The Express. — London, England, 1851-12-10 00:00:00

— Vie evortlifs. TO CORRESPONDINTO. a tee." Ti . .Cll 4.11 e raprera. esate!-Int tat nine &embers baseete," e .b:.bed every Teenier Fagg eight. la Wee fee p yawl for " Tte Faireas,* Let lea Z. 11•1131 rare, A /,‘,. w. . Ace, 10, BouverWaset, The •Pc:eale ea lb, iley of pcY HMii WAT7II. AT LINDON BT.TIDOE Tw o r Pla, 13e. 14.X.ILLOW—Morclits. 3. 316 No& LONDON, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 10. The reformers who met in conference at Man cheeter have sorely disturbed the equanimity of our conservative brethren. The reset:items they adopted and published have raised a storm of remon strance and protest. Among the nmonetrants the Times Los particularly distinguished itself ; not so much, indeed,hv any superior force of argument. but by the pertinacity of its attacks, and their ludicrous incoeeistency one with another. The Timer has, in fact, in its eagerness to throw discredit on the textile en reformers, and cold water on the movement, pretty needy bowel the political compass. One day it has deprecated the extinction of the small constituencies; and the next, given them rap u. indefensible. It has stuck at nothing that pro mised to injure the cease of reform without compro mieinr, dtsclf. For the Tin, is a wary old swords man, and never aims a thrust or strikes a blow without cuiculating beforehand hex it may best re cover feed tl tee itself again on guy.. 1. It has alter nately endeavoured to node :mine the reform move ment amid profeeehnie of seal for improvement, and openly . cesailed the meet fundamental and generally reote.,•notel Fincipka of rebeen. lte first demonstration was a piece of special plead ing them tposal to ereupa eti tam number of the !UM!I len englis into electoral districts, as in Scot- Lend and Wake. It did not rest satisfied with as sailing the node is which it was proposed to get rid of these smelt and necessarily corrupt cuustituenciee ; it armed for the it perpetuation : and—of all rea sons to be adduced by a professing free-trade orean —for this purpose it deprecated their extinetiou on the gmued that this would weaken the landlord interest in parliament. The raw* applied for aid against the Manchester and ilea (ti ding reformers to the class interest which it has for a series of years alternately bullied turd bluebell at the very interest uhielk it has de- Kt fled as thet of "top-boots and buckskins." The reply to this anti-reform stemmed of the Times in 061444:., enough. ply the showing of that journal there are three cheeses of e custitteeneiee :—The large towns, generally in the interest of the mereantile and manufacturing community; the enmities as gene rally in the interest of thi, landlords; and the small boroughs nlso (and we invite the attention of re formers of the sthuol of Mr. Ettwann BAINES to' the ndmiesion), tar the most part in the interest of of the " ugriculturists " i.e., of the land lands. The attem of the northern reformers to get rid ibis class was readily de -31011111:til by the Times , _ in the first instance, us an attempt of the tooling community to poach on the preserve of the landlorele. Now, iu the flouee of Comments the temetry rept eentatives outnumber the represent:inset. of the her; towns, and by throwing the "agrieultend" boroughs into the ilescending scale, the hindlord influence is made paramount and irresistible. Tu retiree tree* their grasp the portiou of the House of Commons relented by the small ' roughs is not to destroy the balance between the agricultural and commercial interests, but to establish a fair balance. In thin first assault the Times profensel great repute for the refonners marembled at Manchester and ettafidenee in their moderation. Its second on slaught was is a very diffieent tone. By that time the recent military revolution in France was assumed to have Lad an effect in terrifyiug timid po hticiens. 'the Thms therefere ventured to discredit reform in general. The Manchester Conference was acconlingiy represented as holding extreme and re volieionery etrines. See, screamed the Tim.. a, what universal suffrage lees done fur France. And then it went on to denounce the rate-paying quakily cation of the Nlancleester Conference a: um better than universal suffruge iu disguise. This certainly was going to work very confidently in the belief flint a panic awakened by the peceidsntial coy .reet in Pares had bewildered the wits of its readers. ' I Fur. to sly that a rate-paying qualification I. tantanmeat to unieened sutfmee, is eei thee more nor less than to deny the exietenee of a proletariat class in this country. It is needleet. to argue against so preposterous an msump tiou : the has thaw it to our lintel. The great argument of the Tins, ag-iiiist entrusting the water supply of London, and ether measures of sanitary poitic, to municipal management, was, that such an arrangement would place the great mass of the por. r inlmbitants at tle , mere' of the rate-paying classes. The Tiwe deals with facts with the most consummate coolness exactly as suits its purpose for the nuenent. If parliamentary reform is to be made a bugbear, is rate-paying qualification is declared to be universal suffrage; lithe establishment of an bre spaisible governmeut hood to dole out to the Lon doners their daily supply of water is to be advocated, a rate-paying qualiticatien is declared to be an un duly limited set Itrage. 'lle Time a next, for some inscrutable purpose, saw lit, as Lord CANTLERFAGII would have said. to turn " its tack upon itself.' (Inc line morning it testori-h el its gobinamela readers,—whom it had per suaded that the small boroughs were the Palladium of the landlord interest and the British constitution, —by gravely assuring them that all these small con stituciwie s were so hopelessly and incurably con opt, that, with a view to our pelitical safety, and indeed out of reglad to COMIWIt decency, they must be abolished. But in the latitudes of the 1701 es a re form breeze is no steady , trade wind. The very next day the psiwr was back to its old habit of abusing and depreciating parliamentary reformers in general, and those lately assembled at Manchester in par ticular. The wind had changed during the night, and the weathercock with it. Amid all this veering and shifting,—this tergiver sat ion andrelf-cont mdiction,—one steady, unchanging, intlexible purpose is, however, apparent. The Times may shift its place and tlertn.„.e its demeanour as often as a cat watching a mouse ; but, like Gill- NALKIN. when so employed, it never for moment le-ea sight of its intended prey. Coax ing the men of Manchester or bullying them; denying specific measures of reform or Lelaring their necessity; the Timis has ever one and the same, object in view,—and that is the obstruction of pmts.- nientary reform. And tnis very inveteracy of purpose ought,—et en were other arguments wanting,—to con vince parliamentary reformers of the importance of their object, and the eon-tiousnets of their adversa ries that they have power enough to attabi it if they will only exert themselves. Nerrittve. is more noticeable than the universal interest eseitedby the ANNUAL FAT STOCK Snow of the fimirityliati Cum. Gentle and simple, from the peer to thi: workman, Hock eagerly around the really magnificent specimens of agricultural skill now exhi biting in Baker-street Bazaar; there to discuss re spective merits with every degree of knowledge or want of knowledge to be expected from an assemblage comprising all classes,—tram the breeder or grazier, critical on the points and curious as to the ^ handling" of each animal, to the genuine Lon doner LI gartling it as so much beef, mutton, or pork. And it cannot be doubted that to this fondness for live stock,—which seems to be inherent in an English man,—very much of the perfection to which our do medic animals have attained is due. The visitor in going round the show-yard will not fail to remark that nearly every agricultural district of Eng land contributes more or less to the exhibition; ' and that them is a considerable approach to' uniformity amongst the animals shown. Though of course the exhibitors are fur the most part farmers, and agricultural landed proprietors, there arc many others who may be strictly termed amateur graziers. As for instanw, a tine Pembrokeshire ox, the winner . iof a pri z e in Class &t, s exhibited by an eminent soli citor of Lincoln's-inn. Again, Prince ALBERT shows many beasts, and has taken three or four prizes ; while all the noblemen, whose names are familiar to the frequenters of the Smithfield Club Show sustain their reputation by the animals they have this year produced. The ccouomical valao of such au cxhibitios is very THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1851. REVOLUTION IN FRANCE. considerable,—as any one who may have watched year by year the progress of the Smithfield Show will attest. The contrast between the well-shaped animals of all breeds and sorts now exhibited to those shown fifteen or twenty years ago is most striking. Years ago mere accumulations of fat, without reference to breeding or symmetry, seemed to be the only object of the exhibitors; now no animal has the slightest chance of a prize unless it be so well fashioned as to be, apart from mere fatness, of the best form and quality. It is possible that the meat of the prize beasts may be somewhat too fat for ordinary consumption : and it is certain that none will re pay the cost of bringing them to such a condition of over ripeness; but it is no less certain that by thus developing to the utmost the aptitude of our best stock to fatten, it is that our breeders and graziers have attained their admitted pre-cerinenee. The problem for the practical agriculturist of this country at this moment to resolve is,—how to pro duce meat at the cheapest rate ; for, if the fanner can so manage his live stock as to make it profitable. if he can produce fat bullocks. sheep, and swine, with a profit upon feeding them. he has in his own hands Ole means of increasing his grain crops almost indefi nitely. Now, the efforts of the various exhibitors of th Srnithf cid Club open to his inspection a page from whilr he may—and must—derive ample instruc tion. lie there sees that the animal to be sel,eted must be well bred, shapely, and of kindly disposition; and that if it is to be made to attain that India ' pcnsAb:e condition to profitable feeding—early ma turity—it must bo well kept from the time of its birth. This, in our view, renders the 3rd class, consisting of "oxen or steers of any breed above i wo and not exceeding three years old, of the Smithfield Club prize list, by far the most interesting cud important. It is comparatively easy to produce a good ox in either of the two former classes, namely, between four and five, and three and four years old, but the triumph of rural skill in this department of bus handry is to bring out the steers hit for the butcher when two years old. This can only ho done by means of good breeding and good keeping. In the third class of the present year the majority of ani mals shown are, ns usual, of the short-horn breed, and it is fir this quality of early maturity that the short-horns are so distinguished ; and this which ren ders+ them so peculiarly worthy of the attention of our agriculturists. The lkvons, and more especially the lierefiads, approach them in this particular, and some few individuals of those breeds are made as ripe between two and three years old as the short horns ;—but such early maturity is not their charac teristic. STATE OF PARIS. PARTS, Tersnav Moaxneo. After the ballot of the 20th, if the result. as is ife nor ally expected, should be favourable to Louis Na poleon, a decree will appear promulgating the consti tution, of which the outlines were given in the ap peal to the people on the 2nd December. The Senate and the Council of State will be constituted; and a proximate period will be fixed for the elections of ' the legislative body, the number of membets in which will be fixed by the organic decree of the constitu tion. I hear from a private source that M. do envy, editor of the Courtier tic la Girmul., a paper that stmnuously advocated the candidature of General Clumgarmer, made, just before the dissoludou of the Assembly, a journey to Claremont. It was amanged that immediately MM. Thiers and Changarnier had made their cotta, the Orleanist princes should appear in France. M. de Crugy is said to have held on his return front England a con ference with the former prefect of police. Whether through this or some other channel the scheme leaked and got to the cars of government, certain it is that the revolution of December 2 m as the contre coup of an Orleanist plot. 'the Mona"ecar of this day contains ti, most de cided symptom which I have yet seen of an inten tion on the part of the governmcrt to dis pense with all law. Upon the pier that no penal statute of sufficient severity exists, to enable the government to deal with sedi tious offences, a decree is promulgated which em powers the executive to transport, for ten years, any obnoxious person. I give the substance of the de cree in these general terms, as nothing would be leasier than to bring within the category of delin quents specified any person whom the government found an obstacle to as designs. This is the first formal usurpation of the legislative power which I have yet seen, the other decrees being more or less the necesiary consequences or aceompaniaments of the coup debit. But the decree in question is the proatulgatiou of an arbitrary penal statute, which henceforth forms, on long as the present power en dures, an integral portion of the penal code. Usually, when an extraordinary piece of legislation is re quired during the suspension or recess of the legis !Mire power, in constitutional countries, a reserve is made in the last article in fa your of parliamentary rights, raid the necessity i of legislative sanction rs implicitly recognised by an engagement to submit a bill for this object to the leguilature when it shall meet. The present decree makes no such reserve whatever. Nor is thero at present any guarantee whatever that the whole body of French law may not bo entirely vitiated and per verted by a series of arbitrary decrees of the same nature. The following is the decree: The President of the Republic, on the porosities of the Minister of the Interior, Considering that France has need of order, work ' rind security ; that during ten many years past society has been deeply agitated and troubled by the machinations of anarchy, as well us by the insurrectional attempts of those who are : affiliated to secret societies, anal ex-vaivicts, always ready to become instruments of disorder; Consid , .ring that by Cie it cons:nut habits of revolt against all laws this e'ass of men not only compromises tranquillity, worke and public order, but also authorises unjust attacks and deplorable calumnies against the sound working popu lation of Paris and Lyons ; Considering that the actual legislation is insufficient, and that it is to cessary to modify the same, while reconciling the duties of humanity with the interests of the general ( security, decrees: 1. Every individual placed under the mrveillanee of the high pole e, who shall be found guilty of the wane° of rup ture of Lan, may be transported, as a meneure of general security, to a perdtcntiary colony in Cayenne or Algeria. Thu term of transportation shall be at the least five years, anal at the longest ten. 2. The same measure shall be applicable to individuals found guilty of having belonged to a secret society. 3. The effect of re-subjection to the surveillaute of the high police shall be for the ;liter: to g's' e the government the right of determining the place in which the condemned person is to reside after having undergone his punishment. 4. All individuals placed under the surveillance of the high yoliec arc forbidden to reside at nada or in the 6. The persons de-ignated by the preceding article shall be obliged to quit Voris and the Gatilitair within the delay of ten days from the promuluation of the pr sent decree, %teams tiny have obtained a permit of retedence from the administration. To such as apply there will be delivered a passport and ticket of nid, wined will lay down their itine rary as tier as their native place or to the place which they designate. O. in case of contravention of articles 4 and 5 of tho pre- ' sent decree, the peneaus contravening may be transported, as a measure of general security, to a penitentiary colony in Cayenne or Algeria. 7. The individuals transported by virtue of the present decree shall be subjected to work on the penitentiary estn blishmeut. They shall le• deprived of their civil and poli tical rights. They shall be subject to military jurisdiction ; the military laws shall be applicable to them. In case of escape from the establishment the transported shall be con demned to as imprisonment, the term of which shall not exceed the remaining period for which they have to undergo transportation. They shall be subjected to military disci- CITT SEWEIt.4 CoNlMlSSlON.—Yeaterday a court plinkand subordination towards their chiefs and civil or was held, when Mr. Barber, the oninator of: •the sche me military superintendents during the period of the imprison for the opening of the western area of St. l'aul's-church- meet. yard. desired that the clerk (Mr. law) should be requested 8. Regulation' of the executive power shall determine to write to the Dean and Chapter, for the purpose of ewer- the organisation of these penitentiary colonies,. Mining on what day it would be convenient fur them (the ti. The Ministers of the Interior and of War are charged, authorities) to receive a deputation from that court, lie each in what concerns him, with the execution of the 'inc hed omit ratood that the members for the Ci,y of London sent decree. would attend the deputation if they were invited to do so, Done at Paris, at the Elpie-National, the council of Mi ss well as several influential parties.—Decided that the nisters having been heard,lke. 8,1w51.. application be• arm eat to.—Mr. S. Blake, jun., having been LOUD) NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. chosen assistant clerk in the room of Mr. Ticlumr, resigned, Countersigned by the Minister of the Interior, Dr al ona. v. Mr. Simon prewnted his third annual report upon the The prefect of the Seine has issued a decree, order health of the City of London. ing the sth Legion of the national guards to deposit, Wootwleu, O.—The Pioneer and Intrepid within 48 hours, at the mayory of the sth arroudisse anew steam-yees:le.fonnerly emploted in the Arctic expecli- merit, the arms and uniforms confided to them by the eke, undort:apt. 11. T.Austin,U.D., have been taken into . the inner basin alongside. the factory here, to have their engines city of Paris . .After the above-mentioned term all examined and any defects found in tliem anode good, prepa• who detain their equipments will be prosecuted ac examined to tl.e vessels being again made mid; in the spneg cording to the law. a 14,2. far a further search for Sir dohn Franklin and Jerome Bonaparte, on the night of the 4th of his long absent companions. December, addressed the following letter to the Pre- Finn AND Loss or LIFE AT FIA•ZEETON. sident of the Republic: Newark, Tuesday.—The terrible calamity brietiy described My dear Nephew,—French blood is flowing; stop it by in yesterday's EsPress, as having swum(' at Fill"?' serious appeal to the people. Your sentiments are badiy un ion, a small village on the left bank of the Trent, Sir derstood. The second proclamation, in which you tall: of miles from this town, anal fourteen from Nottingham, has plebiscit.', is badly received by the people, who do not eon proved more disastrous than was anticipated, five indivi- Sider it there-establishment of the right of suffrage. Liberty duals instead of four, as was at first supposed, having lost is without guarantee if an Assembly does not suit tho con their lives. The mill destroyed stood on a small river 'Caution of the republic. The army has tho upper hand. known as the Urcet, within a few yards of its junction with the Treat. It was five stories high, and was It is the moment to complete the material victory by a worked partly by water power, anal partly by steam. moral victory ; and what the government cannot do when As was sutra yesierelay, the only mans ot Recounting . for it is beaten it ought frequently to do when it Is victorious. the accident is by supposing that a long strap which revoked After having beaten the ancient parties, restore the people ; proclaim that univereal suffrage, sincere, unshackled, acting uon a number of wooden cogs chafed a;taenitt some portion oh' the woodwerk, owing to the machinery getting slightly in accordance with the greatest liberty, will nomieate the out of &ear and the woodwork being almost entirely of President and Constituent Assembly, to save and restore the republic. light dry deal, ignition rapidly enacted, the name' quickly It is in the name of the memory of my brother, and par sprealing over the entire building. The e n SParty in taking his horror of civil war, that I write to you. Believe charge of the premises at the time was Charles Ward, one in my old experience ; think that France, Europe, and of the millers, and he made great exertions to extinguish posterity will well judge you. the fire, but without saeecas. While labourers were en- Your affectionate uncle, gaged in removing the wheat and flour in the building the JEROME BONAPARTE. roof fell in, and directly afterwards every floor together to the basement, without the slightest warning, and before The Pattie states that at Cabestang, in the Hi:- the fire had reached the basement story, or grinding rault, the socialists entered the houses of some of the door. At the time this catastrophe occurred, John most respectable legitimists and me-asinated them. Bailey. a miller's apprentice, was coming out at the door, At Boxier& several of the principal inhabitants have and was arisen forward by the rush of wind occasioned by the dropping of so great a weight of roofing, flooring been murdered. Sour. meal, ice.. within. llenry Britton, a labourer, w b; Riots broke out on the 4th at Poligtiy, near Lens- WAS in the doorway, just behind Bailey, with a sack of flour le-Saulnier, in the Jura. The insurgents gained pos. on his back, was knocked down, and partly buried in the sion of the town and exercised several atrocities, but ruins, but being dragged out, it SPAS found that he was were at length expelled. not mortally injured, though his nose and left shoulder M. ArthurMarcy-Monge, cousin of the general were seriously bruised. A man named Reynolds, and ;Of that name fu n„„,„,„ , , has been assassinated at Suits Ciao another named Britton. directly behind him, Trim to the door, each with a rack of dour or grain on his d'Or). back, were knocked down and smothered, as also were two I The mayors of Paris and of the cantons of the others, named Llurl and Robinson, who were at a greater homiletic met yesterday at the Hotel de Ville, under distance from the door. Mayfield, the bead miller, who ft ,a,„ esiden ,,,. of t h e 4 tof the E • is supposed WAS loaliug the others each in turn, was •••••• pre ce found standing up with his face to the wall, at measures for drawing up the electoral lists, and the western end of the building. Ile was the making all the necessary preparations for the ballot only one who was burnt, his head being tho- 'of the 20th. roughly roasted. A man named Sleight and his son, a The Sia'cl, re-appears this morning. young man about 22 years old, were also buried in the ruins, but ttu L n a ately they happened to be near a window I Strasbourg . is placed in a state of siege. at the time, which they smed ash, and let themselves out at l. edieu is a - ppointed director of the Monte de the northern side of the building. The greatest po , sible Pieta': of Paris, in the place of M. Dolmas. exerti.ats were made, outlast great danger, to rescue the , PARIS, TUESDAY EYLNING. holies, but it was LAW before the whole of them were I The fifty-one representatives confined in Mont obtained, anal during the search other lives were threatened Volerien have been all liberated, excepting Generals by the fa" of tit soutiwr° aids of the building. rpon 0 et tand Lahtit nand twelve members of the being found, each in tura was carried to an adjoining u ino stable, and laid upon straw, where they were viewed in the Mountain. I met to-day at the side-door of the evening of the Same day by Mr. Falkner and a coroner's ministry of finance Nl.Dupin talking with smothered lary. They were found to be—William Stinson, aged 30, I earnestness t o t wo representatives, who had probably bourer, of Rolkstont ; John Reynolds, 21, labourer, em- 'net touched their salary up to the Ist of December. 1 ployed in the mill; F. Lloyd, 22, butcher, of Rollestone ; Nlayfield, aged 28, wacgoner, employed at the - ever did I see men who had just fingered their pay mill; and James Robinson, aged 3'), foreman and engineer look so completely dejected. The ex-President of at the mill. Robinson was the only one who was married, the Assembly, standing with his umbrella under his !arm in the well-known thick-soled shoes upon the and he, unfortunately, has left a wife and five small chil dren entirely dependent . ..upon his labour for their sub- muddy pavement , , sistenee. Atter inspecting the bodies, the j was gesticulating with a su p- ury adjourned.while he poured into despond en t cars to the Waggon and Bones public-house, mthe village. I pressed energy, where, after a full inquiry had been instituted, a verdict of iwords which made his hearers look still graver, and " Accidentally killed' was returned. seemed destitute of a single spa r k o f those facetious So with sheep. Amongst the long-woolled slum, —which con-titutc the prevailing stork in all our more fertile districts, —scarcely anuninialexldbite•d is more than twenty months old, and the best Soath down breeders Produce their fat wethers at an equally early age,—though there is still a class for short-woolkd sheep of two years old, for the South downs have not, and probably never will, attain such early maturity as the Cotswolds and the Leicesters. Formerly, four and live-year-old wether mutton formed a regular article in the• market ; now, such thing is unheard of,—exeept in the park of some epi- COMM landowner, who keeps his mutton, as he dues his venison. for its Caviar, and not with a view to any profitable use of his land. To the great mass of eon-um:es. our modern improvements in live stock attend a must important advantage. It is this—that the same. laud w hich formerly furnished theta with mutton once in four, and beef once in MIX, seven, or eight years, will no•v produce a larger weight of mutton and beef—better in quality and nutritious power, though crh•tps less " gamey" in flavour—in twenty months and three years respectively! And this increased pro duce of meat, kt it be remembered, is not at the expense of a diminished produce of grain, though large quantities of grain arc applied to fad ing the improved stock. On the cantncry, the high feeding of sheep and bullocks incident to the modern system is one of the chief causes of the greatly in ere.e•;d quantities of corn our soil has of late yt. trs reduced. Thus the improvement of stock, to which the Smithfield Club has must essentially contributA, nut only directly serves to increase our supplies of animal food, but tends, scarcely indirectly, to augment our home growth of grain as well. If the reader wishes to see what modern care and skid applied to the breeding of sheep has accomplished, let him look at any of the ripe specimens of twenty months old Leicester or SJuth don it wethers iu Baker-street; and then let him rate amongst the cater stock of short-woolled eheep "a 48 months old horn or Dorset ewe" front Somerset shire ; aud,—recollecting that all those districts of the west of England which are occupied by Southdown sheep were, within the memory of men now living, entirely filled with the old \Viltshire horn chop,—he will appreciate the merits of the indefatigable and spirited breeders who have sattributesl to render the Smithfield Club Fat Stock Show what it has become, —a fair :•peeitnen, and no more tl.an a fair specimen of the improved stock of England. sallies that were wont to set the Assembly on a roar. And if my information be correct, the representatives I may well look grave, for I hear that it has been in timated to them from the Ministry of War that if they meet anywhere to deliberate, they will be seized and tried forthwith by court-martial. It is said that many of them believe that General St. Ar naud would have very little compunction in order jog them to be shot if they were found guilty of contravening the orders of the state of siege. Without partaking of these extreme fears we may I be sure that the government would have very little ! hesitation in transporting such offenders to Cayenne or Algeria. It is already affirmed that this doom is suspended over the heads of the prisoners still remain- d ing in the Castle of Mare and the fort of Mont Vas j lerien. In fact the decree in the ifoniteur is espe cially levied at these prisoners, who arc thereby, if they break their ban, subject to transportation. Any attempt to escape would therefore subject Generals Changarnier, Cavaignac, Lanioriciere, Oudiuot, or Lauriston, or the Iklontagnard reprezentatives in con finement, to be tried instantly by . court-martial and shipped off to the pestiferous tropical penal colony of ' Cayenne. With that singular cynicism which has marked several of the acts of tho government since the 2nd of December, the instrument which is forged for decline this outrageous blow is headed by the much maltreated trinal device of the revolution of Fe'irliasy—" Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity." I understand from a private source, which may be relied on, that Louis Napoleon has sent invitations to all the liberated representatives to attend the sit tings of tic consultative commission. In no single instance have these invitations, so fur as I can learn, been accepted. Last night there was a grand reception at the Eiysee. Although there had appeared no announce ment of this in any journal, it being the usual official night of receptiens, those who were eager to carry their devoti ai to the rising power poured to the pa lace in such crowds that it is stated that three thousand persons at least were present; and the dancing rooms of last winter had to he thrown open, for the circulation of the crowd. Much surprise has been evinced in various quarters at the preseuce of Lord Normanby among the other members of the diplomatic corps, as this im plicit recognition of an illegal and usurped power before the ruti!ication of the acts of December 2 by the vote of the French nation was deemed prema ture and impolitic. Of course the English ambas sador would not present himself upon such an occa si n without positsve instructions from his govern meat, which he has now the po , ver of consulting momently by the sabnurrine telegraph. The eager ness of die other members of the diplomatic corps to pay their court to the new dictator seems scarcely more prudent, for the revival of the imperial regime may bring about, among other contingencies, the absorption of the provinces of tho Rhine, and other schemes of aggrandisement which in variably float before the heated fancy of Frenchmen at every new revolution. If a military despotism arise in France, it is fine to hope for the preservation of the small constitutional king doms of Belgium and I'iedmont on its frontier. It would, therefore, have bean more politic in the re presentations of foreign towers to have waited for the result of the ballot of the 20th of December. For the rest, the reception was chiefly of a military cast. More than 100 generals were present, with Marshal Exeelmnns at their head. All tie: Minis ters were there. Lord and Lady Douglas were present. The correspondent of the Chruaielr is permitted to remain, and is released from all further molestations on the part of the police. The :11eniteor of to-marrow or the next day is ex pected to contain a fresh batch of members of the consultative commission. _ Tho folloning circular relative to the ensuing elec tion has been scut by the Minister of Justice to all the juges de puix. PRris, Dee. G, 1851. which the men who had posseesed themselves of the public authority caused to he stuck up. It was an appeal to arms, and was signed H. Herniae, provisional sub-prefect; J. B. Lamy, provisional mayor ; and Dorrival, provisional commander of the republican guard. The mail from Paris had to go across the plain to reach the town, but the letter-bags were seized by the insurgents. By order of the provisional sub-pretest, two young men went to the houses of different persons, and took away their arms. The Hotel do Ville and the sub-pre fecture were occupied by the insurgents. As time wore on, however, then_ men began to feel afraid as to the consequences of their acts ma when in the evening they learned that some bands which they had sent against Loossle-Saulnier had been dispersed—aloe, that strong bodies of troops were marching against them, end that Arbois, Salim , and the greater parent' the drpakinent rc inained tranquil—they lost all courage. They accordingly released all the pris,:tom, removed the. barricades relieved the streets, and too:: to flight. Shorty after tho Woos, headed by the pref.et, arrived by forced marches in the town, where some arrests were effected. Tho prefect after wards visited Arbois au.l Saline, and returned to Lont-le- Saulnier. Subsequent accounts state that new and more ecrimis disturbances hid brole,n oat at Poligny. At Nervy, near Nevers, soma disturbanc-s broke not, but they were promptly repressed. Three rioters who had I been taken with arms in trair hands had been shot. DIJON accounts state that the °assassin of H. Maroc- Mongc is known, but he has taken to flight. Ile is one of the leaders of the demagogical party, and another of the chiefs, who has been arrested, is accused of being an accom plice with him. At Cntustoarr-FEnaann, on the sth, a crowd, to the number of from 150 to 200, many of them strangers to tho place, ass. tabled opposite the Post-tiller, awaitiug the mail from Pari,s. Ou its arrival the crowd attempted to take possession of the letter-bags, but were prevented by the soldiers stationed to preserve order. In a short time after the town was perfectly tranquil. On the 51:i the workmen at the tannery of La Saxe. near Lo Mans, to the number of from 300 to 340, invaded the mairic of the commune, where they took possession of the arms, and a fterwards preceeded to the gendarmery barracks, where they took five of the gendarm:, prisouctsi. Out hearing of this the socialists of Le Mans prepared to unite with them. Considerable agita• lion prevailed. and it was said that an attult was to bo made on the Hotel do Vide. The me our. adopted by the civil and military authorities were however 50 prompt that no attempt was made, and the croieds whit !I had Lissom:ilea dispersed on the appearance of the patrols, which were or dered to clear the streets. An armed force bad beta sent to La Sure, where: the insurgents 113.1 erected barricades, but little doubt existed that they would soon be dimersixl. Tho latest news from Strasbourg report the agita tioa to be over. The cavalry made two charges in the I'lace d'Austerlit::, and two barristers, MM. Bever and Catoire, were arrested. After this all was quiet. Nineteen persons have been arrested iu the Jura, including M. Borbier, the editor of the Tranfne de (Rot, which journal has been suspended. In the Ain, near Villars, a conflict has taken place between a squadron of Genera! Castellaue's dragoons and a large body of insurgents, in which the lath/ were routed and 4 prironers taken. In a similar affair at llaye-lc-Chatel, 5 prisoners were made. The refugees in Switzerland have not succeeded in crossing the frontier into France. From the South the latest news is more serious. Monster Ic Jam: do Pais,—By a circular of the 2nd of this month, your attention wits called to the duties imposed upon you by the decree of the same date, relative to the mode of voting in the " plebiscite " submitted to the nation by the Pnsident of the Itopeblic. In order to dispel all doubt as to the free and independent expression of the popular will, a new decree of the 4th ol this month re-established secret voting. Notwithstanding Ithis clianve in the mode of voting toe duties imposed upon you by the decree of Ike. 2 remain intact. Thus yen will visit every commune in your canto', to watch over and, ensurer the preparation or completion of the electoral lists. In ease of refusal, abstention or absence on tic part of the mayors, you will delegate the duty of receiving the votes either to a member of the municipal council, or to ono of the notables of your district. And in case of any objection on the part of citizens, you take every care that th:: formalities establi-lo il by Arts. 7,8, 9, and 10 of the law of Much 15, 1819, are fulfilled with all despatch, and 'so far as possible before the vote. The Mini ter of the Interior will teen smit direct, both to you and to the mayors, the new instructions rendered ni :emery by the change in the mode of voting. I request you to contOrm exactly to tisuse instructions so far as you are concerned, and I have to re peat my recommendation that you should personally fulfil the important mission coniided to you, unless you be abso lutely prevented from doing so. foe will be good enough to acknowledge the receipt of this circular to the procureur-general. The is of the Beals, Minister of Justice, E. Reim Ea. M. Thiers was so ill while in prison that the go vernment were only too glad to set him free, lest they might be suspected of foul play. should ho have died. General Cavaignae is not yet mended; he is only allowed to correspond with his bride elect through the prefect of police. Every post from the Nievre, the Jura, 'lC:lnuit, and other departments where disturbances have broken out, and the red republicans have got the upper hand, brings the most horrible accounts of ra pine, murder, and violence exercised on women and children. Several priests have been murdered. The Patric soya: - - Commercial letters received yesterday and to-day all agree in stating that tranquillity generally prevails in the departments. fha agitation which had been Nhible in some manufacturing towns, under the influence of well known agitators, is completely calmed. The manufacturers and dealers loudly applaud the measure. which Juice been just adopted by the President, and regard them a, the in fallible signal fur a resumption of business. The government continues to publish good ac counts from the great majority of the departments. The (Wise/tot/mid, however. gives the following further particulars from the disturbed districts : At Bezier, a large armed band surrounded the mayoralty. A volley wa3 fired at them, which :silted 8 and wounded several. They then fled, but shortly afterwards returned with reinforcements and fell upon two gentlemen, M. Bernard and Wernher, whorl they killed, and mutilated with hatchets. They were afterwards driven out of the town by the troops. At Cuspestang scenes nearly similar are said to have occurred. _ . . At Mayannes, Castelsirrasia, and Maissae. there har born risings, but, so tar as is yet known, a ithout resulting in bloodshed. .1 large number of prisoners have ken made, who are forthwith to be tried a Toulouse. At Montpelier, General &tatolan has taken 174 prisoners. Telegraphic despatches state that there have been disturbances at Bayonne, Mulhouse, and in the Tarn-et-Garonne, Nit that the authorities are every where victorious. _ _ The Prefect of the Haute Marne has ordered that any officer or soldier of the national gutrd who may put on his uniform without having been legally con voked, shall be arrested. The C'onstitutim:»el says:—" The Custom-house was yesterday filled with packages for exportation, and there was great activity in the commercial quar ters. Diving the day . a considerable number of foreigners arrived in Paris." The banquet and ball, which was to have been given to-morrow (the 10th of December), at the Hotel do Vile, is not to take place. Yesterday the mayors of Paris and the baulieue met at the 116te1 dC Ville, to adopt the necessary measures for the preparation of the lists for the elec tion on the 20th and 21st itzt. Immediately after the nomination of the new pre fect of the Gironde, M. Ilaussmann, nearly all the public functionaries of Bordeaux waited ou him, and gave their adhesion to the government of Louis Na poleon. The following is the latter in which M. de Goulard notified to the President his refusal to become a member of the " consultative commission.' Paris, Dec. 4. Monsieur le President —At the same instant that I left the prison of Maras, 1 learned that my name figures upon the list called by you to form a consultative commission. I have the honour to inform you that I positively refuse the mission you would con fi de to me. Honour and my (*a m:kJ:co forbid me to accept it. Agrees, Mona. le President Dt Goer-tan. In the night of the sth a band of several hundred irsur gents, armed with muskets, scythes, and clubs, penetrated into the town or Clamecy ; the national guard were taken by surprise, but nevertheless assembled, and, united to the gendarmery, opposed a vigorous resistance. Their effints were vain, as they were numeric.illy too weak to drive back the insurgents, who became complete masters of tt,e town, and barricaded every str,et, so that no oac could either enter or leave it. Some of thorn sounded the tocsin in order to raise the country, while others went to the sub-preheture, which was pillaged and devastated. All the houses in the town were sacked, women were as saulted, and a number of the inhabitants assassinated. On receiving intelligence of these events, the prefect of the department and General l'ellion proceeded to the spot; they had with them a sufficient force to keep the insurgents in awe, but unfortunately not enough to make an immedi ate attack on the town. They were compelled to send for reinforcements to the neighbouring garri-ens. The authori ties and the troops took a position on the heights which command the town, where they , waited until they wer e pre pared to make an assault on it. ' A telegraphic account, since received by the government, gives the following par ticulars : " The pracureur of the republic, the commissary of police, and the agent for the trade in woods, concealed themselves under the roof of a high house covered over with blankets. They remained there more than treaty four hours, when a little bread was brought to them by some friends. The insurgents several times visited the house in search of them, but without success. Tho red flag was hoisted, and cries of ' Five llarbes ! A la guillotine les aristos ! dm., were uttered. One of the first acts of the insurgents had been to set at liberty all the criminals con fined in the prison. During the tidy, the insurgents shin- I (toned the devastated town, and took to flight. All the ' authorities have returned and presented themselves to the prefect, with the exception of the mayor, w ho has fled with the insurgents." WAt POLIGNT, department of the Jura, on receipt of the news from Paris the chiefs of the secret societies agembled in committee on the 4th, and resolved to make an appeal to their adherents in the neighbourhood. Accordingly in the evening, groups collected in the streets, and indulged in violent language. The sub-prefect, not having an armed force capable of resistance at his orders, convoked some friends to defend his authority. At midnight the socialist contingents of the neighbouring villages arrived in arms, end at a given signal all the bells sounded the tocsin. An I armed band invaded the sub-prefecture, and having seized M. Chevasseu (formerly a representative) sub prefect, M. Gamer, receiver of taxes, and his son, 31. Osgnin, lieutenant in an infantry regiment, on ! leave of absence, lodged them in the gaol. M. Ou- Wier, who exercises the functions of mayor, at tempted to oppose these arrest*, but his authority was dis regarded, and he was also placed in prison. During the whole of the night the tocsin was sounded at intervals, and drums beat the rappel : barricades also were thrown up. Iu all the neighbouring villages, too, the tocsin was I rung. The next morning was rather mom quiet ; but groups assembled in the streets to read the proclamation FRENCH PUBLIC OPINION. We have been favoured with the following letter, addressed to his London correspondents, by a mem ber of the old Chamber of Deputies, known for the moderation of his political opinions, who is still the head of a great mercantile establishment in an im portant centre of French commerce. It was received unsigned, and de tribes the general feelings of French society on recent events : PARIS, S Vrt7110.14. The su=pension of the greatest part of the remelt news papers ; the state of restraint in which those are whose puhlication is allowed, under the watch of an agent of without whose permission no article can appear, can not allow you to learn the truth as to events here. I think, tlicrefore, that you will receive with some interest internia tMn both sincere and drawn from the best sources. On the day of the decree dissolving the National Amore bly, the population appeared indiderent ; all that was at fir.t seen was the restoration of universal suffrage, which had been taken away contrary to the spirit of the constitu tion. For some time the legislature had been con sidered to be in the wrong ; and, without going so far as to approve its expulsion, people at least were resigned to it. Paris was therefore perfectly tranquil at first; but the next day, when it was known that snore than 200 representatives, that many distinguished generals, had been arbitrarily arrested, that several of the last had been the objects of personal brutality, public feeling, so calm the day before, changed in a moment completely ; and strong indignation broke out against those violent measures. Public feeling, alienated from the Assembly, returned to it when its persecution was known ; an agitation extended on all sides through all ranks of sock ty, among rich and poor; all flocked to the Boulevards, and from the Bastille to the Madeleine the troops, as they paraded, were received with cries of " Vice la Il.publiitte • Vire la Constitution; 1 ice to (Ai; a bas k dicealear." I traversed all the di-dance named on foot ; I mixed with all the groups; and I pledge my honour to you that I did not hear a single voice in favour of Bonaparte. It was easy to sec that things would not stop where they and that idler - ' were, r such gette would soon tollow. Accordingly, barricades arose in all points of the capital, and everywhere a combat began. It was, however, evident that no serious struggle was possible ; for the President had got together 100,00.) men at Paris, carefully selecting the regiments most devoted to him ; but the object of the oppo nents was to gain time, to weary the soldiers by continual marches and alarms, and to ascertain the feeling of the corps at a distance from the capital. This plan was con ' tinued even yesterday (Friday), and whatever the govern ment may say as to the complete repression of the insurrec tion, it is certain that fighting continued in the more distant , faubourgs. I do not believe that these tactics can succeed ; but it seems to me probable, that without shedding uselessly blood, it will be suffteient to oppose a moral resistance, a force of inertia that will prevent the new order of things from establishing itself. The President is only surrounded by mediocre men, by people sunk in debt and debauchery; everybody of any value has abandoned him with contempt. How can he torm a respectable government with such elements ? Besides, one step taken in the way of illegality and violence, one is inevitably led each day to go farther, and, for self support, to resort to means so disgraceful that no nation can long support their ignominy. On the first day inviting citizens to remain peaceful was enough ; next day, groups and cries were forbidden ; the third day the right to fire on crowds without previous sum mons, and even to shoot on the spot any person found work ing at a barricade, or with a gun in his hand in the street, was assumed and practised ; to-day, further progress has been made ; tyranny attacks intelligence, and those who repeat false news arc brought before the council of war. IN hat more could be done—unless to prohibit our con versing of these matters at home, by our tire4ide, or to for bid our corresponding You must see that no good man can submit to such an abominable state of thinzs, and that if brute brae suc ceeds in restraining the explosion for a short time, it must be but the more violent and irresistible. Let me now give you some d, tails as to es I..et National Assembly. You may Once iniiiheit fait,. Milit ia . for I have them from:ever:el of ti ach.r., in these sae:iv,_ choly transactions. Two hundred and thirty representatives met at h u ;„ morning nt the Mairie of the 111th anondissendot, organised themselves under the two vice-presidents, the usual secretaries and short-hand writers. To 2jvt.• T„ authenticity to their acts, they opened the &so, 'ho public; and, in conformity with the text of the c!, n .a.; ! „ tion, they unanimously declnred the President u! :ie. public de , graeled from his functions and aucweil le! •!; treason. This decree passed, M. Lupin, Pr :cureur4l. la Cour (le Cessation, bore it himself to that (sour, esi gave him a formal acknowledgment of its ret,ript, ;wpm, the accusation, and instructed the high Court .4 • proceed to trial. Then the police interfered seal li•;•:r. the magistrates. At the same instant ;,.: followed by soldiers went to the 10th arroi. , l.- .eahrit, .a.f proceeded to arrest the repre-sentatives us th, their functions; they were , carried elk ay l•• :••• • barrack, and left there for seven or agia :..or.. ; eAlular carriages—those while transport con% ;, hulks—were brought, and some were take:. o, Vi nc , :;;; ,, , some to the cellular prison fur criminals, and r•t t, casemates of Fort Valerien. Them taken t s the Let • r place were crammed into a room without fire ; t!. y w „ brought boards, bad mattresses, coarse blank,:. an,: • 4 that hnd been already wed by the soldier.. Th.:„ themselves to make up their beds. These disgraceful proceedings soon ai Paris, awl made so much noise there, that i.te day the governmeat determined to release i.s • ; but as this measure did not apply to all, mot ,1,•;i : , • were prude, the representatives declared Oa.. ; y ei• ! ; leave tog, tier or not at till. To overcome ! •• „ the police resorted to force ; each deputy w..