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Country Edition. Jrjgjjce—Immutable, Universal, Eternal Welcome The Deluge.
COUNTRY EDITION . jrjgjjCE—IMMUTABLE , UNIVERSAL , ETERNAL WELCOME THE DELUGE .
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^ . ^ -he liberty to know , to utter , and to argaa freely accord ocoisi 0 conscience , aboreaH liberties . —Movro . v . kir ( $ ktxs m ? e deluge' - Smart and epigrammatic t ! \ t ! Doubtless Du Bakry enjoyed it much . And > 5 fli 3 Salons of Paris hove , they re-echoed the clever itenc tjience—uttered half in jest , half ia earnest , by His is : ? iut Sacred Majesty , Louis XV . Prince , prosti-; ej ate , and parasite had no idea that a prediction had = 11 ii £ n uttered—a prophecy destined to he terribly fille # lled . Ah ! if Du Barry could only—through the ediiHedium of Caglgostob ' s magic mirror or some other . cxoijcromatitic contrivance—looked into the future , how rmfcrin ' eking laughter would have turned to agony
i tai tears ! Summer ' s and Winter ' s tears—not inYtfBY—and the royal patron of the Pare aux cerfs * s Bjis most christian and most rotten kingship , dies in e < be odour of sancity , and the feculence of foulest ithoathsonjeness , and is gathered to his fathers . The . xjw . xai locksmith and clockmender—unhappy victim of ' 0 ™ 0 ' erflerc ditary Monarchy—reigns over France . The nie & iers rise The insolent harlot , into whose lap had senjeen poured the treasures of Prance , is living to
jehc & ehold the deluge—the stormy waves of which con i uctjaet her to the guillotine J Very distressing to 'Stf Sublime and beautiful' Bur . SE . There was a time iracs-ben to be one of Royalist ' s prostitutes was to be be he adored of France . But now!— the age of : ln > ai « ilry is gone' ! Very shocking to thee , 0 , fool of ho ho eloquent tongue and pen ; but cot the less naarwral and vigidly jast . Woe to the wretches who , > y ) j their foul crimes and reeking sins , xc dl necessitate the Deluge—the Red eea of revolutionary and risrtehieoas retribution .
j Apresmci le deluge ' , repeated Mexzerm & i . He wawas rather ' out in his reckoning . ' For the waters rosrose ere he had ' shuffled off his mortal coil , ' and for B ta . ti me threatened to submerge the abominable system cf of which he was the worthy architect . But they tltbb ed as rapidly as they had flowed , and the system stisliE stands . Metternich " , too , * still lives , and may \ i vet witness that deluge of which the overflow of 1848 V Vas but the precursor . Keexes would fain have 3 : eoonjed and chained the Hellespont—insanity inula fated by our modern despots . But Fear sot the ijraats shall rale for ever , Sor the priests of the Wood j faith ; They standon the brink of the mighty river ,
\ Vh 9 Se stream they have tainted with death . It is fed from the depths of a thousand dells , Around them it rages , it foams , and it swells , And their awards and their sceptres 1 floating see , Like meets on the waves of . Eternity . And tins , our country , is threatened with the Mage ! A * gent' named Fisch , or Bull-Finch , but who , like many of those questionable characters' who quit their country for their country ' s good / rejoices in an elks , to wit , ' Lord Maidstone" has been' stumping ' Westminster to obtain its suffrages for a seat in Parlament . He had been ( some years since ) a member
tf the ' collective wisdom . ' But ( as he confessed to a meeting of ' friends' ) 'ho had then thought more of amusement than of giving attention to his duties . ' Ihiuk of tho /« a of being a member of Parliament Cap ital joke to vote away the property , the liberties , ( he lives of a people I To alternate between the Piccadilly Saloon and the House of Commons is ' iiGmring . ' But Mister Bull-Finch 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 ^ his duties . ' A reformed rake makes the best of husbands , and M . P . s—at least " so think the pare and lofty dasgiiters of Privilege , who ' worked with a will , ' to
Kdace the electors of Westminster to ' his Lordship ' s' standard . But the work of electioneering cerer did run smooth , and'in spite of the blandishments of Lord' Maidstone ' s lady-canvassers , the ' great name' of BsxL-Fnfcn , 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 confioestial opinion , as to the respectable electors of Westminster . It may be suspected that Mister Fixch , regards them as being ' a -most riff-raff -: et of men ; ' and in truth there are others than ' his Lorship , ' who hold a very similar opinion , not merely of the electors qf Westminster , but of tbe electors throughput the land .
