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      rFHE SILENT FRIEND ; A a mcdicul work on the exhaustion and physical ducuy of the svstem , jiroduoed by excessive indulgence , the consequences of infection , or the nbuso of morcury , with observations on the inarmed state , and the disqualifications vrliieh ja-evwit it ; illustrated \ yj tweniy-slx coloured engravings , and by the detail of eases , lly It . nnd L . l'EHRY and Co ., 19 , Beniers-streot , Oxford-street , London . Published by the authors , and sold by Strange , 21 , Pati-rnostcr-i-ovr ; lianuay , 63 , and ganger , 150 , Oxford-stvoet ; Starie , 23 , TicUborne-strcot , Hayniarkct ; and Gordon , 146 , LendenhaU-streot , London ; J . and It . Haunes and Co ., Loithwulk , Edinburgh ; 1 ) . Campbell , Argyll-street , GLi 6 » gow ; J . Priestly , Lord-street , and T . Newton , Churchstreet , Liverpool * ; It . Ingram , Msirket-placo , Manchester . Piirt the First Ig dedicated to the consideration of tho anatomy and physiology of the organs which aro directly or indirectly engaged in the process of reproduction . It is illustrated by six coloured engravings . Part the Second .

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      flBBjgjgBE N ^ g ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ THE EXTRAORDINARY PROPER X ties of this medicine are thus described by an eminent physimn , who says : _ " After particular obter . yation of the action of 1 ' aiir ' s PiLLS , I .-, determined , in mj opinion , that the Mowing tiva their true proper ! ties : — r * " First—They increase the strength , whUst most other medicines have a weakening effect upon the system . Let any one take from three to four or nix pills every twenty , four hours , and , instead of having weakened , they will be found to have revived the animal spirits , and to have im . parted a lastinjr strength to the body . "Secondly—In their operation they go direct to the disease . After you have taken six or twelre pills you will exj > erience thdr effect ; tlie disease upon you will become less and less by every doso you take ; and if you will perserere in regular ]} 1 takiujf from three to six pUls every day , rour disease will speedily be entirely removed from the yetom .

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      FAMED THROUGHOUT THE GLOBE . HOLLO WAY'S PILLS . A CASE OF DROPSY . Extract of a Letter from Mr . William Gardner , of Hanging Haughton , Northamptonshire , dated September 14 th , 1 S 47 . Sir , —I before informed you that my wife had been tapped throe times for the dropsy , but by tlie blessing of God upon your pills , and her perseverance in taking them , the water has now been kept off eighteen months by their means , which is a great mercy . — ( Signed ) 'Wilijam ! Gakd . vkk . —To Professor Ilollowav . *

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      TO Mr . TROUT , 229 , STRAND . - * - _ / ' Xo . 20 S , Piccadilly , London , Oct . li ) , 1 S 47 . . Sib , —It is now three years and a half since I was sorely afflicted with llbeumatie Gout , the suffering from which induced me to try all the proposed remedies that extensive medical experience could devise , without obtaining any satisfactory relief from pain . During one uf the paroxysm ? a friend advised me to try Blair ' s Uout and lUivuinatic Pills , observing that ho hail in some severe cases taken thi-m himself , and they proved very successful . I instantly adopted his advice , and to my joy the excruciating torment soon began to abate , and a few boxes restored me > o health , since which I have had no return of the complaint I trust you will givo publicity to my case , that suttorinp humanity may know how to obtain a remed y for this tlisti'rssing disease . —I am , Sir , your obedient humble sei-v ^ A , Michael Nasutth . " The above testimonial is a further proof of the efficacy oi Blair ' s Gout and Rheumatic Pills , which afford speedy relief to those afflicted with gout , rheumatism , lumbago sciiitica , tic-doloreux , pains in the head nnd face and -0 ! analagous complaints ,

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      Men and Gentlemen , Women and Ladies . —Men are quarried from the living rock as with a thunderbolt . Gentlemen are moulded , as the potter ' s clay , by the dainty fingers of fashion . Women are the spontaneous growth of a warm , rich soili where the wind blows freely , and the heart fee ' s the visitinga of God ' s ever changeable weather . Ladies are the offspring of a hot-bed , the growth of a greenhouse , tended and watched lest the winds of heaven may visit their faces too roughly , till they are good for nothing as women , at uay rate , as wives or mothers .