• soldier.s and led out bef.re a file ef Extreme irritation in all classes of 1.36.; . . pression, which inspires only hatred e.i • . • plunder of the finances--praetorian damii.ati it. violation of the laws and of Om most : • society and of humanity ; such is the evict 4 u of It is impossible that it can last long. THIS DAY'S I'AIIIS NEWS. (BY BUBNIABINI: IBLECiILIPII.) PARIS, NVEDNEADAY, TLN ~ .CLO4 Tho department of Dames Apes is in a ste. siege. LOUIS NAPOLEON AN 1) THE PANTII! Our contemporaries, bewildered apparel:. iy 1..- ;!. 3 rapid succession of l'arisian hattidierit: ...a.! d, • alternating with volleys of musketry, th , • • . which came thick and thick from that e. , •••med I:t dragooned capital, have b.:stowed little not' , e ukase or amen of the new Czar or Sultan. c. lug that national property known as the I'; inr into a church. This " dodge" neverthc . • a whole world of meaning, and being act; 'meted in its proper sense by the " wide • the Unicers, plainly indicates that t' ro : attempt to marshal.' those functionor'... late John Sterling called the " , and enrol them under the new dictator ,••• r, verve to the mailed Cuira,siers and 01, Vincenr,es, of Roman each' ity, who Li% their allotted job in such an oil-hand st:.. • manship. The Irish ultramontane prints, the Cork F..raminer, and minor satellites dutiful orbits round the centre of potism, have, in ignorance of the nod, pact, and in absence of instructions ft I given utterance to abusive denum •-I " usurper." They will soon be tau;,::.: • ners; and we expect to hear she " nephew "of an excommunicated un,•l , i• of fact, the eldest son of mother e!ltis, second to King Bombe in the personal of the Pope. Magnin sees ahem Roma.: This is the old game of political sinn• IVi, the Norman built Battle :I.bbev oil the I Ind: of }lasting* where the independence of the Saxon ram, and the laws of Edwin(' the t fessor were cloven down under a war chct blessed by the Roman bisl••••0. Ireland's subsequent subjugation, in %nue Adrian's Bull, was paid for by :the, awn known, grant of tithes to the clergy at - . 1 1.• Sr , Cashel. These arc merely domestic took place in every case of European n.arpa• plunder, robbery, and violation of law, the ;nit of the culprit or occupant of questionable auth. being to make matters pleasant with the priest',• It was ever deemed advisable to purchase alisola by liberal largesse, and thus secure n vener accomplice in the seizure and the rapine. To that any reluctance was felt on the part of the ceisces m this comfortable arrangement were wrong the memory of those holy men, and the peril:need small eompunctuous visitings in the secretion of every accomplished violence. The principal writer in the trairers, Mr. Ji Gordon, has adopted, in the name of his Fie' readers, to its fullest extent, the Lunen; Nelipli "Catechism° Filosotico," and in a mmllllllo. translated into English by the sympathising Ifolir of Bond-street, declares himself at a loss to Sec': thing "lase" or "abominable" in the e!...etrin oaths to maintain a sworn constitution ought Iva be kept, or that such grave engagements arc an but a solemn farce (page 97). 'ibis casuistry, when first put forward by a Greek tragic poet, us xpn auras. et 1.6” Topavoidot Was scouted even by Pagan integrity, and Cicero, alto took the trouble to translate the scandalous propos sition, Nam si vinlandurn est jus regnandi gr nil, Violandum est. Cmtcris rebus pistaton cola , : • n of V.'ll any I:at , t to stamped it in the name of Roman honesty with his emphatic abhorrence. Yet we have the janissaries of the Latin church, in the furtherance of what they call Christianity, cheering on the stunt Fenlitiand in his brutal downtreading of every fmneltis.. civil, political, or intellectual, in the Two Sicilit A ; an now see a repetition of the same blaspha mon- :ink ing of the cause of the Gosptl with the lue o; drunken soldiery, in the ease of the lloulogau and Strasburg adventurer's third exhibition. The decree professes to carry out " the pious in tentions of the founder," in this matter of tit , Paris Pantheon. That pious person was the keeper of tho pare HUE cerfs, and the paramour of Bubarr; , who, in 1757, thought tit to build a shrine to St. Genevieve, as some atonement for the pub lic infamy of his life, and court, the truo causes of the subsequent revolution. The pub lic money was lavished on the monument which he lived not to see finished, and the architect Soufflot died of a broken heart because the dome Will found too ponderous for the pillars which he hoped would bear it up. It was found necessary to mar the beauty of his design by the substitution of pilasters and massive masonry. But it was not con secrated as a Christian church when the first Na tional Assembly was convoked by monarchy in its decrepitude. The public building was changed by public enactment into a mausoleum for illustrious eitiz( ns, and, though desecrated by the ashes of such a wretch as Marat, it received the mortal remains of Jean Jacques Rousseau and of Voltaire; and when the statesman and orator Mirnbcau died, "carrying with him tho last hopes of monarchical rule in France," his funeral in the Pantheon was one of the grandest scenes in modern history. By a decree of 1800, the Emperor ;Napoleon, who had been just crowned by a pope, did not sofas forget the national dignity as to sacrifice this building to the Itomisb clergy, who had neither right to, nor indeed any ra tional use for it, as the neighbouring church of St. Etienne du Mont gives more than sufficient church accommodation to the vicinity—Napoleon ordered its destination as a sepulchre fur his senators and marshals. It was reserved for the year 1820, when the Restoration began its down ward course, to hand this monument over to the priests, and a Jesuit preached on the occasion, attributing the defect in the dome to a miraculous anticipation on the part of the structure to the inters meat of Rousseau under its cupolm'which " for very shame it shuddered to tolerate.' But the fir-t act of the popular dynasty of Orleans was to resume tho edifice, and inscribe its walls in golden letters with the names of the "men of July." Truly the giant spirit of Mirabeau seems yet to agitate the superia cumbent mass, and to awake from time to time, SC' cording to the destinies of this gorgeous temple. }lama est Eucelsaisemiwitum fulmice corpus ti rgen mole hoc ingentemque insuper ..E r taam. Et quotics foawn mutat tutus intremere mum= Murmur° Trinacriam. At any rate, with every successive chango this: Pantheon seems in a remarkable matter to testifj tts DEATLI or PROFESSOR DosnAn.—iiro have to announce to-day the death of Mr. George Dunbar, Pro. fessor of Greek Literature is the University of Ediabligh; The melancholy event took place o t Saturday mormog his residuum, lloso-park, Trinity.—Catedoiliart ihrturi