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      M ^ ' ¦"'¦ _ . _ ... . 1 . 7 - ¦ . - g ^ garian must lie made proclaim trumnet-t ongned to all the despots of Europe that Eng land is emphatically and unswervingly De mocratic ? while , on tho other hand , t or own government will learn from the Demonstrati on that they must not falter with llie minions of despotism , nor prostitute the « ower 8 with which they are entrusted to the ftrfherance of the designs of either petty or SI ' § iat such a warning i 8 needed , few who have watched the foreign policy of the Whig C abinet will doubt . Its services to the cause of Constitutionalism on the Continent during Ihalate eventful years have been merel y lip-^ ' . . «; 1 _ 4 _ 1 « n . nnlnitr , !_« .

      services . The solid practical results of its policy have all tended to favour Absolutism . The very fact that Kossuth comes here in an American vessel , sent for that purpose by the Government , proves an identity between the Seop leand the rulers in ¦ that couDtry which oes not exist in this . Had there been the game agreement between the occupants of office at Whitehall and the people of this country as there is between the Government at Washington and the citizens of the Federal Republic , England would twelve months ago have brought Kossuth and his co-patriots to Southampton in a British war steamer and welcomed him with a ' salute , the reverberation

      of which over Europe would have startled the despots in their thrones , and given augury of the ultimate emancipation of down-trodden , oppressed , and enslaved nations from their soul and body destroying sway . Honour to America for what she has done . Let us hoist the old signal , 'England expects every man to do his duty / Let the reception of Kossuth be such as to give hope to the nations—make the oppressors quail with fear ¦ -and teach our own rulers that the only way to maintain their power , is to act upon the progressive and constitutional pr inciples so nobly struggledforbythe illustrious man about to land on ' uur shores .

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      i ~~ g ~~ ASSOCIATIVE HUSBANDRY . Protectionism will speedily be like Paganism : an extinct creed . One after another , the Parliamentary chiefs of the party read their recantation in the midst of farmers , and are cheered , where even twelve months since they would have been hooted . Disraeli , master Of the arb of oratory , envelopes his surrender in a cloud of words , by which he attempts to let himself down gently . He still holds by the doctrine—but the measures ? They grow bo impalpably fine , that the

      growers of corn and mutton , with their dull vision , see nothing . Even the prospect of a five shilling duty haB vanished . Repeal of the Malt Tax , however popular among tenant farmers or their labourers , has-never had any supporters among the ' hon . gentlemen' who hope to get into office , and have the handling of the taxes . Officials of all parties have a wonderful instinct in common in this respect ; and , though the member for Bucks tries hard to make the agricultural assemblies he

      addresses believe that a reduction of taxation is the first and most practical measure of relief , it is observable that he does not speak of a reduction of expenditure , but , in the true spirit of the territorial monopolist , proposes to shift on to the shoulders of other portions of the community , a part of those now borne by the cultivators of the soil . If they are not * relieved ' before that takes place , their condition is a hopeless one . Sobbing Peter to pay Paul won ' t be submitted to again ; and , therefore , it will be better for landlords and tenants to

      square their accounts at once , upon that distinct understanding . That a great and radical change in the occupancy and cultivation of the land of the country must follow the late changes in our commercial legislation , is incontestable . "W ith wheat in some cases selling as low as thirty shillings per Quarter , it is preposterous to suppose that the farmer can pay the old rents and taxes—nay , it is very doubtful if he can continue to cultivate at all , as an individual occupier of the soil . In order to keep his ground , he must

      Introduce new and improved methods of cropping , large quantities of manures , and practice the greatest economy in the application and distribution of labour . This , however , is easier said than done ; when it is done , the result must be an increased amount of produce , by which the diminution of price will be to some extent met ; but the question is , whether on the individual system of farming that will be sufficiently great to cover the extra cost incurred by the improved system , of ligh fanning . We do not believe that it will . The two great elements of plenty are , an abundant supply of manure , and well-directed labour . The distance at which the great

      majority of farms are situated from the , places where the people are massed together , necessarily deprives them of both of these requisites . The farmers are , therefore , obliged either to carry manure from distant towns , at great expense , and in sparing quantities , or to have recourse to green crops and sheep feeding ; the remunerative returns of which , at the prices likely to role our markets in future , are exceedingly problematical . Mere reductions of rent will not make up the difference between thirty shillings or thirty-six shillings a quarter , and fifty-six or sixty shillings , at which growing corn was barely remunerative under the old system .

      The abolition of the Com Laws points , therefore , bo a revolution in the cultivation and tenure of the soil . Individual farmers and tenancies at will , must go out together ; scientific cultivation upon freehold or leasehold estates by co-operative associations must sucj ceed as the only feasible or practical mode o culture , in connexion with free exchanges . Such associations would comp rise all the requisites for success . They would possess not only the necessary capital for farming upon a large scale , and employing the agencies placed at their disposal by the chemist and the mechanician ; but they would be able to make arrangements ! by which a large resident population would be always available , and a continuous source of wealth and property .

      The attainment of such results may appear distant — their prediction ho regarded as visionary , but we firmly believe that we are on the way at the present moment . Into the production of food the princip le of association must be introduced , in order to bring that great and important department of production into harmony with our progress in other departments . The world has out grown the isolated , ill-informed , incoherent , and Ecrambling Bystem of fanning . Henceforth husbandry must rank among the arts , and be conducted in accordance with the discoveries of science , and the general interests of the

      commumtv . , .. . ,. It may be some time before either the owners or the occupiers of land awaken to a perception of this fact ; but that will not retard the ultimate change . Had any one , previously to the establishment of railroads , predicted the nnmensQ revolutions which theso iron roads have effectedin England , he would have been laughed at as a madman who saw visions and dreamed dreams . But quietly , steadily , irresistibly , these changes have passed over the down

      face of society : old towns have dwindled into insignificance—new towns risen to greatness and wealth—old modes of working in almost every department of industry , have been sup erseded by new , improved , and economical methods ; and though asyet these changes may Iiavedone little toimprovedirectly thecondition of the worker , { here must , in the very nature of man and the universe , come a time when their trae scope and capability will be discovered , and they will become the means of producing universal prosperity , contentment , and intelligence .

