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    FRANCE . The trial of the « Siecle , ' for a libel against the President of the Republic , drew on Wednesday Jast to tbe Court of Assizes a crowded audience . The interest of the proceedings hy in the eminence of the witnesses examined , and ia the confirmation which resulted of the principal feet alleged by the « Siecle . ' The incriminated article stated that the chief subject of conversation in the lobbies of the Assembly on that day , July 28 th , was the loss of £ 12 , C ( S 0 by Miss Howard , through unfortunate speculations at the Bourse . This debt , it was said , had been discharged in full by the President of the Republic , notwithstanding the known penury of the

    coffers of the Elysee in consequence of the denial of tbe dotation . M . St . Marc Rigaudie , representative , corroborated the circulation of the report of f tbe Assembly , and added that he bad heard that , ¦ after the payment of the lady ' s losses , only 263 fr . remained in the chest of the Elysee . M . Baze was next called , and said that he was not in the habit of sWpp rai to hear the gossip of groups in the Chamber ; but as for the rumours of coups d ' etat alluded to by the' Steele' he could not avoid hearing a good-deal about them—( laughter )—although bethoug ht there was less talk about such eventualities this year than tbe last , owing to the impossibility of carrying such an enterprise into

    execution ; ( Presb laughter . ) M . Goudchaux , ex-Minister of Finance , was aware of the facts relative to the losses of the English lad y in question . M . Abbatucci was next examined . He admitted that at the Elysee , as in the head-quarters of every other government , there was more than one policy ; bnt although there was only one which he himself approved , he could not undertake to stigmatise the councils to which he was opposed . He had heard during the last three years continual rumours of toups d ' elat without a shadow of ground for such suspicions . Certainly he had exerted himself tu the utmost to procure the nomination of grave and

    independent men on the committee of permanence , and the composition of that body afforded the best evidence of the tranquillity of the public mind , and df the faUehood of the ' Steele ' s' representation that any mad enterprise on the part of the Elysee was dreaded by the people or tbeir representatives . The jury having admitted attenuating circumstances on behalf of the defendants , rejected the application of the advocate-general for the suspension of the journal , and condemned the gerant , Sougere , to 2 , 500 fr . fine , with three months' imprisonment , and M . Jonrdan , the writer of the article , to 500 fr ., with two months' imprisonment .

    TRIAL BV CJUUT MARTIAL OF THE LYONS CONSPIRATORS . At ten o ' clock on the morning of the 5 tb , the court-martial assembled at the Palais de Justice , for the trial of the fifty conspirators concerned in the Lyons plot , for upsetting the government and introducing the red republic . M . Couston , colonel of the 13 th Regiment of the line , was the president . The proceedings opened by the calling over the names of tbe witnesses , to the number of 115 , among whom Ate several sub-prefects , literary men , journalists , aud some women . Thirty barristers , retained for the defence of the various prisoners , took their seats on the counsels benches . Among them were four

    representatives of the people—M . Michel ( deBourges ) , MM . Cancel , Boisset , and Madier Montjau . The prisoners , to tbe number of thirty-seven , were then brought into court , and answered to their names . fourteen ether persons included in the accusation iave absconded . The principal prisoner is M . Gent , of the Parisian bar , formerly a representative of the department of the Isere . He is defended by M . Michel ( de Bourges ) . Among the other prisoners are barristers , farmers , journalists , and persons of various trades and professions . They were almost all well , and many of them elegantly dressed . After a warning by the President that any expression of approbation or of disapprobation on the part of the audience would be repressed and severely punished ,

    the registrar read the ' requisitoire , which answers to what is called the 'acte d ' accusalion' in the French civil courts , and to the English indictment or charge . This document , in pursuance of the invariable practice of French criminal proceedings , is an elaborate narration of everything relating to the Jjrisoner ' s past life which may in any degree , however remote , tend to throw suspicion upon him , the whole carefully arranged so as to bring the whole . mass of facts to converge and press against the prisoner with the utmost possible force . The introductory part of this ' requisitorie' states that Gent , tier having been in danger of being tried before the bigh court of justice at Versailles , had been fortunate dough , thanks ( o the zealous intervention of M . Lacrosse , to obtain a declaration of the court

    dismissing him from the prosecution . Alluding to this in a letter to his brother ( 15 th August , 1849 ) , lie said that < be was very glad not to have been Compromised in that stupid broil of June 13 th , and to have preserved his freedom of action for more serious matters . The part that he had played under the provisional government , and in the constituent assembly , had excited in him the thirst for enjoyment and for power , which seemed to have tormented bis whole life , and to have diverted him from regular and persevering labour . His pride revolted from the idea of condemning himself to the labits of a simple life . Bather , ' said he in the same letter , ' than return to a secondary and

