The Express. — London, England, 1851-12-04 00:00:00

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Ir is one thing to east up the account of right and wrong between ions NAPOLEON and the dominant parties in the National Assembly; and it is another thing to pass judgment upon the conduct of the PILE IIIDENT towards the nation that elected him as the pro tector of its liberties and the executive agent of its will. ][Louts NAPOLEON regarded nothing in France be yond the Assembly, and tf he regarded in the Assembly merely that knot of quondam statesmen which dic tated its votes first for the nullification of the re public, and then of Louis NAPOLEON himself, we cannot say but that his Ire, and that even something more than constitutional antagonism, might not have been justly called forth against treacherous, selfish, and liberticide intriguers. They favoured the admission of Louis NAPOLEON into France at first, merely that his name might be a bugbear to the republic ; they favoured his election aa President, in order to use him as an iron rod to flagellate the republicans. Heaven knows, Louts NAPOLEON was obsequious enough to them in return. Ile turned his back on the people, wisest votes had really raised him to the ehief place. lie lent himself to the passing and to the application of every law which castigated, which fettered, which mortified, and disfranchised the people. And he not only served the people of France so, but he lent the sword and the power of the country to crush all them who struggled fur liberty abroad. There was no vengeance, no re action of the National Assembly, and of its conservative leaders, to which Louis NAPOLEON was not ready to lend himself, until it became their good pleasure and their manifest aim to get rid of him, and to oppose his reelection. Since then, indeed, he has waged war against them with an effrontery and a S'ACAPPA which exasperated them beyond all prudiace and self-possession, and which has tinnily impelled him to the nushattempt tocrumh the Assembly by pulling down the pillars and the edifice of the con afitutain about their ears. We havolittle pity for the TIIIERALS and the CO %SOAR:VIERS ; but this does not imply either admiration or respect for Louts NAPO LEON, who is playing the part of his imperial uncle, without his means, his talents, or his excuses. It was most possible for Louts N VULVA'S to effect the revolution which ho bas dune, and yet exculpate himself in the eyes of liberal and impar tial men. Ile might, In quashing the plots and the power of Rut ettox parties, and announcing his determination to crush anti-social movements, still have preserved the great republican liberties of the country, or he mi;eltt even, in aspiring to be Emperor in his own right, have secured, or at least promised, a full measure of constitutional freedom to the French. I k has done neither of these things. But in oue of the most audacious and foolish of proclama tions he promulgates his intention of restoring the old imperial constitution, consisting of a senate., of course to be selected by, and to be the instrument of, the executive, which was to be completely inde pendent of it; which senate was endowed with the power of completing or suspending the cousti lion itself, and even of re; erring situ decisions of the judicature ! As to a chamber or assembly of representatives elected by universal, or indeed by any, suffrage, sitting, discussing, and voting under the brows of en all-pnwerrol senate, and amidst the acts of an administration totally independent of it, anything mu impracticable and absurd never issued from the brain of even the most crazy politician that France has yet produced. Loris NseoLeos, when ho uttered such nonsense, or sanctioned its appear ance in a proclamation, must have done so in utter contempt of the public, whom he addressed, and in sweeping disregard of principle, honesty, or common sense. To have conceived and considered as practicable such a mude of government as this, way puerile and fatuitous. To declare it at once, in the first hour of revolution, was perfectly insane. There is no party, no class, no number of Frenchmen, beyond a few aide-de.camps, who could in the present day put trust in such a system of government as this. The bold attitude of the President, with the intrigues and treacheries of the monarchical leaders in the .tsscm lily, which provoked it, may for a moment incline the people to applaud Loots NAPOLEON; but a few hours consideration, the spectacle of the con stitution abrogated, the Assembly dissolved, and even its best and moat moderate members consigned with their colleagues en 'Hasse to prisons, and this done avowedly for the establishment of an Im perial Senate and riTime—must produce a terrible revulsion of sentiment; and that every intellect and every party in tho country will be forthwith leagued against the usurper, is as inevitable. as it is fearful. That the clear perspicacity and cool judgment of NAPOLEON, with the powerful influence that he had the gift of exercising over tho minds both of individuals and of the masses, might triumph in such a forlorn hope, we admit ; but that Louts NAPOLEON, or that those around him, are equal to the task of reducing the thirty and odd millions of Frenchmen, with the con gregated intellect and numbers of their great towns, to the state of inanimate and disgraceful pupillage which prevailed under the Empire, that is not within the limits of human probability. There is indeed one kind of policy and one series of events, which might uphold such a system for a time. And that is, successful, triumphant, glorious and profitable war. The large French army can, we are afraid, become attached to no new leader or new regime that does not give it promotion, honour, profit and'aacendaney. But this can only be done at the risk of war, while this against two millions of bristling bayonets would require a degree of military talent and fortune, of which France gives no pro mise, and to which the cause of the NAPOT EON dynasty gives so claim. The great military ascen dancy of the French at the close of the last century was due to the principle which animated them, and the cothusiawn to which that principle originally gave birth. It was in the campaigns of the republic that the superiority of the French army was esta blished, and the Emperor NAPOLEON merely reaped the crop of military power which the Jovarksixs, the Homes, and the Moanus had sown. We doubt, theroixo, that the campaigns of NAPOLEON can be re enesimi, and without them the empire can never be resuilaisi. Amidst the for slid anxiety which these events have eseated assempt =re are glad to hear it that • n so near has la i l l egeed ant of sliasing ez e l p ° etty differences amongst our own eletemen, who have now graver mounts to occupy dismi than examining the !ape am, or &emus et a pertiaslar minister receiving eh or OM It is elestt we are bound to recognise mhshever did magi heats the French nation