The Express. — London, England, 1851-12-06 00:00:00

gitr - i)resfs. TO CORREXPONDISIITS. • Niro/ Wise t no Kaprota." oantakaag •he own somilrfo .* brook" lo poba.bod awry Tarim, sal hider stenos tia. imr /OM &MO torOONS lossoled Soo "Tao toprom." Lemkeoo orid.. moo Jo US" llosooraaooroalol T Oink on Ur oloy d pabibatim *T-LOPIDON SMOGS - Ta l i Dat-46111111111111 06. ..Atesner. 116. 41m. 20uk. LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMDDR* 6. • • Muth thee the manipthile. tents of brute fives and area *din um away sad uni: tr ea:sl g =aids& auk Witt, timw in the Leath NAPOLEON hes lei the rashness to astir 'gm Soh hoar beings tuthany of his a=scs=ng in the almost% and his CROW and deserted by every man of sense sad diameter ; tiro and the has who we with inclined to d id im w ioms ilt hiss in his first , CZwith the Maus*, taitiW the more against him. finsiten sine lose and In ane ravings of his aubkisk bras bun peassaligated. There seems. Weed. In mart hot 4110 anxiety in the breasts of all, whn have a aims or a standin. and that is, to purg e themselves at once from all cons prieity in the criminal seta se the PitEstDENT. Even the most timid,—those who would inevitably be silent and hesitating in the midst of a revolution, where issue was uncertain,—even these men come forth, each eager to east his disclaimer in the Lee of Loris NaPoLEoN. Count Mote asks with indignation why he was not arrested? And M. Laos FAUCHER, the only politician of heart sad principle who was attached to LOUIS NAPOLEON whilst he kept within constitutional limits, has Written to ask what crime he has committed, that he should be thought worthy of being included in Se Paean:mml°s State-Council and list of notables. • Amidst such a unanimity of sentiments prevail ing through the civic clans, it is utterly impos ble that the soldiers can remain long unmoved and estranged from the rest of their countrymen. The officers cannot close their breasts against the sugges tions and convictions of their relatives and se quin tames amongst the middle-classes. We need not speak of generals, since Louis NAPOLEON has found it neceinary to arrest and seclude every one of that rank who was of known political opinion. And we may be certain that there are several in command who fully partake either the opinions of CAVAIGNAC or those of Cnessesnmen. The very soldiers them pelves, however animated against the socialists of Paris, are still not likely to perform contentedly the permanent task of acting as the police and the exe cutioners of their fellow-citizens. It will, however, take some time for the upper glasses and influential men to tecover the stunning effect of the Fieeslnver's coup ,hint. These men have neither the confidence of tho people, nor of the soldiers. They di stroyed their popularity by their rigour and reaction in the Assembly, and flung sway all the natural supports of a constitutional party. Such men as CitiockenNtEn disgusted even die commercial classes by their evident intrigues in favour of a legitimist restoration . Although the mad conduct of Louis Naroiros has now flung right en the side of his opponents, still these upper classes and notabilities will probably require sonic time town sett and organise either nn opposition or a rebellion. The people alone and any portion of the army can attempt this. Aud what is to be feared, is that the red republicans will attempt it alone, and give the 'Didier, an opportunity of fleshing their sabres with victory. Any triumph of the kind would be vaunted ea having been gained over anarchy. And the ge nerals of the successes might give themselves the airs of basing saved France and society,—that old humbug, in which, unfortunately, the deizors and the THIMISKS have traded. There is one class by whom the scheme of LOUIS NAPOLEON might be very favourably received, pro vided they could have faith in its stability. This is the functionary claw. 'lle new impe rial scheme IN, in [act, an immense hierarchy of placomen. There is a Council of State, a Senate, a Lower Chamber, and, it would appear, an Upper Chamber besides, every member of all and each receiving salaries and fulfilling functions. The number of civil employfa in France is already con siderable, but this would swell them to an army, and make imperial politics a very thriving trade. But this plan of taking a majority of the educated classes into government pay, is a desperately expensive one. The military emptiott will expect a share even larger of emolument. The Pretonans must have their gratuity, the generals their batons of marshal. And who is to pay ? M. FOULD himself, all Bonapartist as he may he, shrinks from the task. The Chancellor of the Exchequer of the new empire will be a bold maa. One powerful mode of conciliating the French meal population to any government, would be a large remission of taxation. They would understand that. And an imperial senate that decreed it, in however arbitrary a manner, would be far preferred to the most constitutional and liberal assembly leaving the mist ri buttons, direetea and intlarectes, either ss it found them, or augmented. But M. DE PER stuNY, the destined prime minister of Lome NA roLtos, will not become a SULLY. Neither he nor his muter will edit a new edition of the (Economies Repales. And the playing with the public puree, derill intallibly be one of the most favourite comps. Aims el tbe powers that are to be. Some will sae ;liettlin mop (Mat was made for nothing else. And ;:, • we may be sure, will be busy with the do ot de Imaeenty. is we elker eonsideration, more serious than ••dli ani mute easminntg to Louts NAPOLEON. It is Jibe eimiltiet )1,4 Ibst the entire of fais new system 'Oleo In him, doped, upon him personalty, and is chi* sip with b Ilk. That there ts no Bonspert obi rim& or petty in the country, 1815 showed. .da thb mighty yrsmid, therefore, el mili tar y WSod cavil phaceatansh r p rests upon the s mal l el one lead. LOUIE NAPOLEON has no family, us asseisier. He has not even a friend of station nod reepoteldlity. What a premium this offers to nanwinn s = in sae of the PRESIDENT'S success, zi al b i t And that the exasperated and *dna whom he has crushed would have • inseams le that 'rimiest alternative there is but too i mesh mom tie expert. NaroLson himself escaped • this cisme W the @bort time he spent in Paris; by - his military Aseesse and achievements; and by the :prestige and g lary surrounded by which he was wont to re-entie bie capital. • TO-DAY we Tahiti. in another column, an import . ant " Memorial to the Owsleittce of the National . Society," now in eironiation. To