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      194 The Stajl Of Freedom. [November S

      194 THE STAJL Of FREEDOM . [ November s

      Foreign And Colonial;

      FOREIGN AND COLONIAL ;

      —O—France. - (Fsoil Ouk Owx Corresponden...

      —o—FRANCE . - ( FSOil OUK OWX CORRESPONDENT . ) Paris , November 2 . It was scarcely possible that the army so ready to aid the popular cause should continue without any compunction to wallow in the depths of the debasement into which they "were precipitated by their . ruilty conduct in December . They acted criminally in a state of madness produced by excessive drink . They regained their conscience with fhe whha ht their shame is th

      their senses , and hatred or o s wroug e uppermost feeling of the French soldiers at the present time . I have had of late to mention numerous plots against the government among the soldiers , but the conspiracy that has just been discovered is more vast and important than any of those hitherto defeated . The conspiracy comprised among others , four regiments of the army of Paris , but its principal centre was in the 43 d regiment of the line , and it was through it . that it was discovered . Three hundred sub-officers and soldiers of this regiment have been arrested and detained at the Abbaye , and an officer , also of the 43 rd , and suspected to be one of the chiefs of the plot , has absconded , and has not since been heard of . Captain relative to this

      ¥ lee has been charged with the instructions menacing affair , but all he has as yet learned is the fact that there exists in the army a vast secret association , and that the conspirators were to have effected their purpose on the 16 th of October , upon the arrival of Bonaparte in Paris . The 43 d regiment was to have been on duty at the railway station on that day , and it had been agreed upon by the conspirators that at the moment when they received the orders to present arms , and when Bonaparte was about to mount his horse , they should fire upon him and his attendants . They were , however , betrayed to the Government by a corporal who was in the secret . It was said that the Colonel of the 43 d , an enthusiastic Bonapartist , had been removed from his command in consequence of his being ignorant

      of what was going on , but that is not true . A number of artillerymen at Vincennes have also been placed under arrest . " Coming events cast their shadows before . " Hitherto Bonaparte has been fortunate , but the courage and determination of bis foes only increase in proportion to their want of success . Mental and material weapons are being prepared for the overthrow of the tyrant . A clandestine press , and a large number of republican

      pamphlets have been seized at Marseilles . The prefect of the department of the Ardechi , has addressed a . circular to the sub-prefects , mayors , officers of Gendarmerie , and commissaries of police , directing them to keep a sharp look out on hawkers and other dealers in books , and to seize all publications in anyway hostile to the government . A hairdresser of Verdun , well known for his republican principles , has been arrested in consequence of the discovery of arms and ammunition concealed in his house .

      You may remember that when Bonaparte ' s marriage with the Princess Wasa was first spoken of , objection was taken to her on account of her being a member of the Protestant religion . It would appear by the foUowing communication from Yienna to the " Independence , " of Brussels , that this obstacle is about to be removed : — " That the Princess of "Wasa , of whom there has been so much talk as the future wife of the Prince President of the French Republic , will embrace in the first days of November the Catholic religion . Her abjuration is to take place before the Bishop of Brunn , in the church of Morawetz , a village belonging to her father , situate near Gross-Mesevitsch . This conversion does not appear to us to be without a certain political interest . "

      The body of the late Abbe Gioberti has been embalmed by order of the Sardinian ministers , and deposited in the vaults of the church of the Madeline . Previous to the removal of the body there , a funeral service was performed at the church of La Trinite , which was attended by about 300 Italians and 20 G Frenchmen . La Nation , of Brussels , has the following on the late Frederick Cournet : — " Cournet has fallen in a fatal rencontre . He fell calm , intrepid , and honourably , as he always lived ; for those who saw him in the last struggles of December , and in the persecutions of the past , his name will suffice ; for that name recals inflexibility in

      conviction , heroic audacity in danger , and that noble contempt of life , which is the essential mark and attribute of great souls engaged in the law of duty . But for those who have known him more intimately—who know the firmness and frankness of his character , and his disinterestedness , above all , for his companions in exile—labourers associated in the great work of the Revolution—the loss of Cournet is a veritable calamity , and it ¦ will be for them an eternal grief . Such men arise not every day . Cournet had arrived at that full maturity of life , when all the developed forces are condensed . Thus , what activity , what energy , what perseverance amidst our defeats and misfortunes ! His faith never faltered , and his role was so marked under

