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      The Heart's Charity Pjfiq?. Trrrtt Ublurs F!H4t»Tv Jijse 22,1850. . .- ¦¦^ ¦ -..,..„,....,.., ., _ V ___ The Northern Star;R *

      THE HEART'S CHARITY _pjfiq ? . _trrrtt UBlurS f ! H 4 _T » TV _Jijse 22 , 1850 . _. .- _¦¦^ ¦ _-..,.. „ _,....,.., ., __ ____ THE _NORTHERN STAR ; r *

      The Heart's Charity. Bt Xuza Cook A Rich...

      . BT XUZA COOK A rich man walked abroad one day , jlnd a poor man walked tbe selfsame way , When , a pale and starving face came by _Kith a ( tallied lip and a _nopeless eye , _^ _nd that starving face presumed to stand jVnd ask for bread from the rich man ' s hand ; jjut the rich man sullenly looked askance , fflith a gathering frown and a doubtful glance . _« I have nothing , " said he , " to give you , for any such rogue of a canting crew ; < jet work , get work ! I know full well The whining lies that beggars can tell . " And he fastened his pocket , and on he went , "With his soul untouched and his conscience content .

      _jfow this great owner of golden Btore Had built a church not long before , As noble a fane as man could raise , . And the world had given him thanks and praise ; And all who beheld it lavished fame On his Christian gift and godly name . The poor man passed , and the white lips dared To ask of him if a mite could be spared ; Tbe poor man gazed on the beggar ' s cheek _. And saw what the white lips could not speak . He stood for a moment , but not to pause On the truth of the tale or the parish laws ; He was seeking , to give—though it was but small , Tor a penny , a single penny was all ; Bat be gave it with a kindly word , While the warmest pulse in his breast was stirred ; 'Twas atiny seed his Charity shed ,

      Bat the white lips got a taste of bread , And the beggar ' s blessing hallowed the crust That came like a spring in the desert dust . The rich man and the poor man died , As all of ns most , and they both were tried At the sacred judgment-seat nbove , For their thoughts of evil and deeds of love . The balance of Justice there was true , And fairly bestowed what fairly was due , And the two fresh comers through Heaven s gate Stood their to . learn their eternal fate . The recording angels told of things That fitted them both with kindred wings ; Bnt as they stood in the crystal light , The plumes of the rich man grew less bright . The angels knew hy that shadowy sip , That the poor man ' s work had been most divine ; And they brought the unerring scales to sea Where fie rich man ' s falling off could be .

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

      tone" Blessed are they who from great gain dire thousands with a reasoning beam , But holier still shall be his part Who give 3 one coin with pitying heart .

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      The National Instructor. London: W. Eide...

      THE NATIONAL INSTRUCTOR . London : W . Eider , 16 , Great "Windmill * street . Part I . of ibis new weekly periodical is now ready . Owing to the circumstance of the National Instructor having been commenced about the middle of the month , there are hat three numbers in the monthly part under notice . In previous numbers of the Star , we directed its readers * attention tothe merits and contents of _Nos . 1 and 2 of ibe Instructor . We proceed to do likewise with No . 3 ; and from an

      excellent article on "The Competitive System , " present a few extracts . The able writer ofthe above-named article , after speak ing ofthe " progressivedegradation and poverty of the masses , " and indicating these as the consequences of mechanical improvements , traly says that : It is against these things that what is called " Socialism" wars , not under any impulse of personal hostility , but with the aim and desire to replace existing institutions by societarian arrangements , calculated to develope superior principles of action among all classes ; to make society what it _ought to be by so distributing the products and

      blessings of modern science as not merely to increase the greatness ofthe nation but the happiness of the people ; not the wealth alone , but the comfort of the family . . The commercial competitive system is opposed to all these things ; competition , as at present conducted , is a progressive and perpetual development of misery . Instead of combining the powers at the disposal of society , so as to make them produce the most useful results , it places these powers in constant opposition , and eitherannihilateB them , or produces mischief by their action . Society is thus so constituted , that the prosperity of one establishment is , in too many instances , built up on the ruins of many others , and , we ask , if that can

      be a principle of order , wealth , and prosperity , which makes of society a confused mas 3 of forces , each of which triumphs only by the destruction of its opponent ? It is to this principle of competition , now omnipotent in trade and commerce , that we can alone trace the astounding social anomaly of general impoverishment and wretchedness in the midst of superabundant means for creating , and beneficially distributing wealth . It leaves society to the control of chance . AM is nap-hazard ; because , instead of the owners of capital , machinery , and labour , acting in concert , and producing only with reference to well-ascertained wants in various markets ; each manufacturer and merchant conceals from his neighbour his

      transactions as much as possible . The consequence is , that , in numerous instances more goods ofa _particolar description are made than can be profitably disposed of ; there has been no previous concert or _calculation upon that point—and the result is what is called a " glut , " or , in other words , a stoppage in the machinery—consequen tly a loss of capital and a stoppage of work—in other words , of the production of real wealth , until the surplus is got As we have already said , new means of wealth ,

