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

THE
REVOLUTION IN FRANCE.

The eompanies of infantry, which occupied the
galleries of the exhibition in the Pala, Royal, eva-
cuated theta yesterday morning.
M. Betlimunt, a member of the dissolved Council
of State, has resumed his profession as an advocate.
An ex-tax gatherer of Martinville-our-IV, near
Rouen, hanged himself a few days ago, on receipt of
the news of the events in Paris.
M. Excelmans, captain in the navy, the son of the ,
Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour has •
been appointtd an orderly officer to the President
' of the Republic.
The five generals arrested on the night of the 2nd
were brought, on the evening of the 3rd, from tho
prison Mazes, in a cellular van, with three others,
civilian members of the Assembly. They were token
to 11am in the same van, in which were fifteen
agents of police, and a hundred infantry soldiers
acted as a guard in the train.
The Civil Tribunal was occupied yesterday with
an episode of the cast of M. Charles Bonaparte,
Prince de Canino, against Viscount d'Arlincourt, the
libels contained in his work entitled '• Italie R0n..."
The counsel of the defendant had moved that the
plaintiff should deposit security for cost, on the
ground that, having accepted the office of Pre-ident
of the Roman Republic, he had lost Ins quality of a
French citizen. the court decided the question in
the affir.. ative, ant: ordered M. Charles Bonaparte to
find security to the amount of WO..
I send you the following list which I have pro-
cured of the 219 representatives who signed the do-
cument, declaring the deposition of the President,
drawn up in the mayOry of the 10th arrondissement.
It is noted as a singular coincidence that 219 was the
number of deputies who voted the (Velt,itrice of
Charles X. ; or what was equivalent, ratified the ac-
cession of Louis-Philippe to the throne of France.
And several of the names arc the same.

• - • PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
I am informed, from a good source, that a superior
council of five generals will be formed in order to
further the designs of the President.
The decree organising the new council of state is
expected to appear in a proximate number of the
31oniteur.
The insurrection in the Basses-Alm gains head.
The news received from Grenoble at Lyons an-
nounces that the insurgents are masters in the ar-
rondissements of Digne, Sisteron, and Forcalquier. !
The Prefect of the Basses-Alm is shut up in the
fort of La Sevne. The communications between
Avignon and Marseilles are intercepted.
The Minister of War h a addressed the following
dispatch to the various generals iu command of
corps :
Dec. 9, Nine p.m.
All armed insurrection has ceased in Paris by vigorous
repression, and the same energy will have the same effects
everywhere. Bands, bringing with them pillage, rape, and
incendiarism, are placing themselves out of the pale of the
law. With such persons there ran be no parley or notice;
they are to be attacked and dispersed. Every man that
resists might to be at once shot, in the name of society legi-
timately defending itself.
Four fresh departments, the Gers, Var, Lot, and
Lot-et-Garonne, are placed in state of siege.
The Minister of the Interior has addressed the
following circular to the prefects:
Paris, Dec. 10, 1851.
Monsieur lc Prefet,—You have just passed through some
days of trial. You have been sustaining in 1841 the social
war destined to have broken out in 18.52. You must have
recognised it by its character of incendiarism, brigandage,
and assassination. If you have triumphed over the enemies
of society, it is hernia-e they have been surprised unawares,
and because you have been seconded by honest people. I
beg you to address to me a detailed report upon the acts'
end the conduct of men. If in this supreme struggle which
was destined to decide the lot of France, any functionaries
have shown weakness, transtnit to me their namis ; they
shall be immediately :lismisseil. On the other hand, I beg
you to indicate to me those who have fulfilled their duty
with courage, that I may commend them to the gratitude
of France and the benevolence of the President of the Re-
public.—A. Mostar.
The following decree appears, organising military
tribunals in the Ist division, in conformity with the
state of siege :
1. The cognisance of all the factsconnected with the insur-
rection of Div. 3, and the following days, in the depart-
ments forming the first military division, and the trial of
the individuals prosecuted on account of these facts, are de-
ferred to military jurisdiction.
2. In order to facilitate the operations of the instruc-
tion there are institute) under the direction of General
Bertrand, charged with the service of infantry and recruit-
ment in the ministry of war, four military committees com-
posed each of three members, one of whom, an officer,
presides. The members of these commissions shall be
appointed by decree of the Minister-or War.
