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London, England, 1851-12-08 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8.

IT is to the honour of Paris, and of the French, as
a high-spirited nation, that the scheme of super-
setting. a republican constitution by an imperial
despotism was not submitted to at once and without
a struggle. Although the impudent and senseless
usurpation was supported by 130,000 bayonets, and
although the forces and feelings of the dif-
ferent classes from whom resistance might be
expected were paralysed by the previous un-
popularity of the PRESIDEST's opponents, and
by I.oeis NAPoLroN's hypocritical moderation,
still there were not wanting men, even amongst the
people, who saw at once the despotism about to be
flung over them, and who, at all odds and hazards,
were prepared to peril their lives rather than submit
to it. Never, certainly, did treason on the part of
government more fully legitimise resistance. But
unfortunately there was little concert in this resist-
ance; and those partisans who rushed into the
streets, piling up barricades, and braving the
fire of an overwhelming army, were but the
rash and impotent few, not the representatives
of any large class. The citizens did not muster
under the banners of the National Guard, nor did the
masses of the Faubourgs descend into the arena of
the Boulevards under their blood-red flag. The PRE-
SIDENT and his generals have thus had, in the first
instance, hut to deal with the light troops of insur-
rection. The main army and tho more formidable
generals of resistance to his tyranny he will
yet have to meet and to contend with in
a strife that, however long it may endure,
and with whatever vicissitudes and atrocities it may
be marked, can for Louts NAPOLEON have but the
one termination. Ile has already waded through
blood to the first steps of his throne—his chief sup-
porters then can be no other than the policeman and
the executioner.
Success in the first instance, however, seems now
unquestionably to have been the result of his coup
,t fat. It does not amwar that the standard of
resistance, civil or military, has been hoisted any-
where, and the conduct of the general commanding
at Lyons, bespeaks pretty generally the feeling of the
higher ranks of the army. This general sent word
to l'aris that he could nut retain command under the
new and illegal authority that proclaims itself inde-
pendent of parliament and the constitution, but
that he would prevent insurrection and avoid civil

war.
Amongst the numerous classes and parties who
all behold Lnu is N %is iLtox's assumption with horror
and with hatred, there is little sympathy, and there
can be, as yet, little concert. Neither the legitimist
general, nor the military partisan of constitutional
monarchy, nor even yet the commanders true to the
principles of the republic,—neither CIIANi.ARNIELL,
nor LAIIORIVIERE, IMP CAVAIONAc,—could summon
the popular MAWS to their aid. 'they, as well as
the 'clansmen of their several parties, have, since the
events of lads, relied upon the army to coerce
the wilily. And it must be confessed that they
themselves are crushed by the very power which
they trusted to. as monarchic, constitutional, and
conservative. The fidelity of the army, the wisdom
of trusting to it, and the policy of governing by
military ascendancy, rather than by justice and
popular conciliation, formed the very basis of that
system which the majority of the late National
Assembly proftwed and patronised. We see the
result, and, we arc sorry to admit, the logical result,
of a government and a system so framed and so
supported.
We might go further, and trace the present mili-
tary tyranny to the folly of those eminent men and that
political class which formed the elite of French society
and intt•lltrt. But we have no wish to insult the
fallen, and though never failing to censure the fatu-
ity with which they used their ascendancy, we hairs
both con • •ration and respect for eminent and,
after all, conscientious men, condemned to prison, to
proscription, and persecution.
Louis N u•ott:oN may consider the entire of the
upper and tslucated class of society as his deadly
enemies. They may not conspire, and they may
shrink into their libraries and saloons front open op-
position. They- may there vent sarcasms upon tho
statesmanship of the PEasnixiis and Aunt-maxis,
and visit with cutting contempt the renegadism of
the few who consent to wear imperial livery.
Narossox during his whole reign experienced such
hostility as this from the Faubourg St. Germain ; but
then he wits supported by the &kit of his victories,
and by the talent and the power of his administra-
tion. Lewis Nsistuatx has to face the scowl, not
merely of the old noblesse, but of the entire respecta-
bility and intellect of his capital.