this memorial adhe :dm and signatures ot the utast influential character -Iwo being rapid's. re deed. The gestic will oast have lbrgotten how, at the annual meetings of this Society, in 1849 and me, resoludous two adopted ceps and me damning in the sewsest mews the on which theetutraittes of the Paivy Coma on Lion made its greats to church othouio. Not only did these rentiatims boidly cl hr the dwelt im munity hen di bg seated is egvaMig the pmer. but eassosil the somnolent et an %ban le de prive thedergy t elattwer ever atalweedeled edit- , cackle hi *sir The 1110111111iy. teisrasoe, and *ties 1111111111111a411 were brought into high waist try the adwasigai hot that throe-fourths QC the Dedienselini grunt wait disponi. by the 'Ueda Oessla. eWch scholia Three shreprwisibliene rowed the anodises of emodente wed unegasee men in the astek. who teener ihne the WIN Waded lesshers rhe gaba netienel Sealy the preeeediap of the Om mates cl Coma; aid theft bot 7 111 " stimit. nacos the Bushey hem its _ 114 PIM* b r ed tekan. It wee ei Sot anunnmen to awn swatter reeeletisee on the "'Wan onboldisg %throw the society, se t esta it oistosisl galley the Ann* and th te. mg, an the Lpsel ar the Prima, t• both contending pnetiee, intention was desdiened I Sir Joint remit:mom withdrew the media of whiff be had given notice, and he sad lie `friends eestented themselves with rejecting by a large aibrity the resolatisn by which Mr. 0. A. limos awl Mr. A. B. Hort tried to induce -the Mating Satiety to persevere in the °Beehive and unwise ewes on which they had persuaded it Oire The rejestiest of that resolution in June last would, k IlMilblUmm.- -'1u".111110.11.1.1..M1.1..1.111.1 PAR, V; ll3l ll?onsresi. ia Witted pp lS ears OnuiL Clew nacre ope with the hermetically sealed by the Wilms • free ; and some shops are oleo, _ aClpart are closed. In this er half the shops are open. Last night no further disorder-within the sphere of my observation exud'ed after the closing of my despatah. It was a beautiful moonlight night. At half-past one the regiment of Lancers passed along the Boulevards, retiring westward to their quested to the flourish of trumpets. The sr ti ery rolled in the same direction. To a late hour pad midnight the Patris MIS cried along the streets. It detains no news that , ' did not send you before the post closed, excepting the alleged release of the representatives from confinement, which remains to be confirmed. Atthir moment (half-past.lo) the Boulevards, as far eel can see both ways, are occupied by strong pickets of es:indica, posted at short Interval. A general has just gallopped eastward with his staff and an escort of cuirassiers. The most important news I hare to send this morning consists in the decree concerning secret ballot, and the four proclamations. The following four important proclamations have been posted up this morning: rosPeritY • warning Mr. Titratsato hin the bad . tub to denounce to the anni versary assembly as a dissati and Lord ROHM UROWIII4OI the weakness to shriek from. Those gentlemen may now, however, perceive that half mere and fine words hstionst addled either Mr. DENISON on the coo had or Mr. Gatn.inroxs on the other; and that the. fen. Debility is the strife of Jane, 1851, will be remereli with greater vigour in June, 1852. Lord lows Rustint.t. has said,—and we agree with him,—that the National Society isfounded on much ton narrow a basis ever to be worthy of its name. But there it is; doing, no doubt, much good; wielding great as Scenes; possessed of great power; presided over by all the bishops; enjoying royal patronage, privileges, and pecuniary advantages; speaking in the name and on behalf of the church ; and with a greater capacity fur usefulness,--under more comprehensive and liberal management,—than any other educational association yet existing. It is not, therefore, a society which those who dissent from some of the terms of its foundation ; or those who, approving of those terms, disapprove of its internal management, ought to abandon to the care and dominion of those who now limit its career, or misdirect in several particulars its energies. So long as it uses the nationality of England to promote its success; so long as it is favoured triennially with a Queen's Letter to support its funds ; so long as it assumes the conduct of the educational relations between church and state, it is an association which it is a duty, and not an impertinence, to watch over and to criticise. If any evidence, beyond its own acts, were wanting to show that the spirit of the committee has not been at all modified since June last, it may be found in the Bishop of OXFORD'S latest charge. In respect to this controversy his lordship's advice was never to abandon the offensive ; and always to take u mask of the State's money as could be had. Nor can any reasonable expectation be entertained of any change of policy which is not brought about by a change of men in the committee. To the necessity of such a change, the memorial first directs its attention. At present the committee is really, though not nominally, self-elected. The memonalists require that, previously to each anniversary meeting, lists of candidates should be sent to the subscribers, and that voting by proxy should be allowed. If the moiety is ever again to prosper, a large infusion d new blood into the committee is indispensable: for though its existing members may have the confi dence of the bishops,—to the subscribers they are, as • body, quite unknown. The subscribers know little more than that every bishop is on the com mittee ; but who the real working men are, few, besides the secretary, can tell. The change desired in the composition of the essamittee is not without a distinct and definite eject. One business of the society is to supply Issined teachers to church schools. The most im portant improvement to be first demanded is on entire change in the mode of preparing these gentlemen for their duties. At present the govelnal clergy are deluged by semi-popish teachers hugs the society's training institutions. Oxford over , me the country with half-Romanist curates, and the National Society issues forth teachers to match. The bishop: (three only excepted) lately joined in an address to the clergy, intreating them not to alarm their congregations by ritual changes and novelties. The metropolitan bishop, in his last charge, called those " luxuries of devotion " mummeries and the PROCLAMATION. (Without Date or Signature.) MINISTRY OF JUSTICR. False news are being spread in Paris about the state of the provinces. Doubtless false news are also weal in the provinces about the state of Paris. The insurrection is put down in the capital. All the news from the departments are excellent. The government is certain that order will be maintained upon all points of France. PROCLAMATION. (Without date.) In order to encourage the insurrection the most alarming news are spread about. The government guarantees that they are all false, and that the acts of the President have everywhere met with warm approbation. The Minister of the Interior, A. Die MORNT. MON. The Minister at War decrees: Article 1. Every individual, whatever may be his qua lity, who shall be found in any meeting, club, or association, tending to organise any resistance what. socrer to the government, or to pertly?e its action, will be considered as an accomplice of the insurrection.