The Sun. — London, England, 1851-12-22 00:00:00

PUNCH'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. W. It. COPELAND, Liverpool. The Warmest Theatre in Landon. Another New Farce. THIS EVENING, Will be performed SIMPSON AND CO. After which, BREAKFAST FOP, TWO. To be followed by a new Farce, entitled CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. Characters by Messrs. Rogers, Belton, Romer, Misses Marshall and Maskell. With STROLLERS AND SiTP.ATAGEMS. To conclude with a Farce, entitled THE FIFTH OF NOYEM- P.EI4, by Messrs. Tilbury, Rogers, Hudspeth, Misses Saunders and Haskell. The prices of admission are arranged as follaw :—Orchestra stalls, 4s; boxes (first 35.; (second circle), 21. ; Pit, Is. Doors to he opene 1 at Half-past Six, and the performanCei to commence at Seven precisely. I second price will he taken to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock --arst circle, 25.; second circle, Is. Private hoses One Guinea and a Half each. Stage Manager, Mr. E. Stirling. AST L I.IC'S ktOY AL PIiITII E Under tut, re.trone,e 01 Majegty and his noyai IngluieSS Brint:e Albert. Prc D •ietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. The moat succeastul and popular Theatre in London. Azael still continues the Star of the Theatrical World. THIS EVENIIitI, Will be produced new grand Spectacle, from the pen of E. Fitzball, Esq., and written expressly fur this establishment, entitled AZAEL, in which will be introduced the same highly-trained Horses and Camels that appe trot in the Opera at her Majesty's Theatre, with an addition of Ostriches, Zebras, &c., &c., the whole of the well known resources of Astley's. It has been pronounced by public opinion to be the most gorgeous and effective production ever witnessed within the wells of a theatre, assisted with magnificent scenery and brilliant costumes. The new Dramatic Performers having achieved an unparalleled triumph, will have the the honour of appearing every evening until further notice. 1 With Batty's Grand Scenes of the Arena, embracing the largest Equestrian Company in Europe, repre.ented by Foreign and British Male and Female Artists of superior talent. On Friday a new Pantomime, written expressly for this Amphi theatre by Nelson Lee, Esq., founded on the ludicrous exploits of Briggs, so facetiously set forth by tha inimitable " Punch," entitled Mit. and MRS. BRIGGS ; or, Punch's Festival—Mirth, Wit, and Jo lily. Har'equin, Mr. Harvey ; Columbine, Mrs. Harvey ; Panta loo•t, Mr. Buckman; Clown, Arthur Nelson, who will in the coarse of each evening play a number of favourite airs on the Rock liar monicon. Tickets to be bad at the Boi-office from Eleven till Four daily, trig e Maniwer, 'ir. T. ThoiTtpsou PORTRAITS SOULT AND WELLINGTON , WWII 1 1E110IRS AND FAC-SIMILIES OF THEIR HASD- WRITINGS. LYONS AND AVIGNON RAILWAY. The French Government having postponed the adjudication f ttio Ly o ns and Avignon Railway from the 19th instant to the 3d f J a rvis ry next, the Claimants of the Caution Money formerly de posited for this undertaking are urgently requested to meet at the London Tavern, Btshopsgate-street, TO-MORROW, TUESDAY, the 23,1 instant, at TWO o'clock precisely, to consider and determine upon such active measures as raay be immediately necessary for the protection of their rights and interests. DAVID SALOMONS, Chairman of the Committee. C. T. HERE, Honorary Secretary. 6, St. Mildred's-court, Dec. 22, 1851. TRIBUNALS OF COMMERCE. JL A MEETING was held at the London Tavern, on Wednesday, the 17th in.stast, J. M. FRASER, Esq., in the Chair. In our opinion, great injustice was done to our indefatigable and Taluab'e Elonorary Secretary, FRANCIS LYNE, Esq , by the pro ceedings of this meeting; and the Circular issued by Mr. Fraser yes terday, " to the Subscribers," omits the principal fact on which we rest our condemnation° f the proceedings. We are inclined to concur with Mr. J. B. Smith, M.P., that it would appear that there exists a desire to rob Mr. Francis Lyne of the praise due to him for the manner in which he has brought this most important movement before the public. We hope the friends of this cause will now rally with renewed warmth around Mr. Lyne, and so save the cause we wish to see prosper. HENRY HAMMER LEYCESTER , THOMAS ASTON. The only two members of the General Committee who attended Mr. Fraser's meeting of the 17th instant. 12, Mark-lane, Dec, 20. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. L'n , .'.er the Management of Mr. Charles Kean' This Evening, Monday, Dec. 22.—The Merchant of Venice-- Tender F recautions —and Betsy Baker, being the last night of per forming previous to the Christmas Holidays. ;0 -tor ; or, The Flying Friday, 26.—The Merchant of Venice —with a new grand Christ mas Pantomime, entitled Harlequin Billy T Dutchman and the King of Raritongo. u a riequin. Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Sprite, Mr. Le Barr; and Columbine, Miss Carlotta Leclercol and the Panteni me. Saturday, 27.—Town and Country— ALL, STRAND. lIUNGERFORD-11 B iI&TATION OF ATTRACTIONS. UNRIVALLED COM ._3OIREEp LASSAIGNE every Even ingANlM MAGNETISM at Eight o clock. Admission Is., 25., (Saturday excepted), Seats may be secured at Mr. Sams's and 4s. Stalls and Reserved street; eet ; at Mr. Ebers's, Bookseller to her Royal Library, St. Jarne s ' s „ tr eat , and at the Manager's Office, Hunger- Majesty. 17, Old Bond ford-hall. _,, ric ritE of OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. sTERIEUSES " Juvenile Amusements, by M. ss S OIREES an giois, of Pans, and the celebrated Indian Juggler, and Madame J. , •.s. Dissolving Views, Chromatrope, &c., every Evening, at Maims. Aanalssion is., is. 6d., and 2s. 6d. Seven o'cloc Every, Day, fr om T we l ve to Three. Prices of Ad missionDlOit,m/,. 6d Is and ts• A zAARS —Open daily from Ten A.m. to Ten P.m. Admission Free. OAGNETOID CURRENTS and the MAUNETOSCOPE. Dr. Le vi's 111110 a0phical and Experimental Lectures every Saturday xvoning, at Eight. Admission Is. and 2s. On Saturday Evening, Dec. 27. M. Lassaigne and Madlle. Pru dence will give an Experimental Soiree in Animal Magnetism, at the Victoria or Bull Hotel, Rochester, at Half-past Eight o'clock precisely. TifEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. gr. B. Webster, Tole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompten, THIS EVENING, _ Will be performed THRBEGGAR'S6PiRA. Captain Macheath Yr. W. Harrison ; Mat-o'-the-Mint, Mr. Weiss; Filch, Mr. Buck- It 4 nte ; Polly Peacham, Miss Louisa Fyne; Lucy L•ckit, Mrs. Fitz- William. After which a new Farce, entitled THE TWO BONNYCASTLES. Mr. Bonnycastle, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Bonnycastle, Mrs. Buck ingham. To conclude with HIS FIRST CHAMPAGNE. Horatio Craven, Mr. Leigh Murray ; Dicky Watt, Mr. H. Bedford; Emily Morton, Miss A. Yining. riILAIKE teU L, ADELPtit. ncler the direction of Mr. B. Webster. The popular Comedian, Mr. Wright, having recovered from his in disposition, will appear This Evening. ISnormous success of the Yankee Comedian, Mr. Josh Silsbee. ails EVENING, Will be performed the comic Drama, entit led THE FOREST ROSE : and the YANKEE PLOUGHBOY. Jonathan Ploughboy, Mr. J. Silsbee• Bellamy, Mr. Worrell; Harriet Miller, Miss Col lins; Sally Forest, Miss E. Chaplin. To be followed by the Comedy of PAUL PRY. Colonel Hardy, Mr. Emery ; Paul Pry, Mr. Wright ; Grasp, Mr. 0. Smith ; si r. Willis, Mr. Worrell ; Marian, Miss Ellen Chaplin. After which, a new and laughable Piece de Circonstance, entitled BLCOMEIH:M • or, The Follie s of a Da y. Mr. Agricola Green, Mr. Honey ; Mr:Flighty Bounce, 4r. Paul Bedford ; John trey, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mr. Weakly, Mr. Worrell; Mrs. Portia Lu create Green, Miss Woolgar. nOYAL PRINCESS's THEA ME, OXFORD-STREET. the Manazementat Mr. C. Kean. Last Night before the Chrismas Holidays. cut, EVI',I% ISt.* Will be performed THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Principal ehara4ters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Harley, Fisher, J. Vininic, Ryder, Addison, C. Kean ; Misses Robertson, Mary Keeley, and Frankland. After which, a new and original Comedy, in two acts, entitled TENDER PRECAUTIONS; or, the Romance of Marriage, In which Mr. and Airs. Keeley, and Mr. and Mrs. Wigan will appear. :1 - To conclude with the Farce of BETSY BA.KEIt, in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will appear. frivaie tioxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. Xassinglians ; of whom also places may be taken at the Box-office, nXlnri-street, from Eleven till Five o'clock. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of madame Yeatria. THIS EVENING, Will be performed FORTY AND FIFTY. - —... _ ___,_ _ __ _ _ To be fillowed by THE GAME OF SPECULATION'. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, R. Rozby, B. Baker ; Mrs. C. Born, and Miss M. Oliver. To conclude with A PRACTICAL MAN. YAL vL nirie Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Farrell. THIS EVENING, Will be performed LUCILLE ; or, The Story of a Heart. dt. Cyr, Mr. H. Farren ; Vernet, Mr. Dithlear ; Izak, Mr. Shalders ; Von Metz, Mr. Cooke ; Lucille, Miss. L, Howard ; Julie, Miss With the FAST COACH. To conclude with THE LONELY MAN OF THE OCEAN, sup ported by Messrs. H. Farrell, W. Warren, Bender, Norton, Mesdames Fielding and J. Adams. THE MOST SPLENDID LIKENESS OF SOULT EVER TAKEN, I? Y IV YON, FOR WHICH THE MARSHAL SAT SIX TIMES ; TOGETHER WITH A PORTRAIT OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON IS THIS DAY PUBLISHED, 4 :t THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, PRICE ONE SHILLING. Ittgii WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tco DATw — Mo m —Gratin 16 rain. alter 1 I Evening 40 min after 1 I i x 2 min. after 2 I Evening 26 min attar 2 THE WEATUER.—Sun OFFICE, DECEMBER 21. THEBatosta-ricn, fl THE SHADE. 52—highest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and during the night. 46—this day, at noon. BA ROMICTSR , 25 4 7 2. WOW S. to S• dUll' nd half muggy a gale. weather, with sli g ht ra i n, a MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, TiummoMiiTEl, i THE St B . 47—highest since noon yesterday. 42—lowest this morning and during the night. 44—t I's day, at noon. BiLsomicritn: went down to 29.63, mere than half an inch since Saturday; now 29 68. WIND S.E.—dirty, dull, muggy weather, with rain. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. Efate of the Wind and Weather at each of the following place s at Nine o'clock on Saturday morning.—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. PLY3a " 7ll —Wind S gentle breeze—rain. Barorrrcu __Wind S \ , V., strong breeze—rain. HAsTurGs—Wind S, W., fresh breeze—overcast. SOUTIUMPTOx—Wind S., strong breeze— ra i n . FoLKESTON E— Wind S.W., strong breeze —overcast. Ttramu.DGl—Wi"d S.W., calm-- scud, rain. littF.ENWlCH—Calm—overcast. STY.OOD —Wind S W., strong breeze—rsin. i n d S., gentle br ceze—partially cloudy. COtclikwriza—Wind S.W., gentle breeze —overcast. Ydaßmourn--Wind S.E., calm—rain. PRO OF OXFOND—The THE POETIT rassoastu adm:ldasfPtoerrthef Poetry Professor following are the candidatetsiena Fellow Goulburn, the gby, formerly in classics a Fellow of Merton College , obtained a o firs ßu in 1839, and was Bampton Lecturer in 1850.ela'r E. Bode, late Student and Censor of Christ Church, he Re a v i . ,„ j i i in 18. Trinity the Hertford Latin Scholraship and a firstFecillaoswsinof°cblasst obtained The Rev.Claughton, A. late College, obtained a prize for " Latin Versa" 8, the " Yewiligate" in 1829, a first clam in classics in 1831, and the " Lam Essay" in 1832, TO CORRESPONDENTS No communication can be attended to unless authen. ticated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot be returned. % ‘ .,..4. - A , ' l ' . ,s' ' .si ,.:"! y ., N ..:/, • .-• . ~.,* , • , .. 7 . , IC ? . i --.....- ~ ... ~ .414 , „„,; ;Nd .,.. 0 , ~.. :: Al . 1.1 • I ~,,‘ '‘.6 ,' ' • *-.... ' 61 ' .1.--1 -•,. , ,t..•:,- . 4 . 44 . 1 ',., .. 4 •: - . - - , • 1 • 1.• k . • ..,.. THE SUN, eberenim int LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1851 What we have repeatedly advocated as a most de sirable improvement in the construction of our ships of war, has, we are rejoiced to observe, at length been deliberately adopted by the Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty. The fact is announced in another column, explicitly enough, as may be seen by a glance at the Naval Intelligence. After delays land evasions innumerable it has at last been resolved Ito apply to our larger vessels of war the advantages which accrue from the judicious combination of the steam-engine with the screw-propeller. As ample testimony that this resolution on the part of the authorities is now about to be carried into practical operation, and that, moreover, upon no incon siderable scale, it will be perceived that the screw and auxilliary engines are about to be ;fitted into the Royal Albert, a magnificent ship of 120 guns, the largest ever built for the Royal Navy, so that every one interested in the welfare of his country must exult in witnessing the scheme referred to applied to a structure of such very noble and remark able dimensions. That we ourselves in particular should regard the intention of the Lords of the Ad miralty with feelings of peculiar gratification may, as our more observant readers may at once understand, be readily conjectured. During several years past our columns have been rendered the vehicle for arguments often reiterated, but until now ineffectual, demonstrat ing not merely the propriety,but the absolute and im perative necessity of trying the screw upon a large scale and with proper precautions, if only as an experiment. What has hitherto been done in the matter, to the end that the benefit of the screw as a motive power for ships of war might be re n d ere d v i s ibl e , can sca rcely be dignified with the name even of a test as to its sufficiency. In spite of every objection, we felt assured from the outset that this invention, be yond all others, was the one to which our energies should be directed, as the most valuable means afforded us both as a weapon of defence and as a weapon of aggression. While the Americans were contriving their formidable addition to the art of modern firearms, and the French were simulta neously carrying into effect their marvellous inno vations in musketry, we knew that in the scientific application of the screw propeller to our naval force lay the secret of enhancing the maritime strength of England. Everyone knows well enough, in all conscience, the astonishing and terrible powers af forded to a combatant by the possession of one of COLT'S revolvers. Everyone also knows, or at any rate everyone ought by this time to know, the fearful and deadly effects :producible by the discharge of the newly invented muskets of the Chasseurs de Vincennes. According to the most moderate calculations yet made, one of the conical bullets discharged from the latter description of weapons, may be propelled to a distance of no less than one thoueand yards—hurling destruction beyond a range three times that within the reach of the regulation musket hitherto used in the English army. With these extraordinary changes developing themselves in France and the United states, yielding to the forces of those great countries an astounding increase of capacity for war like aggression, it is lamentable to reflect upon the apathy evinced heretofore amongst ourselves in reference to the adoption of any such really gigantic measure s of improvement. Fortunately, however, of late there has been manifested in the right quarters a readiness to enable our soldiers to avail themselves of these very important innovations. Before long, therefore, we are sanguine of beholding the adoption generally throughout the English army,not merely of pistols fitted out similarly to COLT'S revolvers, but of muskets contrived upon the same principle as those already in the hands of the Chasseurs de Vincennes. It would be satisfactory of course to witness, in addition to all this, the organization i❑ this country of an institution kindred in its character with the noble establishment called the "Ecole d'Etat Major," in which France is perpetually educating for her forces a reserve of well-disciplined, deeply-experienced, sagacious, and gifted generals. Such a dream, however, appears to us little less than an absurdity after the proceed ings Is hid), during the present year, have called dow❑ such merited derision upon the authorities at the Admiralty. If we look for improvement, we must look for improvements more compatible with our long-established regulations. Among such improve ments, among improvements thus immediately prac ticable, we may now happily classify that of applying to our ships of war the advantages of the screw pro peller. Already we have enumerated so very frequently the benefits accruing to a vessel fitted out with this novel and wonderful application of the steam-engine as a motive power, that a repetition of those benefits has become altogether superfluous. The additional speed ensured, the independence of wind and tide, the safety of the internal machinery, from the circum stance of its being sunk below the level of the water — an advantage which it is obvious could never be ob• tained with the old and cumbrous system of side paddles—must be results such as cannot fail to force themselves at once upon the mind on the mere mention of the adoption of the screw power in our men-of-war. There are other consequences besides these which must ensue from the employment of the screw in the Royal Navy of England, which cannot but spontaneously arise i❑ the reflections of the naval architect. Those, nevertheless, which are above men- tioned, brief and incidental though the reference be, will, we are satisfied, with the majority be more than sufficient. Such appear to be the impressions which have at length carried conviction to the judgment of the LordaCommissioners of the Admiralty. Tardy though this concession is, it is for that reason, perhaps, only the more acceptable and the more entitled to our very earnest expressions of gratification. The Royal Al bert will, by reason of this change in the