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    • CURBS FOR THE UiNCUUED! TT O L L O W A Y'S OIN T MENT. ¦*• * An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula, or King's Km'l ¦
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      Extract of a letter from Mr . J . II . Allirfay , 209 , High-street ' . Cheltenham , dated January 22 nd , 1850 . but , — -My eldest son , when uliuut three yenrs of age , was aillicted with a glandular swelling in the neck , which alter a snort time broke out into an ulcer . An eminent medi-? imi ™ ?!' "" unce ( 1 u »» » very bad case uf&erufula . a ? seiw . erbeJful'il consille > ' « ble time , without effect . The vrSi n / 01 > ? !' s weiltl " > Brailuwlly iiuu-easiiij ? in formed h ' nlr , 10 !! ? i fles tlle « ' «** '" - the neck , another besTdeLol V 10 left Itnce ' a '" 1 » aM under the eye , tho e ?« whi " . ° theV 3 ontllfileft ilnn-witl 1 » "'» ° « ' '»»' wmu

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      HN THE PREVENTION , CURE , AND yJ General character of SYPiUJ . US , STRICTURES Affections of the PROSTRATE GLAND , VENEREAL and SCORBUTIC ERUPTIONS of the 1-wu and body , Mercurial excitement , itc , followed by a mild ; successful and expeditious mode of treatment . Thirty-first edition , Illustrated by Twenty-Six Anatomical Engravings on Steel . Now and improved Edition , enlarged to IDS pages , just published , prict 2 s . 6 d j or by post , direct from the bstaOlislmient , 3 s . fid . in uostnae siainps . " THE srr-BST FRIEND , " a Medical Work on Venereal and Syphilitic Diseases , Secondary Spmptoms , Gimorrbtea . '

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      MuitDint of a < Jmu > bv its Faiiim . - On tho vili „ f % ' ? - lfl 1 , occim ' ene « look place in tho village of lushingbam , ncarMalmw , in Chcehiio . A man named Taylor , who lives in tlmtpliee , Killed one of Ins children , a hov about seven years ot age , by striking himon the ' hend with an axe . it is supposed that the wretched man is labouring imdov insanit y . . .

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      „ tiVE FBiSKLWS APPEAL TO THE

      BT W . M . 0 L 45 D BOUKXE . ( From aa American paper . ) here , my l ° £ ' ? **? tIlon 0 nfid Arctic seas and wintry skies ? Polar night is on me now , $# h hnDC lone wrecked , but mocks my cries T fte thea ! from frozen plains 1 fi . arear zone and sunless air , J drin& lonely heart complains , io 3 ch als " * ^ OXT and des P "« * 11 me \ e Northern winds ! that sweep ' njS ftom therayless duskyday-Xre ve have borne , and where ye keep , Xh well beloved within your sway ; i , when next ye wildly bear flieicY message n your breath , nfrnv beloved ! Oh , teUme where v Ye keep him on the shores of death .

      Tcllmc . y eroIai ; u 'ls ! ibatr ° U - , Frora ice-bonnd shore to sunny islevAl me when next ye leave the Pole , Where ve have chained my lord the while On the bleak Xorthern cliff I wait ffith tear-pained eyes to see ye come ! Will ve not tell me , ere too late ? Or will ye mock while I am dumb ? Tell me , oh tell me , mountain waves ! Whence have ye leaped and sprung to day ? TIave ve passed o ' er their sleeping graves That yernsh wildly on your way ? Will ve ' sweep on and bear me too Down to the caves within the deep ? Oh , bring some token to my view Thatye my loved one safe will keep ! Catfstthou nottcU me , Polar Star !

      • Where in the frozen waste he kneels ? And on the icy p lains afar Ilis love to God and me reveals ? Wilt tliou not send one brighter ray To mv lone heart and aching eye ? Wilt thoa not turn my night to day , And wake my spirit ere I die ? Tell me , oh dreary Xorth ! for now My soul is like thine Arctic zone ; Beneath the darkened skies I bow Or ride the stormy sea alone ! Toll me of my beloved ! for I Know not a ray my lord without ! Oil , tell me , that I may not die A sorrower on the sea of doubt !

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      THE DEMOCRATIC EEVIE ^ OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN POLITICS , HISTORY AND LITERATURE . Edited ty 6-. Juiiax Habxet . June , London : J . Watson , 3 , Queen ' s Head Passage , Patercoster-row . Tee is No . 1 of the second volume of the Democratic Review . The articles are fewer lrat more elaborate than usual . The editor has devoted ten pages to a review of the " Conspiracy in France against Universal Suffrage , ' * and the " Tactics and Programme of

      the Counter-Revolutionists . " The admirable defence of " Democracy , " by Helen Macfarlane , in reply to Thomas Carlyle , is Lrought io a conclusion . " Two Years of a Revolu-Bon , " continued from the number for May , is followed by an article on one of Mazzini ' s recent works : " The Pope in the Nineteenth Century . "An address to the Democrats of Great Britain and Ireland , " concludes the contents of this number . We give the following extracts , taken from the first s third , and Siih articles .