3. The military commissions thus instituted shell proceed,
either by their members, or by way of examinina com-
missions, to all the acts necessary fur forming the indict-
ments; they will appreciate the charges resulting Irons the
procedures; they will decide, either upon the trial of the
inculpated before the councils of war of the Ist division,
or upon their liberation, if their innocence should appear.
4. The military commissions of instruction, organised by
the present decree, will meet at the Puleis de Justice, on
the convocation of General lkrtrand.
The Minister of Marine has deposited in the hands
I of the President of the ltupublic the adhesion of the
different corps of marine of the part of Nantes.
The official return of casualties in the arms-, pro-
eroding from the fightin; on the 3rd, 4th, sth, and
6th of 1/ecember, is as foliowsi—Killed 2.5, of whom
one is an offieer. Wounded 184, of whom 17 arc
officers.
At the mayory of the Ist arrondissement is posted
up a notice of the proximate marriage of Nldlle.
Pierrette Marna, daughter of the Cummunder-in-
Chief of the army of Paris, with M. Pontereau, aide-
de-Camp of the same officer
Yesterday several applications were made in court
by proprietors of injured houses for the appointment
of an appraiser to value the damage done. But the
president of the court decided against such appoint-
ment, a commission having been already named for
this purpose by the government.
M. Baumeyer, director of the d'Aubusson carpet
manufactory, has addressed the following note to
the Siet li ;—" Several journals have repeated
hat on Ike. 4 insurgents got into the depist
of carpets of the d'Aubusson manufactory, 23,
Boulevard Poissonnierre, barricaded themselves
there, and were shot. This statement is un-
founded. In the absence of M. Sallandrouze,
called by his functions to London, M. Baumeyer, di-
rector of the establishment, had taken all the mea-
sures necessary to prevent the invasion of the maga-
zines as soon us the boulevard was agitated."
General l'artouneaux has ordered the Anai de

D'Albert do Luynes (Seine-et-Oise), WAnaligne de la
Chaste (Illent-Vilaine), Antony Thouret (Nord), Andrea
de Kerdrel (Illy-et-Vilaine), Audrel de Kerdrel (Morbihan).
de balxie (Aveyron), Dare tau do Penhcen (Finistere), Bs-
ralon (Oise), Otlilon Barrot (Aisne), Barthelemy-Saint-
Hilaire (Seine-et-One), Bauchard (Aisne), Gustave de
Beaumont Bjehard (Gard), 13eliaget (Nord), Be-
noistarAzy (Gard), Bernardi (Vauchtse),Berryer (Bauehes-
du-Itlake), de Benet (Mayenne).
Besse (Tarn), Bisio (Daub.), Blavover (Aube), de Blois
(Finistere), Bjchard (Ain), Bucher (Cinvados), Brassie (Lot-
et-Garonne), de Boamiliau (Cotes-du-Nord), Buuvattier
(Manche), de Broglie (EurO, de la Wok. (Mayer.ne), de
Bryan (Pas-de-Calais), Bullet (Vosges), Caillet du Terre
(Idleet-Viluine), Collet (Loire), Cawus de la Guibourgue
(Loire-Inlerieure), Canet (Tarn), du Castillon (Haute-Ga-
ronne), le vice-amiral Cecile (Stine-Inferieure), Cham-
bolle (Seine), Cliamiot (Cut rive), Champanhet (Ardechq),
Chapel. (Cote-WOO, Clutput (Gard) de Chareaacy (Oruc),
Chassaigne (Puy-de-Diltne), Chauvin (Luirethaterieure),
Chkaray (Basses-Pyriners), de Conlin (Loire-Inferieure),
Cultism (Sajme-et-Loire), Cullom de la Muthe (Finistere),
Coquerel (Seine), de Corcelle (Orne), Center (Calvados),
COOOO (Nord), Cretan (Samane), Daguillion-Pujul (Tarn),
Dahirel (Morbiliam), Dambmy (Mayenne), de Dampietre
(Landes), Debretunne (Aisne), Defuntnue (Vendee), De-
toatenay (Eure), de Sae (Gironde), Dollll3rll (Loire Bad-
rieure), de la Devansaye (Mainent-Loire), Didier (Aleerie),
Dieuleveult (CUtesnlu-Nord), Druet-Desvaux, (Orne),
Arnable Dubois (Somme), Dufaure (Charente-Inferieure),
Itifougerais (Vendee), Dufour (Allier), Dutounael (Haut:-
Sake), Marc Itaraisse (Dordogne), Pascal Duprat (Landes),
Duvergier de Hauranne (Cher).
