The Express. — London, England, 1851-12-11 00:00:00

ATtit erpi'eoo• TO COn' TOPONDENTS. Katton ..1“ 1 , , I apr,..," eastaticnn the rem eve J.'! ning's c: • ttr." Y p4b3...ed est:, 1tc04.0 sal he :est. I ••••••••1111,,1ed f.• r The Expre.%" tool= EVftillit Myr, I I.,.asniestirest, » Two o'. <lt om tboll day 0 111611 WATER AT LONDON BRTDOE Tgaip par—logalas. 111. Os. Ramon. 16 St's. Tc...t.c.w—ncvusg, rummer.. 4n. :AO. LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11. Tnr. Times, which has expressed just indignation at the a stablishment in Paris of that despotic mili tary r#gima which it applauds in other countries, seeks now to turn the subversion and arbitrary tyranny of Loris NAPOLEON to the advantage of the Amity of Onexasts. The original fault, it reasons, lay in dethroning Lorts-Pftitteer, for the republic his merely produced its natural result—a mi:itary despotism. The 77.111Cti accordingly sheds its ana tlamas on thew who overthrew the monarchy of the But who overthrew that monarchy? Was it the constitutional opposition, who merely declared that 130,1 sat or POOPS) voters formed tai narrow an eke total body for a nation of 31 millions? Or was it the re p Utaie.lllll who,—until M. Oviret's obstinacy and folly got up a street row,—had so dwindled and d!sipieured, as to he almost uncertain of existents? I'm the catastrophe of the last week in February, ls:s, there is hut one aural set of persons to liimne, and the coo-ists of Lir ts-Putures.,— vil.o behaved like an 61:1 woman ; of his sons,—who showed scarcely the spirit of yming ladies; and of their prime minister,—who had determinedly shut his CA'S to the feelings of the couotry he governed. ltepu . ble ail mpublita:.isin have u great many bins to answer for; hut amongst those sins cannot be ecnitittil the destruction of the throne of Lou IS • I.IIME, whose power it was most unexpectedly surutror.ed to assume and inherit. Teta monarehi..a and one republic have perished in Fiaieu within the memory of the present gene ntien, and the (' %Main and the crew who ma the Armor-lay brat of eIIARLE, X. aground, and then that of bit'14.14111.11.1•14 were precisely the same pessple -the lteLltYrri. IlSoittms, and Titlgns,—who scuttled the Iftpublic. The fact is, that neither form of government is so perfect or no self-sulsisteot as to lie nth- to endure without wisdom, or consistency. or principle, or good faith, on the part of these who *dual! , ter it. Tle writer in the Miles, however, is not more firm or consequent iii his opinions than the statesmen of France. In one sentence he attributes the dedreetion of the numintly to the ellorts of the republicans. In ;mother he attributes the dissolution of the Mine monarchy to the organic defect of the country's being without an aristocracy. But a more pm - triol objection than these to the restoration of tin nniehy in Fr.ume con'd not be given. Fur if inllll/114 icy cannot exist there till an aristocracy be re stored, then nionarehy itself would be imps:sable. It was the tame doctrine that was preadult into the ears of thee bier Borneares. These councilloiN told Loris XVIII. and CIiAnI.EA X. that the deption of their sweatily we impossible until they resume jolted the old uristocracy and the old church. And they set shout this task of rcsuseitstion,—Loris XVIII. with hesitation and twine's, (3tant.tse X. with activity and issal. But the eonsequenee was, that thr ee imperstructurcs on the weak foundation of the inunurehy of that day trashed it into r. If, indeed, it be admitt«lus an axiom that IlnunarAy cannot subsist without aristocracy, then snossereby 1 d.ierried in Europe; for in thirty-fourths of thst cantinent the aristocracy has been destroyed, and where it dots sun ive it has been set aside Irma all indite !ire user public affairs. If monarchy cannot exist without nn aristocracy, it is impossible in France. in Italy, awl in the hotter and root enlightened half of Germany. Tle most ilnogerons and subversive doctrines of our day are those which are eternally anathema tising and excluding one form of goveniment or sim ile, r. 'Elie French republic was been destroyed by men *ha first took the oath to it, and then laboureil to di stroy it for mere party motive*. Both forms of government are very workable, and very capable of the ut1111,4 swans... II Ind laiutri-l'ltinert. been but a coostitati , atal menarch, willing to learn, and toga- C 11141% to yield a kst share of the &manila d his saki's tit, lilt, and such a system might have endured for centuries, and France have been prosperous under it. But he was a &unities, —acid that rendered it impassible. We arc equally confident that the republic would have worked well , had it been honestly directed and administered. I lad either tvv.thite.ce or Lasi RTIN 17, —the men who had earned and deserved the presidency.--heen elected to it. France would not have seen the three years I ei.ip s eour.ies, and would not Lave been prcipi tan into its present abyss. France. however, WWI doomed, it would appear, to make its think monarchic essay. It had already set up a Hoe pox thread of divine rights and a Ihieunox throne of constitutional compact. Both dynasties disgraced themselves in popular opinion, and were de::nitled by the popular senterce. There remained another dynast, with monarchic preted pions. Its representative has just installed himself by the aid of un army of drunken dragoons, atul by a day of hard cannonading di rected against the houses and residents of the Itiatti Boulevard. The mode of victory. the species of illaUgli.:111011. coupled wills the programme of the future ge‘eninant of the country by a council of state and a tribunate, promise still fess than even the that* winyp.. Lou., xvm., 'Who was a librrnl compared with Louis NvroLanN. It will require, however, some months, perhaps years of reign completely to depopularise the Bu fey e %nu. name. Its prow nt representative seems certainly inclined to accomplish this in as short o time as possible. But the pr• xtiye of the old Em perm's mane vas deeply routed, and to eradicate it from the hearts, or to ma ke it execrated in the mouths, of Frenchmen. may require a certain space of time and assiduity of ettbrt. The red republicans could desire no more accelerated progress than that which is making. Meantime let us do the BoN.trAnTES the justice to signalise a renimitable instance of fairness and coal men sense Mi the pat of the surviving brother of Nets LON. The ex- ingi main E, contempt:it ing.with one t*.sit in the grave, the bold act of his nephew, is evidently alarmed at the proposed resuscitation of that imperial system of government of which he (.11:itowi) had seen and known the unpopularity and the humbug. The ex-king, therefore, recommends Innis Nveto.Enst to summon a constituent assemb'y, and to entrust to it, rather than take upon himself, the formation and sanction of a constitution. Ilad this been done at first, and before