The Express. — London, England, 1851-12-08 00:00:00

erpreoo. TO rOlt VESPON DENTS. veered &WM .f The f spew, ' coetsieser •he =Ms moire. • freetts* pueltehed e very Tuesday sal Yridei sigh; la pee. ANt toeweessiswoded fee" The torree*.Lsedos osier super, owl Se el dee WS*, Doseenosresi. Y: Two **sloth es the So et pslOssms RION WATER AT LONDON BRIDE E st T an Der—Mcrolag. Mea....—Afterwmpu, 375. LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8. IT is to the honour of Paris, and of the French, as a high-spirited nation, that the scheme of super setting. a republican constitution by an imperial despotism was not submitted to at once and without a struggle. Although the impudent and senseless usurpation was supported by 130,000 bayonets, and although the forces and feelings of the dif ferent classes from whom resistance might be expected were paralysed by the previous un popularity of the PRESIDEST's opponents, and by I.oeis NAPoLroN's hypocritical moderation, still there were not wanting men, even amongst the people, who saw at once the despotism about to be flung over them, and who, at all odds and hazards, were prepared to peril their lives rather than submit to it. Never, certainly, did treason on the part of government more fully legitimise resistance. But unfortunately there was little concert in this resist ance; and those partisans who rushed into the streets, piling up barricades, and braving the fire of an overwhelming army, were but the rash and impotent few, not the representatives of any large class. The citizens did not muster under the banners of the National Guard, nor did the masses of the Faubourgs descend into the arena of the Boulevards under their blood-red flag. The PRE SIDENT and his generals have thus had, in the first instance, hut to deal with the light troops of insur rection. The main army and tho more formidable generals of resistance to his tyranny he will yet have to meet and to contend with in a strife that, however long it may endure, and with whatever vicissitudes and atrocities it may be marked, can for Louts NAPOLEON have but the one termination. Ile has already waded through blood to the first steps of his throne—his chief sup porters then can be no other than the policeman and the executioner. Success in the first instance, however, seems now unquestionably to have been the result of his coup ,t fat. It does not amwar that the standard of resistance, civil or military, has been hoisted any where, and the conduct of the general commanding at Lyons, bespeaks pretty generally the feeling of the higher ranks of the army. This general sent word to l'aris that he could nut retain command under the new and illegal authority that proclaims itself inde pendent of parliament and the constitution, but that he would prevent insurrection and avoid civil war. Amongst the numerous classes and parties who all behold Lnu is N %is iLtox's assumption with horror and with hatred, there is little sympathy, and there can be, as yet, little concert. Neither the legitimist general, nor the military partisan of constitutional monarchy, nor even yet the commanders true to the principles of the republic,—neither CIIANi.ARNIELL, nor LAIIORIVIERE, IMP CAVAIONAc, — could summon the popular MAWS to their aid. 'they, as well as the 'clansmen of their several parties, have, since the events of lads, relied upon the army to coerce the wilily. And it must be confessed that they themselves are crushed by the very power which they trusted to. as monarchic, constitutional, and conservative. The fidelity of the army, the wisdom of trusting to it, and the policy of governing by military ascendancy, rather than by justice and popular conciliation, formed the very basis of that system which the majority of the late National Assembly proftwed and patronised. We see the result, and, we arc sorry to admit, the logical result, of a government and a system so framed and so supported. We might go further, and trace the present mili tary tyranny to the folly of those eminent men and that political class which formed the elite of French society and intt•lltrt. But we have no wish to insult the fallen, and though never failing to censure the fatu ity with which they used their ascendancy, we hairs both con • •ration and respect for eminent and, after all, conscientious men, condemned to prison, to proscription, and persecution. Louis N u•ott:oN may consider the entire of the upper and tslucated class of society as his deadly enemies. They may not conspire, and they may shrink into their libraries and saloons front open op position. They- may there vent sarcasms upon tho statesmanship of the PEasnixiis and Aunt - maxis, and visit with cutting contempt the renegadism of the few who consent to wear imperial livery. Narossox during his whole reign experienced such hostility as this from the Faubourg St. Germain ; but then he wits supported by the &kit of his victories, and by the talent and the power of his administra tion. Lewis Nsistuatx has to face the scowl, not merely of the old noblesse, but of the entire respecta bility and intellect of his capital. With the rich and spending class in dudgeon and dismay, the middle and shopkeeping folk will find many reasons for discontent, even supposing that there be no lover of freedom and constitutional government amongst them. And that there was so, the barricades and loss of life in the quarter inhabited by this class, otter strong proofs. In those quarters the brutality of the soldiers will be long remembered. It sufficed that one cry of Fire to kcpuldnitee" should have proceeded from the mist pacific, unarmed, and well-clad group, in order to bring down from the soldiers, an instant fire of musketry that sent these citizens to their graves. And in fact, the LOUIS NAPOLEON massacre of December, lsii, was committed not upon anar chists or red republicans, but upon the bourgeoisie of Paris. The military ri'ginse, however, seems fully esta blished. And Louts NAPOLEON reigns in the same spirit and policy, if not by the same right, as the other Imperial Majesties of Vienna and St. Peters burg. The name system has, in fact, spread over Europe, from the mountains of Transylvania to the shores of our western ocean. The military are mas ters of Europe. They are its sovereigns, its tax collectors, its judges, its senates, and its statesmen. Whether such a state of things is likely or possible to endure, we leave to every thinking man and liberal "rind to decide. PASsetnat Vint BF.LGIUS.