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      ] [ DilATH FROM TUB LATE INTENSE * C 0 LD AND TUB WAST OF TUE ' COMMON NECESSARIES OP LIPK . —Oil Saturday an inquest was held at New Brompton , on the body of Anne Boyce , aged 5 G years , whose death it was alleged had been caused by the want of the common necessaries of life . Deceased was the widow of asuk'ier in the Life Guards , who died about two years Jigo , and usually obtained her living by washing nnd charing . She had latterly had Is . Gff . per week from the parish of St . George's in the East . She relived the back kitchen of a house in Yeoman'srow , fur which she agreed to pay Is . 3 d . per week , and it w £ s iu this apartment she was fnund by her landlord , stretched upon two boards placed scrosj a w . U ('! - ; cf chairs , without anything under her or over her , aud in a state of complete nudity . She appeared to be very cold and faint , and nearly insensible .

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      Last week a public meeting took place at the National Hall , Oolborn , to express public opinion on the late violation of the treaties of Vienna , and on the evident determination of the three Powers to annihilate the Polish nation . Out reporter attended and furnished us with a report of the proceedings . It happened that one of the conductors of this Journal was compelled through illness to absent himself from the office from Thursday last , and in his absence the report was omitted , much to the chagrin of the writer of this explanation who is most earnestly desirous of giving publicity to every demonstration in favour of Poland without regard to places or persons . No matter where hold , or who ; lie speakers , the " cause" is everything with us . The following is an outline of the proceedings ..

      Dr . Bowbino was called to tlie chniiy and snid it might , perhaps , be in their remembrance that nearly at the close of the last session of Parliament a motion was brought before the House of . Commons , callinp ; for an inqtiiry to ascertain whether the treaties of Vienna had not been violated ,- and also to ascertain the rmults of the recent calamitous occurrences in Galiciu . Ho confessed that in that motion , so presented ; lie felt little sympathy . He had never recognized those treaties as the laws of Europe ; he had never admitted that the destinies of man depended on the arrangements made by those who tyrannized over him . ( Hear , hear ) He felt , on the contrary , that as those treaties were made by despots in the interests of despotism , so by despots they would bii brolten in the same interests of despotism . ( Checrc . ) He pledged himself , however , on the occasion

      to which he referred , that if no other member of the House of Commond would undertake to bring forward the Polish question in its integrity , he would do so himself ; and that he would ask , not whether tlia treaties of Vienna had been violated , but whether the present position of Poland was consistent with the polities and the peace of Europe , and the universal rights of man . ( "Hear , " and cheers . ) He congratulated them that Cracow existed no longer as an independent republic . The question now under their consideration did not relate merely to the welfare of two hundred thousand Cracovians , but of twenty millions of Poles ; it did not affect merely a small fragment of territory , but it embraced the interests of the whole of that aac'eut country between the Boryithenes and the Oder , aud between the Carpathian Mountains and the Baltic Sen . He had said he ri juiced that this was not a mere Crarovian question ; and vet lie could not but feel that

      liberty and civilization owed some debts to Cracow , He could not forget that Cracow wns the seat of the first university founded in northern continental Europe He could not forget that Cracow was the place where the first Polish press was established . He could not forget that from Cracow emanated one of the noblest declarations ever made in favour of universal religious liberty . ( Hear , hear . ) He could not forget that Cracow wasjthe place where the ancient inonarclis of Poland were crowued , anil where their remains still reposed . He could not forget , that witU Cracow was associated with the name of Copernicus ; and that in that city were deposited the remiiins of Casimir , of Sobieslti , of Ponia towski . and ( if Knscuisko . ( Hear , hear . ) Ho called upon them to givr the persecuted Pole < their help , and the assurance of their friendly and fraternal affection . The work in which they were now engaged was a hoi ) and a Godlike work , and it was one which they might be assured would be crowned with success .

      The meeting was also addressed by Messrs Moore , Savngo . Holyoake , Linton , Watson , imd Mr . William Mowitt who said lie had great pleasure in being present at this meeting ; and he mi-lit avail himself of this opportunity to give aome explanation oo a subject which had occasioned him considerable pain . In the Course of last spriiiu ' , at the time when the Austrian outrages in Gal ; ici ; i had been recently committed , a public meeting was held to sympathize with the unhappy inhabitants o'thftt district , anil to express detestation at the conduct of the tyrants by whom those cruelties had been perpetrated . He was invited to attend that meeting , but , as he had not been in the habit of attending public meetings for many jears , he excused himself from being present on that ground , Fot long afterwards the communications from two Polish noblemen who were friends of

