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J || iggfi Parr introduced to King Chwles I . —( See " Life and TimeB of Ihomas Pan-, " which may he had gratis of all Agents . ) The Blood . —To a person who has at a'J studied the organisation of the human system , the circulation of the blood will necessarily appear one of its most interesting and essential principles . When we reflect , for an instant , m the astonishing manner in which this crimson current snoots from the main spring of the heart ; when we eonnid « r it coursing rapidly through its various channels , and branching out mto a thousand different directions and complicated windings , for the nourishment of the framo . ; we cannot avoid being morcd by an involuntary thrill of astonishment : — v "And we exclaim , while we survey the plan , — How wonderful this principle in man !"
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If Mankind are liable to one disease more than another , or if there are any particular affections of the human bodj we require to have a knowledge of over the rest , it is cor . tainly that class of disorders treated of in the new and ira . proved edition of the "Silent Friend . " The authors , i » thus sending forth to the world another edition of theii medical work , cannot refrain from expressing tlieir gratification at the continual sueeess attending their efforts , which , combined with tho assistance of medicines , exclusively of tlieir own preparation , have been the happy cause of mitigating and averting the mental and phyiiiciilinisevias attendant on those peculiar disorders : thus nrovine the fact .
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Part the Third Contains an accurate description of the diseases caused b * infection , and by the abuse of mercury ; primary and secondary symptoms eruptions « f the skin , soro throat inflammation of the eyes , disease of the bones , gonerrhxa , gleet " , Btnaturc , ic , are shown to depend on tin ' s cause alien ? treatment is fuUy described in this section . The e £ - feets of neglect , either in the recognition of dis ease or in tho treatment , are shown to be the prevalence ofthe virus in the system , which sooner or later will show itsolfin . one of tho forms already mentioned , aHd entail fiisraso in its most frightful shape , not only on the individual himself hut also on file offspring . Advice for the treatment of all these diseases and their consequences is tendered in Uils sections which , if duly followed up , cannot fail iu etiectiut ; a ewe . This part is illustrated by seventeen coloured engravings . Part the Fourth
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TRY EKE YOU DESPAIR . HOLLO WAY'S PILLS . CURE OF ASTHMA . Extract of a Letter from Mr . Benjamin Mackie , ;• . respect . aWo Quaker , dated Creenagh , near Loughal ) , Ireland , dated September 11 th , 1818 . ' Rkmjctkd Fiuexd , —Thy excellent Pills have etiectuallv cured me of an asthma , which afflicted me for three years to such an extent that I was obliged to walk mv room at night for air , afraid of being suffocated if I went ' io bed bv cough and phlegm . Besides taking the Pills , I rubbed plenty of fliy Ointmenti nto my chest night aud moniimr . - ( Signed ) Bhuauw Mackik . —To Professor Holloway . CURE OF TYPnUS FEVER WIIBN SUPPOSED TO BE
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AN EFFECTUAL CURE FOR PILES , 1-ISTULAS , &c .
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THE OLD HAXDLOOM WEAVER . BT BE . P . M ' DOUAIX . la flte days of my father I lived by my loom T S' "" $ with my shutfleiept £ 2 ' fe starrati ° « "or povertvVSoom Oh ! for the days of the rattling Km Co ^ ° f . thePayaights so maty ; ' ° sa ^ ssj ? stf i ^ ^ I ™* edwith good ^ , and just when I thought I had plenty to eat and to drink-^ ttJ ft-SSSSBB ^ j ^ - 'K ^ fiar ^ * | re | m the Strcam ^ en no marMngday And made my time-keeper the sun
I went to the wars just to fight on the sm-ee lake a fool thougV the bolnty a catch ; ' " ^ RS ^ tC&ijtfsa ^ ^^ iTE ^^ - ^ ** We rmned our trade with tax trust We laughed at the warnings of wise mea of note , And now we are ground to the dust . The loom and hand labour became slow and dear " Machines came to cheapen and sell , ' " Then pnces came down like foul blight on the ear Andpalegrewtheweaverandfeli :
The loom left the cottage , the wheel left the hearth , And clang went the factory bell ; Then foUowed low wages , hard labour , and death , The dick of the loom was death ' s knell . "Wesonght cottage aid just to save us from theft Were propped up by parish relief , But of that we were soon by the knave 3 law bereft , And clothed in the garb of the thief . We cracked in the bastile the hard Whiggish stones , And eat their old horse-flesh for beef , a a ?* $ ™ vant a 11 the old Tory hones , And had separation relief . We kicked up a row , and were sent off to jail , To hear Parson Cant tell a lie , * % «« M * er bade the unhappy who waU , To suffer , submit and then die .