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      EOYALTY IN LANCASHIRE . "P / WAT-TV TAT T * Vftl OtITDTI

      The Queen has shed the li g ht of her royal countenance upon murky , smoky , busy Manchester . For the first time for centuries has royalty deigned to irradiate that benighted , begr imed , and toiling portion of the ialand , and straightway Manchester has been seized with a paroxysm of loyalty . The capers it has cut in the exuberance of its joy have been altogether unprecedented in the history of loyal demonstrations . For the last six weeks the papers have teemed with curiously minute descriptions of the grand doings that were to be , and even before their streets were hallowed by the wheels of the royal carriages , enthusiastic devotees were ready to fall down and worship on them .

      But amidst all this fussy preparation , ostensibly for the reception of the Sovereign , there may have been discerned something of the true Manchester spirit , on the part of the officials , who have had the management-Manchester is eminently utilitarian . Its mill , owners and warehousemen are the Yankees of England . They are ' smart' men , always on the look out for a chance of doing a stroke of business on their own account . Hence the

      recently created Aldermen and Councillors of the cotton metropolis have cleverly seized upon the occasion to place themselves alongside of ancient London , in the matter of chains , gowns , and other civic decorations . This is a clever coup . When the Royal Cavalcade and all its transient glories have flushed and faded , there will remain in perpetuity the Aldermanic splendour , hy which it was accompanied- —a ray of sunshine caught in passing , and preserved as a memento , that ' once upon a time / as the fairy tales say , « a real live Queen visited Manchester , and from that period the plain John-a-Noaiceses and Thomas Sxyleses of Manchester were invested with all the dignity to be desired from gold chains , gowns , and furs . '

      But Manchester , while ambitious of glory and fine robes , is yet true to its inheren instincts and predominant passions . Like John Gilpins' wife , it is frugal even when bent upon pleasure ; and therefore it made the sight of the Sovereign a privilege to be paid for , just in the same way that the hippopotamus , or the young elephant , or the oranoutang is at the Zoological Gardens . The only difference was that the sight of these strange animals costs less . Manchester had got hold of a Queen ,- and forthwith , with characteristic ' cuteness , ' set about making something out of her . Other towns spend money when Royalty honours them with a visit Manchester makes Boyalty contribute

      to clear its own expenses . Clever Manchester thus to blend pleasure and profit ! 'This scene of royal itch and loyal scratching , ' has not been confined to Manchester , The whole district has had its paroxysm . Liverpool has done its devoirs to the occupant of the throne in a right splendid style , and wherever the cortege made its appearance , the Sovereign had plenty of company , who , accordingHo the newspaper accounts , made the welkin ring with their uproarious felicitations . Lancashire—the North of England , appears to have been thrown into a delirium of joy , and in its intoxication to have forgotten what was due to its own greatness , intelligence and industry .

      Far be it from us to say one word in the most remote degree depreciatory of the respectful and cordial reception of the present Sovereign by the people of this country , There is not a single class or party in the country which does not feel deeply and warmly that , both in her private and public life , she conducts herself in a manner worthy her exalted position and the great people of whom

      she is the chief magistrate . A visit to the heart of the manufacturing districts , was all the more likely to create more than usual enthusiasm and excitement , not only from the rarity of the occurrence , but the fact that it happened in a year when royalty and manufacturing industry had been brought closer together , through the medium of the Great Exhibition than ever they were before .

      But while we would have the people to do all due honour to the individual in whom is vested the supreme power of the nation , and show that they can duly estimate the advantage of having the throne filled by one who seeks to make either a harmless or a beneficial use of the powers with which she is investedwe would , at the same time , have them always remember what is due to their own self respect — their own value to the State—their own interests as citizens .

      We are proud to think that we live in a country where the SoVEREiGN 4 cau travel without fear , and mix with the people , certain of receiving the courteous and friendly reception which is due to her position and personal character , at a time when scarcely another European sovereign dare show his face outside a triplerowof armed guards . Butitwould be well that the cause of this should not be forgotten . It is owing entirely to the degree in which the democratic element has been infused into our

      constitution . In proportion as the people have been entrusted with the power of self-government , and the prerogatives of the crown cut off or placed in [ abeyance , so has the danger of a collision between the two been lessened . At present all parties look upon the Sovereign as merely the head officer of the State , ready and willing to carry out the decrees of the popular will , as expressed by Parliament , and anxious to secure the fair and impartial administration of the law . With the Queen the people do not , and so long as she pursues

      the same even , impartial , and dignified course cannot , come into hostile contact . The struggle for an extension of political power will be with other parties . They will have to contend arduously with the aristocracy for their rightful share of power in their own branch of the Legislature ; and no external manifestations of loyalty should be permitted to blind either the Sovereign or the aristocracy to tho fact that the exclusion of five-sixths of the adult males of this country from the franchise , is a political fraud and injustice , which will not be tolerated much longer .

      We fear that such considerations as these are lost sight of by the middle class toadies who get up these demonstrations , and hustle each other for the chance of rubbing skirts with royalty . Their fulsome flattery and ridiculous airs must not be taken as indicative o the national feeling . The sp ontaneous and hearty cheers which salute the Sovereign from the thousands who , for the first time , see

      the Queen , surrounded hy her children , and radiant with the womanly smiles , arising from public popularity and domestic happiness , rightly interpreted , do not mean that we should keep these masses excluded from the constitution . On the contrary , the lesson they teach is , that they should be at once admitted to all the privileges of citizenship , seeing they are so well disposed to use these powers in a friendly spirit to the powers that be .