may due sr inapt hi isnot them. However we may =his indiseas and dread his uneonstitu of it is eluer est in these things the people et hams are the Yet judges . And provided that wrtbe fay eassalted and fairly pronounced, eer siplessalis orierlssiss and relations have bat to awls by it. . A mem sentient is presented : erespersson of the peelbsiseet with the sand which auseget the emelselmai of the t r il l tri s ersag. • enhellsei wise sakes upon parade a quarter el a lints tee Wes or who appears with a:speck epee his gloves ; or vise does not " wheel • at the axed instiat of ecomeed, is liable, within hearing of ell his men, to a were and humiliating I reprimand from the field Wiese. But, during h li ample leisure, he may commit every sort of vice and debauchery, not only unheeded, but too frequently abetted, by his seniors. Indeed, the profession of arms as practised in this country—requiring, except in very rare exceptions, very little intellect—is the sponge which sucks in most of our youthful afflu ence and idleness ever floating on the surface of society. The encouragement afforded to wasteful extravagance—to dissipation of every description THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4. 1851. sure in the exercise of their intellects, instead of in the' boar last night the following telegraphic despatches abuse of their passions, such reprehensible victims as were reoctred from prefects : KENNEDY, and such confirmed sbarprs as the Nicer', Pair-day at Nevem • proclamations have been ALLEYIOId, D'Ascul, and COYLE3 would never have well reeeived.—Matne-et-LoireAalf-past 4 ; Indre-at-Loire, tainted tha Army List. 56 minutes after 4 ; Somme, 5 o'clock ; Indrc, half-past 5; Nord, Dunkirk, 40 minutes after 6 : Perfect tranquillity. —Pas-de-Calais, 25 minutes after 8 : Perfect tranquillity at Arras and at Amiens, as well as in other places in the two departments.—Seine-Inferieure, 60 minutes after 8 : THE Rouen is tranquil. The national guard has given its sup port to the authorities. Havre and the other towns are quiet.—Nord, 8 o'clock : Lille, Valenciennes, Douai, &e., purfect tranquillity. The Minister of the Interior has sent the following circular to all the prefects, accompanied by fire copies of the proclamations published yesterday morning: Monsieur le Prefet,—The parties who agitate in the Assembly menaced France with the compromise of its repose, by fomenting plots against the government, the object of which was to overthrow it. The Assembly has been dissolved amidst the applause of all the population of Paris. On the receipt of the present you will cause the proclamations of the President of the Republic to be :lhzcd an all the communes, and you will send to the mayors and juges de pain the circulars which I address to you, with the models of the register of votes. You will see to the strict execution of the measures prescribed by these circulars. You will immediately replace thejuges de pais, the mayors, and the other functionaries whose co-operation may not be assured to you. With this object, you will demand from all public functionaries to give you in writing their adhe sion to the great measure which the government has just adopted. leau will immediately cause to be arrested every individual who may attempt to disturb tranquillity, and you will cause to be suspended every journal whose pole inks may place it in danger. I count, Monsieur le Prefet, on your devotedness and your zeal to take all the precau tions necessary for the maintenance of public order ; and you will come to an unnerstanding on this subject bath with the general commanding the department and with the ju dicial authorities. You will acknowledge by telegraph the receipt of this despatch, and you will send me, until new orators, a daily report on the state of your department. I have no need to recommend to you to send me by telegraph any news of gravity. Receive, &c. The Minister of the Interior. Moaxr. The following circulars have been sent from the Ministry of Justice to the Proeureurs-Gi:ll‘:raux and the Jugcs do Paix : - - - - Paris, 2nd December. Monsieur le •Procureur-General,—You are acquainted with the events which have just been accomplished iu Paris. The sovereignty residing in the people, the President has believed it indispensable to convoke them to repress factions and save the country. I send you the proclamations and the circulars addressed direct to the Juge, de Paix and to the Procureurs of the Republic. See that they be com municated to each of the functionaries placed under your orelert, and make them understand all the gravity of the situation, and the necessity of their devoted co-operation, on which the government counts as on yours. Faris, 2nd December. Monsieur Ic Juge de Paix,—The proclamations of this day will make known te you the events which have occurred in Paris. The decree of the varee date gives you, then, Monsieur le Jugc de Paix, the mission of superintending in each commune of your canton tho establishment of registers fur acceptance or rejection, and tocootrol all which concerns their being regularly kept, by conforming with the detail:l instructions which have been addressed to the mayors. You must then, within twenty-four hours of the reception of the aforesaid decree, personally visit each commune of your canton. Yon are charged also under the surveillance of the superior authorities, to net as ide or vanquish all the obstacles which may oppose themselves to the solemn mani festation of the popular will. You will personally ascertain the opening of the registers of votes. You will verify if they be in conformity with the models hereto annexed, and if required you will make any necessary rec tification. In the case, iu which, for any cause what ever, these registers may not have been established, you will call for or effect the opening of them; and you will, if necessary, charge, in the place of the mayor, either ono of the members of the municipal council, or one of the notable inhabitants of the commune, to proceed to the reception and summing up of the suffrage., as also to close and transmit the registers to the prefect through the sub-prefect. Finally, you will sec that the inhabitants shall lee informed of the opening of the ballet by all the modes of publication employed in the commune. Atter the expiration of the period of eight days, that is to say from Sunday, 11th December, to Sunday, the 21st December inclusively, I recommend you again to superin tmd the execution of tho formalities of ascertaining the number of the votes, and of transmitting the registers; and for this purpose you will make a new inspection of the communes of your canton*. You must address every day to the sub-prefect a report, stating the result of your surveillance. The mission which is collided to you, Monsieur le Juge-de-Paix, has too much importance, and must receive from your intervention a too high character of impartiality for you to delegate it. The delegation to one of