— Art. 2. In consequence he will be immediately arrested and delivered over to the courts-martial which are constantly sitting. Ds Sr. ARNAUD. Paris, Dec. 4. PAOCLANATION. The Minister at War Decrees,—Every individual spread ing false reports shall be immediately arrested and given up to the courts-martial u an accomplice of the insur rection. De Sr. ARNAUD. Dec. 4. PROCLANETION. Inhabitants of Paris,—The whole of France associates itself with unanimous approbation to the great events jut accomplished. The acts of the government, known these two days at Lyons, Lille, Amiens, Reims, Nantes, Poitiers, in all the centres of commerce and industry, have been re ceived in the bat manner. Order has not been troubled anywhere. The Minister of the Interior, DE MORNY. On reading the above_proclamation the people re mark, " It's easy to say." The Putrie states that the representatives con fined in the cellular prison of Mozas and at Mount- Valerien have been set at liberty. This news, if true, is highly important. Official notice is given that the salary of repre sentatives will be paid at the cash offices of the Treasury on the ith and succeeding days. The evening edition of the Cumditutionnel mentions among the false rumours that were current yester day, the revolt of some regiments, and their march upon Paris under General Neumayer, the arrival of Loden Rollin in Paris, the death of General Bedcau, and an impeachment of Louis Napoleon by the High Court of Justice. M. Ledru ltollin, says the Cum stitutionnel, is not arrived, and strict orders are given to prevent his landing. General Bedean is at Ham in perfect health, and General Neu mayer is at Nantes in retirement. The High Court of Justice has not given any decree of any kind against the President of the Republic. The same journal, alluding to some absurd reports about the ex-representatives who were arrested at the mairie of the 10th arrondissement, states that they have all been set at liberty. Many of them insisted on remaining in prison, but they were put into hackney-coaches, three by three, and taken by Al ders de pail to their respective homes. The Moniteur Par.sien of yesterday evening says : " News of the most unfounded cha racter has been circulated to-day as to the state of the departments. It was said that Rouen, Arras, Lille, and Lyons, were in full insurrection - We contradict these reports in the most formal man ner. The despatches received by the government unanimously agree in saying that the acts of the President have been received with tee most lively sympathy." On the invitation which he had received from the Mayor of Montmartre, and in order to tranquillise the inhabitants of this commune, Commandant Karll occupied the posts at the barriers by the national guard, who promptly responded to his orders. All the commune is peaceable. Baudin is to be buried to-day, and a strong corps of soldiers is to be present to prevent any demonstra tion. 11 o'CLocit.—By the last accounts the number of killed yesterday is 300. The following despatch from the Prefect of the Rhone to the Minister of the Interior is placarded this morning Lye's', Dee. 3, 7 p.m. Monsieur le Ministre,—l hays the Maar, to send you a copy of the proclamation which I have issued to the in habitants of the RllOl2O, in conemeeme of the telegraphic despatch which I received at as. is the monies ca the 3rd of December. Them two documents whisk I immediately caused to be posted throughout the department, have rem sioned me to receive from my private correspondents the assurance that the Mt of the President has bees received with sympathy. The eity of Lynam is sales, sad all mea sures to prevent the slighted troubles have bean taken. In say event, the Commandant Castellano sad spat are pre• pared for whatever may happen. I shall hays the honour to keep you informed of 'Raw passes in ni ti tp e, artment.— am, with respect, rte., the Prefect of the DI VINCENT. Primate in him own diocese is now suppressing them by force of law. All the bishops are entitled and profess to take a share in the management of the National Society. Yet they allow, in the chapel of its training college, St. Mark's, Chelsea, 4 ' mumme ries " elsewhere denounced, to be as assiduously per formed as they used to be, in Mr. BENNETT's time, in St. Barnabas itself. Let the whole aspect and fittings of the chapel - the manner of conducting the service,—intoning, chanting, bowing, posturing, sur plito-preaching—there to be seen, he compared with the late episcopal recommendation, and they win find them set at nought in St. Mark's. This is a grave matter. The parochial clergy want teachers accustomed in mind and feeling, as well as in practice, to the mode of worship usually adopted in well-ordered parish churches ; whereas they are now compelled to receive from the National Society teachers expert—and proud of their expert ness—in all the frippery, millinery and absurdities of a ritual, odious to their people: bringing with it, moreover, principles and pretensions still more un popular. The present movement seeks—in changing the toristituenta of the committee—the still greater olvafe of rooting out the objectionable manner of teachers. ns conduct of epieoopaoy in thii matter is simply pitiable. With one hand the bishops signed a mant ling to the clergy entreating them to abandon Romish practices; with the other they sanction the continuance of Romish practices in St. Mark's College. What they condemn in the clergy they promote by the teachers they thence send out ;—u if they felt that the shortest way to corrupt the world is to sorrutit its officers; and the surest road to Romanbm is to get it pared by Romanist schoolmasters. So long as the bishops giro their sanction to St. Mark's College, so long their recommendations to their clergy