The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-19 00:00:00

PARIS IN A STATE OF SIEGE.

Paris, on the north side of the river, was on Wednesday
covered with troops, comprising infantry, cavalry, and
artillery, to the amount of 80,000 men, independent of
National Guards. The Government found it necessary to
occupy the streets with this imposing force, in consequence
of the Socialists having, with M. Arago at their head,
assembled about twelve o'clock, at the Chateau d'Eau, to
the number of from 10,000 to 15,000 men, a considerable
number of whom were National Guards in uniform, but
without arms. They were met by the troops nearly op.
posite the Rue de la Paix, and dispersed. The Legislative
Assembly declared itself en permanence and st an extra.
ordinary meeting a bill, placing the pity of Paris and the
territory comprised within the first military division in a
state of siege, was brought forward.

The following is the Ministerial measure proposed to
the Assembly :
" In the name of the French people, the President of
the Republic charges the President of the Council to pre-
sent to the Legislative Assembly the following project of
law :—Considering that an armed insurrection, directed
against the Constitutional power of the Republic, has
taken place in Paris, and that it may extend to other
cities of France—considering the importance of arming
the Government with all the means necessary to ensure
the prompt and efficacious repression of that insurrection,
and to enforce respect for the laws, and maintain the
Constitution ' •
" Article 1. The City of Paris and all the territory
comprised within the first military division are declared
in a state of siege.
" Article 2. That measures may be extended to the
cities in which similar insurrections might take place, and
when the Prefects shall have established by a decree the
fact of the revolt against the laws.
" Given at the Elysee Nationale, on the 13th of June,
1849.

(Signed) " Loris NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.
(Countersigned) " OolLoN BARROT, Minister of
Justice." _ _

This communication was receivedwiih loud applause by
the Assembly. The Assembly, after some debate, de-
clared the discussion urgent, and retired into its bureaux.
On 'Wednesday in the Legislative Assembly, the sitting
was resumed at half-past 5 o'clock, when M. Gustave de
Beaumont read a report declaring there was good reason
for adopting the bill pronouncing Paris in a state of siege.
After a short discussion, in the course of which General
Cavaignac spoke strongly aaginst the conduct of the
Mountain, the bill was adopted. The President then in-
formed the Assembly that M. Sachet du Var had been
arrested, and demanded whether the a rest would be au-
thorized by the Assembly. Ile and other members of the
Mountain had held a meeting at the Conservatione des
Arts at Metiers, and had gone to invite the National Guard
to join them. After some discussion, M. Napoleon
Bonaparte proposed that M. Suchet du Var should be
heard in the Assembly. This was rejected by 428 votes
to 87. The Assembly then adjourned, at 9 o'clock, till
10 to continue the discussion on the arrest of M. Suchet
du Var. The sitting was resumed at half-past ten o'clock,
when the arrest of M. Suchet was authorized, as also that
of Messrs. Deville, Margne, Damile, Pillis, Bach, Vau-
tier, and Vautier, and Farguier Fayolle, representatives,
who hail t,en arrested. A report was then read by M.
Lacrosse from General Changarnter, giving a favourable
account of the state of the capital, after which the As-
:wieldy af'jnurnad.
The Moniteur publishes a decree of the Legislative
Assembly, declaring Paris and the first military division
in a state of siege. It publishes a aecree of the Presi-
dent of the Republic dissolving the Artillery Legion of
the National Guard of Paris of Paris. It also publishes
a proclamation from the Ligislative Assembly to the
French people, and an address from the President of the
Republic to the nation. The decree of the permanence
of the Legislative Assembly was posted up in the streets
on Wednesday evening.
On Wednesday evening, at five o'clock; the President
of the Republic, with his staff, rode along the Boulevards,
and was loudly cheered, with cries of " Vive la Repub-
lique !" " Vive Napoleon !"
On Thursday, at eight o'clock, the whole of the popu-
lation of the faubourgs Saint Martin, Saint Denis, and
Saint Marceau turned out into the streets, and have as-
sumed a threatening attitude. General Changarnier sent
large bodies of troops to prevent the formation of barri-
cades.

