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      2 The Northern Star. March 6, 1847

      2 THE NORTHERN STAR . March 6 , 1847

      Abernethy's Pile Ointment.

      ABERNETHY'S PILE OINTMENT .

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      " w What a , - _& LM . and noxious disease is tho Piles ! and comparative , how few of the afflicted have heen _peruwtnancntlv cured by ordinary appeals to medical skill ! This , no doubt , anses from the use of powerful _-petperients too frequently administered by the profession ; indeed ) strong internal medicine should always be avoided _uSTallcasesofthis complaint The proprietor of the above . Ointment , after yearsof acute suffering , placed himself jatoder the _trefttoentof that _emiueut _surgeon , Mr . Abcrnetby , was by him restored to perfect health , and has enjoyed _tteft ever since without tho slightest return of the disorder , over a period of faf . ecn years _, dunug Which time the same _AbAberncthian prescription has been the means of healing a vast number of desperate cases , both in and out ofthe «< proprietor _" s circles of friends , most of which _«^ _*»* _Jffl * l _¥ _l _£ _^ _2 _? , _^ some of « - « n for a very con . UldSderabletime . Abernethy's Pile Ointment was - _^^^^ _te , _*^ , _^^ of many who had been _persbefectly healed by its application , and _sim-c _^ ts _»^^^^ KS _^ ft " _° _*^ _nVb _» SV _™* f _*» " and wide ; even _thitheSfedical Profession , always slow add umvilhng to acknowledged _tlia virtues of any medicine not prepared bv _J-hitheinselves , do now freely and frankly adn . it tha , _^ _erne'liy _»^__^ t » not only avaluable pr ' pSon , bu _^ ia ia never failine remedv in every stage and variety of tlutf appalling ; malady . _SuKsvIK repent giving the Ointment a trial . Multitudes of cases of its efficacy might be produced , _tf ( if the nature ofthe comp laint did not render those * vhc . have been cured unwilling to publish their names . ! Sold in covered _Totn , at 4 s . 6 d . or _thequanhty _ofilrcc « ., 6 d . Ms moki for il ., „ ithfuii _direSs for me , by 3 J CTSins _. _tAzentto the Proprietor , ) Napier-street , Hoxton , * * _evv Town , London , ymere _ab 0 can be procured _everv ¦ _Paraten _^ elic - ne ofrepu , direct from _theory - _«^ _« th _«« . Jowance on taking sixat a tin / " _^ ' * _c * Besnretoasklor " ABENETHYo ULt uiAiMhiU . « The _Pubhc are requested to be on their euard : «* inst noxious compositions sold at low prices , " and to observe that none can possibly be genuine , _unlessX name ¦ _f Jf J . _Kiso , is printed on . _* _% _' eram ; A _^^^^ _T f ' S" 6 d " , v ,, ich is * ne _" pr cTthlproprietor mr « n . hud L Ju it at . oituis to the great _expense of the ingredients . v _"' "' * VI 0 P _^'

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      CORNS AND BUNIONS . PAUL'S EVERY MAN'S FRIEND . Patroniseei by the Royal Family , Nobility , Clergy , & c . [ tit a sure and speedy Cure for those severe annoyances , without causing the least pain or inconvenience . Unlike all _. tlother remedies for Corns- _^ operation w such as to render the cutting of Corns altogether unnecessary indeed w nmay say , the practice of cutting Corns _ui at all times highly dangerous , and has been frequently attended withlamen . atable consequences , besides its liability to increase their growth ; it adheres with the most gentle pressure produce * Wn instant and delightful relief from torture , and with perseverance in its application , entirely eradicates the most _oiBveterate Ceirns and IS unions . __ ' Testimonials have been received fr m upwards of one _humL ed Physicians an * Surgeons ofthe greatest _eminenei * ism well as from many Officers of both Army and Navy , and nearly one thousand private letters fiom the eentrv in town mad country , speaking in high terms of this valuable remedy . _megentry in town Prepared by John Vox , in boxes at ls lid , or three small boxes in one for 2 * 9 d , and to be had , with full _clirpctinns ' oforu se , of C . _Kxso , Napier-street , Hoxton , New Town . London , and all wholesale and retail medicine _vendnw in fn « _-ii _uand country . The genuine has the name of John Fox ou the stamp . 2 s 9 d Box cures the most obdurate _PnrnY Ask for " l ' aul'f Every Man ' s Friend . " " _ouurate « , orns . _Abfrnetlij ' s Pile Ointment , Paul ' s Cora Plaster , and Abernethy ' s Pile Powders , are sold by the _followingresnectah _' JlObemists and Dealers in Patent Medicines : « 0 ¦ * - _*• ¦¦¦ ¦ ¦ - •¦*¦ _" •« Barclay aud Sons , Farringdon-street ; Edwards . 67 , St . Paul ' s Church-yard ; Butler , * , Cheapside * New-heir _ ' Oxford _sttcetflwilloughby and Co , 61 . _Bishopsgate street Without ; Owen , 52 , Marchpiond-street , Burtou . cresceut Eade 3 !) Gos ' _siweUstreet - . Prout , 229 , Strand ; Hannay and Co ., C 3 , Oxford-street ; _Uunter and James , _Webber-row and re ' tail _' bv all ¦ _vraspectiible chemists aud medicine venders in London . * J Coc * _tbv ACEKT 3 : —Baines and Newsome ; Sir . Buckton , Times Office ; Heaton Smeeton , _ITall Bernhardt and Son * 33 . C . Browne , 48 , Briggate , Thornton . 35 , B oar L ane , Deutou , Garland , Mann , Bean , Harvev Hnirfi late Tarhottnm _IBoUandaicdKemplay , Land Moxon , C . Hay , 10 ( 5 . Briggate . Rhodes , Bell aud Brooke Lord . lt C _Jlliv Medical HiII I "Leeds : Cooper . Key and Fisher , Bradford _; Hartley , Berry , Suter , Leyland Halifax _; Smith ; Eland , _tfnnt _CarllwSl CGell , Smith , Wake-held -, _Pyhus Barnsley ; Knowles , _Thorne , Brooke and Spivey , Huddersfield , Hudson * _Keichlev _* 1 Lofthouse , Reinhardt ( late Carlton ) , Kirton , Alcock , _Bavnes Burrell , Bell , Burton , Healey , Melson , Freeman Picker i ing , Gat-ton , Williamson , Chapman . Hammond , Wallis , Walker , Broomhead , Noble , _Forstei-, Hardman Stephenson , ' 1 Weir . Kyder and Raker , Hull ; Pipes , Keningham , Johnson , Earle , Cornwall , Robinson , Brigham , Beverl ' ey Brookes-1 Doncaster ; Matthews , Creaser , Driffiield ; Cass , Goole ; Milner , Pickering : Stevenson , Whitby ; Bolton , _Blansharda aud Co , Hargrove , Fisher , Otley . Linney , York ; Marston , Brigg ; nurst , Robson , Armitage , Ingolby , Longbottoin ] Louth ; _Wainevright , Hovrden ; Rayner , Smith Burlington ; Horasby , _Wrangliam , Jefferson , Malton , Rhodes , Snaith fl _Cbainplej . Brombead , Ireland , _Bue-kall , Scarborough ; Smith , Furbv , Bridlington ; Adams , _Coltop , _Pullen _, Selby I Ombler , Market , Weighton ; Fleck , Marsh , llotherham , llattersley , Ball , Officer , Barton , Browne , Gainsborough t Cledhill , Old Delph , Priestley , Fox , Fontefact ; Dalby , Wetherby , Slater , Beda _/ e . Dixon , Northallerton , Ward , Rich _i moml ; Ward , Stokesley _. Foggit and Thompson , _Thirslt , Monkhouse Barnard Castle ; Poase , Darlington : Jennett i Stockton ; and by all respectable chemists and medicine venders in every market town in England . Wholesale Agents—Messrs . Bolton , Blanshard , and Co ., druggists , Micklegate , York .

