The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-05 00:00:00

an affair most serious for me—l mean the departure of
Emile Thomas. I told him where he was to go. Alt !"
cried he, 'that would not have happened had I accepted
the proposals of L. Blanc; I had an army of 100,000 men,
and things would perhaps have turned out differently on the
15th May., In comparing the words of Emile Thomas with the
changes I had remarked in the dispositions of the workmen,
I ,icquired the conviction that it was Louis Blanc whose in-
fluence acted on the ateliers nationaus, and all the evil was
to be attributed to him." A report of a commissaire de
police conLins information of a nature to complete the de-
clarations of M. Trelat. We give this information: " The
as tier of the journeymen tailors at Clithy is an application
of the theories of the Luxembourg. This atelier was loundcd
by M. Louis Blanc, on the 28th March, and it soon counted
1,500 workmen, We may say that this association well de-
serves the name of fraternal, which it has assumed, for the
meat able workman only receives 40 eons per diem, as the
man, the most inexperienced or the most indolent.
The workmen admitted into this association were
animated with the worst spirit ; they imbibed the
most demagogical principles by reading the most
exaggerated and most violent papers. Oo the 14th May,
&most all of them repaired tc the National Assembly, with
the intention of disiolving it; and during the days of June
a great many of them did not make their appearance at the
atelier. Many of them arc now the objects of an investiga-
tion before the courtsmartial. " We must remark that M.
L Blanc had declared to us that be had on the eve of the
23rd June—

L. BLANC I did not gay the eve.
The Itermeren (continuing)—Paid a visit to the atelier
of Clichy ; he di clued that this atelier was animated with
the best sentiments. We have seen in what manner his
declaration was contradicted by the official report we have
just quoted. On the 23rd of June we ageiu find M. Cloud.
diere. Y 0.3 remember, citizen representatives, the biil which
demanded M. Caussidiere for the president of the republic.
This bill preceded but a few days the taking up of arms of
the 23rd June. Convinced of this fact, we have necessarily
followed M. Causaieiere in the divers phases of the struggle ;
we let the Mayor of Paris speak: "In the
Faubourg St. Antoine and in the city it was the name of
Caussidiere which was invoked by the insurgents."—Mr.
Edmund Adams: "The name of Caussidiere was pro-
, nounced everywbere.—A. Guardien of Paris "In the
barricades it was said, 'lf Caussidiere does not
' come we are lost.' An insurgent °tiered to go
and tell my wife where I was. He said to her,
Caussidiere no !ringer shows 'himself, and sends us no
money, but we will stand it out."—The wife of the preced-
ing witness : "An insurgent came to me from my husband ;
he said that what caused him the greatest uneasiness was,
that Caussidiere had left the ineurgents, and that they knew
not what they had to do. He should at least have sent agents
to tell them so. In my opinion the insurgents complained
that Cateisidiere had come to the barricade, and had aban-
doned them in the moment of danger."
Ci izen CAVIIISIDIYALE---If I had been there I should not
have returned.
The REPORTER.—A new witness confirms this testimony.
M. GREGOIRE.—" 1 was going to the Place Msuhert. I
found myself in the midst of the insurgents, and heard them
say, ' If Caussidiere had come, Mt had told us to lay down
arms we should have obeyed him.' I also heard them say,
Vivo Louie Blanc !" '
M. LACROSSE An insurgent was taken at the Faubourg
Puissonniere. He was asked for what reason he had taken
ut. arms ? Who was his chief ? He answered, Marc
Caussidiere." '
M. CAFFIN.—" On the 22nd June, my horse having for a
short time ierved as an ambulance, I was surrounded by a
great number of insurgents, at the moment they were com-
plaining of being without ammunition. ' How does it
happen,' said they, 'that Caussitiiao allows us to be
in want of ammunition ?' When the cartridges
tame, they slid, Ah, Caussidiere has tent us powder."
