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      NOTICE . (| gp Agents and Subscribers Laving ibeir papers direct from ibe Star of Freedom Office , will p lease to observe tbat / or the future—. All Orders , Monies , Postage-Stamps , & c , must be addressed to GEORGE JULIAN EARN EY , proprietor of the Star of Freedom , 4 , Brunsyick Row , Queen-square , Bloomsbury , London . It is requested that all Money-Orders be made payable to GEORGE JULIAN HARNEY , attbe Money-Order Office , Bloomsbury , London . TO 1 HE READERS OF THE

      "STAR OF FREEDOM . " I deepl y regret tbat owing to disastrous mis-( management , which it was impossible for myself and editorial colleagues to avert , last Saturday ' s i Sta-r of Freedom was published too late to be despatched by Friday evening ' s mail ; and that again on the following day the Town edition was not read y until two hours after the proper time . Well aware of the injury caused b y these delays , I pledge myself that no efforts shall be wanting on my part to repair the evil the paper has thus far suffered .

      Egg * I hope to be able in next Saturday ' s number to announce great improvements in the Staii of Fkeedom , both as regards the printing , publishing , contents , and arrangement of the paper . G . JULIAN HARNEY . July 30 th 1852 .

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      JUSTICE—IMMOTABLE , UNIVERSAL , ETERNAL 1 . 'EKGLAND EXPECTS THAT EVERY MAN WILL DO HIS DUTY !' Givezae the liberty to know , to utter , and to argue freely acsording to conscieace , above all liberties . — SIiltos .

      The proudest signal—the noblest battle-cry—ever uttered by chieftain on land or sea , to bis followers and comrades la the moment of expectant conflict . History records none other such . Cjssar at Pharsalia , Henry at . Agincourt , Bonaparte at Marengo ; the innumerable warriors , regal and republican , of field and flood , Lave left oa record no such sublime though simple appeal to the hero-spirit of those who followed themto victory . Thehistoryoflandand seafightsfrom Marathon to Waterloo , from Salaniis to "Navarino , tells of heart-thrilling , soul-exciting , blood-firing appeals in the name of Glory , Country , Religion , and

      Freedom , to the courage , the patriotism , the fanaticism , and the liberty-loving spirit of embattled legions about to rush on death , about to clutch at victory ' s wreath , despite the perils of the battle ' s iron storm . But Nelson ' s signal stands alone in its severe sublime simplicity . How nobly it contrasts with the Napoleonic grandiloquence of 'forty centuries looking down from the pyramids , & c " , & c . Than Trafalgar many a holier combat has been fought , but neither Themistocles , -OjioirwELi-, nor Washington gave birth to a sentiment so eternally grand as that which sheds an und ying halo round

      the name of Nelson . And remember who Nelson was : great on the quarter-deck , great as an indomitable fighting man , great as the personification of the olden animal-courage of Englishmen ; but no more . Apartfrom his profession , he was weak , vain , and in many respects morally the inferior of some of the officers he commanded . A bigoted nationalist , a thorough hater of popular freedom , the slave of a Tain-glorious , imperious , and immoral woman ; a man compared with whom Blake , the sea-king of the Commonwealth , was a demigod ; yet to Nelson xncst be accorded unrivalled fame . Not for the

      number or the character of his victories . Not for his personal heroism . Not for his death . Many chief * tains—not to speak of the ^ unnamed demigods 'have as bravely died , and not a few 'have fallen in a holier cause . Yet their glory pales in presence of that of Nelson with his immortal battle-signal : — ' England expects that every Man will do his duty ? Their duty , as understood by the victor of Trafalgar was to toil , * to suffer , to brave the dangers of the deep , the perils of the tempest , the prospect of wounds and death in battle ; their country commanded , and they had no other thought but to do her bidding , and rival each other in self-sacrifice for the safety , the welfare of Old England . The ambition of acquiring rank ,

      fame , titles , rewards , could not be felt by the mass of those whom Nelson commanded . He " might head his boarders with the thought of * Victory or "Westminster Abbey ! ' —but such an idea could have no meaning for seaman or marine . Greenwich Hospital , if-they survived , a gory death and nameless obscurity . - if they fell , was their prospect . But Duty commanded and they obeyed . They may have been very ignorant and unreflecting-, men who would be altogether out of . place in » Mechanics' Institute or a Hall of Progress ^ but they were nevertheless men who thoroughly appreciated that which they deemed their Duty , and its sternest behests they . acted up to , even at thetost of blood and death .

      Would that their spirit of self-sacrifice , of devotion to duty , animated the mass of the existing generation of Englishman * ' Peace hath her victories as renowned as war . ' And by peaceful effort might the people of this country win their political and social emancipation , if only the effort could be made adequate to the great . end to he achieved . It is not fighting that is needed , but the apirit which enables those who fight to come off victorias ? . The gory scenes of Trafalgar need not be transferred to our streets ; that which is wanted is simply an appreciation of the duty which every man owes to the state , his family , his brethren ( regardless of country or creed ) - and the stern resolve to act up to that duty as unflinchingly as those who along with Nelson fought and fell , and died in the arms of Yictory !

