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      2 ^ The Northern Star. January U. Ik„ ?

      2 _^ THE NORTHERN STAR . January U . ik _„

      Astonishing Efficacy I I

      ASTONISHING EFFICACY i I

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      OF HOLLOWAY'S PILLS . Tbe Testimony ofa Clergyman vouching to Movea Cases of Cares by these wonderful Pills . € rfract 0 / a Letter from , the R < v . George Prior , Curate of _Mew-. h , Letter A > _- * y , _drrigart , Ireland , Uth Jan . 1646 .

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      ON THE CONCEALED CAUSE OF CONSTITUTIONAL OR ACQUIRED UEBILI VIES OF THE GENERA riVfi SYSTEM . Just Published , A new andi inportaut Edition of the Silent Friend on Human frailty . Price 2 s . Sd ., and sent free to any part of the United Kiii' ; dom on the receipt of a Post Office Order for 3 s . 6 d . A MEDICAL WORK on the INFIRMITIES ofthe GENERATIVE SVSTE . V _, in both sexes ; being an enquiry into the coneealed cause that destroys physical energy , and the ability of manhood , ere vigour has _established her empire : —with ' _'bservations ou the baneful effects of SOLITARY INDULGENCE and INFECTION ; local and constitutional WEAKNESS , NERVOUS _IRRITATIO-V , CONSCMI'TIO . V , aud on the partial or total

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      r _oftspring , trora a want of these simple remoa than perhaps half the world in aware of ; for , it-nab , _rem . _rr-t-eied _, where the _fountai is polluted , the _strnst j t hat flow from it caanot bu pure . I PERRY'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS , Price 2 s . 3 d ., 4 s . 6 d ., and lis . per box , With explicit directions , rendered perfectly _inteUigibla to every o » pacity _, are well known _throughout Europe to be thc m _« st _oe-rtaiu and effectual remedy aver discovered for gonorrheca , both in its mild and aggravated forms , by immediately _allaying intlainmation aud wresting further progress . _Gletts , _strictures _. irritation of tha bladder , _paias of tha loins and kidneys , gravel , and other disorders ofthe urinary passages , in either sex , are penaanuntly cured in a _shor * space of time , without confinement or the least _expoKuro .

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      FOR STOPPING DECAYED TEETH , Trice 2 s . 6 d . _Patronized by Her Majesty , the Qu'en , Her Majesty , the Queen Dowager , His Koyal Highness Prince Albert , Her 'loyal _Hi-ilmcss the Duchess of Kent , His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury , And _nearlv all the Nobility , the Bishops and the _Clergj

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      _CnsjcoM . Affection . —Some little time ago a

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      Madame 1 ire m » is obtained trom tho Civil lnliun . il of the Seine a decree < if separation from her liusbanel on the " round of ill treatment . M . Tiremois appealed to the Cour _Rnyalc against this decision , and on Monday the cause came to a _licarinjr . The case of the _appellant , as stated by his counsel , and corroborated to a certain extent by documentary evidence , wa rather curious . He declared that after the suit had been instituted there was a reconciliation with his wife , and that _du-ing tbe wholoof tho proceedings thev visited each other clandestinely , and were by stealth the most loving couple imaginable . According to law , this iact would 1 ut an end to the suit , but M . Tiremois stated that the lawyers on both sides were too fond of fees to let the parties harmonise ,

      Statk Of The American People-The Mexican...

      STATK OF THE _AMERICAN PEOPLE-THE MEXICAN WAR-POLK PULVERISED . Wo take the following excellent article from Young America , of December 12 th .

      THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE . I was prepared for almost everything else n tho _Message but this first pingraph : — "In resu ming your labours in the service of tho people , it is n subject _e-f congratulation that there has been no pe riod in our past history when all thu elements of national _prosperity have been so fully developed . Sines your Wst s < jbi _* cm no afflicting dispensation has vi-6 ited our country ; genera" good health has prevailed ; abundance has crowned the toil of the husbandman ; and labour in all its branches is receiving un ample reward , while education , science , and arts , are rapidly enlarging tbe _me-ans of social happiness . The progress of our country in her career of _t-reatness , not only in the vast extension of our territorial _imits and the rapid increase of our population , but in resources aud wealth , and in the happy condition of our people , is without example in tbe history of nation * .

      If this extract truly represents the condition of this nation , then has this _pnpe-r been one reiterated lio from its first commencement , now over two years and a half ago , nnd its publication , whioh is neither pleasant nor profitable , i s no Iong « r necessary , nor that of any National Re-form paper , and the papers of all the other parties throughout the country that are coming out in favour of the National Reform measures , with a unanimity unprecedented in any former political _movement , must be led away by a wnful delusion . Hut is Mr . Polk ' s representation corn ct ! Without meaning to charge him with wilful misrepresentation—I say unhesitatingly that it could not , in its main statements , well be more directly at va . riance wiih the truth . What is " national prosperity f " If it _con-tiat . i in an accumulation of wealth iu thc

      country , then is the President correct In Ins first statement , for undoubtedly " all the elements" for the accumulation of wealth have been more fully developed than ever before . But if the mere accumulation of wealth in ths country indicates ' * national prosperity , " then , certainly , must Great Britain far surpass ours and every other nation , for no other nation is so wealthy in proportion to its population , or so well supplied with " all the elements of national prosperity . " Yet who dors not know that the people of the British Islands are the most miserable of any civilised nation ? And who , that has studied the _suhjsct , does not know that the same causes that have mainly contributed gradually to increase the misery and degradation of the British people for the last fifty years , are now producing the same effects among us J That although " all the elements" of production are increasing , the

      distribution of products becomes more and more unequal I That through the monopoly of the soil a few are enabled to menoplise tbe powers of production , such as labour _snving machinery , as soon as they are invented , and that thus these powers , now increasing with _unexampled rapidity , become a curse and an oppression to the landless whose labour they supplant ! Who that have not been rioting in the spoils of office , and wilfully evaded all investigation , con be ignorant that in the State of New York , for example , as in England , the laud is passing Into fewer hands , the landless city populations are _disproportionately accumulating , wages are falling and rents rising , and prisons , poor houses , und brothels are increasing in a much greater ratio than the population ! Mr . Polk could havo obtained official statistics for all these facts ; yet he states that the _increase of " national prosperity" for the past jear hai been unprecedented in our past history !