labour , sweetlabour , well paid they refuse , And yet heavy taxes they seek , How can they reap ought from the soil they abuse , One dey ' s food is the wage of a week . We see what it is to Lave maniac kings , We feel now the taxes of war , We know what the want of a freeman ' s vote l > rin «» g For that is prosperity ' s bar . Courage boys yet ; The old suffrage is near , We ve all came of age to know right , Give us but the vote , and we'll never know fear Of tyranny ' s plunder and might . We'll sweep away taxe 3 , and open our ports Wide to industry ' s tide , We'll bring back again our old English sports And plenty we'll spread far and wide .
Hurrah ! for the Charter , the spring of life ' s hope Up . brotherup , ' tis the morn , The long night of sorrow its portals doth ope And the sun of old freedom is born .
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THE HISTORY OF IRELAND . By T . "WEIGHT , Esq . ParfcXVL London : J . and F . Taffis , 100 , St . John Street . This Part ( which is embellished ^ vith a beautiful engraving representing the death of St . Patbick ) brings the first volume of Mr . Weight ' s excellent history to . a conclusion , and opens the second volume . The first volume contains seven hundred and twenty-eight pages , and brings the narrative of Ireland ' s
trouWed story down to the close ofihe year 1643 , when Catholics , Puritans , and Royalists seem to have conspired to render the entire country one scene of crime and misery outrage and suffering . The savage butcheries perpetrated by Pheum O'Xeill and his followers , and the equally barbarous reprisals of the Protestant English party ; the perfidy of Charles the 1 st ., the bigoted tyranny of the Parliamentarians , and the miserable sectarian rebellion of the Irish party—their outbreak never assumed the proportions of a national rising for freedom—are graphically detailed by
the historian . Although it is impossible to extenuate the barbarities which were commenced by Pheliji OMfEiu ,, the "English " puritans must be branded as the inciters of those enormities , seeing that by then * vexatious persecution of the Catholics they drove them to revolt . Even those Catholics who were "loyal , " and desired to remain so , were so persecuted by the ruling powers , that many of them were driven in despair to join the " rebels ; " * take one celebrated instance , —recorded amongst many hi the pages before us , —that of the chivalrous Lord Castlehavew
who , when he offered his services to the Government was repulsed because he was a Catholic ; and for no better reason he was annoyed , persecuted , and ultimately arrested . Escaping from prison he joined the confederates of Kilkenny , in arms under Owes O'Neill ( a very superior man to Pueldi the pitiless ) , and became one of the most celebrated of the Irish leaders .
We are sorry to detect a seeming departure from Mr . Weight ' s usual impartiality and liberal sentiments , where speaking of the negotiations carried on in Oxford between Charles and the Irish insurgents , the historian observes : — "These diminished proposals breathed the arrogant spirit of a victorious faction ; although some of them were just and reasonable , others could not possibly be conceded ' Now , in onr opinion , all the proposals on the part of the Irish , were just and reasonable , and ought all foliate been conceded .
For what were then * demands ? They required the repeal of all penal statutes ; a free parliament , and the suspension of Poyxixg ' s law during its session ; the annulling of all acts and ordinances of the Irish ( Protestant ) Parliament since its prorogation on the 7 th of August , 1611 ; that all indictments , attainders , and outlawries in prejudice of Irish Catholics , since that day , should be vacated , with a release of debts , and a general act of oblivion ; that all offices formed for the king ' s t itle to hinds since tie year 1 G 3 A should be
annulled , and that an act of limitation should be passed for the security of estates ; that an inn of court , and seminaries of education should be established hi Ireland for the benefit of the Catholics ; that all natives of Ireland , without exception , should be capable of being appointed to places of trust and honour ; while none but such as had estates , and were resident in Ireland , should be allowed to sit and vote hi ihe Irish Parliament ; that the
Parliame nt of Ireland should be formally declared independent of that of England ; that the jurisdiction of the Irish Privy Council should he limited to matters of state ; that no chief governor should be continued more than three years , and that he should not be allowed , during his government , to purchase any lands in Ireland , except from the king . Now , congiderino- the time and ciremmstances , it appears to ua that these demands were just , and bv no means breathed an " arrogant' or
factious spirit . , „ Turning with disgust from the records of royal perfidy and barbarous party warfare , we will briefly notice the curious account of Ireland left by a French traveller , one Bouxlaye LE Gouz , whose narrative is abridged in the ¦ work under notice . He visited Ireland in the summer of liHL' It will be seen by the following extract that the Frenchman was a firm believer in the old . legend , that no venomous animals could live in the island .
