The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-01 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(From the 211or7zing Herald.)
Up to a late hour on Tuesday last the city of
Lyons was still in the possession of the insurgent
workmen. The Duke of Orleans and Marshal
Soult arived at Trevaux on Monday last, and found
there General Roguet, with whom (after giving
audience to a deputation from the citizens of Lyons)
they concerted measures for the reduction• of the re-
volted to obedience. The means of enforcing sub-
mission were at hand, immense bodies of troops
having arrived from all quarters; but the Minister
of War would not have recourse to them until per-
suasion had failed to recall the unhappy insurgents
to a sense of duty. Confident hopes were, in con-
sequence, entertained at Paris that no further blood
would be shed.

Some attempts wero made by the disaffected to
get up an entente at Paris on y Monday last, but
were instantt'aeously defeated. Additional arrests
had take place that day, but nothing has transpired
to r:;ove that they were more than precautionary
l'neasures.

A report prevailed on the Bourse of Paris on
Tuesday that the French Government was about to
treat for a new loan of 115,000,000 francs,
4,600,000/.

Our correspondent, in a letter dated Tuesday,
Nov. 29, says that several additional arrests had
taken place in Paris on Sunday and Monday, of
persons having been implicated in a Republican con-
spiracy. Other individuals said to be compromised
had fled, a circumstance which gave to the ru-
moured plot an appearance of reality.
FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, Nov. '29.-Five per Cents., 95f. 25c.
nor. 25c. 30e. 25c. 20c. 23c. 30c. 25c. 93f. 20c. 25c. 30c. 20c. 10c. 95f.
95f. 10c. 95f. 95f. sc. 95E 95f. sc. 95f. 94f. 90c. 95f. ; Four and a
Half per Cents 86f. 51,c. ; Four per Cents. 80f. ; Three per Cents.
6Sf. 75c. 70c. 60c. 45c. 5Pc. 55c. 50c. 55c. 60c. 68f. 70c. 60c. 63c.
70c. 50c. 45c. ; Rente de Naples, Blf. 23c. Slf. 81f. 10c. ; Rente
d'Espagne, ; Royal Spanish Loan, 74 73N ; Rente Per-
petuelle d'Espagne, 57 56% 57 571 A 14 57 563 i 57 571,4 57 5634 ;
Ilaytian Loan, '255f. 250 f. Exchange on London, one month,
paper, 2.5 f. 20c.; money, 25f. 2.0 c.; three months, money, 25f.
5c.-Cours Authentique.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

(From the Times.)

PARIS, MONDAY EVENING.

I beg to subjoin the translation of a letter which
I have just received from Lyons under the date of
Friday, the 25th inst. You will see that it is from
a person who warmly espouses the interests of the
working classes as opposed to those of the master
manufacturers and the merchants, and to the con-
duct of the military and the National Guard.

" LYONS, NOV. 25.

