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HOLD OX HOLD OS , IN THE "WORLD'S * "DESPITE . ° ( From th e _Vxlritye Spirit of Freedom . ) Sever despair—oh ! my brother ii sorrow Shall the _vano _^ _mshed to-day , he the victors tomorrow , n _^ _« _S tars _»! line 0 D ' when the tyrant * ssun ' s set . uoldon-though men spur thee for whom thou ' rt living Alife only cheered by the lamp of its love ; _^ _We toy ai l , and the great soul shall lose not for _. _, g 1 ™ * _? , Green _spote mid life ' s waste , wait thy worn spirit-dove . Hold on , hold on—in the worlds despite , ¦ Nurse the feith in thy heart , kee p t h e lam p of Go d _bright _. And my life for thine it shall , end in the ri ght .
what though the army of the martyrs haTe peri s hed , The angel of life rolls the stone from their graves—Still live the lore and the freedom they cherished , And their trumpet-cry stirs the grey hearts of slaves . They are gone—yet their presencehathleft in our life A gl ory , like God ' s kiss on clouds at even , Gone down on the desolate seas of their Strife , To climb as star-beacons np liberty ' s heaven . Hold on , still hold on—in the world ' s despite , Surse the faith in thy heart , keep the lamp of God bright , And my life for yours , _itsliiUendmtharight .
Think of the wrongs that have ground ns for ages , — Think of the wrong 3 we have still to endure , — 'Think of our blood-red on history ' s pages , Then work that our reckoning be speedy and sure . Slaves—cry to God—but be our God revealed In our h ea rts , in our lives , in our wafare for man , And bearing—or borne upon—victory ' s shield , Let ns fight till we fait in the proud battle ' s van . Hold on , still hold on— in the worlds despite , "Nurse the faith in thy heart , keep the lamp of God bri g ht , _-ynd my life for yours , it shall end in the ri ght . _JlASSET .
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The Colchicum Remed y for Epidemic Cholera . By Joseph Bell . _2-TewcastIe-upon-Tvne : G . Green , 99 , Side . "Wi thout pretending to that medical knowledge and experience which might enable ns to pronounce a decided opinion on the worth of Mr . Bell ' s remedy for Cholera , we consider it dne to the public safety to give oar assistance in calling attention to the said remedy . More than twelve months ago Mr . Bell communicated his views to the Medical Times , bnt , excep ting in a few-instances , the profession
gave no countenance to his suggestions . "Not _dismayed , Mr . Bell proceeded to reduce hi 3 theory to practice , and with the happiest results . Between October 1848 , and October 1 8 19 , he sold , gave away , and dispensed np-¦ wards of Forty Thousand doses to persons suffering from decided Cholera , or Diarrhoea , and other active symptoms of Cholera . The -effect of the medicine in restoring health 13 described hy those who have tried it as
perfectl y satisfactory . * ' Some , apparentl y in the throes of death in the evening , have heen at fheir emp loyment in the morning . " Dr . _Hesbeesox , member ofthe "Royal College of _Surgeons of London and Edinburgh , and late of the _KoyalNavy , for many years past settled -at Gateshead , has followed the treatment laid down in this pamphlet , with great success . He certifies that in more than two hundred -cases—many of them—very severe—he had "but six deaths . If e extract the Mowing
BBPJ . T TO OBJECTIONS TO THE _CSE OP COLCHICCM . To this treatment of cholera it has been objected that colchicum itself produces some of the symp toms of cholera , viz .: that it sometimes causes vomiting , and that it causes a bowel complaint , that is purges , and that likewise it is a debilitating medicine . Now , granting that it does all these things ( which it does not , ) they are not conclusive arguments against its use . " if colchicum was uniformally emetic , tbat is no objection to its use in Asiatic cholera , for emetics of the most active character are very frequently used , fiz ., tartar emetic , e pecachuanha , ana mustard . But usually when c ol c hi c um i s g iven for this disease it acts quite the reverse of causing vomiting , n _verv manv instances having inst a n t l y put an end
to vomiting of the most violent character , and even when the first doses- have been thrown off the stomach , by perseveringly repeating it , nltimately with very few exceptions , it has silenced the _vorait-Ido-, and most rapidly after that removed the other -Symptoms , -which can be said of no other medicine ever given for cholera . About fourteen days ago ei ght powders were vomited , the ninth stop p ed , and instantly violent spasmodic action was removed . Colchicum having purgative qualities , i n the practice of the Faculty , is no objection to its use , else why is calomel in scruple doses , in which quantit y it is an active purgative commended by Searle ? And that most drastic , purgative , and debilitating _4 _ruw , Croton oil , has been administered and commended by the "Faculty for cholera .
