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of the church of St. Laurent. Several bodies of peopl,
collected in the old town. It appeared that they reckoned
on the arrival of the Count de Bourmont. The National
Guards of the town, and the troops of the line i❑ garrison,
immediately flew to arms. I have this moment inspected
them, and found them to be animated with the greatest
enthusiasm. I feel no uneasiness. Colonel Lachan, 11.
de Bandole, and M. Lege de Pogle, Chiefs of the Carlist
party, were taken with arms in their hand', at the head
of a detachment, before which was borne the white fl 'g.
The standard hoisted on the steeple of St. Laurent has
been torn down."
There are several circumstances connected with this
affair worthy of notice. Is it to be supposed that the
persons arrested, and whose names are given in the de-
spatch—men all above the lower orders—would have
risked their lives without some rational object—some
hope of success and of support ? Why was the telegra-
phic despatch above given withheld from the public
the entire of yesterday ? It was received on Monday after-
noon, and I am now informed that to consult upon it a
Council of Ministers was held that night at the Hotel of
the Minister of War. What was the result of their deli •
he:rations ? And, lastly, I shall ask, did the Carlists taken
in arms teally believe they risked their lives
Far be it from me to desire the death or injury of any
human being, but, if King Louis-Philip would preserve
himself on the French throne, he must adopt energetic
measures towards the Carliats. The impunity he has
caused to he ex'ended to them has given rise (as I have
more than once informed you) to suspicions that he looks
to the return of the exiled family, and would fain appear
in their eyes as guiltless of the blood of one of their ad-
herents. This suspicion sleeps for the moment, but could
be easily recalled into an existence perilous equally to the
new monarchy and to the Carlists. From a variety of
circumstances that could be stated, people begin to think
that the King requires every moment a flap to render him
sensible of his position, and of the dangers by which it is
surrounded. Every body will re collect the strange stand
he made in February, 1831, against the populer wish that
the fleur-de-lis should, in his arms, be suppressed. Every
body will also remember with what readiness was aban-
doned, not merely the jitur-de-lis, but the cross, to po-
pular fury, when the populace, on the 13th Feb. 1831,
were roused to rage and revolt,—(no difficult matter at
any time.)
I will not trouble you with details of the proceedings of
the Carlists in Lyons and other place's in the South ; you
will find enough of them in the Journals. I shall content
myself with reassuring you that King Louis-Philippe has
nothing to fear from the Carlists if he will hut act to-
wards them with half the energy he would put in action
against the Republicans or Buonapartists. I will not say
that the machinations of the Carlists are not pregnant
with danger, for unless checked they will lead to a civil
war, and, through it, to anarchy, and the ultimate esta-
blishment of a republic in France. The friends of the
present order of things consist of those of the nation
who desire repose, and who dread the renewal of the reign
of terror ; but it does not appear certain that the sove-
reign power, once more in the hands of the people, would
be replaced in those of Louis-Philippe.
Under every possible view of the question, therefere it
behoves England to lee prepared. My idea of what the
best possible means of preparation woul I be I have
above stated,

Three o'Clock.

A second telegraphic despatch from Marseilles,
dated the 30th of April, half-past eleven o'clock
and of which the following is a copy, has
been posted up on 'Change :

" THE PREFECT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE MOUTHS OF

THE RHONE TO THE MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR.

" The insurrectionary movement which took
place here this morning is put down. The tri-
coloured flag has replaced, on the steeple of the
church of St. Laurent, the white flag hoisted
by the insurgents. Some of the Chiefs have
been arrested. Inquiries are in progress to dis-
cover the secret instigators of the revolt. Order
is restored."

The Funds, on the publication of this docu-
ment, recovered for a moment, but descended
again to five centimes below the closing price of
yesterday.
On inquiry at M. PERIER'S house I have been
informed that he has been more calm since yes-
terday evening than at an early part of that day,
and that he passed " a pretty good night."

Four o'clock.

I shall only add to the foregoing that the
Carlist insurrectionary spirit is reported to have
„displayed itself at Nimes, Vic, and other places
in the south, on Monday last. At Cette a
new association, called the " Society of the
Rope," has been organized " in anticipation of
the third restoration." This is a rather signifi-
cant title—one which, if civil war occur, will be
met by the gentry of former days, called
" Knights of the Lantern," at the bare recol-
lection of whom one's blood curdles.

ye request the particular attention of our
Readers to the Petition and Resolutions which
were proposed and agreed to last night, at an
extraordinary meeting of the National Political
Union. In the Petition to the House of Lords
occurs the following striking passage ;—" That
your Petitioners submit to your Lordships, that
a mutilation of any of the provisions of the
Bill, which tend to secure an extension of the
Elective Franchise, will produce consequences
as fatal as those which would assuredly follow
the rejection of the Bill. That, in either
case there is reason to expect that a
cessation of the payment of taxes will
take place ; that other obligations in
society will be disregarded ; and that the ulti-
mate consequence may be, the utter extinction
of the privileged orders." The people, it is
plain from this, and other significant symptoms,
are no longer to be trifled with. They have
been promised the payment of a debt of long
standing, anti will receive this payment in
full, or look into the rights of the matter
themselves. No curtailment of schedule A,
no raising of the ten pound franchise, or
lopping off of the proposed addition to the
metropolitan Members will now satisfy, them.
They must receive their just rights, or—but the
alternative is too dreadful to think of. Mr.
HUME'S speech at this important meeting was
in the very best style and spirit, and does equal
credit to his head and heart. There was no
evading, no shrinking from the question ; he
met it fairly, and insisted on the necessity of
a prompt and effective Reform, as a Reformer
of these days should do.

Lisbon Gazettes to the 22d April have been
received. We may infer from the following ex-
tract, that even on his own showing, Don MIGUEL
is on his last legs. When a usurper is reduced
to the necessity of depriving Nobles of their
titles, because they will not, or cannot, comply
with his oppressive mandates, it is clear that he
has little chance of holding out much longer
against the public indignation. The appearance
of the liberating Expedition is only wanting to
seal the tyrant's doom

LissoN, Arait I7.—The official part of the Gazette
•ontains the following :
" DEPARMENT OF THE INTERIOR.

"DECREE.—Having bypy Royal Decree of the 12th