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      "' Good-by , Mas ' r George , ' said Tom , looking fondly and admiringly at him . ' God Almighty bless you ! Ah ! Kentucky han't got many like you ! ' he said , in the fulness of his heart , as the frank , boyish face \ vas lost to his view . Away he went , and Tom looked , till the clatter of his horse ' s heels died away , the last sound or sight of his home . J ^ t over his hear t there seemed to he a warm spot , where those young hands had placed the precious dollar . Tom put up his hand , and held it close to his heart . "

      THE TRUTH TO ENGLAND . '"' I always have supposed , " said Miss Ophelia , ' that you , all of you , approved of these things , and thought them right— according to Scripture , ' " < Humbug ! We are not quite reduced to that yet . Alfred , who is as determined a despot as ever walked , does " not pretend to this kind of defence ; no , he stands , high and haughty , on that good old respectable ground , the right of the strongest } and he says , and I think quite sensibly , that the American planter is ' only doing , in another form , what the English aristocracy and

      capitalists are doing by the lower ' classes 3 ' that is , J take it , appropriating them , body and bone , soul and spirit , to their use and convenience . He defends both—and I think , at least , consistently . He says that there can be no high civilization -without enslavement of the masses , either nominal or real . There must , he says , be a lower class , given up to physical toil and confined to an animal nature ; and a higher one thereby acquires leisure and wealth for a more expanded intelligence and improvement , and becomes the directing soul of the lower , So lie reasons , because , as I said , he is born an aristocrat j so I don't believe , because I was born a democrat '

      " * ' How in the world can the two , things be compared V said Miss Ophelia . * The English labourer is not sold , traded , parted from his family , whipped . ' "' He is as much at the will of . his employer as if he were sold to him . The slaveowner can whip his refractory slave to deaththe capitalist can starve him to death . As to family security , it is hard to say which is the worst—to have one ' s children sold , or see them starve to death at home , ' " But it ' s no kind of apology for slavery to prove that it isn ' t worse than some other bad thing . ' it l t azji ~ s . 1 l . _ : « , * 11 . r __ ,. _ _ ' tiit 1 _ 1 1 > _ _ _ * didnt it for ll besidesthat

      "' I 'give one—nay , I'say , , ours is the more bold and palpable infringement of human rights . Actually buying a man up , like a horse—looking at his teeth , cracking his joints , and trying his pace ? , find then paying down for him—having speculators , breeders , traders , and brokers in human bodies and souls—sets the thing before the eyes of the civilized world in a more tangible form , though the thing done be , after all , in its nature , the same ; that is , appropriating one set of human beings to the use and improvement of another , without any regard to their own . ' '" I never thought of the matter in this light , ' said Mis Ophelia .

      " ' Well , I ' ve travelled in England some , and I ' ve looked over a good many documents , as to the state of their lower classes ; and I really think there is no denying Alfred , when he says that his slaves are better off than a large class of the population of England . '" Next week we will cull further extracts . For the present we conclude with the following * from the noble

      SPEECH OP A RUNAWAY SLAVE . " I saw my mother put up at sheriff ' s sale , with her seven children . They were sold before her eyes , one by one , all to different masters ; and I was the youngest . She came and kneeled down before old ma ^ r , and begged him to buy her with me , that she might have at least one child with her ; and lie kicked her away with his heavy boot . I saw him do it j and the last that I heard was her moans aud screams , when I was tied to his horse ' s neck to be carried off to his place . * * * *

      " She was a pious , good girl—a member of the Baptist church —and as handsome as my poor mother had been . She was well brought up , and had good manners . At first I was glad she was bought , for I had one friend near me . I was soon sorry for it . Sir , I have stood at the door and heard her whipped , when it seemed as if every blow cut into my naked heart , and I couldn ' t do anything to help her ; and she was whipped , sir , for wanting to live a decent Christian life , such as your laws give no slave girla right to live 5 and at last I saw herchained with a trader's gang , to be sent to market in