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      COUGHS , HO A RSENE SS , AND ALL ASTHMAT AND PULMONARY COMPLAINTS . _EfFECTCAlLT CUBED BV

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      VALUABLE TESTIMONIAL . The following Testimonial ef a Cure ofa Cough of twenty years standing , aad recovery of strength will be read with much interest : — Sir . —I beg to inform you that for the last twenty years I have suffered severely from a cough , and have been under medical treatment with but littlerelief , and bave not for many years been able to walk more than half a mile a day . After taking three boxes of your lozenges my Cough entirely left me , and I bave this day

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      GOOD NEWS FOB TUE MILLION !! IN all _cas » s where practical experience and ec _« _nomj with secrecy is required , consult with J . MORRIS and Co ., Surgeons , No . 31 , Newington-causeway , South-• wark , London , who , during an extensive practice of twenty-two years , ia which time they have beeu successful Without a single failure , in 40 , 000 cases which lengthened and extensive practice enabled them to _effee-t a complete cure . of every stage and symptom of all disorders arisiug from Indiscretion excess , solitary habits , & c ., includ ing Impotence . Seminal Weakness , & c . The cures performed iu less time and on such economical terms as wera never before practised , no restraint r _i" ! hindtrasce from business at all necessary , or i * - _» i 0 Terj or "Pc-sure . „ f . _* ' _- _nSif ? _* ? , _- ' _J be consulted by letter , patients W _« f _^ r » S _^ S aan ott h 9 ir ease , when an equally _^ _IMcZ _^ _LV"' _* _?*** _* ' anersonalvisit . _« t ar „ _« _4 _« t tn . n _^ pdon , _"" iU be forwarded in reply by _t-. _Cei- » _trfi * * l _^^ Ttt e i _^ flCt CUr ' W _MCOUtphshejd OD

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      J . MORRIS and Co _' s , " Batamcal Purifying Pills" may also be had as above , price 2 « . Id . per box , ' with directions or free , on receipt of Postage Stamps to tho amount of Three ShiUings . -These far-famed renovating Pills have , fen * many years , been celebrated for their wonderfu powers and purifying qualities in all complaints , arisinl from Indiscretion , etc ., the effect produced after a fee doses , s truly astonishing , not only in purifying the Wood , but also establishing a complete renovation ofthe constitution , and being prepared solely from vegetable sub . _tance-i will keep in every climate . To captains _» f ships and others taking long voyages they are invaluable ) . Medical Vapour Bath Establishment , 31 , Newington . Causeway , London .

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      AN Additional and _Tmport--iTit _Evtdanoo of tlie salutary Effects of BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS , from Mr . Thomas Yates . " 5 , Albion-road , Stoke Newington-green Gth February , 1847 . " Sir , —With much pleasure I acquaint you with th » benefit that I have derived by taking Blair's Pills . « ' On my journey five weeks since , whilst at Chepstow , I had distressing symptoms of an attack of Gout in one foot , and with the utmost difficulty reached Bristol . By this time the disease had so much increased that I could not place my foot on the floor , the swelling being extensive and the paiu excruciating . Having oft n heard of Blair ' s Gout and Rheumatic Pills , I immediately sent to Messrs . Ferris and Score , Chemists , Bristol , for a box , which when I had taken , the pain had wholly subsided . I continued the pills until I had taken _two-and-a-half boxes more , when to my gratification I was perfectly restored to health , and able to resume my journey .

