The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1851.

painted as hostile to those of the mass of mankind,
and a capitalist is held up to odium as one whom
self-seeking must convert into an oppressor. Even
men employed in the ministry of the church have I
gone so far as to call the condition of a receiver of
wages a bondage,—a pure slavery,—equally offensive
to reason and religion.
These sentiments easily find support in those
seasons of adversity to which a trade spread over
every region of the globe is inevitably subject. A
bad crop of cotton may call a legion of socialists into
existence. Mills are worked half time or stopped i
altogether—wages sink—the capitalist rapidly loses
his property, and yet is charged with being the cause
through his selfishness of the misery of the work-
men, not only by, the men themselves:but by writers
also, whose position and education should have taught
them better things. What device can be more sea-
sonable or more salutary than the conversion of
the workmen into fellow capitalists with the
master? What can possibly. open their f ves
so effectually to the vicissitudes of trade
as that they should share its profits and its losses 1
What can create so certainly as partnerships
a cordial spirit of brotherly fellow-feeling be-
tween the mind that thinks and plans and the hands
that work ;—or consolidate so firmly a community of
interest between those whom the tendency of the age
is opt to array in direct antagonism to each other?
Partnership en emnnunalite seems admirably
adapted to bring about these valuable results. The
operative is stimulated by it to save, because he is
able at once to dispose of his savings advantageously.
However small may be his investment, It asso-
ciates him with the tbrtunes of the factory. If times
are bad, he is not tempted to charge the cupidity of
the master with the crime of lowering wages : he
has access to the books, and can inspect the register
of diminished profit or painful loss. Ile learns that
if he suffers, the large capitalist suffers still more.
When fortune smiles, he not only obtains better
wages, but, as a partner, shares in the gain, and
learns to look on the common business with affection,
—with a feeling that it is his own.
On the other hand, the master obtains correspond-
ing advantages. Ile gets guarantees for peace. and
harmony such as nothing but partnership can bestow.
Ile commands increased capital. Ile ceases to be
an object of jealousy to his men ; they know the state
of the business ; they rise and fall with him. Can
the growing disposition to look upou the master as
the enemy of his workmen be met more directly
or with a better promise of success ?
As managing partner, liable for the whole of his
fortune, the master has the strongest iaducemats
for the exercise of prudence, activity, and calf: ; as
associated with "special partners," who are forbid-
den to interfere, he is exempted from trouble. And
he gains one very clear advantage above those he
now enjoys. His workmen have now the most
powerful motives to practise economy and industry.
f hey work as masters—nut as hirelings ; their sav-
ings and their energy reward, not an employer,
but themselves.
No reasons of equal weight can be assigned for re-
fusing a fair trial to such a system. Complete publi-
city gives the public all the security they require. It'
the names of the partners and the sums they have
invested in the business are publicly proclaimed,
every one who gives them credit will know what he
has to trust to. And there is in this very publicity
an as of the possession of capital by the con-
cern, which is not to be had as the law now stands.
The evidence before the committee moreover
asserts that in those countries where the law
of partnerships en cennwandite prevails, such
concerns, when bankrupt, pay beyond the aver-
age rate of dividend. If men of straw are ap-
pointed managers, the sums placed against their
names will give the public warning of the fact. And
it is hardly a justifiable policy to forfeit great advan-
tages fur the sake of protecting those whom their
folly alone exposes to danger.
Mere may be pleaded regarding the risk en-
countered by the poor and ignorant, of entrusting
their savings to crafty and fraudulent men. Under
no system can this evil be averted. Experienced
persons declare that the sums lost by the "foor
through injudicious loans every year is in-
credible. Partnerships en col/ow:n(lde admit of
effective precautions being made for investors. They
, may have publicity, full access to the books, and espo-
cially an extension of the machinery already at
work in friendly societies, for providing cheap and
immediate redress to partners against each other.
This is a very vital point; one of the law reforms
most urAently needed.
English merchants are proverbially a conservative
lace. Custom is their ruler, and beyond most mortals
they dislike the hazards that attend innovations.
'This feeling is often salutary: in the present case
they have no reasonable ground for alarm in trying.
in England an experiment which is at work, without
producing ruin, in France, America, Belgium, and
elsewhere.

