The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1851, Page 7

a es tatesman as ho yy millions of dollars which he has offered the Spanish movers meet for the purchase of Cuba will not be it without the consent of the English government, and the reasons why we may explain to him hereafter. [From the London Globe, Sept. 6.) Cuba has been invaded by a fresh batch of buc- cancers ; and this time they have brought down a terrible retribution on their heads. Fifty-two of Lopez’s followers were captured, and shot the sano morning. We attach very little credit to a narra- tive of the mutilations said to have been inflicted on the remains of the prisoners after execation. ‘Two things only seem quite beyond dispute—that the Spanish guthorities determined to give the pisatical force such a lesson as was expected effect- ‘ually to cool the courage of future sympathizers, and that the populace of New York have been eveey sisalied to a fever heat of excitemen: and ges tion. There are probably not a dezen men in England who will not agree with us that the sufferers on this occasion have bed very rightly served. The desperadoes of all nations who assem- bled under Gene) al Lopez’s flag, knew perfectly well the danger that they ran; they wore taken in th commission of wholesale robbery and murder, and nobody has avy more business to complain of their treatment than of the equally summary justice which would be done on any rovers in the Chinese or Bornean seas. The Viceroy of Cuba has mat this violation of all international law by a deter- mipation to stretch the law on his own side to its very widest limits. has exercised a most bloody and unsparing justice; still while we fully allow that it is justice after all, we greatly fear that it a turn out as impolitic as it is unquestionably in- juman. [From the British Army Despatch, September 12.) ‘The attention of this country, for the last thirty- five years of peace, has been occupied by events so 2 in their interests, so various ia their character, and co rapid in their succession, that objects at a distance from the sphere of immediate action, a; red frequently to have lost their due magnitude end importance. Every political chance not direst- -ly affecting the affairs of Europe have passed away asanobscure underplot in the great drama, the play of which is liberty, real or imaginative, of which the catastrophe is still in suspense. Tho scanty pegs of public discussion which had for- merly been bestowed on the events which have a’ intervals taken place in the Spanish American co- ee presents a striking illustration of this re- mark. From the days of span to the present time, a successful revolution in Cuba has been the —- of successive philophers, the favorite vision of enthusiasts, the hope and object of even practical statesmen. To exaggerate itsimportance would be difficult, if we take as the measure of that importance, its necessary influence on the condition and happiness of a large portion of the inhabitants of the West India islands—still more, if we take into account its remoter consequen ses, and the close connection of the destiny of America, with that of Europe, and more especially of England. No wonder, then, that this at this time exoites some degree of interest in this as well as in other countries. It seems quite evident that the present revolution in Cuba is not entirely the effect of par- ty intrigue, or of a temporary and casual burst of Gonasen; but that, proceeding from causes in their nature radical and certain, though gradual in their operation, it has extended itself witnout previ- ous concert over the whole, more or less, of that large island, has survived the trials of defeats, and of civil dissentions, and, in all human probability, can terminate only in one of the following resalts,— either in the independence of the natives, or such an alteration in system of the Spanish gvern- ment as may induce them to acquiesce in the future prey he’ the mother country ; the unost effectu- al uld be taken at once; their absolute and unconditional and permanent subjugatioa is far beyond the power of Spain can hardly be doubt- ed by any one who considers the present weakness of that country, and compares the strength rela- tively with her distance from the seat of r, and the resources and conduct of the contending parties. ‘Whatever may be the comparative probability of the two results which we have stated, it unqacs- tionably becomes this country to adopt and to sus- tain a steady line of policy consistent with nationa! honor, and not to be warped cither by sordid view: of interest, or by any vague notions of uodiscrim- inating philan The mere recital of the name of Cuba—the vas extent of the island, its mountains, its forests, an its real or fabulous riches, have in all sges cap:i vated the imaginations of men, and inflamed th» iritof adventure. This impression has been ren red more forcible by the consideration, that rich as this favored region is in the producti of the tr and possessing all the natural facilities of Fey ase traffic, and of foreign commerce, they have | been depressed by a system of amen; not more barassing to the governed then ineffi sient for its own narrow purpores. It would ha een no pee eg ee of the state of public feeling in England, if it been altogether unmoved ona question forcibly applying itself to so many just semiments and lofty Log avon nay, if its tenden- had not been rather (avorabic than otherwise to cause of the patriots. Baton the other hand, when it is taken into account how prone to change is the genius of the present age, and how fearful are the untried chances of a struggle which shakes society to its foundations through an island near! 800 miles in extent, and involves thousands of al ranks, habits, colors, and conditions, in a bloody, desult and apparently interminable warfare, we may well rejoice that the government of this eoua- try has not suffered itself to he #0 far infected as to — foment a contest of euch a character by any assist- ance or encouragement. Weare no more the panegyrists of legitimate authority in all times, cireagst: y and sitaa- tions, than we arethe advocates of just revolution ald regret that the Cabans fore they have secured to them- of system—the removal of absard and oppr restrictions on their industry, their | trade, and their