      his , and who resided in their native country . He would not mention their names , f « . r those whom he was addressing knew that there were such a plnce ns Sibciia—( hear , hear)—and tlut there were such things as hired Austrian nss-issins . ( Cheers , and erics of "Shame !") He would only say , therefore , that these gen'lemen wrote to him stating that they had seen , with great grief , from the English newspapers , that he had not felt it his duty to come forward at a public meeting and express his sympathy ftr their unhappy country . God knew hi : felt ' no disinclination to do that . ( Cheers . ) He rejoiced in the breach or ' the tr . aty of Vienna which hn . l ju » t been com . mitred by Russia , Prussia , and Austria . Thu simple fact was , tlmtat this moment no treaty existed in Europe :

      for by this breach of the treaty of Vienna , under which the stri de of Europe was settled at the conelusion of the last war , every European treaty contracted by the Powers which had thus broken faith was violated . He was glad th . it they Lad done with these rags of treaties ; and it was now tor the people of England to determine whether this state of things should continue any longer . ( Cheers . ) It had been said that the peopie of this country had never been wanting in the exprevsimi of their sympathy for the wrongs of Poland ; but in that sentiment he could not concur . It appeared to him that whatever they might have felt , thej bad as a nation been exceedingly remiss in the expression of their opinions on this subject . They had been content to have the decision of these matters to

      G'iv , rnmems , to ilie very despots whose desire it was to annihilate every spark of liberty . ( Hear . ) Those who were acquainted with the history of Poland would know that weoned a great debt to that country . At the end of the 17 th century , when the whole of Europe was menaced with invasion by the Turks , wiio stemmed the torrent , relicved Vienna when invested by the invading foe , and preserved the liberties and Christianity of continental nations ? Who but the Poles under the gallant Sobieski ? ( Chiers . ) Enuland too , was not free from the charge of having some sh . re , though indirectly , in the wrongs inflicted upon Poland ; for the tyrants under whose iron rule the Polish nation had so long groaned , were our allies in the lust war , » nd a portion of the subsidies with which we supplied fie Empeior of Austria to enable him

      to withstand the power of lVapolcon was dircrtcd to the persecution and oppression of the Poles . ( Hear , hear . ) They ought , then , to tecl it a sacred duty to urge upon the Government of this country the necessity of insisting on the restoration of Polish nationality . They ought to compel the Government , hy the force ol pubik opinion , to take up the question ; and they ought not to relax their efforts until their object was attained . ( Cheers . ) If they waited , as they had done for 70 years , till the Government moved in this matter , they might wait for 70 or 700 years lunger . He called upon them , then , to determine , as a people , to make their opini-u of the atrocities committed upon an independent nation by the Powers of Austria , Russia , und Prussia hoard and felt throughout the world . ( Loud cheers . ) The following resolutions were adopted : —

      That this meeting , though it views with disgust and abuorance the attempt < . f the three Powers to compute the annihilation of Poland and the destruction of the Polish cause by the seizure ofCrac . w , yet cannot help xpressiug its satisfaction at the violation , by such seizure , of that infamous compact known l > y the name ot' the Treaty of Vienna ; inasmuch as that violation exposes nakedly to the world the designs and objects of the three Powers , and deprives them of all pretence for anain appealing to that treaty in support of the present tyrannies of Europe .

      That the treaty of Vienna , which pretended to finally settle the Governments of Europe , being now overthrown , there can no lunger lie any questim , even unions those who respected the treaty , as to the necessity of reconsidering the present construction of what are called the Government of Europe ; that this meeting , therefore , deems the present a fit opportunity for reasserting the rightof eve » y nniiou to cho > se its own Government , to protect its own nationality , and thatit re-echoes the appeal of the Liberals of Fiance , in expression towards the Po : es , its warmest sympathy , confident of the resurrection of Polan-I and the ulcim te triumph of liberty and

      justice . That an association be uow formed whose object shall be to spread over the widest field the piinciples of national liberty and jii ' .. ) ii' «! i , Mid to aid in establishing a good understanding umong the puoplcofall countri a .

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      Tex Ilouns Bill . — -A meeting of the delegates was held last week in the vicinity ol the works of Messrs . Fielden . The object of the ., meeting was to devise means for carrying on tin . ' imitation , and raising funds fur that purji (> se . The lirst subject brought under consideration was the propriety of holding . delegate meeting of factory workers from every manufacturing town in Lancashire and Yorkshire , and utter some discussion as io the place of meeting , it was resolved imunimously that the meeting should be held iu Manchester , on the 27 th inst ., ( next Sunday ) , and that in the meantime every town should be written to , requesting thorn to send their

      delegates to that meeting , with spei-iuc instructions as to any material point they desired to lay before the meeting . The next subj < ct was the propriety of appealing to the public for pecuniary assistance . It wa >! stilted that thu agitation ol' tlifl niuasuro had cost the operatives and their friends not less than £ 30 , 000 , a great part of which bud been subscribed by the cotton spinners and other factory workers ; and it was ur ^ ed as a reason why an appeal should b 3 made to the nobility and tentry , that the present depressed state of trade in ihe manufacturing districts , and the conscqucir . falling oil' in tlie earnings of the people , operated very nim-b against the collection of funds . At tiie close of the discussion , a form

      of appeal embodying the foregoing reasons Mas unanimously adopted by the delegates . —Manchester Examiner . Tub Walls of Nineveii wore 100 feet high , and thick enough for three chariots abreast . Mr . Youatt , in one of his orations to the members o thu Veterinary College , observes— " that by the improvements in modern chemistry , the medical profession are enabled successfully to treat diseases which were previously supposed as not within tlie reach of medicine . " This truth bus been manifested for many years , hut in no instance of greater importance to mankind than by the diEcovcry of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Tills .

