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FRANCE . ( from otjk own correspondent . ) Paris , October , 12 . Such is the present absolute dearth of news here , that the coronation of Louis Napoleon would be gladly had as some relief , although the execution of that arch-bandit would most assuredly produce an effect at once more pleasing and more salutary . I do not trouble you with an account of the Presidential journey , as my means of ascertaining the true disposition of the population
in the provinces is necessarily very limited . The official accounts are as wearisome as they are false . " Unbounded enthusiasm , " according to them , is everywhere . The prefects and mayors have certainly reached the most extreme point of servility . Not only is lie called the " Man of God , " but one gentleman actually addressed him in the terms of the Lord's Prayer ! The Mayor of Sevres has issued a placard , calling upon the people of the town to proclaim Louis Bonaparte Emperor , by affixing their signature to the foliuvviiiff document : — ;
" Proclamation of the Empire . —The town of Sevres , obeying the sentiments of aftliction and of gratitude for Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte , the Envoy of God , and the elect of Prance , her saviour raid her glory , proclaims him Emperor of the Trench , under the name of Napoleon III ., and confers on him and on his descendants hereditary rights . " i > one at Sevres , on the 7 th of October , in the year of grace and resurrection , 1852 . ( Signed ) " MENAGER , Mavor . "
A rumour was current here yesterday , that an attempt on the life of Bonaparte was made at his entry into Bourdeux , but it requires confirmation . Such a thing may have occurred , and we here remain— -long in ignorance of it . An amusing instance of the manner in which a portion of the Press sc-t-ks to remedy the difficulty of obtaining early intelligence , has just occurred . A grand representation of the battle of
Toulouse was to have taken place on the occasion of Bonaparte ' s visit to that city . From some cause or other , the performance was countermanded , but the Presse announced the following day that it had taken place , the writer having unluckily thought that the authorities would be as good as their word . The man of the Presse was however , surpassed by he of the Emancipation Beige , who gave a detailed account of the whole affair .
Bonaparte is to arrive here on Saturday next , when he is to be received by his Legislative , Senatorial , and Military lacqueys , with great pomp . The National Guard have been warned that they must cry , Vive L'Empereur ; even Vive Louis Napoleon , will be deemed hostile and guilty . It is supposed that the " appeal to the people" for the Empire will be made immediately after his return .
Meanwhile he has been endeavouring to lull the suspicions of the great powers of Europe , by kindly informing the good people of Bourdeaux that " L Empire e ' est lapaix ; " That the Empire is not peace the future will show . Louis Bonaparte is as great a peace-man as he was a republican before the Coup d ' etat . Whatever M . de Girardin may say , I am not quite credulous enough , to believe in the sincerity of Louis Bonaparte .
A very great number of arrests continue to be made in the Hau ? e-Loire , and elsewhere . At Montemartre , a day or two ago , two men were arrested for having concealed fire-arms in their
pos-. The Belgian papers stated that a " neutral" cabinet had been formed , but I have since learned that the materials were incompatible , and new men would have to be chosen . However that may be , no " neutral * policy seems likely to be adopted , for the Isation says that it has been interdicted at the railway stations b y
the Minister of Public Works . Such an unconstitutional proceeding as this should awaken the indignation of the whole Belgian people , and ranse them to drive the reactionary " neutrals" at once and for ever from governmental power . I have been told , sundry embsaries of the Belgian Jesuits have been waiting upon all the Paris papers , requesting them to support a petition for the annexation of Belgium to France . This is another move preparatory to the invasion of Belgium .
