city , he would draw comparisons , in an allegorical but not very ambiguous style , between the glorious times which witnessed the erection of these monuments , and the degraded period in which he and his hearers were condemned to live . Growing bolder day by day , he ventured upon open denunciations ofthe tyranny of the nobles , and innamed the passions of his audiences b y dwelling on the bitter subject of their wrongs . The nobles were blinded enough to be totally insensible to the

      tendency of Rienzi ' s proceedings . Everything " plebian" was so utterly despised by them , - that many of them came in person to listen to his political lectures , looking upon him much in the same light as they did upon Punchinello , or the common buffoons of the Carnival . It is even said that Rienzi , taking a lesson from the elder Brutus , -who feigned madness till the hour came for the deliverance of his country , condescended to enter the Colonna palace by invitation , to amuse the company with his threats and predictions . The abject state of slavery to which the nobles had reduced the people , could not be more glaringly shown than by such a circumstance as this .

      When an embassy was sent from Rome to tbe papal court of Avignon , Rienzi had acquired influence enough over the people to be appointed one of the thirteen deputies representing the order of the commons . At Avignon , he attracted notice by his bold and ready oratory , and there he also met a congenial spirit in the poet Petrarch . On return , ing to Rome , Rienzi continued his former practices . Still the nobles remainded in supine blindness , allowing the orator to ripen the minds of the people for any outbreak . An accident brought on tbe crisis . Rienzi ' s brother was assassinated , and the survivor loudly demanded vengeance . But the murderer was protected by the Colonna influence ,

      and Rienzi found his appeals fruitless . Prom this hour he was resolute in his design of immediately overturning the power of the nobles . It was in the middle of May 1347 , that he entered on the first step towards the completion of his object , by assembling on Mount Aventine , at midnight , a body of one hundred citizens favourable to his purpose . "Friends and fellow citizens , " said Rienzi , "the blood of my slaughtered brother cries for vengeance , and would justify a severe' retaliation ; but it is your wish and mine to procure the inestimable blessings of liberty without involving our country in bloodshed and confusion . The accomplishment

      of your fishes , the establishment ot the good Mate ( the speaker ' s favourite phrase ) , is rapidly advancing , if you have only fortitude and forbearance enough to exert the power you possess with spirit , perseverance , and moderation . The strength of our oppressors is imaginary ; they are without union , without virtue , without resources . " Rienzi ended his harangue by announcing his intention of immediately assembling the people , unarmed , by proclamation , and recommended to his hearers so to demean themselves as " to prove to the world that a few precious drops of Roman blood were still circu-Iatingin their veins . "

      The people were accordingly assembled , and the brigandine nobility were " compelled to fl y with precipitation . " The reader is then informed—The author of this remarkable revolution , which freed the Roman citizens at one blow from tbe presence of all their oppressors , would not assume the title which , in tbe warmth of their gratitude , the people would have freely accorded to him . He declared that he would not bear an appellation which a Tarquin and a Nero bad disgraced . After a time however , seeing the necessity of having his authority sanctioned in some regular form , he consented to take the title of Tribune , which-in ancient days

      indicated a guardian of popular privileges . But the power of Rienzi was really that of a dictator , and it is admitted by all historians that he at the outset wielded it admirably . He introduced new and excellent laws , reformed the finances , extinguished sanctuaries and such-like privileges , and , in short , established an entirely novel order of things . " A den of robbers ( says one historian ) was converted to the discipline of a camp or a convent ; patient to bear , swift to redress , inexorable to punish , his tribunal . was always accessible to the poor and the stranger . " Another historian declares that , " in this time the woods began to rejoice that they were no longer infested with robbers ; the oxen began to plough ; the roads aud inns were

      replenished with travellers ; trade , plenty , and good faith , were restored in the markets ; and a purse of gold might be exposed without danger iu the midst of the highway . " Rienzi behaved generously , perhaps not wisely , towards the banished nobles . He soon recalled them to tbe city , exacted only from them an oath of allegiance to the new government and to tbe Church , which he had judiciously taken pains to identify with bis own cause . The hauty nobles felt deeply their humiliation , yet fear constrained them into obedience . A simple Roman citizen of the period , speaking of their condition and feelings says — "Bare-headed , their hands crossed on their breasts , tfiey stood in presence ofthe Tribune with downcast looks ; and they trembled—good heavens ! how they trembled ! " '

      True , however , to their fiend-like natures , these Agrarian robbers " conspired to effect the overthrow of the Tribune / ' The plot was discovered , and the principals thrown into prison ; but again was Rienzi so infatuated as to "become the suppliant for their lives with the Council of the People . " No sooner liberated were these aristocratic banditti , than they raised their rural vassals , and marched against Rome , to meet with their just fatetheir ignominious death . May that be the attendant fate of all usurping brigands ! For

      the subsequent events , and for the account of the fall of Rienzi , we must refer to the article itself . Observing , in conclusion , that it appears to ns that , had Rienzi been the right sort of reformer , had he declared for example , the land to be national property , the people would not have deserted him in the hour of trial . They would then have had a substantial proof of the wisdom of his legislation , and something worth fi ghting for . Less than this , as an ultimate measure is not worth the efforts and sacrifices of any people . The autobiograph y of ¥ jt . O'Cennor speaks for itself . We have no room for comment on the remaining articles .