With the rich and spending class in dudgeon
and dismay, the middle and shopkeeping folk will
find many reasons for discontent, even supposing
that there be no lover of freedom and constitutional
government amongst them. And that there was so, the
barricades and loss of life in the quarter inhabited by
this class, otter strong proofs. In those quarters
the brutality of the soldiers will be long
remembered. It sufficed that one cry of
Fire to kcpuldnitee" should have proceeded
from the mist pacific, unarmed, and well-clad group,
in order to bring down from the soldiers, an instant
fire of musketry that sent these citizens to their
graves. And in fact, the LOUIS NAPOLEON massacre
of December, lsii, was committed not upon anar-
chists or red republicans, but upon the bourgeoisie of
Paris.
The military ri'ginse, however, seems fully esta-
blished. And Louts NAPOLEON reigns in the same
spirit and policy, if not by the same right, as the
other Imperial Majesties of Vienna and St. Peters-
burg. The name system has, in fact, spread over
Europe, from the mountains of Transylvania to the
shores of our western ocean. The military are mas-
ters of Europe. They are its sovereigns, its tax-
collectors, its judges, its senates, and its statesmen.
Whether such a state of things is likely or possible to
endure, we leave to every thinking man and liberal
"rind to decide.

PASsetnat Vint BF.LGIUS.—By an order of the
Belgian government travellers will not be allowed to enter
Belgium unless their passports have been signed by a
Belgian consul in the country from which they proceed.
ElTlntalvk ROBBERY AT BRISTOL—On Saturday
the umgistrates for the city of Bristol were engaged for
anieral beers in investigating a most serious charge of
bery, by Messrs. Candy and Agar, of Wine-street,
a respectably connected young man, named Isaac
orerl, who has been for some years an untitled assistant
le their employ. The court was very such crowded dur-
ing the heanng by leading tradesmen of the city. Messrs.
Candy and Agar are wholesale silk mercers, raclinee,
and have in their employ numerous assistants. The
prisoner had recently got into some disgrace by showing
'attention t, his business and absenting himself without
leave from the warehouse, and the magistrates were
appealed to respecting those breaches of his indentures,
but it less not till within a few days that his employers
were induced to entertain any suspicions of his honesty. Cir.
esurtances having led them to fear that property had been
abstracted by him from the warehouse, they intimated
their doubts to the superintendent of the police at Bristol,
who directed Sergeant Summers, an active detective Meer,
to make as summation of his apartments, at the hoar of
W herr, a retired tradesman, living at Benham. about
four mites from that city. The sergeant accordingly appre-
hended the suspected yneag man, and, having procured his
keys Rem him. proceeded to Benham to make the search.
la the prisoner's bedroom he found lying on the dreaming-
table, sad packed in paper, eleven yards of French satin.
whisk both Kr. Candy and Mr. Agar were able to identify
r having been recently in their stock ; and, upon hr
rinks and boar being unlocked, they were found to be
erseemed with shawls, handkerehieh, silk neckties, tan-
nide. and other geode, which his employers fully believed
had been tarloised from their warehouse. The racer
leek possession a property to the value of at lean SOL, and
brought it away with him ; but he at the rune time leg
behind numerous things vs • which suipicions were
illallftaliffi, bet which cold not be clearly spoken to by
the presientors. Mr. John Ayr* defended the prisoner,
and sokieeted the wireless to a rigid eserressaination,
but his efforts to raise the pm:mob& that the property
In question might bare been sold fees the stock by the
prisoner to his Radler did net succeed!, se both Mr. Candy
and Mr. Agar stated that nth raid sot have been the
ere wither the emle beta. knows to themselves or a re-
egewailsle arrant, and duly recorded la their beaks et as
- simat. The plow vas osinaitied hr tea

THE
REVOLUTION IN FRAM

STATE OF PARIS.
pious, SATPRDAY.