FRANCE.

PARIS, TIII'IIWAT EVINING.

Decrees appear placing the Jura ix a state of
siege, and approving the subjection of Algeria to a
state of siege by General Pelissier.
The government has got in readiness a regular
fleet for transporting the unfortunate people %horn
the police denounces as agitators of society.
The Minister of Marine has ordered the following
vessels to be fitted out for the transportation to
Cayenne of convicts who have broken their ban, and
of persons affiliated to secret societies: the Mogador,
steam-frigate of 6,50-horse power, at Rochefort ; the
Canada, of 430-horse power, at Cherbourg ; the
Christophe Colomb, of 450-horse power, at Brest ;
the Dugueselin of 90 tons; and the Allier, corvette,
of SIX) tons. These vessels, we are assured, will in 15
or 20 days be able to transport to Cayenne 2,000 men.
Another fleet is equipped in the Mediterranean for
the transportation of trench citizens to Lambessa, in
Algeria.
MM. (remieux, Leo do Laborde, and Croton, have
been released from the fort of Vincennes, and set at
liberty. The other prisoners at Vincennes, namely,
MM. Duvergier do Hauranne, Bixio, General Lar-
dot, Jovet, Darrien, and Teilhard-Latorissc, have
been transferred to Ste. Pelagic.
NI. Placatory has been set at liberty to-day. The
only member of the party of order, with the excep-
tion of the prisoners of Ham, who now remains in
confinement, is M. Duvergier de Hauranne. All the
representatives who remained in the casemates of
Monte Valerien and the towers of Vincennes, were
conveyed yesterday to the gaol of St. Pelagic. With
the exception of M. Duvergier de Hauranne all thee,
were members of the Mountain. M. Duvergier was
put during this severe weather into a brick-paved
cell without a fire. Upon complaining of this
he was accommodated with a stove, which,
however, it was impossible to turn to
any use, on account of the smoke which tilled the
narrow room. A wretched pallet, which had been
pressed by a series of felons, was the only bed ac-
corded to this distinguished statesman. His wife
was not permitted to visit his cell ; and he could
only speak to her at the parlour across a double
grating, in the presence of prison servants and con-
victs. All these facts I can guarantee to you as
coming from an unquestionable source.
No sooner was General Oudinot released from the
fort of Mont Valerien than the first use be made of
his liberty was to write to the President an emphatic
protest against the slur thrown upon his military re-
putation by the language used in the decree creating
General Valliant marshal of France, which, as you
may remember, attributed to the latter officer the
capture of Rome. This protest is couched in the
most energetic terms.
The Courtitutionnel contains a remarkable article
_

by NI. Granier de Cassagnac on the political results
of late events. "The President's coup cretat," says
this writer, "gives to political minorities the coun-
terpoise of agricultural majorities; and makes of
Assemblies the counsellors, not the tyrants, of the
executive power. Louis Napoleon has built the
durable edifice in which after him, and like him, all
serious powers may be safe, by whatever name they
go, republic or monarchy. And if ever the Count
de Chambord, or the Comte de Paris, came to reign
in France, they would owe their crown to the coup
detat of December 2."
This article of M. Granier de Cusagnac is an au-
dacious tissue of misrepresentations. Ile starts with
professing to correct the erroneous notions of foreign
countries with regard to France. His very first as-
sertion bears evident marks of how little M. Grainier
is fitted to correct the mistakes of others, when he
contradicts all that he wrote under the monarchy of
July, of which he was the energetic defender and