      THE FREXCH -iXD THEIR OPPRESSORS . The French are not necessarily bound to follow ilieir oU mode of warfare . Moxtaiembert has proclaimed war aspiinst the people , and has avowed jathe holds art mains of warfare justifiable . As champion of the Jesuits he acts up to the doctrine of that confederacy—that * the end sanctifies the means . " So be it . That doctrine is as good for the people aa their enemies . If the rich will ntieapt to subject the poor to slavery by means of ire and sword , it will be the right and duty of the poor to combat the rich with the torch and the Djnurd . Months ago I predicted that in the next

      jreat straggle , the people would avoid , as far as wsiiWe , rill conflict with the military instruments ef die propertied classes , and wonld , instead , comfoi an-J strike down tbe directors and employers of those unhappy instruments ; events seem fast ksiening to the fulfilment of niy prediction . I said at the commencement of this letter , that the Istneh people lia « l to clioose between slavery , and salvation through a sanguinary revolution . If the ] a : cr alternative is forced upon them they wiliaccepr it , rather than submit to be deprived of r . U the ra ; : s acquired by themselves and their fathers in the struggles of the last sixty years . Reflecting

      The Mood that has flowed , and that yet has to now , It m ; ikes tbe heart ache ; and it makes one ' s veins ran are , remembering that this wholesale Mood-?; . illLn « , ua . l immense amount of human miswy , bare been the results of tho eternal conspiracy of ib ? privileged and propertied classes to keep the zafl'inns in " political and soeial slavery . tee " fathess of the cncRcn , " democratic SOCIALISTS . _ If the " Fathers of the Church" were to rise from the dead , they would be found in our ranisthey would be Democrats , Demagogues , Socialists , C <')!! iimurists , Jacobins , Enemies of Order , of soelety , and of you . St . Ambrose says , in express ienu ? , tliat " property is a usurpation . " St . Gresorv iLe Great regards landed proprietors as so

      nsny assassits : " Let them know tJtat the carUi , from ruich they were created , is the common proprtn of all r . un ; and that , therefore , the fruits of djeeanli belone indiscriminately to All . Those * ho make private property of the g ift of God , preiiiii iu vai-i to be innocent ! For , in thus retaining ic subsistence of the poor , they are the murderers of ihose who die every day fdr want of it . " What a incendiary vagabond is this " Venerable Fa-: b ? r ¦ " St . Johnfcalled from his eloquence Chry-& ; ionjus , cr Goldenmouth , says : ' * Beheld the : > i-i we ought to have concerning rich and avaricious men . They are robbers who beset high-¦ sriT ? , strip travellers , and then koard up the property of others , in the bouses which are k : r dens . " St . Augastiae says on tbe

      suby-it of inheritance : " Beware of making pareiitrJ « u >* c-tion a pretext for the augmentation of jour posses-ions—1 keep my wealth for my chil-? . ask ? , " Who is a robber ? It is he who a- 'prwiiiitts to himself the things which belong to 1

      A- ! Arrthounotarobbei- . tliouwhotakestforthyself io goods tiiou hast received from God for the purpose ' of distributing them to others ? If he who sioais a garment be calicd a robber , ought not the possessor of garmeats , who refrains from clothing t ' aeBakeJ , to be called bytlic same name ? Tiie bread thou hast stored belongs to him who is hunjPT ' xhe jraixoent thou keenest in reserve belongs iia who is nakeil ; the sandals thou hast lying by Wongs to him who goe 3 barefoot ; and the money pon hast hoarded—as if buried in the earth—bei 5 Ms to him who has none . " Louis Blanc is a very

      ttase ami moderate person , I think , compared with tae Cociiauaists I have just quoted . IIow comes it that yoa Mi-di&mt preachers of the gospel of Christ , afcver take these or similar extracts from tbe " Fa-Jtersof tls tlhristian church , " as texts for your aoailiej : I have frequently heard you quote from '¦ t' Aa , 'u-: { nS on prideninaiion and grace , but you preserve a mysterious silence regarding St . Augus-^ - "¦' . pKix ' rt'i . It is because you neither teach the van > t ! ai ) idea * nor do you live iu it ; because you are a of { lithble impostors . You do not even malce « i > A / eiv ,, Ofthoscprecept 3 of Fraternity taught ? . tbe Nazireau , and said hy Mm to contain the frae spirit of uh religion . You wisely keep silence Oa sneli points , else—out of your own Ijing mouths ~ - * ould you be convicted .

      T THE EOCRCEOIS-LlBEPaLS . f « what a ridiculous position have the bourgeoisie j't . - 'iseoatitry lately placed themselves ! In that f- ^ K-ry " C'jsifercnce" held last month by tbe ¦^¦ itti of the middle class reformers , the selfish , ' ---riaji nature of the middle class movement came Jit : a Shu- ; ,,,, colours . These " free trade and big *• ' sentry hare been shamefully beaten on every f ^ aretht-yi . Hve introduced into the " Hospital ; f . li-eiiwllvs , " this session—yet they will < lo anylf " wlitr than coalesce with the proletariansg ^ ime ^ nevo-usly wronged the working «« : of '•^ - ¦ . ¦ d , tlinj-jTi tJic't fear Universal Siumtge . JIv i-wehria : ! brothers , we have had too severe lessors ** - . ' me hyjmcritical nature of bourgeois friendship , /<*• , i ' : « Ucforrn Bill , and the Leajnie . Lot us tell

      c ! i ^ 5 ! al < ile e ' a 35 mon ^ ys . " if ! ' <>« want roasted tbe * " ' > U ? e ^ our oim ' ' ^ ° * ^ ^ ou * ° ^ lo- ^ " ^ rtfnso to be made catspaws of any ri » ! OW advantage . " AVithout the proleta-« ' " l <» back him , how can llr . Cobden get up the W t i S ' ' >" oa" he promised us ? " Superior ^ fteeimy this evening ¦!"—only , the fireworks leaT Iir 'Mol ; theoming !! Let us stand aloof , and e trie middle class leaders to their own resources > £ ¦ ^ hile . I have heard that " Manchester men " rainons nand 3 at a bargain . Messrs . Cobden bright wiil need all their commercial ability «* they are o ^ ged „ they wiU lie at no distant