I called your attention in a previous letter to the
bad effect produced by obliging the soldiers to vote
openly instead of by secret ballot. The fact of
soldiers voting at all during a revolution can only
tend to produce schism in the army, and leads
directly to anarchy. But to set them at a disadvan-
tage as compared with the other citizens must have
the effect of cooling their allegiance, and giving a
dangerous ground for the enemies of the executive
to work upon. Louis Napoleon has evidently experi-
enced great embarrassment in dealing with this
dilemma, as the following letter addressed by him to
the Minister of War evinces:
Mr dear General—l had adopted the mode of voting with
the signature of each voter, because that mode, employed
formerly, appeared to me to ensure more effearally the
sincerity of the diction ; but, yielding to serious objections
and to just representations, I have, as you are aware, just
issued a decree which changes the manner of voting. The
suffrages of the army are almost entirely given, and I run
happy to think that there will be found but an inconsider-
able number against me. Yet, as the soldiers who have
given in a negative Tot'- might apprehend that it would
exercise an unfavourable influence on their career, it is of
importance to set their minds at rest. I beg you, therefore,
without delay, to make known to the army that if the mode
in which it has voted is different from that according to
which the other citizens will vote, the result shall be the
same for it, that is to say, I wish to be ignorant of the
names of those who have voted against me. Conse-
quently the taking of the votes once terminated and duly
verified, I beg of you to order that thy registers may be
burnt. Lotis NAPOLEON DONAPAISTE.
The following proclamation was issued yesterday :
The President of the Republic end his government will
not hesitate to employ any measure calculated to maintain
order and save society, but they will always know how to
pay attention to the voice of public opinion, and to the
wishes of well-inclined persons. They have not hesitated to
change a mode of voting which they had borrowed from
precedents in history, but which, in the actual state of our
electoral habits, did not appear sufficiently to ensure the
independence of the votes given. The Pnsident of the
Republic &sites did all the electors shall be completely at
liberty in the expression of their vote, whether they exer-
cise public functions or not, and whether they belong to the
civil professions or to the army. Absolute independence,
complete liberty of voting, is what Louis Napoleon wishes to
see established. DE Monyv,
Paris, Dee. 5. Minister of the Interior.
The announcement which I sent you yesterday,
relative to the departure of General Bonrjolly to
take the command of the troops at Bordeaux, Is con-
firmed by the l'utrie. He replaces General d'Arbon-
ville, commander of the 12th division.
I hear from public report in the streets that 24
men, taken with arms in their hands, have been shot
this morning in the Avenue Marigny.
I mentioned in my letter of Wednesday that
Madier le Montjau had been wounded on that day at
nee of the barricades in the Faubourg St. Antoine.
His death was announced in the Patric, but incor-
rectly. Ile is expected to recover soon, and lies at
present in arrest.
This morning all is quiet. The carriages circu-
late; the shops are open; the military have disap-
peared, and the capital resumes its usual aspect. I
have not been able as yet to procure even an ap-
proximately correct statement of the number of per-
sons killed. The greater part of the barricades
were abandoned after the first platoon fire of the
infantry ; very few of the soldiers have been even
wounded ; but the loss of life among persons altoge-
ther unconcerned in the insurrection, mere
t*:citizens surprised in the great thorough-
and slaughtered by discharges of mus-
betry, is really tearful. There are at this moment
188 bodies lying in the cemetery of Montmartre, co-
vered with straw, and laid out for recognition by
their bereaved friends. People come and draw aside
the straw to examine the features of these victims,
who retain their usual clothing. 36 of these are
well-dressed persons, with an appearance of opulence,
with watches, chains, papers, and other objects found
upon them, indicating an easy station, and leading
to the conclusion that they were shot in the streets
to they went about their usual avocations. There
ie ally one workman among these bodies; and one
ware, a Bavarian broom vender.
One of the oldest English residents in this capital,
Mr. P. Pariss, druggist in the Rue de la Paix, was
killed on Thursday afternoon, in the discharge of
musketry caused by the firing from a house on the
troops as they were passing. Mr. Parise received
two balls, and died four hours afterwards. lie was
on his way from the Rue do la Paix to another
establishment that he had near the Faubourg Pois-
Bonnier,.
