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    • IT»\VN EDITIO»]Ly JCSIICE—IMMCTABLE , UJfI7EBSAL, EIEESAL! DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.
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      It»\Vn Editio»]Ly Jcsiice—Immctable , Ujfi7ebsal, Eieesal! Dissolution Of Parliament.

      IT »\ VN EDITIO »] Ly JCSIICE—IMMCTABLE , UJfI 7 EBSAL , EIEESAL ! DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT .

      ?He General Election.. Tutlt Ot The Elec...

      ? HE GENERAL ELECTION . . TutlT OT THE ELECTORS AND ICON ELECTORS . •;« rwp * ne tee liberty to know , to utter , and to argue freely accord-;'" fS ' nas dsBee , above all Hberties .-MiLTos . l" 2 ^ 3 " __ V TJ The Fifteenth 'Imperial Parliament of ' -. Great rit tjjitamaad Ireland' is uo more . ^ X The late House of Commons was essentially a oiti loitrgeoise Parliament , representing tbo interests of »/ , x . * Ae . and nromotuiff the ascendancy of canital . It tr &< fe aB < * promoting the ascendancy of capital . It

      xd < lid did hat ^ ' *' calculated to ameliorate the condition jf '• pf any sec *' ' " tne community of labour ; it ahsoia *{ ] Q { e ] y ignored-and denied the political and social n ' ff ] rights of the great body of the people . ° ) " its good deeds were few , if any . lis sins vere du numerous and deeply-dyed . ] It passed a Gagg ing Bill to iluzzle the nnrepreea seated , and -wronged millions of Great Britain and la Ireland . It enacted an Alien Bill ; which though not put in ! into operation , was designed for the persecution of & the friends of liberty , who , * forei gners ' to this

      jc jountrr , might seek a home upon oar shores . . It sectioned the employment of government spies to to excite the starving and oppressed to a 'breach of tl the Laws . ' It covered the petitions of the people with contempt a and scorn . It approved and applauded the impriBOvnp . ent and . t transportation of Englishmen and Irishmen , whose s sole crime "was thai of aspiring to give real freedom t to their respective countries . ? s " It rejected tbe demand for Parliamentary Reform ; i and its chiefs calumniated , and ridiculed the just s and holy princi p le of TJxrratSAL Sotfjuge .

      It refused to repeal the Taxes on Knowledge . It enacted a .. Military Cpnscriptioiu ( under the name of a ' Bilitia *) Billj' the leading features of which are , that the honours and emoluments of the new fores will be monopolised by the rich , while to the poor will be left * the blessed " privilege' of the lash , and the option of serving voluntarily or by compulsion as fighting men in defence af a country in which they are as Pariahs , and in support of institutions by which they are treated as slaves . It refused justice to our Colonial brethren .

      It turned a deaf ear to the people of the Ionian Islands and Ceylon , and treated their supplications for redress of crael wrongs with contempt . Worse still , it sanctioned the atrocities of the tyrants of those countries , the British pro-consuls , "VFabd and Towns gtos , whose cruelties and crimes have " linked their names with that woman-flogging hangman , the eternally-infamous Ha . ysa . ij . It made no attempt to terminate the horrible contest raging in Kaffir-land . It has permitted the commencement of a new Burmese war , which will cost the lives of thousands and , at the best , can only result in robbing the Burmese of their territory , without conferring advantage or benefit upon the people of this country . It embraced no one of the measures necessary to recover the alienated affections of the Australian

      people ; on the contrary , it allo < . ved the shameless flunkeyism of a politie . il adventurer—momentarily elevated to the post of minister—to add insult to injury , A renewal of the fratricidal struggle of eighty years since—a second dismemberment of the empire— ' looms in the future . ' The defunct Parliament gave no sign of sympathy with the European nations struggling for the recovery of their rights and the overthrow of domestic and foreign oppression . It permitted the assassination of the Roman Republic . " ~~; ' , " . """ It allowed the invasion and subjugation of Hungary by Russian arms . : . ~

      It left the Republic of Venice to pe « ialy-under the murderous blows and overwhelming force of Austria , in spite of . that Republic ' s petition for BriUsK sympath y and British aid . ,. = 'i- ' " - '''¦' - ¦¦' : ¦" Its chiefs of both factions ( Whig and Tory ) * dated to applaud the cufe-throat enormities of the traitorous assassin Bosapabte , and it did not condemn their astounding baseness . .. . &&? - . ----- . - This criminal indifference ^ he oaaievp ^ abar ^ r , fliis suspicious concurrence with Despotteusi hasjieen worthily rewarded by attacks upon the persons of British ' subjects , ' and outrages upon the national honour .

      At Lome , despite the vaunted blessings of Free Trade , thousands are continually flying from the country , and greater numbers would follow their example could they obtain the necessary means of shipment from their native shores . In the colonies , disaffection abounds , and the idea is universal , that for the colonists there is no salvation hut through a forcible dismemberment from the mother country . On the continent England is regarded by the peoples as the accomplice of their tyrants , and by those tyrants is looted upon as a hypocritical pretender to liberalism—a mean-spirited , blistering , trafficker , only worthy of blows and insult .

      In accusing the late Parliament , it is unnecessary to denounce administrations—Whig or Tory . Ministries owe their character to that of the House of Commons . All the powers of the State—the Chief Magistrate and her advisers , the House of Lords , the military and civil forces , are all of them—from the Queen in her palace , to the soldier in his sentry-boxsubordinate to the House of Commons . Ifmis-gorernment afflicts the empire , in whole or in part , the great misdemeanant is the Lower Hoasa of Parliament .

