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      146 The Star 01 Freedom. Coctober 16

      146 THE STAR 01 FREEDOM . COcToBER 16

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      France. (Pbom Otje 0w1s T Correspondent....

      FRANCE . ( PBOM OTJE 0 W 1 S CORRESPONDENT . ) Paris , October , 12 . Such is the present absolute dearth of news ; here , that tithe coronation of Louis Napoleon would be gladly had as some r < relief although the execution of that arch-bandit would most assur « redly produce an effect at once more pleasing and more salutary . account of the Presidential

      11 do not trouble you with an journey , a as my means of ascertaining the true disposition of the population i in the provinces is necessarily very limited . The official accounts a are as wearisome as they are false . " Unbounded enthusiasm , " a according to them , is everywhere . The prefects and mayors have c certainly reached the most extreme point of servility . Not only is 1 he called the " Man of God , " but one gentleman actually addressed 1 him in the terms of the Lord's Prayer ! The Mayor of Sevres has i issued a placard , calling upon the people of the town to proclaim ] Louis Bonaparte Emperor , by affixing their signature to the

      fol-1 lowing document : — " Proclamation of the Empire . —The town of Sevres , obeying the : sentiments of affection and of gratitude for Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte , the Envoy of God , and the elect of France , her saviour and her glory , proclaims him Emperor of the French , under the name of Napoleon III ., and confers on him and on his descendants hereditary rights . « Done at Sevres , on the 7 th of October , in the year of grace and resurrection , 1852 . ( Signed ) " " MENAG-ER , Mayor . "

      A rumour was current here yesterday , that an attempt on the life of Bonaparte was made at his entry into Bourdeux , but it requires confirmation . Such a thing may have occurred , and we here remain—long in ignorance of it . An amusing instance of the manner in which a portion of the Press seeks to remedy the difficulty of obtaining early intelligencehas just occurred . A grand representation of the battle of

      , Toulouse was to have taken place on the occasion of Bonaparte ' s visit to that city . Prom some cause or other , the performance was countermanded , but the Presse announced the following day that it had taken place , the writer having unluckily thought that the authorities would be as good as their word . The man of the Presse was however , surpassed by he of the Emancipation Beige , who gave a detailed account of the whole affair .

      Bonaparte is to arrive here on Saturday next , when he is to be received by his Legislative , Senatorial , and Military lacqueys , with oreat pomp . The National Guard have been warned that they must cry , Vive VEmpereur ; even Vive Louis Napoleon , will be deemed hostile and guilty . It is supposed that the " appeal to the people" for the Empire will be made immediately after his return . to lull the of the

      Meanwhile he has been endeavouring suspicions great powers of Europe , by kindly informing the good people of Bourdeaux that " VEmpire Jest la paixf That the Empire is not peace the future will show . Louis Bonaparte is as great a peace-man as he was a republican before the Coup d ' etat . Whatever M . de Girardin may say , I am not quite credulous enough-to believe in the sincerity of Louis Bonaparte .

      A very great number of arrests continue to be made in the Haute-Loire , and elsewhere . At Montemartre , a day or two ago , two men were arrested for having concealed fire-arms in their possession . The Belgian papers stated that a " neutral" cabinet had been formed , but I have since learned that the materials were incompatible , and new men would have to be chosen . However that

      may be , no " neutral" policy seems likely to be adopted , for the Nation says that it has been interdicted at the railway stations by the Minister of Public Works . Such an unconstitutional proceeding as this should awaken the indignation of the whole Belgian people , and cause them to drive the reactionary " neutrals " at once and for ever from governmental p ower . I have been told , sundry emissaries of the Belgian Jesuits have been waiting upon all the Paris papers , requesting them to support a petition for the annexation of Belgium to Fiance . This is another move preparatory to

      the invasion of Belgium . I have already mentioned a rumour relative to the interference of the British Government with the exiles residing in the Channel Islands . That rumour proved too true . The constable of ; S ' t . Hilier has called upon all the foreigners in the parish to attend before him , and give an account of themselves . A great number of non-political refugees attended accordingly , but Signer Gonzalez , an Italian exila refused to comply with the constable ' s unwarrantable order . He sent a spirited letter to that functionary , in which he says :

      • ' ' We are neither in Austria nor Naples , thank God , but under a flag too honourable to admit of our vexation . The summons is illegal . Every one setting foot on British soil is still regarded as an English subject by the law . So long as he respects the law he is not to be molested . If he violates the law , of course he takes the consequences . Such is one of the principal glories of the British constitution . Whether the English Major-General Love is obeying orders received

      from Dovnmg-street remains to he seen ; hut 1 am very well assured that had Lord Pahnerston been in power , he would not have tolerated the treatment to which we are exposed . In conclusion , Monsieur , for the honour of the English name , for the dignity of the people of Jersey , tor the respect which I have for the flag which nobly and proudly naves on the ramparts of Port Kegent , I refuse to submit to your order . "