Then the objections , that because colchicum may _occasionally excite vomiting , that it acts as a _purgative , and that it is a debilitating medicine ( ac--cordirig to the practice ofthe profession ) on these considerations , fall one and all to the ground . But there is no analogy except ofthe most superficial character , betwixt tbe effects of emetics and pur « atives and the effects of this Asiatic disease . Emetics cause ifcfc contents of the stomach to be ejected , and increase its natural secretions , but they do net cause a new substance to issue out of thc circulating mass into the _stamach and eject it . _Purgatives increase the liquid secretions of the
alimentary canal , but they do not create new secretions . "Whereas in cholera , the n a tural secretions are nearlv altogether suspended , and a new body , by some undiscovered process , perhaps by infiltration through the tissue ofthe substance ofthe intestines , is poured out ofthe blood into the alimentary canal , a body composed of the saline contents ofthe blood and a portion of the albumen , but chiefly _composed of its serous portion . _. Bnt as a purgative , colchicum , when given in this _disease , d oe s not invari a bly a ct , but the rev e rs e ; for I have , after astringents have heen given in vain ( and in some instances before any astringents have been administered , the ejectments being the with dose of
rice water liquor , ) sometimes a single col c hi cu m com b ined with c lomel , put a stop to tne pursing , aperient medicine being afterwards requisite ~ to « et the calomel out of the bowels . Jmd _^ raniino- that colchicum does debilitate , it is . Questionable that it debilitates so __ much "l arge do _* es of Biercurv , and certain that it docs not debilitate s o mu c h a _' s Croton oil , a most drastic purgative and the amount of debility arising from its influence is not to be mentioned with that arising -from the rice water stool , or from _thei violent spasmodic action of Asiatic cholera ; and the debility _arisin" from colchicum isnot even to be named with Sat arising from the rapid _sahvationmany surgeons -imt . their ivatients nnder in cholera . ' i
Thus the only ob ections that , as tar as _. uw _, can be _nr-ed against the use oi colchicum in this _Sieving removed , next let us estimate its adaptation for the curmg of it . ,,,,.. , Cholera it is said , in Good ' s Study of _Medtcme , is a aWe mainly characterised by a total absence of _biteirom the whole range of the alimentary canal , _% _3 tb » _orally Ud in great abundancem the _Ul _bladdw . Br- _Elliotson observes in cholera there i s no w a nt of bile , but none gets into the inte l « Iit bus oftenbeen observed , that on the _snbsi-^ _h _^ sss _^
_jaartta re > _rc _« _« _" _"Xrinnnfthe "all ducts , for witnont « F- _^ _""^^ tfae such an obstruction we _™»™ y estimating elusion ofbue from the _**» _£ _, _% _& disease the curative _^^^ L _^ _SkoA the restoration indicating _« _^ _JM Jj _^ transmission into _tnffiSSffMJi _stUl to be the mam _'wri r t _*** _oSStr & . colchicum , without d _**? Se _* _S _^^ dicine of the asserted to be the most powerful Se coUeges for _acknowledged list of medicines by the couege * £ aeTT _£ _fS _m th od o f a dministering _Col-^? Sffih ia _«* _Rowing _* re 5 Cnp - tioos : — su sp ension oft he 10 _> _SWt f thSve _? no bite flowh / into the allfunctions of ihe _Sg _^^ _k _& the gal l duct _^ _^ _* , in causnTcop _ious bilious _evacuain the duodenum , causm _y _^ . _^ h tions . In _^ _"LSTno _™™ bcinS se tC _^ is
_^ kidneys arc » _£££ * ' _& Asiatic cholera there _Colchieum . i _^ miettc . _" _* _^ authonty 0 f _fTvSSJ I sav _colchW is the most powerful _^ _fofSd _irritabiUty .
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On these grounds then , I said this remedy goes direct to . the disease , and on these grounds it was stated to be simple and rational . But having fi x e d on colchicum a s the s h ee tan c hor for the cure of cholera , next I had to determine how it should be used , how assisted , with what combined ; then for these _purposes , to suit the . various * _"BP ™ yn * ch this disease makes its invasion , calomel , rhubarb , cassia , astringents , oxide of bismuth , were mixed , few or more , with it , and prep a re d chalk was added to neutralise the acrid bile , poured in profuse quantity into the intestines ; diluents and cold water being freely drank , and as external auxiliaries , mu s t a rd poultice s , hot fl a nn e ls and bricks
, and linim e nt s a nd sul phur freely rubbed on the p a rts cr a mp ed , were used . The Griping and Spasm Powder . —Take of powdered colchicum root 6 grains , ditto calomel 3 grains , ditto rhubarb 4 grains , ditto p o w dere d chalk 40 grains , d itto torment i l root 6 grains , mixed . The Indigestion Powder . —Sulphate of quinine 1 grain , powdered rhubarb 4 grains , ditto cassia 6 grains , prepared ch a lk 30 grains , powdered colchi cum root 5 grains , oxide of bismuth 6 grains . The Looseness Powder . —Powdered tormentil 25 grains , ditt o _catecu 30 grains , ditto galls . 5 grains , ditto cassia C grains , prepared chalk 30 grains , powdered colchicum root 6 grains , ditto rhubarb 4 grains mixed .
Su pp l e m en tal to t h e above , to silence the incessant vomit ing , the following was used : clapping a hot mustard poultice on the stomach as long as it could be borne . Powdered tormentil Toot 30 _grauw , ditto colchicum root , 5 grains , mixed and repeat it as often as vomited in cold water . An Astringent Powder . —Take of powdered tormentil 20 grains , ditto catecu SO grams , ditto galls 4 grain s , ditto cassia 6 grains , mixed . Table of Proportional Quantities suited for Different Ages . — For a n ad ult a whol e p owder ; un de r one year l-12 th ; two years 1-Sth ; three years 145 th ; four years }; seven years I ; fourteen years i ; twenty years I ; above twenty-one a full dose ; above sixty-five the inverse gradation of the above .