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      time , tooome to terms with the leaders of the des pised and trampledron proletarians

      t -, ^ ,- ^ MPBPinsix . , < K edb yius . feeWng 8 to seek the applause and affection of themasses , butforced by the all-powertul logic of the principle he represents towards an absolute dictatorshi p ; seduced by the intellectual movement of his time , the example ot other countries , the spirit of the age ; listening to the holy words— "Progress , " the "People , " "Fraternity , " Freedom ;"—but incapable of interpreting these words himself , uncertain as to what might follow , and fearing that the people ; after haviug become cognisant of their rights , would next question the Papal authority—Pius , IX . turned from the path which had been opened for him . * He spoke words of emancipation—he promised the independence of

      Italy , which he could not , and would not realisewhich his ministers , in concert with Austria , betrayed the next day ; and then , panic-stricken , he fled from the presence of that people who called aloud to him— " Take courage ! " He placed himself under the protection of a bloodthirsty monarch whom he despised , and adopted the maxims of that despot . To be revenged for the tranquillity which , despite all the provocations to a civil war , prevailed under the new government of Rome , he begged help from foreigners ; and the Pope , who had once been so averse to "bloodshed , ' that he tried to recall the Roman troops from the Lombard camps , invoked the bayonets cf French , Austrian , Neapolitan , and Spanish soldiers to replace him on his throne ....

      : Louis XVI . of the Papacy ! He has destroyed it for ever , and the first cannon fired by his allies against the Vatican was the death signal of the Latin Church . • * * * The dualism of the middle ages is , henceforth , a symbol devoid of life and meaning ; the banners of the Guelfs and Ghibeliues are ensigns placed upon a tomb . Neither To >) c nor King—it is God and the people only who can open the way into the promised land .

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      The Freethinker ' s "Magazine . No . I . London : J . Watson , 3 , Queen's-liead Passage , Paternoster-row . We have here the first nrnnber of a new monthly " Review of Theology , Politics , and Literature . " As regards both quantity and quality , this is an excellent , twopenny-worth . From a well-written "Glance at the present state of Theology , " we give the following extracts : — TIIE MAT MEETIXCS .

      This article would be manifestly incomplete without a short survey of the materials for future campaigns , as developed at tiie annual meetings of the religious bodies during May . As usual , the whole month has been absorbed with them , and pretty hard work it must have beeii for some of the parties who seem to be principals at all the meetings . On tbe whole , they do not seem to have had this year the oneness or the concentration formerly to be observed . There seems to have reigned a despondency—an unspoken dread—among the promoters , of something that might ooze out that would damage the collections . In fact , at two of these meetings—one presided over by Lord Harrowby , the other by Fox Maule—amendments were

      proposed , which it was considered advisable to decline to receive ; the chairmen seemingly having no hesitation to play the tyrant even for the brief space of a day . The attempt to suppress free speech at a public meeting , owing to the efficiency of the fourth estate ( the press ) , has been bruited far and near , and doubtless heard with much grief by those friends of real religion who , being honest and sincere themselves , fancy their spiritual gnides are equally disinterested—and who cannot conceive that there is ought to be blinked in their respective systems . Amiable confidence ,, it is true , but we

      fear misplaced . As regards infidelity , so calicd , if the statements made at the meetings be true , and the parties ought to know , it is in a very flourishing condition , and seems , by its progress , to be an everlasting satire upon Christian efforts . Did their cause manifest the same steady advance , both as to numbers and intelligence , they would detect at ones the hand of God in it . As it is , they detect only tbe disinclination of their followers to have their hands dipped in their pockets so frequently . But it may he the threat is only u > ed as a sort of theological Frankenstein , by the instrumentality of which their benighted followers seem to cash up freely enough .

      That very astute body , the Society for the Conversion of the Jews , it appears , have collected this year over £ 28 , 000 ; and , like FalstafTs item of bread to a butt or two of sack , the resalt is twenty foreign converts—being only a cost of £ 1 , 400 each —which is dulv recoimised as the work of God . . * * * 3 S = * In fact , cash up is the-alpha and omega of all these meetings . To call them annual discussions is a f . irce . Tbey arc , more properly speakipg , annual benefits ; principal performers , Messrs . Pluniptre , Peto , and Cowan , who seem to be especially retained to do the starring work at each of the meetings—in fact , deduct the three and the meetings would be dumb . It would be a knotty point for Colonel Sibtborp to decide tbe following query How much , after printing 10 , 000 bibles , would there be left out of £ 2 S , 000 to be shared among the officials uf tbe Society for the Conversion of the Jews ? And those who glory in the economy observed in

      the production of this most holy and most necessary book must never lose sight of the fact tbat these religious societies hare done more to reduce to tiie starvation point the wages of printers , bookbinders , folders , and stitchers that . ill the individual competition of booksellers put together ; in fact , no grinding act ot oppression , intimidation , or chicaneay is too dirty to be by them performed — and all , forsooth , under the name of religion . For who , for the privilege of printing or binding Bibles , would mind existing on one meal a day , instead uf three ? Or who would mind seeing his children perish day by day for want of food and fresh air , so that he could but contribute to the spread of the Gospal at the antipodes , by the production and dissemination of cheap Bibles ? We can readily learn how many Bibles can be produced , but none can calculate how many fireless hearths accrue to the producers , or how many broken henrts they yearly cause .

      The meeting of the Church Missionary Society seems to have been — according to the religious thermometer , the receipts—a taking affair . It appears their subscriptions this year have exceeded £ 91 , 000 . But even in this society , which is comparatively a flourishing concern , it could not be disguished that there was a palpable falling off in some of the most prolific sources of revenuenamely , the regular subscriptions ; for tbe great total arose mainly from legacies , which , from the spirit of intelligence now abroad , is likely to prove in future years not so prolific as at present .

