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    • A WORD ON LAND.
    • iq^ Metropolitan Jntelltgentt*
    • ABERNETHY'S PILE OINTMENT.
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      "What a painful ai ; d noxious disease is tho Files ! and comparative , how few of the afflicted have been pernanently cured by ordinary appeals to medical skill ! This , n » doubt , arises from the use of powerful iperients tno frequently administered bv the profession ; indeed ) strong internal medicine should always bb avoided n all cases of this complaint . The proprietor of the above Ointment , after years of acute suffering , placed himself indcr the treatment of that eminent surgeon , Mr . Abernctliy , was by him restored to perfect health , and has enioved t ever since without the slightest return ufihe disorder , over a period of fifteen years , during which time tho i-im * . Mwroethian prescription has been the means of hca ! iii (? a vast number of desperate cases , both in and out nftlp jropri-. tor ' s circles offriend- - , mo . n of which cases had bce-i under medical care , and some of them for a vurv con riderable time . Abernethy ' s Pile Ointment was introduced to the public b y the Uesiro of many who had been ucr ; ec « y healed bv its application , am \ since its introduction the fame ot this Ointment has spread far and wide -pv-n the Medical Profession , always slow add unwilling to ncknow edged tho vntues of any medicine not nn . nrV . l bv themselves , do now freely and frankly admit that Aternetujr * Pile Ointment is not only a valuable prep ^ ra ion but 1 never failiti" remedy in every stage and variety of that appalling malady . J llme P P ^ - > tion , but Sufferers will not repent g iving the Ointment a trial . Multitudes of cases of its efficacy mM , t be produced Litbe nature of the rwnp fanut did «« t vCud « Umk « U « Uaro b « n « u « d wwiffrng to publish th » ir names pr ° daCUl ' SoM in covered Pots , at Is . fid . or thequantity of -hr . c Is . « d Pots in one for Us , with full direS for mo bv C King , ( Assent to the Proprietor . ) Kap . er-str ^ . Ilcxton , > ew Town , London , where also can be Zcured cv ' erv Paten ? Medicine of repute 4 £ ot *™ Hhe , ff l ^ : er * « , th an allowance on taking sixat a time ' " ^ ' ^ * * * 3 e sure to ask for " ABE . NETU \ & 1 ILL OINTMt . NT . The Public are requested to be on their mnrd HiBStiwxtow comiHWlttowiold at low prices , " and to observe that none can possibly \ e Ke . mh . e , u " the n ™ e r ; . Ktt-G , is printed on t ! ie Government fctamp afhxed to each pot , 4 s . lid ., which u the lomst pric " theVronriX ea ab ' . ed to sell it at , owin S to the great expense ot tie ingredients . P e propnetoi CORNS AND BUNIONSPAUL'S EVERY MAN'S FRIEND . Paironhtd ly the It mi Family , Nobility , Clergy , i-c . ¦ X a sure and speedy Cure for those serere annoyances , without causing the least pain or nvonvenience Unlike -Ul ) thcr remedies i .. r Corns its . operation is sucli as to render the cutting of Corns altogether ¦ imnecessarv indeed w , naysay . the practice ofcatting Corns u at all times highly dangerou . ? , and has beenfrcqnent l " atte . ded " iriuTlSini able consequences , heade * it . liability t , . ncrease their growth ; it adheres with the most gentle pro ' sureToduces SSsS ^ talt ° ^ WUh P ™~ " » * " * "WtaUoo . entirely eradiea&Kost Testimonials have bmi received fr m upwards of one hnnd ed Physicians and Surgeons of the -reitest emfnnn ™ is wvll as from many Office r * of both Army and Nary , and nearly one thousand private kt tors f ^ l ° the-eutrv i » ™ mdcountry , spc-iiang in high terms of tins valuable remedy . « u . < -uuy m tonn Prepared by JolmFivs , iubox « ssaUUd , orthree smaUboxesin onefor-2 s 9 d , andtobehad with full « m , c » M ¦ oruse , of C . Kiso , Xapfcr-strcet . lloxto ,., Xew Town . London , and all wholesale m . divtail ffinerSdoSi . town mdcountry . The geiunne has tfa . ™/» ' »^ ^ 3 hS ^ d Kffi lai&S tdi ™ > ^ Al ) enit ; tliy ' S rilC Mrs < arc soU * the Mowing «^ eblWt Barclay aud Sous , Faniusdou-streot ; Edwards . C 7 . St . Paul ' s Church-yard : Butler 4 Clicimidp . u « i , n o * Paul ' s ; Sutton , Bow Churchyard ; Johnson , 10 , Greek-street . Soho . and 63 , Co £ mi Wer m ' OrfSS £ ' f K-iPoushby and Co , 61 . BishopsSate street Without ; Owen , 52 , Marchmond-s reet , llurtoi , ^ wescent ' Vnde £ r V « U . street ; Prout , 529 , Strand ; Hannaj and Co ., « , Oxfcrd . street ; . UuuterandJame . rffebbeSVaJd « taU b ; Si Pespeitable chemists and med \ cme tenders in London . i «» uiei * iioy au Cocxtrt Acests :-Baines and Xev . some ; Mr . Buckton , Times Office ; ITcaton Siueeton Hall Reinhinir in . l «„ . J . C . Urowne . « , Brfegate . Thornton , 35 , Boar Lane , Denton , Garland , Jfann , Bean . Uarkv ll \ f % Uta % l S ™ BoUanda « dKe , nplay , Land Mown , C . Hay , 108 . urinate . Rhodes , Bell and Brooke Lord ft c ll \ v Wedfcftili H Leeds : Cooper . Key and Fisher . Bradford ; Hartley . Berry , Suter , Leyiand Ilalifax ; Snath EhiriI Hurn Cart v ' l Geil . Smith , Wakendd ; Fjbus Barndey ; Knowles , Thome , Brooke and Spivey , Hudde , " neUl iiudson Krfrirtw . Loflhousc , Kdnhardt ( late Carlton ' , Kirton , Alcock , Bau . es Bum-U , liell , JJurton Healey . Mcls ' on Freeman Poker - ing , GartoB , Williamson , CliajiniMu . llammoiid , Wallis , Walker , Broomhead , Noble , Forster , Ilardnvin Stenhencnn ' Weir , Kyderand Itaker , Hull ; Pipes , Kcuiuglum , Johnson , Earle , Cornwall , Itolinson , ISrigham Bevci-ier Brookes ' Doueaster ; Matthews , Creascr , Drifliield ; Ca < ss , Goole ; Xilnur . Pickering : Stevenson , Whitby : ' Uoltou * i » aushivd and Co , Hargrove , Fisher , Otlcy . Linney , York ; Marston , Bri-j ?; Hurst , Piobson , Armita-c , Ingolbv , Lon-bottoni Louth ; Waiuwnght , Howden ; Rayuer , Smitu Burlington ; Hurnsby , AVrangham , Jefferson , Mnlton ithodes Smith Ciinmpley . Bromliead , Ireland , Buoitall , Scarborough ; . Smith , Fu by . Bridiin-ton ; Adams , Colton Pullen "