are, and must be, mere erratum jutmes. Tut West End of London is at present ringing with thu scandals of the younger officers of one of the regiments of the Guards. This one has " bolted' over head and ears in debt; that one has followed him to see if affairs are quite as bad as rumour alleges ; Lord This is in for 10,0001., and off to Con stantinople; the Honourable Mr. That's name being to 7,0001. worth of bills, he is not to be found; a fifth is actually in gaol, and another off to America. In short, there is a sort of civil war raging between the Guards and the Jews, and about, it is reported, nothing Less than 70,0001. of bills of exchange. Here /11 fresh food for the scandal raised by the MSC of the ALLETNSB and theD'Ancvs ; and here a reason why that modal should not be allowed to die away Were some steps are taken by the military authorities to strike at the root of the evil system which bears such fruit. Are not these young men, who claim to be of the best blood of England, the victims of the Horse Guards, —its follies and absurdities. It first puts them into a false position, then treats them as special and fa voured persons; holds them forth to the world as men of unbounded wealth; affords them all the op portunities of a great metropolis, with nothing to do I in it but compass their own destruction ; and mass batch is ruined by racing, dicing, gambling, ma k and—what the late Mr. CROCKYORD told a rim mcutary committee did it all—" opera boxes mak women," the Hone Guards repeat the operatics— it the Household Troops were a model sehad virtue and propriety. And these metropolitan polo 1 meats, the tone of their morality, the ordinary al. I meter at their pursuits. and the prnrtioes they resort to, in their turn become a sort of standard to officers of similar ages in every other regiment in the 'empire. * Here lies Laziness the Mother of all the Vices r was the inscription a French wit proposed for the • tomb of the mother of the Regent ORLEANS; and at j the root of all these scandals in the army is the want 'of occupation. Young men, having nothing to do, cannot be kept out of mischief when congregated together; and there they are, lounging about garrison towns and depots nearly all the day ; thankful for anything to occupy their atten tion, be it a pretty face in a bonnet shop, or two straws running • down a gutter. The conse quence is inevitable. They bet, they race, they play ; at first a little; gradually that little increases ; until, us in the case of Mr. KENNEDY, one mere boy will bet half his fortune on a single event, and another will defraud him out of it. All young men in the army are not such fools or such kuavu; as the two we have named. Some have rational men patios', others turn out excellent officers, but that extreme cam discloses the logical tendency of the present military system of England. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1851. gondWed" me insurgent. We had 11.1 ill an orderly message imourgaats. fired won two sentries and _instantly shut. the Nraiiiiaisiseied by a 1 One oft tke rebels. 41611? the Betel Dieu, was An inspector of police •Piefectuse. • In the Rae Constantine (Isle Notre Dame) an in dividual fired from a window upon a sentry and aiheei Alas. Another , sentry shot the assailant HUedeade eazes nd A in the Rue do Ban was taken without by some Bergen de Ville. 1 . At 3 o'clock it was announced that the inhabitants of th Faubomv St. Jacques and St. Marcean were in arms. We heard much firing in those quarters. An engagement took place on the Pont au Change between a compact body of rebels and a company of the line. The troops wounded and took several pri soners, who, by virtue of the laws of war , they might have shot, but they spared them. A serious attack, of which the troops were the victims, epee several points of the Boulevards, par tisularly our the Cate de Paris and Café de Grande Billees, etemokeed energetic reprisals, and many of the eareemore were killed. • The Boulevards are now tranquil ; scarcely any body is in the streets, and everything leads to hope that the disturbance is at an end. Ons of the barricades was commanded by M. Gaston Dussoube, the representative, who erected it and was killed ; 8 men were killed at their barricades, sad 14 were taken prisoners and instantly shot. it might bare been expected, hare Produced two s . good results—l. A more cordial odeperation WWI the state in promoting the education lytmArTte 9, . Some =did:Mist at least of that dard church instruction and services w , h up %; -- 1 that time, prevailed in the Society' Sc NCiliklON These expectations have, h u mf ad \ ppoi - and out of the disappoS ..,11me -, s‘e r.. ..„` . ;.' ° -- " ..r : movement, of which the circa tits and Sentare this memorial is the first manifestation. This morning all a. While-the dimension the, eceasioned wee-in pro- anent= have been gress in June last, we took occasion to want tticts yesterday tens the committee that nothing less than a substantial The Boulevards are free change in their sanageaseat would nab= peace I a l t h oug h b y f ay the re had prosperity to the Notional &art/. Inat i Chaussee a•Antin tits THE STATE OF PARIS AFTER THE FIGHT. PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. I hear from a trustworthy source that Bordeaux is placed in state of siege, and that General Bourjolly has been sent this morning to take the command of the troops there. I attempted to send you this morning, by tele graph, the number of people supposed to have been killed, which is estimated at between two and three hundred, but the despatch was not allowed to pass. A remarkable feature in the emeute of the last two days is the abstention of the national guard from taking any part in it. General Lawoestinc has, in fact, hindered the rappel from being beaten. But it cannot be concealed, that if the sympathies of the national guard are not enlisted on the side of the insurgent republicans, they are certainly quite as little attached to the cause of Louis Napoleon. I call your attention to a proclamation of General Lawoes tine, posted up to-day, which betrays in a certain measure the misgiving of the new commander-in chief of the national guard on this head. It is as follows: Soldiers of the National Guard,—l have not called on you to take part in the new struggle undertaken by the exciters of anarchy against society, and so valiantly sus tained and terminated by our bravo army. I know that if your co-operation had been necemery, the country and your general might hive relied on it, but you have made the impulse of your patriotism yield to the obedience which I had asked from you. I always expected as much from you, and I thank yon fur it. The General LAWOESTINE, (Countersigned) Irta&A, Col.