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LoNDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13

1851

Dartford, on the 9th of this present December,
wasthe scene of one of those terrible calamities whicho
casionally reminds the world of the fearful dangers
through which some classes of our fellow-creatures
eke out a most precarious existence. From the evi-
dence elicited on the Coroner's inquest, relative to
this very melancholy occurrence, it is sufficiently
apparent that there are yet more " perilous trades "
than the samphire picking mentioned by SHAIESPERE.
The seven unfortunate persons destroyed on the oc-
casion referred to afford ghastly evidence that one

division at least of our industrial population is em- :
ployed upon labozir so peculiarly liable to accident, as
to require the utmost imaginable precaution, and a
never-ceasing watchfulness.
It is generally known, of course, that the town of
Dartford is surrounded by a large number of powder
manufactories, and those among its inhabitants who
are engaged upon those buildings are perpetually ex-
posed to the hazard of sudden death by detonation.
It is not, however, familiar to the majority
that] there are others among the people of Dart-
ford occupied in the manufacture of what is con-
sidered to be of about eight times the strength of the
best blasting gunpowder ! Yet, such is actually the
case, and the explosion, on which we now feel it our
duty to comment as journalists, took place in one
of these fearful establishments. The structure was
one of a temporary nature, erected by the proprietor,
Mr. CALLOW, in Joyce's-green, and was used exclu-
sively as a rocket manufactory. Particulars of a very
interesting kind were drawn from the various wit-
nesses examined before the jury, showing not merely
that the toil required in the place in question was one
terribly hazardous in its character, but that there had
been the grossest culpability in the neglecting of all
ordinary precautions. It proved, on inquiry, that the
parties deceased were engaged at the time of the ex-
plosion in making cartridges, for the purpose of com-
pleting certain experiments now making at Holyhead
for her MAJEszy's Government. These cartridges,
be it observed, contain an explosive powder, com•
posed of particular proportions of chloride of
potass, of prussiate of potass, and of orpiment.
Neither of the ingredients are capable of
exploding separately—the chloride of potass merely
burning when ignited, like saltpetre—the prussiate of
potass smouldering, like flour—and the orpiment ex-
tinguishing flames, instead of lighting up into a
conflagration. While, however, each is thus harm-
less by itself, when united they become explosive,
and explosive, too, with the enormous strength already
specified. Even when mixing them well together
the chloride, the prussiate, and the orpiment are
liable to cause great destruction. Friction, or even
an atom of grit, causes the mixture to ignite—and,
then, adieu to the life of the unlucky workman.
But the powder here spoken of had passed through

this process, on the Ist instant, at the Joyce's-green
rocket manufactory. The cartridges were being filled
up—but where ? and under what circumstances ?
Why, in a workshop the floor of which was strewn with
gravel, and partially boarded ! the persons employed
in it wearing neither slippers made of felt or shoes of
gutta percha, but having boots with nails in them !
What rashness ! what cruelty ! what miserable and
deplorable incaution ! Why, the consequence was
almost inevitable. And to add to the peril of the
proceedings, the person engaged to carry the glue-
pot in, from the fire outside, to the parties filling up
the cartridges with the explosive mixture, was known
to have carried it in with sparks sticking to it; had
been actually sent out with it for that very reason to
damp only a few days before the accident ; besides
which, usually placing the vessel of boiling resin,
according to his own admission, on the same bench
where the men were at work, pouring the powder
into the cartridges! No wonder the calamity
dreaded by cne of the sufferers (poor JosEru LOFT)
took place at last. No wonder there was sensation
in the court when the particulars here given were ad-
duced. No wonder the jury, after finding
" that the deceased persons came by their
death through accident," appended to their
verdict the following strong observations :—" We
are unanimously of opinion that gross negligence has
been displayed upon the part of Mr. EDWARD CAL.
LOW, in suffering blasting cartridges to be manufac-
tured in a building quite unfitted for the purpose,
having imperfect floors of wood and gravel; in suf-
fering the employed to work in nailed boots and
shoes ; and in not having any defined rules or regu-
lations, either written or printed, for the guidance and
protection of the persons employed on the premises.''
To which opinion the Coroner himself acceded, ob-
serving—" I must say, gentlemen, that I entirely
concur in the sentiments you have.expressed, because I
think that in so dangerous a manufactory as this there
cannot possibly be too much care and caution taken."
Too much—why there does not appear to have been
any at all in the present instance. As to the danger,
it is only necessary to attend to the remarks of one of
the witnesses on the inquest to see at once that that
was of the most serious character. This witness,
himself a firework maker of Lambeth, and formerly

in the employ of Mr. CALLOW, recounted the
circumstance of an accident with tha same
kind of mixture which nearly put an end to his own
existence. This, moreover, when it was wet—the
powder on the 9th instant being dry, and conse-
quently, according to this person's evidence, more