the loudest eulogist. M. Grimier declares now that '
during the last sixty years France has had only one
government which represented the wishes of the
vast majority of the country, namely the government
of the empire. After this abject 'election of a sys-
tem of military despotism, the writer proceeds to
administer contemptible flatteries to the rural popu-
lations at the expense of all that tie country con-
tains of free, enlightened, and eminent. lie winds
up, after an attack upon representative institutions,
with declaring that if the Count of Chambord or the
Count de Paris ever accede to the French throne,
they will owe the crown to the coup treble of the
2nd of December.
M. Delamarre continues in the Patric to declaim
against parliamentary government, which seems, ac-
cording to this wealthy proprietor, to be the root of
all political evil. It is not in this moment to its
wealthy proprietors that France must look for the
salvation of her liberties.
General Cavaignao refused, I understand, to make
any conditions for the recovery of his freedom. M.
Other, the uncle of the general's bride, would only
accept the post assigned to him in the consultative
commission on condition of Cavaignac being libe-
rated.
In an interview with M. de Monty, M. IlarM, the
flAraist of the Sieck, in order to pismire the with-
drawal of the order suspending the paper, pro-
mised that, until the appearance of a law regulat-
ing the press, the Sierle would abstain from all oppo-
sition of whatever kind.
M. de Monty replied that if he waited until the
appearance of such a law he would wait a long time
—a warning sufficiently' significant.
A circular of the Minister of the Interior has au-
thorised the prefects to expel nt once front the French
teriitory any foreigners whose presence may appear
'to theta dangerous in a political point of view. Tile
usual formalities which might have retarded the
execution of this measure are done away with, and
all that is required is that the prefects should give
notice of expulsions to the minister.
M. de Fulloux has written a letter protesting
against the misrepresentation of his sentiments that
has appeared in the government journals.
The only section of the legitimists who have ad-
hered to Louis Napoleon arc the Due de Valmy and
his friends. These always constituted a lukewarm
and suspected fraction, and the great mass of the le-
gitimist party are glad to have got rid of them.
General Itulhicres has written a letter protesting
against the insertion of his name in the first list of
the consultative commission.
Three-quarters of the -10th regiment of the line
have voted against Louis Napoleon. In consequence,
there is talk of disbanding this regiment.
Much surprise has been caused by the official re-
turns of the votes of the navy, which represent the
President as having gained 0,000 votes out of 10,000.
No one can comprehend this result, as Louts Napo-
leon is known to be less popular with the navy than
with the army. Besides, it is known that in some
ships of the squadron the President hardly obtained
a single vote. Thus, on board the Jena, among a
crew of MOO. I am told that b only voted in favour of
Louis Napoleon.
The following paragraph, which appears in the
Journal de Rosen, is destined, if not contradicted, to
excite very great interest : _ .

.
We spoke yesterday of a committee of five generals that
had been recently formed by the President of the Repub-
lic. This committee has, indeed, been formed, but it is
not yet called upon to net. It is only intended to
assemble in the event of the President's death. The
conduct that in such en event it would have to pursue
and the measures which it would take to maintain order
and to make a new appeal to the people arc all laid down in
a written memorandum, a sort of political testament which
the President has made, and which is not to be opened
unless in the event of his death. All nccr.sary• precautions
I are taken to ensure the instant amembling of the council in
the event alluded to, and that the paper in question should
at once reach their hands. The five generals forming the
council am Generals Magoon, llsraguay d'lfil-
hers, Correia, and St. Arnaud, wlio have all promised to
execute the President's wishes.

