The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-12 00:00:00

FRANCE.
THE NATIONAL GUARD DISBANDED.
(BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.'

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MoxD.►v M 011741240.
Tho National Guard is dissolved throughout
Prance, bat it will be re-organized wherever the
Government may deem it necessary for the main-
tenanco of public order. In such places the Presi-
dent will appoint tho commandant, colonels, and
lieutenant-colonels.

BANISHMENT OF EIGHTY-THREE REPRE-
SENTATIVES.
BATIILDAT EVENINO,
The Moniteur of this morning will stand as one of
the blackest records of the revolution of the 2il of
December. It contains three lists of proscription,
which niay compare in iniquity with the most ter-
rible and vindictive decrees of any era of political
revulsion, ancient or modern. The alternate retalia-
tions of the bloodthirsty parties of Marius and Sylla
in the dying days of the Roman Republic, the lolls
of eminent senators marked down for exile and beg-
gary. by Octavian Clesar and Mark Anthony in the
opening of their ruthless triumvirate; tho deeds of
the Comiti.• do Saint public in the reign of Terror,
alone can challenge competition with the acts which
arc announced to us by the Muniteur of this morn-
ing. At one fell swoop, without trial of any sort,
by a stroke of the pen, 66 representatives chosen by
the nation to legislate for their country, men includ-
ing talents of the first order in a variety of depart-
ments, by one scratch of the dictator's pen arc expa-
triated from France, and not only this, but arc pushed
from the frontier with the incredible menace that, if
they re-enter their country, they will subject them-
selves to transportation. A second list of seventeen
representatives, including the most illustrious French
statesmen and generals of the day, are also banished.
The government apparently is not so ready to make
public the penalty with which these also have been
threatened in case of their re-entering the French
territory. But the most daring violation of all rights
remains to be told. Five representatives arc trans-
ported to Cayenne. The name which heads this
last list is that of Marc Damian°. His crime
apparently is a speech which he made in the
,Assembly, justifying the decapitation of Louis
XVI., a measure voted by the statesman who
had the chief finger in concocting the constitution
proposed by Louis Napoleon to the French people.
fhe condemnation of these five representatives of the
Mountain to the fate of felons in a pestilential penal
colony is certainly the most atrocious feature in
theseiniquitous decrees. I now proceed to give you
the decrees as they appear in the Monaeur :

?MINCH II . _ PLIILIC.

In the name of the French people, Lows Napoleon, Presi-
dent of the ltepublic, decrees:
Art. 1. Are expelled from the French territory, from
that of Algiers ansl of the colonies, for the sake of general
safety, the former representatives of the legislative assem-
bly, whose names follow :—E. Valentin, I'. Itacouchot, A.
Perdiguier, E. Cholat, L. Latradc, M. Renaud, J. Benoit
(du Ult(mo), J. Burgard, J. Colfavru, J. Faure (du RhAuc),
P. Ch. G.unbon, C. Lagrange, M. Nadaud, B. Terrier, V.
Hugo, Cassel, Signard, Viguier, Charressin, Bandscpt,
Savoye, Joly, Combier, Boysaet, Dueh6, Ennery, Guilgot,
Hochstuhl, 11f ichot-Boutet, Beane, Bertholon, Schcelcher,
Do Flotte, Joigneaux, Laboulaye, Bruys, Esquires, Madier-
Montjau, N. Parfait, E. Nan, PeUetacr, Respell, T. Bee,
Bancel, Belie (DrOsne), Besse, Boureat, Drives, Chavoix,
Dulac, Dupont (de Donee), G. Dussoubs, Gaiter, Lafon,
Lamargue, I'. Lefronc, J. Leroux, F. Maigne, Malardicr,
Mathieu (DrUme), Millotte, Rosclli-Mollet, Charms, Saint-
Ferriol, Sommler, Testelin (Nord.)
Art. 2. In the cue in which, contrary to the present
decree, one of the individuals designated an the first article
should re-enter the territories interdicted to him, he may
be transported by measure of public safety [that is, by
decree of the executive power] .—Done at the Palace of the
Tuileries, the council of ministers having been heard, Jan.
9, 18.i'2.—Loots N•VOLZUN.