your substitutes only appears to me to be admis sible in ease you are labouring under a grave malady, or in ease the territorial extent of your can ton should impose on you, for the work of inspection, a division which would better assure the accomplishment of the formalities of the opening and closing of the registers. I count on your patriotism to co-operate by all your efforts in the free and sincere manifestation of the will of a great people. By a decree of the President of tho republic, dated the Ist, forty-six changes of sub-prefecte are effected. The following account is given from the best sources of the occupation of the Assembly, and sub sequent dispersion and capture :—Towards 6 in the morning several agents of the public force presented themselves at the same time ut the several points of the Patois Bourbon, occupied by the questoni. M. Bare and General Lefto were arrested. The colonel of one of the regiments which occupied the Assembly had signified to General Lefto that he was charged provisionally with the guard of the palace. Neither M. Dupin, the presi dent, or M. de Perot, the third questor, wero mo lested. At half-past 11 about 100 representatives were met in the Salle des Conferences. A com mander of gendarmerie mobile came to order them to evacuate immediately all the dependencies of the palace. Whilst the commander went into the pas sage some representatives penetrated into the hall where the sittings are held. Neither the president nor any of the secretaries were at the bureau. The troops then arrived, and the hall was cleared. The great body of conservative mem bers then repaired to the house of M. Daru. Two or three companies of troops of the line soon arrived to disperse them. The commander of the troops announced to tho members of the meeting that ho had received orders to allow them to leave the place of meeting in full liberty, but if they should attempt to assemble in any other place they would expose themselves to arrest. M. de Fallout, who formed part of the meeting, endeavoured to sound the dispositions of the troops, and, addressing the soldiers, said: " I do not believe that representatives have anything to fear from the army. Is it not true that none of you would dare to arrest us?" The commander immediately, with a bow of the greatest politeness, said, "Gentlemen, you have only to make the experiment—you have only to endeavour to re sist. Wo should act with the greatest respect, but we should do our duty." On receiving this peremptory reply, the representatives retired in great agitation. It was resolved that an attempt should bo made to enter the Legislative Palace, and between 11 and 12 o'clock about 40 of the party went for that purpose. They were turned back, and one of them, in offering resistance, was, it is said, slightly wounded. At a later period, information having been received that the Mairie of the 10th arrondissement was at their disposal, and an offer having been made of the pro tection of a portion of the national guards of that legion, about 200 representatives went thither, and entered into discussion. Among them were MM. Darn, the vice-president ; Grimault an I Molin, secre taries; Do Larcy, Berryer, Dufaure, &c. At this meeting several decrees were resolved upon, and amongst them was one declaring the President of the Republic deprived of his authority, and another, appointing General Oudinot commander-in-chief, in the name of the Assembly, of the army of Paris, and of the National Guard. M. Berryer, wearing a tricolor scarf, appeared at a window to harangue the crowd on the outside, and announce the decisions that had been come to. He was, however, very un favourably received, and the cry of " Vive l'As semblee," got up by the National Guards, was very faintly echoed. Whilst this was going on, the Maine was surrounded by a large force of the Chasseurs de Vincennes, and a chef de bataillon entered the room where the members were assembled, and desired them to disperse. They refused, and thereupon were conducted between a double line of cbssseurs to the cavalry barracks of the Quai d'Orsay. General Oudinot, General Lanriston, MM. Berryer, Piscatory, Chapot, de Talhouet, and Victor Lefranc were among the number arrested. The representatives who met yesterday to essay into effect the decree of the constitution, which pro claims the d ,, ch4anee of the President of the Re public for the violation of the fundamental law, and appoints General Oudinot military dictator, were, alter their capture, detained for some time in the cavalry barracks of the Quai d'Orsay. But this was • only a temporary arrangement. Several of them L have been since permitted to return to their homes. ' There is no foundation foe the rumour that MM. I de Broglie or Dufauro were arrested. These emi nent representatives, as well as M. Dupin, have re mained in their respective homes. if A The Paris says: —" We are informed that about 200 representatives have already sent their adhesion to the President of the Republic, and a great number are expected in the evening. Amongst those who ;' have presented themselves at the Elyeke are special l y I cited MM. do Beaumont (Somme), De Ranee, F. Barret, Lucien Murat, General Va.4-Virneux, A. Bonaparte, P. Bonaparte, General de Grammont, General d'Hautpoul, Berger, Gavini, Colonel La borde, Bataille, De la Moskowa, Baraguav-d'llilliers, Echasseriaux, Casabianca, Porton], Da riste, Mimerel, Fould, Berard, Vaisse, Dumas, De Greslan, A. Girnud, Leverrier, Vieillard, Seger d'Aguesseau, De Solis, Abattucci, sen., Abattucci, jun., &c. Five representatives presented themselves yester day at the mayory of the I lth arrondissement and demanded from the mayorauthorisation to hold there a parliamentary meeting. The mayor answered that Paris being in a state of seiqehe could only obey the executive power; whereupon the five representatives retinal. Yesterday, at 4 o'clock, the President reviewed the cuirassiers and carahineers, in the Avenue of the Champs Elysdes, and was loudly cheered by them with cries of " Vice Napoleon!" At half-past two General Renaud set out from the Ecole Militaire, followed by his staff and an escort, to visit all the pasts of the left bank of the Seine. The salle of the Assembly, called the Salle de Carton, where the representatives held their sit tings, no longer exists. Yesterday mousing an officier de paix, followed by a considerable number of work men, went to the place, and proceeded to demolish it. The presidential decrees were expedited this morn ing by telegraph to all the prefects, with orders for their immediate publication. This evening the most satisfactory replies have been received from a great number of prefects. The President's appeal to the people has been received everywhere with sym pathy. ' The prefects who have already sent answers are those of the following departments :—lndre and Loire, Seine Inferieure ' lndre, Loir and Cher, Nievre, Vienne, Marie, Maine and Loire, Pas de Calais, Nord, Loiret, Somme, Cher. Three despatches have been received from the department of the Nord, all declaring that the news from the capital has been received with jov. The prefects of the Nord and Pas do Zalais state that the sous-prefets have received their orders, and that already the mayors and colonels of the national guards of the principal towns have assured the authorities of their support. All iv quiet to-day at Lille, as also at Arras, and all the towns on the telegraphic lines. Rouen and its environs are tranquil. 