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130 ' THE STAR 01 FREEDOM. [OcTo BER 8
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FRANCE. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Pa...
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The More We Know Of M. Webster's Doings ...
boding clever man-a Roman Catholic m religion , andamdde class reformer in politics . He has propounded a plan and brought it under the notice ofMr ; Hume for foimng a party His ~ peisto get together the Manchester school-- he radicaIs and the Irish members who adhere to Liberalism , and bind them together into a whole . He thinks that the time is particulary propituous for such a scheme . Mr . Hume is of a different opinion . He has had some experience m party making . Porgetting his own backsliding * he complains that the liberal party is a rope of sand . He laments that those who have wisdom have astray
sat at his feet and listened to his gone ; Disraeli for example . Some of them have ridden off on their own hobbies , after own peculiar crotchets—some have gone popularity hunthWon their own hooks , and some have been caught in Ministerial traps by baits known as places . As for the Irish members they are the worst of all—their intemperance , when they arc sincere , would ruin the best cause , their unsteadiness sets leadership at nought and their poverty if not their will consents to temptation . So Joseph is a leader without a reliable party . He is in the Egyptof a golden harvest of schemes but his brothers will not come to him ^ He is
almost in despair , yet , giving half an ear to the blandishments of Mr . Collins , he thinks that if a party could be made and if they could be fastened to one point—say , the ballot , something might yet be done . The Times makes very merry over this . It rejoices in the admission that reformers are impracticable people , and laughs heartily at the vetran economist . It thinks too , that the ballot is not exactly the point to unite upon . In this last thought we agree with the Times . The people want the vote more than the ballot but they will not for any object follow leaders in whom they have not confidence . Mr . Hume , we think , had some hand in drawing up and settling a certain document known as " The Peoples' Charter . " It is just possible
that the memory of that fact and the knowledge of his present opinions may keep the people from following his standard . If he and his body would do what they ought to do and might do there would be a real people ' s party . If they would but put more ' heart into their agitation—i / they would , give it a basis of principle—if they would shew that they loved social rights as well as " the law of supply and demand , " if they thought the happiness of the many , of as much importance as the wealth of the few , —if they would take a basis of political right
instead of one of peddling expediency , and demand the real enfranchisement of the people , they would eraite such an enthusiasm , and raise such a party as no government dare long resist—but those things they will not do , and the people feeling they are not fit to lead—to follow .
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Torturin G In America..—A Shocking Affai...
Torturin g in America .. —A shocking affair occurred at Lodi , Indiana , last week . A man named H . B . Smith , a trader of Co--vington , Kentucky , suspected a young man in his employ , named Cochran , of appropriating the sum of 2 , 800 dols . Smith , who had demand d of Cochran where the money was , seemed satisfied with the explanation , and continued to employ him . But it now appears Smith only feigned to be satisfied . In company with a steersman and a driver , he took one of his boats and started for Lodi , under pretence of getting a load ; When near the place he made an excuse for sending the driver back to Covington , telling him to return the following morning . He then went into the boat , drew a revolver on Cochran , and commanded him . to tell where the money was , or he ¦ would kill him :. he now had him in his power , and unless he
confessed he would take his life . Cochran said he could not tell him , for . he did not know , and repeated the explanation formerly given . A struggle ensued , and the steersman , coming to Smith ' s assistance , tied Cochran's hands behind him . Smith then placed a running noose round Cochran's neck , and , passing the rope over a hook in a joist , drew him up until he stood upon tip-toe . In this situation he was kept from two o ' clock in the afternoon until the next morning , Smith in the meantime venting his anger in oaths and abuse . Fearing he would be discovered should the packet pass , he let the young man down .. He was in such an exhausted condition that he immediately fell upon the floor , unable to , rise . They then returned to Covington . Smith has besn compelled to give bond in the sum of 500 dols . for his appearance at court . The steersman has escaped . —LerrysvillEagle .