      The House of Commons is the creature of the general constituency , and reflects the sentiments of the electoral body . It reflects the corruption , the selfishfleas , the conservative tendencies , and the criminal indifference to right or wrong , pervading the groat mass of the privileged possessors of tbo Parliamentary franchise . I grant the existence of a minority both of members of the late House of Commons ( exceedingly few ) , and of the general constituent body , who seemore or less clearly—the injustice of existing institutions , and who entertain a ( moderate and ineffective ) desire to accomplish some change . But taking the electoral body as a wbole , its own rottenness is but too faithfull y represented by that of Parliament . But tbe electors are not alone to blame .

      The masses , so mi g hty in combination , so omnipotent in united action , have it in their power to change the face of society , to uproot injustice , and establish equality whenever they will . Their criminal apathy constitutes tbe argument of oppression : ' The slaves are content , or they would break their chains . ' To whine about tyranny , to mumble feebly of ri ghts withheld , is but to parade abasement , and bavite contempt . Better the forced silence of Austria ' s victims ; better even tbe brute-sottishuess of Russia ' s serfs . The crushed are to bo pitied , the i gnorant to be pardoned ; but who shall pity , who dare pardon , those who may speak , act , and be free ;

      but who prefer quietude , inaction , and therewith the misery of social wrong and the degradation of political bondage ? Enough of the past and present . The hour of the future is about to strike . The opportunity is given * ° efface the shame hanging over us by flinging to the breeze the banner of KvriONAt Justick , and marshalling under its g lorious folds for the recovery of -us Eights or ML . -1 ECI 0 HS AXD 2 \ QX ELECTORS ' . — ^ You are asked b y contending factions to give your v & tea and your voices : — ' To secure tbo triumph of Free Trade , and extirpate Protection . '

      " To repeal the Mavnooth Grant , and resist Papal A Igression . ' 41 Give your confidence to the Earl of Derby , ' cry J Je one faciion ; and the other as loudly enjoins you 0 Maud by the liberal interest . ' ( > Hat ridiculous ' cries ! ' What contemptible * atchuords ! " —worth y only of a frivolous people uu in tha slough of political Canity . When our £ bxn shouted for ' WltKES and Liberty , ' and when isiiDg generations thundered for 'Reform' algb of

      t thore was more the madness of party than g ^ Wlsdom 0 I " patriotism in those cries , they at least Jjj e c ' xpresrion to a genuine sentiment nourished in V j 0 * ° * tue nation- "Ehoy were more than fcu * i er , es * ' ' llie y wero the articulation of a people W est : Y tbough blindl y craving and seeking a Kr future . Shall Truth not command the earnest-

      ?He General Election.. Tutlt Ot The Elec...

      ness that has heretofore been enlisted on the side of her counterfeit ? Shall not the National Weal command a devotion at least equal to that , often ere now , accorded to Party ? 'Free Trade ? ' You have it . 'Protection ? ' It is no more . 'The Maynooth Grant ? ' It is a humbug . ' Confidence in * Derby : ' ? ' No ! ' for he is the avowed sworn enemy of ^ Democracy and Popular Right . ' Support the ^ Liberal Interest ? ' No ! for that interest is an * organised hypocrisy , ' ' a delusion and a snare . ' . ^ C % .. ,- ¦ . -- ¦ What portion have \ vejn ; Derby ; what inheritance in the scion of Bedford ? t * To your tents , 0 Israel 1 '

      ELEcroHS--alI you ^ f ^ the , constituent body who acknowledge the oligarchical character of the existing representation , and profess to desire its reaf reform : — Non-Electors , who suffer under the evils of oligarchical rule—an oligarchy of landlords and usurers—To you I appeal : you I adjure-To shake off your apathy , and to unite at the approaching election to- lay the foundation of a confederation , strong , honest , and earnest enough to put an end to the imposture of the existing svstem .

      For that union there must bo some basis—some broad , well-defined , all embracing principle , on which to erect the superstructure of popular organisation . ' There is—there can . be—but one such principle , that of NATIONAL FRANCHISE ; the right of all exercised through those forms and appliances which the experience . pf mankind , and the wisdom of political philosophers ^ have combined to declare necessary for the veritabielJxercise of U > tpersal Suffrage . Let the unrepresented by their voices rand their uplifted hands , let the honest electors by ^ their votes > protest against the election , ' b y a minority , ' of Legislators to make laws for the whole people . But let no barren protest end the work of the day . Let the good and true enter into a sohmnleayue and cocenant to win and establish the Commonwealth of Common Right . ' " *"' . fe

      This onl y will enable us to obtain measures of regeneration , calculated to make our country ' great , glorious , and free * —the emancipation of the soil , the abolition of pauperism , religious equality , national education , freedom of the press , reduction and readjustment of taxation , aid to emigrants , justice to the colonists , and active brotherhood towards all suffering and struggling nations . These can bo accomplished onl y by , and through , National Representation—b y ' the action of a Legislature founded upon the principle of All for Each . and Each for All . The Tory Premier has declared that his mission is to cheek the progress of Democracy—to stay the advance , of the people toTjiowerr

      His Whig rival has ; giyenunni : ' . stakeable evidence of bis design to repeat- the Reibrm Bill delusion , avowedl y . to prevent tEe advent of Democracy . -The leaders of the ; ' Manchester School * favour a farther extension ; pf .. thCffaucijis 9 to more securel y garrison existmg 7 inStit . ahonj against the encroachments of'the dAngerous classes . ' With no one of these parties have the people anyr thing in . common , ^ r . v ^ . - ... ' . ¦' " . . " 4 * - ' " ^ 2 ?? fs - ' ?!& ux ^^| i ||^ the u ^ cbange ' abl ^ cTiaracter of Tor ^ sm ^* - ¦¦ '¦ : ' . ^ 0 Chartists , - who nave' suffered : persecution . ' at tb & hands of the treacherous Whigs ^ - Working men , to wfcom ^ beoause of constantl y decreasing wages— ' the big loaf is a

      mockery—Democrats , whose hearts yearn for the regeneration of the Human Race—Come from your homes and your workshops , from factory and from mine ; rall y to tbe summons of DUTY , and show to those who wrong and degrade you that you will not longer tamely bear the brandmark of slavery . Prove to the world that you are not unworthy sons of the race by whom Europe was taught to love and to strive for freedom ; and by whom was laid the foundations , broad and deep , of the Republican Empire of America . Testify that the spirit of ' 19 and ' 39 yet has a home in the hearts of the British proletarians . Ho battloyetfor Freedom ,

