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{| s * Agents and Subscribers baviug theiv papers direct from the Star of Freedom Office , will p lease to observe that forthe future — AH Orders , Monies , Postage-Stamps , . &c , must be addressed to GEORGE JULIAN HARNKY , prop rietor of the Star of Freedom , 4 , Brunswick Kow , Queen-square , Bloomsbury , London . It is requested tliat all Money-Orders be made payable to GEORGE JULIANHARNEY , at the Money-Order Office , Bloomsbury , London .
TO THE READERS OF THE " STAR OF FREEDOM . " I deeply regret that owing to disastrous mismanagement , which it was impossible for myself and editorial colleagues to avert , last Saturday ' s Star of Freedom was published too late to be despatched by Friday , evening ' s mail ; and ' that again on the following day the Town edition was not ready until two hours after the proper time . Well aware of the injury caused by these delays , I p ledge myself that no efforts shall be wanting on my part to repair the evil die paper has thus fat suffered .
^ g * I hope able in next Saturday ' s number to announce great improvements in the Star of Freedom , both as regards the printing , publishing , contents , and arrangement of the paper . g . MjanIharney . July 30 th 1852 .
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JUSTIC E—IMMUTABLE , UNIVERSAL , ETERNAL ! ENGLAND EXPECTS THAT EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY V Give ma the liberty to know , to utter , and to argue freciy accordin ? to conscience , above all liberties . —JlaTos . The proudest signal—the noblest battle-cry—ever uttered by chieftain on land or sea , to his followers and comrades in the moment of expectant conflict . History record none nther such . Cbsar at Pharsalia , Henr at Agincourt , Bonaparte at Harengo ; the innumerable warriors , regal and republican , of field and flood , have left on record no such sublime though eiaiple appeal to th © hero-spirit of those who followed them to victory . Thehistoryof land and seafightsfrom
Marathon to Waterloo , from Salamis to v avarino , tells of heart-thrilling , soul-exciting , blood-firing appeals in tha name of Glory , Country , Religion , and Freedom , to the courage , the patriotism , the fanaticism , and the liberty-loving spirit of embattled legions about to rash on death , about to clutch at victory ' s wreath , despite the perils of the battle ' s iron gtonn . But Nelson ' s signal standa alone in its severe sublime simplicity . How nobly it contrasts with the Napoleonic grandiloquence of ' forty centnries looking down from the pyramids , &c , &c . Than Trafalgar many a holier combat has been fought , but neither Themistocles , Cromwell , nor Washihgion gave birth to a sentiment bo eternally grand as that which sheds an undying halo round the name of Nelson . And remember who Nelson
was : great on the quarter deck , great as an indomitable fighting man , great as the personification of the olden animal-courage of Englishmen ; but no more . Apart from his profession , lie was weak , vain , and in many respeets morally the inferior of some of the officers he commanded . A . bigoted nationalist , a thorough hater of popular freedom , the Blave of a vain-gloriohs , imperious , and immoral woman ; a man compared with whom Blake , the sea-king of the Commonwealth , was a demigod ; yet to Nelson must be accorded unrivalled fame . Not for the
number or the character of his victories . Not for his personal heroism . Not for his death . Many chieftains—not to speak of the ' unnamed demigods 'have as bravely died , und-not a few have fallen in a holier canse . Yet their glory pales in presence of that of Nelsos with . Mb immortal battle-signal : — ' England expects that entry Man will do his duty !' Their duty , as understood by the victo- s of Trafalgar was to toil , to suffer , to brave the dangers of the deep , the perils of the ' tempest , the prospect of wounds and death in battle ; their country commanded , and they had no other thought but to do her bidding , and rival each other iu self-sacrifice for the safety , the welfare of Old England . The ambition of acquiring rank ,
fame , titles , rewards , could not be felt by the mass of those whom Nelson commanded . He might head his boarders with the thought of Victory or Westminster Abbey 2 '—but such an idea could have no meaning for seaman or marine . Greenwich Hospital , if they survived , a gory death and nameless obscurity , if they fell , was their prospect . But Duty commanded and they obeyed . They may hare been very igno . rant and unreflecting , men who would be altogether out of place in a Mechanics' Institute or a Hall of Progress ; hut they were nevertheless men who thoroughly appreciated that which they deemed their Duty , and its sternest behests they acted up to . even at the cost of blood and death .
Would that their spirit of self-sacrifice , of devotion to duty , animated the mass of the existing generation of Englishmen ! 'Peace hath her victories as renowned as war . * And by peaceful effort mi ght the people of this country win their political and social emancipation , if only the effort could ba made adequate to the great end to Ise achieved . It ib not fighting that is needed , but the spirit which enaLlos those who fight to como off victorious . The gory scenes of Trafalgar need not be transferred to our streetB ; that which ia wanted is ¦ imply an appreciation of the duty which every man owes to the state , his family , his brethren ( regardless of country or creed ); and the stern resolve to act up io that duty as unflinchingly as those who along with Nelson fought and fell , and died in the arms of Victory !
