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      THE EXODUS 0 ? THE fPEOPLE _^ 7 _la bour _andlfterty _wefoi ever one ; -. . ! S man ' s true life their work is jointly done I Behold tbey have descended . ¦ ,: * ! _TiroughaMsandtnrougu centune 3 , _^ " Since Moses first through parted seas , - _Xed _fortttthe ransomed _tatW" _^ M ended , _jfcid taught the tribes in one gnat "nation _wenoeo , The decalogue of human rights _[ _--, _„__ _^ S _SSSSSSS _^ _^" . y On to then : Paradise bright , Thb _Pbojused Lasd -Wandered thatchosen band . ... ... The land-the earth-this vras the glorious goal -ffhicharmed each valiant soul ? - The LAxn wliich God had . given them for their own— - ¦

      .... "Which thev through ion . should win , — This -was the mighty heritage which alone - Led them through desert Zm . Those Hebrew multitudes were outled Throu _<» h cloven waters ! They were fed "With Heaven ' s unstinted bread ! And not for one , but all , the bounteous feast was spread : ... . Priest—Levite—ay , or Publican-It mattered not—' twas bread for man ! T hat pilgrimage is a parable for the world ! Tyrants may read it when from empire

      hurled—Slaves may behold the Sinai flame of God—And tread the dust in whicb they once were trod That pilgrimage is the gospel of the poor , _ Teaching Heaven ' s holiest mandate—to endure-Pro ring God's promise infinitely sure—That pilgrimage is prophecy for all time-Thus through all ages , and in every clime , The People have been wandering—toiling on . But , ab ! not vet the Promised Land is won—Not yet—and not till right has conquered xragat Shall Canaan ' s borders bless the people s sight I ' a . J . H . _n .

      OUR EARLY LOVED . BY FBA 5 CES BROWN . Onr early loved—how their memory clings To the hearts that love no more ! __ lake a rose that still in its sweetness springs , "Where a garden's pride is o ' er ; Though the weeds and t horns may long haye de iacedr-.. . ; , The place of . the perished flowers , Tet tliat lingerer gladdens tbe _cbeerless waste "With the bloom of its brighter hours !

      Onr early loved—bath their after path Irom onr steps far parted been ! Hath the hand of power , or the flame of wrath , On life's barriers risen between ! - Tet still , in our dreams , their shadows come , . O'er the parting waste of years , Though the path is marked with many a tomb , " . And its sands are wet with tears ! They come with a light left far behind On tbe distant mountain ' s brow , " Where the sunrise shone on the waking mind That is dark with shadows now ; But ever asi the morning star retains To brighten tbe evening shades , The lamp of their memory brighter burn ? , As the spirit ' s daylight fades . Our early loved—have we found them changed In the gloom of bur / wlnter days ; V And their bright locks blanched and their looks estranged ,

      Till they scarce returned our gaze ? . Bnt far in " tbe land where storms or time Can no longer sear or chill , In the lig ht of our memory ' s cloudless clime "We shall find them changeless still ! Hath the grass on the grave grown rankly green "Where we laid , so Iong ago , Our first affections , all unseen , In their deep and qnenchless glow ? Alas ! for the dust so darkly piled O ' er the bright but buried gem ; Bnt safe are the treasures death hath sealed"For there comes no change on them 1 "

      _Tfe may love again , and the later ties Of life may be bright and strong ; But if broken , never in memory's eye 3 Will their fragments shine so long : And the shrines of our childhood ' s stainless faith , " We may leave tbem far and cold , But tbe heart still turns to the stars of youtb With a love tbat ne'er grows old !

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      History of the United States of America , from the Discovery of the Continent to the Organisation of Government under ihe Federal Constitution . By EieilABD HlLDRETH . 3 vols . _Xew York : Harper . London : Low . Tnis is , we believe , the first attempt at a complete history of the United States . " Ko other work on American History , " says the author in Ms Preface , " except mere compends and abridgements , embraces the same extent of time ; none comprehends the same circuit of inquiry , or has any thing like the same plan

      and objects . . Jvowliere else can he found in the same distinct completeness the curious and instructive story of New England theocracythcfinancial , economical , andpoliiacalhistory of the colonies and the revolution— -the origin and shaping of our existing laws and institutions , state and national—the progressive social and intellectual development of oar people . " The three large volumes already published bring down the narrative tothe establishment of the _Eepublican Constitution—that is , to 1788-9 . In two more volumes the author is to continue

      it to the present time . One great fault in Mr . Hildreth ' s work is , the method of its arrangement . Instead of dividing it , in the first place ,- into books , or sections , each hook or section comprising some specific portion of the history capable of being detached from the remainder—and then sub * _ordiaately into chapters—Mr . Hildreth lets the narrative straggle on as it best can through no fewer than forty-eight chapters , continued in unbroken series over the three volumes .

      _iXor could a , division into books have been so difficult . Anglo-Americau history prior to 1783-9 very readily breaks itself up iuto three periods , each having a kind of independent unity : the period of primitive colonisation , commencing with the discovery of the American continent , and teiininating in the early part of the eighteenth century—the period of the intercolonial wars , as Jlr . Hildreth calls them , that is , of the wars between the English and the French in America , _extending from about 1690 to 1760 , when Canada was annexed to the British dominions—and the period ofthe strugg le for independence , extending from 1760 , or thereabouts , to 1783 , or , more properly , to 1789 .