      Was ever ibnglit in vain In the bosom of merry England—Nor shall it be again ! L'AMI DU PEUPLE

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      Yoll No.8. Losdoh, Saturday, July 3,1852...

      YOLL No . 8 . LOSDOH , SATURDAY , JULY 3 , 1852 . J ^ J ^ SSSS ^

      The Roman Republic. M. Mazzini Has Addre...

      THE ROMAN REPUBLIC . M . Mazzini has addressed the following letter to the'Daily News / in answer to a statement which will be found in another part of our columns : •» - Sat , —In your paper of yesterday , 30 th of June , your correspondent from Rome Wiites , that ' when ( he Triumvirate imposed a forced contribution on the city of Ferrara , the majority of the citizens refused payment , until the progress of events brought back the Tope . * It is a mistake . The history of the financial intercourse between the Republican Roman government and Ferrara may be summed up in a few words : — Ferrara was , in February , 1819 , suddenly , and without the slightest provocation , invaded by General llsynau ; threatened

      with bombardment , and ordered to pay totbfc Austrians tha sum of 206 , 000 scudi , for which as feat of a general insurrection induced Haypau to' retreat , hostages belonging to the most distinguished families were taken . On the 2 lst of February , the Roman Assembly decreed that damages inflicted by foreign invaders upon one town of the state , should be considered as inflicted upon all , and , accordingly , shared by all . The decree was fulfilled by the Executive . The Triumvirate was not elected before the 29 th . of March . There never has been , under the Republican government , a tax levied especially on Ferrara . Ferrara did only share , proportionally , in ihe general burdens of the state . Your inserting this will greatly oblige , sir , your obedient servant , Joseph Mazzini . 15 , Radnor-street , Chelsea , Julyl .

      Thf. Polish-Hcxgariax Refugkes. — On Thu...

      Thf . Polish-Hcxgariax Refugkes . — On Thursday evening , the 17 th ult ., a meeting was held in the Exchange Rooms , No . 30 , to take into consideration the present depressed condition of the Refugees of this country . Letters of apology for wm-flttendanco were read from the Revs . B . Carpenter aad W . R . Stevenson , the latter asserting that the condition of the destitute strangers on our soil was such as to arouse the sympathy of all good men . Mr . Aid . Birkin was called upon to preside . The first business done was to appoint tbe following gentlemen as a committee to superintend the relief of the Refugees : —Mr . A . Darby ( chairman ) . Rev . G . A . Syme ( secretary ) , and Messrs . Edmnnd Hart , W . Hill , A . Wells , Jonathan Page , G . Gill , — . Whitley , and W . Stevenson . The Rev . G . A . Syme addressed the meeting , and began by reading a letter from Stanislaus Worcell , a distinguished Pole now in London , describing the distressed condition of the Refugees in that

      city , staling that though willing to accept any kind of employment , they found great difficulty in obtaining it , owing to their ignorance of the language and habits of this country . The rev . gentleman , in continuation , offered the following suggestions as to the mode of dealing with the matter , and the meeting came to the resolution of carrying them out : — None of the Refugees now in the town to receive private asssistance , hut to be relieved by Hie committee while they had funds . When this was not the case , they were to furnish cards . No fresh Refugee to be taken under the protection of t he commi t tee , unless introduced by a majority of those now in the enjoyment of that privilege . The committee to find employment for a certain number of the Refugees , and to assist them till it be obtained . Jt was also stated by Mr . Syme that none of the four Refugees now in Nottingham want pecuniary assistance , they only rtquire to be under tbe protection of the committee . The sum of £ 2310 s . was subscribed to the Refugee Fund by gentlemen in the room . —

      Nottingham Paper . Accinasi to Lono GAStrnxLi ,. —On Thursday evening , at about a quarter past eight o ' clock , as Lord { Campbell was riding across Souihwark-bridge , attended by bis groom , his horse , startled by the noise made by the gate on the Surrey side throug h which foot-passengers pass , became restiff and threw him . His Lordship was cut in the head by the fall , but is , we hope , not otherwise seriously injured . He was conveved at once in a cab to his residence . Glasgow asd South Western Railway . — Return of traffic for the week ending Juue 26 . - —Receipts £ 3 , 903 12 s . 4 d . ; corresponding week last year , £ 3 , 778 17 * . lid . Numb . r of passengers , 22 , 984 .

      Thf. Polish-Hcxgariax Refugkes. — On Thu...

      Ttitt t'ALL V * TxiU FH . UJNUH REPUBLIC ., : By Xaviee Dursieu . ' .. V- ; ( Translated expressly for the . ' St ^ r of Freedom' ))!