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      The Red Republican . Edited by G . Jtjiian Habkey . No . 1 . London : S . Y . Collins , 113 , Fleet-street . The first number of Julian Harney ' s new publication—announced during some weeks past in this journal—is now before the public . The contents include the first of a new series of the letters of L'Ami da Peuple , " Chartism in 1850 , " "Cossack or Republican ? " " The Prologue of a Revolution , " a Review of Ledru Rollin ' s "Decline of England , " "The Rod Banner" —a soul-stirring p iece of poetry , from the pen of Gerald Masaey , & c ., & c . We give an extract from the editorial article :

      OCB NAME A 3 JD PltlXCIFLES . " The Bed Republican ! A most imprudent name !" How so , good friend ? «• Because , living under a Monarchy , it may be dangerous for you to avow Republicanism , even in the ordinary sense of the term . But worse still , this new-fangled * Red' will add to the hostility of naid and professional loyalists , the hatred and indignation of all respectable people , who regard a « Bed Republican' as an anarchist , a foe to societ y , * an ' enemy to order and property , a See'' to be extinguished if he remains in . hu l £ -to be cut to pieces if he comes out of it . ' fend u «> n it , if Brought before a court ohv 3 any U or . no W at all , U would be

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      quite superfluous for the prosecutor to make a speech- against you , or for the judge to charge the jury tojpohvict you ; the ? twelve men in a box / on being informed of the title ; ofyour publication , would . at once convict you ; all accusation or " defence would be a mere waste of time . Moreover , ' you would meetwith no ' sympathy . Even the Liberals would say 'hanging is too good for such a fellow . ' Respectable Chartists would join chorus with their respectable friends , and repudiate any connexion with the representative of a 'bloody Democracy . They would go still further . Onco you were-in a dungeon , or otherwise disposed of , they would attempt the destruction of your reputation , either by secretly circulated calumny , or Open denunciation . And where would be found

      your friends ? ^ Where ? Unless amongst those whom Thiers denominates the ' vile multitude '—the powerless and despised portion of the community . " At least one portion of the title of this publication is notnew to the British democracy . " The Republican" was the designation of a periodical published during a number . of years by the late Richard Carlile . The same name , varied by that of the " Bonnet Rouge , " re-appeared during the famous struggle of the "Unstamped Press . " Still more recently , a monthly publication , conducted , with considerable ability , but which had a circulation much more select than extensive , rejoiced in the same anti-royalist title . It would be easy , to show . by citations from authors who have written on the institutions of

      this country , that there is nothing politically heterodox in connexion with the title of " Republican . '' ^ Dr . Johnson defines a Republic to be " a state in which the power is lodged in more than one ; " whereas the term "« Monarchy" is incorrectly applied to a government , unless the chief of the state , whether , called king or emperor , Ac ., possesses the entire Sovereign power . In this sense , Persia under Xerxes , and France under Louis XIV . were really Monarchies , according to the legitimate meaning ofthe term ; so also is Russia , at the present day , under the rule of Nicholas . On the other hand , Rome—even under her emperors—was still denominated a Republic ; thus Augustus is said to have " governed the res publica ; " and after a . long intervening period , we find the last of

      the great men of ancient Rome in all his acts and words regarding himself merely . is the chief of the Republic . In the same sense , England never has been a Monarchy ; for , even under her most de . spotic kings , the sovereign power hasr , been more or less , shared by others—in the olden time by bishops and barons—arrogant impostors and mailclad thieves—and in these days there is superadded the supremacy of the bourgeoisie—the "kings ; of gold . " According , therefore , to Dr . Johnson s definition , England has always been a Republic . It would be superflous to show that , in the present day , the so-called " sovereign lady of these realms" does not even share the sovereign authority , which is absolutely monopolised-by the lords of land and capital . To expend an enormous income in