The paramount duty of those T » hom Beresfordthat insolent and contemptible imitator of the pensioner , Borke—denominates ' the vile rabble , ' thoso masses of the people unrepresented in the Parliament , ignored by the Constitution , is—before all—to Btruggle for the obtainment of their political freedom , their right of control over , and active participation in , the country ' s legislation . But how , after what manner , should they struggle ? A serious question , not to be answered by falsehood and boasting . Resolutions to ' agitate for the Charter , name , and all , ' 1
Glorious Revivals , ' ' penny theatre orations , ' ' making the tyrants tremble , ' smashing' friends , and corrupt coalitions with Freedom ' s eternal enemies , exaggeration , delusion , mendacity and mendicity ; these are the means to arrive at shame , not victory , to perpetuate slavery , not achieve freedom . To struggle , as the Lexicon tells us , is * to labour , to act with effort , to strive , to contend , to contest . ' These simple words contain the whole secret of success in popular movements ; and when put into practical operation by the people , by any considerable body of the people , the days of class-rule will be numbered .
The slavish inertness of the masses at large , the folly of the well-meaning but mis-guided few , who waste the means of Democratic action upon greedy and unscrupulous charlatans , forbid the hope of any immediate movement upon a national scale . But these untoward circumstances far from disheartening the true friends of freedom , should rather inspire them to more resolute , time- and-fate-defvinff action . A simple insect admonished the Scottish to n * of the folly of despair and the shame of yieldine to defeat . The lesser , was not lo > t upon the subsequent victor of Bannockhurn . The same lesson is ™ ± l SS ., 1 ^ ¥ . P > TO » t « rer dream we inouige of
_ may , n happinesi the future' shall enjoy We , of this age know that for us i " toil and combat , and self-sacrifice our portion Rnf efbrts will-not bebarreu , if conduKtobi ^ the , imperishable aws of Truth In » ii j from truth there is the beVmnin- « f „ 5 P 3 rtures sW . The venal auftheilXt £ ? % ? " * of Chartism . A fact conveying aTesS whilT men of the future will do well tl JZZSJ ?* Is the peril which menaces our country to be ^ rfc 3 d > -are the men of the multitude * o be awafened to a sense of their slarery and eha ™ >!! C « a pop lar movement , calm , earnest , unyielding l --r « ng , be evoked from the present chaoi of S
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fishness and unbelief ? . Yes ; if .. only , the few who know will but act up to their duty . Everywhere are tube found men who deplore the present inertness of the masse- ' , who see with shame the humiliation that has fallen upon the popular cause , and who view with disgust those unblushing traffickers in principles who have made of agitation a trade—a means of sweating the poor of their last pence .. On . these men will weigh a heavy responsibility if they fail to take the initiative in the great work of inaugurating a better , brighter future . Do they ask for a p lan , a programme of action ? 0 f plans and programmes there have been already a superabundance . Democracy is to be saved not by the dead letter , but by
the living-spirit . Let all men who desire equal freedom , equal tights for" all , cotne together in their respective localities and set their hands to a solemn league and covenant to work in union , to struggle unceasingly in the great and sacred work of enlightening and arousing their countrymen now sitting content . in the Valley of the Shadow of Death ; Inokinjr forward to the not distant time , when having accomplice' the first part of their work , they may set about the second par t , that of marching at the head of a morally , mentally , regenerated nation , to the storming of those entrenchments and bulwarks of privilege which may be tolerated by a " rabble , " but which a high spirited-people , knowing and loving freedom , would not for one hour endure .
To regenerate the Democratic cause , to lay the foundations of a popular organisation pure and powerful , it is requisite that all those who consort iu union should be animated by the unalterable resolution to allow no tolerance to Falsehood ia any shape or form , or under any pretext whatever ; that they cultivate among them a spirit of chivalry which shall weld them together us brothers of one sacred baud , bound to stand by each other to the death ; that , at least in the first instance , they confine their organisation to their respective localities , and take for guides and teachers those only whom they thoroughly know ; and , lastly , that they act under the inspiration of an apostolic sense of duty which shall fear no peril and shrink from no toil .
The work these pioneers of victory may forthwith set their hands to I will hereafter indicate . The pressing question at present to be decided is , —Are such pioneers to be found ? Who will be the first to answer ? Let those Bpeak who will rally to the signal — 'Englandexpects that every man will do his duty ' . ' L'AMI DU PEUPLE .