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      FACTS AND INCIDENTS OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION . on of m nntn . __•_

      + Tbel ^ g fashionable equipages about the south transept entrance of the Crystal ? T £ T ? quite as & reat on Saturday tat as it it had been the middle of the summer seaeon . ± he number of titled persons present was altogether unusuall y great for the season ; but we were unable to obtain a list of names inconsequence of the absence of the greater number ot the 8 eason ticket takers , who , not expecting an aristocratic rush in the middle of the shooting season , had obtained an noliday . Ine great Austrian ODal was tha obiect

      ot general curiosit y . It is certainly a magnificent specimen of this rare and delicate gem , b 79 ® £ ht of 625 ^ « arats , and entirely without fW or blemiBh . The proprietors , MeBsrs . Goldsmichfc , of Vienna , are the lessees of the Royal Austrian Opal Mines , and were fortunate enough to obtain this immense specimen m 1846 , which , atill in its natural state , and surrounded with an iron cage , is now adding great interest to the lastdaysof the Exhi-J lfle crusader chess table has been sold for 500 guineas , and for many others of the rarer and more valuable , treaties are in active progress . A great interest was excited on Saturday by a rumour which Bpreaa ramdlv that amon p next

      weefc s visitors the illustrious Kosauth might be expected . On making inquiries we found that a jenueman much interested in Hungarian affairs Had waned on the executive committee , stating that it the Mississi ppi arrived in time , the distinguunod . exile would visit the Crystal Palace , acc ? J ) anied h * "uoiberof the parliamentary friends Of Hungary , but asking , whether , in the event of any unexpected delay , permission would be given for an inspection on any day after the ceremonial of closing on Wednesday . The answer was that the gates would be opened to the strangers , with thia proviso , that everything like an approach to a , political demonstration must be avoided . It will be not the least remarkable feature in the history of thiB remarkable man , if one day should be added to the duration of the greatest spectacle the world has ever seen , solely for the entertainment Of himself and immediate friends .

      On Saturday information wa 8 circulated throughout the City and Metropolitan divisions of police , that the case numbered 441 , Class 10 , in tho Great Exhibition , had been forced open and plundered of several gold plates and sets of teeth in gold , the blocks studded with rubies and brilliants in the most costly manner ; they were the property of a gentleman in Burlington-street , and are of great value . —On the same day information was received that some adroit thief had succeeded in effecting an entry in the Albany , Piccadilly , and getting into No . 13 succeeded in possessing himself of £ 150 worth of silver plate , crest a falcon ' s head ; and , notwithstanding there was a porter Btationed at either end , whom all must pass , got clear away with his booty .

      The police numbers on Saturday were 29 , 640 , and the receipts £ 2 , 862 Us . Tho first day of the last week of the Exhibition has passed off in a manner at once gratifying and surprising . Everybody was prepared fox-n ' - great accession of numbers to the usual average of shilling visitors , but the most extravagant expectations could hardly hare anticipated anything so remarkable as the actual reality . On Monday 107 , 816 people entered the building , and the sum of £ 5 , 175 16 s . was taken at the doors .

      The gathering excitement which attends the olose of the Crystal Palace now tells its own tale most emphatically in the still increasing multitudes of visitors . The number of thesQ , which was 107 , 815 on Monday rose on Tuesday to 109 , 915 , while the sum of £ 5 , 231 10 a . was taken in shillings at the doors . Even the Bank begins to feel the j . flow of silver to its cotters from the glutted exchequer of the Royal Commissioners , On Tuesday it was found necessary to have two cabs to convey to Threadneedle Street the accumulation of the previous day , and the weight of specie amounted to no less than fifteen cwt . On Wednesday 109 , 760 persons visited the building , and the sum of £ 5 , 283 3 s . was taken at the doors .

      The first overt act of preparation for the removal of goods from the Crystal Palace took place on Wednesday in the erection of a stage for loading waggons at the first exit door west of the transept entrance . According to the Royal warrant and deed of covenant relating to the Great Exhibition , which aro printed in a Parliamentary paper , the building could have been kept open until the end of the present month . The words are , " shall be closed and concluded on or before the 1 st of November / ' All the buildings and erections and all tho materials

      and contents are , in pursuance of the Royal warrant , to be " completely removed and carried away , by and at the sole expense of the said commissioners , on or before the 1 st of June , 1852 , and that , on or before the said 1 st of June , 1852 , the said commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 shall , to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of Woods , restore the soil and surface of the park to its form before any part was enclosed by the said commissioners , ready for sowing with grass seed , and to sow the same . " The vote of the House of Commons was merely that tho building should not be removed before the 1 st of May . —Times .

      Great Western Exhibition Trains . —The trains from Bristel on Wednesday brought 3 , 000 persons , and from Bath 2 , 000 , to the Exhibition . It appears that the visit of the Duke of Welling , ton on Monday was not the least hazardous exploit of his Grace ' s long and brilliant career . The anxiety of the crowd to see and cheer the hero of a hundred fights was so great that a smash took place amongst the French porcelain , and all the exertions of the police were required to get his grace safely out of the building . A constable supported him under each arm , and six men behind , under the direction of Mr . Peatce , kept the crowd back by main force until at last exit was obtained at the south transept . His Grace was exceedingly discomposed by the tussle , and seemed to think that even popularity and public gratitude might run into excess .

      The last of the shilling days has been one of disappointment and deep personal discomfort to thousands . It rained incessantly throughout the greater part of Thursday , and in consequence tho number of visitors fell to 90 , 813 , and the receipts to £ 4 , 344 7 s . Gd . A more disagreeable day has not occurred since the opening , and the only wonder is that so many people were present .

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      f RISH DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE . —MEETING AT BRADFORD , - ; . -

      On Monday evening a Soiree and Ball , was held at the Neptune Inn , Bridge-street , in commemoration of the escape of J . B . M'Mauua to tho land of liberty . The large room was tastefully decorated ; in the centre was an arch of flowers entwined with evergreens , from which was suspended the portrait of the hero of the evening , and around the room were portraits of the Irish patriots , that of Mitchel ( most beautifully decorated ) was suspended over the vice chair . The National Convention stood proudly forth , and alongside was the Wexford Massacre . A quadrille band commenced the amusements with the national air of St . Patrick ' s day .