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      THE ANDOVER UNION AGAIN !! We lake the following graphic and suggestive letter from the Times , which youchea , for its correctness by the following introductory paragraph , lne narrative would be spoiled by comment , and is one of the most effective illustrations of the treatment of the poor in this country we ever met with : —We publish the following letter as we have received it , without correction or abbreviation . We have no doubt tha it is n genuine letter , and , allowing lor the natural indignation of the writer , a correct history ot the treatment he received : —

      TO THE EDITOR OF THB TIMES . gir > —Hunger , as I ' ve heard eny , breaks through Stone Walls ; but yet I shod ' nt have thought of letting you know about my poor Missus's death , but all my neibours say tell it out ond it cant do you no harm and may do others good , specially as Pa rliament is to meet soon , when the GeutMoKe will be talking about the working foke . I be but a farmers working man , and was married to my Missus 2 G years agone , and have three Children living with me , one 10 , another 7 , and t ' other 3 . I be subject to bad rumatiz , and never earns no more , as you may judge , than to pay rent and keep our bodies and souls together when we be all well . I was tended by Mr . Westlafce when he was Union Doctor , but when the guardians turned him out it was a bad job for all the Poor , and a precious bad job for me and mine .

      Mister Payne when he came to be our Union Doctor tended upon me up to almost the end of last April , but when I solid up to thu Union House as usual , Mr . Broad , the Rcleving Officer , send back word there was nothing for me , and Mr . Payne wodnt come no more . I was too bad to work , and had not Vittals fur me , the Missus , and the young ones so I was forced to sell off the 3 ed , Bedstead , and furniture of the young ones , to by Vittals with , and then I and Missu . * i and theyoumj ones had only one bed for all of us . Missus was very bad , to , then , but sis weknowd twere no use to ask the Union for nothink eept we'd all go into the Workhouse , and which Missus couln ' t a bear , us she'd bin parted from the children , she . si-nds down to tell Mr . Westlake how bad we was a doing off , and he cornea to us directly and tends upon us out <> f charity , und gives Missus Mutton and things , which he said , and we kriow'd too well , slie wanted of , and be gives this out of his own Pocket .

      Missus complaint growd upon her and she got so very bad , and Mr . Westlake says to us , I do think the guardians wouldn't let your wife lay here and starve , but would do something for you if they knovved how bad you wanted things , and so , says he , I'll give you a Scrtificnto for Rome Mutton and things , and you take it to Mr . Broad , the re . levmg officer . Well , I does this , and he tells me that bed give it to the guardians aud lvt me know what they said . I sees him again , and 0 , says he , I gived that Serlificate to the Guardians , but they chucked it < i one Hide and said they wuuldnt tend to ho such thing , nor give you nothing , not even if Missus was dyinu , if you has anything to do with Mr . Wustlulce , as they had turned him off .

      I t » ld my Missus this , and then says she we must try to get their Union Doctor , Mr . Payne , as we can ' t go on for ever taking things from Mr . Westlake ' s Pocket , and he turned out of Place , and so good to niiny poor folks be . . ide 6 us . So we gets Mr . Payne after a bit to come down ; and hesiiys to Missus you ' re very bad , and I shall order the Union to send you Mutton and othtr things . Next Week Mr . Paynu calls again , and asks Missus did she have the things he'd ordered for her to have ? She says I ' ve had a shillings worth of Mutttn , Sir . Why , says he , you want other things besides Mutton , and I ordered them for jou iu the Union Book , and you ought to have them in your bad stale . This gous on for 5 or 6 Weeks , only a shillings worth of Mutton a week being allowed her , and theu one Week a little Gin was allowed , and after that as Missus couldut get out of bed u Woman was sent to nurse-stud hel p her .

      I didn ' t ask Mr . Payne to order these ere things , tho bud enof God knows they was wanted ; but in the first week in last November I was served with a summons to tend afore the Mayor and Justices under the Vagrancc Act ; I think th < y said twas cause I had not found these things for Missus my « . If , but the Union Doctor had ordered cm of the Guardians on his sponsibility , W ' iJI I attends nftire the Just ces , and there was nothing against me , and so tlu-y puts it off , and oidcrs me to tend afore cm again next week , which I does , and then there wasnt cnof for em to * er . d me to Gaol as the Guardians wanted , for a month , and they puts it ofl again for another week , and says I must come afore em again , und which I doe 3 ; and they tells me thores nothing proved , that I could afford to pay for the things , and 1 mite go about my business .

