The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-14 00:00:00

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PRENCII PAPERS.

(Froni Galignani's Messenger of Saturday.)
The Massager says, that the departure of Marshal
Gerard for Lyons is talked of.
The Ministerial evening journal gives the following.
details relating to the events at Lyons :—" The Go-
vernment received this morning by express a report of
the proceedings at Lyons on 'W ednesday. It presents:
a lamentable picture, since French blood has been
shed, but at the same time affords positive assurances'
of the triumph of order and the laws. For several
days the authorities had been warned, and were pre-
pared for sinister occurrences. Every thing showed
that the agitators, despairing of success in the capital,
where the magistracy is sustained by the National
Guards and the garrison, determined to make an at-
"tempt in the provinces, and the unfortunate city of
Lyons, the capital of industry, obtained the deplorable
'preference. The Me.thellistes appeared little dis-
posed to engage in thsa plot, and it has been nearly de-
monstrated that inly such workmen as have become
edtliated with political societies joined the anarchists.
early as the preceding day, the brave General
Aitiotta made his arrangements. The Court was well
eiarde,-.1; reinforcements were called in from the envi-
m,:ts. The Prefect went to the Place St. Jean to judge of
the state of affairs, and to consult with the military com-
manders. Although the Court was sitting, the Place
St. Jean was completely free from any assemblage of
the people, and this solitude evidently proved that the
anarchists had determined to come en masse. In fact,
they made their appearance about eleven o'clock. A
man read an incendiary address, and in a few minutes
after the barricades were begun. The Prefect, with-
out a moment's hesitation, gave orders for their being
destroyed. Major-General Buchet, who commands
the Department of the Bouches-du-Rhone, under Ge-
neral Aimard, directly brought the troops forward.
The gendarmerie under Colonel Canuet, and the in-
fanrpy, assailed the barricades with the most deter-
mined resolution, and carried them under a brisk fire.
The Prefect never quitted the troops during the action.
The barricades were all thrown down as soon as they
were raised, but still there were a great many seriously
wounded, and some killed, but the greatest loss was
not on the side of the troops. The severest part of
the action took place in the Place de la Pr6fecture.
The anarchists found their most solid intrenchment
in the new temporary hall, and it became necessary
to beat down the palisades with cannon-shot. They
were soon destroyed, and those who had endeavoured
to defend them were put to flight. The place was
then entered by the troops, and a long exchange
of musketry ensued between the soldiery and the in-
surgents, who had- stationed themselves in what is
called the Organ-gallery. Cannon were again used,
the gall-,ry was forced from the alley, and entered. A
filled with rioters armed with muskets, was
'Durst open by means of petards. A great number of
prisoners were taken, some wounded, and others
blackened with gunpowder. At every point the troops
had the advantage. Other engagements took place
on the bridges, at the Place des Terreaux, and at La
Croix Rousse. The cannon and musketry were firing
for several hours together in the midst of this com-
mercial city, where nothing would be heard but the
setttia of the looms, if factions had not attempted to
00.1 t a stop to them. During a contest of five hours the
troops displayed a firmness which must put an end to
the criminal hopes of those who, it is said, relied upon
their defection. The military and civil authorities
tivalled each other in zeal and devotedness. It is
painful to have to bestow upon them this praise, but it
is t. duty to do honour to those who expose their lives
s)r the maintenance of order and the laws. At four
the action ceased. Some few musket-shots resounded
afterwards at intervals in the streets in the centre of
the town. The troops were in repose. The Go-
vernment has not received any telegraphic despatch
since that of yesterday morning, which announced
that General Aimard was in full possession of all the
positions, but to-day no telegraphic communication
could come beyond Semur. Despatches from all the
surrounding country, as well from St. Etienne, Ma-
con, and Dijon, announce that all was quiet there."
By Royal ordinances of the 9th and 10th instant,
M. Edmond Blanc, Secretary-General of the Minister
of Commerce and Public Works, is appointed Secre-
tary-General and Director of the Administrative Per-
sonnel of the Interior Department, in the room of
M. Didier ; and M. Vitel is appointed Secretary-
General of the Commerce Department, in the room of
M. Edmond Blanc. _

Several members of the Societ6 des Droits de
l'Homme were arrested yesterday.