the massacre of the boulevards, we should have been now writing on the merits and fortunes of lams NAIVLEON in a very different v ein. Tne great "at home" of England to all the world in Ix3l, has not ended with the closing of the Indus trial Exhibition. While the Crystal Palace, with all it* rich and inagnifitent contents, was open. we were hospitably receiving all and everybody . . Since that time we hare been entertaining particular friends --first lios•irrit from the east, and uow Mr. WALKER from the west. _ _ . The progresses of these distinguished foreigners will form an epoch in the history of our manufactur ing d'striets. Their reception will disabuse the world of certain mistaken notions respecting JOHN lieu's assumed egoism. It will prove that he is not aocntirch• wrapt up in himself and his own affairs as to have no thoughts or sympathies to spare for foreign nations. The frank and hearty welcome given to these distinguished visitors, and the eagerness with which their eloquent words have been caught up. evinces, on the part of the English public, know ledge of. and sympathy with, what is going on beyond the shores of their own island,—and en honest and earnest desire to increase both. This is nut all. The fact of two men, marked be bneh strong distinctive differences of character, anew whose intellectual powers have been developed under circumstances so materially different, bespeaks a wide range of thought and sympathy he the British puldic. A kind of rinnauue interest attaches to the personal character and position of Kossuril. Ile belongs to a land in which the opinions and feelings of the nineteenth century are engaged in their first serious struggle against old despotism and feudolity. IL had in a manner to form that public opinion THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1851. which for a time bore him up and onward. The national cause was in a great measure incor porated in his person and perilled upon his success. He is ono of those heroes whom Mr. CAR LYLE and his school arc FO ready to worship. Mr. WALKER is, on the other hand, a plain citizen like our selves. High though the position be that he holds in the estimation of his countrymen, it is as a :minis tering servant whom they arc disposed to trust, not as a chief whom thy arc prepared to follow. The themes upon which these men have descanted to their English audiences are as different as they themselves ale. Koss:: t n appealed to ours feelings on behalf of a generous and gallant people, engaged—fur the time crushed—in an unequal struggle against des potism. Mr. WALKER talked business; reminded us of the most honest and advantageous policy to be observed in our dealings with his countrymen. To both did the English public intently and intelli gently listen; thereby showing on the one hand its judicious estimate of the importance of the day reali ties of every day life,—on the other its superiority to mere prudential pounds, shillings, and pence con siderations when the better and higher faculties of our nature arc called into play. One word more of ourselves, before we turn our individual attention to the hero of the day. The proudest triumphs of Enssent, his most im passive receptions were those he experienced in the manufacturing districts. Mr. Watstat's public appearances among us may be said to have been con fined to the manufacturing districts. In any other country—the United States always excepted—mere provincial demonstrations would has e been little thought of. But in this country the men (of all classes) of the manufacturing disc lets knew their good . opinion and sympathy was of as much consequence as that of the metropolis. Kossyrn and Mr. WALKER felt that Lancashire opinion was almest as potent in English politics as that of the metropolis; and states. meta Loth English and foreign, watched the expres sions of opinion in the English provinces with as much anxiety —we may say with greater anxiety—than they would have done that of London. It is this equal diffusion of intelligence and political influence throughant the country that constitutes the strength of Great Britain. There is no danger of our country succumbing before a domestic usurper or foreign invader because he chances to have got pos seseiou of the capital. England is vital in every part, and not to be killed by a wound in any one. There is samething extremely racy and piquant about Mr. Watt:La's oratory. Its staple is plain and homely in the last degree. He calls things by their real names. and shrinks from no minute details because of their homeliness. 1k has talked to the men of Liverpool and Manchester—not upon 'Change or in their counting houses, but at their post prandial solemnities—with as intimate a knowledge of the ir pursuits and concerns as itlu a ere about todrive a bargain with them. But his views arc as comprehen sive as they are detailed, and if he spoke with a trader's precision of " and baize,s ' and " cotton baggings," it was with a view to illustrate and en force the largest and mast liberal views of inter national relations. And no opportunity did he let slip of glancing at the moral lessons taught by the topics he was enforcing, and urging the observance of the highest principles and the cultivation of the purest and must disinterested rules of actin'. All this, too, in the most unaffected and unassuming phrase. Always in earnest, he affected no more swelling diction when heating of the duties of the patriot and moralist than when expatiating upon business transactions. Mr. WALKER'S turn of thought and style of expr scion arc essentially ori ginal and his own ; yet it is impossible to listen to hint 'without having one's mind carried back to the greatest ornament of his parent state. In intellect and feeling, Mr. WALKER is a genuine descendant and worthy rept csentative of BENJAMIN Fie INALIN. His speeches read as if the first source of his inspi ration had been the writings of the author of "I'oor Itehin - -the philosophical printer; alike great ns the demonstrator of the identity of lightning with the electric spark, as the quaint inculcator of sound and prudential domestic morality, and as the undaunted opponent of I:ng:ish oppression. It is of good omen fir the United States that a man of Mr. Warsaw's peculiar temperament and principles should occupy the high rank be does among her statesmen. It is of good augury for this country. which at all times, and more especially at the present critical crisis of European affairs, has such a deep interest in the maintenance of cordial concert and a thoroughly . good understanding with our kinsmen, the high-spirited and energetic repub licans beyond the Atlantic. It is a hopeful omen for humanity at large now that the baronet and sabre would appear to rule supreme from Siberia to the continental shores of the British Channel. And we are disposed to rely upon the sincerity and enduring nature of Mr. WALKER'S attachment