    neeesfary precarious position , I will return to Avignon , where there must be plenty to do to re-organise and rally the party which must now be rather checked , and perhapj somewhat cooled . ' While pondering in what direction he might best employ his ambitious activity he entreated his brother to procure him money , that he might conceal the disastrous reality of his pecuniary affairs , and continue to play the part of a man who was beholden to no one . 1 , ' said he , with as much impudence as ability , 'if I appear necessitous , I shall not succeed , because as I will not go to others , but want others to come to me , I should lose that consideration in their eyes which it is so easy for me to preserve . ' Such

    were the adventurous dispositions of Gent when he was sent to Lyons to concur in defending the prisoners who were accused before a court-martial of having taken a part in the insurrection of the 15 th ¦ sf June , 1819 . He joyfully accepted , as a piece of late luck , a mission which transported him into the hottest stronghold of the mobocracy . The success which he obtained before the courts-martial ,, tbe numerous and intimate acquaintances which * he formed among the men the most implicated in demagogical intrigues , the superiority which his education and intelligence gave him over the greater part of those persons soon gamed him a political position , of which he availed himself by

    becorainga candidate at the last elections of the Saone and Loire . His failure at those elections seemed to have been partly attributable to the opposition aiade to him by the leaders of the secret society called the Lyonese Carbonari , between whom and Gent an enmity existed , on which account Gent endeavoured to damage them in the eyes of the mob by spreading the report that they were ia the pay of the police . In a letter to his brother be cays : * I affirm that the police are the soul of everything—that they know everything . If necessary , write to me , and I will answer . Keep me informed . ' Notwithstanding the expressions in that letter , it was impossible , after what had come

    to the knowledge of the prosecution , to censtrue it as a sincere protest against secret societies in general . Gent bad long been connected with the socleties of the south . When the courts-martial -were over , Gent had no longer any vocation at Lyons . He , however , prolonged bis stay there , making frequent excursions into Drome and to Vaucluse , which must have cost him much money , but constantly returning to Lyons . The attention of government was awakened , and it was evident that auch aman as Gent could only be in Lyons for the purpose of political intrigue . In September and October there were rumours of insurrection in every £ 25 . . . i * . ge end ^ easiness existed . The IKK ™ t , tUd \ o £ " -eWchists exhibited SS ^ S *¦* ««? «» -Path , to

    to account fiord ' s strong " political fir " ^ 2 ™?* numerous letters from thlSoeh If i he had under cover to Borel Anortr ItZS ¦ ^ l aeizimj Borel ' a letters aUhe Po tX , hKS . - *" important was at first ^ nmi t ^ S ^ that very few of Borel ' s letters were addr « ? d ? o himwhia own name . Borel bad been the aLt and whatin « - amj phrase is called the mother of workmen of various trades . Letters were confitanll y sent addressed inimaginary names , such as Claudius or Bernard , to the care of Mother , Hue EX . * " ¥ ? the 8 e w * re lette ra addressed lorMiri : , which was a name agreed upon for Gent . Jae requmtotrt thea gives the dates and p 08 -

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    marks of seven letters addressed as above described b y different person * iucUvUd . ia the indictment . The letters are referred to by their numSers among the papers seiz-d , but their contents are not set forth . The requisitoire proceeds to say that the letters which bad been seized were fragments of & correspondence as extensive as actively carried on , that their contents fully justified the persevering steps of the government to get at the secret , and strikingly confirmed the reports of the secret police . That they disclosed one of the most vast

    conspiracies that had ever been hatched—for the revolutionary organisation which thecorrespondence betrayed eras directed by central committees established in London , Paris , and Lyons , and supported by many other secondary committees . The leaders of the criminal enterprise flattered themselves that they obtained the promise of co-operation from several representatives of the Mountain . Gent ' s correspondents speak of secret contributions of a maments , of soldiers full of ardour and im patience ready to rise at the first signal . One of the letters recommended Gent ' not to

    spare heads . ' The first letters discovered having shown the characteristic element of a plot , it became the duty of the prosecution to complete the evidence . In spite of the difficulties of the task occasioned by the concealment of papers , when the news of Gent ' s arrrest rapidly spread , the domiciliary visits which had been made had brought together a mass of documents sufficient to enable government to appreciate the extent of tbe conspiracy , the p lan of the conspirators , the resources whicii they reckoned , and to trace the pro gressive march of their proceedings through alL its principal stages . The introductory part of the requisition is followed by a description , divided into chapters , of immense length , of the political state of the south of France in 1849 and 1850 ; of the numerous societies which atfer clubs were prohi .

    bued were established under the name of' Cercles / such as the' Cercle des Travailleurs , '' Cercle democratique , ' ' Cercle philanthropi que , ' & c , all of which under the pretext of philanthropic objects were in fact clubs of the most dangerous character . Ons society was called the Nourelle Montagne , and its organisation was such that there was a . chief for every ten men . In this society the members admitted were received with great formalities , and were made to take solemn oath on a poignard , in the name of' the martyrs of liberty , ' to take arms against tyranny , to put tyrants to death , and to combat for the democratic and social republic . The members bad words and signs for recognising each other . The connexion of Gent with the latter society was very elaborately traced . The reading of this document continued up to the rising of the court at five o ' clock .

