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the Archbishop , the cur 6 ( M . Grand ) caused the picture to be displaced , and workmen turned it round . We examined it with a good deal of care , but I saw no particular mark . The canvass was perfectly dry ; a thick coating of pitch covered all the back , and jt was placed against a very thick wall . This was all the part I had in the event . The Archbishop then proceeded to celebrate mass , and I went away to draw up an account of what I had seen . I then visited Rosette Tamisier , who I found suffering and greatly discouraged . She announced to me that she believed the prodigy would be renewed . And , in fact , I have since received a report from the mayor of Saturnin , announcing that , at nine o ' clock in Ihe morning of Saturday , the 21 st , there was again an abundant oozing of blood . ' "
The Courrier de . Lyons states that the blood which is said to have issued from the wounds in the side of our Saviour , as represented in the painting in the church of St . Saturnin , has been analyzed by two medical men , who have declared that its chemical composition exactly corresponds with that of human blood .
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WESLEYAN RIOTS IN NORFOLK . The Fifth-of-Novenaber mode of settling ecclesiastical disputes , by burning the effigy of your opponent , has been introduced into the Methodist body in Norfolk during the last few weeks , in imitation , no doubt , of the " No-Popery" Autos de Fe elsewhere . It appears that the tyrannical proceedings of Conference have caused , in Norfolk as in other places , a spirit of rebellion against the mandates of that despotic body , and that the people have even gone the length of excluding the regularly-appointed ministers from the pulpits of various chapels . At the village of Iyenwade the chapel services have been stopped—the preachers stoned and burnt in effigy ; but this has only been when all peaceful measures have failed- First of all , we are told , the people chose a minister of their own , and , on several occasions , when the obnoxious Conference minister arrived , he found the pulpit already occupied . This , of course , was deemed flat rebellion by Conference , and accordingly the superintending minister of the district interfered . He contrived 10 get early possession of the pulpit a few weeks ago , and , with slight interruptions , got through the service ; but , as he did not like the aspect of the crowd who were assembling out of doors , he remained inside till the evening
service-In the evening the riotous disposition of the people enereased . Stones and other ~ missiles were thrown through the windows , and , although the constables were sent for , they did not interfere . The service was abruptly finished , nnd the minister on leaving the village was assailed with stones , by whieh the person driving the gig was injured . After he had left , his effigy and that of a friend were burnt by the mob . Several parties were brought before the magistrates last week on the charge of having taken part in the riot , but , alter a good deal of evidence , the information was dismissed . The charge against the constables for neglect of duty was adjourned .
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AMERICAN AFFAIRS . The news from the United States , b y the Asia , though not unimportant , may be compressed into a brief narrative . 'Die President has issued a proclamation declaring that the act of Congress fixing the Texas boundary is in full force and efFect . This shows that Texas acquiesces in the slavery compromise of last session . On the contrary , the legislature of South Carolina lias emitted a note of warlike preparation , the Senate having passed a bill for a convention , and giving 300 , 000 dollars for military purposes . It is not likely , however , that anything will come of this , for all the fortn in the harbour of Charleston are fully manned with the troops of the central government , and 100 , 000 volunteers could be raised in the adjoining states in u few days to take possession of all the principal towns .
The Legislature ha'l set to business in good earnest . On the Kith ultimo Mr . Cass moved in the Senate that rhe correspondence between Government and the Austrian minister , relative to the agent sent by the United States to Hungary during the contest there , be laid on the table . The dincuKsion waa postponed . Mr . licnton , the same day introduced a bill for the construction of a railroad from tit . . Louis to Sun Franciseo . In the JIou . sc of HcprcKuntutivcb the sume day , the cheap postage bill was juado the upecial
order of the < Juy for Wudncaijiiy , the IHUi ultimo . A lettolution to enquire into the propriety of requesting the President to give notice to Great Hritam of the desire of Iuh ( jowrnnicnt to withdraw the tuiuudron stationed on the went coast of Africii , was reft rrcd to the committee on naval n / 1 ' airw ; the New York branch Mint , wns luude the order of the < luy for the necond Tuesday in January ; and the firnt Tuesday , Wednesday , and Thursday in February were net apart for the confederation of the territorial business of Oregon , MiiiCHOiu , Uluh , and New Mexico .
