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      mouth . At the last meeting of the Farehara bench of magistrates , a man named Wheeler , a tramp , was committed to the assizes for trial , for feloniously setting fire to a stack of wheat , the property of Mr . J . G . Martin , of Cams Farm , near Fareham . On Monday morning last , about half-past seven o ' clock , a wheat rick , m a field between Fareham and Stubbington , belonging to Mr . John Whettern , was set on fire by an incendiary and completely destroyed . It contained nine loads of thrashed

      A youn <* woman precipitated herself from the first recess on the Surrey side of Blackfriars-bridge , on Monday night and striking with great violence against one of the buttresses , dashed in her skull and rebounded upon the causeway . She was apparently about twenty-six years of age , short in stature , with fair complexion , and light brown hair . As the policeman on duty near Gore-house , the late residence of Lady Blessington , was passing along in front of that building , on Thursday afternoon , about half-past four o ' clock , he heard the report of firearms de k

      discharged in one of the plantations in Hy-par , abutting on the Great Western-road , almost directly opposite Gore-house . He immediately ran across the road and entered the park at the small wicket-gate close to the spot , and discovered a gentleman lying on his back in the plantation , with his arms extended , and in his right hand was grasped tightly a double-barrelled pistol , one of the barrels of which had just been discharged , and on the lock of the other barrel was a percussion cap , and the lock cocked . The ball had passed out at the back of the head , and he expired in a few minutes . The body was identified as that of Mr .

      Pennington , of Cumberland-street , Portman-square , a gentleman who for the last fifteen years has been employed in the Treasury . A oase of suspected murder in the neighbourhood ot Eaton-square has recently come to light . At an inquest held at the University College Hospital , on Thursday , on the body of a young gentleman who died in a cab , on Tuesday morning , on his way home from the Prince of Wales public-house , Elizabeth-street , Eaton-square , it was stated that prussic acid had been found in his stomach . The cabman said he had been called by the

      landlord of the Prince of Wales to take the gentleman home . The latter , who appears to have been able to walk , told the cabman to drive to 14 , Tavistock-square . On arriving there the gentleman had become insensible , and , as the proprietor of the house could not recognize him , the latter was taken to the police-station , and thence to the hospital , but by that time he wus dead . It appeared that the deceased was at the Prince of Wales public-house with two vomen , that he had a little sherry and soda water , and that the landlord watched the women lest they might dru < r his drink . The inquest has been

      adjourned till next Friday . . As a man ' named James Betts , in company with his wife , was leaving the fair of Newmarket to return to Snailwell , about seven o ' clock on Saturday evening , some unknown hand dealt the man a blow , and immediately disappeared . The man , Betts , was taken to Mr . Fyson ' s surgery , but died in a few minutes . No one is suspected of the offence , and the whole ailair is involved in rii 3 sterv . .. , - A girl named Eliza Smalley has been committed for trial on the charge of having poisoned her mistress , Mrs . Pa « -e , residing near Gainsborough , by administering arsenic in coffee . Mr . Page suffered severely also , from having taken some of the poisoned eofiee , but lie Has since recovered _

      . . .. A daring attempt to murder the valuer of Caldecott enclosure , Monmouthshire , was made one ^ night last week . Mr . Williams had retired to rest at his lodgings , when at about two o ' clock in the morning some miscreant fired a charge of slugs through the window , fortunately he escaped without injury . The a uthorities have ottered a reward of £ 50 for the discovery of the offender .

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      At the Repeal Association on Monday , Mr . John O'Conncll took Lord John llussell to task for his recent letter on the Pope ' sappointrnent of English bishops , and said that so evident wus it that this would excite a general hostility against Roman Catholics and their religion in England that he would at once propose to change the name of the association to that of " Catholic Association , " did he not fear that his doing so would deprive them of tho support of many Protestant Repeal friends . ± ne rent for the week was £ 5 3 s . Id . _ ^ of Limerick has