Etat tine (Mouse), de Fallon: (Maine et-Lein), de Fain-
tier (Moselle), Faure (IthOne), karreau (Loire Interieure),
Ferro de Ferris (Manche), Foldout (Meurthe), Froehon,
(Pas-de-Calais), Gain (Main-et-Loire), Gasseliu (Sunlit.),
tiertunniere (Seine Inferieure), do Gicqueau (Loire Infe-
rieure), de Goulard (Haulm-Pyrenees), de (dorm (Morbi-
han), Guyet-DubMnon (Mayenne), de Grandville (Loire-
Interiture), de Graasct (Henna), Grelier du Fougeruux
(Vendee), Grevy (Jura), (Innen (bathe), Grimault
(Sarthe), tiros (Pas-de-Calais), Guiltier de la Tousche
(Maine-et-Loire).
Ilarsemiet de Saint-Georges (Morliibun), d'Avrincourt
(Pas-de-Calais), Ilennecart (Vienne), Ilennequin (S:l6ne-
a-Loire), Wllespet (Nord), Hamel (Vanes), Ilona de
Trauchere (Gironde), Hutt (Vosges), Jost (Gen),
Junaunet (Cayenne), de Kerantleela (Fiubitere), de
Keratry (Finistere), de Keridec (Morbihan), de Kerma
roc (111e-et-Vilaine), do Ker. auson-Pennedreti (Finistere),
Leo de Laborde (Vauelase), Larave (Loiret), Oscar La-
fayette (Seine-et-Marne), de to Fosse (111e-et-Vilaine),
Lugarde (Gironde), Lanjuinais (Seine), Lanibit (Yonne),
de Larey (Gard), Jules do Lasteyrie (Seine-et-Marne),
Latrade (Curreze), Laureau (Mayenne), Laurenceau
(Vienne), le General de Laurittun (Ainie), de Laussat
(Basses, Pyrenees), LetCbtre-Dugrosries (Somme), Expand
(Hun). Legros-Devot (Pas-di--Calais), Lemarre (Oise),
Emile Leroux (Oise), Lesperut (tlaute-Marne), do Leap-
may (Vendee), Levet (Loire). Lherbette (Aisne).
Lainairae (Haute-Garner), de Luppe (Lot-, t-Garonne),
Marklial (Cnte.d'Or), Marlin de Villiers (Seine-
Infjrieure), haze-Launay (Finistere), Mege (Finistere),
Armand do Mtlun (Ills-et-Vilaine), Anatole de Me-
lun (Nord), Iderente (Bouclies-du-IthAne), Miehaut
(Meurthe), 11is wake (Lotet-Garenne), Monet (Meurthe),
Napoleon de Montebello (Marne). de Montigny (Pus•
de-Calais), Moulin (Puy-de-Dome), Murat-Sistrieres
(Cantal), Alfred Nettement (Morbillim) d'Olivicr (Van-
Ouse), le Gent nil Oudinet do Reggio, Wallet (Aisne), du
Purc (Manche), Passy (Ears), Emile Pean (buret) Pecoul
(Martinique), Casimir Wrier (Aube), Pidoux (Denbo),
Pigeon (Seine-et-Oise), Piozer (Morbihau), l'iscatory
(Indre-et-Loire`, Puujoulet (Bouchts-du-Ithke), l'roa
cone), Prudhomme (Haut-Rhin), Queboent (111 e-e-
t Randoing (Somme), Raudot (Yonne), I'aulin
(Meuse), Ile Ray inel (V wins), de Itemusat (Moult-Garonne),
Renaud (Bassts-Pyrkees), Resat (Vosges), de Ressiguier
(Basnx-l'yrenees), Henry de Rimini (Santa), 'Cpl.
(Tarn), de LL Rochette (Loire laftrieure), Rodot
(Aveyron), de Roqueteuille (Finistere), dos Rotours de
Chaulieu (Calvados), Itouget-Latosse (Deus-Sevres),Rouille
(Vendee), Roux-Carbonnel (Gard), Sainte-Beuve (Oise),
or Saint-Germain (Manche), General do Saint-Priest
(Ilerault).