In the coarse of his Address to the Electors , ' Lord' Maidsioxe observed : Ihopa , t ' nen , fo see Lord Derby ' s Gorcrrmeatin possession of the KiMdencenftheperpje , ami a majority in Parliament ; for after Hai , —the Deluge ! ltcco'Ject that , Conservatives of all classes ! For this * his Lordship' has been much ridiculed , or as he himself would have described it in his ' fast ' rhys—when he had more money to spend , and before his hair turned grey — 'jolly ,. , . well chafied . ' This is hardly fair , remembering that Louis VI . was rather deficient "in
the supposed attributes of a prophet , and . f hat eyen Providence once spoke ( as the Bible tells . is ) through tie mouth of Balaam ' s assl Let no one , therefore , be in ! ioo great haste to deny ' his lordship's * inspiration . For myself , I solemnly declare that my most earnest wish is that * Lord' Matdstose may prove tobea : $ rue prophet . But , perhaps , like most of the diviners and seers , the ex-candidate for Westminster , he is playing the gameofM & CBETH ' s 'jugglingfriends , ' who 'kept the * ord of premise to the ear but broke it to the hope . f he D .-luge is to come after ' Lord' Derby . How
Joag after ? Jmmediatebf ? Sore need is there for the speed y ad « at of that Leluge ! " 0 hot it's long a coming . " When wiU *& e fountains of the great deep re-open r When will febe waters rise to end or mend , to annihilate or regenerate society ? Behold around us on every side , tyranny and treachery , slavery and suffer-^ S , crime and cruelty , mendacity and mendicity falsehood and fear , sin and shame , the ripened rottena of a state of society given over to perdition , ^ ell might Besakser cry to the mysterious and mefacing wanderer of the skies .
" Comet , implacable , 0 ha ? te thee down . Iiet ' s end < the matter , for the world is oid !'' I observed in last Saturday ' s ' Star of Freedom . » that the new Parliament promised to be worse than the old , and woaM -certainly be so if eome half teaa candidates then before the country ehould be rejected . My anticipations are confirmed $ and although up to " the time of writing these remarks not fcGret & an one third of Hie 'House' has been appointed , there can no longer a question that the new Parliament will be the most base and groreUing stated since the Reform Bill . The result of the
tontest ia the Tower Hamlets indicates the true tW acter -of the new House of Commons , to their o pting shaae and abounding 4 tsgrace ; the electors f * tho Toeer Hamlets having five men to select ^ om have deliberately , corruptly , and treacherously , ' josen the worst—an aristocratic Whig , and a chief £ ' publicans and sinners . ' Behold a thing like Jailer obtainias 7 , 718 votes , and a mas like WlL-^« Kew tos " obtaining only 1 , 095 . and let , us ^ gli shrneneven though we not be denizens of
, may f * Hamlets , bow car heads in humiliation , and blush ' very sbaiie . The electors of Finebury have freely done better . Mr . Buncombe is returned , ^ Alderman Challjs ( 11 9 heads the poll by nearly j ft onsaml votes over the long-tried and faithful **& of the people . In Westminster Coxinqham ^ register only 1 , 717 votes against the 3 , 758 rej ^ ed f „ E Vaj 5 > tne flogging sham . Even Buil-{ . IXc ' H obtaiued double the number of votes given to , -Wix guam . Tn manv nlaees the electors seem to
^ T . "Stated those of the Hamlets , by deliberately j * 2 fa aad electing the worst . The men who Hi- \ ° ' * almost unanimous support at thehustfcf ,. ave '' eea absolutely rejected or placed lowest on -list at the poll ; while those who from their ti e ^ l " ^ ' where unable to obtain a hearing at ^ domination , have been triamphautiy returned b y - sectors . t oj , ! exhibits a noble exception , and Viscount fees' / 0 ? ( with ^ Clay ) tnkes his seat as the re' jfs n ° ^ *^ " n-elector 3 as well as of the elec-Ml ' * j ° ? t ( > the men of Hall ! I cannot but 1 ltJ atlam „ l 1 it . _ i . - j . J . *» J „ ls ouuuai mai uiuu
, « i _ ~ - ~» , sorry a siugio guuu ^ sS " ^ What can two or three men like Vj . aftd Godebich effect in such an Assemttu'P Angeau Stable that might poison Her-* a den of thieves only to be adequately dealt
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with sc ourge in hand , a crew of hypocrites and impostors , cheats and charlatans , destitute of honour faith , sense of justice , and ( for the most part ) destitute even of talent , to put a gloss on the nation ' s shame . 'Reform the House . ' Precisely so . But how ? The surest way would be to turn the Thames into it , and to its very foundations sweep it , with all itslvermin to utter annihilation . The great humiliation is to be compelled to acknowledge that this precious Parliament will represent the electoral body . This fact proves tho abominable degradation of that body . But tho non-electors are as degradedor they
, would not suffer this state of things for even a single day . Why are they quiescent ? Why cannot they rise above the vigour of a cheer— -the effort of a groan ? Because the nation is emasculated , corrupted to the heart ' s core . The people have neither pride in their past nor faith in their future . To perish utterly and everlastingly is the doom of such a people . ^ No chains , no scourges , can prevent the regeneration of Continental Europe . There the Deluge is certain and subsequent salvation sure . But here— ?