—By an order of the Belgian government travellers will not be allowed to enter Belgium unless their passports have been signed by a Belgian consul in the country from which they proceed. ElTlntalvk ROBBERY AT BRISTOL—On Saturday the umgistrates for the city of Bristol were engaged for anieral beers in investigating a most serious charge of bery, by Messrs. Candy and Agar, of Wine-street, a respectably connected young man, named Isaac orerl, who has been for some years an untitled assistant le their employ. The court was very such crowded dur ing the heanng by leading tradesmen of the city. Messrs. Candy and Agar are wholesale silk mercers, raclinee, and have in their employ numerous assistants. The prisoner had recently got into some disgrace by showing 'attention t, his business and absenting himself without leave from the warehouse, and the magistrates were appealed to respecting those breaches of his indentures, but it less not till within a few days that his employers were induced to entertain any suspicions of his honesty. Cir. esurtances having led them to fear that property had been abstracted by him from the warehouse, they intimated their doubts to the superintendent of the police at Bristol, who directed Sergeant Summers, an active detective Meer, to make as summation of his apartments, at the hoar of W herr, a retired tradesman, living at Benham. about four mites from that city. The sergeant accordingly appre hended the suspected yneag man, and, having procured his keys Rem him. proceeded to Benham to make the search. la the prisoner's bedroom he found lying on the dreaming table, sad packed in paper, eleven yards of French satin. whisk both Kr. Candy and Mr. Agar were able to identify r having been recently in their stock ; and, upon hr rinks and boar being unlocked, they were found to be erseemed with shawls, handkerehieh, silk neckties, tan nide. and other geode, which his employers fully believed had been tarloised from their warehouse. The racer leek possession a property to the value of at lean SOL, and brought it away with him ; but he at the rune time leg behind numerous things vs • which suipicions were illallftaliffi, bet which cold not be clearly spoken to by the presientors. Mr. John Ayr* defended the prisoner, and sokieeted the wireless to a rigid eserressaination, but his efforts to raise the pm:mob& that the property In question might bare been sold fees the stock by the prisoner to his Radler did net succeed!, se both Mr. Candy and Mr. Agar stated that nth raid sot have been the ere wither the emle beta. knows to themselves or a re egewailsle arrant, and duly recorded la their beaks et as - simat. The plow vas osinaitied hr tea THE REVOLUTION IN FRAM STATE OF PARIS. pious, SATPRDAY. I called your attention in a previous letter to the bad effect produced by obliging the soldiers to vote openly instead of by secret ballot. The fact of soldiers voting at all during a revolution can only tend to produce schism in the army, and leads directly to anarchy. But to set them at a disadvan tage as compared with the other citizens must have the effect of cooling their allegiance, and giving a dangerous ground for the enemies of the executive to work upon. Louis Napoleon has evidently experi enced great embarrassment in dealing with this dilemma, as the following letter addressed by him to the Minister of War evinces: Mr dear General—l had adopted the mode of voting with the signature of each voter, because that mode, employed formerly, appeared to me to ensure more effearally the sincerity of the diction ; but, yielding to serious objections and to just representations, I have, as you are aware, just issued a decree which changes the manner of voting. The suffrages of the army are almost entirely given, and I run happy to think that there will be found but an inconsider able number against me. Yet, as the soldiers who have given in a negative Tot'- might apprehend that it would exercise an unfavourable influence on their career, it is of importance to set their minds at rest. I beg you, therefore, without delay, to make known to the army that if the mode in which it has voted is different from that according to which the other citizens will vote, the result shall be the same for it, that is to say, I wish to be ignorant of the names of those who have voted against me. Conse quently the taking of the votes once terminated and duly verified, I beg of you to order that thy registers may be burnt. Lotis NAPOLEON DONAPAISTE. The following proclamation was issued yesterday : The President of the Republic end his government will not hesitate to employ any measure calculated to maintain order and save society, but they will always know how to pay attention to the voice of public opinion, and to the wishes of well-inclined persons. They have not hesitated to change a mode of voting which they had borrowed from precedents in history, but which, in the actual state of our electoral habits, did not appear sufficiently to ensure the independence of the votes given. The Pnsident of the Republic &sites did all the electors shall be completely at liberty in the expression of their vote, whether they exer cise public functions or not, and whether they belong to the civil professions or to the army. Absolute independence, complete liberty of voting, is what Louis Napoleon wishes to see established. DE Monyv, Paris, Dee. 5. Minister of the Interior. The announcement which I sent you yesterday, relative to the departure of General Bonrjolly to take the command of the troops at Bordeaux, Is con firmed by the l'utrie. He replaces General d'Arbon ville, commander of the 12th division. I hear from public report in the streets that 24 men, taken with arms in their hands, have been shot this morning in the Avenue Marigny. I mentioned in my letter of Wednesday that Madier le Montjau had been wounded on that day at nee of the barricades in the Faubourg St. Antoine. His death was announced in the Patric, but incor rectly. Ile is expected to recover soon, and lies at present in arrest. This morning all is quiet. The carriages circu late; the shops are open; the military have disap peared, and the capital resumes its usual aspect. I have not been able as yet to procure even an ap proximately correct statement of the number of per sons killed. The greater part of the barricades were abandoned after the first platoon fire of the infantry ; very few of the soldiers have been even wounded ; but the loss of life among persons altoge ther unconcerned in the insurrection, mere t*:citizens surprised in the great thorough and slaughtered by discharges of mus betry, is really tearful. There are at this moment 188 bodies lying in the cemetery of Montmartre, co vered with straw, and laid out for recognition by their bereaved friends. People come and draw aside the straw to examine the features of these victims, who retain their usual clothing. 