Salmon (Meuse), Sauvaire Barthelemy (Bauches-du-
Blake), de Serre (111e-et-Vilaine), do Sesmaisons (Loire-
Inferieure), Simonet (Meuse), de Staplande (Nord), de
Surville (Gard), 'falhouet (Sarthe), Taloa (Ardennes),
Tamisier (Jura), Thuriot de la Rosiere (Marne), de Tigny
(Vendee), Alexis de Tucqueville (Manche), de la Tuurette
Artleclie), de Treveneue (Mtn-du-Nerd), Vatimenia
Eure), Vaudore (Orne), Vaujuas (Maycune), Vann
Seine), Vandeuvre (Aube), Amedee Vernhette (Aveyron),
(Aveyron), Vitet (Seine-Inferieure), de Vogue
(Cher).

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tOrdre journal of Grenoble to be suspended.
M. Maurice Duval, extraordinary commissioner in
Brittany, has appointed the mayor of Nantes, M.
Colomb-el, to be prefect of the Ile-et-Vilainc.
Letters of the Silt from Marseilles state that the
troops and butteries of artillery wore still encamped
in the Coors and Place St. Fermi'.
" A variety of rumours," says the .Patrie, " were
in circulation to-day at the Bourse, of modifications
and remodelling, of taxes. These arc mere ma-
neeuvres of speculators, and we are able to affirm that
there is nothing true in what has been thus said."
The number of votes given by the army, in pur-
suance of the plebiscite of December 2, and known
lup to this time, has (says the Patrie) been 63,289.
Of these, 61,456 have been for the President, and
13,749 against him. Abstained from voting, 84.
It has been decided at a council of ministers that
a special commissary shall be sent to the department
st the Nord.
M. de Chabaud Latour, Colonel of Engineers at THE DEPARTMENTS.
Amiens, has been placed en disponibili ;. I have examined to-day about forty papers con,
M. Nladier de Niontjau, sen., was set at liberty on by this morning's post from the departments, as well
Tuesday. as a few private letters, and shall proceed to give
II The Siee'e states that M. David (d'Angers) Las you a summary of their news.
' been arrested. The Constitutionnel states that the head of the dema-
The government wishes apparently to make believe gogic movement at Clamecy (Steens.) was a young
that the abstention of the legitimists in the ballot of man of good family, who was condemned by the
the 20th is a symptom of adhesion in that party. Correctional Police of Paris to six months imprison-
Thus the Bulletin de Paris quotes the declaration of mint for an outrage against decency. It was he
aM. de Caverville, who states, in the Journal de St. wili'loa retroain collector of
:lhiltcoesst. a
reheeipli t'' fs 3,000(..M
! ' Bree, that he is authorised to announce that M. de events /-!. hi of Cmney aregas yet inmpletT ee. N. Cartier, Dee
-
li Fallon% begs all his friends not to give a negative vote neral Pe:llion, and M. Corbin, procureur-geueral, arrived
SO the 20th; as if this meant that they were Invited to beforeClamecy on the night of the Bth, with reinforcements
' tie an affirmative. I have already stated yesterday of troops. The insurgents fled. The authorities penetrated
at six in the. morning into the town, which they found
motive of the legitimists in abstaining from the
sacked and pillaged. Three gendarmes were found killed,
ballot altogether. one of whom had been tortured before death. Several mere
I have little fresh news to send you to-day from were wounded. A young advocate, M. Mulon, was killed
the capital, where all has resumed its wonted aspect. with eight bayonet wounds. The following proclamation
To-morrow several fresh papers are expected to ap- was immediately posted up :
" Inhabitants of Clatuecy—Bandits, factious men, and
past. The Opinion Publique, whose editor, Alfred
tof
illonamoecu y into morning on the
rttalitnhs tahnl.: igr.ti
eintostwann rat, is still in confinement, will be among the Honourable citizens, old men,
=timber of resuscitated mints. children, and intrepid gendarmes, valiantly defending the
The line of departments on tho Belgian frontier laws and society, have been massacred. Dwellings have
have been considerably alarmed by a rumour that been devastated. The most honourable blood cries for
400 of the proscrits were coming from London, and vengeance—the punishment will be severe. Let good citizens
be tranquillised, s-d.
