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Third week of the House on the Bridge , " pronounced by all , the best dram of the day . —Re-appearance of Mr . E . Blanchard , and his wonderfu l do » s —lolk week of " Uncle Toms Cabin , " the best and only correct version produced On Monday and during the week , to commence with the HOUSE ON THE BRIDGE , In which the whole strength of the company will appear . To be followed by the drama of the " Dumb Sailor Boy , " in which M Blanchard and his wonderful Dogs will appear . ' " The whole to conclude with the highly successful drama of UNCLE TOMS CABIN .
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ROYAL NATIONAL STANDARD THEATRE Opposite the Eastern Counties Railway , Shoreditch , U For the Benefit of JOHN SHAW , on TUESDAY , Nov . 16 , 1852 , on which occasion the following Gentlemen will appear , in addition to the talented Com pany already engaged : — Mr . THOMAS COOPER , Author of the " Purgatory of Suicides •'
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" JUSTICE—IMMUTABLE , - UNIVERSAL , ETERNAL . EDWAKD MURRAT . -MOKE MURDERS IN ITALY . There was a time in this country ' s history when if word had been brought to these shores that certain persons had been thrown into prison for reading the Bible , the Protestant feelmo- of the nation would have been so aroused that a crusade for the liberation of the victims of priestly intolerance would have Ijeen the first thought of the people . And if word had come that ,
in addition to the Bible-reading victims , a man bearing a British iiame , with British blood flowing in his veins , had , in sheer mockery of even the forms of justice , been condemned to death by a foreign government , above all , by that hateful incarnation of feud and Crime , the Papal Government , that intelligence would have set England in a blaze . The first thought of Englishmen Would have been , not of whining petitions , and cringing
negotiators , but arms , and the national flag . Bow different now ' . Terrible is the moral atrophy that has fallen upon this nation . Is it the precursor of actual death ? Has England passed the culminating point of her progress ? Is her march henceforth to be downwards—down to the grave of those perished empires that would not hold fast by Duty and Honour ,, and so met and merited the doom ever attendant upon the self-abasement of nations , as of men ?
The readers of this journal are already acquainted with the case of Edward Murray , who , for some time occupying the post of Inspector of Police , at Ancona , was charged with complicity in the matter of a certain assassination alleged to have been perpetrated in that town about the time of the flight of Pius from Rome , and when , naturally , popular excitement verged upon violence . I say Murray was accused as above , not that he was guilty . He protests that he is not guilty , and numerous respectable persons , respectable in the best sense of that much abused term , have testified their belief in his innocence . I have before me the sworn
statement of Dr . Camilli Mattioli , ex-governor of the city and province of Ancona , dated Corfu , June 4 , 1852 , in which he states his firm conviction of Murray ' s innocence ; and adds that when our countryman was at liberty to go whither he pleased "he remained at Ancona after the fall of the Republic , and the restoration of the Pontifical authority , and constituted himself a prisoner
for the purpose of meeting any charge which might be brought against him . " This is a course which a man conscious of guilt would certainly not have pursued . But guilty or innocent , it is sure that he lias not had a fair , free , open trial , and therefore his countrymen have a right to presume his condemnation to he a crime against Justice , and his sentence an outrage upon England . He was condemned to death , but his sentence has been commuted
to imprisonment for life with galley-slaves ! A punishment a thousand times worse than death . And this is the mercy of Pius ; this the concession which seems to have satisfied " Sir" H . Bulwer ; this is the way in which Malmesbury , Derby , D'Israeli , and the rest of the Tory rulers of England who permit our national name to be outraged by that despicable thing , miscalled government , the Papal Despotism ! Is there not force sufficient in public opinion to compel these miserable trucklers to a truculent Tyranny to do their duty , or punish them for their betrayal of the nation ' s honour ?