Should everything be vomited , I would suggest to be g iven at intervals five grains of calomel and five g r ams of powdered c o l c h ic um root , placing them on the tongue , and washing them down with a mouthful of water . This combination I have given with the desired effect . Calomel , we know , has a sedative effect on the stomach . These powders , before they reach the duodenum , fin which they act on the liver , ) wonld be from one to two hours under ordinary circumst a n c es , bnt a s eve r yt h ing fl ows in thi s disease rapidl y on , perhaps a much shorter period will be required unless there is no purging , but
simply spasms of the bowels . So on this account , from a few minutes to two hours may elapse before the medicine displays its power fully . Sometimes there is neither vomiting , purging , nor spasm ; indeed , violent spasmodic action is a favour a ble s i gn , most recoveries taking place when they are violent . For this type a stimulant of a peculiar kind is wanted . The frame is paralised by the intensity ofthe cause of this disease , I woul d , therefore , suggest strychnia in such cases ( which is chiefly used in paralysis ) combined with colchicum . In the state of collapse it has been advantageously given .
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add—BISECTIONS FOB USING THE POWDER . 1 . —The powders first to be made the proper strength to snit the age , for which see the table of proportional doses . 2 . —For Looseness . —Give a looseness powder every three hours , mixe d i n co ld water , and if vomited , repeat it immediately ; drink mutton or beef tea with boiled rice in it frequently , and cold water when thirsty , a nd keep from solid a nim a l foo d for a few days . Looseness , i n som e cas e s , requires a little variation ofthe treatment . The following is that which has usually succeeded when the powder ordered has failed : —on taking a few doses ofthe looseness powder , and the looseness still continuing , take a griping ; powder according to the directions , and after that take the astringent powder as directed . 3 . —This Looseness Powder is only proper when there i 3 trifling pain of the bowels .
4 . —For spasms of the stomach and bowels , griping , vomiting , and purging , with coldness of the body . Give a griping and spasm powder , ( and if vomited , repeat it immediately until it stops in the stomach , ) and apply a mustard , or mustard and bran poultice to the stomach and bowels , according to the severity of the symptoms , using much or little mustard ; apply hot bricks to the feet , and hot fl a nnels to the legs , then gi ve copious draughts ol lean mntton , or b e e f tea , and cold water if thirsty , to he drunk as freely as agreeable . 5 . —If there is no passage through the bowels in two hours , be careful to secure an easy passage by giving magnesia or castor oil . Until the bite which this medicine is given to excite the flow of , is out ofthe bowels , griping and uneasiness will remain , —castor oil expels it , —magnesia neutralises and expels it .
6 . — "When the severe symptoms subside , if there is much we a kness , put a teaspoonful of good sp irit in a little of the beef or mutton tea , and give it every half hour . 7 . —If there is any soreness of the bowels , rub them with the liniment made of equal _yixti of turpentine , hartshorn , and opodeldoc , and then apply a warm bran poultice ; and if there is much soreness ofthe bowels , apply a f ew leeches a nd then a bran poultice . Note . —Always take care to purge the griping powders off , to get the calomel out of the bowels , which will only be necessary if no easy passage takes place in two or three hours . 8 . —For indigestion , lo s s o f a pp e tite , lo a thing of foo d , rumbling ofthe bowels , and disorder ofthe
head , give an indigestion powder once or twice a day in a little cold water . Should sickness or grip ing a r is e a fter taking this indi gestion powder take a little magnesia . 9 . —The calomel and colchicum , o r col c hicum an d tormentil , to be given to c h ec k t h e incessant vomiting when everything is rejected ; taking care to apply a mustard poultice to the stomach and bowels , afterwards , if necessary , working off the calomel with a dose of magnesia or castor oil . The Astringent Powder is to be taken in a little cold w a ter ev e ry three or four h o ur s , i f a loosene s s continues after taking the looseness or looseness and griping powders , if there is no soreness of the bowels . 10 . —Be careful en recovery to take _strengthening medicine for a while .
For information on other important points we most refer tlie reader to the pamp hlet itself , which _cevtaraly demands the most serious consideration of the public in general , and the Faculty in particular . Mr . Bell's mode of warfare against Cholera may be not according to medical orthodoxy , but , it at any rate appears to have heen efficacious in hundredsperhaps , thousands—of cases . Of tbat there appears to he good evidence , and " Facts are chields tbat winna ding , An' canna be refuted . "
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Tite Operatices' Free Press . Conducted by Working Men . Cambridge : J . Nichols , Fitzroy-sqnare . London : J . "Watson , Que e n _' s-head Passage . We expressed our approval of _JJbs , I . aud II . of this periodical ; No . III . is still more worth y of our commendation . Both thc matter , and the manner of the "writers , would do credit to any publication . The first article is devoted to an exposure ofthe humbug of " Our Glorious Constitution , " and a well reasoned defence of Manhood Sufirage . The continuation of an essay on "The Lahour Question , " contains some striking contrasts of monarchial extravagence and proletarian misery . The other articles are well worthy perusal .
The following , though not the best-written specimen , we extract because its brevity enables us to give the letter entire ; the reflections of the writer possess a si gnificance which "Parliamentary Reformers" would do well to ponder on .