The Archbishop of Paris, Monseigneur Sibour, has,
I understand, expressed some scruples against receiv-
ing from the hands of the President the keys of the
Pantheon, and consecrating this temple once more to
the wet... 4,4 of Ste. Genevieve.
The Duke de Guiche has received the reward of
his adhesion to Louis Napoleon in au insignificant
diplomatic employ. lie is made French minister at
Ilesse Cassel. But, on the other hand, he has for-
feited the respect of his father, the Duke de Gram-
mont, who refuses, I hear, to hold any communica-
tion with him.
A well-informed friend writes to me from Bor-
deaux that political feeling runs very strong there.
Ho says :
A compact mass of electors besiege the doors of the Hotel
de Ville every day to get their voting tickets. The look of
patient determination with ?Thiele they wait for the tura,
coupled with the weil-known state of public feeling in the
city betokens anything but good to the presidential
cause. Complaints arc made of the slowness with which
the tickets are distributed. It is evident that the govern•
' meat is afraid of the election here. So great is the
terror felt of political discussion that the authorities,
after exhausting all ordinary modes of preventing the
interchange of thought, have closed all the masonic
lodges. Every barber in Bordeaux has been sent for to
the police oilier and told that his shop will be shut up if a
word of politics should be spoken in it. The pioeureur of
the republic has had the shameless effrontery to tell M.
Lrsparre, nu influential man in his quarter, that if he votes
in his canton he shall be sent to prison M. de Crngy, the
editor of the legitimist journal the courrier de to Gironde,
has been sent for by General Bourjolly, and roughly told
that his paper will be suspended if he ,s rites a word of poli-
tics. Public indignation, however, finds means to break out
with vigour oceasiomilly. A journal of Rochelle, on the
11th, ventured to publish a most vehement protest against
the coup Waal. This example has been followed• by
another newspaper in the llautes Pyrenees, which eon-
eludes its article with the words, " Shame to the army."
Seventy-two political prisoners from the Lot and Garonne
have been brought to Bordeaux in irons. They are treated
with much severity. So far from being the assassins and
robbers that the government represent, they almost all of
them belong to the bourgeoisie. It is certain that the
majority of the legitimists at Bordeaux will vote against
Louis Napoleon ; some will abstain, and some few will vote
fur him.
I learn by, letters from Marseilles that many men
of respectability and property took part in the rising.;
in the Var and Basses
The Moniteur contains the official despatches of
General d'Autist, commanding in the liautes and
Basses Alpes and Vauclusc, and of General Levail-
lant, commanding in the Var, of the disturbances in
those provinces. The contain little not already
known, but they both fully confirm the great extent
of the disaffection existing in those departments.
General d'Autist gives no returns of killed and
wounded. lie says loosely that one of his officers
killed some :men at Cavaillon, and caused two or
three persons who fell into his h inds to be shot. In
another part, he says he
.gave orders to shoot every
man taken with arms in his hands. In the Var,
General Levaillant speaks of 80 or 90 having been
killed in ono tight.
The latest government despatches from the depart-
ment state that General Pate has gone to Mazanct
(Tarn), where the disturbances are not at an end.
The insurgents have encamped upon the heights of
the Black Mountain.

One hundred and fifty-four more prisoners from
the Basses Alpes were brought to Marseilles on the
16th. They are to he sent to the Chateau d'lf.
The accounts generally from the departments are
said to be very favourable.
The anxiety felt by the family of M. Victor
Hugo, against whom an order of arrest had been
issued, has been relieved by information of safe arri-
val in Brussels.

A liberated convict, who had broken his ban, was
yesterday arrested, being the first that has come
under the operation of the new decree condemning
such offenders to transportation.
It appears from government accounts that persons
canvassing for votes of " No" in the provinces are
being arrested. The crime that they are charged
with is that of "exciting peaceable persons not to
vote for order on the 20th and 21st instant."
Several masonic lodges having been closed by the
government throughout France, and particularly on
the Swiss frontiers, the grand master of France has
thought right, by a general order, to prohibit any
masonic meeting before Jan. 1, 1852.
A decree appears remodelling the whole organisa-
tion of the administration of the ministry of the
interior. The number of empfu.yr7B is reduced,
but the pay of those who remain is increased.
The plan of the Secretary-General is abolished.
One bureau out of 21 is suppressed, its functions
being distributed among the others. The total num-
ber of clerks is fixed at I4S, their subdivisions into
various categories abolished, and their only distinc-
tion of denomination made to consist in the amount
of pay received, which varies from 3,000 f. to half
that sum, The pay of the chef de cabinet is fixed at