You will observe that the President in this decree,
one of the first issued from the Tuileries, drops the
patronymic designation of his family, and signs him-
self in sovereign style Louis Napoleon. The decree
is countersigned by Do Moray, Minister of the In-
terior. The names of the proscribed, as you will
perceive, belong all to members of the Mountain.
The second decree is as follows:

Art. 1. Are from the present moment banished from the
French territory, and that of Algiers, for the sake of gene-
ral security, the former representatives of the Legislative
Assembly, whose names follow :—" Duvergierde Ilauranne,
Criton, General de Lamoriciere, General Changarnier,
Base, General Le Flo, General Bedeau, Thiere, Chambolle,
Do lUmusat, J. de Lasteyrie, E. do Oirardin, General
Laidet, I'. Duprat, E. Quint, A. Thottret, V. Chautfour,
Versigny."
Art. 2 They cannot enter France or Algeria except by
virtue of a special authorisation of the President of the
Republic.

The non-official part of the Moniteur begins with
the following statement relative to the lists of pro-
scription :
The government, firmly determined to prevent any cause
of troubles, has taken measures against certain persons
whose presence in France might impede the re-establish-
ment of tranquillity. These measures are applied to three
categories. In the first, are the individuals convicted of
having taken part in the recent insurrections; they will be
transported to French Guiana or to Algeria, according to
their degree of guilt. In the second, are the recognised
chiefs of socialism; their residence in France would be
likely to foment civil war ; they will be expelled from the
territory of the republic, and will be transported should
they return to it. In the third category, are included the
political :nee who have made themselves remarked by their
violent hostility to the government, and whose presence
would be a cause of agitation; they will be temporarily ex-
pelled from Franco. Under existing circumstances, the
duty of the government is firmness; but it will know how
to exercise its repressive measures within Just limits. The
different decrees which vmede only regard the ex-repre-
sentatives. Marc•Dufraasee, Greppo, Mint, hiath4, and
Richardet, will be transported to French Guiana.
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Five hundred and seventy-five prisoners, arrested
for bang concerned in the resistance manifested to
the coup d' itat, were conveyed last night from Paris
to Havre, in order to be transportedto Cayenne.
523 of these were confined in the fort of Bickre, and
of the remaining 20 came from Clamecy, in: the
department of the Nievre. They were escorted by a
detachment of lancers.

Among the few eminent members of the Mountain
who have escaped proscription may be mentioned
MM. Michel (do Bourges) and Cremwux. The latter
pleaded on Thursday before the Civil Tribunal of
Chaumont, department of the Haute-Marne, as
advocate of the town of Chateauvillain, in an action
between it and the Orleans family.
The ratifications of the treaty on literary property
between France and England were yesterday ex-
changed between Lord Normanby and the French
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
During the absence of the Marquis of Normanby,
the Hon. George S. Stafford Jerningham, Secretary
to the British Embassy at Paris, will act as charge
d'affaires.

You may rely on the exactness of the following
details, which I am enabled to send you concerning
the mode in which the liberation of the prisoners of
Ham was effected. M. Gustavo Lahon, private se-
cretary of the Minister of the Interior, was charged
with this delicate duty. It was proposed to General
Changarnier to convey him either to Dover, or to a
place within the Belgian frontier. The General
answered that ho did not wish to go to Dover, as he
was not rich enough to live in England nor
did ho like to visit a land where ho should
make his country blush for the poverty of ono who
had served her. For tho rest the General exhibited
not the least emotion on receiving the announcement
that ho was to be liberated from the fortress of Ham,
but said briefly that ho was ready to start. General
Loth), when visited for the same purpose, fancied at
the first moment, apparently, that ho was going to
be shot. But his courage did not forsake him,
although ho did not apply the same hard
terms to Louis Napoleon as when ho was con-
ducted from the Assembly to the prison Mazes.
M. Bozo complained with much sharpness that he
was deprived, by this arbitrary sentence of exile,
from exercising his profession, the bar, which was
his only means of existence. General Lamoricire
protested indignantly against what ho termed the
infamous conduct of the government. It is said that
General Changarnier is about to establish himself at
Lige, in order to relieve the Belgian government
from the embarrassment which his presence
at Brussels would occasion, in consequence of
the umbrage with which such a residence would be
viewed by the present occupant of the Tuileries.
Perhaps, indeed, the Belgian government has been
obliged to promise that the chief exiles shall not
he allowed to.remain in the capital. When Changer-
nier reached Valenciennes, a dispute arose between
the authorities and his escort, the former imagining
that it was a stratagem fur effecting his escape, and

