The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-15 00:00:00

MONDAY

I retired to the mArie to deliberate. It was decided that f
at midnight all the enemies of the people should be ex-
terminai-d. Fortunately, however, a detachment of
troops arrived from Toulon, and prevented the commis-
sion of the intended murders."
The Gazette de Lyon gives the following details on
the affair of the Biases Alpes
" A letter from Sisteron of the &It announces that
that town is in the power of the democrats. The
National Guards, however, had not ben disarmed, and
citizens of the moat respectable classses mounted guard
without being disturbed. The troops of the line occu-
pied the citadel, but they were surrounded in the hopes
of starving them out. Digne is also in the power of the
insurgents. M. Dunoyer had met with no ill-treatment.
Some accounts say that he is still a prisoner, and others
that he is on his way to Marseilles. M. Buison, of
Mansoque, bad constituted himself prefect."
A telegraphic dispatch announces that the Prefect
and the Procurer-General entered the town of Sis-
teron on the 11th at the head of 300 infantry and
twenty gendarmes. They were immediately joined
by the sub-prefect and eighty-two men who bad been
shut up in the citadel. The Hotel de Vile was soon
taken. The revolutionary junta was found sitting,
and the members taken prisoners. The town of
Digne had also been retaken by the Government
forces. The Constitutionnel says that the disturb-
ances in the Var are at an end.
The following telegraphic dispatch was received
by the Government at a late hour on Saturlay
night

" GAP, DEC. 10, HALF•PAST SIX, P.M.

" The Prefect of the Basses Alpes, after having put
the Fort of Seyne in a state of defence, has left the can-
ton, and has gone to scour the disturbed arrondissements,
and to re-establish the authorities in them."
The Moniteur Parisien says—
" As soon as General de Grammont heard of the in-
surrection in the south, ho offered his services to the
President of the Republic. The Government has just
confided to his energy and to his influence in the Lot et-
Garonne, of which he is appointed command-tilt, the care
of restoring to calm districts agitated by a handful of
factious men."
A letter from Nevers, dated the 12th, states that
General PELLION had on the previous day made a
battue in the woods near Clamecy with 1,500 men,
and made 100 prisoners. One soldier was wounded.
At Entrains 90 prisoners were made. One insur-
gent, who offered resistance, was shot, and another
was drowned by attempting to save himself by
swimming.
The Patric, of Saturday, contains the following
intelligence from the disturbed districts:—
" Some troops from Marseilles and Avignon are on
their way to the department of the Basses Alps. On
their route they will have to put down an insurrection
which has just broken out in the small town of Apt
(Vauclaso). A column of 600 men has left Briarcen
(Sautes-Alpes) for Siiteron. The troops coming from
Marseilles have taken the road to Digne, and those from
Avignon that to Forcalquier. The insurrection is com-
pletely surrounded, and all the centres of resistance will
be attacked at the same time. There is every reason to
hope that we shall soon hear of this Jacquerie being at
an end. Tho ba'talion of the 14th Light Infantry,
which was sent peat from Marseilles, was met on the
evening of the Bth near Oraison, six leagues from
Digne."
A letter from Ssyne, near Digne, 7th, says—
" A considerable number of insurgents presented
themselves yesterday before Digne. This town had only
a force of about 300 recruits of the 25th Light Infantry,
young men who for the most part fcareely know how
to use their arms, and about forty gendarmes. On the
announcement of the intended invasion of the town, the
protect went out himself to reconnoitre and ascertain the
number of the insurgents. A gendarme who was with
him received a ball in the thigh. The prefect then re-
turned to the barracks, with a determination of holdirg
out to the last extremity. Tho mayor accepted the co-
operation of a certain number of national guards, who
presented themselves volutstarily to assist in protecting
the town. These men went to the barracks, which they
engaged to defend, but they had not been long there before
they divided, and the majority of them began to cry—'Vive
la Re,aublique democratique et sociele 1 This manifes-
tation clearly ind cAted on which side they intended to
'fight. Under such cri,ical circumstances, the prefect con-
sidered it his duty for the interest even of the dignity of
the Government so retire from the place, and take up
his position in the small town of Seyne, under the pro-
tection of a fort which commands the place. Digne was
soon afterwards occupied by the insurgents, who took
posaeesion of the Prefecture, the cellars of which it was
their first care to empty."
We read in the same journal :—" We have not as
yet received precise accounts of what took place at
Clamecy during the occupation of the insurgents.
Since the arrival of the troops tranquillity is perfectly
restored. Moat of the insurgents, who were not taken
prisoners, have sought refuge in the woods. Mea-
sures are now being taken to force them from their
hiding places. M. LYONNET, engineer of the ponts-et-
chauss6es at Clamecy, who had accepted from
the insurgents the mission to treat for them,
was at once dismissed from his place by M.
CARLIF R, who has dismissed M. ROUSSEAU, avouti,
and MARION, buisser, at Clamecy, for their notorious
commerce with the rioters. Several of the ring-
leaders are in the hands.ofjustice, and amongst others
a man named GUERBET. The funeral of the unfor-
tunate gendarmes, murdered by the insurgents, has
just taken place, t CARLIER, General PELLION, and
NI. CORBIN, the Procureur-General, being present.
About 1,500 persons attended, and detachments of
the 27th and 4th infantry, and of the Ist and
10th Chasseurs."
The Minister of War has addressed the following
to the PRESIDENT of the Republic :
" General de Brigade Chadeysson, named to the
command of the department of the Basses-Alpes, has
refused to accept it. The Minister of War has the
honour to propose to the President of the Republic to
admit this general officer to bring forward his claims to
be placed on the retired list. Paris, 11th December."
The PRESIDENT of the Republic has approved of
the proposition.
The Frew of Sunday publishes a leading article,
signed by the new editor M. J. PEROD/LiIID, from
which we extract the following
" The first necessity of society now more than ever is
order. Not only has the material peace of our cities and
fields been troubled, but fearful lights have revealed the
depths to which moral disorder had descended. Oh!
what a cruel affront has been given to the boasted civili-
the spectacle at once pre-
sented
should t n oorfni s the
rise
soe
ln lt h
nan idea, or a symbol, or
even a word, is what has occurred at all times. It is
the history of humanity traversing ages. But what have
adacyo centurymb pointsat
forot by
France. That minorities
.
we seldom seen, except amongst generations rotten to
the core, is an idea, true or false, disappear from the
raised banner of insurrections to give place to the
most hideous appetites; that pillage, violation, assassi-
nation, all that is reputed crime and infamy by the
universal conscience, should become the means and the
snd of the revolution now attempted; that savage
hordes should break in upon the domestic hearth, rob
hard-carned savings, stain the wife, and massacre the
children, under pretext of resistance made to establish
authority."
The Siicle having stated that M. LEON FAUCHER
had left France, that gentleman has addressed the fol-
lowing letter, dated the 12th, to that journal :
" You have been led into error in announcing that I
had quitted France. Not only have I not lett France,
but I have not even any intentien of quitting Paris."
General ARRIG HI DE PADOUE is raised to the dig-
nity of Grand Cross of the Iv gion of Honour.
Algiers journals of the 7‘h have been received in
Paris. They are filled with the decrees and other
documents published on the occasion of the late change
of Government in Paris. General PELISSIER, the
Governor-General ad interim, has published the fo-
lowing proclamation:—