      One society which , to the friends of peace at least , must appearanomalous , have also had their meeting , with a live marquis in the chair . The Xaval and Military Bible Society , if the statistics be correct , have done their share in pushing the stnple article , the Bible , among the men of war . But really when we reflect on the morals of the military , they do not evidence that the efforts made are very effectual ; in fact , if the society does not make tbe soldiers show up their Bibles , as they do their bodies , to an inspector , at stated periods , it would not exercise our imagination over much to fancy they were in the habit of lighting their pipes with tlic ' leavcs instead of reading them . The total results of all the meetings , as far as Christianity is concerned , is anything but hopeful . In spite of two millions of Bibles and twenty millions of tracts , there is hardly one association clear of debt .

      In the face of such facts as twenty Jews converted at tbe expense of £ 23 , 000 , or , as in the case of the Christian Instruction Society , where 2 , 150 Christian propagandists visited 52 , 105 families with a result which , for fear of mistakes , we give in the words of the report read to the meeting , tbat "More than thirty individuals were believed to have become genuine converts to Christ , the greater part of whom had been united to the Christisn church . " This sentence to men of tbe world would speak volumes , but by the dearly beloved in the Lord , who with open mouth listened to the astounding result of thirty converts , with a staff of 2 , 000 and upwards of preachers , it was received as thankfully as those most interested in the system could wish .

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      The lieasoner . Edited hy J . Gr . Holyoake . Vol . IX . Part II . London : 3 , Queen's head Passage , Paternoster-row . — The Northampton , Herald of Freedom . >> o . I . The first of these periodicals contains its usual order of articles . We ohscrve nothing iu the part hefore us calling for comment . The second is anew- publication , " Edited by Young Working Mea of Northampton , '' appealing to the sympathies of the " Teetotal " public .

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      ; : ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION Among the latest additions to this well known and highly appreciated -establishment are a corps of S S ^ ? P ^ Vocalists , who charm the visitors with their meuntain melodies . The female singer possesses a moat powerful voice , Ind ^ ro-? hP fl ;^ af l c J laraoter luite enchanting . The airs are among the most popular of tfie Tyrolean air , arranged with great taste and beauty , in fSS&S" ^^ yof a-t in S ins ftaupn , there has lately been deposited some prints of great beauty and excellence ; those of ~ l *

      ticuiar note consist of engravings from E Landseer fnlwT " ; ,, f he fir ^ representa ' a mosfnob e looking dog , the favourite of the late Countess of Blessiugton , a present from the King of Naples . The second consist , of three white horses heads , full of life and fire ; they . are both engraved by Mr f \ A ^ \ Tm specimens bf art , and reflect highly the talent and taste exhibited by this gentleman . . '

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      THE BISHOP OF LONDON'S BILL . The following declaration , respecting the bill . recently introduced into the House of Lords , for the reference of cases of alleged heresy and false doc * SaJ % t B ^ ch of Bighopg ) winshowhow the Bishop of London ' s bdlis regarded by a most influ-Church - - ° the ClOrgy ° f the Establis ! ied ' The undersigned clergy and laity of the Church of England having observed with much alarm that a bill has been introduced into the House of Lords , giving the final decision in all cases of controversy . , 1 , . — — — " » v * VVIIVIVIW 4 to the nature of the

      as doctrine , of the Church of Lnglandonanypointofthe Christian faith to the Bench of Bishops-knowing also that this feelincr is shared by many othei-3 in all parts of thekingdomand at the same time being unwilling to cause unnecessary agitation in the church bv encourage the preparation of petitions to the legislature on the subject—think it desirable , in a less public way to call the attention of members of the'legislature to the matter , and to express to them what they know to be the feelings of a . large body of the clergy and laitj [ of our church respecting it ; and , among other objections to the proposed bill , they would observe , ,

      1 . That they are at a loss to discern any sufficient reason for such a change as that proposed iu the mode of deciding such controversies . 2 . That tho tribunal contemplated by the bill is open to the serious objection of being susceptible of misuse for party purposes ; and of being made an instrument for affixing private interpretations to the standards of the church ; and that its effect would be , that if , at any time , a bare majority of the bench were disposed to maintain their view on any point to be the doctrine required to be held in the Church of England , the minority holding a , ' different view ( however numerous and weighty ) , with the whole body of the clergy agreeing with them , would be placed in a position which would almost necessitate their separation from the church .

      3 . That it is essential to the due administration of justice in such controversies , —which regard , not the abstract question of what is truth , but what the standards of the Church of England require to be maintained , —that ( without excluding episcopal cooperation ) the adjudication of them should be entrusted to a court where there are men conversant with the duties of the office of judge , accustomed to weigh evidence with impartiality , and recognising the necessity of distinguishing between the claims of what appears to themas individuals to be truth :

      , , and the requisitions of a tolerant church , —qualities winch cannot reasonably be expected to be the distinguishing characteristics of the clergy . 4 . That the bill in- question would Introduce the serious evil of making the doctrine of the church entirely dependent upon the variable interpretation which might be given to its standards by a majority of the bishops , whose decision upon any point would for the time be equivalent to an additional article of faith , though at any subsequent period reversible by a similar body .

      Here follow the signatures of 317 clergymen and twenty-five lay members of the church . The list of signatures includes the deans of Manchester , Salisbury , and Bristol .

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      THE LAXOATSIIIRE AND CHESHIRE MINERS . The county meeting of the Miners of these coun-S , ™^ on Monday last , at the Ram ' s Head , Radchff-bridge , near Bury ; James Price was unanimously called to the chair . The new code of rules urawn up by the committee appointed to revise the present rules at the close of the last Conference were read and agreed to unanimously . The new rules provides that each district shall support its own victims , with the exception of those who may be discharged from their employment for goin « on a journey or deputation , at the instance of the county board or district meeting . A levy of one penny per week was ordered to be brougjn to the next county meeting , for the purpose of detrajnig the expenses of the organisation connected with those counties . Petition Parliament for Government Inspectors of . Mines and Collieries , and an Eight Hours Bill for all miners , old and yonu « .

