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      JUSTICE—IMHUTABLE , UNIVEBSA 1 , ETERNAL ! ^ WEL COME THE DELUGE ! Girs me the liberty to know , to utter , and to argue freely accord icg to conscience , above all liberties . —Xnxos . Jpres moi le deluge 1 Smart and epigrammatic that ! Doubtless Du Babry enjoyed it much . And the Salons of Paris , bow they re-echoed the clever sentence—uttered half in jest , half in earnest , by His Most Sacred Majesty , Louis XV . Prince , prostitute , and parasite had no idea that a prediction had been nttered—a prophecy destined ' to be terribl y fulfilled . Ah ! if Du Baury could only—through the medium of Caguosteo ' s magic mirror or some other

      necromantic contrivance—looked into the future , how her mocking laughter would have turned to agony ani tears ! Summers and Winters pass—not many—and the royal patron of the Pare aux cerfs his most Christian and most rotten kingship dies in the odour of sanctity and the feculence of foulest loathsomeness , and is gathered to his fathers . The royal locksmith and cl ockmender—unhappy victim of Hereditary Monarch y—reigns over France . The waters rise 1 The insolent harlot , into whose lap had been poured the treasures of France , is living to

      behold the deluge—the stormy waves of which conduct her to the guillotine ! Very distressing to sublime and beautiful' Burke . There was a time ¦ when to be one of Royalty ' s prostitutes was to be the adored of France . But now !—* the age of chivalry is gone' ! Very shocking to tbee , O , fool of the eloquent tongue and pen ; but not the less natural and rigidly just . Woe to the wretches who , by then * foul crimes and reeking sins , will necessitate the Deluge—the Red sea of revolutionary and righteous retribution .

      Aprss moi h deluge \ repeated MettersICH . He Traa rather * out in his reckoning . ' For the waters rose ere he had « shuffled off hia mortal coil / and for a time threatened to submerge the abominable system Of which he was the worthy architect . But they ebbed as rapidly as they had flowed , and the system atill stands . Metteenich , too , still lives , apd may yet-witness that deluge of which the overflow of 184 S ¦ was but the precursor . Xebxes would fain have scourged and chained the Hellespont—insanity imitated by our modern despots . Bnt

      Fear not the tyrants shall rule for ever , Nor the prifibts of the bloody faith ; They stand on the brink of the mighty river , Wheae stream they hare tainted with de ' fttb . It is fed from the depths of a thousand dells , Around them it rages , it foams , and it swells , An 3 their swords and their sceptres I floating see , Like wrecks on the wares of Eternity . " And . thi 3 , our country , is threatened with the deluge !

      A ' gent' named Fetch , or Bull-Finch , but who , like many of those questionable characters' who quit their country for their country ' s good , ' rejoices in an a ? i 2 « t o wit « Lord Maidssone' has been * stumping ' Westminster to obiain its suffrages for a seat in Parliament . He had been Eon < e years since ) a member of the * collective wisdom . * But ( as he confessed to a meeting of 'Mends' ) 'he had then thought more of amusement than of giving attention to his duties . ' Think of the / im of being a member of Parliament Capital joke to vote away the property , the liberties , the lives of a people 1 To alternate between the Piccadilly Saloon and the House of CommonB ia

      ' stunning . ' But MisterSull-Fince has sown his wild oats : 'his hair was now turning grey , and he had given up hunting , andhadnotsomuchmoneyto spend as formerly , and would attend most assiduously to ] iiis duties . * A reformed rake makes tbe = best of husbands , and M . P . s—at least bo thrak the pure and lofty daughters of Privilege , who « worked with a will / to seduce the electors of Westminster to his -Lordship ' s standard . Bnt the work of electioneering never did run smooth , and in spite -of the blandishments of 'Lord' SLeddstone ' s lady-canvassers , the

      * great name of Buii-FiNCH , stood but third on the poll . As 'his Lordship * * generally says what he means , ' I should like to hear the expression of his private and confidential opinion , as to the respectable electors of Westminster . It may be suspected that Mister Fisch , regards them as being' a most riff-raff set of men ; ' and in troth there are others than his Lor . ship / who hold a , very similar opiaion , not merely of the electors' ofWestminster , but . of the electors throughout the land-. ¦ . - j In the course of hi 3 Address to the Electors , * Lord' Maidstoxe dbserved :

      I hope , then , to see Lord Derby's Government in possession of the confidence of the people , and a majority in Parliament ; for after him , —the Deluge ttecoHectthat , Conservatives of all classes ! For this ' his Lordship' has been much ridiculed , or as he himself wodd have described it in his ' fast ' days—when he had more money , to spend , and before his hair turned grey — 'jolly well chafed . ' This is hardl y fair , remember ing that Louis XV . was rather "deficient in the supposed attributes of a prophet , and that even Providence once spoke ( as the Bible tells us ) through the mouth of Balaak ' -s ass ! Let no one , therefore , be in too great haste to deny bis lordship's' inspiration . For myself , I solemnly declare-that my most earnest wish is that * 'Lord' Maedstoks may prove to be a true prophet .

