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      ar _HOLLOWAI'S OINTMENT . wouic _rfel Cere of _trtaiftl Ulttreus _Seretim tiie Fate and Leg , im Prime * Edward _Itlmmi . Tu Truth of this SUtin ** was 4 ulg attested before « Magistrate . I , He **;* Uici » o * u . i > , ot Let li , _imKimj" * _Cemmty _. do fcerebj declare , that a _ttett wom « trfml preservatiem of my tfe has been effected by the use ef Holloway ' s Pills and _Mntment ; ami I _fwthermore _declare , that I was very much ttfltcted with Ulcerous Sores in « ay _faee end Leg ; BO severe was ray eempiaiut . that the greater part of my nose an . l the roef of my mouth was eatem away , •* * _2 fee ; ' and three large ulcere en * , and that J _•» " «* _~ •• _eV-ral Medical _gemtlemm wh _» prescribed _tor"e _' ° * L _* i

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      me . of _... _tnaatmy , _»***" _^ _* _. _ffected _witkout _^! S _^^ i _& _— - _» —* _hlrhl _. _« .. entia ! and of the greatest Importance an re . "ferns " _fftt n . are visited upo . a . _iuaocn * _< rtf _BerNprtat . tron a want ot these simple _remea than perhap _. half the world _inaware of ; fer , Un ab _remembered , where the f ouata i is polluted , the strait t hat * ow from it cannot be pure .

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      COUGHS , HOARSENESS , AND ALL ASTHMAT AND PULMONARY COMPLAINTS . EFFECTCALLT CORED BT KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES . Upwards of thirty years experienoe has proved the infallibility of these _Loaenges in the cure of Winter Cough , Hoarseness , Shortness of Breath , and other Pulmonary Maladies . The patronage of hit _Majetty , the King of _Prassia , and his Majesty the King of Hanover , hasbten bestowed on them ; as also tbat of the Nobility and Clergy of the United _Kingelon ; and , above all the Faculty have especially recommended them a . a remedy of unfailing officacy . Testimonials are continually received confirmn . tory of the value of these Lozenges , and proving the perfect safety of their use , ( for they contain ut Opium nor any preparation cf that drug ;) bo that they may be given to females ofthe most delicate constitution , and children ofthe most tenderest years witbout hesitation .

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      FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH . THE BEST APERIENT AND ANTIBILIOUS MEDICINE FOR GENERAL USE IS FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH , wbich effectually relieves tbe stomach and bowels by general relaxation , without griping or prostration of strength . They remove headache , sickness , dizziness , pains in the chest , etc ., are highly grateful to the stomach , promote iigrstion , create appetite , relieve langour and depression of spirits ; while to those ef a full habit and free . livers , who are continually suffering from drowsiness , heaviness , and singing in the head and ears , they offer advantages that will mot fail to be appreciated . This medicine has for many years received the approval of the most respectable classes of society , aud iu confirmation of its efficacy the following letter has been kindly forwarded to Mr . Prout , with permission to publish it , aud , if requisite , te refer any respectable person to its author : —

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      The Stockport Improvement Bill.

      THE STOCKPORT IMPROVEMENT BILL .

      A Curious Affair Has Recently Occupied T...

      A curious affair has recently occupied the attention of the rate-payers of St . Mary ' s Ward in this borough ( Stockport ) , which the following report of a meeting held in the above-named ward will explain . The meeting was holden in the Waterloo Tarern , Waterloo-road , for the purpose of taking into consideration the conduct of a deputation appointed at a previous meeting to wait upon the aldermen and councillors for St . Mary ' s Ward , relative to the St ockport Improvement Bill . John _Allinson , Geo . Cheetham , and Benjamin Shattin were the parties who formed the above _doi-utation . Mr . Thomas Wnodhouse was called to the chair . .

      The Chairman said , that aa the decision of that meeting would affect materially the agitation which was coi' _-e on through the borough in opposition to the intended Bill , ho should call upon Mr . James Mitchell , who was the secretary , to introduce tbe first part of the _busines _* . . _,.,.. "Mr .- _MiTcnm- _said , it will be remembered tbat on Tuesday , the lst of December last , a public meeting ot the _inhabitant rate-payers of this ward waa held at the Grapes Inn , in Church-gate , for the purpose oftakin- into consideration the present intended Improvement Bill for the B rough * of Stockport . After mature consideraton . it was unan i mously agreed bj that meeting , tbat . a deputation of three should be appointed to wait upon the aldermen and councillors for St . Mary ' s Ward , particularly to request them not to eive their support to any _lmprovement Bill for this Borough , until the Govern _, ment measure , which is now pending , shall have boen made known to the country . That deputation

      had in his ( Mitchell ' s ) opinion violated and betrayed th-ir trust , however , it was for that meeting to decide as to whether tbey had done so or not . Instead of their waitine upon the aldermen and councillors according to their instructions ' , the deputation had waited npon Mr . Car-pack , the town clerk , and the result of their interview with bim had been the production of a most scandalous and deceitful printed document , which they bad caused tobe circulated to the number of upwards of one thousand , in favour of the improvements , and to this printed document thev ( the deputation ) ha l attached their signatures . Now it was not for that meeting to decide as to the truth or falsehood contained in that document , or whether the intended new Bill would be a benefit or an injur y to the B <> rou » h . but it was for them to say whether the deputation had acted in accordance with the decision of the meeting at the Grapes Inn , in which decision they ( the _deputation ) had taken a most prominent part , and most cordially gave it their _support .