      ^ THE DAYS- OF DECEMBER . Louis Bottaparte pretends to have won in December , lj 51 ,. the battle of public safety . To glorify , or , rather , to-excusehis ambition , accomplices and cpurtjers have repeated in every tone that he had with one blow suppressed in advance the crisis which in May , 1852 , would save overthrown French society , and put in peril the future of the whole of Europe . My recital will do justice to these lying declarations ; it will prove that ^ Louis . Bonaparte had not even that sinister and Woody excuse . No , there was no Jacquerie to be feared in May , 1852 ; far from having saved French society in December , Louis Bonaparte had himself , Jo gratify his ambition , made war upon that society in every part . of the

      country from one frontier to the other . It is he alpjie who has been the Jacque ; it is he alone who has struck a blow at the civilisation of France ; it is , by him alone / that the future of Europe has been endangered . I wilfishow it in a manner admitting of no-reply ? , * but- ' atfirstTleaveit to the facts themselves to confound his impndfint apologists , I return to Louis Bonaparte . . " &> ia . ' necessary , JaboveJ ' all , by hia acts and his crimes- . -toalrpw "bis true physiognomy •—his real , character ;' v ; a . n < , besid . es , if his own personal character was notoriejof the moat immoral that history has yet produced , it , jwBjiugh to ^ call to mind ' thatihe eternal scorn of the ' pe 6 j |^ s 'be attached to his name , whaj ^ . men be has madehis agqpmplices , and bis instruments . - , . ' * - ; Tour men ^ specially concurred in--theiOTqM ?/ T » iatn ol December 2 a # - 'General Magnan , GeneraKLeroy ' de Saint

      Arnaud , MpTahrt de ^ Persf gny , and'M . . d ^ ittny . These are now grj ^ j lords , incomparable mijiisteES .-or warriors ; they ecl ^| e « Turgot and Hocbe ; S- ^^ P ' fi at were ' they yesterday ^ , ; . . ¦ ' '' '" / V * " ¦ I twice * & a > General Magnai ) h ' elore ! Dscember , 1851 . I saw bimin 1840 , before the Gourdes Pairs ; in 1848 , on the morrow of the Revolution in the Office of a journal . He was accused in 1840 of bavingifa \ o " ured ^ priss ^ Lpuis . Bpnapa ^^^ he defeuded himwllff Overwhelitecl with iffe beji ^ actions of Louis Phili ppe , could be have the slightea | iynjpatfiy " for such a wretched and'absurd pretender ? \ rt ^| Vdisdain be threw upon - the- hare-brained- -adventufeSlrljdth :.. what scorn he . made hirh his JUtle . - and . Jinomiaio ' ui ^ otstool ! He nBU | BaVed ' even -th ^ e old peers of tt ?^ $ \ iij , baft-all their . lives trafficked . irr ^ Mostacies and . treasorr % v ? . " % ¦ ¦

      in 1848 , on ; ihe morrow ' of , tlie'ilevolutibn , TLouis Phi- ; Hp ^ was ' B ^ angefri ^ th ' e Tuileries ; he wandered 4 broughoUt-the nigbtamid th ; e . rain and mud , alongvthe . sea-finore of . Nprm . and yv » Geperal ' MagnaB was at thai time designated in . ^ tne , VCourrierJFraii 5 ais , ' ' of which I was then chief edfEbr / as oneofthehbusehol ' dofficers of jtheKing ; -he immediately iush | K ;| dgthe ; officei of 'the journal , a . prey to ' . a grief-whichflnj ^ IJi ^ cere , - so hard jsititobeliew ' ihfanliild mftnaSal ^ pocrif ^; ! - He , Magnan , . tbe ^ rieha . ofalKingVaudif ltl ^ SiB'lhilippe ' ahove ^ l ! He , a ;| 6 ^ , o @|; peoplej ^^ any Inhi " he . M - ^ wsb jiaj sM ^ fus ^ uo ^ r ^ tificatlnui Throughiridifference , ' or , rather ; forMrt ' s-sake ; heobtained that re c ' tulca ^ tion itself , ' : '" . . . ""* " ' "' ' '¦ ' ' ' 'U '> ' &^ . ' !' 'V : * ' ^ . 'V *^ : ¦ - ^

      Six . months later , the people , in its turn , was surrounded ' : x _ ana rJiy .. t . he ,-afroy' of Jhat 8 amff ! s Geheral . J . ia | na . ti , the : . mjskets ievelledr ^ fh g ; le | P ^ iJHgabJB | j ^ t ^ wai ^ is ' s ^ : | i ! rl ^ iii ^^ T ^* e ^ ^ jntbejstj'eets ' arid-on the-Boulevards ; 'it wasundai'the pro . ft ' c ^ ioh of ' the sahYeiprfhis ^^ Genera l , Magnan that ; by the mixed' commissions , andthe proconsuli of provinces , the people have been pursued , - slaughtered , imprisoned , exiled , and transported ! ;; -. ;• From General Magnan to General Saint Arnaud , the transition is very natural . Like Magnan , be has led a disordered and mysterious life , enveloped in those shades which honest looks love not to penetrate . He . is also distinguished by the same facility of condotliere to forsake friends and benefactors .

      M . Fialin de Persigny is an old Bub-officer , discharged from the service like M . Leroy de Saint Arnaud . He has distanced all the parasites of the Bonaparte family . As to M . de Morney , it is said be knew nothing of tbe cohj » d ' etat , until called precipitately to the Elysee , he was made minister . Regarding this man , all that is known of him is a long list of infamies . All the rest is rajstery , from his birth till his maturity , from bis cradle in the little house in the Champs-Elysees . Tbe coup d ' etat was announced to me at seven o ' clock in the morning ; no surprise was mingled with my emotion . In order to jud ge of tbe state of Paris , I passed immediately through the streets adjoining the Tuileries and

      the Palais National . Everywhere already were soldiers , horses , and cannons . On the Boulevards 1 met some journalists whose presses had been seized . I hastened to the offices of the Revolution ; ' the gendarmerie mobile occupied the printing office , and brutally guarded , the approach . The bureaux of the Revolution were still free , being in a different house from the printing office . In less than an hour they were invaded by a crowd of citizens , who came to demand from my colleagues and me what course they should take in consequence of such an infamous attack , The question was a hundred times repeated , and a hundred times it obtained the same response . ' The Constitution is outrageously violated . It confides itself to your patriotism , Defend it ! Avenjre it !'