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      PRANCE . APPROACHING TRIALS OF THE REPUBLICAN CHIEFS The Chambre des Mises en Accusation and the Chambre dcs Appels de Police Correctionnelle met on Wednesday , nnd-r tfee presidency of the First President , and gaTe a decision in the affair of tne intasionofthe National Assembly on the 15 th « May . AH the persons aeainst whom wirrants were issued have been formally placed in icaMluj , ana sent before the Court of Assizes ; oTthe Seme . ¦ m . r , m ; v \ n ttm \ fan 5 n fknown as Albert ) , iJanw

      Sobrier , RaspaU , Quentin . D ^ e ' ^ S ' , Huber . Thomas , Louis Blanc , Seigneuiet , Honaea , rf Laviron , and Napoleon Chued we «« having in May , 1848 , ^ Je « attemp ^ ^ or change the G »« r » ment , and the dti _ same time excited to " ?* W £ ' / other . Courtai ., aaato take a , rm vyag ae accused of having been Caussidiere , and \ •»«? « J kn 6 Wing lr aiding and "W * " ? i ££ ' Louis Blanc , Seigneuret , Sn ^ u , hE "rsidiere , Laviron . Choncel , ^ E& ^ 5 F « Thursday , Barrot , Minister of Justice , presented a project of deem taring for its object the unding before the

      , Haute Cour Nationak , the p rincipals and accom . pfces in the attempt of the 15 th of May . Much agitation was apparent at the mention of this projit in the Assembly . The project proposed that the Haute Cour" should sit at Bourges , m the month following the promulgation ef the aw for the contortion of such court . The minister demanded this project d ' urgence . The Assembly decided , by a large majority , that a special report should be made by a committee , which was ap .

      pointed the following day . Oa Saturday a debate of some length took place , on the question of constituting a specul tribunal , called the High National Court , under the terms of the constitution , for the trial of the offenders on the 15 th of Mar . This tribunal would correspond ia its functions to the court of peers undpr the monarchy , and is provided specially by the constitution , as the court ef peers was formerly , for crimes of such a class as it was considered not conaurive to the ends of public justice to send before a

      On Monday the debate on the trial of the accused for the attempt of the loth of May was resumed , and after M . Dupont ( de Bussac ) , M . Boujeau , M . Dupres , M . Rouchez , anil M . Cremieux had spoken , M . Odiilon Barrot supported the project for sending the accused before the High Court . Finally the Assembly decided by a majority of 466 against 288 , to send the offenders in the affair of the 15 th May , Wore the High Natioial Court to be established under the conditions of the constitution .

      THE GOVERNMENT—THE ASSEMBLT . On Thursday the Minister of the Interior mounted the tribune , and read a decree , signed by the President of the Republic , preseating to the Assembly the following list of names , from among whom the Assembly will hare to select the Vice-President of the Republic : —M . Boulay de la Meurthe , General Earaguay d'Hilliers , and M . Vivien . THE TICE-PRESIDEKT . M . Boulay de ia Meurthe was on Saturd « y named in the Assembly Vice-Presideut ot the ^ French Re public , bv a majority of 417 against 277 .

      THE REPUBLICAN VICTIMS . La Reforme complains bitterly that the amnesty expected from the President Louis Napoleon has not been granted , but that , on the contrary , a number of persons detained for political offences were sent from Paris on Tuesday night last to the prisons of Melun , St . Michel , and Doullsn . Other political prisoners nave been sent in chains to work at Brest , Toulon , and Rochefort . The Moniteur of Saturday contains a notice that sixty-three women , confined in St . Lazare for the insurrection of June , had been liberated by the Minister of the Interior , at the instance of the President of the Republic

      GL'IZOT ABOUT TO ' CATCH IT . M . de Canr-enin ( Timon ) is said to be preparing a reply to M- Guizot ' s work on democracy . M . Proudhon has also entered tbe lists , and , it is likewise said , is busily engaged in a similar task .

      MOKE PERSECUTION . M . Gaisner , President of the Club St . Antoine , was on Saturday condemned by the tribunal of Correctional Police to lOOf . fine for a contravention of the law on clubs , by restricting the admission of the public . M . Levy , president , and M . Thomas , member of the bureau of the Club de la Redoute , were severally sentenced < o 200 f . for the same offence . THE RED REPUBLIC . A banquet of the United Socialists took place ou Sunday evening last , in the Salle de la Fraternite , Kue Martel . The tickets were If . each for men and women , and 50 c . for children , and , when the speeches commenced , the public were admitted at 25 c per head . There were about 1 , 200 guests , and as many spectators ,

      The clubs of the provinces are in active movement in the principal towns . At Macon , the ultra-Republican electoral club has re-opened its sittings and has been joined by large numbers of oucriers . The party of the Mountain , as well as the Socialists and Communists , and all the sections of the ultra-democrats , are getting alive again . The clubs are in the highest activity ; there are ten or twelve which meet nightly in different parts of Paris , and which are regularly organised with bureaux of correspondence and local committees . The principal of these are the club of the Revolution and the Arbalete . M . Pierre Leroux delivered on Thursday evening a long discourse at the Arbalete upon the relig ion of Socialism . GERMANY .