'rho news has been well received there. A number of telegraphic despatches is continually pouring iu ; all bring most assuring broken out into civil war. While reciprocal denun ciations of conspiracy flew openly between these in. censed antagonists, they were secretly employ e d in gathering their men and counting their forces for dealing. the decisive blow. C to the last, while rendering lip homage to legality, the leading m en o f the parliament knew that the knot could never b e legally unravelled. The mast daring and de. termincd of them held their councils in knots of half-a-dozen deep, into the hours after midnight ; when Changarnier was arrested at f our ycs : tcrday morning Tliiers and Lamorich'ae were sitting up with him, unquestionably with the design of doing with Louis Napoleon what Louis Napoleon succeeded, by seizing the right moment, in doing with them. One of the powers had to disappear b e . fore the other, at least for a time. nut the parlia mentary power is not vanquished Fuse its leini cre arc at Vincennes; neither is Louis Napoleon the sic tor because he is for the moment dictator. The ques tion, as ho says in his proclamation, between hint and the Assembly is referred to the decision of the people. The citizens of France will decide, between the lith and 21st of December, whether they ar e prepared to delegate powers to Louis Napoleon for establishing the constitution put forward in his pro clamation. I believe that fur this purpose recourse will be had to tho electoral lists of May, NO, by which the Legislative Assembly was chosen, and which will receive the corrections rendered ne. cessury by deaths, judgments, and other caives. If the majority of the electors pronounce in favour of the policy of Louis Napoleon, he will be proclaimed chief of the executive power for ten wears ; the consultative commission appointed in the -ifesiiteur of this morning may possibly tonn the new senate, and a legislative body will be chosen by universal suffrage for a term of years to be set. tied in a future proclamatiou, which will develop° the details of the constition. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING , LOSS OF LIFE ON THE BARRICADES. TILE NEW MINISTRY. The following names arc now given autherita• tively as those of the new ministry : Monty Fould Itouher Magner . . . Public Works. Dandle St. Arnaud War. Ducos Turgot Foreign A tnirs. Fortoul Public Instruction. reports. - The follmring are translations of the resolution and protest of the members of the Assembly agreed • to at the jlairie of the Ist arrondi,qpruent It is positively stated that M. Fould, nominated to the Ministry of Finance, has refused to havo any. thing to do with Louis Napoleon's Ministry. A number of the Deputies, whose names are placed the Consultative Commission, meet to-day to protest against this liberty taken with their characters. Republique Francaise, Assent' , lee Nationale, Dec. ?, Pril. Whereas art. fig of the constitution enacts as toll s .—T he President out his ministers are each responsible for the acts of the government, and any measure by isit:th the Pre sident of the Republic slmll dissolve or prorozuc the Na tional Assembly, or place any obstacle to the exercise of its functions, is an act of high treason. By that very . act the President forfeits his authority, and every citizen is bound to refuse obedience to his orders. Three banicades were erected to-day in the Itue du Faubourg St. Antoine. The llontagnard Al phonse Esquiroz mounted one barricade antl liar rangued the people. It is said that II was shot at and wounded. It is added that two soldiers wen, shot by the people who defended the first barricade. The barricades were all carried with great vigour by the soldiers. It is said that Bandit' was killed and Mather de Monjau wounded at a barricade. Some of the deputies who were confined yesterday at the barracks of the Quai d'Orsai were removed in the evening to the fort of Mont Valerien. Several of them, among whom are MM. Broglie, Bur:tare, and Flavigriy, have, however, been set at liberty. The house of M. Baru, vice-president of the As sembly, is occupied by a detachment of troops. This morning at an early hour the Boulevards were occupied by military, from the Porte St. Martin to tho Place de la Bastile. A report was current that one or two barricades had been erected in the Rao do Charonne, and that a representative who had taken the command had been wounded in the cap ture of these by the soldiery. But this is a mere ru mour. The Assembly, therefore, since it is hindered by violence from accomplishing its mission, decrees : Louis Napoleon Bonaparte is deprived of his functions Prmident of the Republic, cunt the citizens are called on to refuse hint obedience. . . . The executive power passes in its plenitude to tho As sembly. The judges of the High Court of Justice arc called on to meet immediately upon pain of dismissal, to proceed to judgment against the President and his accomplices. It is enjoined upon all functionaries that they obey the requisition made in the name of the Assembly, under pe nalty of forfeiture and the punishment prescribed for high treason. Made in public sitting this 2nd December, ISit. (Signed) 111:NOIST IYAZN, President. Virzi., Vice-President. CUAVUT and Mot:LIN, Secretaries. PROTEST. Whereas article GS of the constitution provided, &c. (see it quoted in the above resolution). Con%idet inn that Louis Napoleon Bonaparte h.ts violated his oaths and the constitution. and employed the public force to consummate this crime : The undersigned members of the Assembly, after taking official cogni.auce of the violence offered by the President to its meeting, and the arrest of its bureau and several of its members, declare : Colonel Charms, representative of tho ,fountain, who received a dangerous wound at the time of his arrest, is said to have expired at 3 o'clock to-day. A placard, signed by the ex-representatives Vitet, Chapot, Moulin, and others, declanng the President deposed front his functions in virtue of the 68th arti cle of the Constitution, and calling upon the soldiers and people to deny him obedience, was posted up this morning, but torn down immediately by tho police. . . _ . That the 4tith Article of the constitution points out to every citizen the duty he has to fulfil. The President is thus declared deprived of his authority; the High Court of Ju-stice is summoned ; every citizen in forbidden to obey the deposed