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FRANCE . Return of the President—His reception by the People—The Detpols preparations—Bonaparte and the Press—An Elysean Poet . '—Prudhon ' t Neiu Work . ( From our own Correspondent . ) Paris , July 28 . Bonaparie returned here on Friday evening . There was an attempt made to get up a triumphal reception for him , but it most signally failed . It sufficed to prove to the people of l \ iris what they suspected beforo , that the telegraphed " enthusiasm " of the provinces was moBt unequivocally false . Nothing can exceed the glowing accounts given iu the official and semi-official organs of the dense crowds of spectators , and of the enthusiasm of their demonstration . From all that I witnessed myselfand from
, what I can gather from other impartial sources , these narratives are marked b y tho most unblushing misrepresentation . Generally , tho reception of the President was extremely cold . Where I stood ho was received with unmistakeable , chilling solemn silence . Hero and there a hireling cry vainly strove to w . iko an echo , and died away in space , like a sound uttered far from the haunts of men . There was something terrible in tho holiday show , tho military display , the crowded streets , the peopled winnows , and tho absence of any demonstration of sympathy . The crowd looked like a collection of wax figures . It was the hour when tho cafes are full—the leisure hour of the promenade after dinner , and of the evening chat in chairs under the trees . Those who were at home came to their windows to look out , but there
were certainly none of those paying tenants who compete anxiously for six square inches of space on really exciting public occasions , However , there was a crowd , and this crowd was inanimate ; its silence was striking . It was evident , upon reflection , that ihis immobility betokened BometUrag more than indifference . It would otherwise have been unnatural . Not only were there none of those signs of interest and animation which people show when they go out to see even the cotnmones sight together , but the ordinary buzz , the busy hum , that attends an agglomeration of men , was hushed . As the cortege approached , natural thriil of expectation seemed loroibly suppressed ; a < it passed by , every face became cold , blank , passionless . No hostile cry was heard ; no man was eo senseless as to provoke the surrounding legion ? , among whom were seen those very soldiers whose deadly bullets but six short months since scarred the peaceful dwellings , from which the marks , yet visible , frowned ominouBly upon the triump hal car . Not a earcasm ut d
was tereeven to a friendly ear , for the lictors woro present , and spies were at the corner of every street . But if the silence of tie people be the lesson of their rulers , that lesson was given that nig t with an emphasis which I must have seen to have helieved , and , having seen , shall never forget . From the Porto St . D « nis to the Ma-ieleine scarcely a head was uncovered as the President passed . He bowed repeatedly , however , to the vacant crowds on either hand . At the ca > 6 , at the corner of tho Rue Montmartro , four waiters mounted on a stool , and attempted to raise a cheer . Here and there , at wide intervals , a solitary female might bo seen convulsively waving her pocket handkerchief at a window . I saw a man forcibly restrain a lady from bo employing herself , as if he thought the exhibition inJecent on the site of the massacre of Dec . 4 . Occasionally the drums beat to relieve the appalling silence that prevailed . But everywhere the imperturbabio attitude of tho masses was maintained . This attempt to get up a popular triumph in anticipation of the loth of August has received from the people only tho contempt which it merited .
At the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the grand gallery which is intended to connect the Tuiieries with the Palace of the Louvre , parallel to tho Rue dellivoli , which was performed with great pomp on Sunday , M . C * ssabianca spoke aa follows : — " The samo building will comprise , together with the residence of the head of the state , three ministries , tho telegraphs , the national printing office , and an imposing military force . Thus th' most active , the most energetic means of government will be concentrated in tho hands of him to whom France , by an unanimous vote , has confided her destinies , and who , incessantly watchful for her repose and prosperity , will be enabled instantaneously to transmit the expression of tho sovereign will even to the most distant provinces . Such is tho programme which be himself has dictated , and which an able architect has already so happily designed for execution . " Tou will see from this , that the Decembrist does not
conaider temporary the power be possesses ; but is fortifying his despotism as something to out-last considerably even the ten years for which he was " elected . " The director of the "C ' . noniquo tie Paris" has been sentenced by the Court of Correctional Police to ten days ' imprisonment and 500 f . fine for an article containing , in tho language of the indictment , " an attack against the respect due to tho Jaws , excitement to contempt of the Government , ard attempt to disturb the public tranquility by exoiting the citizens to the hatred and contempt of each other . " The article was oa tho decree imposing the oath of alleg iance on all public functionaries , r . nd stating that the oath was not obligatory .
The " Mon'teur publishes a strange composition in the shap e of an episto ' ary rhapsody in dithvr . unUic prose by one Mcry , the poet-laureate , as it seems , of Louis Napoleon . The stilted sublime of Amadis de Gaul ridiculed by Cervantes is dwarfed by the aspiring bard of the Elyt 6 e . Here is a specimen of the iiteraturo which is to flourish under t : c new Augustus : — " The departure was sad ; the lugubrious murmurs of a storm-wind ran along the cyclopean cornices of the templu of steam . The 19 th of July—midsummer ! as ShaUspearo saysnot a ray of sunshine , &c . "
, Thrro is something for Homer to envy ! 0 / sublime Mery ! The publication of M . Proudhon ' a new work , which I mentioned in a previous , letter , has been stopped by an order of the Minister of Police . One of Proudhou ' s expressions in this pamphlet is characteristic enoaeb ; bo Bays that "If the 2 nd of December attempt to swallow Franc * it m * v burst of its meal . "
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= BELGIUM . The Ministerial erisit—Death and Funeral of Gerard Mathieu . ( From our oun Correipjndent . J " . - " ¦ . ¦ BRissKts , Ju « 28 tp , T have not thought it necemry to trouble you with any account of our present Ministerial crisis . It is merely au instance of the working of . tho boasted systom of Constitutional Monarchy . Leopold is still unable to find a ministry to suit his views , ' or tho views of his controllers , who are no t the Belgian people . ¦ ¦ . i ' , \ Thave to record a loss much greater than that of the Rogier ministry—the loss b y death of ah eminent member of the Belgian' Democracy . . Ye . » , we have lost Gerard Mathieu , formerly tho editor of the " Debat Social , " and the courageous president of the Prado banquet . Ho died on Saturday , in tho greatel ^ ojerty . rrU is not vmlikel ?
that toe misery from which he suffered Has accelerated his death , for at the period of its occurrence he was still £ ?""?• , . £ but twenty-seven years of age ! On Sunday , AW of his political friendB accompanied his bodv to its last resting place in the cemetery of Molenbeck- ' Saint-Jean . When the p / ooession had reached the cemetery its numbers had been swelled to 500 . No religious ceromony was performed over his body . No mercenary prayer was heard , but on y the sobs and adieus of his brother democrats . When tho coffin had been deposited in the grave , addresses were delivered by several friends of the deceaaed , and a hymn , prepared for the occasion , was sung . Each of thoso present then deposited a little earth upon the coffin , aud went away . sad and downcast , as they well mi'ht be at the untimel y death of this noble young soldier of Democracy .