-in-Chief of Statf. A proclamation by Michel (de Bourges) and Mathieu ( do is Drorne) has been placarded to-day, and torn down by the government. M. Baudin, the representative, was buried to-day. The precautions of the government prevented any disturbance at his funeral. Notice has been given that the representatives' salary of 25fr. per day, up to the lst of December, will be paid to thorn at the Treasury on and after the 7th inst. For the moment an overwhelming military force has crushed a feeble and irresolute attempt at infirm- section. It is well known that the great mass of the democratic party have abstained from taking any part in the present i'meute, the only object of which has been to fatigue the soldiers, and to knock up their horses. Five or six more such days as yester day, or even to-day, and the enormous armament now in Paris will be in a very different condition. The magnificent regiments of carabineers and cuirassiers are obliged to encamp and bivouac in the Champs Elysees, under a cold and rainy sky. If the inmate is not renewed in a few days the troops will be withdrawn. Under these circumstances, how long order will remair rndisturbed there is no means of predicting. But Louis Napoleon having taken the parliament by snr prise, it is possible the retaliation will be equally sudden and rapid. For the next few days we may enjoy some peace ; the shops may be opened, and business resume its usual course. But there will remain a deep and stern feeling of resistance to a government which, in forfeiting the ground of le gality, has put forward,at the point of the sword, an ambitious and unpopular scheme, totally unsuited to the time. There has been a crushing display of military force, which might have passed without censure had it not been used most unscrupulously against the moat peace able orders of society, in order to enforce a vi sionary scheme. Batteries of cannon have been pointed and discharged against the largest commer cial establishments, in the most opulent quarter of Paris. The blood of unarmed citizens has been shed profusely ; property destroyed, life lavished, work suspended, and the whole capital paralysed with terror, without producing ono result of the least benefit. The socialists are not beaten, nor the royalists dismayed. Both will combine with greater force than ever to overthrow Louis Napoleon, who has shown by his proposed constitution that his knowledge of the public mind and public wants in France is as limited as has been represented by his worst enemies in the press. This morning the following representatives were still at Mont Valerien : Generals Oudinot and Lau- riatan, Henriot de la Rozicre Placatory, Pascal Du. Laborde, Bene, Emile Perin, Eugene Sue, Th• , Lagarde, Renaud, Turgolle, &c. ere were this morning at Vincennes MM. Cretan, Dahirel, Leo Laborde, Dufougerais, Sauvaire, Barthelemy, Farreau, l'Abbe &echo°, Teilhard. Among those at St. Lazar are MM. do ltemtmat and Alfred Nettement. The represeptatives who arrived at Ham yesterday were Generals Cavaignac, Charras, Chantarnier, La Flot, Lamoriciere, and Bedeau. and WC Roger du Nord and Raze. --- --.. The following confused and questionable account .. HALT-PAST Two, PAL of the events of yesterday is given by the govern- I have just returned from a walk up the boule ment ergsn, the Patrie: yards eastward so far as circulation is permitted. ~ The prefect of polies seems to hare the gi ft of From the mouth of the Rue de hi Paix upward the multiplying himself, and watches the execution of broad pathway on the south side is crowded with the his orders in all parts of Paris with a characteristic serious of all classes, streaming in either direction. zeal and presence of mind which neither the fatigues The north pathway, being mostly occupied by strong of the night nor the turmoil of the day can weary or pickets of infantry, was less frequented. The people diminish. The proclamation of the Moutagnard seemed in general sullen and dejected, and were very has not appeared. It remains in the pockets silent for a crowd of Frenchmen. Few women were of the disciples of Robespierre and De Ba- about, and no children. Conversation was carried on bard. At nine o'clock in the morning the in low and smothered tones. All the shops had inauseetion re-commenced almost in the same their shutters up, but the doors of many were Sodas on Wednesday, except that in the Feu- open, with female faces peeling from within, mostly St. Antoine tranquillity was not disturbed. 1 anxious and eager in expression, the very coquettes es were re-constructed upon several points i being pale and dashed with fear. At the mouth of whore there were no troops, especially in the Rase 1 every street on the right and lett two cuirassiers Reaubourg, 'I rananonain, and Aware, at the Porte rods slowly up and down round each corner, like Bt. Denis and in the Rue St. Mery. At noon, three teapot& pacing a cage, and held out their cocked barricades were taken by our brave troops, and many ' pistols. Every now and then these formidable sen prisoners were made. At 11 o'clock, barricades rose tinels gruffly ordered the people who stopped by any in all directions in the Rue Rambuteau and accident to keep moving on. The whole line of bou the neighbourhood. The Mayor of the 7th levards is mew:tied by strong piquets of cuirassiers. arrondisseineut, fearing the invasion of his These are generally dismounted ; their horses, with mansion, sent for the troops encamped in their bridles taken off, and loosened . girths, stand the national printing house. A detachment of 23 close together, eating the hay which is spread for of the Gendarmerie Mobile arrived instantly. They them on the border of the pavement. Here and there, took one barricade and several prisoners. Two between the mouths of the streets, single cuiraseers, soldiers, a brigadier, and a drummer, were seriously sword in hand, ride up and down, and prevent stop wounded. At three o'clock all the barricades in this pages or the formation of groups. The piquets quarter were overthrown by cannon. Many spent of the line on the north pathway have cannon balls fell in the court of the printing house. tucked their red trousers inside their boots, The printers were at work during the whole time of for the streets are muddy with the fallen and the firing, and the director, M. De St. George, was still slightly falling rain. They have unbuckled a witness to the excellent spirit of the