    Considerable alarm was excited on Thursday evening by the news given in the'Patrie , ' which prognosticated imminent disorders ; but the intelli gence received on Monday from the department of the Rhone is of a more reassuring character . On the 5 th , at the breaking up of the first silting of the court-martial , the eminent representatives who have undertaken the defence were the object of a SOVt Of popular ovation . Amid the cries ot l Vive la Republique 3 ' Vive Michel de Bourges ! ' the lauer chief of the Mountain , with bis brother advocates , was conducted to tbe Hotel de l'Europe

    by a vast concourse of people , chiefly of the work , ing classes . But tbe crowd passed without uttering any provocation before the strong body of cuirassiers posted at the abutment of tbe Pont de l'Archeveche . The next morning a fresh crowd gathered about the hotel where M . Michel was breakfasting . Strict orders have been given by General Castellane to ni p these demonstrations in the bud , and in future no crowds will be per mitted to form for the purpose of escorting home in triumph the popular leader of the democratic party .

    At Lyons , on Wednesday evening , some women , relatives of the Prisoners , were detected by tbe procureur-general and a captain of the gensdarmes making some remarks on the proceedings at the door of the Palais de Justice . An altercation ensued , which resulted in the arrest of three of the women . A meeting of the counsel for the prisoners took place afterwards , at M . Michel de Bourges ' s hotel , and it was agreed that , in order to avoid any occasion of irritation , no mention of this arrest should be made in open court . The counsel then bad a private interview with Col . Couston , the

    president , and represented to him that neither the demeanour of the prisoners , nor the mode in which tbe defence would be conducted , would be calculated to produce any agitation out of doors ; but that the extreme severity of the measures which had been taken were likel y to produce a contrary impression , which in itself was dangerous to a certain extent . The colonel promised to report these observations to General Castellane . Tne women were released the next day , and the demonstration of military force around M . Michel de Bourges ' s hotel was less conspicuous than it had been .

    Up to the fourth day all the time of the court had been occupied in reading the preparatory evidence . August 8 . —The whole day was again occupied in reading evidence , consisting chiefly in letters by or to the prisoners . An incident occurred which very nearly resulted in depriving the prisoners of the assistance of their counsel . This would certainly have happened but for the really admirable conduct of Colonel Couston , who , with all the dignity and firmness which belonged to the president of a court-martial , evinces under most difficult circumstances , a spirit of kindness and conciliation which is far less common . "Whilst the registrar was

    reading one of the 222 letters which are in evidence against Gent , the latter told him to pass that letter over . The registrar stopped reading , on which the president warmly rebuked bim for attending to an order from a prisoner . Subsequently , upon Captain Merle , who acts as judge advocate , expressing his opinion that it was necessary to read all the letters of Gent , the latter explained that there was nothing that he desired to suppress , but that some of his letters to his brother related to such merely private matters that he wished to put it to the judge advocate whether it was worth while to read them . M . Michel ( de Bourges ) then observed that the letter to which Gent ' s interruption referred , was one in which

    he had spoken to his brother of his own success at the bar , and that it was from a natural feeling of modesty that he did not wish to hear it read in public . The President remarked somewhat sternl y , that the fact stated was no justification for the prisoner having presumed to give an order to the registrar . Gent then denied that be had given any order , and upon the President repeating the assertion , Gent contradicted him with much warmth of manner . The President instantly ordered the gensdarmes to take Gent out of court , which was at once done . M . Michel ( de Bourges ) was proceeding to make an apology for Gent , when the Presideat told him that the trial should proceed in Gent ' s

    absence . M . Michel ( de Bourges ) then said he would withdraw from the defence . M . de Madier Montjau rose and said that he and the rest of his colleagues also felt that they could not continue their task and felt it right to withdraw . The President then said , with much feeling , that he deeply regretted to hear that resolution , that it would be a terrible loss to the prisoners , and that the court also were anxious to have the assistance of counsel , and he would gladly listen to them . He would revoke his decision and readmit Gent , if the latter

    would onl y admit that he had been wrong . M . Michel ( de Borges ) observed that Gent bad not intended to be disrespectful to the President , and consequentl y could not admit that he was wrong . The President then said that he would go so far ae to admit him without any apology on the understanding that he would conduct himself properly for the future . M . Michel ( de Bourges ) withdrew with this message , and with some difficulty persuaded Gent to return into court . Gent , on taking his place , bowed slightl y to the President , who returned the salutation . The reading of

    evidence was then resumed . August 9 . —At a quarter-past twelve the court re-assembled . In the crowd on the Pont de l'Archeveche , as the advocates of the prisoners passed a young man was arrested for having cried Vive Ia Republique !' The reading of the documents was proceeded with ; but after a while was interrupted by a noise at the door , which turned out to be caused by M . Greppo , tbe representative , to whom the gen darmes refused admission . The President ordered that M . Greppo should he admitted . Nothing more of importance occurred , and the court adjourned at five o ' clock .

