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    118 THE STAB Of PEEBOM. COcTOBER 30 ¦ - ...

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    " Religious Equality."—Mr. Sharmaii Craw...

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    118 The Stab Of Peebom. Coctober 30 ¦ - ...

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    FRANCE . ( FBOM OUK OWN COEBESPONDE 2 JT . ) Paris , October 26 . On Priday evening the President went in state to the Theatre Francais , which was adorned with great ; splendour . The piece acted was the "Clemence d'Auguste . " : An ode * entitled , " L'Emire c ' est la Paix " composed for the occasion by M . Houssaye ,

    p was recited by Madlle . Rachel , who was dressed in white . It was a most sickening thing to see this great actress , bending lowly before the brutal despot , Bonaparte , while one remembered her enthusiastic Republicanism four years ago , when , the national banner in her hand , and the cap of liberty on her head , she sung the Marseillaise in the presence of Ledru Rollin . What a contrast between the soul-stirring words of Rouget de Lisle , and the servile rhymes of the sycophant Arsene Houssaye !

    I am informed that the editor of Victor Hugo ' s book , " Napoleon le Petit / ' is preparing a third edition . Of the two former editions he is said to have sold more than twenty thousand copies * and , as they are readily bought up at lOfr . each , M . Tarrifle is acquiring quite a fortune by their sale . The police , meanwhile , are making active search for the " seditious" publication , as also others of the same nature , among which are , "Les Nuits de Saint Cloud , ' "La Yoix Mysterieuse , " and a work which , the Sikh says , is " so insulting to the Chief of the State that its title cannot be reproduced . '' This is the " Crimes des Deux -Decembre , by M . Scheelcher .

    It will be amusing to see how the Decembrists will make out that eight million electors have rushed enthusiastically to vote for the hereditary Emnire , while at the present moment , do what they will , they cannot induce anybody at all to vote . Last Tuesday an election was to take place at Elbeuf , to fill up a vacancy in the Council of Arrondissement , when , out of more than 10 , 000 electors registered , only about 1 , 400 voted . A few days since the Communal Council of Lenizeul ( Haute-Marne ) had to be elected , but not a single elector made his appearance .

    As soon as Bonaparte is made Emperor ( by eight million votes , of course ) , this electoral apathy will be turned to account . It will be said that the people , having voted Louis Napoleon to govern them , will have no need of further elections , and the suffrage will be abolished . You will remember that it was said Bonaparte had saved society quite , and had broken np all the secret societies by the " great act" of December . Yet it is curious that scarcely a day passes that there does not appear in the Bonapartist journals themselves accounts of the discovery of secret societies . M . Durand , Commissary of Police of Marseilles , is reported to have arrested twentyfive -working men , members of a secret society , while a clandestine gunpowder manufactory has been discovered at Toulouse .

    Two persons , named "W asse and Grigne , were last Saturday condemned to one year ' s imprisonment and 500 fr . fine for distributing " Napoleon le Petit , " the " Nuits de Saint Cloud , " and " La Voix Mysterieuse , " these works being , it was alleged , insulting to thePresident , and outraging public morals . I should rather say that those books , by exposing the character of the great ; corrupter of public morality , have exactly the opposite tendency . It is supposed that Abd-el-Kaderwill come to Paris for a few days previous to his departure for Broussa .

    Poor Pope Pius is in a pickle . Louis Bonaparte is determined that his Holiness shall come to Paris to consecrate him Emperor ; and this is natural enough , for did not " mon oncle" also so determine ? Pius does not by any means relish the task , and has made all manner of excuses to get out of it ; he has even attempted to run away from Rome , but to no purpose . The Preneh have got him fast , so that he is constrained to consent . The civil list of the Emperor is to be about thirty millions . As heir presumptive the ex-King Jerome will receive two millions

    a year . Jerome and his son will each bear the title of " Imperial Highness . " Algeria is to be made a viceroyalty , with Lucian Murat for its viceroy ; and it is stated that immediately after the proclamation of the Empire a new batch of nobles will be created . Thenew " nobles" with their various titles , are already mentioned . The Moniteur publishes a number of judiciary nominations , making a considerable change in the higher magistracy . This is in consequence of the decree of the 1 st of March , which removed from the judicial bench judges arrived at a certain age .