      The paramount duty of those w hom Bereseotujthat insolent and contemptible imitator of the pensioner , Bdbke—denominates 'thevile rabble , ' those masses , of the people unrepresented in the Parliament , ignored by the Constitution , is—before all—to struggle for the . obtamment of their political freedom , their right of control over , and active participation in , the country ' s legislation : But how , after what manner , should they struggle ? A serious question , not to he answered by falsehood and boasting . Resolutions to ' agitate for the Charter , name and all , '

      ' Glorious Revivals , ' ' penny theatre orations , ' ' making the tyrants tremble , ' ' smashing' friends , and corrupt coalitions with Freedom ' s eternal enemies , exaggeration , delusion , mendacity and mendicity ; these are the means to arrive at shame , not victory , to perpetuate slavery , not achieve freedom . To struggle , as the Lexicon tells us , is ' to labour , to act with effort , to stride , to contend , to contest . * These simple words contain the whole secret of success in popular movements ; and when put into practical operation by the people , by any considerable body of the people , the days of class-rule will bo numbered .

      The slavish inertness of the masses at large , the folly of the well-meaning but mis-guided few , who waste the means of Democratic action upon greedy and unscrupulous charlatans , forbid the hope of any immediate movement upon a national scale . But these untoward circumstances far from disheartening fte true friends of freedom , should rather inspire ttem to more resolute , time-and-fate- defying action . A simple insect admonished the Scottish king of the folly of despair and the shame of yielding to defeat The lesson was not lost upon the subsequent victor of Bannockburn . The same lesson is ever for men of the like spirit . Whatever dreams

      we may indulge in of happiness the future ; shall enjoy , we , of this age know that for us is toil and combat , and self-sacrifice our portion . But our efforts wilKnot be barren , if conducted in obedience to the imperishable laws of Truth . In all departures from truth there is the beginning of confusion and shame . The venal and the false have dug the grave of Chartism . A fact # mveving a lesson which the men of the future will do well" to remember . Is the peril which menaces our country- to Iip averted ? -are the men of the multitude to be awakened to a sense of their slarery and shame ' - Can a popular movement , calm , earnest , unyielding oabpqgi be evoked from tfo present ' MoS 7 « t

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      fishness and unbelief ? Yes ; if only the few who Inow will but act up to their duty . Everywhere are to be found men who deplore the present inertness of the masse-, who see with shame the humiliation that has fallen upon the popular cause , and who view with disgust those unblushing traffickers in principles who have made of agitation a trade—a means of sweating the poor of their , last , pence . On these men will weigh a heavy responsibility if they fail to take the initiative in the great work of inaugurating a better , brighter future ! Do they ask for a plan , a programme of action ? Of plans and programmes there have been already a superabundance . Democracy is to be saved not by the dead letter , but by

      the living spirit . Let all men who desire equal freedom , equal rights for all , come together in their respective localities and set their hands to a solemn league and covenant to work in union , to struggle unceasingly in the great and sacred work of enlightening and arousing their countrymen now sitting content in the Valley of the Shadow of Death ; looking forward to the not distant time , when having accomplished the first part of their work , they may set about the second part , that of marching at the head of a morally , mentally , regenerated nation , to the storming of those entrenchments and bulwarks of privilege which may be tolerated by a " rabble , " but which a high spirited-people , knowing and loving freedom , would not for one hour endure .

      To regenerate the Democratic cause , to lay the foundations of a popular organisation pure and powerful , it is requisite that all those who consort in union should be animated by the unalterable resolution to allow no tolerance to Falsehood in any shape or form , or under any pretext whatever ; that thej cultivate among them a spirit of chivalry which shall weld them together as brothers of one sacred band , bound to stand by each other to the death ; that , at least in the first instance , they confine their organisation to their respective localities , and take for guides and teachers those only whom they thoroughly know ; and , lastly , that they act under the inspiration of an apostolic sense of duty which shall fear no peril and shrink from no toil . -

      The work these pioneers of victory may forthwith set their hands to I will hereafter indicate . The pressing question at present to he decided is , —Are such pioneers to be found ? Who will be the first to answer ? Let those speak who will rally to the signal — 'Englandexpects that every man will do his duty !' L'AMI DU PEUPLE .

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      FRANCE . Return of the President—His reception by the People—The Despots preparations—Bonaparte and the Press—An Elysean Poet '—Prndhon ' s New Worh .