36 of these are well-dressed persons, with an appearance of opulence, with watches, chains, papers, and other objects found upon them, indicating an easy station, and leading to the conclusion that they were shot in the streets to they went about their usual avocations. There ie ally one workman among these bodies; and one ware, a Bavarian broom vender. One of the oldest English residents in this capital, Mr. P. Pariss, druggist in the Rue de la Paix, was killed on Thursday afternoon, in the discharge of musketry caused by the firing from a house on the troops as they were passing. Mr. Parise received two balls, and died four hours afterwards. lie was on his way from the Rue do la Paix to another establishment that he had near the Faubourg Pois- Bonnier,. A great number of corpses are laid out for recog nition in the Bazar du Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle. The following passage from the ronstitutionnet, will give an id ea of the enormous military force by which the coup d't'lat is supported. In the combats of the 4th, and in the military demonstrie tisa of yesterday, only one half of the army of l'aris was Noliwyed. Not a battalion from any of the neighbouring wissloans has been sent for. One may judge from the powerful reserve at the disposal of the government, with What vigorous repression anv attempt at a new insurrection wield be met. Every one has been able to convince his self of the splendid arrangements made by General MAIM* sad of the rare precision with which the movements hays been executed by the generals ander his orders. I described to you yesterday the aspect of the boo lcvards as far as the end of the Boulevard Poissonniere. To-day I made an excursion ex tending from the Barriere de rEtoile to the Barriere du Team at the end of the Fau bourg St. Antoine, and shall resume my sketch I at the point where I was obliged to return—that is, at the beginning of the Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle. The crowd of people on foot and in carriages assem bled to witness the traces of destruction on the beau tiful edifices of this part of Paris was immense. But the ruinous breaches effected by cannon in the carpet estaufactory of Aubusson and the neighbounng headings were the chief objects of curiosity. Among ithe carriages grouped opposite to this strange scene I observed, to my great surprise, that of M. 'rhiers, with Madame Thiers within. The change in the aspect of the people was surprising.' Not a soldier was to be seen anywhere along this line. The glad sense of security was visible in every face, even while gazing on the scarred houses. Now and then the litters of the" Ambulances" were bones along for the transportation of the wounded. Beyotoll the Porte St. Martin up to the Place de la Bastffie there is not a trace of fighting. There was evidently an intention of striking terror into the opulent classes, who favoured the views of the roy alists. The handsomest modern mansions in Paris stand exactly on the Boulevards Poissouniere and Bonne Nouvelle which have suffered most. Every stone edifice, distinguished by elaborate architectural decoration, and ornamented with column and cornice, beers the innumerable dint of bullets. In the plate glass of the windows you see the clean round hole of lite rifle ball in a little halo of white cracks. Before you reach the Porte St. lknis there is a raised path to the right. AU the railings which protect passers by have been rent away. Under neath lay the black rusty springs of two car riages which had been burned. The restored paving near the arch showed that an ordinance of the Prefect of Police posted up had been attended to. All those round pillars which are ranged at intervals along the Boulevards, and serve for " affiches" and other purposes, were torn down, and showed only a ruined stamp. The boxes where the arrivals and de partures of hackney coaches are checked had disap peared with their clocks generally. The pavement everywhere is either restored or in process of resto ration. At the Chateau d'Eau I saw the traces of a camp. where a detachment of cavalry bivouacked, all strown with litter and refuse. In the muddy road, round dry spots marked the places where their tires had been - kindled. Beyond this point there were few people on the pathways as far as the column of the Bastille, where I saw a large rassembkment of blouses, and half expected to find some incendiary crater spouting in the midst of them. But the object of their curiosity was only a mountebank. I went into the Cafe of the association, at the entrance of the Faubourg St. Antoine, which is chiefly frequented by ardent socialist "ouvriers," and was surprised to find them quite calmly and reasonably discuss ing the probability of Louis Napoleon's elec tion of the 20th and 21st, instead of whisper ing sedition and muttering imprecations. At the entrance of the Faubourg St. Antoine there were traces of a barricade, and the wine shop at the corner has been completely smashed, but not with cannon. Two other traces of barricades are visible, one at the Roo Charoone, and another further on. It was evident, from the uninjured state of the houses THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1851. I take advantage of the tranquillity of desolation which now momentarily prevails to offer one or two remarks upon the coup . creltat generally. I cannot follow in the wake of those who either admire the dexterity, extol the daring, admit the necessity, or expect the ultimate success, of the act of Louis Na polcon. I am deliberately of opinion that among the deeds of bold bad men, history does not record a more flagrant breach of a high and sacred trust, a more foul perjury, a more wanton aggression upon Ithe liberties of a people, than the coup trawl of the 1 2nd of December. I will state fairly the excuses that are made for him. I hear it said that he was driven to this act in self-defence; that the As sembly was plotting against him; that it was intended to depose him and send him to Vincennes, and to erect the Assembly into a convention. It is farther said in his favour that the immense majority d the French nation is devoted to him, that the Assembly stood between the people and universal suffrage, and that there was no other way to restore this their right to them, but the violent way which the president has taken. The admixture of truth contained in this defence renders it sufficiently plausible to deserve an aliswer. True it is that it has been lately in contemplation to send him to Vincennes. But why? Because the whole course of his government has been one continued conspiracy for his own personal ag grandisement, and against all laws, all institutions, all parties, and all men that stood in the way of that one ruling object of his life. It is utterly untrue that it was ever contemplated by any fraction of the Assembly to molest him in the constitutional exer cise of his powers, or to shorten by one hour the du ration assigned to them by the constitution, before it became demonstrably evident that he was abusing those powers to prepare the way ter the crime which he has now accomplished. I have no sympathy with the Assembly as a body. The majority have met with a just retribution for the counte nance they long gave to the crooked policy of the man who is now their master. But