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      We have been thoroughly snubbed at Eome . Sir Henry Bulwer lias been on a diplomatic mission extraordinary there and was met by Cardinal Antonelli . Sir Henry appears to have talked graciously about possible diplomatic relations between Eome and England , and . to have been told by the Cardinal that Kome . could dovery well without them . Sir

      Henry bowed his acquiescence- and turned to the case . of the condemned English prisoner Murray . As J&urray had been sentenced by a secret tribunal the- English fenvoy desired to see the records of the trial . The cardinal coolly replied that we had condemned Mr . Newman , a spiritual subject of Kome , in our courts at Westminster , and Eome did ! not interfere for

      his protection . "Where will the arrogance of , these ecclesiastical tyrants end ? The Cardinal's impudeij . ee almost takes one ' s breath away . The jackass kicking the lion is but a poor comparison , for in the fable the lion was dead ) Is the English lion dead too ? Are we to be told that beiause a subject of this realm , but a spiritual adherent of the Pope , is found guilty after an open trial by a jury of his eountiyinen , that , therefore , a Roman secret tribunal may murder an Englishman , and

      England may not interfere or ask a question . We deserve it all for suffering the Eoman Eepublic to lie crushed ; but if Lord Malmesbury will put up with that lie will submit to anything . Even the "Times" takes fire and hints that though France occupies Eome , and Civita Vecchia , and Austria the Legations , there is still room enough to . throw a British regiment upon the coast . Have our rulers pluck enough to do that ? We think not , and more than doubt their inclination .

      Preparations are making for the Irish Eeligious Equality Conference , but as we have touched on that subject in our leader columns , under the head of "Priests Pelf and Power , " it is unnecessary to do more than mention it here . If ths priests are not quick they will have a diminished population left to back them , for the Exodus \ goes on rapidly .

      Two soldiers of the 31 st regiment , visiting a fair near Fermoy , were attacked at night , by a number of ruffians , and one of them killed . At first it was the impression that the murder was to revenge the Six-mile-Bridge tragedy ; but the evidence on the inquest leads to the conclusion that it was one of the drunken rows in which Irish fairs are

      prolific . Among the dearth of our political news , ve pick out the facts that Sir Fitzroy Kelly has been making a speech to the farmers , and Lord John Eussell and Lord Panmnre ( late Mr . Fox Maule ) , have been practising oratory before a Scotch audience . Sir Fitzroy Kelly is puzzled . It would seem that his former flaring protectionist speeches are prohibited . He cannot throw off his old creed altogether nor

      altogether retain it . He vacillates between protection to farmers , and exertion by them as their means ' of salvation . The farmers had far better depend on the latter than the former . The Whig lords speeches are what Whig speeches usually are when the Tories are in office . Lord John Eussell especially seems to think that he is mistaken for a democrat ; probably one of the democracy whose progress Lord Derby is to put a stop to . But he declares he has not

      deserted his old principles , nor taken up new ones , and that he is anxious to preserve the Constitution , though , at the same time , he is willing to recognize the power which the people may gain by their increasing intelligence and wealth . No , indeed , Lord John has not deserted his principles . Intelligence is not enough for him—wealth must be added . The consistent man thinks that a property qualification is not needed for a member of parliament , but is imperatively necessary for a voter .

      The police records show accumulated cases of attempts at self destruction which magistrates are at a loss how to put a stop to . The fact that most of them are prompted by hopeless poverty , might suggest a remedy ; but as that remedy would involve political and social justice , stipendiaries are not exactly the people likely to propound it . There are also numerous accounts of brutal outrages upon the person on respectable people , policemen and women . One fellow named Cannon has gained a notoriety in this line . Beside several

      minor misdeeds , he has , it seems , killed one policeman and permanently disabled two others . Some correspondents of the " Times " suggest a punishment . Our ancestors , they say understood human nature better than we do , and they flowed We ought to flog too . Without pretending to any sympathy tor the brutes who beat women , however degrading their pumshmeni , we might just hint that flogging is only one of tho modes of education—teaching is another . Could not ourFlosgers combine the two , and practice them in a schoolmasterhkefashion on the brutes , when they are boys . That mi ^ ht obviate the necessity for adult scourging ; but it is always the way whencnmeistobetreated-let people grow up brutes by all means-then flog and hang , andimprisoV "Z ^ ll press and punish , never Eeform . Eespectable people may find put by-and-bye , that such a system is worse than wrong —that it is dangerous . . ^