      To what we can attribute _tlii « insensibility of the Pre . _sident to the real condition of tho people , if not to the fact he has been _educated in the lap of luxury , fed by th . ; labours of others , and witbout a chance of forming a conception of what it is to be landless and dependent on a market and tho will of others for the chance to luhour for the .- scanty necessaries of life ? WiU not this statement of Mr , Polk ' s be a bitter I- _sson to three-fourths of the people who or whoso offspring are not above the liability to wages slavery , against choosing another slaveholder or _1-irge landholder for their President , at _Ie-n . t , without written testimony that be understands how to make national prosperity and the prosperity « f the toilers coincident , and that he will use all his powers to secure that result .

      If we did not make great allowance for "the accident of birth ' and other circumstances not the least imposing of which i 9 the possession of an income of 26 , 000 dollars a year , it would be difficult for us in New York to _understand the-President ' s _assertion that " l .-ibour in nil its _branches is receiving an ample reward" and his allusion to " the happy condition of our people , " as anything but ' bitter irony , ' in the teeth of the fact that at least 70 , 000 of our 400 , 000 population in this city are dependent on charity or pauper relief , that females make shirts for fivo cents , that others apply in vain for work at that price and ' do worse , ' and that at this very time oui- poor house _commissioner is doing what h ., rd ' y dare be done in England , ' refusing applications for relief ! although here , as in England , husbands aud wives , parents and children , are separated i . i the poor hou es _, _atidimny inthe most _neiessitous condition arc thus prevented from apiily ' nc for relief !

      But ptrhaps the President would say , if by any possibility these facts eould be pressed horn-.- upon him , as some of our Native neighbours say , that thi * pauperism is mostly foreign , and is only to be found in our senports . Mr . Polk might learn if ho took the means that a President _oujjht to take , that every city , inland as well as seaboard , are gradually approaching New Yoik in their increase of poverty and pauperism , an . l that the causes lire at work that would produce the same results , though more slowly , if not a foreigner came to our shores . Here is an extract from the " Syracuse Star ' of the Oth instant : —

      . "The Poob . —The Poormaster of this town recently informed us that wiihin the few days previous he had been applied to by , and had relieved , ' over six hundred different persons ! ' Whin we n fleet tbat it i * only those who are most necessitous and needy that usually make application for town charity , we at once perceive the alarming state of want and destitution existing herein ohr midst nt the present time . Should not some active and concerted measures be taken by our citizens to _prori-ie lelief to the poor during the coming winter ! Cannot the hands and hearts of some of our benevolent ladies he enlisted in the wcrk !

      Does that little item from an inland town look as though " labour in all its branchss , " was " receiving an ample reward ! " What must our farm ln _' _ourt-r * and their employers throughout the country , the former of whom toil ( whom allowed ) from sun to sun for six , eight , nnd ten dollars a month , think of the President ' s statement ? Whatmust the widows and orphans of the men forced by necessity to venture on the ocean , so miiny of whom haTe lain in winrows along our shores lately , think of the assertion t What will our miners and mechanics say to it 1 " Amply rewarded ¦ " are they ! And this assertion from a mau receiving _loU . ' iOu dollars for four years' salary !

      About _two-thirda of the _Message ( ana it is a long one ) , is taken up with a history and defence of the war ; but a far different history of it will go down to posterity ! The defence is probably as good a one ns could be made ; but it does not afford the least justification . There would at this moment be a thousand times more reason for civil war by our landless population who arc denied the smallest _foot-hold on their native soil , and subjected to the most necessitous and degrading alternatives , even to « nlistment as fighting mercenaries at seven dollars per month , than the President makes out for the Mexican war . One thing he makes plain , that the war was caused by the annexation of Texas ; another thing is almost equally plain , that if no attempt had beeu made to take by force the territory between thc _Ncuces and the ltio

      Grande , anil had our in my betu confined to the defence of the disputed territory , the war might have _bee-u avoided . The President attempts to show that the disputed territory was a part of Texas ; but fully ns much to the purpose has been said _--n thc other side , and one fact is , in my opinion , sufficient to outweigh nil Mr . Polk's argument , that the residents and cultivators of the disputed territory left their crops to rot on General Taylor ' s _approaeh , _although offered protection ! But even admitting that it was right to tax the nation enormously to maintain all the tcrri . tory this side of the Bio Grande , where is the justification for invading and desolation the It _-mes of the Mexicans , and _Irtting loose , to commit robbery , rape , and murder , a hired and debasing _soldiery , in great part collected from Europe , and inspired by -whiskey _?

      If the collection of money due by Mexico , and not the _acouisition of territory for the extension of slavery and end speculation , had been the real pretence for the war , why not have declared Hon-intercourse with Mexico , or even have made reprisals upon her commerce , without shedding blood , or , at least , without committing rape and _mureltving children ' . There is no doubt , from the President ' s own showing , that Mexico was unable to pay the demands upon her , even admitting them to be just ; that she was struggling for national existence with frequent change of rulers ; and them can be no doubt , that _nonintercourse would have been far more cheap , humane , and likely tn be effectual in obtaining the paltry _I ' _ollnrs . Although I do not consider Mr . Polk alone to blame in this war , _believing it a most base plot of one party , sanctioned from motives equally base by another , I would not bear Mr . Polk ' s share of the guilt of it for all the dollurs in the world .