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      COUGHS , HOARSENESS , AND ALL ASTnjTAT A > 'D PULMONARY COMPLAINTS . EFFECTCAltT CUBED Bt HEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES . Upwards of fSiirtr years experience has proved the inallibility of tfctse Lozenges in the cure of Winter Cough , Hoarseness , Shortness of Breath , and other Pulmonary SlalsuJies . The patronage of his Majesty , the King of Prnssin , wdlris Majesty the King of Hanover , has been bestowed 3 n then ; as also that of the Nobility and Clergy of the United Kinguon ; and , above all the Faculty have especially recommended them as a remedy of unfailing sfficacy . Testimonials are continually rccoived confirmatory of the valus of these Lozenges , and proving the per" ect safety of their use , ( for they contain w Opium nor my preparation of that drug ;) so that they may be given to females of the most delicate constitution , and children 3 f the most teuderest years without hesitation . Prepared and sold in Boxes , Is . lid . ; and Tins , 2 s . 91 . la . 6 d ., andl 0 s . Cd . each ; by THOMAS KEATIXG . Chem st , ic , So . 79 , St . Paul ' s Churchyard , London . Sold retail ; by all Druggists and Patent Mediciue Venders iu the Kingdom .

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      VALUABLE TESTIMONIAL . The foilonicg Testimonial t > f a Cure of a Cough of twenty fears standing , aad recovery of strength will be read with much interest : — Sia . —I bt-j to inform you that for the last twenty pears I have suffered severely from a cough , and have > een under medical matnient with but little relief , and lave not for many years been ab ! e to walk more than lalf a mile a day . After taking three boxes of your Lozenges my Cough entirely left nie , and I have this day praikt-1 to Ross , a dist-ir . ee of four miles : for this almost 'enewal of Ufa I am solely indebted to your Lozenges Foa are at liberty to make wha £ use you please of the letter , aud 1 shall be happy to answer any enquiries rsj pci'tiag my cure . I remain , Sir . your obclient and oblis *! servant . ( Signed ) Maet Cooee . rer . crai ? , July lfl ' . b , lSlo . To Mr . Keating , St . Paul ' * Church Yard , London . Cheesham Hill near Manrhester , August - . ' 1 st , 1 S 15 . Sib . —I am dad I Lave takcu your aivice in trving Mr . EASTING'S COUGH LOZEXftES , as I have fer a lo : ; g time been troubled with shortness of breath and a bad cou ^ ' a , and have tried a great variety of medicines , aud derived very little benefit iron ; tht-sa : but since I have maOe trial of IIeating ' s Cough Lozenges , I have breathed better , and tlie cough is quite gone . I am , Sir , jour ' s truly , Sakau Fietcb . es . To Mr . Ceoji . Saffi-oa Walden ,

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      GOOD NEWS FOR THE MILLION !! IX all cases where practi ' .-al experience and ectr . omj with secrecy is required , consult with J . MORRIS and Co ., Surgeons , No . 31 , Xemngton-eauseway , South-¦ w ark , London , who , durinjj an extensive practice of twenty-two years , in which timethey hare beeu successful without a siugle failure , in 40 , 000 cases which lengthened and extensive practice enabled them to effect a complete cure , of every stajje and symptom of all disorders arising from Indiscretion excess , solitary habits , &c ., iuclud ing Impotence , Seminal Weakness , &l \ The cures p ? rformed in less time and on such eoonosncal terms as were never before practised , no restraint Of dietor lunderaece f . om business at all necessary , or fear of discoTer j or exposure . J . M ., and Co ., may be consulted b » Uit * r mtii > nl <; Stating the fM v ^ lm ^^ JZ ^ &gZ perfect cure wiJ be effected as by a personal visit Adncii and a . Prescription will be fLrwarded in replj by return of Post to any par ; of Uu , Country , and eorreswncence continued until a vcrt-vt run- i-. 2 Ti v ^» tfBolI * fcYtt 4 ft hWHWPlakeioa

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      J . MORRIS arid Co ' s , "Batameal Purif ying Pills" may orfr e onr " ^ ^^ lL *** ^ ^^ or five , on receipt of Posta-e Stamps to tho amount of Three Shiliin-s .-These far-famed rawratiii i ? Pills have for many years , been celebrated , fov their woiidtrfu powers and purifying qualities in all i-oinplaints , arisinl from IndwcretaMi , &c . the effect produced after a fU doses is truly astonishing , not only in purifying the blood , but also establishing a complete ivnovation of the consti ' tu . ion , and being prepared solely from vegetable subtames will keep iu every climate . To captains . f ships and others taking long voyages they are invaluable . Medicd \ apour Bath Establishment , 31 , Nemn- 'ton-Causeway , London .