      Perhaps the best portion of tho work , as it stands , is that which goes over the ground of tbe first of the three periods above mentioned . This appeals to have been tho most carefully _written . The spirit in which the story is told is also remarkably fair . The _^ nritans— " often rnde ; hard , narrow , superstitious , and mistaken , " as Mr . Hildreth thinks them , " hut always earnest , downright , manly , and sincere" —are treated with evident respect and liking ; and only now and then , when in duty bound as a modern and an

      American—as , for example , iu behalf of representative freedom , religious toleration , and such matters—does the author put in any protest of his own . On the question of _Negro slavery his leanings are plainly enough in favour of abolition . On this , however , as on every other subject treated of , his expressions are as customary and commonplace as may be . There is , notwithstanding , occasionall y , a bit of interesting writing . Take for example , the account of the trials for witchcraft iu _Massachusetts , in 1688-92 : —

      "While Andres was still governor , shortly after Increase Mather's departure for England _, four young children , members of a pious family , in Boston , the eldest a girl of thirteen , the * youngest a boy not five , had begun to behave in a singular manner , barking like dogs , purring like cats , seeming to become deaf , Wind , or dumb , having" theu * limbs strangely -distorted , complaining that they were pinched , pricked , pulled , or cut ; acting out / in fact , the effects of witchcraft , according to tbe current "notions of it , and the descriptions in the books referred to . The terrified father called in Dr . Oakes , a zealous leader of the ultra-theocratic party , who gave his opinion that the children were bewitched . The oldest girl bad lately received a bitter scolding from an old Irish indented servant , whose daughter she had accused of theft . This same old woman ,

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      from indications no doubt given by the children , was soon fixed upon as-being the witch . ' The fonr ministers of Boston and another . from ; _Charlesfown having : _keptra _dayjof fastiog and prayer-at the tronbled house , the youngest , child was relieved . But t ¥ _e others , mote ' p _^ tsevefmg _' aiid more artful , continuing as before ; the old . ' weirian ' was presently arrested , _> and' charged 'with - ' bewitching them ! She had for a long time been < reputed a witch , and ; she even seems to haye : flattered , herself that she was one . , Indeed her answers were so " senseless , " that ' ths magistrates ' referred ifc ' to * the doctors to Bee if she were not " crazed in her intellects . " On theu * report of her sanity , . the ¦ _^^^^ _rrr < r > i _* . nbT _^ _TgAn _^ _'h _* g- ¦ _T ; _r'atri" _^

      old woman was tried , found guilty , and executed . Though Increase Mather was absent on this interesting occasion , he had a zealous representative in his son Cotton Mather , a young minister of twentyfive , ' a prodigy of learning , . eloquence _^ and piety , recently settled as colleague with his father , over BostonKorth Church . * * Cotton Mather . had taken a very active part in the late case of witchcraft ; and that he might study the operations of diabolical agency at his leisure , and thus be _furnished with evidence and arguments to establish its reality , he took the eldest ofthe bewitched . chddren home to his own house . His eagerness ; to . believe invited imposture . His excessive vanity and strong nreludices made him easygame . Adroit andartful

      beyond her years , the girl looiea nun io ine top oi his bent . His ready pen was soon furnished with materials for " a story made all : up of wonders ;" which with some matters of the same sort , and a sermon preached . on ; the occasion , which he presently published under the title of "Memorable Providences relating to _TTitchcrafts arid Possessions . " with a preface , in which he warned all " Sadducees'' that he would regard then * doubts for the future as a personal insult . Cotton Mather was not the . only dupe . " The . old heresy of the sensual Sadducees denying the . being of angels either good or evil , " says the recommendatory preface to the book , signed"by the other four ministers of Boston , " died not with them , " nor will it ,

      whilst men , abandoning both faith and reason , count it tbeir wisdom to credit nothing but what they see or feel . How much this fond opinion hath gotten ground in this debauched age is awfully observahle ; and what a dangerous stroke it gives to settle men in atheism is not hard to discern . " God is , therefore , pleased , besides the witnesses borne to this truth in sacred writ , to suffer devils sometimes to do such things in the world as shall stop the mouths of gain sayers , and extort a confession from tliem . " The ministers add their testimony to the truth of Mather ' s statements ; which they commend as furnishing clear information that there is both a .: God and a devil and witchcraft . " The book was presently republished in London , with a

      preface by Baxter , who prohounced _^ he girl's case so " convincing" that " he must be a very obdurate _Saddncee who wonld not believe it . " * * The bewitched girl , as she ceased to be an object of * popular attention , seems to have returned to her former behaviour . But the seed had been sown on fruitful ground . After an interval of nearly four years , three young girls in the family of Parris , minister of Salem village , now Danvers , began to exhibit similar pranks . As in the Boston case , a physician pronounced them bewitched , and Tituba , an old Indian woman , the servant of Parris , who undertook , by some vulgar rites , to discover the witch , was rewarded by the girls with the accusation of being herself the cause of their sufferings .