      Mr . _GKORot _Chrrtiiam , one of the deputation , said , that the instructions which he , along with his two colleagues , had received at tho meeting held at the Grapes Inn . were not exactly to the effect stated by Mr . Mitchell . They had been requested to ask for information relative to the Improvement Bill , which they _co-dd not obtain at the meeting in question . Several persons in the meeting here cried out that Mr . Mitchell had offered to give Mr . Cheetham any information he micrht require upon the subject , but he ( Cheetham ) prevented him doing so , because Mr . Mitchell happened not to bo a rate-payer in St . Mary ' s Ward .

      Mr . Cheetham contended that they had waited upon all thn _pouncillors . with tbe exception of ono , and be could not be seen . H « admitted that he had seconded the adoption of the memorial to the Council , requesting them to stay the progress of tbe Bill until the Government measure should be made known ; but he also considered it his duty to make inquiries relative to the _manoral tolls , the waterworks and other improvements of the Boroiwh . They had done so , and the result of that , inquiry had been the _production of the printed document in question . He was not going to sty who the parties were that had drawn up that document , any further than that it was eot up from information which they received , and he and his _cnileaiues were responsible for its existence . They considered they had done no more than . their duty in pursuing the course they had , and he could wish some person to show to him that that printed document was _incorrret .

      Mr . Jamks Dbnarlt said , thathe must express his surprise and astonishment afc the language and conduct of Mr . Cheetham upon this occasion was without t parallel in the period of his existence . What had the paper produced by Mr . Cheetham to do with the instructions he received from the meeting held at Mr . Pickford _' _s ? At that meeting , Mr . Cheetham and the others , who formed the deputati on , had written instructions , and those instructions were that John Allinson , George Cheetham , and Benjamin Shattin , should wait upon thc Aldermen nnd Councillors for St . Mary ' s Ward , and request them not to

      give their support to any Improvement Bill until the government measure which is now pending shall have been made known to the country , and ono step beyond that they had no right to go . But even with _re-jard to the document he would challenge Mr . Cheetham to prove that anv part of it was correct . He bad heen appointed to perform a certain public duty , and that duty they had not performed , they had acted contrary to the resolution , which they themselves had seconded and supported , and consequently had betrayed the confidence which was ro _* pospd in them . ,. , . . to

      Mr . John Homer said it now became his duty expose the trickery of these gentlemen . He was one of those who seldom kept a secret long , and _particularly when the secret affected _thclpubhc welfare lie was prepared to prove tbat tho printed document produced by Mr . Cheetham was not the production of either of the deputation , or of the Aldermen and Councillors , for this ward , but that it had been prepared and got up by Mr . Cappaek . the town clerk . The statements therein contained were precisely the same that Mr . Cappaek had made to him and Mr . Webb but a few days previously . If the document was not the production of Mr . Cappaek . why was the the proof sheet sent to that gentleman twice for correction before it could be exposed . He ( Mr . Ilumer ) did not blame the deputation for acceptins ; the kind and gentlemanly invitation of Mr Cappaek , perhaps some of them _Beldom had an opportunity of regailing their stomachs with the good things they found at the table of that gentleman . While 'that document

      was being prepared , Mr . Cheetham and his colleagues , according to his own acknowledgement , were doing justice to the remains of a good old Cheshire Cheese , with other requisites , and a few bottles of Mr . Cappack ' s best Porter ; and when business compelled Mr . Cappaek to r tire from their company , they had the _impudence in his absence to ring the bell , and call for more . He was prepared to provp that the deputation had allowed themselves to be tampered with by the town clerk , who is the greatest opponent the rate-pa \ ershave upon this question . Let Mr . Cheetham deny _thesestateinents _. nnd he ( Mr . Ilumer ) _woulel prove them from his own lips , by parties now in this meeting . ( Here the whole meeting exhibited one general feeling of disgust , and Mr . Cheetham admitted the fact . ) The Couneilmen for St . Mary ' s Ward had declared that the deputation Had never in their interview with them , requested them to withhold their support to the bill until the government measure should be made known .