Conquests of Lwcjen Bonaparte . —The French journal of Frankfort of the 3 rd says that Prince Lucien Bonaparte is still at Hombourg , where he plays at the public gaming-tables with varied fortune .. After his winning 150 , 000 florins on the 30 th ult ., the bank was compelled to close . Eeopement . —Information ha * reached London that Miss Blair , a ward in Chancery , , and a rich heiress , possessing between 8007 . aud 1 , 000 / . a year ,-eloped from Taunton , with Mr . Garratt O'Moore , of Queen ' s County , Ireland . The young lady , who waa residing with her mother and step-father , Captain Meaner , and who is extremely beautiful as well as highly accomplished , is only seventeen , while fortunate Irish gentleman is verging on forty . What could have induced the parties to elope cannot be imagined ^ aa the mother and step-father—with whom Mr . O'Moore was on a visit—were favourable to the match . The only assignable reason for the flight to Hymen ' s altar is the dread that the Lord
Chancellor vyould not consent to the marriage , which , under existing circumstances , will no doubt deprive Mr . O'Moore of any life interest in the property beyond that of his wife '? , as it will , according to the usual rule in such matters , go to the children , Mr . O'Moore survive his wife . Death op Major-general Colby , K . E . —We regret to have to announce in ouv columns of this day the death of this officer , so distinguished in his profession and in the scientific world . Silver-Lead Mining in Wales . —The attention of the mining interest is being directed to the mineral fields of Wales , in several parts of which new veins and workings have been opened * In Montgomeryshire and Merionethshire very
valuable mineral properties have been opened and are in full work , and there is every reason to believe that the lodes of the Lisburne and Cirmystwyth mines , in Cardiganshire , which have yielded such enormous wealth , are likely to be found in the neighboui'hood of Llanidloes . Mining operations have been carried on there for a period of 17 years , and with good success , and competent parties have pronounced that the lode , which is 30 feet in width , is , without doubt , acontinuation of the Cardiganshire mines . It is also said that the ore whiclr has been hitherto obtained has been raised only from strings and offsets from the main body of the metal , whic lies considerably deeper , and to work which advantageously larger shafts will be sunk .
Highland Eeigration . —On the evening of Friday last the steamer Islay landed at Glasgow nearly 400 emigrants of all ages , who were comfortably lodged for the night and otherwise prodded for by Messrs . Bethune and Macdonald , Jamaica-street , the agents for the Highland and Island Emigration Society Tl'ey were forwarded on Saturday by the Princess Royal to Birkenhead , where they are to meet one of the ships of the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners , which is to convey them to the gold aegions . The greater portion of them came from the island of Sky . A group of eight families , consisting of 30 souls , was from the remote island of St . Kilda ; this is the firefc emigration from that quartor
and we think the cause of humanity would be served were it continued untill all the inhabitants have been removed from that barren rock ; and since so much difficulty exists m disposing of convicted criminals , St . Kilda might then be turned with advantage into a penal settlement . The populatson of St . Kilda has neither increased nor decreased in tae memory of the oldest inhabitant , ann it is remarkable that neither the cholera nor the potatoe blight ever effected a landing on the island . The inhabitants live principally on sea fowl , which are caught at the greatest risk and danger . The appearance of the St . Kilda people was remarkable for the freshness of their complexion , which may be attributed to their feeding so much on animal food , and the comparative ease they enjoy .