discrediting the warrant shown. The General stood
apart from the strife, saying that it was not his
business to interfere between the parties who were
contending -for the possession of his person. At
length the party was allowed to proceed.
It is said the Owed d'Eta! will have 40 members,
with a salary of 25,000 francs. It is added that the
members of the senate will receive the same salary
with the option of refusal. Thirty generals are said
to be already designated for senators. On being
raised to this rank, they will, however, cease to re-
ceive their full pay.
It is said that in consequence of the seizure of a
correspondence of the Prince do Joinvillo in the pos-
session of MM. Duznier du Haar:lime and Chain-
bolle, serious proposals have been made by per-
sons in the confidence of Louis Napoleon to take
severe measures against the house of Orleans, and
even to sequestrate their properly in case of
their being caught plotting fur the downfall of the
present relyinae.
It is said that in consequence of the votes of the
Polytechnic School having been all negative, it is in
contemplation to giro this establishment a purely
civil character. The same is reported concerning the
Ecole d'Application at Metz, where the same result
occurred.

The decrees iu tho Moniteur have produced a bad
effect at the Bourse. _ _

The strangest and most incredible reports are rife
about events in Algeria, from which colony the mails
aro still due, owing doubtless to the bad weather.
General 'Landon arrived at Algiers on the 30th.
'the decree for the transportation, without trial,
of the persons described in the first category men-
tioned in the Monitcur of this morning is already in
course of execution. The first convoy of these un-
fortunates left Paris this morning for Brest, where
the Genereux is waiting to transport them to
Cayenne. Fifty-five prisoners have been brought
from Orleans to Paris to-day. They were brought
out early this morning into the court-yard of the
Orleans prison, and placed in the midst of a square
of infantry. The troops loaded their arum in their
presence. The prisoners were then marched
to the railway, and were brought to Paris
by a special train. Eighteen of these men
are to be transported, including MM. Martin,
Miehot, Pereira, Tavernier, Cerottcau, Thibault,
and Edouard. Another set of prisoners, accused of i
insurrection at Nlontargis, were removed from
Orleans yesterday, handcuffed, and taken to the fort
of Ivry. Eight more were taken up at Corbeil by the
train which conveyed the former and accompanied
them to the same place. The latest accounts
from the Gees speak of- 156 prisoners in Auch alone.
'the numbers of those in the prisons of Lecloure,
Condom, and Mirande, in the same department, arc
not known, but they are very large. The number
of the proscribed who have taken flight is very much
larger.
The downward movement at the Bourse made fur-
ther progress to-day. The Five per Cents. fell 70c.,
closing at 101.80 ; the Three per Cents. fell 85c.,
and closed at 70.75. A heavier fall took place in
railways than has been known for a long time.
Havre fell 35f.; Montereau and Troyes, 25f.; Rouen,
20f.; Orleans, 20f. ; Northern, 13f. ; Marseilles, 13E;
Versailles (left bank), 11f. 23e.; Teste and Bor-
deaux, 10; Strasbourg and Tours and Nantes, irf.
; Boulogne, Bordeaux, and Dieppe, were with-
out variation. Bank of Franco Shares fell 451.

From Boulogne our correspondent writes that on
Friday last tho police put General Ledo, questor of
the lath Assembly, on board the Folkestone steamer
for England.

PARIS, SUNDAY EVENDWO.
The effigy of Louis Napoleon is to figure on the
postage stamps instead of the female head of the
Republic.
In addition to the 638,000 f. already granted, a
fresh credit of 3,587,000 f. is opened to the Ministry
of Marino and of the Colonies to provide for the ex-
penses of forming a penal colony in French Guiana.
The department of the Hautes Alpert is declared in
a state of sago.
Telegraphic communications aro being established
ibetween the Tuileries and all the ministries.

