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    • THE NORTHERN STAR. SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1844.
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    • STIRLING'S PILL FOR HEALTH AND
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      LONG LIFE .- ^ SIR WILLIAM'S ADVICE IT is well-known that the late Sir William Blizard paid the highest deference to the efficacious merits of STIRLING'S STOMACH PILLS , and earnestly recommended that no family whatever should ba without thorn ; for , said h e , in all cases of Budden Illness , they could be at once safely administered to the sufferer , who , perhaps , before medical assistance could arrive , might be carried off , or placed ia imminent danger . Stirling ' s Stomach Pills have , ia all cases , proved superior to every other medicine in the cure of stomach and liver complaints , loss of appetite , indigestion , gout , sensation of fullness and after meals , shortness of breath , and an excellent restorative after any excess at the table , as they gently cleanse the bowels , strengthen the stomach , and invigorate the constitution . Females , who value good health , should never be without them , as they purify the blood , remove obstructions , 8 allowness , pimples , &c , and give the ski a a beautiful , clear , healthy , and blooming appearance . Persons of a plethoric habit , who are subject to head-ache , giddiness , dimness of Bight , drowsiness , attended with apoplectic symptoms , should take them frequently . They may be safely administered to children and persons of all ages , as they contain ' no mercury , nor any ingredient that requires confinement , or restrictions of diet . Prepared only by J W . Stirling , Chemist , 86 , High-street , Whiteohapel , in boxed at Is . l ^ d ; , 2 a . 9 d ., 4 s . 6 d . and Us . each ; and may be had of ail respectable medicines venders ? ? * Ask for Stirling ' s Stomach Pills ; and be sure the Name is oh the Stamp .

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      "FACTS ARE STUBBORN THINGS . " rp HE following testimonials from respeptable per-X sons , in addition to many hundreds of DECIDED CURES—particulars of which have been already published ^—established the character of PARR'S LIFE PILLS , as the Best Medicine in the World . — TO THE PROPRIETORS OF PARR ' S LIFK PILLS . Gentlemen , —This is to inform you , in detail , what OLD PARR'S LIFE PILLS ( or Pills of Health ) , have done for me . \ First . —Tnoy have cured me of a Ccngh , of about three years duration , by which I could sleep very little ; but the third night I took them I slept comfortably , j Secondly . —Of a { Nervous Affection , with which 1 have been troubled for many years . Thirdly . —Of Costiveness , from which I have suffered much for many years , having been , except at intervals , for three , ifour , five , six , seven , and eleven days in torment , previous to going to the ground . Fourthly . —Of the Rheumatism , from which I have suffered much , for upwards of 40 years . Fifthly . —Of a Scorbutic humour , with which I have been tormented at least 44 years , having been lame with it , several times , for months together . This has been a very stubborn case . I do not know what I may have , but at present , I have aot a sore spot , or a pain about me . I am now enabled to bless and praise God for his mercies in bringing to light such a restorative health and soundness of body . I am not iike the same person as I was a year ago being so much altered for the better . All these cures have been effeoted in me , by the usof PARR'S LIFE 1 PILLS . And lastly . —I believe them to be , a safe preventatiye of the Bowel Complaint , for , neither I nor my wife have had it , since taking them ; she having frequently had it previous . I am , Gentlemen , your humble Servant , R . W . RICHARDSON , Schoolmaster . Red Lion-street , Walsall , Staffordshire , Januarv 30 th , 1843 . ; Witness . —R . Richardson , his present wife , can vouch to hia being afflicted as above , for more than 22 years . 1 NeTE . —You are ] at liberty to make use of the above statement , in any way you please ; I am ready to answer any question put to me relating thereto . Messrs . T . Roberts and Co ., London To Mr . James Arthur , Bookseller , Rickergate , i Carlisle . ^ > —I cannot refrain from expressing the deep gratitude I feel , for the great beaeiit 1 have derived from taking Parr ' s ; Life Pills . For the space of eighteen months I j was seriously afflicted with a complaint of the stomach , accompanied with severe pam and flatulency . ! During that time I had much medical advice , and } was a patient at the Carlisle Dispensary , for six months , but without deriving the slightest benefit whatever . I also tried several patient medicines , but without experiencing any benefit . I was worn out to a complete skeleton , —had a severe cough and spit , and was also troubled with Diabetes , and ; had no hope of ever recovering ; fortunately , however , I was informed by some of my neighbours , of the great benefit they had derived from Parr ' s Life Pals , purchased from you :

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      consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament m favour of a Ten Hours' clause in the Factory Bill . Mr . Richard Purdie was unanimously called to the chair , and opened the meeting * by reading the placard calling the meeting , and making a few appropriate remarks . Mr . J . Cairns moved the first resolution , which was seconded by Mr . Chas . Haig , and agreed to ail but unanimously : for in the Hall , which was crowded , not six hands were held up against it . Mr . Anthony Haig moved a petition to the House of Command , founded on the foregoing resolution , and was seconded by Mr . Adam Easton . This motion was opposed by Mr . Robert Michie and Mr . John Michie , principally on the ground that the Legislature ought not to interfere with labour . However , after an . animated discussion , the motion was carried by a majority of twenty to one , and the petition ordered to ba sent to T . S . Duncombe , Esq ., for presentation .