      I justloses thiee days work , or pretty handy , by this , and that made bad a goud bit worse . Next Day Mr . Pa ^ ne conies again , mid Missus was so outdaceous bud , she says cant you give me something to do me good and ease me » bit ; snys Mr , Payne , I dont si e you be much worse . Yes I ba , says Jlisstis , mid I wish you'd be * o good as to let me send for Mr . Westlake , as I thinks he knows wllai'd make mo easier , and cure the bad pains I do suffer . Mr . Payne abused my Poor Missus , and dared her to do anything of that sort , and so we were feared to do it , Ust I should be pulled up again afore the Justices , and lose more days work , anil perhaps get suit tognol . Bight days after this Mr , Payne never baring come nist us , anl the Union having lowd us nothing at all , my poor missus dies , and dies from want , and in agonies of pain , ami as bad off as if shed been a savage , for she could only have died of want of them things which she wanted and Icouldntbuy if she'd been in a foreign lan-l , were there-no parsons and people as I ' ve heard tell be treated as bad as dogs .

      Years agonr , if anybody had been half go bad as my missus , and nobody eho would have tendi'd to her , thti-c'd been the clergyman of the purish , at all events , who'd have prayed with her , and seen , too , that she didu't die of starvation , but our parson is in favour of this here new Law , and as he gets £ 00 a year from the Guardian ? , he arnt a going to quarrel with his Bread and Cheese for the likes of we , and so he didn ' t come to us . Altho' lie must have knotvod how i . l Missus was ; and she , poor creature , went out of this litre world without any Spiritual consilatioujwhatsomever from the Poor Man ' s Church .

      We'd but one bed as I ' ve telled you , and only one bedroom , and it was very bad to be all in the same room and bed with poor Missus after she were dead ; and as I'd no money to pay for a Coffin , I goes to Mr . Broad , then to Mr . Mnjer , one of the Guardians , and then to the ov * rseers , and axes all of Vm to find a coffin , but ' twere no use , and so , not knowing what in the world to do , off I goes to tell Mr . Westlaku of it , and he was soon down at the house , and blamed me much for not letting he know af re Missus died , and finding wed no food nor tire , mothing for a shrovrd cept we could wash up

      something , and that we'd no soap to do that with ho gives us something to get these ere things and tells me to go again to thu lteleving Officer and t ' others and try and get a coffin and to tell un Missus ought to be hurried as soon as possible , else t'would make us all ill . This I does as afore but get nothii . g , and then Mr . Westlake gives mo an order where to get a coffin , and if he had not stood a friend to uic and mine I cant think what would have become of em , as twas sad at nights to sea the poor little things pretty nigh break their hearts when they seed their poor dead mother by their side upon the bed .

      My troubles wasn ' t to end h « re . for strangto tell even the Register of Deaths for this District dont live in this the largest Parish with about 5 , 000 inhabitants , hut at a little Village of not more than 400 people and 5 Miles off , 8 o I had to walk there and back 10 miles , which is very hard upon us poor folk , and what is worse when I got there the Rigistrer wastit up ; and when he got up he wouldut tend to me afore hed had his breakfast , and it Seemed as 'twas a very long time for a poor chap like me to be kept a waiting , whilst a man who is paid for doing what I wanted won't do such little work as that afore here made hisself comfortable , tho ; I telled him how bad I minted to get back , und that I should loose a Day by liis keeping me waiting about .

      That this is mostly the fault of the Guardians rather than anybody else is my firm beleif . tho' if Mr . Payne had done his duty hed a been with Missus many times afore she died and not have left her as he did , when ho knowed she was so bad , and hed a made un give her what she wanted ; but ihtn he must , he says , just what the Guur-( liana wishrs , and that arnt to attend much V , the poor , aud the Relieving Officer in docked if what he gives by oveb the Doctors orders urnt proved of by the Guardians uterward , and he had to pay for the little Gin the Doctor ordered nut of his own 1 ' ocket , and as the Newspaper says , for the Nurse , as Ibis was put in our Paper by I ' m sure I donl ' t know who , but I believe tis true , last week :

      " Andovcv Union . — A t the meeting of the Board of Guardians last Saturday , Mr . CharlesBroad , the Andover relittving-officer , presented his weekly account as heretofore , when there appeared an item of 3 s . fid ., paid to a nurse , ordered by the surgeon , Mr . Payne , to the wife of jDichman , whe was aeuuitted by the magistrates , as reportud by us lust week , on the charge of not supporting his afflicted partner . Mr . John Ly wood moved that such a charge ought to be struck out , to teach Mr . Broad to be more circumspect , or rather to be more hard-hearted for the future . The motion was carried , and thus a feeling and efficient officer had that amount to pay out of his own pocket , though he has to support himself and family respectably on £ CO per annum . " And now , Sir , I shall leave it to you to judge whether the Poor cau be treated any where so bad as they be in the Andovcr Union , I am , Sir , John Diciiman .