      thi 3 insane and most vicious system , only add to theerils already existing . Instead of tending to universalis } the benefits which would otherwise follow the application of the discoveries of _/ genius , it _confines the possession of these discoveries to _lndi--fidnal 3 , who , inthemaa pursuit of _mdmdual ad-Tantage , too often conrert them into instalments of destruction . A new machine , instead of becoming profitable to all without exception , as it ought to be , if wisely applied , becomes a club with which the patentee-inventor crashes his competitors , and rains the thousands who depend upon them for

      em-The best way to try any system , is to push it to its ultimate results , let us , therefore , suppose that , under the present system , human [ ingenuity had risen to such a height in the region of discovery that manual labour was utterly superseded by ma--chinery . What would be the result under competition * Why , that all those who had no means of linn * irat by manual labour , would be thrown out of work ; reduced to pauperism , beggary and crime , and swept off the face ofthe earth , either by famine or disease ; or die on the scaffolds which would be erected by the possessors of machinery , to punish all who dared to remonstrate against the misery caused bv their system—or who , more daring ,

      presumed to touch any of the wealth produced by tnese machines , and monopolised by the machine owners . let us not be understood to argue against the progress of machinery and the discoveries of science . Conadered initseif , the invention ofa new machine , designed to lessen the toil of man , is an invaluable benefit . Whence comes it , then , that thousands of iabonrera are frequently reduced to pauperism by the application of a new process 1 Is it the fault of cenius , of science , or of machinery , which renders future subservient to the wishes of humanity ? No ; -t is the fault of an absurd aad radically vicious _system , under which even good itself is turned to eviL Describing the "internal operation among

      the working classes , ofthe competitive system , " the writer observes that Competition , in producing poverty _^ idleness , produces also immorality and crime . Want and ignorance make thieves . Misery , by engrafting hatred and despair upon ignorance and unregulated passions , makes murderers . Misery and reckless want drive into the streets those most pitiable o t au the victims of our demonaical system — t hose wretched women who barter their persons for hire . Ths records of onr police office ? , the trials at our criminal courts , testify in a thousand ways , that _societv introduces into its very heart , by theoriginal vice of its constitution , hatred , envy , and violence , theft , murder , and prostitution ; that it places itself continually in the alternative of being either oppressed from above , or constantly destroyed by attacks from below _.

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      Having briefl y alluded to the humbug of onr country and government being self-styled Christian , par excellence , and having contrasted our national and governmental profep sions and practices , our author propheticall y remarks that , __ Prom the heart of nations there rises up continuall y a protest against the violence and tbe wrongs inflicted on the masses . Revolutions are but the occasional explosions of the accumulated force , which outraged humanity must : continual ly exert against such a foul and unnatural system . A biographical notice of " Eienzi , the Tribune , " will be read with interest . Having informed the reader of the plehian ori gin of Itienzi—ofthe kind of education he had received—and of the degraded condition of Rome , at the period referred to , the article thus proceeds : —

      Young Rienzi saw and deeply deplored the evils of his country . A disinterested desire to relieve it from its oppressors sprung up in his breast , and he began in a remarkable manner to pave the way for the accomplisment of that great end . At accidental meetings of the people , whether in large or small ftodies , iieallowed his voice to be heard , and took every occasion to recall to the remembrance of his heroes the glories of their ancestry . Being an eloquent and energetic speaker , Itienzi speedily became a favourite with the people , and his addresses to them in thestreets grew more and more frequent . Daily he would assemble bands of them around him , and pointing their attention to the lions , serpents , and other emblematical figures abounding in every P _ rt of the city , he would draw comparisons , in an

      allegorical but not very ' ambiguous style , between the glorious times which witnessed the erection of these monuments , and the degraded period iu which he and his hearers were condemned to . live . Growing bolder day by day , he ventured upon open denunciations of the tyranny of the nobles , and inflamed the passions of bis audiences by dwelling on the bitter subject oftheir wrongs . The nobles were blinded enough to be totally insensible to the _tendency of Rienzi ' s proceedings . Everything _«* plebian " was so utterly despised by them , that many of them came in person to listen to his political lectures , looking upon him much in the same light as they did upon Punchinello , or the common buffoons of the Carnival . It is even said that Itienzi , taking a lesson from the elder Brutus , who feigned madness till the hour came for the deliverance of his

      country , condescended to enter the Colonna palace by invitation , to amuse the company with his threats and predictions . The abject state of slavery to which the nobles had reduced the people , could not be more glaringly shown than by such a circumstance as this . When an embassy wa 3 sent from Rome to the papal court of Avignon , Rienzi had acquired influence enough over the people to be appointed one of the thirteen deputies representing the order of the commons . At Avignon , he attracted notice by his bold and read oratory , and there he also met a congenial spirit in the poet Petrarch . On returning to Rome , Rienzi continued his former practices .