      The pains taken by the President ' s friends to make it believed ihat Mexico commenced the war by murdering our citizens , a statement which he repeats iu his message , shows the need of justification . Who docs not recollect that Captain Thornton ' s company were chasing a few Mexicans when they came upon a larger pany and were captured t But , admitting the causes for the invasion of Mexico , and for the murder and rapine which have been the consequence , to be as just as the President has endeuvoiircd to show tbem , I contend tha tit is the policy _ofj Uie large majority of the people of this nation to oppose the war to the utmost , as I believe they do , because they are fullering , and liable to sutler , for tlieir deprivation of the right to the soil , a far more serious deprivation than that experienced by the alleged Mexican spoliations . The war is nn obstacle inthe way of the recovery of thc riejit to thc soil , and that alone is ample ground for opposition to t , and all it a supporters .

      The President wants provision for building foits and maintaining his conquests in Mexico ! and two millions for secret service money I Will these grants be made , in the face of the Southern declarations that their object is to obtain a balance of slave power ! lie wants a loan of twenty . three millions , too , for

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      twenty years , ( to create a standing army to tax . eat e . rs , ) besides the fifteen millions , which the Union sai _< was expected from the lands just , offered to the speculators , but which fifteen _ruillionu he does uot even hint at in his estimates ! I ! No President's message ever contained a moro mischievous fallacy than Mr . Polk ' s attempt to show our farmer j that they should bo dependent on it British market for the surplus produce . When the people of Britain recover tlieir right to thesoi , they willnotnceda bushel of our grain ; and nt shall be compelled to manufacture for ourselves . When our agriculture and manufactures are properly porportioned , as they will be when we recover our light to the soil , we shall need no foreign market except to acquire products that our climate will not produce This is the tendency of things , and ought to be the especial aim ofa Republican President .

      A small portion ef the message is devoted to ther ** . portant topic , the Publie Lands . The President again recommends his graduation plan , for getting settlers on to the poor lands in order to give tho speculators better chances at tbe best . The President ought to know by this time , without any ifs that there is no way to prevent Land Monopoly but for the people to hold the land in common , and guarantee to each family the use of a sufficient portion . He proposes to bring the laws of Oregon "into market !" I doubt much whether he ever will . If I was there with a printing establishment , as I once thought to be , he should have a _fifht for it first ; and it would not be much of a fight cither , for every soldier be sent there should be ofi ' ereid possession ol ' ICO acres of land _.

      Destruction Of Worth-Park House By Fire....

      DESTRUCTION OF WORTH-PARK HOUSE BY FIRE . The handsome residence , thc seat of Joseph Montefiore , Esq-, the eminent merchant , was completely destroyed by an early hour on Tuesday morning . The house consisted partly ofa very ancient building , formerly a large farm house , but Mr . Montefinrc had laid out several thousands in moderating it , arid cn _' arging it to more than double its former size , till it both presented an imposing aspect externally , and was a fit abode for a gentleman of fortune and consideration . He bad been staying there on Sunday , and was out on Monday with the Crawley and Horsham hounds ; lie returned to lunch , and left at about four o ' clock for London . The fire * in the

      dining-room , which was in the older porti * n ot the house where ho had heen sitting , was then allowed to die out . About half-past ten on Monday night the housekeeper was going through thc rooms to see that all was safe , and perceived a strong _miicI ! of fire ; this was traced to the dining-room , which was found full of smoke , and soon after the door had been _opened names broke out . and the house began to catch fire rapidly . The neighbours were alarmed as quickly as possible , and hastened to render all tho aid in their power . Mr . Savage , the station clerk at Three Bridges , who was formerly superintendent of _police on the _Brighton Railway , was able to give some valuable directioRS for the emergency , nnd the labourers from all parts spared no exertions ; but

      little or nothing could be done beyond rcmovinjL hastily some of the more costly and portable artich s of furniture . The nearest engine is at Keigate , ten miles off , and a message was sent for it by theu ; - _goods-train , but some mistake occurred , and thu engine , instead of being brought to Worth-park , was taken to Lord Monson _' s , on the oi her side of Reigate ; and , in fact , ' no engine arrived from first to last . The fire , therefore , had complete mastery of the premises , and burnt on freely and rapidly . A large white cat , » great favourite , provided lor its own salety by mounting a tree in the garden , and looking quietly on . In less than two hours the mansion was on fire from end to end . The roof fell in portions ; the noble billiard-room , and the chambers over it , were the last to yield ; but before live o ' clock on Tuesday morning the entire place was burned tn

      the ground , nothing remaining but a few tragments of walls and some chimneys , parts of which have heen falling by scraps since . _iVr . Montefiore , for whom a mounted express was sent , arrived in the course of the morning , and thanked his friends and neighbours fer their assistance , remunerating the labouring men very liberally , and congratulating all that no injury had occurred to the person of any one . The fire is supposed to have originated in the chimney of the dining-room . Itis seen now that there was a _Jargc crois-beam about three feet above thegrate , and some of the materials whieh usually shielded it from the heat may probably have got detached , and crumbled away after the haid frost . No estimate has yet been announced of the damage done ; but , of course , the utter destruction of a gentleman ' s mansion , with most of its costly furniture , must cause a very heavy loss to some party or other

      [¦Ooit-Law Investigation At West Derby W...