SOCIAL REFOIiM . To the Conductors _ofUie " O . F . P . " The discussion of political topics forms the stockin-trade of many political writers and controversial ists , who leave out of their calculation the measures necessary to benefit the masses . You may advocate universal suffrage as a remedy—hut unless you impress on the people their - duties to themselves , and on representa _' . ives their duty to the peop'e , we shall ever be in the same position . There are few in Par liament who advocate the principle of universal suffrage , who will protect labour by legislative enactments . If I am rightly informed , the President of the Financial aud Parliamentary Association is opposed to all interference between capital and labour . I need not say that Cobden , Bright , Hume , and
others arc ofthe same class , what will it bent-fit me . as a poor man , to support any of th _* 3 class in preference to a man like Lord Ashley ? He is a Conservative , but votes for industrial reform—Hume , _Walmsley , and other Liberals , refuse to legislate for labour- Which . is the most useful to the -working classes ? I know they opposed the Factory Bill , the Bakers' Bill , the Silkweavers' Bill , tho Stockingers " BUI j an of which were for thc reform of abuses as grievous as any that exist . The bakers may toil day and night , through Sunday and week-day , from week to week , and year to y « r—the silk-weaver may have his wages reduced under any pretence—the _stockin- _'ers may be _robbed weekly , in various ways-r-and the miners perish in the mines by scores—but no redress can be _obtained from a _Libeytl Parliament ; and yet we _artfeSued upon to honour , and shout , and
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spend our earnings to keep it in power _^ o further o pp ress the we a k , and give additional streng th to the strong . Blindness to the errors of this dais is an evil . We want social reform , a nil men who will honestly profess their views on social questions ; men who will be bold enough to declare that the rights . privileges , and property of the working classes shall be protected against capital and capitalists . The leaders , too , among the working classes , ; seem blind to these important matters . 1 think more discussion should take p lace on _'industr-al questions , in o rder to fit the working man for hig her p ur p oses , and to insure proper advocates for the people . London . An _Innus-TRiiL Reformer .
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SUNSHINE AND SHADOW ; A TALE OP THE NINETEENTH CENTURY . BT THOMAS MARTI . V WHEELER , Lote Secretary to the National Charter Association and . National Land Company . _Chafikk XXXI . I sh a ll not struggle mor e Nor longer strive f or food , I ' ve lost all vital power And energy of blood . I sink apace , and feel The stillness ofthe grave , — To whom can I appeal , Or what is left to save ? Still I want bread , and bread I crave , Or scraps or dusty crumbs , Until my senses rave , Or madness numbs .
Oh Heaven I and thou art kind , To grant a soft release By waste of flesh and mind , — By gradual decrease . 'Not torn away in pride , Nor mow'd in fulness down , Not frenzied out to suicide , By intellect o ' erthrown . I sigh'd for bits of bread , Oft thrown unto the dogs ; And gnaw'd my gums until they bled , At victuals mask'd for hogs ; And fancied th a t this earth " Was barren to mine eye , Where beasts couldfatten from their birth , And man with hunger die .
"What pangs I felt when pain'd , My fir s t desire for foo d , A s if my stomac h d r a in 'd My arteries of blood I An d then I rave d a nd wept , And long 'd with starving glare , Unt i l e x h auste d n a ture s lept 'Midst banquets rich and rare . Why dread the angry cloud Of thunder , tempest , rain , " When there ' s an element as loud , That rages in our brain ? When dizzy ears no more Can hear the howling cry Of famish" d organs , i n t h eir roar For hopeless charity ?
By genius was I cursed , B y p a ss i on un d erm i ne d , Or was I in that cradle nursed , Which desecrates mankind ? No matter , "let me glance Above , below , arou n d , — O h ! where , save mimic countenance , Can charity he found 1 Nought left , but to desire Th at i n another life No mor e c a n hun ge r d ire Promote such vital strife ! __ I have no use ior stomach , jaws , Teeth , gums , or bowels—let it be , As here I fail'd in nature ' s laws , I need them not eternally ! Still I want bread , and bread Icrave , Or s cr aps or dusty crumbs , Until my senses rave , Or madness numbs . Sick bed , Manchester , Sth July , 1840
Return we to the house of desolation and mourning ; during th e time of Mar y ' s illness , Arthur was too much absorbed with grief to attend to any domestic cares ; he had fallen into a state Of torpid apathy , more fearful to contemplate than his previous moroseness . By the doctor ' s a gency a nurs e h a d he e n provide d , and all arrangements completed for the child's funeral , and it was not until the corpse was about being home from the house that he showed any si gns of be in g consci o us o f t h c lo s s that had befallen him ; then Nature awoke-within him , and he exclaimed , " My beauteous boy ! thou too dead , " and sunk senseless on the _coffin-with difficulty the bearers conveyed him to his room . The pauper funeral then proceeded , and the body of the
prized and petted infant—the child of many hopeswas laid in " its mot h er e arth w it hout a si ng l e mourner to weep over its early f a te ; no father ' s te a r to wat e r its Jo w l y grave—no mother ' s sob to waft her prayer to Heaven and beg a welcome for her babe—yet does ho sleep as soundly in the pleasant churchyard of Brompton , and the grass grows as green over his quiet grave as though he w as b uried in all the panoply of grief , with the dark plumed hearse , an d th e hire d mourn e r s followin g in it s w a k e , making still more bitter by its solemn splendor the genuine _grief of those whose hearts really wept his fate . Oh ! the mockery of human ceremonies , tho hired ostentatious action of grief ! Can they recall thede a d to life ? can they assuage a single pang of those whose
hearts bleed in secret ? Yet do they so cling to humanity that the poor victims to their delusions will spend their last shilling—endanger their credit , ay and rob the survivors of their daily breadrather than the bitter mockery should be withheld , an d the i r p ride gratified at the expense of their real comf o rts ; b ut su c h t h ought s found no echo in the bosoms of Arthur or Mary Morton ; she , the disconsolate mother , grieved in silence as onl y a mother can grieve , that she was denied the privilege of seeing the last duties performed to her loit child , and her sick bed was indeed a bed of weariness ; and Arthur—he who should have been to her a shield and acon s ol a tionin this , their day ofmutual tribulationhe was a frantic madman , ravins continually of past