I cave already mentioned a rumour relative to the interference of the British Government with the exiles residing in the Channel Islands . That rumour proved too true . The constable of St . Miller has called upon all the foreigners in the parish to attend before him , and give an account of themselves . A great number of non-political refugees attended accordingly , butSignor Gonzalez , an Italian exila refused to comply with the constable ' s unwarrantable order , lie sent a spirited letter to that functionary , in which he says : " We are neither in Austria nor Naples , thank God , but under a
fiaj ? too honourable to admit of our vexation . The summons is ilWnl Sag too honourable to admit of our vexation . The summons is illegal . Ever ? one setting foot on British soil is still regarded as an English subject by the law . So long as he respects the law he is not to be molested . If he violates the law , of course he takes the consequences . Such is one of the principal glories of the British constitution . Whether the English JMaior-Geueral Love is obeying orders received
frora Downing-street remains to be seen ; but 1 am very well assured that had Lord Palmerston been in power , he would not have tolerated the treatment to which we are exposed . In conclusion , Monsieur , for the honour of the English name , for the dignity of the people of Jersey , for the respect which I have for the flag which nobly and proudly waves on the ramparts of Port Regent , I refuse to submit to your ordp . j- ' *
" La Revolution " has issued another bulletin , of which the following is a translation : — " We will have the Empire in a few days , " say the courtesans of every reign , the servants of every tyranny . We reply , in the name of the Republican-Socialists ; No ! the Empire shall not be ! Ah ! without doubt , if it suffices to have a Senate composed of lacqueys , and foot-pads , and cut-purses for ministers or perfects , if it suffices to rob the public treasury to pay gend ' armes and spies , the Empire will soon
be : and the gaoler of republican Rome , the worthy chief of the Catholic army , will have only to spread his sacrilegious benedictions on the head of the bandit of the 2 nd of December . The upholsterers will do the rest . But all France is not , as we know , in the Senate , or in the Councils ' General ; outside the evil places there is the people , representing' the national power in all its majesty . The people have submitted' You say it , as it was said under Napoleon , —as it was repeated under Charles X , —and under Louis Philippe , —and , nevertheless * these three potentates died far from the throne , and in exile .
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We know your titles : they are the falsified votes of the 20 th of December ; but the question of fraud apart , has the sovereignty of the people ceased to be immaculate and intransmissible ? If , bj a regretable error , —and God forbid our believing- it ,- —Universal suffrage made itself the accomplice of the conspirator of the Elysee , may the people not undo what they have done , and resume their omnipotence , when and how they please ? Because in a moment of-weakness , when
the royalist banner appeared on the horizon , they suffered a crime to be committed , must they be for ever enchained at your feet ? Besides , have you promised nothing to that people , the eternal victims of half revolutions ? Have you not said that you alone wished and could assure their happiness ? How have you kept your promises ? Have you respected the pact that you made them , except at the point of the bayonet , amidst the Weeding corpses of their brothers ? What are your acts ? Where are the reforms that should make them regret the
ardent hopes of the Republican policy ? Has misery ceased to thin their ranks ? Has capital become less hard upon labour ? Has the grasp of usury been removed from the land ? Has the wall of the Octrois been lowered before the drink and the iood of the poor % No ! a thousand times no . Bonaparte has done nothing , he will do nothing , — -he can do nothing for the people . Before , as after the Empire , evil grows with servitude , rising higher and higher , and successively infl-cting upon all classes an equality of suffering . Have Cayenne and Lanibessa let . go their prey ? Are the prisons emptied
under the empire of rehabilitated justice ? Have the 30 , 000 men sent into exile by M . Bonaparte returned to their country ? No , the guillotine is always active in the cause of Napoleon ' s order . Coupled with convicts , dragged by priests and galley-sergeants , our brothers fall by hundreds in murderous climates . As to " exile , far from its squadrons diminishing , it daily receives new recruits . And the people cheer the Empire ! As soon say they call for an eternity of woe , and that , rejecting the future ,. tlicy desire to be for ever serfs . No blasphemy ! The people are and always will be against a power that
upholds itself on privileges , nobles , priests and usurers . Hear the tales brought us by the winds of the south . France lias expressed too loudly her scorn and anger , for them to dare demand tomorrow , as on the 20 th of December , a posthumous amnesty for the official frauds of the ballot . It is because it is known that the people will not ratify the Emphe that it has been deckled not to ask their consent . And that lesson will not be lost . The patient , indomitable , patriotic hatrecUhat ferments in the energetic population of Paris , only waits the fitting moment to arise against the crowned bandit . The Empire
will not be . Paris is no longer ignorant of the feelings of the rest of France . Paris knows that at Bourges as at Nevers , at Lyons , as at Saint Etienne , atRoanne , as at Moulins , at Marseilles , at "' Toulouse , atNismes , as at Montpellier , as at Toulon , as at Valence , the popular indignation hasdomhmted above , or has withered by its silence the cowardly adulations of mercenaries and spies . Paris knows that the days of the cursed one have been twenty times menanced , that the army itself has furnished its contingent to the work of justice , and if
lie has escaped , without doubt there is in future reserved a more solemn expiation . It was at Paris that the crime was committed and it is at Paris it should be punished . Keep up , then , hardy revolutionists of the faubourgs , gird your loins ; soldiers of the fatherland and of humanity * , to your ranks ! Tiie hour is near when you will have to choose between ' the ruin of the Republic and liberty ; between slavery without grandeur , and without mercy , and the Revolution . Y on may not hesitate , you will not . Europe watches you in expectation ! . .