liable to accident. After the occasion referred to in
reference to himself, the witness remarked that some
of the dry stuff remained in his house—enough per-
haps to cover half-a-crown lying on the ground.
Continuing his evidence, witness said that seeing it
lying there he exclaimed, " Bother that stuff, I'll
have no more to do with it," giving it at the same
time a kick with his foot. The consequence was an
explosion which knocked him down on the flat of his
back. Yet this was the mixture which was used for
the filling up of cartridges at Joyce's-green, in a place
covered with gravel, and where the working people
were moving about in shoes sprigged over the soles
with nails! Aware of these things, we would here most
decisively enforce the justice of the condemnatory re-
marks pronounced upon this occurrence by the jury
and coincided in by the Coroner.

Yesterday was a great day for the Protectionists.
The worthy agriculturists, having duly visited the
Cattle Show, and indulged in searching examinations
of the unfortunate specimens of bovine and porcine
pioguosity there congregated, were quite prepared to
devote a day to political demonstrations and to trot-
ting out the lions of the party for the delectation of
the assembled multitude. There was accord-
ingly a meeting of the National Association
in the morning, at which one Duke. (the
President of the Society), three Earls, one
Baron, and some half-dozen Members of Parliament
were in attendance, and in the evening a banquet,
cheap—decidedly cheap—but substantial and comfort-
ing to the inward man, after the melancholy details of
individual and national ruin, to which the audience
had been listening in the earlier portion of the day.
It is unnecessary to say that there was no lack of
edibles or potables, and that everything was provided
in the most satisfactory manner, when Messrs. BATHE
and BREACH were the purveyors. The ample ac-
commodation of the London Tavern was put
into requisition. Six hundred tenant-farmers
were in attendance, with appetites whetted
to the very utmost. The struggle for seats,
particularly in the vicinity of the pieces de resistance,
was of the most arduous character. The contest
was maintained with a zeal and energy which clearly
indicated the unflinching determination of the com-
batants to lose nothing which they had a possible
chance of obtaining, through any want of exertion on
their own part. Those who could struggle so lustily
for a good seat during a single evening must neces-
sarily be formidable opponents where the welfare and
prosperity, or the "supposed" welfare-and prosperity,
of themselves and families were involved in the result.
But it
was not meeting or symposium which
day
rendered the remarkable, or worthy of being dis-
tinguished by a
white mark on all future occasions.
Persons away from their home
their ordinary occupations,
wills,
a and removed from
be induced to
attend political meetings, in order t to get rid of a
vacant or unoccupied hour ; for, as Dr, WATTS tells us,
" Satan finds some mischief
still
For idle hands to do.”
Nor should we be surprised at the numbers at-
etevnedrinegxbtihbeiteddinnaer,lafuodrabthlee
anxiety worthy ,
,b,utcool ?al have
and
drink for the good of their country," on any
feasible opportunity ; and few of the entertainers of
the evening would refuse to drain a goblet, if the
liquor,were good, even to a less exciting toast than the
health and happiness of the Honourable Gentleman
the Member for Scarborough, and, as we have been
informed on competent authority, " the future re-
presentative for the great county of Cambridge."
There was something still more interest-
ing and remarkable. The " man," so long
coming," and so anxiously looked for,
at length made his appearance. GEORGE FREDERICK
YOUNG stood boldly forward as the future leader of
the party under whose auspices the disjecta membral