joys , embittering the sorrow of the present hour , by insane reminiscences of by-gone hopes . Slowly did his mind recover its former tone—the unceasing attentions of his sick wife alone prevented his falling a victim to insanity , au d to wh a t a world o f misery did he awaken . With the recovery of Mary , the benevolence of the doctor towards them ceased , a nd h u n ger onc e a gain stare d them in the f ac e , yea , took actual possession of their bodies , Mary ' s illness caused her to l ose her employment , and deprived of her scanty earnings , charity was thoir only resource . Reader , hast thou ever known the pangs of hunger ? hast thou ever heard thy infant cry f or f ood , and turned away thy face in hopeless agony ? Being in all probability one . of Arthur ' s class
in life , thou h ast d ou b tles sly experienced want and privation , or thou hast been more fortunate than the majority of thy brethren . But if thou hast not , in tho literal sense of tbe word , felt thc pangs of hunger , thou hast but little conception ol the despair that raged in Arthur ' s heart—his faculties were strung into a state of irantic excitement—bread must be had if he perished in obtaining it—he rushed from the scene of hopeless desolation that his home presented , through courts and alleys , wretched and filth y , where the 3 un never shone in its sple n d our to c h eer thc mi s ery that dwelt there ; he wended his way until ho gained the open _thoroughfare , when he paused not knowine where to bend his steps . It was a cold evening in the month
of December , the rain came drizzling down , and the north east wind swept in triumph through the almost empty street . The rich and the respectable were safely housed in their _^ nug domiciles—misery and want were alone _abrosJ—severaljwretcbes , poor as himself , hurried by him , striv i ng by an in c re ased pace to warm the blood that want caused to stagnate in their frames—it was artime when misery seemed to bo alone in tho streets—taking counsel with despair how to _avenge the wrongs tbat society committed upon it . Arthur heeded not the biting b last , nor the strange companions that flitted by him—ra"e had warmed the blood that despair had so Ion" chilled—he felt that he was treated as ono of the offal of humankind , and he longed Jo avenge
himself on those who scorned him ; onward he _passec until he came unto tbe usually crowded thoroughfare of Pall Mall . A gentleman was gaily conversing with a courtezan ; Arthur implored him for charity , and was answered with a jeer ; his blood boiled within him ( he rushed _on""liim as a wild beast on his prey , hurled him to t h e ground , and ere t h e astonished woman could g iv e an a larm he was gazing , with almost childish glee , upon a glittering heap of gold and silver that he had wrenched from the grasp of the man he had assailed ; with the instinctive cunning of crime , he evaded pursuit and reached his own abode in safety ; he paused at the door ; he could not face his own loved Mary and his innocent child without some plausible excuse for be in g po s se s sed of such , in reality , untold wealth ; he felt it would be deerading them to his own level
to make them conscious of his crime—reflection hail supplied the place of rngc—and though lie neither _regretted the act he had committed , nor dreaded its consequences , still he felt that he had sinned _against society , he could no longer look down with 6 Corn upon the depravity of his fellows ; ho had been sinned against , but he had returned evil for evil . While these thoughts were busy in his mind , bis eve glanced uneasily around , fell upon one of those _' haunts of vice * , glittering in sp lendour denominated Gin Palaces ; he speedily sought refuge from his _' conscience in this sanctuary , and drowning remembrance with repeated draughts of brandy , ( a luxury long untasted ) staggered home in a state of moody intoxication . Our "" he ro h a d now reali z ed the fact of crime and drunkenness—subjects which his imagination had often dwelt uneasily upon , but of whose dead sea _fronts he had never hitherto
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partaken ; ho had now made ' a fresh experience—he had become a link in that great cliaifi of outcast humanity which is continually clanking in our c a r s , and enfolding victim after victim in its iron bands . Crime under our present social arrangement seems in Some shape or other to be the inevitable inheritance of the whole family ; the rank of open criminals belongs to no distinct class of society , its recruits are mustered from every grade of mankind . Rich and poor , young and old , are alike its votaries , no distinction of sex is known ; beauty and intellect fall beneath its swav equally with deformity and ignorance ; still it is true that the majority come fr om t ha t cla ss who h a ve to endure th e most privations , and eniov the fewest pleasures ; nor can
tins be wondered at ; it would be strange and more appalling were it otherwise ; it would argue that m a n was natur a l l y depraved , that vile cant of the reh gonists , whereas wo can now trace the evil to its true s ource—theunequal distribution of wealthcue opulence of the rich acting as a powerful temptation to the poverty of tho poor—itis an effort of nature to restore a due balance amongst the y awed members of her gia nt bod y ; and though these eruptions and excrescences are loathsome and unsightly , an d the s a f e ty of s o ci e ty _dem a n t h eir removal , yet are they analogous to the blotches thrown outward by the human frame in its efforts _T ? J i _' body t 0 a statc of health and vigour . Ihis doctrine may be unfashionable , may irritate the prejudices of many : but wo believe it to be true ; it does not advocate the cause of crime ; it merely points out the source from whence it flows ;
it recognises the man even in the criminal , and points the finger of hope to the future ; it is from this feeling of sympathy with the man , but detestation of thc crime that springs that morbid curiosity for criminal literature and for the possession of relics of great offenders , we feel an interest in their fate . We long to know the steps by which they became lost to society , what t e mpt a t i ons , what p a ssions a n d necessitie s , have driven them to their fate , and we thrill with sympathy if the magnitude or nature of the temptation , touch a similar chord in our own bosoms ; for how many , who now maintain a fair character , must , if they dare penetrate into the recesses of their hearts , admit t h at it has been more owing to a concurrence of happy circumstances , than- to moral fortitude or rectitude of principle ? ( To bs continued . )
News And Reading Rooms In Connexion With...