      " La Revolution " has issued another bulletin , of which the following is a translation : — " We will have the Empire in a few days , " say the courtesans of every reign , the servants of every tyranny . We reply , in the name of the Republican-Socialists ; No ! the Empire shall not be ! Ah ! without doubt , if it suffices to have a Senate composed of lacqueys , and foot-pads , and cut-purses for ministers or perfects , if it suffices to rob t ]\ e public treasury to pay aend ? amies and spies , the Empire will soon

      he ' and the gaoler of republican Eome , the worthy chief of . the Catholic army , will have only to spread his sacrilegious benedictions on the head of the bandit of the 2 nd of December . The upholsterers will do the rest . But all Prance is not , as we know , in the Senate , or in the Councils General ; outside the evil places there is the people , representing the national power in all its majesty . The people have submitted ! You say it , as it -was said under Napoleon , —as it -was repeated- under Charles X , —and under Louis Philippe , —and , nevertheless , these three potentates died far from the throne , and in exile .

      France. (Pbom Otje 0w1s T Correspondent....

      We know your titles : they are the falsified votes of the 20 th of December ; but the question of fraud apart , has the sovereignty of the people ceased to be immaculate and intransmissible ? If , by a regretable error , —and God forbid our believing it , —Universal suffrage made itself the accomplice of the conspirator' of the Elysee , may the people not undo what they have done , and resume their omnipotence , when and how they please ? Because in a moment of weakness , when the royalist banner appeared on the horizon , they suffered a crime to he committed , must they be for ever enchained at your feet ? Besides ,

      have you promised nothing to that people , the eternal victims of half revolutions ? Have you not said that you alone wished and could assure their happiness ? How have you kept your promises ? Have you respected the pact that you made them , except at the point of the bayonet , amidst the bleeding corpses of their brothers % What are your acts ? Where are the reforms that should make them regret the ardent hopes of the Republican policy ? Has misery ceased to thin their ranks ? Has capital become less hard upon labour ? Has the grasp of usury been removed from the land ? Has the wall of the

      Octrois been lowered before the drink and the iood of the poor ? No ! a thousand times no . Bonaparte has done nothing , he will do nothing , —he can do nothing for the people . Before , as after the Empire , evil grows with servitude / rising higher and higher , and succesr sively inflicting upon all classes an equality of suffering . ' Have Cayenne and Lambessa let go their prey ? Ate the prisons emptied under the empire of rehabilitated justice ? Have the 30 , 000 men sent into exile by M . Bonaparte returned to their country ? No , the guillotine is always active in the cause of Napoleon ' s order . Coupled

      with convicts , dragged by priests and galley-sergeants , our brothers fail by hundreds in murderous climates . As to exile , far from its squadrons diminishing , it daily receives new recruits . And the people cheer the Empire ! As soon say they call for an eternity of woe , and that , rejecting the future , they desire to be for ever serfs . No blasphemy ! The peo 2 ) le are and always will be against a power that upholds itself on privileges , nobles , priests and usurers . Hear the tales brought us by the winds of the south . Prance has expressed too loudly her scorn and anger , for them to dare demand tomorrowas

      , on the 20 th of December , a posthumous amnesty for the official frauds of the ballot . It is because it is known that the people will not ratify the Empire that it has been decided not to ask their consent . And that lesson will , not be lost . The patient , indomitable , patriotic hatred that ferments in the energetic population of Paris , only waits the fitting moment to arise against the crowned bandit . The Empire will not be . Paris is no longer ignorant of the feelings of the rest of

      Prance . Paris knows that at Bourges as at Nevers , at Lyons , as at Saint Etienne , at Boanne , as at Moulins , at Marseilles , at Toulouse , at Nismes , as at MontpeJlier , as at Toulon , as at Valence , the popular indignation has dominated above , or has withered by its silence the cowardly adulations of mercenaries and spies . Paris knows that the days of the cursed one have been , twenty times menanced , that the army itself has furnished its contingent to the work of justice , and if he has escaped , without doubt there is in future reserved a more

      solemn expiation . It was at Pans that the crime was committed , and it is at Paris it should be punished . Keep up , then , hardy revolutionists of the faubourgs , gird your loins ; soldiers of thefaiherland and of humanity , to your ranks ! The hour is near when you will have to choose between the ruin of the Eepublic and liberty ; between slavery without grandeur , and without mercy , and the Bevolution . Y on may not hesitate , you will not . Europe watches you in expectation ! London , October 7 , 1852 . "

