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TAE
WEA:l:l3..t,R.—Sua OFFICE, DECEMBER 5.
THDERM.C,IBTER, Is TEE SHAWL
40 —highest since noon yesterday.
36—lowest, tbi morning and during the 'light.
45—this day, at noon.

BkROMISI'RE, 30.33.
WDTD W.B.W.—dall, foggy weather.

DAILY WEATHER. TABLE.
State of the Wind and Weather at each
of the fallowing
placed at Nine o'clock yesterday
morning.-The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
Baulturoic_ %and N., gentle breese-partially cloud.
g„,.,Noe_wind N., gentle breeze-partially cloudy.
B°ETRAMPTON-Wind N. W., gentle breeze-foggy,
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FOL/EXBTONIS-.- Wind N., gentle breeze-partially cloud
G KE EN WICII-Calm -foggy.
ST R.O OD -Wind W., calm-cloudless.
CotzwEsnau-Wind N.W., calm-partially cloudy.
YARMOUTH—Wind W., calm-overcast.
BIRMINGHAM W had N.W., calm-foggy.
HoLruitaD-Wind W., gentle breeze-overcast.
DazitnsaTott-Wind W., gentle breeze-frosty.
SRAP- mind E., calm-overcast.
litaArrooz-Wind S., calm-foggy.
„_e The returns from thErfollowing places indicate the state of
c7cioeln.d and weather on Wednesday morning at nine
PwLz--Witt• d N.W., gentle breeze-overcast.
LaraxrCharmuit-Z...wWint N. ge_ntle breeze-partially cloudy.
W., gentle breeze-overcast.
Ltinturom-ihaii`.TivW., calm-foggy.
sm.. gentle breeze- rain.
LascAsrau-Wind
W calm-overcast.
DARLINGTON—Wind W., gentle breeze-frost.

SUDDEN DEATH.—An—An awfulstance of the !ford on the evening of
instance
un-
certainty of human life occurred at O
Wednesday last. Lieutenant Hansard, r RA., brother of Mr.
Hansard, An eminent surgeon of that
celebrated Parliamentary printer, had city and
aient son of the
invited to dine
with a friend, but soon after his arrival he
complained of giddiness in his head, and
taken ill, and
in a
minutes he was a corpse. Lieutenant Hansard, very
few
_who was
understood to be labouring under some internal complaint,
was on a visit to his brother.
ofe
THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT WEEDoss.---w.
are glad to learn that Captain finish, the able manager
the London and North- Western Company, who was injured
at the recent railway accident at Weedon, has sufficiently
recovered to resume his official duties, and that Mr. Cleaton,
of Bawl:nay-street, Islington, who was auto injured, is con-
valescent.

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Rejected communications cannot be returned.

point reached up the channel on this last so-called
Expedition of Relief was to Cape Becher in Queen
Victoria's Channel, being 76° 25 N. latitude. In con-
tinuation of his narrative, Captain PENNY avows his
firm belief that at the time when he turned
back in compliance with the wishes of others, and
in opposition to the dictates of his own. judgment, he
was probably but sixty or seventy miles from the
main points of Sir Joni( FRANKLIN I "Do you
think," asks the Chairman of the Committee (Q. 39),
" the water was all clear and open ?" " I have no
doubt of it, from the way the winds prevailed," is
the reply. " What sort of weather was it when
you turned back ?" is the next inquiry. "It was a
clear day when we turned," is the reply, "but i
cams on very moist weather afterwards." Again
Captain :PENNY is asked, and this time by
Admiral FANSHAWE (Q. 42), " I think you ex-
pressed your opinion that Sir JouN FRANKLIN passed
that way ?" "Yes," says .the witness, " that
was my conviction, and has ever been !" But then
Captain PENNI was not Captain PENNY, R.N. And
so the expedition was turned back, and the opportu-
nity (for all practical purposes) lost for ever in that
direction. Such are among the lamentable conse-
quences of a jealousy most unbecoming, and we can-
not but add most disgraceful in so gallant and illus-
trious a profession.

