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      [Countity Edition. Notlide.

      [ COUNTItY EDITION . NOTliDE .

      Gg» Agents And Subscribers Baring Their ...

      gg » Agents and Subscribers baring their papers direct from ibe Star of Freedom Office , will please to observe that for the future—All Orders , Monies , Postage-Stamps , & c , must bc addressed to GEORGE JULIAN HARNEY , proprietor of the Staiv of Freedom , 4 , Brunsnict Row , Queen-square , Bloomsbury , London . It is requested that all Money-Orders be made payable to GEORGE JULIAN HARNEY , at the Money-Order Office , Bloomsburv , London .

      To The Headers And Friends Of The •'•'St...

      TO THE HEADERS AND FRIENDS OF THE •'•' STAR OF FREEDOM . " In accordance with an intimation given in last Saturday s " Star of Freedom , " I beg to announce certain improvements in this journal , which will he effected forthwith . Thus far the appearance of the paper has been anything hut satisfactory—an evil which undoubtedly has injuriously aftected the circulation . Indeed , I inow that many well-wishers have declined to canvass for subscribers anion ?

      their friends on this very ground alone . This obstacle to the paper ' s progress will henceforth cease The next number will be printed in new type ; and in all that pertains to the printing department , the " Star of Freedom" will , for the future , presentan appearance not inferior to that of any paper published . '"' On assuming the proprietorship in April last , I received many letters urging a complete reconstruction of the paper , including change of

      form . The writers of those letters , and I believe the readers generally , will be gratified to learn that after this week the form of the paper will be changed to sixteen pages , containing , in all forty-eight columns , wider than the present . Among other advantages this change will admit of each department having its approp riate page or pages . And as it is designed to make the paper of more than passing interest , its more compact form will with many be an additional inducement to preserve each

      consecutive number for binding in half-yearly volumes . If among those who have been readers of the " Star " for years past there are any viho would prefer the retention of the old form , it may nevertheless be anticipated that tbey will have no repugnance to the new ; especially on reflecting that the new form will he best adapted to obtain new readers , and it is to be hoped , new converts to those principles of Equal Right and Justice with which the name of the ' ' Star" has been so long and so honourably associated .

      Arrangements to secure the fullest efficiency iuthc publishing department will ensure punctual delivery to subscribers and " the trade . " This matter is of the utmost importance . Insufficient attention to this department heretofore has done immense injury to the circulation of the paper . Arrangements will , therefore , be made by which the paper will , without fail , he on sale at the publishing office 183 , FLEET-STREET both on Friday and Saturday not later than two o ' clock .

      The literary arrangements will include the addition of several new features , and every effort will be made to place the paper , as a whole , upon such vantage-ground as to invite comparison with the highest-priced , and most popular of existing journals . The present editorial management vail he continued ; hut

      writers new to the " Star of Freedom , "—men of talent , rectitude , and devotion to the common-weal , —will give their assistance ,. and labour with the Editor to make this journal a guiding Star to the millions in their march towards the promised land and the better time .

      Democracy will , as heretofore , find in this journal a faithful exponent and untiring advocate ; . and attempts will be made to point out and make evident the available means by which the unrepresented peo |) le may recover the exercise of their franchises , and assume their proper position of citizens of a commonwealth founded upon the equal rights of all . The Co-operative movement will have special attention . Arransrenients have been made

      to obtain information relative to the . progress of Association in all parts of the country . A series of articles elucidatory of the principles of Association—both in relation to production and distribution—and the means to work out those principles , will appear in the improved series of the " Star of Freedom . " The " Star" will also aspire to he the organ

      of the Trades of Great Britain . Through its columns the organised Trades will he enabled to make known and to extend their organisation ; and those who may suffer wrong , whether united or isolated , will be enabled to make known to their fellow-workers , and to the world , their grievances , and the means they employ , or propose to employ to obtain redress .

      Ample space will be devoted to original and carefully written Reviews of new books , whether English or Foreign . The literature of the Continent , more particularly the Democratic literature , will receive the attention of the Editors , and fall notices be given of the most important books that are published abroad . Every exertion will be made to elevate the " Star of Freedom" to the rank of a first-class Literary paper . Carefully written and unbiassed critiques of the Drama and other Public Amusements , will

      be given . The progress of the Arts , and the advance of Scientific discovery , will be duly recorded . Thus fur the " Star of Freedom" has maintained a character for pre-eminence in its Forei gn correspondence and intelligence . If possible , this department will he still further improved . The general domestic intelligence "will be carefully condensed , or fnllv detailed ,

      as circumstances may dictate . A rich variety of miscellaneous information of every description , forming the complete news of the week , ^ ill appear in each number . It is unnecessary to add many words to this simple outline of the future . For the management , I can answer tliat no labour will he spared to make the " Star of Freedom "—in

      w $ contents and appearance—a journal every ^ worthy of public support ; and I do not ^ ° ubt , that with the help of energetic friends , that support will he obtained . One chief need of * kc " Star" is greater publicity , wanting which ,

      To The Headers And Friends Of The •'•'St...

      all improvements will he , comparatively speaking , thrown away . The example set by the Metropolitan Committee , whose Address follows this Notice , mil—if followed up generally and immediately—^ e productive of the best results . Local Committees to canvass for new subscribers , and give due publicity to the

      paper , cannot fail to ensure its successful establishment . In the absence of Committees , energetic individuals may , go far and do much towards supplying , their " place . A hearty and united effort . is . all ; that is needed to ensure a long career of usefulness and honour to the £ : Star of Freedom . " G . JULIAN HARNEY . August 6 th , 1 S 52 .

