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      FRANCE . T e Councils General and ilie Empire—Haynau n Belgium—The Ball at the Marche des Inocens— Conventions with Belgium —Bailway Accident—Destructive Storms—Prosecution of an Englishman . [ f&Oli 0 U& OWK COfc ^ ESfcOTSDEtST . ] ' Paris , AuGtJST 24 th . The Councils feenel'al are nowlseing worked in order to get up a movement for the Empire . Accordingly , a long string of

      addresses are daily appearing in the government papers , m which the members of the council express their gratitude to Louis Napoleon for " saving society , " by the " grand act of December 2 nd , " and a desire for " stability and repose . " The selfish and unprincipled fools will learn nothing from experience . They miglit know from the lessons Of the past that there cannot be stability where there is no justice , and that their support of the existing despotism , no far from being calculated to preserve tire Tepose of France , is Certain to give birth to the most violent of revolutions .

      While the Councils-General are making themselves the mouthpieces of the empire seeking Bonaparte , a " scandalous ' , spirit of opposition to that personage is daily growing stronger M . Bourlon de Rouvre has issued the following amusing - decree , i . e . consequence of the opposition candidates having obtained a majority ' at the late election for Municipal Councillors at St . Flour : —

      " Considering that the re-election of Municipal Councillors who had resigned in order to avoid taking the oath to the Constitution , and the re-entering of those men so notoriously hostile to the Government into the council of the commune , is a scandalous act of opposition calculated to afflict honourable men , and that it is the duty of the authorities immediately to avenge public morality , insulted "by those appointments . We decree : — from

      " The Municipal Council of St . Flour is suspended the exercise of its functions . A commission , composed of MM . Dcssauret d'Auriac , Mayor , President ; Chadel , Deputy ; Tourseiller , Vassiere , Fournier , will perform the functions of the Municipal Council of the town of St Flour . " The Sub-Prefect of St . Flour is charged with the execution of the present decree , which is to be immediately published and posted in that town . "

      I find some of our friends were , though Tmt few of them would like to loose even the name of the Eepublic , and would like to retain that if they could not the reality . For my own part , I should he more glad than otherwise , were the Empire to be at once proclaimed ; it would in no ways tend to uphold the power of Louis Bonaparte , and we would be spared the mournful spectacle of the cherished name ' of the democratic form of government "being desecrated by that hand of infamous wretches , who have seized upon the material power of France .

      I have received intelligence of anti-Haynau demonstrations , which were made at the Vauxliall at Brussels on Sunday night last . The Austrian tiger may well say , " Save me from my friends , " for had it not been for the exertions of his friend ( let the Belgian people mark the friend of Haynau , ) General Chazal , to do him honour , he might , through their disgust and scorn , have escaped the indignation of the people of Brussels . Biit

      the sycophancy of the Belgian baron was too dishonourable to he home , and they expressed their indignation in shouting , " Turn out the woman-flogger ! turn him out ! " One young woman , says my informant , loudly expressed her wish that she was a man , so that she might with her own hands revenge the crimes the monster has committed against humanity . I hope he will get even a warmer reception here . Such a wild beast should be destroyed , or driven from among civilized nations .

      The adjourned hall was given to the Dames de la Halle last Tuesday night , hut Bonaparte did not attend to the great disgust of the fair merchants , who had procured , in most instances , very elegant apparel for the occasion . Pensions have heen granted to 75 soldiers , among whom are Generals Changarnier and Bedeau , who are each to receive 6 , 000 fr . By a decree the electors of the 3 rd and 4 th conscriptions of Paris are convoked for the 26 th of Sept ., to choose deputies to the Corps Legislatif in the place of General Cavaignac and M . Carnot .

      M . Dupont de PEure , who had been elected member of the Council-General of the Eure by the inhabitants of Nonancourt , has sent in his resignation to the Prefect . The Debate says : — " We are informed that M . Drayn de Lhuys yesterday signed , with the Belgian Plenipotentiaries , a convention for the protection of literary property . This is a measure the importance of which we need not enlarge upon . It is said that another convention , granting certain commercial advantages to Belgium , was signed at the same time . "

      It would undoubtedly he well if the infamous system of literary piracy carried on in Belgium could be put a stop to . I am sorry to know that a very large party in that kingdom are opposed to such a just step , and T know also that this piirty contains men whose political principles are a disavowal of selfishness , It is true they have a right to demand advantages from France in return , which , I am given to understand , are by no means granted by this new convention . A serious accident happened on the Strasbourg Railway a few days since . The tram ia \ i off the rails , struck against a bridge , and sixteen of the passengers were severely injured .