      the banner of the vanguard , that calumny breathed not dishonour on his name ! His memory will not , perhaps , be respected ; for already some journals have mixed some stupid words with their idle chronicles . But we will not suffer his tomb to be stained ; and when the hour arrives , the truth shall be made apparent . We say nothing now of the incidents and other causes of the event that , we deplore . "We are between a prosecution and a corpse . Republicans , and honest men of all parties will understand us ; let them beware , only , of tales and tale-telling . The Gazette des Tribunaux has the following particulars of the life of the deceased . It should not be forgotten , however , that it is from the pen of a political enemy :

      "On the 11 th March , 1849 , he was tried by the Tribunal of Correctiona Police , with twenty other persons , on the charge of haying formed part of an unauthorised political association , called the ' Comite Central des Kepublicains Soclalistes , " presided over by M . Joly , xepreseiitive of the people , and which held its meetings in the Passage Sourdis . The Tribunal , on the pleadings of M . Xedru Eollin , declared itself without jurisdiction , and this decision was confirmed liy the superior courts . On the 2 Sth May , 1849 , Cournet was arrested with some other persons for having heen concerned in a disturbance which took place at a banquet at the Barriere Poissomiiere , given to Pierre Lerous and Uattier , representatives of the people ; and for that offence he was , on the 30 th June

      following , condemned by the Tribunal of Correctional Police to ten days imprisonment . On the 2 ist of March , 1850 , he was condemned by the same tribunal to a year's imprisonment , for having , in concert with a person named Debaine , facilitated the escape , from the prison of the Madelonnettes , of two men named Emere and Potier—the former , president of a republican society at Brest , being detained on the charge of having robbed the post-office in that town , in which he was employed—the latter being under sentence of ten years' imprisonment for participation in the insurrection of June . After undergoing this punishment , M . Cournet , with some other persons , friends of M . Felix Fyat , sent in May , 1851 a challenge to II . Lapierre , one of the Editors of the legitimist periodical the Mode , for having written what they considered an insulting article on a letter addressed by M . Pyat to the Count de Chambord . A duel

      between M . lapierre and 21 . Cournet was resolved on in consequence . In this duel , JL- Lapierre received two sword stabs , and Cournet was slightly wounded near the eye . The two combatants were tried by the Tribunal of Correctional Police , on the 28 th May , 1851 , for what is called inflicting voluntary wounds ; and M . Lapierre was sentenced to sis days' and Cournet to a month ' s imprisonment . At the end of the reign of Louis Philippe , M . Cournet resigned his rank ofCaptain in the French navy , and occupied himself actively With politics . In 1848 he was nominated commissaire of the Provisional Government in the department of the Morbihan . He had ten brothers who were all sailors . Only one of them now survives , and he is a captain iu the navy and a member of the Legion oi Honour . As to M . Barthelemy , the 'Gazette des Tribunaux' states that he was m Louis Philippe ' s time condemned to imprisonment with hard labour by i he court of Assizes of Paris , for having fired a pistol at a sergent-de-viUe . »

      —O—France. - (Fsoil Ouk Owx Corresponden...

      It is said tbat the senatus consultum , which shall propose to the people the hereditary empire , shall invest Bonaparte with a new dictatorship to last until after the vote on the senatorial proposition , in order to enable him td make such changes in the " constitution , " as will better suit the new order of things . I have heard it stated that a new decree of proscription will be launched against the opponents of the usurper , but this I think is highly improbable , inasmuch as it would be very bad policy to increase hostility at the very moment he was soliciting the suffrages of the people . It is probable , however , that the symptoms of rebellion in the legislative body last session will not be forgotten , and that that " great body of the state" will be still further degraded .