NEWS AND READING ROOMS IN CONNEXION WITH THE PRINT WORKS OP MESSRS . THOMAS HOYLE AND SONS , MAYFIELD .
( From the Manchester Spectator . ) Long will it bo remembered and fondl y recor d ed upon tho tablets of many hearts of the workpeople of Mayfield , that on the 13 th of October , 1849 , for the especial use , advantage , and amusement of the employed , were opened the news and reading rooms , furnished with a well-chosen assortment of newspapers , and miscellaneous useful and instructive periodicals . At a great expense to tho firm , part of a very spacious dwelling-house , lat e l y occupied by one of the partners , has been , by their particular wish , converted into tiro beautifully decorated and com . modious rooms , replenished with matmificent mans .
and aU that is desired to make it convenient , attractive , and comfortable . To attend to these rooms , a person has been appointed by the hands themselves , who is to furnish them at cost price with hot coffee before six in the morning , or during the day ; and he has permission also to sell gingerbeer , to b acco , and cigars . The sm a ller , or smoking room , bes id es being use d for th a t pur po s e , is also intended for various kinds of amusements , so th a t such ofthe hands as are votaries ofthe scientific g a me of d raughts , or the more ancient game of chess , have now an opportunity of innocently amusing themselves until the retiring hour of ten o ' clock . The larger room ; which is an exceedingly spaciou 3 one , is exclusively appropriated to readimr .
except for one night per week , when it is specially opened for singing , and rational amusements . It is conveniently furnished with a number of rather cost ly yew-tree arm chairs , and a number of forms and ta b les , whereon are spread to tho eager gaze of the numerous readers , newspapers and periodicals , adapted to almost every variety of taste and opinion . Tho following is something like a list : —the Guardian , an d Examiner , and Times , on Wednesdays and Saturdays ; the S pectator and Courier , on Saturdays ; and one impression each of the Illustrated London News , Disp & tch , Douglas Jerrold ' s Newspaper , Bell ' s Life in London , Sunday Times , Lloyd ' s London Newspaper , Glasgow Herald , Dublin
Preeman ' s Journal , Liverpool Mercury , Derby Chronicle ; the Times , daily ; Punch , and two Northern Stars . Of the periodicals , two copies of Chambers ' Journal , two People ' s and Howitt ' s Journ a l , two Eliza Cook ' s Journal , two Lon d o n Journal , two Barker's People , two Family Herald 3 , two Temp erance R e po r ters , a nd one each of Hogg ' s Weekly Instructor , Sharp ' s London Magazine , Domestic Journal , Plain Speaker , Reynol ds ' s Miscellany , Potter ' s Examiner , Famil y E c onomi s t , Democratic Review , Ac ., On the superbly decorated walls of this room arc hung two valuable leviathan maps , one of the world , on M e rcator ' s projection . Tlie opening of this establishment is certainly a boon to the working man , and presents
opportunities for improvement whieh ought to be seized with avidity . The peoplo ' employed at these works can now make themselves acquainted with the events passing in the world . Every man may now be qualified to un d erst a n d them ; but th e more h e knows , the less hasty , the less violent , and the more correct will be his judgment and opinions . Miscellanies may prepare tlie way for the reception of stronger mental diet . There are persons who can sparehalfan hour for the reading of a newspaper , who are sometimes disinclined to open a book . Useful and entertaining periodicals may bo taken up and laid down , without requiring any considera b le effort , an d t e nd to a ttr a ct the min d t o h igher and more important subjects , and eventually lead to
a closer intimacy with , and appreciation of , hooks of deeper interest . An ancient sag e and Roman orator strongl y admonishes youth to acquire knowled ge , as a solace in age and adversity . "The stu d y of literature , " says he , " nou r ishes youth , e ntertains old a g e , adorns prosperity , solaces adversity , is delightful at home , and unobtrusive abroad . " Having long enjoyed the advantages of the " half-day holiday , " now that an afternoon ' s ramble across the green fields becomes less and loss inviting , what so welcome a privilege to the " tired labourer " as here offered him to increase his present store of knowledge ? After the toils of tho day a re ende d here , in a comfortable arm-chair , he may ta k e up a pa per to su i t his p ecu l i a r ta s te , thr o w him se l f into o b liv i ou s eas e , r e st his tire d l i m bs f or a while , and then say , with tho laureate-poet Rowe
—" Begone , my cares ; I give you to tho winds . " —[ The true liberality of the Me ' ssrs . Hoyl e c a nnot be too h ighly praised . We trust that the workmen will one and all give their leisure time to thc reading room , to the total abandonment of the public house . Wc presume the news-room is open only to the "hands" attached to Messrs . Iloy lc ' s print works ; b ut surel y other employers will , eve long , follow so noble an example . It would be well if the working m e n ge ner a lly would ap p ly to their employers to imitate thc Messrs . _lloylcs . Why not ? Let this suggestion be considered in every workshop and factory , and , if approved of , b e a cted u p on forthwith . Let us havo a politically-informed peoplo ; political and social reform will bo sure to follow . Again wc express our thanks to the Messrs . Hoyle . —Ed . N . S . ]
The New Mormon City. T H E Mormons Have ...