      "barbaric " - pomps and trappings , "while millions starve , " seems to be the only occupation left for the possessor of an effete sceptre . England , then , is a Republic—o / a sort , and every Englishman may , if he will , term himself a Republican . But our readers need not be told that there is all the difference in the world between a real , and a sham Republic . For an example ot the latter our friends have only to look across the channel . From any such Republic may we be saved ! Let us add another prayer—from the res publica of England" a state in which the power is lodged in more than one " but not inall , good Lord deliver ns ! \ ve protest against all sham Republics , whether with a " Sovereign Lady , " or a " Special" President , for a head . Still more emphatically we

      protest against the rule of landlords , and usurers ; no matter how they may attempt to disguise their sway , whether under republican or monarchical forms . To prevent , therefore , any mistake , as to our principles , we adopt what our cautious friend terms the " new fanglea " name of Red Republican . We are fully a "are of the odium attached to this name , in the estimation of all " respectable people . " What of that ? In the days of Nero it was " infamous" to be a Christian , and as bad to be a Reformer in the" gooioM times , " " when George the Third was King . " Chartists , Socialists , Red Republicans , and Communists , are the powerless , the despised , the "infamous , " tbe " vile multitude" of the present time . Today the crown of thorns , the scourge , the cross are theirs . But , to-morrow !

      Courage Brothers ! "The Golden Age , placed by blind ^ tradition in the past , is 6 e / ore us . '' When Henry Hetherington brought out his first unstamped publication , he entitled it "The Poor Man ' s Guardian . " Finding that the enemies of the poor man denounced those whose simple demand was for "justice to each and to all , " as "destructives , " the man who never scrupled to perform an act which he conceived to be necessary'to . ' . ' . try the power of right against might , " boldly determined to beard the prejudice excited by his enemies . Accordingly a second unstamped publication he entitled " The Destructive . " We pursue'the same course . We adopt a name " infamous" in the eyes of the aristocratical , the wealthy , the respectable , the well-to-do-sections of society . Be ours the

      glorious task to show that the proscribed " Reds are the reverse of that which they are represented as being , by their calumniators . Be oars the glorious mission to pioneer the way , for the victorious march of their holy and beneficent principles . !•¦ : ' . We warn the enemies of justice that we shall not limit ourselves to the taking up of a defensive position ; on the contrary , we snail carry the war into their own camp . Will they charge us with being " enemies to order ? " We shall prove that their " order" is an "organised hypocrisy . " Will they charge us with contemplating spoliation ? We shall prove that they themselves are spoliators and robbers . Will they accuse us of being "blood-thirsty Democrats ? " We shall prove our accusers to be remorseless traffickers in the lives of their

      fellowcreatures , pitiless assassins of those who dare to resist their tyranny . Nothing could be easier than to prove that the crimes which the people ' s friends are said to contemplate are really the crimes which the privileged and the propertied classes have been in the habit of committing from the days of Nimrod to the present hour . "Ah ! but your very name , the colour of your flag , is significant of blood and slaughter . " Yes ! of the blood of our martyrs—ofthe slaughter ofthe countless myriads who have fallen on the battle-field—who have died upon the cross and the rack—who have perished under the axe of the headsman and the dagger of the assassin—who have consumed their own hearts in dungeons , or withered away under the pangs of hunger , and wretchedness . Numberless as the stars in the heavens , incalculable as the grains . of sand on the shores of tho ocean , are those who have poured out their heart ' s blood for the salvation of humanity , . and

      'Though foul are the drops that oft distil , On tbe field of slaughter ; blood like this—For liberty shed—so holy is , It would not stun the purest rill That sparkles in the bowers of bliss . Oh ! if there be on this earthly sphere , A sight , an offering , heaven holds dear ; lis the last libation Liberty draws From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her cause !'

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      ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . Among the numerous models and specimens of machinery for agricultural and horticultural purposes we observed some tiles for the better production of strawberries , lately deposited by the invenr tor , Mr . Roberts , of Brixton . The tiles are square , except on one side , which is cut in a half circle , so that when two are placed together they then have a round hole in the middle for the plant to grow , the leave and fruit resting on the flat part of tho tile . The whole bed being thus covered , it keeps the strawberries quite free from wet and dirt , while the tile retains the heat ofthe sun for many hours , thus ripening the fruit much earlier . This advantage was proved on the last show of fruit at the Botanical Society , Mr . Roberts ' s strawberries being the only specimens of out-door growth exhibited on that occasion . The Alpine Singers still continue to draw numerous audiences to this admirable establishment . .