      THE FRANKFORT PARLIAMENT . On the 15 th the National Assembly commenced the discussion respecting the chief head of the German empire . The main questions immediately before the Assembly being whether the chief head of the German emp ire shall be an emperor ( if so , whether or sot an heieditary one , or one for a certain time ) , oi a directory , or a responsible president . Sixty-three members had inscribed their names as speakers . On a division the orig inal proposal of the committee , viz , " The dignity of the Supreme Head of tha empire is vested in one of the reigning German Princes , " was adopted . Aye ? , 258 ; noes , 211 . Kotenhan ' s motion for a Directory was rejected . Noes , 361 ; ayes , 97 .

      The motion of Schuler , Wigard , and others , which would make every German eligible to the supreme dignity , was also rejected . Noes , 339 ; ayes , 122 , . Baron Welden has again issued a proclamation calling upon the inhabitants to deliver up their arms ; the afternoon of the lltb , three shots were fired upon the military from the so-called red Louse ; which being searched a packet of sharp patrones were discovered . Royal Ruffians . —Lately a number of soldiers entered the residence of the editor of the local papsr Of Liegnitz ( Silesia ) , dragged him out of his house , along a number of streets , and , after having grossly ill-treated bim , left him senseless on the pavement . His offence was thai ke commented in rather severe terms on the army order lately issued by the king . The Reactionists are hard at work calumni

      ating and persecuting the democrats . Trials for political offences are continually going on and n « mfcers of the proscribed are being continually sentenced to various terms of imprisonment . A Political Fahce . —General Wrangel has issued a proclamation , threatening to prohibit all assemblages of tbe electors in which political sub * jects , not referring to the elections , are introduced . With such a threat the liberty of election is a mere farce , so far as Berlin is concerned .

      Recently , at Hesse Darmstadt , a misdemeanor of the press was about to be tried—the judge and jury were assembled , when a band of Republicans , the party to which the accused belonged , forctd their wayintotheha . il , and drove judge , jury , and counsel , out of the court . The Attorney-General was hooted in the streets , and pelted with stones , and was obliged to take refuge in one of the courts of justice . [ " Think of that ! Master Brook ! " ]

      THE WAR IN HUNGARY . _ The Siebenburgen Journal ( oae in the Austrian interest ) is compelled to admit the success of the Seeklers , who are partisans of the Magyars . It ap . pears that the former , after being partiall y defeated ralHed in great numbers , took possession ofHossu ' falu , Turkos , and two other places . THE BRIGAND WIKDI 6 CHGRATZ . The following proclamation exhibits the sanguinary ruffianism of the butcher Windischgratz — Any inhabitant who is taken with a weapon of any descri ption in his hand will be immediately

      If the inhabitants of any plaee shall , united , dare to attack any Imperial Royal military courier , R J > y transports , any or jingle commanding officers ;

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      — Zuner , such place or to injure them in any « J " ^ shall be made level with the earj ^ ^ sh „ ^ jb S ^ " <»> * * *" public peace . horATZf Field-Marshal . ISaparvr ^ h y ; figure on the lists of those most df £ 5 Kt ? one to the Bukowina from IransvlvSy way of Wri t * with the probable inter .-tfonof getting up a revolution in Poland , which is ar rese nt naUlly comparatively unprotected a spwe troops having marched under F . ed-Marsha Lieutenant Schlich into Hungary . It also appears thatKossuth entertains the same idea , and it is very probable that he is now on his road to Galicia across the pathians __ l = ^^^

      Car . . _ ... „ ,. , The little fortress of Leopoldstadt still holds out . Although this little nest has been bombarded with 12-pounders , rockets , and 301 b . shells during a whole day , no effect has been produced . The fusees of the shells were all too short , and consequently thev exploded in the air . Lieutenant Lechner , of the ' Artillery , who had prepared them , has since blown up the laboratory , and himself with it ; whether intentionally or not muBt always remain a matter of doubt . The garrison of the fortress , on the contrary , fired admirably , and the besisgers were at last obliged to retire , lieavy ordnance has since arrived from Vienna , as the Field-Marshal is said to have declared that the fortress must betaken a tout prim . T

      . _ . ,. Frightful Sacrifice of Lifk . —The Vienna correspondent of the Times says : —It must not be imagined that the successes of the Austrians have been cheaply bought , for although the official reports of the different affairB do not enter into details , we learn by private channels that the loss of life has bees very great on both sides . It is almost incomprehensible how the campaign can be carried on at all when the severity of the weather is

      considered . We have frequently during the last week had the thermometer here in Vienna , as low as twenty-three degrees bebw the freezing point of Reaumur ; and the snow lies so deep , that one can hardly wade the streets in the morning . If this be the case here , what must it be in the vast plains oi Hungary , with the icy cold winds cutting down from the Carpathians ? We hear continually that the ' sentries have been found dead on their posts .