might be resuscitated, and whose en thusiastic ardour
might make amends for the cool calculations of a
DERBY or the lukewarmness of a DISRAELI. The
Honourable Gentleman, with his thick and thin ad-
hesion to " the good old cause" of monopoly,
was not influenced by any; notions as to
practicability or expediency. He could not recognise
the supposed prosperity of the labouring classes, and
was quite prepared to prove that " the working man;'
who toils for his daily bread, would be much better
off if paying 2d. or 2id. per pound for his bread, than
if obtaining it at the disgracefully low prioe of ld,
The punctual payment of rents, which was errone-
ously regarded as evidence of the solvent condition of
the farmers, was shown to bear a totally different
construction, for.according to Mr. G. F. YOUNG, "they
were paid by, and out of capital, and under no reduc-
tion of rent that had been made, could the soil be
profitably cultivated." This cheering and encourag-
ing opinion was of course loudly and rapturously
applauded. If every tenant-farmer in the room was
permitted to occupy his tenement rent free, to turn
his tenancy at will, or; from year to year, into a
freehold or fee simple, he could not hope to live by
his labour:; he must still draw on the resources ac-
cumulated under more auspicious circumstances.
But when were the palmy days of agriculture,
during which these ample hoards could.be set aside ?
We have seldom heard the agriculturists expressing
their satisfaction. Grumblings and complaints, both
loud and deep, have been of daily occurrence ; they
have been unceasingly murmuring, and Jeremiads
of the most plaintive description have fallen from their
lips. When, then, did they accumulate capital
sufficient to pay rents, to maintain their families, to
join in all the social indulgences, and to enjoy
the creature comforts befitting their position ?
If Mr. G. F. YOUR a's statements be well
founded, and that the farmers have, or, rather, had
capital sufficient to pay their rents for five successive
years—since the abolition of the corn-laws—then
agriculture must, indeed, have been a most lucrative
occupation, far more so than any other then known.
But, if we are not greatly mistaken, the complaints
were nearly as numerous to 1846 as at present, and
yet it now appears that they must have been laying
aside enormous fortunes at that time. They were
then crying out, without foundation, and according to
the well-known tale of " The shepherd's boy and
the wolf," cannot hope to obtain credence, even
should their stories be better grounded than formerly.
We cannot conclude without alluding to the speech
of Lord STANIIOPE, which would have elicited as
rapturous applause at a meeting of Radical
Reformers as that which it received from
the out-and-out Protectionists. The Noble Earl
spoke more strongly in favour of a large exten-
sion of the franchise, almost amounting to universal
suffrage and of a complete alteration in the constitu-
tion of the House of Lords, than he did of the reim-
position of a bread tax. If any person should doubt
our assertion, let him consider the tendency and
effect of the following extract from his Lordship's
speech, which was most enthusiastically greeted by
the audience :—" It had been said by Lord DERBY
and Lord MALMESBURY that if the result of the next
election should prove unfavourable to Protection they
must bow to the decision of Parliament. What !
bow to the decision of such an assembly, when the
labouring classes, who were the most interested of all,
were not represented? Bow to the House of Commons,
a great majority of whom had been elected by the
foulest bribery and corruption—which did not de-
serve or enjoy the confidence or respect of the
people, and in which the towns and ten-pounders had
the overwhelming majority. What should they
say of the House of Lords ? Bow to
the decision of that degraded assembly ! He
no longer considered it deserved their re-
spect—a House in which the statement with reference

to it that 12 honest men could not be found within
is walls, had not been treated as a gross and calum-
nious attack, but laughed at by many as an excellent
joke. He called upon them not to bow to the decision
of either House of Parliament. If they did, the
boasted English Constitution, said to be the envy
and admiration of surrounding nations, would
be nothing less than a mockery and a delusion."
We do not know of any Chartist, Socialist,
or Red Republican who could make use
of stronger or more unequivocal language in
reference to the hereditary and represen-
tative branches of the Legislature than
that which found far more favour in the sight of the
English than the repudiation of the Earl of MALMES.
BURY, another of the would-be leaders.
The convulsive efforts, however, terminated, and if
any additional evidence were rfquired of the hope-
lessness of the attempt to re-impose a tax on the
people's food for the benefit of a privileged class,
they eight be obtained from the proceedings and
speeches at the London Tavern, in the morning as
well as in the evening of Friday, the 12th of De-
cember, 1851.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Presse, the Union, the Opinion Publiqua, and the
Corsaire appeared yesterday, for the first time since
the2docfomDmeceenmts on passing events
The eovftsh.ese :publish any
editorial
The Presse contains the following notice :
" A judgment of M. Casenate, presiding in the First
Chamber, has admitted the declaration of Emile de
Girardin, that, for the future, he means to remain a
complete stranger to the direction and editorship of the
Presse. Yesterday the proprietors of the journal united
in general assembly, nominated M. J. Perodeaud prin-
cipal editor, in the room of M. Emile de Gira.rdin.
The editorship of the F i reese s to be immediately re-or-
ganized."
M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN intends, it is said, to emi-
grate to the United States.
The Moniteur contains an unusually large number
of decrees from the PRESIDENT of the Republic. One
raises Ganeral of Division lIARISPE, in consideration
of his eminent military services, to the dignity of
Marshal of France; a second nominates General of
Division VAILLANT to the same high dignity, and
assigns as the special reason for so doing, that
this officer, though he had from motives of de-
licacy declined assuming the prerogatives of the
post of commander-in-chief of the expedition to
Rome which had been conferred on him, yet
had notoriously directed all the operations of the
siege of that city, and ensured the success of the ex-
pedition. The decree also speaks generally of the
eminent services of General VAILLANT during the
whole of his military career. A third decree appoints
General RANDOM to the post of Governor. General of
Algeria, now held ad interim by General PELISSIER,
in command of the Oran division. A fourth decree
declares that the Consultative Commission, appointed
on Dec. 3, is charged with the examination and
general summing-up of the votes to be given by
the French people in the ballots of the 20th and
21st of the present month. In consequence, all the
minutes drawn up by the departmental commissions,
instituted in virtue of Art. 6 of the decree of Dec. 2, are
to be transmitted to it by the Minister of the Interior,
and the result will be made known by the executive
power. The same decree further declares that the Con-
sultative Commission is to give its advice on such
drafts of Bills as shall be submitted to it by the PRE-
SIDENT of the Republic ; it is also to perform the du-
ties of the Council of State, except in matters in dis-
pute relative to administrative affairs, on which
another decree is to be hereafter issued ; the Com-
mission is to be presided over by the PRESIDENT of
the Republic, in his absence by M. BAROCUE, the
Vice-President ; a decree of the Executive Power is to
divide the Consultative Commission into sections for
the affairs to be submitted to it. A fifth decree or-
ders the establishment of a circular railway round
Paris within the fortifications, connecting together
the Western, Rouen, Northern, Strasburg, Lyons and
Orleans lines, and concedes the said line to the Rouen,
Orleans, Strasburg, and Northern Companies on cer-
tain conditions specified, one of which is that each of
these companies is to pay the sum of one million for
its participation in the rights conferred by such con-
cession.