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      HOW TOTAKEmSNOBSi A case wai heard at the Marylebone Police Court on Saturday last which forcibly exhibits the feasibility b y which the middle classes of this country can be duped by the u « e of great names . Francis Olifkro was charged with having obtained diamond jewellery , of tha value ef £ 500 and upwards , from Mr . Linnet , wholesale jeweller aud silversmith , of Bloomsbury-square , under pretence of disposing of the property to her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albiirt . < The prosecutor said , that on the 7 th of January the prisoner called on him , and said enough to induce him to let him have two brooches for the purpose of showing to the Queen . Witness could not ri collect tho exact conversation thnt occurred , but he was positive the prisoner said the brooches were to be shown to her Majesty , The brooches were lying on the counter . Tho prisoner looked at them , nnd said he thought he could dispose of them . He sui > l he wng very intimate with the Queen .

      Mr . LoHg : Do you mean to say the prisoner used those words ?—Witness : Yes . The prisoner said the Queen often tulfced to him That while lie was at work at the palace the Queen frequently stood at his elbow and ( chatted with him , The prisoner said he was constantly employed at the palace , nnd . as far as my memory will serve me , the prisoner added that be had been commanded or desired to bring something to show her Majesty . Mr . Long : Wiio did the prisoner gay had ordered him to bring soim-thing to show 1 Witness : Her Majesty and Prince Albert ,

      On the 10 th of January I saw the prisoner again , and he then obtained two diamond rings , tor the purpose , as he said , of showing to the Queen and Prince Albert . The prisoner said he had sold the brooches , but had not been able to get a check from Prince Albert , but he should be sure to have the check on the following Wednesday . The prisoner said the check was to be inpayment of the brooches . I believe the brooches were sold to her Majesty in consequence of a conversation with the prisoner . The prisoner told me ho bad ' been commissioned by the Duke of Gloucester . Mr . Long : Recollect yourself . Witness ; I am certain the prisoner said the Duke of Gloucester . > Mr . Long : Were you not aware there were no such person in existence ?

      Witness : No , I was not . The prisoner said he had been commissioned by the Duke or Duchess of Cloucester , or some one of the Royal Family , to get two diamond rings . Alter a very long examination , and many counter statements pro , and con ., the magistrate committed the prisoner for tiial at the sessions .

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      DESTITUTION AND DEATH . A case occurred in Worcester last week which excited much indignation against one of the relieving officers of that city . A woman , named Sarah Dovey , living in a void house unfurnished , and entirely destitute of the commonest necessaries of life , was taken in labour , and a midwife , named Pool , was fetched , who delivered her of a mule hild . At this most critical time the woman was lying upon the boards , having no bed nor any article of clothing , except an old go « n . Her head was supported by a couple of bare bricks , by way of pillows , and there were only a few embers of fire in the grate . The weather was most severe at the time , the thermometer being several degrees below the freezing point . When the child was born , it was discovered that the woman Dovey was entirely unprepared with clothes in which to wrap it ,

      Dover ' s sister procured some gruel for the mother , and the midwife got the child a little clothing , but neither had a sutliciency of either clothing or food , and the rclathrca of the woman Dovey having expended all the money they could spare , the relieving officer of the district was applied to for relitf . This was on the day after the lyingin , by which time the child was evidently suffering fiom the extreme cold . Mr . Crisp , the relieving officer , on heing applied to , after calling the woman namis , said , "He should not come to the nasty — that day . " He was told that uriless something was done for the pour woman and her infant immediately , both would be lost , to which the humane reliever of the poor answered , " Anil serve her right to . " The officer kept his word , aHd

      did not attend to the ease that day . On the following day ( Tuesday ) , however , he did call at the wretched abode , where he found the woman lying in the same destitute wretched state as has already been described . He then gave u shilling to a huckster , with instructions to allow Dovey to have what she required to that amount , but nave no relief ii : the way of clothing . The child gradually grew \ v *> rse , und died , and then it was that the affair came to tho ears of the magistrates , The police magistrate sent d wn a blanket to the mother , and also gave directions for affording her whatever she , in her delicate state , required ; but the woman being naturally of a robust constitution , and Inuied to hardships , is recovering from her illness .

      Meauwuile the magistrates gavo information to the coroner for this city , and an inquvst has been htld upe > n the body of the infant , when the abore facts were di » . clused , and the whole nff . iir was thoroughly sifted , the coroner and jury devoting a whole day to that duty . The jury expressed their disapprobation of the relieving otticer ' i * conduct , and returned the following verdiet : " That the death of the deceased child was caused from exposure to the severity of the weather without proper clothing ; aud the jury cannot separate without expressing their opinion that there was neglect on the part of tho relieving officer , in not giving more prompt attention to the case . " iu iuc udbi ; .

