The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-02 00:00:00

RIOTS AT TOULOUSE.

The riots at Toulouse still fill the public mind in
France, and the columns of the Journals. The Moititeur
of Wednesday declares that the legal inquest goes on
with activity. The end of this inquest will be, probably,
the prosecution of M. Arzac, the provisional mayor, and
one of the writers in the Republican Journal, the Utili-
taire. As the quarrel is thus likely to be kept open, to
agitate the public mind, and perhaps more than the
public mind, we will give the following relation of facts,
given by the municipality of Toulouse :
" JULY 13.—MONSIEUR LE MINISTRE—The serious
events which have taken place demand a succinct report
to be made of them, in order to give you due informa-
tion, until a more detailed report of occurrences day by
day may be prepared.
" It was on Saturday, the 3d, that the ordonnance ap-
pointing M. Mahul to be Prefect, in the room of M.
Floret, was known at Toulouse by a Ministerial letter.
The cause of this dismissal, and the name of the new
Prefect, determined the Municipal Council to resign, but
it consented to continue its functions during a certain
time, in order to give the Prefect time to form another
municipality. But on the sth the Prefect wrote to the
Mayor, during the sitting of the Municipal Council at
nine in the evening, a letter, of which the terms, aggra-
vating for the responsibility of the administration, were
such, that the municipality resigned altogether and im-
mediately. On the 6th a Provisional Municipality was
formed, according to the law of 1831, and three of the
councillors consented to accept the painful mission. Im-
mediately the Commander put his force at the disposal
of the civil authorities, and measures of precau-
tion wore taken, there being no doubt that crowds
would collect before the Prefecture with demonstrations
of opposition, which hitherto had proceeded no farther
than a malicious serenade. These provisions were jus-
tified: The crowd was immense. Yet the Prefecture
was protected. There were hissings, hootings, and
cries against the Prefect, but without menace or aught
of serious hostility. The provisional Magistrates were
on the place to direct the employment of the armed
force. There was difference of opinion between it
and the Prefect. The latter thought the crowd and
cries to be insulting to his office, and wanted to have

the crowd dispersed. The Provisional Magistracy, on
the contrary, thought that the crowd should be per-
suaded to withdraw without violence, and it objected
to any legal summons to withdraw, as indicating
the immediate employment of force. At eleven
o'clock the crowd dispersed, and without accident. The
same day died General Cassagne, an old Municipal
Councillor and ex-Colonel of the National Guard. At
the demand of the Colonel of the National Guard, the
Provisional Mayor summoned the National Guard to at •
tend the fueeral on the evening of the next day, the 7th.
At two o'clock on the 7th the Prefect wrote to the Pro-
visional Mayor. forbidding him to take any engagement
for convoking the Guards, because he had learned
that the Guards after the funeral, intended coming
to him, the Prefect, with offers of support for the
evening. At five o'clock the Prefect having read in the
papers the convocation of the National Guards for the
funeral, wrote a second letter to the Mayor, formally
prohibiting the convocation of the Guards, and saying
that he had been deceived. The Mayor replied imme-
diately to the two letters, explaining the simple reason
of the convocation, and defending its legality, at the

same time alleging that it was -Wrong to suspect the
National Guards, as well as to address the provi-
sional Magistrates in terms so unwontedly impolite.
The Prefect insisted on the convocation of the National