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      I accordingly agreed to give them a trial . I did so , and during the last eighteen months , I have taken , about twelve boxes , which have been attended with the most happy results . I am now quite well in health , and am labouring very long hours . I have considered it my duty to recommend this excellent medicine to others , and am happy to be able to state that it has been attended in many cases , with very favourable results . I remain , Sir , your obedient Servant , JOHN DAVIDSON , Slaymaker , Rigg-street , Caldewgata Reference can be made to Mr . James Arthux Bookseller , Rickergate , Carlisle , who can bear testimony as to the great benefit derived by many others from taking the above-named medicine . Carlisle , Oct . 1 ah , 1843 . The following letter , just received by the Proprietors from the Rev . David Harrison , Independent Minister , Whitstable , near Canterbury , is a further proof of their efficacy in cases of Indigestion , Liver * and Stomach Complaints , &c , See .: — Whitstable , Sept . 5 , 1842 . " My Dear Friend " I received the box of PARR'S LIFE PILLS you so kindly sent me , for which I beg you to accept my best thanks . They could not have come more opportunely , as I was suffering considerably from indigestion at the time . I immediately commenced taking the pills , and found great benefit in a few days . I have taken them subsequently , with the same happy effect , which induces me to believe that they are an exceedingly beneficial remedy in indigestion . A friend of mine has found them of great utility in an obstinate liver complaint . If my recommendation can be of any service , you are at liberty to use it as you please . " I am , my dear friend , " Yours , very truly , " DAVID HARRISON . " From Mr . D . Cusions , Horncastle . Horncaatle , Sept . 30 , 1842 . Gentlemen A most extraordinary Case of Cure communicated by Mrs . Moxon , of York . Mrs . Mathers , of that City , had for many years been affected with a most inveterate disease , which her medical attendants pronounced to be Cancer . It originated in her breast , and continued to spread nearly all over her body , defying every effort of surgical skill . Parr ' s Life Pills being recommended to her , Bhe resolved to give them a trial ; and , speaking of the result , she says she cannot express the inconceivable adoantage which she has already derived from them * She further states that she is now almost woll , aud ascribes her convalescence solely to the persevering use of that sovereign medicine , Part ' s Life Pills . Communicated by Mr . Bawden . Gentlemen , —At the request of Mr . Thomas Barret * Farmer , of Menally , parish-of St . Veep , Corawall , I send you the enclosed , and beg to state that you are quite at liberty to publish it , if you think proper to do so . Since I have been your agent , I have received numerous testimonials of the benefit PARR'S LIFE PILLS have conferred upon the * afflicted . I remain , Gentlemen , respectfully , H . BAWDEN , Chemist and Druggist . Fowley , Cornwall , Gentlemen , —I feel it a duty I owe you to express my gratitude for the great benefit I have derived by taking PARR'S LIFE PILLS . I applied to your agent , Mr . Bawden , Chemist and Druggist , Fowley ., for Parr ' s Life Pills , for a Swelling I had in my Groin , which extended to toy ancle , and I could scarcely walk from the pain and swelling . It arose about an inch in thickness , descending in a line from the top to the bottom of my leg , and was quite black and painful to the touch . After three boxes of PARR'S LIFE PILLS , it quite disappeared , and I have not had a return of it since ; I am determined not to be without them , for I shall always have a box continually in the house , in readiness for any complaint with which I may in future be afflicted . I remain . Gentlemen , Your most obedient Servant , THOMAS BARRET , Of Menally , Parish of St . Veep , Cornwall . Cirencester , Jan . 1 , 1843 . Gentlemen , —The wonderful effects of PARR'S LIFE PILLS have been felt by the poorer classes in the parish of Cirencester . Scarcely a family but what has taken them , one and all declare the wonderful efficacy resulting from their use . In fact , it is gratifying to me to say to the Proprietors of the Pills , uay sale increases daily . Some days I sell 50 boxes . Yours , W . WHITE . Agent for Cirencester . Many persons , after learning that bo many won derful cures have been effected by PARR'S LIFE PILLS have a great desire to procure the medicine which has done so much good . In doing this , however , caution must be observed , as certain individuals without honesty , are offering a dangerous eubsitute , instead of the genuine medicine . The proprietors cannot , of course , be accountable for any untoward results that may ensue , to those who have been thus imposed upon , but they can point out % n effectual means to preventf urther imposition .

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      FRANCE . Louts Philippe . —The Times says- " Oar correspondent observes , thai there is some erageration in the accounts of ihe celebration of the JKings / eie given in the Ministerial journals ; that certainly all Irenk off without accident or unpleasant occurrence of any kind , but there was the most complete absence of enthusiasm or demonstration of respect for the 4 ay . 'lie people looked on upon the entertainments provided for them , but that is all that can be said j and this applies even to the grand exhibition of the products of French industry in the Champs Elysees . The debste 3 on the Secondary Instruction Bill m the Peers } , and on the Prison Discipline Bill in the Chamber of Deputies , continue to attract public resolved the

      attention . The Chamber has on . adoption of the solitary system . The prisoners ( the accused as well as the convicted ) are hereafter to be separated during the day and night . Each prisoner irill have a spacious , salubrious , and well-aired cell . —In the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday , a petition -was presented f roai certain operatives of Paris , . for the abolition of negro slavery in the French -colonies ; and , after an interesting debate , -was referred to iheMinister of Marine . From ti « eremarks saade by M . tJnixot and Admiral Mack ** , we lear * that the < 3 rsvemment » tenced to abolish . slavery ,-bet aotall at once , and feat it -would bemece 3 sary to prepare the slaves for freedom during sosn * years before total emancipation .

      HoBBCBLE TsXiCHEKT O ? T « E BtS&TJ » LICAK S ? H 1-50 SEBS . —The -Naiktnal , allnding to a speech of M . * ie Tocqueville , ia the Chamber > of © epaties « n the Prison Reform Bill , in which fce stated tiat the political prisoners at Mont St . Xichael n » d wen treated with unnecessary rigour , * nd that tfce effect t > f ikis rigonr ted been not-onJy injury to their bodHy health , * nt also insaai $ , says :: — "We will bow give a list « ef the vietims-of 4 his rigour . Steuble « ut his throat -with a razor- ? iBezenat hasged himself in his cell t Jarasse twice attempted to poison

      iimself ; Austen went mad 4 Gordon , mad ; Charles , xnad ; Boudin , mad . Othsssfc&ve not yet sunk , but ttie injury ^ which . ihey -b * ve leeeived will affl \ ct them lor the test of life , 5 * he diseases which they -contracted in this MghtJal prison would bare -destroyed them if they iftd not been taken from it . ! Fhustbe'GoTernment itself bas been obliged to transfer Barbes-to Kismes ^ PetremanUj Yicoq , and Fom--fcmeau to Doullene ? Ouboordeax to Bordeaux ; Dutour to Paris ; and Hubert , first to the hospital , and then to St . PeIagie . "