to his professed principles by the singular manly delicacy lie has displayed whenever the current of his ideas has led him to touch on our own domestic affairs or on the characters of pis rivals or colleagues in American polities. Nothing could be more admirable in this respect than the manner in which he touched at IManchester upon the great public questions which at present agitate and divide English society; nothing more touchingly generous than the tribute he paid at Liverpool to the high qualities of Mr. ARROT LAW• REM E. The principal subject of Mr. WALKER'S discourse at Manchester—rep oited in our impression of this day—was free-trade. It was an appropriate theme in the birth-place of the anti-corn-law league, and worthily handled by the orator. It was an appro priatetheme,too, in the mouth of a man who was one of the earliest, and has been probably the most efficient ' and successful advocate of free-trade in his own country. l'rotcction was one of those superstitions inherited by the United States from their parent England, which they have been longest in casting off. As was remarked fry Mr. WALKER at Manchester, from 1788 down to 1815 no American Secretary dared to propose an ab andonment of protective duties. But a great commercial revolution was effected in 1816 by, the tariff of that year. The adoption of that tariff has effected, as Mr. WALKER said, " a fundamental chang e in American commercial policy." His valuable and authentic statements show how much his own country and ours have gained by that measure, and by our simultaneous throwing off of the fetters of the corn-law. In the commerce be tween the two nations (involving as Mr. WALKER demonstrated an annual interchange of goods to the I value of not less than 42,000,0001.) ; in the mode of dis tribution of the profits of this commerce through all ranks and classes of society : in the immense number of families dependent upon its perpetuation and ex tension for their maintenance; we have weighty guarantees that it will not be lightly interrupted or imperilled. As a missionary of the opinions which have led to so great and beneficial a change of national po licy, :Mr. W ILKLIt has been welcomed in this coun try. As a pledged and trustworthy champion of the new policy, be will carry back with him to his own country the sincere esteem and most cordial wishes of all that is intelligent and liberal among . us. In conclusion, let us remark that the best way in which we can convince Mr. WALKER'S countrymen of the sincerity of the feelings that have heel expressed toward; him here,—and strengthen his hands for the accomplishment of the arduous and benevolent task he has yet to fulfil,—is to act upon his suggestion of completing the great work of abolishing the last of those impediments that remain in the way of the per fectly tree commercial intercourse between England and America. ItErREsENTATION op EAST KENT.—It is ru swum!. says the Rue/aster (hurtle, that J. P. Plumptre, h.sq., M.P., intends retiring from public life at or before the next general election, and that one of two hon. baronets, exceedingly popular in their respective neighbourhoods, , will he incited to come forward—Sir E. C. llering, Dart, and Sir Brook W. Bridges, B ar t THE NEW Hot'sEa en , PARLlAMENT.—Considera ble progress has been mule within the last few weeks in clearing away the old building materials from the neigh ! tiourhood of Oh! Palace-lard. The whole of the erections I which formerly hid the view of the new palace, from the Court-houses onto the Victoria Tower, hare ken removed, and the space which has been laid open serves materially to enhance the imposing appearance of the new houses from the west. The unsightly timber erections near the entrance to Westminster-hall will be removed in the course of a few days, the materials having been disposed of by public auction on Monday last. Workshops have now been erected on a temporary wharf, adjoining Westminster-bridge, in order that the spice in New Palace-yard may, prior to the opening of parliament, be rendered as clear as possible. The alterations which have been made during the recess in the new House of Commons, have not only added to the beauty of its internal appearance, but have, it is hoped, contributed in • hirer degree to render the building of a more coratiataims character. REVOLUTION IN FRANCE. PARIS, Wixom ESDAY. The Mondeur of this morning contains a fresh in stance of arbitrary alteration in the existing law. After promulgating the law passed by the Assembly on Dec. 1 relative to the Lyons and Avignon Rail- I way, the government adds a decree declaring the most important provisions of the law null and void. In fact the 6th article of the canter des charges pro vides for the construction of a terminus at Li Guil- lotiere t within the fortifications. The decree now promulgated orders, on the ground that this arrange ment is in contradiction with that proposed by the committee, that the definitive situation of the termi nus shall be determined by the Minister of the Interior. The President visited yesterday the hospital of Groscaillon, and distributed decorations and money to 37 wounded soldiers. Each received 100 fr. ills carriage was escorted by cuirassiers. Admiral Dabortlieu has addressed a despatch to the government dated Nov. 29, announcing that the l'asha of Tangiers had made the concesssions de manded by M. llouric, the French Charge d'Affairs, ! on the 2sth. In consequence the admiral had saluted the Morocco flag with 21 guns; and all was finished. Yesterday by order of the l'refect of the Seine, the electoral lists of March, 1849, were posted up at all the mayoriea of the department. On the 16th a supplementary list will be published, containing the corrections made necessary - by the lapse of time. No fresh proclamations appear this morning, but the .lionikur is posted up on the walls. Several arrests made yesterday at Ncuilly. The government is in negotiation with railroad companies for the construction of the railway zone fur placing in communication the several lines coo verging offered to contribute 400,000 fr. to this work. The Minister of l'ublic Works will proceed soon to offer for public adjudication the Lyons and Avignon Hail way. Tho Comfit/a/omit:says that at Havre, on Satur day, the sales of cotton amounted to 1,500 bales, and on Monday to 3,5n0. On Saturday, the first rise was of lir.; on Monday morning, there was a second rise of Ifr.; and on Monday evening, a third rise of lfr. Thus the present quotation is three or four francs higher than that of last week. Official accounts state that in the civil hospitals the number of wounded has never exceeded 13S. com prising the soldiers, since transported to the military hospitals; 79 wounded now remain in the civil hos pitals, of which 21 are ut the Hotel Dicu, and 23 at the Hospital of St. Louis The Patric says that it appeared to be the inten tion of the insurgents