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      English Pegeadation. We We Have More Tji...

      ENGLISH pEGEADATION . We We have more tjian once adverted to the numerous cases of ^^ jtoWLrfs women , which are daily recorded in the police aortoorts . As regards crimes of this disgraceful nature , there smssms to be no improvement jn the moral condition of the people . ay ay after day comes the long and sickening catalogue of crimes ; iimeimes as brutal and monstrous as those of the preceding day .

      me tie fellow makes a murderous attack upon several defenceless onuamen , who endeavour to save a child from his beastly designs . & e « ie of those women had her face frightfully slashed and disfiwedred by the ruffian , before he could be secured . Another rehretch , with the outward appearance of a man , but with none of is ns nobler attributes , leaps from an omnibus , of which he is conaictiictor , for the purpose of making an unprovoked attack upon an lafoafortunate woman in the street . He fells her to the earth , and

      iaeihen kicks her , and tramples her under his feet . T This civilization of burs is a fearful thing , when under its cover itichch horrible scenes are enacted . In the most barbaric days of iirur history , we find no such atrocities . In past ages , it is true , mauch hatred and ] bloodshed , many lives taken for very trivial auauses ; but the men of these times were free from the stain of Mrcowardice—the basest of all cowardice , which enables a man to isuse violence ' towards a woman .

      ' . Modern civilization is , we fear , but a whited sepulchre , having nmclosed iu its bosom the deepest degradation , aud the blackest ridce . What matters this electric telegraph and the railways , if Julie one is for ever aiding the pursuers of flying criminals , and the 16 ther fails in carrying from the dark alleys and filthy courts , where iihey are cursing and struggling in ignorance and intoxication , the ; * * dangerous classes" of our cities for whom science has done noifohmg but ] by lessening their earnings , to drive them into still

      [ . deeper misery and degradation . We would rather that the people were happy than rich . Britain is in the present time very rich j but the riches goekv only to . corrupt , to render effeminate and vicious , the so called foHunate ffew who possess them . But look below , and you see a different ] picture . Enter that gin-palace , which is in a blaze of light , and ssee the British greatness there . A leaden-eyed , dirt-begrimed iman , is vacantly staring in the haggard and dogged face of a

      miserable creature , whose long years of wretchedness have robbed her of all the softness of her sex . His hoarse whisper changes into a growl , as his demand for more money is met with an angry refusal or a sneer . Curses and threats succeed , and the wife who would once have gently pleaded with him , and begged him to remember the children starving at home , answers him in a tone of scorn and defiance . lie raises his muscular arm . and strikes her

      4 own ; but when he has done so , no sign of remorse or shame is discernabie upon his brutified countenance . Meanwhile , a number niore of those satires upon women and men are standing by unmoved ; the only difference visible in them being some increase in the vivacity of their conversation . All the while the sleek tradesman behind the bar is as unconcerned as if he were utterly unconscious of all the vulgarity and cursing that is going on before him .

      Similar scenes are going forward in the interior of the wretched houses around . The idling policeman is occasionally attracted to one or other of them , by a female shriek , or a cry of murder . The degraded brute , made savage with drink , has made a murderous assault upon his female partner , and in the majority of instances , without the shadow of a cause . The offender is taken before a magistrate , is sent to prison for a week or two , at the expiration of which time he returns to resume the shameful drama of his wretched existence .

      What other is the police magistrates and the "justice" they administure than a solemn mockery . Tne penalties they inflict are not nearly severe enough , as punishment for the odious crimes committed , and it will be acknowledged by every one , they exercise no preventative power whatever .

      if the prevention of such offences be desired , a very different course ipst be adopted . The evil must be attacked at its root . A moral reformation must be wrought in the minds of this deluded class ; they , must be awakened to a sense of their dignity as man so that they may feel ashamed to commit such a cowardly and unmanly action as to rai ? e their hand against a woman .

      flow is this change to be accomplished ? Their conversion into miserable slaving tools has made them what they now are , and so long as they remain tools , with no knowledge of higher duties or rights , reformation will be impossible . Give the . rTan education , and endow them with the rights of citizenship , and when they then begin to fee f that they are indeed men , with a noble destiny to fulfil , they will respect themselves too highly to continue in their present path of guilty despoliation . It is by this means only tha we can hope to put an end to those horrible assaults upon women a species of crime which is a disgrace to the British nation .