London , October *! , 1852 . " GERMANY . Austria . —The Vienna Gazelle contains an ordinance bv the Minister of the Interior applicable to Hungary , Transylvania , Sclavonic , and Croatia , which introduces * corporal chastisement as a disciplinary punishment into ail the prisons of those countries . PaussiA . —The'Court of Assize at Cologne commenced on the 4 th instant the trial of Dr . Becker and his associates , charged with high treason . The reading of the act of accusation was not
completed on the first day . The number of the accused is twelve , of whom ten » re inhabitants of Cologne . Among them are MM . Klein Dadiel , and Jacobi , —all physicians ; Becker , a doctor of law and Ferdinand Freilegrath , who is not in custody . The document which answers to the English indictment extends to sixty printed pages , and is divided into two parts , the first of which presents a picture of the rise and progress of secret societies which have been frmed
o throughout all Europe under various titles , and placed in correspondence with each other since 1831 . The organisation of these societies is spoken of as extremely complicated , and formed on the model of that of the freemasons . The indictment is filed with extracts from letters , statutes , and documents of all species produced to prove that the objects of the society have always been treasonable . The second part accuses the prisoners of having been members of a secret communistic society in the circle of Cologne . The Ti
correspondent of The nm , writing on the 9 th" inst says : — The trial of the members of the Secret Democratic Societies commenced on the 4 th , at , Cologne , proceeds clay by day . On the 5 th the indictment was read ; on the Gfch , the public prosecutor delivered his address ; on the 7 th , the examination of the prisoners was commenced Various parts of the indictment were proved , as far as it chained the prisoners with belonging to a body of which the statutes and rules
were in the hands of the court . But the statutes themselves are drawn up m such vague phrases that what the Bund intended to effect can not be clearly understood , except promoting a general confusion , and keeping it up , m the hope something might grow out of' it The London section of « world-improvers ; ' as the Germans call them , were very advanced indeed , rejecting the aid of the Bourgeoisie , however democratic , as that class has been found , after a certain point , to object top lunder and arson and even to insist on putting a stOl to them . This treachery the Bund is warned against ; " next time" there iZt be no rescuing public buildmgs or the houses of public enemies from the flames
, or any so-calkl restoration of order , Wreck on which all revolutions have miscarried . Tins insane section of philanthropists , according tc . one of the witnesses , has its seat among the London ex , es ; tha Cologne branch of the Bund is described aS & oppoSed violence , and working only by conviction and teaching . Perhaps the dtimee » m the Act hat the Cologne committee 1 ms fallen into power of the law , and has had time to meditate on its doctrines . Altogether there is a weakness of brain and a general , infirmity o plan and design in all the manifests , that looks um * al , as if the papers were concocted for a trading purpose ; if sentimental be ^ ilette ? writers tad « would pay to appear political conspirat ors ?*^ shouhi have such documents going about by the hundred . There is a similar fluency of phrase and absence of real feeling , but calculated to st mulate contributions from political dupes in femany and Prance , wh
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Bavaria . —On the 5 th , all the copies of Vicior H lean U Petit were seized in the booksellers' * hnn * 3 <>' s , \ Darmstadt—A bookseller of Darmstadt Zf ^ 6 ih , to six days ' imprisonment , and to pay the costs of * 7 H tion , for having published a pamphlet i » which v e lW was disrespectfully spoken of . Lou "s N ^ Frankfort . —The Legislative assembly-of th * Frankfort , at their silting of the 8 th , passed the f » < % m tions : > F uie fo |] OWlng T M The Assembly informs the Senate .