would appear at Lille, and distribute themselves A aiet:yinthtehe name of ofclathreat-
along the frontier. Great activity is observable who has family
all his' dutiesmayoin flyingmlille
everywhere among the troops in consequence. • coward under a disguise from his post, his
Columns are marching here and there, and the . family, and his fellow citizens, is dismissed from his func-
tions. SI. Ruby, a mau of is apointed Mayor of
severest surveillance exercised over all that come by I
an, road from Belgium. Here, lam informed, from forbidden.aammetefigaiellis"bcpen.emrtlVy`tteaa"rmfoe 2111:h:ill
the
a good source, that last night a special engine con- and wine-shops in the canton of Clainecrcy,.and in the come-
'eyed a person of distinction, with two aides-de- manes of Corvol l'Orgueilleux, Entrains, and La Chapelle
camp, to Lille. I was told that this person was re- St. Andre, are closed. The inhabitants of the arrondisse-
ment as M. do Persigny. This latter eireum- ment of Clamecy will always find me such as thi knew me
, tian thete insurrectional movements mtoor7moreontslof lain Ijiintdhelfli?, , inflexible
stance I give as a report which I am unable to con-
firm. But it is certain that some general or per- only seek (or pillage, murgder,ualityl punish
factious,
who
nonage high in authority has taken his departure ; " (Signed) Prrir Di LA Fosse, Prefect of the Nievre."
for the Belgian frontier. This coincides with the When the troops entered the town 14 men taken with arms
announcement in the Patrie that it had been de- in their hands were immediately shot. It is said that the
tided in a cabinet council to send an extraordinary insurgents had a plan for dividing the forces of Oen. Pel-
lion, and then falling upon ?severs, which they hoped to
commissioner to the department of the Nord. ' surprise with a weakened garrison.
The Gazette de Lyons of yesterday contains a pro- The Consfitistionnel of this day gives the following alarm-
elaniation of the prefect, announcing that General log intelligence from the Basses-Acres, in • postscrip,
, Castellano has been appointed general-in-chief of the dated midnight :—.• All the department of the Basses-Alpes
I army of Lyons. This appointment is only of ira- theis incotterirri.werofth socialists. The mails are stopped and
searched. Ihe despatches an opened, and all
portance as it will considerably increase the pay of those addres.eil to public functionaries confiscated. More
that general, who is already commander-in-chief of than 4,000 insurgents have invested the ehet-lieu Digne.
the sth and 6th military territorial divisions. Thirty About 2,000 men from the rural communes are at Sioteron,
refugees had attempted to cross the frontier from endeavouring to take possession of the citadel, which is only
Switzerland at Seyssel. Only five had succeeded in gumardeitil tlytBoo
rme,:nn.
tThhelirmiuunncietiitaln. autlAorattisoces.hlisve been
getting past the custom-house. Two were arrested; em°isslicenicis sitting :t the Hotel de Vine". The Lail.; sub-prefect
one drowned in the Rhone; and the other three fled. and all the authorities have entered the citadel. The insur-
On the night of the 3th, 22 refugees succeeded in gents are all armed. The town has all the appearance of a
I crossing the Rhone. place taken by assault. The government has received intel-
tig:neereosf whatftil hAsetaken place, and is adopting energetic
I heard last night, from a gentleman coming from
„Aix repression
gest oLutoh:inginsitrrm tion.
St. Quentin, that the prefect having been dismissed, ter Me ria' detail, of insurrection."—
St.
I and the muni ipal body resigned, a new prefect had insurrectionary movement at Forcalquier (llasses-Alpes) :
been sent, who appointed a municipal committee; ° "A number of ptr3olll, on learning what had taken place
in Paris, assenibled in the
and this body had resigned too, on account of the marketplace, showing an incli-
arrests made. 1 nation to disturb public order. The sub-prefect, M. Pail-
The passage from the Place du Carrousel to the I '
Pail-
lard, appeared at the balcony of the sub- f •ct. •
attempted to harangue the crowd ; a shot him,grefiredu7;na
Garden of the Tuileries, through the Palace, was re- I but without effect. On hearing a loudwkunocking at hie
opened yesterday. ' door, he appeared a second time on the balcony, when a

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cutters of Neufchatel, near the forest of Berseigue, medi.
tated a descent upon the town. A body of 300 men was
collected on Monday morning to resist them, and they re-
nounced their project. All the principal leaders of the r d
party in the neighbourhood were afterwards arre,ted
Among them is the cure of Neufchatel, now suspended by
his bishop, and M. Grange, a chemist, one of M. Ledre
Rollin's commissaries.