power under pain of punishment. The General-Councils are convoked, and are to meet im mediately : they will name a commission front the members of their own body, who will assume the administration of their departments, and correspond with the Assembly in whatever place it shall choose to meet. Every receiver of the public funds, who shall render up possession of the same to any person or persons other than those authorised in the regular and lawful manner, shall be Meld responsible both in property and person. Done this 2nd of December, 18.i1. "Gallon Barrot, A. Chambolle, De Tozqueville, Gust. De Beaumont, Dufaure ' H. Etienne , , hlispoulet, Ose. Lafayette, LatiMinais, V. Do Tracy, Paillet, L. Butt it, le General Pabvier, Dixie, Ch. Itemusat, Hip. Patsy, Piscatory, De IlroglM Duvergier do Ilauranne, De Cor wiles, A. d'Hespel, Dc Luppe, De Sese, Guiltier De la Tousche, S. Vitiation., Chow, Sainte-Beuve, Becher, Do Laboulie, \titer, De Montigny, 1)e Montebello, 'fburiot.de la Hosiers, Mathieu Do la ltedorte, ctor Lefranc, Benjamin Delessert, &c., &c. The only Paris journals that have appeared this morning are the DAats, Constitutionnel, Patric, and ,Issenibble Nationale (the latter published on a half sheet), and the law papers, the Gazette des Triba naux, and the //reit. The Constitutionnet has the following on the important change that has taken place in the government : It is unnecessary for us to say that the proclamations and documents which appeared in Paris yesterday morning produced an immense sensation. The news, as Is usual iu all great events, spread with the rapidity of lightning. There was emotion or. every side, and astonishment no where. There was emotion because the act was an im portant one; there was no astonishment because the act was of a nature that was foreseen. The avowal of every one was that the state of affairs was such that could only be remedied by extraordinary measures. The parties hostile to the executive power had already in a stormy sitting talked of impeaching the President of the Republic. That opportunity failing, another was prepared for sending the elect of six millions of retest° Vincennes. If the plan had succeeded, the Assembly would have prolonged its powers, and would have taken no other judge besides itself between it and the President of the Republic. The President of the ItepubFe only prevented the immi nent aggression with which he was threatened, and, instead of proceeding, as the Assembly , would have done —that is to say, in constituting himself judge and party, he abolished restricted, and re-established universal, suffrage; he facilitated the exercise of it by bringing the elector to the place where he ought to vote, and he takes the whole of the French people as judge between the As sembly and himself. This is not all. Louis Napoleon puts the shortest possible interval between this grand national consultation and the decree which institutes it, in order to bring within the closest possible limit the duration of a power which might be reproached, if it were to be pro longed, with wanting sanction. This act of strict impar tiality has been understood by the population of Paris, as it will be throughout the whole of France. Paris, although agitated, has not witnessed the slightest disorder on any point. The people comment on the proclamations and the decrees with manifest sympathy. The shops every where remained open. Louis Napoleon, who went through several quarters of Paris, was saluted with numerous accla mations. This day, whichl will be remarkable in his history, will have for effect to prevent all the misfortunes which were expected in 1852. The vote of the army is of course looked to with the greatest anxiety ; and a great deal of the shout ing of the workmen of the taubourgs must be set down to canvassing in a rude way the votes of the soldiers against the quasi-imperial regime which Louis Napoleon proposes to establish. There arc at this moment more than 100,000 troops in Paris, including the finest regiments of ca valry in the service. The arrangements of this commander-in-chief, General Marian, are spoken of on all hands with the highest confi dence, and the spirits of the soldiery is ex cellent. In consequence of these facts, although there prevails undeniably to-day a much fiercer spirit of hostility than yesterday among the working classes, and much greater state of excitement in tho eastern faubourgs, the public has not for a moment been dismayed with apprehensions of a serious f , /mite, or frayed with the terrible prospect of a successful insurrection. Early this morning strong detachments of cuirassiers, followed by a numerous train of artil lery, proceeded along the Boulevards to the Place do in Bastille. All communication beyond the Rue St. Denis was cut off. General Terms, commanding the brigade of cavalry of Versailles, came to l'aris yesterday after noon, at the head of two regiments of carabineers. This brigade of cavalry went along the boulevards as far as the Quartier St. Martin. At the entrance of the faubowg sonic groups, evidently with a hostile intention, raised a cry " Vive la it publique," to which the two regiments replied by a unanimous cry of " Viva Napokon." If any disturbance occur in the eastern faubourgs, the overwhelming military force will put it down immediately. A decree has been just posted up, prohibiting all meeting's, assemblages, and groups, all seditious cries, all public reading in the streets, and all posting up of bills. The working faubourgs present to-day a much more sinister and menacing aspect than yesterday. Accordingly they have been occupied since the morn ing with strong bodies of cuirassiers with artillery. The streets in the faubourgs St. Antoine and St. Denis were, at half-past two, densely crowded wit". l workmen, who shouted incessantly "Viva la Repr.b. lique," which is still used as a rallying sign of nos tility to the government. Throughout Pae.s, in fact, the working classes are evidently unfa vourable to tho coup d'etat. In tb.e Ruc St. Denis, and other democratic quarters, placard was posted during the night, which, after leading off with " Vivo la - Republique ! Viva lo suf. frago universal ! Viva la constitution!" went on to proclaim Louis Napoleon a traitor to the state, who had forfeited his powers. This was signed with the name of Victor Hugo and others,, probably without authority. AB first it was torn down by the sergcns do vine, it reappeared again in some other quarter. Another placard, effaced with equal zeal by the police, called upon the people to rally together against usurpation. Generally throughout this region fighting was expected and announced 43 imminent The Patric says : Some representative of the people, covering themselves with their inviolability as with a cloak to conceal their fiber- Seidel projects, menaced the existence of the republic and the liberty of the President. They wished to attack the sovere4nty of the nation by overthrowing a