ST . PATRICK was the apostle of this island , who , according to the natives , blessed the land , and gave his malediction to all venomous things ; and it cannot be denied Vnt the earth and iho timber of Ireland , being transported , will contain nether serpents , worms , spiders nor rate , as one sees in the West of Eng-S Sd i « Scotland , - ^ f Fj ^ hare their trunks , and the boards of their floor
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mswfe of Irish wood ; and in all Ireland there is not to be found a serpent nor a toad . The following is his account of the then „ . , . , HUSH DIET . A-cteai'sssa-sa beer , into which they nut him . fi j d HHH spsasass hov ^ iST ^^ S describes the miserable hovels mhdntad by the peasant ry ; the following is his account of the 0 F - Tri-Wnnrt- iiMiiTiil
Th ^ Sf l ItttSH x ° J « "i * n 16 & . Je ™ es - Or houses , of the nobility , consist of buTtrtiuf ^ W ^' 1 ^^ ™ th stra *; SvSSl H * ' "'^ y are nothin s bufc « & « towers without windows , or , at least , having such smau apertures , as to give no more light than there is in a prison . They have little furniture , and cover the * rooms with rushes , of which they make their peas in summer , and of straw in winter . They put the rushes a foot deep on their floors , and on their windows , and many of them ornament the ceilings with branches . °
The traveller next tells of the fondness of the Irish for music , particularly the harp . " They march to battle with the bagpipes ;" and he significantly adds , "They are better soldiers abroad than at home . " The trade of Ireland at that time consisted of salmon , herrings , and " strong frieze cloth . " Wine and salt were the principal importations . Le Gouz describes the Irish as hospitable to strangers , observing that " it costs little to travel amongst them . "
We presume that Mr . Wright ' s ablywritten work is now fully half completed . We shall look forward with much interest to the succeeding parts of this History of Ireland .
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StWSHBJE AND SHADOW ; A TALE OF THE NINETEENTH T 3 ENTURY . BT THOMAS MARTIN WHEELER , late Secretary to th » National Charter Association and National Land Company . Chapter XXX , Dost know what hunger is ? not appetite , The rich man ' s blessing , but the poor man ' s curse . . Anon . He also is a prey to care , To him 'tis said , " starve thou or borrow I " Grey grows betimes his raven hair , And to the grave pursues him sorrow !
With hard compulsion and with need , He , like the rest , must strive untiring , And his young children ' s cry for bread , Claims bis free spirit ' s glad aspiring ' . Ah 1 such a one to me was known ! With heavenward aim his course ascended Yet deep in dust and darkness prone , Cave , sordid care , his life attended : An exile , and with bleeding breast , He groaned in his severest trial ; Want goaded him to long unrest , And scourged to bitterest self-denial .