      Orleans—sent there for nothing else but that—and that ' s the last I know of her . Well , I grew up—long years and years—no father , no mother , no sister , not a living soul that cared for me more than a dog ; nothing but whipping , scolding , starving . Why , sir , I ' ve been so hungry that I have been glad to take the bones they threw to their dogs ; and yet , when I was a little fellow , and laid awake whole nights and cried , it wasn't the hunger , it wasn't the whipping , I cried for . No , sir ; it was for my mother sn& my shiers—it was because I hadn't a friend to love me on earth . I never knew what peace or comfort was . I never had

      a kind word spoken to me till I came to work in your factory . Mr . Wilson , you treated me well ; you encouraged me to do well , and to learn to read and write , and to try to make something of myself ; and God knows how grateful I am for it . Then , sir , I found my wife ; you've seen her , —you know how beautiful she is . When I found she loved me , when I married her , I scarcely could believe I was alive , I was so happy ; and , sir , she is as good as she is beautiful . But now what ? Why , now comes my master , takes me right away from my work , and my friends , and all I like , and grinds me down into the very dirt ! And why 1 Because

      , he says , I forgot who I was ; he says , to teach me that 1 am only a nigger ! After all , and last of all , he comes between me and my wife , and says I snail give her up , ' and live with another woman . And all this your laws give him power to do , in spite of God or man . Mr . Wilson , look at it ! There isn ' t one of all these things , that have broken the hearts of my mother and sister , and my wife and myself , but your laws allow , and give every man power to do in Kentucky , and none can say to him nay ! Do you call these the laws

      of my country ? Sir , I haven't any country , any more than I have any father . But I ' m going to have one . ' i don't want anything of your country , except to be let alone—to go peaceably out of it ; and when I get to Canada , where the laws will own me and protect me , that shall be my country , and its laws I will obey . But if any man tries to stop me , let him take care , for I am desperate . I'll fight for my liberty to the last breath I breathe * You say your fathers did it : if it was right for them , it is rfaht for me ! " D

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      New Post-office Regulation—By a new regulation issued by the Postmaster-General , which came into operation last week , all letters posted in the United Kingdom , or within % e metropolitan districts for places in the " kingdom , must either have a stamp thereon , or he sent unpaid , no prepayment by means of money being allowed .

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      STATISTICS OF THE WEEK . The Traps and Revenue op Ireland . —A series of returns , futv nished by the Treasury Chambers , and ordered lo be printed by tlie Hpuse of Commons , on the motion of Sir Robert Ferguson , having reference to the revenue , expenditure , imports , and exports of Ireland during tho year 1851 , have been delivered , It appears that the net produce of tlie Irish revenue paid into the Exchequer in the year ended the 5 th of January , 1852 , was 44 , 000 , 681 17 s . 4 d . This amount was contributed from the following sources :-Customs , £ 1 , 854 , 268 ; " excise , # 348 , 911 ; stamps , ' £ 451 , 534 ; Postoffice , £ 5000 ; small branches of the hereditary revenue , £ 300 ; ' miscellaneous ( including repayment of advances ) , £ 340 , 067 . The money remaining in the Exchequer at ( he commencement of the year , was . £ 621 , 891 , and if this sum be added to the net produce , it would make the actual income for the year £ 4 , 622 , 573 . The expenditure during the year amounted to £ 8 , 847 , 184 ,

      leaving a balance in the Exchequer , on January 5 th , 1852 , of £ 775 , 484 18 s . Id . The expenditure for the year is thus made up ; dividends , interest , and management of public debt ) £ 1 , 894 , 027 ; other payments out of the consolidated fund , £ 854 , 272 ; payments on account of grants of parliament for the army , £ 585 , 000 ; miscellaneous grants of parliament , £ 611 , 382 ' ; money advanced out of the consolidated fund for public objects , £ 600 , 493 . Although the gross expenditure is stated at £ 3 , 847 , 134 , the real expenditure was only £ 3 , 745 , 245 , as a sum of £ 101 , 888 remitted through the customs and excisetb the Exchequer in England , is , by a curious mode of calculation , charged as an item of « expenditure . " The account , however , does riot include the whole expenditure of the United Kingdom on account of Ireland ; buton the other hand , the receipts from the crown lands in Ireland are brought into tlie general account of the Commissioners of Woods , &c , and do not appear as part of tne income of Ireland . The amount received from rent and other sources of land in