      But , perhaps , like most of the diviners and seers , the ex-candidate for Westminster is playing the game of Macbeth ' s 'juggling fiends / who' kept the word of promise to the ear but broke it to the hope . The Deluge is to come after Lord' Derby . How long after ? Immediate ^* Sore need is there for the speedy advent of that Deluge ! " O but it ' elong a coming . " When will the fountain of the great deec . re-open ?

      When will the waters rise-to end or mend , to annihilate or regenerate society ? Behold around us on every side , tyranny and treachery , slavery and suffering , crime and cruelty , aendacity and mendicity falsehood and fear , sin and shame , the ripened-rottenness -of a state of society . given over to pesdition Well might Beraxger cry to the mysterious and menaeisg wanderer of the skies . " Comet , implacable , O baste thee down , Let's end the matter , fcr-the world ia old' . "

      I observed in last Saturday's ' Star of Freedom . ' that tfee new Parliament promised to be worse than { he old , and would certainly be so if some half dozen candidates then before the country should be rejected . My anticipations are confirmed ; and although up to the time of writing these remarks not more than . one third of the ' House' has been appointed , there can be nolonger a question that the new Parliament will be the most base and grovelling elected since the Reform Bill . The result of the

      contest in the Tower Hamlets indicates the true character of the new House of CommonB . To their lasting shame and abounding disgrace , the electors of the Tower Hamlets , having five men to select from have deliberately , corruptly , and treacherously , chosen the worst—an aristocratic Whig , and a chief of ' publicans and sinners . ' Behold a thing like Butler obtainine 7 . 718 votes , and a man like William Newton ^ btaiuiag only 1 , 095 , and let us Englishmen , even though we may not be denizens of the Hamlets , bow our heads in humiliation , and blush for very shame . The electors of Finsbnry have scarcely done better . Mr . DusCoMBE is returned ,

      bnt Alderman Chillis ( . ' I . ' ) heads the poll by nearly a thousand votes over the long-tried and faithful friend of the people . In Westminster , Cokisghaji can register only 1 , 717 votes against the 3 , 758 recorded for Evans , the flogging sham . Even Buil-Fdjch obtained doubly tte number of votes given to Cokingilym . In masy places the electors seem to have imitated those of the Hamlets , by deliberately seeking for and electing the worst . The men who have obtained almost unanimous support at the hustings have been absolutely rejected or placed lowest on the Jisfc at the poll ; " while those who from their unpopularity , were unable to obtain a hearing at the no mination , have been [ triumpbantly returned by he electors .

      Hull exhibits a noble exception , and Viscount Goberich ( with Mr . Clay ) takes his Beat as the representative of the non-electors as well as of the electore . Honour to the men of Hull ! I cannot but add that I am almost sorry that a single good man has been elected . What can two or three men like Diwcohbe and Goderich effect in such an Assembly ?—an Augean Stable that might poison Heb-CBlss-a den of thieve * only to be adequately dealt

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      with scourge in hand , a crew of hypocrites and impostors , cheats and charlatans , destitute of honour taitb , sense of justice , and ( for the most part ) destiahi nf . ^ 'i ° S S IoM on the nation ' f T ' Reform the House . Precisely bo . But how ? The surest way would be to turn the Thames mto it , and to its very foundations sweep it , with all ltsirormm to utter annihilation . The great humiliation u to be compelled to acknowledge that this precious Parliament will represent the electoral body . This fact proves the abominable degradation of that Boay . ± Jut the non-eleotors are as degraded thev ^^• 4 ¦« ^ -A . _* T ^ .. * "

      , or would not suffer this state of things fo ^^ n ' aaingle day . Why are they quiescent ? Why cannot they rise above the vigour of a cheer-the effort of a SnfV * 5 u ^ nation is emasculated , corrupted to toe heart ' s core . The people have neither pride in their past nor faith in their future . To rST" ? ° i ? . "' Nfo is the doom of such a people . No chains , no scourges ,. can prevent the regeneration of Continental Europe . There the PJf » certain and subsequent salvation sure . But

      . KwertMeBB , wl desperandum I The darkest hour is nearest to the dawn . -Like , the doomed cities of the plain , the new Parliament will not contain a sufficient number of good and true men to save it from pension . In the bottom of Pandora ' s box there is yet Hope ! . - ; . HURRAH FOR THE DELUGE ! L'AMI DU PEUPLE .