Two important meetings have just been held at

Manchester. The long expected and anxiously
looked for Reform conference was held at the Spread
Eagle on Wednesday morning, which was attended
by delegates from the manufacturing districts, and
many leading Reformers, including several' well-
known and influential Members of Parliament. At
that meeting the resolutions, which had been prepared
for the occasion, in accordance with the opinions put for-
ward at the preliminary meetings were freely canvassed
and discussed, and being carried by a large majority,
were subsequently submitted to an aggregate meeting

at the Free-trade Hall, at -which many thousands of
earnest and zealous men were in attendance to pro-
claim their allegiance to the great cause of Reform,
and to slit' er their firm determination that the
forthcoming charter of 1852 should be worthy of
acceptance by the British nation; or that, if
inadequate to the exigencies of the case, it should
be rejected with disdain, or, at least, only received as
a small instalment of justice. In the morning there were
some slight differences of opinion, some thinking that
the resolutions went teo far, others that they did not go
quite far enough—some that they were drawn up
with two much particularity, not allowing sufficient
freedom of action to the Legislature, others that
they were too vague and uncertain, without that close
attention to details which was essential in a matter of
such vital importance to the national welfare. All,
however, were actuated by the same spirit, all were
devoted to the popular cause, and prepared to sacrifice
their individual views in order to obtain perfect
unanimity. We confess that we should ourselves,
with Sir JOSHUA WALMSLZY, have desired that it
should have been clearly stated whether or not the elec-
tive franchise was dependent on the preliminary pay-
ment of rates. Loud and well-founded complaints have
been repeatedly put forward against the disfranchise-
ment of parties who had been struck off the registry
in consequence of some trifling arrear, that had pro-
bably been forgotten, and which, in the great ma-
jority of instances, was speedily enforced. In many
cases the tax-collectors neglected making any demand
on persons entertaining political views adverse to
their own until after the appointed time ;

and in others an opportunity has been
afforded to parties desirous of obtaining such
an influence as Mr. EDWARDS appears to have
exercised at St. Albans, to adopt a refined system of
bribery and corruption. There are men who would
not directly accept a sum of money to vote for a
particular candidate, who would tacitly permit their
rates to be paid for them, and thus, to a certain ex-
tent at least, surrender their freedom of choice in the
selection of representatives.

It is almost unnecessary to say, that every one of
the great questions—" the Extension of the Suffrage,'
" the Equalization of Electoral Districts," " the Bal-
lot," " the Duration of Parliament," and " the Pro-
perty Qualification for Members,"—were alluded
to. Were it otherwise, it would have bitterly
disappointed the reasonable expectations of the people,
who look for just and proper decisions on each of
these interesting points. The chief discussion arose
on the first topic. There was scarcely a difference
on any of the others. The extension of the franchise,
however, elicited a variety of views on this deeply

interesting subject. Some were the advocates of
universal suffrage—of permitting every man of sound
mind and full age the possession of a vote. The
Hon. Gentleman the Member for the Tower Ham-
lets led the Liberal side, and proposed as an amend-
ment the precise words of Mr. HumE's motion in
Parliament. Others there were, who although ad-
vancing in the path of reform, would still proceed
with slow and cautious steps—increasing the fran-
chise in some degree, but still leaving much to be de-
manded by the people, and being by no means a set-
tlement of the vexatio questio. The resolutions
adopted may be regarded as coming between the
extremes on either side, and offering a very fair
instalment of justice.

On the first point, the Conference recommended
that the elective franchise be based upon occupation
and liability to the poor-rate, with such limitation as
to period of residence as shall be necessary to afford
a guarantee that the occupation is bon'i fide.
In addition it urged the extension of the
40i. franchise to the owners of property
in the United Kingdom of that annual
value, whether derived from freehold, copy-
hold, or leashold tenure, with a view to open a
way to the right of voting to many, who, from vari-
ous causes, would not be in the direct occupation of
premises rated to the relief of the poor, but whose
claim to the franchise, from industry, character, and
station is undoubted. The whole constituency of the
United Kingdom would thus consist of occupiers rated
to the relief of the poor, and of the owners of pro-
perty, freehold, copyhold, and leasehold, of the
annual value of 40s.