resolution of the Admiralty, be the means of inaugurating, we feel assured, a new and memorable era in the history of our maritime power. Satisfied upon this point, we are rejoiced to learn that she proved to be in a for- 'ard state when viewed on Friday last by Captain Sir BALDWIN WALKER, on the occasion of his visit to Woolwich Dockyard, for the purpose of inspecting the Agamemnon. So forward, indeed, that it is expected, after the requisite alterations to fit her with a screw propeller hare been effected, the launch of thii splendid vessel may take place _ before the close of 1852-1842 having witnessed her commencement, and ten years having been copse _ quently devoted to the labour of construction. After alluding to the facts above-mentioned, we rest satisfied ,hat every wellwieher of our navy will exult with ourselves in the realization of what we have long an ticipated, the screw-propeller being at last selected as the motive power to be applied to a magnificent vessel like the Royal Albert, a vessel of 120 guns, and 3,394 tons old measurement. Besides the Royal Albert there are the Sanspareil, of 100 guns, the J ames W att, and the Agamemnon, on two decks, of 80 guns—in course of being fitted a. power equival en t t o one - t hi rd of out w ith in action, seeing that she can ma noeuvre without her sails when the rigging is de stroyed. Aided by th© crew, many a vessel when off a lee shore, or in other dangerous predicaments, may be readily saved from shipwreck. It will not be through the judicious or statetman like conduct of her MAJEETYS Government, o r , we should rather say, of the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if one of its most important and valuable dependencies be still preserved to the British empire. We will not say that Australia is sacrificed, but most assuredly the bonds by which it is connected with the mother country are considerably weakened and Impaired through the obstinacy and perversity, or negligence and insouciance of Earl GREY or Sir CHARLES Woop. The errors of these Ali nisters are of a totally opposite character— the one doing too much, the other too little—the one being of commission, the other of omission ; but they are equally mischievous, inflicting the deepest injury on the colonists, either through vexatious interference and constant meddling, or through the most con temptuous and heartless indifference to, and disregard of, their just claims. To those at all acquainted with Sir CHARLES WOOD it is unnecessary to say that it is in his department that the do-nothing policy predominates ; that he - still considers every question in the penny-wise-and-pound-foolish spirit, and that he is at this moment alienating our Australian brethren, and holding out the strongest inducements to them to seek assistance from the United States, rather than risk a few paltry thousands per annum by conceding the postal facilities so urgently demanded by the colonists, and to which their rapidly increasing im portance so justly entitle them. The tardy proposition of establishing (not a bi-monthly communication, but) a mail once every two months—six times a year— was adding insult to injury, and inflicting intolerable provocation on the claimants. The errors of the noble brother-in-law of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, although equally mischievous, are of a less contemptible character, and we certainly should have greater hope of improve ment on his side than on that of his close ally and relative. He is unfortunately too deeply attached to the principles of centralization; too anxious to move all the wires and is sue all the commands from his office in Downing-street, and too much impressed with the idea that the interests, or the supposed in terests, of the parent State are alone to be considered in the management and government of our colonies, to be much moved by the representations which occa sionally find their way even from the antipodes to the inmost recesses of the Colonial-office. He thus ad judicates and decides on matters of vast importance on the most insufficient data, and is surprised at the discontent occasioned by regulations which would never have been framed or carried into execution had he possessed anything approaching to an accurate knowledge of the circumstances of the case, or the feelings of the colonists. We shall not now refer to the grievances arising from the erroneous principles on which the sales of Government lands have been conducted, or the refusal to bestow the privilege of " self-government" to the extent reasonably and justly required by the people. These versus questions are ;sufficiently annoying, and subversive of the good under standing that should be most strenuously cultivated ; but there is another grievance even of a more vexatious description, the evils of which are patent to the most superficial observer, and on which a remarkable unanimity of opinion prevails in all the Australasian dependencies, , which, we regret to say, is met by an unbending obstinacy, a stern deter mination on the part . of the Noble Earl, which he mis calls "firmness," but which may be designated by a different and more homely appellation. The demand so anxiously urged by the colonists, and so strenuously rejected by Earl GREY, is the dis continance of transportation to any of the Australian settlements. An Anti-Transportation League has already been formed, which may proceed to very formidable lengths so soon as the determined perti nacity or reckless perversity (as it may be termed) of the Colonial Secretary becomes known. The example afforded by the men of Cape-town —the sig nal victory which they obtained over the Govern ment, which endeavoured, contrary to their wishes so clearly and unequivocally expressed, to transform the Cape of Good Hope into a penal colony—the receptacle for our most depraved and hardened convicts, the offscourings of our popu lation, will not be disregarded by the Austra lians. Under the auspices of Earl GREY, a contest was rendered inevitable, in which the Colonial-office was signally, decisively, and disgracefully defeated ; and it is by no means improbable, that we may have a repetition of similar proceedings, and with similar results, in Australia. Such a course must be productive of the most dangerous consequences, which might be averted by a timely and gracefu concession. Within a few weeks past Mr. KING, a highly in telligent gentleman who had arrived on official busi. ness from the colony, laid the real facts of the case before his Lordship, and drew his attention to the question in its most important bearings. He pointed out the circumstances under which transportation to New South Wales had bean discontinued, and Van Diemen's Land made the sole receptacle for British criminals, and clearly and explicitly detailed the frightful moral and social evils which the convict system had entailed not only on that colony, but also on all the other Australian colonies to which the liberated felons repaired on ob taining conditional pardons available for any part of the Antipodes. More recently these pardons have ' been granted to whole shiploads of convicts imme- diately after their arrival. It may be difficult to understand the full extent of this grievance, but we may easily conceive that it must be of a very aggravated character, more particularly now that the gold regions hold out so many temptations to all unsettled persons. Mr. KING ably discussed the subject in all its bearings, and showed the natural state of irritation to which the public mind had been excited. Earl GREY was, however, . unmoved. He gave his views in favour of the system so loudly complained of, and declared that "he could hold out no hope that transportatio❑ to the originally convict colony of Van Diemen's land would be abandoned, nor that the Government would not continue to send transported offenders to such other of the Australian colonies as had consented or might hereafter consent to receive them." Issue is now fairly joined on this important question, and if the Legislature do not interpose at an early period of the session, and compel the Government to change their colonial policy, we fear that the consequences will be of an exceedingly formidable and unwelcome character. LONDON, EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE ELECTION. [BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.] .From a Third Editicn of the Morning Post, published at three o'clock). PARIS, MONDAY, DEC. 22, 2.11 P.M. Votes known at Lille, Rouen, Meilne, Valenciennes, and some towns in the provinces : Yes 173,000 No LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST RAIL WAY. Traffic—Week ending Dec. 2008.51 ... £8,341 Trwl Wcck cria;n e n., 91, IQCO 8,333 17 6 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 320,064 0 lu Total of the half-year, to this date, 1850 ... 292,889 17 11 Total number of Passengers—Week ending Dec. 20, 1851 ... 44,865 Passengers ... £6,467 1 10 Goods ... ... 