THE NEW MORMON CITY . T h e Mormons have built a n e w cit y on the banks o f t h e Gre a t S a lt L a ke i n Cal i forni a , a n d a letter dated July 17 th , published in the New York Herald , gives thc following description of it : — We are now , says the writer , in the Mormon city , located in a fine valley , 150 miles long , by twenty or thirty miles broad , with a gradual descent to " the lake , so much so that tho whole may be , and much is , watered by the streams and rivers which issue from th o h i gh mountains above them . They have now _a-bovA _% < m inhabitants . The city is laid out in large squares ; and every man can and must have l i acre s of land for garden us ewhich can bo
, readily irrigated . « Their gardens are looking finely , and give us a full supply of fresh vegetables , which , with fresh butter , & c , is very acceptable , after a tour of two months and a half on bread and bacon fare . The Mormons are a very regular , well informed , well disposed people . They are very kind to us , and are doing all in tlieir power to make us comfortable—repairing our waggons , Ac . They are building a fine state-house , or council-house as they term it . Their dwellings are small , mostly made of sun-dried brick , with some few ' log huts . In the course of a ride to-day , I took a most delightful bath in a pool of warm mineral water near the city plot . The' pool is from thirty to forty feet in di ameter , and gives a large and fresh supply of ter
w a . I attended church on Sunday . Th e meeting was one for public business a s w ell a s r e li gious services . The names of the emigrants who had arrived during the past week were read over ; notices of cattle lost and found , with their respective marks , and the particulars for their recovery , were attended to ; the programme of thc anniversary celebration of th e ir Society ' s arrival two years ago was proclaimed ; it will take place soon , and will be a great gala day . The set toasts for the occasion were also read—some of them being very caustic , and others causing gvcafclaughter , such as " Tho downfall of the U . S . government . " " Three groans for Martin Van Buv en , " for n _^ aiding th e m whe n Presi d ent , ic . It seemed to 5 » a regular business meeting , with strong allusions to " matters of godliness , " and thc Mormon faith iu particular .
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1 _* Families op LlTBRARr Mk . v . —A quarterly reviewer , in discussing an objection to the Copyright Bill ot Mr Sergeant Talfourd , which was taken by Sir Mward Sugden , gives some curious particulars ofthe progeny of literary men :- " We are not , " says the writer , " going to speculate about tbe f act , but a fact it is , that men distinguished for extraordinary intellectual power of any sort , rarely leave more than a very brief progeny behind thero . Men of genius have scarcely ever done so ; men of _TO- tT _*?? tlve genius ' miSht say . - _"tawst "over . With the one exception of tho noble Surrey , we cannot , at this moment , point out a representative in the male line , even so far down as the third generation of the English poet ; an d we believe the case is the same m France . Tho blood of beings of thnt order can seldom be traced far down , even in the
female line . With the exception of Surrey and Spenser , wo are not aware of any English author , of a t al l remote d a te , from whose body any living person claims to he descended . There is no real English poet prior to the middle of the eig ht ee nth century ; and we believe , no great author of any sort , except Clarendon and Shaftesbury , of whose blood we have any inheritance amonstus . Chaucer ' s only son d ie d chil d less ; Shaks p enre ' s line ex p ire d in his daughter ' s only daughter . None of the other dramatists of that ago left any progeny ; nor Raleigh , nor Bacon , nor Cowley , nor Butler . The grand-daughter of Milton was the last of his blood . Newton , Locke , Pope , Swift , Arbuthnot , Gibbon , Hume , Cowper , Gray , Walpole , Cavendish , ( and we might greatly extend tho list , ) never married . Neither Boling broke , nor Addison , nor Warburton , nor j Jolm s on , nor Burke , tran s mitte d their b loo d
A man , aged thirty , b lin d from his b i rth , was recentl y r e store d to si g ht by a n operat i on pe rforme d at the Liverpool Eye Infirmary . Portraits iw oil , of any siz e , a re now t a ken b y a ph otogr ap hic p rocess , in a sitting of half a minute . The process is called Photo-Prosopon . The French government has recentl y ordered that , in future , the white paint used in public buildings shall be made of tho white of zinc , which is not injurious to health , instead of white lead . A correspondent says , " Having seen in your paper that W » _Montes was the daughter of a Cork lad y , I be _» to ask whether that does not fully account for her lig ht char a ct e r V It is some hardship to be born into the world and find all nature ' s g ifts previously engrossed , and no place left for the new comer . —John Mil .
lira best cure for low spirits is business . Ono half of the melancholy that you run against is caused by indolence and feather hods . The best fun in the world is activity . Sib Fowbm Buxton ;— " The longer I live the more I am certain that the great difference between men , between the feeble and the powerful , the groat and the insignificant , is energy—invincible determination—a purpose once fixed , and then death or victory . That quality will do anything that can bo d one i n thi s wo r l d ; and no t a l e nts , no circumst a nc e s , no opportunities , will make a _two-legged creature a man without it . " It is p roposed to charter a vessel to sail round the world . The excur s ioni s t s to be a b se nt one year , and to pay fifty guineas for their passage . Russi
an _Navv . —The sailors are semi-soldiers for during the greater part of the year tbey aro on shore , and are quartered , drilled , and employed as military . The Russian sailor derides our naval costume , and considers the dress of our Jack tars to b o slovenl y and ununiform . Some Swedish ships of war are at present at Cronstadt , and the dress of the omcers is similar to ours , and I hear many a sarcastic remark on tlieir appearance . Imagine a Russian sailor in a tightly fitting and padded coatee , with an upri ght coll a r , straps on their pantaloon , and an Albert hat without its brim . Our Jack would , I r a ther t hi nk , havo the laugh on his side , either in a race to the main truck , or in boarding a vessel with this Muscovy tar . An Irishman received a challenge to fig ht a duel , but declined . On being asked the reason . " Och "
said Pat , " would you have me lave his mother an orphan V The Creation op Womas .-A poet in tho Keen Eepubhcan , celebrating the works of Dame Nature , has an idea which comes very near being _original , if it be not quite so ;—She next made woman—so the story goes—With an improved material and art ; G a ve her a form , the choicest one of thoso That make aught beautiful , and to her heart A power to soften man—and forced the rose Its blushing tint to her soft cheek impart-Then chopp'd the rainbow up , and with the chips She went to work , and finished off her lips ! "A miss is as good as a mile , "said a young lady . " Much better sometimes , " observed thc gentleman she was conversing with .