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FRANCE . ( PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT . ) Paris , October , 5 . A fearful tragedy has been enacted here since my last . Mr . Morton > the Paris Correspondent of the Daily News , was killed by Mr . Bower , the Correspondent of the Morning Advertiser , in the house of the latter on Friday evening last . The annexed detailed : account of this fatal affair I take from the Journal des Debats of Saturday : —
" About nine o ' clock on Friday evening , a crime was committed near the Madeleine , which has caused the most painful impression * Mr . Bower , thirtyeight years of age , an Englishman , and Paris correspondent of the English paper , the Morning Advertiser , lived , with his wife and children , at No . 2 , Rue de Seze . Some months ago , a countryman of his , Mr . Morton , about five-andthirty years of age , correspondent of the English paper , the Daily News , and who lived in , the neighbourhood , at No . 22 , Bdulevafd des Capuhines , became intimate with liim and visited him frequently . Some'time afterwards , his' attentions having excited some jealous suspicions in Mr . Bower , he dismissed him and forbid him his door . But a reconciliation seems to have taken place between them
and Mr . Morton continued his visits . Unhappily , a peculiar circumstanee occurred which awakened Mr . Bower ' s suspicions . His wife , already a mother of four children , had been brought to . bed about a month before , and her sufferings from the last confinement kad been so great that . they seemed from that time to have frequently affected her reason . In the evening of yesterday , during one of her fits , she told her husband that she would see him no more , that he was the devil , that she loved him not , nor had she ever loved him , and she added that her new-born child was the child of Mr . Morton and not his . This strange confession made a terrible impression on the mind of Mr . Bower ; he restrained himself , however , and at about 8 o ' clock sat down to supper ; he had scarcely begun
his meal when Mr . Morton entered . At the sight of him he flew into a rage , ordering him to leave the room instantly ; and , as Mr . Morton seemed too slow in obeying his wishes , he rose , knife in hand , followed him on the staircase to the storey below , where , after exchanging a few words , he gave him from abow , on the left side of the head , close to the ear , a violent stab with the knife , which laid him motionless on . the landing-place , bathed in the blood which flowed freely from the wound . Death was instantaneous . The knife has been found ; a table knife , rounded at the end ; the blade was bent in the middle by the violence of the blow . The commissary of police of the quarter of the Madeleine , being informed of the crime , went immediately to the place , where he was soon afterwards joined by the protective agents , who searched without success the house from the cellar to the garret , for the murderer , who escaped no one knows how .
The firemen from the station in the Rue de la Paix , came also to render assistance and examined the roof of the house and of the neighbouring houses , which were thoroughly searched but without success . The police agents having learned that Mr . Bower had another lodging' at St . Cloud , where there were four of his children and a nurse , went there in the night and remained till the morning , ; but he did not ' appear there . It is supposed that he : left Paris in '' the eveiiing : by some railroad ., A description of him has been sent on all the lines bv electric I telegraph . His cook having , declared that she had aided him in his flight , and having refused to give any information , has been temporarily put under arrest . Several parts of Paris , and even the' outskirts , have been searched this day , but up to the present time it has been impossible to discover where Mr . Bower is concealed . The crime has caused a great sensation in the quarter where it occurred :
froai half-past nine till eleven a considerable number ot persons were assembled before the house No . 2 , Rue de Seze , and before the house No . 3 , Rue Cauihartin , now undergoing repairs , and where it was supposed the assassin might hare hid himself . Mrs . Bower was this evening removed to the asylum of Doctor Blanche at Passy . It seems that for a week previous to the fatal oecurrance , Mr . Morton had been assidious in his attentions to the sick Mrs . Bower . Mr . Morton was much beloved by a large circle of friends here , from his great talent and amiability and warm-heartedness of
his nature . Me has been connected with the Daily News ever since fts establishment , and has contributed greatly towards its success . He was its correspondent at Constantinople , Athens , Ma drid , Vienna , and Berlin , previous to his occupying that post at Paris . It is supposed that he has escaped from France by means of a forged passport , Which he had in his possession . If taken , he would probably be condemned to the galleys for a term of years , or for life j for as there does not appear to have been any meditated vengeance on his part , his crime is simply homicide , a crime not punishable with death .
The ministerial journals continue to detail the universally enthusiastic reception of the President on his southern tour ; but private letters from many of the places mentioned flatly contradict these lying , dispatches . M . Damartin , the mayor of Wyes , was shot on the 30 th ult , while leaving his own dwelling , to put himself at the head of the deputation , about to wait upon Bonaparte , for the purpose of presenting him with an adulatory address . At Toulon the , arch-traitor himself had like to have met a similar fate * As he passed between the ranks of the soldiery , one of them levelled his musket at him and tired . Unluckily he missed his aim , and he was immediately taken into custody . The Boriapartist
journals pretend that the firing was by accident , that the soldier was not aware that his piece was loaded , & c . ; but it is certain that the attempt was the result of a military , conspiracy . The poor fellow was secretly executed two or three hours afterwards , having persisted \ to the . Jast , notwithstanding the offers of pardon made himj in refusing to divulge the names of his accomplices . A number of persons have during the past week been sentenced to fine and imprisonment for exercising their wit at the expense of Louis Napoleon , or lor expressing their indignation at the doings of that personage .