1,877 3 7 Total ... £8,344 5 5 Total miles open, 1851, 173 i; ditto, 1850, 171 1 4. London Terminus, Dec. 22, 1851. Amongst the notices for application to Parliament for Bills in the ensuing session we observe one entitled " The Great London Drainage Company," being to incorpo rate a company for the purpose of effectually draining the metropolis, to collect the sewage from all existing sewers which are now emptied into the river Thames, and to pre serve the river from the impurities at present passing into it, by diverting them into a tunnel sewer, and to collect all the produce of the sewers for application to agricultural purposes. When we see the many great and advantageous schemes which have been carried into successful operation, surely the one noticed above, promoted by Mr. Morewood, cannot fail not only of being well supported, but warmly encouraged. CELEBRATION OF THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBER LAND'S BIRTIIDAT.—Monday last being the anniversary of the birthday of his Grace the Duk e o f N or th um b erlan d , the occasion was celebrated by a publi c di nner i n t h e t h eatre at Aluwick. The party was a very numerous one, numbering nearly '230 individuals, the theatre being completely filled. The company was principally composed of the tradesmen and others of Aluwick, and a sprinkling of the tenantry of his Grace. The chair was occupied by Mr. Mark Smith, bookseller.—Berwick Warder. PROFEISORSHIP OF POLITICAL ECONOMY AT OK. , Foun.—lt is announced that Mr. Barry, of Queen's College, has withdrawn from competition for the nest vacancy in the professorship of political economy. The contest will now lie between Mr. C. Neate, Fellow of Oriel ; Mr. R. Lowe, late Fellow of Magdalen; and Mr. G. K. Rickards, late Michel Fellow of Quesn'3, and formerly Scholar of Trinity. The candidates are all members of the bar. The present professor's term of office expires in March next. The ap pointment is in the members of convocation. MASONIC MUNIFICENCE. —We understand that Le Gendre Nicholas Starkie, Esq., the grand master of the free and accepted masons for this division of the county, has anwaesthlearteclhyu lrwchldwnigth a sum lately expended th e sum of 2,7001. in endowing schools in his neighbourhood, and h as also endowed a church with 601. out for an e li g ibl e pur per oftgagab-47idafntEn Standard. from 70/. to 1001. cpielraseantnouenin,daonvid EVENING,_ DECEMBER 22, 1851. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have rez:eived the Paris journals of Saturday and yesterday. Saturday, the first day of the Presidential election, passed off in Paris without the slightest appearance of disturbance. In the morning ;the proclamations to the people and to the army, issued by the PRESIDENT of the Republic on the 2d of December, were again placarded in all the principal streets. In the course of the day upwards of 100,000 electors voted in the department of the Seine. The voting was conducted with the most perfect order. The polling places were guarded by detachments of troops of the line and Na tional Guards. In the arrondissements of which the National Guard is dissolved the troops of the line alone were on duty. The number of electors in scribed in the department of the Seine amounts to 290,000. M. DE SESMAISONS having written a letter in which he protests against his name being published, as a member of a Consultative Commission, the Mo niteur of to-day announces that there never was an idea of making him one. The Consultative Commission is summoned to meet on Tuesday next, for the purpose of examining the votes on the Presidential election. It is announced in the Constitutionnel that the seven Communal Councils composing the arrondissement of St. Denis have voted an address of sympathy to the PRESIDENT of the Republic. It is also announced that addresses and adhesions of Municipal Councillors, National Guards, Chambers of Commerce, &c., have been presented from 115 places in thirty-eight departments. The Presse and the Pays have given their formal adhesion to the renewal of the power of Louis NA POLEON. The votes of the army and navy have been an nounced by a communication transmitted by subma rine telegraph from Paris on Saturday morning to be as follows : VOTE OF THE ARMY. For ... SociaF.St party proposed to the President that he should 'rely on them, and should choose a Ministry from their ranks. Lastly, on the Ist of December, in the evening, a pro position of aid (contours) was brought to Louis Napo leon, in the name of the Legitimatist chiefs. It may be thus seen that all parties, without excep tion, considered the position to be no longer tenable; all proposed to the President to help him to put an end to it. But each of these parties wished the President to rely on it alone, and Louis Napoleon refused to rely on any party—he relied upon France. - 111. The President of the Republic, threatened by two con spiracies, and bound by his responsibility as Chief of the State, had no longer any choice of conduct. The only choice that remained to him was in what manner he should devote himself to save France and Europe. In the first place, there existed a vast organization of brigands, directed by secret societies, ranging itself beneath the flag of what were termed Montagnard men, who, for the most part, assuredly, were not aware of the extent and of the nature of the abominations they were patronising. The Government was, however, acquainted with every mesh of this vast net. The pre cise and detailed reports of the various prefectures left no doubt as to the plans of pillage and massacre which would certainly have exploded in the month of May next, and which, moreover, might explode under cover of the very first crisis. There existed, secondly, a conspiracy, hatched by the old monarchical parties, coalesced against the President of the Republic. Their design was to overthrow him, and substitute in his place the dictatorship of the As sembly. The projects and the plans of, and the persons engaged in, the conspiracy were all perfectly well known to Louis Napoleon, and when, in the Constitutionnel of the 24th of November, we loudly denounced them, by name, the conspirators did not dare to summon us to the bar of the Assembly, because they supposed, not without reason, that we should appear there with dates, facts, and documents, and that we should have presented an indictment instead of a defence. This con spiracy of the old parties was so far advanced that amongst the papers of M. Baze have been found the or ganic decrees of the new government, the distribution of the principal places, and the preparations for taking arms, grounded on the presumed aid of the tenth legion of the National Guard of Paris. IV. Thus, the Constitution to which the Parliamentary men affected to pay an hypocritical veneration, was threat ened by them with speedy ruin. The President, charged with an immense responsibility, could hesitate no longer. Why should he hesitate ? Parties were notoriously powerless to effect the salvation of France, and their coa lition would not have sur►ived their triumph. Legality was every day aggravating the perils of society, by weakening the Executive Power, by strengthening Com• munism, by lessening the jurisdiction of the administra tion and of the law. The President was still master of his movements. In a few months it would have been too late for him and for all. In face of such perils, and penetrated with the confi dence.of six millions of men who had confided their des tines to him, and appreciating the duty that such a con fidence imposed on him, he resolved to save his coun try, knowing well that he was giving, as proofs of his loyalty, his head to the passions of the present, and his memory to the judgment of the future. It was immediately after the hostile act of the gores tors that the President took his resolution and his measures for an eventuality that was evidently very near. Three men were his confidants—M. de Saint Arnaud, Minister of War; M. de Morny, representative; and M. de Maupas, Prefect of Police. Louis Napoleon explained to them the immense dangers that threatened society, and which each day was aggravating. lie dis covered to them the designs he had formed fur the dissi pation of those dangers, and he asked them for their aid- All three promised it. M. de Morny, as Minister of the Interior, would answer for all the political responsibility ; M. de St. Arnaud for the military operations; and M. de Maupas for the action of the police. During more than a fortnight, these gentlemen, in conjunction with the President, determined o❑ every detail of this immense act, which the famous dix-huit Brumaire by no means equals, either in difficulty, in cleverness, or in grandeur. The least things were fore seen, concerted on, and prepared in detail, with such marvellous secresy, that even the safest friends and the most necessary agents had not the least idea of what was to happen, till the supreme moment which pre ceded the execution of the project. V. That all the measures that were to be taken should be effected simultaneously was evidently the first condi tion of success; the principal measures were four in number:—lst. The arrest of guilty or dangerous persons. 2d, The publication of official decrees. 