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      Tol.Uo,Xjy. Loudon, Saturday, Apsifst 7,...

      TOL . Uo , XJY . LOUDON , SATURDAY , APSIfST 7 , 18 d 2 . JZZJ ^ ZESZZZZ .

      To The Democratic And Social [Reformers ...

      TO THE DEMOCRATIC AND SOCIAL [ REFORMERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND .

      FfllENDS , — The greatest wan I of the People , in their struggles for Political and Social Freedom , has been the want of a true and faithful Press . It was because we felt this that we welcomed the * Star of Freedom . ' The name of the editor was sufficient to satisfy us that it would be a journal devoted to the advocacy of the Rights of the People , and we have not been disappointed .

      Unhappily , this journal has had to encounter many difficulties . The most unscrupulous means have been resorted to in order to crush it . Week after week the contents of the paper have shown the falsehood of the accusations so recklessl y launched against it by its enemies . It has lived down calumny , and continued , by its strict adherence to principle , to merit that confidence which , from the outset , we placed in it and its Editor . But we will not conceal from you that efforts are needed to accomplish the permanent establishment of the 'Star of Freedom . ' Believing—and we are

      sure that the best friends of progress will concur with us—that the extinction of tbo 'Star of Freedom ' would be a great misfortune , the undersigned have banded themselves together as a Committee , for the purpose of organising popular support . "We feel certain that were the paper hiown , its success would be assured . "We will make it our endeavour , therefore , as we would call upon you to make it yours , to bring it before the people , persuaded that it only requires to be seen and read in order to be appreciated by all the earnest and intelligent portion of the people—¦ all who desire freedom and enlightenment for themselves and for their fellow countrymen .

      We have heard with much gratification of the contemplated improvements in the 'Star '—particularly those in relation to the printing and publishing of the paper . Under the new arrangements success is certain if only the necessary efforts be made by those who are bound in principle and honour to sustain the advocates of our principles—the champions of our

      cause . Friends , —TiVe appeal to yon to come forward and lend us your assistance in the good work . "We have no thought of calling upon you to tax yourselves for the support of the ' Star . ' But we would beg to submit to you a plan by which you may benefit the paper and insure its success without any very great expense or inconvenience to yourselves . We beg to suggest the appointment of Local Committees to canvass for subscr ibers , and to make known the paper , its merits , and the claims it has upon the support of the people . If such local committees are formed and will

      communicate with us we will indicate other means of helping in this good work . We have taken the initiative in London , and we appeal to our . friends in all the principal towns , and indeed ,, in every place throughout the length and breadth of the land , to immediately follow oar example . If exertions worthy of the object we have in view be at once made , we are confident that within a very few weeks the circulation of the paper will be doubled , and its permanency insured .

      The long-established claims both of the Journal and its Editor to the support of the Democracy , need no words from us . To the co-operators and tradesunionists , we would say , that in preserving the 'Star of Freedom / they create for themselves a glorious opportunity of spreading abroad the great principle of the organisation lof labour , a principle not yet sufficiently known to be appreciated b y the majority of the working classes of this country . To all sincere li ' eformers—to all who desire to forward liberty and progress , we appeal to come forward and lend their active aid in establishing the ' Star of Freedom , ' as the Champion of Political Equality and the Rights of Labour .

      Josiaji Mebkimjs , Chjhbs « jj . William Nkwtoh , A . E . Dklkfcrce , James E . Moriso , George Fabkaq , James Fekwick , John Washington , AUGUSTUS PiERCT , J AMES GrASSBT , T . S . Clarke , John Mathias , Jobs Shaw , Isacc Wilsoh , D . W . Ruwr , J . B . Lbno , W . Isham . T . Farrah , Williah Davis , George Tatlor , William Travers , J . Wilkes , \ V . MlLFORD , J . I . FeRDINANDO , J . ParriE , R . Levie , Jons Muse . Waiter Cooper , Secretary .

      "The Screw" At Tub Liverpool Election.—T...