      I wrote in that sense , in tbe name of tbe journal , a short and energetic proclamation , wh ' vcb was si gned b y some citizens , whom I regret not being able to name . * That is a regret I shall often feel in the course of ibis recital ! The proclamation of the Republican journalists , and that of the representatives of the Extreme Left , were conceived in the same spirit , almost in the same terms . There are not two languages to express the same sentiment , the same indignation . I know too well that a single word from me mi ght bring persecutions and aggravations of sufferings to those of my friends who still occupy the gaols , the prisonshi ps , and the penitentionary colonies .

      I may at least cite , amongst my colkborateurs , Kesler , one of the characters the most devoted that I know , whose countenance , in a time ofperil , has always been remarkable for two qualities which do not usually exiit at such a moment , enthusiasm and sang froid . I may also mention Frederick Coumer , an old marine officer , of a proverbial courage , whom the ! Militant Revolution can count amongst the men tbe most determined , the most capable , not only to combat , but to command , Towards noon , notice was brought me that a meeting of

      writers was being held m tbe bureaux of a journal , which f cannot name , as it still exists , and to name it would be to aggravate its situation , alread y so painful and difficult . Kesler and 1 went thither . Almost ail the Republican Press wag there represented . There was immediately written andsigned a protestation , to which each of us contributed his ' word of indi gnation or of acorn . The place of tbe writers who bad beforehand announced resistance , was no longer the office of a journal ; so we issued ferth to see what was being prepared , no longer for written protestation , but for action .

      At every street corner , numbers crowding , sometimes noisy , sometimes silent and astonished , around the proclamations of Louis Bonaparte , exchanged tbe most contradictory and strange comments , Tbe news circulated with tbe rap idity of the electric fluid . Thiers was arrested , and with Thiers , Changarnier , Lamoriciere , Baze , Leffo , and some other Orleauist leaders . Not until long after was it known that Cavai gnac , Charras , Greppo , Lagrange , and other Republicans more or less advanced , bad also been arrested .

      * I Believe It A Duty To Reproduce The P...

      * I believe it a duty to reproduce the proclamation written and signed in the bunaux of the Revolution at ten o ' clock on the morning of the 2 d December . Citizen * , —In contempt of a solemn oath , Louis Bonaparte has violated the Constitution . He brutally confiscates all the liberties of France ; he proclaims himself dictator . The Constitution is confided to your patriotism . Defend it ! Avenge it ! The traitor dares still invoke the holy name of the Republic ; he speaks of Universal Sufirajfe . It is ah infamous blasphemy . What lie desires , he himselt avows it , is the Empire , with its despotic institutions ; he would violently drag us back to 1801 . He thinks , he nets like the other Bonaparte , he who strangled the first Revolution . Let not the Revolution of 1818 be strangled ' . Let l \ arrise and punish the perjurer ! Louis Bonaparte is beyond the law . To arms ! Psvis , 2 d December- , 1851 . XavierDurrieu , Frederick Cournet , Kesler , P'iferlot , Qasperini , and many other signatures .

      * I Believe It A Duty To Reproduce The P...

      Tbe mise en scene of the coup d etat had been prepared in such a manner as to appear directed exclusively against the Royalist parties . There was in the ^ first-proclamation of Louis Bonaparte a p hrase-very . little , remarked until now , and vet , in my op inion , of very great importance : Louis Bonaparte blamed the conduct of the two patties in tbe Legislative AssembW , conduct which had been persisted in , be said , notwithstanding the patriotism ol = three hundred members . These three hundred members were the Repub-Vicans in the > ssemWy , in v ? hdtn was personified tbe whole of their party without . Afterwards the Republicans were

      crushed , and if the old parties have not been altogether spared , ( hey have at Jeast only suffered insignificant oppression . But , at first , they appeared exclusively meria « d ,. exclusively attacked * . in appearance there existed the most complete accord between , the hew Dictator and the leaders of the Democracy .. This was a contemptible ^ calculation , an infamous absurdity ; for the event has clearly proven that that bargain was never accepted , or- ? offered , from the very simple reason that it was radically impossible . / But iUuffiees for a moment , an apf ^ -uce , a suspicion to plant irresolution in the minds of t > e " people , irresolution which , when once produced , is rapidly developed , and grows m

      spite of every opposition . 4 Louis Bonaparte re-establishes . Universal Suffrage : this atone attracted tbe attention of ? the crowd ! In a day of public emotion , tbere .. are brilliant , and so ta speak , -giddy points of view , which-fix- / the confused and feverish . attention of the roasse . s ^ eclifli ' ng all else around \ LouisjBonn . parte Ued impudeully / ,. . hut the grossness ' of the snare was not seen at th §** st glance ; it needed the more far-seeing , the more ex | erMced to remark it ; it was necessary to remark that Louis Bonaparte announced at the same time two Chambers , a Senate and a Legislative Corps , two Chambers mute , s ^ tvile , and condemned beforehand to the most humiliating a ! ricl abjecfc impotence . He already inaugurated the regime- which was to absorb the whole of the powers of

