The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-01 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

FRANCE.

The Ordre, the organ of M. Odilon Barrot, has
the following on the Society of the 10th December :
—" Several journals have announced that the Society
of the Dix Decembre was in a state of dissolution.
The National of yesterday contradicted the assertion,
and stated that a meeting of the members was to
take place the same evening in the Rue St. Domi-
nique, in the room of the Freres Iguorantins. The
meeting, in fact, took place, and the Pouvoir last
evening published an account of the proceedings. Gen.
Piat was in the chair ; M. Gallix, censor of the society,
and formerly director of the journal the Dix Dicembre,
now the Pouvoir, pronounced an opening address. We
omit the details given of the organization of the
mutual aid funds, and come to the part where M.
Gallix announced that the society had enregistered
1,400 new adherents in twenty-five days. That may
be true, and it is because we look on it as such that
we pay more attention than ever to the society. It
is, in fact, rumoured abroad that the existence of this
society has appeared to the Socialists an ex-
cellent means of re-organization, in order to be
ready for every event. They in consequence get them-
selves enrolled in the society, under cover of which
they find a security which M. Carli,r's police did not
for a long time leave them. You are going to ex-
claim against this, but the best argument would be
to publish your lists of affiliation. If you are a
mutual-aid society, as you assert, you ought not to
hesitate to make the names of your adherents known.
Such a course would prove more than all your pro-
testations. We shall only add, that the day cf the
review of Versailles a man, whose name and address
we can give, boasted of being affiliated in the
Society of the Dix Decembre because he was a
fencing-master—just say what mutual aid can be
expected from a fencing-master. The same day a
man, accused of having uttered language not very re-
spectful towards the President of the Republic, but
pretending to have applied it to the Ambassador of
Nepaul, was dragged into the wood of Satory by men
who said that they belonged to the Society of the Dix
Decembre, and beaten with sticks. We do not de
fend this man, but we ask if that is what you call
your distribution of mutual aid ? May God preserve
us from your works of beneficence ! We mill name
to you, if you please, the witnesses of these two facts."
The examination into the affair of dssturbances of
the Drome is being actively carried on. The leader of
the affair, a man named Pascal, his brother, and
another individual known by the soubriquet of Gaillon,
have just been arrested by the Gendarmerie of Loriol.
The authorities, as we mentioned at the time, had
received

infoimation that a number of the

rioters had taken refuge in the Department
of the Arda.2.he, which forming part of the
Bth Military Division was beyond the regime of the
state of siege. They were besides intormed that
a clandestine manufactory of gunpowder, on a large
scale, existed at Pouzin, in the house of a man Sou-
beyran, a man of desperate character, and who bad
been heard to declare that the first gendarme or
police agent who approached him should receive
two balls through his body. General Lapene,
who commands in the Di ime, arranged with the
authorities of the Ardeche to put an end to this
state of thing, and an expedition was organized
to advance on the place by both banks of the river,
under the command of Commandant 011ivier. The
expedition arrived at Pouzin at an early hour in the
morning, after having invested in their way several
of the neighbouring communes. The Prefect of the
Ardeche was on the spot with several brigades
of the: Gendarmerie of his department. As early
as five o'clock in the morning the armed
force presented itself at the house of Soubeyran,
and, in the name of the laws, summoned him to open
his door. A moment of silence, followed during
which the cocking of a double-barrelled gun was
distinctly heard. The door immediately after opened
and Soubeyran appeared with the weapon in his
hand, but seeing the force with which he had to
contend he appeared to hesitate, when M. Chev-
reau, the Prefect, rushed forward, laid hold of him,
and presenting a pistol to his breast, sum-
moned him to surrender. - Soubeyran, however,
by a sudden movement broke from his grasp, and
running to a window which opened on the river,
jumped into the Rhone and disappeared. Some
soldiers immediately ran to the other bank to arrest
him when he landed, but nothing more was seen
of him. On searching his house a powder
manufactory, completely organized, was found,
and a great number of cartridges and several
sacks of pow der were seized. During this time
several arrests were made on the opposite bank of
the river by the Gendarmerie. The troops evinced
the most praiseworthy zeal in the affair ; they
marched a distance of twenty-five miles during the
nigh*, and remained under arms a great part of the
following day. By this well-organized expedition all
the villages on the banks of the Elope have been
cleared of the men, who kept up a constant agitation
in those parts.
Two delegates of the Maronite population have ar-
rived in Paris. They have come in the name of their
countrymen of the Libanus, to ask the French
Government for a concession of land in Algeria. This
population has always been regarded as honest and
industrious colonists, and their introduction into
Algeria must be considered as highly desirable.
Algiers journals up to the 25th have arrived, but
contain no news of interest. The Ahhbar has made
a notable discovery, and solemnly calls the atten-
tion of France to it—it is that Lord Palmerston is
trying to engage Spain and Portugal in a treaty
with England for the destruction of Algeria!
The Minister of War had ordered Brazilian and
other plants to be sent to the colony to see if they
could not be naturalized. The cases of cholera in
Algiers up to the 24th were 67, 43 of which were
fatal. The tribunal of Oran was proceeding with
the trial of the persons concerned in the alleged con-
spiracy, but up to the 20th nothing of very great im-
portance was proved in evidence. The Echo d'Oran
was to be prosecuted for giving an unfaithful account
of the trial. The Democrate de Blidah had ceased
to appear in consequence of repeated condemnations.

GERMAN Y.
The Hanoverian Government has ordered a reduc-
tion in the garrison of Hanover of 40 men per com-
pany. This was considered a proof that it has no
intention of intervening in Electoral Hesse.
The King and thu Prince Ferdinand of Denmark
left Copenhagen on the 26th for Flensburg, and were
to remain absent a week.

The Duke and Duchess of Bordeaux arrived at
Frohsdorf on the 16th, and M. de Salvandy on the
20th instant.

Advices from Cassel are of the 26th instant. Mr.
Councillor Scheffer has been sent for by the Elector,
who has offered him a place in his Cabinet. It is
stated that the Austrian diplomatists at Frank-
fort insist on the removal of Mr. Hassenpflug,
whose private character, they protest, will always
tend to place the Elector in a falke position. Lieut.-
General Bauer, who has resigned the chief command
of the Hessian troops, is to be succeeded by Major-
General Haynau, the father of the Hessian Secretary-
at War. The standing Committee of the Diet has
addressed a petition and remonstrance to the Elector.