to talk of a plot is ridiculous. Fancy Cavaignac, the stern, honest republican; Changar nier, the legitimist; and Crionieux, the Montagnard, laying their heads together for any common purpose whatsoever. And yet these men, and upwards of 100 representatives of the people, were dragged from their bed by armed praetorians in the night of the 2nd of December, and consigned to a gaol. The plain truth is, that the President arrested every general and statesman from whose courage, honesty, or influence he feared opposition ; and the plot is a miserable pretext. He now calls himself the pro tector of the republic, when it is notorious that he has ever studiously avoided the mere mention of the word republic until the other day when, in contemplation of what has since cui-red, he used it in his speech at the Cirque to gain popularity. Ile claims credit as the restorer of uni versal suffrage, as if he had not been the willing ac complice of the Assembly in destroying it. When the law of May destroying universal suffrage was passed, he consigned journalist after journalist to a dungeon for saying that that law was a breach of the constitution ; and now he would throw the whole blame of that law upon the Assembly. And what is the universal suffrage . now pretended to be re stored ? It is the privilege to answer at the point of the bayonet the leading question, whether the people will accept the chimerical term of govern ment which he designs to propose to them. The dictator will have this question answered first, and if contrary, under the eircumseances, to all reasonable expectation, the answer should be no, the subse quent question of what is then to be done remains entirely in his own breast. True, he says he will in that case resign his powers into the hands of the Assembly, but when or how that Assembly is to be elected, is not yet in the programme. What security is there that the man who has broken his oath will keep his word? His emissaries in the press have for weeks past been writing against parliaments alto ether. A man must be simple indeed to fancy that now that he has usurped all the powers of the state, he would allow one to be elected that would be likely to thwart him. In a country where there is so little sense of jus tice, so little appreciation of true liberty, so little steadiness of purpose, and so little moral courage, as in France, it is quite possible that the bold scheme of the President may for a time appear to have suc ceeded. Ile has filled all the offices in the country . , civil and military, with his creatures; he has impri maned the flower of the genersl4 of the Frenot army. With a cunning equal to his audacitys ha has placed the nation in such a dilemma I that not to vote for him may be to vote for civil war, and a civil war in which half a dozen conflicting l armies may be in the field. With such a prospect I before them, and when no man throughout France dares, at the risk of his life, to canvass for an oppo sition vote, it will be no wonder if the natural tiim- Idity and uncertainty of a divided people taken by Isurprise should lead them to do as their master tells them. But when he shall have succeeded, who can suppose that France will have made one step towards a settled or a tolerable government. Thirty millions of the most enlightened people in the world cannot for ever be kept down by the terror of the sword; and it requires but a small glimmering, in deed, of prophetic vision to foresee that the govern ment which Louis Napoleon proposes to inaugurate must inevitably perish by the violent means to which it will have owed its birth. in their neighbourhood, that no serious resistance had been made at either. It was highly satisfactory .to observe that the people had all returned to their work in this quarter; all the shops were open, the traffic animated, and the passers by cheerful. I now returned, and passed by the Place den Vosges into the Rue Rambuteau, where I heard the severest fighting had taken place, and where the barricades were strongest. There could not be a greater contrast to the brisk Faubourg I St. Antoine, with its shining furniture-shops. The streets were thronged with a moody population, that slouched along under the smashed windows of ball sserrad houses. At all cross streets the corner buildings were occupied from shop to garret with soldiers, who stood at the open windows musket in band. Strong pickets of infantry were drawn up along the pavement at frequent intervals. Where the Rue Rambuteau crosses the Rue St. Martin, there were traces of a strong barricade. Generally all down this street the windows are completely smashed. Every tenth house seems full of troops. The whole of the Rue St. Martin from this point to the Porte St. Martin is unpaved, and several strong barricades crossed the street. No circulation for carriages was of course possible. I penetrated into a labyrinth of narrow streets in the space enclosed between the Boulevard, the Rue Martin, and the Rue Rambuteau, and found them all defended with barricades, and the houses occupied by soldiers. Here evidently were the head-quarters of the insurgents. Their plan was to secure a retreat from the barricade of the Porte St. Denis, behind those of the Porte St. Martin and the Rue St. Martin on the one hand and the Rue Rambutean on the other, and thus to envelope the troops in the narrow streets, from which they might pour a murderous fire on their heads. No doubt, if the insurgents had been nume ' sous and resolute, great carnage would have resulted from the completion of this plan. But it is evident that their resistance was by no means of a serious character at any point. This is proved to demonstration by the trifling loss of the military. I met strong bodies of infantry pouring up the Rue St. Martin, and altogether there was a feeling that the ashes of the insurrection were still smouldering here, and might at any moment blaze out again. This was the only spot in a wide ramble which presented a sinister aspect. The Tlarter is occupied by ingenious workmen in bronze, ormolu, watches, jewellery, and various other departments, but is essentially a colony of handicraft workers, who swarm thick to gether in small streets of squalid lodgings, with nu merous wine-shops. As I returned along the Boule vards I observed the work of reparation going on busily in all quarters. Endless glaziers were rig ging the windows with fresh panes, the trowel was busy everywhere stopping the rents of ruin. Al reatly half the gap made by cannon in the house next to D'Aubusson's manufactory was bricked up. Meanwhile, at the Hotel Dieu and other hospitals lay perforated frames of flesh and blood, alas: not so easily mended. " Dire was the tossing, deep the groans." I am happy, how ever, to state upon authority that the total number of wounded brought to the WWI Dieu and the Chariti , up to last night was only 30. Generally I am