HOLLAND . The * ' Handlesblad" of Amsterdam , in order to put an end to certain rumours , etatcs that the Dutch government has accepted from the United States the mission of enter ng into negotiations with the Emperor of Japan for putting an end to the exolusion of all forei gners except tha Dutch ,
GKRMANY . Despotism bankrupt— Christians of Bosnia—America and Switzerland—The Russians in Poland—The Parliament of Hesse and the Elector ¦ . AUSTRIA .-The Vienna " Ghetto" of the 21 st pub-S » i ™ o laIll ? 4 eet for 1851 « Tbe receipts amount to 223 , 252 . 038 , and the expenditure to 278 . 430 , 4708 . Tho deficit , therefore , amounts to 55 . 178 . 43211 . A letter from Vienna states that the Emperor of Austria has ordered an inquiry to be made as to the best means of providing for the tugitivo Christians of Bosnia , who are now encamped near Carlstadt . PRUSSIA . —The "National Zeitung" haB an article on tlie treaty of amity just concluded between Switzerland and the United States of America , in which it remarks that the ImpO i I ? London Protocol regarding Neufchatel has hastened the period for the commencement of American interference in European diplomacy )
_ rhe crown lawyers have sanctioned the confiscation of the " KrouU Zeitung , and commenced an indictment . Since its re-appearance , it gives ne leading nrticles . A small town called Praschke , on the confines of Poland , has been reduced totally toaBbes—no loss than 419 buildinsis , including barns and outhouses , having been destroyed . The inhabitants of some nei ghbouring Prussian villages camo with engines to render assist nee , but were not permitted by the Russian officials to pass tho confines without passports ! r BAVARIA . —The King of Bivaria has abandoned his design of going to , Kissingen , in consoquonce of the expected arrival of the Kmg of Greece at Holienschwangen . HANOVER . —It was reported at Hanover on the 20 th that tho ministry had resigned , and would be replaced by a cabinet of a completely equestrian casto .
HESSE CASSEL .-On the 20 th a communication was made . to the Second Ilessian Chamber at Cassel , of tho financial situation of " she country . Tho Finance Minister stated that there was a deficit of from three to four millions of thaier * . The Elector of Hesse Cissel having dispensed with tho oath on the constitution , the Chambers have been opened . It is said , however that as soon as the Hessian government shall have got the grant of a loan of a quarter of a million sterling " for tho expense of restoring federal and constitution-. l order in t ! e Electorate" the Chambers will be prorogued . BADEN . —The Prince Regent of Baden returned to Carlarube on tho 20 th from Berlin .
ITALY . The Case of Mr . Murray—Arrests at Rome—Fortification of Ancona—The Swiss Mercenaries—Sale of Sardinia—General Pipe—More Arrests in Lomlardy , ROME . —The Murray affair continues to drag its alow ength along , without making any perceptible progress . owards a solution , nor since the departure of Mr . Freeborn rom Rome , can it bo said to havo made a single satisfactory itep . * A letter from Rome , of tho loth , in the «• Augsburg SazetUs , " atat b that teveral peraonB BUBpected of carrying > n a political correspondence with Paris have been arrested it Rome , in consequence of information received from the French police department . A letter from Rome , of tho 10 th , in the Messaggiere di Modena , states that it is the intention of the Papal government to surround Ancona with an octroi wall , aud that tho work is to be commenoed immediately .
The Swias journals stato that the Swisa Consul at Rome has succeeded iu obtaining pensions to the amount of 61 , 222 f , for the Swiss soldiers formerl y in the service of tho Papal Government . The " Milan Gazette" quotes a letter from Rome , stating that the attention of the public has bten much engrossed of late with the numerous fortifications erected by the l " i- pc "> troops around the Cusilo of ? t . Angelo , and that another circu .. » . mcs excites some Burpri-ie—viz ., that while General Levuillunt ! nyti s >> much zeal in drilling tho l ' or . tiflcial artillerymen , he has brought all the cannon to Rome which were in the towers along the coaBt of Civita Vecchit , and put French artillery there instead . PIEDMONT . — 'Hie " Gazette " contains a formal contradiction of the rumoura that Sardinia was about to be sold to England , and that Count Cumillo Cavour had gone to Loudoa to negotiate the aft air . °
" On the 13 th inst ., " fays the "Ilisorgimcnto , " ' . 'the celebrated Italian exile , General Guglicluio Vepe , pasted tliroun'i the town of San Keuio , coming from . Nicu on liis way t- > the water of Aciui . The generous population of San Uemo uiehed to honour , in the person of the illustrious Italian seldier . the intrepid defender of tha Lacunas , and one of the most nloriom homos « f the war of inde . ptndence . The National Guai d wus preparing to follow the example of its chiefs iintl of the Major of the town , and to testify to Generall'epe it > ympathy and icspest . when the intendant , M . Decandia , prohibited that praiseworthy manifestation . " LOMBARiOf . —Letteis from the Lomtiaido-Veuetian provinces in the"Corriere Mercantile" of Genoa , statu that political arrests continue to be made in several towns . A Dr . Pa « seg ; i hag been arrested at Fcrrara ; also an officer of tho Pontificial army and two Austrian officer .- * , a merchant named Simoeetta , aurt a gentle , man of fortune named Antogina . The "Trieste Gazette , " in mentiouiug arresti of the same nature , says that a commission has be > n appointed at Mautua to try by military law all those persons who shall have been arreste 1 upon suspicion of belonging to a secret society or revolutionary club .