At length his spirit was subdued ! The power to combat and endeavour " Was gone , and his heroic mood Came only fitfully , like fever ! The muses kiss sometimes at night "Would set his pulses wildly beating ; And his soul soared towards the light , When night from morning was retreating ! Ferdinand Freiligrath . The spring of 1816 saw Arthur Morton and his wife an inmate of the same abode , but a look of dulness seemed to hang about the cottage , —the turf no longer looked the pattern of neatness , —the geraniums were withering and dying away , —misfortune had laid its heavy hand on the inmates of this once
happy home—for months past Arthur had been out of employment , —his late master had failed , the business was disposed of , and Arthur had been unable to procure another situation . Day by day had their little savings melted away ; week by week some prized ornament , or some article of clothing disappeared ; still they did not despond , —hope , that false flattering spirit , still cheered them on , and l&lening to her specious tales , they still lingered at the home endeared to them by so many touching associations ; a gleam of their former enjoyments—a . scintillation of the past still remained with them , and tinder its influence they still continued their studies . Still did Arthur compose tales of love and romance , and still might Mary ' s voice be occasionally heard
singing the songs of " Auld lang syne ; " bufc when month followed month and no change of prospect appeared in view—when the struggle to ' maintaiu their respectability merged into the struggle for mere bread—then they left their pleasant cottage , which seemed like biddins adieu to hope , and took a room in a dull street hi Chelsea ; here , lost to their friends , and sheltering themselves from every prying gaze , they managed to live for some weeks upon the sale of the remnant of their goods ; when this was exhausted , then came the hour of trial . UUhcrto Arthur had fought nmufully against his adversities ; failing to procure employment at his own trade , he had endeavoured to procure it in any of the multifarious branches with which commerce
in London abounds , but fate seemed to delight in frustrating his hopes . Often had their morning ' s scanty meal been cheered by the fair prospect of at least a certainty of its renewal , but the evening saw them again downcast and desolate , —the hope had passed away , —some fatality had befallen , and the weary search for labour had again to be renewed . Mary supported these disasters with greater fortitude than falls to the lot of many inured to poverty in her early years , —thrifty in her domestic arrangements , she made their scanty stock of money seem almost inexhaustible , but sickness seized " on the children , and the doctor ' s bill made sad inroads on their little stock ; when this was all spent she parred without a murmur with all the little keepsakes and ornaments that a husband's fondness had in happier days bestowed upon her . Arthur ' s own clothes were the last things that were sacrificed , — the appearance of respectability was kept up even
while hunger was ravaging the inner man . It were a painful task to trace them in their downward flight into the deep recesses of the dismal haunts of poverty , —the change from abode to abode , each one more dreary and comfortless than the last , — the days , the weeks , that were almost passed without food , how passed , unknown almost to themselves , —the hours that were spent in vainly endeavouring to sleep away the sharp pangs of hunger , — the craving for bread , a luxury denied them , oatmeal being their only food , their stomachs often rebelling against its reception , and the nausea of sickness , added to the pains of exhaustion . Mary , by unremitting exertion at her needle from morning ' s dawn till the midnight hour , could not earn sufficient of even this coarse food to supply the wants of her husband and the children , who clung in their very helplessness to the hearts that cherished them , and repined not until the heavy liour when the little that sufficed to sustain , them
could no longer be supplied , then burst the hopeless sob from the mother's bosom , —then rebelled the proud spirit of the father , —his manner changed , — he became morose and taciturn , —temptation , like a thing of sin and death , came creeping round his heart , and Mury saw with sorrow that he was no longer the perfect heing her young heart had worshipped . Occasionally she procured a day ' s washing , or some other domestic employment , from some of her neighbours almost as poor as himself , for the poor are always kind to each other ; this was indeed a godsend , and in the evening , her frugal meals , almost untested during the day , were shared with her family . On these occasions Arthur had to remain at home to attend to the children , who were
yet too young to comprehend in its full extent the misery in which they were involved ; never till gazing on these children , clad in the vestments of poverty , asking , but in vain , for the little erijoyinents they had been used , —never , until then , did he regret that he had listened to the dictates of love , and made Many his bride . Had he been alone in the world he could have battled with poverty , or if the struggle became too painful ho could easily have withdrawn from the conflict , but his wife and chihlren now bound him to life , he had their lives and welfare to protect , with the maddening knowledge that he was unable to perform it , —that he was a drag upon his wife ' s energies , a recipient of tho infinitcssimal sum that is doled out to the poor semptress , and to reflect upon it was to endanger the sanity of his intellect . Misery had set her