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      Goons in Transitu . —A number of regulations providing for the emancipation of the transit commerce from the obstructions of the present customhouse system has just received the sanction of the Lords of tho Treasury . Constructive warehousing is abolished , and a transit bond is to be entered into for tbe cargo . Six days will be allowed for the transhipment of all goods , except for silks , spirits , wines , nutmegs tea , and tobacco , for which three days only will be granted . Shipment of Locomotives from Liverpool to

      Spain . —During the week several first-rate locomotive engines nave been shipped at Liverpool for Cadiz , to work on the line from Madrid to Aranjuez , now progressing rapidly to completion ; the rails , chairs , & c , having been previously forwarded . The electric telegraph had been laid throughout , to secure the earliest information from the capital . Other considerable lines of railway are in course of construction , and considerable orders have been received by contractors for the requisite materials , which will be admitted under the new and modified

      tariff . Fob Indigestion , Stomach and Lives Complaints , take Hoiloway's Pais . —Persons sufferrouirom any derangement of the liver , stomach , or the organs or digestion , should have recourse to Holloway ' s rills , as there is no other medicine known that acts on these particular complaints with such certain success . Its peculiar properties strengthen the tone ofthe stomach , increase the appetite , purify the blood , and induce an healthy action of the liver . For bowel complaints it is admirable , as it removes every primary cause , thereby restoring the patient to the soundest health and strength . Nervous er sick head-aches and lowness of spirits may be easily cured by taking a course of Hollowaj ' g Pflli , .

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      . Th arnvals from the Atlantic have brought sad intelligencei respecting losses of a number ofvessels amidst the floating fields of icebergs ^ the ? western latitudes ; and among , . the . nuraber , we regret to add , one was from ono of the Irish ports , with between eighty to one hundred persons oh board , every soul of whom is supposed to have gone down in the unfortunate vessel and perished ; Great quantities of ice are generally looked for by the traders m those parts of the Atlantic about the mon c " 1 and May » ti > ' e 'esult of the break up of the frost in the Arctic , seas , and driven down to the southward by the force of the currents . ' The masses that have appeared this season' exceed anything of the kind that has for years been met with .

      t lews ol ice , some hundreds of miles in extent , towering up in all manner of' forms to a very great elevation , have swept the waters ofthe Atlantic ; and there is too much reason to fear that the losses appended form a very few of the mishaps that have occurred . The ill-fated vessel in which so many are believed to have perished , was from Londonderry , bound to Quebec . Ten : days prior to her being discovered entangled in the ice—the 27 th of April—she was spoken with by the master of the Oriental , from Liverpool . She was scarce of water , having had boisterous weather , and on account of the number of passengers seen on deck , it was supplied her . On the 27 th the Oriental was beset in the ice , together with two other vessels . - and

      nerceived her some , ten milcs . to the westward . , She was in a , most perilous position , evidently stove in by the ice , and sinking . Signals of distress were hoisted without the remotest chance of gaining assistance . For two days she was . seen in the same forlorn condition , when she suddenly disappeared . Subsequently a great many bodies were seen intermingled with the ice , together with some portion of the cargo ; the latter led to the discovery of the port to which the vessel belonged and hor intended destination . The Oriental was detained eleven days before she got clear of the ice . Another similar catastrophe was witnessed on the 29 th of March , about twenty miles to the westward ' of St . ' Paul ' s , by the ship Signette , M . Mowatt ,. from Alloa for

      Quebec . The vessel was apparently an English brig , heavily laden , with painted portholes . She had got fixed in the ice , and had been cut down by it to the water ' s edge , admitting a rush' of water into the hold . , Her crew were observed working at the pumps , evidently in the hopes of keeping hor afloat in the expectation of assistance arriving ; however , she soon sank , and all on board . met with a watery grave . The exact numbsr who perished was not learned . Letters have been received communicating the total loss ofthe Ostensible also in the ice . She was from Liverpool , hound to Quebec , with several passengers . ^ Up to the 5 th of May she experienced heavy weather , when they fell in with an enormous field of ice , and got fixed in it for five days and

      nights , in tho course of which her hull was pierced . Pumps were kept going till the arrival of the brig Dake , Capt . Welsh , also for Quebec , which , after considerable working , succeeded in making through the ice to the sinking vessel , and rescued the whole of them . The Ostensible went down within twenty minutes after . Two other vessels from Liverpool , the Conservator and the Acorn were both lost near the same time . The former was on a passage to Montreal . She got pinched by the ice within three days after losing sight of land , and filling , immedi ately went down ; the crew were lucky enough to save the ship ' s boats , in which they were picked up .

      The Acorn met with her destruction within , thirty miles of St . John ' s , Newfoundland ; the ' . ' . orew were saved by the Blessing schooner ,. of Sunderland . ' Among the other-losses in the ice reported are enumerated the Hibernia , from Glasgow , foV Quebec ; tho British schooner Collector ,, from St . John ' s , Newfoundland , for London ; the brig Astrea , of Weymouth ; the Wilhelmina , of Aberdeen ; the Gosnell , of Newcastle ; the Sylph ; -of Leith , and three others , names of which are unknown . With the exception ofthe latter , the crows were saved . Most ofthe unfortunate vessels were heavily laden , and their losses in total cannot be far short of £ 100 , 000 .