private en) If these con- cessione had ken spon’ fered by the mother country at an ea: they woald probably have conciliated t yy. Ifthesecon- | cessions should be extorted from Spain as eo of fature sabmission, to Spain herself they will be productive of equal or even of greater bene‘its than | to the Colonies. But the time for cone and if it be allowe P wether, Spain expect to solve the problem proposed oy many of her most intelligent writers, whetuer the separa- tion of West india from her dominion will ulti ly impair re ber welfare. lt would be a8 rational for th to isewe his bull in the nineteenth century, of the Pacific to the republic for Spain to attem lories, to adhere century. The system could not resist the furs: of public opinion, though a Charles was on her throne, and though her armies were commanded by a Pi- zerro or an Alva! To presume in enforcing her own ism unaided, is to miscaloulate her owa resourcer, even to infatuation Far better wold it be for Spain, instead of pashing her system of government on the Cabans further, to profit ea perience long , and to substitute, ere hate, for effors ite those by which the North Ame- ricen colonies were lost to this couatry, the coaci- liatory measures by which they might have been retained. From its utter futility, the newspaper “ invasion of Cuba” is too contemptible a subject to even me- rite notice. Suffice it to say, that the at- tempt of ntoand of fae aaheenl gaia possession of an island belonging to a fore wer at peace with the roment of that nation of which these banditti were subjects, is more than a disect infringement of the law of nations; ‘ever the severity of the Spanish authorit: pidly passing | neared by some, sach public robbers and di: Site sf the pavlic peace sho jd meet with that de- gree of punishment allotted to lars and the worst r of swell mob depredato ‘We believe it isin contempla:ion for the United Statee to purchase © ‘we sincorel; “it pas European powers, . their veto on this further grasp of adhere rica. Her arm is now al stretohiag its slimy and a: jous band towards on the one well, eepecially forthe Mrdee to find» "Yaskes — it dng or * to * it,” on our Western i 9 wb the a ospect before us that in the like Van pene. the waters of the Spanish Main! A New Yor! pe cringingly expresses a hope that Europe will not oppose » purchase that cannot, im the rmallest degree, affect her interest. But we can tell the New York Henaty that Europe alive to the * wide-awake” and “ go-« head” policy of American se, aod of her principles has tasted more of the biters than of the sweets, and that it is the policy of the eivil:zed world to main. tain that balance of power which i: i* the apparent pivenvur of Ameren Wo Upeod AAG | port | the island of Cu | or later, from the bonds which unite it to the mother ublished dand eaecteres 0, where lice and pa eemed force, able to protest him. loit, the same patriots office of a Spanish paper, tion at the cigar Resa 3) meen cigar si of Spanish merchants. The Americans seek to justify these savage acts on account of the execution which the invaders of Cuba justl; . We may regret the sad and bl end of the hundreds of unfortunate mea sent plunder and to death by Now Orleans speculators, but it is impossible to doubt tho justice which overtook them. The adventu- rers, who, in a time of peace, plotted and cognized, in the face of day, an armed expedition against the possessions of a friendly nation, were, according to all the rules of the law of nations, purely and sise ply piratey- Those whom they wore their property, in their wealth, by them, one other answer than that owed to thieves, who, with arms in their hands, attack you in your homes. The expedition which has so fatally termisated, was only the se- quel of another attempt, which was unsuccessful, several months before. After the firstinvasion, the authorities had the generosity, or the wea! prisoners, with the warning th: in case of another invasion they would execute the law in all its rigor. A second invasion took pluce; it took place under the most aggravating circam stances. rican government, even, repu- diated the buccaneers wi the federal flag, in it a banner of pirates; they had openly declared that those who thus violated all the laws of civilized nations, had no right to tho signe of their country, and that they should abandoned to the fate merited by them. [n a word, they were put beyond the law; and the Span- ish government, in shooting fifty in the public plaza, acted strictly right. The Americans are in the greatest excitement, but that happens to them weer ae They think very hard that the Span- iards received with guns a band of pirates, who came to burn their houses; and they declare that they would execute, without mercy, those who should go to their country, and that they would even arm the slaves. Bat the Americans have, for a long time past set up g law of nations, for their particular use. They edtertained of themselvos, of their dignity, and of their involability, such an F egpoees that in their mind, all is permitted upon the earth and upon thé sea, to a free citizen of the United States. Another fundamental article of their code, is that the New World, without excep tion ts owned, by right of birth, to the American republic. It isan idea, to which they always gave utterance, which has been proclaimed, more than once, in the presidential messages, and which they will always preserve in their mind. It is their divine rig Our old Europe, so much calamniated, has, how- ever, more distinct notions of mewm and tuum. Tho young American republic has, in this respect, a ger conscience. Our democra‘s said, lately, that all monarchies are based upon armed conquest and epoliaticns. We answered thom, in giving the ex- ample of America; and we did not kaow o that new facts would come so soon to justify oar opinion. Surely we will not say that the Americans are pi- rates, because they are republicans. First, we can give that name only to such citiz f Union who take a part in such acts; federal government itself, we acknowledge that it has dicavowed them. But it is impossible for us not to remark the incomprehensible results of a for of government which is every day presented to asa model, as a tpye. in is, at this moment, at peace with the United St . They are two friendly