about Lyons to make false de monstrations, in order to divide the forces of Gen. Castellanc. A considerable body of theta had ap peared near Crest-on-the-Drome. Two battalions were sent a , minst them. The detailed accounts promised by the government journals on the events of Clamecy while in the pos session of the communist insurgents, do not appear lit the paper of this morning. At Million in the Avcvron the mob obtained pos session of the Hotel do 'Yak. The disturbances in that department are now pacified. M. de St. Cheron, author of a lithographic legiti mist correspoadence, has been arrested. It is stated officially that complete tranquillity is restored to the department; of the Eure Seine-et- Manic, Hante-Marne, Vancleume, Cates-du Nord, Dordogne, Cantal, Arriege, Euro-ct-Loire, Lot, Vosges, Haut-Ithin, Meuse, Cste d'Or, and Yonne. There are no additional papers published this morning. The first article which I have yet seen inn non official paper appears this morning in the Airs, from the pen of M. de la Guerronnime. It tends to show that nothing could be worse than the situation 'wfure Ow 2nd of Ih:ember ; and that, if the constitution and the Assembly have been swept away, the Republic and universal suffrage remain. PARIS, Wr.nxesnav EVENING. M. Thiers received yesterday orders to quit France. After a slight preparation for his juurn,:y, and in a very shattered state of health, he was es corted out of his house between two agents of the police, placed in a carriage, and conveyed to the terminus of the Strasbourg railway. Item he was placed in a carriage apart, with his two official attendants, who will not leave him until they have seen him fairly over the French frontier to E.ehl, on tho lett bank of the Rhine, opposite to Strasburg. As no news whatever is now to be found in the pers, I have made a round of visits to gican some pa intelligence. Having been informed that M. Leon Faucher had received orders to quit Paris, this announcement appeared to me so important that I proceeded at once to the best place for hadiug out the truth, and was informed that up to 4 o'clock this afternoon M. Faucher had received no such order. You will know, therefore, how to treat this report if you find it affirmed elsewhere. - Several arrests have taken place to-day. As many members as could be found of the swialist conclave of the Seine were pounced upon by the police, mid swept into the cells of the prison Maras, where, by the way, MM. Alfred Nettement and de Itemusat still remain. This being the anniversary of Louis Napoleon's election, a vast number of Bonapartist banquets will take place. But the chief official manifestations of', this kind will be held at the several mayories, I where speeches and toasts, mere or less imperialist, will be given. I saw at a famous tavern outside the barriers, preparations for a dinner of this kind for 140 persons, which will be presided over by the Mayor of Montmartre. I mentioned previously that the banquet of the Hotel de Ville has been counter manded. To-day Louis Napoleon set out at two from the Elysiy in a closed carriage, with a numerous escort of cuirassiers, to visit the hospitals and ambulances. The people were quite silent as lie passed. Many of the representatives have left Paris for the country. Those who remain take care not to pluck down upon their heads tho rigour of a go vernment which seems to stick at nothing. It has been generally resolved to recommend abstention to the voters in the ballot ou the 20th instant, as this is regarded as the best means of protesting against its legality. To vote negatively would be to recog nise the President's right to put the question. It is noted, as an instance of the prudent servility of M. Lupin, that he was instrumental in furnishing the government with the means of identifying the prisoners sent to Mont Valerien who refused: to give their names. M. Pupils sent out M. Dupon ceau, the head usher of the Assembly, on Tuesday night to Mont Valcrien to identify the parliamentary prisoners. I have seen all the country papers that have reached Paris through the post to-day. The Fa Bret.ouir, published at St. Bneue, in the COtes-au- Nord contains an emphatic protest against the usurpation of December the 2nd, and adhesion to the resolution signed by the representa tives in the mayory of the 10th arrondisse ment. This protest was moved in the council-general of the Cites d'Or, and signed by sixteen members. l What is still more important, the regiment of artil lery quartered at St. Brieuc had given votes against the President. The municipal councils of Launion, Tri.guier, and other towns in the same de partment, had also voted resolutions condemning the acts of the 2nd December. The enormitiics of the communists at Clamecy and Poligny tend greatly to rally adherents to Louis Napoleon. On this account the deepest dye of atro city is given in the (I,ustitutiuunel and l'utrie to the deeds of the insurgents. The hideous narrative of rape, murder, and pillage is evidently depicted with flagrant exaggeration for the purpose of driving people, through pure terror, to take refuge under the arbitrary power of Louis Napoleon. The fact is that the President has swept away all possible base for the constitution of any other regular authority ; and now he multiplies proclamations to declare that be will retire if the mapaity of votes be against him. Thus, under the colour of moderation and obedience to the will of the country, he extorts the sanction of hie usurpation by threatening to abandon France to the most frightful auarehy if he be not chosen. It will be very lung before any complete and truth ful history can be compiled or what has passed in the departments ffilla• the eventful 2nd of Dec. The press of Paris is annihilated, the telegraph works only under the orders or by the permission of the government, every country newspaper attempting to convey any unofficial intelligence, is instantly seized, and all letters addressed from the provinces to re presentatives or other distinguished persons, are either opened or detained at the Post-office. By what slow degrees the truth oozes out will therefore be readily conceived. Thus much, however, is now certain, that in very many parts of France, and more particularly in the central and southern provinces 1 : the news of the coup cr , tal was the signal for the outbreak of civil war which lasted for several days, and has been attended with frightful loss of life. That the risings are everywhere Rut down, we are now informed by the same authonty that three or four days ago would have had it Lelieved that en thusiastic demon,tratiuns of joy were the only excep tions to the unruffled tranquillity of the country. It is also asserted that the resistance has in every instance been the work of " anarchists," " dema gogues," "socialists," or " red republicans," bent only upon pillage, violation, and murder. It may be so. But the same