First . That the Assembly still acknowledge ? , ns in force th law of November 19 , 1848 , as it . has not . been repealed ncco . v ^ * " * * off I * tatert in 11 ms notification Of the Senate of Dec , 81 1849 ' i 1 o nM ! * V » Feb . 20 , 1849 ; and that it considers the changes introducedI ' i " ° tl : e Ii >» J in virtue of-these laws to be legally binding . Uie wist iiul : Second . That if the Senate sh ; iil really cany out the ' '
nouiicetl , to conform to the resolution ofine Germanic dT l ll » » August , and if it . shall consequently order elections to be proewn ^ IStll « i ng to the supplementary act of the constitution and the law of" il **»« admission of Hie inhabitants of the country only when rural atp ^ IpOn ll tion ) , the Legislative Assembly will leave the whole of tlie ™ Lr "" V ' < fa Senate . respoiistbilitj- ^
Third . That the Assembly watches , therefore , that all the rW I city , as well generally as individually , shall be preserved in the m ° ' IIlis h 4 and energetic manner &pinrt every attempt which mav bo tw Cm ^ kl J L "ltU'C "gainst it '
DENMARK . The two Danish chambers were opened on ihe 4 ih U sion . The royal message , which was very conciv I * that the cabinet would submit a law for n-s ; ulatin « the lr ^ the discussion of which must precede all oiher business ° ITALY . Pidemokt . —The council of delegates of Alessandria ha ,, ; dressed a petition lo the Piedmontess Parliament , pravint I ecclesiastical property m . y be administered by the civil authJrifr Ihe journal Liberia et Assodaziane , published at Geno-i seized ior the sixth time in a few weeks on the 7 th inst
1 he Journal ae Turin of the 9 th states that rumours were cirri . lating in Turin that a number of emigrants who have for some timi resided in Genoa , have received orders to quit the Sardi , territories . a " ( Tuscany . —The trial of Guerazzi was continued at Florence « . Lie 2 d inst . Guerozw spoke again in his defence . He < aidik the attempt made by De Laugier at Alassi lo restore mom . ro > was ihe cause of the proclamation of the republic by the populace at I'loreuce . His counsel then applied for an adjournment of \ Ik trial until the 5 th , which was granted . NAPLES . —The Neapolitan Government still refuses to allow Mr . Hamilton to open his school unless he subscribes lo the deciee which empowers Roman Catholic priests to visit his establishment .
Lombardy-. — -We read in the Opinione of Turin , of the Jih ~ " In Lombardy fresh arests are raking place in all directions . Out letters from Mantua stole thai the Government is hard at work in enlarging the prisons . Forty individuals accused of high treason were incarcerated last week . Domiciliary visits continue at Milan , Verona , Pavia , and Padua , and are always followed by the Hi 4
r imprisonment of the suspected : A letter from Milan of the 6 ih inst . states that on the preceding day an individual , named Charles Vanoli , was sentenced to eight years of carcere duro , for having concealed a pistol in his uncle ' s nouse and then denounced him to the police for having fire arras concealed .
SPAIN . ' 1 he jury has acquitted the heraldo with the four other journals prosecuted for publishing its snide upon the public finances . The Jrsal was conducted with closed doors . The public , prosecutor challenged twenty jurymen whose names were first drawn . It is not yeUnown whether , notwithstanding the verdict , the government will proceed against the Heraldo byway of suppression , as it has already done in the case of two provincial journals . PERSIA .
We learn by letters irom Constantinople that , in consequence of a rumour that the Shah had been assassinated , the Koords anil other mountain tribes were in open insurrection . It is added thai the Shah is fast recovering from his wounds , and intends to appeal m public in Teheran as soon as possible .
UNITED STATES . ( from our own correspondent . ) New York , September ^ . I understand that a new journal , to be the organ of the W Republicans resident in . this city , will be commenced next week - It is to be edited by a committee of Irish nuturalized citizens , in conjunction with some of the republican exiles of 1848 . No doubt it will be eminentl y successful , for such an organ has been long needed by the Irish section of my fellow citizens . nl . Ihe
Hon . Benjamin Thompson , late representative of the UW Fourth District , Massachusetts , died rather suddenly at his residence in Charlestown , on Friday afternoon last . A singular case showing the existence of mest dep lorable lgno * rance and superstition , was tried at the Court of Quarter Sessions on Friday and Saturday last . The defendants were Mary C linton , and Susan Spearing , who were charged with conspiring to cnea and defraud George F . Elliott , by means of for tune-telling an " conjurations , which so influenced the mind of prosecutor s « f that they extorted indirectlfrom MrElliott . The
conjumoney y . ration practiced , as alleged by the Commonwealth , werei givi » Mrs , ; Elliott a bottle containing some portions of Mr . » clothing , and telling her , that as the clothing decayed , so w Elliott would moulder away , until he would finally die oy vm of the spell—that one of the defendants first poisoned the *»« mind , by telling her that Mr . E . was paying attentions to oilier males . This story had so strong an effeet upon her as to make wish lor his death . Another ordeal of witchcraft was tor i" j Elliott to take her husband ' clothestear them to pieces , ana
s , the bottle with them , then to boil the contents nine times , ana would give him such extreme pain as to cause his death . ' advice was paid for by Mrs . Elliott . Some of the disclo ^ brought out on this trial were of the most ridiculous cwu * Up to the time of the adjournment of the Court on Saturday , jury had not come to a decision on the case .
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Oct. 16, 1852, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1700/page/2/
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