SWITZERLAND . The Presidential Election—The Sonderhund A t tention—Affairs of KcufehaM . Tbe Federal Assembly of Switzerland met on the 33 rd inst . to elect the President and Vice-President of the Confederation for the year 1853 . M . Natft' was proclaimed President of the Confederation for 1833 . For the Vice-PreBidtniy , M . Frci-Heroso received th « greatest tun ber of votes . The Federal Coum il had referred . tlie petition of the Committee of Poejieux to the Council of State of Friburg . The Grand Council w . is convoked 'or the 29 th inst ., to examine the petition of tue Retublican meeting of Neufchatel , requiring the adoption of meisuresto defeat the intrigues of tho Itoyaiisu .
SPAIN . Discovery of Pictures—French Refugees—The War on the Preis . The Governor of the province of Cail-z has informed tho government of the discovery of eleven pictures , Tainted by Murillo . Zurb ran , Cano , Herrera , Vaides , Bl E'inauo . eta , and Urbitia . Those pictures , described as most valuable , had bcea stolen many years azo from the monastery of La Cartujn . The Spanish government has assi ^ ued Seville as a residence to the French refugees . The " Corre . i do Andalucia , " the most important journal of Malasa , has been suspended by the government .
PORTUGAL . The Don Pedro Monument—Pernemfiuco Declared Suspected— Tht Volcano on Fogo , The ceremony of layipg the first stone of the monument to the memorj of and in honour afDon Pedro , took place o ' n Saturday evenii'g . the 17 ihinst ., inthe quave , now called Uiu Place of Don Pedro , known as the liouio or Iiiqubiiioii-sq'iare , at which the Queen . King , many of the royal family , and most of those wlio landed on the shores of Minck-llo with the deceased monarch , and who cculd bo mustered in Lisbon , were present . The stone wus laid by the Prince Rojul . The sight was au animated one , and the specta tors torraed an immense throng . Pernambuco is declared " suspected" from the 1 st of June . Accounts from tho Cape Verd Islnnds mention an eruption had taken place from the volcano on tho Island of Fogo ( Una do'Fogo ) , preceded by all tho premouitary signals .
TURKEY . Tht llustians in Turkey-Bastinadoing British Suhjeett ; A letter from Constantinople , in tbe " Cologne Gazette , " slatei that it having been recently rumouriid that some Russian engineer ! ana officers had bc « n taking military plans inServia , the Porte or * dered an investteation to be made , and learned . that eighteen floi . tUn officer ! had visited tbe north-eastern portion of Buropoan " fur
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key , and had taken plnns of Wldilin , Schumla , Hustchuck , and Varna , and that they were taking other pinna in the HaHsan . Two lonians havo been bastinadoed order of Kiuma Kan . Ihe Eng iinh consul and the English embassy have energetically Ueraandtd satisfaction . • ... ;¦ . , A Commission , composed of three Turkish dignitaries , li < w been appointed to take cognlimnce of tho attack upon the steamboat pi » a . loogers at the Arnaut quay , at Constantinople .
UNITED STATES . OUR AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE . Kossuth ' s departure—Banquet to 3 I ; ' € abet—Qreat fire iu Montreal—Fire at Boston—Steamboat explosion—Collision on lake Erie—Anarchical Hate of Mexico . ( From out own Correspondent . ) New . Yof < K , iJuLY H , 1 S 52 . . It is said that Kossutli will leave this country for England , either by , the Afrioa , which sails to-daj , or by the Washing , ton on Saturday next ; Notwithstanding the enthusiasm he raised for the causo of Hungary throughout the . United States , his mission , at least in a pecuniary sense , has been
a dead failure , I expect he leaves . us . with . a heavy heart , the trifling " material aid" he has received being altogether inadequate to do anything for the liberation of Hungary . I know not how it was that aid has not been accorded . It cannot bo from inability , for the people of this country could easily have found tho money if they had had tbe will to do so . ; It mav be that they have been discouraged by the triumphs of reaction on the continent of Europe , and hav . e nob believed it possible to free the European peoples at the present time . However , his visit has done good . The seeds of a great principle have been planted in the American mind , and will vet bear ample fruits .
