The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-15 00:00:00

THE SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1869.

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ELECTION RIOTS IN rill2V.

CERO3I GCB 07N CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, FRIDAY, May 14.
On Monday evening ne-xt the last day for the holding of
public meetings expires. For five days before the elec-
tions, which come off on the 23rd and 24th, public
meetings are forbidden by law ; the five days are always
claimed by the Government, which industriously
works during this period without fear of effective
counteracting propaganda from the Opposition. It
was, perhaps, natural that the Democrats of Paris
should desire to employ the remaining days to
the best advantage. And if riot and uproar
be making the most of political opportunities,
they have undoubtedly done so. Hitherto the
numerous electoral meetings of Paris have been held with
tolerable outward decorum. There has been plenty of
noise, but little that came under the denomination of
rioting. No speaker at a public meeting is allowed to
discuss the Constitution, or make any disrespectful ailu-

blOll to the Emperor. A commissary of police is always
present to see that these reg,dations are carried out. UP
to Wednesday the Democrats of Paris contented them-
selves with dr:ving the commissary to desperation by
every species if indirect allusion and inuendo which the

ingenuity of Frenchmen could devise. Sometimes their in-
genuity was carried so far that the meeting was dissolved.
But in these latter days of the public meetings, the
Parisians have grown tired of baiting the commissary.

They have apparently wished to wind up the electoral
campaign with some more striking demonstration, and
they have had their wish. On Wednesday evening a
great meeting was held at the Chatelet Theatre. M.