      revenue Ireland , in 1851 , was £ 62 , 776 16 s . 5 d ., but the return does not state what is the amount expended by the United Kingdom on account ° , £ . gainst which the sum of £ 62 , 776 is a set off . The largest excise collections in Ireland appear to be those of Dublin , Belfast , Cork , and Dro « - D ^^ rJSw !? ! T - hi 0 h - ! ? 1 ' e&feSt am ° ° CUstOms duties P aid a ™ 2 U « S » ' n 1 ' ^ imei ; ' Londonderry , and Waterford . There is a t LJ called Strangford where the customs duties collected during t «« m ' r . cmo unie T t 0 on ^ ' * U 1- lt aPPears * y ^ turns furnished by the nil t t Ge ? ¥ Impor ) s Md Ex P ° 1 > ts * at there was retained for 0 consumption m Ireland , in 1851 , 499 , 131 gallons of wine , 202 498 -allons of ioreign spirits ; 7 , 550 , 518 gallons of whiskey ( home made ) , 4 457 , 9801 bl ! of S&hi ? ! 1 ^ ° te ? ' ) 8731 bSl oteaBee > WWvt .. ' of suSar 333 , 412 bushels of flax-seed and linseed , 5 , 1381 bs . of cotton wool , l , 3931 bs ot raw and thrown silk , seven tons of unwrought iron 78175 loads of timber

      , , m logs , and 75 , 776 loads of ditto sawn or split . The consumption of coals car . not . be exhibited , the coasting duty on the article having been discontinued since 1830 . The view which this statement , affords of the consumption of imported commodities into Ireland is to a certain extent defective inasmuch as the coasting regulations by which the cross-channel trade has ' been governed since the year 1825 prevent tlie keeping of any record of goods imported duty free from Great Britain , either in the case of British productions or of foreign merchandise upon which the duty has already been paid in a British port . The exports of Irish productions and manufactures during the last year as compared with former periods , exhibit a very great decrease , owing in great part to the failure of the potato cropand also 1

      , tothe depopulation of the country . The exports of live animals and provisions to foreign parts has almost wholly fallen off , while the returns of the exports to Great Britain presents a similar result . The total quantity of Irish spirits exported to ioreign countries within tlie last year was only 8 687 gallons , while of linen manufactures 50 . Q 64 yards only were exported . Tlie quantities of provisions ( live and dead ) exported to Great Britain within tho year was as follows : —Oxen , bulls , and cows , 183 , 760 ; calves , 2 , 474 ; sheep , 151 , 807 ; swine , 106 , 162 ; wheat and flour , 95 , 116 quarters ; oats and oatmeal , 7 . i : H ™ garters . Tlie stamp duties collected in Dublin amounted to £ 350 , 308 14 s . 3 d ., whilst all the other stamp districts put together did not contribute much more than one-third of that sum .

      Population op California . —Our population , drawn from every quarter of the globe , and made up of every race , continues to increase with astounding rapidity . The number of passengers landed at San Francisco during the month of May was 10 , ( 341 . The departures have been more than usually few , probably not exceding 1500 , leaving a net increase of 9 , 141 to our population during the month of May , Altogether the real increase of population will fully reach 10 , 000 for the month , being at the rate of 120 000 for the year . ¦ ¦¦ -.. > -. Suicides and Accidents in PAius . —Tlie number of dead bodies exposed at the Morgue in Paris during the month of July has been unusually great . This augmentation is attributed to tlie great heat , which occasioned a number of sudden or accidental deaths . The total number of bodies exposed during the month was 60 , of which 50 were adults , 41 men and 9 women , 3 children , and 7 foetuses . Out of the 50 adults 44 were recognised . Twenty-one cases of suicide , 15 accidental deaths , 11 sudden ones , and 3 cases of drowning , the cause of which is unexplained . The number of persons drowned when bathing was 10 .

      The Tea Trad * :. —Last week the deliveries of tea in London increased a little , being 654 , 2811 b . Australian Emigrants' Remittances to their Friends in England . —A paper called "The First Remittance-Roll from the Re-union of Families in Australia , " says , the sums subjoined have been sent by the emigrants of Mrs . Chisholm ' s ships . They amount to almost £ 3 , 000 , and the number of contributors is about 186 : — Amount Amount Deposited . Deposited . 1 st Labourer .... £ 15 0 . 0 15 th Labourer .... -622 10 6 2 nd — .... 110 0 16 th — .... 4712 6 3 rd — .... 16 10 0 17 th — .... 10 0 0 4 th — .... 130 0 0 18 th — .... 10 0 0 ' 5 th