countries—two allicd nations; yet that does not prevent, in the ports of the Union, the Awerican citizens from openly org snizing armed ex- peditions to land upon the territory of that allied country. A first attempt is unsuccessful; the fede- ral government puts beyond the law all those who would take a part in similar violations of the inter- national law. They laugh atthe government. Pre- parations begin anew upon a larger scale; enlistments are openly made, with all the resources of the most unlimited publicity; the day and the hour of the sailing of the expeditions are known, and the go- vernment makes no attempt to stop it. Now, ei the American government is without power to re- prees the crime, or it is an accomplice; and in that case, as in the other, we do not find that it presents a apne one wy — model. a y given mericans, we mean those Was ood to vjily the expeditions directed wed agairst the island of Cubs, is, that they ac: as aux- iharies of a national movement, has beon deelared by the poy n itself of land, in order to aid the insurrection of the party. The last events must aave destro; all the illu- sions that they had formed in respect. It is | now acknowledged a ee tion of the island fought them, and | have not found in the cities, and in the fields, the sup- upon which they counted. It been often said, particularly in the New Orleans papers, that indignities were committed upop the remains of the unfortunate men who were shot by the Span- ish military. These reports have been contradicted by the papers of the federal government. Tae truth is that the authorities of Havana were obliged to display an armed force, for the protection of the condemned against the anger of the —— and the executions took place amiist th: cries of “Long Life to the Queen,” by the e: rated colonists. An American paper gives some just re- flections on that execution. The Americans who speak thus are right. The pretended national movement of the Cuban popula- tion was an American invention; it wasa story invented in New Orleans by speculators and agita- tors, and entertained and puffed by tho journals of * the Southern States, fora lucrative end, perhaps, but not a very orable one. “The American sympathizers have been mista- ken, they reckoned on @ pronunciamento of the creoles ; but the inhabitants of the island know perfectly well that their inde: would not be of long duration, but would lead to what is salled annexation—to an absorption into a commanity fo- reign to them by habits, religion, and language. ‘They had also reskonod on Jiness of the biacks to take advantage of the q 1s amongst the whites, but there are in the island o! the free and the slaves, to gain by an annexation to the United States. The Americans who get up these expeditions to Cuba are from the Southern States. je slaves of the Spanish colony would not have any thing to & by a ehange of rule, and the free blacks would ave every thing to lose. These latter aro about 200,000 in number, and they have always offered the giea:est possib'e resistance to all attemp:s at | invanop, having, in fact, in that respect, diseo- vered to the Spanish government the existence ofa | force, which it, perhaps, had no suspicion of. ‘Taat is destined to free itself, sooner country, question of the future, whieh it ix use- less to enter into at present. The same may be said of Canada with respect to England, ard, in deed, of all colonies whatever. But to confae our- selves to the present, it is certain that Spai still arsure to hersel!, for a great length of tim voluntary dependence of hy jagnificent ool on the simple condition of m trative reform: Whatever may have been the result of the introduction of the constitational régime in Spain herself, it is incontestible that the island of Cu’ as Hot to con, late itself on the chacge. island is rich aw ductive, and is in that respect what Sicily was formerly to the Romans, their granary. lt has, therefore, come to pass that electoral necessities have led the dif- ferent ministers of Spain to turn the island of Caba into an instrument of government. We eannot say whether Spain gets on better since the intro- duction of the Pe op system, but what we know is that the colony gets on inkaitely worse. At present all the ministries, moderate or rea- sista, who have need of a majority, make use, in or- der to obtain it, of the excellent situations whig: the rich colony of Cuba offers Hence, men sudden! arrive among the inhabitants of the colony, wit! high powers entrusted to them, but completely ig- norant of the affairs and interests of the population. If Spain desires to preserve she mast give tome tatisfaction to well founded com, that can only be aad ties. Ap hes recently taken place at Liverpool for the time, of several packages of oysters, by 6 vee- ing some adrinis | anced to ee not aiding conquest, hae coun- selled the peoples of Europe to seek » leader in the natural head of the demperiey of the world—the at re of America. pit iy quite possible to place at the head of revolutionary re forces, an American general, bear- ing the star-spangled banner of the Union; it would be quite possible, in due course, to engage even the government of the American republic ia the same service, and to dictate from Washington the terms for the capitulation of Vienna and St. Petersburg Foremost among the political advantages of such @ plan would be its ney to ov the oe lousies and reciprocal distrusts which might still be & source of weakness to the federation of peoples. In almost every co: the national party ta id. ed upon certain internal and ulterior questions; though Germany is becoming almost entirely mocratic, there are still constitutionaliste amo: public men; in Ital 96 its there are constitutionalists and republicans, deralists and Unitarians; in France there is no absolute majority, though one might be created by the mero fact of pro claiming & crusade resins absolutism, on grouads sufficiently broad. The first great objectsto secure are, the national independence of cach nation, and the freedom of each people ; leaving internal and ulterior questions to. be settled by each people whoa it shall be free to act, and relieved from alien con- trol. We have no fear that the democratic party of Europe will be unable to subdus the jealoasies and anite in action against the common