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      —¦ — —— . _ - ——Z ^! ~~ ~~ This was answered b y an unanimous cry o £ « Vive la Eepubliquel and Citizen Emeric Staniewiez , one of the intrepid chiefs of the Lithuanian insurrection , now a member Df the 1 ohsh Democracy Society , addressed the assemblage in Polish . & He said :-When I contemplate the majesty of that frmeral cortege and see float above that silent crowd the banners of divers nationalities ; when I here salute'the sonsof la belleFranc and the classic features of immortal Rome , and friends from the banks the of Danube and the Elbe come to mino-le their tew with those of our national family ,-ah ; it seems to me that entire humanity , represented by her different races is come to render homage to him whose whole life was a continued ^ ° ltZ ohoniUher rviceand to weep over a bruised * ^—^^ .. . ^

      , n , ^ ' lamb of the great flock of European Liberty . After alludino to the mtripid life ot Darasz , —he continued : —Yes ! intrrnid guard of an advanced post , it was f or his country and f or humanity that he terminated his life so usefull y and « loriouslv Peace to thee eminent citizen i In you we lose a zealous guide an active and indefatigable co-labourer , at the moment when the aurora of liberty lights up our hearts with new hopes . \\ bm holy liberty shall at length be seated on the throne of the world , and will distribute crowns of flowers to the emanei p ated nations , thy name , in the Polish banquet , shall occunv a g lorious place 1 Peace to thy ashes ! honour and imner 4 able memory to thy name ! * r

      Ledru Kollin next mountedthe temporary platform , and in the name of the Central Committee thus addressed the assemblage ;—^ Brothers ! men tlii-oughout Europe libert y is m dungeons or in chains , when right is for the moment vanquished , and priests and perjured despots anathematise the idea , recognising no other means o government than success or force : when in the official world all is saturnalia , f ete and orgie , ah ! this is a striking spectacle amongst the tombs j But yesterday , at Genoa , a whole people followed the coinn ot the noble mother of an exile . Now if is where

      here so many divers nationalities , yesterday hostile dragged by their masters into implacable hatreds come to sacrifice their prejudices upon a tomb , and fraternally clasp each others hands . Yes , it is a great and a noble spectable , which boiTows something of its sombre majesty , of its inexorable decrees even from death : which , transforming itself continually , seems with its mysterious and prophetic voice to say to the old world , to the world of obscurantism , exploitation and violence : the time has come ; give place to the world of light , o f justice , and of equality , give place to the new world . — [ Bravo , bravo !) In fact the time has come ; for the people at last convinced of the crimes of their tyrants , are about to commence a supreme str aggle . Otherwise , where-for that crowd ?

      wheref or these mingled standards ? Is it simply to follow a cold corps ? Oh ! no ; worthy of love , worthy of honour as was Darasz , the greater number of you have not known him . You are here because his life was a principle , his death an act of devotion , his country the heroic Poland , a nationality dispersed and vanquished . You are here because for sixty years there has risen to the heaven of France a new dogma , the dogma of human fraternity , which makes the grief of one the grief of all the nations ; a dogma inaugurated in the blood of our fathers , turned from its object by a despot , and which could not be well understood until after a series of struggles and two powerless

      revolutions . But at last thy triumph has come . 0 new religion of human solidarity ! Salutation to thee , daughter of revolution , philosophy , and unfettered reason ! It was reasonable that the religions of the past should attempt to stifle thee in their baptism ; for these religions are narrow and exclusive : they divide , they distinguish , they f ulminate , they excommunicate , they have their good and their perverse , their elect and their damned , whilst thou , without exception of races or beliefs , seest that under all the immensity of the heavens , brothers should love one another . —( Loud applause . ) Thy triumph is come ; and if it has taken thee half a century amidst combats ,

      prisons and scaffolds , to give wings to thought , to give wings to matter , to create , between man and man , a sacred tie o f love , to raise an altarineveryneart , ahearthin every nation , at least the revolution henceforth will be universally fruitful ; f or the day when it shall burst forth like a subterranean fire , it shall burst forth at the same time all over the world ; liberty , justice , right for all , in thy name , 0 holy human solidarity!—( Cries of " Oui , oui , and " tres Men ! " ) Let the prideful or the weak , who would systematically shape the world according to their own standard , declare that the revolution is a sterile work , so long as the ; I [ j

