Current:

Northern Star (1837-1852), 6th November 1852, Edition 1 of 2, Page 2, Untitled Article

Page 2
Page 2
2 of 16

On this page

  • Departments (2)
    • IRELAND.
    • FOKEIGN AND COLONIAL; rt—
  • Text (6)
  • Transcript

    • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

      Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

      Untitled Article

      v PRANCE . ( PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT . ) Paris , November 2 . It was scarcely possible tliat 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 guilty conduct in December . They acted criminally in a state of mad-! Us Woduced by excessive drink . They regained their conscience with ht their shame is the

      their senses , and hatred for he who has wroug 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 aud 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 vd , and suspected to be one of the chiefs of the plot , has absconded , and has not since been heard of . Captain Plee has been charged with the instructions relative to this menacing that there exists in the

      affair , but all he has as yet learned is the fact 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 oil duty at the Tailway 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 hi consequence of his being ignorant of what was going on , but that is not true . A number of artillerymen at Yincennes have also been placed under arrest . {

      " Coming events cast their shadows before . " Hitherto Bonaparte lias been fortunate , but the courage and determination of his 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 Yerdun , well known for his republican principles , has been arrested in consequence of the discovery of arms and ammunition concealed in his house . . '

      i on may remember that when Bonaparte s marriage with the Princess Wasa was first spoken of , objection was taken to her oil account of her being a member of the Protestant religion . It would appear by the following communication from Vienna 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 200 Frenchmen . La Nation , of Brussels , has the following on the late Frederick Corn-net : — " 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 Cournetis 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 bur defeats and misfortunes ! His faith never faltered , and his rote 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 how 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 llth March , 1849 , he was tried by the Tribunal of Correctiona Police , with twenty other persons , on the charge of having formed part of an unauthorised political association , called the ' Comite Central des Republicans Socialisms » presided over by M . Joly , representive of the people , and which field its meetings in the Passage Sourdis . The Tribunal , oh the pleadings of M . -edru Rolhn , declared itself without jurisdiction , and thisdecision was confirmed »> y tne superior courts . On the 28 th May ; 1849 Cournet was arrested with some 1 — iivv ir ff

      , , . J » ""« wj wwu ^ *» w ** i * wfcjwvv * tbll OVUXg otuer persons for having been concerned in a disturbance which took place at a Banquet at the Barriere Poissonniere , given to Pierre Leroux and Battier , repiesentativcs of the people ; and for that offence he was , on the & > th June louowmg condemned by the Tribunal of Correctional Police to ten days impnsonnient . On the 21 st of March , 1850 , he was condemned by the same ii . cunai to a yeai . ' imprisonment , for having , in concert with a person named i ) eba . ne 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 _ whiciihewas employed-the latter being under sentence of ten vears' imfor

      pnsonment participation in the insurrection of June . After undergoing this nv foV C . Tnet > WUh SOme * B « -P ««»« . ^ nds : of M . Felix Pvat , sent ierh !^ / i ? T - Lapierre ' ° f the Editors of the legitimist periodical the Mode , for having written what they considered an insuhin * article on a letter addressed by M . Pyat to the Count de Chambord . , A duel Between M . Lapierre and M . Cournet was resolved on in consequence In this auel , 31 . Lapierre received two sword stabs , and Cournet was slightly wounded near the eye . The two combatants were tried by the Tribunal of Correctional rolice , on the 2 stli May , 1851 , for what is called inflicting voluntary woundsawl JI . Lapierre was sentenced to sis days' and Cournet to a month ' s imprison ' ment ^ AuV | Bd 0 f the reign of Louis Philippe , M . Cournet resigned his rank lSffifo " rjr £ ^ ench navy > and occupied himself actively with politics . In SJlSSS ^ m ^ 1 ° ? Pr ° i si 0 nal Government in the departorotners wfto

      / n ^ 3 i ^ wP ^*^ vO were all sailors . Only one of fot ^ M ^^ & ^^^ l S a ca P taln iu the navy and a member of the Legion I lwP ^ S ^ S ^ S& ^ fe lemyi the * Gazette des Tribunaux' states that he 4 LWjK ? 6 ®?^^^§ fe demned t 0 taprisonment with hard labour by ^ fM ^ SSpralpW ha ving fired , a pistol at a svgafrfeTlIte . " '

      Untitled Article

      It is said that the senatus cbnsultuiri , 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 to 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 inost 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-mprrow , and in the evening the Minister-of-War is to give a grand soiree , at which the Emir is to be present .

      Bonaparte made a state visit tothe 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-Kader was brought from Amboise to be shown at this Bonapartist trium ph . 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 lias 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 . Yerily , we must have unity of opinion in the newspaper press as in the ballot-. box !

      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 Galliciah 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 we ' re 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 Robert Blum , who was shot by tlie Austrians for his participation in tiie defence of Vienna against Wiiidischgratz in the autumn of i 848 . A boy who assisted at the ceremony , by singing a revolutionary song instead of the morning hyinn , 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 . t . The Revue Geneve _ states that the Federal bouncilhas 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 reliedon are itisuMcieht for the ihdehtincatioh of the offenders . ' .