      ITALY . THREATENED EXCOMMUNICATION OF THE ROMANS . We announced in our town edition of Saturday last , that the Pcpe had threatened to hurl the thunders of excommunication against his revolted subjects , shovld they dare to proceed to the election of a Constituent Assembly . This threat—so expressive of priestlj tyranny and villany , has excited in the Roman States universal indignation . Popular Exasperation . —In the faubourgs of

      Monti and Transtivere , loud charivaris were provoked by the address . The people hooted the cures of Santi Maria Maggiore and Santa Maria " Transtivere , who had caused the encyclic to be posted ; until midnight , the streets resounded with t e cries and choruses of the people , who made it tbe occasion of a great / efe . People of all classes are repre-Bented as being exasperated against the Popa on account of this tbreat of excommunication ; and the lower orders , who ask why the Pope , who did not excommunicate the Croats , who were guilty of all kinds of horrible excesses , should excommunicate his own children , indulge incessantly in shouts of' Long live the excommunicate !'

      The first general meeting of the Roman Electors ' Association was held on the evening of the 6 th , in order to choose a committee to propose the candidates for the Constituent Assembly . The crowd was immense , and 24 , 000 votes were given . A committee of twenty-four members was appointed , which immediately commenced its labours . Advices from Bologna of the Uth , and Civita Vecchia of the 12 th , say that the threat of excommunicatien has been received with the most absolute indifff rence . A priest , who preached at Banchi on the effects of excommunication , was immediately after his sermon arrested by some National Guards who were among his coagregation , and by them delivered over to the authorities .

      A conspiracy has been discovered amongst the officers of the line to induce the militia to rise against the actual government in favour of the Pops . The efficers of rank were seven , and about 100 in all . They hare been all exiled and deprived of their rank . Amongst them is the Duke David Bonelli , of the dragoons , who , a few days before , had returned from Gaeta . The threat of excommunication has produced no effect in the rural districts , and the people are universally determined to vote in the election of the Constituante .

      Old Zucchi has sent from Gaeta a bundle of ' orders of the day , ' to be distributed among the barracks , calling on the military to rise against the government , and put down the ministry . This step is at once ludicrous and lamentable : what more laughable than a soldier lighting his pipe with an ' order of the day , ' and what more deplorable than a provocation to civil war coming from a council of cardinals ? A decree has been issued , signed by all the members of the Provisional Government , by which it is made a grievous act of treason to the state to impede or in any way oppose the meeting of electors or the working of the general election of the Constituent Assembly . England's shame !!!

      The flogg ing of an English sailor on board the Bull-dog at Civita Vecchia , has brought to discount in Rome our character as a civilised people . La Constituents of the 16 th says the report gains every day fresh confirmation that a Spanish squadron , with 12 , 000 Spanish and Portuguese soldiers on board , has sailed for Gaeta . TUSCANY . —The Tuscan Moniteur © f the 10 th inst . contains the speech of the Grand Duke of Tuscany on the opening of the Chambers , which took place on that day . On the 23 r . d ult ., the Imperialists defeated the Szeklers , near Hidveg , but the latter again rallied , and subsequently , in conjunction with the Magyars , who had arrived in those parts , attacked and routed the Imperialists , and took possession of the important town of Klausenburg .

      SPAIN . Rotal Amusements !—The barbarous executions which lately took place at Castellon de la Plana ( province of Valencia ) , seem to have been accompanied by more heinous atrocities than usual . Eleven civilians ( some say twenty-nine ) were dragged out of their housas , and shot , without any form of trial or the smallest proof of any complicity with the insurgents being alleged against them ; afterwards their bodies were thrown into a cart , and drawn through the town , by way of administering a salutary admonition to the inhabitants .

      POLAND . The Polish inhabitants of the grand duchy of Posen are beginning to display again considerable activity . The great' Polish League' ( Liga Polska ) commenced its sittings at Kurnik , on the 10 th inst ., after a solemn high mass had been celebrated by the archbishop . TURKEY . Belgrade , Jan . 8 . —The Sultan hss issued a firman , in which he accords to Christians the privilege of attaining to some of the highest dignities , even that of Pasha or Vizier . The Mussulmans have manifested great indignation at the publication of this firman .