disposed to think that the reported slaughter has been greatly exaggerated ; and the first estimate of 1 300 killed which I sent seems, from all I have since been able to learn, certainly not under the mark, al though there arc not wanting persons who report the casualties at upwards of 1,000. Passing along the western Boulevards on my re turn I met a battalion of Chasseurs de Vincennes, followed by a battery of 12-pounders, probably on their way to the quarter of St. Martin. The Place de la Concorde and Champs-Elysees seemed quite deserted. On the steps of the Legislative Palace the guard seemed thinner than during the ordinary sitting of the Assembly. About Fnincones Circus, which is now used to house the troops, an ani mated scene presented itself, the soldiers being busily engaged in preparing their ,rd-ailleit, and kindling Ares in holes dug in the ground. Horses, baggage sns, all around under the leafless trees, added to picturesque appearance of the camp. There were fewer soldiers than even in ordinary times about the Elysee. But the neighbourhood of the Circus camp supplied the want of a strong post on the actual spot. I hear from a good private source that a good many eminent conservatives, although far from approving all that Louis Napoleon has done, are still of opinion that his coup d1, , /at has saved France from the socialists. Certainly there is a fearfully strong adhesion to Louis Napo leon in certain classes, who look to a military dicta torship, ruthlessly carried out, as the only remedy far the distracted state of France. lam sorry to add that these classes, utterly indifferent to all but what they call order, form an immense portion of the population. Press and parliament they dread and loathe almost as much as they do the subversive acts and doctrines of socialism. this will in some mea sure account for the astounding rise of the funds. There was a rise to-day of 31 francs in the Five per Cent. Rentes. I call your attention to a circular of the Prefect of Police, which threatens to prove the source of endless vexations. It calls on the commissaries of police to institute the most rigorous searches in all quarters after papers. The following circular has been sent by the Prefect of Police to the different police com missioners: Paris, Dec. 5. Mr. Commissary,—The insurrection is put down. Oar enemies arc henceforth powerless to re-erect the eareisedes. Nevertheless the excitation to revolt continuos. Arafat demagogues go about from group to group to provoke agi tation and to spread false news. The ex-Montsgnard re presentatives arc taming to account the last vestiges of their former prestige, to lead the people to follow them. Furnished hotels, cafe's, and suspicious houses, become the receptacles of conspirators and insurgents. Arms, munitions of war, and incendiary writings, are concealed in them. All these causes of agitation must be suppressed by prac tising the system of arrests, and the searching of houses upon a vast scale. These are the means of restoring to the city that tranquillity which a handful of factious persons seek to rob her of. You have all under my own eyes done your duty with so much courage and devom, that I donut doubt but that in order to fulfil this new and important mis sion, you will find in yourselves all the *llama gad enery which circumstances command.—The Prefect of Police, DE MAtrAS. Dr. Hoffe, an English dentist, residing at the Cite Yinde, was among the persons killed on the Boule vards on Thursday, who were mere spectators of the operations. His body is said to be pierced with twelve balls. Disturbances of a very serious character have broken out again in the Cher. The valley of the Loire seems destined to give the government some trouble yet. A friend just come from England tells me that in the train from London to Dover he met Louis Blanc ; but that he was detected at Dover, and prevented from embarking for France, by the noise attending this discovery. It is believed, however, that he went to Ostend. A government organ states, this evening, that some attempts at insurrection were made at Lyons, in the hulsourgs Vaise and de la Guillotiere, but without any result. At Auzin some workmen threatened a strike, but were deterred by a simple demonstration of the authorities. M. Madier do Montjau's wounds are said to be going on well. The representatives, MM. Etienne Chegaray and Talhouet are also much better. They received their wounds on the 2d December, at the moment when the representatives quitted the house of M. Daru to enter the Assembly. A battalion of Vincennes Riflemen charged upon the representa tires who endeavoured to force open the doors of the Assembly, and wounded some of them with their bayonets. In attempting to enter the Assembly by the side door in the Rue de Bourgogne, M. de ker drel narrowly escaped a bayonet thrust. Admiral Leine gallantly laid hold of the musket which was directed against M. lierdrel. In thus protecting his brother representative, the admiral's arm was caught in shutting the door, and it was some time before his friends could release him. SATCBMAT, 4 o'cuiett. It were idle to deny that up to the present mo ment the army of Paris, to all outward appearance, adheres to Louis Napoleon. The reign of military terror is for the moment triumphant. Assuming for a moment the justice of the cause for which they have been fighting, the conduct of the troops must be admitted to have been admirable. It seems to be the general opinion that the merciless and indiscri minate way in which they fired on Thursday whom ever they met with the slightest show of resistance has proved them to be thoroughly in earnest, and by destroying all hope of successful opposition has spared the necessity of more frightful carnage. SUNDAY MORNING. The Mionitear contains the following semiofficial notice:— Two journals of London—the 3fonsing Chronicle and the Globe copying the former—publish, concerning the acts of the government and the deeds of the 2nd December, the most odious and absurd calumnies. We are authorised to give these journals, whose introduction into France is for bidden, the most complete contradiction. We learn that the correspondents have received to-day the order to quit France. the socialists, While the middle classes arc like a flock of sheep. The law courts re-opened yesterday. Numerous arrests were effected yesterday in the quarter of St. Martin. Among others, a representa tive was taken there. Stores of arms, many of the guns yet loaded, were found in the houses. Almost all belonged to the national guard. Quantities of tin cases filled with powder have been found in the sewers. !Olathe, representative of the Allier, and Iluguenin, of the Haute-Saone were arrested yesterday. Eight rcdactcurs of the R/syslution were also arrested. M. Leopold Le lion is appointed chef de cabinet of the Minister of the Interior. Riots have occurred at Clermont, but were