      — .... 9 15 0 19 th — .... is n n »™ — .... a 10 u mil — .... 15 0 0 6 th — .... 13 0 0 20 th — .... 20 0 0 7 th — .... 19 1 0 21 st — .... in 0 0 8 th — .... 19 0 0 22 nd — .... 14 1 0 9 th — .... 30 10 0 23 rd — .... 20 0 0 10 th — .... 47 12 6 24 th — .... 53 0 0 Hth — .... 89 3 0 25 th — .... 8 5 0 12 th — .... 5 0 0 20 th — .... 18 1 0 13 th — .... 9 0 6 27 th — .. .. 36 14 0 14 th 30 0 0 28 th — ..,. 1710 0

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      THE AUSTRALIAN DIGGINGS . In the Melbourne Morning Herald of the 2 nd of April last there is an official statement of the number of ounces of gold which arrived in that town and at Geelong' at periodic times from the 30 th Sept ., 1851 , to the 31 st of March , by the Government escorts . This statement is interesting ' , as showing the enormous and increasing yield of the Mount Alexander diggings . The totals from Sept . 30 , 1851 , to the 31 st of March , 1852 , are as follows :- —Erom Ballarat diggings , 32 , 825 ounces ; Mount Alexander diggings , 266 , 398 ounces , A chamber of commerce had been

      established at Melbourne , and a statement had been published by them which contains an elaborate view of the condition and prospects of the colony of Victoria . According- to this able document , whatever temporary inconveniences the colony has suffered , and is suffering , from the sudden discovery of gold , are likely to be amply compensated by its future extension and prosperity . The following are extracts from letters received by the recent arrivals : — " Melbourne , April 4 , 1852 . " The condition of sociot . y here exceeds anything ever known , excepting , of course , California : the utter recklessnes of the

      inhabitants of every class , but more especially the working classes , is truly marvellous . Your previous ideas are knocked sixes and sevens ; you feel yourself living in a condition in which there is one huge mistake , without knowing where to look for it . Only fancy a fellow asking mo 5 s . for taking a case of goods across a street ; an engineer to drive a steamer getting £ 30 per month , a street ; an engineer to drive a steamer getting £ 30 per montha

      , joiner 14 s . a day , and a woman cook £ 30 to £ 40 a year , with nothing but plain victuals to dress up . Prices of goods of first necessity are monstrous , but more especially those manufactured in the colony . And yet with all this apparent wealth , this extraordinary remuneration for labour , you find some social maxims ignoredsuch , for instance , as that , ' poverty is a g * qat instigation to crime ;'

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      and that c in times of abundance and prosperity the ratio of crime decreases . ' Now , this as applied to England is correct enough ; as applied to Victoria the very reverse has taken place ; for what the increased wealth the ratio of all manner of crime has increased beyond far what even the increased population would or ought to give . And the last extraordinary crime which , for its audacity has no parallel even in the disorganized state which , for a while California had to pass through , is the p lunder , in the middle of the night , by a ba . ni of twenty a , ynied rijffians , of a gold-shi p they carried off in safety eight thousand some odd hundred ounce of gold , amounting in value to £ 30 , 000 . This robbery was committed a few evenings ago , antJi so fay , pp tidmgs of the per-e petrators . "

      11 Port Phillip , March 31 , 1852 . " The town is surprisingly fine as regards the width of the streets and the fine surrounding country . The people at present are the most vagabond set of fellows in appearance that you ever saw j their principal amusement seems to be cabbing it , and becoming temporary proprietors of horses . Cab fare is at the almost , incredible price of two guineas an hour , with no ^ ope of ever getting

      a cab at all unless you have the prthqdo . x mqustache , long beard , striped shirt , andgeneral devil-may-care appearanco of a successful miner . Everythingherehastheappearanceofabustlethatisunnatural . House rent and lodging are enormous ,. There are a few hundred canvas tents out on the outskirts , and well * may people be driven to this dilemma when in one day twepty-qne sail came hither , bringing between two and three thousandsouis . "

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      Bradford Social and Democratic JIssociation .-t-At the meeting of the committee , on Tuesday , ' Mr . John . Smith was appointed secretary in the place of Mr . "Rider , about to remove to Leeds for a short time . It was decided to invite Mr . Julian Harney to revisit Bradford . The address of the Star of Freedom committee was read , and it was resolved to form a committee in Bradford . Myself and friends have already commenced canvassing for new subscribers , with every prospect of success . —John Smith , Secretary .-rP . S . Dr . M'Douall will lecture in the Odd Fellows' Hall on Sunday and Monday next . Mr . Gr . J . Hplyoake and Mr . Broom will each shortly deliver a course of lectures .