We then find on the equalization of the electoral
districts the assertion—" that no extension of the
franchise will make the House of Commons a fair re-
presentation of the nation without a very con.
siderable change in the distribution of the electoral
power." It is, therefore, proposed—" That, where
practicable and convenient, small and neighbour-
ing boroughs be united and form one borough.
That, where such union is not practicable, small
boroughs cease to return Members, and that their
existing constituencies merge in the constituency of
the county in which they are situate. That corres-
ponding to the extent to which small boroughs shall
be united, or shall cease to return Members to Parlia-
ment, new boroughs be created from the populous
towns now unrepresented, and that additional
Members be conferred on the metropolitan and other
first-class boroughs in the United Kingdom."
As a general rule, it is suggested that no constitu-
ency should henceforward be composed of fewer than
5,000 electors.
The proposition on the Ballot is no less satisfac-
tory—" That the adoption of the ballot is indispensable
to an honest representation ; that it would make the
convictions of the elector, rather than his personal
interests and fears, the leading motive in the exercise
of his franchise ; that it would repress the demo-
ralizing practices so humiliating to candidates and so
degrading to electors which seem almost inseparable
from a canvass ; and that it would aid most effec-
tually in preventing the turbulence and riot with
which elections have hitherto been too often attended."

In addition, triennial Parliaments are proposed,
and there is the most unequivocal adoption of the
abolition of the property qualification. 'We have no
doubt that Reformers of all classes throughout the
length and breadth of the land will cordially concur
in these well-considered resolutions, and that they will
be received as the basis of the New Reform Bill
of 1852,

LOMB KOSSUTIL—Another engraved likness of this
great man has within the last few days appeared. It
is copied from an original painting by Mr. Skaife,
and represents Kossuth as- he appeared when closing
his speech in the Guildhall. Though out of all
drawing, the sketch has a certain exaggerated energy;
and, like everything relating to the same illustrious
personage,
will be eagerly welcomed, we doubt not,
by the multitude,

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER '5, 1861.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

