The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-08 00:00:00

THE SUN,

The General then gave up the contest, and was led
away by no less than 25 soldiers. Cavaignae was in
bed when the military knocked at his door, and being
thus comparatively helpless, and baying, moreover, no
servant (for the ex-dictator lives in a very modest style),
he had small choice left him, and, accordingly, having
rapidly put on his clothes, he was conducted straight-
way along with the other Generals to Vincennes.
" Thirty members of the Assembly are said to be
taken, and in prison, mostly at Vincennes. Among the
number are M. Thiers, Colonel Charras, two of the
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Sec. The newspapers, it
would all seized, and no copies suffered to
uestor
appear,
Nea ard, a
were ud, Valentin,
come forth, except of La Patric, which promulgated the
ordinances. No journals could be sent, therefore, to the
departments to-day; no means either, except personal
messengers, could be made use of to convey mutual in-
telligence between public bodies, all the printing presses
being 6 s(queitris' pro tem.
eaving
M. de T- about two rem., we proceeded
,
to the residence of M. F-. M. L- and I went
upstairs, and on the landing-place met M. F-, who
was just leaving his own apartment, but who re entered
it with us for a few minutes. His news was as follows:
it •
ess soon as he learnt the astounding news of the
morning he went out, and getting together _as many of
the representans as he could find willing to move, the
body so collected repaired to their President, M. Dupin,
and invited him to come to the Chamber and declare a
siance, a protestation,' and such other measures as
should be deemed expedient, is order to prevent the conp
d'ilat. M. Dupin responded to the call, and about 80
Members accompanied him to the Chamber, but the officer
in command of the soldiers in possession refused them
entrance. The deputies, however, contrived to slip in
throngh sundry side doors, which bad been left accessible,
and having got access to the body of the salle, M. Dupin
persevered in declaring a seance,' when a company of
foot soldiers was marched in, and the whole of the repre-
sentans forcibly exp.:lei. It is even added that some un-
courteous pokes of the bayonet were employed to acce-
lerate their process, hut of this I cannot be certain.
The expelled D. posies adjourned to their habitual
place of conference, the Place des Pyramides, where M.
F- endeavoured to prevail with them and others, who
then joined the meeting, to frame a protest, and to adopt
an attitude of opposition to the illegal acts of the Pre-
sident.
" Many,of the Members appeared to concur with
F-, but M. Baroche recommended "moderation" and
adjournment above all, as best adapted to the object of
avoiding a conflict. The consultation ultimately broke
up without the meeting coming to any resolution, except
that of " waiting to see what would happen."
was, when when we parted from him, going to make a fresh
attempt to rally a few men of action to the defence of the
Constitution, but be seemed far from sanguine in his ex-
pectations.' After Madame F- had related so much,
she went on to tell us a few incidental circumstances con-
tied with the great effalr of the day. M. F- and
she were at the Opera Cemiquo last evening to witness
a premiere representation of a new opera, and in
the loge des Minotrei there were seated no less than four
of the (uneuspiciou,) Ministers of Louis Napoleon. In a
loge prices they Leheld, seated side by side all the even-
ing, M. do Morny and General Cbsngareier, Madame
L-, the well known there amie of de Morny, making
a third in the box. About eleven o'clock de Moray lett
theatre and directed his steps to the residence of the
Minister of the Interior, where, on finding himself in the
latier'e presence, he drew forth the paper from his pocket
which Nominated him Minister of the Interior, informing
the astonished occupant of that post that be ens desiitue,'
and that be, Moray, wis now Minister of the Interior.
This was necessary in order to insure the signature of a
Minister to Louis Napoteen's ,proc!amation which might
thus wear the outward semblance of a formal act.
No one of the existing Cabinet would, it is surmised,
have been base enough to endorse such a flegrant viola-
tion of the laws, and Louis Napoleon, therefore ' impro-
vised ' a creature Minister for the job over night. After
; we had heard all this, together with some iew more de-
salt?, not essential to relate, I went to the Post-office to
put in a It tter. We then erect an hour in walking about
the vicinity of the Madeleine, observing what was going
fora ard. The military occupied the streets, and di-
rected carriages and passenger:, how to proceed; no sort
of excitement prevailed, and a vague inquiring look
which many of the lower classes wore was all the evi-
dence we recognised of interest in the matter. There were
hardly any gentlefolk to be seen; the working class made
the crowd, which was far from dense. We came home
at four o'clock. Soon after that hour the cavalry took
up their position the whole length of the Champs
Elyeees for about an hour and a half, after which they
were marched off, and the quartier became tranquil as
usual, no sound being heard more martial than the bells
of the omnibus horses as they trotted to and fro with
their unwieldly machines. At eleven all was hushed;
and so ended a day pregnant with disquiet and sinister
auguries, which assuredly have seldom been better war-
ranted, for so monstrous an exercise of brute force on
the part of the Executive has few parallels in history."