      " ITALY-. Rome . —A letter from Rome of the 24 th hist , says : —A set of executions Ml take place ere long at Ancanoi . 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 tlie morning . Many political prisoners , amongst who ' iii there are doubtless innocent men , are trembling for the fate which may await them since hearing of the executions of Sinigaglia and the death oi' 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 . Madiaiand his wife , arrived at Florence on the 22 nd uit . mhe'Risorgimento of Turin quotes a letter from Florence , of Oct . 22 , giving an account o £ an attack perpetrated on the preceedihg day upon the person of M . Baldasseroni , the Tuscan Prime Minister . M . Biadasseroni , was walking in the Via de Martelii , when lie was jostled by

      a person who was going past him apparently in great haste . After having -walked a few steps farther ; 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 ah 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 Bang , during his tour in the provinces , has liberated more than 1 , 500 political prisoners . In the province of Catanzaro ujjrwaxdsof a , thousand con ' stiilutionalists have been gent to their homes ,

      Untitled Article

      Lombardy . —The Milan Gazette contains a notification a ^ " * that as long as the state of siege shall last i n the Lombard Y 0 Utlc ! g provinces , the crime of high treason , even though solely com " ^ an means of the press , shall be judged . by the military trih ^ ty Milan letter of the 27 th ult ., in \ the Opinion ? of Turin su ' numerous arrests have suddenly been made by the Austria ^ causing great alarm . Other arrests have been made at C ^ ° ^ ' Lb ' di . <* ttd

      TURKEY . We fend the following telegraphic message in the Wetter Zeit - ' V - ' ¦¦¦ I . , BEYROUT Oct ? o ^ The Druses , assisted by the Bedouins , have commenced h nagainst the Turks . They attacked the Turkish camp in the i An official report states that 400 insurgents were killed , and 200 prisoners . Many persons , however , doubt the correctness of this s ?^ ment , since the commander-in-chief has sent for xeinforceine f Naplusa . The roads in Syria are more dangerous than e ? er com t 0 nication with 'Damascus is interrupted . The Journal of Constant ! \ states , in its number of the 17 th ult ., that by an imperial decree dt 3 the llth , Vely Pacha is appointed ambassador from the Subr Porte at Paris , in the room of Prince Callimaki , who only hadrt title of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary .

      PERSIA . The Journal of Constantinople has the following on Persian affairs Letters from Tauris , of 27 th bring news from Persia of some m ^ The execution at Teheran of about 400 Babis , who are said to haw been accomplices of the attempt against the Shah of Persia , took rh 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 attemit made on him by the Babis . An infernal machine , composed of { 9

      gun-barrels , has been seized in tlie 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 recently pro mulgated 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 . '

      Untitled Article

      UNITED STATES . ( from our own correspondent . ) New York , OctobePw 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 tlie selfish traders of other countries , we will not now discuss ; hut 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 ah 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 he taken .

      General Scott has returned from his tour in the west , and has gone to his residence m New Jersey . The excitement relative to the affair of the " Crescent City , " continues unabated , numerous' indignation' meetings have been held , \ rlien vengeance for the insult to the American flag has been loudly demanded . Judge Courlin sailed in the " Powhatan" for Havannah , 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 body 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 free 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 ; aud 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 gteat , and seems designed principally to correct some anomalies in the present electoral system . The principal of these is that no Tenant in Counties has a vote , whatever niay be his rent ;

      Untitled Article

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

      occasion . Government Prosecutions . —In the Queen s Bench , on Tuesday , the Attorney-General obtained an order to quash the proceedings under the coroner ' s verdict iii 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 Uniony in Clare . The latter say in their reply , -- " To the utter want of reproductive employment we ha ve to trace the poverty of this union . to the habitual want of any emp loyment character 0

      we have to trace the indolent , incapable , and demoralized its pauper population . \ je > have struggled as yet ineffectually agai nst this tide of pauperism , and complain that our efforts have been , " aided , but controlled by the te ' chnicallities of an inflexible law , tettering the discfetioh of the respective boards in the adoption ot tnos remedies and expedients which should vary with the characters an accommodate themselves to the exigencies of each locality . " . Confession of Hackett for the Murder of Mr . Ryan . * a meeting of magistrates held at the board-room of Clonrnel goal , which the Earl of Donoughmore presided , Hacket , who _ * ? pV iriitted with his servant boy , Noonan , for the murder of Mr . V ^ laghan Ryan , made a voluntary confession of participating m . JJ dreadful act so far as to be present , and , he implicates ^ W person . . . ' .... . * ¦

      Ireland.

      IRELAND .

      Untitled Article

      194 THE STAR Of FREEDOM . [ NovEMBER e ,

      Fokeign And Colonial; Rt—

      FOKEIGN AND COLONIAL ; rt—

  • 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/vm2-ncseproduct1703/page/2/