      UNITED STATES . A resolution has been adopted by the House of Representatives , instructing the proper committee to report a bill abolishing the slave trade in the district of Columbia . It contained a preamble denouncing , ia very strong terms , the general principle involved in slavery , and had of coarse created considerable excitement . According to the latest accounts the cholera was spreading rapidly . At New Orleans it was very

      bad . This frightful epidemic had likewise appeared at Mobile and in Texas . At Fort Lawson , Texas , it raged with intensity for two weeks ; forty deaths occurred at Bayley ia one hour , and forty in one night . At Port Lanea 135 persons died . The dead were piled in heaps . One account sayt that half the regiment was swept off ; another account that only seventy-five had died . The camp was broken up . The-disease has since abated . Terrible consternation pervaded the inhabitants . There were thirteen cases at Houston .

      INSURRECTION IN CEYLON . The following is an extract from a letter from as officer in the Ceylon Regiment of Rifles : — hare just time to write a few lines to say I am preparing my small force of 100 men to meet an attack of thousands of Kandiaas , as tie cowtry u again

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      rising in rebellion . Tha weakness of the Govern-^ measures in the last insurrection has brought on a fearful crisis . ' The Kandians were stated to be destroying all before them . [ This insurrection has been excited by the savage atrocities of the British Governor . ] . _^_ i ^^^^^^ d £ ! S ;

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      THE RATIONAL MODE OF PERMANENTLY AND PEACEABLY ADJUSTING THE PRESENT DISORDERED STATE OF EUROPE . SECTION FOURTH . Law 24 . " The townships shall be composed by a regular population of from about five hundred as a minimum , to about two thousand five hundred as a maximum . " Reasons for this Law .

      Man is , with the exception of his natural qualities at birth , a being whose character is formed for him by the external objects which surround him . He is altogether the creature of these circumstances , acting upon his individual constitution , as given to him by the Great Creating Power of the Universe . Or it may be thus stated : As is the original organisation of any one at birth , and as are the circumstances which influence it from birth to death , so will be the character of the individual , or his conduct through any period of his life .

      It therefore becomes of the first importance 10 learn the science of the influence of circumstances over human nature , in all itd varied combinations , in order to know what external objects will have a good or evil effect upon all individuals . The townships now proposed are a scientific combination of the most favourable circumstances in which to place from birth through life individuals of every varied natural compound of faculties when born . The number of the population within which each union ghould be limited is one of those circumstances .

      Each will have to cultivate the soil , to manufacture , to educate , or to form character , and to govern . To effect these four objects in the best manner , will require a population from five hundred to three thousand—perhaps the best fixed number will be about two thousand . This population will give number * of the different ages the most convenient for the attainment of these four objects ; or , when mines and fisheries are to be substituted for manufactures , the number will vet remain convenient for this exchange of employment . A population of this amount will give the num-> er of children that can be the best educated

      in one establishment , to form a family that will be the most easily well looked after , cared for , and well governed ; supplying , also , convenient numbers for agriculture and manufactures . Their numbers can also be arranged , for all domestic purposes , in such order that , no street , lane , court , or alley , will be required in any of these townships , however wide the circle of their extension ; and streets , Janes , courts , and alleys , are inferior and unfavourable circumstances in which to place &ny of the children of humanity , who by this new constitution are intended to be excluded from the evil influences of all inferior and injurious external objects , animate and inanimate .

      This minimum and maximum of numbers can be most conveniently lodged , fed , taught , and rationally amused , in buildings which will form a square of such dimensions as will be beautiful and magnificent , under well-devised architectural arrangements — arrangements which will afford the utmost extent of private and social accommodation and comfort , forming , in fact , a palace , with appendages far in advance of the palaces yet erected for sovereigns , either in ancient or modern times . The arrangements will constitute an aggregate of

      buildings , including colleges , and public apartments for superior instruction and amusements , that will accommodate the entire population of three thousand with every desirable private minor arrangement for each adult ; and accommodate them while single , and after their marriage , more fully to enjoy , when requisite , the individuality of tkeir nature , or nhen desired , their social nature , [ than it is practicable to attain these advantages under any existing arrangements in any country , governed as all are under the laws , institutions , and arrangements emanating from man ' s laws . Law 25 . " As these increase , they shall be faderatWely united , for local and more general purposes , in tens , hundreds , thousands , &c , until they may extend over the whole of Europe , from north to south ; , and from east to west , without , since the discovery of the electro-magnetic telegraph , the least inconvenience on account ef distance . "