      After a lew well timed observation from Mr . Bradburn , the following rosolution was moved by Mr . Nathaniel Booth , _" seconded b y Mr . James _Simeater , and carried unanimously : — That inasmuch as John Allinson , George Cheetham , and _Be-njamin Shattin , who were appointed as a deputation to carry out tho objects of the above resolution at the Grapes Inn , on Tuesday , the lst instant , have betrayed the confidence which was then placed in them by acting contrary , and in opposition to the decision of that meeting , this meeting is of opinion that they are no longer worthy of the confidence and respect ot their brother ratepayers , and ought to be branded by their fellow townsmen , as traitors to the ennse of justice and humanity . It was then unanimousl y agreed , moved b y Sorance Bury , Seconded l . y Mr . Roads That a memorial signed by the inhabitant rate-payers of St . Mary ' s ward be immediately got up and presented to the Aldermen and Councillors for the said ward ,

      requesting them not to give tlieir support to any improvement Bill for this borough , until the government measure for the rr-gulation of Borough , etc ., shall have been made known to the country .

      Prospective And Music—Old Astley Once Ab...

      Prospective and Music—Old _Astley once abused his scene painter for not painting the columns of a temple of the same length ; and when the man pleaded the law of perspective , replied , " Don't talk to me of perspective , Sir ; the public pay their money to see pillars according to nature , all of a length , and they shall have their full measure , and no deception . " On another occasion the double bass in tht orchestra was doing nothing whilst his brethren were rasping away with all their might . His employer demanded an explanation , and being told by the performer that he had forty bars' rest , exclaimed in high dudgeon , " Rest indeed ! I pay you for playing not for resting , bo play away , and be _d— -d to you !'

      Cracow. Br Joflbpb" Hazzimi. ' It It Fin...

      CRACOW . Br JOflBPB" HAZZIMI . ' It it finished I The last fragment of that torn nation , whose body waa riddled with wounds in the defence of Europe , against _Maliometanism , 'has disappeared . The last rag of its warrior mantle has been torn and parted among them , and they have thrown it aa the prioe of blood , to the one who , in these latter times , has most deeply- atruck the victim , to that one whoso immediate agents ( rewarded for their conduct ) have _orgaaised , directed , paid for the massacres of Gallicia . First assassination , then plunder . Craoow is now an Austrian city . The Austrian ffag floats , like a bannered shroud , over the monument of _Koscuisko . The

      heavy tread of the Austrian sentinel profanes the threshold of the old cathedral where lie the bones of Sobieski , the saviour of Vienna . There was no real force there ; nothing that could seriously _menaoe tho Trinity of Evil about to accomplish this misdeed * , twenty-three square German miles , deep „ in the midst of tho Prussian dominions , Austrian possessions , and Russian Silesia . But a name was there , a remembrance , the outward sign of an existing idea ; and in this sign , this remembrance written on the front of a city , in which , from 1320 to the eighteenth century , the chosen of the nation were anointed kings of Poland , there was a reproach , a living -remorse , for the dismemberers . They desired to _efface it . They had sworn by the name of God ,

      in 1815 , to maintain in perpetuity tho independence of Craeow ; but since then they hare so falsified their oaths , that one perjury more could not stay them . They had placed their oaths under the guarantee of other powers , England and France , swearing with them to the treaties of Vienna ; but they knew very well that the highest possible energy of constitutional governments would not go beyond an inert protest—Pilate ' s washing hia hands of the innoceet blood . They have tors the treaty , and given the Ia 9 t blow to their rictim . To-day the last spark of life has disappeared : Old Poland is dead ; nothing but its ghost remains . May it , like that of Banquo , take its seat at the tables of the reigning Macbeths , and urge them , through terrors and the

      keen agonies of remorse to their final overthrow ! The bitterness of our words must not be attributed to grief . We brand a crime ; we have bo dread of its consequences : far from it . Speaking individually , we like everything which dears and renders more precise the situation of things in Europe . Thank Go J , the people have never signed the treaties of Vienna ; they have never acknowledged themselves bound by them ; and it matters little to their future whether or not they are violated , annulled . But their being torn up by the very persona who had drawn them np and signed thera , adds to the morality of the cause we sustain ; it proves that there is no law , not even that which they had imposed upon themselves , for the absolutists ; it dissipates a

      phantom wliich yet held timid minds in uncertainty ; it chases the mist accumulated by diplomacy over the ? | uestion which occupies _us __ all ; it leaves face to ace nationalities and their oppressors , right and bruie force . The victory is not doubtful . In these days nations do not perish ; they transform themselves . In incorporating Cracow , Austria , tho representative of immobility in Europe , bas only added ono enemy more to those alrealy stirring in her bosom : she has , by uniting their interests , added one more pledge of alliance to those which already existed between the two future avengers , Poland and Italy . And when the word of death has passed over our

      lips , we hasten to add the epithet old to this sacred name of Poland . We know very well that htr tomb is the cradle of a young and beautiful and grand Poland , which the popular faith of tho dawning epoch will baptize for the holy struggles of civilization . But the intentions of tbe despoiling powers does not the less merit the indignation of erery honest heart , tho branding of every people that has not entirely lost in apathy and in the worship of material interests , the _sentiment of the unity of the human race and of European fraternity . The triumph ofthe Christian faith had its germ in the blood of the martyrs ; but we do not . on that account , bless the memory of their executioners .