      GERMANY . Austria . —The Vienna Gazette contains an ordinance by the Minister of the Inferior applicable to Hungary , Transylvania , Sclavonia , and Croatia , which introduces corporal chastisement as a disciplinary punishment into all the prisons of those countries . PnussiA .- ~ The Court of Assize at Cologne commenced ontthe 4 th instant the trial of Dr . Becker and his associates , charged with high treason . The reading of the act of accusation was not completed on the first day . The number of the accused is twelve of whom ten are inhabitants of Cologne . Among them are MM . Klein Dadiel , and Jacobi , —all physicians ; Becker , a doctor of law , and

      Ferdinand Freilegrath , who is not in custody . The document which answers to the English indictment extends to sixty printed pages , and is divided into two parts , the first of which presents a picture of the rise and progress of secret societies which have been formed throughout all Europe under various titles , and placed in correspondence with each other since 1881 . The organisation of these societies is spoken of as extremely complicated , and formed on the model of that of the freemasons . The indictment is filed with extracts from letters , statutes , and documents of all species produced to prove that the objects of the society have always been treasonable . The second part accuses the prisoners of having been members of a secret communistic society in the circle of Cologne .

      The correspondent of The Times writing on the 9 th inst . says : — The trial of the members of the Secret Democratic Societies , commenced on the 4 th , at Cologne , proceeds day by day . On the 5 th , the indictment was read ; on the 6 th , the public prosecutor delivered his address ; on the 7 th , the examination of the prisoners was commenced . Various parts of the indictment were proved , as far as it charo-ed the prisoners with belonging to a body of which the statutes ami rules

      were in thehands of the court . But the statutes themselves are drawn up in such vague phrases that what the Bund intended to effect cannot be clearly understood , except promoting a general confusion , and keeping it up , in the hope something might grow out of it ' The London section of " world-improvers , " as the Germans call them , were very advanced indeed , rejecting the aid of the Bourgeoisie , however democratic , as that class has been found , after a certain point , to object to plunder and arson , and even to insist on putting a stop to them This treachery the Bund is warned against ; " next time" there must be no rescuing public buddings or the houses of public enemies from the flames

      , or any so-called restoration of order , thelrock on which all revolutions have miscarried . This insane section of philanthropists according to one of the witnesses , has its seat among the London exiles ; the Cologne branch of the Bund is described as opposed to all violence , and working only by conviction and teaching , Perhaps t \\ Q difference is in the fact that the Cologne committee has Men into the power of the law , and has Had time to meditate on its doctrines . Altogether there is a weakness of brain and a general infirmity of plan and design in all the manifests , that looks unreal , as if the papers were concocted for a trading purpose ; if sentimental begging-letter writers found it would pay to appear political conspirator ^ ve should have such documents going about by the hunched . There is a similar fluency of phrase and absence of real feeling , but calculated to stimulate contributions from political dupes in Germany and Prance , where

      France. (Pbom Otje 0w1s T Correspondent....

      unfortunately , phrases have much power ; that is near ] fi ^ their object ; AH the documents lack reality ; the oj ^ of the writers become earnest and clear are the appeals for ^ K rest is a sickly verbiage . If the whole gang were treated * ? ' ^ beggars" instead of conspirators , they would be dealt with * "' "H cording to their ; true characters . ' ^ a ^ Bavaeia . —On the 5 th , al } the copies of Victor Hue ' leon k Petit were seized in the booksellers' shops at M ^ V Darmstadt . —A bookseller of Darmstadt was sentenT' ?' 6 th , to six days' imprisonment , and to pay the costs of the % l ^ tion , for having published a pamphlet ia which Loujs N pTOse ^ was disrespectfully spoken of , Na P \

      Frankfort . —The Legislative assembly of the he Frankfort , at their sitting of the 8 th , passed the followin ^ of tions : & resold The Assembly informs the Senate , First . That the Assembly still acknowledges , as in force , the prov' law of November 19 , 1848 , as it has not been repealed , according t 1 Sl 0 ns of lhe stated in the notification of the Senate of Dec , 31 , 1849 , and al ° ? V ' e , ! 5 Feb . 20 , 1849 ; and that it considers the changes introduced into tl ° ^ !' 0 in virtue of these laws ' to be legally binding . le COnstitution