      Still the nobles remainded in supine blindness , _allowingthe orator to ripen the minds of the people for any outbreak . An accident brought on the crisis . Rienzi ' s brother was assassinated , and the survivor loudl y demanded vengeance . But the murderer was protected by the Colonna influence , and Rienzi found his appeals fruitless . From this hour he was resolute in his design of immediately overturning the power of the nobles . It was in the middle of May 1347 , that he entered on the first step towards the completion of his object , by assembling on Mount Aventine , at midnight , a body of one hundred citizens favourable to his purpose . "Friends and fellow citizens , " said Rienzi , "the blood of my slaughtered brother cries for vengeance , and would justify a severe retaliation ; but itis

      yonr wish and mine to procure the inestimable blessings of liberty without involving onr country in bloodshed and confusion . The accomplishment of your wishes , the establishment of tbe good estate ( the speaker ' s favourite phrase ) , is rapidly advano * ing , if yoa hare only fortitude and forbearance enough to exert the power you possess with spirit , perseverance , and moderation . The strength of our oppressors is imaginary ; they are without union , without virtue , without resources . " Rienzi ended bis harangue by announcing his intention of Immediately assembling the people , unarmed , by proclamation , and recommended to his hearers bo to demean themselves as " to prove to the world that a few precious drops of Roman blood were still circulating in their veins . "

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

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

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

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

      the fall of Rienzi , we must refer to the article itself . Observing , in conclusion , that it appears to us that , had Rienzi been the ri ght sort of reformer , had he declared for example , the land to be national property , the people would not have deserted him in the hour of trial . They would then have had a substantial proof of the wisdom of his legislation , and something worth fighting for . Less than this , as an ultimate measure is not worth the efforts and sacrifices of any people . The autobiograph y of Mr . _O'Cennorspealcs for itself . We have no room ' for comment on the remaining articles _.

      The Bsd Bepublican. Edited By G. Jdlian ...

      The Bsd Bepublican . Edited by G . _Jdlian Habney . No . 1 . London : S . Y . Collins , 113 , _fFleet-atreet . The first number of Julian Harney ' s new publication—announced during some weeks past in this journal—is now before the public . The contents include the first of a new series of the letters of L'Ami du Peuple , " Chartism in 1850 , " " Cossack or Republican ? " "The Prologue of a Revolution , " a Review of Ledru Rollin _' s " Decline of England , " "The Red Banner "—a soul-stirring piece of poetry , from the pen of Gerald Mas-Bey , & c , & c . "We give an extract from tho editorial article :

      OUB SAME AM ) _PBIXCIPLBS . "The Red Republican ! A most imprudent name ! _' ' How so , good friend ? " Because , living under a Monarchy , it may be dangerous for you to avow Republicanism , even iu the ordinary sense of the term . But worse still , this new-fangled ' Red' will add to , the hostility of naid and professional loyalists , the hatred and indignation of aU _Tespectable people , who regard a Bed _RepuMcau' as an anarchist , ' a ' foe to society . ' an 'enemy to order and property , a ' savage '' to be extinguished if he remains in his l *? r-to he cut to pieces if he comes out of it . _rLndupon it , if _broug ht before a court o law

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

      denunciation . And where would bo found your friends ? Where ? Unless amongst those whom Thiers denominates the ' vile multitude '—the powerless and despised portion of the community . " At least one portion of the title of this publication is not new to the British democracy . "The Republican" was the designation ofa periodical published during a number of years by the late Richard Carlile . Tho same name , varied by that of the " Bonnet Rouge , " re-appeared during the famous struggle of the "Unstamped Press . " Still more recently a monthly publication , conducted with considerable ability , but which had a circulation much more select than extensive , rejoiced in the same . anti-royalist title .

      It would he easy to show by citations from authors who have written on the institutions of this country , that there is nothing politically heterodox in connexion with the title of " Republican ' ' Dr . Johnson defines a Republic to be " a state in which the power is lodged in more than one ; " whereas the term "Monarchy" is incorrectly applied to a government , unless the chief of the state , whether called king or emperor , & c , possesses the entire sovereign power . In this sense , Persia under Xerxes , and France under Louis XIT . were really Monarchies , according tothe legitimate meaning ofthe term ; so also is Russia , at the present day , under the rule of Nicholas . On the other hand , Rome—even under her emperors—was

      still denominated a Republic ; thus Augustus- is said to havo " governed tho res public *; " and after a long intervening period , wo find the last of the great men of ancient Rome in all his acts and words regarding himself merely as the chief of the Republic . Inthe same sense , England never has been a Monarchy ; for , even under her most despotic kings , tho sovereign power has been more or less shared by others—in the olden time by bishops and barons— -arrogant Impostors and mailclad thieves—and in these days there is superadded the supremacy of the bourgeoisie—the V kings of gold . " . According , therefore , to Dr . Johnson ' s definition , England has always been a Republic . It would be superflousto show that , in the present day ,

      the so-called " sovereign lady of these realms does not even share the sovereign authority , which is absolutely monopolised by the lords of land and capital . To expend an enormous income in "barbaric" pomps and trappings , " while millions starve , " seems to be the only occupation left for the possessor of an effete sceptre : England , then , is a Republic—of a sort , and every Englishman may , if he will , term himself a Republican . But our readers need not be told tbat there is all the difference in the world between a real , and a sham Republic . For an example of the latter our friends have only to look across the channel . From any such Republic may we be saved ! Let us add another prayer—from the ns publico , of