      Yes , that old Poland , aristocratic Poland , which we admire for the chivalrous bravery and Christian instincts that impelled it to throw itself in the way oftlie Mahometan invasion , but whose interior organisation can find no sympathy among us , is dead : dead never more to revive . The Polish peopli rises from its tomb . And the time is so providentially marked for its advent , that every blow the oppressors strike at the nation turns to tho profit of its cause . The massacres of Gallicia hare proved to the last representatives of the Polish aristocracy what old recollections of oppression and the instincts of equality enn do when perfidiously managed on one side and neglected on the other . The occupation of Cracow teaches them that they have nothing to hope

      from diplomatic combinations , and that these very treaties of Vienna , invoked by some of them , as a basis for the re-establishment of I know not what mutilated kingdom of Poland , were nothing more than so much waste paper , good at most , to give to those who signed them leisure to wait the favourable moment for the work of destruction . They know that now ; and , with the exception of some incorrigible men , who comprehend nothing of the ways of God upon tho earth , they are entering—they will all soon enter into the great democratic current , which alone contains the secret of life for Poland and for all peoples . They know , on the ono hand , that the power of Poland exists henceforth altogether in the masses , and that it is only by abdicating their

      ancient privileges , and appealing to the peasant to fraternise with them on the common ground of equality , that they ean conquer a second life for their common country : they know , on the other hand , that a people has no right to a national existence , except in so much as it proposes to itself an end beyond and out of itself , a mission to accomp li s h or the good ef all ; and they comprehend that Poland ought not to lire again , but on condition of placing herself as advanced guard of all the Slavonian populations , that from the shores of the Baltic to the Adriatic coast * of Illyria , now bestir themselves under the impulse of national instincts , unknown everywhere , and especially in England , but destined to change one day the map of Europe .

      It is sufficient to recall , as regards the first tendency , the demands annually made , since 1810 , by the diet of Leopol to the Emperor for the abolition of feudal service , and to make the peasants landowners—the identical reclamations of the Grand Duohy of Posen —the language of the insurrectionary manifesto of Cracow , of the 22 nd of February , 1840—and all the characters of that manifesto , too little studied , too soon forgotten , which has initiated a new era for Poland . The general movement of ihe Slavonian races will be the subject of several articles , in which 1 shall endeavour to gain appreciation for the importance of this renovating element upon Europe , and the _directiag part therein that Poland prepares to take .

      But , if the occupation of Cracow is destined to serve , rather than to injure , the Polish cause , is there not in it a great lesson for Europe , a warning to all people , a definition clearer than ever of our duties , too long forgotten ? There is no longer , at the present time , any Publio Law in Europe . The treaties of Vienna formed the basis of international transactions among tho European governments : they aro no more . There exists now in Europe a league between the despotic states in order to accomplish Evil , whensoever that can serve their interests or their principle of _retrogression . There exists no alliance for G . od , for the protection of national liberties , for the defence ofthe feeble , for the peaceable evolrcment of the

      _progressive principle . In the heart of a Humanity which calls itself Christian , issue of the law of love , there is absolutely nothing collective to represent love , to represent the consolidation ofthe families of humanity , the common mission of everything that bears upon its brow tho sign of human nature . Hate reigns jor only Hate acts : it . has its armies , its treasures its compacts ; its rights is Force . Here , it orga _* . _nisesand accomplishes , with atheistic sangfroid the butchering of one caste hy another ; there , it comhats beliefs by torture , it crushes down tho human soul under thc knout ; elsewhere it says—the independence of this territory hinders my projects —and it suppresses it . Switzerland feels that in the absence of a National Compact , of a federal organisawim whiiu tue

      _- general interests of the countrv would have p lace , every quarrel between two localitica ean only be exhausted by force , and brings on a civil war ; she aspires to give herself a compact , to build up tho holy arch of her nationality ; Brute _Hrce says to _her-you shall nave neither Compact nor Nationality ; you shall keep within your bosom the source of civil war , but so soon as civil war appears in the midst of you , we shall occupy your territory with our armies . _Twenty-two millions of Italians feel that the hour is eome to realise thnt fraternity to which God from of old has called them

      ; they have abdicated , renounced in the expiation ofa common suffering of three hundred years , their old enmities , their egotistical prejudices ; they asp ire to embrace each other in a common bond , in a common life . Brute Force says to them—remain disunited , _hostilo feeblo , forever ; we will it so , and our armies are there to maintain our will . There is not a single government which dares interpose , in the name of God , and of Immortal Justice , its arm its action . Not one that appears to feel how immoral , how impious , how atheistic is this inertness .

      Such is the actual state ot Europe ; such is the lesson unfolded by the occupation of Cracow . It is the throwing off the mask on tho part of the despotic principle—a programme of its intentions and of its future acts—a gauntlet of defiance , flung in the name of Force at all , peoples or governments who maintain that the law of the world is the prin ! ciple of liberty in love . " Shall the gauntlet be taken up ? It shall , without doubt , in a hour more or less reunite , by the enslaved peoples . But for those who already _reioinr , in _tbnir

      liberty , are there not from henceforth duties ? Can the y not , _aven now , accomplish them in part ? I shall endeavour in the next number to give some _wply to this double question . —iV _< M _» _foV Jem ** .