      " The Screw" at tub Liverpool Election . —The " Liverpool Chronicle" of Saturday contains the follow ng : If evidence of the necessity of the ballot had not existed in abundance piior to the last election , the events in this town , and indeed in every contest throughout the empire , show that , without some protection to the voter , the exercise of the franchise will become in many cases a positive curse . Our attention has been called to one instance , —a type of its class o :. ly , but still so superfluously cruel in the details , that we cannot resist giving them a place here . A warehouseman , named Dennis Doyle , was called into the private office by his employer in North John-street on the day of the nomination , and told peremtorily that he must vote for Turner and Mackenzie . The man , who had been three or four years ia the service , demurred , hinted that he h -d a conscience that he could not outrage , and begged that he might be allowed to exercise his electoral privilege as he pletsed . " You must vote , I tell you , for Turner and

      Mackenzie , " said the employer , who traces his pedigree as far brick , at least , as Adam , " or leave my service . " " I will not vote so , " said the man respectfully hut firmly . ** Stay , " was the rejoinder , ' I want you in the morning . Be at ' my house not later than eight o ' clock . " A few minutes past eight in the morning the warehouseman stood in his employer's hall . " Xow , Dennis , " said he patronisinslv , "I am going to vote , and you must go with me . " "I hive voted , " was the rejoinder . "For whom ? " "For Cardwell and Ewart ! " " Leave my employment instantly . You may as well stay to the end of the week , and then I discharge you . " The threat was carried out , and on the following Monday morning Dennis had the wide globe for his inheritance , to ramble and kick his heels where he liked . The case was made known by a spirited and clever canvasser to Mr . Rithbone , jun ., and that young gentleman , who inherits his father ' s patriotism and philanthropy , found honest Dennis a situation not less lucrative certainly than the one which he had so undeservedly forfeited .

      SCBTERRASEAS TELEGRAPH BETWEEN SaPLKS AXD GAKTA The " Giornalc di Rom * " of the 2 < kh ult ., gives a long account of tho construction of a subterranean electric telegraph which has just been opened between Naples and Carta . Tisc wire- are covered with gutta jiercha , and the writer says it is the longest line ever constructed on the same principle . ' The Freehold Land Movement . —A public meeting to further this movement was held in Birmingham on Tuesday evening ; W . Scholefield , Esq ., M . P ., in the chair .

      Iftnign Yrodf Mimfaj Zntttiistmt,

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      France. France And The Northern Powers—R...

      FRANCE . France and the Northern Powers—Rascality of the Priesthood —The New Ministry—The Elections— OdW . on Barrot and the Electors ofth & Aisne—The Political . Scaffold— Attempts . on the Life of Bonaparte—The approaching Fete—Disturb ' ancesiniheSomme .

      ( From our own Correspondent . ) Paris , August-ith . As might be expected , the secret treaty of the Northern Powers relative to the state of France , published by the " Morning Chronicle" last week has produced a great sensation here .. rJThe ** Univers , " the beastly organ of the iatollerant and ircedoni-htjttng priests , has a long article . upori the subject from ^ whfchv 1 extract ' the following : — The Prince President has no need of external succour . To transform the Republic inro an empire an act of his will suffices . lie could have done it on the 2 nd of December , and even long before it . What he could then have done has become easy ; there would he no resistanceand no surprise , l'eoptc are accustomed to that idea in Paris as eMewhrre . The most discontented would not bo too discontented . When the Prince entered the capital eight days ago , amid the thonderof cannon ami th-. peal of bells , amid popular acelamatioiis . followed by rtmt long- train of Generals and of great personages , Vailed by that army which is not his sole strength , with an edit o' royalty with which touis Philippe never dared to nimseitnot

      surrounu ; only no one murmured against that proud ana sudden pomp , but no one was even shocked at it ; and , generally , it imparted pleasure . We were on the spot , and we witnessed it . On these same boulevard ? we" also witnessed the processions of the Provisional Government . Every man will remember tlie painful impression produced by the spectacle of those eight or ten ushappy persons trud ging on f . ot , and in the mire , under the guardianship ot the men at arms of M . Caussidiere , and the men of thou . -M of M . Blawjui . Tha acclamations raised on their passage funously resembled hissing . They were afraid , and they created fe . tr . » nat was the government , and they were too happy that the mol > winch followed them confecendn ; to regulate its steps oy theirs , and did not ttUe it into their heads to make a movement which would have crushed them like miserable worm " . In place of those persons , after so many alarnu , no one was sorry to see tranqBiIIy seated in his carriage a man , a chief , a sovereign who ones not tremble , and , because he does not so tremble , imparts security ; a man who does not depand on the bad humour of a battalion ot the National Guard , orin the combinations of a party leader . * J

      You will see the manner in which the cowardly priesthood spit their venom upon the men of the revolution . That they " trudged on foot" was no doubt a very heinous crime in the ey es of those pretended disciples of Jesus Christ , wh- > , instead of following the exa-nple of that teacher of humility and equality , must needs roll in carriages , live in sloth and luxury , obtained by spoiling the industrious though downtrodden people . I do not at ail doubt that the men whom the " Univers" represents were not sorry to see the downfall of a government founded upon ] ust ! ce and right , and more pleased to see " in his carriage , a sovereign" to countenance and aid them in their life of robbery and lies ; but that the peoplo welcomed the midnight assassin , is an assertion which the sacrifices of the past have proven , and the actioirs of the future shall yet prove to be a most atrocious falsehood . Formerly a

      change of ministry was an important circumstance in France , but now , as Yerori truly savs , it is a matter which concerns the President merely . Accordingly , it will be of little interest for you to know that Bonaparte has been changing some of his lacqueys . The following is a list of the bandit ' s new gang : —State , Fould : Finance , Bineau ; Public Works , Magne ; Foreign Affairs , Drouyn do Lhnys ; Marine . Ducos ; Justice Abbatucci ; Instruction , Fortoul ; Interior , Persigny ; War , St . Arnaud ; Police , Maupas . A number of Councillors of Statehave also been nominated One of these is M . de Cormenin , the famous publicist , who under the nom-deguerre of " Timon , " played the part of a French Junius towards Louis Philippe . He has in his lOtli year recanted his liberal professions by entering the service of the spoliator of that king ' s posterity , and consented to become councillor of slate .

