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any better than » b educated , intelligent Northern freeman . But , sir , Wbigaand Democrats say , that this disgraceful ineqnality shall be allowed-to the people'of Utah , and maintained . They know that public indignation would be kindled against every rain who would thus degrade the people of toe North . Our freemen would hurl from place and power such men , if the facts were known to them . The same law , or a lawwith siniilarprovisiousj was-enacted in relation to Saw Mexico . The people of that Territory may , if tfccy please , enter into this speculation m human 9 eah . They may curse that l » nd with human bondage . Whigs and Democrats say that this law shall be a final settlement of that subject ; that slavery and the slave trade shaft not ho excluded ; and the Democrats are to resist , and the Wbigs are to di-countenance all discussion in relation to it . One or more slave States are to be admitted from Sew Mexico , upon the same serins of degrading inequity to the f ree States a * those from Utah , and Northern men are to submit without discussion . Agitation would .
in the words of the Whig resolution , endanger the peace of the Whig party . Thny say they therefore deprecate agitation . Well , sir , the proper meaning of the verb " to deprecate" is , to " pray against ; " and the Whi gs will therefore pray against a « itation , as it wi'l endanger their peace . Such prayers would simpl y be- " an abomination ; * - ' * th < y would do no other hurt . And as for the peace of the "Wlii " party , I shcuid far rather seek endangered than to see one child sold from its parents , or one woman flogged , or one mtn degraded . Tuo motto oi Free-Soilera is , '' No mora Slave States . " Tins is our unyielding , determined portion . We wage an exterminating warfare against eve > y man rnd every party who would extend the curse of human servitude , or increase the slave ipower in any degree . The Demo , ratio par . yand the Whi g party unite in the extension of slavery and of the slave power , andthen ask the friends of liberty to vote with tbetn . I shall not do it . Another measure of the la-: t Congress was a Jaw entitled " An Act to A 5 » o ! i-h the Slave Trade in the District of
Columbia . Afligrnt falsehood was sent to the people in this title ; for the Jaw itself does not profess to abolish the slave trade in this District , and only excludes from this market the ^ are-breeders of Maryland and Virginia , leaving the sale of men , women , and childr . n to continue here . And this commerce is to go on and continue for ever . * * * You , sir , lately saw an _ advertisement in the leading Whig paper of this district , in these words : " For saff , a handsome and accomplished ladyj * maid , aged just sixteen years . ' Except in this city and New Zealand , I do not think any government within the bounds of civilisation won I a have permitted such an outrage upon decency . I speak of New Zealand without intending any disrespect to the people of that island by comparing their habits with ours . They buy men and women for food only . The object is far more
honourable and christian-lise than that for which the young women of this city are advenised and sold . Air . Chairman , General Scott and General Pierce are both pledged to maintain this traffic in the bodies of women , and the advocates of liberty are asked to aid in electing them . Sir , let those parties retel in such moral acd political wickedness ; let them pledgs themselves and iheir candidates to perpetrate crimes revolting to humanity ; but I beseech them not to insult honest uiea , philanthropists , and christians , by asking them to participate in such tianscei-dent ini quity . Another of the compromise measure * is the Fugitive slave Law . Of the character of this law I have spoken on former occasions . Of its unconstitutionality , I think no unprejudiced mind can doubt , who listened to thespetcb of the gentleman from Massachusetts ( -Mr . Rantoul . ) Of the crimes
committed under this las ; oi the enormities of sending free men into slavery , under colour of this law ; of the barbarous and savage character of the agents selected by this adniinisirition to cany it oat , I have no lima to speak . I noticed in the address of a clergyman , lately delivered before ihe Home ^ Missionary Society , a statement that the reverend speaker was in the central pans o ? llussU during last summer that an intelligent nobleman taunted him with the character of this Fugiiive Law , spying : " You can find nothin g j n the lesal code of Russia , nor in the decrees of her Emptors equal to that barbarous law . " Ko , sir ; I do not brieve that any despot of Russia , or of Austria , was ev « r guilty of patting forth so barbarous a Jaw ; yet the Democratic party and the Whig piny tell u * that this law shall remain as a Sna ! settlement of this subject . The Whia party , it is true