7,000 E ; that of chef de dichtion of the Ist elass,l2,ooof.
accounts to be rendered by the ministers for the
gexasammineamtiheonrsoeff the
year P 351, MM. Gouin (president), Louvet, Manuel,
comAmdiectteerce,
chargedappears, lay': tp: i tnht len
Marchard, Quentin Beechen!, Picard, Lebas de
Courmont, Grandet, and Itaynaud de L'arbarin.
The President will not receive on Monday next.
It appears that M. Dupin drew upon his head the
lecture administeted to him by M. do Valour by
paying a visit to the latter. It was agreed among
the conservative members of the Assembly that who-
ever first came across the President of the Assembly
should depict to him in the severest language the
base desertion of which he had been guilty. It ap-
pears now certain that the te,iology for the coup
dt,tat inserted yesterday in the COnAtiiltitoMlCl was
written by Dapin, and that this is the price which
he has paid for being allowed to retain his place of
Procurenr-general to the Court of Cassation.
M. Thiers is at Brussels. Urgent solicitations,
mixed with serious admonitions, have been made at
the Belgian court by the French minister, either to
expel M. Thiess, or to subject him to a rigorous sur-
veillanee. But the spirit of Leopold is too loyal for
him to act the jailer towards the head counsellor of
the exiled house, to which he himself is so nearly
bound.
The journals of Switzerland are excluded. The
Erho de Mont Blanc, of Savoy, is also interdicted.
The l'otme appears without any lending article
today. %IM. Pelletau and Peyrat, two well-known
writers in that journal, announce that their cornice-
titm with it has ceased.
The (':otentin'lsawe! of yesterday contained an
elaborate article upon the nature and extent
of secret societies in France, the object el
which is to prove that the ramifications of a
vast socialist plot were ea extensive, and its
organisation so complete, that nothing but the sw-
ims° of the President's coup deist could have pre-
served society from being destroyed by communists
in 1852. You cannot fail to obsCrve that the Presi-
I dent ha's two totally distinct sets of arguments to
justify the act of the 2nd of December, which he ad-
dresses with much tact and cleverness to ditfereut
classes of society. To the masses he says the
Assembly had become a mere knot of conspirators ;
they wanted to imprison me—l dissolved the
Assembly in my own defence—l have full
confidence in the sovereign people ; I appeal to the
free judgment of universal suffrage to decide between
me and the Assembly. To the people of property he
says, don't be angry with me, if I had not taken the
people by surprise they would have returned a
socialist majority in 1852, see what I have saved you
from, and be thankful; bear the temporary imprison-
ment of your friends with resignation, and share my
final victory over democracy. The article of today is
addressed to the latter class of readers. It enters
into very long details of the facts that came out upon
the trial of the famous Lyons plot, and which have
since been discovered by the police, and alleges that
the results which are well and fully proved,
as far as regards secret societies, may be thus
summed up :
1. A very great part of France, almost the whole of the
country, sits covered, as with a net work, with an immense
number of secret societies, some cone:tiling themselves in
the shade, others usurping the mask of benevolent societies.
—2. These societies were connected together, or in corre-
spondence with each other through secret agents, and by
travelling clerk traversing every part of the coun-
try, carrying instructions fur maintaining unity of views
and keeping up a perp,tual agitation. The societies were
established by sigas and means of recognition, by seals, by
oaths and farms of initiation and by uniPirm mots d'or,bs'.
—3. The secret societies established in France are subject
to the direction of central committees edablisheel in Paris,
Lyons, and London, and arc in correspondence with the
political refugees established in Switzerland.-4. The mili-
tant democracy were arranged into sections of secret socie-
ties, and provided with arms and ammunition, in order to
secure the success of its pi ojects.
Yon will observe that after all this "resume"
merely proves the existence of secret societies, and
that it is a gratuitous assumption that the object of
all of them was communism; or, as the favourite
government phraseology now runs, " pillage, murder,
and violation." There is, however, an admission in