    Some specimens of the copper imperial coinage have , I have been told , been struck off at the Mint . On one side is the effigy of Louis Bonaparte , with , the inscription , " Napoleon III ., Empereur ;" and on the other is the figure of an eagle , with the words , " Empire Francais . " Much sorrow is felt amongst our friends here about the melancholy rencontre at Egham . Frederick Cournet was loved and honoured by all who knew him .

    An . incident , showing the manner in which the Imperialist petitions are got up , has caused great amusement . M . Leroy , the Prefect of Calvados , sent a copy of a petition , containing the most ardent aspirations for the Empire , to the Mayor of Lisieux , and with it a private letter , urging the mayor to obtain , as many signatures as possible . Pretending to be very innocent , the knowing mayor published petition , letter , and all . Leroy , of course , was furious , and , in the following letter to the Normand , makes a ludicrous and convulsive effort to " explain" what needs no explanation : —

    " The Prefect of Calvados has to rectify a publication made by the Mayor of Lisieux on the subject of the petition for the Empire . This publication , no doubt wellintentioned , implies that the Administration would dictate the manifestation and the form of it . This is the result of an error . The Prefect has never dissimulated his belief that the re-establishment of the Empire under Napoleon III . was the government called for by France and by all her interests . But the

    manifestations to hasten this great event , which will assure the prosperity and grandeur of the country , must everywhere maintain their character of an entire initiative on the part of the communes and population . If it were permitted to make distinctions between them , it would certainly not be for the purpose of taking away anything from the spontaneity oi the wishes of a town so worth y of consideration , both by its patriotism and importance , as Lisieux . r '

    " Done at Caen , at the Hotel of the Prefecture , October 19 , 1852 "The Prefect of Calvados . m . V , . \ ^ ' . , ' " PlERBE LEROY . " lne Coumerdu Havre states that some convicts who attempted to escape from the Isles du Salut , at Guyana , were attacked by boats from the man-of-war Duguesclin , which was stationed in the roadstead , and several of them were stabbed by bayonets , two of them so severely that they died shortly after .

    BELGIUM . M . Delfosse , the Radical candidate , has been elected President of the Belgium Chamber of Deputies by 54 votes to 49 given to M Pelahaye . SWITZERLAND : Most of the . German states , and amongst them Austria , Bavaria , Wur temberg , the Grand Duchy . of Baden , the Two Hesses , Saxony aua Hanover , ha y e , in imitation of Prussia , resolved not to sign any

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    passports for workmen to so to Switzerland ; and , according to the Nuremberg Correspondent , ' they think of recalling the workmen who are already in that country . The reason assigned for these measures is to preserve the workmen from socialist schemes .

    ITALY . RoME . ^ -The Italia e Popoh q uotes a letter from Rome , stating that preparations were making in the Vatican , which induced the belief that the Pope would shortly undertake a journey to France . Piedmont . —We find the following statement in the Nouveau Patriate Savoisien ;— " The vicar of Boege has lately accustomed himself to impose , as a penance on the females of his flock , the obligation of coming to his chambers , where , after their backs are stripped , they receive a flagellation from the pastoral hand . There

    is no mistake about the fact , which has evoked a cry of indignation throughout the commune . More than thirty females are known to have submitted to this infliction ; others have refused to endure the degradation . The last attempt of the priest failed . The vicar had in his chamber a female who was enceinte , whom , under the pretext of penance , he was desirous of flogging , and was about to proceed by force to carry out his purpose ; but' the woman being frightened , uttered loud cries which brought the neighbours to her aid . We live under a constitutional government , but if these things are done under the green tree , what will they do under the dry ?"

    SYRIA . A letter from Malta of the 17 th inst . says : —• " Affairs in Syria are looking dark . Letters from Beirout , of the 29 th September , announce that in the event of the Druses manifesting further opposition to the Sultan ' s orders , the Seraskier who has placed himself at the head of 15 , 000 men , had resolved to attack them . The extreme measure would not , however , be resorted to , until the great caravan , loaded with provisions for the pilgrims of Mecca , had attained a position of safety from the attacks of the Druses , who would not hesitate to pillage , if hostilities had commenced . At present they have re . tired to the most inaccessible parts of the Haouran . In the meantime the Seraskier has ordered several of the Druses to his camp , and as some have obeyed , the spilling of blood may yet be spared . "

    TURKEY . A telegraphic despatch , dated Trieste , the 25 th inst ., announces that the Turkish loan has been refused . The Debats states that its Vienna letters mention that disturbances had broken out at Constantinople , and that the French Ambassador had notified that if within seven days the refusal of the loan was not recalled , he should demand his passports .

    INDIA . , We have received the following message by electric telegraph , despatched on the 25 th , from Trieste ; " The steamer Egitto has just arrived . "Abrigade under Brigadier Reynolds , C . Biv consisting of her Majesty's 18 th Royal Irish , her Majesty ' s 80 th Regiment , and the 35 th Native Infantry , with a proportionate force of artillery , Mt Rangoon on the 18 th of September in steamers for Prome , accompanied by General Godwin . " The steamers were to return immediately for the second brigade .

    " The Burmese troops had destroyed Prome , and had posted themselves in masses on a height ten miles off the town . " They were said to be only 7 , 000 strong with a few guns . "

    UNITED STATES . [ from our own correspondent . ] New York , October 12 th . General Scott continues actively to prosecute his canvass , and it must be confessed that his prospect of success becomes more and more improved every day . Mass meetings , to pronounce in his favour , have been held at Jamaica , Jersey city , and many other places , during the past week . According to accounts received here , he has been greeted enthusiastically in Ohio . At one of the railway

    stations in that State , on Saturday , a woman pressed forward with a fat , promising baby in her arms . " There , General , " said she "that child ' s name is ' Winfield' Scott , and he ' s going to be a Whig , too , in spite of his father ; and if the old man don't vote for you next month , I'll . " A most expressive look from the strong-minded lady rendered the conclusion of the sentence altogether uncalled for . A torch-light procession , got up by the opposite party , which was to have come off a week ago , but which was postponed , took place last night .

    The evil effects of jealousy are instanced in an occurrence which took-place in Eleventh-street on Sunday evening . A blind man , Daniel O'Brien , suspecting the existence of an improper intimacy between hisjWife and a man named'Malony , who was in the habit of visiting his house , shot the latter dead . Atthemomeut of firing , the pistol exploded , shattering O'Brien ' s arm fearfully . Malony was taken to his residence , and the killer was conveyed to the Bellevue Hospital .

    A terrible accident occurred on Friday last on the Montreal Railroad , which resulted in the . death of six persons , and the injury of a great number of of hers . .. An extra train was coming from the steam-boat Dover , at Meredith Village , with a large number of passengers on their way to the State fair at Meredith-bridge . Soon after it started a car-coupling broke , and before the accident could be repaired another steamer , from the same place , dashed into it , doubling up the carnages and smashing their inmates .

    A bill providing for the modification of the usury laws has been read a second time in the Canadian Legislative Assembly . The bill will destroy the existing penalties for usury , and will merely disallow more than 5 per cent , interest to be taken . The Upper Canadians are almost unanimously in favour of it , but it is stoutly opposed by the French Canadians , who very properly look upon usury as a

    . The latest intelligence from the fishing grounds is to the effect that the fishing vessels from this country are maltreated in a shameful manner by the British war-ships . The fishing vessels that arrive in our ports are unanimous in their complaints of the insolent inteiference of the commanders of the British men-ofwar . This is a serious matter , and demands immediate inquiry . There is no important news relative to the " Lobes Islands On the strength of Mr . Webster ' s letter , claiming a right to the guano on these islands , and , m ignorance of his subsequent retractation , some American vessels have attempted to load , but have been driven off b y the Peruvian war-ship stationed there to prevent this practical free-trade .