Nevertheless , nil 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 perdition . In the bottom of Pandoea ' s box there is yet Hope ! HURRAH FOR THE DELUGE ! L'AMI DV PEUPLE .
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FRANCE . The Bonapartist Terror—Commencement qf the slaughter of the French Republicans by means qf the Guillotine .
{ 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 , I have good reason to believe , it is the intention of Louis Bonaparte to do on the occasion of the fete of the 15 th of August . The'infernal machine' plot , however , has been a dead failure . Very
consistently , tho 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 secresy , byrepresenting the ' conspirators' preparing several deadly weapons themselves ; and in order that bo other party should have any hand in their manufacture , or the procurance of .. the materials , they
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 gradually became cannon , and , at last , O , horrible climax I the ingenious police were forced to make the dreadful implements of warfare eimple pieces of gas pipes , with a wooden bung , and a piece of tarred canvass on-the end ! This transparent canard would be simply ridiculous , were it not that oor 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 cessation of transportation . The blood-stained oppressor of this unhappy land is aquiring , from past impunity , the requisite eourage to resort to a method of vengeance mbre in accordance with his brutal instincts . The work of blood has began I The Bonapartist terror
has assumed its last and most terrible phase . The political scaffold has been raised ; and the heads of the republicans are already being severed from their bodies by the guillotine . Sach an assassination has just been perpetrated upon one of the most noble and virtuous of the Republican gons of France . The name of this new martyr for the holy cause of human liberty is Charlet . He was executed at Belley , in the departmentof the Ain , yesterday week .
This Charlet was one of the Refugees who had been living in Switzerland , and who entered France upon being informed of the coh ^ d ' etat of the ? nd of December . He and his companions had got as far as Seyssel , in the department of the Ain , with the view of aiding the insurrection against the scoundrel Bonaparte , when they were attempted to be arrested by some customs-officers . A struggle ensued , in which one of the customs-officers was mortally
wounded . Finally , they were arrested ; but it is absolutely impossible that the man could have fallen by the hand of Charlet , for he was at the time quite unarmed . However , he was brought before a military tribsnal , and , although his innocence of the crime , if a crime it could be called , was clearly established , he was condemned to death , scorning to save himself by revealing the name of ^ the actu al perpetrator of the deed . To all the entreaties of his judges to this effect , he only replied with the silence of contempt .
His condemnation was confirmed , and the warrant for his execution signed by Bonaparte himself . Recording the condemnation , the ' Patrie' fulminates its base and cowardly lies against the noble martyr . The Bonapartist journal ' says , 'That after Charlet was condemned he asked for a priest , as having became repentant , ' he desired to make revelations . It is an abomniable falsehood . Charlet remained , to the last , firm in the path of duty and principle , and in his contempt for the robber Bonaparte and his traitorous priestl y allies .
A car had been procured to conduct him to the place of execution , but he refused to enter it , and talked to the scaffold with a firm step , and the calmness and serenity of a man who accomplishes a g reat 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 indi gnation , and of hatred for the blood-thirsty tyrant . He ascended the scaffold with a firm and measured atep , and a moment afterwards his head was struck off by the axe of the guillotine .