A great number of corpses are laid out for recog-
nition in the Bazar du Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle.
The following passage from the ronstitutionnet,
will give an idea of the enormous military force by
which the coup d't'lat is supported.
In the combats of the 4th, and in the military demonstrie
tisa of yesterday, only one half of the army of l'aris was
Noliwyed. Not a battalion from any of the neighbouring
wissloans has been sent for. One may judge from the
powerful reserve at the disposal of the government, with
What vigorous repression anv attempt at a new insurrection
wield be met. Every one has been able to convince his-
self of the splendid arrangements made by General MAIM*
sad of the rare precision with which the movements hays
been executed by the generals ander his orders.
I described to you yesterday the aspect of the boo-
lcvards as far as the end of the Boulevard
Poissonniere. To-day I made an excursion ex-
tending from the Barriere de rEtoile to the
Barriere du Team at the end of the Fau-
bourg St. Antoine, and shall resume my sketch I
at the point where I was obliged to return—that is,
at the beginning of the Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle.
The crowd of people on foot and in carriages assem-
bled to witness the traces of destruction on the beau-
tiful edifices of this part of Paris was immense. But
the ruinous breaches effected by cannon in the carpet
estaufactory of Aubusson and the neighbounng
headings were the chief objects of curiosity. Among
ithe carriages grouped opposite to this strange scene
I observed, to my great surprise, that of
M. 'rhiers, with Madame Thiers within. The
change in the aspect of the people was surprising.'
Not a soldier was to be seen anywhere along this
line. The glad sense of security was visible in every
face, even while gazing on the scarred houses. Now
and then the litters of the" Ambulances" were bones
along for the transportation of the wounded. Beyotoll
the Porte St. Martin up to the Place de la Bastffie
there is not a trace of fighting. There was evidently
an intention of striking terror into the opulent
classes, who favoured the views of the roy-
alists. The handsomest modern mansions in Paris
stand exactly on the Boulevards Poissouniere and
Bonne Nouvelle which have suffered most. Every
stone edifice, distinguished by elaborate architectural
decoration, and ornamented with column and cornice,
beers the innumerable dint of bullets. In the plate
glass of the windows you see the clean round hole of
lite rifle ball in a little halo of white cracks. Before
you reach the Porte St. lknis there is a raised path
to the right. AU the railings which protect
passers by have been rent away. Under-
neath lay the black rusty springs of two car-
riages which had been burned. The restored
paving near the arch showed that an ordinance of the
Prefect of Police posted up had been attended to.
All those round pillars which are ranged at intervals
along the Boulevards, and serve for " affiches" and
other purposes, were torn down, and showed only a
ruined stamp. The boxes where the arrivals and de-
partures of hackney coaches are checked had disap-
peared with their clocks generally. The pavement
everywhere is either restored or in process of resto-
ration. At the Chateau d'Eau I saw the traces of a
camp. where a detachment of cavalry bivouacked, all
strown with litter and refuse. In the muddy road,
round dry spots marked the places where their tires
had been-kindled. Beyond this point there were few
people on the pathways as far as the column of the
Bastille, where I saw a large rassembkment of
blouses, and half expected to find some incendiary
crater spouting in the midst of them. But the object
of their curiosity was only a mountebank. I went
into the Cafe of the association, at the entrance of
the Faubourg St. Antoine, which is chiefly frequented
by ardent socialist "ouvriers," and was surprised to
find them quite calmly and reasonably discuss-
ing the probability of Louis Napoleon's elec-
tion of the 20th and 21st, instead of whisper-
ing sedition and muttering imprecations. At
the entrance of the Faubourg St. Antoine there
were traces of a barricade, and the wine shop at the
corner has been completely smashed, but not with
cannon. Two other traces of barricades are visible,
one at the Roo Charoone, and another further on.
It was evident, from the uninjured state of the houses