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      ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE OF CONSTITUTIONAL OR ACQUIRED DEBILITIES OF TIIE GENERATIVE SYSTEM .

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      _"kaiigkfor a while undiscovered , at leng th br e ak _» u t P n the _ubh-tppy individual in iti most dreadful forms * c else , _vrateett , _* * . "« ually endanger the _vbtj _titai organs f existence . To those suffering from the consequences irhicu thia disease may have left behind in the form ot _teooadary symptoms , eruptions ofthe skin , blotches on tha head and face , _uloeratior land _ealargement ofthe throat ritona , and threatened destruction of the nose , palate , ke ., _aodea on the shin bones , or aay of those painful affections arising from the dangerous effects ofthe _indls-

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      IMPORTANT TO FAMILIES . THE POPULAR REMEDY . A mild , safe , and most effectual cure of Indigestion Bilious , Liver , and Stomach Complaints , Sick II end-ache ' Costivcness , etc ., & c . Their composition is truly excellent ; they are compounded entirely of vegetable products freed froii _^ all irritating and deleterious matters , which render their operation mild and agreeable ; they do not require the least confinement or alteration of diet- and may be taken by the invalid with perfect safety as an occasional Uose in all nervous and dobilitntcd ' cases recoveries from protracted diseases , etc ., they will bo _S , mei y va , ua . f »* 'i' *;' ti » b- vigour and tone to the system when emaciated by disease . Their value as a general tonic and restorative of tho impaired stomach and biliary system , is daily manifested to the proprietors by their increasing rapid sale aud tho numerous testimonials forwarded hy those who bave proved their efficacy . . _««¦<*

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      The following , with many others , has been recently received : — _v _« . _« . ui . _ijr Communicated by Mr . G . Battebs , ChapoLbar _Nottingham . ' 0 _ ,. November 27 th , 1816 . _Ssirs , —The many thousand boxes I sell in the course of a year fully testify the superiority of Parr ' s Life Pills over every other patent medicine . Old and young , rich and poor , all acknowledge the great benefit they derive from taking them . Many ladies and gentlemen of hii ? h stand _, ing in society , and numerous respectable families havo adopted Parr ' s Life Pills as a family medicine ; and thou . * _3 ?!» f _£ .- _*?•? -, _!? , ? 1 " proof ' _wbally , ofthe cures Which Parr ' s life Pills have effected . I rema i n , gentlemen , yours , obediently , Geoiice Batteiis .

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      Communicated by Mr . Gamis , Yeovil . „ . „ . , . , , Yeovil , July 13 th , 1846 . Mrs .-Having , during the last two years , witnessed tho remarkable efficacy of Parr ' s Life Pills , I feel much pleasure in stating the following cases for the _encouraircuient 0 , _- - " w , !• * ' _« . truly yours , b Medicine Warehouse , Yeovil . J . GAMIS . E . A .-An elderly gentleman , came for a second bov ' of Parrs Pills , and with pleasing astonishment said , ' These are the best pills I have ever had . and I intend always to keep them by me ; they are the best remedy for the Piles _1 have ever tried . " P . G . —Another person , aged 76 , affirmed , that , after trying almost every medicine for Indigestion and Bilious Complaint , Parr ' s Life Pills stand unequalled , and emphatically said it was the best _apsrientmedicine extant . W . E . —A youn g hum , who had for a long time been rendered incapable from following his usual employment , being painfully afflicted with _a-uwst obstinate complaint in his stomach , is now able to follow his usual employ _, ment , by persevering in the use of Pan ' s Pills .

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      BEWARE OF IMITATIONS , None are genuine unless the words " Pnrr ' s Life Pills " are in White Letters on a Red Ground , on tho Govern _, ment Stamp , pasted round each box ; also the fae-simile ot the signature ef the Proprietors , " T . Roberts and Co ., Crane _* -court , Fleet street , London , " on tlio Directions . Sold in boxes at Is , Hd _, 2 s . 8 d ., and family packets at lis . each , by all respectable medicine vendors throughout tho world .

      A. Word On Land

      A . WORD ON LAND

      ( F R O M Chambers' Journ A L , No . 164...

      ( F r o m Chambers' Journ a l , No . 164 , New Series . ) Certain improvements made by Lord Georgo Hill on the estate of Gweedore , in Done g al , wero lately made the subject of an article , which , we understand , has given no little satisfaction to parties who entertain the idea that a proper system of land allotments is the one thing needful for Ireland , or any other country with a poor and redundant population . On the question of land allotments , the article pronounced no op inion , nor did it even allude to any such principle of rural arrangement . It presented only the interesting narrative of a nobleman having reclaimed a hitherto intractable peasantry frora barbarous habits , and settled them in small allotments or farms on & formerly mismanaged estate . For

      this , as the best , if not the only thing wliich could be d one i n th e c ircumstances , Lord Georgo Hill , we said , deserves high praise . His conduct in every respect offers a bright example to Irish landowners generall y , and we trust it will not be lost upon them . Out of such proceedings , however , as those in which his lordship has been engaged , arise some grave considerations as to ulterior consequences , and on these wo desire to speak frankly and emphatically . The allotment of small pieces of land—say ono or two , or even four acres eaeh- —to be respectively farmed by annual or leasehold tenants , at a reasonable rent , is a great advance on a universal confusion of holdings , as was the case at Gweedore ; and not being aware of what Lord Georgo Hill proposes