M . Cabot has arrived in this city . A banquet which was given to him at tho Shakespere Hotel , was attended by Bomo two hundred and fifty French residents in the City and vicinity , and was a very , cordial and pleasant affair . The health of M . Oabet was propo . sed in a few appropriate words by M . Einilo Chevalier ; the veteran responded in an interesting and often eloquent speech , reviewing the history of the past four ye ; ir 8 in Europe , and declaring his intention and that of his friends to become naturalized as oituuns of the American Ropublic . The grandeur of this Republic and its iniluonco , present and future , in . the destinies of tbe world ho depicted in glowing and enthusiastic languago . He also paid a warm tribute to tho labours of Koswutu in this country . M . Cabet Boon leaves for Ifauvoo . Ho proposes to e » tabli 8 h a very large body of his followers in the wilds of Texas , or in some other part of the new Territories , still retaining Nniivoo a sort of frontier station . Many thousand Frenchmen , will I understand , take part in tho now enterprise , and with their families , settle in tlits country under M , Cabet ' s auspices .
A most destructive fire has occurred in Montreal , consuming a great number of houses and much valuable property . It broke out on Thursdaymorning the 8 th inst ., in St . Catherine-street , St . Lawrence suburbs . From this it was oarried by tho wind in a northeasterly direction , to the adjoining houses , which were all roofed with wood , and generally built of the same material . The late dry weather having rendered them aa dry as tinder , the flames spread with astonishing rapidity . There was again no water in the reservoir when it commenced . Within half an hour after the commencement a hundred houses were on fire . They were generally the dwelling of poor artizans and labourers , nnd it was the most heart-rending Rpectacle to see ttie poor
people gathering their household goods together and carrying them perhaps to some placo where the flames would reach thorn in a few minutes , after carrying them , as they thought to a place of safety . Frequently by the time they had removed the Io id , it was too late to return for more . In many instances the poor mother had just time to grasp her infant from the flames , and rush to an adjoining field or garden and sink down despairing ' and exhaustod , upon tbo little remnant of property which her husband or children had been able to bring there . The despair and agony written on their features were most saddening . It is estimated that nearly 5 , 000 persons have been rendered house-SAoSsa ' s ' iJbo . oJifdX ' various * eslimated at
An extensive fire also occurred at Boston on the 10 : h inst . w . uch donroyed property to the amount of half a million dollars . A fearful Bteam-boat explosion occurred lately , on Lake rontcnartnn . Fifteen or sixteen persons lost their lives , and a great number wero seriously injured . Tho vessel took fire , and it was with the greatest danger that the Californian was able to take off the greater number of the passengers . We have acquired an unenviable notoriety for steam-boat accidents . The steam propeller «• City of Oswego" came in collision with another steamer in Lake Erie , on the 12 th , and immediately sank . Between fifteen and twenty persons lost their lives by the accident . I have received Mexican journals up to the 23 rd . There is no intelligence of the occurrence of a coup d ' etat , although tho subject is warmly discussed in all the naners .
f he Siglo XIX . "is very desirous to know " to what purpose the thirty thousand muskets stored in the National latace are to be applied , and whether they would not be of service in arming the frontier States . " The " Monitor Republloano " Bays : ' Last night , 9 th June , eight individuals wero arrested for conspiring against the Government . Among them are Senores Tostal , Vidiil , Velasquez , Ayllon and a Franciscan friar . They are all Santanistas . " An intended pronunciamiento bad been disoovored at Orizaba , and prevented by turning out fifty of tho National Guard to maintain public tranquillity .
The emeute at Mazatlan caused by tho extraordinary contributions levied directly on the people of that city by the Government of the State of Cuflacan , has resulted in a pronunciamiento . The foreign merchants in tho port , sustained by their respective Consuls , had previously determined to closo their stores rather than pay tbe contributions . The native traders had also taken the same resolution . The pronunciamiento followed . Tbo State Government stopped the levying of contributions , and was to bring the question before the Stato Legislature . Several arrests were , in tho meantime , made . The port of Mazatlan was deserted oy shippin-. ' , and its commerce dead . A difficulty of a somewhat serious nature had taken place between the Fronch Minister and Mexican Government
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THE BARONESS VON BECK'S CASE . This action by Constant Derra do Moroda for false imprisonment camo on for trial on Wednesday before Baron Aldersou and a speoial jury . The circumstances under which the action arose are freBh in public recollection . In the month of September last year an Hungarian lady styling her-¦ elf the BaroneBP von Beck , visited Birmingham , and was accompanied by the plaintiff , who acted as her secretary . Tho parties took up thoir residence at the Clarendon Hotel . They were subsequently invited by Mr . Henry T yndall , a solicitor iu Bir . mingham , to take up their residence at his house , Madnme von Beck being at tho time in ill health . In consquence of circumstances which afterwards transpired , the lad y and her secretary were taken into custody by the police at Mr . Tyndall ' s house , on the night of the 30 th of August , and lodged in the
oorougn prison . As they were being brought up for examination before the magistrates on the following morning , Madame Von Beck died . The magistrates were then informed of the circumstances under which the prosecution had been commenced , and the charge not being pressed , Mr . Derra was discharged , ltis to recover damages for this false and malicous taking into custod y and imprisoment , ' without reasonHble and probable cause / that the action has been brought . The defendants are Mr . George Dawson , M . A ., Mr . Arthur Ryland , Mr . Henry Witton Tyndall , and Mr . Abel Peyton . 3 _ A number of witnesses were examined , when tbe judges decided that there was not sufficient evidenee to convict the defendants . They were accordingly diicbarged .