    The Washington Telegraph publishes the following extract from a private letter , written by an officer of the United States navy to a friend in Washington : — rn ^ A ^/^ - ^ ' ? 0 ntevideo ' A *& 2 1852 .-Gen . Urquiza is still at the head . of affairs nr Buenos Ayre s , and has dissolved the House of Representatives—exiling three of its members . Another revolution is expected . Navy news there is none , excepting the regulations tor dress are enforced . " °

    _ In my last letter I spoke of the probability of the foolish authorities of Cuba refusing to allow the Crescent City to enter the harbour , it Mr . Smith were retained as purser . He was retained , and the Spaniards , fear ^ l of the disclosures he would make in the papers on his return , fulfilled their threat , and refused permission to the captam of the Crescent City to land her mails and passengers . Captain Porter has made the following statement relative to these proceedings : — Ms the Crescent City approached ^ she was met by boarding officers at the mouth of theharbour of Havannah , who made motions for her not to

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    enter . The captain , however , disregarded this , and nr ^ Ti ^^ anchorage without a pilot . The officers then came on board ou tf ) on Purser Smith ' s name on the ship ' s articles , under the instrn ? n <* fln ^ ft Captain-General , they ordered the vessel to l eave the port in of foe which order the captain refused to obey before kndinjr th * ate , v . passengers , and accordingly sent a protest to . the CantuuvC mails a ' « l refused to receive any communications except throng ~ ] , * ; ra '> w | 'o Consul , and he was absent . In the meantime the order s \ J , l ^ was repeated . ' You refuse , then ( said Captain Ported tn UVe * l ) 0 r t was repeated . ' You refuse , then ( said Captain Porter ) to . l ) 0 rt 11

    mail and passengers ? ' The boarding officers replied ' No pnm CCCVe ^ of . any kind will be-allowed . ' The steamer then put to ? muniCat ' on o ' clock in the evening . " ca at sev eu , The passengers were landed at New Orleans to find [\ , e - their destination the best way they could . The Presiden t \ ^ informed of these insults , and the sloop-of-war Cayenne \!^ ^ U southwards , for the purpose , it is supposed , of demandi ^ ^''^ faction . ' ^ i $ - Mr . Guzman ' s arrest on board the Cornelia at Havannal I mentioned last week , was in consequence of his havine h ' ^ trusted with a letter of thanks to one of those who had col ? en the anniversary of the death of Lopez . ' . lebl'a ted

    Tlioco rofioafflri insults tn nnr rmlimvil fl «~ T , „ .. . These repeated insults to our national flag has caused ' excitement . A mass meeting was held at New Orleans last ^ 01156 more than ten thousand persons being present , when addres ^" ' ^ delivered by many eminent speakers , and resolu tions were ^ ^ calling upon the Government to take immediate steps to Yk * redress for the outrage committed upon the Crescent City .

    Ireland.

    IRELAND .

    " Religious Equality."—Mr. Sharmaii Craw...

    " Religious Equality . "—Mr . Sharmaii Crawford has writ a long letter in reply to the " private and confidential" circulars ^ the " religions equality" men , holding it essential that all parties . < pecially the Presbyterian body , should come before the Le » is ! at ^ free from the reproach of being the recipients of State grants . ' } i Crawford proceeds in this cruelly ironical strain ;•— " The Soman O- '' tholic body are in a somewhat diffeient position . They have ne ' " received any grants or funds from the State for the support of tli ^

    . clergy , but they are in the receipt of one grant for their ecclesiastie il educational purposes , which was conferred , and afterwards increased with the same object as regards the Catholic communit y , and based upon the same unsound principle of-retributive injustice as the jK > - gium Donum of the Presbyterians . It will be easily understood I refer to the Maynooth grant . I presume the Eoman Catholic body would be willing to relinquish this grant in connexion with a concurrent national appropriation of the State church revenues "