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      AX Additional and Important Evidence of the Salutary Etfects of BLAIU'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS , from Mr . Thomas Yates . " 3 , Albion-road , Stoke Ncwington-grecn 6 th February , ISt " . " Sir , —With much pleasure r acquaint you with tb » benefit that I have derived b j taking Hlair ' s Pills . " On my journey five weeks since , whilst at Chepsfow , I had distressiuj ; symptoms of an attack of Gout in one foot , and with the utmost difficulty reached Bristol . Uy this time tlie disease had so much increased that I could not place myfoot on the floor , the swelling beini ; extensive and the pain excruciating . Having oft n heard of Blair ' s Gout and Rheumatic Pills , I immediately scut to Messrs . IVr .-is and Score , Chemists , Bristol , for a box , which when I had taken , the pain had wholly subsided I continued the pills untii I Imd taken two-and-a-half boxes ui ( ir . > , when to my gratification I was perfectly restoied to h ^ lth , and ,-ible to resume mv journey .

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      OX THE COXCEALED CAUSE OF COXSTITUTIOXAL Oil ACQUIRED DEBILITIES OF TIIE GENERATIVE SYSTEM . Just Published , A new sadi Tnportant Edition of tho Silent friend on Human FraVJ ; :, erica 2 s . 6 d ., and sent free t © aiiy part of the United Kingdom on the receipt of a Post Offlue Order for Ss . 6 d . A MEDICAL WORK on the ISFI 11 MIT 1 ES of the GE " XSRAT 1 VE Si'STEM , iu both sexes ; being an enquiry mto the concealed cause that destroys physical iTl 2 r 3 y > an > l the ability of manhood , ere vigour has established her empire : —with Observations on the ban » ful effects of SOLITARY INDULGENCE and INFECTION ;

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      ^ ughfor a white undiscoYered , at length break tut P ° n theubb *» py individual in its most dreadful forms or else , unseen . i ' wnally endanger the yery vital organs « f existence . To those suffering from the consequences which this disease may have left behind in the form of lecovdarysytnptams . eruntiong of the 6 kin , blotches on the head aud face , ulcer a tioi ) and enlargement of the throat ricons , and threatened destruction of the nose , palate , 4 c , nodes on the shin bones , or any of those painful affections arising from the dangerous effects of ths indiscrimiaate use of mercury , or tha evils of an imperfect ; ure , the Concentrated Detersive Essence will be found to

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      IMPORTANT TO FAiMlLIES . THE POPULA R REMEDY . A mild , safe , anil most effectual cure of Indirection Bilious , Liver , and Stomach Complaints , Sick £ ' Costiveness , Ac , &c . Their compositionMs trol , Vvcellent ; they are compounded entirel y of vegetable Zducts freed from , all irritating and delctwiou * , natters which render then ; operation mild and agreeable thev do no require the least confinement or alteration of diet and may be taken by the invalid with perfect safety- \ s to occasional dose in all nervous and debilitated ' cmm recoveries from protracted diseases , &e . they will be ' found highly valuable , imparting vigour and tone o the system when emaciated by disease Their value as a general tonic and restorative of thn impaired stomach and biliary system , is dai y " nifested to the proprietors b y their increasin g rapid I i and the prTveT ^ r 'Sf ^^^ '««* wff ^ rcSveoS ** WUh ma" ^ hers ' I" * l" * n recently Communicated by Mr . G . Batters , Chapel-bar > ottingham .

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      BEWAIIE OF IMITATIONS . None arc genuine unless tho words " Pan ' s Life Pills " are in White Letters on a lied Ground , on the G . iwrninent Stamp , pasted round each box ; alSl , the fac-shnile of the signature « f the Proprietors , " T . Roberts and Co ., Crane-cuurt , Flect-strcet , London , " on the Directions Sold in boxes at Is . lid , 2 s . ! M ., and family packets at lls . each , by all respectable medicine vendors throughout the world . a

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      [ From Ckanibm' Journal , $ o . 164 , New Series . ) Certain improvements made by Lord George Hill on the estato of Gvyeedore , in Donegal , wero lately made the subject of an article , which , we understand , has given no little satisfaction to parties who entertain the idea that a proper system of land allotments is the one thing needful for Ireland , or any other country with a poor and redundant population . On the question of land allotments , the article pronounced no opinion , nor did it even allude to any such principle of rural arrangement . It presented only the interesting narrative of a nobleman liavinjj reclaimed a hitherto intractabln peasantry from barb . u'ous b . ibits , and settled them in small allotments or farms on a formerly miMtnanasied estate . For

      this , as the best , it not the only thing which could be done in the circumstances , Lord George Hill , we said , deserves high praise . Ilia conduct in every respect otfora a bright example to Irish landowners gem-rally , and we trust it will not be lost upon them . Out of such proceedings , however , as those in which his lordship has been engaged , arise some grave considerations as to ulterior consequences , anil on these wo desire to speak frankly and emphatically . The allotment of small pieces of land—say one or tvro , or oven four acres each—to be respectively farmed by annual or leasehold tenants , at a reasonable rent , is a great advance on a universal confusion of holdings , a 3 was tiie case at Gwendorc : and not beincf aware of what Lord Gcorgo Hill proposes