      Reasons for this Law . It is the interest of each one of the human race that there should be but one interest , one language , one general code of laws , and one system of administering them . These unions offer the most natural , easy , and speedy mode of effecting , these great and always to be desired results . The federative . connexion of these townships by tens for more limited local objects , by fifties or hundreds for more enlarged operations , and by thousands for the most extended interests , to ensure peace and goodwill through every district and clime , will be effected without difficulty ; for it will be discovered that the highest and more permanent interest of each one over the world will be tha

      most effectually secured by these townships and federation of townships without limit , until the population of the globe shall be cordially united as members of one family , all actively engaged in promoting the happiness of each other . These townships , thus separated and united , will form palaces , surrounded with gardens , pleasure grounds , and highly cultivated estates , on each side of all the railways which will traverse every country in the most convenient directions for all general purposes . ¦ ^ ' —

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      TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC . Sib . —You have been elected by the voice of the nation to preside over the destinies of a people who have made a revolution , not for the temporary benefit of particular classes or parties , but lor the permanent advantage of the entire population . Of necessity , you are surrounded by men of mere class and party , who will endeavour to induce vou to adopt measures in accordance with their ^ rTnTlTPFriT OF

      limited and erroneous views of the present state oi the public mind of Europe . You will act wisely by disregarding all limited views having reference to partial interests . None such can now permanently succeed anywhere , hut less in France , where Hie minds of too many are wide awake to the gross ignorance and injustice , not to say murderous cruelty , of the existing most injurious system b y which the vorld has been so' long irrationally governed .

      There is but one mode by which , in the new state of the public mind of the world , you can govern well and wisely , secure permanent prosperity to France and insure a name to yourself , far exceeding the popular feeling so strongly expressed in favour of your late extraordinary relative . The world demands peace , wealth , knowledge , unity , charity , and goodness . The means everywhere super-abound to attain and secure these blessings , not for a few , but for all ; and those means may now be easily applied for universal practice .

      Have you men around you , or can you call those around you , who can and will combine the means to produce these results ? If you can , your election to the presidency of France will be the greatest gain the world has yet known : if you cannot , you must soon give place for other changes , and for change to succeed change , until those results shall be secured for society . Difficult as this task may appear to minds steeped in error and involved in mysteries which no one comprehends , the principles and practices of the

      change are almost simplicity itself . The principles arc contained in an accurate knowledge of human nature , and the practices in comprehending the means , and how to apply them , to create the best character for each individual that his natural or created organization will admit ; which practices can be attained solely by gradually , peaceably , and wisely superseding all the existing vicious and inferior external circumstances that surround all , by those circumstances only which are good and superior , and always in accordance with human nature , and with all nature .

      This change , thus shortly expressed , may now peaceably , economically , and most advantageously lor every one in all lands , be introduced without disturbing , prematurely , the existing governments , or interfering with the private interests or station of any individual ; but on the contrary , during [ the whole change , society , erroneous as it is in all its parts , may be far better protected than it now is , or can be , under the false system in which the whole world is involved and thrown into

      conflict and confusion . Under this change of system , constant , beneficial , and pleasant employment may be easily found for all ; while the chango may also be made to insure a valuable and superior varied character for all ; to unite all ; to create charity and affection in all for all ; to make wealth superabound everywhere , and to be enjoyed without contest , jealousy , or rivalry ; and gradually to make this earth to become the paradise , for the creation of which the materials are now everywhere so abundant .

      The time for falsehood , deception , and superstition has passed ; but those around you do not yet know how to adopt true principles , and to appl y them scientifically or correctly to practice . Or , if they do , they are not so placed as openly to declare it to you with the fulness and faithfulness which is now required . If you have the power of wind to comprehend society in its whole extent , to forese ? coming events , and to prepare wisely for them , then there is a glorious future for you—France , Europe , and the world . It is , therefore , now to be proved if you are the man required for this extraordinary crisis in the progress of humanity . If you arc , you will discover that there Is but one course for you and your ministers to pursue .

      And that is , at once , openly and frankly , to proclaim to France and to Europe , that , disregarding all the old prejudices of society , you will adopt the only measures which can insure beneficial permanent employment to all , —well educate all , — enable all to well govern themselves locally , and effect these results peaceably , through a well foreseen tauuition state of governing , in which , gradually , an entire change in every department of life shall be made , from the present inferior external circumstances , to those only which are superior . This transition state will be found to be more easy of execution now than to continue the present system under any form that has been , or that can be devised ; for the entire system is worn out , and cannot be resuscitated to satisf y the population of any country .

      Declare to Europe that your desire is to introduce this transition slate immediately into France , and that you recommend all governments to adopt similar measures , and you and they will be supported by the best portion of the population of Europe ;—for they are tired and disgusted wilh this useless , endless contest bfetween aristocracy and democracy , having discovered that botli are utterly unequal to good government ; both being ignorant how to create a good and useful character for the human race , or to produce abundantly a superfluity of superior wealth for all , or how to supersede the present universal vicious and inferior external circumstances by those only which are good and superior .