thing has been said with re- gard to tltt resistance in - Paris; and yet we all know that the splendid houses on either side of the boulevards, extending fur the length of an English mile between the Maison Dora) and the Porte St. Denis, which may now be seen riddled with the bullets of the soldiery from the ground floor to the filth story, are not inhabited by persons of that des cription. It is, however, clear, not only from the ad missimis, but from the conduct of the government, that the tranquillity said to be re-established is of the most hollow description. Every day a fresh depart ment is declared to be in a state of siege. Martial law is evidently about to become the common law of France. The news or yesterday was that Bordeaux was so quiet that the state of siege was a superfluous luxury, which would not have ken decreed but fur some accidental ab sence of a civil functionary. In to-day's 11»citear. however, it appears that the prefect of the Gironde, M. Ilaussnmini, availing himself of the state of siege, has thought it necessary to decree that no person shall be allowed to remain stationary in env street; that any assemblage in the street will lie consldercd as an act of aggression, and will be dispersed without previous notice by military force; that any individual bearing arms, whether concealed or otherwise, will be treated with the ut most rigour of martial law; and that any- cafe or public-house kept Uri after hours, or used as a re sort of agitators, will be shut up. Dining Friday and Saturday last the hut ets of Bordeaux were re peatedly swept by charges of General d'Arbouville'a cavalry, and I t prisoners were made. It is men tioned. besides that other arrests of persons well known in political circles in Bordeaux were vaguely spoken of. Troops have been sent to Langon. higher up the Garonne, where disturbarees have broken out. _ _ _ In the Haute-Vienne a combat took place between one hundred and fifty men armed with guns, hat chets, pitchforks, and scythes, and a body of fifty hussars and six gendarmes, aided by M. Ilti chaud, the cure of Saint Bonnet, at the head of twenty-two armed peasants. The conflict was obsti nate. Seven insurgents wcro severely wounded and thirty prisoners were made. A detachment of 00 men have been embarked from Bordeaux on board a steam-boat fur Marmande. where grave disorders, it was said, had bur 4 out. Half a battery of artillery and lOU cavalry had set oat some hours before by land for the same destination. The latest government news up to 6 o'clock this evening state that in the 1)ro:nc the insurgents ale routed, but that several gendarmes have been killed or woutaled. ... In the Lot-et-Garonne at Agen, a socialist attempt to take possession of the town by surmise has been defeated. General I'clein and NI. Caller arrived with reinforcements at Clammy on the Uth. The clues-martial were constantly sitting. Telegraphic desptelies from foulon stato that j Claims was reduced. Several gendarmes were mas sacred, the mayor had been wounded and impri soned, the barracks were robbed and burnt, the tag gatherer's house plundered, and the clerks rubbed. Ia the Nitlvro CO) insurgents have been taken pri soners. The cure of Neuvi was dangerously wounded by an insurgent, who was immediately tried by I court-martial and shot. Thais upon a gigantic scale, before both civil and military tribunals, me going on all over the country. The prefect of the lairet-Cher,in his proclamation, tells the people that hesitation is neither possible nor permissible, and that now more than ever the wicked must tremble and the good take courage. The Constitntiannel gives the following further details of the Jacquerie in the tiers, in a letter from Condom, 6th: The town of Condom was for a moment invaded by bands assembled in the surrounding communes. The intention was to gain possession of the cash-lios of the receiver, but the nie,sures taken were so strong that the rioters threw down their arms and fled. At Vic Iczensac a body of country people went to the market armed with scythes and hatchets, declaring that they were going to do for the rich. These men, led away by the propagandism of secret societies, openly-said that they laughed at the republic and wished for pillage. They were not able to realise their designs, but between N'ic and Auch a sergeant of Hussars, carrying a despatch, fel: iu with a body of about 200. After making a courageous re sistance he was massacred, and his body left on the road. Ills horse, wounded and covered with blood, galloped back from whence he had come, and spreading alarm iu all the places it passed through. In many of the communes the secret societies were in permanence. The most horrible threats were uttered against the landed proprietors, and the hour of their death was to be announced by the tocsin. The news from Paris aluue prevented this levy of socialiq bucklers. Several of the proprietors have barricaded their houses, and armed their servants. The district comprised between Clammy, depart ment of the Xievre, and Coulanges-sur-tonne, de partment of the Yonne, has been the theatre of grave disturbances. In every commune bands attempted to possess themselves of the mairies, in order to seize the arms of the national guard. In resisting one of these bands, a gentleman named Posseaux was killed. One portion of these insurgents proceeded to Cla mecy, where they committed excesses which have been alrcady stated ; another marched on Coulareses sur-Yonne, but the inhabitants resisted, and for three days prevented the insurgents from forcing their way into the town. A great number of smaller communes were, however, disarmed and sacked. The tocsin was sounded. At last expresses suc ceeded in reaching Auxerre, and vigorous mea sures were immediately taken. Some engagements subsequently took place between the brigands and the military, and the former were everywhere de fcated. sides there were killed and wounded. , 1 The last accounts from Auxerre represent that the rioters were everywhere routed, except at La l'ui sayc, but that military forces were being sent against them there. Among the places disturbed by the socialists was the town of Forcalquicr, in the Basses Allies. M. Paulmier, substitute of the procureur of the republic, and M. Painted, sub-prefect, were attacked by a furious crowd, wounded, and made prisoners. They, however, succeeded in escaping; and the insurgents,' las if terrified at what they had done, abandoned the theatre of their excesses. I saw to-day stated in a private letter from Mor tcau, on the Swiss frontier, a fact which deserves mention, as illustrating the nature of the co-operation which is given to the government at this monent in a great many parts of France. The Mayor of Mortcau had issued a declaration, in which he pledges himself to use his utmost exertions in the maintenance of order; but refuses toassociato himself to anything unconstitutional. lie had sent