3d. The invest ment and occupation of the palace of the Assembly; and 4th. The distribution of troops on the necessary strate gic points. Quarter-past six A.M. was the hour fixed upon for the simultaneous execution of all these measures. The plan was not to be discovered by some one of its parts, but was to be re►ealed by the action of all. At a quarter past six, the arrests were being made; at half•. past six, the troops arrived at their posts; at seven o'clock, the decree of dissolution of the Assembly and the other proclamations, left the Prefecture of Police, to cover the walls of Paris. At exactly half-past six, M. de Morny took possession of the Ministry of the Interior, accompanied by 250 chasseurs de Vincennes, and he placed in the hands of M. do Thorigny a letter, in which the President thanked that gentleman for his services, and communicated to him the decisive act he had re solved on. All that concerned the printing and publication of the decree dissolving the Assembly, of the proclamation to the army, and of the appeal to the people, bad been en trusted to M. de B4rille, lieutenant-colonel attached to the staff, and officier d'ordounance of the President. The necessary workmen were summoned to the National Printing-office for an urgent piece of work. The pre sence of the director was required at eleven o'clock pre cisely under a decent pretext. As midnight struck, a company of gendarmerie mobile, summoned to protect the office from an imaginary danger, entered the court yard. Sentinels were immediately placed at every door, and at every window. It was only after these precau tions that M. de Beville produced the documents which were confided to him, and whose printing and subse quent delivery to the Prefecture of Police he superin. tended in person. VI. The persons who were to be arrested by the police were of two descriptions-Ist, representatives more or less engaged in a flagrant conspiricacy ; and 2d, the chiefs of secret societies and the commanders of barri cades, always ready to execute the orders of factions. All these had been strictly watched for a fortnight by agents of whose presence they bad not the remotest notion; and of the agents not one was aware of his real mission, having all received various or imaginary orders. The total number of persons to be arrested was 78, of whom 18 were representatives, and 60 chiefs of secret societies and barricades. The 800 sergens de yille and the brigades of safety (de surete) had been ordered to attend at the Prefecture of Police at eleven o'clock at night on the Ist December. The alleged pretext for summoning them was the pre sence in Paris of some of the refugees from London. At half-past three on the morning of the 2d, the officiers de paix and the forty commissaires de police were summoned from their houses. At halt-past four all had arrived. They were placed in groups, apart, in sepa rate rooms, in order to avoid questionings. At five o'clock, the commissaires were all summoned, one by one, to the chamber of the Prefect, and received from his mouth the full and complete revelation of the truth, together with orders, indications, and the neces sary instruments. The men were, with great care, each appointed to the charge that best suited him, and they all left, full of seal and of ardour, resolved to accom plish their duty at any price. None failed to perform his promise. A great number of carriages, prepared beforehand, were stationed in groups on the quays, near the Prefecture, in the manner least calculated to excite atteniion. The arrests had so been arranged by the Prefect of Police and the Minister of War, that they should pre cede by a quarter of an hour the arrival of the troops on the appointed ground. The arrests were to be made at a quarter past six, and the officers had received orders to be at the doors of the persons pointed out to them at five minutes past six. Everything was effected with .Ttraordinury punctuality, and no arrest required more than twenty minutes. President was certain," said he. "He had no need to resort to a coup ditat —he gave himself much trouble for no purpose." On another cceasion he said, " When the President has a foreign war on his hands, he will be glad to seek me to give me the command of an army." VIII. The arrest of General Cavaignac was neither more difficult, nor did it demand more time. Having effected his entrance into the house, No. 17, Rue du Helder, the Commissaire Colin spoke as follows to the porter.— " Where does General Cavaignac live?" " Re's not at home." " I must speak to him ; I know he is at home." "He is not; besides, he is asleep. You come too early; his lodgings are on the entresol." The Commissaire proceeded thither, knocked at the door, and asked for the General. A female voice first replied, "Re is not here." A moment afterwards the commissaire rung again. Then a man's voice asked, " Who's there?" " A commissary of police—in the name of the law, open." The General then opened the door himself. The Commissaire said to him—" General, you are my prisoner. All resistance is useless. I have to secure your person in virtue of an order, which I will read to you. 'Tis useless." The General became very angry, struck his hand upon a marble table, and burst out into invectives. The Commissaire begged him to be moderate. The General looked fixed at him and said, " How 1 do you arrest me? Give me your names." "We will not hide them from you, General. But this is not the moment— you must dress yourself and follow me." The General then became calm, and said—" Very well, sir, I am ready to follow you—give me time to dress, and order your people out of the room." He asked, also, the permission to write, which was accorded to him. When the General was ready, he said to the commis sary—" Let us go, sir; I ask but one favour from you, that is, that I may go to my destination with you alone." The commissary at once granted this. During the ride the General appeared absorbed i❑ deep thought, which was only interrupted by these words—" Am I the only person arrested?" " General, I cannot answer that question." " Where are you taking me to?" "To Mans." ... 243,854 ... 16,384 ••• 845 Against _ Abstaining ... .. VOTE OF THE NAVY. For .. ••• ... 14,675 Against ••• ••• .. 4,830 Abstaining ... ••• 417 The decree of the Bth, respecting liberated convicts sn rupture de ban, and persons proved to belong to secret societies, has already produced a good effect. It has caused Paris to be freed of the greater part of the malefactors who had been released from the bagnes and the central prisons—they having taken to fight to escape transportation. A number of persons have, however, been arrested, and amongst them several noted convicts. The Government has received telegraphic dis patches from several departments announcing that the people were voting with the greatest eagerness. The elections go on with order both in town and country. A dispatch fram Toulouse announces the arrest of the three insurgent leaders at Mazarniel, and from Avranches of the arrest of Colonel MOUTON. The Debate of Saturday has, for the first time, a short leader highly praising the resolution of the Minister of War to reward the gendarmes who in the late troubles most signalised themselves by their courage and resolution. The article is significant of no deep hostility to the Government. We are told by a provincial journal that the Duo D'AUMALE has ordered all the persons who are charged with the administration of his immense private possessions to vote for Louis NAPOLEON. The Constitutionnel, as well as the Pays and the Press*, strenuously appeals to the country in his behalf. They all represent the question as one be tween government and anarchy. The Coltstitu tiennel promises that the delegation to LOUIS NA Po. ',sox of the necessary powers to found a Government shall be followed by years of peace, the interests of the country requiring that time should be given to repair the evils of revolutions by the revival of in dustry, commerce, and cultivation. The outspoken article in the Pays says— "Of the three forces of Government resulting from the Republic—the Constitution, the Assembly, and the President, the first two are annihilated—the President alone remains. If the President were to-morrow to be condemned by the majority of the count r y th ere would remain nothing of the Republic. Revolution would resume its course without obstacle. One out of two things would then happen. Either the army would go to the Elysia to seek Louis Napoleon Bonaparte and take him to the Tuileries, or,Demagogy would go to the Hotel de Ville, to there prepare th e G overnment of Terror and of Communism. In the former case we should have a military dictatorship; in the latter, a revolutionary one. We prefer a l eg i t i mate and regular government, the force of which will be right and law. France will think with us. It will like better to be governed than oppressed. *Yes, means a government; No, a revolution. Between a government and a revo lution France will have to choose. She has already chosen." General DE CMYTELLANE has, speaking in reply to a deputation of citizens of Lyons, used