The court-martial of £ he Tenth Military division has pronounced sentence of death ' against seventeen of the insurgents of December . ' Six of these have already escaped—thejremaining eleven will be guillotined fn 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 land open combat in the December struggle—a combat which was ^ com ' menced by the gendarmes themselves , who fiied * upon the crowd , and killed ] one or two of the men who composed it . I cannot better illustrate ' . the feeling ! of the French peop le relative Jto 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 , g 8 Te hei-« elf a constitution , aid placed it under the guard of all she citizens . A traitor—a Bonaparte—whom the confidence of the nation bad called to the first magistrature , armed , with the h ope of pillage , s hotfe of needy bandit ^
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and , in the name of order and public security , darted upon his sleeping country ,-placed her patriots in chains , and tore to pieces that constitulion to which he had sworn obedience . Every true man , who still remained at liberty , at once arose to recall the perjurers to a respect for the fundamental pact . Bat they soon fell under the balls of an array of gendarmes , who inaugurated by every crime the ignominious era which weighs upon France . A judgmenfchas been rendered against thirty-three of our fellow-countrymen , who united to defend their country ; eleven heads will roll from the scitflold . Under the blow of that iniquitous sentence . we , the friends , tho brothers , of Mercudier , of Delpech , of Denis Andre , of Barthez , of Triadon , of Pierre Cavriere , ofGolzy , of Colas , of Gardy , of Jacques Payes , of Michael Iierculi—we cry to every just man , in every country , Vengeance ! Vengeance for tbe martyrs of duty—Vengoance for
tne assassinated victims , for the defenders of thelawnow judicially murdered by tho accomplices of the wretch who desolates Prance ! In the name of humanity , we swear to arm ourselves , from this day , against tho tyrant of the 2 nd of December ! His head , and those of his associates , alone oan appease the manes of the heros who have fallen while doing battle for our rights . Tho shackled and degraded Press of this countrv , and even some of the English papers , have sought to brand these men of Bardweux with infamy , as brutal and blood-tnirsty villains . It is false—they are noble and courageous menmen who had courage enough to rise against the Usurpation of the traitor Bonaparte , and to sacrifice themselves for their country's cause . The following proclamation issued by them while they had possession of the tsy » n , before they had been vanquished by the pretorians of General Rostalan , is of itself sufficient answer to the
calumniators : — " J revo ' utioiis , some come for good , others for evil . All honest citizens who shall witness any attempt to pillage or to insult chastity , are hereby exhorted to shoot on the spot those who are guilty of such attempts . " FT ITV
The Case of Murray—The FriestB and the People—Kefusasl to pay taxes—Prohibition of a New Work by Euqem Sue —Condemnations for" Sedition "—The Austrian terrorism inLombardy . ROME . —It is rumoured in ecclesiastical circles , that Mr . Freeborn ' s visit to Ancona has for its principal object to concert with Mr . Mooro some plan by which Edward Murray may be clandestinely released from bis prison , and placed in safety on board an English vessel in the harbour , so putting an end to all further dispute by a fait accompli , as wasdonein Rome when Monseignor Gazzolaand Dr . Acbilli , those arch enemies of the Papal throno , were allowed to escape from the Castle of St . Angelo , not without the connivance , as is shrewdly inferred , of the French military authorities themselves . Some prudent prelates applaud this
idea greatly , as the government of his Holiness . vvojld thereby avoid the danger of an open rupture with " Groat Britain , and save its own decorum and independence , besides the unspeakable advantage of having its hands free to shoot Murray ' s fellow prisoners at any rate , as , not having committed itself by gardening \ a one . instance , it would be by no means bound to use dlemoncy towards the rest . These wiseacres must not indulge in the idea of so unjusfi and undignified a climax , nor must they imagine that even if advisable , it would be very practicable . The Castle of St . Angelo was guarded by the French , whereas tbe fortress of Ancona is in the custody of the Austrians , The Tuscan and Piedmontese papers foresee a different way of winding up the matter ; and fthnotface that a flotilla of British war-steamers may shortly' be expected at Ancona .
The Queen ' s proclamatioo . againsfc Roman Catholic processions in England has not as yet been mentioned in the Roman journals , which usually observe theprofoundest silence on subjects disagreeable to the ecclesiastical government ; but in private circles , the partis . ins of the priests meekly observe that persecution . will only advance their cause ; whilst the Liberals enjoy the attack on the long-garbed gentry amazingly j out of political hostility to their rulers . The " Risorgimento " of Tut-in , of tho 30 th ult ., quotes a letter from Velletri , in the Roman States , from which it would appear that the people , . there had driven away the tax gatherers , that Cardinal Maoohi , the delegate , bad been obliged to make his escape , and that a regiment' of chasseurs stationed there had refused to' act against the " people . ' , . . ' ¦ " -t . The Roman medical men refused to pay the tax on professions . -. ¦ - " Brigands have robbed travellers in the forest of > Antiuni , twenty miles from Rome .
PIEDMONT . —The Sardinian government has prohibited the publication of a new novel' of M " , Ewgene Sue , in the Chambery journal , " La Patriot Sav ' oisien . " M . Pernatij the Minister of the Interior , intimated to him that , he would be obliged to withdraw tbe authorisation granted to him tojreside at Annecy should he persist in publishing . his novel . M . Sue has accordingly written tbe following letter to the editor of the " Ifatripte Savoisicn " : — " The govern * ment of Sardinia considering as inopportune in the present circumstances tbe publication of the historical episode of which the AfS . is in your possession I request you to postpone that publication , lam too grateful for the hospitality I have received from the government , aad too anxious , for its continuance , not to avoid every thing likely to
compromise its duration . " The work would have given a full exposure of vices and . crimes of the clergy at the time of the dastardly crusade against .-the Albegois : and an account of the horrible cruelties perpetrated by the Catholic fanatics upon their unfortunate victims at that epoch . The " Patriote Savoisien" expresses its indignation at the . conduct of the government in thus toadying to the Roman clergy by preventing the publication of Eugene Sue ' s work . The negotiations resumed by the Piedmontese Ambassador at Rome relative to thej ' admmistration of the diocese of Turin , during tbe banSpmeht of Monsignor Fransoni , have completely failed . TUSCANY . —The trial of Guerazzi , and of his Minister of Justice , M . Leonardo Romanelli , is to take place on the I 6 th of August .
The Mather affair has been arranged . The grand Duke 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 . Onthe _ 25 th ult . the court martial of Udine . 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 seditious cries . A new political work j entitled " Memoires of Leonardo Romanelli , ex-Minister of Justice . under the Provisional Government , " has b . een ; . written in the prisons of the Murates , and was published a few days ago , to the great annoyance of the Tuscan government .
LOMBARD ! . —Numerous arrests have again been made at Milan . One of the unhappy victims thrown into the castle dungeon has hung himself from the bars of his prison . ..... The government of Lombardy has issued new and more stringent restrictions upon the circulation of books in the province .
SWITZERLAND . The Swiss journals announce that the Council of State of the Canton of Vaud has decided on applying to M . Thiers , who is now at Vevey , in that canton , the Federal decree relative to confining French Refugees to some appointed place in the interior of the country . A telegraphic despatch from Frankfort , of the 2 nd inst ., in the 'Prussian Gazette" of Berlin , states that M . Thiers has refused to submit to the interhement , and will , in preference , leave Switzerland . Accounts from the canton of Neiichatel state that the Royalist party , who desire tho return of the canton to Prussiaj intended to make a grand demonstration of their adherents at an annual meeting of tbe 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 . The Republicans , on their part , had resolved to make a counter-demonstration at tbe 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 the elections for the Council of State , ' which took ' place a few days ago , they obtained eleven nominations out of twenty-eight ; and besides they are : greatly encouraged by the recent signing of the protocol at London by the great powers . The Swiss journals state thtrt not only the most enlightened and wealthy portions of the population of the canton , but tbe 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 journal , the "Suisse , " asserts in the most positive manner that the protocol relative to Neuctmtel , signed at London-by the representatives of the five great powers on tho 24 tb . of May , has not yet been notified to the Federal Council . ' ' , Tho five hundredth anniversary of tbe entrance of Zug ( the iawdU ^ t of the Swiss cantons ) into the confederation was celebrated on the 27 th ult . with great solemnity .
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GERMANY . HESSE CASSEL .-Tho members of the parliament permitted in the constitution lately dictated by the Elector of llosse met for the first time on the 3 rd inst . ^ 'dethey were electing a president , a court nominated by the Elector was sentencing grey-headed members of the standing committee of the fast parliament to two and three yean imprisonment , for protesting in legalfbrm against the violation of the old constitution .
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . THE KAFFIR WAR . The-Royal Mail steamer Bosphorus , from the Oape or Good Hope , arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday morning , bringing information relative to the Kaffir War . The news from the frontier is to the 25 th of May , and is of a very indecisive character . General Cathcard has established his head-quarters at Fort Beaufort , and is forming camps all along the frontier . No casualties of moment have occurred during tne preceding month , but there are several indications of the unsubdued position of the Kaffirs . Early in May , at the Fish River Mouth , the two Claytons , sons of a farmer , and their servant Elliott , were murdered . On the 15 th , near Fort 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 , wl ) en three of that corps were woun led and one Finaoe killed .
Andries Botba , a field-comet ( Hottentot ) , after a trial of eight days at Cape Town , had been convicted ot high treason , and was sentenced to be hung . General Cathcavt is seeking to raise n levy by offering tho farmers 5 s . a day as privates , and 7 a . 6 d . a day as officers , which is considered very liberal .
UNITED STATES . OUR AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE . Gen . Scott and Wm , Graham nominated Whig Candidates for American Presidency and Vice-Presidency—Shocking Suicide—Independence of San Juan—Terrible Tragedy—Oligarchy in Canada—Attack upon Guayaquil . ( From our own Correspondent ) New Yonu , June 22 . - . 1 have but little news to communicate this week . The nominations for the Presidency alone occupy public afctention at tbe 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 tho weelc , on Monday morning nominated Gen . Winfield Scott by a vote of . 159 . The whole number of votes was 292 , of which 112 wore given for President 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 had any chance of successfully contesting the presidential election withlthe Democratic party . You will recollect that the Democratic Convention adopted what they call the "twothirds rule , " by which none of the candidates could be nopiinated unless he obtained the votes of two-thirds of the Convention . None of the popular candidates obtaining tho required number of votes , Gen . Peirce was brought forward ' , and was at once unanimously accepted . I mention this to show the relative prospects of success of tbe two , parties . The 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 so for a better known candidate ); but I have good reason for believing that many of tbe Whigs' ' ' ( gill vote against Gen . ScoLt . He ? is suspected , by a portion ofe the pro-slavery party , for having formerly entertained abo « litionist opinions . However ,--he has now formally repudiated these-santiments . You will seeithatthe greatest evil of the day , in America , as in Europe , iseapfdifiney . ' We will never have a truly honest and progressing government until , the people 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 hominatedi ' ;¦ ... A shocking suicide wss perpetrated at Dunkirk a few
days ago . A Mr , Smith bad had some charge brought against him which has since been proven to be false . But he was so much affected by the stain upon'his ; reputatioii , that he determined to commit suicide . " i Having risen .-at an early hour , and imprinting a "kiss upon each one of his children while , yet . in tlieir beds , he retired to the lower part of the ' house , whence the report of a pistol was soon heard ; his wife and children quickly starting from their beds met-him oh the stairs , when he faced about , and descendingV'io the room , he turned , and throwing a rapid glance upo % ieach . of ^ he , distressed group , he as quickly applied . a razor , to . ' tAe left side of his neck , cutting a horrid gash , attfie sameiristant exclaiming , "Remember I die innocent . '' This act-add this declaration were repeated three times'in rapid success
sion . Accounts from San Juan del Norte state that on the 2 nd the British war steamer Albion arrived at the port of San Juan del Novte , 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 'San Juan . 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 definitely settling the boundaries of the territory of San Juan . A terrible tragedy was enacted at San Juan last month . A Frenchman from California was robbed at the American Hotel , on the evening of the 24 th of May . On learning this tbe Californians in the town assembled , determined to
give the men who had been arrested oh suspicion a taste of Californian law . To protect the prisoners the authoritiesi 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 . ' Kossuth delivered an eloquent address to a crowded meeting in the Broadway Tabernacle last night . Letters from Canada state that the Colonial Secretary has recently given a negative reply to an address of tho Legislative Assembly of Newfoundland , praying for the introduction of responsible governors in . Newfoundland . In this case , also , the advice of the parties was taken in op * position to that offered by tbe legitimate organ of the public will—the local Legislature . In tbe event of collision between the two branches , the Executive is promised imperial support in opposition to the Legislature—a system that makes the Legislature a mere nullity .
A question has been raised there , as to the number of fugitive slaves that have gone to Canada during the last three years . Some journals have stated it at 30 , 000 , while another , boasting the best sources of information , places it at only 3 , 000 . ' ¦ By the last accounts Flores was still at Puna . Ho had nine vessels , plenty of funds , and only waited for the steamer Quickstep to attack Guayaquil . He had some twenty Guayaquilian prisoners , and when two of his n ? en were taken , he sent word that he would murder all the twenty if one of his were harmed . The French population at Guayaquil had most of them taken quarters under the protection of the French consul . The United States steam ship , Baltic , arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday .
The nomination of General Scott , by the Whig Convention , had been received in many parts of the Union with coldness , but in others it was enthusiastically ratified ; At Washington , on the evening of the 22 nd , a procession was formed ? which proceeded to call upon the leading Whigs ; it first halted opposite the residence of General Scott , who addressed it from the balcony . At tbe request of the crowd , a candle was placed on each side of the general , so that he might be the better seen , The procession then called upon Mr . Graham , Mr . Mangum , and Mr . Webster , all of whom delivered short speeohess ( the latter attired in his shirt only . )
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Advantage of a Return Ticket . — " Jack" newly off a voyage , and elevated with a glass of grog , is a queer animal , One of this genus was a passenger the other day in a railway carriage between Greenock and Port-Glasgow , in which . was a clergyman . Jack was not over scrupulous in his phraseology , and the clergyman becoming offended , said , " I fear , young man , you are on the fair road to the devil . ? " Well , it don't differ much , " replied Jack , " I have got a return ticket . " - The first step towards lovo is to play with a cousin . There is a " freedom from starch" in the intercourse of young people of this relationship that ripens as naturally into affection as buds into fruit , or tadpoles into bull frogs . ¦ •• Young man , do you know what relations you sustain in this world , aaid a minister of our acquaintance , to a young man of his ohurob ; " Yes , sir , " said the hopeful convert , «« two cousins and a grandmother ; but I don ' t mean to sustain them much longer . "
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THE FALL OF THE . # RENCH REPUBLIC , if By Xavier Dunrapu . ( Tianslated expressly for the' Sri . * of Freedom' )
TBH STRUGGLE AND THE DEBBAT . 'l he meeting separated towaids one o'clock in the morning i and six hours afterwards I departed with our of my fneuds for the Salle Roisin , in the Faubourg Saint Antoine . As we held it a point of honour t > be there as soon as po - sible , we hired a carriage on tbe l'lsce des V ctoirts . The carriage traversed the streets encumbered with police-agents . On the Boulevards and Place de la Bastile it had to pass amid groups of officers and soldiers under arms . It is not unintentionall y I recall these circumstances ; their signifiestion will be shown . I am quite convinced that the police knew quite well all that passed the preceding night , in tho bureaux of the iournais and ; n < i , « „ .. „_ . „ . " . ! .. > » nr d . bureaux of the journalsand in the meetings of the
-, repre sentatives ; those at the houses of Lafon ( du Loi ) at-d Frederick Cournet especially . On leaving the house of Cournet we bad met numerous patrols , whose presence in that lonely quarter proved to us that a warning had been given . Every facility was given to the representatives to repair to the Faubourg Saint Antoine , on the way t » whic i they had to jostle sergents de-ville , officers and soldiers , and even colonels . The plan of Louis Bonapait > was determined upon . It was this : —IU liad no desire to suppress ( l ^ sc : ) ntent , or prevent explosion ; no , he wished for blond , and that blood he desired the array should shed ; it was needfulto com promiseit by drawing it into a netofaiigerandofmonstraus cruelty ; it wes needful , by an ignominious responsibility , to rivet it to the ambition of the dictator . That infamous
compact concluded wiih the generals and siijerior officers at the price of gold , at the price of the nitut scandalous favoures mid future prospects ; this compact , prepared in the cases of the . soldiers , by abnndan ' . distr . bvitions ol wine and eau de vie , by savage incitements , by execrable calumnies against the Republicans , against ihe Republic , against the people of February , whom Louis Bmiapartc himself had eallwd heroic , when " he had need to 1 > 9 «; for popularity ; that compact blood alone could seal and " ratify . The intoxication of gold a > d ambition , the drunkenness of wine had alread y begun the work of shame ; in the drunkenness of bload consisted its pumwl and consummation . Louis Bonaparte threw himself , he said , upon the people , on the people of Paris , especially . This was another lie , more odious , if that be possible , than all the others . Happily for history , his own scribes have hastened to betray it in the extravagant rejoicing of their succes ? .
Grauier de Cassagnac , in a pamphlet which in every page testifies to the fact that L . Bonaparte counted only on the army- —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 ParN vanquished , was entire France subdued , and virtually compelled to accept the dictatorship . Such is the exact amount of respect Louis Bonaparte lias for the national will ; a massacre at Paris , and , in consequence , a terror throughout the land . But , in order to obtain that massacre , 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 obstacle nor hindrance . 1 have said why Bonaparte wished for blood . It was needful , I say again , that honest and honourable men should offer theirs to the bayonets and the muskets of the soldiers !
In the Faubourg Saint Antoine , before theMarche Lenoire , we found very few representatives . If my eyes erred not , if my memory be faithful , there were there only Scrcelcber , liaudin , Aubry ( du Nord ) , Dulac , Chaix , Maiardicr and de Flotte . . Fredmek Cournet directed the construction of the barricade . There were at his side Kesler , Alphonse Renin , Amable Lemaitre , Leon Watripon , editor of the " Revolution ; " Lejeune ( de la Sarthe ) , three other journalists , and rajself . 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 holy 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 , awakentd 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 . omnibusses passed , filled with representatives , arrested Vbe preceding evening in the 10 th arrondiseement ; they were beingHMmducted to Vincennes by a small
detachment of Lancers * Frederick Conrnet . and some other citizens attempted to deliver them , in order that they might put themselves between the troops and the people ; but , Marc Pufraisae excepted , there were there only Royalists , or men with such a slight tinct of Republicanism , that it had entirely disappeared under the influence of fear . When they perceived the attempt they were the first to show their scared faces at the windows , supplicating the people to remain quiet and allow them to continue heir journey . Those who could hear them listened with contempt , and the miserable elects of the people tranquilly continued the route to their jirecions state prison . ,,
That event had produced a very natural emotion , through ignorance of the names of these so prudent captives . It gave me to a feeling of contemptuous scorn for all the representatives / even for the Republicans . The people had other powerful reasons fc * inaction . Undoubtedly they had not . obtained from preceding revolutions , for their liberty , dignity , and well-being , all the benefit they might reasonably 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 sight 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 . Thero 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 Cournet , the muskets . were lowered and concealed ; they still hoped 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 tbe " Constitution ! " There was a moment
of indiscribable 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 , I 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 , but only of the national life , against which , in the last result , neither tbe most execrable crimes nor even the transient victories of usurpation can have any effect . All was abandoned to the impatience ot knomatr whether the soldier still feeling hjmself a citizen , would repudiate the infamous command of his chiefs , or whether , pointing the musket not only against his brothers , but against the law itself , against the country—the common mother—he would accomplish a
monstrous assassination . The troop halted , Charles Raudin displayed the " Constitution . " He was about to speak , or rather he was already speaking , to invoke' absolute respect for the law , to remind them of sworn faith , and to condemn perjury , when the chief of the battalion , dreading the hesitation of his troop—a hesitation that was visible , so much does it require to commit a parricide ' . —made with his hand and eye a sign of anger . The muskets were presented , thirty reports resounded at once , and Charles Baudin fell , his head pierced by two balls . Behind him a workman ,: also killed , and some other citizens , wounded lay stretched and weltering in their blood . The modern Nero decidedly had his pretorians already drilled and inured to crime .. The parri . cide was consummated ! On our side , after tbe soldiers had commenced the fire , five or six guns were hastily raised and discharged . Two of the assassins fell . One of them was the chief of the battalion himself . In him , at least ,
retribution closely followed the crime . It was a commencement of justice ; we must trust to the future for the fulfilment . Ia the confusion that followed the discharge , Frederick Cournet and an officer almost disputed for the body of Raudin . Cournet wished to show that the law itself was murdered in the person of the representative . But he found himself almost alone ; the officer was surrounded by bayonets . The officer had but little trouble to secure for himself this first spoil of so impious a war . Four soldiers carried away the body of Charles Baudin , whose blood still flowed on the pavement . This blood , soon effaced beneath the feet of passengers ; there is not a Republican , either in France or Europe , who has not accepted it with affection and regpeer , in his grateful veneration . At no other period has a puree stream been shed on those fields of battle , and thoie political scaffolds where the sacred cause of the people has already numbered ao many martyrs I
I have no intention to dwell long on the other events of the day . The capital effect of December was that first barricade of the Faubourg Saint Antoine , although elsewhera blood has been more abundantly shed . It was at once a protest before the army , and an appeal to the people . It was the signal of the most legitimate insurrection , and it required courage to give it ; lor , as I have already gufficiently shown , it wag seen beforehand that it would not be heard or attended to . Puiiued by the troops , we were obliged to diiperae . Eae *
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 10, 1852, page 1, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_10071852/page/1/
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