mark upon lam , —the terrible struggles of his mind were visible in his features , —his former acquaintance would not have recognised him , in the emaciated and haggard-eywl shadow that might occasionally he seen wandering through the streets of the metropolis , seeking bread but finding none ; exploring , with ardent gaze , the very pavement of the streets in the vain hope of finding something that would procure a meal ' s victuals . How bitterly the extreme of want is felt when surrounded by opulence and plenty , —how hideously grand seemed the splendid domain of Belgraviato the hungerpained artisan as he passed its splendid mansions , wending his -way into the heart of tho metropolis . With what a spirit © f mockery the bakers , provision , and cook slfops , crowded on his eye , seeming to taunt him with his inability to purchase food for hie famishing family at home ; he * ho enviod the con-
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dition of all he met , —all seemed prosperous , —all UtTt . ? busineS 3 or P leasure ,-he alone was a wretched outcast , —the thought drove him to madness , and he would rush madly homewards , fearful i b ""§ . tempted to 8 ome act of desperation . At length his misery reached its climax ; Mary sunk beneath her exertions , and was unable to leave her bed ; Arthur , their eldest born ,-the child of its fathers hopes , —sunk suddenly into the grave . Arthur , overcome by this fresh calamity , —stupified by sorrow .-knew not what to do ; he applied to doctor after doctor , none would attend him at his miserable abode , but referred him to the parish surgeon , and his child died in the interim . It was the hrst time Arthur had recourse to parochial aid , but his spirit was too far broke , and the necessity was too urgent to admit of further delay , and under the doctor s care—a rough but benevolent man—Mary soon recovered , for it wa s want of food more than disease that had laid her . on a bed of sickness
. Of the thousands that annually fall beneath the dire disease of hunger ,-yes , let it be rung in the ears of aU who wiU listen , that the victims to hunger are neither few nor far between .-though no record of their fate be given in the hills of mortality ; though no lnquestbe held upon their murdered remains ,-murdered by the vile ordinances of society , —yet have they , nevertheless , died of hunger . Shame to the country that allows it , — shame to the men who permit themselves to fall its victims . Is it not a wonder that the fair daylight structure of society reposes so tranquilly , girt round , as it is , with this abyss of dark and unutterable suffering ; surrounded , as it is , with the elements of all that is rash and discordant , —all that is viland
e loathsome . Can we wonder that from this ocean of misery and despair by which society is encircled , terrific waves should at times surge up wrecking and stranding human souls , and laying bare the rocks and shoals of our false , though < nlded civilisation ; not until this occurs docs society take cognisance of these wretched outcasts , and then only to cast them off from her bosom for ever . Fortunate is it for our conventional system but unfortunate for outraged humanity , that extreme misery begets apathetic dullness , —that the body being unhealthy and debased , the soul of the victim becomes stupified , —the type of humanity is lost , and a dull state of animalism supplies its place — were it not so the violent and reckless deeds which
sometimes shock society would be repeated ad infiiiitum , until their reverberation electrified tho gocial fabric into a state of convalescence . The economist may tell us that these extremes of misery need not occur ; that parochial relief may be had b y all who apply for it ; true , —but coupled with such conditions—surrounded by such limitations , and environed by such indignities , that the sensitive and the high-minded sink into the sleep of death , or rush headlong into futurity , rather than encounter the difficulties of procuring this provision , guaranteed by English law , but despoiled of its beneficial tendencies by the irresponsible decision of an arbitrary power , new to the annals of British jurisprudence . There are other reasons why men shrink from applying to the workhouse for relief , la the words of tho poet Thorn , they know that if once they fall
mtotneapyssot pauperism "they never hold up their heads in the world again ; " they are degraded amongst those who are almost as deeply stricken by poverty as themselves ; their names are erased from the books of men ; they beorae bound hand and foot to their degraded situation ; and the few remaining links between them and their fellow-men are severed at a blow . Few , very few , are the cases on record , where mon once accepting the enforced charity of their fellow-creatures , —once becoming inmates of a Poqr-Law Bastile , —ever return for any lengthened period to honest labour ; they have sunk m their own esteem , —they have fallen in the estimation of others , —the brand is upon them , and they can never again rise in the social scale This should not be : but though writing fiction we deal with facts , —we speak from experience , and know that it is too true . ( To be continued . )
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IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT UPON THE JACQUARD MACHINE . ( From the Manchester Examiner . ) Our attention has recently been called to an article in the JHoniteur hdustriel , descriptive of a new machine , the invention of M . Acklin , of Paris , which , from what we have been able to ascertain , is calculated to become of considerable importance in Jacquard weaving . The machine , whfch was exhibited in the recent exposition at Paris , is designated •' The Monoclave Organ . " It is played with one single key , the mechanism of which is applicable to tne substitution of paper , instead of the card usually employed in the Jacquard machine . It may be used for engraving musical typography , and also for transferring , in a most interesting and surprising manner , music into design , * * * *