this article pregnaitt with instruction for French
statesmen, if they could be brought to profit by it.
"The re-organisation and multiplication of secret
societies dates front the presentation to the Assembly
in April, 1819, of the law interdicting clubs. People
then became desirous of carrying on in the dark the
work that they were no longer permitted to do in
the face of day." What wonder? Here is an ad-
mission that the people to whom it is uow reproached
as so groat a crime, that they belong to secret societies,
do not hive darkness rather than light, but have been
driven to conspire by the folly of government in put-
ting down all public discussion of political atthirss
It is from this forced secrecy that socialism derives
its principal terrors, but the absurd doctrines which
may find favour in secret conclaves could never face
the common sense of the public. It is curious that
this article, showing the immense number of the
members of secret societies, should appear upon the
same day when M. de Morny's letter in the Moniteue
recommends the severe execution of the recent
decree for transporting , without trial, any man who
may "have belonged" to a secret society. If it were
possible to act up to this decree to any great extent,
it would indeed thin the number of electors at the
poll next Saturday.
The annual banquet of the old officers of the Im-
perial Guard took place on Dec. 15, at the "'frois
Frilres Provenoux. Marshal Excelmans presided;
and among the other officers present were Generals
Petit, Schramm, Magnan, Gentil, Lafontaine, Mont-
marie, litigation, Chatry-Lafosse, &e. After the
usual first toast. "To the memory of the Emperor,"
had been drunk, Marshal Excelmans warmly ex-
patiated upon the merits of the President of the Re-
public, whom he ridiculously described as the worthy
heir of the great character and eminent qualities of
the emperor. He was confident that as l'rince Louis
Napoleon had saved France from the evils which
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and gratitude to Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the
saviour of the country and of civilisation." This toast
was received with the greatest enthusiasm, amidst
repeated cries of " Vivo le President de la Repub-
lique!" " Vice to Prince Louis Napoleon !"
General Petit, the vice-president, then gave "The
Army," which he introduced by a eulogistic notice
of their services on the recent occasioe, in which he
said the army had saved France from the greatest
danger that she had ever encountered. This toast
was drunk amidst loud cries of " Vire l'Armee!"
" %lee lc General Magnan !" In reply to this com-
pliment, General Magnan said, " No, my comrades,
I have done nothing. more than my duty ; it is not
to mo that these praises arc due, but to the bravo
soldiers, who have supported so much fatigue, and
who by their devotedness to the cause of order have
deserved well of their country." The 2nd of Deecm
her was fixed on for the day of meeting next year.
And having thus determined to celebrate in future
the anniversary of the imprisonment of seven of
their most distinguished generals, this military fes-
tivity terminated.
The Bourse was dull to-day. The Fives fell 75c.,
and closed at 100.50. The Threes fell 80c., closing
at 64fr. The Orleans railway rose 17.50. Rouen
fell 15fr. The other lines varied but slightly.
Prince's
suffer i
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tehsael preserve
her
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(PROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, WEDNESDAY.
The President's great battue of French journals
having ceased for the present, the newspaper readers
are now employed in endeavouring to form some
estimate of the number of killed and wounded. The
Nationd, the /V.publique, and the Arenenicnt no longer
answer to their names in the rap and reading
rooms, and must be considered dead. The Semaine,
a weekly newspaper which never indulged in very
violent political opinions of any shade, has been sup-
pressed, and the prohibition of the President was
even extended to a little journal the name of which
was unknown except to a few private readers; but
the editor of the Voix de la Vilriti• (the name of the
little journal in question) having represented to the
Minister of the Interior that he had no bias to-
wards one side more than another he was allowed
to continue his publication, which was never more
dangerous to the cause of order than a journal of
family r The Illustration suffered
• ‘itly,