      Irish Horses.—The Importations Of Horses...

      Irish Horses . —The importations of horses which are at the present time taking place in the metropolis from Ireland are so large as to be quite remarkable , and of considerable interest and importance . Tho steam-vessol Duchess of Ken t , which has arrived in the river from : Cork , Jias brought , in addition to thirty-three oxen and 210 sheep , the very large number of forty-two horses , as a portion of a large cargo of Irish produce ; and the steamer Preussicher Adler , arrived on the same day from Cork , has brought , in : addition to 176 sheep and lambs , and a quantity of calves and horned cattle , twentyrfour horses , as , part of-a very large general cargo , the produce of Ireland . Several importations to the latter mentioned extent have taken place lately from Ireland , but the , arrival on one occasion of so large a number of horses as were brought in this instance by the first-named vessel is entirely without precedent , from that country . ' . . ' .

      Improvements in St . James ' s Park . —According to a return to parliament ( printed on Saturday last , ) ah estimate is given of the expense of making an ornamental enclosure ; and forming a public garden in front of Buckingham Palace . The expense is stated at £ 26 , 937 , of which : £ 14 , 600 will he required to he voted in the present session . ; ¦ Thebapeotics . —The history of medicine' is by no means flattering to-science .- ¦ It U questionable whether more i * known of diseases , t ' aeir cause , and their cure , at this moment , than at the time of Galen ; it is certain that diseases are quite as numerous , and in the aggregate as fata ) . Every age has produced some new system of artificial thereapeutics which the next age has banished ; each has boasted in its turn of cures , ana thev ( i in their turn , have been condemned as failures . Mecjicines themselves are the subjects of fashion . Is it not a positive . proof that medicine is yet unsettled ; it fact , that is has no established principles ,

      that it is little more than conjectural ? 'At this moment , ' says Mr . Pinny , ' the opinions on the subject of treatment are almost as numerous as' the practitioners themselves . Witness the mass of contradiction on tho treatment of even one disease , namely , consumption . Stroll attributes its frequency to the introduction of bark . Morton considers bark an effectual cure . Reid ascribes the frequency of the disease to the use of . mercury . Brillonet asserts that it is curable by mercury only . Buse says that consumption is an inflammatory disease—should be treated by Weeding , purging , cooling medicines , and starvations , Salvador ! says it is a disease of debility , and should be treated by tonics , stimulating remedies ; and a gencrous ^ dict . 'Galen recommended vinegar as the best preventative of consumption . Dessault and others assert that consumption is often brought on by taking vinegar to prevent ' obesity . Beddoes recommended foxglove as a specific . Dr . ' l ' avr found foxclove more injurious in his practice than beneficial .: Such

      are the contradictory statements . of medical men ! ' And yet there can be but one true theory of disease . Of the fallibility and inefficiency of medicine , honehavebeen more conscious than medical men , themselves , many of whom have been honest enough to avow their conviction , and now recommend MESSRS . DU . BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD , a farina , which careful analysis has shown to be derived from the foot ' of an African plant , somewhat similar to our honeysuckle . It appears to possess properties of a highly curative and delicately nutritive kind : and numerous testimonials from parties of unquestionable repectability , have attested that it' supersedes medicine of every description in the effectual and permanent removal ot indigestion ( dyspepsia ) , constipation , and diarrhoea ,- nervousness , biliousness , liver complaint , flatulency , distension' palpitation of the heart ; nervous headache , deafnes ? , ' hoises in the head and cars , pains in almost every part of the body , chronic inflammation , and ulceration ofthe stomach , erysipelas ,

      eruptions on the skin , incipient consumption , dropsy , rheumatism gout , heartburn , nausea and sicknes during pregnancy , after eating , or at sea , low spirits , spasms , cramp , spleen , general debility , paralysis , asthma , coughs , inquietude , sleeplessnes ' ,- involuntary blushing , ' tremors , dislike ; to society , unfitness for study , loss of memory , delusions , vertigo , Wood to the . head , exhaustion , melancholy , groundless fear , indecision , wretchedness , thoughts oi self destruction , and . many other complaints . It i » , moreover , admitted by those who have used it to be the best food for infants and invalids generally , as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach , but . imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner , and restores the . faculty of digestion and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled . It' has the highest approbation of Lord Stuart de Deeies ; tho Venerable Archdeacon Alexander S ( unit ,, of Koss—a cure of three years' nervoussess ; 'Minor-General Thom ' ns

