The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-19 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, MonnaT, 6 30 r.x.
This morning the ..We/e, the Presse, and the
National contained the following announcement:
The cretsors`:p is re-established, though not °filthily. A
comminary of polite came yesterday to the effiets of the
Seeds. the Prose, and the A ational, to warn these journals
that if they persisted in putting forth their sentiments as to
the iaterpretatka by the minority of Articles 5 and 64 of
the countoitien, the majecity of the Chamber, which would
be questiosed on the subject, would authorise their tieing
pot utelsr a questration. (.Si)c We must submit to force,
but we wish the public to know that our pens are no
longer free.
This announcement became the subject of debate
to-day in the Chamber, a-propos of a few words said
by General Gourgaud on the subject of tte broken
printing presses of certain journabs. General °our-
gaud de: led that the let legion of the National
Guard had violated the sanctity of any premises
whatever. The national guard had stood by to pro-
tect a commissaire de police in the exercise of his
duties.

. iAs it s not in the duty of a (*luminaire de police
to break preen es and scatter types, it became
necessary to explain General Gourgand'e wards, and
accordingly M. Odilon Barrot got up and said that
the state of siege certainly was a stringent measure,
but it was constitutional, and it had been found ne-
comary to provide in the constitution for such con-
tingencies as that of a minority taking arms again':
the law. M. Gamboa here cried out that those who
had infringed the law were the members of govern-
ment. A recall to order, from M. Dupin, had the
effect of causing M. Gambon to repeat the obnoxious
expressions, whereupon M. Barrot cried out " What,
are you going to begin again ?" M. Gambon retorted,
"You it is who have violated the constitution." Al.
Barrot proceeded amid great interruption, say-
ing that the minority had risen and do-
eared wer against the constitution, put the
majority hors lu lw, and now, forto:th, it came
and complained of measures whkh were but
prises. However, he could tell them that no print-
ing presses had been broken, and he would remind
the Assembly that in June last the first legion had
loot 200 men in the insurrection, whilst endeavouring
to defied the cause of order.
Crtmieur then got up and said that he took an
opportunity to state that there was no law regulating
the Imes during the state of siege, and that he
wished therefore to know by what law five or six
journals hid been suspended. He thought that the
executiie power had not that power. These few
wards of M. Cremiena were followed by murmurs,
amidst which M. Gamboa again got up, and said that
he could not allow ministers to say that they had vio
lated the constitution ; there were in the chamber
two paree!, one of which had defended whilst the
other had violated the constitution. The latter was
a factions majority. Here M. Gambon was inter-
rupted by great noise, and recalled to order.
After some considerable debate, M. Orevy proposed
the following mire di' four motive :—" The National
Assembly, considering that, even during the rate of
siege, no law authorises the government to suppress
newspapers, invites it to return to the path of legality,
and pares to the order of the day."

The simple order of the day having the priority,
the result of a scrutiny was—
For the order of the day
Against it
Majority
A prre, made by the precurour-general, to pro.
secute 3 . Felix Pyat for an article published in the
Sleek, the Democratic Pariftque, and the Peuple, was
declared urgent.
Application was on Saturday made to M. de Bel-
leyme, president of the civil tribunal, to nominate
practical persons to estimate the damage done by the
national gusid of the let legion in the sack of the
printing-offices of M. Proux and M. &tale. On the
part of the city of Paris, a &sire was expressed thst
the application should be forthwith granted. This
was done.
_ _ _

The preliminary examinations into the causes and
events of the insurrection of the 13• h inst., are going
on pith unremitted activity. An examining magis-
trate, assisted by a substitute of the procureur de la
republiquc, has been constantly sitting at the National
Assembly, and another of these magistrates, assisted
in like manner by a substitute of the procureur, has
been engaged at the Cunscrvatoire des Arts et