      Mr . John Kirwin occupied the chair , Mr . James Curtis , the vice . Tho Stewards wore the national tricolour roaette ; and the respectability of the meeting presented au appearance never before witnessed in Bradford . The Chairman having explained the objects of the meeting in a neat speech , gave tha ' Independence of Ireland , " which was most heartily received in the usual old Irish way . Mr . M . Mamwet responded , and conoluded amid the applause of the meeting . The next sentiment was the exile's song , " The Exile of Erin , " by Mr . Fltnk .

      Mr . O'Sullivan , who was called \ jpon to respond ., after some introductory remarks on the present state of Ireland , asked the sympathies of his hearers for tho virtues and examples of the glorious Mitchol , the eloquent Meagher , the unconquerable O'Brien , and all their brave compeers . Men who but lived for Ireland and freedom . Tho honest boldness of the former , whose powerful mind shook off fcke trammels of class , and whoso pen only essayed for his countrymen their freedom , equalisation in political and social privileges , irrespective of class or creed , and whose firmness of purpose rendered hin ^ alike an object of their mo 8 t onthusiaetio admiration and esteem . 16 was ho who proclaimed to a down-trodden nation the fact , " that the poorest peasant was as precious as the 1

      proudest lord . ' The untiring eloquenoe of the noble Meagher , whose manly soul felt wealth and rank a degradation , when not employed in the amelioration of suffering humanity , and whose sole thoughts were centred in the one great object—Irish ; Nationality . The unconquerable O'Brien , whose unoompromising resolve rendered him alike an object of love and hate—the former to his friends , the latter to his foes—and whose name and spirit future generations would yet evoke as their load-star , and whose escutchion he ( the speaker ) trusted would yet wave emblematic of loyo , liberty , and happineBS , thoir brave cotnpeerB , who , one and all , acted on the glorious sentimenfcof theirnational ) ard : — .

      " Far dearer the Tomb or the prison , Illumined by one patriot ' s name , Than the trophies of all who have risen , On liberty's ruins to fame . " It would ill-become him ( the speaker ) to pass over , without notice , the illustrious band of exiles and martyrs of ' 03 . Who amongst them did not breathe an ejaculation of honour and esteem for that Irish hero Arthur O'Connor , whose nivrao had become identified and synonymous with the Exiles of Erin , now in the fifty-third year of his banishment ? And where was the son of Erin who felt not proud of enumerating amongst Ireland ' s children such men as Jone , Fitzgerald , R . O'Connor , Emmett , and tho peasant commander ( Dennis Hoolan ) of Oulart Hill ? Nor should they , living

      in the land of tho stranger , forgot tho English exiles of ' 48 , —the honest Cuffay , tho bold Lacey , the upright Fay , the manly Dowling ;—men whoso only aim and object was Equality , Fraternity , and Liberty . What had they to fear with such bright examples before them ? Let them unite , then , infuture happiness , let religious distinctions keep them no longer apart , but memory , swift as light , bear them back to the heroes of the past , with a firm resolve ( to imitate their virtue , to honour their principles , and an untiring devotion to their disinterestedness : and may their spirit animate them , that they may see tho day when the tomb of Emmett should be inscribed , and the living exiles triumphantly return to the land of their birth amid the joyous shout of a " Caed Moaulle Failthba . " Mr . Sullivan resumed his seat amid tho

      acclamations of the meeting . The next sentiment was , " The escape of J . B . M'Manus . " Song , " Who Fears to Speak of ' 9 S , " sung by Mr . Collins in excellent style , was cheered and encored . Mr . Smith responded to tho sentiment , " The Tenant League . " Song , " She is a rich and rare land , " by Mr . Curtis , Spoken to by Mr . Dalt . The juvenile portion of the meeting then commenced to trip it on the light fantastic toe . All was good humour and } oy , and the meeting separated at an early hour in the morning , highly delighted .

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      SOCIALIST PROCEEDINGS IN FRANCE . The ' Courier de Limoges ' lias the following : — . « MM . Michel , ( de Bourges ) and Nndaud arrived here three or four days since , hut their presence created so little sensation that we omitted to inform our readers of it . "We only knew yesterday that they had been subjected to a rude rebuff . About two o ' clock they went to a manufactory of the Association g Fraternelle des Porcelainers . They were accompanied , it is said , by about 100 persons . On being informed , of this cir-CUmstance , the Prefect immediately sent the central commissary of police with some sergens-de-ville to " disperse the meeting if it

      should have anything of a political character . Tho commissary appeared unexpectedly amongst them , and found M . Nadaud haranguing his co-religionists . The officer presenting the written order of the Prefect , energetically summoned the meeting to disperse , at the same time drawing up a proces verbal of the infraction of the decree of the 12 th of July , prohibiting clubs in the department of the Haute Vienne , Some little hesitation wns at first shown in obeying the injunction of the commissary , but on his declaring that he would have the place cleared by the armed force , the meeting dispersed , and no one remained in the place but tho workmen employed

      there . The commissary afterwards placed a sentinel at each of the doors of the manufactory to prevent any one returning . Ono person only was arrested , M , Sorbet , our new central commissary , executed the orders which ho head received with great vigour . It is for the judicial authorities now to proceed against those who have contravened the prefectoral decree prohibiting clubs . It appears that in the evening , between eight and nine o ' clock , a certain number of freres et amis went in detached parties , and singly , to tho cafe restaurant of M . Derignac ; but there also they found gendarmes and sergens-de-ville . It was impossible to deliver tho slightest speech without seeing the meeting immediately dispersed and a proces verbal drawn up by a commissary of police . If our

      information be correct , tho great citizens Michel ( de Bourges ) and Nadaud were compelled to confine themselves in a short interview to a mere shaking of hands . Some patrols had been ordered by tho authorities , but public tranquility wa 3 not at all disturbed . Is it not remarkable that in Limoges , which contains such a number of workmen , and which has been in such an agitated state , tho presence of tho coryphees of the Mountain and of Socialism should have produced sojhtle effect , and excited so little sympathy ? Tho " complete fiasco which they have metis a striking proof of tho return of tho working classes towards the principles of order , and c > tho confidence inspired ^ by the firm attitude assumed by tho authorities . ' [ This is a capital specimen of the reign of terror under the order ! moncers . Ed . H . S . I