      After other business of a local " nature had been transacted , the meeting was adjourned to Mondav , June 10 th , to be held at tho Brown Cow , Shevin ' ' - ton , near "Wigan . ° iIixdlet . —a meeting of the Miners of this place was held on Wednesday evening , May 29 th , in the large room at the Lord Nelson Inn ; the room was crowded with attentive hearers . Mr . T . Gregson , one of the Miners' agents , having been called to the chair , the meeting was addressed bv D . Swallow

      at great length , on the advantages to be derived bv the Miners uniting together in the bonds of brotherly love . The Miners' petition was read and adopted , and the chairman was ordered to si ^ n it on behalf of the meeting . It waa agreed to form three lodges : one for Strangway ' s men , afc the Hand and Heart ; the other two for Blunder ' s and Aliburton ' s , at , the Amberswood Tavern . This meeting was the best that has been held in Hindlev for the last three years ; it was enthusiastic , and a good feeling pervaded all present .

      Meetings of Miners have also been held at Blackrod , Rose-bridge , Platt-bridge , and Martinmillbridgc . The above meetings were addressed'by II . Dennett and James Price . There seems to be every prospect of getting the Miners of the above districts organised again .

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      TnE Smithfieh ) Xuisasce . —• The fate of the Smithfield nuisance may be considered as sealed . Tho report of the commission appointed to inquire into the London markets is decisive on the subject ; and albeit the corporation members of that body-Sir J . Duke and Mr . Woods — have dissented and recorded a protest against the conclusion of the majority , that focus of feculancej and cruelty , and crime , must be looked upon as in the course of speedy extirpation . It is not wonderful , however , that the corporation of London should make a fight for the retention of the market in its present place , though the health and even the lives of the inhabitants of the metropolis are hourly perilled by the droves of infuriate cattle , goaded through the crowded streets of this city , and their sense of

      decency and propriety momentarily shocked by scenes of ruffianism and vice there enacted , seeing that the income derived from it is so large . The ' " clear gain" to the corporation is £ 5 , 000 a year ; and as corporations have no conscience , it is easily crediblethat the whole of the metropolitan population would be permitted to perish rather than thi 3 body should forego its gripe upon that large sum of money . The facts elicited in the report arc very curious as well as instructive . The value of live cattle disposed of in SmithScld market is about nine millions a year ; but it is a singular circumstance that there are fewer of the smaller animals—such as sheep , calves , and pigs—sold there now than there were at two periods

      of 120 and 150 years ago . Our forefathers , like their German ancestors , gave the preference to the smaller meat—men of the present day prefer the larger and full grown animal . For tho pound of beef that was eaten at those periods - according to the returns — there arc three pounds eaten alibis period . The increase of animals upon the whole , however , has been enormous — say quadruple — in that time ; but yet the size of the market has loon very little increased—in fact , it is scarcely double . Tho suffering , the misery , and the loss consequent upon this want of accommodation can scarcely he credited by persons unacquainted with the facts as rcsards Smithfield . —Observer .

      . School Districts gxdkr the Pcou-Laws . On the 21 th ult . an Act of Parliament ( 13 Yic , cap . 11 ) became operative to make better provision for this contributions of unions and parishes in school districts to the common funds of the respective districts . By a former statute provision was niiide for the management of schools for infant poor by the combination of unions and parishes into districts , and the expenses v . ero to be paid by such unions in the proportion of tho averages last declared , and by the parishes in proportion of I ' m average expenditure . It is now , however , provided that the poor law board shall cause an inquiry to be made as to the average annual expense incurred in the relief of the poor " for three years before the formation of a district . And to include all other

      expenses connected with the relief of the poor . Then the poor law board will declare the averages , and the several unions and parishes to contribute their proportion . The object of the act is to equalise tho contributions of the unions and parishes in school districts . The LADnEATEsmp . —Mr . Douglas Jerrold suggests that m the event of the determination of the place of the Laureate , the salary that would otherwise cease with it should endow the post ofkeeporship of Shakspeare ' s house at Stratford-upon-Avon .

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      TRIUMPH OF CO-OPERATION . - thflSf > AYRSHI ^ - -D « ring the course of hav b en fn ? T' *> " * number of associations S 3 ^ : 4 axBrKsa ^ "f ^^ lXSSSS l l " : lln S eacb - For some after its fdr

      .. years - Ks lm ! fc ? , ** > olely - cortfin «| -t 6 its mem-J "' : ??^^ to . tbe general been taket u " ^ ^ W ** haveall along St ShS - - ve t 0 show " > e encourage : Sed SSJi T has receiv < sd ' » i » nroner ' tJ ?„ ? 7 , * ? a 8 t baIanci ; was » l ™« *' «« e Khund !! " ^ kHw to it was valued at me ^ ben ^ f nd ^ " ^ P ° Und 9 strtlin 8 ' 3 d be „ " 1 lhat incfeased accommodation would . ue reqmred . a resolution was arfnnt ^ iaVt

      he society Mr . , AltiXi 1 nder ) of Ba ] , ochm ta 0 ^ If P k ? f t 0 > Very & <™ rously granted a few / on reasonable terms , and in a favourable situation , near vhe centre of the village . The'building operation ' s were accordingl y proceeded with , and a handsome and , commodious two storey house soon sprang up . Mr W . r ? O 0 US d ° tailS l refleCts « reat C 1 > ed ' fc on „ ' S of A S -, ' u arflhitect " On Wednesday , lnTh . r S Vnl - - Mw ' »»» Mar was opened , - and fJninih y eVemng > the 25 th M " , a supper was given in the capacious Hall , forming the upper flat of the new bui ding . Deputations had been invited