In many of the Communes of Lille the following " decree " in manuscript has been stuck upon the walls : Measures ' of General Safety . Decree of the President . In consequence of the ordinary loquacity of women , and the mischief Which results from it , we have after mature deliberation decreed as follows : Article 1 . From this day all women shall be muzzled .
Given at St . Cloud , & c , ' Louis Kapoleok . The police evidently believe that an insurrection is brewing , a they have been searching for arms most assiduously during the ^ as * week . Several persons in Paris and Bordeaux have been put in prison | inJconsequence of arms and ammunition having | been found in their possession . The Sieck has been condemned , in the persons of its manager M . Sougere , and one . of its editors , M . Louis Jourdanto 2000 fr .
, , fine and expences , for " exciting hatred and contemptfor the government , " by publishing an article on the 11 th of August last , entitled " Deux Sortes de Debiteurs , les etrangers et les Francais . " In addition they were condemned to one years imprisonment . The incriminated article was very mild , As the Sieck has , been now twice convicted , it may be suppressed wuhout ceremony . Another proclamation has been issued by the committee of La Revolution , conceived in the following terms :
Thantos , brothers , thanks I You have nobly responded to the call of the revolutionary socialists , by refusing to play your part in the ignoble comedy . which is soiling once again the majesty of universal suffrage . The odious tyrant of the 2 nd of December has plumed himself on popular sympathy ; but those lies are no longer possible . It is known that now , as ten months ' sihee , the great revolutionary city remains faithful ta the creed of democracy , that she has not ceased to protest against the crime of December , whilst waiting till she has the poworto
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punish it . If Paris calledfor the Empire , as the dishonoured journal" ^ parte dare pretend , wherefore that formidable abstination , which i ° V scribed , enchains the conscience of 42 , 000 citizens ? Is it by chan " ' k . thousands of citizens , abdicating all dignity , regard it as an auda < S t , lal to place their adhesion on the side of the omnipotence of the tyrant i *^ ht these proud workers of the immortal town have descended to that de h ! t ^ t ness as to forget at once the great civic duties and the sublime pro ? 0 * bliSe - Republic ? Oh , none-will attempt to say so in presence of the 26 th of T ll 16 And what proves it better than words is the fact that the valets of (| "eptst % obtained only 21 , 000 rotes , scarcely enabling them to triumph over the * ^ hazarded by a badly 6 ouriseilei \ fraction of the . democratic party ^ mK numbers : Abstentions , i % Q 00 j . votes for the opposing candidates in L 0 lInt % hold , therefore / 61 , 000 declared enemies of M . Bonaparte , and that ' ' ^ portion of Paris . 61 , 000 republicans against 21 , 000 functionaries , nioZ * *^] l at tne atch
valets . And Iook progress , m m , me candidates of ft » *> « r although vanquished at the ballot , still obtained 27 , 000 votes . in g ' " !> ari f ( have triumphed , but they have not more than 21 , 000 adherents T 1 cr "'« J not , citizens , the triumph of the elected of the Elysee . Their victory 1 * 1 gm dent defeat , and they may measure by that check the manifest decay 0 / ., ^ sean policy . It is the same with the whole of France . Everywhere h El r ' corruption and terror , the population is divided in the same proportion * where , the men of December ;' are unable to gather more than a quart ' Tpopulation under their criminal banner . The day consists of the iyj n „ t f e the telegraph " . Every town goes ' into mourning on the passage of the a Qf the army itself is silent ; and already it is asked can the return be m ^ T tne army useiiissuem . ; auu » ireauy « - ' » a & ncu «« " me return be jn Sl , '
' , presence of the despair of millions of citizens , if the shuddering mass " south recoil not ' before the executioner of democracy . Hold y our ^ y ? ° tlle ( hen , citizens . If our brothers of the south' do their duty towattfe fi 0 ' * remember your revolutionary duty—execute justice upon traitors . But i ?^ ' contrary , he escapes the hazards of the journey , and comes to demand'T ^ sovereign town the consecration of his infernal ambition , receive him fathers received Louis XtflW on the return from Yarennes . let your S- still more manacingthan contemptuous , be the presage of his fall , a , ui SOo ** he will learn by a merited chastisement , that crime is fortunate but for ad " ^ that none can violate with impunity , in France , in the nineteenth centuT ' T imprescriptable rights of liberty , and of the human conscience . *' tl : {
London , Oct ., 1 , 1852 . The President was very coldly received at Nismes . At the prese moment there is no greater crime than to doubt the reality 0 f i " infernal machine plot . " Two men in the commune of hxm \ have just been arrested for this offence . nl What I spoke of in a previous teuer relative to the arrests of th republicans of the various-towns through which Bonaparte was [ pass , is fully borne out . This precaution has been largel y resorted to in the Tarn and Garonne .