men. The their knapsacks, which they set in order against the arrests of socialist leaders continue. On the Route- shop-fronts, and are mostly occupied in lunching off yard Bonne Nouvelle attempts were made to thick slices of bread and brawn, which are dispensed construct a barricade ant of the materials of a house from the little green covered carts of the cannmeres, now in course of construction near the Theatre of drawn up at intervals. Here you see an athletic the Gymnase. A squadron of Lancers arrived, with cuirassier reaching up his hand to receive a slim of some artillery, and dispersed the mob without large sausage, which a neat-looking buxom woman is bloodshed. At four o'clock the barricade at the cutting on her lap as she sits perched in the hooded Pale St. Denis was taken by cannon. The mouth of the small waggon w hi c h con t a i ns h er interior et the barricade was filled with dead stores. There the helmets, removed awhile from bodies. Those who escaped fell back upon the Porte sweating temples, lie amid trusses of hay and straw. St. Martin, and found themselves between two The first decided bates which I met of the fighting at die Rue de Gram maw, oppugn's a pretty old house of the regent of with a round pavi lion of highly ted architecture, has been renovated to the taste of a tailor of the Mosaic order, and turned into a sumptuous magazine of paletots. The windows here were riddled with balls, and the embellished front considerably fractured. From this point on ward more or less the windows of houses are smashed, and their fronts scarred with bullets. But I was surprised to find Tortoni's, which was said yesterday to have been stormed, quite intact, and in deed still open. As we approached the Rue Riche lieu we found the houses worse treated, and in some instances a dead set seemed to have been made at one building in particular. In such instances not a pane of glass was left; and from the plinth of the shop to the garret it was dotted and dinted with balls. A whole company of infantry were posted on the north-side of the commencement of the Boulevard Montmatre • and I observed at once, by the crowded force and the peremptory demeanour of the pistol bearing cuirassiers, that we were getting into a new and more dangerous quarter. The piquots of infantry stood in order of battle on the pavement, and appeared prepared to fire on the least hint of disturbance. The young trees had been all cut down and stuck up in bundles, like enormous hop-poles, on the small earthy circles in which they formerly flourished. A little further on, in the boulevard Poissonniere I saw the first traces of the devastating artillery. Three magnificent houses on the south side of the sumptuous establishment of the famous D'Aubusson carpets. and two fine mansions stand ing on either side of it, were breached with cannon, which must have been pointed directly against their fronts. It was fear ful to look at the enormous gaps of ruin rent by cannon in these costly establishments. If the troops were fired upon from such places surely a more ter rible indication of the nature of the conflict now en gaged could hardly be imagined, for it proves that the military dictatorship is resisted desperately in three quarters upon which all governments in France must ultimately depend for support, namely the tradespeople. Beyond the end of tho Boulevard Poissonniere all circulation was barred. The road and pavements were bare of all bat troops. Many of the shops had fresh planks nailed across the shattered shutters. Here and there slight traces of blood were visible ; but if the people snatched more than a hasty and fearful glance at the spot, or stopped fir an instant to gaze, they received instant warning from the cuirassiers, who rode in without scruple on the pavement, and used the flat of their sabres without ceremony. Ten wounded soldiers have been brought down the boulevards by soldiers, in litters, as if to try the feeling of the people. No demonstration whatever has been made anywhere at this party. A chain of twenty-five or thirty blouses, taken prisoners, and conducted by the soldiers, have been con ducted along the same great thoroughfare, equally without exciting the least manifestation. The public is completely cowed by the tremendous develop ment of force. The regiments of cuirassiers and carbineers are now passing, at five o'clock, along the Boulevard back to the Champs Elysees. As far as eye can reach on either hand, the long line of helmetted horsemen in their white cloaks, under the drizzly sky, stretches. A band of trumpeters on their white horses goes before sounding the retreat. A general and his staff follow. Then comes the interminable procession of horsemen ten or twelve abreast. It is a magni ficent spectacle, but sad when thought upon. Now a cry of " Vine Napoleon . is raised along the line, but it finds no echo in the bystanders. Six p.m.—The soldiers are all withdrawn from the boulevards. The whole line is, I am told, now open. The people stand and talk in groups. In general a feeling of terror prevails. Little favour is shown to the President. Stories are told of a man having been shot in the Boulevard Bonno Nouvelle for crying" A bas Napoleon !" The Cafe du Circle, at the Passage Jouffroy, the Maison Doric, and the Cafe Richelieu, are the only cafes I see open. A bill has been posted up, dated this day, and declaring that fresh news received from the departments is favourable; that the adhesions to the President's acts are unanimous; that everywhere the demagogic are terrified; and that calm and order reign. The Orammont Club was surrounded last night, and the inmates kept prisoners for an hour. Many rumours are in circulation respecting the atrocities of the military ; but, as none of these have been related to me by eye-witnesses, and appear to be merely, in many cases, the inventions of terror, opposition, and credulity, I do not attach to them the least importance. 