      ( From our own Correspondent . ) Paths , July 28 . Bonaparte returned hereon Friday evening . There was an attempt made to get up a triumphal reception for him , but it most signally failed . It sufficed to prove to the people of Paris what they suspected before , that the telegraphed " enthusiasm" of the provinces was most unequivocally false . Nothing can exceed the glowing accounts given in the official and semi-official organs of the dense crowds of spectators , and of the enthusiasm of their demonstration . From all that I witnessed myself , and from what I can gather from other impartial sources , these narratives are marked by the most unblushing misrepresentation . Generally , the reception of the President was extremely cold . Where I stood he was received with

      unmistakeable , chilling , solemn silence . Here and there a hireling cry vainly strove to wake an echo , and died away in space , like a sound uttered far from the haunts of men . There was something terrible in the holiday show , the military display , the crowded streets , the peopled windows , and the absence of any demonstration of sympathy . The crowd looked like a collection of wax figures . It was the hour when the cafes are full—the leisure hour of the promenade after dinner , and of the evening chat in chairs under the trees . Those who were at home came to their windows to look out , but there were certainly none of those paying tenants who compete anxiously for six square inches of space on really exciting public occasions ; However , there was a crowd , and this crowd was inanimate ; its silence was striking . It was

      evident , upon reflection , that this immobility betokened something more than indifference . It would otherwise have been unnatural . Kot only were there none of these signs of interest and animation which people show when they go out to see even the commonest sight together , but the ordinary buzz , the busy hum , that attends an agglomeration of men , was hushed . As the cortege approached , natural thrill of expectation seemed forcibly suppressed ; as it passed by , every face became cold , blank , passionless . No hostile cry was heard ; no man was so senseless as to provoke the surrounding legions , among whom were seen those very soldiers whose deadly bullets but six short months since scarred the peaceful dwellings , from which the marks , yet visible , frowned ominously upon the triumphal car . Not a sarcasm was uttered even to a friendly ear , for the lictors were present , and spies were at the corner of every street . But

      if the silence of the people be the lesson of their rulers , that lesson was given that night with an emphasis which I must have seen to have believed , and , having seen , shall never forget . From the Porte St . Denis to the Madeleine scarcely a bead was uncovered as the President passed . He bowed repeatedly , however , to the vacant crowds on either hand . At the cafS , at the corner of the Rue Montmartre , four waiters mounted on a stool , and attempted to raise a cheer . Here and there , at wide intervals , a solitary female might be seen convulsively waving her pocket handkerchief at a window . I saw a man forcibly restrain a lady from so employing herself , as if he thought tho exhibition indecent on -the site of the massacre of Dec . 4 , Occasionally the drums beat to relieve the appalling silence that prevailed . But everywhere the imperturbable attitude of the masses was maintained . This attempt to get up a popular triumph in anticipation of the lath of August has received from the people only the contempt which it merited .

      At the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the grand gallery which is intended to connect the Tuileries with the Palace of the Louvre , parallel to the Rue de Rivoli , which was performed with great pomp on Sunday , M . Cassabianca spoke aa follows : —* ' The same building will comprise , together with the residence of the head of the state , three ministries , the telegraphs , the national printing office , and an imposing military force . Thus th ? most active , the most energetic means of government will be concentrated in the hands of hiin to whom France , by an unanimous vote , has confided her destinies , and who , incessantly watchful for her repose and prosperity , will be enabled * instantaneously to transmit the expression of the sovereign will even to the most distant provinces . Such is tho programme which he himself has dictated , and which an able architect has already so happily designed for execution . "

      You will see from this , that the Decembrist does not consider temporary the power he possesses ; but is fortifying his despotism as something to out-last considerably even the ten years for which he was " elected . " The director of the " Chronique de Paris" has been sentenced by the Court of Correctional Police to ten days ' imprisonment and 500 f . fine for an article containing , in the language of the indictment , " an attack against the respect due to the laws , excitement to contempt of the Government , and attempt to disturb the public tranquility by

      exciting the citizens to the hatred and contempt of each other . ' * The article was on the tiecreo imposing the oath of allegiance on all public functionaries , and stating that the oath was not obligatory . The " Moniteur" publishes a strange composition in the shape of an episto ' ary rhapsody in dithyrambic prose by one Mery , the poet-laureate , as it seems , of Louis Napoleon . The stilted sublime of Amadis de Gaul ridiculed by Cervantes is dwarfed by the aspiring bard of the Elysee . Here is a specimen of the literature which is to flourish under the new-Augustus : —

      " The departure was sad ; the lugubrious murmurs of a storm-wind ran along the cyclopean cornices of the temple of steam . The 19 th of July—midsummer J as Sbakspeare says , not a ray of sunshine , & c . " ' There is something for Homer to envy ! 0 , ' suwime The ' publication of M . Proudhon ' s new work , which I mentioned in a previous letter , has been stopped by an order of the Minister of Police . One of Proudhon ' s expressions in this pamphlet is characteristic enough . he says that " If the 2 nd of December attempt to swtsHow France it laavbtt'St of its uteu ) , "

