The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-11 00:00:00

At eleven o'clock the accused was brought in.
The reading of letters written by or to the accused, which
were seized in the Post-office, wan then continued. The
letters were not of much importance. Some of them were
from Delescluee, the exile, in London, and referred to the
Voir du Proacrit ; others from different persona, in various
places, to Gent and others, described the state of the coa-
spiracy; others requested gunpowder and bullets. The
revelations made by a man named Lombard, one of
the conspirators, to an examining magistrate, ware
next read, and attracted great attention. They Mika
that he had been made a member of the smut so-
ciety called the Nouvelle Montagne, at Maresinsa,
a branch of the general conspiracy of Gent, and that he
had been appointed a chief of section with ten, and subse-
queatly seventeen men under his orders. His functions
were to collect the contribution of 30 centimes a month from
each member, and place the amount in the hands of the
treasurer of the society. The money was chiefly employed
in sending delegates from place to place, with-the letters
which were considered of too much importance to be con-
fided to the Post-office. Delegates were occasionally sent
to Paris and London. The letters scat through the
Post-office were written in commercial style,and app.'.
rently referred only to commercial affairs. be seamhers
of the society were required to be armed, in erase to be
ready to aid the insurrection, whenever it might take place,
by all means in their power. Minute instructions were
given toaU as to how thee were to act in the event of a
rising. It was intcciled to take advantage of the agita•
lion caused by the electoral law of May, Dia, to cause
an insurrection. A congreas of delegates of fourteen de-
partments, comprised in the conspiracy, was held at
Valence in May, 1850. It assembled at eleven o'clock at
night, and remained in deliberation until four o'clock in the
morning. Each delegate stated the force in his department ;
the places in which the insurrection was certain to succeed ;
and those in which it was likely to fail. After this had been
dune, the plan of campaign was settled, and a chief of the
insurrection was nominated. Minutes of the deliberations
were drawn up, and two copies given to each delegate, but
the name of the chief was left blank in them. Gent pre-
sided at this congress, and he caused the sections of the
Montagne at Valence to keep themselves en permanence,
whilst it was in deliberation. Ile had also men stationed at
intervals on the watch to give warning of the approach of
anyone. The insurrection was to have taken place simultane-
ously in fourteen departments; the signal for it was to he
given by the directing committee at London to the committee
of resistance at Paris, which was to transmit it to Gent. An
attempt was to be made to seize Marseilles; in the event
of its failine, the railway. was to be broken up, and the
works of the telegraph were to be destroyed. The fifteen
departments of the east were to rise in insurrection imme-
diately after the rising of the southern departments and the
insurrection was afterwards to spread all over France. A
national convention was to assemble at Lyons, and the
scaffold was to be erected. Committees of public safety
were also to he organised in each commune. Meetings
similar to that at Valence were held on different occasions
in towns in the south, but none were so important as that
had been. One of these meetings at Avignon was to have
been attended by the reprreentative Lagrange. The name
which the conspirators of Lyons gave to the association was
not that of the Nouvelle Montagne—it was the Invisiblex.
The motives which prevented the insurrection from break-
ing out in May were not known to him ; the rising, however,
WAS put off to the 13th of August, then to the 27th, arid the
meeting of the National Assembly. But in the meantime
Gent was arrested, and the arrest of other of the principal
conspirators followed. The society of the Nouvelle Montagne
was first formed in l'aris in March, 1848, by Ledru Rollin,
BurN:s, and Blanqui. At first, to keep the direction of the
democratic party in their own hands, they only received
few persons, but afterwards established branches in the
department of the Seine, at Marseilles. Lyons, and other
laces. Gent was the correspondent Of the committee of
Loudon and Paris, and on that account he was considered
the chief of the conspiracy in the southern departments,
though in point of fart he was not higher in rank than any
chief of a department. The passwords and signs of the
society were changed from time to time ; in some months
the words were—" Universal suffrage—llepublic—Lyons"
—in another " Sign—Neutre—Lyons"—in another "Atten-
tion—Courage—Macon ;" and once it WAS "Home is in
chain., and we must deliver it." At one time it was de-
sired nt Marseilles so to re-organise the society as to have a
hundred men under the command of a captain and other
officers; but the design had to be abandoned because
the men refused to turn out in arms, except under
command of a chief whom they knew and who generally
belonged to their corporation. The consequence of this was
that whilst some companies consisted of 200 men, others
had only 30. At the end of last year there were 1,3.30 men
at Marseilles belonging to the Nouvelle Montague, and
they were divided into fourteen companies. Every candi-
date for admission to the society had to be presented by a
member ; he was taken to the place of meeting with his
eyes bandaged. A number of questions were put to hint,
especially if he were ready to turn out in arms, and do all
that he should be ordered, even should it be assassination.