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      weIfo £ S N w- T m' £ ' dAM ) INAL WiSEMAN-On Monday we $ Cardinal Wiseman presided over a grand ceremony at Gambia ! S m a «» raculous statue of the Virgin , stated to hav ^ S I ^ inn ^ . ^ - occa ^ Q f a « « He also headed * SS f ^ f ® 1 ? f f ^ W ^ e of fheYu ^ , of which the herMzlZ ' *^ it would shut its eyes and whistle whenever a cSSffii ^ t M 7 ^ Qifrte ? he was P ** d to accept a loekat , CSS , ' iw . hair that is recorded ^ have been cut off 235 XL - % DAlILA - ' andhe w aIso 8 h 0 WR ttte scissors with ^ S & r % ^ Vetf ? med' ^ * ™* es the Preservata nrlnfe * ^ i T * m ? £ culous is ' <** it has retained to the S ^^ em ^^ i * w **

      Mr. O'Connor And The O'Connor Fund. In A...

      MR . O'CONNOR AND THE O'CONNOR FUND . In a recent number of the Star of Freedom we mentioned that we had communicated with Dr . Tuke to ascertain , if pos siblefrom that gentleman Mr . O'Connor ' s position as regarded health and other c i rcumstances . Only this week we have rec eived the following answer , which , as it must interest numbers of our readers , we take leave to publish : — " Manor House , Chiswick , October 10 , 185 S .

      "Sir , —I regret very much that your letter should have remained so long unanswered , I was anxious to do anything I could to assist Miss O'Connor , but I have been ' obliged to wait till Icould discover what ray power to help hermight be before I could reply to your note . Any funds that Mr . O'Connor may have I can only keep for his own use ; this appears to me . yonr committee can do just as well . It would be impossible for rae to give any part of the subscriptions raised for him to his sister ; I think , however , under the circumstances of the case the committee might carry out the views of the subscribers by giving some assistance to Miss O'Connor .

      "Mr . O'Connor has much improved in health since his residence here , he is in good spirits , and I have continued to make his confinement as little disagreeable to him as possible ; it would be premature to give any positive opinion as to the final result of his malady , I have had the great advantage of Dr . Cpnolty ' s constant advice and assistance in the case , and no means have been or will be left untried , that may conduce to his recovery . "Ihave Sir , the honour to be , "Your ' s very faithfully , " Harrington Tuke . " "To G . Julian Harney , Esq . "

      It will be seen from the above that Mr . O'Connor s general bodily health has improved under DkTdkb ' s skilful treatment , aided by the valuable advice and assistance of Dr . Conolly . This is so far cheering . It will be seen , however , that Dr . Tuke speaks with less confidence of Mr . O ' Connor ' s restoration to mental health—a matter which even those who were Mr . O'Connor ' s political enemies—not to speak of his friends—can hardly fail to deplore .

      Regarding Miss 0 Connor , there can be no question that Dr . Tithe is acting perfectly right in refusing to devote any monies entrusted to him for Mr . O'Connor to any other purpose whatever . There can be no more question that for the committees to act as Dr . Tuke suggests , would be strictly in accordance with justice to Mr . O'Connor , and also with the intentions of the subscribers to the O'Connor Fund . On this last point , the subscribers may set aside all dispute by instructing the committee as to their ( the subscriber ' s ) wishes . It should be remembered that Miss O'Connor is the nearest relative to her brother , that up to

      the tune of his removal from Parliament she resided with him , and upon him was placed her whole dependence . Deprived of that stay , her position is now a most unhappy one—to be imagined , perhaps , but not to be described . We put it to the friends of Mr . O'Connor whether , under such circumstances , it is not a duty to allot to his sister at least some portion of the funds raised for that gentleman ? Speaking for the Ashton friends , Mr . Aitken has already intimated his wish that the sum sent from that town shall be handed to Miss O'Connor . We advise all the subscribers to consider this question , and impart their decision to t he two committees without further delay .

      Satan Rebuking Sin. The Times Of London ...

      SATAN REBUKING SIN . The Times of London favours the people of the United States with some friendly advice as to the manner in which they onoht io behave themselves towards Cuba . It is the opinion of this leadinojournal of England that the prosperity of this country , which it admits Jo be solid , sudden and dazzling , has been achieved by peaceful industry and bold but well-weighed enterprise . Accordingly , onr jrue policy is to continue in the same career , and not loose

      ourselves and virtue in wild and dishonest schemes of foreign aggrandisement . Besides , continues our venerable adviser , if , tempted by the greed of dominion and of extended territory , America should jtluK transgress the eternal principles of justice , relentless retribution will pursue her crime , she will be condemned by the public opinion of the world ; and even if for the present she escapes the punishment that awaits her , she will be left alone to wear the brand of

      piracy in the eyes of other and holier nations , and especially of England , a power exemplary in moderation and tenderness for the riglfts of others .: Of this peculiar honesty which lends so radiant a luster to the history of John Bull , his great newspaper cites a . special in . stance in the case of Madeira . That Island John has never stolen ; therefore he is a glorious example for the imitation of the United States .