power which proceea from the free and spontaneous expression of universal suffrage, to raise on the ruins of that popular power • government which would not 'have had the sanction of the country. Louis Napoleon has called to mind the immense duties imposed upon him by the glorious souvenirs attached to his name, and the hopes which the country placed on him when it confided to him the exercise of authority. He has defeated the plots of parties and the plans of factions. Ho has desired that' France should declare herself as to her future. He has appealed to the nation. The entire country will respond with enthusiasm to the cry of patriotism. It is a future of order, and peace, of , progress and prosperity that is to be founded. France will accept this future with gra titude from the bands of the nephew of the Emperor. At the price of a few days of emotion, our generation, fatigued with revolutions, will at length obtain years of calm and security. Hope, then, hope and confidence. Immense numbers of arrests have taken place to day in consequence of the more aggressive attitude of the lower classes, who do not seem to give Louis Napoleon credit for the least sincerity. They say that having once broken his oath he deserves no further reliance, and seem not to trouble their heads in the least about the force exercised upon his w ill by the violent alternative in which he was placed. I attempted last night to give you notice by tele graph of the important c i rcu l ar , in which the mi nister of war calls upon the generals of corps to take the votes of the soldiers in 48 hours, affirmatively or negatively, upon the question of delegating to Louis Napoleon the powe rs h e requires. The minister of the interior having refused to authorise my despatch, I was obliged to wait till this morning, when I sent you the circular at length. I call your attention to . it particularly as one of the most important fact? o f the present revolution. The first and most objection , ablefmture in this proceeding is Hutt the circularexacts The Nbats and the Asseniblt'e Nationale abstain from remarks. Everyone who has followed with attention the proceedings of the Assembly since the 4th of No vember must agree with the first assertion of Louis Napoleon in his proclamation to the people that such a state of things could not last. Tho two powers were already in open conflict, and must inevitably have —makes the Winces military service one of the shortest roads to ruin a young man can enter. It is not from the evidence et isolated maples that so heavy a judgment on the 08-duty career of the British officer is pronounced. Instances are too frequently oozing out ie the pages of the public journals to forbid the hope that they are exceptions only, to a general rule. Of the men who gain, by payment or gift, the h0n07r75 her MAJESTY'S commission, a vast per tentage are driven to sell out or resign, in from three to five years, by the pressure of pecuniary embarrassments. Few examples of the kind have ever been so calcu lated to shock civilians and to scandalise the army as that presented in the trial in the Court of Queen's Bench, for conspiracy, reported in this paper yesterday and the day before. In the year 1843 a young gentleman of 18, named KEN NEDY, left Sandhurst College to join in Canada the 89th Regiment, to which he had been gazetted en sign. It happened that in the ship which took him out a Lieutenant HOLDER ALLETNE, of the 2nd Light Infantry, and brother of a schoolfellow, was also a passenger. Young men —young soldiers especially--strike up confidential tnendships with out much formality • and KENNEDY, it would seem, suddenly made a boom friend of HOLDER, un folding without reserve his hopes and expectations. Among these was a fortune, in no very distant perspec tive ; he did not exactly know how much, but some thing respectable. It may not perhaps be fair to con clude that Mr. HOLDER ALLETNE determined to profit by this disclosure, by a subtle and deeply laid scheme, but after-events induce such an infer ence. Arrived at Montreal, KENNEDY found his schoolfellow, MACGEACUY ALLEYNE, a lieutenant in his own regiment. by great good fortune, HOLDER ALLEYNE was ordered on detachment to within a few hundred yards of Montreal; he was elected an honorary member of the 89th mess, and the brothers, KENNEDY, and a Lieutenant D'Anee formed themselve3 into a partie carrL'e of " jolly companions." Mr. KENNEDY'S professional income was 961. per annum ' • and, as he drew ano ther hundred a year from his family, he did not see why ho should not cut as great a dash as his friends. He set up a pony chaise, a sleigh, and three horses. As he was almost of age, he had necessarily acquired enough economical experieuce to be able to do this upon a fraction less than a couple of hundreds a year. Then being, at that advanced time of life, excessively clever at all manner of games of chance, he gave the gambling-houses a visit, and lost twelve hundred pounds to a Mr. STUART, at roulette (which he paid by a post-dated bill), and a bet of 500/. to HOLDER .tLLETNE. Of course ho knew all about horse-flesh, and went to the races—" twice." Thus accomplished, Mr. KENNEDY returned to Englund ; by and bye his three friends, the ALLEYNEi Will IYAILCY came back also ; and, as he had come into the bulk of his fortune, they clung to him very warmly. The hobby of the whole party was horses. KENNEDY bad a racer, and Hor.i,E.a ALLEYNE had "picked up" a little English Inure from an English dealer, a won derful trotter; could do her eighteen miles within the hour. Incredible! Mr. KE.NNEDY knew better, he would back his Custignette against ALLEYNE'S " Pigeon " for 3001. Done. The cash was posted ; but, on the eve of the race, Castignette (who was kept in DAacv's stable) was found with one of her pasterns cut to the bone. She, of course, could not "come to post "at the appointed time, and KENNEDY forfeited his stake. Still he would not believe in all that was said about "Pigeon," HOLDER ALLEYNE'd marvellous trotter. And "after dinner" one day he, in the presence of a third brother of the ALLEYNEs and D'Aucv, made ono of the most extraordinary bets ever perhaps " booked." We shall quote it literalist from his own evidence : The bet th a was made was 100/. that the mare could not trot 12 miles within the hour, 2001. that she could not trot 13 miles. 