back to the Prefect of the ])Dubs all the orders des patched to him. The Gazette de Languedoc of the tlth appears with a blank sheet, the editors announcing that their journal had been seized on the day before. The Vision de la .S'arthe describes socialist nuts at La Bum and Le Mans. Four or live hundred work men of a tannery had marched agritist the Hotel i de Ville; but ultimately order had been restored. Everywhere people of all opinions helped the govern , ment to put down the communist riots, which ex cited great terror throughout the country in conse quence of the dreadful atrocities committed in those places where the communists have obtained a momentary superiority. The Gazette do Midi con tains accounts of several local riots in the Var, which had been generally put down. The Nentiadie Je TO(41Ull describes an attempt at an away, which was easily repressed. It is announced by telegraph that news arrived in Paris this (Thursday) morning of the departments of the Gers, far, and Lot-et-Garonne, having been de clared in a state of siege. UNIVERSAL GAS-LIGHT COMPANY.—Mr. Harding, the official manager of this corapauy, has declared, with the Mater's concurrence, a call of ot. per shire to pay off debts. SPAIN, MADRID, Pre. 5. In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies to-day the President of tho Council read a telegraphic despatch from Paris of the 2nd of December announc ing the dissolution of the Assembly and the subjec tion of Paris to a state of siege. He declared that whatever events took place in France, Spain had nothing to fear for the throne, for its institutions, uur fur public order. PORTUGAL. By tho Teviet we have dates from Portugal to Dee. 7. From Lisbon we learn that the government hare capitalised the floating debt of unpaid dividends and paid allowances due to the servants of tho state. The Cortes will meet on the 15th inst. Miscount of Lisbon bank notes has risen to 71 per cent. GERMANY. The -Ifigsbqrg Gar.r?fe states that the Earl of Westmoreland, our ambassador at Vienna, has can celled the lease of his hotel, and holds himself ready to take his departure from the capital. The public are aware that hitherto he has not been admitted to an audience with the emperor. The .luysltrg Ga:ettc, of the Gth inst., contains a somewhat remarkable article under the title "Louis Bonaparte, and the expectations of European diplo macy from him." Tho writer commences by taking notice of the great stress laid by the government and conservative organs of oninion upon the essentiality of Louis Napoleon's continued presidency in France to the cause of order throughout Europe. M. Bona parte, he says, has been regarded as the bulwark against the inundation of anarchy, and the ladder by which an exiled prince was to re-ascend the throne of his fathers. As for the first function, however, it has been abundantly proved that Caveignac or Changarnier could fulfil it as well as the nephew of his uncle ; as fur the second, it exists only as an un founded hope. M. Bonaparte is not a candidate for the first magistracy of the French republic, but a pretender to the imperial crown, just as the Duke of Bourdeaux sand the Count of Paris are pretenders to the legitimist and constitutional crowns. Nothing but imperialism, according to him, is deepiy rooted in France, where it has never been legally abolished. It alone is legality ; it exists by the oldest and best titles; legitimacy was restored by a power from without, and the monarchy of June was an affair of the middle classes, not of France. Napoleon bequeathed the crown to his son; its disposition otherwise was not within the competence of the senate. Thus right is with him, and all besides are fictions and usurpers. Tho wri ter goes on to show how steadily M. Bonaparte has wrought to realise his plans, and concludes with these words: "Our cabinets and diplomatists will do well to leave oft' regarding Louis Bonaparte as the representative of the conservative interest in Europe, and to recognise in him rather the restorer of the Empire, which, without the possession of the left bank of the Rhine, would neither satisfy the army, nor be in a position to overcome parties. This ap , pears to us to be the serious view of the matter." The Prussian Keen: Zeitang abstains , from continuing the expression of its opinions, probably in deference to the wishes of the go vernment. Tho 117tner forgets everything else in its enmity to parliaments. Speaking of the cause of order, apropos of the coup d' ,, tet, it says :—" Who , ever makes this cause his own, is the confederate and the brother of all legitimate and conservative govern ments, no matter what his antecedent position ; what . his governmentsgenesis with respect to thgovernmentsmay . be." Tho Lloyd remarks that the French people . always accommodate themselves to amomplish filets, and such it takes to be the victory of Louis Napoleon. . The Correspeaden:: shouts for joy, because it says I that the parliamentary principle of government is • fairly broken up in trance, and whilst Louis Na poleon reigns, will never be re-established. BERLIN, DEC. 9. Count Chambord is beginning, like a Bourbon : that is, lazily. and hoggishly, to stir himself in his stvc at "frohsdorfer, now that he thinks that he has a chance, by the intervention of others, by no act or deed of his own, of attaining what he considers his divine right: the throne of France. Ito has had au audienco of Prince Schwarzenburg; and on tho tah the Duke of Illacas started, after having also had an interview with the Prince, for - Bruxelles. Prince Schwan. zcnburg is reported to have spoken very cautiously to the Pretender. Ho observed to him that it was impossible for tbreign cabinets to withdraw, under present circumstances, their moral support from Louis Napoleon, as ho possessed the confi dence of the arum, which furnished, according to the Austrian political ethics, the only guarantee for peace and order. The Duke of Hiatus has taken with him several proclamations, summoning the French people to obedience to their legiti mate sovereign, and offering a free pardon to Louis Napoleon, it is said, on his submission. This Bourbon pretention gust now is, of all things, the most likely to be serviceable to the usurper. • SAXONY. The Dresden Chambers, convoked on the Ist, were opened on the 6th inst. The following passage of the speech from the throne, in reference to the Zoll verein, is the only one of general interest: I have ever aclenowleged the beneficial effects which have been produced by the Zollverein, the maintenance and ex tension of which has always been my desire. I, therefore, much regret that this object has met with some obstruction from the late announcement of the termination and re newal [kundigung] of the Zollverein treaties. As it has ever been niy opinion that this excellent institution depends mainly for its prosperity on the reconcilement of various and opposite interests—a truth which its past history has proved, I feel convinced that the ob,truction I have alluded to will be speedily removed. With confidence, therefore, I have accepted and responded to the tranquillis ing assurances contained in the invitation of the Prussian government to a Zuil Congress at Berlin. And I have par ticular satisfaction in remarking that the addition lately made to the Zollverein expressly contemplates, as its ulti mate object, a general Zell union of all the German states. Under this conviction I have hailed with equal satisfaction every measure which the imperial government of Austria has taken to forward the same end, on the accomplishment of which the power and welfare of all Gmu.uly will in many important respects depend. LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES. PARIS BOURSE. I, PARIS, Dr.c. IL I _,"r aloneT• 'OpealAg Closing. For Account Elebtat I Loire*: SS 40 U 0 Ss 75 69 5 66 SO 99w I 0970 it 0 3 per Cents. I 53 20 5 per Cents. 4 pet Cents, t.i do. New loos — 5 per Cents. Eseluage on Lostelow .at not, 25 ;30 day. _-. Belgian, 5, 11 10 991 Wooer. I Naples it..nteo.. ... In 7.5 honey 1,0. 5, 10.2 — ... I Roans Lt ...1, t',l .. 75i ... - do. Do. ...... Treasury Roods ... 4 ... Piedmont D. Cents. 84 ... Rank Bbarve . ...... 2250 ... PARIS, DEC. 10.—St. Germain, 310; Versailles (right bank). 2111. 73; ditto Jett bank), 213 75: Paris and OrPans, 927 SO; Paris and Rouen. 521 2i ; Rouen and Lam, 221 25; Marseilles anti Avignon, 202 75; Strastourg and Hale, 157 50; Centre, 413 75 ; Bou loons and Amiens, 250 73; Orleans and Bordeaux, 330 ; I'Vrrthern, 475; Pari. awl , trasbourg. 372 50; Tours and Nantes, 200; Monte. man and Troyes, 9; 50; Dieppe and lecamp, 500. 1 1 MADRID, DEC. s.—Three per Cents., 36; ; after Bolsa, 361 c. Four per Cents., —. Fire per Cents., 10; ; after Bolsa, 13 Coupons, ; after Bohm, Passives, ; after Bolsa, c. Bank of St. Ferdinand, —. Exchange on London, 60..)0. DEATII OF LIEUT.-GIiNERAL SIR G. A. QUENTIN, K.C.II.—Sir George Quentin died on the 7th inst., at the advanced age of 91 years. Previously to entering the Bri• tish army the late Sir G. Quc•utin served fire years in the Hanoverian Guards. In 1793 he obtained a cornetcy in the 10th (Prince of Wales's Own) regiment of liussari. In 18089 he served in the Peninsula under Sir John Moore, and was present in the cavalry action at Benevento, for which he had received the silver war medal. lle com manded the 10th Hussars in the Peninsular campaigns of 1813 and 1811, aad for his services at Orthes and Toulouse had received the gold medal with one clasp. lie had also received the Waterloo medal, and was severely wounded in that decisive battle. From 1811 to 1824 he was aide-de camp to the Prince Regent, and afterwards was appointed Equerry of the Crown Stables, which office he held under George IV., William IV., and her Majesty. In 181.5 he was nominated a C. 8., and in 1821 a Knight Commander of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order. The late Sir George Quentin's commissions in the British service were dated as follows:—Cornet in 1793, lieutenant in 1791, captain in 17911, major in 180.1, Bout -colonel in 1808, colonel in 1811, major.general in 1825, and lieut.-general in 1838. WORCESTER CORN ECItANGE.—Tho settlement of this Company's affairs has boon referred to the Master in Chancery Faller, who will proceed with it forthwith. BRAZILS AND LA PLATA The Teviot arrived at Southampton this morning Her dates are Buenos Ayres, Nov. 3rd ; Video, Pith; Rio do Janeiro, 14th; Bahia, 18th / Pernantbueo, `2lst; Saint Vincent's, 29th; Tentriffe. Dee. 3rd; Madeira, sth; Lisbon, 7th; Cape of Good Hope, Nov. nth. The Teviot brings in tspecie from Rio 2,319/. ; value of diamonds on freight, The news from the Calve is given in tckaso ohc where. The Cape steamer Prc:mntis left St. Vincent for Plymouth on the 28th. From Monte Video and Buenos Ayres we learn that Uruguay is corm. plettly emancipated from the control of Ruses. Oribe's army is disbanded; his officers have retired to Buenos Ayres ; Oribo has retired to private. life. Urquiza had left the Monte Videan territory v.ith part of his troops on board Brazilian transports for :intro Rios, from whence he has to march into It LIVROS Ayres. , The Brazilian , army remained in Uruguay, to ,up.. port the actual government. In Buenos Ayres a bold declaration of anti-resista opinions had been made. Some attribute thi; to c mfidenee kit by Rases against Urquiza. Others believe that lto,as &LAI putting matters to extremities. From Rio we learn that up to too 14th ult. there had been 3.0 than 4e in the cabinet. It was expteted that ministers would resign as soon as their measures in the Itiv er Plat: had proems:el some definite result. The following letters give the news in detail : By the latest arrivals at Rio from .N! Video up to tith Nov., and from 1111C110.1 Ayres up to th.• 11-.1, the per fect emancipation of Crugu ,y from the c , ntrol of It.. et is announced. Oriho's anny having been t t.tie,:e and of the officers belem;iii4 to it, such wI , tf .. l; "%, al lowed to retire to Buenos Ayres ; but Orihe h'ineelf ha , re turned to private lite, and was d to ' , main in tranquillity on his eda*.e. In fact, Gee. I:rquizr has abstained trout all per , ecution on account of pt!i . ical opinions. The government of Monte Video , etc r..-orgaa isiug every department, and en early election of a president was expected, General Garcia being the per. on gene: rail expected to be the succeestul candidate. Cr.pliza hut left the Monte Vide= territory a ith part of hi,- tr on holed of Brazilian transports fur Erere Rios ; fr nee it was reported he would comincacc, a march into the pro vince of Buenos Ayres. The Brazilian army, wrier Corot Caxias, remaining In Uruguay to the actual government. The only new feature tics of Buenos Ayres is a more bold dee-natio' sista opinions than was venturt d on lately, whic!i tribute to the confidence still felt by Rosa; of h' success against Urquiza, wbilo others fancy it I dread to push matters to extremities. At Rio de Janeiro, up to the 14th Nov., th. change in the cabinet, though rumours war,. t i, • • ten would resign as soon us their late poli,iezl in.. the Miser Plato produce s.me definite re—; . Brazilian pmvinces were in tranquillity, c.c.! _ ••• country and its finances a - era iu a healthy ai:.l condition. The late stringent laws atra,ni.t t: • African slaves had been so tar successfully ,I:f.r.. The Cape de Veril Islands were rather sly drought, and food becoming very scarce A - - fever and egu' attacked many, and front u• 1 • • and food numbers were penshintv, as th accumulation of patients di-generated fever, and many of the convalescents v..:. • want of sustenance, so much so, that ch.., • tions of necessaries were made by every that port. Our correspondent writes : 1110 D 1 JANE: During the last two months I t. that thee_ has been no more burning and part of our cruisers, owing, it is said, to of Mr. Hudson, our minister here. Mr. ii power to put a stop to those preeeedit.t., shores the tisdignatmo which all Englistu...a fed at witnessing them. It is sail that he has exertea himself to tt, TV fl* it mini, . ~ Y ... . • 1) induce the admiral on the atatiun t i put a ...op t rages committed by his •mbordinato W 11,1.4 posed to bo the cause of the suspension h—t. rather of piratical adieus, on the part ut our of war. .t .. .