sup pressed. The Paine gives the following account of the death of M. Dussoubs, the representative of the Haute Vienne, who was shot at the barricade in the Rue Neuve St. mustache on Thursday. M. Dussoubs was seen from an early hour recruiting adherews in the Rues St. Denis and St. Martin. He carried a red flag in his hand. When the troops arrived at the barricade that he defended, M.Dussoubs marched up to the officer in command, protested against the violation of the constitution, and cried " Vivo la Republique." The officer called upon him to retire. But I am a representative of the people said M. Dussoubs, and then waving his red flag, he cried, with all the force of his lungs, " Vivc la Repub lique democmtique, down with tyrants!" at the same time he rushed to place himself at the head of his barricade, and immediately afterwards fell. Authentic news from the departments are now anxiously looked for. The government accounts published in the 31;mitenr, and placarded on the walls, continue to be generally favourable. There are, however, many admissions from which it is evi dent that tranquillity and satisfaction is by no means so universal in the country as the proclamations of yesterday and the day before announced. The fol lowing are extracts from the Monitear this morning : BASSE PYRENEES, BAYONNE, DEC. 3.—Some municipal councillors were about to protest. The presence of the gendarmerie sufficed to make them renounce their project. Itoenst, DEC. s.—Tranquillity is maintained in the de partment. The decree relative to secret voting has pro duced universal satisfaction. The arrest of some socialists has met with nothing but approbation from the public. MATERNA, DEC. 4.—Tranquillity continues to reign. The telegraphic despatches have produced an excellent edict. The great mass of the population approves the act of the government. LOIRET, MONTARGIS, Dec. s.—The town is calm in spite of the efforts of the reds. A letter from a member of the mountain appealing to arms has been seized. CALVADOS.—The country is generally favourable to the grand measures of the government. STRASBOURG, DEC. I, MIDNIOIIT.—Order reigns in the departments. Two members of the municipal council have tried to excite troubles: their attempts have been I:uitlesi. Otetoxee, BORDEAUX, DEC. 4.—The state of siege in the department has produced an excellent effect, and struck the demagogues with a salutary terror. HAUTES ALVES, GAP, Dye. 3, 5 o'ecoex EVENINO.— , The principal town is agitated, but the most perfect order reigns. Comas TULLE, DEC. 4.—The great act of the chief of the state is everywhere apprecated by honest people. MONTRELIIL-SCR-MER, DEC. s.—The country is per fectly calm. The readii.g of the proclamation has caused some emotion, but has produced great satisfaction upon the immense majority of the populations. The inhabitants attribute a greater meaning and extent to the events aecoin lisped than really belongs to them. Isnitz.-01tENONLE, Dee. 4.—The Red leaders try in vain to agitate the workmen. The working classes in the country adhere with sympathy. The above are the principal government accounts, from which it may be inferred that all is not so rose coloured as might be desired. There is great same ness in the other accounts which represent the coun try as favourable to the President without qualifica tion. I send a few only as a specimen of the rest. SEINE-ET-016E.—NIANTES, Dec. s.—Everybody acclaims the President of the Republic. CREUBII, DEC. s.—Perfect tranquillity. Lasts:cm—Dm s.—Absolute calm. MEUSE.—General enthusiasm. Pas nit CALAN, Dee. s.—Calm reigns. YONNE. DEC. 5.—A1l is calm at Tonnerre. NAPOLEON VENDS, DEC. 4. The population shows itself satisfied. All is calm. COTES WOE, DEe. b.—Dijon is tranquil. NIARTIIE,DEe. s.—The situation is excellent. CHARENTE, DEC. 4.—The situation is most favourable. The people applaud, and nay, " Since the Assembly wanted to put the President in Vincennes he baa done well to steal a march upon them." The correspondent of the Ind.%petulance Beige as serts (thus contradicting the statement of the eintati [tut' 1) that the nigh Court of Justice had time 'before its dissolution, in virtue of a degree of the President, on the 2nd inst., to come to the following resolution : DECREE OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE. In virtue of Art. GO of the constitution, the High Court of Justice declares Louis Napoleon Bonaparte convicted of the crime of high treason. Convokes the national grand jury to proceed without de lay to judgment. And charges M. le conseiller Bcnouard with the functions of Public Minister at the High Court. Done at I'aris, Dec. 2, 18a1. (Signed)—H.sanotax (President), DELAPALME, MO nr..tt: (de la Seine), PATAILLE, CAUCMY, Judges. An official notice states that the Neapolitan go vernment has granted to importations into Sicily by French vessels, which have called at intermediate ports, the reduction of 10 per cent. enjoyed by the United States and other nations. At the time of going to press our dispatches of last evening's dates had not arrived. A morning paper published the following summary of the news re ceived by telegraph from Dover : "PAPAS. SUNDAY EVENING. " According to the government organs, not the slightest indication of sympathy for the Assembly or its leaders has been expressed by the public. " The votes of the artillery are as follows :—For Louis Napoleon, 2,441; against 43. " Eighty-two individuals have been arrested by the national guard of Belle Ville. " The boulevards and the streets of Paris resumed yesterday their ordinary . appearance. Crowds of people, and numerous equipages, filled the streets. The prices of nearly all the public securities have risen. the shares of the Bank of France have risen 100 fr., and those of several railroad companies 25fr. " Government accounts received from all the chief towns of the d e e l partments state that tranquillity has been maintain " In many towns not garrisoned by troops the po pulation remained calm, and it is stated by the go vernment that the working and other classes would have united, if necessary, in supporting the cause of order. The insurrection of the valley of the Loire is gain ing ground. The insurgents have invaded several cantons of the Allier, and occupied La Pelisse after a conflict in which the gendarmerie sustained severe losses. At Tournus they have taken the Motel de Ville. Serious riots have broken out at different points of the Saone-et-Loire, particularly in the arrondissement of Chalon-sur Saone. A decree appears in the Moniteur, placing the Allier and Saone-et-Loire in state of 'loge. M. de Moray, Minister of the Interior, states, in the pre amble of the decree, the above facts concerning th? spread of the insurrection. Cartier, former prefect of police, is appointed ex traordinary commissioner of th•governinent in the Allier, Chcr, and Nievre. M. Maurice Duval is ap pointed