" You are no doubt aware that the workmen of
Lyons, after three days' bloody fighting, have made
themselves masters of the town. The National
Guard, by their arrogant bearing towards the work-
wards these disasters. General Ordonneau was
made prisoner, and General Roguet at the head of
the garrison was driven out of the town. All the
important posts—the arsenal, the gunpowder maga-
zine, the Hotel de Ville, and the barracks—are in
the hands of the conquerors. Public and private
property has been respected, with the exception of
a few houses, the furniture of which has been de-
stroyed. Nothing positive is yet known as to the
eember of the victims; they are variously estimated
at from 1,000 to 1,200 killed and wounded. As to
developments, let me begin by assuring you that in
this insurrection there has been nothing of a political
nature. In the beginning some manufacturers' fore-
men, and a few old soldiers, took the lead, having ex-
clusively for their object the execution of the tariff,
which bad been stipulated between the manufac-
turers, the authorities of the town, and the foremen of
the workshops. Some mobbing had taken place be-
fore the period of the principal insurrection. The
last was not of a more alarming character than those
which preceded it, and might have been dissipated
if the repeated promises made to the workmen had
been ratified. But several imprudent charges of
c avalry and vollies of infantry, made without due
n otification on the inoffensive groups, carried the ir-
ritation which prevailed to extremity. Several
platoons of the National Guard were beaten and dis-
t. emed during the night. Preparations for resist-
tepee were made by the civil and military autho-
rities, and on their side the workmen procured arms,
cast musket-bullets, and carried two guns which
they had taken to one of the neighbouring heights.
On the following day, cannon and musketry con-
tinued to thunder in all quarters of the town. The
workmen were every where victorious; and at
length, in the following night, or rather at one
o'clock next morning-, General Roguet left the town
at the head of the garrison, assailed by a dreadful
fusillade, to which the regular troops replied in
close column, the drums beating the charge. Time
will not allow me to tell you of the bitter complaints
which are raised against the greater part of the ma-
nufacturers. Severe and destitute of bowels of
mercy for these poor people, on whose sweat they
have been fattening for a century and a half, their,
only answer to the complaints of the work-people has
been by sarcasms and vollies of musketry.
" Ten centimes additional per yard on the wages
of the silk-weaver, and torrents cf blood would have
been spared. An arrangement had been made
among the masters not to pay the silk-weavers at a
higher rate than from 15 to 18 sous per day for the
lines! goods. Nose I beg to ask you whether it is
possible for the head of a family to maintain himself
on such wages in -a town where living is not less ex-
pensive than at Paris. Thus they were dying of
hunger by the hundted. For a long time the nu-
merous hospitals of this great city were not sufficient
for them, The waters of the Rhone served to stifle
the sighs of the victims of this odious cupidity. I am
not afraid to assert that there is not a city in Europe
where industry is more ingenious, or more worthy
of interest, than Lyons. There is not one where
the people are more laborious or more patient, and,
allow me to add, where they are worse paid. It is,
I repeat, the borrow of want which had driven the
people to extremity, aggravated by cruel sarcasms
and insolent railleries at their misery; and at last it
was the vollies of musketry so infamously fired upon
them, which drove them to revolt and depair.
" I shall never forget the heart-rending spectacle
of which I was witness, of those long lines of men
with hollow eyes and sickly aspect, the greater part
of them without shoes and in rags, exposing them-
selves without arms to the devouring fire of grape-
shot and musketry. These workmen, led on by
able and intrepid chiefs, have proved a second time
to Europe, that even the poorest part of the French
population have nothing in common with the popu-
lace of Bristol. Bold in combat, and moderate
after victory, they immediately remember that those
who had starved them were also Frenchmen. They

instantly forgot their injuries, and thought only of
the safety of the town. Security and good order
prevail throughout the town, patrols traverse it in
directions, thieves do not venture to show them-
selves, and an attempt to throw open the prisons
has been repelled, but not without further bloodshed.
" I have already told you that no notification or
summons was made by the National Guard. Their
cruelty has only been equalled by that of General
Roguet, who has doubtless been willing to pay for
the robes of his new dignity. He is one of the late
batch of Veers. He has evinced a most blood•
thirsty disposition, and declared, it is said, that he
would rather break his sword than surrender the
town : the traces he has left behind him will be
long before they are effaced.
" Several cries of ' Vive la Republique I' and ' A
bas Perier were heard after the fighting, but have
not been attended with any Consequences. The
apathy of Paris has disgusted the provinces. I can-
not foresee the future, but I do not believe that
Perier can survive the batch of Peers, or the catas-
trophe of Lyons. Pardon the haste with which I
write, and the errors and inaccuracies arising from it."

The telegraphic dispatch, of which the commence-
ment is given in the Moniteur of this morning, is
hourly expected. If it arrives before nightfall, you
will find it subjoined; in the mean time I annex
the article in which the commencement appears :
" The Government has received this morning
(Sunday, the 27th) by the ordinary courier from
Lyons, which reached Paris at the usual hour, a des-
patch from the Prefect of the Rhone, dated on the
24th, at midnight. This is the first which has been
received from that functionary since the events of
which that city has been the theatre.
"At the departure of the courier, tranquillity
continued to prevail throughout the town. The
Prefect was still at .the hotel of the Prefecture.
The commtinications from without were completely
re-established. Incendiary placards, which had ap-
peared for a moment on the walls, were disavowed
even by those whose names were attached to them.
" The despatch of the Prefect, after a circumstan-
tial recital of the events of which the details are
now known, concludes with these words—' A pub-
lic notice will tc-morrow invite the merchants to
open their warehouses, the workmen to return to
their labour, and all the citizens to resume their
customary habits.'
" During the 24th instant an attempt was made
to spread new alarms as to certain projects which
were said to be in reserve for the following night.
A second communication, dated the 25th, which
reached the President of the Council by an extra-
ordinary despatch, announces that the night had
been perfectly tranquil, and that good order continued
to re-establish itself. The shops were re-opened,
and the workmen still in arms were already testify-
ing their impatience to return to their labour.
" We learn from all sides that the surrounding
population discovers the most decided disposition to
oppose themselves to a spirit of anarchy and disor-
der. Town and country is on this point unanimous.
The National Guards offer every where to march if
necessary to re-establish the authority of the laws.
It is to be hoped there will be no need of patting
their devotion to trial.