      King , of Exmouth ; Captain Parker D . Bingham , RX , of No . i Park-walk , Little Chelsea , London , who was cured of twenty-seven years'dyspepsia in six weeks' time ; Captain Andrews , U . K . j Captain Edwards , R-Jf . ; William Hunt , Esq ., barristerat-law ,. King's College , Cambridge , who . after suffering sixty years from partial paralysis , has regained the use of his limbs in a very short time upon this excellent food ; the Rev . Charles Kerr ,, of Winsloiv , Bucks—a cure of functional disorders ; Mr . Thomas Woodhouse , Bromley—recording the cure of a lady from constipation and sickness during- pregnancy ; the Rev . ' Thomas Minster , of St . Saviour ' s , Leeds—u cure of . five years ' nervousness , with spasms and daily vomitings ; Mr . Taylor , coroner of Bolton ; Captain Allen—recording the cure of epileptic fits ; Doctors Cre and Harvey ; James Sliorland , Esq ., No . 3 Sydney-terrace , Reading ,. Berks ; late surgeon in the 90 th Regiment—a cure of dropsy ; James Porter , Esq ., ' Athol-strcet , Ferth--a cure of thirteenycarfl '

      cough , with general debility ; J . Smyth , 'Esq ; , 37 . Lower AMwy-stroet , Dublin ; Cornelius O'SulUvah , ' M . D ., F . R . C . 8 ., Dublin—a perfect curdicf thirty years' indescribable agony from aneurism , whicWiad resisted all other , remedies ; and 20 , 000 other well-known individuals , wholmve sent the discoverers and importers , Du Barry snd Co . ; 127 New Bond-street , London , testimonials of theextraordinary manner in . which their health has been , restored ^ this useful and economical diet , after all other remedies had been tried in vain for many years ' / and nil hopes of recovery abandoned . ' AfuUrcport of . impdrtnnt cures ofthe above and many other complaints , and testimonials from parties ofthe highest respectability , is , we find ; sent gratis by Du Barry and Co . '—Morning Chroniole . ' Du Barry . and Co ., 127 , New . Bond-street , London ; also . of Barclay , Edwards ,

      Sutton , Sanger , and Hannay , and through all grocers , chemists , mediuine vendors , and booksellers in the . kingdom . Caotion . —The name of Messrs . Du BiRRv ' s invaluable food , as also that of their firm , have been so closely imitated that invalids cannot too carefully look at the exact spelling of both ,. add also Messrs , Du Bakki ' s address , 127 New Bond-street , London , in order to avoid being imposed upon by Ervalenta ' , Real Arabian Revalcnta , Lentil Powder , or other spurious compounds ot peas , beans , Indian and oat meal , under a close imitation ofthe name , which have nothing to recommend them but the reckless audacity ot their ignorant and unscrupulous : compounders > ' , and which , though admirably adaptedfor pigs , would play sad havoc with the delicate stomach of an invalid or infant ,

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      _ A Hint for ORATons . -A-man should so deliver himself to » the natur Arof . the . subject ' whwS speaks , that his hearer ^ ay tak p . knowledgeiof his discipline . with some delight t . and ^ o apparel fair and stood matter that the istudious Jof elegancy be not defrauded : redeem arts-from their rough and brakey seats , where they lay hid ; and overgrown

      where they may take the eye , - and be taken by the hand , ' •'¦ ' ; , Mrs , '• Pabtingion j recently visiting the Afuseum , and seeing several old revolutionary swordsi and Scottish claymores , inquired of the superintendent if he had among his famous cutlery the axe of the apostles . ' Spaqnolbiii , the other day , in speaking of his first viola player , declared that , both as a man and musician , he was most . praiseworthy ; as .. a man , for tho tenor of his conduct—as a musician ; for the conduct of his tenor .

      Sbpebstitions Beoardimj Friday . —It is strange enough that Friday is regarded , in all countries , as a peculiar , day . In England it is generally considered unlucky , and many people will not commence any undertaking on that day ; and most sailors believe that the vessel is sure to be wrecked that sails on a Friday . . If a marriage takes place on that day , the old wives shake their heads , and predict all kinds of misfortunes to the bride : and bridegroom . Kay , thoy even pity all children , wfro are so unlucky as to be . born on a Friday . In Germany , on the contrary , Friday is considered a ; lucky day for weddings , commencing new- undertakings , or other memorable events ; " and the reason of this superstition is said to be the ancient belief that the witches and sorcerers held their meeting on ' 'this day ; and , of course , while they amused themselves with dancing and riding on broomsticks round the Blocksberg , they could have no time to work any evil .