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      UNITED STATES . ,. j ————( from own our correspondent . ) New York , September Uth . On Wednesday , Thursday , and Friday , last week , a Womens ' Rights Convention was lield at Syacuse . A great many speeches were delivered , the fair orators insisting upon the immediate recognition of the principle of absolute equality bet ween the sexes . One of the speakers , a Mrs . Jones from Ohio , said she wanted the vote and more than the vote , she wanted not only to take a seat upon the judicial bench or in the senate , W to occupy the Presidental Chair itself ! She wss not she said ,

      , one of those women who like to waste thus m talking about her rights , she preferred taking them- One of the ablest speeches was that delivered by Mrs . Davis , and as it rcierrea to the social relations of woman / it was of considerably greata importance than any amount of eloquence about judicial benches -and Presidental chairs . At the close of her address , she moved the following resolutions : — "Inasmuch as tlio Family is the central and supreme institution ; " ! ^ - , — "" •«•< •« . Inju ns 10 me vtsuuiU a . mi &uiueiui » in- » . « r human societies

      , so that all other organizations , whether in ^"" fi State , depend upon it for their character and action , its evilsJ »}« source ot all evil , and its good the fountain of all good , involved io « destiny of the race ; and inasmuch as marriage , the bond of this pijgj and principal of human association , was the only institution g ^ , . JJnfor Creator m the innocence of Eden and is the chosen symbol ot relation the union of tho Church to her Redeemer in the Paradise to come , J « thereby taught as much as we can yet comprehend of the deep sigmnw ot its idea and the boundless beneficence of its office . " , . nt "Resolved , therefore , ' that the correction of its abuses is the startingP f vi lug iciunns

      « 4 i wmcu the world needs , and that woman uy < - '"• ; tinll a her natural constitution , and every circumstance of her actual P ° f V he the fitting minister of its redeeming agency , and that answering w duties ; of her great mission , and acting within her appropriate spheie , is authorized to demand the emancipation of her sex from all the &w . ot law and custom , which hitherto have made and kept her mcapa ^ and heaven-appointed office . And that Woman may perform her « u Jolit iCal iulnl her destiny , -we demand for her , moral , social , pecuniary »*** her freedom . We demand that her proper individuality be he . ajJJ ^ eir rational independence respected : her faculties all educated , w

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      FRANCE . ( prom our own correspondent . ) Paris . September 29 . The great event of the week has been the discovery on Friday last , of an " Infernal Machine" plot at Marseilles . ' The police have a very , great advantage now in manufacturing of plots , inasmuch as the absence of all means of free inquiry renders it next to impossible to arrive at the truth . . The following is the official account of the " discovery : "—

      " The Minister of General Police has for some time past been on the trace of a secret society , of which the object became every day more manifest . The members had resolved to make an attempt on the life of the President . The city of Marseilles had been chosen for the execution of the plot . M . Sylvain Blot , Inspector -General of the Ministry of Police , carefully followed its development and progress . The construction of an infernal machine having been resolved on , several of the members set to work , and the machine was quickly completed . It is composed of 250 gun barrels , and four large blunderbuss barrels ,

      the entire divided into 28 compartments . Those 28 pieces were for greater precaution deposited in . 28 different places until the moment a suitable place could be found to fix and put the machine together . The conspirator ;* then occupied themselves with the choice of a situation , which should naturally be situate on the passage of the President . They first fixed their choice on a first story in a house in the Rue d'Aix , whither they were to remove and raise , the machine on the night previous to that in which the President was to arrive at Marseilles .

      Some suspicions which were excited in the minds of the conspirators cause them to change their idea , and a second locality was chosen . Like the first , it was situate on the . passage of the President , being on the high road from Aix . An entire house was hired . It is a small house , composed of two stones , with two windows in front . The infernal machine was to have been placed on the first floor . It was seized on that spot . At the same moment one of the conspirators was in the very house in which the infernal machine was found . The others

      were in their houses , or in the different places where the police were assured of their presence " Now , although there would be nothing at all surprising in an attempt to administer justice on the arch-bandit , there is a suspicious minuteness in the official descriptions of the machine which is not calculated to inspire confidence . These descriptions are just such as we might expect from the manufacturers of the instrument ; and when we call to mind the antecedents of

      the men , we may naturally suppose that , if they come not from the makers of the machine , they undoubtedly come from the makers of the plot . This suspicion is confirmed when we consider how useful-to Bonaparte will at present be , this affair , not only from its theatrical effect , but from its capability of being made one of those " gourdes menas" which were to be considered sufficient grounds to warrant an " appeal to the people" in favour of the Empire .