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T 11 K DKKSDKW CONFJiRKNTCES . T he meinbern of the Conference ) met on Friday , the 27 th , at two o ' clock , but , they were merely engaged in the preliminary Ihibuichh of arranging tho orflcr of proceedings , and deliberating upon tlio Lwet
On Saturday Prince Sehwarzenberg and Baron Manteuffel went to Berlin ,. They were received ftt the railway station by several general and superior officers . Prince Schwarzenberg repaired at once to the royal palace , where apartments had been prepared for him . At three o ' clock all the Ministers dined with the King and hip Austrian guest at Charlottenberg . On Sunday Baron Manteuffel gave a grand diplomatic banquet . It is said that the chief difficulties of the situation are by no means overcome . The Dresden correspondent of the National Zeitung writes : — , . _
mode of electing a President of Conferences . It i « understood that beyond the verification of credentials and appointment of committees , no details have been entered upon . In the meantime speculation i » busy , and anticipation varies according to the peculiar views and aspirations of each politician . It is confidently asserted that the Court of Saxony have declined taking any steps towards promoting their own Minister tothe chair , and the probability is that the presidency will be assumed by Austria . The first duties to which the committee are to direct their attention are to revise the articles of the Alliance of 1815 , with a view to thajr reform . The representative of Saxony has been unanimously chpsen a member of each committee , and was also selected to act as President
" Prussia requires such an enlargement of the right to form alliances as shall enable her to construct a narrower union within the limits of the Confederation , into which Austria is to enter with all her provinces . Austria refuses to permit such an extension of the right of union , declaring that such a rig ht would cause the destruction of the wider Confederation , leaving a sonderbund ( party league ) in its stead . Negotiations are proceeding on this head at the present moment . " The King of Denmark , as Duke and Sovereign of the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg , and a mfimber of the Germanic Confederation , has been
officially invited to send a plenipotentiary to Dresden . Baron Pechlin , who has been selected by the King to this post , has left Copenhagen to take part in the conferences .
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THE IONIAN ISLANDS . On proroguing the Parliament , Sir Henry Ward , the Lord High Commissioner , delivered a speech directed mainly against political agitation . He contradicted the rumour that there was any intention on the part of the Queen " to abandon a position placed under the safeguard of the British Crown by the Treaty of Paris . The only effect of keeping up agitation , he adds , will be to divert the minds of the people from things that are practicable and easy of attainment . As for the people generally , he does not believe that they trouble themselves with political theories , or party contests . What they want is good government , roads , schools , impartial administration of justice , and internal improvements of every kind . In conclusion , he quotes the following advice from Lord Grey , who , in a recent despatch , reminds them : —
" That changes in the constitution of the Legislature , and in the distribution of political power , although from time to time they may be necessary in every country , contribute nothing directly to the improvement of the condition of the people . They are valuable only as affording the means by which improvements in the Jaws and in the system of administration and ceeonoray in the public expenditure may be secured . So far from being beneficial in themselves , it is notorious that , so long as the discussion of constitutional changes is going on , the consideration of those practical njeasur . , which are the
ultimate objects of such alterations , is suspended ; while the frequency of such changes js in the highest degree injurious , by destroying that confidence in the stability of the constituted authorities which is one of the main elements of their strength . It will , therefore , be much to be desired that the attention of the Parliament , when it reassembles , should be directed more to the use of powers ulreudy granted to the people in the introduction of practical improvements , than to the consideration of new plane for further changes iu the constitution eo lately established . "
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CRIME IN INDIA . The papers received by the last Overland Mall contain u frightful record of atrocious murders in Bombay . The following summary is from a Bombay paper : — " At the July setsHioiiH , a Portuguese watt found guilty of uUbbing with a knife n youuK V » arri « d wojiiun ; ehe died of the wound , and the murderer wna h&ngtvd . At the next criminal M'ssion of October 2 , two men were tried and condemned for murder ; one wijts bunged—the other wuh reprieved on the * v * 'i » ing preceding bin
intended execution . They )»< *< 1 entered the houst of a kept initttri'HH , by connivance of * female friend—tied up her hvud with a tarree , and aicujicd suffocation by piiting on her bosow . The wretches «< i'in to huvo been from ten . to fifteen ihujuU-h . occupied in their inurd « rouu work , while th « wouiuu wiio ndmiltt ' d them lay , by h « r own account , bound <> n the floor . The proposed robbery wuh then / committed . Wliilo the yc »« io « H were tutting , another murder , equally coldblooded , und utrociouH , occurred . A puor old womun , anoil nelHer , poHKCHHed Home jewels : h ^ o w » h -entice d iijto « dweliinghouac , ufid while uieuuurjjng pud oij wutf « . t |* cked by two PaxtKCH , « nd Btr * 0 LgW with * iwdwl ropy . Tbew three
last murders , » H of women , occurred within a fortnight of each other . We had now a little breathing space ; amongst horrors such as these , the strangulation of an infant by its mother is scarcely worthy of notice , when three weeks since we find a Chinaman done to death by two European sailors . We have ne * t a housekeeper poisoned ; then four men butchered at M * him in a fit of fury by member * of another religious sect ; ne « t a courtezan poisoned , three others narrowly escaping a like fate , by a couple of men for the sake of plunder ; in all , in four months , nine human lives cruelly destroyed by