      [¦ _OOIt-LAW INVESTIGATION AT WEST DERBY WORKHOUSE . On Monday , Mr . Austin , assistant poor-law commissioner , attended at the board room of the West Derby Workhouse , forthe purpose of investigating a complaint prcfern d against William Tristram , one of the relieving officers of that union . The complaint was to ihe effect that through his negligence * or refusal to administer relief , the death of a labourer ab . iiit 37 years of age , residing in Black Boltonstrect , Edge-bill , nnd named James Parks , had been caused . Mr . Peter Bradshaw , rate-book clerk and assstiant overseer , said , on Tuesday morning the _15-h of December , about hnlt ' -pa _** t ten o'clock , a man entered the door of the overseer ' s office—I was present—I . _n put hU hand out immediately and caught hold of the counter to support himself , and sank down upon a

      chair that was standing there , apparently quite exhausted . He appeared to breathe with great _dillieulty , and in about live minutes I asked what his object was ? He stated that he was on his way to the union workhouse to see the relieving officer , that lie could not get there in time , and he looked up to the clock and said it was half-past ten then . I asked him if he wanted relief , he said he did , that he had not tasted any food since the previous morning . 1 told him that it was board day , that he would hi * in time , and that we would urocure a car for him . I asked the assistant-surveyor , Ralph Owett , who was then in ollice , whether he would _joiume in procurin _* . n car for him , at our joint expense , and he agreed . By " , '' 1 mean myself and Owett . The man was much pleased at the proposal about the car . A ea _*

      was _brought , the man was put in , and thc driver was ordered by me to drive lo thc union workhouse . I paid the fire . I never saw the man afterwards . I should say , from what he told mc , that he was _sul _" . _ft-ring Loth from disease and want of food . I haveseen very distressing cases of confirmed asthma , and the man in question was labouring under the worst case of a * _-timta I ever saw . I have heard ut persons dying immediately of suffocation from confirmed asthma . The reason I did not at once relieve him was , because the board were sitting , and I thought it best to send him on by the car at once . L am aware that , as assistant overseer , the law directs mc

      to administer relief in cases of absolute necessity . 1 considered the case of this man a mere casual , and not a permanent one—and one that . ought to come before the board at once , as he eould be conveyed before tbem in live minutes , lie was a quarter of au hour or twenty minutes iu my office . He stated to me that his family consisted of a wife and four children , the two youngest being twins . He tlie ! not say tbat they had been without food since the da ) before . I did not ask him whether they had or had not been without it , for the man answered with such great difficulty that 1 asked him as few questions as possible . His _difficulty arose from confirmed asthma and the exhaustion consequent on walking .

      -Mr . Greaterex , surgeon , ascribed death to disease in tho lungs , but admitted that being without food from Monday morning to Tuesday evening would be unfavourable to his complaint . * Thc wife of the deceased stated , —My husband died on tin * lOtli of December , lie applied for relief at the workhouse on the 15 th . lie got no relief , lie got a doctor ' s note at the _workhou-e ; in < l brought , it to me on tlie Uth . That was the first time he had been for relief . I pledged and sold all we had . We had no food , —not a mor .-el . On the Monday morning wc had our last meal . It consisted of coffee without sugar and dry biead . On the Tuesday morning I made my husband some coffee before he went to the workhouse . He bad nothing to eat with it , because we had nothing at all to eat in the house , and no means of netting any . Tuesday ni <; Ut I had something to eat . That was purchased with haIf-a-crown which a gentleman had given me after my husband went to the workhouse . 1 had no further relief until

      Friday , when four shillings worth of bread and different articles were sent by Mr . Tristram . That was the first relief I had had from him except a medical order . My husband had been out of work three weeks . lie was very ill during that time . Hehad work to go to , but could not go . The week before he applied for relief all that wc had was -Is . I sold two chairs to get us tbat 4 s . Tho week before that I pledged my clothes to get us food . My husband got back about five o ' clock on the Tuesday . lie said that when he asked for relief at the workhouse they asked him how long he had been off work ; he replied three weeks ; and the man who asked him said , " A pretty fellow you are tocomc for relief when you have only been oil' work threo weeks . " lie further said that the man who refused him the use ofthe donkey cart told him "that there was the liouse _IVr him , and that , if he could not walk homo , he might stop in the house . " My husband said , before he died , that it was a hard thing to die for want in a Christian country .

      Mr . Peers , one of thc guardians , deposed that Tristram said , at the time the application was made , " 1 have got rid of that chap ; he was frightened , and bolted when I named the house , " Two witnesses were-examined for the defence , with the view of showing that Tristram had done all that was necessary in thc case , and the evidence was transmitted to thc Poor Law Commissioners who will communicate their decision to the Derby Board

      Scolds.-To ••. Hat Town Should Incorrigi...

      Scolds .-To . hat town should incorrigible _gco'ds be sent « lo _-wewabury .

      Elopement In Iiigilllfe. An Elopement To...

      ELOPEMENT IN IIIGIlLlFE . An elopement took place last week which caused considerable sensation in " high society . " The youthful parties were the Hon . Miss Lister , eldest daughter of the late Lord _Ribbleadale and the late Lady John Russell , and consequently step-daughter of the Premier , and Mr . Maurice Drummond , third son of Mr . Charles Drummond the opulent banker . It was known to both families that a warm attachment existed as far back as f _^ vo years ago . Lord John Russell , on learning that fact , we hear , did not positively discourage the addresses of the suitor , but most properly advised a more mature consideration , and mentioned the youth of both the parties as the onlv obstacle .