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      TEE GOLD DjBWYEttY IN AUSTRALIA . A respectable printer , who lately emigrated to Sydney from Dublin , has written the following letter to the " Freeman ' s Journal" : — " " 'i 3 ?' . Geoll ee-street , Sydney , Juno 2 , 1851 . no * * I * , not know whether any apology is ? n »!! encl ° sing you , per post , the accompany-^ f p n ^ W 8 Pa P « . which containa a summary of the &M - dinKw South Wales-mJ object havl ! fc ««<¦ ^ ttants Of my native city may fivlnfc ilh ? , * . " ^ lU genco of this extraordinary f ^? s ' plnH ° hn tb - ? V ngunderthene ^« ty <> f taking li , a t second hand from an English newsnanor " The excitement m Sydne f cOnsequS on thia wonderful discovery , is beyond description Bus - ness , which had been very brisk , is atpresent at a standstill

      periecD , ana nothing of consequence dOlIlg but 111 preparation for the mines at Bathurst Which are about 150 miles from this . Men are leaving profitable situations in every direotion , and nothing is heard or talked of but going to tho' diggins . ' Last week flour raised from £ 18 to ; £ 30 per ton . To-day it has fallen to £ 26 , Coals , which had been 20 s ., are now £ 2 5 s . per ton , with an expectation of being still higher . Stonemasons and carpentera , who had been getting 6 s . a day , are now getting 9 s ., and only about half tho usual number lolfc . Porters' wages notv 30 s . per week in most

      establishments . Beef and mutton are still 3 d . and ii . per pound . The loaf ( same as the small loaf in Dublin ) has gone up from 4 Jd . to 71 & . Blacksmiths are getting groat wages making picks , &o ., for the diggers . Several immense pieces of Bathurstgold go to tho Great Exhibition of Industry by this ship —ono weighing nearly four pounds troy weight . Thia I can vouoh / for , as they were exhibited in tho establishment of which I am a partner , and were under my cognisance . "I remain , Sir , in haste , yours yery truly , " W . Macdonnkll , " Late of 13 , Anglesea-Btreet , Dublin , "

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      EXTIUOBDINARY CASE OF FRAUD . —BERLIN , Oct . 2 . —An extraordinary case of fraud has just been discovered here , the details of which aro almoBt incredible ; but as the police have acted on certaia information , and the parties have been arrested , there is no doubt of their truth . On the evening of the 28 th of September the priest of the Catholio congregation , and the sexton of the burial ground belonging to the Catholic Church , were surprised by an intimation from the criminal police that one of the graves was to be opened , and the coffin officially examined , suspicion having arisen as to its contents . At the appointed hour on the 29 th a judge of the City Court , public prosecutor , and a body of constables arrived at the ground , outside the Oranienbergor Gate . The clergyman and the

      sexton were also in attendance . After some searching the grave was found in which , on the 24 th of November , 1848 , a certain Franz Thomatsoheek , a master tailor , was buriod . The ooffin was found in good preservation . Aocording to the information , the police liad rccoived , it was stated it contained no body , and when opened the supposition was fully confirmed . 'Instead of a corpse , an old board , a wisp of half rotten straw , and some stones , were all that was visible . Yet tho sexton remembered that the coffin had been interred with all religious ceremony , amid a eirole of weeping friends and relations of tho supposed defunct . The registry of tha burial had been regularly made , and no ono connected with tho church had any doubt but that a real interment had taken place . Before the police

      searched the ground- 'they had arrested several persons in the city , among them tho medical man . who had attended tho supposed in his last illness , and had written the oertificato of his death on the faith of which the funeral rights had been performod . The ground of the deception was an extensive fraud on two life insurance offices—one in London , tha other in Copenhagen—two distant establishments having been chosen to render the cheat more prac « tieablo . The parties to It were Anton Thomatscheck , also a tailor , who in 1818 resided in a house on the Linden , and his brother Franz , who in that year had returned from Copenhagen , and lived with him . They were both in needy circumstances and to procure money they formed the plan which was so successfully carried out , and so long concealed .

      Anton insured the lifo of Franz in . a London office for 0 , 000 thalers , and in another at Copenhagen for 1 , 000 more . Shortly afterwards Franz was reported to be dangerously ill—was attended by a surgeonand duly died . The surgeon , for a bribe of 100 thalers ( or £ 15 ) drew up and signed the certificate , of the death , on which the premiums wore paid to the surviving brother . The coffin , prepared as described , was committed to the earth with all the ceremonies , and , impelled by a strange curiosity , Franz , who shortly before his death had left the house of mourning in disguise , watched his own . burial at a distance , and heard the funeral service read over himself ! Immediately afterwards he fled from Berlin , and fixed his residence in a , small town in Bohemia , where by tho aid of the telegraph

      and the Austrian government , he has been arrested before he could recoivo information of the discovery of the fraud . Anton was paid the insurances , which he divided with his brother ; when this part of the transaction was . arranged , tho disconsolate widow of the ( in a double sense ) departed man also left Berlin , and joined him in his Bohemian retreat . After nearly four years the crime is discovered , and nearly all the parties to it are in the handa Of ju - tice . The " dead alive " will have to stand at thj bar together with the doctor who killed him , and the process , it is anticipated , will bo in the highest degree interesting . The Murder at Depiford in 1 S 46 . —The man

      William Creasy , who is ia Maidstone gaol upon this charge , on the evidence of Mary Ann Davis , with whom he cohabited , sent the other day for hia second wife , Sarah Creasy . She , in consequence , proceeded hy Water to Gl'avesend , on her way to Maidstone . On leaving Rochester by the coach , she rode outside , and sat behind a passenger , from whoso pocket she managed to extract his pockefe book and a cigar case . The robbery being almost immediately discovered , the woman was given into custody , and the property found upon her . On reaching Maidstone she was taken before the magistrate , and forthwith committed to the county gaol for trial .