      The neighbouring ministers assembled at the house of Parris for fasting and prayer . The village fasted , - and presently a general fast was ordained throughont the colony . The "bewitched children , " thus rendered objects of universal sympathy and attention , did not long want imitators . Several young girls , and two or three women ofthe neighbourhood , ' began to be . afflicted in the same way ; as did also John , the Indian husband of Tituba , warned , it would seem , by the fate of his wife . Parris took a very active part in discovering the witches ; so did _ftoyes , minister of Salem , described as a learned , a charitable , and a good man . A town committee was soon formed for the detection of the witches . Two of the magistrates , resident at Salem 7 entered with great zeal into the

      matter . The accusations , confined at first to Tituba and two other friendless womeri , one crazed , and the other bed-rid , presently included two female members of Parris's church , in which , as ii so many other churches , there had been some sharp dissensions . The next Sunday after this accusation Parris preached from the verse— _ " Have I not chosen you twelve , arid one is a devil ? " At the announcement of this text , the sister of one ofthe accused women rose and left the meeting-house . The two were accused immediately after , and the same fate soon overtook all who thowed the least disposition to resist the prevailing delusion . Tbe matter had now assumed so much importance that the deputy governor proceeded to Salem village , with five other magistrates , and held a court in the meeting-house .

      The remainder ofthe history of tbis delusion , which spread all over Massachusetts , and involved the deaths of many persons of both sexes , occupies several pages . Among the miscellaneous points of information contained in the part of Mr . Hildreth ' s work devoted to the early history of the various colonies , are such facts as these * : that , - numerous as were the tribes of Indians with whom the early settlers came into contact , the total number of Indiaus inhabiting the whole territory of the United States east of the Rocky Mountain can at no time within European record have exceeded 300 , 000 individuals ; that the oldest town by many years in the United States is St . Augustine , in Florida ,

      founded by a Spanish colony m 159 i—the second being Santa , Fe , founded also by the Spaniards in 1582 ; that the first college in America was Harvard College , Cambridge , endowed by John Harvard , aclergyman , with a sum of about £ 800 , in the year 1639 ; that the "first printing press in America was setupintheaametowniu 1640 hy Stephen Day , whose first production was a metrical version of the Psalms , " not very remarkable for tnnefnlness ; " and . that the total population of the various Anglo-American colonies as lately as 1715 , Avheu Franklin wa 3 a boy of nine years of age , was only 434 , 600 souls . The following passage relating to the currency of New England is not uninteresting : —

      Sach . coin as the emigrants to New England brought with them quickly went back again in payment for imported goods ; but so long as the emigration was kept up , the inconvenience was little felt . * * The sudden stop to immigration , occasioned by the political changes in England , caused a great fall of prices , and a corresponding difficulty in paying debts . Taxes had all along been paid in grain and cattle at rates fixed by the General Court ; and grain , at different prices for the _different sorts , was now made a legal tender for the _payment of all new debts . To prevent sacrifices of property in cases of inability to pay , corn , cattle , and other personal goods—or , in defect of such goods , the house and lauds of the debtor , when

      taken in execution—were to be delivered over to theereditor , at such value as they might be appraised at by " three understanding and indifferent men , " one chosen by the creditor , another by the debtor , and a third by the marshal . * * Beaver skin 3 were also paid and received as money ; and , from their value as a remittance , they held the next place to coin . Musket balls , at a farthing each , were at one time a legal tender to the amount of a shilling . A more available currency was found in the wampum or peage—cylindrical beads , half an inch long , of two colours , white and bluish black , made by the Indians from parts of ccrtaiu sea shells . The people of Plymouth first learned the use and value of this article irom the Butch ot Manhattan ,

      and they soon found it very profitable in trade with ths Eastern Indians—the shells of which it was made not being common north of Cape Cod , Presently it came to le employed as a circulating medium , first in the Indian traffic , and then among the colonists generally . Three of tho black beads , or six of the white , passed for a penny . For convenience of reckoning they were strung in known parcels—a penny , threepence , a shilling , and fire shillings in white ; twopence , sixpence , two-andsixpence , and ten shillings in black . A fathom of white was worth ten shillings , or two dollars and a half "; a fathom of black , twice as much ; but . as the quantity in circulation increased , the value presently depreciated , and the number of beads to the penny was augmented .

      It is as a repertory of such facts as these , rather than as a historical view of the primitive condition of the Ang lo-American settlements , that Mr . Hildreth ' s work is to he considered valuable . The social condition of the American colonies during the second great era of Anglo-American History—tbat of the Intercolonial Wars—was not the same as it had been during the first . Regarding New England in particular , Mr . Hildreth says : —

      In the century since its settlement New England had undergone a great change . Tho austere manners of the Puritau fathers were still indeed preserved ; their language was repeated ; their observances were kept up ; their institutions were' revered ; forms and habits remained—but tbe spirit _Z : _L g 0 ne J * Tue mei ' ° ordinary objects of human « 2 X ? _^ Pursu it , the universal passion for wealth , _Sfn quabb , es _wth royal governors , land speculations , paper-money jobs , and projects of terri