      On Friday last , shortly before six o'clock , the Hon . Miss Lister clandestinely left thc roof of her affectionate guardian , and her absence was not positively ascertained until just before dinner time , when inquiries among the domestics proved fruitless , as the you * hful lady had departed unobserved by any of Mie establishment . The Earl and Countess Grey were , with a small circle , dining with Lord and Lady John Russell ; but the Noble Lord was so ' much affected , that tlie party broke up shortly after they had as-Hembled . 'l'he fugatives bent their course to the Continent , and not to Gretna , the usual rendesvonz for runaway lovers ; and a _satisfactory clue having been obtained to their route , thc Messrs . Robert and Charles Drummond , brothers of Mr . M . Drummond , without the least possible delay , proceeded in quest oftlie parties . They were discovered in _ France , and were immediately brought back to tbis country by tlieir friends , and reached London on Sunday _ftfternoin .

      Tho Hon . Miss Lister was instantly taken to thc residence of her step-father . On Tuesday morning the " runaways" were marrial at St . Paul's Church , _Knightshridge . The ceremony was conducted with the strictest privacy . The _II-w . Miss Lister is in her twentieth year , and Mr . Maurice Drummond is within a few mouths two years her senior . He is , we understand , a clerk in the Treasury .

      Amputation Without Pain, Our Readers Are...

      AMPUTATION WITHOUT PAIN , Our readers are aware ibat a scries of experiments , iceently made by an American _physician , led hira to announce to his professional brethren the discovery of a gas , the inhalation of which was capable of . reducing the inhaler to a state of insensibility of so ' ntense a character , that the most painful surgical operations might be performed without causing any , even the slightest suffering to the patient . We stated on Saturday that an eperation had been performed on the preceding day , at the Richmond Hospital , in this city on a female , who was subjected to the inhalation of the gas whose newly-discovered properties promise to confer such benefits on suffering _fiuiuawity ; and that the result was ofthe most satisfactory character . Through the kindness of a professional friend , we are enabled to day to give some of the details of this most interesting and successful experiment .

      The patient was a young woman , under twenty years of age . She received an injury in the _elbowjointsome weeks since , which is supposed to be inflicted by a bramble penetrating the joint , and inducing inflammation of the delicate membrane that covers the surface oftho bones of the joint . When admitted to the hospital , the joint was much swollen , and iii a state of suppuration . Mr . M'Donnell _, the gifted surgeon , under whose care she was , applied _ive-ry remedy which professional skill could suggest , but without effect . The patient was rapidly sinking ; her constitution was unequal to the combat ; hectic fever set in , and on a consultation being held it was the unanimous opinion of the surgeons ot the institution that there remained butone meats of saving the gin ' s life—amputating the arm . The poor _j-irl was

      apprised other position ; she consented to undergo the operation , it boing the last chance of life , and Wednesday last wu » fixed on as the day on which it was to be performed . We understand that on Tuesday evening Mr . M'Donneli first conceived the idea of testing t e efficacy tf ihe narcotising gaa—the fumes of pure .-ulphuric ether *— but with thatself' -devotion so characteristic of gnat minds , lie resolved that his fust experiment should be on himself . The necessary apparatus bad tobe made , and the contemplated operation on the girl was postponed to Friday . The apparatus necessary to apply the fumes ofthe ether with effect , though simple , required nice adapation . That recommended consists essentially of two valves

      placed in a tube , and acling iu different directionsthe one opening at eaeh _insplation , bo as freely to admit the fumes of the ether , and closing at each expiration ; the other opening at each expiration , so as to admit of the escape of the expired air , and closing at eaeh effort at inspiration , so as to exclude the atmospheric air , and thus prevent tlie too great dilution of the fumes . These valves , it is obvious , must play with ' , such freedom us to offer no _seriou * obstacle to the process of inhalation . After several failures an apparatus was procured , and Mr . M'Donnel ) , accompanied by a _professional friend in whose steadiness ami skill he had perfect confidence , re tired to his study to make his first experiment—and on himself .

      Alter a few minutes inhalation the operator became perfectly insensible . He , however , was quickly _restored trom his temporary death . No uuplvasant sensation remained , and—resolved that the poor girJ _.-houlel not be experimented on till hehad first properly satisfied himself that no possible injury could result to her—Mr . M'D . nnell again and again operated on himself , each timo producing the most perfect insensibility—in fact , a complete absence of all sensation ; and , on being restored , each time ( _elt , as he afterwards described it , no unpleasant sensation ; but , on tho contrary , rather a pleasing sense of quiescence during the return of sensibility , which lasted for some minutes . Having thus convinced himself of the safety oftlie experiment , and his friends ol' the perfect temporary

      annihilation of sensation , Mr . M'Donuell proceeded ou Friday to perforin the operation ( amputation ) on his patient , in the presence of a number of his professional brethren . Having treated his patient as he had previously treated himself , she became nsensible in a lew minutes , and lis proceeded to operate . The several stages of the operation were proceeded with , the patient all the time evincing no evielenee of consciousness . The integuments and muscles were cut through , the bone was sawed across , and the amputated arm laid aside the patient continuing to all appearance ignorant of the whole proceeding . These several _stages occupied something more , we believe , than a minute and a half , anel more than two minutes more elapsed before tne patient evinced any symptoms of returning sensibility . When she first became conscious , the di tinyuished operator was tying 0113 of the Heeding

      vessels . Tins she felt , and described her sensation i . ccurately , she also complained of a sense of smarting , such as is usually felt alter nn incised wound , over the surface nf the stump . She was perfectly conscious iiuri : g the dressing ofthe .-tump , and her sensations at ths time , in no way appeared tn differ from tho-e of patients operated on in the usual way . She appeared , however , to suffer less , and was less agitated , than other patients . Since Friday , the patient has been doing well , no bad symptoms have appeared—none of any charact' _-i' attributable to the exhalation . ImFOHTAM EXPEBISIENTS AT TUB LONDON IIcsriTALS . The _fallowing particulars , connected with the introeuictioucf the recently discovered ethereal iutlu _* ence to patients in the course e-f _undergoing _surgie-al operations at several of the metropolitan hospitals on Saturday , and which was _generally adopted at those institutions on that dav . will eloubtless be read with