      mi if It . P ° "' ° f SaUC ° alS a " Baitl ) ' the C 0 <« - S ! i ! , v \? lhat such cxistfld in a" ) ' of nfX J- ? ' * ' Thoma ^ M'Millan , president ^ SnS ^ Sir ?! ^ - ^*" '' MnMn ? ? . i ??• ? ffici 8 W as crou P ' About one h »» - dred and thirty sat down to . a most substantial repast . After the company had done ample justice to the good things of this life , Mr . Andrew M'ijroi ne , in the absence of the secretary , read letters from he societies of Newtnilns ; Darvel , and Ayr , congral tiilatoryof the happy circumstances in which this society was placed ; regretting that it was inconvenient to send deputations ; and Ayr and Darvel

      gave some account of the state . of their societies ' affairs , which seem to he in a very healthy and prosperous condition . After the statistical report of the Mauchline society had been read , ' and other preliminaries disposed of , Mr . M'Lellan . rrora Prestwick , rose , and inan able speech , addressed the meeting . He showed the complete dependence of this and every civilised country on labour and the working man ; that too little had hitherto been done for bis social amelioration ; and the advantages to be derived from co-operation lii " general * and concluded , amid loud applause , by proposing 1 Success to the Mauchline Economical Society . 'TheCroupierreplied invery neat and humourous

      terms , more especiall y referring to the necessity there was for proper government , and an efficient manager . He then paid a merited compliment to Mr . Bruce Taylor , the much esteemed salesman , for his indefatigable exertions in furthering the objects of the society , ' and afterwards proposed , 'Success to all similar associations . ' —Mr . Petrie , asi representing the oldest society of Hie kind in Ayrshireit having been established upwards of half a century ago—responded , and in a chaste and agreeable address , described the rise arid progress of ( his ) the Kilwinning Victualling Society . He was followed hy the delegates from Galston , Troun , Ste « artfon ( Kilwinning ( baking ) , Ochiltree , and Auchinleck , who ail gave flattering accounts of the state of their

      various associations . Mr . Bryan , from Preston , proposed ' Civil and Reli gious Liberty . ' Vari (! U 3 other toasts were proposed and cordially responded to . The evening was much enlivened by the able ' services of the Mauchline Glee Baud , and a number of volunteer vocal sts .

      ' The night dravo onivi' sangs ami clatter , T ; u some wee short hour ay ont the twal , " When tbe meeting broke up , all seemingly highly pleased with the evening ' s entertainments . Such ' results , as those mentioned above , should rouse some of those towns and villages who havo not as yet formed associations for an economical supply of provisions , as . every sound-thinking individual must be aware that immense advantages will accrue from she formation and proper management of such societies . [ Circumstanvfis it would be useless to enumerate have prevented the earlier publication o this report . ]

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      « s ^*~_ TnE TE 5 MIOURS BILL . Oldiiam . —A numerous and respectable delegate meeting of factory workers , was held at tho house of Mr . Petcr M'Donald , the Coach and Horses , in Oldhnin , on Sunday , June 2 nd , 1850 , representing upwards of forty of the most respectable firms in tho Borough of Oldham . Several ablo and talented speeches were delivered , and tho following resolutions were unanimously passed : — " That , after a scries of years of ' agitation ' and petitioning , tho parliament passed an officiant Ton

      Hours Bill , to the general satisfaction of the factory people : that after two years of satisfactory experience of its beneficial effects , where it had been fairly tried , wo arc disgusted to see some persons endeavouring to have the Bill abrogated , in order that we and our children should again be handed over to the tender mercies of some of the evil disposed factory lords : to retvogade , under tbe demoralising influence of tho long hour system with all its painful trains of immorality to the * body as well as tho soul . "

      " That this meeting views , with sadness and contompt , the effected equivelant of half an" hour on Saturdays for tbe surrender of ' half an hour on each of the other five days in the week ; and this meeting protests against that and all other propositions to deduct something from tho labourer on Saturday as an excuse for extending the period of 1-tbour on other days . That this meeting , and the factory workers generally , are determined never to submit to any infringement of their long sought and earned Charter , John Fielding ' s Ten Hours Act ; atitl that they pledge themselves to resist , to the last , every proposition that docs not prcscrro untouched , the two limitations of ten hours per day and fifty-eight hours per week . "

      " That , in the event of members of parliament voting adverse to the people's will , wo pledge ourselves in future elections to support those who ploJge to vote for and support an efficient Ten iloura ljill . " " That it is the opinion of this meeting that it is the duty of the working people of this borough to support , by every means in their power , tho efforts now making by Lord John Manners , for the protecting and enforcing of John Fielding ' s Ten Hours Act ; and that they be requested to continue their efforts until that humane law be brought into full and complete operation in all parts of the manufacturing districts in Great Britain and Ireland . "

      " That this meeting returns its heartfelt thanks to Lord John Mannors , for the very able and spirited manner in which he has come to the rescue of the poor factory workers in tho manufacturing districts of Great Britain and Ireland , and pledge themselves to render him every assistance , morally and constitutionally , so long as he adheres strictly to the principles of John Fielding ' s Ton Hours Act . " " That petitions bo got up in accordance with tho above resolutions , and presented to both houses of parliament . " A ^ ote of thanks was given to tho Editor of tho Bell ' s Life and all other Editors that have supported our cause . William Maksuxd , Chairman .