DREADFUL FIGHTING IN THE
STREETS OF PARIS.
We have received the Paris journals of yesterday
and accounts from Paris up to last evening.
The journals are principally filled with official
documents and proclamations, but the accounts they
give of events is meagre; private accounts, however,
state that the fighting, which still continued when the
last accounts were dispatched, was of a character
more fearful than even that of June, 1848, and that
no quarter was given ; it is also stated that some of
the troops have joined the people, and that General
MAGNAN, the Commander-in-Chief of the garrison in
Paris, was inclined to declare against the PRESIDENT.
Galignani's Messenger gives the following account of
the events of Wednesday :
"Informed that orders had been given to the demago-
gic sections to meet this morning at seven o'clock, in the
Faubourg Saint Antoine, the Prefect of Police had pre-
scribed the most energetic and efficacious measures to
defeat the designs of these exciters to disturbance, who,
emboldened by former succeas, had not reckoned on the
resolute action of the authorities. This meeting decided
upon in the committees, held here and there during the
night, did not take place. The fnires et amis e::1 not re-
spond to the appeal of their chiefs. During the first
hours of the morning the faubourgs were calm, and the
shops were opened as usual. The wine-shops of the
faubourg, however, were gradually filled, and among the
persons who entered were remarked a considerable
number of those sinister faces which are seen
whenever the enemies of order meet in days
of crisis. The Prefect of Police soon ascertained
that deliberations were going on. Toward ten o'clock
gooups were
i formed in several parts of the fau-
bourg, and n some of the adjacent streets. Several
Montagnard ex-representatives, and some men armed
with fowling-pieces and poniard-knives, were seen.
Soon afterwards were posted up appeals to arms in ma-
nuscript, some in red, others in black, signed by Michel
(de B nrges), Madier de Montjau, Emmanuel Arago,
Schoelcher, Baudin, Defiotte, and other members of the
Mountain. Almost at the same time, some persons,
most of them armed, passed along the Boulevards St.
Martin, St. Denis, Bonne Nouvelle, and Montmartre,
endeavouring, by reading aloud a proclamation of the
ex-representatives who assembled yesterday at the
Mairie of the 10th Arrondissement, to rally the crowd
to their cause, and excite seditious cries. In an in-
stant, these groups, very compact and assuming an
hostile attitude, were dispersed by some sergens-
de-ville. The placards posted up were taken down
without the slightest resistance, and frequently
amidst the acclamations of the persons present. At this
moment (half-past eleven), three or four bands of
men en blouse left the Faubourg St. Antoine and the
Rue du Temple and spread themselves in different di-
rections. They had at their head several of the ex-
Montegnard representatives. That band which was
led on by the ex-representative Baudin began to raise a
barricade at the corner of the Rue St. Marguerite. Oa
a battalion of the line advancing, a shot was fired from
the barricade. The troops returned the fire very vigor-
ously, and the chief of the barricade, the ex-representa-
tive Baudin, fell dead, having been struck in the head
with a ball. On another point, the ex-representative
M. Madier do Montjau was struck by a ball from the
troops in defending a barricade erected on the
Boulevard Beaumarchais. It is positively stated
that the ex-representative Schoelcher has been
wounded in an engagement with the sol-
diers. The rioters had an intention of attack-
ing the prison Mazas, but the measures taken for its
defence prevented the execution of the plan. At noon,
the whole of that part of the Boulevards from the
Chateau d'Eau to the Bastille was cleared and occupied
militarily by the regiments of cuirassiers, chasseurs, and
the line. The brigade of General Marullaz was
stationed on the Place de la Bastille, with twelve pieces
of cannon. The houses at the corner of the streets
from whence the insurgents were able in the days of
June, 1848, to kill seven generals, and the venerable
Archbishop of Paris, were occupied militarily from the
cellar to the garret. Three mortars were directed to-
wards the Faubourg Saint Antoine, and ready to fire.
In presence of the most vigorous orders, executed with
promptness, and the excellent conduct of the
troops, the rioters retired to the bottom of
the faubourg, from whence they were driven in a
few minutes by the brigade of General Courtigis, which
followed them up close. Several arrests were made.
The court-martials sitting en permanence will decide on
the fate of these persons, most of whom were taken in
arms. Several groups of students went through the
Quartier Latin, calling to arms. Some vain attempts at
raising barricades were made, but a single company of
the Chasseurs de Vincinnes was sufficient to restore the
quarter to its usual calm. The ex-Montagnard repre-
sentative Delbetz was arrested in the afternoon, at the
corner of the Rue Richelieu. He was in a cabriolet,
and wore his badge as a representative. He was utter-
ing seditious cries in the midst of an extremely agitated
crowd. The attempts at disorder which a few de-
magogical leaders endeavoured to get up may
be now, it is to be hoped, considered at an end.
The authority is on the alert, and proper measures have
been taken to put down any commencement at disturb-
ance. A student was arrested on the Place de l'Ecole
de Medicine, for having struck a sergeant-de-villa with