      SPAIN . DoarwAJA of s » b u Bbavos . "—The accounts from Madrid are of an alarming character . The JBravo Ministry have also resigned , and General Ifarract is to be at the head of the new Cabinet ThiBimportant new 3 was conveyed to Pans at a late ioor on Saturday night , by the following telegraphio dispatch ;— " Madrid , May 2 , 1844 . * 3 BS AXBAESAMfi OP FBAIfCE TO THE MINISTER Of

      70 &KICX AFFaIES . ** The whole of the Ministry have resigned , and iieir resignation has been accep ; ed by the Queen . General Narva * 1 has been intrusted with the formation of the new one , in wkich iL Miriflores is to be included . u M . Bravo and his colleagues have stated vo her Majesty that they are willing to give their support to their successors . M Madrid is tranquil . " The French Anitas ador , however , or perhaps the authorities at Madrid , have suppressed still more important sews . As soon as the fact became genexaily known that N&rvatz was to form the new Cabinet , a panic took place on the Madrid-Bourse , when the funds fell in two days nearly six per cent , and business was transacted to the enormous amount cfl 27 . « 00 , 000 reals .

      * The Spanish Ministry , " says the Jteforme , "has been overturned . Bravo , a deserter from the ranks of the Radical party , has experienced the fate of all renegades . He has been made use of to betray and persecute his former friends ^ and when , after accomplishing his task , Ms services as an informer and exeeuiioner were no longer wanted , he was ^ rejected with contempt by the Moderados , who could not suffer the presence of a traitor in their camp . It is to that man , nevertheless , who 1 b ah object of Indignation to all parties in Spain , that M . Guizot lias lately sent the grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour 1 " NSV SlfSISH MlSlSTBT . —MiDBJD MiT 4 TH . — General Narvsfz , President of the Conncil , and Minister of War .

      The Marquis de vulams , Minister for Foreign ASurs . M . Mon , Minister of Finanee . M . Pidal , Minister of the Interior . M . Mayans , Minister of Justice , And General Armero , Minister of Marine . Fresh convulsions are hourly expected .

      POKTUGAL . Fiix op Atjleida . —Almeida surrendered on the 21 th nit ., at four o'clock . The officers and chiefs ¦ wtre psrmitted to retire into Spain ; the men were to depose arms , and to be held exempt from punishment . The following appeared in the Paris papers of SoDday evening : — Bajonne , May 4 . —Almeida eapitula'ed on the 29 uu Count de Bamnm , and a lather large number of officers , are gone into &ain . "

      ITALY . Letters from Bologna state that the sentences passed , apon the last batch of state prisoners , tried Before the military commission for the part they took in the attempted rising at Bologna last year , have been confirmed by the Roman Government . Among these prisoaers are fourteen against whom sentence of death ha * been passed , for haviDg taken part in an engagement between the people and the soldiery at Savigno , where & captain of carbineers , four irldiers , and some volunteers were killed .

      GREECE . Fobmatjos of a llixistBT . —The Accounts from Athens of the 2 O . h nit . annonnee that the Greek "Ministry has been reconstituted , and is composed as follows : —M . Jiavrocordato , President of the Council , Minister of Finances , and Minister of the Marine , ed interim ; Majs > r-General Rkodius , Minister of " War ; M . A . Lopdos , of the Interior ; M . Tricoupis , of Foreign Affairs ; and M- C . Loidos , of Justice . Immediately after their appointment the new Ministers addressed a circular to the authorities of the kingdom . Thepartynowpredominantisihatknown as the ** English party . "

      Tae following brief sketch of the heads of the new ministry is abridged from the Morning Chronicle : M . Mavrocordato though one of a family honoured and employed in high cfiices by the Sultan , was among th « first to join in the war of freedom , was actively engaged , and took a prominent par ; at MisiDlongai , in 1824 , and is deed during the whole war . Be was named a Secretary of State on the arrival ol ihe Regency , but , with M . Triconpi and Coktti , was shortly after sen * as minister at a foreign court , and thus removed from Greece for years . In 1841 he was desired by the King to form a government , but was forced to resign in six weeks by the impossibility of carrying out the Liberal principles on which he took offioa . Ha was appointed soon after-¦ ward 3 minister at Constantinople , and has been the de faete President of the . National Assembly—the president , from old age , having been unable to take aa acme part In it .

      General Londos , of one of the best families of the Horea , wa 3 among the first to joia the standard of tiie « ros 3 in I 82 L , and was eminently useful in driving the Turks from thence . His liberal principles gained him no credit with the late Government , and his rank , probably , was unwillingly conferred . G-neral 1 / ondos W 23 a strenuous supporter of tho 3 rd of September , tnd then first became a minister , having been placed on the list offered for the King ' s acceptance . He was also a vice-president of the . National -Assembly . M . Tricoupj , a native of Missolonjjhi , wa 3 educated in Corfu , but took part in the early Bcenes *> f the revolution , and especially at Missolonghi , where he pronounced the funeral oration

      on the death « f Lord Byron . His confirmed liberal principles led him into the active Bervice of his country during the straggle for independence , and he became" a minister under the Regency . He was , iowever , sooa removed , with other Liberals , and received the post of minister at the Court of St . James s , which he held many years . After his recal to Greeee , the solicitations of the King had toe effect of dissocmiDg him from the Liberal pariy for a lime j at all events , ho seems to have acted as if all i > pe of a constitution were over . M . Tri-« onpi , as one of the council of state on the 3 rd of September ( though not in Athens till late in the daj ) signed the papers presented by the Conncil to ihe King .