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      ¦ _*¦"" V _£ _*~ - _?'"''*** _' _* s' _^>' # _^** m * _5 M _^ torial and personal aggrandisement , _ljad superseded those metapbysicandispufeB _,, _; thati spiritual-vision , and that absorbing passionfor a pure theocratio _commonwealth which had ' carried the 'fathers into the wilderness . -. * - ;¦ _.- . ' - : '' -. ¦* _' '; - ¦ ' _i : ¦ _:: ¦ - r Kl _-waf s _^ _among--: a [ colder ; set jb'f / influences ) therefore , than those which ' had tended tlie planting of the colonies , that their destined heroes and defenders— -the Franklins and " the _Washingtons of the eighteenth ' _- . , centurypassed , their youth and manhood . Enthusiasm was extinct ; and a prudent , forma ] m-

      dinerentism had succeeded . So decided was the change—or . as it _. appeared . to many ,. the degeneracy—that one or ' two men ra whom the old spirit fingered , or was rekindled , made it the aim of their lives to renew and ; propagate Jonathan Edwards ; the greatest thinker , perhaps , that America has yet produced—but of whom we defy the most quick sighted reader to obtain the slightest notion from Mr . Hildreth . . Assistants ' of his , in his ' ¦ Herculean attempt to bring back religious fervour and

      sincerity among a population of half a million of persons , were the tw ; o Wesleys and Whitfield : the WesleySj it is true , rather through their disciples than directly—for during their residence in America in 1736-7 they , . ' did not exert much influence . The " Great Revival , " however , was but temporary in its' effects '; and ; Anglo-American society preferred to ad- ' varice in its own more spontaneous direction . Franklin , rather than Jonathan Edwards _^ Avas ihe type ofthe growing American character in ihe period of the intercolonial wars . ' """ .. ' ..

      Of these wars there were four _:, the first ' lasted eight years ' , or from 1690 to 1698 , —the ; second twelve years , or from 1701 to' 1713 , — the third eight years , pi * from 1740 to 1748 , — and the fourth six years , or from 1754 to 1760 . The second volume of Mr .,. Hildretb . ' s work ; is in great part taken up with an . account of these wars , and of the progress ofthe colonies during the seventy years over which they extended .. Here , even more than in the preceding part , of the work , have we to complain of the extreme insipidity and dulness of this narrative . ' -. . •¦

      The same kind of obje _ ctions lie against the remainin g portions of the work ; in which Mr . Hildreth relates tbe struggle ofthe coloriiesTor independence , and completes the third great section of Anglo-American history . Here , however , owing to the unity of the subject , "the interest is better kept up and we should suppose that the reader who desires io inform himself in all the particulars , military ' or political , of the American Revolution , woiild find thatthey had heenicrupuloiisly collected for him by Mr . Hildreth . More than this'we cannot say . For masterly ; pprtraits of the men ofthe revolution ,- —Franklin , Washington , Jefferson , & c ., —or for profound appreciations of its . worth anditshistoric consequences , the reader must go elsewhere . ; .

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      Polytechnic Institution. This Inimitable...

      POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION . This inimitable establishment continues to __ attract thousands of visitors , by its vavicdexhibitions of genius and art . On our-recent visit wo heard a lecture on nova motive railways ; and we had a ride by the train . Secondly , —Alecture on . chemistry , by Mr . Pepper ; in which the priestly imposition , ** The fiery ordeal , " was exposed and exploded . The juvenile portion of the audience was treated , to barley sHgar , made by the lecturer dipping his hands with fruit into boiling sugar on the spot . Thirdly , —We were charmed with the Tyrolese airs , of the " Alpine singers , " who sung in their native tongue , clad in all the romantic simplicity of their native hills .. The Alpine singers are three in number , two males and a female ; tlie latter beautiful in person , and possessing a most charming voice , by which she captivated her audience , and

      succeeded in eliciting more than one encore . After witnessing the ' . ' doings , " of the diver and the diving bell , the evolutions of the electric eels , and the wonders of the Photographic art , as shown in innumerable portraits , we had a lecture from professor Backoffner on electricity , with numerous experiments , which at once astonished , delighted ; and electrified the audience . The dissolving views in the large theatre , embracing beautiful pictures in the ilorea . Cape Town , ¦ "Fingal's . cave , the dripping well of Knaresbro _" , the Rock of Giuralter , and the caves in the interior of the rock , containing a battalion of Infantry ; and concluding with" the brilliant and ever changing chromatroper which elicited loud and repeated bursts of applause . To our readers who are lovers of science , nnd admirers of the fine arts , we ' say , fail not to visit tho Polytechnic Institution . * - *

      Tiiekareutics.—The History Of Medicine I...

      TiiEKArEUTics . —The history of medicine is bv no means flattering to scionoD . It is questionable whether more is known of diseases , their cause , and their cure , at this moment , than in the time of Galen ; itis certain that diseases are quite as numerous , and in the aggregate asfatal . ' Every age has produced some new system of artificial therapeutics wliich the next age has banished ; each has boasted in its turn of cures , and they , in their turn , have been _conflpmncd as failures . Medicines themselves are tlie subjects unsettled ; in fact , that it has no established principles , that it is little more than conjectural ? ' At this moment , ' says Mr . Tinny , ' the opinions on the subject of treatment are almost as numerous as the practitioners themselves . Witness the mass of contradiction un the treatment of even one disease , namely , consumption . Stroll attributes its frequency to the introduction of bark . . Morton considers bark an effectual cure . Keid ascribes the frequency of thedise . ise to thc use of mercury . Hrilloiiet asserts that it is