a cane. He was taken to the Conciergerie. The bar-
ricade raised in the Rue du Faubourg St. Antoine, at
which the ex-representative Baudin was killed, was
carried by Captain Heary, at the head of the Ist Com-
pany of the first battalion of the 19th Light Infantry,
commanded by Chof do Bataillon Pujol. The Faubourg
Saint Marceau is perfectly tranquil. Towards the
middle of the day some men of disorder, driven from the
Faubourg St. Antoine, attempted to get up a demon-
stration on the Place de l'Ecole de M6dicine. General
Sauboul dispersed the persons making this attempt by
sending out a strong patrol. By measure of precaution the
Pantheon will be occupied to-night by the military.
The Faubourg St. Antoine, which was exceedingly
agitated in the morning, was quite calm in the evening.
It appears that some workmen, determined to maintain
order in the interest of the labouring classes, whom any
disturbance in the street would most probably deprive at
once of employment, dispersed themselves in the morn-
ing through the faubourgs, and argued with their com-
rades that Louis Napoleon only wanted to re-establish
universal suffrage by conferring political equality. If
our information is correct, their patriotism put a stop to
a Socialist movement which was to have burst out.
"'the Pattie of yesterday states that before the troops
fired on the barricade in the Rue St. Marguerite a
soldier was killed by the insurgents, and that by the fire
of tho troops M. Madier de Montjau as well as M.
Baudin was killed. M. Esquiros is said to have saved
himself by flight.
"We also read in the Paine of yesterday evening:—
About five o'clock this evening barricades were
raised in the Rue Rsmb. uteau. General Magnan ordered
some troops to that point with orders for them to be im-
mediately carried and destroyed. That was accom-
plished with difficulty by the 9th Foot Chasseurs and a
battalion of the Gendarmerie Mobile, the rioters taking
to flight on the approach of the troops. About half-past
four a band of about two hundred persons formed a bar-
ricade in the Rue des Vieilles Audriettes by upsetting
some carts. M. de St. Georges, director of the Nattonal
Printing-office, had a detachment of the gendarmery
directed to the spot. The rioters fired, and the fire was re-
turned by the troops, when the barricade was deserted by
its defenders. Another attempt at a riot was commenced
in the Cloitre St. Mb. y, but it was immediately quelled.
General Leydet, ex-representative of the Mountain,
has been arrested. The circulation was only interrupted
for a few hours in the neighbourhood of the faubourg,
where the remnants of the demagogues had sought re-
fuge, hoping to bo able to make it the scene of sangui-
nary scenes similar to the days of June, but all their
projects failed. The population of the eapital, strong in
the intelligent and
.s more energetic action of the magistrates,
particularly to watch over its
imssaioynaitt ltendtotheir business without alarm or
awnhxoi
securityse
ym:
" Two aides-de-camp of the Minister of War went
yesterday morning in coloured clothes to the Faubourg
St. Antoine to judge for themselves of the feelings of
the population, In passing tho corner of one of the
streets, they sawn. a man appear for a moment and then
disappear as rapidly. Immediately after a whistle was
heard, and a band of fifteen men came forward. Tho
aides-de-camp seeing this thought it prudent to retire,
convinced that the secret societies were assembled and
ready to act.
" Captain Armand, belonging to the staff, was yes-
terday proceeding through the Faubourg Saint Antoine
at the head of some men, when a body of rioters threw
themselves before him with menacing cries. One man
more daring than the rest attempted to seize the bridle
of Captain Armand's horse, the officer seized him by the
collar, and, in spite of the cries around him, hauled him
off to the barracks of the Celestine, where he was de-
tained in custody. The brigades of Vincennes after-
wards passed through the Faubourg Saint Antoine with-
out meeting with any obstacle.
"M. Brun, commissary of police at the Assembly,
was arrested on Tuesday at the same time as the two
quostors. He had been appointed, it may be remem-
bered, to replace M. Yon, and had previously been at
the head of the section of police belonging to General
Changarnier. M. Brun has since been set at liberty."
The following is the new Ministry, as announced
by the decree of the PRESIDENT :—MM. de Morny,
Interior ; Fould, Finances ; Rouher, Justice ; Magne,
Public Works ; Saint Arnaud, War ; Th. Ducos,
Marine ; Turgot, Foreign Affairs ; Lefebvre-Durufle,
Commerce and Agriculture ; Fourtoul, Public In-
struction.
The Consultative Commission (the decree for the
formation of which we noticed yesterday) is to be
presided over by M. BAROCHE, as Vice-President, in
the absence of the PRESIDENT of the Republic.
We read in the Tatrie:—" It has been stated
that Generals LAMORICIERE and BEDEAU and AL
CHARRAS had been wounded on Tuesday, and some
rwepenotrtssoafraercoasmtpolestaely ythuantfotuhnded,
eyhadassinalclethdeiesde. These
ex-re-
presentatives are in perfect health. Lieutenannti
Colonel FLEURY, orderly officer of . the PRESIPENT.o
the Republic, had a ball pass through his capp while
proceeding along the Boulevard du Temple.
from
M. Afoniteur Parisien, in giving the letter from
M. MOLE to the Journul des Debats (whi▪
ch appeared
in yesterday's Messenger), says—" If M. MOLE is
desirous of joining his colleagues at Mazos or at the
fort of Mont Val6rien, he is perfectly at li▪ berty do so.
The country attaches very little importance to his
personal appreciations:'