It is more especially as effecting a revolution in the working of the Jaequard frames that the monoclave organ ot" M . Acklinshould be considered . Dp to the present time , In the manufacture of brocaded and figured tissues , perforated cards have been used , through which the needles pass , causing the threads to rise and fall according to the holes in the cards , thus reproducing upon the tissue in the loom the pattern which is&erforated on the card . This mode of fabrication is troublesome as well as costly , as it necetsjftates , even for the smallest pattern , the use of an enormous quantity of cards of highpricss , and inconvenient on account of their bulk . By the present invention , the cards are entirely superseded , and the thinnest paper U used in their stead- ^ -so much
so , that out of the 3 , 600 metres used in the manufacture of 1 , 000 cards , 3 , 595 metres arc saved by M . Acklin ' s invention . It will at once be seen that this invention opens a source of economy of which the bearing is incalculable . One great advantage of the machine is the ease with which it can be adopted to the old Jaequard frames , without causing any delay or stoppage of the works . The old cylinders may be taken off , and those of the new apparatus substituted in a few hours , without altering the loom , and with such ease and exactness that , even although some work is in nrogress with the old machine , it may be taken up and completed by that of M . Acklin , if the holes have been previously perforated on the paper . We may here state that the
pertoratmg can be done by hand upon the appavatus without requiring the usual system of " reading ;" but for this purpose M . Acklin has invented another machine , by which reading and perforating is carried on . The reading is conducted by this machine in tne usual manner , but as the paper can follow on the line continuously , the perforation p roceeds much more rapidly than with the cards . Thirty thousand perforations ( maiehures ) may be made in the day , instead of 1 , 500 which were made by the old machine ( called rollers ) , or 3 or 4 , 000 made by those called acceleres . There are also other advantages than those which we have mentioned . For instance , the holes of the old cards would not permit of the passage of more than seven needles ; whereas by this system a
hole in the paper of one millimetre diameter , will allow nine needles , and one of double that size , sixteen need ' es to pass . This , it will be seen , is calculated to give a greater security in the manufacture , more exactness in the work , and more finish and beauty in the tissue . Besides , the machine is so easily worked , that the labour of the workman is considerably diminished . Its play is so easy and gentle , that a paper of 480 marchires , with which M . Ackltn . has constantly experimented for fifteen months , scarcely shows the point of contact of the needles . The combination of the machine is altogether so clever , and its construction so solid and perfect , that it is almost impossible , even intentionally , t-j derange it . By the invention of this machine
M . AcUlin has effected the solution of a problem , before which many men of mechanical genius has failed . The impulse has been given . In addition to the French manufacturers , manyfrom Prussia and Austria , who have visited the exhibitions , have eagerly investigated the Acklin machine , and we are assured that the ingenious inventor is daily receiving new orders . England is already in possession of the new invention . M . Kurtz , amost honorable and intellk'ent Manchester manufacturer , well known both in France and in England by his industrial labours , having ssen M . Acklin ' s machine in Paris , and being convinced of its importance , was desirous of introducing to England an invention which was likely to open a new era in the manufacture of ornamental tissues .
We have had an opportunity of seeing the machine , and conjointly with more practical men who have inspected it , were much pleased with its simplicity and evident utility . We were assured by Mr . Webb and Mr . Wilson , the gentlemen who are supei intending the erection of the machine at Ordsal House , that eighteen inches of paper are made by this invention to answer the purpose of 100 card boards . An important saving isthua effected , not so much , perhaps , to the English as to the French manufacturers ( for on the continent there is a considerable duty on the importation of cardboard ) , yet sufficient to lead
maimfactUTers to interest themselves in the new invention . And when we consider that there are upwards of 60 , 000 Jacquard looms at work in this town and neighbourhood , the importance of any invention which is calculated to effect a saving , however small , in the process of manulacture , is greatly inhanced . It is proposed that this apparatus should receive the name of the "Acklin machine , " after its ingenious inventor . We understand that in the course of a few days the machine at Ordsal House will be fairly at work , and that then the attention of the manufacturers of the neighbourhood will be invited to it .
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Ecclesiastical Appoixuments . —We ( the Chronicle ) understand that Dr . Tait , head-matter of Rugby School , is to be appointed to the Deanery of Carlisle . We hear , also , that Lord Auckland , the present Bishop of Soder and Man , is to be translated to the vacant see of Llandaff .