      M . A . Ch . Loncofl is also of a good family at Patras , a younger man than the other ministers , esteemed for his talents and education ; he is a lawyer of some eminence , and was also eicqneni in the National Assembly , and considered a good man * f business . General Khodios was early engaged in the moloSon , having come to Greece from Rhodes , but pwnionsly having served in the French army . He afterwards attached himv-elf to Capo d'Isiria , and organised some regular troops , on which account he was then raised to office . He has always been a moderate member of the Trappist party , but ' injhe National Assembl

      . y was of thiU 1 ^^ ^ wiBer sec . uon of thesi , who , seeing the qnestion of constimfcoii-jettledj . broke their conntc-ion with those who ^ Vr ftir * *? T 1 tW 3 ' * npponiig measures iojotims to the coHntry , b . ostUe tothB Liberal party . &vm ± s IiTOiaKES .-ThB con ^ pondent of the GtremiJe eayB : —It is perfectly etna in that a secret enrolment of men has been going on ft r seme weeks , and thai peasants and others , Jong agv accustomed ie gnexilla war / are , iave qeen ofi ^? t d regnlir monthly pay bj some well known ttdivivJx ^ E who nmfonnly act Tinder Russsiananspices . Thb 6 bj » ct ipven oat iB an attack upon the Tnikieh pro ? i > cesi withatiewtoxousetlie ChtistiaQ populauontc' ^

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      bellion—a most tempting br jt ^ for vanity , patriotism , and cupidity combine ^ make it attractive . But there are those who , ' j ^ fte adepts among ihe Druses , have been allow- ^ to Bhartj in the greater secret of the mystery ; ar ^ these know that the real object is to create a law © force of armed men , nnder the command of some of ; tiie armatoli , whioh may be turned against Greece fc . self , destroy her constitational advance , force ? oej . jnt 0 a large expenditure , and create enemies to b er sovereign among foreignt powers . Such delibejc * , ^ cjq ^ treachery against a youDg and generous ; nation , needs but to be known to be detested .

      INE > A AND CHINA . Arrival of the . ' j vebiakd Mail . —By tbe Overland Mail we ha- / e JBtelligence from Bombay to the 1 st of April , frr a Calcutta and Agra to the 22 nd of March , and fir im Madras to the 23 rd of the Bame month , aad fr Om China to the 24 th of Febrnary . The news altf ^ ether is very favourable . Sinde was perfectly trrinquii , and the sickness among the troops had entirely disappeared . A Government I noUficatior ,, was issued on the 32 th of March , regulating the compensation to be given to the Sepoys , i a&d grar . ting to the troops the field allowances of ! Hindosf jin . All cause of alarm had ceased , and ' most c » f the troops were on their march for the \ Indus .. The Governor-General had issued an order , 1 by wluoh all the troops who had served in Sinde at i the period of the battles of Meeanee and Hyderabad , are to receive twelve months' batla . From Lahore

      the intelligence is not so favourable . A civil war was raging in that country , and Akbar Khan , taking advantage of the circumstance , was preparing to march upon Peshawur . Gwalior was tranqnil ; indeed , the whole of the British territory in India , containing a population of 150 , 000 , 000 , was in profound peace . The news from China is no important . Sir H . Pottinger remained at Hong-Kong , and was engaged in making regulations for the trade at the new ports .

      FOREIGN MISCELLANY . Execution . —Another execution took place at Rouen on the 29 ih ult . The person who paid the penalty of the law was a young man named Arger , who had murdered a widow , and afterwards set fire to her house to conceal his crime . He exhibited the greatest penitence on the scaffold , and his address was so affecting that several persons in the crowd shed tears . The clergyman , affected by the prisoner ' s resignation , embraced him , and in a moment after human justice was satisfied .

      Akeist or a Gaa « op Thieves . —The Gaxeite des Tribunal * anBounces the arrest , in Paris , of another gang of thirty-nine thieves and robbers . Numerous complaints , says this journal , having been laid before the Prefecture of Police against a gang who have for some time infested the museums , concert-rooms , and other public places , but more particularly the churches , the officers of justice were put upon the alert , and by their researches discovered a large confederacy under the common appellation of the Bande Beige , composed chit fly of malefactors who had for their misdeeds been inhabitants of the prisons in Belgium , and who , being too well known in that country , have come over to Paris to exercise their nefarious talents .

      Fikes ox the CoxxxsKT . —The extensive tannery of M . Herrenschmidi , at Wacken , near Strasburgb , was burnt down on the night of the 30 th ult ., as was also the dwelling-house . The flames spread so rapidly that it was necessary to rescue from their beds M . Herrenschmidt ' s children . The loss in buildings is estimated at 300 , OOOL , aad in goods at 100 , D 00 f . No one was killed , but some persons were wounded . In the night of the 2 ( th nit , says the Journal de la Mayence , a destructive fire broke « ut at Prey en Pail , the full details of which the journal was not in possession of , but had learned that at least sixty houses and buildings were burnt down .

      A destructive fire t * ok place a few days ago at Lihons , near Peronne , by which fifty-one hons # s , with their outbuildings , were destroyed , cau sing a loss of about 80 , 000 f . The disaster is attributed to the imprudence of a woman in throwing a quantity of ashes , not quite extinguished , on to a heap of old straw in the yard , which the wind blew into a flame . A fire occurred , a few days ago , at Raon-sar-Plaine , in the Yosges , which burnt wi th such rapidity that in ten minutes , it ia said , fonrteen dwellings were destroyed , and forty persons left without a shelter . One poor woman was burnt to death .

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      DUflCOMBE . TRIUMPH OF LABOUR . R The Labourer is worthy of his hire , ' Most things , and especially in this steam-revolving world of ours , create but a " nine-days' won . e ' er "; and the recent triumph achieved by the friends of Labour in the House of Commons would ere now have been in the general category of things passed , consigned to oblivion , or merely preserved for almanac notice , was it not for the glorious resolution emanating from the Trades of London , to commemorate Labours' Tbiumph , achieved under the command of Du . tcoMss on the 1 st of May , 1844 , in a substantial and imperishable form .

      Before we direct more immediate attention to the patriotic resolution of the London Trades , we must add a further word or two of comment to our last week ' s necessarily hurried notice of the strangled Monster . The consolidation of old and barbarous laws made for the persecution of Labour , was all that the friends of the measure professed to aim at ; giving to it the fascinating title of "facilitating means for the recovery of wages . " The difference between the old enactments and the proposed Bill wa 3 cautiously withheld from public notice ; and is not we imagine , even yet understood by the working

      classes of this country . The majority of the old enactments were applicable only to cases of Hlfth *< G under specific contract , whereby , if the master could use the law to enforce the conditions contained in the contract , the servant , by a compliance with those conditions , could enforce payment of his wages during the specified period . The old enactments had no reference to , or controul over , those parties who were engaged in the performance of " piece , " "job , " or " task work" ; and consequently all engaged in the performance of such work were exempt from the operations of the old law .

