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      One day before celebrating mass , he ordered Rose to place a piece of clean linen to her breast , and not to leave the church without his permission . When the mass was over , he called her to the vestry and made her produce the linen ; to his astonishment it bore the figure of the Virgin . By direction of the Archbishop , he directed her to pray to God that the marks on her breast might be removed , and a few days after they disappeared . The vicaire of Saignon , after deposing to therepeated disappearances of the consecrated wafer , stated that in the month of October last he had to say mass one morning at five o ' clock , and expressed to Rose the fear that he might not awake in time . Rose answered— " I will have you awakened . The next morning he was aroused from his sleep by three blows struck on his night-table , and at the same time he heard distant music . A moment after the

      clock ' struck five . The next day he said to Rose" You forgot to awaken me . " She answered—" I had you awakened by my guardian angel ! " The witness added that another miracle ascribed to Rose was that she had caused buttons to be sent to him in a strange way , to repair his coat ; the fact was that he had found the buttons in his apartment , and that no qne could tell how they came there . But he attached no importance to that fact , and considered it a joke . M . Massie , a landowner at Saignon , said that the vacaire had called him an atheist and an infidel for not believing in the reality of Rose ' s miracles , and had announced to him that still more extraordinary things would soon be witnessed . Madame Ferris re , a sister of the Order of Presentation de la Marie ,

      called in religion Sister St . Leonarde , stated that she witnessed some of Rose ' s miracles , and had not beli eved in them . She had warned her to be prudent in her conduct . One of the witnesses , of whom there were great numbers , said that an intimate friend of Rose had assured her that one day as two women were passing the church of St . Saturnin , they felt themselves irresistibly attracted to the interior , and on kneeling before a picture , saw blood flow from it . M . Caire , formerly vicaire of St . Saturnin , had left the parish because his disbelief in the miracles had

      led to an altercation between him and the cure . A priest named Chavard had had an interview with Rose , and to test her honesty described an imaginary vision to her , whereupon she at once said the same vision had appeared to her , at the same time , and she explained what the things beheld signified ! M . Andre , cure of Beaumettes , considered the miracles as juggling tricks ; and M . Crozat , one of the vicaires of St . Saturnin , thought them impostures . Verysingular testimony was given by M . Grand , the cure of that parish : —

      " He said that on the 10 th November last Josephine Imbert had called on him to state that she and Rose Tamisier , being alone in the chapel of Calvary , had seen blood issue from the two wounds of the Saviour in the painting representing the descent from the cross , placed above the altar . He sent her away with instructions to inform him if she should again observe the same thing . In the morning of the 13 t . h of December , Josephine called on him , and begged him to go at once to the chapel . He found Itose alone in it , kneeling on the steps of the altar She was in a sort of ecstasy , and did not utter a single word on seeing him . After about ten minutes , Rose said , ' Look now , if you wish to see the blood flow ! '

      He lighted a candle , and got on the altar . He saw several drops of blood flow from the wounds of the right hand and the side of Christ . He Bent for M . Bunnot , one of his vicaires , and for Dr . Clement . The latter , on arriving , burst into laughter on being told why he had been sent for . But having got on to the altar , he touched one of the wounds with his ringer , and , smelling the finger , said— ' It is blood . ' The doctor then applied a pocket-handkerchief to the wounds of the hand , and on examining the stains found that they were of blood . He three times repeated the experiment , witli the same result . Afterwards the blood ceased to flow . The same phenomenon was remarked with respect to the wounda

      on the side of Christ . lhe doctor , becoming impatient , rolled the pocket-handkerchief to a ball in his hand , and roughly rubbed the painting . The blood then ceased to flow ; but it was observed the stain on the pockethandkerchief perfectly represented a heart . Dr . Clement was astonished , and cried— ' It is prodigious . ' The doctor then added , that for all the world he wished he had not been a witness of such a thing , for that all his professional brethren would tuin him into ridicule . He , however , related what lie had seen , and the matter became publicly talked of . On the Mkh of December Josephine Imbert again informed witness that the picture wan bleeding , and he went to the church . A large crowd was present , the bell having been rung to collect the the faithful . IIohc was ugaiu before the altur . He got on to the altar , and dourly saw blood How from the wounds . The mayor of Si . Suturnin und Dr . Clement , who were with him , saw the sanu : thing . The blood was not touched for half an hour , and then it . was wiped ( iff with a pocket handkerchief : it again , however , began to flow . The Archbishop of Avignon arrived at . St .. Saturnin on the the 20 th of December to exanii e into the affair , lie expressed the wish to be allowed to enter the chapel before any one else ; but Hone said it wan absolutely necessary that she should go there alone to say her customary prayer . The prelate reluctantly consented to et her enter the church first , with Josephine Imbert and a woman named Jean , her cousin . About an hour and a half after the archbishop was admitted . Hut M . Urave , Bub-piefea of Apt , hurued before him . , getting on to the . altar , wiped away tho blood with a pocket handkerchief . The consequence waa that the prolate saw