enemy; but no one can be blind to the fast that each sec- tion of that party might be indisposed to accept the lead of any other section, lest it should appar, tpso facto, to give up its own defensive penne. Sack’ mistrust wo not apply to an American leader—territorially remote, not implicated in the sectional questions of Europe, above all sus- picion on the score of sincerity in the vindication of liberty, the republic would be e:peciatly fitted to take the lead ia the struggle for national indo- pendence and popular freedom, without prejuizing the external question of avy one nation. We bs- lieve that the mere hoisting of the star-spangled banner on the field of Europe would call fortn the vast body of the peoples of Europe—a rising of the oples from the Khine te the Danube, from the tie to the Mediterranean, against organized tyranny. ort tothe United States the political advan- tages would be considerable. Tae unemployed en- ergies, which are beginning to raise troublesome p coer at home, would fiad a glorious and bene- cial vent in that more distint fieid. Action of that kind might help the hess to gain time, and with time, power, for the deliberate settlement of that social question which presses upon thom most dangerously. It would eaable them to force back, to areneen ground, that class of disputes which English abolitionists, aided by mancuvring Eog- lish diplomatists, now make them discuss so io conveniently on American ground alone. Besides, is not European intervention—the intervention of European governments—between the Americans ad Be Spaniards, at last become imminent in uba ‘The working ot of certain political problems on the continent, would be of vast service to tha Eng- lish people, and not less so to the English colonies. One of the first advantages would be, that England would find its faculties of speesh and action ualock- ed from the P bere nightmare of doubt and apathy; and it weuld not long suffer its goverhment to al stain from taking its proper the republic, with France at despotic movement. jut the commersial and economical advantages of the ee movement woald not be less striking than political. Upon these, for the present, we must yey se 4 touch briefly ; but we beseech the reader to think out the considerations which we indicate. For the Americans, we need not enlarge upon the p change which areto be enjoyed in the conquered treasures the captured palaces of imperial luxury ; but we mean far solid and saecet advantages. For example, the shipping of the United States, which now seek an unpleasons and hazardous employment in the slave trade, might find more congenial and not less profitable hay’ ae pmeere in the crusade against des- potism. Inthat respect the United States might perform the functions of Venice during the cru- sades against the less barbarous Sarazens. 3 1 sh capital would find abundant employment ia supply 1g the newly freed industries of Europe with the means of developing internal resources. Indeed, this emancipation of Europe would realize the true complement of free trade ; at pres nt, fee trade finds its foremost antagonist in the Zoliver- eign ; which absolutism is to imitate and extend in Austria and Italy ; Hungary, who would joia with Eogland, is pinioned by Austria; Turkey, free in disposition, is kept poor Russian intimida- ti The ion of Europe would be the P ‘dsextending the alliances of com- ver the whole Imagine the trade of & Russia set fre! me process would 0 3en the trade of Europe to the colonies. Canning talked of “ calling anew world into existence,” when he re- ized the South American states ; but this cru- would call the old world into existence for the Poy by the side of @ head of tho aati- new. Need we dwell on the social advan of the | movement! E\ te ongeged would feel them. | Naples, Rom id, m can tell what are the hideous e—t A enema of fantasti- cal taxation, the inquisitorial tyranny of an official priesthood, the imprisonments, the floggings of men and women, the subjection of women and chil- dren to the brutalities of a licentious alien soldiery, | si and not less licentious native gendarmerie—cruel- | = aor daily more fend the _ Alliance throughout so much of Europe as it scenes And the frontier of the re; that bad power is daily » g- Italians, Anstrians, Germans, Hung mians, would be glad to escape from that shocking thrall Western Europe would bo well pleased to see the onward mi of that system checked. France would ore tranqu.lif tho Popular party were endowed, as it would be, with a decided pre- ponderanee. A period of political action, of hope, and of commerdial diligence, would be beneficial to usin England, socially as well as commercially and politically. ¢ foreree two objections to the speqeets the alliance of peoples he sded by the Unit the English wcoasomists will object on the score | that wa ys entails expense ; the Americans, | that Washington and Jefferscn bs- | queathed the precept of non-ictervention. Th se two great men lived before the Holy Alliance. They had not read in the Times a bint that, if Americans avenged American blood in Cuba, there might be a combined demand for explanations from the maritime States of Europe. And Washington was too good a general, Jeffe-son too keen a states- man, not to perceive how powerful a diversion it would be if European governments meddied ia the waters of Florida, to raire in Harope the prior ques- tion a6 to the right of thoss governments to spoak at ail on bebalf of their own States. If they medile in Cuba, it might be possible to “annex” to the feteration of peoples, not only Cuba but Spain it- sel{—and not only Spain Let the maritime States took to it; the star spangled banner in Earope will have turned their position Nor nerd thrifty Englich economists be alarmed. No E ish taxes will be needed, unless they are o fight against the Reams; and then 1g be refused by the Faithful Commens. n of peoples will fight at on ‘ainet the Holy All despots fight with bank of the war self-supporting. , the victories of governments cost national debts; but this victory of the peoples sha!l par chase their m of redeeming national debts. ‘The two-bes Jagle governs only to devour; but is a craven bird, accustomed to tyrannize, not ac- eustomed to defe: the Black Eagle is a bit ameng the kings: the Groat Bear of the North is harmiee