      A Poor Woman , named Harriet Dowse , wife of Thomas Dowse , cottager , who died lately at Bratoft , near Spilsby , Lincolnshire , after a few days' illness , had incautiously applied some tallow from a candle to a scratch on her face ; in a few houre after the application her face and head became very painful , and previously to her dissolution had swollen to a fearful extent—the consequence of some very poisonous ingradients used by chandlers for purifying tallow .

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      LATEST FOREIGN HEWS . FRANCE . Paris , Wednesday . —*! . Charles Marchal , for . merly the editor of the ' Ami du Peuple , ' was today tried for a political libel , contained inaparapMet called Fin de la RepuMque . ' He was found guiltj and sentenced to five years' imprisonment , to pay a fine Of £ 240 , and to be imprisoned in default of pay ment for a further period of three years .

      TURKEY . Constantinople , Sep . 25 . —The Armenians ol Van have risen ngainst the Turks , a conflict has taken place in which several were killed on either side . Troops sent from Erzeroura are said to have put down the insurrection . A reduction of twenty per cent , is decided b y the committee ot finance at Constantinople in all salaries of officials . It is determined also to levy a capitation tax of thirty piastres a head throughout the empire .

      Tjje Liverpool Cou . vty Court , and Mr . Wmxiy , —On Thursday night , about a quarter past ton , Mr . Whitty returned from Lancaster Castle , from , whence he had been liberated on payment of the Sues , raised by subscription . He was met at tho Lime-street station by many hundreds of tho most respectable tradesmen of the town , and outside tho station a concourse of at least ten thousand persona ll !« l assembled . Mr . Whitty briefly addressed the assembled multitude , thanking them for their sympathy , and the vast meeting soon after quietly dispersed , but not before they had given a loud and hearty cheer for the freedom . of the press , and three equally hearty groans for the judge of tha court , who had violated the deare 3 t constitutional right of Englishmen .

      At the Middlesex Registration Court , on Thursday , Mr . G . Thompson , M . P . for the Tower Hamlets , was opposed upon the ground of his not legally describing his qualification . This claim was expunged . Destructive FiRE .-On Friday a fire of aVQtv destructive character broke out in some extensive premises belonging to Messrs . J . and W . More , hsh-salter , &c , Jioel-court , New Kent-road . Tha flames originated from an unknown cause , in the principal warehouse . The total los 3 is very con nderBble , and none of the poor people whoKelort their furniture , by hasty removal , were insurld On TI ? , , i ? S ^ CIUEATCAMBERWm .-rZ ll ? . Oarter ' ^ e coroner for East Surrey , opened an inquiry before a resnectableiurv at tha

      winomiu inn , Wyndam Road , Camberwell , " touching the deaths of Anthony Fawcett , aged forty-three , ^ miiy Jbawett , aged five years and six months , and Frederick Fawcett , aged one year and seven months , ihe circumstances under which it is supposed these persons came to their untimely end will be found in our sixth page . The lamentable event has created , most extraordinary excitement among all ^ as 8 es 7 ; the v vicinity of the court being thronged by ftrartniapfflj ; of highly respectable persons , from an ealWJow ^ the day until long after the adjournment"tlpe ; niK | tigation , which is fixed to take place on < WMn ^ sdaL next . , — V—YvXS . - / " ?>•—I I •>' ' ' V fe \ 7 - ~~

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      MONIES RECEIVED Tqb xhb Vfses Esdiso Thuksdat , Ociobek Oih , 1831 .

      NATIONAL CHARTER FUND . Received by John Abnott . —Newcastle-upon . Tjne , per G . Grant 10 s Md—P . Martin Gd—A Staunch Democrat , Beatley Is—Mr . Stedmad Cd—Mr . W . Nevrsome 6 d—Mr Henderson 6 d—South London Hall £ 1 17 s 5 d—A Friend , at ditto id—A RepubK ; an Elector Is—Mr . Dibley 6 d—Mr . Wand , E . J . 2 s 6 d—AFiiend ( lef t at the office ) Is—Halifax District , per T . WoodlOs id—Halifax Locality , per ditto £ 1 12 s 5 d—Cinderhill's , per ditto Ss 3 d—B . Scholev Feterlwrough 6 d—6 . T . Is—W . Preece , Cogchurch Is __ J D . Xiecuss , Bright n Is—J . Blackhurst , of Wheeling , Virginia Uorth America ( late of Preston ) 2 s Cd—Montroae Tocalitv ' per D . Herschell 4 s 4 d—MotherweU , per G . J , Turner 33 Cd—Bristol , per W . Sheban 7 s—Westminster LoS , per C . Young 5 s ^ -Total £ 619 s 5 « L FOR THE HUNGARIAN AND POLISH REFUGEES . ( Late of Turnmill-street . ) Received oj Jobs ABSo . ir . -

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      A Lover of GoLL . —Mr . Thomas Hale , farmer , of Greet , near Winchcombe , Gloucestershire , died last week , in his seventyeighth year . The deceased was formerly in poor circumstances , but having a considerable sum left to him by some maiden ladies , his prospects underwent a change for the better , and by industrious and careful habits he managed to accumulate a large fortune , dying worth more than £ 100 , 000 . He was unable to read and write , and such was his love for the shining metal that he was unhappy waen in possession of bank notes until he turned them into gold , and at his death between £ 10 , 000 and £ 20 , 000 in money was in his house . —Bath Chronicle ,

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      KOSSUTH AND THE PARISIAN PRESS , ( g TmBaTT'PlT lUn TITTn T » . T > tat i - « t -r . r » Ti .-w / s ,. r .