      France in himself . He proclaimed liberty , and the streets of Paris were filled with the cannon , and bristled with the b & yonetsof the state of siege . He said he threw himself upon the people , while he had at his orders five hundred thousand Pretorians , in Paris and in the proy inces ; ready to stifle in blood any hesitation , or protest . . Had tbe people not-been deceived by the He of Universal Suffrage restored , I do not doubt but that they mipM have arisen in . spHie . iqif muskets , bayonets , and cannon ^' But , again , they could not at-fir & t understand it ; : explanation was needed ; political aiid Historical " desertation was ' wanting ; tbey required , ia fact , . to be ' " spoken to , Inof qnf yyn a loud voice , group af t er group -but-by the greatjVajce ; of ther Press , addressing Jt

      , one timVa ' U the population ^ ' ! V . - . ; .: Z Both BtpjC ^ ere wantivr |^ : ' , Th , e groups . mra already tinted by : Hhe presence of ' ^ Hmerable agents of police >; with or without-uniform , preventing all expansion , preluding by-indiyiSlal ! attacks , the arreffl ^ i ^ aM ^ 'and the massacre of - ttiSlreeU ^ tfie : ignoble . betqV ^^ l j ^ t ^ ua » the . hip w of the blud geon ; b ^( we ' the fire of the ^ usk Bta and cannon . . ;;• , As tOHhe Press , it no longer existed / - if we ' except " t ^ o " or three bewildered : organs ; oi 0 be ^ ld Rbyali ] jt parties " , who dared not jexpresa . ' everi their terror .:- . ? I will - . not speak lot ; these two great voices of ., calumny and butrag ' ei the " Cohi s ^ tu ) pl ^ Jand . theY « rpVtrie , ' which the '^ Pays ^ afte ' ri ; v waro ^| oined , ' iOiXftrni ; the •' m ' ost-cynicah'iri ' d otflraggartsaud . tadult ^ o ^; thljp ^ p ^ inlej ^ ru ^ h ^ under the ; uwi / beel of ; cuirflss { e 1 * 8 n 3-g ^^ ^ i 'l " !• '' .

      . : Add to all 4 hia that nowhere were seejRany of the representa 1 i | es of the ^ 'K |^ ntain . ^ Little , as -1 ^^ 'been their admirer , I haistentq add tbat ^ this was ho fault" of theirs , the janniss ^ nes ipY ^ meeting at-e'rei & etix ' !^ in the , most noisy fashion aFfhT ^ fauie of thVlpth arronm ^ semeht , constitute a bureau , namea sort ofexecutive power , ^ a commander ofthe armed force , a chef d ' etat major , and even to carry their manifestation 'so far as to cry from the windows that the President was an ' outlaw . How could the

      peop le , I again ask , refuse to aceppt the change , when we recollect that for a long time before they had ceased to be , to speak truly , directed or maintained in the firm resolve to give battle in defence of the peop le ' s ri ght . ' Did not Michel ( de Bourses ) declare in the Assembly , scarce five days before , that Louis Napoleon would be his man if he re-established Universal Suffrage ? Universal Suffrage was established . What more could be exacted by those who had not yet withdrawn their confidence from Michel ( de Bourses ?}

      God foibid , nevertheless , that I should altogether excuse the conduct of the people on the 2 ad of December . No ; there was in the coup d ' etat a fact above all questions , and against which a people that respected itself , a peop le penetrated with a sense of its duly as of its right , would have arisen immediately , spontaneously , without reflection or compromise of conscience , as was its duty in a question of honour and public morality . Louis Bonaparte violated the Constitu t ion , notwithstanding bis solemn oath . Were it but for this contempt of sworn faith , the heart of every citizen should have revolted , every Republican hand should have been raised to chastise and crush the traitor . The

      people were placed between a political question , perfidiously put , and consequently badly understood , and a question of honour , well-defined , a duty of conscience exactly traced . It is unfortunate for the people that their intelligence was sot suddenly enlig htened at that decisive moment ; they already know by what oppression , by what humiliations they expiate the loss or abandonment of liberty ; they feel how many long and painful efforts it costs to conquer it anew . But these efforts will he made , I am sure of it ; for these are always the people of France , the people of' 92 and of ' 93 , the sometimes repulsed , but indomitable labourers for great and legitimate revolutions . I mourn their past of deceptions aud miseries ; I have spoken of the excuse , or rather the cause of their irresolution on the 2 nd of December , and have said at the same t ime , that part of the blame of that day was really incurred by them ; but I believe in their future , as I believe in their rig ht , in jus . tice , and in humanity 1

      Towards four o ' clock it became known that ihe Repub . lican deputies were not all arrested ; those who were at liberty met in the evening at the house of one of their colleagues in the Faubourg Sf- Antoine . There were convoked the Journalists , and every man of influence who felt capable of sacrificing himself to the cause , even to the last drop of his blood . I repaired thither with some of my friends . The Boulevards , the Bastile , the adjacent streets , and the entry of the Faubourg were literall y covered by a noisy crowd , animated , I am convinced , with sentiments hostile to Louis Bonaparte . We also saw there tbe police and the armed force , who remained almost motionless , patiently enduring the jeers of tbe populace . The rendezvous was at the house of Doctor Lafon , representative of the Lot quai de

      , Jemmapes . I there met a considerable number of representa t ives , who were as it will be readily conceived , violently agitated . Whether tbey looked to the past or to the fulure th e y only found matter for melancholy and poignant reflections . They named a sort of insurrection committee , composed of Victor Hugo , Faure ( du Rhone ) , Madier , Montjau , & c , and having done so , believed that all was said . Tbey were mistaken ; the time -was not one for deliberation , but for action . It little mattered that that action was organised , collective ; it was enough that it was spontaneous , individual j every representative wm a living image of the Constitution ; wherever he showed himself he bore the violated

      law , the law which , at any price , he should avenge . That immediate necessity for individual action , as widely spread as possible , was present to most minds . By a . few energe tic words Frederic Cournet showed its absolute necessity . The quai de Jammapes , situated at a short distance from the Bastile , being under the very eyes of the police , Frederic Courre' offered his own house in the Rue Popincourt , not for the purpose of there forming committees , or any sort of provisional governments , but to agree upon a mot d ' ordre , and to appoint a rendezvous for the next morning—a rendezvous in the street , in the face of the troops , and of the whole population .