where he cannot hug; the Lion of - Jand slumbers, like a lap di ll of feasting ; Bald-beaded Eagle of the West, fresh from the wilde, hardened to the elements, bold in flight, | sharing the fortune of the stars, is unconquered, | d, unsated ; he casts his eye on Europe, and | swoop. Hata if i i ii i i es z ‘i $8 Hi # 3 fF i | overcrowded. I+ is unnccessary to rarely extends disoussion. But whether of popular discontent isthe the misconduct of a court, of war, or the pressure of an unjust af Go mapnpnecentnd sine the ol asteves happens (0 be thelr lexan vance. Therefore, we say, wo yield to no one of semis, Make gretion sestied, We to got rid of the eve: ing clamor going amo! o caolated eames, we Seslee bo Segeste VE so so handy rmanent a vel ic disaffection, sad worneed not add that re wor! corel Partoniet, Bek junta Proportion a@ we epprecias is our ralustameg to hand, and our ready remedies. And woe must take leave to say that most of the remedies for the acknowledged defects of our represeatation | which wo have yet seen proposed are excecdiogly rough Yor example, wo are not liable to misinterpret the wish so often expressed in favor of a sweopiag m3a- the concession of » £5, or perhaps household suffrage. We pass over tions that may fairly brough’ against any scheme which, in its operation, though | not, perhaps, in its intention, might alcogethor swamp any very meritorious and nseful classes of the community, which might sacrifice the rural population to that of the towns, or vice versa. These | are considerations which no thoughtful statesman | would willingly overlook, thor x4 mentioned by the violent partisans of household suffrage, except to be poob-poohed with the bois- terous contempt of ignorance. Nor, again, will we dwell on the obvious oxpediensy of so coatriving any change that it should entail the leas prospe: of @ permanent agitation for the purpose of revok- ing it. But taking this idea of household suffrage purely by iteelf, will any one say that there is a chance of its “ working well, or satisfying the peo- ple for any length of time ? In our opinion it would include those classes with whom the franchise is a matter of creditable pride, but who are not wholly without other means of makibg their influonee felt; while it would exelude those with whom the franchise is, br pee or wron aly considered a matter of life and death, and whoi all experience shows us will coa- tinue to plague us till they get it. Look at France, where even the restricted suffrage of the 3ist of May is enormously more comprehensive thau any household suffrage ever proposed in England, and where, noyertheless, the cry for the restoration of universal “suffrage is infiaitely moro violent than any movement directed even against our owa present m of representation. We my fix the exact line of demarcation a tew shillings higher or lower, we may cut the country up into as many dis- tricts as wo please, and adjust to a man the exact numerical force of cach, there will still remain the grand difficulty how to provide for the excluded mil- vons of the working classes. And we nsver can re- peat too often that the great problem for 4 states- man is how to satisfy this demand, without thereby letting in a deluge to overwhelm all the existiag institutions of the empire. It is now two or three years since Lord John Russell showed the surpassing superiority of his cultivated intelligence over the mais of noisy brawlers for household suffrage, when he hinted at the possibility of giving a franchise to the members of weshanics’ institutes, or to workmen who had invested a given sum in any savings bank. It mat- ters little whether in the first case each member has @ separate vote, or whether a collective one—as in Koesuth’s scheme for paremantery reform in Hun- gary, and in Mr. Rowland’s Hill’s plan for a muai- cipal suffrage for the town of Adelaide, in Austra- lia—is given to a groater or less number of individuals. It is enough that any such proposal would mee: the precise difficulty that we have been explainin; it would meet it by what would virtually item of double election! virtue of double election does not consist in any complicated machinery of colleges and p:esi dents, but in the simple principle of passing the ele stora! body through such a re! process as would leave usonly its best and worthiest element. Somo- times, as in France, under the Restoratioa, or in the American Senate, this process takes plade by two distinct elections. Here the election would be | made by the parties themselves, and the standard of each man’s education or omy would decid how far he was fit for the responsibility of a in directly nominating a member of Parlii Any such scheme would give us pee want, and save us from Preceey what wo drea lt would give ua the geod will and the assistance o the wey class, while it would free us from any necessity of simultaneously admitting the nuisance of their ignorance, numerical preponderance, and | liability to sudden p-ssion under the pressure of ovcasivnal distrese. No man would have it in his pret tell the operatives that capital was making laws against labor, for to participate in maxing laws would only need the exercise of self-deniai and effores at self-improvement. Such @ process would thoroughly engraft the workiog class into our social system. ‘¢ should immensely profit by their co operation and their contentment, while the ordinary infirmities of human nature would, we fear, be soy ag certain a guarantee that the t would never be inconveniently the ob- readjusting registration vious provisions it any such schemes the limits of boroughs and preventing the manu- facture of sham votes. It is enough that we have sketched an outline, which, in our opinion at least, is far more liberal, as well as far more comprehen- ive, than any which we have yet heard promal- gated from Manchester. And it may guide the people to the leaders most worthy of their confi- dence and atiachment, when we remind them that the first Frosticnlscheme Soe giving any diess legis- lative influence to the purely working class pro- ceeded, not from any loud- spoken demagegue, but from the whig Prime Minister of England. Important from Persia. (Prom the London t.15 ) some time since the ‘attra "of Central Asia occupied much of the attention of Europe. Ruseo- Persian expedition against