these remark able expressions " You are, Messieurs, under great obligations to Louis Napoleon; you may have your personal preferences, but at such a moment as this you ought to bury them in your heart. We ought all to rally round him, for he has doubted . r e saved the country. What we must now look to above everythingthese last circumstances t a atiee s and the e t ok safety place of ! I society. really the wbichw greatnessa preparing. of the evil, Doubt e and the is nowna tureno longer possible.irsciueric Wbat we have just witnessed is assassination, pillage, incendiarism—it is universal destruction. That which passes under our eyes explains what I never before had comprehended—how g rea t p eo pl es a nd great cities have fallen into decay and disappeared from the list of nations. Without doubt it was in follow ing such courses that these peoples reached annihilation. Two years ago I feared for a moment, when I saw family and property attacked, that we were entering on the same course, to alive at the same result. Happily, we need fear so no longer. The vigorous measures 1 which have just been adopt e d open to us bettor pros pects." The prefects of depart men t s i n ehe i r addresses hold similar o mistake Prefect o abtau of Oise,thet i for t —h tine qstuaenscteio, says, 6a,n ri g h u e ag re e. can n is clearly put betw een c i v i l i zation and barbar ism—between order and anarchy—b etween property and robbery—between religion and the most degrading cyni3nie." The Protestant congreg a ti on at S tras b ourg has given in i ts adhesion, t h roug h i ts pastor, to the measures taken by the P res id ent of the Re publicin the interest of F rance , put in peril by the violent struggles of parti es; an d i n the interests of religious and civil society, troubl e d t o i ts f oundat i ons by menaces of anarchy." Whatever, then, may be the future policy of the Government, there can be no doubt of the actual dangers of society, testified to as they are by general officers, by msgistrates, by j ourna li sts of h on ourable name, and by the correspondence, public and private, addressed to foreign pape rs or to i n di v i duals. The estimates made of th e num b er of votes likely to be given i n favour of Louis NAPOLEON'S demand for power to fou nd a ne w G overnment, range between six and eight millions. It appears that for more than fifteen days before , General ST. ARNAUD, M. DE the coup aut . ,. Louis NAPOLEON imparted his plans M. DE MAUPAS, the Prefect of Police. T ti\ol he ßt y hilr ie e p a t c: h dn is Mfi c d ounsel, and concerted their measures so well, that not one of the seventy•eight persons, whom it was determined to arrest on the night of the 2d of December, escaped them. We are indebted to the Morning Post for a con siderable portion of M. GRANIER D CASBAGNAC'S pamphlet on the events of the 2d of December. The Paris Correspondent of our Contemporary writes as follows _ ' promised to you yeßto.a .• .udien . tique des evenements de Di ., quotations from M. Grainer de Cassagnac. I f orwar d to you the d' the '° recit e fi °l ; 77 : 2 lt Pb p iPy ortion of the work—at least one-third of the whole, and by far the moat interesting portion, as the latter part of the ricit contains the Presidents proclamations and half a hundred other things with which the public are already perfectly acquainted. I recommend the narrative to your readers' attention, as it throws new lights on the coup d'etat, and r e l a t es many of its most interesting details:— THE RECIT. I. The situation in which France was placed by the systematic hostility of the Assembly, and the flagrant conspiracies of the old monarchical parties, was in tolerable. It was impossible to work or to govern. All things suffered—agriculture, manufactures, commerce, laws, authority, and society—all endured a common agony. The Assembly prevented the execution of railways, and such pnblic works, by incessant delays and imprac ticable systems. The Assembly checked the vigorous action of the executive, necessary for the repression of Socialism, by refusing to pass a law which permitted the Chief of the State to dismiss unworthy mayors. The Assembly refused the gratitude and considera tion due to the services of the army, by rejecting the modest demand which was made, with a view to succour the misfortunes of old soldiers. The Assembly refused the revision of a senseless Constitution, which delivered France, bound hand and foot, into the hands of communism and demagogy. The Assembly refused the revision, though it was demanded by more than two million petitioners, by the immense majority of tho councils of arrondissement, and by eighty out of eighty-six councils general of the departments. II- The situation, then, was intolerable. It was necessary to put an esd to it. All parties felt this. In starting fur their departments, at the time of the prorogation of the Assembly, t great number of Conservative representa tives, i❑ titling leave of the President, conjured him to dissolve the Assembly before the time of its re-as sembling. At the stme period, the party which is termed that of fusion, caused overtures to be made to the President, to offer its alt in saving society, and to join him in the event of its becoming indispensable for him to make a coup d'itat. . _ _ A few drys before the meeting of the Assembly, in November, representatives belonging to the Red and YIL Some of the arrests present characteristic traits, and it may be of some interest to relate the particulars of some of the principal ones. All the details that are here given are scrupulously exact, haring been extracted from the official document. The most important of all, that of General Changer nier, was confided to two men of rare energy, the Com vtissaire de Police, Leras, and Captain Baudinet, of the Republican Guard. They were assisted by 15 chosen police agents, 30 of the Republican Guards, and a pic quet of 10 horsemen. At five minutes past six the Cononissaire de Police rang at the door of the house of the General, No. 3, Rue de Faubourg St. Honore. The porter, as usual, asked" Who's there?" The reply was, " Open the door, I wish to speak to you." The porter, however, refused to open. It was evident he w as on hi s guard. The agent who bad spoken to him was directed, in a whisper, to carry on the conversation with the porter, so as to divert him from giving the alarm to the General. In the same house, and beside the entrance door, is a grocer's shop—some customers were already in it. The commissaire was struck with the idea that the shop might probably communicate with the courtyard of the house. He entered, asked in an imperative tone for the key of the door that communicated with the court, and obtained it. Ho thus penetrated into the house, followed by his agents. The porter, however, had already given the alarm by ringing belle, which were hung in the General's apartments. His servant was found on the landing•place of the first story above the entresol• The key of the apartment, which he had in his hand, was taken from him. The commissaire opened the door and entered. At the same momenta bed-room door was opened, and the General appeared in his nightshirt, with naked feet, and a pistol in each hand. Th© commissaire rushed to him, and put down his arms, saying, " What are you about, General; we do not seek your life—there is no need to defend it." The General remained calm, gave up his pistols, and said, "I am yours (Je sues A veils), I will dress myself." The General was dressed by his servant, and said to the Commissaire, "I know that M. de Maupas is a gen tleman—have the kindness to say to him from me, that I hope that his courtesy will not allow him to deprive me of my servant, whose assistance is necessary to me" (dont je ne puis sue passer). His request was at once granted. On his way to prison in the vehicle, the General spoke of the event of the day. "The re-election of the IX. When the commissary of police, Blanchet, presented himself at No. 11, Rue Las Cases, the house inhabited by General Lamoriciere, the porter refused to give a light or point out the apartment of the General. The commissary rung at the door of the first story; a servant opened and instantly shut the door. Ho looked out again, holding a lamp in his hand, and per ceiving the scarf of the commissary, put out his lamp, and ran away by a back staircase, shouting out " Thieves 1" Ho was stopped by the sergens de ville in the street. He then gave himself up, and conducted the commissary to his master's room. At first the General said not a word; then he cast his eyes on the chimney-piece, and asked his servant what had become of the money he had left there. The ser vant having answered that it was safe, the General asked for his clothes and dressed himself. The commissary said to him, " Sir, the observation you have just made wounds me." " How do I know that you are not rob bers?" said the General. The commissaire showed him his scarf. The General was silent. M. Blanchet then said to him, " General, I have re ceived orders from the Prefect of Police to treat you with every possible respect (egard), and if you will