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DOOMED . SPEECH OF MeTgIDDINGS , OF OHIO , sA
THE SLAVERY QUESTION . Delivered in I jo Houso of Repreeentstives , Juno 2 tf , 1852 . Mr . Chairman , —The two grcal political parlies oi Ihn nation have held their Conventions . From nil parts of U ; o uniieafctatej delegates have assembled , ' deliberated upon 7 , ! ° ™ of P ^ ciples . avowed their doctrine ? , nonrnated their candidates for President and Vice-president , and now have entered on the presidential campaign . Prenara . ory tothw state of things , many tneechea wenTraade here , Io winch the free Democrats , the advocates of liberty , listened with commendable attention . . And now , Mr . Chairman , t rise Jo occupy a brief hour ia vindicating the position of the
party to which I am attached . Often during the last six months , the question has been propounded to me , vhoiher we should vote for the . candidates of the Whig or the Democratic party ? . Thja ' ' question , bo fnr a 81 Rra concerned , will probably be answered satis f actorily before I take my seat . I win , however , add , in this connexion , th 3 t tha friends of freedom labo r to sustain measur . s ; they care lit . tie for men . They adhere tenaciousl y to principle , but have no attachment to parties . It i * not my purpose to examine Ve . crUicall y the principles of those parties . It may lie sufficient for me to remark that they agree as to the po'iey which ought to control our government . The Democrats nrat avowed their doctrines . Their confession of political faith having been two weeks before the publicand b ing
, read and duly considered b-fore the membling of the Wbi ? Convention , that bod y took issue upon none ot the doc ' . rinei wowed , nor upon the policy maintained by the Democrat . I notice in some papers much is said in relation to " internal improvements . " The Democrats say , " ( he Constitution does noi confer upon the general government power to commence and carry on a system of internal impnwements ; " Do the Whigs take issue on this general and unmeaning . assertion ? Noi at ail . They answer , "The Constitution vests in Congress power to open and improve harbour 8 , reinove obstructions in navigable rivers , &c , said improvements-being in every instance national and general in their character . " Now , sir , " no Democrat ever did or ever will deny this doctrine . So , too , the Democrats- make
assertmns about " fostering one branch ofiudustry to tbe detriment of another j" and the Whigs refuse the issue thus tendered , but in answer assert doctrines which no Democrat deniea . The Democrats attempt to galvaniss into existence the obsolete idea of a national Bank , to which the Whigs m ?* "" "p ly , admitting by their silencs the Democratic laith . Neither advances a principle which is denied by the ol her ; thry stand on the record in perfect harmony . And no other contest exists than a strife for office , for place , and power ; for the spoils , the loaves and fishes . * * * The issues which once really existed between them have become
. obsolete or have been given up . Their usefulness is at an end , and their history will soon be written . The increase of in telligence , the improvements of theagu , demand new organisations and new parties . For ; ears the old parties have intermingled constantly , and no influence ha * hern able to keep them separate . Notwithstanding the Whiga and Democrats are acting in perfect harmony with each other , they have united in tendering to . the friends of liberty important issues . One of those issues ii so extraordinary that H demands my first , attention . The proposition is to stifle all further examination of chattel slavery , and il expressed by the Democrats in the following language : —
That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing , in Congress or out of it . the agitation ' ofthe slarery question , under whatever shape or colour the attempt may be made . Tho Whigs resolved—Thnt * * * we will discountenance all efforts to continue or renew such agitation , whenever , -wherever , and however made . We , air , the Free Democracy , will agitate the subject of slavery and its correlative freedom . Here , sir , is an issue formed between us . I , sir , am about to agitate this question . I intend to speak plainly of slavery , of its most revolting features . I will endeavour to use no offensive language , but I will talk of the practice followed by men in tbis district , of purchasing slave women , and then selling their own children into bondage . Now , when 1 do this , the Democrats are bound to resist , and the Wniga . to discountenance my efforts . In order that we may start with a perfect understanding of this conflict , I desire to understand the manner in which ihe Democrats will manifest their resi 3 iance ? I
am now agitating this subject , and what will yoii do about it ? Now , I hope gentlemen v .-ill not feel any particular delicacy in showing their resistance . Don ' t be alarmed , gentlemen ; just stand up here and now before the country , bbow your resistance . Ba notalarraed , gentlemen—I am less than the stripling of IsrapJ , who went forth to meet Goliath . You stand pledged to resist God ' a truths—to silence the tongues of freemen . I meet you , ' and hurl defiance at you , and your infamous attempts to stiflo the freedom of speech , And now , who speaks for the carrying out of this resolution ? Mr . Chairman , we may •' call spirits from the vasiy derp . " but they will not come . I repeat to the Democrats : I want to know what you are going to do ? You are bouud to resist . * ** The Whigs , in their Convention , also re .