      The elections in the third and fourth electoral circumscriptions have terminated in favour of the Government candidate . In the third circumscription , out of 40 , 181 electors , 18 , 434 only voted , of whom there were for Thibant 10 , 107 , and 6 , 594 for Michelet . In the fourth , out of 42 , 306 voters , 21 , 996 came forward ; 11 , 379 were for M . Japy , and 10 , 504 for M . Goudchaax . The great number of abstentions is no doubt to be attributed

      m great part , to the proclamation of the society La Revolution of which I gave a translation last week . Hud it been more universally known there would not have been here so many Republican voters as there were . But there was a division of opinion among the Republicans as to whether they ought to vote or not . Of course , if they had all determined to vote , they could easily have elected their candidates .

      A second proclamation to the people has been issued by La Revolution , whkh has been printed clandestinel y here , and circulated in thousands among the working men of the capital . It is as follows : — " You are told , citizens , that your brothers of the departments hasten in serried phalanxes to the triumphal gate of the towns to fete the tyrant as he passes , and provoke by cheering him , the servitude that has been fixed upon them ! You are told that fond , idolatrous France , like a courtisane ' cries , by every voice , and on every road , Vive I'Emperevr Citizens , you are deceived . This is a lie , like the veridical ballot of the 2 nd of December , like the socialism of Bonaparte like his loyal faith , his probity , his honour ; this is an infamous

      lie against the public grief , silent but deep , and it is furthermore a calumny against the people What took place at Bourges , at Moulins , at Nevers , at Resume , at St . Etienne , at Lyons ? The pioneers of the police first searched the faubourgs , arrested the socialist-republicans , consigned as in towns of war the bourgeois-republicans , and held them responsible for the event . The official enthusiasm then defiled , by hierarchies and by convoys : convoy of the church convoy of the magistrature , convoy of the army , convoy of the old spatherdashes of the empire assumed by the veterans of December ; a whole world , in fact , of parasites , courtisans lackeys , pretorians , and drunken gendarmes , the worthy cortege of a Csesar , who follows crime as others have glory . A prefect

      turnkey , some young girls dressed in white , functionaries leprous with perjuries , gardes champetres , and a few bands of peasants led in leash , performed the part " of the towns , whose doors and windows remained closed in thepassage of the tyrant . Such is the truth , citizens , the naked truth , and who , then , in our country , will cry Vive V Empire , Vive I ' Empereur ? The empire is your sovereignty overthrown and lost ; ' it is the divine heritage of your . fathers , and the sacred patrimony of your children alienated for ever in the hands of a radh whom ambition has made a bandit , and debauchery a monster . The empire is a gag on every mouth , espionage on every hearth : it k

      oppression , systematic , universal , savage , and brutal . It is the silence of every voice , of every tribune ; it is the repression , the death of the ideas , which , for sixty years , have been the grand ' army of ow fatherland . The empire , in fact , is the public fortune pillaged by valets without mercy or control ; it is the whims of adventurers incessantl y let loose upon a regulated civilization ; it is the caprice , the pride , hallucination of one man m place of the reason of a great people ; it is Erostratus above * ranee ! Who , then , if it be not the mob of impostors will cry Vive V Empire Vive V Empereur . No , a thousand times no ; such a terrible buffoonery shall not have its day we swear it by our dead , by our martyrs , by our holy hatreds , and we take to witness our avenging golds , both eternal-the people and the

      Notmthstanding the existing terror , there are men amongst us ievoted enough to risk everythin g in circulating documents like the above ; and not on y does this fearless spirit exist in 1 ans , but in the provinces also . Seven men have been arrested m Toulouse for tearing down the Bonapartist placarded at

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      Bordeaux it has been sought to establish a republican iv ganda by means of tobacco pipes ; large numbers of these V * ' manufactured bearing likenesses of . Louis Blanc , Ledru C ? Raspail , and other eminent republicans . So long as thi *! - ' exists , even in a few , we should not despair . ° P t BELGIUM . The Belgian . Chambers were opened on Monday by one of n ministers : there is accordingly no- speech from the thron e The Independance of Wednesday states- that it has learned the resignations of the ministers , announced to ti ! Assembly at the commencement of the sitting . lh { i The Chambers are adjourned to the 26 th October .