      Should you and your ministers desire more m \\ and detailed information how this transition government is to be commenced and successfully maintained , until the glorious change shall be accomplished with the knowledge and . approbation of all in every country , it shall be given as freely as this letter has been , by The friend of humanity , Robert Owen . 55 , Jermyn-street , Jan . 20 , 1849 . London ,

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      The demands upon our columns prevent us giving more than the following extracts from Mr . Oastler ' s Twelfth Letter . TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND . Fellow-Coxjntrymen , —Should I have succeeded in removing the notions that our two great industrial occupations—agriculture an * 3 manufacture—have different interests : that either of them can prosper upon the ruin cf the other ; or that protection—regulation—is not necessary for the prosperity of both , I haye not laboured in vain . If trttth now rules tfee minds where error latel y triumphed , I am thankful . # # #

      In my review of the probable effects ( on the manufacturers of English merinos ) by the adoption of <• Free selling as well as free buying , or Free Trade fully and fairly carried out , " I assumed that the first alternative was aceepted—viz ? ' To yield the palm to the' cheapest' producers . " I did not , however , think it probable that onr British manufacturers would so quietly succumb . 1 imagine that the spirit of rivalry will induce the majority , at whatever loss or sacrifice , to " drive the competition to its utmost limits , until those manufacturers who can exist on the lowest possible wages and profits , haying destroyed the property and the value of the labour of ' their rivals , gain the prize . "

      I am to assume that the contest tor pre-eminence has begun , between the owners of £ 5 , 000 , 000 of British capital , backed by 80 , 000 British operatives , and the owners of £ 3 , 000 , 000 of foreign capital , backed by 50 , 000 foreign operatives . The ea ? e / usive privilege of supplying the whole world trith " cheap" merinos is the prize for which they strive . —The desideratum so long desired is now obtained — " A dear stage and bo favonr . ' " Free selling » 9 well as free buying / ' I am to suppose , is tbe universal code ! The foreigners , in starting , have a clear twenty per cent , in their favour . The British , in surmounting that difficult y , must suffer great priva . tions .

      Lower wages will be the first means adopted . The miseries entailed on that effort need not be described . ' Distrust and jealousy between employ ere and employed , with 80 , 000 operatives and their dependants reduced from the enjoyment oi eomfort to bare necessaries , form no trifle in the estimate of social life ' . An increased demand willbe sought for . British merinos , at whatever' loss , will be pushed into forei gn markets . This" extension of supply mu > t necessarily lower the prices . That reduction , the

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      manufacturers roust meet by diminished cost in production . Our rivals would continue to inundate the British nurket;—to drive them out , our stocks would be " almost thrown away , to keep the connexion . " It is objected— " our high prices would debar us from their markets as well as from our own ?" Then , our manufacturers would not have crossed the lists—now , they have entered the ring , contend they must—win , if they can ! Competition urges its votaries to try unthoughtof expedients . Frauds , schemes known only to those well versed in manufacturing mysteries , reduced wages , lighter expenses ( implying longer and heavier toil for all engaged ) , enable the manufacturer to produce an article at a lower price . * * * manufacturer 7 inust meet by diminished cost in PrO nt Ct Swn ,, U , nnHnnfltrtinn ^ . ,, Rr ^

      Merinos are thus " cheapened ' everywhere . Ladies are decorated with low-priced dresses ; but the makers thereof have bare backs , empty stomachs , weary limbs , aching heads , and broken hearts 1 The owner ? , of the capital as well as the operatives , necessarily suffer great loss , and undergo many privations—the natural consequence of that " cheapness" in ladies' dresses . Fellow-Countrymen , weigh in the scale of reason that gain against that loss . Tell me , is the deterioration in the value of that capital , in the social and moral condition , the mode of living , the personal and domestic habits of that mass of human

      beings , compensated tor by the fact that ladies ' merino dresses are " cheaper ? " Say , are the agonising tortures suffered by that mass of your neighbours , while " coining down" from their just position of comfort amoag you , atoned for , because some ladies are decorated at a " cheaper " rate ? Ask yourselves , is the rent made in our social edifice , by transforming 80 , 000 friends to foes , healed by the gain made in the merino dresses of our wives and daughters ? Is it wise , or safe , or politic to make the State ' s defenders into the State ' s assailers—to gain a trifle in the dress of ladies ?