The Great cnASOE . —Ihe spell . is broken which bound men to reverence what is ancient and established , whether it merited their reverence or not . The spirit of the age ha . s change d , and nothing rem a in s th e s a me b ut the institut i on s a n d outw a r d form of society , which vainly expect permanence while all are shifting around them . A warfare has already begun between the past and the present , and every country contains within itself a party hostile to its establishments , whose number gain fresh accessions , and their opinions new wei ght , with every succeeding year , The revolution which has at present taken place in opinion will inevitably , though perhaps 3 lowly _, produce correspondent
alterations in the condition of society ; and when the minds of men are sufficiently prepared , a new social arrangement will take place , and fill tho world with ne w i n st i tutions , a- * different from those which now prevail in tho kingdoms of modern Europe , as the institutions of the latter difter from those of tho ancient republics of Greece and Rome . ... As tho ancient f orm of gov e rnment w a s f o un d e d on t h e gen o r a l not i on of a communit y , and the Gothic upon t he privi le ges a nn e xe d to differ e nt ranks , so a new and universal form of Civil institutions is arising , —founded , not upon the circumstances of any particular period of society , but upon tiie common nature of man , and thc general end of government . — Douglas of Cavers .
A Modest Editor .-Groat men must always be talk e d a bout , abused , lie d about , vilified , praised , hatred , slandered , and puffed . So ave wc [—Weekly Herald { New Yv _. k _. ) Cold Cream was invented by Galen , 2 , 000 years ago . To prepare it take half an ounce of white wax , half an ounce of spermacity , and three ounces of almond oil ; put these into a basin , which place into hot water till melted ; then gradually add t h ree ounces of cither ro s e wa ter , elder water , or orange flower water , stirring all the while with a fork or small whisk . Any perfume may be also put in ; but , medicinally , it is better without . When cold , it is St for use .
TnE Promised Land . —Tho great soul of tho world is just . Towards an eternal centre of ri g ht and nobleness , a n d of that only , is all this confusion t e n d ing Fight on , brave heart , and falter not , t h roug h bri ght fortune and through dark . The cause thou tig htest f or , so far as it is true , is sure of victory Though wide seas and roaring arulphslie before us , is it not something if a load-star in the eternal sky do once disclose itself ; an everlasting light , shining through all cloud-tempests and roaring billows , ever as we emerge from the trough of tlie sea—the blessed beacon towards which we steer incessantly for life ? There lies the heroic Promised Land ; under that Heaven ' s lig ht bl oo m the Happy Isle . —Thomas Carlyle . When you have lost money in the streets , every ono is ready to help you to look for it ; but when you have lost your character , every one lcavos you to recover it as you can . /•
Blue Sky , —It is a _proverb , not destitute of truth , that " If during a rainy morning there is scon a piece of blue sky large enough to make a Dutchman ' s b re e ches , the afternoon will probably be fine . " TnE Question of _Questoks . —Thc condition of the w o rk i ng classes is the great eni gma of tho age . It is the problem tbat must be solved at all events . It is possible to devise any scheme that shall regulate the relations of "the haves" and "the haves not , " other than that which leaves the instincts of commerce and the impulses of human nature—such as thoy have been from the year 1 to a . d . lSdS—to tlieir usual developement and moral action .
A _Classics . _Coloxw — An English colony is about to be established in Greece . An immense estate having been purchased for the purpose , the establishment will bo under very high auspices ; tho prospects of the land arc corn , cotton , and the finest tobacco . It is supposed that tho land will be sold on an average , vary ing from five to ten shillings per acre . Capitalists—clergy and gentry—have t a k en up thi s scheme vory e a ger ly from classic associations . Leigh Hunt ' s autobiography is now in the press and will bo published before Christmas . The ladies of Glasgow have presented more
than 1 , 000 volumes to the library ofthe Athenmum in that city . A man who was reprimanded by a divino for swearing , rep lied that ho did not see any harm in it . "No harm in it ! " said the minister ; " why , do y ou not k now t h e comm a ndm e nt , ' Swear not at all ?'" " I do not swear at all , " said the pian , " I only swear at those who annoy mo . " A celebrated wit made one of his happ iest jokes when he heard that Bishop , who had been sent to Portsmouth , preparatory to transportation for _lifo , had escaped . " 'Gad , sir , " said he , " he must have been an arch-Bishop to do that ; and yet his di s like to the sea is quite unaccountable . "
_Hawy England !—From a parliamentary return , just published , it appears thatthe total number of paupers relieved in England and Wales on tho 1 st of July , 1849 , was , in wor k h o uses , 97 , 123 ; out of doors , 763 , 206 . A llExnAM barber was bragg ing th a t ho coul d shavo anything — even "the face of Nature . ' " Faith , " said an Irish reaper , w ho chanco d to be in _tflte shop , " what of that ? I _sIvbto thc face of Nature oft enough , I do : —with a hook !"
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 10, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_10111849/page/3/
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