Guard being instantly counter-ordered. It was too late to
do this by letter, but one of the Provisional Council went
round, and gave notice and explanation of the counter-
order. This, of course, increased the obloquy of the Pre-
fect and the exasperation against him. At seven in the
evening of the 7th the troops were stationed in the
Place of the Prefecture. The crowd was immense.
Cries of ' Down with Mahul !' were frequent and loud.
The soldiers advanced to remove the crowd, when stones
were flung, and it became difficult for the troops to
overcome the resistance. The lamps were broken,
and the crowd, driven back, repaired to the
Hotel of the Procnreur-General. There, too, pre-
cautions of defence had been made. The troops were
then obliged to be employed on different points,
and there ensued some isolated instances of collisions.
But the mass of the citizens did not fling stones,
and the great body of the troops remained tranquil. In
the hinder ranks alone the soldiers received blows and
returned them. The crowd dispersed at midnight, and
the provisional Magistrates published a proclamation
next morning. On the Bth the Prefect also published a
proclamation in which he attributed the disorders to an
error in the execution of the law, an error by which the
disaffected profited, but added that in his hands still re-
posed the tranquillity of the city. This proclamation
produced a bad effect. It attributed the troubles to a
wrong motive, displayed the dissidence between Pre-
fect and Municipality, and arrogated to the former
the preservation of tranquillity, which belonged by
right to the Municipality. The Municipal Councillor
went to the Prefecture and asked the Prefect
to convoke and unite them in assembling. He
explained their reasons in a letter. The Prefect
replied by a verbal refusal. The discontent continued,
and the crowds gathered again. A barricade was erected
at the gate of St. Etienne, but was easily occupied and
destroyed by the troops. It was. said that the latter
entered several houses and made some arrests. This was
denied by the police. On the 9th the Prefect published
another proclamation, announcing that the last evening
was more tranquil than former ones. It stigmatised the
last resistance as a revolt against the law. The provi-
sional magistracy also published a proclamation. Rain
prevented any crowds on that night. The press, of course,
gave accounts of all these events, and mentioned the acts
of violence attributed to the military, near the gate of
St. Etienne. Some officers of artillery went to the
office of the paper, and menaced to beat the editors.
The Prefect wrote to the Mayor, with the copy of
an anonymous letter, announcing that a movement was
preparing' in the interior of St. Etienne, and that the
National Guard were disposed to take arms. At eight
o'clock on the same evening, the Prefect announced that
the head-quarters of the troops had been transferred to
the Prefecture. Against this the Provisional Magis-
trates protested. The Press made all this known on the
next day, and the irritation of the citizens increased.
They returned to the General, who promised that no fur-
ther provocation should come from the military. The
11th passed quietly. But on the 12th it was easy to per-
ceive that an emeute was at hand. The artisan quitted
work, and from other symptoms the municipality warned
the troops. The shops shut, the streets filled. Barricades
were erected, and stones flung against the Prefecture.
The officers of the National Guard, but not in uniform,
went to the Prefect and asked him to convoke the guard.
He assented, and at sun-set the National Guard mus-
tered in the place and occupied the posts in conjunction
with the line. Groups then surrounded the prison where
those arrested on the previous days were confined.
Their liberty was demanded, but the detachment of
the National Guard refused. Reinforcements were
sent in, and for a time the people desisted. But
towards half-past eleven the post was forced, and the
door of the prison assailed with a lever. The pro-
visional Mayor instantly repaired thither with a
stong escort, just as the door was breaking open, and
he prevailed on the assailants to desist. This was the
last act of violence of the evening, a man having been
previously killed on the Place St. Etienne. On the
morning of the 13th the crowd was greater than ever,
and more menacing. The whole population, male and
female, was on foot. New barricades arose, and the
general cry was against Mahul. His departure could
alone restore tranquillity. The telegraphic line was in-
terrupted. M. Mahul at length declared to the general
that he would withdraw. This was announced by pro-
clamation. M. Mahal departed. The National Guard
was under arms. Its intervention has definitively re-
stored calm. M. Plougoulm also determined to quit
Toulouse. There was not a single cry throughout either
against the King or the Government."

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and elegant dress excited theer superior accomplishments
attention
who discovered whence she had come,
of her landlady,
convoyed the intelligence of her and immediately
retreat to her dis-
tressed relatives, who came hither
in quest of her. But the young lot! Wednesday last,
that her retreat was no longer acty, having found
concealed, was •
of making her way out of the town when in the act
espied
by her relatives (her father and she was
brother),
and she ran away towards Sturry. A nimble
gave chase, but 'he could not come up to her before
eferunner
arrived in that village, where she was obliged to
she
give
in from exhaustion. The speed with which shoe tra-
velled over the ground is almost incredible. The
man who pursued her is considered an excellent run-
ner ; but it appears probable that had it not been
for his superior strength to undergo the chase, he could
scarcely have hoped to gain his object. The result of her
capture was, that she was restored to her relatives,
but she persisted in refusing to return home with
them, and they were compelled to leave her
in clivrge of some persons in this city, though
not without experiencing ' the most poignant
grief. No cause can be assigned for her leaving home,
excepting that she is subjeet to mental aberrations.
It is fortunate that her friends so soon gained tidings
of her concealment, or she might have fallen into the
haunts of infamy, especially as she was totally desti-
tute of pecuniary resources, and an entire stranger to
this part. It does not appear that she has formed any
acquaintance, since she left home, beyond that of the
people in whose house she had an sought asylum.—
Kentish Observer.

MARGATE.—Notwithstanding the very un-
favourable weather which has prevailed of late, we be-
lieve the town never was better filled at this period of
the season than at present. Judging from the numbers
already here, we have no doubt of an abundant increase
when the weather is more settled, partienlarly, as. the
fares are much reduced,- Owing- to the cOmpetitiord of the
steam vessels. The arrivals on Saturday in six steam
boats, were about 800, exceeding the corresponding week
of last season by 200.—Dover Chronicle.