" The brave General Roguet continues to concen-
trate the forces which arrive to him from all points.
Those which ascend the Rhone are to be placed in
front of the suburb La Guillotiere, while those which
come from the sixth military division will occupy the
heights of Fourvieres. Thus every position around
the town will be secured, and the prudence of the
General in making his resources subservient to the
action of the Government, will doubtless thereby
contribute to make them superfluous. It can
scarcely be doubted that a misguided population will
come themselves to claim the protection of the laws,
the violation of which has already cost them so dear.
" On the t".:6th, at two o'clock, the Prince Royal
was at Chissey with the Minister at War. His
Royal Highness expected to arrive at Macon to-
wards midnight, and to join General Roguet on the
morning of the 27th.
" The journey of the Prince continued every where
to awaken the most expressive sentiments of devo-
t;ms ~dcr, and or horror for anarchy.
" The Government has this morning received te-
legraphic intelligence from Dijon, Strasburg, Lille,
Bordeaux, and several other great cities. The most
perfect tranquillity had not been interrupted in any
of them.

" The Prefect of the Rhone has this day forwarded
a telegraphic despatch to the President of the Coun-
cil, dated the 27th, beginning with these words :
" Toujours meme tranquillite, j'esptlre que —."
This despatch has been interrupted by the approach
of night.
" Such is now, on the 27th, at midnight, the pre-
sent state of things, and a summary of the reports
which have reached the Government.

" It will be seen that every thing is ripe for a so-
lution, which cannot fail to follow promptly the ar-
rival of his Royal Highness the Doke of Orleans and
of the Marshal, Minister at War."

PROCLAMATIONS PUBLISHED AT LYONS ON
THE 24th of NOVEMBER.
" UNION, FRATERNITY, OBLIVION OF THE PAST.
" Men of Lyons !—Our city has been afflicted with too
many misfortunes. Let us no longer rejoice the hearts of
the enemies of our industry. Citizens, rally round your
magistrates, who are, and always will be, at their post,
`or the maintenance of public order and tranquillity.
" Henceforth and for ever, let our motto be union,
fraternity, and complete oblivion of the past.'
" The chiefs of workshops are requested to bring im-
mediately to the office of the Mayor, lists of the workmen
employed under them, that means may be taken for the
instant distribution of some relief to the necessitous.
" The Presidents of the Sections of the workmen are
invited to assemble immediately at the Hotel de Ville.
" The Mayor of LYONS.
" BOISSET, Adjoint.
" Men of Lyons !—A few unsteady [individuals have
evinced a desire to usurp a power apart from the protect-
ing authority of the Magistrates, or rather to destroy that
authority. Men of Lyons, will you suffer this? Do you
wish to sink again into anarchy? Will you submit to the
yoke of a handful of factious individuals? No, you will
surround me to give me strength to re-establish order and
tranquillity. Your city has experienced enough of mis-
fortune, let us arrest its course. No attack need be feared
from without : I answer for it with my bead.
" Brave workmen, who have called me your father,
, assist me in saving the town from the misfortunes with
which it is still threatened. You will not abandon the
c tuse of good order, it is your own ; for without order
there can be no work. Our enemies within and without
rej ice at our misfortunes, and are ready to profit by them.
" ' I have given orders for the following arrangements :
" Art. I. As the right of giving the pass-word be-
longs exclusively to superior authority, the posts will
recognize that only which shall be sent to them under seal
from the Prefecture.
'6 ' Art. 2. Every individual who shall distribute orders
of the day not coming from the Prefecture shall be ar-
rested, and brought before me to account for his intentions.
" Art. 3. For the safety of the town, I require all
good citizens to take arms in order to ensure the execution
of the measures which I may find it necessary to take for
the preservation of public order.
" I invite all good citizens capable of performing the
duties of staff-officers to offer me their services.
" The Councillor of State,
" Prefet of the Rhone, DU MOLART.
" Lyons, Nov. 24."