    , „^ . ema mfestoof the Mountain appeared in the Rational and 'Presse' of Monday last . It is signed by mnety-tbree representatives . The names oi fourteen others , including Victor Hugo , Eratte de Girardm , Pascal Duprat , and Dupont ( de Bussac ) are published as having adhered to the manifesto . ine manifesto begins b y a reference to that of last

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    rear the language of which they find no occasion to alter . The vote on the revision has been the first step towards the triumph of their cause , which they then foretold . They rejected the revision because the constitution , though far from being tbe boundary of political and social progress , ia a bar to all monarchical factions , and , above all , because they could never consent that tbe fundamental law —the offspring of universal suffrage—should be altered by restricted suffrage . They refer to the humbled tone of the legitimists , who , not daring to unfurl their flag , are reduced to seek their king at the Elysee , which in return is compelled to make common cause with them . By their reciprocal

    concessions , the President and the majority have rivalled each other in their endeavours to weaken and to destroy the Republic . Abroad , French troops and French treasure are employed in upholding the government of the Pope , a government at once stupid , immoral , and cruel , which condemns to exile , imprisonment , infamous punishments , and more humiliating torture , all that is illustrious or honest in the country ; a government which , under the very eyes of the French army , is plotting with the King of Nap les—that executioner of his subjects—how to shake off a protection which he fears and repudiates . At home , after the suppression of the right of public meeting—the restriction of the

    liberty of the tribune—the destruction of the liberty of the press—the abandonment of education to the Jesuits—the dismissal of public functionaries—the mutilation of universal suffrage—and after the state of siege in five departments , it mi ght have been thought that there was nothing left of which the Republic could be robbed . But every day a new blow has been struck at the edifice of February The manifesto then enumerates the acts of the government and of the Assembly , of which the Mountain complain . The long detention of tbe prisoners now on trial at Lyons—the trial of non-military citizens by court-martial—the prolongation of the state of siege for which the Lyons plot was the

    pretext—the severe laws against the population of Lyons—the dissolution of the national guard , and of municipal councils for having cried ' Vive la Republique'in the ears of the President—the prolongation of the ma ndate of officers of the national guard beyond the period for which they were elected—and tbe refusal of an amnesty to those prisoners of June who were transported to Belle Isle without a trial . The manifesto then protests against the prorogation of the Assembly while there remained so many measures of vital importance to the people undetermined . An allusion is then made to the demands of the President for money in addition to his constitutional salary and large allowances , and

    to the refusal of the Assembly , indignant at the imperialist demonstrations which had been made , to grant the l , 800 , Q 00 f „ which were asked for at the beginning of this year . Acting in the same spirit , the Assembly overthrew the ministry . But all at once the majority returned to its old path , the dismissed ministers , were restored , and the ComunUee of Permanence has been composed of legitimists and ministerialists . An alliance has been made between Buonapart and Henry V ., of which the Jesuits are the intermediators . Kings look on and applaud , joy is in the enemy ' s camp , but the Republic lets them alone , knowing that the day of reparation is at hand . The Mountain then claim credit for the

    consistency with which they have always protested against the legality of the law of the 31 st of May . They describe universal suffrage as an imprescriptible right , which every man receives in some sort from God , the founder of all society , a sacred ri ght which the written law does notconcede hut proclaims . In the presence of the law of the 31 st of May , which is a law pregnant with civil war , they , acting as they had a right to do , and weighing all circumstances , had refused the revision ; they will refuse it againthe revision will not take place ; that is a settled fact for the future as much as for the past , in 1852 , according to the fundamental law , the sovereign prople in its universally will elect a new

    Assembly and a new President , the executive and subaltern agent of the legislative power . How can this law , which has already been peaceably acted upon several times , bring on a crisis ? The enemies of the Republic ask what can be done If the people elect Louis Napoleon ? To this question their only answer is that the people will not elect Louis Napoleon . The people know that his election is unconstitutional , and the people desire that the constitution should be respected . The trial has been made , and the people cow know that between a prince . and a Republic there is an abyss . The people understood that Louis Napoleon cannot be a candidate without violating his oath ; and tbe peo pie will have an honest man at the head of the Repub lie . Those who think otherwise do not know the people . They are the same men who call the people the

    vile multitude . The manifesto concludes in the following words : ' Thus , then , the law of the 31 st of May repealed by the Assembly , who feel the impossibility of ma ' nfcaining it in the face of the constitution ; the re-election of Buonaparte impossible , because it would be to violate the constitution ; the prorogation of the existing powers impossible , because it would be to violate the constitution ; the constitution ruling all citizens and all institutions . Such is 1852 , without disorder , without crisis . It would not be a crisis , but a revolution , which would arise from the violation of our fundamental compact . It would be a revolution legitimate as right—holy as justice—sacred as liberty . In such a case we here declare with deliberate determination , that , wrapped in the banner of the constitution , we should not be found wanting in any of those duties which the safety of the Republic might impose