      The Paris " Presse" publishes the following reply ; o tho calumnies on Kossnth which , emanating from the forgery department of the Austrian Chancery , have been transmitted to the journals ¦ which are organs of the Austrian government , and now in the course of publication ia Prance and ia this country :-. - ¦ . " The government has not permitted Kossuth to p& 88 through France ; the " Constitutionnel" is not satisfied with this refusal ; it insults the noble exile . it reproaches him with having usurped power , and with only making tbe moBt miserable use of it . In this , the " Con 8 titutionnel" only repeats what was

      said by the official journals of Austria at the time of the breaking out of the Hungarian insurrection . Kossuth , according to their accounts , was only an ambitious man , a fanatic , a petty lawyer , and an insignificant journalist . - The great monarchy laughed at the efforts of this scribbler , of whom the valiant marshals of the empire would only make one mouthful . The bombarder of Prague , Prince de Windischgratz , was chosen to bring to reason thia drole , and the handful of wretches whom he had fanaticised by hia idea 3 of nationality and independence . The first bulletins of the campaign exhausted the vocabulary of cqmtemptuous terms for the insurgents , and of glorious epithets for the imperial army . The occupation Buda and

      of Pesth in November , 1848 , was considered as the termination of the war . A Te Deum was sung . The revolutionists of KosButh had , it was said , vanished at the approach of Windischgratz , and Hungary was more than ever united to Austria . The news was every day expected at Vienna of the total dispersion of the bands who still infested the country , and who were vigorously pursued by the faithful subjects of the legitimate sovereign . The atHpefaotion was consequently great when it was known that theso bands had become regular armies , having as much discipline and more valour than the imperial army , and that . Windiscbgratz had been obliged to fly , leaving in the hands of the rebels a great number of prisoners and military stores of

      ail Kinds . The invincible marshal was recalled , and this superb bombarder , who admitted none but princes in his staff , and who kept up nn almost royal court , was obliged to retire into Moravia , to an estate mortgaged to M . de Rothschild . There was then a short cessation of hostilities , which Kossuth admirably turned to account . The preparations which he made , the order which he established in every branch of the government at Comorn , at Cronstadfc , and at Kaschau , the pecuniary resources which he organised , and the enthusiasm which he awakened were truly prodigious . Five armies , forming an ensemble of 180 , 000 men with an artillery of more than 300 pieces of cannon , three fortresses of the first rank ,

      and a great number of second and tbird-rate ones , all well supplied with warlike stores , —such were the elements which this man , endowed with fabulous activity , placed at the service of his country , which , was Struggling for its independence . It marched from victory to victory , until the moment when Austria , beaten , ruined , and discouraged , was reduced to the degree of humiliation of confessing her weakness before Europe , by appealing to Russia for assistance . Indelible dishonour , which henceforth made of the imperial army the advanced guard of the Cossacks against the liberty of Europe This is what the ' Constitutionnel' calls ' making

      the most miserable use of power / As we shall have at some future day to return to the affair of Hungary , we shall now no further insist on it . Our only wishyb / these few remarks , has been to show what there is unjust and inconsistent in the manner ia which the friends of the government treat an illustrious man , whose misfortunes ought at least to have sheltered him from insults . Besides , of what avail is it to defend Kossuth against a journal who reproaches him with not having kept himself in the back ground , like Bern ? The ' Constitutionnel' ought to know that there is a good reason for Bern not showing himself—he is dead . "

      The " National" containa tne following article on Kossuth : — " We have abstained from all reflection on the measure which interdicts Kossuth from the entrance of Republican France . The name of Kossuth in connexion with such a measure speaks loudly enough . What can be added to the eloquence of this poignant contrast between such a glorious name and such a refusal—between such illustrious claims to our hospitality—still more to our admiration—and tho forgetfulness on the part which our country has always religiously fulfilled towards patriotism and misfortune . Besides , the proud and noble voice of the man who is the most brilliant personification of

      the Hungarian cause has made itself heard . When such accents are addressed to such a people as the French , when this grand and simple language , resounding from heart to heart , goes forth to awaken the surface of tho Republic , one immense echo of fraternity and democracy , people do not speak , they listen ; their only duty is the respect of silence , the contemplation of the most sympathetic enthusiasm . But while we are silent , while our reserve—we do not speak of another sentimentleaves the publis conscience the judge of a policy which fears even the radiency ot the purest glory , a journal is to be found that dares to insult Kossuth . To insult heroism , to insult patriotism , to insult glory , to insult exile ! Are we then in

      Austria ? Who is it that is speaking to us ? A French journal , or the press of Prince of Schwarzenberg , pouring into our ears the words of slavery and saame ? Is it a crime to admire the struggles of the giant of Hungary , to be proud of his victories , to weep for his misfortunes , to love his heroes , to share his hopes , and to bless his remaining years ? And , on the other hand , must we bow down before the executioners of an illustrious people , must we offer incense to that government who sits enthroned upon smoaking ruins , who has decimated its people , who will be the execration of history , and wJlOSC bloody domination Las murder and confiscation for ministers ? let that jouraal tell us , and let it threaten us , if it pleases , with Austrian

      rigour . But why should we wonder at such language ? Has not the counter-revolutionary organ , whose seathnents we now point out to the country , gone so far as to congratulate itself that rrince Schwarzenberg had promised to be favourable to the re-election of the President ? According to certain people the chief of the Austrian cabinet would appear to be the grand elector of France . Oh , French nationality ! thou who hast won such immortal victories from the house of Austria ; thou who hast among thy military glories Morengo , Rivoli , Wagram ; thou sovereign people , that believest in thine own sovereignty , that means to preserve it from all attacks , and never to abdicate it , remember at the proper time that a party would

      put the hand of Austria upon the election urn of 1 S 52 . Remember tha t it is hoped of thee that in placing thy vote thou wilt study the convenience of Prince Schwarzenberg , and not the interests and the honour of the country . Ah , let the journal that has so just and so haughty a sentiment of national dignity continue to brave public feeling by pursuing the glorious exile of Kossuth with its insults . It is already a beginnin g of vengeance for UB that in all the press of Paris there is but that journal alone that will make itself the accomplice of the Schwarzenberg cabinet against the generous instincts of France and the illustrious adversity of Kossuth . The organ of tho European counterrevolution is welcome to applaud itself . The steps of the liberator of shall not