commissioner extraordinary in Brittany. Several changes are decreed in the prefectures. M. Berard, former representative, is appointed commis. rioner extraordinary of the government in Picardy, and has reached Amiens, where the prefect resigned powers into his hands. General Bois-le-Comte ad dressed the garrison. I have not heard of any disturbance having oc curred in the course of yesterday. The shops re mained open till a late hour of the night. The theatres were open as usual. The garden of the Tuileries, the Palais Royal, and the Louvre were all open yesterday to the public. The galleries and passages were all open, and thither loungers took refuge from the muddy pavement. But few people were seen at night on the pathways of the Boulevards. Distributors of the official news ran about offering their wares in great abundance ; I but few cared to buy them. It is difficult to form any judgment of the state of the provinces. But Lyons and the other great cities are represented as An occasional correspondent writes : quiet. The valley of the Loire is admitted, even by PARIS, FRIDAY. the government, to be in full insurrection. You will Not having—like your responsible corresponden see that commissioners with extraordinary powers, —my mind for ever pressed upon by Post-office re• have been sent to various provinces. Among these gulations, and running over the land and under the M. Cartier, the former prefect of police, turns up as I water along the electric wires—l am enabled to enter commissioner of the central departments in a with more freedom and minuteness into some of the state of siege. Martial law will in all like- ; startling . events which have come under my personal lihood be extended to all France, for a free press observation during the last three days. will be suffered to exist nowhere. The National' Wednesday was a day of astonishment; yesterday Guards, wherever they give the least trouble, will be, a day of agitation ; to-day is a day of terror. After if possible, disarmed and suspended: and probably the momentary effect of its fi rst announcement, I the institution, which is neither popular nor in ac- nobody had felt very much alarmed at the coup cord with the new phase of things, will gradually' detat. Paris was in a state of siege, to be sure; but disappear. If I may trust the official accounts, the this state did not seem to inconvenience many, while refugees at Geneva, upon hearing of the Paris revo- it save to all that real blowing to Parisians—some , ution, held a conclave, and determined for the pre- thing to talk about. To a chance traveller entering sent not to ventur across the frontier. The parlia- Paris on that day, the impression would have been mentor, party are at present paralyzed by the fear that a fete was being held. The Boulevards were ,of divisions in the army giving the victory to the occupied by no persons much more dangerous than socialists. jfineurs•, and there was an appearance of careless ' Ido not think that Louis Napoleon has much to I nese and good nature that was encouraging to all dread from the dissolved Assembly at the present who had any tendencies in favour of peace and the moment. The war lies now between the army and President. Nor were the military demonstrations "The prefect of the department of the Allier, de clared in a state of siege, has published an address to the inhabitants, declaring that the greatest rigour would be displayed in repressing the brigands' who disturb order. He exhorts all the friends of order to unite in resisting any attacks. "The Ministerial Oesterreichische Correspondenz (Vienna) of the 3rd inst. declares % favour of M. Bonaparte and his government. This paper says: • - - _ One thing is certain—any power in France which pro mises to conduct that country from anarchy to a firm and orderly state of of affairs, which promises to establish autho rity and to maintain the sacred foundations of social order, may rely, not only on the gr►titude of all friends of order in France, but also in all other countries of the continent of Europe. "The Weiner Zedung, too, has in its official part an article eulogising M. Bonaparte, and expressing a wish for the success of his measure." [The substance of our correspondence will appear in a later edition.] in the Champs-Elysees and the Place do i s Concorde very alarming; the soldiers were especially good natured, and kei t order with the forbearance and discretion of a London policeman himself. Ladies walked in the midst of the crowd unmolested and almost " unpre. tected," and the general opinion seemed to be that the coupd'etat was " neatly done "—" politic "—. " clever,' and--successful. Yesterday morning, however, people looked less assured. 'the truth be gan to peep out. Everybody had looked blooming and happy ; hut then the conventional " everybedy had not included the " dangerous classes "—that was very certain. Where were all the blouses, hea rt i es and bludgeons, that usually assemble on such octets liens ? In garrets, in cellars, in wine shops; in secret places of rendezvous, waiting the time tier no tion : and yesterday, some of these were for the first time brought to light. The result way barricading and the fighting of yesterday. It is not, however, to ho supposed that there was any concentration of their forces on the part of the reds, or that the scenes enacted were a part of any concocted or or ganiscd plan. As far as I can judge, from all I can learn, the real actors in the terrible tragedies of the Boulevard Montmartre and the Boulevard des Italiens formed but a small portion of the wandering crowd, assembled like any other crowd to behold and be amused. I was myself an eve witness of a great deal of the fighting upon the Boulevards—an eye witness of the field before and after the fight—and I can safely affirm this to be true. The attack upon the people on the Boulevard Montmartre, for example, was utterly unprovoked. I was not myself among the attacked party, but a friend who had the misfortune to be one of the num ber describes the scene in strong terms. The people, it seems, were idling about without any special ob ject—most front curiosity—none, it would seem, with any hostile intention. The soldiers themselves were conversing freely with the populace, and tke greatest pod humour prevailed. On a sudden some person from a side street tired a pistol—from a window, it is believed. This was the signal for a general tiring on the part of the troops, without the slightest warning or preparation, and a rattling and deadly discharge was opened upon the quivering and retreating mass. Round after round poured upon them with total pre cision. Any of your readers who have heard bullets whizzing about their cars, and seen them chipping the stone pavement and stone walls, and flying into houses amidst the elutter of broken glass, may form some notion of the panic of the unarmed mob. It is certain that very