The promotion of General HARISPE is a deserved
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as an insult to General OUDINOT, than as a compli-
ment to General VAILLART.
The Commander-in-Chief of the army of Paris
has addressed the following report, dated the 9th, to
the Minister of War, of his proceedings during the
insurrection
" Monsieur le Ministre,—l haye already had the honour
to address to you a summary report ou the events of the
3d and 4th instants, and to render to you an account of
the results obtained from the arrangements made in an-
ticipation of those events. Now that the partial reports
of the generals commanding divisions under my orders
have reached me, I hasten to send you the details which
complete my former reports. On the morning of the
3d numerous and threatening assemblages took place
and the various corps of the army
take up their position of combat.
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Paris differentm marched to
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SATURDAY EVENING,

General Marulaz, who, with his brigade, occupied
the Place de la Batile, on being informed that a
barricade had been raised at the corners of the Rue du
Faubourg St. Antoine, and the Rues de Cotte and St.
Marguerite, sent to that spot three companies of the
19th light infantry, under the orders of Commandant
Pujol, and supported the movement by advancing himself
at double quick time at the head of a battalion of the
44th into the Rue de Charonne, so as to advance on the
barricade by the Rue de Cotte. The assemblage, at the
head of which were three Montagnard representatives,
seeing the troops advancing, fired, and mortally wounded
a soldier of the 44th named Sirlan. The first platoon
returned the fire, and the representative Baudin was
killed on the barricade. In the afternoon General Her-
'milieu, who had taken up a position on the place do
l'Hotel de Ville, being informed that barricades were
being raised in the Rues du Temple, Rambuteau, Beau-
bourg, fee., marched immediately to the spot at the
head of a column formed of the 9th battalion of Foot
Chasseurs and a piece of artillery, and overthrew all
the obstacles which he met with in his passage,
whilst a battalion of the 6th Light Infantry destroyed
in the Rue du Temple the barricades which had been
commenced. In the evening fresh barricades having
been raised in the Rue Beanbourg, Colonel Chapuis, of
the 3d Regiment of the Line, taking with him a battalion
of his regiment and a company of engineers, again went
through that quarter, where he was received with a very
warm fire, which did not, however, stop the ad*unce of
his column. All the obstacles were carried, and those
who defended them were shot. Assemblages which were
formed in other quarters were dispersed by the energy
and the attitude of the troops. Seeing that the day was
passing in insignificant skirmishes, and without any de-
cisive result, and suspecting that the intentions of the
chiefs of the rioters was to fatigue the troops by
carrying the agitation in succession into dif-
ferent quarters, I resolved to leave the insurrection
for some_time to itself, in order to give it the fa-
cility of choosing its ground, of establishing itself,
and, in short, of forming a compact mass against which
I could act. For this purpose I withdrew all the
small posts, ordered the troops back to their bar-
racks, and waited. In the morning of the 4th the reports
of the Prefect of Police and my own reconnaissances
made me aware that several assemblages were formed in
the Quartiers St. Antoine, St. Denis, and St. Martin,
and that they were beginning to raise barricades there.
The insurrection appeared to have its focus in the space
comprised between the Boulevards and the Rues du
Temple, Rambuteau, and Montmarte. At noon I learned
that the barricades were becoming formidable, and that
the insurgents were entrenching themselves; but I had
decided on not attacking before two o'clock, and, firm in
my resolution, I did not hasten the movement, notwith-
standing all the intreaties that were made to me to the
contrary. I knew the ardour of my troops, and their
impatience for the combat, and I was sure of overpower-
ing the insurrection in two hours, if it would accept the
conflict. Success justified my belief. The attack ordered
for two o'clock was to commence with a convergent
movement of the divisions of Generals Carrelet and Le-
vasseur. In consequence the brigade Bourdon took up a
position between the Porte St. Denis and the Porte St.
Martin. The brigades of Cotte and Canrobert occupied the
Boulevard des Italiens, whilst General Dulac occupied
the Pointe Saint Eustache, and the brigade of General
Reibell took up its position in the Rue de la Paix,
General Levasseur formed his columns to support the
movement of the division of General Carrelet. At two
o'clock in the afternoon all the troops moved forward.
The Bourgon brigade cleared the Boulevard to the Rue
du Temple, and went down that street as far as the Rue
Rambuteau, carrying all the barricades on its passage.
The brigade of General Cotte was engaged in the Rue
St. Denis, whilst a battalion of the 15th Light Infantry
proceeded to the Rue du Petit-Carreaa, which was
already barricaded. General Canrobert, taking a posi-
tion at the Porte St. Martin, went through the Rue du
Faubourg of that name and the adjacent streets, ob-
structed by strong barricades, which the sth battalion of
Foot Chasseurs, under the orders of Commandant Le-
vasson Sorval, carried with rare intrepidity. General
Dula° sent to attack the barricade of a e Rue Rumba eau
and the adjacent streets columns formed of three batta-
lions of the 51st of the line, commanded by Colonel
do Lourmel, and two other battallions, one of the 19th
of the line, the other of the 43d, supported by a battery
of artillery. At the same time the brigade of General
Herbillon, formed of two columns, ono of which was
directed by General Levasseur in person, penetrated
into the focus of the insurrection by the Rues du Tem-
ple, Rambuteau, and St. Martin. General Marulaz
operated in the same sense by the Rue St. Denis, and
threw into the transversal streets a light column under
the orders of Colonel de la Motterouge. of the 10th Light
Infantry. General Courtigis, on his side, arriving from
Vincennes, at the head of his brigade, swept the Fau-
bourg St. Antoine, in which several barricades had been
constructed. These different operations were per-
formed under the fire of the insurgents, with a skill and
zeal which could not for one instant leave a doubt of
success. The barricades, attacked in the first instance
by artillery, were carried at the point of the bayonet.
All that part of the town between the Faubourga St.