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      FRANCE . The Bonapartist Terror—Commencement of the slaughter of the French Republicans by means of the Guillotine . J ( From our own Correspondent . ) _ Paris , July 7 . Truly , the once so clever police of Paris are becoming imbecile . It would seem that their famous or rather infamous , ability for getting up plots whenever an attack was to be made upon the liberties or the lives of the French people , has totally disappeared from amongst them . It is necessary to get up some plot to justify the proclamation of the Empire , which , have

      I good reason to believe , it is the intention of Louis Bonaparte to do on the occasion of the fete of the 15 th * f August . The'infernal machine' plot , however , has been a dead failure . Very consistently , the official accounts first represented that the maker of the machine had given the police every information regarding it , and of the persons for whom he was preparing it . Then seeing the absurdity of the ' conspirators' employing an artisan not in their confidence , and under the Argus eyes of the police , they hastened to give the plot the necessary dramatic secrasy , by representing the' conspirators' preparing several deadly weapons themselves ; and in order that K 9 other party should have any hand in their manufacture , or the procurance o f the materialsthey

      , were made to prepare them from gas pipes ! But the poor : plot makers were compelled to give up their favourite idea of an infernal machine ; so far , indeed , were they driven from this interesting , though immaginary , implement of . destruction , that the invention of the plotters graduall y became cannon , and , at last , O , horrible climax ! the ingenious police were forced to make the dreadful implements of warfare simple pieces of gas pipes , with a wooden bang , and a piece of tarred . canvasB on the end ! Shis transparent -vanard would be simply ridiculous , were it not that our unfortunate republican brothers who have been cast into prison , in order to give it an air of truth , will be sacrificed . The best they can hope for will be'transportation to Cayenne .

      You -may . soon expect to hear of the « essation of transportation . The blood-stained oppressor of this unhappy land is aquiring , from past impunity , the requisite . courage to resort to a method of vengeance more ia accordance with his brutal instincts . The work of Wood has began ! The Bonapartist terror haB assumed its last and most terrible phase . The political ¦ eoaffold has been raised ; and ike , heads of the republicans are alread y being severed from their bodies-b ythe guillotine . Such an assassination has just been perpetrated upon one of the most noble and virtuous of the Republican sons of France . The name of this new martyr for the holv cause of human

      liberty is dhariet . He was executed at Belley , in the department of the Ain , yeirterday week . This Charlet was one of the Refugees who had been living in . Switzerland , and who entered France upon being informed of the coup d ' etat of the : 2 nd of December . He and his companions had got as . far as Seyssel , iathe department of the Ain , with the view of aiding the insurrection against the seoundrel Bonaparte , when they were attempted to be arrested by some customs-officers . A struggle ensued , in hich

      w one of the customs-officers was mortally wounded . Finally , . they were arrested ; but it is absolutely impossible that the man could have fallen byihe hand of Charlet , for he was at the time quite unarmed . However , he was brought before a military tribunal , and , although his innocence of the crime , if a crime it could becaKed , was clearly established , he was condemned to death , ecorning to save himself by revealing thei name ofjthe actual perpetrator of the deed . To all the entreaties of his judges to this eftect , he only replied with the silence of contempt .

      . Hib condemnation was confirmed , and the warrant for his execution signed b y Bonaparte himself . Recording the condemnation , the ' Patrie' fulminates its base and cowardly lies against the noble martyr . TheBonapartistjoumal ^ sayi , ' That after Chariet was condemned he asked for a priest , as haying become repentant / he desired to makereve . lations . It is an abomniable falsehood . Charlet remained , to the last , firm iathe path of duty and principle , and in his contempt for the robber Bonaparte and his traitorous priestly allies .

      A ear had been procured to conduct him to the place of execution , but he refused to enter it , and walked to the scaffold with a firm step , and the calmness and serenity of a man who accomplishes a great and noble action . Along his passage were crowds of people who were kept back by a large body of military , and who bade him adieu in tears , and with ill-suppressed expressions of indignation , and of hatred for the blood-thirsty tyrant . He ascended the scaffold with a firm and measured step , and a moment afterwards his head was struck off by the axe of the guillotine .

      The court-martial of ; the Tenth Military division has pronounced sentence of death against seventeen of the insurgents of December . " Six of these have already escaped—the remaining eleven will be guillotined in the public square of Bedarieux . The crime laid to the charge of these men is the ' murder ' of three gendarmes . These gendarmes were , however , killed in a fair ; and open combat in the December struggle ^ -a combat which was com * menced by the gendarmes themselves , who fired upon the crowd , and killed ^ one or two of the men who composed it .

      I cannot better illustrate ' the feelings of the French people relative to these executions , than by giving here the letter which the friends and townsmen of the condemned have addressed to the Belgian papers : — " France , in the free exercise of her sovereignty , gave herself a constitution , aad placed it under the guard of all the citizens . A traitor—a Bonaparte—whom the confidence of the nation had called to the first magiitratuttf armed , with the hope of pillage , a horleof needy banditi .