      to do next , we cannot oxpress a definite opinion as to the probable consequences of his generosity . There is no diih ' cwlty , however , in savin . ; what may be ckpected if the arrangement bo left to work in its original form . For a few years , the aspect of a'Mrs will be greatly improved ; but by and by , the families of the settlers will increase in number , and remainin" on the property , with or without subdivision ot Iand 3 , there will ensue a condition of poverty and wretclledness which it may defy every available expedient to remedy . Such must inevitabl y be the consequenco of every scheme for allotting patches of land to poor agriculturists , unless at the same time provision be made

      for employing or carrying off to now fields of enterprise the redundancy of the population . After tho long experience of the wretchedness produced by patch-tarming in every part of the empire , Ireland in particular , it strikes U 3 as something very remarkable that men should be seen advocating the institution of the practice on a wido scale , as a , menus of national prosperity . Fascinated by the seeming humanity of bestowing allotments upon pauper . * , and gratified by the first appearances of prosperity which probably ensue , they altogether forgot what is to come next—overcrowded cottages , new pauperism . and a poor-rate which may pretty nearly absorb the whole rental of the parish .

      Humanity is an amiable virtue , but humanity without consideration suggests and doe 3 some very foolish things . At this moment a scheme is on foot in England and Scotland for buying and giving as acre ot land to every working-man who is a member nfa certain association . In other words , a section of industrious and well-disposed operatives have , through the agency of some clap-trap humanityman , been deluded into the fancy that each of them would bo happy if he becarao the owner of a morsel of land—land situated , perhaps , hundreds of miles from the place of his ordinary occupation . We have no hesitation in denouncing this project as one of the greatest folie 3 ever conceived . While Nature ' s laws work as they are doing , there cannot be a doubt that it will terminate in the I 033 and discomfiture of all concerned , Supposing , however , fur tlio

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      i———^——————a———^—¦ m ^^^ sake of argument , that each of the members of the association really does got his acre , has he fully reflected en the propriety of leaving his present employment , and beginning to a certain extent the business of agriculturist ? also on the possibility of rearing a family on the proceeds ? Wo earnestly wish that the members of the association in question would ponder on these things before it be too late . It may perhaps be alleged that the possession of a small piece of land in connexion with his cottage raises a working-man materiallyin hisown respect . and that it affords healthful occupation at leisure hours . We ajtree with these propositions ; but hero , as in all other matters , it is desirable to calculate the balance of advantages and disadvantages .

      In all casts in which a workingfman ha 3 ' a reasonable assurance of permanent and properly remunerative employment in any particular place , it may be for his advantage in various ways to own a house and garden or small piece of land ; but if ho possess no assurance of this kind , and is exposed to the necessity of seeking employment in another district , it will be preferable to rent by the year at most what accommodations he requires . Instances of the advantages of small proprietorship are no doubt common ; but so also are instances of a contrary nature . In many country towns and villages , a number of the inhabitants following handicraft employments posses 3 small pieces of land , and also dwelling-houses ; in Scotland , where they abound , thev are termed tonne /

      lairds , hovt , it is our conviction , from sundry examples which have fallen under our notice , that these inheritances are frequently injurious to families . Proud of their petty properties , proud of having a rote for members of Parliament , proud of being lairds , they lead a poor struggling existence ; yet , attached , nailed , as it were , to the spot , they cannot be induced to remove to places where they would be properly employed and remunerated . On one occasion , a laird of this sort , who was starving with h ' n family on four shillings a-weelr , which he realised as a hiindloom weaver , could not be persuaded to come to Edinburgh to be employed at fourteen shillings a week , because by doing so he would have abdicated his dignity as a proprietor , and become only a plain operative . The heritable possession of dwellinghouses , or scraps of land , wo repeat , may in many instances be injurious to working-men . It indisposes them for removal ; fixo ? them to a apot : whereas

      , in order to make the most of their labour , which is their capital , they ought to hold themselves ready at the shortest notice to remove to places whore the highest wages are to be obtained . Our opinion regarding heritable property generally is , that it is better in the hands of persons who makea business of letting it , than in the possession of those who at ence own and have to use it . Among the middle as well as the humbler cla-ses , where there is little chance of any temptation or need for removal , the purchase of a house may be advantageous . In numberless instances , however , persons who buy or build dwelling-buiKCs for their own use , get tired of them , or in time find them unsuitable , and are tormented till they get them off their hands . Unless , therefore , from particular circumstances it is on the whole best to lease houses for private residence , leaving capitalists , by general competition , to provide the accommodation wanted .

      With respect to land , it is , in the greater number of cases , also advisable to leave it in the ownershi p of persons who lease H to others as a means of livelihood . Thus , for example , if the annual rent of an acre of land bo £ 4 . it will be greatly preferable for an agriculturist to pay £ 400 . for the use of a hundred acres , than to expend the sum of £ 12 , 000 . in buyin ? the property . And why ? Because in tho one case he is binding up a great deal of capital , which may be of service in his own proper business of hu-bandry—beside ? putting an embargo upon his personal freedom ; while , in the other , he would not only keep his capital to farm the land properly , but bo so far at his ease , that at the end of a term of years he could remove to a larger farm , or , without hiss , altogether relinquish tho trade of an agriculturist .