      Last Wednesday night the residence of M . Persigny , the Minister of the Interior , took fire , destroying all the wardrope of his newly married wife . I was disappointed at hearing next day , that the ( dis ) honourable gentleman was absent at the time , as , otherwise , he might have got seasoned for his ultimate place of abode . Republican blood continues to be shed on the scaffold . I have received a letter from Clamecy detailing the execution of two Republican insurgents ot December , named Cerosse and Guisinier . They were charged with killing two genrfarmes during the struggle that followed the coup d ' etat . It they did so , they only did their duty , by fighting for liberty and the _ Constitution . The real criminals were the yet unpunished monsters who slaughtered women and children on the boulevards .

      The prime mover in these atrocities was , I learn , narrowly escaping retribution . It is reported that two attempts have been made on the life of Bonaparte , one was by a gengarme mobile , who was at once shot , the other by a Chasseur de Vincennes , on duty at the Elysee . He fired a pistol at the President as he passed , but missing him , he was instantly executed in a bastion . The preparations for the fete of August' loth are already beginning on the'frocadero . This festive spectacle will be quite in the style of tut fetes given in the time of the Empire and Restor . i tion . Tho fountains of the Champs-Elyaees are to flow with wine instead of water .

      Seven journeymen masons were arrested a few days since at St . Etienne , in a public-house , where they had met , it is said , to plot a general strike for an advance of wages . Serious disorders have taken place in the commune of Demuin , in the Somme , in consequence of a severe decree of the mayor on the subject of gleaners . The Sub-prefect of Montdidier , and the substitute of the procurer of the Republics repaired to the spot , but failed to appease the incensed inhabitants , ' who base from time immemorial exercised this privilege of the poor . By order of tho prefect , a detachment of cuirassiers and a body of infantry were despatched to Demuin ; and the prefect himself , together with the procurer , proceeded to the scene of disturbances .

      BELGIUM . The " Presse" says it has received the following information from Brussels : — " The present ministers will remain in office , including M . Frere Orban . Only M . Tesch , whose health is seriously affected , will retire . He is named Prefect of the Luxembourg in the place of M . Smiths , who will , it is said , be appointed to the vacant governorship of the province of Nanmr . The successor of M . Tesch in the Ministry of Justice will probably be M . Oris , a member of the Chamber of Deputies and Professor of Political Economy in the University . It was M . Orts who , in the discussion of the bill on successions , proposed to introduce

      into it the progressive principle . As to the treaty of commerce with France , it is said the negotiations will bo resumed , and that the Belgian government will grant protection to literary property . It is understood , however , that the present ministers continue in office only provisionally . It is proposed to convoke an extraordinary session of the Chambers for the despatch of business , and to avoid in it all cabinet questions . MM . Rogier and Frere will carry on the business of the government until the new session , which is in November , and then the ministerial crisis will bo fettled , either by a dissolution of the parlialiaraentorachangeofthe ministry . "

      Victor Hugo , through the columns of the " Nation , " has addressed the following letter to the French Refugees in Belgium : — "Brussels , July 31 st , 1852 . " My dear Friends , —1 depart ; it is for me a profound regret to quit you . We have been companions in the combat of the 2 ml of December , we are now companions in proscription : it is hard to separate . For me it is tho exile of exile . It is painful to rue to renounce this community between friends , re . ' u < ecs , and brothers , of which you have given here the touching spectacle , and in which I had arrived almost at happiness through cordiality . I could have wished never to leave you , but I have been give to understand that at the moment when I shall publish my historical work entitled * Napoleon lo Petit , ' my presence would become for Belgium an embarrassment , even a peril . This was sufficient to make me at once resolve to leave

      Brussels . 1 ImVrf informed you of my resolution , and you have approved it . I : i such a case no one of ui would ever hesitate , and rather than compromise , Mere it but in app arance , and in the eyes of timid minds , the tranquillity or the liberty of a people , we would accept all the aggravations of proscription . I go to Jersey , in that England , which has the greatness of power , to give refuge , with impunity , to all the . banished . If it should come to pass that M . Bonaparte should thbk fit to raise a complaint against me in Belgium , regarding the book which I am about to publish , I wiil hasten to return ; I will appear with profound confidence before the loyal Belgian jury , and I will thank Providence for giving mc that new occasion of pleading against that man , before the conscience of all the peoples , the great . ciuse of right , of the Republic , and of liberty ! Dear fcien-is , receive tho expression of my fraternal sentiments . "Victor IIcoo . "

      Our Belgian . correspondent writing on Tuesday , says that Victor Hugo ' s work was expected to appear next day or the day after . He informs us that Victor Hugo , and his son Charles , quitted Brussels on Saturday morninj , ' , and repaired to Anvers , where they embarked for London , which they were obliged to traverse in order the sooner to reach Jersey , where they intend to take up their permanent residence . A great nutt . ber of French refugees and many Belgians accompanied them to the railway station .