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      and , m the name of order and public eeourity , darted UDon his sleeping country , placed , her patriots in chains , and tore to pieces that constitution to which he had sworn ' obedience . Erery true man , who still remained at liberty afc once arose to recall the perjurer to a respect / for the fundamental pact . But they . goon-fell under the balls of an army of gendarmes , who inaugurated by every crime the ignominious era which weighs upoSFranae . Adjudgment has been rendered a eainstthirty . threeW our ; fellow 4 ountrymS r who united to defend their countey- ele y en . heads will roH from theaojfflold . Under the blij * Mthafc iniquitous senSeS ? we , the friends , the brothers , . of ^ Mercudier , pf Delpech of Denis Andre , of Barthez , of Triadon . ofPierrVGarriere of Golzy , of Colas , of Gardy . ^ f Jacques PayeSf Saei Herculi-we cry to every , ust man , in every country Vengeance ! Vengeance for the martyrs of dutylvenSoe for the assassinated victims for the defenders of the law now jud . c . aHy murdered by the accomplice * of $ he wetohS desolates France ! In the nameof , humflnR ^^ S ^ ^ ¦

      »™ ft TW l > wtowff ^ Sa o i EBB cL »„ £ M HlS k ^ KH ^ e of his associates , alone Z % a ^ oT ^^^* ¥ * hile The 8 hack ]!< l and degrade ftmrf Ihis -country ,- and S ^?^ ^ W 3 ^^«» gWtoWt £ e Xfa , TH ' fT Wlb II *»» f * B «> tafand blood-inirsty ™!« I * ^ " ^ e- ^ heyarenofclo and courageous men-i «» n Ai i T ^ enQU « tiSSMgatart tho Usurps fthS I S ?* ° ? Bona P » & ' ¦ : ¦/?\ tisacrifice themselves sued hi nZf K ?\ Jhe Allowing proclamation " is-? h « 'VLlPt HhlIe they ha 4 Passion of the town , before S £ been ^ anquished . by the pretorians of General Roslaian ,- , is ofc . itself sufficient answer- to the ealurani-SS& ^^^^' A as ^ h ^^

      ITALY . ; The Caseo ) ' Murray-The ' frksts and the ' People-Kefu $ al ... to mftam ^ JProlUbUion of ^ New Work bv % e 2 £ TnuXrd yT ^'' &rfftl ' ? f ;"~^ ^«» Twrerim t , , J ^ ME — ^ | a rumoured jn ecclesiastical circles , that Mr . Freeborn ' s visit to Ancona has for if 5 principal object , to concert with Mr . Moore some plan by which Edward Mur-« H » -j " r t clande 9 tinely releasedfrom his prison , and placed in safety pa board , an English vessel in the harbour , bo putting an end to all further dfspute by a / afc accompli , a wasdonein Rome when Monseignor Gakzolaand Dr . Acb Hi those arch enemiea of the Papal throne , were allowed to escape from the Oawleof St . Angelo , not without the con ! mvance , as is shrewdl y inferred , of the Frenoh military authonties themselves . Somerprudent prelates aonkmiuhia

      wea greatly , as the government of hif Holiness would thereby avoid the danger of an open rupture with Great Britain , and save its . own decorum iand indepondence , besides the unspeakable advantage of having its hands free to shoot Murray ' s fellow prisoners a ^ any rate , as , not having committed itself by pardoning in , < fae instance , it would be byno means-bouod . io use cleniency towards the rest . Ihese wiseacres must not indulge in the idea of so uniust and undignified a climax , nor rtiust- they- imagine that even if advisable , it would be very practicable Tho tastle of St . Angelo was guardedly the French , whereas ™ f " rtress of Anoona is m the custod y of the Austrians lhe Tuscan and Piedmontese papers foresee a different w / y " f . w" > dmg up the matter , and announce that a flotilla of British wasr-ateamers may shortly be expected at Anoona . ¦ r

      The Queen ' s proclamation against Roman Catholio processions in England has not as yet been mentioned in the Boman journals , which usually observe the profoundest silence on subjects , disagreeable to the ecclesiastical bovernment ; but in private circles the partisnns of tbo priests meekly observe that persecution Vniiohly advance their cause . ; whilst the Liberals enjoy the attack on the long-garbed gentry amazingly ; out of political hostility to The " -Risorgimento" of Turin , of the « Oth nit ., quotes a letter from Velletri , in the Roman States , from whieh it would appesr- that the people there had driven away the tax gatherers ; that Cardinal , Macohi ,. the delegate , had been obliged to make his" escape , and that a regiment of chasseurs stationed , therp > had Tressed to act against the people . ., > . .: ¦¦ .. ¦¦~ ~ .. J ,.:-,... " ' _ : ¦ ¦ ¦"¦ - ¦ . The Roman medical men refused ' to pay the tax on nro-Sessions . - ¦ *