'l'o frighten him, he was then told that he was in, not a re-
publican, but a royalist, conspiracy,. and they would
give him up to justice or 101 l hint if he diit not
reveal the names of his chiefs. Übe pressed boldly through
this proof, he wag told that he was required forth-
with to go and assassinate a general at the theatre, or to
attempt to release Some prisoners. If his replies were con
eidered favourable, he was declared worthy of admission.
Ile was then made, with his right hand on his heart. and
his left on a poignant, to take an oath in the name of
the martyrs of liberty," to arm himself against political
or religious tyranny—to labour fur the democratic and
Facial republic —to give all the assistance in his power to
a brother—to put to death a traitor, if the lot should fall on
him—to give himself up to a most infamous death, in the
event of his becoming a perjurer to his oath. Ile was
made to kneel down, and the president gave hint three taps
on the head with a poignard, and said, "In the name of
the Montagne, I baptise thee a Montagnard." Then all
the conspirators gathered round him, and presented their
poignards at him, whilst the president, taking the
bandage from his eyes, said, " Brother, if you are
faithful to your oath there will always be ten thousand
poignards ready to defend you ; if you are not faithful to
it, you will find, no matter where you may hide yourself,
some one to kill you." When a member was suspected of
being in communication with the police, or even with
making revelations from imprudence, it was resolved that
he should be killed. A meeting of the conspirators was
then called, at which he was not allowed to be present ; and
the names of three of them were drawn be lot from a hat—
one was to strike the fatal blow—the other two to exhort
him to be courageous in the (emit of his displaying weak-
ness, or if need should be to strike themselves.
The documents relative to Bouvir, Dupont, Montegid,
Berthomieu, and three or four other accused were after-
wards read.
The court then adjourned. The spectators and others
quietly dispersed, and the people outside made no demon-
stration.

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ea, by wing which a great seeing will be eltend. The
Syphon Tap, when turned mt. admits air into the east sugletent
So caw* the liquor to Sow and nn more; and waen ;he tap
be tamed WI the air ran so leader enter. The lllireeteliee are on-
"low. TM Int pint may be drawn in as Wish and line cardinals a•
when the cash we. last tapped. The Importance of perm-nine from
adigty the Saki. a,. drink cannot be "vet ratnL It is a well known
Mg, teat Wed taper" are often the predowniair crane of chute?.
Aliso guy be had a gait 'Andy of superior tape at yreetly reduced
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DiAIaIUERS, Tents, Flags, Sun Mingle, and
AlrfltAle. POPO, PT, Manuf ieturrr to the
ralie Pour' rd Ordnance, lac prtinred foe the season a large
Melt of MAKQUEES, TENTia, and FLAG+, lot Illltt. or PUFF
CRAPE; also teuts loos Cricket Clutr. Awbiags and temporary rooms
Illweled mid elegantly lined up. kirk Collo and waterproof •ligin.ri
sad slall01,1• void ow rea.ortable terms. Tarpaulins on hire for
bonen and 'l' repair. Orders per post onmediatele ottended to by
WILLIAM PIGG OTT. 113, Fore-street, London.
&alienate rents, £4 4s.