4001. that she could not trot 14 miles in the hour, 800/. that she could not trot 15 miles in the hour, 1,6001. that she could not trot 16 miles, 3,2091. that she could not trot 17 miles, .504/. that she could not trot 14 miles, and 5001. that she could not trot IS miles, all within the hour. The total amount of the bets was 7,3001. The match was to come off on or before the Ist of January, 1847. Holder Alleyne was to name the time and place, to give me one week's notice, and he might a ithilriw upon the payment of .100/. No./0./lea was named Mat 1 could pay. 1 mica tither win the bet or pay. Seven thousand three hundred pounds, that a mare which the backer had " picked up" by chance from a dealer could trot seventeen miles in an hour ! New Year's Day approached and KENNEDY became a little nervous. D'Auev had become his Adjutant profes sionally, and privately his bosom friend and ad viser. On the 12th of December (continued Kennedy in his evl deuce) I received a letter from Holder Alleyne, to say that he hoped I should have my money ready by the day, as I was certain to lose the match. He said he should be ready to trot the match on the let of January. It was to take place on Salisbury Plain. I saw hrticaohy Alleyne and LPArey previous to receiving that letter. The former said he was certain I should lose the match, because he had been in a gig with his brother only a d.iy or two previous on the road between Cheltenham andTewkesburv, drawn by the mare, Pigeon, mid that she had trotted 18 miles within the hour, and dune it with case. Ile recommended me by all means to compromise the bet, and that he and his brother, Joseph Alleyne, would use all their influence to induce their brother to grant me good terms, and that he had no doubt he would do so if I wrote to him. D'Arcy advised me also to compromise it. These friendly persuasions were so effectual that KENNSDY eventually gave a draught on his army agent to Houma ALLEYNE for 7,3601., on condition that he should become half owner of the mare, and participator in two matches of 1,0001. each. Thus far the plot of this sporting drama is not very complicated, the characters being simply a victim and two or three sharpers. But the villainy does not appear till the last act. Mr. KENNEDY naturally found his way rapidly to that resting place of all "fast" young gentlemen, the Queen's Bench. Ile was obliged to sell out of the army; and, after his relations had rescued him from debt and disgrace, trey got him a cadetship, and he hid his shame in lndia. If he had not become a better ho soon be came a wiser man; for ho learnt in reference to his Pigeon adventures four very important facts: firstly, that the wonderful mare was no mere chance pur chase, but was no other than " Fanny Jenks" cele brated all over Canada for her swiftness, and brought over here and re-named "Pigeon" by HOLDER AL- I IRENE for fraudulent purposes; secondly, that when bar owner wrote the bragging letter, and suborned VAncv, and his brothers Wavier's' and JOSEPH, toeliole KENNEDY into compromise , the mare Was or her master thought she was) dead lame and Mold not possibly have won ; thirdly, that 'Mimi' hid received 1,0001. for his clever persuasions to the eseipromise ; and fourthly, that the two matches in Which KENNEDY was to participate were merely pee. tended ones, concocted by HOLDER ALLEYNE to COM piste the fraud with another retired British officer Named COYLE, now imprisoned in Newgate for the 'rime of forgery. Thus enlightened, Mr. KENNEDY indicts his quondam dear friend for conspiracy : and the Middlesex House of Correction was ap= by Lord Csisrmitt as the new quarters of the ALLITNE and Mr. D'ARCY. But it is aid, low* ever, that, being out on bail, they arrows* the ha • cot question better to their salliastion, by leaving England before the conclusion at the pro ceedings. How much of blame of such disgraceltd transac tions as these is due to the want of proper guidance and supervision of the young men in the army by their superiors, it is not very easy to appor tion. In all the cases of which the pablic are made cognisant, in consequence of proceedings in the insolvent or criminal courts, but few regi mental cheeks seem put upon the non-pro feessonal delinquencies of subalterns ; nor is much help extended to their • xparienee. In the present instance the gratifying feet appears, that their reckless conduct was not wholly . passed over by the higher authorities. It was shown in evidence that the adjutant-general in Canada took KENNEDY to task for his furious addiction to gambling; and the eom =sate of the northern district reprimanded both llm mad D'Aacv, when they were subsequently quar tos& at Omlisio, for the same vice. One came an these call for an increase of those elite which have been wisely begun, to introduce moo cultivated intellect into the military service finw it could heretofore boast of. That, by the new Iliditions, the most ordinary scholastic knowledge skald be made indispensable to a youth before he is allowed to bear arms in the QUEEN'S service, is, it is true, the most that could be done as a beginning. But the beginning has come rather late. Had the cultivation of more ennobling amusements than gambling and horse-racing been earlier the rule instead of the exception: had oar officers been taught and encouraged in their youth to employ their Id. REVOLUTION IN FRANCE. IMMEDIATE POLL OF TILE SOLDIERY. PARIS, WEDNESDAY MOANING. 7onstittitionnd contain the follow- The Patrie and ing list of ministers, which I give in spite of the official declaration of the Handcar that the ministry is not yet constituted, as it will tend to show what has been attempted in this way :—MM. de Atom-, Interior; Fould, Finances; Itouher, Justice; Magne, Public Works; Lacrosse, Marine; Casablanca, Com merce ; Saint-Arnaud, War; Fortoul, Instruction ; Turgot, Foreign Affairs. The night passed without the least interruption of quiet. No account of disturbance has been received from the departments. The High Court of Justice attempted last night to meet, but being invited to dissolve, it obeyed the in junction of the Prefect of Police, acting in virtue of a decree of the President. No decision was taken; no deliberation even had taken place. M. 'Mot:: has addressed the following letter to the Journal des DAats: Paris, Dec. 2. Sir,—Permit me to beg you to insert this letter, which I send at the same time to the Monit,ur : —After having been this morning expelled from the house of M. Daru, vice president of the National Assembly, with all those of my colleagues who were assembled there to protebt against via knee and oppression, I endeavoured in vain to rejoin the members of the National Assembly, who were met at the mayory• of the 10th arrondissement. Numerous troops pre vented me, as well as several other representatives, from reaching the door of the mayory. I have recourse to your columns to declare that I give my full adhesion to the con duct and to the acts of my roll-agues met at the mayory of the 10th arrondissement, and taut if it had depended on me I would have shared their lot, Mote. M. Uon Faucher has addressed the fallowing letter to the President of the Republic : Paris, Dec. 3, 1851.1 M. le Pr64ident,—lt is with astonishment, mingled with pain, that Ise:: my name insertclumognst those of the mem bers of an Administrative Commission which you have just constituted. I did not think I had given you the right to do me .ucli au injury. The services which I have rendered to you, believing I rendered them to the country, authorise me, perhaps, to expect from you a different