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The Present axd thk Fcturb .-I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ; that the trswnpling , wushing , elbowing and treading on each other s heels , which form the existing type of social lv T mo desil ' ° le of human kind , or any thing but the disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial progress . * * * Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have listened the day ' s toil
of any human being . They have enabled a greater population to live the same life of drudgery and imprisonment , and an increased number of manufacturers and others to make large fortunes . They have increased the comforts of the middle classes , but they have not yet begun to effect those great changes in human destiny which it is in their nature , and in their future , to accomplish * when the conquests made from the powers of naturetby the intellect and energy of scientific discoveries become the common property of the species and the means of improving the universal lot . —John MIL °
A Repdied old witch died recently at Fife , after having enjoyed tho perquisite of a fish from every fisherman who desired good fortune ; and on searching her dwelling , 2 , 000 sixpences , 1 , 020 shillings , nine sovereigns , £ 7 in bank notes , and £ 40 in addition were concealed in bags . " A Precocious youngster being asked how many genders there ave , replied , Three , sir—the maculine , the feminine , and the neutral . " " Well done , my son , now define them . " The masculine i ! n / u \ f ? minino is woman , and the neutral is the old bachelors . "
The Origin of Bins of ExonAnas . —It is to the Jews that we owe the invention of the bills of exchange . Often obliged to leave a country at the shortest notice , condemned by the most ferocious intolerance to a wandering life , they had invented that easy mode of carrying about their riches—as on their expulsion from Portugal . The invention of the hill of exchange has been fixed by some historians at that period , that is , about the beginning of the sixteenth century
but there existed in Venice , in 1272 , a social law upon that sort of contract . From the laborious researches of Messrs . Bhnqui and Nougouier , it would appear that the exact date of this Jewish invention must rc-ascend as far as their expulsion from Franco by Philippe Augustus , in 1181 . Montesquieu says himself— " They had from time immemorial in their jurisprudence , models of letters of purchase , letters of donation , letters of exchange ; these were not unlike our bills of exchange , —Louis Blanc .
The Crown of St . Stephen and royal insignia of Hungary , have been convened , it is said , from Widdin to England . Rise of the Indepkkdents . —And now a new and alarming class of symptoms began to appear in the distempered body politic . There had been , from tho first , in the parliamentary party , some men whose minds were set on objocts from which the majority of that party would have Bhrunk with horror . These men wero in reli g ion independents . They had conceived that every Christian congregation had , under Christ , supreme jurisdiction in things spiritual ; that appeals to provincial and national synods were scarcely less than appeals to tllC Court of Arehos , or to Ihe Vatican ; and that
Popery , Prelacy , and Presbyterianism were merely three forms of one great apostacy . In politics , tho Independents were , to use the phrase of their time , root-and-branch men , or , to uso the kindred phrase of our own time , Radicals . Not content with limiting the power of the monarch , they were desirous to erect a commonwealth on the ruins of the old English polity . At first they had been inconsiderable both in numbers and in weight ; but before tie war had lasted two years they became , not indeed the largest , but the most powerful faction in tho country . Some of the old parliamentary leaders had been removed by death , and others had forfeited the public confidence . Pym had been borne , with princely honours , to a grave amongst the Plantagenets . Hampden had fallen
as became mm , while vainly endeavouring , by his heroic example , to inspire his followers with courage to face the fiery cavalry of Rupert . Bedford had been untrue to the cause . Northumberland was known to be lukewarm . Essex and his lieutenants had shown little vigour and ability in the conduct of military operations . At such a conjuncture it was that tho independent party , ardent , resolute , and uncompromising , began to raise its head , both in tho camp-and in the House of Common s . —Macaulay ' s History of England . In Front of a house in Briggato , Glasgow , may may be seen the following erudite inscription on a sign-board : — " Thomas Black , Chimney-Sweeper , does Live hear , sweeps yore ventes and Sot to Dere . If yore Houses Taks on fire , he'll put it put At yore desyre . soot Merchant in This Close . ' *
The Drones and the Bees . " now various and innumerable Are those who live upon the rabble . 'Tis they maintain the Church and State , Employ the priest and magistrate , Bear all tho charge of government , And pay the public fines and rent ; Defray all taxes and excises , And imposition of all price ? , Bear all tho expense of peace and war , And pay the pulpit and the bar ; Maintain all churches and reli gions , And give their pastors exhibitions . " , lAidibras . Great Houses do not always contain grea folks ; fine coats do not always cover fine gentlemen . A blackguard is a blackguard still , whether he lives in a splendid mansion or in a miserable hovel .