      France. France And The Northern Powers—R...

      We read in the " Courier du Havre : '— "We learn that Madamo Victor Hugo , accompanied by her son , arrived in our town yesterdayj and embarked for London the same night . She probably goes'to join her husband , who , doubtless , has gone to London . " The total receipts of the state railways in Belgium , luring the first six months of the year , wore 7 , 701 , 3 l 2 fr . In the corresponding period oflast year they were only e , 8 o 0 , 944 fr .

      GERMANY . Austrian Finances—The Austrian government awl the middle classee—Likely fate of the Hungarian nobles— Vowig Nero ' s marriage—The state of siege in Baden , AUSTRIA . —Financial affairs stillhoWJteJrj ^ placo in the ; mind ? of the-Austrian ^ Winlstfyr ^ ane measure in co » - templation is that of placing in tho hands of the govern . ment the funds belonging to the orphans . A letter from Vienna says : — " Of the internal policy of tho Austrian government there is little more at present to bo said than that its aim is to win what the French call tho fourth estate . So little confidence is reposed in the aristocracy and the middle classes , who during tho revolution showed themselveseither lukewarm or positively disaffected , that it is , if I am not misinformed , intended to deprive them of the little influence which as members of the Stande .

      they posssesed before the revolution . In the new political laws the Stande will probably again figure as consultative bodies , but it hardly admits of a doubt that their advice will bemosfc unceremoniously rejected whenever it is unpalatable . Very serious apprehensions ' begin to bo felt that the upshot of tho " passive resistance" of tho Hungarian ohi Conservatives will be that they will find themselves placed in the same position as their Gallician brethren ; or , in other words , that the peasantry wiil be taught—I mean will learn—to consider and treat them as their natural enemies . In the new laws the legislative power will bo vested entirely in the Crown ; but many experienced politicians are inclined to doubt whether this is good policy , as , although open resistance is out of the question , there will always be an under current of opposition which it will bo found exceedingly difficult to overcome . "

      A German paper , confirming the announcement of a meeting to take place in August between the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia at Ischel , declares that the object of the interview is more probably tho question of tho marriage of tho young Austrian monarch than any political question . PRUSSIA .- —The following telegraphic despatch has been received from Berlin : — Berlin , August 2 . Tho Prussian Gazette" declares the secret convention of the Northern Powers published in the " Morning Chronicle" to be a mere fabrication . ' ' Letters from Poson state that 1 , 800 have died of cholera , out of a population of 12 . 000 . The fire that broke out consumed eighty houses . The greatest distress and misery pervade that city . SAXONY —It . is stated the visit of the Princns John and Albert of Saxony to Berlin related to a proposed change in the commercial policy of S'txony .

      BADEN . —A decree of tho Princo Regent of Baden prolongs the regime of the state of siege on his territories to 1 st Sept . The " Coblenz Gazette" of the 20 ; h , says : — "Gen . do Lamoriciero left this city yesterday for Mayence , where he intends to remain for some day ? . Wo learn that the departure of tbo general was not voluntary on his part . "

      SWITZERLAND . A Fribourg journal announces that the Federal Council has referred the petition of the committee of Fosieux to the Council of State at Fribourg . The grand council of Noufchatel , which had hold extraordinary sittings on the 29 th and 30 th ult . to consider what was to bo done in the present state of tho country , voted by 69 votes to 11 a decree pronouncing the suppression of a political society in which were concentrated the elements of the opposition formed by the partisans of the sovereignty of the King of Prussia . This society was known under the name of the Corporation of the Bourgeoisie of Valengin , The Grand Council of the canton of Noufchatel in Switzerland , in its sitting on the 31 st ult ., adopted almost unanimously the bill for the repression of the crime of high treason , which had been submitted to it .

      DENMARK . The " Wanderer , " of Vienna of the 24 th , says : — The treaty concluded on the 8 th of May in London , between Austria , England , Prance , Russia , Swed « n , and Prussia , relative to the succession to the throne of Denmark , has been ratificl by all the powers , and the exchanges of ratification will take place in London ia the course of this month . The powers which have not taken part in the conclusion of this treaty have received official communication of it , with an invitation to adhere to it .