reserve to themselves the right of making it more barbarous . Bnt it is to remain a law and continue in force while time shall last . Yes , when ths " archangel shall descend from Heaven with a rainbow upon bis bead , and placing one 'font upon the earth and the other upon the sea . shall swear by him who Jiveth for ever and ever that " time shall be no longer , " fie dread summons shatf find ths peop le of Philadelphia , Nt w York , and Boston , upon the " qui viye , " hunting for slave mothers , who have fled from all else they hold dear in life , i « order to enjoy liberty . There Whi » s and Democrats will be found supporting this law ; and when they shall close their eyes upon terrestrial object ? , they will be listening to the baying of bloodhounds , the clanking of chains , and shrieks of slaves , the roar of muskets , the d yin « groans of slave-catchers , and their wounded associates , the
bloodhounds ; ibe last death-sigh of murdered fugitives will all rise from this earth , and mingle with the archangel ' s voice , as he shall gammon us all to lhe bat of final retribution . I woud speak of the future with solemnity , but if men are to carry with them infc > the coming world their leading traits of character , as some hold . it would seem that their residence in the spirit land will be made vocal with the sighs , - and groans- and shrieks , of associated beings . Bat both parties and their candidates are pledged to maintain this infamous law . * * * Whigs and Democrats say it never shall be discussed . That , when our people of the north see a fellow-being seized , chained , dragged into slavery , and sold and flogged , they sballsav nothing about it , here or elsewhere . That they shall look upon the murdered corpse of fugitives shot down by the agents of government
, and may moan over their barbarity , bat they must not discuss , they must not agitate the repeal of this law . Well , sir , I assure them the people will discuss these things ; they \ vill hurl from power and from place the men who thus contemn the popular feeling . But it is said , through the Whig press , that we cannot repeal this law . I saw this morning an article , in some respects an able article , denouncing this law , in a Whig paper , professedly Anti-Slavery . The editor , however , admitted that the law wool not bs repea 'ed , perhaps , for twenty years . Sir , the admission shows the author to be unconscious of the people ' s power-* * * The editor to whom I alluded , proposes that we shall contribute from the national funds to pay for fugitives . I could have forgiven the editor for almost any other political offence . ^ What , sir ! are the descendants of the Pilgrims , of
those who bled at Bunker ' s Hill , and on every battle field of the revolution , rather than pay a paltry tas on tea and on stamped papr-r , arc wo supinely to become tributary to southern task-masters ? When the barbarians of Alg iers seized and en-laved our people , wc sent an armed force there and slew them , holding them unworthy of a place upon God ' s footstool . No , sir ; by all ths hallowed assLciati-ns which cluster around the memory of English and American patriots , I avow that I would sooner see every slaveholder of the nation hanged , than to witness the f ubjugation of northern freemen to such a humiliating condition . Uo , sir ; when it comes to that , I , for one , shall be prepared for the dernier resort—an appeal to the God of battles . I am a man of peace , but am no non-resistant , and I would sooner tho ashes of my hearthstone should be slaked in my
own blood , and the blood of my children , than submit to such degradation . And here I will take occasion to say , that if this law remains in force , civil war is inevitable . Tho people will not submit to it . Wh y , sir , civil war alread y exists . At Christiana , civil war , with all its circumstances of force , under colour of law—resistance in defence of natural right—bloodshed and death took place . In my own State a similar transaction occurred ; andl a ? sure you gentlemen that other instances wi 51 occur , if attempts he made to enforca that law . In my own district aro many fugitives , who have informed their masters where they may be found . These men have become desperate . They desire to see the slave-catchers . They pant for an opportunity to make their oppressors " bite the dust . " Sir , send on your com . nissioners aid deputy marshals and blcodhonnda , and I : vssure you that a civil war will soon hp in