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      BELGITjgTi The Ministerial crisis—Death and Mn & ral of Gerard'Mathieu ( From our own Correspondent . ) " > afa u 8 sBi , s , Jutt 28 iir . I have not thought it neces ^ nry $ F . trouble you with any account of our present Ministerial crisis . It is merely an instance of the working of the boasted system of Constitutional Monarchy . Leopold isstillffnable to find a ministry to suit his views , or the views of hjbscontrollers , \ sho arenot the Belgian people , ^ jf . <''' - I have to record » loss much gH ^* .: than tbat of the Rogier ministry—the loss by de ' affiVgf an eminent member of the Belgian Democracy . ¦• Ye ?^ eAave lost Gerard Mathieu , formerly tho editor of the ^* pfibat Social , " and the courageous president of the Prado-bVnquet . He died on Saturday , in tho greatest povj ^ ty ,,. it is not-unlikely that the misery from which ho fl ^ lfea ^ hftV " accelerated

      his death , for at the period ofita Soourrence he was still young , being but twenty-seven yea > s of age ! On Sunday , 300 of his political friends accomp ' atvied his body to its last resting placo in the cemetery of Molenbeck-Saint-Jean . When tliK procession . 'bad reached the cemetery its numbers had been swelled to 500 . 2 { o religious ceremony was performed over his body . No mercenary prayer was heard , but only the sobs and adieus of his brother democrats . When the coffin had been deposited in thegrave , addresses were delivered by several friends of the deceased , and a hymn , prepared for the occasion , was sung , Each of those present then depositated . a little earth upon the coffin , aud went away sad and downcast , as they well misrht be at the untimely death of this noble young soldier of Democracy .

      HOLLAND . . The " Handlesblad" of Amsterdam , in order to put an end to certain rumours , states that the Dutch government has accepted from the United States the mission of enter " ng into negotiations with the Empdror of Japan for putting an end to tho exclusion of all foreigners except the Dutch .

      GERMANY . Despotism bankrupt—Christians of Bosnia—America and Switzerland—The Russians in Poland-The Parliament of Hesse and the Elector . »\ AUSTRIA . —The Vienna " Gazette" of the 21 st publishes the balance-sheet for 1851 . ' -The receipts amount to 223 , 252 , 038 , and the expenditure , ; to 278 , 430 , 470 a . The deficit , therefore , amounts to 55 , 178 , 43211 . A letter from Vienna states .. that the Emperor of Austria has ordered an inquiry to be madeasto the best means of providing for tho fugitive Christians of Bosnia , who are now encamped near Carlstadt . v ! - "' ' ' PRUSSIA . —Tho "National Zeitung"has an article on the treaty of amity just concluded-between Switzerland and the United States of America / in which it remarks that tho impolitic London protocol regarding ; Keufchatel has hastened the period for the commencement " of American interference in European diplomacy . ; ' .: " . " , " ,

      Tho crown lawyers have sanctioned the confiscation of the " Kreutz Zeitung , and commenced an indictment . Since its re-appearance , it givesme leading articles . A smalt town called Praschke , on . the confines of Poland , has been reduced totally to ashes-endless than 410 buildings , including barns and outhouses , having been destroyed . The inhabitants of some neighbouring Prussian villages came with engines to render assistance , but were not permitted by the Russian officials to pass the confines without passports ! r BAVARIA . —The King of Bavaria has abandoned his design of going to ; Kissingen , in consequence of the expected arrival of the King of Greece at Houenschwangen , HANOVER . —It was reported at Hanover on the 20 th that the ministry had resigned , and would be replaced by a cabinet of a completely equestrian caste .

      HESSE CASSEL . —On the 20 th a communication was made to the Second Hessian Chamber at Cassel , of the financial situation of the < K > u | to ; ' { The Finance Minister stated that there was < ft deficifcwfrom three to four millions ofthalers . The Elector of Hesse Cassel having dispensed with the oath on the constitution , the Chambers have been opened . It is said , however , that as soon as the Hessian government shall have got the grant of a loan of a quarter of a million sterling " for the expense of restoring federal and constitutional order in the Electorate" the Chambers will be prorogued . BADEN . —The Prince Regent of Baden returned to Carlsruhe on tho 20 th from Berlin .

      ITALY . The Case of Mr . Murray—Arrests at Rome—Fortification of Ancona—The Swiss Mercenaries—Sale of Sardinia—Gene ral Pipe—More Arrests in Lombardy , ROME . —The Murray affair continues to drag its slow length along , without making any perceptible progress towards a solution , nor since the departure of Mr . Freeborn from Rome , can it be said to have made a single satisfactory step . A letter from Rome , of the 15 th , in the " Augsburg Gazette , " states that several persons suspected of carrying on a political correspondence with Paris have been arrested at Rome , in consequence of information received from the French police department . A letter from Rome , of the 10 th , in tho Messaggiere di Modena , states that it is tho intention of the Papal government to surround Ancona with an octroi wall , and that the work is to bo commenced immediately .

      lhe Swiss-journals state that the Swiss Consul at Rome has succeeded in obtaining pensions to the amount of Cl , 222 f . for the Swiss soldiers formerly in the service of tho Papal Government , The" Milan Gazette" quotes a letter from Rome , stating that the attention of the public has been much engrossed of Jute with the numerous fortifications erected by the i ' rench troops arouud the Castlfl of St . Angelo , and that another circumstance excites some surprise—viz ., that . while General Levaillant displavs so much zeal in drilling the 1 ' orithieial artillerymen , he has ' brought all the cannon to Rome which were in the towers along the coast of Civita Vecclno , and put French artillery there instead . PIEDMONT . —The " Gazette " contains a formal contradiction of the rumours that Sardinia was about to be sold to England , and that Count Camille Cavour had gone to loudon to negotiate the afiair .