      JIrial Navigation;—A person : named Rufus Porter is at Washington endeavouring to form an mrial navigation company , tho stock to consist of 1 , 500 shares , at ten dollars per . share . The funds , when raised , are to be applied ito the construction of an mrial ship , capable of containing 150 passengers , and which , Mr . Porter says , will easily carry them to California or London in three or four days . Ho proposes to call for art instalment ofoneolollar only per share , until after a machine has been built capable of carrying three persons , and a journey has been made to Baltimore and back again , thereby demonstrating the feasibility of the plan . He says that several-hundreds of persons

      have already bespoken passage . The prospectus , blanks , and scrip , for the proposed company , are being printed by Mr . Greer . Among other advantages , Mr . Porter includes that of transporting soldiers for the government in , time of war . Only think of the astonishment an enemy quietly encamped in the soft moonlight , having in the twinkling of an eye , a whole regiment of Uncle Sam ' s Invincibles dropped upon them from a squadron of Porter ' s ships ! ; - But , in process of time , our enemies will have them also , so that hereafter contending squadrons must meet in mid-air , while the peaceable portion of mankind can rest quietly below . Verily there are stirring times ahead . —Sci . Amer .

      Neglecting tub Antecedents . — Some very whimsical instances of this occur continually ; especially in the answers of witnesses , when given literally as they speak . In a , late assault case the prosecutor swore that " The prisoner struck him with a broom on his head till he broke the top of it ! " In narrating an incident some time since , it was stated thafc . a poor old woman " was run over by a cart aged sixty . " So ,, in . a case of supposed poisoning : — " lie liad something in a blue paper in his hand , and I saw him put his head over the not and put it in ! " Another , swallowing a base coin : — "He snatched the half-crown from the boy , which he swallowed ; " which seems to mean the boy . not the money , but still the sentence is correct . An old fellow , who for many years had sold combustible matches in London , had the following cry : —' . ' Buy a pennyworth of matches of a poor ola man made * of foreign wood !" . ' ' . ' , """'" . " Whisky Punch . —It is difficult to form a correct

      estimate of tho quantity of whiskey punch which some can comfortably discuss at a sitting . In the case of a gentleman whese life had been insured for a large sum of money , the payment , at his death , was resisted by the Insurance Company , upon the plea that he had caused his death by excessive drinking . . The matter came to a legal trial ; and among other witnesses examined , was one who swore that , for the last eighteen years of his life , he had been in the habit of taking every night f ourand-twenty tumblers of whiskey punch . "Recollect yourself ,, sir , " said the . examining counsel . " Four-and-twenty ! you swear to that . Did you ever drink five-and-twenty ? " " I am on my oath , " replied the witness , ¦ " and I will swear no further ; for , I never kept count beyond the two dozen , though there ' s no saying how many beyond it I might drink , to male myself comfortable ; but that ' s my stint . " . . ....

      . Charlatanism . —Dr . F— -, as soon as he arrived in a city where he was not known , began loudly to lament the loss of his dog , which had escaped from him on his way to the hotel , and he sent the town crier to announce with the roll of a drum throughout all the principal streets ,. that Dr . F— -offered a reward of twenty-five louis to whoever should bring back his dog . The crier took care to add all the academic titles of the doctor , and to indicate the hotel whore he put up . Soon nothing was talked of in the town but Dr . F—— and his dog . "Doyou know , " said the gossips , "that a celebrated physician has arrived , and is staying at the Hotel . He must be famously rich , since be offers twenty .: five louts . reward for his dog . " Thus his name passed rapidly from mouth to mouth , and from house to house ; and although it did hot bring him the lost dog , which he had never possessed , ' yet it brought him a goodly numuer . of patients . .

      Puns . —I have mentioned puns . They are , I believe , what I have denominated them—the wit of words . They are exactly the same to words which wit is . to ideas , and consist in the sudden discovery of relations in language . A pun , to be perfect in its kind , should contain two distinct meanings ; the one common and obvious ; the other more remote ; and in the notico which the mind takes of the relation between these two sets of words , and in the surprise which that relation excites , the pleasure oi a pun consists . Miss Hamilton , ' in her book on education , mentions the instance of a boy so very neglectful , that he could never bo brought . to read the word " patriarchs ; " but whenever ho met with it'he always pronounced it" partridges . " A iriend

      ofthe writer observed to her , that it could hardly be considered as a mere piece of negligence , for it appeared to him that the boy , in calling them partridges , maHiio-o-ame of the patriarchs . " Now here'are two distinct meanings contained in the same phrase ; for to make game of the patriarchs is to laugh at them ; or to make game of them is , by a very extravagant and laughable sort of ignorance of words , to rank them among pheasants , pa rtridges , and , other such delicacies , which the law takes under its protection and calls game : and the whole pleasure derived from this pun consists in the sudden discovery that two such different meanings are referable to one form of expression . —Sydney Smith .