few fell with their wounds in front. My informant was certainly not prepared to make any such sacrifice. As he made the best of his way from the scene, men were fulling around him on all sides—ones, twos, threes—little groups falling in heaps, and clasped together in dying agonies. Leaping over their corpses, with that ter nide instinct of serf-preservation which knows no pity, my friend succeeded in gaining the shelter of a shop, followed, I may almost say. by a bullet, which missed him by a hair's-breadth. Then came the scene of desolation when all was over—the carrying of the wounded to the hospitals, of the dead to— Heaven knows where. The sad, sullen aspect of the soldiery when their work AVM done had in it some thing portentous; and ninny a scared, spirit-broken (merle,• who ventured to take the Boulevard on his way home, might be seen regarding these symptoms with mingled hope and fear. Some of the soldiers who had taken part in the attack were subse quently met by the gentleman of whom have spoken in a wine-shop. According to their own account, they had ai little anticipated the order to fire on the people themselves, against whom they profes.sed not to have the slightest ill will; but the order was given, sud it was their habit to obey, and roil,: tout. From my own position, at a house on the Boule vard, near the Rue de la I'aix, I had an opportunity of witnessing much of what took place in the after noon upon the Boulevard des Italiens. A consider able contest was going on opposite the Cafe Tortoni, from which it was incorrectly asserted that the first shot was fired. As far as the eye could reach— which is as far as the head of the Boulevard at tho Rue Vivienne—the road was occupied by the dra goons, who continued for the course of half an hour to ch arge the populace at intervals, and fire their pistols at the windows of the houses on either side. In my immediate neighbourhood it was remarkable to witness the coolness with which even ladies ex paeal thenaselvea at windows and upon bal conies, notwithstanding the very obnoxious fact that the sudden caprice of the officers of ono of the squadrons passing to and fro—a caprice which had had its example a little higher up—might effectually put a stop to the display of either courage or cowardice for the future. Even on the pavement below, ladies, young and old, might bo seen vying with each other, apparently, in approach ing most nearly to the immediate scene of action. None of the spectators seemed alarmed; sonic wero certainly excited; but the majority seemed rather to enjoy the spectacle. In the more peaceful parts of Paris, such as the Rue de Itivoli (where the English seem to have car ried order and tranquillity with the other luxuries of their travelling equipments), this gaiety and care lessness of consequence, within the sound of the guns themselves, were peculiarly manifest. People wero not walking or running, as on the Boulevards—they were promenading and fiat/nin t h if I may be allowed to coin a word. 'lire last winter bonnets were worn by the last winter belles; not a coun tenance looked discomposed, not a cravat was seen to deviate from its propriety. Young English gentle men who had come abroad for their aniu.ement, and rather preferred to take it at the expense of the French than otherwise, were givieft eac h o ther lively accounts of how recklessly and Nuccesstoy th e y lad been disobeying the orders of sentinels an.] patrols; and expressing their fears, not for the safety 4 the country, of their friends, or of themselves, but %sat the revolution would sot come to anything. A party of English servants, grouped together under the gate of Meurice's, amused me in particular with their nonchalance, and the resignation with which they were evidently prepared to bear the calamities of—their neighbours. One of them told his friend in my hear ing that he had been with " another" gentleman to see one of the barricades, and had been disappointed —it was really'not worth the trouble. Poor fcllow,tho tragedy was not " deep" enough for him, I suppose. I need scarcely add more, I think, to give you the idea that in the ttue Hivoli, at any rate, Paris is still Paris the gay, l'aris the city of fetes, notwithstanding an occasional squadron of Lancers, who may be seea sweeping the streets, with a certain steadiness and force that indicates them in earnest. Leaving this smiling scene, I found myself shortly after entangled in the maze of streets that lie between the Boulevard des Bathers amid the Place de La fayette. Here there are no new fashions, no flunkeys, nor young English gentlemen amiable and facetious. Everything is solemn, everything is sad, everything threatening. The very weather is putting on its worst face. It is cold and humid here, while in the Rue Rivoli it seemed quite fresh and invigorating. Around every wine-shop groups are gathered to gether, who annoy the passing stranger—sometimes curiously, sometimes menacingly—with the muttered word " aristo," perhaps, or even some threatening gesture. I hurry by, wondering whether it would be preferable to be respectably shot on the Boulevards with a regulation musket, or knocked on the head miserably, in the Rue Lamartine, with a crow bar. As good fortune will have it, how ever, I am not bound to either alternative, and pursue my way, in as easy and assured a manner as I can, so as not to attract attention. The neigh bourhood in question presents a curious contrast to the Boulevards—there is not a single soldier or urgent de rule to be seen. Groups, which elsewhere would be shot down without much ceremony, are permitted to assemble and talk without interruption: and yet this is a neighbourhood well known to the authorities as the head-quarters of some of the red dart of the red. In one of these streets I notice several persons in blouses, busily engaged with mal lets and chisels in uprooting some iron railings, and knocking their stonework to pieces. It is nota very noteable operation, and I at first believe them to be peaceable workmen occupied in the discharge of their ordinary labours ; but on a glance at the middle of the road, where pieces of broken stone are laid across with some regularity, I behold the truth. This is the commencement of a barricade—of a barricade destined, most probably, to be attacked and defended, and ultimately taken like the rest. But why, it may be asked, not stop the commencement of dens erections, peacea bly, and without waiting fa cile final compn? A few oergens de cille would est tainly destroy the foundation of the barricade is .••••—• - 7 qneetv been The n the bu tair,ll9, — As I featly perma all th, to mal before surve, line of other Notre the 'scale the p fleetly upon I single ear to ing But, t calm, Notre day, the eh Ooi nits 0: tonoul street order' and ti warty be del Thi 4 , occu I gayo much Via for tl undo obey. I 1 litter wour Can Roye As loon ! ditioi deatt Eftai: