The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-11 00:00:00

REVOLUTION IN FRANCE.

PARIS, Wixom ESDAY.
The Mondeur of this morning contains a fresh in-
stance of arbitrary alteration in the existing law.
After promulgating the law passed by the Assembly
on Dec. 1 relative to the Lyons and Avignon Rail- I
way, the government adds a decree declaring the
most important provisions of the law null and void.
In fact the 6th article of the canter des charges pro-
vides for the construction of a terminus at Li Guil-
lotieret within the fortifications. The decree now
promulgated orders, on the ground that this arrange-
ment is in contradiction with that proposed by the
committee, that the definitive situation of the termi-
nus shall be determined by the Minister of the
Interior.
The President visited yesterday the hospital of
Groscaillon, and distributed decorations and money
to 37 wounded soldiers. Each received 100 fr. ills

carriage was escorted by cuirassiers.
Admiral Dabortlieu has addressed a despatch to
the government dated Nov. 29, announcing that the
l'asha of Tangiers had made the concesssions de-
manded by M. llouric, the French Charge d'Affairs, !
on the 2sth. In consequence the admiral had saluted
the Morocco flag with 21 guns; and all was finished.
Yesterday by order of the l'refect of the Seine, the
electoral lists of March, 1849, were posted up at all
the mayoriea of the department. On the 16th a
supplementary list will be published, containing the
corrections made necessary- by the lapse of time.
No fresh proclamations appear this morning, but
the .lionikur is posted up on the walls.
Several arrests made yesterday at Ncuilly.
The government is in negotiation with railroad
companies for the construction of the railway zone
fur placing in communication the several lines coo-
verging
offered to contribute 400,000 fr. to this work. The
Minister of l'ublic Works will proceed soon to offer
for public adjudication the Lyons and Avignon Hail-
way.
Tho Comfit/a/omit:says that at Havre, on Satur-
day, the sales of cotton amounted to 1,500 bales, and
on Monday to 3,5n0. On Saturday, the first rise
was of lir.; on Monday morning, there was a second
rise of Ifr.; and on Monday evening, a third rise of
lfr. Thus the present quotation is three or four
francs higher than that of last week.
Official accounts state that in the civil hospitals
the number of wounded has never exceeded 13S. com-
prising the soldiers, since transported to the military
hospitals; 79 wounded now remain in the civil hos-
pitals, of which 21 are ut the Hotel Dicu, and 23 at
the Hospital of St. Louis
The Patric says that it appeared to be the inten-
tion of the insurgents about Lyons to make false de-
monstrations, in order to divide the forces of Gen.
Castellanc. A considerable body of theta had ap-
peared near Crest-on-the-Drome. Two battalions
were sent a,minst them.
The detailed accounts promised by the government
journals on the events of Clamecy while in the pos-
session of the communist insurgents, do not appear
lit the paper of this morning.
At Million in the Avcvron the mob obtained pos-
session of the Hotel do 'Yak. The disturbances in
that department are now pacified.
M. de St. Cheron, author of a lithographic legiti-
mist correspoadence, has been arrested.
It is stated officially that complete tranquillity is
restored to the department; of the Eure Seine-et-
Manic, Hante-Marne, Vancleume, Cates-du Nord,
Dordogne, Cantal, Arriege, Euro-ct-Loire, Lot,
Vosges, Haut-Ithin, Meuse, Cste d'Or, and Yonne.
There are no additional papers published this

morning.
The first article which I have yet seen inn non-
official paper appears this morning in the Airs, from
the pen of M. de la Guerronnime. It tends to show
that nothing could be worse than the situation 'wfure
Ow 2nd of Ih:ember ; and that, if the constitution
and the Assembly have been swept away, the
Republic and universal suffrage remain.