"Algiers, December 7.
the President of the R-public to manifest its sovereign
will,
nAceig,—The nation is called on by
on its destinies. Let every one,
in
cf eriaumstances, be penetrated with the :lhlnhabitantseaod graveto pronounce
ro
circumstances,
u
o
im-
portance of his right, nod above all with the greatness
of his duties, and await in silence the hour of
exercising them. Bear in mind how indispensable it is
to show the most profound respect for public order, in
a moment so solemn and so decisive for the happiness of
the country. Here, more than in France, that is the
sacred obligation of every good cioz-n, and is an abso•
lute necessity for the security of this colony. Think
well the attitude which you ought to assume; for it is
only by such a prudent and patriotic reserve that you
caa escape from the dangers and tempests which our
civil troubles could not fail to produce amongst the Arab
people—vanquished, nu doubt, but still ready to recom-
mence hostilities. As to me, lam determined to pre-
serve order by all the means which I havo in my posses-
sion, both here and elsewhere. The calm which you
aro enjoying to-day will not be in any way interfered
with; the perturbators and enemies of the public peace
will alone have to fear the severity of the laws.
"6 A. PELISSIER."

The Governor•Gdneral also publishes an address
to the army, calling on it to stand firm round its
standard, and by its determined demeanour to enswre
the happiness of the country, by preserving public
order. _ _ _ _

The proclamations of the PRESIDENT of the Repub-
lic were received in the island of Corsica with unani-
mous acclamations. The people throughout the island
showed the greatest enthusiasm. The functionaries
and all the municipal bodies have sent their adhesions
to the great act of Dec. 2.
The funeral of the soldiers of the 72d killed at the
barricades on the 4th took place on Friday at the
cemetery of Mont Parnasse. M. DESRORTIES, one
of the lieutenants, made a speech over the grave, in
which, after paying a just tribute to his companions
in arms, he said t--
"In a proclamation of which we are proud the
Minister of War has told us that we have just accom-
plished a great act of our military life. In thinking cf
his words, and particularly in seeing so many courageous
soldiers engage ,1 in a war so revolting to their feelings,
must you not ask yourselves what would such an army
be when opposed to a foreign encmy ? To fight with
foreigners is not now our mission. The day when
France shall draw her sword, sho well knows whst she
may expect from us. Oar ancestors, who endowed cur
c-aintry jrwr:e?rt. 1 h',Vi) !eft u, a tFAIc rot
less glorious, and perhaps more difficult—that of
sheltering it under solid and dun.ble institutions. In
that patriotic mission we shall not fail. Regardless
ahla of the iusults heaped of by calumny, 4MI of the