      to do n e xt , wo cannot express a definite opinion as to the probable consequences of his _generosit' ' . There is no difficulty , however , in savin- ; what may be expected if tho arrangement be left to work in its original form . For a few years , the aa- est of aTairs will be greatly improved ; but by and b y , tho famili e s of the settlers will increase in number , and remaining on the property , with or without _subdivi'ion of lands , thero will ensuo a _condi'ioa of poverty and wretchedness which it may defy every available expedient to remedy . Such must inevitably be tho consequence of every scheme for allotting patches of land to poor agriculturists , unless at the same time provision be made

      for employing or carrying off to new fields of enterprise the redundancy of the population . After the Jong experience of tho wretchedness produced by patch-farming in every part of the empire , Ireland in particular , it strikes us as something very remarkable that men should be seen advocating the institution of the practice on a wide scale , as a . means ol national prosperity . Fascinated by the seeming humanity of bestowing allotments upon paupors , and gratified by the first appearances of prosperity which probably ensue , they altogether forget what is to come next—overcrowded cottages , new pauperism , and a poor-rate which may pretty nearl y a bsorb th e whole rental of the parish .

      Humanity is an amiablo virtue , but humanity without consideration suggests and does some very foolish things . At this moment a scheme ia on foot in E n g land and Scotland for buying and giving as acre ot land lo every working-man who is a member ofa . certain association . In other words , a section of industrious and well-disposed oyevatives have , through the agency of somo clap-trap humanityman , been deluded into the fancy that each of them would be happy if he became the owner of a morsel of land—land situated , perhaps , hundreds of miles from the place of his ordinary occupation . We havo no hesitation in denouncing this project as one of the greatest folies ever conceived . While Nature ' s laws work as they axe doing , there cannot be a doubt that it will terminate in the loss and discomfiture of all concerned , Supposing , _bowerer- foe the

      ( F R O M Chambers' Journ A L , No . 164...

      sake of argument , that each ofthe members of the association really does got his acre , has he fully reflected en the propriety of leaving , his present employment , and _beginning to a certain extent the business of a griculturist 1 alto on tbe possibility of rearing a family on the proceeds ? We earnestly wish that the members ofthe association in question would ponder on these things before it be too late . It may perhaps be alleged that the possession ofa small piece of land in connexion with his cottage raises aworking-manmateriaUyinhisownrespect _. and that it affords healthful occupation at leisure hours . We agree with these propositions ; but here , as in a ll other ma ters , it is d e sir a ble to calcul a te th e balance of advantages and disadvantages ' .

      In all _casi-s in which a working | man has a reasonable assurance of permanent and properly remunerative emp loyment in any particular place , it may be for his advantage in various ways to own a house and garden or small piece of land ; but if he possess no assurance of this kind , and is exposed to the necessity of seeking employment in another district , it will bo preferable to rent by the year at most what accommodations he requires . Instances oftho advantages of small proprietorshi p are no doubt common ; but so also are instances ol a contrary nature . In many country towns and villages , a number of the inhabitants following handicraft emp loyments possess small p ieces of land , and also dwelling-houses ; in Scotland , where they abound , they are termed bonnet lairds . Now , it is our conviction , from sundry examples which have fallen under our notice , that these inheritances arc frequently injurious to families . Proud of their petty properties , proud of having .

      a vote for members of Parliament , proud of being lai r ds , they lead a poor struggling existence ; yet , attached , nailed , as it were , to the spot , they cannot be induced to remove to places where they would be properly employed and remunerated . On one occasion , a laird of this sort , who was starving with hifamily on four shillings a-week , which he realised as a handloom weaver , could not be persuaded to come to Edinburgh to bo employed at fourteen shillings a week , because by doing so ho would have abdicated his dignity as a proprietor , and become only a plain operative . The heritable possession of dwellinghouses , or scraps of land , we repeat , may in many instances bo injurious to working-men . It indisposes them for removal ; fixe _^ the m to a spot ; whereas , in order to make the most of their labour , which is their capital , they ought to hold themselves ready at tho shortest notice to remove to places where the highest wages are to be obtained .

      Our opinion regarding heritable property generally is , that it is better in the hands of persons who make a business of letting it , than in the possession of those who at once own and have to use it . Among the middle at well as the humbler cla * ses , where there is little chance of any temptation or need for removal , the purchase of a house may be advantageous . In numberless instances , however , persons who buy or build dwelling-houses for their own use , get tired ofthem , orin time find them unsuitable , and are tormented till they get them off their hands . Unless , therefore , from particular circumstances , it is on the whole best to lease houses for private residence , leaving capitalists , by general competition , to provide the accommodation wanted .

      With respect to land , it is , in the greater number of cases also advisable to Ieavo it in the ownership of persons who lease it to others as a means of livelihood . Thus , for example , if the annual rent of an acre of land be £ 4 . it will be greatly preferable for an agriculturist topay £ 100 . for the use of a hundred acres , than to expend tho sum ot £ 12 , 000 , in buyin g the property . And why ? Because in the one case he is binding up a great deal of capital , which may be of service in his own proper business of husbandry—beside ? putting an embargo upon his personal freedom ; while , in the other , ho would not only keep his capital to farm the land properly , but be so far at his ease , that at the end of a term of years he could remove to a larger farm , or , without loss , altogether relinquish the trade of an

      agriculturist . Landowners are usually considered as a very rapacious set of persons . Our notion is , that , as a whole , they arc considerably behind the age in point of economic knowledge—that they have allowed themselves to be far outstripped in the adaption of means to ends by the manufacturing and commercial classes ; but if by rapacity is meant the exaction of unwarrantably large rents , tho term is certainly not applicable . In adventuring money in trade , it would be deemed a poor enterprise which did not return from ten to twenty per cent , of profit . Besides , money so risked may be turned over several times a year . A tradesmen , laying out £ 100 in a speculation in January , mav have a final return of £ 200

      before the end of December . The landowner has no such chance . In England , a freehold p roperty in land may realise four per cent , per annum on the outlay ; and in Scotland , it really returns two and a half per cent . What a miserable affair is tbis ! A gentleman spends £ 30 , 000 in buying an estate , and all he gets back yearly is £ 1 , 200 it in England , or £ 750 if in Scotland . Why the return should be so much less in Scotland , can only be accounted for by the fact , that in that country a certain imaginary dignity and political weight is associated _witn territorial possessions , thus causing a competition which raises the value of land considerably beyond its fair commercial value : Assuming , however , that £ 1 , 000 or £ 1 , 300 is realised , the return is only annual . By no process can an agriculturist take more than ene crop per annum ; and so neither can a landowner get moro than a year ' s rent for a year ' s use of his property . While the manufacturer and

      merchant aro daily planning extensions of their business , sometimes losing , but mare frequently making large sums , in reward of their ingenuity and enterprise , the poor landed proprietor is left to pine on hia meagre rental , or draw consolation only from the prescriptive fancy that he is tho salt of the earth . A little consideration suffices to show that tho landowner is a man more to be pitied than envied . His situation imposes on him a certain degree of state and ratio of exp e nditure , too apt to be beyond his means , and whatever goes wrong in the country , on him falls the principal blame . At present , the greater number of landed proprietors throughout tho United Kirgdom are in difficulties . Everything tends to prove that , as a class , they are not advancing ; while it is equally clear that the manufacturing and commercial classes , from the circumstances adverted to , are already beginuing to tako the predominance in wealth and social importance . It is not difficult to see how this will end .

      The proposition that land is held in trust by its owners for the general good oftho nation , appears reasonable ; for land is the source of food , and in the production of this article in due abundance every ono is concerned . Partly , however , from ignorance , and partly frora the effect of certain laws of inheritance , land has scarcely ever beon under a rational system of tenure ; that is , open to free disposal and competition . Pride has been at the foundation ofthe mischief . In some countries , the inheritance of land belongs prescriptively to tho eldest Bon of the deceased owner , to the exclusion of his other children ; and in some cases , to make this principle of primogeniture doubly sure , the inheritance is destined , b y deed of entail , to go in all time coming to

      the nearest male heir of the deceased . On this account , large properties are daily passing into the hands of elder sons , greatly to the injury of brothers and sisters ; and , what is more painful , properties are going out of families altogether , leaving daughters pretty nearly dostitute , and are seen passing into the hands of remote male beirs , who perhaps are in the enjoyment of handsome estates already . This entail system is more rigorous in Scotland than in England , and has greatl y damaged the general and individual interest in land . Reducing the proprietor to the position of a liferenter , he is indifferent to improvements _; and if othcrwije disposed , he has not the means toexecutoany beneficial alterations on his

      property . Lately , in pity ot these unfortunate proprietors , a law was passed empowering them to borrow money from the state to improve tlieir lands . How humiliating the position ! What would bo thought of the state being asked to lend money to manufacturers te renovate their buildings and machinery ? The universal and proper remark would be , that those who could not draw on private resources for such renovations , should sell their properties to men of greater wealth . The same remark , therefore , ought in propriety to be applied to those owners of lands who are destitute of means for their improvement . A . law abolishing or greatly modify ing entails , would have been thc reasonable plan of procedure .

      Contemplating the evils which arise from a too rigorous law of primogeniture and entail , the peoplo of other countries have gone to au opposite extreme , and instituted laws making it obligatory on the father of a family to leave his property in equal portions to all his ' children . This is a tyranny and a folly as revolting to common sense aa the most outrageous law of entail . A man , by successful industry , acquires means to purchase an estate , consisting of a hundred acres of land . He has five children , three of whom arc well behaved , and have _alfoided . him much comfort ; two are depraved , and act in defiance of all

      admonition . He would wish to divide his property into three , for the sake ofthe well-behaved ; but this the law does not allow him to do . Ho dies , and the estate is divided into five equal portions . Each child has now t wenty acres , and the same law again operates to subdivide . Suppose each to have five children , then each of these gets four acres . There are now twenty-five proprietors instead of one . But thc sub-division does uot stop ; on it goes , generation _tfter generation , till at length the whole land is cut up into paltry sections not the size of a cabbage _wa rden .

      Such is the _pr-tcea _* - now going on at a rapid rate in France ; and any one who wishes to have a comprehensive idea ofits consequences will find the subject amply treated in the lately issued number of the 'Quarterly Review . ' Tho only modifying _arrangement in that country consists in the father being allowed to leave by will a certain share of his property . Ifhc has only one child , ho can bequeath a hall ; if ho has two children , he can will a third ; and soon . But this has little practical efficacy , and as the father u sot _aUoffsd ( 9 _majcg a gift * of _JU » property

      ( F R O M Chambers' Journ A L , No . 164...

      during his life , ho is , in fact , little better than a puppet in the hands of his _| family . Far better the most Btern law of primogeniture than this grossly demoralising and impoverishing folly . It appears that with a population of about thirty-five millions , France has upwards of eleven millions of landed proprietors , at least fiv « millions of whom own no more than five acres each , and a vast number not more than one acre . It is calculated that five and a-half millions of these proprietors do not realise individually above £ 11 . 10 s . annually ; and yet , with their families , tbey amount to twenty-seven millions of souls . Thus the great bulk of the population of France , with the name of proprietors in enjoyment or prospect , are in a condition allied to that of paupers . That even in this abject and precarious state

      they enjoy greater tranquillity and _mdependencelthan their forefathers prior to the Revolution , may bu acknowledged ; but to compare tbem—a poor , barelegged , wooden-shoed , half-clad , half-fed set of beings —with the artisans of Great Britain , would be manifestly absurd . Yet , as we have said , some people are actually so insane as to propose a subdivision of lands in these islands on a similar scale . In certain districts of France the morsels of land are so small , that some families own no more than a single ridge ; and the consequence is , not only excessive poverty , but constant litigation as to the elucidation and settlement of rights . If this practice of subdivision remain unchecked by law , an agrarian convulsion , more fearful in its effects than tho Revolution of 1703 , will , in the course of another generation , inevitably ensue .