Within a few days it will be seen whether the Parliament has the . will , as it certainly has the power , to command Murray ' s instantliberation . If Parliament fails in its duty , the vindication of Justice , and the national honour will devolve upon the people Eternal shame will rest upon the people of Britain if they tamely allow their countryman to linger , rot , and perish under Papal bonds ; if they permit the limbs of a Briton to be degraded by the chains of a galley-slave , and his blood to congeal in the icy stagnation of death under the tortures of Popish executioners .
The town edition of last Saturday ' s Star of Freedom contained intelligence that the military executions continued to work out the decrees of the " Sacred ^ Consulta Tribunal . " On the 25 th of October nine political jirisoners were shot at Ancona . " With one exception , the victims spurned the ghostly aid of the priests , and made their deaUi-prayer a shout of death-def ying homage to "Liberty" and " the Republic . " It appears that the executioners did their accursed work so clumsily , that at the first fire thev
merely wounded some of the victims . Hereupon the execution became a hunt as well as a butchery . Some of the unhappy men attempted to save themselves , but were pursued , and by repeated efforts were shot to death . They were said to be the fellow pri- ^ soners of Edward Murray . jNow comes another tale of horror , not reported in our English papers , up to Thursday , November Ilth , but which was told with blanched cheek and quiverino- lit ) b Mazzini to th
y Joseph e audience assembled at the Music Hall , Store-street , on Wednesday evening . He stated he had just received a letter from Italy , apprising him that the day after the execution of the nine prisoners at Ancona , twenty-seven more were shot at the same place , and under circumstances equally diabolical . More victims have been long marked out , and probably , some of them ere this time have been numbered with the long list of Italy ' s martyrs .
Remember , these murdered men had not been guilty of any recent " offence , " nor was their condemnation of yesterday . They had suffered the miseries of three year ' s imprisonment . Many months ago they were condemned to die , and from that time the sentence of death-has been hanging over their heads—a refinement ox cruelty that links the "Vicar of Christ" with the Persian fccta
h , and exalts , by comparison , the Sultan of the Turks to a lotty height of mercy and love . As it was in the Winning , so is the RomisMmposture still-brutal and implacable flustM after blood ; exulting m the miseries of Humanity . In the Lombardo , Venetian provinces arrests continue by wholetW ^ lw n f the best . ° f men are driven h J des P * to follow the example oi Giovanni Pezzotti , and take or attempt their own lives under fear that torture might induce them to Ln ^ hS cause . Presenti y the gallows and the guillotine will be in reqdfert ^ nt f r ' SCaff ° WiU a S ain s * » ™* Wood ; aSe toh-shot wiU be rmgmgin the streets of Milan , Mantua , Brescia , Verona , and Venice . Massacre of the brave , patriotic , and ££ iearted is m preparation , yet no Power sufficiently strong bids fhe murderers halt , or proceed at their peril ; desist or die ! °
What is to be done ? selfifft- Brit ? ' ° T ° the name > ™ uld only put to hhnaction wouW soon be found . } ou who read these words-yon who read the account of Italy ' s suffering in other nailers whJZ you not set to work to n ^^^^^ SH ^
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you should see to the enlistment of his neighbour in this righteous work of brotherhood and humanity ; this practical realization of the Gospel ' s law : —As you would that others should do unto you , do you also unto them . There is much to be done , even to impress the friends of Freedom with a proper sense of the duty they owe to the principles of their adoption . By surface-observers , the meeting of the "Friends of Italy" on Wednesday evening was doubtless looked upon as vastly encouraging , indeed almost a triumph . I must dissent . To be sure the meeting was well attended , very enthusiastic , and all that sort of thing ; but years of experience have taught me to distrust that kind of enthusiasm which finds vent in , and ends
with , " enthusiastic cheers . " Something too much of thoughtlessness ; somewhat too little of stern resolution yet marks even the best of our public meetings . 1 do not object to the welcome given to Kossuth and Mazzini , but I can imagine another kind of reception that would , I venture to affirm , have afforded them more gratification and more hope . I can imagine the assembly so stricken with grief at the martyrdom of , the fallen patriots , as to have had no breath to expend in applauding the living , however deserving ; the ouly shout of that assembly , a cry for vengeance , on hearing fall from Mazzini ' s lips , trembling not with fear , but agonythe ^ frightful news that twenty-seven more martyrs had sealed their faith with their blood .