Government have taken strong precautionary mea-
sures for securing the tranquillity of the capital. The
troops are consigned to their barracks, with a battalion
of each regiment, for pickets. Cartridges have been
delivered out, and during the last night numerous
patrols have paraded the streets. It is satisfactory to
be able to announce that perfect tranquillity prevailed.
A few groups, assembled in the populous quarters of
the city yesterday, at the hour when the workmen
usually go to dinner, dispersed on the remonstrances
of the police.
The Constitutionnel, after giving the report upon
the proceedings at Lyons, on Wednesday, from the
evening Ministerial journal, which will be found in
another column, has the following :—" The despatches
from which the above recital was taken were brought
yesterday morning by an officer of ordonnance, who
left Lyons at 10 o'clock, on the night of the 9th inst.
They comprise a report from General Aimard, ad-
dressed to the Minister of War, and a letter from the
Prefect. We are enabled to add to the above extract
various details it does not contain, but which trans-
pired in the course of the day. It appears that the
workmen made their first advances in columns,
and in good order, towards the Palais de Justice,
announcing their resolution to protect their brethren
then before the court, as the judges were defended by
the troops. Numbers of them were armed. After
ineffectual injunctions to them to retire, hostilities
commenced, and about twenty-five soldiers were put
hors de combat. Upon this the troops retorted with
great vigour. The workmen, on their side, defended
themselves with equal intrepidity. Their movements
were directed with great regularity, and the orders given
were followed with the utmost precision. The artillery
drove them for shelter into the narrow greets in the
centre of the town, and particularly in the Rue Mer-
ciere, where it was difficult to reach them. The number
of workmen engaged in the combat is said to amount
to between 7,000 and 8,000. Their loss has been very
considerable. The despatches do not give the numbers
of the killed and wounded ; but we are informed that
a letter received by a commercial house says—" We
have obtained to-day a great advantage, but it has been
very dearly bought." It is said that an attempt was made
in the Place Bellecour to proclaim a republic. When
the despatches were sent off, the rioters were concen-
trated in the streets which are in the neighbourhood of
the Archbishop's palace. ' Three houses they occupied
were fired upon with grape-shot, and in one of them
150 prisoners were taken, many of whom were wound-
ed. Although the national guards are not embodied,
a certain number of the citizens, dressed in the uni
form, mingled with the troops, who remained faithful
against all attempts at seduction. The telegraph
which has been deranged is that at Limouset, two
leagues from Lyons, and that at Fourviere has also
been dismounted. It is to be regretted that the
cloudy weather yesterday prevented the telegraphic
despatches coming beyond Semur, and thus hindered
the arrival of news. The last accounts by the tele-
graph were received on Thursday, and were dated about
12 o'clock. At that hour, as appears by the statement
in the Ministerial evening journal, the insurgents had
not been dislodged from the houses they occupied in
the centre of the town, but there is every reason to
Presume that before the evening this deplorable revolt
had been put an end to."
• The Augsbarg Gazette of the Bst inst. has the fol-
lowing- of the 3d, from Vienna :—" The Greek am-
bassador, M. Caradja, had an audience of the Emperor
on the Ist. The Archduke Ferdinand d'Este set out
for Transylvania yesterday. Our funds to-day are,
Metalliques, 5 per Cents., 97i : ditto, 4 per Cents.,
88 1 3 ; Bank Actions, 1,248." This journal has also
the following :—" M. Camitz, Prussian ambassador
at Cassel, will attend the conferences at Biberich, in
order to smooth the difficulties which the Duke of Nas-
sau has raised, relative to the Luxemburg ques-
tion. In 1255, the house of Nassau divided itself
into two branches, that of Walrom, and that of
Otho. The former took the country beyond the
Lahn, Siegen, Dillenburg, Hadamar, and Diez. The
branch of Otho, which had already acquired great power
in the Netherlands, preserved its primitive territory
up to the French revolution. The two houses were
bound, with respect to their Germanic possessions, by
a special treaty, which was renewed towards the close
of the last century. After the fall of Napoleon, the
house of Otho again became possessed of its Germanic
states, but it abandoned Luxemburg to Prussia, who
ceded it to the house of Nassau. In this way the pos-
sessions of this latter house passed to the Walrom
branch, now reigning, and the rights this family bad,
in virtue of a private treaty, over the possessions of