M. Bertrand, Juge d'lnstruction, has acquanted the
executive with a fact, which is, moreover, quite notorious—
it is, that the name of Caussidiere was the rallying word in
all the quarters occupied by the insurgents. The formula
was at one time " C iussidiere and the Republic," at others
" Cain and Caussidiere." We end by two important tes-
timonies relative to M. Caussidiere, which emanate from two
men belonging to the prefecture of police, and upon the
morality of whom we have had the best information.
M. Ror.e.er —" I left on the 23rd of June, with M. 13-zon.
It ass 10 am. I saw barricades being erected in several
places. I was r. quested to lend my assistance to erect
them, but refused complying, complaining of a wound in
my hand. The peewees who directed the construction of
the barricades were officers of the notional guard.
At the height of the Church of St. Paul, Rue St. Antoine,
I saw M. Caussidiere. lie had just crossed a barricade which
the Montagnards, as I t itreght, were about erecting. I
I thought so, at least, by their sinister faces and long beards.
(Laughter.) The sinister faces are those of the Montag-
nerds, not that of M. Caussidiere—do not mistake. Some
of these men left the barricade aid came to shake hands
with M. Caueseliere. They appeared to congratulate him,
but I slid not hear what they were saying."
M. BEZON.—" On the 2311 June I was on duty, and went
to see the barricade of St. Antoine. Between 1 and '2 I sew
M. Caussidiere near the church of St. Paul. M. RAM was
with me. We passed before him a second time, to be sure
it was he. The barricade was then about one metre high.
One of the men of the barricade drew near Caussidiere,
took bold of hie hands, and conversed with him. We yielded
to our conjectures, and deplored the participation of Cam
lidiere." The committee has traced these depositions
to their source ; it has inquired into the delay which has
occurred before they were given in ; and has sought whether
they were dictated by any motive of Personal interest. It
has ascertained that these two men were at first restrain( (1
by a feeling of fear, that they had addressed them-
selves to one of the chiefs of the administration of
the police, mil Ur it, yielding to his representations
and to a sense of duty, they had made their
declaration. We have no reason to doubt their sincerity,
Caussidiere meet positively denies having been, on the
23d June, in the Roe St Antoine; he remained at home,
eu
at the blriere dc PEtoile, all the morning, and ettys he took I
a cab at three quarters past twelve, and went direct to the '
National Assembly ' • he spoke, he says, to several of his col-
leagues in the Salle di s Pas Perdus,eapecially to H. 13uchez,
to whom he addressed these words:—" Would it not be
proper to ge to the barricades ? We must be twelve at least
to puke the insurgents lay down their arms." M. Buchez
declares that M. Ceussidere did not speak to him on that
day, and that he does not even remember to hsve
seen him. M. Caussidiere has since delivered us
sundry certificates, of which the following is the tenor :
" We, citizen representatives, declare that, during the days
of the 23rd, 24th, 25th, and 26th June last, our colleague
Caussidiere has remained with us, and that he has fulfilled,
without any interruption, his functions at the national
assembly.—F. Lasteyrie, Tb. Robert, hazier Pin, Chevallon,
Valette (Moselle), Xavier Durrienz, Vignerte, David
(d'Angers), E. Beene, F. Flocon, Laurent (de PArdeche)
Pelletier Leprouz (Jules), P. Martin-Rey, F. Jeandeau,
Clear 11;rtholon, Fred. Farconnet, Lamennsis, A. Fleury,
L Laussedat, Jame de Mowry, Labrousse, Considerant, E.
Menand, 11. Jeuin, Film: Pyat, Briers, Amick:a Bruys,
Deville, Tie. Reyna], Delbert's', J. P. Dupont (Bessac),
Bernard, Eug. Happen, Jules Bastide, It, z meson.—July 2.
1844." I declare I saw the citizen CAM idiere at the
chamber on the days of the 232 and 24tb June, at the mo-
ment when I myself w a then present.—Veeeeneeese."