I beseech the reader to carefully peruse the speech of Joseph Mazzini ; and then say , are not our ordinary speeches , resolutions , cheers , and expressions of sympathy , puerile and almost contemptible , in presence of the Mighty Woe of which the Italian triumvir is the incarnate representative . What is to be done ? The Society of the Friends of Italy tell us to petition Parliament ; to petition by units , tens , twenties , hundreds , and thousands ; calling on the British Legislature to demand the withdrawal of the French and Austrian forces from Rome
and the neighbouring Italian States . It is well . More on this subject next week . To petition is well as a first step . It will help to enlighten public opinion . It will make known to our legislators and government the sympathy of the English people for Italy . It will encourage the Italian patriots , and give hope to a people driven to the verge of despair . But something more is necessary ; to wit—the might that slumbers in the arm of England , that so an end maybe put to Italy ' s sufferings , and her oppressors be plucked from their height of arrogance and tyranny .
As yet this idea is the dream of but a few . Even " friends" of Italy avowedly shrink from the contemplation of a national manifestation of force on the side of Italy . Well , this dream of the few must be talked of , written of , propogated , until it shall become the fixed idea of the many . Is that very difficult ? Is much time necessary ? Not so . Let only a beginning be made by earnest men , and the work will be half accomplished . There are moments when , as by an electrical shock , the mind of a people becomes impressed with a great truth , and a nation comprehends in an instant , of time , the imperative necessity of a great act of duty . Perhaps we are on the eve of such a supreme hour in our country ' s history . Brothers , let us work to realize this dream .
Over and above petitioning , there is ready to our hands the Shilling Subscription for European Freedom . Contributions thereto will arm the Italian leaders with the means of hastening the hour of combat , and help towards bringing that combat to [ a speedier issue . Lip service and lip sympathy must give place to deeds . In Kossuth ' s resolution , to speak no more , is conveyed a lesson which Englishmen will do well to study . A simple test will determine the worth of all who profess to love Liberty— "By their deeds ye shall know them !" L'AMI DU PEUPLE .
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For the future , to prevent confusion , and to indicate the termination of each subscription , each quarterly subscriber will receive his thirteenth copy in a coloured wrapper , by which he will understand that a renewal of his subscription is necessary , as No Credit can be given . V Our friends in the country would oblige by forwarding to us copies of local papers . Letters to the Editor . All communications intended for publication , or notice , in the Star of Free ' don , must be addressed to the Editor , 4 , Brunswick Row , Queen ' s Square , Bloomsbury , London . Correspondents will oblige by writing on one side only of then * letter paper , and by forwarding their communications as early as possible in the week . Orders for the Star of Freedom .
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BniTANNicus .--The important subject to which our correspondent alludes shall have our attention . . " A Subscriber , " Atlroath . —If " Our Subscriber" has been an attentive reader of the Star of Frefdom , or of the Northern Star , he must be perfectly cognisant of the opinions of the editor of this journal on the question of the suffrage . But one thing we believe necessary to make Universal Suffrage a verity is , that the people should have too much public spirit and poUical morality to suffer themselves to be made the dupes and tools of any Bonaparte whether on a large or a small scale , ' Thomas Wilcock , Bradford .-We regret that press of matter compels the omission of your excellent article .