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      Rise Is Thb Price Op B*Ihad.—-On Saturda...

      Rise is thb Price op B _* ihad . — -On Saturday last bread was raisod in price generally throughout the metropolis , the advance being one halfpenny per loaf of-lib . On Monday the price was again advanced one halfpenny more , making the charge by the cheap bakers from Od . to 9 jd . for a loaf of lib ., the full price bakers charging for what is termed the best bread from 10 . _| d . to lid . A further rise is anticipated . __ The Wosdbrs op _Etiibr . —The formidable operation ef removing the entire blade bone from a patient in King ' s College Hospital , under the influence of ether , has been succeeded by a still more formidable one , performed with equal success at the London Hospital , by Mr . Adams . The patient , a young man , while attempting to oil the wheels of an _encine on

      the Eastern Counties Railway , was knocked off during the motion of the train , when the wheels of thirty carriages passed over both legs , crushing them completely , almost aa high as the knee on both sides . The only chance of saving him was by the amputation of both thighs , to which tho patient readily consented on hearing that the operation could be performed without pain . In one minute and a half he was completely e t herised , and the limbs were both amputated in 85 seconds . During the operation the patient appeared as if in a tranquil sleep . When he recovered frora the effects of the ether , he said that he knew something was being done to him , but he had really felt no pain . He has progressed favourably since the operation , A novel and interesting application of

      ether has also been made to aid in reducing a dislocation of the shoulder , of three weeks' standing . Dislocated limbs are , in general , readily " put in " a g ain , provided the attempt be made immediately ; but if delayed , the bone gets fixed in its new situation , and the muscles adapting themselves to the change , render it excessively difficult to overpower tbem ; a process which when attempted after some weeks , is exceedingly tedious , exceedingly painful , and in numerous instances fruitless . The following case , bow . ever , shows that we now possess a very promising aid in these accidents , in the use of ether . At the Middlesex Hospital afarmer was admitted whe had dislocated his shoulder three weeks before . Thc real nature of the accident was not at first discovered . The

      surgeon who afterwards detected it , endeavoured to re-Store the bone to its socket : but the ' muscular resistance was too great , and he failed . The patient then came to London . He said ho had suffered severely from the attempts already made to restore the bone to its place . With a view to relax the muscles , and also to prevent pain , the ether was administered ; extension ofthe arm was made , the bone moved immediately , and in five minutes was in its place . The sensation felt by the patient during the process he described as a " numbing" feeling , not a pain . Two other cases havo occurred , in whioh the nails of the great toes have been extracted without pain ; one at the Middlesex Hospital , when , immediately after the operation , the patient declared he

      felt no pain in his feet , and wished to prove this by dancing the Polka . As this illustration was not permitted , he was obliged to content himself with whistling the tune , which he did most lustily . In ashort time the excitement passed off , and he resumed his usual quiet manner . On Saturday afternoon Thomas Wakley , jun ., Esq , surgcon _" "to the Royal Free Hosp ital , performed a very difficult operation upon Miss Ann Skeen , a g ed 20 years , in the presence of several medical gentlemen connected with the charity . The ether having been administered by Mr . T . W . Cooke , tha house _suvgeovi , and it-mated _, a short time by the patient , a tumour ofa cancerous nature was removed from the right breast . On recovering from the effects of the vapour , the patient spoke some incoherent sentences , and asked if some one had not beon pricking her with a pin , and , on further recovery , observed that she would rather defer the operation , and was greatly astonished on finding it already effected .

      Alleged Child MonDER . —By Mr . W . Carter , at the Rose , Russell-street , Bermondsey , on the body of a fine male child , which was supposed to have been murdered , On Wednesday last , as a shipwright was at work on a vessel at the East-lane tier , Bermondsey , he observed the body of a child to rise up from under a floating stage attached to the side of the ship . lie got it out , and found it was the body of a full grown male child , quite naked , and very much decomposed , having been in the water some time . Mr . Fergusson , a sur g eon , who had examined the body , said he found no external marks of violence ; the child appeared to have been born about a fortnight . The lungs were filled , and the child had breathed ; they also floated in water . He thought tho child had breathed after the birth , but it was difficult to say accurately . TJfe jury returned a verdict that the deceased was found dead , but they had no sufficient , evidence as to the cause of it .

      A Mad Cow . —On Sunday morning a mad cow perambulated the various streets in Lambeth , Kennington , and Southwark , for hours in a very furious and maddened state , inflicting severe and it is feared fatal injuries on several individuals , who were unable to get out of its way . The cow was being driven over Blackfriars Bridge , and had proceeded very quietly until it reached Stamford-street , when she rushed on to the pavement at an aged female sellng oranges , who left her goods and ran into the nearest gateway . The cow then darted along the ! lavement at a furious rate , followed by at least two mndred persons , until it reached the Elephant and _Cas'Je Tavern , where she paid a visit among the omnibus - drivers , Ac ., who _auunted their