      The order of succession is not yet fixed . It is most probable that the senate will vest the crown in the direct descendants of Louis Bonaparte , and that , failing these descendants , he will have the absolute right of adoption . Abdel-Kader is now in Paris . He has visited several of the public buildings of the metropolis , and he has been surrounded by crowds of people desirous of catching a glimpse of him , whenever he stirred abroad . A grand cavalry review for his . gratification is fixed to take place at Versailles to-morrow , and in the evening the ]\ Iinister-qf-War is to give a grand soiree , at which the Emir is to be present .

      Bonaparte made a state visit to the Opera on Thursday night , but he was altogether eclipsed by Abd-el-Kader , who monopolised the attention of the assemblage . The whole affair was a dead failure . Notwithstanding the fact that tickets of admission were granted only to adherents of the Elysee , the cries of " Vive l'Empereur" were few , the great mass of the audience maintaining absolute silence . Some . verses written for the occasion by M . Philoxene Boyer , were recited , but they were so miserable that they made the audience blush .

      Abdel-5 . ader was brought from Amboise to be shown at this Bonapartist triumph . The result did not , however , exactly realize the intentions of " Son Altesse" who is said to be extremely jealous at the exclusive interest in the eastern chieftain by the public . It was reported that Abd-el-Kader was to be kept in Paris to grace the ceremony ^ of the coronation , but perhaps the intentions of Bonaparte on this point may be somewhat modified now that he has begun to look upon the Emir as a species of rival .

      It was at one time thought that all the opposition press would be unceremoniously suppressed on the advent of the Empire , but I have reason to believe that- they will merely be required to publish a declaration of adhesion to the new state of things ; those refusing to comply will not be allowed to exist . Verily , we must have unity of opinion , in the newspaper press as in the ballot-box I

      BELGIUM . A new administration has been formed , of which the following is the list : —Brockere , Foreign Affairs ; Piercot , Interior ; Faider , Justice ; Leidts , Finance ; Arnoul , War ; Van Hoorebeke , Public Works .

      GERMANY . Austria . —The " Augsburg Gazette , " the strong Austrian tendencies of which are notorious , relates by its Agram correspondent a most atrocious case of Austrian persecution , the victim of which was an ex-editor of an opposition Croatian newspaper—the " Suud Slavischen Zeitung . This newspaper , like some of its fellows , has disappeared with the returning restrictions on the press , but its conductor remained , the easy object of revenge ; accordingly he was the other

      day seized and placed in the ranks of the infantry regiment Grand Prince Constantine . The pretext of this procedure is that M . Praus , the ex-editor of the narrative , was six or seven years ago drawn for the-army . He was , however , then dismissed to civil life upon the report of the examining surgeon of the army , and felt himself at liberty to settle for life . ' Now that he is a husband and the father of three children , he is suddenly taken from home , his wife and children are left without father or husband , and the only pretext for this violence is , that some informality attended the first discharge of its victim from the claims of the military authorities .

      * Count Adam Patocki , the Galhcian nobleman , who was sentenced by court-martial to six years' imprisonment for conspiring for the liberation of Austrian Poland , has received the remission of his remaining punishment . Prussia . —The utmost indifference has been displayed by the electors in the late elections . In some places there were no voters at all came forward . At one place the peasantry wanted to vote for the King , and were much scandalzed at their votes being refused !

      Saxony . —A large number of copies of , a translation of Victor Hugo ' s " Napoleon le Petit" have been seized at Leipsic . In the same town , sentences of six weeks' imprisonment have been passed upon seven persons convicted of commemorating the execution of Eobert Blum , who was shot by the Austrians for his participation in the defence of Vienna against Windischgraibz in the autumn of 1848 . A boy who assisted at the ceremony , by singing a revolutionary song instead of the morning hymn , was sentenced to 14 days'

      imprisonment . Frankfort . —The Paul ' s Church , at Frankfort , in which the German National Assembly of 1848 held its sittings , was open for public worship on the 24 th .

      SWITZERLAND . The Revue Geneve states that the Federal Council has authorised the department of justice and police to incur the charge of photographing the portraits of persons breaking the laws by mendicancy in cantons where they have no settlement . It has been found that the verbal descriptions hitherto relied on are insufficient for the indentification of the offenders .