      A Lady Sailor . —Some amusement was created in Cork on Monday by the curious discovery , that a young " and rather attractive girl had been parading the streets dressed in the garb of a sailor . Arrested by a policeman , she stated that her name was Agnes Corbett , and that she was a native of Limerick , where she resided with her brothers , who were possessed of property near this city . She had assumed the masculine attire for the purpose of endeavouring to work a passage to America as a sailor , hoping there to find her lover , a man named Alexander Moore , mate of a vessel . For protection she was removed to a separate and comfortable part of the TbridewelJ , and her friends have been written to .

      Steam to Australia—The Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s screw mail steamer Formosa , left Southampton for Port Phillip and Sydney on Saturday , to be placed on the mail station between Singapore and Australia . She was filled with passengers , and she took out a large amount of specie . Some hundreds of persons were in the Southampton docks to witness her departure . Jesuits 11 ? Austria . —/ The Emperor of Austria has formally re-established the orders of the Jesuits ana the Redemptionists in Hungary .

      An Awkwakd Habit . —The Vienna correspondent of the { Chronicle , ' describing the young Emperor ' s reception in Hungary , says : —The MJJjens are few and far between , ' VwaV being the mot cVordre for the peasantry . This particularly struck the young Monarch at a certain village near Neu . tra " , where the country population , that had been hunted up by the gendarmes to salute the Emperor , had assembled by the roadside for that purpose . 'Why 'VwatP exclaimed the Monarch to the ¦

      Kiohter ; can they not shout Eljen ?» " Sire , " replied the official , scratching his head , " it is difficult to explain the reason to your Majesty . " " Fear nothing , " replied the Sovereign , " and speak out , " "Well , Sire , I have done my best with them ; but when they cry ' Mjen / " they always add the name of Kossuth , from mere habit . I thought it better therefore to teach them to cry 'Yivatl" ' '" ' ' The Vultures . —There is a regular migration of Corsicans to Pans . The citizens of Ajaccio and Bastia flock to the French capital asthose of Edmbuvgh and Glasgow did to London on the accession of gentle King Jamie to the English crown .

      A Penny-Theatre Hero . —Lord John Russell ' s play of " Don Carlos " has been translated into German , and is being prepared for the stage of one of the minor theatres at Vienna . It is a very stupid affair even for a lord . Scottish Gotiis . -In the ancient parish of Auldcambus , now part of the parish of Cockburnspath , Berwickshire , stands on a lofty position by the sea-shore , the venerable ruins of St . Helen's cnurch , hitherto much admired as presenting an interesting specimen of simple Saxon architecture . The church

      is supposed to have been built so early as the seventh century . Lately a large portion of this edifice , and that the most valuable 111 an architectural point of veiw , has been pulled down to repair a neighbouring stone dyke . A Lucky Man . —A Glasgow painter took up a newspaper the other day , and found in it an advertisement to the effect that a l-elative had left him £ 10 , 400 . Emigration to AusTRALiA . -Notwithstandithe thousands

      ng ot " fortune seekers" who have sailed during the last few months for the " golden regions" of Australia from the ports of London , Liverpool , Glasgow , &c , the tide of emigration does not appear to have much subsided , as from 30 to 40 first class ships , varying from 500 to 2 , 000 tons , are entered to sail during the present month from London , Plymouth , or Liverpool , at ' 2 * il ^ ' Melbom'ne , Geelong , Adelaide , and Sydney , Mew South Wales .

      liiE New Steam Yard at Devonpoee . —It is generally expected that the magnificent and extensive new government works known as the Keyham Steamyard will be opened in the course of the present summer . Strange Affair . —An undertaker named Avis was a few days ago brought before a police magistrate on a Charge of burying a child without a medical certificate , whin it was ascertained that he still retained the body in his house , although upwards of two months have elapsed since the child died !

      New York ExuiBmoN .-r-The programme of a world ' s industrial exhibition , to be held in New York , in 1853 , has been issued . It is to be opened in May next

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      U THE STAB OF FREEDOM . August 14 , 1852 .

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 14, 1852, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1691/page/14/