      Letters from the provinces this week state that a great portion of the crops and much other property has been destroyed by the late severe storms of wind and rain . An English gentleman , named Hogg , has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment and 3 , 000 fr . fine for circulating here a political publication , entitled the Nouveau Bulletin Francais .

      BELGIUM . Anoilier Haynau demonstration—The Government and the Anti-Bonapartist Press . While the young Emperor of Austria has been ostentatiously journeying through Hungary to demand the homage of its subjugated people , the discarded and forgotten Haynau who burned and bombarded his subjects back to obedience , has been a wanderer in Belgium , where he has this week learned , somewhat unexpectedly , the popular estimate of his merits . On Sunday evening last , about a quarter to nine , Haynau visited the

      Brussels Vauxhall , where , as usual , a concert was taking place . At nine o ' clock , says the Echo , the marshal showed himself in the garden , and was immediately surrounded by a curious crowd of about two hundred persons . His attitude , it was noticed , had something theatrical about it . It being apparent that a demonstration was about to take place , General Chazal , of the Belgian service , who was in the garden , went up to the marshal , and entered into conversation with him , hoping by Ms presence to overawe the rising feeling . A few moments

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      passed and no manifestation took place , the crowd meanwhile increasing very rapidly . M . Singelee , the director of the gardens , caused the orchestra to play two favourite pieces , in the expectation that the attention of the crowd would be withdrawn from his uneasy guest ; butl n vain . Hisses were heard , then some very pointed observations were addressed to Haynau on his share in the Hungarian war , while the majority of the multitude cried , " Turn him out , turn him out . " M . Chazal essayed to address the people and assuage the storm , but was not listened to , and the tumultuous excitement rose still higher . Meanwhile messengers had been sent to the police-station and

      barracks , and shortly the officers arrived , together with a file of soldiers . A number of arrests took place , but the parties all being persons of character and position , were released immediately . After this , Haynau remained some little time at the concert , guarded by a knot of Belgian officers , and followed by the spectators in all his movements . As he retnmed from the concert to his hotel , he was again hissed , and a number of uncomplimentary cries were heard , but no violence was practised . Notwithstanding the decisions of the jury in the Cases of the Bulletin Francais , and the Nation , a pamphlet called Les Nuits de St . Cloud , on les Deux Cours , has been seized by the police at Brussels , on the complaint of the French minister ; and a judicial prosecution has been commenced against the publishers .

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      TURKEY . The news from the Turkish capital is of great importance . The Grand Vizier , Kedschid Pasha , has resigned . The Sultan ' s brother-in-law , Achmet Fethi Pasha , the Pasha of Topnana ( Director-General of Artillery ) , has been dismissed . Ali Pasha has been appointed Redschid ' s successor . Faud Effendi , who was in Egypt a short time since has received

      the vacant portfolio . The Pasha of Tophana has been replaced by Redschid Mahomed Pasha , who was before Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Guard . All these up and downs took place on the 6 th , in the evening . On the plea of not being well and strong enough to bear the fatigue , Ali Pasha has only consented to accept the office of Grand Vizier for the moment . The correspondent of the Oest Deutsche Post sees in all this a concession made to Austria .

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      UNITED STATES . OUR AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE . Free Soil Convention at Pitsburg—The Homestead BiR—Tl enedBiqtiurebetween the United States and Peru—The F f **" dition Case—Thomas Francis Metothet — Death nflf " Bantoul-Bemam of the Menry O % ^ Threatened \ dk

      Resolved , That the Democratic and Whiff mi-tinc ; iinw ii 1 x knee to the dark spirit of Slavery , and here is io conrtllfff y + ? ° the of liberty to pursue , but to refused clSSS ^ the Mond . ot « £ ^^ of the ^ S ^ fe ^» AS of nations are not disregarded to its injury wemaent t 0 b <* that the lavs J ^^ S&S ^ ' * " **'' ''*'*!* ' *****! ssesssHsssassfflss turn on the part of any nation , the true and only remedyfo-sue i ™ - ™» - right is contravention by other nations , for the 3 eof nm \ JS T and that it is the duty of this Government to taterita &SSW ?