      ITALY . Rome . —A letter from Rome of the 24 th inst . says : — -A . set of executions will take place ere long at Ancano , the knowledge of which fact keeps the prisoners alarmingly on the alert . A sudden stir was made in the common prison some nights ago for the ostensible purpose of removing some of its inmates to the prison of the galley slaves . Many expected that it was the announcement of their final doom , and

      fainted away , as it is usual to adopt this nocturnal mode of preparing culprits for execution in the morning . Many political prisoners , amongst whom there are doubtless innocent men , are trembling for the fate which may await them since hearing of the executions of Sinigaglia and the death of Colonel Simcncelli . Amongst other efforts made to save the life of that unfortunate man , it is said that the Prince President was also appealed to , at the intercession of some relatives of the Bonaparte family who reside at Sinigaglia .

      Tuscany . —Lord Roden , Captain Trotter , and the other gentlemen of the English deputation which is to wait upon the Grand Duke of Tuscany , in order to obtain from him the release of M . Madiai and his wife , arrived at Florence on the 22 nd ult . The Risorgimento of Turin quotes a letter from Florence , of Oct . 22 , giving an account of an attack perpetrated on the preceeding day upon the person of M . Baldasseroni , the Tuscan Prime Minister , fi .

      Bladasseroni , was walking in the Via de Martelli , when he was jostled by a person who was going past him apparently in great haste . After having walked a few steps further , the Minister discovered something hanging from his paletot , which , upon examination , proved to be a long packing needle , such as is used by upholsterers , with which an attempt had been made to stab him . The weapon had in fact penetrated through the paletot , and trousers , but , meeting with a button , had glanced off , and but slightly scratched the skin .

      Naples . —The King , during his tour in the provinces , has liberated more than 1 , 500 political prisoners . In the province of Catanzaro upwards of a thousand constitutionalists have been sent to their homes .

      —O—France. - (Fsoil Ouk Owx Corresponden...

      Lombardy . —The Milan Gazette contains a notification , announcing that as long as the state of siege shall last in the Lombardo- Venetia n provinces , the crime of high treason , even though solely committ ed bv means of the press , shall be judged by the military tribunals { Milan letter of the 27 th ult ., in the . Opinione of Turin , states that numerous arrests have suddenly been made by the Austrian police causing great alarm . Other arrests have been made at Comp and ' Lodi .

      TURKEY . We find the following telegraphic message in the Wener Zeitune - BEYBOUT , Oct . lV The Druses , assisted by the Bedouins , have commenced h ostilities against the Turks . They attacked the Turkish camp in the nicrht An official report states that 400 insurgents were killed , and 200 made prisoners . Many persons , however , doubt the correctness of this

      statement , since the c ommander-in-chief has sent for reinforcements to Naplusa . The roads in'Syria are more dangerous than ever ; communication with Damascus is interrupted . The Journal of Constantinople states , in its number of the I 7 thult ., that by an imperial decree dated the 11 th , Very Pacha is appointed ambassador from the Sublime Porte at Paris , in the room of Prince Callimaki , who only bad the title of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary .

      PERSIA . The Journal of Constantinople has the following on Persian affairs :- ~ Letters fr om Tauris , of 27 th bring news from Persia of some gravity . The execution at Teheran of about 400 Babis , who are said to have been accomp lices of the attempt against the Shah of Persia , took place in a very cruel manner . They were subjected to the greatest tortures . It is said that the Shah is much affected in consequence of the attempt

      made on him by the Babis . An infernal machine , composed of 12 gun-barrels , has been seized in the bazaar at Tauris , but no one knows for what object it had been manufactured . The trade of Persia has received a mortal blow by a decree which has been recentl y promulgated by the Persian government , which prohibits any dealer to sell the smallest article on credit to any civil or military employes , and as these functionaries are the principal purchasers of colonial articles , tea , arms , glass , & c , commerce is completely at a stand-still .

      United States. (From Our Own Corresponde...