      curable by mercury only . ' Kuse says that consumption is an inflammatory disease — should he treated by bleeding , purging , cooling medicines , and starvation . Salvador ! says it is a disease of debility , and should he treated by toiiics _, 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 , lleddoej recommended foxglove as a specific . Dr . Parr found fox . gleve more injurious in his practice than beneficial . Such arc thc contradictory statements of medical men ! ' And yet There can be but one true theory of disease . Of the fallibility and inefficiency of medicine , none have been more conscious than medieal men themselves , many of whom have been honest enough to avow their conviction , and now recommend MESSRS . 1 ) U BAMtY'S KB VALE NT A ARABICA FOOD , a farina , which 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 ; and numerous testimonials from parties of unquestionable respectability , have attested that it . supersedes medicine of every description in the effectual aud permaucnt _. _rcmoviu of indigestion ( dyspepsia ) , constipation , and diarrhoea , nervousness , biliousness , liver complaint , flatulency , dis . tension , palpitation ofthe heart , nervous headache , deaf ness , noises in the head and ears , pains in almost every part ofthe hody , chronic inflammation and ulceration of the stomach , erysipelas , eruptions on the skin , incipient consumption , dropsy ; rheumatism , gout , heartburn , nausea aud sickness during pregnancy , after eating , or at sea , low spirits , spasms , cramp , spleen , grneral debility , paralysis , asthma , coughs , inquietude , sleeplessness , involuntary blushing , tremour , dislike to society , unfitness for study , loss of memory , delusions , vertigo , blood to the head , exhaustion , melancholy , groundless fear , ¦ : indecision _.

      wretchedness , thoughts of self-destruction , and many other complaints . It is , moreover , admitted by tlioso who have used it to be tlie best food for infants and invalids generally , as it never turns acid on the weakest stomach , but imparts a healthy relish for lunch aud dinner , and restores the faculty of indigestion and nervous and muscular energy to die most enfeebled . - It has thc highest approbation of Lord Stuart de Decies ; the Venerable Archdeacon Alexander Stuart , of Ross , a cure of three years' nervousness ; Mwjor-General Thomas King , of Exmouth ; Capt . Parker , D . Bingham , _U . N ., of Ho . i Park . walk , Little Chelsea , London , who was cured of twenty-seven years dyspepsia in six weeks time ; Captain Andrews , R . N ., Captain Edwards , ILN . ; William Hunt , Esq ., harristor . at . luw , King's College , Cambridge , who , after suffering years from partial paralysis , has regained the use of his limbs in a very short time upon this excellent food ; the ltev . Charles Kerr of Winsluw , Bucks , a cure of functional disorders ; Mr . T . Woodhouse , Bromley—recording the cure ofa lady from constipation and sickness during pregnancy ; the Hev . T . Minster , of St . Saviour ' s , Leeds—a cure of five years' nervousness , with spasms and daily vomitings ; Mr . Taylor ,

      corouer of Bolton ; Capt . Allen , recording the cure of epileptic fits ; Doctors Ure and Harvey ; James Shorland , Esq ., No . 3 , Sydney-terrace , Heading , Berks , late surgeon in the _DOth Regiment , a cure of dropsy ; James Porter , Esq ., Athol-street , Perth , a cure of thirteen years cough , witli general detollly ; J . Smyth , Esq ., ' il Lower Abbeystreet , Dublin ; Cornelius _O'Sullivan , M . D ., lMLCb ., Dublin , a perfect cure of thirty years' indescribable agony from aneurism , which had resisted all other remedies ; and 10 . 000 other well known individuals , who have sent the discoverers and importers , _DuBaiuit and Co ., _VJt _" Bond-street , London , testimonials of tho extraordinary manner in which tiieir health has been restored by this useful aud economical diet , after all other remedies had been tried in vain for many years and all hopes of recovery abandened . 'A full report of important cures ofthe above and many other complaint" ; , aud testimonials from parlies of tlie highest reepectability , is , we find , sent gratis by Do _BiBHi-andCo . * —Morning Chronicle . Du _Babk _* ••¦>< _* - _VH Sew Bond-street , London ; also of _Barclay , Kd wards , Sutton , Sanger , and Hannay , and through all grecers , chemists , medicine vendors , and booksellers in the Kigdom . Cadtion . —The name of Messrs . Du Barry ' s invaluable

      Food , as also that of tho firm , bave been closely imitated that invalids cannot too carefully look atthe exact spelling of both , nnd also Messrs . Du _Babrv ' s address r 2 < New Bond-street , London , in order to avoid being imposc _ d upon by Ervalenta , Real Arabian Revalenta , Lentil Powder , or other spurious compounds of pease , beans Indian and oatmeal , under a close imitation of the name , which have nothing to recommend them but the reckless audacity of their ignorant or unscrupulous compounders , aud which , though admirably adapted for pigs , would play sad havoc with the delicate stomach ofan invalid or infant .