give me your parole that you will not try to escape, I will have you placed in a brougham and I alone will accom pany you." The General replied, " I will give nothing. I will answer fur nothing. Do as you please with me." He was then placed in a hackney-coach, with agents of police. Opposite the post of the Legion of Honour, the General put his head out of the window, and at tempted to harangue the troops. The commissaire did not allow him to utter a word, and observed that he should be obliged: to treat him harshly if he made an other attempt. The General replied, " Do as you please." On arriving at Mazes, the General became much more calm. He begged the commissaire not to seize his pre cious arms, and to send him cigars, and a History of the French Revolution. The commissaire fulfilled his wishes. • General LeflO, who resides at the Questuro, was in bed. The Commissaire Bertoglio woke him up, and ) made him acquainted with his orders. Lie rose and dressed, threatening the commissaire, and abusing the • President—" Napoleon wishes to make his coup d'ottat. We will shoot him at Vincennes. As for you, we won't send you to Nouka Hiva, for we will shoot you with I him." The t.:ommissaire replied that he (the General) • could make no resistance, that Paris was in a state of siege, and that he ought to be aware of the conse quences. In getting into a carriage, the General attempted to apostrophise the colonel of the 42d, and wished to ha rangue the soldiers. Colonel Espinasse ordered him to be silent, and the soldiers presented their bayonets at him. In going from the Assembly to Mem, General Leflo did not utter a single word. XI. General Bedeau lived at No. 30, rue de l'Universite":, a large house, where there were several staircases. The Commissaire Hubaut did not know which led to the General's apartments, or on which story they were situated. On applying to the porter, ho said, " I've never seen you before, and at such an hour you must be one of the people who prowl abort." He at last gave way, and guided the commissaire to the apartment. The servant half opened the door, the commissaire pushed it open. The servant ran away, the commissaire followed, and reached the General; ho communicated his orders to him. The General was overwhelmed, but soon recovering from his surprise, he protested against the violation of the Constitution, and said to the commissaire, " You place yourself without the pale of the law. You must not forget that lam a representative of the people. You can arrest, since you do not state that you arrest me in flagrante deliete." He next protested that he did not conspire, and asked for the name of the commissaire. On receiving it he said he had seen his name honourably mentioned in the journals, and that he was so much the more astonished to think that he could arrest a General, a Vice-Presi• dent of the Assembly, a soldier who had shed his blood for the cause of order, who knew how to risk his life, and who, if he had had such an intention, could have already overturned several. The commissaire replied that his duty was to execute not to comment upon his orders—that if the General knew how to defend his life, he also was ready to sacri fice his own in the performance of his duty—that it was necessary he should submit without violence, or that, otherwise, he should be obliged to have recourse to extreme measures. He ordered the General to got up. The General dressed himself with excessive slowness. At the mo ment of starting, his face became overcast and angry. He put his back to the chimney, and said, " Now, I will not go—l will not leave this room, unless you take me hence as a malefactor, unless you dreg me hence, unless you dare to seize me by the collar —me, the Vice- President of iheNational !Assembly!" The commissaire said to him, " Do you admit that in my mission I have made use of proper proceedings to wards you?" "Yes," replied the General. The commissaire then seized him. He made a very strong resistance, and was carried into the carriage. He cried out " Treason! to arms; I am the Vice-President of the Assembly, and they are arresting me." It was all useless—the carriage started, and"the sergens de ?idle followed it. On arriving at Mains, he apostrophised a company of the Republican Guard, which remained deaf to his words. At the Registry he met Generals Leila, Changarnier, and Cavaigaac. He embraced the last. XII. Colonel Chdrras, who lived at No. 14, rue St. Honore, refused at first to open his door; but seeing it about to be burst open. He said, " Stop, I will open it." Ho did so. The Commissaire Coureille notified his orders to him. The Colonel said, " I had foreseen this—l ex pected it—l might have saved myself, but I would not quit my post. I believed that it would have been done at least two days earlier, and believing that, I had charged my pistol—but I have now drawn the charge," and he showed . , a double-barrelled pistol. The commissaire seized it, " If you had come that day," said the Colonel, " I would have blown your brains out." He got into the carriage without resistance. Pre sently, he asked where they were taken him to. As the commissaire hesitated to reply, he said to hire, " Are you taking me to be shot?" The commissaire then told him that he wao being eflnrineted to mazAs. At the prison M. Charras becsme animated, and re quired the authorities to put "representative of the peo ple" on his order of arrest. The Commissairo Boudrot entered the chamber of the celebrated M. Charles Lagrange, No. 27, rue Casimir Perier, at the moment that he was getting up to inquire what the cries of terror of his servant, who had just opened the door, meant. M. Lagrange protested. He said that the constitution was violated, that he had but to fire a pistol out of win- dow, and the people would rush to arms; but if be wished to defend himself, ho could kill them (the police), and that they should employ force before they should make him prisoner. A great number of political papers were seized —t wo pistols, a regulation musket, two moulds for balls, car tridges, three poignards, and a cavalry sabre, numbered 478, recognised by the quarter-master of the Republican Guard, Kerkan, as having formerly belonged to him, and as having been stolen on the 24th of February, from the barracks whore he was living. In going to Mazes, M. Charles Lagrange repeated several times—" The stroke is bold; but it's well played." At Mszas, M. Lagrange addressed M. de Lamoneire, and said to him, " Well, General, we meant to have done for him, but 'tis he that has done for us." Aous voulaines le f— dedans, nulls c'est lui qui nous y met. XI V. M. Greppo, the ardent Socialist, lived at No. 15, rue do Ponthicu. Ile had a complete arsenal hidden under his bed. Amongst other things were found an enormous battle-axe, freshly sharpened, two poignards, a loaded pistol, and a superb bonnet rouge, bran now. On the ar rival of the Commissaire Groubier and his agents, M. Greppo was plunged into a state of complete prostra tion. On being questioned as to the things found under his bed, he answered th a t h e h a d bought them because he had a taste for the navy. Madame Greppo, who is a woman of great energy, addressed her husband in a most energetic manner:—" Is it possible," she said, "to possess so little resolution as to let oneself be ar rested without resistance?" But neither these words nor the sight of the battle axe could animate M. Greppo—"How could he help it?" writes an ocular witness. "M. Greppo fut saisi d'un derangement, auquel it dut eatisfaire." MONDAY , e ri , lOa hin T d h r e ar a x r e r , est of M. Baz 3 was Made withou t sr/Y1 3 1 'I• aemTp_Exunhabe‘vv.iticgaweteaußretstsrieu.dwn,t, :at sthhetoehvcodeuoraginhieasilkttaaehi and cost.ed of apcr 3 o n 0 . 1 g'' t ' t 0 r , Georges, M. Baze r • toted unguibus et rostro, like one of the 3 neys that Petronius calls vultures togati. XVI. entered G the bed-room of M. Thiers, Toeo l, Via°sjr, be errip"resielaamtivceim,,e to make a search in V u . r - no w h aotdthriwd:s n :eh, o ril. csao3r.hsno”teuwm assuranceiel a l n h i to r o t dysoeo:uol. De l o n o ye a oe r ue 5 1 i s t a e ry i3 ; 3f , h d rr i a s n M , j : r h tu ! s i tac t h e a an ine i n Ard ou l i s g li . I sra h l : s t at c hd a ui ce p ; swhcliiiaeska:l Yfiaia,idinrireotguuo_bpsailb:ahlealendiiecsedePhura.irliesitasatisilYcjibnllwe'{i:hbe;arlti::lobdirSellestit: know lhf it 1 to the bus mthya I cannot discuss any point with you; I mast yon are doing •on o f II w ay bring oar d "Nothingti‘hty, a lC 4. I I tciasnanoctouapodsw•tetartytohuart yinotuel!preeeteiocatisn.g c poi yea , " I do not k s n h o a goodness to get up." know." M. me in the exacta to tecl?'''' my " Doyou know whether I alone am arres an act, b ' ut, colleagues in the same plight?" M. Thiers got up and dressed slowly, re b cool sistance of.d to t ' , i be 551 brau ' tit 1 k shall m i 1 s ll prevent ibelieve,r e ‘ *thea a uMa n Pa n y gP. y t : h n' reitansle Thie rs, o l f e S l tehu h hda e atdvto k ee y i n n btol jldyl are I ir year 11:7 ; 31 k bil. o ni : 0 9 if : esti I/11:: I 11141 itt you possess knowledge " s ates , I' s " Are