      If there is any cause for disgust when a lecherous old rascal boats of the purity of his morals , or a notorious usurer or thief , assuming the smirk of piety and philanthropy , descants on the beauty of the golden rule , a lecture on national justice and respect for oihers ' property from the organ and apologist of England may well provoke a passing sense of nausea . YVrmt hesitation has the British Government ever manifested when the interests of British shopkeepers were balanced against the rights of weaker nations ? When has England refrained from an advantageous seizure of new territory

      that could be safely accomplished ? Where in British history are monuments of that national deference to the eternal principles of justice which The Times , with pharisaic gravity , preaches for our edification % Are they to be found in Ireland , or in India , or in China ? Was it in the opium war that these heavenly laurels of moderation and right and honesty were twined for the British nrms . Or is it in the recent grab of the Island of Ruatan , or in the Mosquite humbug , that we are to find a pattern of politicui morality of he true British stamp ?

      But as , according to the Catholic dogma , the rites of religion are efficacious though the priest who performs them be a roguefso truth is truth , though dropped front lying lips , and wisdom is wisdom , though uttered by a charlatan . And so , whatever we tiiink of The Times , we hold us doctrine to be sound and its advice < r d . It is true that the only solid and enduring greatness of a nation must be

      the work of its own industry and attention to its own affair * . The United States prove this . Our power is built at home , on our own soil , in the benignant air of free institutions and of peace This power foreign conquest and war would not enlarge but diminish and vitiate . Moreover , national injustice is ihe deadliest of poisons for the iiiUion that commits it . But labour and enterprisethe increase

      , and diffusion of wealth and of implUm .,-,,. * . _ ,.. ... ; u „ „ r . u . and diffusion of wealth and of intelligence , the triumphs of the thinking head and the creative hand-these will not only fortify and iHustrate > our country , but are pregnant ' wltji the future liberties of the world . —New York Tribune , '

      Dehocratio Moveffieitv:

      DEHOCRATIO MOVEffiEitV :

      Public Meetings.

      PUBLIC MEETINGS .

      ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST REPtlBu * The commemoration of the great date of geDt ' 1792 , was this year celebrated without official pom ^ T * 2 ance , but with religious faith by those of the refugee ! ' ^ don , Who form the Society La Revolution . 8 ll H % These citizens looked upon it as a duty to salute * •« acclamations that epoch , already distant but imrnrJ H the Revolution affirmed itself , —in the plentitude of it % before all the peoples , in constituting its soverei gnty ^ They believed that that glorification should not bo „ mark of respect , a salutation to the heroic legend , t J ?*?? a homage , but rather a political protestation in the ' ^ ^ Right , always implacable and always living , although fin i _ ° _ •_ .: „_„_ . „ .... __ _ , «!_;_»_» . _»__ + __ fc __ f _ ,,. _ . +,, ° -i _ & u ah * . t its apostles be subjected to fettersto exile 1

      sen , , oA l ' " They believed , that at the moment when , in their enslav i '' sad country , the dictatorship of crime effaces even the ^ name o f the Republic , and prepares its last orgie , . tuV ^' —it was well that that Republic should be saluted , conse " ^' anew by some o f the exiles , and that the public profe . ^ the Right , should be raised against the impious hymn ' of the savage clamours of Force . s » atl

      _ .. _! i _« 1 _ .. mv >/_ a / . Y __ - « m Av / i / iiil' !/ in __ iia _ % -P V » t _>* - _ - _«« ___ /_ .. ** "ll > i combats , branded her executioners of history—or of the du and noted , like the light on the horizon , her next victories ''" Sometimes it was the ardent words of a workman , of Hi , who , in a toast " to the Revolutionary Propaganda , " brandol with all the bitterness of a " jacane " —travailk w , ihe iuikmio and the vices of the Caesar ; sometimes the rapid and impa sioned logic of the journalist of Gasperini , who , in a toast «?« the Press and to the Tribune , " avenged these two powers ft torches of the world , and whose light is always the terror

      o . crime ; then it was the woeful epic of the country , recounted in its miseries , its sublime fraternity , and its hopes akav s deceived , by Remi , who expressed them in a manner as touch . ing and simple as the subject , or as the labour of the fields afterwards there came the bloody tragedy of Paris , and tii . cruel episodes of the Pontoons , denounced b y Cahaigne , one of the victims of the 2 nd of December , as ho has been in all the struggles of liberty against despotism .