      "On the 13 th inst ., " fays the " Risorgimento , " i'the celebrated Italian exile , General Guglielmo Pepe , passed througK the town of San Kemo , eoming from Nice on his way to the water of Acqui . The generous population of San Remo uislied to honour , in the person of the illustrious Italian soldier , the intrepid defender of the Lagunas , and one of the most plodom heroes ef the war of independence . The Hational Guard was preparing to follow the example of its chiefs and of the Major of the town , and to testify to General Pepe it--fympathy nnd icspest , when the intendant , M . Decandia , prohibited that praiseworthy mani / esMiioii . " LOMBAUUY . —Letters from the Lombardo-Venetian provinces , in the " Corriere Mercantile" of Genoa , state that political arrests continue to be made in several towns . A Dr . Paisega has been arrested at Ferrara ; also an officer of the Pontificial army and two Austrian officers , a merchant named Siraonetta , and a gentle , man of fortune named Antogina ; The " Trieste Gazette , " in mentioning arrests of the same nature , says that a commission has been appointed at Mantua to try by military law all those persons who shall have heen arrested upon suspicion of belonging to a secret society or revolutionary club .

      SWITZERLAND . The Presidential ElectUm-The Sonderbmid A . jiMion-AffMts of Neufchatel . The Federal Assembly of Switzerland met on the 23 rd inst . to elect the Presidenc and Vice-President of the Confederation for the year 1853 . M . Naeff was proclaimed President of the Confederation for 1853 . For the Vice-Presidmcy , M . Frei-Herose received the greatest i-timber of votes . The Federal Comu il had referred the petition of the Committee of Poesieux to the Council of State of Friburg . The Grand Council was convoked : or the 20 th inst , to examine the petition of lhe Republican mceti !)^ of Afeufchatel , requiring the adoption of mcis'ires to defeat the intrigues of the Koyaltets .

      SPAIN . Discovery of Pictures—French Refugees—The War on the Press . The Governor of the province of Cadiz has informed the govern , ment of the discovery of eleven pictures , painted by Murillo . Zurb . ran , Cano , Herrera , Valdes , El Espanoiela , and Urbina . Those pictures , described as most valuable , had been stolen many years ago from the monastery of La Cartoja . The Spanish government has assigned Seville as a residence to the French refugees . The Correa de Annnmcia , " the moat important journal of Malaga , has been suspended by the government .

      PORTUGAL . The Don Pedro Monument—Pernambueo Declared Suspected—Tht Volcano on Fogo , The ceremony oflayipg the first stone of the monument to the memory of and in honour afDon Pedro , took place on Saturday evening , the 17 th inst ., in the iquare , now called the Place of D . m Pedro , known as the llocio or Inquisition-square , at which the Queen , King , many of the royal family , and most oi those who landed on the shores of Mindello with the deceased monarch , and who could be mustcrel in Lisbon , were present . The stone was laid by the Prince Royal . The sight was au animated one , and the spectators formed an immense throng . Pernambuco is declared '' suspected" from the 1 st of June ; Accounts from the Cape Verd Islands mention an eruption had taken place from the volcano on the Island of FogolUhado'Fogo ) , preceded by all lhe premonitary signals .

      TURRET . The Russians in Turkey-Battinadoing British Suljeete . A letter from Constantinople , in the " Cologne Gazette , " states that it having been recently rumoured that some Russian engineers and officers had been taking military plans in Servia , the Porte or . dered an investigation to be made , and learned . that eighteen Rus . sj .-tn officers had visied the north-eastern r on ion of European Tur

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      key , and had taken plans oi J ^ 'J ^^^ HaUaf" ^ TaVna and that they weretaUipgot ^ e ^ Iansm ^ . he . Halkan . ^ satisfaction . „ „ .. j three Turkish dignitaries , has been 4 oS » e ^ seogers at the Arnautquay , at Constantinople . UNITED STATES . . OUR AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE . Kossuth's depariure-BanqM to M Cabet-Onat fo-e in Montreal-Fire at Boston-Steamboat exploston-Colltwn on Lake Erie-Anarchical state of Mexico .

      ( From our own Corr espondent . ) New York , Jvm 14 , 1852 . . It is said that Kossuth will leave this country for England , cither by the Africa , which sails to-day , or by the Washington ^ ^ oa ^ aturdaxnexti . ' Notwithstanding the enthnsmsmhe raisedforWfcksfe oPJIungary throughout the United States , his mission , at least . i *» pecuniary sense , has beep a dead failure . -I expecttie > le £ 7 oa : ate < mth . a . he ^ y heart ; tho trifling " material aid" he has ^ eived being altogether inadequate tddoanv thing for th & liberation of Hungary . 1 know not how it was that aid has not been accorded . H cannot be from inability , for the people of this country could easily have found tho money if they had had the will to do so . It may be that they have been discouraged by the triumphs of reaction on tho continent of Mropo , and have not believed it possible to free tho European peoples at the present time . However , his visit has done good . The seeds of a great principle have been planted in the American mind , and will yet bear ample fruits .