      > Landowners are usually considered as a very rapacious set of persons . Our notion is , that , as a whole , they are considerably behind the a » e in point of economic knowledge—that they have allowed themselves to be far outstripped in the adaption of means to ends by the manufacturing and commercial classes ; but if by rapacity is meant tho exaction of unwarrantably large rents , the term is certainly not applicable . In adventuring money in trade , it would be deemed a poor enterprise which did not return from ten to twenty per cent , of profit . Besides , money so risked may be turned over several times a year . A tradesmen , laying out £ 100 in a speculation in January , may have a final return of £ 200 before the end of December . The landowner has no such chance . In England , a freehold property in

      land may realise four per cent , pey annum on the outlay ; and in Scotland , it really returns two and a half per cent . What- a miserable affair is this ! A gentleman spends £ 30 , 000 in buying an estate , and all be gets back yearly is £ 1 , 200 it in England , or £ 750 if in Scotland . Why the return should be so inucU less in Scotland , can only be accounted for by the fact , that in that country a certain imaginary dignity and political weight is associated with territorial possessions , thus causing a competition which raises the value of land considerably beyond its fair commercial value ; Assuming , however , that £ 1 , 000 or £ 1 , 300 is realised , the return is only anuuat . By no process can an agriculturist take more than one crop per annum ; and so neither can a landowner pet moro than a year ' s rent for a year ' s uso of his property . While the manufacturer and merchant are daily planning extensions of their business ,

      sometimes losing , but mere frequently making large sums , in reward of their ingenuity and enterprise , the poor landed proprietor is left to pine on his meagre rental , or draw consolation only from the prescriptive fancy that lie is the salt of the earth . A little consideration suffices to show that the landowner is a man more to be pitied than envied . His situation imposes on him a certain degree of state and ratio of expenditure , too apt to be beyond his means , and whatever goes wrong in the country , on him falls the principal blame . At present , tho greater number of landed proprietors throughout the "United Kirgdom are in difficulties . Everything tends to prove that , as a class , they are not advancing ; while it is equally clear that the manufacturing and commercial classes , from the circumstances adverted to , are already beginning to take tho predominance in wealth and social importance . It is not difficult to see how this will end .

      The proposition that land is held in trust by its owners for the general good of tho nation , appears reasonable ; for land is the source of foo < l , and in the production of this article in due abundance every one is concerned . Partly , however , from ignorance , and partly from the effect of certain laws of inheritance , land has scarcely ever been under a rational sy 3 tem of tenure ; that is , open to free disposal and competition . Pride kas b : en at the foundation of the mischief . In somo countries , the inheritance of land belongs prescriptivcly t' ) the eldest son of tho deceased owner , to the exclusion of his other children ; and in some cases , to make this principle of primogeniture doubly suro , tho inheritance is destined , by deed of entail , to go in all time coming to tho nearest male heir of the decea-ed . On this

      account . lar ^ c properties are daily passing into the hands of elder sons , greatly to the injury of brothers and sisters ; and , what is more painful , properties are going out oHamilii's altogether , leaving daughters pretty nearly destitute , and are seen passing into the hands of remote male heirs , who perhaps are in tho enjoyment of handsome estates already . This entail system is moro rigorous in Scotland than in England , and has greatly damaged the general and individual interest in Imul . Reducing the proprietor to the position of a lilcrentcr , he is indifferent to improvements ; and if otherwise disposed , he has not the means tocxecutoany beneficial alterations on his property . Lately , in pity of these unfortunate proto

      prietor ^ a law ffau passed empowering them borrow money from tho state to improve their lands . How humiliating the position ! What would be thought of the state being asked to lend money to manufacturers to renovate their buildings and machinery ? The universal and proper remark would be , that those who could not draw on private resources for such renovations , should sell their properties to men of greater wealth . The same remark , therefore , ought in propriety to bo applied to those owners of lands who arc destitute of means for their improvement . A law abolishing or greatly modify ing entails , would have been the reasonable plan of procedure .

      Contemplating the evils which arise from a too vigorous lasv of primogeniture anil ontail , the people of other countries have gone to an opposite extreme , and instituted laws making it obligatory on the father of a family to leave his property in equal portions to all his children . This is a tyranny and a folly as revolting to common sense as the most outrageous Jaw of entail . A maH , by successful industry , acquires means to purchase an estate , consisting of a hundred acres of land . He ha * five children , three of whom are well behaved , and have afforded him much comfort ; two are depraved , and act in defiance of all admonition . Ho would w ' i 3 h to divide his property into three , for the sake of the well-behaved ; butthis the law does not allow him to do . He dies , and the estate is divided into five equal portions . Etch child has now twenty acres , and tho samo law again

      operates to subdivide . Suppose each to have five children , then each of these gets four acres . There are now twenty-five proprietors instead of one . But tho sub-division does not stop ; on it goes , generation ifter generation , till at length the whole land is cut up into paltry sections not the size of a cabbage garden . ' Such is tho process now going on at a rapid rate in Franca ; and any one who wishes to have n comprehensive idea of its consequences will ( ind tho subject amply treated in the lately issued number of the 1 Quarterly Review . ' Tho only modif ying arran"ement hi that country oonsista in the father bofn ? allowed to leave by will a certain share of his pro ' lierty . If he has only one child , he can bequeath a halt ; if he has two children , he can will a third ; and soon , But this has little practical efficacy , and as the father is . aoUUoffei to make » gittof hisproperty

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      during his life , he is , in fact , little better than a puppet in the hands of his 'family . Far better the most stern law of primogeniture than this grossly demoralising and impoverishing folly . It appears that with a population of about thirty-fire millions , Franco has upwards of eleven millions of landed proprietors , at least five millions of whom own no more than five acres each , and a vast number not more than one aero . It is oalculated that five and a-half millions of these proprietors do not realise individually above £ 11 . 10 s . annually ; and yet , with their families , they amount to twenty-seven millions ofaouls . Thus the great bulk of the population of France , with the name of proprietors in enjoyment or prospect , are in a condition allied to that of paupers . That even in this abject and precarious state

      they enjoy greater tranquillity and indopendence . than their forefathers prior to the Revolution , may b ; acknowledged ; but to compare them—a poor , barelugged , wooden-shoed , half-clad , half-fed set of beings -with the artisans of Great Britain , would be manifestly absurd . Yet , as we have said , some people are actually so insane as to propose a subdivision of lands in thise islands on a similar scale . In certain districts of France the morsels of land are so small , that some families own no moro than a single ridge ; and the consequence is , not only excessive poverty , but constant litigation as to the elucidation and settlement of rights . If ibis practice of subdivision remain unchecked by hw , an agrarian convulsion , more fearful in its effects than the Revolution of 1703 , will , in tho course of another generation , inevitably ensue .