      Brigands 'have robbed travellers in the forest of Antium twenty miles from Rome . ' P 1 ED . VIOHT . —The Sardinian government hag prohibited the publication of a new novel of M . lagene Sue , in the Chambery . gournal , » Le Patriot © Savoisien . " M . Pernati the Minister of the Interior , intimated to him that he * would be obliged to withdraw the authorisation granted to him tojreside at Anneey should he persist in publishing his Dovel . M . Sue has accordingly written the following letter to the editor of the " Patriote Savoisien" ::-i . « The government of Sardinia considering as inopportune in the present ttireumstances the publication of the historical episode of which the MS . is m your possession I request you to postpone that publication . I am too grateful for , the hospitality I have received from the government , and too anxious for

      its continuance , not to avoid everything likel y to compromise its duration . " The work would have given a full exposure of vices and crimes of the olergy at the time of the dastardly crusade against the Albegois ; and an account of the hornble . crueltie 9 perpetrated by the Catholic fanatics ' upon their unfortunate victims at that epoch . The "PatrioteSavoisien" expresses its indignation at the conduct of the government In thus toad y ing to the Roman clergy by preventing the publication of Eugene Sue ' s work . The negotiations resumed b y the Piedmontese Ambassa « dor at Rome relative to the administration of the diocese of lurin , during the banishment of MonBignor Fransoni have completely failed . o , TUSCANY . -The trial of Gnerazzi , and . of his Minister of Justice , M . Leonardo Roraanelli , is to take p lace on the 16 th of August .

      The Mather affair has been arranged . The grand Duko has disavowed Count de Casigliano , his Foreign Minister , who in offering Mr . Scarlett an indemnity of 1 , 000 francesconi for the plaintiff , had used expressions deemed offensive by the English government . ; . On the 25 th ult . the court martial , of Udioe condemned four persons to various periods of imprisonment in irons varying from one to ten months respectively , for having arms or ammunition in their possession ! or uttering seditions cries . l ; "' A new political work , entitled "Memoires of Leonardo RomaneUi , ex-Miniater of Jastioe under the Provisional Government , " haB been written in the prisons of the Mtifates , and was published a few days ago , ' to the great annoyance of the Tuscan government .

      LOMBARD ! . —Numerous arreats have again been made at Milan . One of the anhappy victims thrown into the oastle dungeon has hung himself from the bars of his prison , . The government of Lombard y has issued new and more stringent restrictions upon the circulation of books in the province . , < '

      SWITZERLAND . The Swiss iownals announce that the Counoil of State of the Canton ofVaud has decided on applyinu to M ' Thiers , who is . now at Vevey , in that canton ; the Federal decree relative ; to confining French Refugees tb some appointed place in the interior of the country . Atelegraphio despatch from Frankfort , of the 2 nd insfc ., in the Prussian Gazette" of Berlin , states thatM . Thiers has refused to submit to the internment , and will , in preference , leave Switzerland . Accounts from the canton of Neuohatel state that the Royalist pavty , who desire the return : of the canton to Prussia , intended . to make a grand demonstration of their adherents at an annual meeting of the burgesses , which was to be held on . the 6 th of July at Valengin , with the view of influencing the Federal Assembly , which is about

      to commence its session at Berne . Tho Republicans , on their part , had resolved to make a counter . demonstration at the same place on the same day . At the elections for the Grand Council in March last the Royalist party only obtained fourteen returns , whilst the Republicans had seventy-four ; but in tha elections for the Council of State , which took place a few days ago , they obtained eleven nominations out of twenty-ei ght ; and besides they are greatly encouraged by the recent signing of the protocol at London by the great powers . The Swiss journals state that not only the most enlightened and wealthy portions of the population of the canton , but the great mass of the Conservative party in Switzerland , are on the side of the Republicans on this special question . A young man was killed at Neuville ( Freiburg ) last week , in a quarrel arising out of the late political meeting at Posieur .

      The i purnal , tbe"SuiBse , " asserts in the moat positive manner that the protocol relative to Neuohatel , signed at London by the representatives of the five great powers on the 24 th of May , has not yet been notified to the Federal Council . The five hundredth anniversary of the entranoe of Zug ( the smallest of the Swiss cantons ) into the confederation was celebrated on the 27 th ult . with great golenanity .

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      GERMANY . HESSE CASSEL . —The members of the parliament permitted in the constitution lately dictated by the Elector of Hesse met for the first time on the 3 rd inst . While they were electing a president , a court nominated by the Elector was sentencing grey-headed members of the standing committee of the last parliament to two and three years' imprisonraent , for protesting in legal form against tho violation of the old constitution .

      CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . THE KAFFIR WAR , The-Royal Mail steamer Bosphorus , from the Cape of Good Hope , arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday morning , bringing information relative to the Kaffir War . Tho news from the frontier is to the 25 th of May , and is of a very indecisive character . General Cathcart has established his head-quarters ' at Fort Beaufort , and is forming camps all along the frontier . No casualties of moment have occurred during the prooeding month ,, but there are several indications of the unsubdued position of the Kaffirs . Early in May , at the Fiah River Mouth , the two Gkiytons , ' sons of a farmer , ' and their servant Elliott , wore murdered . On the 15 th , nearFort Cox , an unarmed private of the ; 2 nd Regiment was killed , while cutting wood ; and on the 20 th the Rifles had a brush in the Waterkloof , when three of that corps were wounded arid one Fingoe killed .