      England"a state in which the power is lodged in more than one . " but not inall , good Lord deliver us ! We protest against all sham Republics , whether with a " Sovereign Lady , " or a " Special" President , for a head . Still more emphatically we protest against the rule of landlords , and usurers ; no matter how they may attempt to disguise their sway , whether under republican or monarchical forms . To prevent , therefore , any mistake , as to our principles , we adopt what our cautious friend terms the " new fangled " name of Red Republican . We are fully a are of the odium attached to this name , in the estimation of all '' respectable people . " What of that ? In the days of Nero it was "infamous" to be a Christian , and as bad to be a

      Reformer inthe " good old times , " " when George the Third was King . " Chartists , Socialists , Red Re-Sublicans , and Communists , are tbe powerless , the espised , the " infamous , " the " vile multitude " of the present time . Today the crown of thorns , the scourge , the cross are theirs . But , to-morrow ! Courage Brothers ! "The Golden Age , placed by blindjtradition in the past , is before us !' WhenUenry Hetherington brought out his first unstamped publication , he entitled it "The Poor Man ' s Guardian . " Finding that the enemies of the poor man denounced those whose simple demand was for " justice to each and to all , " as "destructives , " the man who never scrupled to perform an act which he conceived to be necessary to " try the

      power of right against might , " boldly determined to beard the prejudice excited by bis enemies . Accordingly a second unstamped publication he entitled "The Destructive . " We pursue the same course . We adopt a name " infamous" in the eyes of tbe aristocratical , the wealthy , the respectable , the well-to-do-sections of society . Be ours the glorious task to show that the proscribed " Reds " are the reverse of that whicb they are represented as being , by their calumniators . Be ours the glorious mission to pioneer the way , forthe victorious march of their holy and beneficent principles . We warn the enemies of justice that we shall not limit ourselves to the taking up of a defensive position ; on the contraty , we shall carry the war into

      their own camp . Will they charge us with being " enemies to order ? " We shall prove that their " order" is an " organised hypocrisy . " Will they charge us with contemplating spoliation ? We shall prove that they themselves are spoliators and robbers . Will they accuse us of being " blood-thirsty Democrats ? " We shall prove our accusers to be remorseless traffickers in the lives of their fellowcreatures , pitiless assassins of those who dare to resist their tyranny . Nothing could be easier than to prove that the crimes which the people ' s friends are said to contemplate are really the crimes which the privileged and the propertied classes have been in

      the habit of committing from the days of Nimrod to the present hour . " Ah ! but your very name , the colour of your flag , is significant of blood and slaughter . " Tes ! of the blood of our martyrs—ofthe slaughter of tho countless myriads who have fallen on the battle-field—w ho have died upon the cross and the rack—who have perished under the axe of the headsman and the dagger of the assassin—who have consumed their own hearts in dungeons , or withered away under the pangs of hunger and wretchedness . Numberless as the stars in the heavens , incalculable as the grains of sand on the shores of the ocean , are those who have poured out their heart ' s blood for the salvation of humanity . And

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

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      Royal Polytechnic Institution. Among The...

      ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . Among the numerous models and specimens of machinery for agricultural nnd horticultural purposes we observed somo tiles for the better production of strawberries , lately deposited by the inventor , Mr . Roberts , of Brixton . Tbe tiles are square , except on one side , which is cut in a half circle , so that when two are placed together they then have a round hole in the middle for the plant to grow ,

      the leave and fruit resting on tbe flat part of the tile . The whole bed . being thus covered , it keeps the strawberries quite free from wet and dirt , while the tile retains the heat of the sun for many hours , thus ripening the fruit much earlier . This advantage was proved on the last show of fruit at the Botanical Society , Mr . Roberts ' s strawberries being the only specimens of out-door growth exhibited on that occasion . - The Alpine Singers _« till continue to draw numerous audiences to this admirable establishment .

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

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

      tariff . Fob _Inmgestioh , Stomach and Lives Complaints , take _Hoimwav ' s Pius . — Persons suffering from any derangement of the liver , stomach , or the organs ot digestion , should have recourse to Holloway ' s Pills , as there is no other medicine known that acts on these particular complaints with such certain _bucksb , Its peculiar properties strengthenlhe tone ofthe stomach , increase tne appetite , purify the blood , and induce an healthy action of the liver . For bowel complaints it is admirable , * s it removes eve . ry primary cause , thereby restoring the patient to the soundest health and strength . Nervous er sick head-aches and lowness of spirits may be easily cured by taking a course of Holloway ' sFills ,

      D ?Nrasslip^ P ^ 0ubteenvessels By Tttrs...