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      Uise in TnB Price of Bread . —On Saturday last bread was raised in price generally throughout the metropolis , the advance being one halfpenny per loaf of 41 b . On Monday the price was again advanced one halfpenny more , making the charge by tho cheap bakers from 9 d . to 9 £ d . for a loaf of 4 lb ., the full price bakers charging for what is termed the best bread from 10 § d . to lid . A further rise is anticipated . Thb Wondbrs op Eiiiek . —The formidable operation ef removing tho entire blade bone from a patient in King ' s College Hospital , under the influence of ether , has been succeeded by a still more formidable ono , performed with equal success at the London Hospital , by Mr . Adams . The patient , a young man , while attempting to oil the wheels ofanen » i « e on

      the Eastern Counties Railway , was knocked off during the motion of the train , when the wheels of thirty carriages passed over both legs , crushing them completely , almost a 3 high as the knee on both sides . The only chance of saving him was by the amputation of both thighs , to which tho patient readily consented on bearing that the operation could be performed without pain . In ono minute and a half he was completely etherised , and the limb . 3 were both amputated in 35 seconds . During the operation the patient appeared as if in a tranquil sleep . When he recovered from the effects of the ether , he said that he knew something was being done to him , but he had really felt no pain . He has progressed favourably since the operation . A novel and interesting application of

      ether has also been made to aid in reducing a dislocation of the shoulder , of three weeks' standing . Dislocated limbs are , in general , readily " put in " asain , provided tho attempt be made immediately ; but if delayed , the bone got * fixed in its new situation , and the muscles adapting themselves to the change , render it excessively difficult to overpower them ; a process which when attempted after some weeks , is exceedingly tedious , exceedingly painful , and in numerous instances fruitless . The following case , how . ever , shows that we now possess a very promising aid in these accidents , in the use of ether . At the Middlesex Hospital a farmer was admitted wha had dislocated hi * shoulder three weeks before . The real nature of the accident was not at first discovered . The

      surgeon who afterwards detected it , endeavoured to restore the bone to its socket : but the ' muscular resistance was too great , and he failed . The patient then came to London . He said ho had suffered severely from the attempts already made to restore the bone to its place . With a view to relax the muscles , and also to prevent pain , the ether was administered ; extension of the arm was made , the bone moved immediately , and in five minutes was in its place-. The sensation felt by the patient during the process he described as a "numbing" feeling , not a pain . Two other cases have occurred , in which tho najls of the great toes have been extracted without pain ; one at tho Middlesex Hospital , when , immediately after the operation , the patient declared he

      felt no pain in his feet , and wished to prove this by dancing the Polka . As this illustration was not permitted , he was obliged to content himself wilh whistling tho tune , which he did most lustily . la a short time tho excitement passed off , and he resumed his Usual quiet manner . On Saturday afternoon Thomas Wakley , jun ., Esq , surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital , performed a very difficult operation upon Miss Ann Skeen , aged 20 years , in tho presence of several medical gentlemen connected with the charity . The ether having been administered by Mr . T . W . Cooke , the house surgeon , and inhaled a short time by the patient , a tumour of a cancerous nature was removed from the right breast . On recovering from the effects of the vapour , the patient spoke some incoherent sentences , and asked if some one had not been pricking her with a pin , and , on further recovery , observed that she would rather defer the operation , and w ;\ s greatly astonished on finding it already effected ,

      Allkged Child Murder . —By Mr . W . Carter , at the Rose , Russell-street-, Hermondsey , on tho body of a fine male child , which was supposed to havo been murdered . On Wednesday last , as a shipwright was at work on a vessel at the East-lane tier , Bermondsey , he observed the body of a child to rise up from under a floating stage attached to the side of the ship , lie got it out , and found it was the body of a full grown male child , quite uakod , and very much decomposed , having been in tho water some time . Mr . Fergusson , a surgeon , who had examined the body , said he found no external marks of violence ; the child appeared to have been born about a fortnight . The lungs were filled , and tlie child had breathed ; they also floated in water . lie thought the child had breathed after the birth , but it , was difficult to say accurately . The jury tvturned a verdict that the deceased was found dead , but they had no sufficient evidence as to the cause of it .