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      FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION AT BRISTOL . BaisTOL , Saturday Evening . —A painful sensation was created this morning in the neighborhood of St . Phillip and Jacob , by the explusiou of a boiler at the exteuBive foundry of Messrs . Hothern and Slaughter , the eminent railway and marine engine-manufacturers , by which two men lost their lives , and several others were so seriously injured as to lie at our infirmary in a precarious state . It appears that at half-past eight o ' clock this morning , the usual breakfast hour at the foundry , the large eugine which drives the different turning-lathes and other machinery , was stopped . It was a very cold morning , and , notwithstanding that there is an order posted up to the contrary , several of tho men went into the boiler-room for Mie sake of the warmth it would afford them while eating their breakfasts . At about a quarter before nine o'cloeli the boiler suddenly exploded . The explosion took place

      at the bottom , just above the fire-box , and the brick-work underneath being blown over , the steam aud scalding water were forced outand filled the boiler-room , roost severely scalding all who were present . The principal engineer , the engine-driver , and the foreman were promptly on the spot , and the injured men were got out . One of them , a youth , named Thatcher , was scalded in the most frightful manner , there was scarcely an inch of his body untouched by the boiling water , and the steam which he inhaled so injured the air tubes of his lungs , thatnfter enduring the most intolerable agony for about a quarter of an hour , he died while on his way to the infirmary . Three or four others received most extensive injuries ; one of whom , a man uauied Thomas Wallser , died this evening , af . er enduring the utmost suffering . Thescalding steam had penetrated his lungs aluo , aud caused inflamation , which terminated his . life .

      An inquest was held this afternoon on tho body of Thatcher , when the different parties connected with the works were examined , to see if the accident had been the result of any negligence . It was stated in evidence , that the boiler was comparatively a new one . That it was examined every mouth by the engine-driver and the foreuinu of die engine department ; that as lately as Monday week it was overlooked—the men going into it for the purpose , and trying it with a hammer—and found it to he In good working order . It had . attached to it two safety valves , both of which were seen to act regularly less than an hour before the explosion took place . The Coroner , iu summing up the evidence , observed that all proper precautions seemed to have been taken , aud the Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death . "

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      MYSTERIOUS CASE Of POISONING AT LUTON , IN BEDFOItDSIUBE . Lctop , SATtTKDAY Nigut . —The inhabitants of this place and neighbourhood have been very much excited during tho past month , owing to the death , under very mysterious circumstances of a young lady named Allen , niece of Mr . Edward Woakes , a surgeon , practising here , under whose roof the deceased had lived for twelve months previous to her death . Mr- Edward Baildon , superintendent of the Luton division of the Bedfordshire police , proved having exmined deceased ' s bedroom on the morning of her death . He found nothing bearing the marks of having contained poisou . A lPtter , tho seal of which was broken , was lying under deceased ' s pillow . Mr . Woakes took it , aud said it was of no consequence . He told me it came from a young lady named Cant . Witness asked Mr . Woakes what prussic-acid he had in his possession . He replied that he did not use it . He afterwards said all he bad was contained in a small bottle , and was so weak that it " . 'ould not cause death . He said he had purchased it to poison a dog .

      Fanny Plummer , a friend of the deceased wt > s next called . She proved that after a " Dorcass meeting , " in August hist , deceased showed witness a small bottle which sho stated contained prussic-acid . Deceased at that time expressed a wish to die , and subsequently witness received from her a latter , in wkiieh she threatuuud to destroy herself . Witness had not told any one of this circumstance , and now very much regretted not having done so . There being no further evidcuce , the Corouer charged the Jury , and after remarking on the various points in the case , expressed '; his conviction , from the manner in which they had listened to the evidence , that they would return verdict iaccordance therewith wiwv&AbftwifkbU

      a n . lttlUIU tX VClUlvl > ** 1 un . »«» 'v ) The Jury consulted for about half an hour , and at the expiration of that ti : no recorded a verJict exactly similar to that returned by the former Jury , viz ., ' That tho deceased died from the effects of prussic-acid ; but how , or by whom Administered their is no evidence to show . "

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      CURIOSITIES OP THE CATTLE SHOW . One party of ladies attracted my attention by tbe fr .. . dom of fhnr criticism , not alone on the fat 3 nLl but on the feeders . They came to the exblb S £ "' carnage , wnh hyeried attendants , I . uppo . e thm ore hat they must belong to that class of . ociety most SS to know Km . rth . og of the Lord they so freely criticUed The place was the fat hog-show-the hogs looked , ; were three very fat ones , not able , or not willing , to rise from their lair . '" Lady with scarlet flowers in her bonnet . — " I ff 0 Dd 6 r Jow . n , th , ngof Lort Badnortca- be fat ; don ' t you ^ mj Lady without flowers . - " I should not have thonehthe WOUld have had a well-i ' ed creature about him , " 8 Lady with the flowers . — Let us Ulk to thi « man who is with the P % 3 ; we shall have a faugh » t Smocltfroclc . ~ Fortj . five weeks old , ma ' am , and one day , ma am , when they cainefrom home ; they be three days older now ma ' am '