      D ? _nrASSliP _^ _p 0 _UBTEENVESSELS BY TTTrSH _^^ _- _^^ RDS ' OP'ONEHUNDRED LIVES LOST .

      The arrivals from the Atlantic have brought sad mteil ! _£ ence : respecting losses-ofa number of vessels _atniast the floating fields of icebergs in the western latitudes ; and among tho number , wo regret to add , one was from one of the Irish ports with between ei ghty to one hundred persons ori board , every soul of whom is supposed to have gone down in the unfortunate vessel and : perished . Great quantities of ice are generally looked for by the traders in those parts of the Atlantic about the months of April , and May , the result of the break up of the frost in the Arctio seas , and drivon down to the southward b y the force of the currents . The masses that have appeared this season exceed anything of the kind that has for years been mot with . _Sields of icesome hundreds . of miles in extent

      , , towering up in all manner of forms to a very great elevation , havo swept the waters of theAtlantic ; and there is too much reason to fear that tho losses appended form a very few of the mishaps that have occurred . The ill-fated vessel in which so many are believed to have perished , was from Londonderry , bound to Quebec . Ten days prior to her being discovered entangled in ihe ice—the 27 th of April—she was spoken with by the master of the Oriental , from Liverpool . She ; was scarce of water , having had boisterous weather , and on account of the number of passengers seen on deck , it was supplied her . On the 27 th the Oriental was beset in the ice , together with two : other vessels , and _perceivcd her some ten miles to the westward . She

      was in a most perilous _positiori _. _evidentiy stove in by the ice , and sinking . Signals of distress' were hoisted without the remotest chance of gaining assistance . , For two days she . was seen in the same forlorn condition , when sho suddenl y disappeared . Subsequentl y a great many bodies were seen intermingled with the ice , together with some portion of the cargo ; the latter led . to tho discovery of the port tp which thevessol belonged and her intended destination . Tho Oriental was detained eleven days before she got clear ofthe ice . Another similar catastrophe was witnessed on the 29 th of March , about twenty miles to the westward of St . Paul ' s , by the ship Signette , M . Mowatt , from Alloa for Quebec . The vessel was . apparently an English brier , laaenwith

      neavuy , painted portholes . She had got fixed in the ice , and had been cut down by it to the water ' s edge , admitting a rush of water into the hold . Her , orew , . were observed working at tho pumps , evidently in the hopes of keeping her afloat in the expectation of assistance arriving ; however , she-soon sank , and all on board met with a watery grave . The exact number who perished was not learned . Letters have been received communicating the total loss of the Ostensible also in the ibe . She was from Liverpool , bound to Quebec , with several passengers . Up to the 5 th of May she experienced heavy weather , when thoy fell in with an enormous field of ice , and got fixed in it for five days and nights , in tho course of which her hull was pierced . Pumps were kept going till the arrival of the bri g Duke , Capt . Welsh , also for Quebec , which , after considerable working , succeeded in making through the ice to the sinking , vessel , and rescued the whole of them . The Ostensible went down within twenty

      minutes after . Two other vessels from Liverpool , the Conservator and the Acorn were' both lost near the same time . The former was on a passage , to Montreal . She got pinched by the ice within three days after losing si ght of land , and filling , immediately went down ; the crew were lucky enough to save the ship ' s boats , in which they were p icked up . The Acorn met with her destruction within thirty miles of St . John ' s , Newfoundland ; the crew were saved by the Blessing schooner , of Sunderland . Among the other losses in the ice reported are enumerated the Hibernia , from Glasgow , for Quebec ; the British schooner Collector , from St ; John ' s , Newfound / and , for London ; the brig Astrea , of Weymouth : the Wilhelmina , of Aberdeen ; the _Gosnell , of Newcastle ; the Sylph , of Leith ; and three others , names of which aro unknown . With the exception of the latter , the crews were saved . Most ofthe unfortunate vessels were heavily laden , and their losses in total cannot be far short of £ 100 , 000 .

      Irish Horses.—The Importations Of Horses...

      Irish Horses . —The importations of horses which are at the present time taking place in the metrop olis from Ireland aro so large as to be quite remarkable , and of considerable interest and importance . Tho steam-vessel Duchess of Kent , which has arrived in the river from Cork , has brought , in addition to thirty-three oxen and 210 sheep , the very large number of forty-two horses , as a portion of a large cargo of Irish produce ; and the steamer Preussicher Adler , arrived oh the same day from Cork , has brought , in addition to 176 sheep and . lambs , and a quantity of calves and homed cattle , twenty-four horses , as part of a very large general cargo , the produce of Ireland . Several importations to the latter mentioned extent have taken place lately from Ireland , but the arrival on one occasion of so large a number of horses as were brought in this instance by the first-named vessel is entirely without precedent from that country .