      A fourth candidate for the county sprung up in the person of Mr . Michael Ryan , of I 3 rurop-lod « ro He is for repeal , tenant-right , appropriation of the ' revenues of the church , &u . Referring to his rivals already in the field , Mr . Ryan asks : — « Have they addressed you on the murders of your countrymen ? Have they addressed you on the subject ot exorbitant ents , anil the necessity of enforcing the principles of the Tenant Leiurne ? Have they alluded to the intended > onal enactments , or the threatened repeal of the liiinanliimtiim Act ? Have they denounced Whiskery ? Have hey altered a sin ^ lo lino in their specious addresses inee Lord John l ! u * sell insolently pronounced your not

      uily religion » ' mummery ' ? They ecrtiunly Uave . . 'hoy have shirked the question of tumm-iight . . 1 hoy lave shrived Hie question of Repeal . They have been ilent ou the Church question . In a word , they have t'trayed a desire in their several appeal * to consult jerel ' y the sevcnil jin judiei-n and varying sentiments oi broken , debilitated , and disconsolate constituency . ' The corporation of Limerick , in solemn council ns-? inblrd , on Monday last , resolved to banish J ' itnch oiu their nailing-room , as a punishment for his serious [ feuees against the pie . Vurc of the Pope contained in st week ' s number . The Xrin \>/ llvaminor says that the Roman Catholics ' that , borough are netting up a requisition , calling upon r'Willi im JSomervillo to resign his seat , inconsequence Lord John Russell ' s letter .

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      This page is accorded to an authentic Exposition of the Opinions and Acts of the Democracy of Europe : as such we do not impose any restraint o ' n . the utterance of opinion , and . therefore , limit our own responsibility to the authenticity of the statement .

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      THE ITALIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE . To the Italians . Italians ,--To the loan which Austria is attempting to raise at the charge of the Lombardo-Venetian provinces there are obstacles—and the bankers well know it— - which cannot be evaded or overcome . The loan is rendered impossible by the obligations assumed by Austria in the treaty of 1815 , with respect to the public debt secured on the Monte Lombardo-Veneto , by those which result from her self-imposed constitution of March , and by the rules which that constitution establishes as to the voting of taxes and the equalization of all provinces with respect to the general burdens of the empire .

      But the Italian National Committee is bound to call m aid very different principles from those which derive their sanction from treaties to which the nation was a stranger , and from foreign constitutions . And in the name of national right it protests against this loan attempted by Austria , as it protests against all other loans raised in Italy by foreign governments , or by governments protected by foreign arms . Interpreting the national will , the committee especially declares null and void every loan which , under any form or pretext whatever , may be imposed by Austria upon the Monte Lombardo-Veneto , or on the provinces and cities of the Italian territories which she occupies .

      It declares that no national government will ever recognize , in whole or in part , any such loans ; except , only , if they have been extorted by absolute force . It declares that every act of voluntary aid calculated to promote , favour , or realize the preliminary arrangements or the ultimate actual completion of the loan , will give the future national Government the ri ^ ht of compensating the losses occasioned to the country by the aid thus given to tyranny , out of the property of the guilty parties .

      It invites the friends of the national cause from this time forth to forward to it the names of such persons , with a statement of the facts proved against them , and of their date , in order that it may at once , and whenever it may appear needful , publish their names to perpetual shame as cowards and traitors . Italians of the Lombardo-Venetian provinces , whilst Austria demands from you a loan in order to maintain the yoke upon your necks , your fellow-countrymen , who labour to break that yoke , have , in their circular of the 10 th September , proposed a National Loan , destined to hasten the hour of rescue .

      Resist the Austrian loan ; and thus hasten the supreme crisis which impends over her financial affairs . Diligently aid the loan opened by your National Committee ; increase their power in the labour of emancipation , and be the first to found the public credit of the revolution . To the persistence of passive opposition add the living force of action ; and ere long you will be conquerors over Austria . London , Oct . 1850 . For the National Committee , J . Mazzini . A . Saffi . A . Saliceti . G . SiitToiti . M . MONTECCIII . C . Agostini , Secretary .

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      the special mandate for contracting a loan for the national cause . This act was presented for approval wherever it was possible to the leading members of the party scattered in exile , and thus obtained the signat ure of sixty representatives of the Roman Assembly , and of 100 other distinguished Italian citizens , known * as having filled offices in the National Assemblies of Venice , Sicily , and Naples , and in governments favouring the late movements , or by having served in the armies of Italy . This committee is now therefore the authorized executive , without question or division of the National Republican Party throughout the whole of Italy . It is the central directing body of the great mass of the nation ; it is looked upon by them as , although in exile , the legitimate executive of the people , in the words of the act by which it was constituted , " It matters little where such central body exists and acts , provided only that the idea and future of the natio n be better represented and promoted by it than by any of the existing governments "; its special mission is the Independence , Liberty , and Unification of Italy ; a national war and a constituent Assembly are its avowed means . Such is the authority of the committee which seeks to effect the loan : what are the prospects of the party ?