Metiers.
The Steck states that some of its compositors were
summoned to the prefecture of police yesterday, and
there interrogated as to the way in which they were
engaged on the 13th. The Siecle says it it assured
that the object of this proceeding is to ascertain whe-
ther any printers had taken part in the attack on the
property of M. Boul6 and M. ]'roux.
The &eels publishes the following letter:
A journal states that I am not arrested, and that I have
succeeded in escaping from all search that his been made for
me. Permit me to inform you that 1 went yesterday, the
13. h, at three o'clock, to the parloir of the Assembly, and
there prisen'ad,imjself, to M. Dupla, the folbwing letter re-
lative to my option for the department of the Cher :
"Paris, Jure 13.
" Citizens,—l said at the tribune that the executive power
bad violated the c-aistitution, and I have declared in a ma-
nifesto to the people that the majori'y of the A‘sembly had
become the accomplices of the government. Elected by three
departments—the Nicer?, the Cher, and the Seine-1 have
made my option for the Cher; but I declare that I cannot sit
in the Assambly whilst the majority .hall remain without
the pale of the constitution.
"Faux PTV!. Rsprieentative of the People."
"It is stated," says the Erinement, "that an im-
portant seizure has been made in the apartment of a
woman named Coingts, alias Lecointe, in the quartier
de l'Arseaal, of a large quantity of political impers
belonging to M. Felix Pyat. Tecy were all sealed
op in pasteboard boxes, and taken to the office of the
procoreur de la republique." s
The Union says: ' The country holm of M. Ledru-
Itollin at Funtenay-aux-ltoses has been searched and
a quantity of arms and ammunition of all kinds found
in it and seized. It bad been converted into a reset
for conspirators. At the residence of the leader of the
parliamentary opposition one might have fanc:cd
oneself in that of Blanqui."
We read in the Dix Dicembre : " M. d'Alton Shin
left Paris for Brawls in the evening of the 14th, by
the Northern Railroad, in the disguise of sleeker. It
is singular that the socialist ex-peer of France per-
formed the offices at the c ngine of the man who lent
him h's dress, and the train it drew contained the
late guts:or of the Assembly, M. Degoaseee, and
several of his political friends, called " Arnie de la
ConstitMion."
A journal having stated that all the medical stu-
dents at the hospital of the Val do Grace had tale n
an active part in the manlit station of the 13th hilt.,
joining the rioters on the Boulevards, M. Baudens,
the chief physician of the hospital, appled to the
minister of war to institute an inquiry. 'Phis was
done, and ended in the arrest of four students only.
The Anti tle la Ilelipion says: " NI. Marehaie. ex-
prefect, and friend of M. Lam Rollin, has just been
arrested.
M. Pays, ex-editor of the Emancipation of Toulouse,
was arrested on Saturday.
Dr. Ewerbeck, a physician, natural's:el in France,
and 1)r. Jansenau, who took an active part in the
late insurrection at Vienna, and afterwards went to
Kossuth at Pesth, have been arrested, with a great
many of the German socialist democrats in Paris who
alerted the German manifest addressed to the people
of Paris.
In yesterday's despatch the account of the state of
things at Lyons was carried to the morning of the
13th inst. The following are details of the affair
during the 13th inst, that beirg the day when most
fighting took place : It has already been stated that
on the morning of that day a post of 150 or 200 men
at the Ecole Viterinairi had been disarmed by the
insurgents. It appears that the soldiers bad been
persuaded that the government had been overthrown,
and they gave up their arms voluntarily, and partly
joined the insurgents, whose number was further in-
creased by several pupils of the Veterinary School.
The fighting first commenced at eleven o'clock, at
the Bernardites. The 17th of the line, of which the
paste of the Veterinary School formed a part, pre-
sented itself first to the fire. The insurgents, on the
other hand, had thrust forward the adherents they
had got in that regiment, so that many of the men
fell on both sides. The affair began by the insur-
gents, who came to disarm the poet of the Bernardines.
The soldiers then fired on the people, who cried
out treason. But it was no longer time to draw
tack. The gate of the Bernardines forms the
communication between Lyons and the suburb of La
Croix Rousse where the insurgents counted meet
partisans. The opposition of the troops on this
point wes, therefore, most fatal to the insargents.
They dispersed at once, with cries of "To arms."
The tocsin was sounded, and barricades were com-
menced in the Grande Rue and several adjacent
streets. A determined fire from the windows and roofs
of houses was at the same time commenced against
the soldiers occupying the barracks of the Bernar-
dines, who replied at first with musketry and then
with cannon, tearing the houses of the Grande Place
and the Grande Rue.
This state of things continued till two o'clock p.m.,
when a column of infantry, about 2,300 strong,
supported by eight pieces of artillery, and headed by
General Nlagnan, turned the hillocks of Ls Croix
Rousse by the quays of the Scene, climbing the
rising grounds leading to it starting from the Quay
de Semi, and moving along the fortified enceinte
which separates Lyons from La Croix Rousse.
Having arrived on the plateau half way from the
Grande Place, General Niagean stopped his column,
and, having exhorted his men, commenced the attack.
The column was received with a fire of musketry
from the houses and the Grande Placa of the Croix
Rousse. This was answered by the firing of cannon
from the troops. Tae square was then occupi'd, the
barricades attacked, and successively carried, after
considerable resistance. Several officers were killed
and wounded, amongst whom the colonel and three
captains of the 17th. At the moment that the column
of General Nlagnan made this principal attack, a bat-
talion of the 61 light infantry entered the Grande
ltue by the road of the Cuire, sad joined the other
column in the middle of the Grande Rue. From that
moment the Croix Rousse might b 3 considerei as
occupied. The insurgents, whcee mass was thus
broken, took rcfugo in the Qusrtier de la Boucle,
formed a barricade there at the foot of a rising hill,
and a second lower down. At five in the evening a
battalion of infantry, accompanied by a detachment
of dragoons, attacked and carried them.
Other solitary barricades, in divers parts of
Lyons, were carried by the troops, which occupied
the city in its entire surface. On the 16th the town
and suburbs were quiet.
It is calculated that the insurgents lest 160 dead
and wounded, and 800 prisoners ; and the troops lost
60 dead and wounded.
All the insurgents taken at the Croix Ronese were
brought to the Hotel de Ville and confined there.
The cannon baring done great damage to the
house. of the Croix Roam, a considerable concourse
of persons began to arrive towards six o'clock to view
the scene of combat. The circulation remained unin- 1
terrapteduntil eight the next morning, the precaution'
of shutting the gates of the Croix Rousse having been
merely taken. At that hour orders were given to
present any further circulation, except on business.