solved that they " will discountenance all efforts to continue or renew such agitation , whenever , wherever , and however the attempt may be raad « . " The language of this resolution differs from that of the Democracy , but its spirit and object are the same . They intend to suppress the freedom of speech here and among tbe people . On this point the two great parties of the nation have cordially united . A coalition for a more odious purpose could not have been formed . Duty to myself , to this body , and the country , demands an exposure of this conspiracy against the Constitution , against the rights of members here , agahnt the peopls Mr . Chairmen , is it contemplated to silence the popular voice in this Hall ? If that be not tbe case , these resolutions mean nothing . They are mere brtttum jfuhnen , made for show , to
frighten men of weak nmea . They may do very well among doughfaces ; but when those parties attempt to frighten Free-Soilers , they should better understand their opponents . The Wh ' gs and Democrats united have sufficieni numbers to vote us down , to silence us ; but they will not do it . They dare not do it . The Constitution has provided " that Congress shall pass no law abridging the freedom of speech . " That Constitution we have sworn to support , and by the blood of our ancestors we will maintain it . Slaveholders and doughfaces , Whigs and Democrats , may combine to trample that sacred instrument under their feet , bv
luppres&ing the freedom of . speech ; but , B r , they have not Ihe moral power to tffect that object . Agitation or diucuscussion is not onl y to be put down here , but among the people ; they are to have no more Anti . Slavery meetings ; no more Free-Soil Conventions ; no more sermons in favour of God ' s law ; no more prayers to Heaven for the oppressed of our Land ; the Declaration of Independence is to ba burned ; our printing establishments broken up , and our social circles are to speak no more of the rights of all men toenjoy life and liberty . A new poli tical police is to be established , and the American people placed under
slaveholding surveillance . Our literary writers are to be driven into exile . Bui I am paying undeserved attention to these basr , these puerile attempts . to stifle discussion on the subject of humanity . I hold these resolutions in unutterable contempt . I trample . them under my feet . I spit upon them . Their authors , those who adopted them , had better have been attending some sabbath school , gaining intelligence , and qualifying ihemselveB for useful employment . And here I will leave this ridiculous attempt to ape the despotism of Europe , by stifling discussion upon tbe absorbing question of liberty . * * * But wby should the Whigs and Democrats unite to keep the truth from tbe public eye , in regard to the Compromise measures ? Wh y , sir , the first of thosa measures was that establishing Territorial Government in Utah , admitting slavery and the slave trade to bo eitabliBhed
there , on soil consecrated to freedom b y mexican laws . L well know the people were told that sfavery could not go there , as it was excluded by the laws of God . Well , sir , official documents now show lhat assertion to have been a gigantic falsehood . The census returns show that slavery exists there ; that man is there held in bondage , lashed into subjection by his fellow . raan ; women ate sold like swine in the market , and children made subjects of barter . Now . sir , we * ree Democrats insist that slavery and the slave trade should be excluded from that Territory . The motto of our party n "No Slave Territory . " We do not beline it right thns to deal in God ' s image . Bui this law which permits theso outrages , tho Whig 3 and democrat a say , is a hnal settlement ; that those practices may continue m all coming time . But tboy dare not go beidre the people admitting this truth : nor dare they denv tbesa
lacts . Io avoid this unpleasant question , they resolve to resist every attempt to spoak or write upon it . Their only way of escaping from popular odium is to keep truth from tho people . Now , sir , does any Democrat or any Whig believe that Free-Soilers will vote for any enndidato pledcea to sustain thoso revolting practices ? If any ono who ever he d a place in the Free Democracy Bhall cast Buch a vote it will be sorao other man than myself . A gain , Mr . Chairman , the last Congress provided , ; oy the law aforesaid , that ono or moro States may bo admitted from the siid
Territory , with or without slavery ., They were unwilling that the members ofthe next or , any future Congress should judge for themselves , whenever Utah shall ask , admission into the Union ; and they have made this foolish attempt t " dictate the action of this , body in future a « es . W ' provision is . that an indefinite number of Slav ' ^ bo admitted . Of course , their politioal ctf . *! , ™ .. Constitution , will bo iriipropoV' - n - titates may man in Utah , who bnyVa ™ rTf ^? WCI > ' Under tha ^ s ^^^ sp ^ m&m - f k- „ , r topm liCir -Kent Deinonrati whn •* k q ^ . « & £ ! : & < . % 3 S ( ,, \ 3 £ 52 «
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The Crops in Glocesteushihk . — Touching the crops , we have little to say on the mournful side of the matter . Excepting that a few fields of the heavier wheat crop have lieen a little laid b y the storms which have partially visited this neighbourhood , the crops were never iu finer order . The wheat is fast putting on the golden hue so popular to painters and por . ts , the waving barley fields are turning jellow , the beans are black with . pods , and all nature looks bright aad smiliug . —Gloucester Journal . Absconding to the Gom > Regions . —On Tuesday information was circulated with a discripiion of Wm . Henry Pearson , a young man 28 ye » rs of age , who bad stolen ; £ 100 froth hjs . emnlqye . r at Manchester , ' and . abacor- ' with the intention , it is beliefcd of proceeding A' - -afld . trails .
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TOLL Him ; LONDON , SATURDAY , JULY 31 , 1852 . JSKSKS ^ ESi ' ¦ '
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 31, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1689/page/1/
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