Herat car- ried Lord Auckland into Affgbanistan, and, while | ¢xplanation, strongly sa our armies here, more than ono column of | th #ion of Voltaire, ma every British r was filled with news, or re- | Mask” an irregular son ot Anne of Austria, wife to ports of some kin m that country and its vici- , Lovis XII! , and consequently » brother, after some Lity ; bus, since the withdrawal of our troops, an , tashion, to the * jrand Monarq cceasional brief notice of Dost Mahomed’s where- about is all that the Indian bi-monthly brov, nd nothing has reached us through any othe! nel. But an event of no small interost has occurred in that quarter, which may be attended with con — of high importance. Yar Mahomed Kh: the ruler of blerat, who defended that city against the Persians in 1538, has just died, and the country be governed with much vigor is, in conse- quence, looked upon by ail its neighbors as an hereduias jacens, which is free to the first who cao teize anu holdit. Kobundil Khan, the half brother of Dost Mabowed, who governs Kand shar, has seat ove force to seize it; another is moving down from Bukhara aod the Oxus; and we cannot suppose that Dost Mahomed, who had got possession of Buikh, and was in foree in thas quarter, will look On with indifference. He is nearest to it by posi- Hlerat, it is to be observed, has, since the days of Ahmed Shah A been considered asa dependency of the Afghan Empire, aad was held as euch by Yar Mahowed, though he was, de fucto, quite independent. but the Persians also have claims on Her: realize apd to enforce which they laid seige place in 1:38. They are preparing to it selves of the opportunity a Redes by wea's death, to occupy a and asm territory a: they can. The Hazara tribes of the meourtsine, who ous, a, wil not be sorry to he city of co religionists, their association with the Affghans who are mostly Soonees, being mything bu; cor- a and tb's the Persians weil know. ow, bere is avery pretty piece of Asiatic em broilment, and, if the come rested witn the Asia ties, wesbou'd be well content to look on aad watoa the isene, es & partof the world’s history which very little concerned us. Bat itso that Rueia has just now a little quarrel of her own in aod ut without sffect. a party of the Turkomans waded over from frequently, Not very long main laod and the Russian depot, over- ering the Rg ol ES ent to guard he Turkomars had to Cross Persian territory patter ag Sr was ing ‘ersians connived , the ent \. from Hesele dunt at first, but eucoembed when ment insieted. Nos content rot has tents force of about that part of the Caepisn, RF mane, and this fores having terabad, is now h they are seldom | For the | 4 | bee bay ane eg four years past, and is now Persia and the ambassador from Teters- ae a eS ii the very to meet which the twenty of thousands of lives were expended be- tween 1838 and 1842. We presume not yet to sps- culate these events and their consequences; it will suffice at present to sta‘e facts, and leave the public to ponder over them. Advan of the Australian Geld Fever. [@rom London Punch, September 13 } God friends, let us all shake hands ; but that is not enough. Let usall embrace as our foreiga friends do, and make a Great Exhibition of ourselves, by rushing into each other’s arms. Ring your bells, “good people, send up your rockets, let off your crackers and your cannon, blow your trumpets, beat your drums, burl your hats aloft, and hooray with all your hearts and with all your lungs. ‘We have got » California of our own. There is ® colonial EI Dorado near Bathurst, in New South Wales. Tho Times says that the Sydney Mormng Herald says, that the Bathurst Free Press saya, that » Mr. Hargraves has discovered the fact that “the country, from the Mountain Ranges to an indefinite extent in the interior, is one immense field.” Literally, no end of gold ina British y! The most precious of minerals — metal! Happy mother country! Happy, it of colonies! Australia Felix—Felicissima! ! hooray! hip! hip! hip! hooray! Oae cheer more—hooray ! | | And what are you making all this noise about, Mr. ‘t—you, a philesopher--at least, I al- vege it so—to fly into these ecstacies about @ discovery of yellow metal—of which—not to call the substance itself dross—the very abundanee will soon destroy the value!—I am surprised ai you. You, who tell me—give me, I should rather say— ag weeily miscel of wit, poetry, and wisdom, for 3d.—4d. stam for mere copper—whence ail this enthtbiaim on your part at the prospect of by dear subscriber! only think of the rush to the diggings. In Australia, crowds of persoas, of every description, on horse or foot—with pickaxos, crow-bars, srudles, shovels, spades, rakes, gcub- bing-hoes, hung at their saddle-bows, or at their acks, or arouad their waists—hasten to the mines. ‘he blacksmiths can’t make picks fast enough for thom—and fathers of famities take their wivea’ fen- | ders and fire-irons for mining tools, and run off with the pokers and tongs, and domestic culleaders, and pots and ign ine ePaper eos they o—*‘people of all trades, ca! 4, and pursuits.” t will soon be the same ia this country. bi I don’t see why we should congratulate ourselves on the expectation of the gold fever—which you yourself seem to have caught, Mr Puash. No, my deur sir! Consider. Think of tho emi- ration that must enzue. People of all trades, call!- and pursuits. What people? Of eourss those to whom gold is the prime object. All the lawyers and dectors who practise chiefly with a view to fees. All the divines who look, in the first place, to the loaves and fishes. All and sundry who labor in their vocation principally to get menoy. The ros- pectable solicitors, honorable barristers, exemplary parsons and bish« fair dealers, reasonable tzades- mep, disinterestéd authors, and well-paitl workpeo- ple, will all be left behind-—and will be, if not very numerous, how very select! What a blessing i: will be to have the sordid and selfish members of every profession at the Antipodes ; self-transport- ed! hat a clearance of the system by the gold sates oR what an extremely good riddance of bad ru ! Foreign Music and the Drama, Her Majesty's Theatre in London has closed for the season. For the last two or three weeks the rices of admission were reduced apparently on the New York plan—but the press express a fear that such