      A Mad Cott . —On Sunday morning a mad cow perambulated the varioiu streets in Lambeth , Kennington , and Southwark , for houra ia a very furious and maddened state , indicting severe and it is feared fatal injuries on several individuals , who wero unable to ger , out of its way . The cow was being driven over Blackfmrs Bridge , and had proceeded very quietly until it reached Stamford-street , when she rushed on to the pavement at an aged female sellng oranges , who left her goods and ran into tho nearest gateway . The ciiw then darted alon » the pavement at a furious rate , followed by at least " two hundred persons , until it reached the Elephant and Cas Je Tavern , where she paid a visit among the omnibus - drivers , &c , who m muted their

      vehicles for safety . She then rushed among a party of men who were at work repairing tho water-pipes facing the Fishmongers' Almshouses , Iligh-sireet , hewington , where she caused tho utmo > t alarm . A large fire which they were using for melting tho lead was tossed several feet into the air , ami afterwards sne ran at a truck and likewise after the men , who had to make aprecipitate retreat . By this time the crowd had increased threefold , and when the animal reached the Plough and Harrow Tavern , in the Kennington-road , she ran at a man named G . Colenian , who was tossed and trampled upon before ho was able to get out of tho way . lie was taken into a surgeon ' s opposite , where his wounds on the head wore dreased , after which ho was taken to his home

      by a policeman . Tho cow then wont on ; and on reaching Kennington-cnminon , she ran at an aged man , named Samuel Hart , an inmate of Lambeth workhouse , who had leave of absence for a few hours , lie was in the act of passing across tho road by the Horns Tavern , when the cm rushed at him and tossed the poor old fellow twice , and beforo any one could get to hisaid , he received most serious injuries . His head was fearfully lacerated , and one of the animal ' s hornslhad penetrated the unfortunate man ' s belly . He was raised up in an insensible state , and carried by the police to the surgery of Mr . Watson , who , having rendered every possible aid , suggested his immediate removal to Guy ' s Hospital , whither ho was taken with care . The cow then turned round and darted after tho mob which

      followed it , but they made their retreat down the streets on tho other side ot" Kennington-road . She then returned to tho New Kent-road and continued her speed to Berraondsey , where sho threw every one into a state of fear and alarm . At a late hour in the afternoon she was driven into a tiold near Rotherhithe where she became so much exhausted that her capture was ultimately effected by rope 3 , Many other accidents were caused , but the one above named is most likely to end family .

      FIRES . On Saturday last , a fire occurred at No . 9 , Ward ' sbuildings , Woodstock-street , Paddington-street , Marylebono , by which an aged female , named Mary George , lost her life . Mrs . George , seventy years of age , occupied the second-floor front room , the floor above being occupied by a man named Ryan , his wife , and seven children . About a quarter-past twelve , Ryan was awoke by a sense of suffocation , and on rising found his room full of smoke . Having secured the safety of his familv , he proceeded to the

      deceased ' s apartment , which ho found in flames , and rapidly extending upwards , lie raised an alarm , and the engines were speedily on the spot , and got to play . The flames being subdued , the deceaso > l ' s apartment was entered , when her body was discovered , lying huddled up on the floor , literally burnt to a einuor . It was placod in a shell and conveyeA to Marylebono workhouse . The deceased was . very eccentric in her habits , and on a table in tha room , not destroyed , was found two or three bushe ' s of © Id bones , and a quantity of half-crown * and other money , tied in an old rag . Tub Late Fibk and Lo 3 s 0 ? Life ix Mauylx uoau . —AR inauwb was lieW iu lift Mftryloboni

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      workl ouse , by Mr . Wakley , on Harriet George , aged 70 . Ihepeceased who was respectabl y connected hved as servant with the family of the Rev iC ' Dean of St . Paul ' s and Vicar of WUleadSTuSS S 5 was superannuated , when Dr . Knapp allowed h" ? 0 * . 6 d ., two quartern loaves weekl y , and clothe / On Saturday the unfortunate woman was found in a sitting posture near » trunk in her room , burned to a cinder , and the whole aparrment in flames . It was supposed that while looking over her clothes in the trunk , that a spark ignited the contents of the trunk , and that the flames extended to her nercnn Verdict , "Accidental death . " v '

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      EXTRAORDINARY CASE . On Saturday last , in the Court of Queen ' s Bench beforo Lord Denraan and a special jury , Mr . Dunn ' the barrister , was indicted for perjury , on tho prose ! cution of Miss Burdett Coutts . Sir F . Thcsi « er Q . C ., Mr . Clarkson , and Mr . Hawkins , were counsel for the prosecution ; the defendant acted as his ow > i counsel ; The prosecutrix , Miss Burdett Coutts is a partner in the banking-house of Coutts and Co and preferred this indictment against the defondant ' Mr . Dunn , a member of the Irish bar , for perjury alleged to have been committed by him in swearing an affidavit in the Court of Bankruptcy with the ostensible object of obtaining from that lady , under compulsion of the bankrupt laws , payment of tho sum of £ 100 , 000 . The material part of the affidavit

      , which was sworn under the 5 & G Viet ., c . 122 , s , 07 , before a registrar of the court on March 30 , when the court was not Bitting , was in these words : — " Richard Dunn raakcth oath , and saith , that A . B . Coutts is justly and truly indebted to this deponent , Richard Dunn , in the sum of £ 100 , 000 ., by virtue of a certain bill drawn by this deponent on the bank of Messrs . Coutta and Co ., by the especial authority in writing given b y the said A . B . Coutts to this deponent , whieh was expressly given by her as com . pensation for divers injuries and imprisonments inflicted , and for which injuries this deponent had commenced legal proceedings against the said A . B . Coutts , and which sum she promised in writing should be duly paid , but whieh said bill , although

      dul presented , was not paid or honoured , and which said billfcremains wholly due and owing to this deponent ; and this deponent further saith that tho said A . B . Cnutts is a partner in the banking-house of Coutts and Co ., and is a trader within the statute , as this deponent verily believes . " The " bill" was in fact an order thus worded : — " 4 th March , 1840 . Messrs . Coutts and Co . Pay myself , or order , one hundred thousand pounds . R . Dunn , ( by authority of Miss Cout U ) . " The " especial authority in writing , " alleged h the aflidavit to have been given by Miss Coutts , consisted of the last two stanzas of a copy of doggerel verses : which the defendant held himself out to havo received from Miss Coutts by post in the year 1811 . They were in the form that tollows : —