receipts. but
slightly, and in fact escaped with a delay of three
days in its appearance; but not one drawing of any
of the scenes of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or .sth of De-
cember was given; nor did the paper contain a
single line either of information or commentary with
regard to the events of those days.

When the Sleek made its re-appearance after the
order for its suspension had been removed, an an_
nouncement was made in its first column that a, its
writers continued to hold the opinions Which they
had supported for so many years, it would be hues:.
sible for them to publish any remarks on the I,oe
occurrences in Paris, and that the political part of
the newspaper would consist merely of such sta,e-
merits of facts as they were allowed to print. tit,
Monday and Tuesday the Sic& was not
seen, but it has come out to-day, without.
ever, giving any explanation of the
pearance of its two previous number,. It is
at the sane time generally known that this
days suspension took place in consequeme of
the Siede having refused to give a plate in
its columns to an article which had been ~en:
it for insertion by the authorities. This new.;
is now- the only one of republieun princi des :s 1.44;
is allowed to exist, and as its existence de-. n-
tirely upon its not advocating those priacill.,
republican press may be said to have been r
destroyed. Many of the legitimist jouni..!. we
been accommodating enough to give their
support to Louis Napoleon. The rnie,-rs
has been won over by the Presides is piety in tort:.
ing the Pantheon iuto a church, and the
France no doubt admires him in the fulness of it,
feudal recollections for the kingly manlier in v. 11:
the indiscriminate firing among the people in !..c
Boulevards was conducted. 1 may here
that no return of the number of killed and w,timi.tl
on the part either of the soldiers iw ,; •
people has been made. Pai tial
such as one to the effect that
bodies were picked up between the 800, -
Montmartre and the Boulevard des Bailees, ha „
peered, but in this case the cep-es were th -
passers-by alone. It is impassible to ascertain
many of the actual insurgents were destroyed. i.e
is certain that the number very far exec.:.
which the government journals would le.' I n.
imagine, while, on the other hand, many to ,
diets haveperished than the same papers :sit
readers to hear of. I believe it is not g.
known in London, that the bodies of those Is
who were shot by the random discharges
soldiers in the Boulevards were in no ease
up to their friends. The unfortunate
known to have taken no part in the ins
but it was derided that the corpses sitould he taken
possession of by the authorities, and I.u: sed by them
in order teprevent their falling int) the hi,i of tiro
red republicans, and being displayed by them with
the object of inflaming the people.
To return to the Paris journals, the Pet •t, is no
longer edited by Giraalin, and several of its late
political writers have left it. It has bran stated
that Girardin is going to the United titates, but 1.
find this to be incorrert,as he intends starting are p
iii-
licnn journal at Brussels. All tile Belgian tt-wsl
the politics of which are at all disagreeable
President, arc forbidden in Paris, but RIM' I
will doubtless be discovered for introthwing
din's paper secretly among the staunch r, pal
and at all events he will be enabled to main
character as a democrat until the next get at I
change takes place.
ThcOwsaire and Charirari have been allow, d v.
continue their existence with the unact,tatitiiii4 that

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they are to contain nothing which 3.ltail
direct or indirect reference to ir3lities.

the C'orsaire and Charintri hayu been rib doll a,„:,.4
be expected since their re-appearanf-:.. It appc.o•i
that Mk the theatrical journals aro not sad•
one of them has been already fined for a Inca. Wu-
sion to the effect of political excitement on the

tunes of a theatre); ain't the J;net,,,d
eau only be considered safe from the rut of out
its principal writers being the welt-known t pieura
and politician, Dr. VC Ton, now ;dl-paw...rful at Ow
editor of the Coneitatbotnch

As the last piece of news regarding the press in
Paris I may mention tint even a writer in the Patric,
that peacetul organ of the government, whose every
word was said to be written at the dictation of
the government, has been imprisoned. The cul-
prit is M. Jules Serret, and his offence was the
publication of news relative to some disturbances in

the departments, in which he represented the insur-
gents as hating gained the upper hand. This seve-
rity on the part of the government towards the press
applies to the publication of books as well as of news-
papers. Several pamphlets have lately appeared in
favour of Louis Napoleon's election, but permission
is refused to any person wishing to print the nunv,t
hint of an objection as to the mode in which the
election is to be managed.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Dtc.

M. Xavier de Isturitz has arrived in Madrid,
where ho has received several visits. It appears that
the session of the Cortes will not be renewed atter
the deliverance of the Queen. The Gazette pub-
lishes a decree proroguing until the end of Marvh,
1852 the delay appointed by the Bth article of the
law of August 1, 1851, for the presentation of bonds
of the home and foreign debt, whose owners aspic' to
the benefits of the said article.