      Victory be yours , brave fellow-countrymen : Prove that your endurance of privation is as great in the murky mill as in the field of gore ! Prove that you ply the shuttle with a 3 deadly aim as the musket or the sword ! Ay , prove your valour in the workshop , as in your wooden walls ! And—what then ? What laurels have you gained ? You have secured an extensive but a profitless market for " cheap" merinos ! Is it urged— " You overlook the grand result . The strife being ended—competition hating done its work—the market is our own—wages and profits must rise ? " Is it so ? Then have the men who

      raged against monopoly been instrumental in its establishment ! Will" the Leaguers" assent ? Briefly to the close . The remnant of the £ 3 , 000 , 000 , and of the 50 , 000 operatives now dep rived of employment , will necessarily sdd to the force of competition raging vita intense keaness in other branches of industry : say cotton , silk , flax , wool , brass , lead , iron , &c . Thus the pressure and misery in these fields of labour will be increased by etill further reduction of wages and profits , making it matter little who wins the prize ! The winner Trill be in worse plight than were the combatants ere the strife began . True , the produce of industry and skill will be universally " cheapened "—in other words , the skilful and industrious will have been plundered and robbed , and " cheapness" itself will be mockery !

      My Countrymen , weig h well the charges of that war , and say . ' ls " cheapness" worth the price inflicted ? Reason , Common Sense , Humanity , Justice , Religion answer—No ! I remain , Fellow-Couotrymen , The friend of commercial concord , Richard Oastlbr . Fulham , Middlesex .

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      The Ska Serpent again !—Extract of a letter from an officer on board her Majesty ' s ship Plumper , dated at sea , January 1 , 181 t » , to his relative in Bath : — " Yesterday morning I was at the mast head , looking out for the squadron , when what should I sco but a long black thing in the water . I hastened on deck and told the captain . He looked at it and found it was the great sea serpent . He iinincclintclr culled the officers aft to see it . It came close to us , " holding its head about fifteen to twenty feet a little out of water . It had a kind of mane on its back , and a white breast—a very ugly looking beast , very much resembling the pieture in tho nitutmted ' lMndon News , only the head was sharper . Two artists hare taken sketches of it , and I will bring ono with me when I eomo home . I dare say you will tliink this all a hoax , but wait with patience , and you will sec an account of it in the papers . —Kane's Jiat / i Journal .

      ^¦^¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦M^Mhbhihmahha ^Ai.-Iforngn Intelligence.

      ^¦^¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦ M ^ MHBHIHMaHHa ^ ai .-iforngn intelligence .

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      DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS IN GERMANY . GREAT tOSS OF LIFE AND ™ PMlW . ViENNA—Th e ice on the Danube and the Danube canal inconsequence of the sudden thaw , uegan to loosenlring the nig ht of the 15 th , and so com plely blocked up the Danube canal that the 3 ¦ ruined from thesides over the banks , and laid S suburbs of . Leopoldstad t completely under llr Towards one o ' clock many of th . streets

      near the Danube were seven feet under water , and the basementistories , shops , stables and cellars were completely flooded . Several craft floating down the Danube vere shattered to pieces against the massei of ice , and at the chain bridge the blocks of ice were piled up almost as high as the bridge itself . Several lives have been lost . One of the pillars of the large bridge . on the Danube has been carried away , and inured four pillars of the railway

      The Wiener Zeitung of the 18 th gives a detailed account of this event , and states that on the nig ht of the 16 th tbe water providentially began to sink , and hopes are enterUined that it will pass off without causing much more damage . In many houses in the suburbs the water reaches the firsc story , and whole families have been plunged into ruin . In the neighbourhood betw « en Vienna and Presburg the ice also shows indications of a rise .

      Bavaria . —Dates from Nuremburg , to January \ 5 th , state that in consequence- of the sudden tha' * the Pegnitz rose , at midnight , to the greatest height within the memory of man . Many lives , it is sayl , are lost , and the damage sustained by the warehouses lying along the banks must be very great .

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      ABWSPAPBB 8 IN THE FAR WeST .-Wc have heard hat there is one published in tl e far west sassss

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      ^ „ , „ -- „ CSrr / L T * JlNUARY 27 , 1849 . THE NORTHERN STAR * flBBjgjgBE N ^ g ^^^^^^ _ f _^ - ^ ^^^^^^^^^^ M

      Ox Physical Disqualifications, Generative Incapacity, And Impediments To Maithiaue. Twenty-Fifth Cditiou, Illustrated With Twenty-Six Anatonii. Eal ' Engravings On Steel, Enlarged To 1!)G P«Gcs, Pric&Lt; 'Is. (Id; By Post, Direct From The Establishment, Gh. Cd., In Postage Stamps.

      OX PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS , GENERATIVE INCAPACITY , AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MAItHIAUE . Twenty-fifth cditiou , illustrated with Twenty-Six Anatonii . eal Engravings on Steel , enlarged to 1 !) G p « gcs , pric < ' Is . ( id ; by post , direct from the Establishment , gh . Cd ., in postage stamps .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 27, 1849, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1507/page/2/