A British Mother" asks why we « do not enter an indignant protest against the abominable waste of public money involved in the Duke ' s fune rair We heartily a $ ree with the sentiments of "A British Mother' » but any protest would be nothing more than a mere waste of words ' The O'Connor FuND .-Received from J . F ., and friends , Gloesop , 16 s 6 d D . Fiost , Rotherham , Is . * * John Shaw ' s Benefit . —We understand the Committee for gettinc ui > the entertainment at the Standard Theatre are actively at work , and very san Kuine of success . The representation takes place on Tuesday , the 16 th and we heartily hope that all who admire consistency and sterling worth ! will rally round our persecuted and patriotic friend , John Shaw , whom we have known for many years asan indomitable Democrat
W . W . B ., Bradford :-Your communication reached us too Me for insertion m the present number . The Shilling Subscription for European Freedom . -Suv-I think Mr . Ianton ' s shilling subscription will succeed , or the pretended love of country will be sheer humbug , but I think there should be a 6 d . rider to it , to enable thoes who cannot afford a shilling to subscribe sixpence , which will show if the great community love justice andhumanity better than hypocrisy and deceit and if 21 T ft ^ H 1 fi h f their tenure * oLSSTS on a fleeting foundation , and their selfish purposes must , in the nature of thin 4 Sl ^^ r " ™ "^^^^ ^^^ ^
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/ SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 13 , 1852 .
THE TWO ROYAL SPEECHES . Blessed are those who expect nothing , for verily they shall not be disappointed ! We cannot say that we were verv sanguine that her Majesty would " call to her council true and faithful patriots , " and therefore , we are not greatly surprised that she did not deliver , in presence of the Lords and Commons , the common-sense speech , published in last Saturday ' s Star
of Freedom . The speech manufactured by Derby , Disraeli , and Company will be found in another column , and the reader will observe how vast is the contrast between the sentiments and sentences of our used-up aristocracy—for the speech is really theirs , and not Queen Victoria' s—and that language of common-sense which her Majesty might and would have uttertd , had she stood forwardasthe mouthpiece of the Democracy .
The speech in our third page is neither better nor worse than the average of royal orations . Take it for all in all , it beautifully illustrates the art of talking and saying nothing . It is true there is a considerable wilderness of words , but that is all , The impartial reader beginning at t ( My Lords and Gentlemen , ' and ending at " my people" can come but to one conclusion , and must give expression to one unqualified verdict , that there is nothing in it . The loss of the "Dook , " with tlie loyalty of the Militia , &c , are matters of course . The measures of Her Maiestv ' s occ ,, are matters ot course . The measures of Her Majesty ' s
ministers in relation to India and our educational institutions , have yet to be developed . Of this our readers may rest assured , that no good thing can come out of the Nazareth of that Toryism , which is too cowardly to logically act up to its despicable creed , and , at the same time , too bigotted and illiberal to deal with the great question of national education in a free and fearless spirit , or to do that justice to India , which might go some way towards atoning for the past of English oppression ; and to herald for that Empire , a brighter and a better future .
The particular paragraph in the royal address most likely to create much ado about nothing , in that Temple of Talk , the Westminster Debating" Club , is the one in which the Tory ministry most beautifully plays the part , of Pistol by eating the leek of Free Trade . Yet this conversion will hardly sa tisfy Manchester . If there is aught of sense or meaning in
that part of the paragraph , referring to the agricultural interest , there is that " looming in the future , " in the shape of compensation to the aggrieved landlords , for the loss of their monopoly , which , in the present state of parties is not likely to receive legislative sanction without a severe struggle ; most probably a Ministerial boulversement ; not unlikely another " appeal to the country ; " and , possibly , thereupon—the deluge !
Her Majesty's discourse respecting her " Foreign Relations" is particularly flat , stale , and unprofitable . The paragraph concerning the Brazilian Empire and the slave trade is an old acquaintance , and must have been stereotyped about the year one of Her Majesty ' s reign . The Provisional Director of the Argentine Confederation seems to be making a handsome provision for himself , and for his French and English allies . Certainly an improvement on the Cannibal propensity of that wholesale butcher , Mister Rosas , alias Sawney Beane . Speaking of Sawney Beane , reminds us of that delectable gentleman across the Channel , whom her Majesty , with more politeness than good taste , speaks of as the " Prince President . ' With better taste , her Majesty turns to the wines of Portugal , end inti-
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Great National Standard Theatre Proprietor Mr. John Douglass. '
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 13, 1852, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1704/page/8/
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