      We immediately repaired , by different roads , to Cournets . The room in which we assembled was on tbe first floor ; instead of being spacious it was much too narrow . Members ofthe Legislative and of the Constituant , workmen , foremen , some lawyers , one of the colonels of the National Guard , officers of tbe same force , and of the old Republican Guard at the Hotel de Ville and Prefecture of Police , were here assembled . With few exceptions they were already known , and could count upon each other . At first there was an indiscribable confusion , a quick interchange of anxious interrogations , or rather confused exclamations—a noise that pre * v » nted any one understanding those around him . A dramatic incident which occurred still increased tbe emotion ;

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      hut it had tbe effect of establishing silence , by recalling to every one present the extreme gravity of tbe situation . A citizen called in a loud voice for silence , and , addresihir a man covered with a long manlle , cried : — "You are a police agent ; I have proof , and am about to g ive it . " He pointed to a man about fifty years of age , whose name was sadly connected with the trial of Bourges , and afterwards with some worthless publications . In a moment , notwithstanding the dense crowd , everybody started back from him , and he was left in the middle of ths room , alone , exposed to tbe looks of all present , Cournet said to him , jn a voice energetic , but calm : — " If you are really aa agent of police , yon are done for ! Pass into the hall , from which you wm never issue alive , if you are unable to justify yourse f . " ' ¦

      . T , l . man defended himself badly , or rather he did not d < - « tend himself at all . The opinion was that there was no mistake in designating him a p 0 iice agentt jig rem ned enclosed for some minutes in the half into which Cornet h : d introduced km ; and the most important subjects were already under consideration , when a member of the Left armed to claim tbe man , offering to be r > sponsible for him , and engaging himself not to allow him to communicate wim any one before the next day . We could not do less ihan acceed to this request , The representative took him away at once ; but I must say that his intervention left a painful and disagreeable impression . Advantage was taken " of tbe silence , which this incident produced to come to an understanding . That understanding was , that the duty of each was very clear ; each might , on necessity , without accord with others , receive the mot d'ordre from his own convic-_

      tions and conscience . The representatives should put on their scarfs , and , a copy of the Constitution in their han'd , should- show to the soldiers , in presence of the people , the 02 n d article , by which Lcuis Bonaparte was outlawed . All the other citizens sl-. onld follow their examp le , ' and pass to r e si stance , using , for that object , all the influence and authority they might have derived from the services formerly tendered by them to Democracy . The first rendezvous was fixed for the following morning , in th e Salle Roisin , opposite to the Marcj / p-Lenoire , in tbe Faubourg Saint Antoine . They agreed upon a si gnal , and to

      receive the first fire , if the army made itself the accomplice of the traitor . I myself wrote the hour and tbe place in pencil , and gave it to several representatives ' , * no t abl y to Michel ( de Bourges ) , who appeared a little before midnight . For my own par t , I will never forget that last , hour , nor the firm and determined attitude of the greater part oftho citizens who attended that rendezvous of honour . There were there , I am sure , high-minded men , whom the defeats of the following days might sadly grieve , buMo whom , thank God , they , could bring no feeling of rerhorse . ' , T ( To be Continued ] . . 'T ; , ¦ " ¦ •• •• ' « I ' f ' ' -

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      Prorogation o / - t / ic , fyrps Lcgtihiif . —IIowthz Money § o % — And- Bonapw / tiCjPemonsimiion at 'Belleville . —Destructive InitH < iations ' j ~?& ^ : \ " ^ , y ? p . i { { Fr ' otgjour own Correspondent . ) . , ' " .- ' " ' P . IRJS , % V $ B SO . ' ¦ The Legislative-body held its last sitting on Monday . That its time was so . nea rl y ' upbefore the spirit of oppbsi- * tton manifested itself in-j ' ts rriidst was somewhat fortunato for i t self , althoughiiot ' so for France . " Iladtho deputies ,- ^ not been going Bonaparte would no doubt have sent thent ^' packing very unceremoniously , which ! wouU Vii » ve b ^ ea j

      pleased to see , as the most 'tiiifling " event . mightsuflSce ' to bring on the impending revolution . ' : ' . During this last sitting Edgar TScy brought to them a ^ message from the President , in which ho coolly speaks of the-free ribtes and discussioji ' ot the Assembly J Ho concludes with the following sentence , so characteristic of the hypocritical bandit , ' every hour of whose life has been nn hour - . of- deepest -infamy : — " In 'France tbewJaJVRoveinmentanfeikted with faith and with : the lovoof-good , agoyernmenVr ^ ton ^ Sipon ; thepeoplo , 4 ; bo tsource . of ^ air -power ^' . ' ^ Jfpn tho ^^ my ^ the source of ; ail . strength ; an'd . upftn ye ^^ idn ? the ' soii |^ oj ^ n } ljustice ;'' v How-lohipB this abominable force tftp ||&~ ] fc cannot bo tau ' oKlpHlier . . ' .. .. Bona parte is ' squanderin ^|^ great rate ; ti ^ e money . of which he- has roobed the : p je | p " j Ofvthis , unhAppycountry . ' A loan is talked of as imminent , but ^ the . amount is not mentioned . The unprincipled wretches who iinay be induced tolend . their wealth to support this rascally adventurer will well deserve to loso it in the'eoming day of retribution . As a sample of bow the BoBapa ' fitist ., J £ jbi ^! f