you aware of the law ? Do 1 0 - execute the order i s lse you My ye business is Constitution?: _,d besid e . / have executed Pe politics;) h or b r e e i 1 that he to itie , a 3 ' b Is' k y 0 u rwds n gh o wei t , chttheooneadysriusoepcuuegsrwisivoeirvneit tomh roiyojoinsuet,.Per jo ferelewooo s ] terior." Viers, i A se l expressing his surprise at this, 3 1 4 ' wire'scorrespondence nmdaednec e i in rho fcoaubsind.e t ejrifiib er:roferieifj: te , ;del ° I° t,44' England, always sent all his political cores!) ~:. boo& ‘f Ivhe and that nothing would be found 1 3 u.riitt, g• hat When begged to walk down stairs, 00 0 ,f„ i s by 413 t Thiers plishment of him to movements.tb When M. He was led to believe that they.oecr,bst the to , their duties. appeared troubled, fearful, and besitsottp_iookil 1.,h o Prefect of police. The du d ' be es. I ti carriage deavoured took augmented his appreliensiosootes: ;eta ig avowed, rreasonings, le lit lngs to divert oats froin . too agents 1441 , A octie t r ogneinteroaubte, abandoned) all sorts of captious and woo he could have • Thiers arireisv'ed at MOO, be as,itesvrerf 01' Ago tention w -- _ • as paid to him. Bis courage, b did his cafe au fait as at borne 1 1,(030,51:10 11'4%) u, 6 C eti rise above the level an oiledhim in Dispensed by of hi. Greppo in firo3 s• ,t at 9 °:, ,i • orae of cora panied a high will from iraprie_o__ to i l ls ,4 his M. Thiers was provisionally brought boa's.scoadue`, t,' According to a new decision he !ft' of Sebli,„ 11,p,i to the The right bank of the Rhine, stub,he Driugsto f e tch 5 4 EI officier de paix, ,Veindenba welltober, at 0 44 1 the Thiers , . . from his house on the 6h 0 fruitful tears, if they o clock at • f p e Fe e _ fr et I , o ki priso need e 5 _ it night. M Mignet and anogu,re .ttsseu;, t t a R • ailway and ail , M. Grangier de la Abrieust ii nied him ', Ip h , to K e hl. A r g ru'l .4 L M. Thiers . to the terrainas of too „oats!) vas At th e bl aze] moment of starting, and daring Iti:001310,'°.; 1,,,e nutes of travel, M. Thiers wept much. J ll5 , tio for, Poi t I brought to Kati many revolutionary so 03anY kof t - "ii acts; bitter t teachings and , ,sotbres oileti alst vexation of ears if they were but toe t_i_bigioo, ity 14,1 toP jif or ti fro® an Frankio a jealous and insatiable . ~, Ss unlook dfh • h thout digow to MIL e c l at . e- or eig t,.wi .Ira f ora 'en' were shed a 9 an espla eoottihe 6_ gol of tY, On arriving the officier de paix, V eiciden m et o s protest against the act o f the new goverai heetisb ,0 letter rt, and thence to Dresden, to of at Kehl, M. Graingier debalcabt e ie t th i: jo 441,1 thanks for the attentions that hatsv, goOe'et M. Thiers announced that be 4 wo ole p is an old • friend with whom he should ,seek ". painting. where aAistrocao v"ees thb eult' tdha ens es m e, ar u uc l ad t a : : Simultaneously a, cad S e gi G sta u n ii t i l e y r, co n tinued Philippe, e pu h n 1 i a dc n i d ai nad h ce a vf vi tei gq a l au r bs er eh d t i ee li d e P w o 7l l i iii ttlliifelwee:3el offrirsol subjoined XVI s the oi, with the represenhi" i,f th e .or chiefs of the secret societies, 0 0 ?`; be ilig ,; e 0 ,swceore.arrested. These arrests soctetieat © ;pea esceep, results. Boireau ' are some Hemibeulatri es : I A t cit. , Although are Kuck,Six,Meanier , Crousse, essentially delicate in its OS bt as to . cs o , confided g t suit, eitheroothe army could leave no dell.. of the ter of War. deP li In fact h , RllsC°r° 0011 at did Louis N apoleon Tbe of a l • . army —a throne? By no 004°' 9titl t ( 'e Louis Napoleon Not in the least. ote e jot o indof tho President or 4o asked the arrnY top o to tr i° ,,, ea' against the enterprises of factious Men , ° f eleeie;obi lemuly the streets until ten milliolls ° a t heir a vote. consulted, should have made k°°°l , to e° A •rOcei 01l mission so simple, !dal, c° be at' e arm — ~y so admirably so n oble, so -,. bat accepted an, disciplined, could n ot tht c : It was o a l Puntually fulfilled. raier f til e 0 ° •a ° V hours before the i , the e--• err ifo" coup—that moment fixe d f o r der-ia of , o ft army of Paris, General m r oan k agnee, core ,oiot op o d and received was summoned to tbe I th e 01 0 0 11 of the m from him at tho same 60 d the a ee ,ci 0 1 , orders f easures that were to be taken, an 400 had th i° read ror their execution. General N h e lltiiii efi ca' eneived communication of the Pr°"' 0 0 , J o 0 11 strafed eventuality, t the necessity of the inseurebstelg,rect ie be warned him , and he had requested ill,be ree le act. at isthe moment when hod show. o d cils.c di There tieb g° at in the army such good sense an s sOO at the ' of Paris, that every regiolell, , fts minute i d . 43e , 1 0' Colonel n leated. tb e Id charged to Espinasse, Commander of t he d oll five Ass invest andoccupy the l'elecedpj 01011°' a embly. The or .., el ets. Assembly wir by Colo ° he .0 c e battalion of the who 42c1 emeaSedeCi VI o f 0 gig() t exercised . , c bly . Colonel E • 1 ~.,, ~f• or t brl, 0 , and strongspinasse is an otneer ü be 005. self resolution,. and has one 011:41ed bite ia JO' reputations in the army. lie and , ea tlf c oal' pecially at b_ ,• the 5 i......, 3 a mor e r - 0 0 3711a' in several'g of Rome ' g`n heti l fb‘ mended the hard-fought coa l— ' a 0 rear-guard. , attire s 30 At a u XVIII. v4eitlees' flec'tlie the gatecl f aller past c six Colonel ..--. the pr. Bourgogne.o the Assembly which fac es „ s o se ° c oile‘!, chef de Eat He caused it to be ()riled' `" jec i the A 1 , 1 1 31 ' battalion, The chef i whilst his 0000 °Cetlersede" oel3lt:j superior offie battallion was regulsrlf l ac y fro! en ter the cer , and the b4ttalion 00 P oduth'e49°.lieen' the Lo • barracks. At the same time that ; r es e i " each gislative Palace, three Coa3tais.el'od, cbaa arrest accompanied the by 1() agents, also att ic it ed e ;l ' The Hall iumsture. A d • ' 4 0,4 1 1 0, cupied of the Assembly being stirtiolfPs6,olol3,,; de Persi without the least diffieUßY, ° Aeliatel 0 1 Ir portent o g e nY , . who had assisted at this “otiat di' Elyi4e. p ration, went to give an s' ee Tl' e t. ~,, Ooti r : e t ' 1 1 .. 1 : Public Five Securities continue to its At t''' g o 'Celt * Per Cents. A cl° Qt r 0)f , 25c. for the ts. opened at 102 f • and 1,0,, closed at end of the month. The osre.bit''' 6 65f. c 90c. Orleans Railresail eat fortos 516 f. Rouen,2sc i• ; Havre, 237 f. 50e. ur475c,; oforP 1761. . ; Avignon, 2201. • Vierzoe, 4%cfj i c , lye' 423 f. 25c.;75e ordeaux, 401 f. 25c. 2 501.; facisAraiees 4 logne, 9... • ../ Of. Tours and Nantes, 2801.; 4 "" ,r TV i'S M BUSINESS Do MICA' q 0 Oi l LONDON STOCK EXCIIO.6" , "'di, l'i Indian, 204" and Amiens, 10%—Putch lihe°f 0,31'0°4 —Orleans A —Luxembour 2'A ...—tiortheill,oo, "'di, I ; and Strasbourg, and Bordeaux, •I'''% Paris Old ;;',.„," Meuse, 33 —Tours na , za—Rouen ands, gsfre, 9 A dAt Tours and Nantes, 7 e% iLit' Aladrid journals ------ofTlAl6lt-Nh ;lis t ' ..., - t' fir I)l3 ' i' 1 riles' -ls e We • 9 v , '4 The nister pawsaioQf QUEEN had exsppeereie;ced . 9°lsj -pee , 12 F at had given ig' . hopes o f a a delifer' , Oa t )1 1 ' toireles 0 l' poaifs Public Works. It was sfil be C lib ii i v fi b i l ii i g oo .d oat the . II t d o ra l A t r w a the 'llo'l' the occasioned Government by his refusal to sign theld fool u e z frompusricghnaosressAttureAisircu,ta opted to to # the of the Cortes. No definitive resolution had beef il e rels re-assembling , Jeer e . h lb` The Madrid Gazette publishes ts a r O. o f vi er ov e tive to the sale of some church llid :i V ilbic °‘ It purchase Three money will be received i ll 00 , t he I' per Cent. Stock. eO O at3 ol The Three per Cents. were clog, - COOK 368 cash i the Five per Cents. at 161; Debt without Interest, 58• 1 ,Je r Y O l. GERMAN Y• a Clis' - o f l', o l!' its sitting of the 16th the See° l3 o9 itioe o t ',I Hanover adopted, against the oPPiloyereil!,vect!o Ministry, a resolution inviting the Go coP tt , iP the latter M i n i s t e r from lay before the Chamber all the doclivienrder Diet. appeal of the E liti with the latelol3ll.o to fl 's s i p Pe The Kreuz Zeitui that there' tiog ig states,f, of the Emperor • 13..8y, Vi and Empress of P , u - • 0 Deb during the e • ce a 1 0 tb oaj ensuing spring. The Austrian Cabinet bas anyi°ll°ol)6tl to ses . circular note to the German Governoierlvtioajoicl ,°0 it regrets Prussia will not accept its O f ' be .o 1 to 00 e an envoy to the Commercial Congress a lters tio Or Vienna, this questriao '' refusal will not inalie anY bela A its. Ibe A P . plan, and that the Conference W'i CO' 0 11 pointed. aria° P r , c ol i ns urr i e: iitori : il l; t 3 A Munich letter states that the DO ca ilieg a iii l d, had rejected the motion of a dePillot for r s cc ° f o pardoned a na hro n d amnesty dd tt f ah o ke r e nn p e o r pn s a. o rc n to s i n in . the.c o i n i : d e e:chei., o sv i 0, , , ri ii i, offences. Upon this the KING' O tP 0 A d i Cl i tt ll ' mllllB9 lO „ o p er Bavaria, to the number of 168. The Archduke ALBERT, civil 01 3 ' 4 '-- tO le 150 3 1 nor of Hungary, left Vienna on the Pesth, .5 ,t 1 11 5 1' :ttf O l t 1 1 t k , 0 54 -t.% ttr k till p ea l ]