Antoine and St. Martin, the Points St. Eustache and
the Hotel do Ville, was covered in every sense by
our infantry columns; the barricades were carried and
destroyed, and the insurgents dispersed or killed.
The crowds, who endeavoured to form themselves
again on the Boulevards, were charged by the ca-
valry of General Reibell, who sustained a sharp fire
at the top of the Rue Montmartre. Attacked on all
sides at the same time, disconcerted by the irresistible
ardour of our troops, and by that ensemble of arrange
men ts, enveloping as in a net-work of iron the whole
quarter where they had waited for us, the insurgents no
longer dared to undertake anything serious. At 5
o'clock in the evening the troops of the division of
General Carrelet came, and again took up a position on
the Boulevards. Thus the attack, which had com-
menced at two o'clock in the afternoon was terminated
at five. The insurrection was vanquished on the ground
which it had chosen. Some partial combats, however,
took place in other parts, which I think it my duty to
point out to you. On the 4th, about seven o'clock in the
evening, some bands of insurgents, who had been dis-
persed by the different columns, united at the upper end
of the Rues St. Honors, des Poulies, and other small
streets adjacent, and commenced to raise barricades.
Other assemblages took place at the same time in the
Rues Montmartre and Montorgueil, the lamps in
which had been extinguished, and where the insurgents,
under favour of the darkness, had been able to erect
fresh barricades. About eight o'clock, Colonel de Lour-
mel, of the 51st of the line, who had remained in position
near the Pointe Ste. Eustache, although well under-
standing all the difficulties of a night attack, decided on
making one
first four barricades were immediately
immediately with the 2d battalion of his
regiment. The
carried at the point of the bayonet, with the greatest
dlaierocifneo'nudreA,dbfityhfLahn barricadeth still remained, higher and better
the
grenadiers and voltigeurs of that batta-
lion
others. In spite of the darkness,
Colonel de Lourtnel hesitated not to make arrangements
for its attack. Fifteen grenadiers, under the orders of
Sergeant Pitroie, first advanced, closely followed by the
other grenadiers and voltigeurs of the battalion, led on
by Commandant Jeannin. Nothing could resist the
ardour of these brave soldiers. The barricade
was carried in spite of a desperate resistance. It
was defended by about 100 insurgents. Forty of
them were killed on the spot, and the others were
made prisoners. About a hundred muskets and other
weapons, and abundant ammunition, fell into the hands
of our soldiers. Colonel Courant, of the 19th of the
line, Rho with his regiment occupied the Palais National,
learning that a considerable number of insurgents, who
had been driven from the Celli Saint Martin, had rallied
on the Place des V ictoires, and threatened the Bank of
France and the neighbouring quarters, proceeded thither
at double quick time with his regiment, carried the bar-
ricades in the Rues Pagevin and des Foie 6, Montmartre,
and then returned and established himself at the Bank,
whence he could maintain the tranquillity of the quar-
ters of the Bank and the Bourse. 1 should never finish
were I to begin to mention particular names, but I can•
not,
however, refrain from doing justice to the energetic
skill with which Captain de la Roche d'Oisy, Commandant
of the 4th company of the Ist battalion of the Gendarmerie
Mobile, protected through the whole period of the in-
surrection the National printing-office, which was cen-
stantly surrounded by threatening groups. Several bar-
ricades were constructed in the neighbouring streets, for
the purpose of cutting off communication with Hilt; es-
tablishment. Deutenant Fabre, of that company, at the
head of 25 men, carried the stronger of these barricades,
formed with overturned diligences, barrels, and pieces of
wood, and, the others being successively destroyed, the
circulation was kept open by means of frequent patrols.
At La Chapelle St. Denis, some companies of the 28th
Regiment of the line carried a number of barricades, and
maintained tranquillity in those populous quarters, which
the secret societies had deeply agitated. Whilst these
events were taking place on the right bank of the
Seine, General Renault, commanding the 21 di-
vision, occupied the left Bank, and by the able
arrangements which he made, and the firm de-
meanour of the troops, was able to guarantee from all
agitation the working population of the 11th and 124 ii
arrondissements, in which, at other periods, insurrec-
tion could boast of such numerous proselytes. The re-
serve division of cavalry, under the orders of General
, Korte, summoned in from Versailles, took up position,
at first in the Champs Elysess, and afterwards in the
Boulevards, and contributed powerfully by numerous
patrols to the arrest of a great number of insurgents,
and to the complete re-establishment of tranquility. As
the reports sent in to me the night of the 4th, on the
state of Paris, gave me almost a certitude that the in-
surrection would not venture to again raise its head, I
withdrew at midnight a part of the troops from their
positions to give them that repose they so well merited.
The next day, December 5, I determined to make
, a display of all the army of Paris to the popu-
lation, intending, by that demonstration, to re-
assure the good, and intimidate the evil-disposed. I gave
orders that the brigades of infantry, with their artillery
and their companies of engineers, should proceed through
the city in movable columns, to march on the insurgents
wherever they should show themselves, and to destroy
all the obstacles which might impede the circulation. To
that effect General Carrelet, at the head of a column of
his division, proceeded about sine in the morning to the
Barrier° Roohecourat, where a formidable baricade ex-
isted. But the insurgents, terrified by tho results
of the preceding day, did not venture todefend
their entrenchments, and ab
andoned them at the
approach of the troops. Another barricade,
raised in the Faubourg Poissonntire, was likewise
deserted by its defenders before the arrival of the co-
lumn under the orders of Gen, Canrobert, charged to
carry it. From that moment tranquillity . was no
more troubled in Paris, and the circulation was
fully re-established on every point. The army returned
day, the 6th, Paris no
troops, was restored to its movement? and
ltoonigtser quarters;beholdi and
dthe h set re e next
streets that unusual display of
activity, life
of every day. I know not how, Monsieur le Muaistre, to
render to the troops who fought on those two days all