      economical laws of the new order of things have not been discovered . They are bad labourers who pretend to sow before the earth has been ploughed . No , it is not a sterile work to clear the earth of all the authorities and all the parasites . No , it is not a vain work to make , from one end of Europe to the other , all men equal and brothers under the republican form . No , it is not a vain work to overthrow all the barriers which separate the peoples , to lay the new economical principles on the basis of one grand mutuality . Then only will come science , for she will then have at hand all the elements of the j > 1 1 1

      problem , and be able to contemplate tbein from on high and for all , as that sun which now sheds its light upon us . Y es , the work is beautiful and gigantic , for never in the universe will there be a social transformation so magnificently accomplished . —[ Loud applause . ) But why more words , brothers , between us , who , without exception of theories or systems , are penetrated with the same spirit , animated with the same idea—the idea of revolution ? But dissertation in the presence of the dead is to make of rhetoric a trade . Death acts without relaxation , act so also , be mute that you may strike the surer . No J ? j '~ c e L

      more words then , but an act , a deed . In presence of all these remnants of peoples , united here as in a valley of Josaphat for a prolatarian resurrection , in the name of human solidarity , in the name of the coming revolution , in the name of the Universal Republic , soon to be founded ; swear , brothers , on this open grave : swear between the peoples an indissoluable alliance ; swear that in the supreme str aggle against all the tyrannies ) you will remain united as we now are in the same grief and in the same hope!—( Cries of " Nous U jurons , iwm kjurons /" on every side . ) Citizen Paul Darasz addressed a few words to the assemhlage , after which an Englishman , in French , expressed the sympathy of the English people with their foreign brethren in exile , and the multitude dispersed . « & , e > r * j f » s [„ 1- ie :

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      Discovery op Coal i ? r Cavan . —A few days ago , as a farmer near Kilnaneek was making a pit , he alighted unexpectedly on a coal mine at the depth of six feet from the surface of the earth . The coal , which is of the anthracite kind , is peculiarly clear and parMing . er ^ * 1

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      POLITICAL REFUGEE COMMITTEE . ( Monday , August 23 rd , Mr . Rolen Cooper in the Chair . J Several small sums ( set forth below ) were handed in . Some slight aid was voted to three German Refugees . Certain means to raise funds were taken into consideration , but decision thereon was unavoidably postponed . The committee adjourned till Friday evening . m * Errors in the statement of monies received and disbursed , published in last week ' s Star of Freedom render necessary the publication of the following amended and accurate statement : — Receipts . —August 9 th .- —23 rd . Balance in hand , August 9 th j , 3 ' q 9 Walter Cooper . "' 1 1 n Eobertcooper i .:::::::..:::::::::::::::::::::::: ; : j l Julian Harney 0 10 0 Thornton Hunt and C . Bray ' . ' . " . " . n 10 0 ^ v ^? evCT ' - Il 0 l ^ " » "' ' 1 0 0 J . Watt , Glasgow 0 10 Augustus Piercey .... ' . ' . ' . ' . ' .. ... . ' . ' . ' . ' . 0 1 0 An Italian Socialist Republican " q 5 0 Iaisley , per A Morrison :-H . Buchannan , Is ' . ' A . Morrison , Is ., W . Nelson , 6 d ., R . Pattison , fid . 0 3 0 bouTHAMPTox , per H . Norrington : —Mr . Hall , 2 s . ( kl Mr . Falvey , Is ., Mr . Jackman , Is ., Mr . Pond , ls !| Mr . Aorrington , Is ., Mr . Barton , Is ., Mr . Roberts , Is ., Mr . J . G . Cox . Is ., Mr . Collis , Is 0 10 6 York , per C . Ernest , Is ., W . Swan , 3 d ., J . Dun , 3 d ., J . Banks , 3 d ., G . D ., 6 d ., J . Oldfield , Is ., G . P ., Is . ( 3 d , J . Lamb , 3 d ., G . Swalwell , U ., John Swalwell , ( 3 d ., John Thorn , 3 d ., J . Holmes , 6 d ., S . Fraser , 4 d ., W . Armitage , Is ., W . Brass , 6 d ., Alu-iend , 6 a ., Ditto , 6 d ., J . Barker , 3 d ., J . Robinson , 6 d ., W . C , 6 a ., J . Benn , 3 d 0 11 5 Hisckley , per J . Sketchley : —J . Sketchley , 6 d W . Mason , 4 a ., J . Tilley , 2 cl , W . Hopwell 2 d ? , J . Jackson , 3 d ., J , Bale , ( 3 d ., S . Goodyear , ( 3 d ., H . P . T ., Is ., G . Wills , 3 d , J . g eafson , 3 d ., J . Ginns , 4 d , T . Clark , 3 R , S . Langham , 3 d ., J . Wright , 3 d ., T . Battison Gd ., A . Abbott , 4 d ., G . Lord , 3 d ., H . Wildman . lid .. L . Smith « w