      Thb Wfst Important Discovert Of Thb Pres...

      THB WfST IMPORTANT DISCOVERT OF THB PRESENT TIME . THE USE OF ETHER IN _St & GERT . We noticed last week a method of _rendering a patient insensible to pain during the performance of surgical operations by the inhalations of the vapour of _athar combined with _atmoepharia air . The following are the particulars of the successful amputation of the leg ofa patient in the Bristol General Hospital on Friday , in whioh this new principle was A young man , a patient in the Bristol General Hospital , had , on Friday , his left leg removed above the knee—an operation rendered necessary by a whit * ¦ walling of three years' standing ; and at the suggestion of Dr . Fairbrother , the senior p hysician to tho hospital , Mr . _Lansdown , the operating surgeon , was induced to try tho "ffeot upon the patient of the inhalation of the vapour of sulp huric ether . After inhaling the _rapour for one minute and a half , tha patient became unconsciousand the surgeon

      oom-, men ' -ed his incision , and after the lapse of . two or three minutes , Dr . _Fairbrothor again administered the rapour , keeping his fingers on the patient pulse , and watching his breathing . Wine was administered in small quantities alternately with tha rapour , which kept him in a state cf _unconsciousness for the period of 15 minutes . The limb was separated from the body in ono minute . During the operation the features did not express the least pain , and the patient remained motionless . After the operation he awoke , perfectly quiet and calm , and said he had not felt any pain , either in _cutting through the skin , flesh , bone , sawing the bone , or in tying the vessels , some of which required to be dissected from the nerves . Since the operation the patient has slept better than he has for ten nig hts , and is going on favourably . The following letter upon the best mode of applying the rapour we hare received from Mr . Ileraintb _, the well known analytical chymist , who was present at the operation :-

      —Sir , —I fee ) it would be wrong to withhold from the faculty and public in general tbat wehave repeated the American experiment of administering the vapour of ether as a means of deadening the sensibility of tha nerves , and with tbe most perfect success . A young man was to lose his leg by amputation of the thigh , at tbe Bristol General Hospital , and this was thought a good opportunity for the trial . The operation was _rathtr a long one , and from several arterial branches having to be taken up , it occupied U minutes , and during this whole time the man was kept iu a perfectly quiescent state , without motion or sound . lie afterwards stated himself to have been conscious of the _amputation , but without pain , beyond tbat of a scratch ; and during tha operation _it'was found that with the assistance of wine on

      the one hand , and the vapour of ether on the other , he could be elevated or depressed with the most complete controul , his absence of pain being continuous . The operator , Mr . Lunfdown , and the _othur medical gentlemen present , will , no doubt , give the public the details of the case , and my duty Is merely to show the very simple application of the agent ; no complicated apparatus is necessary , nor any extraordinary care in purifying the ether . A common , hut very large bladder , should be fitted with a collar to wbich an ivory mouth piece with a large bore can be screwed , witbout the intervention of any stopcock pour in about an ounce of good common ether , and blow up the bladder with the mouth till it ii nearly full ; place the thumb on the mouthpiece _. and agitate the bladder so as to saturate the air in it with tho

      vapour ; as soon as the patient is ready for the operation close his nostrils , introduce the mouthpiece , and close the lips round it with tbe fingers . He must now breath into and out of the bladder , and in about one or two minutes tbe muscles af his lips will lose their hold . This is the moment for the first cut to ba made . Iu two or three minutes the effect will begin to disappear ; the mouthpiece should again be introduced , and tbis repeated as often as required . If the pulse should indicate a sinking of the patient , a little wine will restore him , I have no doubt the inspiration of nitrous oxide ( laughing gas ) would hare a similar effect upon the nerves of sensation as the vapour of ether , as I hare notified tha persons under its influence are totally insensible to pain ; but I do not think it would be advisable to use it iu

      surgical cases , from its frequently producing an ungovernable disposition to muscular exertion , which would render the patient unsteady , aud embarrass the operator , The administrator of the vapour will of course take care that no fluid ether shall be allowed to be drawn into the lungs , otherwise suffocation would result , or at the best a _vioient cough , which must protract the operation , and considerably distress the patient , I am , Sir , your obedient servant , William _Uxbapath . Bristol , Jan . 1 . 1847 .

      Death From Impure Air In A Lodging. An I...

      DEATH FROM IMPURE AIR IN A LODGING . An inquest was held on Monday night at the Red Lion , Shoe Lane , on the body of a man unknown , who died suddenly in a common lodging house in Field Lane , Hoiborn . The deceased bad occupied a bed in the lodging house , No . 26 , Field Lane , for wbich Be paid fourpence per night for the last three months . Iu the day time ha got work , if he could , about tbe docks and wharfs , and was known by his fellow lodgers by the cognomen of the' Old Gentleman . ' Nothing further was known of bim than that he had told a fellow lodger tbat he was a native of Cambridge , and that in early life he had been a farmer _. On Friday night he returned to his lodging about six o ' clock , and complained of a pain across the loins , which he thought was caused by the cold . H « went early to hed , and during the night he was heard to laugh hysterically , and in the morning waa found a corpse . The only property found upon him was four duplicates in a tin box and a halfpenny .