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      « * ri d _?^ _W- _^^ _^ calls quack doctors ine drivers' of the last stage of consumption . " ¦ TT _s ' _vS _' _fcSSr _^ _^ _^ eM built in Delaware , of _GeLral T _^ _. P rocessi ° tt _^ New Y _6 rk , in honour a wf ! J' y r was sevenmiles ia length _, tl-ir _ZtZX , _^ f « . -The _Cincinnatians , when hltenog it through a cane-bottomed chair . ¦¦ : - ¦ ¦ _•' ¦ _•¦' rn 5 _HfefStf ° _™ t _^ ' vowels which create An Honest LAWYER .-There is a lawyer down cast so excessively'honest ' that be puts all his flower pots out over night ,. 8 o determined is he that everything shall have its dew . --- '

      c ;« Hnfn 1 i _- ! 3 "' M _^ snific _f eht ¦ _Arysta-B , capable of reare now being found in California . _' _:-., ¦¦ _htn _„ _nnnfa U _™ i _' _,. _™ _^ since the arrival of tbe rK « n l a th * Zodld _« ioal , - _^ - a period of only fourteen weeks , has been 226 , 998 . v . v . _? j d ban ' _miMng despatches between 5 a . * BostOH D ) T magnetic telegraph is' now reduced to two cents ( one penny ) for each word . The distance exceeds 200 miles . ' > . Recent accounts announce the ; . arrival at New lork from California , of a raaraB } oti , block , a mixture of quartz and gold , weighing one hundred and ninety-three pounds .. ; , ¦* - ¦ _• ¦ _, tTs ¦ ' > : - __ The proprietors of , _hackney-carriages ,: exclusive of omnibuses , pay about . £ 90 , 000 a vear in tbe shape of duty to tbe government , and .. the _cab-^ on _' _nvlli-h ¦ erhack vehicles , represent a capital ot _ioUU . OOO .

      • Gigantic < . , Statue . —The gigantic statue' of the King of Bavaria is now' placed on the hill of Sainte Theresa , near Munich . The bronze of the statue has cost 92 , 6000 fl . or 234 , 000 fr . \ The statue has taken eight years to cast , and is to be-inaugurated on the return of King Louis to . Munich . , , ; . " Jim , why is it that a musician ' s strains are always heard so much . less distinctly , when ihe plays alone , than when in ; a band ?" r-f _* Why , * . lf didn ' t know it was so—suppose it must be _becausehe plays solo . " . _- . ' . ¦ _¦ :::. ¦ : ...... . .

      . Hot Dbinks . —Tom Toper _. _wasmasked * what he thought , ofthe effects of hot ; drinks on the system . " Hotdrinks , sir , " said Mr . _~ Toper , " arebad , decidedly bad . Tea . and coffee , ; sir ,,, are hurtful . And even hot punch—when . very hot—I suppose is injurious ! " '' , _'"' _i : ' . With Respect to' the goods of this world ; ' it might be said , that _pardons are preaching for them —that lawyers , are pleading for them—that physicians are prescribing from' them—that ' , authors are writing for _them-f- _^ that soldiers are fighting for tbem —but thatphilosopheis al _0 n 6 ' are en _] 6 ying them . ' ' An Irish Crier : —• ' O . yis ! O yis 1 " cried " an Irishman in the street a few days since ; ringing-a bell , " lost , between twilv ' e o ' clock " and McKinney ' s storeon ; Market Street , a large _brasffkay . I'llnot be afther tellin' ye what it is , but it isthe kayof the bank _. sure . " _..-. y- :,. y .. _- . _*¦•

      A Substitute for Coal . —A most interesting discovery has been made in Russia , between Dorpat and Norva ; of . a combustible as carboniferous arid calefactory as coal . It' is of a yellowish brown colour , with white spots , arid'is the subject of riiuch speculation , being said to be-of a much earlier geological period than any known coalfield . —Mining Journal . Mrs . Partington says , that when she was a gal , she used to go to parties , and always bad a beau to extort lier home . But now , says _sh ' e' the _qals undergo all such declivities ; the task , of extorting them home , revolves on their dear-selves . The old lady draw down herspe ' es ; andthanked her stars that she had lived in other days , when men were more palpable in depreciating the worth of the female sect . .

      "No"CoMPHMESTS . "T-An aged divine was often obliged to avail himself of the assistance of probationers . One day , a young man quite vain of his accomplishments as a public orator , officiated , and on descending trom the desk , was met by the elder witb extended hands , and expecting great praise , he said , " No compliments , I pray . " "Na , na _, na , " said the parson , * ' _now-a-days I'm glad o' anybody . " A _Paopeb ? s " Wardrobe . —At Keswick , a few days ago , an old female pauper ' s effects were at her death divided into upwards of 300 . lots , and amongst her hoarded goods were no less than 115 pairs of stockings , 17 beciquilts _, 12 cotton gowns _,, 3 . silk gowns , 8 hats , 9 shawls , 3 silk scarfs , 3 * 4 ¦ chemises , 25 sheets ,

      18 caps , 30 lockets , 12 blankets , 1 silver watch , 3 silver thimbles , and several silver spoons . The sum realised amounted to between £ 30 . and' £ 40 , which the overseers of Borrowdale took charge of . The Premier ' s Holidays . — "Punch" little thought while describing a Premier during tbe holidays , as he is * ' supposed to be , " in his last week ' s journal , ' and contrasting if with the reality , that . the supposition was the , correct descri ption ; for Lord John Russell was , one day last week , observed in front of Mr . Maule ' s house at Birnam _, enjoying himself with his _childl ' eh , ih sending up paper balloons into the air , and chasing them over the lawn . —Perth Courier .