The Courrier de Lyon states that the district beta,
Cluny and Macon (Soave-ar-Lout:) was so disturbed that
M. Lamartine had re quested' some troops from Macon, to
protect his residence at Monet:aux.
Ln the ALLIER, the troops have brought :la prisoncts
from Jaligny to Moulins. They were marched to mi.
son, handcuffed, two and two together, between a ibloh!e
line of volunteers of the National Guard and the ltitto.
Some of the principal proprietors orranised a garde ovibile
at the first moment of the rising, which at once offered its
bervicee to the military authorities.
The Courrier de Marseille, of the Bth inst., says: "Our
city has not ceased to he perfectly tranquil, and were it not
for the military precautions taken, nothing is to be st.lll to
give to Marseilles any but its habitual aspect."
Two divisions of troops left Marseilles on the Bth, the
one for the department of the Var, and the other for the
Basses-Allies. A general of brigade has been sent from
Paris to-day to take the command of this army.
The latest telegraphic despatches state that Gap (II arTE,
Acres) has been agitated, but the arrest of the principal
leaders has restored, tranquility. At Crest (tutors) the
number of the insurgents was about 2,000. They have
been repulsed, after a long combat, with the
loss of three hundred killed and wounitsl. The
troops had three killed and one wounded'. At Valenca the
friends of order arc organised under the the command of a
retired colonel in the army at Chimecy
rests are made at every instant. Marmande ((Si Ito Sire) no
longer occasions any uneasingliS. The insurgent,' have
persed, and the town is in possession of the troops.

[second shot was fired, but again mimed him. A cry was
then
off." A postcript of the Memorial states that tircoulx had
lootsrhais' obfe 'Let us take him to hlanosque,' and the
aving
been also the scene of disturbances. The insurgent bands
en forced, he was made prisoner, and led
had broken into and pillaged several country houses, and in
Fame villages had levied a contribution on the richer inha-
bitants.
The communist insurgents in the ArtnernE, on the right
bank of the Rhone, after having conemitted every conceiva-
ble atrocity and unnatural crime, have been completely
down. The prefect of that department has published % pro-
clamation warning that all who arc caught with arms in
their hands will be shot on the instant, without formality of
any kind. The Courrier de r Arderhe of the 9th states that
a great number of citizens had volunteered to cooperate
with the soldiers in putting down the rioters. 500 volun-
teen had enrolled themselves at Prisms for this petrpese,
and scoured the country in small expeditionary parties in
search of the flying brigands. The insurgents of Crest and
Oriel were compLeely routed. Three only hail been killed
on the side of order. At Aubenas the number of insurgents
in arms amounted to 700 or 800. The troops are pursuing
them in all directions.
The news from BRITTANY is in one respect important.
arerespie;uctuttibulge
;mautntichieptiniticestaiiiindu
theytE Everywhere
r Yapuw, tohhhoe. down rim's
srrteitait'sti'slacinst the illegal government imposed on the
country. I mentioned yesterday that a regiment of artillery
at Rennes had voted negatively in the " les or No " ballot.
The bishop of Rennes preached with great ardour against
the usurpation of the supreme power by Louis Napoleon.
Ile taunted the mayors with servility and cowardice, and
declared that he would be cut in pieces before he would
acknowledge his authority. The Pr ogres and another
paper of Rennes were suppressed. Maurice Duval, the
extraordinary commissioner of the government in Brittany,
had arrived at Nantes, and received the autlesities; M.
Duval was appointed civil governor in Brittany also at the
time when the Duchesse de Berry was captured, and is of
course highly obnoxious to the Chowans. lie hail appointed
the mayor of Nantes, M. Colmbier, prefect of the Ile-et-
Vitalise, of which department Rennes is the capital. Nine-
teen councillor-general of the Ile-et-Vilaine set their names
to the protest, which I mentioned in a preceding letter.