      considerable interest . Mr . Ferguson , the eminent surgeon of King ' * College Hospital , having signified his intention of operating on three patients by tlte inhalation of ether in that institution , the theatre was cro . vded by members of thc medical profession , amongst \ - horn were Drs . Forbes , Todd , Kutld , _1-arrar , Pabiidgc , Avery , Bowman . Drewett _, Hall , Thompson , Robinson , Cartwright . Stevens , and others . The first patient _iterated upon was a young woman , a _semptress . She had been admitted on the _eilst ult ., suffering severely from an abscess lonmd by constantly sitting at needlework . It was the second time it had so

      formed . It appears that sue had it opened on lhursday , and the operation rendered necessary on Saturday was the removal of what was described to be a blind external fistula . The young woman when brought in had a handkerchief tied over her eyes , and seemed exceedingly weak . Hav ng been placed on a kind of couch , the inhalation of the vapour was proceeded witb , and in a few seconds she fell a > leep . Dr . Forbes , perceiving Mr , Ferguson was about commencing the operation , observed that tho patient was not effectually etherised , adding as a proof ot his assertion , that she still clenched his hand . In tlie next moment , however , the knife had completed its work

      without a murmur from the patient , or the least mus cular action . The apparatus was only kept to _hei mouth till insensibility was apparent , ' not morvi thai two minutes . She recovered to a state of consci ousness immediately alter the operation . On Mr Fergusson asking her if she was aware thc operatioi was performed , aud whether she felt any pain , slu replied that she was confident she felt the use of tin knife , hut experienced no ; the slightest pain . Tw , other patients ( males ) , who evidently were _** ufl ' etin | severely , were ueUoperated upon with equal success Oncol them , on recovering from his insensibility , re marked that he had h . _iel a dream .

      On Saturday , the inhalation was tried by Mr _Mafiktuurelo in St . Thomas ' s Hospital , in the pre seiieej- of Mr Green . Dr . Barker . Dr . Lecson _, Mr Clark , Mr . _Whitfii'ld , and other gentlemen con nected -with the institution . The effects of the oilier were first tried on a pa tient w . _' io is to be operated on hereafter . The inhn lation , -. ¦ though continued for upwards of three mi mile ' s , did 1 ot produce insensibility on the patien first tried , . ind the amount of cerebral congestion contracted i ' xrU , and other symptoms , were so unsa _tiaf ' actory as to induce the medical gentlemen to de _sist . The _ne-Xt patient was a child , six years old

      Amputation Without Pain, Our Readers Are...

      who had a _scrofulou * disease of tho ir _^ i _^ Insensibility was speedily produced , and tu % murdo immediately removed the finger tk' V did not appear to sustain much pain » in , ,, a t _-ttt period of comple insensibility to externa \ in A % w » 9 , " {* - * * Tl _!;* , The chil ( 1 *« J _S X 'io $ withdraw the hand during the operation S , n , _M' covering asked it his finger was off . He di 1 _* " _K cognisant of the fact , and when asked if fi" - _% should then be removed , answered " x ., il % child seemed to suffer no _sub-equent uicon' K neither did the patient to whom the other _^ " _^ t administered . On the whole the result w ' ' r _sidered very satisfactory . *** ' iW

      At _biiaritig-cross Hospital an operation tempted under the influenee if - / _thei * 1 , _^ n removal of a large tatty tumour over ihp " i * ' * _K ofa young woman , 22 years of age . It u , \ _-2 kl , % the writer to state whether the _non-su _^ _T" ' - _* trial arose from thc defective construction nr' ? k paratus , or the vapour not acting upon tlmi 'le » l * tion of thc female . ° ' - " * - _^ . itj No doubt in course of time this _valuable r will be brought into general use in the , COv *>) hospitals throughout the kingdom . " " et _<^ Most _Imi-oiitant _Opkuatioxs at Gcr ' s II -Guy ' s Hospital was on Tuesday crow , ] ,, 0 s _' ' _'*' -. by members of the medical urofessi _. m fr ,,, , 1 " i of the metropolis and from the country _^ tbe results of two _surgical operations under ti ""' ' ' process of inhalation of ether . Tin- si , _¦*"<» » i .. « - _* _. i „ ... in .. „ ,. ' ' " _* - _nrstf . i .,. ' aiui

      -.., « uo , * , 1 * ur it years O ace fnr 1 ; '*) or stone . ) When brought into the . i _, " - «»» bound |» usual , Mr . RobL , o ,- " _of tv _^ L « _J inventor of the apparatus , offered the .. in _, ' - ' halation to the patient . At first be _refnl , ** operated on , on account of the manv _ZZ tol » sent . Hy some tact the pipe was i , t ? iu-V _noao closed , and in two minutes Mr 1 f . " - _''U the patient was ready . Ti ,. _" _^ ! ul t _^ menccd _, and in one minute more th ,. J co _« removed by Mr . Morgan , the 0 i Z f _* "* removed to his bed ; and ot * bein r " vi _« ir . _r _^ surgeons , and on being -. „ wn till ed ''• ' '* ¦ tid he , " you never took tL 1 _fV „ m me i _' t" _* 1 never felt it . " The _nextcie wa _' _"'*'• " traordinary . Thc patient _wasim-ml " ;" _- < years of age , suffe ,, _' n _fl'S _, Vfc' _i "J operation lor which _» _, perhaps , the „ ost _^ and prolonged in surgery . When _i-r ., u " l ? ; ., "?

