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WESLEYAN RIOTS IN NORFOLK. The Fifth-of-...
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THE ALLAIS-YON PLOT. The French people h...
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Another Catholic Miracle, The Late Story...
the Archbishop , the cure * ( M . Grand ) caused the picture to be displaced , and workmen turned it -round . We examined it with a good deal of care , but I saw no particular mark . The canvass was perfectly dry ; a thick coating of pitch covered all the back , and it was placed against a very thick wall . This was all the part I had in the event . The Archbishop then proceeded to celebrate mass , and I went away to draw up an account of what I had seen . I then visited Rosette Tamisier , who I found suffering and greatly discouraged . She announced to me that she believed the prodigy would be renewed . And ; " in fact , I have since received a report from the mayor of Saturnin , announcing that , at nine o ' clock in the morning of Saturday , the 21 st , there was aga i n an abundant , oozing of blood . ' "
The Courrier de Lyons states that the blood which is said to have issued from the wounds in the side of our Saviour , as represented in the painting in the church of St . Saturnin , has been analyzed by two medical men , who have declared that its chemical composition exactly corresponds with that of human blood .
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Wesleyan Riots In Norfolk. The Fifth-Of-...
WESLEYAN RIOTS IN NORFOLK . The Fifth-of-November mode of settling ecclesiastical disputes , by burning the effigy of your opponent , has been introduced into the Methodist body in Norfolk during the last few weeks , in imitation , no doubt , of the " No-Popery" Autos de Fe elsewhere . It appears that the tyrannical proceedings of Conference have caused , in Norfolk as in other places , a spirit of rebellion against the mandates of that despotic body , and that the people have even gone the length of excluding the regularly-appointed ministers from the pulpits of various chapels . At the village of Lenwade the chapel services have been stopped—the preachers stoned and burnt in effigy ; but this has only been when all peaceful measures have failed . First of all , we are told , the people chose a minister of their own , and , on several occasions , when the obnoxious
Conierence minister aruved , he found the pulpit already occupied . This , of course , was deemed flat rebellion by Conference , and accordingly the superintending minister of the district interfered . He contrived to get early possession of the pulpit & few weeks ago , and , with slight interruptions , got through the service ; but , as he did not like the aspect of the crowd who were assembling out ot doors , he remained inside till the evening service . In the evening the riotous disposition of the people encreased . Stones and other " missiles were thrown
through the windows , and , although the constables were sent for , they did not interfere . The service was abruptly finished , and the minister on leaving the village was assailed with stones , by which the person driving the gig was injured . After he had left , his effigy and that of a friend were burnt by the mob . Several parties were brought before the magistrates last week on the charge of having taken part in the riot , but , after a good deal of evidence , the information was dismissed . The charge against the constables for neglect of duty was adjourned .
American Affairs. The News From The Unit...
AMERICAN AFFAIRS . The news from the United States , by the Asia , though not unimportant , may be compressed into a brief narrative . The President has issued a proclamation declaring that the act of Congress fixing the Texas boundary is in full force and effect . This shows that Texas acquiesces in the slavery compromise of last session . On the contrary , the legislature of South Carolina has emitted a note of warlike preparation , the Senate having passed a bill for a convention , and giving 300 , 000 dollars for military purposes . It is not likely , however , that anything will come of this , for all the forts in the harbour of Charleston are fully manned with the troops of the central government , and 100 , 000 volunteers could be raised in the adjoining states in a fow days to take possession of nil the principal towns .
The legislature hul set to business in good earnest . On the Kith ultimo Mr . Cass moved in tho Senate that the correspondence between Government and the Austrian minister , relutive to the agent stmt by tho United States to Hungary during tho contest there , be laid on the table . The discussion whb postponed . Mr . lienton , the suine day introduced a bill for tho construction of a railroad from St . Louis to Ban Francisco . In the House of Representatives the samo day , the cheap postage bill was made the special
order of the day for Wednesday , the 18 th ultimo . A resolution to enquire into the propriety of requesting the President to give notice to Great Britain of the desire of hia Government to withdraw the wquudron tttutioned on the west const of Afrieii , w iih referred to the committee on nuvul ail ' aira ; the New York brunch Mint was made tho order of the day for the second Tuesday in January ; and tho first Tucuduy , Wednesday , and Thursday in February were set apart for tho consideration of the territorial business of Oregon , Minesotu , Utah , and New Mexico . '
Tun Dkehdkn Conferences. The Members Of ...
TUN DKEHDKN CONFERENCES . The members of the Conference met on " Friday , tho 27 th , at two o ' clock , but they were merely engaged in the preliminary buhinosH of arranging the order of proceedings , und deliberating upon the bent
mode of electing a President of Conferences . It is understood that beyond the verification of credentials and appointment of committees , no details have been entered upon . In the meantime speculation is busy , and anticipation varies according to the peculiar views and aspirations of each politician . It is confidently asserted that the Court of Saxony have declined taking any steps towards promoting their own Minister to the chair , and the probability is that the presidency will be . assumed by Austria . The first duties to which the committee are to direet their attention are to revise the articles of the Alliance of 1815 , with a view to their reform . The representative of Saxony has been unanimously chosen a member of each committee , and was also selected to act as President .