'thus, I know not on what authority it is affirmed that people were mur dered in Tortoni's, and pitched out of the fifth-story windows. _ . . There was a rumour yesterday that several Ameri cans had been killed at the barricades. This is not confirmed. Not an Englishman or American, as far as we can learn, has mixed himself in any way with the affair. It is true, however, that several Amen cans were on the Boulevards Poissonnidre when the firing commenced there, and that one of them, atter having seen several persons full dead at his feet, laid down upon the pavement to escape the fire, and was in consequence reported as shot. The following proclamation has been issued to the army: Paris, Dee. 4. Sol•liers,—You have accomplished to-day a great act of your military life. You have preserved your country from anarchy and pillage, and saved the republic. You have shown yourselves such as you are, such u you will always be—brave, devoted, and indefatigable. France admires and thanks you. The President of the Republic wili never forget your devo tion. Victory could not be doubtful. The true people, honest men, are with you. In all the garrisons of France your companions in arms are proud of you, and would follow, if need were, your example. The Minister of War, A. 1, ST. AILNAUD. This morning a man was seen tearing down the proclamations at the corner of the Rue de Rotten ; a sentinel on duty expostulated with him, when he struck the soldier, who, retiring a few paces, imme diately shot him dead on the spot. The following is the decree as to secret instead of open Toting: In the name of the French people, the President of the Republic ; Considering that the mode of election promulgated by the decree of the 2nd of December had been adopted under other circumstances, as guaranteeing the sincerity of elec tion But eonsidermg that the vote by ballot as actually prac tised appears to be a better guarantee for the real meaning of the votes (intelligence des suffrages) ; Considering that the essential object of the decree of the 2nd of December is to obtain the free and sincere expression of the will of the people ; Articles 2 2 3, and 4 of the decree of the 2nd of December are modified as follows: Art. 2. The election shall take place by universal anf. (rage. All Frenchmen aged 21, enpning their civil and political rights, are called on to vote. Art 3. They will be required to identify themselves, either by their inscription on the electoral lists drawn up in virtue of the law of March 15, 1849, or by having accom , plinked since the formation of those lists the conditions re quired by that law. Art. 4. The ballot will be opened during the days of the 20th and 21st December, in the chef-lieu of each commune, from Bin the morning to 4in the afternoon. The suffrage will take place by secret ballot, by yes or no, by means of a menurcript or printed bulletin. (Signed) LOUIS NAPOLEON BON•PAUTE. Given at the Palace of the Elyse*, Dec. 4. (6On - nt - e - reign -- ed)gsiloasr:liiinistArof the Interior. The following placard was posted over the govern ment proclamation in the Rue Lamartine, at 2 o'clock to-day : The decree of the High Court of Justice has declared Louis Napoleon Bonaparte guilty of high treason. News front the departments.—Lyons ; General Ceitellene, taking part with the population, refases to obey the command of the usurper.— Lille : The garrison fraternises with the population.—Rheims : The operatives are masters of the town.—Amiens: The populace is in possession of the pre fecture ; the mayor of the town has assumed the command of the department.—Elbeuf: The operatives bivouac in the Place Rouen ; the official journal publishes the decree de posing Louis Bonaparte.—Centre. General Neumayer, at the bead of 30,000 soldiers, is cheering on the people tow ards Paris, to the cry of Vier la Republique " " ice la Con. stitution MASSACRE ON THE BOULEVARD MONT- MABTRE. Yesterday, the 4th of IN:C., itTo'elock in the afternoon, a battalion of the line renewed upon the Boulevard Mont iii.irtre the scone of the Boulevard dm Capucines. With out provocation, without previous warning, the soldiers upon the command of their officers, kept up for five mi nutes together a continuous tire upon the passengers, and upon the windows and balconies. A large number of in offensive victims perished by their balls. During a quarter of en hour I saw crowds of people reading this placard, in spite of the mat 'danger of so doing; and as the crowd was often Bo treat that all could not see at once, some one person I read it aloud to the delight of the audience. For 4 long time no soldiers were visible at this spot, but presently the crowd suddenly dispersed, and I was told by a man in a blouse, from whom I afterwards obtained a copy of the proclamation, that they saw police agents coming up. I do not give implicit credit to the truth of this placard, any more than I do to the government proclamations; but I quote it, not only as an example of the courage of the Parisian democrats, but also as the only instance of genuine feeling that I have seen. Public opinion is for the moment mute, perforce at the point of the bayonet. the ( in an article headed "Les Faustus Nouvelles," gives the following In a moment like this every inventor, every propagator of false news is a public enemy. So all that they have said of the presence of NI. Ledru Rollin at Paris; of a victorious insurrection at Lyons; of a victorious insurrection at Rheims ; of the raking of two regiments, which, under the ordL rs of General Neumayer, aro on their march to Paris; of the wounding and death of General liedeau ; o f the bad treatment inflicted upon the representa tives who have been for the moment arrested at the reunion of the 10th arrondissement, and who are now at liberty; of troubles which have taken place at Amiens; of a pretended decree of accusation issued by the High Court against Louis Napoleon ;—all is false —radically false. There arc as many more ridi culous and culpable inventions, fabricates" or clamed by the most criminal and disloyal malignity. M. Lcdru Rollin has not appeated at Paris; and precautions have been taken to prevent the entry of any of the demagogues from London into France to take revenge for June, 1848. Lyons is perfectly calm. ltheims is equally tranquil ; the workmen show themselves favourable to the act of the President; the troops and the national guards are there fraternizing. General Neumayer has not any command. He inhabits Paris, in the quality of a retired general officer; and, notwithstanding, the authors of the false news state him to be at Rouen and Lille. General Bedeau, in common with the rest of the persons detained at Ham, enjoys the most perfect health. We can vouch for the respect with which the ex-representatives who have been placed temporarily . at Mount Valerien, and of whom the enlargement is certain, have been treated. Amiens is in complete tranquillity. The High Court has not issued any decree against the President of the Republic. One of the absurd and odious rumours that the enemies of the public peace are propagating is, that the government has laid its hand on the money at the bank, and has already withdrawn 23 millions. This abominable calumny rests upon ono of the most regular proceedings possible : N 1 but is true is, that the government, in virtue of its treaty with the bank, had still at its disposal 23 millions of the loan con tracted with it; and anterior to the recent events, it had given notice to the bank of its intention to call for that amount." A despatch from Ham announces to the govern ment that the prisoners had been lodged in the cita del. The journey was effected in the greatest order, and no incident occurred. The following are further official accounts received by government from the departments: Amiens: All the officers of the national guard have offered their services to the prefect. Everything tranquil in other parts of the department. Two-thirds of the inha bitants of the towns And all of those is the country ilktricts have loudly declared in favour of Louis Napoleon. —Sculls: Everything tranquil; the feeling appeared to be divided between astonishment and satisfaction.— _ Beauvais: The accounts from all parts of the department are good. The working classes are satisfied. Some imita tion was at first shown in the commune of Mony, but it lias subsided.—Lille : This city it stated to be tranquil.—liou. bail : The workmen hailed the proclamation with cries of Vivo Napoleon."—Denain : Troops had been sent to this place, which is one of the hut-beds of socialism. They were well received —Valenciennes : An estunaince called the Econornique, has been shut up, ant the master of it and his mistress arrested, for insulting the public force.—Douai and Arras : Perfectly tran quil, as well as the other parts of the dcpartment.—Bou logne, St. Omer, and Calais, perfectly tranquil. Tao country people expresa their satisfaction at what has been done.— Chalons-sur-Murne : At Rheims the working classes are perfectly tranquil; a o are the men employed on the railway at El„ rnay. The accounts from Vitry utd Sainte-Menehoud are equally satisfactory.—Bordeaux Perfectly tranquil. Orleans : Everything quiet. Perigueuz, Donegal, Besancon, and Metz, perfectly calm. Loon, Blois, Pitheviers, and Montargis: accounts equally satisfactory.—ltouen : Everything perfectly tiaa quil. \York has not been for a moment interrupted.— Barre and ',enviers: The same quiet presalls.—Angou le= The proclamations have catund considerable emotion but everything tranquil.—Frunt St. Amami. lusoudun, La. Chatre, 111auc, Laval, Nancy, Chartres, Troyes, Dijon, Tarbes, Bar-le-Due, the accounts are equally satisfactory. At Moulins, a small number of armed men collected, but ' they were easily dispersed by the troops, and twelve ar rested. In the affair of vestesday Colonel Loubeuu, of the 72nd was killed, - and Colonel Quilier, of the same regiment, was wounded, as well as several other officers. The following is from an occasional correspondent: i'ARIS, FRIDAY MORNING. At 10 o'clock yesterday morning, the quiet which Paris had previously enjoyed was disturbed by per sons moving about, spreading rumours of defections in the troops, of regiments marching upon Paris in the interest of the Assembly, &c. Some of these rumours,which were evidently preparatory to a move meat, obtained credence, and excited great uneasi ness. At about 12 o'clock it was generally reported thatbarricades had been erected tit the Porte St. .1 tents and Porte St. Martin, Rues Baubourg, Transuettain, St. Miry, and St. Martin. This rumour was sub sequently found to be quite correct. The alarm now became so great that not only in the neigh bourhood of the disturbed district, but in other pits of the Bou!evard, the Rue ltichelicu, the Rue Vivienne, and all that part of Paris, the tradesmen closed their shops. The fact that no troops were at that time on the spot produced a sensation of panic whick is almost indescriba ble. This, however, was in some degree allayed when it was known that about two o'clock a large body of troops had arrived, and were success fully commencing the destruction of the barricades. It appears that during the night an attempt had been made to excite the people by a repetition of the proceeding which produced such serious results in February, 1848. About 100 men en blouse, com manded by several chiefs of sections, and preceded by two torches, paraded two corpses, of which they had become possessed alter the carrying of the barricades which had been erected in the Fau bourg St. Antoine and the Rue Ste. Marguerite, went through the Rues Grenetal, Baubourg, and Transnonam, shouting Aux armee !" A few deter mined sergens de sills attacked this party, and car ried off the dead bodies to the Morgue. The rioters became more numerous, and proceeded to man four barricades which they had formed in this quarter. They were attacked by some detachments of the divi sion of Gen. Levaaseur, and carried in a few moments. Several insurgents were killed, and about 60 chiefs of sections and men en blouse arrested. Three other barricades were abandoned at midnight by the insurgents. Yesterday morning, at an early hour, the Prefect of Police having been informed that 120 Montagnard ex-representatives had met during the night and drawn up a manifesto, took successful means to prevent its being posted np. The first bare ricades in the Rue Bcaubourg and Transnonain were carried at about 12 o'clock. The troops after the victory showed great clemency towards the insur gents instead of shooting them, as they would have been justified in doing by the military law in such cases, they were taken prisoners, and removed to the Coneiergene. Many of them who were seriously wounded were carefully attended to by the military surgeons. At one o'clock the insurrection had evi dently made much progress. The insurgents ap peared to be entirely masters of the . quarters St. Denisand St. Martin. The houses forming the angle of these two Boulevards were taken possession of by a great number of men armed with muskets and swords, many of which had been obtained by rob ' bing the shops of artnourers. In the Rues St. Denis and St. Martin several insurgents entered the houses, and threw out of the windows articles of furniture to assist in forming barricades. At half-past four the troops were masters of the whole of the ground which had been occupied by the insurgents, and the wounded were carried away to the hospitals. The number of dead is said to be very considerable. Tho loss on the side of the troops is comparatively small. A barricade which had been erected in the Rue de Bac was carried without difficulty . by a few sergens- 0 ville. Several lamentable incidents occurred 0 the day. A republican guard, carryiug d' i de MC N,.... sergens- . de• rred duilug r despatches ,