murderers , and nearly forty individuals charged with murder directly , or as accomplices . The death pf the Chinaman and slaughter at # fahim were perpetrated in passion ; the others were coldblooded atrocities , perpetrated b y the most cruel means , for the most paltry motives , while recent acts of blood , such as those under investigation , epw ? e farther light is promised us on the slaughter of the woman found . a twelvemonth sinee , cut piecemeal , and strewed in fragments around on the flats ,- ~ so that in reajity for months on end scarcely a week has passed where some master connected with % murder has not been under investigation at the police-office . "
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THE ALLAI 6-YON PLOT . The French people have long been celebrated for the manufacture and opportune discovery of alarming plots , In that sort pf ware they far surpass those very -wise ancestors of ours who lived in the days of Titus Oates . Their last invention was brought before the public in the course of the trial of Allais , the police-agent of the . Assembly , for calumniously accusing certain persons of a plot to assassinate General Changarnier and M- Dupin , the President of the National Assembly . The following account of the transaction we borrow from the columns of the Times : —
" Pierre Constant Aljais is described in the report of the trial as being twenty-nine years of age , a pale , thin man , with a restless eye . The calumnious accusation appears to have been uttered in the shape of a report to M . Yon , the Commissary of Police of the Assembly . It was in effect that a knot of Bonapartist conspirators had met on the 29 th of October last , at the shop of one Pichon , a grocer , in the Rue des Saussaies , and had there come to the resolution of assassinating General Changarnier and M , Dupin . The vivid imagination of the agent who fixed upon the dramatis persona readily extemporized all melodramatic adjuncts which should accompany so solemn a resolution . Lots were dul y cast , and it fell to the lot of an artist named Picot to give the fatal blow to General
Changarnier . Allais himself was designed by fate to bring poor M . Dupin ' s days to an untimely conclusion . Twenty-sjx persons—so Allais reported the matterwer « present in the grocer ' s back shop when the final resolution was taken . They did not separate until a late hour , and the next thing we hear of Allais is , that in the middle of the night he presented himself in a perfectly composed state of mind at the lodging of a Madame Raymond , a dressmaker , with whom he cohabited . The next morning he called upon M . Yon , his chief , and informed him of the plot . On the evening of that day M .
Yon , in company with Allais , visited the Rue des Saussaies , and the very shop in which the awful conspiracy bad been batched was pointed out by the agent to his principal- This was something in the way of evidence , and , as if to make assurance doubly sure , Allais produced for the satisfaction of hjs chief forty francs whichso he informed him—he had received from the Elysee as his share of the subsidy bestowed by Louis Napoleon on the Secret Society . Of course it was impossible to resist direct proof of this kind , and , accordingly , M . Yon attached implicit belief to the revelations of his subordinate from that moment forward . is
" What follow ^ 4 » tillm . ore curious . M . Yon , although possessed of a secret of such importance , kept the proper authorities in ignorance of it until the 9 th . November . It was not until the 6 th that he presented his report to the Questure of the Assembly . The interval appears to have been spent by M , Yon in making inquiries , the result of which convinced him more and more of the truth of the alleged conspiracy . When the necessity of producing Allais was urged upon him by the magistrate , M . Yon , who waa perfectly aware of hia whereabouts , kepjt him out of the way , and even concealed him for three davs in hjs own UMg ipgs at t )> c Assembly . Meanwhile Allans did but little credit » 8 a
witness to hiB protector , for within the space of a few days ho retracted hJa statement , and then retracted the retractation . During the progress of the trial he was in one of hi « affirmative fits , and insisted upon the truth of his atory , with some few modifications with regard to the drawing <> f the lots . These point ? , he admitted , were fabrications . The evidence of the witnesses consisted in the main of indignant appeal ** to the court , and of violent denunciations of the prisoner as a ' ffuetifc ' a ' calumniator , ' a ' barefaced impostor / a » 'impudent liar , ' and so forth . It in quite needle « 3 to dwe | I in detail upon the ptaternenta of t )»« various persons accused of enuring in an imaginary plot . ' Are you not ashamed to look me in the face ? '
tsaid JVJ . Pillou , un innocent sign-painter , to the prisoner . The answer in , ' Take care , or I will tell all ! So on throughout ; but if we U » k « one man ' tt « vidence , an a ftpceimen n > f tho reiwt , naturally M . Pichon , the outraged grower of the Kue dvt > Jjkuwates , has th « < ir » t * : laiai upon our Hyuiputhu-u : — "' M . Piphoii , grocer , ltu « < Ji-t » tiaiiHtmuts , ii , «» i < l '"> ' »«* " formed purl of the society of M" » " Auiia d" l'Ordre ot d u « u held ut li >* liouqo oi ) Iho iii * tli «' October luHt . IIiis buck nhop could not roiituia tw <; uty- » ix jh'Jtn > u >> ( llto number Htuted by Alluiu to h » ve boon preHOiit ) . I 1 < wuld ffot . hedd wore thuii vight or t « n . O ; j r * + < Hn \ f jn jlh * »«« " " jwirier yn uccomit of the alleged « oj ) wi > jru <; y ^ t , hi « qouwJ , h « > V » Kreutly ( uioni » h « d , and wont jto the cop » ipl « pury of police o » tl "' district ito auk hiui whut lm nhould do . Tli « t ' functionary recoui-
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 4, 1851, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1864/page/4/
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