      Several other toasts were drunk . One by citizen Kaism " to the workmen of Paris , " another more energetic , by eifeeii Pardigon , "to the Revolution iu the departments , " and a third , by citizen Magnet , " to the direct and permanent sorereigntyof the people . " Citizens Belescluse and Ribeyrolles , likewise spoke ; some verses wero read by George Gafihey , of Harve , and revolutionary songs followed . At length the sitting was closed by the president , who , as orator , had opened it , with the following speech : —

      Citizens . —It is 60 years since our fathers , in an assembly whose memory is imperishable , proclaimed the Republic and chavactevised their work by makiu $ it a new era . It was new indeed , and without relation with the past , that Republuwhose fundamental principles were Libert ?/ and liquidity , as the aim of society —the common happiness , as means ot" government , the jjenmuicnt < iim : / ami intransmissible sovereignty of ' the people . Whatever may be saiil by superficial minds , who look on nothing but forms , she proceeded neither from Athens , Rome nor America , that Republic , which , coming from the vevy « m . e-of philosophy , pushed its conclusions to the utmost logical consequences , and which , nevertheless , departed not from reality . E qually removed from tlie old nevritudw and from chimeras , she was at once of the age and oi * humanity , living ,

      practicable every where ; for she replied to her detractors by the mouth of lictapierre , and of Marat himself : '" No , no more agrarian law than community . The one will conduct to the ruin of France , and the other will lead to despotism . Neither the one nor the other is capable of application with a great nation . That which society owes to every citizen , is the guarantee oi labour . * ' Ami afterwards , she still said to those , who , exaggerating the Revolution in order to procure its overthrow , demanded that all the steeples should be razed , btcausf they were against the lairs of equality . Insensate men ! equality is not in matter , but in right . —( Prolonged Applause ) . — -Eh bien , citizens , tecanse the

      tribune where these great truths were proclaimed , is destroyed , became the press , which has spread them , like a clarion , to t !»» fiw quarters of the world , is no move , must we despair 1 Must . \ vp despair , because that great word Republic has a first time disappeared under the smoke of glory , and because to-morrow it may be again eclipsed !)) ' violence , or before the prestige of a namel Because wo , poor exiles , are reduced to celebrate in a comer of a strange land , this immortal anniversary , that our fathers ' notified to the world by the thundering voice of cannon , —must we despair Ah ! I understand in antiquity , how great citizens pierced themselves with

      their spears , that they might not survive liberty ; I understand Demosthenes putting to his mouth an empoisoned dagger , in order to die free ; I un derJtaml Cicero heaving to the steel of the assassins of Antony a neck docile and resigned , for Athens and Rome were but luminons points in the universe , beyond which all was darkness and barbarism . Those proud souls , those manly hearts , might therefore despair . But now , when the idea has penetrated like ether , everywhere , when an extinct crater may re-open a hundred times , to despair J Citiw it will not be only a crime , it will be blindness , it will be folly t—( Thunders ol Applause . )—An instance will suffice to prove it . We see what Europe m "' voice of

      1792 , and we see what it is now . In 1792 , it arose as one man at the its priests and kings , to roll upon France and extinguish the torch of the Revolution ; whilst now , it from the balcony of the Hotel de Ville of Paris was issued the cry of deliverance , it would be responded to from Rome , from VuaM Berlin , Pesth , Yarsovia , and even Madrid , that old cradle of the inquisition , the the whole of Europe , by these two magic words : —Universal KejniM" ' - February has presented it to us , but since , what progress I You know it : nut a ravine , not a rock , not a , mysterious wood that has not been visited by the democratic word , and where solemn oaths have not been sworn . —( That Is true , that i » haw

      true . )—Instead of remaining within the provisions of our fathers , we advanced beyond them , for Saint Just , the most adventur ous mind of that "WW cious epoch said : Many generations will pass away , before the vm ^ " ' nouncing their prejudices and their pride , will consent to live under the lnm > > t justice and equality , and to adopt the same democratic form of govenrnw " - And see , nevertheless , citizens , scarce half a centurv has elapsed , and «» BW " is accomplished . Let us then glorify our adversity , for if we are tlie »• quishedin the fact , we are the victors in the idea . —( Unanimous cry ot ye . * , } »• Without doubt it may arrive that , if the luminous ridge of the idea uw » PP for an instant , under the brutal imprint of the tact , as it sometimes happen * >

      a dark cloud spreads over the earth and intercepts the light ot the heavenj . brothers , do we doubt the light for that . Do we not know that above nun horizon there exists million s of millions of skies which not the less «»» _ < with splendour their eternal course , thus it is with democracy ; its «• " «'» " ^ unperceived , is incessantly agitated , it is felt , it is experienced , sot 0 bV ^ the moral world , in the same manner as the physical world feels and ex \ k the influence of electricity , before the thunder bursts in the hosom ot the i ¦ - ( Prolonged Applause . )—Cl . foens , the priests and the despots , all ^ t ( T mt of the ideas , sleep less tranquiliy than we in our defeat } for they well m ^ if they have for thern . —with some privileges , armies of mercena « e »» t !? the iinprescwptable right ,-r-the Jiving faith , the WxW *> -jj ev ol «' entire . I repeat it , we are victors of the idea , that should be , \ VM ««•

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 9, 1852, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_09101852/page/10/