the justice which is due to them for the firmness, spirit,
and discipline which they constantly displayed. Officers
and soldiers, they all comprehend what the country and
society expected from them at that solemn moment, and
all nobly did their duty. I have in particular to praise
the energetic co-operation of the general officers under
my orders. All followed my instructions with an intel-
ligence and devotedness which penetrate me with the
liveliest gratitude; everywhere they showed to the
troops the way which they so nobly followed. Unfortu-
nately, operations, so complicated, could not be executed
without sensible loss. We had in these two days 25
men killed, of whom 1 was an officer; and 184 wounded,
of whom 17 were officers; of this number was Colonel
Quilico, of the 72d Regiment of the line, who had his
arm transpierced by a ball, at the same time as his
Lieutenant-Colonel M. Loubean fell at his side, mor-
tally wounded. The whole army joined in the regret
which the loss of this superior officer, of the greatest dis-
tinction, caused in the 72d. The numerical smallness of
our loss, compared to that of the insurgents, is owing to
the energy with which all the obstacles were attacked by
our men, and the determination with which the insur-
rection was put down. In two hours of combat the army
obtained the result which it desired—it worthily justified
the confidence of the President of the Republic, and it
must feel satisfied that it has nobly aided in saving so-
ciety in France and perhaps in Europe. I shall before
long have the honour of sending in to you a statement
respecting the men of all grades who appear to mo to
have the greatest claims to recompense, and to whom
I shall pray you to direct the kind interest of the Presi-
dent of the Republic. Receive, Monsieur le Ministre,
the assurance of my respect and devotedness.
" MAGNAN Commander-in- Chief."
The accounts from the departments of the south
still speak of renewed disturbances.
The Constitutionnel publishes the following fresh
episode in the disturbances of the Var :
" Late in the evening of the 4th a numerous crowd
assembled before the Mairie of the commune of Trouvai,
and demanded that the arms of the National Guard
should be given up to them. M. Blanc, one of the De-
puty Mayors, presented himself to the rioters, and
sought by exhortations to make tbem understand the
consequences of what they were doing. His efforts were
in vain ; the door of the Mairie was forced in. The ring-
leaders, to the number of eight, immediately organized
themselves into a provisional government, at the head of
which was a journeyman shoemaker, ex-president of an
anarchical club, and the principal author of these fresh
disturbances. The members of the government ordered
a good dinner to be served them, after which they went
into the market-place, attended by their followers in
arms, they proclaimed the names of the new Adminis-
tration, and sang the Marseillaise on their knees. The
members of the government then returned to the Mairie,
and began to send out their orders, the first of which
consisted of missions given to certain citizens to kill
without delay all the gendarmes, lawyers, and priests in
the country. Let us hasten to add, that although at
Trom as, as in every other place, where the standard of
anarchy has been raised, many crimes have been com-
mitted, the energetic action of the authorities has
checked the projects of the demagogues."
The following telegraphic dispatch, dated Lyons,
10th, was received yesterday by the Government :
" The insurrection of the Basses-Alpes has gained
the three arrondissements of Digne, Sisteron, and
Forcalquier. The Prefect of the Basses-Alpes is
shut up in the fort of the Seyne. The communica-
tions are interrupted between Avignon and Marseilles.
Gap (Hautes-Alpes) has been agitated, but the
arrest of the principal agitators has restored
tranquillity.
Dispatches from Rouen, Rheims, Lille, Amiens,
St. Etienne, and Colmar state that everything
is tranquil, and trade proceeding as usual. A
dispatch from Clamecy, dated the 11th, says :
"At every instant insurgents are being arrested.
The communes which have been considered the
worst are those which arrest the most dan-
gerous demagogues. " The following is from
Valence, dated the 9th :—" The insurgents of Crest
were 2,000 in number ; they wer e repulsed after a
long combat, and had 310 killed and wounded. The
army behaves admirably." Dispatches from the
Maine-et-Loire, Marne, Jura, Gironde, Allier, Gers,
and Aveyron give highly satisfactory accounts. A
dispatch from Strasburg states that the feeling for
Louis NAPOLEON is strong, and that at the factory of
fluttenheim the workmen, on learning the last news
from Paris, shouted " Vive NAPOLEON."
A telegraphic dispatch of the 9th, addressed from
Clamecy, by M. CARLIER, gives some fresh details of
the insurrection of the Nievre. The insurrection of
Clamecy did not wait the arrival of General PELLIO
who was advancing by forced marches. After com-
mitting the most atrocious acts they fled in all
directions. 261 of them have been arrested. A
strong reaction has taken place in the neighbouring
communes against the brigands, and the people lend
their aid in pursuing them. Twelve insurgents were
shot by the advanced guard of the troops.
The Paine says :—" We learn that a body of
troops left Marseilles, on the Bth, some for the Var,