      Those Colliers who were bound for a term by tneir bonds , came undtr the provisions of the old law , were prosecuted under its provisions , and were only released from the penalties bj the astuteness , activity , and ltgal knowledge of their legal adviser . Thus the late , as n stattds , gives ihe masters a fearful advantage over their slaves . The present Strike of the Pitmen in Northumberland and Durham is againsl the harsh conditions sought to bo imposed upon them by their employers . The men being relieved from the conditions under the old bonds , are so far released from all the harsh provisions of the

      existing law ; but had they , without bond , contracted with their masters for the performance of " piece " or "job work , " and bad the Masters and Servants ' BUI passed , they would have been equally liable to imprisonment and hard labour ^ as if they vsere bound under the old system . So woald it have been with Mechanics , Joiners , Stonemasons , Bricklayers , Shoemakers , Tailors , Brushmaker 3 , Hatters , and all persons engaged in the performance of any "job" *> r " any portion of a job . " It ia indispensable to be thus tiresomely minuto in describing the brutal intentions of theframers and supporters of the straggled Monster .

      The following case , set forth in a letter to the Times , and inserted in that Journal of Wednesday , will gne the " Piece" and " Job" Labourers of England some idea of the isriiciiON they have escaped in the defeat of the Master and Servants ' Bill . Tb 9 power to imprison every labourer in England , in the manner that Ellen Gbiffiths was imprisoned , was sought to be conferred , on every Justice in the kingdom , by the defeated measure . Let the labourer of every description of trade read the following rand judge what would have been his condition and prospect had the Monster Bill become law : —

      S 1 B f ~ £ a ! se - ocamed to-day in the Bail Court , strongly illustrative of tbt present defective stats of our law . A young woman , named Ellen Griffiths , wa » imprisoned some time ajo under the 4 th George IV for violating a contract into which she had entered ' with some person in Carnarvon , to servt as a dnirrmaid . she tras sentenced by the order of two Jnatioea to six weeks' confinement in gaol . Her friends meanwhile , suspecting that all waa not right , took steps to procure het release ; and accordingly , Mi . Jervis , Queen's Counsel , one day last week was instructed to apply for a habeas corpus , in order to decide the question as to whether her commitment ; was legal or not . The writ ¦ was granted upon several grounds ; the first and most important of which was that she did not fall within the daw of persons tp whom the Act applied . This day

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      the poor woman was brought up in custody of the gaoler , when Mr . Justice-Coleridge at once decided that she most be discharged . It was then discovered that her imprisonment expired yesterday . She was immediately liberated . Now , consider the hardship of thiseaie . This poor creature bas been imprisoned , contrary to law , for six weeks , and at last is put to great ( probably tot bet means enormous ) expense , in order to procure her xeleeie from illegal confinement . She has moreover been discharged—not upon any legal subtlety , but upon the broad and solid ground that the Aot ef Parliament of

      which she was the victim did not extend to her case . Perhaps , Sir , it is not generally known thai this A < A , ihe 4 fft of George IF ., is ihe one tofticft it Jms been recently and vainly sovjht to extend , ajjd which I do not SCRUPLE TO CALL THE MOST UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND anomalous Act of modern times . Iu no other case does the law visit with penal consequences the mere breach of a civil contract Surely , with Lord Cottenham ' s Bill in view , the odious law will not be allowed to disgrace much longer our age and country . I remain , your most obedient servant , Temple , May 6 . Philanthropist .

      If the Master and Servants' Bill had been the Iaw ef the land in 1842 , the employers , being Justices , would have had the power to commit the several operatives , mechanics , and other workers who left their employment , to prison and hard labour . Such , then , is briefly the infliction that Labour has escaped under the bold and uncompromising Dcncombe . And now to his reward . A portion of faction ' s press bas ever made it a

      practice to level the thunders of . its denunciation against the friends of the working classes , who , however , are now beginning to understand , that in proportion to the revilings of journalists must be the value of the reviled . No man has come in for a larger or a more ungenerous share of slander from a section of the newspaper press , than Mr . Duncombe ; while we are ready to tender our gratitude to a large portion of the daily and weekly press for its manly support of the people's champion . And now to our own subject . By the following resolution it will be seen that Labour ' s triumph is to be commemorated in a substantial form : —

      " Resolution passed at a meeting of Trades' delegates convened by the Hatters' Demonstration Committee , and . held at the Catherine Wbeal Ian , Union Street , Borough , Friday , May 3 rd , 1844 . — Mr . Wilkinson , hatter , Chairman . Mr . John K £ Lst , hatter , Secretary . Mr . S yhk , carpenter , proposer ; Mr . Kose , carrier , seconder ; and carried unanimously . That this meeting of delegates do now form themselves into a Central Committee , with power to add to their number to be called

      The Duncohbe Testimonial Committee , ' for the purpose of getting up a subscription of one penny each , at least , from the working men of this Kingdom , to present Thomas Slin « sby Duncombb , Esq ., M . P ., with a suitable testimonial , expressive of Labour ' s gratitude for his past services to the toiling millions , more especially for his having so ably , manfully , and effectually opposed the Master and Servants' Bill , otherwise Labour ' s Degradation Bill , in the Houbo of Commons , on the night of May the 1 st , 1114 . "

      ThiB is as it ought to be ! and we give the above as the initiative of that generous plan , the justice of whioh has , we are happy to state , almost simultaneously prompted the whole labouring population to a similar undertaking . Committees and sub-committees of several trades are already formed , or in the course of formation , with the view , not of presenting Mr . Dbncombk with a teapot or a candlestick , but for the purpose of raising a sufficient fund to purchase an estate for the Hon . Gentleman whereby the gratitude of the labouring classeB of this country may be handed down to future generations .

