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We have been thoroughly snubbed at Rome . Sir Henry Bulwer has 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 Rome could do ' very well without them . Sir Henry bowed his acquiescence and turned to the case of the condemned English prisoner Murray . As Murray had been
sentenced by a secret tribunal the English envoy desired to see the records of the trial . The cardinal coolly replied that we had condemned Mr . Newman , a spiritual subject of Rome , in our courts at Westminster , and Rome did not interfere for his protection . Where will the arrogance of these ecclesiastical tyrants end ? The Cardinal ' s impudence 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 because a subject of this realm , but a spiritual adherent of the Pope , is found guilty after an open trial by a jury of his countrymen , that , therefore , a Roman secret tribunal may murder an Englishman , and England may not interfere or ask a question . Wo deserve it all for suffering the Roman Republic to be crushed ; but if Lord Malmesbury will put up with that he will submit to anything . Even the "Times" takes fire and hints that though
France occupies Rome , and Civita Vecehia , 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 Religious 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 ilva 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 , we pick out the facts that Sir Fitzroy Kelly has been making a speech to the farmers , and Lord John Russell and Lord Panmure ( 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 bis old creed altogether , nor
altogether retain it . He vacillates between protection to farmers , and exertion by them as their means of salvation . The fanners 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 Russell 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 remed y 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 misdeeas , 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 wc do , and they flogged ! We ought to flog too . Without pretending to an y sympathy for the brutes who beat women , however degrading their punishment , we might just hint that flossing is only one of tho
modes of education—teaching is another . Could not our Floffgers combine the two , and practice them in a schoolmasterlike fashion on the brutes , when they are boys . That mio-ht obviate > the necessity for adult scourging ; but it is always the way , when crime is to be treated—let people grow lip bniteS ly all means-then flog and h ang , and imprison . Always repress and punish , never Reform . Respectable people may find out by-and-bye ,. that such a system is worse than worn —that it is dangerous . °
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*¦ ¦ " •* ^ - Death in a Church . —The forenoon service in Dr . Pedclic ' s church , Bristo-street , Edinburgh , was on Sunday interrupted hv an event which illustrated in a very remarkable manner a sub " jectnot urrfrequeiitly enforced from the pulpit , the uncertainty oi human life . About half-past eleven o ' clockwhile a respect
, able man , upwards of 80 years of age , of the name of Dickson and by trade a cabinet maker , was turning over the leaves of his Bible , he suddenly fell down and expired . He was immedi ately removed to the vestry , -where several medical men , members of the congregation , used every effort for resuscitation , but in Tain . . '
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FRANCE . ( PEOJI OUR OWN COBKESPOKDENT . ) Paris . September 29 . The great event of the week has been the discovery on Friday last , of an " Infernal Machine ' plot at ivlarseilles . the police have a very great advantage now m manufacturing ot plots , inasmuch as the absence of all means of tree inquiry renders it next to impossible to arrive at the truth , ine following is the official account of the " discovery : —
f 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 hact resolved to make an attembt on the life of the President . The city of Marseilles had been chosen for the execution of the plot . M . Sylvam Blot , Inspector . General of the Ministry of Police , caremlly 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 conspirators 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 stories , 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 attenrot 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 he this affair , not only from its theatrical effect , but from its capability of beingmade one of those " gourdes menas" which were to be considered
sufficient grounds to warrant an " appeal to toe 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 Thibaut 10 , 107 , and 6 , 594 foi Michelet . In the fourth , out of 42 MQ voters , 21 , 996 came
forward ; 11 , 379 were for M . Japy , and 10 , 504 for M . Goudchaux . The great number of abstentions is no doubt to be attributed , in great part , to the proclamation of the society La llevolution of which I gave a translation last week , Had 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 , whivh has been printed clandestinely 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 , ViveV Emperev-A
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 Moulms , at Kevers , at Roanne , at St . Etienne at Lyons ? The pioneers of the police first searched the fanbourgs , 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 tho 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 Caesar , 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 inthepassage 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 man whom ambition has made a bandit , and debauchery a monster . The empire is a gag on every mouth , espionage on every hearth it is oppression , systematic , universal , savage , and brutal . It i ' s the silence of every voice , of every tribune ; it is the repression the death of the ideas , which , for sixty . years , have been the evand army of our fatherland . The empire , in fact , is the public fortune pillaged by valets without mercy or control ; it is the whims of adventurers incessantly let ' loose upon a reffnkiwl
cm ization ; it is the caprice , the pride , hallucination of one man m place of toe reason of a great people ; it is Erostratus above ™ 7 e ! , . ° > then , if it be not the mob of impostors will cry Vive V Empire Vm P Empereur . No , a thousand times no : such a terrible buffoonery shall not have its day ; we swear it hy our dead , hy our martyrs , by our holy hatreds , and we take to witness our avenging golds , both eteml-the people and the right ! ' L . Notwithstanding the existing terror , there are men amongst us devoted enough to risk everything in circulating documents like the above ; and not only does this fearless spirit exist in Paris , but m the provinces also . Seven men have been arrested m Toulouse lor tearing down the Bonapartfet placards , and at
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Bordeaux it has been sought to establish a republican « ganda by means of tobacco pipes ; large numbers of these 1 ° ^' manufactured bearing likenesses of Louis Blanc , Ledvu R i ? 8 Kaspail , and other eminent republicans . So long as tin , ! •}' exists , even in a few , we shouMwnot despair . s P > t BELGIUM . The Belgian Chambers , were , opened on Monday by one of u ministers : there is accordingly no speech from the throne The Independance of Wednesday states that it luv . learned the resignation-. of the ministers , announ ced tV !? Assembly at the commencement of the sitting . tllli The Chambers are adjourned to the 26 th October .