reductions will have no beneficial effect. ves to it, ho . absurd, a _ Se eye style greatly conducing to this effect. At Desey Lene Theatre, Caroline Leyo, Stone, McColl and the rest of the company merly at Nil have been, and are still, reaping golden opinions. rathcatrh, on Friday night, Sigoor Paral, jesty’s on Fri pa 34 away by the ent asians of acting, struck Madame Sontag with his dagger with such as to draw blood from the arm. A surgeon, immediat:ly attended, prenounced the wound to be but slight. ‘a sonnet Lear vere of Rergarpee nares to the asen’s theatre, Du! tl full amo: patron- age which their attvactions merit. The grace and agility of the Payne met and the exo: it mot ing of Miss Saunders and Mr. Robson, draw nightly plaudits from densely thronged houses. The “ Bear- nais” singers are giviog oratorios in the Music |, Abbey street; they have been well attended. M. Jullien, it is distrustingly said, is iy od conduct a reries of promenade concerts at Mojesty’s theatre. “The Heart of Gold,” a new play, by Douglas Jerrold, has been purchased by the lessees of the Princess’s. A comedy, by Bourcicault, has also been aceepted, but they will not be produced at presen:. The privilege of the Teatro d’ Oriente, at Madrid, having been offered fur several weeks to public com- pene without any acceptable offer being made for its purchase, Her Mujescy has taken it om her own account. Mr. Creswick, one of the lessees of the Surrey Theatre, has commenced an engagement at Liver- 1, aud will appear as Hamlet, tichelieu, Mac- th, Claude Melnotte, and King Lear. General Welch, partner of Messrs. Risley and M’Cellum in the present lessecship of en oe Theatre, and proprietor of the largest stud of hor- ses in the United States, has arrived in London. A theatrical commission, nominated some time ago by the King of Holland, to inquire into the state of the theatrical art, has presented a report to his Majesty, recommendiog that for the futare the theatres shall not be coasidered private commercial speculations; that to each one a competent direo- tor, with @ fixed salary, shall be appointe ft care sball be taken in the choice of pieces; that thors shall be duly encouraged; that porformers shall be fairly rewarded; that losses shall. be borne by the state; that theprices of admission shall be such as to suit every purse; and soon. The King, who bres open interest in theatrical matters, is, it is said, disposed to agree to all this. $ Scraps of Europe. ‘The Spener Gozefte contains a letter from Berlia of the 11th, which states that the Turkish government is about to establirh lines of electric telegraph in Turkey. Orders have been trent to Berlin for the necessary apparatus. ‘The Grand Duke of Tuscany has iesued @ decree, dated the 29th ultimo, abolishiag the forced currency of gold at Leghcrn. SERENADES FOR JOHN BULL. N o 2 Ob! rest thee, my Johuny, thy Navy's all right; Thou'rt Lord of the Ooeas, entirely and 5 f If Yankees cuteail thee, old King 31 the Sea, Let that matter nothing, my Jobn Bull, to thee! The Bateman children are performing to largo, mixed audiences, at the St. James’s, London, bat the critics do not approve of thesé precocious dis- lays of imitation. Still, they represent that pub- lie curiosity is very much excited to witness the por- formances. At Sadler's Wells, Shakspeare’s ‘‘Timon of Athens,” which has not been performed in London, since 1816, has been brought out with great care— Mr. Phelps as Timon. | Madame Sontag sang at a concert at Manchester on Wednesday ; also Signor Tagliafico; they were most enthusiastically applauded. At the Adelphia Theatre, Madame Celeste has a erates in a new play, it being the last one in which she. would perform, prior to her departure to —- States. The London Times thus speaks of it:— *Who was the Man in the Iron Mask?’ is a question which for variety of solutions vie with une other question, * Who was the author of Junius's | Letters 1 while in the power of awakening the sym- pathies of the former qu an advantage over the latter, iaasmuch asa romantic interest is diffused over the masked prisoner which does not be- long to the veiled politician. The known facts of the case—that is man in the mask’s case—are something to this effort :—1a 1664 or 1679 (for dates differ) a man of nobie figure was brought to the Chateau Pignerol, of which St. M ors was governor; he wore a black mask, so contrived that he might eat without removing it; and orders were given to kill him if he should atrempt to takeitoff. He was waited on by the Governor himself, who accom nied him when, in 1698, be was rem to the tille. His deportment and habiis a & person of superior education, aud he was always treated with defe The occupations of readi ference. and ing on the guitar seemed t> content his mind, he was never heard to complain of his situation. He died in 1703, after a few days” illness, aad his room was rigidly searched, lest he might have left ny evidence as to his real rank and character. uch are the matn facts. Conjectures who the “Man in the Iron Mask” actually was are innumer- able, the investigation ee especially difficult by the circumstance, that no man of impor- tance was missed in Europe at time of the Mask’s captivit; Minis:er Fouquet, our own ualacky Duke of Monmouth, victimized by Jesuits, have sac- cessively become the block: upon which ingenious theorists have clapped their masks, the glish duke being allowed to retain his head upon his shoulders for the express benefit of his patron. XCV. and La Others allow a natural son of Loui Valliere to solvé the moneys Y But of all the bold unriddiers, the boldest is the author of the **Queen’s Secret,” produced at th Adelphi last night, or rather the author of th French opera, of which it is an adaptation, minus the music. Here the question about the Man in the Mark is treated like @ quadratic equation, and furnjshed with two answers; there is one mask, but twomen ere made to woar it The explanation that the mysterious being is the son of Anne of Aus tria ie adopted; even the peculiar theory that he is the elder twin to Louis xiv » bat vondrously is the explacation modified The piece, as it stands, has some of the defects which naturally pertain to a drama built on a /ibret- to. Mere and there @ situation falls flat, and a foene seems needlessly elongated. But these woak | pomts