      Andries Botha , a field-cornet ( Hottentot ) , aftev a trial of eight days at Cape Town , had been convicted of high treason , and was sentenced to be hung . General Cathcart is seeking to raise a . levy by offering the farmers 5 s . a day as privates , and . 7 s . Gd . a day as officers , which ia considered very liberal .

      UNITED STATES . OUR AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE . Qen . Scott and Wm . Graham nominated Wig Candidates for American Presidency and Vice * Presidency—Shocking Suicide—Independence of San Juan—Terrible Tragedy—Oligarchy in Canada—Attach' upon Guayaquil , ( From , our own Correspondent . ) ¦ Nkw York , June 22 . I have but little news to communicate this week . The nominations for the Presidency alone occupy public attention at the present time . The Whig National Convention for the nomination of a candidate for the Presidency of the United States convened at Baltimore on Wednesday last , and after fifty-two ineffectual ballotings during the week , on Monday morning nominated Gen . 'Winfield Scot'fc by a vote of 159 . The whole number of votes . " was 292 , of which 112 were givon for Presidont Fillmore , and twenty one for Daniel Webster .

      I am of opinion that the candidature of Gen . Scott will not be successful . It was only by the greatest unanimity amongst the Whig party that they could have hud any ohance of successfully contesting the presidential election with the Democratic party . You will recollect that the Democratic Convention adopted what they call the "twothirds rule , " by which none of the candidates could be nominated unless ho obtained the votes of two-thirds of the Convention . None of the popular candidates obtaining tho required number of votes , Gen . Peirco was brought forward , and was at once unanimously accepted . I mention

      this to show the relative prospects of success of the two parties . Tho Whig Convention adopted the rule of a majority ; so that Scott was nominated , not only by less than the whole of the members of the Convention , but by nothing like two-thirds of its members . All the sections of the Democratic party will-vote for Peirce ( probably they would not have done ao for abetter known candidate ); but I have good reason for believing that many of the Whigs will vote against Gen . Scolt . He is suspected , by a portion of the pro-slavery party , for having formerly entertained abolitionist opinions . However , he has now formally repudiated these sentiments .

      You will see that the greatest evil of tho day , in America , a 9 in Europe , is expediency . We will never have a truly honest and progressing government until the peoplq will take their stand upon the principle of Universal Justice . For the Vice-Presidency there were only two ballotings On the 2 nd Wm . A . Graham , of North Carolina , was nominatedi A shocking suicide " was perpetrated at Dunkirk a few days ago . A Mr . Smith had had some oharge brought agatast him which has since been proven to be false , But he . was so much affected by the stain upon his repu . tation , that he determined to commit suicide . Having

      risen at an earl y hour , and imprinting a kiss upon each one of bis ohildren while yet in their beds , he retired to the lower part of the house , whence the re . port of a pistol was soon heard ; his wife and children quickly starting from their beds met him on the stairs , when he , faced about , and descending to the room , he turned , and throwing a rapid glance upon each of the distressed group , he aft quickly applied a mor to tho left side of his neck , outting a horrid gash , at the same instant exclaiming , "Remember I die innocent . " This act and this declaration were repeated three times in rapid succes-B 10 H . -

      Acoounts from San Juan del Norte state that on the 2 nd the British war steamer Albion arrived at the port of San Juan del Norte , or Greytown , with the British commodore of the West India station , who notified to the authorities that the governments of Great Britain and the United States had agreed to guarantee the independence of SanJuan . Commodore Parker , of the Saranac , whom the British commodore expected to meet , had not arrived but there was no doubt of his concurrence on the part of his government . Commissioners had proceeded to Costa Rica and Nicaragua for the purpose of definitel y settling the boundaries of the territory of San Juan . * _ B «« A . terribie tragedy was enacted at San Juan latst month A Frenchman from California was robbed at the Amerioan HoteJ

      , on the evening of the 24 th of May . On learning this the CalifornianB in the town assembled , determined to give the men who had been arrested " on suspicion a taste of Califorman law .. To protect the prisoners the authorities were compelled to arm the citizens , and have cannon loaded with grape and canister , placed at the doors of the police station . One of the prisoners was executed on the 31 st , and the other two reprieved on the scaffold . KosButh delivered an eloquent address to a crowded meeting n the Broadway Taffernacle last night CrOwaed Letters from . Canada atate that the Colonial Secretary has recently given a negative reply to an address X * tll Legislative Assembly of Newfoundland ^ pSrffi fo ? £ introduction of responsible governors in NewLmn * T In this case , also , the advice of the parties wa ? S « n 1 d * nnaitinn fnfhot « ff «»^ J k _ * i . _ , _ ... * lao w » 8 taken in OD «