      Improvements in St . James s Park . —According to a return to parliament ( printed on Saturday last , ) an estimate is g iven of the expense of making an ornamental enclosure , and forming a public garden in front of Buckingham Palace . The expense is stated at £ 20 , 937 , of which £ 14 , 600 will be required to be voted in the present session , - _THEBAPEoncs . —The history of medicine is . by no means flattering to . science . It is questionable whether more is known of diseases , their cause , and their cure , at this moment , than at the timo of Galen , it is certain that _diseases are quite as numerous , and in the aggregate as fatal . Every age has produced some new system of artificial thereapeutics which the next age has banished ; each has boasted in its turn of cures , and they , in their turu _, havo beencondemncd . as failures . Medicines themselves nre the subjects of fashion . Is it not a positive proof that medicine is yet unsettled ; it feet , that is has no . established principles ,

      that it islittle more than conjectural ? 'At this moment , ' says Mr . Pinny , ' the opinions onthe subject of treatment are almost as numerous as the practitioners themselves . Witness the mass of contradiction on the treatment of even one disease , namely , consumption . Stroll attributes its frequency to the introduction of bark . Morton considers bark an effectual cure . Iteid ascribes the frequency of the disease to the use of mercury . Brillonct asserts that it is curable by mercury only . Kuse says that consumption is an inflammatory disease—should be treated by bleeding , purging , cooling-medicines , and starvations . Salvador ! says it is a disease of debility , and should be treated hy tonics , stimulating remedies , and a generous diet Galen recommended vinegar as the best preventative of consumption . .. Dessault and others assert that consumption is often brought on by taking vinegar to prevent obesity . Beddoes recommended foxglove as a specific . Dr . Parr found foxglove more injurious in his practice than beneficial . Such

      are the contradictory statements of medical men ! ' And yet there can he hut one true theory of disease . Of the fallibility and inefficiency of medicine , none have been more _conscious than medical men themselves , many of whom have been honest enough to nvow their conviction , and now recommend MESSRS . DU BARRY'S ItEVALENTA ARA . BICA FOOD , a farina , whick _^ careful analysis has shown to be derived from the root , of an African plant , somewhat similar to our honeysuckle . It appears to possess properties of a highly curative and delicately nutritive kind : andnumerous testimonials from parties of unquestionable repectability , have attested that it supersedes medicine of every description in the effectual and permanent removal ot indigestion ( dyspepsia ) , constipation , and diarrhoea , nervousness biliousness , liver complaint , flatulency , distension palpitation of the heart , nervous headache , deafness , noises in the head and ears , pains in almost every part of the body , chronic inflammation , and ulceration ofthe stomach , erysipelas ,

      eruptions on the skin , incipient consumption , dropsy , rheumatism gout , heartburn , nausea and sicknes during preg . nancy , after eating , or at sea , low spirits , spasms , cramp , spleen , general debility , paralysis , asthma , coughs ; inquietude , _sleeplessnes , involuntary blushing , tremors , dislike to society , unfitness for study , loss of memory , delusions , vertigo , blood to the head , exhaustion , melaucholy , groundless fear , indecision , wretchedness , thoughts ot self destruction , and , . mnny other .. complaints . It is , moreover , admitted by those who have -used it to he the best food for infants and invalids generally , as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach , but imparts a healthy relish for lunch and dinner , _BDd restores the faculty of digestion and nervous and muscular energy to the most enfeebled . It has the highest approbation of Lord Stuart de Decies ; the Venerable Archdeacon Alexander Stuart , of Ross—a cure of three years' nervousness ; Major-General Thomas

      mng , ot _lixmouth ; Captain _rarner o . Bingham , M _. N ., of No . i Park-walk , Little . Chelsea , London , who-was cured of twenty-seven years' dyspepsia in six weeks' time ; Cap . tain Andrews , R . N . ; Captain Edwards , R . N . ; William Hunt , Esq ., barrister at-law , King ' s College , Cambridge , who _. after suffering sixty years from partial paralysis ; lias regained the use of his limbs in a ' very short time upon this excellent food ; the Rev . Charles Kerr , of Winslow , Bucks—a cure of functional disorders ; Mr . Thomas _YToodhouse , Bromley—recording the cure of a lady from constipation and sickness during pregnancy ; the Rev . Thomas Minster , of St . Saviour ' s , Leeds—a cure of five years ' nervousness with spasms and daily vomitings ; Mr , Tay . lor , coroner of Bolton ; Captain Allen—recording : the cure of epileptic : fits ; Doctors Ure and Harvey ; James Shorland , Esq ., No . 3 Sydney-terrace , Reading , Berks ; lato surgeon in the 90 th Regiment—a cure of dropsy ; James Porter , Esq ., Athol-street , Perth- a cure of thirteen y _ears _^ cough , with general debility ; J . Smyth , Esq ., 37 Lower Abbey-street , Dublin ; . Cornelius O'Sullivan , M . D ., F . R . C . S ., Dublin—a perfect cure of thirty years' indescribable agony from aneurism , which had resisted all other remedies ; and 20 , 000 other well-known individuals , who have