      L . Abbott , Gd 0 7 0 Cheltenham , per J . Hemmins , T . Payton , is ' . ' , E . Witts , ls , R , Buckingham , Is , J . Hemmin Is ., Mr . Wilks , Is 0 5 0 J . Dav idson , Brechin 0 16 H . Sturgeon 0 10 Mr . James , per H . Wilkes 0 10 W . Whitehead , Braco 0 10 Edinburgh , by Mr . W . M'Kechnie l 8 6 £ 20 8 7 Disbursements . —August 9 th . —23 rd . German Refugees , per C . Schapper 110 0 A German Refugee 0 2 6 French Refugees , per Louis Blanc 10 0 0 Polish Refugees , per Messrs . Kryski and Zabiscki 5 0 0 A German Refugee 0 2 6 Aid to Hungarian Refugee 0 11 0 Rent of Room , six weeks 0 9 0 To sub-Secretary 10 0 Postage . " . 0 0 4 Three German Refugees , 7 s . 6 d . each ( Aug . 23 rd . ) 1 2 6

      £ 19 17 10 Monies Received £ 20 8 7 Monies Disbursed 19 17 10 Balance in hand Aug . 23 rd £ 0 10 9 Staii of Freedom Committee . — -On Tuesday evening last the committee held their weekly meeting . Mr Isaac Wilson was called to the chair . Encouraging letters from various parts of the country were read by the secretary , who afterwards reported that a considerable mmta of posters had been printed for distribution in the provinces . After several sums of money had been handed in , Mr . James Grassby dwelt upou the necessity of selecting persons as snbpublishers , and showed that a considerable increase might be expected and would take place did friends only know where to purchase their copies on the Sundays . A number of names were handed in of news-agents , who would servo in the manner indicated by Mr . Grassby ( our readers will find the list in another column . ) After the transaction of some financial and other business , the committee adjourned till Tuesday evening next , when all members are earnestly invited to attend . Halifax Public Lectures . — Mr . G . J . Holyoak , from London , delivered two lectures on Sunday last , in the Odd Fellow ' s Hall . The subject of the afternoon lecture was ' Christ considered as an example to Moral Reformers . " The subject of the evening ' s discourse was " A New Policy for the People . " From this peculiar wording people naturally supposed that Mr . Holyoak would attempt to prove that Universal Sufferage was impossible , and that the people must agitate for some more moderate measure of reform . Accordingly , an opposition was organised , and there was some talk of having recourse to the " smashing " policy . It turned out , however , that Mr . Holy oak ' s object was to show that if a better policy be not had recourse to , the charter never can be got . Discussion followed both lectures . [ We have received an elaborate report of the lectures and discussions , together Avith comments by our correspondent , which , in consequence of our space being pre-occupied by the report of the funeral of Albert Darasz , we have not room for . ] Bradsiiaw , near Halifax . --Mi \ Ligutowek , of Bradford , delivered two lectures on Sunday last . Ragalds , kbab Queexshead ' —Mr . Robinson delivered an able and interesting lecture at this place on Sunday last , on the " Signs of the Times . " — Ax Exglisli Fueak . —Regeksbujm .--Three English gentlemen ( Messrs . Mansfield , Comprest and Thompson ) have undertaken to go from London to Constantinople in their own boat . They arrived here on the afternoon of the 10 th , and excited much interest . Their little vessel is built of beautiful mahogany . It is 25 feet long , and rather more than 3 feet wide in the middle . It is exceedingly elegant . It is rowed by two of the voyagers , while the third steers . It shoots across the water with the rapidity of an arrow . It is so exceedingly light that two persons can with ease carry it out of the water . —Anmger . Zeitung , Aug . 16 .