      HOLLAND . The government of the Netherlands has gained a sio-n l victory in the first division of the Chambers this session n old anti-ministerial Speaker has been rejected , and the thv candidates offered for royal nomination are decided summit of the cabinet . ^ Ieis

      GERMANY . The Gazette de VEmpire Allemand has the following fat j from Warsaw , Sept , 16 : — " People talk here of a c omSinS of the armies of the north , according to a plan prepared with view to action in concert , in the event of certain contingencie * It is thought the presence in Warsaw of a large number of officers from ail the states is to be attributed to this design Austria . —The semi-official Correspondent states that the Emperor has directed his Minister of Forei gn Affairs to tak measures at Rome for establishing a concordat between the Austrian government and the Pope .

      According to the Breslau Gazette , ' General Haynau lias bee summoned to Vienna by order of the Emperor ; his Majest * considering that the demonstrations which his presence ha excited in certain places are calculated to compromise the honour of the Austrian uniform . Bavaria . —The conference of the coalesced governments at Munich terminated on the 20 th inst ; " Deliberations ^ Yere held not only on the reply to Prussia ' s last declaration , but also on the course to be pursued by the coalition in case of a separation

      of North and South Germany . The news of the separate conference held by Prussia on the 17 th inst . is reported to have promoted unanimity among the members of the coalition . Fkankfort . —A letter from Frankfort of Sept . 23 says : — " Several arrests made this morning at Borheim have occasioned a great sensation , because the individuals arrested belonged to a politico-religious society which has assumed the denomination of " The Children of God . " The chief of the society was only arrested after having made a passive resistance .

      RUSSIA . Letters from Odessa state that great military manoeuvres are to take place at Wasvesmusky , near that port , at which the Czar will be present ..

      ITALY . Piedmont . —The Mercantile Courier of the 22 nd states that a Roman refugee , named Del Frale , was stabbed , the day before , in the streets of Genoa , by another refugee . The wounded manwas conveyed to the hospital , and hopes were entertained of his recovery . The assassin had made his escape . Naples . —The Piedmontese Gazette of the- 21 st inst . contains the following telegraphic despatch , forwarded from Leghorn to Florence : — " Naples , Sept . 15 . The Queen of Naples has given birth to a Prince in the Palace of Caserta . He was baptised by the name of Pascal , Count of Bari . The situation oi hev Majesty and the young Prince is most satisfactory . "

      SPAIN . A despatch from Madrid announces the death of an old companion in arms of the Duke of Wellington , General Castanos , Duke of Baylen , who died on the 24 th , at the age of 95 . The Military Gazette states that the Minister of War has ordered that his funeral shall be conducted with all possible magnificence at the expense of the state .

      THE IONIAN ISLANDS . The Corfu Gazette publishes the speech of the Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands on proroguing the Parliament on the 15 th until the 1 st of March , 1854 . His Excellency , after observing that the period of three months fixed by the Constitution for the duration of the session had been this time prolonged by 'three weeks , regrets that his attempts to

      improve the Constitution have failed , mainly in consequence of the coalition of two parties that do not agree on any other point ; the one being of opinion that the Ionian people are not fit for any greater measure of liberty than that granted by the Charter of 1817 , while the other sees wfth alarm the removal of those anomalies which still exist in the reformed Constitution , and serve to give that party a temporary power .

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      114 V THE STAR OF FREEDOM . Octoeee 2 , 1852

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      DEATHraACHUBCH . —The forenoon service in Dr . Peddip '< church , Bnsto-street , Edinburgh , was on Sunday interrupted bv an event which illustrated in a very remarkable manner a sub ject not unfrequently enforced from the pulpit , the uncertainty off human life . About half-past eleven o ' clock , while a respectable man upwards of 80 years of age , of the name of Dickon Itnlft ^ "f */?/ ** ' to ™ g over the leaves of ins Bible , he suddenly fell down and expired . He was immedi - W lT ° Ved t 0 the . vestr y > w ] iere several medical men , mem-L 4 b con S S atlon ' used ev <* 'y effort for resuscitation , but

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    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 2, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1698/page/2/