      vehicles for safety . She then rushed among a party of men who were at work repairing tho water-pipes facing the Fishmongers' Almshouses , High-street , Newington , where she caused the utmost alarm . A large fire which they were usi ng for melting the lead was tossed several feet into thc air , and afterwards she ran at a truck and likewise after the men , who had to make aprecipitate retreat . By this time the crowd had increased threefold , and when tho animal reached the Plough and Harrow Tavern , in the _Kennington-road , sho ran at a man named G , Coleman , who was tossed and trampled upon before he was able to get out of the way . Ho was taken into a surgeon ' s opposite , where his wounds on the head were dressed , after which he was taken to his home

      by a policeman . The cow then went on ; and on _toaching Kenningtoncommon _, she ran at an aged man , named Samuel Hart , an inmate of Lambeth workhouse , who had leave of absence for a few hours _, lie was in the act of passing across the road by the Horns Tavern , when the c > w rushed at him and toss e d the poor old f e ll o w twic e , and beforo any one could g et to his aid , he reoeived . _most serious injuries . His head was fearfully lacerated , and one of the animal ' s horns'kad penetrated the unfortunate man ' s belly . He was raised up in an insensible state , and carried by tho police to the surgery of Mr . Watson , who , having rendered every possible aid ,

      suggested his immediate removal to Guy s Hospital , whither he was taken with caro . The cow thon turned round and darted after the mob which followed it , but they made their retreat down the streets on the other side of Konnington-road . She then returned to the New Kent-road and continued her _Bpeed to Bermondsey , where she threw every one into a state of fear and alarm . At a late hour in the afternoon she was driven into a field near _Rotberhithe where she became so much exhausted that her capture was ultimately effected by ropes . Many other accidents were eaused , but the one above named is most likely to end fatally .

      FIRES . On Saturday last , a fire occurred at No . 9 , Ward ' sbuildings , Woodstock-street , Paddington-street , Marylebone , by which an aged female , named Mary George , lost her life . Mrs . George , seventy years of age , occupied the second-floor front room , the floor above being o ccup ied by a man named Ryan , his wife , and seven children . About a quarter-pas' , twelve , Ryan was awoke by a sense of sutfocatio n and on rising found his room full of smoke . _Hav ' inj secured the safety of his family , he proceeded t ' j ttu

      deceased ' s apartment , which ho found m flame ' s , an rapidly extending upwards . He raised an alavm , an the engines were speedily on the spot , and got I play . The flames Wing subdued , the deceased apartment was entered , when her body was discovert lying huddled up on the floor , litorally burnt to cinder . It was placed in a shell arid conveyed I Marylebone workhouse . The deceased was rei eccentric in her habits , and on a table in the roon not destroyed , was lound two os three bushels of el bones , and a quantity of half-crowns and othi money , tied in an old rag . The _Lmk Fire a . sd Loss o > LtfK in Mum . UMiS .-o . An inquest vt » B held in _Uw -Marylobo

      Rise Is Thb Price Op B*Ihad.—-On Saturda...

      ¦ TO _^ fc ! _" / M _5 ' _i ? kley ' on IIarriot G _eo _«^ 70 . ihepeceased , who was respectably connee _£ i lived as servant with the family of the Rev . SJ * Dean of St . Paul ' s » nd Vicar of _Willed , until * ' w as s uperannuated , when Dr . _Knapp allowed £ 6 s . Cd ., two quartern loaves weekly , and cloth ,. ? On Saturday tie unfortunate - voman was found in J sitting posture near a trunk in her room , burned _m a cinder , and the whole aparrment in flames I ? wa 3 supposed that while looking wvt htr clothes in the trunk , that a spark ignited the contents of Z trunk , and tbat the flames extended to herneiW Verdict , " Accidental death . " perso _-

      Extraordinary Case. On Saturday Last, In...

      EXTRAORDINARY CASE . On Saturday last , in the Court of Queen ' s Bench before Lord Denman and a special jury , Mr . Dunn the barrister , was indicted for perjury , on the prose ! cution of Miss Burdett Ceutts . Sir F . _Thesi gcr Q . C ., Mr . Clarkson , and Mr . Ilawkins , were counsel for the prosecution ; thc defendant acted as his own counseh The prosecutrix , Miss Burdett Coutts , _ij a partner in the banking-house of Coutts and Co . , and preferred this indictment against the defendant , Mr . Dunn , a member of the Irish bar , for perjury alleged to have been committed by him in swearing an affidavit in the Court of Bankruptcy with the ostensible object of obtaining from that lady , under compulsion of the bankrupt laws , payment of the

      sum ot £ 100 , 000 . The material part of the affidavit , which was sworn under the . _*> A 0 Vict ., c . 122 , a . 07 , before a registrar of the court on March 30 , when the court was not sitting , was in these words :-. *¦ Richard Dunn maketh oath , and _saith , that A . B . Coutts is justly and truly indebted to this deponent , Richard Dunn , in the sura of £ 100 , 000 ., by virtue ofa certain bill drawn b y this deponent on the bank of Messrs . Coutts and Co ., by the especial authority in writing given by the said A . B . Coutts to this deponent , whieh was expressly given by her as compensation for divers injuries and imprisonments inflicted , and for which injuries this deponent had commenced legal proceedings against the said A . B . Coutts , and which sum she promised in writing should be duly paid , but which said bill , althouch

      duly presented , was not paid or honoured , and which said bill " . remains wholly due and owing to this deponent ; and this deponent further saith that the said A . B . Coutts ii a partner in the banking-house of Coutts and Co ., and is a trader within the statute , as this deponent verily believes . " The "bill" was in fact an order thus worded •— " 4 th March , 1816 . Messrs . Coutts and Co . Pay myself , or order , one hundred ( - thousand pounds . R . Dunn , ( by authority of Miss Coutts ) , " The " especial authority in writing , " alleged ia the affidavit to have been giv « n by Miss Coutts , consisted of the last two stanzas o & a copy of doggerel verses ; which the defendant held himself out to have received from Miss Coutts by post in the year 1814 . They were in the form that follows : —

      Oh _. Mr . D ., You ' ve spoilt all our fun By y our v ery imp rud e n t ad v ances ; Why didn ' t jou meet Ue , except ia the street—Why not meet me at routs or at dances ! _ITou called me " fair girl , " Till you made my head twirl , So that all to * folks thought I was silly ' At the window I stood , With my tears in a flood—You . were posted just in Piccadilly , W h en t o H a r r o g ate swee t Papa beat a retreat , To take spa waters _supersulphureous , I could hear jour heart thump As we ttood near the pump _.