      UNITED STATES . ( from our own correspondent . ) New York , October 20 th . America has decreed that Japan shall no longer isolate herself from the rest of humanity . Whether America is justified in thrusting our very questionable civilization upon the Japanese , or whether the latter are perfectly right in refusing to have any connection with the selfish traders of other countries , we will not now discuss : but there

      is an evident desire here to " draw out" the unknown inhabitants of the Japanese empire . The expedition is expected to sail early in November . A number of presents to the Emperor , to conciliate him and induce him to enter into negociations , will be taken out . In order to impress him with an idea of the wonders of our civilization , there will be taken a locomotive and a quantity of railroad iron to show the operation of a railroad . Also telegraphic apparatus , apparatus for taking daguerreotypes , and other things will also be taken .

      General Scott has returned from his tour in the west , and has gone to his residence in New Jersey . The excitement relative to the affair of the " Crescent City , " continues unabated , numerous' indignation' meetings have been held , when vengeance for the insult to the American flag has been loudly demanded . Judge Cpurlin sailed in the " Powhatan" for Havaunah , on Saturday , to inquire into the circumstances of the outrage . Purser Smith will not be removed from the " Crescent City , " and the government have expressed a determination to protect him . It was said at Washington that an armed demonstration against Cuba was to have been got up in this city , accordingly , the government officers here got orders to preserve the laws of neutrality .

      A bod y ^ of Cubans , under the title of the Cuban Junta , whose object is to promote the Cuban revolution , was organized , and met for the first time at ; the Apollo Saloon , Broadway , last night . A manifesto , read by the secretary , Signor Valiente , was adopted . It is a lengthy document , and is very spirited . The following extract will serve to show the intentions of the Junta : — " The Junta which represents the people of Cuba , cannot profess other principles than

      these : to sever the ties which bind it to Spain , by the only available means of the revolution , and to take , in the sight of all nations , a tree and independent situation , to the end that Cuba should give herself a suitable Government by means of her representatives freely elected by the people . Such shall be the end to which the labours of the Junta will be directed , holding no manner of transactions with the tyrants who oppress our country . "

      From Cuba itself , there is no news of any importance—numerous arrests continue to be made ; and the proceedings of the government are carried on with great secrecy . The only important item of intelligence from Canada , is a government proposal of a bill to extend the franchise . The extension will not , however , be very great , and seems designed principally to correct some anomalies in the present electoral system . The principal oi these is that no Tenant in Counties has a vote , whatever may be his rent .

      Ireland.

      IRELAND .

      The Vacant Professorship.—The "Evening M...

      The Vacant Professorship . —The " Evening Mail" confirms the rumour that the Regius Professorshi p of Trinity College , vacant by the elevation of Dr . Singer to the See of Meaih , will be conferred on the Rev . Dr . Butcher . Public Breakfast to Gavazzl—The Rev . Dr . Urwick took the chair at { he public breakfast given on Monday to Padre Gavazzi , in the Rotunda . About 150 ladies and gentlemen attended on the

      . Government Prosecutions . —In the Queen ' s Bench , on Tuesday , the Attorney-General obtained an order to quash the proceedings under the coroner ' s verdict in the Six-mile Bridge affray . A true bill was found against the " Anglo Celt . " Reproductive Employment . —A correspondence has passed between the managing committee of the conference held in Manchester on the subject of productive labour in poor law unions , and the guardians of the Ennistymon Union , in Clare . The latter say in their reply ,

      — "To the utter want of reproductive employment we have to trace the poverty of this union ; to the habitual want of any employment we have to trace the indolent , incapable , and demoralized character of its pauper population . We have struggled as yet ineffectually aga inst this tide of pauperism , and complain that our efforts have been , not aided , but controlled by the techhicallities of an inflexible law , fettering the discretion of the respective boards in the adoption of those remedies and expedients which should vary with the characters and accommodate themselves to the exigencies of each locality . "

      Confession of Hackett for the Mitrper of Mr . Ryan . —At a meeting of magistrates held at the board-room of Clomnel goal , at which the Earl of Donoughmore presided , Hacket , who was committed with his servant boy , Noonan , for the murder of Mr . O'Callaghan Ryan , made a voluntary confession of participating in the dreadful act so far as to be present , and he implicates another person .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Nov. 6, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_06111852/page/2/