      During TnE hunting season , the Laird of Logan was favoured with many visitors . On one occasion , a party assembled at his hou _^ e more numerous than usual , and such as to excite the fears of his housekeeper for accommodation during * the night . In this quandary she applied to her master . "Dear me , laird , what am I todo wi' a' thae folks . I wonder they hae nae mair sense than come trooping here in _dizans _; there ' s no beds in the house . foi * half o ' _theiu ! " "Keep yoursel easy , my woman , " said the laird , " I'll just fill them a' fou , and they'll fin ' beds for themsels . "

      A MississimAN Oak . —A Mississippumwas bragging to a Yankee of the fertility of the soil of his region . To give a practical illustration of his subject , he said , that he went to the woods to cut down an oak tree . After he had chopped for about a week or ten . days , he thought fee would take . a walk round the tree , just to see how much be had cut . When he got to the other side he saw another man chopping on the same oak . "I say , " says our friend , "how long havc . you been cutting ? " " . Just three weeks , " , says the stranger . The tree was so big- round that they did not hear the sound of each other ' s axes !—N . C . Argus .

      Exhibition of 1851 . —The Hurkaru states , that tlie following articles have already been lodged in the bonded , warehouse , at Calcutta : —A large eastern tent of extraordinary richness , with gilt poles , the covering of finest cashmere shawl cloth , embroidered all over with gold and silver . Au etui of beautiful opaque , gold bound , the top forming a radient centre , set in diamonds and rubies . A magnificent couch and six chairs , of carved ivory work , preseuted by the Nawab Nazim to her Majesty . A couch cushion worked in gold and silver thread with the names of Victoriaand . Albert , _ tbe initials being diamonds , and the other letters in pearls of large size . One hundred and twenty life-size figures , representing thc various occupations of Hindoos , with working implements complete . And a very extensive stock of native jewellery and gold ornaments , from Delhi and Cuttack .

      _S-rnoNG Water . —A friend of ours , says the Medical Times , was attending a union pauper patient . She was suffering from some variety of ulcer on the leg . Water was considered the most fitting applicationinterim , medicinei unnecessary . Thinking the woman might not apply the water , he gave a lotion made of tinted water . The woman complained that it was too strong , that it caused extreme cain . Our friend bil her put two tablespbonsfuls of water with each _tabli ' Suoonful of the lotion . She assured him the next day that it now answered very well , caused no pain , and seemed to be doing her good .

      Tub eccentric Dr . Bylcs bad , at one time , a remarkably stupid Irish girl us a domestic . With _aliok and voice of terror he said to her , in haste— "Go and toll your mistress that Dr . Byles has put an end to himself . " The girl flew up stairs , and , with a face full of horror , exclaimed , at the top of her _lunas" Dr . - Byles has put an end to himself ! " The astonished wife and daughter rushed into the parlour —and then was the Doctor , calmly walking about with a part » f a cow ' s tail , that he had picked up in thc street , 'ried to his coat or cassock behind .

      Singular Experimknts with Electro Magnetism—Dr . Page , of _Washington , United States , is now exhibiting his new application of Electro Magnotism as a motive power , at the Smithsonian Institute in that city . He causes a bar of iron , weighing one hundred and sixty pounds to dance without support in the air like a feather , to the height of ten inches and upwards , the force operating on it averaging I hree hundred pounds . Ho states , that thore would be no difficulty in raising a weight of a hundred tonsand

      , causing it to move through the space of a hundred feet , " with the proper apparatus " He also developes a great explosive force from his magnet _. He has made an engine of four or five horse power , which works successfully , and at a cost less than steam , and the " larger the engine the less the relative expense of diiving it . " These results are not entirely conclusive ; the battery requires improvement , and " the experiment of a machine of a hundred hi rse rower can alone decide the value of his invention . "

      _Tnu Folly of Pride . —The Rev . Sidney Smith , for many years one of the contributors to the great En « hsli Reviews , thus diseourscth on tho folly of pride in such a creature as man : — " After all , take some quiet , sober moment of life , and add together the two ideas of pride and man ; behold him , creature ol a span high ; stalking through infinite space in all the grandeur of littleness . Perched on a speck of the universe , every wind of Heaven sirikes into his blood the coldness of death ; bis soul floats from his body like melod y from the string ; day and night , as dust on the wheel , he is rolled along the Heavens , through a labyrinth of worlds , and all the creations of God are flaming above and beneath . Is this a creature to make for himself a crown of glory , to deny his own flesh , to mock at his fellow sprung froni that dust to wliich both will soon return ? Does the proud man not err ? Does he not suffer ? Does ho not die ? When he reas ns is he never stopped by diffi-

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      culties ? ; When he acts is he . never tempted by _. pleasure ? Whenhe lives * is heffree 'from pain ? ' Wheii he dies can he escape tte common grave ? . Pride is not , the heritage of , man ; humility , should ; dwell with ffailty _. and atone for ignorance , error , and imperfection . ' - .:. ¦' ¦ ' ¦¦ :

      Brother Chartists Beware! "Of Wolves In Sheeps' • • ' ¦!¦ ¦ * .. ;¦ .Glothim.'' 77;

      Brother Chartists Beware ! " of Wolves in Sheeps ' • ' _¦!¦ ¦ * .. ;¦ . Glothim . '' 77 ;