      FROM OtlR OWS CfrltpgPOKBEOT . _ Sfew York , August nth By electric telegraph t have just received an account of il , doings of the Friends of Freedom in their convention p " burgh , yesterday . I cannot better explain to vou tta !• of the Friends of Freedom than by sending you tV efol ? - resolutions which I extract from their S / bm : - ° " Resolved , That Civil Government is an ordinance of God -mri « , „ delegated agents to carry out righteous purposes , byrSlteou "I "* ' e ° nly jWer human laws are opposed to God ' s will , Slch ' to \ vs ZLTS "S and are not binding upon tiieh either morally or politica 111 M Void Resolved , That the rendition of Fugitive Slaves eH&r W w , r , State authority , is kicked , contrary to Sod ' s wfl ^ wlj ^ Resolved , That we are opposed to Slavery of every kind and *„ *• every Constitutional effort to abolish it . V ' d ln favour of Resolved , That we are opposed to anvand evorv rnn , nmm- „ .., and thatno lapse of time & render ™ X £ < % ^™^? J ^ Resolved , That we are not only opposed to the iE 5 : ™ 3 f pon us-Fugitive Slave Law , but are in favour of its ^ nteStES ^ nndw the lieve it unconstitutional . aosoiute lepeal , because we

      beof thkl ^ P th 1- hearta ? ° T the seiltil ^ ts 0 this Free Soil Convention , regardin g the abolition of slavery Until not only the fugitative slave law but slavery itself C abolished we cannot possibly be a moral nation . Regarding the second subject mentioned in the above extracts-the land 1 believe we want more than a Homestead Bill , that we want the nationalization of the land . A propos of this subject an " in dignation " meeting was held in the Military Hall , last night " when the following resolution was adopted : — ' Resolved , That we hold an Indignation Gathering in the Park at an mi-Kday , to express our disapprobation of the infamous course of the miioritv f the recreant Land Committee of the present Congress in suppressSh Homestead Bill , after receiving the sanction of the House of lteSnta tives and sustained by the universal voice of the people . p

      I had just begun to get the stench of those infernal Newfoundland fish from my mental nostrils , when they were suddenly assailed by that of guano . It seems we are to have another row upon this savoury snbject . You may gather the particulars of the threatened dispute from the following document : Department of State Washington 5 th , June , 1852 . Cant . James C . Jewett , Master of the bark Philomela .

      Sir ,--I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2 nd instant inquiring Avhether citizens of the United States can take guano from the Lobos Islands , which are situated near the coast of Peril , without infrineine : upon the rights of the citizens or subjects , or government of any other nation In reply , I have to iniorm you , that if those islands should lie within the distance of a marine league from the continent , or if being further than that distance , should have been discovered and occupied by Spain or by Peru the Peruvian would have ri to

      government ght exclude therefrom the vessels and citizens of other nations , except upon such conditions as it may think m-ouer to prescribe . There can be no doubt that the title of Peru to the Chincha Islands , whence guano is now chiefly taken , is founded upon the basis of discovery and occupancy . That article was taken from those islands , and used as a manure by the Peruvians anterior to the conquest of Peru by Sp ain It continued to be so taken and used throughout the Spanish dominions in that country , and this practice has been kept up to the present day .

      Although those islands are uninhabitable , the custom of resorting to them from the neighbouring continent , for the purpose of procuring guano may bo said to have constituted such an occupancy of them as to give the sovereign of the continent a right of dominion over them under the law of nations This department , however , is not aware that the Lobos islands were cither discovered or occupied by Spain , or by Peru , or that the guano on them has ever been used for manure on the adjacent coast or elsewhere . It is certain that the distance from the continent is five or six times greater than is necessary to make them a dependency thereofpursuant to public law .

      , On the other hand , it is quite probable that Benjamin Morrell , junior who , as master of the schooner Wasp , of New York , visited those islands in September , 1823 , may justly claim to have been their discoverer . lie fives a full account of them in his narrative , published in New York in 1 S 3 9 . Under these circumstances , it may be considered the duty of the government to wotect citizens of the United States , who may visit the Lobos islands for the purpose of obtaining guano . This duty will be more apparent when it is considered that the consumers of Chincha island guano in this country might obtain it for half the

      probably price they now pay , were it not for the charges of the Peruvian government . I shall consequentl y communicate a copy of that letter to the Secretary of the Kavy , and suggest that a vessel of war be ordered to repair to the Lobos islands for the purpose of protecting from molestation any of our citizens who may wish to take guauo from them . I am Sir , very respectfully , your obedient Servant , _ . . . ., ,. ( Signed ) , DANIEL WEBSTER . P . S . —It is considered important that this letter should not be made public at present .

      The Kaine extradition case is not settled yet . Judge Nelson has decided that the case of Thomas Kaine can be taken , for review , before the Supreme Court of the United States , on the grounds as to the power of Commissioner Bridgham to act as Magistrate under the Treaty—the sufficiency of the app lication ( made by the Consul ) for his Extradition---and as to the sufficiency of proof of the original complaint in Ireland , and the standing of the magistrate taking it . A writ of H abeas Corpus has been issued pro forma , returnable before Judg e Nelson at Cooperstown to-day , ( Kaine himself will not be required to go , ) and the case will be certified , thence , to the Supreme Court .