HOLLAND . The government of the Netherlands has gained a " r victory in the first division of the Chambers this session ' m ? old anti-ministerial Speaker has been rejected , and the tl candidates offered for royal nomination are decided sun ™ * of the cabinet . ip % * GERMANY . The Gazette de VEmpire Allemand lias the following i * The Uazette de vampire Jiuemana iias the followimv < U
,, , from Warsaw , Sept . 16 : — " People talk here of a comfiC " of the armies of the north , according to a plan prepared wit ] *' view to action in concert , in the event of certain contravene * , ? It is thought the presence in Warsaw of a large number ^ officers from all the states is to be attributed to this desig n Austria . —The semi-official Correspondent states that ft Emperor has directed his Minister of Foreign Affairs to til measures at Koine for establishing a concordat between ' / Austrian government and the Pope . e
According to the JBreslau Gazette , General Haynau has he summoned to Vienna by order of the Emperor ; his Maicst ' - considering that the demonstrations which his presence 1 ' excited in certain places are calculated to compromise the hono ^ of the Austrian uniform . Ul Bavaria . —The conference of the coalesced governments at Munich terminated on the 20 th inst . Deliberations were 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 th The of
SouGermany . news the separate conference held by Prussia on the 17 th inst . is reported to hm promoted unanimity among the members of the coalition . FiiAXKFoitT . —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 onlv arrested after having made a passive resistance . EU 6 SIA .
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 . Piedmoxt . —The Mercantile Courier ot 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 man was conveyed to the hospital , and hopes were entertained of his recovery . The assassin had made his escape .
Naples . —The Fiedmontese Gazette oi 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 her 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 ' arenot fit for any greater measure of liberty than that granted by the Charter of 1817 , while the other sees with 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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UNITED STATES . ( FROM OWN OUll CORRESPONDENT . ) New York , September U & - ^ On Wednesday , Thursday , and Fridav , last week , a Wowens ' ltights Convention was held at Syacusc . A great many speeches were delivered , the fair orators insisting upon the immediate recognition of the principle of absolute equality betwee n the sexes . One of the speakers , a Mrs . Jones from Ohio , saw she wanted the vote and more than the vote , she wanted no only to take a seat upon the judicial bench or in the senate , to » to occupy the Presidental Chair itself ! She was not she f *)
, oncot those women who like to waste time in talking ahoaj her rights , she preferred taking them . One of the aW » speeches was that delivered by Mrs . Davis , and as it veleuo * to the social relations of woman , it was of' considerably & f » importance than any amount of eloquence about ju ^™ benches and Presidental chairs . At the close of her addiesM she moved the following resolutions : — " Inasmxwli as the Family i 8 the central and supreme msUtati ^ ajf * human societies , bo that all other organizations , whether in <^ Tm State , depend upon it for their character and action , its evils Mint ^ source ot all evil , and its good the fountain of all good , involved destmy of the race ; and inasmuch as marriage , the bond of tlusp " ^ iuuui ^ unmman soeiMion was the only institution 8
^ . as . , " " ,., ; . „ for Creator in the innocence of Eden , and is the chosen symbol ot w » atJJ , the union oi the Church to her Redeemer in the Paradise to conic , J thereby taught as much as we can yet comprehend of the deep sig"iu ot its idea and the boundless beneficence of its office . " . oiu t " Resolved , therefore , that the correction of its abuses is the starting f of all the reforms which the world needs , and that . Woman ty ' ^' Wfc ) her natural constitution , and every circumstance of her actual yosu ^ the fitting minister of its redeeming agency , and that answenijj , g [ l ( , duties oi her great mission , and acting within her appropriate sp ^< ie 3 is authorized to demand the emancipation of her sex from all tlies * ^ er of law and custom , which hitherto have made and kept her incaprt ^ ; U , j heaven-appointed office . And that Woman may perform her auu ^ fulfil her destiny , we demand for her , moral , social , pecuniary anU < £ j lver freedom . We demand that her proper individuality be held wu ^ r rational independence respected ; her faculties all educated , viu »
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 2, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_02101852/page/2/
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