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      ' -A ' Matter of Opinion . —a good wife tw « n , « . day , taking up a Manchester papor s ' aid" ^ S losing husband ,-That h i ** l $ i * S&& . £ marriages are putbolore tho births : : , Tl , o . QmrdiZ always has the . births . first , and I think that verv awkward . " The husband gave an opinion in favour of the Guardian , as he thought " people wore born before they were married . " The wife , however , persisted in the correctness of her view of the matter , and preferred the Manchester arrangement , as it was " a very ugly thing to havo a birth before marriage . " Thc ' deatlts , it would appear , ' were-each put in the right place , for they always came last . A Yankee Editor remarked in a polemical article , that though ho would not call his opponent a liar , he must say , that if the gentleman had intended'to state what was utterly falso , ho had been remarkably successful in his attempt . ¦

      ; 1 » The famous victory of tho 12 th of April a little bantam cock perchcdhimself on the poop of Rodney ' s ship , and , at every broadside that was poured into the Wile de Paris , clapped his wings and crowed . Rodney gave special orders that this cock should be taken care of as long as he rived ' . — Life of Rodney . John Adams , ox-President of tho United States , . being . . called upon for a contribution of . foreign missions , said- " I have nothing to give for such a S ^'^ JI ' » reh ° re / in this vicinitysix

      .. , ministers , neither of whom would preach in the other s pulpit : now , 1 will do as much and more than any one else to Christianiso thoso clergymen . " A Poetical Backwoodsman .-A passing traveller moots with a settler near a house , and inquires-Whose houso ? Mogg's . The Climate ? Fogs . Of what built ? ... Logs . Tour diet ? IIo ^ s . What s the soil ? Bogs . thorn ? .... DoKs . Random IIit . _« I hope you will bo ablo to suppoi t me , said a young lady ,, whilst walkinsr out one

      evening witnnei- intended , during a somewhat slippery state of tho side walks . "Why , yes , " said the somewhat hesitating swain , " with somo little assistance from your father . " There was some little confusion and a profound silence . There is one disease that a miser is pretty sure never to die of-aud that is , " enlargement of the heart . '' ; A . Bit o' ZoMERZETsniRE . —Ono morn , a many years ago , owld Joe was lukin' auver the bridge , a watchin tho vishes , when a gentleman from Lunnon comed by , 1 zay , -rather , zays tho stranger , what d ye caal this out here bruk ? Th' owld bwoy was a little bit dunch , and didn't yearn very plain . J ) zay . ? . says he . How d ' ye call this bruk ? zays tho strainger agen . Haw-caaZ un , zays owld Joe urn dwont caal um at ale um dwont : a allus coomes this woy wi'hout callin . Zo the cockney went off m a girt pet and towld un to gwo and hang ' s self

      . During the late sessions at N- , a man was brought up by a farmer , and accused of stealing some ducks . Tho farmer said he should know them anywhere , and went on to describe their peculiarity . ' Why ,- said the counsel . for tho prisoner ; " tliev cant he such a very rear breed—1 have some like them in my yard . " "That ' s very likely , sir , " said the farmer ; "these are not the only ducks of the sort I have had stolen lately . " .: Which is tho deepest , the longest , tho broadest , and the smallest grave in the Esther church-vard ? —That in which Miles Button lies buried ; * for it contains Miles below the sod , Miles in length , and Miles m breadth—and yet it is only a Button-hole . , . An ., actok iii a street puppet-shovr—a Punch and Judy—pointed out to the correspondent of the homing Chronicle the extreme lengths which the

      " lnntellect" is marching . " Some families where I performs will have it most sentimental—in the original style—them familes is generally sentimental themselves . Others is all for tho comic , and then I has to kick up all the games I can . To the sentimental'folk I am obliged to perform werry steady and werry slow , and leave out all comic words and business . They won ' t have no ghost , no coffin , and no devil ; and that ' s what I call spilling tho performance entirely . It ' s the march ofhintellect wots a doing all this ere—it is sir . " A poor widow woman was relating to a neighbour how fond her husband was of leaving a good fire ; how busy he would make himselfinfixin"itso as it would burn . "Ah , poor dear man , " she continued , " I hope . lie ' s gone to a placo where they keep good fires . "

      At Vienna , on tbe 16 th instant , General Bern ' s name was nailed to the gallows by the public executioner , and his property declared forfeited to the state . Tho sentence pronounced against him in contumaciam was death by haniring . A young lad y who was rebuked by her mother for Kissing her intended , justified herself by quoting the passage— " Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you do ye even so unto them . " A Norfolk farmer , not accustomed to literary composition or letter writing , having lost a new hat at a county meeting , and inquired into its possible mistaking , addressed the following grammatical note to its supposed possessor : — " Mr . A . presents compliments to Mr . B . I have got a hat which is not his . If he have got a hat which is not vours , no doubt they arc the missimr ono . " Bisnop's' Signatures . — The prelates of the Church of England are sometimes accustomed ,

      when signing their names , to use tho old Latin appellations or abrogations of them for their sees , instead of the English one . Thus , Ebor , stands for York ; Oantaui ; for Canterbury ; Vigorn , fer Worcester ; Ewn , Exeter . It is snid that an eminent bookseller once received an instruction per letter , of an author ' s intention to publish a life of Pitt . It was signed George Winton , and was thrownaside with tho most perfect indifference ; the publishers never thinking that George" Winton was George , Bishop of Winchester . When the Princess Charlotte was ill , tho Bishop of Salisbury sent frequent , written inquiries to her Scotch physician , signing himself John Sarum . The doctor , after the receipt of many similar missive ' s , observed to a friend that ho had been much postured with notes from " Ane Jean Saroom , that ho kenned nothing nboof , But , " added he " I talc nae notice of the fellow !"'