      " Dick , " said a , certain lawyer to a countryman who had been considered more fool than knavo , " what should you call the greatest curiosities in tho world ? " " Why , " replied Dick , * ' an honest lawyer and a river on fire . " Two persons being engaged in a duel , after the first-fire' one . of theseconds proposed that thoy should shako hands and make it up . The other second said he saw no particular necessity for that , for . their . hands . had been , shaking ever since they began .. . . A young man , who , for his sins , was about being married , presented himself for confession , Ashe appeared rather embarrassed how he should proceed to enumerate his errors : — ' ' Come ; " said the good Abbe G ., kindly , " do you ever tell falsehoods ?" ' ' . 'Father , r am not a lawyer , " proudly replied the penitent .

      " " Did you ever steal . "— " Father , I am not a merchant !" . "You have not committed murder ?"— " Sir , lam a physician , " conscientiously replied the young penitent , casting down his eyes . ' "Sarah , " said a little girl to her sister tho other day , "Mrs . Kelly has had the English cholera , " 'f Nonsense , " was the-reply , " how ' can she have had the English cholera , she is an Irishwoman . California is described by Senator Seward , of New York , as "theyouthful Queen of tho Pacific , in tho robes of freedom , gloriously inlaid with gold . '' . ; The moment of parting is , perhaps , the first moment that we feel how useful we have been to each other . ¦ The natural reserve of vho heart ia . bvokon , and tho moved spirit speaks as it feels .

      ; The Gateshead Observer remarks that the ' frc-, quency of collisions at sea is . becoming really appalling . "In tub five years 1815—1849 , it seems thorp has been an annual average of 382 cases reported at Loyd ' s ; and it is believed that the number : in 1848 was nearly double . that of 1838 , although the increase in British shipping during the ton years had been , when compared with that rate of increase , quite . insignificant . " . ' " So Captain Silk has just arrived at Versailles , I find , " said a lady . " Heavens ' , what a name for a soldier . " "The hostname in tbe world , " said Horace Smith , who was standing by her at that time , "for silk you know can never be worsted . " Courting in Andalusia . -Iu a village near Aracena ; when a young man wishes to profess himself the suitor of some fair maiden , he proceeds to her residence , bearing in his hand the long staff used by the ' mountaineers , called cachiporra , or Shortly , porra tuxi aariounoes bis ; presence by- a loud knock

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      at the door . At the same time the , staff is placed by the sideofit , and he retires a short distance , previously , exclaiming , "Porra within , or porra with * out ? " Should the maiden be disposed to favour his suit , she approaches and removes the staff in-doors : but , if adverse , it is hurled to the other side . of the street ; Whereupon the lover understands his fate , and wends his way back , dejected and disconsolate ..

      Cures For The Uncurbd! Tjollo Way's Ointment. -*•-*- An Extraordinary Cure Of Strofula, Or King's ¦

      CURES FOR THE UNCURBD ! TJOLLO WAY'S OINTMENT . - *• - * - An Extraordinary Cure of Strofula , or King ' s ¦

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      •¦ Evil . ' E nf *? 4 of a letter from Mr . J . H . Alliday , 209 High-street , .. Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , 1850 / Sm >~ % eldest son , when about three years of age , was afflicted with a glandular swelling in the neck , which atter a short time broke out into an ulcer . An eminent medical man pronounced it as a very bad case of scrofula , and prescribed for a considerable time without effect . The disease then for years went on gradually increasing in virulence , when besides the ulcer in the neck , another formed below the left knee , and a third under the eye , be . sides seven others on the left arm , with a tumour between the eyes which was expected to break . During tho whole of the time my suffering boy had received the constant advice of the most celebrated medical gentlemen at Cheltenham , besides beine for several months at the General Hosnital

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      f » N THE PREVENTION , CURE , AND V / General character of SYPHILUS , STRICTURES . Affections of the PROSTRATE GLAND , VENEREAL and SCORBUTIC ERUPTIONS of the face aud body , . Mercurial excitement , & c , followed by a mild , successful . and expeditious mode of treatment . - ' rM ^ 'ife . /• . Thirty-first edition , ' . C ^ Sh . ' Illustrated by Twenty-Six Anatomical- Engravibgi ?^< in Steel . Now and improved Edition , enlarged'to i < j ( t-page ' s , just published , prict 2 s . 'Gd ; or by . post , -direct from tho Establishment , 3 s . 6 d . ' ' in postage stamps . ' ¦ ' - ' "THE SILENT FRIEND , " a MedicalWorkon Venereal and Syphilitic Diseases , Secondary Spmptoms , Gonorrhoea . ic , with a PRESCRIPTION FOR THEIR PREVENTION ; physical exhaustion , and decay ofthe frame , from the effects

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 22, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_22061850/page/3/