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      REMARKS ON THE NEW ACT OF PARLIAMENT TO LEGALIZE THE FORMATION OF INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENT SOCIETIES .

      This important Act is I trust the beginning of a new era for the industrious population of the three kingdoms , aud serves to prove the facility with which measures conducive to social improvements may be obtained as compared with measures involving an alteration in the balance of political power . The passing of the measure in this session is principally ' due to the exertions of Mr . Slancy , whose retirement from Parliamentary life every friend of the working-classes must re « ret Mr . Sotheron and Mr . TnMl Joined him in brinem * in the bill and carrying it through the House of Commons . ° ln the House of Lords it was in the hands of Lord Harrowbv and it could not have been in better . But to these names should be added those of Mr . J . M . LudlowandMr . T . Hughes , without whose efficient exertions the act would probably never have come into existence , and that of the Ear ] of Ripon , who beW > - unable from the feeble state of his health to take charge of the measure himself in the Lords , secured for it the valuable services of Lord Harrowby . Of the advantages which this Act will confer upon those of the poorer working population of the three kingdoms who are alive to the vast importance of becoming their own employers , and arc conscious that only by their own unremitting efforts this end can be attained , there can be but one opinion amon ° - all who have any familiarity with the former state of the law , and the legal effect of the measure . But as the great body ot those whom it is intended to benefit are not in this position , and as there are some provisions in the Act which may be taken hold of to make them think it less advantageous to them than it is , 1 propose to accompany it by a few explanatory remarks . ' J

      Until this Act passed , if more than 25 persons associated themselves together to carry on any trade or mamiiacturcin the profits of which they had a share , without being r

      . Now it is true that , these difficulties might be got over to some extent , by means of deeds drawn up between the members of such an association , giving the whole property to a few of the partners to act as managers for the rest , or by vesting it in trustees , and choosing a small number of partners who should be allowed to employ it in the business , but might be checked by the trustees , if they employed it improperly . But this plan did not get rid of the necessity of expensive " legal documents being executed whenever any change in these partners or trustees was made ; and after all it could not be applied to any association of more than twenty-five persons , without further expedients which were troublesome to work ' and must have remained of doubtful efficacy until they had been tried by some proceeding in a court of law . All these difficulties have been got rid of by means of the present Act of Parliament . All the property of all societies enrolled under this Act will always be vested in the trustees , who need not be members of the society , but maybe any persons , whether members or not , in whom the members place confidence ; and who will not be subject to any responsibility excepting for the property which actually comes into their hands , unless they are themselves concerned in the management of the business . And this property will pass , by the act of the law , from one set of trustees to another , through the mere fact of their being appointed trustees , without the necessity of executing any legal instrument whatever . But although all the property of the association will be vested m the trustees , it will not be necessary that thev should be the persons who carry on the business . That may be carried on by a committee of management , or a manager or managers under the supervision of such a committee , aiuUhese managers or committee may be made removable from office by the members of the association , who will thus have in their own hands the most effectual security against any improper conduct on the part of their managers . At the same time as all the property of the association will always be vested in the trustees , they will always be able to sue in the name of the association , whatever changes may take place in the management ; so that no difficulty will arise in this respect , in enforcing claims ; while on the other hand , as the association can always be sued through the trustees , confidence will bo given to the persons with whom they have to deal . Again , if any member of the association improperly applies any of its property to his own use the trustees will have no difficulty m taking any proceedings against him at law ; while for disputes among the members of the association , the rules can provide an effectual and cheap remedy , either by proceedings before magistrates or before arbitrators .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 28, 1852, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1693/page/11/