      sent the discoverers and importers , Du Barry nnd Co ., 127 _NewBond-street , London , testimonials of the extraordinarymanner in which their health hasbeen restored by this useful and economical diet , after all other _remedies'had been tried in vain for many years , anil all hopes of recovery abandonei 'AM report of important cures of tho above and many other complaints , and testimonials from parties ofthe highest respectability , is , wo find , sent gratis byDu Barry and Co . '— Morning Chronicle . Du Barry and Co ., 127 , NewBond-street , London ; also of Barclay , Edwards , Sutton , Sanger , and Hannoy , and through all grocers , chemists , medicine vendors , and booksellers in the kingdom . Caution . —Ihe name of Messrs . _DuBabbv's invaluable food , as also that oftheir firm , have heen so closely imitated that invalids cannot too carefully look at the exact spelling of both , and also Messrs . DuBakbx ' s address , 127 Sew Bond-street , London , in order to avoid being i mposed upon by Ervalenta _, Keal Arabian Revalenta _, Lentil Powder , or other spurious compounds ot peas , beans , Indian and oat meal , under a close imitation of the name , which have nothing to recommend them but the reckless audacity oi their ignorant and unscrupulous compounders , " and which ; though admirably adapted for . pigs , would play sad havoc with tho delicate stomach of au invalid or infant ,

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      v S I !?! J _t TOns _--A man should so deliver himself to the n re of _^ e _^^ 8 ,, _^^ his _^ hearer jnay take knowledge _^ his discipline _^^ fi _W '•; . » _" * w apparel fair and { rood matter that the studious of _eleranov be not defrauded :. redeem arts from theirrouehand brakey seats , where they lay hid , and overgrown with thorns , to a pure , open , and flowery light where they may take the eye , and be taken by the hand . _Mns . Partington , recently visiting the Museum , and seeing several old revolutionary swords and Scottish ' claymores , inquired of the superintendent if he had among his famous cutlery tho axe of the apostles . ¦ Spaonoletti , the other day , in speaking of his first-viola player , declared that , both as a man and musician , he was most praiseworthy ; as a man , for the tenor of his conduct—as a musician , f or the conduct of his tenor .

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

      jEmal naviga tion . —A person named _Eufus Porter is at Washington endeavouring to form an _mrial navigation comoany , the stock to consist of 1 , 500 shares , at ten dollars per share . The funds , when raised , are to be applied to the construction of an serial ship , capable of containing 150 passengers , and which , Mr . Porter says , will easily carry them to California or London in three or four days . He proposes : to call for an instalment of one dollar only per share , until after a machine has been built capable of carrying three persons , and a journey has been made to Baltimore and back again , thereby demonstrating the feasibility of the plan . He says that several hundreds of persons

      have already bespoken passage . The prospectus , blanks , and scrip , for the proposed company , are being printed by Mr . Greer . Among other advantages , Mr . Porter includes that of transporting soldiers for the government in time pf war . Only think of the astonishment an enemy quietly encamped in the soft moonlight , having in tho twinkling of an eye , a whole regiment of Uncle Sam ' s _Invincibles dropped upon them from a squadron of Porter ' s ships ! But , in process of time , our enemies will have them also , so that hereafter contending squadrons must meet in mid-air , while the peaceable portion of mankind can rest quietly , below . Verily there are stirring time 3 ahead . —Sci . Amer .

      Neglecting the Antecedents . — Some very whimsical instances of this occur continually , especially in the answers of witnesses , . when given literally as they speak . In a late assault case , the prosecutor _sworo that " The prisoner struck him with a broom on his head till he broke the top of it ! " In narrating an inoident some . time since , it was stated that a poor old woman " was run over by a cart aged siixty . " So , in a ease of supposed poisoning : — " He hadsomething in a blue paper in his hand , and I saw him put his head over the pot and put it in . '" Another , swallowing a base com : —* _'He snatched the half-crown from the boy , which he swallowed ; " which seems to mean the boy , not tho money , but still the sentence is

      correct . An old fellow , who for many years had sold combustible matches in London , had ihe following cry : — " Buy a pennyworth of matches of a poor old man made of foreign ivood !" Whisky Punch . —It is difficult to form a correct estimate of the quantity of whiskey punch whioh some can com ortably discuss at a sitting . In the case of a gentleman whose life had been insured for a large sum of money , the payment , at his death , was resisted by the Insurance Company , upon the p lea that he had caused his death by excessive drinking . The matter came to a _leca ! trial : and

      among other witnesses examined , was one who swore that , for the last eighteen years of his life , he had been in the habit of taking every night fourand-twenty tumblers of whiskey punch . . "Recollect yourself , sir , " said the examining counsel . " Four-and-twenty ! you swear to that . . Did you ever drink five-and-twenty V "I am on my oath , " replied the witness , " and I will swear no further ; for I never kept count beyond the' two dozen , though there ' s no saying how many beyond it I might drink , to make myself comfortable ; but that ' s mv stint . "