      operating theatre , he readily took _ihe- _'V , _'*' From iour to live minutes the word «„ B _' "' _" _y key , the operator in this instance by Mr R , i ; ' to commence the operation . From tlie com K ment to the completion of the operation , the mr * was under the knife from 15 1- 20 minutes a ? rec , yen ,, g he was asked by those ar 0 Ui „ f | , jP , V ? had felt pain , and replied ¦• Not „ the least ¦ ] , '' _[; ' been loolungat those gentlemen outside , uo _u-J _? He alluded to numbers who could not _eaiii . -2 tanceand had availed themselves of the _sUvU _. k ' _| f e theatre . Messrs . Morgan and Key pvo „ _uu c the result to be most perfect and _astoniiiliiig . '

      Sale Of A Wife At Shf.Ffikld — A V,™,. N...

      Sale of a Wife at Shf . ffikld — A v , _™ ,. _nai . ied Harriet I ' rotter was _, -oid bv her hii _^ batide the Corn _hxvhwge , Sheffield , tm Tuesdav , u _^ her will . . She and her husband had often _qu-irrellej and he threatened to kill her if site would not _^ sent to be sold by auction . The mavor of _Shefii-ij interfered belnre the woman was removed from ii Corn _Exi-lunge , and she was placed in custody at j warrantR were issued for thc apprehension of t l hut-band . How to Enj _.-y Christmas . —An ingeiiiou-- print-, in a small town in Warwickshire , who was _eniplor *; the other day to print some bills , stating the int" * j tion of some ofthe principal tradesmen to el"se tlV _>' shops till the Monday following Christmas Dav , _spj stituted V for S , thus _represenf'tig tbe wortb lieges as having entered into a league to clo _** e t ! i « chops during a season rather remark bit ; fur th increased necessities for opening then : which _custon imposes .

      _Ronm-RiEs bt Sham P 01 . 1 ctMES .--On _Wcilne- _"* , _* morning , information was forwarded to ali the mi trepolitan police stations of an attempted Jii _,. i , w » robbery under the following novel circumstances- . It appears that about eleven o ' clock a f ' _-niale _v , mi Martha Cooper , the wife of a mechanic , re-itlin-h Crosby-row , Snow ' s Fields , BernKiio _' s . y , Wll * pa * ing along King-street , _Uor-. ugli , when she _^ stopped by two _decently-dressed mtn , who re- * _st-ntcd themselves as officers connected _witli _tMs . teetive police , and , as she bad a _Jarte parcel of . rear , in ? apparel under her arm , they demanded , in th * Queen's nan . e , to examine the contents , as . « heai > swered the

      description of a female ther wer ,- _iookiw for . She , with great presence of mind , _ivL-eit ti to allow them to search her property , but u » i . lthtn to show their authority , when _tlu-v pullci _utiti printed paper . She at ! e gth told them _tia-v t „ i _.-b | s e the contents if they _thou-iht proper to _au-iimpa-i her to one ot the nadesmen ' _s shops . Tlu-v , hov ' e ** er , refused to accede to her proposal , and , whilst she was entering the nearest house for that pu _.-pow they saw a policeman some distance off , am ! _n-m _diately afterwards effected their escape . Seven other attempts of a similar character have bee made in tho same district , in which the robbers bin effected _tkir"object .

      Itwiut Fntriliffma.

      itwiut _fntriliffma .

      Coun Exchange, Jasuabv 14. U At This E *...

      COUN EXCHANGE , Jasuabv 14 . U At this e * ; iy ' s market there was so little ; En i _*!*> ii _ieh q on sale that no change in value can be- ivj . (> _m-il . ! : j foreign , buyers again came forward , ami iWlv _. ifoq the improvement _noteil on . Monday , Hlicrea < * l . e , _'JaL gene-rally demanded a further advance ot * ls . tu : _' . « . r * i _? quarter . Tht supply of barley was short , and luillft to Us . higher . The same remark applies tn malt . Mik money is also demanded for beans and peas . Indian e .: C without change . O . its _.-. t Is . per eir , _uelvience . t

      *** nf PROVINCIAL MARKETS . M — ii IUkkfield Corn Makket -Fincdrv wheat' _mvc-. a | U _rali . v held nrmly , _it an advance of ls . ' to _"' _$ . pi-r . _jiiiiteM but thc 111-g-i supply is evidently a cheek Mi . _tiriiiiilffflTO buying freely . Barley is held on higher term-.. _lit'ilB met a blow sale , at late prices . . Malt is held it an si f vanee nf-. ' s . per load . \ _i \ LiVBKrooi . C ' ou . _n Market . —There has been a * w . _| ij dtmand on wheat for local consumption and t ' ir .. _* ii | _. _i'i- _** ' I to Irthmel _, at an advance of ad . to Id . per _Im-die-i . " . iiis & lucsd . iy ' s prices . The extreme rates e , f hist ' fiie-Ji , ' | nave been obtained for oats , barley , beans , pens mule * 1 I'lta ) . M _lli'LL Ookn Market —At this dav ' s market "e _luijm a fair show < . f _English wheat , but tiie _' gvower _* . j * l _. i .. _^ S | mcuh money , wc bad but a limited _biisiiieis pa- > i ; _i--, i \\ t ) s . per _-i-ianer advance , except for superior sorts . M , liiBMiNGUAM Corn _Kxchavoh . - Din-ill ' s th- l _W'Sfi week _Eiij-lish wheat has realized an advance of * . '¦ _" . _wiiBB per qr . ; Malting barley held for a rise of vis . to Is . _jierqt II checked sales . ¦¦