Arrests have be,sn made at Rennes, in consequence of the
energetic manifestations ; but these have been followed by
no serious consequences. Or. the 9th all was quiet at
Rennes. The commune of Trdgnier, refuses obedience
to the _government. It is of importance to pay at-
tention to the following fact:—The sixteen counctllors-
general of the Cotes-du-Nord, who have signed a pro-
test against the usurpation of Louis Napoleon, have writ-
ten a letter to the prefect of the department, in which they
promise to give every assistance to the authorities in put-
ting down disturbances wherever they may appear. But
they will maintain their protest against the 'Legality of the
government imposed on France. Two fresh adhesions of
councillors-general appear to the protest.
The insurgents of the VA, have been routed. and most
of theta taken prisoners at Ceara. The prefect of the Var
has written to the Minister of the Interior on Dee. 8,
from Luc, to say that he has scoured the country
in company with the military, and had made many
prisoners at Puget, Cargnouls, l'igueu, and Oonfallon. The
insurgents of Luc had quitted that town, taking with them
the mayor, the gendarmes, and 20 or 2:5 functionaries
and notables. They were encamped on a neighbouring
mountain to the ,mumbo, it is supposed, of 2,000. Ile was
determined to take them ad prisoners in the day time to
make a great example. M. Thayer, the director-general of
the post-office has published the following: Paris, 10th
Dec., It o'Clock in the Evening. The inspector of
the Var writes from 'foulon, on the Bth, that the
mail from Dragnignan hail brought the news that the
insurgents who, to the number of 2,000 men, were pro-
, reeding in the morning of Ili, 7th on that town, hail fallen
hack towards Briguolles and Bayols, and that they caused
several hundred bourgeois and public functionaries to march
at their head with chains round tneir necks. M. Amalrie
director of the post-office at Luc, was rims of the prisoners.
The letter-bags from Luca the 7th, from Paris, which have
arrived this evening, contain a re.tular account of the
letters, signed "The provisional director, nominated by the
sovereign people—BurettEu." For some days past the
diligence (ruin Draguignan to Mareeeilles, which' carries the
mail bags, has had a time bill signed by the revolutionary
directors of Vidauhan, Cuers, &c.
The papers of the II EIeaVILT, and particularly the Echo
des Midi, published at Montpellier, contained a proclama-
tion by General Rostolan, reminding the inhabitants that
by the law of the 10th Veueldinaire, in the year 4 of the re-
public, on the state of siege, the communes are held civilly
responsible for fal crimes committed. The municipalities
were somewhat awed by this announcement. The llerault,
which form part of the Mediterranean coast, is a depart-
ment where dreadful excesses have bees committed by the
commanists at Beziere and Cabestang. At Beilarieux the
mob were for a time completely masters of the town. A
provisional government was formed, which issued procla-
mations, and levied a tax of 100,1100 upon the rich, payable
in the course of the day; in default of payment the town
was to he pillaged.
The Courtier du Lot-et-Garonne (which department has
just bees placed in a state of siege) of the 9th, announces
the dissolution of the national guard of Agen, and that all
disorders: are put down. The army sent to reselsece the re-
volted towns in the Lor-Er-OanenvxE consist of 7,500 in-
fanny of the tine, halt a buttery of artillery, and a hundred
mounted ritioneu.
In the MAINE-ET-LOIRE, at Angers, 400 persons have
offered their sere ices to the prefect to co-operate with the
troops in auppressieg disorder.
The lxnue, a department where the socialists are in great
force, was quite tranquil.
A private letter from Bordeaux, dated Dec. 9, informs
me that in the night ut December 2siel and 3rd the Tribune
—the only independent journal in the department of the
GIRONIIE—was seized, and the editor's house was shut up
and guarded by municipal guards. My correspondent
states that the people of Bordeaux have consequently no
other information ut what is Fa.,:ing in Paris and the de-
partmente but what is afforded by the government jour-
nals, which inspire their readers with a very limited
amount of confidence. He says decidedly that the general
I attitude of the population was hostile to the coup &eta.
The smaller shopkeepers mid the master manufacturers
were especially disposed to make an energetic manifestation
of their feelings. The opinions of the higher class of mer-
chants were divided. Some of them belonging to the reac-
tionary class of politicians received the first news from
Paris with satisfaction, in the hope that the blow which
dissolved the Natioal Assembly would at the same time de-
liver them from democracy, and prevent the republicans
from mustering their forces for the expected crisis of 1852.