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      BUFTUJRBS EFFECTUALLY CUB . ED "WITHOUT A . TRUSS !! THE ONLY CURE for RUPTURE is DR DE ROOS' HEMEDY , of Which there are . numerous dangerous imitations ; sufferers are' therefore earnestly _oautioned against a gang of youthful impudent sen-styled doctors , " some of whom have lately - _. left ' the dough _, trough , and others the tailors'board , who dis ' _hoaestly counterfeit this discovery , adopt a multiplicity of names , both English " and Foreign , for obvious reasons ; Forge testimonials ; profess ( under the name , of a lady assumed for the purpose ) , ' amongst other wonders , to tell the character of persons from , their handwriting , produce whiskers , & c , in a few weeks , and hy assertions the most absurd and conflicting , have recourse , to the basest practises to victimise tbe public . '¦ \ y - ' ' "testimonials from numbers of the Faculty and patients who have been f cured of Rupture , establish the efficacy of DU . DU ROOS' REMEDY iri every case hitherto tried . : "

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      Brother Chartists ! Beware of " Wolves in Sheeps Clothing !!" Sufferers are earnestly cautioned against dangerous imitations of theso medicines by youthful , self-styled doctors , who copy this announcement , profess to cure complaiats for 10 s . only , and dare to infringe the proprietor ' s right by making truthless assertions , and advertising-, a spurious compound under another , the use of which will assuredly bring annoyance and disappointment . . _* ,

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      , , -- v .- * ' ~ v . sr-- . a _. SKIN ¦ ERUPTIONS , _SCIIOFULA DISEASES OF THE BONES AND GLANDS . DR . DE ROOS' CONCENTRATED GUTT _; E VIT / B ( or Life Brops ) is as its name implies a safe and permanent cure , for every variety of disease arising from solitary habits , youthful delusive excesses , and infection , such , as-gonorrhoea , ' syphilis , ' ic , whieh from neglect or improper treatment by mercury , copaiba , eubebs , and other deadly poisons , invariably end in some oi the following forms of secondary symptoms , viz ., pains and swellings in the bones , joints and glands , skin eruptions , Wotchtsandpimples , weakness ofthe eyes , loss of . hnir _, disease and decay of the nose , sore throat , pains iu the side , back , and loins , fistula , piles , _ifcc ., obstinate diseases of the kidneys and bladder , gleet , stricture , seminal weakness , _nervsus and sexual debility , loss of memory , and finally such a state of . drowsiness ; lassitude and general prostration of strength , unless skilfully arrested , soon ends in a miserable death ! This medicine is deservedly popular in the _preventior and removal of the foregoing symptoms , and as a re storative of manly vigour , whether deficient from earlj imprudence , or residence _' inihot climates , & c .

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      PAINS IN THE BACK , GKAVEL , LUMBAGO , RHEUMATISM , GOUT , INDIGESTIOX , DEBILITY , STRICTURE , GLEET , & c . HR . DE ROOS' COMPOUND RENAL aJ PILLS ( of whieh there are useless imitations under other titles ) have in many _instances effected a cure when all other means had failed , and are now established by the consent of the FACULTY as the most sate and efficacious remedy ever discovered for the above dangerous complaints , and diseases of the kidneys and urinary organs generally , whether resulting from _impruienco or otherwise , whieh , if neglected , frequently end in stone of the Madder , and a lingering ' death ! It is mi esta-

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      • ° OH SrcAI _^ DISQUALIFICATIONS , "" 6 ENBUATIVE _. _^ CAPACITY , AND "tilPEBIMENTS _TO'MARBIAOB . I Thir . ty _^ rst edition , illustrat edwitli _Twenty-Six'A ' natfomi : _^ S e ' 7 i v avlng 8 on Steel _» enlarged to 186 pages , . price j 9 , W _] by post , direct from' the' Establishment , 89 . 6 d . in postage stamps . . ¦ _- . < . ';¦ 1 . •• - > t' . * .. _'fi _..-i . * ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ .. _^ H . t _^ _riliiT _WlE ' NbV J . _, a medical work on the _eriiaustlon and physical de « ay of the system , produced by excessive _indigence , " the conseqiiences of infection , er the abuse of mercury , Uh observation . * - ; on the _mari-ned _; state , and . the : diiqualiiicatioDr which . preventit _; illustrated by _twentv-six . _floured bo ..

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      IMPORTANT . :: _^' Established Fifty Years . _THB great success whicli lias attended Messrs . _l'BEDB in their treatment of all those Disease * arisiug from . . indiscretion or excess , ahd the number of . cures performed by them , is a sufficient proot ' of their skill and . ability in the treatment of those complaints . . ' .. _> .. Messrs . Peede , Surgeons , ifeo ., may bo consulted as usual from 9 till 2 , and 6 till 10 , in all stages of the above coin . plaints , in the cure of which they have been so pre-eminently successful , from their peculiar method of treatment , " when" air other means "have failed , which' has secured" for them the patronage aud gratitude of many thousands wlio have benefited hy tiieir advice arid medi- <

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      _EXTRAORDINARY SUCCESS OF TIIE "NEW REMEDY !! . Which has never been known to fail . —A cure effected or the Money returned . PAIN'S IN THE HACK , GRAVEL , LUMBAGO , HHEU MATISM , GOUT , DEBILITY , STRICTURE , GLEET , & c .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 28, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_28091850/page/3/