PARIS, Wr.nxesnav EVENING.
M. Thiers received yesterday orders to quit
France. After a slight preparation for his juurn,:y,
and in a very shattered state of health, he was es-
corted out of his house between two agents of the
police, placed in a carriage, and conveyed
to the terminus of the Strasbourg railway. Item
he was placed in a carriage apart, with his two official
attendants, who will not leave him until they have
seen him fairly over the French frontier to E.ehl, on
tho lett bank of the Rhine, opposite to Strasburg.
As no news whatever is now to be found in the
pers, I have made a round of visits to gican some
pa intelligence. Having been informed that M. Leon
Faucher had received orders to quit Paris,
this announcement appeared to me so important
that I proceeded at once to the best place for hadiug
out the truth, and was informed that up to 4 o'clock
this afternoon M. Faucher had received no such
order. You will know, therefore, how to treat this
report if you find it affirmed elsewhere.
-Several arrests have taken place to-day. As many
members as could be found of the swialist conclave of
the Seine were pounced upon by the police, mid
swept into the cells of the prison Maras, where, by
the way, MM. Alfred Nettement and de Itemusat
still remain.
This being the anniversary of Louis Napoleon's
election, a vast number of Bonapartist banquets will
take place. But the chief official manifestations of',
this kind will be held at the several mayories, I
where speeches and toasts, mere or less imperialist,
will be given. I saw at a famous tavern outside the
barriers, preparations for a dinner of this kind for 140
persons, which will be presided over by the Mayor
of Montmartre. I mentioned previously that the
banquet of the Hotel de Ville has been counter-
manded.
To-day Louis Napoleon set out at two from the
Elysiy in a closed carriage, with a numerous escort
of cuirassiers, to visit the hospitals and ambulances.
The people were quite silent as lie passed.
Many of the representatives have left Paris for
the country. Those who remain take care not to
pluck down upon their heads tho rigour of a go-
vernment which seems to stick at nothing. It has
been generally resolved to recommend abstention to
the voters in the ballot ou the 20th instant, as this
is regarded as the best means of protesting against
its legality. To vote negatively would be to recog-
nise the President's right to put the question.
It is noted, as an instance of the prudent servility
of M. Lupin, that he was instrumental in furnishing
the government with the means of identifying the
prisoners sent to Mont Valerien who refused: to
give their names. M. Pupils sent out M. Dupon-
ceau, the head usher of the Assembly, on Tuesday
night to Mont Valcrien to identify the parliamentary
prisoners.
I have seen all the country papers that have
reached Paris through the post to-day. The Fa
Bret.ouir, published at St. Bneue, in the COtes-au-
Nord contains an emphatic protest against the
usurpation of December the 2nd, and adhesion
to the resolution signed by the representa-
tives in the mayory of the 10th arrondisse-
ment. This protest was moved in the council-general
of the Cites d'Or, and signed by sixteen members.l
What is still more important, the regiment of artil-
lery quartered at St. Brieuc had given votes
against the President. The municipal councils of
Launion, Tri.guier, and other towns in the same de-
partment, had also voted resolutions condemning the
acts of the 2nd December.
The enormitiics of the communists at Clamecy and
Poligny tend greatly to rally adherents to Louis
Napoleon. On this account the deepest dye of atro-
city is given in the (I,ustitutiuunel and l'utrie to the
deeds of the insurgents. The hideous narrative of
rape, murder, and pillage is evidently depicted with
flagrant exaggeration for the purpose of driving
people, through pure terror, to take refuge under the
arbitrary power of Louis Napoleon. The fact is that
the President has swept away all possible base for
the constitution of any other regular authority ; and
now he multiplies proclamations to declare that be
will retire if the mapaity of votes be against him. Thus,
under the colour of moderation and obedience to the
will of the country, he extorts the sanction of hie
usurpation by threatening to abandon France to the
most frightful auarehy if he be not chosen.
It will be very lung before any complete and truth-
ful history can be compiled or what has passed in
the departments ffilla• the eventful 2nd of Dec. The
press of Paris is annihilated, the telegraph works
only under the orders or by the permission of the
government, every country newspaper attempting to
convey any unofficial intelligence, is instantly seized,

and all letters addressed from the provinces to re-
presentatives or other distinguished persons, are
either opened or detained at the Post-office. By
what slow degrees the truth oozes out will therefore
be readily conceived. Thus much, however, is now
certain, that in very many parts of France, and more
particularly in the central and southern provinces 1:
the news of the coup cr,tal was the signal for the
outbreak of civil war which lasted for several days,
and has been attended with frightful loss of life.
That the risings are everywhere Rut down, we are
now informed by the same authonty that three or
four days ago would have had it Lelieved that en-
thusiastic demon,tratiuns of joy were the only excep-
tions to the unruffled tranquillity of the country.
It is also asserted that the resistance has in every
instance been the work of " anarchists," " dema-
gogues," "socialists," or " red republicans," bent
only upon pillage, violation, and murder. It may
be so. But the same thing has been said with re-
gard to tltt resistance in- Paris; and yet we all
know that the splendid houses on either side of the
boulevards, extending fur the length of an English
mile between the Maison Dora) and the Porte St.
Denis, which may now be seen riddled with the
bullets of the soldiery from the ground floor to the
filth story, are not inhabited by persons of that des-
cription. It is, however, clear, not only from the ad-
missimis, but from the conduct of the government,
that the tranquillity said to be re-established is of the
most hollow description. Every day a fresh depart-
ment is declared to be in a state of siege. Martial
law is evidently about to become the common law of
France. The news or yesterday was that Bordeaux
was so quiet that the state of siege was a
superfluous luxury, which would not have
ken decreed but fur some accidental ab-
sence of a civil functionary. In to-day's
11»citear. however, it appears that the prefect of the
Gironde, M. Ilaussnmini, availing himself of the
state of siege, has thought it necessary to decree
that no person shall be allowed to remain stationary
in env street; that any assemblage in the street
will lie consldercd as an act of aggression, and will
be dispersed without previous notice by military
force; that any individual bearing arms, whether
concealed or otherwise, will be treated with the ut-
most rigour of martial law; and that any- cafe or
public-house kept Uri after hours, or used as a re-
sort of agitators, will be shut up. Dining Friday
and Saturday last the hut ets of Bordeaux were re-
peatedly swept by charges of General d'Arbouville'a
cavalry, and I t prisoners were made. It is men-
tioned. besides that other arrests of persons well
known in political circles in Bordeaux were vaguely
spoken of. Troops have been sent to Langon. higher
up the Garonne, where disturbarees have broken
out. _ _ _

In the Haute-Vienne a combat took place between
one hundred and fifty men armed with guns, hat-
chets, pitchforks, and scythes, and a body of
fifty hussars and six gendarmes, aided by M. Ilti-
chaud, the cure of Saint Bonnet, at the head of
twenty-two armed peasants. The conflict was obsti-
nate. Seven insurgents wcro severely wounded and
thirty prisoners were made.
A detachment of 00 men have been embarked
from Bordeaux on board a steam-boat fur Marmande.
where grave disorders, it was said, had bur 4 out.
Half a battery of artillery and lOU cavalry had set
oat some hours before by land for the same destination.
The latest government news up to 6 o'clock this
evening state that in the 1)ro:nc the insurgents ale
routed, but that several gendarmes have been killed
or woutaled.

...
In the Lot-et-Garonne at Agen, a socialist attempt
to take possession of the town by surmise has been
defeated. General I'clein and NI. Caller arrived
with reinforcements at Clammy on the Uth.
The clues-martial were constantly sitting.
Telegraphic desptelies from foulon stato that
j Claims was reduced. Several gendarmes were mas-
sacred, the mayor had been wounded and impri-
soned, the barracks were robbed and burnt, the tag-
gatherer's house plundered, and the clerks rubbed.
Ia the Nitlvro CO) insurgents have been taken pri-
soners. The cure of Neuvi was dangerously wounded
by an insurgent, who was immediately tried by
I court-martial and shot.