      To all thinking men , revolution in the Roman States is a matter of certainty . A Papal Government exists simply by the force of French bayonets there ; or rather , it should be said , by the consciousness of the overwhelming power of France behind . The time must come in which the movement of events in Europe will deprive the Pope of French aid , or even turn their arms against him . ; and such a moment inevitably witnesses the return of the national party in Rome . But , quite independently of this , the nation conspires and acts ; and it may -well be that its own aspiration

      may be fulfilled , and that itself may take the initiative , and give the signal for revolutionary movement , which in Europe , we have said is destined henceforth to be , no longer partial or isolated , but European . The national party in power again in Rome is the national Government to which the committee , in accordance with the terms of its circular , would immediately make over everything in its possession pertaining to the loan , and all materials for the national war already accumulated through its means . The committee and the

      160 subscribers of the act which constituted it , pledge themselves for the recognition by such Government of that loan . We arrive thus at the political certainty of a future Government in Italy , which assumes to be national , and recognizes and adopts the loan . What is the probability of such a Government being national , in fact , and extending itself immediately , or rapidly , over the country ? A moment ' s reflection will show that the answer is involved in the solution of the great European revolutionary question .

      Europe is dividing itself into two camps—Republican and Cossack . Our press is beginning to recognize the indisputable fact , and to lament it . Prussia and Piedmont alone excepted , the Government of every state in Europe affected by the movements of 1848 , exists by armed force alone , and retains its power by the most flagrant usurpation of popular right , and in barefaced defiance of the constitutions which were hypocritically conceded during the revolutionary crisis . In the European movement Piedmont cannot direct or resist ; she must go with the tide . If the general movement be otherwise Republican , she must participate and be merged in it .

      What is the position of Prussia ? Her Government also has forfeited its pledge , and suppressed by the sword rights which it had professed to concede ; and the Democratic party in Prussia holds aloof from its assemblies , and refuses to record its votes . In Baden and Saxony it was the armed force of Prussia that suppressed the revolutionary movement ; she is profoundly distrusted by the German people , and the party which sought to link to her fate the future of a united Germany is extinct . There is a semblance of her being on the brink of a gigantic struggle with Austria and Russia ; lace

      but if she fights , she yields , and takes her p ere long in the organized alliance of despotism , which , with pure democracy , seems destined to dispute the field of Europe . If the King of Prussia attempts a high game , it will be , like Charles Albert's , a losing one ; because , with his ideas of right divine , with his offences against the popular cause , with his dread of democracy , greater than any hatred of a , rival house , and with his personal incapability of a great , bold , and persistent ambition , he dare not bokllv , frankly stake his crown for Germany against Austria and . Russia . Those powers have the moral advantage of a greater boldness , of a clearer policy , and of The of

      a less disguised dishonesty . question German union , liberty , or independence cannot to solved by tiie monarchy in Prussia . But , further , with all the thousand chances of war vendy from day to day to confute our reasoning , we still presume not to believe in war . In the face of these michty armaments , and these imminent possibilities of conflict , we reiterate our opinion expressed in the Leader of October 26 , that Prussia is drifting under tho pressure of ltussian and Austrian principles towards a policy which must rank the whole of liberal Germany against her . A short period will suffice to confirm or confute our anticipations . If they be confirmed , if Prussia make

      defini-We have said that the official acts of the Italian National Party would probably occupy a prominent place in our weekly page , and the expectation which we expressed is being fulfilled . In opening a loan of 10 , 000 , 000 francs , the national committee has taken a step which is either an act of folly destined to cover its pretensions with ridicule , or an evidence of power which must prove morally and materially of the utmost value to itself and most convincing to the world . Let us enquire what there is in the position and prospects of the Italian National Party to authorize and justify so bold ami unprecedented a step .

      In the Leader of Oct . lDtli we gave the first manifesto of the committee to its countrymen . That document explains the origin of tho committee , its mandate and authority , and gives a programme for the future . On tho 4 til of July 1845 ) , after the fall of Home , certain representatives of the Human constituent assembly constituted provisionally , and until tho people should bo enabled freely to manifest its wishes , an Italian National Committee , consisting of Ji Mazzini , A Saffi , and M . Montecchi , with power to add to their number , and with

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      AND ITS OFFICIAL ACTS .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 16, 1850, page 800, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1859/page/8/