      KSwK ^^ tween thetwo branches , the Executive is promSimDerbi rapport m opposition to tho I ^ gislature-a y 8 teS tha makes the Legislature a mere nullity A question has been raised there as to the number of thfeevea ^ Vol ath - ° ru Canada d « "ng the las sri ; . « " l J T ill ! have stated ik »* w ° , while K ? Sy $$ . * SOUrOeS of « f <>™«« on , ' places By the last accounts Flores was still at Puna . He had nine vessels , plenty of funds , and only waited for the steamer Quickstep to attack GuayaquU . He had some S 2 E £ TO ' ? pril 5 '' ^ " ' « * * ™ Xyt one ^^ aSd ff ^^ K sawtttaas «««« ¦*• ' ^

      poolt ^ tty ! 8 Bteam 8 hi P ' *>«" . «*»« •* " «»> tion ha n d ° Wn at l . n < f general Scott , by the Whig Convencoldif h 1 , Hn e ? . ! Te < 1 > many P"teof the Union with WasSor , i f ° ,, ther 8 ' * was enth « 8 ia 9 « cally ratified : At fo 2 ? £ hi' h th 0 eT 5 ning ° f the 22 nd , a procession : was it « ES Cui ? P . eeded to Mil upon the leading Whigs ; add « ase MZ ?^ ,. I iere 8 idenceof General s "i wh ' I Sf'l ? ^ baIco , ny At the request of the cJm ? Z h « T £ K n ed on each 8 ide of t ^ general , so Mr rrah ^ M tte , Veen The procession then Mr . Graham , Mr . Mangum , and Mr . Websf dehvered short speeches ( the later -

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      THE FALL OP THE FRENCftl REPUBLIC . ' ' ¦' - ¦ ¦ ' < ¦ '¦ By Xavier Durribu . ' . ' ( Translated expressly for the' Star o * Freedom' ) - Tin STRt 7 GflLE ., AND THE DEFEAT . Themeeting separated towaids one o ' clock in the morning ; and six hours afterwards I departed -with four of my friends for the Salle Roisin , in the Faubourg Saint . Antoine . As we held it a point of honour to be there asjoon as possi We , we hired a carriage on the Plscedes Victpires . Tha carriage traversed the street ewcuffihered with police-agentB . On the Boulevards and Place de' la Bastile it had to pass amid groups of officers and soldiers under arms . It is not

      unintentionally I recall these circumstances ; their-signification will he shown . I am quite convinced that the police knew quite well all that passed the preceding night , in the bureaux of the journal , and in the meetings of the representatives ; those at the bouses of Lafon ( du -Lot ) and Frederick Cournet especially . On leaving the house of Oournet we had met numerous patrol ? , whose prf sence in that lonel y quarter proved to us that a warningliad been given . Every facility was R iven to the representatives < 0 repair to the Faubourg Saint Antoine , on . the way . to which they had to jostle sergents de-ville , officers and soldiers , and even colonels . The plan of Louis Bonapaite was dete . mined upon . It was this : —He had no desire to sujip-ess d > cmtent , or prevent explosion ¦ no , he wished for blood , and that blood he desired the army should shed : it was needful to

      compromiseitb ydmviiiRit into anetofangsrand of monstrous cruelty ; it was needful , b y an ignominious responsibility , to rivet it to the ambition of-the dictator . That infamous compact concluded with the generals und superior office ™ at the price of gold , at the price of the mo , it scandaloua favoures and future prospects ^ this corapaci , prepared i « the cases of the soldiers , by abundant distributions of wint and eau de vie , by aavage incitements , by execrable calam * nies against the Republicans , against 'he Republic , against the people of February , whom Louis Bonaparte himself had called heroic , when he had need to . bej for popularity ; that com pact blood alone could seal and ratify . The intoxication of gold and ambition , the drunkenness of wina had alread y begun the work of sbame . ; in the drunkenness of blood consisted its pursnal and consummation :

      Louis Bonaparte threw himself , he said , upon the people , on the people of Paris , - especially . This was another lie , mare odious , if that be possible , than all ; , the others . Happily for history , bispwn scribes have hastened to betray it in the extravagant rejoicing of xHfe > F-a > icce ^ u--- •' . Granier d ' eXassttgnac /' in ' a pamphlet which in every page testifies to ' the fact that L . Bonaparte counted only on the array—on an army flattered , depraved ,: and perverted . Granier de Cassagnac declares , in appropriate terms , that if Paris had arisen , the army was strong enough to reduce it ; and he adds : —That Paris vanquished , was entire France

      subdued , and virtually compelled , to accept the dictatorship . Such is the enact amount of respect Louis Bonaparta lias for the national will ; a massacre at Paris , , and , in consequence , a terror throughout the land . Rut ,, . in order to obtain that massacrp , it was necessary that the most determined Republicans should show themselves . This is why , I repeat , that notwithstanding the activity of the police , the Republicans found , until the erection of the first barricade , neither obatacle nor hindrance . I have said why Bonaparte wished for blooft It was needful , I sny again , that honest and honourable men should offer theirs to tha bayonets and the muBkets of the soldiers !