      Newcastle Corn- _Maukbt . —Wheat must he _iiuoU'dl'l ' ° !* 8 _' . . , cr < lr-higher than ou Saturday last , _l _. itvlt-y w * held tor - _' s . per <] r . more money , ltvt- continues _Mtreiiii'j scarce , Deans and _pe'as maintain _thuir value . In uats alii ] I _' ther grain wo had 110 . _ilteration . Warrington Corn _Mauket .-Aii advance of Id . to f' ! per bushel , on wheat , was _siven bv the millers and _wi « larmers would not sell even at ' tliut increase in •¦ rii'i Oats were sold at 4 s . » d- to 3 s . per -IMbs . _fluiir ! V : * - . 8 . per load more money ; superfine 54 s . ; best sce _-oii-i ••' ¦ * . ; common do . It ' s . . Meal ins . to :, . ' _* .. per _h-ad - ¦ . MOltis . ' .. _Ianciibktbh Cob . v M . eiiKET .-Wlie . _'tl e _,-as held i '> r *" _advanev _eif-Jct . to Sd . per 7 lbs . on thc currency ef . _'¦« day -. e ' _nnurlit . Kluur must be _lifted Is . per _saeU ¦¦ "' barrel dearer , with a lair amount of business _pas-i _** : ' * the article .

      State Of Trade. ' Ueps.— Tho Woollen Tra...

      STATE OF TRADE . ' Ueps . — Tho woollen trade , if auvthins , is a ¦ _* li _;' _- ' _eH- _te-r . Tin * foreign houses are _doiin- ' a trifle' more l < ii ' . _'i _«'» than they were lately . Prices remain firm . Manchester .- Some little business has been _d-af-if belter , yet tar from _saving pviees . With one _i-. me ; ti- '* ti vvery manufacturer in _Stah bridge is no «* « orki «/ r ' ' !' three to four days ii-neck ; and _licre-e-nc of tlio i _-. ivgt'r * _- concerns _e-losed tlieir inill < _ye-stciel'iy . '' iiAm _. _'onii .-- _''icces : Our ' markets havo been of _ntliw nn unsatisfactory character today . The _fe-elhij , 'it . » i _. market is , however , iu _ge-neral , that of tloom . _ii'iJ _Al almost miivmaJ deaniess of food renders a _spee-dv it * * i va ! iu trade next to impossible . —Yarns without " _'i . ' _''" .. ' tion .- Wools . -remain remarkably firm at last week '* ; B v tatious . Halifax . —The new year has opened with much _«•*'' - ' •' iluliiess thut characterised thc latter markets of ii _' _-i ' _-S _' _- _deeessor , and it is generally _thought that the _eNm -i _** _' _*' - _* _' ' auvanemg prices of provisions tend t „ protract <'' ' greater distance the period of a revival Hut few I - * ' I * have _chtiuged ban . s in the hull , aud prices remain * _* rt _* ' _* proved . l

      _llupDEnsnnLD .-Then- has been a considerable * _' •¦ ' lless done in light goods for the . prim ; trades . (*„» . H _* ' . H continue in demand , anel several orders have twii ' 'n *' tor bro . ids of that colour . _Kociidale . —There has been n quiet market , nit ! " _M * limited demand for goods . _U-ii'estek . — We are _i-hed to learn that more A . iik . _'w ! orders have been received ; and that there is also i" ' _.- ' _r- * more doint ; t ' ov the home trad * , _iiiitwithi . _t'iudiiw ll' ° ' ° iul increase which has taken place in the price c' i " _"' . i sious of all Minis . _Nei'rn _. _NoiiAM .-Lnce : Some inactivity prevail * . _'¦*¦ _' ' market , though prices of wrought good an * ' ¦ ' _•* continue fully _ctjual to what they were at our Lift '' _' !* *'' —Hosiery : The market presents no pavticrt _' . avly u _>'' ' . i >'; tore this week , The demand for useful spring r l " _' " ' c" _' coiuimies very brisk ; and the factors are His'd } ' * '' - ' * ' ' laying in thcirsteicks forthe coining _season , th * -1 _'* 1 ' _* _*^ _'' _- of which arc very encouraging , In the _co'ton pi " ' ' r * _Ui-t we bave notice this week of a third _ailva , _»* aa Is . per bundle .

      * ' LASimw . —Cotton Yarn : Our market presents a '* a firmer aspect this neck , ami advances to a _rviiisu-e' _^ _u- ' extent have been obtained .--Cotton Goods ¦ 1 i , e- ¦ _' ¦" .- ¦¦ _Ce-iltiuticK depressed lor _piei- _'C goods genera '''•

      All Heavy, Sleepy, Elvowsy And Apoplecti...

      All heavy , sleepy , _elvowsy and apoplectic > ymi _' ' ' . _'' ' Pt " _- innli .-itely iciue-vcd by llol ' mvay ' s l'ills . _—T' " ' 1 . ' ' " .,. ' ' * _iiuu'li danger to be apprehended from attach * - > 'i l " r -1 " : or apoplexy nhell any eiftlu- foregoing sjinp _''""' ' ;' ' " about the system for any length of time , such * ' _** . "a * things indicates much _deratige-mctit of the _st-m * " ' . ' m * " liver , and clearly remonstrates a great want _otpi' _-lp _*' the blood ; when this is thc case not a moment > lioi 1 : > ln lost iu taking a tew _s > tn > ng tW'S of these celebraW" ate which so _thoiollghly cleanse the bowel-- mil *• . *• while tbey act upon ' the liver and other _.. rgans . : i' ' . : i ' restore tiie blooil to its pristine purity by _reii . v " i . v v seeds of _eliscasc .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 16, 1847, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_16011847/page/2/