      nothing . The next day witness ( the cure" ) went to the church to say mass . There was no blood then on the picture , but a quarter of an hour later it began to now . On the 5 th of February he was told that Rose had declared that something supernatural was about to take place in the chapel . The chapel was then locked up , and he had the keys . Blood was that day seen on the picture . The chapel had been sealed up until within a few days before , in compliance with , the orders of the ecclesiastical authorities , who had declared that there was no miracle . He could not tell to what cause the extraordinary facts he had related were to be ascribed . Rose had always been considered a good girl , and her conduct was irreproachable . "

      The Mayor of St . Saturnin deposed that he had seen the blood on the picture . He could not say that it was caused by a miracle , but it was inexplicable and supernatural . The woman Jean , cousin of Rose , speaking most reluctantly , stated that Rose had given her a pocket-handkerchief stained with blood from the picture ; also , that on oti p occasion , after communicating , the consecrated wafer remained on her tongue for half an hour without dissolving ; that she had fhen felt herself irresistibly attracted to Rose ' s bed , and gave her the wafer with her tongue , Rose receiving it on her tongue . Josephine Imbert stated that Rose asked her to write to her , and that she replied she could not write ; whereupon Rose said— «• You wiLl soon know how to do so ! " and after a while , feeling an inclination to write , she took pen htest embarrass

      in hand , and wrote without the slig - ment . Since then she continued to write , though she never received any lessons . She several times accompanied Rose to the church , but never saw her put blood on the picture . When Rose felt she was about to receive a grace from heaven , she directed her to go and seek other witnesses . When Rose felt there would be no miracle , she returned quietly home . Josephine Imberthad nevei locked Rose inthechurch . Her conviction was that the bleedings of the picture were caused by Divine intervention , and that Rose was holy . Dr . Clement was examined . He described how he wiped up the blood on the picture , as related by the cure , M . Grand . He could not , he said , explain to himself how the thing had been caused , and did not think that any satisfactory explanation had been given of it .

      The Patrie of Saturday evening says : — " A letter from Carpentras announces that the affair of Rose Tamisier has had , after three days' long and laborious investigation , an unexpected termination—the tribunal has declared itself without jurisdiction , and has sent the affair before whomsoever it may concern , all things remaining in their present state " !

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      PUBLIC OPINION . We take three extracts , indicative of public opinion in Conservative quarters , on the aspect of Continental politics . The Vienna Ordinances is the subject of the leaders . The first is from the Times : — " If the attempt to reestablish unmixed despotic government in the midst of the daylight and _ the activity— the press and the railroads—of the nineteenth century could by possibility be successful , it would be a despotism such as Europe has never witnessed before , and we must seek for analogies to it beyond the

      Bosporus . The experiment of constitutional government may be a hard one , and we have frequently seen it fail froui inexperience on one side and bad faith on the other ; but we undertake to affirm that the experiment of absolute military power over whole nations of educated , enlightened , and exasperated men is an impossibility . The former gains even by its failures , the latter loses even by its success ; and those who are one day to render an account of a throne and an empire committed to their charge , will do well to remember by which of the eternal laws of Providence and humanity they have guided their course . "

      The Chronicle winds up a leader on foreign affairs with these words : — " It would appear to be the object of the Continental rulers to divide society into two distinct parties , and , by means of their vust military resources , to secure a permanent victory over the people . Hut such model schemes of paternal government are but short-lived , accoiding to the universal verdict of history . We cannot but look for violent changes from the indications which are now presented ; and when authority shall next be arraigned before the popular tribunal in Germany , it may no longer be a question of dynasties , but a question between Monarchy and Republicanism . " Last , not least in importance us symptoms , are these pomtive and it . alici . sed assertions of the Standa rd : — " That proceeding is a gift of the whole power of Austria to whatever nation shall recommence the jtropaj / afidint rcnolutumtiry war . That war will be recommenced sooner or later , piohably sooner than most men expect ; und what part will betaken in it . by the downtrodden , deceived , insulted people of the Austrian empire cannot be doubtful . The Austrians or ilunguriuiiH were not romantically devoted to their Sovereign in JK 18 . Now the events of the three yearn since , ct owned an these events are by the shameless declaration of the 2 ( jth ultimo , are not calculated to improve their loyalty . The first , cannon-shot , iired on the Continent in the impending propagandist war , will be the signal for the whole Austrian empire to riae as one man in support of the innovator—of tho more violent innovator—if there be more than one . "