    upon us . On Saturday last the Assembly met for the last time before the vacation ; not more than 300 were present when the chair was taken . This number gradually diminished . After transacting some matter of course business of tbe most uninteresting kind , M . Lacrosse observed that there were not members enough present to make a house , and that the prorogation had been voted . The Assembly then dispersed in silence at half . past three . The manifesto of the Mountain has appeared in the'National' and the 'Press . ' It is signed by ninety-three representatives . Tbe names of fourteen others , including Victor Hugo , Emile de Girardin , Pascal Duprat , and dupont ( de Bussac ) are

    published as having adhered to the manifesto . The name of Caruot is not among either the signatures or adhesions . The document , which is very long , occupying five columns ol the ' National , ' is moderate in its tone . It insists upon the illegality of the law of tbe 31 st of May ; assumes that that law will yet be repealed by the present Assembly ; and dwells upon the impossibility of the re-election of Louis Napoleon , because such a re-election would violate the constitution . It declares the determination of the Mountain not to vote for revision before the new elections , and expresses a confident belief that 1852 , which is falsely pointed to as a crisis , will pass over legally and peacefully . It is remarkable that the ' Siecle , ' General Cavaignac ' s journal , does not contain the manifesto .

    Two new democratic journals are announced to appear at the end of October . One to be called the ' Republique Universelle , ' under the patronage and direction of the refugees in London , will be in French , Italian , and German , and thousands " of copies are intended to be sent to Ital y and Germany . The other will be entitled the « Journal des Elections , ' and will recommend candidates to the electors . 100 , 000 copies of this are to be distributed gratuitously in the country . The funds will he supplied by the central purse in London which is said to be well filled . '

    GERMANY . The federal commissioners have left the electorate of Hessen for good , and their commissions have been returned to the Diet . The German papers have led the public astray on this point by stating that they had merely changed the seat of their labours , transferring it from Cassel to Frankfort . The elector of Hessen-Cassel and his adviser Haasenpflug are once again sole masters of the unhappy land over which they rule . The inhabitants are wasted in mind and ruined in pocket by a military occupation which has lasted eight or nine months . Those who were able have emigrated ; those who remain must submit to whatever the government may choose to exact .

    According to the « Correspondence' the Diet are now about to enter on a new field of action , that is , to bring ecclesiastical and reli gious affairs under its cognisance . The pretext is this : that places of worship are the hot-beds of the democratic propagandiara , and the object will be therefore to suppress tbem altogether . But whatever the Diet may do in this respect , tbe evangelical church of Prussia , who has already solemnly put these con . gregations , with formal ban and anathema , out of the pale of Christianity , will have the honour of having led tbe way to the religious persecution meditated . The persecution consequently will not so much be that of a civil poviM u vhat ol a Bo-callod Protestant and evangelical church , Preparations are bow again everywhere activel y making for the assembling of the provincial Diels

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    You will recollect that the collection of the class and Mftd income tax was the pretext orig . nahy put forth for their revival . It appears , kww » , » w hat the r attribute , are to be bo multifarious and exlsive as to embraceall the object , of prov . nc . al administration . . __ - > -.. m ^ r .

    R 0 MAN STATES . . We have received letters , dated July 81 , from which we learn that great discontent prevailed in the citv and throug hout the provinces , on account of the new taxes and contribu- ions levied by the government , and also on account of the continued E of political persecution aga inst all who were no considered as obsequious partisans o the cUricS Iwime . Amongst the most recent victims , ucrefondent mentions Signer Blasi , a man o . extremely moderate principles , who had advocated the princip le ef non-resistance when the French entered Civita Vecchia , and had subsequently afforded valuable information to the French envoy , M . de Corcelles . .. __ „ , .. .

    The tide of public sympathy was gradually turning in favour of the French roops , between whora and the acts of the > French government , the Romans seemed inclined to make a distinction , which was observed with jealousy by the Pr Correspondent of the'Lombardo Veneto * of Milan gives the following account of the positions which General Geraeau has taken up at Rome . He has concentrated all his troops on the right bank of the iber , leaving only half a battalion at La Pilott , for the defence of the French embassy . Ihe milita y occupation extends from the Castle of St Auzelo to the Porta Portese , at the other extremity of the Janiculas . Thus the French army is situated between the Tiber and the most important fortifications of Rome .

    Accounts dated 1 st inst ., state that the Austrian have collected large forces , with strong divisions of artillery , in the Legation and the Marches . Bo . logno , Anemia , Foligno , and the whole line of positions , are fortified . The late floods are abating , hut the country papers still bring news of the deplorable ravages which have marked their course .