      We are ready and willing to accord all the glory in this undertaking to ihe public spirited Trades of London , while we will vie with them in honourable emulation , to throw their muninoenoe in the shade , by the larger contributions of the " weak and contempt ] » le Chartists . " This is an undertaking whioh most be prosecuted without reference to creed , to sect , or to politics . The honest Orange Collier , the honest Ranter Collier , and the honest Chartift Collier will each and aJl , recognise a unity of interest in this national project . Let it be borne in mind that this is not Mr . Dwcohbe ' s only triumph for the working classes . Let it be

      remembered that he alone stood by them when it was almost " Treason to love them , And death to defend . " Let It not b 9 forgotten that he has ever been the oppressor ' s foe , and the poor man ' s friend . Let it be borne in mind that when the world scowled upon us , Duncombe ' s voice alone gladdened the captive's heart in his dreary cell . Let us not forget that when Radicalism was unfashionablo , and when the nltra-demooratio principle was only known under that name , that even then Du * combe was familiarly styled

      " badical duncombe . " And above all let us never forget that he alone of all our representatives has been the one , the only one , who has cheerfully obeyed the invitation of the working classes to appear before them , to counsel them , to give an account of his stewardship , and to cheer them on in the good fight . Duncomse has never courted popularity . He has achieved it by his support of popular rights ; and it now becomes the people ' s du y to cheer him on , and to incite others to follow in hia course . We have seen many fascinating ccloulations as to what the pence of so many millions would amount to in the aggregate ; and although we do not anticipate such a sum as

      £ 150 , 000 , yet would one penny from each of those who signed the National Petition amount to nearly that sum . We are at this moment inundated with letters upon the subject ; all breathing the like desire that the good work may be set about at once , and asking us to take tho lead in this national undertaking , which , however , while we most cordially acquiesce in the project , we must decline doing more than humbly following the example , the honour of which belongs to the Trados of London . Every town throughout the empire should forthwith appoint its Duncohbe Testimonial Committee . The machinery should bo put into readiness . Mr . Duncombe should be communicated with

      upon the subject of the appointment of a General Treasurer , and four Saturdays should be set apart for raising the proposed subscription . From the general estimation in whioh Mr . Ddncombe iB held by all honest politicians , we feel assured that the subscriptions to this laudable purpose will not be confined to the working classes alone . No . The inhabitants of Finsbury , according to population will not allow themselves to stand low upon the list of Labour ' s friends . We hope next week to be able to communicate the completion of the neceBsary machineryj and before the summer bas passed away we hope to be able to congratulate the people with the cheering announcement that Labour's friend has been honourably distinguished , and suitably rewarded by Labour's sods .

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      to the masters or society might be , vindicated the late by discharging the victims of its perversion from the custody of their several gaolers I The triumphs aohieved under the law for the working classes , where they have had recourse to it , should teaoh them a wholesome and a useful lesson . The Court of Queen ' s Bench has gone fax in every instance where appeals have been made to it , to negative the assertion , " that there is one law for the rich , and another

      for the poor . " We believe that it will be now found that there is one practice for the rich and another for the poor ; and that that practice is carried into operation , not by the Judges of the land , but by the village Justices , who , like the Chairman of the Kirkdale Sessions , boldly and manfully , not only admitted bat seemed to pride himself upon his ignorance . In reply to the application of counsel for arresting the judgment in the case of the St . Helen's rioters , the Learned Gentleman spoke thus : —

      The Chairman . " These are points on which it is impossible for us to decide . How is it possible , reading ; these indictments on the principles of common sense—by which , I was going to Bay , it is impossible to read them . —to understand them ? It is totally impossible for us—I am speaking for my friends Mr . Formby and Mr . Biwson without their permission or libertybut for myself , I cannot say whether the form of the indictment is legal or not ; It might appear to me , on thg Taca ef it , to be charging an office which it does not in reality . It is quite eut of our province to understand it , and in these crises we must rest en the assiatanca of the officers of the ; court . The legal construction of an indictment does not come within the province or the power of the court ; or it may be within our province , but It Is not within out power . "

      Mr . Monk . " After what bas been Bald by the court I don't think that it would be proper to press this . If however the court has a doubt , surely it is fair that the judgment tbould ba respited , " To which the Learned Chairman replied— " We haw no doubt . We have no knowledge . " We do not comment ill-naturedly upon this candid confession . No such thing . Far otherwise We highly approve of it , and merely use it for the purpose of asking what the consequence would have been if an interested Coal King , instead of a respectable old English parson , had been the Judge ! The

      Coal King would neither have confessed hi 3 " douht " nor V want of knowledge , but would have thrown his victims upon the law to defend themselves against his presumptuous certainty and iguorauce . The judgments of the Court of Queen ' s Bench , in the recent cases , carry with them a peculiar interest No doubt the Learned Judges are perfectly cognizant of the struggle now pending between masters and men ; and no doubt that from their position in society they would feelingly consider the inconvenience to whioh the continuance of the struggle must lead ; and they must be aware also that every legal

      defeat would be a check upon the Colliers ; and yet notwithstanding their own interest , the interest and convenience of that class of society to which they belong , and despite the ungenerous prejudices created against the Colliers by the newspaper press , these constitutional Judges acted upon the pure principle of justice : — Fiat justiliam , ruat c «/ um . " We are aware that since the law of discussion was laid down in an understandable manner by the "just Judge" at Lancaster , many of the defendants have , upon various occasions , called speakers at public meetings to order , quoting the law as laid down by Baron Rolfe as the rule by

      whioh their speech and their conduct should be regulated . We ourselves ha > e heard several of the most distinguished of the defendants declare that they never would violate the law as laid down by Baron Rolfe . This circumstance , together with the cheerful confidence with whioh the poor Colliers subscribe their money to prooure the " spirit" of the law as a protection against its vulgar "letter , " as administered to them by the Dogberries without " doubt" or " knowledge / ' should convince every man of common sense that the people only require a knowledge of the law to induce them to comply with Ub provisions .