The Pcrtrie states that the votes of the army in
garrison in Paris have been, so far as is known, all
given to LOUIS NAPOLEON, with one single excep-
tion, that of a soldier of the 72d Regiment, who de-
clared that he did not understand the subject suffi-
ciently to authorise him to give an opinion.
The following has been published as the official
account of the arrest of Generals CAVAJONAC, Bz-
DBAU, LAMORICIERE, Colonel CHAREAS, M. TRIERS,
and their companions :
The number of persons arrested on the night of the
Ist of December was 31, of whom 28 were represen-
tatives. These arrests were executed by the agents
usually charged with such duties. None of the per-
sons arrested made the least resistance. All the ma-
licious reports on this subject are absolutely without
the least foundation. These 31 persons had been con-
fined temporarily in the cellular prison of Mazos. At
five o'clock they were transferred to the Northern
Railway, and conveyed in a special train to the castle
of Ham, where they would arrive before midnight.
A battalion of troops superintended the execution of
these orders. Lodgingi had been prepared for them
at Ham. The prisoners have been treated with all
the attentions compatible with the state of political
affairs.

The Constitutionnel publishes an article signed by ➢L
GRANIER DR CASSAGNAC, in:which we find the follow-

ing passage relating evidently to M. BERETER :
" Did not the most accredited chief of the Legitimists
send, last Monday, this verbal message to the President
of the Republic:—' Execute a coup d'etat, transport the
Socialist minority, and fi►e minutes after we are with
you!' If this message is denied, we will name the Legi-
timist chief who gave it, and tho Representative who
brought it. Thus the same men who begged the Presi-
dent on Monday to make a coup d'etat for their profit,
drew up an act of impeachment on Tuesday against the
President for a coup d'ltat for the advantage of order
and society."
The Act of Impeachment alluded to by M. DE
CASSAGNAC is as follows :

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day have raised the standard of insurrection. Every-
where our courageous and intrepid army has overthrown
and vanquished them. The people have remained deaf
to their excitations. There are necessary measures
commanded by public safety. The state of siege is de-
creed. The moment has arrived to apply the rigorous
consequences of it. Exercising the powers which it
gives us—

"`Ye, the Prefect of Police, decree—Art. 1. Circu-
lation is interdicted to all public and private vehicles.
An exception will only be admitted in favour of those
which serve to the alimentation of Paris, and the con-
veyance of materials. Art. 2. The stationing of people
in the streets, and the formation of groups, are abso-
lutely interdicted. They shall be, without summons,
dispersed by arms. Let peaceable citizens stop at home.
There will be serious peril in violating the measures
decreed."
" 4th December." "DE MAUPAS.
The following was placarded in the streets at two
o'clock :
" Inhabitants of Paris---The whole of France asso-
ciates itself by its approbation to the great events which
have just taken place. The acts of the Government,
which were known two days ago at Lyons, Lille,
Amiens, Rheims, Nantes, Poitiers, and in all the centre
of commerce and industry, hare met with the best re-
ception. Order has been nowhere disturbed.
" The Minister of the Interior, DE MORNt."
It is evident from the above proclamation that not-
withstanding the representations of the Government,
which it should be remembered has the monopoly of
the telegraph, that there is a struggle going, on and
that it has only commenced ; and private accounts re-
present that struggle as being of a very fearful cha-
racter, no quarter being given on either side, and of a
very doubtful issue, for it is still going on, and, it is
said, that in many instance the troops have shown a
disposition to fraternize with the people, and that
General MAGNAN is not at all disposed to support the
cause of Louts NAPOLEON.

The High Court, which had at the invitation of the
Prefect of Police, separated on Tuesday, re-assembled
on Wednesday at Rouen, and there formally declared
the decheance of the PRESIDENT of the Republic, and
condemned him for high treason. This decree was
known in Paris yesterday morning, and a placard,
signed by VICTOR HUGO, SCUOALCHER, and several
other Representatives, was posted, declaring the
sentence of the High Court, and calling on all per-
sons to refuse all obedience to the PRESIDENT.
A placard, signed, by EMILE DE GIRARDIN and the
whole of the Representatives of the Left, was also
posted, declaring that the Assembly is not dissolved;
on the contrary, that it is the only legal power, that
the PRESIDENT has forfeited all authority, and that
the Executive passes to the hands of the Assembly.
It calls on the army at their peril to disobey the
Assembly. The placard signed by VICTOR HUGO
tells the people that the National Guards
and line are marching on Paris to depose the usurper.
The disposition of the National Guard is against
Louis NAPOLEON, indeed, he seems to have been
aware that such was the case, for on Monday night
he gave special orders to M. VYERA, on no account
to suffer them to be called out.

On Wednesday morning the commencement of the
ercction of barricades took place, and, as usual, these
were of a slight construction, and were evacuated im-
mediately the troops charged them, it being the object
of the insurgents to tire down the troops by fatigue
before the fighting should commenced in earnest. It
was in the attack on one of these barricades that the
representatives MM. BAUDIN and MADIER DE
MARTJAU were killed. Their bodies were carried in
procession on Wednesday evening; the procession was
attacked by the military and several men killed.
Orders were issued that the military should hold
no communication with any civilians.
Yesterday morning several strong barracades were
erected near the Fortes Saint Martin and Saint
Denis ; ;these were attacked, and after severe
fighting taken, but not until cannon were employed.
The Boulevard, as far the Rue Montmartre, is a
perfect wreck. The troops as they advanced were
attacked on the Boulevard des Italiens, and a sharp
fight ensued. At a quarter past six the Boulevards
were in possession of the troops. A letter from Paris,
dated six o'clock, states that the fighting was still
going on, and that the state of Paris was worse than
it was in the days of June. This letter, which was
published in a third edition of the Morning Chronicle,
is as follows :