      M . Cabet has arrived in this city . A banquet which was given to him at the Shakespbre Hotel , was attended by some two hundred and fifty French residents in the City and vicinity , and was a very cordial and pleasant affair . The health of M . Cabet was proposed in a few appropriate words by AT . Bmile Chevalier ; tho veteran responded in an interesting and often eloquent speech , reviewing tho history of the past four years in Europe , and declaring nis intention and that of his friends to become naturalized as citizens of tho American Republic . The grandeur of this Republic and its influence , present and future , in the destinies of the world he depicted in glowing and enthusiastic language . He also paid a warm tribute to the labours of Kossuth in this country . M . Cabet soon leaves for Nauvoo . He proposes to establish a very largo body of his followers in the wilds of Texas , or in some other part of tho new Territories , still retaining Nauvoo a sort ofiffrontier station . Many thousand Frenchmen , will I understand , take part in the hew enterprise , and with their families , settle in thts country under M . Cabet ' s auspices .

      A most destructive tire has occurred in Montreal , consuming a great number of houses ana * much valuable property . It broke out on Thursday . morning the Sth inst ., in St . Catherine-street , St . Lawrence suburbs . From ibis it was carried . by the wind in a northeasterly direction , to the adjoining , houses , which were all roofed with wood , and generally built of the same material . The late dry weather having rendered them as dry as tinder , tho flames spread with astonishing rapidity : There was again no water in the reservoir when it commenced . Within half an hour after the commencement a hundred houses were on fire . They were generally the dwelling of poor artizans and labourers , and it was the most heart-rending spectacle to seo the poor

      people gathering their household goods together and carrying them perhaps to some place where the flames would reach them in a few minutes , after carrying them , as they thought to a placo of safety . Frequently by the time they had removed the ' losd , it was too late to return for more . In many instances the poor mother had just time to grasp her infant from the flames , and rush to an adjoining field or garden and sink down despairing and exhausted , upon the little remnant of property which her husband or children had been able to bring there . The despair and agony written on their features were most saddening . It is estimated that nearly 5 , 000 persons- have been rendered houseless by this calamity . The loss is variously estimated at from 3 , 000 , 000 to 4 , 000 , 000 dolls .

      An extensive fire also occurred at Boston on the 10 th inst . which destroyed property to the amount of half a million dollars . A fearful steam-boat explosion occurred lately , on Lake Pontohartrin . Fifteen or sixteen persons lost their lives , and a great number were seriously injured . The vessel took fire , and it was with the greatest danger that the " Californian " was able to take off the greater number of the passengers . We have acquired an unenviable notoriety for steam-boat accidents . The steam propeller " City of Oswego" came in collision with another steamer in Lake Erie , on the 12 th , and immediately sank . Between fifteen and twenty persona lost their lives by the accident . I have received Mexican journals up to the 23 rd . There is no intelligence of the occurrence of a coup d ' etat , although the subject is warmly discussed in all tho papers .

      " The Siglo XIX , " is very desirous to know " to what purpose the thirty thousand muskets stored in the National Palace aro to be applied , and whether they would not be of service in arming the frontier States . " The '' Monitor Republicano" says ; " Last night , 9 th June , eight individuals were arrested * for conspiring against the Government . Among them aro Senores Tostal , Vidal , Velasquez , Ayllon and a Franciscan friar . They are all Santanistas . " . An intended pronunciamiento had been discovered at Orizaba , and prevented by turning out fifty of the National Guard to maintain public tranquillity .

      The emeute at Mazatlan caused by the extraordinary contributions levied directly on the people of that city by the Government of the Slate of Cullacan , has resulted in a pronunciamiento . The foreign merchants in the port , sustained by their respective Consuls , had previously determined to close their stores rather than pay tho contributions . Tho native traders had also taken the same resolution . The pronunciamiento followed . Tho State Government stopped the levying of contributions , and was to bring the question before the State Legislature . Several arrests were , in the meantime , made . The port of Mazatlan was deserted by shipping , and its commerce dead . A difficulty of a somewhat serious nature had taken placo between the French Minister and Mexican Government .

      The Baroness Von Beck's Case. This Actio...

      THE BARONESS VON BECK'S CASE . This action by Constant Derra do Moroda for false imprisonment camo on for trial on Wednesday before Baron Alderson and a special jury . Tho circumstances under which tho action arose are fresh in public recollection . In the mouth of September last year an Hungarian lad y styling herself the Baroness von Beck , visited Birmingham , and was accompanied by the plaintiff , who acted as her secretary . The parties took up their residence at the Clarendon Hotel . They were subsequently invited by Mr . Henry Tyndall , a solicitor in Bir . miugham , to take up their residence at his house , Madame von Beck being at the time in ill health . In

      consquence of circumstances which afterwards transpired , the lady and her secretary were taken into custody by the police at Mr . Tyndall ' s house , on the night of the 30 th of August , " and lodged in the borough prison , As they were being brought up for examination before the magistrates on the following morning , Madame Von Beck died . The magistrates were then informed of the circumstances under which the prosecution had been commenced , and the charge not being pressed , Mr . Derra was discharged . It is to recover damages for this ' false and malicous' taking into custody and imprisoment , ' without reasonable and probable cause / that the action has been brought .