• cnnitu •,110, It is not a little remarkable that two of of those steamers kayo become insane upon th you will remember, committed suicide a few ne.ce I,y throwing himself overboard ..fter haring Ltife•l proofs of insanity. A few days since Lieut. Curti, Locust, was takon into Bahia by his officers in a furious madness, and died soon ufcer reat::iiie. tin •1:.r!; the Brazilians say that remoree fur the of whiea ha had been guilty was the cause of this ; be that as it may it must be admitted that the Locust has had Jur full &bar:. in the burning and slaking exploits of thcsituadron, :aid was . j! tho It of never wanting in the ritilanee so higs.ly spoken of at Inane, and which has shown iwelf in the de.tiuction of seven or eight suspected vessels, three of %%hie!' are now proved to have been entirely innocent oi .a 1 or any partici pation in thu traffic If wo torn now to see what the Brazilians th7nueelvat have done during the la.t few month., seo thai their vigilance h o been fully equal to, and far inure satis factory in its results than, that of can cruisers. With tau small steamers, all that cwld be spared frum ;to fleet now in the waters of the I'la. c, they hay.: c four slavers, all with their living cargoes on biaril. plow did these escape the sigilanee of our comparatively largo fleet of powerful steamers ? How conks it that vosels with slaves actually on board are captured only by Bra• zilian cruisers, and that our vessels mobile thetas:Ares to burning and plundering the trading smacks upon thu coast From an article in the Jornal rlo Contincreiu, of the 11:14 I perceive that an apprehension of negrocs n as 1:11,111C lately as the 27th of last month, the numtur of negrues ac tually captured is since stated to be 170. The government has freighted two merchant steamers, the Tanta Cruz and raquete du Norte, to be employed iu the seivice. During the past month sickness has In•cn rely pr. valrat in thu capital, a new disease having made ii. app sauce, it partakes of the nature of diarrhom, its atted... are severe, but it seldom terminates fatally. Of yello.v no cases arc as yet reported. COMMERCIAL. trl . ollll the Kw Merrantik 1-po, RIO DE JANEIRO, X. Iv. Inroars.—Of the arrival have entered inwandi 1 ves sel with general cargo, 3 coals, 1 codfish, Ac. ; I .1,31 s and coals, 3 dry goods, iron, &e. ; 1 dry goods and luin'oer, 1 flour, 5 jerked beef, 6 salt, I wine, 1 wine, oil and trait ; d wine, oil and salt ; I wine, salt, &c., 3 wine and mindro BUTTER.—Arrived, 800 firkins Irish, sold I,luo, tn no. rally at 500 rs. ; 60 French at 360 rs. ; and 100 kegs lJ Isiah, at 280 rs. per lb. CANULES.—Arrived, 250 boxes composition ; sold 8..0 at 560 rs. to 800 rs., cash, per lb. COALS.—Arrival, 1,2'0 tons steam, which sold at It do!s. to 14 doh. per ton. Conrtsit.—A cargo Norwegian sold at 7 dubs.; one froa Gaultois was cleared for the north, one from St. John is in the bands of the dealers, retailing. Correa lIAGOING.—Arrived v. 50 ps. ; sold 400 p..., 4.11 at 22i rs. to 230 rs. per yard ; German at 8 tiols. 2 , 40 ;Km FLOrß.—Arrived 1,78.31 brls. Baltimore. Sales 5.i.50 brls., part for re-export, within our quotations. Marliet firm. Shipped coastwise, 1,324 brls. IlAus.—Sales of Oporto at 360 rs.; Westphalian at 300 rel. per lb. Lattu.-260 rs. per lb. were realised for 100 kegs. LINSEED (in--Moderato sales at 220 to 2311 rs. per lb. retailed. LUNlNER.—Arrived 226,000 feet. Ot.tei; OIL —Arrivcsl 150 barrels Portugal, 40 'Mesli terranean ; of the former description moderato sales at 255 dols. to 265 dohs., for 35 pipes from Gibraltar 1 del. 1,00 per gal. were paid, but an allowance was subsequently claimed and admitted, by ren,on of inferiority. ItAtsixa.—Arrived, 551 holes; sold, 1 .:100 boxes from Gibraltar, out of condition, and henee the sale price cannot regulate. HAVENSDECK.—SoId 160 ps Russian, light at 13 dols. to 13 dols. 500; heavy at 13 dub. 800. RostN.-300 barrels imported realised 4 dolt. 200. SALT has further declined. the arrivals having amounted to 47,600 alqueires. Of previous receipts ono cargo pro ceeded to the south, ono was taken deliverable at Para nagua. Some small lota were sold at 700 eels, and 5 cargoes at OGO rs. . . _ TEUPENTINE.-200 rs. per lb. kayo been realised fur 2.50 tins. The supply in second hands is excessive. - 4. VERMICELLI.-1,600 boxes were in but tolerable con dition, and realised 4,500 ; a small lot from France was much deteriorated and sold in public auction. EXPORTS.—Cureen.—Until the 6th inclusive pur chases continued to be made for the United States at a re duction of lOOrs. ; but, after the receipt of advices per Te -1 riot, business was almost suspended fur that quarter, whilst a brisk demand gradually manifested itself fur the several European ports, and hence, notwithstanding a further slight decline, the market recovered, and we quote at an advance of sdrs. to 10Ors. upon the lowest sale prices. The inqui7 for Europe has been chiefly directed to good to fair qualities, the greater part of the sales for that quarter hav ing ranged from 3 dols. 400 to 3 (lets. 450 for ussortmeats. Of the sales, which we estimate at 150,000 bags, more than 100,000 for Europe, 40 ; 000 for the United States; of this latter, all, except two cargoes, prior to the arrival of the steamer. The receipts from the interior continuo to be slow, and show a considerable diminution. Whether this arises from the reaction in prices here, or, as is stated, and, by many firmly believed, that the low lands' crop is nearly at its close, we cannot determine; probably from both causes united, and we are confidently assured that the estimate of a large crop, entertained by many, is much over-rated. Meantime unless better accounts be recived from the United States, little will bo done (DT those ports until prices again recede, whilst, for Europe vie are still in advance of the most favourable advises received- Exports, 55,751 bags. SuGaa.— Arrived 461 cases, 3 ; 500 barrels and bags. Campos. Sales 300 cases, the bulk fur export, at 2 dais. 700, and at 1 dol. 500 to 1 dol. 800. Stock 2,000 etsi4. lintel.—Market neglected, no transaction reported. JERKED BEEE.—Stock 85,000 arrobas, of which 3*- , ,uw River Plate, quoted at 2 dols. 200 to 2 doll. 400. Facto ors.—Since the arrival of the steamer this mark 4 , has evinced considerable activity, and were it nut for the extraordinary number of vessels in port, the hnprov om in the rates would have been more marked. From