and others for the Basses Alpes. A general of bri-
gade soon after left Paris in the night to take com-
mand of the military forces which are to operate on
that point."
Several of the provincial journals publish the fol-
lowing telegraphic dispatch from the Minister of the
Interior to the Prefects :—" Give the most severe
orders to arrest the ,Montagnard and Socialist chiefs
who may endeavour to quit France after their defeat
in Paris.
The number of votes given up to yesterday by
the navy on the plebiscite of December 2, is 8,567, of
which 6,242 are in favour of the PRESIDENT, 2,145
against him, and 171 do not count.
The whole of the two squadrons of the Bth
Lancers, quartered at Givet, officers and men, to the
number of 273, voted on the 6th inst. in favour of
the PRESIDENT of the Republic. The staff and the
various detachments voted in a similar manner,
We find the following in the Journal de Lille :
" As soon as the first telegraphic dispatch reached
this place, on the 2d, Lieutenant-Colonel d'Aziaiar,
commanding par interim the Ist Regiment of Cuiras-
siers, assembled the officers in the barrack-yard. After
making known to them the events, which had taken
place, he added: ' Gentlemen, we have nothing to do
with politics; our duty is traced out to us; the Chief of
the Executive disposes of the Army; we shall receive
his orders through his Generals and we shall obey. Let
us hold ourselves ready to march.' Three days after,
Colonel de Chambiire having caused the regiment to
vote, it unanimously declared itself in favour of main-
taining Louis Napoleon Bonaparte in power. We say
unanimously, although five out of seven hundred and
twenty present, inscribed their names on what was called
the bad register. This imperceptible fraction gives in
some measure a greater value to the vote of the Ist Cui-
rassiers, as it proves that each man has been entirely
free in the expression of his sentiments."
The same journal says :
" From information derived from various sources we
learn that commercial affairs aro resuming great acti-
vity. Yesterday numerous purchasers arrived here from
Paris, and bought largely, particularly of linen goods.
For some time past that branch of manufacture has been
suffering much. An improvement has also taken place
in the spinning-trade. One important warehouse, at
Lille, has informed us that for some time past it has not
done so much business as it did last week. These facts
carry with them their own comment."
Among the numerous declarations of adherence to
LOUIS NAPOLEON received yesterday by the Govern-
ment are those of the municipalities of Marseilles and
Urles, and the Court Appeal of Aix.
The Currier de la Gironde of the 10th states
that the different constituted bodies and the officers
of the national guards had paid a visit on the previous
day to General DE BOUBJOLLY, on his taking the
command of the military division.
The following are the chief items of the Bank re
turns for the week
Speoie in Paris
Ditto branches
Portfolio due yesterday, to be re-
covered to-day 1,456,004
Portfolio ••• ••• ••• •• • 52,661,471
Ditto branches ••• ••• ••• 71,840,909
Bank-notes in circulation ... 437,350,500
Ditto branches „,. 126,496,625
Credit to Treasury ... ..„ 66,327,746
Private credits, Paris... ... ... 112,373,820
Ditto branches ..„ 30,434,038
Specie is less in Paris than it was last week by
nearly 21 millions, and less in the branches by
5,700,000 f. The note circulation has only increased
between 4 millions and 5 millions in the city, where
it is less by million in the departments. The Bank
has been greatly increasing its discounts to indivi-
duals, for the portfolio has increased 10 millions for
the city, and five millions for the departments. The
credit to Treasury has increased 18 millions, which
it would look as if the Bank had been called on for
the credit due to the Treasury. Private credit ac-
counts have diminished nearly 2 millions in the city,
and nearly 5 millions in the branches.
It appears that M. Timms was informed by the
Government that it would be advisable that he should
quit France without delay. He refused to leave Paris
except expelled by force, whereupon he was taken in
custody to the Strasbourg Railway station. On his
arrival there he declared that force having been used
to eject him from his domicile, he was now prepared
to proceed without an escort, and accordingly he en-
tered one of the carriages, attended only by his ser-
vant, and proceeded to the frontier. He arrived at
Brussels on the 12th, by the Cologne night train
from Frankfort, where he awaits the arrival of his
family from Paris.
Madlle. ODIER, the betrothed of General Cavern-
NAC, has left Paris, accompanied by her father, for
Ham, where, it is said, her nuptials with the General
will be celebrated.
MM. JULES DE LASTERIE and TRURIST DE LA
ROSIERE have been set at liberty.
M. nE PERSIGNY set off from Lisle as soon as the
rumour of the Prince DE JOINYILLE in that city
reached Paris.
The Genoa Gazette, an official journal, contains
the following :—" The Duke D'AUMALE, on his way
from Naples, and travelling under the name of Duke
EUGENE DE TELLADIER, passed last night (the Bth)
through Genoa, on his way to Turin." This may be-
come a fact of some importance, considering that the
departments of France on the Piedmontese frontiers
axe in a state of insurrection.

