The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-09 00:00:00

GERMANY.

The Debats has the fellowine, on Austri In policy :
—" We roeve received ne vas !rein Vieuea of vac; 31.*t
ult. The Cabinet letters of the 20h ult., addressed
by the Emperor to Prince de Schwarz.mberg, Pre-
sident of the Council of Ministers, and to Baron de
Kubec, President of the Council of the Empire, had
been published not only in the capital of the empire,
but in all the towns of any importance ; and the in-
telligence which the Government had received in-
formed it that such publication had not excited dis-
content or disturbance in any quarter. It appears,
besides, that this pacific result had been foreseen;
and that in advance no apprehension was felt as to
the immediate effects of the imperial ordinances.
The Government had not had recourse to any extra-
ordinary measures of surety. The garrisons had not
been displaced or reinforced, or the troops even
ordered to keep their barracks and hold themselves in
readiness to act. The Government finds in these
external circumstances a proof that its conduct is ap-
proved of, and that the popularity of the Emperor
has not been impaired. The documents of Aug. 20
have been the occasion of a diplomatic communica-
tion. Prince de Schwartzenberg, who is at the same
time Minister of the Imperial Household and of Fo-
reign Affairs, transmitted them to all the diplomatic
agents of Austria in foreign countries with a circu-
lar, dated Aug. 26, explaining their character, and
at the same time making known the intentions of
the Emperor, particularly in what relates to the
charter of March 4, 1849. This circular is conse-
quently an important document, of which the fol-
lowing is the substance The Prince de Schwart-
zenberg begins by giving a rapid sketch of the critical
situation of the empire at the commencement of 1849.
At that period revolution was everywhere. After
having suddenly broken out at Vienna, it had spread
into the kingdom of Hungary and the provinces of
Lombardy ; and that situation, so perilous per se,
was aggravated by the complication of the other
states of Germany. However, the imperial armies
had obtained great advantages and made rapid pro-
gress. It was thought, above all, urgent to find a
mode of re-edifying the unity and indivisibility of
the empire and the authority of the throne ; it was
thought that a unitary constitution could be that
mode, and for that purpose his Imperial Majesty re-
solved to give his letters-patent of March 4. But
the matter was urgent, and time was wanting to
study the fundamental principles on which that con-
stitution ought to rest, and to assemble and select
them. These principles were borrowed from the
charters and constitutions promulgated in other states
of Europe, and the act of March 4 was in fact only a
document drawn up according to foreign models.
-Such a work could not have much success,
and it had
none._ Tne circular declares that its vices andinsuffi-
ciency
Si. order became restored in the monarchy, it was
more evident that the execution of the charter was
impossible; that its execution could not be attempted
with impunity ; and that, if the attempt were made,
-it might expose the monarchy to the greatest dan-
gers. That was the conviction of the Emperor,
who judged the moment come to remove public
uncertainty, by putting an end to the fiction
which the act of March 4 kept up, by suppressing the
collection of temporary measures connected with that
act, and by assigning to the throne, to which it ex-
clusively belongs, the decision of the question. The
Emperor, who gave spontaneously the letters patent
of March 4, had never bound himself to them,
either by an oath or by any concession or abandon-
ment of his imperial authority. Eta Majesty was
not bound to maintain the letter of this constitu-
tion, which ought to be ranked amongst those
measures which the Sovereign, in the exercise of
his power, adopts, modifies, or abrogates according
to his conviction, and for which he is responsible to
God alone. His Majesty being decided to frankly
put an end to such a state of things, full of trouble
and anxiety, had provided for doing so by his ordi-
nances of August 20.' The circular next explains
what is the signification of the Ministerial responsi-
bility, how it ought to be regarded in the Govern-
ment of his Majesty, and why the constitutional in-
stitutions of the empire shall be regulated according
to the decision of the Emperor himself. Prince de
Schwartzenberg concludes by the very formal and
very explicit declaration, that the Emperor does not
intend any reaction. His Imperial Majesty desires
to establish in the empire only a regime strictly and
perfectly legal ; and likewise the question is not to
re-establish privileges, exemptions, or exceptional
positions, which have disappeared in these latter
years, nor to give any attaint to the material rights
recognised since 1848, in what concerns property and
persons."