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

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

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

      —Sydney Smith . " Dick , " said a certain lawyer to a countryman who bad been considered more fool than knave , " what should you call tho greatest curiosities in the world ? " " Why , " replied Dick , " an honest lawyer and a river on fire . " Two persons being engaged in a duel , after the first fire one of theseconus proposed tbat thoy should shake hands and make it up . Tho other second said he . saw no particular necessity for that , for their hands had been shaking ever Bince they began , , A touno sun , who , for his sins , was about being married , presented himself for confession . As he appeared rather embarrassed how he should proceed to enumerate his errors : — " Come , " said the good Abbe G ., kindly , " do you ever tell falsehoods ?

      "Father , lam not a lawyer , ' proudly replied the penitent . "Did you ever steal . "— " Father , I am not a merchant !" " You have not committed murder V '— Sir , I am a physician , " conscientiously replied the young penitent , casting down his eyes . « ' 8 arah , said a little girl to her sister the other day , "Jtfrs . Kelly has had the _English cholera . " " Nonsense , " was' tbe reply , " how ' can she have had the English cholera , Bhe is an Irishwoman . California is described by Senator Seward , of New York , as "the youthful Queen of the Pacific in the robes of freedom , gloriously inlaid with gold . " The moment of parting is , perhaps , the first moment that wo feel how useful we have been to each other . The natural reserve of the heart is broken , and the moved spirit speaks as it feels .

      The Gateshead Observer remarks that the frequency of collisions at sea is becoming really app _* e five ym 8 1845—1849 , it seems there-has been an annual average of 382 cases reported at Loyd ' s ; and it is _Relieved that the number m 1848 was nearly double that of 1838 , although the increase in British shipping during tho ton years had been , when compared with that rate of morease , quite insignificant . " " So Cap tain Silk , has iust arrived at Versailles , I find , " said a lady . " Heavens ! what a name for a soldier . " "The best name in tho world , " said Horace Smith , who was standing by her at that time , "for silk you know can never be worsted . " Courtino in Andalusia . —In a village near Aracena , when a young man wishes to profess himself the suitor of some fair maiden , he proceeds to ; her residence , bearing in his hand the long staff used by tho _^ mountaineers _^ called cachiporra , or shortly , porta , and announces his presence by a loud _kucci

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      at the door . At the same time the staff is placed by the . side of it , and he retires a short distance , previously exclaiming , " Porra within , or porta without V Should the maiden be disposed to favour his suit , she approaches and removes the staff in : door 3 : but , if adverse , it is hurled to the other side ofthe street , Whereupon the lover understands his fate , and wends his way back , deje ' eted and disconsolate .

      Cures 'For The Uncured! Ho L Lo Ft Ay's ' 0 In T Mlb Nt. An Extraordinary Cure Of Scrofula, Or King's Evil, • ,

      CURES 'FOR THE UNCURED ! HO L LO ft AY'S ' 0 IN T _MlB NT . An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula , or King s Evil , ,

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      Extract of aletter from Mr . J . H . AAliday , 209 _IUgh-streat , Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , 1850 . Sin , —My eldest son , when about three years of age _,, was afflicted with a glandular swelling in the neck , which after a short time broke out into an ulcer . Ah eminent medical man pronounced it as a very ' bad case of scrofula , and prescribed for a considerable time without _effect The disease then for years went on gradually _inoreasing ; in virulence , when besides the ulcer . in the neck , ' a ' uuttier formed below the left knee , and a third under , tlie eye , _R esides seven others on the left arm , with a tumour between the eyes which was expected to break . During the whole . of . tho time my suffering boy had received thecohstant . _advice ef the most celebrated . medical gentlemen at Cheltenham , besides being for several months at tho General HosLital

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      AN THE PREVENTION , CURE , AND \ J General character of SYPIIILUS , STttlCTUItES . Affections of the PROSTRATE GLAND , VENEREAL and SCORBUTIC ERUPTIONS of the face and body , Mercurial excitement , < Sic ., followed by a mild , successful and expeditious mode of treatment . Thirty-first edition ,., ' _.-Illustrated by Twenty-Six Anatomical Engravings ' on Steel . Nsw and improved Edition , enlarged to 196 pages , just published , prict 2 s , 6 d ; or by post , direct from the Establishment , 3 s . ' Oil . in postage stamps . " THE SILENT FRIEND , " a Medical Work on Venereal and Syphilitic Diseases , Secondary Symptoms , _Gonorrhoea

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 22, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_22061850/page/3/