Another batch of republicans have just been sent ouUo Cayenne VV hen will this atrocious system end ?
BELGIUM . A letter from Bruges of October 1 st , states that M , 1 ^ ,, ^ the ex-representative of the French National Assembl y , has been expelled from Belgium by a royal warrant . The Emancipation states" It is asserted that M , H . de Brou . ckere , after a long audience with the King of the Belgians , has consented to undertake the formation of a new Ministry . That gentleman , however , did not attempt to disguise the difficulties of the undertaking . "
The Emancipation , which is an organ of the Catholic parly wishes M . Brouckere every success .
GERMANY . Austria . —A letter from Vienna says : — " To all outward appearance everything is perfectly quiet in Austria , but information , acquire & at trustworthy sources , induces me to believe that suck is not the case . A friend , Who , totally devoid of Italian sympathies , has known Lombardy and its' inhabitants from his early youth ,
assures me that the hatred of the Italians to the Austrian Government was never so deadly as at the present momfnt . Another person , who is , perhaps , as capable of giving a correct opinion on the subject as any one in Austria , expresses himself thus : — < It is but natural that Austria should wish to be on good terms with the President , as she is well aware that should she be involved in a war with France , her Italian possessions would be lost for ever . ' "
The Austrian government has just rendered the observance of the Sabbath obligatory in all parts of the imperial dominions . On that day all public and private works are to be suspended , all shops closed with the exception of those where provisions are retailed , which may be open only for certain hours . A grand military " mourning ceremony" took place on the 3 d instyin honour of- the late Duke of Wellington , as Austrian Field-Marshal and Grand Gross of the Order of Maria Theresa ,
PRUSSIA . The squirearchy of the province of Prussia seem inclined to profit by the revival of their political importance . In one of the decent sitings of this anti-constitutional body as a Provincial Diet it was proposed to demand of die Government a law which should re-establish , in reference to domestic servants , gardeners , day labourers , and persons similarly related to an employer , what is called in Prussia " domestic jurisdiction ;? ' in other wbrds , the right of employers to correct witH corporal punishments and stoppage of wages the remissness or disobedience of servants . th 1
I The ^ Regime ' ritof Prussian Infantry , of which the late Buke of Wellington was thWcommahdef , will send a deputation to attend his funeral . It ; will be Headed by the Colonel , accompanied by a captain arid a first arid second lieutenant . In the last sitting of the'Cabinet , the date which should be fixed for the termination oftheeleotiori of trie Chambers was discussed ; the Chambers themselves will be summoned for the 28 ih of November .
The people of Memel celebrated , on the 27 th ult ., the six hun dredth anniversary of the existence of Memel as a Prussian town .
SAXONY . Letters from Dresden state that the King of Saxony has accep ted the resignation of his first minister , M . Beust .
ITALY Rome ;—The . pontifical government has agreed to pay ha lf a mil " iibfi of florins annually . to Austria , in consideration of the occupation of some of the legations b y Austrian troops . Letters from Bologna of the 24 th ult . state that several assassinations for political causes had taken place at Lugo , in the Koman States . SARDiNiA . —The Official Gazette of Savoy of the 29 th nil . Polishes , a decree of the King of Sardinia , dissolving the National Guard of Montiere
. Naples . —The Journal of the Tuio Sicilies gives an account a several storms and inundations which have taken place in the couise of this month in various parts of the Neapolitan territory , new rain fell on the 10 th and 11 th atNaplesandin the adjoining country and caused partial inundations , which occasioned much damage the villas and a-arderis , besides the destruction of several vva aftd ' huts . On the Mergellina road ^ the torrent penetrated into <
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 9, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_09101852/page/2/
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