Her Ma jestt s late visit to Glasgow cost tho loyal citizens upwards of £ 1 , 800 . The Revenue of the railways of the United Kingdom amounts to no less than £ 12 , 009 , 000 annually . One hundred and twelve young females from various workhouses embarked from Belfast last week en route as emigrants to Sydney . The Liverpool'Times states that for some time the average wages of tho Liverpool shipwrights hare not exceeded os . per week . L . \ dy Blessinoton and the Basket-maker . —On
more occasions than one Lady Blessmgton showed herself the friend of obscure but deserving genius . Of this her notice of Thomas Miller , the basketmaker , author of "Koyston Gower , " aftbrds a remarkable instance . As soon as ho became known by his writings , Lady Blcssington sent for him , recommended his book , and did him substantial service . " Often , " Miller himself says , " have I been sitting in Lady Blessington ' s splendid drawing-room in the morning , talking and laughing as familiar as in the old house at home ; and in the same evening I might have been seen standing on "Westminsterbridge , between an apple-vendor and a baked potato merchant , vending my baskets . "—Tail ' s Magazine . A PnACTiCAt Man . —The Arbroath Guide mentions
a remark made by a . sage provost in the west of Scotland , which may supply by a hint to many of our dilly-dally corporate bodies . A tenant on the burgh properly complained that his premises were over run with rats , and requested that the building should he inspected . "Inspected ! " said tho provost , " stuff ! let twa cats be ordored on tho premises : I warrant them they'll soon clear it . " The man , and the sham prince , peer , or priest , are t > yo distinct things . M ; m is as nature produced him ; tho crown and sceptre , the robe , the court , the rnitve , is tho prince , the peer , or priest . Con asset Girls . —Tho Philadelphia Times saysthat thegirls at Cqhassefc , makes nothing of going into the water and bringing out a shark or mackci'al by tllC
nose , and opens quadogs with a pinch of their fingers . They live chiefly on sea fare , so that when kissed they taste salty , and when they die avo preserved half a century . Their hair in old age turns into dry sea weed . If they have w orn caps in then- old age ' , the cap is stiff and glittering with chrystalisation of salt ; and if you full in love with them in their youth , you find yourself in a pickle . Unequal TAXATion . -Taxes paid by a working man who expends 7 s . 7 R in the following manner : 2 oz . of tea , 2 oz . of coffee , Soz . of sugar , 31 bs . Soz . of meat , 7 fts . of flour , 7 pts . of ale , ipt . of brandy loz . tobacco . The cost of the preceding , if freet from tithe , corn , custom , and excise , would not exceed 2 s . od . l-crgo , a tax of os . 3 R weekly on the ^ L , m / . U , mei ' - ? , TaxQS on land-In ' England , H'rSAlV J > £ 3 , 099 , 500 ; Austria , ± 8 , 700 , 000 ; France £ 23186700 Taxes on the
, ,,. people-England , £ 23 , 186 , 760 ; Prussia , £ 3 , 761 , 500 ; Austria , £ 7 , 700 , 000 ; France , £ 17 , 423 . 240 , Man caeetu for his cattle , his horses , and his hounds ; but his fellow man is frequently destitute of a place where to la y his head , or a crust to satisfy the cravings of hunger . Kind Words do not Cost Much . —They never blister the tongue and lips ; and we have never hoard of any mental trouble arisingfrom this quarter . u Uiey do not cost much , yet they accomplish much . First , they help one ' s own good nature and good . will . Soft words soften our own soul . Angry words are fuel to the flame of wrath , and make it blaze moro fiercely . Second , kind words make other people good-natured . Cold words freeze people , but hot words scorch them , and sarcastic words irritate them , and bitter words make them bitter , and wrathful words make them wrathful
. An OriAiE . -A sick man who had not slept for many nights , was asked if he did not wish to have a clergyman attend him , and whether he wished any particular ono . He replied , " Yes , send Mr . D . " He came . The sick man requested a sermon , Mr . D— . Started with surprise , aiuMcsired to know the reason why , The sick invalid answered , " I never heard you pveach but three or four times , and then invariably I feu asioep . so j thought that a short discourse might enable me to tako a nap—which I muteh noed not having slept for several nights . " nu . . Jounsok PomwiuTBD . _ Johnson is better Known tp us than any other man in history , Every
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; hing about him—his coat , his wig , his figure , his face , his scrofula , his St . Yitus' dance , his rolling walk , his blinking eye—the outward signs which oo clearl y marked his approbation of hh dinnernis unsatiablo appetite for fish sauce and veal pie , with plums—his inextinguishable thirst for teahis trick of touching the posts as he walked—his mysterious practice of treasuring up ornnsre peelus morning slumbers-his midnfght disputations his muttonngs - his gruntings-his puffings -his vigorous , acute and sarcastic eloquence — lus vehe-Sw M " solenco ~ his fits of tempestuous rage , are all familiar to us . —Macaulay .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 27, 1849, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1545/page/3/
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