Oi je strik | pe ing sit ben Kolani is captured after thi | wterview bis mother, and the ingenmity of the denciymint. With Madame Celeste as Koland, re jook aud gestu quiet despair of all bope ts extinguisoed, with Mr. chevalier partty ruffian, partly the influence of contrition, ir as the Countess, one of jool who uni'ed ig exterior, the ucoess, though rds the beginning may | thoee French ladies seriousness of purpor coe bar every requ alittle curteilment to’ suggested. Miter the curtain had decended amid loud ap- p'ause, Mr. Webster, in answer to repeated cally, stated thatthe piece would be reper every ev ing till the departure of Madame Celeste for Ame- nea. The farewell performances of this lady are to | continue till © ae day week, when hy eo months leave o theacre, to the anvar, alarity | of which she bas contributed by her Mstrronte te- lent, While, as @ manager, she bas a the rare merit of conducting an establishment for eight years withou’ any recourse to the scar system. Mr. and Miss Vandenhoff bave mT eee | at Shefiield in Virgivius, Macbeth, and the last new 1, Ry produced at Drury Lane, entitled At Edinburg, Mr. Charles Pitt, the tregic actor, bas arrived from America, z papies. several of his most admired to burg audiences. The ballet of the “ mited period, at half prices. / Hareosrt i nd, with the Mesdemes Cathbert and | Tyrer are the ieading performers. Mies Giynn has commenced Shakeperean read- ings in Lovdon with unequivocal euccess. a A farce, founded on the French ane sdote barber @bo cut bie customers’ throats, and j t door, has been nang wi 1, mpi, Leadon ” entitled “I've Eaten a . Oh! rest thee, my Johnny, contented wise; Believe thou’rt unrivall’d for bold e1 es mt think thet Jonathan flogg’d his Papa, When he steam'd it before him across Panama. Gh! rest thee, my Johnny, the time will ne’er ¢ When thou'lt wake up, and find thy position is rum. Oh! rest thee, Jobn Bull, my boy, sleep while ; Sloth leads pot to sorrow, as night leads today. No. 2. Lullaby. Johnny, upon the tree-top; When thy ships fail, thy Navy win drop; When thy fleets yield, thy glory will fall And down comes Johnay, and Commerce and all’ Tt is sald that Metternich is writing his biography and a history of the Austrian Court; which work he has mentioned in his testament, giving it sealed into the charge of friend and his heirs, with special injunetions net to have the packet opened till sixty years have expired after his death. It is stated, im the Genoa Gazette. that the P. Court: bas addressed aie note to the Frene! ag! ‘ment, complain! fee pi wri theee writings, th te writings 4 Gemageguse would beat aloes for or. gaus of cirevistion, because the English much less read. Extreme Delicacy of Taste—An earthquake has re- fused to swallow the King of Naples! A letter from Vienna, of the 30th ult., states that nego- tiations have just been ag = there between Austria and Russia, conceroing the jumction of their lines of electric telegraph. “Amongst the points,” the let- ter, “om which the ene pl two have come to an understanding is, that private be transmitted from Russia to the “aunttion tereiterion, but not vrce versa The erry Star oan to its readers that, ia con- sequetce of ill health, and pecu diMcultien arising out of the embarrassed affairs ut the Matlooat Lanivoa. pany, Mr F. O'Connor has, for the present, retired to the Continent. Timer ror Sacre —A great quantity ef planks, sti masts and »| to be had cheap. juire at the Yacht Club House, Cowes, es ‘The Ps porernncat hee tolera the groves’ eure te exclude ail the journals, both Italien and forviga, whieh quitous turp' eapolitan government to- wards political prisoners; but, not sit! exertions, a few copies have penetrated even into Rome, and have quickly spread amongst the public. What kind of tables do vegetarians keep’ Vege-tabies: The Queen of England has approved of Mr. Gibson 8. Holmes as consul at the Cape of Hope, for the United States of America. The Prussian Gazette antounces the arrival of Don Miguelat Vienna, on the 3d. It adds that he intends meeting of his partisans at Withelmsbads. The rule of three—" Liberti—Kgalité—Fraternité.”” The American clipper schooner, with Baglish colors and the yacht pendant flying. went up to Portumouth from Cowes on Saturday, the 13th inst. She beat up against an easterly breeze, witts emooth water, in a ver} few tecke, lying within four points of the wind on eae! tack. Ehe reached into the harbor, tacked inside the Victory, went out. and returned to Cowes. She was un- der her three eails~ jib, foresail and mainsail ; her fly- = jibboom was nct out. We new understand that her telling price was o-ly 4000 guineas; certainly « very moderate sum. considering her very superior achieve- ments, and the very tnished and excellent way in which the ie built and “ pat out of hand.’ The autumn races at Chantilly. are fixed for the 12th of October. The privcipai «take the Omaiam, is of 10,- buf. The Paris reces are to take place on the 19¢n, Zid, 4 f6th of October, Toe Government Stakes are to be 1un for, and the privelpal of them is the Graad Prix Ma- tional of 1400Uf, The vumber of horses in training in the vielnity of Paris 1 unusually great (about 200), and capital port is expected. The London Bwiider. with apparent astonishment. ia- ires—" Ip there po public «pirited burglar in will come forward for the howor cf his country & round rum of money to pick tbe Yankee’s look !"" A letter from Naples. of the Och inst , states that the question of claims in Sicily has beom satisfactori - ly terminated. The Neapolitan government now grants ail that was origina'ly s-ked, and, ere long the ciaim- arte will be enabled to demand ia legal money, the sw necorded at Messica, jaterest thereon, up present time The festa of Medigrctts, went off the vicus day iy perfeet trang aillity It is Well known (hat the United States met re quantities of that mort delicious and, 60 far an we have dl, none have te Ergiaud A gently op board the hovever, made the attempt. and. wi succeeded iv importing a lot tate Li stete. He has, therefore, the claim perter of ripe peaches feom the U A work bas been eiceulatiog io Vienne fer tome time past, which temation Itiva new edition of « it i FF I i i 5 | 7 z Pit i if; i : i H aff iif? ite itt] Bi Reis Bi if fd i 1 i 2 3 ; i alts i 28 li Hi al in Ht | 7 i