      Hungary print the republican soil . An heroic grandeur shall not come to show in their true proportions all . the littleness of the present time . The populations shall not crowd to a noble and moving spectacle which awaited them , and is now refused . An electric explosion of that sentiment of fraternity which binds the French democracy to all other democracies will not re-echo from one end of the country to the other like a menace to European despotism , aud a ptophecy of the Mure . So triumphant demonstration of sympathy with misfortune or of admiration for glory ! Ko hands pressed between France and Hungary ' . No words of hope exchanged 1 But can that silent ovation be hindered in which the noble exile triumphs doubly in all

      hearts both by bis merits and by his absence ? If his person has been proscribed from the territory , can his glory and his cause be proscribed from the thoughts , the sympathies , the popular union , and above all from the avenging future . This last trait was wanting to the policy personified with so much 6 clat in M . Leon Faucner , whiob completes it by justifying all the severities of opinion ; to characterise that policy completely one of those acts was wanting which define a system and of which the impression is never effaced . Yes , the French people will remember in 1852 tha Kossuth agked to cross France , and that the soil of the republic was forbidden to him . They will wish to repair this forgetfulness of the duties of hospitality , and they will find tho means of this reparation in their vote .

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      HER MAJESTY'S PROGRESS . Her najesty arrived in Edinburgh from Balmoral on Tuesday evening , at eiglit o ' clock , "When the Royal train was within about thirteen miles of Edinburgh one of the pipes of the boiler of the engine burst , which detained the train about an hour . The accident was not such as to create the slightest alarm to her Majesty . A fresh engine was sent from Edinburgh to bring the train in . Her Majesty was most enthusiastically received by the inhabitants of Edinburg h in her progress to Holyrood Palace .

      Departure from Epinburgh . —Her . Majesty , Prince Albert and suite , left IloJyrood on Wednesday morning at half-past eight , proceeding by the Abbey-hil ) , Itegent-road , and Princes-street , to the Caledonian Railway terminus at the Lothian-road . The line of streets along which the royal cortege passed was filled with numbers of the citizens , who assembled to give a . parting welcome to her Majesty on her departure for England . LivKBP 00 L . —On Wednesday evening at twenty minutes past five o ' clock , her Majesty , Prince Albert ; and tho Royal party arrived from Lancaster at Croxteth Hall , the mansion of tho Earl of Sefton , in the immediate neighbourhood of this town . Her Majesty was conducted to the mansion by her noble host , followed by Prince Albert and tbe Countess of Sefton .

      Liverpool , Thursday . —Her Majesty arrived at a quarter to eleven o ' clock , and was received by the Mayor . The procession was then formed , the Mayor of the city preceding the Royal cortege , according to the order previously arranged . The Qneen on entering the boundary of the city was hailed by cheers of the multitude in ten thousand voices , but as the rain still continued , her Majesty and the Prince could only acknowledge their loyally by bowinj ? at the open window et the carriage as they passed on . The display along tbe line was exceedingly grand . The procession proceeded to the docks , where a splendid tent had been erected , and where addresses were presented from tbe Dopfc Committee and the Chamber of Commerce . Both addresses were graciously received . Her Majesty then proceeded on board the Fairy to view the

      magn-ncent docks , and returned to the landing place at half-past twelve o ' clock . The procession was again formed , and proceeded through the principal streets to the Town Hall , where her Majesty was received by the members of the corporation , and an address read by the Recorder . Having conferred ; the honour of knighthood upon the Mayor , " Sir John Bent , " and partaken of luncheon , the Queen and royal party proceeded to St . George ' s Hall . Having viewed this splendid building , her Majesty and suite proceeded to the railway-station , where she was received and cheered by a select party who were admitted to a platform , covered with crimson cloth ; tbe train started at four o ' clock / and arrived at the seat of the Earl of EllesmeVG &t \ Vorsley-ha 51 at £ re o ' clock . The Queen was enthusiastically cheered by tho crowds asaembled on the road from the stationlto tbe hall .

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      AN Amusing Incident . —In our last publication we gave several extracts from a work entitled John Drayton , the Liverpool Engineer ; and on Monday last'a person having the appearance of a warehouseman , entered our office and demanded to know who John Drayton was , for he had examined the directory , and could not find any such person . On being told that it was the title of a work , and

      that we did not know who the author was , he became very indignant ,- expressed his belief that we knew the names of our contributors , and left the office exclaiming that lie would find John Drayton out and bring an action against him , For although he was neither the drunkard nor methodist , he was quite sure that one of the descriptions alluded to himself . —Liverpoo Albion .

      Rkdemption Society . —Great preparations are being made to secure a large and comfortable meeting on the 20 th , to celebrate the . third harvest home of the community in Wales . An account of the farming operations , crops , &c , will be read to the meeting . Monies received for the week : —Leeds £ 1 13 s . 4 Jd . ; Huddersfield , per Mr . Biddle , ISj . Birstal , per Mr . Sands , .-61 ; Halifax , per Mr ' Buckle . £ 3 3 s . 2 d . ; Manchester , per Mr . Bloomer " is . 1 M . ; Hyde , per Mr . Bradley , £ 1133 . 10 . 1 . ' ; liu > ld > ng Fund—Leeds , 2 s . 6 d , ; Hyde . 11 s fid Halifax , £ 1 lls . 6 d . ; Mauche ter 2 pi dandist Fund , Is . 8 H .-J . Hehmhbok , Sec .

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      ¦ to October 11 , 1851 . , <; ; THE ; W . D ; RTlE ft » STAR , # > ^

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 11, 1851, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1647/page/5/