      In the Faubourg Saint Antoine , before the Marche Lenoire , we found very few representatives . If my . eyes eired not , if my memory be faithful , there were there only Sctoelcher , Baudin , Aubry ( du Nord ) , Dulac , Chaix ,. MRlardi < -r and da Flotte . Frederick Cournet directed the construction of the barricade . There were at his side Kesler , Alphonse Reuin , Amable Lemaitre , Leon Watripon , editor of the " Revolution ; " Lejeune ( de la Sarthe ) , three other journalists , and myself . A few carriages and stones scarce made a barricade , but , feeble as it was , that barricade will remain in history . It was a solemn protestation , the signal of the most hoi ; and legitimate insurrection , against the most evident and cowardly of crimes . It was , in a word , the last tribune where the representatives of the people , courageous enough to mount it , might still denounce the usurpation , and appeal to the patriotism of the army , or , in default of that patriotism , to the national justice . ¦

      The army of Paris responded not , or rather , it added assassination to perjury . It little matters . ! ; National justice will , none the less , have its day . A fact yet little known , and nevertheless grave , had , a few minutes before , awakened public , emotion throughout the Faubourg ; but , unfortunately , it caused also indecision . Badly understood , badly judged by hasty appearances , it left an impression unfavourable to the representatives . Eleven omnibuBaes passed , filled with representatives , arrested the preceding ' evening in the 10 th arrondissement ; they were being conducted to Vincennes by a small detachment of Lancers . Frederick Cournet and some other

      citizens attempted to deliver them , in order that they might put themselves between the troops and the people ; but , Marc Dufraisse excepted , there were there only Royalists , or men with such a slight tinct of Republicanism , that it had entirely disappeared under the influence of / ear . When they perceived the attempt they were the first to 6 how their scared faces at the windows , supplicating . the people to remain quiet and allow them to continue their journey . Those who could hear them listened with contempt , and thft miserable elects of the people tranquilly , continued the Tout * to their precisns atate prison . : . ,

      That event had produced a very natural emotion , through ignorance of the names of these ao prudent captives . It gave rise to a feeling of contemptuous scorn for all the re * presentative 8 , even for the Republicans . The people had other powerful reasons for inaction . Undoubtedly they had not obtained from preceding revolutions , , for their liberty , dignity , and well-being , all the benefit they might reasonahljr have expected in exchange for their heroic efforts and long sufferings . But I have said enough on the attitude of the people on the 2 nd of December . It is for the last time that I express that' heavy feeling of regret , which , however , never arises in my mind without also awakening the firmest and holiest of hopes .

      The barricade was formed at the corner of the Rue Saint Marguerite , within tight of the Bastile . The police and the chiefs of the armed force at length perceived it ; they sent a battalion of the 19 th Regiment of the line to carry it . Thers was immediately a profound silence ; nothing was heard but the measured tread of the soldiers as they slowly advanced up the Faubourg . The representatives in their official insignia , placed themselves in one rank in front of the barricade , awaiting the troop , with lofty brow and firm attitude . By general accord , at the order of Frederick Coutnet , the muskets were lowered and concealed ; they still haped not to be compelled to have recourse to them . : As the only defence for all , one of the representatives had a book in his hand ; this was the " Constitution ! " There was a moment of indiBcribame emotion , but a noble and holy emotion . Before those carbines which , at a word , at a sign , would vomit forth death and destruction , not one of those present

      , whether representative , workman , or journalist , 1 dare affirm it , thought for a moment of the danger he might personally incur . There are times when we think no longer of our own life , which a grain of lead may put an end to , hut only of the national life , against which , \ n the last result , neither the most execrable crimes nor ; even the transient victories , of usurpation can have any effect . All was abandoned to the impatience of knowing whether the soldier still feeling himself ar citizen , would repudiate the infamoni command of his chiefs , or whether , pointing the musket not only against his brother ^ but against the law itself , against the country—the common mother—he would accomp'iofi a monstrous assassination . The troop halted , Charles Baudia displayed the "Constitution . " He was about to speak , or rather be was already speaking , to invoice absolute respect for the law , to remind them of sworn faith , and to conder perjury , when the chief of thejiattalion , dreading the h < - tion oi his

      troop-a hesitation that was visible , r does it require to commit a ^ arricide J-mude wi % and eje a sign of anger ; - The muskets f thirty reports resounded at once , and Chs- ' head pierced by two balls . Behind ' killed , and some other citizens , v weltering in their blbffd .-Tbe r pretorians already , drilled cide was consummate * ' ! .. ! .- " commenced the fir- '"""' . " "* discharged . " * the chief 1- ' tion o "

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 10, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1686/page/1/