      Ladj . —What have they been f ed on ? Sraockfrock—Barley-mcal , ma ' am and whey and Potatoes . * wh ^— What » barley-meal and whey did you say ; and Smockfrock . —Potatoes , ma ' am , and whey and barley , meal ; 48 bushels of meal , and as much whey as tUey would drink , and about 0 bushels of tatoes . Lady . « -Who served them with their foodt Smockfrook . —I did , ma ' am . Lady . —And did you never eat with the > n ? Smockfrock . — Eat with them , Ma ' am ? Eat with the hogs ? You don ' t mean , did I eat with the hogs ? Lady . —Yes ; I ask you if you never ate their barleymeal and whey and potatoes ? Smockfrock . —No , Ma ' am I should think not . Men bcant hogs , be they !

      Lady—But some men would like to be as , well fed as hogs , would they not ? Lord ltadnor ' a men are not so well fed as his hogs , are they ? At this , Smock / rock looked nround him , and at ths faces of the people who crowded abaut to hear the dialogue , and was silent . The lady who had no flowers m her basket put her parasol on the nose of one oi the sleeping pigs , and disturbed him , whereupon he grunted mWillnaturedl y , and disturbed his fellow-pigj , which also grunted ; and the lady with the flowers Baid , " CoJie away from them , they 9 peak for all the world like the man they belong ; o . "

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      Fortunes made bt Advebtisino From a smal pamphlet , entitled "The Art of Making Money , " an extaact has been taken and is going the round of the provincial press , pointing out the facility of making immense sums by the simple process of eontiauous advertising . Doubtless largo sums have been , are , and will be made by such a system by certain persons of ability , who no doubt would make their way in the world if called upon to play diftvrent parts on the great stage of life ; but to supposed that men in general must as a matter of course acquire wealth by such means is as absurd as to imagine that all the penniless and shoe , less of London arc capable of rising to the dignity aad wealth of an alderman or lord mayor of London simply by reading the "Young Man ' s Best Companion . " Money is not so easily made hb the writer of the article

      referred to would lead people to suppose ; if it be so , few need be poor . But to our text ; fortunes made by advertising . Undoubtedly the greatest man of tha day as an advertiser is Holloway , who expends the enormous sum of twenty thousand pounds annuall y in advertise , ments alone ; his name is not only to be seen in nearly every papor and periodical published in the British islss , but as if this country was too small for this individual ' s exploits , he stretches over the whole of India , having agents in all the different parts of tha upper , central , and lower provinces of that immense country , publishing hU medicamtuts iu the Hindoo , Oordoe , Goozratee , Persian , and other native languages , so that the Indian public cau take the Pills and use his Ointment , according to general directions , as a Cockney would do within the sound of Bow bells . we find him again at Hong Kong and

      Canton , making his medicines known to the Celestials by means of Chinese translation . We trace him from thence to the Philippine Islands , where he is circulating his preparations in the native languages . At Singapore he has a large depot : his agents there supply all the islands in the Indian Seas . His advertisements are published in most ef the papers at Sidney , Uobart Town , Launcest"U , Adelaide , Port Philip , and indet-d in almost every town of that vast portion of the British empire . Returning homewards , we find bis Pills and Ointmeat selling at Yalparaise , Lima , Callao , and other ports in the Pacific . Doubling the Horn , we track him in the Atlantic—at Monte Video , Buenos Ajres , ^ Santos , Rio de Janeiro , Bahia , and Pernambuco : he is advertising in those parts in Spanish and Portuguese , Ih all tbe British West India Islands , as also in the Upper and

      Lower Canadas , and the neighbouring provinces of Noia Scotia and New Brunswick , his medicines are as familiarly known , and sold by every druuiust , as they are at home . In the Mediterranean we find them selling at Malta , Corfu , Athens , and Alexandri-i , besides at Tnnis and other portions of the Barbary states . Any one taking tbe trouble to look at the "Journal" and "Courier" of Constantinople , may find in these , as well ns other papers , that Ilolloway ' s medicines are regularly advertised and selling throughout the Turkish empire ; and even in Russia , where an almost insurmountable barrier exists , the laws there prohibiting the entree of patent medicines , Uollowaj ' s ingenuity has been at work , and obviates this difficulty by forwarding supplies to his Agent at Odessa , a port situated at the Black Sea , where they filter themselves surreptitiously by various