      ITALY . Foreign troops in the Roman States—The Pope and the Kaiser —The Press and the Priests- * Piedmontese Communal elections—Change of Ministry in Tuscany—Rumoured interferance of the British government—The Austrian terror in Lombardy . ROME—A letter from Genoa , of the 23 rd ult ., says : — " While the German journals , and among others the Aug-burg Gazette , ' say that tho French are fortifying themselves in the Pontifical States , and covering with their guns tho coasts of the Tyrrhenean Sea , it is elsewhere said that thoy will evacuate them in the beginning of 1853 . In

      accord with Austria , which will leave a force of 2 , 000 men at Aacona , tbey will leave an equal force at Civifca Vecchia . In order to complete his army , the Pope has modified the decree respecting the mode of recruiting . It is no longer indispensable to be a Catholic to enter tho Roman army . " A tetter from Rome of the 23 rd ult ., states th t the Prince of Hohenloln , Private Secretary of the Pope , and two other prelates were preparing to leave for Vienna . They were to be the bearers of autograph letters of his Holiness to the Emperor of Austria . Their contents bad not transpired , but they were said to refer to important questions , and amongst others to tho occupation of the Roman dominions by the French and Austrian troops .

      PIEDMONT . —The editor of the " Gazette of tho Peoplo" has been sentenced to a month's imprisonment and a fine of £ 20 for an article written some time ago in favour of mixed marriages , in which he said difference of religion out not to form an inpediment to marriage , when the conduct of the parties was irreproachable . Accounts from Vienna , of the 23 th of July , state that a telegraphic despatch of the 20 th had been received from Rome , and that it was generally reported the negotiations between tbo Holy see and Sardinia have completely miscarried . Spinola had tendered hia resignation . The " Risorgimento" of Turin of the 24 th , in giving an account of tha communal elections of that city , states that

      the electors have been much more numerous this year than last , the number being 1 , 313 , whereas there were but . 875 last year . The elections have all been in a Liberal sense . At Chambery also the Liberal—or Ministerial—list has been triumphant . The " Official Gazette of Savoy" announces that M . Ivan Golovine , now one of the editors of the ' Journal de Turin , ' has been ordered to quit Piedmont for having translated and published in the above-mentioned paper , without giving the date , an article hostile to Austria , written in 1848 by the Marquis d'Azeulio before he was minister . Tho " Genoa Gazette" of the 29 di states , that Austro-Germanic telegraphic lines are now open between the stations of Hanover , Bremen , and Ilarburg .

      TUSCANY . —The "Opiniono" of the 25 th ult ., contains the following , dated Florence , tho 20 th : — Yesterday after a discussion between the Grand Dulte and M . Baldasseroni , who wished " to roavry the old with . the new , " the entire ministry tendered their resignafi-. ms . The Grand Dulie accepted them , and charged M . Boccella with the construction of another cabinet . The persons to whom the latter applied were Messrs . Puccioni . forthe Interior ; Bicchiorai , for Justice ; and Tavtini , for the Finance-men more contemptible , if possible , than their prcde cessors . The Mdalseroni Ministry fell , as it should fall , execrated by public opinion , and despised by the clerical party , whom it has served . To-day , however , the scene has changed . A note , forwarded by the Minister of England , intimates that the Ensllsh government will not he pleased to see the country at the mercy of the

      party represented by those men . The Grand Duke , naturally weak , became alarmed . He sent for M . Puccioni and did not receive him . He recalled M . Baldasseroni , and , for the hundredth'hue , dismissed M . Bocella . Nothing , however , is yet decided , but I firmly believe the Ministers , including M . Boccella , will remain in office . It is rt ported that the English Minister intends shortly to present a note relative to the evacuation of Tuscany by the foreign troops Our finances are in a deplorable condition . Twenty-three millions have been expended for the Austrian array of orcupati- n ; thirteen millions will be absorbed by the works necessary for the improvement of the portbl Leghorn ; and the interest of four and five per cn « . guaranteed to railvvajs have s < i impoverished the Treasury that in March next either th * government must contract a new loan of forty millions or become bankrupt .

      The same journal of the 29 th ult , quotes the following letter , dated Florence , 2 Gth : — The Ministerial crisis is terminated . M . Boccella quits the Ministry , and the "Monitor" will publish to day a Grand Ducal decree , announcing his retirement . His successor is a certain Buonarotti , t ' je descendant of the illustrious Michael Angelo , one of 'he Councillors of State , who contended with the greatest obstinacy that the ref igee Kenzi should be surrendered to the Papal authorities . He is , moreover , a partisan of capital punishment , which he wishes to re-establish in our codes . Those two facts will suffice to give you an idea of his political opinions . It may consequently be s * id that the change in the Cabinet is limited to a change of person , We h . ve , nevertheless , gained something , for the new Minister , although be longing to the retrogade and absolutist party , is attached to the

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      Leopoldinc system as regards the independence of the State with resppct to the Church . We may consequently hope that the la « t law on public instruction will bo modified and that education » ill not ba subjected to the influence of the clergy . The decree dismissing M . Boccella is couched in the most flattering terms , and exprcsly states that the Grand Duke dees not intend to deprive himse'f of the services of so fai ' . hful a servant . To convince you that those ara not idle words I have only to inform you that be has been ehar .-ed with a private mission ' to the King of Naples . I mast here re ' ate to you an anecdote M , Boccella , n'tc-r receiving from the hands tif the Grand Duke ihe instructions and credential * relative to his mission , wentto congratulate M . Baldasseroni , President of the Council , and expressed to him bis gratitude for having considered him worthy ta fill that important mission , notwithstanding their recent pmit cal differences . M . Baldasseroni was so surprised at his visit and language that he could not utter a word .