      The second triumph to which we allude is the acquittal of those called the " St . Helen ' s rioters ?' for acquittal it was , as the argument to arrest the judgment in the Court of Queen ' s Bench will not last twenty minutes . This may be considered an acquittal upon a " technioal objection ; " but it ought to have been an acquittal upon the " merits . " Just a word at parting to the egregrious ass , the Durham Chronicle , who has beeu sounding his " hue and cry" for Mr . Roberts . We have seen the thunderer ; and O , ye Gods ! how great M JoVe * must look from above at this awful competitor ; this

      annihilator ; this crusher , extinguisher , destroyer , kill- ' em-and-eat- ' em-cannibal-man-gobbler ! He promised to devour Mr . Roberts last week—to wither him , —with an un-get-over-able exposure of his conduct . Well , for a bit of fun , let as hear the Thunderer . He asks , why Mr . Roberts didn ' t strike the whole Special Jury list , appointed to try the Wingate Grange action , dead , with one stroke of his magic wand ! Why , " he says , " did he leavb four objectionable jurors on the Special Jury list" t Why Thunderer , because he could not pat them off , —to bo sure you ass . Why not ask why

      Daniel O'Connell didn't strike off the whole of the " glorious , pious , and immortal dozan " that convicted him ! Do you know what Horne Tooke said , Thunderer , when he was twitted for objecting to the verdict of a special jury . He waa told that he had the power of reducing the list . "f know I had , " replied the cynic ; "but if you give me a basket of rotten oranges , how am I to choose twelve sound ones out of them 1 " And then , great Jove thunders from above , because the Wingate Grange case was allowed to stand over as a

      Remanet" to the next assizes ; not by Mr . Robektsi but by the Judges ! " G ! " but says the Thunderer , " where is Mr . Robebts now , now that danger threatens ; now that his dupes want counsel and protection ? " Let our last week ' s columns aaswer ; and the Thunderer will Bad , that , like Sir Boyle Roche ' s bird , Mr . Roberts has been every where at the same time . Ia London , at Kirkdale , Wigan , St . Helens , aad last , great Jove , at Newcastle ! Yea , verily , at Newcastle itself , and travelling to it in the darkness of night as well . Mr . Robert ' s answer to the Thunderer may truly be : —

      "lam here , I am there , I am every where ;" and leave behind me , in every pJaoe , evidence of my value and power .

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      Poetr ? . —We have had such & sickner this week of " prode run mad / ' that we are compelled to cry " hold , enough , " and to entreat our rhyming friends to desist fryra their " shocking bad" labours for a season . We do not say that all is " dross" excluded from our columns ; more than one piece rejected containing germs of poesy , which , by labour on the part of the writers , may yet be quickened into life and bring forth good fruit . But let our friends be in no hurry to publish ; many a gifted man het wrote good poetry years before he ventured to exhibit it in the light of day ; and our poetic friends would do well to follow this good examplo and strive to improve in their vocation ere they venture

      the terrible risk of being " damned to everlenting fame . " For ourselves , we have " registered a vow " never ( knowingly and willfully ) to give publicity to any more trash , fueling assured that w « shall best gratify our readers in general , and instruct our poetic friends in particular , by culling from tb « deathless pages of Byron , Sbeltey , Burns , Nichol , &c . &o . rather than by giving insertion to outpourings which can lay no claim t& the title of " immortal verse . " Of course all that may cross our path , original and really poetic , will find with us ready insertion . We shall only go back to the past when the ( too-oftj degenerate present fails to reach , or at any rate fails to approach , our standard of excellence . Mr . W . Bixon has received the following sums for the

      AI'DouallFund : — £ a A Air . Samuel Cheetham 0 1 0 Mr . Brownhill and friends ... .. 026 Mr . Weir ... 0 0 6 Mr . Anderson ... 0 0 6 Mr . Sale , Siieltgn , Potteries , has received from a few friends the sum of 2 a id for Mr . Richards . £ . X . RvvLDytEui—His well'ineant lines On the Rejection of the Master and Servants' B ill , ? ' are inadmissable . SP 1 B 1 TOP Despotism . —Poor Coopei , -who bas now twelve months to remain in prison , waa desirous , as the Leicester lads cad recently to encounter the expewe ot sending a delegate to the Conference at

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      Manchester , of seeing Mr . Peplow , on his visiting day , on Tuesday last . Mr . P . accordingly presented himself at tbe lodge of the prison , and related the object of bis mission ; when , on the lodge keeper informing the governor of it , the governor said Mr . P . could not be admitted on any consideration , without an order from the visiting magistrates , as he had orders from them not to admit him . And why not admit him 1 Because he is guilty ef the same crime that Ellis was really transported for , vis swamping the aristocracy at a county meeting . MR . Peplow , of Stafford , has received the followfng sums of money for Mr . Richards , which be has paid over to him on his release , viz . . *—S s d

      From Arnold , per Emmerson ... ... 5 0 Wolverhampton , per Wilcox 5 0 Wigston , per Bairstow , Leicester ... 4 3 Chartists of Stafford ... 8 9 The Old Trade } Shoemakers , Stafford , per Jackson i ... 5 6 i Stars to Ireland—The Irish Chartists respectfully request that their British brethren will send their Stars to Ireland ; as soon as possible after having read them . Those who have had lists from Dublin will please to send their Chartist missionaries direct The Stars are not bad substitutes for lecturers . They are doing their duty well . Dalston , Cumberland . —We learn from a correspondent that a very spirited meeting wss holden at

      this patriotic village , on Saturday last , to petition against the Masters and Servants' Bill , which was addressed , in his usual eloquent manner , by Mr . Hanson , of Carlisle . We received a report ot the proceedings , the publication of whioh is now , of coarse , unnecessary . S . Walter . —We nave no room . John Loweby writes ub that at Errett and Frenchpark ( Ireland ) Chartism is steadily advancing . Tbe Star is eagerly read , aadjnurabers of Dan's dupes are fast having their eyes opened to a knowledge of the People ' s Chatter . Q . Brown . — 'His poetry will not do . Robert SuTCUFFKatatestbatahandloomweaverof his acquaintance , residing eight miles from Halifax , bas

      bad to come that distance no less than six times for a warp , making a totvl of ninety-six miles . There are four cuts in the warp for which he will be paid six shillings , out of which he will have to give fourpence for twisting , and tenpence for winding ; leaving htm bnt four shillings and tenpence for all his toil and labour I > Happy land ! Jahes Wilson , ; Sowebby . — •« Yea" to both his questions . George Jones . —The Chartists of Hoyle will do well to guard against the men be speaks of in future , and keep their ringers out of tb . 6 cash-box . J . Smart , Aberdeen . —We do not like to say either " Yes" or . " No , " 'till we have seen his communication .