      The two former appeared simultaneously on Thurgdav morning ; the last in the evening of the same day . On the Austrian ordinances the Leeds Time remarks : — " So the gauntlet is thrown down by despotism , may not be taken up at once ; the democracy of Eurone will choose their own time for the conflict to which they are summoned ; but the perfidy ; brutality , and infatuation of the rulers of Continental Europe have made such a conflict inevitable , and must invest it with a terrible inveteracy whenever it does occur . " All the ruling powers of the Continent seem bent upon reviving the frenzied scenes of 1848 , writes the Preston Guardian : —

      " We are no alarmists , but we cannot contemplate the present high-pressure working of despotism without apprehension . Every restraint appears to be thrown off every past admonition disregarded ; constitutional compacts and concessions are deliberately repudiated and retracted ; and absolutism is again at its fiendish orgies . " Austrian treachery is thus estimated at its worth by the Norfolk News , in a pithy paper on the Vienna ordinances : — " It is fortunate for the popular cause that , when the impending revolutionary storm shall burst upon the

      Continent , every intelligent and impartial observer will be constrained to admit that the Emperor of Austria , the Kings of Naples and Prussia , and even the Pope of Rome , by their blind disregard of the signs of the times—their utter faithlessness to every promise made in the hour of distress—their bigoted resistance to every liberal idea—and their merciless cruelty towards all who expressed sympathy with their enslaved and suffering fellow-subjects—have necessitated the dreaded catastrophe , and unconsciously hastened it by the very means adopted for its prevention . " " Absolutism—1852 " is the ominous title of an able leader in the Londonderry Standard : — " The reaction has reached its highest point . Monarchy is in the zenith of its power . It tramples on Constitutions , laws , oaths . —Covenant-breaking , perjury , villany , are clothed in purple , and enthroned in imperial grandeur , and thus ends another act , but not the last , of the great drama begun in 1848 . "

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      The Coventry Herald thinks that the Church of England is not in a position admitting of the concession of synodal action . " Shall the Church exercise Synodical action is a question still warmly discussed by the clergy and a portion of the press . It seems hard that the Church should not be allowed to reform and govern itself , and the only reason why it should not do so is that the Church professes to be the National Church , and must therefore have the confidence of the nation before it can be allowed to set itself to rights . "

      Trewman s Exeter Flying Post , in an article on the harvest , perorates in a startling manner . If " agricultural relief " must come in the shape of " reduced rent , " says the writer , and landlords be mulcted of u two-thirds " of their income to " satisfy the avariciouaness of the manufacturers " ( sic ) , there is a class in the country who will also have to feel the effects of the " precious boon" free trade , in a novel and astounding manner : — " Those whose money is snugly ensconsed in the funds—who feel not the vicissitudes of trade—who regularly draw their dividends and spend them in the

      ' cheapest markets '—who , by the injury done to agriculture , which has caused the reduced price of provisions , have derived an advantage equivalent to twenty-five per cent , increase in their incomes—must not expect that they will much longer be permitted to enjoy immunity from the scourge of our modern political oeconomists Some startling revelations could be made in connection with the existing funded property ; and it is not too much to expect that those who have set up a cry about 4 taxing the food of the people ' will , ere long , comp lain of ' the people ' being taxed to support tho ' laxy and unproductive fundholder . ' "

      The Nottingham Mercury occupies its leading columns with a useful abstract of the Poor-law Relief . Act of last session ; and a short paper , deprecating the practice of the Americun people in changing forms of Government by means of bands of marauders . The Wakejield Journal , never very fecund in politics , eschewed them altogether last week .

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      T H K NEW "D 1 QGINS " ! Advices have been received from Sydney up to May W , and from HuthurHt up to May 24 , by t hc Teviot . They were obtained Irom the ship Thoma B Arbuthnot , which touched at Pernambuco on »« ' way from S y dney to England . Some of tho crow or her Majesty 8 Btcamer Acheron were sent home in lit * to work her quickly , in order to convey to the 1 ' j » J 5 " li » h Government the important intelligence that a l ) H

      gold mine hud been discovered at Biithurst . ' utmost confusion and excitement prevailed » HaUiurst , und hundreds of persons were going to tno diggings . A thousand pounds' worth of gold ««¦« arrived in Sydney from the gold mines within the last two or three days . Provisions at tho diggings hn < * riBcn to an enormous price . One writer says thn in gold digging , an in other mattortt , the " race » s noi always to the swift , " but acoording to ) iis ex perience the reverse , aa many persons with scarcely any

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  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 13, 1851, page 868, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1900/page/8/