return; nay character in every instance merited more re spect. You know that in my career, already long, I have neither belied the principles of liberty nor my devotedness to order. I have never participated, directly or indirectly, in the violation of the laws, and on refining the ntis.ion you confer on rue I have only to remember that which I held from the people, and which I still hold. Please to accept M. le President, the expression of my respect. (Signed) Ltox FAUCHEIL. The only papers I have seen this morning are the _Vendome, Vntetilmtionmel, 11, , Litts, and ..lesentbMe in a half-sheet. Of the evening papers, the Patric, Moniteur rho Soir, and Gazette de France, alone sur vived the wreck of journalism. Notwithstanding the immense crowds that poured yesterday in every direction through the streets of Paris, and the visible excitement that reigned in the public countenance, although abroad during nearly the whole day I did not see a single disorder of any kind, nor have I heard of any. In the course of the day the Prefect of Police, accompanied by a chef de bataillon, passed along tho whole line of the Boulevards. The Maniteur announces that therresident desir ous, until the re-organisation of the legislative body and the Council of State, of surrounding himself with men, who justly enjoy the esteem and confi dence of the country, has formed a consultative commission. Eighty names follow, belonging mostly to members of the late Club of the hue des Pyra mides. The names of Montalembert, and of the Faucher-Barochc ministry appear in this list, which is a follows: Abbatucci (Loiret), D'Argout (Governor of tho Bank), Lo 0-floral Achard (Moselle), Le General de Bar (Seine), Le General Barastuay d'Hillien (Doubs), Barbaroux (lte union).Baroche(Charente-Inferiure), Berths (let President of the Coart of Accounts), Ferdinand Barret (Seine), Do Beaumont (Somme), Benoit Cliampy (Cote d'Or), Berard iLot-et-Garonne), Bineau (Maine et Loire), Boinvilliers Seine), Joseph Baulky (Meurthe), Cambacerie (Aisne), Casablanca (Corse), L'Amiral Create, Chadenet (Meuse), Cnassaigne (linen (Puy-de-Dome), Prosper de Chasseloup Laubat, Charlemagne (Endre), Cellos (Gironde), Doriste (liaises-Pyrenees), Denjoy (Gironde), Desjobert (Seine-inferieure), Drouya de Lhuya (Seine. et-Marne), Theodore Ducos (Seine), Dumas, Maurice Duval, Le marechal Examen', grand chancellor of the Legion-d'llonneur ; Le general d'Hautpoul (Aude), Leon Faucher, Le general de Flahault, Achille Fault', 11. Forkful, Fremy (Yonne), De Goslonde (Manche), Frederic de La Grange (Gen), Cranky (Vaucluse),: Angus:in Giraud (Anger.), Charles Gnaw!, member of the Instituteh Galena (Aisne), De Goulard (Ltautes-Pyrenees), De Heck , cren (Ilaut•Rhin), Lacaze (liautes-Pyrenees), Ladoucette (Moselle), Lacrosse (Finistere), Do La Riboiuiere (llle-et- Vilaine),Lebeuf(Seine-et-Marne),Lefebvre-Durufie (Mire) Lernarois (Manche),LeVerrier (Manche),Magne (Dordogne). Meynard, president of the chamber at the Court of Casio tion,De Merode (Nord), De Montalembert, De Moray (Puy de-Dome), De Mortemart (Seine-Inferieun), De Idoucky (Oise), De Mousticrs (Doubs), Lucien Murat (Lot), Le General d'Omano (Endre- et • Loire), Pepin -Lehalleur (Seine-et-Marne), Joseph Perier, regent of the Banque, Do Pcrsiguy (Nord), Le General Hendon, Rouher (Puy-de- Dome), General de Saint-Arnaud, begot d'Agueeeeau (Hautes-Pyrenees), Seydeux (Nerd), Suchet d'Albufera (Eure), De Turgot, De Thorigny, Troplong, first president of the Cour d'Appel, Vieillard (Manche), Vuillefroy, Do Wagram, de la Grange (Gironde). The following circular of the Minister of War has been sent to all the generals and chiefs of corps:— General, I transmit to you the proclamations of the Pre. sident of the Republic addressed to the French people and to the army. You will cause them to be immediately posted up in the barracks, and you will give orders to each commanding officer to have them read aloud at the head of each company. I likewise transmit to you the decree of this day, in virtue of which the army is called on to espress its will in 48 hours after the reception of the present manifestoes. You will consequently with out delay have registers prepared in the various corps according to the accompanying models, and you will invite the officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers to mark their votes down in them, or get marked down, with the least possible delay. As soon as the votes of the corps under your orders shall have been collected, you will forward them to me with statements connected with the same, certified by the different chiefs of corps or detach ments and by yourself, setting forth the whole number ef votes of acceptance or of rejection. The President reckons 1 on the support of the nation and of the army, and, in what regards the division which you command, on the energy of your demeanor and on the prompt and severe repression of the slightest attempt at disorder.—Accept, &c., DS Sr. ARNAUD, General of Division. Accompanying the above circular are the follow ing models of resegimee or rejection: AccerrAxest.--la vitae of the rider et the the officers, sea ammirimel eases, ash midism whist saunas see Mlles% lave ver imov elburdvely is the near ittaleasai t h e in the toms :—"Ths Frei alms te mistimes. the authority of Leek I:=Tau, and &apnea to him the powers si t constitution on the bases set forth in lb et the —." ox.—"ln virtue of the order;" &c. (the rest ili a ems min •ly the same as the preceding, with the single 4 of the word negatively substituted for afilr- The of the President of the Republic were =ycat by telegraph to all the prefects, i l ia to give Sem the greatest publicity. Last ovule flie wet retishebny Trills, had been re gard atin a Mae el them. The appeal made to 14=16 was everywhere re dyed with sympathy. wee timme any iodisation of a probability 4i dlonarbanos. The preemie from whom replies have been received are those of the following depart ments : Indre-et-Loire, Indre, Nidvre, Marne, Pas. de-Calais, Loiret, Cher, Seine-IntEneure Loir-et- Cher, Vienne, Maine-et-Loire, Nord, and Somme. Three successive despatches have been re ceived from the department of the Nord, and all three agree in stating that the news from Paris was received with joy. The prefects of the Nord and of the Pas-de-Calais made known that the sub-prefects had received orders, and that the mayors and the colonels of the national guards of theprin eipal towns had assured the authorities of their co operation. At four o'clock yesterday Lille enjoyed the ma perfect tranquillity. It was the same at Arms, and Se other towns platted on the telegraphic lines. Ream and its environs are tranquil. The news pub lished has been very favourably received. The oc arina Isnelved from the Cher are excellent. An dunk despatch from Poitiers, dated yesterday evening, half past eight, states that the town was very tranquil. At Chatellerault the workshops were Occupied as usual. Everything was calm. At a late