active progress . Gentlemen , talk of enforcing this law It cannot be done . ^ The people have already passed sentence upon it and upon its authors ; and that sentence will be speedily executed . Nor can you stop agitation in regard to it . Agitation , discussion , * and examination , are the agents—the instruments—for carrying forward all reforms . The Savour of man spoke truth boldly . They fell harshly upon the ears of scribes , pharisees , and h ypocrites . They ccnoanced him as an agitator ; seized , t ried , and condemned and crucified him as an agitator . From that day to the present , every man who has boldly avowed truths unwelcome to the ears of despots , tyrants , and the oppres sors of onr race , have been denounced as agitators . Jefferson , in the Declarat-on of American fndeneudence ; Samuel Adams , in the Continental Congress ; Washington , on the battle-field , were " distinguished ag i t ators ; " John Qaincy Adams , while in this Hall , for years maintained and defended with inimitahle powers the rj ^ fct of petitionand was ¦
, denounce throughout the country as an agitator . He was arraigned at the bar of this House , and tried as an agitator . Every member of this body who defends the rights of the people , is denounced as an « gita-or . To me . these epithets have lost their terrors . F « r hmmreds and for thousands of years , the instruction and elevatio i of mankind has been ca-r : ed f > rward by agitation . By means of it , tyrants and despots Lave been driven from power , and popular rights have been extorted from barbarous rulers . Without agitation , no people ever gained their rights , or retained them atter they had been extorted from their oppressors . Now , suddenly to prevent the prognss of liberty , Whios and Democrats nmte to suppress th * element in all reforms . They declare that discussion shall cease , and the slave trade and slavery shall continue for ever , and the Fugitive Liw shall be rendered perpetual * * * The blood of Gorsueb , a piratical slave-catcher , who fell st Christiana , is iravenged , in spite of the public treasure and Executive
vn ence put forth to obtain a conviction of those who ig hteously slew him . The patriots who assisted Shaflrach itescape the fangs of the Boston bloodhounds , yet laugh : o scorn your infamous law . At Syracuse , at Rochester , md a hundred other places , the friends of liberty rejoice at the impotency of th's law , although it has thus far been backed sp hy executive power . These defeats of the Executive , aad of this enactment libellously called a law , have resulted from agitation ; and well may slave-catchers and doughfaces now seek to stifle discussion , to silence the people . Sir , while these things were going forward the iecrefcvry of State whs looking for and expecting a return pVm se " L s he hna rendered the slave power . The rresmenual chair and White house was looked to as the ^ f ,. H ' v ^ ° Goi and humanity . But there tbat h / l T -l 4 i 0 ™ to * ork : All reflecting men knew eleetoraf 1 , * reo 8 i ™ »« * o whole Union scarce twenty vas-eauJrw " = 1 - wheD tbo ^ "mere Convention 1 n . s claims , not a Southern vote was cast for
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him . Chagrined , mortified , and discontented , he will soon retire , and history will record the truth concerning him and us . But , sir , I will not aggravate the chills of poUtical death , nor call up to mind the sins which must " sit heavy on bis soul , " when a darker nig ht shall close around him . Agitation lias brought to the sc affold another conspicuous Victim . The Prcsfdent of these United States lent his whole influence to the promotion of those compromise measures to whu-h I have alluded . His devotion to the slave pow er m been openlv and boldly avowed . Steadily ana basel y has he prostituted the influence and power of his
omee , to the purpose < f supporliwr slavery , oppression , «»« wjmc At tho Baltimore Convention , the s iav-holders , I bd-eve , wfl rc unanimously in his favour . But Northern delegates dared not support him . Ag itation had informed the peopl e of bis hnvm * deserted their cause , and gone over to the enemies of freedom . The popular voice of the North had pronounced his doom ; he was cist as do the politic . ! grave yawns for him ; and on the old of «•»«« " » will be laid in it . Were I to write the epitaphs of Jiese men , I would in-cribe upon their tombs , " Iv lied by » £ iUWon . " Think you not that these men and their party have cau-: e for their hostility to dweussion-to the d " som M ™ £ " of truth ? The Democrats also , have cause for oppos ng notation . Their ablest , their most experienced **•• " « " »«» have fallen victims to it . General Cass , toe man who of all their candidate deemed best qualified for wel
resi-* I dency , in an evil hour signed a letter p ledging hinwelf to these Compromise measures . It proved bis poli tical deathwarrant ; when too late , he found that the peop le of the North would sustain no man who bad thus p ledged his influence of office to measures which the popul ar voice has condemned as barbarous , as disgraceful to onr nation . * , * But he , too , was cast aside at an advanced age , when he can look for no further preferment . These men all died of « eatm * Southern dirt . " Circumstances appear to render it indelicate for me to speak of other candidates of if , e Democratic partv . Yet I would remind them all of the fate which must await those public men who prove false to libertv and hnnwnitv . * 1 assure them and the country that agitation will continue and increase until the people of the free States shall be relieved from all
participation in the disgrace and crimes of slavery . Agitat on is the great and mighty instru ment for carrying forward these reforms . Agitation is as necessary to purify the political atmosphere of tiiis nation , as storms are to purify the natura l atmosphere . Deprive us of storms , of winds , and showers ; and vapours , poisonous exhalations and miasmas w ould be around ua , ami we should inhale death in the unseen atmosphere . Such , too , is precisely the case in the political air of this nation . Stop agitition , and the political atmosphere will soon he filled with frauds , abuses , and corruptions , which would be inhaled by your Executive and public men ; tho vital blood of the nation would be poisoned , and th * - body police would putrify . * * * Mr . Chairman , I have served in this flail some fifteen years . During that period , f think at least two-thirds of the time
of this bod y has been occupied by the sutrjecfc of slavery and other matters connected ' with that instituuon . For the last three years we can scarcely be said to have done anything el .-e but discuss and legislate for slavery . This , sir , is all wrong . Slavery is a local institution , existing only in a portion of the States . The attempt to nationalize it is unwarranted and unconstitutional . To do this is now the object of both the Whig and Democratic parties . Against these atltempts we , the Free Democracy , wage unceasing , undy ing , unyielding hostility . This war we shall never " give up . We shall never lay aside our arms until victory shall crown oar efforts ; until this Government shall be redeemed and disenthralled from a foul ? tain of chattel slavery , igsinst oppression , in all its forms , a « d in all places , we ba = e sworn eternal hostility . Our sympathy for
suffering humanity is broad as creation , reaching to all cl : mcj > , and < mbracing all who bear the image of . our Creator . To prrsc-cuted Hungary we tender the assurance that " we feel for those in bonds as bound with them . " On tin s subject the Democrats hava spoken oraculary . The Whi gs talk about " entangling alliances and standing on foreign soil ; " but they dare not take distinct issue on the propriety of exerting our moral power , our political influence to maintain the law of nations . Substantiall y , both Whigs and Democrats are opposed to us on this subject . They would permit Russia or Austria to swallow up Hungary without any protest or expression of our disapprobation . We sympathis ¦• with the oppressed of all nations ; and we . the Free Df-mceracy , literally constitute the party of progress . At Buffalo wc adopted the policy of" cheap
postagefortbe people , " and inscribed ltuponour banner , and unfurled it to tho breeza . Wo foresaw the advantages of increa-ing the facilttiesof communication among the masses , and determined to confer upon our country these benefits , while Whigs and Democrats were too timid to take a position either for or against , it . " Lands for the poor , homes for the destitute , " free of expense to all who will emigrate to the West , was another article in our politcal creed . To this po l icy , neither the Whig nor Democratic party dared express their consent ; nor dared they oppose it . At this session a bill , carrying oat our views on this sulject passed this body by a vote of nearly two to one . The Senate will doubtless compl y with the popultr will of the nation by passing this measure of benevolence , which will cause thousands of hearts to swell with gratitude and joy . In 1848 .
nearly three hundred thousand free-men cast their votes for onr Presidential candidate . Since that period , onr moral and political power has greatly increased . Probabl y one third of the members on tbis floor are indebted to men who sympathise with us for their seats , and many were elected solel y and entirely upon our principles . Three members of the Senate were elected as Free Democrats , while others are partially indebted to the votes of . the Free Democracy . I am aware of the arguments so often used to persuade FreeSoilers to vote for this or that man or this or that party , in order to gain some supposed temporary advantage . But , sir , we are organized for the maintenance of doctrines important not merely to a townshi p , a county , or a State , but to man , wherever he is found . Important not merely to day at this election , or next year , but in all coming time .
Can we leave such a portion to unite with either of tbo other parties in order to elect this or that man to office , while he stands pledged to maintain slavery and the slavetrade in this district and in our territories ? to continue the infamous Fugitive Lw—to uphold and support all these measures as a final settlement of tho subjects to which they refer , and to discountenance all examination , discussion , or ag itation as to the propriety of these measures ? Sir , were we to unite with either party to elect a President thus p ledged , we should lose our own self-respect—we should lose the respect and confidence of the world . Politically , sir , we are " a city set upon a hill which cannot be bid . " Throughout the country our influence is felt . In this hall we wield a moral power far beyond our numbers . Let no man charge me with indelicacy when I assert that the Free Soilers of
this body exert , all the influence to which their numbers entitle them . Whigs and Democrats have confidence that we shall in all cases ho guided by judgment , by reason and justice , and not hy the paltry consideration of party . The doctrines of the Whig party , as I have shown , p ledge them and their candidates to maintain slavery ; the breeding of slaves for market ; the sale of women iu this district and in the territories ; to uphold the Fugitive Law in all coming time ; to admit , as many slave States as shall apply from Ne w Mexico and Utah , and to silence discussion on all these subjects . Tbisjs as far as human depravity can go . If tho Democratic party has dived deeper into moral and political putridity , some archangel fallen must have penned their confession of faith . If there be such a distinction , it can only be discovered by a refinement of casuistry too intricate for
honest minds to exert . Sir , suppose there were a shade of distinction in the depths of depravity to which these parties have descended , does it become men—free men—men of moral princip le , of political integrity—to be straining their visions and using intellectual microscopes to discover tbat shade of moral darkness ? 2 fo , sir ; let every man who feels tbat he has a country to save , a character to sustain—tbat owes a duty to mankind and God—come forward at once , and wage a bold and exterminating war against these doctrines , so abhorrent to freedom and humanity . Sir , we are in the midst of a revolution . The two great parties are striving to convert this free government into a slaveholding a slave-breeding republic . Those powers which were delegated to secure liberty are now exerted to overthrow
freedom and the Constitution . It becomes every patriot , every lorer of freedom , every Christian , evcryjman , to stand forth in defence of popular rights , in defence of the rights of the free States , of the institutions under which we live , in defence of oar national character . Sir , I am getting old , the infirmities of agearecoming upon mo . I must soon leave the scenes with which 1 am . surrounded . It is uncertain whether I shall again address this body ; but one thing 1 ask , tbat friends and foes here and elesewhere , in this and in coming time , shall understand , that whether in public or in private life , by the wayside or the fireside , in life or in death , I oppose , denounce , and repudiate the efforts now put forth to involve the people of the free States in the support of slavery , of the slave trade , and their attendant crimes . * Senators Houston ami Douglas , who had been candidates for nomination , were present , listening to this speerb .
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STATISTICS OF THE WEEK . Importation ox Forkigx Asimals . —Tho following are the quantities of forei gn animals—fifc f or human foodwhich have been imported into the United Kingdom during the five months of the present year , ending the 5 th of June last :-Oxen and bulls , 7 , 010 ; cows , 4 733 calves S . 291 ; sheep , 29 , 337 ; lambs , 108 ; and swine and hossl 8 M . This return shows a sli ght decrease in the number of sheep and swine imported iu the corresponding period of 1851 , but an increase in all other animals . The increase , as compared with the first five months of 1850 , is upwards of 30 per cent . It does not appear , from tho Board of trade returns , that any horses , the produce of foreign countries , have been imported during the present year Ofbones of anirn .- ^ , whether burnt or not , wo imported , ' in the first five months of the present 19637 tons
year , , . SosrEXDEn Stalls is Cathedral asd Coueoiate CnoRCHEs .--A return obtained b y Sir Benjamin Hall has been printed from which it appears that from 1840 the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have received an account of suspended stalls , n cathedral and collegiate churches , sums amounting to £ 214 . 141 J 7 s . 1 ^ ° ' The Ubkqvat , of Smmupield Market . —In a Parliamentary doeuiueiit lust priatcil , an account is given of the disposition 0 . £ =,, 012 7 s . 9 J . paid for obtaining the Smithfield Market Removal Act . The bill of costs to Messrs . Lyon , Barnes and Ellis , from March , 1851 , to August last , was . tl . biy Us . Id . The fees paid to counsel were £ 1 273 54 61 . in about three months ; and house fees , shorthand writers , and witnesses 570 14 s . 4 d . The total charge was £ 3 , C 71 19 s . lid . The amount taxed off was £ 59 12 s . „ leaving the charge £ 3 , 012 7 s . 9 d .
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THE THEATRES . jSt * 7 > t > "pY A new comic opern , called ' The Devil ' s in it , ' the j oint production of Mr . Bonn ami Air . Haiti ; , in their respective capacities of drama , tist and composer , was performed for the first time on Monday night with the most complete success It is a musical version of the capital old farce , ' 1 'he Devil to Pay , * one oi tho best subjects for a comic opera that can be ima gined . To meet the conventional exigencies of the opera stage , the scene is transferred , to Germans , arefiiun better suited than England for the introduction of diablerie ; Jobson , thecobler . and Sell , his wife are turned into Hermann ; a drunken busketniaker , anil his h-lpmate Letty , and the squire and his termagant lady , become the Count and Countess atleuberg . Thee changes beins made , the plot and incidents of the farce are pretty closely followed . The piece opens a la Fre ' mlmfg , with an incantation scene in tho him
majjieiiin ' oglen , where he invokes his familiar spirits to assist , and is answered by a chorus of "nomes and demons . This ponderous machinery is out of keeping with so gay and playful a subject ; a person not aware of what was coming would expect some terrific story , like 'Faust , ' or ' Robert le DiaMe . ' The supernatural por tion should have been lightliy treated , and not dwelt upon more tban was necessiry to indicate the agency to be taken for granted in bringing ; about the mutual transformation of the two females . And , in the same way , the exhibition of this magical agency , the re . newed incantation s of the wizard and the tro » ps of demons and spirits who carry the sleeping countess through the air to the hasket-. maker ' s house—all this clumsy ¦ machinery is at variance with the character of the subject , and moreover quite unnecessary , for the accomplishment of the enchantment might have been left to be imagined <> y the audience ; A lively chorus of servants and rustics would have been more to the purpose as a Anal to the first act of such a piece than those portentous sounds of fiends and demons . But we . must submit to such things , because the opera stage is thought to demand them .
Every part of the theatre was densely crowde . l , and we saw among the audience a great number of our .. J » ost eminent vocalists , and other musical artists , both native and foreign . The performance was enthusiastically applauded , and the principal pieces were encored . Aftcrthe opera , the chief singers were cai ' etl for , and then Mr . Balfe and Mr . Bunn , both of whom cameforward , and the latter addressed the audience , returning th miss , : n tho names of all the parties concerned , for the favours b ) e reception of the piece .
DRUltY LANE . That grest bore of' Vivian" Dreary lane' has passed under the management of Brother Jonathan . The theatre was opened on Monday , when the'Yankees' made their rfsfmHn ' Hamlet , 'followed by a / wrce . They . were greatly applauded , but we failed to perceive in their acting anything calculated to make Drcary-lmo legs dreary than heretofore .
ROYAL POLlTEOUx \ IC INSTITUTION . There are many persons who forbode sad things to Eng land ' s prosperity , arising from the w ivlyous goM discoveries of the Australian colonies , because history tells us that Spain became corrupted , and sank g adually to an inferior position amongst other nations by her wealth derived from Mexico and Peru . We . draw , however , no such dismal parallels , and we think the lecturer on chemistry , Mr . J . H . Pepper , must certainly- do much good by the simple and popular lectures which ho is now delivering at the Polytechnic Institution . Mr . Pepper exhibits the different forms of cradles , washing machines , tools , and even ihe tent in which emigrants must take up their abode , and he describes certain easy modes oi discriminating gold from all other na'urnl minera ' s of the like appearance , and also from the fraudulent imitation of gold nuggets already prepared and sent infc > the market by the ( in this case ) misapplied ingenuity of Birmingham artists . Mr . Pepper commerced his discourse by relating " some amusing instances where persons had been deceived by yellow micairon or copper
, pyrites , as these bodies look brilliant and are very deceptive ; indeed , they had already actually caused many false alarms ( as they were termed } in the colony . The lecturer then proceeded to answer two questions , viz ., what are the rocks or geological appearances likely to guide the gold seeker in his search after the precious metal ? Secondly—having obtained a substance which looks like gold , how are we to distinguish it from all other metals and minerals ? In answer to the first question , the audience were reminded that the crust of the globe war . not mere loose earth , but made up of various layers , beds , or strata , of soft and hard materials , termed collectively , rocks ; these were divided into two gre'H classes - the stratified or aqueous rocks , the unstvatified or igneous ro . If ; the former being deposited from water , the latter incorporated and matted together by the action of fire . Gold was found in the neighbourhood of ihe latter rocUs , as stated in the report of Mr . Stutchbury , contained in the Blue ¦ Bonk , where he-states that 'Most of the bills west of the principal gold diggings are capped with basalt . ' The rocks containing the gold , associated with quartz
( which is another and mn-e crystalline form of s ' . vtid ) , had hecn broken up subsequently by action of water and carried over a large tract of country , hence the term 'drifted material ; ' it was in the general drift or transported water-worn fragments of these recks tbat the dry diggings-were conducted , the gold-seeker merely washing away the light particles of earth , the precious metal sinking to the hollow of the cradle , by its specific gravity , which was seven or C ' gbt times . reater than any earthy matter associated with it . The drift existed in the vicinity of what were called the Palccoaoic rocks , which . wore easily known by their foasil remains , viz ., shells of the oyster , mussel , and cockle tribes , differing , however , from those species found at the pre- ent day ; the inference from this fact was therefore plain , that before digging , the general chat acter of the surrounding earth or strata should be examined , as much labour might be wanted by an ignorant person on a spot which a geologist wou-d not think of exploring . The second question then came under consideration : and all the simple tests for gold likely to be useful to the intending emigrant were exhibited and exulained
m a simple ana lucid manner . Thus the natural minerals , called iron and coppir pyrites , were easily distinguishable from gold , by a hammer , which would estmd into thin Janiinra whilst the minerals were brittle , and immediately crush by a few blows . Again , gold yielded no smell if heated red-hot ; but powdered iron or copper pyrites thrown upon a red-hot shovel afforded directly the blue flame and smell of burning sulphur , because ihese minerals were , m fact , sulpburets of the metals iron and copper . When a rock er specimen contained a number of small spangles or bright specks , which could not well be tested by the means already men . tioned , im-n quicksilver was of great use , because it might be added in any convenient bottle to the powdered rock , with a little water : and well shaken the mercury unites with any gold which may be present , and is easily removed by putting it on a shovel over the fire , taking care to avoid the fumes of the quicksilver , which evaporates , leavins the gold behind . Mr . Pepper then observed , that the greatest danger te- tbo emigrant was to beejtpeotedfrom his fellow-creatures and not from tho products of natare . Thus it
was necessary to distinguish brass .-fllings , 0 r nuggets , from gold , which was quickly done by the use of aquafortis , " or nitric acid . This powerful solvent attacked the inferior metals , such as zinc , copper , lead , or brass , but had no effecton gold , sill the filings or a rock might contain some precious metal ; a simple mode of test , ing could be arranged with a saucepan , a few doctor ' s bottles , a bit of tinfoil , a few iron nails ,, and some acids ; the results obtained with t ese materials ¦ were most decisive ; out of the three specimens of rock tested at the table , one only showed the presence of gold . The mode of taking specific gravities was exhibited on the large scale , by a model crown , gilt , to represent King Hiero ' s bauble . Tbis was a method of appreciating gold by its excessive weight and was discovered and first used by Archimedes , 600 b . c . It was clearly demonstrated , that as ihw model , compared with water , had only a sptcific gravity of six and half , that is , was made of zinc j because , if it had been constructed of gold , the weight , or rather specific gravity , would have been about nineteen . The lecture was altogether of a most interesting character .