I was sitting at the assembly, n ar Caussidi re, and I
remember perfectly wed to have seen him several times in
I the come of Friday the 23d June —FEUD GAMBON."
" I affirm that I often saw the citizen Caussidiere in the
assembly during the dais of June, and especially that on the
afternoon of Friday the 23d, he proposed to sae is presence
of more than 50 colleagues, to join him to go to the barri-
cades, to conciliate the people.—AlveoeY TitOuttEl "
Does it result from these certificates that M. Caussidiere was
net, between one ar,d two, in the Rue St. Antoine ? It is Let
for us to answer this question, but one of the represeetatives,
who has signed these certificates, has judged proper to inform
us in what manner he signed these certificates. "M. Caqs.i-
there, addr, suing himself to one of my colleagues and
to myself said, Do you remember having seen me in the
Assembly during the days of June i It is pretended that I
was seen in a neighbouring village.' We repli( d
that we had, in fact, caught sight of him at the
Assembly ; but we could not precisely state the hour nor the
day on which we had observed him. It was then M.
Caussidiere prayed us to sign the certificates he presented us."
Citizen CAT:3BIIIEILE —1 protest against a most odious lie,
I did not leave my own house before one o'clock.
The PRESIDENT—You shall be allowed to speak when the
report is discussed upon ; at pre. eat we have to listen to the

rezort.
The REPORTER—IIi order to continue impartially
exact, we must add that we find in the account of the sitting
of the 23rd June in the Aloniteue, an interruption attnbuted
to M. Caussidiere. The information we have collected proves
that this interruption could not have taken pace till after
two o'clock, A judiciary document states that in the
morning of the 23rd June five individual., implicated
in the insurrection—Longpied, Dense, Chabant, and
Delaire, wrist to M. Ceussitheres. Que.tiolo d upon th .t
visit, af. Caussidie' re declared to us that lie had teat dty
received from twelve to fifteen per.ons era.• came to sieak o
hiss about projects of agriculture and colonisation in Aige-
ria—(laughter)—but that neither these r none not he had
spoken one word upon politics ; that they had merely dis-
cussed upon the means of organising a committee, in which
the commercial affairs of Paris should be taken int)
consi-
deration ; that he was extremely circumspect in his rela-
tions with what he called the bad part of his party.
It was observed to Caussidiere that Lungpied assigned a very
I different object to this conference; he ri pilot by a formal
denial—" I may have seen kingpied, I may have spoken to
him on politics generally, but I have never meddled with all
the attempts which weaken the republic." We must now
state a last fact, although posterior to the events
of June : A wine merchant of the Rue du March",
au: Poiret., told us that about 10th of June Ceussidiere,
who often dined there before 24th Febratry, came to his
house at 3 o'clo‘k in the morning, accompanied by two men,
one of whom had a wooden leg. This last wai an old coin.
mandant of M. Montagnard's, and one of the men most e,m-
promised in the affair of June ; be was confronted with the
I wine-merchant, who, without recollecting him precisely,
said, that:tlie man who came with Caussidiere was attached
to the prefecture whilst he was prefect of police. The
name of a third represertative is signalised to us by several
witnesses. At half past nine o'clock in the morning of tho
26th, M. Prudhon arrived on the Place de la lia‘talle. He
did not put himself is connexion either with his col-
leagues or the generals and officers who commanded at
this point. At 11 o'clock M. Lacrosse, vice-president of the
assembly, and 111. Decoys, marching before the troops who
carried the barricade, met him on the Rue de Faubourg St.
Antoine, and, distineuidfing him by his insignia as
a representative, te•ked Ws name, and signified
their astonishment to fled him on the vary theatre
of the insurrection. M. Prudhon, examined by the committee
as to the employment of nit time from seven till eleven
o'clock, explained that he went into a hcuse opposite the
Canal St. Martin and the great barricade of the taabourg