Others loudly declared that France was not a country to
submit to an absolute power, which had been seized by the
violation of an oath, and the trampling under foot of the
constitution and the laws. The garrison of Bordeaux,
when the news from Paris arrived, consisted only of one
regiment of infantry. it was afterwards re-en-
forced by two squadrons of hussars front Le-
bularne. 1' he prefect, M. Neves:, and the general com-
manding the district, General d'Arbouville, had just been
dismissed. The new prefect, N. Hausmann, had not yet
arrived, and General Le Pays de Bourjolly had not then
been appointed to the command. In this state of things
great agitation prevailed both in Bordeaux and in all the
cantons of the departments. At Marmande, Moissac, and
Villeneuve, the authorities were deposed and provisional
governments established. The sults-prefect and mayor of
Marmaude vainly applied to Bordeaux ter military assist-
ance. The garrison there was felt to be insufficient, and for
4 days the neighbouring towns were left to their own resources.
It is the opinion of my friend that the insurrectionary
movement would have been of a much more formidable and
decisive character in the Gironde, were it not that the
working classes hare to a certain extent swallowed the bait
of universal suffrage which has been thrown out to them,
and a certain feeling of hesitation paralysed the movements
of the malcontents. The news of the murderous tire with-
out any notice upon isoffensive people upon the boulevards
has exciter:lu very Strong feeling of indignation at Bordeaux.
A letter from Alain (Gann), of the 7th, Rays The
greatest agitation has been excited in our arrondissement by
the political events which have taken place in Paris. It appears
certain that a general order had passed amongst all the so-
dale% of this district to rise simultaneously to attack the
principal towns, and then to march on Paris. The rising,
in fact, took place, and from every village and hamlet men
repaired to Plan-de-la-Fong:use, near Nismes, as the place
of rendezvous. When, however, they were on the point
of marching on Nimes, intelligence arrived that the inha-
bitants were preparing an energetic resistance, and that
the troops and national guards were on foot The chiefs
of the insurgents then fled, leaving their followers, to the
number of 5,000 and 6,000 men, to shift for them-
selves. The greatest number then dispersed, though
not without attacks being made on several villages, where
pillage of property and of arms took place. This was the
case at Bagard, Ribaute, Boisset-et-Gaujac, St. Jean-du-
(lard, Mialet, and St. Hilaire-de-Brethmas At Anduse
even worse disorders have been committed, the municipal
authority being treated with contempt, and acts of violence
having been perpetrated. At Ledignan the greatest agita-
tion prevailed, and the barrack of the gendarmery was
burned to the ground. Seditious assemblages took place at
Moulinet, and some injury also done there to property.
Here, at Alais, a number of arrests have been effected, and
the moat determined resistance prepared to repulse any at-
tack. There is not a single village in this neighbourhood
id which the socialists have not had the rappel beaten, but
the (slum of their attempt has now produced great dis-
couragement in their ranks."
M. d'Ornano, the new Bonapartist prefect of the YONNE,
announces the restoration of tranquillity in that department.
Ile quotes the words of the President, " that the wicked
should tremble and the good take courage," end he adds
from himself a warning to the luke•warm (tittles.) This
word of ominous import irresistibly forces upon the mind
recollections of the reign of terror, with which, indeed, the
present period has many points of resemblance.-
The Prefect of the Hama VIENNE lies ordered the
arrest of a very large number of persons accused of a con-
spiracy to raise an armed insurrection, and to marea upon
Limges.

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Many arrests have been made at Vierron in the Cum:.
MM. Germano and Decundin are among the prisoners. •
I mentioned yesterday the rising of four or five hundred
workmen in a tannery at La Sage, in the SAILTIIE. These
workmen were in the employ of M. Trouve-Chauvel, for-
merly
minister of finance, who harangued the men and
encouraged them to rise in favour of the constitution. After
arming themselves with the muskets of the national guard,
they erected barricades, intercepted despatches, and chose a
sort of provisional government, of which M. Trouvi
Chauvel was the head. On the approach of the
soldiery, the chiefs held a consultation, mil under
pretence of going to enjoy the pleasures of the chase,
I disappeared. Sixty-five of the workmen were taken priso-
ners and conducted in carts to Le Mans. The authorities
of Maniere (Sarthe) learnt on Sunday night that the wood-