The same lecturer has also shown some simp ' e hut curious tests for discovering whether or not ale and malt liquors be adulterated , the result of which has very satisfactorily proved that in thp ale brewed by . Jlr . Allsopp and other brewers at Burton , bo such thing asstrychineisintroduced , and that the presence of thepoison , if it did exist , could be at once detected . These lectures , and the other iuformatio 1 afforded to the visitors , have had the effect of filling the theaire of the building witu numerous audiences . Daring the past week a very interesting lecture has been dell vered by Mr . Crispe upon the manufacture of needles . Pew , indeed , are those who , when they use a needle , are aware of the immense labour required in its production , it bavingto pass through
no less than f ixty-seve » different processes in its preparation . The principal of which were shown as the subject proceeded , tho rough wire being taken in the first instance . Tne process of pointing the needles seemed to excite great interest iu the numerous auditory , partly probably on account of the deadly character of the process , the needle pointer formerly , not usually living more than six or seven years at his horrible taMc . The means now employed to ameliorate the condition of tbis unfortunate class of oar fellow creatures , and prevent this sacrifice of human life , were shown in operation . Tho machinery used in tho invention of Messrs . Morra 1 of Studley , the advantages of their system and superiority of their needles , : > ppear self-evident upon examination of the several means employed .
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CoxvmsiMs of Boo Maza . — It 3 s reported that Boa-Maza is about to become a Roman Catholic . Death of Gekkral Gouugmjd . — General Gourgauu , formerly Aidede-Oamp to the Emperor , died in Paris on Friday , after a long illness . Mk ' xican Dukricaive . —The village of Alpoycca , in the State of Guerrero , was comp letel y destroyed by the hurricane of the 28 th of May . Haustorm in America . — A violent hailstorm occurred at Fulton on the 10 th , which destroyed a large quantity of growing corn . It is said that the hailstones were as lar"e as pigeons ' eggs . a Death of Baho . v de Langsdorfh\— -From Frieburg , in the Grand Duch y of Baden , we hear ol the death , in hia seventy-eighth year , of the well known botanist and traveller , Baron George Frederic de LaugsdorfF .
The American Expedition to Japan . —The " Handelsblad" of Amsterdam of the 18 th says : — " We leavn from a positive source that the government of the United States has abandoned its project of an expedition against Japan . It has preferred invoking the mediation of the Dutch government . Bad Cider in Paris . —Several very serious attacks of colic , with great prostration , have lately come under the cognisance of different practitioners of the French capital , the cause of which has been traced to the use of adulterated cider . Cholera in Russia .-The cholera is reported to be raging at Kaliacn and Sierntlz , and in the districts lying at the mouths of the Vistula . In some of the villages on the Prussian frontier also this terrible malady has appeared .
Fkbshskts . —In Baltimore upwards of three hundred houses were submerged hy reason of a freshet which occurred there on tho morning of the 13 th inst . Another freshet occurred on tho 9 th in "Vermont , which carried away two railway bridges , and a dwelling-house , near Richmond . Highway Robbery in France . —The " Courier de la Drome , " a Valence journal , states that one of the diligences , which run between Nismes and Lyons , was stopped a few days since not far from Coiineau , by a single footpad , well aimed . After a short colloquy between the highwayman and the conductor , the former declared that lie would withdraw if only SOfr . were given to him . The passenger ? , who were in a stave of great agitation while 'he conversation Was going on , advised that the sum demanded should he immediately paid , which was done , and the diligence was allowed to proceed on its journey .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), July 31, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_31071852/page/2/
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