The military commissions of Orleans have singled
out 71 of the prisoners, whose cases they have exa-
mined, for transportation.
The 575 prisoners whose conveyance to Havre I
announced yesterday are to be conveyed from thence
to Brest, in the steam-frigate Canada, and embarked
in the latter port on board the Duresclin, 90 guns,
for Cayenne. No one knows their names, or on
what evidence they are condemned to this readful
punishment.
Beside the announcement of this iniquitous mea-
sure of transporting to a penal colony thousands of
French citizens, accused of no crime, without form
of law or trial, is a circular from the Minister of
Worship, ordering a general thanksgiving on this
day throughout France, while the same Minister
has addressed a letter to the Archbishop of Paris,
ordering that a 7e Deem should be celebrated on
this day in all the churches throughout his
diocese, "in order to thank God, whose protecting
hand has been visibly stretched over France." The
bishops throughout France have received similar or-
ders. 'rho same letter directs that, according to the
intentions of the President of the Republic, and in
order to conform as closely as possible with Art. 8 of
the Concordat of 1801, after the passage, " Domino
salaam fac Rempublican," that of " Domino salvum
fez Ludovicum Napoleonem." The letter of the Arch-
bishop
iof Paris to his clergy, transmitting instruc-
tions n conformity with these orders, is as dry as
possible, and dexterously evades the least flattery to
Louis Napoleon. lie enjoins the Te Deem to " ren-
der thanks to God, and to draw his blessings upon
France, and upon the chief who is called to govern
her."

Tho amoant of wrong and creel oppression in-
flicted by tho proscriptive decrees which appeared in
the Moniteur of yesterday, can only be appreciated
by a familiar knowledge of the lives and circum-
stances of the persons expatriated. That the 66
men whose names appear upon the first list consti-
tuted the pith and sinews of French democracy it is
needless to say, the absolute means of persecution at
the disposal of the present government being directed
against principle, a creed and •party, which it hopes
to extirpate by the proscription of its chiefs. It is
idle to object to the fanatic the sum of human suffer-
ing which ho may inflict by carrying his schemes
into effect. But it is incontestiblo that the most
dreadful scourges which have ever afflicted
humanity have been those which waged a
merciless and reckless war against new ideas,
which were not extinguished, but only ga-
thered fresh force, vitality, and diffusion from the
indestructible energy of the human conscience. Such
was the persecution of the early Christians by the
Roman emperors, and such the persecution of the
protestant' by the papal monarchies of Europe.
Nothing can bo more opposed to the spirit of our ago
than the persecution of ideas by brute force ; because
it has grown to be a recognised axiom of civilisation,
that a system of lies must die and wither of itself,
and, therefore, that its professors need not be crushed
by the arm of power, while truth grows, and will
grow, in despite of all trampling. What man in his
senses can believe that any good can be done to
France by the exile and beggary of the 66 represen-
tatives whose names figure in the first decree of the
Moniteur. The doctrines professed and defended by
these men in the legislature arc not escorted to the
frontier with them, and defy the bayonets
of gendarmes still as much as before. In the mean-
time scores of families are cut off from those on
whose exertions they depended for support and
plunged into helpless distress; eminent citizens have
to renounce their career at the bar, in the press, or
humbler callings, and become obscure paupers in
foreign lands. I have analysed attentively this first
list of proscribed, and I find in it more than a dozen
advocates, the same number of journalists, 5 medical
men ,6 agriculturists,B workmen, as carpenters, masons,
cutlers, Sce., 24 were members of the constituent as•
sembly, and 5 commissaries of the provisional go-
vernment. The names of Victor Hugo, Theodore
Bac, Mathieu de la Drome, and Charms, which figure
in this roll, show that some of the most eminent men
in France have been threatened with transportation
if they should attempt to set foot in tho country
which they illustrate by their talents.
But the proscription of the !representatives is,
however, cruel and unjust, a venial measure com-
pared to the wholesale transportation to Cayenne.
l'crhaps the whole range of history does not offer a
similar instance of monstrous violation of all laws,
divine and human, as this spiriting away of thousands
of citizens without any form of trial to the penal