On Saturday Prince Sehwareenberg and Baron Manteuffel went to Berlin . They were received at the railway station by several general and superior officers . Prince Schwarzenberg repaired at once to the royal palace , where apartments had been prepared for him . At three o ' clock all the Ministers dined with the King and his Austrian guest at Charlottenberg . On Sunday Baron Manteuffel gave a grand diplomatic banquet . It is eaid that the chief difficulties of the situation are by no means overcome . The Dresden correspondent of the National Zeitunff "writes : —
" Prussia requires such an enlargement of the right to form alliances as shall enable her to construct a narrower union within the limits of the Confederation , into which Austria is to enter with all her provinces . Austria refuses to permit such an extension of the right of union , declaring that such a right would cause the destruction of the wider Confederation , leaving a sonderbund ( party league ) in its stead . Negotiations are proceeding on this head at the present moment . " The King of Denmark , as Duke and Sovereign of the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg , and a member of the Germanic Confederation , has been officially invited to send a plenipotentiary to Dresden . Baron Pechlin , who has been selected by the King to this post , has left Copenhagen to take part in the conferences .
The Ionian Islands. On Proroguing The Pa...
THE IONIAN ISLANDS . On proroguing the Parliament , Sir Henry Ward , the Lord High Commissioner , delivered a speech directed mainly against political agitation . He contradicted the rumour that there was any intention on the part of the Queen " to abandon a position placed under the safeguard of the British Crown by the Treaty of Paris . " The only effect of keeping up agitation , he adds , will be to divert the minds of the people from things that are practicable and easy of attainment . As for the people generally , he does not believe that they trouble themselves with political theories , or party contests . What they want is good government , roads , schools , impartial administration of justice , and internal improvements of every kind . In conclusion , he quotes the following advice from Lord Grey , who , in a recent despatch , reminds them : —
" That changes in the constitution of the Legislature , and in the distribution of political power , although from time to time they may be necessary in every country , contribute nothing directly to the improvement of the condition of the people . They are valuable only as affording the means by which improvements in the laws and in the system of administration and ooconomy in the public expenditure may be secured . So far from being beneficial in themselves , it is notorious that , so long as the discussion of constitutional changes ia going on , the consideration of those practical measures , which are the
ultimate objects of such alterations , is suspended ; while the frequency of such changes is in the highest degree injurious , by destroying that confidence in the stability of the constituted authorities which ia one of the main elements of their strength . It will , therefore , be much to be desired that tho utteniion of the Parliament , when it reassembles , should be directed more to the use of powers already granted to the people ia the introduction of practical improvements , than to the consideration of new plans for further changes in the constitution so lately eHliiblislied . "
Crimi'l In India. The Papers Received By...
CRIMI'l IN INDIA . The papers received by the laat Overland Mail contain a frightful record ot atrocious murders in Boinbay . The following summary is from a Bombay puper : — " At . the July { tensions , a Portuguese was found guilty of stabbing with u knife a young married woman ; she died of the wound , and the murderer was hanged . At the next criminal session of October 2 , two men were tried and condemned for minder ; one wus hanged — the other was reprieved on the evening preceding his intended execution . They hud entered the houae of a kept .
mirftross , by connivance of a female friend—tied up her head with a burree , and H ( cured suffocation by sitting on her b (> H <> ni . The wretches mem to Imv ^ been from ten . to fifteen minutes occupied in their murderous work , while the womim who admitted them lay , by her own account , bound on tint floor . Tho proposed robbery -wnn then committed . While the NessioiiH were hitting , another murder , cquully coldblooded , and atrocious , occurred . A poor old woman , an oil Heller , posM'rtscd sonic jewels : she wan enticed into a dwellinghouse , and while measuring out . oil wan attacked by two ParseeH , and strangled With a bucket rope . Theao three
last murders , all of women , occurred within a fortni ght of each other . We had now a little breathing space ; amongst horrors such as these , the strangulation of an infant by its mother is scarcely worthy of notice , when three weeks since we find a Chinaman , done to death by two European sailors . We have next a housekeeper poisoned ; then four men . butchered at Mahim in a fit of fury by members of another religious sect ; nejjtt a courtezan poisoned , three others-narrowly escaping a like fate , by a couple of menfor the sake of p lunder ; in all , in four months , nine human lives cruelly destroyed , by tnur- »
derers , and nearly forty individuals charged with murder directly , or as accomplices . The death of thedhinaman and slaughter at Mahim were perpetrated in passion ; the others were coldblooded atrocities , perpetrated by the most cruel means , for the most paltry motives . While recent acts of blood , such as those under investigation , some further light is promised us on the slaughter of the woman found a twelvemonth since , eut piecemeal , and strewed in fragments around on the flats . -r-so that in reality for months on end scarcely a week has passed where some matter connected with a murder has not been under investigation at the police-office . "
The Allais-Yon Plot. The French People H...