" THURSDAY, SIX P.M.
" Matters hero are going from bad to worse.. The
state of Paris is the most terrible. The insurrection
of June was not nearly so bad as the present, and the
troops are not to be depended on. The fighting at the
barricades is going on with the same •igour; but, as it
is impossible to approach the district of the town
which is disturbed, it is impossible to,know how the affair
is going.
" The most alarming rumours are current as to the
state of the departments. It is generally reported (and
I know that the information comes from good sources)
that General Castellano and the army which ho com-
mands have gone against the President, and taken part
with the Assembly.
At Lille, General Neumayer, with two regiments, is
said to have refused to adhere to the acts of the Presi-
dent. Strasbourg and Rheims are said to have risen.
The journals which have arrived from Angers contain
violent articles against the Government, and call for
resistance.
" M. Carlier has been sent off to Lyons, as Commis-
sary-General.
" M.Berard, late representative of the people, has been
sent to Amiens, where the Prefect, M. Leon Masson, has
made common cause with the Municipal Council and the
National Guard against the Government.
" I mention these rumours as they reach me. Of
course, some of them are exaggerated, but the very
fact of their circulation shows how serious the crisis is.
" At the moment when I write there are numerous

and formidable barricades raised in the quarters St.
Denis, St. Martin, and the neighbourhood of the Rue
do Rambuteau. Even at the corner of the Rue
de la Grange Batehdre thero is a large barricade,
and shots were fired on the troops from Tortoni's
coffee-house. Several people have been killed in the
Rue de Grammont. M. Sallandrouze's carpet
manufactory has been riddled by cannon, and
it is said that thirty people who were in it
have been killed. It appears that some shots bad been
fired from the windows. The boulevards are swept
every five minutes by largo bodies of lancers. Orders
have been given to the troops to give no quarter. Very
few of the barricades have been taken. A considerable
number of insurgents taken in the Rue Chapin, between
two barricades, were shot on the spot.
" Several members of the club of the Rue des Pyra-
mides met this morning, and resolved to support the
Government against the insurgents. I do not know
where they met, but their usual place of meeting is oc-
cupied by 50 soldiers, and the Government has given
orders to prevent a meeting.
"You are aware that. the 152 representatives who
were imprisoned at Mont Valerien were set at liberty
last night. The greater number of them were Legiiimati-
fists. They all refused to pledge themselves to remain
neuter, or to leave the prison if any were retained. Ul-
timately they were all set at liberty. A commissary of
police conducted them in prison vans to the garden of
the Luxembourg, where he told them to alight, and
having politely taken off his hat, said they were at
liberty. Since then several have been again arrested.
" HALF-PAST SIR.
"The Government denies all the sinister reports in
circulation. The Minister of the Interior declares that
the news from the departments, which has reached the
Government, is in general satisfactory; and that even at
Lyons, after a moment of astonishment and hesitation,
the whole place accepted the acts of the Government.
" The system the President has announced, of taking
the opinion of the people, has given great offence, and
has turned many peaceable people against him.
"It is impossible that the affair can be settled to-night.
The telegraph is again stopped
" P.S.—At the present moment the firing has ceased.
The insurgents have been driven back in several
quarters, and a considerable number of the troops
seem to be returning to their quarters. The affair is,
however, not over, and will certainly be renewed in
the morning."
The Pays contains the following letter from its dif-
ferent editors to the manager :
" In the presence of the events that are passing, we
can have nothing more to do as journalists at present.
We resign.—A. de la Guerroniire, F. Ducuing, A. Blaise
(des Vosges), Ch. Rolland, E. L. Ileritier, E. Gourdon,
J. M. Lejean."
It also contains a letter from M. DE LA GIIER.
RONIERE to the Minister of the Interior, stating that
he has observed his (M. DE LA GuEnnomEßßlB)
brother's name in the list of new sub-prefects pub-
lished on the day of the dissolution of the National
Assembly. He takes upon himself to resign, in the
name of his brother, an office which he feels sure he
will not accept under existing circumstances.
The editors of the Assemblee Nationale have also
resigned, in a letter which the rasnager of that
journal dares not publish.
M. A. Freslon has resigned the post of Advocate-
General at the Court of Caseation.
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