      Second . That if the Senate shall really carry out the intentio nounced , to conform to the resolution of the Germanic DieUf ' ftf ' ^ ' * August , and if it shall consequently order elections to be proceeded «•'« . ^ i ng to the supplementary act of the constitution and the law of \ m ' accot ^ admission of the inhabitants of the country only when rural affairs ar 1 ! lE tion ) , the Legislative Assembly will leave the whole of the responsibiin ! " ( 'Ue 5 ' Senate . J ' 0 n h Third . That the Assembly watches , therefore , that all the rights of fir city , as well generally as individually , shall be preserved in the most - ^ and energetic manner against every attempt which may be made wtfT- ^

      DENMARK . The two Danish chambers were opened on the 4 th by com ' sion . The royal message , which was very concise , ann ounce * that the cabinet would submit a law for relating the success " the discussion of which must precede all other business ' ° '

      ITALY . Pidemont . —The council of delegates of Alessandria has ad . dressed a petition to the Piedmontese Parliament , prayin < r that ecclesiastical property may be administered by the civil authorities The journal Liberia et Associaziane , published at Genoa was seized for the sixth time in a few weeks on the 7 th inst . ' The Journal de Turin of the 9 th states that rumours were circulating in Turin that a number of emigrants who have for some time resided in Genoa , have received orders to quit the Sardinian territories .

      Tuscany . —The trial of Guerazzi was continued at Florence on the 2 d inst . Guerazzi spoke again in his defence . He said that the attempt made by De Laugier at JVIassa to restore monarch " was the cause of the proclamation of the republic by the populace at Florence . His counsel then applied for an adjournment of the trial until the 5 th , which was granted . NAPLES . —The Neapolitan Government still refuses to allow Mr . Hamilton to open his school unless he subscribes to the decree which empowers Roman Catholic priests to visit his establishment ,

      Lombardy . —We read in the Opinione of Turin , of the 7 th" In Lombardy fresh arests are taking place in all directions . Our letters from Mantua state that the Government is hard at work in enlarging the prisons . Forty , individuals accused of high treason were incarcerated last week . Domiciliary visits continue at Milan , Verona , Pavia , and Padua , and are always followed by the flight r imprisonment of the suspected : ;

      A letter from Milan of the 6 » h inst . states that on the preceding day an individual , named Charles Vanoli , was sentenced to eight years of carcere duro , for having concealed a pistol in his uncle ' s house and then denounced him to the police for having fire arms concealed .

      SPAIN . The jury has acquitted the Heraldo with the four other journals prosecuted for publishing its article upon the public finances . The trial was conducted with closed doors . The public prosecutor challenged twenty jurymen whose names were first drawn . It is not yet known whether , notwithstanding the verdict , the government will proceed against the Heraldo byway of suppression , as it has already done in the case of two provincial journals .

      PERSIA . We learn b y letters from Constantinople that , in consequence of a rumour that the Shah had been assassinated , the Koords and other mountain tribes were in open insurrection . It is added that the Shah is fast recovering from his wounds , and intends to appear in public in Teheran as soon as possible .

      UNITED STATES . ( from our own correspondent . ) New York , September 28 , I understand that a new journal , to be the organ of the Iris Republicans resident in this city , will be commenced next week * It is to be edited by a committee of Irish naturalized citizens , in conjunction with . some of the republican exiles of 1848 . No doubt it will be eminently successful , for such an organ has been long needed by the Irish section of fellow citizens

      my . ., The Hon . Benjamin Thompson , late representative of the Old Fourth District , Massachusetts , died rather suddenly at his residence in Charlestown , on Friday afternoon last . A singular case , showing the existence of most dep lora ble ignorance and superstition , was tried at the Court of Quarter Session 5 on Friday and Saturday last . The defendants were Mary Clinton , and Susan Spearing , who were - charged with consp iring to enw and defraud George F . Elliott , by means of for tune-telling w conjurations hich of prosecutor »

      , w so influenced the mind that they extorted money indirectly from Mr . Elliott . T hecoq m ? vaclited , as alleged by the Commonwealth , werei jj » w » Mrs . ;; Elhott a bottle containing some portions of Mr . » clothing , and telling her , that as the clothing decaye d , so Elliott would moulder away , until he would finally die oy yi of the spell-that one of the defendants first poisoned tnew mmd , by telling her that Mr . E . was paying a ttentions to otnei males . This story had so strong an effect upon her as to newish for hi witchcraft wr mail iui inaeaui witcncran

      s death . Another ordeal of was s . Another ordeal ot ««•» , fi j | Elliott to take her husband ' s clothes , tear them to pieces , ^ ww the bottle with them , then to boil the contents nine times , a ^ would give him such extreme pain as to cause his dea " s advice was paid for by Mrs . Elliott . Some of the disci brought out on this trial were of the most ridiculous cn » ^ Up to the time of the adjournment of the Court : on & awn » J > jury had not come to a decision on the case .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 16, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_16101852/page/2/