THE ALLAIS-YON PLOT . The French people have long been celebrated for the manufacture and opportune discovery of alarming plots . In that sort of ware they far surpass those very wise ancestors of ours who lived in the days of Titus Oates . Their last invention was brought before the public in the course of the trial of Allais , the police-agent of the Assembly , for calumniously accusing certain persona of a plot to assassinate General Changarnier and M . Dupin , the President of the National Assembly . The following account of the transaction we borrow from the columns of the Times : —
" Pierre Constant Allais * is described in the report of the trial as being twenty-nine years of age , a pale , thin man , with a restless eye . The calumnious accusation appears to have been uttered in the shape of a report to M . Yon , the Commissary of Police of the Assembly . It was in effect that a knot of Bonapartist conspirators had met on the 29 th of October last , attheshop of one Pichon , a grocer , in the Rue des Saussaies , and had there come to the resolution of assassinating General Changarnier and M . Dupin . - The vivid imagination of the agent who fixed upon the dramatis jjerson < E , readily extemporized all melodramatic adjuncts which should accompany so solemn a resolution . Lots were duly cast , and it fell to the lot of an artist named Picot to give the fatal blow to General
Changarnier . Allais himself was designed by fate to bring poor M . Dupin ' s days to an untimely conclusion . Twenty-six persons—so Allais reported the matterwere present in the grocer ' s back shop when the final resolution was taken . They did not separate until a late hour , and the next thing we hear of Allais is , that in the middle of the night he presented himself in a perfectly composed at , » te of mind at the lodging of a Madame Raymond , a dressmaker , with whom he cohabited . The next morning he called upon M . Yon , his chief , and informed him of the plot . On the evening of that day M .
Yon , in company with Allais , visited the Rue des Saussaies , and the very shop in which the awful conspiracy had been hatched was pointed out by the agent to his principal . This was something in the way of evidence , and , as if to make assurance doubly 6 ure , Allais produced for the satisfaction of his chief forty francs whichso he informed him—he had received from the Elyse ' as his share of the subsidy b ^ tttowed by Louis Napoleon on the Secret Society . Of course it was impossible to resist direct proof of this kind , and , accordingly , M . Yon attached implicit belief to the revelations of his subordinate from that moment forward .
" What follows is still more curious . M . Yon , although possessed of a secret of such importance , kept the proper authorities in ignorance of it until the 9 th of November . It was not until the Gth that he presented his report to the Questure of the Assembly . The interval appears to have been spent by M- Yon in making inquiries , tho result of which convinced him more ana more of the truth of the alleged conspiracy . When the necessity of producing Allais was urged upon him vy the magistrate , M . Yon , who was perfectly aware of nia whereabouts , kept him out of the way , and ev * n concealed him for throe days in his own lodgings ftt tne Assembly . Meanwhile Allais did but little credit as a witness to his proteotorfor within the space of ft U "
, days he retracted his statement , aiul then retracted trie retractation- During the prqgr « w « of the t » jal he was m one of his affirmative fits , sax * insisted upon the truta <>* his etory , with some few modifications with rejjura to the drawing of the lots . These points , ho admitted , were fabrications . The evidence of the witnesses consisted in the main of Indignant appeals to the court , and of violont denunciations of the prisoner an a ' guetus' a ' calumniator , ' a * barefaced impostor , ' an ' impudent liar , ' and so forth . It is quite needless tu dwell in detail upon the statements ot tlio various persons acouaed of sharing in an imaginary the Jat
plot . ' Are you not ashamed to look me in -e r said M . Pillon , an innocent sign-painter , to tho prisoner . The answer is , ' Tuke care , or I will tejl all ! oo <>» throughout ; but if we take one man ' s evidence , as a specimen of the rest , naturally M . Pichon , the outraged grocer of the Hue des Saussaios , has theflrst claim upon dur oymputhies : — ,, , " ? M . Pichon , grocer , Hue < 1 cm Hauatmina , 2 , suld / ho had p « ot formed part , of tho Hooioty of the " Amis do 1 'Ordrc ot « 1 " ll " " inmate . " No meeting had liven hvld at hi « Iioiihu on 111 " « " <¦ " October hint . H i * buck Hliop could not contain twvnty-mx I" ' ' soiih ( tlio number Htatcd by AllaiH to have boon prompt ) , could not bold mor « thun oifjht or ten . On re * dii ») r in tlit ) i »«» vhpuper un account of tho allugiul ooimpinwy ftt hia hout ><) , w » m [ peat ly iiatouiulwd . und wont to tho uonjmimury of pollow ot ll " diutrict to auk him whnt ho should do . That functionary rocoin-
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 4, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04011851/page/4/
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