    NAPLES . A letter from Naples , dated Aug ; 4 ., says : — ' The publication of Mr . Gladstone ' s psmphlets on the Neapolitan , state trials has created an unp leasant sensation at court , and a considerable amount of curiosity amongst the intelligent classes . I am assured the revelations which Mr . Gladstone has g iven to the world formed a subject of discussion at a late cabinet council , when some one suggested the propriety of suspending other political process ! , which at the present moment are adding fresh chapters of injustice and cruelty to a history which scarcely belongs to the age in which we live . The Minister of Police , Feccheneda , however , urged the necessity of going on at any cost . This resolution was followed up by acts which , if possible , place the Neapoli tan government in a yet

    deeper p it of degradation . The prisons of the accused were immediately searched , and these unhappy men , under trial for the events of May , 1848 , were deprived of everf paper necessary for their defence . Such injustice was followed up by an intimation to the lawyers employed to assist the prisoners as counsel that it would be wise not to attempt to defend their clients 1 " I know not what to do , " said one of the lawyers in my presence "I have already defended several political pri soners , at great personal risk ; I have a large family ; if I am thrown into prison myself , who ; will help me ? " Such is the position of tbe p risoners , for whom the crown lawyers in the attodi accuso ask death from a packed bench of judges , the declared tools of the government . Can a British cabinet continue to hold friendly relationswitb such a cabinet as this ?

    • The police prosecutions by no means diminish and sixty new spies have lately been added to that honourable body , under the title of Inspectors . Pccchenetla told them they would have no pay until they had done some work . Thus these wretched scoundrels must , of necessity , ruin many familie before they can receive their reward . His Majesty to balance in some measure the military and civi authorities , has begun by empowering the generals of districts to use their discretion in liberating " political offenders , " as they are called . Thus the irritation is kept up—tbe military man denounces the police , and charges that body with hav- ing received large sums of money from the victims

    of the paid spy—each calls tbe other " republicans . The King listens , tries to concilitate , but has n more power to remedy , because his Majesty know the only cure for the evil is to return to represen tative goverument . Whilst every description o cruelty is practised on those who hold libera opinions , actual crimes are lightly passed over , as an illustration of which I may narrate the following circumstance . A well known Abbate , the proprietor of the largest school of Naples , where the sons of the nobility are educated , was lately proved to be guilty of an awful offence . How is he punished ? He is ordered to retire ( oddlyenough ) to the Convent of Virgins , for " spiritual exercise . " '

    IMPRISONMENTS AT NAPLES . A letter has been received from Turin , dated August 1 st , which says : — I see by the papers that the letter of Mr . Gladstone had a considerable influence on public opinion ; that people arc astonished that such atrocities cat . be perpetrated in the nineteenth century , which boasts of its civilisation . I am in the position to give you some further details of Neapolitan cruelty ; they may serve as a supp lement to Mr . Gladstone ' s letter . The prisons are full of persons not yet tried their number amounts to twenty thousand , without including those who have been arrested , but shortly after liberated . In this number there are about

    ten thousand imprisoned by measures of police ( mincre dipolizia ) , because some book or print was found in tbeir house which aroused the suspicion of , the authorities . Signor Corrasio , an old man of seventy-five , was sent to prison for having written some extracts from Tacitus in his memorandumbook , and a certain Signor Sisto was imprisoned for having had in his possession ' Guizot's Democratic en . France ! ' In Lecce , Signora Arpa was arrested because she would not tell where her husband , a wealthy barrister , suspected for his liberal ideas , had fled . In Naples , a widow , Donna Maria Ricci-Devernois , was doomed to six months ' imprison * ment for having visited her son , a priest , who had

    escaped from gaol , and was to leave his country for ever on board of an English steamer . In the provinces the houses of the liberals are sacked and destroyed by the rabble , instigated by the authorities ; and in Salerno , General Palma had had flogged more than twenty persons publicly in the marketplace , in order that they should confess where they bad concealed their arms . In the councils of the cabinet the plan was discussed to establish an extraordinary commission under tbe name of Giunta di Stato , with tbe power to pass ( sentences without the judicial forms . But this is not a new idea .

    The 7 th of September , 17991 Ferdinand IV . issued an order iu which he named a Giunta di Stato , pe condannare senza le formalita giudkiarie , abbreviando ; termini ad ore . These were the expressions of ( he decree . Andrea Cacciatore , a pamphleteer paid by the government , now publishes this decree as a proof of the clemency of the government . But even without re-enforcing the decree of 1799 , the government has sent to the galleys about 600 persons compromised in the Calabrian rising , by ministerial order , without a trial .

    PORTUGAL . By the Severn , we have news from Lisbon to the 9 th inst . The electoral decree has been altered to re-elect the illegally elected commissioners . The tax qualification for voters has been reduced . Parish priests are eligible as deputies . The election is to take place on the 16 th November . The Cortes will meet on the 15 th December . The troops in the capital are insubordinate . Sa danlia has been restored to his post On the King ' s staff , from which he was dismissed by Thomar . The four sergeants implicated in the late revolt , and upon whose conduct a court of inquiry sat , have been liberated , one has been discharged the service , the others transported to different corps . CUBA . From Havanna we have advices to the 22 d ult .

    From the » New York Tribune ' we extract the following important intelligence from that island : — 1 Our advices furnish us with full and important details in reaard to the recent outbreak at Puerto Principe . The pronunciamiento waa made on the 4 th of July , signed by the leaders of the revolt , Aguero Estrada and Pina , as provisional representatives , enumerating the princi pal grievances which the island has suffered from Spanish rule . This insirumont declares that Cuba is , and b y the Iawa Q ( nature ought to be , independent of Spain . The first battle took place after the issuing of tbe jw > . mmciamienlo . A party of government troops which had been sent out to make prisoners of the

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    Revolutionists fell in with a rebel , force under Aguero , on the 4 th of July , at this foot of the CaseoHo mountains . Olfthe previous day a skirmish occurred in which the leader Sanchez was taken prisoner , and a few arms captured by the S panish troops . In the engagement on the 4 th , the Cubans numbered 200 " men , and the Spaniards 300 men , consisting of 100 lancers and 200 infantry . After a contest the Spanish troops retreated having lost twenty-one killed , including the

    captain , and eig hteen wounded . The loss on the Cuban side was slight , Twelve of the Spanish soldiers deserted their colours and joined the patriots . Tbe effect of this battle was to inspire the people with fresh confidence , and increased the number of insurrectionists to over 1 , 000 . They were divided into five guerilla parties of 200 men each , which were stationed in the strongholds about Coscorro and Puerto Principe . They were drilled in military exercises and received accessions to their numbers . After the engagement of the 4 th the

    Spanish troops fell back on Principe , some seventeen leagues from Cascorro . The announcement of their defeat produced great excitement among the people of Principe . The General did not send out a force in pursuit of the Cubans for fear of a popular rising , and despatched messengers to Havanna for a reinforcement of 2 , 000 men . ' Later accounts up to the 22 nd ult . have been received , but the news is very contradictory . Some reports represent the cause of the insurgents as being attended with great success ; whilst the government papers state that all the conflicts hitherto have been mere riots , and immediately put down . Nothing definite was known , and further intelligence was anxiously looked for .

    CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . The Propoutis , General Screw Steam-ship Con > pany s vessel , Captain Glover , arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday last . She left the Cape of Good Hope on the 4 th of July , arrived at Sierre Leone on the 20 th of July , and left the same day ; arrived at St . Vincents on the 26 th , and sailed on the 28 th of July . She brings a general cargo . Sir H . Smith was on the frontier . He could not do much for the want of efficient forces . The

    Kaffirs were kept at bay b y the force under bis command , although they could not be reduced to subjection without much greater strength being broug ht against them . However , they were effectually prevented from doing much harm . The feeling at the Cape was that the war would be of long duration , unless much more strength in the shape of troops was sent from England . Sandilli was in his native mountains . His favourite prophet has forsaken him and joined another chief . Pato remained faithful to the British cause .

    The news from head-quarters brings intelligence from King William ' s Town to the . 17 th of June . Bodies of troops which had gone out for the purpose of patrolling both banks of the Keriskamma , so as to prevent , if possible , the rebel ^ Hottentots from retiring on tbe Amatola , or any reinforcement of Kaffirs from moving into the colony to their aid , had returned , after eight days' hard work in the bush without falling in with any large body of the enemy , or capturing more than some two hundred of cattle , The official details of the & e patrols show that everything that exertion could accomplish was done .

    NEW SOUTH WALES . Advices from Sydney to the 8 th of April state , that the delegates from Victoria and Tasmania , to invite the inhabitants of New South Wales to join the Anti-Transportation League , had arrived in Sydney . A grand banquet waa given to them on the 3 rd of April , and on tho 7 th a great public meeting was held . It was unanimously resolved that tho Australian Anti-Convict Association of Sydney should be dissolved , and that all its

    members should enrol themselves in the league . The sense of the meeting was unequivocally expressed in favour of agitating for an entire abolition of convict transportation to every part of Australasia . Mr . Lamb ( a member of the legislative council ) , who moved the first resolution , and Mr . Josephson , who seconded , each promised a subscription of 100 guineas towards the expenses of the league . The secretary also announced subscriptions of 100 guineas each from another gentleman aud from two mercantile firms .

    The Legislative Council had met , and an electo ral bill had been read a second time .

    TURKEY . Advices from Constantinople , dated the loth ult . , inform us that Russia and Austria are busily engaged in stirring up discontent in Servia , in order that that country may place itself under the protection of one of them . NEW ZEALAND . Wo have received Nelson papers to the 28 th of April , The most important of their contents is a memorial from the mechanics and labourers at Nelson , sent out as emigrants by the late New Zealand Company , addressed to the Company , and claiming compensation for the treatment they have experienced , and the delusive promises by which they alleged they were induced to emigrate .

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    The body of the senator of Rome , Prince del Drago , was transported with great pomp on the evening of the 28 th ult . from his palace to the church of St . Vincent and Athanasius , surrounded with all the municipal splendours suiting his civic rank . His death , according to the official journal , filled the inhabitants of Rome with grief , but this account must he received as one of the usual partycoloured statements of that publication , since , the public entertains no great regret for the defunct prince , whose avarice was such , that he died without having left anything to the old servants who had been forty or fifty years in his service , a pro . ceeding quite contrary to the usual custom of noble

    families and even ecclesiastics of bigh rank in Rome . In spite , however , of the pretended attachment of the people to the memory of the senator , the police authorities thought proper to send an enormous number of sbirri to protect his funeral procession from any demonstration , of disapprobation , and one unfortunate individual , who was bold enough to hiss the cortege , was immediately dragged off to prison . Avery curious circumstance took place in the church in which the prince was interred , the whole building being found full of smoke on the following day , to the great alarm and superstitious horror of the early visitants to the church , who wisely concluded that Old Nick had been , during the night , to oarry off , as his rightful prey , the bod y of the senator , and that the smoke and stench he had left behind him were but the natural atmosp here of his infernal abode .

    The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud Instinct with tire and nitre . As the ecclesiastical authorities were reluctant to admit of such preternatural visitations , as applied to one of their own adherents , they ordered tbe church to be thoroughly examined , and the vault in which tbe prince senator had been interred , to be reopened . This was done ; but no sooner was the slab removed than a burst of mingled flames and smoke , accompanied by a most mephitic odour , drove the workmen from the spot , and obliged them to seek the aid of a company of firemen , who soon

    extinguished the flames of his Satanic majesty . This conflagration is attributed by some persons to a spontaneous combustion of the gases arising from a number of corpses in different stages of decomposition in the vault , and by others to the effect of a piece of lighted torch dropped whilst lowering the coffin on the preceding evening ; but amongst the common people the opinion is irrevocably fixed , and will be handed down by tradition , that the senator of Rome , the old Prince del Drago , was punished for his avarice by the devil , who would not even leave his mortal spoil to moulder peaceably away in consecrated ground .

    Accounts from Basle are of a melanchol y character . Lake Lucerne has overflowed its banks close to Lucerne , and ihe Aar and Lutschener have done the same in Interlaken . At Unterseen the Aar carried away a bridge whereby several lives were lost , the number of which is not vet known . Accounts from Jamaica state that the cholera is more dreadful than evtr * , in Westmorland , seventeen corpses were lying there unburied . _ A terrible explosion took place at one o'clock on

    Wednesday , in the citadel of Arras , where the 2 nd Regiment of Engineers is quartered . A quantity of chlorate of potass , which was spread out to dry in the sun , took fire spontaneousl y , and communicated with two barrels of gunpowder and a large number of grenades in a store-room of the garrison . In an instant one side of the citadel became a mass of smoking ruins . The bodies of nine soldiers , quite dead , and two mortally injured , have been found , and there are still three men missing .

    M . Ihiers is at tho present moment the victim of a curious species of impalpable libel . He has a half-sister named Madame Rissert , who has long kept a table d'hote in the Ruo Basso du Reropart , where her custom was to distribute cards with her own hands among tho guests , on which her relationship to M . Thiers was mentioned . She has lately removed to the Rue Drouot , at the corner of tho itoulevard des ^ aliens , and , encouraged by the

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    success of her cards , she has exhibited a painted board outside her bouse , with the iuHcnption " Madame Rissert , sister ef M . , Thiers , formerly & minister , keeps a table d ' hote , at 3 fr , and 2 fr . 60 o . for ladies . " Crowds of people assembled to gaze at this unusual association of idens . The police were asked to remove the board as a public scandal , and great waa the astonishment expressed when Madame Rissert produced a permission from the Prefect of Police for the very announcement in question . People then went so far as to say that tho government adopted this means to annoy M . Thiers as a political opponent . It turns out , however , that Madame Uisscrt h . iving complied with the police regulations , and p .-tid a certain tax , has a legal rig ht to advertise her calling in this way , subject only to Che interference of the police in case the gatherings in the streets

    attracted by the board should be of a nature to disturb the public tranquillity . The police have now made a compromise with Madame Rissert . They have made her erase the words " formerl minister-, " leaving the public onl y Informed that she is " sister to M . Thiers . " This nuti « ation of the incongruous conjunction of a great minister with a small table d'hote seems to have succeeded , for the crowds have dispersec " . The grand criminal court of Naples has condemned Gaetano Reale , for the crime of printing the " Martyrs of Cosenza , " to seven years' banishment , the prohibition to exercise the trade of printer for one year , and to the costs of his trial . Tho grand court of Aquila has sentenced Joseph * Ferriol and F . Porchiazzi to seven months' imprisonment , a fine of six ducats , and the costs of trial , for having sold a book printed abroad called " Sataa and the Jesuits . "

    A M . Tenault has been condemned to six months imprisonment for having cried ' Down with Napoleon" at the review of the National Guard of Chatel » Icrault on the occasion of the President ' s return from Poitiers . M . Pierre Buonaparte ' s horse fell with him on Monday last , and broke his leg in two places , lie was gallopping to get some medicine for a servant who was ill . The President of the Republic instantly came to him . The fracture is going on well .

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• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 16, 1851, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_16081851/page/2/