The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-21 00:00:00

RIOTS AT TOULOUSE.

The following is the Ministerial account published by the
French Government paper, the Messager :
This sedition, the avowed object of which at the beginning
was to oppose the execution of a measure perfectly legal, was
afterwards directed against individuals, and with a violence
which, apparing for some -lays to subside, at length assumed
a most serious character. The Prefect and Procureur-General
became marked objects of the riot. The troops have constantly
shown the most admirable forbearance. They have supported
insults, and even positive assaults, which the municipal autho-
rity did not for an instant repress, with a calmness and modera-
tion which can alone be attributed to their discipline. The re-
citals and violent calumnies which the Emancipation has issued
for several days are false and injurious accusations, without mo-
tive or justification. While the riot on the 12th was going on. the
provisional municipality, accompanied by officers of the Na-
tional Guard, went to the Prefect, and requested him to call
out the National Guard. The Prefect thought himself
bound to give his consent. At nightfall the National Guard
assembled on the place du Capitole, occupied that post, and
joined the troops of the line in protecting the Prefecture.
The rioters then demanded the release of the prisoners who
had been arrested on the preceding days. The detachment
of the National Guard stationed at the prison was forced, the
door was attempted to be broken open, and one of the panels
had given way, when the provisional Mayor promised to
release the prisoners on the following day under bail. On
the t3th, assemblages more threatening than before invaded
the streets at an early Linn Fresh barricades were raised,
and the telegraphs of Toulouse and Blagnac were pulled
down. Then it was that the Prefect decided upon leaving
the town, and took his departure in a carriage prepared for
him by the provisional municipality. On the same day a band
of rioters twice forced their way Into the house of the Pro-
eureur flu Roi, whom they sought, with the intention of mur-
dering him, but who, both times, happened to be from home.
The post of the National Guards stationed at the house made
no endeavours to prevent this. The persons who had been ar-
rested were set at liberty. Such ate the facts. We shall not
attempt 'to disguise their gravity. The laws have been out-
rageously violated : their empire ought to:be re-established with
moderation, no doubt, but with firmness. Numerous rein-
forcements have been sent to Toulouse, and force will remain
with justice and the laws. According to the last despatches
from Toulouse, tranquillity has not been since materially dis-
turbed. The accounts from the neighbouring departments
announce that tranquillity had not ceased to reign there.
The iltoniteur Parisien says "M. Bouche, Prefect of tho
Gers, has received orders to repair to Toulouse, where he
must have arrived to night to take the reins of Government,
till the arrival of M. Maurice Duval."

" Orders have been despatched by the President of the
Council, and at this moment several Regiments are on their
road to Toulouse."
We learn that M.'Mahul has arrived at Paris.—La Gazette
de France.

We have two questions to ask of the Minister of the In-
terior :—" Is it true that it was known before-hand, that the
nomination of M. Mahul would excite disturbances at Tou-
louse ? It it tree that M. Mahul before his departure, stated
as much? Is it true that the departure of twelve agents of the
police of Paris for the capital of the Upper Garonne, preceded
tne dyparture of M. Mahul? The flight of M. Mahul must
have surprised the Minister the more, as he just before des-
patched to him, by the telegraph, a notice which the Journal of
the Prefecture publishes in the following terms .
" The Minister of the Interior t. the Prefect of the Upper
" Garonne.

" Paris, 9th July.
" I approve of all the decisions which you have made. I
hare no doubt that you will be cempletely succcessful, and that
order will soon be wholly restored."