Thais upon a gigantic scale, before both civil and
military tribunals, me going on all over the country.
The prefect of the lairet-Cher,in his proclamation,
tells the people that hesitation is neither possible nor
permissible, and that now more than ever the wicked
must tremble and the good take courage.
The Constitntiannel gives the following further
details of the Jacquerie in the tiers, in a letter from
Condom, 6th:
The town of Condom was for a moment invaded by bands
assembled in the surrounding communes. The intention
was to gain possession of the cash-lios of the receiver, but
the nie,sures taken were so strong that the rioters threw
down their arms and fled. At Vic Iczensac a body of country-
people went to the market armed with scythes and hatchets,
declaring that they were going to do for the rich. These men,
led away by the propagandism of secret societies, openly-said
that they laughed at the republic and wished for pillage. They
were not able to realise their designs, but between N'ic and
Auch a sergeant of Hussars, carrying a despatch, fel: iu
with a body of about 200. After making a courageous re-
sistance he was massacred, and his body left on the road.
Ills horse, wounded and covered with blood, galloped back
from whence he had come, and spreading alarm iu all the
places it passed through. In many of the communes the
secret societies were in permanence. The most horrible
threats were uttered against the landed proprietors, and
the hour of their death was to be announced by the tocsin.
The news from Paris aluue prevented this levy of socialiq
bucklers. Several of the proprietors have barricaded their
houses, and armed their servants.

The district comprised between Clammy, depart-
ment of the Xievre, and Coulanges-sur-tonne, de-
partment of the Yonne, has been the theatre of grave
disturbances. In every commune bands attempted
to possess themselves of the mairies, in order to seize
the arms of the national guard. In resisting one of
these bands, a gentleman named Posseaux was killed.
One portion of these insurgents proceeded to Cla-
mecy, where they committed excesses which have
been alrcady stated ; another marched on Coulareses-
sur-Yonne, but the inhabitants resisted, and for three
days prevented the insurgents from forcing their
way into the town. A great number of smaller
communes were, however, disarmed and sacked.
The tocsin was sounded. At last expresses suc-
ceeded in reaching Auxerre, and vigorous mea-
sures were immediately taken. Some engagements
subsequently took place between the brigands and
the military, and the former were everywhere de-
fcated. sides there were killed and wounded. ,1
The last accounts from Auxerre represent that the
rioters were everywhere routed, except at La l'ui-
sayc, but that military forces were being sent against
them there.
Among the places disturbed by the socialists was
the town of Forcalquicr, in the Basses Allies. M.
Paulmier, substitute of the procureur of the republic,
and M. Painted, sub-prefect, were attacked by a
furious crowd, wounded, and made prisoners. They,
however, succeeded in escaping; and the insurgents,'
las if terrified at what they had done, abandoned the
theatre of their excesses.
I saw to-day stated in a private letter from Mor-
tcau, on the Swiss frontier, a fact which deserves
mention, as illustrating the nature of the co-operation
which is given to the government at this monent in
a great many parts of France. The Mayor
of Mortcau had issued a declaration, in
which he pledges himself to use his utmost exertions
in the maintenance of order; but refuses toassociato
himself to anything unconstitutional. lie had sent
back to the Prefect of the ])Dubs all the orders des-
patched to him.
The Gazette de Languedoc of the tlth appears with
a blank sheet, the editors announcing that their
journal had been seized on the day before. The
Vision de la .S'arthe describes socialist nuts at La
Bum and Le Mans. Four or live hundred work-
men of a tannery had marched agritist the Hotel
ide Ville; but ultimately order had been restored.
Everywhere people of all opinions helped the govern-
, ment to put down the communist riots, which ex-
cited great terror throughout the country in conse-
quence of the dreadful atrocities committed in those
places where the communists have obtained a
momentary superiority. The Gazette do Midi con-
tains accounts of several local riots in the Var, which
had been generally put down. The Nentiadie Je
TO(41Ull describes an attempt at an away, which
was easily repressed.

It is announced by telegraph that news arrived in
Paris this (Thursday) morning of the departments of
the Gers, far, and Lot-et-Garonne, having been de-
clared in a state of siege.

UNIVERSAL GAS-LIGHT COMPANY.—Mr. Harding,
the official manager of this corapauy, has declared, with the
Mater's concurrence, a call of ot. per shire to pay off debts.