    And he further contends that those who seek for relioious liberty " must come before , the legislature with their hands clean , and free from the pollution of State grants , " this counsel being especially intended for the benefit of his Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen !!; The Murdek of Hjb . Manifold . —Government have offered a reward of 1001 . for the discovery of Mr . Manifold ' s assassins . Ik Leinster Express of this clay says— " Just before going to press we have ascertained the following additional particulars relative to this

    tragic event : —It appears that Mr . Morris was the purchaser of the Mountpleasant property under the Encumbered Estates Court , his brother ' s wife having been the previous owner . The purchase-money not having been lodged till after November , Mrs . Morris claimed the rent due up to that date , and the consequence was that the tenantry refused to acknowledge her brother-in-law as their landlord , In pursuance , however , of an order of the commissioners the land was forthwith cleared of the defaulters , and thus delivered up to 3 fv . Morris . Mr . Manifold was the person who carried the evictions into effect ; and in that , we believe , lies the chief cause of his unpopularity and subse-quent melancholy death . "

    Speead of " Agrarian " Crime . —A Galway letter in he i ? vtjning Mail gives these particulars of an unsuccessful attempt upon the life of a Protestant clergyman , the Rev . David Seymour : — " As Mr . Seymour was returning home on Friday night last in his gig , on the road from Clonfert to Lawrencetown , a gun or pistol was snapped at him . He distinctly heard the cap explode , and saw a man in dark-coloured clothes immediately run off in the fields ; fortunately the firearm did not go off . Mr . Seymour drove us fast as he could , and reported the outrage to the police . at Lawreneetovn . The case was fully investigated on Thursday at Lawreneetown , before } lv C . Fitzgerald , H . M ., and the local magistrates . 1 understand that the mag istrates have recommended that a reward should be ottered

    by the Government . The Rev . Mr . Seymour was generally liked in the locality . . He had been obliged to order one or two processes to be- served for the coming quarter sessions . Coupling this outrage with the murder of Mr . Manifold in the next county , it will behove the magistrates and police to be on the alert , now that winter is fast approaching . " Destruction of a Steam Flax Mill . —The Newry

    Telegraph says ;— "We regret extremely to state , as fact—what , on mere report , we had discredited , namely—that a recently-built flax . mill , to which a first-rate steam-engine was attached , the properly of ' Mr . James Parker , Motmtkearney , was on Wednesday night last ; burned to the ground . It is believed that the fire was malicious , A l large quantity of flax was also consumed in the mill ; and we under- ¦ stand that the vigorous exertions of the men employed on the pre- - mises , with the calmness of the ni ght , alone preserved the stack yard ,, which contained a vast amount of the same material . We regret to j

    learn that neither the mill nor the stock was insured ; and we com- - miserate the case ' of the numerous families and persons , who , by tins s calamity , haye been thrown out of employment . '' A Suspicious Affair . -- Our Loughrea correspondent lias fur- ' - nishe'd us with the details of a rather curious case which has beeim pending for some time in that town , but , for certain reasons , not > t . heretofore made public . It appears that on the night of the 2 othooa last June , a young girl named Catherine Dempsey , who resided villi h . her uncle in Loughrea , went to Cross-street , with other girls , to sccjcm a bonfire . On her return home , a woman named Rafterty induced : di 1

    her to separate from her companions , and inveig led her into a store- ---house belonging . to the constabulary , in which place it is stated aiimi outrage of a very gross description was perpetrated upon her personal l by a sergeant of police , whose name we withhold for the present . INts is alleged that the constable accomplished his object by terrifying {! l 0103 child with a threat that if she resisted he would set tire to the

    pow-v-der which was in the room , and blowup the concern . The gin sisi uncle , who is a carman , was in this town on the night in question , n ,, and on his return home , and having learned what occurred io hfciiss niece ,, he went to the Bev . Mr . Pelly , and related the matter to hini . ii .. The rev . gentleman waited upon Mr . Coffey , the county inspectwyr ,, and'the latter promised that an investigation into the matter s j " " " ; take place . Accordingly , an inquiry was held in the office of Muiv . P'Arcy , but the girl having stated that she was ignorant of the «* - * - - tore of airoath , was not sworn . The woman Rafterty was also pre-e- *

• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 30, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_30101852/page/2/