THE BLEEDING PICTURE
IMPOSTURE.
TRIAL OF ROSE TAMISIER.
(From Gall gnani' s Messenger.)

Rose TaMisier, the female arrested on a charge of
having by a pretended miracle at St. Saturnin, near
Apt, committed what the law calls "an outrage on
objects of religious worship," was brought to trial
four days ago before the Tribunal of Correctional
Police of Carpentras. She is extremely pale, and her
features bear the mark of mysticism. Her bearing is
modest, and she dresses in black, with a nun's cap.
Her age is 33. The court was crowded to excess, and
the famous bleeding picture was placed behind the
judges. It was proved by several witnesses that
Rose had always pretended to possess the power of
working miracles. To one witness she once showed
a letter which she said had been written by
a person who could neither read nor write,
and that person, she declared, had been
miraculously endowed with the facility of writ-
ing in consequence of her prayers. To another wit-
ness she asserted that she bad on a particular occasion
been surrounded with great light from heaven at
Cadenet. To a third she said that she had once, when
in the convent of Sallons, planted a cabbage by the
command of heaven, and that in a few days it grew
to such a vast size that all the persons in the convent
were able to make a dinner of it. The cure of
Saignon deposed that he had known Ross Tamisier
for 15 years, and had always noticed in her a
marked tendency to piety and mysticism. In Aug.,
1850, she told him that she had miraculously received
the sacrament in the parish church ; and on going to
the tabernacle of the altar be found that the con-
secrated wafer had disappeared. On two subse-
quent occasions the consecrated wafer again
vanished, and Rose pretended that she had again
miraculously communicated. He therefore removed
the key of the tabernacle, and forbade her to
approach the altar ; he also directed his vicaire not to
say mass at the principal altar; but nevertheless the
consecrated wafer was then taken away, and be could
not discover that any second key to the tabernacle
existed. On going to the church one morning, he was
surprised to find the tabernacle open, two candles on
the altar lighted, and Rose prostrate on the ground.
In answer to his questions, she said that the candles had
become lighted of themselves, that the tabernacle had
voluntarily opened, that she bad felt herself fixed to the
ground at some distance from the altar, and that the
consecrated wafer had then advanced slowly to her
mouth. About the same time she pretended to have
marks of a miraculous character on her breast, and
to prove this assertion, she produced her linen, which
bore some stains representing the Virgin Mary, and,
at others, a crown of thorns. He took measures tc
ascertain whether she had not so marked her linen,
but without success. 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 mess 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 in a few days afterwards they disappeared. The
vicaire of Sainon, after deposing. to the repeated
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
neat 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 one 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 vicaire had
called him an atheist, and an infidel, for not be-
lieving in the reality of Rose's miracles, and bad
announced to him that still more extraordinary
things would soon be witnessed. Madame Fereire,
a sister of the Order of the Presentation de la Marie,
called in religion Sister Sainte-Leonarde stated that
she witnessed some hfand had not
She
Rose's miracle,,
had warned her to be prudent
believed in them,
in her conduct. Several other. witnesses then deposed
that Rose had made extraordinary statements to them,
had pretended to be in frequent communication with
the Hely Virgin, to have peculiar marks on her
breast, &c. One said that an intimate friend of Rote
had assured her that one day, as two females were
passing the church of St. Saturnin, they felt theme
irresistibly attracted to the interior, and, on
kneeling before a picture, saw blood flow from it.
At this stage of the evidence the tribunal adjourned.

• The shooting elson commetuTri on Mondly last,
when numbers of sportsmen " ranged the fertile fields" in
search of game. The weather was truly delightful, as in-
deed it has continued to be throughout the week, but birds
proved uncommonly scarce in most localities;, having pro-
bably taken refuge in the still standing corn. It is cortii-
derad more than likely that game is very plentiful, as the
breeding sewn was remarkably favourable.-- Welshman.

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