      Dr . J , Lynch said that ongoing into the room he found a very offensive smell of animal exhalation , as if there had been several persons sleeping in it . He stooped down at the first bed _. _si _. d / _ouud the body of tbe deceased . He bled bim , and a very small quantity of black blood , like _treat-lo , flowed . On looking around the room hu saw quits sufficient to account for the death ; the room could not give , under any circumstances , healthful accommodation to oue individual , much less to four , who bad been sleeping in the same apartment . The fireplace was blocked up , and every means had been taken t 3 prevent a free current of air in the apartment . Many of these lodging-houses were built over cesspools , and the impure air breathed in the confined apartment had the same effect upon the vital parts as inhaling the noxious vapour of burning charcoal . The man might probably bave

      been _uffscted with lumbago , but he died in a fit , no doubt caused by breathing impure air . He had no hesitation in saying the death iu the present case was accelerated by want of proper ' . ventilation . A man required for tbe purposes of life 1 , 000 cubic feet of pure air , and should not inhabit a room less than ten feet high by eight feet wide ; but the room in which the deceased , with three other persons slept , was neither to wide nor so high . Dr . Lynch , at considerable length , gave a most painful _description of the wretched hovels where the poor creatures paid for nights' lodgings in the vicinity of Smithfield and F ield Lane . In some of them eight or nine persons slept , whilst aocommodation was afforded for only two . Refer * ring to the health of the people Inhabiting courts , tbe Dootor said that it was a well-known fact that out ol 100 , 000 children born , 50 , 000 died solely from inhaling impure air .

      Mr . J . Carville , as _reHeying officer of the union , he said he was witness to many casos being brought from thosehouses to the workhouse , and he could mention as a fact that , some time back , four persons were brought from oue of those houses who tiled in twenty-fours after their admission , solely from inhaling - the impure air . Tl ) t > lod _giug-house-keepers had been told by him tbat tbe instant one of their lodgers was taken ill they were to send him to the workhouse . On going over one of these houses he found _thirty-six beds in one room , so close together that there was barely room to pass between them , Thc fire-places were stoppsd up so ai to make more room for beds , Coroner—If a fever was to break out in such a house , the consequences to the neighbourhood would bo dreadful , as there would be no knowing where ) it would stop . Dr . Lynch Fevers are constantly breaking out in these houses ; and the worst is tbat it is spread throughout the community by the imnatos _constnntly removing from one part of the metropolis to the other .

      The Jury returned a verdict , " That the deceased died from natural causes accelerated by tiie want of pure ven . tilation , the Jury at the same time requesting that tb attention ofthe authorities be drawn to tho subject , _s that there be a proper supervision over lod giHg houses . "

      Brutal Conduct Of A Bailiff. An Inquest ...

      BRUTAL CONDUCT OF A BAILIFF . An inquest was held last week , at Hanley , on the body of au elderly man , named Underwood , who had seen better days but in his old age had fallen into misfortune . He was distrained upon for six months rent , which , coupled with inability to meet it , was the last feather on the camel ' s back , the poor old man sunk under it , in connexion with tba _mnciral conduct of the bailiff . He cut his throat and afterwards threw himself in a maih tub nearly full of water . The grandaughter of the d t / ceased deposed to the gross conduct of the bailiff Shenton , and the coroner having ordered hira tu be called in addressed him as follows : —Do you think tbat because you are armed with the authority of the law to destrainon a person ' s goods yeu are justified in using improper language ? Do you think every house you

      enter is your own—that you are lord and master ? I have been given to understand that your conduct in this unfortunate case has been overbearing and abusive and I here warn you , for the future , not to overstep your authority—not to trample upon parties iu distress , I am not only bound to believe what I _Umc here on oath —that your conduct was disgraceful in this affair ; but I hear from the gentlemen of tbe jury , who know your _genes-al character , tbat you are iu the constant exercise of unbounded rascality . Whoever yom may be employed by , if such conduct _oomes under my notice , 1 will not hesitate to speak of it . Justice ought to be administered leniently , and not iu the _^ vagabondi zing manner you have beeu in the habit of dispensing itv Depend upon it you shall be _watuked . You are only a tenant for life ; aad , in all probability , the life of this poor man might have beta preserved but for yt ) iw _t-fegmeful conduct ,

      Brutal Conduct Of A Bailiff. An Inquest ...

      Shenton retired compleUly abashed , and the 1 / "" " _^ pressed their thanks to the _eoreuer for his well thV _?' -- serrations . u _** -weu _" 'nisd _oi , Tk * jury then returned a verdict to the _offe . - ,, "The deceased _deetroyed -himself while in a fl !! . * tt _porarylmarity . " " *** or ten . The Coroner refused to allow the baillffi * the un _penst-e at witnesses . Ut * - ex .