      The " Tuscan Moniteur" of the 21 st announces that thd telegraphic lines of Tuscany have been put into co . nmunication with the foreign lines by a connexion between Lucca and Massa di Carrara . LOMBARDY . —The greatest activity prevails in the arsenal at Venice . More than 1 , 800 men are no * employed in building ships-of-war . The " Postampt Gazette" of Frankfort contains tho following from Vienna , 24 th : — Letters from good authority which have reached us form Upper Italy confirm the acconnts of a new Mawinian conspiracy , with ex . tensive ramifications , having been discovered by the government , but it is thought that the principal authors of it will soon be in tho hands of justice . So many arrests have , it is said , been made in . the Venetian kingdom that the prisons will not be large enough to contain the prisoners . It is said that , according to a proposition made by Ficld . Marshal Radeuky , th .-re will bo no more e * ecutiot . s , nut mat the system of mildness and generosity adopted i . erantine amnesties will bo abandoned . B

      A letter from Milan , of the 24 tb , states that Marshal Radetzky bad just arrived in that city .

      SPAIN . Spanish Bullfights—Death of a Gladiator—More uneonsliiu tionalhm— Occupation of Mo—The last civil war . Tho ' Uoraldo" has the following : — " Tne Toreador Xtmenez , known under the name of Cano , ded last night from the effects of tho wounds he had received in the last bullfight . This is the third human victim who , in tho space of three months , has been sacrificed in tho arena of tho most popular spectacle in Spain—a spectacle in which , avery . parfc : is eqoRlI ^ drtWgerous / sihce the threo ' unfoiTunate men who have succumbed were , one a banderillo , the other a picador , and the third an espada . If we consider that these misfortunes fell on a class which does not count mora

      than 50 individuals throughout Spain , we find that in that class , the proportion of casualties is perhaps superior to that of an array in campaign . In presence of these deplorable facts wo ask men of good faith if such a spectacle is compatible with Christianity—if , when we tolerate such doings , « e can , without blushing , proclaim our right to bo considered an eminently relisious nation—if , finally , instead of being a Christian and civilized people , we do not rather belong to that period of the decline of tho Roman Empire , when tlie people took the greatest pleasure in seeing men torn to pieces by wild boasts , and gladiators combating with skill and dying with grace , in presence of an . idolatrous population addicted to sensual pleasures . "

      Tito " Madrid Gazette" publishes a royal decree , opening to the Minister of War a credit of 8 , 520 , 131 reals as a sup . plcment to the various chapters of the war budget , and ordering that the government shall render an account of this measure to the Cortes . Tho "Espana" slates from Manilla that preparations were making there for the occupation of Jolo , and the construction there of a Spanish fort , The " Madrid Gazette , " of the 28 th ult ., states , that the losses in the last civil war had been ascerlaincd to amount to 0 , 728 , 309 reals , aud had been paid .

      PORTUGAL . Dissolution of the Cortes—Despotism in Portugal—Royal n « vals—The Queen and her refractory nobles . The Cortes were dissolved on the 20 fch ult in consequence of an adverse vote on tho dictatorship . The decree dissolving the chamber , was transmitted to it by the Minister of tho Interior , and read at the sitting on the 20 th ult , when the Chamber immediately broke up . The following is a copy : — Using tho faculty conferred on me by the constitutional charter of the monarchy , inar icle 7 i , sec . 4 , it is my will and pleasure ,

      having heard the Council of State , according to article 110 ot the said charter , to dissolve the actual Chamber of Gentlemen Deputies of tlie Portuguese nation , and order a new election , agrm-ably to instructions which shall bc immediately framed according to the disposition of the additional act ( reform of the charter ) , sanctioned by the law of the 5 th of July of tho current year , and to convolte the general Cortes for the first of December now next ensuing . The ministers and tccrctarics of state of the several departments wi 1 thin understand anil cause it to be executed . I ' alao of Necessidades , the 25 th of July , lti 52 . Signed by the Queen and all the ministers .

      It will now , therefore , he seen that the government muse of necessity reassumo the dictatorship ; one reason is because—although the charier has been reformed—there is no electoral law , and an electoral ecrec will be necessary , upon the basis of which the elections must be made , and which , as tliey are to be direct elections , will probably be made under a decree similar to that of the Palmella governmet ia 1 S 10 . If tho elections bo therefore free and uninterfered with by governmental intrigue or military force , a still more independent chamber may be expected than that which has just ceased to be , which will produce an opportunity on tho part of the government of showing that aversion to popular representation which is known to exist in the minds of more than one member of its body—when Saldanha threatened to rcoign if the decree should not be approved , Senhor Iloltveman advised the chamber not to regard it , for disaoluUou would take place , which is entirely attributed to thepenohani of the Minister of the Interior .