      Oh . Mr D ., You ' ve spoilt all our fun By your verj imprudent advances ; Why didn ' t you meet Me , except in tho street—AVhy not meet me at routs or at dances t You called me " fair girl , " Till you made my head twirl , So that all the folks thought I was sili y ; At the window I stood , With my tears in a flood—You were posted just in Piccadilly . When to Ilarrogat * sweet Tapa beat a retreat , To take spa waters supersulphureous , I could hear jour heart thump As we stood near the pump ,

      While you bolted that stuff so injurious . Oh ! how , my dear pet , Can I ever forget That mixture of love and aversion ; Of love for your lass And disgust for your glass , Just like a teetotal conversion . When poor papa ' s gout Tut us all to the iout , And drove us to Norwood Hotel , Your flame growing stronger , You couldn ' t wait longer , So posted away there as well . Our servants to cool Your hoat in the pool , And cure you of love so mysterious , Immersed you therein , Nearly up to the chin—What a scene both of comic and aarious

      But such an the antic 3 That come from romantics , When once they lay hold of the brain , That you termed it " Baptizing My lover , " and priiing My dower as much as love ' s chaiusi My pretensions grew grander , 'Till stern Alexander By a capias ad tat . copiendum , Tut the lock on jour love , And caged my sweet dove , With his billings and cooingi to ead ' em . But at last I ' m relenting , My jewel , repenting , Of all that you ' ve suffered for me ; Nay ! I ' m oven grown tender , Disposed to turn lender Of cash , your sweet person to free :

      Send to Coutts' your bill-There are lots in the till—I'll give the clerks orders to do it ; Then get your discharge , Your dear body enlarge , And in Stratton-street do let me view it : And , by the bye love , My affection to prove , For your long cruel incarceration , Fill a good round sum in ( As Tve plenty of tin ) , To make you a fair compensation . A . B . C

      In addition to the formal proof that the affidavit had been sworn by the defendant , witnesses were called to show that it was wilfully and corruptly fa'so . Miss Burdett Coutts swore that she had not written the supposed authority , and had never in her life written to the defendant . That she had forwarded all letters sent to her within the last few years by tha defendant , to her solicitor , unopened , when hi 3 handwriting was recognised on tho superscription , and unread so soon as others , not so superscribed , vere found to be his , and that her solicitor had general directions that every legal measure to protect her from the defendant should be taken : that she had not given authority for payimj the sum in question , nor any other sum to the defendant ; and

      that she never was indebted to him in any way . Mr . Maijoribanks and Sir Edmund Antrobus , who are partners of Miss Coutts , Mr . Humphries , her solicitor , and two of the clerks in tho bank of Coutt 3 and Co ., deposed , in substanco , to the eltect , that the dofendant had twice presented the order for payment , and had each time been refused ; that on each of these occasions ho had produced the supposed authority , and had been distinctly told that it was not in tho handwriting of Miss Coutts ; and that he had written letters , the object of which was to induce Miss Coutts or her partners , under the pvessure of an abuse of the bankrupt laws , or a reluctance to encounter the annoyance of legal proceedings , however ill-founded , to compromise his alleged claim by payment of the sum of £ 100 , 000 . Tho cross-examination of these witnesses was directed towards croating the inference that Miss Coutts , by not writing herself to the defen d-

      ant , or authorising others to write to him , for tho purpose of jassuring him that she had not written the supposed authority , had confirmed the defendant in tho delusion that it had been written by her ; that her partners had in like manner , and also by not giving tho defendant into custody when he presented his order at tha bank , strengthened his belief that tho authority to draw on the house had come from her ; and that Mr . Humphries had likewise contributed to this error by the hostile bearing which he had exhibited toward the defendant . [ In the course of his cross-examination of Miss Coutts , the defendant put into the handB of that lady a letter written by her father , the late . Sir Francis Burdett . Her struggle with tho emotions which the Bight of Uie handwriting caused , excited tho stronger indignation of tho audienco against tho defendant , and , as it appeared , of the noble and learned lord who presided . ]

      The defendant addressed the jury at somo length , urging the points indicated by the cross-examination , and protesting his belief that tho sufferings and persecution which he had met with from Miss Coutts and her friends , had led to tho boliet that she had been at length induced to make him compensation , and had therefore sent him the authority on which ho had acted . Il « then called witnesses to prove that he had received the alleged authority by post , and that ho had . compared the handwriting with that of Miss Coutts , and from tho result of that comparison was justified in arriving at the conclusion which had founded his subsequent conduct .

      LovuVDsnman having summed up , the jury at onco rotumed a verdict of guilty . The defendant then moved in arrest of judgment on two grounds : iivst , that the affidavit did not allege a . - positive dubt by Miss Coutts , but a hypothe tical debt only , depending on tho fact whether or not tuo authority had been signed by her ,, and therefore baa not given to the Court of Bankruptcy jurisdiction to administer the oath ; secondly , that there wa a variance between the affidavit set forlh swd tna proved . . . Lord DdnraMi ruled against him on both P . olI !{ ° ' and then sentenced him to be imprisoned m " ? Queen ' s Prison for eighteen months , and after tn *» until he should enter into recogn ' mnoos for g « ° * behaviour , himself in £ 100 , and two surety * iiUuQ .

      A Word On Land.

      A WORD ON LAND .

      Iq^ Metropolitan Jntelltgentt*

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      £ . THE NORTHERN STAR , March 6 , 1847 .

      Abernethy's Pile Ointment.

      ABERNETHY'S PILE OINTMENT .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), March 6, 1847, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1408/page/2/