      A SHERIFF " DOXE BROWX . " There is a sheriff in Illinois , who was raytlier "taken in" in that region on ono occasion , and , " done for , " Ho had made it a prominent part of his duty to ferret out and punish pedlars for travelling through tho Stato without a license ; but one morning ho " met his match : " a " ginooine" Yankee pedlar . " What have you got to sell—anything ? " asked tho sheriff , . " Yaes , sartain ; what'd ye like to hev ? Got razors , fust-vato ; that ' s an article , squire , that you want , tew , I should say , by the looks o' your ba ' ird . Got good blackin ; t'H make them old cowhide hoots o' your ' n shine so't you can shave into 'em

      Balm o' Kltimby , tew , only a dollar a bottle ; good for the ha ' r , and ' assisting poor human natur , ' as-tho poet says . " The sheriff bought a bottle of the " Balm of Columbia , " and in reply to tho question whether he wanted " anything else ? " that functionary said ho did ; he wanted to see the Yankee ' s license for peddling in Illinois , that being his duty , as high . sheriff of the State ! The pedlar showed him a document , " fixed up , good , in black and white , " which the officer pronounced "All correct ; " and handing it back to the pedlar , ho . added , " I don't know , now that 1 ' vo bought this stuff , that I care anything about it . I reckon I . may as well sell it toyouag'in . What'llyou give for it ?"

      • "Oh ! I don't know as the darn'd stuff ' s auy use to me , but seoin' it ' s ijeon , sheriff , I'll aivo yeou about thirty-seven and a half cents for it , " quietly responded tho trader . The sheriff handed over the bottle and received the change , when the pedlar said , " I say , yeou guess I ' ve a question to ask yeou now . Ilev yeou got a pedlar ' s license about your trowsers ? . " -No ; "I hav'tanyuse for the articles myself , " said the sheriff . " llaint , ch ? Well , I guess we'll see about that pooty darn'd soon . Ef I understand the law , neon-, it ' s a clear case that yeou ' vo been tradin' with mo —hawkin' and pedlin , Balm o' Klumby on tho highway—and I shall inform on yeou ; I'll bo darn'd ef I don't !"

      Reaching the town , tho Yankee was as good as his word , and tho high sheriff was fined for peddling without a license . He was heard afterwards to say , "You might as well try to hold a greased eel as a live Yankee ?" An American Letter op Recommendation . —A lady in the north , on dispensing with the service of a faithful servant girl , gave " her tho following letter of recommendation : — ' Madam Sukv iWv lived with me won yer an leven months " cookiii bakin and is a huceful kind of body slie is wcrv onost and I never know her to be mliekcran she has no sweet arts . ' ^

      Mankind , says tho New York Whin , may be divided into three- distinct classes—first superlatively honest men—second , confirmed scoundrols , il , 7 . » . ' no mon ilfc ! llL To which the Philadelpiu Times adds the following witty hit : First person—Wo are . Second person—Yu or you are Third person—They ( the women ) are CoNTitovKiMAi , Divines . —Some- controvorters in divinity live like swaggerers in a tavern that catch that which stands next them , tho candlestick , or pots ; turn everything into a weapon : ofttimes they fight blindfold , and both beat tho air . The one milks a ho goat , tho other holds under a , sieve . Their arguments are as fluxivo as liquor split upon a table , which with your finger you may drain as you will . Such controversies , ordisputntions ( carried with more labour than profit ) aro odious ; where most times the truth is lost in the midst ,. or left untouched , and tho fruit of their . fight is , . that they spit ono ¦ upon another , aud arc'both defiled . Those fencers in religion I like not . —iJen Johnton

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      Remarkable Diminution of Pauperism . —In the week eliding the -IStb ult ., we have the pleasure of stating , there was a reduction in the daily average number of pauper inmates of the Birmingham workhouse , as compared with the corresponding period of last year , of 401 ; of children iu the asylum a diminution of ninety ; and of tramps admitted to the workhouse a reduction of 300 , making « a total reduction in the number of in-door poor of 797 ; and a similar comparison with respect to the outdoor paupers shows a diminution of 4 , o 2 b ; so that there were actually 5 , 323 fewer paupers receiving relief during the week in question than at the same period of last year .

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      Literature and TnE Police Court . —Tho grand daughter of the well-known author of " Elements of Navigation , " John llobcrtson , Esq ., has applied for relief at tho Lambeth Police Court . Sho is described as " an aged and enfeebled female of ladylike manners . " Mr . ltobertson was librarian to the Royal Society when ho died . Ilis daughter , the mother of the present applicant , married'the son of a clergyman , who left her with a young family totally unprovided for . An unsuccessful effort was made to procure a pension from the Admiralty . Testimonials were received from Admirals Sir B . Codrinnton , Sir C . Malcolm , Sir T . B . Martin , aud other distinguished officers , expressive of the deepht smnpatlnj with the distressing situation of tho grand ( laughters of so distinguished a man , " ono who , by his writings , had conferred such benefits on the i ! . ; vn ! professions . " Mr . Elliott gave her £ 5 ' out of

      the poor-box . The loiter from Admiral Beaufort said that no man in England over did so much for the improvement of seamen' as the celebrated John Robertson . liis book was the first work that placed practical navi gation on the basis of science ; " it taught the saiior io understand the empirical processes iie was employing , and it has remained to tins day the text-book from which all succeeding treatises have more or less borrowed their materials . " And all that those distinguished officers could afford to give , was , "tho hearty sympathy of , yours very truly , itc . ! AHAXnOSMliXT OF THE MARQUESAS ISLANDS BY THE Fiikncii . —In a California paper it is stated , on the authority of Captain Boyd , of tho Wanderer yatch ( from Cowea ) , who . had arrived at San Francisco trom the Sandwich - Islands , that the French entirely evacuated the Marquesas Islands in the month of December last , leaving bohind them no force ot any kind ) uor even an agent ,- •

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      ^ ' m- _ THE NORTHERlf STAR

      Curbs For The Uincuued! Tt O L L O W A Y'S Oin T Ment. ¦*• * An Extraordinary Cure Of Scrofula, Or King's Km'l ¦

      CURBS FOR THE UiNCUUED ! TT O L L O W A Y'S OIN T MENT . ¦*• * An Extraordinary Cure of Scrofula , or King ' s Km'l ¦

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), June 8, 1850, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1577/page/3/