      Another reason is that , as the government only received power from the Cortes to proceed to the assessment and collection of the taxes during the session—as the ways and means had not been voted—and as tbo session has terminated by dissolution , the government must publish a decree continuing to itself that power ; ni . my important corollaries upon the dissolution may therefore be expected . It is said the Cabralistas have hopes , and have received some consoling assurances from their chief . Tlie government scorns to be turning many thing in their favour ; the Minister of the Interior has lately appointed Lopez de Va concelles civil governor of Coimbra , an outrageous oppositionist of Saldanha , and a furious Cabralista , who would have apprehended tho regenerating chief , and rendered his movement abortive , had the progresistas not

      gone to his aid , and secured his triumph ; the Coimbrenses are already up and stirring upon this point . The Queen is immeasurably annoyed at the proceedings Of the Miguelites ( especially by the proceedings of a deputation which left Lisbon some little time since , to present a crown to Don Miguel , who is about to form quite a little court around him ) , and has actually signed a decree prohibiting passports to return being given to those who are gone for two years . Whether this decree will be published , or only transmitted confidentially to the representatives abroad , time alone will show ; at all events , the decree will have the effect of a sentence of banishment ( for the period named ) , which is an unprecedented stretch of pewer , in a country where the rights of the citizen are protected by constitutional forms .

      The following occurrs in a letter dated , Lisbon , July 21 st -. —The Marquis of Vallada , a young nobleman of large t fortune , whoso ruling passion seems to be the love of dis- ¦ play , has lately begun to indulge in the distinction of i having a chasseur in green and silver , with a cocked-hat t and black plume , after the manner of ambassadorial re- - tinues , to follow hia carriage on state occasions . On Satur- '• day last , when the Queen went to lay the first stone of the e monument about to be erected to her father , her Majesty y noticing , for tho first time , tho chasseur in attendance upomu the marquis , sent the Duke of Terceira to that nobleman in to express her displeasure at his assumption at what seemeded to imply a desire to appear distinguished above his

      comxnpeers ; and to signify her command , conveyed in the lorm'm of a wish , that he should discontinue it . The marquis , whoho is a very bantam cook for spirit , politely requested thedukeke to present his humble duty to her Majesty , and to begeg : that she would not trouble herself with his domestic ar-Jrrangements , adding that tho times of despotism bad gonene i by , and that he would have one , two , or a dozen ohasscurs , rs , if he pleased , without asking her permission to do so . so . Having said this , he immediately withdrew ; and , on ar-irriving home , at once wrote a letter to the Queea rrsjgningng ; his office in the Royal household , and thereby putting itoutmt ; of her power to dismiss him , aa he had every reason to ex- * x- ¦ pect she would do .

      IONIAN ISLANDS . Opening of the Ionian Parliament . On the occasion of the reassembling of the Ionian Parlia « lia « ¦ ment , the Lord High Commissioner addressed a con iiia-iia--tory message to that body , to which the latter has respondedded 1 in an address conceived in a similar tone .

      TURKEY . The Turkish attack upon the English Passengers of' theVtetorj / Ory , ' , The misunderstanding between the British mission ancanco the Porte , on the subject of tho battle royal between th < th << passengers of tho Victory and tho Turkish rabble composetbsedd of the servants and boatmen of Pethy Ahmet Pacha , lias liau not yet been fairly taken up , the Porte , previous toengagingin «« in any serious controversy , being desirous of obtaining tm ; th < i < most accurate information of the facts and circumstancemcei )! which accompanied tho occurrence . The witnesses in fan fai vour of the Turks belong to the scum of the populace ose oa Arnaout Kuey , and most of these , though not present wfcewfcew the event took place , have made affidavits , which namrall . rall I ; are liable to solid objections . In the meanwhile tho rage oge oo tho English residents against the Turks has much antedatedd

      UNITED STATES . OUR AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE . E . Difficulties betiuem the English and American Governments-znts--Mr . Clay ' s Will—Growth of Sonora— Organisation of Lof Li ' a boitr in America—Nomination of Free Soil Candidates fas fik the Presidency and Vice [' residency—Bloodshed- in Cal Call fornia—State of Mexico—Fearful Accident in Canada . ( From our own Corrtipondtnt . ) Nbw York , Jdlv 20 th . 0 th .. There wa 3 published yesterday a document from tlm till State Departtru nc rela ire to the rights of fishing in win tl ; l

      waters of the Sorih American colonic * of Great I 5 ritaiiritaii , ii Prom this doeuimnt it appears that measures have bee beeje taken to exclude American fishing vessels from pursuirrsuirir their business in the buys » long the Coast of Nova ScotiScotiin Newfoundland , or Prince Edward ' s Island . Even from tfom till Bay of Fun . iy they are to be shut out , and the passage mge < < the Gu f of C ' -M'So is henceforth to be denied ti » em . ArmtArmmt vessels belonging to the colonics have alrea > 7 taken then thete stations for this purpose , and one schooner , from Machiaachiaia has already b-en si ^ zed , and will be confiscated for hsliiitisbitii in the Bay of Fui . dy . A steam frigate , belonging to tj ; to tltl home Government , « al » o placed at the disposal of i of it

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 7, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_07081852/page/1/