      Poisoning Of A Young Female In Es Sbj Bb...

      POISONING OF A YOUNG FEMALE IN ES _SBJ _Bbhntwood , _Toesdai . —An inquest , which hM _cupled several days in the course of the last three w _l" " _wae brought to a close yesterday afternoon , _beifo , ! u _* C . C . Lewis , the Coroner for the Western Divisiftn « Essex , at the village of _Runwell , a few mile , distant _L this town . •""• Jom The deceased '! name was Lucy Boultwood She » healthy looking young woman , aged 18 years ¦„ _r the daughter of a labourer , living at HanniDKfleM ** small village , situate six miles north-east ofBilJr - * _UptoMicheelmaslaitshe was In the service of U - _v *'

      ,, at little Baddock . wheralt m » i » _•! , <• k . _» . » ' " i at little Baddock , where It seems tbe became eneienll ' discovery of which led to her discharge from Mr v ip employ . She returned to her parents at _HannLfitu and remained there until the 8 th of last month 11 ' she left on a visit to her sister , a Mrs . Vale , at _tial ' n four miles from Hanningfleld . She was tht-n 1 . 1 ! health and spirits , but iu the cour . e of the _evetiin-1 # that day she became suddenly ill , and in twenty f „ tours was a corpse , ner sister , Mrs . Vale , who attend _^ her , said deceased first oomplained of a severo _htod _., 4 _, followed bv violent retchi _**™ _unrl vnn . i » i .. „ ... # f « ¦ vuuiuii _yj

      -a ~ ~~ . — . : Tils ' "a froth . The vomiting subsideJ , she fell back on ii , floor as if in a fit . During fffe night she oreailLS ! had its , and at eight o ' clock on the _evening ofth . « . ? she died . * " _*** Jtl _* This was the substance of the evidence taken at th first meeting of the jury , when , In consequence of _«««!• ' _cioat being entertaiued that the deceased was encient ! I the time of her death , Mr . Lewis , the Coroner , directed » _jwtmortm examination of the body to be immediatti . proceeded with , Accordingly , Mr . Anthony Wells , a _sur geon , made a minute examination , and stated the remit

      at the re-assembling of the _Coronsr and Jury , _*»¦ , _" showed that the unfortunate woman was not only in th . condition suspected , but that her death had been pro duced by poison . This fact was established by tk « quantity of Inflammation in the stomach . In other re spects the bod y was in a most health y state . Mr . W \\ l was of opinion that ths poison administered was of vegetable description , and from what he had betrd bt believed it to have been taken with a view of _procurins abortion . °

      Other evidence having been glveri , The Jury found the following verdict : — That the de . ceased died from the effects of a certain vegetable poison unknown te the Jurors , but by whom administered or how taken , there was no evidence to show . '

      Drea.Dful Accident On The North Western ...

      DREA . DFUL ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY . A very shocking accident , resulting inthe loss of two Jives , occurred between one and two o ' clock on 1 _uasday morning , at the King ' s Langley station , ob the line of the North Western Railway . The circumstances in connection with the melancholy affair , as ascertained from an inspection ofthe scene of the accident , and inquiries among these _, reral parties whe witnessed the same , may be briefly stated as follows : —

      About twenty minutes after one o ' clock on Tuesday morning , a coal train , from tho Claycross and Stavely collieries , drew up alongside the platform at the King ' s Lang ley station , for the purpose of detachinj some waggons of coal at that place . The morning waa very foggy , and the driver not being certain as to the exact position of the " points , " stopped tho train before arriving at tbe signal post , and addressing the policeman on duty , said he had fire , trucks to _leareat Langley , and Bhould be glad to know whereabouts the ' * points" were . The policeman signalled hira to come on beyond the signal post , and tho train being again set in motion , was brought so a stand just within the " _crossing" oa the up line . The policeman then turned on the

      red signal , and ran to the " points " with the intention of " shunting" the _waggons ; the breaksman of the coal train meantime detaching the break waggon and pushing it some few yards back on the main line . While thus engaged , the policewan fancier ! he heard an up train coming , and knowing the difficulty of observing the ordinary signal lamp through a dense fog , be ran back down the line waring his red hand-lamp as a caution to any advancing train to stop . Before he had run fifty yards he saw the light of an engine advancing at i rapid rate , and the next moment he discovered the dreadful fact that a heavy luggage train , propelled by two engines , the * drivers of which had evidently neither of them observed the signals until too late

      to t » of any _serrice , wasrunningata fearful speed directly into the coal train . The drirer and stoker of tho first engine attached to the luggage train fortunately observed the policeman ' s hand signal as well as the red tail lamps on the break waggon of the coal train , and as tho only chance of escape they threw themselves off the engine on to tho line , happily without _sustaining _^ any material injury . Tho two poor fellows on thi second engine appear to hare been wholly unconscious of their danger , and as an inevitable consequonce , when the collision took place , they were _instaneously killed . The crash is described to hare been most awful . The leading engine of the luggage train of course first struck tho break waggon , which , offering comparatively no resistance , was knocked to pieces and thrown about the line in all directions . The coal train , which consisted of about 30 trucks , was next