      8 . T , Ra wh arsu . —Yes , there is a penalty . Go before a Magistrate and lay the information . Before you do so , learn the child ' s name , and see that it goes down the pit to work . ] If the party who lays the information bas an opportunity of seeing it at work , so much the better . The information will be against the coal owner . ; Samuel Jolino . Manchester . —Application might be made to tbe Lords of Admiralty , setting forth the name of the sailor , the name of the ship , a certificate of death , and the other facts of the case . Alleged Ill-treatment of the inmates op the nacton ynion workhouse , suffolk—We nave received a lengthy report of the proceedings of a publio meeting held in the theatre , Woodbridge , on the 2 nd instant , when charges of the most gross ill-usage , soms of them amounting to murder , were preferred against parties connected with the above workhouse . We mast decline publishing the report ;

      for whether false or true tbe publication of such charges would render us liable to an action for libel : and tbe vindictive conduct pursued towards this journal by the Poor Law authorities , on a former occasion , naturally makes us wary in giving publicity to statements of a character , which , even though true , would involve a prosecution . The charges by all means should be inquired into , so that , if true , jusMce may be done to the guilty ; and if proved false , that those now wrongfully accused may be relisved from tbe odious imputations . We should recommend that a memorial to tbe Poor Law Commissioner ? , and a petition to tbe Home of Commons , embodying tbe charges , should be got up , as the only means of giving them publicity , and obtaining the necessary investigation . We thank the gentleman who has so kindly furnished us with the ieport , which wel are compelled , under present cixcumstancea to decline .

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      FOB DR . M'DOUALLS RETURN . ! £ a . a . From tho Block Printers of Belfleld Works , near Rochdale \ 118 FOR . EXECUTIVE COUNCIL . From ... 0 10

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      Leicester . —Strike < f the Glove Hands for Wages . —During last week , the whole of the hands employed in the numerous branch of the frameworkknitting department , have been on Btrifee , for the prices of the former part of 1843 , and not for any real advance , as has been represented by the lying liberal (!) press of the town . Meetings have been held in the Market-place , every morning , and in the afternoon , in Mr . Turviil ' a yard , at the Barkby Arms Inn , which have been addressed by Messrs , Winters , Smith , Buckby , Watts , Peel , &c , at all of which , the pledge not to resume work till the prices of 1843 was agreed to by the manufactureWi was unanimously adopted . On several occasions the turnouts came iuto contact with a few "knobsticks , "

      who , notwithstanding the general pledge agreed to , still persevered in working at the reduced prices , but being reasoned with , generally complied with the peaceful request of their brother workmen to give up their frames , take in their zrienlds , and cease work till the victory was declared on behalf of the hands . On Sunday afternoon , Mr . G . Buckley preached a sermon to the hands on strike , in the course of which , he administered some smart hits at the manufacturers , and eloquently pointed oat , to the bands on strike , their duty in tbe momentous struggle of oppressed unrepresented labour , against law-protected capital . The assemblage was very numerous , and dispersed peaceably , after making an handsorre collection for one of the turnouts , of the name of Edward Snow , who

      had been imprisoned for seven days , for daring the vengeance of the employers . On Monday morning , at ten o ' clock , an immense number of all branches of the framework-knitting trade , assembled in the market-place . We never remember seeing a more numerously attended meeting than on this occasion . The men had been out a whole week , without any funds , other than those with which pubiio sympathy supplied them , and yet the feeling was as strong ,- and ihe determination of the men , was as ardent as though they had been living on " roast beef and plum pudding " : * week . Every speaker was a turnout , and avowed his unalterable resolution to obtain the prices for which they were struggling , or gloriously fall , fighting the enemy . Mr . Thomas Winters was elected chairman , and

      after briefly addressing the meetiDg on the tyranny of the manufacturers , and the policy the men should observe towards them , called on Mr . T . Smith to move the following resolution : — " That this meeting is of opinion , that the recent conduct of a portion of the glove manufacturers towards their workmen , ia oppressive and injurious to the great body of the hands , their wives and children }; and that we are determined , one and all , to risk all consequences in gaining the price we are Btanoiug for . " Mr . Smith gave the " free-booting manufacturers a severe castigation * and showed'pa

      humbug of the ** demand and supply crotchet" of tae League * Air . Watts seconded the resolution in a telling and impressive speech , when it was carried unanimously . Mr . Buckby , in a powerful speeon , moved the sedond resolution : — ?• That this meeting is of opinion , that all parts of tke glove branoo , whether working lisle , linen thread , or woollen , stand man to maa till they get the " price set . form m the New Statement , at all hazards , " which was seconded by Mr . A , Overton and carried unanimously , The third resolution was moved by Mr . Feel

      The Northern Star. Saturday, May 11, 1844.

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      MORE OF LABOUR ' S TRIUMPHS . TALUE OF TBf LAW WHEN HONESTLY ADMINISTERED . In out last Journal wa had to record two more signal , and we may add unparalelled , legal triumphs achieved for the Colliers by their persevering and indomitable advocate , Mr . Roberts . The proceedings in the Queen ' s Bench , relating to the reversal of the DogberrieB'judgment 1 Q no fewer than three distinct and separate cases , involved the liberties of «> honest working men . The i ' nU Court was occupied for several hours on Monday , ia hearing Counsel on both Bides ; and yet the . t&ge and learned Judges of the first court known to tL'e empire , with all their legal knowledge , could not bring them * selves like the Dogberries , to jump a ^ once to a hasty conclusion . No ; though the qtk ^ stion at issue did only affect the interests of th * poorest of the poor , yet the guardians of tlv > law considered its dignity involved ; and having taken till the following day to ascertain what the law of the case really was , ami not to discover what the value of their judgment j

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      Hawigk.—Poblic Meetijig.—On Monday Last, A Publio Meeting Was Held Held In The Town Hall, To

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      4 - * THE NORTHERN STAR , j May II , 1843 .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 11, 1844, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1263/page/4/