      speeds his pJunderi Iinay mention that lip : ha ' sJtoughtiready furnished , the Chateau of ¦ M ^ oo' G ' aze ^ near-St » ~ Cloud , as tUe . Vesidenco forhis ^ mi'tesB , $ ij } B $ JowiiM . vTfa ' e citizens of Belleville cestinuSto show iitHeir Hatred fop . Bohaparie .-. The busts , whfthVhad bisen , : desfrbyed , having beenxepjjteed , they have agaiu . bewsmftsheUT ^ Thirty per- ! soils hive been arrested oh- 'fiu ' spicioh .-, . , ^ ,, '; '•' ¦ v ,- ' , ' " -. • : ; JeSnne Derion lias denied the assertrinrthat she ; had been , sentenced . to . transportation , but-set at ¦ ¦ ilbeviyMa . cpnse-r quenofiibf he r y " fivilah " e 8 s : " She has' been ^ liberty for ? ' the 4 «^ W ^ e . ^ oSths . ' . ™^^ ; i \ ' ¦ ; , / T , hj >' crusade mgainst r'the ' sickly remnant of the pressy \ and tbo literary men , who still remain in FranceV ' cbutinues upabated ; M . Chouippe , a doctor of medicine , and editor of the " Feuille du ^ Peuple ; " which has ceased to appear , ; has been tried on a charge of having outraged the Catholic reli g ion , and sentenced to six months' imprisonment and 3 D 0 fr . fine . The Belgian papers are seized in the Postoffice daily , and I hear it confidently asserted that they will soon be excluded from France entirely .

      I have received accounts of inundations in various parts of the country . A letter from Petit-Noir , in tbe Jura , of tbe 21 st inst ., states that the destructive inundations to which that country is so much exposed have again caused immense damage , just at the moment when the farmers were about to reap their harvest . In the village of Petit-2 " oir , which is en « circled by the river Doubs , half tbe houses are under water . The inhabitants have been compelled to fly suddenly , and seek elsewhere a shelter for themselves and their cattle . The fields , which promised a luxuriant harvest , present the appearance of a vast lake . Wheat , maize , and potatoes ( the poor man ' s crop ) are destroyed . The constecuaUoo , is general in that part .

      SPAIN . Progress of the Reaction—The Coming Revolution . The patience of the Spaniards is well nigh exhausted by the indignities of the Reaction . It is the opinion of the nation , at least of the most intelligent portion of it , that it is high time end the to abominable state of things which r ow exist I . The government , well-knowing the unpopularity " of the court and its doings , not only crushes the liberty of th ? Press in Spain , but also endeavours to prevent the circulation of papers p ublished in forei gn countries , especially those published in Mexico and South America . These latter , notwithstanding the expense of postage , aud the little interest presented by the old European news which they contain , have a considerable number of Spanish contributors , who love to hear the Republic spoken of in their native Castilliau .

      There is often printed abroad what would not be allowed to be printed at Madrid , Seville , and Barcelona- But now tho Spanish Democrats are deprived of this last recourse , and the journals are forbidden to reproduce the Republican reasonings of the foreign writers , not excepting even those articles which have no connexion , either direct or indirect , with Spain . In sp ite of all the measures of the Spanish government , the counter-rcoct / on makes such progress , that a decisive crisis cannot bo far distant . Downtvith the deceivers ! will be tho cry of the new movement , which mutt become general ; for the universal indignation is preparing the war ,

      SWITZERLAND . The Holy Alliance Conspiracy—Earthquake—The Clerical Reactionaries . In execution ofthe London protocol of May 19 , a collective note has been addressed by tho five powers to tha Helvetic Confederation , calling upon it to acknowledge the soverei gn rights of the King of Prussia in the canton of Neufchatel . The note , i t is added , was handed to tho Federal Council by tbe French legation . Accounts from Payerne ( in the samo canton ) mention a sli ght shock of earthquake which was felt there on tha 19 th , at a few minutes after three p . m . At Berne also two shocks wore felt . 'it tho same instant as at Freiburg . Tho people of the Yalais lnvo voted the revision of the consti t ution b y a constituent assembly .

      The elections for the municipal council of Ncufchatel have just taken phce ; seventeen republicans and eleven royalists have been returned . Tbe reactionary club of the College of Ascona continue to conspire against the cantonal institutions , and tho wise laws lately passed for the secularisation of institutes One of tbe most active of these clerical rascals is an infamous and immoral priest , bearing the vorv appropriate namo of Don Adulteno . " e v

      GERMANY . The Austrian Nero in Hungary—Priests and Soldiers—FemaU Victims of Despotism . AUSTRIA . —The Vienna " Gazette , " cont a ins an act of g race , by which 103 officers undergoing punishment for their share in the Hungarian war are set at liberty ; tbe sentences of six are commuted to four years' imprisonment , aud those of ten others are reduced to one-half . Tho same number of the " Gazette" contains sentences pronounced by the court-martial of Hermannstadt against forty Transylvaniana . many of whom are condemned to death . Among the sentenced is Baron Keraeny , who expired suddenly in London a few months ago . Tho governmental journals speak of the enthusiastic reception of young Nero by the Hungarians ; and as there do

      not exist any journals who uaro speak the truth , their official lies pass uncontradicted . Private letters from Hungary tell a very different tale . Despotism and anarch y are alike rampant in unhsppy Hungary . The country is so infested by robbers that neither life nor property is secure . As drumhead law has been proclaimed , the gallows , of course awaitg every one of the desperadoes who is taken , and the quence is that they show no more mercy to receive . BREMEN .-Two young ladies , Mdlles . derman , have just been imprisoned for poli It is stated in » letter from Venice , in dance ' of Brussels that Kossuth , with teractmg the effect produced by the visit of

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 3, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_03071852/page/1/