      channels , into the very heart of the empire . Africa has not been forgotten by this indefatigable man , who has an agent on the Itiver Gambia ; also af Sierra Leone , the plague spot of the world the inhabitants readily avail themselves of the Ointment and Pills ; thus we can shew our readers that Holloway has made the complete circuit of the globe , commencing with India and ending , as we now do , with the Cnpe of Good Hope , where his medicines are published in the Dutch and English languages ; and while speaking of Dutch , we have beard that be has made large shipments to Holland , and is about advertising in every paper or periodical published in that- kingdom : we might add that he has also started his modi , cine in some parts of France : in some portions of Germany : as also in some of the Italian states . We have been at some little trouble to collect all these facts ; because we fenr that the article before alluded to , 'the Art of making Money , " is calculated to lead people to spend

      their moans in ihe hope { as the author states ) of making a hundred thousand pounds in six years for his pains , by holding up as an easy example to follow such a man as Holloway , who is really a Napoleon in his way . Many may have the means , but have they the knowledge , ability , energy , judgment , and prudence necessary ? Failing in any one of these requisites , a total loss is certain . Hollonay is a man calculated to undertake any enterprise requiring immense energies of body and mind . No doubt he has been well repaid for all his labours ; and is , we should suppose , in a fair way of making a large fortune . Ofcourseitis not to our interest to deter the public from advertising ; but , as guardians of their interest , we think it our incumbent duty to place a lighthouse upon what we consider a dangerous shoal , which may perhaps soon or Inter prevent shipwreck and ruin to the ' sanguine aud inexperienced about to navigate in such waters .

      The Editors of tho " Edinburgh Review , " in a number published about three years ago , stated , that he considered he was making a desirable bequest to posterity by handing down to them the amount of talent and ability rt quired by the present class of large advertisers , At that period Holloivay ' smode of advertising was most prominently set forth ; and If these remarks , conjointly with his , should descend to a generation to come , it will be known to what extent the subject of this article was able to carry out his views , together with the consequent expenditure in making known the merits of his prepara * tions to nearly the whole world . —Pietorial Times .

      Comparative Degrees of Heat and Cold . —Tho intensity of the frost o ( the present winter furnishes interesting matter for comparative seasonable speculation . It is a subject of philosophical observation , that intensely hot summers are commonly followed by winters of intense cold , the one being in the ratio to the ather . The opinion seems to be borne out by a reference to the summer of the present year , which , it will be recollected , was one of great and long enduring heat ; and it is further apparently so , as indicated hy a reference to weather tables ranging through a long cycle of years . Facts and « result 8 apparently bo opposite are full of interest , and open up a wide field for the rcasonor . In northern climates , where the winter is both long and severe , the glass ranging below zero , and the season extending , in some in stances over eight months of the year , the summers which contain the elements of spring and summer '

      are generally hot . The earth for the winter time , n ice locked *; rivers and lakes are sheeted over , and even springs and gushing fountains are frozen up . Thus it is in North America , Russia , and the whole of the countries in the northern regions . Tho changes of temperature are instantaneous , and it not uncommonly happens , that the people inhabiting those countries witness , on retiring to bed , the very depth of winter , with all its concomitants ; and on rising the next morning , behold " glorious summer , grafting itself on lovely spring . The theory ot intensely hot summers and severe winters dovetailing with each other is forcibly illustrated by a reference to the year of " the great comet , " 1811 , ; th e summer of which was one of great heat ; and the winter of that year W , 13 one of great comparative severity ; so also , the ensuing year of 1812 , memorable tor the destruction of Napoleon's army in Russia , the winter shearing them off like snow flakes drittiug on the stormy wind .

      Ilolloway ' s Ointment and RWf ' -E . ?*™ * " ^ **! 3 of a Diseased Knee of Ten Years' standing . - £ ; ^ ' » £ l ' erryns , residing at No . 21 , Fargate-street , \\ oicebter , is now cured of un abscess on the knee and a stift joint , which had been bad for ten years ; indeed , era : nnte . no was fourteen , lie lost from the knee joint SWP'W of bone , one being two inches in length . . U \ * £ * J ££ under he most eminent of the faculty in «»«» and at last wns told that his leg must beMjmpnt ed its a euro was quite impossible . A « w > W ^™ £ cure has been effected iu this hopeless case by th « so wou derful medicines *

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      Sudden Death of thk Whitehall Mud-Lark . — On Sunday morning , an old woman , who for years has obtained a living by gathering coals in the Thames at low water , whilst proceeding along Scotland Yard , dropped doffn in the street , and suddenly expired . The deceased , who was between sixty and seventy years of a » e , was well known to the coal merchants and watermen at Whitehall as Peggy the Mud-lark , « nd many a time has she been seen up to her arm-pits in mud gathering up the pieces ol coal that had fallen from the barges . In this manner she has managed to obtain a subsistence for herself and family for many years . Railway Law . —Eight men recently employed on the Bristol ' and Exeter Railway were convicted at Exeter on Friday last , of having left four ballast waggons on the line whilst they went to a publichouse to drink , though the mail tram was shortly expei'ted . They were fined sums varying from £ 10 to £ 2 .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 26, 1846, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1398/page/2/