Emile 011ivier was announced to speak. It is hardly
necessary for me to again recount the position which this
young deputy holds in the political world. On account of
his negotiations with the Emperor, with the view of
reforming the Constitution in a liberal sense, he lost his
popularity with the Republicans, amongst whom he
ranked himself. The reforms which he projected were
all frustrated by M. Ronher, whilst poor M. 011ivier lost
the favour of his party. He is now vehemently—nay
savagely—opposed, and his chance of re-election for the
city of Paris is, to speak mildly, none of the best. No
wonder, then, that the Chfitelet Theatre was crowded. The
hour fixed was half-past eight, but persons began to assemble
as early as half•past four, and at seven all the ap-
proaches to the building were blocked up by a crowd
anxious to obtain admittance. When the doors were
' thrown open the struggle wad indescribable. So great
was the confusion within the building that it was fully ten
o'clock before M. 011ivier could obtain a hearing. He
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rose at nine, and combatted the din of the roaring
multitude for a full hour. At last one of the audience in the
front gallery got up and asked them to hear the deputy,
remarking that they could learn nothing if they did not
' hear his explanations. Then M. 011ivier again got up, but
the interruptions were still numerous ; as always happens in
these cases, if one of the audience made a remark there
was a row of some seconds involved in the attempt to
silence him. Thus M. 011ivier's speech was cmtailed
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to one-half the length which lie had deemed needful for
for an explanation. He divided it into two parts. In the
first he defended his political conduct, enumerating his
constant efforts in the cause of liberty. This part of his
speech was rather favourably received. He urged his
pleas that liberty could not be achieved by revolution ;
that as they had got the Empire, they ought to make
the moat of it ; and that constitutional means
were the best and speediest mode of obtaining reform.
In the second part of his address he endeavoured to demon-
strate from history that revolutionary measures had never
rroducea results favourable to liberty, citing, by way of
example, Italy, which had struggled in vain for so
many years under the sterile agitations of Mazzini
and Garibaldi, but at last found repose in the sound
constitutional policy of Count Cavour ; Hungary,
' also, he said, had been powerless under Kossuth,
but now took reek amongst iudependent nations under
the direction of M. Deal: ; lastly, Prussia herself, pre
weak, was now most powtrful under the rule
of Count Bismarck. TI ess utpalatable remarks
were received with great di:!approbation, and
' constant cries of "A la question l" But M. 011ivier
displayed, at least, the quality of courage. Ile was not
Ito be put down. Ile affirmed that the present Govern-
' went did not owe its origin to the amp d'etati but to the
subsequent votes of the plebiscite, and was thus conic-
crated by universal suffrage. Moreover, the revolution of
1848 was the direct forerunner of personal government
under the Empire. Both thee° assertions were
received with a tempest of dissent. The crowd
literally howled with fury on being told that
it was the author of its own slavery. Lastly, M.
011ivier vehemently denounced the practice of taking
the oath of fidelity to the Emperor with the delibe-
rate intention of overthrowing the Government at the
first possible opportunity. I may remark that every candi-
date returned to the Corp; Legislatif must swear allegiance
to the Emperor. The Republican deputies all take this
• oath, but they do not conceal their intention of breaking
it. The speaker said that he had taken the oath,
be I a I taken it innestly— and he meant to keep it.
To take an oath wi h the deliberate intention of breaking
it lie hell to be infalmus and dishonourable. This put an
end to the meeting. The uproar was so great that the com-
missary, who had allowed the proceedings to go on until
half-past eleven, declared the meeting dissolved. The
crowd separated in indescribable confusion, a portion
hissing 011ivier, and shouting for Bancel, the opponent of
the former ; the rest carrying off the orator in triumph.
The mingling of the audience with the great crowd
which had been unable to obtain admission was the
signal for uproarious proceedings outside. The crowd,
which numbered 20,000, had kept tolerably quiet at fist,
but the emptying of the theatre speedily produced a riot.
The cries of " Vive Bancel !" were followed by singing t f
the obnoxious " Marseillaise;"rae revolutiona• y hymn
was given amid loud acclaim, and a repetition was de-
manded. Well it might be, for the " Alarseillaise " sung by
at least 10,000 voices is one of the most inspiriting national
chants ever composed. The serdents-dc.ville had, how-
ever, come up in great force by this time, and about five
hundred of them, with some mounted municipal guards,
charged the mob, without drawing their swords,
and attempted to disperse it. The police behaved
with great moderation, but several blows were
struck, and some wounds were inflicted. One young
man in perticular was struck in the forehead, and bled
profusely. Several groups which had formed themselves
near the theatre, after having been partially dispersed
by the police, proceeded towards the Faubourg St.
Antoine, and went bareheaded round the Column of July
singing the " Marseillaise ;" others uttered seditious cries,
and threw stones at the windows. The tumult was at
length quelled by the arrival of a strong party of sergents-
dc-ville, who succeeded in arresting several of the most
riotous. There was likewise a row in one of the
beer-drinking saloons indeed, all the cafés in
the neighbourhood, which were densely crowded, suf-
fered damage—but this was quieted by the police. The
number of arrest; was 20.
Yesterday there was another outbreak. A meeting was
held at the Cirque Napoleon by the electors of the fifth
circumscription, and was dissolved by the commissary.
An enormous crowd then gathered on the Boulevard
Beaumarchais round the theatre. All the neighbouring
streets and lanes were crowded. The " Marseillaise"
was again sung, the entire crowd joining in with
great vehemence, The police arrived to the number of
six hundred, and attempted to disperse the multitude.
But the 600 trergents-de-ville were swallowed
up in the crowd of from 15,000 to 20,000. The
municipal guards then came up, and charged the
crowd, which took refuge in the small lanes.
The divisional inspector of the municipal police,
M. Brun, was struck on the temple by a heavy
stick, and carried away covered with blood. Another
officer was wounded. Of the crowd many were injured
but none gravely. Twenty-five arrests were made.
There was yet another disturbance in the seventh cir-
cumscription on Wednesday. M. Rochefort held a
meeting, and the people who could not get in sang the
" Marseillaise," and destroyed some property. The Liberal
j journals exhort the electors to peaceful measures.

Mr. Reverdy Johnson took his leave of the
Queen, by letter, on Wednesday.
A sad accident occurred in the Firth of Forth, near
Inchkeitb, on Wednesday. A fishing boat, belonging to
Newhaven, manned by four men, named John Cairney,
Georgo Plucker, Philip Plucker, and James Plucker, «hile
returning from the fishing, was caught either in a squall or
a whirlwind, and sank. The four men struggled gallantly
fot life fur some time, but before assistance could be obtained
two of them, Philip and James Plucker, perished.
A WONDERFUL CLOCK.—If the spirit of good
King Alfred, who invented the mode of measuring time
by burning candles of different lengths, could be permitted
under the auspices of Mr. Home to view the wonders of
midern civilisation, we doubt if anything would interest
the ingenious monarch more than a clock which has just
been completed for the cathedral of Beauvais, and
which far surpasses all the existing specimens
of the clockinaker's art. This wonderful piece
of mechanism contains no less than 90,000 wheels, and
indicates, among many other things too numerous to
recite, the days of the week, the month, the year, the
signs of the zodiac, the equation of time, the course of the
planets, the phases of the moon, the time at every capital
in the world, the movable feasts for 100 years, the saints'
days, &c. Perhaps the most curious part of the mechanism
is that which gives the additional day in Leap year, and
which consequently is called into action only once in four
years. The clock is wound up every eight days. The
main dial i 3 twelve Let in diameter, and the total cost
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