      It is reported here that Mr . Webster has had a quarrel with the President , and has determined to retire from the Cabinet , but I cannot answer for the truth of the report . Thomas Francis Meagher , the eloquent Irish patriot , lias determined to formall y renounce t \ v hated monarchy and become acitizen of this Republic . The day before yesterday he made a formal declaration to one of the judges of . the Superior Court of his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States . The following is the form of the oath to which he subscribed : — I , Thomas Francis Meagher , do declare on oath that it is ntf honafide intention to become a citizen of the United States , a »

      to renounce for ever all allegiance and fidelity to any f oreign prince , potentate , or sovereignty whatever , and particul arly to the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland , of whom I am » off a subject . . News has readied this city of the death of Robert RantoM Jim ., Member of the House of Representatives , which took place at Washington on Sunday .

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      34 THE STAB OF FREEDOM . August 28 , 1852 .

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      GERMANY . Movements of the Kaiser — Progress of Bead-ion in Prussia — Bavages of Cholera in Warsaio and Silesia—Anti-Danish Demonstration in Holstein . Austria . —The Emperor of Austria left Vienna on the 17 th for Ischl . After a fortnight ' s stay at that watering place he will proceed to Pesth to attend some grand military manoeuvres , and towards the end of September visit Croatia and Slavonia . Prussia . —Dr . Franz , an energetic partisan of M . Von

      Manteuffel , and lately appointed secretary at the foreign office , published , a few days ago , a political pamphlet , which was immediately confiscated by the police . The work probably proposed measures which , though in accordance with the wishes and intentions of the government , involve an infraction of the present constituted order of things , and are criminal , therefore , from the circumstance of anticipating by a few weeks the government ' s acts .

      The deaths from cholera at Warsaw were upwards of two hundred on the 17 th instant , still a very large proportion . Th ravages of the disease in the poorer districts of Upper Silesia and in the lowlands in West Prussia , at the mouth of the ' Vistula , are terrific ; villages are mentioned , where two-thirds of the inhabitants have been carried off . Several districts in the Crimea have been devastated by clouds of locusts which have descended on the nearly ripe corn-fields .

      Holstein . —The Danish government has withdrawn a Holstein corps from Eckernforde for service in Copenhagen ; and Altona is garrisoned by a body of Danish troops . The departure of the Holstein battalion from Eckernforde caused a demonstration on the part of the inhabitants . No one was arrested , but an order of the police forbids such displays for the future .

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      SWITZERLAND . Conclusion of the Legislative Session . —The Pope ' s Recruiters . —The two legislative councils of the Swiss confederation composing the Federal Assembly concluded their session on the 18 th instant , and in the ordinary course of events will not meet again till January . The district tribunal of Sargans has condemned in a fine of 106 francs a man who has lately been recruiting for the Pope in the canton of St . Gall . He was arrested at Wallenstadt with his recruits . Another man has been fined 220 francs at Old Toggenburgfor the same offence .

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      ITALY . Bobbery in the Roman States—Crimes . of the Papal Government—Austrian Brutality—The Neapolitan State Trails . Rome . —The diligence from Viterbo to Rome Was stopped and plundered by robbers on the 10 th . inst . A man was shot on the 2 nd inst . at Fermo , for a political homicide , committed in August , 1849 . The execution of the four young men at Forli who were attacked by a band of armed

      Sanfedisti in the same year , and in defending themselves , inflicted a blow with a stone , from which one of the aggressors died , has excited public feeling in Romagna . Cardinal Falconieri , the bishop , and the municipality , all recommended them , but in vain , to mercy . The sentence of the Consulta tribunal condemned them for having murdered , " with malice prepense , one of the friends of the government . "

      Naples . —The state trials continue to reveal the same perjury and injustice so frequently pointed out . They will probably finish within a month . The prisoners anticipate the galleys at least . Lombardy . —The Augsburgh Gazette contains a letter dated on the 8 th instant from the banks of the Po , from which it appears that the Austrian authorities have been giving a fresh instance of their brutality .

      An Englishman was quietly sketching the picturesque Amphitheatre of the old city of the Montagues and Capulets , when he was accosted by an Austrian sentry , who commanded him to desist . Upon declining to comply with this military prohibition he was arrested and thrown into prison , where tie was detained for several days . After his liberation , this martyr of the pencil was thrust unceremoniously out of the city , and conducted by Austrian gendarmes out of the territory , subjected to the mild sway of Marshal Radetsky . The Gazette says that the Englishman called upon the commandment of the forces to apologize to him , but that this demand wt ? s refused . He then applied to the Earl of Westmoreland , at that moment at Venice , for redress .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 28, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1693/page/2/