      While vou bolted that stuff so injurious , Oh ! how , my dear pet , Can I ever forget That mixture of love and aversion ; Of love for your lags And disgust for your glass , Just like a teetotal conversion _. When poor papa ' s gout Put us all to the tout , And drove us to Norwood Hotel , "four Same growing stronger , You couldn ' t wait longer , So posted away there as well . Our servaa ts to cool Your heat in the pool , And cure you of love so mysterious , Immersed you therein , Nearly up to the chin—What a scene both of comic and serious !

      But auch are tho antics That come from romantics , When once they lay hold of the brain , That you termed it "Baptizing My lover , " and prizing My dower as much as love ' s chains . My pretensions grew grander , 'Till stern Alexander By a capias ad sat . capiendvm _, Put the lock on jour love , And caged my sweet dove , With bis billings and _cooings to _end'am .

      But at last I ' m relenting , My jewel , repenting , Of all that you ' ve suffered for me ; Nay ! I ' m even grown t ender , Disposed to turn lender Of c a sh , your sweet person to frees Send to Coutts' your bill-There nre lots in the till—I'll give tbe clerks orders to do it ; Tiien get your discharge , Your dear body enlarge , And in _Stratton-street do let me view it .... And , by the bye love , My affection to prove , For your long cruel incarceration , Fill a good round sum in ( As I ' ve plenty of tin ) , To make you a fair compensation _.

      A . B . C . In addition to the formal proof that the affidavit had been sworn by the defendant , witnesses were called to show that it was wilfully and corruptly false _. Miss Burdett Coutts swore that she had not written the supposed authority , and had never in her life written to the defendant . That she had forwarded all letters sent to her within the last few years by the defendant , to her solicitor , unopened , when his handwriting was recognised on the superscription , and unread so soon as others , not so superscribed , were found to bo his , and that her solicitor had general directions that every legal measure to protect her from the defendant should be taken ; that she had not given authority for paying the sum in

      question , nor any ether sum to the defendant ; and that she never was indebted to him in any way . Mr . Marjoribanks and Sir Edmund Antrobus , who arc partners of Miss Coutts , Mr . Humphries , her _soli « citor , and two of the clerks in tho bank of Coutta and Co ., deposed , in substance , to the encct , tbat tho defendant had twice presented tho order for payment , and had each time been refused : that on each of these _oocasions he had produced the supposed authority , and had beon distinctly told that it was not in tho handwriting of Miss Coutt 3 ; and that he had written letters , tha object of which was to induce Miss Coutts or her partners , under the prossure of an abuse of tho bank * rupt laws , or a reluctance to encounter the annoyance of legal proceedings , however ill-founded , to compromise his alleged claim by payment of thc sum of £ 100 , 000 . The cross-examination of these witnesses waa directed towards creating the inference

      that _IVIiss Coutts , by not writin 5 herself to the defendant , or authorising others to write to him , for the purpose of { assuring him that she had not written tho supposed authority , had confirmed the defendant in tho delusion that it had been written by her ; that her partners had in like manner , and also by not giving tho defendant into custody when he presented his order atthe bank , strengthened his belief that the authority to draw on the house had come froni hor ; and that Mr . Humphries had likewise contributed to this error by the hostile bearing which he had exhibited toward the defendant . ( . Inthe course ofhis cross-examination of _MtuS Coutts , the defendant put into the hands of that lady a letter written by her father , the lato Sir Francis Burdett . Her struggle with the emotions which the sight of the handwriting caused , excited tho strongest _i indignation of tho audience against tho defendant , _, and , as it appeared , of tho noble and learned lord who 1 presided . ]

      The defendant addressed the jury at some length , _, urging tha points indicated by the cross-examination , , and protesting his belief that the sufferings and per- - secution which he bad met with from Miss Coutts J andhev friends , had led to the belief that she had a been - it _lenotb induced to make him compensation , 1 , and " _iiad therefore sent him the authority on which ho 01 had acted . He then called witnesses to prove that it j ho had received the alleged authority by post , and d thathe had compared the handwriting with thatot oil ' Miss Coutts , and from tho result of that comparison mi was justified in arriving at the conclusion which had idl founded his subsequent conduct . Lord Denman having summed up , the jury at once ; fl !

      returned a verdict of guilty . The defendant thou moved m arrest of judgment ai on two grounds : first , that the affidavit did not allege -j a positivo debt b y Miss Coutts , but a hypothetica l ia dobt only , depending on the fact whether or not tna in authority had been signed by her , and therefore baa s not given to the Court of Bankruptcy jurisdiction to t administer tho oath ; secondly , that there wa '• a variance between the affidavit set forth and tha * ta proved . . . _, Lord Denman ruled against him on both P . 01- " * . ' _[ and thon sentenced him to be imprisoned in _«» . _» Queen ' s Prison for _eighUen months , and after tn »» until he should enter into recognizances for _gww b e havi o ur , himself in £ WO . and two _Bureties , eatuu -

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 6, 1847, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_06031847/page/2/