      The defendants are Mr . George Dawson , M . A ., Mr . Arthur Ryland , Mr . Henry Witton Tynddll , and Mr . Abel Peyton . A number of witnesses were examined , when the judges decided that there was not sufficient evidence to convict the defendants . They were accordingly discharged .

      The Crops In Gmcesteushire.—Touching The...

      The Crops in Gmcesteushire . —Touching the crop ? , we have little to say on the mournful side of the raaUev Excepting that a few fi-his of the heavier wheat crop have been a little laid by the storms which have partially visited this neighbourhood , the crops were never in finer order . The wheat is fast putting on the golden hue so popular to painiers and poets , the waving bailey fields are turning yellow , the beans are black with pods , and all nature looks bright and smiling . —Gloucester Journal . Absconding to the Gold Regions . —On Tuesday information was circulated with a discription of Wm . Henry Peiroon , a young man , 28 years of ng >» , who had stolen ; 61 C 0 from his employer at " Manchester , and absconded , vii b the intention , it is believrd of proceeding Australia .

      ; American Slavery Doomed. Speech Op Mrm...

      ; AMERICAN SLAVERY DOOMED . SPEECH OP MRMHDDINGS , OP OHIO , ON THE SLAVERY QUESTION . Delivered in Jjs House of Representatives , Juno 23 / 1852 .

      Mr . Chairman , —The t wo great political parlks of the nation have held their Conventions . From all parts of the United States delegates have assembled , delibera ' . ed upon their platform of principles , avowed their doctrines , nom - nated their candidates / or President and Vice-President , and now have entered on the presidential campaign . Preparatory to this state of things , many speeches were made here , to which the free Democrats , the advocates of Mherty . listened with commendable attention . And now , Mr . Chairman , 'I rise to occupy a brief hour in vindicating the position of the party to which I am attached . Often during the last s ? x months , the question has been propounded to me , whether we should vote for the candidates of the Whig or the

      Democratic party ? Tbis question , so far as 1 am concerned , will probably be answered satis ' actorily before ; I take my seat . I will , however , add , in tin ' s connexion , that the friends of freedom labour to sustain measures ; they care little for men . They adlere tenaciously to principle , but have no attachment to parties . It ia not my purpose to examine very critically the principles of those parties . It maybe sufficient for me to remark that they agree as to the . policy which ought to control our government . The Democrats first avowed ( heir doctrines . Their confession of political faith having been two weeks before the public , and h ing read and duly considered b-fore the fssemblitig of the Whig Convention , that body took issue upon none of the doc-rines avowed , nor upon the policy maintained by the Democrats .

      I notice in sonifi pape ; s ranch is said in relation to " internal im rovetnents . " The Democrats say , , " the Constitution does not confer upon the general government power to commence and carry on a system of internal improvements . " Do lhe Whigs take issue on this general arid unmeaning assertion ?'; Not at all , They answer , "The Constitution vests in Congress power to open and improve harbours , remove obstructions in navigable rivers , & c ., said iraprovements . bKihir , ir . every instance national atift ' g « ner » l in their character / ' Now , sir ,, no Democrat ever did or ever will , deny this ' doctrine- So , iooj the Democrats make assertions about " fostering one branch ofindiistryto the detriment of another ; " and the Whigs refuse the issue thus tendered , but in answer assert doctrines which no Democrat

      denies . The Democrats attempt to galvanise into existence the obsolete idea of a national Bank , to which the Whigs make no reply , admitting by their silence the Democratic faith . Neither advances a . principle which is denied by the other ; they stand on tho record in perfect harmony . And no other contest exists than a strife for office , for place , and power ; for ihe spoils , the loaves and fishes . * * * The issues which once really existed between them have become obsolete , or have been given up . Their usefulness is at an end , and their history will soon be written . The increase of intelligence , the improvements of the age , demand new

      organisations acid new parlies . For } ears the old patties have intermingled constantly , and no ii . ' flucnce has been able to keep them separate . Notwithstanding the Whigs and Democrats are acting in perfect harmony with each " other , they have united in tendering to the friends of liberty important issues . One of those issues in so extraordinary that it demands my first attention . The proposition is to stifle all further examination of chattel slavery , and is expressed by the Damocrats in the following language . — That tho Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing . m Congress or out of it , the agitation of the . slavery question , under whatever shape or colour the attempt may be nnvJo .