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of PILLStf. DENTIERICII, a white pointer, comperunied of the
awl mom reehercht tearer:beats of the Oriental herhal. It
eradicates tartar float the teeth, manna apots of incipient deny,
polirhes all prerriewi the marmot, imparting the moat pure and pearl.
Mc whitener.. and miles ...crow,a and y*rfurrie to the breath.
&wry to by rte Meru, trade a:cd from the pima, and a healthy
*cleat goal mines are tralneed ; an that the teeth (if loupe) are thus
reirktr.l heat in their ocelot.. IM fruit efficient cad fragrant aro-
taahe properver hare obtained It' re:region by the Queen, the Court,
and the hoyil Vaially of West bribing, and the Sto entree and
Nobility throasholli Wept. Price to. ad. per I,,L—Cluti.m. The
words thorimidethlearew wee an tag. Igoe! Oiled on edett
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Ttit; Ae.ttlet'l.Tt itl,,Ts AND TIM SUIPOWNERs.—
Mr. U. F. Young, M.P., at an entertainment given to hint
at Tynemouth, on Friday, said:—lle had felt somewhat
ashamed as a shipowner that in the struggle tho agricul-
tural interest had been so long maintaining so little real
sympathy had been manifested by their brethren in the
mane ports. He had Men sorry that till now they had
not recognised that the mode by which their adversaries had
achieved their ill-omened and disastro ous success over all they
cherished and held dear was by dividing and separating in-
terests—(hear)—bi cause, by taking anti destroying them in
detail, they had ruined the whole, to teach each ruined in-
terest that it must unite with the rest, if it would retrieve
its dimsti rv. mid regain what it had lost. That, however,
be believed in hi. conscience. was over. ((•heering.) Be
held this meeting as a public demtmstration that the shipping
intend of this country was determined now to associate
itaell in tie. closest bonds with the agricultural, not fur the
support shone of its own peculiar and separate interest, but in
the maintenance of that principle, the abandonment of
which destroyed equally the navigation laws and the torn
laws. Fro,m that roam that night he felt assured a voice
would goo forth that would echo over the length and
breadth of the land, and summon around the banner of a
moderate and equal protection to every English interest
against the foreigner a combination which should bid proud
defianee to all the vaunting arrogance of their enemies, and
should achieve from them that justice to which allusion had
been matte, and which was all that they claimed, which was
what tle y would resolutely donated, and which they would
ahort:s have. Therefore did they allow him to feel this pleas-
ing assOtrance, that they would uuite themselves with the agri-
culturists, with the colonists, with the manufacturers, with
all who were oppressed by this cruel and impoverishing fps
too, that they would unite themselves firmly together in
one common trotherhomi, which would then Lid defiance to
all their enemies. (. Yes," and applause.) Thus united,
they to elated interminable war against those doctrines and
that systi in which had falsely animated to itself the title of
free trade, to which it had no claim whatever. (Bunts of
applause.) The British agriculturist was prevented by
law from cultivating his land as he himself felt to be most
consistent with his own interests. lie was impeded by MAN-
lations refusing to allow him to grow tobacco on his laud.
It tr.,:lit be said this was a trumpery complaint, and that
the agriculturist would not grow it if allowed. But in that
case where was the necessity for the restriction ? Hear,"
and applause.) The produce of his soil was further harrassed
by restr etions, as in the case of malt and hops, and he was
impeded in his purmita, because it was alleged the safety
el the revenue required that he should be thus harrassed,
restricted, and impeded. (Hear.) But to have free trade
they ought to be released from all these, Oh' but revenue
eemaitlerations would not allow them to he released ; and
therefore revenue considerations would not allow them to
have free trade in agriculture. (Loud applause.) Pass to the
colonies. The colonist told diem, and not only the colonist.
but. singular enough, a recent series of government re.
ports, from all the West India colonies, bore testimony
that sugar could not be cultivated in those colonies by fres
as cheaply as it could by slave labour. Yet why not allow
them to employ slave labour as well as their competitors?
They called it free trade and let in the competition of slave
grown sugars. and vet put this restriction upon the labour
of lithe colonies, for the sake of what?—(humanity.)