      struck , and being rery heavy , the effect on the luggage train was prop " ortionably severe . The two engines with thoir tenders were crashed together in a manner which , without a personal observation , it would be scarcely possible to conceive . Three ot four coal _waggons were knocked to pieces , and about the same number of luggage trucks were entirely destroyed . The disabled engines and tender were thrown by tbe concussion entirel y across the line , and , with the other portion ofthe wreck , _completely blocked up both the up and down Hue of rails . Tho breaksmen of the luggage train were thrown off the break waggon on to the line when the collision _, took place , but fortunatel y neither of them were much hurt . The names of the unfortunate deceased are Thos . Assip and George Mathers ; the former tho driver , and the latter the stoker of the _etsgineNo . 115 . Both men are understood to be married .

      Smith , the policeman , is described to bo a most careful man . He has been employed on the railway some years .

      Thb Ick Im .Snihlna Harbour.—A Bridkoroo...

      Thb Ick im . _SniHLna Harbour . —A Bridkoroou w a Fix . —On Sunday morning week there was so much ice in the river , at Shields , owing to the break up after the thaw , that the 'f yne steam ferry was under the necessity of dropping anchor midway in her passage between north and south , and * ' There _sho lav Till mid-day . " three hours at the least , with all her passengers oa board , doing penance tor the _peccadilloes of the preceding week . The turn of the tide brought release , and the Tyne has sin < _je enjoyed a Christmas holiday , that she might undergo repairs , and be in no 'danger of" breaking up " for a holiday at the new year . A few sculler boats , we understand , seeing their "big brother" at a stand , had the impertinence to attempt

      the enterprise which he had failed to achieve , bearing in mind the injunction " to make hay while the sun shines , " but tbey were speedily arrested by icebergs , and locked up in anl arctic prison . One of these wrecks was a mournful affair . The sculler ' s fare " * ' _« a venturesome bridogroom , whose future partner in life awaited him on the opposite shore . Surrounded by obdurate ico , which even the fire of his i ! nas not hot enough to thaw , there he sat , shivering , by the side of old Char _.-n , and wondering what his I bride would think of his absence . Once lie thought i of Hero and Leander , and wns hall" inclined to essay ' a swim to shore ; he was also inclined to remain i

      where he was _^ p d not try his swimming powers in i competition with so many ice floes ; so Leander 3 i feat was not eclipsed by our " Hero . " Au acquaint' ance , recognising hira from the quay which he lift" * quitted , _acoosted him at the top of his voice , cry ingi _, * ' Assay ! Bob , mun . try to wauk back oyer the ice . . an' gan roond by the railway ! " But the unhappy y man , dreading lest in making the ( attempt , there e should bo chance to be a " bob" in the water , stuck K to tho boat . It wero better , thought he , to be a a married man on Monday than food for fishes oa n Sunday . Folding hia arms , therefore , he kept hi" ia safe seat in the stern for three mortal _hosirs , wrappe _* _« up in his reflections and his new coat .

      Glorious _Pr-osracT . —A person who advertises m it a morning paper for a clerk , holds out this '•• - • ducement : —* A small salary will be giren , but he if will hare enough of _ovemwA- _' to make up for the «* _-u ficiency . '

      It Behoves Us Always To Bo On Our Guard,...

      It behoves us always to bo on our guard , when iil *> we should watch _oeu * thoughts , when in soeiety our . _" ; ,. " 7 gues , and when in our families our tempers . _Iuuj ¦* >¦ > ' upon our properly guarding tho last depends much oiu ' social happiness and domestic comfort , taking eare counteract that continued irritability of uiind winch i » _t _^ __ precursor to ebullitions of passion . But our roen {* w w position is so intimately connected with our _P' _*> condition , that what is _freeiuently considered _Ul-te-miH _^^" or peevishness , is in reality but tho result ofa u «* - S _^ . ment of tho digestive or other organs of tiie ojuj . wCwK requires medicinal not mental remedies . To J _f _„• _, , _,,. recoiftmottdwitU _coittdeuce Framptou ' s PiHof" ** " '

      _- . as being certain to its effects , aud gentle m its ° P " Holloway's Ointment and Pills .-An authentica ted euu of a fearful case of Piles .-John Thompson , _tsq-. _™ V * J *" respectable , editor and proprietor of the " Armagu v _^ _^ _dian , " an Irish newspaper , _vouehes as tothe tR « « extraordinary _ouroof a case of Piles of tho ' nort J"I _£ t « tit «« ing nature and of somo years' _standiug _, whic h wa s ei . _^^ jby these medicines when every other means _h" ** J 0 ( J 0 U The person alluded to is a gentleman of laage _wtaw _^^ great influence in tho county of Armag h , _^ o one ¦ suffer very long from _Vilet , Fistulas , aud what stir a " _beariag down , " if thoy will hare recour _« to tnes « famed rem & uiet . _ - " - _^

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 9, 1847, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_09011847/page/2/