      The Whigs resolved—That * * * wo will discountenance all efforts to continue or reaewsuch agitation , whenever , wherever , and however made . We , sir , the Free Democracy , will agitate the subject of slavery and its correlative freedom . Here , sir , is an issue formed between us , 1 , sir , am about to agitate this question . I intend to speak plainly of slavery , of its most revolting features . 1 will endeavour to use no offensive language , but 1 will talk of the practice followed by men in this district , of purchasing slave women , and then selling their own children into bondage . Now , when 1 do this , the Democrat ' s are bound to resist , and the Whigs to discountenance my efforts . In order that we may start "with a perfect understanding of this conflict , I desire to understand the manner

      in which the Democrats will manifest their resistance ? I a _ m now agitating this subject , and what will you do about it ? Now , I hope gentlemen will not feel any particular delicacy in showing their resistance . Don ' t be alarmed , gentlemen ; just stand up here and now before the country , show your resistance . Be not alarmed , gentlemen—I am less than the stripling of Israel , who went forth to meet Goliath . You stand pledged to resist God ' s truths—to silence the tongues of freemen . I meet you , and hurl defiance at you , and your infamous attempts to stifle the freedom of speech . And now , -who speaks for the carrying out of this resolution ? Mr . Chairman , we may " call spirits from the vasty deep . " but they will not come . I repeat to the Democrats : I want to know what you are going to do ? You are bound to

      resist . * * . * The Whigs , in their Convention , also re ^ solved that they (< will discountenance all efforts to continue or renew such agitation , whenever , "wherever , and however the attempt may be made . " The language of this resolution differs from that of the Democracy , but its spirit and object are the same . They intend to suppress the fieedom of speech here and among the people . On this point the two great parties of the nation have cordially united . A coalition for a more odious purpose could not have been formed . Duty to myself , to this body , and lhe country , demands an exposure cf this conspiracy against the Constitution , against the rights of members here , " againtt the people Mr . Chairmen , is it contemplated to silence the popular vole ? in this Hall ? If that be not the case , these resolutions mean

      nothing . They are mere briitum fulmen , made for show , to frighten men of weak nerves . They may do very well among doughfaces ; but when those parties attempt to frighten Free-Soilers , they should belter understand their opponents . The Wlvga and Democrats united have sufficient numbers to vote us down , to silence us ; hut they will not doit . They dare not doit . The Constitution has provided " that Congress shall pass no law abridging the freedom of speech . " That Constitution vrc have sworn to support , and by the blood of our ancestors we will maintain it . Slaveholders and doughfaces , Whigs and Democrats , may combine to trample that sacred instrument under their feet , by suppressing the freedom of speech ; but , sir , they have not the moral power to < ftrtct that object . Agitation or

      discuscussion is not only to be put down here , but among the people ; they are to have no more And . Slavery meetings ; no more Free-Soil Conventions ; no more sermons in favour of God's law ; no more prayers to Heaven for the oppressed of our Land ; the Declaration of Independence is to be burned ; our printing establishments broken up , and our social circles are to speak no more of the rights of all men to enjoy life and liberty . A new political police is to be established , and the American people placed under slaveholding surveillance . Our literary writers are to be driven into exile . But I am paying undeserved attention to these base , these puerile attempts to stifle discussion on the subject of humanity . I hold these resolutions in unutterable contempt . I trample them under my feet . I spit upon them .

      Their authors , those who adopted them , had better bare been attending some sabbath school , gaining intelligent , and qualifying themselves for useful employment . And here I will leave this ridiculous attempt to ape the despotism of Europe , by stifling discussion upon the absorbing question of liberty . * * * Hut why should the Whigs and Democrats unite to keep the truth from the puhiic eye , in regard to the Compromise measures ? Why , sir , the first of those measures was tbat establishing Territorial Government in Utah , admitting slavery and the slave trade to be established there , on soil consecrated to freedom by raexican laws . ! well know the people were told that slavery could not go there , as it was excluded by the laws of God . Well , sir , official documents now show that assertion to have been a

      gigantic falsehood . The census returns show that slarery exists there ; that man is there held in bondage , lashed into subjection by his fellow-man ; women are sold like swine in the market , and children made subjects of barter . Now , sir , we Free Democrats insist that slavery and the slave trade should be excluded from that Territory . The motto of our party is ' -No Slave Territory . ' ' We do not believe it right thus to deal in God ' s image . But this law which permits these outrages , tho Whigs and democrats say , is a final settlement ; that these practices may continue in all coming time . But they dare not go before the people admitting this truth ; nor dare they deny these facts . To avoid this unpleasant question , they resolve to resist every attempt to speak or write upon it . Their only

      way of escaping tvom popular odium is to keep truth from the people . Now , sir , does any Democrat or any Whig believe that Fiee-Soilers will vote for any candidate pledged to sustain those revolting practices ? If any one who ever held a place in the Free Democracy shall cast such a vote it will be some other man than myself . Again , Mr . Chairman , tho last Congress provided , by the law aforesaid , that one or more States may be admitted from tho said Territory , with or without slavery . They were unwilling that tho members of tho next or any future Congress should judge for themselves , whenever Utah shall ask admission into the Union ; and they have made this foolish attempt to

      dictate the action of this body in future ages . Well , the provision is , that an indefinite number of slave States may be admitted . Of course their political power , under tho Constitution , will be in proportion to their slaves . Tho man in Utah , who buys a slave woman , and raises four bastard children , and holds them as property , adds as much to tho political power of that state as four of these educated and intelligent Democrats who sit before me add to tho political influence of a free State . Now , sir , we , tho FneDemocracy , are unqualifiedly opposed to this insult to Northern dignify . ' We do not believe that the man who thus sets at defiance God's law , and tramples upon decencv , is

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 31, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_31071852/page/1/