... ... .., 457,383,241
... 110,056,427

DECEMBER 13, 1851.

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 12.

In addition to General OUDINOT, General RUL-
IIIERES has been placed on the retired list. The
latter, on the occasion, wrote the following letter to
General LEROY DE ST. ARNAUD, the Minister of
War..—

" Monsieur le Ministre,—ln 1835 the inspector-gene-
ral of infantry, Rulh4:es, saved the honour of Captain
Leroy (called St. Arnaud). It was only just that in
1851 Lieutenant-General Leroy (called St. Arnaud),
not being able to attack the honour of General Rail:likes,
should break his sword.—Accept, &c.
(Signed) " BULHIERES."
The Bourse was extremely animated, and public
securities of every description rose considerably. The
Five per Cents, opened at 96f. 60c, rose to 97f. 50c.,
and closed at 97f. 35c. for the end of the month.; the
Three per Cents. closed at 59f. 80c.; Orleans Railroad
Shares, 932 f. 50c.; Rouen, 597 f. 50c.; Havre, 223 f. 75c.;
Great Northern, 483 f. 75c.; Avignon, 210 f.; Vierzon,
460 f.; Basle, 160 f.; Bordeaux, 3811. 25e. ; Paris and
Strasburg, 381 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 262 f. 50c ;
Amiens to Boulogne, 2601,

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

Boulogne and Amiens, 1014— Central of France (Orleans
and Vierzon), 17/4—East Indian, 207—Luxembourg, 3%
—Northern of France, 117—Orleans and Bordeaux, 4
Paris and Rouen, 23%—Paris and Strasbourg, 13—Rouen
and Havre, 81/2—West Flanders, 2LA.