In several quarters attempts were made to erect barri-
cades. but they failed. Notwithstanding the number of
shots fired few lives seem to have been lost. Several
printing-offices have been pillaged and destroyed by the
National Guards of the first legion, encouraged, it is said,
by magistrates. A gunsmith's shop was pillaged by the
people. Great numbers of persons are arrested.
Colonels Forrestier, E. Arago, and two others of the
National Guards are arrested. The artillery of the Na-
tional Guard is dissolved.

None of the Socialist papers appeared on Thursday.
The presses of the Peuple have been seized.
Ledru Rollin is said to have fled in disguise, and to
have been arrested at Lyons. About forty depu-
ties are criminated. Etienne Arago is said to have broken
his loins or thighs in a fall whilst leading the procession.
On Thursday arrests of German, Polish, and Italian revo.
lutionists were made. The conduct of the President of
the Republic and General Changarnier is greatly praised.
All foreign committees sitting in Paris are to be dissolved
and their members sent away. The idle workmen will be
sent into the country to win their living, or in case of re-
turn or refusal, to be arrested and imprisoned as vagrants.
On Friday morning Paris bad resumed its ordinary
calmness. Although large bodies of troops were on foot
all night there was not the slightest attempt at dis-
turbance.

The Moniteur publishes a decree, signed by the Presi.
dent of the Republic, and countersigned by the Minister
of the Interior, convoking for the Bth of July the electoral
colleges for the election of deputies for the places that
have become vacant by the choice of members, by decease,
resignation, or otherwise. The number of places so va-
cant is 35.

The decree of the President of the Republic, suspending
six Socialist journals was notified to their editors on Sa-
turday. Those journals were Le Peuple, La RePublique
Thmocratique et Sociale, La Vraine Re'publique, La
La Meinocratie Pacifique, La Rerorme, and La Tri-
bune. Appended to that decree is an order of the Minister
of the Interior directing General Changarnier to establish
military posts in the offices of those journals.
Pnrpstier. colonel of the 6th Legion of the National
(.hardof Pnras, has adnressea iron. 4bo
Conciergerie his resignation to General Perrot.
Tho person who ill-treated the Minister of Public Works
on the 13th was arrested on Saturday. He is a journey-
man tailor, and was one of M. Ledru Rollin's envoys to
the departments in 1848.
The President of the Republic visited on Saturday the
principal hospitals where the cholera had made most ra-
vages. He distributed considerable sums of money to the
indigent sick. He was accompanied by the Minister of
Instruction and Public Works, and was received in his
pasage with acclamations.
The latest accounts from the departments state that all
attempts at insurrection there had been at once suppressed.
The state of the atmosphere prevents the government from
receiving the latest news by telegraph from Lyons.
The body of Marshal Bugeaud was embalmed, and
dressed in full uniform as a Marshal of France, with his
baton in his hand, and his sword by his side. The funeral
took place on Tuesday.
THE CHOLERA IN PARIS.—On the 9th (Saturday) there
were 454 deaths from cholera in private houses, and 148
in the hospital, making a total of 612. The same morn-
ing there were 1,542 cases on hand, to which 377 were
added during the day. 66 patients left the hospitals, and
141 died, so that there remained in the evening 1,705
cases on hand. The cholera is still raging with great
virulence in the provinces, but the recent change in the
temperature has materially contributed to check its
ravages. _ .

Madame Catalani, the celebrated singer, has died in
Paris of cholera, after an illness of twenty-four hours.
She was seventy years of age.
THE PEACE CONGRESS.-Mr. Elihu Burritt and his
itinerant company have completed their arrangements for
this solemn affair, in Paris,—the pandemonium of all the
chief war spirits in Europe, and their inspirers and abettors
in every nation.

111141 LIVERPOOL STANDARD.