(Loud cries of Hear.") Did he question the propriety of
this ? God forbid! Let humanity have its swing—let
cheapness go to the dogs. (Cheers.) But let them roes
knowledge that humanity was not consistent with bee
trade, and tint they could not have both. lie gave, aa a
third illustration, their own navigation laws. They were
not allowed to manage their ships as they pleased. (Hear.)
The principle of interference ran through all the marine
acts, and restrictions were placed in their way in all their
movements. (lieuewed criesof " Hear," andapplause.) The
manning question stood prominently forward. He had
proved over and over again that while the ships of some
counties which were placed in direct competition with
theirs, and which loaded alongside their own shiandps,

THE BISHOP or GURIIA3I has given 3i 0/. to-
wards the erection of a church at Pantasa. The church is
to take the place of the one which was erected at Pantasa
by Lord leading, and presented (on his lordship's conver-
sion) to the Roman catholics.—Gateshead (Owner.
THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SIIIP.—ThIS splendid
vessel, after undergoing a thorough repair, is expected to
be fit for sea in about two months. She is now in the
graving dock, where she has received a new keel, haling
been formerly flat, and a spacious and splendid saloon has
been fitted up on her deck, extending the entire It ngth,
275 feet. She will proceed on her transatlantic voyage
some time during the month of October, under the com-
mand of Captain Matthews, formerly of the Great Wt,tern,
and afterwards of the City of Glasgow—a seaman v. hose
long and successfullv tried experieace and judgment arc
justly appreciated 'alike by owners, shippers, and pas-
sengers.—Lirerpool Chronicle.
ADMIRALTY, ArG. B.—Assistant surgeons: Horace
H. Smith, to Victory; G. Moore, to Irnpregnabk. Second
Master; 0. P. Heather, to Rodney. Masters' Assistants.
R. H. Roeder', to Grecian; A. J. Boxen. W. C. (Allard, to
Vengeance; C. W. Stevenson, to tVatcrloo. Clerks :E.
Jag's, to Rodney; Foster, to renyeance. Clerk's
Assistant: IL E. Kitchen, to Tortui,e.
INCENDIARY FIRE AT ILATCLIFFE.—On Wednes-
day afternoon a serious fire, the work of incendiaries,
broke out in a stack-yard on Leys farm, Ratcliffe, the pro-
perty of Mr. Joseph Burgess, farmer, of Rohm: Pierrepout.
About twenty minutes to five a lad. named John Spencer,
the bird-starer, saw two men, apparently about the age of
25, running very hard in a direction from Mr. Burgess's
stack-yard, from which they were then nearly a hundred
yards distant. Immediately after he saw one side of a bean
stack in flames, upon which he instantly raised an alarm.
A servant was without delay despatched on horseback for
assistance to Nottingham, from whence engines were
speedily forwarded, and the fire was entirely extinguished
at two o'clock. The clover stack, which was the produce
of 28 acres of land, and contained nearly 60 tons, was al-
.
which 1-^;--

notednaVi-by- men the ;CMavan. maiitassance a.. 1 wages --
did eed one-half of what they paid, yet the law said most entirely destroyed, the remains of s., ... being so much
they should on no consideration whatever employ these men, damaged as to be quite useless. The loss. which amounts to
but pay double wages, and be at a double expense in pro- nearly 2001., is covered by insurance. Nultinghant
visioning their ships, because why ?—the safety of the Renew.
state required it. But was this free trade, to tell them DEPOT 42ND DEGINENT.—Four companies of the
their foreign competitors should run away with their trade, 42nd, from Bermuda, arrived in Seotlandlast week, and
and that they should not be permitted to navigate their are now stationed at Aberdeen to form the depot compani •
es
ships at cheaply as they could, because the safety of the
state required it? Why, then, the safety of the state would IsT DRAGOONS.—This regiment, under the com-
sat allow free trade—it would compromise the safety of the mend of Lieut.-Colonel Marten, KM., arrived at Brighton
state. on Saturday last from Barnet.